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By Jeff Mason
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Barack Obama met with Republican Speaker of the House of Representatives John Boehner on Sunday at the White House to negotiate ways to avoid the "fiscal cliff," according to White House officials and a congressional aide.
The two sides declined to provide further details about the unannounced meeting. Obama and Boehner aides used the same language to describe it.
"This afternoon, the president and Speaker Boehner met at the White House to discuss efforts to resolve the fiscal cliff," White House spokesman Josh Earnest said.
"We're not reading out details of the conversation, but the lines of communication remain open," he said.
An aide to Boehner emailed an identical quote.
The two sides are trying to reach an agreement that would stop automatic spending cuts and tax increases from going into effect at the beginning of the year.
Analysts say if that "fiscal cliff" kicks in, the U.S. economy could swing back into a recession.
Obama has made clear he will not accept a deal unless tax rates for the wealthiest Americans rise. Boehner and many of his fellow Republicans say any tax increases would hurt a still fragile economy.
Last week Boehner and Obama spoke by phone, a conversation the Republican leader described as pleasant but unproductive.
The common language used by both men's aides suggests an agreement to keep details of their discussions private, which could help both of them sell less politically palatable aspects of an eventual deal to lawmakers in their respective parties.
Obama consulted with Nancy Pelosi, the Democratic leader in the House, and Harry Reid, the majority leader in the Senate, on Friday, but the high stakes talks have come down primarily to the two main players: the president and Boehner.
Obama has said Boehner and other Republican leaders must accept the reality that tax rates will rise on the top two percent of U.S. earners before progress on other issues, such as reform of entitlement programs, can occur.
Several Republicans said on Sunday that conservatives have no choice but to give in to White House demands on higher tax rates for the wealthy, if the fiscal debate is to move on to their main goal of overhauling big government benefits programs.
"There is a growing group of folks who are ... realizing that we don't have a lot of cards as it relates to the tax issue before yearend," Republican Senator Bob Corker of Tennessee said on the "Fox News Sunday" program.
(Additional reporting by Rachelle Younglai; editing by Stacey Joyce and Todd Eastham)


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Rehabilitation Standards and Guildelines
The Secretary of the Interior's Standards for Rehabilitation, codified as 36 CFR 67, are regulatory for the Historic Preservation Tax Incentives program. The Guidelines for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings and the Guidelines on Sustainability for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings, which assist in applying the Standards, are advisory.
Applying the Standards for Rehabilitation
Guidelines for Rehabilitating
Historic Buildings
Other Standards and Guidelines:
Four Treatment Standards: Preservation, Rehabilitation, Restoration, and Reconstruction
Guidelines for the Treatment
of Historic Properties
Secretary's Standards for Rehabilitation
Rehabilitation projects must meet the following Standards, as interpreted by the National Park Service, to qualify as "certified rehabilitations" eligible for the 20% rehabilitation tax credit. The Standards are applied to projects in a reasonable manner, taking into consideration economic and technical feasibility.
The Standards apply to historic buildings of all periods, styles, types, materials, and sizes. They apply to both the exterior and the interior of historic buildings. The Standards also encompass related landscape features and the building's site and environment as well as attached, adjacent, or related new construction.
- A property shall be used for its historic purpose or be placed in a new use that requires minimal change to the defining characteristics of the building and its site and environment.
- The historic character of a property shall be retained and preserved. The removal of historic materials or alteration of features and spaces that characterize a property shall be avoided.
- Each property shall be recognized as a physical record of its time, place, and use. Changes that create a false sense of historical development, such as adding conjectural features or architectural elements from other buildings, shall not be undertaken.
- Most properties change over time; those changes that have acquired historic significance in their own right shall be retained and preserved.
- Distinctive features, finishes, and construction techniques or examples of craftsmanship that characterize a historic property shall be preserved.
- Deteriorated historic features shall be repaired rather than replaced. Where the severity of deterioration requires replacement of a distinctive feature, the new feature shall match the old in design, color, texture, and other visual qualities and, where possible, materials. Replacement of missing features shall be substantiated by documentary, physical, or pictorial evidence.
- Chemical or physical treatments, such as sandblasting, that cause damage to historic materials shall not be used. The surface cleaning of structures, if appropriate, shall be undertaken using the gentlest means possible.
- Significant archeological resources affected by a project shall be protected and preserved. If such resources must be disturbed, mitigation measures shall be undertaken.
- New additions, exterior alterations, or related new construction shall not destroy historic materials that characterize the property. The new work shall be differentiated from the old and shall be compatible with the massing, size, scale, and architectural features to protect the historic integrity of the property and its environment.
- New additions and adjacent or related new construction shall be undertaken in such a manner that if removed in the future, the essential form and integrity of the historic property and its environment would be unimpaired.
Guidelines for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings
The Guidelines assist in applying the Standards to rehabilitation projects in general; consequently, they are not meant to give case-specific advice or address exceptions or rare instances. For example, they cannot tell a building owner which features of an historic building are important in defining the historic character and must be preserved or which features could be altered, if necessary, for the new use. Careful case-by-case decision-making is best accomplished by seeking assistance from qualified historic preservation professionals in the planning stage of the project. Such professionals include architects, architectural historians, historians, archeologists, and others who are skilled in the preservation, rehabilitation, and restoration of the historic properties. These Guidelines are also available in PDF format.
The Guidelines on Sustainability for Rehabilitating Historic Buildings stress the inherent sustainability of historic buildings and offer specific guidance on "recommended" rehabilitation treatments and "not recommended" treatments, which could negatively impact a building's historic character. These Guidelines are also available as an interactive web feature.

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Six or seven new mixed-use projects are on the books and another four or five are in the works, but whether or not they're built depends on financing.
People in residential and commercial real estate in Gainesville say they are busier than they've been in years, but prices are not coming up yet, raising doubts about the short-term feasibility of the many mixed-use and retail developments in the planning stages.
About 250 Realtors, builders, developers, bankers and other professionals held a meeting of the minds to talk about the state of real estate and where it's heading Thursday night at the fourth annual University of Florida Bergstrom Center Real Estate Forum at the Gainesville Woman's Club.
Civil engineer Rory Causseaux of Causseaux, Hewett & Walpole said six or seven new mixed-use projects are on the books and another four or five are in the works.
Mixed-use includes densely built developments with residential, retail and office, often around a town center.
Home builder Kara Bolton, president of the Builders Association of North Central Florida, said there is still too much supply from developments that began before the housing collapse to bring new developments to market.
The market for new homes is moving in the right direction, she said. Whereas in the past only first-time home buyers were buying, she said she is seeing movement at all levels from very low to higher-end homes.
"Professors, doctors, pharmacists are buying in the higher-priced group and vacating previous homes and making room for new families that are formed," Bolton said.
Commercial Realtor Mike Ryals said that new projects proposed near campus such as University Corners and a similar project on Third Avenue, and redevelopment projects at The Courtyards and the Presbyterian Student Center will bring retail space near campus from about 80,000 square feet to more than 200,000 square feet.
Fred Schmidt, CEO of Coldwell Banker Commercial Worldwide, said the projects likely will depend on growth in the demographics which support the types of businesses that locate near campus such as entertainment and food.
The ability to get financing could determine what gets built, said Erik Bredfeldt, economic development and innovation director for the city of Gainesville.
"My perception is there's a bit of a race going on as to who's going to be in the door first because there's probably a certain level that can be supported by the market," he said of the mixed-use and retail projects.
Schmidt said Gainesville is well-positioned to take advantage of several trends. Baby boomers and echo boomers — the generation behind them — want urban mixed-use areas so they don't have to take care of a large yard and are close to retail, cultural amenities and medical facilities. Young professionals also are moving into condos and apartments instead of the suburbs.
Bolton said Gainesville has been very resistant to that urban lifestyle, however.
"We still see buyers who want bigger lots and their own back yard and don't want the store in their back yard," she said. "There is a mass of people needed to support that business. We don't have that mass, so we're lagging."
Schmidt also said Gainesville has industries that are driving the national demand for office space, which are energy, technology, education and medicine.
