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AMHERST — Defense got the Amherst offense into high gear Thursday night and the Lady Comets rolled to a 53-28 victory over Midview.
It came in the second game of the annual Comet Invitational tournament and sends Amherst into tonight's 7:30 championship game with St. Joseph Academy. The Jaguars hung on for a 53-49 win over Ashtabula Lakeside in Thursday's opener. Midview (4-5) and Lakeside (2-6) square off in the 6:30 p.m. consolation game.
Amherst (6-3)took a 12-3 lead on Midview midway through the first quarter and was never seriously threatened. Two seniors starred for the Comets. They got a big defensive job from guard Brittany Cruz and a game-high 16 points from forward Bridget Beury.
"We've had a lot of alumni back at practice this week and that's a lot tougher competition," said Cruz. "We just seemed to come out and play harder. We took what we did in practice and played like that in the game. This is probably the best we've played defensively, holding them to 28 points."
Beury said she wasn't the only Comet who did well.
"We had the momentum and everybody was doing everything right," Beury said. "The defense sprung up the offense. Like Brittany said, we've been playing against college people all week and that helped us a lot."
Not only did the Amherst defense hold the Middies to 28 total points, it held them to single-digit scoring in every quarter. It also created easy scoring opportunities for the Comets, who shot more than 50 percent from the field and allowed them to control the backboards, 32-27. Amherst turned in a 16-5 second quarter for a 31-12 halftime lead. In short, the Comets could have stopped shooting at the break and won.
"We're not an offensive juggernaut by any means," said Comets coach John Rositano. "Our defense generates a lot of offense and we took away a lot of the things they wanted to do offensively. We made them force a lot of shots, and that takes a lot of pressure off you. We still have a ways to go, but I see improvement."
"They play a tough pressure defense and they bring it every game," Midview coach Kim Kauffman said of the Comets. "If you don't bring your 'A' game on offense, you're going to lose. We totally lost our composure and you saw what happened as a result of that. That's what they're known for. You have to handle it or you're going to lose."
The Middies (4-5) had no one in double figures, although Jacki Street scored nine points and Megan Snow followed with eight. They also had a strong effort from Lauren Gauvreau, who scored only two foul shots, but did well defensively.
"We look at 'Gauv' for a lot on defense and she really has that intensity," Kauffman said. "You hope that it fires the rest of the team up. She's a lot more sure of herself; she's come a long way."
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Amherst 53, Midview 28
MIDVIEW (28): Gina Laufman 0-0-0, Lauren Gauvreau 0-2-2, Megan Snow 3-2-8, Jacki Street 3-3-9, Janie Rauscher 0-0-0, Hannah Duran 0-1-1, Danielle Szpak 0-0-0, Annie Harder 1-1-3, Kelsey Voit 2-1-5, Kaylee Cromling 0-0-0. Totals: 9-10-28.
AMHERST (53): Ashley Aponte 5-0-12, Melanie Tony 1-0-2, Jenna Rositano 0-0-0, Brittany Cruz 1-0-3, Lizzie Soto 1-0-2, Angie Pellittiri 0-0-0, Bridgette Cruz 0-1-1, Olivia sliman 2-0-4, Miranda Szucs 1-0-2, Courtney Jarvis 4-3-11, Bridget Beury 7-2-16, Melissa Partyke 0-0-0, Marissa Thomas 0-0-0. Totals 22-6-53.
Midview 7 5 8 8 — 28
Amherst 15 16 12 10 — 53
Three-point goals: Midview 0-5; Amherst 3-6 (Aponte 2, Brit. Cruz). Field goals: Midview 9-44 (20.5 percent); Amherst 22-42 (52.4 percent). Free throws: Midview 10-17; Amherst 6-12. Rebounds: Midview 25; Amherst 32. Turnovers: Midview 16; Amherst 20. Fouled out: Duran.
St. Joseph 53, Lakeside 49
LAKESIDE (49): Adrianna Morris 0-0-0, Taylor Pugliese 3-6-13, Jessica Kaydo 1-0-2, Azaria Lee 1-0-2, Miranda Newsome 4-0-8, Darrah Smith 7-3-18, Chyni Coleman 2-2-6. Totals: 18-11-49.
ST. JOSEPH (53): Bridget Urban 0-0-0, Gabby Kreuz 0-0-0, Molly Lehane 5-4-16, Therese Greco 0-0-0, Claire Guzik 0-0-0, Teresa Mangan 1-2-4, Donna Friedman 0-0-0, Maggie Berry 8-0-19, Eleanor Hilow 1-0-2, Samantha Sulzer 3-3-9, Caitlin Kahler 1-1-3, Maura Heffernan 1-1-3, Leighann Larsen 0-0-0. Totals: 19-10-53.
Lakeside 6 18 11 14 — 49
St. Joseph 15 13 11 14 — 53
Three-point goals: Lakeside 2-20 (Pugliese, Smith); St. Joseph 5-16 (Berry 3, Lehane 2).. Field goals: Lakeside 18-53 (34 percent); St. Joseph 19-55 (34.6 percent). Free throws: Lakeside 11-19; St. Joseph 5-16. Rebounds: Lakeside 52; St. Joseph 43. Turnovers: Lakeside 20; St. Joseph 9.


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Beloit dancers awarded two prizes at international festival in Prague!
Eight Beloit dancers (Claire Alrich'13, Nora Anderson'13, Alissa Chen'14, Sarah Miller'15, Matthew Alan Porter'12, Amelia Tarpey'14, Lily Watkins'12, and Marilu Wiesner'14) and Professor of Dance, Chris Johnson traveled to Prague, Cz in July 2013 to participate in the week-long New Prague Dance Festival competition. The international festival was attended by dancers from all over the world including South Africa, Great Britain, Belgium, Brazil, India, Taiwan, and others from the USA, just to name a few.
Under the direction of Professor Johnson they were awarded the top prize for choreography, competing with everyone in the whole festival. They were also awarded 2nd place for contemporary dance.
The dancers performed in three concerts, presenting three works: Between the Lines and Holding Patterns, both choreographed by Johnson and Holding Patterns, choreographed by alumni Matthew Alan Porter'12 and Vivian Chen'12.
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I ultimately gave up on that quilt (it's sandwiched and basted, but I may never quilt & bind it).
But I recently found and purchased some fabric that reminded me of the fabric I'd used. Specifically, I purchased "Olivia" by Michele D'Amore for Benartex.
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I purchased the florals, solids and some panels (not the stripes).
I also went through a number of my books and read the instructions far more carefully.
Where my initial effort went wrong is that after piecing my 2.25" strips, when I went to cut the angles, I did not measure the width correctly. I remember at the time being frustrated by where I was supposed to measure. Jan Krentz' books (which had inspired me) did not explain it well, but looking again now, I found the answer in a book I've had for probably 20 years-- Amish Quiltmaker, page 112. The key is that when measuring the width of the diagonal (45 degree) strips, you measure kitty-corner, from lower left to upper right of the strip. That's where I screwed up the first time.
