In a previous article I announced that I would write a sequel covering how to pass multiple-value parameters from a SQL Server Reporting Services report to a stored procedure. So that's what I will be writing about in this article.
As usual, I will be using the AdventureWorks2008 sample database (running on SQL Server 2008 SP1), downloadable from CodePlex.
The examples in this article, Part 2, are building further on the result achieved when following the steps described in Part 1, so please refer to the previous article if needed.
As we've already seen in Part 1, parameters can be passed from a Reporting Services report to a stored procedure. The parameter that was used was just a simple, single-valued parameter. However, a report parameter can be defined as being multi-value. Let's set one up!
Our report currently shows a list of employees who were hired after the selected hire date. One of the columns being shown is the department in which they're active. We will modify the report so that it's possible to filter the data on department – only the selected departments are to be retrieved from the database.
The first step is to create a new report parameter, so right-click the Parameters node in the Report Data pane and select Add Parameter….
We want to make the parameter user-friendly so that the user sees a list of departments and can just select those that he needs. That means the parameter needs to be populated with that list of departments. To be able to do that, we first need to create a new dataset that retrieves the list of departments.
Once the dataset is created, open up the properties of the Department Report Parameter created just before and select the Available Values page.
On that page, select the Get values from a query radio button, choose dsDepartmentList in the Dataset dropdown, select DepartmentID as Value field and DepartmentName as Label field. The Label field is what the user sees while the Value field is what Reporting Services will use as value. After all, we want to pass the IDs of the selected departments to our stored procedure, not the department names. And we want the user to see the department names, not their ID.
By default, no values are selected. To make it a bit more user-friendly, let's select all departments by default when the report first loads. This is done on the Default Values page.
Select the Get values from a query radio button, dsDepartmentList as Dataset and DepartmentID as Value field.
That's it, the multi-value report parameter is created! Of course, at this moment it doesn't have any effect on the report's content yet (switch to Preview if you don't believe me and have a look). We'll get to that next.
To be able to handle the values passed into our stored procedure, let's first find out what exactly our report is passing into it. We'll do this by temporarily creating a new stored proc that will just accept the parameter values and return them.
It accepts one parameter and returns it in a field called TheParameterReturned.
If you compare that list of numbers with the result that our dsDepartmentList query returns, you'll see that these are the values from the DepartmentID field in exactly the same order as in the query's result. And separated by commas. So in other words: it's a comma-separated string of selected values.
Now that we know what exactly the multi-value parameter passes to a stored procedure, let's modify our main procedure by adding the extra parameter to it.
Since our parameter is a comma-separated list of our values, I've used the IN operator to filter on only the selected values.
Next we need to add the extra parameter to the dsEmployeeData dataset. Double-click it in the Report Data pane to get its properties and click the Refresh Fields button to have it add the new parameter to the list. Then switch to the Parameters page and select the [@DepartmentList] parameter as Parameter Value for the newly-added @DepartmentList parameter.
Close the properties popup and run the report by activating the Preview tab.
Conversion failed when converting the varchar value '12,1,16,14,10,9,11,4,7,8,5,13,6,3,15,2' to data type smallint.
This error comes from our stored procedure. It complains that it cannot convert the list of values from a string to a smallint. Weird isn't it? Well, maybe not. Let's have a look at what's going on.
Conversion failed when converting the varchar value '12,1,16,14,10,9,11,4,7,8,5,13,6,3,15,2′ to data type smallint.
The reason for this error is the following. The DepartmentID field is of type smallint. Therefore SQL Server tries to convert the list of values to smallint. In the first SELECT statement, each value gets converted to smallint and all works fine. In the second SELECT, SQL Server sees just one value, a varchar(1000), and tries to convert that to a smallint. It fails because the value that the string contains is not convertible to smallint. If the string would contain only one value, it would actually work.
We've seen that our first implementation of using the IN operator is not a good idea. So we need to find another way to get this stored procedure working.
Note: it would actually be possible to use the previous method in combination with dynamic SQL but I'm not going to apply that technique here. In case you are interested in that method, just construct a long string that contains the whole query as it is in the working SELECT statement above. For more info on dynamic SQL I'd like to point you to this excellent article by SQL Server MVP Erland Sommarskog: The Curse and Blessings of Dynamic SQL.
The IN operator can take a subquery. So now we need to find a way to "select" the values out of our comma-separated string of values. I am not going to re-invent the wheel and use a function that's mentioned in another great article by Erland Sommarskog. The article is called Arrays and Lists in SQL Server 2005 but is also applicable to 2008 and mentions a function called iter$simple_intlist_to_tbl.
It takes a list of comma-delimited integers and returns a resultset containing integers, just what we need!
And indeed, if we now run our report again, it works perfectly!
Another best practice as far as report readability goes is that it should be clear on your report what data has been filtered. As the multi-value parameter is on focus here, I'll demonstrate how you can show the selected values on your report.
With this article I believe I've demonstrated that it is possible to pass multi-value parameters from a SQL Server Reporting Services report to a stored procedure, while applying some best practices such as giving the users a nice list of values to select from.
Happy reporting, thank you for reading my article, and should you feel like it: post a comment!
The first step of creating a SQL Server Reporting Services (SSRS) report involves setting up a connection to the data source and programming a dataset to retrieve data from that data source. The dataset can use a SELECT query, which is the most common way of retrieving data and one that you're probably already familiar with. But it can also use a Stored Procedure (aka stored proc or SP).
The purpose of this article is to demonstrate how data can be retrieved from a SQL Server database through Stored Procedures defined in that same database, and then displayed in a SQL Server 2008 Reporting Services report.
I'll be using the AdventureWorks2008 sample database available for download at CodePlex.
If you have experience using a regular programming language such as Visual Basic or C#, I'm sure this sounds familiar. You can think of a stored procedure as a method that takes any number of parameters, depending on its definition, and that possibly returns a result, again depending on its definition. Instead of being stored in a compiled .exe or .dll, it is stored in the database.
In this article I will be using some stored procedures that return a dataset as result. How stored procedures are written is not the purpose of this article. For that I'd like to refer you to this Books Online page: Implementing Stored Procedures.
There are several reasons why it is more interesting to use datasets based on stored procedures as opposed to SELECT statements.
