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Mrs. Lapham tells Penelope of her father's problems, and the girl immediately regains her composure and begins to think about something besides her problems with Tom Corey and Irene. She writes Tom a note and tells him not to visit her until she asks him. Silas enjoys a period of respite, as the English parties do not show up. During this impasse, to divert their minds, the family attends the theater. On another evening, Silas and Penelope work out business problems together to determine the actual state of affairs. Mrs. Lapham, who is actually better with the problems, is excluded because Silas does not wish her to know about all his business details. After Silas and Penelope finish, Mrs. Lapham finds a slip of paper listing payments made to a "Wm. M." Intending to give it to Silas later, she puts it into her sewing box but forgets it.
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This course is a collection of short Photoshop and Illustrator projects and creative effects that can be completed in ten minutes or less. The series is taught by computer graphics guru Deke McClelland, and presented in his signature step-by-step style. The intent is to reveal how various Photoshop and Illustrator features can be combined and leveraged in real-world examples so that they can be applied to creative projects right away.
Hey gang. This is Deke McClellend. Welcome to Deke's Techniques. Today, we're going to draw a hand in Adobe Illustrator. We're going to take this sketch that I drew with a pencil on a piece of paper, and then we'll take it into Illustrator and trace it, complete with variable width strokes. Now you may ask, why are we drawing the back of the hand? And, why is it clenched in a fist? Well, our ultimate goal is to create this four square hands graphic right here. Perfect for the next time you want to illustrate the inspirational power of corporate team work.
Here, let me show you exactly how it works. All right. So, as you know, this is the effect we're going for. We're going to start off with a single hand which is going to be this upright one over here on the right-hand side. So, I'll switch over to the starter document. And you can see that I've got this arm here, that I've drawn in advance, just to save us a little time. And it's pretty simple. We've got some corner points down here at the bottom, a couple of points up here at the top, and one smooth point right here at this location. And it's a very thin arm. The reason being that thin arms are going to better accommodate fists wrapped around them.
I also, if you take a look up here, have this independent layer called Detail Lines. It's turned off. If you turn it on, you'll see that I have drawn a bunch of Detail Lines in advance. And we'll come back to them in a moment. But first, we're going to trace that hand. So I'm going to go ahead and turn off the detail lines layer. I want to create a new layer to accommodate the tracing template below the arm layer. And the easiest way to do that is to press Control Alt L or Command Option L on the Mac. And you can see, that goes in and puts that new layer below. I'll call the layer sketch because we will be tracing from a play sketch in just a moment.
And I'll change the color really to anything, but I'm going to go with light blue up there at the top of the list. We're not ready to turn this into a template yet because we have to make some modifications to the placed art work. So just go ahead and click okay for now. Then, click off the arms to deselect it. Make sure that sketch layer is active there inside the layers panel. And then go up to the file menu and choose the place command. If you're working along with me, locate this file called Hand Sketch dot PSD. Make sure the link check box is turned on. Leave template and the other check boxes turned off for now.
And then, just go ahead and click the place button. And you'll load your cursor, as you see there, at which point, just go ahead and click in order to place that very large sketch inside the document. And the reason it's so enormous is because it's very low res. It's only 72 pixels per inch as you can see up here in the Control Panel. So, we're going to reduce the size of the image using the Scale tool. So, go ahead and get the tool or you can press the S key and then you want to Alt click or Option click in the upper left corner of the image.
Set the uniform value to 33%, and then go ahead and click okay. Now we have a much smaller version of the template. And you can see that that increases the resolution as well to 218 PPI. So we have a little more to work with here. Now, go up to the View menu and a couple of things. Make sure Smart Guides are turned off for now, because otherwise they'll kind of get in our way. And then also make sure the Bounding Box is turned off, so if it reads Hide Bounding Box, go ahead and choose it to make that bounding box go away. And that way, you can go ahead and press the V key, to switch to the black arrow tool.
Or, of course, you could select it from the top of the tool box. And then go ahead and drag the bottom left corner of the image like so, until it snaps into alignment with these guidelines right here. And that way we got the hand in the proper location. And of course i figured this out through trial and error. So I've done some of the grunt work in advance in other words. Now, let's convert this guy to a template by double clicking on an empty portion of the layer to bring up the layer options dialog box. Just turn on the template check box, dim images to 50% is fine. So click okay.
And we now have a template. And we're now ready to trace it, of course, using the Pen Tool is what I'm going to recommend. So I went ahead and selected the Pen Tool. You can also go to it by pressing the P key. And then you want to click on that arm layer, so that you can actually draw a little bit inside the document. And I'm going to zoom in even farther. Farther, now this guy right there is the corner point, so we can just add to it by dragging, like so. Then I'm going to drag another point up there. And I want to be able to modify the points as I go. So I'm going to press the A key to switch to the wide arrow tool, and then I'm just going to drag this control handle out a little bit, so that there is more of an edge to the wrist bone.
And then I'll press the P key to switch back to the pen tool. It's got an asterisk next to it, which tells us that it's ready to create a new path. So, we need to activate the existing one by dragging from it like so. And then, you want to drag somewhere around here. And this, by the way, is the edge of the palm. We're seeing the back of the palm, of course. And, it's being flattened a little bit, it's being spread outward because it's clenching that arm. So we want some extra roundness going on here. And then you want to go ahead and drag right about there and then press the Alt key or the Option key on the Mac, in order to move that control handle independently of the other one so that we can create a kind of knuckle.
And now I'm just going to drag right about here. And this time I'm not going to create a cusp point. I'm just going to leave it a smooth point like so. And I'll go ahead and zoom in a little and draw a knuckle at this location and another one right about there, let's say. And let's say I want to move this control handle. Then I can press and hold the Control key, or the Command key on the Mac, to get that last used Arrow tool which happens to be the white arrow, so I can move the Control panel independently. Then I'm going to take this guy back because he's way too close to the other finger. Now I'll go head and drag right about here.
Just a little drag, in order to complete that first knuckle, the one for the pinky. And then I'll press the Alt key or the Option key on the Mac, so I can move this control handle in an independent direction. All right. Now, let's add an anchor point right about there. And you kind of want a lot of anchor points when you are drawing knuckles because they're really knuckly. We don't want the effect to appear overly smooth. All right. So drag at this location, at the drag of that knuckle, and then I will press the alt key or the option key on the map in order to move it up. And then I'll create an anchor point right about there, let's say, maybe one right there to give the knuckle a little bit of an indent.
And then I'll drag right there and press the alt key or the option key on the Mac so I can move that control handle in a different direction. And right here, I'll go ahead and create another cusp point by pressing the alt or option keys so that we have a little bit of a duvet right there. And the reasoning is that this is a little bit of flesh on the index finger that's being pressed outward as the hand is holding onto the arm. And this was all sketched of course by looking at my own hand. Which is to say that we're working from real life here.
All right. I'm going to press the control key or the command key on the Mac and drag this guy down just a little bit, that control handle there. And then I'll just continue dragging right about there for example. And then we want a little bit of a cusp INAUDIBLE point right here and another one right here. So I'm using the alt key or the option key on the Mac as I drag in order to sever the relationship between the control handles. And now I'll go ahead and move this guy over to here someplace. I'm not exactly sure where that one needs to go long term, because this is part of the other guy's arm right here.
But it should work out. And then remember, if you don't put your anchor point in the right place when you first start dragging, you can move it on the fly by pressing and holding the space bar. I'm going to go ahead and release the space bar now. And then I'll press and hold Alt key or the Option key in the Mac, in order to create a cusp point at that location, so that the two control handles are moving in different angles. And then I'll go ahead and drag here. And I'm using the space bar in order to move the point on the fly. And I'll drag another point right about there. You can go your own way of course, you don't have to slavishly create the anchor points the way I am.
But I am drawing more anchor points more than I normally would. Again, because we want this rough hand that has all these sort of bony contours in it. And then you want to drag on the anchor of the top of the arm, in order to complete your hand like so. I'm going to zoom out a little bit here in order to take in more of the hand at a time. And also go ahead and turn on the detail lines so that we can see how they fit with the outline that I've now drawn of the hand. And at this point, just to get a better sense of what's going on.
We want to turn off the sketch layer and you do that by clicking on that little rectangle right there, and that'll hide it from view. And then we want to zoom in and I'm doing this by Control Space bar clicking, that's Command Space bar click on the Mac. I'll go ahead and grab my white arrow tool, the direct selection tool, once again. And I'll click on this point and move it over just a little bit so that we're more or less matching the contour of this knuckle right here. And then I want to make sure that these guys are sitting at the proper locations. So I'll go ahead and drag this point until it snaps into alignment like so.
And if you want to move this knuckle up a little bit, whatever, you can make any kind of modifications you want to imply here. And then I'll go ahead and move this guy to there. And you should see that white arrow head that's showing you that you're snapping the point onto another anchor point. All right. I'm going to go ahead and move this knuckle up a little bit and then I'm going to grab this guy right there. And I'm also going to press Control Y or Command Y on the Mac to switch to the outline mode. That way it's a little easier to see what I'm doing. And I'll go ahead and drag that guy to the desired position.
So, now I can press Control Y, or Command Y on the Mac in order to switch back to the preview mode. Let's go ahead and zoom out just a little bit. Now, the reason that I drew all these lines in advance is because they're pretty simple if you take a look at them. Some of them have three anchor points in them. Most of them have two. They're all smooth points. And I was just tracing the contours in my sketch right here. And obviously, I didn't trace all of them because I felt like that was enough. But, I do want to change them up a little bit. I'm going to turn that sketch back off.
I want them to have a little bit of variable weight. So I'm going to select all these detail lines by clicking in the upper right corner of the layer here inside the layers panel. And that'll select all those lines. They should all have green anchor points. Next, you want to go up to the control panel. Notice the line weight is four points, but we're going to switch this next option from uniform to width profile one. So that very first guy there. And we'll end up with this effect. Now, we have a few issues down here that I'm going to resolve.
Notice that this point right here is too high, this anchor point that I choose. So I'm just going to select it, and use the down arrow key in order to nudge that anchor point down. And now select this guy and nudge him down a little bit as well. So obviously, your results are going to vary because you're going to sketch things slightly differently than I have. But in the end if you're working along with me, you should end up with this final version of the hand and arm. And that friends is at least one way to draw a hand as a clenched fist here inside Illustrator.
Now as it just so happens, I captured that original pencil sketch using a cellphone and it looks pretty bad. We've got this blue junk at the bottom that's darker then the pencil lines at the top. So it takes a special approach in order to clean up this sketch in Photoshop. And if you want to see how that works, you can check out my follow up movie at Lynda dot com slash deke, where you can get a free week. If you're wondering about next week, I am going to show you how to create those four square hands, united and brotherhood solidarity and teamwork, because after all, alone we can do so little, but together we can do so much.
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"This hearty beef and vegetable stew that can be made in the slow-cooker is a family favorite. It is also the backbone for an excellent beef soup, if you actually find yourself with leftovers."
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olive oil
2 pounds
lean top round, trimmed and cut into 1-inch cubes
2 large
sweet onions, diced
2 cups
large chunks of celery
4 large
carrots, peeled and cut into large rounds
1 pound
crimini mushrooms, sliced
2 tablespoons
minced garlic
2 cups
dry red wine
4 large
tomatoes, chopped
1 1/2 pounds
red potatoes (such as Red Bliss), cut into 1-inch chunks
1 tablespoon
dried basil
1 teaspoon
dried thyme
1 teaspoon
dried marjoram
1/2 teaspoon
dried sage
1 quart
beef stock
2 cups
tomato sauce
I used two and a half pounds of stew meat because honestly, I can't afford top round. I also used sliced baby bella mushrooms instead of crimini. I did not have time to make this in a dutch oven. I browned the meat in the oil, then added it to my crockpot with the celery and the carrots. I then sauteed the onions and garlic in the drippings with a little butter until the onions turned translucent, then I deglazed the pan with the wine. I poured all of it into the crockpot, then added the tomatoes, potatoes, spices, beef stock and tomato sauce. I let this cook all day until my family got home. I made homemade yeast rolls to go with. This was one of the best stews I've ever made. It's got a beef burgundy feel to it, it's rich and decadent tasting. I had a big bowl when I got home from work and it was like eating a big hug. EXCELLENT recipe.
I don't think I would make this again, serves at least 12 and on the expensive side to make. It really needs salt and pepper. Filled my crockpot to the top. Took at least 6 hours to cook.
Add salt an pepper to taste and a little Worcestershire to taste also
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Big and hearty, with a beefy tomato taste. Rich and robust, satisfying, stick to your ribs good. Other than coating the meat in flour first, I made no changes to the recipe. I had my doubts that 4-6 hours simmering was necessary and even thought it might work against this dish, but I chose to follow the directions. After two hours I was ready to call it quits but let it go another hour – and shouldn't have. By this time, three hours, the meat had broken down and started to fall apart into small pieces. I would have much preferred a stew with good-sized chunks of meat. Four stars rather than five for directions that essentially took this backward as it overcooked. After two hours it seemed to have reached a turning point and lost quality beyond that. An hour and a half to two hours would have resulted in tender meat that still held its shape.
Delicious! I didn't have fresh tomatoes, so I used canned diced. Also, I didn't have all the herbs recommended, so I used dried Rosemary, Thyme and Basil. Used Chiati for the red wine and it went beautifully with the finished product. Best beef stew I have ever made! Such an easy recipe too! My husband loved it!
I tried this recipe for the first time a few weeks ago. We were pleasantly surprised at how flavorful it was; we loved it so much that I am making it again today. This will be our favorite go to throughout the winter season. We did add a few other vegetables that we had around the house; this recipe easily lends itself to being tweaked to each persons liking. Having a recipe that uses such affordable cuts of meat make it even more appealing to a single income family like us; you could throw in some rice or a pasta and stretch it even that much further. Thank you so much chef Karen for this wonderful meal.
I really liked this!! I did as Sarah suggested and used stew meat! Finished up in the crock! 4 .5 hours on low! Will def make again! Only other change was in my spices..... Used an Italian blend in lieu of the above and added 2 bay leaves while in the crock!
Made this up as posted - wonderful beef stew. It's a bit of work to get the prep done but the results are well worth the effort. I may have cut the beef and potatoes a bit smaller than 1 inch and with the 4 hour cooking time they were more than done, but still intact. I will keep closer to the 1 inch recommendation next time.
One tip I saw somewhere that was helpful was to freeze the round steak for 15-30 minutes (not frozen hard) to make cutting it easier and it worked great.
I followed the recipe as is. I too used the stew meat as Sarah. My family & I very muched enjoyed this yummy stew. This recipe does make alot of stew. However, I'm okay with that. The only change was after cooking the vegetables, I put the cooked beef in the crockpot & added the vegetables in the crockpot. I cooked it in the crockpot for 4 hours. We like to season our soups/stews once it's in our bowls. My son used Tony's (cajun seasoning) in his bowl. I used a small amount of sea salt & Chalulah (almost like Tobasco, but much better taste).
* Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.
Northern Italian Beef Stew
Serving Size: 1/8 of a recipe
Servings Per Recipe: 8
Amount Per Serving
Calories: 476
Calories from Fat: 92
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Topics: Business and Management; Project Management
Date: July 2012
There's more to project management than just managing your team's work flow. You also need to manage client expectations, architectural coordination, coordination with other team members, on-going technology and budget changes and most of all; your sanity. From proposal to punch list, being well organized, understanding what is expected and when, knowing when to compromise and when not to back down will help you stay on top of your project. Don't just be a project manager; be a project master. Your clients will thank you for it (by giving you more projects).
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Their initial idea was to take recordings of epileptic patients' brain activity, turn them into music, and see what they sounded like. What began as a curiosity project then quickly evolved into something more: "sonifying" a seizure in real time, they found, could be a way to more quickly and easily diagnose a patient in the midst of a seizure. Read more here...


