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Take Up The Torch :
Take The Fall :
If you take the fall, you accept the blame and possibly the punishment for another's wrongdoing, with the implication that the true culprit, for political or other reasons, cannot be exposed as guilty.
Take The Fifth :
If you do not want to answer a question you can take the fifth meaning you are choosing not to answer.
Take The Flak :
If you take the flak, you are strongly criticized for something.
Take The Floor :
Stare talking or giving a speech to a group.
Take The Heat :
If you take the heat, you take the criticism or blame for something you did not do normally to protect the guilty person.
Take The Hind Legs Off A Donkey :
A person who is excessively or extremely talkative can take the hind legs off a donkey
Take The Mickey :
If you take the mickey, you tease someone.
Take The Plunge :
If you take the plunge, you decide to do something or commit yourself even though you know there is an element of risk involved.
Take The Rough With The Smooth :
People say that you have to take the rough with the smooth meaning that you have to be prepared to accept the disadvantages as well of the advantages of something.
Take To Your Heels :
If you take to your heels, you run away.
Take Up The Torch :
If you take up the torch, you take on a challenge or responsibility usually when someone else retires or leaves an organization.
Take Your Breath Away :
If something takes your breath, it astonishes or surprises you.
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Whether you're a craft beer newbie or a seasoned imbiber… a tour through Big Rock Brewery, Canada's leading craft brewery, is a great way to spend some of your valued time in Ontario. In fact, consider it an investment in DELICIOUS!
Led by a TEAM of beer passionate folks who live, love and drink craft beer, enjoy a 60-minute brewery tour and tasting.
You'll follow our state-of-the-art brewing process with your own eyes, ears and nose, from the unloading of ingredients, through the brewing and fermentation stages, all the way to the packaging facility. Before you head home, you'll experience a Big Rock tasting session where you get to sample the latest and greatest on tap.
Tours take place every Saturday at 1pm and 4pm.
Large group private tour packages are available for booking – please email email@example.com for more details.
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Are there ID requirements or an age limit to enter the event?
Participants must be 19 years of age or older with valid identification.
What can/can't I bring to the event?
PLEASE BRING: Government photo ID (required to participate in sampling of beer)
PLEASE DO NOT BRING: Outside alcohol. Anyone arriving on premise that appears to be impaired will be unable to participate in our brewery tours.
Do I have to bring my printed ticket to the event?
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Come paddle through Turkey Run and Shades State Parks and under 4 historic covered bridges. Stop along the many sandbars and hunt for rocks, fossils, crinoids and Indian Beads.
Paddle down the stream the Piankeshaw Indians called "Pun-go-se-co-ne" or "Water of Many Sugar Trees".
Our trips range from one-hour floats to overnight adventures. So, pack your picnic lunch and come float down beautiful Sugar Creek!
The beauty and history of Sugar Creek can best be experienced by drifting through its valleys in one of our quality canoes or kayaks. We hope to bring this unique experience to you by providing you with quality equipment, convenient transportation to and from the stream and the best variety of trips.
QUALITY EQUIPMENT: No aluminum canoes here!! Discover the difference of our canoes. No clanging like aluminum. No Hot seats. Slips thru rocky shallows.
CONVENIENT LOCATION NEAR TURKEY RUN: We are located on State Road 47 across from Turkey Run Campground. We are one mile from the Jct. of US 41 and SR 47.


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Friday, June 19
Bethpage: Not Your Normal U.S. Open
Look who turned up on the U.S. Open leaderboard.
(Robert Gusick/Flickr)
DON'T ADJUST YOUR SET. That was the 2009 U.S. Open at Bethpage Black you were watching today, even if it didn't quite look like a U.S. Open with all those dart-like approach shots and red numbers on the scoreboard.
Yes, the guy in the photo, aka David Duval, did shoot a 67 in the first round of the U.S. Open and remains in contention midway through his second round. Yes, Tiger Woods did crash and burn on the last four holes of his first round to shoot four over. And yes, a different, short-hitting "Lefty" (Mike Weir) led after the first round with a 64.
That's on a U.S. Open course that was supposed to play way too long for short knockers, especially after being under water on Thursday. (By the way, Weir's 64 included a double bogey.)
It's all just so crazy.
If that weren't enough, this U.S. Open might not finish on Sunday. This isn't your father's or Father's Day U.S. Open. There's nothing normal about it. Not one thing.
−The Armchair Golfer
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- Galvin Green said...
We Duval what happened to him. When you strive to become te best as Duval almost was several years ago. He reached his goal of winning a major championship. It almost seemed that once that goal was reached that was him done.
It does seem to happen to some player sometimes.
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MONTREAL (AP) - The Montreal Alouettes would welcome Tim Tebow to the CFL - provided he's willing to compete for a job as a backup quarterback.
The New York Jets released the former Heisman Trophy winner Monday just a year after acquiring him in a ballyh
MONTREAL (AP) - The Montreal Alouettes would welcome Tim Tebow to the CFL - provided he's willing to compete for a job as a backup quarterback.
The New York Jets released the former Heisman Trophy winner Monday just a year after acquiring him in a ballyhooed trade with the Denver Broncos.
Tebow has been one of the league's most popular players since his arrival but has drawn constant criticism for his passing mechanics. But his NFL future remains very much in doubt.
If the former Florida star wants to keep playing quarterback, the CFL could be a landing spot. But if Tebow wants to come to Canada, Montreal has exclusive negotiating rights.
Anthony Calvillo is entrenched as Montreal's quarterback. The 40-year-old Calvillo is entering his 20th CFL season and assesses his career on a year-to-year basis. That would leave Tebow to contend with former Boston College star Quinton Porter, a five-year CFL veteran, for the No. 2 spot.
"If Tim Tebow wants to come to Canada we'd definitely welcome him," general manager Jim Popp said. "That's why we have him on our neg list and we'd take a look at him and see if he can play in Canada, but it would obviously be competing for a backup job."
Tebow led the Broncos to the playoffs in 2011, but became the odd man out in Denver when Peyton Manning arrived. The Jets acquired Tebow for a fourth-round draft pick and $1.5 million in salary.
Playing Canadian football would present Tebow with clear challenges, given the importance of the passing game on the longer, wider CFL field.
"None of us know if he can really play in Canada either so it would be a project to see what he's capable of doing," Popp said. "Tim Tebow has a strong arm. You hear about the knocks on his throwing whether it's accuracy or touch. If you're going to have success in Canada you're going to have to be able to throw the ball all over the field."
But Popp said Tebow's mobility would be a definite asset in Canada.
"It depends on what you're asking him to do," Popp said. "If one day you decide to make him your starter then obviously you're going to formulate an offense that best suits Tim Tebow.
"I think right now there's 32 NFL teams that aren't willing to do that. That doesn't mean a CFL team wouldn't in the future. But, again, until you have him and really figure out what he can and can't do you don't really know."
Tebow wouldn't be the first big-name quarterback to make the trek north. Doug Flutie, Warren Moon and Jeff Garcia all came to the CFL and blossomed into stars before returning to play in the NFL.
But a CFL team with Tebow would also have to adjust to his celebrity. The two-time NCAA champion's No. 15 jersey with Denver ranked second in U.S. sales to Green Bay's Aaron Rodgers in 2011.
And if Tebow wants to come to Canada - and there's no indication he does - he would have to call Popp.
"I don't know what his process is going to be, if any, or if he even has an interest in playing in another league outside the NFL," he said. "If they end up having that discussion I'm sure we'll hear from them and we'll move from there."
Popp said Montreal also has former Texas star quarterback Vince Young on its negotiation list, and Young's representatives have spoken to the Alouettes twice. Each time the message has been the same: If Young came to Quebec, it would be as Calvillo's backup.
"They know we have Anthony, they know if he (Young) comes he's not starting," Popp said. "If (Tebow) has a real interest in coming to Canada, he or his representation will call."


