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SAN JOSE, Calif. — October 21, 2013 — North America-based manufacturers of semiconductor equipment posted $975.3 million in orders worldwide in September 2013 (three-month average basis) and a book-to-bill ratio of 0.97, according to the September EMDS Book-to-Bill Report published today by SEMI. A book-to-bill of 0.97 means that $97 worth of orders were received for every $100 of product billed for the month.
The three-month average of worldwide bookings in September 2013 was $975.3 million. The bookings figure is 8.3 percent lower than the final August 2013 level of $1.06 billion, and is 6.8 percent higher than the September 2012 order level of $912.8 million.
The three-month average of worldwide billings in September 2013 was $1.01 billion. The billings figure is 7.1 percent lower than the final August 2013 level of $1.08 billion, and is 13.6 percent lower than the September 2012 billings level of $1.16 billion.
"The book-to-bill ratio reflects seasonal softening and near-term deferral in capital spending in some segments of the industry," said Denny McGuirk, president and CEO of SEMI. "We expect that market demand for semiconductors will drive continued capacity investment in 2014."
The SEMI book-to-bill is a ratio of three-month moving averages of worldwide bookings and billings for North American-based semiconductor equipment manufacturers. Billings and bookings figures are in millions of U.S. dollars.
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Sen. Schumer's Approval Crucial to Hagel Nod
The approval of Sen. Chuck Schumer will likely be crucial to the confirmation hopes of Chuck Hagel, the president's nominee for defense secretary. Andrew Grossman joins The News Hub to look at the Democratic response to Hagel's nomination. Photo: Getty Images.
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Michigan "Helmet" Hoodie?
Does anyone remember a hoodie with a hood that was designed like our helmets? I've wanted to buy one for a while now but never had the spare cash to do so. Well now that I do have some cash, I can't find it anywhere. I'd guess it was about one or two years ago that I saw it. Any help finding it is greatly appreciated.
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Virtual Brown Bag with Stephen Kinzer: Part 1
On June 11th, 2010, Just Foreign Policy presented its first Virtual Brown Bag with guest Stephen Kinzer. Kinzer spoke about his new book, RESET: Iran, Turkey, and America's Future and provided analysis of recent events involving Turkey and Iran. The program was about 50 minutes long with a 20 minute talk and a 30 minute Q&A. The talk is divided into two parts, followed by the three part Q&A. This is part 1.
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The Changing Landscape of Technology
Carlson alum, Matt Hunt, discusses how technology is rapidly transforming and how he's used it to benefit his business career.
The internet, and technology as a whole, has drastically changed since Matt Hunt, '94 BSB, '97 MBA, first received his MIS degree. He credits curiosity as a primary factor in his ability to succeed in a rapidly changing environment. From his work helping build the first Carlson School web server to working in IT at Morgan Stanley, Hunt has learned to incorporate technology and business skills to become a better, and more efficient, leader.
In a recent interview with the Carlson School, he talks about the transformation of technology, why failure is important, and how he combined business with his tech background.
What responsibilities do you have in your current role? Did the Carlson MBA program help you fine tune these skills?
The program provided me with the opportunity to learn the skills that I would need to be successful going into any business organization, large or small. Being literate in business financials, using rigor and critical thinking in decision making, and being able to break down issues using problem solving techniques are all skills that I improved during my MBA program.
What did you find to be the most challenging part of the Carlson MBA program?
The most challenging part of the MBA program was managing my time. I was recently married just a month before the program started, I was working 20 hours per week for the school, I was doing some Internet consulting for small businesses, and of course I was managing all of the deliverables for my classes. Looking back I am not sure I would have changed anything but it was definitely a hectic time in my life.
What made you decide to return to school to get an MBA?
There were a couple of factors involved in my decision. Soon after I had graduated from the Carlson School undergraduate program I was already starting to become bored with my job as an applications programmer and I started exploring business schools as an option for my next step.
During this time I was also working part-time as a consultant for the Carlson School running the school's web servers. It was the early days of web technology and we were pioneers in moving content, curriculum, and tools to the Internet for faculty and students. Returning back to school gave me an opportunity to stay involved in this exciting work.
What value did the Carlson MBA bring to your career?
For me, and at that time in my life, there absolutely was value in getting an MBA. I had worked with mostly smaller companies prior to my MBA and the program offered me exposure to how large companies operated--mostly through case studies, discussions, and feedback from my classmates. The program also exposed me to an entirely new set of recruiters who were looking for new talent to bring into their organizations.


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Germany Says Europe's Aid to Greece Isn't Enough
What's News: Germany's finance minister said Greece will need another aid program but it won't be granted a second debt write-down, plus, tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds have crossed into neighbouring Iraq and more...Jason Bellini reports. Photo: AP
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... Germany says Europe's leading to Greece isn't cutting it ... this is what's news I'm WS J live I'm Jason Fellini ... Germany's finance minister said Greece will need another aid program ... what will be granted a second yet right now ... Wolfgang shoveled did not specify what form that might take but insisted ... that it will not be a second day hair cut ... referring to the massive debt restructuring deal ... that private sector bondholders agreed to last year ... so far Greece's European partners in the International Monetary Fund has committed three hundred twenty billion US dollars in loans ... tens of thousands of Syrian Kurds have crossed into neighboring Iraq's northern cellphone police region over the past few days before the biggest waves of refugees whose rebellion against Syrian President Bush are outside began ... no rivals to win some one point nine million Syrians ... who already have found refuge abroad ... a recently constructed pontoon bridge in northern Iraq tens of thousands of Syrians crossed the Tigris River which in what's expected to continue over the coming days ... the judges deliberate an army private first class Bradley Manning sentence for disclosing dreams of classified information to weeky leaks ... curled Denny's three and began her deliberations Tuesday court martial near Baltimore ... the Social announces sentence as early as Wednesday morning ... prosecutors have asked for at least a sixty year prison term ... captain Joe Moro said in his closing argument Monday ... that a long prison sentence would dissuade other soldiers from falling in Manning's footsteps ... bookie keep us on all the latest news developments the rapid day on what's news I'm WS J live ...


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Tune-in or tune-out: Why use Auto Tune?
This week the British tabloid is awash with talk of Auto Tune after the shocking revelation that contestants' auditions had been subjected to audio processing during the opening episode of popular show 'The X-Factor'. During a performance of 'Walking on Sunshine' by young talent show hopeful Gamu Nhengu, viewers speculated feverishly about the presence of an outside influence on her voice, airing their views through the popular social networking applications Facebook and Twitter. Since then, the producers behind Simon Cowell's international hit show have admitted to the use of vocal enhancement. We decided to take a look at what all the fuss is about…
Unless you've been living beneath a rock you will doubtless be familiar with Auto-Tune. If you've not actually come across this strange melodic phenomenon in action then you're likely to have heard the term banded around. Auto-Tune is an audio processor originally created by Antares Audio Technologies which utilises phase vocoder technology to disguise mistakes in vocal and instrumental performances. The term now enjoys much wider use referring to the overall effect and its various applications. In its truest sense auto tune allows for pitch perfect delivery in a studio or live situation but by altering the parameters slightly it is possible to create an artificial, almost robotic effect where the notes are pitch bent noticeably leading to the sound now popularised in Commercial Pop, Dance, Country and R&B by Cher, Jennifer Lopez, T-Pain & Lil Wayne not to mention the global smash series Glee. Due to its marmite like quality, auto tune has won as many haters as it has fans with particularly high profile detractors like Hip Hop Mogul Jay-Z and US Indie veterans Deathcab for Cutie slamming the use of auto tune as gimmicky and lacking integrity.
