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This isn't the view through your childhood kaleidoscope. Nor is it an alien craft come to beam you up. In fact, it's the world's first atomic force microscopy image of chemical bonds inside an individual molecule.
Created by IBM scientists in Zurich, Switzerland, using noncontact atomic force microscopy, the image shows the varying electron concentration around a molecule of nanographene. In other words, it shows the covalent bonds inside the molecule, depicting how long and strong they are. IBM scientists explain:
The individual bonds between carbon atoms in such molecules differ subtly in their length and strength. All the important chemical, electronic, and optical properties of such molecules are related to the differences of bonds in the polyaromatic systems. Now, for the first time, these differences were detected for both individual molecules and bonds. This can increase basic understanding at the level of individual molecules, important for research on novel electronic devices, organic solar cells, and organic light-emitting diodes (OLEDs). In particular, the relaxation of bonds around defects in graphene as well as the changing of bonds in chemical reactions and in excited states could potentially be studied.
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Serious Entertaining: Southern Comfort
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Though it might be spring already, there are still times when I'm in the mood for comfort food. That doesn't mean I want a heavy plate of food, just some simple, satisfying fare that seems imbued with the wisdom of the ages.
Southern cuisine definitely has this combination of history and soul. And no matter if you were born in Boston or Biloxi—making this menu will satisfy your belly and your mind.
Salad with Pimiento Cheese Toasts
I happen to love pimiento cheese, especially when I make it at home. The base combination of sharp cheddar cheese and mayo can be tweaked to your taste: I like the addition of pepper jack cheese and cayenne pepper.
Though it's common to simply serve pimiento cheese with crackers, I like transforming it into a proper first course by riffing off the French bistro classic, salad with warm goat cheese toasts. Mixed greens are tossed in a simple vinaigrette of lemon juice and extra-virgin olive oil, then topped with slices of warm baguette spread with pimiento cheese.
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We're coming up to the end of 2011 and it's been a while since I've posted here on the SQL Mag BI Blog. In fact, in the 1.5 months sine I've posted here, the site's name has changed to SQL Server Pro and SQL Server 2012 Release Candidate (RC0) was released! Well, since this is a BI blog for SQL Server, it only makes to end the year in style. Let me introduce you briefly to perhaps the most highly-anticipated new BI feature and new tool in SQL Server 2012, Power View.
What is Power View?
Power View is a brand new Silverlight browser-based reporting tool that is currently scheduled to ship with SQL Server 2012 Enterprise Edition and the new Business Intelligence editions, once general availability hits in 2012 (current plan as of RC0). You access the reporting tool from a SharePoint 2010 library or BI site and it is geared toward business users. You get one surface to design on and to report from. There is no click-once client or separate tool to download for designing and viewing. That is still the general model for the existing Report Builder and SSRS reporting tools in SQL Server and those still exist with their own enhancements in SQL Server 2012. But the biggest and most exciting advances in SSRS 2012 are in the Power View tool. I've used Silverlight components in the past and Derek and I have references different ways to utilize Silverlight in your BI applications here on this blog. Power View gives you that power and interactive data exploration capability out of the box, meaning that your business users can be much more engaged with data assets in the data warehouse or anywhere in your organization, which encourages better decision making.
If you have used the SSRS tools in the past like BIDS with Visual Studio or Report Builder, then you will notice a bit of a paradigm change with Power View. Power View is only available through SharePoint and you need to first have a BISM or a Shared Reporting Services data connection file created in SharePoint that points to your data source. Since Power View is meant to enable "data exploration" by business users, you will find that the data models are entity names that you select for inclusion in your report views similar to Excel's pivot table features. From my perspective, I found the Power View experience to be a natural progression and combination of PowerPivot and SSRS.
Now, because the data source for your Power View report is a model that you've built, most typically in a modeling tool like the tabular data model in Visual Studio 2010 with SQL Server 2012 or PowerPivot, the person authoring the report does not have to worry about the security, permissions, table names, server names, etc. Those have been encapsulated in the semantic layer and hidden from the report designer. We'll have time to dig into an introduction to PowerPivot 2.0 in SQL Server 2012 and the tabular data models, BI Semantic Models, etc. in another follow-up posting here.
OK, so that's the set-up. Now, what does this all look like and feel like? Like I said earlier, it is a pure-play Silverlight application, so it's all encapsulated in your browser. You will need to launch Power View from SharePoint 2010 and you must have the tabular model to point to like I described above. The screenshots below give you just a sampling of what to expect from Power View. To actually experience it yourself, try things out for yourself. Enjoy! Hopefully this is enough to get you started as an intro to Power View. Much more coming sooner rather than later. . . .


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Cumberland Trail offers a large practice facility, complete with a driving range, putting green, and chipping area. The Pro shop is fully stocked to suit your every need. The Trails Pub is the perfect place to relax after your round, featuring a full food and drink menu, and gorgeous views of the 18th green from the patio.
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Advice About Publishing, from the blog, Dolores' List of CFPs. Description: "This blog shares calls for papers and presentations in the disciplines of Library Science, Information Science, Instructional Design and Technology, Education, including Adult Education, and Women's and Gender Studies. Other calls may be listed that relate in some way to the above disciplines. It is also a place to find advice about writing, publishing and presenting."
Harvey, Carl A., et al. "Writing for the Profession." Knowledge Quest, May/June 2010, p. 52-57.
Levitov, Deb, et al. "New Directions: The Unplanned Path to Publishing." Knowledge Quest, May/June 2010, p. 46-51.
Putnam, Laurie L. "Professional Writing and Publishing." College and Research Libraries News, April 2009, p. 222-225.