Other changes I'm making this time (which I've since learned HERE):
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Adrian Gonzalez spoiled Kevin Youkilis' return to Fenway Park, hitting a tiebreaking three-run homer in the eighth inning to lift the Boston Red Sox to a 5-1 win over the Chicago White Sox on Monday night.
Boston traded Youkilis on June 24, sending the three-time All-Star and cash to Chicago for utilityman Brent Lillibridge and a minor league pitcher. Youkilis went 3 for 4 with two doubles in his first game back at his longtime home.
Carl Crawford returned to Boston's lineup after missing the entire season with left elbow and wrist injuries, going 1 for 3 with a walk.
Crawford and David Ortiz opened the eighth with consecutive walks against Leyson Septimo (0-1). Gonzalez then hit a drive into the seats above the Green Monster for just his seventh homer of the season.
Vicente Padilla (3-0) worked one inning for the win, and Alfredo Aceves finished the game.
Ortiz had a walk and single, giving him 10 straight with at least one hit and a walk to set a club record. Ted Williams held the previous mark, going nine straight in 1950.
Youkilis received a warm welcome when he walked up to the plate before his first at-bat and the familiar chant of "Yooooouk" echoed throughout the 100-year- old Fenway. The burly third baseman took off his helmet, turned and waved to all corners.
He then singled up the middle against Aaron Cook. Adam Dunn followed with a grounder to second and Youkilis kept going toward an uncovered third with a shifted infield. First baseman Gonzalez then fired the ball into left for an error, allowing Youkilis to score.
Crawford singled in the bottom half and scored on Gonzalez's single to right.
Both starters were solid. Cook allowed five hits in seven innings and is 2-1 with a 1.67 ERA in four starts since coming off the disabled after getting spiked and cutting his left knee covering home plate.
Chicago's Dylan Axelrod matched his career high with eight strikeouts and yielded seven hits in 6 2-3 innings.
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If I can give one piece of advice to anyone thinking of starting a blog: call first. It takes just a few minutes to check something. Even if they refuse comment, you can always say they refused comment. Because you will look really stupid if you don't ask.
Prolific liberal blogger, union representative, and Milwaukee County Employee Chris "capper" Liebenthal levels bold allegations of "corruption" and "cronyism" against Milwaukee County Executive and gubernatorial candidate Scott Walker in a published piece at several of his blogs today, suggesting that former Deputy Chief of Staff at the county exec's office, Tim Russell, "doubled his salary" when he recently accepted the position of Director of Housing for the county's Department of Health and Human Services.
Sounds like juicy stuff, doesn't it? Juicy enough to be picked up and regurgitated as fact by several other online news outlets, including WisOpinion.com.
Here's the problem: Liebenthal made it all up. His allegations are lies and misrepresentation, masquerading as a "bombshell" revelation.
Liebenthal admits in his published writing that his allegations are nothing more than an "assumption," based on previously published salary data for Russell's predecessor. And the facts prove that Liebenthal would have to go to great lengths to be more off-the-mark.
BadgerBlogger spoke to Russell, who tells us he was never contacted by Liebenthal (or anyone else) seeking details on the salary for his new county assignment, and that, since his salary is publicly available information, he would have been happy to discuss it.
Russell tells BadgerBlogger that his Director of Housing salary, $75,866.13 – a full $37,201.00 less than that of his predecessor – dealt him a raise of $2,496.13 over his previous county exec's office salary of $73,370.00.
That's a raise of about 3.4%.
If something is "too good to check," check twice. I get juicy tips all the time that don't pan out. They're fun e-mails to read, but the stories usually fall apart with a phone call.
Bruce at Badger Blogger said the story took him less than an hour to research. I always wondered how Liebenthal, who has a supposedly full-time job at the County, had time to post on blogs as much as he does. Turns out he's got an hour to spare.


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Aug 1 (Reuters) - Citigroup Inc said on Friday it has started proceedings in commercial court in London to enforce its rights over $285 million of financing at two ports in China, where metals are believed to have gone missing.
Citigroup said it initiated the action on July 22 after a business counterparty and a Chinese warehouse provider commenced action in British courts to establish their rights.
Citigroup's disclosure, made in a quarterly financial filing with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, did not name the counterparty or the warehouse operator.
Standard Chartered, China's CITIC Resources Holdings Ltd, Shanxi Coal International Energy Group and other firms have also made legal claims over metals financing since May. That was when Chinese authorities began investigating whether a private trading firm, Decheng Mining, and its related companies, used fake warehouse receipts at Qingdao Port to obtain multiple loans secured against a single cargo of metal.
Citigroup said it has provided about $400 million of financing for metals stored at ports in China, of which $285 million was at Qingdao and Penglai, another port where fraud is suspected. The sums represent less than 1 percent of Citigroup's corporate loan portfolio.
Citigroup said it provided the financing to clients that were non-Chinese subsidiaries of large multi-national corporations and the contracts were guaranteed by the parent companies.
It said it had no direct exposure to local Chinese counterparties and did not record any losses for the financing in the second quarter.
Citigroup Chief Financial Officer John Gerspach had said on July 18 that the global bank had about $280 million of exposure in the scandal but it believed the problems were isolated and concerned "those very specific locations." (Reporting by David Henry in New York; Editing by Bernadette Baum)


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What is it about these, 'what if' scenarios that always strikes me as so odd? I'm reminded of those, 'situational ethics' schemes from the hippie era of the late 60's and 70's. (What crap that all turned out to be!) If a law enforcement official is confronted by an actor with a weapon; and that perpetrator closes to within 21 feet of him, the officer is justified to draw his weapon and fire – period! Statistically speaking, (even if the incident does get past the grand jury) once the case gets to court, there isn't a jury on the planet that's going to convict that officer.
Now, take that same officer out-of-uniform and, all of a sudden, a whole new set of legal standards suddenly applies: 'the obligation to withdraw', 'the necessity to seek a line of retreat', 'the castle doctrine', etc. Inside the United States there's clearly one set of weapon's use regulations for law enforcement, and another entirely different set of weapon's sue laws for civilians. (Even the term, 'civilian' is used derisively by many in the legal community.)
Anyone who is naïve enough to think that handing over the money is going to save himself from being injured or worse is, well, simply not paying attention to the news. Many times these guys will murder you just for the shear love of killing. (Ethnicity may, also, enter into the psychological equation.) Anytime you're threatened by an armed BG you've got a potentially lethal problem staring you right in the face; and you need to seriously consider the use of deadly force in exactly the same way that every law enforcement official is trained to respond!
I don' t want to kill anyone, either; and I, also, don't think that someone should die for $50.00 of the corporation's money; however, if my own physical well-being is being threatened by someone who's demonstrating a willingness to end my life or cause me serious bodily harm, well then, what happens next is going to happen fast; and it's going to have a lot to do with how close the BG gets to me with that weapon. Sure, I'll give warning if I'm able; but, 'talking' is not going to be tops on my list of things I need to do right now!
