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Lindenhurst Health & Fitness Center of Lake Forest Hospital • Lindenhurst, IL
Anine-week program based on TV's "The Biggest Loser" prompted Lindenhurst Health & Fitness Center, Lindenhurst, IL, to win the Best Group Training category.
Lindenhurst's Lose to Win program was designed to generate personal training leads and provide a new member introduction for those who joined the club around the holidays.
"We wanted to provide an integration program for new members joining in December and January to help them meet other members and staff to increase retention after the resolution period," says Eric Nelson, executive director at Lindenhurst. "Another goal was to generate leads for personal training by creating an opportunity for trainers to have interactions with members who are not currently involved in the personal training program."
By promoting the program jointly with local radio station 102.3/WXLC, the club also earned media exposure and credibility within the community, Nelson says. Jimmy Novak, a morning show disc jockey, participated on a Lose to Win team and brought a group of 25 prospective members with him to participate in the program. Eight of those participants became members, Nelson says.
The program features teams of 25 people competing with one another for the greatest percentage of weight lost as a group. The winning team wins one hour of free personal training and a boot camp class for each member. Individual cash prizes also are given to top performers.
Each team is led by a Lindenhurst personal trainer who guides them through boot camp classes, group challenges, team meetings and workouts. In addition, participants attend educational presentations and receive inspirational e-mails and phone calls from their team captain. The incentives and positive support increased program revenue and retention, Nelson says.
"Of the new members who partook in the Lose to Win program, 90 percent are still active members meeting the goal of increasing our retention," he says. "Thirty-three percent of participants have continued to use fee-based services, such as personal training, group training or boot camp classes, [thus] increasing revenues."
Nelson says 29 new members enrolled in Lose to Win, and 26 of them are still active members six months after enrollment.
Existing Lindenhurst members paid $150 for the program, while new members who joined in December participated for free. A total of 217 people signed up for the 2009 program.
The budget for the program was $12,200, though actual money spent was $10,951 for salaries, supplies and marketing. The actual revenue for the program was $23,710, which left a net profit of $12,759.
The club marketed Lose to Win by sending a direct mail piece to last year's participants and another targeted direct mail piece to the community surrounding the fitness center.
Nelson attributes the success of the program to giving people what they need: community building, competition and a multi-pronged approach to change.
"Lose to Win has been known to elicit tearful hugs among staff and participants," he says. "The whole experience leads to the most important goal — Lose to Win participants achieving their desired results."


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AG: Greenland shooting shows need for policy changes
Delaney calls police heroic but says 'deficiencies' revealed
Eight months after Greenland's police chief was killed and four officers wounded in a shootout at a home, a final report on the state's investigation has been released.
Attorney General Michael Delaney said Friday that the actions taken by the officers on April 12 were heroic and saved lives. He said the incident revealed ways in which police can better prepare for such situations in the future.
"There were deficiencies in the planning and execution of this operation, and there were deficiencies in the policies and procedures that are necessary," Delaney said.
Shortly after the shooting that resulted in the death of Chief Michael Maloney, the attorney general authorized a review commission to look into the drug raid.
The attorney general said the commission found that several mistakes were made. He said a proper risk assessment wasn't done, especially given that police knew that Cullen Mutrie, who fired the shots, was potentially dangerous.
"That included the potential access that Mr. Mutrie may have had to weapons, given his prior history of some violence in the past," Delaney said.
The attorney general also released photographs that showed where the fatal shot was fired and a timeline that showed the sequence of events. Delaney said Mutrie shot his girlfriend, Brittany Tibbetts, in the home's basement before taking his own life.
The commission found that there were problems in the time chosen for the raid at about 6 p.m.
"If a different time were selected, it may have minimized issues of lighting," Delaney said. "Many of the officers could only see a very dark room and silhouettes prior to the gunshots being fired."
Delaney said he would accept the recommendations made by the commission.

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Tuesday, July 15, 2008
Weekly Tuesday With Dorie Recipe
I had never created a pudding that I actually had to cook. You know, I purchase the Jello Pudding that is instant, fat free and sugar free. The boys and I eat it quite frequently for a bed time snack with good old sugar free fat free cool whip. I know. B o r i n g.
When Dorie's Chocolate Pudding was chosen for today I was pretty excited.
I bought whole milk (I never buy whole milk) I bought the good chocolate, the good unsweetened cocoa, real butter-which I have been using a ton of lately, I might add!
The pudding is to die for. It is thick and creamy and oh so chocolaty. I already said that, didn't I. Yesterday I picked oodles of gallons or raspberries and strawberries at the pick your own farm so I added raspberries and heavy whipping cream. I couldn't resist.
Instead of creating six servings per recipe I ended up with two very large servings. So chocolaty that Troy stated the pudding tasted cake-like. Tyler and Troy snarfed up most of the pudding last night during the Homerun Derby where I might add Justin Morneau and Josh Hamilton squared off and JUSTIN MORNEAU won. So, I have to say, I am now ok with the Home Run Derby and quite excited that we have tickets to see the Twins take on the Texas Rangers (who Josh Hamilton plays for) on Saturday. It could be a Home Run Fun Fest.
My chocolate pudding was not very photogenic. I had already covered it with cream and raspberries when I remembered I needed to photo it. Oops.
2 1/4 C whole milk
6 T sugar
2T unsweetened cocoa powder
1/4 t salt
1 egg
2 egg yolks
5 oz bittersweet chocolate, melted and warm
2 T butter
1 t vanilla
I don't have a food processor, oh, the horror! I may have to purchase one for my Kitchen Aid mixer. I used my Kitchen Aid blender instead.
Bring 2 C milk and 3 T sugar to boil, put cocoa, cornstarch and salt into food processor and whirl to blend. Turn out onto wax paper. 3T sugar, egg and egg yolk into processor, blend 1 minute, add 1/4 c milk and pulse to mix, add dry ingredients and blend. Slowly pour in hot milk mixture, process, place into saucepan. Whisk to think wh ile cooking-don't boil, about 2 minutes. Scrape pudding into processor, pulse, add chocolate, butter and vanilla and pulse. Pour into serving dishes and cool.
YUM. Warning: Do not figure our nutrition information. If you are going to consume this you do not want to know :)
6 comments:
- Melissa said...
I still think it looks great!
- Christine said...
Your pudding looks delicious!
- SteveQ said...
If you stayed up for all 15 innings, you saw Justin Morneau score the winning run. Good week to be Justin!
I had a devil of a time photographing the pudding, too -- but others have been quite successful, including you!
Nice work
- Carol Peterman/TableFare said...
Welcome to TWD! Another baker/runner, though I stick to marathons. My brother-in-law is an ultra runner and I like having you ultra folks to reference when someone thinks I am nutty for running 26 miles! Weekly long runs are a requirement now that I am baking every week. It looks like you are off to a great start with delicious looking pudding. Happy running and happy baking!
- Dolores said...
This pudding would pair beautifully with freshly picked berries; great idea!


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There's no shortage of people wanting to serve as Fayette's part-time village administrator.
After the Jan. 21 deadline passed, village council members had 13 applications on file.
The administrator will replace Tom Spiess who resigned Dec. 31. Spiess served on a full-time basis, but he advised council members that a part-time administrator would make more sense due to the village's financial situation.
Three council members will join mayor Anita Van Zile in looking through the résumés to determine which candidates will be called in for an interview. Van Zile is hoping to add a community member to the committee, also.
