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Asylum Street Spankers — Hick Hop.
What's on your mind?
Late Late Night FDL: Hick Hop
|By: Suzanne Tuesday October 5, 2010 10:00 pm
Asylum Street Spankers — Hick Hop.
What's on your mind?
Hey Suzanne!
hey mary mac — how's sac tonight?
The rumble is that Gramma Suzanne has felt the moment –true?
tis true ce — click on my name to read all about it… how's ohio tonight?
Sac is good. Sara and her beau are due here in about half an hour. Hurray!
woohoo — family time!
The baby story was wonderful.
feeling baby lime's wee little vibration was magical….
I agree as a dad! Great joy is realized in that little bump of a movement.
for those who are a.s.s. fans, they are on their farewell tour — click on their name in the post and you can see their final tour dates…. closest show to me is gonna be seattle in late january :(
hey nahant — how's deadwood city?
That is a darling story! Man, oh man, when it happens, eyes do get big. Wonderful. And much later, like in month 9, that little leg drags under the surface of one big area and everyone can see!
fuckin jury duty still hasn't needed me or let me go. I've got a company wants me in for 6.5 hours of interviews before the end of the week. told them tomorrow is open – schedule for any day and if my situation changes I'll let them know as soon as I do.
I'm going to the courthouse and see if I can get a hardship excuse… I've made it through 3 calls maybe they'll consider me as done.
i was so lucky to be there when it happened :) i keep smiling when i think about it…
Hiya, pups.
Suzanne – how awesome. We need to make this a better place for your new pup.
OK and you Suz.. Just finished watching Stargate Universe and the season opener of Caprica!! Great SciFi!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
hey et — did it freeze last night — didja pull the rest of the potatoes?
a world that is safe for all pups, wee and not so wee….
hey wmd — you still on phone standby?
They should let you go. You're being more responsive than most people called to jury duty.
Wind came up. It didn't freeze. Same thing tonight. I had a14-hour day, so I'll leave 'em in the ground.
i'm watching the daniel ellsberg story on pbs… about the leaking of the pentagon papers and repercussions
Led Zeppelin and a thread on SA about Reagan is on the mind tonight. The former awesome, the latter sad and depressing. I don't know how to feel!
I've been watching some of the debates that Carter and Reagan had for the '80 election (for reference, I was born in '78) and boy, we really, really screwed the pooch on that one. For like, a generation. Now I'm starting to think about the effect of Kennedy's challenge on that election and desires of something similar nowadays and the potential 'What If'. Not that Obama is anywhere near as good as Carter was.
Sorry for bringing down your positive start to the thread.
hey skellen… led and reagan — dazed and confused came immediately to mind…. how ya doing tonight?
edit: whoops, forgot the link.. added it
yeah. Call tomorrow after 5:30. 3 days in a row now. I suspect end of the day tomorrow I'll be cut loose… bad luck if they say report for duty.
We are a country lacking in repercussions.
Hi Suz! I'm driving by, but thought I'd leave a little musical rowdiness with you!
Roy Buchanan – Hey Joe/Purple Haze
hey rfw — nice driveby — and i love the rowdiness of roy… thanks and g'nite
mmmm, grammas! Our first fixed (or not) date for the wedding is October 7, 2011.
they rarely seat a jury on fridays…. at least in my experience in alameda county…
ooooooh a whole year to plan that wedding…. and as groom's mom, not so much planning by you
oooooooo another fav…. of course, i think i've not heard a led that i didn't like…
I'm thinking telling them I'm not going to be available Thursday and Friday will work. Drive into SC and explain my situation. They may keep me on active roll and call me again this year instead of taking me off for two years.
Whew! That's good to know. Good night Suzanne, and all.
esp if ya tell them its regarding getting a job…. those are hard to come by and the court clerk should be understanding… i would hope…
g'nite ce
For anyone who may have missed PBS: POV: The Most Dangerous Man Alive, about Pentagon Papers disclosure by Danial Ellsberg, it repeats October 8, 2010 at 3AM est.
I forgot it was on tonight until you posted it, Suzanne. Watching what remains now.
Evenin Suz, Pups.
That's some seriously sick shit!!!
GREAT catch, Suz, I'd not ever seen it!!
Love that band over the decades . .
hey robert — how ya doing tonight?
hey larue — how ya doing tonight?
Doing well, thanks.
That's a murder ballad, too (so I just found out via The Wonders of the Internet:)
hey margot — how ya doing?
Good evening, Suz. Evening, fellow pups.
Read your blog about Baby Lime. How neat! So excited for you, you're going to love the wonderful world of Gramma-dom!
hey pastfed — thanks — how was your day?
Heh, one last romp thru Santa Cruz in January . . . Quixote's in Felton. Epic. I'll know half that audience.
I won't be there, but I'll know many who will be there . . . sigh.
a.s.s. was not the first to add in rap to country — i remember this hit back in the mid 90′s.
le sigh
me too :(
Fall hasarrived here. Rained off & on (which we needed), but temp barely reached the lower sixties. And the turning of the leaves is accelerating.
I got an immediate 90 day stay when I showed up do to 'prior engagement' issue. Painters were coming.
i saw some color when driving to jen's sunday… weather dood said the 3rd week in october is when we traditionally are at 'peak color'
8 x 12 4 bed room…. nice
good, happy to be here and happy to read about Baby Lime.
thursday jen gets another email, telling her what the size comparison for the coming week…. based on her due date, they come every thurs…
I've been playing and singin that one since 1972 . . . lap dulcimer. Love the old banjo sound, much like Doc Watson's version where he played the open back bano . . . claw hammer style picking.
That was sweet, thanks. WHat a lovely haunting sound his banjo has.
I like that guy!
saw him at the alameda county fair shortly after that song came out… amazing performance with him climbing the rigging while singing it
Aerosmith and Run D.M.C.
