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This week I was speaking with an organization that is considering a data integration purchase and they asked a rather common question ...
why is Information Server unique when compared to <<insert competitor here>>
For those of us who have followed the various technologies in market for years (15 actually... we just had our birthday in January), it's a fun question to answer. I especially like getting that question these days, since over the last two years IBM has done some very unique things that bring a wealth of value to our customers and truly differentiate our suite. While there are several ways we can take that discussion, the question prompted me to get out the blog tonight so I can share some thoughts on one very specific set of distinctiveness .... data integration styles.
So, how many ways are there to move data?
You'd be surprised.... there really are several. As you can imagine, these align to the ultimate business goal an organization is trying to achieve. For instance, if you are interested in a topic like "real-time data warehousing" then you will need to look at a very different set of features than someone who may be looking at a project like "an application migration". For organizations that are looking for a data integration platform that can serve as the middleware layer supporting a diverse set of projects, they may need to consider a set of capabilities that reach beyond the current project at hand.
There are several ways that we can logically divide data integration styles, but my top level swags are always "batch" vs "real-time". Those categories are almost universally understood, so it gives a good construct with which to then dive into more details. In the following sections we'll look at some details on batch style processing, and then turn to the real-time styles.
Batch processing styles
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This is where it all began. When data warehousing was growing up, batch style ETL processing was the the only game in town. This is still the most popular style of processing, supporting thousands of organizations data integration focused projects. Batch processing has the most demanding performance and scalability requirements. It requires ETL platforms can not only run native bulk operations against source and target DBMS systems, but also leverage a variety of techniques for parallelism. Many ETL tools in the market will support data pipelining (think of an assembly line with each step being a different process). The market leaders will also support another style of parallelism ... data partitioning (think of multiple assembly lines). Data partitioning allows you to divide the data that must be processed into a set of smaller sets that can be worked on independently. DataStage provides some very unique features in this area, including a shared nothing archictecture for true scalability, as well as a concept known as dynamic repartitioning. Dynamic repatrtitioning (at least the way IBM means it.... don't let your other ETL vendor fool you ) is the ability to provide options at runtime to determine the degree of data partitioning that will be run across any set of hardware ... SMP, MPP or grid. Without the ability to do this, an organization that finds they have a large file to process will likely need to go back to their development environment and redesign their job to now run in N-ways instead of M-ways. This can be a costly proposition and one that Information Server customers don't have to worry about.
Type 2: Micro-Batch
"Micro-batch" is running typical batch style designs on a periodic basis. In some cases, organizations will be interested in micro-batch as a first step toward making their business project closer to real-time... perhaps running these jobs every 10 minutes. In other cases, the organization will have a very specific use case in mind. The classic example when the organization receives files on a regular basis throughout the day and they need to process whatever has arrived as soon as they can. These projects will also generally require more parameterization of the data sources, targets and even data schemas (which is a great use case for DataStage's runtime column propagation). Also, we shouldn't assume that the data volume will be small just because we are running every few minutes. Particularly in certain industries we find that the data sources may still be very large, so there is still a great demand for a performant and scalable data integration engine. One unique feature of DataStage in this regard is to wildcard scan for the number of data sources that are now available and then scale that out over N degrees of parallelism. Finally, there are unique scheduling and workflow requirements around triggering activity based on file arrival or sleeping for a specified period of time. The DataStage sequencer provides these features to support the micro-batch scenario.
Type 3: ELT (or mixed TETLT)
The industry has settled the long war of ELT vs ETL and recognized that each technique has a set of scenarios where it is optimal. I have two scenarios that I use to describe this. Scenario 1 is the conversion of an XML file to a CSV. There is no good reason to move this informaiton into a database only to extract it again - this is clearly predisposed to ETL. Scenario 2 is the creation of an aggregate table from a large detail table. There's no good reason to extract this data from the database since the system is optimized to do this type of transformation and an ETL topology will introduce a good deal of network latency. So, you can imagine that "data proximity" is a good yard stick to the processing type that may be your best fit . The right data integration technology will be able to provide both ETL and ELT and allow developers to switch easily between the two. The Information Server implementation (called "Balanced Optimization") is different than other vendors in that it leverages a single design canvas and single set of widgets/stages to represent both paradigms. This means that to go from ETL to ELT there is no redesign work required - the user simply hits the "optimize" button and they will have the ELT version of their logic. Information Server is also unique in it's blended approach that allows the user to push processing to the source db, target db, or both, as well as subset some processing on the ETL server where required (like our integrated quality components).
Real-time processing style
Type 4: Change Data Capture integration
Change Data Capture (CDC) technology monitors DBMS inserts, updates, and deletes so they can be replicated to another data store. The InfoSphere CDC technology minimizes impact to the DBMS by triggering off of what is written to the database log files without any requirement to further stage the information. Organizations have historically adopted CDC technologies primarily to support Real-Time Data Warehousing, often in support of web based store fronts and call center portals. There is now also a growing interest to adopt CDC technology to replace portions of batch processing that was focused on finding deltas between full volume extracts. CDC offers a great value proposition for minimizing resource investments in these cases. These delta records can be piped directly into a data integration/quality job so they can be transformed and cleansed to the extent required. Information Server can then write these to a heterogenous set of data targets while providing two-phase commit support to guarantee delivery of the data. The integration of data replication, data transformation and data quality into a single runtime architecture (for complete scalability), metadata store (for complete lineage), and design enviornment (to maximize time to value) is unparalleled.
Type 5: Message-queue based integration
For many years IBM has been combining data integration and application integration software to provide unique solutions. Organizations use WebSphere MQ (the leading market technology) for delivering messages between their applications and other information initiatives. For many years we have been working wtih organizations who recognized our development tooling as providing a great time-to-value for satisfying complex transformation capabilities in this domain. Tens of millions of dollars are tranferred using Information Server every day for the largest financial institutions in this fashion. Information Server connects directly to one or more queues as sources and then leverages the full compliment of integration and quality components to transform and cleanse this information. Similar to the CDC scenario, this data can then be commited with guaranteed deliver to a heterogenous set of targets. We refer to this as our distributed transaction stage and it can target all of the leading DBMS vendors along with a range of others data stores. I feel confident with the bold statement that no other ETL vendor is as well integrated with message based technologies.
Type 6: Information Services
Information Services is a form of data virtualization, providing a common access layer to any type of data source and information processing. A key advantage to adopting such a virtualization strategy is to insulate the end user from variations in the source technologies and thus accelerating their ability to deliver business value. Services should be accessible through a variety of invocation bindings - EJB, HTTP, JMS, REST, RSS - and in a variety of formats for the consuming applications - such as SOAP, Text, and XML. Over the last 8 years that Information Server has provided these features, some companies have adopted information services for very specific requirements, such as to provide a person matching function within an ERP or MDM solution, while others are building out an information fabric for distributed and mainframe data access. Since our information services are fully integrated with our design and runtime environment, information services can include multiple dozens of data source types (or "information service providers") for dbms, sequential files, xml, vsam, message queue, Hadoop, ERP, etc... and any of our transformation, profiling and cleansing components. This category can be broken down further into three topologies, each which has it's own targetted use cases
- input/output service: services that are always running/active and receive and can receive an input row at any moment in order to deliver an output result. This topology is typically used to process high volumes of smaller transactions where response time is important. It is tailored to process many small requests rather than a few large requests.