This said, you couldn't get me to work in any convenience store for any amount of money; I've already been in a gun shop when a group of gang bangers came into the store. Even with numerous armed individuals on both sides of the counter, that's about as thrilling as I would, ever, care to see things. When I found out that my own sister-in-law had taken a cashier's position at a local convenience store I went to see her, and convinced her to immediately quit. At first she was hesitant; but she finally agreed to do as I asked. Several months later when the place was robbed at gunpoint, she couldn't thank me enough. (and, neither could my wife!)
Several things are for certain: If you anticipate, ever, having the need to defend yourself, at the very least, you should be intimately familiar with the weapons' use laws of the local you're operating in. (Many of us are licensed to carry in numerous different states; so, yes, it IS necessary to be familiar with the laws in each state that you move through.)
Remember that, especially in places like a convenience store, everything you do will be on camera; so act accordingly. More than this we have just entered an age of real-time cell phone video and photographs; and the modern world has never been more transparent than it is right now. It is, probably, a good idea to practice the same, 'mental visualizations' about your typical daily responses as you do for weapons' drills and defense scenarios at the range.
Regardless, there is one hard fast rule that every civilian who carries a weapon should keep foremost in mind : After using a weapon, SHUT UP and let your lawyer do all the talking. Every form of modern attack entails two distinct events for which you need to be ready to defend yourself: First there is the actual physical attack, itself; and, then, there is the legal inquiry that follows and from which charges against you may result. One of the most poignant and bitter lessons of my own life is the realization that there is the real world of the street on the outside, and the contrived socio-political world that exists inside the modern courtroom. With no exceptions that I'm able to think of, the less you have to say at the scene of a shooting, or immediately afterward, the better your chances are going to be to effectively defend yourself from the legal brouhaha that is sure to follow.
Personally, I have a simple rule that I like to follow: Before I would be willing to shoot another person - for any reason - I would ask myself the distinct question, 'Is this problem REALLY worth the minimum of $10,000.00 that the first bullet I fire is sure to cost me?'
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Metaphors of warfare and the lessons of history: time to revisit a carbon tax?
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NEWSFLASH: Teens don't want the iPhone! Parents beware! The Microsoft Surface and Samsung Galaxy phones are the new "it" things! Apple has lost its cool factor!!!
That's what the Buzz Marketing Group, an organization that seeks to provide "lifestyle and buzz marketing services for brands seeking to attract teen audiences," wants you to think. You may have recently seen some headlines from big sites saying that teens think Apple is uncool now.
As my British boss Leander Kahney would say, that's absolute bollocks.


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May 1, 2009
In today's outrage culture, everything from the cute guy getting dumped from "American Idol" to AIG bonuses inspires some segment to start waving pitchforks.
The latest apparent atrocity is "beat-sweeteners," supposedly saccharine stories about officials whom reporters routinely cover in a naked attempt to curry favor. Esteemed writers Matthew Yglesias of the liberal group Think Progress, Timothy Noah of Slate and Michael Calderone of Politico have all decried the practice, which often commences with a new White House administration.
There's certainly a good argument to be made against getting too cozy with sources and for writing hard-charging, issue-driven pieces. There's no better example of that than business reporters who, by and large, managed to completely miss the meltdown of our financial system. We need investigative journalism now more than ever, especially as newspapers are folding in Michigan and all over the country.
But beat-sweeteners aren't necessarily incongruous with that; adept journalists know how to do hard and soft stories. They also aren't the death knell of journalism. And they serve a purpose, though not what the outraged may think.
First of all, less articulate critics in the blogosphere seem to confuse any profile with a beat-sweetener. If the point of said story is to butter up a source, tracking down her first-grade teacher, the opponent in her first election and her bitter ex-husband for a 10,000-word piece seems like an awful lot of trouble to go through. Ditto for following the subject around for days or weeks at a time and transcribing hours of tape. A long-form profile contains plenty of warts, like the one I did on Senate Majority Leader Mike Bishop for Dome in March ("Bishop Was Born to Run"). I doubt he thought Michigan Democratic Party Chair Mark Brewer's quote calling him "far and away the worst legislative leader in the modern history of the state" was very sweet.
And nowadays, when there are too few in-depth stories and an abundance of info-graphs in magazines and newspapers, I think trying to get inside the heads of the folks who run our state, country and corporations is admirable. Plenty of those stories — especially by scribes maligned with the beat-sweetener stigma like the The New Yorker's Ryan Lizza or the The New Republic's Noam Scheiber — are beautifully written. Eloquence is often the first casualty of the 24/7 online news cycle. For a snob like me, it's a welcome change to read a layered, polished, well-sourced piece instead of the barely decipherable, all-caps rants that pass for political commentary on many websites.
In contrast, beat-sweeteners are short, peppy looks at a notable person, peppered with positive quotes from a colleague or two. They're fairly popular in small newspapers, though not because reporters are sucking up. Often there's a directive from management or the writer is inexperienced or that's just the way things are done at Ye Olde Town Courier. There are plenty of puff pieces on Lansing and D.C. politicos, too, and many of them are not particularly well-written. Those that ignore controversies or fail to include even one other source may seem particularly useless, only providing a scrapbook page for the subject's mother.
But even the most banal often contain an interesting anecdote or two. Jennifer Granholm reminisces about door-knocking for Jerry Ford. White House Press Secretary Robert Gibbs gives a behind-the-scenes look at the implosion of Tom Daschle's cabinet nomination. These stories humanize people and give some insight into their psyches. They can show how the sausage is made. That serves the public well.
As for the idea that beat-sweeteners will buy reporters goodwill, that presumes a healthy level of naiveté for both reporter and source. Veteran newsman Jack Lessenberry has written a couple glossy profiles of former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick. He also penned a number of acidic columns, likening Hizzoner to "Bart Simpson trying to be a gangsta pimp." Evidently, Kwame's posse wasn't sufficiently charmed by Jack's profiles and slandered him as a member of a racist "lynch mob."
Likewise, my profile on Bishop won me some kudos from Republicans and snipes from liberals, who conveniently forgot my dozen-odd acerbic columns on the Senate leader. Trust me, his allies haven't forgotten, as they frequently accost me, whether I'm covering the Senate or grabbing a drink at the Exchange. This is nothing new. I found that out the hard way after I wrote a sweet story on a little old lady quilter for a small Michigan daily. After I profiled another seamstress, I got an earful from the first, trash-talking her rival's stitching skills and my journalistic integrity.
But I'm a big girl and get that this comes with the territory.
Years ago, when partisan blogs were popping up all over the place, I expected to see plenty of beat-sweetener-type profiles. After all, you'd think sympathetic bloggers could get access, especially since many of them do work for politicians and parties anyway. Officials always want to get out their message, and this would be a great way to do that. I've spotted some fawning Q&As on Michigan blogs and, of course, the ever-popular practice of letting legislators post their video press releases (great journalism, that). But profiles are nonexistent.
