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Students leave classroom behind for three week trek across Spain
Last summer, several students from CSB and SJU exchanged the fast track life of a college student for a three week cultural, religious, spiritual, and touristic cross-country journey on the Camino de Santiago de Compostela (Way of St. James) in Santiago, Spain.
The pilgrimage is a three-week course offered through the CSB and SJU Hispanic Studies Department.
Class was a daily 20-mile hike
Jack Ries '11, Amanda Forstroh '10, Angela Leinen '10, Justin Rose '11 and Alexander Brehm'11 hiked an average of 20 miles per day in order to complete the pilgrimage. The group was led by José A. Fábres, CSB and SJU professor of Hispanic Studies.
The Camino de Santiago is a collection of old pilgrimage routes across Europe. All of the routes include Santiago de Compostela in northwest Spain as their final destination. The CSB and SJU students started their pilgrimage at León, Spain — earning the "Compostela certificate" for their efforts.
Each day consisted of starting early in the morning, walking 4 to 5 hours and then finding a hostel to stay in for the night. The group spent afternoons/evenings resting and getting to know the city or village where they stayed.
The students spent about €25 per day totaling less than €1000 for the entire trip, about $1400 American dollars. The cost of the hostels was normally between €3 and €10. Menus were affordable and they included a three course meal for about to €7 to €10.
After the three week voyage, the students reached the final destination — the Cathedral of Santiago de Compostela , where the Apostle James is buried.


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Disruption is pushing companies to rethink their business. Yet capabilities and talent are not pivoting fast enough. The workforce is performing tasks in ways that have been passed down from previous generations. So people are doing work that no longer contributes to valuable outcomes.
This organizational inertia is deadly. ZBx is a new way to drive profitability that emphasizes the future over the past. A critical component of ZBx, ZBO (zero-based organization) designs the "right" organization from a clean sheet, shifting talent from work that does not contribute to outcomes to the distinctive capabilities and operating model needed to fuel growth.READ THE REPORT

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Oklahoma City – EMBARK is making SmartMoves by adding compressed natural gas buses to the fleet and encouraging the public to take steps to reduce emissions. To make an impact this Earth Day, EMBARK is offering free bus rides on all routes and free use of Spokies bicycles on Friday, April 21. The goal of free rides is to encourage people to take the bus or other public transit instead of their car to reduce harmful emissions. One EMBARK bus can replace up to 35 vehicles.
EMBARK has committed to transitioning the entire bus fleet from diesel-powered buses to CNG-powered by 2025. This fall, EMBARK will add eleven more CNG powered buses to their fleet. Construction will start on a CNG filling station at EMBARK's Maintenance facility late this summer. EMBARK's alternative fuel vehicles are being branded with SmartMove decals this month to signify a move towards a fleet that has little to no environmental impact.
"We're launching the SmartMove campaign to demonstrate EMBARK's commitment to clean air and remind people that the transit options are more environmentally-friendly, healthier, less stressful, and more affordable than individual vehicles," says Jason Ferbrache, EMBARK administrator.
EMBARK continually makes improvements to its services that have improved the quality of life. In 2014, EMBARK realigned its transit network to gain efficiencies, and at the same time riders agreed that they have improved access to grocery stores (63%), access to healthcare facilities (55%), and physical activity opportunities (42%)*. Earlier this year, a new vanpool program – EMBARK Rideshare – was launched to help reduce the number of single occupant vehicles on the road.
Ferbrache adds, "With our free bus rides and free access to Spokies on Friday, we hope to encourage those who have never taken public transit in Oklahoma City to try it and see how a simple change in their daily routine can make a lasting impact on the air quality in our city and their quality of life."
EMBARK's fleet currently consists of 49 diesel buses, 8 CNG buses, 2 hybrid electric buses, 50 Spokies bikes and 8 Spokies stations. EMBARK hopes to have its entire fleet converted to alternative fuels by 2025.
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First off I always like to show an "end result" picture with my tutorials, this will give you some of that satisfying instant gratification and hopefully keep your interest for the full tutorial (and for those of you going, "what the heck is a bunting? Is it something you eat?" Now you'll know). It's really easy, I promise. In fact this bunting method can be done completely without a sewing machine, I'll tell you how when we get to that step. But as always if you have any questions on anything I do just let me know and I'll be happy to help out.
Here she is, what do you think? I think she's won my heart. I'll show you her with her Valentine's accessories after I give you the full how-to. Here we go.
First off you'll need a few supplies. To make this bunting I picked out 5 fabrics that I thought fell into the Valentine's Day colors category and coordinated well with each other. Obviously there are actual Valentine's Day fabrics out there that you could use as well, but I tend to stick to the essence of the holiday and choose not to hit you over the head with hearts and cupids. But if that's more your style then go with it. The nice thing about just using a holiday's colors is that you could easily use this bunting for girl birthday parties, or baby and bridal showers as well. That's me, always trying to be versatile.
I bought 1/4 yard of each of my five fabric choices. This amount of fabric could easily make two buntings and if you split it with a friend then they'd be half the price too.
Then I picked out some decorative trim that coordinated with my fabric choices. I used this pom-pomish trim along with a polka-dot ribbon. But you could easily use just the ribbon, or ric-rac is always fun too. I bought two yards of each of these trims, but probably cold have gotten away with 1 1/2 yards. It just depends how long you want your end result to be.
Now you'll need a triangle template. I just used my ruler to draw a triangle the size I wanted on a piece of cardboard and then cut it out. I think you can buy actual plastic templates at the craft store, but there's really no need to unless you plan on mass producing these.
Now the bunting I'm showing you is double-sided, so I also picked up some of this Heat n Bond (I bought it at Wal-Mart) or you could use Wonder-Under if you can find it. You don't have to make your bunting double sided, I just think that you'll end up with a much nicer finished product if you do. Either way it'll be cute.
Okay now you've got your supplies and you're ready to go, so let's get started. You'll need your iron and ironing board for this, so make sure it's plugged in and hot.
1. Take your first fabric, lay it on your ironing board and fit a piece of your heat and bond onto the back side. I cut my piece 9 1/2 inches X 17 inches. This MUST BE SMALLER THAN YOUR PIECE OF FABRIC or you'll heat and bond a lot of sticky goo onto your ironing board and nobody wants that.
2. Adhere your heat and bond onto your fabric with your iron.
3. Let this cool, and then peel the paper backing off of your fabric leaving a layer of the heat and bond on your fabric.
4. Now fold your fabric back onto itself, iron again, and you'll have a nice rectangle of fabric that is double sided.
5. Take this fabric, your cardboard triangle, and pull out your rotary mat and cutter fitted with a pinking blade. If you don't have one of these (you should go buy one) you can use fabric scissors or pinking shears as well. Use your plastic ruler to give yourself a nice edge and cut out double sided triangles. You can lay these back to back and get about 4-5 triangles out of your fabric.