Much of the conversation centered on the role of government in helping or hindering development, with Orlando land developer Daryl Carter and others making impassioned pleas for government to get out of the way.
Bredfeldt admitted that most of the people in the room probably see city government as a hindrance.
He said city government has many constituencies and a very engaged citizenry.
"I see a lot of benefit, but we're a very deliberative community," he said. "When things get into the public review process, it makes approvals and the approval process complicated sometimes."
Bredfeldt, who was previously the director of planning and development, said his new role is a recognition by the City Commission that developers need an ombudsman to help usher projects through different city departments.
"We can maybe not say yes to what you proposed originally but we can try to get to yes in some way," he said. "We have not mastered that, but our city culture is trying to move in that direction."
An example is the process to expedite development of the Innovation Square district between downtown and the University of Florida, a process that Bredfeldt said could be repeated in other areas of the city.
John Fleming of Trimark Properties is developing buildings in Innovation Square and near campus. Trimark and UF are part of a "huge effort" to put technology companies in the area, he said.
Many are spread out throughout the county in buildings that were never intended for their uses, such as lab space.
"We're hoping to get them in purposed buildings where they can reduce their footprint and gain more efficiency and connect to the University of Florida and the downtown area," Fleming said.
Fleming also said there is a lot of activity in the residential market around the university.
"As transportation gets more difficult, students are more interested in being closer to campus," he said.


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Kunzea 'Badja Carpet'
Kunzea 'Badja Carpet' nom. cult.
Kunzeas are one of the genera in the prominent Australian plant family, Myrtaceae.
Kunzea 'Badja Carpet', a trailing or prostrate shrub, is an excellent ground cover ideally suited to Canberra's climate and soil conditions. It grows naturally on Big Badja Hill, north-east of Cooma, New South Wales, and may be a species not yet scientifically assessed. It was registered as a cultivar (cultivated variety) because of its great horticultural potential, and although the cultivar name might lapse when the plant is finally given a botanical name, this allows it to be identified until that time in the nursery trade.
The cultivar is closely related to K. capitata but differs markedly in habit. K. capitata is usually a rounded shrub to 1.5 m high by 1.5 m wide while Kunzea sp.'Badja Carpet' is prostrate or up to 30 cm high with a spread of up to 4m. The leaves are small, obovate, 2-4 mm long by 2-3 mm wide and arranged alternately.
Flowering period is early summer and the fluffy white flowers are produced in small terminal clusters on short branchlets. By contrast, flowers of K. capitata are usually mauve although white forms do exist. The red stems of the new growth originating from the centre of the flower clusters are an attractive feature of the plant.
Propagation is best achieved from cuttings, which strike readily. Layering may also be possible as the plant has been observed to develop roots at the leaf nodes in moist, mulched garden beds. The plant performs best in better drained soils but also grows satisfactorily in heavier clay soils. Full sun is an important consideration in cultivation, as plants in shaded positions have been slow to develop.
No damage from insects or disease has been noted and the cultivar is extremely resistant to frost.
Text by Ron Jackson, ANBG (1980)
Name meaning: Kunzea 'Badja Carpet'
Kunzea - in honour of Gustav Kunze (1793-1851), a naturalist and physician of Leipzig.
'Badja Carpet' - from Big Badja Hill, north-east of Cooma, New South Wales


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Winnie the Pooh (2011) (US - BD)
Gabe has an incredibly quick, brand new adventure in the Hundred Acre Wood...
One morning Winnie the Pooh (Jim Cummings) awakens to find no honey in his home, much to the chagrin of his rumbly tummy. While fastidiously searching for the sweet stuff Pooh comes across Eeyore (Jim Cummings), and notices his friend's tail is missing. Ignoring his tummy for the time being Pooh calls in the assistance of Owl (Craig Ferguson), Rabbit (Tom Kenny), Piglet (Travis Oates), Kanga (Kristen Anderson-Lopez), Roo (Wyatt Hall), Tigger (also Cummings) and Christopher Robin (Jack Boutler). A contest is hatched to find Eeyore a new tail, and the reward for best tail is a full pot of honey. Later, Christopher Robin leaves the Hundred Acre Wood, and leaves a note reading "Gon Out Bizy Back Soon". Owl misreads the note, and announces that the 'Backson', a ruthless and mischievous monster that is conveniently blamed for all of Pooh's friend's problems, has kidnapped Christopher Robin. The team unites in an effort to capture the Backson, and rescue their friend.
A.A. Milne's Winnie the Pooh stories were a long-standing childhood favourite of mine. The second book in the series, The House on Pooh Corner, got regular rotation before bedtime, and I cherished the man-in-suit/puppet television series Welcome to Pooh Corner every time the Disney channel (which used to be a premium channel) ran a free preview weekend. Years later, during my college years, while I was working as a child care professional I often found myself reading from the book series for a group of little cross-legged moppets, who stared up at me through Bambi eyes, wrapped in Milne's world despite the antiquated language styles. Then I was given enough time to forget about Pooh and his Hundred Acre Wood buddies. I had assumed the modern Disney machine had driven the property into the ground, but was shocked at how well The Tigger Movie had captured the characters, and even added unexpected emotional weight to the usual situation. I then realized that perhaps the little yellow bear wasn't in the worst of hands. The studio's theatrical follow-ups, Piglet's Big Movie and Pooh's Heffalump Movie, weren't as touching or as memorable, but at least the people holding the reigns were still up for attempting new things with franchise. This latest film in the series (which opened against Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2, so nobody saw it) is short and sweet, with a special emphasis on the short -– not including the end credits it's only about 54 minutes long. It's not an outstanding film, but it's true to the source, and breezily entertaining.
The team of writers behind the project (seriously, there are six people credited with a screenplay that couldn't have been more than 70 pages) does a good job of subtly modernizing the characters while remaining faithful to the basic premise and style of both Milne's stories and Disney's original shorts. The plotline sticks reasonably close to three stories from Winnie-the-Pooh and House on Pooh Corner, and organically blends them together, rather than taking an anthology approach. The rather obvious moral of the story is then disguised in the charm. The modernity is mostly found in the comedic pacing, and but the overall comedic feel and practice is authentically Pooh. In true series tradition the characters readily break the fourth wall (they step onto the words of the book, use the letters as tools, and speak to the narrator), argue through puns, and react to even the most dire situation with placid, sarcastic wit. The dialogue is delightfully dry, and assuming you're familiar with the other movies and stories, the character-based comedy lands firmly with both feet. As a fan of Eeyore, I found the film especially satisfying. The writers look past the character's usual doldrums, and reveal him as more of a quiet observer drawn into playtime because he's too polite and downtrodden to object. The hand-drawn animation isn't particularly dynamic, or even intricately detailed, but its calming nature fits the established pattern for the series, and the illustrative background style is pretty gorgeous.
Winnie the Pooh is a traditional, hand-animated movie for the most part (it has a live action opening). It benefits from some digital enhancement, especially in terms of colouring, but is largely a very old fashion production. I'm especially fond of the painted backgrounds (which I acknowledge might have been created on a computer), which mixes soft, watercolor blends with hard ink. In 1080p these elements are well separated without any sharpening or compression artefacts, and the delicate colour changes are crisp thanks to the HD detail levels. The animated characters stand out pretty vividly against these more subdued, and textured backgrounds, and are filled out with more buoyant colours. The high detail levels reveal minor 'errors' in the pencil and ink work, usually in the form of sketchy, inconsistent lines, but this is the appeal of the style, and actually a plus in the transfer's favour. Pooh's honey hallucination is the transfer's high point through the sheer vibrancy of the golden hues, and the smooth, subtle gradations. I noticed some very minor digital noise on some of the blends in the darkest shots, and a smidge of edge enhancement here and there, but otherwise there's very little to complain about.