Why? Even the one-source beat-sweetener takes work — transcribing quotes, composing a narrative, maybe throwing in some analysis. Rants are easy and fun. And you don't need to be a journalist to pound them out. Writing eight lyrical pages on Budget Director Peter Orszag, as Lizza just did, is frankly above the average blogger's pay grade.
Personally, I love writing profiles on people I know nothing about or disagree with politically. I am a journalist because I am insatiably curious and want to uncover what makes someone tick. That also helps me better cover issues, because I know where someone is coming from. Too often in politics, people dismiss one another based on ideology and forget that they're dealing with actual human beings.
The easiest thing in the world is to write sycophantic sonnets on people with whom you agree. Now what I'd love to see is a right-wing citizen journalist throw himself into writing a detailed personality profile of Gov. Granholm. After hearing about her kids' science projects and vacations with the family pup, I bet it would be harder to blast her as a baby-killing, tax-hiking machine in every other sentence.
Contrary to the old adage, familiarity can breed respect. Not that we'd want that in politics, of course.
Susan J. Demas is a 2006 Knight Foundation Fellow in nonprofits journalism and a political analyst for Michigan Information & Research Service.


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LORAIN — In baseball, setting the table, finding ways to score and keeping your opponent off the board guarantee success.
Amherst did just that Saturday in sweeping Lorain in a non-conference doubleheader at The Pipe Yard. The Comets shut out the Titans 7-0 and 6-0 to improve to 9-2. Lorain fell to 5-4.
"I just try to get on base as much as I can," said Amherst leadoff hitter Rees Rua, who had three hits, five stolen bases and scored three runs. "I do what I can for the team. I just try to make contact, hit the ball square and as soon as I hit it, take off."
"Rees has been great all year," Amherst coach Matt Rositano said. "Last year we didn't really have a lead-off-type hitter. It's nice to have Rees hit from both sides of the plate. He's fast, he can lay down a bunt. It seems like he's always on base."
Rua got Amherst off and flying as the Comets scored twice in the first inning of both games. It set the stage for the sweep. Amherst stole seven bases in the first game and eight in the second.
Alex Walts and Joe Masters each drove in a pair of runs in the opener and Masters came right back to slap a two-run single in the second game as well.
"I thought this morning, right off the bat, we came out flat," Lorain coach Brad Ternes said. "We didn't have the intensity we needed to play against a good team like Amherst and they capitalized. When you make a mistake and you give an extra out, they're going to take advantage."
Anytime Lorain got something started, a double play or strikeout would stop any rally before it materialized. Two double plays took the Titans out of scoring chances in the fourth and fifth innings of the second game.
"We never got a key hit," Ternes said. "We had a couple opportunities where we got guys on base but we couldn't capitalize. They made the plays when they needed to."
Amherst's pitchers limited Lorain to only five hits in the two games. As a staff, the Comets struck out 16 and walked only one.
Shane Derricotte and Nick DeJesus each picked up their second wins of the year. Derricotte fanned four in three innings in the first game while DeJesus racked up five strikeouts over the first three innings of the second.
Masters, Casey McConihe, Andrew Woods, Carl Haberstro and Justin Mott all saw action out of the bullpen and kept the shutouts intact. Masters struck out five in two innings.
"That's kind of what we've been looking for the whole year," Rositano said.
"Our pitchers are going to throw strikes. We're not really high strikeout guys and we have to play good defense behind them. It was nice to see because the past couple years, we haven't really played well at The Pipe Yard."
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"Is my copy of Guild Wars 2 tied to my region?
Yes. To play from North America you must purchase a North American copy of the game. To play from Europe you must purchase a European copy of the game. Note that this restriction impacts where you can play from, not which game worlds you can choose to play on.
By purchasing the correct copy of the game, you're supporting the game in your country, and you'll be connecting to your local data center, using your local customer support team, and downloading the correct language support for your country.
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First, if you purchase the game from https://buy.guildwars2.com/ you'll automatically be sorted into the right region.
And don't worry -- we want you to play with your friends wherever you are. This policy only affects where you can login from -- not which worlds you can access. People from NA will be able to play with people from EU at launch. We've got two datacenters -- one in NA and one in EU. Those who do not fall into either of those two regions will default to the NA datacenter.
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HAMILTON, Miss. (WCBI) – A train wreck in Hamilton this afternoon has left one man injured and residents upset about another train accident.
A train collided with a Chevy Malibu at Stovall Crossing Road in Hamilton around 12:30 Thursday afternoon. First responders believe 50-year old Jessie Thomas' car was stalled on the track. The crossing was closed for several hours, causing residents to use an alternate route.
"Traffic will have to re-route itself for about 10 miles back around to a rock road, which is more inconvenient right now than it would be if it was paved," says Bernard Smith, a long-time Hamilton resident.
Monroe County authorities say Thomas just recently moved from New York to Hamilton and may not have been aware of his surroundings. Some Hamilton residents say this intersection has always been dangerous.
"You really have to look both ways when you get to this track and several people have gotten hurt. Several people have gotten killed on this track," says Laverne Lindsey, a Hamilton resident for many years.
"Since I've lived in Stovall bottom several accidents have happened at this very crossing and we haven't been aggressive enough as far as getting a light at this exit," says Smith.
Residents say they'd like to see some changes made at the track.
"Railroad crossings with flashing lights and let us know when the train is coming so that we can make the proper adjustments to stop and take our time," says Lindsey.
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March 5, 2014 (Newswire.com) - CF Word Factory, a Florida-based company whose combined experience in corporate communication and digital media spans over 25 years, has introduced an end-to-end corporate identity solution that enables companies to swiftly brand and go to market with Fortune 500-level messaging, web content, advertising collateral, and video production, including commercials and promos.
CF Word Factory is led by Managing Partners Conchie Fernandez and Dave Craig. Ms. Fernandez is an author and business development expert with 25+ years of experience in corporate communication, sales and marketing for the likes of Microsoft, HP and American Airlines. Mr. Craig is a digital media expert, producer and commercial editor with over 10 years of expertise at The Tennis Channel and The NFL Network in California. The partners created the company to fill an important niche in the market: producing content for startups.
"Larger companies have in-house writers, but smaller ones rarely do, and they struggle with the right messaging to formulate credible content," Ms. Fernandez said. " As a small company, we are deeply committed to enabling others to find affordable solutions to get to market quickly, and with high-caliber quality."
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In Honor Of Gangnam Style, Let's Remember Our Other Favorite Forgotten Dance Trends
In the six months since it's release, Korean pop star PSY's "Gangnam Style" dance (featured in his song of the same name) has become an international sensation. Not only was it unquestionably the highlight of American Music Awards, but it's also the most viewed video on YouTube and easily the most popular dance of the year. Only, this isn't the first time a dance craze has swept the nation. If it was, what else would we be doing at Sweet 16's?
