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best of 2007: releases (albums, EPs, box sets)
This is my second in a series of "best of" lists for 2007. You can see my picks for best concerts. I also made "best of" lists for the following years: 2006, 2005, 2004.
For more "best of" lists, check out largeheartedboy's master list of 2007 lists (meta!).
I call this my best releases of 2007 but that's not quite true for a number of reasons [1] including that it's a bit ridiculous to define my rather arbitrary taste as the one that matters. See below for a full explanation. In short, I try to balance how good I think it is (which is swayed by my expectations), an "objective" rating of goodness, and how much I wanted to listen to it (translating into how many plays it got).
If you want to see what albums I seriously considered for this list, look here.
Best dozen releases of 2007
- Or, the Whale – Light Poles and Pines (original post)
This wasn't supposed to be this good. It's a debut indie country rock album from a San Francisco band. From the first listen, I knew I liked this album: it had great singing and orchestration, catchy songs and a certain energy about it. and I was alternately obsessed with "Call and Response" and "Fight Song" (and "Prayer for the Road" and…). But I say that it wasn't supposed to be this good because while I was surprised by it, it's not life-changing or transcendental; it's just a really consistent set of really good songs. This year I've played this album (according to last.fm and that doesn't count the repeated plays in my car) almost twice as much as any than any other single album.
Or, the Whale – Call and Response (mp3)
- Magnolia Electric Co. – Sojourner (box set) (original post)
This is a pretty stunning collection of three album-length CDs, one EP and various other things (DVD, medallion). My love is mostly concentrated in the gliding full band sounds of Nashville Moon and the often-breathtaking, stark and solo Shohola. The Sun Sessions EP and Black Ram are also not without their merits. "Shiloh Temple Bell" off of Shohola–a song that has broken me with its beauty more than any other this year–is practically enough to get this box set into this list, but there are many other strong efforts and each disc presents a new and consistently good sound.
Magnolia Electric Co. – Shiloh Temple Bell (mp3)
- the National – Boxer (original post)
This is the first National album I really listened to and after hearing it and becoming obsessed with it, I listened to Alligator and Sad Songs for Dirty Lovers quite a lot. This is their best yet and what sets it apart is the orchestration. "Fake Empire" is a brilliantly arranged song, for instance, with the slow build of layers after the vocals end. It's not just anyone who thing to write brass parts like that. The album works well from front-to-back as well. It has stand-out songs, but they never break the mood and neither do the weaker songs–though, wait, are there any weaker songs? I'm not remembering any…
The National – Fake Empires (mp3)
- Candie Payne – I Wish I Could Have Loved You More (original post)
I'm still surprised when I hear this album. Somehow someone found a brilliant, unreleased gem of a 1966 album (uncommon, as most of the albums in those days were a couple singles and a fair share of filler), added some heavier drums and released it in 2007 (only the U.K. so far). Okay, that's not the real story, but, as a person that loves and grew up on much of the music that's called "oldies", it's nice to hear something that give me that kind of joy in production and pop songwriting. Candie's voice gradually reveals itself to be a strength of the songs as well. I know of no other album this year or ever that when I heard some of it, made me buy the import copy and when I realized that what I'd bought was the import single of the same name, go out and buy another import copy, this time of the full album.
Candie Payne – By Tomorrow (mp3)
- Morning Benders – Boarded Doors (EP)
This band has been showing quite a bit of growth. (Having heard some of their yet-to-be-recorded songs surely is some influence as well.) Their brand of heartfelt-but-not-too-wimpy indie pop is informed by decades of pop–they've covered Phil Spector (the Ronettes) and Roy Orbinson and sound great next to such acts in a mix tape. Frontman Chris Chu's voice in uncommon in it's effortless range and purity. This, their second EP, is a good step up from their previous Loose Change in terms of recording quality and songwriting. I'm really looking forward to their full-length.
Morning Benders – Boarded Doors (mp3s)
- Kanye West – Graduation (original post)
While this isn't my favorite Kanye album so far (that would be Late Registration), this album is a mostly really good combination of good production and sometimes meaningful lyrics, save the annoying two-fer of "Barry Bonds" and "Drunk and Hot Girls". To all the hip hop purists, I'd like to note I'm not saying this is the best hip hop album of the year. It's probably better categorized in my rather-indie-centric world as a good pop record that happens to have rapping and big beats.
Kanye West – Everything I Am (mp3)
- Jens Lekman – Night Falls over Kortedala
I realized I hadn't even posted about this album probably because of course Jens will put together a great album. I'm a Jens fan. I've liked his quirky but thoroughly catchy and over-the-top pop pretty much from the beginning. When I got Night Falls I emailed a friend to say something like "Yup, Jens is still the king of over-the-top Swedish pop." I'd already heard the album's best effort, "Opposite of Hallelujah", so I unfortunately didn't have the surprise of hearing that song for the first time in the album's context.
Jens Lekman – Your Arms Around Me (mp3)
- Kings of Leon – Because of the Times (original post)
I'm not going to be able to issue a big list of why this album is good intellectually or why this is good art (though, that's not to say someone else couldn't), but I just like listening to this album. It spent a huge portion of the year–months–in my car's 6-disc CD changer and despite a rotating cast of other albums to choose from, I kept coming back to this one anyhow.
Kings of Leon – Knocked Up (mp3)
- On No! Oh My! – Between the Devil and the Sea (EP)
With just 5 songs, just over 15 minutes of music, this EP was a dark horse. I was doing my last listens-through of various 2007 releases and I had a "wait, this is really good!" moment. I liked their debut album (buying the pre-order CD-r version, in fact) but it was inconsistent. This is a step up in both consistency of songwriting and loveliness of melodies. The end result is just a really fun EP of quirky pop songs.
Oh No! Oh My! – The Party Punch (mp3)
- Andrew Bird – Armchair Apocrypha (original post)
Andrew Bird is extremely talented but–I've said it once and I'll say it again–talent doesn't necessarily make good music. Talent certainly helps the live show a ton, but in an album it's just one part along with songwriting, production, orchestration and so on. I'm going to state this simply: I don't think this is a complete album. "Plasticities", "Simple X", "Scythian Empires", "Yawny At The Apocalypse" are four great songs that hold this album up among three other good songs ("Fiery Crash", "Heretics", "Dark Matter") and a handful of average-to-boring ones. Still, those four songs are great and make this album well-worth the listen and deserving of its place on this list.
Andrew Bird – Plasticities (mp3)
- Benni Hemm Hemm – Kajak (original post)
Benni Hemm Hemm somehow does the beautiful instrumentation and dynamic builds of post rock while still having concrete, and often soft, songs in there, like a Sigur Ros that has Reindeer Section sharing the stage some of the time. The end result is beautiful songs that pulls on you in many different ways.
Benni Hemm Hemm – Brekkan (mp3)
- John Vanderslice – Emerald City
John Vanderslice is the man. But besides that point, he also writes really good songs and is one of the best working producers today. Recorded with a full band for the first time, this album has the most cohesive feel of any of his. JV has set a really high standard with his last two albums, Pixel Revolt and Cellar Door (both in my best-of lists for their years) and while I feel this isn't quite up to that standard, if I take a wider view, this is still a very solid album.
John Vanderslice – Numbered Lithograph (mp3)
(There are more releases that I wanted to include here. I might need to do an "honorable mentions" post later in the week!)
Four releases that would have made the list but were included in previous lists (in alphabetical order):
- David Bazan Fewer Moving Parts
- Bishop Allen Month EPs/ the Broken String[2]
- Elvis Perkins Ash Wednesday
- Fionn Regan End of History
Voted most likely to have me kicking myself for not putting it on this best list once I have enough time to sit down and really listen to it:
- The Lightning Bug Situation – A Leaf; a Stream (original post)
This is a soft, tender, affecting and gorgeous album, but with all the found-sound and field-recording-type spoken sampled, I don't think it has really had a chance to fully sink in. I'm sure there are a few albums from this year that will grow in my estimation after in the next weeks, months, years, decades, but if I had to pick one that I was most sure would, I'd say it's this one.
the Lightning Bug Situation – Message to Myself After Franny was Born (mp3)
[1] This list isn't the best albums on a global level, just on my personal level. I say "of 2007" but really it's "of 2007 when considered in mid-December" and I'm sure if I'd made the same list a month (or even a week) ago or a month (/week) from now, it'd be different. While I try to consider albums fairly subjectively, "best" is also not really on an absolute scale as my expectations of an album effect how I rank them. If I thought an album would be amazing and it's merely really good it might rank much lower than an album that I thought would be mediocre or bad or didn't have any expectations of at all and is equivalently really good.
[2] Let's be honest with ourselves, two new songs doesn't really make it that much different. And, while we're really being honest with ourselves, the Month recordings are as good or better than the Broken String ones.


