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Rhode Island Black Business Association Announces 2014 Business Awards Winners
Monday, August 25, 2014
Rhode Island Black Business Association (RIBBA), has announced the recipients of its 2014 Business Awards Program.
Each year, the Rhode Island Black Business Association Business Awards Program is designed to honor achievements of exceptional leaders who have achieved great success, and leaders who strive towards professional accomplishment, excels in their field and exemplary leadership, business growth, and service to the community.
The awards recipients will be honored at RIBBA's Annual Business Awards Gala. This event is scheduled for October 3 at 6:00pm at the Omni Providence Hotel, One Exchange Street, Providence, RI.
The 2014 Business Award Recipients
Business of the Year - The Allen Brothers Business Award
Legacy Cleaning Services – Taiwo (Wally) Akinkuowo, Owner
Business Person of the Year - George T. Downing Business Leadership Award
Charles Newton, Assistant Administrator at RI Dept. of Administration
Entrepreneur Person of the Year - Isaac Rice Entrepreneurship Award
Yemi Sekoni - Director of Donahue Models & Talent, LLC
Community Person of the Year - Christiana Bannister Community Service
Maxine B. Shavers, Former RI State Rep and Community Leader
Company of the Year - Corporate Award (Amica Insurance – Robert DiMuccio, President and CEO)
Keynote speaker
Mr. Kirk A. Sykes, President of the Urban Strategy American Fund and former Chairman of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston will be the keynote speaker. Sykes has 25 years of combined finance, development, architecture, and community-based experience.
Sykes was the lead partner in the development and operation of the first African American-built hotel in Boston, MA. He leads the partnership equity placement, identifies investment and developments, and manages the day-to-day business operations of the Urban Strategy American Fund.
"I congratulate the award recipients," Lisa Ranglin, President of the Rhode Island Black Business Association, said in a statement. "We received dozens of nominations this year. These individuals and companies, we considered the best in their league and are worthy of this recognition."
Related Slideshow: 13 Biggest Business Stories in RI in 2013
13 Best Biz Cities in RI
GoLocal's examination of the Best Cities and Towns to do business in RI explored new ground for companies looking to relocate or expand.
Our researchers culled municipally-distinct data on tax rates, workforce availability, cost of living index, economic indicators for short term and long-term job growth, even average driving time to TF Green Airport, to quantify a blend of factors that make for a pro-business environment. Because every city and state in RI complies by statewide measures, those metrics weren't included in GoLocal's research.
12 Superman
Our coverage of the Superman building's threatened future started back in 2011, when a news story by GoLocal's News Team first unveiled the threat that Bank of America would leave the building and leave the city with the largest embarrassment.
In the story, The Superman Building: Downtown's Ticking Time Bomb - former Mayor and developer Joe Paolino predicted the demise of the iconic building.
The failure to act by the Taveras Administration created the tallest embarrasment in America - one that has been reported by most every news organization in America.
GoLocal covered the demise of the building throughout the year.
11 JetBlue Factor
JetBlue's arrival to Rhode Island was first announced by GoLocal is the summer of 2012, but no one quite knew the impact of the JetBlue factor, until a promotion by the airline was launched in partnership with the Big Blue Bug, which rocked the internet and sold out $20 tickets in minutes.
The promotion launched on GoLocalProv showed the world of advertising has changed forever.
Launched one minute and thousands sold out nearly instantly.
10 New England's Business
GoLocal's business team loves to collect and breakdown critical data to help Rhode Islander's get a beat on the story or even the bigger story.
One massively wide-read story was one that pivoted off the data of the Milken Institute and its rankings of all the cities in America.
The Best-Performing Cities study is published annually in order to highlight the cities and metropolitan areas in the U.S. that are prospering, and to point out those that are struggling from a structural point of view. By examining job, wage, and technology metrics over a five-year period, the publication utilizes a data-driven approach to provide a comprehensive measure of economic strength.
See which New England cities ranked best overall--both in the 200 largest metros pool and the 176 smallest metros pool.
9 Arcade is Back
GoLocal has been tracking the Arcade since we came online in 2010 - from investigative video reports about the homeless living in the building to restoration and the reopenning.
While the financial district is only a shadow of itself - kudos need to go out Evan Granoff for pouring millions into the restoration of the classic Greek revival edifice.
8 38 Studios Defendants
An exclusive report by GoLocal's Investigative Team unveiled that defendant's in the 38 Studio's lawsuit had filed responses, and they had a very different opinion of what caused the collapse and the loss of $100 million to the State of Rhode Island.
Almost every defendant pinned the blame on Governor Lincoln Chafee for failing to give oversight and then hitting the panic button and forcing the ultimate collapse of the company.
7 Social Media
Social media continues to flex its muscle and demonstrate that it is far more influential than legacy media.
Twitters IPO and the progression of the Facebook model have redefined business.
One article in GoLocal's on going coverage of the metamorphosis of social media was a great guidance article by Johnson & Wales' Sierra Barter which functionally went viral.
Amazingly, one of the biggest stories of 2013, the effort by union leaders to force John DePetro off the air for calling female teacher protestors "WHORES," has been battled almost exclsuively on social media.