While shouting "heyyyyyy, sexy lady" and pretending to ride an invisible donkey is all the rage right now, will this dance stand the test of time like the "YMCA?" And given the recent discovery of Psy's anti-American lyrics from the early 00s, will Gangnam Style be forced to fade into the black hole of dance crazes like these old favorites did?:
"Macarena" by Los Del Rio is one of the most well known songs from the '90s, and the dance that went along with it is easily one of the greatest there is. Unfortunately kids these days just don't understand the magic of the Macarena, and it's power faded with the '90s. I vote we bring this one back!
Soulja Boy
"Crank That (Soulja Boy)" by Soulja Boy was released in 2007 and quickly became the favorite of "hip" high schoolers everywhere. I'm pretty impressed that Soulja Boy was smart enough to name his dance after himself. Even if people forget who he is completely, the dance might fare a bit better.
Cha Cha Slide
Once upon a time the "Cha Cha Slide" was the dance. Unfortunately for it's creator, DJ Casper, that's no longer the case. While the line "freeze! Everybody clap your hands" is a personal favorite, it appears as though middle schoolers are far more interested in learning to dance like Justin Bieber than being told what to do. Do I dare even mention it's predecessor, the "Electric Slide?"
Stanky Legg
This dance makes me all kinds of uncomfortable. Or maybe it's the name. Probably a little bit of both. Released in 2009 by GS Boyz (who?), the "Stanky Legg" involves a series of strange leg movements combined with "doing the booty-dew." Not too sure what that means but since this dance disappeared it looks like I'll never have to. Phew!
The Dougie
While the Cali Swag District song "Teach Me How To Dougie" isn't played too much, the dance might actually have some serious staying power. At least to be done sporadically at sporting events.
The Harlem Shake
Anybody see a dance in this? Seriously, anyone? This one just looks like a well done seizure to me.
Chicken Noodle Soup
I never mastered the Chicken Noodle Soup dance, but that's probably for the best.
Cotton-Eyed Joe
Although the original version of "Cotton-Eyed Joe" was released in the 80s, it wasn't until super classy 90s band Rednex released their dance version of the song that it became a worldwide phenomenon. The original line dance isn't even featured in the music video, and neither is the intricate heel-toe version popular at Sweet 16's. Here's what I consider the most popular version of this mysterious dance:
Lest we forget…The Carlton
What do you think? Will PSY's Gangnam Style dance go the way of the YMCA—busted out late nights at bat mitzvahs—or way of the Electric Slide…forgotten?
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Ubisoft finally unveiled their latest entry in the long running Assassin's Creed franchise. For a moment I thought they would wait for E3, but maybe they're prepping for early announcements for one of two things: they want to get the hype-train rolling and chugging down the railway of Dorito-enforced tracks, or... they're prepping for a annual double dipping. You know, a new Assassin's Creed every six months, perhaps? Let's hope it's the latter because I would love to see how gamers would adapt to a completely over-saturated market.
There was also still a lot of Titanfall in the news, as Respawn and Electronic Arts iron out the kinks and get everything up and in working order. Also, in a very not-so-surprising twist in news, both Electronic Arts and Microsoft have been nominated for the Worst Company in America award, courtesy of The Consumerist. This is big news for both companies, as they've done quite a bit to piss off a large portion of their respective audiences. The question is: did EA do enough to rectify their image coming out of a turbulent 2013? Or did Microsoft apologize enough to recover the fumble that was the Summer of DRM? I guess we'll find out. These stories and more in this March 22nd, 2014 edition of the Gaming Blend Weekly Recap.
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The cost of living is too high these days which is why this week I'm letting you now how to live like a low down dirty cheap scoundrel like myself. Take notes, honey.
Aries, Leo and Sagittarius:
The best things in life are free but free costs too damn much. That's why you need to stop spending all of your money acting like you're a star in the club and go be a real star at the 99 cents discount store. That's right it's time to downgrade but I really call it an upgrade when you can furnish your home for the same cost of a happy meal. Bargain!
Capricorn, Taurus and Virgo:
The rent is too damn high and you need more space than that expensive studio apartment you're living in. Sure, you're in a supposedly upscale neighborhood but child it's only a block away from the projects. So who is the foolish one? It's time to get a move on.
Libra, Aquarius and Gemini:
We all have vices but yours are the expensive kind, my dear. The kind that you try to cross out on your cable bill before your mate finds out what's been keeping you up all night in the living room with a bottle of lubrication. Mmmmhmmm. Now ain't nothing wrong with a little vice here and there but when it's bad for your pockets then it's a really bad habit.
Cancer, Scorpio and Pisces:
When it comes to budgeting you're like MC Hammer-too broke to quit. Yes, it's good to be there for everybody but not when that means you're one expense away from bankruptcy. So stop spending frivolously on others before you lose your own fabulosity.
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This chapter provides an introduction to Oracle Data Integrator, the technical architecture, and the contents of this Getting Started guide.
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A widely used data integration software product, Oracle Data Integrator provides a new declarative design approach to defining data transformation and integration processes, resulting in faster and simpler development and maintenance. Based on a unique E-LT architecture (Extract - Load Transform), Oracle Data Integrator not only guarantees the highest level of performance possible for the execution of data transformation and validation processes but is also the most cost-effective solution available today.
Oracle Data Integrator provides a unified infrastructure to streamline data and application integration projects.
In today's increasingly fast-paced business environment, organizations need to use more specialized software applications; they also need to ensure the coexistence of these applications on heterogeneous hardware platforms and systems and guarantee the ability to share data between applications and systems. Projects that implement these integration requirements need to be delivered on-spec, on-time and on-budget.
Oracle Data Integrator employs a powerful declarative design approach to data integration, which separates the declarative rules from the implementation details. Oracle Data Integrator is also based on a unique E-LT (Extract - Load Transform) architecture which eliminates the need for a standalone ETL server and proprietary engine, and instead leverages the inherent power of your RDBMS engines. This combination provides the greatest productivity for both development and maintenance, and the highest performance for the execution of data transformation and validation processes.
Here are the key reasons why companies choose Oracle Data Integrator for their data integration needs:
Faster and simpler development and maintenance: The declarative rules driven approach to data integration greatly reduces the learning curve of the product and increases developer productivity while facilitating ongoing maintenance. This approach separates the definition of the processes from their actual implementation, and separates the declarative rules (the "what") from the data flows (the "how").
Data quality firewall: Oracle Data Integrator ensures that faulty data is automatically detected and recycled before insertion in the target application. This is performed without the need for programming, following the data integrity rules and constraints defined both on the target application and in Oracle Data Integrator.
Better execution performance: traditional data integration software (ETL) is based on proprietary engines that perform data transformations row by row, thus limiting performance. By implementing an E-LT architecture, based on your existing RDBMS engines and SQL, you are capable of executing data transformations on the target server at a set-based level, giving you much higher performance.
Simpler and more efficient architecture: the E-LT architecture removes the need for an ETL Server sitting between the sources and the target server. It utilizes the source and target servers to perform complex transformations, most of which happen in batch mode when the server is not busy processing end-user queries.