I still have my New York Times paperback edition of The Pentagon Papers from back then. I remember devouring it. I was in high school, then, counting the days until graduation and the national lottery pulled my number for the draft.
I was never drafted. Not sure to this day what I would have done had I been.
oooooo i had totally forgotten about them… thanks wmd
i was so lucky to be a girl… so many guys i knew got drafted in the very early 70′s… when everyone knew that it was a lost cause and our soldiers were dying for nothing….
Just turned on local PBS station, thanks, suz. About an hour left about Daniel Ellsberg & Pentagon Papers. Fascinating.
I've been wondering when this was going to be shown, I visit that website from time to time. Somehow got the impression it would come out at the theaters or be made available on dvd.
but at least back then, it was only for a year.. no stop loss, no ordering you back after you served your year…. this shit of our soldiers having 4 or 5 tours in iraq/afghanistan is so fucking wrong..
Good lord, Ricky Scaggs on fiddle, (whoops, NOT Ricky Scaggs), Vince Gill electric git . . crazy haired Marty Stuart on mando, forget the white haired rocker's name he's a legend . . . Jerry Douglas of course on dobro . . . Letterman's man on piano.
GREAT vid!
I was certainly displeased by my son being called back for Individual Ready Reserve – pulled him out of college after he'd done his 4 years.
He's been done for a while now, finishing college next year. No more IRR either. He may go into the Reserves for optometry school, pretty sweet deal, stipend and full ride for 6 year active starting as an O-3 (Captain) giving eye exams. He'd also have 11 years towards a pension.
Cheney decided to do it that way to avoid reopening the draft. He knew if the draft was started for his wars, the young people would do as they did back in the Vietnam era: protest, riot, and bring the war machine to its knees.
pulled him outta college??? sumbitch…. what are the advantages, other than his pension, for going regular reserves? what are the disadvantages? can they do this same shit to them?
Loved that combo . . . sadly at some point Del got fed up with Earle's general 'ways' and cussing and if I recall correctly stopped the tour they were doing . . .
*spitting* cheney *more spitting*
i'd wear a red dress to that funeral in a heartbeat…
For some reason I don't remember much about this coming out, maybe the Cleveland papers didn't have much coverage. Wasn't a newpaper reader then, however. Dad was, but don't remember him discussing it. I was in senior year of college, already had my number by then, number 10, from the first lottery. Drafted into the Army Nov of '71. Briefly thought of joining the AF, even went to Wright Patterson and took the test for pilot training, but then decided to take my chances in the draft.
What a classic . . . when ya talk bluegrass fiddles Bobby Hicks and Vassar Clements are the deal. With bluegrass purists of course favoring the Bobby Hicks style over Vassar's style which 'swings' more.
Great vid, Mr. Monroe and the Boys at top of the game.
So. How was Stargate Universe and Caprica?
Yeah right, he'll probably outlive me
Good lord, that's John Cowan sittin in! No Stevie Coyle . . . but Warren Hood fiddle and magic git/mando James Nash, with the rhythm section . . . nice catch yer on fahr tonite!
when i was a kid, dad liked country — mom liked rock
car rides were real interesting… more of a battle over the radio than anything else. dad never wanted to put it to a vote because he was outnumbered when it came to music….
yeah, pulled him out of college after he'd done his 4 year contract – there is/was 4 years of IRR in the contract.
Going into the reserves pays for his continuing education (tuition and books, supplies) to get his Doctor of Optometry, plus pays him $14K per year to study. then a 6 year commitment to give eye exams starting as a O-3 (Captain). It is a pretty attractive deal – Optometry isn't a combat specialty it's REMF stuff.
I'm really glad he's done with building fortified police checkpoints in Fallujah.
hey spocko — how was your day?
I never watched Caprica, and I stopped at episode 10 of SGU. Is it worth continuing? The thing is, I want lasers and space battles! not space drama!
"but then decided to take my chances in the draft"
How'd that go for you?
can they use that background to pull him from opt to working a checkpoint?
:) thanks dood
THOSE guys are classic . . KPIG staples over the years on that playlist . . .
very unlikely. He'd be USAF, not USMC. And military generally does use specialized personnel efficaciously.
happy 100 larue!!!
Congrats Larue.
whoa… came dayam close with my 99.. thanks wmd
One of the best albums from then, a desert island must have to this day.
Nice catch! *G*
as unlikely as sailors dying in basra? that forking blows me away that they are deploying forking swabbies into a desert…
(speaking as a navy brat)
Good lord that's a cacophony! lol
g'nite wmd
So would I! Borrow one of Kelly's . . . *G*
*waves* if he's out there . . . .
hey bb — how's your bay?
Navy provides medical corpsmen to Marines.
For that matter Basra is in the delta of the Tigris/Euphrates and River patrols are done by Navy. John Kerry's Vietnam service was on a Patrol Boat River… navy pilots fly pretty far inland as well.
From that desert island must have of his where ALL the songs seemed to be #1 hits.
Board of Sups gave us the shaft today…the agony was so intense I went to two yoga classes for 2.5 hours before I got a hold on my inner bad. I did give then a message. They are spending us into the poor house. None would dare do it to there own districts.
ah.. i did not know that… thanks wmd
indeed.. that's sweet skellen
fuck.. i'm so sorry dood
Ended up working out OK. Had orders at the end of basic to go to Ft. Sam Houston, San Antonio – which meant medic training. But on the last day before shipping out, orders were changed for Dugway Proving Grounds, Utah. Several engineering positions had just opened up there, to replace existing draftee engineers who were ending their tours.
A little luck in that timing, and the engineering degree made the difference. I often wonder what happened with some of the other guys from basic, though.
KPIG Anthem.
Two great voices and is that REAL horns I hear?
Ok, I'm outta here to see the sandman . . . thanks for the tunage and chattage Suz and Pups.