Although council intended to have a new administrator in place by the first of February, Van Zile said it's likely that interviews won't be completed in time for the Feb. 14 council meeting.
Before an administrator is hired, Van Zile first intends to fill the empty police chief slot vacated by Rick Kline. Only two applications were received for that position.
Van Zile expects interviews to be wrapped up by the end of January.
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These days, the demands of life seem greater than ever. The responsibilities of work, school, family life or caregiving, with the non-stop communication that comes with each, can leave you feeling overscheduled and stressed out. With so many other things to do, it might seem like taking time for quality self-care feels indulgent. How can you focus on yourself when there are so many other responsibilities competing for your time?
Remember: self-care isn't selfish. To take care of the people you love and your many daily responsibilities, you must also take care of yourself.
- How can you do your best at work if you are feeling overwhelmed?
- How can you support the needs of your loved ones, when you haven't recognized your own needs?
- How can you care for your family if you aren't able to care for yourself?
Self-care is simply vital to your health and well-being — but even if you understand the importance of self-care, you might struggle with finding the time to focus on it. The best way to handle this challenge begins and ends with you.
Making YOU your first priority
What does it mean to put yourself at the top of your daily to-do list? It doesn't mean you are going to ignore everything else around you. It just means that your own needs are reflected on your daily schedule too.
Here are four things you can do to fit self-care into your week, no matter how busy you are:
1. Schedule it. Make an appointment with yourself and put it on your schedule. That little ding in your pocket from your smart phone can become a great reminder that it's time to focus on you — whether it's for a workout, yoga, meditation or just sitting quietly.
2. A little goes a long way. If you're busy and over-scheduled, finding two hours on your calendar in the middle of the day to focus on your needs probably isn't realistic. To make "me time" work, choose what's realistic for you and commit to it. If you only have a ten-minute gap on Tuesday, that's OK. You will make bigger gains practicing self-care a few minutes each day instead of focusing on it a couple of hours each month — or none.
3. Stick to it. Honor the time you schedule for yourself as some of the most important minutes in your day. Once you start making yourself a priority in your day, you will recognize how important it really is and how much better you feel because of it.
4. Rinse and repeat. The key to embracing self-care is consistency. Caring for yourself every day is so important, and the little things you do will add up to big changes over time.
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This information does not replace the advice of a doctor.
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The saying is, "you can't take it with you," but there is a way to carry your home with you when you move somewhere else.
Take, Adam, for example, who I stopped on Seventh Avenue between 29th and 30th Streets.
He currently resides in Pittsburgh, but he has lived in Miami and New York City.
His tattoos are a work in progress and he has had about eight hours done so far.
Adam says he has lived all over the United States and he wants, ideally, to tattoo a "piece of everywhere I've lived".
Check this out:
The Statue of Liberty clearly represents New York, and the palm trees recall Miami. All the bridges and a few of the buildings are Pittsburgh landmarks, like PPG Place
and the Highmark Building.
The "Home Sweet Home" sentiment is anchored by the multiple locations, echoing the idea that home is where the heart is.
Adam's work is done by Michael Patrick at Jester's Court Tattoos in Pittsburgh.
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Mission objectives
Spanish ESA astronaut Pedro Duque, will fly into space in the framework of the Spanish Soyuz mission 'Cervantes'. His 10-day flight will include 8 days on the International Space Station. The Spanish Ministry of Science and Technology, through the Centre for Development of Industrial Technology (CDTI), sponsored the mission within the framework of an agreement between ESA and Rosaviakosmos. The principle objectives of the mission are:
* To carry out a full scientific experiment Programme - ESA's astronaut Pedro Duque will carry out a full scientific programme, spending some 40 hours of his eight days on the ISS on experimental activity. Most of the experiments are sponsored by the Spanish government although there are also a number of reflights of experiments from the Belgian Odissea mission to the ISS in October 2002.
Duque will also participate in a number of educational and promotional activities with the aim of bringing the European human space programme and research performed in space to a wider public, and young people in particular.
* To increase operational experience aboard the ISS - From a European perspective the Cervantes mission is important because it increases ESA's astronaut experience ahead of the launch of Columbus, Europe's own laboratory to the Space Station. Pedro Duque has worked previously on the development of Columbus. He reviewed its design in terms of operability and maintainability and checked on ergonomic aspects of its structure. The ongoing development of Columbus and its research facilities will benefit from the 'hands on' experience Pedro will get during his stay on the ISS.
* To exchange the station lifeboat: the Soyuz TMA-2, for the Soyuz TMA-3 - The Soyuz TMA spacecraft act as a lifeboat for the ISS for use in emergency situations. These are exchanged every six months to maintain the integrity of the on-board systems. The Soyuz TMA-2 spacecraft, which bought the ISS Expedition 7 crew to the International Space Station in April, will be exchanged for the Soyuz TMA-3, which will bring Pedro Duque and the ISS Expedition 8 Crew to the ISS. The Soyuz TMA-2 spacecraft will return with Pedro Duque and the Expedition 7 crew.
* To exchange the current ISS Expedition 7 crew for the ISS Expedition 8 crew - In light of the Columbia accident in February 2003, the Soyuz TMA spacecraft are currently acting as the crew exchange vehicles for the ISS permanent crews. The current Expedition 7 crew of Edward Lu and Yuri Malenchenko arrived on the ISS on 28 April 2003. They will return with ESA astronaut Pedro Duque at the end of his 8-day stay on the ISS. The expedition 8 crew will be stationed on the ISS for approximately 6 months and will return with ESA astronaut André Kuipers as part of his mission to the ISS in the April of 2004.


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The mother of a slain California woman who was strangled and stuffed in a suitcase blasted her daughter's convicted killer on Friday, saying she feels "so much hate" for the man and wishes he would suffer the same way her daughter did.
"I dream about my girl all the time," Judith Brauer, the mother of Christine Stewart, said during Friday's sentencing hearing for Joseph David Dorsey. "I keep thinking she's still going to come home.
"My heart is destroyed. I didn't even get to say goodbye to my daughter because she was stuck in a suitcase for three days," she added.
Dorsey, 29, was sentenced to serve 56 years to life in state prison for killing Stewart, a woman he once dated, and stuffing her body in a suitcase before leaving it in a motel.
The Lake Elsinore man was convicted of first degree murder in June.
The case began Aug. 6, 2012, when police received a report that Stewart had gone missing.
Investigators learned that Dorsey had checked into a room at a Best Western in Poway, but never checked out.
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So motel employees took possession of property he left behind, including a 3-foot by 18-inch rolling suitcase with the 5-foot-2 body inside, police said.
Dorsey and Stewart were dating at the time of the slaying and he killed her at his Lake Elsinore apartment before heading to Poway, officials said.
Dorsey, who is an American citizen, was arrested at Rosarito Beach, Mexico, on Oct. 23, 2012.
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Emma Ashby lives in Portsmouth NH where she works as an artist and encaustic instructor. She has a Masters degree from the Royal College of Art in London and worked for several years as a textile designer in the British Fashion Industry. Her use of encaustic is a clear reflection of her love of the medium, textiles and color, sometimes creating sculptural forms that are inspired by the beauty of the natural world.


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In this speech, following presentation of an honorary degree, Rhode Island native Davis admitted she might not have been so down to earth 10 years earlier: "I would've made a lot of stuff up and been very self-congratulatory, and self-righteous about what a wonderfully dramatic speech I gave," she said. "Thank God this is not 10 years ago."
