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Altova's DatabaseSpy version 2010 is a curious blend of tools, capabilities, and features that target developers and power users. Curious because the tools come at a great price—just $189 per license, and target all major databases on the market today—yet DatabaseSpy lacks any of the tools DBA's need to manage servers, databases, security, and other system-level requirements.
In other words, DatabaseSpy is an inexpensive, powerful, multiplatform, database-level management solution. And that, in turn, means that evaluating its value and benefit must be contrasted against both different audiences (DBAs vs developers and power users) and against different types of environments (heterogeneous or SQL Server only).
For Heterogeneous Environments
For DBAs, developers, and power users operating in a heterogeneous environment, DatabaseSpy is worth a look. At the database level, it offers a great set of features, including the ability to script objects, query (and export) data, and create objects, such as tables, views, and sprocs and queries via designers or via script. It also provides some unexpected features in the form of visual schema and data comparison tools.
The big win that DatabaseSpy provides is a homogenized interface and toolset that can connect to all major modern databases. For developers and power users, this offers a great way to tame some of the complexity that they might need to deal with in a heterogeneous environment. Moreover, DatabaseSpy's schema and data comparison and synchronization across multiple platforms is something that even DBAs can benefit from.
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For organizations that predominantly use SQL Server, DatabaseSpy's benefits will largely depend on audience or job description. For example, I've never been fond of Visual Studio's support for SQL Server development, and I think that many developers using SQL Server would prefer DatabaseSpy's UI and features over the paltry tools provided by Visual Studio. And, at $189 per license, the additional tools (such as change script management, schema and data comparison, and code formatting and editing capabilities) are a great buy. Likewise, although there will be some learning curve involved, business users might also prefer using DatabaseSpy in many cases.
But for DBAs who manage only SQL Server deployments, DatabaseSpy will fall flat. In addition to not providing any server or database management tools or capabilities, DatabaseSpy's tree-view shows only one database at a time and doesn't provide any tools for managing anything other than Tables, Views, Sprocs and UDFs, and XML Schemas.
In terms of managing XML Schemas, I was hoping that DatabaseSpy would be a great way for SQL Server DBAs to pick up some cheap tools to allow more powerful editing capabilities and options. But although is provides some XML editing capabilities, schema management is handled by XmlSpy Pro, which costs an additional $499. Moreover, DatabaseSpy doesn't extend any of the functionality provided by XmlSpy, which offers native support for connecting to and managing XML schemas defined in SQL Server. Consequently, not even DatabaseSpy's XML features provide much benefit to DBAs, leaving DatabaseSpy pretty much a non-starter for SQL Server DBAs.
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The Nativity Story is a film of tame picture-book sincerity, but that's not the same thing as devotion. The movie is too tepid to feel, or see, the light.
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As a piece of religious instruction or an animated version of a crèche, it accomplishes its aims. As a movie, however, it's slow, plodding, and not terribly interesting.
The Nativity Story surprised me. I didn't expect such an obvious art film approach. Yet the Bible, in the King James version, is great English literature.
Unfolds in a scrupulously accurate historical adventure story that depicts the world of Jesus' birth with an exciting you-are-there verisimilitude.
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The Bible on the big screen: New take on old tale.
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Parents need to know that most kids probably won't be clamoring to see this serious biblical drama. It includes references to stoning, rape, and the slaughter of innocent people. Mary endures whispers and looks from neighbors (she's pregnant but hasn't had sex -- they wonder how this can be). She and Joseph embark on a difficult trip to Bethlehem, enduring thieves, harsh weather, sandstorms, a perilous river crossing, and a run-in with a snake. The takeaway message (for Christians and non-believers alike) is that hope and faith go a long way toward getting you through life's rough patches.
Messages: No one believes that Mary didn't have sex, so she has to endure their looks, whispers, and even the threat of stoning. In Bethlehem, the couple is turned away as she's ready to give birth. Mary and Joseph hold fast to their faith during difficult times.
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Larken Associates' Echo Executive Plaza is now 100 percent leased after signing two long-term leases totaling more than 5,300 square feet.
The property, which is an office park adjacent to the Echo Plaza Shopping Center at 901 Mountain Ave. in Springfield, leased 1,848 square feet to Summit Medical Group and 3,500 square feet to Vayu, a health care technology and products services company, according to the announcement.
Larken purchased the 41,181-square-foot mixed-use property in 2010, the announcement said, and since has overhauled the façade of the building and refurbished the common areas and vacant units.
"We've had a very high leasing percentage at Echo Executive Plaza since we bought the property because of its great location at Route 22," said Victor Kelly, executive vice president for Larken's commercial division. "However, our strategy to make tenant improvements to make the property more comfortable or modern for our tenants and their customers, the money we spend always comes back to us in repeat, long-term business."
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LEE — The "mother" of all N.H. breast cancer advocacy groups spawned seedlings of other state advocacy groups, which grew into flourishing bushes – of pink flowers of course.
Founded in 1992, the New Hampshire Breast Cancer Coalition (NHBCC) had four goals in mind, supporting funding for research on causes, treatments and cures; improving access to quality diagnosis and treatment for all women; improving education and accessibility to information to all people; and to empower N.H. women and their supporters to become involved in breast cancer as a matter of public policy.
And, they have done just that with help of Chair Nancy Ryan.
Luckily, the commute to the NHBCC is a short one for Nancy, as the office for the statewide nonprofit organization is in the spare bedroom of her Lee home.
"We couldn't fathom using the money for an office rental when it could be going toward breast cancer research," she says.
Daily, she takes phone calls from women who are looking for information, works with individuals and organizations who want to do fundraising, and most importantly converses with the national coalition on their most recent initiative.
The National Breast Cancer Coalition is striving for Breast Cancer Deadline 2020, a comprehensive, strategic and bold initiative to end breast cancer by January 1, 2020.
