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After extensive search we've found the cause of this problem (see below for details).
First, in order to start any program, use the task manager:
Click right on the task bar, select TaskManager, select the "Applications" tab and click "New Task". There, click browse and select e.g. Restorator.exe in "C:\Program Files\Restorator". With this trick you can also start e.g. Internet Explorer from "C:\Program Files\Internet Explorer\IEXPLORE.EXE". Note: batch programs like the fix below will still run with a double-click.
To fix this problem, either start Restorator (see previous paragraph), invoke the menu Tools|Edit File Associations then click Context None and Assoc. None. Press OK, close Restorator, and reboot your computer.
Or, use this batch file (save and then double click it):
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set P="%USERPROFILE%\RemoveRstKeys.reg"
echo REGEDIT4 > %P%
echo [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.exe] >> %P%
echo [-HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.com] >> %P%
regedit.exe %P%
del %P%
Start RstRegistryFix and click Yes for all security questions (1 on Windows XP, 2 questions on Vista). Then reboot.
Details: Restorator creates registry entries in order to associate itself with the file extension and/or for the right-click context menu in the explorer. Now if run with limited access rights ("Limited Account" on 2000/XP, default accounts on Vista), Restorator will not have access to the system-wide registry keys for context menu management (e.g. HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT\.exe) but it will use a user-only area of the registry for enabling its extension, e.g. HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Classes\.exe). Because that area is usually empty, it will create the usual keys for context menu association. That will, however, be mapped to the system wide keys, and therefore de facto overwrite the existing keys in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT.
Now Restorator is fixed to always check if there are values in HKEY_CLASSES_ROOT before writing to the user-only area in HKEY_CURRENT_USER.
We're very sorry for this inconvenience. This problem is fixed with Restorator 2007 Update 2.
The Bome Software team


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At 220,000 words, Heinlein's Stranger In A Strange Land is one of the most famous doorstoppers in science-fiction history. (There's an edited version, which loses about 60,000 words.) Now a biologist has explained it could be much shorter.
One of our favorite blogs, Biology In Science Fiction, posted some random thoughts about science fiction books, including the recipe for making Stranger In A Strange Land a slim pamphlet:
Stranger in a Strange Land would have been much much shorter if in Heinlein's future America effective birth control had been invented before a manned expedition was sent to Mars.
She also points out it could be a fantasy book, without changing the plot, if "Michael Valentine Smith had been raised by wizards instead of Martians."
She also explains the main problem with Asimov's decision to link his robot novels and the Foundation series: it makes "the humanity's expansion onto many worlds, the creation of the Galactic Empire and its replacement by the Foundation ultimately due to the meddling of a couple of mind-reading, mind-influencing robots. I'd like to think that we'll conquer the universe without the nudging of telepathic robot nannies." [Biology In Science Fiction]

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Libraries are the repositories of the soul of our societies. They hold the wisdom and follies of ages, portraits and snapshots of who we were and are, predictions of who we will become. They are sacred spaces because they are where we keep our stories. Libraries have shelves and shelves of bright keys to imagination and imagination is how we create our worlds.
I have always wanted the entire city of New York to become a library: empty storefronts full of books to borrow with corners for nannies and parents to read to toddlers, book-borrow stands like newsstands on every street, beautiful old buildings like the St. Agnes library in every community, mobile libraries cruising commercial strips and neighborhoods, a free library in every corporate building and condo lobby, library kiosks in the parks. If Gotham dedicated its resources to transforming the city into one huge library, we would be the most literate, intelligent, imaginative, tolerant, peaceful and positive metropolis on the planet–no end to the possibilities.
My favorite energy spot at the Occupy Wall St. encampment in Zuccotti Park is its library. The existence of the OWS People's Library speaks volumes (even Shakespeare had no problem with the occasional pun) about the mindset and motivation of the 99% protesting in the park. You can donate books. You can borrow books. You can even keep books if you promise to pass them along to someone else when you have finished them. You can sit and read a book. So one day, shortly after my first visit to the library, I did.


text: The Centre for Digital Humanities at Brock University is hosting two upcoming digital media workshops designed to launch collaborative research projects between Brock faculty and industry professionals in Niagara.The workshops, which are funded by a Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC) Connection grant, will explore possibilities for collaborative research and production in the digital media sector.* Digital Media Workshop: Video / Games / Research & ProductionWhen: Wednesday, Oct. 30, 12 noon to 2 p.m.Where: Decew Room, Sheraton Four Points, 3530 Schmon Pkwy, Thorold, Ont.* Digital Media Workshop: Social Media / Technology / Research & ProductionWhen: Wednesday, Nov. 6, 12 noon to 2 p.m.Where: Decew Room, Sheraton Four Points, 3530 Schmon Pkwy, Thorold, Ont.Workshop spaces are still available for Brock faculty and local digital media industry professionals interested in participating.For more info, or to arrange for an interview to be invited to one of the workshops: Martin Danahay, professor, Centre for Digital Humanities/English Language and Literature, 905-688-5550 x5203; firstname.lastname@example.com


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Accused drunken driver charged in fatal Mount Clemens crash
Oren Brown accused of hitting, killing Gayle Naiman
MOUNT CLEMENS, Mich. – A suspected drunken driver has been charged in connection with a crash that claimed the life of a St. Clair woman.
Oren Eker Brown, 39, of Clinton Township, was arraigned Tuesday on an operating while intoxicated causing death.
Macomb County Sheriff Anthony Wickersham said Brown is accused of running a red light at Groesbeck Highway and Cass Avenue in Mount Clemens last Saturday. His van hit a PT Cruiser being driven by 64-year-old Gayle Naiman.
She died at the scene.
Naiman was married, with two children and three grandchildren. She worked in Macomb County as a therapeutic massage therapist.
Her husband Paul Naiman says she "loved being with people and loved giving of herself." He told Local 4 the defendant should have taken responsibility for his drinking issues, and considering his two alcohol related convictions, should never have been allowed to drive again.
Brown was taken to McLaren Macomb Hospital for treatment, but has since been released and is at the Macomb County Jail.
His bond was set at $300,000 or 10 percent.
Wickersham said Brown has two previous convictions for drunken driving crimes.
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I am the Co-Founder of Morbid Enterprises. A US based company that designs, manufactures and sells Halloween items.
Halloween fans all over the world. These people are always looking for the newest coolest items from Morbid Enterprises. They like to decorate their home with our products at Halloween time. They may also throw crazy Halloween parties and transform their home into a haunted house.
Please see the attached file for reference. The reference is only partially finished but it will give you an idea of what we are trying to do. We are developing a Halloween decoration. You can design whatever character you like. Just make sure it is scary. The more realistic the better. The character can be a vampire, zombie, skeleton, witch or anything Halloween related. The character will be trapped inside a hanging cage. We are looking for some great scary style. If we like what you come up with we may commission you to do many more items for us. We are currently working on over 500 new styles.


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NYDN Golf Writer talks Barclays
Hank Gola of the New York Daily News joins Kenny Ducey and Drew Casey on this week's One on One on site at the Barclays in Paramus, New Jersey. Hank dishes on Rory McIlroy, the first three rounds so far, and previews Sunday's action.
To hear the entire interview, click the link below or download the podcast on iTunes.


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Greg Kelly "The Role of Structure in Sustainable Design"
Friday, February 19, 2010, 6:30 - 6:30pm
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Mr. Kelly has extensive experience in the structural design of new facilities and the evaluation, renovation, and repair of existing structures. Since he gained his LEED accreditation in 2002, Mr. Kelly has increasingly focused on the role of structures in sustainable design and he currently Director of Sustainable Design at Weidlinger Associates. Weidlinger's Sustainability Initiative researches sustainable structural and civil design strategies and technologies and brings this knowledge to the firm and its clients through a comprehensive education program. This education program provides classes and seminars on green and blue roofs, green concrete, and other sustainability topics as well as reference materials on sustainable structural and civil design. Mr. Kelly also directs the LEED Consulting Services that Weidlinger offers as a compliment to their core Structural, Geotechnical, and Civil services. The firm is currently acting as LEED consultant on the Liberty Island Retail Pavilion, a project that is on track to receive a LEED Platinum certification. On the research front, Mr. Kelly also leads Weidlinger's Building Integrated Solar Panel research collaboration with Columbia University, which is funded in part by grants from the Department of Energy and NYSERDA.


