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I promised I would go to Germany and find out what they put in the water in Germany to make Germans the world's most prolific Carrotmobbers. After two weeks of research it is clear that my mission was misguided: They don't get their powers from water…it's the beer! But seriously, these guys are impressive. They fully understand and care about climate change. Someone said 20% of Germans fit in the LOHAS category, so there's already a lot of attention on "responsible shopping." In general they are a well-organized people… this means that the trains run perfectly on time, but it also means that their communities are well-organized. Seems like the attitude is, "when in doubt, organize." Let me explain the landscape of Carrotmob Germany and what I found there….
Let me just refer you to Hamburg's own recap of my visit, entitled, "The Pope's Visit." It's true, they started a tradition of referring to me as the Pope, a convention that followed me all the way to Berlin. I'm happy to report that this is done tongue-in-cheek. But I'm not sure how to handle it yet. Bless your hearts, Hamburgers.
I'll let their own recap and the rest of their pictures speak for themselves. The next Hamburg campaign should be rad. Here's a highly ironic t-shirt I spotted:
I had dinner with the organizing team from Cologne. Best sauerkraut I've had in my life. We talked a lot about what sort of technology the SF team is planning to build, and got their feedback on our master plan. The three German men in the picture below are all named Martin:
Also did a nice radio interview with Wilfried and the local Greenpeace chapter:
Karma Konsum was a ridiculous collection of luminaries in the German green business world. Great conference. The theme was basically "doing good with your money." Thanks Christoph for getting me out there to give a keynote about Carrotmob. This conference held an impressive balance between business and ridiculousness. The venue was the former stock exchange building, and business leaders and the Chamber of Commerce were out in full force. On the other hand, after the first day hundreds of people did a yoga mob, and after the second day there was a massive "critical mass" style bike ride to a boat party.
(more conference photos here)
This is Tobi who interviewed me for a magazine article. Please also note the typical pretzels and Ebbelwoi, a special Frankfurt concoction:
Also spent a couple hours strategizing with Julia who is working with the city of Cape Town to design ways that the Carrotmob model can be successfully put to use in the townships for the first time. If anyone out there has helpful ideas on how to do Carrotmobs in impoverished communities, Julia and I want to hear from you:
Thanks to Alex, Micha & Ben for pulling together a last minute event for the Carrotmob crew in Berlin. About a dozen people was the perfect size for hours of detailed Q&A and strategy discussion. Thanks to Marie the organizer from Bremen for coming down to meet with us!
I spent a lot of time in Berlin glued to my laptop. And took a day and a half or so for sight-seeing (I'll spare you the photos). Also did a nice interview with Kathleen who is going to spread Carrotmob to the Norwegians in a few months:
Here I'm strategizing with Sandra from Nest (Berlin-based social media agency for doing good). If for some reason it's not obvious yet, my most productive hours were spent sitting at outdoor cafes:
I'll add a photo of some non-Carrotmob people just because I can mention one obscure piece of Carrotmob trivia. Erik (below in the yellow shirt) is the guy who plays keyboard during the triumphant song you hear starting at 1:17 of the Carrotmob animation. True story!
If you live in Munich and you haven't heard of Carrotmob, you will soon. In my two days I did interviews with 2 radio shows, 3 print journalists plus a video for the student organizers from the University of Augsburg. I'm wondering if all this attention is due to the Munich team being unique from the teams in other cities…. Most Carrotmob chapters seem to be made up primarily of individuals whose primary connection to one another is an interest in Carrotmob, with a sprinkling of other organizational affiliations along for the ride. However, the Munich team is anchored by an NGO called Green City. Svenja is the local point person, and Carrotmobs rely heavily on her work along with the work of the rest of the Green City staff, their community of volunteers, and others in the Green City circle of influence. This has worked out really well in my opinion, and it's a reminder of how valuable it will be for us to support NGOs who want to do Carrotmobs, in addition to individual organizers. I had the pleasure of attending a campaign in Munich on my last day in Germany. As you will see below it was a tremendous success, and one lesson I take from this experience is that it's probably much easier to pull off a well-executed, professional campaign if you've actually got people who are getting paid to organize it. Not a new idea, but it's got me thinking more about how we can leverage the existing infrastructure at NGOs, and also how we may be able to provide other types of financial support to individual organizers for whom that would help them create more, better campaigns.
Welcome dinner at the Green City office:
Another big local leader is Christof. At 10am we biked to infamous Hofbraühaus for breakfast. There are plans to possibly do a huge Carrotmob at Hofbraühaus itself next winter. Christof has met with the proprietor and they are in talks to do a campaign which would result in more vegetarian items on the menu. But until that happens we shall eat weisswurst.
My last night in Germany was a Carrotmob at Stragula!
This is Conrad Tribble, the US Consulate General in Munich. Awesome dude, great to have him come out and support the mob!
The carrot theme was FULLY embraced….
…including a special all-carrot menu just for the event…
…and yes, I had two (2) carrot-based dinners because the food was excellent…
Another honored guest:
There was guerrilla knitting which turned this pole into a carrot:
Here's the team from Augsburg who planned a campaign of their own on June 10th:
This is Svenja, the mastermind of the campaign:
As night fell and the bavarian beer flowed, things heated up…
And DJ Vanessa (aka Mantini) kept everyone dancing:
There was so much dancing I guess I forgot to take a picture. At the end of the night the owner added up how much the mob had spent:
That's over 2500 euros. The owner was so happy that a free round of schnapps was immediately poured. 90% of this sum will go towards energy efficiency, which according to the energy auditor means one new freezer, one new refrigerator, some new lighting, and starting to buy electricity from a renewable source. This, ladies and gentlemen, is how a Carrotmob is done.