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I'm going to keep you folks updated on the world of link building affiliate marketing. There are a ton of great affiliate programs out there for blog companies, directories and SEO firms. I will keep my readers informed what affiliate programs are converting the best for me.
This month is being led by the V7N Affiliate Program which is for their web directory. I only have their 125×125 in my right panel, so I was quite surprised to see these results turning out. We still have until the end of the month so who knows…Sign Up.
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Get Moving. Exercising releases endorphins, which help you feel better. If you can't exercise outdoors, heading to the gym or working out at home with DVDs and hand weights will give a boost to your mood and your energy. Another way to get moving is to tackle some of those indoor home improvement projects you've been meaning to get to.
Cleaning out the closets, painting a room or rearranging some furniture will burn a few calories and make you feel better about getting something accomplished.
Eat for Energy. All those delicious comfort foods slow down your metabolism, drain your energy and pack on the pounds. Alcohol, sugar and high-fat foods are temporary mood-boosters, but they bring an energy crash that's just not worth it. Start off the day with some whole grains and lean protein for longer-lasting energy. Drink plenty of water and enjoy lots of fruits and vegetables.
Supplement Smarts. In addition to exercise and healthy eating, you may want to consider a mood-enhancing supplement, such as Nature Made SAM-e Complete. SAM-e (S-adenosyl-methionine) is a naturally occurring molecule in the body that can become depleted due to diet and age.
Studies have shown that low levels of SAM-e can cause moodiness and irritability. Nature Made SAM-e Complete replenishes Sam-e levels and helps to naturally restore a good mood. It's been clinically proven to work in as little as 7 to 14 days if taken daily as directed.
Don't Go It Alone. Connecting with other people is one of the best ways to fight off the blues. By combining some meaningful face-time with a brisk walk or a healthy meal, you'll be amazed at how much better you feel.
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For the past decade, town crews in Easton, Md., have taken discarded trees to Poplar Island. The trees, strategically placed across the island, provide habitat and nesting sites for birds like common terns, least terns and American black ducks. Other trees are screwed into stumps and become nesting areas for egrets and herons.
Poplar Island is home to more than 200 bird species and 26 nesting species. Projects like using Christmas trees helps attract wildlife to the uninhabited island. Read more.


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Web Delights: Ryan Gosling Shirtless, 'Amazing Spider-Man 2′ Villains + More
Your handy daily round-up of delightful links from around the Web.
While Ryan Gosling is on his hiatus from acting, just stare at these GIFs (one of which is shirtless) all day long. [StarCrush]
Find out what Electro, Rhino and Green Goblin will look like in the new 'Amazing Spider-Man 2' movie. [ScreenCrush]
Enter to win two tickets to Bonnaroo 2013! [Diffuser.fm]
Taylor Swift and an "out of control badger" are guest-starring on an episode of 'New Girl.' Count us in. [PopCrush]
Have you ever wondered what some of your favorite movie and TV sidekicks, like Carlton Banks and Shawn Hunter, are up to today? [TheFW]


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At its December 11, 2013 Business Meeting, the California Energy Commission revised the effective date for the 2013 Building Energy Efficiency Standards (Title 24, Part 1, Chapter 10 and Part 6, and affected provisions in Part 11 [Cal. Green Building Standards Code]) from January 1, 2014 to July 1, 2014.
The California Energy Commission's 2013 Public Domain Compliance Software must be used to complete the performance compliance approach of the 2013 Building Energy Efficiency Standards. The public domain software for the 2013 Standards does not yet provide the full feature set needed for building and alteration projects seeking building permits in early 2014. Further, time is needed for the building industry and local building departments to learn and adapt to the new tools. Implementing the standards without software completed and sufficient adoption time would place property owners and the building industry in an untenable situation by significantly impeding their projects' design and permitting processes.
The revised effective date of July 1, 2014 will provide the building industry with the full complement of tools to comply with the prescriptive and performance compliance options, and sufficient time for training on the use of those tools.
The public domain compliance software for residential buildings has been available since July 2013 and developers have been using the software to not only comply with, but exceed the new Standards. The California Energy Commission is working to refine this software. The public domain compliance software for nonresidential buildings was released in September 2013. The California Energy Commission adopted the 2013 Standards on May 31, 2012, and the California Building Standards Commission approved them on January 23, 2013.
This software represents new advances in building analytics and computer modeling. The Energy Commission is dedicated to ensuring this open-source compliance software works efficiently and effectively. This change also provides the industry more time to prepare for the new Standards. The Energy Commission will use the additional time to provide more information on the Standards and work with the California utilities, building industry and California building officials to provide training on the new Standards.


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THE BEEHIVE is the perfect venue for holiday parties, business functions, social gatherings and weddings. Our unique space works just as well for "come as you are" gatherings or special occasions calling for a more upscale atmosphere. With great food, approachable wine and beverage program, accommodating staff, and stage for live entertainment, a celebration at THE BEEHIVE is a superbly memorable experience!
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Happy New Year!! GET IT DONE!!
It's a NEW year!!! It's time to take bold steps towards achieving your goals and pursuing your passion. Join me for the Write What is Sacred creative writing workshop in Toronto Canada on Jan 31st from 10am-3pm. This class is for new writers, emerging writers or established writers.To ensure this workshop is accessible to all, slots will be offered at a sliding scale of $49 to $99 dollars. Register for class now to take advantage of these awesome discounted rates!