Congrats too, Granny, on the natal action! *G*
To the bitter end… we fight need a good lawyer. Thanks for the kind thoughts. Where is Robin Hood when you need him? Like a cop? G)
This country needs more engineers. Glad our country didn't get you killed.
g'nite larue
Heh, ska . . . skiffle . . . the Brits did some great stuff long ago pre Beatles.
But These Guys Still RockSka Me.
And now I gots to go . . . or I'll be up all night prowling youtubes . . . . lol
Sounds more like reggae to me, maybe with a couple more instruments. heh, what did i link then?
Nite, Larue.
well, it was titled 'ska'….
well, yeah, aside from that little bit
Any frog experts here I went to Northern Illinois and we had frogs jumping into the lake I honestly can't remember if this is normal at this time of year or its another sign of global warming.
hey things — whatcha doing in illinois?
Has anyone else noticed that the Canadian Geese and a few other birds have not bothered to migrate south in winter well at least they don't in Northern Illinois because winter is not as cold as it used to be?
Haven't seen too many up here in the Seattle area for a bit, and they're normally all over the campus where I work in Redmond.
we are having the problem here on the oregon coast of brown pelicans not migrating in fall and getting caught in our fierce winter storms. oregon pbs had a show on it.. poor browns wtih frostbite on their feet etc if they managed to live…. terrible terrible
Visiting where I grew up they chopped down my favorite tree and tore down the bridge I used to play on:(
Still it was nice to see the old place.
Do birds even bother going south in Seattle winter there was never that bad when I lived there I must admit I did not pay attention to the birds when I was there.
Today I tried to clean up my desk. It makes me tired just thinking about it.
The good news is that this professor I ran into at my local cafe teaches a class on free speech. I told him what I did, he told his students and they were interested. That would be fun. I love to talk to students about it.
tis always good to see the green green grass of home
ok you win, i don't know what i was talking about, lol. Don't think I can handle ska. Makes me want to retreat to the warm, comforting safety of grunge.
So its to warm to migrate lets assume birds migrate because of temperature but a sudden storm comes by they don't have time to go south and then they get frostbite.
that sounds like fun spocko — not the desk but the class….. are you going to do it?
I must be honest, I dont' usually keep track of them other than the crows in Bothell (spring/fall it's Crow City USA, creepy as all get out; they're everywhere) and the geese in Redmond. Mainly because I hate the geese; they're bastards. Haven't seen a whole lot lately.
oooooo nirvana
bb, hugs
Tape it Diary get the kids to ask questions! Ask them if they eat gulf shrimp? Ask if they could tell if their sea food is from the Gulf? How would they know if the restaurant or store owner lied about not giving them Gulf Shrimp?
Can they trust the Government to protect them (ask the 9/11 workers). Remind them of English Government guy who fed his kids on tv beef right before England banned mad cow.
'bout time for me to head out folks. thank you for letting me hang out with ya tonight… and for all the music and conversations
g'nite all
I can't say I kept track of the birds much but when your in a city even one as green as Seattle or Redmond you don't see birds much well pigeons but they are sky rats.
Nite Suz:)
There seem to be geese here year round, but I think the ones that summer here do fly further south in the winter, we do see flocks of them which seem to head south this time of year. Maybe the ones that winter here come from up north, I don't know for sure.
that's a great opportunity, spocko, to influence young minds. Bringing up wikileaks would make for a lively discussion; perhaps pentagon papers, etc also relates to free speech, and the public's right to be informed.
I remember as a kid the winter got so cold there were months where there were no birds at all its not only the geese its other birds too.
I think Al Gore should mention this birds are something everyone can see and the older people like me remember when they used to all migrate south.
Good nite, Gramma Suz.
Thanks, I'm glad too.
cant say i do much either, but i used to live off of 148th in Redmond/Bellevue and those damned geese always seemed to be stalking me. Even attacked me a couple of times, just hissing sort of and charging. Didn't know what the fuck. so, i tend to notice them.
I don't notice robins here in the winter, do you know if they migrate? There are tons of them in the spring and throughout the summer, but they seem to get scarce in the fall.
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Sept. 15, 2014 – Go inside PASS Summit 2014's full-day pre-conference sessions in this Q&A series with our presenters. In this interview, Grant Fritchey gives us a sneak peek at what to expect from his pre-con, Query Performance Tuning in SQL Server 2014.
Q: If your pre-con had a theme song, what would it be and why?
"More Human Than Human" by Rob Zombie. I picked this song because I think a lot of people are going to walk out of the session feeling like they're ready to conquer the world, or at least tune a few queries.
Q: What excites you most about finding and fixing poorly performing queries?
Well, the business answer is that I'm improving the efficiency and reliability of our systems to better supply our customers with access to the information they need to make good decisions. But the nerd answer is that I really enjoy figuring out what's going wrong and finding ways to improve things.
Q: What's the most surprising statement attendees might hear you say during the pre-con?
I'm going to tell them to not use some of the functionality within SQL Server. Flat out. It's too dangerous and there are few, if any, requirements for this piece of functionality that are not satisfied elsewhere with zero danger.
Q: What's the biggest myth around query tuning that you'd like to debunk?
That throwing an index at the query fixes it. The problems most of the time are right there in the code. Yes, indexes are great ways to tune query performance, but adjusting the query itself is frequently the better way.
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Figuring out why I'm seeing something unexpected. When you get behavior you didn't anticipate, there's seldom a quick and simple solution. I have to dig through the properties in the operators, same as everyone else.
Q: If attendees could start putting into practice just one thing after this pre-con, what would you want that to be?
Maintain your statistics better. I don't think people realize just how vital they can be to ensuring that your queries run well.
Check out our other Q&As with PASS Summit 2014 pre-con speakers.
Sept. 15, 2014 – Go inside PASS Summit 2014's full-day pre-conference sessions in this Q&A series with our presenters. We caught up with Robert Cain, Bradley Ball, and Jason Strate to learn more about their pre-con, Zero to Hero with PowerShell and SQL Server.
Q: If your pre-con had a theme song, what would it be and why?
