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Drivers needed to take care when traveling Interstate 76 today, but roads in Morgan County were not as bad as in some parts of the state.
A liquid de-icer truck went down overnight, which meant it could not put the chemicals on I-76 to get rid of ice, said Colorado Department of Transportation Foreman Wes Templeton. That meant I-76 west of Dodd Bridge Road was quite icy and slippery. Much of that part of the highway had ¼ to ½ an inch of ice on it.
Templeton said his crews were out from 6 p.m. Monday to keep highways clear. Highways 34, 144 and 71 in the county were slushy, but passable.
Roads out in unincorporated Morgan County were in pretty good shape, said Bridges Supervisor Dick Early.
Without strong winds to blow the snow, county roads were kind of melted on the dirt and pavement, making them driveable, he said.
He said there were places that saw about 6 inches of snow.
Fort Morgan snow crews reported from five to seven inches of snow in the city, said City Engineer Brad Curtis. Those crews were out from 7:30 p.m. Monday, with rotating shifts through this morning and continuing to clear snow and slush, and sand areas prone to icing.
He said roads were very slushy and slick through the night, though crews were able to keep up with the city streets. Much of the work was spent on Highway 34 through the city as the snow fell and the slush and snow built up.
The Parks Department, as the norm, was out about 5:30 a.m. today clearing sidewalks at public buildings and were done about 7 a.m.
Brush streets were slushy, but did not need plowing today, said Streets Supervisor Jerry Martinez. The city probably saw 1 to 1 ½ inches of snow.
Wiggins had about six or seven inches of snowfall, said Interim Town Administrator Jon Richardson.
He said he was out clearing the town streets at 4:30 a.m. They were clear early, and mostly slushy.
Fort Morgan, Brush, Wiggins, Weldon Valley, Lutheran Trinity and Riverview Christian schools were all open today.
CDOT reported it had crews on full snow shifts across the state, running 24 hours a day, with 120 to 130 plows working the Front Range and Eastern Plains through this morning.
Icy conditions were worse on Highway 34 west to Greeley. Greeley saw 12 inches of snow or more Monday and Monday night.
Templeton said he expects his crews to be out again tonight as another storm moves in.
Early said his people would be out tonight, too.
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Screaming twin cams begging for mercy aren't just for hachi drift cars. Sitting at the kids' table at the Ford's SEMA exhibit was this rally-inspired 1967 Volvo Amazon Kombi-69. The 2.8-liter turbocharged inline six under the hood allegedly kicks out 600 hp to the rear wheels, through a Toyota Supra tranny. All this helped the wagon win the title of Sweden's Hottest Volvo at the Vall kra Custom Car meet, near Landskrona, which is home to more hot Swedes than the Baby Dolls lounge in Gothenburg. [Gallery]
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Steve Yzerman is the adoptive son of Detroit and he took a position as the General Manager of the Tampa Bay Lightning in May of 2010. After 23 years as a Detroit Red Wing and four years as an apprentice to General Manager Ken Holland. Stevie learned the ropes of the National Hockey League from the business stand point and took his team to one win from the Eastern Conference Finals in 2010.
There are quite a few things from a business stand point we can learn from Stevie.
1. Do not burn bridges
Stevie will always be remembered as a Red Wing. He signed my puck at the team practice in Troy and even used his number 19 on it. He will always be a member of the Red Wings family no matter how far he travels or whose team he is employed by. He is adopted by the city of Detroit and by the Red Wings family for bringing hockey back and using his perseverance to win three Stanley Cups and be in the office for the fourth. He has not burned bridges but he still has the connections he once had and probably uses them. Just because you leave an employer that you have been with forever does not mean you lose the connections you once had.
2. Surround yourself with people who can help you
Stevie won a gold medal with Team Canada in the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver. Canada, his native country put him in a very pressure packed situation. He had taken the time to surround himself with A players so his team can have success down the road. I am pretty sure the Red Wings believe in this philosophy and this is how it was passed along to him. He did not graduate from high school yet he has a Masters degree in the NHL. You learn from the best and you can have long term goals. He sees the future and I am pretty sure he believes this philosophy.
3. You can always come home
Detroit will always be home for Stevie Y. He has done the right things for this city and always kept the windows of opportunity to success open. Mike Illitch will probably always think of him as an adoptive son since he has been through every phase of hockey with the Red Wings. He speaks highly of the Detroit area and has had many life experiences here. So when his paths cross again or maybe not with Detroit he knows he can always come home because people will always respect him. He never brought a scandal to Detroit but he brought grit, determination and was a quiet leader. He is doing the same thing with Tampa Bay and seems to be just as loyal.
This video is a really great because it shows what he has learned about the business, his team, what he hopes to accomplish and everything great Steve Yzerman brings to the table.


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Uganda-born Fighter Wins Big
[Sports: Boxing Europe]
Scottish-based Ugandan pugilist Badru Lusambya, alias "mister Crush," delivered on his nickname with a devastating knockout victory over Chas "Croydon Bomber" Symonds.
Lusambya, 27, who lives in Glasgow, put behind memory of his only defeat, to Gary McMillan, with his strong performance, and seventeenth career knockout.
Sadly, Symonds had to be carted away on life-supporting oxygen, after his knockout Sunday, at York Hall Bethnal Green.
Lusambya, who is promoted by MP Miranda, is a former African Union belt holder; he now vaults on the list of challengers for a Welterweight Commonwealth title.
The fight was halted at the 44th second of the third round as Lusambya delivered punishing blows, including head jolting upper cuts, on his opponent. In the second round, Symonds had succumbed twice but somehow beat referee Ken Curtis's count. He had held his own in the first round, not knowing that Crush was just warming up.
Withering body shots to Symonds's left ribs and a couple of uppercuts left him ready for the fall; he was supported by the ropes during several exchanges.
A thunderous hook in the third round closed the book and floored Symonds. Referee Curtis waved off the contest as the game but overmatched Symonds struggled to get back on his feet.
"I had seen his record, movements, and it took me just the first three minutes to study his weak points," Crush said, after the fight was halted. "He came all out but I was not moved by a few punches he sent in the first round."
He was unaware Symonds already was on life support in the locker room.
A heavy Symonds fan contingent had travelled here for the fight; they were disappointed by his devastating loss but many prayed for his recovery after the fight saying his health was more important.
Lusambya made his boxing debut in Europe with a draw last year at Scottish Exhibition Centre-Glasgow, against Gheorghe Danut, his first ever fight outside his native country; he then lost to Gary McMillan.
"Many good fighters have lost fights but they come back with different lessons," Crush said.
He said he has built speed and endurance by sparring with big name U.K. fighters like Manchester's David Barnes and Colin Lynes.
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By Greg Gullberg
April 25, 2013
Valdosta, GA - Cheers, tears and hugs marked the scene outside the Lowndes County Jail in Valdosta Thursday evening. Eyewitness News was the only News Team there when Jacquelyn Johnson was freed at sundown.
She's one of seven protesters arrested at the Lowndes County Courthouse Thursday for demanding answers in the death of her son, 17 year old Kendrick Johnson, also known as "KJ". He was found dead at Lowndes High School, wrapped in a wrestling mat in January.
"I'm going to be right back out at the courthouse in the morning (Friday), ready to do it all over again, until we get justice," said Jacquelyn Johnson, KJ's mother.
Eyewitness News obtained video of the arrests that was shot on a cellphone camera. The video shows the protesters blocking a hallway in the lobby of the courthouse, which is illegal. That's when they're hand-cuffed and dragged away. You can hear protesters chanting "No Peace, No Justice".
This is the third straight week his family and friends have been rallying daily for an official cause of death on the sidewalks of Downtown Valdosta.
A spokesman for the Lowndes County Sheriff's department would not give us any information on the arrests or their charges Thursday.
Official autopsy and toxicology tests have yet to be released. Preliminary reports show no signs of foul play, and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation expects a full report to be completed in the next few weeks.
While family was waiting on Jacquelyn Johnson's release from the Lowndes County Jail, the jail went into lock down, and protesters were pushed back the length of a football field. Deputies on the scene said there was a "threat", but they would not specify.


text: zachbunn 10 Posted December 29, 2012 While the tutorial posted by Fantasy Flight for the Star Wars LCG was great, we wanted to take a shot at making a video that was a bit more of a walk through and really showed how this games works. Yesterday, we posted our tutorial video and faq! As a heads up, we will be posting game reports in the near future for this game. Enjoy! Zach Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites


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text: From Kerry Martens, Marine Mammal Specialist We recently transported Chinook, the adult male dolphin that has been at the National Aquarium on breeding loan for the past three years, to the Brookfield Zoo in Illinois. Chinook was loaded into a specially made transport carrier and taken by truck to the airport. He was flown to Chicago with an Aquarium vet and trainer by his side. Upon arrival at Brookfield, he looked great and began to eat fish right away. We heard that he is already showing interest in the female dolphins at Brookfield Zoo! As part of a dolphin breeding consortium, we work with seven other zoos/aquariums to cooperatively manage and breed our dolphins. Male dolphins are commonly moved from place to place to breed with different female groups. This type of movement – male dolphins moving between groups of females for breeding – is also seen in dolphins in the wild. While we are excited for Chinook to go on and become a father once more (2-year-old Bayley is his daughter), he will certainly be missed by the National Aquarium's Marine Mammal Staff. His attempts to gain the attention of our female dolphins were occasionally comical, spinning in front of them in the middle of the pool or making unique vocalizations, and his overall laid-back demeanor made him a pleasure to work with. We'll miss you, Chinook! Tags: animal-transport, atlantic-bottlenose-dolphins, chinook, dolphin-trainer Categories: Animals, News Previous Post Next Post


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Straight from the programming trenches, The Pragmatic Programmer: From Journeyman to Master cuts through the increasing specialization and technicalities of modern software development to examine the core process—what do you do, as an individual and as a team, if you want to create software that's easy to work with and good for your users.
This classic title is regularly featured on software development "Top Ten" lists, and is issued by many corporations to new hires.
We wrote this book before we created our publishing business, and we do not publish it. The Pragmatic Programmer is published by Addison Wesley, and may not contain the same ebook features or format the same as our Pragmatic Bookshelf books. Paperbacks are available wherever old-fashioned paperback books are sold, and the ebook is available here—all available ebook formats for one price, with no restrictive DRM.


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Spotlighting the National Institute of Genealogical Studies
By Eileen A. Souza
I have been participating in the National Institute of Genealogical Studies (NIGS) online program for almost three years. NIGS works in affiliation with the Continuing Education Division of St. Michael's College in the University of Toronto in offering comprehensive genealogy courses and certificate programs. The web site is www.genealogicalstudies.com.
The course work ranges from basic to advanced, with the lessons and homework becoming correspondingly more difficult. I have been very challenged by this program and feel a sense of satisfaction as I progress through the various levels. I see the improvements in my own personal research and in my client work. I would definitely recommend this program to others.
I have completed my certificates in Basic and Intermediate Genealogical Studies for General Methodology and American Records and am working toward a Certificate in Genealogical Studies-American Records. Once I complete this 40 course program, I will be able to use the post-nominal, PLCGS (Professional Learning Certificate in Genealogical Studies), after my name.
The instructors are dedicated genealogists who do an excellent job of knowledge transference. You can find the faculty list at http://www.genealogicalstudies.com/eng/leaders-staff.asp.
NGIS offers a Certificate in Genealogical Studies with a specialty in one of the following record types: American Records, Australian Records, Canadian Records, English Records, German Records, Irish Records, Scottish Records, General Methodology and Librarianship. Details can be found at http://www.genealogicalstudies.com/eng/certificates.asp. You may sign up for a certificate program or just take individual courses.
Each course consists of reading and assignments for the student to complete. Assignments cover a range of problem-solving and analytical exercises and each course ends with a final exam. Assignments are generally submitted online and are graded along with the exam.
Each level of instruction has an analysis and skills mentoring course where you apply what you have learned to date and analyze a case study. This course provides for two appointments with your instructor to obtain feedback on your progress.
There are numerous live "chats" held every month and you may attend as many as you wish in any of the courses. Recently, the Institute switched the chats to Microsoft's LiveMeeting. This is a very exciting option as the instructor can now present/teach during the session and with webcams you can see the instructor and fellow students.
All in all, I believe that NIGS courses are instructive, challenging and cost-effective alternatives for the continuing education of genealogists.
Eileen Souza is finishing the ProGen Study Program this month in the ProGen 4 group. She can be contacted at firstname.lastname@example.com or www.oldbonesgenealogy.com