- output service: the service call invokes a job to run where the return values can consist of an atomic value (one column), a structure (multiple columns), or an array of structures (multiple rows). These jobs typically initiate a batch process from a real-time process that requires feedback or data from the results. It is designed to process large data sets and is capable of accepting job parameters as input arguments.
- service triggered batch jobs: the service call invokes a batch job to run on demand. Organizations who use this may be integrating into a business process where an authorized user triggers an event that then launches the delivery of data to a downstream process.
So, how many data integration styles do I need?
Within any single project you are probably looking at just one of two of these. As the next several projects start rolling, you will have probably started to consider where growing into the other data integration styles can help accelerate business value to your organization. A key factor in capitalizing on this value, is having the ability to leverage the existing tools, infrastructure and skill set you have already established. Information Server provides you an on ramp for not only this set of capabilities, but also a wealth of others around scalability, connectivity, profiling, cleansing, quality monitoring, metadata, governance, etc... If you are interested in learning more about these features and the flexibility of Information Server to handle this breadth of data integration scenario you can learn more in our Information Center or send me an email. Always happy to talk anytime.


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I have a large group of people who do not have Zimbra accounts, but do need to schedule resources that are managed in Zimbra resource accounts.
To accomplish this, we have some simple web forms that send iCal messages to the Zimbra resource calendar email addresses. All of the resource calendars are set to auto-accept appointments.
Under ZCS 5.x, when the resource calendars received one of these iCal messages, it would automatically reply with an "Accepted" or "Declined" email back to the organizer based on the availability of the resources.
Under ZCS 6.x, the appointments in the iCal messages are correctly added to the resource calendars, but the organizer (the person submitting the web form) doesn't receive a response.
If I "View Mail" for the resource calendars from the Admin console and I manually "Accept->Notify Organizer," THEN the acceptance message gets sent back out to the organizer.
So, is there a way to get back to the previous behavior, where appointments are both automatically added to the resource calendars AND the organizers are notified?

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JTEKT Corp. announced plans Tuesday to expand its Koyo brand bearings manufacturing facility in Richland County.
The $130 million investment is expected to generate 175 new jobs over the next three years.
Based in Nagoya and Osaka, Japan, JTEKT is an automotive systems and industrial components supplier.
"Customer demand continues to increase for our bearing products, and this expansion will provide the capacity needed to meet this demand," said Bobby Rowell, JTEKT plant manager. "We are proud of the success at this plant since it opened in 1995. This expansion, plus our continued hard work to satisfy our customers, will ensure our future success."
The company's planned expansion will double the size of the facility to more than 500,000 square feet. The plant manufactures bearing hub units for automotive customers including Toyota, BMW and General Motors.
"Many locations were considered for this large capital investment by JTEKT," said Steve McCullough, JTEKT vice president and general manager. "One of the key reasons we selected this location was the collaborative effort of Richland County, the town of Blythewood, the state of South Carolina and South Carolina Electric & Gas."
Construction is expected to begin in early January and hiring will begin later in 2013. For additional information, contact JTEKT project manager Leon Harris at email@example.com or 864-770-2490.
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Koyo Corp. planning $10M expansion in Orangeburg County
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It started unexpectedly as I was creating some sub-folders and it affects only one of my accounts, which by the way is huge (3.6 GB), and thus I have created several sub-folders (I wonder if this might be an issue )
Also this is a Yahoo account, and I had recently upgraded as requested by Yahoo.
Here is the error message
system failure: java.lang.UnsupportedOperationException: SearchResultComparator not implemented for anything except for DATE and SIZE right now. Feel free to fix it!
code: service.FAILURE
I hope this has a fix. I'd hate to stop using this amazing app.
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Floyd Valley Hospital Gets Good Marks On Audit
(Le Mars) -- Floyd Valley Hospital has been given a "fresh bill of health" by the accounting firm Denman and Company of Des Moines. Denman and Company recently completed its audit of Floyd Valley's Financial Statement. Hospital administrator Mike Donlin says the audit shows that although Floyd Valley did make a profit from last fiscal year, its expenses were also on the increase.
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The Floyd Valley Hospital Board of Trustees took the action on Tuesday to hire a consulting firm to look at the feasibility of raising money for the proposed north addition.
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Donlin says the assessment study will begin next Wednesday with the hopes that the conclusions will be ready in February of 2013.
Police Update the Information On Bike - Car Accident
(Le Mars) -- Le Mars Police have released the details of that bicycle and car accident that occurred Tuesday afternoon at about 5:00 p.m. The accident happened near the Country Store convenience store located on Plymouth Street S.W. Nine year old Uriah Groetken was riding his bike and entered the lane of traffic from an alleyway, when he was struck by a car driven by 75 year old Naomi Kappler of Remsen. Groetken was transported to the Floyd Valley Hospital for observation since he had hit his head during the collision, but has since been released. Kappler was traveling at about 10 -15 mph when the accident occurred. The car received only minor damage. Responding to the accident were the Le Mars Police Department, the Le Mars Fire and Rescue Department, and the Le Mars Ambulance.
City Sells Mock Library Building
(Le Mars) -- What was at one time the Charles Mock library as part of the Westmar College, may soon be a new restaurant. The Le Mars City Council approved the sale of the building for $5000 to John and Sharon Sailer of Le Mars. City administrator, Scott Langel says the city received two offers for the building.
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DCI Investigating Shooting By Deputy
KEOSAUQUA, Iowa (AP) - The Iowa Division of Criminal Investigation is investigating the shooting death of an armed man by a Van Buren County sheriff's deputy in southeast Iowa.
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It'll Be Worse a Year From Now
November 16, 2013
About 8,800 West Virginians have learned during the past few weeks that President Barack Obama lied to them. But the number is peanuts compared to what's going to happen about a year from now....
The Affordable Care Act requires insurance companies to take people with pre-existing conditions and bars them from dropping policies of people who become seriously ill. Republicans have never supported this. They apparently don't care about these people and don't want healthier and younger people to have to subsidize them. They prefer social Darwinism, survival of the fittest. - Robert Reich
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Seems todays NR is brought to you by the health insurance industry. So many articles praising republican bill that says you "should" be able to keep your health insurance.
Funny how not one of the articles mentions that the insurance company can still cancel your junk insurance if they want.
Repubs sold out to the insurance companies and the morons are running around convincing the low information people that this is a good thing.
When you get sick and the insurance company cancels your policy, let us know how it works out when you say "Id like to keep my junk insurance".
So repubs want you to give up any rights you gained under Obamacare....brilliant.
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Goosy, can we expect your Liar in Chief to start telling us "If your you like your employer-provided health plan, you can KEEP your employer-provided health plan, PERIOD," or has the Obumbler learned his lesson about what happens to his poll numbers when he repeatedly LIES to the American people?