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Apple's iPad 3 is due out this March and news has now landed on our desks that the iPad 4 will be out this year as soon as October. The next thing on our desks was our jaws.
The downside of this news – leaked to Digitimes from an Apple component manufacturer – is that the iPad 3 will be yet another incremental improvement from Apple.
The idea is to make a better iPad 2 with improved screen and battery, but at a lower price – to compete with tablets from Google, Samsung and Motorola Mobility priced around US$360, and the US$200 Kindle Fire.
With rumours of a 7in iPad 3 – just like the Fire – this leak seems pretty solid.
If you've been holding out for a true next-gen iPad, the good news is that the iPad 4 is expected as soon as this October, and it will be a big leap forward (at last) – with never-before-seen technology and vastly improved specs.
So if you were holding out for the iPad 3, it might be worth waiting just a little bit longer for a potentially six-core iPad 4.
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Lode - Thursday 16/11/2006, 02:47
There really should be a suggestion box or at the very least a bug report index, the four that are currently tehre are nothing beyond superficial as well as having no real organization, it's as if it's just one topic under a single forum category.
Eh, to my original point, Something has to be done about this lag, I can't score worth a damn during tournaments because of slow responses, I have a fast connection so I KNOW it's not me.
Fraggle - Thursday 16/11/2006, 07:01
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The message board is not made for support but for discussions between players. (as specified)
If you need to report a bug or a suggestion, please use "Contact Us".
As for the "lag", sorry but there are players that are younger, slow etc.. we cannot do much about it.
You are still level 11... things will change in the higher levels.


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The Mother of Raptors seeks aid!
Help the Mother of Raptors recover her loved pets so they can grow free and strong. She will be visiting your capital cities just outside of the main gates.
You will need to travel to different battle zones and find these crazy Raptor Hunters and put and end to their enclave. But be aware of the monstrosity they are summoning in Deep Desert.
New quest chain that will make you go through each battle zone farming mobs to help the Mother of Raptors.
New Raptor Hunter mob for each zone.
New Raptor Slayer boss spawns in Deep Desert every 12 hours.


text: Cameron Dee believes in grabbing life by the balls and making the most of every day. When she isn't shooting the kind of smokin' hot porn that will have you reaching for the tissues, she paints, dances, travels the world, and lives a life of adventure. A born and bred California girl, Cameron Dee was raised in Bellflower and spent her teen years on the beach, basking in the sun and perfecting her golden tan. Her warm, smooth honey skin and perfect round ass are thoroughly boner-inducing, and her big, round tits are irresistibly soft and juicy. In the bedroom, Cameron likes to switch between dominant and submissive roles, and says nothing turns her on as much as strong sexual chemistry, namely when she jumps into bed with a confident partner who knows what they're doing between the sheets.


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Are you planning a vacation and want to know where you can use your Debit Card, or just going to a new area of town? We have assembled some links to ATM machines databases that you may find useful.
Because of our affiliation with the CO-OP network, the Presto! network, the STAR(sm) network, and the Cirrus network, your PowerNet Credit Union Debit Card works at thousands of locations world-wide. Anywhere the CO-OP, Presto!, STAR or the Cirrus logo is shown, your card will work.
In addition, there are many participating Point of Sale locations that will let you pay for your purchases with your Debit Card, and some locations even allow you to get cash back. Best of all, POS transactions are FREE! Your card can be used at many stores, such as:
- Wal-Mart
- United States Post Office
- Publix
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Some locations that will accept your Debit Card may charge you a surcharge for the convenience of using their ATM machine. Machines designated as Co-op or Presto do not have surcharges.
To find an ATM that accepts your Debit Card, check out the resources below:
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Chief Justice Jean H. Toal will deliver her State of the Judiciary address to the General Assembly on February 24, 2010 at 12:00 noon. Her speech will be broadcast live on the Internet and will be archived for later viewing. The live broadcast may be accessed from the South Carolina Legislature Online website.
To access the live broadcast, go to the South Carolina Legislature Online website and click on one of the links located under the heading Live Broadcasts for the House of Representatives (located on the lower left-hand side of your screen). Most judges and SCJD employees should click on the link labeled MediaPlayer (see screen copy below).
For those who miss the live broadcast, an archived version provided by SCETV will be available. Links to the archived version of the address will be posted under Court News as soon as possible after Justice Toal's address.


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The AMCA's annual calendar of National Meets and Road Runs, organized by affiliated Chapters in the United States and overseas, represents some of the premier antique-motorcycle activities held anywhere in the world. From major events attracting thousands of visitors to friendly gatherings of a few hundred enthusiasts, they all offer the chance to share an appreciation of classic machines and the people who ride them.
The heart of most National Meets is the vendor field, in which AMCA members can offer for sale parts and even entire motorcycles over 35 years old. It can take a keen eye to spot the truly significant piece among the acres of parts offered by vendors, but many award-winning restorations have begun as piles of parts found on an AMCA vendor field.
In addition, every AMCA National Meet features the Club's National Judging Program, in which motorcycles are displayed to be judged by experts. For AMCA members, bike judging offers recognition for restoring, or preserving, an important piece of motorcycling history. But for spectators, the judging field turns into an antique-bike show rivaling the country's best museum exhibits.
Beyond those two common elements, each AMCA National Meet takes on a flavor of its own, based on other activities over the weekend. These range from the incredible Timeline of History at the Grand National Meet in Rhinebeck, New York, gathering together 400 or more motorcycles representing every year from the dawn of the Motorcycle Age through the '70s, to seminars on historical subjects and displays of featured motorcycles matching an event's yearly theme.
In addition, many National Meets offer the chance to appreciate antique machines in motion, through road rides and field games—a friendly form of competition showcasing a rider's ability to control his or her machine. Some National Meets also turn back the clock in the most American of all motorcycle sports—dirt-track racing. At these events, racers compete for trophies on half-mile dirt ovals, just as motorcyclists have for more than a century.
In between all that, there is plenty of time for vendors and visitors to settle in and talk about old bikes, from the fledgling efforts of early experimenters to the classic machines of the '30s, '40s, '50s and '60s.
In short, an AMCA National Meet can be a weekend escape from the modern world to a simpler, more relaxing time.
That description goes double for AMCA National Road Runs, which offer the chance to ride with others on the machines, and roads, of yesterday. These multi-day events follow routes laid out by local riders, who know the back roads of their own area best. And each night, participants get together to share road stories over dinner.
The schedule of AMCA Nationals typically begins in late February or early March and ends in October, stretching from New York to California. For details on individual events, click on the links in the schedule below.
2013 AMCA Nationals
February 22-23
Omaha Chapter National Meet
Fremont, NE
(402) 660-5151
March 8-10
Sunshine Chapter National Meet
New Smyrna Beach, FL
(386) 322-7984
April 19-21
European Chapter Meet
Geldrop, The Netherlands
April 26-27
Perkiomen Chapter National Meet
Oley, PA
(610) 948-4553
May 17-19
Southern National Meet
Denton, NC
(417) 838-4777
June 14-15
Rhinebeck Coalition National Meet
Rhinebeck, NY
(518) 622-8519
June 14-15
Fort Sutter Chapter National Meet
Dixon, CA
(209) 748-5126
June 14-16
Viking Chapter National Meet
St. Paul, MN
(952) 941-4997
June 19-21
Rocky Mountain Chapter National Road Run
Ouray, CO
(303) 514-3600
July 19-21
Wauseon National Meet
Wauseon, OH
(419) 929-0291
August 2-3
Yankee Chapter National Meet
Hebron, CT
(603) 458-5013
August 5-7
Evergreen Chapter National Road Run
White Pass, WA
(360) 516-6101
September 22-25
Fort Sutter Chapter National Road Run
Sacramento, CA
(916) 452-9847
October 4-5
Chesapeake Chapter National Meet
Jefferson, PA
(410) 692-9291
October 7-9
Neshaminy Valley & Seaboard Chapters National Road Run
New Hope, PA
(215) 539-3423