There were so many people who made this a fantastic trip for me! Thanks to all of you, especially those who made sure I had somewhere nice to stay in every city (Thore, Martin, Christoph, Nadine, and the US consulate). I had the opportunity to meet up with organizers from some other German cities (like Sebastian from Freiburg, Marie from Bremen, and the Augsburg crew), but apologies to Nürnberg, Bonn, Bielefeld, Trier (catch a campaign in Trier this Saturday the 25th!) and all the other hotspots I didn't get a chance to visit.
I'm back with lots of new ideas for how we here at HQ can make your jobs easier. Fully inspired. Thank you Deutschland!


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Dance Styles: Cha Cha Cha (Ballroom), Foxtrot, Jive (Ballroom), Modern Tango, Quickstep, Rumba, Samba, Viennese Waltz, Waltz
Price: £7.50 per person
Time: 7.30-9.00pm
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So the guy who was arrested claims he didn't see the Chinese people walking past when he started playing it which i think is a lie, just based on the kind of comments I can draw walking through the "poor district", which pubs with lounge singers performing at usually are situated in. But whatever, we'll take him at face value for now. He goes on to add, completely ruining his case, that "No Welsh person ever got offended when I played Tom Jones." No one else seems to have picked up on how blitheringly stupid this is. Then we get Carl Douglas coming out and saying "Well clearly I'm not racist because I have Chinese cousins and a Chinese brother-in-law" which sounds like one of those Suspiciously Specific Denials.
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Long-time industry rivals rallied together in San Francisco today to salute a Java enterprise milestone, J2EE 1.4. The launch had actually come and gone recently, but without the required degree of unanimity. You could tell what the theme of the day was when an open source representative described IBM's recent call to open source Java as "opportunistic."
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A Tale of Seven Braces – Part III
This is a continuation of "A Tale of Seven Braces" (a MUST read!) and "Update on Lowell's brace".
So here we are working with brace #7 still. It has been sent back twice for repairs…This last time, he actually snapped a knee hinge in half. It only took them about 3 weeks to get it back this time, versus the 6 on the first fix. He was able to wear his "boat anchor", but it was modified to make it lighter. It is still heavier than the new one, but works not too bad.
We were hoping the manufacturer would swap out the hings for better ones, but not so. Oh well, after it gets sent back every six months or so, they'll get the hint that they are not dealing with a non-active individual…LOL
Praise the Lord there is a lifetime warranty on this one!
The Greatest Honour
The Greatest Honour
Before I get into this devotional, I want to make it clear that our family does not follow most of what is on the TV. Besides an occasional history show and well screened movie, we usually only watch conservative commentators, reporters, etc. The following thought came to me as I heard the tail end of a news report about a contestant of a very popular secular British TV show, Britain's Got Talent. I guess it is the British equivalent of American Idol (another show we avoid.) It was the voice of Susan Boyle that stunned me into following her story.
Susan Boyle was basically a nobody. She is past middle-age, worked in her church, but was currently unemployed, and as I found out later has a learning disability due to oxygen deprivation during birth. She is not particularly pretty, but has a grandmotherly quality about her. She is someone you would easily pass by on the street without even noticing her. Please understand, I am NOT being critical, but rather making the observation that she is just the "average Jane".
As she walked on stage and spoke of her ambitions of becoming famous as a singer, the audience laughed her to scorn while the judges tried not to snicker. But when she opened her mouth to sing, out came what I consider to be one of the most beautiful voices I've ever heard! The audience and judges obviously held a similar view as the applause and chears roared. She won that competition and the "hearts of the world" and had an album deal signed within a few weeks. She performed for the Britain's Got Talent grand final, which she lost.
One of the honours she would have gotten upon winning the final contest was to sing before the Queen of England. For Americans, that would be like singing before the President, or Canadians – the Prime Minister. Now that's quite an honour, I thought, but when I realized the following I was humbled and awed.
As children of God, we realize we really are no one special: nobodys. Just like Susan ,we have done nothing worthy to stand before a monarch, yet we have the highest honour and priviledge of singing for and speaking with and about the King of kings and Lord of lords any time! We have complete unfettered access to The Mighty God of all creation day and night, any moment of the day! We can sing for him, and no matter how poor our voice sounds, He is ALWAYS pleased and to hear from a humble heart.
We "Get to" come before Him!
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. Psalms 95:2
Make a joyful noise unto God, all ye lands: Ps 66:1
Sing aloud unto God our strength: make a joyful noise unto the God of Jacob. Ps 81:1
O come, let us sing unto the LORD: let us make a joyful noise to the rock of our salvation. Ps 95:1
Let us come before his presence with thanksgiving, and make a joyful noise unto him with psalms. Ps 95:2
Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all the earth: make a loud noise, and rejoice, and sing praise. Ps 98:4
With trumpets and sound of cornet make a joyful noise before the LORD, the King. Ps 98:6
A Psalm of praise. Make a joyful noise unto the LORD, all ye lands. Ps 100:1
Sing forth the honour of his name: make his praise glorious. Ps 66:2
Let my mouth be filled with thy praise and with thy honour all the day. Ps 71:8
The LORD is nigh unto them that are of a broken heart; and saveth such as be of a contrite spirit. Ps 34:18
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit: a broken and a contrite heart, O God, thou wilt not despise. Ps 51:17
LORD, thou hast heard the desire of the humble: thou wilt prepare their heart, thou wilt cause thine ear to hear: Psalms 10:17
If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then will I hear from heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land. 2 Chronicles 7:14
I don't know if Susan Boyle can claim that great honour, and that grieves me greatly. She was not doing well emotionally before the final and had an "emotional breakdown" after and had to be hospitalized for possibly several weeks to recover. I kept thinking, what if she dies? Where will she go?
