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Tuesday, March 17, 2015
Data Types and Primary Databases Matter
I have just finished going through a painful analysis of a view that queries 12 tables using nothing but LEFT OUTER JOINs and has an average of 500,000 rows in 8 of the 12 tables. Lots of scans right there. For the life of me though, I couldn't get SELECT * FROM view_name WHERE ID = 123456 to return in under 10 seconds. I'd worked out the appropriate covering indexes (as well as deleting 5GB of indexes that hadn't ever been used), re-wrote what I could without changing the results, and tried on different disks, but to no avail.
Then, just on a whim, I decided to put quotation marks around the ID. Now, the ID is in an INT column, but the view is joined to another query (yes, I know) where the ID column has become NVARCHAR(38). After the quotation marks were added, the row is returned instantly, and all my Index Scans turned to Index Seeks.
The issue: If an implicit data type conversion is determined by SQL Server to be required, it takes much to be done rather than an explicit conversion (because it doesn't have to test the data types first). This meant that rather than having the required query take 40 minutes, it now takes 5 minutes. Not as fast as I'd like, but a lot better.
Another performance increase I found was running the full query against the "secondary" database with the overly large view, rather than the "primary" database that is intended to be queried. Both are on the same server, but on another hunch, I just changed the query to point to Database B and reference Database A instead. No idea why, but it works.
So uh... yeah.
Sunday, March 1, 2015
Workaround: Blank datasets for tables in SSRS used for report layout
When you're creating a report in Reporting Services and need to use a table for layout (hey, sometimes it works), just create a blank dataset (I called it Blank), and then set the DataSetName for the table to the blank dataset.
I've never heard of anyone doing this, but I've needed to assign datasets to tables not returning data before, and so setting it to a blank one at least prevents the execution of the query at least once during runtime.
Edit: Sorry, I forgot to add one thing. In the blank dataset, add the query "SELECT 1". That will prevent any errors stating that the query cannot be executed.
Sunday, August 24, 2014
Searching all columns in all tables in a database
I've been asked this before by people, and I've always said it's possible, but takes too much effort. However, I found a need to search for a value that may be present in any column in any given database. At present, it will search any column with a text-based data type (gleaned from the system_type_id column in sys.columns), and of course could be changed to search for a numeric value (or anything you want for that matter).
Here's the code. It's got some comments in it. You don't need to change anything except the search string and then press F5. It will print out a list of what it's doing, and it will indent any tables that have matching data to make it easier to find them. I may end up changing this to do something else, but this worked for me.
declare @tablename varchar(50) declare @columnname varchar(50) declare @coltablename varchar(50) declare @searchstringvalue varchar(30) declare @columns nvarchar(1000) declare @sql nvarchar(4000) declare @rows int set @searchstringvalue = 'SEARCH FOR ME!!!' -- Put search string here set @columns = '' -- Set a blank value because no one likes NULLs -- This cursor gets the tables in the database that have text fields declare CurTables cursor fast_forward for select top 50 st.[name] from sys.columns sc inner join sys.tables st on sc.object_id = st.object_id where system_type_id in (175, 239, 99, 231, 35, 167, 241) and sc.object_id in (select object_id from sys.tables where [type] = 'U') and max_length > 21 group by st.[name] order by 1 open CurTables fetch next from CurTables into @tablename while @@fetch_status = 0 begin set @columns = CAST((select sc.[name] + ' = ''' + @searchstringvalue + ''' OR ' from sys.columns sc inner join sys.tables st on sc.object_id = st.object_id where st.[name] = @tablename and system_type_id in (175, 239, 99, 231, 35, 167, 241) and sc.object_id in (select object_id from sys.tables where [type] = 'U') and max_length > 21 order by 1 for xml path ('')) AS VARCHAR(MAX)) -- Remove ' OR ' from the end of the string set @columns = SUBSTRING(@columns, 1, LEN(@columns) - 3) set @sql = 'SELECT @numrows = COUNT(1) FROM ' + @tablename + ' WHERE ' + @columns exec sp_executesql @sql, N'@numrows INT OUTPUT', @numrows = @rows OUTPUT; if @rows > 0 begin print CHAR(9) + CHAR(9) + 'Table name: ' + @tablename + ' - ' + CAST(@rows as VARCHAR(10)) + ' row(s) returned.' end else begin print 'Table name: ' + @tablename + ' - ' + CAST(@rows as VARCHAR(10)) + ' row(s) returned.' end set @columns = '' fetch next from CurTables into @tablename end close CurTables deallocate CurTables
Wednesday, July 2, 2014
Missing parameter values in Reporting Serivces Linked Reports
If, one day, you're creating a linked report, and you specify a default value for one (or more) of the parameters, you might receive an error stating 'The parameter [name] is missing a value' when you test that the report is working.
No matter what you try, nothing works until you decide to check the XML in the Parameter column in the table ReportServer.dbo.Catalog. You'll need to remove this particular string:
This key/value causes the report to basically delete the default value you've specified for the parameter, hence the error message. Just copy the current XML string from that field, remove that string, and update it with the XML you've just modified.
Fun times.
Monday, June 30, 2014
Finding the biggest tables in a database
There will always be times as a Database Administrator or Developer when you need to know where the bulk of the data lies in any given database. There are probably some instances of software available that will provide you with that information, but there's no need to use those. Below is a very simple script I wrote that will give you what you need, ordered from largest to smallest.
CREATE TABLE #tabledata ( tablename VARCHAR(255) ,numrows INT ,reserved VARCHAR(127) ,data VARCHAR(127) ,index_size VARCHAR(127) ,unused VARCHAR(127) ) EXEC sp_MSforeachtable 'INSERT INTO #tabledata EXEC sp_spaceused ''?''' SELECT * FROM #tabledata ORDER BY numrows DESC DROP TABLE #tabledata
This script can come in handy if you want to appease data-hungry managers appetites with low level database growth figures by storing it in a data warehouse somewhere on a daily basis, and then write some reports showing where the major growth is, and then go back to developers and say "Hey, 75% of the database is audit records - stop doing so much crap" or some such tactful assertion.