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The prior article in this series discussed the human side of analytics. It explained how companies need to have the right culture, people, and organization to succeed with analytics. The flip side is the "hard stuff"- the architecture, platforms, tools, and data--that makes analytics possible. Although analytical technology gets the lionshare of attention in the trade press--perhaps more than it deserves for the value it delivers--it nonetheless forms the bedrock of all analytical initiatives. This article examines the architecture, platforms, tools, and data needed to deliver robust analytical solutions.
The term "analytical architecture" is an oxymoron. In most organizations, business analysts are left to their own devices to access, integrate, and analyze data. By necessity, they create their own data sets and reports outside the purview and approval of corporate IT. By definition, there is no analytical architecture in most organizations--just a hodge-podge of analytical silos and spreadmarts, each with conflicting business rules and data definitions.
Analytical sandboxes. Fortunately, with the advent of specialized analytical platforms (discussed below), BI architects have more options for bringing business analysts into the corporate BI fold. They can use these high-powered database platforms to create analytical sandboxes for the explicit use of business analysts. These sandboxes, when designed properly, give analysts the flexibility they need to access corporate data at a granular level, combine it with data that they've sourced themselves, and conduct analyses to answer pressing business questions. With analytical sandboxes, BI teams can transform business analysts from data pariahs to full-fledged members of the BI community.
There are four types of analytical sandboxes:
- Staging Sandbox. This is a staging area for a data warehouse that contains raw, non-integrated data from multiple source systems. Analysts generally prefer to query a staging area that contains all the raw data than each source system individually. Hadoop is a staging area for large volumes of unstructured data that a growing number of companies are adding to their BI ecosystems.
- Virtual Sandbox. A virtual sandbox is a set of tables inside a data warehouse assigned to individual analysts. Analysts can upload data into the sandbox and combine it with data from the data warehouse, giving them one place to go to do all their analyses. The BI team needs to carefully allocate compute resources so analysts have enough horsepower to run ad hoc queries without interfering with other workloads running on the data warehouse.
- Free-standing sandbox. A free-standing sandbox is a separate database server that sits alongside a data warehouse and contains its own data. It's often used to offload complex, ad hoc queries from an enterprise data warehouse and give business analysts their own space to play. In some cases, these sandboxes contain a replica of data in the data warehouse, while in others, they support entirely new data sets that don't fit in a data warehouse or run faster on an analytical platform.
- In-memory BI sandbox. Some desktop BI tools maintain a local data store, either in memory or on disk, to support interactive dashboards and queries. Analysts love these types of sandboxes because they connect to virtually any data source and enable analysts to model data, apply filters, and visually interact with the data without IT intervention.
Next-Generation BI Architecture. Figure 1 depicts a BI architecture with the four analytical sandboxes colored in green. The top half of the diagram represents a classic top-down, data warehousing architecture that primarily delivers interactive reports and dashboards to casual users (although the streaming/complex event processing (CEP) engine is new.) The bottom half of the diagram depicts a bottom-up analytical architecture with analytical sandboxes along with new types of data sources. This next-generation BI architecture better accommodates the needs of business analysts and data scientists, making them full-fledged members of the corporate BI ecosystem.
Figure 1. The New BI Architecture
The next-generation BI architecture is more analytical, giving power users greater options to access and mix corporate data with their own data via various types of analytical sandboxes. It also brings unstructured and semi-structured data fully into the mix using Hadoop and nonrelational databases.
Analytical Platforms
Since the beginning of the data warehousing movement in the early 1990s, organizations have used general-purpose data management systems to implement data warehouses and, occasionally, multidimensional databases (i.e., "cubes") to support subject-specific data marts, especially for financial analytics. General-purpose data management systems were designed for transaction processing (i.e., rapid, secure, synchronized updates against small data sets) and only later modified to handle analytical processing (i.e., complex queries against large data sets.) In contrast, analytical platforms focus entirely on analytical processing at the expense of transaction processing.
The analytical platform movement. In 2002, Netezza (now owned by IBM), introduced a specialized analytical appliance, a tightly integrated, hardware-software database management system designed explicitly to run ad hoc queries against large volumes of data at blindingly fast speeds. Netezza's success spawned a host of competitors, and there are now more than two dozen players in the market. (see Table 1).
Table 1. Types of Analytical Platforms
Today, the technology behind analytical platforms is diverse: appliances, columnar databases, in memory databases, massively parallel processing (MPP) databases, file-based systems, nonrelational databases and analytical services. What they all have in common, however, is that they provide significant improvements in price-performance, availability, load times and manageability compared with general-purpose relational database management systems. Every analytical platform customer I've interviewed has cited an order-of-magnitude performance gains that most initially don't believe.
Moreover, many of these analytical platforms contain built-in analytical functions that make life easier for business analysts. These functions range from fuzzy matching algorithms and text analytics to data preparation and data mining functions. By putting functions in the database, analysts no longer have to craft complex, custom SQL or offboard data to analytical workstations, which limits the amount of data they can analyze and model.
Companies use analytical platforms to support free-standing sandboxes (described above) or as replacements for data warehouses running on MySQL and SQL Server, and occasionally major OLTP databases from Oracle and IBM. They also improve query performance for ad hoc analytical tools, especially those that connect directly to databases to run queries (versus those that download data to a local cache.)
Analytical Tools
In 2010, vendors turned their attention to meeting the needs of power users after ten years of enhancing reporting and dashboard solutions for casual users. As a result, the number of analytical tools on the market has exploded.
Analytical tools come in all shapes and sizes. Analysts generally need one of every type of tool. Just as you wouldn't hire a carpenter to build an addition to your house with just one tool, you don't want to restrict an analyst to just one analytical tool. Like a carpenter, an analyst needs a different tool for every type of job they do. For instance, a typical analyst might need the following tools:
Excel to extract data from various sources, including local files, create reports, and share them with others via a corporate portal or server (managed Excel).
BI Search tools to issue ad hoc queries against a BI tool's metadata.
Planning tools (including Excel) to create strategic and tactical plans, each containing multiple scenarios.
Mashboards and ad hoc reporting tools to create ad hoc dashboards and reports on behalf of departmental colleagues
Visual discovery tools to explore data in one or more sources of data and create interactive dashboards on behalf of departmental colleagues
Multidimensional OLAP (MOLAP) tools to explore small and medium sets of data dimensionally at the speed of thought and run complex dimensional calculations.
Relational OLAP tools to explore large sets of data dimensionally and run complex calculations
Text analytics tools to parse text data and put it in a relational structure for analysis.
Data mining tools to create descriptive and predictive models.
Hadoop and MapReduce to process large volumes of unstructured and semi-structured data in a parallel environment.
Figure 2. Types of Analytical Tools
Figure 2 plots these tools on a graph where the x axis represents calculation complexity and the y axis represents data volumes. Ad hoc analytical tools for casual users (or more realistically super users) are clustered in the bottom left corner of the graph, while ad hoc tools for power users are clustered slightly above and to the right. Planning and scenario modeling tools cluster further to the right, offering slightly more calculation complexity against small volumes of data. High-powered analytical tools, which generally rely on machine learning algorithms and specialized analytical databases, cluster in the upper right quadrant.
Business analysts function like one-man IT shops. They must access, integrate, clean and analyze data, and then present it to other users. Figure 2 depicts the typical workflow of a business analyst. If an organization doesn't have a mature data warehouse that contains cross-functional data at a granular level, they often spend an inordinate amount of time sourcing, cleaning, and integrating data. (Steps 1 and 2 in the analyst workflow.) They then create a multiplicity of analytical silos (step 5) when they publish data, much to the chagrin of the IT department.
Figure 2. Analyst Workflow
In the absence of a data warehouse that contains all the data they need, business analysts must function as one-man IT shops where they spend an inordinate amount of time iterating between collecting, integrating, and analyzing data. They run into trouble when they distribute their hand-crafted data sets broadly.