The bulk of this underwhelming DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 is devoted to the dialogue and the musical soundtrack. There are very few sound effects throughout the mix aside from the most obvious on screen elements. The lack of ambience is a bit of a bummer, but too much aggression in the channels wouldn't be exactly true to the series' style. In the place of effects ambience is low energy score, which occasionally brasses up for an occasional mock scare. Directional effects pertain almost exclusively to dialogue as characters movie off screen (though Tigger's bounce follows him). Otherwise the rear and stereo channels open up with the music, which is often choral in nature thanks to the ensemble cast approach. The surprisingly catchy songs feature full orchestrations, which fill the channels rather nicely as well, and the instruments are all effectively warm and crisp. The LFE is given its most consistent boost from Eeyore's low voice, but some of Tigger's bounces, and Pooh's pratfalls provide a bit of punch as well.
Extras begin with 'Winnie the Pooh and His Story Too' (8:30, HD), a sweet behind the scenes look at the making of the film, and the history of Pooh as a character, including interviews with producer Peter Del Vecho, directors Don Hall and Stephen Anderson, author/historian Christopher Fitch, and story supervisor/Pooh guru Burny Mattinson. It's all narrated by John Cleese, and covers Milne's books, Disney's original adaptations, and the character's stylistic changes. This is followed by five deleted/extended scenes, each featuring directors' introductions (15:10, HD). The disc also features two shorts, 'The Ballad of Nessie' (5:30, HD) and 'Pooh's Balloon' (2:50, HD), a sing-along mode, a song selection menu, an ad/how-to for a Pooh-based nursery, and Disney trailers.
Winnie the Pooh is really too short, and I'm not sure I'll remember it very much in the coming years, but it's sweet and entertaining. It successfully entertains both the little ones and the adults without even threatening to step beyond its G-rating, or acting against the nature of the longstanding series. This collection, which is the DVD with a bonus Blu-ray set, not to be confused with the Blu-ray with a bonus DVD set (I have no idea why Disney releases some of its films this way), features a solid but unassuming HD transfer, and a matching DTS-HD MA 5.1 soundtrack. The extras are minor, but include some fun deleted/extended scenes, and the charming 'The Ballad of Nessie' short. Make sure you stay tuned through the credits for one final joke.
* Note: The images on this page are not representative of the Blu-ray image quality.
Review by Gabriel Powers
All ages admitted
Disc Details
Release Date: 18th October 2011
Discs: 2
Disc Type: Blu-ray Disc
RCE: No
Video: 1080p
Aspect: 1.78:1
Anamorphic: No
Colour: Yes
Audio: DTS-HD Master Audio 5.1 English, DVS 2.0 English, Dolby Digital 5.1 French and Spanish
Subtitles: English SDH, French, Spanish
Extras: Winnie the Pooh and His Story Too, Sing Along with the Movie, 5 Deleted Scenes with Directors' Commentary, The Ballad of Nessie, Pooh's Baloon, Trailers, DVD Copy
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Don Hall, Stephen J. Anderson
Cast: Don Hall, A.A. Milne, Brian Kesinger, Chris Ure, Clio Chiang
Genre: Adventure, Animation and Comedy
Length: 63 minutes
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Overall, Western agriculture is finishing a good year, with strong commodity prices in most crops. However, there are segments of highly diversified California and Arizona farming that are struggling.
One is the vegetable industry, specifically leafy greens. The other is stone fruit crops.
Both are plagued by the "disconnect" between farmer/shipper prices and retailer prices. Peaches grossing a money-losing 40 cents per pound for farmers sell for $2.99 per pound in supermarkets, reflecting a significant disconnect that is not a good omen for producers trying to stay in business and increase consumption of fruits and vegetables.
"If a consumer has to pay $2 for a peach, she will take that $2 to McDonald's and buy a Big Mac," said Barry Bedwell, president of the California Grape and Tree Fruit League, Fresno, Calif.
Bedwell joined Jasper Hemphill, vice president and general counsel for Western Growers; biotech guru Eric Sachs of Monsanto and economist Mike Swanson of Wells Fargo Bank on a market trends and issues panel recently at Western Plant Health Association's annual meeting in Tucson.
With increasing retail grocery consolidation and the meteoric rise of the big box stores, this cost-retail price disconnect goes beyond the price tags for fruits and vegetables.
When the leafy green industry was sent reeling from last fall's spinach E. Coli incident, the Western vegetable industry responded with an aggressive, far reaching leafy green initiative to enhance safety in the production and handling of Western vegetables. Hemphill said the retail food industry promised to back the industry's efforts, but has not. Retailers also reject putting country or state of origin labels on fresh produce and generally ignore the disconnect issue.
Hemphill said the E. Coli outbreak cost farmers, packers and shippers $100 million in lost revenue. Not included in that total is lost revenue to suppliers like tractor dealers, agchem and fertilizer suppliers, insurers, and financial institutions. It had a huge trickle down effect to workers in all segments of agriculture.
And it is far from over. Mexico still does not accept U.S. spinach and although the industry staved off state legislation mandating food safety standards last session, Hemphill expects the issue to arise again this session.
The leafy green marketing agreements for California and Arizona were quickly formulated and established by the industry to restore public confidence in leafy greens. Hemphill said Western Growers took the road it did — a voluntary program with government oversight — to get something in place quickly.
It would have taken far longer than the 45 days it did to set up the leafy green agreement than it would have to establish a federal or state marketing order.
In place now, Hemphill said it is a "very unique marketing agreement." It is voluntary, but once a handler signs on, he is bound by law to conform to the agreement to use good agricultural practices to ensure food safety and is subject to audits. Hemphill says shippers signatory to the agreement represent virtually 100 percent of the leafy green production in California.
Hemphill added that the leafy green agreements in both states are just the beginning. Although there is pressure to create a state-mandated marketing order in California, he believes — for several reasons — the "final solution" will be a federal marketing order.
Although the leafy green agreements in place now are making California and Arizona produce safer for consumers, it is also putting Western producers at an economic disadvantage in the marketplace with producers in other states because it is costing Western growers more money to meet the regulations.
More importantly, farmers shipping produce into the U.S. from other countries also are not regulated for food safety and presumably would be under a federal marketing order.
"Western Growers is working with other produce organizations in other states for a national food safety marketing order," said Hemphill.
However, it is just as important to place imported foods under the same standards as American produce, said Hemphill, since imported food draws the most food safety criticism.
Hemphill said the fertilizer and pesticide industries play key roles in keeping food supplies safe by ensuring that the water used to apply products is pathogen-free and that personnel and equipment also is clean to prevent food contamination.
The WG vice president said WPHA members and their employees are the "first line of defense" since pest control advisers (PCAs) are in the field often and can spot problems. They also provide products to trap and exclude disease-carrying animals from food crops.
Hemphill said there are opportunities for WPHA members in this new food safety arena to provide environmental monitoring, testing and analysis services, including third-party verification of grower production practices to meet buyer and government good agricultural production standards.
Hemphill added, however, with all that is in place it is virtually guaranteed that there will be another food-borne illness outbreak implicating produce.
Hemphill said the industry is better prepared than it was in the wake of the E.coli/spinach outbreak with a crisis management plan in place as well as details about the agricultural practices for the public to see as part of the leafy green food safety program.
Stone fruit, grapes
The season just completed was another challenging year for peach, plum and nectarine producers, according to Bedwell.
"One-third of the industry is still losing money, and one-third is breaking even, and one third is making money," said Bedwell, president of the 300-member voluntary CG&TFL. "Others say 40 percent to 50 percent of the stone fruit industry is having trouble making money."
California stone fruit growers produced 48 million boxes of fruit in 2007. Most in the industry say 44 million is a more reasonable supply for the demand.
The disconnect between the retail and the supplier was exemplified last season when a freeze in the Carolinas and Georgia reduced the peach crop, yet prices fell to as low as 40 cents per pound for California fruit that sold in supermarkets and big box retailers for as much as $2.99 per pound.
"The margins for produce continue to carry the load for the rest of the items in the supermarket," he said.
Table grapes fared better. Some 86 million boxes of table grapes were sold last season. Bedwell said the market can handle 95 million. "The majority of table grape producers are doing okay," he added.