"A good deal of my time involves speaking with congressmen and women, so a lot of my time is spent with the grass roots legislative parts of helping the deadline," explains Nancy.
What makes the NHBCC different from other "pink ribbon" organizations around the state, she says, is they work from both ends – working on legislation for research to end breast cancer and also helping women who have breast cancer right now.
"(The NHBCC) may not have happened if I hadn't been diagnosed with breast cancer," says Nancy.
After several doctors telling her she was "too young" to have breast cancer, and showing what looked like clean mammograms, Nancy noticed a visible abnormality in the skin on her breast.
"The skin was starting to pull inward on my left breast. So, I went back to the surgeon and he said we should do a biopsy. So, we did, and it came out as breast cancer – though my mammogram looked normal," she explains.
By the time Nancy went in for surgery, the tumor was very large and had already spread to eight of her body's lymph nodes, escaping the breast. Two years after her diagnosis, in the late 1991, Nancy was compelled to learn as much as she possibly could about breast cancer. She decided to go to a conference in Chicago to feed her eager mind. While walking around the vendor room, she met a woman gathering signatures for a petition to congress to increase federal funding for breast cancer research. She says this was the first evidence of the national breast cancer coalition. Nancy spoke with the woman, and told her she would he happy to help her get more signatures.
"My goal was 850 signatures in N.H. So, I told her I'd do the best I could and I wound up getting over 4,000 signatures in three months," says Nancy of N.H. residents' enthusiasm, "I shipped it to Washington, D.C. as part of the national effort."
The founding members of the NHBCC, Nancy and Joanne Dodge (the mother of Wendy McCoole, the founder of BreastCancerStories.org and My Breast Cancer Support) met at a support group in Dover in 1989 – one of very few support groups at the time – and wound up facilitating it together. After a couple of years, the pair decided to do more. The NHBCC began with providing many services to N.H. women who have exhausted all other means of financial assistance.
"We've gotten calls from women who were literally standing at the phone with utility cut-off notices in their hands," Nancy says.
According to the coalition, in this year in N.H., the estimated number of new diagnoses is 1,482; more than two people a day. Nancy says, this includes both invasive breast cancer and what is called DCIS (Ductal Carcinoma in Situ), where the cells have taken on abnormal characteristics but are not yet developed to the capacity of invasive.
"To me it was a no-brainer (to help DCIS patients), they go through the biopsy, they go through the diagnosis, emotion, upheaval, and treatment which is not trivial. It can include some of the same treatments, like surgery, radiation and hormonal treatments," says Nancy on some controversy between breast cancer groups helping DCIS patients.
As a self-proclaimed "old timer" in the breast cancer movement, Nancy has seen many changes occur.
For example, in the early years, the NHBCC had a project where they provided goodie bags full of comforting items to those who were newly diagnosed all across the state. Eventually, they didn't need to anymore because the hospitals, and My Breast Cancer Support, began to do the same thing. This allowed them to put their funds into other endeavors.
Now, though still providing financial and personal assistance to patients, the National Breast Cancer Coalition and NHBCC focus much of their time and efforts toward The Breast Cancer Deadline 2020. This movement calls for action by policy makers, educated advocates, legislators, researchers and scientists to end breast cancer by January 1, 2020. They say this renews the sense of urgency about the breast cancer problem and calls stakeholders to focus new scientific knowledge about the biology, etiology and genetics of breast cancer on prevention and preventing metastasis.
Nancy says, "Twenty years ago, 114 U.S. women died of breast cancer every day. Today, that number is about 110 – which is good, but not good enough. At that rate it could take hundreds of years to end breast cancer."
Now, a trained leader in advocacy and development, Nancy can rattle off statistics, genetics, legislation and the science behind breast cancer as second nature.
"My personal story was a key factor in my passion to learn more about breast cancer," she says, "because my story didn't fit the public message, and it still doesn't. The public message is to see a doctor regularly, get mammograms, and do self-exams – but that's not enough. We want to go farther than that. We want to end breast cancer."
To donate to the N.H. Breast Cancer Coalition visit, Nhbcc.org/donate.html or if you prefer to make your donation by check, please make donations payable to the New Hampshire Breast Cancer Coalition and mail to: NHBCC, 18 Belle Lane, Lee, N.H. 03861-6438.
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Jared isn't feeling himself after a freak accident makes him a freak-and The Warden a rich man in the fast-growing business of black market organ sales! But too much inventory can be a problem-especially when it wants to take over SuperJail.
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When Jailbot and Jacknife are shot down over the hostile Outer Worlds, The Warden must learn how to take care of SuperJail-and his own hygiene-all by himself. Will Jailbot survive? Will The Warden? Will SuperJail? Jared and Alice wouldn't bet on it. Oh, wait, they totally would.
A mysterious and deadly invader from another world infiltrates SuperJail, and she's willing to kill anything that gets between her and what she wants. But what does she want? And why is she naked?
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— After hearing from the planning board, southern planning commission, conservation commission and the road agent, selectmen voted to recommend that funding for Candia's membership in the Southern New Hampshire Planning Commission be restored.
Selectmen voted to remove the $2,500 membership fee from the proposed 2014 budget in September, but after hearing pleas to restore the money, spearheaded by planning board Chairman Sean James, the board decided to ask the budget committee that the funding be restored.
"I know that the budget is an issue. It's an issue every year, but the southern planning commission is a valuable resource to planning boards and zoning boards for town's like Candia that do not have a full time planning staff. They are where we go when we have questions, and they have resources we don't have," James said.
James added that for every dollar the town spent on its membership last year, it received about $8 of value in return.
David Preece, the commision's executive director, said the sole purpose of the commission is to provide technical assistance to towns that need it.
"Just this year alone we provided traffic planning analysis and did 19 intersections of traffic counting in Candia alone along with two road safety audits on troubling intersections for the townspeople. In the past we have been instrumental in bringing brownfields cleanup money to Candia, in fact we are in the process of applying for a new one because there is a need in our communities and we want to make sure they are addressed," Preece said.