6 Alex and Ani Growth
Rhode Island's homegrown Alex and Ani continues at rocket speed growth.
The Cranston-based, Made in America jewelry company continues to bundle the very best of Rhode Island: jewelry design, old school manufacturing and smart marketing.
According to a study by Bryant University:
• Generated $80.04 million in revenue, including $22.06 million in sales in the state of Rhode Island, $51.42 million in sales in other U.S. states, and $6.57 million in exports.
• Supported 1,094 full-time equivalent (FTE) jobs in Rhode Island, from which 296 are direct FTE jobs and 798 are induced FTE jobs.
• Created $35.4 million in income for Rhode Island households. Direct earnings totaled $10.32 million and induced earnings totaled $25.1 million.
5 College Endowments
In Rhode Island, colleges and universities are big business. They are major economic engines and each of the local colleges readily announce the positive impact they have on the local economy and job creation.
GoLocal's look at the top 50 endowments of the college and universities in New England, found that Harvard's $30+ billion endowment overshadowed all other colleges in New England.
Brown ranked ranked 5th in New England and 28th overall with an endowment of more than $2.4 billion.
4 Fastest Growing
While Rhode Island's economy is trailing the rest of the country, there are some bright spots. Throughout 2013, GoLocal featured a number of companies that were fast-growing.
Inc Magazine's fastest growing companies in the US list flagged some real growth engines.
3 Twin River Rebound
Twin River is now a real casino with humans not video tapes dealing black jack.
Under the leadership of John Taylor, the company has rebounded from bankruptcy and become a model for gaming firms.
Now, Twin River is expanding and has made a strategic purchase in Mississippi.
With casinos coming online in Massachusetts sometime in the future, Twin River is doing a better job diversifying and planning for the future than the state of Rhode Island, who is so dependent on the revenue.
2 Unemployment
Rhode Island's unemployment situtation is a national embarrassment, and it is hard to see a governmental strategy designed for its improvement. In the post-38 Studios environment, decision-makers are affraid to champion significant initiatives.
The result is now that Rhode Island is last in America in unemployment and the crisis has gone on without improvement for years and years.
1 Demise of Newspapers
In the past year, the Providence Journal has laid off, demanded buyout or pushed retirements of over 50 reporters, editors and photographers - a staggering percentage of the newsroom.
Many of the those who departed were among the most recognized. Pulitzer Prize winning writer Mike Stanton quit to take a teaching job at UConn and now freelances for the Boston Globe.
Speaking of the Boston Globe, Red Sox owner John Henry bought the Globe from the New York Times for $70 million which represented a 97% loss in value for what the NYTimes had paid for the Globe and other related media.
As GoLocal's Pultizer Prize winning reporter Dean Starkman has written repeatedly about the need for media to invest in content. His words seem to fall on deaf ears.


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Detroit is hiring bus drivers and mechanics!
The city of Detroit is hiring bus drivers and mechanics.
Applications can be found online at http://www.detroitmi.gov. Mechanics must be at least 21 years old and have experience with heavy-duty diesel engines.
Bus drivers must be at least 18 and possess a commercial driver's license. Detroit says it's looking for team players and candidates with good people skills.
Mayor Mike Duggan recently hired a new transportation chief, Dan Dirks. He ran a Detroit-area bus agency, SMART, for about 10 years until 2007.
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As of right now, no more Ben threads are to go up on this board unless there is new news as to what the Rooney's/NFL is going to do in regards to his punishment. We have more than enough threads all on Ben to last us a lifetime and at this point it's complete overkill. Every thread talks about the same thing and eveybody has more than made their points. If you want to continue talking about Ben, by all means knock yourself out, but do it in one of the existing threads.
This comes at the request of not only the staff, but also many members who have contacted me about the multitude of threads all about this same topic in one form or fashion. I understand he's that he is the hot topic right now, and righfully so, but let's make sure we stick to the normal ideals that SA has had in existance up to this point. The more threads, the more watered down the conversations can become. The staff has the authority to close/merge any new Ben threads that start that are not related to new news that we have not heard yet.
Thank you all for your continued participation on SA and and for being a part of our community of dedicated, die hard fans. Let's remember, we're not all going to agree with each other on this topic, but we all need to respect each others opinions as much as we want them to respect ours.


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Although I haven't seen any official research showing actual numbers, all evidence that I have gathered from the people I work with and talk to indicates that training dollars have been some of the first to disappear from budgets in the current economic climate. Of course, there's still training going on, but more classes than usual are being cancelled, and classes are smaller.
Even training events (as opposed to formal training classes) are feeling the pinch. TechEd Australia was so desperate for registrations that they offered registrants a free netbook. (You can read about the offer at www.istartedsomething.com/20090630/teched-australia-attendees-free-hp-mini-windows-7.) The offer must have worked because Microsoft is considering TechEd Australia to be "full" and is taking new registrations only for a waiting list.