Robert: "Can't Stop Rockin'" by ZZ Top, because once you start rocking with PowerShell, you can't stop.
Bradley: "Timber" by Pitbull and Ke$ha. There's a lot of tasks in the DBA/BI world that PowerShell makes easy. The bigger they are, the harder they fall.
Jason: "Come Sail Away" by Styx, because as I've told others, the boat for learning PowerShell has sailed, and it's time to get everyone up to speed on it.
Q: Robert, what excites you most about using PowerShell with SQL Server?
The incredible diversity of tasks you can automate using PowerShell. Everything from DBA tasks to BI to development can be automated using PowerShell with SQL Server.
Q: Bradley, what's the most surprising statement attendees might hear you say during the pre-con?
Sometimes PowerShell's a better ETL tool than SSIS.
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PowerShell isn't for everything. It's a tool for the chest, but it isn't a magical hammer that can take care of everything. Knowing its capabilities will help you use PowerShell where it fits, while providing an understanding of when using it is like cleaning a window with a sledgehammer.
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Bradley: Making their lives easier by using PowerShell to automate time-consuming tasks.
Jason: It bears repeating: PowerShell is sometimes a better tool for ETL than SSIS.
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Sept. 15, 2014 – Go inside PASS Summit 2014's full-day pre-conference sessions in this Q&A series with our presenters. In this interview, Adam Machanic takes us inside his pre-con, Better Performance Through Parallelism.
Q: If your pre-con had a theme song, what would it be and why?
"The Power" by Snap! This pre-con teaches people to take control of performance for large queries and to use techniques that put them in the driver's seat. The query optimizer does not – and cannot – make the right choice every time. If you want ultimate performance, you must take matters into your own hands.
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It's a feature set that is at once both very mature and very much in a growth phase. Parallelism works well, but it doesn't always kick in when it should or work in an optimal fashion. And not many people know how to get it to play nice. As a developer, having a deep understanding of parallelism gives you a huge edge over the competition.
Q: What's the most surprising statement attendees might hear you say during the pre-con?
Columnstore, despite what you may have heard, is not the answer to most of your tough performance challenges. (Even though it might help, sometimes.)
Q: What's the biggest myth around parallelism and query optimization that you'd like to debunk?
Many people are still confused about what, exactly, this CXPACKET thing *really* means, and what to do about it. At the end of this seminar you will be able to describe CXPACKET very accurately and you will understand its exact implications.
Q: What still trips you up in mastering SQL Server's parallelism settings?
Sometimes mixed workload scenarios present some interesting challenges. For some of the settings, there is only a single instance-wide configuration knob. That can be tough. But as with everything, there are options.
Q: If attendees could start putting into practice just one thing after this pre-con, what would you want that to be?
Some of my prior seminar attendees have written to tell me that my Parallel APPLY query patten has yielded performance gains of 10 times or greater. It often takes only a few minutes to bolt it on to an existing query, and properly applied, it does truly amazing things. This is why I teach the seminar; I want people to go back to the office and fix their tough performance issues so that they can spend their time building cool new apps instead of messing with the database all day.
Sept. 15, 2014 – Go inside PASS Summit 2014's full-day pre-conference sessions in this Q&A series with our presenters. First up: Itzik Ben-Gan and Mastering T-SQL Querying Fundamentals.
Q: If your pre-con had a theme song, what would it be and why?
The Beatles' "Here Comes the Sun." The seminar will shed light on what correct T-SQL thinking is.
Q: T-SQL was named the most popular programming language in 2013 - what excites you most about it?
T-SQL is my native tongue; it's kind of my language. It's great to know that many others like what you like. It's also evidence of the usefulness and practicality of the language.
Q: What's the most surprising statement attendees might hear you say about query fundamentals during the pre-con?
"Now you know everything there is to know about T-SQL fundamentals." If I did say it, of course, it would be just a joke. The point is that people often get the wrong impression that the language is simple to master. But the more you learn, the more you realize how deep and non-trivial it is.
Q: What's the biggest T-SQL querying myth that you'd like to debunk?
Probably the most common myth has to do with confusing the physical and logical layers, ignoring or being oblivious to the relational model's physical data independence principal and thinking that the data is organized in certain physical order and that this provides guarantees that the rows will be processed and/or returned in that order. People keep falling into this trap over and over again, including very smart people. Classic examples are queries in table expressions that have TOP and ORDER BY, what people refer to as quirky update, and others.
Q: What still trips you up in mastering logical query processing?
The fact that there are so many things that seem unnatural about the language until your learn about logical query processing. When you learn about it, there are so many a-ha moments, and things suddenly start making so much more sense.
Q: If attendees could start putting into practice just one thing after this pre-con, what would you want that to be?
I would say mainly that they would start using the language in the correct way, having the right expectations from it, and also knowing what not to expect from it. This is the "big picture" part.
As for an example of something more specific that attendees will be able to use immediately, they will be able to elegantly solve the problem of not being able to refer to column aliases defined in the SELECT clause in the WHERE, GROUP BY, and other expressions in the same SELECT clause. They will be able to do this using a trick that I will show them based on the APPLY operator and the VALUES clause.
Sept. 2, 2014 — Polybase and SQL Server query optimization guru Dr. Rimma Nehme, senior research engineer at the Microsoft Jim Gray Systems Lab, will kick off Day 2 at PASS Summit 2014 in Seattle, WA, Nov. 6, with Black Girls CODE founder Kimberly Bryant headlining the conference's popular Women in Technology (WIT) luncheon.
Rimma, who has helped prepare Dr. David DeWitt's celebrated PASS Summit keynotes since 2010, is known for her work on PolyBase, which integrates SQL Server Parallel Data Warehouse (PDW) with Hadoop, as well as the SQL Server PDW query optimizer, a partial results framework for database systems, an automated partitioning advisor for parallel database systems, and more. With her keynote, "Cloud Databases 101," Rimma will be taking Summit's 5,000+ SQL Server and BI professionals deep into the what, why and how of data processing in the cloud.