8. Now repeat this entire process with all of your different fabric choices.
9. Now that you've gotten all of your triangles cut, line them up in the order you want them to be on your bunting.
10. Stack your triangles up and get ready to sew. But wait! Here's where you could make this an entirely no-sew project. If you don't have a sewing machine, or are deathly afraid of the one sitting in your closet because you don't know how to re-thread the bobbin (that was me once too), just grab some craft glue or your glue gun and glue your triangles onto your trim. But for the rest of my tutorial's sake I'm going to show you how I finished mine on my sewing machine :)
11. Before you start make a loop out of your trim, sew this together and you'll have an easy way to hang your bunting when it's done.
12. Now take your first decorative trim and sew your triangles next to each other onto the trim. I use my zig zag stitch to do this.
13. Keep going until you've got all the triangles you want on your trim.
14. Now finish your bunting up with a ribbon accent. I used a thick ribbon folded in half to give my bunting a finished look on the front and back.
You're done! That was really easy, right? Another fun way to do a double sided bunting is to put one holiday on the front, and one on the back. I have a Halloween and Thanksgiving one that I can just turn over between holidays. Clever, I know.
Here she is all accessorized and ready for her close-up. What do you think? Want to know the best part about this? I made two of these buntings exactly the same, and I'm ready to give one of them to you!


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Oh, the humanity! Bachelor Pad 2 kicked off last night and it resumed the narratives for every broken-up couple/cliffhanger we had been waiting for. There was Holly and Michael, who had met through the Bachelor franchise (although not on the same show) who were engaged at one point. But they broke it off, and now were hoping they both weren't cast on the Pad. Spoiler alert: they were, duh. And it was an awkwardly silent reunion. Jackie and "Michelle Money," — two contestants from Brad Womack's season — hated each other and even though they hoped that the other wasn't on the new show, they were so ready to hate each other again.
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In today's foray into improbable research, Martin Gardiner takes a look at a Dutch study about the awkward logistics of going in for a kiss.
"…what happens if a person who prefers to kiss with the head turned to the right attempts to kiss a person who prefers to kiss with the head turned to the left."?
This potentially awkward social situation is the subject of a new scientific analysis from researchers at the MOVE Research Institute based at Vrije Universiteit, Amsterdam, in the Netherlands.
Although previous experiments have suggested that roughly two thirds of young western adults tend to 'kiss to the right' – complex scenarios can arise with randomly selected kissers. As the lead researchers Dr. John van der Kamp and Dr. Rouwen Cañal-Bruland explain -
"One upshot of the similar head-turning biases in kissing among individuals and couples is that, when a right-turner kisses a left-turner, they are equally likely to switch their head to the non-preferred side. That is, if the individual head-turning bias is two right-turners for each left-turner, then if couples form randomly, four of nine couples would consist of right-turners, one couple would consists of left-turners, and the remaining four couples would consists of a right- and left-turner. If right- and left-turners are equally likely to switch to the non-preferred side, then two of four mixed couples will turn their head to the right, resulting in six of nine couples 'kissing right' "
In an experiment to clarify the behavioural possibilities, the team presented a dummy (above) to a set of 57 male and female participants who had varying kissing-side preferences. The dummy was inclined in various poses as shown, and each participant attempted kissing it in each orientation. Analysis of the results not only confirmed that the majority (71.9%) were 'right-kissers' but also showed up a previously undocumented nuance – "…with the doll's head rotated in an incompatible direction, right-turners were less likely to switch their head to their non-preferred side."
'Kissing right? On the consistency of the head-turning bias in kissing' is scheduled for publication in a future edition of the journal Laterality. In the meantime, it can be found here:
Note : The experiment was conducted in accordance with the ethical guidelines of the Faculty of Human Movement Sciences in Amsterdam.
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WASHINGTON (MarketWatch) — Members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee gathered on Wednesday at a hearing of the health subcommittee to discuss the effects of the Affordable Care Act on jobs.
As a witness at the hearing, chaired by Pennsylvania Republican Joe Pitts, I testified that the new law will reduce employment in America, particularly for low-skill workers, because employers face a higher cost of labor.
Whenever possible, firms will substitute high-skill for low-skill labor, part-time for full-time workers, machinery for people, and refrain from hiring a 50th worker, which can make them liable for penalties.
Most people know by now that when ACA, also called "Obamacare" by its critics, is fully implemented in 2014, Americans will be required to buy insurance or pay a tax. Firms with 50 or more employees will have to offer affordable health insurance to employees, or risk annual penalties of $2,000 or $3,000 per full-time worker. No penalties are owed on part-time workers, those working fewer than 30 hours a week.
The basic health insurance plan required by the law is generous — and expensive — with no lifetime maximum benefit, no copayments for routine care, mandatory mental health and drug abuse coverage, and free contraceptives. These plans are more comprehensive than those provided now by many employers.
Democratic members contended that ACA would not affect hiring.
(1) Rep. Henry Waxman (D-CA) asserted that the new law doesn't interfere with job creation, because the economy has created 6 million jobs since the passage of the Affordable Care Act. Despite warnings, we've seen job growth, he said.
(2) Under the new law everyone will be insured, so the uninsured won't flood the emergency rooms, leading to lower health care costs, said ranking subcommittee member Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ) Covering more people will lower the cost of care, so ACA won't raise employer costs.
(3) The additional cost of health insurance to employers due to the new law will raise the cost of wages by only 0.0003%, according to Linda Blumberg, an economist at the left-of-center Urban Institute who also testified at the hearing.
These arguments are troubling because they appear to show a fundamental lack of understanding about the effects of the law and how firms make hiring decisions.
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True, 5.6 million jobs have been created since ACA was signed in early 2010. That's only 155,000 jobs a month, on average, barely enough to keep up with population growth.
Despite February's strong job creation numbers, with 246,000 private-sector jobs created, the recovery has been weak. The economy has almost 3 million fewer nonfarm payroll jobs than at the start of the recession, in December 2007. The unemployment rate, 7.7%, is over two percentage points higher than the administration projected in January 2009, when President Obama proposed the stimulus.
The labor force participation rate, at 63.5%, is the same as September 1981, at the beginning of the decade when 11 million women moved into the labor force, before the start of the Reagan Revolution. This is the weakest jobs recovery since the Great Depression. It does not prove that ACA has no effect on hiring. If anything, it shows the opposite.
Then, consider Rep. Pallone's point that under ACA everyone will be insured, lowering the cost of health care, benefitting firms.
First, not everyone will choose to be insured. Some, especially younger, healthy adults, will choose to pay the tax and skip the insurance. With a tax of $95 in 2014, $325 in 2015, and $695 in 2016 and thereafter, this makes a tempting alternative to CBO's estimated $20,000 insurance premiums for a family plan in 2016. It's especially attractive because under the ACA people can sign up for insurance during the open enrollment period. So why not skip insurance until you get sick, or until you get old and more likely to be sick?