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The capacity for an OLAP cube to store and organize colossal quantities of data is the attribute that makes OLAP more valuable for reporting than a standard relational database. Queries that take 20 minutes to return results in a relational database can return the same results in less than 1 minute when the system uses previously calculated aggregate tables. But if you have a cube containing more than a year's worth of sales measures, which are represented by more than 20 million records, adding new records to the sales fact table and processing the data cube can take several hours. It seems strangely inefficient to have to reprocess huge stores of old data that haven't changed just so you can incorporate a few records to the cube. You need a way to add those records to the existing cube in the few minutes it takes to process only the new records.
To make matters more complicated, let's say you need to add daily sales records to the cube automatically in a batch program every night. You need to incrementally and automatically update the cubes. This capability is critical to the successful implementation of an enterprise-level cube, yet it is one of the most under-documented and most easily misunderstood processes of OLAP Services. Using the example in which daily sales records are added to the cube, I'll show you how to set up the relational tables to facilitate incremental updates. Then I'll show how to manually update cubes incrementally and how to programmatically update cubes through the Decision Support Objects (DSO) COM interface. Finally, I'll explain how to do incremental updates with Data Transformation Systems (DTS).
Setting Up the Relational Tables
OLAP Services' ability to identify records in the relational tables that haven't yet been entered into the cube makes the incremental update possible. Without this ability, OLAP Services couldn't differentiate the new data from the old data. When you apply an incremental update without this step, all the cube's measures are counted twice because OLAP Services sums the new measures with existing ones.
To successfully implement incremental updates, OLAP Services needs to compare elements in the fact tables to data in the OLAP cube in a way that excludes data already in the cube. To demonstrate this method, I'll use a unique incrementing field in the fact table that will be aggregated with the MAX() column function. By using MAX(), you can write a simple MDX query that will return the largest ID number stored inside the cube. Any record containing a larger ID number in the underlying relational tables is a candidate for inclusion the next time the cube is processed. If your fact tables are populated with batch programs that can supply a unique batch number for every set of inserted records, then you could use that batch number instead. To use the following techniques, you just need to ensure that the records in the fact table contain a sequential numeric column that can be stored in the cube as a measure.
Adding a measure in the cube only because you need to manage incremental updates internally might not seem to be a best-practices strategy. But I find that if you don't add a measure, the relational tables will continually need to keep track of which records in the fact table were used to populate the cube. I explored two methods of using only the relational tables to differentiate the new records in the fact table from the ones already used to populate the cube. You could establish one fact table per partition, and write lengthy procedures that ensure the fact tables are populated correctly, but then you would need to do a full refresh on the individual partitions. Another, perhaps better, option is to represent the fact table with a view that contains a WHERE clause that limits the rows returned to those rows that are not present in the cube. You could set up this view by maintaining a separate ID tracking table that contains the last ID sent to the cube. Each time users updated the cube, they would also have to update the table to reflect the last ID sent to the cube. The view's results would be based in part on the last ID on that table. The problem with this method is that it's nearly impossible to ensure that the cube update succeeded before you update the ID management table on the relational database. Another problem is that the cube could get updated properly but the ID management table update could fail, which means that OLAP Services might repopulate the cube with existing data. I've found no acceptable way to wrap two, separate processes around a common transaction when one occurs in SQL Server and the other within OLAP Services. To ensure that even interrupted transactions leave both the OLAP cube and the underlying relational tables in a consistent state, you need to let the cube store the information about the records it contains compared to the records in the fact tables. You can best accomplish that by using the previously mentioned identity key as the measure.
Incrementally Updating a Cube Through the OLAP Manager
A cube is a structure that contains a hierarchy of smaller structures called partitions, which contain portions of aggregated data. Incremental updates need to interact with the cube at the partition level. Partitions are often described as slices of the cube because they represent parallel subsets of data. For example, you can divide a sales cube into partitions, each containing sales data for a quarter of the year. But because these partitions are part of the same cube, client queries don't have to account for this configuration. A cube comprises at least one partition, and might comprise tens or hundreds of partitions to optimize data access and processing. The key to successfully implementing multiple partitioned cubes is ensuring that each partition contains only the data pertaining to that partition. Otherwise, the cube might return incorrect data.
You can use one of two methods to ensure that multiple partitions never contain overlapping data. One method is to associate a partition with a separate fact table or a view that contains only the subset of data needed to populate that partition. This is a good method when you're creating a new partition for new data and you're designating the current partition to hold only archived data. With this method, the cube needs to reprocess only the new partition to account for any new data coming in. The second method is to place a filter on the partition, which means that the OLAP engine will process only the data it was meant to contain even though the engine uses the same fact table each time it processes the data. The latter method is most useful when you're doing incremental updates.
For the daily sales update example, you need to place a filter that returns only those records that have an ID value greater than the largest ID value in the cube. You can find this value in the cube's data browser. Because in this example, OLAP Services uses the MAX() function to aggregate the ID field, you can find the highest ID value by taking the highest-level aggregate of all the dimensions, which is the default level shown when you open the OLAP Manager Cube Editor, as Screen 1 shows. To place a filter on the current partition, select the cube you will be using and expand the tree under it to expose several subfolders, including the Partitions subfolder. When you click on Partitions, you'll see a list of the cube's partitions. Right-click on the partition that, by default, has the same name as the cube. From the dialog box, select Edit, and type in the WHERE clause, as Screen 2 shows.
From the Process a Cube dialog box, select Incremental update, as Screen 3 shows. When you select this option, OLAP Services will add to the partition only the records that match the filter. Note that if a user selects a full reprocess or a refresh while the filter is still in place, then the partition will be emptied of all records and OLAP Services will add to the cube only the records that correspond to the filter. So if you increment data manually, make sure you remove the filter from the partition after OLAP Services processes the cube.
Automatic Incremental Updates
You can learn more about DSO's basic structure by walking through portions of VB code, described below, that you need to accomplish each step of the tasks. Note that for simplicity, I've omitted error handling and hard-coded values in these examples.
The topmost object is the server, which you instantiate in the following manner :
Dim dsoServer as DSO.Server Set dsoServer = new DSO.Server
Then, connect the server to the OLAP server:
After you create the server connection, you can access the next level in the hierarchy through the MDStores interface, which is a generic interface to access the level below for any hierarchical DSO object. So, you use this method to access the WIDGET database in the server:
Dim dsoDb as DSO.MDStore Set dsoDb = new dsoServer.MDStores('Widgets')
You can use the same interface to gain access to the cube that will be processed, as in:
Dim dsoCube as DSO.MDStore Set dsoCube = new dsoDb.MDStores('Sales')
Now you need to find the cube's partition. By default, when the cube has only one partition, it adopts the same name as the cube, as in this example:
Dim dsoPartition as DSO.MDStore Set dsoPartition = new dsoCube.MDStores('SALES')
Based on the manual procedure for incrementally updating a partition, you could logically conclude that now you only need to apply a filter to the partition and run an IncrementalUpdate() function, as in the method that used the OLAP Manager interface. But the process isn't that simple. DSO does provide a process method within the partition object that you call with
But the process types available are limited to those in Table 1. So where is the Incremental flag? There is none. The OLAP Manager made it look as if there was one by offering Incremental update as one of the processing choices, along with Full Process and Refresh. But OLAP Services actually uses only the DSO methods available in Table 1. OLAP Services creates a new temporary partition that contains the filter you entered and adds the new data to this partition. Then, OLAP Services merges the temporary partition with the original one, which is possible only as long as the structures of the two partitions are the same.
To create a temporary partition, you use the cube object, as in:
Dim dsoTmpPartition as dsoCube.MDStores Set dsoTmpPartition = dsoCube.MDStores.AddNew('~tmpPartition')
Note that I placed a tilde character before the temporary partition name. DSO handles any partition that begins with a tilde as a temporary partition, and destroys the partition after the connection to it is released. This is an important point because OLAP Services will add any remaining partitions to the parent cube measures whether they were intended to be temporary or not. Using the tilde character ensures that the partition will disappear even after an interruption of the merge.
To be merged, the temporary and original partitions need to have the same dimension and level structure. Instead of programmatically creating the structures one by one, you can use a method designed for that purpose, as in:
This method ensures that the temporary partition is structurally the same as the original. To limit the amount of data that goes into this partition, you need to apply a filter, as in the manual process. To apply the filter, you need to find the highest ID value in the cube. You need to use ADO multidimensional (ADO MD) to extract the information from the cube, as Listing 1 shows.
After recovering the value of the highest ID in the cube, you can create the filter for the partition. DSO uses the filter as a WHERE clause for the fact table, so you need to structure the filter as such, as Listing 2 shows.
After you process the partition, you need to remove the existing filter before merging the temporary and original partitions. Otherwise, OLAP Services will add the temporary filter to the original partition's filter, which usually isn't the result you want. Also, keep in mind that attempting to merge an empty partition will cause a run-time error, so you need to test the temporary partition to see whether any rows were added before you attempt the merge, as in Listing 3. And with that step, you've automatically processed the cube.
Using DTS to Incrementally Update Cubes
Recently Microsoft introduced a new DTS add-in task called the OLAP Services Processing Task, which lets you apply incremental updates to cube partitions. Because it lets you control task flow in a GUI environment, the OLAP Services Processing Task provides a convenient way to schedule these updates and integrate them with scheduled fact table tasks. You can download the add-in for free from http://www.microsoft.com/sql/bizsol/DTSKit.htm.
To create a package without adding any custom DTS code, I created a SQL Server table that serves only to store the last highest ID in the cube. This method lets you create a generic filter on the partition. A SQL query in the data pump will gather the information relating to the highest ID present in the cube. This SQL query gets the maximum value of the ID field from the fact table immediately before OLAP Services processes the cube. This information will later help filter the fact table without your having to modify the WHERE clause in the partition before each update. In this case, I called the table SALESID and created two fields, as Listing 4 shows.
As the name suggests, the ID field holds the highest ID found in the cube and the BATCHDATE field helps determine which is the last record entered in the table. You can also use the BATCHDATE field as an internal audit to see when OLAP Services attempted to gather that value.
You need to create one connection for the cube and another for the database where the SALESID table was created. To create the OLAP connection, open the OLE DB connection, select the Microsoft OLE DB Provider for OLAP Services data source, and enter the name of the OLAP server in the Server field, as Screen 4 shows. The connection icon will automatically change to a cube-like object, as Screen 5 shows.
Then, you need to add the connection to the SQL Server database and add a transformation task that adds a record to the SALESID table containing the highest ID value in the cube at that time. Again, at processing time, the filter in the partition will use this value to determine which records are needed to add measures to the cube. You need to use an MDX query as the source of the transformation to get the highest ID value, as Screen 6 shows. Be sure to link the time-related dimension information to the ID field, as Screen 7 shows. In this case, the TIMEDATA column contains the cell that needs to be sent to the ID field.
If the cube update process enters a measure into the cube that depends on dimensions that don't yet exist, you will get an error that prevents the cube from processing. To avoid this error, create a task that updates the dimension data before updating the cube partitions. Successful partition processing depends on the success of this step. To set up a dimension processing task, choose the OLAP Services Processing Task icon represented by a solid yellow cube, as Screen 8 shows.
After OLAP Services successfully updates the dimension, the partition processing can begin. In this case, you need to add to the partition portion of the task a filter that brings only records from the fact table that have a higher ID value than the highest one in the cube. After you choose the partition and then choose incremental update as the processing option, you'll see fields that let you change the fact table and the filter. In this case, change only the filter, as in Screen 9. Unlike the filter that's applied directly to the partition through the OLAP Manager, this filter exists only while the task is running and no longer exists in the partition after the task is run. Screen 10 shows the executing DTS package.
You can run the task on a scheduled basis, but remember that if no new records need processing, the partition processing portion of the task will fail with an error. In the DSO code from the previous section, I avoided processing the partition if no new records existed in the temporary partition. Because DTS merges a temporary partition with the original one to accomplish incremental processing, you might get an error when you use DTS because it doesn't check for cases in which the temporary partition is empty. If you want to avoid this error, simply include some checks in the DTS package that prevent that portion of the task from beginning if no new records are in the fact table.
Automating Data Integration
The ability of cubes to provide meaning to data becomes even more valuable when the data is up to date. Understanding how OLAP Services treats incoming data and how you can take advantage of that knowledge to automate your data integration process is crucial to managing servers containing large, multiple cube structures that are refreshed on a regular basis.