Data Warehouse. The most important way that organizations can improve the productivity and effectiveness of business analysts is to maintain a robust data warehousing environment that contains most of the data that analysts need to perform their work. This can take many years. In a fast-moving market where the company adds new products and features continuously, the data warehouse may never catch up. But, nonetheless, it's important for organizations to continuously add new subject areas to the data warehouse, otherwise business analysts have to spend hours or days gathering and integrating this data themselves.
Atomic Data. The data warehouse also needs to house atomic data, or data at the lowest level of transactional detail, not summary data. Analysts generally want the raw data because they can repurpose in many different ways depending on the nature of the business questions they're addressing. This is the reason that highly skilled analysts like to access data directly from source systems or a data warehouse staging area. At the same time, less skilled analysts appreciate the heavy lifting done by the IT group to clean and integrate disparate data sets using common metrics, dimensions, and attributes. This base level of data standardization expedites their work.
Once a BI team integrates a sufficient number of subject areas in a data warehouse at an atomic level of data, business analysts can have a field day. Instead of downloading data to an analytical workstation, which limits the amount of data they can analyze and process, they can now run calculations and models against the entire data warehouse using analytical functions built into the database or that they've created using database development toolkits. This improves the accuracy of their analyses and models and saves them considerable time.
The technical side of analytics is daunting. There are many moving parts that all have to work synergistically together. However, the most important part of the technical equation is the data. The old adage holds true: "garbage in, garbage out." Analysts can't deliver accurate insights if they don't have access to good quality data. And it's a waste of their time to spend days trying to prepare the data for analysis. A good analytics program is built on a solid data warehousing foundation that embeds analytical sandboxes tailored to the requirements of individual analysts.
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Miley Cyrus' VMAs Date Jesse Helt Turns Himself Inby Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
Miley Cyrus' homeless 2014 MTV VMAs date Jesse Helt has turned himself in to police, the Associated Press reports (via Us Weekly).
Twenty-two-year-old Helt, who famously accepted Cyrus' Video of the Year award on behalf of the 1.6 million homeless youth living in the U.S., had a warrant out for his arrest for violating probation on previous charges of criminal trespassing and criminal mischief. Us reports that the Polk County Community Corrections director said that Helt has "done the right thing" by turning himself in last night (Aug. 28). The young man also posted $2,500 bail and is expected to go before a judge in a few weeks.
When news of Helt's criminal past broke, Cyrus spoke out in defense of her friend, tweeting (among other messages):
People who are homeless have lived very hard lives. Jesse included.
— Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) August 26, 2014
The media never fails to disappoint. You've chosen to go after Jesse instead of covering the issue of youth homelessness
— Miley Ray Cyrus (@MileyCyrus) August 26, 2014
And the 'Wrecking Ball' singer is more than determined than ever to help her pal and others who are homeless. Helt's mother revealed that Cyrus has offered to pay her son's legal fees, while Trevor Neilson (who first put the pop star in touch with Helt) explained that Cyrus will be "assisting him with this process, and they both are committed to working to help the other 1.6 million youth who experience homelessness in America each year."
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Joe Nimee was a 19-year-old soldier when he was seriously injured while fighting to liberate France during World War II. For his role in helping liberate France from the Germans, Nimee will receive the French Legion of Honor's designation of "chevalier," or "knight," during ceremonies at the French Consulate in Chicago on March 4.
Joe Nimee was left for dead.
Left in the cellar of a war-torn building, Nimee lay there, bleeding from wounds he sustained when shrapnel ripped into his body and face.
It was the winter of 1944, and a 19-year-old Nimee had joined the Army and was placed with the 36th Infantry Division just after D-Day.
"We were in France close to the Rhine River. We were trying to liberate a small town called Bennwihr near the German border," said Nimee, 84.
When Nimee's platoon entered the village, the Germans reoccupied "what we had just liberated the day before, and we were right in the middle of the Germans," he said. "As we were running up the street, two of my comrades were shot. I looked back, and they went down. I went over and tried to pull them to a safe area, and then I gave my comrades cover fire while they ran for safety."
As all of that was happening, Nimee and his comrades were caught in a barrage of artillery and mortar fire.
"We ran into a basement of a building nearby, and evidently there were Germans in the building already," he said. "A hand grenade was thrown in on us, and I was pretty well shot up by the shrapnel.
"I was left in the basement because they thought I was dead," Nimee said. "I don't know what happened to my buddies."
For his role in helping liberate France from the Germans, Nimee will receive the French Legion of Honor's designation of "chevalier," or "knight," during ceremonies at the French Consulate in Chicago on March 4.
The Legion of Honor was created by Napoleon and is considered the highest honor France can give to those who have done remarkable deeds for France. The French Republic began awarding the medal to American World War II veterans in 2004. The medal previously had been issued only to World War I veterans. About 100 medals can be awarded each year to members of the Army Air Corps, Navy and Coast Guard who participated in one of the four major campaigns in the liberation of France: Normandy, Southern France, Northern France and the Ardennes.
Nimee said he was surprised when he received the original letter stating he would be receiving the honor.
"I really didn't expect anything like this," he said.
Nimee, however, can easily relive his time during World War II.
Two days after the shrapnel from the grenade ripped into him, Nimee said a French civilian was searching for a friend when he found the Spring Valley native.
"He, an old man, tried to give me some water, and I couldn't drink it because my face was pretty much messed up," Nimee said.
A piece of shrapnel had gone through Nimee's upper lip and tore through his hard palate.
The old man called for German medics, and Nimee was taken to a field hospital in Colmar, France, and then taken to Germany and put on a hospital train. He ended up in Bad Reichenhall, a village in the Bavarian Alps near Munich.
"It was a resort town, a beautiful village, and all these hotels were converted into hospitals for the Germans," Nimee said. "I was the only American there."
Nimee remained hospitalized for two months before being taken to a prison hospital at Stalag 7A in Moosberg, Germany.
He remained at the prison hospital for a few months until on April 29, 1945, the 14th Army Division led by Gen. George Patton, who was riding in a white Sherman tank from the winter campaign, liberated the prison camp.
From there, Nimee endured 3 1/2 years of hospital stays in the United States, undergoing surgeries and rehabilitation before being discharged in 1948.
For his service, Nimee also has been awarded the Bronze Star, Purple Heart, Prisoner of War medal, European Theater medal "and others ... a lot of them I didn't want," he said.
After the war, Nimee went to junior college and then embarked on a long business partnership with his brother, George.
June will mark the 53rd wedding anniversary for Nimee and his wife, Lynn.
"I was ecstatic about the news of the honor," said Lynn Nimee, 76.
The award may not have happened if the couple's son, Joe, of DePue hadn't gathered all the necessary documentation to send to the selection committee.
Joe Nimee and his sisters, Jolynn Rugerrio of Glenview and Jennifer Harlay, who is moving to Hennepin after 20 years in France, will be on hand for the ceremony.
Nimee is somewhat humbled by the attention.
"I was just doing what a lot of guys signed up to do," he said.
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When the Fiat-Chrysler global strategic alliance became a full-on merger, the incorruptible LeMons Supreme Court was prepared! Starting with the Goin' For Broken LeMons race in a couple weeks, we'll be changing Chryslers into Fiats.
Yes, if a LeMons machine started life as a Chrysler, Dodge, Plymouth, Eagle, DeSoto, or Imperial, it's a Fiat now! Rebadged Mitsubishi? Fiat! Rootes Group during its period of Chrysler ownership? Fiat! Fargo truck? Well, we might make an exception for Fargos, on a case-by-case basis. According to the team list, that means that we'll see a 1995 Fiat Stealth, a 1994 Fiat Shadow, a 1989 Fiat Voyager Turbo, and a 1967 Fiat Fury III. I've made a big stencil featuring Fiat's Malaise Era logo, and we'll use it to proclaim the Fiatitude of those four cars. As an added bonus, the team that complains the most about this process will get an extra special rebranding treatment.
In other 24 Hours Of LeMons news, cheaters will be dismayed to find that Damon Lavrinc, Autoblog Road Test Editor and battle-scarred veteran of the notorious "Demolition Derby LeMons" of '07, will be putting on the LeMons Supreme Court robe and wig and joining me and Supreme Court Justice Lieberman at the Goin' For Broken race. Since he's already built and raced a LeMons RX-7, he knows all the cheating tricks, and we've got him on a jalapeño-and-elephant-tranquilizer regimen that will ensure that he'll be feeling mean by the time he starts inspecting cheatin' cheaters' cheat-packed cheatermobiles.