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Second, many earning under 400% of the poverty line will receive a federal subsidy to buy health insurance on the exchanges — but there's a loophole. If one member of a family gets affordable single coverage from his employer, he's required to take it, and that precludes any family members qualifying for subsidized insurance on the exchange. The New York Times has called this a "glitch" in the new system. Recent IRS regulations waived the penalty on those who didn't have coverage, but didn't fix the glitch, leaving millions uninsured.
These two groups of people will end up in emergency rooms and community centers for their care. CBO estimates that in 2014 there will be 44 million uninsured, and when ACA is fully phased in, in 2023, there will still be 30 million people uninsured.
Blumberg estimates that "the incremental costs to employers of increased employer-sponsored insurance coverage and employer penalties are very small relative to current compensation — with the 2.7% increase in employer-sponsored coverage coming at a cost equal to 0.0003% of total wages."
One reason that covering a larger number of people with a more generous plan will have little effect, she said, is because employers will pay lower wages to make up for higher costs of benefits. What she didn't say is that this will leave less cash to spend on other things.
Lowering wages to incorporate the cost of insurance or a fine is harder for firms that employ low-skill workers. The $2,000 penalty will amount to 11%t of average annual earnings in the food and beverage industry and 9% in retail trade, jobs with low-skill minimum wage employees.
Not to worry, said Blumberg, paying more for health care and insurance means that more jobs are created in the United States. Here's why: health care jobs are local, but people's consumption generally includes imports. So if people have to spend more on health care, that raises local employment — and the only losers are the Chinese manufacturers who don't get as much business.
The primary issue is whether people are free to spend their money to buy the goods and services they prefer, or whether they are compelled to purchase a different package of services. Because of substantial regulation, the price of health care is much higher than it would be in a competitive market.
The fact that health care is built on American labor is hardly comforting. If firms had to provide their employees with food and housing, also made in America, they would clearly hire fewer of them. The same goes for the provision of health insurance.


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ASHBURN, Va. (AP) Lorenzo Alexander is a familiar name around the NFL, especially among those who follow special teams. He's been a relentless force on coverage units for years, and the Washington Redskins currently list him at the league leader in the unofficial stat of solo special teams tackles.
He's also a team captain and one of the locker room's unofficial spokesmen. Last year he won the Redskins' Good Guy Award for his genial cooperation with the media and was also Washington's nominee last year for the Walter Payton Man of the Year award for his off-the-field work.
This week, for a change, Alexander is getting noticed for making some big plays on defense.
He plucked a fumble out of the air deep in opposition territory and had 1 1/2 sacks and four quarterback hurries in the Redskins' 38-26 win over the Minnesota Vikings on Sunday. He had an impact even though he was on the field for just 27 defensive plays - about one-third of the total. He received a game ball from coach Mike Shanahan and, for the first time in his six-year career, was given a spot at the podium for his own news conference following the game.
``He's a guy that gives everything,'' Shanahan said. ``And we're going to have to play him some more, obviously.''
When two-time Pro Bowl linebacker Brian Orakpo was lost for the season with a shoulder injury in Week 2, Shanahan said Rob Jackson and Chris Wilson would rotate at the outside spot with the expectation that one or the other would emerge as the new starter.
Four weeks later, the position is still very fluid. Jackson played exactly half of the 84 defensive snaps against the Vikings. Wilson was on the field for just two, fewer than both Alexander and recent midseason signing Mario Addison (11).
Alexander, whose been called the ``One Man Gang'' and the ``Swiss Army Knife,'' played both offensive line and defensive line earlier in his career and lost some 30 pounds this offseason to help his coverage skills as a backup inside linebacker.
Instead, with Orakpo gone, he's finding a niche on the edge.
``I think we might have struck gold with where we've got him playing right now, in that kind of rush-linebacker position,'' defensive tackle Barry Cofield said. ``It's almost like he's running down, busting through a wedge, when he's breaking through that line of scrimmage. To me it seems like a natural fit. As soon as we put in him there, it seems like he's flourished in that role, so I think we can expect big things from him in that spot.''
Alexander was typically humble about his big game, saying he was being opportunistic and ``in the right place at the right time,'' but he acknowledged the recognition was a nice change of pace from the often-ignored work he does on special teams.
``It's a cool feeling, a cool perspective,'' Alexander said. ``Obviously I know what special teams brings to the game - it's not appreciated on a grand scheme - but it is what it is, and I'm fine with getting this attention now that I've done a little bit on defense. Now it's about consistency.'' ---
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Washington, D.C., March 2, 2011 – Homeowners want function, efficiency and fire pits in their outdoor space, according to the 2011 American Society of Landscape Architects (ASLA) Residential Trends Survey. The survey asked residential landscape architecture professionals to rate the expected popularity of dozens of different outdoor living and landscape features for this year. For 2011, the top outdoor living features are some of the most basic: light, fire, food and a place to sit and enjoy it all. Overall, 96.2 percent of respondents rated exterior lighting as somewhat or very popular for this year, followed by fire pits/fireplaces (94.2 percent), seating/dining areas (94.1 percent), grills (93.8 percent) and installed seating like benches or seat walls (89.5 percent). While the most popular outdoor features reflect an enduring sensibility, the interest in modern technology like stereo systems (58.3 percent), Internet access (46.3 percent) and televisions (45.4 percent) adds to the growing trend of taking what we enjoy inside to the outdoors – up to a point. Only 10.4 percent of respondents thought outdoor sleeping areas would be popular this year. "Despite the economic climate, homeowners continue to reconnect with their outdoor space. However, expect many households this year to either phase in projects over time or carefully select fewer features," said ASLA Executive Vice President and CEO Nancy Somerville, Hon. ASLA. When it comes to landscape elements, efficiency and sustainability reign supreme. The most popular for 2011 include low maintenance landscapes (94.2 percent), native plants (87.2), water-efficient irrigation (83.1 percent), ornamental water features (81 percent) and food/vegetable gardens (80.3 percent). Other popular sustainability features for 2011 include permeable paving (77 percent), reduced lawn (72.6 percent) and rainwater harvesting (63.6 percent). Additional information on residential landscape architecture can be found at www.asla.org/residentialinfo.
