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WHEELING - Jeff Swisher, a two-way standout at Sistersville is the last man to know how it feels.
The season was 1986, or nearly 30 years ago. To put it another way, Swisher should be about 45 years old these days.
Yes, that is how long it has been since a Class A player has been named the winner of the Harrison H. Kennedy Award, signifying the best prep football player in the state of West Virginia. Furthermore, long-time West Virginia Sports Writer's Association treasurer Doug Huff points out there have been less than five small-school winners since the award began in 1947.
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Madonna quarterback/safety Ross Comis (2) is already a three-time All-West Virginia Player. There's a question as to whether he legitimately has a chance to win the Kennedy Award.
Mind boggling? Absolutely.
Unfair? Not necessarily.
The truth is, it's obviously tough for a small-school player to win and there are legitimate reasons for that.
For one, the thought is those schools play inferior opponents, and compared to the ones that Class AAA teams are facing, that can't honestly be disputed. Much to the dismay of guys like Madonna coach Doug Taylor it's probably going to remain that way, if for no other reason than it's hard to teach an old dog - or sports writer, in this case - new tricks.
''I hope we haven't gotten to the point where we are so narrow-minded that we think it has to be a triple-A award,'' Taylor was saying Tuesday. ''I hope that people consider everything, who they think is the best player in the state of West Virginia regardless of class.''
Taylor, you see, has a dog in this fight. The general consensus around the state is that Madonna quarterback-safety Ross Comis is one of the top-5 players out there, yet nearly unanimously is thought to be a long shot to bring home the award because he competes at a Class A school.
Don't worry. It confuses me too.
The Kennedy is suspposed to be given to the player adjudged to be the best in the state. No mention, however, of restrictions based on classes.
The question we as voters need to ask ourselves, is should a player everyone seems to agree is among the best there is, be punished merely because of the size of the school he represents?
If a Class A player is going to pull it off, a plethora of factors have to align just right.
First of all, you certainly have to enter the season as a well-known commodity, not just in the area in which you play, but state-wide. Secondly, the schedule had better be as tough as inherently possible. Third, and this goes hand-in-hand with the last part, the team must excel at a high level. It's also highly beneficial to be seen by a number of different writers.
Last, but certainly not least, the numbers have to be there.
Comis seems to have a lot going for him in those regards.
The Blue Dons play teams that are currently ranked Nos. 1 (Wheeling Central), 6 (Clay-Battelle) and 9 (Bishop Donahue) in the state poll. That doesn't even include a trip to play a Steubenville Catholic team that is coming off a playoff appearance in the state of Ohio and again looks formidable.
Comis is already a three-time all-state selection and led the Blue Dons to a 12-2 record and an appearance in the state title game last season, falling 43-42 to Wahama in overtime. They are 2-0 this season heading into Saturday night's clash with Wheeling Central.
In that state title contest, Comis tied an all-class record with five touchdown runs and also threw for a sixth en route to running up 285 yards of total offense. All told in 2012, Comis amassed 3,282 yards (1,709 rushing, 1,538 passing) and accounted for 47 touchdowns. Thus far he has 236 yards and five touchdowns on the ground and another 199 and three scores through the air, despite playing roughly six quarters thus far because of a blowout in the opener.
On their way through the playoffs, the Blue Dons played Tug Valley, St. Marys, Tucker County and Wahama. What that means, is just about every writer in the state should already be familiar with what he brings to the table.
To put it all in simpler terms, had Comis put up those kind of statistics while starring at say, Martinsburg, it's highly probable he would have entered the season as the clear-cut favorite for the award.
''The thing is, you're stuck with where you're at,'' Taylor said. ''I hope the people will notice that we are playing a tough single-A schedule.
''If (writers) get an opportunity to come to one of our games, I hope they do. Ross is one of the greatest, if not the greatest player I have ever coached.''
To pick a Kennedy winner - even frontrunner for that matter - at this early juncture would be foolish. There are so many variables that have yet to play themselves out and things will change a great deal between now and November, that doing so would be a thorough exercise in futility.
That being said, should Madonna run up another terrific record and should Comis put up more ridiculous numbers especially in a season that didn't start with a dominant Class AAA player, he deserves to be part of a serious discussion.
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IE would like to invite you to our upcoming Master Class in Bucharest.
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The Spanish Soccer League (La Liga) has been able to draw the world's most talented players and is arguably the most competitive national league globally. Because of the evolution of the sport and the general soccer competitiveness, constantly changing revenue streams and evolving structures and regulations, La Liga and its clubs here have been forced to continually adapt their business models and management practices to maintain their leadership positions. However while two Spanish clubs in particular, Real Madrid CF and FC Barcelona, have been able to maintain their supremacy both on the field and financially, many other Spanish clubs are finding it very difficult to make their franchises financially viable. Solutions need to be explored in order for the Spanish league, also known as the Liga, to survive over the long term.
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In April I was fortunate enough to have been invited to a unique wine judging event held at Fabbioli Cellars. This was a judging of 2010 Cabernet Francs from across Virginia.
2010 was one of the best Virginia vintages in recent memory, even surpassing 2007. Given the prominence that Cabernet Franc plays within Virginia Wine, and that we were tasting 2010 vintage I was sure it was going to be a great event.
And it was, it was also a very interesting way to do a wine judging.
The judging was done bracket-style and was a mix of bloggers, professionals and lay people.
Our host, Jimmy, has a detailed write up here, here, here, and here.
The way it worked was that they broke us down into four groups, each group blind tasted a different set of wines, the winner from each of the groups advanced to the next round.
This means that not everyone tastes all of the wines, until it gets down to the final groups. I think this method helps remove some of the bias that can be inherent in a judging. For example, every one knows I am big an of Doug's Cabernet Franc, and it is one of the wines I can recognize blind - even amongst other Virginia Cabernet Francs. Since I wasn't in the group that initially tasted the 2010 Fabbioli Cabernet Franc my bias couldn't (subconsciously) inflate the score.
Each wine was judged on several different characteristics and the wines with the highest scores advanced to the next round.
In the end, the winner was the 2010 Jefferson Vineyards. You can see the progression in the chart above, provided by Chris at Beltway Bacchus.
Congratulations to Andy, at Jefferson Vineyards, and to the staff at Fabbioli Cellars for putting together a great judging and I look forward to future judgings like this.