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You can read about genetics in a textbook, you can listen to your teacher try to make sense of it for you, or you can try it out yourself.
Get married, reproduce and watch the genes go to work.
That's the approach eighth grade students in Jim Bauer's science class are taking at Morenci Middle School. Well, sort of.
Students find their mate by luck of the draw, then compare their genes to see what traits might be produced in their fictional offspring.
There's nothing too serious about the match-up, but in the end, Mr. Bauer's class knows how genes interact.
Long before the wedding day, each student flips a pair of pennies to look at the probability of passing on traits to offspring. Two heads indicate the dominant gene of brown hair. Two tails give the recessive gene for red hair. One head and one tail produce a gene carrying both traits....


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BARELY twenty-four hours after completing his signing-on procedures for Enyimba FC of Aba, Andrew
Abalogu is already dreaming of the Nigeria Premier League and the Federation Cup titles.
Abalogu, who agreed to move to the club from Abubakar Saraki (ABS) FC of Ilorin, passed his medical test on Nov. 8 and signed for the six-time Nigerian champions on Monday.
"This is going to be a good challenge for me. Enyimba is a very big club and I can see the number of talented players that are here. So, it's going to be very tough to get into the starting lineup, but I'm not worried. I chose to come here because I believe this is the right club for me because I want to win trophies.
"I know that playing for Enyimba will be good for my career. So, I'll work hard to get a first team shirt and score the goals that will help us to succeed. I want to win the league and the Federation Cup and I know that Enyimba is the place where this can be achieved easily. I am happy with my decision to come here and I want to do well and help the club to win everything," he said.
The 20-year-old had an impressive 2011/2012 season, helping ABS to escape relegation and scoring nine goals along the way to a Rookie of the Year LBA award. Abalogu, an indigene of Abia, has played for the Abia Warriors.


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Make no bones about it: Katherine Heigl is a star. But as far as public perception is concerned, the actress has been portrayed in the media as being somewhat of a diva.
That was a characterization that was recently addressed in a new profile of Heigl in The New York Times. The actress has been known for giving blunt comments in interviews such as calling her hit 2007 movie Knocked Up "a little bit sexist" in Vanity Fair; she also left her breakthrough role on TV's hit show "Grey's Anatomy" before her contract was up.
"I've been told I'm too forthright with opinions," Ms. Heigl said in The Times interview. "Well do they want a fierce woman or milquetoast? Should I be me, or should I pretend to be something I think people want? Pretending seems pretty ridiculous to me."
U.S. & World
She later commented on the topic: "I feel totally normal on a set, probably because I've spent so much of my life on one. It's when I go out into the real world that I don't seem to know what to do."
Heigl is co-starring in the upcoming movie, "Life as We Know It," in which ashe lso serves as an executive producer. Her co-star Josh Duhamel said of the actress's perceived image: "People like to bash women who are strong. Unless you sweetly say what you're supposed to say, you're somehow difficult."
According to The Times, Heigl commands $15 million per picture. Her next movie project is "One for the Money," based on the Janet Evanovich novel, in which she plays a bounty hunter.
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Ohio kidnapping survivors are working on book
Two of the three women held captive for a decade in a Cleveland house are collaborating with a Pulitzer Prize-winning team of Washington Post reporters for a planned book about their ordeal.
In a statement issued Monday to The Associated Press, an attorney for Amanda Berry and Gina DeJesus said they will work with the Post's Mary Jordan, a Cleveland native, and her husband and fellow reporter, Kevin Sullivan. No meetings with publishers have been scheduled, although interest would likely be based on the popularity of another kidnapping survivor's memoir, Jaycee Dugard's A Stolen Life.
Negotiations for the book will be handled by Washington-based attorney Robert Barnett, whose clients have included President Barack Obama and Amanda Knox.
"Many have told, and continue to tell, this story in ways that are both inaccurate and beyond the control of these young women," said James Wooley, the attorney for Berry and DeJesus. "Our clients have a strong desire for privacy, but it is a reality that confronts them every day. Gina, Amanda, and their families have decided to take control and are now interested in telling the story of what happened to them."
Wooley said in his statement that he had known Jordan for years and contacted her about the project. Jordan told the AP during a recent interview that she was drawn to the "resilience" of Berry and DeJesus and was eager to help them tell an "amazing story of overcoming adversity." In 2003, she and Sullivan won a Pulitzer for their series about the Mexican criminal justice system.
Berry, DeJesus, and Michelle Knight were all 20 or younger when they were kidnapped between 2002 and 2004 by Ariel Castro, a former school bus driver. They were rescued from Castro's house on May 6 when Berry broke through a screen door and called 911. Investigators said the women were bound, repeatedly raped, and deprived of food and bathroom facilities.
Castro was sentenced Aug. 1 to life in prison plus 1,000 years after pleading guilty to 937 counts, including kidnapping and rape, in a deal to avoid the death penalty. He hanged himself in his cell in September.