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Shortening Sleep Will Prolong Conscious Life
Our life span is extending, but the extended life is a dwindling asset. Who would not prefer to live longer while at their peak? The time we spend asleep contributes little to our lifetime of experience, thought and action. Dreaming doesn't seem to add much. Some brain lesions and monoamine oxidase (MAO) inhibitor medications even completely abolish dreams without making any apparent difference. Could we reduce the duration of sleep (both REM and nonREM) while maintaining its benefits for the brain, whatever they might be? I propose that we do need to sleep, but not as long as we do. The duration of sleep may be an outdated adaptation to prehistoric ecological constraints that no longer exist.
Virtually all vertebrates sleep (and invertebrates at least have quiet time). However, the duration of sleep varies wildly across species, from less than 1 hour to 18+ hours a day. For instance, rodents sleep between 8 and 17 hours, primates between 7 and 18 hours. Elephants and giraffes sleep 3-5 hours, squirrels 16-17 and bats 20 hours. The newborn of most species sleep more of each day than the adults, except that newborn whales and dolphins don't sleep at all. Within a species, the inter-individual variation of adaptively valuable traits is thought to be quite limited. Yet some people, in some families, habitually sleep only 2-4 hours a night, and function well for longer each day. Perhaps constraining the duration of sleep is not an adaptive priority in humans.
Three categorically distinct roles for sleep are: (1) maintaining the neuronal circuitry, (2) fostering learning, (3) keeping the organism out of trouble.
(1) Given its ubiquity among vertebrates and other phyla, any neurometabolic benefit of sleep must be very general and basic. If the needs of the brain determine the duration of sleep, its duration should vary systematically with some fundamental neurological variable, such as absolute or relative size of the brain, its energy utilization, the sophistication of behavioral control, or the need to replenish some key neurotransmitter. No such co-variation appears to exist.
(2) The presumed role of sleep in learning is based on continuing rehearsal. Rather than being an adaptation, the learning benefit may be a fortuitous result of the brain's continuing activity during sleep, while it is receiving no fresh information. Since the neuronal show must go on, recently acquired patterns of firing gain priority and are "rehearsed". Whether the memories are useful or useless, they are automatically rehearsed. In any case, the suggested benefit of sleep for human learning cannot be generalized to species that make a living without learning anything much, and yet require sleep.
(3) The substantial differences between people and the enormous difference between species in how long they typically sleep suggest that sleep also serves a species-specific ecological function. This is sleep's other role; sleep conserves energy and keeps animals out of trouble. It takes the members of each species a minimum time per day to make a living, that is, secure their personal survival and take advantage of any reproductive opportunity. This challenge is met anew every day. On this view, how much of the day is needed to meet adaptive goals determines the duration of the default option of sleep.
Continued activity when the day's housekeeping is done would prolong the animal's exposure to the hazards that lurk in the environment, without contributing further to basic survival and reproductive needs. Many species cannot do anything useful in the dark (and some not in the light). They gain nothing from expending more than basal metabolic energy at that time. The genetic imperative to sleep during a predetermined time of day and for a predetermined duration (or even hibernate), takes care of all that. Thus extended sleep time would be a function of the interaction between the individual and its ecology.
Predators need time for hunting; how much depends on attributes of the predator and the prey, such as speed, strength and population density. Herbivore prey needs a minimum time to graze, depending on the animal's bulk and the accessibility of food. How the remains of the day are spent would depend on how readily a secure haven can be found.
Nature is notoriously conservative, and it conserves the genetically driven imperative to sleep. The imperative to sleep is subjectively experienced as antecedent sleepiness, and the fatigue and dysphoric feeling after too little sleep. My thesis is that these feelings do not arise unavoidably from the economy of the brain, but are genetically imposed adaptations. Should a species' ecology undergo radical change, and making a living become sharply easier or more difficult, natural selection will in time reshape sleep duration accordingly.
However, human culture evolves too quickly. Since artificial lighting was introduced, the dark no longer constrains what people can do. Since human activities are oriented as much to future as to immediate goals, all hours of the day have become potentially useful. Further, we have more effective means to secure ourselves than curling up in a quiet place and sleeping. So if a sizeable portion of the adaptation to sleep has the role of a security saving placeholder, then it would be safe to relax that portion of the sleep constraint.
The dictatorial "sleep genes", when identified, need to be modified to require a shorter sleep duration, and the circadian clock genes need to be reset. Will the state of genetic engineering become sufficiently advanced to make this prospect, though less than a sure thing, more than a pipe dream? The good news comes with the fruit fly's sleep, which is uncannily like ours; a mutation in a gene called Shaker reduces the fly's natural sleep duration by two-thirds, from about 12 to about 4 hours within 24, without detriment to the fly's well-being. The bad news is that these mutated flies don't live long. Nonetheless, I am optimistic.


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Farrell preparing for new rule changes
FORT MYERS, Fla. -- With the expansion of instant replay and the elimination of home-plate collisions coming into play this season, Red Sox manager John Farrell will get a crash course on Sunday in Port Charlotte.
Former managers Joe Torre and Tony La Russa, who currently work for Major League Baseball, are both expected to help demonstrate the new rules.
"It's not that we're going to be looking to add something new, but if in fact the blocking of the plate is eliminated and we get that clarification, then there's some teaching that's got to go along with it," said Farrell. "Instinct is going to take a catcher into the line aggressively to block the plate and, I don't want to say inflict harm, but it's a collision play that's going to be eliminated. There's going to be some redirection on the catcher's side as well."
And as for replay? Farrell will get some practice with that during Grapefruit League games that are televised.
"It's the best we can do in the Spring Training setting," Farrell said. "It's going to be completely different than what's available to us in the regular season. At least we'll have three or four opportunities to go through the mechanics of it if a play is challenged."


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It might not be tear-worthy, but it's certainly a touching account of the Team Fortress 2 characters coming together in a moment of need. And that song ain't half bad either.
Lozeng3r's dramatic take on Team Fortress 2 is a submission to Valve's second annual Saxxy Awards, which will be open to votes in two days.
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Along with 'legitimate' means of preservation, there's the whole specter of abandonware, which Les Chapelle takes a look at over at the Escapist.