TasteCamp was created in 2009 by Lenn Thompson, of The New York Cork Report. Its goal is to get journalists and bloggers together in a specific region to taste as much wine as possible, and speak to as many winemakers from that region over the course of a weekend. This weekend, TasteCamp 2012 was held in Northern Virginia, where I happen to live. Unfortunately, I was unable to attend the majority of the events, but I was able to meet up with the group on Friday night for a wine dinner out at Breaux Vineyards that was catered by Tuscarora Mills Restaurant.
The group rode out to Breaux on a bus (yes, I was the last one on the bus, and if you ask Frank from DrinkWhatYouLike, I made us late!)and upon our arrival, the ever gracious host Jen Breaux greeted us with a 2010 Sauvignon Blanc. After she greeted us, we had a chance to mingle on the patio and enjoy some delicious passed hors d'ouevres such as roasted pear an carmelized onion tartlets and seared scallop on lavosh with fennel salad and orange glaze. We also were able to taste 3 other wines as well. The ever popular 2010 Jen's Jambalaya, a great all around table white, the 2010 Viognier, and the 2002 Merlot Reserve.
After a while, we were directed to the barrel room where the tables were ready and waiting for our arrival. Our first course was a salad with local organic greens, crumbled goat cheese, walnuts and a balseto vinaigrette that was paired with the 2011 Breaux Rose. This is the first wine produced by the new winemaker, David Castano. It is a blend of nebbiolo, cabernet sauvignon and merlot. This rose is a bit drier than in years past, but was delicious!
The next course was Spiced Angus Beef Medallions with bacon fig sauce scented with chocolate, gorgonzola and risotto studded with currants and almonds. This was paired with the 2007 Cabernet Franc Reserve and the 2007 Cabernet Sauvignon. The Cabernet Franc was done in all French Oak (mostly new) and went really well with the beef. The Cabernet Sauvignon I thought paired better with the risotto, but of the two, the Cabernet Franc was my favorite.
The third course was a variety of cheeses (morbier, valdeon blue, mahon, quince, and some hazelnut-onion marmalade) paired with the 2001, 2002, 2005 and a barrel sample of the 2007 Nebbiolos. I had recently attended the Nebbiolo Vertical at Breaux, so it was interesting to have them again, and note how even in that short time they had changed a bit. The 2007 Nebbiolo was much darker than the others, and definitely seems like it will be as good as the 2001 after it's been bottled for a while.
For dessert we were served a white chocolate-apricot cake with lychee sabayon. This was paired with the 2010 "Chere Marie" Vidal Blanc and the 2006 Soleil. Both great dessert wines, but my preference is the Chere Marie as it is not quite as sweet as the Soleil.
It was a fantastic evening of food, wine and meeting some other great bloggers that I normally only see online!! Thanks so much to Lenn Thompson for allowing me to join the party, even if it was just for an evening, and to Breaux and Tuscorora for putting together yet another Fantastic event! I can't wait to see what all the other bloggers have to say about the rest of the weekend! Cheers!
Friday night I had the pleasure of being able to taste the two new releases from Doukenie. Winemaker Sabastian was on hand to discuss them, and answer questions.
The first wine we tried was Le Vin Rouge (2009). This was a light, but well balanced red that would be good for every day drinking. On the nose I got black currant and Plum, and upon tasting, I got a smooth berry taste that was well balanced. The wine is 64% Merlot and 36% Cabernet Franc with the grapes from Vino Volturno Vineyard.
The next bottle to be released was the Dionysus 2009(named after the Greek God of Wine). This was a rich, full bodied red that had a very smooth finish. On the nose I got tobacco and cherry, but when I tasted, I got the caramel and coffee on my palate. This is a 100% merlot all from "Block 1" at Doukenie. It was aged for 26 months in French Oak barrels from Cognac and Bordeaux. There were only 99 cases of this wine made, so if you want to get it, you should move quickly!
I asked Sebastian if there will be more vintages of the Dionysus because it came out so well, and he said yes, there is a 2010 vintage currently in barrels, but 2011 was too wet, so there was none made for that year. Hopefully 2012 will produce another vintage, because this was a fantastic Red.
According to Bloomberg Businessweek, the Virginia Attorney General has filed suit against serial scumbag Tareq Salahi over his wine tourism scam:
Cuccinelli accuses Salahi and his companies of violating the Virginia Consumer Protection Act, which prohibits the deception of consumers. He said in a statement that the lawsuit was filed based on complaints filed with the Virginia Office of Consumer Affairs and the Better Business Bureau and an investigation by his office.
Some customers reported their tours were cancelled the morning they were scheduled to begin due to a "vehicle malfunction," and that some never heard from the company again. Some complained they were not taken to the wineries they were promised or that the mode of transportation wasn't what was advertised. Others complained that refunds, even those promised in writing, were never delivered.
Cuccinelli said VirginiaWineTour.com's web site also displayed logos of several businesses as "official partners," including United Airlines, the Bed and Breakfast Association of Virginia and Facebook, but that he had reason to believe that many, if not all, were not partners.
In the lawsuit, Cuccinelli asks for civil penalties of up to $2,500 for each violation and requests that VirginiaWineTour.com be required to return money to those are deemed to have been defrauded.
Robert Parker has released his 2011 scores and, as expected, the scores are significantly lower than in 2009 and 2010. He sums up the 2011 vintage thusly:
The bottom line is that it is hard to get emotionally pumped up over the 2011 vintage. To reiterate, the wines are better than expected. A lot of good winemaking has produced excellent wines throughout Bordeaux, but will they sell if prices do not drop significantly? I don't think so, and neither do I have the answers, but let's see how it plays out.
Not surprisingly, Alain Vauthier's 2011 Ausone is one of the greatest wines he has produced. I know this sounds impossible, but it is the reason why I spend so much time tasting and reflecting on what is in front of me. The 2011 could turn out to be better than his 2009 – sacre bleu! Probably the wine of the vintage...
I make no secret of the fact that I am a big fan of Château Lafon-Rochet. The wines that come from this estate continue to excite with the finesse and style. This is reflected in the positive reviews they receive, even in a difficult year like 2011.