Doesn't education itself have a value? Do you need freebies to sign up for training events? The first time I met Bill Gates in person, about 18 years ago, was at a meeting of training managers from software vendors around the country. Bill spoke to us about how valuable he though education was, and he was disappointed in how little money was being spent on employee education. Of course, at the time he had a very vested interest in the money aspect, as Microsoft ran its own public training facilities. Shortly after that, Microsoft outsourced all its training to Authorized Technical Education Centers (ATECs) but continued to develop training materials and certifications. Microsoft also began publishing information online and has a very major web presence today. Public help forums, sponsored by Microsoft, provide training on a one-off basis, with experts available to answer questions 24/7. Microsoft continues to make more and more information available online, with new white papers being published almost weekly.
In addition to Microsoft's website, vendors are frequently publishing white papers and other educational information, and technical blogs are proliferating at a rapid rate. With so much free information available online, do people expect not to have to pay for knowledge or training? And it's not just online training that's free. Free one-day SQL Server training events are being offered through "SQL Saturday," which you can read about at www.sqlsaturday.com.
If training is free, how are the people who provide the training supposed to earn a living? Obviously, I'm not just a casual observer here. I make my living primarily by training, but because I have a very focused topic area, with not a lot of competition, I'm not suffering too bad. But classes are smaller, and requests for private training are fewer. For years, I have been thinking about how I could incorporate online training into my business model, but having to compete with all the free content available, I think it would be a tough road.
In an ideal world, the people offering training or educational material would be those who spent most of their time using the products on real systems and solving problems that they could then discuss in their articles or presentations. Although this training can happen at conference-type events, most of the people I know who work on real systems full time don't have additional time for writing, or for the in-depth research needed to present a good training course. The full-time SQL Server developers or DBAs are the ones who are looking for good educational resources to answer their in-depth questions. So there's a need for people who primary work at developing and delivering content and have the time and the resources to put together the best training experience.
I believe there's a place for both free content and formal training events and classes. White papers and other online content are usually very specific and deal with very specific topics. If you know what your questions are, AND you can find a source that can answer them, you're in luck. But for new users who don't even know where to start, or for more experienced users who want to go to the next level but don't know what they don't know yet, more formal training with a live, interactive instructor might be needed.
Of course, quality can vary. Whether you're looking at free training or paid training, some sources are excellent and some are not. There are blog posts that contain incorrect information or make suggestions that go against best practices. People are answering questions on newsgroups who really don't know what they're talking about. But the good news about the online sources is that they're public, and chances are that if the information provided is incorrect or inappropriate, someone will post a comment or reply to point out this fact.
Some people say, "You get what you pay for," to indicate that the free resources are of lower quality. I don't completely agree with this; it should be more like "You get back what you put in." If you're paying for training, you still need to put in time to find out the background of the content developer and the presenter. If you're taking advantage of a free resource, you still need to cross-check the information against reality (i.e., test it out when possible) and check multiple resources to look for verifications and/or contradictions. I have always believed the best education is one we have to work for.


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What Congress? Obama's 'easy way out'
December 02. 2013 8:11PM
Monday a week ago, on yet another fundraising trip, President Obama got heckled. The upset young man was an illegal immigrant from South Korea — whose attendance at the event was approved by the White House. The 24-year-old college student (despite being here illegally) demanded that Obama halt all deportations immediately. Obama's response was a classic.
"...if I could solve all these problems without passing laws in Congress, then I would do so. But we're also a nation of laws. That's part of our tradition. And so the easy way out is to try to yell and pretend like I can do something by violating our laws."
This is the President who imposed the unpassed Dream Act by executive order. This is the President whose administration has issued many exemptions from and delays of the duly passed Obamacare. Just last month Obama himself personally exempted insurers from the Obamacare requirement that health plans be canceled and replaced by new ones mandated under the law. Since it has been passed, the White House has serially rewritten Obamacare on the fly — without the required approval of Congress.
This is the administration in which the IRS obstructs opposition organizations during an election year and the administrator in charge takes the 5th Amendment rather than tell Congress what the IRS was doing.
President Obama believes in the supremacy of Congress and the rule of law? If only he did.


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"Once upon a time, when DOS walked the earth, the command line was the primary user interface for most of our computers. Then, Windows came along, and Microsoft seemed set on leaving the command prompt to dry up and wither into obscurity. Fortunately, Microsoft has again turned its attention to the command line and, in so doing, has produced one of the most compelling new Windows features eWEEK Labs has ever had the pleasure to test: Windows PowerShell."


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GENEVA (AP) — The Swiss government took action Wednesday to stop the country's housing market from running out of control by requiring banks to hold more capital reserves.
The nation's governing Federal Council in Bern, Switzerland, which includes the president and six other ministers, announced it is "taking action against an excessive rise in prices in the real estate market and exorbitant mortgage debt" that threatens Swiss banks and the economy.
In a statement, the council said it approved the Swiss National Bank's request to demand an extra 1 percent capital cushion from banks starting in October — a move likely to further constrain Swiss banks, which are already struggling to maintain profitability.
The move is in line with international rules set by the Bank for International Settlements, in Basel, Switzerland, that let central banks require banks to hold up to an extra 2.5 percent in capital during periods of high credit growth.
The Swiss Bankers' Association, a trade group, acknowledged the country is facing a potential bubble in its housing market, but said it was brought on by "structural reasons such as increased demand due to immigration."
It called the increased capital cushion an inappropriate tool to fix the problem because it could adversely affect the economy and the banks by raising credit costs, and called on the Federal Council to relax the new requirement at the earliest opportunity.
