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Chris McMillian is a bartending institution—a walking, talking library of cocktail lore and history. A veteran of many of New Orleans's finest and most historic bars, he's also a constant presence at the Museum of the American Cocktail, which he helped to found. Here are his thoughts on everything from the virtues of hand-cracked ice to the love lives of ancient Greek gods to why it's perfectly fine to drink a Julep in the morning.
Imbibe: What first attracted you to the Mint Julep?
Chris McMillian: Well, you know, I collect literature about drinks and drinking. I think we [bartenders] all do; at some level, it kind of goes with the territory. And of all the drinks you encounter, none evokes the kind of written or oral response that the Julep does, with the possible exception of [Bernard] DeVoto and the Martini.
Imbibe: Speaking of which, there is that wonderful piece by J. Soule Smith that you so often recite when making a Mint Julep. How long did it take you to memorize that?
CM: I don't know. There was a time when I read the text directly from paper, and over time it kind of sunk in. I still forget lines to this day. To me, it just—well, we all know the dark side of drinking, and for me, this expressed everything beautiful about drinking.
Imbibe: What are some of the classic mistakes you've seen people make when creating Mint Juleps?
CM: Well, I wouldn't phrase it exactly that way. I think it's more a general approach to making drinks. It's not so much any main thing as it is all the cumulative things you do that add up to a good drink, [like] the proper service vessel. Metal acts a conductor; glass acts as an insulator. So since cooling a drink is heat transfer, you radiate the heat away from the drink more quickly and efficiently through a metal container—hence, the metal [Julep] cup. Crushed ice: The more surface area you have, the more quickly and efficiently you will cool—typically, with a greater level of dilution, but because of the almost magical combination of the cup and the ice, the ice really maintains its coldness over a long period of time in the cup without too much dilution. And the dilution's not really going to hurt that bourbon, either. I think the handling of the mint itself is a huge area. We see it especially with the Mojito—the bourbon's a little more forgiving, because of its robust nature—but with rum, you really see the delicate nature of mint. I think many bartenders think they're demonstrating their skill by showing off their muddling technique, but you're really just supposed to delicately release the oil of the mint, and if you over-extract it, you start to release chlorophyll or vegetal matter within the leaf, which is bitter.
Imbibe: What's the best way to get perfect crushed ice?
CM: I hand-crush my ice. I have a Lewis bag and a large mallet. While I have access to a crushed-ice machine at work, if I had to leave the bar every time I needed to go get crushed ice, it would be a disruption to service, and if I kept crushed ice in the well, it would slush up and become wet. And the coldness and dryness of the ice at the inception of the drink is really one of the key elements of its success. Like people say with everything else, "fresh is better." From the moment you crush it and take it out of its cold environment, ice is going to start to dilute and melt down. I don't know if you'd call it cracked or crushed. I'd call it crushed. I pound the shit out of it with that mallet.
Imbibe: So walk us through making a proper Julep.
CM: I take my silver Julep cup, I add a small amount of simple syrup, less than a quarter of an ounce, into the bottom of the cup. I then add the mint—five, six sprigs. I don't think you can use too much mint. I think the main danger, like I said, is the over-extraction of the mint, and the more mint you use, the less extraction it requires. So I put it in the bottom of the cup. I then gently muddle the mint against the interior of the cup, trying to cover all of the interior surface. The small amount of syrup I placed in there almost acts as an adhesive, so that as I muddle, the oil that's being expressed combines with the sugar, which is then adhering to the interior of the glass, creating a mint-oil-and-sugar rinse, if you will. I then crush the ice and put it in the glass. Have a nice cap on it, extending maybe 10 to 20 percent above the top of the glass, even more, like a snowball or a snow cone. Because the minute you put that room-temperature alcohol on there, the ice is going to diminish in volume dramatically and rapidly.
At that point I pour my bourbon in until I get to about 1/8 of an inch to 1/4 of an inch from the top—it depends on the size of the cup, but about three to four ounces—and then I top it with simple syrup. I like to put the sugar on afterward, à la Soule Smith, so you don't have to get to the bottom of the drink in order to get to the reward. That is, to me, one of the most compelling qualities of the Julep: Every sip is different from the first, because it's a built drink as opposed to a homogenized drink. I don't typically stir my Julep up. That means that as the sugar sinks to the bottom, it's going to be much more intense in bourbon at the top, and much sweeter and more minty at the bottom. Each sip progressively takes you there and each sip is different from the one preceding it. Few drinks have that multidimensionality, building to the crescendo—which I think is the payoff of the Julep—of the bourbon and the mint together.
And then I take a large bunch of mint, slap it to release the oils and enliven the senses through the fragrance, and garnish the drink. I then take a small straw and place it right in the mint itself so that when you reach down to take a sip, you really have to nuzzle your nose in the garnish so you get that additional olfactory stimulation. You know, the more senses you involve in an experience, the more intense an experience it's going to be. And then, traditionally, you would wrap the cup in an Irish linen napkin, so as to keep your hand warm and your cup cool.
Imbibe: How much simple syrup do you use?
CM: I kind of judge that by the individual. If I've served them other drinks and I see they like a little more sweetener, I might add more. If it's somebody who's a whiskey lover, I might use a little bit less. One of the complaints about Juleps from many people is that they're often oversweetened. We can probably say three-quarters of an ounce or an ounce total. You're looking for a little more sweetness as opposed to less, but the bourbon itself is a naturally sweet spirit. I guess it's intuitive, at some level. You know, I'm a regular measurer in cocktails. I'm a great believer that if you want a drink to taste the same every time, you have to make it the same every time. And yet the Julep is one of the drinks that I do not measure, because of the nature of the quantity of whiskey and the intensity of flavor; you really have to tailor that to the tastes of the individual you're serving. But if I were writing Chris McMillian's recipe, I would say somewhere around an ounce. From time to time, I will vary the simple syrup I use. One of my favorite variations is peach syrup. Bourbon and peaches are a naturally complementary pairing—that's the basis for Southern Comfort. It adds just another subtle flavor dimension on a classic combination. And in fact, peach brandy was one of the most common base materials for the Julep during the 19th century.
Imbibe: Do you have a favorite Julep story?
CM: Mint herself was a Greek goddess, a minor river goddess, in fact. And Pluto, the god of the Underworld, was much enamored of her—not to the pleasure of his wife, who in punishment unjustly turned the innocent maiden into, essentially, grass, so she would be eternally trampled under the feet of everyone. While Pluto could not prevent this, he made it so that the more you trampled her, the sweeter she smelled. And today there's a mountain in Greece named in her honor: Minthe. I think it's part of this mythological connection—the Julep itself dates to Persia. Here we have Greek mythology and ancient Babylon intersecting with the New World. You know, you could do the Julep Monologues, based on the quantity and quality of written material that this drink has inspired since its introduction.
Imbibe: The sad thing about this conversation is that now we want to make a Mint Julep, but it's 8:30 in the morning.
CM: Well, you know, that was their origin—the earliest references were in Virginia, where servants would bring them on silver salvers while you were still in bed. You would consume two to three Juleps before arising, to fortify you against the malaise that was supposed to occupy the ether and make people sick. So if you're in the mood, you can go ahead and indulge yourself and feel perfectly okay about it!


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Awhile back, Vidyala at Manalicious had a blogoversary. To thank her readers, she offered to do five minute sketches of those who commented on the Blogoversary post.
Guess who commented.
Go on, take a stab in the dark.
Well, lots of people commented, actually. Who wouldn't? Vidyala is known for her artistic prowess. And in case you are unfamiliar with the prowess I speak of, just check out the Secret Santa piece she did of Mishaweha!
But yes, I did happen to comment, asking for a sketch of Likal, my Night Elf. Here's the sketch Vidyala did (you can also see it in her sketch post):
In return, as I felt a little guilty for DEMANDING a sketch (can you demand a sketch if it was offered? I propose that you can), I decided to draw a sketch of Vidyala's main characters — her mage, Millya!
I tried to leave it to five minutes or less, but I don't think it was too bad, in the end. Even though Draenei are filled with lots of complicated parts you have to remember to draw, like horns and tentacles and face bumps. But I remembered the very important freckles!
Have you ever tried doing timed sketches before? It's kinda fun, especially since it excuses any errors you feel you make!
Until next time!