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ccars2468 necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 61 diseños de 26 diseñadores freelance.
Ski Naked
Ski Naked doesn't actually exist, yet. This is a potential startup that I really want to test. To be sure I get the best results possible from testing, I want to have an attractive logo mark in place. This project probably could be listed under merchandise, but, technically, there is no merchandise. I'm looking to create an attractive image on a budget.
Looking at this potential company with the end in mind, I see it selling an array of products: hats (beanies, etc), shirts, socks, gloves.....ski apparel in general.
I already have my own vision for a potential logo, but I'm not a capable artist or designer. What I'd like to see are submissions where creatives take my idea and make it reality and also the creatives' own visions for potential logos. I'm sure there are a ton of better ideas than what I envision. My rudementary sketches will be attached to this brief.
Skiers between the ages of 18 - 25 with a light-hearted attitude and an open mind who simply love the sport in the raw.
By "in the raw," I mean people who love the sport for the sport itself, the feeling, the rush, the adrenaline, the escape. I don't think the product line I envision would suit those who ski because its a status symbol.....
Like said above, I have attached my sketches of my visualizations of a potential logo. I really want to focus on getting a good logo mark. Examples would be Nike's Swoosh or Fox Racing's fox design.
Keep in mind, also, that the logo mark will be primarily used on clothes and apparel. It will need to be embroidered, screen printed, and any other method that exists for attaching designs and logos to apparel. Due to this, the logo shouldn't be overly complex and it doesn't need to be colorful.
I needs to be modern and fun!
Fox Racing: You'll notice the Fox Head logo mark.....
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Gold's stratospheric run during the height of the economic crisis and its aftermath served as an effective hedge against the possibility of even more disaster to come. It should hold, therefore, that gold's collapse would signal a vote of confidence in the way markets are currently performing.
That's the scenario laid out by the famed economist Kenneth Rogoff in a blog posted to The Guardian's website on Tuesday. So is it, in fact, what's happening?
Yes and no, Rogoff writes, with typical academic fuzziness.
"To say that the gold market displays all of the classic features of a bubble gone bust is to oversimplify," Rogoff (left) argues. "There is no doubt that gold's heady rise to the peak, from around $350 per ounce in July 2003, had investors drooling. The price would rise today because everyone had become convinced that it would rise even further tomorrow."
The case for buying gold had several strong components, he goes on to explain. Ten years ago, gold was selling at well below its long-term, inflation-adjusted average. The integration of 3 billion emerging-market citizens into the global economy could only mean a giant long-term boost to demand.
"That element of the story, incidentally, remains valid," Rogoff notes. "The global financial crisis added to gold's allure, owing initially to fear of a second Great Depression. Later, some investors feared that governments would unleash inflation to ease the burden of soaring public debt and address persistent unemployment."
In fact, the case for or against gold has not changed all that much since 2010, when he last wrote about it. In October of that year, he notes, the price of gold was on the way up, having just reached $1,300. But the real case for holding it was never a speculative one. Rather, gold is the aforementioned hedge. For a high-net-worth investor, or a sovereign wealth fund, it makes perfect sense to hold a small percentage of your assets in gold as a hedge against extreme events.
Stepping into his Wayback Machine, he points to research from Stephen Harmston's oft-cited 1998 study pointing to anecdotal evidence that an ounce of gold bought 350 loaves of bread in the time of Nebuchadnezzar II, king of Babylon, who died in 562 BC.
"Ignoring the fact that Babylon's bread was probably healthier than today's highly refined product, the price of gold today is not so different, equal to perhaps 600 loaves of bread. Of course, we do not have annual data for Babylonian gold prices. We can only assume, given wars and other uncertainties, that true market prices back then, like today, were quite volatile."
He concludes by noting that the recent collapse of gold prices "has not really changed the case for investing in it one way or the other. Yes, prices could easily fall below $1,000, but, then again, they might also rise. Meanwhile, policymakers should be cautious in interpreting the plunge in gold prices as a vote of confidence in their performance."
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Live Music
Dion Jones and the Neon Tears @ The Bay Wednesday Night Bonfire & Music
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This event has already happened. To be sure you don't miss anymore events in South Walton, visit the SoWal Events Calendar.
LIVE MUSIC at The Bay starting 6pm! Bonfire and live music every Wednesday night with various local musicians on the beach. It's a midweek tradition in SoWal.
October Schedule
2 | The Shakedown
9 | Will Thompson Band
16 | Mose Wilson
23 | Dion Jones and the Neon Tears
30 | Bo Spring Band
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Sunday Pickin' @ The Bay featuring Mike Whitty & Friends from 4-8pm. It's a jam session outdoors overlooking the bay. Happy hour is 4-6pm with half off cocktails and wine by the glass and $1 off beer. Come out to the Sand ol' Opry by car, bike, board, boat or plane! Guest pickers are always welcome!
Sunday Funday at The Bay all day starts with Brunch ~ 11AM-2PM with several special brunch options such as chicken and waffles or crab cake benedict.
The Bay also hosts a fun mid week tradition locals love on Wednesday nights with live music and a bonfire on the beach. Each season brings celebration and special events with music to the waterfront restaurant located at the foot of the 331 bridge in SoWal. Some excellent shows coming up for the weekly bonfire/music night and now Sunday afternoons by the bay. Come out for cocktails at the bar or enjoy dinner and local live music too.
The Bay is an award-winning, yet casual waterfront restaurant and bar created by Chef Jim Shirley with a reputation for serving some of the best grub in South Walton. But the hot spot's namesake is what brought us there in the first place - the majestic Choctawhatchee (chock-tuh-hatch-ee) Bay of South Walton. It's time to get back to basics and soak up what The Bay does best: beach, beer and buddies.
Open daily for lunch and dinner! More information, photos and stories at SoWal Dining Guide | The Bay. Follow The Bay on Facebook for updates on specials and events. See the food + drink menus at baysouthwalton.com.
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Petroleum Broadcasting System's "Newshour" and the Merchants of Climate DoubtRead time: 7 mins
Steve Horn | September 19, 2012
By Steve Horn • Wednesday, September 19, 2012 - 11:14
There's an old German proverb that goes, "Whose bread I eat his song I sing."
Enter a recent spate of reportage by the Public Broadcasting System's (PBS) "Newshour." In a September 17 story titled, "Climate Change Skeptic Says Global Warming Crowd Oversells Its Message" (with a URL titled, "Why the Global Warming Crowd Oversells its Message") the Newshour "provided an unchecked platform for Anthony Watts, a virulent climate change denier funded by the Heartland Institute," as described by Forecast the Facts.
Forecast the Facts created a petition demanding that the "PBS ombudsman…immediately investigate how this segment came to be aired," stating that, "This is the kind of reporting we expect from Fox News, not PBS."
Very true, this is exactly the type of reporting we've come to expect out of Rupert Murdoch's Fox News, a cable "news" network that provides a voice for right-wing propagandists on all policy issues, including climate change denial. But perhaps expectations are too high for PBS' "Newshour" and we should've expected exactly what we got: a friendly platform for the climate change denying merchants of doubt.
What's at play here goes above and beyond a single bad story by "Newshour." Rather, it's a small piece and the result of an aggressive campaign that's been going on for nearly two decades to destroy public television in the public interest.
Based on the shift in how the "Newshour" has funded itself over the years, it's evident that the once-esteemed "MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour" streamed on the Public Broadcasting System has transformed PBS into what investigative reporter Greg Palast calls the "Petroleum Broadcasting System."


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Oscar winner Michael Douglas is into the homestretch of his cancer treatment, and hopes to be resting cancer free by this time next week.
"This is the last week of radiation and chemo treatment," his rep Allen Burry told Entertainment Tonight. "It will be followed up by at least six weeks of recuperation before he can begin to get back on his feet. The doctors are very pleased with how it has gone and no further treatments have been scheduled."
Douglas, who turned 66 last month, was diagnosed with throat cancer in August. He is appearing in "Wall Street: Money Never Sleeps," the long-awaited sequel to "Wall Street," a 1987 film that landed him a best actor Academy Award.
In August, he appeared on David Letterman's "Late Show" and said the treatment "knocks you out really hard." But his latest role, reprising the Gordon Gekko role he made famous nearly 25 years ago, has him motivated, said Burry.
Selected Reading: Entertainment Tonight, monstersandcritics.com, IMDb.