The challenge facing the fresh fruit industry is the burgeoning organic market, which is growing at rates of 17 percent to 20 percent annually and now accounts for $20 billion in food sales.
Organics represent only 3 percent of grocery sales, but represent 25 percent of the overall growth of grocery sales. Thirty percent to 40 percent of organic food sales are produce. Organics are projected to be 25 percent of the food market by 2025. It will no longer be a niche market then, but mainstream said Bedwell.
It is perception, not reality driving this organic market. Organic is perceived as healthier, free of pesticide residues, better for the environment and tastes better than non-organic foods, none of which has been scientifically verified.
"I read the other day that somehow rats preferred organic over conventional food. That kind of stuff drives me crazy … rats?" said Bedwell.
"Unfortunately there is a lot of misinformation getting out about organics. Like the report not long ago that the 150,000 bales of organic cotton produced in the U.S. saved the use of two tanker loads of pesticides. When the cotton industry looked into it, it was more like 55 gallons," he said.
Nevertheless, organics and sustainability are the future of food farming.
Organics is relatively clearly defined. Sustainable is not. Bedwell has found 27 different definitions, most lacking a key element, economics.
Environmental awareness and social responsibility, two of the three legs of the three-legged stool, are important but "without making a profit, you cannot be sustainable," he noted.
It is Wal-Mart, the world's largest retailer, and its big box retailer/cousins which are driving the organic/sustainable movements in the consumers' minds. It is a challenge the industry must face in giving retailers what they want, if farmers want to continue producing food and fiber, he said.
The global warming/greenhouse gas issue is another challenge in an uncertain future for California farmers. Bedwell called AB 32 (The Global Warming Solutions Act) "a legacy item" for California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, which calls for reducing greenhouse gases in California to 1990 levels by 2020.
Farmers believe they will be a key element in that effort because of the crops they grow, but Bedwell added, "be careful of what you ask for" because agriculture's carbon footprint could be muddy with the tractors, trucks, harvesters and other equipment used to produce and take to market what those good guy plants produce.
Bedwell cautioned agriculture to keep an open mind until more is understood about the issue. Regardless of what comes out of it, farmers who want to do business with the likes of Wal-Mart will have to "play along" with reducing global warning and greenhouse gases.
It is no longer whether global warming is a fact or not. It will be a part of agriculture's future.


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January 08. 2013 10:32PM
Epping library trustees cut costs for proposed building
By JASON SCHREIBER
Union Leader Correspondent
EPPING - Library trustees have shaved $44,000 off the price tag for a new library after agreeing not to demolish the old building and removing plans to build a small park.
The proposed 9,027-square-foot library to be considered by voters in March was expected to cost $2,340,000, but at the urging of selectmen, trustees decided to keep the existing library for possible future use. The change would save the town the cost of tearing down the old library and replacing the area with a park.
Library trustee Michael Vose said the total cost of the project has been reduced to $2,296,000.
The new library would replace the Harvey-Mitchell Memorial Library, which has outgrown its building on Main Street next to an old brick fire station.
If the plan is approved, the fire station would be demolished and the land would be used for the new library.
Selectmen last month urged trustees to hold off on the project this year to ease the tax burden, but trustees plan to move ahead with a warrant article.
The decision to not demolish the old library building came after selectmen expressed interest in possibly using the building for school administrative offices if the town's recreation department moved to the school office building.
The recreation department has been in limbo since an earthquake in October damaged Watson Academy, forcing recreation activities to relocate for the foreseeable future.
Building the new library next to the old one poses a few challenges as it will leave only about 15 feet between the two buildings.
While the selectmen were the ones who suggested keeping the old library, Selectman Tom Gauthier expressed concern at a bond hearing Monday night about how the two buildings would look standing so close together
"It's going to look terrible," he said.
Selectman Robert Jordan also asked whether the closeness of the buildings would create a fire hazard.
Fire Chief Don DeAngelis said a distance of about 24 feet is preferred, but the architect said the plan would still meet fire and building codes with 15 feet between the buildings.


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Oldest recorded "God"?
RE: Oldest recorded "God"?
What an interesting question !!
Thanks for the links you guys.
Insufferable know-it-all. It is objectively immoral to kill innocent babies. Please stick to the guilty babies.
RE: Oldest recorded "God"?
Hey, Jefe.
I think that it's wider in scope than just needing to plug in the supernatural into unexplained things. Human beings require, as an absolute, a relationship with the world. Animism was primarily a way to have a relationship with the world. I don't know if that's clear, but having a relationship with the world is different than explaining how the world works. If a tree is your brother, you have a relationship with it. If a tree is a autotrophic member of family Araucariaceae who's fibres can be used as a renewable construction material, you don't really have much of a relationship with it. Or you do, but it's economic or scientific rather than sacred and familial.
Anyhoo, I can't imagine any of this occurring before language because human cognition and cultural transmission both rely on language. So people wouldn't really have internal superstitions unless they had language because they'd be incapable of cognition. They might have Skinnerian operant conditioning, but not a formal understanding.
Sharing is the real key here. Many primates have learned English. They can sign, point to pictograms, form rudimentary sentences, make pretty profound linguistic connections (one primate knew bracelet and finger and when it saw a ring, he called it a finger bracelet). Lots of stuff. But what they cannot do is teach another primate English. Without the ability to transmit culture, culture is not shared. Religion, I would say, is not religion unless it's shared. That requires both language and cognition.
But I just picked up on something you said, it absolutely could be done with non-verbal language. I'm confident that gestural language predated speech by several hundred thousand years. As long as the language is shared, it could work. Culture is nothing more than a series of agreements. I think my bigger concern is, can you share religion without syntax?
What I don't know is where the threshold lies. I know it's all possible with syntax. But prior to that, I don't know exactly when cultural transmission began.
As for the similar religions in different places, I figure there's five possibilities:
1 - Universal consciousness: that we're all tapped into some cloud of knowledge that we can pull things from as soon as someone adds an idea.
2 - 100th monkey theory: That once a group knows something, other groups on the other side of the planet learn it too; like the famous potato washing incident.
3 - Cultural transmission: Remember, 100 000 years ago, there weren't a lot of humans and we all lived in the same place. Perhaps the reason Animism was universal was because there is a common cultural ancestor. When we migrated out of Africa, memetic drift would account for the accumulation of differences. Also (or perhaps alternately), nomadic tribes would have encountered one another, which would have led to memetic flow. Theoretically it could have begun in one small corner and spread to all corners.
4 - The nature of our brains means we naturally come to similar conclusions given similar circumstances.
5 - They're all right.
Incidentally, these possibilities also apply to the independent development of both agriculture and civilisation in different parts of the world as well as on different continents.
Peace and Love and Empathy,
RE: Oldest recorded "God"?
I'm gonna have to respectively throw number one out of consideration on my part but I'd like to examine number four more closely.
And to clarify, I'm thinking more about superstitions that don't include formal religions or gods, because I think those are the genesis of formal religion. One thing in particular is the irrational fear of women that can be seen throughout history both within formal religions and without, and is still evidenced today in modern primitive cultures. Obvously, that fear didn't exist before cognition but I think it must have existed preverbally because we see it expressed in cave paintings.
In any event, superstition is a psychological dysfunction, so it most certainly arrived in concert with cognition. At least, that's my uneducated guess.
21-01-2013, 05:48 PM (This post was last modified: 21-01-2013 05:52 PM by mawil1013.)
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This from wiki answers and I agree from other research I've performed.
''Hinduism is the oldest known spiritual tradition in the world and there is evidence that it flourished long before recorded history in ancient India. The ancient Vedic civilization practiced Hinduism."
But as long as humankind has been able to communicate, stories of God's and Goddess's along with evil spirits and what happens to grandma when she dies topics have been bantered about the group of isolated people's.
RE: Oldest recorded "God"?
Hey, Jefe.
There's no dysfunction in superstition. That's a value judgment not a fact.
But even superstitions require cognition, otherwise it's just operant conditioning. So if we're thinking, we're using language, which means we're transmitting memes. So both superstition and religion have the same linguo-cognitive requirements.