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LG isn't the only manufacturer eyeing up the Windows Phone 8 platform, with reports suggesting Asus is also checking out the latest mobile OS.
According to the Wall Street Journal, the Taiwanese firm is discussing a possible Windows Phone 8 licensing deal with Microsoft.
The news hasn't come from some dodgy source but from Asus VP Benson Lin, bringing credibility to musings that the firm is indeed considering the platform.
Lin also suggested that Asus was thinking about bringing its Padfone design to the Windows platform.
"With our Padfone concept, the phone plus tablet, I think it makes sense for Windows 8," he said.
There's no guarantee that such a device will ever make it out of the firm's labs and the current Windows set up doesn't allow for a crossover device capable of switching between Windows Phone 8 on a smartphone and Windows 8 / RT on a tablet.
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The sun shines brightly onto the portico of the National History Museum in Washington, D.C., as early morning joggers run up and down the National Mall.
It is early enough that the hordes of tourists have not yet arrived, and the birds are all unabashedly singing their springs songs. The museum's doors are still shuttered, but for some unknown reason the museum is playing classic jazz, softly, from speakers hidden discretely in the trees. A few other locals are here like me, taking their morning cup of coffee in the sun before heading to work.
Washington is a city of many faces, from run-down and weathered to clean-cut and self-assured. But it is a city, a place where people work and live. One of the distressing things I've realized since I've moved here is how much this urban side of Washington is unknown to the rest of the United States and the world.
Instead, Washington exists as a symbol, representing all that is wrong with the federal government. In its use as a synecdoche for the entire federal power structure, the word "Washington" has for Americans stopped representing a real city full of real people.
This was brought home to me quite forcefully when the Federal Transit Administration denied funding for a dedicated bus-way on K Street, a major east-west thoroughfare in the city.
If there ever were a street where a bus-way made sense, it is this one — it is wide enough to easily accommodate a separated bus-way, and currently suffers horrendous traffic that makes taking any bus on K Street during rush hour often slower than just walking.
While it is unclear why FTA denied funding for the project, the speculation is that the name K Street was simply too politically charged, because too many journalists have used the name as shorthand for Washington's lobbyist culture. The headline of the Obama administration "giving money to K Street" may have just been too scary for the FTA.
So it's come to this: a mass transit project helping tens of thousands of people on their daily commute (including me) might have been rejected because the road name has been symbolically linked to Washington corruption. The real city's growth and development is now controlled by our symbolic meaning.
Indeed, maybe it was always so. The very layout of streets — the broad avenues radiating out from the Capitol, the grid of lesser streets numbering out distance from that central point — was symbolic. Rather than being symbolic of everything that is corrupt, Washington's plan once symbolized the hopes and aspirations of American democracy.
Real life in Washington has long proceeded in the shadow of symbolism. It is a perfectly livable state of affairs, but one that sometimes seems exceedingly odd.
— Text by Rob McDonald, Cool Green Science Blog


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|Blanched perilla wraps with braised egg circles
● Korean perilla leaves*
● 2 cups Korean rice, white or brown**, cooked and mixed with 1 TBSP sesame oil and ½ TBSP salt.***
● spicy sauce paste (쌈장, Ssamjang) → Click here for the recipe.
*You can find perilla leaves or ggaennip in your local Korean markets.
**Brown rice tastes the best when it is cooked in a pressure rice cooker. Brown rice is healthier than white rice. Here's why.
***If you prefer, you can substitute vegetable fried rice for plain rice. If you are a health-conscious cook, then just use plain rice instead of seasoned or fried rice.
Version 1: BLANCHED PERILLA RICE WRAPS
1. Wash your perilla leaves.
2. Bring a large pot of water to a boil over high heat. Add in a pinch or two of salt.
3. Put the perilla leaves in the boiling water and allow them to boil for 3~5 seconds. Be careful not to overcook as this will make the leaves mushy and deplete the nutritional value.
4. Drain the excess water from the perilla leaves with a slotted spoon or strainer.
5. Put the blanched perilla leaves in the ice water. Leave them in the water until no longer warm. This will help stop the cooking process, retain the nutrients, and prevent discoloration.
6. Drain the perilla leaves through a strainer and pat them dry.
7. Place a perilla leaf on the cutting board. Put the back side facing upwards. If the leaf is too small, use one more, overlapping them lengthwise.
8. Scoop up a dollop, about ¼~ ½ teaspoon, of spicy Korean sauce paste, ssamjang, and place it in the middle of the perilla leaf.
9. Take ¾ ~1 TBSP of the rice and place it on top of the sauce paste.
|Korean sauce paste, ssamjang
|Steps 7-8
9. Take ¾ ~1 TBSP of the rice and place it on top of the sauce paste.
10. Fold over the leafstalk side toward the tip of the leaf.
11. Fold over two corners.
12. Roll the ball toward the tip of the leaf till the edges seal.
|Steps 9-10
|Steps 11-12
13. Perilla rice wraps can be served whole or cut in half to display the contents.
|Blanched perilla wraps
with barbecued beef short ribs (galbi)
Version 2: RAW PERILLA RICE WRAPS
1. Wash your perilla leaves and pat them dry.
2. Cut off the leafstalks of the perilla leaves with a kitchen knife or kitchen scissors.
3. Make a cut to the center of each perilla leaf along the midrib.
4. Fold the leaves, overlapping the edges, and you now have cone-shaped leaves.
5. Take ¾ ~1 TBSP of the rice to form it into a small ball.
|Steps 2-4
5. Take ¾ ~1 TBSP of the rice to form it into a small ball.
6. Place the rice ball in the middle of the cone-shaped perilla leaf.
7. Scoop up a dollop, about ¼~ ½ teaspoon, of spicy Korean sauce paste, ssamjang, and place it on top of the rice.
8. Serve the wraps in a quiche or pie plate to help them keep their shape instead of spreading.
|Mixed grains – brown and black whole grain rice,
barley, and millet – are used here instead of white rice.


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MPCV in Martian orbit. (Artist's concept/NASA).
NASA may just have new marching orders for the post-shuttle era. Recently, NASA and Lockheed Martin announced a re-designation of its Orion (That OTHER Orion, not the Dyson one that shoots nukes out the back!) capsule as the MPCV, or the Multi-Purpose Crew Vehicle. The project had been in the doldrums since the cancellation of the Constellation program, and fans of manned spaceflight had wondered what was next for NASA with only one space shuttle flight remaining. [Read more...]


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Be productive. Find a point to pointlessness. And fool around a bit. These are teasers from a few of the tips offered recently by student journalists.
As fall semester and this calendar year came to a close, editors, and columnists at campus newspapers nationwide earnestly reflected on lessons learned, experiences undertaken, and dreams that lay ahead. In some cases, their reflections double as de facto New Year's resolutions for their student peers to consider.
Below is a sampling of these resolutions, all of them appearing late last semester within student newspaper columns and op-eds.
Be Productive Over Break. As The Minnesota Daily editorial board at the University of Minnesota advises, "[W]hile break is certainly a good time for well-deserved rest, it's also important to take advantage of our free time and use it productively. Spending some time looking for scholarships, applying for jobs or internships, polishing résumés, and planning out the rest of the year are important tasks that most of us will eventually have to complete. Therefore, over break, we might as well get them done before homework, exams, and those pestering online quizzes overly burden us."
Enjoy Being Pointless Every Once in A While. As Duke University junior Lillie Reid argues in The Duke Chronicle, "I'm not saying that having goals and working to attain them is bad. Caring about things and working to do well are possibly the most important attributes of a successful person. The problem arises when we take it too far—when everything has to have a goal-directed point. When we get so caught up getting what we want that we lose sight of ourselves. . . . Don't take yourself too seriously. Just because something doesn't directly contribute to achieving a goal, it doesn't mean that it's not worth doing. There is a point to pointlessness."
Brace for Change. As Christopher Witten writes in The Daily Helmsman about his own experiences at the University of Memphis, "[T]here's one thing I wish I had known when I was a freshman, or more so just been aware of: everything was going to change– my group of friends, my attitude towards college and even my major (a few times), and most of all the university. The school I feared for so long would become my home. So take it from someone who's done this a time or two: brace for change."
Cornell University senior Katerina Athanasiou agrees with Witten, noting in The Cornell Daily Sun, "College is a nomadic time. Every six to ten months, we pack up our things to relocate, whether it be from Ithaca to home, or to a new apartment just a few blocks away, or to another hemisphere for a semester. We are in constant motion. We are always moving in to new places and acquiring stuff to make them homes. This might be the ideal time to reconsider what you own and what you actually need."
Fool Around a Little Bit. As Florida State University student Samantha Husted tells underclassmen especially in the FSView & Florida Flambeau, "Your sophomore and freshmen years are a time when you're supposed to fool around a little bit. Go-out-to-that-party-even-though-you-have-a-test-the-next-morning kind of thing. There's a lot of room for mistakes and it's the time when you're allowed to make a few rash decisions. You're even allotted a few embarrassing moments that you may or may not regret but will most likely turn into a funny story 20 years from now. It's during this time that you're supposed to get not all, but a lot of that craziness out of your semester before you have to face your junior and senior year."
Believe in Yourself. As University of Arkansas senior Saba Naseem writes in The Arkansas Traveler, "Keep your head up and hold on to your dreams. Giving up is the ultimate failure. You won't achieve anything that way. I've realized that perhaps I won't achieve my goals the way I planned, but there are other avenues, and perhaps this is an opportunity for me to explore those. There is something out there for everybody. It's just a matter of determination, of patience and believing in yourself."