If you are a born again child of God, won't you join me in praying for Susan that she might gain the highest honour of all: having the honour and privilege to humbly stand before the King of kings and Lord of lords as His child.
If you do not know what it means or what it takes to be God's child, please read THIS
Angela Trenholm
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The Common Core Kool-Aid
In a number of conversations this week over at Jeb Bush's annual edu-fest, at AEI, and around DC, I was struck by the degree to which the Common Core seems to have become Dr. Pendergast's miracle cure for everything that ails you (seemingly including heat blisters). The exchanges were eerily reminiscent of the run-up to Waiting for Superman, when smart, enthusiastic people kept telling me how everything was about to change--how suburban voters would wake up and leap on the reform bandwagon. And it reminds me more than a little of conversations I've had earlier this decade or back in the '90s about how NCLB, school choice, or site-based management were going to change everything as well.
As best I can tell, none of those previous predictions came true. Now, I don't mean to come across as a tedious, "nothing works" naysayer. The Common Core is a different exercise from those earlier cure-alls, and it might play out differently. I honestly don't know where the truth lies. For one thing, as I've noted previously: I personally don't feel qualified to judge the quality of the Common Core standards; I don't think standards themselves matter all that much--all the action is in the stuff that follows; and I've seen a remarkable dearth of attention to how the Common Core will complement or clash with other key elements of the "reform" agenda (like charter schooling, new teacher evaluation systems, and school accountability).
Every time I ask about these things, I get watery, vague reassurances. Meanwhile, when I ask how exactly the Common Core is going to change teaching and learning, I'm mostly told that it's going to finally shine a harsh light on the quality of suburban schools, shocking those families and voters into action. This will apparently entail three steps:
First, politicians will actually embrace the Common Core assessments and then will use them to set cut scores that suggest huge numbers of suburban schools are failing. Then, parents and community members who previously liked their schools are going to believe the assessment results rather than their own lying eyes. (In the case of NCLB, these same folks believed their eyes rather than the state tests, and questioned the validity of the latter--but the presumption is that things will be different this time.) Finally, newly convinced that their schools stink, parents and voters will embrace "reform." However, most of today's proffered remedies--including test-based teacher evaluation, efforts to move "effective" teachers to low-income schools, charter schooling, and school turnarounds--don't have a lot of fans in the suburbs or speak to the things that suburban parents are most concerned about.
And this brings us to the crux of the matter. After failing miserably to convince suburban and middle-class voters that reforms designed for dysfunctional urban systems and at-risk kids are good for their children and their schools, Common Core advocates now evince an eerie confidence that they can scare these voters into embracing the "reform" agenda. And this conviction has become the happy Kool-Aid that allows would-be reformers to ignore the fact that they're not actually offering to tackle the things (like access to exam-style schools, world language mastery, music and arts instruction, and so on) that suburban parents are passionate about.
More to the point, the confidence that the Common Core will wake folks up in 2015, "changing everything," is an easy way to avoid unpleasant conversations about what it would actually take for the Common Core to connect with suburban voters or deliver on its promise (like, for instance, it might require them to rethink policy recommendations that have flowed from our "achievement gap mania" in the course of the past decade). The Kool-Aid allows would-be reformers to postpone facing up to hard truths. And it encourages proponents to regard their primary challenge as "messaging" the Common Core to parents and teachers, rather than grappling with these more substantive issues.


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In one of his morning homilies a few months ago, Pope Francis talked about societies that put company profits above human dignity, or even human life. "What point have we come to?" he asked.
This kind of talk disturbs cafeteria Christians on the right, just as the Church's insistence on the fundamental right to life of all human beings and the sanctity of Holy Matrimony disturbs cafeteria Christians on the left.
Each "side" of the culture wars wants the Holy Father to affirm them and their half-Gospel as righteousness so that they can use what would amount to an amputated, phony Jesus to score "gotcha!" points off those on the other side of the various political debates.
But Pope Francis is the Vicar of Christ, not the apologist for the false idols of various religious/political heresies.
Jesus was a worker. A carpenter. By doing that, He elevated work far above the animalistic fight for survival that those in power often try to make it into for working people.
Human beings are made in the image and likeness of Almighty God. As such, we each have a transcendent dignity that extends beyond this life and into eternity. The things we do here, including the work of our heads, hands and hearts, is an expression of that innate, God-given dignity.
All people are entitled to the privileges of owning private property and to have the labor of their lives respected. Part of that respect is a living wage and decent working conditions. When these values are compromised by a moneyed few who mis-use the powers of government to seize the treasure of a nation to satisfy their personal rapaciousness, then those who govern must oppose those actions.
Elected officials who do otherwise may profess Christ with their mouths, but they deny Him by what they do.


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The week in review
Worst blackout: A power outage shuts down New York, Toronto, Cleveland, and points in between August 14, the worst in U.S. (and Canadian) history.
