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Come Back For A 2nd Helping Of This Year's Favorites

Originally published on Tue December 24, 2013 11:41 pm

As a Christmas gift to readers, Kitchen Window has compiled some of the most popular stories of the year for another look. As always, you were interested in a variety of subjects, from the simple procedure to the leap of faith, and showed an interest in trending topics — like gluten-free and DIY.

You liked Susie Chang's story on the many uses of buttermilk — biscuits, fried chicken, waffles, pork chops, cornbread, ice cream, panna cotta, okra — as well as her story praising the humble lentil in soup, with rice, in hot stews and cold salads.

Many of you also liked Chang's piece on Brussels sprouts, with its recipes for sprouts sauteed with spinach, roasted with balsamic vinegar and braised with cream.

You also were taken with Chang's story on how to make and use preserved lemons, including a recipe for chicken with preserved lemons and green olives that she says is their best-known use.

Nicole Spiridakis apparently made a convincing case for making your own yogurt, with recipes for plain and Greek-style, and for using homemade yogurt in a fruit-and-almond cake, banana-cocoa bread and a pasta sauce.

Readers also liked Spiridakis' story about flourless baking for the one out of 133 people in the U.S. who cut out gluten because of celiac disease — and others who avoid gluten for various reasons. She suggests substituting flours made from nuts, seeds, legumes and rice, corn millet and quinoa.

Peter Ogburn's account of preparing a Thanksgiving meal without a single can grabbed a lot of readers. No cream of mushroom soup for the green bean casserole or canned pumpkin puree for the pie. "Fresh just tastes better," he writes.

Rina Rapuano's story about the resurgent interest in butterscotch enticed readers with recipes for a multilayered banana crepe cake, butterscotch ice cream, a butterscotch chiffon tart and a savory dish of butterscotch and black pepper carrots. Yes, of course there's a recipe for butterscotch pudding.

Doreen McCallister took Girl Scout cookies to the next level, creating savory (as well as sweet) recipes with them. There's lemon fish (using Chalet Cremes), cookie stuffing (Dulce de Leche cookies), Thin Mints popcorn and even a dessert pizza.

What could be a better way to reprise the year's Kitchen Window stories during the holiday season than to take another look at Eve Turow's "post-holiday detox" recipes. "As baked brie, gingerbread cookies and rich stews settle onto my hips," she writes, "a detox becomes ever more alluring." She offers recipes for sweet potatoes with ginger and lemon, yellow split peas with coconut, ginger-tamarind fish soup, and a ginger-lamb coconut curry.

We hope you enjoy these the second time around. Merry Christmas.

Kitchen Window editor and Weekend Edition food commentator Bonny Wolf is the managing editor of American Food Roots.

Copyright 2013 NPR. To see more, visit http://www.npr.org/.


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Attended Windy City Pulp and Paper 2014

I said earlier that I was going to the Windy City Pulp show this year. I had a great time there, met a lot of people who know a lot about pulp, bought more than I thought I would, enjoyed the art and the panels, and will return next year.

I arrived in Lombard on Thursday evening and was thinking about getting some rest so that I could get up quickly for the next morning. However, after a quick meal, I went to the convention suite instead. I'm glad I did, because I met a lot of friendly people there - among them Ed Hulse (who runs Murania Press) and Walker Martin (this blog's top commenter and one of the people with a complete set of Adventure). Walker also has a trip report written up on Mystery File.

We kept talking till 1, and then I went back to my room. The next morning, I got up early and was so keyed up that I had to go for a walk till the time came for the convention door to open. Then I had breakfast and counted the minutes till it was time. Went through, and the first thing I saw was Adventure House' table on the right, with higher quality pulps on the table and reading copies on the floor below. I was in hog heaven rooting through the reading copies, and took back a bagful. This was the table I kept coming back to whenever I ran out of things to do.

Then I went around the other tables in a kind of daze (so little time to read, too much to buy) - I was like a kid in Candyland. And as kids do, I gorged myself - went around all the tables, looking for a little Adventure (but also being tempted by Blue Book and Short Stories) , enjoying the art. I came across Doug Ellis, who had the first issue of Adventure. I was sorely tempted and kept coming back to look at it throughout the show.

I also met Tom Roberts, the man behind Black Dog Books, at the show and we had fun watching a ice hockey game. I bought a couple of new books from him, a collection of Matthew Quin stories by William Murray Graydon and the second set of Singapore Sammy stories by George F. Worts. I read a few of the Graydon stories and liked them, have yet to get to the Worts - it's going to take quite some time to read through all the stuff I got. Another person I met was Dr. George Vanderburgh, who runs the Battered Dispatch Box press, from whom I had got some books earlier.

I enjoyed the art show (would have liked to buy some prints to take home. HINT, HINT.)

I met a lot of other people there - too many to call out by name. If you met me and would like to get in touch, drop me an email at pulpflakes _AT_ gmail _DOT_ com (Replace the _AT_ with an @ and the _DOT_ with a dot to get the email address).

Well, that's all for now, back to work. Next post: Photos from the event. Will get around to posting an update on circumstances around Arthur S. Hoffman's departure from the editorship of Adventure in 1927, next week.

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  1. It was a real surprise meeting Sai at Windy City because I didn't realize he was attending. He looked like he was having fun and how could you not enjoy yourself in a room full of pulps? Sai, think about Pulpfest, August 7-10, another great pulp convention!

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Civil rights groups call on Supreme Court Justice to recuse himself

[1]Arguing that it essential for the protection of the justice system as a whole and the principle of equal justice under the law, a group of nonpartisan North Carolina civil rights groups filed papers with the Supreme Court today calling on Justice Paul Newby to recuse himself in the legislative redistricting case currently before the court.

According to Rev. William Barber of the North Carolina NAACP:

“If justice and fairness are to prevail, the integrity of the court’s justices and the proceedings cannot be influenced by money or have even the appearance of being sold to the highest bidder. Whenever this possibility arises, we must call on the court to examine itself and if necessary recuse any justice or judge whose ability to rule fairly has been tempted or tampered with.”

Barber, Bob Hall of Democracy North Carolina and Melvin Montford of the A. Philip Randolph Institute (pictured at left) spoke outside the Supreme Court after the papers were filed.

For more details on the request of the advocacy groups and their arguments, check out Sharon McCloskey’s article by clicking here [2].  You can read Barber’s entire statement by clicking here [3].


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Marketing strategies for product startups

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Marketing strategies for product startups

Time: October 16, 2010 from 5:30pm to 7pm
Location: Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies & Research (SICSR), Classroom #707
Street: Atur Centre, Model Colony
City/Town: Pune
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Do you believe that your product startup spends a lot of time and energy in R&D of your product, but very little time on marketing and selling it? If yes, then this session is definitely for you.

We are putting together a mentoring session with experts who have "been there, done that" to come and talk to product startups about marketing strategies in the Indian scenario - either B2B or B2C or otherwise. Questions such as:
- What are the best ways to market your product, theoretically as well as practically
- How do I create brand value for my b2b or b2c product?
- Should I hire a marketing person in my startup?
- What are the challenges faced in selling retail commercial software?
- Which marketing methods work best? (Mass mailing, newspapers, hoardings, etc)
- What are effective ways to stand out from bigger and tougher competition while marketing your product?
and more, will be discussed.