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University of Hawaii Community Colleges joins national initiative to help more community college students succeed
UHCC joins 'Achieving the Dream' and receives commitments from funding partners totaling $1.5 millionUniversity of Hawaiʻi
Susan Lee, (808) 956-5852
Office of the Vice President for Community Colleges
HONOLULU - Hawaii's community colleges will join Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count, a national initiative to help more community college students succeed, with commitments from funding partners totaling $1.5 million.
Implementing the State of Hawaii participation in the Achieving the Dream demonstration project will be the shared responsibility of the University of Hawaii system through the Office of the Vice President for Community Colleges, the Office of Hawaiian Affairs, and the Kamehameha Schools. The financial partners are major institutions within the state that play leadership roles within the Hawaiian community. Each has committed to provide $100,000 per year for the five years of University of Hawaii Community Colleges (UHCC) involvement in the Achieving the Dream demonstration project.
Achieving the Dream provides participating colleges with support to implement strategies designed to help more students-particularly students of color and low-income students-earn degrees, complete certificates or transfer to other institutions to continue their studies. Achieving the Dream emphasizes building a culture of evidence to identify effective practices, improve student success rates and close the achievement gaps.
"Community colleges with their low cost and community locations provide excellent access to higher education, yet success is not just about coming in the door but leaving with the degrees and skills needed to succeed in the work place or in a baccalaureate program," said John Morton, UH Vice President for Community Colleges. "Our participation in the Achieving the Dream initiative will help ensure that we provide this access with success for our students."
"OHA is pleased to support the University of Hawai'i Community College system in its endeavor to increase the student success for its Native Hawaiian population," said OHA Administrator Clyde Namuo. He added that Goal Four of OHA's strategic plan is to develop and implement a strategy to ensure Native Hawaiians access to all education opportunities. "This collaborative effort moves OHA towards meeting its strategic goal in the area of education," remarked Namuo.
"We, at Kamehameha Schools, are excited by the potential that this collaboration has to improve the outcomes for groups of community college students who have traditionally been challenged in their educational endeavors, specifically Native Hawaiian learners," said Chris Pating, vice president for strategic planning and implementation at Kamehameha Schools.
"This collaboration is in complete alignment with the objective of our Education Strategic Plan, which is to increase the capability and well-being of the Native Hawaiian people by creating long-term intergenerational change via education," added Pating.
The seven community colleges of the University of Hawaii system are among 24 institutions in eight states joining Achieving the Dream this year, bringing the total number to 82 participating institutions in 15 different states. Other funding partners will support the expansion in other states. Overall, nearly $100 million has been invested in the initiative since it launched in 2004.
"I cannot overstate the importance of helping community college students succeed," said Martha D. Lamkin, president and CEO of Lumina Foundation for Education, which provided the initial funding for Achieving the Dream. "Community colleges enroll almost half of the nation¡¦s undergraduates, and the students they serve often have few other options for a higher education," Lamkin said. "With today's jobs requiring more and more postsecondary education, the role of these institutions is more vital than ever."
Officials at MDC Inc., the organization that serves as the initiative's managing partner, cited Achieving the Dream's comprehensive approach as a key to its continued expansion. "Achieving the Dream's mission of helping colleges focus research and resources in support of student success is one we've found resonates widely among foundations, state agencies, business leaders, colleges and students," said Carol Lincoln, senior program director at MDC and the initiative¡¦s national director.
Start-up funding for Achieving the Dream was provided by Lumina Foundation for Education, which continues to provide funding for the 27 community colleges included in the initiative's initial five-state launch in 2004 as well as for other elements of the initiative's work. Since then, additional funders have joined the initiative, bringing more institutions and new states into the Achieving the Dream community. More about Achieving the Dream, including a full list of participants, can be found online at http://www.achievingthedream.org.
In addition to the funding partners, eight national partner organizations work with Lumina to guide the initiative and provide technical and other support to the colleges and states. They are: the American Association of Community Colleges; the Community College Leadership Program at the University of Texas-Austin; the Community College Research Center, Teachers College, Columbia University; Institute for Higher Education at the University of Florida; Jobs for the Future; MDC; MDRC; and Public Agenda.
About Achieving the Dream
Achieving the Dream: Community Colleges Count is a national initiative to help more community college students-particularly students of color and low-income students-succeed. The initiative works on multiple fronts-including efforts at community colleges and in research, public engagement and public policy-and emphasizes the use of data to drive change.
About University of Hawaii Community Colleges
The University of Hawaii Community Colleges (UHCC) system comprises seven colleges located throughout the state. Collectively, the community colleges offer more than 270 degree and certificate programs in a wide range of technical and career programs, as well as undergraduate liberal arts. Annually, UHCC enrolls approximately 25,000 or more than half of all students who enroll in the University of Hawaii system.


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It's Fall-themed foods time! So that means it's pumpkin-mania time!
These muffins were so tremendously dense & moist because of the apple sauce, pureed pumpkin, and yogurt I used. Also, they were not so sweet, so to me they were perfect! I can't wait to have another tomorrow! It was a success in the kitch today! BTW, only 100 calories each!
Oh and would you look at that! A printable recipe!? Yes. You're welcome. Printable workouts and printable recipes. Your life is too easy ;P
PS: Lately I've been watching way too much Food Network for my own good…Iron chef, Chopped, and Sweet Genius. Love the talented chefs and their art, but goodness, these shows make me SO stressed out! They have me on the edge of my couch the whole time. Do you watch Food Network? Addicted much?


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- "Francis" redirects here. For the airport in GTA III, see Francis International Airport, Shoreside Vale. For the airport in GTA IV, see Francis International Airport, Dukes. For other Character, see Francis "Frankie" Garone.
- "Fucking Frankie, my brother. He may have a badge, but I tell you for a fact he's as crooked as the rest of us McRearys."
- ―Patrick McReary
- "There's no good and no evil... just shades of fucking grey."
- ―Francis McReary
Francis "Frankie" McReary (Irish: Proinsias Mac Ruairí) is a character in the Grand Theft Auto series who appears as a main character in Grand Theft Auto IV.
Francis is the corrupt Deputy Police Commissioner, and the second oldest member of the McReary Family. He works at the Westminster Police Station in Westminster, Algonquin.
Francis is the brother of Patrick McReary, Derrick McReary, and Gerald McReary. He is the second oldest brother of the McReary family. Francis is unsurprisingly the only McReary brother who wasn't involved in the Three Leaf Clover mission.
Francis and his brothers grew up in an Irish Catholic home. He is looked down upon by his brothers, who consider him a hypocrite for his police career; Patrick McReary remarks that "Francis is just as crooked as we are — moreso"; Francis affords his brothers similar disdain for their open criminality. He initially wanted to become a priest, but as his brother Patrick recalls, he had to abandon that ambition after being caught cheating on his final test to be a priest; he also had a selfish tendency to take money from the donation plate as an altar boy.
Francis tells Niko that his philosophy to cleaning up the streets of Liberty City is "one percent at a time" — assassinate small-time crooks and drug dealers one by one, to "improve" the city without involving the legal system. This may be mere self-justification on Francis' part — the tasks he sets for Niko are overwhelmingly focused on covering up his own misdeeds. Francis is implied to have illicit tastes, which go unspecified but which may be related to drugs and/or prostitution, as he orders the assassination of a drug-dealing pimp who is implied to be personally inconveniencing him.
It seems he has the same philosophy as Frank Tenpenny, thinking if a necessary number of people do like he does, the community would improve.
Events of Grand Theft Auto IV
Francis first meets Niko Bellic during a publicity spot with Manny Escuela. Later in the game, he calls Niko and arranges a meeting at Castle Gardens, where he reveals that he knows of Niko's criminal activity in Liberty City; Niko agrees to work for Francis in exchange for his turning a blind eye to Niko's other crimes.
Francis first orders the death of a blackmailer who possesses incriminating photographs, and then the death of Tom Goldberg, a lawyer who has evidence against Francis. He has Niko kill a drug-dealer and pimp in the East Holland projects, and then the dealer's accomplice, who is threatening to talk to the police about McReary.
Blood Brothers
After Francis' brother Derrick returns from Ireland, Derrick intends to expose Francis' corruption out of spite, something Francis could not accept as he intends to become the Commissioner of the LCPD. He orders Niko to kill Derrick during a meeting he has arranged with his brother. Niko either chooses to follow Francis' orders, or goes against them and spares Derrick's life by killing Francis instead. Either choice will end Niko's career with Francis, although Niko can choose to exploit Francis' guilt in the future if he survives. Killing Derrick also allows the player to gain ability of using Francis to put down any wanted level against him for the duration of the story. He is buried at the Colony Island cemetery.
Mission Appearances
- Street Sweeper
- Call and Collect (Boss)
- Final Interview (Boss)
- Holland Nights (Boss)
- Lure (Boss)
- Harboring a Grudge (Post-mission phone call)
- Blood Brothers (Boss/Can be killed)
- Undertaker (Only if spared in Blood Brothers)
Wanted level reduction
If Francis is spared in Blood Brothers, the player can call him and have him clear their Wanted level. Although this can be done multiple times, the wait required between calls is undetermined — calling too soon after the last successful call will merely redirect to Francis' answering machine. Once the player finishes the story missions, Francis' ability will not be available anymore because most contacts, him included, on Niko's cell phone are deleted at the end of the game.
- Francis McReary appears to be based on Hector Cruz, a character in the film "Entrapment" played by Will Patton. Both characters work for law enforcement and share the same moustache.
- If Niko kills Francis, his gravestone in Colony Island reads: "Here Lies Francis McReary, Brave, Honest, Shot Dead." Derrick's gravestone will say the same thing if he is killed, but his grave will be in Steinway.
- Francis drives a black Landstalker, seen in the beginning cutscene of Blood Brothers.
- As Francis is an LCPD officer, he has no record on the LCPD police database.
- Francis McReary also bears a slight resemblance to Inspector Walter Cobb from the 1995 movie Die Hard with a Vengeance.
- If Niko kills Francis, in the mission I'll Take Her..., Gerald McReary says that he and Francis were never real close, but that "he'll miss him."
- He appears to be very hypocritical through GTA IV; he speaks freqently of second chances or chances at redemption, but he orders Niko to kill Clarence Little because "He is guilty as sin."
- Sometimes, if Niko starts getting chased by police with Packie, he will often shout "Look! Frankie's Boys!".
- Francis can be seen on the homepage for Libertycitypolice.com.
- In the beta, it was shown that Francis had blond hair.
- In Blood Brothers, Niko can call Francis once to increase his payout, to $20,000, if he kills Derrick.
- Francis is the first of the McReary family for Niko to meet and work for.
- Although his rank is given as "Deputy Police Commissioner" it is likely that he is in fact either the First Deputy Commissioner, of which there are many in the NY (and therefore likely the LC) Police Department or the Deputy Commissioner of operations. It is also quite possible that he is (or was originally intended to be) the Chief of Police since both Niko and the officer behind the desk in the cutscene for Final Interview refer to him as such. One thing to note is that in New York the Police Commissioner is a ceremonial post and the holder is elected by the mayor i.e. not necessarily a police officer, whereas the Chief is a serving member of the Department who has worked his way up through the ranks over time.


