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The PerformancePoint team receives a lot of questions about how to deploy (or activate) the product now that it lives within the confines of SharePoint. This is definitely a valid question because the "up and running" process is quite different compared to the experience from 2007. To help illustrate the process, I'm going to take you through the steps necessary to get PerformancePoint up and running, from beginning to end. This post may get a bit lengthy, so skip over the parts that you already know or, for whatever reason, don't apply to your environment.
Current Server Topology
How does the current layout look? How many front end servers (servers that host sites but which don't run the service applications) exist in relation to application servers? Are the SQL servers clustered (or mirrored)? Is the farm distributed across multiple boxes, or is everything located on one physical server? Most farm topologies include at least 2-3 WFEs, an app server, and a database server, as represented in the diagram below:
|Typical Farm Topology
To deploy PPS in this type of environment, SharePoint Enterprise Edition must be installed on the farm. If you are upgrading from PerformancePoint 2007, you must use the import option on the PPS settings page to import 2007 data to V2. This tool neither facilitates upgrading your actual SharePoint environment nor your PPS V1 environment. It only moves data (e.g. existing dashboards, scorecards, data sources, grids, and charts) from V1 to V2. Before this tool can be run, we recommend that you set up a clean SharePoint 2010 environment. But if you have data from your 2007 environment that you need in your 2010 environment, there are upgrade options. You can read about those, and the upgrade steps, in this blog post: http://blogs.msdn.com/performancepoint/archive/2009/11/16/upgrading-performancepoint-server-2007-to-performancepoint-2010.aspx. In each upgrade case, the PerformancePoint import utility must be used to move content from the 2007 environment to the 2010 environment.
For the sake of simplicity, and because this is such a common deployment scenario, a three-machine farm is the topology that I will use to explain the deployment process. This also assumes a Beta 2 or later install scenario.
Hardware/Software Recommendations
The following are the server and client recommendations for running PerformancePoint.
Server Recommendations (WFE or Application Server)
Database Recommendations
Client Recommendations (for Dashboard Designer)
So much of a successful deployment depends on the installation of SharePoint itself. But since this blog is about PerformancePoint, in particular, I'm not going to cover the actual SharePoint installation except for where it makes sense to discuss the overlap between PerformancePoint and SharePoint. I'm going to assume that SharePoint has been installed and that each web front end and application server (as well as any other server attached to the farm) has undergone the setup process. That will allow me to quickly get to the heart of this blog – PerformancePoint configuration and deployment.
Installation Crossroad
Here is a case where I need to point out one of the nuances of the SharePoint installation that will affect the ease of configuring PerformancePoint in a farm environment. Once you finish installing SharePoint, you are asked to configure the SharePoint farm (this won't apply in a stand-alone configuration). There are two options. The first is a wizard that takes users through the process of creating a default site collection with a number of different service applications enabled. This would be the site that appears when users navigate to the server root. The second option takes users directly to the Central Administration default page and requires that the administrator create the default web application, the default site collection, and activate any service applications. For the sake of this deployment guide, we will choose the latter option and create these elements without the wizard. You will then have a better idea of what the wizard does for you when you select that option. Plus, these are the steps that you will need to follow if your SharePoint farm is already running but not quite deployed.
|SharePoint Configuration Wizard
Creating a SharePoint Web Application
After the SharePoint install has been run, but before you can really do anything with the product, you must create a default web application.
|Manage Web Applications in SharePoint
This is the equivalent of creating a new IIS site. The first web application that you create on the farm will likely be the default web site on the farm, and SharePoint will default to port 80, although you can specify any port that you choose. If a site already exists on that port, it will be stopped, and SharePoint will begin using it. As you proceed through the wizard, you will notice that new web applications can be configured with classic authentication (NTLM) or with claims-based authentication. Claims-based authentication uses a secure claims ticket (instantiated by the secure claims service) and passed between the client, the WFE, and the application server, in order to authenticate the user. In this example, I will use classic mode authentication, which uses Windows authentication to validate users. For Beta 2, Claims Based Authentication was not fully tested, so stick with Classic Mode Authentication when creating new web applications. If you deploy an RTM version of the product, claims is the right option for extranet or internet-zoned sites.
|Creating a Web Application in Classic Mode
When creating a new web application, it is most secure to create a new application pool identity or to use an existing one that has been set up for this purpose. Administrators can also register a new managed domain account from the Create New Web Application page. The Register Managed Account link allows you to specify a domain account to use with the associated application pool for that web application. When you use a managed account, you let SharePoint keep knowledge of the name/password relationship. Thus, when it comes time to assign an account to a new web application or other service, you can simply assign the account without having to know the password. Note, however, that if you use a new or existing managed account, you will need to grant that user db_owner privileges on the content database associated with that web application. That can be done either manually (using the UI) or via PowerShell.
Here are the PowerShell commands:
|PS> $w = Get-SPWebApplication("web application name")
|PS> $w.GrantAccessToProcessIdentity("<domain\user>")
If you have more than one web app, you need to specify its identity on the first command. Because each web application uses its own content database, you need to run these commands for any web application that uses PerformancePoint.
This PowerShell command does three things:
- It creates a new user for the WSS_Content DB.
- It makes the user a member of the db_owner role.
- It creates a new schema for the user.
You can also manually create a new DB user for your process identity and add that user to the db_owner role of the content database for the web application. In order to make quicker use of managed accounts, you may want to inform SharePoint about them (or create them in SharePoint) before you get to web application or service application pages. You can define as many as you need by going to Security --> Configure managed accounts in Central Administration. That way, they will be available when it becomes necessary to assign one to a service or to an application.