As for the irrational woman fear thing, I wanted to run and hide, but I appear to lack the skills.
As for cave paintings, they come tens of thousands of years after verbal communication. Also, in terms of memetic theory, they'd be impossible without verbal syntactical communication.
Peace and Love and Empathy,
RE: Oldest recorded "God"?
(21-01-2013 05:50 PM)Ghost Wrote: Hey, Jefe.
Saying there is no dysfunction in superstition is a value judgement, not a fact.
Quote:But even superstitions require cognition, otherwise it's just operant conditioning. So if we're thinking, we're using language, which means we're transmitting memes. So both superstition and religion have the same linguo-cognitive requirements.
Did you misunderstand him? Irrational fear and hatred for women seems to be part and parcel of the patriarchal religions.
I liked the video.
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RE: Oldest recorded "God"?
There's no dysfunction in superstition?
Men in modern tribal societies still believe that a woman's breast milk and menstrual blood are poisonous and that the only way to cleanse a young man of said poisons it through any number of very brutal and dangerous rituals. These rituals often include flaying open the boy's penis and allowing multiple men to penetrate and ejaculate into the wound in order to rid them of the poisin. And, as late as the 19th century in the west it was commonly believed that having sex with a virgin child was a successful means by which to rid ones self of sexually transmitted diseases.
I don't know what your level of tolerance is but to me, there is a huge amount of dysfunction in those superstitions. Likewise, something as presumably benign as telling a child that an invisible man watches their every move is actually a quite destructive lie that is based wholly on superstition.
21-01-2013, 07:07 PM (This post was last modified: 21-01-2013 07:30 PM by fstratzero.)
RE: Oldest recorded "God"?
*whistles* I think I'm going to have to watch this.
While you guys fight...
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22-01-2013, 02:25 AM (This post was last modified: 22-01-2013 07:16 AM by DLJ.)
RE: Oldest recorded "God"?
(20-01-2013 02:39 PM)poolboyg88 Wrote: 1. The forum needs a history section.
I suggest you do a PM to Near http://www.thethinkingatheist.com/forum/User-Near who is the Forum's self-appointed Resource Librarian and he can probably make your wish come true.
('Librarian' definition... a usually under-appreciated role that deserves loads of Rep points and if I had a vote on it would be recognised in the Forum Team list)
RE: Oldest recorded "God"?
(20-01-2013 02:39 PM)poolboyg88 Wrote: 1. The forum needs a history section.Those fertility statues, like the Venus of Willendorf, are no longer classified as such because there is simply no evidence that they were any such thing. They might simply have been children's toys, ancestor worship, whatever. They might have been religious but that is pure conjecture. So I think we should stick to something demonstrable.
So figurines, sun worship, burial practices, wall paintings and such might all be proof of some sort of religion - they do not provide evidence of any supreme being/s.
Even Çatalhöyük provides no definitive evidence.
[font=sans-serif]It should be clear that gods predate human ability to record them in writing but m[/font]y understanding is that the pyramid texts are the oldest extant unambiguous examples, whilst the Enuma Elish might have an earlier origin.
Would love someone to push those dates back.
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The threat is the Slammer worm that did quite a lot of damage in January.
Symantec being the nice people they are "Shared the information only with "SELECT CUSTOMERS" [ which of course means people with lots of money,, ooh guess that leaves us out, but oh well], while the rest of use were of course being bombarded by Slammer.
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Pac-12 Morning Five: 03.26.12 EditionPosted by AMurawa on March 26th, 2012
- The Pac-12 in the NCAA Tournament may be a distant memory, but conference teams continue to play on in lesser postseason tournaments. Washington State kicks off a three-game series for the championship of the CBI tournament tonight against Pittsburgh, but will likely have to do so without its most valuable player, Brock Motum. Motum sprained an ankle early in the Cougars' semifinal game against Oregon State last week, but his teammates were able to step up and cover for him. While he is questionable for tonight's game, head coach Ken Bone claims that there is a stronger chance that he'll be able to return for Wednesday night's game in Pittsburgh.
- Meanwhile, Washington heads back to Madison Square Garden for the third time this season as the Huskies face Minnesota in the NIT semifinals on Tuesday night. The first time UW played at MSG this season, freshman guard Tony Wroten put on a show for a national audience, scoring 24 points, including 14 in the final 10 minutes as he tried to will his team back into the game. Now, after a disappointing end to the Huskies' NCAA Tournament chances when Wroten missed multiple free throws down the stretch of a Pac-12 tournament game, he is back to reprise his starring role in one of the nation's best basketball arenas. And it is possible, given Wroten's chances of becoming a high draft pick in June's NBA Draft, that his time in the spotlight as a collegiate player will be book-ended by appearances in the World's Most Famous Arena.
- Stanford is the other Pac-12 team still alive, also in the NIT semifinals, facing Massachusetts on Tuesday night. This will also be the Cardinal's third appearance this season at Madison Square Garden too, after they beat Oklahoma State and dropped a tight game to Syracuse at the Garden in the Preseason NIT during Thanksgiving weekend. But Stanford is also in the news lately because head coach Johnny Dawkins is reportedly a possible candidate for the head coaching job at Illinois. Dawkins denies the reports, but with Shaka Smart and Brad Stevens having already turned down the Illini, Dawkins is supposed to be considered along with Leonard Hamilton, Jeff Capel and Anthony Grant for the position.
- Elsewhere around the Cardinal program, with associate head coach Dick Davey retiring at the end of the season, should Dawkins return (which, really, is to be expected, not only because Illinois can probably find someone better than him for their position, but also because he would probably rather be at Stanford that in Champaign), he'll need to fill a spot on his staff. And, among the candidates for that seat is former Cardinal star Mark Madsen. Madsen has limited coaching experience, and Dawkins can certainly find somebody with a more solid resume, but the case can be made that snapping up Madsen now would be good for the Cardinal program in the future.
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If a program is successful, it deserves repeating. Last year, a Pratt Public Library Read 4 Charity program raised more than $1,800 for the RSVP Angel Tree program that provides new clothing for children at Christmas.
The library began enrolling readers for the 2013 version on Oct. 15, but adults can get involved any time between now and Nov. 30.
It's easy — check out and read a book or listen to an audio book, fill out a short form that asks for your name, title and number of pages. At the end of the period, Southwest Truck Parts, Inc., and The Peoples Bank will each donate $5 per 1,000 pages to the Angel program.
Last year, several older patrons paid close attention to not only how many pages they were reading, but how many dollars that would add to the charity, Director Rochelle Westerhaus said.
She assumes some might not have been able to make a monetary donation, and were proud to be able to contribute in this way.
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TWO WORKS BY NOBEL PRIZE WINNER Harold Pinters first play, The Room, and his most recent work, Celebration, complement each other in this riveting double-bill. Celebration opens on a wedding anniversary in an ultra-trendy restaurant, while The Room reveals a shabby one-room London flat and descends into a nightmare world of insecurity and uncertainty. Written 40 years apart, both plays touch on the human desperation to find safe haven in a threatening world. Tues. Fri. at 8pm, Sat. at 2 & 8pm, Sun. at 3pm. Thru Jan. 8. Atlantic Theater Company, 336 W. 20th St. 212-645-8015. $50.
KING KONG LIVE ON STAGE Come on an ocean voyage to foggy, primeval Skull Island and meet the giant ape that rules his domain battling dinosaurs and native tribes. He falls in love with the beauty that helps to subdue him and finally duels to the death with the 20th century as airplanes attack him atop the Empire State Building. The only authorized stage production in existence. Dec. 7, 13, 14 & 21 at 8pm and Dec. 11 & 18 at 2pm. Kraine Theater, 85 E. 4th St., bet 2nd Ave & Bowery. $18. 212-868-4444.
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Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler's expansive practice interweaves hybrid forms of storytelling and invites suggestive, open-ended reflections on place, history, and memory. In their three-channel film installation Giant (2014), Hubbard / Birchler present a decaying movie set just outside Marfa, Texas, left behind after the 1956 filming of Giant, starring Elizabeth Taylor, Rock Hudson, and James Dean. Weaving together the cinematic past and present, the film captures scenes from a Warner Bros. office in 1955 and the skeletal remains of the movie set today as seasons change, day turns to night, and parts of the structure swing and fall off.