Well, now everyone in the DC area has an opportunity to try the wine. Next Wednesday, May 2nd, at 7:00 PM La Maison Française will be hosting an incredible vertical featuring the following vintages:
A few weeks back Jordan Harris, winemaker at Tarara, invited the members of the wine club to a private tasting in Tarara's Great Room.
As always, Jodan did a great job of leading the tasting and did a nice job of showcasing current and older vintages of Tarara's wine.
He also introduced us to the new Boneyard series from Tarara. Boneyard is the name of the area within the vineyard where out of service, but cherished, vineyard equipment is put out to pasture (and not an attempt to cash in on the pirate craze).
The first releases are the 2011 Boneyard White and 2010 Boneyard Red, both priced at $15.
We got a chance to sample the Boneyard White before it was bottled at the Chili Cook-Off and I was impressed. The 2010 vintage is a blend of 42% Chardonnay, 28% Viognier, 19% Petit Manseng and 11% Pinot Gris. As you would expect the wine has a lot of citrus notes and great acidity creating a refreshing, but not effervescent wine. This wine easily serves double duty as a deck wine, to enjoy by itself, or as a companion to a wide array of foods from spicy Thai to oysters and even BBQ chicken.
The 2010 Boneyard Red was almost an afterthought. As they were preparing the Boneyard White, Jordan insisted they have a Boneyard Red to pair with it. The 2010 Boneyard Red is a blend of 31% Cabernet Sauvignon, 21% Petit Verdot, 21% Merlot, 11% Tannat, 11% Cabernet Franc and 5% Pinotage and is unquestionably the best value in Virginia Wine. 2010 was a powerful year for reds, in fact I would argue it is the best in modern Virginia viticulture. The 2010 Boneyard Red is a complex wine, with great black fruit notes followed by powerful tannins and a long, lingering finish.
The unseasonably warm winter has given way to an early summer and that means wineries are releasing their rosés. We hosted a rosè-off with wines from several Loudoun County wineries: Breaux Vineyards, Boxwood Winery, Fabbioli Cellars, and Hiddencroft Vineyards.
The contenders:
Breaux Vineyards: a perennial favorite, this is the first wine made by the new winemaker at Breaux and it really reflects his style. Where previous Breaux rosés had a sweetness to them, this is a dry rosé. This dryness is a reflection of the vintage as well as David's style. The blend is also new, previous vintages were 100% Cabernet Sauvignon based, but the 2011 vintage is a blend of 53% Nebbiolo, 34% Cabernet Sauvignon, and 13% Chambourcin. The wine had aromas of strawberry and cranberry with some spiciness. In the mouth the wine was bright with nice acidity and good red fruits that lead to a medium finish.
Fabbioli Cellars: We got this wine a week before its official release. This is the third year that Fabbioli has produced a 100% Sangiovese Rosé and the production of this wine is meticulously monitored by assistant winemaker (and CellarBlog favorite) Melanie. The wine is 100% steel-aged, which is reflected in the crispness of the wine. The wine is refreshing without being sweet. I got aromas of of strawberry and peaches, which carried over to the mouth. The wine had flavors of cherry with a surprising hint of cinnamon and soft tannins which lead to a smooth finish.
Boxwood Winery: The most complex of the wines, 2011 Boxwood is a blend of Malbec, Merlot and Cabernet Franc and it is done in a Provencial style. The nose is particularly interesting on this wine with apricot, stawberry, and herbal aromas. The fruit in the mouth gives way to elegant tannins that provide structure without taking away from the fruit and acidity and lead to a nice long finish.
Hiddencroft Vineyards: Slated to be released in the next few weeks, this is the first rosé from Hiddencroft and it is 100% Chambourcin. Of the four wines, this wine had the sweetest feel, though it was by no means a sweet wine. There was red fruit on the nose and strawberry and cherry flavors in the mouth with a soft finish, a very good deck wine.
So, which one was the favorite? If you were part of the tasting panel, leave a comment with your favorites. Based on the comments and votes at the tasting, while all the wines were excellent (not surprising since they were selected based on their track record), the Breaux Rosé was the winner that night!
I was traveling yesterday and didn't see the news until Late in the day and my Twitter stream had gone nuts. Château Latour announced they will no longer participate in En Promeurs. The always brilliant Jane Anson covered it best:
Instead, director Frederic Engerer says, the first wine, Chateau Latour, and the second wine Les Forts de Latour, will be sold – through negociants – when they believe they are becoming ready to drink.
Their last en primeur campaign will be with the 2011 vintage.
Engerer's motivation, according to negociants who received the letter, is partly a response to the increasing desire of consumers for ready-to-drink wines that have been stored in optimal conditions, and partly to be able to offer vintages to the market over a longer period of time.
@WineKFR Good news for wine buyers as Chateau Latour exits decades-old 'en primeur' system
@Vinalytics @DittonWineTrade @BvdV Re Latour killing off speculation. Using Lafite's China import figures what will be the effect on price based....
@bkwineper Biggest joke of the day? "From 2012 Latour will sell the wines when we think them ready to drink" (Latour chief) bit.ly/IW4ltC
@TheSpitter Latour breaks ranks, Lafite cuts its price in half. Has Bordeaux gone mad. ow.ly/akkiL
As promised, we took advantage of the fact that bud break is well underway in Loudoun County. Here are some images from Fabbioli Cellars:
And from Casanel Vineyards:
Finally, Breaux Vineyards:
There was another frost warning for wineries in Northern and Central Virginia last night. Doug Fabbioli, of Fabbioli Cellars, posted that he was going to start anti-frost measures around 3:00AM. Foolishly, I asked if I could join him and he agreed.
When I got into the car at 2:45AM it was 36 degrees Fahrenheit, at the upper end of frost worries, but by the time I got out to the vineyard it was 32 degrees.
The first thing I noticed was the tarps covering the deer fence, protecting the vineyard from the wind. I stepped out of the car and immediately felt the crunch of frozen grass under my foot and heard the whirring of the anti-frost machine echoing throughout the vineyard.
The machine itself is an inverted funnel lifted about feet off the ground and situated in the middle of an open part of the vineyard. The machine is basically a large fan that sucks the cold air from the ground and allows it to circulate preventing it from settling on the vines.
Many thanks to Doug for giving me the opportunity to watch this process in action.
The National Weather Service has issued a Frost Warning for Northern and Central Virginia:
Unfortunately, I have developed a nasty cold and will not be able to attend En Primeurs. I was able to move my flight to May and I will be in Bordeaux during the week of the Weekend des Grand Crus, an event I have always wanted to attend.