By default, SharePoint uses the app pool account of the person who installed the product. Most deployments will use a specific domain account with limited permissions. This helps to ensure that functions in SharePoint and PerformancePoint don't use an account with too many privileges, allowing access to resources that should be reserved for administrators or other higher-privileged accounts.
|Creating a New App Pool
Creating a Site Collection
Once you have a web application in place, you will need to create a site collection. The first site collection that you create will be the top-level (default) SharePoint site for all of the objects that you create within this collection.
|Creating a New Site Collection
From the Site Collection dialog, name your site. If this is the first site collection on this site, you have the option of creating the site under the managed path "/sites". Generally speaking, if this is the first site collection for a particular web application, you create the site at the root level (e.g. http://contoso.com/PerformancePointSite1/). This allows users who visit the root to see content without having to navigate to a managed URL. If this is a subsequent site collection, you will only have the option to create the site collection under a managed path (the default managed path is /sites). You can create additional managed paths in SharePoint Central Administration, under the Define Managed Paths page.
For a PerformancePoint default site, create a default site collection using the Business Intelligence Center template. This is the standard site collection template for PerformancePoint objects. It already contains all of the necessary SharePoint content types used to create BI dashboards. You can certainly add PerformancePoint content types to standard web part pages, lists, and libraries in order to create deployment targets, but it's much easier to use the Business Intelligence Center.
|BI Template Selection
If the Business Intelligence Center template isn't visible, it's likely that you aren't using a SharePoint Enterprise license. PerformancePoint isn't included with Standard licenses.
Starting the Service
Before you go much further, I recommend starting the actual services that you plan to run on your application servers. These services, like the PerformancePoint Service, the Excel Calculation Service, the User Profile Service, the Search service, etc., are the actual binaries for each of these services. Instances of these services are called by the service application every time work on the server needs to be done. The beauty of being able to start these services one-by-one is that you only need to start the services that you plan to use, saving server resources. This is the primary advantage of the service model architecture in SharePoint 2010. In SharePoint 2007, the shared service provider ran all the services, all of the time, regardless of which of them actually needed using. In this case, in order to use PerformancePoint Services, you need to start at least it and the Secure Store Service. I talk more about this in the section, Setting Up Secure Store below.
|Starting SharePoint Services
Creating a PerformancePoint Service Application
Once the Business Intelligence Center has been created, the administrator must create a PerformancePoint service application. This creates the service application proxy that facilitates web service calls between the WFE and the app server, along the Windows Communication Framework. New service applications can be created from either the UI or from cmdlets. If cmdlets are used, from the SharePoint 2010 Management Console window, the administrator runs the following (run with elevated privileges):
If the UI is used, the administrator selects Manage service applications (pictured below)
|Manage Service Applications
and then from the New menu, selects PerformancePoint Service Application and fills in the requested values.
|Create a PerformancePoint Service App
A new PPS service application requires the following properties: Name and Application Pool. The Name is the name of the PPS service application itself. The name is different than the service application's identity. The identity is a GUID, assigned at creation time, and used to distinguish this service application from any other service application. No two applications can have the same GUID. In the case of PPS, the Name parameter must also be unique. This may not be the case with other SharePoint service applications. In addition to the Name field, the admin must also specify whether this service application instance should exist within the farm's list of default service applications. However, even though a service application proxy exists within the default group of proxies, it does not need to be the default proxy within the default group.
|New PerformancePoint Service App
For a proxy to be the default of the default group, it must be designated as such on the Configure Service Application Associations page. A default proxy means that all service applications, for that SharePoint web application, use that proxy to communicate with that service application's web service. Only one proxy group can be associated with a web application. Within that proxy group (associated with the web application), you can enable as many proxies as necessary. If you disable proxies, the associated service applications won't be available to use within SharePoint applications.
|One Proxy Group per Web App
If a proxy is not enabled, that web application cannot communicate with the service running under that web application. PerformancePoint Services currently doesn't have properties associated with its proxies, so it doesn't matter which proxy acts as the default.
|Configure Service App Associations
In order to change the default association, click the [set as default] link. Once the new Service Application has been named, fill in the Application Pool section. An admin can use an existing application pool or create a new one. The SharePoint Web Services System app pool is the default application pool available to all new service applications (PerformancePoint or otherwise). If a new application pool is created, you will need to use the Configurable option and either choose to run the app pool under an existing account or to register a new managed account. You cannot use the Predefined option when it comes time to create dashboards, so the recommendation is to assign a domain account during this part of the process. Using any of the Predefined options imposes a security risk. Network Service, for example, comes with too many privileged actions to make it a production-worthy service account.
|New PPS Service App Pool Picker
Clicking on the Create button will take you back to the list of SharePoint's service applications. You can click on the newly created PerformancePoint service application, and it will take you to the PerformancePoint landing page, where several options become available with which to administer settings. Incidentally, new PPS Service applications can also be created using PowerShell cmdlets. The ability to fully administer PerformancePoint with PowerShell is a wonderful thing, but is a bit outside this blog's scope. I'll write up something on that topic shortly.
Service Application Databases
Once you finish installing SharePoint, you can see that it installs a number of different databases. In addition to the SharePoint configuration and content databases, PerformancePoint installs its own database for storing a user's filter selections, annotations and comments, and temporary first class objects (FCOs). This database is created when you create a new PerformancePoint Services Service application. In order to ensure a unique database name, most of the service app databases created by default include a GUI appended to the name. Some of the service applications allow administrators to change the database name to meet specific business rules. As of this writing, however, the PerformancePoint database name cannot be modified – either before or after its creation – without rendering the product unusable.
|The PerformancePoint Database
By default, all new PerformancePoint databases will be installed on the same server as SharePoint's configuration database. But you can use any SQL Server instance to connect PerformancePoint content to dashboards, assuming that the proper security context has been set up for the users who view and create those dashboards.
Most SharePoint topologies use a separate server to house associated databases, but it is also possible to install everything on a single-box environment (this is the Standalone option presented to administrators when installing SharePoint). If you choose this option, SharePoint will automatically install SQL Server 2008 Express to store content and configuration settings. The SQL Server setup and configuration is straightforward, but a detailed install procedure is beyond the scope of this blog.