Performance: stored procedures perform faster than SELECT statements. The reason for this is because they are compiled when they're created and their execution plan gets stored by SQL Server so that it can be reused for each procedure call.
Maintenance: when a database needs to undergo some changes to its schema, the changes can be handled in the stored procedures. This makes it transparent for the reports that are using these stored procedures. The reports will keep functioning as expected without any modifications to them.
Reuse: imagine a situation where several reports are reporting on the same set of data. If you wouldn't use stored procedures, you may have to repeat a possibly complex query in each report. With stored procedures you just need to define the query in the stored procedure and then call it in each report's dataset.
Security: in environments where DBAs are responsible for the SQL Server databases, the report developers will possibly not get sufficient rights to retrieve data from the tables directly. One of the ways to prevent this is to give them access to a bunch of stored procedures and views instead.
Okay, enough theory, time to show you how it's done!
Make sure that the Report template is selected. I'm calling my report StoredProcDataset.
Now that we've got an empty report we still need to get some data. We'll set up a Shared Data Source first. Shared Data Sources are convenient when you're planning to create several reports on the same database. It removes the connection string from the report itself and puts it in a separate Shared Data Source object, making it easy to switch between databases. (Imagine putting your reports into the production environment – instead of needing to modify each report to connect to the production database, you just need to modify the Shared Data Source).
In the Solution Explorer, right-click the Shared Data Sources folder and select Add New Data Source.
I'm calling the Shared Data Source AdventureWorks2008. A Data Source can connect to several different sources, such as Oracle or an Analysis Services cube. In fact, it can connect to any source through OLE DB, as long as there's an OLE DB provider that has all the expected functionality implemented. For a good list of drivers, have a look at the Books Online: Data Sources Supported by Reporting Services.
The one that we're interested in now is called Microsoft SQL Server, which is by default selected in the Type dropdown.
Next we'll add a Data Source to the report based on the Shared Data Source.
In the Report Data pane, select New > Data Source….
If you don't see the Report Data pane, you can open it by going to the View menu item and selecting Report Data right down at the bottom of the menu window. Or hit CTRL + ALT + D. That's an interesting shortcut to memorize because the Report Data pane has a tendency to disappear, especially if you've closed and re-opened the BIDS.
I've called my Data Source srcAdventureWorks2008 and I've told it to use the existing Shared Data Source.
So, now we're ready to query our stored procedure. In the Report Data pane, right-click the newly created Data Source and select Add Dataset….
I'm calling the Dataset dsEmployeeData. The Data Source edit box is already prefilled with the right data source because we've right-clicked the data source to which we want to add a dataset, how easy can it be?
To query a stored procedure from a dataset is really very straightforward. All you need to do now is select the Stored Procedure radio button. Doing that replaces the bottom part of the window. Instead of an edit box that expects a query, we now get a simple dropdown where we need to select our SP.
Once you've done that, select the Fields page on the left.
As you can see, the list of fields has been pre-filled. The BIDS queries the stored procedure's metadata so we do not need to manually specify the fields returned by our SP, saving us quite some time!
Once you click OK to close the Dataset Properties window, you'll see that the Report Data pane gets populated with our list of fields.
Next, from the Report Data pane, drag some fields into the cells in the Data part of the Table. As we're dealing with employee data, it would be interesting to see their names. I've also added their job and department.
Resize the columns a bit so that everything will fit nicely, and color the Header cells different from the Data cells to easily distinguish them.
Now we're ready to run the report, so click the Report's Preview tab.
So, that was our first procedure. Wasn't too complicated, was it? So, ready for another one?
This time we'll make it a little more complicated. As you know, stored procedures can take parameters. And SSRS knows how to pass them into a stored proc. So let's do that!
The stored procedure shown below is based on our previous one. Except now it takes one parameter: @HireDate. The SP will only return employees that have been hired after given HireDate.
As the HireDate field in the HumanResources.Employee table is of type date, I chose to make the parameter that same data type.
Please note that the above script uses ALTER PROCEDURE instead of CREATE PROCEDURE. This will only work if you've already created the previous procedure. If not, just replace the word ALTER with CREATE.
The next step is to modify our existing Dataset so that it passes a date into our stored procedure.
As you can see, it is still empty.
The parameter has been automatically added when we clicked the Refresh Fields… button!
The BIDS again used the stored proc's metadata to do this. No need for manual intervention. For now, leave the Parameter Value box as it is, empty. Click OK to close the properties window.
Indeed, it is referring to the parameter on the report.
Now that the parameter has been set up, it's time to test our report again.
As the report is now filtering on the HireDate, it would be interesting to actually show this field in the table. Add an extra column and drag this field into the data cell.
This instructs the BIDS to show the field using the "short date pattern". A list of possible codes is available on MSDN: Standard Date and Time Format Strings. As you notice, SSRS is using the regular formatting strings as they are known in .NET.
Note also that the format used to display the data depends on the report's Language property. I'll leave it at its default: en-US.
To be sure that you're using the correct format for the date, I suggest to select a date using the control. Then you can always modify it to whatever day you'd like to select.
For our test I know that some employees started before 2000 and others later, so I'll select a date somewhere in the year 2000.
And indeed, our report shows only employees that started after our selected HireDate.
With this article I hope to have shown you that it's fairly straightforward to report on data coming from stored procedures.
In case the above hasn't fulfilled your appetite on this subject yet, watch out for part 2. In that sequel I will build further on the example used in this article to show you how you can use multi-value parameters to filter your report's data.
In the meantime: happy reporting, and thank you for reading my article!
Windows XP: Fix The Search!
This is an old one but I keep needing it every once in a while. Every time when I start using a new machine running Windows XP to be precise. So I thought I'd post it here so next time I don't need to spend five minutes looking to find the right page.
Recently I needed to find all SSIS packages that were using a particular view and I performed a Windows Search on all .dtsx files in my project's folder, searching for the view's name. And it didn't give me any results even though I knew there were a couple of packages that were using it. Is the search broken?
And then I remembered: no, it's not broken. Let's just say that XP's default settings are not ideal for developers (or power users in general I'd say). By default XP does not search all file types! And it's a feature, not a bug!
Anyway, luckily the "fix" is not that complicated. My preferred way of fixing this is Method 2 in this Microsoft Support article: Using the "A word or phrase in the file" search criterion may not work.
Interesting to know, this is not a feature in Windows XP only, Windows Server 2003 got it as well.