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I was very happy to see this review in the New Scientist of Keith Oatley's Such Stuff as Dreams, particularly after reading Rick Gekoski's curmugeonly take on how writing makes us worse, and reading isn't much better.
It seems to me that while the act of reading is immediately isolating–noses in our books, we enter a cozy cocoon in the middle of the hectic world–it can also lead to a far more open and generous view of life. Humans are almost unique among animals for our ability to learn not only from our own experiences, but from the experiences of others; and what better ingress to others' experiences than novels and stories, which let us inhabit minds that would otherwise be alien to us?
I'll give Mr. Gekoski his due: isolating ourselves to read and write can lead to cantankerous and anti-social tendencies, but really no more so than any other intense and private activities. When I think of many of my favorite books and writers–Thomas Williams' Leah, New Hampshire; Andre Dubus' Voices From the Moon; anything by Alice Munro–I'm struck by their generosity and benevolence. And whether or not these writers were always generous in their personal lives–Mr. Dubus, surely, had his flaws–their work can inspire their readers to be a little kinder, a little more understanding, a little more forgiving.


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If you are erecting a new building, a permit application requires several supporting documents to qualify for both a Zoning review and a Building Review.
You will need to bring to Counter 2, 5th Floor Building Division:
Filed application (you may initiate online) with a clear scope of work and the desired use of space or change therof;
proper cost for the Complete Construction/Renovation of space (i.e. labor, materials, equipment, HVAC, plumbing, gas, etc.;)
a complete set of professionally stamped plans/documents;
and the following items for a Zoning Review and for a Building Review.*
Planning and Zoning Requirements
*Having a proper scope, cost, and respective set of supporting documents in the beginning of the process through the initial intake process (Counter 2) should expedite the plans examiner's review of your permit request.


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TC TO JANET CARLYLE HANNING ; 24 November 1841; DOI: 10.1215/lt-18411124-TC-JCHA-01; CL 13: 306-307
Chelsea, 24 Novr 1841 (Wednesday)
Dear Jenny,
Here is the American Letter you spoke of:1 it arrived yesterday; and today, after shewing it to John, I send it to you. I do not exactly know what part of Canada it is dated from; but the place lies some hundreds of miles Northwest of where your Husband is likely to be. Our Brother seems to be going on in a very prosperous way there.
On Sunday last, the Dr shewed me a Letter he had written for you: it appeared to be full of rational advice, in all of which I agree. You must pluck up a spirit, my good little Jenny, and see clearly how many things you yourself, independent of all other persons, can still do. You, there, can either act like a wise courageous person, or like a fool; between which two ways of it there lies still all the difference in the world for you! As Jack says, you have done nothing to degrade yourself; it was another than you. I assert and believe always that no person whatever can be ruined except by his own consent, by his own act, in this world.— Your little bairn2 will get to walk; then you will have more time to set to some kind of employment; this will be your first consolation.
I know not whether our Mother is still with you, but suppose Yes. I wrote to her, a very hurried scrawl, last week. Pray take good care of her from the damp and cold. I will write to her again before long. By Alick's letter of yesterday I learn that the Dr's Book3 for her is safely come to Ecclefechan. You can tell her farther that I have now settled finally about her Luther, and it is hers. The cost was only some 26/ instead of 28.— Jane has again overhauled the drawers which you had such work with: the best plan was found to be, to clip the leg off altogether, and put in four new inches above the knee!——— Good be with you dear Jenny, with you and them all


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The deadly Ebola virus outbreak spreads in the West Africa nation of Guinea, and as of Saturday, March 29, 2014, the death toll has risen to 70. According to Reuters, the epidemic has prompted neighboring Senegal to close its land border with Guinea.
The Senegal press agency, Agence de Presse Sénégalaise (APS), has released a statement about closing their borders, stating:
Due to the Ebola fever raging in the Republic of Guinea and in the context of prevention, the boundaries... with the neighboring country (of Guinea) are closed until further notice."
The APS has learned that the Ebola virus is mostly in the southern region of Guinea, with the largest number of cases in the cities of Guékédou (70 cases and 51 deaths) and Macenta (22 cases and 12 deaths).
The World Health Organization (WHO) is reporting that the reach of the Ebola virus is not limited to Guinea:
Both Sierra Leone and Liberia have reported suspected (Ebola virus) cases and deaths...among people who had travelled to Guinea before symptom onset.'
The WHO is reporting 111 Ebola virus cases in all, with eight suspected cases (five deaths) in Liberia, as well as six suspected cases (with also five dead) in Sierra Leone, as of Thursday, March 27.
A fact sheet for the Ebola virus has been written by the WHO, stating that 'outbreaks occur primarily in remote villages in Central and West Africa, near tropical rainforests,' with a mortality rate as high as 90 percent and no treatment or vaccine is available for humans or animals.


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On this day
Phillips double sends Black Cats to highest ever Premiership position.
1999 – Sunderland went to second place in the Premiership, their highest ever position, after a 4-0 away win against Bradford City. Kevin Phillips' two strikes took him to ten goals in ten games.
1982 – Sunderland beat Norwich City 4-1 at Roker Park with all of the goals coming in the second-half.
1926 – Goals from Marshall (2), Coglin and Ellis sealed a 4-1 home victory over Sheffield Wednesday to take Sunderland to the top of Division One.
1922 – Diminutive post WW2 outside left Tommy Reynolds was born in Felling.


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Blue-White Roundtable: Shaking Off The Rust Edition
The Blue-White Roundtable makes its triumphant return this week, which can only mean one thing. At long last, college football is upon us.
Also back is our main man, Adam from Black Shoe Diaries with a 4-banger of doozies. Be sure to head on over to BSD later this week for a "greatest hits" of sorts. In the meantime, check out what these pigskin-starved football junkies are saying:
Penn State Nittany Lions Football Examiner
Nittany Whiteout
Nittany Lions Den
The 50-Yard Lion
Follow the jump to read us doggs' thoughts…
Question #1 We've been waiting for years to find out what the first season would be like without Joe Paterno roaming the sidelines. Now that the day is finally here, what are your thoughts? Have the last nine months caused your enthusiasm to change?
The Underdogs: To be perfectly honest, the last nine months have both rebooted my enthusiasm and recalibrated my expectatations. I wanted an 'out with the old in with the new' regime change as much as anybody, but certainly not the heart-ripping, mind melting, soul crushing way that it went down. /Fires blame in all directions like Tony Montana. A loss won't hurt now as long as we field a team that plays hard, but I'll support them more than ever because of what happened, not in spite of it.
Rowlff Dogg: I have been anxiously awaiting the post-Paterno era ever since the clock struck 00:00 in Ann Arbor on September 22, 2007. As I walked through the golf course back to our tailgate, my mind had changed on JoePa forever. From that moment forward, I have been salivating over the thought of a new coach. One that would bring intensity and effort to a position that lacked such attributes for so long. Obviously, things did not go down as I had envisioned they would, but my excitement for new blood has never wavered.
J Schnauzer: No, it's just like I imagined it--only with free transfers gutting key components of this team, scholarship reductions, no bowl games and one official win since the Clinton administration. Honestly, I've felt like this team has been playing with one arm tied behind its back since 2006--the last nine months have only extended the feeling that we are watching a team that can't meet its potential due to self-imposed roadblocks.
Question #2 Ohio head coach Frank Solich has visited Beaver Stadium once before and came away with a lopsided loss. What are your memories of the 2002 game versus Nebraska?
The Underdogs: A bottle of whiskey. Tailgating under the shadow of the Beav. Talking with lots of Nebraska fans and arguing over 1994, amicably of course. The only point they seemed to buy (which played right into their confidence? arrogance? going into a game between national title runner-up and a 3-8 PSU team) was that in 1994 our team had peaked and that Nebraska didn't peak until a year later in 1995. Then I remember falling down whilst walking twice through the tailgates and waking up the next day with bloody knees, torn jeans, and some vague recollection of a Richie Gardner Pick 6 and that we just might've possibly, just maybe might've won. Roll Tide.
Rowlff Dogg: What stands out most is Rich Gardner's pick-6. In all my years sitting in the student section, I had never heard a bigger roar than that explosion. It was also one of only 3 times since the turn of the century that I thought to myself, "Wow, these guys could win a national title." Going forward, I expect to think that with more regularity.
J Schnauzer: I was struck by the offensive firepower on this team and thinking it could give the 1994 side a run for its money. I remember thinking Zack Mills was a legitimate Heisman Trophy contender. I thought that if one of the running backs could step up Penn State could contend for a national title. None of it came to materialize, aside from Larry Johnson, Jr. running like a man possessed at the end of the season.
Question #3 This Ohio University team is favored to win the Mid-American Conference. How big of an upset threat is this team? How concerned should Penn Staters be?
The Underdogs: We can't possibly go into any game with expectations of a certain victory. Not when one injury here or there can drive a chasm through the depth chart. I still think there is a lot of talent on this team and they can do some damage in this schedule. Much moreso than anybody gives them credit.
Rowlff Dogg: From a national perspective, the most overlooked aspect of Penn State's coaching turnover is the automatic upgrades to many on-field components. There will be schematic implementations/updates/modernizations, and a general sense of "not-being-as-dumb-as-the-previous-staff-was" with so many personnel and strategic decisions. Combine these instant improvements with a ferociously hungry us-against-the-world roster and the Bobcats are walking into a buzzsaw.
J Schnauzer: I'm optimistic and I think PSU will win big. This is an ideal game for Penn State--there is no downside for Penn State provided the Nittany Lions play hard. For the first time in decades a coaching staff has no idea how to gameplan against Penn State. There's no viable film for Frank Solich to review. Ohio has to deal with so many more unknowns than Penn State AND Solich has to contend with the outsized expectations of his MAC team. I think Nittany Lions fans shouldn't be concerned if they keep things in perspective. It's only a football game. For once, let's just have fun.
Question #4 Prediction?
The Underdogs: 27-13 good guys. Or are we the bad guys now?
Rowlff Dogg: It will be a 33-13 victory for the guys with the blue ribbons on their helmets. Pellagate will pledge the consumption of 1 Pabst Blue Ribbon for every point scored by the Nittany Lions.
J Schnauzer: Penn State 45, Ohio 17. Bobcats will keep it close in the first half, but Bob's Cats will roll in the third.
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Jordan's energy sector about to attract phenomenal investments
Investment inflows to Jordan are expected to reach JD2 billion ($2.8 billion) in 2013, up from JD1.6 billion ($2.2 billion) registered in last year, Jordan Investment Board (JIB) acting Chief Executive Officer Awni Rushoud said Sunday.
Noting that the volume of investments, both foreign and domestic, reached JD744.4 million during the first half of 2013. Rushoud told The Jordan Times over the phone that with a number of investment projects in the pipeline, and several foreign investors JIB is negotiating with, the overall capital inflows can go up to JD2 billion by the end of this year.
He mentioned that a Venezuelan-based company, Pacific Rim Energy, is interested in investing $250 million to build a solar energy project with a production capacity of 100 megawatts, and that some Chinese firms have also expressed interest in the Kingdom's renewable energy sector.
The JIB head said he would go to China next week to attend the Arab-Chinese trade summit and that he would hold talks there with executives of several Chinese companies.
"Our top priority at JIB is to attract investments in the renewable energy sector due to the dire need of the Kingdom to diversify energy resources," he said, adding that establishing solar and wind power schemes also aim at meeting Jordan's industrial sector needs for cleaner and cheaper energy.
Jordan is an attractive country for foreign investors as it offers opportunities and incentives in addition to security and stability in a volatile region.
By: Omar Obeidat
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- Oman's Duqm tourist complex moves forward with government approval
- Kuwait fights budget deficit: Reexamining government salaries, expatriate labor
- Tunisian Confederation of Industry, Trade, and Handicrafts fights nationwide unemployment levels
- Construction costs fall in Dubai
- Western tourists flock to Iran, could generate $30B in new revenue
- GCC Investment Strategy and Sectors Outlook for 2006
- Kabariti, Rushoud hold talks with senior executives from Pacific Rim Energy
- Jordan's Investment Promotion Law attracted JD800 million worth of investments in 1999
- Global Investment House: GCC aluminum sector – Attracting strong investments
- US-Jordan Free Trade Agreement will Help Jordan Attract Foreign Investment