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Earlier this month, enterprising hackers already managed to turn Windows Phone 7 devices into default USB mass storage devices, allowing you to just hook them up via USB and use them like any other drive. It turns out that device support this by default, but that the feature is turned off in the registry.
Today's hack comes from well-known Windows specialists Rafael Rivera, Chris Walsh, and Long Zheng. Developers are allowed to sideload applications, but ordinary users cannot; thanks to this hack, even people without a Marketplace developer account can sideload applications.
"We've taken the pain out of the process involved and put together a super simple executable that will allow anyone to unlock any WP7 device on the market using a USB cable and just a couple clicks," they write, "This tool is completely safe and reversible for the phone."
Microsoft has always been very tolerant of the modding community when it came to Windows Mobile, but whether or not that attitude carries over to this entirely new operating system remains to be seen. I sure do hope so, since I'm hoping to acquire a Windows Phone 7 device for a review here on OSNews.


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Today in Passive-Aggresive Torture ApologiasComments
I've been been meaning to get to Saletan's defense of torture for a while. Lindsay, however, has now done it well enough that I don't really have to bother:
If it is reporting, it's bad reporting. Saletan takes the claims of the most senior architects of torture at face value. These guys know more about the program than almost anyone, so we can't afford to reflexively discount what they say about it, if we want to understand it, but let's keep in mind that they are professional deceivers who, at best, skirted the law and at worst broke it. They see themselves as fighting an ongoing war and they know that what they say now will have implications for how that war goes. They have every reason to lie about what they did and how they did it.
Saletan blithely ignores basic critical questions like: If torture was so effective, why didn't we catch Bin Laden during the height of the torture era? Why did it take over a decade?
He comes across as utterly credulous, producing lines like: "So, for what it's worth, there were internal checks on the practice, at least because the CIA would be politically accountable for what its interrogators did." Right. That's why Jose Rodriguez deleted all those interrogation tapes.
Saletan resorts to pompous weasel words when he lacks the courage of his convictions. He's too timid to come out and say that he approves of the "enhanced interrogation program" as it was used in the hunt for Bin Laden, but he keeps tipping his hand with the language he uses to describe the panelists' arguments.
For example, he writes that the panelists "scorned the delusion that these methods hadn't produced vital information." By using the word "delusion" instead of "belief" or "claim," Saletan implies that the pro-torture contingent is right without having to provide any evidence for their dubious claim that torture produced vital information that couldn't have been gotten any other way. According to Saletan, the panelists "trashed the Obama-era conceit that we're a better country because we've scrapped the interrogation program," the word "conceit" implies that Obama is wrong or dissembling.
It's all this good, so you should read it. Lindsay did, however, leave me one piece of low-hanging fruit. Amazingly, he actually buys the ol' Jonah Goldberg "fraternity hi-jinx" routine:
4. We had tested enhanced interrogation techniques on ourselves.
Rodriguez said he quickly accepted the use of enhanced interrogation in part because "I knew that many of these procedures were applied to our own servicemen. Tens of thousands of U.S. soldiers had gone through this." If these methods were safe and moral to use on Americans, weren't they safe and moral to use on our enemies?
I have enough faith in our audience to assume that they know what "consent" means, and hence that I don't need to belabor how pain one agrees to be subjected to knowing it's of finite duration and won't be escalated is not remotely comparable to being tortured involuntarily. I can't believe that anyone is still trying to sell this argument, and it's even more amazing that anyone would buy it.


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As authorized by H.B. 2208 of the 79th Legislature, the Texas Commission on the Arts (TCA) can designate cultural districts in cities across Texas. Cultural districts are special zones that harness the power of cultural resources to stimulate economic development and community revitalization. These districts can become focal points for generating businesses, attracting tourists, stimulating cultural development and fostering civic pride.
If you are interested in applying for this program, we recommend you read this page and watch our training videos about this program.
TCA recognizes that a thriving creative sector is a powerful economic development asset. Cultural district development is one strategy that helps a community boost their economies while realizing other cultural and civic benefits. The outcomes of cultural districts extend beyond the arts and benefit all members of a community. Goals may include:
Attracting artists and cultural enterprises to the community . Artists, cultural institutions and creative enterprises all contribute to a community's economic potential. Not only do they generate direct economic activity, but artists and creative entrepreneurs infuse communities with energy and innovation.
Encouraging business and job development . Cultural districts can create a hub of economic activity that contributes to the community being an appealing place to live, visit and conduct business. A thriving cultural scene helps an area to prosper when consumers drawn to cultural attractions patronize other nearby businesses. This can result in the creation of new economic opportunities and jobs.
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Establishing tourism destinations. Cultural districts are marketable tourism assets that highlight the distinct identity of a community and encourage in-state, out of state, and international visitors.
Preserving and reusing historic buildings. Some cultural districts are very involved in historic preservation. Adaptive reuse and rehabilitation of older buildings through preservation tax credits can result in structural and façade improvements. These rehabilitated buildings provide opportunities for affordable artist live/work space and new homes for cultural organizations.
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NORTHPORT | Since 1998, the Northport levee has protected downtown from frequent flooding that plagued the city for generations.
Now a portion of the 2 mile-long levee is cracked and needs repair, with the city unsure of how much it will cost.
The Northport City Council voted Monday to spend $50,750 on preliminary engineering work.
City Administrator Scott Collins said the growing crack was not caused by weather or use, but instead by a flaw in its construction by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers.
That needs to be fixed now, Collins told the council Monday.
"It's simply a repair that needs to be made," Collins said.
The portion that is cracked is on the northern most 300 feet of the levee, north of Fifth Avenue. Because the portion is the farthest away from the river, where the natural dirt meets the levee, it's very unlikely that flooding will occur as a result of the flaw.