The Swiss Financial Market Supervisory Authority agreed the real estate market "is showing signs of overheating in certain segments and regions," but said it did not believe the capital buffers were needed yet. It would have preferred to wait and see whether the problem could be fixed through other means.
Nevertheless, the Swiss regulator said it will begin reviewing how Swiss banks intend to handle the increased capital requirements.
Law professor Anthony Michael Sabino of St. John's University in New York said the Swiss are forcing lenders to reduce risk and expand capital because they are "unwilling to be caught short like so many American and other European banks."
"They don't want to fall into the trap of overvalued real estate loans that caused the Great Recession in the U.S. and concomitant government bailout," he added.


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KENNETH COLE 24/7: Showgoers were thinking about more than just fall trends during New York Fashion Week, thanks to the always provocative Kenneth Cole. According to surveys Cole took at the Bryant Park tents last week, 43 percent of the fashion set thinks model weight should be regulated (another 26 percent said the idea makes them want to throw up), and almost half said they don't care what week New York holds its shows, "as long as I get a front row seat" (the other half were almost equally divided between the first and second weeks of February and September). And who do fashionistas think America is most inclined to accept as its next president? Twenty-eight percent said a woman, 36 percent said an African-American, 10 percent said Oprah Winfrey and 26 percent said "a Caucasian billionaire mayor." The full results of the survey will appear on Cole's social awareness blog, alternately kennethcoleblog.com and awarenessblog.com, which launches Monday. "It's an idea that has been 25 years in the making," said the designer of the blog.
Of course, when Cole started his eponymous line a quarter century ago, computers were still a novel concept and there was no such thing as a blog, but he has always dedicated himself to stirring dialogue about issues of public concern — a cause he hopes the blog will further. The Web site won't be a destination for musings on heel height or hem length, but rather on social rights (illustrated with a gay rights flag), hard times (homelessness and poverty), the political landscape (namely war) and well-being (prominently AIDS and HIV). Fashion fans need not feel totally isolated: Cole will file a weekly column under "Clothes Mindedness." Cole is also enlisting famous friends — including Natasha Richardson, Alan Cumming and Mario Cantone — to blog about social issues that are important to them. "There are all these people out there looking for an opportunity to express their personal passions, and they are often absent of a platform," Cole said. "As a designer, I create content. This creates context."
This story first appeared in the February 15, 2008 issue of WWD. Subscribe Today.
— Whitney Beckett
SHOPPING GUIDE: The boys at Burton in New York's SoHo were hoping for a 30-minute meal cooked by Rachael Ray when the crew from her daytime television show ascended on the store to film a segment Thursday morning. Instead they had to go hungry, and Ty Pennington, host of "Extreme Makeover: Home Edition," perused snowboard goods with customers to tape a segment on extreme gift makeovers. Pennington's piece for an upcoming Rachael Ray show is about giving help to the gift-giving challenged and included stops along several stores in downtown Manhattan. The segment is scheduled to air sometime in March.
— Stephanie D. Smith
ISN'T FASHION A SOAP OPERA ALREADY?: Last week, ABC's "Good Morning America" held a reenactment of Isaac Mizrahi's fall collection — and now, the network has another runway show planned for Monday's episode of "All My Children." While some editors didn't want to wake up at the crack of dawn for "GMA," the soap managed to get Redbook fashion editor Audrey Slater; Cosmogirl deputy editor Michelle Ribeiro; elle.com's fashion news editor Tracey Lomrantz and market editor Carol Han; Emily Finkbinder, fashion market editor at Interview; Emily Francis from the "CW Morning News," and Chris Kensler of Stylehive.com to participate. "We are playing ourselves," said Slater, who added the show — surprise, surprise — dramatized its fashion show, which included the models walking through smoke.
Regular characters on "All My Children" wore red gowns for the runway show, from designers including Catherine Malandrino, Prada, Carmen Marc Valvo and Betsey Johnson. The show was held to raise awareness for American Heart Month and Campbell's Soup's Go Red for Women campaign. But besides the charity aspect, it wouldn't be a real soap opera without a little drama — provided, of course, by Susan Lucci. Her character, Erica Kane, fielded questions from the editors — and then was arrested on the runway. — Amy Wicks
THE FOURTH MUSKETEER: The Los Angeles Times has tapped its fourth editor in three years, Russ Stanton, who formerly served as the The Times' innovation editor. Jack Klunder was named president, Los Angeles Times Newspaper, a new position. He will be in charge of The Times' core print business. And Bob Bellack is the new president, development and digital media. He will oversee acquisitions, partnerships and new mobile and digital growth efforts. Earlier this week, it was announced that up to 150 jobs would be cut from the Los Angeles Times Media Group.
Also Thursday, New York Times executive editor Bill Keller told his staff that about 100 of 1,332 newsroom jobs would be eliminated through buyouts, leaving unfilled positions vacant and eventually layoffs as needed. The Times has the largest newsroom head count of any of its peers, and has so far avoided any large-scale cuts, but the economic pressures facing the industry in general and the Times in particular are now taking their toll. — A.W.