Speakers: We have Kailash Katkar and Sanjay Katkar from QuickHeal Technologies, who will be answering all our questions.
Quick Heal Technologies, by no means, needs an introduction. They are India’s leading provider of Internet Security tools and is a leader in Anti-Virus Technology in India. Quick Heal Technologies has established Quick Heal product family as industry benchmark for computer security. Quick Heal, an award winning security product is installed in corporate, small business and consumers’ homes protecting their computers from viruses and other malicious threats. Serving millions of users worldwide, Quick Heal Technologies employs more than 350 people in eighteen branch offices and is headquartered at Pune, India.

Kailash Katkar is Chief Executive Officer and Chairman of the Board of Directors of Quick Heal Technologies. He is the founder of Quick Heal Technologies, and is responsible for managing sales, marketing, customer services, technical support and order administration functions nationwide.
Sanjay Katkar is Chief Technical Officer and Technical Director of Quick Heal Technologies. He is co-founder of Quick Heal Technologies, and is responsible for the development of anti-virus product range Quick Heal on all the major platforms. He himself had build and maintained main scanning engine of Quick Heal on all platforms. He now leads the dedicated team of software professionals in further development of various anti-virus modules on various platforms and is responsible for design and development of new features in the product.

Please note that we will be discussing marketing for products in the b2b or b2c domain only. This is not a generic marketing strategies meet. We will conduct future specific sessions based on the response to this one.

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Comment by Nasir Mallik on October 16, 2010 at 12:58pm
was Quickheal designed for enterprise or retail (individual PC owner) at the beginning. How did Quick Heal find its first customer and what strategy they adopted. What are the obstacle they faced during initial marketing.
Comment by Saurabh Jain on October 16, 2010 at 9:15am
I don't know if I am late - but here are a couple of questions I am really interested in.

1. In India, what is the primary source of revenue for them? Consumers or Businesses?

2. Noticed a lot of computer dealers try very hard to bundle QuickHeal with the assembled machine. How effective is this OEM strategy and if we could get some numbers, it would be great.

3. Also noticed lots of ads on Radio off late - how effective is this and how do they track whether the radio ad is selling them copies. Again, any numbers would be awesome!
Comment by Santosh on October 15, 2010 at 12:56pm
What questions would you like to ask QuickHeal?

One that comes to my mind is, if they had to start again from scratch, where would they start?
Comment by Umesh Ishwarlal Ahirrao on October 12, 2010 at 10:57am
a very great and brainstorming event for the peoples like us who are looking for the new startups..... so requesting maximum peoples to attend this event..... and heartly wishes for the success of the event....

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Things We Don’t Miss From The 90′s [90's Nooner]

If you grew up in the 1990′s, it was a great time – the music, the television, the epic summer blockbuster movies, the birth of the internet, reality TV that was actually reality TV, the fashion, etc.

But like with any time period that is highly looked upon, there are things we are glad that didn’t stick around.Here’s a list of 5 things we’re don’t miss about the 1990′s according readers on Reddit:

Don’t forget to check out the 90′s Nooner weekdays at Noon. We look back at the music of the 90′s along trivia and more. Pretty much anything goes from the 90′s – so if it’s an obscure band you remember or haven’t heard in a while, send us a request!

CD Player Skipping

Even with the supposed "Anti-Skip Protection" if you breathed on your CD Player the wrong way the thing would skip.

Another thing too - the battery power, or lack thereof. I remember spending most of my allowance on batteries because the power the CD players would suck.

Late Fees

Though they still happen today, they aren't as bad as they were back in the 90's. Seemed like every chance Blockbuster (or selected video chain) had to charge you a late fee, they did.

Didn't you hate it when you would page someone "911" and it took them forever to call you back - It is the 90's equivalent of not getting a text reply back in modern times from someone for hours on end.

I guess even if the technology changes, some of the problems from the human error side stay the same.

Dial-up Internet

Remember the pains of being on the internet talking with your friends on AOL Chat and someone in the house picked up the phone, cause the connection to disconnect?

Yeah - rough times. Thankfully we have high speed, non-dial-up internet these days.

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For whatever reason, Hasburo decided to bring the Furby back in 2005 and 2012.

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Canadian River Soil, Water Conservancy District announces contest winners

The following are the Tucumcari Elementary and Logan Elementary School winners of the Canadian River Soil and Water Conservancy District’s poster-drawing contest. This year’s theme was “Forests for People — More Than You Can Imagine.” Tucumcari Elementary Kindergarten 1– Makenzie Moore 2 – Diamond Harper 3 – Rebekah Herrington First Grade 1 – Jordon Young […]

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Gi Gi Parker American History and Christopher Columbus Essay Contest winners were recognized Feb. 11 at the monthly luncheon meeting of the Tucumcari chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution. First place winners along with their parents and teachers were invited to lunch, where the winners read their essays. Winners received their certificates, medals […]

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Chelle Delaney The New Mexico Lottery said this week that approximately $1 million in prizes was paid from lottery tickets sold in Quay County during the fiscal year ending June 30. Logan resident Becky Williamson took home the most winnings in Quay County, claiming a $60,000 Scratcher™ prize, about a year ago. This lucky lady […]

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Importing Tasks via Remote Management – Step-by-Step

July 30th, 2014 by Bill Lay 2 comments »

I recently moved a client’s dev/test environment onto a new server. There were a few dozen reload tasks and rather than recreate them by hand, I chose to use the Import Task feature via the QMS Remote Management service.

I’ve known about this feature but have never had a chance to use it. I looked through QlikCommunity forum and did some googling to get more info but I didn’t find a lot. Specifically, there did not seem to be a single resource that laid out the steps to do the import. Hence the following post…

The process is fairly straightforward and intuitive. Below are the steps I followed. (This is on QlikView 11.2 SR6, by the way. Windows 2008 R2 Enterprise OS.) In my environment there was the remote server — let’s call it the OLD server, and the target server — we’ll call it the NEW server. And I had previously stopped all QV services on the OLD server and set them to Manual.

Preparing the OLD server

  • Turn on the QMS service – I don’t know if this is explicitly required (it would be easy enough to test), but at a minimum I wanted to be able to get into the QMC on my OLD server to look at things
  • Create a local “QlikView Management API” group on the OLD server – be sure to name it exactly that

  • Add members to QlikView Remote Management group – I added my domain service account that runs all the QV services. Although you could add a different account to run the import (you’ll need to supply login info on the NEW server if you do that.)
  • Confirm you have the group setup correctly – use the Users tab in QMC on the OLD server for this

  • Create an inbound firewall rule to allow domain traffic on port 4799 (this is the default port for the Remote Management service)

Preparing the NEW server

On the NEW server, all the preparation is done within the QMC, in the System > Setup tab. I’m going to walk through the steps as if you want to import ALL tasks (as opposed to selecting specific tasks for import).

  • Go to the Remote Management Services section and click the plus sign to create a link
  • Replace the default server name with the name (or IP) of your OLD server, and click Apply

  • If you intend to run the import with a user account other than the QV service account, go to the Login tab and enter credentials and Apply
  • Go to the Source Folders tab and you should see a list of folders From the OLD server. For each of these, map them to a folder on your NEW server. Click Apply.
  • NOTE: if you do not map all source folders, you’ll receive an error message when you attempt to import all tasks

  • Go to the QlikView Servers tab and map the name of the OLD server to the NEW server. In my case, because I had done some name-switching, these were the same name, but the mapping is still required. Apply.

  • You can optionally choose to disable triggers after tasks are imported

Importing tasks

Now that the link is established, the task import is quite simple.