Outdoor Living Features (Percent rating somewhat or very popular for 2011)Lighting – 96.2%Fire pits/fireplace – 94.2%Seating/dining areas – 94.1%Grills – 93.8%Installed seating (benches, seat walls, ledges, steps, boulders) – 89.5%Weatherized outdoor furniture – 83.6%Counter space – 74.2%Utility storage – 61.3%Stereo systems – 58.3%Sinks – 54.7%Refrigerators – 50.2%Wireless/Internet connectivity – 46.3%Televisions/projection screens – 45.4%Outdoor heaters – 44.4%Showers/bathing – 42.1%Outdoor cooling systems (including fans) – 36.7%Bedrooms/sleeping spaces – 10.4%
Outdoor Recreation AmenitiesDecorative water elements such as ornamental pools, splash pools, waterfalls, grottos, water runnels or bubblers – 84.7%Spa (hot tub, Jacuzzi, whirlpool, indoor/outdoor sauna) – 75.9%Swimming Pools – 69.4%Sports/recreational spaces (tennis courts, bocce ball, etc.) – 47.7%
Landscape/Garden Elements Low maintenance landscapes – 94.2%Native plants – 87.2%Fountains/ornamental water features – 81.0%Food/Vegetable gardens (including orchards/vineyards etc.) – 80.3%Organic gardens – 65.5%Ponds/streams – 62.5%Rain gardens – 56.6%Xeriscaping or dry gardens – 56.3%
Sustainable Design Elements Native/adapted drought-tolerant plants – 88.8%Drip/water-efficient irrigation – 83.1%Permeable paving – 77.0%Reduced lawn – 72.6%Recycled materials – 64.5%Rainwater/graywater harvesting – 63.6%Compost bins – 49.4%Solar-powered lights – 48.8%Geothermal-heated pools – 23.2%
StructuresFencing (includes gates) – 85.1%Arbors – 83.8%Pergolas – 82.6%Steps – 79.3%Ornamental water features such as fountains or splash pools – 77.5%Decks – 74.4%Porches – 72.3%Art (sculpture etc.) – 60.7%Utility shed (tool shed, garden shed etc.) – 59.3%Play structures (tree house, swing set, etc.) – 58.9%Pavilions – 52.9%Awnings, including retractable – 49.6%Gazebos – 49.6%Columns – 40.9%ADA-accessible structures (ramps, bars, accessible shelving etc.) – 23.5% About the SurveyThe survey asked residential landscape architecture professionals about the estimated popularity of various design elements for 2011. The survey was fielded February 8 to 24, with 245 responding.
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Valdis' brilliant reminders here about the capacity for resilience through net diversity remind me of a point I made in "Accidental Conversations" a few years ago, that we need to practice diversity in our conversations as well.
This is the practice of sparking and nurturing tangents and lateral inquiries in conversations. Lateral inquiries are questions that take the conversation in new directions. Some of the best are questions like who you've seen lately, what you've been reading or listening to lately, what you've seen on Ted.com or YouTube lately, what you've been up to lately.
These have the potential for a whole vibrant ecology of new discoveries and connections that we could never possibly anticipate, predict, or plan.
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Those close by, form a Tie
Birds of a feather flock together... so do entrepreneurs.
Ed Morrison found some interesting research that examines the dense clustering of successful economic neighborhoods/clusters. This research is similar to that of Thomas Allen @ MIT, who studied how engineers and scientists worked, and from that came the Allen Curve, which shows the correlation between distance and frequency of communication in organizations. Both sets of research support what I have observed in social network analysis projects: those close by, form a tie -- and as a result get things done. In the age of the Internet, distance still matters!
From Washington University in St. Louis, News & Information:
"High-tech firms locating close to each other benefit from the proximity," says Barak S. Aharonson, visiting assistant professor of organization and strategy at the Olin Business School at Washington University in St. Louis. "The potential for frequent face-to-face interaction, serendipitous encounters and easy scrutiny are facilitated by being near firms that are working on similar things and are open to sharing information."
Coffee shop encounters could lead to new business ideas. These "knowledge spillovers" happen more frequently the closer firms are to each other, and dissipate as the distance between companies grows. In fact, Aharonson said, the benefits of agglomeration are strongest within 500 meters (about 0.31 miles) and fade quickly over distances.
"Eventually they are all going to meet in the nearby coffee shop. The basis of agglomerations and the benefit for high tech firms is the flow of knowledge," Aharonson said. "At this point high tech knowledge is almost a public commodity. You can protect it, however through interactions with people — especially those outside the company — it disseminates rapidly. Proximity facilitates face to face interaction and increases the likelihood for knowledge spillovers. These knowledge spillovers enhance the potential creativity of the scientists. Increased creativity leads to new ideas, new products and new businesses. Hence, closely located firms are more likely to benefit from such knowledge spillovers than isolated firms."
Here is the full paper on Knowledge Spillovers.
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No such thing as too many cookies…so here ya' go.
These were created to use with Cinnamon Bliss…one of my favorite things on earth. You can find it in this link at Amazon.com and a little goes a long way, so the jug will last awhile. If you can't find it or don't want to have that much hanging around, my Gold Caramel Sauce or a good-quality store-bought sugar-free sauce would be wonderful in these.
(Using the commercial stuff, these are fairly full of sugar alcohols – which I'm not fond of. Whey Low doesn't contain any, so using that and the recipe for Caramel Sauce would be best if you are sensitive to SA's.)
Vegetable cooking spray
1/2 cup almond flour
1/2 cup all-purpose flour
1 cup quick oatmeal (not instant)
1/2 cup Whey Low granular, Maltitol crystals, or Splenda Granular
1 tablespoon sugar-free maple syrup
1/2 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
Dash cinnamon
1/2 cup butter, melted
Preaheat oven to 325 degrees. Spray a 9-inch baking pan with vegetable cooking spray and set aside.
Stir together almond flour, flour, oatmeal, Nature Sweet crystals or Splenda, baking soda, salt, and cinnamon. Add melted butter and mix until crumbly. Reserve 1/2 cup for the topping. Pat remainder into the pan. Bake for 10-12 minutes or until starting to become golden on the edges.
2/3 cup Cinnamon Bliss OR Gold Caramel Sauce – recipe link above (or store-bought SF)
2/3 cup chopped pecans, walnuts, or almonds
Bring sauce and nuts to boil and, stirring constantly, boil for 2 minutes. Pour over baked crust. (If using Gold Caramel Sauce, just heat through…don't boil or it will be TOO chewy!)
4 ounces sugar free Dark or Milk chocolate, chopped
1/2 cup reserved crumbs
Sprinkle chopped chocolate over caramel layer. Sprinkle reserved crumbs over chocolate. Return to oven and bake for 15-20 minutes or until caramel is bubbly on edges and top crumbs are slightly golden. Cool in pan and cut into 16 pieces. Makes 16 servings.
Per servings: Calories 207; Protein 4 g; Fat 15 g; Carbs 15 g; Sugar 1 g; Sodium 83 mg


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Swimming Pool Blog
by Mark Garcia April 17, 2019
Inground Pool Liner Replacement Guide
The 80/20 Rule applies - about 80% of inground pool liners are installed in the spring, but only 20% of people do it themselves. If your liner looks tired or torn, then you may consider replacing it yourself.
The cost savings are significant. Inground pool liner replacements can easily run $4000 if priced through a local company, who typically doubles their liner cost and then charges $1500-$2000 in 'labor' costs.
Replacing an inground liner is more involved and more difficult than an aboveground liner, but it is something that a couple of motivated homeowners can do themselves, in a single weekend.
Without further ado, here is my complete guide to in-ground pool liner replacement, and the pitfalls to avoid.
Measuring your Pool
Accurate measurements are key to getting a liner that fits like a glove. Most inground vinyl pools have a geometric floor shape, with precise angles. The corners of the pool, at the top of the wall, have a specific radius measurement. And, most pools have square measures - with both ends and both sides being the exact same length.