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Since winning reelection, President Barack Obama has announced new choices to head the State Department, Pentagon and Central Intelligence Agency.
But he has yet to act on another looming top-tier vacancy, that of Treasury secretary.
Indications are now that Timothy Geithner will leave that post by the end of the month, regardless of whether the president and Congress have reached a deal on the debt ceiling -- the next potential economic crisis facing the government.
Given the pace of recent negotiations, it's a safe bet that they won't.
Geithner has been trying to leave since 2011. But until now, Obama has persuaded him to stay to help deal with one tense budget crisis after another, most recently the barely averted "fiscal cliff."
A last-minute deal approved by Congress on New Year's Day and quickly signed by Obama blocked hundreds of billions of dollars of automatic tax increases and spending cuts from taking effect.
That cleared the way for Geithner's departure.
White House chief of staff Jack Lew is likely to get the nomination. He was budget director for both Obama and President Bill Clinton and a managing director for Citigroup (NYSE:C). He is well versed on financial issues that Treasury secretaries must confront.
Geithner has suggested he hopes to leave "around" the inauguration, now just two weeks away.
White House spokesman Jay Carney is providing no timetable on when Obama will act. But he says that when the president does, "he will look forward to speedy consideration by the Senate."
The clock is ticking, since Treasury officials say they'll run out of money to pay all the government's obligations sometime in February or March if Congress doesn't raise the current $16.4 trillion limit on borrowing authority.
Republicans say they will demand major spending cuts in exchange for any agreement to raise the debt limit. Obama says he won't negotiate on the debt limit, period.
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Jason Wu, Alexander Wang and Chris Benz all added swimwear to each of their resort collections for the very first time this year.
Blame it on the tough retail climate, says Catherine Moellering, executive vice president of Donegar's Tobe unit.
"It's not totally surprising that we're seeing this," Moellering says. She notes many other designers are expanding their brands to other retail categories and cited Tory Burch, who recently entered eyewear category, as an example.
It's all about driving more volume and coaxing luxury shoppers to spend more, according to Moellering.
But swimwear is tricky.
"It's not a lot of fabric to communicate the brand message," she says. "It's much easier to communicate what you're about with yards of fabric."
The shift to swimwear also speaks to the importance of a designer's resort collection.
"It used to be a season that not a lot of people paid attention to, but it has become a bigger business," Moellering says.
Historically, resort collections were created for wealthy women who would travel to warmer climates during the winter, but now these pieces provide retailers with fresh merchandise. Resort pieces arrive at retail during the Christmas holidays and linger until the spring collections debut. This means that these pieces have a long time on the full-price selling floor, which is a relief for retailers that have to aggressively price apparel during the holiday season.
Click ahead to get a taste of the swimwear debut of these three designers.
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Editor's Summary
Though research papers have traditionally been presented as text, digital humanities tools bring new capabilities that can transform a presentation. Moving from a familiar written format to a digital multimedia work can be daunting, involving an unfamiliar work process. Technology options and support are available through a variety of sources, including universities, the American Studies Associations Digital Humanities Caucus and the Alliance for Digital Humanities Organizations. Choosing a presentation tool that supports desired features, such as interactive conversation, is key. While the process of developing a digital presentation can be initially challenging for an author, reproducing a traditional thesis in a dynamic format makes it more lively and engaging, collaborative and available for broader use.
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Pale Males 2.0: Revisiting a Traditional American Studies Project Using Digital Humanities Tools
by Stephanie Margolin
This paper considers how one might use digital humanities tools to re-think an American studies project. With these tools, we can transform a traditional, text-based thesis into a multimedia presentation, which can then be used to generate further thought, discussion and opinions. The original project, titled Pale Males Gone Pell Mell: James Dean, Axl Rose and Adolescent Male Rebellion, was my masters thesis written in 1992 [1]. The paper examined James Dean as Jim Stark in the film Rebel Without a Cause and Axl Rose of the band GunsnRoses through the lens of men's studies. While the central thesis relied heavily on the visual, the format was limited to a written analysis. Using the currently available digital humanities tools, we can add a much-needed visual component to this thesis. At the same time, readers who took a passive role in the past might now be invited to interact with the material, draw their own conclusions and expand their experience.
Getting Started
For American studies scholars interested in adding a digital humanities component to their repertoire, the American Studies Association now includes a Digital Humanities Caucus in which they might participate (www.theasa.net/caucus_digital_humanities/P5). The Alliance for Digital Humanities Organizations (ADHO) (digitalhumanities.org) also offers resources and support for these endeavors. However, the first place to seek help or mentoring might well be on ones own campus as a growing number of colleges and universities house digital humanities programs. Often these programs offer support that includes development of homegrown technology solutions or customization of extant open source options to meet the particular needs of scholars and projects. When a digital humanities program is not available, ADHOs wiki of digital research tools (called DiRT) has been a useful place to go to learn more [2]. Tools discussed below were selected from that site in December 2011. However, the wiki is no longer being updated and is being replaced by Project Bamboos site, Bamboo DiRT [3].
Moving from a traditional academic presentation such as a written thesis to a presentation using digital humanities tools can transform telling to showing, thus enriching the audiences experience. Consider the video essay, which has proven itself more effective than mere written analysis. In film critic Jim Emersons video essay, In the cut, Part I: Shots in the Dark (Knight) Emerson pastes together the key scenes that comprise his thesis about an action sequence in the film that he finds unsatisfactory. He then narrates his argument via voice-over [4]. Already used in cinema studies, such an essay seems an ideal strategy for Pale Males and other American studies projects and possibly also a powerful choice for audio and/or video projects in art history, performance studies and/or media studies.
While digital humanities tools provide unique ways with which to interact with material, the work process is often unfamiliar to traditional scholars and can be complex. How, for example, does one construct a video essay? Jim Groom and Alan Levine have created an excellent guide in their Video Essay Tutorial as part of their online digital storytelling course. This guide, written in an easy-to-follow, conversational style, provides step-by-step guidance through the process of creating a video essay. The process is complicated and includes finding the desired clips, ripping the clips and putting the whole thing together with narration. Groom and Levines guide recommends tools for each step of the process, presenting tools available for both PC and Mac, and many of their recommended tools are free [5].
Once the video essay has been created (or at least outlined), the scholar must choose the most appropriate presentation tool, aligned with the stated project goals. For our Pale Males project, in addition to adding the multimedia component, we hope to invite reader feedback, in order to make the project more interactive and perhaps build some kind of community around the project. Therefore, we are looking for a presentation platform that can engage the viewers and accommodate feedback and other user interactions.
Selecting the Right Tools
As discussed earlier, we might find or build an effective presentation platform with the help of our own institutions digital humanities program. Without such a program, or while searching for a ready-made solution, consider one of the tools mentioned below. As outlined here, each option offers a distinct benefit, but further research and testing is needed to determine the best tool for transforming Pale Males into an interactive presentation.
First, we consider Sophie (tagline: redefines the notion of a book to include rich media, reader feedback & conversation within a networked environment), which was developed by the Future of the Book project and has been adopted by the Institute for Multimedia Literacy (IML) in the School of Cinematic Studies at the University of Southern California (www.sophieproject.org). In promising to combine rich media and reader conversation, Sophie appears to meet two key goals weve set for the Pale Males project. However, Sophie can be challenging for viewers to use. They must download the (free) Sophie reader tool in order to view a Sophie project (analogous to, but more complicated than, reading an Adobe PDF file, for example). Authoring appears to be complex, too. While the features are exciting there appears to be a significant learning curve to working with Sophie.