And define "junk." Because apparently YOU loons think "junk" includes any policy that doesn't cost three times your current rate to cover mammograms for men and pre-natal care for post-menopausal women. Derrrrr........
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ButBushWhineFactory "The Affordable Care Act requires insurance companies to take people with pre-existing conditions"
... which is it's obvious downfall. Why buy insurance when you can just pay a little "tax" and then sign up for insurance when you develop a major medical condition? But then the Unaffordable Care Tax Act never was intended to be the final solution now, was it, LYING libs. Obamascam was just another step down the road to single payer. Why can't you libbies just admit that? Typical "end justifies the means" lying libs.
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This is what the GOP wants to protect. They don't represent you:
In America today, the top 1 percent owns 38 percent of the financial wealth of America. The bottom 60 percent owns 2.3 percent.
In America today, one family, the Walton family of Wal-Mart, owns more wealth than the bottom 40 percent, and the top 400 individuals in this country have accrued more wealth than the bottom half of the nation – over 150 million people.
In terms of income, the top 1 percent earns more income than the bottom 50 percent, while the wealthiest 16,000 Americans, who make more than $10 million a year (the top 0.01 percent), saw their income increase by nearly a third from 2011 to 2012.
According to the most recent study, from 2009 to 2012, 95 percent of all new income went to the top 1 percent. Meanwhile, since 1999, median family income declined by more than $5,000 after adjusting for inflation. (cont.)
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(cont.) Today, a record-breaking 46.5 million people live in poverty in the United States. At 21.8 percent, we have the highest rate of childhood poverty in the industrialized world. One out of four kids in this country now lives in a family that receives food stamps.
Poverty among seniors is growing. Over 9 percent of seniors lived in poverty last year, higher than in 2009. More American seniors were living in poverty last year than in 1972.
In recent years, while median family income has declined and poverty has increased, the number of millionaires and billionaires has grown at an extraordinary rate. In 1996, there were 121 billionaires in this country. Today, there are 442.
Do you believe that the rapid increase in wealth and income inequality in the United States is a moral issue? - Bernie Sanders
Keep voting GOP and this will continue.
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Oliver Luck? He and Dana should be ridden out of M'town on a rail.
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lie # 23,390 from the NR. Yellow journalism at it's best! Lie, lie lie!
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You state that "This is what the GOP wants to protect"
Then you post "from 2009 to 2012, 95 percent of all new income went to the top 1 percent."
You may want to consult Robert Reich on this but I'm pretty sure a Democrat has been President since 2009 and that Dem's controlled both the House & Senate in 2009/2010 and have controlled the Senate since then.
So who's really protecting the wealthy here? The wealthy, especially the Wall St elite have thrived off liberal policy. Maybe ask Reich how quantitative easing works?
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bushcriminal, When your goberment (currently liberals) is giving 85 billion a month to wall street who do you think makes out? I'm not complaining much, 3 of my major stock holdings have increased 35%+ over the last 2 years. I'm not a 1%er. LOL
You do realize that only about 15% of the population owns stock? Do you suppose it's the top 15% or the bottom 15%?
You also might want to research the years the stock market increases the most and what party is in power more often during the increases! Being of the sheeple crowd does not change the facts! He Ha
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"Republicans have never supported this."
I guess Reich hasn't read the Republican plan! From Bloomberg, "The Republican plan, by contrast, treats pre-existing conditions as a significant but discrete problem. It doesn't try to redesign the entire insurance market around them. It offers subsidies and strengthens regulatory protections for them, but in a way that doesn't pose the risk that Obamacare does of destroying that market." The plan sets up a $25 billion fund for people with pre-existing conditions.
Please tell Mr Reich to read Sec 301 Subtitle B—Ensuring Coverage for Individuals With Preexisting Conditions" of the 'American Health Care Reform Act of 2013'!
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"Poverty among seniors is growing. Over 9 percent of seniors lived in poverty last year, higher than in 2009."
Please refer to previous post about who's been in charge since 2009!
This is the result of voting for Democrats!! Thanks for making that point repeatedly!
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Born Robert Thomas-Pattinson on May 13, 1986 in London, England, he was raised in the suburb of Barnes by his parents, Clare and Robert Pattinson. Acting captured his fancy at an early age and soon supplanted schoolwork as his sole focus. As a teenager, he joined the prestigious Barnes Theatre Club, which gave him an education in classic drama. A casting agent saw him in a production of "Tess of the D'urbervilles" and encouraged him to pursue performing as a career. He made his screen debut in 2004 in a German TV production of the epic fantasy "Ring of the Nibelungs," which aired in the United States as "Dark Kingdom: The Dragon King" in 2006. Pattinson also landed a minor role as a younger ... Continue Bio >>
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Oklahoma tornadoes: Area's restaurant community steps up to support relief efforts
The Oklahoma City-area food service community mobilized Tuesday to support rescue workers with food trucks, donation drops and a benefit planned for Sunday at the Myriad Gardens.
Jinny Chen, working on behalf of the Fraternal Order of Police of Oklahoma, is organizing local food trucks and chefs to feed rescue workers and victims of Monday's tornado.
Sarah Bui of Heo's Kitchen parked at the Lowe's at 1501 S Interstate 35 Service Road in Moore to serve those in need Tuesday afternoon. Alan Bouda, owner of Wild Al's Food Truck and president of the Oklahoma City Food Truck Association, led a group of trucks later in the evening to the same spot, where they served food until it ran out.
The trucks took food donations from US Foods, Enid-based Advance Food Co. and Oklahoma City-based Kelley Brokerage. Heo's Kitchen used ingredients donated by the Super Cao Nguyen Market.
Chen said she plans to organize food trucks throughout the rescue and recovery operation, which will require more help from the public. Chen said people can help bolster the food supply by donating via PayPal at wildals.webs.com.
Chen said the police group has set up a post to cook for workers and victims and is seeking chefs and restaurant professionals to staff the grills.
"We need responsible cooks to maintain a certain level of quality and cleanliness to best serve those at work in the storm-ravaged area," Chen said.
To volunteer, call Chen at 326-2705.
Chefs Ryan Parrott, Guy Romo and Jonathan Turney began cooking for Federal Emergency Management Agency workers Tuesday. Parrott said his crew is well set on food for "the next couple of days" but is still seeking napkins, plates, plasticware and to-go boxes. Parrott said snacks also are sought.
"We're going to serve them a hot meal," Parrott said. "But we still need individually packaged foods like power bars or chips so we can send the workers back into the field with a snack and a bottle of water."
Parrott said donations of food or paper goods can be made at Matthew Burch's Urban Agrarian Market, 1235 SW 2 St. Burch added that breakfast foods and coffee are also sought. Burch said if you have items you think will be helpful, call 231-1919 to arrange delivery.
Operation Barbecue Relief arrived in Moore on Tuesday. The not-for-profit group was formed in 2011 in support of the tornado in Joplin, Mo., and has supported victims and workers at five disaster sites since. Local pitmaster Russ Garrett said Operation Barbecue Relief will be in town as long as it takes. Ben. E. Keith Foods donated the beef.