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Practice of Peace
Wave Riders
Open Space Technology
Rarely, if ever, have the Peoples of this planet had greater
need for Peace and High Performance. Peace so that we may freely pursue the
fulfillment of our potential. And High Performance for ourselves and our
organizations so that our pursuit may be accomplished with energy and
The twenty year natural experiment with Open Space Technology
has demonstrated that both Peace and High Performance are attainable. Hugely
conflicted groups have found ways to respectfully deal with each other as
they discovered workable solutions for their issues. Complex projects have
been brought to fruition in breathtakingly short times, a clear example of
High Performance.
Many people have viewed the results as counterintuitive,
unbelievable, even magic. The results continue, however, in thousands of
instances and 135 countries. But the "magic" is not Open Space Technology,
but rather the force that underlies it -- the power of self organization.
You are invited to explore that primal power for purposes of peace making
and enabling High Performance.
High Performance is the special domain of The Wave Rider. Wave Riders are to be found in all
times, places, and stations -- manifesting their unique capacity to
identify and ride the waves of life amplifying their own creative abilities
and enabling their colleagues to do the same. The way of the Wave Rider is
open to all who care to travel it.
Peace making is too important to be left to the
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The act of peacemaking may be purely intuitive, but it can also rise to the
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Letter, S. C. Pomeroy to Dear Hyatt [Thaddeus Hyatt]
Author: Pomeroy, S. C. (Samuel Clarke), 1816-1891
Date: August 6, 1857
Pomeroy again reports to Hyatt from Atchison regarding various issues having to do with their investments in that town--"the Rail Road matter," which went "well," had led Pomeroy to make tentative plans, it seems, to found a town across the river from Atchison on land he already owned to tie to the Hannibal & St. Joseph Railroad. "If the Rail Road can be put through next season, we can sell [Atchison] lots enough to make such sinners as we are rich as sinners ought to be."
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: Samuel Pomeroy Collection, #476
Item Number: 100307 Number of images: 3
Keywords: Atchison, Kansas Territory; Calhoun, John; Hannibal and St. Joseph Railroad Company; Leavenworth, Kansas Territory; Railroad promotion; Railroads finance; Town development
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- Integrates with a variety of data sources including standard RDBMS systems XML and CSV formats as well as specific sources such as HL7 and Hadoop
- Integrates with most REST or SOAP services to integrate data from a variety of internally developed or external SaaS applications
- Distributed architecture allows system to scale to meet most any data challenge
- A full library of capabilities makes it an excellent fit for data warehousing MDM data services systems migration or other data integration needs
- Spectrum's SOA architecture makes it easy to integrate data from disparate sources into almost any application environment
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- Easily create custom transformations using Java
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- Easily identify and deal with duplicate records
- Standardize customer or location records through address or geolocation
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As regular readers know, I've been away from blogging for a bit while I've been in the middle of a job transition. In my month-long hiatus, it seems like little has changed: the health care debate continues, the deflation/inflation and economic outlook remains uncertain, and the stock market continues to "climb a wall of worry."
As the immediacy of the financial crisis recedes, the question of what has brought us to our present state remains largely unanswered. Or rather, there are dozens of answers, not THE ANSWER. Among the myriad causes that are put forth: the Fed, Wall Street greed, deregulation, excessive regulation, Chinese savings rates, the Democrats and the Republicans. In past posts, I've added my 2 cents by pointing to the culture of "overspeculation."
Fundamentally, bad outcomes are generally the result of either bad luck, bad ideas, or some combination of the two. It may well be that the "bad idea" from which our financial upheaval arose is the belief that homeownership is an unequivocably good thing. I came across a prescient 2004 article in BusinessWeek that outlined some of the reasons why home ownership is not as advantageous to the poor:
- a house is often a poor family's sole investment: concentrating their assets in an a vehicle that combines the historically lackluster long term returns of housing with the high risks of leverage
- the poor have a higher "cost of carry" in home ownership than the wealthy, because they often pay higher interest rates and their lower tax rate reduces the effective subsidy of a mortgage deduction
- while a mortgage was once considered a means of "forced savings," the growth of easy-to-obtain home equity lines, interest-only and negative amortization mortgages all have negated the (already dubious) savings argument
British economist Andrew Oswald has noted the correlation between high unemployment and high home ownership. Although more recent work has created a more nuanced interpretation of that relationship (good overview in a Slate article here), this "Oswald Hypothesis" clearly has at least a grain of truth. The theory argues that home ownership makes people "sticky" geographically, and therefore less likely to move to find a job or better employment. This may be particularly true for the poor given that "borderline" housing is typically already less liquid than homes in upscale neighborhoods, further reducing labor mobility. This lack of salability in poorer neighborhoods is particularly acute in economic downturns, just the time when geogrpahic flexibility for workers is most important.
Those who defend policies that promote broader home ownership often point to social benefits — homeowners have a sense of "skin in the game" of American society. These arguments are no doubt true and important. But the advantages of reinforcing such a sense of inclusion should be weighed against the costs. Moreover, there other ways to promote engagement with community without the consequences attached to distorting housing market incentives.
This is not necessarily to argue against such incentives for home owners. Certainly, I and many others personally benefit from many of these. But every policy that distorts market mechanisms has consequences, many of which are unintended and adverse. We may not yet be through thoroughly testing the "Oswald Hypothesis." If that theory is correct, current real estate conditions, whereby many homeowners have negative equity, will make labor mobility particularly poor this cycle. This, in turn, would suggest particularly intractible rates of unemployment and consequent sluggish economic growth. If blind faith in the "goodness" of high home ownership rates is indeed a bad idea at heart, we may not yet have seen all the corresponding bad outcomes.


text: Why so many teens and young adults get into credit-card trouble, and how to buck the trend. By Janet Bodnar, Editor-at-Large December 5, 2007 Regarding your column on how some young people are unprepared for the responsibility of handling a credit card: I'd like to say that my personal experience with credit cards has been splendid. Although I am only 20, my credit limit is about $10,000. I pay all my bills in full and on time. I use only two cards, each of which gives me cash rewards. I also maintain a detailed budget to monitor my credit expenses and cash flow and help me set goals. I don't use my cards unless I have money in my bank account, so credit is a substitute for cash. That way, I earn interest on my account, plus cash rewards on my spending, and end up ahead. Sponsored Content Why do so many young people have a lack of understanding about credit cards? Do parents teach the kids bad habits? Let me tell you a story. A good friend of mine has a daughter -- I'll call her Jennifer -- who's a freshman in college. When Jennifer came home for Thanksgiving, she asked her mother for her credit card to go shopping with friends. Her mother agreed that she could buy a new pair of jeans (for which Jennifer customarily spends $100 or more). Advertisement When Jennifer got home from her shopping excursion, she wasn't a happy camper. Seems that her friends had also brought their parents' credit cards -- with carte blanche to spend as much as they wanted. They promptly ran up charges of $500 to $1,000. "I'm not complaining," Jennifer told her mother, "but I want you to feel sympathy for me." Sympathy? My friend and I were shocked. These young women had left for school just a couple of months earlier in cars packed to the gills with clothes. What were their parents thinking? When it comes to managing credit, you have three things in your favor: Sensible parents who make you responsible for your own finances. Advertisement Experience with cash, which I'm convinced is the key to handling credit wisely. A level of maturity that's needed to understand credit and make it work for you. Jennifer's friends, on the other hand, have three strikes against them. Student loan resource In a recent column I offered advice on paying off student loans. But I get so many questions on this subject that I'd like to recommend a new Web site: www.studentloanborrowerassistance.org. Sponsored by the National Consumer Law Center and its Project on Student Debt, the site gives borrowers information on repaying their loans, avoiding default, dealing with collection agencies and more. Two other sites worth consulting: SimpleTuition.com, which lets you compare terms on borrowing and consolidating student loans, and FinAid.org, with comprehensive information on loans and other financial aid.


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Cheese heads rejoice. Packers linebacker Clay Matthews did not break both legs in an alleged car accident.
Several false reports have flooded the internet over the past few days, some even including what appear to be made up sources.
"A spokesperson for the Wisconsin highway safety authority (HSA) has confirmed that Clay Matthews has broken both of his legs in a traffic altercation, one of the phony websites reads. "He has been transported via ambulance to a local Wisconsin hospital for treatment, and the full extent of his injuries are not known at this time, however, both of his legs were visibly broken and not life threatening according to sources."
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Over the past year, other hoax stories have circulated the web, including ones that stated other stars were seriously injured, among them Julio Jones, Tony Romo and Peyton Manning. NBC Sports' Mike Florio sees the gag as a dangerous game of chicken that continues to desensitize fans.
"The sad part is that, if/when a big-name NFL players actually does break both legs in a car accident, no one will believe it," Florio wrote on Sunday.
The injury to Matthews would have been catastrophic for the Packers defense. Last season, Matthews registered 13 sacks in just 12 games. In just four years in the NFL, Matthews has made the Pro Bowl every season.