Chapelle takes a look at the legal issues, but the piece is more concerned with the people who love these forgotten games; it's a fun essay on a curious bit of gaming culture. On the issue of legality, Chapelle points out that most of the websites are more than happy to comply with cease and desist orders:
And on the occasions when publishers do ask for material to be taken down, abandonware websites have a steady track record of complying with removal requests. Earlier this summer, when Valve's Steam service began offering the full X-COM series for download, Abandonia pulled all related downloads the day after Steam's went live. Latis recalls that when Sierra produced Sierra Classics offering Police Quest and King's Quest among others, those links were simply removed from XTC.
"Most webmasters I know are serious down-to-retro people, heeding removal requests from their respective companies," Bakkelun says. He adds that in some cases webmasters may contact the intellectual property holders themselves to let them know they are hosting the files, and offer to remove them immediately if the games ever move away from abandonware status.
In many cases, the decision for a company to re-release its older titles is met with praise by the abandonware community rather than annoyance at losing a popular download. Indeed, they take an almost cheerful view of it, finding new games to upload and take their place.
Having spent many an hour gleefully hunting for re-releases of old films, I'd love the same opportunity for more of those classic titles I remember from younger days. Here's hoping more publishers catch on to the desire for relative antiquities.
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I really like Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke and Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner.
I don't believe that they're engaged in any intentional conspiracy to "help their friends."
I honestly don't even believe that the people in charge of the big investment companies are nasty enough to want to help their companies at the expense of the country as a whole.
I just sense that Bernanke, Geithner and the heads of the investment banks think that the scariest thought they can possibly have that doesn't start with a natural disaster or military action is the thought of a run on a bank. Back in 2008, on crackpot, conspiracy-oriented message boards, there were rumors that the federal government was drawing up contingency plans in case financial company failures led to big bank runs, and in case the big bank runs led to riots and general chaos.
In my opinion, Bernanke, Geithner and the heads of the big financial services companies really think that the collapse of Goldman Sachs or Bank of America could lead to disorder and bloodshed.
So, the Federal Reserve Board is keeping interest rates very low, even though the low rates are clearly of no use whatsoever to anyone but big banks, big publicly traded industrial companies, and people who are making payments on bad variable-rate mortgages.
Low rates clearly do nothing whatsoever to help home sales, auto sales or retail credit card sales, because ordinary people can't normally get credit with low rates. Ordinary first-time home buyers, and other buyers who are counting on the proceeds from the sale of their homes to help them come up with the down payments for new homes, can't come up with the huge down payments they need to qualify for good rates, and they might not be able to get mortgage loans at all.
Consumers with decent credit scores who pay their bills on time may find that, because credit card companies have lowered credit limits for some customers and taken away cards from others, the shifts have lowered their credit ratings to the point that they can barely qualify for a department store charge card let alone an auto loan or a respectable credit card.
James Glickman predicted during an interview in Las Vegas, at the annual convention of the National Association of Health Underwriters (NAHU), Washington, that, if interest rates rose 2 percentage points, most insurers with blocks of long-term care insurance (LTCI) business would earn an impressive 15% return on equity on the closed LTCI blocks.
Insurers have been better at sticking by their disability insurance programs than their LTCI programs, but low rates are clearly a threat to disability insurance programs as well as to LTCI programs. Both LTCI and disability insurers need access to safe to investment vehicles that pay reasonably high rates to keep coverage prices down.
Preventing bank runs is important, but keeping insurers in the LTCI and disability markets is also important. The economists need to go back to the whiteboards and come up with an approach to government finance that makes offering products that provide long-term guarantees the sensible thing to do.
Corrections: An earlier version of this article attributed the prediction of the effects of an increase on interest rates on LTCI business profitability incorrectly. Only James Glickman gave that estimate. Also, an earlier version of this article described NAHU's location incorrectly. NAHU has moved to Washington.


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With Alfred Fellheimer and Stuart Wagner as architects, the tiny Newsreel Theatre was part of one of the last of the great American railroad stations, the Cincinnati Union Terminal, an Art Deco style masterpiece which opened in March, 1933, and remained in service for only 39 years.
Its plush, over-sized seats provided travelers with a comfortable way to spend time waiting between trains by watching an hour's program of newsreels and short subjects. The terminal stills stands, converted into the Cincinnati Museum Center.
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The theatre is restored and part of the Museum Center at Union Station in Cincinnati. Last time I was there they showed old newsreels and the occasional historic presentation about the train station. BTW, for architecture fans, the Rookwood Tea room (the theatre's counterpart on the other side of the massive rotunda and lobby)is also intact. Only the concourse of the train station is gone (but the giant mosaics live on at the Cincinnati/Northern Kentucky airport.
Some other newsreel and short subject cinemas located in train stations:
Grand Central Theatre, New York
South Station Theatre, Boston
Victoria Station News Theatre, London
The 100-seat Newsreel Theatre is operational as of this posting date. The Museum Center (formerly Union Terminal) shows informational videos about the offerings of the Center. In March 2005, Cincinnati World Cinema presented the PaddleFest Film Festival, 18 short films shown in three sessions, depicting white-water and travel kayaking. The event was held in conjunction with a Paddling and environmental exposition; the screenings were sold out.
Prior to that screening, Cincinnati World Cinema presented a Latino film festival back in '02, in conjunction with the Latin-American Culture Fest.
"Film" presentation is tenuous at best, as all they have is an old LCD projector with a failing bulb.
Here are a few pictures of the terminal in the 30s. I didn't find any shots of the actual theater:
A newspaper item from March 1933 lists Willis Vance as in charge of the Newsreel Th. which seats 118 . Showings should last one hour ,Willis also runs the Latonia Theater in Covington,Kentucky .
Although it does not seem to be used any longer the entrance and box office for Newsreel theater at Union Terminal(The Museum Center) is still standing in the rotunda lobby.