McNellie's pubs in Norman, Tulsa and Oklahoma City announced all proceeds from Oklahoma beers sold until the end of the month will be donated.
Allied Arts has partnered with S&B Burger Joints and will donate 10 percent of all sales through Sunday to the Red Cross of Central and Western Oklahoma. For more information, call 278-8944.
A Good Egg Dining Group sent 500 cases of water to First Baptist Church of Moore on Tuesday. The group also announced its Tucker's Fried Onion Burgers concepts will redesignate its Refill the Community proceeds to Plaza Towers Elementary in Moore.
Finally, local chefs Chris Becker, Marc Dunham, Kurt Fleischfresser, Jonathon Stranger and Josh Valentine will headline a culinary event on Sunday at Myriad Gardens called OK Chefs Relief. The local chefs will open a pop-up restaurant at 11 a.m. in the restaurant space in the botanical gardens complex that will run until 10 p.m.
The chefs will feature a three-course meal with 100 percent of the proceeds going to the Red Cross. Fleischfresser said there will be no charge for the meal, but asks that people make a donation of at least $35.
Fleischfresser said people can expect "spontaneous cuisine" made from locally donated ingredients. The restaurant holds about 80 people. The event is first-come, first-served, but hosts will take names at the entrance and text those waiting for seats.


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The College's Board of Trustees in May voted to recognize, John D. Bramsen '60, as a Life Trustee after 19 years of service to the board. Bramsen majored in mathematics at North Central and then pursued his master's degree in mathematics at the University of Illinois. During his doctoral studies at the University of Chicago, he studied the application of math to sociological theory, which inspired his research as an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Colorado. He later returned to Chicago to work at Spraying Systems Company, a business founded by his father.
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This is surgery of the abdominal wall and intestines. An opening is made into the intestines to drain the contents out or put in a feeding tube.
This surgery is done when a new exit for intestinal or fecal matter is needed. It may be needed when feces can no longer travel through the bowels and out the anus.
An enterostomy may also be needed when food can no longer enter the mouth or stomach normally. In this case, a feeding tube will be placed to help food enter the intestines.
Complications are rare, but no procedure is completely free of risk. If you are planning to have enterostomy, your doctor will review a list of possible complications, which may include:
Some factors that may increase the risk of complications include:
Be sure to discuss these risks with your doctor before the procedure.
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will be used. It will block any pain and keep you asleep through the surgery. It is given through an IV in your hand or arm.
There are different ways this surgery can be done. In one technique, an intestinal sac for collecting fecal waste is created inside of the abdomen. This sac will include a hole called a stoma in the abdominal wall. The stoma allows access to the sac so that it can be emptied through a tube. In another technique, the intestine is directly attached to the abdominal wall so that an external bag can be attached to collect fecal waste.
If the surgery is done to place a feeding tube, an incision will be made in your abdominal wall. The doctor will grasp a section of your small intestine. A small opening will be made. The tube will be placed through this opening and secured in place with sutures. The tube will then be brought through your abdominal wall. It will be secured with sutures.
These procedures may be done by an:
You will have soreness and tenderness after the procedure. Ask your doctor about medicine to help with the pain.
This procedure is done in a hospital setting. The usual length of stay is 2-4 days. Your doctor may choose to keep you longer if complications occur.
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Race Car Driver Arrested for DUI Manslaughter in Miami
A Brazilian race car driver was recently arrested for a DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide after allegedly causing an accident that killed a pedestrian in Miami Beach last week, according to a report from NBC Miami.
The South American race car driver, 20-year-old Joao Paulo Escudero Mauro, made his first appearance this Friday in Miami-Dade courtroom, where the judge set his bond at a lofty sum of $250,000.
Despite this high price tag, though, Mauro soon posted bond later that afternoon, but the court will follow his movements with an ankle monitor and the Brazilian driver had to surrender his passport.
According to a report from Miami Beach police, Mauro was driving his Mercedes-Benz SUV on Collins Avenue at a speedy clip of 60 miles per hour in a 30 miles per hour zone. While he was speeding north on Collins, Mauro allegedly swerved to the left and drove onto a nearby sidewalk.
At the same time, which was roughly 1:30 a.m. last Thursday night, 45-year-old Russell Knudson was trying to squeeze his bicycle into a rear door of his Toyota SUV when he was hit and killed by the speeding Mercedes, according to police.
After the accident, Mauro allegedly drove the Mercedes further along the sidewalk until he eventually stopped several yards later.
When police made first contact with Mauro, he reportedly had bloodshot eyes and a flushed face, and his breath apparently smelled like alcohol. Mauro admitted to police that he had been drinking earlier, and he claimed that he swerved his car to avoid another vehicle that had stopped in traffic in front of him.
While the presence of another car in the road could support Mauro's claim that he is not guilty, Mauro's felony DUI charge could be enhanced by the possible presence of drugs, as well as his admitted alcohol use.
When police arrested him, they noted that Mauro's left nostril contained a "white powdery substance" and the arresting officers found a small bag of a substance that looked a lot like cocaine. The bag was found close to the area where Mauro was standing.
So, in addition to the charges of DUI manslaughter and vehicular homicide, the Brazilian national will also have to defend himself against a charge of cocaine possession.
Police also noted that Mauro had "a white powdery substance in his left nostril," and that they found a small baggie of what appeared to be cocaine near where he was standing. He was later charged with cocaine possession in addition to the DUI and vehicular homicide charges.
Mauro, however, remains undaunted, and his attorney said that he and the defendant "believe that the evidence will show that Mr. Mauro was not driving under the influence or involved in vehicular homicide."
In addition to this claim of innocence, Mauro's attorney also acknowledged that the defendant felt "very badly for the Knudson family."
Mauro has competed for a few years in Brazilian stock car racing and recently made his American appearance last June at the Road America 200 Continental Tire Sports Car Challenge in Wisconsin.


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DETROIT (AP) -- An auto industry research firm says an improving economy and a host of new models should push U.S. auto sales above 15 million this year.
The Polk research firm says auto sales should continue to lead the country's economic recovery. Polk predicts 15.3 million new vehicle registrations this year, up nearly 7 percent from 2012.
Automakers release December and full-year sales for 2012 on Thursday. Analysts predict sales of around 14.5 million, the strongest year since 2007.
Polk expects 43 new models to be introduced this year, up 50 percent from last year. New models usually boost sales. The company also predicts a rebound in large pickup truck sales.
But the optimistic forecast firm hinges on Washington reaching agreement on spending cuts that could happen later in the year.
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Members of the 2012-13 HHS marching band are pictured from left, front row, Taylor Goldenstein, Shaylee Krueger, Eva Penzing, Meg Strauss, Anastasia Conklin, Lindsay Helgoth, Kaylee Ham and Camille Elliott; and back row, Morgan Golden, Molly Brandt, Alyssa Cordova, Ben Martinez, Dani Brandt, Matt Golden, A.J. Brandt and director Miko Martinez.