"It's an honor to help carry on PASS Summit's rich tradition of helping SQL Server and BI professionals get the most out of their database environments, and I'm thrilled to be sharing some of the exciting work done in the field around working with data in the cloud." Rimma says. "When talking about cloud databases, people often mean different things. Some may be referring to a pay-per-use service; others may be speaking about a specific piece of software. In this keynote, we will look under the covers of cloud databases and try to dispel some of the myths."
WIT luncheon speaker Kimberly Bryant, an electrical engineer working in biotech, was inspired by her daughter in 2011 to launch the non-profit Black Girls CODE (BGC), with the mission of supporting and promoting the underrepresented female and African demographic (25% and 3%, respectively, in 2012) within the technology industry. BGC has grown to 3,000 students across 7 US states as well as in Johannesburg, South Africa, and has received support from many companies both within and outside of the technology industry. Kimberly will be taking questions from the onsite audience and from Twitter during the Nov. 6 live-stream event, hosted by PASS's WIT Chapter and sponsored by SQL Sentry.
"The motto of Black Girls CODE is 'Imagine. Build. Create,'" Kimberly notes. "I can't wait to share with the PASS WIT and data communities how we can all imagine a world where everyone is given the tools to succeed, and get even more data professionals involved in building ways for everyone to access information and create a new age of women and women of color in technology."
PASS Summit, organized by and for the SQL Server community, is the largest SQL Server event in the world, delivering 200+ technical sessions, 18 full-day pre-conference sessions, and nonstop networking opportunities with the industry's top SQL Server and BI experts.
For full details and to register at the discounted rate by Sept. 24, visit http://www.sqlpass.org/summit/2014.
Sept. 2, 2014 – The wait is almost over! With just 2 weeks until the announcement of the official candidate slate for the PASS Board of Directors 2014 elections, here's a quick reminder about this year's campaigning and voting timeline.
The Nomination Committee is currently interviewing and ranking applicants in preparation for the committee's slate recommendation to the Board for approval. The official slate of candidates for the three seats up for election – one US/Canada regional seat and two open seats – will be announced in the Sept. 17 Connector along with the opening of campaigning.
In addition to their own campaigning activities, each candidate will have his/her own campaign page on the PASS Elections site and will be participating in at least one of two Live Speech/Q&A campaign events Sept. 18 and 19, before voting opens on Sept. 24.
Emails with the voting link will go out at noon PT Wednesday, Sept. 24, to all eligible voters, consisting of PASS members who updated their profile by June 1, 2014. Voting will be open for 5 days, with all completed ballots due by noon PT Monday, Sept. 29. Election results will be announced in the Oct. 1 Connector.
Good luck, again, to all applicants, and we encourage all PASS members to take every opportunity to get to know the candidates before voting. Here's to a lively and engaging campaign season!
August 19, 2014 – As PASS moves into a new year, I'm excited to announce that the Board of Directors has approved the Fiscal Year 2015 budget and positioned our organization for another great year of growth and service to the data community.
This year's budget process highlighted – perhaps more than ever before – the incredible community expansion that PASS continues to experience. We saw an array of innovative ideas from Board members, community volunteers, and HQ department heads that build on those successes, and I'm excited that many of those are in the budget and underway.
Budget planning and approval can be a long and tedious process, but this year's tasks were accomplished well within our timeline, thanks to engaged Directors and portfolio owners and the strong relationships they have with their HQ counterparts. In addition, our Finance team worked long hours to assemble research and make the numerous changes that occur during the process, all while keeping our many stakeholders informed. They deserve our huge thanks!
To increase accountability and transparency, we focused this year on budgeting for our current initiatives and goals while committing to revisit further investments through our open budget-exception process for new ideas and future projects. Some key areas of focus in the FY2015 budget include:
As you know, PASS generates a significant portion of its revenue from our event platforms. We are back in Seattle November 4-7 for PASS Summit 2014 and expecting our biggest and best gathering of SQL Server and BI professionals ever. Don't miss our all-star lineup of amazing sessions, non-stop opportunities for community engagement and networking, and perhaps even your first SQL Karaoke experience. We hope to see you there – if you haven't already signed up, I encourage you to register today.
In addition, the PASS Business Analytics Conference is returning to Silicon Valley in 2015, and we expect this event's growth to match the increasing community interest and enthusiasm in the analytics space. We have a strong group of influencers helping drive this event, and we're excited about its potential for PASS.
From the governance side of the house, just a reminder that the PASS Board of Directors election is coming up next month. Thanks to our Nomination Committee members for all the time and effort they've dedicated to helping streamline the application process for candidates and the work they'll be doing over the next weeks to help you get to know the candidates. PASS supports the greatest community of technical professionals in the world – it's hard not to want to be a bigger part of that. Thanks and good luck to everyone who applied to run for the Board this year. I'm looking forward to a lively campaign season as the candidates and community discuss how to make PASS even better.
It's thrilling to see everything happening right now in PASS, our industry, and the data world at large. We're excited to share these experiences with you and help community members continue to connect, share, and learn. I can't wait to see you out there!
– Adam Jorgensen
PASS EVP, Finance and Governance
August 19, 2014 – What's in a name? For PASS, it's a proud heritage of 15 years as one of the world's largest and most vibrant technical communities.
Synonymous with premier technical training and networking, PASS was founded in 1999 by Microsoft, CA/Platinum Technologies, and passionate DBAs and database developers as an independent, not-for-profit professional association dedicated to promoting and educating SQL Server users around the world. Since then, our community has grown in both size and breadth, with over 100,000 members who work with the integrated Microsoft Data Platform in a variety of roles – from DBAs, data and application developers, and IT Managers to data warehousing specialists, business intelligence architects, and business analytics pros.