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The Night of 4.0.1 and Some Initial Thoughts
The servers came up about an hour before our raid time. I quickly hopped on my Auction House character and posted the glyphs I made the night before. Auctioneer was broken… I panicked for a second as I tried to put up glyphs one at a time. Then I figured I'd give Auctionator a try. I have to say, I really like it. For my AH style, it's actually faster at posting than Auctioneer was.
Once that was out of the way, I quickly copied the spec Kurn suggested, equipped the glyphs I had laid out the night before and stuck the gem I was saving into my libram. I talked to my trainer a bit and flipped through my spellbook. I redid my keybinds, screamed at my not-working Grid, got the default raid frames into something that didn't look like boxes were vomitted all over my screen and took a deep breath. I would have taken a screenshot, but I'll spare you that kind of trauma.
The Joys of Raiding after a Patch
We were only slightly late at getting the raid started, pulling barely an hour after the servers came up. We were 20 manning it, addons were bugged all over the place, bringing everyone's FPS into the negatives, disconnects were going off right and left, and most of us had no idea what we were doing. I was also struggling with 4000-7000 latency. And latency is probably my #1 in-game anger trigger- delays in casting times send me into a blind rage every.single.time.
Probably my biggest flaw as a healer, and one of my biggest flaws as a person, is that I get very stressed when I'm learning something. With me, learning is always an intense process. And here I was with a character I felt I'd never played before and disgusting raid frames I had to shield my eyes from, trying to figure out which of my spells did what.
We then proceeded to spend two hours wiping on Heroic Marrowgar 25. I was a sobbing, hyperventilating mess. Between my lag and frustration at not knowing how to play my character, I was utterly furious. But as I was typing an "ok, I can't do this, I'm off to bed" message, it suddenly dawned on me that I was the only one bothered. Everyone else was laughing and joking around as we wiped, waited for all the disconnected people to come back online, tried to figure out which addon was causing which problem. I forced myself to calm down a little.
That's when we killed the boss.
We took a couple of shots at heroic Deathwhisper, then called it.
Paladin Impressions
It's hard for me to give a good impression because I was lagging so badly. I didn't run out of mana! Probably because I couldn't cast anything…
But from I was able to tell from less laggy moments and from spamming myself in Ironforge, I don't think mana will be the problem it was predicted to be. I still had well over 40k mana and could spam quite a bit of the new big heal (Divine Heal? I'm terrible with names) without making so much of a dent. So while spirit is a useful stat now, I don't think it'll be at the forefront of stat stacking.
I'm currently gemmed all intellect, and it seems like a good choice for now. With the conversion of int into both spell power and mana, it's a pretty sweet stat. I do feel like I need more haste, but whether that was due to the lag or a change in mechanics, I'm not sure. It just seemed that my global cooldown last years, while pre-patch, I didn't even notice the global cooldown.
I'll give it another go tonight by running some heroics, but I think I might I might do some reforging to up my haste. I believe I'm at around 1100 haste right now and it just doesn't feel like enough.
About crit, I didn't get the chance to look into it much. Everything seems to increase crit, but I haven't figured out what happens when you crit, other than you get some unreliable overheal. I'm sure crit triggers something, but I'm in a crappy timezone, so I had to go to bed right after the raid.
Spell wise, the new little spell, Holy Light, seems to hit for a lot less than the old Flash of Light. At 4000 spell power, I felt like it wasn't doing much. The new big heal, however, is comparable to the old Holy Light, so I was mostly casting that last night. The new Flash of Light, the "fast, hard hitting spell", was a piece of crap, in my opinion. It took about the same casting time as new Holy Light, and barely healed for more. Might as well just use Holy Shock.
Holy Shock is fun, seems to be comparable in strength to what it was before. I kept forgetting about Holy Power and using, um, Word of Glory?. Word of Glory seems nice, doesn't hit for very much (wtb more possible stacks of Holy Power), but it's instant and it's mana free, so no right to complain. Light of Dawn looks very cool. Very disco lighty. I didn't get much chance to use it since we were spread out all over the place during Marrowgar's AoE damage, but I can think of a few uses for it. Not our top spell, but, you know, situational.
With the nerf to Beacon of Light, I felt very cheated. One of our weaknesses in the past was that we were stuck with single target healing. At least then we could do double target healing. Last night, I had BoL on the tank that seemed to be taking the biggest beating, and was spam healing my tank. That's it, just spam healing my tank. Very sad. Since my newly found global cooldown couldn't really be spared to pitch in anywhere else, I feel like I'm even more restricted than I was before.
Last Word on Tank Healing
I didn't check last night's logs. Too discouraged. However, my tank was always the last one to die. Now whether this is because we're still kickass tank healers or because the other tank healers had to stop healing their targets to heal mine, I don't know.
Oh, and when I checked my AH character after the raid, I had 2000 gold waiting in my mailbox. Not bad for barely 15 minutes of work!
How was everyone else' patch night?
ps. Apologies for the hastily written, unresearched post. Only had a few minutes between classes and I wanted to write a bit.Explore posts in the same categories: Teh paladin
16 Comments on "The Night of 4.0.1 and Some Initial Thoughts"
October 13, 2010 at 5:47 pm
I had a blast healing a couple heroics last night, because paladins now have so many tricks! But I'm really worried about the dinamics on our regular ICC scenario with 2 second tank killer streaks.
Props to your guild for tring to raid on stupid patch night. I could barely log on my toons, who'd even say risk healing a raid.
October 13, 2010 at 5:50 pm
Thanks for posting your initial thoughts on healing in a raid. I am tempted to switch from Tank/DPS to Tank/Heals in Cat, and your feedback on our possibly-newfound-possibly-not raid healing capacity (if you ever do get a chance to raid heal) as well as if there is any difference from Wrath tank healing (BoL + HL spams), is of interest to me.
As for my patch night, it was double-patch. The first attempt completed within 30 minutes of servers coming up, but revealed to have corrupted my WoW data files…forcing me to completely re-install the game. 3 hours later, I was re-installed, patched, and playing, if you want to call it that. By time I got my gear re-forged, setup my talents, and tried the 'new' tank rotation a few times on the training dummy, the rest of the guild had started logging to get sleep. Arrggh! Don't they know they'll get all the sleep they need when they're dead?
October 13, 2010 at 6:47 pm
After reading all the PTR posts and the "sky is falling" blogs about 4.0 i was afraid. Last night (after the proper reforging to get some decent mastery and haste) we went into ICCH25 and blasted the instance. Holy Paladin healing felt different in a good way, a lot of healing tools, solid mana regen (was not missing illumination or DP on CD, of course you dont need to spam anymore) and the MOBILITY we lacked since day 1.
LoD is just awesome, just too good that i feel it will be nerfed anytime soon, of course the trick is about positioning but once you get it…oh boy the numbers.
October 14, 2010 at 6:12 am
Hi here 🙂
Interesting feedback, thank you for sharing it with us all. I have only been testing Pala heals in heroics myself for my first post 4.0 night, getting a feeling of it before going into hard mode ICC 10-Man tonight.
Last night was our let's test all these new specs night in our guild. Everyone got the alts out, and we ran about 20 heroic 5-Man with 2 groups.
I went for the Holy Shock / Word of Glory spec, basically 2 pts into Eternal Glory and 3 into Crusade. I healed 3 instances, among them was Heroic Halls of Reflections that I consider nearly raid level on the healing side.
Two words: I never ran under 90% mana even though I have less than 150 bonus spirit on my gear, I never used anything else than Holy Light / Holy Shock / Word of Glory, even when my tank was stun locked and took like 50K damage in a few seconds. The Holy Shock crits, Word of Glory double spam thanks to Eternal Glory, and no cd Holy shocks from Daybreak were just resulting in crazy low mana heal spam.
The nerf to Beacon, the low mana regen we have when having to spam Divine Light (the new big heal) instead of going for the Holy Shock / Word of Glory combo, and our mastery (shield procs aka Divine Aegis for paladins) make me feel that we will mostly be raid healers now, with Beacon on the tank for regular heal influx. I think priests and especially druids will be new tank healers, seeing how Blizzard push druids towards using Lifebloom (hot can only be cast on one target, the tank mostly).
We'll see what future will give us. Have fun with the Disco Light, it's just so pimp XD
October 15, 2010 at 11:43 am
You are a brave, brave paladin for raiding right away. I'll be honest, I've been QQing since 4.0.1 hit. Nothing is what it was for me. My biggest crit is 12k. 12K! I'm terrified that I'm going to run a heroic and everyone's going to die because I don't know how things are supposed to work anymore. My fave tank asked me to heal him last night in a 5 and I declined.