Monday, May 12, 2014
A Rant: Bad Database Design
While I won't mention the names of the company or the product, I need to at least divulge some of the particulars about the table design to illustrate some of its terrible aspects - perhaps I'll be as specifically unspecific as possible.
The offending table which gives rise to all other offending tables relates to Employee data. In this particular table, there is an Employee ID column which contains the employee ID, which is an all-numeric ID. Debates will rage whether a fixed-length identifier which contains only numeric characters should be stored in an INT or a VARCHAR column, but this design uses CHAR. I hear cries of "Page splits! Query Performance! Data file usage!" for VARCHAR column types. Of course, data in a CHAR column is automatically allocated for each row, so there's no need to shuffle data around to add a new value as there may be required for VARCHAR types. However, with the speed of commercial grade hard drives and CPUs these days, with appropriate data file growth and fill factor settings, and use of CHAR data types only when average data length is consistent, I feel this becomes a moot point.
Back to the design. So, we've got a CHAR type for the Employee ID. However, this ID isn't used as the primary key. There's a column in the table that is referred to as a surrogate key column, which stores VARBINARY data and has been set as the primary key. However, this VARBINARY column only stores the employee ID which is already stored as CHAR data. Digging further, tables that contain employee data store the same Employee ID, plus additional data separated by a space, in a VARBINARY column. Now SQL Server or the application needs to convert from one data type to another for each row in the main table, and on child tables it also needs to use LEFT() to retrieve the Employee ID from the surrogate column.
I've thought about this for a while, and I can't really see why this has been done (or at the very least, continued through three major upgrades and perhaps 20 minor revisions). It requires more than double the storage for the same data (going against typical normalisation forms), and requires greater CPU time to get the data in and out of particular formats.
Then, there's the aforementioned upgrades to the database & application themselves. Each major upgrade has resulted in large increases in database size - the most recent one being 9GB. I know, I know - that's not a lot considering the size of hard drives these days. However - we don't spend money on appropriately sized SANs, and we only have one SAN for the entire company (a few thousand people), and I wasn't asked how big I thought the SAN should be, so I've only been given 1.3TB in total for data, logs/TempDB and backups between three SQL instances. This compounds the problem of arbitrarily increasing the size of the database during an upgrade (this generally involves increasing the size of CHAR and VARBINARY columns by a few characters each time).
In these instances, VARCHAR columns are a lot better than CHAR, because simply altering the maximum size of a VARCHAR column won't result in data file size growth, because it doesn't need to pad the columns with extra spaces.
My biggest gripe with this particular database design is how foreign keys, lookup values and other frequently accessed pieces of data are stored. In some tables (not all, so there's a lack of consistency in design), often accessed data is stored in a long VARBINARY data type which in a previous iteration of the application was CHAR, but was changed for some unknown reason. Within this VARBINARY column, character data is stored in either TAB or SPACE separated format, so now you need to CAST() or CONVERT() the data, and then use SUBSTRING() to get the particular data you want. I've no idea why, but it takes a LOT longer now to run reports over this database than it did previously.
These points sound like basic things that don't really matter, but having watched this database grow 2000% over four years, and watched changes made to it which have severely affected performance, I just wanted to at least keep bad design near the front of peoples minds so they can perhaps remember to prevent it where possible.
Sunday, May 4, 2014
Audit Tables, Clustered Indexes, GUIDs
Firstly: Don't use a GUID as an ID for an audit table. If it REALLY is just an audit table, INT is completely acceptable. If you want to create 58,494,241,735.507 per second every second for 5 years, and never truncate the table, and can store that much data, then use BIGINT, which is still only half the space of UNIQUEIDENTIFIER. Incidentally, at that rate, you're creating 35.91 petabytes of data every day. You could probably do this if you were somehow able to harness all the storage in the world.
Second: Don't leave the fill factor for the unique clustered index at 5%, because it wastes a TON of space. For a table that had 148,000,000 rows, there was 35GB of data and 15GB of indexes reported by sp_spaceused. However, this is VERY misleading, because with the fill factor set to 5% on the clustered index, most of that was mostly blank sections of pages in the database, and with index fragmentation at 100%, there was a massive performance hit.
Third: Reorganise your index every once in a while, especially if there's lots of inserts/updates/deletes. Tthis is a given, but when you get side tracked with non-DBA work for six months, and the developers say they've got it under control, spend a little bit of time outside normal hours to make sure the index has an adequate fill factor, and isn't too fragmented.
Fourth: If you've got one or more tables that are heavily used, but the data stored doesn't form part of what is essential business data (again: audit data, transactional data to be synced with an ESB like Neuron), create another file group and put the table(s) there. It will make a MASSIVE difference to performance. There's less unnecessary data to go through if you're running reports against the live database (should be warehoused where possible of course), and the applications that use the database will run quicker. Everyone will be happy.
For those of you who are curious about moving tables between filegroups, and you find Books Online to be too tedious to go through, this article on StackOverflow.com gives a concise overview of the process: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/2438019/how-i-can-move-table-to-another-filegroup


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Lincoln's Garden
Locally owned family style restaurant.
Edinger's Filling Station
Edinger's Filling Station is a casual dining restaurant in downtown Pontiac. Open for lunch and breakfast, the Edingers pride themselves on serving delicious, homemade food in an inviting atmosphere with friendly service.
State Street Café
Homemade soups, daily specials, and freshly baked goods are just a few of the reasons to give this locally-owned stop a try.
Sherry's Cafe
Sherry's is known for a few things: good food, great prices, and all the friendly service you can expect in Henry County. Located in an old quaint church, Sherry offers daily specials including fish, barbeque ribs, chicken, and more.
Purple Onion
When you're in the market for comfort foods in Annawan, the Purple Onion is your spot. The homemade pies are a must-order item.
Lisa's Place
Down home service features home baked bread and rolls, home cooked soups and entrees. Specials are served daily. "The Nest" is a specialty; ask about it! Breakfast served all day on Saturday.
McDonald's Family Restaurant
It is the longest running active full service restaurant in the area (over 57 years now) and has long been a favorite for locals and visitors alike. This family-owned and operated haven for comfortable and palate-pleasing dining, features a full menu for breakfast, lunch and dinner with breakfast being available all day. McDonald's is well known for their broasted chicken and broasted catfish, always fresh never frozen, and they make some of the best burgers that you'll find anywhere, all hand formed, char broiled or grilled, in quarter and half pound increments.
