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Friday, March 01, 2013
So I have been working hard this week. Trying to eat the right foods, exercise a little bit, spend some time in the forums. I jump on the scale this morning and I find…Hey, I'm down 1.5 lbs. Cool right? Keep this up and in no time I…
Wait a minute… JUST 1.5 lbs? But a year ago I was 10 lbs less than this! Five years ago I was 50 lbs less than this! What is this 1.5 lbs stuff. That isn't where I want to be!
And so begins the cycle. The rational part of my brain knows that 1.5 lbs is a good thing. It is a step in the right direction and if I keep this up for the next year, I will easily hit my goal. Along the way, I will retrain my body not to crave the things that put me in this situation to begin with. The extra time will allow my body to adjust slowly, to replace the lost fat with new muscle. I can slowly rebuild my wardrobe instead of …
Shut up you loser! Those guys on TV lose like 20 lbs a week and they look miserable doing it. They are out there running and lifting and hurling their guts out! What have you done? You went for a 2 mile walk. Bah…you could do more. You don't want it enough. Just go eat a donut and wash it down with a milkshake.
I try to keep this guy pushed down, but he really doesn't have patience for this stuff. It is really more of an all or nothing proposition for him. He wants to be able to go out and run a marathon or play Basketball for hours on end. He can't and it ticks him off until he goes to the fridge to make himself feel better. I'm really hoping to starve him out…
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When that guy comes around my place, I endeavor to grind him down into the ground with a particularly hardcore workout. Most times, it's successful.
Good luck!
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I actually went to the gym last night after an 11 hour day at work and did about 35 min on the treadmill at an average pace of 3.0, then did about 25 min of strength training. As I was leaving I realized I hadn't really worked up a serious heart rate and got a little flushed during my sprints but nothing that had me dripping in sweat like some people. I started to get a bit upset that I didn't push myself to that point then I realized...I'm at the gym. I'm doing SOMETHING. As that one quote states, "you're still ahead of the guy sitting on the couch" and I was. So I may not have kicked my own ass but I burned calories, I made an effort, I did SOMETHING.
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I have tried to lose weight quickly before. The big problem -- it is impossible to keep up the extreme diets! I have stayed with Spark SO much longer than any of the fad diets, and that is SO much better for my health than yo-yo dieting. (I lasted 3-4 months with other diets, like South Beach and Weightwatchers. 2+ years with Spark so far. With the other diets, I already had re-gained weight by the end of 2 years.)
So I DO think the slow and steady approach is better because it LASTS
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You have to make that inner voice say nice things to you, or it is going to bite you in the butt. Listening to it will only make you fat.
Be proud, you are doing it, and if the journey is harder than however many years ago, you are learning and changing.
I say GOOD FOR YOU
Don't Give Up...
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My first thought was HIde The Scale! Lol. Sometimes it's what you have to do. I have only lost 3-4 pounds in three months. I slip occasionally and eat the wrong things. I work out several days a week though and have really changed my eating habits so that most of what I eat is healthy. And only 3-4 pounds gone. But! I have went down a pants size.
Listen to what your clothes are telling you. Not the scale or the measuring tape.
The scale can't tell you that you're replacing fat with muscle. And if you don't have the measuring tape spot on everytime it's hard to tell that way as well.
But when your clothes start falling off you'll know what you're doing is worth it. It might take awhile (it took me 3 months) but even if you're moving slower than what you wanted at least you're moving in the right direction.
Don't sweat it! Just keep going! Fight your inner self that is scared of failure. And embrace the part of you who knows that that 1.5 lbs is a good thing!
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This is a long shot given the nature of my problem, but can anyone here help me debug this message I'm seeing in my debug output?
QPainter::begin: Paint device returned engine == 0, type: 2
It occurs when I add about 10 columns with checkboxes to a QTreeView and QTreeWidget, and I hover over the columns or resize them.
I tried first with a QTreeWidget and creating everything manually (like calling setItemWidget(..) with a QCheckBox as an argument.
I then tried it with a QStandardItemModel by adding QStandardItems with setCheckable set to true.
I get the exact same behaviour: a few messages like that every now and then.
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This pressure helmet was worn by astronaut Alan Shepard, Commander of the Apollo 14 mission launched on January 31, 1971.
The Apollo pressure helmet was a transparent bubble designed to attach to the spacesuit neck ring. It was constructed of a polycarbonate shell with a red anodized aluminum neck ring, a feed port, a vent pad and duct assembly attached to the rear and a valsalva device attached to the inner ring.
There were two configurations used on Apollo suits which were not interchangable, the earlier configuration was anodized blue, with the later configuration being anodized red.
NASA transferred the pressure bubble to the National Air and Space Museum in 1972.
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Chris O'Brien eats up every morsel of information he can find on sustainability, and he washes them all down with a frothy, ice cold, home-brewed beer.
American University's new director of sustainability believes that nothing can better illustrate the environmental concept than the art of organic home brewing.
"It exemplifies my approach to sustainability," O'Brien said. "It has to be socially, environmentally, and economically practical. As a grad student, I spent a lot of money on beer. It wasn't sustainable economically or environmentally. It produced a lot of waste. I saw home brewing as an opportunity to save money and reduce waste. It connected me to ingredients and a process that was rewarding in and of itself."
Home brewing is more than just a hobby for O'Brien—it's a second career. He co-owns Seven Bridges, an organic home brew supply business, and is the author of Fermenting Revolution: How to Drink Beer and Save the World.
"The whole purpose of this book is to tell the story of sustainability through an everyday product that people can relate to," he said. "In the book I talk about 'beerodiversity.' Would you like to have a country that has one type of beer provided by one company, or a country with thousands of styles of beers produced by thousands of companies?
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O'Brien grew up in State College, Pa., and stayed home to attend Penn State University where he majored in science, technology, and society as an undergraduate.