I know I have to pull it together and re-gem and re-glyph. But I'm tired of having to relearn everything every few years for the same game. And I even had half-a-clue it was coming. I can't imagine how jarring this is for WoW players who don't read blogs or mmo-champion.
Oh, and my Light of Dawn looks crooked. It looks like I fizzled. Feh. Bah.


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But let's back up a few years to "Canadian Idol." Sebastian describes the experience as "really surreal, and an intense kind of experience — a real baptism by fire. It was a crash course; you can't buy that kind of experience. It actually took me a while to recover from."
He is grateful for everything the show gave him and taught him. "A great thing about 'Canadian Idol' is it really made me get my ass in gear and take (singing and songwriting) seriously and really work at it. If you want to do something well as a professional, you have to have discipline and work hard.
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That's another thing you have to give credit to the show for, because since then, I've been working solidly."
Sebastian got his musical start pretty early in life. He explains: "My mother is kind of a Bohemian. My father passed away when I was 7, so she decided to up and move us to Portugal. We lived there for about five years, and that's where my brother and I started playing. That's when we got our first guitars and keyboard.
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"It must be an insane experience. He's reunited with his friend (who is Kai's present day has committed suicide). To me, Kai's whole story line is a love story, the love he has for his friend. Even just to fantasized about what it must be like to be reunited with someone you had lost, I just think his head is spinning. He is in a freefall and he is just grabbing for branches."
As Erica had to do at the end of the first season, Kai is wrestling with the fact that he can't change the past. It's difficult, as Sebastian explains, because "he's there with his best friend again, he's alive, and he doesn't care about the rules or what's right and wrong. He wants to do it his way."
This season marks a "first" for Erica, because she finally gets to meet someone who is experiencing the same kind of unique therapy that she is going through. "Erica has become a part of Kai's therapy. She is certainly helping him through it. Kai's effect on her life is a little less intangible; he shows her that there is other stuff out there. She sees a kindred spirit in Kai, and she digs it."
Don't forget to watch "Being Erica" on SOAPnet every Wednesday night at 10 p.m., and see if you dig it too.
Friday, February 26, 2010
Interview (Being Erica): Sebastian Pigott: From Canadian Idol Finalist to Being Erica Star
Sebastian Pigott, who plays Kai Booker on SOAPnet's "Being Erica," is not a household name in the U.S. like he is in his native Canada — yet. Sebastian, who made it to the finals of "Canadian Idol" in 2008, is a singer, songwriter and actor who is well on his way to capturing the hearts of American viewers. This week especially is an important week for his alter ego, Kai, as we learn more about his past when Erica travels into the future (at a time that is actually Kai's past — confusing on paper, but it all makes sense on the screen).
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
Days: Such a Tease!
* Maggie worries that her condition has returned.
* Anna fears that EJ's (James Scott, pictured) obsession will ruin his plans.
* Gabi offers her condolences to Will.
* Carly begs Daniel not to shut her out.
* Bo tries to talk some sense into Melanie.
Thursday – Nathan learns that Melanie has been injured.
Friday – EJ arrives at Sami's with a surprise!
Snoop Dogg Returns to Llanview
The pop icon reached out to One Life to Live to once again play himself and perform on the show. Snoop Dogg will perform "I Wanna Rock" from his new album Malice in Wonderland.
(Photo Credit: ABC/Heidi Gutman; L-R: Robert S. Woods, Hillary B. Smith, Snoop Dogg, Eddie Alderson)
Monday, February 22, 2010
Y&R: Such a Tease!
* Will Sharon turn on Adam when new evidence comes to light?
* Kevin rallies his family to help him find Jana, whose life could be in more danger than he realizes.
* Kay (Jeanne Cooper, pictured) finds the smoking gun that could bring Tucker down -- but will she use it or reach out to her son?
* A stranger comes into Cane's life that could destroy everything he has built.
* Victoria takes steps when she realizes that her marriage to J.T. is over.
B&B: Such a Tease!
· Despite an iron-clad contract, the battle for Forrester Creations is far from over.
· Years of pent-up harsh feelings are unleashed between long-time adversaries.
· A suspicious wife makes a confrontation about an affair.
· An employee departs from Forrester Creations with a bang.
· Regrets are expressed between former spouses.
ATWT: Such a Tease!
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jdodds: I'm new here and trying to learn all I can about adoption/fostering a greyhound Oct 17, 2016 10:08:19 GMT -5
meggymoo: hi can anyone give advice as my grey is really really scared of the fire works.she doesnt like loud things anyway so turning the tv up doesnt help.she is literally shaking in her shoes ...please help Nov 3, 2016 15:24:08 GMT -5
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missfleur2003: Hello. I am new to this site and noticed that the posts for available dogs seem to be quite old. Some seem to be years old. Are the dogs shown still available. Feb 27, 2017 13:43:46 GMT -5
littledinkk: Brand new Greyhound owner here too. Ditto what mellyb123 said! xx Mar 6, 2017 8:09:31 GMT -5
peggy: Also a brand new greyhound owner, I love her already. It's hard to believe she is 4 years old, I have to keep reminding myself she was in a kennel and not a home. She is a beaut, but goes skits around food, I suppose it was the excieting time of day x Apr 20, 2017 14:26:04 GMT -5
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dasherman: Hi, can anyone offer any suggestions as to why when it is sunny, my adopted ex racer is terrified to leave the house to eat or drink or anything for that matter? Seems to be obsessed by the sky? May 7, 2017 9:03:45 GMT -5
rusty1968: Hi has Magnum finally gone to a great home the details are old but he is lovely Mar 10, 2018 6:03:17 GMT -5
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kiri07: I have been concerned with my 7 year old greyhound losing hair on her thighs, but it looks like it is a normal thing. She's losing a little in a few other places too. I saw someone say something about vetzyme condition tablets? I also heard organic oat Aug 14, 2018 14:31:19 GMT -5
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steeveet: Hi there, just had our home inspection by a lovely lady with her Greyhound Arthur, who I could have happily snaffled as he was sweet and at home with our girl Belle. Does anyone here know how we now get to meet any of the dogs who need a home? Oct 26, 2018 9:46:28 GMT -5 *
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It began over two hundred years ago in salle, Italy.
Using their most valuable tools in this small sheep grazing community, their hands, the D'addario family began to produce gut strings for lutes, violins, and other assorted instruments.
The craft was handed from generation to generation, and things remained largley unchanged until 1905, when Charles D'addario brought the family knowledge to America. The Industrial Revolution was sweeping the world, and though instrument strings had remained primarily hand manufactured, change was inevitable. New techniques and materials were discovered which would bring the industry into a new era. Charles' son, John, followed his lead, and his grandsons, John, Jr and James, have since brought the company to an unprecedented level.
D'Addario has never kept up with modern manufacturing techniques; we've created them. High-tech materials, state of the art equipment, and space age electronics now fill the D'Addario factory. Devices like the Tension Control System ensure consistency in every one of the 300,000 strings produced daily, and processes such as laser selection put D'Addario on the cutting edge in the industry. String making has already entered the 21st century at D'Addario, and although the science of the technological age has taken string production to the heights never before reached, the art of the process has not been forgotten. It has simply evolved.


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Trade speculation doesn't distract D-backs' Kubel
"I haven't really thought other than that," Kubel said. "If something happens, it happens, but I'm looking forward to getting back to that beautiful facility again and start going."
When the 2012 season ended, D-backs general manager Kevin Towers said one of his offseason priorities was to thin out a crowded outfield.
With that in mind, he dealt Chris Young to the A's and spent much of the rest of the winter listening to offers on Justin Upton, as well as Kubel.
The D-backs surprised the industry last month by signing free-agent outfielder Cody Ross. The move left them with Kubel, Upton, Gerardo Parra and Ross, not to mention Adam Eaton, who was presumed to be the center fielder in 2013, and Triple-A outfielder A.J. Pollock.
Towers said after the Ross signing that he doesn't have to move an outfielder before the season because both Eaton and Pollock have Minor League options. Still, it seems likely that one of the outfielders will get dealt, especially with the Arizona payroll sitting at $95 million after the Ross signing.
And unless some team overwhelms Towers with an offer for Upton, it appears Kubel, with one year and a mutual option left on his contract, would be the one to go.
The D-backs could be counting on a dwindling outfield market to raise the price for Kubel or Upton.