Platform Independence: Oracle Data Integrator supports all platforms, hardware and OSs with the same software.
Data Connectivity: Oracle Data Integrator supports all RDBMSs including all leading Data Warehousing platforms such as Oracle, Exadata, Teradata, IBM DB2, Netezza, Sybase IQ and numerous other technologies such as flat files, ERPs, LDAP, XML.
Cost-savings: the elimination of the ETL Server and ETL engine reduces both the initial hardware and software acquisition and maintenance costs. The reduced learning curve and increased developer productivity significantly reduce the overall labor costs of the project, as well as the cost of ongoing enhancements.
The Oracle Data Integrator platform integrates in the broader Fusion Middleware platform and becomes a key component of this stack. Oracle Data Integrator provides its run-time components as Java EE applications, enhanced to fully leverage the capabilities of the Oracle WebLogic Application Server. Oracle Data Integrator components include exclusive features for Enterprise-Scale Deployments, high availability, scalability, and hardened security. Figure 1-1 shows the ODI component architecture.
The central component of the architecture is the Oracle Data Integrator Repository. It stores configuration information about the IT infrastructure, metadata of all applications, projects, scenarios, and the execution logs. Many instances of the repository can coexist in the IT infrastructure, for example Development, QA, User Acceptance, and Production. The architecture of the repository is designed to allow several separated environments that exchange metadata and scenarios (for example: Development, Test, Maintenance and Production environments). The repository also acts as a version control system where objects are archived and assigned a version number.
The Oracle Data Integrator Repository is composed of one Master Repository and several Work Repositories. Objects developed or configured through the user interfaces are stored in one of these repository types.
There is usually only one master repository that stores the following information:
Security information including users, profiles and rights for the ODI platform
Topology information including technologies, server definitions, schemas, contexts, languages and so forth.
Versioned and archived objects.
The work repository is the one that contains actual developed objects. Several work repositories may coexist in the same ODI installation (for example, to have separate environments or to match a particular versioning life cycle). A Work Repository stores information for:
Models, including schema definition, datastores structures and metadata, fields and columns definitions, data quality constraints, cross references, data lineage and so forth.
Projects, including business rules, packages, procedures, folders, Knowledge Modules, variables and so forth.
Scenario execution, including scenarios, scheduling information and logs.
When the Work Repository contains only the execution information (typically for production purposes), it is then called an Execution Repository.
Administrators, Developers and Operators use the Oracle Data Integrator Studio to access the repositories. This Fusion Client Platform (FCP) based UI is used for administering the infrastructure (security and topology), reverse-engineering the metadata, developing projects, scheduling, operating and monitoring executions.
ODI Studio provides four Navigators for managing the different aspects and steps of an ODI integration project:
Designer Navigator is used to design data integrity checks and to build transformations such as for example:
Automatic reverse-engineering of existing applications or databases
Graphical development and maintenance of transformation and integration interfaces
Visualization of data flows in the interfaces
Automatic documentation generation
Customization of the generated code
Operator Navigator is the production management and monitoring tool. It is designed for IT production operators. Through Operator Navigator, you can manage your interface executions in the sessions, as well as the scenarios in production.
Topology Navigator is used to manage the data describing the information system's physical and logical architecture. Through Topology Navigator you can manage the topology of your information system, the technologies and their datatypes, the data servers linked to these technologies and the schemas they contain, the contexts, the languages and the agents, as well as the repositories. The site, machine, and data server descriptions will enable Oracle Data Integrator to execute the same integration interfaces in different physical environments.
Security Navigator is the tool for managing the security information in Oracle Data Integrator. Through Security Navigator you can create users and profiles and assign user rights for methods (edit, delete, etc) on generic objects (data server, datatypes, etc), and fine-tune these rights on the object instances (Server 1, Server 2, and so forth).
Oracle Data Integrator also provides a Java API for performing all these run-time and design-time operations. This Oracle Data Integrator Software Development Kit (SDK) is available for standalone Java applications and application servers.
At design time, developers generate scenarios from the business rules that they have designed. The code of these scenarios is then retrieved from the repository by the Run-Time Agent. This agent then connects to the data servers and orchestrates the code execution on these servers. It retrieves the return codes and messages for the execution, as well as additional logging information – such as the number of processed records, execution time and so forth - in the Repository.The Agent comes in two different flavors:
The Java EE Agent can be deployed as a web application and benefit from the features of an application server.
The Standalone Agent runs in a simple Java Machine and can be deployed where needed to perform the integration flows.
Both these agents are multi-threaded java programs that support load balancing and can be distributed across the information system. This agent holds its own execution schedule which can be defined in Oracle Data Integrator, and can also be called from an external scheduler. It can also be invoked from a Java API or a web service interface.
Business users (as well as developers, administrators and operators), can have read access to the repository, perform topology configuration and production operations through a web based UI called Oracle Data Integrator Console. This web application can deployed in a Java EE application server such as Oracle WebLogic.
To manage and monitor the Java EE and Standalone Agents as well as the ODI Console, Oracle Data Integrator provides a new plug-in that integrates in Oracle Fusion Middleware Control Console.
Table 1-1 summarizes the contents of this guide.
Table 1-1 Content Summary
|This chapter
|Describes how to...
Chapter 2, "Installing Oracle Data Integrator and the Demonstration Environment"
Install Oracle Data Integrator and the demonstration environment
Chapter 3, "Working with the ETL Project"
Provides an introduction to the demonstration environment delivered with Oracle Data Integrator Studio
Chapter 4, "Starting Oracle Data Integrator"
Start the demonstration environment and Oracle Data Integrator Studio
Chapter 5, "Implementing Data Quality Control"
Implement data quality control
Chapter 6, "Working with Integration Interfaces"
Create and work with integration interfaces in Oracle Data Integrator
Chapter 7, "Working with Packages"
Create and work with Packages in Oracle Data Integrator
Chapter 8, "Executing Your Developments and Reviewing the Results"
Execute your developments, follow the execution, and interpret the execution results
Chapter 9, "Deploying Integrated Applications"
Run an ODI Package automatically in a production environment
Chapter 10, "Going Further with Oracle Data Integrator"
Perform advanced tasks with Oracle Data Integrator
This chapter describes how to work with integration interfaces in Oracle Data Integrator. The demonstration environment includes several example interfaces. In this chapter you learn how to create the following interfaces:
Pop.TRG_CUSTOMER integration interface: This interface loads the data from the SRC_CUSTOMER table in the Orders Application - HSQL model into the TRG_CUSTOMER target table in the Sales Administration - HSQL model.
Pop.TRG_SALES integration interface: This interface loads the data from the SRC_ORDERS table and from the SRC_ORDER_LINES table in the Orders Application - HSQL model into the TRG_SALES target table in the Sales Administration - HSQL model.
This chapter includes the following sections:
This section contains the following topics:
This section describes the integration features and requirements the integration interface Pop. TRG_CUSTOMER is expected to meet.