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Uggla roster decision was a tough one for Braves
Second baseman hit just .179 during season, but is popular with his teammates
OK, take a deep breath -- especially if you're part of the Tomahawk Nation -- and now exhale slowly.
We're about to discuss the extremes pertaining to the decision earlier this week by the Braves not to include Dan Uggla on their National League Division Series roster. His bat has been on life support all season, and his bosses thought it best to pull the plug, even though he otherwise has provided life throughout the Braves' clubhouse as one of the most popular guys on the team.
There is no middle ground here. The question regarding whether general manager Frank Wren, manager Fredi Gonzalez and others associated with the Braves were right or wrong with the Uggla situation ranks somewhere between how many angels can dance on the edge of a pin and where is Jimmy Hoffa really buried?
That said, the Braves needed to keep Uggla on the roster, but that's just me talking. I lean heavily toward the incumbent in these situations, because you never know when they might have a sudden burst of goodness from their past. Replacements, well … there is a reason why they aren't starters. Take, for instance, Elliot Johnson, who was a solid pickup for the Braves during the late season as a fill-in infielder. Now, he is operating at second base in place of Uggla during this best-of-five series between the Braves and the Dodgers, which is tied at one game apiece.
Johnson is trying his best. Still, heading into Sunday night's Game 3 in Los Angeles after two in Atlanta, he has four strikeouts, no hits and no walks in his seven plate appearances. Not only that, he couldn't handle a tricky grounder that was ruled a hit in Game 1, but many of his peers usually make that play. He also dropped the ball on a relay throw in Game 2 on what likely would have been a close play at home.
I know. None of the above was a huge factor during any of those games, and who's to say Uggla wouldn't have done all of those things or worse given his season-long struggles. Which brings us back to why the Braves' decision makers had one of the toughest personnel decisions in history to make before the start of a playoff series.
For Gonzalez, it was particularly excruciating.
"[Tuesday] might have been one of the hardest days I've had to experience as a Major League manager," Gonzalez told reporters, referring to his seven-year relationship with Uggla.
They've been together for three seasons with the Braves after they spent four years with the Marlins, when Gonzalez was the manager and Uggla was one of the team's stars.
Added Gonzalez, "You try to put the best roster you think will fit in a five-game series and put your best 25 out there. Without getting into details on this and that, we feel like we put our best 25 out there to compete against the Dodgers."
At the time the Braves announced their roster decision, Uggla disagreed, of course, and nothing changed before their 6-1 loss in the NLDS opener, when he discussed his feelings without much of a filter.
"Mainly disappointed, upset, [ticked off] -- every negative emotion you can probably have," Uggla said while standing in the middle of a media horde near the diamond at Turner Field.
Then Uggla got specific, referring to his .179 batting average for the season.
"I'm not blind to my numbers," Uggla said. "I know what they are. But at the same time, I know what I've done in my career, and I still know what I'm capable of doing. So I was kind of blindsided by [getting left off the Braves' NLDS roster]."
Uggla made a splendid case with those comments, but for which side of this argument? I don't know.
Let's say you supported the Braves going without Uggla. It made sense, because when you're trying to stop your streak of losing in the first round of the postseason at six, there is only so far you can go with somebody who was the worst hitter in the Major Leagues during the regular season. I'm not exaggerating. That really was Uggla's distinction. His 171 strikeouts were the third-most in baseball, and only teammate B.J. Upton's average (.108) sat below that of Uggla's (.137) in baseball when it came to hitting with runners in scoring position.
So you opposed the Uggla decision? That also made sense. I mean, the guy is a three-time All-Star, and just three years ago with the Marlins, he hit .287 with 33 home runs and 105 RBIs. Plus, despite his mostly sickly bat throughout the regular season, he was among the primary reasons why the Braves led the NL in home runs. He slammed 22 of them, and he also led the Braves in walks with 77. He can field, too.
Told you this was tough, and consider this: If the Braves advance, they can add Uggla to the NLCS roster … or not.


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Nelson Scott
|Heath, Ohio (Heath HS)
2014 Track and Field: Distance medley relay team finished first at the Emory Crossplex Invitational with a time of 10:19.93… Placed first in the long jump at the A-Sun Indoor Championships (6.83 meters)… Won the 400 meters at the Shamrock Invitational with a time of 50.56, a personal best… Won the pole vault clearing 4.25 meters, a personal best… Finished second at the University of Tennessee Challenge in the 4x400-meter relay (3:21.98)… Placed second in the 400-meter hurdles at the Georgia Invitational with a time of 53.90… Member of the 4x400-meter relay team breaking the outdoor school record with a time of 3:13.23.
2013 Track and Field: Began his track and field career at the Edward S. Temple Invite where he took fourth place in the 4x4 with a time of 3:28.61s... His time of 23.11s in the 200m at the ETSU Niswonger Invitational 2013 marked his personal best in the event... At the TSU Invite he completed the 4x4 in 3:24.14s, which awarded him first place at the meet... Finished the 400m hurdles at the BSC 'Southern Invitational with a time of 55.42s to earn him first place in the event... Placed first in the 4x4 at the A-Sun Outdoor Championships with a time of 3:14.76s.
Prep: Competed for Darl Keller at Heath (Ohio) High School... All-state in long jump and hurdles... 22' 3.5" long jump mark is school record... All-District all four years of high school... Placed 10th in the decathlon in the 2010 USATF Junior Olympics... Also lettered three seasons in football (where he was All-MidState Ohio) and three seasons in swimming.
Personal: Son of Dave and Sarah Scott... Has one sister (Jane)... Plans to be a mechanical engineering major... Chose Lipscomb due to the up-and-coming nature of the track and field program, over Miami (Ohio) and Cincinnati, among others.