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Brewer and Shipley, best known for its 1971 hit "One Toke Over the Line," said the song
was written as a joke.
The two wrote the song, which landed at the No. 10 spot on Billboard's Hot 100, to make themselves and friends laugh.
"Tom and I were writing for A&M Records and we didn't have a thought of recording it," Brewer said during a phone interview with The Park Record from his home in the Ozark Mountains in Southern Missouri. "Sure enough, the record company wanted us to record it and we did."
The tune got the duo in hot water with the Nixon administration. Spiro Agnew, who was vice president at the time, named Brewer and Shipley as subversive to American youth.
On the other hand, the song was embraced by champagne-music bandleader Lawrence Welk, who called the songs "Pure American gospel" when the two performed the song on his self-named show.
"Isn't that bizarre?" Brewer said. "It just goes to show you how you go about looking at things."
Park City will get a chance to hear that subversive gospel hit when Brewer and Shipley perform at the Egyptian Theatre on Saturday, April 26.
"We're looking forward to coming you way," Brewer said. "We may have performed there a long time ago, but since it was so long ago, I don't remember if we did."
Saturday's concert will bring the past to the present, Brewer promised.
"We have been getting together to practice a bunch of the old chestnuts that we would write and others would record," he said.
Brewer said he remembers why and when they wrote the songs, but did confess that the two have a hard time hitting the high notes these days.
"A lot of songs came about because of what we were playing because we would jam and come up with a lick and pull in a melody," he said. "We've had to transpose some of them. We joke that the songs were too high when we wrote them, but then again, so were we."
Joking aside, Brewer said all the songs they wrote while at A&M Records were more than just love and novelty songs.
"Even though we cared about every song we write, we weren't writing for ourselves," he said. "We would write songs and demo them for the record company to pitch to the other artists. And since it was the folk movement, we would write songs as social commentary because of the times."
Common themes that popped up in the lyrics were about Civil Rights and the Vietnam War.
"I was at the right place at the right time — as was Tom — in the 1960s," Brewer explained. "Everyone was writing their own songs and everything was changing.
"It all went from Perry Como, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin and Patty Paige to rock 'n' roll, folk music and folk rock," he said. "Tom and I were involved in creating the folk-rock thing."
Although the duo was in the midst of social change, they hadn't an inkling of just how big the change would be.
"Nobody had any ideas or goals at that time," Brewer said. "To quote Bob Dylan, 'You know there's something happening here, but you don't know what it is.'
"The Buffalo Springfield formed in the house next door to me," he said. "We were all just a bunch of young musicians trying to get a record deal and something going and loving music."
Still, the record label felt Brewer and Shipley were on the verge of something.
"That's how we were able to release our first record 'Down in L.A.,' which, by the way, was finally released on CD after all these years," Brewer said. "It holds up, I must say."
In 1977, Brewer and Shipley took a break to focus on solo projects, but regrouped in 1989 and have been playing together since.
"The passion for making the music combined with the fans who want to hear us play was what keeps us going," Brewer said. "If it wasn't for the fans, we would continue doing this.
"It's making us happy, too," he said. "We've also been doing some writing, because we want to do a new album after all these years. I also have a sneaking suspicion that the fans are happy that we're just still alive."
Folk-rock duo Brewer & Shipley will perform at the Egyptian Theatre, 328 Main St., on Saturday, April 26, at 8 p.m. Tickets range from $23 to $32 and can be purchased at www.parkcityshows.com .