The two linoleum murals on either side of the curtained area in the picture which heads this site disappeared when the Museum Center opened. Never to be seen again. So sad, fortunately other linoleum wall murals still exist in the outer areas on the corridor which heads to the waiting room of the womens rest room.
Two 1947 photos added courtesy of Jim Robb. Exterior & interior.
And If You Can See The Sign Well Enough, This Theater Was Previously Known As The Terminal Theatre For Some Reason.
Terminal Theatre was formerly a Newsreel Th. during World War Two in the 1940's. One half hour shows as you waited for your next train connection. Later with our museum center conversion it again became a screening room for events and upcoming exhibits. I believe it is currently vacant!
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I have been using SQL Server Data Tools (SSDT) both at work and on some hobby projects for quite a few weeks now and of all the new features I have to say the one that I am appreciating the most is Publish Profile files. I have been searching around on MSDN for an article that explains Publish Profile files but it seems no such article exists so I'll attempt to surmise here.
Publish Profile files are, essentially, a collection of all the property key-value pairs that are needed to deploy a database model (i.e. a .dacpac) to some target database. Those properties include (but are not limited to):
Those that have used the predecessor to SSDT, Visual Studio Database Projects, will be familiar with a lot of those properties however in that case the properties had to be specified on a case-by-case basis; typically in an msbuild script or similar. Often those scripts are not maintained by a developer – rather they are maintained by a DevOps team that are not familiar with the code being deployed and as a developer myself that's not a situation that I'm at all comfortable with. On my most recent project where Visual Studio Database Projects were being used I faced the maddening situation where every new SQLCMD variable added to a project required an email to be sent to the DevOps team to ask them to update their scripts accordingly. As you can imagine human errors crept in (on our side more than the DevOps side) and we ended up deploying projects with the wrong SQLCMD values. Moreover, we had to deal with different DevOps folks and often they would store the values in different places; totally infuriating, believe me.
Publish Profile files make this process much easier because we can define all those properties on a per-environment basis and keep them in a dedicated Publish Profile file. The obvious benefit then is that a Publish Profile file abstracts all of the environment-specific information into a single file so deploying an SSDT project now requires only two things; the build output (i.e. a .dacpac file) and a Publish Profile file:
>sqlpackage.exe /sf:MyDB.dacpac /pr:DEV.publish.xml
>sqlpackage.exe /sf:MyDB.dacpac /pr:DEV.publish.xml
The implied benefit (and this is what I really like about them) is that Publish Profile files are a source code artefact that a developer maintains the same as they would any other source code artefact, all that the DevOps people need are the build output (i.e. a .dacpac file) and an appropriately named Publish Profile file. Developers are now wholly in charge of how their code gets deployed which keeps them happy and the DevOps people have less work to do – so they're a happy bunch too! I'm not saying that the wrong values won't ever be supplied but at least now we know exactly where to go to fix those errors.
SSDT also provides a friendly UI for maintaining these Publish Profile files. Double-click on one and this UI appears:
Its fairly self-explanatory to fill these things out. A connection string, a database name and values for each SQLCMD variable defined within the project and you're pretty much there. (I have written previously about one other benefit of Publish Profile files - that they can be used to make SQLCMD variables mandatory. Read more at SQL Server Data Tools does support required variables.)
One minor downside of Publish Profile files is that they get created in the root of your SSDT project (I have griped about this previously at Folders in SQL Server Data Tools) so the convention that I have been using is to create a folder called Publish in each SSDT project and move all Publish Profile files into there.
Hopefully this has given you a small taster of what Publish Profile files are all about. I'll probably share some msbuild scripts that we're using to deploy these things in a later blog post.
P.S. As an aside, I have requested that the SSIS/SSAS/SSRS teams adopt the Publish Profile file approach in future iterations of their products. If you think that that is something you would like to see happen then click through, vote and leave a comment.
UPDATE: If you want a bit more info on Publish Profile files and sqlpackage.exe check out Ben Day's blog post Deploy a SQL Server Database project's *.dacpac with SqlPackage.exe
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That's pretty cool. I knew there had to be something like that around, but this will be great once we get our projects cleaned up and are ready to push to different environments. It will definitely save some typing on command-line deployments.
Hi Peter,
I knew you'd be the first person to comment here :) Thanks as always!
Yeah, Publish Profile files are very cool indeed. One more reason to upgrade.
I've just discovered a new, somewhat hidden, feature in SSDT that I didn't know about and figured it
I discovered a peculiar little nuance in SQL Server yesterday that I think is worth sharing. Execute
In VSDBPro I did something similar and was able to tie it into VS Configuration Manager. So selecting the Dev Configuraiton automatically changed my deploy properties. I have, so far, been unable to find that functionality in SSDT publish. Have you seen a way to use VS Configuraitons to select which publish profile you want?
Hi Aaron,
No, I haven't VS configurations too much since Publish Profile files came along. I'm not sure if there is a way to do what you're after (that doesn't mean such a thing does not exist - only that I don't know about it).
In my blog post SQL Server devs–what source control system do you use, if any? (answer and maybe win
Continuous deployment is described by Wikipedia as: Most CI systems allow the running of scripts after
Great tip, thanks.
Hey Jamie,
I was wondering if you could do a followup post about how you manage environment differences in your deployments using the publish profiles? Specifically we have different Windows service accounts for each tier (dev, uat, and production) and I was wondering how you might manage permissions for those segregated accounts in each tier using the Publish Profiles.
@Kyle, I built on Jamie's initial work on this and blogged about it here: http://schottsql.blogspot.com/2013/05/ssdt-setting-different-permissions-per.html
There's also a link to Jamie's original article - http://sqlblog.com/blogs/jamie_thomson/archive/2010/07/21/a-strategy-for-managing-security-for-different-environments-using-the-database-development-tools-in-visual-studio-2010.aspx
It's a bit of initial work, but once set up it doesn't change very often. :)
Thanks Peter, you took the words right out of my mouth :)
Can we have a publish profile that reads Target Connection string from a config file ?