"The program is all about understanding impacts on the environment from the stuff we make and consume," he said. "The term technology, most people think of things like computers, but a desk is a technology, a pencil is a technology. They're all things humans have designed and created."
O'Brien has dedicated his professional life to eliminating as much waste as possible from the production and consumption of human technologies. He ran a national responsible purchasing network and green business network before coming to AU this summer.
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Michael Kazin: The End of the Christian RightRoundup: Historians' Take
Michael Kazin is the author, most recently, of American Dreamers: How the Left Changed a Nation. He teaches history at Georgetown University and is co-editor of Dissent.
Is the Christian Right still a power in American politics? The lavish coverage which its partisans and their favorite issues have received during the current Republican campaign certainly leave that impression. Yet all this attention is akin to the dazzling glow of a setting sun. In fact, the Christian Right is a fading force in American life, one which has little chance of achieving its cherished goals.
Yes, pious conservatives earned the underfunded Rick Santorum a virtual tie in the Iowa caucuses, and, last week, a large gathering of evangelical leaders nodded fervently in his direction. Every GOP candidate still in the race speaks of Planned Parenthood as if it were a band of terrorists and vows to stop the largest and oldest reproductive rights group in the country from winning even a dollar of federal funding—and all of them except Ron Paul has signed a firm pledge to support a constitutional amendment that would essentially ban same-sex marriage. As for the presumptive nominee Mitt Romney, who has earned the suspicions of many conservative evangelicals, he has worked tirelessly to ingratiate himself with the Christian Right. Pro-Romney robo-calls in South Carolina currently feature a right-to-lifer from Massachusetts who opens her pitch, "I know you have heard a lot of folks talking about Mitt's record on life, faith, and marriage while governor of Massachusetts."
But, whatever their influence on the Republican primary, the Christian Right is fighting a losing battle with the rest of the country—above all, when it comes to abortion and same-sex marriage, the issues they care most about. A strong majority of Americans backs abortion in the early months of a pregnancy. If elected president, it's exceedingly unlikely that Romney would ever sign legislation that could lead to the indictment of millions of women and tens of thousands of physicians for fetal murder. Last fall, even voters in Mississippi soundly rejected a bill that might have done just that....
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My husband smokes pot and lies about it. What should I do?
I'm six months pregnant and just discovered that my husband hasbeen doing drugs in the garage. I thought I smelled pot last week and asked him about it and he lied. Then last night I smelled it again, went into the garage, and he ran out the front thinking I didn't see him. I told him that I just want the truth, but he still denies it. I feel really alone and scared about what else he may be lying about -- and with our baby coming, I want to be able to trust him more than ever. What should I do?
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exactly helping! why would you leave your man because he's smoking weed? thats just ridiculous. don't be jealous because you've chosen not to smoke and he has continued. if he's lying about it i'm sure its because you've told him he can't smoke. what guy is going to go, "okay MOMMY, i won't smoke weed anymore." ???posted 02/01/2005 by livsmomma23
I know of a lot of men who smoked pot to deal with their partners mood swings. Having being pregnant twice, i dont blame them, lol. Just talk to them. and instead of saying "quit right NOW" ask them why they are still smoking. Get to the root of the problem first, then deal with it however you want. who knows, he could be feeling insecure about being a father, and if thats the case, he will need your support.posted 01/31/2005 by Alyssa1704
I am having sort of the same problem,the smell just makes your mood swings sky rocket to just being pissed.You should talk to him and tell him exactly how you feel and if he still wants to lie and BS you than you know that its time to leave him.posted 01/31/2005 by kema & darnell
You are so right spunk!! thats pretty good ...((((take care and remember its not what people think thats important if you can look at your child and know you do all you can and there happy dont worry everbodys different , some people are just bored so they pick pick pick..))))posted 01/24/2005 by Tanner'sMaMa04
i got an air 2 vapir from ebay its brill it inly heats enough to get vapor ,so theres no combustion so no smoke all you get is the good stuff but i still like a pipe i kind of swap between the two . take care and remember its not what people think thats important if you can look at your child and know you do all you can and there happy dont worry everbodys different , some people are just bored so they pick pick pick..posted 01/22/2005 by FUNKYSPUNKY
exactly m2b.posted 01/21/2005 by livsmomma23
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July 21, 2015 — Go inside PASS Summit 2015 session in this Q&A series with our presenters. In this interview, Michael Fal takes us inside his general session, "PowerShell and the Art of SQL Server Deployment".
Q: Who is your favorite super-hero, and which SQL Server or BI super-power do you hope your session will give attendees?
Mike: I've always been a fan of heroes without super powers: iconic comic book personalities like Iron Man and Batman or classic TV characters like MacGuyver and the A-Team. These guys accomplished incredible things with their brains and the tools at their disposal. This is the sort of thing I want to show people with my session, "PowerShell and the Art of SQL Server Deployment". By leveraging PowerShell, DBAs can do some pretty awesome things—and it doesn't take special knowledge or skills to do it.
Q: What's your origin story? How did you become interested in working with data, and how did you take that initial interest to the expert level?
Mike: I actually didn't get into technology and databases until several years after college. I originally got my Bachelor of Music Performance from CU Boulder with the intent of being a classical musician. After making a hard decision not to pursue that beyond college, I was working in a warehouse. After showing interest in computers by working with our system administrator, I was given a tech support job in a company that needed me to do a number of things. I gravitated towards databases and managing the company's systems. Fifteen years later, I'm now a Senior DBA at Xero, helping architect our cloud data strategy.
Q: What's your favorite data solution's secret power—the biggest strength that most people don't really know about or use to full advantage
Mike: PowerShell really isn't a "data solution," it's a technology solution. But it's an incredibly powerful one. There are two huge advantages to building automation with PowerShell: working across the computing stack (the OS, SQL Server, the file system, and so on) and the ability to execute across multiple computers in an easy, reliable fashion. This is really appealing to the "lazy DBA," because you can write automation once that executes consistently for any number of systems in your environment.