Hopefully, I will get a chance to sample the 2011 then. In the meantime, I will keep you all up to date.
Château Palmer is well-known for the wonderful concerts they host and their unique program of inviting world-renown Jazz artists to compose music to pair with each vintage (separate music for their first and second wines).
They have now compiled their concerts from the last few years and placed information about them on a new website called Hear Palmer. Like their wine, the website is elegant and layered. It provides links to the concerts they have hosted over the last few years, and gives the listener the opportunity to listen to music specifically composed for certain vintages of Château Palmer.
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Iterative MapReduce on Windows Azure
Microsoft has developed an iterative MapReduce runtime for Windows Azure, code-named "Daytona." Project Daytona is designed to support a wide class of data analytics and machine learning algorithms. It can scale out to hundreds of server cores for analysis of distributed data.
Project Daytona was developed as part of the eXtreme Computing Group's Cloud Research Engagement Initiative, and made its debut at the Microsoft Research Faculty Summit. One of the most common requests we have received from the community of researchers in our program is for a data analysis and processing framework. Increasingly, researchers in a wide range of domains—such as healthcare, education, and environmental science—have large and growing data collections and they need simple tools to help them find signals in their data and uncover insights. We are making the Project Daytona MapReduce Runtime for Windows Azure download freely available, along with sample codes and instructional materials that researchers can use to set up their own large-scale, cloud data-analysis service on Windows Azure. In addition, we will continue to improve and enhance Project Daytona (periodically making new versions available) and support our community of users.
The project code-named Daytona is built on Windows Azure and employs the available Windows Azure compute and data services to offer a scalable and high-performance system for data analytics. To deploy and use Project Daytona, you need to follow these simple steps:
- Develop your data analytics algorithm(s). Project Daytona enables a data analytics or machine learning algorithm to be authored as a set of Map and Reduce tasks, without in-depth knowledge of distributed computing or software development on Windows Azure. To get you up and running quickly, the release package includes sample data analysis algorithms to provide you with examples for building a data analysis library, as well as a developer guide with step-by-step instructions for authoring new algorithms, and source code for a sample client application for integrating your existing applications with Project Daytona on Windows Azure.
- Upload your data and library of data analytics routines into Windows Azure. Windows Azure blob storage provides reliable, scalable, easy-to-use storage for your data and library of analysis routines. Our documentation clearly outlines the steps for doing this.
- Deploy the Daytona runtime to Windows Azure. By following the steps in the deployment guide, deploy the Daytona runtime to your Windows Azure account. You can configure the number of virtual machines for the deployment, specify and configure the storage account on Windows Azure for the analysis results, and then start and verify that the service is operational. Project Daytona enables you to use as many or as few virtual machines as you wish. When you are finished with your data analysis, you can follow the steps in the deployment guide to shut down the running instances and tear down your deployment.
- Launch data analytics algorithms. The Daytona release package provides you with source code for a simple client application that you can use to select and launch a data analytics model against a data set on Project Daytona. This client application is merely one example of how to integrate Project Daytona with a client application—perhaps one already in use in your lab—or you can author a Windows Azure service interface for job submission and monitoring.
Project Daytona will automatically deploy the iterative MapReduce runtime to all of the Windows Azure virtual machines (VMs) in the deployment, sub-dividing the data into smaller chunks so that they can be processed (the "map" function of the algorithm) in parallel. Eventually, it recombines the processed data into the final solution (the "reduce" function of the algorithm). Windows Azure storage serves as the source for the data that is being analyzed and as the output destination for the end results. Once the analytics algorithm has completed, you can retrieve the output from Windows Azure storage or continue processing the output by using other analytics model(s). Project Daytona demonstrates the power of taking advantage of Windows Azure cloud services for application design.
Key Properties
Project Daytona features the following key properties.
- Designed for the cloud, specifically for Windows Azure. Virtual machines, irrespective of infrastructure as a service (IaaS) or platform as a service (PaaS), introduce unique challenges and architectural tradeoffs for implementing a scale-out computation framework such as Project Daytona. Out of these, the most crucial are network communications between virtual machines (VMs) and the non-persistent disks of VMs. We have tuned the scheduling, network communications scheduling, and the fault tolerance logic of Project Daytona to suit this situation.
- Designed for cloud storage services. We have defined a streaming based, data-access layer for cloud data sources (currently, Windows Azure blob storage, but we will extend to others), which can partition data dynamically and support parallel reads. Intermediate data can reside in memory or in local non-persistent disks with backups in blobs, so that Project Daytona can consume data with minimum overheads and with the ability to recover from failures. We use the automatic persistence and replication that is provided by the Windows Azure storage services and, therefore, do not require a distributed file system.
Horizontally scalable and elastic. Computations in Project Daytona are performed in parallel, so to scale a large data-analytics computation, you can add more virtual machines to the deployment and Project Daytona will take care of the rest. By using Project Daytona on Windows Azure, you can instantly provision as much or as little capacity as you need to perform data-intensive tasks for applications such as data mining, machine learning, financial analysis, or data analytics. Project Daytona lets you focus on your data exploration; without having to worry about acquiring compute capacity or time-consuming hardware setup and management.
Optimized for data analytics. We designed Project Daytona with performance of data analytics in mind. Algorithms in data analytics and machine learning are often iterative and produce a sequence of answers of improving quality until they converge. Project Daytona provides support for iterative computations in its core runtime; it caches data between iterations to reduce communication overheads, different scheduling and relaxed fault tolerance mechanisms, and a natural programming API to author iterative algorithms.
Use Cases
There are a number of use cases for Project Daytona, such as for data analysis, machine learning, financial analysis, text processing, indexing, and search. Almost any application that involves data manipulation and analysis can take advantage of Project Daytona to scale out processing on Windows Azure.
We are actively exploring a specific use case for Project Daytona, as outlined below.
Data analytics as a service on Windows Azure, accessible to a host of clients, is about turning utility cloud computing into a service model for data analytics. In our view, this service is not limited to a single data collection or set of analytics, but the ability to upload data and select from an extensible library of models for data analysis. Powered by Project Daytona, the service will automatically scale out the data and analytics model across a pool of Windows Azure VMs without the overhead that is usually associated with typical business intelligence (BI) and data analysis projects. The analytic application possibilities are limited only by your imagination.