Davis uses a scene from The Exorcist, of all things, to urge the graduates not to keep their authentic selves pushed away in a drawer like a special piece of jewelry only worn on special occasions, but something they should wear every day. "If I do not know who I am, it is because I think I am the sort of person everyone around me wants to be," she says, noting that acting out others' wishes for you is a kind of possession. Then she drives her point home:
You see, the two most important days in your life are the day you were born, and the day you discover why you were born. Now, I have only been able to slay dragons when I have kept these two important facts in sharp focus, because at some point in life, it will indeed suck: Loss of a loved one, health issues, marriage, children, loss of passion, the discovery that what you thought you wanted in life, you don't. You veer off course. But all the while that purpose, that thing you were specifically and divinely made for, will be moving in front of you.Here's what you can learn from this commencement speech:
- Use examples to lead us to your point: This speech is about finding and staying true to your authentic self, and Davis uses the indelible images from The Exorcist to make her listeners understand just how much of an out-of-body experience you can have when you drift from your true purpose. It's an invisible visual, one that sticks with the audience and underscores her theme.
- Give us your enthusiasm: Davis doesn't just read her lines here. We can see and sense her humor, passion, regrets and enthusiasm--that secret sauce of personality and emotion that so many speakers leave out. She's present and eager to go, and so is her audience.
- Give the grads a road map: Her narrative is so clear that you can see the years ahead of this class of graduates. There's the day you were born, the day you figured out what you were born to do, and then all that veering off course--and back on course--that form the path on which Davis leads us. Rather than toss a collection of advice and anecdotes at them, this speaker has a progression that's easy to follow, and easy to recall.
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Modeling PSU Cooling with COMSOL
With shrinking electronic devices and ever-increasing power densities, efficient thermal management is at the heart of many R&D activities for electronics engineers. When developing complete systems containing multiple components, designs can become rather complex. An example of such a design would be a computer power supply unit (PSU), which can include not only electronics, but also multiple heat sinks, cooling fans, perforated grilles, and other large components — all within a small enclosure. In this blog post, we will explore some of the dedicated features available in the Heat Transfer Module for modeling such electronics cooling systems.
Modeling a Forced Convection Cooling System
A forced convection cooling system, such as a PSU, is used for removing excess heat produced by electrical computer components. Although these components are designed to produce as little heat as possible, the decreasing size of many electronic devices continually confine heat dissipation systems to ever-smaller spaces, resulting in the need for well planned and optimized designs. Failure to adequately dissipate heat in a computer can lead to temporary malfunctions or even permanent failure if integrated circuits, disk drives, central processing units (CPUs), or other components overheat.
Power supply units contain a cooling system to actively reduce the temperature of a device by exhausting hot air. An example of a PSU geometry, available for download from the Model Gallery, is shown below. The geometry contains an extracting fan as well as a perforated grill to direct the laminar airflow within the enclosure. A printed circuit board (PCB) is represented along the bottom of the box by an anisotropic material with a thermal conductivity along the x-, y-, and z-axes of 10, 10, and 0.36W/m/K, respectively.
As you can see, the model geometry is quite intricate and requires a fine mesh in order to solve accurately. Modeling a lot of detail can lead to large computational costs, but the Heat Transfer Module (or alternatively the CFD Module, both add-on products to COMSOL Multiphysics) offers dedicated features to overcome this so you can effectively model the PSU cooling system components. In the example shown here, the PCB, inductor surfaces, heat sink, and enclosure are all modeled using the Highly Conductive Layer feature. This feature is specifically designed for simulating thin geometries and shortens computation time and reduces memory consumption by reducing the number of degrees of freedom within the model. Additionally, the fan can be modeled using the Fan boundary condition, also available with the Heat Transfer Module and the CFD Module. Data on the fan curve (static pressure vs flow rate), usually provided by the manufacturer, can be added to configure the boundary condition.
PSU Cooling: Which Components Are Overheating?
The inlet air temperature, which would come from within the computer case, is set at 30°C to reflect the heat already dissipated from other components. Below you can see a table of the components and their assigned heat sources:
|Total Power (W)
|Transistor cores
|Big transformer coil
|Small transformer coils
|Large capacitors
|Medium capacitors
|Small capacitors
The PSU consumes a maximum of 230 W, and the overall heat loss is 41 W, demonstrating an efficiency rate of about 82%. By running an analysis on the system, we can determine where the maximum temperature is within the device, as shown below:
Plot of the temperature and fluid velocity fields within the enclosure.
The analysis shows that there is a heterogeneous distribution of temperature within the enclosure, as a result of the combination of heat dissipation due to active components (see table above) and the air cooling induced by the fan. The maximum temperature (74°C) is found at one of the transistor cores, which makes sense since we noted in the table above that the dissipated power is largest in the transistor component. The plot above also shows that the PCB helps to distribute heat within the enclosure. The air flow has also been computed, and the manner in which it flows around obstacles is depicted by streamlines.
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- Download the model from the Model Gallery: Forced Convection Cooling of an Enclosure with Fan and Grille
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Bank Robbery in Corinth
Penobscot County Sheriff's deputies and State Police are scouring the Corinth and Hudson area at this hour after a reported bank robbery.
The robbery was reported just after 9 this morning at the Camden National Bank Branch on Main Street in Corinth.
Few details are yet available but schools in the area were put on lock-down as a precaution as police search for the robbery suspect.
Bank employees reported to police the male suspect did not show or mention any weapon in the hold up and he left the bank on foot.
The male suspect was wearing a ski mask with greenish colored sun glasses, black jacket with grey hood and jeans.
If you have any information you should contact the Penobscot County Sheriff's Department or Maine State Police.


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Transport Facilitation and Security
Transport facilitation is a part of trade facilitation and may be defined as the simplification and harmonization of international transport procedures and the information flows associated with them.
Its objective is to increase efficiency by performing complex operations as rationally as possible while keeping a delicate balance between the requirements of the transport industry and the national economy, on the one hand, and the necessity to conform with indispensable governmental regulations relating to national health and security, customs duties and taxes, etc., on the other.
Due to the early identification of needs for transport facilitation in Europe, UNECE has become a focal point for regulatory and technical intergovernmental development in the transport facilitation for inland transport modes. In particular, UNECE has developed and administers many international legal instruments in this area, including the TIR Convention (1975) and Harmonization Convention (1982). A full list of the relevant UNECE conventions can be found here. Many of them have become truly global.
Facilitation and security should be considered as complimentary, rather than contradictory, to one another. However, the balance between the two was seriously shaken by the events of 11 September 2001 in New York and other terrorist attacks in various cities across the globe. These events demonstrated that transport and related infrastructure are vulnerable to security threats.
Since 2001, a significant number of initiatives have been launched by various intergovernmental and non-governmental organizations to address security challenges while keeping the benefits of facilitation. From the prospective of international transport and global supply chains, the major development was the adoption in 2005 of The Framework of Standards to Secure and Facilitate Global Trade (SAFE) by the World Customs Organization (WCO).
UNECE and its Inland Transport Committee (ITC) have given careful consideration to transport security. This work was first conducted in the framework of various Working Parties which addressed the underlying issues within their field of competence. In addition, to ensure a comprehensive intersectoral approach to this topic, ITC established a Multidisciplinary Group of Experts on Inland Transport Security.