"I don't buy into them much," Kubel said of the trade rumors, "but I'm not going to lie -- it is a little nerve-wracking. We all understand that it's a business and I'm ready for whatever. Whatever happens, happens. I really want to stay where I'm at."
In the meantime, the man who hit 30 homers and drove home 90 runs with an .833 on-base plus slugging mark tries to look at the bright side of all the talk.
"It just means there's interest out there, that's all," Kubel said. "If someone is willing to acquire you, they obviously really like you."


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State laws banning registered sex offenders from using social networks, such as Facebook, have galvanized sex offenders to fight against the laws in state courts.
Sex offenders have successfully challenged many of the restrictions, arguing that the laws infringe on free speech and their right to participate in common online discussions, the Associated Press reported.
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Legal battles occurred in Indiana, Nebraska and Louisiana where public outrage was challenged by the first amendment. The laws would mean that sex offenders could not use Facebook, LinkedIn and other sites with instant-messaging programs. Authorities claim the bans are needed to protect children from pedophiles who troll the Internet.
While there are laws against prisoners using Facebook in California, it apparently doesn't stop them. While most use contraband mobile phones for mundane Facebook updates, one prisoner used Facebook and MySpace to find his 17-year-old victim and send pictures and letters to her home address.
But laws against registered sex offenders using social networks occurs after they get out of prison. While its arguable states should prevent sex offenders from using social networks such as LinkedIn, people are less tolerant of Facebook where anyone 13 and older can post.
And those supporting the ban may have good reason. At least one of the sex offenders caught by the ban on social networks in North Carolina was arrested for propositioning young girls on Facebook.


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Rose Byrne attended the 'Cosmopolitan' Fun Fearless Men and Women of 2012 event wearing an aquamarine bracelet in 18-carat white gold.
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The safest way to a beautiful lawn is to work with nature, not against it.
"Organic Lawn Care" focuses on the soil to build a beautiful, deep-rooted, dense
lawn. Costs and maintenance requirements are lower vs. synthetic pesticide lawn
care programs after the first one to two years. Comparative cost analysis study.
Synthetic pesticides (e.g., herbicides, insecticides, fungicides, etc.) and
synthetic fertilizers used in traditional lawn care programs are associated with
risks which are especially consequential for
children and
pets (fact sheets provided by BeyondPesticides.org). Synthetic pesticides and synthetic
fertilizers trap lawns into an unhealthy and expensive cycle of chemical
dependency. For a discussion of the benefits of organic fertilizer over synthetic fertilizer,
click here.
Organic lawn care can be done on a do-it-yourself basis (Article,
Videos) or by a lawn care professional specializing in the process.
NOFA (The Northeast
Organic Farming Association) offers an organic lawn care accreditation program
for professionals. NOFA offers a list of accredited organic lawn care professionals in the eastern U.S.
NOFA-NJ also assembled
2011 and
2012 lists which contained broader listings of both NOFA accredited and unaccredited NJ organic lawn care professionals.
Also, Rutgers Cooperative Extension has an Organic Land Care program, and lookup tool of landscapers whom have completed the program's requirements.
If you live in a condominium or rental community, discuss hiring an organic lawn care
professional with your board or property manager. Until this occurs, be aware that per the
NJDEP Pesticide Control Program (Subchapter 9 - Pesticide Exposure Management, 7:30-9:13 -
Notification: Turf or Ornamental Applications) you have the right to receive - upon request
- advance notification of any pesticide applications as well as the pesticide labels.
In 2008 Bernards Township, NJ adopted an
Integrated Pest Management Resolution covering all township owned property. The policy utilizes
organic lawn care practices allowing for the elimination of synthetic pesticides and synthetic fertilizer on all sports fields and key
lawn areas, and it designates all parks as Pesticide Free Zones. The Board of Health supported the policy by passing
Resulotion BH 10:09, and
the Board of Education followed with their own policy declaring that school lawns and sports fields
shall be managed without lawn care pesticides. The Mayor, the Township Committee, the Board of Health, the Green Team, the Board
of Education, and the Environmental Commission encourage all citizens to participate in this endeavor on their own property.
Integrated Pest Management Resolution Commentary.
This is a short summary of what you will find in the brochure and video links above as well as in the materials below:
The Organic Lawn Care Manual by Paul Tukey
The NOFA
Organic Lawn and Turf Handbook by the NOFA Organic Lawn
Care Committee
The DVD movie A Chemical Reaction chronicles the origin of the organic lawn care movement in Canada and the U.S.,
and it also serves as an educational vehicle for individuals and organizations interested in reducing or eliminating
lawn care pesticides.
The How to Make the Organic Lawn
Care Transition DVD won a major award from the Garden Writers Association of America, and is
available from SafeLawns.org. The DVD includes 16 how-to segments that cover an entire season of lawn care from spring through fall.
Playing it Safe video - produced in support of the New York's 2010 Child Safe Playing Field Act.
This Old House compost tea video - Roger Cook and Kevin O'Connor discuss making compost tea at Harvard Yard and in your own yard.
Show your neighbors that a lawn cared for without pesticides is important to community health by displaying a Pesticide Free Zone
"Ladybug" sign on your lawn. They can be purchased
Maryland County Bans Cosmetic Lawn Pesticides on All Land in County – October 2015
California to list chemical in Monsanto Roundup as carcinogenic – Sept 2015
Cosmetic Lawn Pesticide Use Outlawed on Public and Private Property In Takoma Park, MD - July 2013
Bernards Multi-Family Associations Consider Fewer Lawn Chemicals – May 2013
Rutgers Extension graduates 27 New Jersey landscapers in its first Organic Land Care Certification Course – February 2013
NJ Pediatricians back the NJ Child Safe Playing Fields Act – December 2012
American Academy of Pediatrics article "Pesticide Exposure in Children" – November 2012
Bernards Township adopts Resolution #2012-0434 supporting the NJ Child Safe Playing Fields Act – October 2012
District of Columbia lawn pesticide ban (signed into law 8/9/12) - August 2012
Glenstone case study – February 2012
Imprelis Weed Killer Damaging Trees - November 2011
Weed Killer Sickens 47 Children at Ohio School - October 2011
Mount Sinai pediatricians' testimony in support of proposed NJ Child Safe Playing Fields Act - March 2011
Child Safe Playing Field Act Signed into Law by New York Governor - May 2010
Bernards Township NJ Board of Ed declares school lawns and athletic fields as pesticide free zones - March 2010
The grass is greener at Harvard - September 2009
New Brunswick, Canada, bans lawn care pesticides - June 2009
Bernards Township NJ creates pesticide free zones - March 2009
Pesticides Trigger Parkinson's Disease - Spring 2008
Ontario bans
lawn care pesticides - April 2008
bans lawn care pesticides on school lawns - June 2007
Harvard report on Parkinson's link to pesticides - June 2006
USGS study finds pesticides permeate U.S. waters - March 2006
Quebec bans lawn care pesticides - March 2003
Lymphoma Foundation of America report "Do Pesticides Cause Lymphoma?" (see pg. 16 for recommendations) - 2001
Results of the 2011 Organic Lawn Care Poster Contest
Results of the 2012 Organic Lawn Care Poster Contest


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Sony Ericsson will release an Android 2.3.4 update in October. Its first smartphone to ship with the new release will follow later in Q4.
Xperia handsets eligible for the new version of Gingerbread will gain the ability to do video calls in Google Talk, take panoramic 3D pictures, allow users to enter text by swiping fingers from one character to the next, take screengrabs without resort to the Android SDK, and see a greater level of Facebook integration in apps.
All this will appear on the Sony Ericsson Xperia Neo V, a handset equipped with a 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, a 5Mp camera and a 3.7in, 480 x 854 "reality display" touchscreen.
The dual-band HSDPA 3G phone relies entirely on SD cards for storage - a 2GB card comes bundled.
The Neo V will go on sale around the world during Q4. The 2.3.4 update will beging rolling out to Xperias not tied to networks in October, and hopefully later in the quarter to carrier-tweaked smartphones too. ®


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The distance of Belmont Stakes 2011should not pose a problem for Brilliant Speed but the conventional dirt footing is a question he must still answer.
Brilliant Speed, trained by Tom Albertrani and owned by Live Oak Plantation, was beaten more than forty-lengths in a pair of dirt sprints to kick off his career in New York last summer. He showed signs of life in a pair of Belmont turf route show finishes before graduating on the Tampa Bay weeds in December.