"There is not a breach in the levee," Collins said. "But it does need repair."
Collins said the crack does not mean there will be any impact on downtown Northport.
When the levee was built, the construction cost about $4.8 million, with the federal government paying 80 percent and the city paying 20 percent.
Northport city leaders are hopeful the federal government will pay 80 percent of the repair cost now.
"It's their work product. We don't anticipate any issues at all," Collins said.
The $50,750 for preliminary engineering work constitutes about 20 percent of the total overall engineering cost, Collins said. The expense will have no impact on the city's 2013 budget since it will be covered by bond issue money set aside for drainage and similar projects.
"There will be no out-of-pocket cost to the city," Collins said.
The preliminary engineering work should be finished within six months, followed by the repair.
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NEW YORK (AP) — Film director Spike Lee has engaged in a brief and lively profanity-laced debate about gentrification of largely black New York City neighborhoods.
Lee grew up in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. He made his comments during a Black History Month speech at Pratt Institute in Brooklyn on Wednesday night.
He says gentrification had little regard for people who "have a culture that's been laid down for generations."
While gentrification brought improvements to neighborhoods such as Fort Greene, he demanded to know, "Why did it take this great influx of white people" to make things better?
Some audience members said they understand why some of their neighbors couldn't pass up high offers for their homes.
Lee lives on Manhattan's Upper East Side and recently listed his town house for $32 million.


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John A. Howington, MD received his bachelor's degree from Tennessee Technological University in Cookeville, Tennessee, and his medical degree from the University Of Tennessee College Of Medicine in Memphis. He trained in general surgery at the University of Missouri, Kansas City, and completed cardiothoracic surgery residency at Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Dr. Howington is Assistant Professor of Surgery and Chief, Division of Thoracic Surgery, in the Department of Surgery at the University of Cincinnati Medical Center. Dr. Howington is also Chief of Thoracic Surgery at the Veterans Affairs Medical Center, Cincinnati. Dr. Howington has special expertise in lung and esophageal surgery, and minimally invasive approaches for thoracic surgical procedures.
Dr. Howington directs the ACOSOG lung cancer trials at the University Hospital and VA Medical Center, and also directs the spiral CT screening study for early lung cancer detection. He remains an active member of the Lung Cancer Research group and is co-director of the Barrett Cancer Center thoracic oncology program. Dr. Howington serves as Invited Reviewer for Chest and the Annals of Thoracic Surgery. He also assisted in writing the ACCP Lung Cancer Guidelines and served on the Expert Panel for Interventional Chest Guidelines.
Dr. Howington serves as a community spokesperson for lung cancer. He was named one of Cincinnati's "Forty under 40" winners for 2002 by the Cincinnati Business Courier. Dr. Howington will also participate in the 2003-2004 Class of Leadership Cincinnati.


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Bell'occhio: San Francisco and Online
- Location: San Francisco, CA and online
- Website: bellocchio.com
Hidden away down a tiny side street in the middle of San Francisco, Bell'occhio is a sweet jewel box of a shop, chock full of odd and eclectic bits this-and-that. There's plenty of unique things here for the kitchen, as well as large spools of red and white butcher's twine and whimsical boxes shaped like fruit, flageolet beans, morels or trout.
Also stocked are a lovely collection of ribbons, jewelry, custom perfumes and handmade papers. Bell'occhio is open from noon-5, Tuesday through Saturday and is closed major holidays and between Christmas and New Years Day.
They also sell most of their stock online. While shopping online will never replace a trip to this exquisitely scented shop, here's a glimpse of a few unique items to tide you over until your next SF visit.
• Chef Apron, $50.00 and toque $4.00
• Wheat Earrings, $24.00
• Absinthe Supplies, $15-32.00
• Pastry Brushes, $4-6.00
• Moss Tablecloths, $32-385.00
• Kitchen Towels, $12-15.00
• Cafe au Lait Bowls, $24.00
• Burning Papers ('to freshen the kitchen'), $8-28.00
• Faux Bois Placemat, $10.00
• Cuisine Ribbon, $12.00
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I've started a project cleaning up my database. Whenever I finish a letter of the alphabet, I'll write a blog post to report about what I learned about the surnames that start with that letter.
This week I finished the Letter D. Here were some of my finds:
- I had 4 people with the surname Deitrich that married into my family tree. I knew that 2 of them were siblings. After looking at the census records, I was able to determine that George A Dietrich was the son of Jacob Deitrich. George married into my Dincher line and Jacob, along with his sister Anna Maria, married into the Eiswerth line.
- Decided that when Benjamin Potter (age 62) married Polly Demaree (age 61) in 1849 he probably didn't marry a virgin. So I deleted the maiden name of Demaree for her.
- Found the marriage record of James Dunning and Nancy Craig in Boone County, Kentucky. They went across the river to get married. And now I'm up to 9 surnames found during the adventure!
- While trying to track what happened to George William Dygert after his wife's death in 1932, I found that his wife lived until 1934. Grace Lavina Suckling died on 4 November 1934 (not 1932) after a car backed up over her. I found accounts of her death and marriage in the Niagara Falls Gazette, available online at Old Fulton NY Post Cards. I also discovered the Niagara Falls city directories on Ancestry and was able to track the family of Grace, her sister Hazel, and brother William Francis Elvey Suckling. Now I know when WFE Suckling moved to Kalamazoo, Michigan and I have an additional project to look him up in the city directories when I am at ACPL next.
- Finding the Niagara Falls Gazette online made me search for all my surnames in that area. I was able to find 2 articles on the death of William Watson Suckling, Grace's father. Even though he died in St. Catharines, Ontario, his obituary ran in the NY paper. We are always told to search across borders for our ancestors, but I never think to search across country borders. Glad I did!
I made some great finds with the letter D. Now it's onto the letter E. Which is going to take forever just to get through all the Ecks and Eiswerths, not to mention the other surnames.