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Semester course plans and study tools for St. Thomas Aquinas Academy courses.
Study guides include weekly reading plans, assignments, reflection topics, and gradebooks. Access to graded, online quizzes and other online student supports is available to high school students enrolled in St. Thomas Aquinas Academy (see Annual Enrollment).
In addition to helping you select a personalized set of courses for your student, each school year your academic advisor will provide personalized recommendations for English Mechanics (punctuation, grammar, and penmanship studies to complement the composition/reasoning courses), Mathematics, Physical Education, Language, and Music Practice. Ordering and pacing notes for those recommendations are included in each student's Academic Packet.
We urge you to wait to order your student's study guides until after your planning appointment with your academic advisor.
Each high school student will need a first semester and a second semester study guide. Each STAA Study Guide is $39.96 to $49.95 USD plus shipping. The guides are printed on-demand when you place your order and are not returnable.
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The usual sequence of courses is prominently featured in the list below. Variations on the order of science courses are also available. Your STAA advisor will help you select the appropriate study guides.
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Apache Cassandra commercial services company DataStax has this month offered its first Windows-based solution for non-production Cassandra development. Subsequent to polling its user-base and the Cassandra community to determine the most popular platforms used for development work, the company confirmed Mac OS X and Windows as the primary development platforms.
DataStax suggests that Cassandra is "moving into the mainstream" and supporting the needs of big data applications in terms of scalability, ease-of-use, and performance.
The new free offering will provide a graphical installer for Windows that bundles the latest edition of Cassandra, all key utilities including the Cassandra Query Language (CQL) interface, and an updated version of DataStax Opscenter Community Edition. For Mac developers, DataStax OpsCenter is also being made available on the platform for the first time.
"We want to ensure we're doing everything possible to make Cassandra easy to use for developers," said Jonathan Ellis, cofounder and CTO, DataStax and Apache Cassandra chair. "The new Windows installer and Mac support for OpsCenter make it possible for developers to get up and running with Cassandra in just a few minutes."
DataStax asserts that Cassandra is winning fans due to its high performance combined with linear scalability, no single points of failure, multi-data center support, and dynamic schema capabilities. Combining these features along with native optimization for the cloud and the ability to tackle big data workloads may have given Cassandra a boost towards being a more popular NoSQL platform for enterprise applications.


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The liver participates in a lot of activities within the body. It helps the digestion of food through production of bile and helps change digested foods into substances used by the body for energy and growth. The liver also helps process some medications into material(s) that can be used by the body; the liver may assist in eliminating medications from the body once they have had their effect. The liver stores vitamins and minerals and works with sugar (carbohydrates, glucose), fats and proteins. It also helps maintain proper blood clotting and removes many body toxins from the blood. Without proper liver function, the pet's health is compromised.
Because it does so much, the liver may be subject to injury, both direct and indirect. Some of the signs of compromised liver function in pets may include: weakness, vomiting, poor appetite, and/or seizures. If you notice any of these symptoms or your pet is just acting differently, you should contact your veterinarian. Many veterinarians run screening tests for middle aged and older patients during the annual examination to ensure that organ function is normal.
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The Supreme Court's decision that no company can patent genes but can patent its tests for genetic information is the tip of a large iceberg. We have gotten used to believing that the patent process is the only way that new drugs and treatments are developed, and that private industry is the only source of that work. Nothing could be further from the truth but the attack on government activity may make it true. Read the rest of this entry »
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Let's talk about some basics – the sources of American economic power.
- We were always an immigrant society, peopled with those who had the drive and courage to leave where they were, cross the ocean and begin again with nothing.
- Initially we were agricultural. One innovation was small, "republican," landownership by independent farmers. Their efficiency made everything else possible.
- We were among the leaders in the banking revolution which simplified and facilitated commerce.
- The transportation revolution began in England but it had an enormous impact on the American economy because of the sheer size of the country.
- Our system of democratic schooling – education for all, rich and poor, boys and girls, immigrants and natives – was revolutionary and made us an international leader.
- England pioneered the scientific revolution. But America took advantage of the land grant colleges, and with the appreciation for learning that came with both the Christian and Jewish communities that relocated here, America became a major source of invention.
- Americans led the revolution in manufacturing – inventing and perfecting the assembly line.
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text: Yeah but the JD is to get a license, there is a difference. It's hard to believe that anyone would pick lawschool because they had no other option in life. If you want to live off student loans, why not just get an MBA and stay drunk and masterbait all day like B-school dumbs are good at?