In the past 2 years, our organization has embraced the increased interest in and growing educational and networking needs of the analytics community through the PASS Business Analytics Conference and PASS-supported BA-related virtual chapters and BA-focused local chapters. Last year at about this time, PASS updated its mission statement to officially welcome and support the broader data community, including those who may not work directly with SQL Server. Over the next few weeks, we'll also be updating our websites and other communications, replacing most instances of the association's spelled out name with simply "PASS."
Run by and for the community, PASS remains dedicated to networking, knowledge sharing, and peer-based learning, with serving data professionals at the core of everything we do. Our legal name will remain Professional Association for SQL Server, meaning we will continue to use the full, spelled out version on legal and corporate documents. But to our members, we will be PASS – representing all the history and excellence of our community as well as the promise of amazing things to come as we set our sights firmly on our mission of empowering data professionals.
– Denise McInerney
PASS VP, Marketing
August 5, 2014 – The five-member PASS Nomination Committee (NomCom) has had a busy summer streamlining the application process and timeline for this year's PASS Board of Directors elections and working on new campaign events to better engage the community and help them get to know the candidates before voting opens.
First up was a detailed review and update of the PASS Board application, which resulted in two focused documents. The PASS Board Elections Overview covers election processes, rules, and requirements, including everything from applicant criteria, recommended qualifications, and references to time commitments, procedures for ranking applicants and awarding seats, and campaign guidelines. With more requirements details and clearer examples all consolidated in the overview, the application itself is now shorter and easier to navigate.
The NomCom also adjusted the elections timeline so that campaigning opens before balloting and to reduce the time between when candidates are notified of elections results and when those results are announced to the community.
Although the NomCom is still working on PASS-hosted campaign events for this elections season, it has announced two official campaign events for Sept. 18 and 19, before ballots go out. These online Live Speech/Q&A events will feature a time slot for each candidate to give opening and closing statements and have an open Q&A session with the community. The events will be hosted via GoToWebinar; GoToWebinar will provide the audio, with each candidate responsible for providing the video portion of the session, which will depend on the candidate's webcam and bandwidth capabilities.
"Serving on a previous NomCom and being a former Board candidate, I am happy with the changes we've been able to make to this year's processes," said NomCom member Allen Kinsel. "The streamlining we did on the campaign timelines and changes to the election events should have a great impact on candidates' ability to execute successful, interesting campaigns – which should also increase voter interest in who is running and what they can do to make PASS a more successful organization."
Added Erin Stellato, who has served on both the 2013 and 2014 committees: "The highlight for me has been the significant progress we've made on what last year's NomCom started. I think that we have improved the application process for candidates, and we are working to give the community an even better opportunity to get to know the candidates prior to elections."
The NomCom is continuing to work on ranking methods for future elections and streamlining the overall elections process even more. These items will be reviewed post-election so that the NomCom can get a better idea of what can be improved. The current ranking methods will remain in place for this year's elections, and as in the past, all applicants' rankings will be posted to the public unless they opt out.
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Ok so I still haven't heard whether I got the job in Asheville. I did get another offer at Central Regional Butner campus. It would be a travel job so the pay would be really good. It would start nov. 2nd so I should find out soon if I get it. Anyone here live in Butner or have any info whether good or bad about the area?
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45 minutes or so from Raleigh. From what I know it's just a nice, quietly simple small town. My dad actually is a home builder who's developed many neighborhoods in the Raleigh area, and has a new neighborhood in Butner. So if you need an affordable home, with great quality PM me. Bernie Madoff is being housed in Butner's prison if anyone would like to know. Haha
The main industry there is the Federal Gov't Prison, Hospital, and Psych facilities. It is a smaller town but very close to Durham and Raleigh. It sits just off of I-85 so there is some drug traffic and associated crime that comes with being close to a drug hwy but a friend knows the Police chief there and they keep things pretty tight. Butner is very close to Falls Lake and about 30 mins from Kerr Reservoir which are two fairly large lakes and offer some great fishing and hunting opportunities.
You would be about 45mins from RBC Center and seeing the Hurricanes beat the Pens :)
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Ameristay Portsmouth
Ameristay Portsmouth
Hotel Guest Rating: 6.3/10
3762 Us Highway 23 North
Portsmouth, OH 45662
Hotel Freebies Available*
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Welcome to the Ameristay Portsmouth
Free breakfast, an outdoor pool and a Highway 23 location are some of the amenities guests find at the Ameristay Portsmouth.
Hotel Features
All 91 rooms at the low-rise Ameristay feature cable TV and high-speed internet access. Guests rise and shine to complimentary breakfast. The outdoor pool is open seasonally. The hotel also has a hot tub, laundry facilities and 24-hour front desk service. On-site parking is free. Pets are allowed.
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The Ameristay is off Highway 23 bordering the Scioto River in Portsmouth, four miles north of downtown and the Ohio River. It's less than one hour north of I-64. Nature lovers head seven miles to Shawnee State Forest. The hotel is within two hours of Cincinatti and 50 miles from Tri-State Airport.
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Comfort meets convenience at the Ameristay Portsmouth, where there's a hot tub, 24-hour reception, and quick routes to Shawnee State Forest and the Ohio River.
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- 24-hour front desk
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Hotel Guest Reviews of the Ameristay PortsmouthOur hotel ratings and reviews are from real hotel guests. Priceline.com ensures that its reviews are guests-only by proactively sending hotel surveys to customers after they've completed their hotel stays. In the post-stay surveys, priceline.com hotel customers are asked a number of questions about their stay and the hotel. On a scale of 1-10 with 10 being the best, the survey asks guests to rate their overall experience and specifically rate the hotel's cleanliness, staff and location. Priceline.com does not allow site visitors to post unsolicited hotel reviews.
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Julie from Willoughby, OH
June 24, 2013
June 24, 2013
It was in the city where the Ohio State HOG Rally was, and we needed a place to sleep.
It was dingy inside and our door did not lock. Had to use the chain. Also, our bed was hard. Kinda like sleeping on a Styrofoam block.