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PUYALLUP, Wash. — The Washington State Fair's new name is supposed to give it more statewide appeal, but that doesn't make it any easier for FFA participants to attend.
Students from the FFA chapter at Goldendale High School were the only livestock competitors representing Central and Eastern Washington at the fair. Traveling more than 200 miles with their animals wasn't easy, but it helps that they're taking home prizes and good experience.
Terry Nickels, FFA adviser and ag teacher at Goldendale, said his students always do well. The four students who came to the fair this year represent about 100 students in his ag program, which includes agricultural mechanics, horticulture, natural resources and livestock. Three who came to the fair breed their own pigs, he said.
But one thing complicates the fair experience, he said.
"It's tougher for the kids to get out of school," he said. "Schools are being held more accountable for having students in the seats."
Some schools, he said, may even count the time away as unexcused absences.
Laine Utter, state FFA reporter from Moses Lake, said school administrators should recognize the benefits of participating in the fair.
"The schools should see how much time and work (the students) put in," she said. "It's more than the seven hours they'd have in a classroom. These are legitimate absences from school. They're not just cutting classes."
Michael Heitstuman, vice president of the Washington State FFA and student at the University of Idaho, said, "A lot of these kids are making money for further education."
He said when he had to take time off for FFA competitions during high school in Quincy and Big Bend, "You'd get your homework done ahead of time and pray you don't have any tests."
Tanner Tallman, 17-year-old junior at Goldendale, owns a hog farm and has come to the fair — until now the Puyallup Fair — for 12 years. All four of his pigs won prizes, including best pair and a couple of champions. He plans to head for the swine program at Oklahoma State University.
"I'll look at the sales end of agriculture, and I'll still run my own pig farm," he said. "I may end up in Nebraska. It's a little bigger in the swine business."
Bailee Johnson, 13, has been in 4-H a long time and this is her first year in FFA. Having raised swine in Snohomish, on the west side, she has seen a difference in how pigs grow.
"In Snohomish the pigs get dirty real easy, and they grow a little faster," she said. "In Goldendale, they fatten up easy, but they grow a little slower."
College is far down the road for her, but she said she wants to raise pigs and cattle as a hobby alongside her future career as a cosmetologist.


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With subscriber growth slowing amid increasing saturation in the wireless market, AT&T is looking to cut capital expenses by moving its network to a software-defined platform that will use cheap, commoditized hardware instead of high-end branded equipment. The shift could result in savings worth billions of dollars in the coming years and allow AT&T to be more flexible while negotiating wireless transitions to new, more advanced network technologies in the future. The carrier is hoping that the new software-based approach will also help reduce its reliance on a few hardware suppliers in the future as the network infrastructure industry consolidates in the face of stagnating revenues and intense competition. Consequently, the carrier has awarded contracts to smaller companies such as Tail-f Systems AB, Metaswitch Networks Ltd. and Affirmed Networks Inc, in addition to existing partner Ericsson, which has the leading share in the wireless equipment market. It is also looking to partner with other smaller companies and startups whose help it wouldn't have previously enlisted for projects of this scale.
However, changing the architecture and implementing it across the entire network could take years, and the carrier has therefore not lowered its CapEx estimate of $21 billion for the year. Going forward, it expects the project to put a "downward bias" in its capital expenses over the next five years as increasing use of SDN (software-defined networking) more than offsets the impact of rising data traffic. Our $38 price estimate for AT&T is about 15% ahead of the current market price.
See our complete analysis for AT&T here
Slowdown in AT&T's wireless revenues
AT&T's move to implement SDN and virtualization functionalities on its network comes amid a slowdown in subscriber growth, driven by a saturated market where wireless connections exceeded the population back in mid-2011. Last quarter, AT&T added only 809,000 subscribers to its total wireless base, about 25% less than the same period in 2012. In the more lucrative postpaid segment, AT&T postpaid net adds of 566,000 last quarter were about 27% fewer than what it added in the prior-year quarter. Apart from a saturated market, rising competition from a resurgent T-Mobile has also contributed to AT&T's declining postpaid net adds. T-Mobile's aggressive 'Uncarrier' posturing in the wireless market helped it add 1.5 million postpaid net adds in the last two quarters combined – more than 63% ahead of what AT&T managed in the same period.
On the ARPU side, we also expect the carrier to feel the impact of rising T-Mobile competition and slowing growth in smartphone penetration. AT&T's ARPU for smartphone subscribers is around twice that for non-smartphone ones. However, with its smartphone penetration having reached an all-time high of 77% of its postpaid base at the end of the fourth quarter, the carrier is likely to see its ARPU growth slow in the coming years as its postpaid smartphone mix hits a wall. AT&T's smartphone penetration increased by only 7 percentage points last year – down from a growth of over 11 percentage points in 2012. Growing competition in the wireless industry, primarily due to T-Mobile's aggressive moves, is also likely to adversely impact AT&T's service ARPU. The carrier recently unveiled new Mobile Share Value Plans, which reduce monthly costs per line by about $25 for unsubsidized or off-contract phones, so long as families sign up for 10GB+ service plans. AT&T's future ARPU growth will also feel the impact of growing adoption of tablets, which usually generate lower ARPUs than smartphones.
SDN to help keep network costs in check
As a result, we expect AT&T's wireless service revenues to grow at a CAGR of less than 3% through the end of our forecast period, as compared to the growth rate in excess of 8% posted over the last six years. Given that the company has significant operating leverage, a slowdown in revenue growth could have an adverse impact on margins as well as cash flows in the coming years. One of the biggest fixed cost expenses for AT&T is its network spend, which accounted for almost half its EBITDA last year. Consequently, the carrier is looking for ways to control its capital expenses by moving its network to a new SDN architecture that will enable it to make use of off-the-shelf, commodity hardware to reduce costs. Currently, it sources network equipment primarily from big players such as Cisco and Juniper, who sell branded hardware with embedded, proprietary software at high prices.