The Expert Group, with the participation of experts from UNECE Member States as well as relevant international governmental and non-governmental organizations, has addressed the following areas of work: (i) transport safety and transport security; (ii) inventory of regulatory initiatives at the national level; (iii) inventory of regulatory initiatives at the international level; (iv) inventory of standards, initiatives, guidelines, best practices by the private sector. The proceedings of the Expert Group can be found on here.
Relevant Documents
UNECE Conventions related to Border Crossing Facilitation
Useful links
Border Crossing Facilitation (WP.30)
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Badaracco gets seven-year prison sentence
BRIDGEPORT -- Calling his crime a strike at the heart of the judicial system, a state Superior Court judge on Friday sentenced Dominic Badaracco to seven years in prison for attempting to bribe another judge to influence a grand jury investigation into the disappearance of his wife, Mary, 26 years earlier.
Judge Robert Devlin said Badaracco's offer of $100,000 to Judge Robert Brunetti, Badaracco's occasional golf partner and former attorney, was a "crime of calculation" that merited significant jail time, despite Badaracco's relatively clean record and numerous letters from friends, family members, business associates and current and former police officers attesting to his character and good works.
The hourlong sentencing hearing, attended by several family members and friends, including Badaracco's current wife, Joan, concludes the latest chapter in the long-running mystery of what became of the 38-year-old housewife and mother of two, who vanished from the couple's Wakeman Hill Road in Sherman in August 1984 and hasn't been seen or heard from since.
State Police reclassified the case as a homicide in 1990 and Badaracco has long been considered a leading suspect in her disappearance.
Prosecutors Leonard Boyle and Michael Gailor declined to comment when asked whether Badaracco's conviction and sentencing means the investigation is over.
But Devlin said that as far as he was concerned, the bribery attempt and fate of Badaracco's former wife were separate issues.
"The defendant is not being sentenced for the disappearance of Mary Badaracco, and this should not be considered an indirect verdict on her disappearance," Devlin said as he prepared to pronounce the sentence.
Although the 31 letters of support helped convince the judge not to impose the maximum 10-year penalty sought by the prosecution, Devlin said the crime for which a jury convicted Badaracco was too serious for the suspended sentence and fine sought by defense attorney Richard Meehan.
Meehan immediately filed an appeal of the conviction and asked the judge to allow his client's release on bail until a higher court can hear the case. Devlin rejected that request later Friday, sending Badaracco directly to jail.
Brunetti, along with Badaracco's former business partner, Ronald "Rocky" Richter, were the prosecution's star witnesses during the weeklong trial, which concluded in July.
Brunetti wasn't involved in the grand jury investigation, but was assigned to the same judicial district where the hearings took place.
He told the jury that on Nov. 17, 2010, shortly after the one-man grand jury investigation began, Badaracco telephoned him at his home and said, "Bobby, I need your help. They've all been subpoenaed for Friday."
Brunetti said he responded there was nothing he could do and that's when he testified Badaracco told him: "I'm only gonna say this one time ... It's worth 100 Gs."
The call was not recorded and Brunetti testified the only way he could interpret Badaracco's statement was the defendant was offering him a bribe.
Meehan tried unsuccessfully to convince the jury that Brunetti misinterpreted the comment, that his client was referring to the amount of money that it would cost him to post bond and pay for an attorney if he were arrested.
The grand juror, Judge William Hadden, concluded the investigation in early 2012 without filing charges against anyone in connection with Mary Badaracco's disappearance and presumed murder.
The sentencing Friday brought a measure of satisfaction to Sherrie Passaro, Mary Badaracco's daughter, who along with her sister, Beth Profeta, have been pushing Connecticut State police and prosecutors to pursue the case.
"I'm happy the judge and the jury saw through (Badaracco)," she said. "He tried to make the murder investigation go away. Otherwise, he wouldn't have tried to bribe a judge."
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Miu Miu Fall 2011 Sunglasses — Noir Collection [Pictures]
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>> 1940's film noir inspired the new batch of Miu Miu sunglasses for Fall 2011. Shot on Hailee Steinfeld by Bruce Weber for the Miu Miu Fall 2011 ad campaign (as seen in the gallery), the new frames feature oversized, angular cat-eyes and lots of retro-glam colorways — think ochre tortoise shell and metallic glitter-acetate. Click through to get an up-close look at the full collection available in stores this September.
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A recap of monad: a monad is an opaque decorator. It takes a thing (including taking nothing) and hides that thing behind the monadic form. In sigfpe's example, the monad, W, takes a number (or anything else, for that matter), consuming it.
A monad, then, is like a katamari or a black hole, ... or Kuzko: no touchy!
So, then, the question naturally arises: how does one interact with the captured data? Well, the monad interface provides two basic operations in its protocol: return and
bind (sometimes written
- return "lifts" an object into the monadic form. In propositional logic, return is
a → m a— '
return 5' would yield '
W 5' in sigfpe's example.
bindtakes a function that transforms an object to a monad and converts that function that transforms the object within that monad. In propositional logic,
(a → m b) → (m a → m b)
bind is used frequently when working with data and their monadic forms, and from it other functions may be derived, such as fmap, which maps (converts) a function that works on "ordinary" data to one that works on monads ... fmap is
(a → b) → (m a → m b). Note the closeness to
bind: the derivation of fmap is
λ x . bind (return • x) (where
• is composition (the B combinator, or Bluebird, from combinatorial logic), and
λ introduces a variable in the expression).
The above is enough introductory material to solve sigfpe's first two exercises, which I reproduce here:
Exercise 1: Write a function,
g, that adds a number to a monad containing a number, returning a new monad with the sum, or
g :: a → m a → m a.
Solution 1: well, given that addition is of the form
(+) :: a → a → a, and that fmap lifts an ordinary function to a monadic one, the solution nearly writes itself:
g x my = fmap (+ x) my
What is simply done here is to construct a "plus x" function by applying
x to the addition operator — note that
(+x) :: a → a. We then lift that function to its monadic equivalent with fmap and apply the result to the number (
y) contained in the monad (
my). Q.E.D.
Exercise 2: Write a function,
h, that adds monadic numbers, returning a new monad containing the sum, or
h :: m a → m a → m a
Solution 2: This provided a spot of bother for me. Whereas in the last solution, one could take the first number and apply it to addition to come up with a function that fit the form of fmap, in this case, we don't have any numbers with which to simplify addition to a form we can use, as they are all rolled up into monadic forms.
I described the problem thusly to my daughter, EM.
Me: You know addition, right?
EM: What's that, Papa?
Me: What's one plus two?
EM, immediately:Three! ... and ten plus ten is twenty! ... and twenty plus twenty is thirty! ... and thirty plus thirty is forty!
Me, clearing my throat, letting the errors pass in light of the delighted exuberance with which she delivered her answers: Um, yes, well. Here's my problem, let's say Thing One has a number hiding behind its back, that it won't show you, and Thing Two has a number hiding behind its back, too, that it won't show you, and you're asked to add those two numbers and give the answer to Thing Three. How do I do that?
EM, rolling her eyes: Papa, there isn't a Thing Three in the Cat in the Hat!
Me: Yes, well, suppose there was; how would I do this?
EM: Can you peek behind their backs to see what the numbers are?