Pachyderm (tagline: multimedia authoring for peanuts) is somewhat less complex: visitors can view projects directly without downloading additional tools. Pachyderm pieces are interactive, Flash-based presentations that can include images, sounds, video, and text [6]. The software was originally developed by the New Media Consortium (NMC). While the group no longer supports Pachyderm, the open-source code is available through SourceForge (sourceforge.net/projects/pachyderm/?source=directory). Projects in the Pachyderm gallery on the NMC site appear somewhat lackluster. There is little evidence of interactivity or space for user comments, begging the question: Is this tool robust enough for the interactive video essay presentation envisioned for Pale Males?
VoiceThread (tagline: conversations in the cloud) is the final option we will consider (http://voicethread.com). Essentially a slide show with additional features, VoiceThread focuses on collaborative conversations, allowing participants to comment by text or via recorded audio or video. One limitation of note is that VoiceThread (both the free version and the paid version) has file size restrictions: 25 MB and 100 MB, respectively. While VoiceThread does not have the production value of the other two tools, it is the most user-friendly. VoiceThread might be the quickest and easiest way to prototype a project of this sort.
It is exciting to think of how our Pale Males project might be adapted and expanded using digital humanities tools. Becoming comfortable with the new digital humanities technology and new work processes will be a significant challenge, though one that also promises rich intellectual rewards. While creating a simple prototype video essay will not be simple, doing so will breathe new life into the project and greatly advance its relevance, inviting the audience to actively see the material and form their own opinions of it.
With the ability to present the evidence such as the film and video clips directly to the audience, there are new possibilities for Pale Males. The completed project might be used as a learning module or online lesson in an American studies class where students are invited to share their own thoughts or contribute an essay of their own. Or the project might launch an online collaboration among a community of scholars addressing the material collaboratively. Each of these is far removed from the fate of the first version of Pale Males back in 1992.
Resources Mentioned in the Article
[1] Margolin, S. M. (1992). Pale males gone pell mell: James Dean, Axl Rose and adolescent male rebellion. Unpublished masters thesis, New York University.
[2] Spiro, L. (Ed.). (September 2011). Digital research tools (DiRT) wiki. Retrieved December 31, 2011, from https://digitalresearchtools.pbworks.com/w/page/17801672/FrontPage.
[3] Project Bamboo. Bamboo DiRT (Beta). (n.d.). Retrieved February 19, 2012, from http://dirt.projectbamboo.org/
[4] Emerson, J. (September 21, 2011). Annotated transcript: In the cut, Part I: Shots in the Dark (Knight). Scanners::blog. Retrieved December 31, 2011, from http://blogs.suntimes.com/scanners/2011/09/annotated_transcript_in_the_cu.html
[5] Groom, J., & Levine, A. (March 28, 2011). Video essay tutorial. Created for DigitalStorytelling (DS106) [online course wiki]. Retrieved December 31, 2011, from http://ds106.us/wiki/index.php?title=Video_Essay_Tutorial
[6] New Media Consortium. (n.d.). Pachyderm Services. Retrieved December 31, 2011, from http://pachyderm.nmc.org/.
Stephanie Margolin is a freelance librarian, currently working as a digital librarian for Knowledge in the Public Interest and as an adjunct reference librarian at Hunter College (CUNY). Author of the original Pale Males paper, Stephanie is drawn to the new possibilities that digital humanities bring to American studies. She can be reached at smmargolin<at>yahoo.com.
Articles in this Issue
Digital Humanities and Information Visualization: Innovations and Integration, Introduction
The Dynamics of Primary Source and Electronic Resource: The Digital Renaissance and the Post-Reformation Digital Library
A Brief Introduction to Data Mining Projects in the Humanities
Pale Males 2.0: Revisiting a Traditional American Studies Project Using Digital Humanities Tools
When Computers Read: Literary Analysis and Digital Technology
Visualizing Social Connections in the Humanities: Beyond Bibliometrics
Interactive Visualization for Multilingual Search
From Records to Data with Viewshare: An Argument, An Interface, A Design
Beyond the Score: Music Visualization and Digital Humanities
The ISO 25964 Data Model for the Structure of an Information Retrieval Thesaurus
IA Column: What Happens When Architectural Questions Are Not Asked?


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Having the SSMS Tools Pack out in the wild enables me to get much "joy" from different bug reports people send me. And let me tell you, people send me back some seriously weird errors. But the most unexpected error message I've seen so far was the OverflowException when calling System.Data.SqlClient.SqlDataReader.GetDecimal(Int32 i). It turns out that SQL Server decimal data type is not mapped to the .Net decimal in it's whole range. .Net decimal type only maps to SQL Server one in the decimal(29, X) range. That means that if you have a decimal column that has...
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This is a release that fixes all known bugs. If you encounter any new ones don't hesitate to report them. :)
The main feature list hasn't changed.
A few improvements have been made though:
Save SQL Snippets to HTML and/or print them directly from SSMS.
In Window Connection Coloring the server names can now be regular expressions giving you the ability to color multiple servers with the same color.
Here's a blog from David Levy (Blog|Twitter) about the new window connection coloring using regular expression and why is it really useful to him. Thanx for kind words Dave.
You can download the new version 1.9 here.
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So, there's a project here we're doing for the summer, but I figured I'd crowdsource my friends and Otaku here at Crunchyroll!
So, as a summer program we'll be doing a study/discussion about peoples favorite manga! The hitch, these have to be non-ecchi, non-loli, and non yaoi (we're in the bible belt ). So, fire up the ol' braincells and gimme some ideas, I want the mangas to vary across the age range, so gimme your ideas on mangas and what grades you think they'll be good for and I know its a wide range but lets face it 5th grade is like one of the best times to get into manga! Some of the stories are deep (but I don't want TOO deep, see my problem) and I figure I'd range it up through highschool senior because who knows who'll come?? Anyway, titles, a quick description of the story and what grade/age you think it'd be good for. Who knows if it's popular enough maybe it can become a regular afterschool event. Wouldn't that be awesome? Just gotta find some 'safe' titles... you can imagine how some of the teachers and parents would freak out over some of our more...um... unique books .... Thanks in advance!
Watching Waiting in the Summer
I think skip beat! is a very nice shoujo title to share with the little girls.
link: http://myanimelist.net/manga/610/Skip_Beat!
I think the message it conveys a good message to girls: to be strong when hit with the worst adversities.
When life goes down hill, it isn't an entirely bad thing, because you can't go any further down!
Only way now is up
I really enjoy this manga: http://myanimelist.net/manga/10874/flat << flat.
It's a very cute manga about a kid that's very considerate towards others and in turn holds himself back from being all whiny and demanding like a normal kid. The little kid takes a liking to a young high school boy who looks after him sometimes.
It is good for kids and young adults, but I have a feeling young adults will like it more. hehe.
for a more grown up audience, I think 1/2 Prince would be great!
link: http://myanimelist.net/manga/8456/1/2_Prince
I'm pretty sure teenagers nowadays play some sort of game, and if they've played any MMO, they would LOVE 1/2 prince.
1/2 Prince is shoujo, shounen, adventure, action, romance, comedy, fantasy, gender bender all mixed into one.
for the young boys, a super hero manga will delight them I think.
link: http://myanimelist.net/manga/1534/Zetman <<< Zetman
There are many more mangas I want to mention, but they're pretty mainstream and you probably already heard of them.
I hope this helps! =)
I think your idea is awesome and I wish I thought of something like that when I was still in high school xD
Good luck!!!
Moving forward one step at a time.
I'm sure you should cover the big three
Naruto, Bleach, and One Piece
People of all ages are into theses, and you can have tons of discussions.