  • Go to the Documents > Source Documents tab, right click on any folder or the top-level “gear” icon and choose “Import Tasks”
  • You’ll be presented with a new window with an expandable tree of your source folders. Click the top-level to select all tasks and click OK. You will be prompted to confirm.

  • Voilà!

I had read that the triggers of the type: “On event from another task” would not be created unless all tasks are imported. However, even though I did indeed import all tasks, none of the triggers were preserved. This was not the end of the world, but certainly eroded the value of the import. <– Wrong! See “IMPORTANT EDIT” below .

IMPORTANT EDIT – Aug 01, 2014

So…it turns out that the triggers (including the “One event from another task” triggers) were indeed created on the import. But because I had triggers disabled, the “links” did not appear. Once I started selectively enabling triggers, the Tasks screen showed the serial task chains as I expected.

So I hope you find these steps useful if you need to do a migrate. I will undoubtedly be referring to them in the future when I forget the steps! :-)

Keep on Qlikin’

(keep on Sensin’ ?? )

Highlighting Redux – Alternate States to the Rescue!

August 22nd, 2013 by Bill Lay 3 comments »

The year was 2010 … Katy Perry and Lady Gaga topped the charts. Gas was $4.00 a gallon. A beer in Los Angeles cost five bucks. And dynamic highlighting of dimensional values in QlikView charts (a.k.a. brushing) needed a data island. AND I did a post on this topic: Highlighting a “special” dimension in bar charts.

Fast forward to Summer 2013 … okay, not much has really changed in the bigger picture but WOW is it easier to do brushing in QlikView. Actually, this is not really a new technique because I’m going to employ alternate state to do this trick which has been around since version 11 first came out.

What’s wrong with the old method?

Recall the challenge with brushing is that we want to provide users the ability to dynamically focus on one dimension value (i.e. make a selection), but we don’t want the other dimension values to vanish. Prior to version 11, this could be accomplished by using a data island (i.e. a stand-alone table that does not associate to the rest of the data model) that will provide a dimension for the users to make selections. And this dimension is necessarily decoupled from the model because it is an island.

This approach works fine, but it’s cumbersome to have to create an island table for every dimension that may be used for brushing. How can we simplify that step…..

It just got easier – Altered States!

If we think for a moment how the old method worked – that is, we decoupled the brushed dimension from the chart … which we did via the data island. Alternate states is another way to decouple data entities, and the good news is that we do NOT need to build additional tables to do it.

We will use this technique to provide brushing capability to call-out a category for new construction spending. (Note: these data are publicly available from the US Census Bureau.)

So here is the high-level algorithm we need to employ:

  1. Create an alternate state – let’s call it “A”  (without the quote symbols)
  2. Create a list box for the user to select the brushed dimension – PUT THIS LIST BOX IN STATE A
  3. Create the chart – put the chart in the default state
  4. Fine-tune the bar color in cases where the chart dimension matches the brushed dimension

Let’s break this down step by step:

Step 1 – create an alternate state

The really, really easy step … go to the Document Properties and click on Alternate States to bring up the dialog box. Add a state and call it A. (Note: I also have a state called B in the image).

Step 2 – create a list box in State A

Create a list box on the chart dimension – [Category Desc] in our case. Be sure to assign the state to A in the General tab of the list box properties.

Step 3 – create the chart

Be sure that the chart is in the inherited state; i.e. the Default state (not the A state).

The chart itself is quite simple with a single dimension: [Category Desc].

And a single expression: sum(Spend)

Step 4 – fine-tune the bar color

The bar color can be grossly controlled by the setting on the Colors tab in the chart properties. But we can also finely control the color; i.e. by using a data-driven expression by expanding the expression (on the Expressions tab of properties) and manipulating the Background Color.

The expression we need to use here will compare the chart’s dimension [Category Desc] (which is in the Default state) to the value the user selects for [Category Desc] in the A state. If the two value match, then color that bar differently than the rest — this is the “brushing.”

if(match([Category Desc], only({A} [Category Desc])), $(vData2Color))

where vData2Color is the rgb() definition for an emphasis color (pull out your copy of Few’s “Information Dashboard Design” if you need inspiration.)

Notice that invoking the alternate state is as simple as putting the state’s name A in the set definition.

The result …

The final result is a chart that in which any of the bars can be dynamically “brushed” by the users.

More of this at Masters Summit – Europe!

This is one of the topics I’ll be covering in my Visualizations course at the Master Summit in Europe in October. Rob, Oleg, Barry and I will be sharing our techniques with students from the UK and Spain – hope you can join us!

Keep on Qlikin’

Masters Summit in Europe!

June 20th, 2013 by Bill Lay No comments »

The Masters Summit for QlikView will be coming to Europe this Fall.

  • London October 9-11
  • Barcelona October 14-16

Hope you can join us!

More information is available here: Masters Summit for QlikView

REBOOT! an awesome trick to simulate OnOpen

June 12th, 2013 by Bill Lay 3 comments »

Do you use OnOpen triggers in your application? Isn’t it a pain to have close and then re-open the app to test them?

I accidentally happened across a very cool technique to simulate the re-opening, and thus re-triggering of the actions. It’s as simple as toggling the WebMode.

  1. Enable WebMode by clicking the button in the tool bar
  2. Click it again to turn it off, and the OnOpen triggers will fire

Too easy, huh?!

Keep on Qlikin’

QlikView 11 for Developers – an excellent tome

December 28th, 2012 by Bill Lay 2 comments »

I just read an excellent book by Miguel Garcia and Barry Harmsen – “QlikView 11 for Developers.” I highly recommend it for beginning and intermediate QlikView developers. I even learned a few things myself! Like the pick(dimensionality(…), …) trick.

QlikView 11 for Developers at PacktPub

Miguel and Barry are two of my favorite bloggers by the way.
Miguel: iQlik – Everything QlikView

Set Analysis & Alternate States – Quick Tip

December 4th, 2012 by Bill Lay 4 comments »

I recently had my first opportunity to use Alternate States on a real project. As awesome as I think Alternate States are, I just haven’t had a chance to implement them before now.

As I was developing the expressions for my charts, I came across a predicament. And after some hand-wringing and head-scratching I realized it was a result of how I’ve been treating the set identifier, $.

As a reminder the set identifier $ is the default set. It represents the entire data model PLUS all user selections. Insofar as it is the default, it doesn’t need to be explicitly included in the expression. Meaning, when the $ is omitted in a set analysis expression, QlikView defaults to the default set. In other words,

sum({ $ } Sales) is equivalent to:   sum(Sales)

just as

sum({ $ <Year = {2010}> } Sales) is equivalent to:   sum({ <Year = {2010}> } Sales)

(notice the dollar-sign is absent in the 2nd expression)

Now, although the $ is not required, I have diligently included it in any and all expressions that use set analysis, rather than letting QlikView default it. My reasoning on this was to prefer the explicit over the implicit, i.e. leaving nothing to chance and more importantly, improving code understandability. And I’ve coached my students and clients to do the same.

“Always include the dollar-sign.”

B. Lay, said to dozens of students

…turns out that wasn’t such great advice!!

$ vs. Alternate States

So here comes the rub …

Without alternate states, the situation is simple: there is one and only one “default” state ($); namely the state of all user selections. But with alternate states defined, the concept of a “default” is no longer simple.

