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Web Personal View in 9.3
It is possible to capture a view of the report / document that user is viewing at a particular moment. This feature is available for both Report and Document.
Create Personal View option is located under Home Menu bar. Saved view is available under My Subscription page under Personal View Subscriptions.
Dynamic Metric Aliasing in 9.3
Users can configure a report to allow prompt answer to be added to the name of a metric, thus dynamically aliasing the metric. Stand-alone prompts are supported; however, embedded prompts are not supported.
Users may find this feature useful, for example, when comparing results via re-prompting. For example, the user would like to see the product name on a metric change, each time a different product is picked when re-prompting.
This feature is available in web only on rename/edit of a metric with an option replace dynamic text.
Export Single Grid/Graph off a Dashboard
In 9.3.0 user can now export individual grids or graphs from within your dashboard in a single click. Previously a user would be required to export the entire dashboard to PDF or Microsoft Excel. This feature gives users added control and granularity when sharing or printing data as it only exports the current instance of the user's grid or graph.
This feature can be accessed from MicroStrategy Web Express View Mode and Flash View Mode for documents.
- In Express View Mode, the grid or graph object must have the Title Bar enabled.
- The upside-down triangle context menu contains the two options and selecting either will result in an immediate export, with no further prompting or dialog.
- In Flash View Mode this feature will be available regardless of the Title Bar being displayed. The option is available on mouse over.
- Widgets will be exported as a grid or a graph, just the same as if you exported the entire document.
Install on Demand
With version 9.3 comes a new feature called Install on demand which allows administrators to restrict the size of the installation package pushed to client machines. For any component to be installed there are set of files available in the "Data Files"folder of the installation in the format - "MSTRXX.zip". For further information click here.
It is possible to capture a view of the report / document that user is viewing at a particular moment. This feature is available for both Report and Document.
Create Personal View option is located under Home Menu bar. Saved view is available under My Subscription page under Personal View Subscriptions.
Users can configure a report to allow prompt answer to be added to the name of a metric, thus dynamically aliasing the metric. Stand-alone prompts are supported; however, embedded prompts are not supported.
Users may find this feature useful, for example, when comparing results via re-prompting. For example, the user would like to see the product name on a metric change, each time a different product is picked when re-prompting.
This feature is available in web only on rename/edit of a metric with an option replace dynamic text.
In 9.3.0 user can now export individual grids or graphs from within your dashboard in a single click. Previously a user would be required to export the entire dashboard to PDF or Microsoft Excel. This feature gives users added control and granularity when sharing or printing data as it only exports the current instance of the user's grid or graph.
This feature can be accessed from MicroStrategy Web Express View Mode and Flash View Mode for documents.
- In Express View Mode, the grid or graph object must have the Title Bar enabled.
- The upside-down triangle context menu contains the two options and selecting either will result in an immediate export, with no further prompting or dialog.
- In Flash View Mode this feature will be available regardless of the Title Bar being displayed. The option is available on mouse over.
- Widgets will be exported as a grid or a graph, just the same as if you exported the entire document.
With version 9.3 comes a new feature called Install on demand which allows administrators to restrict the size of the installation package pushed to client machines. For any component to be installed there are set of files available in the "Data Files"folder of the installation in the format - "MSTRXX.zip". For further information click here.
Dashboards enhancements:
- Synchronized drilling across templates: You can allow drilling on one grid or graph to simultaneously drill on one or more target grids or graphs.
- Custom display forms and sort on selector controls: For element selectors, you can select which forms are displayed in the selector, the order that they are displayed in, and how their elements are sorted. If multiple forms are displayed, you can choose which character separates the different forms.
- Export a single report in a dashboard: Instead of exporting the entire dashboard as a PDF or to Microsoft Excel, you can choose to export individual grids and graphs on the dashboard.
- Search Box style selector: This new style of selector is ideal for a long list of elements. As you type in the Search Box, a list of elements matching the search criteria is presented and an element can be selected.
- Filter Panel: This type of panel stack contains only selectors, which users interact with to filter the data displayed in a dashboard.
Whats new in Scheduling part of MSTR 9.3?
Administrators can determine which delivery options are available to users subscribing to a specific report. Also the report can be prevented from subscription all together.
This is available in web. Tools->Report Options->Advanced->Schedules for Subscriptions
Options Available
1.Do not allow this report to be scheduled
2.Allow users to subscribe to all schedules
3.Only allow the users to subscribe to schedules in the list below.
Creating a report by combining a template and a filter - MSTR 9.3
The Report Wizard allows you to quickly and easily create a report by selecting an existing template and filter.
What's new in MicroStrategy 9.3?
Explore Data Visually to Discover Actionable Business Insights
Compelling Visualizations. MicroStrategy Visual Insight includes new data visualizations that quickly and easily let business people of all skill levels spot outliers, discover patterns, and uncover problem areas that otherwise may be difficult to discern.
- Density Maps. New geospatial density maps present color-coded location data to represent higher levels of concentration over map areas. For example, density maps can represent the concentration of customers that live in proximity to retail store locations.
- Image Layouts. New image layouts provide the ability to customize layouts, such as sales regions in a country, customer traffic through a department store, or productivity on the floor of a manufacturing facility. Images can be color-coded according to business metrics, making it simple to understand business performance.
Improved Usability. MicroStrategy Visual Insight includes new features that simplify the data discovery process even further.
- Auto-Suggested Best Fit Data Visualizations. MicroStrategy Visual Insight helps business people find answers quicker by suggesting which of the many data visualizations in the MicroStrategy library to use for a given set of data.
- Quick Searching. MicroStrategy Visual Insight supports fast search features for long lists of data items so business people can quickly find the most relevant business elements to investigate.
- Enhanced Interactivity. MicroStrategy Visual Insight's smoother drag-and-drop metric actions make interacting with the data simpler.
Expanded Analytics. MicroStrategy Visual Insight gives business people access to over 300 analytical functions, thus supporting myriad business calculations.
- Instant Metrics. MicroStrategy Visual Insight provides shortcut metrics for the most often used calculations, such as moving averages for time-series data.
- Guided Metric Creation. Business people can also use a function wizard to create new metrics simply based on any analytic function in the MicroStrategy library.