Increasing the role of software in its network will also help AT&T become quicker and more flexible in adapting to changing technology trends in wireless. AT&T's relatively late entry into 4G LTE as compared to Verizon saw it lose market share in 2011 and 2012, but the gradual decline in the coverage lag between the two carriers helped it stabilize its share last year. The carrier is therefore wary of any technology transitions that may come up in the future and is preparing its network to quickly adjust to new technologies. The transition to commodity hardware will also make it cheaper for AT&T to add data capacity and support the burgeoning future demand for data, as it looks to push subscribers to the higher tiers of its service plans and increase data ARPU levels.
We currently expect AT&T's network expenses to drop from about $101 per subscriber in 2013 to the 2010-11 levels of $95 in the long run after the carrier completes its LTE rollout this year. However, if the SDN shift causes the company's capital expenses to decline further to the historical average of $85 per subscriber, there could be an upside of 5% to our price estimate.
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Surprised to see T eating a lot of yam, did not expected this actually. It was 2nd or 3rd time I cooked this dish since I know him. If I remember correctly, he did not like it that much for the first time? Both of us just could not resist the black fungus coated by melted yam. Pork belly was soft and tender, I ate some fatty part... guilty!! As usual, eat first and feel guilty later. ^_*
400g yam, peeled and cubed
200g pork belly or chicken thigh, cut into chunks
20g black fungus, soaked
4-5 cloves garlic, rushed
2-3 bulb shallot, chopped
Salt to taste
Oil for deep-frying
Greens for garnish
Marinade (for meat):
½ tsp five-spice powder
½ tsp ground white pepper
1 tsp salt
1 tsp sesame oil
1 tbsp shaoxing wine
1 tbsp light soy sauce
1 tbsp corn flour
- Marinate pork belly or chicken for about 15 minutes.
- Heat enough oil in wok, deep fry yam until it is browned lightly. Remove from wok and set aside.
- Use the same oil, fry the pork belly until it is browned lightly. Remove from wok and set aside.
- Remove excess oil in the wok, leave about 1 tablespoon for frying shallot and garlic.
- Stir in shallot and garlic, fry until aroma is released.
- Return yam and pork into the wok, add in black fungus. Stir to mix.
- Add in 1 cup of water, bring to boil then let it simmer with cover until yam is softened.
- Check and stir a few times while simmering, add additional water (use boiling water) if necessary.
- Add salt to taste. Transfer to serving dish and garnish with greens.
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Hayward's jumper lifts Jazz over Kings
Salt Lake City, UT – Gordon Hayward drained the go-ahead basket with less than five seconds remaining and the Jazz overcame a 13-point fourth quarter deficit to take a 104-102 decision over the Sacramento Kings.
Following an Aaron Brooks turnover, the Jazz had the chance to hold for the final shot. Hayward, who has thrived since coming off the bench, scored a game-high 23 points and buried a wide-open look off a screen from 22-feet out to put the Jazz ahead.
The Kings didn't have a timeout to spare, but James Johnson hustled up the court and got in the paint for an uncontested running layup, but it was too strong and Utah held on to stay undefeated at home.
Marvin Williams donated 20 points in the winning effort, while Derrick Favors finished with a double-double. He scored 16 points and pulled down 14 boards for the Jazz, who won their third straight game and are now above .500 for the first time since winning their season-opener.
Utah's Al Jefferson added 19 points and eight boards in the first of a home- and-home against the Kings. The teams will travel to Sacramento to play on Saturday.
"It's going to be tough playing at their home," said Favors, whose team is just 2-6 on the road this season. "We just have to come out with the same mentality and try and win the game."
Coming off a big win against the Los Angeles Lakers, Tyreke Evans paced the Kings with 19 points and Marcus Thornton had a big fourth quarter to finish with 18 points, but Sacramento fell apart late and blew a double-digit lead.
"Mental mistakes, mistakes down the stretch, fouling, fouling, all those things put us in a tough situation to win," said a frustrated Kings coach Keith Smart. "Mental mistakes that I've talked about all year killed our team tonight."
Sacramento held an 80-73 lead after three and Thornton helped balloon the advantage to 13 early in the fourth. He scored eight straight points, following a layup with a triple and a three-point play to give the Kings an 88-75 lead with 10:03 to go.
But Hayward scored on an alley-oop dunk to spark a 19-9 run and bring Utah within three with 3:25 left in the game.
Jefferson then hit a short turnaround shot before Williams and Jamaal Tinsley each sank a pair of free throws to put the Jazz on top, 100-99, with 2:11 to play.
Off a Williams miss, Jefferson grabbed the offensive rebound and was fouled going up with a shot. He bounced in two free throws to extend the Jazz's lead to three with 58.8 seconds left, but Thornton answered for Sacramento.
Following a timeout, Thornton came off a screen and drained a 3-pointer to tie the game at 102-102.
DeMarcus Cousins then hauled in a rebound off a Tinsley miss, but Brooks was unable to put the Kings back ahead.
He called for an isolation with the clock running down, but Tinsley stripped him of the ball as he was going up, giving the Jazz the opportunity to hold for the final shot with 12.6 remaining.
Hayward then drained what turned out to be the game-winning shot on the ensuing possession.
"It's good that he made that," said Tinsley, who delivered the pass to Hayward on the final score of the game. "I would give it to him again if he had missed it, but it went in and we got the win."
The Kings came out with a hot shooting touch to start the game, converting on 13-of-21 from the field in the first quarter. Brooks scored 10 in the period and helped Sacramento out to a 32-28 edge.
The Jazz trailed most of the second period until Randy Foye knocked down a pair of triples later in the quarter. His first tied the game and his second, with 51 seconds left until halftime, gave Utah a 50-49 lead.