Q: What about data's biggest kryptonite or nemesis--the biggest mistake you see data professionals make?
Mike: Fear. Fear of the unknown. You mention PowerShell to a lot of DBAs and there's just not a lot of knowledge around it, so data folks don't really know how to leverage it or what they can use it for. This is why I've focused on speaking and blogging about it, spreading the word about this powerful tool. This becomes its own reward, because when I show it to people who haven't seen it, they're blown away by what can be done.
Q: What still excites you or trips you up in the real world when working with SQL Server or BI?
Mike: There is no one-size-fits-all solution. Although we can make scripts and build processes, it still requires a human brain to break a problem down, mesh it with business logic, and build a complete solution. This is why it's so critical to build out our toolbox. Just as a construction contractor could be building a garage one day and a house the next, we need to be prepared for whatever challenge is given to us. Having flexible, robust tools allows data professionals to better respond to these challenges.
Q: What do you see as the next step after attending your session?
Mike: The goal of my session is to show DBAs how to quickly and reliably deploy SQL Server. When folks walk out of this session, I expect that they will go back to their jobs to refine their own deployment processes for SQL Server, to make them more consistent and reliable. More than that, though, these methods open up new design patterns for managing SQL Server environments, whether they're on premises or in the cloud.
Check out our other Q&As with PASS Summit 2015 speakers.
July 21, 2015 — Go inside PASS Summit 2015 session in this Q&A series with our presenters. In this interview, Allan Hirt takes us inside his Pre-Con, "Advanced SQL Server Availability Architectures and Deployments".
Allan: When I grew up and started collecting comic books, I was more drawn to the DC characters, specifically Batman. He is a guy who is a mere mortal, yet can outwit and has the strength to stand up to people who have powers that could literally crush him. I think that is the challenge a lot of DBAs and IT workers face. We are given some parameters and limitations and have to make magic happen. More often than not, we can. I think we are at our best when we think outside the box.
Q: What's your origin story? How did you become interested in working with data, and how did you take that initial interest to the expert level?
Allan: During college, I was an intern at SQL Solutions in Burlington, MA; it was bought out by Sybase while I was there. So I started using SQL Server in the pre-Windows days—I even remember helping someone install Windows NT 3.5. My internship was with the QA folks, so testing has and continues to be intrinsic to what I do. But the obvious link from then to now is the fact that I was exposed to relational databases so early. I have always been more interested in the infrastructure side of things, even before my internship (which involved that stuff). But I was lucky in my career path to be exposed to things like clustering fairly early into my career, which clearly had a profound impact on who I am today.
I would say that to become an expert, the key to success is to follow your passion and keep learning. You will hopefully have good mentors along the way. Do not be afraid to fail or make mistakes.
Q: What's your favorite data solution's secret power—the biggest strength that most people don't really know about or use to full advantage?
Allan: The Windows platform has a lot of cool things that are prevalent in the non-SQL Server world, such as Scale Out File Server and Windows' native ability to use RDMA. Such things could be used for SQL Server but are not. If DBAs understood what lies under the hood a bit more, I think we would see more innovative solutions. I will be talking a bit about those kinds of things throughout my Pre-Conference session, "Advanced SQL Server Availability Architectures and Deployments".
Allan: The two biggest mistakes I see are:
· Not understanding what it is you are implementing. That leads to a lot of assumptions and bad decisions in architecture, which ultimately results in bad solutions.
· Not doing the basics well. You cannot have a good availability solution if you are terrible at, say, backups. If you start from a solid foundation, your chances of succeeding at the more advanced stuff increases significantly.
Allan: There's plenty that can trip all of us up, expert or not; too many things to list. That said, I think that because SQL Server is such a deep and broad product, there is some aspect of it for nearly anyone who is interested in databases, whether BI or relational. That by no means equates to queries and data itself. Sure, I've done a lot of that over the years, but the infrastructure side is a whole other aspect of SQL Server that many people do not dabble in—but is immensely rewarding.
Q: What do you see as the next step after attending your session?
Allan: I truly believe that people learn better by doing than by just seeing slides and demos. As with my Pre-Con session at Summit 2014—which sold out, so don't wait to register this year; the number of students is capped—everyone will get hands-on experience via lab exercises designed specifically for that day. Each attendee will access, via a browser, their own set of virtual machines (VMs), which simulate a full working environment (domain controller, cluster nodes, and so on). I know many attendees will want to try the labs again and will most likely not have time during Summit to do that, so my plan is to provide access for at least a few days post-Summit so that you can do them again back home.
July 21, 2015 — The location of future PASS Summit conferences was a topic of discussion at the June 2015 PASS Board of Directors meeting. Currently, we've booked the Washington State Convention and Trade Center as the PASS Summit venue through 2018. A time-limited opportunity was presented to us to continue that booking for an additional year—2019—with a decision required by June 15.
In 2013, we moved PASS Summit to Charlotte, North Carolina. Our main intention was to determine whether hosting the conference in a different state would make it more accessible to PASS members who might not have been able to travel to Seattle.
While changing cities at some point in the future isn't out of the question, the Board noted that staying in Seattle offered two important benefits:
· Extending our venue agreement for the additional year offers significant savings over the length of our multi-year contract with the Convention and Trade Center.
· Holding the conference in Seattle results in a stronger exhibitor presence, particularly in regards to Microsoft. Community members and attendees have greater opportunity to interaction with members of the Microsoft product teams.
Considering these benefits, the Board voted to keep PASS Summit in Seattle for 2019.
This past Thursday, July 16, 2015, PASS opened voting for the 2015 Nomination Committee (NomCom). Voting is open through noon PDT July 21. PASS members who are eligible to vote will each have received an email with a Vote Now button that enables them to cast their ballot for this NomCom election.