We have implemented one such application, which we call Excel DataScope. From the familiar interface of Microsoft Excel, Excel DataScope enables researchers to accelerate data-driven decision making. Our DataScope analytics service offers a library of data analytics and machine learning models, such as clustering, outlier detection, classification, and machine learning, along with information visualization—all implemented on Project Daytona. Users can upload data in their Excel spreadsheet to the DataScope service or select a data set already in the cloud, and then select an analysis model from our Excel DataScope research ribbon to run against the selected data. Project Daytona will scale out the model processing by using possibly hundreds of CPU cores to perform the analysis. The results can be returned to the Excel client or remain in the cloud for further processing and/or visualization. The algorithms and analysis techniques are applicable to any type of data, ranging from web analytics to survey, environmental, or social data.
- See Overview for information about what is included in the release package.
Related Work
While Daytona is a novel Iterative MapReduce runtime, designed for Microsoft Windows Azure and optimized for data analytics, the concepts in Daytona have several related works in the literature. Followings are some of the notable ones.
MapReduce[1] and Dryad[2] introduced simplified programming abstractions for large scale data processing on commodity clusters. Daytona adopts this strategy by providing a simple programming model for large scale data analytics based on MapReduce. Iterative MapReduce for distributed memory architectures was first introduced by the Twister project [3-4] and the Twister4Azure project [5-6] introduced iterative MapReduce on Windows Azure. HaLoop [7] and i-MapReduce[8] are related research efforts which optimize iterative MapReduce computations. Similar to other iterative MapReduce runtimes, Daytona also provides additional optimizations to enhance the performance of iterative computations on Windows Azure.
[1] J. Dean and S. Ghemawat, "MapReduce: simplified data processing on large clusters," Commun. ACM, vol. 51, pp. 107-113, 2008.
[2] M. Isard, M. Budiu, Y. Yu, A. Birrell, and D. Fetterly, "Dryad: distributed data-parallel programs from sequential building blocks," presented at the Proceedings of the 2nd ACM SIGOPS/EuroSys European Conference on Computer Systems 2007, Lisbon, Portugal, 2007.
[3] Twister: Iterative MapReduce
[4] Jaliya Ekanayake, Hui Li, Bingjing Zhang, Thilina Gunarathne, Seung-Hee Bae, Judy Qiu, and Geoffrey Fox, " Twister: a runtime for iterative MapReduce,"oceedings of the 19th ACM International Symposium on High Performance Distributed Computing (HPDC '10). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 810-818. DOI=10.1145/1851476.1851593
[5] Twister 4 Azure : A Decentralized Iterative MapReduce Runtime For Windows Azure Cloud
[6] Thilina Gunarathne, BingJing Zang, Tak-Lon Wu and Judy Qiu. Portable Parallel Programming on Cloud and HPC: Scientific Applications of Twister4Azure, In Proceedings of the forth IEEE/ACM International Conference on Utility and Cloud Computing (UCC 2011) , Melbourne, Australia. Dec 2011.
[7] Yingyi Bu, Bill Howe, Magdalena Balazinska, and Michael D. Ernst. 2010. HaLoop: efficient iterative data processing on large clusters. Proc. VLDB Endow. 3, 1-2 (September 2010), 285-296.
[8] Yanfeng Zhang; Qinxin Gao; Lixin Gao; Cuirong Wang; , "iMapReduce: A Distributed Computing Framework for Iterative Computation," Parallel and Distributed Processing Workshops and Phd Forum (IPDPSW), 2011 IEEE International Symposium on , vol., no., pp.1112-1121, 16-20 May 2011, doi: 10.1109/IPDPS.2011.260
What's Next for Project Daytona?
Project Daytona is part of an active research and development project in the eXtreme Computing Group of Microsoft Research.
The current release of Project Daytona is a research technology preview (RTP). We are still tuning the performance of Project Daytona and adding new functionality, and we will fix any software defects that are identified (see our email link below).
Our research on Project Daytona and its use for cloud data analytics is far from complete. In the summer of 2011 three PhD candidates joined our group, Romulo Goncalves (CWI), Atilla Balkir (University of Chicago), and Chen Jin (Northwestern University), to work with our team on data streaming support in Project Daytona, optimizations to the core runtime, support for incremental processing, and data services to minimize latency and data movement. We look forward to sharing these results in our technical papers and improved versions of Project Daytona that will be released in Spring 2012.
Please report any issues you encounter when using Project Daytona to email@example.com, or contact Roger Barga with suggestion for improvements and/or new features.
Articles and Papers
- Excel DataScope for Data Scientists
- Excel Gets Boost for Cloud-Based Analytics, HPC Wire, June 14, 2011
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AMES, Iowa – Four Iowa State student-athletes are set to compete for a national title this weekend at the 2014 NCAA Indoor Track and Field Championships. Edward Kemboi (800m), Christina Hillman (shot put), Ejiro Okoro (800m) and Cameron Ostrowski (high jump) will each be competing are ranked in the top-10 of their respective events.
Kemboi comes in ranked No. 1 in the field with a program-record of 1:45.98. Kemboi ran the time at this year's Iowa State Classic in one of the nation's most competitive 800m fields. The mark is good for the fastest run in the United States this year and is the seventh-fastest in the world. This season, Kemboi has competed against eight of the 16 runners in the field and has racked up nine victories over the competition. The Bowerman watch-list member has post seven sub-1:47 performances in his career and will look to add to that total this weekend. Kemboi won four races this season and picked up two Big 12 titles at the indoor conference championships.
Hillman has ranked as one of the nation's top-two shot putters for the entire indoor season, posting a best throw of 57 feet, 5.5 inches. The No. 2-seeded Cyclone is undefeated in collegiate competition this season, with her only finish off the top of the podium coming at the USA Indoor Championships, where she finished sixth. Hillman is the program record holder, a two-time All-American and 2014 Big 12 champion in the event. A top-eight finish at the national championships would make her the second Cyclone in program history to notch three or more first-team All-America honors in the shot put (Lisa Griebel, 6-time All-American).
