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SALISBURY — There's an idea out there that Americans today just don't have the time, the energy or the patience to cook.
About 650 people at the Taste of Home Cooking School, held Tuesday evening, beg to differ.
They packed the Event Center at Cornerstone Church to hear culinary expert Michelle Roberts and her team offer recipes for all occasions.
The annual event, sponsored by the Salisbury Post, also featured food and kitchenware vendors, free gifts for participants and door prizes – some of them edible.
And some that called for a bit of participation.
"If your name is called, you have to jump up out of your seat and yell, 'I love food!'" Roberts told the audience.
Along with recipes for raspberry barbecue sauce, and chicken paillard with cherry sauce and parsley rice, attendees got helpful tips and shortcuts.
They learned how to chop parsley and other herbs easily to a certain consistency.
They watched as Roberts prepared a creamy jalapeño soup with Bud Light Lime beer, as well as other foods that are good to give as gifts.
Taste of Home's recipes are meant to be relatively quick and easy to prepare.
That was good news to Alyssa Moore, of China Grove.
"My family comes almost every year," she said, "but this is my first one."
"I don't cook a whole lot," Moore said. She's mom to six-month-old Clarissa, who came with her to the show.
Still, Alyssa said, she knows the beauty and importance of home cooking.
"We have a big family," she said, "Food is one of those things that, because we are Southern, it does bring us together."
The show was a good way to learn some new ideas, as well as some shortcuts to help make cooking easier.
For instance, Roberts said, in making the soup recipe one could strain and purée the vegetables, but added, "That is entirely too much work."
She picked up an immersion blender — a handheld, motorized blending blade — and puréed the vegetables in the pot.
"I use mine for everything!" Roberts said.
Throughout the audience, cooks of all stripes took notes and whispered about the recipes.
"I like all the tips that you learn and the tricks that she shows," said Amber Hinson, of Rockwell.
She said she was looking forward to trying the recipe for stuffed baby red potatoes. "I'm a potato person!" Hinson said.
The recipes included entrees, side dishes and desserts, as well.
Robin Grimmett, of Mooresville, first came to the Taste of Home Cooking School last year, with her mother.
This year, she came back with her cousin, Chrissy Alexander, of Kannapolis.
"And it's a lot of fun," Grimmett said. "I'm going to give my fiancé recipes."
Alexander said she, herself, cooks at least four times a week.
"I think a lot of it is people don't have time anymore," Alexander said. "They're always going, and they just pick something up (to eat)."
Among the vendors, many don't agree with the idea that good cooking takes too much time.
Stacey Prater, of Faith, is a consultant who sells Pampered Chef cookware and kitchen goods.
She said that events such as Tuesday's cooking school are ways to get people involved, not just to sell products.
"There are still those who cook and see the value in having the around-the-table family time," Prater said.
Ann O'Kelley, of China Grove, has not only a love of cooking, but what she called "a secret family recipe" for butter cookies.
She was at the event to promote her new business, AnnoKookies.
For four months, O'Kelley said, she's been making and selling those cookies. She's a nurse by trade.
"We just decided to see what we could do," she said.
O'Kelley's friend and former nursing colleague Lori Rice, of The Sweet Life of Concord, joined her at the booth, selling her shop's gourmet cupcakes.
"I got out of the nursing field a year ago," Rice said.
Aside from promoting their businesses, they gave attendees a glimpse of what a dedicated amateur cook can hope to accomplish.
And they, themselves, said events of this type are good places to mingle and learn advice.
"You always learn something, even if it's one little snippet," Rice said.
Home cooking is best, O'Kelley said, because "you know what's in your food, you know where it comes from."
"And it's a lifelong skill," Rice said.
Contact Hugh Fisher via the editor's desk at 704-797-4244.


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Welcome back, class! In our last class, we setup a parent-child package configuration and showed how you can pass variables between the two in order to complete a unit of work. In today's class we're going to continue exploring that data load package and take a look at another critical piece of SSIS that you should know about: precedence constraints.
So what exactly are precedence constraints? They are the connectors that link together tasks in the Control Flow, and they define the workflow of your package. When two tasks are tied together with a constraint, the destination task will execute based on two things: The final state of the task that precedes it and special rules you can define on the constraint using specialized expressions.
Constraint Types
You can have different types of constraints between tasks. You can read more about constraints in detail from MSDN article (Link). I'll briefly cover each of the constraint types in an abbreviated list and then we'll discuss how we used these constraints in our parent-child package from our previous lesson.
- Success – Workflow will proceed when the preceding container executes successfully. Visually indicated in control flow by a solid green line.
- Failure – Workflow will proceed when the preceding container's execution results in a failure. Visually indicated in control flow by a solid red line.