In preparation for this voting period, PASS has sent multiple communications and ran multiple deduplication procedures to meet our Governance standards and ensure the following:
• We confirmed with each PASS member with a completed profile as of June 1, 2015, their eligibility to vote.
• Each eligible voter may only cast one ballot.
As you might be aware, on the first day of our NomCom elections we had some communication and technical difficulties with our third party email software. Firstly we want to assure you that the election is not compromised by these matters. Only eligible voters will be able to cast a ballot, and they won't be able to vote a second time with identified duplicate profiles.
Having said that, in all matters within PASS, full transparency is one of our core tenets. Therefore, we want to update you on the timeline of events:
• One hour before the ballot was scheduled to open, we learned that a scheduling glitch in our communications software had resulted in ballot emails being sent one hour earlier than expected. As soon as we were made aware of this, we opened the NomCom ballot so that members could vote. Opening the NomCom ballot early did not compromise the validity or security of the vote. Some members who tried to vote prior to the ballot opening may have experienced some confusion during that short period of time. Where possible, we reached out to these members via email or social media to let them know that the ballot was now open. We also posted a notice on social media that balloting was indeed open and that anyone who had not been granted voting access should try again. At no time did this result in individuals being able to vote more than once.
• Soon afterward, we became aware that the address list that had been used to send the ballot notifications was not the correct, finalized list. Approximately 1,800 community members received emails to their non-voting, duplicate member profiles indicating that they could now vote. In this case, we want to reassure our community members that even though emails were sent to these duplicate profiles, they are still ineligible to vote. Our voting system, Simply Voting, will not recognize them as eligible. Again, this issue did not compromise the election but might have caused some confusion for those members who received the emails. We have sent follow-up communications to all members who were affected by this issue.
In response to these events, we have taken several steps to further ensure the integrity of the elections and to prevent such issues with the upcoming Board of Directors elections:
• In both situations, we have communicated with the affected PASS members to confirm that those who are eligible to vote have received the necessary link and can access their ballot.
• We have confirmed that the integrity of the voting process is intact and that only eligible members can vote and that they can vote only once.
• We are taking steps to address both the software and human causes of these issues, to ensure that future communication scheduling is error-free.
I want to thank you all for your patience and encourage those of you who are eligible, to vote in the 2015 NomCom election. Voting is open through noon PDT, July 21. We thank those who submitted an application to serve on the NomCom, as well as those who participate in this election. If you have any further feedback or questions, please email us.
Denise McInerney
VP of Marketing, PASS Board of Directors
July 13--For the past six months we have been reviewing the events PASS runs and supports. We've evaluated the benefits our events provide the PASS community, focusing on how these benefits align with PASS's mission. During this time, we found that the goals for SQLSaturday and SQLRally are similar, with those goals being to:
· Promote PASS community growth by supporting opportunities worldwide to connect, share, and learn with fellow data professionals
· Promote the growth of speakers and leaders throughout our community
· Provide the opportunity for local-language content
PASS offers numerous opportunities for both community networking and in-depth technical training in-person and online with events such as SQLSaturday, 24 Hours of PASS, and virtual and local chapters. Through the efforts of our dedicated volunteers, the SQLSaturday event has seen remarkable growth globally, supporting technical training opportunities at a regional level. There were 98 SQLSaturday events in FY2015, compared to 36 events in FY2011, the first year SQLRally was introduced.
These facts led us to look again at the SQLRally event model and the benefits it has been providing to the global PASS Community.
SQLRally was aimed to provide technical content and an event experience between what was offered at a SQLSaturday event and what was offered at the PASS Summit. However, as SQLSaturday events have grown in popularity and add-on features such as pre-conference days have been introduced, they have become better suited as the event model to meet the benefits outlined earlier.
As a result, we have voted to retire the global SQLRally brand and event model.
The resources we have been investing in global SQLRally events can then be reinvested into other models with similar community outreach. In the coming days, we will distribute a survey to all SQLSaturday event organizers in an effort to better understand the opportunities that exist in enhancing the current SQLSaturday model. We will continue to use similar surveys to evaluate the needs of our global community in an ongoing effort to better provide the full breadth and depth of education and training for the data professionals that make up our membership.
If you have any questions or feedback, or if you would like to participate in this survey, let us know. It's our goal to provide the best resources and training for PASS members.
Thomas LaRock
PASS President
03 de julio 2015--Como Presidente del Comité de Crecimiento Global de PASS me complace presentar a nuestros dos nuevos consejeros de Junta Directiva para la región de América Latina (LATAM): Eduardo Castro de Costa Rica y Diego Nogare de Brasil. Eduardo y Diego fueron nombrados por un plazo de un año (hasta el 2 de junio de 2016) por el PASS Board of Directors, y ayudarán para que PASS aumente el apoyo a los profesionales de datos en toda la comunidad mundial.
Eduardo y Diego fueron identificados como asesores de la región de LATAM debido a su larga trayectoria y el servicio que brinda en sus comunidades locales de PASS. Ambos han organizado eventos SQLSaturday extremadamente exitosos en sus respectivos países; y sus capítulos locales están prosperando. Como MVP, tanto Eduardo como Diego tienen relaciones comunitarias fuertes, así como un conocimiento en profundidad de las fortalezas y desafíos que son específicas de sus comunidades locales de SQL Server.
Este nombramiento es el último paso en las iniciativas de Global Growth Initiatives de PASS, las cuales iniciaron en el año 2011 con el nombramiento de tres asesores internacionales en la Junta Directiva y se realizaron nuevos avances en 2013 con la introducción de puesto en la Junta Directiva para la región de Europa, Medio Este y Africa (EMEA). Como parte de estas iniciativas, una de las metas del PASS para el año fiscal 2015 ha sido la de establecer una base sólida en la región de LATAM. Nuestro objetivo es apoyar a la comunidad global a través de programas que ayuden a los miembros PASS de habla hispana y portuguesa. Esta meta es sólo una parte de nuestra visión de expandir los beneficios y eventos de PASS a nivel global.