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8 Chuck Palahniuk Quotes for Writers About Writing
To celebrate the release of his new book about writing, here are 8 Chuck Palahniuk quotes about writing from his 2007 interview with Writer's Digest.
This week marks the release of Chuck Palahniuk's newest book, Consider This: Moments in My Writing Life After Which Everything Was Different. In this collection of essays, Palahniuk offers raw, darkly humorous insights you'd expect from the author of such books as Fight Club and Snuff. To pair with the advice in his new book, here are some of our favorite Chuck Palahniuk quotes about writing, taken from his October 2007 interview with Writer's Digest. You can read the full interview here.
I want to focus my energy on the thing I can control—which is the next book.
My writing has to excite people and depict or include their experiences.
You can always tell a more incredible fictional story if you present it with the structure of nonfiction.
I try to provide as many strong experiences as possible so that you're left thinking you experienced or lived through what the characters have. The idea is to try to place the reader in that reality so they really feel like a character.
My first goal is to document an aspect of human experience that won't get documented by any other form of media.
My third goal is to shock myself—to put something on the page that I never want my mother or nephews to see and that I cannot imagine reading in public. Because if you're always going for the thing you can conceive of, it's boring; you don't force yourself to change.
A lot of my discoveries involve other people who bring me stuff that's so outside my own experience. I find myself continually amazed, shocked and moved by how diverse people's lives are.
If I write in public, every time I need to know what a character is doing with his hand or foot, I can look up and study people and find compelling gestures that I can harvest. Writing in public gives you that access to a junkyard of details all around you.
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…but, with our Civil Partnership registration "ceremony" less than five weeks away, I find myself suddenly desirous of nicking, ooh, just one of the great heterosexual traditions. Namely the stag night.
The question is: where to go?
Nottingham's out, purely on the grounds of over-familiarity.
Birmingham's a strong contender, but there's one major snag: on the weekend in question, K will be attending a vets' conference in the same city. Now, call me old-fashioned, but one simply CANNOT stagger back from one's stag night into one's own partner's hotel room. It's sick and it's wrong.
Manchester's looking good. I can see potential there.
Blackpool's a possible, but I'm not sure how far I'm willing to stretch the "ironic" aspect of the experience.
London: too big and impersonal?
Amsterdam: too far and impractical?
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Drymaeus is a genus of snails of concern and found in the following area(s): Brazil.
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Aeshna umbrosa est une espèce d'insectes de la famille des Aeshnidae appartenant au sous-ordre des anisoptères dans l'ordre des odonates. Elle a été décrite en 1908 par l'entomologiste Canadien Edmund Murton Walker. Son nom vernaculaire est læschne des pénombres.