You can include series that have also been popular lately like Kuroshitsuji, Fairytail, Reborn, Code Geass, etc.
Prince Mayonaise
lets see.... skip beat, i would say after school nightmare, but i don't think it would be acceptable for a bible school (it's yaoish) but to be truthful since it's school appropriate it's hard to find a lot, because there is usually some sort of thing holding an anime back (large amount of cussing, violence, etc.)
Be Positive and Life is better
Thanks for the suggestions ladies! They were all useful, as you can see comjng up with everyone appropriate mangas is harder then you'd think.
Watching Waiting in the Summer
AKB48 and SKE48 iz cool!
Monster by Naoki Urasawa, although I would recommend a lot of Naoki Urasawa's work
Although a lot of his works aren't exactly rated G, they maturely display adult themes and concepts as well as have interesting well rounded characters and highly developed plots that can be studied and analyzed to great effect
As for Monster itself, one of it's main goals is to ask is whether any human at all, regardless of everything horrifying that he's ever done, is irredeemably and irrevocably evil.
I know you said you didn't want anything to deep, but damn it I get a little upset whenever I ask otaku whether or not they've read this and they respond with no.
As for age group, I read this one at a young age (middle school), although the target audience would be late teens and up. Which i think is much more appropriate, still I was never one to underestimate a younger audience.
Fruits Basket would be a good one.
It's really cute. It's about a girl who encounters these people who turn into a specific animal from the zodiac sign if a person of the opposite sex hugs them.
I'd say it would be appropriate for grade 5+ because it may contain some/very little foul language. (It goes up to "damn" I think) So...rated G?
♫ Attack on Titan ♪
Well,I did Death Note for a school project in 6th grade and I got all A's
My teacher didn't care if the title said Death
I know the title sounds like it means suicde note,but it's the best you can get
It can reach up to highschool,it's really popular.It has a good story,good characters and the concept is justice.It's like trying to find who's justice,L or Light/Kira.
Wondering if I should buy it. . . . . . . . .


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- In partnership with CERN, The LEGO Group, National Geographic and Scientific American, Google is introducing the first global online science competition: the Google Science Fair. It is open to students around the world who are between the ages of 13-18. More info at the Google Blog.
- If you haven't yet played around with Google's Ngram Viewer, you've missed a great opportunity to waste time. Ngram allows you to search Google Books for words or expressions and display the results, normalized to the total number of books, as a function of the year. You find some great examples here. Also interesting is "absolute" vs "relative" ("relative" took off in 1900 but has dropped sharply since 1980, while "absolute" is constantly in fashion since 1800), "abortion" vs "adoption" ("adoption" is almost constant since 1900, while "abortion" rises in the mid 60s, but interestingly falls again since the mid 90s.), "love" vs "war" ("war" surpassed "love" around 1920 and peaks during the two world wars. Since then, it's been on the decline but still ahead of "love"), "God" vs "science" ("God" has on the average been decreasing since the early 18-hundreds, though it's slighly increasing again since 1980. Science has constantly been on the rise, but still hasn't caught up with "God"), and nobody wrote "hello world" before the first programming languages came up.
- Have a look at our night sky in different wavelengths with the Chromoscope. See here for a video tour. [Thanks to Steven!]
- Wiley's journal on Environmental Microbiology annually publishes some amusing referee's comments. Some examples: "This paper is desperate. Please reject it completely and then block the author's email ID so they can't use the online system in future.", "I started to review this but could not get much past the abstract.", "I agreed to review this Ms whilst answering e-mails in the golden glow of a balmy evening on the terrace of our holiday hotel on Lake Como. Back in the harsh light of reality in Belfast I realize that it's just on the limit of my comfort zone and that it would probably have been better not to have volunteered." Makes me wonder if the prospect of one's comment getting published encourages referees to write such things?
- Something to laugh about: The customer is not always right. [Thanks to Andreas!] Example:
- Bank employee: "And how would you like that $500?"
Customer: "In one bill."
Bank employee: *trying to be nice* "Would five hundreds do?"
Customer: "No! One bill!"
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Supervisor: "Problem?"
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Supervisor: "There is no $500 bill."
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Wednesday, January 12, 2011
This and That
36 comments:
- Steven Colyer said...
the Google Science Fair
Nice! Next stop if this takes off: A Math Fair! There were 4 Science Fairs in my high school years but only 1 Math Fair. Why? Why God? Why such prejudice against Maths peoples? There is also only one Mathematics Museum in America. Is that one more than Europe has?
Btw, in that math fair, I placed 2nd as a sophomore, for the whole school, for my completely original "Spherical Plane Geometry" in 1972. I was pretty darn happy for doing so well, which was my idea of showing how on the surface of a sphere, yes you CAN have triangles with greater than, or less than, angles other than 180 degrees (I don't like "rules" or "laws", not if they can be broken, albeit peacefully).
Why, Mr. Judge? Why didn't I place first? Why? Why not?
"Because," said the judge, "It's already been done. Look up Gauss, Riemann, Non-Euclidean Geometry".
So I did and went "Wha..What!? 150 years late to the party?! Curses, foiled again!" Later I tied sweet Nell to the railroad tracks and felt much better. (Obscure Dudley Do-right reference, sorry. I am become Snidely Whiplash.)
Note 2: Also, you're welcome re the Chromoscope, but I found out about that from Phil Plait at Bad Astronomy in his article re the same: here.
Although isn't it amazing when you play around with the Chromoscope that the CMB is best seen in the microwave wavelength range? What a sweet serendipitous co-incidence. ;-)
- 8:29 AM, January 12, 2011
- Plato said...
Hi Steven,
So I did and went "Wha..What!? 150 years late to the party?! Curses, foiled again!"
Your understanding on your own "that issue" reveals quite a lot. You are well suited then for future discoveries in abstract thinking?:)
Maybe with "sonification" it will push you over the edge?:)Just "a way" in which to see things differently as well?
- 11:21 AM, January 12, 2011
- Uncle Al said...
"This paper fills a much needed gap in the literature."
Google is more than fun, charity, publicity. How many Google-grade young intelligent people are there in the US? Fermi problem! 311 million people, top 0.1% gives 311K. 1/3 are too old or too young, 200K. 10% of remainder are pertinent, 20,000 candidates. Google has 21,000 employees. Conclusion: Google is recruiting the whole world seeking the nascent Profoundly Gifted.
Go Google!
- 1:54 PM, January 12, 2011
- Steven Colyer said...
Uncle Al wrote:
10% of remainder are pertinent, 20,000 candidates.
Where does that figure come from, Al? I question that, and what I question is that it's too high. Show your work. :-) (And then you'll have to add back the fine new residents from Korea and Taiwan and India mostly that are the most recent "new blood", being the latest round of immigrants who have always refreshed our country).
Plato wrote:
You are well suited then for future discoveries in abstract thinking?:)
I think so. Well, the odds are low since I started from way back at the age of 51, 2-1/2 years ago, and worse I'm too poor to attend school, so "self-study" takes twice as long, but the odds are zero if we don't try, hmm?
I also invented Quantum Field Theory, in 2008, when I reasoned that all this wave-particle duality stuff reveals our ignorance. It's all waves, "particle" being a word to make experimentalists happy.
Then I did a bit'o' research, and discovered DeBroglie and Dirac beat me to it. But at least I was only 80-90 years behind the times, so I'm getting better.
What well-known theory that I'm currently ignorant of will I re-discover tomorrow?
- 7:07 PM, January 12, 2011
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- 8:56 PM, January 12, 2011
- Rastus Odinga Odinga said...
Actually, the customer was right.