Not that I know of I'm afraid.
Hi Jamie,
Is it possible to create the publish profile from the command line, and not from the GUI?


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Then back in October, we couldn't believe it when a sharp-eyed poster on QVC's jewelry forum said that upscale jewelry designer Stephen Dweck, whose chunky gemstone masterpieces are featured in Neiman Marcus, was on the No. 1 home shopping network's schedule. THE Stephen Dweck?
We checked QVC's program guide ourselves, and there it was: Dweck was doing a lower-priced jewelry line for QVC called Dweck's Diamonds. His Neiman Marcus pieces didn't even have diamonds. The high-end stuff is made with semi-precious stones.
Also in October, we were checking the press releases on HSN's Web site when we saw the network had struck a deal with one of the most famous and elite fashion houses: Badgley Mischka, designers of bejeweled gowns for the red carpet and celebrities.
We've written bits and pieces of this during the past two months, but we thought we'd tie it all up in a tidy package for Thanksgiving: There has been a sea change in the home shopping world, prompted by the disastrous economy and the crash of the luxury market.
Yes, home shopping networks have seen their sales hurt by the economy, like everyone else. But they claim they are still managing to steal market share from brick-and-mortar retailers. In fact, QVC is making a full-frontal assault on them this Black Friday, with 28 hours of special products and programming stunts starting Thanksgiving night.
The consumer press will continue to mention "cubic zirconia" in every story it writes about QVC or HSN, oblivious to the fact that some of the most esteemed names in fashion, jewelry and cosmetics — brands you find in Saks, Bloomingdale's and Neiman Marcus — are plying their wares on the aforementioned home shopping channels.
Male journalists are blind to this. You still have the nerds at Gawker, a snide Web Site for the navel-gazing media, chiding HSN for selling "useless crap."
If you have ever seen how male journalists dress or their fashion and style sensibilities, you will realize that you can't expect them to know names like Badgley Mischka, Judith Ripka, Robert Lee Morris, our fellow Montclair, N.J., resident Bobbi Brown, Yves Saint Laurent, Smashbox, Lancome and Dweck. And these brands and artists don't represent "useless crap."
Luxury-good makers are hurting, and they need to make up their loss in sales. So they are turning to outlets like QVC, as CEO Mike George explained at a recent Liberty Media conference, as outlets to distribute new lower-priced lines to the masses. George cited fashion designer Vivienne Tam's QVC alliance at the meeting held in Manhattan by his parent company, Liberty.
"This complete implosion of luxury retailing in America has caused all these folks to rethink their business model," George said.
And that means partnering with QVC, HSN or ShopNBC.
As we said, it will take the consumer press years to figure out that home shopping channels are distribution powerhouses that have undergone a transformation, in part because of the infllux of talent like a Morris, who does couture jewelry for designers like Donna Karan and RLM Studio sterling silver jewelry for QVC.
The Big Three — QVC, HSN and ShopNBC — are aggressively trying to broaden their audience and potential customer base, those who don't normally watch any of these three networks. That means the three are actually "programming" the channels, doing "shows" that have entertainment value, not just product shilling, so they will attract non-QVC or non-HSN watchers.
We remember once interviewing a QVC exec years ago and asking what the network's ratings were. He said ratings were irrelevant: QVC was only concerned about how many products were sold in an hour.
That's a totally different tune from what we heard recently from QVC's George, and from the strategies that HSN CEO Mindy Grossman and ShopNBC CEO Keith Stewart have initiated.
Like traditional TV networks, the home shopping players want viewers to "sample" a QVC or an HSN. These new audience members, hopefully, will then see products that they want to buy.
For example, singer Natalie Cole recently did a live concert on HSN to promote a new Holiday CD set she is selling on the channel. If you're a fan, you might tune in to HSN to see her, and then actually decide to purchase her CD. Artists such
as Jose Feliciano have also performed live on QVC.
QVC alum Stewart on a recent third-quarter conference call pointed out that actress-entrepreneur Suzanne Somers, who came to ShopNBC from HSN, had succeeded in attracting new viewers to Minneapolis-based ShopNBC because she was "entertaining." And these networks want new eyeballs.
And home shopping networks' capacity to reach millions of consumers and do fulfillment of orders has not been lost on magazine publishers, celebrities or cable's reality TV stars. With circulation falling, women's magazines such as Lucky, Allure, Glamour and Self are partnering with HSN to sell subscriptions.
And stars have seen the light. In a recent interview in Oprah Winfey's O magazine, Joan Rivers, who's had a jewelry line on QVC for almost 20 years, told O she was on home shopping when "nobody except dead celebrities was doing merchandise on TV."
Nowadays, it's hard to find a celebrity or TV star who doesn't have a home shopping line. Even Madonna was interviewed on HSN when she was selling her children's book.
Here's a partial list:
Paula Abdul, HSN, formerly "American Idol," Fox
Rachel Zoe, QVC, "The Rachel Zoe Project," Bravo
Isaac Mizrahi, QVC, "The Fashion Show," Bravo
Padma Lakshmi, HSN, "Top Chef," Bravo
Ramona Singer, HSN, "The Real Housewives of New York City," Bravo
Susan Lucci, HSN, "All My Children," ABC
Carson Kressley, QVC, "How to Look Good Naked," Lifetime Television
Dr. Robert Rey, ShopNBC, "Dr. 90210," E! Entertainment Television
Tori Spelling, HSN, "Tori & Dean: Home Sweet Hollywood," Oxygen
Paula Deen, QVC, Food Network
Rachael Ray, QVC, "The Rachael Ray Show," syndication
Ingrid Hoffmann, HSN, Food Network and Univision
Home shopping is a big business. ShopNBC is the also-ran in the group, but in the third quarter Stewart made some nice progress cutting its losses. Sales for the Big Three were all down, but down less than previous quarters.