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As a farmer's wife with 4 kids to feed, my mum made soup all the time – lots of soup. Lots of different soup. And a lot of soup that was much the same as the last soup, but her tomato soup was Special. I found this scribbled recipe on a page ripped from our telephone message pad that sat on top of the fridge (as did the phone with the swivelly dial) which she must have written out for me on request.
I have to confess, that even though I knew I had this recipe (saved along with my birth certificate and other important documents) I have never made it – something to be rectified shortly and see if my tastebuds take me back 30 years in time.
My Dad was a Scottish farmer and for years he grew potatoes – he loved them and so do I. Not so the rest of the family who always cook an extra half a pot of spuds if they know I am coming to eat 🙂 Dad loved Mum's very delicious home-made Leek & Potato Soup which she made (at his pleading) every Christmas. One year I went into the kitchen and found Mum stuffing packets in the kitchen bin and looking a little flustered. It turned out, that in all the years of my Dad's potato farming, she had been secretly following a Leek & Potato soup recipe mainly using "Smash" (a dehydrated potato product) and had to hide the evidence from Dad who would have been appalled. Needless to say, he never found out. And I don't have the secret Leek & Potato soup recipe…
If you get round to testing the tomato soup before I do, let me know how it is 🙂
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Whether you use wizards to develop a simple package or you need the flexibility of a custom package, Data Transformation Services (DTS) lets you tailor solutions to the situation. In "Constructing DTS Custom Tasks" (September 1999), we examined how custom tasks increase a package's execution speed and help reduce its complexity by providing a handy container for utility tasks. This month, we expand on the extensibility theme by examining the role and development of custom transformations.
Like custom tasks, DTS custom transformations offer a significant reduction in execution speed and can be completely customized. Using an extension to Visual C++ that we created (and that you can reuse), we build a custom transformation.
In this example, we use the Active Template Library to build a transformation that generates Extensible Markup Language (XML) documents from database tables. (XML is an important technology for data interoperability, and its presence is growing in all aspects of distributed computing.)
What Is a Transformation?
Before you build a custom transformation, you need to understand transformations. A transformation is the process of modifying data after its extraction and before it reaches its target storage destination. Note that this definition doesn't address where the data originates, where it ends up, or how the data travels. Instead, this definition focuses on how the data is modified or transformed during its travel between the data stores. This distinction is important, because it directly determines what you can and can't do with your custom transformation.
DTS transformations take place in the Data Pump, which Figure 1 illustrates. The Data Pump is a multithreaded, high-speed, in-process COM server that programmatically exposes the data stream for direct manipulation. The Data Pump hides the complexity of data movement, letting developers focus on manipulating row sets. We talk more about the Data Pump and its role in the transformation process later in this article.
By default, the Data Pump supports only two types of transformations: a Copy Column transformation and an ActiveX Script transformation. In April and May, we developed packages with the DTS Package Designer and programmatically with Visual Basic (VB) to demonstrate ActiveX scripting and the Copy Column transformations. In some situations, though, these two types aren't flexible or robust enough to handle the complexity of your transformation. To address this limitation, custom transformations give you a mechanism to extend these basic transformations: using C++ to create new transformations.
Why Custom Transformations?
To discover where and when custom transformations might fit in your solution, let's examine their maintainability, functionality, and performance. All three attributes are interrelated, but each has a distinct impact on the decision process.
Maintainability. You implement custom transformations only via C or C++. Microsoft's reason for specifying these languages is speed; because transformations are processed one row at a time, the performance overhead in calling an automation interface once for each row is too overwhelming if you implement them with any language other than C or C++. Therefore, Microsoft restricted custom transformation development to the Data Pump's native OLE DB interfaces as defined in dtspump.h. Because many companies don't have C or C++ developers, this restriction often eliminates custom transformations from any proposed solution.
Although you need the right staff to maintain custom transformation code, you gain significant maintenance advantages when you use C++. For example, complicated algorithms are often easier to express in C++ than in script. Additionally, you have a much greater opportunity to reuse C++ code than VBScript.
Functionality. Of the three categories, functionality is the strongest reason for using custom transformations. Although scripting languages have evolved into handy tools, they don't begin to match the functionality that C and C++ offer. Compare VBScript to C++ as an example. VBScript has a limited number of intrinsic functions, can access COM objects only through automation interfaces, and supports only the variant data type. Most notably, VBScript can't call external DLLs (including the Windows APIs).
Performance. Your choice of development tool affects application performance. Your choice of development language also directly affects the performance of your transformation. However, the component interaction within a task, and consequently within a transformation, most directly influences performance. The best way to illustrate this point is to examine the layers of abstraction, which Figure 2 shows, that are involved in implementing a package. All packages perform their work through tasks. Transformation tasks (Data Pump tasks or Data Driven Query tasks) call the Data Pump for processing. The Data Pump calls a transformation to perform the data manipulation. If an ActiveX script performs the transformation, the transformation must pass control to the scripting language.
At the Data Pump level and above (tasks, connections, etc.), each component generally is called only once within a package. However, the Data Pump calls the transformation row by row. That is, all objects or interfaces in the transformation code need to be instantiated each time a row is processed. As you might guess, the performance impact of using an ActiveX Script to process a large number of rows can be substantial. In addition, certain scripting functions, such as string manipulation, are inherently slow. Any transformation that performs many string operations (as when data is copied from source to destination columns) is very slow if you write it in script. This slowdown is further magnified if the transformation moves a large amount of data; in data-warehousing scenarios, transformations commonly move several hundred thousand rows.
Building a Custom Transformation
Consider the following example, which demonstrates how to use a custom transformation. On a recurring basis, you need to pull data from an external data source and use XML to display that data in Internet Explorer (IE) 5.0. For your solution, you decide to use DTS to extract the data and a custom transformation to transform each row into an XML-formatted string that you output to a text file.
For this demonstration, we used the Active Template Library (ATL) to create a transformation. To maximize reusability and save development time, we created an ATL Add-In object module for a Custom Transformation object. (WebSQL subscribers can download the files for this custom transformation from the article index on the SQL Server Magazine Web site, http://www.sqlmag.com.) When you execute this add-in, it creates a default DTS Transformation object and its interfaces. (Later in this article, we'll describe the object and each of the interfaces in detail.)
First, install and register the Custom Transformation ATL Add-In by unzipping the contents of XForm Object.zip into Program Files\Microsoft Visual Studio\Common\MSDev98 \Template\ATL and running the Registry file, CustomXForm.reg. In addition, you need to define the SQL Server Include directory MSSQL7 \DevTools\Include in your development environment. (You might have created this directory when you installed the development tools from the SQL Server CD.) Note that all the code that this add-in creates (beyond what most ATL objects need) has a comment denoting that DA/BL (the authors) added it. This marker gives you a searchable string to identify what we added.
Establish the Project Environment. To begin, create a new C++ project. Choose File, New... from the menu. Then, switch to the Projects tab, and select the ATL COM AppWizard, add a Project Name (we used Xform), and click OK. The AppWizard then prompts you to confirm the type of object you want to add to the project. Because custom transformations run as in-process COM servers in the Data Pump, choose DLL (the default) as the object type. Click Finish, and then OK to confirm the object creation. The last step in establishing the project environment is adding ,_ATL_NO_UUIDOF (don't forget the comma!) to the Preprocessor definitions in the C/C++ tab of the Project, Settings dialog box. You need to add this definition because of a minor version incompatibility between the SQL Server DTS files we use and Visual C++ 6.0. (For a more complete explanation, refer to the Microsoft Knowledge Base article Q192561 at http://support.microsoft.com.) Now that you've established the project environment, you're ready to add the Custom Transformation objects and interfaces.
Add Objects and Interfaces. To use the Custom Transformation ATL Add-In Object, choose Insert, New ATL Object... from the menu. Then, scroll to the bottom, select the Custom Transformation Object, as Screen 1 shows, and click Next. On the Names tab, fill in the C++ Short Name (we used XMLDoc; everything else defaults). To support error handling, switch to the Attributes tab, enable Support ISupportErrorInfo, and click OK. (Building verbose error-handling code that COM can use to pass error information to the DataPump is beyond the scope of this article. Send us email if you want to see an article on it.) The AppWizard creates a default Custom Transformation object, CXMLDoc, which is inherited from IDTSDataPumpTransform, and declares all the interfaces necessary to implement the transformation. WebSQL subscribers can download WebSQL Listing 1 at http://www.sqlmag.com, which contains the complete header file for the transformation.
Customizing the Transformation
All transformations need to support the IDTSDataPump-Transform interface. Figure 3 shows the properties and methods of this object. Because it inherits this interface, the Data Pump controls the transformations. The Custom Transformation ATL Add-In Object handles all these declarations, letting you concentrate on the specific functionality of the code. In the transformation, this specialization begins by establishing three properties (m_TableName, m_RowName, and m_XSLPath) and the member variable m_WrittenHeaderInfo. The properties are implemented as standard C++ GETS and PUTS. When you implement a package at design time, transformation properties that implement a GET method are exposed for input. In this example, m_WrittenHeaderInfo is private to the transformation; the package designer exposes the others.
Now, you're ready to begin adding custom code. The Initialize method fires only once, when the object is first instantiated. Here, you can establish the object's state. This example creates an .XML file for output. Before you write out the individual data rows, you need to create a header record to define the location of the .XSL file. (An XSL file is the type of style sheet XML uses to define the data layout and data formatting.) Listing 1 contains the code in the .XSL file. In the Initialize method, set the m_WrittenHeaderInfo flag to FALSE, signifying that the header needs to be written.
The AddVariable method fires next in the transformation's execution sequence. This method's purpose is to let application (package) variables pass through to the transformation process. You don't have any variables to pass here, so leave the method empty.
The next method to fire is ValidateSchema, which validates the source and destination columns for consistency with the Execute method's expectations. Based on the output from this method, the Data Pump determines whether to call the Execute method. Because the destination data store is an XML file, the first validation rule checks that the destination data store defines only one column. The second rule validates that the destination column is a string data type. The final rule this method performs confirms that each source column is a string data type. If any rule fails, the return code becomes DB_E_SCHEMAVIOLATION, and the Data Pump terminates the transformation. If the schema is valid, the return value is NOERROR and processing continues.
After the ValidateSchema method completes, the Execute method runs. This method performs the data transformation, firing once for each data row in the data source. As you might guess, this method does the bulk of the processing work. Data validations and data manipulations occur here. In the example, you create the XML strings for the file here. After establishing local variables to store the data, determine whether the header has been written. If not, the custom transformation creates the header and adds it to the destination string. One limitation of the Data Pump is that it handles only one data source and one data destination for each conversion. So, for example, you can't create or modify a corresponding XSL file to manage the way an XML document displays in an XSL file. Also, this limitation implies that the transformation has only one data row as input and one row as output and thus directly affects your custom transformation. As a workaround for this problem, the transformation creates the destination string as a single string value. It concatenates the various tables and data, and separates multiple lines of XML data by inserting carriage returns and line feeds into the destination stream until the entire source row is processed. Then, the transformation sends the string to the destination data store (in this case, the XML file). This processing continues until an error occurs or until all the source data is exhausted.
The remaining two methods act as events. The OnRowComplete method fires after each successful fetch operation. The OnTransformComplete method fires after all rows have been transformed and after the Data Pump terminates. You might use it to free up memory allocations that are introduced throughout the transformation, but we didn't use either of these interfaces in this project.
Another item to note about this XML custom transformation is that at package design time, you need to provide code that adds the final XML tag to the output file. So far, the Execute method has accounted for all the formatting of the XML file. However, because of a design weakness in the combination of Data Pump and custom transformation, a custom transformation can't tell when to write the final XML tag to the destination output file. No event fires after all rows have been transformed but before the transformation loses access to the destination data stream. The Data Pump hides all the complexity of data management (pulling data from the source and sending it to the destination), so the transformation can't know when it is processing the last data row from the source connection. It knows only when an individual transformation is complete (via the OnTransformComplete method). After the Data Pump processes all the source data, it closes the destination data stream before calling OnTransformComplete. As we discuss implementing the package later in the article, we describe one way to work around this limitation. With that, the transformation is complete and ready for compilation.
Using the Transformation
Now that you've built the transformation, put it to work. First, create a new package. Select the Data Transformation Services folder for your server in Enterprise Manager, then right-click and select New Package. Although you registered custom tasks in the Package Designer, you simply register the transformation component with regsrv32 to make it available to any Data Pump or Data Driven Query task you might use in your package. To handle registration, we enabled the ATL Add-In to generate the COM component and SQL Server Registry information for you. For details, see the DLLRegisterServer() and DLLUnregisterServer() methods in Xform.cpp. (This file is part of XForm.zip, which we mentioned earlier.)
Returning to the example, add a data connection to the Pubs database. Screen 2 shows the Pubs connection. Next, define your destination connection. Because the XML output file is nothing more than a specially formatted text file, use the Text File (Destination) data source, which the Package Designer offers. Direct the output data to a file called \Article\Authors.xml, as in Screen 3. Formatting of the output file takes place in the custom transformation. Therefore, in the Text File Properties dialog box, you need to ensure that the fixed field option is enabled and that the other options remain at their default values, as Screen 4 shows.
Now use a Data Pump task to add the transformation. First, select the Pubs connection you added. Next, select the XML File connection, and choose Workflow, Add Transformation.
After you add the Transform Data task, you need to define the data sets. Right-click the task, and select Properties. This action opens the Data Transformation Properties fialog box. This example pulls data directly from the Authors table and places it into the XML file. On the Source tab, choose the Table Name option and select the Authors table. You can then define the destination file. The custom transformation handles all the string concatenation and special XML formatting issues, so the destination file will have only one output column. After you switch to the Destination tab, DTS prompts you to define the columns of the output file. Click Define Columns, then set the fields on the pulldown menu on the resulting dialog box. By default, the list includes all rows from the source connection. For this example, override the default, setting all the fields except one to ignore, as you see in Screen 5. Rename the remaining column to XMLRow, change its type to not quoted, and ensure that it is large enough to include all the data from the data row, plus the XML tags. (We chose a size of 300 characters for the example.) You can see the resulting output file definition in Screen 6. And to avoid cluttering the Execute routine with error-processing code, the example detects only buffer overruns on length.
Now that you've defined the source and destination data sets, define the transformation. You map the columns on the Transformations tab of the Data Transformation Properties dialog box, which Screen 7, page 45, shows. By default, DTS maps each source column to a destination column in column order. Before you add the transformation, you must delete the default column mappings: Select the transformation line between the source and destination tables, then delete it. Next, redefine the mapping by selecting au_lname, au_fname, address, city, and state in the source table and their corresponding columns in the destination table (in our example, the destination column is equivalent to one XML row). After selecting the columns, expand the New Transformation drop-down list box, select the transformation type XMLDoc Class, and click New to create the custom transformation. At this point, the custom transformation prompts you to define its properties, as in Screen 8. These properties, which you defined earlier in the custom transformation, are case sensitive, so be careful.
The final piece of the package accounts for the custom transformation's inability to identify the end of the data stream and the resulting lack of a final XML tag. To fix the problem and write the tag, simply add the ActiveX Script code from Listing 2 to the package. And to ensure that the task executes only after the transformation successfully completes its job, add an On Success precedence constraint to the workflow.
Tying It All Together
You can see the completed package in Screen 9. Running the package generates the XML file Authors.xml. When you combine this file with the Authors.xsl style sheet and use Internet Explorer 5.0 to open the result, you will see the nicely formatted Web page that Screen 10 shows.
Custom transformations provide another powerful way to extend the capabilities of DTS. Even with their limitations, custom transformations offer developers a significant advantage over the standard ActiveX Script transformations in maintainability, functionality, and performance.