Angie's Sugar Buzz Bakery
Baked goods, cakes and lunch specials.
Dinner Bell Too!
Down Home Country Cookin'. Homemade food for breakfast, lunch and Dinner.
R & V Italian Market & Deli
Italian Market & Deli serving authentic homemade Italian recipes daily. The full deli offers sandwiches, salads, soups, pizza, fresh bread, and an Italian bakery. Also enjoy shopping the specialty grocery store's olive oils, pesto, gift baskets and many Italian favorites.
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Down-home cookin' at Rube's is served up three meals a day. The cooks in the kitchen specialize in cooking "the way your mamma made it'" so you'll find something to your liking on the menu. Daily specials are sure to please even the pickiest eater. 6:00 a.m. - 7:00 p.m. Monday – Friday 6:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m. Saturday 6:00 a.m. - 3:00 p.m. Sunday
Mo Wallace BBQ
Located in the heart of Carbondale's Town Square, Mo Wallace is one of the most beloved hole-in-the-wall stops in Southern Illinois. Feast on the mouth-watering selection of soul food and finger-lickin' barbecue, and enjoy the company of the friendly staff. This truly is one of Carbondale's culinary gems!
Peppers Cafe and On the Go Catering
"Mama's" old traditional Italian recipes have been passed down from generation to generation and even today they are still enjoyed and appreciated. Pepper's Cafe and On the Go Catering caters from 10 to 5,300 guests throughout Central Illinois as well as casual cafe dining, using tried and true family recipes. They serve breakfast and lunch Monday through Friday. They also deliver "Drop 'n Go Meals" as well as "Red Bag Meals" for the entire office, and catering for your special events.
The Longbranch Grill
Located in Historic Downtown Shelbyville, this family-owned restaurant has unique clockwork decor, original tile ceiling and exposed brickwork walls. The Longbranch Grill pride itself on its homemade food and casual atmosphere.
Eagle's Nest Restaurant
Eagles Nest has a varied menu where you can enjoy breakfast, lunch or dinner. The place is clean, cheerful and features home-cooked fare. Very reasonably priced.
S & S Sandwich
Welcome to S & S Sandwich Shop of Alton - North Alton's only independently owned sandwich shop. Our goal is to provide fresh, quality, seasonal food fare at a great value. Every attempt is made to use only local products in our menu items. We currently serve sandwiches, soups and salads prepared by our chefs. Our daily specials change often to exploit the best of each season.
Kinder's Restaurant
Come in and experience our fantastic fish sandwiches, steaks, and many, many more great dishes. Right on the river.
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Moonshine Brewing Company
Old Wisconsin barn boards cover the walls and two murals of Prohibition-era bootleggers hover above Moonshine's two glowing red bars, where cocktails served in glass jars are the drinks of choice. Thanks to an in-bar brewery added in spring 2008, Moonshine brews are a popular pick, too. During the summer months, locals spend the day and night enjoying cocktails on the dog-friendly patio. An eclectic menu includes everything from pulled pork tacos to burgers to vegan pizza.
Track Inn
Family restaurant in Chillicothe with home-cooked lunches, soups, dinner & desserts. Daily specials.
The Neighborhood Co-op
If there's one thing the Neighborhood Co-op is known for, it's good food. Between the grocery store and the deli area, this one-stop-shop has everything you need for the perfect meal. Enjoy the fresh taste of locally grown produce, shop the work of Carbondale's thriving art scene, and feast on a hearty sandwich, made with all-organic products.
Gabby and Grannys
Restaurant with home-cooking style food, bbq, and homemade pies and cobbler. Buffet on Friday and Saturday evening and Sunday for lunch.
Lincoln Garden Family Restaurant
Family restaurant and 24 hour weekend diner. Skillets, gyros, pita wraps, salads, soups, pastas, omelettes, steaks,chicken ribs, sandwiches, seafood and childrens menu
Illinois Riverdock Restaurant
If you have a craving for sweet potato chips, fried chicken, brisket, and fritters in generous portions, then this riverside restaurant is where you need to go. This is the place all the locals go when they want a great meal at a reasonable price. Order a whole fresh pie to take home for a late night snack. You'll be glad you did! Hours: Su - Th 7:30 a.m. - 9 p.m. F -S 7:30 a.m. - 10 p.m.
Wild Goose Saloon and Grill
There's always a site to see at the Wild Goose Saloon and Grill in Grafton. Whether it is the migrating geese in late fall and winter or the sparkling Mississippi River year round, enjoy a bowl of chili, a drink and the view either indoors or on the outdoor deck. Great home cooked meals that just hit the spot! Hours: 7 a.m. - 1 p.m. daily.


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Mass Grave Begins Revealing Soldiers' Secrets
The morning of November 16, 1632 was foggy, so the mass killing could only begin after some delay. It wasn't until midday that the mist cleared, finally allowing the Protestant army of Sweden's King Gustav II Adolf to attack the Roman Catholic Habsburg imperial army led by Albrecht von Wallenstein. The slaughter lasted for hours in the field at the Saxon town of Lützen.
"In this battle the only rule that applied was, 'him or me,'" says Maik Reichel. "It was better to stab your opponent one extra time just to ensure there was no chance of him standing up again." The historian und former German parliamentarian for the center-left Social Democratic Party (SPD) is standing at the edge of a field on the outskirts of Lützen. After the battles here, the ground was soaked with blood. "About 20,000 men fought on each side and between 6,000 and 9,000 were killed," estimates Reichel, who heads the museum in the city castle.
When the soldiers in the religious war clashed on the outskirts of Lützen, the road from there to Leipzig was not yet called "B 87," but "Via Regia." The Red Cross nursing home and nearby supermarket that now stand on the battle site also didn't exist back then. The past is only present here when one goes looking for it. So far archaeologists have examined about one- third of the battlefield, in total 1.1 million square meters (11.8 million square feet). Theoretically, only another one-third could still be examined. The rest has been covered by the nursing home, supermarket and small garden allotments....