Description
Cette æschne mesure entre  de long et ses motifs abdominaux sont de couleur variable allant du jaune, vert ou bleu. Les bandes thoraciques sont inclinées et de grosseur semblable. Elles sont également colorées d'un dégradé de bleu à jaune.  Le mâle et la femelle sont relativement similaires. La coloration peut varier chez les individus allant de vert à jaune.

Répartition
Elle se retrouve à travers le Canada et dans la majorité des États des États-Unis.

Habitat
Cette espèce vit au voisinage des étangs, marais, rivières et lacs.

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The benefits of meditation are numerous. According to the NIH's National Center for Complementary and Integrative Health, nearly 8 percent of all Americans or 18 million people have tried meditation or some form of mindfulness. That's almost as many as the nearly 9.5 percent of Americans that have tried yoga.
According to Doron Libshtein, founder of The Mentors Channel and widely regarded as "mentor to the mentors" having taught such experts as Deepak Chopra, stress is behind so many of the physical, mental, and emotional conditions in our lives today. And meditation is one of the most effective tools for reducing stress before it takes a toll.
The clinical benefits of meditation are part of the reason so many in our overly stressed society is giving it a try. It's all about getting the most out of your mind and the most out of your life and actually being present and mindful of the life you're living.
It reduces anxiety and depression.
Meditation has a laundry list of mental and emotional benefits. Many of these benefits come from the fact that meditation and mindfulness actually changes the way the brain works. Let's take a closer look at some specific studies.
1. It keeps the brain from aging.
One study published in the journal Frontiers of Psychology found that while the brain's gray matter (which consists of mostly dendrites and nerve cell bodies), decreased in both meditators and the control group with age, the decline was much steeper in the control group. The brain's dendrites are like trees in a forest and as you age, brain diseases like Alzheimer's and dementia can start to clear cut trees. This study shows that meditation can slow this progression.
2. It reduces brain inflammation.
A study published in the journal Biological Psychiatry found that study participants who practiced mindfulness while stretching had reduced inflammation in the brain related to stress. And there was more activity in the parts of the brain that are related to focus and calmness.
Another study, led by Harvard researcher and neuroscientist Sara Lazar, found that meditators had more gray matter in the frontal cortex, the part of the brain that's responsible for memory and decision making. This, according to Lazar, is the part of the brain that shrinks as you age, causing those lapses in memory.
4. The part of the brain responsible for fear shrunk.
That same study showed that in brain scans of meditators, the amygdala, the part of the brain that's responsible for anxiety, stress, fear, and the fight or flight protection instinct, actually got smaller. This may be what causes a marked reduction in stress levels in those that meditate on a regular basis.
5. Your brain becomes more rational.
According to Dr. Rebecca Gladding, coauthor of the book "You Are Not Your Brain," the connection between the medial prefrontal cortex and sensations arising all over your body is reduced during meditation. This means that you're better able to see bodily sensations for what they really are rather than responding to them with irrational fear. The medial prefrontal cortex is also known as the "Me center" and as you meditate, you're better able to move from me to "we," meaning your empathy for others also increases.
6. Stress hormones in the brain are reduced.
While you may think that meditation is just the act of doing nothing, that's far from the truth. In fact, meditation is a form of brain training that's actively engaged in increasing awareness. According to a study published in JAMA Internal Medicine, this brain training reduces stress hormones by about the same amount as anti-depressants.
A study published in Social Cognitive and Affective Neuroscience found that in just a few days meditation can improve concentration. Researchers followed a group of participants studying for the GRE test, and found that meditators scored 16 points higher than non-meditators on the verbal reasoning section of the test. For those of us that say they don't have time to meditate, it may be worth noting that by taking a few minutes to meditate at the beginning of each day, you might actually be saving yourself some time in other areas of your day.
Now that we've gone through all the benefits of meditation, let's talk about doing it. Here are a few tips on how to meditate from Doron Libshtein.
1. Set aside time daily.
For beginners, start by setting aside 15 to 20 minutes per day. It's best to meditate in the morning or just before you go to bed at night. Additionally, you may want to split your time and do 7 to 10 minutes in the morning and the night. For those that meditate regularly, increase your time to 20 minutes in the morning and 20 minutes before bed. The timing isn't as important as just doing it regularly.
A mantra (like Om or Om Shanti Om or I am Peace), can give you something to focus on during meditation. Just repeat your mantra, whatever it is, on the inhale and the exhale. If you don't feel like using a mantra, it's not a requirement.
Your breath is another tool that helps you focus. And it's also important for stress reduction. Try using four counts on your inhale and eight counts on your exhale. Your breath shouldn't be strained in any way, so if you need to work up to eight counts, that's just fine. Lengthening the exhale helps to calm you down as well.
4. Try a guided meditation.
Many people do better when they're guided on their meditation journey by someone else. The Mentors Channel provides a host of guidance for those that prefer it.
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Immunoncology: New findings in proteins tracing
Researchers identified thousands of specific peptides on the surface of cells for the first time. These so-called cryptic peptides mark tumor cells to a significant extent and may provide a new starting point for cancer immunotherapies.
Could cryptic peptides be a new therapeutic approach?
Using a newly developed method, researchers were able to identify thousands of specific peptides on the surface of cells for the first time. They showed that these so-called cryptic peptides mark tumor cells to a significant extent. These findings could provide a new starting point for cancer immunotherapies.
Almost all cells of the human body present fragments of cellular proteins on their surface, so-called human leukocyte antigens or HLA peptides, which play an important role in the immune response. If the immune system detects foreign HLA peptides, such as viral peptides on a virus-infected cell or mutated peptides on a tumor cell, T-cells eliminate the corresponding cell. The entirety of the HLA peptides presented on a cell is called the immunopeptidome of this cell.
New approach enables a comprehensive analysis for the first time
Besides the usual HLA peptides, there are also cryptic HLA peptides. These are derived from specific RNA sequences that do not contain information for a specific protein as is usually the case. In the past decades, only a few cryptic HLA peptides have been identified because they are very small and are quickly degraded in the cells. On the other hand, efficient computer programs for their analysis were lacking.
In a completely new approach, scientists in Germany have now combined several analytical methods that are particularly suitable for small peptides. "Using a novel bioinformatics method developed by us, we were able to identify for the first time thousands of cryptic HLA peptides in the immune peptides of a wide variety of tumors such as melanoma and breast cancer," explained Dr. Andreas Schlosser, research group leader at the Rudolf Virchow Center at the University of Würzburg.
The new bioinformatics approach is based exclusively on mass spectrometry data. As a result, it is now possible to systematically and comprehensively determine the cryptic HLA peptides. In addition, it was possible to clarify on which cells and to what extent cryptic peptides are present: "We were able to show that cryptic HLA peptides constitute a significant part of the immune peptides of tumors," explained Prof. Dr. Florian Erhard, head of a research group at the Institute of Virology at the University of Würzburg.
Effective targets for the immune system
It was already known from individual studies that cryptic peptides can trigger autoimmune reactions such as diabetes type 1 as well as immune responses against tumor cells. The new analyses provide evidence that certain cryptic HLA peptides are exclusively found on tumor cells. Such tumor-specific cryptic HLA peptides might thus prove to be worthwhile target structures for cancer immunotherapies. Scientists at the University of Würzburg and the Würzburg University Hospital are already investigating a selection of the identified peptides to determine whether they are suitable as targets for cancer immunotherapy.
Virus-infected cells also present cryptic HLA peptides that could be used as target structures in vaccinations. With their new method, the researchers thus have an effective tool in their hands to learn more about the general function and development of cryptic peptides. "We hope that our bioinformatics approach will provide us with a better understanding of autoimmune reactions as well as immune reactions against tumor cells and virus-infected cells," concluded Schlosser.