Look up "Large denominations of Un ited States Currency" on Wikipedia.
By the way, has anyone ever seen a 500 Euro note?
- 8:58 PM, January 12, 2011
- Bee said...
Yes, I once had a 500 EUR note.
There's a story attached to it: it was a Christmas present from my grandma briefly before I moved to the USA - she didn't believe in direct deposit. But what do you do with a EUR 500 note? Can't very well go for a coffee at Starbucks. So I used it to pay for my one-way-ticket to Arizona, it was almost exactly the right amount. In the student's travel office they turned the note around ten times but eventually accepted it. But here's the thing. When I was at the airport the day I left, I was taken aside for further questioning by some security person. It turned out a cash-paid one-way-ticket had made me very suspicious. That I had all my documents that could have confirmed the purpose of my stay overseas in the already checked-in bag that had vanished into the airport's intestines didn't help either, and that the name on the ticket wasn't exactly the same as on my passport was a further problem: In Germany the passport lists a Dr-title as an addition to the last name, plus my middle names never make it on any ticket because then the name is too long. I had to show them half a dozen of IDs and credit cards to convince them I'm me and I have no intentions of illegal activities. In any case, evidently the travel office had passed on my mode of payment. It seems to be information they commonly share without asking for the customer's consent. Best,
- 2:56 AM, January 13, 2011
- Phil Warnell said...
Hi Bee,
Thanks for the heads up in regards to the Ngram viewer as I wasn't aware of it before. Now as you know I've always been as interested in what science might tell us in respect to the human condition, as I am as to what it can have us discover about the condition of nature more generally. In such regard I've always thought that the way we greet or acknowledge one another to be a gauge or metric of how people feel in respect to one another or lack of it on the other hand.
So as it relates to my personal curiosity and concern I label the following graph the rise and fall of humility, truth and sincerity. Just as a base line I simply pared it down as it not to be taken as a salutation which I include at the end yet not in HTML as the blogger gods seem to take exception to using too much of that as of late:-) So I would ask what conclusions do you think we might draw from this?
- 6:52 AM, January 13, 2011
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- 7:07 AM, January 13, 2011
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- 7:26 AM, January 13, 2011
- Bee said...
See ya :-)
- 8:43 AM, January 13, 2011
- Steven Colyer said...
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- 9:32 AM, January 13, 2011
- Steven Colyer said...
Anthropic <== Notice a trend? (Don't tell Susskind or Polchinski, they have a right to happiness too)
- 9:36 AM, January 13, 2011
- Bee said...
Hi Steven,
Ha! Something completely different: Did you know? Best,
- 9:37 AM, January 13, 2011
- Plato said...
Hi Bee,
"If you find this tool helpful for your research, please cite:"Culturomics
....further proof that you do not take it seriously?:)
- 9:42 AM, January 13, 2011
- Plato said...
Making use of the Nth degree?
Not a one trending.....opens the doors for new thinking in book form to occur..you see?
- 10:06 AM, January 13, 2011
- Steven Colyer said...
Brian Greene has a new book? Interesting. Well, I went to the index, from where you can tell a lot, and Loop Quantum Gravity is mentioned only once, on page 248, following three pages of discussion on black hole thermodynamics. No Smolin, causal dynamical triangulations, Rovelli, Loll, Woit. And here's a clear oversight: no Hossenfelder! So like most books, it's a tad out of date at publication.
I'll skim read it at the bookstore, while lamenting that I haven't the funds to buy The Princeton Companion to Mathematics or Sizing Up the Universe, both of which are awesome and next on my hitlist.
- 10:16 AM, January 13, 2011
- Plato said...
Good thing they do not include "blog posting word" Bee, or, how they use "index wording to right of, or left, as to how many times" and "back of book" as to how many times "a word" is repeated in that blog/book. Your safe:)
Bee:Last night I had a nightmare! Bigfoot knocked at my door and wanted to talk to me about the existence of the string theory landscape. Still on east-coast time, I wiped off the sweat from my forehead but couldn't fall asleep again. I switched on my laptop, and decided its time to post the review on Lee Smolin's new book. See:Lee Smolin's Trouble with Physics
- 10:28 AM, January 13, 2011
- Uncle Al said...
Re Steven Colyer: The last cut, 10% of remainder are pertinent, is obvious in every selection endeavor - Sturgeon's Law. Amongst the most brilliant candidates will be savant tuba players, baseball hitters, and economists. What are they good for?
- 11:20 AM, January 13, 2011
- Steven Colyer said...
Sturgeon's Law, Al? Is that that anything like Salmon's Law, where if you try to pull the fish in too slow, you'll lose it, or too fast, you'll lose it as well? ;-} (which also works in romance) Just teasing you, Al.
No, I hear what you're saying, and good examples thanks, and thanks for turning me on on to yet another Law I never heard of (where would we be without you Mensa boys, oldtimer?).
I'm just saying I think 10% is too high. Try 5% and I bet you're closer. IMO. (I'm an oldtimer too, which means as time goes on, even that 5% figure will shrink in my mind. Dayam, man, you Californians are hopeless optimists.)
- 2:06 PM, January 13, 2011
- kaleberg7 said...
"Hello world" isn't the first time technology changed the way we say hello. Hello used to mean surprise, as in "That's quite a hello." or "Hello, what have we here?" It wasn't used as a greeting until the advent of the telephone in the late 1870s when Bell decided that his new fangled technology needed some new fangled etiquette.
- 9:55 PM, January 13, 2011
- Phil Warnell said...
Hi Bee,
Thanks for taking notice as that Blogger AI has really made things difficult as of late, although so far to the vindication of Penrose:-) Actually I'm quite intrigued by this, to the point where it has me wondering if they've thought to enhance this so one could incorporate Boolean logic, as to expand the depth and significance of research made possible incorporating this data.
Well at least in the meantime we can still ask questions, such as examining the historic rise in American global influence. I noted at the end of the graph a down turn in the American spelling, while an upturn in the English spelling, which I hypothesis has to do with an increase of people learning it as a second language. Shades of Paul Revere sound the alarm, only this time with the cry, "the red coats are returning, the red coats are returning!" :-)
Your humble servant, :-)
- 6:04 AM, January 14, 2011
- Steven Colyer said...
Bee tweeted:
First postpartum attempt to pick up running again: a disaster. Never been so out of shape.
In about 2 months you'll be in better shape to get back in shape. I know that seems like a long time, but it'll pass, you'll see. Breastfeeding helps!
But yup, my wife and I were both surprised that even after childbirth and the loss of all that water and sweet little (former) parasites, her body didn't look THAT different. Look to Kate Goslin. She had twins AND sextuplets, and she's Dancing with the Stars, so no worries.
Bee also tweeted:
Sweden is "the country synonymous with sex" http://www.thelocal.se/31428/20110114/ ? I lived there for more than a year and nobody told me!
Wow, really? You didn't know that? That's common knowledge here in America. But Americans don't know everything (shocker!). We think there are more blondes than brunettes in Sweden, and that's not true, right? Finland is the land of the blondes from what I've heard. Verification, pls?
- 9:30 AM, January 14, 2011
- Eric said...
I just want to know what size shoe did Bee estimate Big Foot was wearing in the dream or does go he just go barefoot? And of course the big question: does he just go around naked?
- 3:48 PM, January 14, 2011
- Steven Colyer said...
Click here to see the current World's Most Beloved Mammal.
She's cross-eyed, and she's German. Thank you, Germany!
What's not to love?
- 7:50 PM, January 14, 2011
- Eric said...
Steve, you got something against the dear departed psychic octopus, Paul. I understand, we all must move on.