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by Tom Utescher
Last Wednesday night at Norristown High School, a large, colorfully dressed crowd of Mount St. Joseph Academy supporters was thrilled to see the Magic post a double-digit victory in a PIAA District 1 semifinal game that many basketball prognosticators felt could go either way. It was fortunate that the Mount players and fans were able to thoroughly enjoy that evening, because the trip to Villanova University two days later turned out to be not such a fun ride.
On Wednesday, the second-seeded MSJ Magic began a pivotal surge at the end of the third quarter, and went on to post a 48-36 victory over Upper Dublin High School, the three seed for the Class AAAA district playoffs. Unfortunately for the Mounties, the seeding committee was validated again in Friday's final, when number one Spring-Ford High School repeated as District 1 champion by soundly defeating the Magic, 51-30.
Mount St. Joe claimed the district crown in 2011, and last year the Magic lost to Downingtown West High School in the quarterfinals. Well before taking the court for last week's semifinals and finals, the Mount had earned a place among the 10 teams that will represent District 1 in the 2013 PIAA state tournament. Emerging as the runner-up, the Magic will enter States as the District 1 second seed, with a 26-3 overall record.
In a regular-season meeting back in January, the Spring-Ford Lady Rams had beaten the Mount in a much closer contest, 39-32. Ironically, the second setback at the hands (hooves?) of the Lady Rams slotted Mount St. Joe into a state tournament opener against the only other team that has beaten the Magic this winter, Cumberland Valley High School.
In the finals of a tip-off tournament at Cumberland Valley, just west of Harrisburg, the host Eagles topped Mount St. Joe in the second game of the season, 55-50. Seeded third for the District 3 playoffs, Cumberland Valley lost in the quarterfinals, and eventually earned the district's number five spot for the state tourney.
For last week's District 1 semifinal at Norristown, fans from both schools began massing in their designated bleacher sections more than half-an-hour before game time, and during warm-ups the Upper Dublin boys delighted in counting aloud the practice shots missed by the Mounties.
The Cardinals, after losing their season opener, won 25 straight games before falling to the Mount.
MSJ's Louin did not deposit a field goal until the very end of the opening quarter, and Upper Dublin seemed caught off-guard somewhat when freshman guard Libby Tacka opened the scoring with a three-pointer from the left corner and lofted two more treys in short order. That helped the Magic (who never trailed) enjoy an 11-4 advantage a little over three minutes into the action.
"She jump-started us," said MSJ senior forward Meg Geatens. "It showed them that any one of us could come out and score on a given night."
The teams traded points in the remainder of the first round, bumping the score up to 15-8. Louin, who'd dropped in a pair of free throws early on, rounded out the scoring for the quarter by driving the lane and pulling up for a little jumper at the buzzer.
The initial run for the Magic continued to loom large as the teams ended up 10-10 for the second round. Flamboyant Cardinals guard Curtrena Goff picked up her second foul and fellow senior Lauren Rothfield acquired her third during the period. Upper Dublin struggled much of the night against the MSJ defense, often turning the ball over by making iffy passes that probably would've found their targets against lesser teams.
"Today the key was shutting down Goff, because we knew she's what holds their team together," Geatens said afterwards. "We also focused on keeping Regan Gallagher off the boards; we know her so well and we know that she can rebound the ball and put it back in."
Just 10 seconds into the second quarter, one of Rothfield's infractions sent Louin to the foul line to sink a pair, then UD's Gallagher, a junior who played at Mount St. Joseph as a ninth and 10th-grader, scored the first two of her nine points off of a nice move in the paint.
The Cardinals' Brianna Spector, a senior forward, bagged a triple from the left wing, but she was only able to add one point the rest of the way. After her trey tightened the score to 17-13, the Magic started cashing in on Upper Dublin fouls, making six straight free throws.
As the final 90 seconds of the half began, UD's Goff set her feet on the right flank and put down a "three." Louin went coast-to-coast for the Magic off of a steal, but Goff responded with a steal that led to her own breakaway bucket with five seconds remaining. It was the second of her three field goals in the game, and it fixed the scoreboard at 25-18 for the intermission.
Louin had 10 points and Geatens had six for the leaders, each going six-for-six at the free throw line. Goff chalked up seven for the Cardinals.
Coming out of the break, Gallagher got Upper Dublin going right away with a lay-up, and the output from the Mount St. Joseph side of the stands became slightly less deafening as the Magic scored just one point (by Louin) over the first four-and-a-half minutes of the third stanza.
After Goff made a foul shot, Rothfield couldn't locate the cylinder on two more Upper Dublin free throws, but she rebounded her second miss and lifted the ball back up and in. The Magic called time out, now ahead by just three points with 4:43 to go in the quarter, and soon after play resumed junior Kayla McAneney canned a three-pointer for the Cardinals, who finally pulled even on the scoreboard at 26-all.
Confidence grew in the Cardinal crowd as two Mount foul shots missed the mark.
Those looking for an MSJ response probably had their eyes on Louin. She would make a statement in the closing quarter, but in the last half of the third round other Mounties rode to the rescue. Driving in from the left, junior forward Carly Monzo went airborne for a very athletic-looking lay-up.
After that, guard Adrienne Cellucci said "My turn!" The Ursinus-bound senior traded three-point buckets with Goff (the Cardinal star's last field goal of the night), and then hit a shorter jumper. UD's Spector finished her scoring for the game with a free throw, but with two seconds to go, Cellucci stuck a little jump shot from the left baseline and sent the Magic into the fourth quarter with a 35-30 lead.
The Cardinals actually came out of the third period with a net gain of two points, but they'd lost momentum. Cellucci's final basket in the third stanza proved to be the beginning of a 12-0 run for Mount St. Joe.
Geatens got the ball to Monzo for a lay-up, and Louin penetrated the lane twice for field goals. As the Magic got into the bonus, Louin pulled both points from a one-and-one with 2:54 remaining, then Monzo's breakaway basket made it 45-30. Upper Dublin got three points apiece from Goff (14 total) and Gallagher (nine points) over the last two minutes, but that simply trimmed back the final margin to an even dozen.
In the MSJ scorebook, Louin's game-high 19 points was followed by nine points for Tacka, eight for Cellucci, and six apiece for Geatens and Monzo.
In the second game that night, Cinderella stumbled. Surprise semifinalist Bayard Rustin High School was swept away 63-30 by Spring-Ford, which advanced to meet the Mount. Back in the 2011-2012 season, the Lady Rams beat the Magic 46-38 in the regular season and 38-31 in the second round of the state tournament.
A week later, when the Lady Rams got their heads handed to them by Archbishop Carroll in the PIAA semifinals, victorious coach Chuck Creighton was quoted as saying that Carroll had been well prepared to face Spring-Ford by its encounters with tough out-of-state opponents. Many thin-skinned supporters of teams with less diverse schedules took umbrage at his frank (and accurate) remarks, but the Spring-Ford coaching staff responded in a much more constructive fashion.
Looking towards a season when almost all of their principal players would be juniors and seniors, the Lady Rams geared up for another run at a state title by scheduling rivals beyond the boundaries of Pennsylvania, and making a trip to a holiday tournament in Florida.
After an early loss to the Academy of Notre Dame locally, their only setback came against a traditional Long Island power, St. Anthony's.
At Villanova last Friday, Spring-Ford showed the versatility of its offense, getting many of its points from a different set of players than those who had powered its earlier win over Mount St. Joe. Back in January, the Lady Rams received 36 of their 39 points from forwards, and in the rematch their guards combined for 30. Backcourt bookends Sammy Stipa (a junior) and Sammi Haas (a senior) had not scored at all in the first encounter, and last Friday they put up 15 and five points, respectively.
Spring-Ford got off to a 5-0 start before a short jumper by Geatens got Mount St. Joe on the board with 4:41 left in the first quarter. Over the next three minutes or so the Lady Rams had a 7-5 edge in scoring, with the Mount marking down a three-pointer and a score on a put-back for Tacka. In the final minute two steals by Louin led to lay-ups for herself and for Monzo, cutting the lead to one point at 12-11. Just before the buzzer, the Magic were playing a few steps off of Spring-Ford senior guard Brittany Moore on the right wing, and she used the space to sink a jumper, making it 14-11.
The Lady Rams slowly added four free throws for an 18-11 tally, forcing a Mount time out. Spring-Ford's Courtney Hinant (five points total) missed two foul shots, but Louin made a pair for the Magic. MSJ junior forward Colleen Steinmetz popped in a little jumper from the lane with 4:27 to go in the half, and the Mount was back within three points of the leaders, 18-15.
Aware that the 5'11" Louin would have to use her height inside to try and counter their taller line-up (this in addition to her regular guard duties), the Lady Rams made the MSJ standout labor hard whenever and wherever they could. After her second-quarter free throws, she would record only two more points, in the middle of the fourth quarter.
Just as problematic for the Mounties was the fact that no one else found the basket, either, including some players shooting relatively open lay-ups. From three points down in the middle of the second stanza, Mount St. Joe would not get any more balls to fall until early in the fourth quarter, making for a scoring drought of 13 minutes, 36 seconds.
Four different Lady Rams located the cylinder before the half ended at 32-15, and the Magic act was truly over when they were unable to make their offense reappear during the 0-11 third quarter.
The gap between the district's first and second teams grew as large as 30 points in the fourth period before both ballclubs emptied their benches onto the floor. The production of the Spring-Ford guards was complemented by forwards Shelby Mueller (a junior) and Sarah Payonk (a senior), who logged nine and seven points, respectively.
MSJ's Tacka, a model of consistency, duplicated her nine-point performance of two nights earlier, and six points apiece came from Louin and Geatens while Monzo added four. In the final half-minute, a free throw from sophomore Katie Maransky and a long, buzzer-beating runner by junior Gen Hagedorn boosted the Magic's total to 30 points.


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The establishment of protected areas and protected area systems does not guarantee that their objectives are achieved. To fulfil their purpose, protected areas must be managed effectively, requiring appropriate institutional and governance arrangements and competent professionals providing a range of skills at site and system levels, including for the marine and freshwater environments. The global analysis of management effectiveness assessments yields the insight that a large proportion of designated protected areas are inadequately managed. Since its inception, IUCN has produced a large volume of highly regarded protected area standards, such as the IUCN Protected Area Categories and Governance Types, and many supporting capacity development resource materials and training programmes.
Yet, there remains a poor linkage between (i) the production of resource materials, (ii) the education and training of competent professionals and (iii) the achievement of certified high standards of PA management effectiveness and (iv) the measurement of conservation outcomes. For national governments to meet targets and goals for effective management, a focus on all of these elements is required.
Working in close association with IUCN WCPA, UN agencies, convention secretariats, including the CBD and the World Heritage Convention, , and partner organizations, the GPAP and WHP will develop a comprehensive capacity development program of activities involving IUCN Regional Programmes, Commissions and Members. The core rationale for this would be to support capacity-building for the implementation of the CBD's Programme of Work on Protected Areas and the achievement of Aichi Target 11 (although there are several Aichi Targets that depend on the achievement of protected area conservation goals).
Below, Mike Appleton, Vice Chair of the IUCN WCPA Capacity Development Thematic Group, explains what capacity development for protected areas is about:


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On December 17 of last year, the NASA GRAIL mission came to a close when the Ebb spacecraft that had been orbiting the moon crashed into a mountain near its north pole. Three days prior to this planned impact, two cameras aboard the spacecraft took a series of images — now, NASA has stitched together the photos to create this dramatic video showing Ebb's perspective as it flew over the lunar surface.
The first part of the video consists of 931 individual frames, and was taken by the forward facing camera. The second part, taken by the rear-facing camera, is comprised of 1,498 individual frames. The entire thing is played back at six times the rate of Ebb's true orbital speed. The video was taken about six miles (10 km) above the northern hemisphere of the moon's far side, near the Jackson impact crater.