And we are not talking chump change for these networks. The three home shopping channels generated $8.3 billion in net revenue in 2008. QVC domestic posted $4.9 billion, HSN netted $2.8 billion and ShopNBC had $568 million.
Even with revenue still slipping this year, for the first nine months QVC had revenue of $3.308 billion; HSN had net sales of $1.4 billion; and ShopNBC had $372.6 million in net sales.
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Jonathan Shaw is a self-described "world-traveling outlaw artist." Johnny Depp has had more than half of his six tattoos done by Jonathan. The Cure, David Lee Roth, Vanilla Ice, Marilyn Manson, Iggy Pop and supermodels Naomi Campbell and Kate Moss have also trusted Jonathan for their ink.
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Kat Von D is well-known for being the star on the hit reality show "LA Inc." on TLC, which follows her work at her tattoo shop, High Voltage Tattoo, in Hollywood, Calif.
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According to his website, Joshua Lord began tattooing in New York 11 years ago. Working at the original East Side Ink, he quickly established himself as an innovator.
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SOLON– Solon Garden Club will meet at 7 p.m. on Monday, Nov. 10, at the public library. The club will be decorating trees for the Habitat for Humanity fundraiser at the library. The club will be doing two trees– one with a nature theme (think dried flowers, seedpods, birds) and the other will be a more traditionally decorated tree. Bring items you would like to include on the trees. All are welcome. For more information contact Mardi Rasmussen at 319-624-4090.
SOLON– The public is invited to the second annual Holiday Vendor Fair, Sunday, Nov. 18, from 1 until 4 p.m. at Lake MacBride Golf Club (3891 Pro Rd. NE). The fair will have chocolate samples, prizes and great shopping from the following vendors: Dove Chocolate, Gott Twisted, Initials, Mary Kay, Norwex, Origami Owl, Pampered Chef, Scentsy, Stella & Dot, Tastefully Simple, Thirty One, Tupperware and more.
SOLON– Have you lost someone and are wondering how you will survive the holidays? That first holiday can be much easier with some guidance and planning. The Solon Griefshare Team will host its annual "How to Survive the Holidays After the Loss of a Loved One." program this month. The Griefshare team is comprised of members from all three of Solon's church communities.
SOLON– The Solon Knights of Columbus will hosting a breakfast Sunday, Nov. 11, from 8 a.m. until noon at St. Mary Catholic Church parish hall. The cost is $6 for ages 12 and older, $3 for ages six through 12, and free for ages six and younger. Omelets are available upon request.
SOLON– Standards-based grades have changed the way Solon teachers assess students. And while some are satisfied with the system, others aren't waiting to see the report card.
An October district survey of 376 students showed the new grades were raising questions about years of homework and straightforward tests and quizzes.
Over a dozen pages of anonymous comments from students tell the story from a student perspective; fear of change. Many commenters asked for homework credit to be reinstated or worried about grade point average and transcripts for college and career.
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I know they were only exhibition games, but the Iowa men's and women's basketball teams put on a great show Sunday afternoon at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
There has been a lot of hype about the men's basketball team coming into the season. With a top-rated recruiting class and a good returning nucleus, there's a lot of hope for a good season.
I know that not one Quincy player could probably start for a Big Ten team but when the Hawks jumped out to a 22-0 lead and cruised to a 100-54 win the fans were buzzing.
Who would have thought that the Iowa-Indiana game would be huge for both teams to get a shot at a bowl game?
The Hawks started strong, but couldn't finish and fell to 4-5, 2-3 in the Big Ten, with a 24-21 loss.
It was a busy weekend for Hawks fans.
I actually went to the field hockey game on Friday.
Iowa hosted fourth-ranked Penn State in the Big Ten Tournament and the Nittany Lions came out on top, 3-2.
Saturday, the football game at Indiana was delayed for an hour because of the weather and Sunday the men's and women's basketball teams played a doubleheader at Carver-Hawkeye Arena.
Michael Joseph Tedrow, 64, of rural Auxvasse, Mo., passed away Oct. 24, 2012, at his home. There was a Celebration of Life on Oct. 27 at Callaway Christian Church in Fulton, Mo., with Mark Kummer officiating. Military honors followed the service at the church.
Jean Marie Oberthien, 84, of Cedar Rapids, died Monday, Oct. 22, 2012, at St. Luke's Hospital from pneumonia.
Local survivors include her son Jeff (Laurie) Oberthien and her granddaughter Nicole Oberthien, both of Solon.
Jean was born Jan. 19, 1928, in Red Oak, the daughter of Harry and Pauline (Ervein) Johnson. She married John Oberthien on Jan. 9, 1952. Memorials may be directed to the family. Online condolences may be left for the family at www.teahenfuneralhome.com.


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A pioneering full-frame mirrorless camera that sets new standards. Helen says: "Now you can look at the viewfinder as you're shooting and immediately see what you're doing wrong, and make the changes in-camera in real-time."
In today's colour-saturated world, Canon Ambassador Helen Bartlett focuses on capturing memorable moments by taking photographs solely in black and white. Specialising in family and children's portraits, Helen has built her successful career around capturing images that people will treasure. Here she shares the tips and techniques she has learnt over the years, as well as her advice on the best Canon camera for black and white photography, to help you take more striking black and white pictures.
Helen is a self-made professional photographer. Her mother ran a nursery in their home, and Helen saw the opportunity: still a teenager, Helen began photographing the children and selling the black and white prints to their parents. "I realised that there was a difference between how people look at colour pictures and how they look at black and white pictures," Helen explains. "With colour pictures, your reaction is often, 'Ah! What was I wearing?' With black and white pictures, you never say that. In black and white pictures you just look at the situation, the emotion and the relationships."
It's a traditional viewpoint, more commonly adopted by the photojournalists of yesteryear, but with principles that can be applied to subjects as far-ranging as landscape to macro photography. So what advice does Helen have to improve your black and white photography?