- 8:09 PM, January 14, 2011
- Steven Colyer said...
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- 3:22 AM, January 15, 2011
- Steven Colyer said...
I heard "Paul is Dead" when I was a lad. Turned out not to be true. Be skeptical. :-p
- 3:23 AM, January 15, 2011
- Mum said...
Paul is definitely dead. But they have a new one-they will test him in the women`s football worldchampionship.
Best Mum
- 5:38 AM, January 15, 2011
- Phil Warnell said...
The importance of contextuality as it relates to conceptuality.
- 6:34 AM, January 15, 2011
- Phil Warnell said...
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- 6:52 AM, January 15, 2011
- Phil Warnell said...
Then again what could it mean when a concept demonstrates linear growth?
- 7:01 AM, January 15, 2011
- Phil Warnell said...
Or what does it mean when we make war and yet have it not appear as being a significant concern?
- 7:20 AM, January 15, 2011
- Phil Warnell said...
All we need do to figure it all out is to incorporate a little outside of the box thinking;-)
- 7:41 AM, January 15, 2011
- Heidi O'Possum said...
Eric, I'm a mammal not a mollusk.
- 3:09 PM, January 15, 2011
- Phil Warnell said...
Hi Heidi,
You tell'm girl! To be more specific you are a marsupial, a type of mammal evolutionary half way between the monotremes (i.e. the duck billed platypus) and placental mammals (i.e. most who make comments here; well at least I assume so. So what forms the distinction is first you have your egg layers, then crudely live born yet pouch incubated as to further develop, and last live born being more completely developed. I would bet Bee when it was coming near the time wished she'd been a marsupial; that is so she could have hopped to it straight away after. :-)
- 4:07 PM, January 15, 2011


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This will hardly come as a surprise, but Slashdot alerts us to the news that the Supreme Court has chosen not to hear John Corbett's quixotic appeal against the legality of the naked scanners now being commonly used in airports (though, via upgrades, there's now less nudity involved). The legal effort was a long shot from the beginning. Corbett has been on a crusade against the machines, which I appreciate -- but his efforts sometimes seem to go too far, and didn't do much to help his case.
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Surprising? Nope.P*ssies
That is all
Anonymous Coward, 1 Oct 2012 @ 10:41pmof course they wont....Obama told them not too..until after hes bought his reelection...I mean the November election....
abc gum, 2 Oct 2012 @ 4:53am
Re:Corporations are people my friend.
Anonymous Coward, 2 Oct 2012 @ 7:39am
Re:Obama buying his re-election? I guess you must be one of the half-wits planning to vote for that cardboard cut-out Romney.
Chuck Norris' Enemy (deceased) (profile), 2 Oct 2012 @ 7:45am
Re: Re:They are all puppets to me, man. A vote to either candidate is a half-wit vote. You have to turn a blind eye to 80% of either candidates' actions to believe either is worth your vote.
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That Anonymous Coward (profile), 1 Oct 2012 @ 10:44pmSo lets add entry to SCOTUS to the naked scanner required areas.
I've often thought that if we forced them to put up with the crap they inflict upon us lesser folks they might suddenly change their tune about caring.
While he's been over the top, the sheer amount of BS being peddled in the name of safety requires someone making as absurd things in response.
Anonymous Coward, 2 Oct 2012 @ 12:28amOf course SCOTUS won't hear it - there isn't really anything to resolve here that isn't being dealt with in the lower courts. SCOTUS generally wants contradictory rulings, or wants a legal challenge to be based in some way on something that cannot be decided at a lower level.
This doesn't make it there at all.
abc gum, 2 Oct 2012 @ 4:55am
Re:Today I learned violation of your rights is ok if the lower courts agree to it.
Anonymous Coward, 2 Oct 2012 @ 5:10am
Re: Re:SCOTUS resolves issues when they are big enough. There isn't enough here for them to waste their time. There are plenty of better cases to have on the docket. Maybe a year or two from now, maybe this one might rise up to that level, but for the moment, it's still in motion in the lower courts and in the real world. Why would SCOTUS get in now, on what appears to be a fairly light argument to start with?
They did the wisest thing, they passed on it.
abc gum, 2 Oct 2012 @ 5:45am
Re: Re: Re:Oh, so now SCOTUS resolve the really big issues even when the lower courts are all in agreement. Got it.
I see you are scheduling the docket, any additional insight?
Wow, it's a good thing you are on top of this - otherwise the SCOTUS might have heard cases which should be left on the back burner for a few more years.
Michael, 2 Oct 2012 @ 5:03amWho knows who they're selling access to their database of semi-naked pictures to, that is besides the government which only wants to protect you.
abc gum, 2 Oct 2012 @ 5:46am
Re:I doubt the naked pics are worth much, the real money is being made selling worthless machinery.
Anonymous Coward, 2 Oct 2012 @ 6:32amPut the scanners at all entrances to all government buildings, including the white house.
After all, we can�t be too safe with our government leaders.
Anonymous Coward, 2 Oct 2012 @ 7:35am
Why?Why are Americans all so uptight about being seen naked?
Anonymous Coward, 2 Oct 2012 @ 3:14pmThe supreme court can SUCK IT!


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Hello and welcome to the 98th edition of Log Buffer. My name is Jeff Smith and I will hosting this week's exciting episode. If, for some reason, you are not completely satisfied with this edition, simply write in and complain to Dave over at The Pythian Group and you will receive Log Buffer #99 absolutely free! Now that is a guarantee you can feel good about. OK, let's get to work.
I have only limited exposure to both PostgreSQL and MySQL, but I have often wondered why MySQL is so popular while...
posted @ Friday, May 23, 2008 9:09 AM | Feedback (10) |
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The reason you were directed here is because you need assistance, and I am here to help. I am not, however, here to provide you with any answers! You see, it looks like the assistance you need is not finding an answer; it is rather that you need assistance finding a question.
As you know, there are all kinds of questions. Questions that test memory recall. Questions that test logic skills. Brain-teasers and mathematical questions and so on. But there is one requirement that all good questions must have in common before they can be answered:
A proper question MUST provide ALL...
posted @ Tuesday, May 13, 2008 11:04 AM | Feedback (22) |
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Let's say you are struggling on a programming project. Your code is growing exponentially and becoming more convoluted by the day, and it is clearly out of control. You're getting run-time errors, compile-time errors, wrong output, no output, endless loops, your machine is overheating, and perhaps you are starting to feel like you might be a little over your head. Maybe this is the first time you are using a particular programming tool or language, or it's the first time you've worked with a particular database, or maybe it's your first complicated project overall in any technology and you're getting...
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Ah, this is not an anti-identity rant, don't worry!
Though, in a round-a-bout sort of way, it is yet another argument against always blindly using them -- but not in the way you might expect.
There is a simple rule I'd like to propose, let me know what you think:
"If your client code, SQL code, or configuration files reference the primary key column of a table to determine any application logic, that primary key column should not be an identity."
Now, I am not saying that primary key column can't be a meaningless integer. I am just saying it should not be an...
posted @ Thursday, February 21, 2008 12:08 PM | Feedback (12) |
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Raise your hand if you've ever done this:
At a programming forum that you regularly visit, you see a post asking for help
The post describes a situation that you may not intimately familiar with, or that you know has been covered elsewhere many times, and it is clear a quick Google search will find a good answer.
So, you think of some good key words, perform a few quick searches, examine the results, and determine which of your findings is a good...
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As David Letterman would say, wake the kids, call the neighbors, it's time for The Mailbag! Just some quickies today.