text: Laid off from his dream job and broke, Bailey Hall goes back home with his tail between his legs and a severely bruised ego. It doesn't help matters that the only work he can find is at his older sister's day care. Now, instead of spending the day teaching high school students Shakespeare and Keats, he's wiping snotty noses and tripping on building blocks. Then one rainy afternoon, his humiliation reaches a whole new low when David Walker comes in to pick up his baby nephew. Not only was David the most popular guy in high school, but Bailey harbored a secret crush on the guy. Bailey is both horrified and excited to see that, eight years later, David is just as hot as ever. He's also very successful and wealthy, neither of which Bailey is. David spent the past years fulfilling his dream of becoming a successful lawyer and he finally has almost everything he's ever wanted within his grasp. Then he goes into the daycare center and spots the one thing his libido has never been able to resist–Bailey. All through his senior year of high school, David lusted after the shy, dark-haired, freshman scholar. He'd been too afraid to act on his feelings at the time. Not only was Bailey too young for a relationship, but the teen had also been struggling with his sexuality. Although it was the hardest thing he'd ever done, David forced himself not to act on his feelings and kept his hands off Bailey. Now that they are both adults and he has Bailey in his sights again, David vows to finally give into his desires. But will Bailey welcome his attraction or will David have to live with nothing but his regrets to keep him company at night?


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Holiday Exercise: Make It a Pleasure, Not a Punishment
by Cynthia M. Johnson, MA
The majority of adults in the United States are not physically active on a regular basis. Only 30% get the recommended amount of physical activity. Lack of time is the most often cited reason for not getting in enough exercise.
When the holiday season begins, the lack of time issue only becomes more problematic. For most people, even for those who do exercise regularly, this means that daily exercise slips to the bottom of the long list of things to do at the holidays. You know that list: gift shopping, party hopping, and traveling to see family and friends.
Take some time to figure out what you can and can't control. Then, work on the elements you can control to help with your time management. Here are some ways you can stay on track with your exercise routine throughout the holidays.
Set Short- and Long-Term Goals
Rather than drag yourself to the gym each day to burn off some of that eggnog, set a fitness goal for the holiday season.
Try writing down what you want to accomplish during the 2-month period from November 20 to January 20. Choose a goal such as losing 5 pounds, increasing your strength, or improving your time in a mile run. Don't make exercise a penance for the holiday cookies you ate. Make it a personal goal unrelated to holiday revelry.
Your goals need to be flexible and in line with your capabilities, needs, values, and available resources. They should be challenging, but also realistic. Measure the baseline of where you are now and decide where you would like to be on a certain date in January.
Write down your goal and take ownership of it by signing it—either by yourself or with a workout partner.
Develop Rituals
Rituals are another way that you can gain control over your environment.
Here are examples of rituals that may work for you:
Get a Workout Partner
Some people find that working out with a partner helps motivate them and keep them consistent in terms of getting to the gym. Knowing that someone is waiting at the gym for you will hopefully motivate you on the days you don't feel like getting out of bed to exercise. Another option is to hire a trainer for a couple of months. Money spent and potentially wasted can be a powerful motivator. Consider it a gift to yourself.
Train for an Event or Sport
Whether you like to ski or snowboard or whatever, being fit will make your winter activities more enjoyable. Knowing you need to be physically prepared may be the motivational tool you need in terms of keeping you consistent with your workouts. Realizing that all your training will have an additional benefit, other than improved fitness, may also improve your chances of sticking with it.
If you don't already have something to train for, consider these:
So, for this holiday season, find some motivation that has nothing to do with guilt.
American Heart Association
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Canadian Society of Exercise Physiology
Healthy Canadians
2008 physical activity guidelines for Americans. US Department of Health and Human Services website. Available at:
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The Surgeon General's call to action to prevent and decrease overweight and obesity. US Department of Health and Human Services' Surgeon General website. Available at:
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It is very simple to stream your audio to your server, you will need a copy of Winamp with the Shoutcast DSP plugin installed. There are also other alternatives such as Oddcast and SAM.
1) Start Winamp and go to: Options >> Preferences
You will see the menu below:
On the left hand menu, click on DSP/Effect and in the main window, click on 'Nullsoft SHOUTcast Source DSP'" and another window will also appear entitled 'SHOUTcast source'. You can now close the preferences window.
4) Configure the plugin.
a) First of all, click on the Output tab at the top and make sure that 'Connection' is selected (under the output list)
This is where you put in the info that you were sent when your SHOUTcast account was activated.
You will need to enter the Address, Port and Password - if you are unsure, please open a support ticket or log in to the control panel (you should have recieved an email when you signed up to the service with your stream details). Select Encoder 1 if not already selected (or whichever encoder is available if you are already using 1).
b) Click on the Yellowpages button.
This is where you enter general information about your stream. Note: You must enter a Description to appear on the SHOUTcast directory - don't keep it as the default name or you won't be listed.
The Description and URL can be set in our SHOUTcast control panel to override these settings.
c) Click the encoder tab.
This is where you set the bitrate of your stream. Make sure that you select the same encoder as you did in the Output/Connection settings (usually Encoder 1 or whichever one you selected in step 4a)
IMPORTANT: Be careful not to stream at a higher bitrate than your account allows, as your SHOUTcast server will be automatically disabled! If this happens then you can log into restart your server, if you lock your server more than 3 times it will be suspended for 1 day or until you contact us.
With the latest version of Winamp, you can broadcast in either MP3 format or AAC+. The AAC+ format is far superior as far as sound quality goes, however only more recent audio players are able to support the relatively new format. To reach a wider audience, you may be best to stream in MP3.
You can offer your listeners different formats and bitrates with out Transcoding service.
For lower bitrates (lower than 96k), it is often better to select a mono setting rather than stereo - this will give better sound quality. A sample rate of 44.100kHz is also often better. The best ways is to experiment to see what your listeners prefer - different settings will be better depending on the genre of music that you play.
d) Click the Input tab.
This is where you select the source of your audio. If you are streaming music straight from Winamp, then select Winamp for the Input Device. However, if you are DJing live with external equipment (turntables / CD player / mixer etc) or hosting a talk show, then you will have to select the Line Input.
e) You are now fully set up and ready to stream your audio across the net.
5) Connect
To connect to your server, click the Output tab again and click Connect - you will see a counter start - this means that you have connected to your SHOUTcast server successfully
6) Now you need listeners! Go out and promote your station?
A few extra notes for people who have selected Line In as their Input Device.
You may have to configure the mixer on your PC - to do this, go to the Input tab and click on Open Mixer. Two windows will appear (Volume Control and Recording Control). Close Volume control, as this is not needed.
Ensure that the Line In box is ticked and that the volume is at a suitable level - on my system in particular the level control is very sensitive (note the very low level) - the best way to test this is to use the in built Input Level meter in the SHOUTcast Source plugin (Input tab)
You can also select the Stereo Mix box (some PCs may not have a Line In selection), however your listeners will also hear any sounds made by your PC such as web pages or other applications like MSN. Best to disable all sounds in this case.
It is very simple to stream your audio to your server, you will need a copy of Winamp with the Shoutcast DSP plugin installed. There are also other alternatives such as Oddcast and SAM.
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I'm building a display that pulls data from a megajolt unit.
Reading global seems to only pull 63 bytes.
The API manual says 64 in one place and 65 in another.
Which should it be?
It currently works on 63 bytes.
One other question.
Can I sell hardware and software designed and built by me that plugs into the megajolt user port and uses the megajolt AP to pull data from the megajoltI?
The unit is likely to be sold ( if I get that far with it ) in very low volume numbers.
In other words.
Do I need to speak to you in regards of licencing?