Me: No, you're not allowed; besides, those Things are much too fast to run behind them, remember how they ran through the house with kites? ... So, we must use something like the fmap-box-maker, because addition is a box that takes numbers and yields numbers, but we need a box that takes Things and yields Things.
Using fmap does work its way into the solution I eventually derived, but another important player for this solution is also
bind used in conjunction with a technique of deferred computation.
You see, just like the solution for exercise 1, we'd like to apply a number to addition to obtain a function for use by fmap. The problem is that we have no such number (just monadic values), but this is where
bind is of use. Recall that
bind :: (a → m b) → (m a → m b). The standard given explanation of
bind is that it transforms a function that lifts ordinary data into monads to a function that works entirely in the monadic domain. But an entirely different way of looking at
bind is that it treats a given monad like ordinary data as input to the lifting function. εὕρηκα! [No, I'm not about to hop out of the tub and run around town with my towel flapping in the wind]
The latter usage is the only one for those using
>>= (which has the English language pronunciation of "bind", as well, confusingly), but if we take sigfpe's entry as the sole and base source, this "discovery" is quite the epiphany. And with that understanding, along with some deferred computational hand-waving, the solution then, again, presents itself:
h w1 w2 = bind (λ x . fmap (+ x) w2) w1
Working from the parenthetical expression outward, we again see the
fmap (+ x) form, unaltered from the solution to exercise 1, giving us a number-to-monad function. The catch here is that we have no such number, so we give a promise that there will be such a number eventually with the λ-introduction. We then immediately fulfill that promise with
bind: we apply the number-to-monad function to
w1, treating that monadic value as if it were a plain number (that's what
bind gives us permission to do), rendering the solution. Q.E.D.
I obtained solution 1 almost immediately by matching the logic of fmap to that of the problem description. It seemed to me to be rather trivial, so I was taken aback at the lengths and "arcane-ness" that sigfpe put into his solution.
On the other hand, sigfpe merely needed to augment his first solution with variable introduction to obtain his second solution. His second solution was trivially-obtained and obvious, given his approach to the first solution, whereas I had to struggle quite some time — introducing both λ-abstraction (as sigfpe does) and
bind (which sigfpe already had in the alternate syntactic form of
>>=) — to obtain mine.
In my defense, my solutions use only the monadic tools introduced in sigfpe's blog entry. On the other hand, Haskell programmers accustomed with monads rarely use fmap, regarding it as esoteric or superfluous, and instead rely on
>>=, or inline binding entirely with the more "natural" do-notation (although there has been some grumblings against it), so in the light of that experience, sigfpe's solutions are natural and the first way most Haskell programmers would solve these exercises. This entry here, then, is from the perspective of someone not familiar with Haskell's approach to monads deriving the solutions from the principles of the provided function
bind and its derived sibling fmap as discussed in sigfpe's blog entry.
Please see my next post for the solutions to sigfpe's exercises 3 and 4.


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How to do a Boardoff - Ride with Blake - Vlog 14
The board off is one of those fun old school tricks that you don't see too many people doing anymore. I really love this trick because it's a gateway progression into all kinds of fun classic tricks. Tricks like the christ air or the Jesus walk aka walking on water. You can get as creative as you like with this one.
I've broken this down into five progressions
Step one
Practice grabs. Go crazy, just do as many grabs as you can imagine. Nose grabs, tail grabs, mute grabs, a roast beef! Get really comfortable grabbing that board everywhere.
Step two
Learn how to do one footers. When you jump, go for a grab and start slipping your back foot out. The first attempts you don't even have to get your foot all the way off. Progressively work your way to a solid one footer.
Step three
Timing with the board off. You want to grab your board on your way up. By the time you hit the apex you want your board to be all the way off. As soon as you feel yourself coming down get that board back on your feet. Just like step two start small. Just stay compact and slip that board off and on your feet. Over time you can start going bigger and stretching out more for style.
Step four
Stay compact. Imaging trying to tie your shoes with straight legs...Not so easy right? Well you need to get your knees into your chest while taking the board off and putting it back on.
Step five
The landing is critical. The thing about this trick is you don't want to land at an angle and your really don't want to land with only one foot on the board. Make sure you touch down flat riding downwind. If one foot is not fully secure thats fine, just keep your shoulders over your knees, point the board downwind and stomp it!


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Here's the latest video from local comic Aaron Nevins, which premiered at this past Sunday's Bedtime Stories Presents: Christmas Eve at a Delco WaWa. The video stars comedian/storyteller Hillary Rea, stand-ups T.J. Hurley and Chris O'Connor, and two adorable children.
If you are a Philadelphia comedy performer that produces a podcast, web series, sketch video, humor column, or any other online content let us know by emailing us at email@example.com so we can share it!


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Debbie Stabenow on Energy & Oil
Democratic Jr Senator; previously Representative (MI-8)
BOUCHARD: Yes, there's conflicting reports. We could be in a position to lead away from fossil fuels. She filibustered the comprehensive energy package in Congress. We need someone who will lead on that - she hasn't. She has only one bill authored -- to rename a federal building. I wrote legislation to close incinerators while in the S state Senate.
STABENOW: Global Warming is real and I'm focused on solving it. I cite nineteen provisions which I authored, many bi-partisan. Global Warming is too important for partisan politics. I supported the energy bill from two years ago -- it created real energy boom in Michigan. We have strong agriculture, and ability to tell world to buy fuel here in Michigan instead of Middle East.
Proponent's argument to vote Yes:Sen. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R, SC): The climate change proposal that was in the President's budget would create a massive tax increase on anybody who uses energy, and that would be every American middle-class family, which already has a tough time getting by. This [amendment creates a procedure to block] any bill that would raise the cost of energy on our middle-class families who are struggling to get by. I ask the Senate to rally around this concept. We can deal with climate change without passing a $3,000-per-household energy tax on the families of America who are having a hard time paying their bills.
Opponent's argument to vote No:No senators spoke against the amendment.
Sec. 202 is amended by inserting at the end the following: "The Chairman of the Senate Committee on the Budget shall not revise the allocations in this resolution if the legislation is reported from any committee pursuant to sec. 310 of the Congressional Budget Act of 1974."
Proponent's argument to vote Yes:Sen. LINDSEY GRAHAM (R, SC): This idea to most people of a debate about reconciliation probably is mind-numbing and not very interesting. But there is a process in the Congress where you can take legislation and basically put it on a fast track. It is subject to 50 votes.
The whole idea of the Senate kind of cooling things down has served the country well. In that regard, to end debate you need 60 votes. If 41 Senators are opposed to a piece of legislation, strongly enough to come to the floor every day and talk about it, that legislation doesn't go anywhere. If you took climate change and health care, two very controversial, big-ticket items, and put them on the reconciliation track, you would basically be doing a lot of damage to the role of the Senate in a constitutional democracy.
Senator Byrd, who is one of the smartest people to ever serve in the Senate about rules and parliamentary aspects of the Senate, said that to put climate change and health care reform in reconciliation is like "a freight train through Congress" and is "an outrage that must be resisted." Senator Conrad said: "I don't believe reconciliation was ever intended for this purpose."
I think both of them are right. Under the law, you cannot put Social Security into reconciliation because we know how controversial and difficult that is. I come here in support of the Johanns amendment that rejects that idea.
Opponent's argument to vote No:No senators spoke against the amendment.