HEADING WEST: Glamour's expanded coverage of women in Hollywood needed an editor based out West with the connections and experience to attract celebrities to the magazine. So Glamour tapped James Patrick Herman, In Style's senior entertainment editor, to join the magazine as senior West Coast editor. The position marks the first time Glamour has had a full-time editor based in Los Angeles. Herman will be responsible for wrangling celebrities for covers and help to expand the magazine's events on the West Coast. He takes his new position March 10 and will relocate to Los Angeles from New York. He will report to Alison Ward Frank, who was promoted to deputy editor, entertainment, from entertainment director. Herman spent nine years at In Style covering parties for the magazine and editing celebrity features and cover stories. Prior to In Style, Herman worked for Elle as music editor from 1993 to 1999. A replacement for Herman at In Style has not yet been named. — S.D.S.
EXECUTIVE MOVES: Maria Padova will become publisher of Life & Style as of Feb. 25. Padova joins the magazine from Wenner Media, where she was advertising director of Us Weekly, and has worked at Redbook, Town & Country and Modern Bride.
Another publisher on the move is Cosmogirl's founding publisher Kristine Welker, who was named vice president of sales and marketing for Hearst Magazines Digital Media. She will report to Chuck Cordray, vice president and general manager of the media group. Welker replaces Pamela Raley, who is leaving the company. Also at Hearst, Christine Demetres is the new design director of Cosmogirl magazine. She replaces Kristin Fitzpatrick, who moved to Marie Claire in the same position. Prior to Cosmogirl, Demetres was the senior associate art director of Allure.
And, over at Time Inc., Real Simple scored a coup in the perennial personnel back-and-forth between that magazine and the Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia Inc. titles, scoring Allie Lewis Clapp. Formerly deputy food editor of Everyday Food, she'll run Real Simple's food department. Clapp is also recognizable from her co-hosting duties on the PBS series "Everyday Food" and appearances on the "Martha Stewart Show" and the "Today" show. — S.D.S.


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Texans linebacker Brooks Reed is "100 percent" after January groin surgery and was able to work out ahead of the beginning of the club's organized team practice activities, Reed told Dave Zangaro of CSNHouston on Sunday.
Reed told CSNHouston.com he has been lifting weights and running in the last three weeks.
"It shouldn't be anything to worry about," Reed said. "It happened in the past and got over it. Worked hard rehabbing it so we're at 100 percent right now and looking to improve during OTAs."
That Reed had some sort of surgery came to light recently when Wade Phillips disclosed it during an interview with 610 AM in Houston. However, we didn't know the nature of the procedure.
Now we do. And as Reed tells it, all is well as the Texans prepare to begin OTAs Monday.


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Some of the most common, and often flawed, models in relational database management systems (RDBMSs) are dependent on the structures (such as trees, graphs, and maps) necessary for storing entity-to-entity relationships. You need self-referencing tables and their respective parsing mechanisms to model generations and genealogies (trees), organization charts (graphs), and geographies (maps). Using a geographic database as an example, this article explores trees, graphs, and maps and looks at how to extract the data from these structures.
Self-Referencing Tables
Database modelers are often guilty of taking a few shortcuts when performing the onerous task of saving geographical taxonomies in a database. We take these shortcuts and fulfill the requirements, although we know that the requirements haven't taken into account the inevitable scope expansion that is typical of any growing organization. Almost every database in production must have the facilities to store hierarchical data. This article's example focuses on geographic data, but hierarchical data is prevalent in many of today's models. The example database requirements specify that the database must support state and city information. The implementation of only two generations of data appears simple enough—a one-to-many (1:M) relationship will suffice. You know that eventually you'll have to redesign this database relationship; when the company starts selling its product outside the United States, the new requirement will specify that the database needs more than a region-subregion relationship. If you're fortunate, you'll only need to add a third table for country information. If not, you'll need to totally redesign this database model, which takes time and money.
Further investigation of the data in geographic information systems (GIS) map software reveals that countries have complex and disparate organization structures. Some countries are organized by state, others by region or province. Using small areas of the United States and South Africa as examples, you'll find the hierarchies that Figure 1 shows. The disparity in structure between the two countries in Figure 1 shows that you can't model generic organization charts by using a simple 1:M relationship because you can't predict the depth of the hierarchy. In this example, you can see that countries don't abide by an organizational standard. The United States is segmented into states and districts, both of which contain cities. Other countries might be divided into provinces or regions, or perhaps not be subdivided at all. Other hierarchies such as genealogies and corporate organization charts have the same problem. When confronted with disparate organizational structures, many developers opt to use self-referencing tables. One column in every self-referencing table has a foreign-key relationship with another column in the same table. Listing 1 creates a table called Entity, in which entIDEntityParent is a self-referencing column; you can use this table to store the geographic data for our example.
Why did we prefix every column with the characters "ent"? By assigning each table a unique three-character prefix and prefixing every column with the table prefix, you eliminate the need to alias all your joins when you begin creating dynamically generated SQL statements. (You might use dynamically generated SQL to search for a certain piece of data based on user-specified input. Constructing the SQL dynamically lets you omit superfluous joins and thereby increase query performance.) Making all the column names unique could save you hundreds of hours of creating these customized SQL generators. Also, naming the table Entity and not GeographicLocation or something similar provides for maximum reuse because naming the table Entity lets you use this table to store any kind of entity. You can use this table as a template for a domain value table in which you can store any kind of lookup data. (Of course, you might need to add a few more columns as you internationalize—e.g., for language IDs.)