Giant is the third part of a trilogy of films exploring the social character of the cinematic experience, with particular respect to film's relationship to place and the kinds of traces movies leave behind. This work was first seen as part of Sound Speed Marker (2014–15), an international touring exhibition that included film installations, sculpture, and photographs by the artists.
Internationally recognized Austin- and Berlin-based artists Teresa Hubbard and Alexander Birchler have been working collaboratively in film, photography, and sculpture since 1990. Hubbard is the William and Bettye Nowlin Professor in Photography and Assistant Chair–Studio Division in the Department of Art and Art History at The University of Texas at Austin, and Birchler is an Affiliate Research Scholar at The University of Texas at Austin. Currently, Teresa Hubbard / Alexander Birchler are representing Switzerland in the Swiss Pavilion at the 57th Venice Biennale.
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Dodds to open solid wood furniture store
Couple to continue Right Angle Construction.
Jim Dodds has been a carpenter all of his life.
Until 1989, it was a job he did on the side to make extra money. Since then, it has become a full-time profession for him and his wife Penny.
For the past three years, Jim and Penny have run Right Angle Construction out of their home in Gothenburg doing projects as big as new home construction and as small as interior handiwork.
"We decided it was time to expand and do more things," Jim said of purchasing the former Hometown Variety building at 915 Lake Ave.
Jim and Penny plan to open the doors of Hometown Furniture Plus on Feb. 1. The building will also serve as the new headquarters for Right Angle Construction.
The business will feature finished and unfinished solid wood furniture of all kinds.
"What sets this product apart," Jim said, "is that it is made from solid wood. These are things that can be handed down to your children."
Although Jim has constructed many pieces of furniture himself over the years, he will not personally build what is displayed in the store just yet.
"I am anxious to get back into that, though," he said.
Most of it will come from Whittier Wood Products of Eugene, OR.
"This is all American made furniture," Jim said. "In our current economy, I think that's important."
The heirloom quality pieces are made mostly of alder or pine are not outrageously expensive either, he said.
"Actually, the cost is pretty comparable especially when you see that it's something that will last forever," he said.
Whittier's products are unique too. Jim said the closest retailers are in Lincoln, Scottsbluff, Denver and Rapid City.
Because some of the wood pieces will be sold unfinished, Jim said the store will carry a full line of top-quality supplies to complete the project.
In addition to the new wood furniture, Jim plans to also offer mattress sets, some used furniture and a variety of items he and Penny find at auctions.
"If the price is right and the quality is good, I don't care what it is," Jim said.
So customers might find everything from a five-disc CD stereo to a lawn mower or sofa sleeper.
"It will be an ever-changing treasure trove," Jim said.
And along with a line of home decor, Jim and Penny hope to eventually offer more hand-crafted items, possibly on a consignment system.
"There are a lot of very talented people in this community," Jim said. "This would be a way for us to attract customers and for them to get their pieces sold."
Jim and Penny say Gothenburg has been a good fit for them since moving from Ainsworth in 2007.
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Church Valentine's dinner is Saturday
February 9, 2012
A Valentine's dinner and silent auction begins at 6 p.m. Saturday will be hosted by Lake Tahoe Community Presbyterian Church. The event is open to the public.
Items to be bid on are products, services and talents of individual church members, and include things such as a guided fishing trip on Lake Tahoe, sprinkler spring tune up and repair, yard clean up, a short ski or board video (you and friends at Heavenly), among many others.
The beef stroganoff dinner will be served at 6 p.m. at the church and includes salad, vegetables and dessert. The meal will be prepared by Jenny Stavros, who has been cooking for family, friends and churches for more than 20 years.
Tickets are available for a suggested donation of $10 each, or a table of eight, for $60, and may be purchased while available at the church office, from 9:30 a.m.-2 p.m. through today.
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March 26th, 2012
GIGABYTE X79-UD5 LGA2011 Motherboard Review
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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Lottery officials say two winning tickets were sold for Tuesday night's Mega Millions jackpot.
One ticket was sold at a gift shop in San Jose, Calif., while the other was sold somewhere in Georgia.
The jackpot is at least $636 million and is likely to go ahead once final sales are counted. The winning numbers are 8, 14, 17, 20, 39, and the Mega Ball is 7.
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Brent Cross to enjoy Apple store
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Apple is to open a second London store, following last November's Regent Street opening with a location in the Brent Cross shopping centre "later this year".
The store will be Apple's sixth UK retail site. In April, it opened its second store, in Birmingham's rebuilt Bullring Centre. Last month, saw store three open, in Kent's Bluewater shopping mall.
Plans to open stores four and five, in Sheffield's Meadowhall and Manchester's Trafford Centre, are already proceeding well. Apple began hiring shop staff for these sites in June. It has just begun recruiting for Brent Cross, according to an ad first spotted by Macworld.co.uk.
Apple operates three stores in Japan and a fourth in Canada. During the company's Q2 quarterly results conference, CFO Peter Oppenheimer said the company plans to close its 2005 fiscal year, which ends in September, with ten stores up and running outside the US. With six UK stores open and in preparation, plus the Japanese - there's a fourth store set to open on 7 August, in Shibuya - and Canadian sites, the company should easily meet that target. Apple is also believed to be preparing a Paris store location. ®
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Grilled Tomatillo and Pineapple Salsa
- Merrill
I first had this salsa about ten years ago, on one of the hottest days of the summer in Atlanta. I was visiting my friend John Ryan, who had recently become acquainted with it when a co-worker brought it to a potluck. I'll admit, I was skeptical: dried pineapple in salsa? At the time, it sounded more like a science experiment than a culinary revelation. In fact, it proved to be very much the latter.
It's not just the dried pineapple (and please trust me that you must use the sweetened kind) that makes this salsa such a success, but how it plays off the smoky heat of the chipotles and the pert astringency of the tomatillos. This salsa is a symphony, not a waltz. The original recipe, from this article in the New York Times by Molly O'Neill, calls for the onion and tomatillos to be raw, and it's really pretty aggressive with the chipotles. I decided to up the smokiness by grilling the tomatillos and the onion briefly, and to cut back on the heat by reducing the amount of chipotles in adobo (I did add a pinch of red pepper flakes for brightness). The original is fantastic, but I like this version too -- it's a little more mellow but still packs a hot-sweet punch. The salsa benefits from a little sitting time, so it's worth a little planning ahead.
Grilled Tomatillo and Pineapple Salsa
Adapted from the New York Times
Makes about 2 cups
- 10 large tomatillos, ripe but firm, skins removed and washed
- 1 medium yellow onion
- Olive oil for grilling
- 1/2 cup chopped dried pineapple (the sweetened kind)
- 1/4 teaspoon salt
- Large pinch red chili flakes
- 1 canned chipotle chili in adobo sauce, plus 1 teaspoon adobo
- Good tortilla chips for serving
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Factors that may increase your chance of getting hiccups include:
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- Certain conditions that irritate the brain or nerves, such as goiter, meningitis, multiple sclerosis, or cancer
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Some drugs may help hiccups, including:
- Antipsychotics
- Antiseizure medications
- Medications used to treat nausea
- Muscle relaxers
It is not known why some people get hiccups. There are no sure ways to prevent developing them. However, if you are prone to hiccups, you might want to avoid:
- Overfilling your stomach
- Drinking carbonated beverages or alcohol
- Becoming overexcited, including stress, intense emotion, heavy laughing, or crying
This content is reviewed regularly and is updated when new and relevant evidence is made available. This information is neither intended nor implied to be a substitute for professional medical advice. Always seek the advice of your physician or other qualified health provider prior to starting any new treatment or with questions regarding a medical condition.
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In This Issue:
A recent IDC report hails the start of a new wave of BI expansion into everyday business. Reading the report will give you insight into the coming market changes--and what you'll need to know as a database professional.