However! Many pools are built just slightly askew, and end-up a few inches off from spec.To be sure that you order a correctly fitting liner, measure your pool correctly, and double check your measurements.
You may have measures available from a previous liner order, or you can probably dig up the original spec sheet which shows the length, width, depth and radius of the corners. However! Most pools will vary from the original specs, and can slightly shift over a period of many years, so it's always recommended to remeasure the pool, completely.
Measurement Equipment: You will need a 50 ft measuring tape, rigid or flexible, and a 25 ft rigid tape. A pool pole is used as a vertical rod to measure distances across the floor. A clip board and pencil to write down the pool measurements. Two people are needed to measure the pool, and you don't need to drain the pool, but the water should be clean, so you can see the bottom clearly.
Measurement Form: You will need a measurement form for an inground pool liner. These are fairly standard, but it's best to use the form provided by the dealer that you plan to order the liner from.
Follow the steps of the measurement form, and be sure to fill out all boxes and answer all questions. Don't forget your name and contact information!
To measure depth of shallow end (D), just use a rigid measuring tape, being careful to measure from the bead or track, to the flat floor. For the deep end depth (C), run a tight string (or flexible measuring tape) across the deep end, on the edge of the hopper and use a pool pole, or other long pole, placed into the corner of the hopper. Measure the pole at the point where it intersects the string, and then subtract the distance from the deck to the liner track, or bead. You can also use two pool poles at 90 deg angles to each other, to help hold the vertical pole in position, on larger pools. Holding the pole with a carpenter's level as shown here, is not usually attainable, as (V) is normally at least 4 ft. wide.
To measure length of the pool (E, F, G, H), with water still in the pool, tightly secure a flexible measuring tape (the reel-up type), the length of the pool, then use vertical pool poles to measure the length of each section. Your helper should eyeball the pole to make sure it looks vertical, and is not tilted. When measuring the slope from shallow to deep (F), do not measure down the slope, but measure horizontally to a pole held vertically. You can also use a plumb bob on a horizontal pole, and measure to the vertical string. Once you know 3 of the 4 measures, you can extrapolate the fourth, as long as (E+F+G+H = A).
To measure width of the pool (I, J, K), use a pool pole held vertically in the corner of the hopper, and measure horizontally from the liner track to the pole. Do not measure down the side-slope, the measuring tape should be horizontal. Switch sides and measure the width of the opposite side wall. You can then extrapolate the width of the hopper, as long as (I+J+K = B). Typically, the K and I measures are the same, but don't assume, they can be different.
Measuring Pitfalls to Avoid:
- When measuring F, H, I and K - don't measure down the slope, measure horizontally to a vertical pole.
- When done measuring, check that A and B measurements add up to the total of all length and width measures.
- Check A and B measures at top of the wall and bottom of the wall, to be sure walls aren't leaning.
- Measure depth from the flat floor, (not the top of any coved sand) - to the bottom of the liner bead track at top of wall.
- Keep your vertical measuring pole straight, or use a plumb bob on a horizontal pole.
Choosing a Replacement Liner
One of the fun parts of putting in a new pool liner is choosing a new pattern or style. Darker colors will absorb slightly more solar energy. Tan and Grey tones have become popular lately, to blend with neutral backyard colors. Most patterns have a mottled pattern, to help hide dirt and mask wrinkles or imperfections. If you can afford it, I would always recommend choosing a thicker liner - 28 or 30 mil, rather than a standard 20 mil pool liner.
Warranty is another way that liner manufacturers differentiate their products, but keep in mind that a true warranty claim, for defects in materials or manufacture, is rare. 99% of liner failures are caused by pool chemistry or Acts of God. Also, most warranties are pro-rated, so a 25 year warranty may have little value over time. Liner warranties typically cover seam or bead separation, but won't cover punctures, or sun or chemical deterioration. Specifically, inground liner warranties only cover you for "defects in materials or workmanship".
When you order a pool liner, you may also consider ordering wall foam and adhesive. If your steel walls are rusty, or to just add a soft feel to your walls, 1/8" thick wall foam is added to the walls before you install the new liner. There are several great liner manufacturers in the states, and lots of good vinyl comes from Canada - some well known liner companies are Pen-Fab, McEwen, Tara, GLI, Swimline.
Choose a pattern and style that you like, you're going to be looking at it for many years!
Supplies & Materials
- Wall Foam and spray adhesive (optional)
- Floor repair materials (sand, vermiculite or concrete)
- Duct Tape
- New faceplates and gaskets for skimmer, returns, main drains
- Possibly new gaskets for steps and pool light
- Pennies or Popsicle sticks
Tools & Equipment
- Razor Knife
- Flat head Screwdrivers
- Putty Knife
- Liner Vac or HD Shop Vac
- Extension cord
- Push Broom
- Cordless Drill with #3 Phillips Tip
Draining the Pool
Wait to drain the pool until you have everything ready to go, and a good weather forecast. Leaving your pool empty for very long could damage the pool walls or floor, if freak weather and floods move in before you have a chance to refill the pool.
A submersible pump can be set in the pool to drain it slowly, in 10-30 hours, depending on the pump size. Some inground pools can drain most of the water out of the pool from the main drains, using the filter pump. If you have a multiport valve, set it to waste, and run out a long discharge hose, away from the pool (and your neighbors!). Close the skimmer valve tightly and keep the pump running (and draining) until the main drains begin to suck air. The remaining water can be removed with a pool cover pump or small submersible pump.
You will need to drain ALL of the water out of the pool. Get the last bit with a mop and bucket, or large sponge, or a shop vac. A few gallons spilled won't hurt the floor of the pool, but don't remove the floor of the liner with inches of water still left in the hopper.
Pool Draining Pitfalls to Avoid:
- Discharge the pool water too close to the pool, and it can weep into the pool, or put pressure on weak walls.
- Water should be balanced and low in sanitizer and algaecides, to protect the watershed. Green water is OK!
- 20,000+ gallons is a lot of water, be sure that you are not eroding or oversaturating a hillside.
- Some areas have pool drainage and discharge restrictions and regulations. Check your local govt. website.
- Don't flood a downhill neighbor's garden, garage or basement!
- Check the weather, flood waters and high water tables can cause problems for an empty pool.
Removing the Liner
With the water removed, first remove the faceplates for the skimmers and returns. Keep the main drain faceplate on until you are ready to install the new liner. Use a large #3 Phillips screwdriver, or use a #3 tip on a cordless drill. Put the screws in a Ziploc bag and place somewhere safe. Same thing with the pool step and seat sections, and the pool light.
For the underwater pool light, you will have to remove the lamp from the wall niche completely. Find the light junction box located off the deck, directly behind the light(s). Shut off the power at the breaker, and disconnect the light cord from the power wires. Attach a wire or heavy string to the light cord and pull it through the conduit as you remove the light fixture from the niche. Leave the string in the light niche, so you can pull the light cord back through the conduit to the junction box, after the liner is installed. Place the pool light, light rings and screws in a safe and secure location. See my other blog post for more information on removing and replacing a pool light.