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Andy Murray suffered another disappointing, and worrying, early round loss falling 6-2, 6-1 to Philipp Kohlschreiber in Monte-Carlo. It was his second consecutive opening round straight set defeat after going down 6-4, 6-4 to Mardy Fish at the same stage in Miami last month. Let's keep that head shrinker on speed dial, shall we?
I'd venture to guess that at the moment the Brit baller wouldn't mind melding his tennis IQ and skill set (and hair?) with a supreme dirt baller. I mean, we just started on the slippery stuff and there's a WAYS to go.
So here's a little Rafa for your ass Muzz. Don't ever say I never gave you anything.
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BALLER MUG MASHUP: Muzz vs. Rafa
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WHAT is UP with that FACIAL HAIR?! my god.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 14, 2010 at 2:43 PM
Identity crisis, poor Muzza.ReplyDelete
- 陳哲毓念阿彌陀佛往生西方極樂世界April 14, 2010 at 4:35 PM
阿彌陀佛 無相佈施ReplyDelete
之為腥。所謂「葷腥」即這兩類的合稱。 葷菜
(重定向自五辛) 佛家五葷
興渠另說為洋蔥。) 肉 蛋 奶?!
念楞嚴經 *∞窮盡相關 消去無關 證據 時效 念阿彌陀佛往生西方極樂世界
不婚 不生子女 生生世世不當老師
log 二0.3010 三0.47710.48 五0.6990 七0.8451 .85
root 二1.414 1.41 三1.732 1.73五 2.236 2.24七 2.646
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- AnonymousApril 14, 2010 at 5:56 PM
Wow, not only can you learn about tennis in this blog, you can also learn other languages. Go Rich! ;)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 15, 2010 at 12:12 PM
Oh Rich, how I have missed you -- it took me 5 minutes to figure out what you did with the pics. Now that I did figure it out, it's awesome, you melding genious! :)ReplyDelete
Missed you and your supreme tennis fashionista sense tons! JJ won a tourney while you were on hiatus, oh woe, the missed commentary opps!
Welcome back, hope all is well, and take care!
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I have to admit, I was having a great time once I started sleeping good. I was ready to go hard every day until that poor sucker stepped out.
Congrats! I been wanting to get down to the Frank Church for a few years now. Did you see many wolves?
That's awesome for a first out of state hunt, congratulations.
Congrats and a great pics and story. Hoping for similar results this week in the wilderness of NM muzzle loader hunt. I'm also going solo taking all my gear in. Very excited. Can't sleep much at night. My mind is playing out all scenarios.
I hear they are pretty bad in that area. I might go do some scouting down there with my wolf tag!
congrats, what part of the frank where you in? Just curious as it is a very big place. Did you fly in to a backcountry strip? or is that the November hunt?
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Playing the shale game
Pushing away overhanging vines, David Phillips muscles aside a rusty metal plate taller than he is and nearly as wide as his outstretched arms. In this Lee County community once known as Coal Glen, trucks wallow through General Timber Inc.s lumberyard, shuttling wood to be creosoted against rot. Phillips, an employee, peers into the hole before him. As silent as a sarcophagus, it breathes dank air into the daylight. Rails, like a trains, slope down into utter blackness. This, he says, is as far as we go.
Theres no marker, just weeds and bushes. A few miles away in the crossroads of Gulf at the general store where J.R. Moore & Son has sold groceries, feed, hardware, clothing and shoes since 1935, customers look puzzled when asked about this place. At 9:30 on a May morning in 1925, windows for miles around rattled and bilious smoke belched from the mouth of the Carolina Coal Co. mine, also known as the Farmville Mine. Superintendent Howard Butler, the 29-year-old son of the owner, rushed in to rescue trapped miners but was almost killed in a second blast. Dragged to safety, he staggered back to try again just before a third explosion tore through the mine. He barely survived. Fifty-three others didnt.
Coal Glen has vanished from maps and, with it, memory of North Carolinas worst industrial disaster. By the time of the explosion, at least a dozen mines had operated around here, going back before the Revolutionary War. Many ended in blasts, bankruptcy or both. More than 200 died in explosions. Those at the nearby Egypt Mine in 1895 and 1900 killed 40. The 1925 blast left 38 widows and 79 orphans. In clutches around freshly dug graves, murmurs spread. Something deep underground, the superstitious whispered, guarded its wealth. The devil was gas.
This spring, rumors circulate again. Outsiders bearing papers are knocking on doors. Some people, educated and savvy about commerce and law, sign confidently. Among them are Howard Butlers son Daniel, whose business card reads minerals and real estate. Others, including the elderly with dim eyes and weak hearing, put their names to confusing words and phrases. The lessee is hereby granted the right
On June 16, more than 250 people stream into the old Lee County courthouse in Sanford until the fire marshal blocks the door, stranding dozens outside. A young woman from the local Agricultural Extension Service office introduces a man from Raleigh, James Simons, who explains that hes the chief state geologist. He starts with a laugh. My boss wants to know, What are yall doing down there, trying to sell shares?
Senior geologist Jeffrey Reid, his short-sleeved white shirt open at the collar, describes something beneath the surface eight miles west of town that he calls the Cumnock Formation. To most here, Cumnock is a wide spot in the road two miles from the Coal Glen shaft, just a rusty old camelback bridge over Deep River, volunteer fire department and Buds Barbeque. Reid explains that its no surprise that the killer at Carolina Coal gas is abundant here. Gas and coal are geological cousins. But now, he tells the gathering, there are new ways to pry it from the porous rock. Some geologists think there might be enough down there to meet the natural-gas needs of the whole state for 40 years.
Others warn of the vagaries of the natural-gas industry. Mining laws must be changed, Prices fluctuate. A lawyer cautions them about unscrupulous speculators and legitimate wildcatters the men and companies that come in first, gambling millions in high-risk exploration but extracting correspondingly high returns if they strike it rich and sell their finds to production companies. Some who signed in haste sheepishly begin studying their folded hands. Their misgivings will come into clearer focus a few weeks later when, back in Raleigh, state Utilities Commission analysts help compute the value of 40 years worth of natural gas about $80 billion in 2010 dollars.
The meeting over, a soft murmur trails the crowd out the door. Unlike those earlier times, the whispers arent about a malevolent force deep in the earth. They are about prospects for new lifeblood in a region long skirted by the states urban prosperity. About potential disappointments and false hopes, deals and money to be made maybe, some say, even riches. This time, the devil is in the details.
Other than chirping sparrows and the nearly imperceptible rustle of a water moccasin slithering through damp leaves, theres only the moan of a distant truck on Boone Trail Road U.S. 421. A weedy path winds through woods to a small creek, then tops a hill above the sluggish Deep River west of Sanford. Several thousand feet below is the epicenter of the most promising gas deposits in the state and maybe the Southeast the Cumnock Formation.
About 250 million years ago, in the Triassic period, some of the first dinosaurs coelophysis, a 7-foot-tall tyrannosaurus rex look-alike, and his kin roamed here when this was Pangea, the only continent. The vegetation was less dramatic than the pterodactyls circling above, but when it comes to natural gas, it was more significant. Giant ferns and segmented trees that looked like colossal bamboo sprouted in steaming swamps that grew larger as Pangea drifted apart to form todays seven continents. As plants died, they settled to swamp bottoms, and pressure from deepening sediment above and heat from the Earths core below cooked and compressed them into coal, oil and natural gas.