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|David Plati
Welcome to a notes and comment column in its 14th year, penned by CU Associate Athletic Director David Plati, who is in his 30th year as the Buffaloes' director of sports information.
Plati-'Tudes No. 98 ... this is one of very few numbers that hasn't had a player earn All-America or All-Conference honors, so we'll recognize it as the number of wins (93) plus ties (5) that Bill McCartney had in his 153-game career as CU head football coach from 1982-94. This is a special edition of P-'Tudes, as I sat down with Coach Mac this week, just ahead of his on-campus salute ahead of his induction this December 10 into the College Football Hall of Fame. He will become the seventh Buffalo to be inducted into the prestigious Hall.
There are three events this week celebrating McCartney's impending induction into the College Football Hall of Fame. On Thursday, there is the Buffalo Belles Luncheon at the UMC (11:30 a.m.); on Friday, Mac will be a part of the Pearl Street Stampede on the Pearl Street Mall in downtown Boulder, and then on Saturday will be honored at halftime.
|Trivia Question
Who are the six Colorado players who are in the College Football Hall of Fame and in what order were they inducted?
|Mac's Memorable Games
I asked Coach if he had a list of his top five favorite games. He said he didn't know if he had five as he never wanted to limit or really rank them, so he threw a few at me. It wound up being ... five. His selections, but I wasn't sure if they were really in any kind of specific order:
Colorado 16, Oklahoma State 12 (November 9, 1991). In fierce November winds in Stillwater, CU is down 12-10 in the final minute but had driven inside the Cowboy 20. "It's third down and we have this strong wind in our face, so we decide to try the field goal at that time in case something went wrong with the snap, we could try it again on fourth down. So (OSU coach) Pat Jones called a time out to ice our kicker. Mark Chlebek (graduate assistant coach) comes up to me and says, 'Great time for a fake!' So we score on the fake, something like a 20-yard pass, and Jones said it was the greatest call he's ever seen. I'm getting all these compliments and platitudes (no pun intended), and it was Chlebek's idea. That's a perfect example of the success that I had was because of all the people around me."
(And the irony there was that CU took a 16-12 lead, but Jim Harper missed the much shorter extra point try, as the wind took it well outside the uprights.)
Colorado 27, Nebraska 12 (November 3, 1990). "This game was going to decide the Big Eight title for the second straight year. We had worn T-shirts that said, 'The Real Blackshirts.' We were ready to play, it was a cold, rainy day in Lincoln and we thought that'd be to our advantage, but whatever could go wrong, did go wrong and we were down 12-0 at halftime. In the locker room during the half, it starts out quiet, then Alfred Williams broke the silence and shouted at the top of his lungs, which you know was loud, 'We got 'em where we want 'em!' I realized at that moment that we were still in this game, that the kids had not given up. We rally with four touchdowns in the fourth quarter, and that was the greatest single quarter of football I've ever been a part of." (Pictured at left: Kanavis McGhee in Lincoln)
Colorado 27, Michigan 26 (September 24, 1994). "Don't think I really need to say much here. Growing up in Michigan, coaching at Michigan, and coming back and winning like that was such a great reward as a coach."
Colorado 10, Notre Dame 9 (Orange Bowl, January 1, 1991). "Winning the Orange Bowl and the national championship against a very good Notre Dame team, that will always be emotional for me. Coming from Michigan where we played Notre Dame every year, I understood them, knew what they stood for and what they were about; for us to beat them in that game was the highlight of highlights. We had played the nation's toughest schedule, fought all the way, overcame a lot of adversity and then we get to the Orange Bowl and lose two of our key players to injury (quarterback Darian Hagan and outside linebacker Kanavis McGhee). We had two guys who were ready when they were called upon. CJ (Charles Johnson) comes into the game at quarterback and handled things with such poise and leadership. Paul Rose replaced Kanavis and had the game of his life.
"Both those guys can take that to their graves, knowing they answered the phone when they didn't know it was going to ring. For us to win that way was really climatic for me."
Colorado 20, Nebraska 10 (October 25, 1986). "We hadn't beaten them in 19 years, the young guys on the team weren't even born yet. We lost our first four games, but had started to show signs of life by winning a tough one at Missouri and then defeating Iowa State handily. Nebraska was ranked third in the nation, but we took it to them. We left the scoreboard on clear into Monday."
|The Not-So-Good
"The single worst moment was when we lost to CSU in 1986," he said. "Not because they were CSU. We were coming off a season where we were the NCAA's most improved team, and we had high expectations. But the reason that still bothers me to this day is that we had better players, more support, were in a stronger conference. And they came into Boulder and flat out beat us, out-fought us. It wasn't because of bad breaks, bad calls, bad weather. They came in and took it to us. That's not to say that they didn't have some good players, they did; but when you have the better team overall and you don't win, that's a reflection of coaching. When you have the advantage in talent and you don't win, those are the hardest defeats to digest."
CSU won that game, 23-7; it led to an 0-4 start for the Buffaloes before they rebounded to finish the regular season with a 6-5 record, going 6-1 in Big Eight Conference play and earning an invitation to the Bluebonnet Bowl. CSU also was 6-5 that year but did not go bowling.
Ed Reinhardt. In the 1984 season opener against Michigan State, the sophomore tight end caught 10 passes for 142 yards and was the nation's leading receiver. But the following week, in the waning moments against Oregon in Eugene, he was tackled after making a catch, with nothing extraordinary about the hit. He wobbled over to the sideline and CU's quick-thinking trainer Andy Pruitt realized something was terribly wrong. Reinhardt suffered a subdural hematoma which developed a blood clot on the brain.
"The memory that I have is being in the hospital in Eugene and wondering if he was going to live. There were so many factors at play. His older brother (John) played at Nebraska, and Ed was an outstanding national recruit who chose CU over NU. He was like fresh driven snow, the ideal student-athlete, he did everything you asked him to do and he did it well. Nebraska arranged for a plane to fly his family to Eugene as they were there watching the older son play the same day. His parents are great people, and to watch them suffer and struggle through that was heart-breaking.
"The next week, we were scheduled to play at Notre Dame. Everyone wants to go to South Bend and play, but not us. What had happened to Ed took the life right out of us, stole our breath, and we couldn't regroup for what turned out to be weeks. No one's minds were on that game (ND won, 55-14), we were all praying that Ed would recover."
|The Not So Obvious
Mac shared some stories I had never heard. One was that as an assistant at Michigan, in the spring of 1981 the staff visited Nebraska as coaches at schools often do during spring practice to share ideas. While there, Mac queried the Husker coaches on the Big 8, including on what they thought about the Colorado job. "They responded that it was not competitive, not a good place to be, in general sort of running the place down," he said. "A year later, I'm CU's head coach, and what they said was one of the reasons I put Nebraska in red letters on our schedule when I got here."
Colorado and Colorado State had last played in 1958, but the series went dormant for a quarter century. CU's late athletic director, Eddie Crowder, was not in favor of resuming the rivalry, but if the schools didn't do it on their own, it appeared politicians would get involved and force the two to play. The Buffaloes and Rams had resumed their basketball series in 1979 after not playing for 20 years, sans when the two were matched in an NCAA game in '69.
"The night before the CSU game, Eddie stopped by the Holiday Inn (on 28th Street, where the team stayed in those days) and gave me a CU watch. He said, 'I want you to have this as a personal gift from me, that I hold you in the highest regard and really respect you.' I was appreciative for sure, but as he left, he gave me a clear signal when he said, 'Whatever it takes...win this game.'
"Now understand that athletic directors never do that to coaches. There's enough pressure as there is without a direct mandate so-to-speak. The assistant coaches were out watching high school games, and the team was watching a movie. So I thought about what to do; I got up after the movie ended and told them that no one was to leave the room until everybody stood up and said to everyone else in the room what to expect from them in this game tomorrow.
"The first to speak was Vince Rafferty (senior defensive tackle) who was from Longmont. A very good player, but he was kind of quiet. Well, he gets up and gets into a three-point stance...then he just growls and shouts, 'I'm going to hit everything that moves!" And it ignited the room. One at a time, everyone got up, eyes glassed as the room was full of emotion, and said what they were going to do. Kent Davis (junior free safety) gets up and shouts, 'You can count on me to bring it!' (He would go on to deliver the hit of the game). Guys who weren't sure if they would get into the game, or knew they probably wouldn't, would say, 'If I get in, I will play better than I've ever played before.'
"I've always believed and you've heard me say it many times, but the morale is to the physical as four is to one. The end result was that we knocked them into tomorrow, and Eddie didn't ask for his watch back." The Buffs won, 31-3, rushing for 233 yards, one yard less than what the Rams managed on total offense.
One of his favorite recruiting stories involves Michael Westbrook. Mac is in Detroit at Chadsey High School, but he's there recruiting someone else. "I'm talking with his high school coach in his office, a guy I've known well for years, and we're talking about who we were interested in. But he tells me that I really should be interested in Westbrook. I was being nice and listened but really wasn't all that interested. So then he gets up, leaves the room and went to go get him. The second I saw him, I knew I was going to recruit him. And it turned out pretty darn good for all involved."
|A Handful Of My Mac Stories
You don't work with a coach for 11 seasons and not come away with a truckload of memories, stories and special moments. There are the obvious special games we all remember, but the side stories are often funny. Or at least they are now. Here are three personal Mac moments I'll never forget:
CBS & "Mac Time." It was 1989, and Illinois is visiting Boulder for our first national game on CBS, Jim Nantz and Pat Haden to call the game. CBS would come on the air at 12:30; kickoff was set for 12:43. Back then, we took the field after the opponent (eventually we had to go first because we run Ralphie and a couple of opponents complained about her); that was with 3:30 on the countdown clock, meaning the team would appear and gather at the northeast corner at about the five minute mark. Well, I look down and see the team already gathered to run on the field with just over 11 minutes on the clock, and we're wondering why they came out so early. The reason? What we all called "Mac Time"... you see, all the clocks in the old team house were set anywhere from five to 10 minutes fast so the players would be early for everything. But that day, everyone forgot about that; so Mac had equipment manager Bill Crowder call me in the press box, at which time he told me, "Mac wants you to tell CBS we're starting this game right now!" Well, that didn't happen. And to compound it, a couple of minutes later, we learned kick would be delayed until 12:48 for some technical reason. So back in the locker room they went.
The Fifth Down. The Sunday following the game, it was apparent this was exploding into a big deal, and rather quickly (and this was pre-Internet age). I'm in the copy room over next to the football meeting room at Gate 1 of Folsom Field, and Mac walks in to talk; he challenged me to get Chris Fowler to have ESPN show some of the slips our players suffered on Missouri's crummy Omni-Turf field (we sent him a tape of 16 of them, and they ran all on Game Day the next Saturday). But I'm trying to convince Mac that we need to address the fifth down and not so much the field, but after he told me three times, his voice rising each time, "You're not listening to what I'm saying!," I backed off. Three days and some hundreds of letters postmarked from Columbia, Mo., later, he quipped to me, "I should have listened to what you were saying."
"Coach, We're No. 2." So we defeat Notre Dame in the Orange Bowl, and know we won the Associated Press poll and a most of the recognized others (at the time, USA Today, the MacArthur Foundation, etc.), so we knew were consensus national champions. But everybody knows you're really the sole recognized national champion if you win the two major polls, the AP and the UPI-Coaches. We left Miami the next afternoon, but the UPI was still collecting ballots from the coaches, and they were missing a handful when I spoke with them just prior to boarding the plane. No chance for any kind of update for four hours, we're in the air, no cell phones, no TVs on planes back then. In Denver, at Stapleton Airport, our baggage was unloaded into a carousel so I had a chance to get to a pay phone and call UPI. You all know the news I received. So I had to slink over to Coach Mac and tell him the news, UPI had us second in the final poll, one point behind Georgia Tech. Mac gave me his classic stare and told me, "You get UPI on the phone, tell them they're wrong and demand a recount!" The polls was obviously released by then so that wasn't about to happen.
Mac's been humble in his acceptance of college football's greatest honor.
"This is a great honor, but honestly, I was a very small part of it," Mac said. "This is the result of many coaches and players coming together to achieve one goal. At the beginning, no one knew where we would end up, remember, we won only seven games my first three years at Colorado. I will always be grateful and indebted to Colorado and (athletic director) Bill Marolt for sticking with me after we didn't get off to such a great start."
|Trivia Answer
Colorado's six Hall of Famers and the year they were inducted: Byron White (1952), Joe Romig (1984), Dick Anderson (1993), Bobby Anderson (2006), Alfred Williams (2010) and John Wooten (2012).
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Santorelli finds niche as team's most pleasant surprise of first half
Mike Santorelli was such an afterthought that when newly hired assistant General Manager Mike Santos brought him along from the Nashville organization last summer the speedy center didn't even make the main section of the Panthers media guide.
He's tucked away in the back where untested prospects reside and usually play for Rochester or Cincinnatti, two of Florida's minor-league affiliates.
However, Santorelli made the most out of an opportunity that arose when offseason acquisition Michael Grabner was virtually invisible during the preseason and eventually waived.
Santorelli hasn't looked back, and no one has regretted either decision, despite Grabner's 21 points for the Islanders.
Santorelli, 25, who missed out being eligible for the Calder Trophy (rookie) award by one game, has 27 points, including 13 goals, both second highest on the team. Although he was benched recently for a few defensive lapses, Santorelli's quickness at the blue line has prevented several breakaways, and he is a decent minus-3.
"I don't think he's exceeded expectation. I think he's living up to expectations,'' said Santos, the Predators director of hockey operations while Santorelli played for their AHL affiliate in Milwaukee and for parts of two seasons with Nashville.
"Of course, I had knowledge of him, seeing him play since he was 19 years old. I think he's everything I thought he could be. Now, it's taking it to the next level and not just about playing in the NHL, but becoming a good player in the NHL, realizing that he belongs.''
Santorelli, who has 13 points in his last 16 games, has been paired with David Booth for much of the season, giving the Panthers a much-needed injection of speed, stickhandling and offensive punch.
"Yeah, [I feel I belong], but I want to keep getting better,'' said Santorelli, who ranks fourth on the team in shots, second in shot percentage, while winning a respectable 48.4 percent of his faceoffs.
"I'm not satisifed. I want to keep learning from the coaches and be more consistent and bring it every night.''
After making all seven of his attempts on shootout goals last season for Nashville and Milwaukee, Santorelli has been Panthers coach Pete DeBoer's leadoff shooter. He has made 2-of-5. Last season, Santorelli had just three points in 25 games for the Predators, before being sent back down.
"Obviously, Santorelli comes to mind,'' DeBoer said when asked about the team's most pleasant surprise in the first half. "We needed a centerman to come in. We needed some scoring and he's done a real good job.''
Santos has noticed Santorelli getting to the, "dirty areas,'' where loose pucks sometimes finds players' sticks for cheapie goals.
"A lot of scoring is being in the right place like he was on his goal in New York,'' said Santos, who gave up a future conditional fifth-round pick for Santorelli. "I tell him you have go into the hard areas to score easy goals. It's not hard to put the puck in from three feet, but you got to go in there and take a beating.
"I don't want to put a ceiling on him. I want him to find his niche.I think we're a good fit for him. We're building an organization, asking him and everybody else to do one thing, work hard every night. … and that's when he'll establish himself as a fulltime NHL player.''