En los próximos meses, los nuevos asesores regionales se reunirán regularmente con nuestro Comité de Crecimiento Global y participarán en las reuniones de Junta Directiva de PASS. Juntos, van a trabajar con PASS para comunicar las necesidades de sus comunidades y para desarrollar y proporcionar los mejores recursos para la región de LATAM. Estamos encantados de contar su ayuda a medida que que planeamos maneras de ofrecer el mejor apoyo, eventos y recursos para la comunidad mundial de datos.
Por favor, únanse a mí para felicitar a Diego y Eduardo en sus nuevas funciones.
Adam Jorgensen
EVP, Finance & Governance, PASS Board of Directors
03 de julho de 2015--Como presidente do comitê de crescimento global do PASS eu tenho o prazer de anunciar nossos dois novos Regional Board Advisors para América Latina (LATAM): Eduardo Castro, da Costa Rica, e Diego Nogare, do Brasil. Eduardo e Diego foram nomeados por um ano (até 2 de Junho de 2016) pelo PASS Board of Directors, e ajudarão o PASS a continuar o crescimento e suporte à profissionais de dados nas comunidades globais.
Eduardo e Diego foram identificados como assessores para a região de LATAM por seu longo histórico e serviços para as comunidades locais do PASS. Ambos tem organizado eventos do SQLSaturdays com extremo sucesso em seus respectivos países; seus capítulos locais estão prosperando. Como MVPs, tanto Eduardo quanto Diego possuem forte relacionamento com a comunidade, como também um entendimento profundo dos pontos fortes e dos desafios que são pertinentes para suas comunidades locais de SQL Server.
Esta nomeação é o mais recente passo das iniciativas de crescimento global do PASS que foram lançadas em 2011 com a nomeação de três assessores do comitê internacional e fez mais avanços em 2013 com a inclusão de um assento da região Europa, Oriente Médio e Africa (EMEA) no Conselho Administrativo. Como parte contínua destas iniciativas, um dos objetivos do PASS para o ano fiscal de 2015 foi estabelecer uma base sólida na região de LATAM. Nosso objetivo é apoiar as comunidades globais de SQL Server através de programas que sirvam membros do PASS de língua espanhola e portuguesa. Esta meta é apenas uma parte de nossa visão para expandir os benefícios e eventos do PASS em todo o mundo.
Ao longo dos próximos meses os novos assessores regionais irão se reunir regularmente com o comitê de crescimento global e também nas reuniões do conselho. Juntos irão trabalhar com o PASS para comunicar as necessidades de suas comunidades locais e para ajudar o PASS a desenvolver e fornecer melhores recursos para a região de LATAM. Estamos felizes em contar com esta ajuda no objetivo de oferecer o melhor apoio, realização de eventos e recursos para a comunidade mundial de dados.
Por favor, junte-se a mim para parabenizar Diego e Eduardo em suas novas funções.
July 3, 2015--As Chair of PASS's Global Growth Committee I am pleased to introduce our two new regional board advisors for the Latin America (LATAM) region: Eduardo Castro, from Costa Rica, and Diego Nogare, from Brazil. Eduardo and Diego, who were appointed to one year terms (through June 2, 2016) by the PASS Board of Directors, will help PASS continue to grow our support for data professionals throughout the global community.
Eduardo and Diego were identified as advisors to the LATAM region because of their long history and service in their local PASS communities. Both gentlemen have hosted extremely successful SQLSaturday events in their respective countries; their local chapters are thriving. As MVPs, both Eduardo and Diego have strong community relationships, as well as an in-depth understanding of the strengths and challenges that are specific to their local SQL Server communities.
This appointment is the latest step in PASS's Global Growth Initiatives, which were launched in 2011 with the appointment of three international board advisors and made further strides in 2013 with the introduction of an earmarked Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA) seat on the Board of Directors. As part of these initiatives, one of PASS's goals for FY2015 has been to establish a strong foundation in the LATAM region. We aim to support the global SQL community through programs that serve Spanish- and Portuguese-speaking PASS members. This goal is just one part of our vision to expand PASS's benefits and events worldwide.
Over the next several months, the new regional advisors will meet regularly with our Global Growth Committee and will join Board meetings. Together, they will work with PASS to communicate the needs of their communities and to help PASS develop and provide the best resources for the LATAM Region. We are thrilled to have their help as we plan ways to offer for the best support, events, and resources for worldwide the data community.
Please join me in congratulating Diego and Eduardo on their new roles.
Adam Jorgensen
EVP, Finance & Governance, PASS Board of Directors
June 29, 2015--The results are in and the PASS Business Analytics Conference (BAC) 2015 was a success! At the recent Board meeting this month, the PASS Board reviewed the outcomes of this event and discussed the future of PASS Business Analytics (BA). A primary goal of the PASS Board of Directors is not just to maintain but to improve the health of our organization and our community. Reaching this goal means offering the best learning environments possible, such as PASS Summit, 24 Hours of PASS, and more. It also means looking beyond today's landscape and preparing for the future of SQL Server and related data technologies.
Over the past few years, we've watched as companies across all industries embrace data to become more competitive, results-oriented, and data-driven. This has created significant new challenges and opportunities in data analytics and BA. Now, experienced BA and data analytics professionals are in high demand and short supply. And those entering this nascent field are in need of the type of community and learning environment that SQL Server professionals enjoy as PASS members.
This is one of the reasons that we started PASS BAC in 2013. Like most new endeavors, it's taken a few years to find its bearings. Following PASS BAC 2014, we evolved to support the needs of business and data analysts. This included revamping content and refining our focus within the analyst audience. So we rebooted BAC 2015, tailoring it to focus on those who consume data and use it to drive business decisions.