Worst worm: Blaster wreaks havoc in 500,000 computers.
Worst shooting: Raimond Riviere is shot four times by Albemarle County Police Officer J.M. Fields after a car chase and Riviere allegedly grabs Fields' Taser early August 16.
Worst way to find out your 30-year-old nephew visiting from France has been shot by police: From your ex-husband who read about it in the paper, which is what happened to Georgia Barbour after Riviere was shot, even though he was driving a car registered to her, the Daily Progress reports. Initially police and hospital staff refuse to provide family members information about the seriously wounded man.
Worst ruling for the devout at Virginia Military Institute: An evenly split federal appeals court lets stand a ruling that group prayers before supper at VMI are unconstitutional.
Worst reaction to the election of a gay Episcopal bishop: Two Virginia bishops get hate mail.
Worst Republican hit: Virginia state party chair Gary Thomson resigns August 12 after pleading guilty to a misdemeanor charge for his role in last year's eavesdropping scandal where party leaders listened in on a Democrat conference call.
Best visit by a Democratic presidential candidate: Senator John Kerry skates in for a fundraiser at the Charlottesville Ice Park August 16, raising $25,000 for state Senator Creigh Deeds' Rough Mountain Leadership PAC, reports the Progress' Bob Gibson.
Best allies in the war against domestic violence: Hair stylists and nail technicians, who have been enlisted by Attorney General Jerry Kilgore to reach out to suspected battered clients.
Worst statistic: One in 37 adults– 5.6 million people– have done time, according to the Justice Department's Bureau of Justice Statistics.
Best sign the power plant won: Old Dominion Electric Cooperative dedicates its 510-megawatt Louisa Power Station August 11, despite protests and a lawsuit by Louisa residents.
Worst hit to a city agency: The Charlottesville Redevelopment and Housing Authority will lay off three administrators to make up a $280,000 deficit, Elizabeth Nelson reports in the Progress.
Worst parental dilemma: Deciding whether 26-year-old Jason Childress should remain on life support divides his parents, leaving it to a court appointed guardian to decide the comatose young man's fate. Claudia Pinto tells the story in the Progress.
Worst dog murder: Staunton downtown mascot and pet-therapy dog Mosby is shot in the face. James C. Coleman, 67, has been charged with a Class 1 misdemeanor of shooting another person's companion dog.
Best chase: An employee and the owner of Woodbrook Sports and Pro Shop chase down two moped-riding teens on foot and by pickup on U.S. 29 north and Berkmar Drive after a handgun is discovered missing from the store, according to a Reed Williams Progress article.
Best advice for people running for Albemarle County School Board: In an August 15 letter to the Progress outgoing school board member Gary Grant advises candidates to skip Coalition for a Responsible School Board forums and filling out its lengthy questionnaires and instead spend more time going door-to-door.
Best cloning: Arborists will attempt to propagate some aging trees at Monticello, reports James Fernald in the Progress.
Worst lightning strike: Nine Amherst cattle are killed during an August 10 storm when lightning strikes the tree they're under.
Best way to get a new refrigerator: Scottsville resident Sue Patterson wins a new Maytag from a Coca-Cola contest promoting the soft drink giant's new Fridge Pack.


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Refinances continue to drop, meaning good news for REITsBy Brent Nyitray, CFA, MBA
The MBA Refinance Index rises despite higher interest rates
The Refinance Index fell 0.2% (from 1,693 to 1,690), as rates fell 2 basis points. Refinances have been dropping like a stone, as the people who have equity in their homes have already refinanced and the ones left with high rates are underwater.
The MBA reported that the share of refinance applications fell to 61.5%. Going forward, home price appreciation will drive refinance activity as previously underwater homeowners eventually get back to positive equity and take advantage of lower rates. Slowing refinance activity will be a negative for originators like PennyMac (PMT) and Redwood Trust (RWT). It has already taken its toll on Nationstar (NSM), which reported disappointing earnings.
Policy could have an impact, though. President Obama gave a speech regarding housing in which he said he wants everyone to be able to refinance. That means HARP 3.0 (another wave of the Home Affordable Refinance Program), which would presumably extend to non-government mortgages and would have a later cutoff date than early 2009. If this happens, expect another refinance wave. This would be music to the ears of mortgage originators, and it helps explain why the Mortgage Bankers Association endorsed Watt as the next FHFA Chair. Mel Watt's first move was to cut planned fee increases for the GSEs, which would have increased the cost of a mortgage by a point or more on the higher LTV loans.
Implications for mortgage REITs
Refinancing activity affects prepayment speeds, which are a critical driver of mortgage REIT returns. Prepayment speeds occur because homeowners are allowed to pay off their mortgage early, without penalty, and when interest rates fall, those who can refinance at a lower rate do. This is good for homeowners. However, it isn't necessarily good for mortgage lenders—especially REITs. When homeowners prepay, the investor loses a high-yielding asset and is forced to reinvest the proceeds in a lower-rate investment. This means lower returns going forward. A rise in prepayment speeds could negatively affect REITs, like American Agency Capital Corp. (AGNC), Annaly Capital Management, Inc. (NLY), Hatteras Financial Corp. (HTS), CYS Investments, Inc. (CYS), and Capstead Mortgage Corporation (CMO). That said, the increase in rates has basically put prepayment worries on the back burner for REITs. The lack of a reaction in the refinance index on the back of a drop in rates could mean we're finally seeing prepayment burnout. This would be good news for REITs.