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Cut off chicken wing tips, reserving them for another use (such as stock). Arrange wings in one layer in a 13- by 9-inch glass baking dish and sprinkle them evenly with 1/2 cup kosher salt. Turn wings over and sprinkle with 1/2 cup more salt. Chill wings 2 hours.
In a colander rinse wings under cold running water and drain. Arrange wings in one layer in baking dish and thinly slice onions. Arrange onions over wings and pour buttermilk over onions. Chill wings, covered, at least 12 hours and up to 1 day.
Discard onions and in colander drain wings. Have ready an 18-inch sheet of wax paper. In a large shallow bowl whisk together flour, peppercorns, cayenne, and remaining 2 tablespoons salt. Working with no more than 2 wings at a time, dredge wings evenly in flour mixture and shake off excess. Arrange wings flat sides up and a few inches apart on wax paper and let stand 15 minutes. Generously sprinkle remaining flour mixture over wings, patting it to adhere, and let stand 15 minutes more.
Have ready a rack set over a baking pan. In each of two 10- to 11-inch heavy skillets melt 1 cup shortening and 4 tablespoons butter over high heat just until butter begins to turn golden. To each skillet add 8 or 9 wings, flat sides down, and reduce heat to moderately high. Cook wings, covered, until deep golden, 8 to 10 minutes. Turn wings and cook, uncovered, until deep golden, about 8 minutes. With tongs transfer wings to rack set over pan to drain.