That turf maiden win seemed to do wonders for his confidence and he followed that up with a pair of near misses in the grass stakes ranks. He burst onto the Derby scene with a surprising late running tally in the Blue Grass Stakes and ended up 7th of 19 on the first Saturday in May.
Brilliant Speed, a 3-year-old son of Dynaformer, out of Gone West mare Speed Succeeds, will once again have the services of leading Southern California rider Joel Rosario, and although the mile and a half Belmont Stakes distance should be well within his reach, he must still prove that he can run a big race on dirt.


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Editors at Elle magazine have defended their decision to cover up actress Melissa McCarthy on the front of the latest issue, despite criticism that they are purposefully trying to hide her fuller figure.
The "Bridesmaids" star is featured on the cover of the fashion magazine's November issue, as part of the annual Women in Hollywood celebration.
In the photograph, McCarthy is bundled up in a winter coat, which some readers have deemed as "sizeism," because on alternate covers, Reese Witherspoon flaunts her body in a fitted black dress, while "The Descendants" star Shailene Woodley shows off skin in a black swimsuit.
In response to the backlash, editors at the high-fashion publication are defending their styling decision, as well as their choice to feature McCarthy on the cover.
A statement reads: "On all of our shoots, our stylists work with the stars to choose pieces they feel good in, and this is no different: Melissa loved this look, and is gorgeous on our cover. We are thrilled to honor her as one of our Women in Hollywood this year."
This isn't the first time the curvy McCarthy has gained attention for her weight – this summer, fans in the U.K. were outraged after film chiefs appeared to digitally slim down the actress in a promotional poster for the comedy "The Heat."


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AyA's state of the art manufacturing process combines the efficiencies of just-in-time manufacturing with the customization and quality of old-world craftsmanship. Rather than assembling from stock parts, every kitchen is made from scratch to the individual specifications of every customer. We call it mass customization – your kitchen, the way you want it for a great price. AyA Kitchens and Baths is proud to have earned the KCMA Certification Seal and Environmental Stewardship Program Certification. The Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association Certification program assures that cabinetry bearing the KCMA seal complies with the rigorous standards set by the American National Standards Institute (ANSII).
Founded in 2000 with the vision of being a 'game-changer' AyA Kitchens and Baths has become Canada's foremost manufacturer of high quality, frameless cabinetry. By combining old world craftsmanship and attention to detail with high tech manufacturing processes AyA offers innovative quality cabinetry at competitive manufacturer direct prices to clients across North America.
AyA (i'ya) means Design and good design starts from the ground up. AyA has designed and continues to refine one of the most efficient and environmentally friendly cabinet manufacturing facilities in North America.
All AyA's cabinets are dowel constructed for a strong, sturdy and perfectly square cabinet, every time. Aya's just-in-time manufacturing philosophy allows us to offer fully integrated veneer finished ends and colour matched edge banding on the face of every cabinet. The result: seamless colour, inside and out. It also means real choice – white or maple interiors and no-added urea formaldehyde particle board or plywood options.
AyA manufactures all of its wood doors in-house to ensure the highest possible quality standards. Premium oak, maple and cherry components are assembled into over 30 different door styles, from the very traditional to ultra contemporary. With a capacity of over 1000 doors per day, and thousands of door style, species, colour and size combinations, AyA has fused fine craftsmanship with the best of modern manufacturing.
This is where is all comes together. For the first time in the process, a kitchen is considered as its own independent entity. The hundreds of parts and pieces that go into making a kitchen unite here in AyA's assembly department. Doors are drilled for hardware, drawer boxes and cabinets assembled and doors hung. Final adjustments and quality inspection ensure that only the highest level of quality leaves our factory.
AyA's sophisticated on line finishing system ensures the highest level of consistency in the application of our finishes while radically reducing waste. Only low VOC (Volatile Organic Compounds) finishes are used by AyA to ensure a healthy work and home environment. AyA's exclusive UV cured water-based top coat further eliminates emissions and results in a more resilient finish that is less prone to fading and discolouring. Exquisite hand finishes round out the broad selection of finishes offered by AyA.
The final step of AyA's assembly process in that every cabinet is packaged to prevent shipping damage and then receives a completion sticker detailing the product, customer information and date of assembly. The barcoding of this sticker allows the finished product to be scanned out of production and onto the delivery trucks to allow for seamless logistics and delivery to our customer's job sites across North America.
AyA Kitchens is Canada's leading manufacturer of high quality, frameless cabinetry. Founded in 2000, AyA has grown to become one of the most efficient and environmentally friendly cabinet manufacturing companies in North America. Get a behind the scenes look at what goes into making an AyA Kitchen.
The quality of our product come from design. Good design is not only the look, feel and style of the final product but also the design of the processes which enable it.
Our commitment to quality made us one of the first in our industry to become third party certified by the Woodmark Quality System - the first quality management specifically designed for the wood products manufacturing industry. This certification reviews all materials and standard operating procedures and is audited yearly to ensure quality standards are being met. As a valued client at AyA Kitchens, you can trust our knowledgeable team of experts to consistently anticipate your needs & follow through with attention to detail to fulfill your dreams.
The Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association Certification Program assures the specifier or user of kitchen cabinets and bath vanities that the cabinet bearing the blue and white seal complies with the rigorous standards set by the American National Standards Institute (ANSI) and sponsored by the Kitchen Cabinet Manufacturers Association (KCMA).
The KCMA Certification Program is open to all cabinet manufacturers. Manufacturers may certify one, several, or all of their cabinet lines. Because of this option, only those lines certified are listed in the annual KCMA Directory of Certified Cabinet Manufacturers.
AyA has developed its own, proprietary manufacturing software to maximize control over all parts of the manufacturing process. AyA's ability to track and analyze manufacturing defects is just one of the ways that this enables a culture truly dedicated to continuous improvement and a consistently high quality final product.
Work-in-process quality is checked at strategic points throughout the manufacturing cycle rather than merely a final check of a ready-to-go product. When non-conformance is discovered earlier in the cycle, reworks can be integrated into the manufacturing cycle without causing delays or incomplete shipments.
There can be no quality without completeness and on-time delivery. With this mantra in mind, AyA strives to ship complete kitchens each and every time, on time. In an industry plagued by backorders and shipping delays, this is an audacious undertaking, so how do we do?
Since 2008, AyA has been consistently at or under our target of 0.5% backorders per cabinets shipped with some weeks averaging less that 0.05% with on-time deliveries.
As pioneers of mass customization, AyA's state-of-the-art cabinet manufacturing facility enables us to produce the range of product and attention to detail demanded by the finest builders and designers while offering the quality and savings that result from producing on a mass scale for customers across North America
Our ability to tailor make each and every customer's order, combined with turnkey service, starting with superior in-house designers through to professional installation, means AyA provides an unsurpassed level of service to all of our customers.


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"Out of Focus" highlights Walker and his band, The Black Widows, as they construct 2011's "The Spade," and also gives rare insight into his personal life.
Known more for his producing credits than personal musical output, singer/songwriter Butch Walker has aided in engineering hits for numerous pop luminaries including Pink, Avril Lavigne, Katy Perry and Fall Out Boy.
But Walker is no newcomer to honing his own craft. He formerly fronted Marvelous 3, released a slew of solo efforts and has remained a constant touring staple for nearly two decades.
"Out of Focus" highlights Walker and his band, The Black Widows, as they construct 2011's "The Spade," and also gives rare insight into his personal life.
The documentary made the screening rounds throughout the summer and fall, but only recently became widely available via download and DVD.
"There's a difference to me between a good song and a hit song," Walker explains.
Walker's chart-topping resume speaks for itself. He's co-written two dozen songs which cracked the Billboard Top 100, including No. 1s for Lavigne and Perry.
Why, then, has Walker never charted higher than 105 himself?
"I wasn't 'good boy' enough for pop, and I wasn't 'bad boy' enough for modern rock radio," he said in his autobiography "Drinking With Strangers."
"I'm a mid-level artist, somewhere between flop and big time. (But) once you stop trying so hard and being worried about pleasing others, things seem to fall into place a little more organically and naturally."
"Organic" and "natural" are certainly words to describe Walker's current song writing process. Directors Peter Harding and Shane Valdes capture Walker and company as they hone ideas and prep for live performances.
But "Out of Focus" is no narcissistic puff piece. The film delves into Walker's relationships with ex-band members as well as his wife and family, highlighting the pleasant and not-so pleasant. It also deals with Walker coming to terms with the imminent loss of his father as he steps up to be a better role model for his own son.