However, as rates increase, prepayments become less of a problem for REITs. But increasing rates bring their own set of problems, and REITs face mark-to-market hits on their portfolio and must adjust their hedges to a more volatile interest rate environment. Mortgage-backed securities outperform in stable interest rate environments, but they're highly vulnerable to interest rate shocks. As we've seen from the mortgage REIT earnings so far, virtually everyone is reporting a substantial decline in book value, as higher rates have taken their toll. It would be ironic to see the only silver lining of increased rates (lower prepayment speeds) taken away from the REITs as well.


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(CNN) -- French President Francois Hollande will travel to Mali on Saturday, where his nation's troops have been battling Islamist militants for three weeks alongside African forces.
Hollande will be accompanied by his defense and foreign ministers, the president's office said in a statement Friday.
READ: Mali plans July elections as it makes gains in battle against militants
In addition to major cities, he will also visit the historical city of Timbuktu, which French and Malian troops seized from militants who had controlled it since last year.
His office did not provide any other details.
READ: French military says troops control airport in key Malian city
The visit comes as troops make major gains in the battle to push out militants in northern Mali.
France, Mali's former colonial power, is leading the offensive after militants captured the vast northern desert region, raising fears they would turn it into a haven for terrorists.
French-led troops now control the cities of Timbuktu and Gao, along with a swath in between that was an Islamist stronghold for almost a year, the French Defense Ministry said.
READ: French president on military offensive: 'We are winning in Mali'
France sent troops at Mali's request after Islamists seized the strategic town of Konna on January 10. The town is now back in Malian control.
Islamic extremists carved out a large portion of the north last year, taking advantage of a chaotic situation after a military coup.
They banned music, smoking, drinking and watching sports on television, and destroyed historic tombs and shrines in the region.
But with the French-led offensive sending the militants on the run, residents are once again roaming the streets without fear.
READ: What's behind the instability in Mali?
France has 2,150 soldiers in Mali and 1,000 more troops supporting the operation from elsewhere. West African forces are expected to battle the militants alongside French troops.
NATO said it does not plan to join the offensive.
"The United Nations Security Council has decided that it should be an African-led mission," said Anders Fogh Rasmussen, the NATO secretary-general. "And this is also a reason why I don't see a role for NATO as an organization in Mali or in the region. But obviously, I welcome that individual NATO allies have taken action and decided to support the French operation in Mali."
Malian interim President Dioncounda Traore has said his nation will hold elections by the end of July.
READ: U.S. steps up involvement in Mali
CNN's Sarah Jones contributed to this report.


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Strelow slams Aurizon for not paying rates
ROCKHAMPTON Region Mayor Margaret Strelow has suggested council should give "strong support" to a motion from the Local Government Association of Queensland for Aurizon to pay land rates.
Speaking during the infrastructure committee meeting, Cr Strelow said the rail company couldn't "have it both ways" and remain exempt from paying rates while not being classified as a government body.
If Aurizon was forced to pay rates on its properties could provide the council with hundreds of thousand of dollars in extra annual revenue.
Councillors were discussing a proposal from Aurizon, which made $72m last financial year, to close a number of rail crossings in the region, including one on Cowan St at Gogango.
The railway crossing gives access to a group of properties owned by the same person from the Capricorn Hwy.
A report tabled to council states closing the crossing would require a new access from either Cowan St or Ohl Rd, with both options 2.8km from the crossing.
Given it is private access to a single property, council policies require the owner to construct and maintain road access.
Both council and Aurizon have consulted with the property owner, who is "not happy with the closure as this will mean additional time to access the property and travel distance on an unsealed road".
The request comes as Aurizon approaches council about closing several crossings with low usage, safety issues or in need of major upgrades.
"In each of the cases, it has been the issues of safety for the railway that has formed the decision to close," the report states.
"In all cases, Aurizon has stated that it is council's responsibility to fund the upgrade or alternate access that is required."
The council report concluded it was reasonable to expect Aurizon reinstate an alternate access for the Cowan St property, given it is imposing on the owner and achieving a reduction in risk profile and cost saving by closing the crossing.
Aurizon has argued each block should already have legal access from a public road, but the owner does have access from an unformed road reserve.
"Council staff's view is that the property has been getting access through the railway crossing for numerous years and since Aurizon is changing this, then Aurizon should either upgrade the railway crossing or provide an alternate access point to the driveway of the property," the report stated.
Councillors agreed with this view, voting in accordance with this recommendation.
Councillors also resolved to organise a meeting with Aurizon about the closing of and safety issues at various crossings in the region.
Aurizon responded to council's comments on Tuesday afternoon, saying it paid council rates, charges and levies on all corporate land held throughout Queensland.
"The rail corridor is owned by the Queensland Government and leased to Aurizon," the statement said.
"Existing and new rail corridor is specifically exempt from Council rates under Section 93 of the Local Government Act 2009 (Qld).
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Data Size Collection and Analysis
By now you should be well acquainted with this phenomenon we call TSQL Tuesday. This party is being hosted this month by Jes Schultz Borland (Twitter | Blog). She has challenged us to write something about aggregations and aggregation functions in SQL Server.
I stewed on this topic for a while trying to figure out something that would be relevant yet a little unique. I think that is the real challenge – finding some application of the topic that may be somewhat unique or at least informative for somebody.
It dawned on me finally that I already have a topic in queue waiting to be written. It was supposed to be a follow-up to my entry for last month. (You can read that entry here.) I concluded that entry with an admission that I hurried through the article to get it done in time. Well, I was hoping to find the time to write the rest of my process – but now it fits quite well with this months theme.