The first column in the Entity table is entIDEntity; this column is a unique identifier that acts as the primary key. Note that we didn't use an integer data type for the IDENTITY column. We recommend that you use the uniqueidentifier data type (new in SQL Server 7.0), provided you take into consideration the 16 bytes of space a globally unique ID (GUID) requires for storage, indexes, and joins. SQL Server developers tend to avoid GUIDs, using integers instead for portability reasons. But using GUIDs will yield benefits if you decide to configure replication. Regarding the use of unique identifiers in replication, SQL Server Books Online (BOL) says: "If you are using merge replication, or if you are using snapshot replication or transactional replication with queued updating and the table that is being replicated does not have a uniqueidentifier column, SQL Server 2000 will add one when you create a publication."
The table's second column, entName, is the field you use to store the country, city, or region name—the friendly name that you present to your users. You can use the third column, entType, to identify the type of entity—e.g., country, state, or city. Finally, the entIDEntityParent column identifies each entity's immediate parent. This self-referencing column works well for the trees that Figure 1 shows. For every entity, you can store the uniqueidentifier of its parent in this column.
Nodes with Multiple Parents (Graphs)
What happens when your database needs to support an organizational structure in which entities can have multiple parents? The table from Listing 1 won't support multiple parents because the relationship is stored with the entity definition. Because you can have only one instance of an entity definition, you're inherently limited to only one relationship for the entity. In a typical hierarchy model or tree, the table in Listing 1 would be fully functional because nodes in a tree have only one parent. (For more information about hierarchy models, see Itzik Ben-Gan, "Maintaining Hierarchies," July 2000.) However, with multiple parents, this structure is no longer a tree; it's a graph, typical of what you might find in genealogy trees or geographical structures. Why would you need to support multiple parents in a GIS environment? Let's say you want to provide an Internet city-search portal where users can search for cities by state, by county, or by area code. But some cities have multiple parents: A user searching by area code would find San Francisco as a city in two area codes, 650 and 415, as Figure 2 shows. So, San Francisco has more than one parent. This example might seem trivial; however, the concept of an entity having more than one parent is crucial in many other situations. For example, in genealogies, humans have two parents—sometimes more if you include stepparents.
Entities that have multiple parents can be problematic for the geographic database model because the model provides for only one column in which to store the entity's parent. Up to this point, you were dealing with entities that have only one parent (a tree), but now you have entities with multiple parents (a graph). Fortunately, a solution is close at hand: Just remove the self-referencing column from the entity table. Listing 2 removes that column and creates a new table called EntityRelationship. Removing the self-referencing column abstracts each entity from its parent-child relationship, thereby letting one entity be involved in more than one parent-child relationship. In other words, some hierarchies involve many-to-many (M:N) relationships, and this EntityRelationship table is an intersection table that resolves the M:N relationship.
Let's consider the alternatives to creating this intersection table. Merely duplicating the entity with a new ID would probably work when the entity has no related records. However, if you decided to duplicate the entity, you would have to manually maintain this duplication of information because the duplication violates the rules of normalization. So, when is denormalization appropriate? The only reason to denormalize data structures is to increase performance. The process of denormalizing can speed up data access but requires increased programming to maintain the denormalized data. An example of denormalizing is storing account balance information along with a customer record. Although you could compute the balance by calculating all transactions, doing so is time-consuming, so DBAs often save the account balance with the customer record. This denormalization results in increased performance—and in more programming. (See Michelle A. Poolet, Solutions by Design, "Responsible Denormalization," October 2000, for denormalization suggestions.) But in a geographic database, and for that matter most databases irrespective of industry, duplicating the entity isn't feasible because of the potentially large amount of information associated with each entity record.
Using our new model, you define an entity in the Entity table, then you define all the entity's relationships in the EntityRelationship table. Consequently, an entity can now have multiple parents. However, the column combination of eteIDEntityChild and eteIDEntityParent becomes the primary key, thus enforcing the restriction that any entity can have only one occurrence of the same parent.
Multifaceted Relationships (Maps)
Just when you think you're ready to deploy your database, you receive a new requirement—to create sibling relationships among entities. Your company wants the Internet city-search portal to track climatic similarities among cities so that when a user searches for a city, the program also shows other cities that have similar climates. In Figure 3, the climatic and scenic relationship between Cape Town and San Francisco is not a parent-child relationship like the Figure 1 country scenario. Thus, the existing database structure no longer works because the EntityRelationship table can't differentiate between a parent-child relationship and a sibling-sibling relationship. To solve this problem, you can use the code in Listing 3, page 58, to modify the EntityRelationship table.