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Meet Me in Miami (2005) - Details
Luis Montero has the perfect life. At 23, not only is he one of Miamis most eligible bachelors, he's just inherited the family business a rather profitable chain of hotels with properties located all around the world. But despite this promise of fame and fortune, Luis still isn't happy, he's lost the perfect girl. Luis was 12 when he met Julia. She was staying at the Hotel with her family while on holiday, and when the two met, the connection was instant. They spent the summer together, laughing, playing and wishing it would never end. When it was finally time for Julia to return to her native New Zealand, the two made a promise to meet back at the fountain the same time every year. Each year Luis waited, but no Julia. Now 10 years later, Luis finally decides it's time to put destiny to the test. Dragging along his best friend Eduardo, they board a plane to New Zealand determined to find Julia and win her back.
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Friday, 26 February 2010
Prepare to be amazed: Nicole Hunt discusses her running and pregnancy
Nicole Hunt is a new mother who lives in Montana. She is also a runner. And a fast one. Her 5000 PR is 15:52, her 10k PR is 32:48 and her marathon PR, in the 2004 Olympic trials was 2:40. She won the 2006 USA mountain running championships. She is a nurse and running coach and ran through her entire pregnancy (even 7 miles on her treadmill the day her water broke...). You can probably all see why she fascinates me. And why I was thrilled when she agreed to answer some questions.
Can you tell us a little about how and when you started running?
I started running around age 9. My parents would drop me off in the mountains and I would run down the hill. I loved the feeling of being alive and free.
What is your education and work background?
Bachelors of science in nursing and ACE certified personal trainer. Worked as a nurse for several years but realized that I was passionate about the science of running fast for myself and for others so I pursued that direction instead.
What is the running accomplishment you are most proud of?
Oh, that is so difficult for me. I am really happy about breaking 16 min for the 5k because it was a dream goal. I truly believe I ran that time because I believed in myself. (I went from an 18 min 5k runner in college to sub 16). That experience set the precedent for all my future goals. That experience taught me that if you believe in your mind you can truly accomplish a goal and you work really hard to achieve it, anything is possible.
I have to congratulate you on your 20 month old son Eon. :) He is just adorable. And I hope you don't mind me asking some questions about your pregnancy. I hope they don't seem too personal. I am just trying to be specific so other pregnant women runners can learn a bit and perhaps be reassured.
How old were you when you got pregnant? 37 and we planned it
What was your approximate BMI when you got pregnant? 5'2" and 100lbs. (18.3). Throughout my running career I was always regular with my periods even with a low body fat percentage. I attribute that to eating 3000 plus calories a day with plenty of healthy fats.
Did you alter your training plan at all when you learned you were pregnant? Yes but for me I had no choice since I had labored breathing at about 6 weeks. I was forced to run slow since I felt out of breath.
What was your training plan? Run moderate w/some strides a few times per week. (I stopped strides at about 25 weeks due to them feeling uncomfortable)
Did you use any specific parameter as a sign you were pushing yourself too hard (heart rate, speed, contractions, gut feeling, there is no "too hard", etc)? My breathing was labored at 9 min pace so it forced me to run slow. When I felt Braxton hicks cx I also slowed down
Did you suffer any injuries while pregnant and, if so, what was your recovery strategy?
No injuries
I have read you were able to keep running your entire pregnancy, but did your mileage go down through the trimesters? Yes. There was a point during my 2nd trimester where I thought I could not run. I was experiencing intense calf pain, hip tightness and had to pee every 5 min. Luckily those symptoms only lasted a week. After that week, I still experienced all 3 symptoms throughout my pregnancy but not as severe. During my last few weeks I was running very very slow but I was still able to run the miles. I felt best during my last trimester (except for the final week)
What was your specific weekly mileage before, during and after pregnancy?
60-80 miles per week before
50-65 all three trimesters
55-80 now
How much weight did you gain? 25 lbs (100 lbs to 125 lbs)
Was Eon born on time? 1 week early- 39 weeks. Were there any complications? Not with his birth but I had a tough 32 hour labor. I had back labor coupled with back spasms with contractions every 2-3 min throughout the labor. Eon weighed 7lbs 4oz and me being petite, he was a big baby for me so big I needed a C-Sect. I desired a natural birth.
Did you breastfeed? Are you still breastfeeding? Have there been any running-related issues with that?
I am breastfeeding now and Eon loves milk!! I have no running related issues. I ensure I hydrate a lot. Eon does not seem to care if I do hard workouts or long runs. I have plenty of milk for him and he makes the sign for milk all day.
Do you feel that being pregnant helped your training or that it was a setback?
It likely helped my training since I had a few aches and pains that healed up during pregnancy
Have you been able to lose the pregnancy weight? Yes but just accomplished about a month ago.
Have you returned to your pre-pregnancy speed? No, but honestly I am not training as hard as I was.
Now my husband, SR, has a question: He considers himself a fast runner and thinks ultramarathons ruin his speed and wants me to stop pressuring him to run them (no marital tension here). Have you ever run an ultra marathon? No
What are your thoughts on ultras?
It depends how you train for ultras. If you train for ultras as you would a marathon (lactate threshold training, hills, vo2 max, sprints, long stamina runs) you will definitely not lose your speed. I think ultras are a great tool to help you run faster for the shorter distances as long as you train smart and allow for proper recovery.
Do you have any specific advice to pregnant runners or new running moms out there?
Read the book Exercising through Pregnancy by Dr James Clapp. It was a tremendous help and motivator for me to keep running and exercising.
You can read more about Nicole's pregnancy and life as a new mom at Running Mama's Journey .
5 comments:
- Mapp said...
Hi you two!
Cool reading about Nicole on this blog! I have read SLG's and Nicole's blogs since I discovered I was pregnant with Malo, and it was great to see other future mums were running through pregnancy, too! I also read Clapp's book, and I agree it is good reading.
One thing I found was missing in this book though, was thoughts / advice on pelvic floor recovery post partum (is it maybe he is a guy and has not thought about it?!). I found it hard to know what to do / not to do, and for some reason, did not feel as comfortable just relying on "as long as it feels good, just do it", as I did during pregnancy. In the end, I felt I did not want to run the risk of problems 5-10 years down the line, and decided to strengthen my pelvic floor first, then build my abs back, before starting running again, 6-7 weeks after giving birth (against my midwife's advice to wait for... 6 months!). Then again, I ran all the way through the end of pregnancy, so my decision may not seem very logical!
What's you girls' view on this, both as runners and MD/nurse?
- 26 February 2010 at 14:05
- Danni said...
Very cool! And a Montanan no less!
- 26 February 2010 at 16:30
- cherelli said...
Thanks for this - I follow Nicoles blog and continue to be amaze at how much running and time she spends in the outdoors, it's inspiring!
- 26 February 2010 at 16:33
- Marathon Mom said...
Thanks for posting, this was great to read. It was great to read about someone else's experience that is so similar to mine, well except running to the end and the PRs ;) Percect timing for me as I am gettign back into running after baby and 2 1/2 months.
- 26 February 2010 at 18:21
- Unknown said...
Great interview! Inspiring :)
- 26 February 2010 at 21:59