- Powerful Filtering. MicroStrategy Visual Insight adds new filtering capabilities to quickly identify the top- or bottom-performing business areas. Also, filters can be applied across many visualizations at once or just to a single visualization — providing fine grain control for data analysis.
- Enhanced Thresholds. MicroStrategy Visual Insight offers more threshold options so business people can quickly characterize and display differences in their business data.
Access to Data Across the Enterprise. MicroStrategy Visual Insight lets business people analyze data wherever it resides -- from relational databases, multi-dimensional databases, Hadoop distributions, Web services, or data imported from personal data stores, such as Excel files. MicroStrategy 9.3 improves the data import feature by automatically enriching time and geographic data. For example, it can take a single date item and create week, month, quarter, and year dimensions automatically. Similarly, MicroStrategy 9.3 can take geographic data at the city level and determine state and county automatically.
To see a demonstration of MicroStrategy Visual Insight, visit http://www.microstrategy.com/bi-visual-insight.
2. Build and Share Your Own Dashboards In Minutes Without Help from IT MicroStrategy 9.3 also enhances MicroStrategy Visual Insight to further enable business people to create engaging and effective dashboards in under 10 minutes with no help from IT.
- Immediate Collaboration. Dashboards created in MicroStrategy Visual Insight can be immediately shared with colleagues via the web or tablet computers, so everyone can benefit from powerful business insights. Every business person can become an information publisher to their workgroups. MicroStrategy's security architecture automatically ensures people only see the data they are allowed to view.
- Multiple Visualizations on a Single Page. MicroStrategy Visual Insight now lets business people add multiple data visualizations onto a single page or tab. Using simple drag-and-drop techniques, business people can resize and place each visualization on the dashboard as desired.
- Multiple Sets of Data on Dashboards. MicroStrategy Visual Insight now lets business people include more than one set of data in their dashboard. The data can come from a BI application or an Excel spreadsheet — or from Salesforce.com or Hadoop. Business people can now include as many sets of data they need within their dashboards to gain a more comprehensive view of the business.
- Enhanced Analytical Interactivity. MicroStrategy Visual Insight allows the dashboard creator to specify interactions on one visualization to target and filter the data that is shown in another data visualization. This helps synchronize multiple data views on a single dashboard. For example, a business person can select data on one chart with their mouse or finger — and a corresponding map will automatically update to reflect only the data selected. Such enhanced interactivity lets business people find critical answers faster.
3. Analyze Big Data Stored in Hadoop for New Business Insights Analyzing Big Data — often terabytes of detailed transactional data or petabytes of unstructured machine-generated logs — is a growing imperative as companies look to their data as competitive assets. The goal is to discover new insights that were practically unobtainable, due to both technical and cost issues posed by the ever increasing volume of data. One technology gaining traction to store these large data volumes efficiently is the Apache Hadoop Distributed File System, or HDFS. MicroStrategy 9.3 can transparently analyze the data stored in Hadoop and unlock actionable business insights without the business user or report designer needing to know anything about the underlying data storage.
- Direct Connection to Apache Hadoop. MicroStrategy 9.3 includes a native Thrift connector to Hadoop, eliminating the time and complexity of establishing a reliable connection to Hadoop. MicroStrategy 9.3 provides direct access to on-premise Hadoop distributions such as Apache, Cloudera, and Hortonworks, as well as Hadoop distributions that are hosted in the cloud like Amazon EMR.
- Query Hadoop Without Coding. MicroStrategy 9.3 provides business people the power to analyze Hadoop data by abstracting the complexities of Hadoop into a handful of simple attributes and metrics that can be plugged into reports and dashboards, eliminating the specialized skills and time previously required to write code to access the data. As business people drag-and-drop business attributes and metrics onto a report, MicroStrategy dynamically creates a query containing optimized Hadoop Hive-QL language to retrieve data from Hadoop.
- Explore Hadoop and Relational Data Together. MicroStrategy 9.3 provides access to the entire Big Data ecosystem — whether the data is stored in Hadoop, columnar databases, database appliances, relational databases or multidimensional databases. MicroStrategy 9.3's MultiSource Option can combine Hadoop data with data from any of these enterprise data sources for analysis: business people can now have a comprehensive view of their enterprise for better decisions.
- Sped-up Hadoop Performance. MicroStrategy 9.3's in-memory technology is ideal for analyzing Hadoop data. With Hadoop data located in-memory, many business people can use MicroStrategy Visual Insight to explore Big Data at the speed-of-thought, with average response times under two seconds.
4. Search BI Application Metadata to Quickly Find and Build Reports and Dashboards
MicroStrategy 9.3 delivers a high quality search experience so business people can discover the information they need simply and quickly.
- Faster Indexed Searching. MicroStrategy 9.3 searching uses new metadata indexes so business people can see their search results appear nearly instantly to find the reports and dashboards they need.
- Autocomplete Search. MicroStrategy 9.3 adds an auto-complete feature so results begin to appear after typing just a few letters so business people can discover the insights they need even faster.
- In-line Search for Building Reports. MicroStrategy 9.3 allows business people to build reports by searching the MicroStrategy metadata for business attributes and metrics in-line with where they will appear on the report. Unlike many individual and departmental analytical tools that cannot centrally store and share critical business metric and attribute definitions for reuse, the MicroStrategy metadata is a single repository of certified business definitions that ensures business people see accurate results.
5. Improve Decision-making with Advanced and Predictive Analytics MicroStrategy 9.3 can expand upon its repertoire of over 300 analytical functions to include the additional 5,000+ computations available within the "R" open source project, the most widely used statistical computing language. MicroStrategy 9.3 can support all the analytics necessary to manage the business with mathematical and scientific precision.
- Incorporate "R" Analytics for Better Decisions. With MicroStrategy 9.3, customers can incorporate the computational models and visualizations in "R" in standard MicroStrategy reports and dashboards. With MicroStrategy 9.3, customers can import and run predictive and data mining models developed in "R" using Predictive Model Markup Language (PMML) language, and by embedding "R" computational algorithms as standard MicroStrategy analytical functions, including specialized graphical analytics such as statistical process control charts for manufacturers.