With this refined approach, we renewed our focus on providing real-world, applicable learning that can give attendees an immediate and direct means to benefit their organizations—just as PASS Summit provides for DBAs and other data facilitators. We created a conference for people who extract and manipulate data using technologies such as Excel, Power BI, SQL, Hive, and R throughout all the stages in the analytical process. We delivered practical, best practices information, hands-on training, and visionary thought leadership.
Were we successful? Well, 77% of attendees were in our target Analyst audience. Our hands-on lab sessions were overflowing, the Expo Hall was buzzing, and more than half the BA and business intelligence (BI) attendees said that they would recommend the conference to colleagues, noting that we'd delivered "practical/effective training" that was both "inspiring" and "interactive".
Our audience reported that their primary interests were upgrading their skills and finding a community for continued networking—and we saw that community forming right in front of us. As a result, the PASS BA Planning Committee made several recommendations to the PASS Board of Directors during the Board's June 2015 meeting:
* PASS should continue organizing a conference for data and business analysts.
* We should continue with our refined approach for PASS BAC 2016.
* We should continue to engage with the BA audience and influencers.
* We should build a coherent development and engagement strategy for this growing community.
The Board agreed. By continuing to invest in PASS BAC and by fostering a community, we can meet the unique needs of business and data analysts. We already have many offerings that serve PASS members who are interested in BA. And we have growing resources and support from willing volunteers. From the Business Analytics and Excel Business Intelligence Virtual Chapters and BA Insights newsletter to webinars, the pieces are in place to support PASS BAC and the growth of our community, including the establishment of an advisory committee and a three-year plan laying out the best way to move forward.
We are excited about the opportunities and benefits that these decisions will provide for all data professions within the PASS community. If you have any questions or feedback, we want to hear from you. And we hope you'll help us spread the word about this new community to the data and business analysts in your organizations.
- Jen Stirrup
PASS Board Member
June 26, 2015--Have you heard the news? We've announced the speakers and session lineup for PASS Summit 2015 – and we think it's the best one yet! Each year, the Program Team has the difficult task of choosing sessions from amongst a wealth of wonderful submissions. I want to tell everyone who submitted this year how much we appreciate the support and dedication of this community.
How We Choose
The program-selection process is a continually fine-tuned process designed to help ensure a fair, objective, and well-balanced program. Program Committee volunteers are assigned to review abstracts, speakers, or PowerPoint decks. Each team has specific duties that help ensure the integrity of our selection process. Scores and ratings are used to determine the top sessions from each track, and we used these to fill the community session slots. We look for a balanced track that contains sessions that represent all the key topics across a variety of skill levels and without a great deal of duplication. We also look for a good mix of both seasoned speakers and new voices. Still have questions about the process, we have a helpful FAQ you page you can refer back to.
This year, 67 of our volunteers reviewed a total of 886 abstracts. Of those submissions, 20% were chosen for our community sessions, representing 52% of the speakers who submitted. 28% of those speakers will be speaking at PASS Summit for the first time!
Next Steps
Now that the community sessions have been selected, the next step is to open the Microsoft call for speakers. We'll work with Microsoft to make sure that these submissions complement the community sessions; stay tuned for these sessions to be announced in August.
We'll also begin constructing learning paths to make it easier for attendees to choose between sessions. As always, we welcome your feedback on any step of this process.
Finally, we will work to build the schedule, including partnering with Microsoft and the Program Committee Special Project team of volunteers to utilize data science to predict session attendance and schedule sessions into the appropriate sized rooms and timeslots. You can read more about the success of this additional process last year in Dev Nambi's blogs: PASS Attendance and Summit Feedback.
A Big Thank You
Once again, thank you to all who submitted—and to all the volunteers who worked so hard these past few months during the selection process, particularly our Program Team Managers Lance Harra, Mindy Curnutt and Angela Henry.
We can't wait for you to dive into the lineup for this year's PASS Summit, the premier event by and for the SQL Server Community. Help us spread the word, and don't forget to register by July 12 to save $400 on registration—plus contact your Local or Virtual Chapter for an additional $150 savings! See you in Seattle!
– Amy Lewis
PASS Director of Programs


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I don't ride to the Shaw Center across town very often, but every time I have, I've noticed how much public statuary there is on the way. So, Sunday was a mellow autumn day, I had plenty of time, and I took pics of a few. Quite a few for just 15 kilometers.
First is a whole field of them, right beside the bike path. I'm kind of partial to the "Day of the Triffids" looking one. (No, I'm not leaning my bike on it - just the pedal on the plinth.)
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Then, down at the bottom of University Bridge, this aluminum tumbleweed
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A little further on is this athletic bunch, called "Spirit of Youth"
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Getting onto 20th street, there's the double ended muskox
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Coming home again, there's Saint SomebodyOrOther outside the Orthodox church, I couldn't get close enough to read the plaque
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Then, getting onto 19th street near the farmer's market, a big cat made from rebar.
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I need help to unlock bios hard disk password on my acer notebook.
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I need help to unlock bios hard disk password on my acer notebook.
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BIOS passwords are stored in the batery in the motherboard.. u'll have to talk out the battery for 5 min. n den put it back.All passwords will be gone.
I already do this but no success.......any particular software to remove hdd lock from bios...pls. suggest....
Man, you say the BIOS passwords are stored in the battery of the motherboard, so when we take the battery out, the passwords will also come out with the battery.......so how do they get reset????? If I put the battery back , the passwords stored in the battery also are restored, isn't it?