Instead of a single “default” state there are now:

  • the document default state, $ – this is the state we’re familiar with prior to version 11
  • a sheet state – which could be $, inherited from the document-level or one of the alternate states
  • an object state – which could be $, inherited from the sheet-level or one of the alternate states

Additionally, any expression in any object can either inherit the state of the object or be controlled via set analysis. And this is the key pointsum({ $ } Sales) and  sum(Sales) now have potentially different meanings.

By hard-coding the $ in the set, we are explicitly choosing the good old-fashioned default state – all user selections. This ignores the alternate states. In fact, even if the object is assigned to an alternate state, by placing the $ in the set expression we are ignoring that alternate.

Contrast this to omitting the dollar-sign: sum(Sales) In this case we are accepting whatever state the object is in. That could be the default set $ … or it could be an alternate state, if indeed the object is assigned to an alternate state.

By omitting the dollar-sign we are allowing the set expression to “inherit” the object’s state.

My Mistake

Back to my issue (it’s all about me!) … I had created two identical charts, one in State A and the other in State B. And two groups of list boxes, one State A and the other in State B. Each chart had several expressions and included set analysis (for other calculation reasons). Here are the details (note I’m obscuring the client’s actual field names):

  • Chart 1 – State A
  • Expression 1: sum({$ <CurrYTD = {Y}>} Sales)
  • Expression 2: sum({$ <CurrYTD = {Y}>} COGS)
  • Expression 3: sum({$ <CurrYTD = {Y}>} Units)
  • Expression 4: sum({$ <CurrYTD = {Y}>} #OrderCounter)

  • Chart 1 – State B
  • Expression 1: sum({$ <CurrYTD = {Y}>} Sales)
  • Expression 2: sum({$ <CurrYTD = {Y}>} COGS)
  • Expression 3: sum({$ <CurrYTD = {Y}>} Units)
  • Expression 4: sum({$ <CurrYTD = {Y}>} #OrderCounter)

So this is following my old-fashioned approach of always including the set identifier $.

Hence, to my chagrin, when I clicked on values in my State A and State B list boxes, nothing changed. Again, because I had overwrote the object state by using a $ in my set analysis expressions. The fix for this was quite easy; simply removing the $ from the expressions.

  • Chart 1 – State A
  • Expression 1: sum({ <CurrYTD = {Y}>} Sales)
  • Expression 2: sum({ <CurrYTD = {Y}>} COGS)
  • Expression 3: sum({ <CurrYTD = {Y}>} Units)
  • Expression 4: sum({ <CurrYTD = {Y}>} #OrderCounter)

  • Chart 1 – State B
  • Expression 1: sum({ <CurrYTD = {Y}>} Sales)
  • Expression 2: sum({ <CurrYTD = {Y}>} COGS)
  • Expression 3: sum({ <CurrYTD = {Y}>} Units)
  • Expression 4: sum({ <CurrYTD = {Y}>} #OrderCounter)

The Takeaway

Well, despite the resiliency of old habits :) I will now be omitting the $ in my set expressions.

Keep on Qlikin’

Nifty trick for INLINE tables

October 12th, 2011 by Bill Lay 7 comments »

Here’s a nifty little trick I discovered by accident when creating INLINE tables…

Some Motivation

Typically when I’m creating an INLINE table it’s for one of two reasons:

  1. I’m working very quickly and need to generate some additional data.
  2. I’m building a control table to use as part of the ETL script. For example, setting up a loop and I want to pull a value from the INLINE table into each loop iteration.

The technique I’m going to demonstrate is relevant to usage #1 above. In fact, it’s only useful if I’m going to base my INLINE table (in part) on data that already exist in my data model.

Consider this specific example:

  • We are building a Global Sales Analysis application
  • We have a Country field in our associative model
  • We wish to also analyze sales by Region: {EMEA, APAC, Americas} … but we don’t have a data source for this

What’s the easiest way to “append” the Region onto each Country record …. ???

The Trick

In the past, when faced with the use case as described above, I would do the following:

  1. Create a List Box on Country.
  2. Then right-click and copy possible values.
  3. Then paste those values into Excel for further manipulation. Or more typically paste them right into the INLINE load wizard.

BUT, there is a simpler way to achieve this, if you take note of a curious little “Tool” menu inside the Load INLINE table wizard…

Step One

Make sure the source field already exists in the data model. In our example it’s the Country field.

Step Two

Go into the Script Editor (ctrl-E) and go to the Inline table wizard:

Insert > Load Statement > Load Inline

Step Three

Check out the Tools menu inside the Inline Data Wizard window

Click on it and select the Document Data… option

Step Four

Locate the source field in the list of Available Fields. You will have an option to select All Values (this is what I always end up using) or take advantage of the associative model if selections have already been made in the dashboard.

Step Five

The wizard then populates the values from the source field into the first column of the table

Step Six

The second (and subsequent) columns can now be manually populated. Which in our use case is adding the Region {EMEA, APAC, Americas}

The Final Product

Clean it up and reload. And the final result should look like this:

I hope you find a chance to use this shortcut in your future projects.

Keep on Qlikin’

The Factoid – Text Boxes All Dressed-Up

December 26th, 2010 by Bill Lay No comments »

Sometimes the simplest tasks are most challenging. Take for example the need to express a single, scalar number, such as the measurement of a KPI. One number, no dimensions, no time trend…simple, solitary…scary.

The trick is to NOT to overdo it. Don’t try to force a chart or speedometer or hygrometer or any other overblown visualization to do this job. In fact, the simplest way to express this result is probably just to state it, i.e. literally display the value as text.

A call center KPI example

Let’s consider an example from a call center. A key metric for the call center is call resolution time. This particular call center has a target resolution of five minutes. Here are some poor ways to visualize this metric (peruse any of Stephen Few’s writings if you’re not sure why):

If I had to choose one of these representations, the thermometer (far left) is the least offensive, but it consumes far too much space and the added context of seeing the level of “mercury” in the 100% gauge doesn’t really add much value.

Abandoning any of these visualizations, I opt instead for a simple text box:

The Factoid – adding context to the metric

To add some context to the metric’s value, we can utilize the the Text and the Caption areas of the text box.

By taking advantage of dynamic expressions in both the text and caption areas, you can build elaborate displays that combine both text and numerics. Be sure to spend some time on formatting the numbers. Functions like round(), num(), date() and the concatenation operator & (ampersand) are essentials.

Here is the code snippet for the caption:

=round(sum({$<[Affects SLA?] = {"-1"}>} [My Metric]), 0.001) * 100 & ' %'

And the text code:

='... of calls were resolved within ' & chr(10) & $(varCallResolutionTarget) &' min.'

where I have attempted to variable-ize all “moving pieces.”

The final result should look something like this:

I’ve coined this type of text box as a “factoid.” (“Unifact” sounds more representative, but a little too nerdy :) ). Maybe QlikView will object-ize this and call it a QlikFact!

So to reiterate, don’t try to build a multi-dimensional visualization when you’re only trying to express a single number. I’ve found the factoid to be particularly useful when expressing KPI values, especially when there are well-known, impacting SLAs established and business users are keen to see performance numbers.

Keep on Qlik-in’


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Saturday, February 23, 2008

Light echoes in RS Pup

Nebula around Cepheid Star RS Pup. Credit: ESO

Astronomers calibrate the distance scale of the Universe
Taking advantage of the presence of light echoes, a team of astronomers have used an ESO telescope to measure, at the 1% precision level, the distance of a Cepheid - a class of variable stars that constitutes one of the first steps in the cosmic distance ladder.