- Apply Advanced Analytics to Hadoop. Many highly-skilled data scientists prefer using "R" to analyze data stored in Hadoop. Now, data scientists have the ability to develop and include their Big Data analytics as part of MicroStrategy 9.3.
- Share the Knowledge with Everyone. With MicroStrategy 9.3, customers can incorporate any of the advanced, predictive, and data mining analytics of "R" into any mobile app, dashboard, or report. Now, everyone can access the best predictions available to make informed decisions.
6. Manage the BI Ecosystem with Minimal Administrative Effort MicroStrategy 9.3 introduces MicroStrategy System Manager to allow organizations to deliver more BI for less cost and with better system availability. This new administration product automates the many manual, multi-step processes required to manage a BI ecosystem.
- Design System Automation Workflows using a Graphical User Interface. System Manager includes a graphical design interface to construct a step-by-step workflow that can be very sophisticated, including decision logic, process loops, and node connectors. The system management automation can include the wide range of BI components, such as the databases, BI applications, virtual machines, extract, transform and load tools (ETLs), operating systems, and alert notifications (e-mail). For example, an administrator can automate the process of deploying a new report or dashboard, which may include establishing database connectivity, migrating metadata, validating data results, monitoring the process for completion and errors, and issuing notifications on process success or failure. MicroStrategy System Manager works for BI ecosystems deployed either on premise or in the cloud.
- Eliminate Hundreds of Hours of Administrative Effort. MicroStrategy System Manager can automate almost any system management process — either on-demand or on a schedule — without any administrative oversight. Automated workflows eliminate errors, improve reliability, reduce IT personnel time, and standardize processes, resulting in lower overall cost of administration.
- Standardize BI Maintenance Processes. MicroStrategy System Manager workflows can be saved and maintained in source-control systems enabling BI administrators to standardize processes and maintain a history of the changes to the process.
Join MicroStrategy for the MicroStrategy 9.3 Release Webcast For more details on MicroStrategy 9.3, attend a Webcast on July 19, 2012. The Webcast will provide an overview and a demonstration of the highlights in MicroStrategy's latest release. To learn more about the Webcast and MicroStrategy 9.3, visit: http://www.microstrategy.com/Software/businessintelligence.
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MicroStrategy 9.3 is also available as a free 25-user software bundle that brings visual data discovery, Mobile apps, dashboards, and report delivery to departments at no charge. Visit http://www.microstrategy.com/freereportingsoftware/index.asp for more information.
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Prince was someone who,for my entire childhood was viewed by me and my family as a rock artist. The promotion of him through the rock press (as well as Prince himself) did seem to foster this impression further. During the 1990's when I began to understand funk as a musical genre, Prince's music re-entered my life in a much more serious way. When listening to a lot of his earlier music,it became clear that his music was based in funk. He was an amazing and even sometimes underrated rock soloist. But he focused generally on music with a sleek and spare groove known as the Minneapolis Sound.
Prince would have turned 59 today. Still seems strange that,as my friend Henrique points out many times,that jam fans cannot say "we still have Prince around" anymore. And as tiresome as this is to keep pointing out, Prince's posthumous musical presence online is still just beginning to branch out the way it deserves to. After this years Grammy Awards tribute to Prince,online streaming service Spotify (along with several other such services) did do us a favor by placing his Warner Bros era music back up to listen to. Thanks to them,am now able to present an overview of Prince's 1981 jam "Let's Work".
A four beat drum count in begins the song. After this, Prince and the band are heard singing the songs title over a slow and steady funk beat-two beats accenting on in the middle. The vocals play call and response with a brittle,high pitched synth horn burst-an extension of which has a flanger effect. Than the 6 note slap bass with variations comes in-accenting by the same synth horns for most the refrain. Those synth horns become much more horn charts on the choruses. After a reboot of the songs intro,that same chorus follows the song to the drum machine segue out of it.
"Let's Work" is one of those songs that defines Prince's distinct Minneapolis funk sound during the very late 70's and early 80's. Generally only two instruments are heard at any one time. So the funk is very condensed instrumentally. At the same time,the sounds of the synthesized horn blasts and charts,along with the iconic chunky slap bass line, showcase a strong understanding of the depth of funk's groove,it's "rhythmic nucleus" as it were. It was also one of his most commercially successfully early 80's funk numbers as well. That makes it a defining moment in the Minneapolis sound as a whole.

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Julie Tanous, the food blogger who works with actor Jesse Tyler Ferguson, uses coconut in every part of this festive dessert, from cake to filling to frosting. Bibi was her grandmother, and she inspired this tasty and deeply Southern recipe. Slideshow: More Cake Recipes
How to Make It
Make the filling In a medium saucepan, simmer the milk with the granulated sugar, coconut extract and a pinch of salt over moderate heat, stirring, until the sugar is dissolved, 3 minutes.
In a bowl, beat the egg yolks with the cornstarch. Gradually whisk 1/2 cup of the hot milk into the yolks. Scrape this mixture into the saucepan and cook over moderately high heat, whisking, until thickened, 5 minutes. Remove from the heat. Whisk in the shredded coconut and butter. Scrape into a bowl; let cool.
In another medium bowl, whisk the cream until stiff. Fold the whipped cream into the cooled coconut filling. Press a piece of plastic directly on the surface and refrigerate until well chilled, about 1 hour.
Meanwhile, make the cake Preheat the oven to 350°. Butter two 8-inch round cake pans and line them with parchment paper. Butter the paper and dust the pans with cake flour.
In a medium bowl, whisk the cake flour, baking powder and salt. In another medium bowl, whisk the coconut milk with the whole milk and coconut extract. In a stand mixer fitted with the paddle, beat the 2 sticks of butter with the granulated sugar at medium speed until fluffy, about 2 minutes. At medium-high speed, beat in the egg whites in 3 additions. At low speed, beat in half of the dry ingredients until nearly incorporated. Beat in the wet ingredients, then beat in the remaining dry ingredients until just incorporated; scrape down the side of the bowl as needed.
Pour the batter into the prepared pans and bake for 40 to 45 minutes, until the cakes are golden and springy. Transfer the cakes to a rack to cool for 15 minutes, then turn them out onto the rack, peel off the parchment and let cool completely, about 45 minutes.