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Their chances have now become a lot slimmer.
The #30 Maroons lost against #21 Case 7–2 and against #17 Wash U 7–2 on Saturday and Sunday, respectively. With those losses, the Maroons' seed will not only be lower at the UAA tournament, but their chances of receiving a bid to the NCAA Tournament will rest on their performance in that competition.
On Saturday, the Maroons were unable to perform strongly from the get-go. The three doubles teams, fourth-years Troy Brinker and Jan Stefanski at No. 1, first-years Ankur Bhargava and Deepak Sabada at No. 2, and second-years Zsolt Szabo and Krishna Ravella at No. 3, lost 8–5, 8–4, and 8–4 respectively. Despite being down 3–0 going into singles, not all hope for a team victory was lost.
Szabo showed his positive energy throughout his No. 4 singles' match. But at 5–4, 15–40 with Case's Rohan Patel serving, he was unable to capitalize on his two set points.
After that, Patel broke Szabo to be up 6–5. Still, Szabo broke back to send the match to tiebreak and ran with the tiebreaker 7–3.
But the match was far from over. Patel took a 3–0 lead in the second set before Szabo broke him twice to win 7–6 (3), 6–4.
He credits the grudge victory to his serves.
Unfortunately for Chicago, only one other Maroon had a win on the day. Sabada defeated Eric Klawitter 6–2, 1–6, 6–2. Brinker and Stefanski were barely edged out at No. 1 and No. 2 singles, 5–7, 6–3, 6–1 and 4–6, 6–3, 6–3, respectively. No. 6 player Harrison Abrams lost 6–3, 7–5.
Because Chicago barely lost to Wash U 5–4 on February 24, the team was not about to dwell on the loss to the Spartans.
Once again, Szabo, along with doubles partner Ravella, came out swinging at No. 3 doubles. Szabo held serves throughout the match to help give the pair the 8–5 win.
But the other doubles matches did not favor the Maroons. Bhargava and Sabada were barely bested 9–7 while Brinker and Stefanski lost 8–5.
Bhargava was the lone victor in singles, 3–6, 6–3, 10–5.
For the Maroons to receive a bid to the NCAA Tournament, they will need to win the UAA Championship. Although they just lost to two UAA teams, they have not lost hope.
"This weekend was not ours, but soon I am sure we will be on the other side of the score card," Szabo said.
Ravella puts it best. "Anything can happen," he said.
The Maroons play North Central College at home on Sunday at noon.


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Do Journalists Need a College Degree? 56% Think It Would Be Good to Hire High School Graduates and Train Them
Posted on October 25, 2021 | by Staff Writer
Currently, most news organizations require journalists to have a college degree. However, 56% of voters believe it would be a good idea for news organizations to try something different: hire high school graduates and train them to be reporters. A Scott Rasmussen national survey found that just 21% disagree and 23% are not sure.
Sixty percent (60%) of Democrats think hiring high school graduates would be a good idea. So do 56% of Republicans and 50% of Independent voters.
The concept was suggested recently in a post by Ed Morrissey.
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Currently, most news organizations require journalists to have a college degree. Would it be a good idea for news organizations to hire high school graduates and train them to be reporters?
56% Yes
21% No
23% Not sure
The survey of 1,200 Registered Voters was conducted online by Scott Rasmussen on October 14-16, 2021. Field work for the survey was conducted by RMG Research, Inc. Certain quotas were applied, and the sample was lightly weighted by geography, gender, age, race, education, internet usage, and political party to reasonably reflect the nation's population of Registered Voters. Other variables were reviewed to ensure that the final sample is representative of that population.
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Boat adrift since 2011 tsunami disaster found in Japan
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More than nine years after the disastrous earthquake and tsunami in Japan, a small fishing boat from the affected coastline has been found.
The March 2011 earthquake triggered a tsunami with 40m-high waves that swept over the Japanese mainland.
The disaster killed at least 10,000 people, injured thousands and caused billions of dollars in damage.
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A file photo of the 2011 tsunami damage in Fukushima, Japan. A small fishing boat missing since the disaster has been found. (iStock)
The 5.5m vessel was discovered about 650km away in Hachijo Island, south of Tokyo, last Thursday, according to Japanese media.
Officials checked the boat's registration number after it was brought to shore and found that it belonged to commercial fishers in the Miyagi Prefecture, one of the regions worst-hit by the tsunami nine years ago.
It was discovered encrusted in coral, and had crabs and a fish swimming in sea water inside the vessel, the Mainichi newspaper reported.
An ocean currents expert on Hachijo Island said that the fishing boat had been swept away to an area near the US west coast before floating to Southeast Asia on the North Equatorial Current.
The damaged Fukushima nuclear plant that was destroyed by an earthquake nine years ago. (	The Asahi Shimbun/Getty Images)
It was then swept by the Kuroshia Current, which brought it to the island.
Last year, a fishing boat that had been swept away from northern Japan by the tsunami was found 1900km away in the southernmost prefecture of Okinawa.
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El Instituto Antártico Peruano (INANPE) es el organismo gubernamental que centraliza la planificación, coordinación y control de las actividades científicas que la República del Perú lleva a cabo en la Antártida.

Historia

Antecedentes
La Comisión Nacional de Asuntos Antárticos (CONAAN) fue creada el 11 de julio de 1983, mediante el Decreto Supremo 9-83-RE. Se trató de un organismo técnico conformado por varios sectores de la administración pública peruana, encargado de asesorar al gobierno en temas antárticos tanto en los aspectos jurídicos y políticos, como en los económicos, científicos y técnicos. Principalmente se encargó de la redacción y de la ejecución de la política antártica del Perú y del programa antártico peruano. El COMAAN estaba dividido en dos subcomisiones, una científica y otra logística.

La razón fundamental de la comisión obedeció al objetivo nacional de asegurar la presencia peruana en la Antártida, apuntando también a la protección y conservación de su ambiente. El 7 de octubre de 1987, el gobierno peruano aprobó el Decreto Supremo número 009-87/RE, estableciendo la política nacional del Perú respecto a la Antártida, a través de una propuesta de la CONAAN. El 28 de febrero de 2002, la CONAAN presentó una reforma y actualización de la política antártica peruana, siendo aprobada mediante el Decreto Supremo N.º 016-2002-RE, que estableció cuator principales políticas con el objetivo de consolidar «la presencia activa y permanente del Perú en la Antártida y de su status de Parte Consultiva del Tratado Antártico».