It was easy enough to find. The police officer that was doing his rounds said there has never been a problem there, and there have been problems at hotels up the street. Our door did not lock, and the bed was hard. But, there was indoor plumbing and a pillow, so I really can't complain. The "pool" had been filled in, so no swimming.
Greg from Findlay, OH
May 16, 2012
Business Traveler
May 16, 2012
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Staff good; they were genuinely shocked us.
Depressed area.
I would stay here again, although the area is rough. The pool was there, but filled with dirt and grass planted. It just looked funny because the pool depths were still on the rim of the pool.
Bob from Columbus, OH
July 25, 2011
Business Traveler
July 25, 2011
Business Traveler
Very clean and fresh smelling. Staff was also very polite.
Could use some outside updateing and upgradeing.
I would stay there again.
Shelly from Cincinnati, OH
October 29, 2010
Solo Traveler
October 29, 2010
Solo Traveler
Outside entrance, on inside courtyard.
I did not like this hotel at all. I had to walk through a dirty walkway to my room on the inside courtyard & I did not feel safe at all. I woke up to roaches in my bathroom.
Donna from Dingess,WV
June 11, 2009
June 11, 2009
Clean and comfortable bed.
It has no refrigerator or microwave as said in add and no pool.
Donna from Shelby,OH
May 31, 2009
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May 31, 2009
Solo Traveler
Convenient location.
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Thieves and cyber-criminals on the run from latest mobile anti-virus software
Last updated at 09:37, Wednesday, 06 March 2013
With mobile technology becoming ever more sophisticated, the threat to mobile devices from viruses and other malware is on the rise. In 2010, one of the earliest malicious programmes targeting smartphones was detected running on Google's Android system. It had already infected mobile devices by sending SMS messages to premium rate numbers without the owner's knowledge or consent. Other mobile viruses have harvested users' IMEI numbers, using them to clone phones for criminal purposes.
While the current threat level is small, businesses in particular should think about incorporating mobile security into their wider free antivirus programmes. This year, there have been reports of several viruses targeting Apple's iPhone and of a new family of worms using SMS text messaging to spread malware among third generation Symbian devices like the latest Nokia handsets. Internet security experts also predict that, as the use of smartphones to connect to company networks and conduct mobile commerce increases, the criminal gangs responsible for commercially-motivated PC malware will start to increasingly target smartphones and other mobile devices.
iPhones in particular are providing a challenge for mobile antivirus providers. However, most of the iPhone malware to date has only been able to infect users who have jailbroken their iPhones, bypassing Apple's fairly rigorous in-built security – and of those, only users who hadn't changed the default system password were vulnerable. Blackberrys, on the other hand, have so far remained immune to infection and Google's Android mobile OS has not yet grown big enough to prove an attractive target for hackers.
There is also the on-going threat that mobile devices could be used to smuggle PC-based malware onto corporate networks. Some internet security experts think it plausible that Bluetooth could be used to infect PCs from handsets. Currently, the biggest malware threat in the corporate environment is from mobile devices transporting purely PC malware such as 'autorun infections'. This is malware that spreads by copying itself to any kind of removable drive, including mobile devices.
How should smartphone users protect themselves? For starters, ensure users switch to Bluetooth 'hidden' mode. Antivirus software is also available which can protect and defend personal and professional data. They provide both antivirus and anti-theft protection for smartphones with a core and cloud defence system. Core protection shields smartphones from viruses, spyware and other malicious programmes, safeguarding stored and downloaded information and apps. The cloud protection operates on a different level using heuristic technologies and real-time protection to ensure that threats are neutralised.
Quality mobile antivirus software works quietly in the background, allowing users to send emails and text messages, add contacts and calendar events without popups. When an infected file is found during a routine or scheduled scan, users will be immediately notified and asked to decide to either delete the infected file or app immediately, or let it pass into the quarantine section. The quarantine area will keep the file intact, should the user decide to open it later, but it will contain any potential threats.
Another anti-theft feature featured in mobile antivirus software is SIM Watch. When a thief removes a SIM card and replaces it with another, the phone automatically sends the new telephone number to the phone's real owner, without the thief's knowledge, so the police can track down the perpetrator and the phone. This feature can also be used to completely disable the device.
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Sunday, March 29, 2015 - 1:30 PM: American Freethought, part 2
We will continue with Part 2 of the 4-part DVD series American Freethought.
Produced by Roderick Bradford and The Council for Secular Humanism, this series examines our nation's freethought, atheist, and humanist heritage from the American Revolution to the 1930s. American freethinkers fought for free speech, women's rights, separation of church and state, and above all, liberty. Each part is about 55 minutes long.
We watched Part 1 in November, dealing with the founding of the nation.
Part 2 deals with the abolition movement that seeds the women's rights and freethought movements: Elizabeth Cady Stanton and the Seneca Falls women's rights conference; suffragist-freethinker Matilda Joslyn Gage; Darwin's Origin of Species; religious resistance: the American Tract Society, morals crusader Anthony Comstock, D.M. Bennett, editor of The Truth Seeker; rise of The Great Agnostic, Robert Green Ingersoll; dawn of America's first Culture Wars.
The video will start at 1:45 pm. Open discussion to follow.
After the meeting, everyone is welcome to join us for an early dinner at Ruby Tuesday.
**NOTE: We collect nonperishable, unexpired food items for donation to the Franklin Twp Food Bank at every meeting. There are collection bins at the library where we can add our items.
Franklin Township Library
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Ruby Tuesday
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Tuesday, April 14, 2015 - 7:00 PM: Monthly Dinner
Come out for dinner and camaraderie with fellow humanists and atheists in your area! Always an interesting conversation and new participants are always welcome. If you're new, just tell the staff you're with the meetup group.
If you know you're coming in advance, please RSVP for the event on Meetup or Facebook. Use one of the links to the right.