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Budding gardener: Jason Hodges, aged 5, with his father Monty.
Lots of people ask me how I got started. Well, it's pretty simple. My dad's a bricklayer, my brother a horticulturalist and my two sisters were florists. Mum and Dad had a great garden growing up and my school marks were not going to let me be a marine biologist. I had good role models and knew I wanted to build and garden, so landscaping was the perfect job for me. If you've got teenage kids or are thinking about a career change here are the pros and cons of working in the horticulture industry.
The benefits of working in residential gardening are that you can start off small. If you are worried about being self-employed you can pick up a few small jobs and do them on the side from your full-time job. Your set-up costs can be minimal with some hand tools and mowing equipment. Your hours can be flexible so you can fit in family commitments like school drop-off or pickup.
For me it's job satisfaction. You can see what you've done in a day, the steady improvement of a landscape job to completion, or the growth in a maintenance job. I love being outdoors and it's a lot healthier than being behind a desk.
On the negative side, you can't fake gardening. If it's not your passion, maybe a mowing run is as far as you can take it. It can be hard work, ice cold in winter and stinking hot in summer. Your income can slow in the shorter, cooler months.
It doesn't matter where you start, it's where you finish that matters. Taking a job in a nursery as a cashier may not be your first choice but you will learn your plants quickly and it's a great way to build up a rapport with potential clients.
There are lots of different jobs that come under horticulture: garden maintenance, landscaper, landscape designer, greenkeeper, arborist, tree work, nursery, amenity management, agriculture, teacher of adult classes on gardening and garden design, even TV, radio and newspapers (who would have thought it?).
My advice to a young school leaver would be to try to get an apprenticeship and go to TAFE. You may think the money's not amazing but at the end of four years you won't have a HECs bill. For someone who's older and looking at a career change I'd look for part-time work with someone who is willing to teach you on the job. Do courses and learn on the job.
If you want to start your own small business I think the best thing you can do is donate your time to local primary schools. Think about it, your time is free but you are in front of hundreds of parents who live in your area, and they are settled in your suburb for the next 20 years. You're helping your community and receiving contacts in your local area as well as reducing travel time between jobs and building up a client base.
So whether it's garden maintenance or landscape construction or both, remember the client is always right. If you let someone down they will tell 100 people, if you do an amazing job they might tell five. Word of mouth is the best form of advertising, it is a great way to get leads for free. Garden maintenance is a service industry, like getting the house cleaned – you want your clients to think, ''I couldn't do it as well as you have''. If they think that after you have been there you will have a successful business and a great lifestyle.
From one very happy landscaper I say to the young, good luck and to the older ones looking for a career change I say what are you waiting for?


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HENRY: Quotable quotes worth their weight in gold
When the remains of Richard III were identified recently in England, just about every commentator mentioned the famous quotation associated with his name: "A horse! A horse! My kingdom for a horse!"
Unfortunately for the last Plantagenet king of England, it is always difficult to find a spare horse in the midst of a battlefield rout. They are as scarce as a taxi on a wet night in New York City.
What is more unfortunate is that the quotation was not among the king's last words, which were more likely "ouch" and "darn."
No, the credit for King Richard's supposed eloquence goes to William Shakespeare, as usual, because the playwright pretty much invented the English language.
You may think this column is a sorry sight, but it is now a foregone conclusion that many of the things we carelessly say are Shakespearean in origin. For example, "a sorry sight" comes from "Macbeth" and "foregone conclusion" from "Othello."
The immortal bard invented dozens of such phrases, and the average person doesn't have to be wearing tights to say them.
Have you ever wondered what it takes to be a writer? Certainly, one must have a hide like a rhinoceros to survive the slings and arrows of outrageous fortune (Shakespeare again) and a cast-iron liver to process the shots and barrels of outrageous alcohol (me). But the would-be writer must also imbibe good writing and become inebriated by words.
No less an authority than British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, a great man who did not limit himself in matters of inebriation and was good for a quote himself, observed as much.
"It is a good thing for an uneducated man to read books of quotations," he said. " 'Bartlett's Familiar Quotations' is an admirable work, and I studied it intently. The quotations when engraved upon the memory give you good thoughts. They also make you anxious to read the authors and look for more."
It is true that my favorite quotations tend to be from a dead poet's society of the traditional greats — Wordsworth, Keats, Byron and the boys. But if anybody should criticize my narrow literary taste, then I would say to them: "Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries" (French soldier, "Monty Python and the Holy Grail").
One regret: Having kept company, one quotation at a time, with the greatest speakers, actors, singers, statesmen and writers of any generation, I am left feeling defeated that no quotation of mine shall ever be saved for posterity.
If BrainyQuote.com were to include one of my sayings — such as my definition of a liberal: a person who believes that consenting adults may have any sort of sex but shouldn't be allowed a cigarette afterward — then it would be better than a Pulitzer to me.Only one thing to do: Flee the battlefield. A horse! A horse! A taxi! A taxi! Darn, where did they go?