Christopher writes:
Greetings Jeff,
First and foremost, great job with all of the blogs. I have a questions
that I cannot seem to get a straight answer for. I am working with SQL
Server Reporting Services (SSRS) and have the need to create VB
functions to customize the reports generated. For example, a setter/getter to
display information that would not be readily available from the
query. SSRS allows this type of custom Visual Basic code to reside in the
report itself, but since most of my code is across...
posted @ Thursday, October 18, 2007 12:19 PM | Feedback (0) |
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Report Writing
Reporting Services
Every now and then I see T-SQL code written like this:
select somecolumn as 'columnname'
from sometable
Notice that 'columnname', despite its appearance, is not a string literal or a string expression, it is the alias that we are assigning to the column somecolumn. Putting the name of an alias in single quotes in T-SQL is completely valid syntax, and it will work fine, but I feel that it is a really bad practice. It makes the distinction between string literals and object names very blurry, and it can lead to confusion when examining and maintaining your code.
For example, to me this is...
posted @ Thursday, August 30, 2007 11:36 AM | Feedback (4) |
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A occasional question seen in the forums, which was just recently asked today, is:
"I know I can use
FROM table
to get all of the columns from a table, but is there a way to write
SELECT * minus columnX
FROM Table
to get all of the columns except for certain ones?"
Now, my goal isn't to debate whether not "SELECT *" is bad or good or should be used or not. The fact of the matter is, people use it all the time because it is quicker and shorter than typing out all of the column names. People are lazy, right? ...
posted @ Thursday, July 26, 2007 3:36 PM | Feedback (25) |
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Sorry for the delay, Denis; thinking of ways to improve our developer skills is a great idea, thank you for including me. Here are my thoughts on the next 6 months.
More design, less code. I'm going to try to focus a little more on user interfaces, graphics, layouts, and so on. I tend to write boring, plain vanilla corporate-style applications that frankly aren't much fun. Sure, they work great (usually!) and the layout is clean and easy to use (hopefully!), but my goodness -- it is boring. I plan on focusing a little more on the aesthetic design of...
posted @ Thursday, July 26, 2007 10:36 AM | Feedback (2) |
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What is data, and what is code? How do we define the difference, and decide what goes where? It is great to say "keep data out of your code", but what if that data is integral to the application itself? Isn't it therefore code, and not data? read more...
posted @ Tuesday, July 24, 2007 9:02 AM | Feedback (18) |
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Column 'xyz' is invalid in the select list because it is not contained in either an aggregate function or the GROUP BY clause.Arggh!! There it is, yet again .. that annoying error message. Why is SQL so picky about this? What's the deal!? read more...
posted @ Friday, July 20, 2007 10:33 AM | Feedback (35) |
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I see it time and time again in forums -- "dates" that don't sort properly, "numbers" that don't add correctly, "boolean" data with 10 different values, and so on ... Since we are rarely provided any DDL to review, it often takes many posts going back and forth until we finally realize: "wait ... you aren't using a datetime data type to store these dates?!" read more...
posted @ Tuesday, July 03, 2007 10:13 AM | Feedback (9) |
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DateTime Data
A couple of quick blog updates for those that are interested:
A Comment Milestone!
Recently, I realized that I have received 1,000 comments since this little blog was started way back in September 2003. Has it really been that long!? Some of the comments are trackbacks, but overall, it's pretty amazing to think about. Only about 30% of them are people calling me a moron, which is an excellent ratio and well above what I expected. In all seriousness, though, I love getting feedback, and it is a lot of fun to debate techniques and ideas, so please be sure to leave...
posted @ Tuesday, June 26, 2007 11:43 AM | Feedback (0) |
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Microsoft Access / JET SQL doesn't support cursors; the only way to process rows one by one is using VBA and opening a Recordset. This means that you're stuck using set-based "queries". So ... is this a good thing or a bad thing? A very, very good thing -- in fact, it's what makes Access a great tool for learning SQL! read more...
posted @ Wednesday, June 13, 2007 1:12 PM | Feedback (13) |
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You are a very important, talented, enterprise-level programmer! You write and maintain millions of lines of code, compiling your applications takes several hours, and your databases contain hundreds of tables with millions of rows. You clearly do not have time to write silly test applications!read more...
posted @ Wednesday, May 23, 2007 12:27 PM | Feedback (17) |
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A Google search for the phrase sql "case statement" returns 127,000 results. Meanwhile, if we do a search for the phrase sql "case expression" we get back only 43,900 results. What does this mean? Most people don't understand what SQL's CASE feature really is, how to use it, or how it works!
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Studies have shown that the "F1" key is the least commonly pressed key on today's keyboards! Ok, well maybe not actual studies, but from my own experience, I am convinced that on many keyboards here around the world the F1 key still has that shiny "new key" look and smell because it's never been used.
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Let's go to the mailbag!
In response to this post, Chris writes:
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I've been playing around with a handy tool for creating Word and Excel files called OfficeWriter that's pretty impressive.
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Report Writing
In most industries, beginners work on simple, short projects, using only the most basic concepts that they have learned. The experts in those industries, meanwhile, work on things that are very large, complicated, difficult to manage, and require lots of time, energy and resources.
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Just a quick post of some benchmarking code for our good friend Guayo at TheDailyWTF, in regards to this discussion.
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I just wanted to take a minute to highlight this thread in the sqlteam forums.
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Handy reminder: The PARSENAME() function can be useful for parsing small strings. It returns parts 1-4 (working right to left) of a string, with each part delimited by periods.
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This also is my first ever blog. Very nice!
I am definitely looking forward to the content on this page, we've got some great people here and the posts should be informative and I'm sure quite entertaining as well!
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COLUMBIA, SC (TheBigSpur) - South Carolina senior offensive guard Ronald Patrick's freshman season didn't go the way offensive line coach Shawn Elliott wishes it had. The 6-foot-2, 315-pounder from Cocoa, Fla. took major steps this offseason to insure his final season at USC goes better than his first.
Ronald Patrick is off to a solid start to his senior campaign.
In a perfect world, Patrick would be a redshirt junior right now with this rest of this season and an entire other season of eligibility left. But due to an injury to the player in front of him, Patrick was inserted into a game late in his true freshman season, which cost him a year of eligibility.
"From the time he was a freshman and we had to throw him in there at the very beginning and really wasted his redshirt year for him to come back and do what he has done [is impressive]," Elliott said.
As a junior last season, Patrick started every game at right guard, but the results were up-and-down. Knowing he had just one season left to prove he could be a productive starter in the SEC, Patrick had his most successful offseason since arriving in Columbia, and it's shown in his play through two games.
"He played well at times last year but the commitment he put in the summer, he was really one of a kind," Elliott said. "He was probably the hardest working guy we had in there. You could tell he really wanted it bad and wanted his senior year to be his best. Thus far, he's played pretty well."
While Patrick is one of four starters returning on the Gamecocks' offensive line, he's also one of just four recruited seniors on the entire team, along with Connor Shaw, Chaz Sutton and Jimmy Legree.
Patrick believes it's up to him to be more of a senior leader this season.
"I definitely feel that I have to be [the leader]," he said. "Being a senior, they look for me. Without a doubt, I feel like I have to be that guy. On the other hand, I have experienced guys around me, but yes, I look to be that guy."
"A.J. (Cann), Corey (Robinson) and those guys came in together," Elliott said. "They're all kind of one in the same. Yeah, I'd say he has a leadership quality of our group."
It's easy to be a leader when things are going well, but leaders are truly needed when teams face adversity. Coming off South Carolina's 41-30 loss to Georgia, Patrick believes it's important that the offense doesn't point finger at the defense after a loss in which the offense probably played well enough to win.