Make the frosting In a stand mixer fitted with the paddle, beat the cream cheese with the butter until smooth. At low speed, beat in the confectioners' sugar, 1 tablespoon of the milk and the coconut extract until just incorporated, then beat at medium speed until light and smooth, 1 to 2 minutes; add another tablespoon of milk if the frosting is too thick.
Using a serrated knife, cut each cake in half horizontally to create 4 layers. Set 1 cake layer cut side up on a cake plate. Spread one-third of the filling on top. Repeat with 2 more cake layers and the remaining two-thirds of filling. Cover with the last cake layer. Freeze until well chilled, about 15 minutes. Frost the cake with a thin layer of frosting and freeze until set, about 15 minutes. Frost the cake with the remaining frosting and coat the side with the coconut flakes. Refrigerate until the frosting is set, about 1 hour, before serving.


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The Mayapán Taboo Cenote Project will undertake an extensive exploration of the underwater cave, Cenote Sac Uayum, to document 20+ submerged skeletons and artifacts. Team leader and National Geographic Grantee Bradley Russell will also investigate the modern belief that a supernatural power- a feathered serpent- guards the water within.
Earlier in this series, I posted an account of a traditional Maya shaman or h'men, Teodormio San Sores who performed a ceremony known as a Jeets' Lu'um (calming of the earth) in advance of our dive research of sacred cenote Sac Uayum. Local residents asked us to perform the ritual before we began underwater archaeological investigation of the cenote and we were pleased to have an opportunity to gather more ethnographic information about it and the modern beliefs surrounding the feature. Among those beliefs is the notion that the cenote and its water are "alive" and guarded by a horse-headed, feathered serpent. But, that the cenote and its serpent guardian can be placated by various offerings and prayers.
Since that time, I have been able to edit the video that we recorded of the event. I think it gives a far more complete picture of the ritual than anything I have space to write up and post here. I hope you find it as interesting and compelling as I do.
For more information about our ongoing research at the site of ancient Maya city of Mayapán (1100-1450AD) in Mexico's northern Yucatan Peninsula, please see our project website and this short documentary about the site.


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OS X Server is an inexpensive app, available from the Mac App Store for about twenty dollars, which puts some GUI lipstick on conventional UNIX server functionality. This makes the functionality a little bit easier to use and manage (but, warning, only a little bit). Out of the box, Server provides a very secure L2TP VPN option, which has proven to be useful as a complement to the slightly less secure PPTP VPN running on my Raspberry Pi. I have CloudPull running continuously on this machine, backing up my gmail account to the machine's hard disk, and this Mac is also linked to my Dropbox account, so it continuously duplicates my critical work-in-progress from the various machines I use. From there Time Machine backs everything up to two alternating disks attached to my home's Time Capsule router. It's all part of my multi-layered, duplicative backup strategy.
Best of all, the machine's desktop is remotely and securely accessible via Screen Sharing. I moved all my email archives to this machine, and now I can search for old emails easily when traveling by starting Screen Sharing, using Spotlight to search my email stash for keywords, and then paging through the results in Finder using Cover Flow and Quick Look-- a delightful reason to use mail.app in the first place. It's simply wonderful for an email pack-rat like me.
Meanwhile--quite aside from the topic of this nifty little server--my HP OfficeJet multifunction printer has e-print capability that lets print-jobs be sent via a special email address assigned to the printer. So for two years I've been trying to configure things so that my travel receipts are automatically printed and waiting for me when I return from business trips. My typical travel partners are Hertz, Marriott, United Airlines, Southwest Airlines, Uber and the occasional Square-powered taxi. All of these companies send me receipts via email. I use a Gmail account for receiving these and also because the marvelous TripIt.com service can scour a Gmail account for travel reservations and automatically put schedule details into my Mac/iPhone calendar. So cool.
One would think that Gmail's filtering capability would allow email receipts from these companies to be automatically forwarded to the HP printer's e-print address. A Gmail filter like this should do the job:
Matches: ("southwes
t airlines confirmati on" OR "eticket itinerary" OR "Hertz E-Mail Statement of Charges" OR "thanks for staying" OR (squareup AND "receipt from") OR "Uber ride receipt")
Do this: Forward to email@example.com
Do this: Forward to email@example.com
...where firstname.lastname@example.com is my printer's email address.
Well. Not so easy. First, the hpeprint.com service rejects automatic forwards from Gmail with a cryptic error message:
Technical details of permanent failure:
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the server for the recipient domain hpeprint.com byonramp02.hpeprint.com. [126.96.36.199].
The error that the other server returned was:
550 5.7.1 Command rejected
Google tried to deliver your message, but it was rejected by the server for the recipient domain hpeprint.com byonramp02.hpeprint.com. [126.96.36.199].
The error that the other server returned was:
550 5.7.1 Command rejected
So while manually-forwarded emails usually worked, filter-based automatic forwards wouldn't. Bad enough, but then HP recently morphed hpeprint.com into "hpconnected.com," necessitating a new email address for the printer. And, after transitioning my account to the new service, the service quit working altogether! Some quick googling shows that this service is now unreliable at best and totally inoperative for legions of users.
Nothing to count on, then. But why not implement something similar on my doughty old Macbook Pro?
Here's how to implement e-print functionality on OS XThis should work with any printer. My objective is to have my travel receipt emails and their attachments automatically printed and filed as .pdfs, but this same technique can be used to automatically print-and-file emails of any sort. (You don't have to be running your Mac as a server.)
My approach borrows from a host of web posts from folks doing similar things, but many previous examples are now complicated by the new application sandboxing security features introduced in OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion. The following works with the new ways of doing things and includes a cute twist or two.
The two tools used are AppleScript and Automator, both of which are built-into every Mac. AppleScript integrates easily into mail.app's rules framework, so incoming emails that meet certain criteria can be processed automatically. AppleScript scripts can be programmed from raw commands, or the AppleScript engine can mimic user interactions with application GUIs. Meanwhile, Automator makes automatic printing and filing super-easy. The combination is very powerful and convenient, and it's all good geeky fun. (And you can still use any e-print service your printer might support too-- there's nothing mutually-exclusive about this.)
- First, out of fondness for the TripIt.com service, I receive my emailed receipts to my gmail account.