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Pennsylvania: Industrial Hemp Bill Filed In LegislatureSubmitted by steveelliott on Wed, 01/21/2015 - 18:58
By Steve Elliott
Hemp News
Two Pennsylvania lawmakers have pre-filed legislation that they say would help farmers become part of the multi-million dollar hemp industry.
"The 2014 federal Farm Bill authorizes pilot programs for industrial hemp, and SB 50 provides oversight for growing, harvesting and marketing a traditional commonwealth crop while providing new opportunities for Pennsylvania farmers," said state Sen. Judy Schwank (D-Berks County), who is co-sponsoring the bill with state Sen. Mike Folmer (R-Lebanon County).
Schwank said industrial hemp has been used for thousands of years, and was commonly grown in Pennsylvania until the last century.
About 50,000 potential applications exist for hemp, including textiles, building materials, paper, plastics, foods, medicines, biomass, and environmental products.
"The use of industrial hemp provides a multitude of benefits," Folmer said. "The best farmland preservation is allowing farmers to farm their land profitably.
"Hemp is also a crop that helps the environment," Folmer said. "Consumers will benefit from the many uses of hemp."
More than a dozen other states have already passed laws allowing either hemp farming or research programs. The hemp industry was worth an estimated $500 million in 2012, according to the Hemp Industries Association.
Ohio: Industrial Hemp Finds A Home In Health & Wellness ProgramsSubmitted by steveelliott on Mon, 11/17/2014 - 22:46
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Twenty States Have Legalized Industrial Hemp By Wide Margins, With Major Health Institutions Giving the Nod to Hemp's Protein-Rich Nutrition
With interest in food, farming, wellness, and all-things-cannabis are on the rise, industrial hemp is attracting a fan base broader than "hipsters" and vegetarians that may first come to mind. Major health institutions are now on board, giving the nod to the nutritional quality of hemp's protein-rich seeds, and assuring people eating them will not cause failed drug tests.
The productivity of Canadian hemp producers has gone up in recent years, bringing more affordable hempseed foods to grocery stores and vitamin websites. Politically, hemp is a rare bipartisan issue, as evidenced by the 20 states that have legalized the crop by wide margins, defining it as a distinct variety of cannabis sativa, having .03 percent THC or less (no drug/narcotic value).
This is welcome reform for Plant Kingdom Bakery owner Jeremy Koosed, who claims to have discussed the subject of hemp for nutrition with hundreds of thousands of people. For the past five years, the Lyndhurst-based "snackery" has been onhand with hempseed foods and information at community festivals and farmers markets. Coffee shop baristas have also helped clarify the subject for customers, as Phoenix Coffee locations in Cleveland and Nervous Dog in Akron have made Plant Kingdom snacks available since 2009.
Ohio Residents Join Legal Hemp Harvest In Kentucky, Touting Jobs Creation, Brain FoodSubmitted by steveelliott on Mon, 10/27/2014 - 22:26
For the first time in two generations, the Industrial Hemp crop has been legally harvested in Kentucky. The hemp plots were grown in compliance with Kentucky state law and in accordance with Sec. 7606 of the 2014 US Farm Bill (Agricultural Act of 2014) that authorized hemp cultivation for research purposes in states that permit Hemp farming.
The agricultural excitement spurred some of Ohio's long-time hemp advocates to travel south to meet the farmers and gain first-hand experience with the plant that cannabis prohibition has kept out of American fields until very recently.
In votes often favoring Hemp by wide margins, 20 states have legalized the crop, defining it as Cannabis Sativa L., having .03 percent THC or less (no drug/narcotic value). The reforms are welcome in Kentucky, where tobacco growers are hurting for alternative crops.
Even with the non-drug status being declared federally, the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) seized viable hemp seed en route to Kentucky from Italy, as outdated policy under the Controlled Substances Act doesn't recognize the scientifically-demonstrated chemical distinctions between "marihuana," a Schedule I narcotic, and hemp, a viable agricultural cash crop commodity. Kentucky sued the DEA to release the seeds, and prevailed in federal court, allowing the research plots to proceed.
Oregon: Portland Man Asks State's Permission To Grow Industrial HempSubmitted by steveelliott on Fri, 07/18/2014 - 17:39
By Steve Elliott
Hemp News
Agriculture officials in Oregon have for months now been working on rules for industrial hemp production, with a goal of having them finished in time for a Spring 2015 planting. But one man from Portland doesn't want to wait.
Rick Rutherford, 47, has some land in Dufur, and he doesn't want to wait, reports Noelle Crombie at The Oregonian. Rutherford, who said he sees big potential for industrial hemp, last week sent an application to the Oregon Department of Agriculture, requesting permission to grow hemp on his land in Wasco County.
"Time is of the essence as planting seeds needs to be underway within the next couple of weeks to conduct a viable outdoor research pilot program in Oregon," wrote Courtney Moran, a Portland lawyer, in a letter accompanying Rutherford's application.
"I think it will be kind of fun to do," Rutherford said. "I have been itching to do this for a long time."
State officials on Thursday said they aren't ready to start issuing hemp-growing licenses. The rule writing process has been torturously slow, as officials labor of licensing fees and processing rules.
The Farm Bill approved by Congress earlier this year allows states where industrial hemp is legal -- including Oregon -- to permit hemp production by universities and state agriculture departments. Sixteen states allow hemp cultivation.
Kentucky: Hemp Seeds Legally Planted For First Time In DecadesSubmitted by steveelliott on Tue, 05/27/2014 - 21:56
By Steve Elliott
Hemp News
Hemp has been legally planted in Kentucky for the first time in decades, signaling the tentative return of a crop which once was a lucrative industry for the Bluegrass State.
University of Kentucky researchers on Tuesday planted a small crop of 13 varieties of hemp seeds, finally released last week by the federal Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA) after pointless bureaucratic wrangling.
Although industrial hemp was an indispensable crop for Kentucky through World War II, it was the first time it had been legally planted in the state since the 1970s, reports Janet Patton at the Herald Leader.
University of Kentucky agronomists RIch Mundell and David Williams will supervise the hemp study. The plants are expected to sprout in 7 to 10 days and will be harvested in October. Each variety will be evaluated for its seed and fiber production.
"It's exciting to be working on something different, and we're very hopeful it will be successful," said Williams. "Generally speaking, compared to some crops, it's not difficult to grow.
"But there are some things that are unknown today," Williams continued. "In particular, differences in the varieties of hemp we have access to today."
While much of the economic interest in hemp decades ago was based on its fiber, now there's more focus on the seeds, which can be press for a nutritious oil which contains essential fatty acids (EFAs) Omega 3 and 6.
U.S.: Farm Bill Passes House With Hemp Research IntactSubmitted by steveelliott on Thu, 01/30/2014 - 23:22
By Steve Elliott
Hemp News
The Farm Bill passed in the U.S. House of Representatives on Thursday morning by a vote of 251 to 166, including the hemp provision. "This is a big first step towards allowing American farmers to once again grow industrial hemp," according to VoteHemp.org.
The hemp provision was originally introduced as an amendment to the Farm Bill by Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colorado), Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky) and Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon), all three of whom represent states which have legalized industrial hemp. The provision allows universities and state agriculture departments to grow hemp for academic or agricultural research purposes, but applies only to states where industrial hemp farming has already been legalized under state law.
"By including language easing restrictions on industrial hemp in states where it is legal, Congress sends an important message that we are ready to examine hemp in a more appropriate way," Rep. Blumenauer said on Monday.
"Vote Hemp was pleased with the bipartisan support for the amendment and worked with key Republican and Democratic offices in both the House and Senate to ensure the amendment was included in the conference report, which passed the House on Thursday. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-Kentucky) reportedly worked to keep and strengthen the hemp provision in the Farm Bill.
U.S.: Farm Bill Allows States And Universities To Grow Hemp For ResearchSubmitted by steveelliott on Tue, 01/28/2014 - 20:28
By Steve Elliott
Hemp News
Hemp cultivation for research purposes by colleges, universities and state agriculture departments is allowed in the new Farm Bill, according to a report released Monday night by the U.S. Senate and House conference committee on the bill.
The hemp amendment in the Farm Bill was written by U.S. Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Oregon), U.S. Rep. Thomas Massie (R-Kentucky), and U.S. Rep. Jared Polis (D-Colorado), reports Noelle Crombie at The Oregonian. All three Congressmen represent states where industrial hemp production is already legal under state law.
The inclusion of the industrial hemp amendment in the Farm Bill is a "bright spot in an otherwise disappointing bill," Rep. Blumenauer said late on Monday. The bill, which cuts about $8 billion from the food stamp program over the next decade, is expected to be voted on by the U.S. House and Senate on Wednesday.
"Oregonians have made it clear that they believe industrial hemp should be treated as an agricultural commodity, not a drug," Blumenauer said in an email to The Oregonian. "By including language easing restrictions on industrial hemp in states where it is legal, Congress sends an important message that we are ready to examine hemp in a more appropriate way."
The amendment allows colleges, universities and state agriculture programs to cultivate hemp for research and pilot projects; it does not, however, protect individual farmers who grow the crop.


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Roger Doherty's Windows Azure BlogWork blog for Roger Doherty, Sr. Program Manger, SQL Server Customer Experience Teamhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/rdoherty/atom.aspxTelligent Evolution Platform Developer Build (Build: 5.6.50428.7875)2011-10-27T01:26:47ZThe Top 10 Things to Know When Running SQL Server Workloads on Windows Azure VMs http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rdoherty/archive/2013/06/04/the-top-10-things-to-know-when-running-sql-server-workloads-on-windows-azure-vms.aspx2013-06-04T18:52:00Z2013-06-04T18:52:00Z
Greetings to my friends from SQL Server and BI land. About 18 months ago I hung up my evangelist hat and moved into a program management role on the Customer Advisory Team focusing on Windows Azure. I was asked to help engineering connect with customers who were testing their SQL Server and BI workloads on the Windows Azure Virtual Machine and Virtual Network Previews. We created a program called the Managed IaaS Preview, and enrolled a bunch of customers and partners who were interested in testing their workloads. Both of these capabilities are now generally available in an offering called Windows Azure Infrastructure Services.