Natural-gas deposits are usually formed by marine life, Simons says. This is unusual because it was of terrestrial origin freshwater lakes but the principle is the same. What we had here was a complete system consisting of organic material, the ability to cook it, stone with the porosity to store it and cap rock to keep the gas from moving up to the surface and evaporating.
Truth is, discovery of natural gas in North Carolina is no discovery at all. Dead coal miners found out the hard way. This region, consisting of Chatham, Randolph and Lee counties, is North Carolinas only coal-producing territory. It was here in central North Carolina, not the states western mountains where most would expect lodes of fossil fuels, that the Confederacy turned for coal. But it had its drawbacks. It burned smoky and sulfurous, and Union sailors could easily spot the blockade runners it fueled from miles away.
Only a handful know its history today. Worth Pickard is one. A few miles from Cumnock, down Carbonton Road is a driveway with an old, blue Chevrolet S-10 pickup at the end. He grew up here, as did generations of Pickards before him. Thirty years or so after the 1925 explosion, he was a sidekick of the hero of Coal Glen, Howard Butler one of the finest men that ever lived, selling drilling equipment and drilling water wells. The Butlers and others operated the Carolina Coal mine off and on until the early 50s. In 1959, Pickard, 81, started his own company. He drilled water wells but also sank a few shafts for petroleum geologists looking for oil. He holds up a vial of black crude from one.
Looks a lot like axle grease, he says. One guy in the 80s probably spent more than $1 million. He brought in 9,000 feet of pipe. I asked him what he was going to do, and he said he was going to drill down that far. I said, Oh no, you aint. They drilled down to 5,400 feet and pulled out. No jacklegs are going to find whats down there. The chief state geologist agrees. Previously, they were looking for what we call coal-bed methane gas and oil, but not what we now call shale gas. In Simons imagination, the earth 4,000 feet down would be almost like a reddish cake with dark layers of shale icing between layers. But with shale gas, its not just sitting there its encased in the shale. If you just drill through it, you get very little, if anything.
That, Reid adds, has been the problem until now. The coal mines here were quite gassy. It was methane mixed with coal dust that caused the explosions. In the 80s, when hydrocarbon prices were high, people drilled a bunch of vertical wells blindly in the Deep River shale basin, looking for oil. They had the cart before the horse. They werent thinking about gas. He was. A Texan by birth and petroleum geologist by training, Reid went to work for the state in 1986. He plowed through old geological charts and reports and prowled the woods and fields of Lee and Chatham counties. He listened to voices of experience such as Pickards and developed, his friends say, a near-obsession with the mineral trove beneath Lee and Chatham counties, often working on his own time. What was missing were methods to gauge how much there was down there and how to profitably extract it.
One answer can be found in a clearing in the depths of the woods near the Deep River. It is Butler No. 3, a wellhead with its reddish paint showing smudges of rust. This is a test well shut-in, as wildcatters say, meaning its under pressure but sealed. Here and at another similar well, along with seismic and other data, Reid and other geologists have sufficient evidence to convince wildcatters that there are profitable quantities of gas below.
Gas has been there all along, Reid says. The change of thinking comes from our new geochemical and seismic data and the availability of horizontal drilling and hydrofracturing. Neither technology is revolutionary. Drillers go down, then drill horizontally into layers of gas shale, the icing between the layers of Simons underground cake. Developments such as underground drilling motors and methods of precisely tracking a drills position and guiding it thousands of feet underground, even while drilling continues, have made horizontal drilling lucrative. Gas would still be trapped in the rock, though, except for advances in hydraulic fracturing fracking in which liquid under tremendous pressure is forced into fractures, opening them and releasing gas. How much gas? Not even geologists are sure.
The vast, rambling underground terrain they call the Deep River Basin extends 150 miles from South Carolina north nearly to Virginia. Not all of it is gas-rich though. Simons, Reid and other geologists put the upper end at about 50,000 acres. The most promising target in the Cumnock Formation is the Sanford sub-basin about 20,000 acres northwest of the city. Near here, as a boy, one man went down to the devils depths. Today, when it comes to the business of natural gas in these parts, few know the details as well as he does.
On the outskirts of Southern Pines, 30 miles south of Sanford, in a pristine forest of tall Carolina longleaf pines, the den of Daniel Butlers house overlooks a lake with surroundings as preened as a golf course. Here, he and his family ride to the hounds. Jumps and barrels line the Butlers long, meandering driveway through the woods. Another family tradition is preserved in the chunks of Coal Glen coal embedded in the stone chimney above his mantle. As a kid, I remember riding down in the coal shuttle cars with my dad when he was still operating the mine. It went all the way under Deep River, a thousand feet. That was in the early 50s, shortly before Carolina Coal closed for good after one last, futile effort to make money. The Butlers grandfather Bion, father Howard and, now, son Daniel had an affinity for land, timber and minerals.
Daniel Butler owns mineral rights to 2,715 acres at ground zero of the prime gas lode near Cumnock and the Deep River. Hes the biggest of the new breed of natural-gas players here, but hes not alone. Quietly at first, then in a frenzy beginning last spring, wildcatters and speculators moved in, sometimes blanketing landowners with mailed, ready-to-sign leases and prewritten bonus checks or, in other cases, only promises. By fall, Reid estimated that more than 8,000 acres had been snapped up, from quarter-acre backyards to tracts of hundreds of acres. They were owned by mineral-rights investors such as Butler, who also has holdings in Pennsylvania and West Virginia, but also by an inordinate number of elderly people, such as Helen Seymour, a 95-year-old widow with 100 acres on Pocket Creek, not far from Worth Pickards place.
Modern energy demand natural gas generates half the greenhouse gases of coal and by 2015 will produce a quarter of the nations electricity as coal drops to 44% was coming to bear in an incongruous spot. Local historians say the elderly of Lee County are a product of its stability. Census figures bear that out: 15% of the population in 2009 was 65 and older, compared with 12% statewide, and 57% lived in the same house from 1995 to 2005. Many local families date to Colonial days.
Johnnie Belle Blakley, 97, is a widow whose voice cracks as she strains to talk with a visitor. She has signed in a jagged, illegible hand leases on more than 800 acres to Denver, Colo.-based WhitMar Exploration Co. and Charlottesville, Va.-based Amvest Oil & Gas Inc., the two biggest natural-gas operations here. Through September, WhitMar held more than 130 leases in the Deep River basin, and Amvest, nearly 90. Theyve done a lot of testing out here, says Larry Blakley, her 71-year-old son, who operates eight poultry houses. He refers to test oil wells drilled in the 80s. Found a little oil and gas, but never amounted to nothing. Now this bunch is thinking theyre going to move on anyhow. We havent sold the chicken farm yet.