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Senior Meghan Chapman returns to the Green Wave line-up after sitting out last season with an injury.
NEW ORLEANS - The Tulane women's golf team will hit the links for the first time this season when they open the 2012 fall campaign at the Old Waverly Bulldog Invitational, Monday-Wednesday, Sept. 10- 12, at Old Waverly Golf Club in West Point, Miss.
The Old Waverly Golf Club is a par-72, 6,204-yard course and features an 11-team tournament field comprised of Arkansas, Cincinnati, Kentucky, Memphis, host Mississippi State, Murray State, Southern Miss, Tulane, South Florida, South Alabama, and Kennesaw State.
The first round will begin at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, Sept. 10, with split tee times. Tulane golfers will join players from Kennesaw State and South Florida and the groups will begin teeing off from the first hole at 10:20 a.m. The Green Wave's line-up for this week includes seniors Meghan Chapman and Maribel Lopez Porras, sophomore Gemma Dryburgh and the freshmen duo of Silvia Garces and Madison Opfer.
Tuesday's round will begin with a 9/11 Tribute at 8 a.m. followed by split tee times at 8:30 a.m. and the event will conclude with final-round action beginning with an 8:30 a.m. shotgun on Wednesday.
"We're extremely excited about competing in our first tournament this fall," Tulane head coach Andrew Pratt said. "This is a new tournament on our schedule with a solid field to kick off our 2012-13 season. Everyone on the team has put in a lot of quality practice the last eight days or so after Hurricane Isaac and it's now starting to show. This team is fairly young with three freshmen, a sophomore and two seniors but they have a ton of talent.
"We will be working extremely hard each and every week so that we can perform our best when it matters the most. I have lofty goals for this team and they know exactly what is expected. Our goal is to win a conference title and return to the NCAA Championship and that journey begins on Monday."
Porras, a three-time All-Conference USA selection and 2011 honorable mention All-America performer, returns to lead the Green Wave. During her junior campaign, she led the team with a 75.36 average and captured individual medalist honors at the 2012 Conference USA Championships.
Dryburgh is coming off a very production freshman campaign, finishing second on the team with a 75.48 average, while Chapman returns to the line-up after sitting out the majority of the season with an injury.


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July 16, 2013
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The Alabama gymnastics team placed both of its 2013 freshmen - All-American Lauren Beersand Carly Sims - on the First-Year Southeastern Conference Academic Honor Roll commissioner Mike Slive announced this week.
"I'm very proud of Lauren and Carly and what they accomplished in the classroom during their freshman year," UA head coach Sarah Patterson said. "One of the pillars of our program is that year-in and year-out, our ladies are going to strive for excellence at the highest level in all that they do and this year was certainly no exception."
To earn a place on the honor roll, a student-athlete must have completed at least two semesters of study and carry 3.0 or better grade point average.
The Tide's gymnastics rookies were joined on the 2013 SEC Academic Honor Roll by 14 upperclassmen, who earned the honor in April, including Becca Alexin, All-American Kaitlyn Clark, All-American Sarah DeMeo, Hunter Dennis, Ria Domier, Lindsey Fowler, Lora Leigh Frost, All-American Marissa Gutierrez, All-American Kim Jacob, NCAA Champion and All-American Diandra Milliner, Brooke Parker, All-American Ashley Priess, All-American Ashley Sledge and All-American Kayla Williams.
The Alabama gymnastics team's overall 2013 total of 16 led the conference and boosts the Tide's all-time total to 262, which is more than two dozen better than the next highest total among the SEC gymnastics squads.