During the preview, we published some of our early learnings, resources and guidance in a cook book on TechNet. Now that the services are generally available, we retired the cook book and are now pointing customers to our official documentation. If you are interested in jumping in, check out The Top 10 Things to Know When Running SQL Server Workloads on Windows Azure Virtual Machines which I wrote and was just published on the Windows Azure team blog. Next up, I'll be focusing on other interesting areas in Windows Azure like making the development of scale-out applications that run at Internet scale much easier.

Roger Dohertyhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rdoherty/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxTrust Services Lab Refresh Coming July 9thhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/rdoherty/archive/2012/07/05/trust-services-lab-refresh-coming-july-9th.aspx2012-07-05T16:07:39Z2012-07-05T16:07:39Z
I just got notified that a refresh of the Trust Services Lab is due out on July 9th 2012.  For those of you who don't know what Trust Services is, it's a .NET encryption framework for protecting sensitive data stored in Windows Azure Data Management technologies, including SQL Database (formerly known as SQL Azure), Tables and Blobs.  It's all done using policies and certificates that are managed independently by the developer and an authorized administrator.

Why should you care?  One of the big adoption blockers for building PaaS applications for Windows Azure are concerns over loss of control and data sovereignty.  Trust Services technology will make it possible to encrypt and store your data securely in Windows Azure, and independently define policies that allow only authorized consumers to decrypt the data.  This eliminates the risk of access to sensitive data by any unauthorized entity, including the cloud provider that is hosting your PaaS application.

So what's new in the July 9th refresh?  Some pretty cool stuff, including:

Search on encrypted data

Encryption of streams

Separation of roles for data policy administration, publishing and consumption

If you previously signed up for the lab, you will have to sign up again to get the July 9th refresh.  We haven't announced any plans yet for general availability of Trust Services, but this refresh is a good sign that things are progressing well.  Have at it!

Roger Dohertyhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rdoherty/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxWindows Azure Virtual Machine is Here!http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rdoherty/archive/2012/06/08/windows-azure-virtual-machine-is-here.aspx2012-06-08T05:32:05Z2012-06-08T05:32:05Z
On June 7, 2012 in San Francisco, Scott Guthrie encouraged the world to Meet the New Windows Azure  . As part of this milestone, Scott announced the availability of several Windows Azure Preview Features including a new Virtual Machine  capability. This exciting new Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS) offering makes it possible to deploy fully functional virtual machine environments in the cloud that can function independently, extend your on-premise IT environment using Virtual Networks, and interoperate with other Windows Azure cloud service offerings.

Are you interested in running SQL Server in a Windows Azure Virtual Machine? Then check out the SQL Server on Windows Azure Virtual Machine Early Adoption Cook Book at:

http://bit.ly/sqliaascookbook

It's a work in progress and we'll be adding lots of great stuff in the coming weeks!

Roger Dohertyhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rdoherty/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxThey're Here! SQL Server 2012 Early Adoption Cook Book Videos!http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rdoherty/archive/2012/03/08/they-re-here-sql-server-2012-early-adoption-cook-book-videos.aspx2012-03-09T03:52:57Z2012-03-09T03:52:57Z
That's right, just in time for SQL Server 2012 launch madness, every single presentation and demo included in the SQL Server 2012 Early Adoption Cook Book now has a corresponding video on Channel 9!  There are 50 videos covering every imaginable topic of interest to developers and IT Professionals who want to learn what's new and exciting in SQL Server 2012.

The easiest way to find the specific videos you are interested in is to open this wiki page in the cook book, find the piece of content you are interested in, then simply click on the appropriate link to either download the content or watch the video.

A big thanks to the following folks who helped make this possible:

Jonathan Kehayias for AlwaysOn content.

Greg Low for developer content.

Peter Myers for BI content.

Joe Sack for engine content.

Aaron Lower for coordinating and publishing all these videos.

The Channel9 team for the use of their awesome engines.

Enjoy!

Roger Dohertyhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rdoherty/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxAnnouncing the SQL Server 2012 Early Adoption Cook Bookhttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/rdoherty/archive/2012/01/31/announcing-the-sql-server-2012-early-adoption-cook-book.aspx2012-01-31T18:28:49Z2012-01-31T18:28:49Z
If you are on the "bleeding edge" of SQL Server 2012 early adoption, and you need content, samples or upgrade resources to move the ball forward, read on!

Microsoft creates a lot of content designed to drive early adoption for new releases of SQL Server. We use this as a tool to arm trainers, consultants and evangelists with the content they need to introduce developers and IT Professionals alike to key improvements in a new release so they can help us drive adoption. We don't always do a good job of communicating what all of these content assets are.

To address this problem, I'm pleased to announce the immediate availability of the SQL Server 2012 Early Adoption Cook Book TechNet wiki at:

http://bit.ly/sql2012cookbook

The wiki is intended to serve as a master index of some great SQL Server 2012 early adoption content being created by Microsoft and key partners. Rather than announcing new bits of content on various blogs, we will simply update this wiki so there is one place to find all the latest information about early adoption content assets.

We will be updating the wiki weekly with new content and information, so subscribe to the articles that you are most interested in if you want to be proactively notified of updates.

There is a big virtual team that has come together to make this project possible that includes people both inside and outside of Microsoft.  I would like to thank the following individuals up front for their significant contributions:

Brian Knight of Pragmatic Works helped us with Expedition Denali.

Greg Low and Peter Myers of SolidQ are helping us with developer and BI content.

Jonathan Kehayias and Joe Sack of SQLskills are helping us with AlwaysOn and DBA content.

Roger Wolter and Rohit Sharma of Scalability Experts are helping us with upgrade and application compatibility tools and content.

Joe Homnick of Homnick Systems is helping us redeliver our content to trainers.

Daniel Altamirano of Southworks is helping us with overall content development and training kit packaging.

Richard Davis of SharpLogic is grinding out all of our virtual machines.

Scott Forsyth of VaasNet is helping us host our virtual machines.

Joe Yong and Mo Lin from SQL Server Engineering, along with Ross LoForte and George Huey from the Microsoft field are helping us with upgrade and application compatibility tools and content.

Neeti Gupta, Manish Sharma, James Conard, Scott Klein, Steve DiMarco and Jackie Carr from Microsoft Developer and Platform Evangelism are helping us with funding, programs, content, tools, events and infrastructure.

Betsy Pridmore, Sherri Brouwer, Jennifer Moser, Nick King and Emilie Bridon from SQL Server Marketing are helping us with marketing and funding.

We hope you join the party and help us drive the next wave of solutions built for SQL Server 2012!

Roger Dohertyhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rdoherty/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxSQL Server 2012 on the SQL Down Under Podcasthttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/rdoherty/archive/2011/12/22/sql-server-2012-on-the-sql-down-under-podcast.aspx2011-12-22T16:55:05Z2011-12-22T16:55:05Z
My colleague Greg Low asked me to join him for the latest episode of the SQL Down Under podcast to discuss what's new and interesting about SQL Server 2012.  Check it out!

http://www.sqldownunder.com/SQLDownUnderWMAFeed.xml

Or:

http://www.sqldownunder.com/SQLDownUnderMP3Feed.xml

Enjoy and Happy Holidays to all my database and BI friends out there!

Roger Dohertyhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rdoherty/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxNew SQL Server 2012 Labs and Presentations Availablehttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/rdoherty/archive/2011/11/07/new-sql-server-2012-labs-and-presentations-available.aspx2011-11-07T05:45:00Z2011-11-07T05:45:00Z
We just shipped a whole bunch of new content for the SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit and you can get it right now via the Web Installer Preview:

http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9785999

This update includes eleven new hands-on labs covering popular topics like Integration Services, the new BI Semantic Model and Power View.