The purpose of the Pop. TRG_CUSTOMER interface is to load the data from the SRC_CUSTOMER table in the Orders Application - HSQL model into the TRG_CUSTOMER target table in the Sales Administration - HSQL model.
However, the SRC_CUSTOMER table does not contain all of the data that is required for this operation. The following information has to be added to the target table:
The age range (AGE_RANGE) that is defined in the SRC_AGE_GROUP flat file in the Parameters - FILE model corresponds to the AGE attribute in the source table.
The last and first names of the customer sales rep. (LAST_NAME and FIRST_NAME) that is defined in the SRC_SALES_PERSON file in the Parameters - FILE model correspond to the sales rep. number (SALES_PERS_ID) in the source table.
The transformed value of the numeric data (0, 1, 2) from the DEAR column in the source table into an standard salutation text string in the target (Mr, Mrs, or Ms).
The concatenated first and last names of the source customers.
The source data is not always consistent with the integrity rules implemented in the target environment. For this interface, the data has to be cleansed by verifying that all constraints are satisfied and by storing invalid rows in an error table rather than in our target database. In this example, two important integrity rules must be satisfied:
Customers must be older than 21 (condition AGE > 21)
The customers must be associated with a city (CITY_ID) that exists in the TRG_CITY table (reference FK_CUST_CITY)
The functional details for these rules and the procedure to follow are given in Section 6.1.3, "Creating the Integration Interface".
This section describes the integration interface Pop. TRG_CUSTOMER that will be created in this example. See Section 6.1.3, "Creating the Integration Interface" for more information.
The Pop. TRG_CUSTOMER interface uses the following data and transformations:
One target datastore. Table 6-1 lists the details of the target datastore.
Three source datastores. Table 6-2 lists the details of the source datastores.
Table 6-2 Source Datastore Details of Pop. TRG_CUSTOMER
Orders Application - HSQL
Customers in the source system
HSQL table
Parameters - FILE
Age bracket file
File delimited by semicolons
Parameters - FILE
Salesperson file
File of fixed-size records
One join. Table 6-3 lists the details of the join.
One lookup table. Table 6-4 lists the details of the lookup table.
Several transformation rules. Table 6-5 lists the details of the transformation rules.
Table 6-5 Transformation Rules used in Pop. TRG_CUSTOMER
|Target Column
|SQL Rule
|Execution Location
If SRC_CUSTOMER.DEAR = 0 then 'MR'
If SRC_CUSTOMER.DEAR = 1 then 'MRS' else 'MS'
Concatenation of SRC_CUSTOMER.FIRST_NAME and SRC_CUSTOMER.LAST_NAME in upper case
Staging area
Concatenation of SRC_SALES_PERSON.FIRST_NAME and SRC_SALES_PERSON.LAST_NAME in uppercase
Staging area
Today's date
Today's date
This section describes how to create the Pop. TRG_CUSTOMER integration interface. To create the Pop. TRG_CUSTOMER interface perform the following procedure:
To create a new integration interface:
In Designer Navigator, expand the Demo project node in the Projects accordion.
Expand the Sales Administration node.
In the Sales Administration folder, right-click the Interfaces node and select New Interface as shown in Figure 6-1.
The Interface Editor is displayed.
On the Definition tab of the Interface Editor, enter the name of your interface (Pop. TRG_CUSTOMER) in the Name field as shown in Figure 6-2.
The target datastore is the element that will be loaded by the interface.
To insert the target datastore in the Pop. TRG_CUSTOMER interface:
Go to the Mapping tab of the Interface Editor.
The Mapping tab displays in the interface diagram as shown in Figure 6-3.
In the Designer Navigator, expand the Models accordion and the Sales Administration - HSQL model.
Select the TRG_CUSTOMER datastore under the Sales Administration - HSQL model and drag it into the Target Datastore panel as shown in Figure 6-4.
The source datastores contain data used to load the target datastore. Two types of datastores can be used as an interface source: datastores from the models and temporary datastores that are the target of an interface. This example uses datastores from the Orders Application - HSQL and Parameters - FILE models.
To add source datastores to the Pop. TRG_CUSTOMER interface:
In the Mapping tab, drag the following source datastores into the Source Diagram:
SRC_CUSTOMER from the Orders Application - HSQL model
SRC_SALES_PERSON from the Parameters - FILE model
The Mapping tab of your Interface Editor should look like shown in Figure 6-5.
The Automap Dialog appears as shown in Figure 6-6.
Click Yes to confirm the use of automatic field to field mapping by Oracle Data Integrator. The automatic mapping is performed when you drop a source datastore in the Source Diagram.
This section describes how to create a lookup that defines that the customer's age must be between the minimum and maximum ages in the file.
A lookup is a datastore (from a model or the target datastore of an interface) - called the lookup table - associated to a source datastore - the driving table - via a join expression and from which data can be fetched and used in mappings.
Lookup tables are added with the Lookup Wizard.
To create a lookup in the Pop. TRG_CUSTOMER interface:
From the Source Diagram toolbar menu, select Add a new Lookup as shown in Figure 6-7.
The Lookup Wizard opens.
In the Lookup Wizard, select SRC_CUSTOMER(SRC_CUSTOMER) from the Driving Table list.
Note that source datastores for the current diagram appear here and that lookups do not appear in the list.
From the Lookup Table pane select the SRC_AGE_GROUP datastore from the Parameters - FILE model on the Datastores tab.
The SRC_AGE_GROUP datastore will be used as a lookup table.
Figure 6-8 shows the first screen of the Lookup Wizard.
Click Next.
On the left pane, select the AGE source column from the driving table.
On the right pane, select the AGE_MIN column of the lookup table.
Click Join. The join condition appears in the Lookup condition text field as shown in Figure 6-9.
In the Options section, select Staging for the execution location.
Click Launch the Expression Editor and modify the lookup condition as follows:
Replace the equals sign (
=) with the string
Add the following string at the end of the expression:
and SRC_AGE_GROUP.AGE_MAX
This adds the AGE_MAX column from the SRC_AGE_GROUP datastore.
You should have the following join expression:
SRC_CUSTOMER.AGE between SRC_AGE_GROUP.AGE_MIN and SRC_AGE_GROUP.AGE_MAX
This corresponds to a join between the SRC_CUSTOMER and the SRC_AGE_GROUP datastore and defines that the customer's age must between the minimum and maximum ages in the file. Figure 6-10 shows the Expression Editor with the lookup condition.
In the Expression Editor, click OK.
The modified lookup condition appears in the Lookup Wizard as shown in Figure 6-11.
Click Finish.
The Source Diagram appears as shown in Figure 6-12.
Note:If references were already defined in the models to link the source datastores, these references would have appeared automatically as joins in the source diagram.
This section describes how to define a join between the source datastores.
To create the join defined in Table 6-3:
In the Source Diagram, select the SALES_PERS_ID column of the SRC_CUSTOMER datastore.