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Police program raises privacy issues, parking plan explained, streetcar project continues
With the backing of Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine, law enforcement around the state have been secretly using facial recognition software for the past two months that scans driver's licenses and mug shots to identify crime suspects. In emails and documents obtained by The Cincinnati Enquirer, DeWine and other state officials apparently couldn't agree whether the program is in beta testing or full launch and when they should tell the public about it. The program went live without the attorney general's initial approval and many protocols that protect Ohioans' security and privacy, raising concerns about whether law enforcement have been able to abuse the new tool. The Greater Cincinnati Port Authority on Friday acknowledged it will ramp up enforcement and tickets once it takes over Cincinnati's parking meters, lots and garages, but it claimed the move is meant to encourage people to pay up, not raise revenue that will make the parking lease more profitable for the Port or the private operators it's hiring. The Port also said it had taken steps to make the parking lease a better deal for locals, including a reduction in operation hours in neighborhoods and some downtown areas. The city is leasing its parking assets to the Port for a one-time injection of revenue and annual installments that are supposed to go to development projects that will grow the city's tax base. But opponents of the lease say it will take away too much control of the city's parking services and hurt businesses and residents by raising parking rates and hours. Vacant buildings at the corner of Henry and Race streets will be demolished today to make room for a maintenance facility for Cincinnati's streetcars — just the latest sign the project is moving forward. Mayor Mark Mallory, Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls and John Deatrick, streetcar project executive director, will attend the demolition and a press event preceding it, which will take place at 1 p.m. A new video from the Ohio-Kentucky-Indiana Regional Council of Governments (OKI) shows how bad traffic will get if the Brent Spence Bridge isn't replaced. In the video, OKI claims the current state of the bridge is dangerous and damages the economy. The bridge project is currently estimated at $2.5 billion. At least part of that sum will be paid with tolling if state officials get their way. Qualls and Cincinnati Public Schools Superintendent Mary Ronan will today discuss a district-wide travel plan that intends to provide safe routes for students walking and biking to school. The plan, which would use Ohio Department of Transportation funds, makes improvements to crosswalks and pedestrian crossing signals, among other changes. Qualls' office says the plan is timely as CPS today begins its first week back to school. Cuts in all levels of government, which Republican state officials call "right-sizing," might be hindering Ohio's economic recovery. Only California, New York and Florida have cut more public jobs than Ohio. At the same time, Ohio's job growth over the past year has stagnated at 0.7 percent. The state has cut local government funding by half since Kasich took office, as CityBeat covered in further detail here. Ohio gas prices once again increased this week, but they still remain below the national average. The USS Cincinnati, a Cold War era submarine, is coming to the city. Some locals have been working on getting the submarine's sail installed along the riverfront as a memorial. NASA put up a video explaining how it would land on an asteroid.
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Streetcar gets executive, businesses call for inclusion, gun control group opens Ohio chapter
John Deatrick is taking over as project executive of the Cincinnati streetcar project, moving on from his previous work as project manager of The Banks. Deatrick's hiring announcement happened in April, but it was delayed while City Council fixed the project's budget gap. Deatrick and his team previously won an award for their work at The Banks, and he says he will bring the same scrutiny and success to the streetcar project. A new project manager for The Banks is set to be hired in August. Since the streetcar project's inception, it has been mired in misrepresentations and political controversy, which CityBeat covered in further detail here. Local business leaders are calling on the city government to change its contracting policies to target minority- and women-owned businesses. Advocates argue the city's inclusion rates have greatly dropped since Cincinnati did away with its inclusion program in the 1990s, but the city administration points out the rates are likely understated because women- and minority-owned businesses are no longer required to report themselves as minorities or women. The business leaders say the figures are too low regardless, which could have big implications since minority-owned businesses are more likely to hire minorities, who have twice the unemployment rate as white residents. As a result of court rulings, Cincinnati needs to first conduct a disparity study before it makes any changes that specifically target minorities or women. Gabrielle Giffords's anti-gun violence organization is opening an Ohio chapter to promote legislation that intends to protect both the public and the rights of gun owners. Giffords, a former U.S. representative who survived an assassination attempt, has been touring around the country — at one point coming to Cincinnati — to speak out against gun violence. Gun control legislation failed in the U.S. Senate in April after it fell short of getting 60 votes to overcome procedural hurdles, even though polling shows a clear majority of Americans favor such legislation. Local government funding may be further reduced as a result of recent tax cuts because the Local Government Fund traditionally gets a percent of state tax revenue. Specifically, critics are concerned less state tax revenue will slow down "natural growth" in funding to cities and counties. Last week, an analysis from Policy Matters Ohio found the recently passed two-year state budget already reduces local government funding, following even steeper reductions in the previous budget. The cuts since Gov. John Kasich took office have cost Cincinnati more than $22 million. A traffic camera ban would cost Ohio cities and counties millions of dollars in revenue. Ohio gas prices are starting down this week. Home-schooled and private-school students have a right to play on public school teams because of a provision in the recently passed state budget. When Columbus' parking meters were upgraded to accept credit cards, revenue jumped by 13.2 percent. Cincinnati's meters will be upgraded as part of the parking privatization plan.Ohio air bases are undergoing review this week as part of Congress' attempts to gauge whether the nation's Air Force is prepared for current and future missions and homeland defense. Slow news day, Enquirer? Florida researchers found "fat shaming" actually perpetuates obesity. It would probably take 300 to 500 piranhas five minutes to strip the flesh off a 180-pound human.