Remember, if you are new to training kits in general, you don't need to install all the dependencies up front. As a matter of fact, you can skip them all and just install the content if all you want to do is browse it.

Here's a complete list of the content available in the training kit including what's new or updated:

Discover SQL Server 2012

Updated Presentation: Introduction to SQL Server 2012 (SQL11UPD00-DECK-01)

This presentation provides an overview of the key improvements in SQL Server 2012 from a developer perspective in the context of Microsoft's overall strategy for Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS).

Demo: A First Look at SQL Server Data Tools (SQL11UPD00-DEMO-03)

This demo provides a quick tour of the new SQL Server Data Tools. SSDT makes it easy to develop powerful database solutions that target both your on-premise environment and the cloud.

Hands On Lab: Build Your First Web Application with SQL Server 2012 and ASP.NET (SQL11UPD00-HOL-01)

This lab shows how to build a simple web application in ASP.NET that performs CRUD (Create, Read, Update and Delete) operations against a SQL Server 2012 database. It also shows you how to work with images stored in the database.

Hands On Lab: Exploring Transact-SQL Improvements in SQL Server 2012 (SQL11UPD00-HOL-02)

In this Hands On Lab you will explore the Transact-SQL improvements in SQL Server 2012.

Hands On Lab: Managing Rich Unstructured Data in SQL Server 2012 (SQL11UPD00-HOL-03)

This lab will introduce you to several SQL Server 2012 improvements that make it easy to manage content as an integrated part of your solution, including FILESTREAM, FileTable, full text indexing and semantic search.

SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Information Management

New Hands On Lab: Exploring SQL Server 2012 Integration Services (SQL11UPD05-HOL-01)

This hands on lab will introduce you to the improvements in SQL Server 2012 Integration Services including project connection managers, parameters, SSIS catalogs, server package execution and monitoring.

New Hands On Lab: Exploring SQL Server 2012 Master Data Services (SQL11UPD05-HOL-02)

In this lab, you will create a Master Data Services model and entities to store a master list of geographic data. The entity and attribute creation will be achieved using the Master Data Services Add-in for Excel.

New Hands On Lab: Exploring SQL Server Denali Data Quality Services

In this lab, you will create a Data Quality Services knowledge base to cleanse US state codes and email addresses. You will then create a Data Quality Project to cleanse data in an Excel workbook. Next, you will update an Integration Services package to use the DQS Cleansing component to cleanse the data as part of an ETL process.

SQL Server 2012 Reporting and Analytics

New Hands On Lab: Developing a SQL Server 2012 Tabular BI Semantic Model with Visual Studio 2010 (SQL11UPD06-HOL-01)

SQL Server 2012 introduces the concept of a BI Semantic Model, which is a common metadata layer used to drive multiple user experiences including scorecards, dashboards and reports. BI Semantic Models can be developed in either Visual Studio or in Excel using the SQL Server 2012 PowerPivot add in. In this lab, you will develop a Tabular BI Semantic Model based on the AdventureWorksDWDenali sample database. Specifically it will allow the sales analysis of the reseller sales against sales quota. You will work with the entire development lifecycle including the creation of the project, the importing of data from both Microsoft SQL Server and a data feed data source, the enhancement of the model, and the definition of measures and a Key Performance Indicator (KPI). Once you have explored and tested the model you will enhance it with perspectives, partitions and a security role. Finally you will deploy the project to a Tabular instance of Analysis Services.

New Hands On Lab: Creating a SQL Server 2012 Tabular BI Semantic Model with PowerPivot (SQL11UPD06-HOL-02)

SQL Server 2012 introduces the concept of a BI Semantic Model, which is a common metadata layer used to drive multiple user experiences including scorecards, dashboards and reports. BI Semantic Models can be developed in either Visual Studio or in Excel using the SQL Server 2012 PowerPivot add in. In this lab, you will create a PowerPivot workbook that will import data from a SQL Server database and an Excel file. The PowerPivot model will then be enriched with calculated columns, hierarchies, a Key Performance Indicator (KPI), and a perspective. The principal goal of this lab is to create a user-friendly interface to the model to support self-service reporting, analytics and monitoring for Excel PivotTables, PerformancePoint Services dashboards and Reporting Services reports. You will explore the PowerPivot Field List interface by producing a PivotTable report. The final report will look like the following.

New Presentation: What's New in SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services (SQL11UPD06-DECK-03)

This presentation provides a high-level overview of SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services improvements including data alerts, improved SharePoint 2010 integration, Power View and SQL Azure Reporting.

New Hands On Lab: Exploring Data Alerts with SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services (SQL11UPD06-HOL-03)

SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services data alerts are a data-driven alerting solution that informs you about changes in report data that are of interest to you, and at a relevant time. In this lab, you will define a data alert to notify you when salespeople do not achieve at least the 1% profitability target.

New Hands On Lab: Optimizing a SQL Server 2012 Tabular BI Semantic Model for Power View (SQL11UPD06-HOL-04)

SQL Server 2012 introduces the concept of a BI Semantic Model, which is a common metadata layer used to drive multiple user experiences including scorecards, dashboards and reports. BI Semantic Models can be developed in either Visual Studio or in Excel using the SQL Server 2012 PowerPivot add in. In this lab, you will optimize a PowerPivot tabular BI Semantic model for Power View. This will involve unhiding columns used in hierarchies, defining reporting properties, and removing explicit measures.

New Hands On Lab: Exploring SQL Server 2012 Power View (SQL11UPD06-HOL-05)

In this lab, you will explore SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services Power View. Power View is a Web browser-based report authoring tool targeted at everyone to enable them to create compelling, interactive and rich data visualizations based on Tabular BI Semantic Models. You will create a report based on a PowerPivot workbook published to a PowerPivot Gallery, and this report will consist of three different, yet related, interactive data exploration experiences. You will explore the model data using the tables, column and bar charts, and an animated scatter chart.

New Hands On Lab: Creating Excel 2010 Reports Based on a SQL Server 2012 Tabular BI Semantic Model (SQL11UPD06-HOL-06)

In this lab, you will create a report in Excel 2010 based on a SQL Server 2012 tabular BI Semantic Model. You will then publish the workbook to SharePoint Server and then explore the report rendered by Excel Services in the Web browser.

New Hands On Lab: Creating a SQL Server Reporting Services Report Based on a SQL Server 2012 Tabular BI Semantic Model (SQL11UPD06-HOL-07)

In this lab, you will author a report in Report Builder 3.0 using the Map Wizard. The map analytic data will be retrieved from the Sales Analysis tabular BI Semantic Model.

New Hands On Lab: Creating a PerformancePoint Services 2010 Dashboard Based on a SQL Server 2012 Tabular BI Semantic Model (SQL11UPD06-HOL-08)

This hands on lab shows how to create a PerformancePoint Services 2010 dashboard based on a SQL Server 2012 Tabular BI Semantic Model.

Introduction to SQL Azure

Presentation: Introduction to SQL Azure (SQL11UPD07-DECK-01)

Provides a high level overview of SQL Azure from a developer perspective.

Presentation: Advanced SQL Azure (SQL11UPD07-DECK-02)

Provides a high level overview of advanced SQL Azure services including SQL Azure Reporting, SQL Azure DataSync and SQL Azure Federations.

Demo: Provisioning Logical Servers using Cmdlets (SQLAzureProvisioningServers)

This demo shows how to provision SQL Azure Logical Servers using the Azure Cmdlets.

Hands On Lab: Migrating Databases to SQL Azure (MigratingDatabasesToSQLAzure)

In this lab, you will use the AdventureWorksLT2008 database and show how to move an existing on-premise database to SQL Azure including: modifying the DDL and moving data via BCP.

Hands On Lab: SQL Azure Data-tier Applications (SQLAzureDAC)

In this lab, you will learn how to use Data-tier Applications to deploy and upgrade SQL Azure databases. Using the SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) you will create new database projects to publish a database schema and upgrade it with new changes.

Hands On Lab: Build Your First Report with SQL Azure Reporting (SQLAzureReportingServices)

This hands-on lab shows how to build a simple report, deploy it to SQL Azure Reporting, and access it from a Windows Azure ASP.NET application.