Quickly, let's recap what I did in that post and then I will proceed from there to tie this month to last month (as far as TSQL Tuesday goes).
In last months entry, I shared a script (an ugly one) that I created to cycle through all of the tables and columns of a database to get me some relevant data concerning the size of the data in my tables. Well, actually I took a 2% sample of that information so I could run further statistical analysis. The end goal was to have relevant data from an existing system and the R&D databases to create appropriate data sizes in the new database prior to releasing it to production. With all of that data aggregated into a staging table, I was ready to being the next phase.
One thing I did not mention in that prior article was the creation of another table for this aggregation process. I didn't mention it because it used much the same process (though considerably faster because it didn't do the same thing). This table had a prime objective of collecting the max length of each column of each table of each database. The structure is simple:
CREATE TABLE [dbo].[DataAnalysis](
[DatabaseName] [sysname] NOT NULL,
[TableName] [sysname] NOT NULL,
[ColumnName] [sysname] NOT NULL,
[MaxLength] [int] NULL,
[ColDataType] [varchar](20) NULL,
[MaxColLength] [int] NULL
I mention this table now because I will be using it in my final aggregation.
Statistics and Aggregation
For my data analysis and trending, I wanted to find a simple distribution across quartiles. A quartile is: One of the three numbers (values) that divide a range of data into four equal parts. A quartile is used in statistical analysis and is commonly a part of a box plot. Other statistical values that work well with the quartile include the MAX value. Since I had usable data to be able to produce my quartile ranges, I used the following query to further aggregate and even used a function that provides the quartile.
SELECT DLA.DatabaseName,DLA.TableName,DLA.ColumnName, DA.ColDataType
,DLA.ColLens,count(DLA.ColLens) as NumOccurence
,case when DA.MaxColLength = -1 then 2000000 else DA.MaxColLength end as MaxSupportedLen
,DA.MaxLength as MaxDataLen
,NTILE(4) OVER (partition by DLA.DatabaseName,DLA.TableName,DLA.ColumnName ORDER BY DLA.ColLens) AS 'Quartile'
Into DataStats
FROM DataLenStats_Alt DLA
Left Outer Join DataAnalysis DA
On DLA.DatabaseName = DA.DatabaseName
And DLA.TableName = DA.TableName
And DLA.ColumnName = DA.ColumnName
Group By DLA.DatabaseName,DLA.TableName,DLA.ColumnName,DLA.ColLens,DA.MaxColLength,DA.MaxLength, DA.ColDataType
Order By DLA.DatabaseName,DLA.TableName,DLA.ColumnName,DLA.ColLens
From this script, you can see that I am taking data from the first two staging tables and dumping it into a third table. With this query I am taking advantage of the NTILE() function that is available in SQL Server (2005 and up). And since my data that has been accumulated is for more than one table, more than one database, and more than one column – I needed to partition that function based on those attributes.
With this data now available, I could see the trend of the data for any data field that may have been collected. For instance, if I wanted to figure out the proper size (based on current data) of the phone number in my new database, I could now query the DataStats table like this:
select * from DataStats DS
where DS.ColumnName like '%phone'
I would then be able to determine where that field exists and the distribution of data across the quartiles and in comparison to the max data size for that field. This helps to more intelligently assign a data size to fields based on existing data. I could quickly ascertain that most of the data is within the second quartile (for instance) and that I have few outliers in the third and fourth quartiles and maybe an extreme case where the max is way out of scope in comparison. At this point I could make an educated judgement call as to an appropriate size based on distribution, outliers and risk.
This exercise was a particularly challenging one. It was challenging due to the desire to create quartiles for analysis. I had wanted to break it down into Standard Deviations for further analysis (and still may). This is highly useful when in the R&D or development phase. I wouldn't run the query from the first post on a production system because it is a long running process and can be resource intensive (I need to optimize it more). This kind of script can really help to get better acquainted with the data as well. I learned a lot by doing this and am looking forward to how I can improve upon it.


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|Definitions of Baseball Terms
|% Inherited Scored
|A Relief Pitching statistic indicating the percentage of runners on base at the time a relief pitcher enters a game that he allows to score.
|1st Batter OBP
|The On-Base Percentage allowed by a relief pitcher to the first batter he faces in a game.
|Active Career Batting Leaders
|Minimum of 1,000 At Bats required for Batting Average, On-Base Percentage, Slugging Percentage, At Bats Per HR, At Bats Per GDP, At Bats Per RBI, and K/BB Ratio. One hundred (100) Stolen Base Attempts required for Stolen Base Success %. Any player who appeared in 1995 is eligible for inclusion provided he meets the category's minimum requirements.
|Active Career Pitching Leaders
|Minimum of 750 Innings Pitched required for Earned Run Average, Opponent Batting Average, all of the Per 9 Innings categories, and Strikeout to Walk Ratio. Two hundred fifty (250) Games Started required for Complete Game Frequency. One hundred (100) decisions required for Win-Loss Percentage. Any player who appeared in 1995 is eligible for inclusion provided he meets the category's minimum requirements.
|BA ScPos Allowed
|Batting Average Allowed with Runners in Scoring Position.
|Baserunners per Nine Innings
|These are the hits, walks and hit batsmen allowed per nine innings.
|Bases Loaded
|This category shows a player's batting average in bases loaded situation.