The code renames the fields from eteIDEntityChild and eteIDEntityParent to eteIDEntity1 and eteIDEntity2. The new field called eteRelationship abstracts a parent-child relationship to a generic relationship; now the database design can support many different types of relationships. Because eteIDEntity1 and eteIDEntity2 can have numerous distinct relationships with one another, we added the eteRelationship field to the primary key, as Figure 4 shows, so that you can relate two entities to each other in more than one way. For example, you can relate Cape Town to San Francisco by climate, by landscape, and perhaps even by size. When innumerable types of relationships exist between entities, you have multifaceted relationships. Although these relationships can be difficult to maintain, it is precisely these relationships, deciphered from sophisticated data-mining processes, that let Internet sites upsell and cross-sell. Upselling a product is easy—you just define an Upsell relationship between a particular product and the products that are more expensive versions of it. Cross-selling is just as easy—you define a Cross-Sell relationship between the product and its associated products. Within the Cross-Sell relationship, you could even define Dependency or Accessory relationships (remember, batteries and accessories are hardly ever included).
Several years ago, marketers found a relationship between sales of beer and sales of diapers. The two items had similar purchase times, which at first seemed coincidental. However, further examination revealed that parents would pick up diapers after work and would take the opportunity to grab some beer (or vice versa). So the marketers moved premium beer next to the diapers—and in so doing, they increased premium beer sales.
The future of data mining lies in deriving these relationships and exposing them to smart applications, which can use the relationships to increase sales. Anyone who's visited Amazon.com has probably experienced cross-selling. Personalization, an area based on exposing related data, enables such cross-selling. (For more details about data mining, see Barry de Ville, "Data Mining in SQL Server 2000," January 2001.) Now with the data model we've established, you can capture these relationships by inserting the appropriate relationship records into the EntityRelationship table. Geographic regions, for example, can have many relationships with each other, such as bordering countries/states/regions, demographically similar, or populationally similar.
Let's refer back to the EntityRelationship table now that you see how to identify different types of relationships. You might be concerned about the data type of the column that stores the relationship indicator. In a production system, this column should be a uniqueidentifier data type to increase the performance in accessing this table. But it's OK to cheat a little, especially for readability purposes while you're getting things up and running. For performance reasons, you just need to change this data type when you go into production.
Data Extraction
Many SQL Server developers have difficulty extracting data from a hierarchical structure. Your next assignment is to provide the appropriate SQL statements to give Internet users efficient access to the tables you created to house entity relationships. For the example data, let's model a little of Earth's geographical map; Figure 5 contains some sample data. Data that is derived from tables containing hierarchical data is often presented in a Web-based tree control. Have you ever noticed how some Web pages seem to take an inordinately long time to expand a tree control? During the delay between every click of the + sign, these pages are actually performing a round-trip to the server for every node in the tree. They are issuing database requests to the server to retrieve the children of the node you just clicked.
Performing numerous round-trips to a database is an extremely inefficient means of interacting with both the database and the user, for several reasons. Mainly, a Web page is largely ineffective as a means of interacting with a user if the user must wait several seconds between clicks. Internet users generally will wait a few extra seconds up front if their subsequent successive requests are instantaneous. Also, every round-trip to the database has associated overhead, including database connection time, SQL parsing, and SQL execution-plan generation.
A preferable means of implementing the tree control is to download the entire result hierarchy at the first request, then use Dynamic HTML (DHTML) to expand the tree. The only drawback of such a design is that you might be transferring an enormous data set. If your tables contain tens of thousands of records (e.g., if you were trying to present a list of cities by country), you might first filter the resultset by asking the user to specify a subset of the data (perhaps through a combo box selection) before issuing the SQL statement to download the cities.
But before you can code the HTML to present your data, you need to write the SQL statements that will extract data and send it to the client. Using a tree control, the client will ultimately render the resultset data on the screen. The SQL statements that generate the resultset will be part of a stored procedure, which begins at a specified starting point and returns a set of records containing all related entities.
Before diving into a subterranean exploration of the SQL composing this stored procedure, which Listing 4 shows, let's take a hundred-foot view. The goal of this stored procedure is to find all entities that are related to the starting point. Using our previous example, your starting point might be San Francisco, in which case the stored procedure would return all entities that have any relationship, direct or indirect, with that city. This example uses the Planet Earth record as a starting point for retrieving all related records, which should be all the records in the table. The records returned will contain information about what entity each is related to, how many levels separate them from the starting point, and so on. Using the resultset, HTML programmers can render the entire tree control without the need for successive round-trip database requests, because the resultset contains the relationships between entities, rather than the entities themselves.
The procedure starts by creating a temporary table called #Map, which it will use as a symbolic data stack. (The stack is symbolic because SQL Server has no inherent stack capabilities, but you can simulate a stack by using a field called Processed in the #Map table.) The procedure pushes records onto the stack, then pops them off the stack. If the Processed field's value is set to 0, the record is considered to be on the stack; if the field's value is 1, the record is considered to have been popped off the stack. After creating the #Map table, the code proceeds by pushing the first record onto the stack; this record is the starting point from which the code will begin to look for related records. The procedure then enters a looping structure, which pops the top record from the stack. The procedure uses this record to find related records, which the procedure subsequently pushes onto the stack. When the stack is empty (i.e., all records have the Processed field set to 1), the procedure returns the records it found and stored in the #Map table, and you're done.