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Parking lease facing legal dispute, critical memo dismissed, mayor to attend streetcar social
In a letter to the city solicitor, a conservative organization is threatening more legal action to stop the city's plans to lease its parking meters, lots and garages to the Greater Cincinnati Port Authority. The Coalition Opposed to Additional Spending and Taxes (COAST) claims the city manager exceeded his authority when he made two "significant and material" changes to the lease agreement after City Council approved the deal in March. If the city solicitor doesn't take up the legal challenge, COAST could sue the city by itself. Supporters of the parking lease argue it's necessary to fund development projects in the city and modernize the city's parking services, but opponents say it gives up too much control over the city's parking meters, lots and garages and will hurt businesses downtown. The Business Courier reports that a critical parking memo was supposed to provide a "strike point" for negotiations between the Port Authority and Xerox, which will manage the city's parking meters under a lease agreement. But the city administration didn't begin sharing the June 20 memo with anyone else, including the Port Authority, until July 12, after council members and media outlets began asking the city administration about it. The memo suggested the city is getting a bad deal from the parking lease agreement and overpaying Xerox. Port and city officials argue the memo relied on outdated information and made technical errors. Mayor Mark Mallory will today join fellow streetcar supporters at Rhinegeist Brewery to discuss the streetcar project's latest news and future. The city on July 15 set an opening date of Sept. 15, 2016 after finalizing a construction contract with Messer Construction, Prus Construction and Delta Railroad, which was made possible after City Council closed a $17.4 million budget gap in June. CityBeat recently debunked some of the misrepresentations surrounding the streetcar project here. Commentary: "Zimmerman Reactions Overlook Broader Racial Issues in America." Public access media organization Media Bridges is shutting down following city and state funding cuts. The organization's demise is a great loss to producers like Rufus Johnson, who used its resources for years. The city picked up Media Bridges' funding after the state eliminated a fund that was provided by Time Warner Cable, but even the local funding was fully cut in the budget passed in May. City officials have justified the cuts by pointing to citizen surveys that ranked Media Bridges poorly in terms of budgetary importance, but a CityBeat analysis found the surveys were skewed against the low-income Cincinnatians that benefit the most from public access programs like Media Bridges. State Rep. Peter Beck, a Republican from Mason, is facing multiple felony charges related to securities fraud. A lawsuit filed in Hamilton County by investors alleges that money invested at the request of Beck and others was used for personal gain — specifically, Beck's campaign — instead of a business investment as originally intended. Beck has been in power since 2009, and his current term is set to expire in 2014. A former poll worker was sentenced to five years for voter fraud after she voted twice for herself and three times for her sister, who's been in a coma since 2003. The driver who last August accidentally hit and killed a local cyclist is awaiting his sentence. Local bike advocacy groups are asking courts to give the maximum penalty to the driver, who's facing at most six months in jail and a $1,000 fine. The local housing market is rapidly recovering in a continuing good sign for the economy, with single-family home permits up 48 percent in June compared to the year before, according to the Home Builders Association of Greater Cincinnati. Cincinnati Reds games are No. 3 for local TV ratings in all of Major League Baseball, behind only the Detroit Tigers and St. Louis Cardinals. Xavier University is laying off 31 employees and cutting 20 currently vacant positions. A Miami University student is getting an astronaut scholarship, making him one of 28 students nationwide to receive the honor. Entrepreneur says Cincinnati is an "unexpected hub for tech startups." A new self-aiming rifle would outshoot human snipers. Popular Science has a guide for arguing against anti-vaccine crazies here.
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Mayor to Attend Streetcar Social
Supporters gathering Thursday to discuss project
Mayor Mark Mallory will join fellow streetcar supporters Thursday to discuss how the project is coming along and where it's headed. The event is the monthly streetcar social, hosted by Cincinnatians for Progress. Organizers expect to pull in nearly 100 people from around the city to discuss topics and issues surrounding the project. It will take place on Thursday, July 18, between 5:30 p.m. to 8 p.m. at Rhinegeist Brewery, 1910 Elm St., Cincinnati, Ohio, 45202. For more information, check out the event's Facebook page. Mallory, who's term-limited from running for reelection this year, has spearheaded efforts to build a streetcar in Cincinnati. He's been joined by a steady Democratic majority in City Council, which most recently approved $17.4 million more in funding for the project alongside several accountability measures that will require the city manager to regularly update council and the public on the project's progress. In the past week, the city announced the streetcar is set to open for service on Sept. 15, 2016, after city officials and bidders finalized details for a construction contract. CityBeat's cover story for the week of July 10 debunked the top 10 misrepresentations surrounding the Cincinnati streetcar project. Streetcar supporters argue the project will foster economic growth and development in Cincinnati, particularly downtown — a claim backed by studies from advising company HDR and the University of Cincinnati. Opponents claim the project, which now stands at $133 million after recent cost overruns were fixed, is too expensive. They doubt it will succeed in spurring growth and development.
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Cincinnati Streetcar Scheduled to Open Sept. 15, 2016
German Lopez
0 Comments · Wednesday, July 17, 2013
Following years of political controversy, the Cincinnati streetcar is scheduled to open for service on Sept. 15, 2016.
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Memo doubts parking plan, city manager defends hiding memo, streetcar to open 2016
The city administration yesterday disputed the findings of a June 20 memo that suggested the city is getting a bad deal from its parking lease agreement with the Greater Cincinnati Port Authority, but controversy remains about why the city administration withheld the memo from City Council and the Port Authority for three-plus weeks. Opponents of the parking plan are now attempting to use the memo to convince the Port Authority to reject the lease with Xerox, but the Port Authority insists that the memo is laced with inaccuracies and technical errors. The city is pursuing the lease to obtain a $92 million lump sum and at least $3 million in annual payments, according to city estimates. The money will be used to pay for future budget gaps and development projects, including the I-71/MLK Interchange. City Manager Milton Dohoney defended the city administration's decision to withhold the June 20 memo, but several council members are angered by what they call a "lack of transparency." Still, Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls argued the administration's decision to keep the memo from City Council was understandable because the memo was based on faulty information. The Cincinnati streetcar got an opening date yesterday: Sept. 15, 2016. The grand opening comes after years of political controversy, pulled funding and two referendum efforts nearly killed the project. Ever since it was first proposed, the streetcar project has been engulfed in misrepresentations, which CityBeat covered here. A federal judge made permanent his earlier decision that Ohio must count provisional ballots if they're submitted in the right polling place but wrong precinct. The ruling is being taken as a victory by voting-rights advocates. Cincinnati is negotiating to claw back its incentive with Kendle International Inc., which agreed in 2008 to keep its headquarters and create jobs at the city's Carew Tower. The agreement gave Kendle $200,000 over 10 years on the condition it steadily grew jobs. The failure may add further doubt to the value of job deals, which were criticized earlier in the year by a report CityBeat covered here. Cincinnati Children's Hospital Medical Center, Christ Hospital and Bethesda North Hospital are among the best hospitals in the nation, according to U.S. News's "Best Hospitals" feature. Here are some of the odd things that made it into the two-year state budget. Gov. John Kasich signed a Columbus school plan that will allow levy money to be shared with charter schools that partner with the Columbus school district. The Senate is the best place in the country to eat hot dogs, according to Food & Wine. More U.S. hospitals now treat gay parents equally. Dogs apparently can watch television, which is good news for an Israeli channel explicitly aimed at dogs.