Setting Up Secure Store
One of those settings is for the Secure Store. Without it, you cannot use PerformancePoint's unattended service account to connect to data sources. As with the 2007 version of the product, which used the application pool account as the application identity, the unattended account cannot use the application pool identity to connect to data sources. Rather, it must use a domain account, whose password is stored in the secure store. If you have created a new PerformancePoint service application and there is no secure store set up in the default proxy group, you will need to configure the secure store. You can tell whether things have been set up correctly when you go to the PPS settings page. You will see a warning indicating that the secure store hasn't been configured.
|Secure Store Warning
In order to configure the secure store, you will need to create a secure store service first. Do that by clicking on New (in the ribbon) from the Manage Service Applications page. If the Edit functions in the ribbon appear inactive, make sure that the secure store service has been started. You can check this by going to the Manage services on server page in Central Administration. If it hasn't been started, start it, and proceed with the steps below. Fill in the parameters, and click OK. Once the service is created, you can configure it.
To configure the secure store for PPS, follow these steps:
- Go to the Central Admin home page
- Under "Application Management" click "Manage Service Applications"
- Click on the Secure Store Service Proxy
- Click "Manage" in the ribbon
- You should get a message to generate a new key. Click "Edit" on the ribbon, then click "Generate New Key". You will be required to enter a pass phrase.
- When this completes, click "Edit" on the ribbon, then click "Refresh Key". Enter the same pass phrase you used in the previous step.
Configure the Unattended Service Account (necessary for using "Unattended Service Account" option on Data Sources)
- Go to the Central Admin home page
- Under "Application Management" click "Manage Service Applications"
- Click on the PerformancePoint Service Application
- Click the "Manage" button in the ribbon
- Click the first link: PerformancePoint Service Settings
- In the "Unattended Service Account" section, enter the user name and password to be used for querying data sources.
This should then store the new credentials in the target application of the secure store. The username is stored in the SharePoint configuration database. If an error occurs, or if you missed one of the above steps, check the Windows event log. It's likely that the secure store service key wasn't properly generated or that you forgot to refresh the key after generating it. If everything worked correctly, when you re-enter the PPS settings page, you will see the secure store service name and the user representing the unattended service account.
|Successful Secure Store Setup
PerformancePoint will always try to use the secure store service in the default proxy group, even if you have multiple secure store service instances. If, for example, you have custom proxy groups on ports 80 and 81 with no secure store service running, and you have port 82 using the default proxy group with a secure store service running, each PerformancePoint service application running under the web applications on ports 80 and 81, will attempt to use the secure store service associated with the default proxy group.
The same steps can also be run from PowerShell. As with the UI, the first step in the process requires the administrator to create a new secure store service application and set the secure store key. Before running the cmdlet to create a new secure store service application, make sure that the secure itself is running. Go to Central Administration --> System Settings --> Manage Services on Server. You should see that it's in a started state:
|Secure Store Service Started
You can then launch the SharePoint 2010 Management Console (as an Administrator) and create a new secure store service application.
new-spsecurestoreserviceapplication -Name $serviceApplicationName -partitionmode:$false -sharing:$false -databaseserver $DbServerAddress -databasename $dbName -applicationpool $pool -administrators $commaseparatedadmins -auditingEnabled:$true -auditlogmaxsize 30
Open and Test a PerformancePoint BI Center Site
Creating a new service application enables the Publishing and PerformancePoint site collection features. If you have successfully created a PerformancePoint site collection, you should be able to browse to the BI Center, launch Dashboard Designer, and connect to a data source using the unattended service account. The page below can be accessed by navigating to the URL that was specified when the site collection (or child site) was created.
|Starting Dashboard Designer
The Easy Way?
For the most part, I've taken you through the manual way of setting up PerformancePoint 2010. If you go back to the section titled, Installation Crossroad, you'll notice that you can select the first bullet. That selection launches a wizard that will create new service applications for each service in the farm (you are provided the option to create only those that you want). You can assign a single application pool account to run all of the service apps. And each of those service applications will use the default proxy group to connect to the application server. If you want to run different service applications on different application servers, I recommend that you avoid the wizard, making it a lot easier to select just the service applications that you want running on specific application servers. Of course, even by using the wizard, you will still have to configure the secure store and define an unattended service account if you want to use application-based security. But for a quick setup experience on a 3-machine (or smaller farm), the wizard presents a terrific option.


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The Poverty Reduction, Equity, and Growth Network (PEGNet) is calling for papers and projects to be presented or entered for the Best-Practice Award at the 2017 PEGNet Conference in Zurich, Switzerland, September 11-12, 2017. The conference theme for this year is "Understanding national inequalities and how to address them".
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Stamp Investment Tip: Panama 1930 Plane Over Map Airmails (Scott #C10-14)
In 1930, Panama issued a set of five airmail stamps picturing a plane over a map of Panama (Scott #C10-14). 10,000 sets were issued, and Scott '14 prices the unused set at $13.05.
It is likely that most of these stamps were used as postage and then discarded. Furthermore, the set appeals to a small but rapidly growing number of Map on Stamp topicalists, also known as "Cartophilatelists."
As with all Latin American stamps, there are many collectors who focus on the region as a whole, which supplements demand for the stamps of the individual countries.
A nation of 3.4 million people, Panama is the fastest growing economy and the largest per capita consumer in Central America. Panama's economy, because of its key geographic location, is mainly based on a well developed service sector heavily weighted towards banking, commerce, tourism, trading. The handover of the Canal and military installations by the United States has given rise to large construction projects. Tourism has grown rapidly during the past 5 years due to the government offering tax and price discounts to foreign guests and retirees. The country also has valuable copper and gold deposits, which are beginning to be developed. Annual GDP growth has averaged over 7% over the last 5 years.
"The Stamp Specialist" blog features my buy prices for stamps which I am interested in purchasing. I've posted a buy list for Panama. Viewing dealers' buy lists every now and then is an excellent way to keep current on the vagaries of the stamp market.
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We are delighted to offer you the latest issue of the Lay Carmelite E-Bulletin. This is a special issue since this year we celebrate the 450th anniversary of the birth of Saint Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, a Carmelite nun from Italy, who was a renowned spiritual writer of her times. Through different and varied articles, this edition gives us an opportunity to learn more about the life and spirituality of St. Mary Magdalene de' Pazzi, as well as about the different celebrations and activities organized for this special anniversary.