Now you can cut the liner at the base of the wall with a razor knife, all the way around the pool. Make a few vertical cuts, up the wall, and remove the liner from the track. Be gentle as you pull the liner out of the track. Yanking on it can break a brittle section of the track. Roll up the wall pieces and remove them from the pool. Cut the floor into sections, roll them up and throw them up on deck.
Wall Work
Inspect your walls around the pool. If they are dusty or crusty, you can sweep them with a broom or brush, or scrape off deposits with a putty knife. Rusty walls should be scraped down and painted. If there is more than just slight rust and dust, you should consider using Wall Foam. For walls that have actual holes in them, or very severe rust, you can duct tape sections of sheet metal to the wall, to keep the rust from damaging a new liner. Another good use of duct tape is to cover the vertical wall joints, to help hide the indentation where they meet.
Inspect the liner track at the top of the wall, and clean it out with a hand brush or pool brush. If you have any areas that are cracked or broken, Super Glue makes a quick repair. For missing sections, ask your dealer for a section of liner track. Close up pictures are helpful to find the correct type of liner track, as there are several types.
Inspect the surfaces of the wall where the faceplates attach - skimmer, returns, light and steps. If you see rust, this indicates that it has been leaking. Clean it up as well as you can, using rough sandpaper, steel brush or wire wheel. Paint it with a rust tolerant paint like Rust-O-leum or Krylon. After cleaning the surfaces, use small strips of duct tape to hold on the skimmer, pool light and main drain gasket, the one that goes under the liner (there's a second gasket used on top of the liner).
Floor Work
Sand Floors have the most amount of work. Retroweling a sand floor can take 3-5 hours for two people. Bad sand (green or black) can be removed and replaced, but don't add too much new sand, or you risk raising the floor level, making the liner deeper than the pool depth. Use a rounded edge trowel, and scrape off the high spots and fill in the low spots. Put pressure as you trowel to create as smooth a surface as possible. A little spray of water can help in some spots, but don't oversaturate the sand. Work your way from the deep end to the shallow end, smoothing the floor and picking out any pebbles or debris that may be visible through the liner.
Vermiculite Floors have much less work required. This type of floor looks like rough concrete, but is softer and may have developed divots or cracks. Sweep the floor first, to remove dust and loose material, and then make any needed patches to the floor, using a medium grade of Vermiculite. Trowel into place, spray with water, trowel again if needed - it dries very quickly and is easy to work with.
Concrete floors are the least amount of work. Just sweep them clean and patch any cracks that may have developed on the floor. Use hydraulic cement, or a sand mix cement. Mix with water and trowel into place.
Prep Work Pitfalls to Avoid:
- Be cautious working around an empty pool. Falling into empty pools can be hazardous!
- Be Prepared for the Prep Work, so you can finish wall and floor prep as fast as possible.
- Once the floor is ready - install the liner quickly before debris blows into the empty pool.
- Darker swirl patterns will hide wall and floor imperfections more than light blue liners.
New Liner Installation
Give the floor of the pool one last inspection for anything that might have blown in the pool. Clean off the pool deck if needed, to keep the pool clean. Remove the main drain faceplate, and replace the gasket taping it in place, so the holes line up, and it won't shift while under the liner. Be careful to keep sand out of the main drain ring and cover screw holes.
An inground pool liner box will have an arrow with a label marked Deep End, (or sometimes Shallow End). Lay the liner on the end of the pool and unfold it to the sides. Four people work best for the next few minutes of work, one person for each corner. With two people holding the deep end corners, two other people grab the shallow end corners and walk the liner down to the shallow end. Locate the shallow end corners of the liner, and lining them up, lock the liner into the track. Use Popsicle sticks or pennies if needed to shim the liner bead, and help hold it in the track temporarily. When all four corners (or for Oval pools, an approximation), you can release two helpers, and two people can return to the shallow end of the pool.
Pull Up the Slack: Lay down on the pool deck next to the pool step section, and lean way over the edge to grab the vinyl on the floor. Your helper can do the same on the opposite side of the steps. The purpose is to grab the liner off of the shallow end floor, and pull it towards the shallow end wall, to take up the natural slack that the liner will have towards the deep end. You can place sandbags or Water Bags up against the shallow end wall or under the step section, if it seems that you need it to help prevent the liner from slipping toward the deep end.
Lock in the Bead: Two people work in opposite directions, locking the liner bead into the track. Start in the shallow end center, and pull opposite each other, to remove small amounts of slack, while keeping the corners in place. If you have a step section in the shallow end, you can use some duct tape for now, to help hold the liner over the span of the steps. Continue all the way around the pool, locking the liner snugly into the track. Do this from outside the pool, leaning over the edge. If the liner fit is either too tight or too loose in the track, you can use strips of Liner Lock, a rubber wedge that you push-in between the liner and the track.
How's it Hanging? After it's all in place, take a look to check the "hang" of the liner. The corners should all be central to the actual corners, although they will be very slack. The wall material should hang straight down, and although loose and wrinkly, any folds should be running vertically. If they run diagonally, you may need to shift the liner in the track somewhat. The vinyl covering the floor should also lay flat, and lift off the floor at the sides, where it meets the wall. Floor wrinkles can be pulled out by leaning over the pool edge and pulling on the liner, or using a push broom or pool brush to push them towards the wall.
Liner Installation Pitfalls to Avoid:
- No smoking around the new liner!
- No sharp instruments, No shoes.
- Install during 65-85 degrees if possible.
- Don't install any faceplates until full.
- Plan your installation, to order all gaskets and faceplates ahead of time.
Setting the Liner
The next step is to use a vacuum to suck out the air behind the liner, or between the liner and the walls and floor. A powerful vacuum or wet/dry vac is used to suction the liner tightly to the walls and floor. This allows you to fill the pool without any wrinkles. Skip this step (or do it improperly) and you'll likely have wrinkles in your new liner.
The pros use a vac blower like the Cyclone Liner Vac, which is also used for blowing out pool lines, to winterize a pool. You can buy one of these, or you can use a heavy duty wet/dry vac, of 5hp or larger. Large inground pools may need two vacuums to set the liner.
Set up the vac on the edge of the pool, in the middle of a long side. Run an extension cord to a nearby outlet. Connect a 4-6' hose to the suction port of the blower/vac, and run the hose behind the liner, by pulling a small section of liner bead out of the track. Push it down behind the liner a few feet, about a foot above the floor.
Duct tape all around the point where the hose goes behind the liner, to seal up any air leaks around the hose. Also use duct tape on the skimmer lid, and make sure that all plumbing valves on your filter system are closed.
Step Sections: There are several ways to seal up the step. In some cases you can just use a lot of duct tape, but for larger steps, you'll need to lay something flat across the top of the steps, and duct tape that to the deck and to the liner, to be able to achieve a full seal. A large flat sign, or cardboard sheet can be used. Some people cut a large section from the old liner and lay that across the steps, taping or weighting it down. Lumber can also be used, such as several 1x12" boards laid across the top. You may ask "why not just put on the step tracks and screws?" That is done later, after the liner has stretched into place. Don't make any holes for the step section, until the water level is up to the bottom step.