Black and white photography is very different from shooting in colour, so you should take advantage of any settings your camera offers to help your immersion in it. "I have everything set up in black and white," Helen says. Not only does it help you while shooting to see the monochrome image on the screen, but "it also means my processing is faster," she explains.
Helen mainly uses a Canon EOS-1D X Mark II, but her favourite camera today is the Canon EOS R, which she says offers her a unique benefit. "On the EOS-1D X [as with most cameras], in monochrome mode, the picture on the back screen is monochrome, which is fantastic, but looking through the viewfinder, you still see in colour. Over the years I've trained myself to 'see' in black and white, but with the EOS R, you can set the [electronic] viewfinder to black and white, which to me is a total game-changer." Particularly for those less accustomed to black and white photography, Helen recommends using the EOS R. "So much of it is about the light and how you sculpt the light around your subject. Being able to see what you're doing in the viewfinder really, really helps."
When colour is (literally) out of the picture, it's all about light and shade. Helen mostly uses natural light, or whatever light is available. "I do have a continuous LED that I sometimes use, but I use whatever's in front of me. I'll be looking at where the light is falling, to see if I can get a bit more drama, a bit of graphic intensity, while still making sure I get what the family wants out of the picture.
"I find that different light works for different ages. If you've got really beautiful but strong light, for example, that's great for older children because you can point them in the right direction. But I shoot whatever the weather and a grey day can be a great day with gentler, more diffused, light."
"When I go into a house, I will wander around. I'll look in people's bedrooms, loft extensions... I'll be looking for the spot where the light is the best. And I find it's often not in the places my clients expect to be working. The living room, for example, might be dark and cavernous, whereas the bedroom where Grandma is staying at the top of the house might have a skylight with fantastic light."
"You have to be a bit careful with in black and white when you don't have the differentiation of colour – similar tones can blend into each other. For example, if you've got a child in a bright-red t-shirt running around in a garden where everything's green and you look at it with your 'colour eyes', and it's really obvious – they pop. Whereas in black and white, the two tones are quite similar. So you have to get used to seeing those things."
"You need to be able to differentiate between light and shadow," Helen continues. "If you've got a dark-haired person in a shadowy area, they might blend into the background. You need to manoeuvre them into a spot where you've got a little bit of light behind them, just to create a bit of differentiation there."
In the same way, Helen says, "look out for distracting light when you're shooting in black and white. For example, a picture frame can catch the light and become an annoying hotspot in the background, so you need to look out for them, and reflections. You don't need to worry so much about that red toy fire engine!"
Helen recommends having simple actions set up for your post-processing, for several reasons. As you develop your technique, you'll find what produces pleasing output (black and white prints can look quite different from digital images on-screen) but also, this will help the end results stay consistent with your style, and prevent your images looking dated because of isolated trends. "I like to keep things very simple, very classic, and my processing really hasn't changed much since the early years, so I know the pictures will work well together."
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This book was written for women, but men, don't let that stop you from buying it. It would be a great gift for a friend/mother/sister/wife/daughter, and after you have given it, try to sneak a peak at it yourself!
Anne Morrow Lindbergh wrote 'Gift from the Sea' before I was born, yet it still has fresh insight for today. Written during a vacation on the beach, Lindbergh shares wisdom and reflects on the shape that women's lives and relationships take amidst the pressing demands of family and career, and how to find balance and recharge when overwhelmed. Generations of women have enjoyed learning in her unsentimental, contemplative beach classroom, with shells as object lessons.When life's troubles and stress have beaten you down, read these meditations and let them return you to the calm rhythm of waves lapping on the beach.
Anne was an interesting woman. Married to famous aviator Charles Lindbergh, she had 6 children, one of whom was kidnapped and murdered. She herself was a pilot and adventurer, but you would never know that from reading her book (and indeed I didn't!). She writes from an inner strength and doesn't include many personal details.
In one chapter she talks about learning to want less and enjoy fewer things, dropping the acquisitiveness that we so often suffer from. "One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only a few, and they are more beautiful if they are few."
On a personal note. This book was given to me by a dear friend whose name was Meredith. Her name means "the sea" and she was a marine biologist. The ocean was always her place for restoration when life got her down. She now walks on the beaches of an eternal shore. She was a gift to me.


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It must be 40 -50 years old.
After church we had fellowship with Easter buns
and cold drinks.
Posted by Amrita at Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Labels: A taste of India, Church Life /Celebration
Darjeeling Tea... I love it! It was black or green tea? I see You had blessed time :)
I enjoyed this post Amrita and I love the picture of you, you are a lovely lady.
Dear Amrita,
One more great post. I can't help being amazed about what a rich and colorful life you are an important part of. You are hospital and thereby get to meet lots of great people, not to speak of the angels following.
Will pray for Ammaji and salvation of the young, smiling kids.
Good bless you for being such a great servant.
from felisol
Hello dear friend
How I do hope that your holiday was a refreshing time.
It is a good thing to be hospitable. Giving them rest is a priceless gift.
My MILove said hello and that she was thinking of you. Your name on her lip on Saturday. I am sorry of my little presence here. A time in my life of a bit of solitude.
Eat a green mango for me :)
Peace and a warm hug to you.
Thank you for sharing your day in word and photographs!
dear amrita..this is exactly what easter celebration should be, with jesus right in the midst of you!
mama looks so great and so happy to have everyone around her!
the food looks so good...you know i don't really care for pancakes but wow!.. with the ingredients that you use, i think that i just might!
amrita i am going to pray for ammaji..the lord will save her..my gramma golden was reached when she was about 72.
thank you amrita for such a godly and encouraging post!
WHERE was sheeba though..ha! if you find him, give him a pat on the head and give mama a hug from me...love terry
ps..i shall call ammaji mother too because her name is too hard to say!..god knows!
Thank you for your sweet words friends.
Dear Zim, Darjeeling tea is green tea. You boil water and soak the leaves for a while - strain and drink it without milk and sugar. I am sure you can get it in Poland.