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Cellular membranes and plasma lipoproteins are less efficiently protected against oxidative stress than the various aqueous compartments of mammalian organisms. Here, previous results on the role of plasmalogens in lipid oxidation are evaluated on the basis of criteria required for an antioxidant. The plasmalogen-specific enol ether double bond is targeted by a vast variety of oxidants, including peroxyl radicals, metal ions, singlet oxygen and halogenating species. Oxidation of the vinyl ether markedly prevents the oxidation of highly polyunsaturated fatty acids, and products of plasmalogen degradation do not propagate lipid oxidation. This protection is also demonstrated intramolecularly, thus ascertaining the function of plasmalogens as a major storage pool for polyunsaturated fatty acids. Although cells rapidly incorporate and synthesize plasmalogens de novo, their plasmalogen contents can be deliberately increased by supplementation with precursors. Thus plasmalogens terminate lipid-oxidation processes, are present in adequate locations at sufficient concentrations, and are rapidly regenerated, classifying them as efficient antioxidants in vitro. Future work should address the in vivo role of plasmalogens in lipid oxidation and the biological function of plasmalogen interactions with oxidants.
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It's been one month since I launched the Complete Blogging Package Contest and almost two weeks since the winner was announced. While we all know what the prize package was, I've been asked a few times what kind of benefits this site saw as a result of the contest. And, since my mission on this blog is to document the growth or failure every step of the way, I figured it would only be fair to share the results.
It's no secret one of the biggest goals of the contest was to generate links pointing back to this site with the anchor text of make money blogging. With right around 40 entries to the contest, I'd say that goal was definitely met. In fact, since the contest began this site has ranked as high as 4th for that phrase in Yahoo. While the rankings have settled back down now to a much more realistic 46th in Google and 37th in Yahoo, I would still call this a fantastic success. The site wasn't even on the map when it came to this phrase, and now it's got solid footing to work from here on out.
As if the entrants' links weren't enough, the contest also generated a fair amount of "press" in the blogosphere as well. The contest was linked to by power house blogs such as Chrisg.com, JohnChow.com, and Entrepreneur's Journey.com. The extra attention that post received made it the 4th most visited page on the site for the past month, behind the index page, and two posts which received a social media boost.
As I just alluded to, all those links naturally brought in a nice amount of traffic to the site. Google analytics reports just under 700 visitors entered the site through the contest post, and more than 1,000 visitors viewed the page. For a site that's only about 70 days old, that traffic is nothing to sneeze at.
The fact that the prize package was tied to the number of subscribers this site had, no doubt prompted people to subscribe in hopes of beefing up their potential prize. The goal of 150 subscribers by Sept. 1 was reached and in fact, the feedcount is up over 200 for the first time (not including the one day Digg spike). While it's impossible to put an exact number on this benefit, there's no doubt in my mind the subscriber count wouldn't be where it is today without the contest. Since it took 45 days for the site to cross the 100 subscriber mark, I'm very excited that the count has doubled in only 25 days. On some of the bigger blogs you see this sort of exponential increase in subscribers as milestone numbers begin to come closer and closer together but I wasn't really expecting that at this stage in the game. If that number doubles again in the next 25 days I'm going to be one happy blogger.
As I'm fond of saying, last but certainly not least, probably the least obvious reward this site received for hosting the contest is the conversations I've been able to have with other bloggers as a result. I've emailed back and forth with several of you and I would actually value this as the biggest benefit of all. Part of what makes blogging so great is the interaction between writer and reader and that spills over into marketing your blog as well. It's just human nature that we would be more willing to link to an article written by someone we know and have talked to than a stranger. When you run into a road block it's nice to know you have a network of people all with different skills, knowledge, and experience available to you. The off-line saying that in business it's not what you know, it's who you know often carries over into the blogging world. Through this contest I've gotten to "know" a lot more of you, and to me, that made the contest a HUGE success.
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Departments and programs within the KU School of Engineering offer numerous undergraduate and advanced degrees in engineering and computing. See a pdf of the School of Engineering undergraduate guide.
Our Bachelor's degree programs in aerospace engineering, architectural engineering, chemical engineering, civil engineering, computer engineering, electrical engineering, engineering physics, mechanical engineering and petroleum engineering are accredited by the Engineering Accreditation Commission of ABET, http://www.abet.org. The bachelor's degree programs in computer science and information technology undergraduate programs are accredited by the Computing Accreditation Commission of ABET, http://www.abet.org. The school also offers undergraduate and graduate degrees for the working professional on the KU Edwards Campus in Kansas City, as well as opportunities for continuing education and professional development through KU Continuing Education.
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Undergraduate students can pursue a bioengineering-related concentration in several bachelor of science degree programs in the School of Engineering. Graduate students will find the program is highly interdisciplinary and collaborative. Many students work closely with faculty at the KU School of Medicine. See a pdf of the bioengineering guide.