When you seal up all of the air leaks, you will see the liner magically suck itself tight in just a few minutes. And now you can really see how the liner fits, how it meets the corners - and if there are any wrinkles.
Wrinkles: Don't freak out if you see a few wrinkles, it's normal. Most pools have a few at first, it just takes some finesse to work them out, by pushing and pulling them towards the wall, or expanding them across the floor. Try to do the work from up above if you have a sand floor, or use two 2'x3' boards to gently move around the floor. Even with vermiculite or concrete floors, try not to enter the pool, and if you must, walk very gently.
To work out wrinkles in a liner, you can use your hands to "massage" or spread out the wrinkle. Try laying on the deck and leaning way over the edge, grabbing a handful of vinyl (you may have to shut off the vacuum temporarily), and pulling towards the wall, and releasing the liner slowly into place. You could also use a push broom or pool brush on a pole, to gently push the vinyl in directions away from the angle of the fold, or wrinkle. Sand bags or water bags can also be used toto hold wrinkles that wIn some cases, you may need to unset and reset the pool liner several times before you get it set without wrinkles. And in some cases, you have to move on, and work on them later. In some cases, the last few wrinkles are most easily worked out when there is a few inches of water covering the area. For more on pool liner wrinkles, see this post dedicated to the topic.
Pool Liner Setting Pitfalls to Avoid:
- If the liner doesn't suck tight in 2-5 minutes, find the air leak and try again.
- Large pools, or L-shapes may need two vacuums for a full set.
- Some wet/dry vacs aren't strong enough for the job.
- Plug into 20A circuits (Kitchen/Garage), with a heavy gauge extension cord, to avoid tripping the breaker.
- Vacuum must run continuously until pool is half full of water, or covering the shallow floor in 3" of water.
Filling the Pool
Before you fill the pool, or when you have just a few inches of water in the hopper bottom, carefully walk down to the deep end and put on the main drain faceplate ring, top gasket and main drain cover. There is already one gasket under the liner, now place a second drain gasket on top of the liner and then screw on the main drain ring, or faceplate. Be sure to tighten down the screws very tight, until you hear the plastic begin to creak. Then, use a razor knife to cut out the vinyl circle inside of the ring, and then install your main drain cover, with two stainless steel screws. Safe drain covers should be an anti-vortex dome design (not a flat grate design), and be secured tightly, to prevent entrapment injury.
Keep the vacuum running until the shallow end is covered in 3-6" of water! If you shut it off, the liner will relax, and you may end up with wrinkles.
From a Garden Hose: Measure your flow by timing how long it takes to fill up a 5 gallon bucket, then you can figure your flow rate, in gallons per minute. A little more math, and you can figure out how long it will take to fill the pool from a hose. Most hoses can do close to 10 gpm, 600 gallons per hour, or 14,400 gallons per 24 hrs.
From a Well: If you have a decent well, with decent water, you can fill your pool with it. I have heard so many people say "Don't want run my well dry, or burn out my pump" - but that is really rare. Most wells can handle filling a pool of 20-30,000 gallons. But, monitor the outflow, and if the flow rate drops considerably, allow the well to catch up, or call in some delivered pool water.
From a Truck: Expensive to do, it can cost $1000 in some areas to fill a pool. In our area, they charge about $250 for the first 5000 gallons, and then $200 for each additional - and they just fill their trucks from fire hydrants!
From a Hydrant: In some towns, if you have a fire hydrant close to your house, you can contact your fire department for a permit to use the fire hydrant to fill your pool. There may be a fee, and you may need to provide your own hose, from the hydrant to your pool, which you can rent for a day.
Remember to continue running the vacuum, to keep the liner set, until the water level is up to the first step in the shallow end. Then you can shut it off, and carefully remove the hose from behind the liner. Remove all of your duct tape and lock the liner back into the track, and continue filling the pool!
Wrinkles: Monitor the pool for wrinkles as it fills, or check the small ones that you saw earlier, to be sure they are stretched out. Some wrinkles just naturally flatten when a few inches of water is on top of them, and the weight of a few inches of water can be helpful in smoothing out wrinkles in the floor, by pushing them toward the wall, or spreading them out. If there is too much water on top of a wrinkle, say more than a foot, it can be harder to pull them out. If you have a sand bottom, you can sometimes push wrinkles in, to the floor, if they are very small folds.
Pool Filling Pitfalls to Avoid:
- No tripped breakers! Plug into a strong 20 amp outlet, keep the vac plug dry if raining.
- Wait to install step, light, skimmer and return faceplates until water level is up to them.
- Don't fill over your vac hose, it can be hard to remove when under water.
- Corded electic drills can be hazardous around pool water (cordless is ok).
Steps & Seats
When the water level reaches the point where it's almost reached the first step, or bottom step, it's time to screw on the step strips, the 3 long plates and about 50 screws, that gaskets the liner around the steps. If the liner looks loose or is wrinkled, pull up on it, or push out on it. If necessary, use small sand bags to help hold the liner up against the wall, under the step.
Gaskets: Most step sections have a heavy duty rubber step gasket that holds up to many liner changes. If you noticed rust around the step strips, inspect the gasketing and replace the heavy rubber gasket if necessary.
To install the step strips, start with the bottom strip, and with a cordless drill, screw all of the bottom strip screws in place, starting in the center and working your way to the outside. Then you can install the side strips, working from the bottom towards the top. Once all 3 step strips are screwed on, go over each one again to make sure they are double-tight. Then, trim out the vinyl carefully and close to the edge of the step strip. Install the screw hider strips and you're done!
Steps and Seats Pitfalls to Avoid
- Without water in the pool, be gentle on the step section, it could crack.
- Clean the step gasket, or use the step gasket kit if it looks damaged.
- Don't use an electric drill, if you drop it in the pool, you could die!
- Don't pull up on the liner as you make your initial screw holes, leave a little slack.
- Wait until the water is up to the screw holes before screwing in the bottom step strip.
Face Plates
The face plates for your skimmer and return should be replaced if they have some age to them. Returns have a permanent rubber gasket, like a step section, but also use a gasket on top of the liner. Buy your skimmer gaskets and main drain gaskets in pairs, once goes under the liner, and one gasket on top of the liner.
Screw on your faceplate screws very tightly, with the large Phillips (#3) head. Crank them down until you hear the plastic squeak and creak. Now you can cut out the vinyl inside the faceplate, trimming it close to the edge with a razor knife.