Many residents have found themselves facing a legal morass. Some are heirs of owners who, desperate to pay their taxes, sold mineral rights to coal speculators in the 30s during the Great Depression. They still own their land but not whats under it. Local opportunists jumped into the game, attempting to coax owners into signing agreements, similar to real-estate sales contracts, that would allow them to tie up large tracts, which they would then attempt to sell at inflated prices to wildcatters. The practice recently had attracted the N.C. Secretary of States Office, which was investigating whether securities and real-estate laws might be violated. Others were simply vulnerable.
If someone approaches you and says, Youve got a gold mine under your front yard and were just going to get samples, theres a certain naiveté, Sanford Mayor Cornelia Olive says. She is a member of a longtime Lee County family, and her mother is in her 90s. In older people, theres a certain innocence. If youre told, You have an opportunity to leave your wife and family well fixed if we find natural gas and we certainly will under some of your land, theyll sign.
Executives of WhitMar and Amvest wont discuss their operations, though Butler, whose leases are with WhitMar, describes the Denver company as one of the nations top wildcatters. Wildcatters take the biggest risks in a game in which the ante weeds out the weak. Test wells two already drilled on Butler holdings typically cost upward of $2.5 million, and at least four successful ones are needed to lure production companies. Those companies take risks, too, including betting on gas prices. And the new technology opening up the Lee County gas fields could prevent them from flourishing. As extracting natural gas from shale has become more common, prices, as high as $25 per 1,000 cubic feet five years ago, recently had dropped to less than $4.
The murmurs the rumors are back, too, in some cases fed by speculators to drive up the prices of the leases they hold. Fifty miles away on the campus of N.C. State University in Raleigh, Ted Feitshans, a lawyer who teaches agricultural economics, has tried to calm some of the excitement. Scams? Any time moneys involved, youve got a large opportunity, he says. There may be riches here, but they certainly wont be overnight. Developing a new gas field is a major investment that takes time and luck. But the whispered tales of quick riches that have traveled along Lee County back roads and been repeated over soft drinks in country stores like J.R. Moore & Son have just enough grounding in fact to keep them alive. But how natural-gas money actually flows back to the landowner is complicated.
Payments are in two parts exploration, or bonus payments, and royalties if wells go into production. Bonus payments, Feitshans says, have ranged up to $3 an acre in North Carolina. There are reasons theyre low here. The hot spots are elsewhere: the bedrock formation known as Marcellus Shale, mainly in western Pennsylvania, New York and Virginia, and the Haynesville Shale in Louisiana and parts of Texas. They are so gas-rich and large Haynesville covers 9,000 square miles, compared with 1,400 for the Deep River Basin that theyve generated bonus payments of up to $20,000 an acre. If youre buying rights in the Haynesville Shale, you have a pretty good idea how much gas is there. But nobody has ever tapped gas successfully in North Carolina, so theres a lot of uncertainty. The second source of money for gas-lease sellers royalties are negotiated, but with plunging natural-gas prices, how much producers will pay depends on how low prices go.
Then theres the price of uncertainty typical mineral-rights leases can be renewed for up to 20 years which can be high for the farmers and retirees of Lee County. Signers can find their land tied up and themselves sharing liability if things go wrong. What happens if a driller messes up your neighbors well and youre held liable? Feitshans asks. And in the gas industry, there are a lot of mom-and-pop operations not well-financed. I suspect were going to have a huge shakeout in the industry with the drop in prices, and in the worst case, you could have your lease tied up in bankruptcy procedures.
But of all the details that stand between Lee County Faith, Family and Country is its motto and the natural-gas equivalent of a gold rush, the most devilish is a simple one: What they propose to do here is illegal.
David Phillips tugs the metal plate back over the gaping hole where 53 miners went down to their deaths. Now, the tunnel is filled with water that leaks in from the sluggish Deep River, hidden behind tree-shrouded banks a quarter-mile away. The mine slopes under the river, and thats how drilling for natural gas would work in these parts Fundamentally, the reason horizontal drilling is barred is that it creates a trespass, Feitshans says. Youre going under somebody elses property. Complicating the issue is that North Carolina forbids what the law calls injection of fluids into underground strata fracking. The concerns are more than theoretical.
In the 1940s and 50s, Texas drillers stole more than $100 million in oil from neighboring leaseholders using horizontal drilling, and in 1990, Kuwait was accused of stealing Iraqi oil by the same method. Other states have passed laws establishing rules for horizontal drilling, but North Carolina oil-and-gas laws date to the mid-40s when such techniques were of little concern. Even the states extraction tax, currently ½ mil per 1,000 cubic feet of gas less than a hundreth of a penny reflects the notion that natural gas would never be an economic factor in the state.
Uncertainty over whether the law will be changed is another reason wildcatters are reluctant to pay more for exploration rights. State Rep. Jimmy Love, a Sanford Democrat, has co-sponsored legislation that would clarify horizontal-drilling law and permit hydraulic fracturing. Nobody ever made a profit here coal mining, but natural gas would bring in people who recover the gas, and people who own the land might get royalties. Some places Ive heard of, thats a lot of money.
Others, though, are skeptical of a natural-gas stampede. Pending lawsuits in Pennsylvania and elsewhere contend that fracking, which injects materials such as ceramic particles to allow gas to escape from shale, can cause water and air pollution and even seismic tremors. An aborted coal-mining effort here in the 80s left scars and suspicions, Olive says. They tried surface mining and made a mess and left it. One thing I fear is that gas explorers wont stop to consider the damage that could be done.
On Plank Road, a few miles west of Sanford, Doris Swain has heard of the legal dilemma. She and husband James have leased to WhitMar 44 acres handed down from her great-grandfather. Once, she says, her father farmed these fields above the Cumnock Formation. Corn still rustles in the fall wind, and soybeans slowly brown in the fields. This company we signed with was the first to come around and sort of stirred up a lot of people. Shes 77, and her understanding of gas leases is rudimentary. A gentleman from the company went over it with us, but I dont understand it all. I know if they drill and find something, you get money from it. The devil might hide in those details, but Swain figures shes got a defense. The Lord knows all about this, and Ill just leave it in his hands.


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LTL news: ODFL expands in Indianapolis
August 19, 2011
Earlier this week, less-than-truckload (LTL) transportation services provider Old Dominion Freight Line (ODFL) broke ground on a service center expansion at its Indianapolis-based regional hub.
ODFL is committing roughly $22 million to this expansion and plans on hiring 183 new employees to work there by 2016. It will also increase the size of 122,300 square-feet location of the hub by more than 84,000 square feet from 223 doors to 325 doors, according to company officials.
ODFL Senior Vice President of Marketing, Pricing, and Strategic Development Chip Overbey told LM that ODFL has received tremendous support from the shipping community in the markets that are served by its Indianapolis facility.
"The marketplace has been very receptive to our service and value proposition," he said. "As a result, for several years now we have seen continued growth that has compounded year-over-year which was the catalyst for our expansion. As part of our normal planning and projection process we realized a couple of years ago that if our growth rate in the markets continued at the same pace, then we would need to add more capacity in the Indianapolis area and be prepared to service our client base in the future. So with the future in mind, we started the process in September of last year and began preparing to start the expansion in the second half of this year. Today, we anticipate the project to be complete around the end of October of 2012."