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Field and Laboratory Methods in Animal Cognition
A Comparative Guide
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Would you ask a honeybee to point at a screen and recognise a facial expression? Or ask an elephant to climb a tree? While humans and non-human species may inhabit the same world, it's likely that our perceptual worlds differ significantly. Emphasising Uexküll's concept of 'umwelt', this volume offers practical advice on how animal cognition can be successfully tested while avoiding anthropomorphic conclusions. The chapters describe the capabilities of a range of animals - from ants, to lizards to chimpanzees - revealing how to successfully investigate animal cognition across a variety of taxa. The book features contributions from leading cognition researchers, each offering a series of examples and practical tips drawn from their own experience. Together, the authors synthesise information on current field and laboratory methods, providing researchers and graduate students with methodological advice on how to formulate research questions, design experiments and adapt studies to different taxa.Read more
- Explains how each animal's perceptual world should be considered to avoid drawing anthropomorphic conclusions in cognition research
- Outlines practical tips and advice on current field and laboratory methods, demonstrating how to formulate research questions, design experiments and adapt studies to different species
- Presents the latest theory and research findings on cognitive skills in animals from a comparative perspective, bringing together a range of scientists working on a variety of taxa
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Foreword Josep Call
Introduction: the concept of umwelt in experimental animal cognition Nereida Bueno-Guerra and Federica Amici
1. Ants – individual and social cognition Zhanna Reznikova
2. Bats – using sound to reveal cognition Yossi Yovel and Stefan Greif
3. Bees – the experimental umwelt of honeybees Randolf Menzel
4. Carib grackles – field and lab work on a tame, opportunistic island icterid Simon Ducatez, Sarah E. Overington, Jean-Nicolas Audet, Marine Battesti and Louis Lefebvre
5. Chicken – cognition in the poultry yard Cinzia Chiandetti and Giorgio Vallortigara
6. Chimpanzees – investigating cognition in the wild Roman M. Wittig and Catherine Crockford
7. Dolphins and whales – taking cognitive research out of the tanks and into the wild Volker B. Deecke
8. Elephants – studying cognition in the African Savannah Lucy A. Bates
9. Fish – how to ask them the right questions Catarina Vila Pouca and Culum Brown
10. Hermit crabs – information gathering by the hermit crab, pagurus bernhardus Robert W. Elwood
11. Hyenas – testing cognition in the umwelt of the spotted hyena Lily Johnson-Ulrich, Kenna D. S. Lehman, Julie W. Turner and Kay E. Holekamp
12. Lizards – measuring cognition in lizards: practical challenges and the influence of ecology and social behaviour Martin J. Whiting and Daniel W. A. Noble
13. Meerkats – identifying cognitive mechanisms underlying meerkat coordination and communication: experimental designs in their natural habitat Marta Manser
14. Octopuses – mind in the waters Jennifer A. Mather and Michael J. Kuba
15. Grey parrots (Psittacus erithacus) – cognitive and communicative abilities Irene M. Pepperberg
16. Sharks – elasmobranch cognition Tristan L. Guttridge, Kara E. Yopak and Vera Schluessel
17. Spiders – hints for testing cognition and learning in jumping spiders Elizabeth M. Jakob, Skye M. Long and Margaret Bruce
18. Tortoises – cold-blooded cognition: how to get a tortoise out of its shell Anna Wilkinson and Ewen Glass
Epilogue Nereida Bueno-Guerra.
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The most recent Martha Stewart Kids magazine has several really great photos in it. My favorites are in the article about decorating kids' rooms:
I love the color scheme (tomato and ice blue) and the clothes line idea. This would be especially great for older children who have artwork and favorite souvenirs to display, or for babies with mothers who like to rearrange (yes, I did spend today's naptime moving books on the bookcase when I could have been doing laundry, packing for our vacation, or some other useful thing). Mmm, and that chair! I'd love to own one like that!
Maybe in a few years when Little has her own room we can use some of the ideas from Martha's people. Little currently lives in the closet of our bedroom, which we've done our best to make as nursery-esque as possible. I'm rather proud of the work we did.
My husband painted the walls and installed the electrical system (with a dimmer switch - my hero!). I painted the mural and selected the fixtures. The cat in the corner is modeled after our own beloved P-cat (seen in the first photo), who Little is completely fascinated with already. I suspect that she'll soon take after her father and develop an almost unhealthy obsession with dogs.


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Stewart Davenport
Associate Professor of History
Humanities/Teacher Education Division, Seaver College
- PhD, Department of History, Yale University, 2001
- BA, History, Princeton University, 1994, Summe Cum Laude
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- "Pro-capitalist Christendom: An Explanation And An Apology" [A review essay of Bethany Moreton's To Serve God and Wal-Mart: The Making of Christian Free Enterprise, and Jay W. Richards's Money, Greed, and God: Why Capitalism is the Solution and Not the Problem]. Books & Culture: A Christian Review. Forthcoming, November/December 2010.
- "Two Schools, One Thesis, Still No Clear Answer" [A review essay of Donald E. Frey's America's Economic Moralists: A History of Rival Ethics and Economics]. Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 28-A (2010): 319-327.
- "Two Cheers for McCloskey" [A review essay of Deirdre N. McCloskey's The Bourgeois Virtues: Ethics for an Age of Commerce]. Research in the History of Economic Thought and Methodology 27-A (2009): 225-233.
- "Friends of the Unrighteous Mammon:" Northern Christians and Market Capitalism 1815-1860. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2008.
- "Das Adam-Smith Problem and Faculty Psychology in the Antebellum North." History of Political Economy. Spring, 2008.
- "The Faking of the United States" [A review essay of Stephen Mihm's A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con-Men, and the Making of the United States]. Reviews in American History 36 (2008): 349-356.
- "Liberal America/Christian America: Another Conflict or Consensus?" Journal of the Early Republic 24, no. 2 (Summer 2004): 190-197.
- "Review of American Creed: Philanthropy and the Rise of Civil Society, 1700-1865, by Kathleen D. McCarthy," Journal of Markets and Morality 7, no. 1 (2004): 162-165.
- "Francis Wayland" and "Economy and Religion: American Religious History," entries in Die Religion in Geschichte und Gegenwart, a German theological reference (2004).
- "Abolitionists in Africa," a review of Lamin Sanneh's Abolitionists Abroad: American Blacks and the Making of Modern West Africa, in Books & Culture: A Christian Review, May/June 2000. (co-author with Wiebe Boer).
- "In Dow We Trust?" Paper presented at "The Mortgage and Credit Crisis from a Christian Perspective," 2009 Annual Conference on Christian Legal Thought, January 10, 2009.
- "Protestant Appropriations of John Locke and Adam Smith in the Antebellum North." Paper presented at the HOPE [History of Political Economy] conference "Keeping Faith: Religious Belief and Political Economy." Duke University, April 19-21, 2007.
- "Das Adam Smith Problem in the Antebellum North and Two Protestant Attempts at a Solution." Paper presented at the conference "Soundings: The Tenth-Anniversary Conference of the Atlantic History Seminar," Harvard University, August 9-13, 2005.