Despite the positive elements of this legislation, the main sticking point is whether temporary extensions of tax relief should be offset with permanent tax increases elsewhere. The White House issued a statement recommending a Presidential veto of this bill in its current form. [Vote NAY to] allow the Senate to work its will and pass legislation that can be quickly signed by the President.
But what happens with the DeMint motion, he gives China and India a veto power over what we should be doing. Imagine saying we are not going to do anything about human rights until China acts. Why would we give up our chance to take the mantle of leadership and finally grab hold of this issue? I cannot look into the eyes of my grandchildren and tell them: Sorry, I am giving over my proxy to China & India, and I can't do anything about it.
Proponents support voting YES because:
This legislation seeks to end the unwarranted tax breaks & subsidies which have been lavished on Big Oil over the last several years, at a time of record prices at the gas pump and record oil industry profits. Big Oil is hitting the American taxpayer not once, not twice, but three times. They are hitting them at the pump, they are hitting them through the Tax Code, and they are hitting them with royalty holidays put into oil in 1995 and again in 2005.
It is time to vote for the integrity of America's resources, to vote for the end of corporate welfare, to vote for a new era in the management of our public energy resources.
Opponents support voting NO because:
I am wearing this red shirt today, because this shirt is the color of the bill that we are debating, communist red. It is a taking. It will go to court, and it should be decided in court.
This bill will increase the competitive edge of foreign oil imported to this country. If the problem is foreign oil, why increase taxes and make it harder to produce American oil and gas? That makes no sense. We should insert taxes on all foreign oil imported. That would raise your money for renewable resources. But what we are doing here today is taxing our domestic oil. We are raising dollars supposedly for renewable resources, yet we are still burning fossil fuels.
Status: Bill passed Bill passed, 65-27
Proponents recommend voting YES because:
Our NOPEC bill will authorize filing suit against nations that participate in a conspiracy to limit the supply, or fix the price, of oil. In addition, it will specify that the doctrines of sovereign immunity do not exempt nations that participate in oil cartels from basic antitrust law.
Opponents recommend voting NO because:
No one likes OPEC. But this amendment, in my opinion, would make bad law. The Framers of the Constitution wisely assigned responsibility for formulating foreign policy and conducting foreign relations to the President and to the Congress, not to the law courts.
The amendment before us has its roots in a lawsuit filed by the labor union nearly 30 years ago. The union at that time charged OPEC with price fixing in violation of our antitrust laws. The trial court dismissed the case on the ground that OPEC members are sovereign nations and are immune from suit. Adopting the amendment will undoubtedly be very popular, but it is also very unwise.
In addition, we here in the Senate ought to consider how enactment of this amendment might affect our relations with OPEC members. What will be the international repercussions when the US starts awarding judgments against foreign nations and attaching their assets in this country? Will other nations start to view our trade policies--such as our nuclear trade restrictions--as violations of their antitrust laws?
Proponents recommend voting YES because:
It just seems logical that we ask the Corps of Engineers to include in their analyses, judgments about the potential impact of global climate change. All this amendment seeks to do, as a matter of common sense, is to ask the Army Corps of Engineers to factor climate change into their future plans. Secondly, we are making a statement here to finally recognize the reality of what is happening with respect to climate change.
Opponents recommend voting NO because:
The same people today who are saying we are all going to die from global warming, just back in the middle 1970s were saying another ice age is coming and we are all going to die. Which way do you want it?
If a surge of anthropogenic gases--this CO2, methane, or whatever it is--were causing a warming period, then around 1945 we would have a warming period because in the middle 1940s we had the greatest increase in greenhouse gases. But what happened? It did not precipitate a warming period.
Peer reviewed evidence shows that the sun has actually been driving the temperature change. You don't have to be a scientist to know that the Sun can have something to do with climate change.
Implementing Kyoto would reduce the average annual household income nearly $2,700, at a time when the cost of all goods would rise sharply.
Modernize Environmental Policies
National environmental policies, mostly developed in the 1970s, have been remarkably successful in improving the quality of our air and water. But we face a new set of environmental challenges for which the old strategy of centralized, command-and-control regulation is no longer effective.
The old regime of prohibitions and fines levied on polluters is not well equipped to tackle problems such as climate change, contamination of water from such sources as farm and suburban runoff, loss of open lands, and sprawl. Without relaxing our determination to maintain and enforce mandatory national standards for environmental quality, it is time to create more effective, efficient, and flexible ways of achieving those standards.
For example, a system of tradable emissions permits would give factories, power plants, and other sources of air pollution and greenhouse gases a powerful incentive not only to meet but to exceed environmental standards. Decisions about solving local environmental problems should be shifted from Washington to communities, without weakening national standards. Finally, to empower citizens and communities to make sound decisions, government should invest in improving the quality and availability of information about environmental conditions.
Mr. President: A recent federal court decision regarding energy efficient air conditioners is a significant victory for consumers, for the environment, and for our nation's energy future. We respectfully request that you do not appeal the decision to the U.S. Supreme Court.
Last month, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second District (Natural Resources Defense Council et al v. Abraham, Docket 01-4102) affirmed that central air conditioners sold beginning in 2006 must be at least 30% more energy efficient than those available today.
Air conditioners are a necessary modern convenience but are also major users of electricity. On hot days, cooling homes and businesses is the largest category of electricity demand. Requiring air conditioners to be as energy efficient as possible will begin to reduce the stress on the electricity generation and transmission network and decrease the likelihood of blackouts that many regions of the country experience during warm weather conditions.
Air conditioners that meet the Seasonal Energy Efficiency Rating 13 standard will provide benefits for consumers, the environment, and the nation. The SEER 13 standard will alleviate the need for additional electricity production and transmission resulting in as many as 48 fewer power plants required by 2020. This standard will also result in less harmful air pollution being emitted into the atmosphere. Moreover, by 2020 power plant emissions of carbon dioxide will be 2.5 million tons lower as a result, and emissions of mercury, sulfur dioxide, and nitrogen oxides will also be held down resulting in cleaner air and healthier citizens.
Finally, the higher standard can be expected to save businesses and residential consumers $1 billion per year in lower electricity bills. Lower electricity bills will recover the slightly higher purchase cost for the more efficient air conditioners in less than 18 months.
OnTheIssues.org interprets the 2005-2006 CAF scores as follows:
The Campaign for America's Future (CAF) is a center for ideas and action that works to build an enduring majority for progressive change. The Campaign advances a progressive economic agenda and a vision of the future that works for the many, not simply the few. The Campaign is leading the fight for America's priorities--against privatization of Social Security, for investment in energy independence, good jobs and a sustainable economy, for an ethical and accountable Congress and for high quality public education.
About the CAF report, "Energy Independence: Record vs. Rhetoric":
Energy independence has surfaced as a defining issue in the current elections. Are most candidates and both parties truly committed? To help distinguish the demonstrated level of support for homegrown, clean energy alternatives, we examined the voting records of current U.S. Representatives and Senators on bills vital to promoting those interests. Key pieces of legislation included goals for independence, and subsidies for the development of alternatives compared to subsidies for drilling and digging. We then compared votes on these issues with campaign contributions from major oil interests. The results show strong inverse correlations between political contributions from big oil and votes for energy independence.
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, DESIGNATION OF PORTION OF ARCTIC NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE AS WILDERNESS.