|Batting Average
|Hits divided by At Bats.
|Bequeathed Runners
|Any runner(s) on base when a pitcher leaves a game are considered bequeathed to the departing hurler; the opposite of inherited runners (see below).
|Blown Saves
|This is charged any time a pitcher comes into a game where a save situation is in place and he loses the lead.
|Catcher's ERA
|The Earned Run Average of a club's pitchers with a particular catcher behind the plate. To figure this for a catcher, multiply the Earned Runs Allowed by the pitchers while he was catching times nine and divide that by his number of Innings Caught.
|Cheap Wins/Tough Losses/Top Game Scores
First determine the starting pitcher's Game Score as
|Cleanup Slugging%
|The Slugging Percentage of a player when batting fourth in the batting order.
|This category shows a player's batting average in the late innings of close games: the seventh inning or later with the batting team ahead by one, tied, or has the tying run on base, at bat or on deck.
|Complete Game Frequency
|Complete Games divided by Games Started.
|Defensive Batting Average
|A composite statistic incorporating various defensive statistics to arrive at a number akin to batting average. The formula uses standard deviations to establish a spread from best to worst.
|Earned Run Average
|(Earned Runs times 9) divided by Innings Pitched.
|Otherwise known as "Advanced A," these A-level minor leagues are the California League, Carolina League and Florida Stat League.
|Favorite Toy
The Favorite Toy is a method that is used to estimate a player's chance of getting to a specific goal in the following example, we'll say 3,000 hits.
Four things are considered:
Once you get the projected remaining hits, the chance of getting to the goal is figured by (projected remaining hits) divided by (need hits), minus .5. By this method, if your "need hits" and your "projected remaining hits" are the same, your chance of reaching the goal is 50 percent. If your projected remaining hits are 20 percent more than your need hits, the chance of reaching the goal is 70 percent.
Two special rules, and a note:
|Fielding Percentage
|(Putouts plus Assists) divided by (Putouts plus Assists plus Errors).
|First Batter Efficiency
|This statistic tells you the batting average allowed by a relief pitcher to the first batter he faces.
|GDP per GDP Situation
|A GDP situation exists any time there is a man on first with less than two outs. This statistic measures how often a player grounds into a double play in that situation.
|Go-Ahead RBI
|Any time a player drives in a run which gives his team the lead, he is credited with a go-ahead RBI.
|Ground/Fly Ratio (Grd/Fly)
|Simply a hitter's ground balls divided by his fly balls. All batted balls except line drives and bunts are included.
A Hold is credited any time a relief pitcher enters a game in a Save Situation (see definition below), records at least one out, and leaves the game never having relinquished the lead.
Note: a pitcher cannot finish the game and receive credit for a Hold, nor can he earn a hold and a save.
|Inherited Runner
|Any runner(s) on base when a relief pitcher enters a game are considered "inherited" by that pitcher.
|Isolated Power
|Slugging Percentage minus Batting Average.
|K/BB Ratio
|Strikeouts divided by Walks.
|Late & Close
A Late & Close situation meets the following requirements:
|Leadoff On Base%
|The On-Base Percentage of a player when batting first in the batting order.
|No Decision (ND)
|The result when a starter is credited with neither a win nor a loss.
|On-base percentage plus slugging percentage.
|Offensive Winning Percentage (OWP)
|The Winning Percentage a team of nine Fred McGriffs (or anybody) would compile against average pitching and defense. The formula: (Runs Created per 27 outs) divided by the League average of runs scored per game. Square the result and divide it by (1+itself).
|On Base Percentage
|(Hits plus Walks plus Hit by Pitcher) divided by (At Bats plus Walks plus Hit by Pitcher plus Sacrifice Flies).
|Opponent Batting Average
|Hits Allowed divided by (Batters Faced minus Walks minus Hit Batsmen minus Sacrifice Hits minus Sacrifice Flies minus Catcher's Interference).
|Outfielder Hold Percentage
|A statistic used to evaluate outfielders' throwing arms. "Hold Percentage" is computed by dividing extra bases taken (by baserunners) by the number of opportunities. For example, if a single is lined to center field with men on first and second, and one man scores while the other stops at second, that is one extra base taken on two opportunities, a 50.0 hold percentage.
|The divisor for On Base Percentage: At Bats plus Walks plus Hit By Pitcher plus Sacrifice Flies; or Plate Appearances minus Sacrifice Hits and Times Reached Base on Defensive Interference.
|PCS (Pitchers' Caught Stealing)
|The number of runners officially counted as Caught Stealing where the initiator of the fielding play was the pitcher, not the catcher. Note: such plays are often referred to as pickoffs, but appear in official records as Caught Stealings. The most common pitcher caught stealing scenario is a 1-3-6 fielding play, where the runner is officially charged a Caught Stealing because he broke for second base. Pickoff (fielding play 1-3 being the most common) is not an official statistic.
|Percentage of Pitches Taken
|This tells you how often a player lets a pitch go by without swinging.
|Percentage of Swings Put In Play
|This tells you how often a player hits the ball into fair territory, or is retired on a foul-ball out, when he swings.
|Pickoffs (Pk)
|The number of times a runner was picked off base by a pitcher.
|Pivot Percentage
|The number of double plays turned by a second baseman as the pivot man, divided by the number of opportunities.
|PkOf Throw/Runner
|The number of pickoff throws made by a pitcher divided by the number of runners on first base.
|Plate Appearances
|At Bats plus Total Walks plus Hit By Pitcher plus Sacrifice Hits plus Sacrifice Flies plus Times Reached on Defensive Interference.
|Power/Speed Number
A way to look at power and speed in one number. A player must score high in both areas to earn a high Power/Speed Number.