Cepheids are pulsating stars that have been used as distance indicators since almost a hundred years. The new accurate measurement is important as, contrary to many others, it is purely geometrical and does not rely on hypotheses about the physics at play in the stars themselves.

The team of astronomers studied RS Pup, a bright Cepheid star located towards the constellation of Puppis ('the Stern') and easily visible with binoculars. RS Pup varies in brightness by almost a factor of five every 41.4 days. It is 10 times more massive than the Sun, 200 times larger, and on average 15 000 times more luminous.

RS Pup is the only Cepheid to be embedded in a large nebula, made of very fine dust that reflects some of the light emitted by the star.

Because the luminosity of the star changes in a very distinctive pattern, the presence of the nebula allows the astronomers to see light echoes and use them to measure the distance of the star.

"The light that travelled from the star to a dust grain and then to the telescope arrives a bit later than the light that comes directly from the star to the telescope," explains Kervella, lead-author of the paper reporting the result. "As a consequence, if we measure the brightness of a particular, isolated dust blob in the nebula, we will obtain a brightness curve that has the same shape as the variation of the Cepheid, but shifted in time."

This delay is called a 'light echo', by analogy with the more traditional echo, the reflection of sound by, for example, the bottom of a well.

The Principle of the Light Echo By monitoring the evolution of the brightness of the blobs in the nebula, the astronomers can derive their distance from the star: it is simply the measured delay in time, multiplied by the velocity of light (300 000 km/s). Knowing this distance and the apparent separation on the sky between the star and the blob, one can compute the distance of RS Pup.

From the observations of the echoes on several nebular features, the distance of RS Pup was found to be 6500 light years, plus or minus 90 light years.

"Knowing the distance to a Cepheid star with such an accuracy proves crucial to the calibration of the period-luminosity relation of this class of stars," says Kervella. "This relation is indeed at the basis of the distance determination of galaxies using Cepheids."

RS Pup is thus distant by about a quarter of the distance between the Sun and the Centre of the Milky Way. RS Pup is located within the Galactic plane, in a very populated region of our Galaxy.

The long-period Galactic Cepheid RS Puppis.I. A geometric distance from its light echoes. Author(s): P. Kervella, A. Mérand, L. Szabados, P. Fouqué, D. Bersier, E. Pompei, and G. Perrin

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Monday, February 18, 2008

The Formax Galaxy

The center of the Fornax galaxy cluster is shown in this Chandra image. The galaxy NGC 1404 is shown below and to the left of the center. Hot gas is clearly visible in the center of the cluster and around NGC 1404. (Credit: NASA/CXC/Columbia U./C.Scharf et al.)

Using data from NASA's Chandra X-ray Observatory, scientists have reported the possible detection of a binary star system that was later destroyed in a supernova explosion. The new method they used provides great future promise for finding the detailed origin of these important cosmic events.

In an article on the February 14th issue of the journal Nature, Rasmus Voss of the Max Planck Institute for Extraterrestrial Physics in Germany and Gijs Nelemans of Radboud University in the Netherlands searched Chandra images for evidence of a much sought after, but as yet unobserved binary system - one that was about to go supernova. Near the position of a recently detected supernova, they discovered an object in Chandra images taken more than four years before the explosion.

The supernova, known as SN 2007on, was identified as a Type Ia supernova. Astronomers generally agree that Type Ia supernovas are produced by the explosion of a white dwarf star in a binary star system. However, the exact configuration and trigger for the explosion is unclear. Is the explosion caused by a collision between two white dwarfs, or because a white dwarf became unstable by pulling too much material off a companion star?
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Answering such questions is a high priority because Type Ia supernovas are major sources of iron in the Universe. Also, because of their nearly uniform intrinsic brightness, Type Ia supernova are used as important tools by scientists to study the nature of dark energy and other cosmological issues.

"Right now these supernovas are used as black boxes to measure distances and derive the rate of expansion of the universe," said Nelemans. "What we're trying to do is look inside the box."

If the supernova explosion is caused by material being pulled off a companion star onto the white dwarf, fusion of this material on the surface of the star should heat the star and produce a strong source of X-radiation prior to the explosion. Once the supernova explosion occurs, the white dwarf is expected to be completely destroyed and then would be undetectable in X-rays. In the merger scenario, the intensity of X-ray emission prior to the explosion is expected to be much weaker.

Based on the detection of a fairly strong X-ray source at approximately the position of SN 2007on 4 years before the explosion, Voss and Nelemans conclude that the data support the scenario where matter is pulled off a companion star. The small number of X-ray sources in the field implies that there is only a small chance of an unrelated source being so close by coincidence. Also, the X-ray source has similar properties to those expected for fusion on a white dwarf, unlike most X-ray sources in the sky.

However, in follow-up studies, Voss, Nelemans and colleagues Gijs Roelofs (Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics, Cambridge, Mass.) and Cees Bassa (McGill University, Canada) used higher-quality optical images to better determine the supernova's position. This work, which is not yet published, shows a small, but significant difference in the measured positions of the supernova and the X-ray source, suggesting the source may not be the progenitor.

Follow-up Chandra observations hint that the X-ray object has disappeared, but further observations are needed to finally decide whether the source was the progenitor or not.

The team is also applying this new method to other supernovas and has high hopes that they will eventually succeed in identifying the elusive cause of at least some of these explosions.

"We're very excited about opening up a new way of studying supernovas, even though we're not sure that we've seen this particular stellar bomb before it exploded," said Gijs Roelofs. "We're very confident that we'll learn a lot more about these important supernovas in the future."

Voss agrees that, even if the X-ray source is not found to be the progenitor of SN 2007on, the hunt is worth the effort.

"Finding the progenitor to one of these Type Ia supernovas is a great chase in astronomy right now," he said. "These supernovas are great tools for studying dark energy, but if we knew more about how they form they might become even better tools."

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Wednesday, February 13, 2008

Newborn Stars

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Newborn stars peek out from the Rho Ophiuchi star-forming region in this dynamic image from NASA's Spitzer Space Telescope.

This representative-colour image of Rho Oph's main cloud, Lynds 1688, was created with data from Spitzer's infrared array camera, which has the highest spatial resolution of Spitzer's three imaging instruments, and its multiband imaging photometer, best for detecting cooler materials.

Blue represents light with a wavelength of 3.6 microns; green shows light of 8 microns; and red is 24-micron light.

The colours in this image reflect the relative temperatures and evolutionary states of the various stars. The youngest stars are surrounded by dusty disks of gas from which they, and their potential planetary systems, are forming. These young disk systems show up as red in this image. More evolved stars, which have shed their natal material, are blue.

The extended white nebula in the center right of the image is a region of the cloud which is glowing in infrared light due to the heating of dust by bright young stars near the right edge of the cloud. Fainter multi-hued diffuse emission fills the image. The colour of the nebulosity depends on the temperature, composition and size of the dust grains.

Spitzer Spies Young Stars in their Baby Blanket of Dust
Credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/Harvard-Smithsonian CfA
The first fruits of 2008 original music by The Moody Minstrel

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Saturday, February 09, 2008

Cosmic Fossil

NGC 1132 A Mysterious Elliptical. Credit: Chanda

The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope has captured a new image of the galaxy NGC 1132 which is, most likely, a cosmic fossil - the aftermath of an enormous multi-galactic pile-up, where the carnage of collision after collision has built up a brilliant but fuzzy giant elliptical galaxy far outshining typical galaxies.