The National Wildlife Refuge System Administration Act of 1966 is amended by adding at the end the following:
Designation of Certain Land as Wilderness- Notwithstanding any other provision of this Act, a portion of the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge in Alaska comprising approximately 1,559,538 acres, as generally depicted on a map entitled 'Arctic National Wildlife Refuge--1002 Area. Alternative E--Wilderness Designation, October 28, 1991' and available for inspection in the offices of the Secretary, is designated as a component of the National Wilderness Preservation System under the Wilderness Act'.
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MI Gubernatorial:
Rick Snyder
MI Senatorial:
Carl Levin
Dem. Freshmen
in 112th Congress:
AL-7:Terri Sewell
CA-33:Karen Bass
DE-0:John Carney
FL-17:Frederica Wilson
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa
LA-2:Cedric Richmond
MA-10:Bill Keating
MI-13:Hansen Clarke
RI-1:David Cicilline
GOP Freshmen
in 112th Congress:
AL-2:Martha Roby
AL-5:Mo Brooks
AZ-1:Paul Gosar
AZ-3:Ben Quayle
AZ-5:David Schweikert
AR-1:Rick Crawford
AR-2:Tim Griffin
AR-3:Steve Womack
CA-19:Jeff Denham
CO-3:Scott Tipton
CO-4:Cory Gardner
FL-12:Dennis Ross
FL-2:Steve Southerland
FL-21:Mario Diaz-Balart
FL-22:Allen West
FL-24:Sandy Adams
FL-25:David Rivera
FL-5:Rich Nugent
FL-8:Dan Webster
GA-2:Mike Keown
GA-7:Rob Woodall
GA-8:Austin Scott
ID-1:Raul Labrador
IL-8:Joe Walsh
IL-10:Bob Dold
IL-11:Adam Kinzinger
IL-14:Randy Hultgren
IL-17:Bobby Schilling
IL-8:Joe Walsh
IN-3:Marlin Stutzman
IN-4:Todd Rokita
IN-8:Larry Bucshon
IN-9:Todd Young
KS-1:Tim Huelskamp
KS-3:Kevin Yoder
KS-5:Mike Pompeo
LA-3:Jeff Landry
MD-1:Andy Harris
MI-1:Dan Benishek
MI-2:Bill Huizenga
MI-3:Justin Amash
MI-7:Tim Walberg
MN-8:Chip Cravaack
MO-4:Vicky Hartzler
MO-7:Billy Long
MS-1:Alan Nunnelee
MS-4:Steven Palazzo
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NC-2:Renee Ellmers
ND-0:Rick Berg
NH-2:Charlie Bass
NH-1:Frank Guinta
NJ-3:Jon Runyan
NM-2:Steve Pearce
NV-3:Joe Heck
NY-13:Michael Grimm
NY-19:Nan Hayworth
NY-20:Chris Gibson
NY-24:Richard Hanna
NY-25:Ann Marie Buerkle
NY-29:Tom Reed
OH-1:Steve Chabot
OH-15:Steve Stivers
OH-16:Jim Renacci
OH-18:Bob Gibbs
OH-6:Bill Johnson
OK-5:James Lankford
PA-10:Tom Marino
PA-11:Lou Barletta
PA-3:Mike Kelly
PA-7:Patrick Meehan
PA-8:Mike Fitzpatrick
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SC-5:Mick Mulvaney
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TN-3:Chuck Fleischmann
TN-4:Scott DesJarlais
TN-6:Diane Black
TN-8:Stephen Fincher
TX-17:Bill Flores
TX-23:Quico Canseco
TX-27:Blake Farenthold
VA-2:Scott Rigell
VA-5:Robert Hurt
VA-9:Morgan Griffith
WA-3:Jaime Herrera
WI-7:Sean Duffy
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In SQL Server, there is a good set of preloaded reports to help you monitor the Instance. These reports can be found under the Standard Reports and can be reached via context menu. To find them, right click your Instance in Object Explorer from within SSMS. Then navigate the context menu – much like the menus shown here.
You can see from the image that there is a decent amount of good reports available to choose.
When you run one of these reports, it is like a report that you would run from SSRS. However, SSRS is not required to be installed in order to run these reports.
Occasionally, you may encounter an error when trying to run these reports. The error that you may encounter is as follows:
The file 'Microsoft.ReportViewer.WinForms, Version=220.127.116.11, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=b03f5f7f11d50a3a' cannot be opened.
This error message seems to pop up commonly after an upgrade to SQL Server is performed (CU or SP). Sometimes, it can crop up without an upgrade having been recently performed.
In the event that you encounter this particular error, you should try installing BIDS. Though it is not necessarily a pre-requisite – it is a good idea to have it installed anyway and it also resolves this error message.
Another method that has worked for me to resolve this error is to install Microsoft Report Viewer 2008 SP1.
Additionally, besides looking into these Standard reports and hopefully helping you circumvent the aforementioned error, there is another recommendation. In SQL 2005, there is a download for the Performance Dashboard Reports. And in SQL 2008 there is a new feature called Management Data Warehouse.
You can download the Performance Reports from here.
You can see how to configure the Management Data Warehouse here.
Oh, and if you want to retrofit SQL 2008 with the 2005 Performance Dashboard, you will have to tweak it a bit. You can read up on that here.


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Well for all of you who haven't gotten your fill of Bethenny Frankel (or her opinions) – good news – and for the rest of you, I apologize in advance – because Bethenny is now in the business of writing "fiction." Yes, Bethenny has just inked a book deal to author her first work of "creative writing." The novel titled Skinny Dipping, is tentatively expected to be out next spring, will be the first novel in a three-book deal.
Skinny Dipping will, of course, be another foray in the Skinnygirl empire (which unlike the frame of it's figurehead, isn't dwindling anytime soon); and will feature a character that sounds a lot like… Bethenny.
"It's about a girl's journey and what she wants, and trying to have it all. It's about the lessons and the people along the way, about naysayers and rising above. There will be a lot of juiciness and people wondering what it's based on and if any of it was influenced by my life." Here's guessing that character will also start a diet drink company and appear on a reality show with a bunch of catty b*tches like herself.
Bethenny plans to write her first novel from her home office, where she explains she employs part-time childcare for Bryn: "I have a part-time nanny there at 8 a.m., and I usually have her leave at 2. I like to be with the baby." Bethenny continues, "I have an easy baby — and it's exhausting. She jumped into the dishwasher today. She's really structured, and she's still a terror."
And speaking of Bryn, Bethenny recently blogged that her 15-month-old is strictly vegetarian! Unlike some of her other food decisions, which are viewed by some as controversial (and unhealthy), Mama B seems to have a fairly sensible approach to Bryn's diet, writing: "As far as raising Bryn as a vegetarian, that was a personal choice. If Bryn is older and wants something at a party that isn't vegetarian, I don't want her to feel ostracized. She'll find her way."
Explaining her decisions to feed Bryn a vegetarian diet, Bethenny references her own insubstantial eating habits: "I eat almost everything, but I eat a mostly vegetarian diet. However, I occasionally eat meat if I'm really craving it or if there is literally nothing else around, but I'm fortunate to love vegetables, grains and all things healthy. As a child, I ate sushi, escargot, venison– anything and everything. I wasn't squeamish about food and I'm proud to say that I've never ordered off of a children's menu in my entire life." As for Bryn, she will not be eating off the children's menu either – which, good for Bethenny on that!
Don't confuse vegetarian with vegan, however, because Bethenny incorporates dairy products into Bryn's menu: "I chose not to have her be vegan because I believe she needs the fat and protein in milk. Sometimes I need her to fill up on organic cheese. Her health comes first."