However, Evans hit a pair of free throws and then buried a long jumper to keep the Kings ahead at the break, 53-52.
Sacramento created some separation in the third, as Evans and Brooks drained back-to-back 3-pointers to spark a 10-0 Kings' run for a 71-62 advantage.
Williams' jumper with 1:33 to go in the period clawed the Jazz to within four, but the Kings wound up taking an 80-73 lead into the final stanza.
Game Notes
Utah's Mo Williams rolled his ankle in the first quarter. He tried to return in the second but left soon after and did not return for the rest of the game ... The Jazz improved to 60-24 all-time at home against the Kings.


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Nvidia the year 2007 was rather successful with the introduction of
many new series and various models, covering all range of users, from
the typical one to the enthusiast. The recent update of the G92 GPU
bring us the GeForce 8800 GTS with 512 MB of memory that
promises high performance at an affordable price. The
prices of the new cards ranging from $299 to $349 and the
most noticeable update is the new PCI Express 2.0 support and the
second-generation of NVIDIA's PureVideo HD. Compared to the original
GeForce 8800 GTS 640/320MB cards with 96 stream processors, the new
version gives a further boost in performance with 128 stream
processors. In other words, you can expect a performance loss with the lower priced
8800GTX. Those figures sound very good to my ears. But how this
card stands compared to the recently released 8800GT series?
We will find out today in this review...
- XFX 8800GTS 512 Alpha Dog Edition (PV-T88G-YDD9)
The XFX 8800GTS 512MB is an improved version of
Nvidia's generic 8800GTS with a massive of 678MHz core, 1700MHz of
shader and 986MHz of memory clocks that place it above the
8800GT and close to the 8800GTX series. More-over it has 512MB of
on-board memory with 256 bits of bandwidth.
Below is a table that illustrates the major features of
the 8800 series in terms of core/shader/memory clocks and
interface bandwidth.
- Retail package
The XFX's 8800GTS 512MB retail package is rather small and follows
the usual design of XFX for their graphics card models. There are
several logos in front that separate this product from others with the
most noticeable being the "Alpha Dog Edition" label meaning higher
clocks than the generic 8800GTS 512MB cards.
Opening the retail box unveils its contents, everything is well organized.
The XFX 8800GTS 512 includes the usual for a graphics card, one
D-Sub15-to-DVI converter and an S-Video cable. Two discs are included,
one with drivers and one with the "Lost Planet: Extreme Conditions"
retail game! The bundle also includes the 'Do Not Disturb' door
knob hanger like the other Alpha Dog series cards, pretty cool!
The XFX 8800GTS 512 follows Nvidia's reference cooling solution with a dual slot design.
The graphics card is 23cm in length so be careful, there might be some issues with crammed cases.
SLI is possible with the addition of an extra 8800GTS 512MB card...
You need a 6pin power supply to operate this graphic card.
After installing the graphics card we can find more
details about its main features and specifications. The GPU core runs
at 678MHz, while the memory at 986MHz and the Shader clock at 1700MHz .
Compared to the generic solution, it has a small advantage, but not
much, at least according to our taste... Nevertheless, this card should
perform very good when it comes to overclocking since it's
manufactured with a 65nm process, but later with that...
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We received 500 applications from tech-enabled start-ups in that space. That experience forced us to confront that we all need to be funding and centering even more experimentation and earlier stage efforts.
We have a diligence process that we're really proud of, but we recognize that when you're moving quickly and when you're funding nascent movements thatare not even sure whether they are organizations or not, or what kind of non-profit they are, or whether they are a for-profit, or something between, that the amount of diligence you can do is simply different than under normal circumstances.
And so the tension for us is, how much diligence is enough to satisfy us and our stakeholders? We need to be rigorous, but not so much that we're burdening very young organizations with questions that they are not yet set up to answer because they are so busy doing the work. It's a somewhat unprecedented moment that requires things to change almost weekly, and we are continually questioning how to resolve those tensions. As funders, it's tricky to balance the need for appropriate diligence when new movements are spreading that need to be supported right now.
JB:What are the purpose of values at New Media Ventures? What are they doing for you?
CG: Primarily they offer a north star to help guide decision making – everything from the investment and grantmaking work that we do, but also the hiring that we do. For example, we're hiring a new associate right now on our investments team and we spent a lot of time thinking about how we can be transparent about that process and how we can ensure that the candidates are reflective of who is out in the world. So we make sure our job descriptions don't scream implicit bias all over the place and try to de-jargon those job descriptions, and we've hosted a webinar for potential candidates so that anybody who was considering applying to the position could ask any and all questions before they wrote us notes of interest.
And our values also help us guide internal team culture. For example, we try to be as candid with each other as we are with external stakeholders. We have 10-10s, which are check-ins between colleagues, every two weeks, and it's essentially 10 minutes of feedback that goes two ways. It's a tremendously powerful and effective mechanism for ensuring that challenges are addressed in as real-time as possible. It's a part of the culture that our head of investments, Julie Menter , brought in from a previous job, and it has been totally transformative for our work culture. It's expected that feedback is going both ways, not just at performance reviews, but that it is continuous. I think it helps people not do the very human thing of holding on to grudges, slights or misunderstandings.
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evian® has been working for twenty years with local farmers and authorities in order to protect the resource from the impacts of agriculture and human activities. In 1992, all these stakeholders joined to create APIEME, the Association for the Protection of the Impluvium of evian® mineral water. It gathers 125 local partners alongside the Société des Eaux d'Evian represented by Cathy Le Hec.
As states Cathy Le Hec, the partnership is essential to lead these actions through a continuous improvement process:
This joint approach helps guarantee that all the parties keep progressing together with everyone's needs in mind. Improvement is always around the corner, but APIEME has already had significant successes, such as the impluvium being classified as a Ramsar wetland zone (see Ramsar Convention Partnership above).