The elliptical galaxy NGC 1132, seen in this latest image from Hubble, belongs to a category of galaxies called giant ellipticals. NGC 1132, together with the small dwarf galaxies surrounding it, are dubbed a "fossil group" as they are most likely the remains of a group of galaxies that merged together in the recent past.

In visible light NGC 1132 appears as a single, isolated, giant elliptical galaxy, but this is only the tip of the iceberg. Scientists have found that NGC 1132 resides in an enormous halo of dark matter, comparable to the amount of dark matter usually found in an entire group of tens or hundreds of galaxies.

It also has a strong X-ray glow from an abundant amount of hot gas - an amount normally only found in galaxy groups. Its X-ray glow extends over a region of space ten times larger than the 120,000 light-year radius it has in visible light. An X-ray glow that is equal in size to that of an entire group of galaxies.

The origin of fossil group systems remains a puzzle. The most likely explanation is that they are the end-products of a cosmic feeding frenzy in which a large cannibal galaxy devours all of its neighbours. A less likely explanation is that they may be very rare objects that formed in a region or period of time where the growth of moderate-sized galaxies was somehow suppressed, and only one large galaxy formed.

Many galaxies reside in groups that are gravitationally bound together, including our own Milky Way, which is part of the Local Group. Sometimes gravity makes galaxies collide and eventually merge into one single galaxy. There is strong evidence that the Milky Way is one such cannibal that has snacked on numerous smaller galaxies during its lifetime, inheriting their stars in the process.

Scientists are keenly studying the environment surrounding galaxies such as NGC 1132 using space telescopes like Hubble, and they try to trace the history of the formation these galaxies by analysing their properties.

In this Hubble image, NGC 1132 is seen surrounded by thousands of ancient globular clusters, swarming around the galaxy like bees around a hive. These globular clusters are likely to be the survivors of the disruption of their cannibalised parent galaxies that have been eaten by NGC 1132 and may reveal its merger history. In the background, there is a stunning tapestry of numerous galaxies that are much further away.

Elliptical galaxies are smooth and featureless. They contain hundreds of millions to trillions of stars, and their shapes range from nearly spherical to very elongated in shape. Their overall yellowish colour is a telltale sign of their great age. Because elliptical galaxies do not contain much cool gas they can no longer make new stars.

NGC 1132 is located approximately 320 million light-years away in the constellation of Eridanus, the River. This image of NGC 1132 was taken with Hubble's Advanced Camera for Surveys. Data obtained in 2005 and 2006 through green and near-infrared filters were used to produce a colour composite.

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Wednesday, February 06, 2008

Cosmic Fingers

Click on Image to Enlarge. Credit: LiveScience

A giant gas finger emanating from two neighbouring galaxies has hooked into the starry disk of the Milky Way and is pulling all three galaxies closer. The hydrogen gas is actually the pointy end of the so-called Leading Arm of gas that streams ahead of two irregular galaxies called the Large and Small Magellanic Clouds.

The fate of these nearby galaxies, which are impacted by the Milky Way's gravity, has been somewhat of a mystery. The new findings suggest that the Magellanic Clouds will eventually merge with the Milky Way rather than zooming past.

Located about 160,000 light-years from Earth, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC) is only one-twentieth the diameter of our galaxy and contains one-tenth as many stars. The Small Magellanic Cloud resides 200,000 light-years from Earth and is about 100 times smaller than the Milky Way.

"We can determine exactly where this gas is plowing into the Milky Way," said research team leader Naomi McClure-Griffiths of CSIRO's Australia Telescope National Facility.

Called HVC306-2+230, the gas finger is gouging into our galaxy's starry disk about 70,000 light-years away from Earth. In the night sky, the contact point would be nearest the Southern Cross.

Until last year, astronomers thought the Magellanic Clouds had orbited our galaxy many times. This scenario held a gloomy outlook for the clouds, which were said to be doomed to be ripped apart and swallowed by the gravitational goliath.

But then new Hubble Space Telescope measurements revealed the clouds are paying our galaxy a one-time visit rather than being its lunch.

McClure-Griffiths' results, however, are more in line with the previous tale pegging the Milky Way and the Magellanic Clouds as long-time companions. McClure-Griffiths remarks that this isn't the final word and that both theories are still on the table.

By pointing out the spot of contact between the Leading Arm and our galactic disk, the recent study will help astronomers to predict where the clouds themselves will travel in the future.

"We think the Leading Arm is a tidal feature, gas pulled out of the Magellanic Clouds by the Milky Way's gravity," McClure-Griffiths said. "Where this gas goes, we'd expect the clouds to follow, at least approximately."

In the distant future, the three galaxies could become one.

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Sunday, February 03, 2008

Rogue Stars

Rogue Stars - Credit: Andrea Thompson & Live Science

A young star speeding away from the Milky Way is in fact an alien visitor, astronomers have confirmed. The wayward object is one of several rogues that are giving astronomers a glimpse into the volatile nature of our galaxy and others.

Astronomers have found about 10 stars hurtling away from our galaxy, at speeds that exceed its gravitational grasp. While most stars rush through space at speeds on the order of hundreds of kilometers per second, these aptly-named "hypervelocity stars" are rocketing away at least 10 times as fast.

Most of these speedy stars are thought to be exiles from the center of our galaxy, flung out into intergalactic space by the powerful forces of the massive black hole at the center of our galaxy. Their violent creation is giving astronomers insight into the almost impenetrable world at the center of the Milky Way, the mysteries of our nearby galactic neighbours, and the nature of intergalactic space.

Volatile origins
Hypervelocity stars were first theorized to exist in 1988. The theory was that binary star systems at the galaxy's center would occasionally wander too close to the massive black hole looming there, which would disrupt their orbital dance.

While one of the pair was captured by the black hole, the other would be sent rocketing off at an incredible speed.
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"That's the only way you can accelerate a star to go thousands of kilometers per second," said astronomer Alcestes Bonanos of the Carnegie Institution for Science, a member of the team that made the discovery of the alien star's origins.

Of the billions of stars in the Milky Way, only a tiny fraction are thought to be shot out from the center like this. This explains why they weren't found until 2005 - because there aren't very many.

Astronomers looked at the spectra of stars at the most outer reaches of the Milky Way and found a few that were going very, very fast, which isn't normal.

By examining the elemental composition of these exiled stars, astronomers can figure out where in the galaxy they came from. With their abundance of heavy metals, most of these stars seem to have come from the center of our galaxy, which tends to spawn more heavy-metal stars.

The galaxy's center is shrouded in gas and dust and normally hard for astronomers to peer into. Gas clouds usually act as excellent stellar nurseries, but the violent tidal forces from the black hole were thought to prevent any nearby stellar births.

The rogue stars seem to contradict that idea, as they seem to have come from the vicinity of the black hole, except for one, which is an alien passerby.

Of these 10 strange stars, one, dubbed HE 0437-5439, seemed a bit stranger than the rest. Based on its current position, the star would have to be 100 million years old to have come from the center of the Milky Way. But it is only 35 million years old.

Bonanos and Lopez-Morales took a closer look at the elemental composition of the star and found that it seemed to be a visitor from our small galactic neighbour, the Large Magellanic Cloud (LMC).

"Stars in the LMC are known to have lower elemental abundances than most stars in our galaxy," Bonanos explained, which seemed to fit HE 0437-5439's make-up.