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Doug Feigelson is a true entrepreneur, one who has built a successful business out of a custom solution he designed as part of another venture. He says hed rather "fail completely" than sell his company, and, as a third-year computer science student at MIT, he regularly turns down job offers so he can focus on his startup.
But he hates the word entrepreneurship. Its a title too many people adopt these days, he says, and it attracts too much unwanted attention. Hed rather be working than talking about his work.
The very worst startups, even if they have a good idea, they just dont work, Feigelson says. There are people who talk and talk and talk, and they dont work. Thats part of why I dont do a lot of interviews. Im always scared that Im going to spend more time talking about something than doing it.
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Especially recently, the success of his startup has landed him in the spotlight at several MIT events focused on entrepreneurship.Between today and yesterday, Ill probably spend more time doing tangential things than actually working, he says.
Regardless of whether he likes the attention, Feigelson will have trouble escaping it. Hes the founder of Zinc, an API for ordering products from online retailers. Zincs origins date back to Feigelsons high school days, when he made good money exploiting price discrepancies on e-commerce sites. He would buy college text books on Amazon.com and sell them on eBay, where book sellers were over-charging college students. By under-cutting the high prices on eBay, Feigelson was able to steal some customers and turn a profit.
As demand grew, so did his frustrations. By his freshman year of college, Feigelson found himself spending too much time simply ordering books from Amazon to sustain the business he was attracting on eBay. When he couldnt find the solution to his problem elsewhere, Feigelson built it himself. Thats when he realized that he might benefit from refocusing his efforts.
From the very beginning when I made this, I was looking for an existing solution, and it always struck me how many people were looking for it as well, Feigelson says. So I thought there might be something there even three years ago. We were still running that other business, and we said theres a lot more opportunity doing this, so we should start to do that, and that was a couple years ago. And that was a lot of work, a huge amount of work.
Feigelson is glad to take on the extra work for a business that fits his model for a good startup.
I think the best startups are the ones that found a very specific problem that hurts a lot for people, and then they solve it, Feigelson says. And then people, even if theyre hesitant or it seems unfamiliar, theyre willing to embrace it because it fixed a pain point.Without actually establishing a working relationship with Amazon, Zinc has been able to simplify the ordering process down to just one call to the API. The customer only needs to set up an account with Zinc, add money to the account, and then set up Zincs API to order and ship the products they need. As long as they have the Amazon ID for the products they need to order and the addresses where they will be delivered, customers can set up recurring automatic orders.
Zincs customers have found the API useful for both convenience and cutting costs. Companies selling their products through multiple online channels are using Zinc to avoid missing out on sales when demand outstrips supply. Others have been able to reallocate their resources to more productive tasks.
A couple of our customers literally had people working full-time, one of them was full-time and another was just spending a lot of time, ordering things from Amazon, just a lot of clicking, Feigelson says. And with us they could automate that and just save all that effort.
However, Zinc hasnt been restricted to the B2B world. Feigelson says some of the more creative cases have been for individual use, where hackers apply the technology to interesting real-life purposes. In one example, Zinc could be set up to automatically order more ink when a printer runs low. In another, a developer inquired about using Zinc to create a Facebook app allowing people to set up small accounts with their own money, say $50, and inviting friends to buy him gifts with it. Another developer wanted to create an app that automatically orders a random object to be delivered to his house every month.
With at least another semester remaining at MIT, Feigelson has refrained from promoting Zinc too heavily. He turns down most media requests and hasnt participated in many startup conferences or competitions, save for the MIT 100K competition, where the company was a semifinalist. So far, most of Zincs customers have found the company organically, simply by searching API for ordering from Amazon on search engines.
Once the summer break provides some free time for Feigelson and Eric Swanson, Feigelsons high school friend and Zinc co-founder who currently lives in their native Ohio and attends the University of Cincinnati, the company plans to dive into its promotional stage. Feigelson says theyll pursue some relationships with other online retailers, like Walmart.com and Target.com, or will at least attempt to automate the process of ordering from their websites.
He plans to spend the summer working from San Francisco. Not to open an office the company will probably work full-time out of an apartment but just to be around the startup culture. Feigelson likes the environment, the coffee shops full of entrepreneurs talking about startups, in the San Francisco and Silicon Valley area. But, even while running a successful startup in the startup cultures epicenter, he doesnt expect to be spending much time talking that way himself.
I usually like to say Im working on a project, he says. I usually prefer not to say the word startup.
Colin Neagle covers emerging technologies and the startup scene for Network World. Follow him on Twitter and keep up with the Microsoft, Cisco and Open Source community blogs. Colin's email address is email@example.com.
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text: Maryland's General Assembly adjourned sine die last night at midnight, marking the end of the 2013 Legislative Session. All three of the National Aquarium's primary interests – capital funding, education funding, and a bill to ban the sale and trade of shark fins – were approved by the General Assembly and await Governor O'Malley's signature. The shark fin bill even received an honorable mention as one of the "winners" of the 2013 session. The National Aquarium would like to thank the members of the Maryland General Assembly — and particularly our representatives in District 46 — as well as Governor O'Malley and Lt. Governor Brown for their continuous support of our mission to inspire conservation of the world's aquatic treasures. Here's an overview of our legislative activities over the past three months: National Aquarium receives $5 million in capital funding for new exhibit The National Aquarium's request for $5 million in capital funding was approved by both chambers on April 8th. The grant has been earmarked to fund capital infrastructure improvements including the development of a new interactive Atlantic shorelines exhibit. Education funding for National Aquarium to admit Maryland school children increased by $154,000 The Governor included an additional $2 million in the State Aided Education Institutions (SAI) Funding budget and the increase was split evenly among the SAI institutions (others include the Science Center, Port Discovery, and the Chesapeake Bay Foundation). Despite recommendations to limit the funding increase to all SAI organizations with the exception of one institution, both the House and Senate fully funded the SAI budget at the Governor's request. We will receive an additional $150,000 ($474,601 in total) in FY2014 to help bring Maryland students to the Aquarium. General Assembly passes bill to prohibit the sale and trade of shark fins The National Aquarium's primary conservation issue – a bill to ban the sale and trade of shark fins in order to curb the killing of nearly 100 million sharks a year – passed both chambers. The Maryland House of Delegates passed HB 1148, introduced by Del. Eric Luedtke, D-Montgomery County, by a vote of 119-15 in March and the Senate passed similar legislation – SB 592 introduced by Sen. Brian Frosh, D-Montgomery County – by a margin of 41-6 on April 4. Both bills passed with bi-partisan support, with final votes in the opposite chambers occurring before the General Assembly adjourned at midnight on Monday. The legislation now moves to Governor O'Malley for his signature. If adopted, Maryland will become the first state on the East Coast and the sixth state in the nation to pass a law providing critical protection to sharks, and, therefore, supporting the health of the world's ocean ecosystem. Other states that have laws in place are California, Hawaii, Illinois, Oregon and Washington – as well as all three U.S. Pacific territories of Guam, American Samoa, and Northern Mariana Islands. Read more about the issue here. Tags: capital-budget, conservation-legislation, legislative-session, maryland-general-assembly, maryland-governor, maryland-shark-fin-ban, meet-our-experts, national-aquarium-2, national-aquarium-experts, shark-fin-ban Categories: Animals, Conservation, News Previous Post Next Post