Bethenny's blog goes onto include more advice for feeding baby and importance of an organic diet. Organic like the cocktail that was recently dropped from the natural-foods giant, Whole Foods? Or organic like the groceries Whole Foods usually sells?
Apparently the latter because Bryn eats an "all organic" diet, but Bethenny isn't totally uptight about it: "If we are in a Mexican restaurant where I know the guacamole isn't organic, it's OK," she said. "Obsession isn't the point here. Doing the best we can is."
And last but not least, Bethenny recently revealed what's going on in her uterus: "I'm not pregnant yet. We're not trying. We're not not trying," she over-discloses. "We're not having a plan. We're not doing fertility tests or being proactive."
Bethenny's pictured above with daughter Bryn in NYC on August 29, 2011.
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Back to Banging up Buck
I made a mental note to get at least 17 hill repeats, but I really was hoping I could do 20.
One hour and 15 minutes later I arrived to Buck Hill. And a ton of rain. Oh well, guess I don't need heat training anymore anyhow.
I ran the 2.5 mile warm up and then proceeded to the hill. It's daunting looking up that hill, thinking that I wanted to run 20 of them and I don't even have one in the bag.
Up the hill I went, iPod playing, bottle in hand. Rain coming down, feeling pretty good on my skin. It's been a long time since I've run in the rain.
I ran faster down the hill, trying to let go a bit. I did learn at Vermont that I'm pretty good at climbing the hills-thanks to Buck-but not so hot coming down. I mean, some people FLY down the hills. I tried. I wasn't very flyish, but I'm getting better at it.
After each hill repeat I put a rock in a line, each rock counting my repeat. Wondering if I could have 20 rocks there in my line at my finish.
I continued. After one hour I had 7 repeats in. I did 3 more, had a Hammergel, refilled my bottle with water and headed out for the 2.5 mile run. The transition from hills to run didn't make me complain as it did the last three hill sessions. It was fine, actually, it was a nice change. Wow, major change of opinion there.
Back to the hill, now I knew I could bang out another 10 hills. I just knew it.
Nobody else was out at Buck Hill today while I was out there. Well, there were some 4 wheelers getting a lesson and a tour. I met the instructor with a new group of students a few times on the top of the hill, he asked me how many and what I was running the hill for. Nice little conversation to break up the 4 + hour run.
OK, number 16. Wow, new territory and feeling strong. Up I go, down I come. Pretty soon I place rock number 19 in my line. I go up the hill and think how banging these hills out is like shot of something in my vein. Something to get me to the finish of Superior. Something to make me stronger, fitter, faster and more stubborn. All of that.
As I'm trudging up the last hill a song plays on my iPod: Staind; So Far Away and I begin to cry. The words "I can't forget that I'm not ashamed to be the person that I am today" I realize how far I've come. How much I've changed. How much of my life that I've been ashamed of myself. The lies, the drugs, the drinking. I've let that go. I'm not ashamed of myself anymore. Sometimes, I'm even proud of myself.
Boy, what running can do for a gal.
I place my last rock and count 20 of them in line. I write Julie 20 in the sand. Pick up my supplies and drop them in the car, to run my final 2.5 miles as a cooldown. Boy, was it a cooldown-the rain really began to fall. I turned my face up to the sky and thought how grateful I was to be out there running.
As I came back into the lot, there was Les Martisko, ready to pound out his repeats!
This afternoon we're all going to The Simpsons Movie. What a great day, enjoy it!
5 comments:
- Adam said...
Hey Julie,
Sounds like a great workout! Could you tell me more about how you climb and descend? Is it a slow jog, do you walk portions, etc? Do you then come straight down the same hill or is there a trail that weaves you back to the bottom? Is this 2.5 mile loop entirely within the confines of Buck or out on the frontage road?I'm very familiar with the hill but have never run there. Thanks!
I'm jealous of your upcoming Lutsen trip. If you happen to do the final section close to Lutsen where us 50M'ers will also be, please give a trail report!
I am in AWE! I am teary eyed and don't know you but as proud and moved by someone I have never met as I am of you right now.
I have an addiction too and I was thinking the other day how you over came yours. Mine isn't has severe as yours, but still my own and hope I can deal with it with the same grace as you.
You are a grea athlete. But more so an amazing human being and even more important, Mother. The example you are setting for them and all of us is something to be VERY proud of.
I feel so lucky to have totally stumbled across your blog when I really needed it most. I have to thank you for that.
Sometimes it is about more then the workout. I like how you stop to take photos and let your dog wallow in a pool. You have been to the bottom and are stopping to smell the roses at the top. What a great perspective. I try to remember that everyday as well.
Great job and thanks again.
- Julie B said...
aharmer, I run up to the first ski pole thing and then walk up the rest of the hill, up to the top, touch my toes and run down as fast as I can; turn around, repeat. For the warmup cooldown - it's not on the frontage road, just a bit of it is, I run on the asphalt past the gasstation down another mile, to a stop light and turn back. I just do the same hill over and over. The longest, steepest one.
Anon, thanks for the kind words. Running has helped me cope immensely! I firmly believe that one has to replace their bad habits/addictions with other habits.
- Olga said...
Juls, well said. Don't you want to grabs the moment of such thoughts ands hold on to it long after?..That running doesn't just change and help, it makes us darn too emotional:)
What a great summary of a run. I found your blog on CRN and read through some posts - but this one I could feel your love of running. Way to go!


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Game 56: Los Angeles at Toronto pregame
It isn't hard to decipher the key to success for Blue Jays reliever Shawn Camp. When he has his slider biting through the strike zone, he is tough on hitters. When he doesn't have command of that pitch? It can be ugly at times.
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SWITCH IT UP: Gaston finally decided to give a day off to slumping center fielder Vernon Wells (one hit in his last 18 at-bats) on Thursday afternoon. Gaston said he hopes the move can breathe some life into Wells' bat, similar to how right fielder Alex Rios heated up at the plate after a day off in Baltimore.
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BIRDS-EYE VIEW: Prior to joining the Blue Jays' bullpen, reliever Dirk Hayhurst was put up in the hotel at Rogers Centre for a night. He stayed in a room overlooking the field and was able to watch Doc Halladay strike out 14 Angels on Tuesday night. Gaston couldn't believe Hayhurst was able to get such a great view.
"I was teasing him," Gaston said. "He watched it from a room in the hotel. I asked him, 'How the hell did you get that room?' I can't get that room. They won't give me that room when I'm in that hotel. He said, "I kind of sweet-talked the girl at the desk.' So, he's already moved up. That's pretty good."
Today's lineups:
1. Chone Figgins, 3B
2. Erick Aybar, SS
3. Vlad Guerrero, DH
4. Torii Hunter, CF
5. Juan Rivera, RF
6. Kendry Morales, 1B
7. Mike Napoli, C
8. Robb Quinlan, LF
9. Howie Kendrick, 2B
Starter: RHP John Lackey (1-1)
1. Marco Scutaro, SS
2. Aaron Hill, 2B
3. Alex Rios, CF
4. Adam Lind, LF
5. Kevin Millar, DH
6. Lyle Overbay, 1B
7. Jose Bautista, 3B
8. Raul Chavez, C
9. Joe Inglett, RF
Starter: LHP Brian Tallet (3-3)
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