In the women's 800-meter run, Okoro enters the championships ranked No. 3 in the field behind Oregon's Laura Roesler and Georgia's Megan Malasarte. The Birmingham, England, native has a personal best and program record of 2:03.91, posting the mark at the ISU Classic earlier this season. Okoro earned All-America recognition at last year's championships, placing seventh in the event, and will look to join Ada Anderson, Maria Akraka and two-time NCAA champion Edith Nakiyingi as the only Cyclones in program history to be named All-American at least twice in their collegiate careers. The Cyclone senior was the top collegiate finisher three times this season at the Bill Bergan Invitational, ISU Classic and Big 12 Championships.
Ostrowski is coming off a career performance at the Big 12 Championships, where he cleared a personal-best height of 7 feet, 3.75 inches en route to capturing the conference title. The Burlington, Ill., native has won three events this season, clearing the 7-foot barrier in each victory. Ostrowski holds the No. 7 seed in the field, and his Big 12-title mark is good for the 12th best American mark this season. With a top-eight showing, Ostrowski would join Iowa State great Brian Tietjens as the only Cyclones to garner two or more All-America accolades.
The NCAA Championships will be held this weekend, March 14-15, in Albuquerque, N.M. ESPN3 will be broadcasting the event live both days, starting at 6:55 CT. The event is hosted by the University of New Mexico and will be held the Albuquerque Convention Center.
2014 Cyclone Notebook
*The Cyclones are rewriting the record books this season, notching 24 spots on Iowa State's all-time top-10 indoor lists, acheived by 22 different student-athletes.
*This season the Cyclones have set a total of four programs, with three coming from the women's teams and one from the men's.
*29 Iowa State student-athletes earned a total of 44 All-Big 12 honors at this year's indoor conference championships.
*Iowa State won seven events at the Big 12 Indoor Championships, a total that was good for second in the conference (Texas).
*The No. 24 Iowa State women's team has spent much of the season in the national rankings, reaching as high as No. 18.
*Edward Kemboi, Christina Hillman, Ejiro Okoro and Cameron Ostrowski currently account for 18 spots on Iowa State's all-time top-10 indoor list, including five program records.
*Kemboi accounted for the fifth-most team points by an individual performer in Big 12 history, picking up 22 at the conference championships.
*Kemboi and Okoro are both program record holders in the 800m. Kemboi's mark stands at 1:45.98 and is the seventh-fastest time in the world this year. Okoro's mark is currently the fifth-fastest collegiate time this year. Both marks were set at this year's ISU Classic.
*Hillman is Iowa State's record holder in the shot put with a mark of 58 feet, 0.5 inches, setting the mark in a runner-up performance at last year's NCAA Indoor Championships.
*Ostrowski ranks second in Iowa State indoor history in the high jump. The Burlington, Ill., native cleared a personal-best height of 7'3.75" at the Big 12 Championships.
*Each Hillman, Kemboi, Okoro and Ostrowski have competed at NCAA Championships in their careers at Iowa State.
*The Iowa State women's distance medley relay team just missed this year's NCAA Championships after posting the three fastest indoor times in program history, each with a different lineup.
*Kemboi became the first athlete in Big 12 history to win both the 800m and 1,000m titles in the same year, breaking the tape for both races in less than 20 minutes.


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A local church is reaching out to the entire community to help one of its members suffering from a rare cancer.
Evangel Temple is holding a worship service and benefit program for Claudia Dillard. Dillard was diagnosed with synovial sarcoma cancer in November, a rare bone cancer, and has been traveling between Birmingham and Atlanta for treatment. The church is hoping people will come to support her both financially and through worship.
The program begins Saturday at 5 p.m. at Evangel Temple. The service is free of charge. Any and all donations are welcomed.
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A newborn is dead after a young mother tried to cut the umbilical cord.
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The joy of Christian journalism
Media | It's easy for journalists to become jaded, but Christian scribes can find great joy in reporting the reasons for honoring Christ in all things and above all things
What is the sound of one hand clapping? It's the sound of journalists in a sports press box.
Quick explanation: According to custom, baseball writers in the press box at ballparks don't applaud or cheer. I've noted the sounds of silence as over the past two decades I've covered baseball games from time to time. But once, in the Atlanta Braves press box, I saw one watcher pressing his right hand against the table when the Braves team did well. When I confronted him he fingered a couple of Atlanta reporters who surreptitiously do the same.
I asked those sportswriters about cheer-less press boxes. Some said they were trying to maintain a professional atmosphere in their workplace. Others offered a rationale of "objectivity": They did not want to be "homers," rooters for the hometown team. But I found myself wanting to break the rules by cheering or applauding great plays by either team. Art lovers can see new paintings and rejoice: Why should press objectivity require the silent denial of excellence?
One real reason for silence, I suspect, is tiredness: Reporters who spend every day at the ballpark sometimes lose their sense of wonder about athletic achievement and instead become know-it-alls. They become bored with baseball.
Many media organizations, sadly, include journalists bored with life, which they see as purposeless. Not all secular journalists are that way: David Halberstam, who wrote about wars and politics but also baseball, said shortly before he died, "The legwork of reporting is critical and most of the fun. Think of it as part of a continuing education; we're paid to learn. It isn't just getting a byline that drives you; it isn't just where the story lands in the paper. Fifty-two years later, I still like what I do."
Christian journalists especially should have that attitude. We know human interest is important because every human is created in God's image. Over 3,000 years ago the Egyptian Ptahotep gave career advice: "Be a scribe! You sit grandly in your house, beer is poured copiously. All who see you rejoice in good cheer. … Happy is the heart of him who writes; he is young each day." How much more so should Christians relish the joy of journalism, making it part of a life's goal: As the Westminster Catechism states, our chief end is "to glorify God and enjoy Him forever"—and forever begins right now.
To enjoy fully our craft, Christian journalists often need two crucial understandings. One is that the children's song "It's a Small World (After All)" is dumb. It's not a small world: It's a large one, with millions of nooks and crannies and opportunities for adventure. In Robert Boynton's book, The New New Journalism, writer Susan Orlean recalls with excitement an article she wrote about a gospel singing group: "It was astonishing for me to glimpse a world that was so fully developed—with its own stars, sagas, myths, history, millions of devotees—that I, in my narrow life, I had no idea existed."