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here's my note to the ebay world: It's been awhile, I used to do so much back & forth on Ebay, but I have been touring so much, out on the road for over a decade, and when i am home I work as the merch queen/assistant to the amazing Mr. Neil Gaiman.
Some of my tours include: TooL, Rob Zombie, Britney Spears, Jonas Brothers, Lady Gaga, Perfect Circle, Tori Amos, The Kills, Motley Crue, Deftones, Godsmack, and more. I have worked SO many local shows here in LA, I can't even go into it.
I have things from all these tours to share with the world. Little artifacts from a simpler time, haha. **ALSO Husband says, they have to go. Too little space here in the treehouse!
Will be rolling them out as time allows, I am touring Australia next month with A Perfect Circle & then I go to Japan with Slipknot. I have so many things to post, feel free to mark my page-- I am going under the assumption that it's ok to sell these old mementos, but if some or another boss comes out in protest, well, I will have to deal with that as the time comes. I had a giant yard sale, and it was funny, the attendees had no idea what I had. This is a cyber yard sale as none of the auctions will start at higher than 99 cents and none of them will have reserves. So! Let the bidding begin. CLICK HERE for KITTY'S CYBER GARAGE-SALE some samples:
I am also cleaning out my bead nation! I have bagged up loads of rare, vintage, gemstone, glass, Japanese hand-rolled, metals precious & not, findings etc, and am selling them in big batches like so:
watch here for updates! email me with questions! CLICK HERE for KITTY'S CYBER GARAGE-SALE ***Tonight, I am off to see Band of Skulls & Muse at Staples Center, then back at it.


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Use it or lose it: How to maintain brain health
Approximately one in 10 Australians 65 and over are living with dementia, according to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare. With 250 Australians diagnosed with dementia daily, this is set to increase to 318 people per day by 2025 (findings by The National Centre for Social and Economic Modelling).
An umbrella term for diseases that gradually impair brain function, dementia can affect all the different areas of the brain, Sydney-based Neurologist Dr Ron Granot said.
"This means it can affect everything from executive function (planning and organising) and short and long-term memory, to language, understanding and speaking. In the younger demographic, work tasks become more challenging. Vision and understanding of space can also be affected."
There are two major types of dementia, the first, Alzheimer's, "in which there is widespread damage to the [brain's surface], the cortex," Dr Granot said. "Under the microscope, [you see] the brain cells accumulating [damaging] plaques and tangles.
"The other major type is vascular dementia, [where] damage to the little blood vessels of the brain leads to small widespread injuries in all regions of the brain. The more we look into it the more we find that the things that [can be done to] reduce vascular dementia tend to reduce all types of dementia."
Reducing dementia risk
Dr Granot explains that there is a strong link between physical activity and brain health. Strive for a "healthy mind in a healthy body," Dr Granot said, referring to 30 minutes of daily exercise as non-negotiable.
If you aren't exercising, "start low and build up. You've got to start somewhere. The fitter you are in middle age, the less and later you will get dementia".
He referred to a Swedish study that followed 1,462 women for 44 years, where a high level of cardiovascular fitness in middle-age reduced dementia risk by 88 per cent. Women who were highly fit at middle-age but who still developed dementia did so 11 years later (at age 90) than the women who were moderately fit at middle-age.
Your brain needs to work out too. "Use it or lose it," Dr Granot said. "Tertiary education is protective [against dementia. Otherwise] brain training, lots of different exercises akin to IQ tests, can be protective."
But don't just stick to Sudoku. "Brain training lacks a spill-over effect, so you need to do a heap of [different] activities for your brain to reap the benefits."
Diet-wise, go Mediterranean with meals revolving around vegetables and fruit, fish, chicken, nuts, legumes, and "lots of olive oil…Red meat, added sugar and highly processed food are seen as nos.
"The Mediterranean diet seems to be anti-inflammatory, [relevant] as the process underlying…Alzheimer's is inflammatory," Dr Granot said.
"Seven to eight hours of quality sleep a night is also important, as is treating sleep apnoea, associated with dementia." The former means no screen-time once you're in bed (read a book instead, or invest in a blue light-free Kindle).
And another reason to quit the cigarettes: "Smoking clogs the little blood vessels in brain, [so is linked to] vascular dementia.
"Alcohol in large quantities has also shown to increase dementia risk because it's a nerve toxin,"
Dr Granot recommended no more than two standard drinks a day for an adult, with two alcohol free days per week.
"Fear of dementia is very potent, but we know that if you take care of your body, mind and general well-being with good healthy habits in middle-age, it will take care of you in later life."
- For more information visit Healthshare, a joint venture with Fairfax to improve the health of regional Australians. Or you can find a specialist near you using the health tool below.


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Since starting an antique box with my family odds 'n ends of genealogy treasures, I've run out of room. In fact I've filled three similar size boxes with my treasures.
What do I keep in my treasure box? Original family documents (land records, deeds, marriage certificates, birth and baptismal records, death certificates etc), family bibles and journals, WW1 paybook and records for my grandmother's brother, school report cards, wedding invitations, letters, postcards and more. I only keep original items that belonged to someone in my family, not photocopies of records I've found while researching.
You can see the blanket box I'm going to use on the left in this photo. It already had a few items in it so I'm going to have some fun going through my smaller boxes and re-organizing the items to go in the blanket box.


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Avatar's special effects innovator Glenn Derry hacks together blockbuster filmmaking tools. Go inside his workshop and get a tour of the virtual camera in this special video. Learn more about Glenn Derry and homebrew virtual camera in MAKE 27. Video by Corinne Leigh.
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The robots have returned! MAKE Volume 27 features a special package with robotics projects for every age and skill level. They play music; they outwit your pets; they learn from their mistakes! In addition, we'll show you how to build a special aquarium to keep jellyfish, create pre-Edison incandescent lighting, spy via the internet, and make a go-anywhere digital message board! All this and much, much more, in MAKE Volume 27.