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Cincinnati Streetcar Scheduled to Open Sept. 15, 2016
Grand opening among several dates set after construction deal finalized
Following years of political controversy, the Cincinnati streetcar is scheduled to open for service on Sept. 15, 2016. The news was unveiled in a city memo this morning, which detailed the streetcar project's future following a construction deal with Messer Construction, Prus Construction and Delta Railroad. The news comes after Messer revealed it will need nearly $500,000 more to do construction work, which will be covered by the project's $10 million contingency funds. The memo detailed other upcoming milestones for the streetcar project:• March 1, 2015: Substantial completion of a 3,000-foot test track and maintenance center.• June 29, 2015: Substantial completion of Over-the-Rhine loop.• March 15, 2016: Substantial completion of all work. City Council recently approved $17.4 million in additional capital funding for the streetcar project, along with various accountability measures that will require the city manager to regularly update council and the public on the project's progress. The project's estimated cost now stands at $133 million.Ever since its inception, the Cincinnati streetcar has been mired in political controversies and misrepresentations, which CityBeat covered in further detail here.
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Inclusion becomes mayoral issue, streetcar clears hurdle, state budget cuts local funding
Following Democratic mayoral candidate John Cranley's announcement Friday to increase city contracts with minority- and women-owned businesses once elected, fellow Democratic mayoral candidate and Vice Mayor Roxanne Qualls echoed support for the proposals, although she disputed Cranley's record on the issue. One issue in particular is the Croson study that would allow the city to prepare for a broader inclusion plan for minorities and women. Qualls has repeatedly proposed a Croson study during her time in City Council and previous time in the mayor's office, but she says Cranley failed to publicly raise the issue at all during his time on council between 2000 and 2009. Cincinnati's streetcar project cleared another hurdle Friday when Messer Construction announced it needed $500,000 to carry out construction work, which is easily covered by the project's $10 million contingency fund. With a construction contract, new funding and accountability measures now moving forward, the only potential issue is who has to pay to move utility lines to accommodate for streetcar tracks. The city claims Duke Energy does, while the energy company puts the onus on the city. That issue is currently being worked out in court, although the city has already set aside $15 million to carry out the work for now and just in case Duke isn't forced to carry the costs. Throughout the streetcar's history, the project has been mired in misrepresentations and exaggerations, which CityBeat covered in further detail here. The recently approved two-year state budget provides about $517 million less local government funding than the budget did in 2011, even though it pays for $2.7 billion in new tax cuts. Democrats have been highly critical of the cuts, but the governor's office says local governments are effectively getting more funding through other sources not particularly geared for city and county governments. CityBeat covered local government funding in greater detail here and the state budget here. Some state officials are pushing to establish an online, searchable database that would allow Ohio taxpayers to track state spending penny-by-penny. The state treasurer's office already maintains a database for teacher and state employee salaries. The Health Careers Collaborative, an organization working to increase health care employment in Greater Cincinnati, has a new leader. Amish communities in Ohio are questioning whether they should take royalties for land that would be used for fracking, an oil and gas extraction process that environmentalists claim is dangerous for surrounding air and water. For the Amish, the issue is spiritual, rooted in their religious restrictions against technology and many facets of the modern world. CityBeat covered fracking and its ongoing effect on some Ohio communities in greater detail here. Ohio gas prices are starting up this week. Twinkies are returning to store shelves today. HD 189773b, a blue exoplanet, may look hospitable, but the planet has a bad habit of raining glass sideways.
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Top 10 Misrepresentations of the Cincinnati Streetcar Project
German Lopez
13 Comments · Wednesday, July 10, 2013
Most anti-streetcar talking points are perpetuated without proper context, but they've still been effective in rallying a libertarian-style argument against government spending, despite the potential benefits.
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Streetcar Gets Good News with New Construction Bid
Messer Construction asks for less than $500,000 more; easily covered by contingency fund
Messer Construction says it needs nearly $500,000 more than the original $71 million it asked for to do construction work for the streetcar project, but the extra money is easily covered by the project's $10 million contingency fund that the city established in case of further cost overruns.In June, City Council approved an extra $17.4 million and accountability measures for the streetcar project, which require the city manager to publicly update council with a timeline of key milestones, performance measures, an operating plan, staffing assessments and monthly progress reports. During discussions for the funding and accountability proposals, some council members, particularly Councilman P.G. Sittenfeld, raised concerns that Messer would require more money than the city could afford. Sittenfeld said he was especially concerned Messer would have all the leverage going forward, considering the city supposedly needed the lower construction bid to keep the project within its new budget.Messer was the lowest bidder for the project's construction work, but even that bid came $26 million higher than the city's original estimates, forcing the city to close a budget gap if the project was to continue. With the construction bids taken care of, the only known funding concern for the streetcar is who has to pay $15 million for moving utility lines to accommodate for streetcar tracks. Duke Energy argues the cost burden is on the city, while the city says the energy company has to pay up. The issue is currently being decided in court.Ever since Cincinnati began pursuing the streetcar project, it's been mired in misrepresentations and political controversy, which CityBeat covered in further detail in this week's cover story.
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Need advice on bringing zinnias in for seeds before frost
Thanks to the birds, I've collected very few zinnia seeds this year and now they're predicting frost for three nights this week. They're tall so I think it would just break them off if I try to cover them so I thought I might try bringing some in to hopefully finish. In hindsight, I should have netted some to keep the birds away but I didn't get around to it.
How successful do you think it would be if I just cut some and put them in a vase of water for awhile? Any advice?
I think tomorrow will be the last frost-free day for my zinnias. I have been saving green seeds and taking zinnia cuttings. It's probably not feasible for you to take zinnia cuttings, but you could pull some petals to see if they have viable green seeds attached. This picture gives you some idea of which petals have viable green seeds attached, and which ones don't.