Hands On Lab: SQL Azure Data Sync (SQLAzureDataSync)

In this lab, you will learn how to synchronize data between SQL Azure and on-premises SQL Server databases, using SQL Azure Data Sync.

Hands On Lab: SQL Azure Federations (SQLAzureFederations)

SQL Azure Federations is an integrated capability of SQL Azure Database that dramatically simplifies database sharding implementations. In this hands-on Lab, you will learn how to create a database with federations and develop applications that interacts with federated tables using both ADO.NET and Entity Framework.

Roger Dohertyhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rdoherty/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxNew and Updated SQL Azure Labs Availablehttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/rdoherty/archive/2011/10/31/new-and-updated-sql-azure-labs-available.aspx2011-11-01T02:12:33Z2011-11-01T02:12:33Z
We just shipped a whole batch of new SQL Azure content in the Windows Azure Platform Training Kit – October Release and also in the SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit.  Here's a quick summary of what's new from a SQL Azure Perspective.

New Lab: SQL Azure Data-tier Applications

SQL Azure Database supports a variety of mechanisms for deploying, versioning and migrating databases. You can use the traditional Transact-SQL script based approach to create your database objects, then populate your data either using scripts, BCP or SQL Server Integration Services. Schema upgrade scripts tend to be either hand coded or generated using additional tools. This approach is well known by SQL Server developers, but can be tedious for developers who are new to SQL Azure, especially when dealing with the complexities associated with database schema versioning.

Microsoft is addressing this complexity with a new framework called the Data-tier Application Framework, or DAC Fx, which makes it much easier to deploy, migrate and version your database schemas for SQL Server and SQL Azure. DAC Fx shipped initially with SQL Server 2008 R2, and support was soon added for SQL Azure. Since then, DAC Fx has evolved significantly and is an important part of the developer and manageability story for SQL Azure. It is being integrated into developer tools like the SQL Server Data Tools, management tools like SQL Server 2012 Management Studio, and as a service accessible from the Windows Azure Management Portal.

Objectives:

In this hands-on lab, you will learn how to:

Create a new SQL Server project using SQL Server Developer Tools Codename "Juneau" CTP3 (known as SSDT) to target SQL Azure.

Publish a Data-tier Application to SQL Azure using SSDT.

Export a .bacpac file into a blob storage container, using the Import/Export Service from the Azure Management Portal.

Upgrade the exported .bacpac file and update the SQL Azure database.

Updated Lab: Build Your First Report With SQL Azure Reporting

Microsoft SQL Azure Reporting provides a complete, cloud-based platform designed to support a wide variety of reporting needs enabling organizations to deliver relevant information where needed across the entire enterprise. Now developers can deliver highly visual, interactive reports as an integrated part of a Windows Azure-based solution. There's no need to install your own Reporting Services instance or apply software updates, because SQL Azure Reporting runs as a highly available cloud service. Best of all, SQL Azure Reporting is based on SQL Server Reporting Services, so you can build reports using the same familiar tools that can be deployed on-premise or in the cloud.

Objectives:

In this hands-on lab, you will learn how to:

Create a SQL Azure data source and data set for a report.

Add a table to a report.

Work with report item properties to customize the report appearance.

Add expressions to calculate values to be display in the report.

Deploy the report in SQL Azure Report Server.

Embed the SQL Azure report using the ReportViewer control.

New Lab: SQL Azure Data Sync

The SQL Azure Data Sync is a cloud-based data synchronization service, which provides uni-directional and bi-directional data sync, allowing data to be easily shared between SQL Azure and on-premises SQL Server databases as well as between multiple SQL Azure databases, within the same or different data centers. The SQL Azure Data Sync Previews can be accessed directly from the Windows Azure Management Portal.

In this Lab, you will synchronize two databases, a SQL Azure database against an on-premise SQL Server database, changing the sync settings available in a Sync Group.

Objectives:

In this hands-on lab, you will learn how to:

Provision a SQL Azure Data Sync Server

Create a Sync Group Topology with a SQL Azure Database, a SQL Azure Sync Hub and an on-premise SQL Server database.

New Lab: SQL Azure Federations

One of the key value propositions of the Windows Azure Platform is the ability to achieve elastic scale by adapting dynamically to changes in demand. A single SQL Azure Database has limited capacity in terms of size and transactional throughput. To add more capacity you must partition your data across multiple SQL Azure databases. To release capacity, you must consolidate multiple SQL Azure databases into one. This approach is known as database sharding. SQL Azure Federations (currently in CTP) is an integrated capability of SQL Azure Database that dramatically simplifies database sharding implementations.

Objectives:

In this Hands-On Lab, you will learn how to:

Add federations to a database and spit them into different federation members.

Query & Perform CRUD operations over federated tables using ADO.NET.

Query & Perform CRUD operations over federated tables using the ADO.NET Entity Framework.

New Demo: Provisioning SQL Azure Servers using Cmdlets

SQL Azure Database is SQL Server database technology delivered as a service on the Windows Azure Platform, and is ideal for developers targeting Windows Azure who need database functionality as part of their application. Provisioning a new SQL Azure server is fast and easy, and can be done interactively using the Windows Azure Management Portal. You can also automate server provisioning using the Management REST API, or using the Windows Azure Platform Powershell cmdlets. Once your server is provisioned, you can connect to it using standard tools and technologies like ASP.NET, java and PHP. There is no need to install and maintain server hardware, software and storage, or worry about high availability or disaster recovery, these capabilities are all managed for you as part of the service. This means you can focus on building great solutions instead of maintaining infrastructure.

Objectives:

In this demo you will see several key features and tools:

Windows Azure Command Lets 2.0

SQL Azure Logical Servers

Firewall Rules in SQL Azure

Roger Dohertyhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rdoherty/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxEssential SQL Server for DevConnections Attendeeshttp://blogs.msdn.com/b/rdoherty/archive/2011/10/31/essential-sql-server-for-devconnections-attendees.aspx2011-11-01T01:44:24Z2011-11-01T01:44:24Z
Tuesday 11/1/2011 is a big day for SQL Server 2012.  The SQL Server engineering team will be in the house at DevConnections in Las Vegas.  This post is for people who are attending SQL Server Connections and others who want to learn about SQL Server 2012 and connect with the team.  You can download the complete schedule here.  You can get some hands-on experience with the SQL Server 2012 Developer Training Kit here.

We'll be Tweeting throughout the day and would love to see your Tweets as well!  Please use the following hash tags:

Database Tweets: use #SQLServer + #DevConnections

Business Intelligence Tweets: use #MSBI + #DevConnections

Keynote (Mandalay Bay E & G, 8:00 AM – 9:15 AM)

Kamal Hathi will deliver the keynote on Tuesday entitled KEY02: Delivering Breakthrough Insight with SQL Server 2012.  Kamal directs the engineering effort for SQL Server Business Intelligence technologies including both on-premise platforms and the cloud.  Attending this keynote session is an excellent way to learn about what's new and exciting from a BI perspective in SQL Server 2012, including breakthrough technology like Power View.  Be ready for a few surprises!

After the keynote you can choose from twelve different breakout sessions organized into three tracks, and you can connect with the presenters at the Microsoft booth in the Expo Hall.

Developer Track (Mandalay Bay E, 10:15 AM – 04:15 PM)

These sessions are designed for Visual Studio and .NET developers who want to learn about the latest tools and capabilities for building the next generation of database applications for both on-premise environments and the cloud.  Attendees from Visual Studio Connections, ASP.NET Connections, Silverlight Connections, HTML5 Connections and Windows Azure Connections are also encouraged to attend!

SMS01: Database Development with SQL Server Data Tools
Presenter: Gert Drapers
SQL Server Data Tools provides a brand-new developer experience for database developers by bringing familiar Microsoft Visual Studio development paradigms to bear; debug, refactor and maintain your database declaratively. This session introduces you to the new tools and how you can leverage them to build and maintain you SQL Server and SQL Azure database, standalone and inside a team environment.