Monthly dinners are usually the first Tuesday of each month. April's event was postponed one week due to conflict with the American Atheists Convention. In May we will resume the normal schedule.
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North Brunswick, NJ
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Sunday, April 18, 2015 - 7:00 PM: Bowlers Beyond Belief Fundraiser for NJAAF
Our bowling team, NJHN Bowlers Beyond Belief, will participate in the New Jersey Abortion Access Fund (NJAAF) 2015 Bowl-a-Thon. To join our bowling team, or to make a donation to our team, visit our team page.
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Please share our page with your family and friends and ask for their support of this important effort to help women pay for abortion care, emergency contraception, options counseling, child care during abortion procedures, and transportation costs to clinics.
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Sunday, April 19, 2015 - 1:00 PM: Program Meeting
Details TBA
The program will start at 1:30 pm. After the meeting, everyone is welcome to join us for an early dinner at Ruby Tuesday.
**NOTE: We collect nonperishable, unexpired food items for donation to the Franklin Twp Food Bank at every meeting. There are collection bins at the library where we can add our items.
Franklin Township Library
485 DeMott Lane
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Ruby Tuesday
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Sunday, August 2, 2015 - 1:00 to 6:00 PM: Annual Summer Picnic!
One of our biggest events of the year -- a great time to visit with old friends and make new ones, with plenty of good food and a chance to support our humanist group!
Details TBA
Duke Island Park
Old York Road, Bridgewater , NJ
Pavilion Grove Picnic Area (area 6 on park map)
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I though i was going crazy but i found it
Problem was that i added a pages dropdown inside a custom metabox within pages. Somehow the $post parameter got overwritten by my custom loop causing this problem.
stupid stupid
I'm having a really strange problem with a WordPress site i'm working on.
For some reason, when i create new pages with completely different titles etc, it keeps giving it the exact same slug of some other page – and adding "-2" etc. behind it.
For example if i name the page "Themeforest", wait a second or just save the page, the slug is "Anotherslug" – and everytime it just users "Anotherslug" and "Anotherslug-2" etc.
You should try the plugins An-themes suggested
Why not let people only upload and setup images which need to be in the slider?
Or isn't it a separate module/post type or something?
Maybe you should use val() to send it with the data?
data: $('input[type=\'text\'], input[type=\'hidden\'], input[type=radio]:checked.val()
Just a thought – not tested
I don't think Donations should not be used as a marketing tool. It would create an unfair competition that to my oppinion should only be based on quality.
Making people choosing favors because they maybe like the fact that an item's earnings will partly be used for charity is not fair against people who do not want to do charity and need all of their earned money.
Getting a special tab for such thing anywhere is just not fair – no place for such thing over here i think.
Gareth_Gillman said
If you do want to go down the route of guaranteed time on the front page then there will need to be 1 of 2 changes made:
1) Reviewers can only accept X number of items per week – this will guarantee time on the front page but will annoy members who join the end of the queue and waiting 2/3 weeks to get accepted
2) Modify the homepage to give more slots for new items OR have a twitter like ajax load, where you can load more items, the older the item is the further down the load it is.Both have downsides and both have advantages, just means something will have to give to get the guaranteed time
Point 2 sounds nice, but the fact it needs some user action i think you're better of with letting people browse the category pages like there is now ( like wordpress > creative etc. )
Point 1 is indeed maybe a good option – but instead of letting people wait for aproval for 2/3 weeks, you already could approve an item, and then give them a date when the item will be visible. Like this people also can plan their own promotion stuff in a proper way if they want, since they know exactly when their item will be visible.
But no mather how you do it, waiting for your item to be approved and visible is always a pain since you always want it to be as fast a possible. So every way has indeed his downsides and advantages.
Maybe Envato could check the need for something like this with a survey
loveishkalsi said
For example a wordpress developer develop the theme in a month or two and their item only get the exposure of few hours. And sometime when reviewers work slowly it gives some items exposure for five days.
This sounds like a logical and fair thing – but i can imagine it's a difficult thing to achieve, because maybe sometimes the que is way larger than other days. What if item 34 to 40 have had their preset time of exposure on the frontpage, but there aren't enough newly approved items – and vice versa, than what? Empty places is not a good idea for the marketplace in general i think.
But yes, if there's a way to get it the same for every new item that would be ideal.
I think what you need is a combination of adding custom checkout fields and the use of javascript/jQuery to show/hide that field.
Now, WooCommerce has hooks to for example add your own shipping fields or adress fields. One hook is for example: woocommerce_checkout_fields.
Which can be used something like this:
add_filter( 'woocommerce_checkout_fields' , 'custom_override_checkout_fields' ); function custom_override_checkout_fields( $fields ) { $fields['billing']['extrafield-id'] = array( 'label' => __('Extra field', 'woocommerce'), 'placeholder' => _x('Extra field', 'placeholder', 'woocommerce'), 'required' => false, 'class' => array('form-row-wide'), 'clear' => true ); return $fields; }
Then there're also hooks to save the extra fields with the orders, for example: woocommerce_checkout_update_order_meta.
Something like:
add_action('woocommerce_checkout_update_order_meta', 'my_custom_checkout_field_update_order_meta'); function my_custom_checkout_field_update_order_meta( $order_id ) { if ($_POST['extrafield-id']) update_post_meta( $order_id, 'Extra field', esc_attr($_POST['extrafield-id'])); }
Then, to show/hide your extra fields – hide them by default with CSS, and create a jQuery script which shows the extra fields when the right shipping method is selected.
Note that these may not be the hooks you need, but i'm sure there are hooks to add the extra fields to the appropiate section.
Then i think the solution is javascript to show and hide on a certain payment/shipping select method.
good luck!
TommusRhodus said
Not going to be much help here, but as for checking that woo commerce exists, wouldn't it be better to check for the class?
if( class_exists('Woocommerce') )
He's actually doing it as woocommerce suggests:http://docs.woothemes.com/document/create-a-plugin/


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