Hi Donetta, I made mango pickle, hot chutney and now I will make sweet mango chutney.I am giving away loads.
Hi Terry, my friend Tigi took pix of the boys playing with Sheeba, I must ask him to pass some to me.
We in Poland have mostly black teas from Darjeeling - green is very rare.
We can get Darjeeling tea here and its very good...love your photos of the precious families.....and you look so lovely in your mothers sari...will have to check out the Korean pancakes..sound good...my SIL is Korean...
Thank you Dani.
Black tea is good too Zim.
Starting from today we have a Pastor 's daughter come and stay with us from 11 am to 4.30 pm. The Pastor and his wife are attending their church council meetings , so Ruth or Pinky comes to us,
Actually Pinky is a grown up woman, but she is physically and mentally challenged.A very sweet girl with a mind of a child.
Those are beautiful friends who visited you after so many years. Your home is like a haven for people and beasts who seek shelter in your bountiful garden. Souls and stomachs are filled when people and animals visit your place. God bless you more for that. Thanks for the post. God bless you always.


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New York designer Camille Zarsky makes python-skin handbags. She imports her materials from Europe, but she'd like to start sourcing a little closer to home, and she suspects she could even do a bit of ecological good—by making her products out of Florida pythons, Fast Company reports.
See, the Florida Everglades are basically overrun with pythons, an invasive species putting a dent in all manner of local, native wildlife, even alligators. They're terrible for the ecosystem, and it's gotten so bad the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission sponsored a big python hunt—excuse me, "opportunity to competitively harvest" the invaders.
Realizing the opportunity, Zarsky started meeting with some of the South Florida oddballs who've set up shop as semi-professional python hunters and has even become buddies with one in particular, in what is perhaps the greatest hook for a sitcom ever:
"I get texts from him that literally say, 'Hey Camille, how about this one, do you like it? I caught it last night.' And it's a photo of him standing in a swamp with a python in his arms," says Zarsky. "He's in rubber boots and a wife beater and jeans, and you can see there's a knife in his pocket, like something out of a movie."
The trouble is, while the skins are plentiful, she's having trouble finding a Florida tannery that can process the skins like she needs. Sending them to Europe (where they typically import skins from Asia) is prohibitively expensive. So if anyone's looking for a career change, you know who to call.
Image via Getty


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Late tonight you can catch some of the best sky watching of the year with the annual Geminids Meteor shower.
Hayden Planetarium's Joe Rao says it's always one of the best sky shows, but this year's shower is probably going to be especially good because the moon is at new phase. That means the moonlight won't steal the stage from these sparkly falling gems. You'll start seeing traces of the shower just after sunset, but the peak of the shower is supposed to happen as early as 10pm EST tonight and last into the early hours of tomorrow morning. At its climax, you'll see between 60 and 120 meteors falling from the sky. Of course, that's if you're on the east coast and in an ideal spot—a place with wide open sky where there's not a lot of light pollution. If you're not, you can watch along online here with NASA meteor experts.
What makes the Geminids so good? Rao explains that they're slower than other meteors, like the Perseids, which happen every August. He says Geminids look like little mice skittering across the sky. And tonight there's a chance that we'll also catch an appearance from an unnamed meteor shower, making the spectacle even more impressive. So grab your lawn chair, bundle up, and head out to your nearest open field to catch some beautiful falling cosmic dust tonight. [Hayden Planetarium, Space.com]
Image by: Primoz Cigler/Shutterstock


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Arguments for:
- His performance in The King's Speech should earn him another Oscar nomination, making it two years in a row. And the timing was similar for Hugh Jackman two years ago like this too, as Australia was just about to open wide when the SMA was announced.
- He's Mr Darcy AND Mark Darcy, he's Love Actually, there's an undeniable widespread affection that women feel for Colin Firth very closely associated with how they felt when they watched those movies, and these movies are among all time favourites. Colin's characters are made of daydreams and fantasies. Sometimes it's hard to separate the two.
- Adores his wife, doesn't mess around, the anti-thesis of Hugh Grant, looks f-cking amazing in a tuxedo, and that accent, who doesn't want to hear him propose in that accent?
- He's funny. He has a great, witty, silly personality. He's due.
Arguments against:
- Is Colin Firth "action-y" enough? Almost all the Sexiest Men Alive are action-y men too. You believe it in a stunt sequence to see them jumping over a bridge and landing on top a moving car. I love Colin but, um, I can't picture him doing this.
- Have you ever seen him with his shirt off? Like, is that a memory you can conjure easily? I feel like with the SMA, if you want to picture him topless, you should be able to quick google and find it. I spent 3 minutes searching for one and couldn't. This is not, to me, a negative. This only makes me even more fond of Firth. But there's a certain calendar boy perversion that goes with this selection, especially for those MiniVan ladies. And on that level he might not be fulfilling it.
- He's not American. And on the 25th anniversary of People Magazine's biggest issue, they probably want to choose to an American, non? Hugh Jackman was just two years ago. It's too soon. They usually leave 3 if not 4 years between non-USA born SMAs.
Odds: 6 to 1
Photos from Wenn.com
Colin Firth
Arguments for:


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Maine police investigate fatal Stockton Springs shooting
Maine State Police are investigating the fatal shooting of a 31-year-old man in the coastal town of Stockton Springs.
Spokesman Steve McCausland of the Public Safety Department said David Linscott of Brooks was shot at about 12:30 a.m. Saturday in the front yard of a house owned by 36-year-old Robert Tucker along U.S. Route 1.
Linscott died at the scene of a single gunshot wound.McCausland told News 8 Tucker shot Linscott.
McCausland said friends of Linscott were with him at the time of the shooting.
A short time afterward, they were located in Searsport and interviewed by police.
Investigators also interviewed Tucker.
McCausland says the case remains under investigation and so far no charges have been filed.
Police do not know whether Tucker and Linscott knew each other.