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SQL Server 2008 R2: Reporting Services – Look Up, Look Down, Look All Around (Part I)
SQL Server 2008 R2 Reporting Services is loaded with features for the report author. In today's post and two posts that will appear next week, I'll explore the lookup functions which enable you to combine data from two datasets in a single data region which not possible in earlier versions of Reporting Services. If all of the data in a report comes from a single data source, then it's probably easier to create a single dataset by using a SQL query that joins the data from multiple tables. However, there might be situations when you can't write the query to join the data in advance. For example, you might have some data coming from a relational source and other data in a CSV file. Or perhaps you're taking advantage of shared datasets in Reporting Services 2008 R2 and need a way to link together data from two shared datasets in one data region. That's where the new Reporting Services lookup functions come in handy.
There are three lookup functions available:
My focus today is on the Lookup function. This function is in effect a join between two datasets where there is a one-to-one relationship between the source and destination. Let's say that I want to produce a report of sales by state, but the dataset that I have for sales provides the two-letter code for state. Let's say also that I find another dataset that provides a list of states and the two-letter code for each state. Now I have two datasets available, shown below in Figure 1, for my report.
Next, I create a simple table, add the SalesAmount field from Dataset1 to the table, and add an expression in the first column. The layout and a portion of the report are shown in Figure 2.
The expression uses the Lookup function and looks like this:
The Lookup function takes four arguments:
- The first argument, Fields!StateProvinceCode, is a field (or expression based on a field) from the dataset that is bound to the data region, which is Dataset1 in this example.
- The second argument is a field (or expression) from the dataset that you want to use for the lookup. In this example, the second dataset also contains a field called StateProvinceCode, but it's okay if the field names are different in each dataset. They should, of course, contain data that matches up and they must have the same data type. You can think of the first and second arguments as analogous to two columns that you want to use to define a join between two tables.
- The third argument, which is Fields!Name.Value in this example, is the field (or expression) in the second dataset that you want to return as the function result.
- The fourth and final argument is the name of the second dataset which must be enclosed in quotes and is case-sensitive.
If you need to match two fields in the first dataset to two fields in the second dataset, that's okay. You simply create an expression to concatenate the pair of fields and use that expression in the argument in the Lookup function. Your expression cannot include report or group variables, however, nor can it include another lookup function.
Figure 3 shows another way to visualize what the Lookup function does.
Note that Reporting Services processes the Lookup function on the scope of the expression, which is in this case is the detail rows of the table which correspond to the rows of Dataset1. Using the Lookup function, Reporting Services uses a single value for the current row in the first dataset to find the first match in the second dataset and returns a single value. By contrast, the other two lookup functions, MultiLookup and LookupSet work with arrays. Next week, I'll continue with Part II and Part III to explain how to use these functions.
43 Responses to "SQL Server 2008 R2: Reporting Services – Look Up, Look Down, Look All Around (Part I)"
Very well written! This is quite helpful, thank you for taking the time to make this available.
Thank you for the information. I tried it and it worked great. This is something that we had to do in SSRS 2005 with custom code and timing the dataset that loaded a custom code variable in memory just to use custom code to retrieve the info from that same cache in the report.
I think one thing that is lacking is that one can not add a calculated field to a dataset and call the same lookup function. When one does that then an error occurs stating that it can't be done for scope purposes.
Do you know of a way to lookup information from another database and include it in a calculate field on a source dataset by a key code? If it is done at the data set level and not the table executing then one could do cool things like group/filter/sort by the new field.
Hi Marc,
I don't have an idea immediately. I'm in travel mode before the long weekend, but I'll give it some thought next week. If I come up with a solution, I'll let you know.
Hi Stacia,
I tried to use the Lookup-Function in exactly this way.
I my case the Expression-Builder stops me from editing.
The table you use in Figure 2 to insert the expression, is connected to only one dataset (in your case Dataset1) as you can see in the Table/Tablix properties.
Fields used in the expression Builder can only be selected from this dataset (Dataset1). All other Fields (e.g. from the Dataset2) are not available and produce runtime errors( e.g. in the Preview). Is this because of the situation: the datasets are build on different Sources ?
There is something wrong in my scenario, because otherwise the Lookup-Function ( only for one Dataset ) makes no sense.
Any idea ?
Hi Stefan,
You are correct that the expression builder will let you select fields only from the dataset that is connected to the data region. You have to know the name of the field from the other dataset in order to use it in the Lookup function. I have successfully used this function with datasets that use different sources – which is the only time this technique makes sense to me because if they used the same source, I could use a join operation in the dataset query which would be preferable for better performance when working with large data volumes.
If you're running into an error in Preview mode, then you might not have the right data type or something doesn't match exactly between the fields that you are using to compare with one another in the first and second arguments of the Lookup function.
very well, wait for part 2, 3 …
Hi Annie – Part 2 and 3 are already posted. You can find them here:
Awesome…it rocks!!!
Hi Stacia, I was checking the solution and I have a very strange problem, I'm not able to preview the report, it keeps telling me that the scope parameter is wrong (And it is correct). I have two identical datasets (1 & 2) and I just changed a value column in the second one, I want to bring this additional column from the second data set in the tablix linked to the dataset1. It is a really simple test but looks like only if I change the fourth parameter to the dataset1 the preview works, and obviously that is not what I want to accomplish.
Any Idea?
It certainly sounds like you're doing a simple test. I have been able to make this work several times myself. The only think I can think of is that your scope argument is not matching the name of the second dataset exactly – it's case-sensitive. Is it possible you're not matching case? Another thing to try would be to make some change to the second dataset – maybe add another field so that it's not identical to the first dataset.
Hi Stacia, I added another field in the second dataset and worked fine, the strange thing is that I created a new project and also worked (with two identical datasets).
The thing that I wanted to test basically was the possibility to have a dataset with the actuals and another from a second data source with the budget information and be able to show on the same chart a line for the budget and another for the actuals matching the same registers. This for many applications has a lot of potencial.
Hi Stacia,
I have created a lookup as you explained, and it works perfect when I test it. It builds successfully. However, when I try to publish my report to our webserver, it fails because it does not recognise the field from the second dataset?
Thank You
This is my statement
I have a hyperlink on my report. The user clicks on the SectionName that he wants to view, and the Lookup must return the guid for the section so that it can be passed to a drill-down report.
I am trying to retrive the Guid where the 2 sections match. The Guid comes from the second dataset – dsMinHalfLevelMng
This works when you test it, but when you try to publish to the webserver, this is the error that pops up:
"The Value expression for the text box 'SectionName' refers to the field 'MineOverseerGuid'. Report item expressions can only refer to fields within the current dataset scope or, if inside an aggregate, the specified dataset scope."
Please see if you can help, I am out of options.
Hi Stacia,
I tried to use the Lookup-Function in the same way.
My requirement is, I have to show the fields on the report from different databases (Oracle,SQL2005 and DB2).
I created one dataset for each data source. All the sources has a link field to join. When I try to use the Lookup function in the Expression editor I'm getting "[BC30451] Name Lookup is not declared" error.
Here are the Datasets and Fields what I have used in my report
Dataset1(Oracle) Dataset2(db2)
subproject_id Subproject_id Proj_hours Issue_count
I'm using SQLSERVER2008R2 SP1.
Any Suggestions?
Thank you for the article. Very clear and well written. It helped with a concern I had on using dimension tables to derive group labels.
It's hard to say exactly why it works in BIDS but not on the server. Possibilities – the server can't execute both queries successfully or for some reason the RDL on the server doesn't match the RDL that you're using in BIDS or the server isn't updated to SQL Server 2008 R2 or the project properties in BIDS have the target version set to SQL Server 2008. Check the project properties first to make sure the target is SQL Server 2008 R2. If that's correct, try deleting the RDL from the server and redeploying.
Hi Eduan,
Thanks for more details. I didn't see this comment when I responded to your first comment. It sounds like the field is not visible to the server for some reason. I would try deleting it from the server and redeploying it.
It's really important that you use the same case and the same spelling for each field reference. I notice some typos in your lookup expression, and also notice that you have subproject_ID in one case and Subproject_id in another case, but your lookup expression uses lowercase for the first and second arguments. that would be the first thing to test.
Hi Stacia,
Very good example. Simple and easy to understand.
Have you tried this with Data Source View/Report Model?
Thank you
Hi Shalinder,
No I haven't used this technique with report models, but I happen to be working on one at the moment. I'll add it as a topic to this series on filters.
Its very Good…. Its works…. I liked it…
Thanks a lot
That is great. Good explanation. I want to do a similar thing but I want to use a Report Parameter for the left side (first function parameter) like this:
It doesn't seem to work. Does anyone have a solution for getting the field I want out of this reused data set in my Report?
Thanks for the information. Are these functions accessible from Custom Code? I want to write a function in the Report custom code section which manipulates the input values before calling Lookup to find value in my dataSet. When I run the function, I got an error that says Lookup is not declared. I probably need to prefix Lookup with a Namespace. But what is the namespace for the SSRS's Lookup function?
Thanks Stacia, Your article was very helpful.
It helped me a lot.I was using sharepoint with SSRS where i am not having any list joining facility.
Excellent – thanks for explaining this so succinctly! Big big love.
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I'm trying to use the lookup function in a graph but I'm only getting the first row of the table to show up in the graph. I've tried to use lookupset and multilookup, but I'm not sure what syntax to use since I'm not going to concatignate these rows. Do you have any clues if this works in graphs or onnly in tables?
The lookup function is just an expression that returns a value, so whether you use it in a graph (chart) or a table or a matrix should not matter. Furthermore, the lookup would not affect how many rows get turned for use in the data regions. Instead, it sounds like you're not using an aggregate expression for the chart values. Another thing to try would be to set up a matrix that contains the same elements as your chart so that you have greater visibility into what's happening in the results and work with the expressions there until you see what you want, then recreate the expressions in the chart.
Hi Stacia !!
Thank you for the information, please could you help me with finding a function like "lookup" for Reporting Services 2005.
Or, Could you tell me how can I combine data from two datasets in a single data region but in Reporting Services 2005 ?
I know that "lookup" does not exist in 2005 version, but I think that there is a way to do this without this function…
Depending on your report requirements, you might be able to do something with a sub report that you place inside a table or matrix. I wrote about this in my SSRS 2005 Step by Step book. Basically you pass in a parameter to the sub report with the value that you are using to do the lookup. Performance could be a problem with this approach though. The only other way would be to develop your own function, either as a custom assembly or as embedded code in the report (http://support.microsoft.com/kb/920769). I suspect performance could be an issue with this approach as well.
Now, the next step for me is to decide which is the best way to do my reports.
Thanks a lot for your Replay, this information was very helpful…
Stacia, Great information. However, I'm having the same problem as Marcus from above. I'm not sure how to add a calculated field to a dataset and call the same lookup function.
I'm able to bring across an image using =Lookup(Fields!ReportImageID.Value, Fields!ReportImageID.Value, System.Convert.ToBase64String(Fields!ReportImage.Value),"ReportImage"). I also bring back a description field which identifies the logo being pulled in. I have a textbox next to the image in the report header using ReportItems. The Description changes with the group, but the image doesn't change.
Any ideas?
Sorry – no ideas at the moment. I'll play around with this when I get a chance, but it's likely to be a few more days before I have a chance due to my current schedule
Hi Stacia,
I am trying to create a report from two tables of the same database. Below is the expression I have used..
But I am getting 'Unknown Collection Member' error…
Please help asap..
Thanks in advance
That message means that one of the arguments is invalid. Either AuditEventKey is not a valid field in your first or second dataset or Operation is invalid or your dataset name "DataSet2″ doesn't match the actual dataset name correctly.
I am using the lookup function and it is succesfull in pulling the first result it finds in the dataset most of the time. However, some of the rows are blank, and when I run the query for the dataset, the item is in the query results. Why won't the report populate the lookup?
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I kept getting a "#ERROR" message in my tablix header, the trick for me was:
And yes, the third parameter seems wrong (it's in the other data-set, but don't worry, that's how it works).
Hi Peter, Yes tablix headers expect an aggregate function, so that makes sense.
Hi Jan, It's very difficult to provide an explanation without more information about your scenario.
Thanks for taking the time and explain this function , honestly it's the best explanation I could find , and that I do not speak English hahaha, thanks !