The second necessary understanding comes from pastor Tim Keller's analysis of the parable of the prodigal son. Keller argues (The Prodigal God, 2008) that the parable should have a plural in its name: sons. We remember that the younger brother, of course, takes his inheritance, runs, and eventually finds that that his existence is truly oppressive. But the elder brother also has a problem: He is self-righteous and lacks joy. He works by the sweat of his brow and is angry with the younger brother for not doing his share, and then angry with the father for celebrating the prodigal's return
When Christian journalists become solemn like some full-of-themselves pundits, we are not truly following Jesus, who regularly in the gospels flashes His sense of humor. Instead, we're acting like disciples of the 18th century German philosopher Immanuel Kant, who saw the moral value of any action as inversely proportional to the benefit we derive from it. Kant argued that we should do what's good simply because it's good, and any benefits we derive lessen the goodness of our action. Good actions are "disinterested." Duty is meritorious. Enjoyment is selfish. The logic of this leads to a hard conclusion: The best actions are those that make us miserable. The elder brother in the prodigal's parable is a Kantian hero.
At a popular level, the secular left's attack on Christianity a century ago was that it led people to suffer in this life for the promise of a future that (according to atheists) would never come: "You'll have pie in the sky when you die." Christians, instead of refuting this concept, have sometimes run with it. That also has contributed to the sense that Christians are killjoys. But at WORLD, putting out a news magazine is a lot of fun, and we want our readers to enjoy it. We don't need to yell at readers with headlines such as "Christians, stand up to save America from Comrade Obama."
I remember one letter that came to WORLDafter we criticized Barack Obama's positions but still asked our readers to keep calm and carry on, as the Brits said in World War II. The letter screamed: "Why are you gutless wimps not shouting through your columns that this nation does not want this filthy garbage as our country's leader? Where is your anger? Where is your HATRED??? Obama voted for infanticide, his corps of friends are some of the most unsavory, hateful, [expletive deleted] in the world!!!"
Hmm. WORLD crusades on abortion and other issues, but we try to keep calm by reporting sensational facts with—in most circumstances—understated prose.
We try to have an accurate self-image. An excellent secular reporter, Richard Ben Cramer, said of himself, "I'm a smith. I occupy the position in our society that a good wheelwright would have occupied in his. Making wheels is a highly specialized skill. I don't consider myself to be an artist. I consider myself to be a skilled workman." That's how we as Christian journalists should see ourselves. We are not saviors. We are little hobbits in a great big world.
But we're also hobbits with a great opportunity to glorify God and enjoy Him immediately. As John Piper notes, "Every joy that does not have God as its central gladness is a hollow joy and in the end will burst like a bubble." Christian journalists can have great joy by discovering and communicating the reasons that exist for honoring Christ in all things and above all things.
Piper points out that we should aspire "to study reality as a manifestation of God's glory, to speak and write about it with accuracy, and to savor the beauty of God in it." The Bible teaches us that God created this world to be His theater, so the more we report accurately what happens in it, the more we will praise Him. A Christian journalist who highlights good news is praising God: Our natural selfishness means that what is good comes from Him. A Christian journalist who reports bad news, showing the results of sin, is praising God because the bad shows how desperately we need Him.
Zeal for God's glory should characterize all of a Christian journalist's editorial decisions. We should praise marriage and hate abortion in the realization that our natural tendencies are toward selfishness—so when a mom sacrifices her freedom to care for a child, and when a dad sacrifices his freedom to provide for his family, that glorifies God. We should cover compassionate ministries because God most showed his glory when Christ lowered himself to live among us and then suffer and die for us. Since Christ so amply displayed compassion, our trying to follow in some of His steps is another way of glorifying God.
All journalists can have the joy of writing provocative and evocative news stories that come out of pavement-pounding rather than thumb-sucking. Christian journalists can have greater joy by standing not only for factual accuracy but also for biblical objectivity, which means trying to see the world as best we can the way the Bible depicts it. Christian journalists can be humble by presenting not our own opinions but God's perspective from the Bible, distinguishing between issues on which the Bible is clear and those on which it isn't.
Christian journalists, in short, can have the joy of offering salt, not sugar, and not acid. We can publish what we believe to be true, not what we or someone else would like to be true. Christian journalists can have the joy of speaking up for those it's convenient to forget: the unborn, the uneducated victimized by poor schools, and the politically unfashionable. We can know that we are fallen sinners, but sinners who look upward and create a no-scream zone within a high-decibel society.
In the world, this theater created by God, we can enjoy our front-row seats. We can applaud with both hands, praising God by telling the truth.


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The Kickoff of a Rock 'n' Roll Homestand
The Detroit "Rock City" Tigers are here. And this week, we'll welcome Emerson Drive back for a full-length concert after their gig singing the National Anthem on Opening Day.
The Royals are rollin' a bit after their first series win in Chi-town since 2003. And they are poised to take on the Tigers for three followed by a four-game set against the American League East-leading Tampa Bay Rays. To gear up for this homestand, let's go Around the Horn…
It's been said by people smarter than us that pitching is the currency of baseball. And if so, the Royals just got a little richer. Power-arm Leo Nunez, the 175-pounder with mid 90s stuff, is off the Disabled List and back in the bullpen, shoring up one of the more solid parts of the Club. Nunez made five rehab appearances after being placed on the D.L. May 29th. In his final appearance on Friday for Double A Northwest Arkansas, he pitched two hitless innings, striking out two.
Nunez brings a 1.71 ERA to the pen, joining Ron Mahay's 1.78, Horacio Ramirez's 1.15, Ramon Ramirez's 3.06 and closer Joakim Soria's 1.43. The K.C. pen as a collective whole holds a 3.76 ERA in 296 and 2/3 innings. Opponents are hitting only .237 against Royals relievers.
The other side of Nunez's activation is that Joel Peralta was optioned to Omaha. Manager Trey Hillman said that he was just the odd man out, someone who has options remaining. Hillman stressed in his pre-game meeting with the press that Peralta was impressive in his last outing and he's starting to look like the pitcher he heard about when he first came to Kansas City – the trusted man out of the pen who led all relievers with 87 and 2/3 innings in 2007 and ended the season with 3.80 ERA, the lowest total of his Major League career.
If Around the Horn mentions Jose Guillen, it's usually because of his offensive numbers, but manager Trey Hillman was asked today if he thinks Guillen's defense is underrated. He said it probably is and shouldn't be.