- I set up a new free account on the superb GMX.com webmail service for exclusive use for receipt-printing purposes. There are other ways of doing this, but this works brilliantly. I've had my eye on GMX.com for a while now and have had a test account there for some months. It works well in a browser and integrates beautifully with the Mac's mail.app email client. GMX.com seems a more private and standards-compliant alternative to other webmail vendors, and its spam filtering is effective (perhaps a bit aggressive-- I had to white-list my Gmail and other addresses in it). GMX.com provides you with a free IMAP account with unlimited email storage; setting up a new account takes perhaps five minutes and requires minimal personal information and no credit-card. Besides being great for general email purposes, GMX.com is terrific for setting up a specific "print to me" email account. Good stuff.
- Once the print-to-me email account was set up on GMX.com and active in mail.app, I set up the Gmail filter to forward incoming receipts to the new print-to-me email. This just meant replacing the firstname.lastname@example.com address in the filter rule above with the new GMX.com address.
- In mail.app, go to the app's Preferences, then the Rules pane. Add a rule. In the Description field, name it something like "Receipt Print". In the conditions block, one way of doing thing is to select "If [any] of the following conditions are met: [Account] is [gmx account]". Then, in the Perform the Following Actions field, select Run Applescript, and select Open in Finder. This will open an AppleScript editor.
- Paste the following into the AppleScript editor:
- Note I created a folder called "autoprint" inside my Downloads folder. The application sandboxing introduced with Mountain Lion limits where apps can write to your disk; Downloads is one of the few places mail.app is now allowed to write without user intervention. So, create that folder in your Downloads folder. Inside of that, make another folder called "printed".
- Edit the hard-coded folder names in my example script (especially the one in quotes towards the end) to match your user name and so forth, minding case. Then click the compile button at the top of the AppleScript editor, and check for any errors. When satisfied, save it. Check that your mail.app rule points to the AppleScript you just made. (Note that initiating the script's construction from within mail.app ensures that the script is stored within mail.app's own script folder, ~/Library/Application Scripts/com.apple.mail ...another recent security improvement.)
- If you're running OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion: In System Preferences, click the Accessibility icon and ensure that "Enable access for assistive devices" is checkmarked at the bottom. This allows the GUI scripting in the script to operate. See this helpful post for how to do the same thing in OS X 10.9 Mavericks, which grants assistive permissions with per-app granularity for security reasons.
- Now, load Automator. Choose "Folder Action". In the Choose Folder pull-down, select Other, then navigate to select your autoprint folder. Drag the Print Finder Items action from the column at the left into the workflow. Then drag the Move Finder Items action under that, and specify that printed items should be moved to the "printed" subfolder you previously placed in your autoprint folder. Save this new Folder Action you've made.
You're done. Incoming emails will be split from their attachments. Any attachments will be given unique names based on the numeric mail ID and original subject, then they will be placed in the autoprint folder. Meanwhile the body of the email will be converted to .pdf (complete with clickable embedded links!) and also placed in the autoprint folder. Printing will occur automatically, after which the files will be moved to the printed folder. A print-success email notification is then sent back to you. The original emails will remain untouched in mail.app.
So handy for compiling expense reports after a long trip! You can even snap a photo of paper receipts with your phone as you travel and email them to your print-to-me address. It's a great way to ensure receipts aren't lost or forgotten.
The script is easy to modify if you have different needs, too. Enjoy.


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The Men's Wearhouse Inc. (MW) reported a fiscal second-quarter earnings surprise of 2.7% early this month, marking its 9th beat in the past 10 quarters. Shares of this menswear retailer have gained nearly 31.3% in the past two months. Furthermore, a fairly impressive dividend yield of 2.1% and an enhanced earnings per share guidance for the full year make this Zacks #2 Rank (Buy) an attractive pick for investors looking for both growth and income.
Fiscal Second-Quarter Beat
On September 5, The Men's Wearhouse reported fiscal second-quarter 2012 earnings of $1.15 per share, beating the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.12 and increasing 3.6% year over year. Results were driven by increased gross margin in the retail segment and a lower tax rate.
Revenue crept up 1% year over year to $662.3 million from $655.5 million. However, it marginally missed the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $663 million.
Gross profit increased 3.6% to $320.3 million from $309.2 million in the year-ago quarter, primarily due to lower costs of goods sold as a percentage of sales. Consequently, gross profit margin expanded 120 basis points to 48.4% from 47.2%.
Increased merchandise gross profit led to a 2.9% increase in operating income to $91.6 million from the prior-year level of $89.0 million. Consequently, operating margin expanded 20 basis points to 13.8%.
Promising Guidance
Men's Wearhouse raised its guidance for fiscal 2012, while also setting out targets for the third and fourth quarters of fiscal 2012. The company expects earnings per share between $2.74 and $2.80 in fiscal 2012, up from its prior guidance of $2.70 to $2.78.
Earnings per share for the third quarter are forecasted at 95 cents to 98 cents, while the fourth quarter is seen at 12 cents to 15 cents.
Total net revenue for fiscal 2012 is anticipated to increase between 4.8% and 5.6%, versus the prior guidance of 4% to 5%. Sales for the third quarter are expected to advance between 8.8% and 9.3%, while the fourth quarter is forecasted to increase 11.3% to 11.8%.
Guidance Drives Estimates
The Zacks Consensus Estimate for fiscal 2012 rose 2.2% to $2.78 per share in the last 30 days on upward movement in 5 of 6 estimates. This represents year-over-year growth of 17.2%.
The Zacks Consensus Estimate for fiscal 2013 advanced 1.6% to $3.11 per share over the same time frame as 5 of 7 estimates moved upwards. This reflects year-over-year growth of 11.8%.
Strong Dividend
In addition to maintaining a steady earnings growth, Men's Wearhouse has been rewarding shareholders with regular quarterly dividend payments for the past several years. Currently, the company pays a quarterly dividend of 18 cents per share, which yields a solid 2.1%. The company has a payout ratio of 25%, while its 5-year annual dividend growth rate stands at 21.98%.