- "Liberal America/Christian America: Another Conflict or Consensus?" Presentation at the American Origins Seminar, Sponsored by the USC-Huntington Early Modern Studies Institute, the Huntington Library, March 12, 2005.
- "Whither the Early Republic: A Roundtable Prognostication." Panel discussion on the future of "research needs and opportunities" in early American history. Twenty-Sixth Annual Meeting of the Society for Historians of the Early American Republic, Brown University, July 22-25, 2004.
- "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington: Making Political Economy Safe for the Christian Republic." Paper presented at the conference, "Christianity and Economics: Integrating Faith and Learning in Economic Scholarship." Baylor University, 2002.
- "The Redeeming Science of Modern Times: Protestants and Political Economy, 1820-1860." Paper presented to the History Faculty, Cambridge University, June 2001.
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MISSOULA – In honor of Women's History Month, University of Montana Associate Professor Rosalyn LaPier will host a presentation on medicinal plants for women's health from 6:30 to 7 p.m. Monday, March 12.
LaPier will discuss Montana native plants traditionally used for women's health, highlighting some medicines used at different life stages including puberty, motherhood and menopause. The lecture is free and open to the public. It will take place in UM's Payne Family Native American Center. Soup and tea will be served at 6:30 p.m. for a $5 donation.
LaPier is an associate professor of environmental studies, a Blackfeet ethnobotanist and recently received UM's Presidential Faculty Award for Distinguished Accomplishment.
The lecture will be held in conjunction with the Red Dress Workshop, organized by UM undergraduate student Willow Kipp. From 5 to 7 p.m. workshop participants will sew a red ribbon skirt to wear in solidarity with missing and murdered indigenous women (#MMIW). Registration for Red Dress Workshop is now closed, as all available spots have been filled.
Kipp is a Native American studies major and environmental studies minor. She is a citizen of the Shoshone-Bannock Nation and descendent of the Blackfeet Nation. Funds raised at the event will support the MMIW Awareness Dance Special at the 50th Kyiyo Powwow at UM April 20-21.
The evening's events are sponsored by UM's Environmental Studies Program and the native plant stewardship and ethnobotany internship.
Note to media: Members of the media are invited to attend and photograph the Red Dress workshop. Professor LaPier's presentation is free and open to the public.


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The Best Advice About Heating I've Ever Written
Factors to Consider when Choosing a Heating Repairer
Our heating systems do not give notice of their breakdown and when they do finding someone to repair them proves hectic.This is because of the many options present in the market. For you to narrow that search down one has to look out for certain characteristics in them.
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The repairer you choose should preferably be from the area you leave. different countries or states are governed by different rules in terms of how they work. Choose one who is conversant and regulated to work in your area. Check if they have the knowledge to do that particular repair you want.Check for which type of heating system they are accredited to repair. You can source the brand repairers who are trained specifically for that type of repair.
The kind service contract they have
Your heating system will require a repairer who handles it with caution. If fixed wrongly these systems can even cause fires.Check if the contractor has a guarantee policy for work done. This will guarantee the quality of repair they do.
You can get referrals from the company you bought your heating system from.In most cases they have their own repair people who they would send to do that job for you. In case they do not have their own personnel they will refer you to a contractor they know. You can ask from your friends who have had a repair on their system before.
Customer relations
The treatment offered to the client is a reflection of the overall work done by the company. if they have contact details that do not go through then look for another company. A Company that understands he value of its clients to them will treat them with respect. An excellent company that takes their clients to be of value will ensure they are satisfied with the work they do.
The standard of work
The cheaper the price the worse the work is not a true phenomenon. The price tag on the service is not what qualifies work to be great or poor.You can do this by asking for reviews from those who have had an encounter with that repairer. Here you will be in a position to get honest answers that will enable you to weigh if the repairer has quality work or not.Also as you do so do not forget to hire one within your financial strength. Do not look for one who charges extravagant prices in that you use up all your savings on repairs. You can get a variety of them by just search the internet.Here you will find a variety to choose from.
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—-I was extremely cynical when my brother recommended me to try the paste. It sat on my shelf for months and then one day I tried it. Upon trying it for the first time I swore that I would never use it again as I really don't like armpits and in order to apply it, if you only have the jar of paste, is by putting it on your fingers and rubbing it lightly into your arm pit. Yuck, I don't ever want to touch my armpits and actually have had a weird phobia in the past of sharing deodorants (weirdly, I'd rather share a toothbrush than a deodorant)…


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Who are you voting for, if you don't mind my asking. Not looking to start any political debates, just curious.
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You should vote for whomever will let me keep the most of my money. :)


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Pie Tin and Washer Game May 21, 2009Posted by thetrainerscorner in Uncategorized.
Tags: Boy Scouts, Cub Scouts, Den Games, Meeting Helps, Scout Leaders, Training, Webelos
Hello fellow Scouters,
One of my favorite games when I was a Cub Scout leader was the old pie tin and washer game. It was an easy game to make, and was small enough that I could keep it in my game backpack.
All you need for this game are a couple of pie tins and some fender washers (the ones I used measure 1-1/4″ in diameter). I had three sets of 10 washers, each set spray painted a different color (spray painted in a water bottle cardboard packaging base). This way when we played we could have either two or three teams, depending on how many Scouts showed up to the meeting (of course, you always hope that you don't end up with a prime number of Scouts).
One thing that's great about this game is that it is fun at all ages. We played it as Tigers all the way through our second Webelos year. It's important to have games that are age-appropriate, and it is easy to achieve this by adjusting the line that you throw from.
When I set this game up, I cut out some cardstock circles to go in the pie tin. This helped stop washers from bouncing out once they land in the tin. I also would put a blanket or towel under the tins to help keep the washers from ricocheting away from the playing area. Then all you have to do is count the number of each color that lands in the pie tins – it's that easy!