For more information, go to : http://www.apieme-evian.com
On the global scale, evian® adopts a collaborative approach to work on the preservation of wetlands: in 1998, it was the first private company to become a partner with the Ramsar Convention, whose mission is "the conservation and wise use of all wetlands through local, regional and national actions, and international cooperation."
For more information, go to: http://www.ramsar.org
In 2009, the classification of the evian® impluvium as a Ramsar Site rewarded the policy of protection of this natural heritage. evian® is the first natural mineral water whose infiltration zone was recognized as a wetland of international importance.
This partnership is not limited to evian®'s impluvium protection. As water protection lies at the very core of its field of expertise, evian® decided to cooperate with other players worldwide, working for the conservation of water resources and wetland ecosystems.
Anada Tiega, General Secretary of the Ramsar Convention, says this partnership has already enabled to implement "significant actions and projects for the conservation of wetlands," such as the Water Protection Schools that both entities set up together in Thailand, Nepal and Argentina in order to educate on water management.PreviousNext
The partnership with RAMSAR and IUCN also led to the creation of the Danone Fund for Nature, that became the Livelihoods Fund in 2011: it gathers companies around Danone to lead projects dedicated to improve local populations' well-being while preserving their ecosystem.
A first project that involves evian® in the replanting of mangrove forests in Senegal was launched in 2009, in association with Oceanium, a local NGO working on the mangroves ecosystem. By planting the mangrove forest, communities manage to restore their ecosystem and their biodiversity (populations of fish, oysters etc.), which provides essential food.
This is a win-win initiative, as it leads to a protection of the ecosystem while involving local populations. Catherine Bolzer, a nurse at Evian participating in the project underscores this collaborative aspect: "We are all volunteers, working together for the success of this project. Beyond the preservation of the planet, it is also a humanitarian issue. Taking care of the mangrove forest also means taking care of the populations that depend on it for their livelihoods."PreviousNext
The other subject on which evian® contributes to "water cooperation" is sustainable access to water for the population who live around its production site. In fact, in the city of Evian, people have direct access to the free evian® water spring.
Moreover, it is at the heart of evian®'s concern to enhance and manage a sustainable use of its resource. As evian® started using a natural resource, it had to ensure its durability and make it available for future generations. Thus, the water life cycle is always respected by only taking what nature can renew.%%%
evian® is also part of a group which is highly involved in facilitating access to water long-term solutions, enhancing the independence of local populations. For instance, Danone supports the "1001 Fountains" project in Cambodia, that funds installation of treatment units that produce safe drinking water, which is then bottled and distributed to isolated populations.
For more information, go to: http://www.1001fontaines.com
All these actions show how evian® contributes to tackle two main issues related to water management: the protection of the resource and its easy access for the local populations. They also highlight a strong collaborative approach. Cooperation is in fact a major tool to build relevant and sustainable social businesses, and also to help evian® understand as accurately as possible what role it can play, on the ground, to help build beneficial relationships around water.PreviousNext


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If you're fortunate enough to give away substantial amounts of money or property during your lifetime, your generosity may be subject to federal gift tax rules.
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After death, your money and property, known as your estate, may also be subject to federal estate tax. However, you can give money away during your lifetime or leave certain amounts to your heirs that are exempt from taxation.
Under the Economic Growth and Tax Relief Reconciliation Act of 2001, the federal estate tax was eliminated in 2010. The gift tax, however, remained in effect at a 35% rate.
On Jan. 1, 2011, the estate tax returned. According to the law enacted in December 2010, estates valued at $5 million or less at death in 2011 are exempt from the tax. Estates worth more than $5 million are taxed at a 35% rate.
Although there was no estate tax due in 2010, some heirs encountered larger-than-expected capital gains taxes upon sale of inherited assets. This was due to the requirement that the basis of such assets be carried over from the decedent to the heir.
With the return of the estate tax in 2011, the stepped-up basis on inherited property also returned. This means that an asset's basis is its fair market value on the day of the original owner's death.
For individuals who died in 2010, the estate had the option of following the 2010 estate tax rules, meaning no tax due on the estate, but the carry-over basis rule is in effect, or using the 2011 estate tax rules, which include a 35% tax on estates worth more than $5 million and stepped-up basis on bequeathed assets.
For deaths in 2012, the estate tax exemption increases to $5.12 million, thanks to inflation. And thanks to the American Taxpayer Relief Act of 2012 that was passed Jan. 1, 2013, the exemption will not revert to $1 million as originally expected, but stays at the $5 million level. However, the tax rate applied to amounts exceeding that exemption will increase from 35% in 2012 to 40% in 2013.
Annual Gift Tax Exclusion
You can give the following monetary amounts to each person, and to as many individuals as you want, without triggering the gift tax. The amount is indexed each year for inflation.
Annual gift tax exclusion
In addition to the annual exclusion amounts, you also can give the following without triggering the gift tax:
- Charitable gifts.
- Gifts to a spouse.
- Gifts to a political organization for its use.
- Gifts of educational expenses. These are unlimited as long as you make a direct payment to the educational institution for tuition only. Books, supplies and living expenses do not qualify.
- Gifts of medical expenses. These, too are unlimited as long as they are paid directly to the medical facility.
Unified Credit
In estate planning, you also must consider the unified credit. It gets its name because the federal gift tax and estate tax are integrated into one unified tax system.
This is the credit for the portion of estate tax due on taxable estates. For example, if you exceed the annual gift tax exclusion amount in any year, you can either pay the tax on the excess or take advantage of the unified credit to avoid paying the tax. The unified credit enables you to give away $5 million during your lifetime without having to pay gift tax.
By using the unified credit during your life, you'll reduce the amount available to offset the estate tax upon your death. If, however, you pay the gift tax, such taxed gifts are added back to your estate, and the estate tax is recalculated, with the gift taxes you previously paid credited against any final estate tax due.
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