Favorable Valuation
Men's Wearhouse currently trades at a forward P/E of 12.4x, reflecting a 24.4% discount to the peer group average of 16.4x. On a price-to-book basis, shares trade at 1.6x, a 41.6% discount to the peer group average. The company's compelling fundamentals are well supported by its long-term estimated earnings per share (EPS) growth rate.
Strong Chart
The chart below indicates a steady growth in the company's share price in the last two months, reflecting an upside of about 31.3%. Currently, shares of Men's Warehouse are trading above its 50 and 200-day moving averages. Average volume also remains fairly strong at roughly 595K daily.
Operating nearly 730 core Men's Wearhouse and Moores brand full-line stores in the United States and Canada, the company has successfully expanded the demographic appeal of these brands. Furthermore, the company's strong brand positioning, strategic marketing initiatives, store expansion plans, consistently rising estimates and an impressive dividend yield offers considerable upside potential.
Founded in 1973 and headquartered in Houston, Texas, Men's Wearhouse is among the leading specialty menswear retailers in the United States and Canada with 1,153 stores. The company mainly offers a full range of men's designer, brand name and private label suits, suit separates, sport coats, slacks, sportswear, outerwear, dress shirts, shoes, and accessories for men, as well as tuxedo rentals. The company operates its stores mainly under the brand names Men's Wearhouse, Moores, K&G stores and Men's Wearhouse and Tux stores. Its K&G stores also feature a collection of women's apparel. The company sells its products through menswearhouse.com and kgstores.com. It holds a market capitalization of $1.75 billion.
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February 27, 2013
Parasites, A Modern Epidemic
by Garcia Thompson
In today's society there are many forms of disease, many of which are well documented, researched and acknowledged. However, there is one plague currently infecting over 80% of all Americans (and 85% of people around the world) that receives little or no attention in today's medical society – the one of parasites and parasitic infections. Yes, it is a documented fact that almost every adult in the United States is not only susceptible to, but is also currently hosting some form of internal parasite. Disgusted? Appalled? Disturbed? Sickened? Those words all described how I felt when I first came to read those statistics. You might ask yourself why I would have been reading about this subject (trust me, not something I'd do in my idle time, normally!) However, after a month long bout with debilitating fatigue and chronic gastrointestinal pain, coupled with several unhelpful visits to the doctor, I did a little research into what may be causing my symptoms and creating this discomfort. Here's the information I found, which hopefully may help anyone out there to overcome, eliminate and defeat these silent attackers.
Realize that although you may not feel ill or tired, there may still be parasites within your system. Parasitic infections are masters at hiding while feeding off the human body. So, how can you tell? You can try to take a medical test, but as Dr Andersen (a leading authority on parasitic infections) has said:
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If you were tested by a doctor for parasites, chances are the results would come back negative. Does this mean you do not have parasites? Unfortunately, medical testing procedures only catch about 20% of the actual cases of parasites. Over a 1,000 species of parasites can live in your body and tests are available for approximately 40 to 50 types. This means, doctors are only testing for about 5% of the parasites and missing 80% of those. This brings the clinically found parasites down to 1%. Now, if I had a 1% chance of winning in the stock market, I don't think I would invest. Only 1% of parasites are ever clinically found.
I went through a medical test that cost me $400, was sent to a "top lab" for the detection of parasites, and still was diagnosed as negative (yet after a few cleanses I have been flushing infections, toxins and parasites from my body daily.) So, although there is a chance the lab test will catch the infection, the likelihood is that it won't. (the major problem is that the parasites must not only be on the "list" the lab looks for, but also must be laying eggs when the samples are taken.)
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This leads me to explain about the way parasites reproduce, live and thrive, as well as to give a brief description of the two major types:
Let's try to understand what a parasite does. A parasite eats, lays eggs and secretes. Ok? Let's break this down into the three parts: the first is "eats." Depending on the kind, parasites will eat different things. Many thrive off certain types of food, from dairy to sugar to proteins. These parasites live off the food that goes into your body. Mainly found in the digestive tract, they can also be found in the liver as well as throughout the body. No organ within your body is immune to parasites, in reality. Some parasites actually get their nutrition directly from the cells of the body, and feed off those cells, thus making you sick. They can literally attach themselves anywhere and suck nutrition out of the cells. These parasites are perhaps the most dangerous because they can travel to places in the body where they can do a lot more damage than a parasite living solely in the digestive tract.
Parasites rob you off all your finest nutrients and you get the scraps and leftovers. They grow healthy and fat while your body starves for nutrition. And these visitors can subside and exist in the human body for anywhere in the upwards of 10, 20 or even 30 years.
To illustrate the longevity of parasites in the human body, consider this example. In 1979 a British study reported on 600 former prisoners from World War II. These men had been stationed in the Far East. Thirty years after the war, 15% were still infected with a parasite called Strongyloides that they had contracted during the war. This means you could have eaten meat 10 years ago that was contaminated, and still be hosting the tapeworms or other types of parasites that were in that meat.
Let's now look at the way parasites reproduce – this is the "lays eggs" part. To start, let's examine the two main types of parasites and then discuss how each reproduces: Large parasites are visible and are primarily worms and small parasites, which are mainly microscopic in size, include what are called protozoa and amoebae.
Which is more dangerous? Despite their almost invisibility, small parasites can be extremely dangerous. Microscopic parasites can destroy calcium lining in your bones, eat the myecin lining off your nerve cells (causing breakdown of the brain-nerve connection) and even inhabit the liver, colon and other areas causing major discomforts and problems. The small parasites reproduce by duplicating themselves in a manner similar to bacteria or viral reproduction.
Large parasites, which are the worm type, can usually be seen by the naked eye. Sizes can exceed 15 inches long and normally these worms cannot/do not travel past the digestive tract. The smaller organisms, the protozoa and amoebas, tend to act like a bacteria by traveling through the blood stream to virtually any part of the body. They reproduce without laying eggs and behave more like an infection in the body than do the larger parasites. The larger parasites are worms which reproduce by laying eggs. Eggs are left in the intestinal tract, where they cling to the intestinal walls among the feces, and when they hatch, the young feed on the food that we eat and eventually grow into adults. The adults then repeat the process.