Creación
El 20 de noviembre de 2002 se publicó en el diario oficial El Peruano la Ley N.º 27870 (denominada «Ley del Instituto Antártico Peruano»), aprobada por el Congreso y promulgada por el presidente de la República, que reestructuró la CONAAN, constituyéndola en el Instituto Antártico Peruano (INANPE) como un organismo descentralizado con personería jurídica de derecho público interno y autonomía científica, técnica, funcional, económica y administrativa, dependiente sectorialmente del Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores para salvaguardar los intereses peruanos en la Antártida. La creación del INANPE fue propuesta por la CONAAN tras presentar la política antártica de Perú.

Objetivos y actividades

El Instituto Antártico Peruano se convirtió en el ente rector encargado de formular, coordinar, conducir y supervisar en forma integral la política nacional antártica, en cuyo marco se realizan todas las actividades que las entidades de los sectores público y privado realicen en la Antártida. Sus objetivos y actividades se establecieron en los artículos 4 y 5 de la Ley N.º 27870:

Estructura

El Instituto Antártico Peruano tiene la siguiente estructura orgánica:

 Consejo Directivo: compuesto por un representante Ministerio de Relaciones Exteriores (que lo presidirá), dos representantes de universidades peruanas, un representante del Ministerio de Energía y Minas, un representante del Ministerio de la Producción, un representante de la Asamblea Nacional de Rectores, un representante del Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, un representante de la Agencia Peruana de Cooperación Internacional y tres representantes del Ministerio de Defensa (uno del Ejército Peruano, uno de la Marina de Guerra del Perú y uno de la Fuerza Aérea Peruana; contando en conjunto con un solo voto).
 Comité de Asesores Científicos: compuesta por dos representantes de universidades peruanas, un representante del Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, un representante del Consejo Nacional del Ambiente, un representante del Instituto del Mar del Perú, un representante del Instituto Geofísico del Perú, un representante del Instituto Geológico, Minero y Metalúrgico, un representante del Instituto Peruano de Energía Nuclear, un representante del Servicio Nacional de Meteorología e Hidrología y un representante de la Dirección de Hidrografía y Navegación de la Marina de Guerra del Perú.
 Secretaría Ejecutiva.
 Órganos de Línea, constituidos por:
Dirección de Asuntos Científicos y Ambientales
Dirección de Operaciones

Véase también
 Perú en la Antártida
 Base Machu Picchu

Referencias

Enlaces externos
 Instituto Antártico Peruano
 Instituto Antártico Peruano - Intercambio de Información de acuerdo con la Resolución 6 (2001) de la XXIV RCTA - Sitio web de la Secretaría del Tratado Antártico
 Instituto Antártico Peruano - Información científica - Sitio web de la Secretaría del Tratado Antártico


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As an upper-level system approaches from the west, rain chances will be on the increase starting tomorrow. Rain chances will be on the rise by Thursday afternoon across far West Texas. These chances will increase significantly and spread farther east Thursday night. For Thursday night, a 90% chance for Heavy Rain is forecast for Amarillo with a 70% chance for Lubbock. These chances will decrease to 30% or less for places farther east like Wichita Falls and Abilene. Localized flooding will be possible Thursday night.
Thunderstorms spread eastward on Friday with the greatest chances across Northwest Texas and western North Texas. Activity will continue shifting eastward this weekend. Flooding is expected during this time-frame. Isolated rainfall amounts in excess of 4-6" will be possible where storms track over the same areas. Regarding Severe Weather, the weather models suggest that an area of low pressure will develop in Northwest Texas by Friday morning. Some strengthening of the low-level winds would be expected if this verifies; however, wind shear is forecast to remain fairly weak. Also, widespread cloud cover and rain could hinder greater low-level instability from developing. Right now, I believe a few marginally severe storms may occur near the surface low and frontal boundary. These features could be located in Northwest/West Central Texas on Friday or as far east as western North Texas. Lift will be greater near these features and could support a few storms with damaging winds and small hail. A brief tornado cannot be ruled out, given the moist environment and low cloud bases. Away from the boundary and surface low, the strongest storms will be capable of strong winds and lightning, in addition to heavy rain. This location of the surface features and associated severe potential will be monitored.


1st Gen Nvidia Shield getting some love!
Recently Nvidia announced a new Nvidia Shield TV Console. In several comparisons, the specs hardware remains very similar but the controller received some cosmetic changes. It has more of a polygon look to it. It does do 4K HDR along with some of the features. Today Nvidia released an update for us 1st gen Nvidia Shield owners which allows doing the same 4K HDR as the new one. So if you don't have a Nvidia Shield already, then the new one would be worth buying. If you already have one, this new update will still make it a solid unit.