We made an annual tournament out of this, and the boys chose fun team names. We would play a few rounds and I would do my best to hide the count each round, to keep the winning team a surprise (this was more difficult to do as the boys got older). Once we even played it hockey style, by using the pie tins as goal posts and having the boys try to slide their washers between the tins.
And this game is not just for kids! We used this game as a gathering activity last fall when my district held its Cub Leader Specific training. The first class of the day (the former New Leader's Essentials) went over in time, and we filled the delay with this game. The adult leaders had so much fun playing this that they didn't want the game to end when it was time to begin training.
I hope you find this game a fun addition to your selection of Scout games. Have fun!
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Tokyo update numero 2.
Well. I'm amazed they're even thinking of us back home. I've come to think of it damn near as a compliment. Can't say I blame 'em if they get busy with the next coupla days of festivities. Get 'em in while you can. Without further ado, here's the latest update from Ben and Al: -------------
by Ben
Day 2 recap: I started out the day with a walk to try to find a bikeshop, buy a map with English street names, and find an ATM that would take my card. I got a cup of coffee at a breakfast place, and was pleasantly surprised to find out that Japanese people love eating hot dogs for breakfast. When in Rome... I ended up getting completely lost, not finding a bike shop, and every store I went to had maps that were only in Japanese. Tokyo is an incredibly confusing city. After about two hours of being totally lost, I ran into Al, Molly, Christina, and the rest of the Chicago crew who were also out trying to find maps and an ATM. Within an hour we found a big book store which had english maps and we even found a bike shop which sold qr squwers. I could finally put my wheels on my bike.
We ended up riding as a big group to registration, which was a blast! I am having a tough time with the traffic being reversed. Every right turn is an adventure. Registration was laid-back and cool. People from all over the world would roll up in small groups and hang out. Chicago definately had the biggest crew. We hung out on a corner for a while drinking beer and eating rice balls while a monkey screeched at us and flipped us off.
After that we rode around for a while hitting up bike shops so Molly could get a brake for her Fuji. After we accomplished that, we got some beers and went to a park to drink them. It was very peaceful and nice.
by Al
We had a traffic cop who seemed to be assigned to the alley we were registering at jsut because we were there and made sure to blow his whistle at anyone standing in the middle of the alley. I met a pro keirin racer there and tried to find out if I could do any track racing while I was here, but they don't have any amateur races.
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Salvation of the car-nanas
I wouldn't be a real American if I didn't contract everything into its most monosyllabic possible combination. Case in point: Bennifer, JLo, etc.
Naturally, the logical shortening of the words "car bananas" is "car-nanas," our family's wonderfully efficient way of making fun of my latest ditziness, as detailed in the Car Bananas blog.
Carnanas: it refers to when I bought bananas and lost them in my little compact car for a week, and then couldn't figure out what the banana smell was every time I entered the car.
I know. How does this woman have a graduate degree?
Anyway, who's got the last laugh now? When life hands you overripe bananas, you make banana bread!
Here's the great recipe I used from Chef Joanne Chang's recipe book, Flour:
1 1/2 cups unbleached, all-purpose flour
1 t. baking soda
1/4 t. ground cinnamon
1/2 t. kosher salt
1 c. + 2 T. sugar
2 eggs
1/2 c. canola oil
3 1/2 very ripe, medium bananas, peeled and mashed (1 1/2 c.= about 340 grams)
2 T. creme fraiche or sour cream
1 t. vanilla extract
3/4 c. walnut halves, toasted and chopped
Makes one 9" loaf.
Put rack in center of oven, heat to 325 degrees F. Butter a 9x5" loaf pan (*though as you see in my photo, I used muffin tins and freelanced on the time!). In bowl, sift together flour, baking soda, cinnamon, salt. Set aside.
Using stand mixer with whip attachment, beat together sugar, eggs on medium speed, 5 minutes, or until light and fluffy. On low speed, slowly drizzle in oil. Should take about a minute.
Add bananas, creme fraiche, vanilla. Continue to mix on low speed until combined.
Using rubber spatula, fold in the flour mixture and nuts until combined. Pour into pan.
Bake 1 to 1 1/4 hours or until golden brown on top and center springs back when you press it. Cool in pan on wire rack for 30 minutes, then pop it out of the pan to finish cooling.
*I'm not a pro baker but I got lucky. I watched the muffins and used the finger test, so mine were ready after 22 minutes. I also substituted 1/2 c. bittersweet baking chips 60% cacao, because I live with chocoholics. It all turned out really well!
Enjoy... thank Chef Chang when you make this... and just know that you don't have to ripen your bananas in your car for a week. You could probably just let them sit on the kitchen counter! LOL


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My name is Scott Carver, and I am the State of Montana Coordinator for RSOL (Reform Sex Offender Laws), a nationwide Lobbying group dedicated to doing exactly what our name says; reforming the current sex offender laws. I could go on and on, but our national website says it far better than I can here. The national website can be found at:
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Suns-Trail Blazers Preview
With LaMarcus Aldridge back in the mix, the Portland Trail Blazers are making a late push for home-court advantage in the first round of the playoffs.
The Phoenix Suns continue to scrap for one of the Western Conference's final spots, but they must navigate a challenging final set of games.
Portland looks for a fifth straight win Friday night when it hosts Phoenix.
The Trail Blazers' chances at a top-four seed appeared to be slim during a 4-9 stretch March 3-25. However, they've won four straight since LaMarcus Aldridge returned from a seven-game absence due to a back injury and are a game behind Houston for fourth place.
Portland (49-27) has averaged 105.0 points over its last four with Aldridge back in the lineup after scoring 90.0 per game in three consecutive defeats. The Trail Blazers, who haven't had home court in a postseason series since 2009, are also averaging a plus-3.0 rebounding margin since Aldridge has returned after a minus-3.4 margin when he was out.
Aldridge had 31 points, 15 rebounds and six assists in Tuesday's 124-112 road win over the Los Angeles Lakers – two nights after he scored 28 in a win over Memphis.