It is acer notebook not a normal desktop so how can remove password by removing battery. Please contact with acer service center they are help out you because they have software for removing hdd password.
cmos battery does't hold any password or it doesn't carry any memory it provides continuous power(D.C voltage) to the required bios so when we turned off the system even it holds temporary memory like primary memory and passwords etc so if we remove cmos battery the continuity will break down and stored information(primary and if any passwords) will be loses..i hope you've got it.
Remove and replace the jumper on the motherboard that clears the CMOS. This may be listed on your motherboard documentation as something regarding CMOS or BIOS.
Remove and replace the jumper(its near to place CMOS) on the motherboard that clears the CMOS
Dear all,
might i present a personal experience which went a little off-course when i removed the battery of a desktop computer. it'as back in high school when i had a pentium III, after i removed the battery from the mother board, all the settings (including password) were reset but the problem that arose was that everytime my system started, it completed the memory check 3 times in a row. it'as pretty frustrating. My suggestion, based on personal experience would be to go for the "Jumper" settings. it's usually located near the CMOS battery and occasionally labelled as well. it might be abbreviated like "CLR_CMOS". Removing the battery also has a chance that u might break the battery slot while trying to remove the battery.
Better safe than sorry....
Hope this info puts someone out of his/her misery.
Close to the BIOS battery there should be three pins with a jumper covering two of them Clearing the password involves switching that jumper to to cover position 2 and 3
Remove the BIOS battery.Switch the jumper and leave it like that for 5 minutes.and switch it back again,re instate the BIOS battery back, Put the power cable back in, wait 15-20 seconds and power on the computer.
you can see a checksum error.never mind it...
hey guys(or gals, if any), i think the problem with Mr. Dharmesh is not his BIOS password but rather his HDD password. Dharmesh, please clarify.
hello everyone, i was just looking for the Hard drive unlocker and i found this topic. i read all the topics and my friend i think ur problem with the laptop is not with the battary or bios it is another chip called EPROM this chip is special for passwords, so if u take the battary out it will not be erased, and it needs a special Eprom reader it is an device that must be connected on the chip so u can erase it.
just dont try it alone it is dangarus. there is posibilitys that u blow up ur mainboard. it is better to take it to a specialist or a profesional technision,
hope that i was helpfull
This information is intended for experienced users. It is not intended for basic users, hackers, or computer thieves. Please do not try any of following procedures if you are not familiar with computer hardware. I'll not be responsible for the use or misuse of this information, including personal injury, loss of data or hardware damage. So use it at your own risk.
A. By Using the Motherboard Jumper:
In most motherboards CMOS battery is soldered, which makes it difficult to remove the battery. In this case we use another method.
Almost all motherboards contain a jumper that can clear all CMOS settings along with the BIOS password. The location of this jumper varies depending upon the motherboard brand. You should read your motherboard manual to check its location. If you don't have the manual then look for the jumpers near the CMOS battery. Most of the manufacturer label the jumper as CLR, CLEAR, CLEAR CMOS, etc.
When you find the jumper, look carefully. There will be 3 pins and the jumper will be joining the center pin to either left or right pin. What you need to do, is remove the jumper and join the center pin to the opposite pin. e.g. if the jumper joins center pin to left pin, then remove it and join center pin to right pin. Now wait for a few seconds and then again remove the jumper and join the center pin to left pin.
Make sure to turn the PC off before opening the cabinet and resetting the jumper.
B. By Using Software:
I have found that BIOS/CMOS Password Recovery Tool is the most effective.:
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Bertrand De Jouvenel's Melancholy Liberalism
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OF the major political thinkers of his generation--including Raymond Aron, Isaiah Berlin, Michael Oakeshott, and Leo Strauss--Bertrand de Jouvenel suffers from relative neglect. During the 1950s and 1960s, the French philosopher and political economist enjoyed a considerable reputation in the English-speaking world. He lectured as a visiting professor at Yale and the University of California-Berkeley, and his books garnered serious reviews in prestigious journals. But by the time of his death in 1987, his star had dimmed. Read through a span of recent political-theory journals and you will rarely encounter his name.
The neglect is not surprising. Jouvenel's thought does not fit into the two categories that unfortunately came to dominate academic thinking on politics during the 1970s and continue to rule it today: the arid left-liberalism of analytic philosophers like Ronald Dworkin, which reduces political thought to abstract reflection on moral and legal principles, and the nihilist radicalism of post-structuralist thinkers like Michel Foucault, which irresponsibly seeks to blow up the bourgeois world to clear the way for who knows what.
Jouvenel's work, published over five decades in a series of learned, beautifully written books and essays, is anything but abstract. It harkens back to an older style of political thought (as old as Aristotle, really, but arching over the centuries to include Montesquieu and Alexis de Tocqueville) that brings together moral and political philosophy and painstaking historical and institutional analysis.
His work is also a model of political responsibility. The philosopher Pierre Manent places Jouvenel in the sober tradition of liberalisme triste--melancholy liberalism--whose great representative is Tocqueville and among whose recent exemplars I would include Irving Kristol and Manent himself. These anti-utopians fully acknowledge the basic decency and justness of liberal democratic civilization. But they are also aware of its profound weaknesses--the erosion of moral and spiritual life, the hollowing out of civil society, the growth of an overbearing state, and the "joyless quest for joy," as Leo Strauss once put it, of a society dedicated chiefly to commercial pursuits. The task of liberalisme triste is to illumine the tensions and possibilities of this liberal civilization, in the hope of advising citizens and statesmen how best to cultivate the goods and avoid or at least moderate the evils that attend it.
Thankfully, there are signs that Jouvenel is sparking renewed interest. Over the last half-decade, two publishers--Liberty Fund Press and Transaction Publishers--have made available again to English readers some of his most important work. It seems an ideal occasion, then, to reconsider Jouvenel's contribution to political thought.