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What happens in Vegas shouldn't necessarily stay in Vegas, the Rhode Island Supreme Court said Friday as it ruled a Providence man who called a friend from Sin City to borrow $8,500 for gambling losses must pay it back despite an old law that says otherwise.
The court opinion ends a long legal dispute over the money given to Juan Catala by David S. Vogel, a Providence attorney who ran for Congress last fall as an independent. But despite the ruling from the high court, Catala said he'll never repay his former friend.
"I'll go to jail before I give him a dollar," Catala told The Associated Press.
According to court documents, Catala and his fiancée were on a trip to Las Vegas in 2007 when Catala called Vogel for help. According to Vogel, Catala said he had lost a substantial sum of money gambling and needed to recover his losses. Vogel agreed to wire $8,500 to the Bellagio Hotel.
After Catala refused to repay the loan, Vogel sued. Catala initially disputed that he had received the money but later argued that the loan was void because of a more than century-old Rhode Island law that invalidates loan agreements when the lender knows the money would be used for gambling. On Friday, Catala said Vogel gave him the money as an investment, with the understanding that he would be paid back only if Catala won.
A Superior Court judge determined that the prohibition on gambling loans didn't apply and ordered Catala to repay the $8,500 plus $8,500 in interest and damages. Catala appealed to the state Supreme Court, but because his attorney did not forward a copy of the lower court transcript, the high court concluded it had "no choice but to uphold the lower court's findings."
"It is said that what happens in Vegas stays in Vegas - except in this case, where the parties dispute what happened there," wrote Justice Gilbert V. Indeglia in the ruling's first sentence.
In a dissent, Justice William P. Robinson III said Catala had no legal obligation to repay Vogel because of the law invalidating gambling loans. He said the lower court transcript wasn't necessary because Vogel acknowledged he knew Catala planned to use at least some of the money for gambling.
Even though he won, Vogel said he was disappointed that the high court didn't weigh in on the law banning gambling loans, which was enacted at a time when gambling was illegal. He said the law is outdated and should be rescinded because it could give gamblers an easy way to avoid repaying loans.
"Maybe it's time for the legislature to just remove it from the books," he said.
Catala and Vogel met at a poker table at the Foxwoods Resort Casino several years ago, Vogel said. He said they were friends up until the loan but haven't spoken recently.
Catala was arrested in 2009 in Massachusetts and charged with kidnapping and assault. The charges are pending. He also faces felony larceny charges in Rhode Island that stem from a state mortgage fraud investigation in 2011. Catala has pleaded not guilty to the charges and said Friday that they're unrelated to the loan dispute.
Vogel said he isn't optimistic that he'll ever collect the money. He hasn't loaned any large sums of money since and doesn't plan to.
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I apologize. I did the high res. image and saw what the meter does. My Fieldpiece meters do all that and much more.
So what you will probably do is ship the said meter with a call tag enclosed so the recipient can return it by simply resealing the box, attaching said call tag and sliping the box into the nearest UPS pickup box with no expense to the user whatsoever, am I right?
We should keep the trial time to one week. If you get the meter on Tuesday you ship it out the next Tuesday.
What happens to the meter after it's done being pass around, just wondering.
What if P45 wants to take a gander? I want to be the one to send that puppy over the pond.
I would like to try it out.
I had the original ACD-14 which was re-called due to false readings which resulted in people being shocked.
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Most dust jackets list only literary accomplishments, but I've always been a fan of offbeat author bios. So I asked some of my favorite writers to describe their early jobs.
M. J. Hyland: From the age of eighteen to twenty-one, I worked any job I could get my hands on. One of these jobs was selling fake paintings door-to-door. There were four of us in the crew. We were taken out each night in the company car—a white minivan—and dropped on suburban street corners with black folio bags. I'd been instructed to pretend I was the artist.
My first night was the one I remember best. The suburb was a newly built estate, each house a mirror of its neighbor. The grass hadn't grown on the front lawns yet, and there were cars in all the newly paved driveways—not flashy cars, but not beat-up Holdens either. I walked to the door of a house and knocked.
"Sorry to bother you at teatime," I said, "but my name's Marcia Bradshaw and I'm an art student at university. I'm going from door to door to see if I can sell some of my work." I unzipped the bag and took out a painting. "I need to raise some money so I can finish my degree," I said. "My parents have no money and my scholarship only lasted two years."
Life is ruthless, and its bestowal of fortune arbitrary and capricious. I'd been born to morons and mine was a shabby life. I stood on this woman's doorstep and told the lie about the paintings as easily as I did because, although it was a lie, it was also true. I believed my own lies and told them well. I wanted money, and, like my criminal father, I wanted it the easy way. Read More


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Founded at the University of Papua New Guinea in 1994, this peer-reviewed research journal explores journalism, media issues, communication and diversity in the South Pacific, Asia-Pacific, Australia and New Zealand. It is published by the Pacific Media Centre, School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology, and has links with the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism and the University of the South Pacific.
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Land O' Lakes President and CEO to speak about food and farming
When we look out our windows here at Augsburg to the freeways and Minneapolis skyline, it's easy to forget that the agriculture and food business is one of the leading economic indicators for our state. Agriculture has always played a critically important role in Minnesota's economy and culture—in many meaningful ways, Minnesota is still "farm country."
Chris Policinski, President and CEO of Land O'Lakes, will speak to the Augsburg College about American agriculture and how it serves our country and the world. Policinski's presentation is titled, "The Great Productivity Story of American Agriculture and Why It Must Continue." The lecture will be held Thursday, April 1 at 5 p.m. in Kennedy Center, room 303.
Outside the Twin Cities in greater Minnesota, one out of every three jobs is linked to agriculture. Food and agriculture production accounted for 22% of our total exports in 2008, and these exports bring $12 billion or more into our economy every year. And agribusiness purchases many of its supplies locally, benefiting businesses throughout the state. According to the U of M extension service, more than any other industry, Minnesota agribusiness is closely linked with other Minnesota supplies. So when agriculture is strong in Minnesota, we all benefit.
The richness of our agriculture has made Minnesota home to many of the largest multi-national agribusinesses in the world. These leading companies do business around the world, in developed countries with strong farm industries and in emerging countries that struggle to produce enough food to feed their people. Our featured Strommen Executive Leader Series speaker leads one of those flagship businesses. Chris Policinski is president and CEO of Land O' Lakes, Inc., a privately owned food and agriculture inputs company which does business in the U.S. and more than 50 countries and has sales of over $12 billion.
Policinski has over 30 years of experience in the food industry and joined Land O'Lakes in 1997 as its Vice President of Strategy and Business Development. He later became the Chief Operating Officer of the Dairy Foods business unit and was appointed President and CEO in 2005. Prior to joining Land O'Lakes, Policinski held leadership positions with Kraft General Foods, Bristol Meyers Squib, and The Pillsbury Company.
He is a member of the Board of Directors of the Grocery Manufacturers Association, the National Milk Producers Federation, the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives, the U.S. Global Leadership Campaign, Excel Energy, the Greater Twin Cities United Way, and the Carlson School of Management Board of Overseers.
Policinski earned his MBA degree from New York University and his undergraduate degree from the University of Notre Dame.
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"... this is one of the things that distinguishes us from animals and permits us to do great things, that we are not just pre-occupied with staying alive.
-- Robert Walker's answer to Why is the Dalai Lama seen as evil in China? --
I dreamt I was in an unknown place with some people I didn't know. There was a commotion on the far end, coming to my direction.
"Hurry gave it to her!" 'There she is!' "Bring it, bring it!"
Someone tried to shove a mobile phone into my hand. "This mobile phone is possessed by an evil spirit!"
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Hi. SO even if I grew up in snow, I have never snow kited...so I need some advice on gear.
I want to snow kite on skis. Last time I had skis on is more than a decade...and i have kited since 2001, but I grew up skiing so I am not too worried about the whole kite. and ski. What I am wondering about it what gear should I be looking at:
Type of skis, binding, shoes, ski pants, and jackets. Anything else?
If you have links to products / examples that would be killer.
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Found Disposable Camera Leads to Search for Mystery Rocker
In 1999, a man found a disposable camera on the ground at a David Lee Roth concert in Austin, Texas. He forgot about the camera until a couple years later when he spotted it in a pile of his stuff.
He developed the pictures on a whim and discovered, much to his delight, the camera's previous owner had taken a bunch of shots of himself and his friends pre-gaming for the David Lee Roth concert.
In the pre-gaming pictures, the camera's original owner is executing heavy-metal poses and it is pretty much a perfect time capsule-like documentation of people in 1999 pretending it's 1984.
The man who stumbled upon the camera more than a decade ago has now launched a campaign to find the mystery rocker. Check out his video below, and go to the Find the Mystery Rocker Facebook page to learn more.


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I've been at press days & meetings today so I've been running around central London like crazy. This is a pre-prepared post so I do apoligse for the weather innapropirate look! It's been so ridiculously warm today I avoided using tubes and buses were possible! I don't know how Im going to cope when Im on Holiday as to me it's been unbearably hot! Anyway, I wasn't going to post this look as I took it about a month ago as reserve stock but decided to post it today as I had no time. I feel a bit like a liquorice all sort with the monochrome stripes and the pink blazer but somehow it seems to work! I actually forgot I had this pink Missguided blazer so it was a nice rediscovery considering it fits well with my love of neon's and colour pops!
Nevertheless, I bet most of you are out enjoying the sun rather than staying it looking at blogs! But if you are inside, WHY ARENT YOU OUTSIDE! To the garden! I'm off to edit the photos from the Office and Glamourous press days I went to today as well as the rest of my New Look A/W collection post! Apologies for not having it up sooner but Silly Lily over here forgot where I put the memory card with it on (inside my purse!)