But while the elemental profile matched, there's one big conundrum: The LMC is not known to have a massive black hole that could eject it. The usual tell-tale signs of a big black hole, such as strong X-ray and radio signals, are missing. Astronomers aren't sure if dwarf galaxies like the LMC have huge black holes in their center, so "this star might be a hint for something important," Bonanos said.

Another strange consequence of these roving stars is the contradiction they provide to the long-held notion that intergalactic space is pretty much empty.

'There seem to be all these stars flying around between galaxies," Bonanos said. If stars are shot out from our galaxy, they are likely propelled from others, she says, though we are unlikely to be able to see them because stars are too hard to individually identify from the distance of most galaxies.

It is predicted that about 1,000 hypervelocity stars have been spit out by the Milky Way's black hole, Bonanos said, though many are still hurtling through the galaxy.

So far all of the hypervelocity stars found are moving away from us, but they could be shot out of the galaxy's center in any direction, up or down from the galactic plane, or even toward us.

But there's no need to worry about a stellar roadrunner knocking into Earth, or any other planet or star. There's a lot of "empty space" in the solar system, so these speeding stars will likely have a clear path out of the neighbourhood.
Large Mover from The Magellanic Cloud @ Centauri Dreams.

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Friday, February 01, 2008

Young Star Cluster

Credit: NASA/CXC/Univ. de Liège/Y. Naze et al

Westerlund 2, a young star cluster with an estimated age of about one or two million years. Until recently little was known about this cluster because it is heavily obscured by dust and gas. However, using infrared and X-ray observations to overcome this obscuration, Westerlund 2 has become regarded as one of the most interesting star clusters in the Milky Way galaxy. It contains some of the hottest, brightest and most massive stars known.

This Chandra image of Westerlund 2 shows low energy X-rays in red, intermediate energy X-rays in green and high energy X-rays in blue. The image shows a very high density of massive stars that are bright in X-rays, plus diffuse X-ray emission.

An incredibly massive double star system called WR20a is visible as the bright yellow point just below and to the right of the cluster's center. This system contains stars with masses of 82 and 83 times that of the Sun. The dense streams of matter steadily ejected by these two massive stars, called stellar winds, collide with each other and produce copious amounts of X-ray emission. This collision is seen at different angles as the stars orbit around each other every 3.7 days. Several other bright X-ray sources may also show evidence for collisions between winds in massive binary systems.

Spitzer Infrared Images of Westerlund 2
RCW 49 is the surrounding HII region around the young stellar cluster Westerlund 2 (Wd2). Because many of the stars in RCW 49 are deeply embedded in plumes of dust, they cannot be seen at visible wavelengths. When viewed with Spitzer's infrared eyes, however, RCW 49 becomes transparent.

Chandra X-ray & Spitzer Infrared Image of Westerlund 2
This coloured Chandra X-ray Observatory image (inset) shows Westerlund 2 in context with the Spitzer infrared observation. ___________________________________________________________

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Dr. Benjamin Thomas Davis and George Johnston Bradish were married yesterday at the First Parish Church of Newbury, Mass., by the Rev. Nancy Haverington, a minister of the United Church of Christ.

Dr. Davis (left), 42, is an assistant professor of medicine at Harvard Medical School, specializing in infectious diseases and the care of H.I.V. and AIDS patients. He graduated summa cum laude from Yale and received a medical degree from Harvard-M.I.T. Division of Health Sciences and Technology.

He is a son of Linda C. Davis and Donald E. Davis of Poughkeepsie, N.Y. His mother retired as a guidance counselor at Arlington Middle School there. His father, also retired, worked for I.B.M. as an electrical engineer in East Fishkill, N.Y.

Mr. Bradish, 41, is known as Chip. He is a psychotherapist in Boston. He graduated from Cornell and received a master's degree in counseling psychology from Boston College.

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7 Nicole Kosta
7 Nicole Kosta
Height: 5-5
Year: Jr.
Hometown: Mississauga, Ontario
High School: Mississauga Jr. Chiefs/Canada U-18 National Team
Position: FORWARD
Last Team: Mississauga Jr. Chiefs, Canada U-18 National Team

As a Sophomore in 2012-13: One of the most-reliable forwards for the Bobcats in her second season as she appeared in 34 games throughout 2012-13…The team leader in assists throughout the season with 28 total, she also scored 11 goals to give her 39 points in her second season…Named to the ECAC Hockey Third Team for her first yearly postseason award…Won her first career ECAC Hockey Player of the Week after either scoring or assisting on all five of the Bobcats’ goals over a weekend road series at Colgate and Cornell…Broke the program record point scoring streak as she extended her streak that began ending the 2011-12 season to 11 games in the 2012-13 season...Her 11-game scoring streak broke the record previously held by Kelly Babstock (eight games)…Announced a finalist for the ECAC Hockey Best Defensive Forward award…Her elite vision and passing ability is evidenced by the fact that she was the “lead” assist on 11 of her 15 helpers in ECAC Hockey action and 16 of her 28 for the overall season…Finished 16th in Division I with a 0.82 assists-per-game average…When called upon to shoot the puck she did not shy away as she totaled 133 shots-on-goal this season, good for second-most on the team…She played on the top line of the Quinnipiac power play and penalty-killing units throughout the season and posted 16 blocked shots in 34 games…Yielded a remarkable streak as she didn’t commit a penalty in conference play until the Bobcats’ game at Yale on Feb. 22 (21 games into ECAC Hockey schedule)…Finished tied for the fewest penalty minutes (two) among ECAC Hockey skaters who played all 22 conference games…Despite being on the first penalty-killing line for Quinnipiac and on-ice for all but one penalty kill all season, she had only been on-ice for nine of the 16 power-play goals (56.3 percent) allowed this season by the Bobcats…Finished with 12 multi-point games and two multi-goal games to give her 20 and three for her career, respectively…She also finished with a +31 plus/minus rating, good for sixth-best in the conference and fourth-best among forwards…Enters her third season with 72 points (19 goals, 53 assists) in 68 career games…Kickstarted her season with an incredible 11 points (one goal, 10 assists) through her first four games as she found herself ranked in the Top 5 in points-per-game average two weeks into the season…Began the year with three assists in the season opener against Mercyhurst on 10/5…Notched a goal or assist (one goal, two assists) in all three goals scored by the Bobcats in their 10/6 matchup against Mercyhurst…Followed with another three assist game on 10/12 in a victory over Maine…Chipped in two more assists on 10/13 in another win over the Black Bears…Scored her first career hat trick on 10/27 against Dartmouth as she also chipped in an assist to give her a career-high four points in a win over the Big Green…Also pumped in a single-game program record +5 plus/minus rating in the 10/27 contest with Dartmouth…Assisted on both goals, including the game-winner, in the Bobcats’ 2-1 victory over Colgate on 11/2…Scored two goals and assisted on another to give her three points against Cornell on 11/3…Won the ECAC Hockey Player of the Week following her five-point weekend outburst…Scored her first power-play goal of the season on 11/10 against Rensselaer…Finished with one assist in each game of a back-to-back against Clarkson and St. Lawrence on 11/16 and 11/17…Scored one goal in a 11/20 showdown with New Hampshire…Began another streak off three straight multi-point games on 11/24 with two assists in a victory over UConn…Followed with one goal and one assist on 11/30 against Rensselaer…Completed the streak with two assists in a 12/1 victory over Union…Registered one assist on 12/8 against Princeton…Finished a weekend two-game series on 1/17 – 1/18 against Robert Morris with one goal (shorthanded) and one assist…Finished with one assist in a 5-0 win over Brown on 2/1…Chimed in with two assists, including the main assist on the game-tying goal with less than 40 seconds remaining, on 2/2 against Yale…Scored her second power-play goal of the season to go along with one assist on 2/10 against Colgate…Landed one assist in a 2/22 showdown with Yale.