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1. Perspectives
- Be a BI Expert—or Just Look Like One
2. SQL Server Watch
- FIPS Compliance with SQL Server 2005
- Product Watch: XMLA Consulting and dataReference
3. Hot Articles
- Q&A: Changing SQL Query Behavior
- SELECT TOP(X): SQL Server Migration Assistant
- This Month's Focus: Disaster Recovery—Database vs. Storage Replication
- Puzzled by T-SQL: Grouping Consecutive Rows with a Common Element
- In a Nutshell: Online Indexing in SQL Server 2005
- Hot Threads: SQL Server 2005 CLR and Reporting Services
4. Events and Resources
- Linux + Unix + Windows—TechX World
- Secure Your Messaging Infrastructures
- The Myths of Linux
- 5 Points for Choosing Anti-Spyware
5. Featured White Paper
- Extend Microsoft Windows Rights Management Services
6. Reader Challenge
- September Reader Challenge Solution: Fixing a Faulty Lookup Query
- October Reader Challenge: Enforcing Uniqueness Without the Unique Constraint
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1. Perspectives
Be a BI Expert—or Just Look Like One
by Brian Moran, [email protected]
This summer, leading IT research firm IDC released a report that evaluates the business intelligence (BI) tools and vendor market for the period 2003 through 2005. The study has been on the Microsoft site for a while and if you are a BI person, you might have already read it. But if you don't think of yourself in those terms, chances are you haven't read the full report or even scanned the executive summary.
For many of you, devouring 20 pages of BI market analysis might not seem quite as exciting as reading the sports page or the latest best-selling novel. For some, such a task might be on par with scanning the nutritional contents on the back of your morning cereal box. But trust me, reading the report is worth an investment of time if you're a database professional, even if you're not a "BI person." More and more, BI and related technologies are starting to seep into everyday usage within database environments. IDC suggests that trends in the BI market happen in 15-year cycles. IDC also asserts that "the next wave in BI has now begun;" in a few years, we'll look back to see that 2005 was the beginning of a 15-year cycle that focused on "expanding the reach of BI to more users both inside and outside the organization and a move to automate more decision processes by combining QRA (query reporting and analysis) and advanced analytics functionality."
Probably not tomorrow or next week, but sometime sooner than you realize, you'll find it hard to be a senior database professional without having at least a modest grasp of BI technologies. The IDC report is actually a pretty easy and interesting read, and it doesn't presume much, if any, previous knowledge of the BI market. The market summary does a nice job of categorizing the various types of tools and market segments that exist today. A synopsis of the 20 largest vendors in the BI marker space provides market share and revenue share analysis and will help you understand how each vendor's tools fit into the BI community at large. Also, although the report is 20 full pages, most of the core report is just 10 pages, so it won't take as much time to digest as you might think.
The report provides some interesting market-share data that will interest BI veterans and provides a nice introduction to BI terms and jargon that will help newbies better understand the competitive landscape. Reading IDC's report won't make you a BI expert, but doing so might let you pretend to be one for at least a few minutes at your next dinner party. You can download the full report from http://www.microsoft.com/bi/IDCvendorshare2005.mspx.
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FIPS Compliance with SQL Server 2005
A recent Microsoft document can help you increase your level of security compliance. The article "Instructions on using SQL Server 2005 SP1 in the FIPS 140-2 compliant mode" gives a solid overview of how to run your SQL Server 2005 environment in compliance with the Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS). FIPS, which was developed by the governments of Canada and the United States, is either recommended or mandated for use in federal government-operated IT systems. The FIPS 140-2 statement, which explains the "Security Requirements for Cryptographic Modules," specifies which encryption algorithms and hashing algorithms can be used and how encryption keys are to be generated and managed. The Microsoft article explains the difference between being FIPS compliant and FIPS certified, how to configure SQL Server 2005 for FIPS compliance, how to operate SQL Server 2005 in FIPS-compliant mode, and the effects of running SQL Server 2005 in compliance with FIPS. To read the article and link to more information about FIPS, including how to download the standard, visit the article's Web page.
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Between October 24 and November 2, the regional event series will visit four cities: Washington, DC; Chicago; Dallas, Texas; and San Francisco. At $129 per person for four tracks and a full day of learning, it's worth sending the entire team to make sure you cover all the sessions. For complete agenda and speaker details, go to http://www.techxworld.com.
Product Watch
by Blake Eno, [email protected]
Integrated BI Solution for SQL Server 2005 and 2000
XMLA Consulting announced ReportPortal 2.1, a business intelligence (BI) solution that includes analysis, reporting, dashboards, scorecards, and advanced data visualization features for SQL Server 2005 and 2000. ReportPortal lets you build, publish, and view a variety of reports including data mining, Crystal Reports, and SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services reports. New reports in the latest release include tree map, pie chart tree, bar chart tree, geographical map chart, and dashboard reports. For more information, contact XMLA Consulting at 813-866-3483 or visit http://www.reportportal.com.
Migrate Crystal Reports to Reporting Services
dataReference announced that Report Migrator works in conjunction with SQL Server 2005 so that you can migrate single or multiple Crystal Reports into Report Definition Language (RDL) and run them by using SQL Server 2005 Reporting Services. Report Migrator lets you continue to use Cyrstal Reports Designer to develop reports but distribute them through Reporting Services. This functionality lets you maintain your investment in report design and distribute the report across your organization without retraining your development staff. For more information, contact dataReference at 214-239-0820 or 866-489-4512, or visit http://www.datareference.com.
3. Hot Articles
Q&A: Changing SQL Query Behavior
by Brian Moran, [email protected]
Q: I know that SQL Server 2005 lets me choose forced parameterization and use plan guides to change individual query behavior. How do I decide when to use these features?
Read the answer to this question today
SELECT TOP(X): SQL Server Migration Assistant
Converting Oracle databases to SQL Server has always been a manual process fraught with pitfalls—but not anymore, thanks to SQL Server Migration Assistant. Mike Otey tells you about are four features of this tool that will pave the way to a successful conversion. Read this article today and post your comments.
This Month's Focus: Disaster Recovery—Database vs Storage Replication
by Mel Shum
Are you unsure about whether to use database or storage replication to replicate your data? Here are three factors to consider before deciding which is best for you.
Puzzled By T-SQL: Grouping Consecutive Rows with a Common Element
In this week's blog, Itzik Ben-Gen posts a puzzle that's sure to cause a little head scratching. Your task is to write a set-based query (no cursors) that groups consecutive rows with the same attendance status for each student in an Attendance table that Itzik has provided.
Remember, this puzzle is live! Send your solutions to Itzik, and we will give away two prizes: One winner will be chosen randomly out of those who provided correct solutions; another winner will be chosen based on the fastest correct solution. See the full details of the puzzle and submit your solution today.
In a Nutshell: Online Indexing in SQL Server 2005
Does performing online indexing on a large table degrade SQL Server performance? In this week's blog, Kevin Kline eavesdrops on a conversation between SQL Server MVP Hilary Cotter and Microsoft uber-genius Stefano Stefani. Read about their discussion of this hot topic, and send your comments to Kevin today.
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6. Reader Challenge
September Reader Challenge Solution: Fixing a Faulty Lookup Query
by Umachandar Jayachandran, [email protected]
Congratulations to Steve Kass and Lay Chew. Steve won first prize of $100 for the best solution to the September Reader Challenge, "Fixing a Faulty Lookup Query." Lay won second prize of $50. You can read a recap of the problem and the solution to the September Reader Challenge at http://www.sqlmag.com/Article/ArticleID/93486/sql_server_93486.html.
October Reader Challenge:
Now, test your SQL Server savvy in the October Reader Challenge, "Enforcing Uniqueness Without the Unique Constraint" (below). Submit your solution in an email message to [email protected]m by September 21. Umachandar Jayachandran, a SQL Server Magazine technical editor, will evaluate the responses. We'll announce the winner in an upcoming SQL Server Magazine UPDATE. The first-place winner will receive $100, and the second-place winner will receive $50.