Around the Horn checked the numbers. He's currently tied for seventh in the American League with seven outfield assists (the A.L. lead is 10 by Ben Francisco). Guillen picked up number seven after gunning down Chicago's A.J. Pierzynski yesterday in the eighth. Pierzynski would have tied the game but instead he was an easy out for catcher Miguel Olivo. Guillen's throw one-hopped Olivo and beat Pierzynski by several feet.
Now defense is hard to judge. And outfield assist numbers can be a jaded number. Mark Teahen was second in the A.L. with 17 last year, but has only four this season. Why? Because baserunners and coaches figured out they can't run as often. Guillen on the other hand has always had a reputation for having a rocket of an arm and he's still among the leaders.
Hillman also applauded Guillen's reads on fly balls (this video is from the Tampa series) saying the slugger probably takes fewer false steps than any outfielder on the team.
Mike Aviles is riding a career high 10-game hitting streak in which he's batted .432…Billy Butler homered Friday and Saturday, the first time he'd ever homered in back-to-back games…Notes from Trey Hillman's pre-game press conference: Look for Leo Nunez to ease back into his bullpen role as an eighth inning guy. He'll probably be used in earlier innings at first…Also from Hillman: Horacio Ramirez is not available today unless absolutely necessary because he pitched on back-to-back days and threw multiple innings in both games.
Lots of news on the television and promotions side. This homestand is packed with specials, starting with 20,000 powder blue Frank White tees to be given out tomorrow, Ink College Night on Wednesday, Girls Night Out on Thursday, Fireworks and Buck Night on Friday, Dan Quisenberry Bobbleheads and Emerson Drive playing on Saturday and finally the Sprint Fun Run and Autograph afternoon on Sunday.
The Royals announced earlier this month that the August 2 game versus the White Sox is being moved from a 6:10 start to a 2:55 game to accommodate national coverage on FOX. Because of the loss of a TV date, FSN Kansas City is adding September 18 versus Seattle. The game time for that game is 1:10, with Royals Live starting at 12:30.
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The Royals are working on a number of things for Military Appreciation Day, which is August 2. Around the Horn would like to request some help from our faithful here at mlblogs.com. If you have pictures of loved ones overseas wearing Royals gear, you can send them to firstname.lastname@example.com and we might be able to use them for a presentation during that day's events. If not, Around the Horn is also working on a special post for that day and may post some of these photos right here. Please include the name of the person, hometown, where they are stationed and what branch they are in.
Thanks for your help.
Here's tonight's lineup:
DeJesus LF
Aviles SS
Butler DH
Guillen RF
Grudzielanek 2B
Gordon 3B
Gload 1B
Buck C
Gathright CF
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More students to study in China
EAST LANSING, Mich. -- In an effort to strengthen United States-China ties, Michigan State University is the only institution in the Midwest - and one of six in the nation - to receive a grant from the Coca-Cola Foundation in support of the U.S. State Department's "100,000 Strong Initiative."
MSU received $200,000 to send 30 students to China to participate in programs focused on Chinese language, business and culture. In total, the foundation awarded $1 million for about 160 students nationwide.
The initiative was inspired by President Barack Obama's vision to see 100,000 American students study abroad in China. Specifically, the program targets the areas of education, culture, sports, science and technology and women's issues.
"This grant will make opportunities to study in China more accessible to MSU students, who may not have otherwise considered a study abroad program," said Brett Berquist, executive director of the Office of Study Abroad. "Through the richness and diversity found within Chinese cultures, our students will learn how cultural traditions, history and language affect global business practices within the United States and Michigan."
Dan Redford, an alumnus of MSU's James Madison College, agreed. He is now director of China operations at RCI FirstPathway Partners, a global business program that helps foreign investors become U.S. citizens.
"What is most important to me is that, through interaction with Chinese people, I understand that I am never going to have all the answers, and it will be up to me to forge relationships with people that can show me the way," he said. "Behind every difference there lies a chance to learn a new perspective, a chance to become familiarized with a different solution to a common problem."
In working with MSU, Coca-Cola expressed a wish to support scholarships that would benefit multi-cultural students and those with a business interest.
"The company's goals made the Multicultural Business Program at the MSU Eli Broad College of Business a natural match for this grant program," Berquist said.
The grant will provide scholarships for MBP students who have enrolled in an intensive summer of study in China focused on Chinese cultures and languages.
MSU offers more than 270 programs on all continents and in more than 60 countries. It ranks No. 1 among public institutions for study abroad participation.
Other universities receiving Coca-Cola Foundation grants are Columbia University, Georgia Institute of Technology; Morehouse College; University of California-Los Angeles; and University of Texas, Austin.
"We are very appreciative of Coca-Cola's support of our efforts to enhance relations between the U.S. and China," said Kurt Campbell, assistant secretary of state for East Asian and Pacific Affairs for the U.S. State Department. "We share the goal of building the next generation of Americans who will manage the growing strategic, economic and cultural ties between the United States and China."
The Coca-Cola Foundation is the philanthropic arm of The Coca-Cola Co. In 2010, it awarded more than $23 million to support programs that offer scholarships, school drop-out prevention and access to educational programming.


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State declares Air Quality Action Day
The Indiana Department of Environmental Management has declared today, July 5, as an Air Quality Action day for Elkhart and St. Joseph counties. The state agency is forecasting elevated ozone levels across much of Indiana, including these two counties.
High levels of ozone can cause coughing and breathing difficulties especially in children, the elderly and anyone with a heart or lung condition.
To help reduce ozone, IDEM encourages all Hoosiers to:
walk, bike, carpool or use public transportation.
avoid using the drive-through.
combine errands into one trip.
avoid using gasoline-powered lawn equipment until after 7 p.m.
turn off your car engine when idling for more than 30 seconds.
conserve energy at home by turning off lights and setting the air conditioner at 75 degrees or above.
To learn more about ozone or sign up for air quality forecasts visit www.SmogWatch.IN.gov.


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In some cases, when I'm reorganizing messages and folders in archive, zimlet is creating new folders: Archive1, Archive2,Archive3...
I'm begginer in zimlet development, but in my opinion it's because archive folder don't get proper ID (CcsArchive.prototype.getFolder), and soap request fails. And then new folders are created.
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Anyone now how to implement key listener in zimlet? I'm trying to add function to archive message after pressing (for example) Shift+a