The third thing that parasites do is secrete toxins. Simply put, the secretions from parasites in our bodies are poisons and toxins that our bodies are forced to deal with by increasing the process of detoxification. Anyone who has experienced food poisoning or dysentery will tell you how debilitating these toxins can be. These are intense and very high levels of toxins being released into the body at once. On the other end, a chronic parasitic infection that secretes low levels of toxins can eventually create an extremely stressed immune system. When the immune system is stressed over a long period of time, it weakens. When the immune system "goes off line," our bodies become susceptible to infections of other kinds. This can be extremely dangerous in this day and age because we are more exposed to more viruses than ever before. Also, the viruses are changing and adapting at a very fast rate as are the bacteria, many of which are now resistant to antibiotics and other artificial measures that are used to combat them.
In addition, the antibiotics of today as well as any other drug of tomorrow can have a slightly different than intended effect…again, I will let Dr Andersen explain:
Once you have established that you do have parasites, taking drugs to get rid of them may not always work. This is because a drug will often drive a parasite from one organ of the body to another. It's like people moving to better climates to make their living conditions more pleasant, or birds flying south for the winter.
So, if we aren't able to combat the rising number of parasitic infections with conventional medicine, it is even more important to understand just how we can go about that process. First, let's look at what parasites do and how we sometimes unknowingly "help" them. Parasites tend to secrete toxins as they live within the human body, which, when coupled with other toxins (like alcohol, cigarettes, junk food, polluted air, etc) can lead to what is termed by many doctors as "toxic overload." Toxic overload comes about when the four primary cleaning systems of the body have been pushed too far by an overload of toxins in the body.
Within the four cleaning systems, the lungs, kidneys, skin and bowels, there are many types of overload that can occur. As an example, toxins will travel from one system to another as the current system gets overloaded. In toxic bowel syndrome, the excess of toxins in the bowels pass onto the liver and the liver becomes over clogged and the toxins begin to spill into the bloodstream. This can take a long time or can occur very quickly, depending on how the body and its immune system handles the overload. Parasites have an ability to cause a complete system breakdown, making them one of the most dangerous epidemics facing medicine today.
For the time being, the news isn't going to get much better, I'm afraid. Not only do 80-85% of all American adults have some form of parasite, not only are they hard to diagnose, not only can they cause serious damage internally (and often silently for a long period of time) they also come in many forms. From here, you can read about the different types of parasites, or you can skip to "How Do We Get Parasites?"
Site: http://hsu.com/parasite/modern.epidemic.htm#How%20Do%20We%20Get%20Parasites?
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The Melting Pot: a Failed Metaphor
". . .The United States have adventured upon a great and noble experiment which is believed to have been hazarded in the absence of all previous precedent—that of total separation of Church and State. No religious Establishment by law exists among us. The conscience is left free from all restraint and each is permitted to worship his Maker after his own judgment. The offices of the Government are open alike to all. No tithes are levied to support an established Hierarchy, nor is the fallible judgment of man set up as the sure and infallible creed of faith. The Mahommedan, if he will come among us would have the privilege guaranteed to him by the Constitution to worship according to the Koran; and the East Indian might erect a shrine to Brahma if it so please him. Such is the spirit of toleration inculcated by our political Institution. The fruits are visible in the universal contentment which everywhere prevails. Christians are broken up into various sects, but we have no persecution, no stake or rack—no compulsion or force, not furious or bigoted zeal; but each and all move on in their select sphere, and worship the Great Creator according to their own forms and ceremonies. The Hebrew persecuted and down trodden in other regions takes up his abode among us with none to make him afraid . . . and the Aegis of the Government is over him to defend and protect him. Such is the great experiment which we have tried, and such are the happy fruits which have resulted from it; our system of free government would be imperfect without it . . . ."
President John Tyler
July 10, 1843 (1)
American cultural anthropology and sociology of the late 19th and early 20th centuries present some interesting challenges to the matter of religious, ethnic, racial, and cultural immigration into the landscape of the American experiment in liberty. The competing theories of Henry Platt Fairchild (2) (popularly described as Melting Pot borrowed from Fredrick Turner who applied his idea uniquely to the American west in the late 19th century) and Horace M. Kallen (3) (popularly described as 'Cultural Symphony') did battle in the early 20th century. Fairchild, primarily in his book Immigration, argued for the complete assimilation of the newcomer into the 'native American' ideal (by which he meant the idealized American/European). Whatever differences (i.e. cultural, morphological, religious, etc) the immigrant brought to America must be assimilated into the homogeneous cultural identity of what Fairchild thought to be a 'national type' as quickly as possible. Fairchild's work was popularized in a 1908 play 'The Melting Pot' by Israel Zangwill. The theme of the play can be captured in a single line from the play "Understand that America is God's Crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of Europe are melting and re-forming! Here you stand, good folk, think I, when I see them at Ellis Island, here you stand in your fifty groups, your fifty languages, and histories, and your fifty blood hatreds and rivalries. But you won't be long like that, brothers, for these are the fires of God you've come to – these are fires of God. A fig for your feuds and vendettas! Germans and Frenchmen, Irishmen and Englishmen, Jews and Russians—into the Crucible with you all! God is making the American." (4 & 5). Fairchild's melting pot was reoriented by Edward Ross ('The Old World in the New,' 1914), a 'progressive' university sociologist of his day. Ross challenged and rejected the notion of non-European immigration. According to him, non-Europeans were "sub-common people of obviously low mentality who really belonged in animal skins, beside wattled huts . . . Ross was appalled by their 'sugar-loaf heads, moon-faces, slit mouths, lantern jaws, and goose-bill noses.' Jews he singled out as puny and sissified, the saddest possible contrast to the type of the American pioneer." (6)
Rejecting Ross's extension of Fairchild's work, Horace M. Kallen, a former colleague of Ross's at the University of Wisconsin and later on faculty at Harvard University, published an essay in the Nation (February 1915) titled 'Democracy versus the Melting Pot.'(7) Kallen gave his thesis the name 'Cultural Pluralism.' His basic theory is composed of three essential parts: 1) he denied there was any unique, archetypal American; there was no collective identity into which immigrants must seek transformation. America, in his theory, was a political state containing a great diversity of distinct nationalities, religious, cultural traditions, ethnicities, etc, 2) these distinct aspects of the human community should be allowed to perpetuate themselves indefinitely, 3) because of 1 & 2, governmental policy should be guided by two distinct concepts: unison and harmony. Unison would be limited to basic patterns of social/governmental/economic functions—e.g. language, government structure, monetary policy, etc as examples of unison policy. Of much greater interest to Kallen was harmony (which gave Kallen's theory the popular name 'Cultural Symphony Theory'). For him, this was the brilliance of the American experiment. In matters of opinion "Its form would be that of the federal republic; its substance a democracy of nationalities, cooperating voluntarily and autonomously through common institutions in the enterprise of self-realization through the perfections of men according to their kind . . . each nationality (religion, culture, etc) would have for its emotional and involuntary life its . . . own individual and inevitable esthetic forms . . . Thus, American civilization may come to mean the perfection of the cooperative harmonies . . . a multiplicity in a unity, an orchestration of mankind" (8). Kallen offers a brilliant understanding of the Founders' imagination in using e pluribus unum as a national motto; holding of equal value both the many and the one.