Drag and drop it on the SALES_PERS_ID column of the SRC_SALES_PERSON datastore. A join linking the two datastores appears as shown in Figure 6-13. This is the join on the sales representative identifier.
In the Target Datastore panel of your interface, columns with names that match their sources are automatically mapped. The automatic mapping is done by the matching of the column names. Most of the transformation rules listed in Table 6-5 have been defined by the automatic mapping. In addition to this automatic mappings, you have to define the transformation rules for the following fields: CUST_ID, DEAR, CUST_NAME, AGE_RANGE, SALES_PERS, CRE_DATE and UPD_DATE.
The transformation rules, also called mappings, are defined on the target column.
CUST_ID Mapping
The CUST_ID mapping maps the SRC_CUSTOMER.CUSTID source column to the TRG_CUSTOMER.CUST_ID target column. Note that these 2 columns have not been automatically mapped, since their names are slightly different.
To define the mapping for the CUST_ID target column:
In the Source Diagram, select the CUSTID column in the SRC_CUSTOMER datastore.
Drag it into the Mapping field in the Target Datastore panel as shown in Figure 6-14.


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Oxford United have completed a deal to keep on-loan Stoke City striker George Waring at the League Two club until the end of the season.
The 21-year-old arrived on a one-month emergency loan and has made seven league appearances for the U's.
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Help me pick a wakesurf board
Hi, I am trying to select a wakesurf board, but being in the UK, the choice is pretty much the main wakeboard companies only, ie hyperlite, liquid force, cwb! Obrien. There is even less chance trying before you buy.
I just missed out on a 2011 byerly hazard, which I think, would have been ideal,.....
I weigh 75kg (165lbs) surf style as opposed to skim board style is my thing. any suggestions greatly appreciated..
Get in touch with Soulcraft Jeff is a great guy and will treat you right
Airbaze is on your side of the pond. Supposedly their "next" is an awesome board. You could also check out Shred Stixx, The Walker Project or maybe just go to towanza.com and get a board shipped from them as they have a nice selection.
Your best bet would be to buy online and ger it shipped. But if you really want to buy local, for surf style check out liquid force more than the other brands.
The hazard is a skim board masquerading as a surf board. I would generally suggest one of the more established surf companies, like shred stixx, walker, IS, etc., but in-country is going to be the most cost effective approach even though selection will be highly limited. Shipping for a board from the US to the UK will be between $200-300 on average. Some companies will ship overseas, some will not. For instance, Inland will not directly, but a dealer/distributor like Slayshtank or towanza will ship internationally.
JS, I dont think Towanza sells Shred Stixx, Walker Project, or Airbaze anymore since they merged with Boardco
I never post here, largely because I am a retailer thus everything I say is biased.
I have to correct Mitch's assumption driven posts however. He means well and is just trying to help, he's just inaccurate. Working hard on web site changes which is likely the contributor, sorry Mitch. We still carry all the brands Mitch listed, and much more; just like all quality retailers can help you in your board selection Ally. If you don't see what you want on towanza.com, then we have it next to us and we're taking pictures for the site right now - available to ship immediately. You can also always call 800.568.7034 to talk to a person.
Nick is spot on, including the shipping destinations. Thank you for the continued support - and I'm glad to see Walker World is alive and kicking.
Surf's up!
Sorry about that Todd. I didnt know
No Worries Mitch - Give me a call next time, you've got my #.
On another note, I must have said CMS and CalMarineSports over the mic more last weekend than you have this season! The CMS Pro Wake Surf team was down in FL and throwing down! Good stuff, great team man!
Hijack over!
You should definately check our AIRBAZE boards out. I would recommend the 4'7". The boards are fast and easy to learn tricks like 360's, 720's reverses, airs... anything you want check out our website. We ship to the UK (and worldwide).
The airbaze boards look great, just start to get a little pricey for me when you have to add the traction pad and shipping . I am liking the look of the inland surfer blue lakes, seem to be getting pretty solid reviews
Blue lake is like a big barn door. Stable, but boring.
Todd, haha thanks! We are pumped on our team. They are a fun group.
The comp in Florida looked amazing. You guys did a great job. I wish I could have come out.
Okay, I can get an airbaze next or inland surfer swallow for pretty similar money.
Does anybody have any knowledge of these two boards and be able to help me
make a decision as to which to go for.
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I'm just too curious to sit behind a desk working for a dream job. I quit. I decided that curiosity and creativity should be the only two driving forces of my life. I quit. I'm the owner of a documentaries film production start-up and I like it.
I'm currently onto a journey that will bring me from Bangladesh to Armenia. One of the goal is to write a travel novel on woman solo travel in Central Asia. Like what Ella Maillart did during the 20s and 30s. Depsite Internet and all the travel facilities we have today, I still think that understaking such a long travel can be called adventures. For now, I'm just wandering around some roads, exploring and appreciating this wonderful feeling of lightness.
Anarchism, not capitalism or socialism, is the way to go.
Happiness is not a goal, it's a journey.
âCynicism is a form of resistance, a walling off of the possibilities for transformation, a response to learned helplessness, a defense strategyâ¦Scratch the surface of a cynic and you will find a wounded idealist.â ~Mary Pipher
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- China: Beijing and Shanghai
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During my 2012-2013 Central Asia trip
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- China : Harbin, Hanghzou, Xiamen, Xian, Lanzhou, Urumqi
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I love European cinema, independant cinema and documentaries. Francois Ozon (French), the Dardenne brothers (Belgium) are some of my favorite filmaker. I'm also very proud of Denis Villeneuve's work. Recently, I really enjoyed Denis Cote's Curling and Yórgos Lánthimos' Dogtooth (Greek film nominated for the 2010 Academy Awards).
For fun, I started to watch all the movies that won the Golden Palm at Cannes, and the best Foreign Movie and Best Movie of the Academy Awards.
http://mubi.com is a good place to start exploring cinema.
I listen a lot to Quebec independent musical scene. So much talent, so little recognition ! Podcasts is an amazing way to discover new artists! If you want to discover good stuff, I suggest you to listen to Franco-Phil (http://www.francophil.ca/) and to CISM (http://cism2.cism.umontreal.ca/).
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Books : hummmmm, with 2 masters in the past years and too many books and articles to read, I'm just fed up with books... I prefer cinema and documentaries podcast. But Ella Maillart is my coup-de-coeur. I also read a lot about existentialism (i.e. Sartre, Camus, Fromm) and about neurology (I'm fascinated by the humain brain functions).
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- got dengue fever in Bangladesh while traveling (lets be ironic !)
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Countries I've Visited
Andorra, Austria, Bahamas, Bangladesh, Barbados, Belgium, Bermuda, Canada, China, Cuba, Czech Republic, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Hungary, India, Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Laos, Mali, Mongolia, Netherlands, New Zealand, Pakistan, Philippines, Poland, Portugal, Qatar, Russian Federation, Slovakia, Spain, Switzerland, Thailand, Tunisia, United Kingdom, United States
Countries I've Lived In
Canada, Mali, New Zealand