Connect with Gert in the Expo Hall:

Tuesday 11/1/11 from 12:30 PM – 3:15 PM.

SMS02: What's New for Application Developers in SQL Server 2012 & SQL Azure
Presenter: Tobias Ternstrom
Come and learn about what is new and cool for application developers in SQL Server 2012 and SQL Azure. There are several interesting additions to T-SQL, this session will focus on what they are, why they were added to the product and how you can benefit from using them. This session will also cover the new Local Database Runtime deployment option for SQL Server Express, powerful new capabilities for managing content as an integrated part of your database application, and improved support for spatial data.

Connect with Tobias in the Expo Hall:

Tuesday 11/1/11 from 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM

SMS03: Leave the 90's Behind: New ways to Develop, Deploy, Upgrade and Migrate your Database
Presenter: Shireesh Thota
Tired of the same old routine of hand-coding scripts to develop, deploy, upgrade, and migrate your databases? Come see the next-generation of management tools and services that work together through the Data-Tier Application Framework (DAC Fx) to help reduce the amount of time you spend provisioning your on-premise and SQL Azure databases.

Connect with Shireesh in the Expo Hall:

Wednesday 11/2/11 from 09:00 AM – 11:30 AM

SMS04: StreamInsight - Adding a Real-Time Tool to Your Belt
Presenter: Isaac Kunen
There is a growing need for real-time analytics in a wide array of scenarios, including monitoring, fraud detection, logistics, clickstream analysis, and many others. While traditional tools like relational databases are extraordinarily effective at storing and querying data, they have their limitations: data have to hit disk before they are analyzed; streaming, continuously changing data are hard to deal with; and time-series queries are notoriously difficult to express in SQL. StreamInsight gives you a new tool, combining powerful temporal semantics with the ability to handle high volumes of real-time streaming data. This session will explore and demonstrate StreamInsight, and show how it can be integrated into CLR applications to provide real-time analytic processing.

Connect with Isaac in the Expo Hall:

Wednesday 11/2/11 from 09:00 AM – 11:30 AM

BI Track (Mandalay Bay D, 10:15 AM – 04:15 PM)

These sessions are designed for developers and IT Professionals alike who want to learn about the latest tools and capabilities for building the next generation of business intelligence solutions for both on-premise environments and the cloud.  This track will also cover all the latest details about integration between SQL Server 2012 BI and SharePoint.  Attendees from SharePoint Connections, Exchange Connections and Unified Communications Connections are also encouraged to attend!

SMS05: Deep Dive into the new features of PowerPivot in SQL Server 2012
Presenter: Julie Strauss
A deep dive into the PowerPivot for Excel covering the new features that we are introducing with the release of SQL Server 2012. Capabilities that will be demonstrated include many of the new modeling features that will also be available for Professionals working with the new Tabular Project type in BI Development Studio, including the new measure grid, hierarchies, perspectives, KPIs and diagram view just to name a few.

Connect with Julie in the Expo Hall:

Tuesday 11/1/11 from 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM

SMS06: What's New in SQL Server 2012 Reporting Services
Presenter: Roger Doherty
We will cover all the new capabilities of SSRS including PowerView, the new ad-hoc self-service reporting technology, self-service alerting, setup and integration with SharePoint, and SQL Azure Reporting.

Connect with Roger in the Expo Hall:

Tuesday 11/1/11 from 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM

Wednesday 11/2/11 from 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM

SMS07: Building the Perfect Analysis Services Tabular Model for Power View
Presenter: Julie Strauss
In this session we'll focus on the new Analysis Services Tabular project type that will available in the BI Development Studio (BIDS) with SQL Server 2012. We'll cover features like security and partitioning as well as talk about how you can create the right models for users to create their own insights using Power View, the new Self-Service reporting technology as part of SQL Server 2012.

Connect with Julie in the Expo Hall:

Tuesday 11/1/11 from 12:30 PM – 1:30 PM

SMS08: Introducing SQL Server 2012 Data Quality Services
Presenter: Gadi Peleg
In this session we'll introduce you to an exciting new set of tools and services to be introduced wit SQL Server 2012 called Data Quality Services. DQS helps organizations improve data quality using a knowledge base. After you build the knowledge base, you can continuously improve it, and then reuse it in multiple data-quality improvement processes. DQS makes complex data scrubbing tasks like cleansing, de-duplication, and validation using cloud-based reference data a snap.

Connect with Gadi in the Expo Hall:

Tuesday 11/1/11 from 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM

DBA Track (Mandalay Bay C, 10:15 AM – 04:15 PM)

These sessions are designed for database administrators and IT Professionals who want to understand what's coming in SQL Server 2012. Attendees from Windows Connections are also encouraged to attend!

SMS09: SQL Server 2012 AlwaysOn Solution Overview
Presenter: Santosh Balasubramanian
 In this session we will talk about the new high availability solution that is being introduced in SQL Server 2012. The session provides an overview of AlwaysOn and explains how you can build a high availability solution using the new features and capabilities. In this session you will learn about how to deploy an AlwaysOn solution, how to utilize your secondary hardware for better return of investment and how the new solution simplifies deployment, management of high availability in your environment. The session will also describe how to manage application connectivity of your primary OLTP applications and reporting applications in an AlwaysOn environment.

Connect with Santosh in the Expo Hall:

Tuesday 11/1/11 from 12:30 PM – 3:15 PM

Thursday 11/3/11 from 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM

SMS11: SQL Server 2012 Integration Services Overview
Presenters: David Noor and Andy Conrad
In this session we'll cover all the cool new improvements coming in the next release of Integration Services including the enhanced Developer Experience, the Project & Parameter model, and the new Server based deployment features. We will also cover project "Barcelona" which is designed to help developers and DBA's alike perform impact analysis of schema changes across an enterprise data topology.

Connect with David or Andy in the Expo Hall:

David: Tuesday 11/1/11 from 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Andy: Wednesday 11/2/11 from 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM

Andy: Thursday 11/3/11 from 1:00 PM – 2:30 PM

SMS10: SQL Server 2012 Database Engine Improvements for the DBA
Presenter: Lubor Kollar
The next release of SQL Server is coming and it is chocked full of enough cool improvements to make even the most skeptical DBA giggle with excitement. This session will provide a survey of a few of the top improvements including support for new ColumnStore indexing technology, more online operations, support for 15k partitions, enhanced full-text search and breakthrough new statistical semantic search technology.

Connect with Lubor in the Expo Hall:

Tuesday 11/1/11 from 5:30 PM – 7:00 PM

SMS12: Upgrading to SQL Server 2012
Presenter: Joe Yong
This session will show you all the caveats, tricks and tips and guidance on how to perform successful database upgrades to SQL Server 2012. By the end of this session you'll understand the key steps involved in the upgrade process. You will learn how to assess upgrade issues, and find resolutions to accomplish a successful upgrade.

Connect with Joe in the Expo Hall:

Tuesday 11/1/11 from 9:00 AM – 11:30 AM

Roger Dohertyhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rdoherty/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashxLooking for a killer SQL Server 2012 demo?http://blogs.msdn.com/b/rdoherty/archive/2011/10/27/looking-for-a-killer-sql-server-2012-demo.aspx2011-10-27T05:26:47Z2011-10-27T05:26:47Z
Well look no further!  I'm pleased to announce that the MySemanticSearch Sample is now available on CodePlex at:

mysemanticsearch.codeplex.com

MySemanticSearch allows a user to upload Word documents into a SQL Server 2012 table, then visualize the semantic content of the documents in it using tag clouds that are automatically built by semantic search. The user can then find similar documents by comparing their tag clouds.

As seen in Quentin Clark's Day 2 Keynote at PASS Summit 2011, this simple but elegant content management application shows off the power of several key improvements in SQL Server 2012 including:

Database blob storage (FILESTREAM)

Database blob storage file sharing (FileTables)

Full-text search

Semantic search

Go ahead and give it a try!  Post your feedback and comments on CodePlex.

Roger Dohertyhttp://blogs.msdn.com/rdoherty/ProfileUrlRedirect.ashx


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