As often happens in history, unforeseen circumstances influence outcomes. While we might imagine Kallen's theory of a grand cultural symphony creating a rich and vibrant American culture capturing the imagination of the American people, circumstances in Europe and the world leading to World War I created an environment of social and political fear fostering an atmosphere of anxiety and xenophobia. (9) Fairchild's Melting Pot augmented by Ross's xenophobia became the prevailing metaphor and, sadly, the political context for immigration policy and American self-awareness in the ensuing decades. Kallen's Cultural Symphony almost completely disappeared by 1924. To this day, the Melting Pot is the collective mental paradigm for immigration and cultural assimilation into the America landscape. The inherent fear of and limitations to diversity contained in the Melting Pot theory, whether consciously or unconsciously engaged, continue to inhibit broad intercultural comfort, trust, or cooperation.
Sadly, resistance to the Melting Pot encourages suspicion and flames up xenophobic fears. The President's poorly planned and executed executive order on refugees and immigrants, born of fear and xenophobia, affirms the operative persistence and power of this inadequate Melting Pot metaphor. In contrast, the immediate and powerful response of the citizenry suggests Kallen's work, a Cultural Symphony, describing a fearless cultural symphony may be gaining traction in these United States even if the original theory for this paradigm shift is yet unrecognized. Kallen's Cultural Symphony encouraging and celebrating diversity, multiculturalism, and pluralism provides a context for serious reconsideration of immigration and refugees policies. But the hard work is not done. Progress will require an informed and well differentiated citizenry to constructively embrace, engage, and advocate for the opportunity to discover new harmonies possible in intercultural, interethnic, interracial, interfaith, etc., relations, collaboration, cooperation, and dialogue. The reward of this hard work will be, to borrow again from Tyler's letter, a continuation of our great and noble experiment, the fruit of which will be an even more perfect union, an even grander Cultural Symphony.
1 John Tyler. A letter from President John Tyler to Joseph Simpson of Baltimore. The American Jewish Historical Society, New York City, New York.
2 Philip Gleason, Speaking of Diversity: Language and Ethnicity in Twentieth Century America [Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992], 50-51.
3 Ibid.
4 Gary Gerstle. American Crucible; Race and Nation in the Twentieth Century [Princeton, NJ Princeton University Press, 2001], 51.
5 C. Hirschman. America's Melting Pot Policy Reconsidered, Annual Review of Sociology, 9 (1983), 397-423.
6 Philip Gleason, Speaking of Diversity: Language and Ethnicity in Twentieth Century America, [Baltimore & London: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992], 50-51.
7 Ibid., 50-52.
8 Ibid., 52.
9 Ibid., 53.


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Voyage name:
V08/18 Eden to Sydney
03 Apr - 13 Apr 2018
Weather - fine, Wind - south westely at 5 kn, Swell - nil, Temp - 21 deg. C
Ahoy there Shipmates,
We had slightly annoying night at sea with a beam swell tossing the Ship around as we progressed our passage to Jervis Bay (JB). We motor-sailed some of the night and then came off engines once we had made good ground, but unfortunately the light breeze wasn't strong enough to smooth out our ride. Overnight the all of the watches undertook the 'Bearex' leadership activity which entailed them taking charge of setting and furling a sail they had not seen before with only access to a set of written instructions. The aim of the exercise was to give potential leaders the opportunity to step-up and take control.
Morning Brief today included another visit from 'Salty' who explained the nautical origin of the expression 'shake a leg' and then the Youthies launched into Happy Hour while the Staffies brought the Ship to anchor off Huskisson.
After another of Marcus' spectacular lunches we launched the Sea Boat and put the crew ashore for a leg-stretch followed by the opportunity for a fancy coffee and a slice of cheesecake.
When we entered JB this morning I noticed one of the Navy's Coastal Mine Hunters was working in the bay. Shortly after arriving I got a call from the Captain, who is a good friend, inviting me over to his Ship to join him for lunch. I accepted his kind invitation, leaving the running of Young Endeavour and the program in the capable hands of Sail Master Evan for an hour.
Once everyone had returned onboard we weighed anchor and proceeded into the bay to conduct 'Rotational Tacks'. We decided to do this today rather than tomorrow morning because the wind conditions were so good. We experienced 20 knot northerlies, the strongest wind we have encountered on the voyage so far. Rotationals is another activity that prepares the youthies for Command Day. We rotated the three watches through the other watch positions while we tacked the Ship. This is done to enable them to experience what the other watches' duties entail at tacking stations.
We anchored off Montagu Point in the NE corner of JB at 1730, by which time Chef Marcus and Engineer Horto had the BBQ well underway. We then enjoyed a delightful dinner on deck, chatting about the events of the day and admiring the fabulous JB sunset vista.
After dinner the youthies played a couple of games on deck, orchestrated by Karly and Evan. This was followed by the screening of the movie we regularly show during voyages entitled 'Around Cape Horn', which details the adventures of Captain Irving Johnson when he sailed as an ordinary seaman through storms around Cape Horn onboard the massive bark, the 'Peking'. It was shot by him in the 1920s and then compiled and narrated by him in the 1990s.
It is my intention to remain here at anchor overnight.
Until tomorrow evening.
Yours aye
Captain Mike