"We all know we are in this together," Patrick said. "If anything, when one side is doing better than the other, we pick each other up on the field. We don't stay on the field just talking defense or offense. We are all in this together."
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MOONACHIE, N.J. (AP) - A huge tidal surge sent water overflowing a creek and gushing out of storm drains in two northern New Jersey towns early Tuesday, filling streets with up to 5 feet of water and setting off a frantic rescue effort by boats and trucks.
Gov. Chris Christie said hundreds of stranded people were rescued when the tidal surge up the Hackensack River from superstorm Sandy resulted in water overflowing a natural berm. In Moonachie, a town of 2,700 about 10 miles northwest of Manhattan, police Sgt. Tom Schmidt said water rose to 5 feet within 45 minutes, making roads impassable and cutting off residents who thought the worse from superstorm Sandy was over.
The floodwaters also knocked out the police and fire departments, forcing them to relocate to a business in a neighboring community. Schmidt said rescuers had trouble using boats to carry out rescues because water levels were varying from several feet to only inches.
Trucks were also used. Mobile home park resident Juan Allen told The Associated Press that water overflowed a 2-foot-wall along a nearby creek during the tidal surge, filling the area with 2 to 3 feet of water within 15 minutes and eventually as much as 5 feet.
"I saw trees not just knocked down but ripped right out of the ground," he said. "I watched a tree crush a guy's house like a wet sponge." He said rescuers moved in quickly to get people out. "There's no way you're going to be ready for something like this," he said.
In neighboring Little Ferry, population 10,000, residents reported water suddenly started gushing out of storm drains late Monday night, and that within 90 minutes there was four feet of water in the road and entering houses.
"I looked out and the next thing you know, the water just came up through the grates. It came up so quickly you couldn't do anything about it. If you wanted to move your car to higher ground you didn't have enough time," said Little Ferry resident Leo Quigley, who with his wife was taken to higher ground by boat and later went to a shelter set up in a school gym.
Residents of Little Ferry, situated near the confluence of the Hackensack River and a major creek, had put out sandbags and said they thought they had escaped damage when the water started coming out of the storm drains. Joe Dechairo said by midnight the area was flooded, several feet of water entered his home and he and his wife had to be rescued by boat.
Rescued residents were taken to the gym at a vocational-technical school in neighboring Teterboro. Local and county officials reported during the night that a levee had broken but the governor said that turned out to be incorrect.


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The motto of Dakota Territory was Liberty and Union, One and Inseparable, Now and Forever. This language was suggested by Dr. Joseph Ward of Yankton, South Dakota, who was quoting from Daniel Webster's Reply to Hayne. However, the motto used for the Territory had two of the phrases reversed; when North Dakota became a state that error was corrected.
[North Dakota Constitution Article XI, Section 2]
This translates from Latin as "One sows for the benefit of another age". A group of Fargo high school Latin students lobbied for the motto.
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A Rising Stock in New York
Kendal Beer got to Wall Street with the Carlson School's annual New York Trek. Today, the alum guides the business and operations of a unique quantitative fund start-up.
The stock market principle of buy low and sell high might be easy to comprehend for the average person dabbling in stocks, but when you're partner of a new business that is touted as being on the cutting-edge of quantitative funds technology like Carlson School alum Kendal Beer is, you're on an entirely different level of comprehension.
Beer, '08 BSB, directs the business and operations of New York City-based Presagium LLC, a three-year-old, quantitative fund start-up. By simple Wall Street definition, the company is a Commodity Trading Advisor that strives to capitalize on momentum and reversion in the market (the buy low, sell high principle). Where it's unique is that it trades in the currency market, where very few funds do, and it trades on a very small time scale where trades are held for mere minutes to hours.
Add in that Presagium has designed and built its own proprietary infrastructure, algorithms (all math-based, thus quantitative) and strategies to monitor and capitalize on global currencies and, well, those in-the-know have heralded the company as cutting a new path in a rather niche area.
"There's something incredibly empowering about being on the line for how a business performs," says Beer. "And being with something that's been identified as unique, there's a lot of promise behind that. When I joined last year we had $2 million in assets and now we're at $50 million. So we're still a start-up, but people are excited about us.
"A lot of my day to day is thinking of our future processes: What happens when we're at $250 million? What happens when we have 50 investors? What do our processes need to look like at that point, who do we need to partner with, where are the key relationships? It's getting systems in order such that we're scalable."
No stranger to 'the quants'
Beer was recruited to Presagium after a successful stint at UBS in New York where she worked in Program Sales Trading dealing with mutual funds, big pension funds, and insurance companies. The UBS job came via the Carlson School Funds Enterprise's annual New York Trek where she was first identified as a promising recruit and later offered an internship which turned into a full-time position.
It was at UBS where she was introduced to quantitative strategies. "I learned to use a lot of algorithmic tools, learned about different businesses, and that was my introduction into the business of quantitative finance and how 'the quants' work," she says.
So while she's on the business side of things at Presagium, she's no stranger to quantitative trading, which makes her a great fit with the team--a team made up of her, two founding partners, and support from PhD students from a local university.
"They're an impressive group of guys," she says of her partners, one of whom, a former UBS executive and friend of Beer, lured her to Presagium.
"We're new and different, and when we speak to potential investors, that's what we hear back: 'Wow, you're doing something unique.'"
'I make a mean butter cream frosting'
Beer says she has a tendency to go for things that are challenging: First the Carlson School, then UBS, and now Presagium.
"But it all started at the Carlson School. My experience was that we have great business exposure, great training, and we learn applied concepts. I felt prepared," she says. "The experience said that: Look, people are going to rely on you for this kind of stuff. Having the expectation ingrained says that you're not going to be some cog but a leader."
She also says that she has an entrepreneurial spirit within her, which led to the question:
So, what might come of that?
"I make a mean buttercream frosting," she says, with a wry smirk. "I'm in the middle of a feasibility cost study of what that business would look like."
You want to start a bakery?
"No, retail is tough business," she says. "I think I need to cut my teeth on something I can wrangle and understand, so maybe it's some sort of production or manufacturing."
But before any of that, Beer says she first wants to go out on a high at Presagium and see her processes work and grow. Then she'll delve into the entrepreneurial route with an MBA somewhere along the way.
Given her track record, chances are her stock will keep on rising with whatever she decides to do next.


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Rodney Liber necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 35 diseños de 8 diseñadores freelance.
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National Merchant Alliance provides innovative and cost-effective solutions to businesses who accept credit cards and checks for payment of their products and services.
Software Developers, End User Merchants, anyone who accepts credit cards.
We not have the .psd or design file for the logo.. See attached.
***Do NOT put your copyright, any links to your website or mention who you are or your company on the design that you produce for us. We let our clients review these and we don't want them asking who you are.
Layout of how we would like the site laid out is also attached.
In the Rotating Image box shown in the layout attachment, we want rotating images that represent the 3 boxes underneath it.
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These images will really say what they company is all about. Get Creative.
We would prefer a lighter themed site, not black or dark backgrounds etc. We really want the site to stand out and POP, we want the visitors to have an awesome visual experience as well as intuitive experience.
On the bottom of the site under the logo and seals section, grayed out we want the following logos horizontally.
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We need a home page and subsequent content page. DO NOT submit your designs without BOTH PAGES...
The home page and content page need to be 1024 pixels wide to avoid left to right scrolling on monitors.
The content page needs to be a three column layout with left and right menus.
The home page will need to have the drop down menu designed as well.
Websites they like are:
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2. Verifone
3. Apple
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2. Payment Processing Incorporated http://www.paypros.com/
3. Element Payments
4. Solveras
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