- Completion – Workflow will proceed when the preceding container's execution completes, regardless of success or failure. Visually indicated in control flow by a solid blue line.
- Expression/Constraint with Logical AND – Workflow will proceed when specified expression and constraints evaluate to true. Visually indicated in control flow by a solid color line along with a small 'fx' icon next to it. Color of line depends on logical constraint chosen (e.g. success=green, completion=blue).
- Expression/Constraint with Logical OR – Workflow will proceed when either the specified expression or the logical constraint (success/failure/completion) evaluates to true. Visually indicated in control flow by a dotted color line along with a small 'fx' icon next to it. Color of line depends on logical constraint chosen (e.g. success=green, completion=blue).
Note: In these screenshots there are labels next to the precedence constraints indicating the type of constraint chosen. This is not a default behavior. To enable this click on Tools menu, go to Options. Under Business Intelligence Designers, go to Integration Services Designers and under the Accessibility section in the General menu, check the box for 'Show precedence constraint labels'. This is helpful for folks who are color blind and are not able to differentiate between green/red/blue lines in designer. Big thanks to Dan English for this great tip.
Constraints in Action
Now that we've seen the different constraint types, let's examine how they're used in conjunction with parent-child package setup. Our first use of constraints comes at the top of the child package from the script task to the sequence containers. We've used an empty script task as an "anchor" task. This is used as a starting point to continue on to the corresponding workflow. As we learned in our last class, we have a variable being passed from our parent package with the value of the name of the file we are currently processing.
In this first example, we're going to look at the constraint leading to the sequence containers for the Supplier table. We've used and Expression and Constraint here and chosen the value for Success. We're also looking at the value of the variable being passed to the child package. For this particular workflow, we are waiting until the value of the variable 'Parent_TblName' is set to "supplier". Once both of these situations evaluate as being true, we will execute this container.
Now that we're inside our sequence container, we have another set of constraints. Once again we're using an empty script task as an "anchor" for our precedence constraints. This time we've got two possible paths to go down. The first is to execute an Execute SQL task. This task checks for the existence of the table (in this case, the supplier table). If it exists it will drop the table and then recreate it. The other path leads directly to a data flow task which simply loads the table specified from the flat file.
I've created another variable on this package called 'AppendFlag' which is a boolean value. The purpose of this flag is so that you can choose to load the tables with a fresh load from the flat file (the Execute SQL task path) or you can simply append an already existing table's data with data (data flow path). The default value of the variable is false.
The first path to the Execute SQL task uses an expression and constraint which is looking at the value of the 'AppendFlag' variable. In order for us to go down this workflow both value of 'AppendFlag' must be false AND the previous component executed successfully. The other path from the script task leads directly to the data flow task which actually loads the table. For this path, I've set the precedence constraint to look for the value of 'AppendFlag' to be true. In this path, however, we've chosen to use a logical OR. The reason for this being that the Execute SQL task, once complete, also leads to the data flow task. Due to the data flow having two different input paths, we must use the logical OR (if you try to choose logical AND, BIDS will quickly yell at you).
When we bring it all together, we now have a parent-child package that passes variable values. These values are used to execute specific workflows based on the value of the variable passed. Precedence constraints are an extremely helpful and invaluable tool in your SSIS toolkit. Using precedence constraints can help you create very dynamic workflows within your packages.


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Nowhere Boy is a story of John Lennon's childhood (as played by Kick-Ass star Aaron Johnson). The film premiered as the closing night film at the London Film Festival, and screened at the 2010 Sundance Film Festival to mixed to positive reviews. Nominated for 4 BAFTA Film Awards, including Best Supporting Actress, Outstanding British Film, Best Supporting Actress and Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer.
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Idaho Sen. Mike Crapo arrested, charged with DUI
Authorities say U.S. Sen. Michael Crapo has been arrested and charged with driving under the influence in suburban Washington, D.C.
Police in Alexandria, Va., said Sunday that the Idaho Republican was pulled over early Sunday morning after his vehicle ran a red light.
Policespokesman Jody Donaldson said Crapo failed field sobriety tests and was arrested at about 12:45 a.m.
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It's been a while since I've posted. I haven't been slacking, just focused on the push towards beta. Couple of interesting tidbits:
- I've hired an extremely talent artist to model a new character for the game. I was never really happy with the current one. I'll share a sketch of the new one soon, and I hope you all will like it as much as I do.
- I've been working for the past two weeks on enabling exporting of video from the replay system. It took much longer than anticipated, but I'm almost done.
- I started nailing down the audio for the game. It's been a big piece missing from the game for quite a while (well, since ever).