"We had a rough stretch, but now we've kind of picked it back up and we're going in the right direction at the perfect time," said Damian Lillard, who scored 34 points against the Lakers and was 5 of 10 from 3-point range. "Now that we're close to the postseason, we want to have that rhythm going into the playoffs – because that's what we play the regular season for."
Portland, which has won eight of nine at home against Phoenix, will play five of its final six games on its own floor, where it owns its second-best winning percentage over the last 14 seasons.
The Suns (44-31), who are battling with Memphis and Dallas for the conference's final two playoff berths, play five of their final seven against teams in position for or competing for a playoff appearance, including meetings with the Grizzlies and Mavericks.
Phoenix reeled off a six-game win streak – its longest in four years – but has since dropped back-to-back contests to the Lakers and Clippers. The Suns led the Clippers by 17 with 1:49 remaining in the third quarter Wednesday but lost 112-108, squandering an opportunity to claim sole possession of seventh place.
"We had this game almost in our pockets," said Goran Dragic, who is 8 for 27 from the floor in the last two games after shooting 50.0 percent or better in 11 of his previous 12.
"But now is not the time to think like that, because we still have to have our confidence up to play those last seven games."
The Suns, whose 9.5 made 3-pointers per game are tied with the Trail Blazers for the league lead, are 16 of 64 from 3-point range in their last two games after going 71 for 162 (43.8 percent) during the win streak.
Phoenix won two of the first three meetings this season, both at home. Dragic averaged 28.5 points and shot 56.4 percent in those victories.


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All of the alumni artists of South Carroll High School are invited to participate in the Art Exhibition that will be showcased during the Grand Rededication weekend on March 2 and 3.
The exhibition will be hosted in the auditorium lobby of the school and those interested may drop off their art work at the school on Feb. 9, 10, and 11.
The weekend starts on March 2 with the "Cavaliers Through the Years" musical cabaret, where the alumni who were involved in theater are welcome to join and participate.
Alumni who are interested may obtain information from the Stagelighters Facebook page. The musical will be hosted at the Fine Arts Auditorium stating at 7 p.m., the event is free and everyone in the community is invited.
On March 3, starting at 8 a.m., there will be an information and practice sessions to become part of the alumni band, which will be performing at the rededication. Those interested, may contact Terry Sipes at email@example.com or find information on the "Once a Cavalier, Always a Cavalier" Facebook page.
On that same day, the grand Rededication ceremony will begin at 1 p.m. in the auditorium, where local guests will have the honor of being part of the Ribbon Cutting ceremony and offering remarks.
After the ceremony, the attendees will be able to take a tour of the building to see how it changed throughout the years and enjoy some refreshments.
In addition, the 50th Anniversary Committee will be hosting the Alumni and Friends Dinner/Dance at the Winfield Fire Hall starting at 6 p.m.
The event will be catered by Harvest Chicken and the music will be provided by alumnus DJ Tyler Kennedy. There will be door prizes as well as a basket raffle.
Admission to the dance is $20 per person. You may purchase your tickets online, from a committee member, or by contacting the school at (410) 751-3575.
Eveline Shipley, an active member of the 50th Anniversary Committee, is very proud of all the work has been put into each of these events.
"South Carroll High School has been a vital part of the Southern Carroll County community for 50 years. During this anniversary year, friendships have been renewed and school and community spirit have been rekindled," stated Shipley.
The art exhibition is coordinated by Lisa Carnes and Lisa Katz and you may contact them at firstname.lastname@example.com.
South Carroll High School is located at 1300 W. Old Liberty Road.
The Linganore Winecellars will be hosting four days of The Days of Wine and Roses, where the attendees will have the opportunity to taste delicious wines accompanied by a delicious selection of chocolate.
During The Days of Wine and Roses, there will be a selection of cheeses and the attendees will receive roses as a present.
Also, note that people must dress warm since the event will be hosted in the winery's barrel room.
The event will be hosted on Feb. 9, 10, 11, and 14 at three different times, at 12 p.m., 2 p.m., and 4 p.m.
Admission to this event is $35 per couple. Please purchase your tickets online, by visiting the Linganore Winecellars's website, www.linganorewines.com/event/days-wine-roses/
Linganore Winecellars is located at 13601 Glissans Mill Road, Mount Airy.
Downtown Mount Airy brings to you another year of the Annual Chocolate Crawl. The event will be celebrated on Feb. 9 with the support and help of local businesses in Downtown Mount Airy.
Participants will be able to stop by all of the participating businesses and get their chocolate treat and other surprises.
The event begins at 5 p.m. and ends at 8 p.m. and the admission is free.
For more information, you may contact the Town of Mount Airy's website, www.mountairymd.org.
This event will be hosted in Downtown Mount Airy located at 2 N. Main Street in Mount Airy.


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An unsung hero who has worked tirelessly to improve the lives and learning ability of young people at a Southowram school has been given a prestigious award.
James Chadwick, who works at Withinfields Primary School, has been presented with the Support Assistant Award 2016 by the Percival Whitley Educational Trust
Although he only joined the school as a new staff member in September 2015, his head teacher, Helen York, nominated him because of the massive contribution he has made to the pupils he has supported within a wide range of areas in such a relatively short space of time.
Leyland Smith, Chairman of the Percival Whitley Educational Trust said: "James has clearly made a huge difference to a number of pupils at Withinfields and is a wonderful example of the many unsung heroes in our primary schools who give of themselves selflessly every day to support children with learning difficulties. Trustees are delighted to recognise all that he does through this award."
Headteacher, Helen York, describes James' greatest asset as "his ability to see each day as a fresh start.
"On occasions, some of the children he supports may behave in a particularly challenging and unacceptable way, but the following day James will approach them with a smile and friendly manner enabling them to address any issues in an open and reflective way," said Mrs York.
The best accolade, however, came from one of the children James has supported who said: "Mr Chadwick is kind and calm and cares about us. He gives of his own time and changes his schedule to fit in with us.
"He has helped me to think about and control my anger. He takes time to get to know us and plays games with us."
Founded in 1991, the is a local charity providing educational grants within Calderdale to groups or individuals to help them achieve their goals in life.