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Sitting on the front porch watching the sailboats on the water. The landscaping. The location itself at the top of the hill. The pool at the Old Fort inn.
Really clean, friendly, easy access. Will definitely be back to stay again. I would recommend it if you are looking for a place to stay.
Our queen bed was either worn or really soft/cheap, made us roll to the center. Slept better in the full bed but was obviously smaller.
Nice staff, decent breakfast, big bed--what more could you want from an off-the-highway motel? It's my go-to place in Kennebunk.
The location on the river is beautiful.
The new owners are letting the rooms fall apart and are not clean like before. The breakfast was not good and the fresh fruit had mold on the pineapple. I'm sad that we have to find a new place to stay.
Place was great - overlooking the marina- walk to town
Carpet in our room could use to be changed - but the place was great
Beautiful rooms freshly decorated. Great location to downtown but very peaceful.
No TV channel listings in room.
It was wonderful! The manager was so helpful with restaurant recommendations!!!!!
Its comfortable, quiet, even the grounds are well lit !
Staff was very polite
Room was a little stuffy, AC was very loud
I booked this hotel online without seeing a room first, it turned out to be a big mistake. The room was very old and a bit smelly. the sheets were stained, the comforter smelled and there was blood on the mattress, need I say more? I brought my new girlfriend there and was quite mortified. I will never go back and would never recommend this place to anybody.
The location was good. I liked that the trolley car came and picked you up right at the hotel. I also liked that they have a lot of things for the kids to do and they have BBQs. The maids were also very accommodating and friendly.
I didn't like getting there and seeing that they were charging $75 a night when I had paid $116 on Kayak. As we were leaving the price went to $49. :/
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the manager was nice and the rooms were clean.
off a busy highway and price was high for such a simple motel room.
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Nice location. Friendly folks in town.
Smelled dirty and moldy. Cold to cool water showers for two days! Paid way too much for that smelly room and no hot shower.
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Posted: 09/09/2013 - The Alabama National Guard is one of the few southern states abiding by the Pentagon's new policy extending benefits to same sex couples
Posted: 09/09/2013 - The Alabama National Guard is one of the few southern states abiding by the Pentagon's new policy extending benefits to same sex couples
Updated: 09/09/2013 - The Pentagon is figuring out how to deal with sequestration in 2014.
Updated: 09/09/2013 - President Obama steps up his campaign to convince Congress and Americans Syria should be held accountable for a deadly chemical weapons attack. The Commander in Chief is sitting down this afternoon for a series of television interviews. Over the weekend, Syrian President Bashar Assad had an exclusive interview with CBS This Morning co-host, Charlie Rose.
Posted: 09/08/2013 - An audience of family, friends and fellow soldiers filled the Lakeview Resort & Conference Center in Eufaula on Saturday to honor a group of local soldiers heading overseas. They honored the men and women who will go to Afghanistan sometime in mid-October. The Alabama Army National Guard's 1103rd Combat Sustainment Support Battalion's mission is to bring other soldiers home to their families.
Posted: 09/08/2013 - Obama Still Seeks Syrian Military Strike... Germany joins US in blaming Assad for attack... U.S. official releases a DVD showing video of chemical attack victims... Paper: UN team could submit Syria report within a few days... EU: All info on Syria gas attack points to Assad (but that any potential military attack against it should wait for a U.N. inspectors' report)... Syria forces possible GOP candidates to pick sides... Looming Syria vote prompts protests... Vatican: 100,000 attend Syria peace vigil
Posted: 09/08/2013 - Militants in Pakistan's most populous province are said to be training for what they expect will be an ethnic-based civil war in neighboring Afghanistan after foreign forces withdraw in 16 months, according to analysts and a senior militant...analysts accuse the government of lacking the political will to go after the militants...Pakistan doesn't want to see Afghanistan return to the 1990s, when civil war destroyed the country and gave rise to the repressive Taliban regime which in turn strengthened Pakistan's militants..."We know where they are. We could bomb the whole area, flatten it. That would solve Afghanistan's problem but what would that leave for us? . We might solve the Afghan problem but our problem would be far worse. We would suffer for the next 40 years."
Updated: 09/05/2013 - The Alabama Army National Guard's 1103rd Combat Sustainment Support Battalion, out of Eufaula, has been called to Afghanistan.
Updated: 09/05/2013 - The Pentagon says civilian furloughs are back on the table for 2014.
Updated: 09/04/2013 - The Alabama National Guard says it will follow a Pentagon policy and honor requests for military benefits for same-sex couples.
Posted: 09/01/2013 - Congress receives White House draft resolution on Syria... Obama made last-minute decision on Syria congressional approval... Lawmakers begin to grapple with Syria question... France to await US congressional decision on Syria... Putin urges US to hold off on striking Syria... UN: Syria attack timing idea 'grotesque'...
Updated: 09/01/2013 - Egypt shortens curfew as violence eases... Egyptian authorities detain suspected 'spy swan'... Police officer shot dead in Egypt's restive Sinai... Al-Qaida in Iraq calls on Egyptians to fight army...
Updated: 08/29/2013 - The White House is preparing to release a report with evidence showing the Syrian government used chemical weapons against its own people. Lawmakers are pressing for more answers before the US takes action.
Updated: 08/27/2013 - If you have an unused cell phone, the Houston County Republican women want to take it off your hands.
Posted: 08/27/2013 - President Obama is considering a limited military strike on Syria to punish the country's president for using chemical weapons in their civil war.
Updated: 08/26/2013 - The United States may be on the brink of getting involved in another conflict in the Middle East. The Obama Administration says there's little doubt Syrian President Bashar Assad used chemical weapons against his own people. Now President Obama is weighing his options, which could include a military strike.
Posted: 08/24/2013 - US moves forces toward Syria, inquiry continues... Syria warns US not to intervene militarily... Hagel says US still weighing response to Syria... Iran leader condemns chemical weapons use in Syria... Aid group tallies 355 dead after Syria attack... UN official in Syria to press for chemical inquiry...
Posted: 08/24/2013 - Egypt's interim premier says security a priority... Egypt shortens curfew after lull in unrest... Egypt reopens border crossing with Gaza...
Updated: 08/24/2013 - Veterans, soldiers and civilians all connected today at Blackwell Field Airport. They had the chance to ride in a UH-1H Huey and an AH-1F Cobra Attack Helicopter. The Army Aviation Heritage Foundation and the Friends of Army Aviation-Ozark chose to permanently station the two air crafts in Ozark.
Updated: 08/22/2013 - WTVY went to Ozark this morning to attend a breakfast meeting with Martha Roby.
Updated: 08/22/2013 - The soldier on trial for the 2009 Fort Hood shooting rampage has declined to give a closing argument.
Updated: 08/22/2013 - U.S. Representative Martha Roby (R-AL) will visit with members of the Fort Rucker community on Thursday, Aug. 22.
Posted: 08/20/2013 - The United States Army is looking to trim its budget by 25 percent.
Updated: 08/16/2013 - Previously closed gates will reopen, Fort Rucker youngsters will get their school days back and the commissary will resume normal hours next week.
Posted: 08/12/2013 - Members and visitors of the Dothan Rotary Club received some ideas on how to help those who have already helped us.
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Person Prohibited Arrested with Gun
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Andre T. DuBose, 28, Black male, 700 block of Townsend Place, Wilmington, Delaware
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Corporal Randall McCoy and Officer Steven Bender arrested Andre T. DuBose, who is a person prohibited, for possessing a firearm.
Early Friday morning at approximately 3:21 a.m., officers responded to the 900 block of Kirkwood Street regarding a 911 call about a person with a gun. Upon arrival, officers located the described subject, Andre T. DuBose, sitting inside a tan Cadillac parked in the block. DuBose was taken into custody after officers located a handgun inside of the vehicle.
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Situated in the stunning bay of the same name, St-Florent stands on a slight hill to the north of the mouth of the River Aliso. This popular seaside resort, often known as the "Saint Tropez of Corsica", boasts a fine marina lined with yachts and boats. Enjoy a stroll through the old town, admiring its narrow winding streets lined with old houses and its small squares planted with oleander. To the southwest, the "Route de la Plage" (beach road) leads to the long Plage de la Roya (approx 2km).
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Cathédrale du Nebbio (Église Sta-Maria-Assunta)
Route de la Cathédrale F - 20217 St-Florent
The Église Sta-Maria-Assunta is said to stand on the site of the Roman city of Nebium. It is one of the most important examples of religious architecture in Corsica. Representative of the second period of the Pisan Romanesque era on the island, the c..
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The rugged coastline of the Desert des Agriates runs between St Florent and the mouth of the Ostriconi River and its highest peak is the Cima d'Ifana (alt. 478m). The time when the Agriates were a lush green Garden of Eden seems a long way off now. A..
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Demeure Loredana is located in the Gulf of Saint-Florent. It offers en suite accommodation and free parking. Free Wi-Fi is available throughout the hotel and it features outdoor and indoor swimming pools. Each air-conditioned Demeure Loredana room i..
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Plage de l'Ospedale F - 20217 Saint-Florent
Situated on a private pebble beach with sun beds, this hotel features a garden and a panoramic terrace. The centre of the fishing port and popular holiday destination of Saint-Florent is 500 metres away. Rooms feature a balcony or a terrace with vie..
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Lieu Dit Cisternino F - 20217 Saint-Florent
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La Rascasse
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In the mood for a gourmet supper that celebrates fish and the finest produce? Then head for La Rascasse, which overlooks the port (dining room on the first floor). Crayfish fished exclusively off Corsica, red mullet or capon - everything is as fresh ..
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promenade des Quais F - 20217 Saint-Florent
The fish on your plate could not be fresher - a local fisherman comes in his boat to supply La Gaffe with seafood and crayfish every day. Fried fish and dentex to be enjoyed on the half-covered summer terrace. There is a very fine wine list with over..
La Roya
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The young Breton chef here rustles up flavoursome and creative cuisine. It has an idyllic setting with a contemporary, sophisticated decor and a terrace in an attractive garden with a sea view.