Walker may always have to settle with climbing the charts, not as the face on an album, but as a name in the liner notes. "Out of Focus" shows Walker is perfectly fine with that.
"I'm lucky enough to be able to support my family, and to also have a fan base that enjoys what I do enough to keep coming to see me play. It's the best of both worlds."


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March 7, 1924 - June 26, 2013
Chester, NY
Bernard Bradley of Chester, NY, entered into rest on Wednesday, June 26, 2013 at Schervier Pavilion, Warwick, NY. He was 89.
The son of the late Phillip Bradley and Anne Gillen Bradley, he was born on March 7, 1924 in Moville, Ireland.
Mr. Bradley was a member of St. Joseph Church, Florida, NY.
Survivors include his loving daughter, Catherine Schell and husband, Edouard Sonnenschein of Chester, NY; two granddaughters: Caitlin Schell and her boyfriend, Richard Zikoyanis, and Alison Schell of Chester, NY. He was predeceased by his wife of 52 years, Margaret Bradley.
Visitation will be held on Friday, June 28th from 1 to 3 p.m. at the T.S. Purta Funeral Home, 22 Glenmere Avenue, Florida, NY 10921. A Funeral Mass will be held at 3 p.m. on Friday, June 28th at St. Joseph Church, 20 Glenmere Avenue, Florida, NY 10921. Burial will be in St. Joseph Cemetery, Florida, NY.
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Resistance to Control—Norwegian Ministries' and Agencies' Reactions to Performance Audit
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95 days. Edamame is no longer an "ancient Chinese secret" or just a specialty food in Asian cuisine. Hungry gardeners and food lovers worldwide have discovered the joy of a warm, salted bowl of edamame beans (popular in Japan) for snacking, and how the shelled beans add great flavor and extra protein to rice or pasta dishes and salads. The BeSweet 2001 variety is high in isoflavones, and was bred for its excellent yields and the sweet flavor of its large beans.
The 24" tall, well-branched plants contain multitudes of pods with 2-3 beans in each, and grow well in a sunny location with warm soil and good drainage. You can never have enough edamame beans on hand. Sow seeds every two weeks to ensure a continuous harvest from late summer to frost. Beans can be blanched and frozen, so you'll never waste a single bean! Instructions for harvesting and storing are inside packet.
This packet sows two 10-foot rows.
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Harvesting: To enjoy edamame at its best as a shelling bean, harvest when pods get plump, but are still green; the whole plant may be pulled up. To harvest as a dry soybean, wait about another month, until 90% of the leaves have fallen off, and pods are hard. Pull up the whole plant, hang it in a dry place and allow to completely dry out. Place dried pods in a bag and shake seeds out of pods.
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It's been a little while here on the SQL Server Pro Mag BI Blog since I've provided any updates on the state of Cloud BI in the world of Microsoft BI. So I thought I'd put together a small sample Microsoft Cloud BI solution for you today that demonstrates the following aspects of the Microsoft BI product stack in the Cloud:
- SQL Azure
- SQL Azure Reporting Services
- Data Explorer
- Windows Azure Marketplace
In reality, this is still a somewhat "hybrid" model when you look at such a solution holistically. And to accomplish this, I also incorporated these on-premises traditional tools:
- SQL Server Analysis Service
- PowerPivot
- Report Builder
Now, it's important to remember that I am talking about Microsoft Cloud BI as the Microsoft platform, hosted on Azure (Paas or Platform as a Service) and not Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS), which is the traditional VM model hosted in a hosting provider's data centers using virtualization ala Amazon. It should be not, though, that Microsoft has just announced (today, in fact, as I am writing this blog post!) that Azure will now also offer VM on Hyper-V for IaaS. So, for example, you could conceivably run SSAS in the Cloud via a hosted VM. But that is not a fully PaaS option. Instead, IaaS such as SaaS on a hosted VM, really only moves the burden of the infrastructure your of your own and into Microsoft's or Amazon's. PaaS, on the other hand, is the native Microsoft platform running on Microsoft assets in a Microsoft data center where all of the infrastructure costs including backup, patching, HA, DR, replication, etc. are all handled for you by the provider.
OK, enough of that, let's get started.
1. We'll start in the Microsoft Azure Data Market. This is a marketplace that Microsoft hosts were syndicated data providers can resell their collected data assets to customers. You can subscribe to their data sets and use them in your solutions. Microsoft has been investing heavily over the past couple of years in a number of Cloud-based initiatives and one of those investment areas that seems to fly under the radar is the Marketplace. Discover all kinds of data sets from different fields, industry, etc. For this demo, I chose crimes statistics for Pennsylvania, where I currently reside, from the U.S. government Data.gov data provider. This is a small 100-record free sample data set. There are a number of free data sets like this that you can access on the Azure Data Market for your prototypes.
2. Now that we have Cloud-based dataset, we need to perform traditional ETL to get it into a format that we can work with. Microsoft has a new preview Cloud-based integration tool called "Data Explorer." Note that this is a "Labs" project currently for preview. Microsoft references this tool as a "data mashup" tool. I don't see it currently as an industrial-strength traditional ETL tool for data warehouses, but it does a very nice job for smaller data sets to create "mashups" from multiple sources. And, it has both a local client and cloud-based user tool available.
Once you have signed-up or downloaded the tool, you can start building mashups and then publish those as OData in the Azure cloud. For this sample, I'm only going to work with the single Data.gov Crimes dataset from above for this simple example and just focus on transformations of the data set so that I can easily consume it in reporting tools. The assumption here is that I am a data analyst and the end-users authoring and viewing reports won't have enough insights into the raw data to make sense of it, so the consumed data needs to be well-defined summarized entities.
3. To stick with the Cloud theme, I am going to use the Web-based Data Explorer mash-up tool and consume the raw stats for PA crimes in 2006 from the Azure Data Market via RSS OData.
4. Now, I can transform and massage the raw data, making it ready to be published as a model for reporting. In the screenshots below, you will see that I hide unnecessary data fields and made 2 new custom fields. Each of these will generate a percentage of violent and non-violent crimes based on population. This is a better measure for the end-user to report on rather than raw #s which will be skewed without the context of the overall population for each city in PA.
5. When you are done with your mash-up, you can save it on your workspace and then publish it to the cloud. For this demo, I have published it as an RSS OData feed so that I can bring it into a SQL Server in-memory tabular model, which I will do in Excel PowerPivot. So far, we've been completely 100 percent Cloud BI. Now we're going to use a few on-premises tools, which is where the solution jumps over to a "hybrid" architecture.
6. I want to put that cleansed version of the dataset into an in-memory analytical model to report against, so I've created a new PowerPivot model in Excel. Once again, OData comes to the rescue as I just point to the OData data source that I just created.
Here, I can give the fields more friendly names in PowerPivot and also generate an in-memory analytical cube that I can now store in SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS) Tabular mode for reporting. If I needed to, here I can also use the PowerPivot DAX formula language to create custom fields in the model:
7. To publish that cube into SSAS, I went over to SSMS, selected my Tabular SSAS instance and chose "Restore from PowerPivot" which will import the data model into the server and I can now maintain the cube from SSAS just as I would any traditional SSAS cube, no longer maintaining the model in Excel on my laptop:
8. Lastly, how will report users access the model and build their own reports? They can use Excel like above by connecting to the cube on the SSAS server. Or, use reporting tools like Report Builder or Power View (see below). Report Builder will require a client tool download via Click-Once, while Power View is purely Web browser-based. To make the cube accessible to Power View, I just made a BISM connection file in SharePoint to the SSAS cube that was generated from PowerPivot:
9. If you built those reports in Report Builder or Visual Studio, you can jump back into Cloud BI by storing that RDL in SQL Azure Reporting Services, which is SSRS in the Cloud. This will make the reports accessible to your users directly from a Web browser or mobile browser, anywhere that they have Internet access without needing to have any client tools. To do this, store the data in SQL Azure instead of SSAS, since SQL Azure, not SSAS, has a PaaS offering in Azure. Make SQL Azure the data source for these reports instead of SSAS.
And, so, there you have it! Microsoft Cloud BI with end-user Web-based reports generated from a Cloud-based syndicated data source in the Cloud (Azure Data Market), mashed-up and cleansed in the Cloud with Data Explorer and produced as SSRS reports. To publish the SSRS reports in SQL Azure Reporting Services, you will need to store the data in SQL Azure.