A life in the age of extremes
Bertrand de Jouvenel was born in 1903 into an aristocratic French household swept up in the political and intellectual currents of the early twentieth century. His father, Baron Henri de Jouvenel, was a well-known Dreyfusard politician and newspaper editor, and his mother, Sarah Claire Boas, the daughter of a wealthy Jewish industrialist, ran a trendy Parisian salon, so young Bertrand met many of the leading artists, writers, and politicians of the day. Through his mother, a passionate supporter of Czechoslovak independence, he gained his earliest political experience, working as private secretary to Eduard Benes, Czechoslovakia's first prime minister, when barely out of his teens.
Jouvenel was close to both of his parents, who divorced in 1912, but his relationship to his father was sorely tested during the early twenties. After divorcing Bertrand's mother, Henri had remarried the novelist and sexual provocateur Colette. In 1919, the 16-year-old Bertrand, strikingly handsome-"all sinews and lank," observes Colette biographer Judith Thurman- entered a scandalous affair with his stepmother, then in her late forties, who had seduced the bookish teenager. …


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Such is the case with Sra. Odilia, the Communal Bank president. Odilia is 63 years old, married, and has three children. She sells honey that she acquires from different villages in the region. Her products are sold to institutions and markets. In addition, she sells undergarments to different customers. Her loan will be invested in the purchase of honey. Odilia dreams of improving her business and seeing her youngest daughter finish her degree in accounting.
The members need different loan amounts ranging from 450 PEN, 600 PEN, to 900 PEN, for a grand total of 13,600 PEN to the entire Communal Bank.
Las socias realizan diferentes negocios como la venta D. ropa, frutas, comida, lencería, juguetes, mercería, miel D. abeja y artesanías.
Como es el caso D. la Señora Odilia que es la presidenta del Banco Comunal, Odilia es casada, tiene 63 años y 3 hijos, Odilia venD. miel D. abeja que compra en los diferentes pueblos D. la región, sus ventas los realiza en instituciones y mercados. Además Odilia venD. ropas interiores que ofrece a diferentes clientes. Su préstamo será invertido en la compra D. miel. Los sueños D. Odilia son mejorar su negocio y que su ultima hija culmine sus estudios D. Contabilidad.
Las socias necesitan diferentes montos D. prestamos como 450 soles, 600 soles, 900 soles haciendo un total D. 13,600 soles.
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1/29 Explainers, members of our Explainer Network of video producers, recently released a couple of great videos that highlight their work. Nick and the folks at 1/29 have serious video chops and have been putting them to good use in short, animated videos like the ones below. What is Geocaching? (produced for GoGeocaching- currently has nearly 90k views in two weeks!) Atlassian also hired 1/29 to create this fun video about JIRA Studios which integrates with Google Apps. Like all members... Continue Reading
Splainers recently published a new video for the Roll Back Malaria Partnership. I'm impressed, not only with the video explanation, but the idea behind SMS for Life, which uses mobile phones to ensure that malaria medicines are available for families who may need to travel to find treatment. It's great to see Splainers working on such a worthy cause and matching their skills to an idea that becomes more clear through video. Splainers, like all members of the Common Craft Explainer Network,... Continue Reading
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Patrick Ryan and Sarah Florer were married at 5 p.m. May 25, 2013, at Warner Hall Plantation in Gloucester, Va. Pastor Bill West officiated.
A reception followed at the same location. The couple reside in Colorado Springs, Colo.
The bride is the daughter of Stan and Patty Florer of Yorktown, Va. She is a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army Quartermaster Corps.
The groom is the son of Bob and Gabrielle Ryan of Timber Ridge Drive. He is a first lieutenant in the U.S. Army Infantry.
Lindsay Evans of Yorktown was maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Tori Prohoda of Fredericksburg, Va.; Mary Ann Thomas of Spartanburg, S.C.; and Brooke Withers of Albany, Ga.
Sam McAleese of Washington, D.C., was best man. Groomsmen were Matthew and Jeremy Ryan, both of Columbus; Aaron Takeda of Honolulu; and Sam Florer of Yorktown.
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Our Lady of Mount Carmel Church, Dunmore, was the setting Saturday for the wedding of Laura Geralyn Swinick and Anthony Fierro, both of Dunmore. The bride is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Swinick, Dunmore. The bridegroom is the son of Anthony Fierro, Scranton, and Charlotte Fierro, Moosic.
The Rev. Joseph Sica officiated at the 1:30 p.m. ceremony.
Sarah Swinick, Dunmore, sister of the bride, was maid of honor. Bridesmaids were Mellody Swinick, sister of the bride; Kristina Petrauskas and Melissa Rinaldi, all of Dunmore; Kimberly Fierro, Old Forge, sister-in-law of the bridegroom; Kristin Baltrusaitis, Boston; and Jenna Osborn, Olyphant.
Lia Mozeleski, Glastonbury, Conn., niece of the bridegroom, was junior bridesmaid.
Olivia Fierro, Old Forge, niece of the bridegroom, and Mary Booth, Dalton, were flower girls.
Jaison Fierro, Old Forge, brother of the bridegroom, was best man. Ushers were Thomas Swinick, Dunmore, brother of the bride; Daniel Frost, Factoryville, and Brian DePaulo, New York City, cousins of the bride; Jason Young, Clarks Summit; Christian Festa, South Pasadena, Calif.; and Peter Mastrogiovanni, New York City.
Jared Mozeleski, Glastonbury, nephew of the bridegroom, was junior usher.
A reception was held at La Buona Vita, Dunmore.
The bride is a graduate of Dunmore High School. She earned a bachelor's degree in health sciences and a master's degree in occupational therapy from University of Scranton. She is an occupational therapist for Allied Services, Scranton.
The bridegroom is a graduate of Abington Heights High School and earned an associate degree in automotive technology from Johnson College. He is an assistant manager and master automotive technician for Monro Muffler, Dunmore.
Following a wedding trip to St. Lucia, the couple resides in Dunmore.
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