As a Freshman in 2011-12: Participated in 34 games…Finished second on the team in points (33), tied for fourth in goals (8), first in assists (25), tied for second in plus/minus (+11), and second in shots (123)…Her 25 assists were good for a tie for 27th in the nation among all Division I skaters and third among all freshman…Was named ECAC Hockey Freshman of the Week on two consecutive weeks between 2/17 and 2/26 after finishing with back-to-back five point weekends…Her impressive season garnered Rookie of the Year honors at the team’s annual banquet…Currently riding a seven-game point streak to end last season, placing her in a tie with Kelly Babstock for the second longest streak among women skaters in program history…Kosta registered her first career assist against Maine on 10/8 in a 4-3 loss…Finished with two points including her first career goal to go along with an assist in a 5-4 loss against Maine on 10/9…Tallied an assist on the team’s only goal in a 3-1 loss against Northeastern on 10/15…Registered an assist in a 5-1 victory over Union on 10/29…Finished a 3-0 victory over Yale on 11/5 with two assists…Recorded a single-game career high eight shots in a 3-0 defeat to Clarkson on 11/11…Collected an assist on 11/12 in a 3-2 victory over St. Lawrence…Assisted on the game-winning goal in addition to registering a goal and an another assist  for a three-point performance in a 6-2 win over Colgate on 11/18…Had an assist in perhaps the most memorable moment on the year for the Bobcats as her touch-pass to Babstock led to the game-tying goal with 10 seconds remaining in regulation…Quinnipiac went on to defeat the No. 4-ranked Eagles 2-1 in overtime on 11/22, defeating the highest ranked opponent in program history…Recorded a shorthanded goal in the waning seconds to clinch a 4-2 victory over UConn in the first round of the Nutmeg Classic Tournament on 11/25…Tallied two power-play assists to help the team in claiming the Nutmeg Classic Tournament Championship in a 3-2 win over Robert Morris on 11/26…Assisted on the game-winning goal against Princeton on 12/9 in a 1-0 win…Finished with two assists against Colgate on 1/14 in a 4-1 victory…Netted a goal in a 3-0 victory over Syracuse on 1/27…Registered an assist each in defeats to Harvard and Dartmouth on 2/3 and 2/4…Finished the season with 12 points in her last seven games between 2/11 and 3/2…Started the streak with an assist in a 3-2 loss to Clarkson on 2/11…Scored the game-winning goal while also adding two assists against Union on 2/17 in a 6-2 win…Capped the regular season with two assists in a 5-1 win against Rensselaer on 2/18…Led all Bobcat skaters in postseason play with six points in four games…Scored the game-winning goal to go along with another goal and an assist in the Bobcat’s first round 4-1 victory over Clarkson in game one of the ECAC Hockey Tournament on 2/24…Assisted on the team’s only goal in a 2-1 loss on 2/25 to Clarkson in game two of the ECAC Hockey Tournament first round…Netted the game-winning power-play goal against Clarkson in a 2-0 victory that sent Quinnipiac into the ECAC Hockey Tournament Semifinals…Registered an assist on the team’s only goal in a 5-1 loss to Cornell on 3/2 in the ECAC Hockey Tournament Semifinal.

Before Quinnipiac: Attended St. Aloysuis Gonzaga…Played basketball, hockey, soccer and softball…Won a hockey league championship in 2010… Played in the World Championships in Sweden in 2011 for U-18 Team Canada…Played for the Mississauga Junior Chiefs…Helped the squad to a Union College Fall Festival Championship, USA/Canada Cup Championship, Provincial Women’s Hockey League Regular Season and Overall Championship…Was team captain and registered 25 goals and 35 assists in 31 games played.

Personal: A native of Mississauga, Ontario…Daughter of Steve and Kim Kosta…Has an older brother Jeff…Plans to major in health sciences.

2012-13 Season Highs                                                     Career Highs
Goals: 3, 10/27/12 vs. Dartmouth                                      Goals: 3, 10/27/12 vs. Dartmouth
Assists: 3, twice                                                                 Assists: 3, twice
Points: 4, 10/27/12 vs. Dartmouth                                     Points: 4, 10/27/12 vs. Dartmouth


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Darlington's Historical Introduction to Bartram & Marshall manuscript
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Camille Desmoulins (1760–1794), French journalist, revolutionary leader. Speech, July 14, 1789, to a crowd outside Palais Royal, Paris. Recalled by Desmoulins in his newspaper Le Vieux Cordelier (Jan 5, 1794).

Desmoulins was guillotined together with his friend Danton.
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My beloved is white and ruddy, the chiefest among ten thousand. His head is as the most fine gold, his locks are bushy, and black ...
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I shall be seeking ornaments of ivory,
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The tests were in hopes of helping Kim’s stricken cousin Cici in her longtime battle with cancer, to see if either are compatible for a potential bone marrow transplant. (Last week, Kris uploaded a Keep Calm meme to her blog  in Cici’s honor.)

“I am going to try and see if I am a perfect DNA match for Cici, because she needs a bone marrow transplant,” Kim said.

“We are going to see if I am a match. I hope you guys can do this, it’s so easy, it’s just a little swab to the cheek.”

The Kardashians-Jenners have been outspoken in their hopes to help CiCi procure the proper resources for survival, as she specifically needs a donor with an Armenian background for the medical procedure to take effect.

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Rahway Parking Authority

The Rahway Parking Authority welcomes you to Downtown Rahway. We are a very proud city with deep historical roots and a progressive attitude with the future always on our mind. Rahway is a city that was settled in 1666 on the banks of the Rahway River as a commercial hub for the state and has now transitioned to become a major commuter transportation hub for the state as the 4th largest train stop for NJ Transit. The City of Rahway and the RPA have a strong record of working with NJ Transit to assure that comfortable, affordable and state of the art facilities are made available to our commuters and citizens. The award winning Rahway train station and plaza coupled with the RPA state of the art Transportation Center Parking Garage are great examples of our community spirit and commitment. We look forward to the continuation of exciting redevelopment, the realization of nearly 800 new living units downtown, continued openings of new gourmet eateries, specialty shops and expansion of our RPA facilities.  Rahway is a citizen and commuter orientated community where  “We honor the past but embrace the future.”  Thank you for choosing Rahway and the RPA

Sincerely, The Commissioners of the Rahway Parking Authority

The Parking Authority of the City of Rahway will hold its regular meetings at:

67 Lewis Street, Rahway, New Jersey 07065 on the 4th Tuesday of every month at 6:30 pm on the following dates:

January 27th Re-Organization meeting

followed immediately by Regular meeting

February 24th  August 25th
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 June 23rd  December 15th
 July 28th

Effective January 1, 2014 our office hours are as follows:

Monday to Friday

8:00 AM to 7:00 PM

Temporary Hours:

Office hours for December 29, 2014 - January 3, 2015

We will return to our regular business hours on Monday, January 5, 2015

8 AM to 7 PM

Any questions please call our office at (732) 381-8778

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