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The hammerhead sharks are a group of sharks in the family Sphyrnidae, so named for the unusual and distinctive structure of their heads, which are flattened and laterally extended into a "hammer" shape called a "cephalofoil". Most hammerhead species are placed in the genus Sphyrna while the winghead shark is placed in its own genus, Eusphyra. Many not necessarily mutually exclusive functions have been proposed for the cephalofoil, including sensory reception, maneuvering, and prey manipulation. Hammerheads are found worldwide in warmer waters along coastlines and continental shelves. Unlike most sharks, hammerheads usually swim in schools during the day, becoming solitary hunters at night. Some of these schools can be found near Malpelo Island in Colombia, Cocos Island off Costa Rica, and near Molokai Island in Hawaii. Large schools are also seen in southern and eastern Africa.
The known species range from 0.9 to 6 m (3.0 to 19.7 ft) in length and weigh from 3 to 580 kg (6.6 to 1,278.7 lb).[2][3] They are usually light gray and have a greenish tint to them. Their bellies are white which allows them to blend into the ocean when viewed from the bottom and sneak up on their prey.[4] Their heads have lateral projections which give them a hammer-like shape.
It was determined recently that the hammer-like shape of the head may have evolved (at least in part) to enhance the animal's vision.[5] The positioning of the eyes, mounted on the sides of the shark's distinctive hammer head give the shark good 360-degree vision in the vertical plane, meaning they can see above and below them at all times.[6] The shape of the head was previously thought to help the shark find food, aiding in close-quarters maneuverability and allowing sharp turning movement without losing stability. However, it has been found that the unusual structure of its vertebrae was instrumental in making the turns correctly, more often than the shape of its head, though it would also shift and provide lift. From what is known about the winghead shark, it would appear that the shape of the hammer-head has to do with an evolved sensory function. Like all sharks, hammerheads have electroreceptory sensory pores called ampullae of Lorenzini. By distributing the receptors over a wider area, hammerheads can sweep for prey more effectively.[7]
Hammerheads have disproportionately small mouths and seem to do a lot of bottom-hunting. They are also known to form schools during the day, sometimes in groups of over 100. In the evening, like other sharks, they become solitary hunters.
Since sharks do not have mineralized bones and rarely fossilize, it is their teeth alone that are commonly found as fossils. The hammerheads seem closely related to the carcharhinid sharks that evolved during the mid-Tertiary Period. According to DNA studies, the ancestor of the hammerheads probably lived in the Miocene epoch about 20 million years ago.[8]
Using mitochondrial DNA, a phylogenetic tree of the hammerhead sharks that showed the winghead shark as its most basal member. As the winghead shark has proportionately the largest "hammer" of the hammerhead sharks, this suggests that the first ancestral hammerhead sharks also had large hammers.[9]
Reproduction occurs only once a year for hammerhead sharks, and usually occurs with the male shark biting the female shark violently until she agrees to mate with him.[10] The hammerhead sharks exhibit a claspers. The developing embryos are at first sustained by a yolk sac. When the supply of yolk is exhausted, the depleted yolk sac transforms into a structure analogous to a mammalian placenta (called a "yolk sac placenta" or "pseudoplacenta"), through which the mother delivers sustenance until birth. Once the baby sharks are born, they are not taken care of by the parents in any way. There is usually a litter of 12 to 15 pups; except for the Great Hammerhead which births litters of 20 to 40 pups. These baby sharks huddle together and swim toward warmer water until they are old enough and large enough to survive on their own.[10]
In 2007, the bonnethead shark was found to be capable of asexual reproduction via automictic parthenogenesis, in which a female's ovum fuses with a polar body to form a zygote without the need for a male. This was the first shark known to do this.[11]
Hammerhead sharks are known to eat a large range of prey including fish, squid, octopus, crustaceans, and other sharks. Stingrays are a particular favorite. These sharks are often found swimming along the bottom of the ocean, stalking their prey. Their unique head is used as a weapon when hunting down prey. The hammerhead shark uses its head to pin down stingrays and eats the ray when the ray is weak and in shock.[10] The Great Hammerhead, tending to be larger and more aggressive than most hammerheads, occasionally engage in cannibalism, as they are known to eat other hammerhead sharks, including their own young.[12]
Of the 11 known species of hammerhead, three can be dangerous to humans: the scalloped, great, and smooth hammerheads. As of 2013 there have been 33 attacks, but no fatalities.
The great and the scalloped hammerhead are listed on the World Conservation Union's (IUCN) 2008 Red List as endangered, whereas the smalleye hammerhead is listed as vulnerable. The status given to these sharks is as a result of over-fishing and demand for their fins, an expensive delicacy. Among others, scientists expressed their concern about the plight of the scalloped hammerhead at the American Association for the Advancement of Science annual meeting in Boston. The young swim mostly in shallow waters along shores all over the world to avoid predators.
Shark fins are prized as a delicacy by Asians, and overfishing is putting many hammerhead sharks at risk of extinction. Fishermen who harvest the animals typically cut off the fins and toss the remainder of the fish, which is often still alive, back into the sea.[13]
In Native Hawaiian culture, sharks are considered to be gods of the sea, also known as aumakua, protectors of humans, and cleaners of excessive ocean life. Some of these sharks are believed to be family members who died and have been reincarnated into shark form. However, there are sharks that are considered man-eaters, also known as niuhi. These sharks include great white sharks, tiger sharks, and bull sharks. The hammerhead shark, also known as mano kihikihi, is not considered a man-eater or niuhi; it is considered to be one of the most respected sharks of the ocean, an aumakua. Many Hawaiian families believe that they have an aumakua watching over them and protecting them from the niuhi. The hammerhead shark is thought to be the birth animal of some children. Hawaiian children who are born with the hammerhead shark as an animal sign are believed to be warriors and are meant to sail the oceans. It is extremely rare for hammerhead sharks to pass through the waters of Maui, but many Maui natives believe that when the hammerhead sharks pass by, it is a sign that the gods are watching over the families, and the oceans are clean and balanced.[14]
In March 2013, three endangered commercially valuable sharks, the hammerheads, the oceanic whitetip and porbeagle were added to Appendix 2 of CITES, bringing shark fishing and commerce of these species under licensing and regulation.[15]
Cnidaria, Sponge, Bacteria, Fungus, Biological classification
Carcharhiniformes, Lamniformes, Hexanchiformes, Squaliformes, Chondrichthyes
FishBase, Hemigaleidae, Pseudotriakidae, Shark, Proscylliidae
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How does Python manage memory?
The details of Python memory management depend on the implementation. The standard C implementation of Python uses reference counting to detect inaccessible objects, and a separate mechanism to collect reference cycles, periodically executing a cycle detection algorithm which looks for inaccessible cycles and deletes the objects involved. The gc module provides functions to force garbage collection, obtain debugging statistics, and tune the collector's parameters.
Jython relies on the Java runtime so the JVM's garbage collector is used. The same applies to IronPython, which uses the CLR garbage collector. This difference can cause some subtle porting problems if your Python code depends on the behavior of the reference counting implementation.
Sometimes objects get stuck in tracebacks temporarily and hence are not deallocated when you might expect. Clear the tracebacks with:
import sys
sys.exc_traceback = sys.last_traceback = None
Tracebacks are used for reporting errors, implementing debuggers and related things. They contain a portion of the program state extracted during the handling of an exception (usually the most recent exception).
In the absence of circularities and tracebacks, Python programs need not explicitly manage memory.
Why doesn't Python use a more traditional garbage collection scheme? For one thing, this is not a C standard feature and hence it's not portable. (Yes, we know about the Boehm GC library. It has bits of assembler code for most common platforms, not for all of them, and although it is mostly transparent, it isn't completely transparent; patches are required to get Python to work with it.)
Traditional GC also becomes a problem when Python is embedded into other applications. While in a standalone Python it's fine to replace the standard malloc() and free() with versions provided by the GC library, an application embedding Python may want to have its own substitute for malloc() and free(), and may not want Python's. Right now, Python works with anything that implements malloc() and free() properly.