As you can see, the petals don't have to turn brown to have viable seeds attached. Save the fat green seeds and discard the empty ones. Bring the green seeds indoors and spread them out on some surface to dry out for a couple of weeks. Then you can pull the seeds off of the petals and store the seeds.
I save both brown heads and green seeds, but I actually prefer the green seed method. Brown heads are susceptible to water damage in rainy weather. Wet brown seeds can actually start to sprout in the zinnia head, which of course kills the seed. But green seeds in the head aren't susceptible to water damage, because their seed coat is still living and water proof. And picking greenseeds as they become available gives the birds less chance at them.
I have been picking individual greenseeds for the last couple of months. That leaves the blooms on the plant to have time to mature more greenseeds and to produce pollen for crossing with other blooms.
Of course, now, with a killing frost staring us in the face, it is no longer necessary to keep the blooms on the plants.
I don't hold much hope for maturing your seedheads by putting the branches of zinnia plants in a vase of water, although that might buy you a few days of time to search for green seeds indoors. Good luck. Incidentally, I had some success scaring seed-eating birds with those little reflective toy pinwheels. And I did use several home-made "hair nets" to physically keep the birds away from some of my choicer zinnia heads.
Thanks Zenman - I'll see what I can find today.
I usually don't have so many birds. This year I had flocks of what looks like house sparrows hanging around in a nearby shrub row. They've been carefully getting every single seed from my zinnias before they're even dry.
Hi Christie,
Hope you find some good zinnia seeds. Here in this part of rural Kansas I have had problems with various sparrows and finches which have developed a taste for zinnia seeds, even the more mature green seeds, like your birds also ate. I plan to make a lot more of the zinnia nets for use next year.
I solved the problem of our Kansas winds blowing the nets off, by using a safety pin to tuck in the net at the bottom.
Plant something the birds really like and they'll leave your Zinnias alone.....maybe. I have Sunflowers growing around my Zinnias, and they MUCH prefer them over the Z's. I know that vegetable and herb gardeners do this. I think they call it a "trap" crop.
I've always been curious if one can collect "green" seeds and they will continue to ripen after they're removed. Now I know you can do this with Zinnias, are there other annuals you can do this with, ZM?
I collected a lot of seeds yesterday and most look fertile so if I just didn't get them too early, I should have plenty of zinnias next summer. I just collected from the flowers that were starting to brown a bit at the tips and let the others go.
I might try the sunflowers but I'll have to plant birdseed. If I plant named varieties, I would mad at the birds for stealing those seeds.
Did you make the net or buy it Zenman? I used netting last year just gathered around the flowers and then put a twisty around it but it was kind of hard to gather it and keep all the edges in. I like your way better.
"I've always been curious if one can collect "green" seeds and they will continue to ripen after they're removed. Now I know you can do this with Zinnias, are there other annuals you can do this with, ZM? "
Good question. I don't know. I suspect there are, but zinnias are the only plant that I have used the green seed technique with. Originally I tried using green seeds as a way to hurry up the growth of a second generation of zinnias. I saved several weeks by saving green seeds and planting them immediately. I found that in order to get green seeds to come up quickly, you have to split or otherwise open the living waterproof seedcoat, as shown in this picture.
As is shown in that picture, there are several ways to open the green seedcoat enough to get rapid germination. If you plant a greenseed without opening the seedcoat, it takes a couple of weeks or more for the coat to die and become water permeable, after which time the seed germinates, still saving several weeks over letting the seedhead become brown before saving brown seeds and quickly planting them for a second generation of zinnias. Then I tried drying the greenseeds and saving them and planting them next year, and that worked too. So using green zinnia seeds has been doubly useful for me. But I haven't tried that technique with any other annuals.
"Did you make the net or buy it Zenman?"
I have been making the zinnia nets myself. I bought several yards of black netting at a fabric store and some black yarn. The color black does a better job of not "standing out" in the garden.
I use a large needle to loosely weave the yarn as a quick way to join the netting. My yarn "stitches" are one half to three quarters of an inch long. I just alternate from the front to the back side. It is a very simple stitch.
Next year I may experiment with using my serger to close the net edges. I think I need to get some black woolly nylon for that, and I need to re-read my serger manual to figure out how to thread the thing. My old Pfaff serger is not a self threading model, and threading it is fairly complicated. It mounts as many as five spools of thread, although I probably won't need that many threads for zinnia nets. Incidentally, some current serger models mount as many as 8 spools of thread, and they self-thread. It would probably be easier to use my wife's Pfaff sewing machine to do a zig zag stitch, but I think the serger stitch might work better with that open netting fabric. However, hand sewing the nets with the yarn goes fairly rapidly, too.
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I came across a link that says to lay strips of tissue paper under tulle for support when sewing on a machine, then you just tear off the tissue paper. Sounds like it would work.
Not sure there would be enough there to use glue.
I tried duct tape once to attach two large pieces of tulle together and it could have been a comedy skit. Didn't go well at all. lol The duct tape was sticking where it shouldn't and I didn't have a big flat piece like I envisioned when I was done. I was trying to make a cover for a little cherry tree in my yard to keep the birds away.
"I save old nylons and cut them in sections..."
Thanks for that tip. It could be helpful for some people. I have a bunch of old nylon hose for use in the garden, but I prefer to use the more open tulle netting because it lets in more light and airflow. And you can see through it better. I have used the nylons for making slings to support trellis-grown melons, and the strength and flexibility of the nylons are suitable for the melon slings.
I have a lot more tulle netting than nylons, so it is just as well that I prefer the netting to the nylons for protecting blooms. The tulle netting has also kept pollen eating bees from disturbing my favorite breeder zinnias.
However, your scheme should work just fine for protecting blooms from birds.
"Couldn't you just glue it instead?"
I tried several different kinds of glue, including a hot melt glue gun, and I didn't like the results of any glue approach that I tried.
I also tried fusing the nylon tulle with an extra hot iron, and that formed a rather stiff bond that tore apart rather easily. The glue gun was a stringy mess, and the resulting zinnia net weighed a lot because of its heavy load of glue gun glue.