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Travelling by Trolley in Mississippi: Laurel
By ELMalvaney on October 20, 2011 • ( 4 )
Today's post is Chapter 5 in our series re-printing Frank Brooks' "Travelling by Trolley in Mississippi: Stories about Streetcars." View other posts in the series at the "Streetcars" tab.
LAUREL. Before departing on their separate runs, cars are lined up downtown at the corner of Oak and Magnolia Streets.
Mississippi was not one of the states which boasted an honest to goodness system of interurban railways, simply because Mississippi has never had a dense concentration of people in connecting cities who need frequent, fast public transportation between them. The Gulfport and Mississippi Coast Traction Company's operation appears to come close to being an interurban. The other company which may be thought of as being a small interurban operation was the line between Laurel and Ellisville. A delightful park about half way between those two towns provided abundant patronage from both cities during the warm months.
Local streetcar service began running in Laurel in November of 1912. The interurban line to Ellisville was opened in August of 1913. The new company was named Laurel Light and Railway Company and its offices, power station and repair shops were located in Laurel. In addition to the streetcar service, the company also provided the community with a general lighting and power business. Equipment included 13 passenger trolleys, 1 motor freight and 1 service car. These cars traveled over 14 miles of track. The separate lines intersected at Oak and Magnolia Streets in downtown Laurel. From that point the lines made their ways outward to 4 terminals, not including the Ellisville line. The longest city line ran north on First Avenue to 19th Street, where it swung over to Second Avenue and ended at the Marathon Mill Pond. There was a short section of double track on First Avenue for cars to pass each other. Local trolleys left the downtown intersection point at 20 minute intervals for runs on the various lines within the city. The interurban run posted an hourly schedule of departures for Ellisville. That service left from the Central Avenue corner on Ellisville Boulevard, where a waiting room was provided in the old Coca Cola building.
The interurban line ran parallel to the Southern Railway between Laurel and Ellisville. Upon its arrival in Ellisville, the trolley line crossed the steam line, went through downtown Ellisville and continued to the junior college where it terminated.
This operation was sold to the Mississippi Power Company in 1925. Three years later, that company tried to abandon the service to Ellisville, but later withdrew that proposal. Service then continued on the interurban run for several more years. However, the carbarn burned in 1934, and that event proved to be the straw that broke the camel's back because the cars never ran again after that fire. According to those that remember, the Laurel system was a grand little operation in a delightful small city!
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Frank A. Brooks, Jr. has loved trains and streetcars for as long as he can remember. He and his wife Jo Anne are parents of 2 children and grandparents of 4. During his active ministry of 43 years in the Presbyterian Church he served in Kentucky, Mississippi, Virginia and Arkansas. In retirement, Dr. and Mrs. Brooks live in her hometown Corinth, MS.
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Pete Wilson
February 2, 2012 • 10:46 am
I am attempting to research Laurel Light and Railway Company. Their rail line was surveyed by a Mr. William H. Bell circa 1912. Do you know where I could obtain a copy of that survey?
daveratcliff
I am new to MissPres and have just seen this post. I love it. Magnolia and Oak streets are quite familiar to me, but they looked much different in the seventies when I was a kid. Thank you for posting this.
ELMalvaney
You're welcome and thank you to Mr. Frank Brooks for allowing us to reprint his book! It really opened my eyes to this era which has been so erased from our cities' landscapes.
John C. Eudy
Laurel trolley cars were victims of the automobile, the tire companies, with a light salting of the oil companies helping to kill them off across the nation. I wonder what was the fate of the cars themselves. Here in Houston, Texas many of the cars ended up in South America where some are still in operation.
Also who were the owners of the Laurel trolley company? Did any of the paper work of the company survive?
When doing research on the Lindsey 8 wheel log wagon eons ago I met a couple of people who worked for the trolley company. They said employment with the company was a good experience. I even met a couple of "young boys" who had enjoyed pulling the electrical connection pole away from the wire to stop the trolley car at inappropriate places on the routes!!! At the time I talked to them they were "young" only in spirit. A few riders I knew remembered the woven cane seats that offered "cool" seating in the heat of summer.
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Buus Lassen, N., Vatrapu, R., la Cour, L., Madsen, R., & Hussain, A. (2016). Towards a Theory of Social Data: Predictive Analytics in the Era of Big Social Data. In P. Linde (Ed.), Symposium i anvendt statistik: 25.-27. januar 2016 (pp. 241-256). København: Danmarks Statistik.
Buus Lassen, N, Vatrapu, R, la Cour, L, Madsen, R & Hussain, A 2016, Towards a Theory of Social Data: Predictive Analytics in the Era of Big Social Data. in P Linde (ed.), Symposium i anvendt statistik: 25.-27. januar 2016. Danmarks Statistik, København, pp. 241-256, Frederiksberg, Denmark, 25/01/2016.
Towards a Theory of Social Data : Predictive Analytics in the Era of Big Social Data. / Buus Lassen, Niels; Vatrapu, Ravi; la Cour, Lisbeth; Madsen, Rene; Hussain, Abid.
Symposium i anvendt statistik: 25.-27. januar 2016. ed. / Peter Linde. København : Danmarks Statistik, 2016. p. 241-256.
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Introducing The Mosquito Killer Billboard. A billboard equipped with a technology that attracts and kills the Aedes Aegypti mosquito. The entire project technology is available online at Creative Commons license agreement, so anyone in Brazil or in the world can replicate the idea.
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package org.javarosa.xform.util;

import java.io.DataInputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStream;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.io.UnsupportedEncodingException;
import java.util.Vector;

import org.javarosa.core.model.FormDef;
import org.javarosa.core.util.externalizable.DeserializationException;
import org.javarosa.core.util.externalizable.ExtUtil;
import org.javarosa.xform.parse.IXFormParserFactory;
import org.javarosa.xform.parse.XFormParseException;
import org.javarosa.xform.parse.XFormParser;
import org.javarosa.xform.parse.XFormParserFactory;
import org.kxml2.kdom.Element;

/**
 * Static Utility methods pertaining to XForms.
 *
 * @author Clayton Sims
 *
 */
public class XFormUtils {
	private static IXFormParserFactory _factory = new XFormParserFactory();

	public static IXFormParserFactory setXFormParserFactory(IXFormParserFactory factory) {
		IXFormParserFactory oldFactory = _factory;
		_factory = factory;
		return oldFactory;
	}

	public static FormDef getFormFromResource (String resource) throws XFormParseException {
		InputStream is = System.class.getResourceAsStream(resource);
		if (is == null) {
			System.err.println("Can't find form resource \"" + resource + "\". Is it in the JAR?");
			return null;
		}

		return getFormFromInputStream(is);
	}

	public static FormDef getFormRaw(InputStreamReader isr) throws XFormParseException, IOException{
		return _factory.getXFormParser(isr).parse();
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	/*
     * This method throws XFormParseException when the form has errors.
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	public static FormDef getFormFromInputStream(InputStream is) throws XFormParseException{
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		try {
			isr = new InputStreamReader(is,"UTF-8");
		} catch(UnsupportedEncodingException uee) {
			System.out.println("UTF 8 encoding unavailable, trying default encoding");
			isr = new InputStreamReader(is);
		}

		try {
			try {
				return _factory.getXFormParser(isr).parse();
				//TODO: Keep removing these, shouldn't be swallowing them
			} catch(IOException e) {
				throw new XFormParseException("IO Exception during parse! " + e.getMessage());
			}
		} finally {
			try {
				isr.close();
			}
			catch(IOException e) {
				System.err.println("IO Exception while closing stream.");
				e.printStackTrace();
			}
		}
	}

	public static FormDef getFormFromSerializedResource(String resource) throws XFormParseException {
		FormDef returnForm = null;
		InputStream is = System.class.getResourceAsStream(resource);
		try {
			if(is != null) {
				DataInputStream dis = new DataInputStream(is);
				returnForm = (FormDef)ExtUtil.read(dis, FormDef.class);
				dis.close();
				is.close();
			}else{
				//#if debug.output==verbose
				System.out.println("ResourceStream NULL");
				//#endif
			}
		}
		catch(IOException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		} catch (DeserializationException e) {
			e.printStackTrace();
		}
		return returnForm;
	}