Here's the challenge:
Paul is a database architect in a company that provides Web-based message services. He must design a schema to store and retrieve forum messages from the database, and he plans to use SQL Server 2000 as the database server. Among the tables that contain the messages is a table that has a unique per-message identifier column. The table's schema is shown in the following code:
CREATE TABLE messages ( msg_id INT NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY, msg_hdr VARCHAR(1024) NOT NULL )
Paul wants to enforce uniqueness on the msg_hdr column and tries to define a unique constraint on the column by using the following script:
ALTER TABLE messages ADD CONSTRAINT uq_messages_id UNIQUE(msg_hdr)
The ALTER TABLE statement produces the following warning message:
Warning! The maximum key length is 900 bytes. The index 'uq_messages_id' has maximum length of 1024 bytes. For some combination of large values, the insert/update operation will fail.
Using generated sample data for the table, Paul performs tests that reveal that the msg_hdr value might exceed 900 bytes, so he can't use the unique constraint approach. (A unique index in SQL Server enforces a unique constraint, and, as the warning message says, index keys are restricted to a maximum of 900 bytes.)
Help Paul to efficiently enforce uniqueness on the msg_hdr column in the Messages table without the unique constraint.
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On Wednesday, we reported that the path to canonization for Blessed Marianne Cope has been clearedafter a Vatican congregation has confirmed a second miracle attributed to her intercession. The final step for her canonization is approval by Pope Benedict XVI. The Vatican decision was announced Dec. 6 by the sister's religious community, the Sisters of St. Francis of the Neumann Communities in Syracuse, N.Y., and by Honolulu Bishop Larry Silva. At the same time unconfirmed reports surfaced that an announcement will be made in mid-December about the approval of a second miracle attributed to Blessed Kateri Tekakwitha's intercession, which would clear the way for her canonization.
There also is news about other sainthood causes. In mid-November, Catholic New York, newspaper of the New York Archdiocese, reported that with approval from the Vatican, the cause for Bishop James A. Walsh has been formally opened, The bishop was co-founder in 1911 of the Catholic Foreign Mission Society of America, better known as Maryknoll. A ceremony took place Nov. 9 at the New York Catholic Center in Manhattan. According to Catholic New York, the cause for Maryknoll co-founder Father Thomas Frederick Price is pending in Raleigh, N.C.
In the Diocese of Peoria, Ill., the home diocese of Archbishop Fulton J. Sheen, Msgr. Stanley Deptula, executive director of the Archbishop Fulton Sheen Foundation, announced that this Sunday there will be a Mass to close the investigation tribunal that examined an alleged miracle attributed to the intercession of the archbishop. It will be celebrated at the Cathedral of St. Mary of the Immaculate Conception in Peoria, All the official documents related to the case will be sealed for shipment to Rome at the Dec. 11 Mass.
"If the pope approves this alleged miracle, we could have the first beatification ever on American soil here in Peoria, Illinois," said the foundation.
A tribunal of inquiry was sworn in last September to investigate the case of James Fulton Engstrom, who celebrated his first birthday Sept. 16, 2011. His parents, Travis and Bonnie Engstrom, believe James is alive because of the intercession of Archbishop Sheen. On the day of his birth he was considered stillborn, though his mother had had a healthy pregnancy and experienced "a beautiful, short labor."
James was without a pulse for the first 61 minutes of his life. It was only when doctors at OSF St. Francis Medical Center in Peoria were ready to call the time of death "that his little heart started beating."
The archbishop's cause was officially opened in 2002. The Sheen Foundation centralized its operations in the diocese in 2007.


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Va. initiative encourages college applications
RICHMOND, Va. —
Virginia is kicking off an initiative at more than a dozen high schools to encourage the Class of 2013 to apply to college.
Gov. Bob McDonnell has designated Monday through Friday as Virginia College Application Week at 16 pilot schools.
McDonnell says the initiative will provide hands-on support for students to apply to any of Virginia's 23 community colleges, 16 public colleges and universities and 33 independent colleges.
It also is an opportunity for all Virginia high school seniors to apply to at least one higher education institution.


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This week in Island history
The news of 10 and 15 years ago is from the Jamestown Press. The news of 100 years ago came from the collection of the Newport Historical Society.
100 years ago
From the Newport Journal, December 10, 1910
Steamer Conanicut made a special trip Sunday to take an automobile party to Newport.
Work on the state road near Conanicut Park ceased for the winter Monday, when a half-mile of the two to be built was finished. The remaining mile and a half is to be built in the spring.
There was no morning session of the schools Wednesday, on account of the badly drifted condition of the roads.
The water main supplying Fort Greble from the mainland has become choked and an adequate amount for the garrison cannot be obtained through it. The services of the tug Solicitor, belonging to Mr. J. K. Sullivan of Newport, have been secured to supply the fort.
75 years ago
From the Newport Daily News, December 7, 1935
Steamer Beavertail has replaced Steamer Hammonton, plying between West Jamestown and Saunderstown.
From the Newport Daily News, December 11, 1935 Miss Helen Murray entertained the Young Women's Knitting Club at her home on Narragansett avenue Tuesday evening.
The faculties of the Jamestown schools held a Christmas party in the Carr school Tuesday evening when the teachers of the Carr school had as their guests the faculty of the Clarke school. A chicken dinner was served, the table being decorated in keeping with the season. A basket of red berries and Christmas pine formed the center piece, and miniature Christmas tress as place cards. Following the dinner, a social hour was spent and Christmas carols were sung.
50 years ago
From the Newport Daily News, December 6, 1960
Although the last legal barrier towards the construction of a refinery in Jamestown apparently was removed by the United States Supreme Court in Washington yesterday, it appeared doubtful today that the $55,000,000 refinery would be built. There just doesn't seem to be any company ready and willing to buy the refinery's products.
Jamestown voters last night empowered the town's School Committee to make use of the entire $6,984 allotted the town from the state's aid to education funds and increased the budget by that amount. About 100 voters attended the special financial town meeting.
From the Newport Daily News, December 7, 1960
Jamestown's entry in the Newport County Boys Club Junior Basketball League will workout tomorrow at 4 p.m. at the Recreation Center.
From the Newport Daily News, December 9, 1960
Basketball rivalry between St. Matthew's and Central Baptist Church resumes tomorrow night with a doubleheader at the Recreation Center. The contest between boys age 13 and under will start at 7 p.m. while the teenagers and men will tangle at 8 p.m.
From the Newport Daily News, December 12, 1960
An unprecedented late autumn blizzard dumped more than eight inches of snow on the Newport area today, accompanied by gale winds that topped 60 miles an hour in gusts. … The Jamestown Ferry made two early morning trips, but stopped after the 7:45 a.m. trip from Jamestown to Newport.
25 years ago
From the Newport Daily News, December 10, 1985
Cable Television could be a reality in Jamestown as early as this summer. Officials from the Rollins Cable Television told the Town Council Monday that construction could begin in the spring if the Public Utilities Commission approves the Rollins' request to service Jamestown. It would take "three to five months" to install the approximately 33 miles of cable the company intends to string on the island.
The Town Council voted Monday to ask for General Assembly approval to institute a real estate tax in order to preserve open space and farm land on the island.
15 years ago From the Jamestown Press,
December 7, 1995
Town officials were recently presented with copies of "Historic and Architectural Resources of Jamestown, Rhode Island," a definitive history of the island. A joint project of the state Historical Preservation and Heritage Commission and the Jamestown Historical Society, the 106-page volume was 20 years in the making.
The Jamestown Village Association invites everyone near and far to celebrate the holiday season with fellow islanders this Saturday, Dec. 9. The day will feature horse-drawn hayrides and festive holiday music performed by the Jamestown Community Band.
10 years ago From the Jamestown Press,
December 7, 2000
The island was well represented at Tuesday night's port development public session, with seven Jamestowners out of roughly 40 speakers giving the Board of Economic Development Corporation feedback on how a proposed container port would impact the island.
An exhausted Zoning Board of Review continued the application of Ocean State Scuba for a specialuse permit last week, Nov. 28, before adjourning after midnight.