Note that on systems using traditional GC, code that uses external resources without explicitly releasing them may run out of resources before the GC kicks in. Consider this example:
class Resource:
def __init__(self, name):
self.handle = allocate_resource(name)
def __del__(self):
if self.handle:
def close(self):
self.handle = None
for name in big_list:
x = Resource(name)
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In current releases of CPython, each new assignment to x inside the loop will release the previously allocated resource. Using GC, this is not guaranteed. If you want to write code that will work with any Python implementation, you should explicitly close the resource; this will work regardless of GC:
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Sizzling spare ribs with BBQ sauce
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Nutrition: per serving
- kcal484
- fat22g
- saturates8g
- carbs32g
- sugars28g
- fibre0g
- protein33g
- salt3.09g
- 4 x 500g packs pork spare ribs
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- 1 bunch of spring onions, roughly chopped (green stems and all)
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- 1 Scotch bonnet chilli, seeded and finely chopped
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- 4 garlic cloves, roughly chopped
- 6 tbsp Appleton rum
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- 6 tbsp demerara sugar
- 6 tbsp dark soy sauce
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Tip the ribs into a big bowl (not a metal one) and throw in the spring onions, chilli and garlic. Now spoon all the remaining ingredients over the ribs and sprinkle with salt and pepper. Get your hands in the bowl and turn the ribs over and over again until they're coated in the sauce. (You can keep the ribs uncooked – tightly covered – in the fridge for up to 3 days. You can also freeze them for several months.)
Cook the ribs over a moderate barbecue for 20-30 minutes depending on their size, turning them over frequently and brushing with sauce each time. The turning and brushing is important, so that all four sides of each rib get encrusted with the sauce, which builds up like a lacquer. If you have any leftover sauce at the end, heat it up in a pan and pour it over the ribs just before serving.


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- How to get the updates
- Photoshop 2015.0.1 Update (08/03/2015)
Photoshop 2015.0.1 Update (08/03/2015)
08/03/2015 – Today we released Photoshop CC 2015 update version 2015.0.1 (Mac and Windows), resolving the following issues:
- Crash when Be3D printer profile is present in presets (win only)
- Crash on launch "VulcanControl dylib" (mac only)
- Unable to read key state in JavaScript
- BlackMagicDesign ATEM Switcher plugin crashes in Photoshop CC 2015 when documents have more than one layer
- Crashes when extension uses script UI
- Crash in specific cases when Open window is invoked (mac only)
- Crash on zoom (win only)
- Fixed drawing for borders of white artboards drawn on a white background
- Fixed drawing of borders while dragging and aligning artboards
- Fixed artboard matte color extending inside artboard 1 pixel
- Fixed typo in Artboards to PDF dialog
- Duplicate Layer command puts new layers at top of artboard stack, not above source layer like it should
- Properly disable the artboard canvas color context menu when it does not work with the current GPU and color mode settings
- Crash on launch due to "librarylookupfile" (win only)
- English text copied from Acrobat to Photoshop is in Chinese
- Application hang while opening certain JPEG2000 files
- Canvas/document area draws partially or completely black in a Retina/standard display config after disconnect/reconnect 2nd display
- Crash when closing an image (win only)
- Artifacts using Healing Brush tool on transparent layer with "Current & Below" enabled with soft brush
- Healing brush failing on individual channel
- Some customers prefer the texture and color rendition of the old healing brush algorithm compared to the new real-time algorithm
- Welcome… menu item was unintentionally removed if user selects "Do Not Show…" checkbox, closes and re-launches
- Filter Gallery gives error on Mac OS X 10.10.3 and 10.11 in Chinese Languages
- Create Layer (from effect) reverses layer z-order
- Fixed issue where customers in the UK, Canada and Mexico may not be able to purchase images form Adobe Stock if they accessed Stock through Photoshop's Search on Adobe Stock menu
- Move too set to Auto Select not releasing layers selected during drag
- Layers panel incorrectly scrolling when adding or deleting layers
- Crash when adding a spot color channel after adding an asset from the Libraries panel
- Crash PlugPlug crash in [HtmlEngineMonitor closeWindow]
- Crash copy and pasting a shape (esp the Line tool)
- Direct Selection & Path Selection Tool +/- shortcuts not working correctly
- Crash on Scroll while using Pen Tool (win only)
- Performance problems zooming and panning while rulers are showing
- Selection disappearing at different zoom levels (win only)
- Selection redraw issue when dragging (win only)
- Converting a video layer, generated by image sequence import, to Smart Object crashes
- Fixed issue where Welcome dialog would be empty in some cases
How to get the updates
- Look for the update in the Creative Cloud application and click "Update". (Sign out and back in to the Creative Cloud desktop application if you don't see the update)
- If you don't have the Creative Cloud application running, start Photoshop 2015 and choose Help > Updates.
- The Adobe Application Manager will launch. Select Adobe Photoshop CC 2015 and choose Update.
How to confirm that the Update worked:
- In Photoshop, choose Help > About Photoshop (Win), or Photoshop > About Photoshop (Mac)
- The version is listed in the about dialog
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I am upgrading to a new iPhone 5 from an iPod touch, and I want a shiny new, fresh install.
I would rather not restore the whole shebang from my tired old, disorganized, app-laden, settings-broken iPod data to the new phone.
I'd like to re-download the dozen-or-so apps I actually use… and then restore the data for just those apps (preferably from iCloud, but iTunes would be fine).
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no name wrote:Staal came into this league a 20 goal scorer and has pretty much maintained that. He had that 29 goal season and had i think 7 short handed goals in that campaign. He hasn't had that ammount since then, once teams caught on he was such a threat SH they play very careful against him. He did have that big shorty vs Det. in the finals.
Good trade worked out well for us and for Jordan. I wonder if Carolina is happy with how it played out for them?
Idoit40fans wrote:Staal would be a good second line center for a team thats heavy on scorin wings...hes not good enough to be leaned upon for offense.
DontToewsMeBro wrote:Is a guy who isn't a "put the team on my back" type of player worth $6+ million in any scenario? I'd say Jordan is a few rungs even below that...
Crankshaft wrote:I feel like the sames things are said, every time this subject is brought up.
1) No, Sutter isn't as complete of a player as Staal.
2) Yes, he's perfect for what the Pens needs out of a 3rd line center
3) Re-signing Staal was never an option. They offered him a similar contract that he was offered with Carolina, and he declined. He wanted to be more than a 3rd line center - a role he would never fill on a team that has Sidney Crosby & Evgeni Malkin.
4) Staal wanted to play with his brother, which killed most trade leverage with Carolina & other teams.
5) Staal, for everything that he brings to the table, was never going to be a PPG player.
6) I don't think it ever came down to Letang vs Staal. However, if it did, then they made the right call. Letang, when healthy & hitting his stride, is one of the top defensemen in the league. Staal will never be considered a top-10 center in the league. With how contracts are inflated for offensive players (example: David Clarkson), I'd rather have Letang locked up at his current $7.25 cap hit than Staal and his $6+ something cap hit for 10 years. Letang is the better value.
7) Shero should be commended in what he got for Staal. Sutter fills the exact role that the Pens needed, while still contributing 15-20 goals per year and they were able to stock pile more defensive prospects with Derrick Pouliot and Brian Dumoulin.
8) Maata wasn't part of that trade, but you can't help but think there was some butterfly effect that with them getting the extra pick and taking Pouliot with the 8th overall pick. If so, then that makes the trade even more incredible, given the way Maata has played this year.
To me, it's pointless to continuously bring this trade up, especially when the stats have maintained the same. Staal still has not "broken out" as far as his offensive game. Sutter is still Sutter. The other parts of the trade haven't been tested at the NHL level yet, nor have they been used to acquire other pieces. It's status quo and as long as things have remained status quo, then the Pens win this trade.
no name wrote:Wasn't Malkin supposed to be traded for Kopitar??
GMRS said he never entertained trading Malkin, though he did say the GM of LA called him after hearing all the rumors about Malkin and LA trading, he called to ask Ray if "we were supposed to be talking" cause of all the rumos. Ray said no.
Hugo Stiglitz wrote:This is a debate/comparison that really needs to stop...
It was an unavoidable situation and Shero did the best he could.
Who cares if Sutter is or isn't better than Staal, or whether or not Shero should have drafted Toews instead of Staal, Saad instead of Morrow... these discussions are about events that are out of our control because they already happened.
Steve Dave wrote:no name wrote:Wasn't Malkin supposed to be traded for Kopitar??
GMRS said he never entertained trading Malkin, though he did say the GM of LA called him after hearing all the rumors about Malkin and LA trading, he called to ask Ray if "we were supposed to be talking" cause of all the rumos. Ray said no.
I remember reading the rumor was Malkin for Kopitar, Brown and LA's 1st rounder which was later used to draft Doughty.
Rocco wrote:The trade confirmed what we all suspected- Staal's ceiling is "the next Bobby Holik, only without a unibrow".
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