	/////Parser Attribute warning stuff

	public static Vector getAttributeList(Element e){
		Vector atts = new Vector();
		for(int i=0;i<e.getAttributeCount();i++){
			atts.addElement(e.getAttributeName(i));
		}

		return atts;
	}

	public static Vector getUnusedAttributes(Element e,Vector usedAtts){
		Vector unusedAtts = getAttributeList(e);
		for(int i=0;i<usedAtts.size();i++){
			if(unusedAtts.contains(usedAtts.elementAt(i))){
				unusedAtts.removeElement(usedAtts.elementAt(i));
			}
		}

		return unusedAtts;
	}

	public static String unusedAttWarning(Element e, Vector usedAtts){
		String warning = "";
		Vector ua = getUnusedAttributes(e,usedAtts);
		warning+=ua.size()+" Unrecognized attributes found in Element ["+e.getName()+"] and will be ignored: ";
		warning+="[";
		for(int i=0;i<ua.size();i++){
			warning+=ua.elementAt(i);
			if(i!=ua.size()-1) warning+=",";
		}
		warning+="] ";

		return warning;
	}

	public static boolean showUnusedAttributeWarning(Element e, Vector usedAtts){
		return getUnusedAttributes(e,usedAtts).size()>0;
	}

	/**
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	 * @param e
	 * @return
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	public static boolean isOutput(Element e){
		if(e.getName().toLowerCase().equals("output")) return true;
		else return false;
	}

}

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California-based reggae-rock group BURNT came together in 2002, initially based around Coachella Valley, relocating to San Diego in 2005, and eventually settling in San Francisco. The group's sound combined reggae, dub, ska, soul, hip-hop, punk, and acoustic rock, and featured environmentally and politically conscious lyrics, as well as songs about partying and relaxation. The group maintained a strictly do-it-yourself approach to recording and releasing music and booking shows, playing anywhere from street corners and parks to festivals across the West Coast. BURNT have released seven full-length albums and two mixtapes on their own Stems and Seeds label, beginning with 2005's Chorro. Esperanza and Tortillas both followed in 2006, featuring contributions from members of the Debonaires and B-Side Players, as well as MC Karmic Basis, all of whom would become regular collaborators with the group. Brains Keep Cookin' was issued in 2009, followed by La Quinta in 2011. Released in 2012, Radio Quemado, funded through a Kickstarter campaign, was the first BURNT album to be professionally engineered. The group's seventh full-length album, Headlamp, arrived in 2014, a year that also brought two mixtapes of live and unreleased material, The Red Tape and The Blue Tape. - Paul Simpson, AllMusic
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When my children were in elementary school, teachers discovered that they both had unique learning styles; styles that perhaps required more attention than a typical classroom could offer.
We were very fortunate in that our school district was progressive, and the teachers and administrators were more than willing to work with us. Although I had this support and was grateful for it, many days I found myself frustrated, worried, and fearful. It seemed that just as one crisis passed, another replaced it. I remember thinking about all of the children in our community who, unlike my children, didn't have someone fighting for them. And I found myself worried for them, too.
It was during the worst of these days that I ran across an ad in the Advance newspaper for child advocates with Court Appointed Special Advocates of Kent County (CASA). CASAs are regular people making a difference in the lives of abused and neglected children. They are advocates for children in our community who don't have someone fighting for them.
It seemed a formidable task, but I thought I could do it. I called, interviewed, and was accepted. I completed an intense thirty-hour training course, which was so thorough that I finished fully prepared for my first case. I can remember pouring over my first file, which was about nine inches thick. I thought about how honored I was to be let into these young children's lives and I hoped I'd make a difference. I thought about the children's mom who, on paper, looked like a horrible person. But I learned when I met her that she'd been dealt a bad hand when she was young, having grown up in an unstable home with domestic violence and substance abuse.
My first case was a brother and sister, five and seven years of age, respectively. The children were in foster care because mom's live-in boyfriend had, as punishment, beaten the five-year-old boy with a belt and forced him to sit in scalding water. The boy's "crime"? Unraveling an entire role of toilet paper. The seven-year-old sister reported matter-of-factly, in a manner of one far older than her chronological age—one who had seen this all before—that Mom was at work when it happened.
The beating was not the first time. Mom had had four prior custody terminations because she'd chosen the wrong men. I investigated the case, because this is what you do as a volunteer advocate. I talked with anyone who could give me insight into Mom and these two beautiful children. I had many fun outings with the children and was able to watch them grow and thrive in their foster home, which was safe for them. In the end, Mom's parental rights were terminated—not because she didn't love these children, but because she was not able to gain enough insight into what would keep her children safe. The children have both been adopted.
After five cases, and speaking in court on behalf of thirteen children, I am now the executive director of CASA of Kent County. I sleep better at night, knowing that eighty-four amazing community volunteers have the backs of more than three hundred foster children in our community. Growing up in my safe, conservative community, I never once thought about child welfare as a career until I had children. Then all bets were off. If we don't protect them, who will?
Written by: Patty Sabin is the Executive Director of CASA of Kent County. For more information about the CASA program, click here.