If I had a high energy laser, I think I could fuse the nylon nets together. But I don't have such a laser. A small blow torch could work, except for the smell. I'll do some more experiments this Winter on zinnia net-making techniques.
"I tried duct tape once to attach two large pieces of tulle together and it could have been a comedy skit."
I considered some of that tape that melts when ironed, but couldn't find any. Just as well. I think I would have wound up with melted tape all over the iron because of the openness of the tulle netting. I tried some double-sided Scotch tape, but it didn't stick tight enough.
The tissue paper tip may come in handy when using my serger with the netting.


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The South American gray fox (Lycalopex griseus), also known as the Patagonian fox, the chilla, or the grey zorro, is a species of zorro, the "false" foxes.
Range and habitat[edit]
The South American gray fox is found in the Southern Cone of South America, particularly in Argentina and Chile. Its range comprises a stripe, both sides of the Andes Mountain Range between parallels 17ºS (northernmost Chile) and 54ºS (Tierra del Fuego).[2]
In Argentina, this species inhabits the western semiarid region of the country, from the Andean spurs (ca. 69ºW) to meridian 66ºW. South from the Río Grande, the distribution of the fox widens reaching the Atlantic coast. In Chile, it is present throughout the country. Its presence in Peru has been mentioned; to date, however, there has been no confirmation of it. The South American gray fox was introduced to the Falkland Islands in the late 1920s early 1930s and is still present in quite large numbers on Beaver and Weddell Islands plus several smaller islands.[2]
The South American gray fox occurs in a variety of habitats, from the warm, arid scrublands of the Argentine uplands and the cold, arid Patagonian steppe to the forests of southernmost Chile.[2]
The South American gray fox is a small fox-like canid, weighing 2.5 to 5.45 kilograms (5.5 to 12.0 lb), and measuring 65 to 110 centimetres (26 to 43 in) in length including a tail of 20 to 43 cm (8 to 17 in). The head is reddish-brown flecked with white. The ears are large and there is a distinct black spot on the chin. The pelage is brindled, with agouti guard hairs and a short, dense pale undercoat. The underparts are pale grey. The limbs are tawny and the thighs are crossed by a dark bar. The long, bushy tail has a dark dorsal stripe and dark tip with a paler, mottled underside.[3]
The diet varies in different parts of its range and at different times of year. It consists mainly of mammals, birds, arthropods, bird eggs, reptiles, fruit and carrion. The main prey items seem to be small mammals, especially rodents. Fruits eaten include Cryptocarya alba, Lithraea caustica and Prosopanche spp.[4]
It breeds in late austral fall, around March. After a gestation period of 2 months, 2–4 kits are born in a den. Not much else is recorded about its lifestyle.
- ^ Wozencraft, W. C. (2005). "Order Carnivora". In Wilson, D. E.; Reeder, D. M. Mammal Species of the World (3rd ed.). Johns Hopkins University Press. ISBN 978-0-8018-8221-0. OCLC 62265494.
- ^ a b c d Jiménez et al. (2008). Pseudalopex griseus. In: IUCN 2008. IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Retrieved 6 May 2008. Database entry includes justification for why this species is of least concern
- ^ a b "Lycalopex griseus (mammal)". Global Invasive Species Database. Invasive Species Specialist Group. 10 August 2010. Retrieved 25 January 2015.
- ^ Claudio Sillero-Zubiri, Michael Hoffmann, David Whyte Macdonald (2004). "South American gray fox". Canids: Foxes, Wolves, Jackals and Dogs: Status Survey and Conservation Action Plan. IUCN. pp. 56–63. Retrieved 2015-01-24.
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I applied online. The process took 4 weeks – interviewed at Northrop Grumman in March 2012.
Initial Interview, Panel Interview. Poor coordination and communication throughout the process. Panel Interview consists of 4-7 interviewers, including the hiring manager, other members of the department, as well as Diverse members of other departments.
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The process took 3 weeks – interviewed at Northrop Grumman in February 2011.Interview Details
The process started out with a phone interview with talent acquisition. She gathered basics on salary requirements, what I was looking for as far as the position goes, verified my employment history, etc. A week later, I had a group interview with the hiring manager, engineering manager and business development lead. This consisted of questions related to my resume, how I would handle certain situations at work, my experience in SW development, change management and project management, etc. I was able to ask a lot of questions about the position as well. After that interview, I was asked to come back the following week to meet with the customer. That was more of a meet and greet than an interview. After that, I was asked to come back in a third time to meet with the Director (who was in vacation during the previous two times I was on site). Two days later, I was offered the position at my requested salary.Interview Questions
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Slow process, HR didn't seem to be very organized. Interviewed with three people: Business Area Director, Program Manager in Business Area, and HR. Behavioral Interviews were all very relaxed and straightforward.Interview Questions
Negotiation DetailsStandard, they made an offer and I pushed back a little on salary. They offered a small bump to satisfy me, I took the job anyway.Accepted OfferNeutral ExperienceEasy Interview
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I applied online. The process took 2 days – interviewed at Northrop Grumman in June 2009.Interview Details
The process was relatively easy. I interviewed for a job a I know well. It was time consuming and tedious. I had the phone screening, one on one and the panel interview. I'm an experienced Program Manager so it was hard for them to come up with something I couldn't deal with. Advice do your research in advance. Know the contract.Interview Questions
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I applied in-person. The process took 5+ months – interviewed at Northrop Grumman in January 2009.Interview Details
Very few questions as I already knew the hiring manager and his staff from a previous position. Cordial interviews. No surprises. EXTREMELY long on-boarding process after I'd already accepted their offer.Interview Questions
Negotiation DetailsThey low-balled me, as expected.Accepted OfferNegative ExperienceEasy Interview
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On the walk to Las Grietas we saw this weird looking plant. Being from Eastern Canada, we have never seen a cotton plant before (not even in books). Sheltered, I know.
Our guide told us that this was the Galapagos Cotton plant (also known as Darwin's Cotton, latin Gossypium darwinii). It was both in bloom and gone to seed. It was like it was growing little cotton balls.
It is generally felt that they arrived in the Galapagos via wind, bird droppings or in sea debris. There are a group of people who suggest that Incan brought them hundreds of years ago, although this hasn't been confirmed.
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