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Daily Slice: Pizza Pie-er, Boston
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Stepping inside of the relatively small storefront of Pizza Pie-er, I found myself in a surprisingly huge space with retro lighting, round table tops with pizza graphics on them, a one-of-a-kind wallpaper pattern featuring peppers, rolling pins and various other pizza paraphernalia. It was hard to refrain from licking the walls and saying, "The anchovies taste like anchovies!" Just kidding.
So once I got over all the great distracting stuff on the walls, I considered what to order. While Pizza Pie-er is known for their large selection of toppings and DIY options right down to the dough (with a choice of white, wheat, multigrain, or veggie crust) I was drawn to the pizza pocket ($5.99). It's sounds cute and portable...why not?
The pocket looked like a marriage between a calzone and an empanada. It's fluffy white dough casing was very sweet, flaky, and almost pastry-like. The sweetness was a bit of a turnoff for me but might be enjoyable for some. Already sliced, the pocket oozed with molten cheese and sauce when pulled apart. The salty cheese blend included mozzarella, cheddar, and Parmesan. The bread-to-filling ratio was a little off in my opinion. My pocket was mostly a cavernous bread shell with some pizza trappings. But all in all it was a tasty lunch, and all you can ask for with a little pocket-pizza-empanada thing.
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Bit Wise Publishing necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 376 diseños de 83 diseñadores freelance.
We run a popular, long time screensaver, wallpaper, ecard, games website. End users can optionally install a non-spyware, non-adware toolbar that will let them perform searches on our new search site at AllMyWeb.com.
Anyone who does searches on the internet is our target audience! :-)
We are partnered with Yahoo and Ask and the new site will be identical in many ways to MyStart.com
We would like a nice, classy, clean, clever looking logo with accompanying favicon.ico files for our AllMyWeb.com search engine.
We don't have much in mind as far as looks or colors, but we are anxious to see what YOU have in mind!
Similar sites are MyStart.com, Alot.com, Crawler.com, Google, Yahoo, Bing, etc, etc.
The final logo files will need to include one for a white background and one for a transparent background, with included layers for future editing.
We will need to convert the logo to the following two image sizes as well:
- 1 toolbar logo image: 18 pixels height by any pixels wide
- 1 toolbar logo image for the About page: 164 X 314 pxls
The favicon.ico files will need to be in a favicon.ico format, as well as 16x16, 24x24, 32x32, 48x48, 64x64 and 256x256 .ico sizes.
Thanks so much for your time and efforts!
We look forward to seeing what you come up with!
Good luck!!
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