The formula: (HR x SB x 2) divided by (HR + SB).
|Quality Start
|Any start in which a pitcher works six or more innings while allowing three or fewer earned runs.
|Quick Hooks and Slow Hooks
|A Quick Hook is the removal of a pitcher who has pitched less than 6 innings and given up 3 runs or less. A Slow Hook occurs when a pitcher pitches more than 9 innings, or allows 7 or more runs, or whose combined innings pitched and runs allowed totals 13 or more.
|Range Factor
The number of Chances (Putouts plus Assists) times nine
divided by the number of Defensive Innings Played. The average for a Regular
Player at each position in 1997:
|Relief Points (Pts)
|Wins plus saves minus losses
|Run Support Per 9 IP
|The number of runs scored by a pitcher's team while he was still in the game times nine divided by his Innings Pitched.
|Runs Created
A way to combine a batter's total offensive contributions into one number. The formula:
(H + BB + HBP - CS - GIDP) times (Total Bases + .26(TBB - IBB + HBP) + .52(SH + SF + SB)) divided by (AB + TBB + HBP + SH + SF).
|Runs/Times on Base
|This is calculated by dividing Runs Scored by Times on Base
|Save Percentage
|Saves (SV) divided by Save Opportunities (OP).
|Save Situation
A Relief Pitcher is in a Save Situation when upon entering
the game with his club leading, he has the opportunity to be the finishing
pitcher (and is not the winning pitcher of record at the time), and meets
any one of the three following conditions:
|Stolen-base attempts against a catcher
|SB Success%
|Stolen Bases divided by (Stolen Bases plus Caught Stealing).
|Secondary Average
A way to look at a player's extra bases gained, independent of Batting Average. The formula:
(Total Bases - Hits + TBB + SB) divided by At Bats.
|Otherwise known as "Regular A," these full-season minor leagues contain less-experienced professional players. The Slow-A leagues are the Midwest League and South Atlantic League (Sally).
|Slugging Percentage
|Total Bases divided by At Bats.
|Stolen Base Percentage Allowed
|This figure indicates how successful opposing baserunners are when attempting a stolen base. It's stolen bases divided by stolen-base attempts.
|Times on Base
|Hits plus walks plus hit by pitch
|Total Bases
|Hits plus Doubles plus (2 times Triples) plus (3 times Home runs).
|Win-Loss Percentage or Winning Percentage
|Wins divided by (Wins plus Losses).
|Zone Rating
|Simply the percentage of balls fielded by a player in his typical defensive "zone," as measured by STATS reporters.
|Formulas and Definitions
|AB + BB + HBP + SF + SH + defensive interference
|Total Bases
|Breakdown Categories
|Ahead/Behind in Count
|For hitters, ahead in count includes 1-0, 2-0, 3-0, 2-1 and 3-1. Behind in count for hitters includes 0-1, 0-2, 1-2 and 2-2. The opposite is true for pitchers.
|Officially, night games in the National League are those that start after 5:00 pm, while night games in the AL begin after 6:00 pm. Therefore, a game at 5:30 in Yankee Stadium is a day game while one in Shea Stadium at the same time is a night game. We avoid this silliness by calling all games starting after 5:00pm night games.
|First Pitch
|Refers to the first pitch of a given at bat, and any walks listed here are intentional walks.
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|Groundball/Flyball Ratio
|A hitter's stats against pitchers that induce mostly grounders or flies, respectively. If the ratio is less than 1.00, then he is a Flyball hitter. If it is greater than 1.50, he is a Groundball hitter. Anything else is classified as neutral. Same cutoffs apply for classifying pitchers. Anyone with less than 50 plate appearances is automatically neutral.
|First Inning Pitched
|Describes the result of the pitcher's work until he recorded three outs.
|Inning 1-6 and Inning 7+
|These refer to the actual innings in which a pitcher worked.
|None On/Out
|Refers to situation when there are no outs and the bases are empty (generally leadoff situations).
|None On/Runners On
|Describes the status of the baserunners
|Number of Pitches
|This section shows the results of balls put into play while his pitch count was in that range.
|Pitcher/Batter Match-Ups
The following conditions must be met before a player
is added to the list:
|Scoring Position
|At least one runner must be at either second or third base.
|Vs. 1st Batr (Relief)
|Describes what happened to the first batter a reliever faces.


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In a moment when nothing makes us happy, we got a nice feel-good story today, that the IEA, the International Energy agency, says we will be energy self-sufficient in 2020 and overtake the Saudis as the biggest exporter of oil in 2030.
To which I say, oh, please, we will never ever again be nationally self-sufficient, but we could be continental self-sufficient, and that in itself would be a big deal.
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I don't have great hopes for either under President Obama, and that means you are going to have start the sufficiency drive in 2017, which doesn't give you a whole heck of a lot of time.
First, the anti-fossil-fuel nonprofits were important to Obama's election. They have no desire to allow Canadian heavy oil to come into the States. I think they are powerful enough to stop it, and that means we will continue to import oil from Venezuela and the Middle East. OPEC wins.
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We have a lot more oil than people think we do here in the U.S. But it is mostly contained in the Bakken and Eagle Ford. I have been saying that both could be as big as Prudhoe Bay.
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