As for customer benefits, Overbey explained that the increased size of this facility provides more capacity for growth in the Indianapolis marketplace and should allow ODFL to continue to deploy its technology-based services to provide customers with more effective, efficient, and time-sensitive service.
This facility, he said, currently direct loads 67 percent of its network on a daily basis, and as the facility continues to grow he said ODFL has the potential to have greater speed-to-market with less risk of loss or damage.
"The facility will also have even more opportunity for the distribution of sold goods within the region and contiguous regions that have been imported into the U.S.," he said. Even with this expansion we should still have room to grow again if the market so demands."
In terms of competitive advantages this expansion provides from an ODFL perspective, Overbey cited how this expansion continues to emphasize that OD's service offerings and value proposition are being very well received. From its location in Indianapolis, he said ODFL can provide next and second day service east of the Mississippi to the eastern seaboard and at the same time it can deliver to the west coast in three to four days, from southern California to Seattle, Washington.
"We are truly a one stop-option for regional and national distribution which fits well in today's just-in-time supply chain environment," he said. "In addition we can also service our customers' NAFTA needs to Canada and Mexico as well as work with them on their imports from places like China and other countries around the world. I believe that the shipping community in the Indy market understands that we are serious about keeping the promises we have made to their supply chain as well helping them keep the promises they have made to their customers as well in the US and around the world."
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Missoula, MT (Sports Network) - The University of Montana reinstated
quarterback Jordan Johnson to the football program on Tuesday, less than a
Johnson, a 20-year-old junior from Eugene, Ore., was found not guilty on
Friday in a case involving a female UM student who accused him of raping her
on Feb. 4, 2012 as the two watched a movie at her home.
The university suspended Johnson from the football program last season, but he
appealed his return over the weekend and appeared before the UM athletic
conduct team on Monday. UM president Royce Engstrom also approved the
"He is back on the team effective immediately," the university said in a
Johnson was the starting quarterback on the 2011 Montana team which shared the
Big Sky Conference title and reached the FCS national semifinals in an 11-3
The Johnson case has been the most high-profile during a tumultous period at
the university.
UM is is under NCAA and federal investigations for the manner in which rape
allegations are handled on campus, investigated by police and prosecuted by
the Missoula County attorney's office.
Former state Supreme Court Justice Diane Barz has said her investigation found
nine alleged rapes or sexual assaults involving students occurred between
September 2010 and December 2011.
Amid the troubles on campus, UM fired athletic director Jim O'Day and head
football coach Robin Pflugrad.
Pflugrad's successor, Mick Delaney, will lead the Grizzlies through spring
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Breaking Ground for Kids!
On Tuesday, October 17, Royals third baseman Mark Teahen traded in his bat for a shovel to help break ground for the Challenger Sports Complex.
Teahen, the official spokesperson for the YMCA Challenger Division of Little League Baseball, joined Royals President Dan Glass and his wife, Penny, contributors Fred and Shirley Pryor, and Kansas City Chiefs quarterback Trent Green and his wife, Julie, for the ceremonial groundbreaking of the complex that is scheduled to be complete for the summer 2007 season.
The complex, located at the intersection of Interstate 169 and Highway 152 in Kansas City, is the result of a year-long fundraising effort by Royals Charities, the YMCA of Greater Kansas City and students from William Jewell College's Pryor Leadership Studies program to give all children the opportunity to play baseball and other sports.
The Challenger Sports Complex, which features specially designed baseball fields made with a synthetic turf playing surface to accommodate wheelchairs and other assistive devices, coincides with the efforts of the Challenger Division of Little League Baseball. Established in 1989, the Challenger Division works to remove the barriers that keep children with mental and physical disabilities off the baseball field.


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FYI ... Tyson Smith didn't make the Cowboys' 53 man roster.
Think of how stupid the average person is, and realize half of them are stupider than that. ~ George Carlin
There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year olds life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves Orcs. ~ John Rogers
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FYI ... Tyson Smith didn't make the Cowboys' 53 man roster.
DallasCowboys.com says he got picked up by Miami and placed on their practice squad.
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Minecraft creator Markus 'Notch' Persson told attendees of the GDC Indie Games Summit that the notion of piracy as being theft is incorrect.
"Piracy is not theft," said Persson during the session. "If you steal a car, the original is lost. If you copy a game, there are simply more of them in the world. There is no such thing as a 'lost sale.' Is a bad review a lost sale? What about a missed ship date?"
Persson suggested to attendees that many developers see pirates not as "inherently evil, but as potential customers." Persson also took on comments made by Nintendo's Satoru Iwata, saying that his criticism of small and rampant mobile and social games excludes the fact that games such as Minecraft are more of a service than a one-time purchase. Persson said that games such as his creation and Angry Birds are constantly adding updates and new content and that both have incredible sales numbers.
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The New Year brought at least one new Rifle business with it, as the Farm Fresh Cafe and Eagle Springs Meats opened Jan. 2 in the former Columbine Market building, 1733 Railroad Ave.
The building was purchased by Ken Sack, owner of the Eagle Springs Organic farm and ranch on Garfield County Road 346 outside Silt. The farm and ranch features organic vegetables and natural fed beef, pork, lamb and goat.
Toby Guccini oversees the new business venture, along with the ranch.
"We wanted to give the people in Rifle a new choice for a restaurant and some place to go in the winter," he said.
A sit-down delicatessen, the Farm Fresh Cafe features soups and stews made with organic vegetables and meat from the farm. The deli will have free Wi-Fi access and will cater meetings and events. It is overseen by Patty Reich, who operated Cowboy Bill's Steakhouse in New Castle.
The Eagle Springs Meats butcher shop features a big window so people can watch a butcher work on the meat they order. The shop will also offer whole animal processing for domestic livestock and wild game, Guccini said. Mark Montgomery is the head butcher.
Guccini said eight people are already working in the cafe and butcher shop, and plans call for the hiring of six or seven more to help with the deli.
"I think we could eventually have 20 to 25 people working there," he added.
Remodeling of the 60,000-square-foot building into the Eagle Springs Center began last spring, when Sack planned to include a year-round, indoor farmers market. A weekly outdoor farmers market was held last summer in the parking lot in front of the building, and Guccini said those may take place indoors this year.
The building will offer 10,000-square-feet of space for community members to sell their goods and crafts, Guccini said. Vendors, such as those with antiques, jewelry or pottery, are being sought.
"We've had a lot of interest in that," he added. "It's not going to be like what you think of as a flea market, though. We want local hobbyists who make something to come and show them off."
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The April 3 contest will be held in San Diego's PETCO Park at 7:05 p.m. PT. The game on April 4 will be hosted by the Padres' California League Affiliate, the Lake Elsinore Storm, at The Diamond in Lake Elsinore (Calif.) at 2:00 PT. The contest between the two Major League clubs will be the first of its kind at The Diamond. Lake Elsinore is 75 miles north of San Diego.


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