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Their smash hit "Radioactive" topped the charts and dominated radio airwaves throughout the year, but Imagine Dragons are already preparing for their second album and are hoping for similar success. In an interview with Billboard.com on Saturday, frontman Dan Reynolds talked about the group's next album and their current success that may be capped off Sunday night as they are contenders for 12 Billboard Music Awards, including top artist, top duo/group, top rock artist and top rock album.
The group's debut album, "Night Visions," had many hit singles, but "Radioactive" really elevated the Grammy award-winning group to an even higher level of popularity. The single broke the record for the most weeks ever on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and even sparked a remixed version performed with rapper Kendrick Lamar that continued the song's momentum.
Reynolds told Billboard that they are still not burned out from the song. "I don't think any of us expected it to have any life like that. It just kept going. Playing life, honestly, we didn't burn out on it because…we don't really listen to our music unless we're on a stage playing it. If you do that, it keeps it fresh for you."
But what does the group have for a follow up? They are currently working on their second full-length album. Reynolds revealed that many of the songs on the new album were written while they were touring behind the "Night Visions" album.
He says in the interview with Billboard, "There are a lot of road songs and all the emotions that come with that. I think it will be a special record because it really encapsulated the whole process of going from being a small nothing band to actually playing arenas."
Reynolds and the band are excited to see how the album turns out and so are fans. But the new album is just one project Imagine Dragons has in the works. The band has written the song "Battle Cry" for the upcoming Michael Bay film, Transformers: Age of Extinction." Bay said in a statement that he was drawn to the emotion of the band's other hit song, "Demons," and wanted to instill some of that passion and energy into his movie. As for now Imagine Dragons will be performing Sunday night at the 2014 Billboard Music Awards at the MGM Grand Garden Arena in Las Vegas.


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Minister of Defense Prince Salman bin Abdulaziz received U.S. Principal Deputy Undersecretary of Defense for Policy Dr. James N. Miller in Riyadh today. During the meeting, which was attended by Saudi Ambassador to the United States Adel bin Ahmed Al-Jubeir, a range of issues of common interest were discussed.
Commander of the National Guard Prince Miteb bin Abdullah bin Abdulaziz also met with Dr. Miller today. That meeting included Assistant Deputy Commander of the National Guard Abdulmohsen Al-Twaijri; Director of the U.S. Defense Security Cooperation Agency Vice Admiral William E. Landay; and Commander of the Aeronautical Systems Center of the U.S. Air Force Lt. Gen. Thomas J. Owen.


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It's a novel concept that can pay dividends to a race program: A racer can change the look of a car in an afternoon or design a radical graphics package that can be applied over and over again if the car gets damaged in a crash. Or, in the matter of a few hours, the look of a car can be completely changed if a new sponsor comes aboard.
The fact that you can keep your car looking like it just rolled out of a custom paint shop for a relatively low price is an amazing proposition. For several years, racers at the highest levels have possessed the ability to wrap their cars with a giant vinyl decal printed to look just like a painted car. While this is a cool option, until recently the cost of wrapping a car could easily reach over $8,000.
For those of you racing on dirt, another real advantage is that the vinyl wraps seem to help repel mud. This can be a real timesaver when you are trying to keep the car clean. Another real advantage is that when a small area of the car becomes damaged the vinyl wrap can be repaired, creating a look that seems as if the damage never happened.
What does it cost to wrap a car? Depending on the type of car and the complexity of the graphics package, the cost can vary between $500 and $1,000, including installation.
I talked to Chuck Kuehl, one of the local hotshoes in the Modified class here in Arizona, and he informed me that he was getting the right side of his car redone. So I decided that it was time for a better education on my part. Later I found myself at BRT Signs getting ready to watch and learn just how this wrapping is accomplished on a Saturday night racer.
The whole process is something that every racer should think about doing. It does not require the investment in specialized infrastructure that painting requires. A number of shops across the country do this type of work. It is as simple as asking around at the track for the names of people in your area who do. If you have an idea for a graphic design for your car, then a well equipped graphic designer can make it happen for you. You may even save money by wrapping the car yourself.
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Chris Monty is one of New York's busier comedians. Along with being a regular at New York's best comedy clubs, Chris is a terrific actor and has been seen in numerous TV commercials. He is currently touring in an original play that he co-wrote titled Shut Up, Sit Down & Eat! He has written for The Joan Rivers Radio Show and hosted his own show on Long Island's WGBB radio along with numerous stints as an opening act for Joan Rivers, B.B. King, and Johnny Maestro & The Brooklyn Bridge.
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If you frequent your local comedy club you may have caught stand-up standout Scott Bruce. It's hard to find a venue that has not taken advantage of his many and varied talents. You may catch him on a cruise ship, at a nightclub in Las Vegas or a Moose Lodge in rural Pennsylvania. The one thing you are guaranteed is a good time and a lot of laughs. His quick wit, ad-libbing ability and natural timing make not just a great comic, but also one of the most sought after MC's working today.
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Best Practices for JavaFX 2.0 Enterprise Applications, Part Two
By Janice J. Heiss on May 23, 2012
Java Champion, Oracle Java Evangelist, and JavaFX expert Jim Weaver, has published Part Two of his article, "Best Practices for JavaFX 2.0 Enterprise Applications" on otn/java. Weaver continues to explore the possibilities of the TweetBrowser application, focusing now on new techniques and best practices that include:
* Leveraging a JavaFX cascading style sheet
* Implementing springs and struts in the UI
* Using a ternary operation in binding expressions
* Defining JavaFX properties
* Leveraging a Popup to implement a dialog box
* Using WebView to display a Web page
As Weaver emphasizes, there is a vast array of techniques and best practices that can be used in JavaFX applications. For example:
The JavaFX cascading style sheet (CSS) enables users to modify the appearance of an application.
The springs and struts concept enables a fixed horizontal strut and a variable horizontal spring so that an application can appear the way developers want it to appear, regardless of the size of the scene or the type of platform.
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Just as owning a body of Friedrich Nietzsche's work will not magically transform a reader into a wise philosopher, simply possessing a book by HIGH TIMES' old friend Ed Rosenthal cannot provide a shield against the long and pesky hand of the law.
However, the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics recently decided to use the outfit's Facebook page to poke fun at an arrest they made several years ago in which officers found a copy of Rosenthal's book "Don't Get Busted" in the vehicle of a person they nailed for trafficking marijuana.
Now, while we must admit the irony surrounding this incident is definitely one for the funny papers, we do feel that it is important to point out that Rosenthal's words in this volume of Ask Ed are only meant to be expert advice for how to "minimalize the chance of arrest for marijuana possession or use," not a bulletproof vest.
The nature of drug trafficking is one full of complexities and danger, where a single mistake can land you prison for life or leave you headless in the village square. It is for that reason there are no credible literary guides available at your local bookstore for how to run a successful drug trafficking operation, and the reason why American defense attorneys can get away with charging high-dollar retainers that greatly exceed the price of a 200-page book. After all, avoiding prosecution in this country isn't cheap.
Interestingly, when Tulsa's KRMG contacted the Oklahoma Bureau of Narcotics earlier this week to discuss the story surrounding their latest Facebook post, a spokesman used the random media opportunity to discuss concerns about legal marijuana in Colorado and how it was leading to an increase in pot trafficking. "We are seeing large shipments of Colorado marijuana now coming through Oklahoma, heading back to the east coast for sale," said Mark Woodard, with the OBN. "It's only going to increase now that states like Oklahoma have legalized marijuana."
Wait… when did Oklahoma legalize marijuana? We are well aware of the petition introduced by Oklahomans for Health, which is currently working to legalizing medical marijuana across the state, but unless the ganja gods swopped down within the past few days and made changes to the state's strict policy, Mr. Woodward has, in our opinion, forfeited any credibility he may have had on the subject of legal marijuana and its scourge on America.
Considering the source, we cannot even be sure that the OBN's Facebook post involving Rosenthal's book stemmed from an actual arrest.
Mike Adams writes for stoners and smut enthusiasts in HIGH TIMES, Playboy's The Smoking Jacket and Hustler Magazine. You can follow him on Twitter @adamssoup and on Facebook/mikeadams73.