Pool lights also have a large gasket beneath the ring, and usually a second gasket beneath the vinyl. It would be wise to replace these gaskets when you replace your liner. Vinyl pool light niche gaskets are found in the category of light niche parts. When the water level is up to the bottom of the light, have someone with long arms lean way over the edge of the pool and screw on the large light niche ring and gasket. Then cut out the vinyl inside the ring. Float the pool light across the pool, and hook/duct tape your string/wire to the pool light cord. At the pool light junction box, pull up on the string/wire to pull the pool light cord back into the conduit, and into the j-box, where the power can be reconnected and turned on again. Leave 3-4 feet of cord coiled up inside the light niche, to be able to pull the light out for future repair.
Faceplate Pitfalls to Avoid
- Make sure your replacement gaskets and faceplates are exact match before liner day.
- You need all of the screws - if missing one, find a factory replacement fast.
- Don't use incorrect screws, or non-stainless steel screws. Only Skimmer Screws.
- Don't use an electric drill, but a long handled #3 Phillips screwdriver, or #3 tip on a cordless drill.
- Leave enough cord behind an electric light to pull it up on deck for service.
- Don't poke any screw holes until the water level is up to the bottom of the light ring.
- Don't cut out the vinyl inside until the faceplate or ring is installed.
Thanks for Reading!
Mark Garcia


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What do i mean by shell packages? You're spot on – that's an excellent question to begin with. For the purpose of this post, I define shell package as an empty package that is renamed appropriately and contains all the required connection managers.
It is a common pattern among SSIS developers to create separate packages for each unit of work. For example, you will create a package for each table that needs to be loaded.
The only problem: manually creating hundreds of packages, sometimes even more, is time consuming and boring. If you think about it, first steps of creating all these packages is always the same: Right click on SSIS Packages, select New SSIS Package, rename the package, and create Connection Managers.
Wouldn't it be nice if there is a way to automate these boring steps? I hear you screaming yes.
Package templates help you to some extent. You create a package with the required connection managers and save it as a template. The subsequent packages will automatically contain all connection managers the template has, you don't have to add them manually to all packages. You still have to add and rename packages though.
Let's take a look at a much better and time saving method!
I use BIML to dynamically create multiple SSIS packages for each table that needs to be loaded. All packages will be renamed consistently and will contain connection managers.
Execute the following SQL to create source and destination databases.
CREATE DATABASE SrcDatabase ;
CREATE DATABASE DestDatabase ;
Next, create some tables in the destination database.
USE DestDatabase;
CREATE TABLE dbo.DimProduct (
ProductKey INT IDENTITY(1, 1) PRIMARY KEY
,ProductCode VARCHAR(10) UNIQUE
) ;
CREATE TABLE dbo.DimCustomer (
CustomerKey INT IDENTITY(1, 1) PRIMARY KEY
,CustomerCode VARCHAR(10) UNIQUE
) ;
CREATE TABLE dbo.DimEmployee (
EmployeeKey INT IDENTITY(1, 1) PRIMARY KEY
,EmployeeCode VARCHAR(10) UNIQUE
) ;
Again, our objective is to create one package for each of the tables in the destination database.
Open BIDS, I'm using SSIS 2008R2 for this example. You'll have to install BIDS Helper from here. Right click on the project and add New BIML File. Your solution explorer look like this:
Double click the BIML file and paste the following script. If you see issues while copy pasting, check this link.
<#@ template language="C#" hostspecific="true"#>
<#@ import namespace="System.Data" #>
<Biml xmlns="http://schemas.varigence.com/biml.xsd">
<Connection Name="SrcDatabase" ConnectionString="Data Source=(local);Initial Catalog=SrcDatabase;Provider=SQLNCLI10.1;Integrated Security=SSPI" RetainSameConnection ="true" DelayValidation ="false"/>
<Connection Name="DestDatabase" ConnectionString="Data Source=(local);Initial Catalog=DestDatabase;Provider=SQLNCLI10.1;Integrated Security=SSPI;" RetainSameConnection ="true" DelayValidation ="false"/>
<# string DestCnStr ="Data Source=(local);Initial Catalog=DestDatabase;Provider=SQLNCLI10.1;Integrated Security=SSPI";
DataTable tables = ExternalDataAccess.GetDataTable(DestCnStr,"SELECT t.name FROM sys.tables t") ;
foreach (DataRow row in tables.Rows)
{ #>
<Package Name="Load_<#=row[0]#>" ConstraintMode="Linear" >
<Container Name="Dummy — remove container" ConstraintMode="Linear">
<ExecuteSQL Name="Dummy — remove task" ConnectionName="SrcDatabase">
<DirectInput>select 1</DirectInput>
<ExecuteSQL Name="Dummy 1 — remove task" ConnectionName="DestDatabase">
<DirectInput>select 1</DirectInput>
<# } #>
After copying the code, right click on the BIML file and select Generate SSIS Packages.
Multiple packages with connections managers have been created in a matter of minutes.
You just have to delete the sequence container and proceed with package development. Why? We created connection managers in the BIML script, but since we are not using them anywhere in the package, they won't be included in the packages. So, I tricked it by creating a dummy task. This is still easier compared to the traditional process of creating multiple packages.
Don't get me wrong. This example is probably the most basic of what BIML has to offer. I'm spending some time lately with BIML and I hope to do more posts as I learn new things.
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Turns out they were chasing a family in a Crown Victoria whom police had tried to pull over for going the wrong way down a one-way street. The chase began in Southfield before going down Woodward through Detroit and ending in Highland Park. If you're into Crown Vics drifting on snowy streets and endangering lives, check out the raw chase video here on Fox 2.
After they were arrested, police sources say all three passengers were under the influence of heroin. One driver caught in the middle of the chase was injured.
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By creating additional FTP users, you can give other people FTP access to your hosting so they can also upload files or manage your site. You can limit what these users can have access to, and how much they can upload.
- In the Files section of cPanel, click FTP Accounts.
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- Click Web Hosting.
- Next to the cPanel account you want to use, click Manage.
- Click cPanel Admin.
- In the Add FTP Account section, complete the following fields, and then click Create FTP Account:
Field What it means Log In The first part of your username. The full username includes @[your account's primary domain name]. So if your primary domain is coolexample.com, and you enter ftpuser, then the full username for FTP will be email@example.com. Password The password for this FTP user. Directory The directory the user can access. If you want to give the user access to the entire account, enter nothing but a forward slash (/). Quota The amount of space (in MB) the user can upload to that directory. If you do not want to limit this user, you can select Unlimited.1
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- 2 How many FTP users? - Economy and Deluxe cPanel hosting accounts offer 50 FTP users; Ultimate accounts offer an unlimited number of FTP users. You can find out what hosting plan you have in your account management page.
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Playboy Magazine put out a 50th anniversary issue in January 2004 that included an interview with Al Franken. It's mostly the usual insults directed at Franken's enemies, but this exchange was striking, especially given how recent the interview was:
Playboy: Do you see yourself ever holding office?
Franken: No. I would be crushed by the sense of responsibility. Voting on whether to authorize the use of force is a big decision, especially on a close call. I don't know if I could handle that. That's what you're doing when you elect someone: You're giving them the opportunity to handle it.
It was a moment of self-knowledge that the voters should take to heart.
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