Note that this stored procedure will return all entities related in any way to the starting point. If you want only the entities of a certain relationship type, you need to modify the stored procedure. For example, if Person A is related to Person B by a "blood relationship" and Person B is related to Person C by a "friend relationship," then with Person A as a starting point, the procedure will return all three because A is related to B and B is related to C, making C related to A. To find only the persons related by blood to Person A, you need to modify this stored procedure by specifying the relationship type in the WHERE clause. Now let's go through the SQL code in Listing 4 in more detail.
Callout A in Listing 4 defines the stored procedure name as ap_Map_Traversal. The prefix "ap" signifies that the procedure is an application procedure and not a system procedure. This nomenclature helps when you want to easily differentiate Microsoft-supplied procedures from those you need to run your application. The procedure takes one parameter, @startPoint, which is an entity identifier; the procedure will begin looking for related entities from this origin point. If the parameter value is null, Callout B initializes the starting point to a default starting point. You need to adjust SET NOCOUNT ON to reflect your default starting point.
Callout C declares an integer variable, @level; the procedure will use this variable as a counter that reflects the number of levels that separate an entity from the starting point. Callout D creates the #Map temporary table. The #Map table has six columns:
- Item—contains the entity's unique identifier
- ItemName—contains a descriptor for the entity defined in the Item column
- RelatedToItem—contains an entity's unique identifer, to which the Item column is related by the relationship specified in the Relationship column
- Relationship—contains the relationship type by which RelatedToItem and Item are related
- Generation—contains an integer value that specifies the number of levels by which the item is separated from @startPoint, which has a generational value of 1
- Processed—contains a value of 0 or 1, specifying whether the point (as defined by the Item column) is awaiting processing or has completed processing
Callout E inserts the root node into the temporary table #Map. Callout F initializes the @level variable value to 1. Callout G comprises the looping structure, which will loop as long as the @level variable is greater than 0. In effect, the variable acts as an altimeter—it measures how far from the starting point each entity is. As the result items' generations get further from the starting point, this variable's value increases, and as they get closer to the starting point, the variable's value decreases. When the variable's value is 1, the procedure is back at the starting point; when the value reaches 0, the procedure has processed all records related to the starting point, and the loop construct is finished.
Now we enter the loop. Callout H provides the SELECT statement to check for the existence of records that are awaiting processing. If no records are found, the @level variable is decremented by one (Callout I). If records exist, execution continues with Callout J, at which point the code extracts only the top record's Item value and sets the Processed column value to 1 (popping the record off the stack). The INSERT statement in Callout K adds into the #Map table all records the Item is related to and sets the Processed column to 0, pushing the records onto the stack. Note that the procedure sets the Generation to the current generation's value plus 1 because these records are separated from the starting point by a generation, so for the first time through the loop, the generation would be incremented to the value 2.
You can determine whether records were inserted into #Map by querying the global variable @@rowcount, which returns the number of records affected by the last statement executed. If this value is greater than 0, records were inserted, so you need to increment the @level variable so that the next iteration through the WHILE loop will process the subsequent generation. The execution follows a Depth First Search (a means of traversing data in which you exhaust depth before breadth) approach to processing. Processing will continue in this way until the procedure has exhausted all records in the #Map table, at which point the @level variable's value becomes 0. This value causes the loop to terminate and the procedure returns the contents of the #Map table through Callout M. Figure 6 shows the final output of running this procedure.
Advanced Maps
The T-SQL code in Listing 4 works well with data in which no circular relationships exist. If Person A is related to Person B by a "blood relationship" and Person B is related to Person C by a "friend relationship" and C is related directly to A, you have a circular loop in which A is related to C, who is related to A. Maps are structures that contain these circular loops; maps are nonlinear, nonhierarchical points connected by bidirectional lines—the very essence of multifaceted relationships. So although the stored procedure code in Listing 4 works when only one path exists between two points, it fails when it encounters a loop formation such as a multifaceted relationship. The code will enter into an infinite loop as it tries to process nodes that have children that are in their own ancestry. For example, suppose you add to the EntityRelationship table the two records that Figure 7 shows. The records establish a relationship between North America and Canada as parent and child and between the United States and Canada as trading countries. After you insert these records, rerun the stored procedure. The stored procedure never returns because it has entered an infinite loop; if you let the stored procedure run indefinitely, it will raise an error when the #Map table has exhausted database capacity.
The solution to this infinite loop asserts practicality over elegance. You need an indicator to tell the procedure that it has encountered a loop—in other words, a point that has already been processed. In some implementations, the indicator is part of the data itself. For example, some implementations contain special columns that indicate a loop if the value is set to 1; however, such an implementation is inadvisable because it renders the entire solution data-sensitive. A data-sensitive solution requires that the person who writes the code to traverse the map have complete control over the data generation. Getting this control is unlikely, especially when you're trying to integrate with a third-party data provider. We encountered this type of situation when working on a project in which a law-enforcement agency acquired $10 million worth of proprietary data from the local electric utility company. The utility company wasn't about to change millions of records—so we needed to write a stored procedure that would not go in circles ad infinitum.
The ideal solution is to have the procedure keep a list of all points processed, then before processing any point, verify that it hasn't already encountered the point. If the procedure has processed the point, it can simply skip that point. Because the #Map table is a list of points that are either pending processing (Processed column = 0) or already processed (Processed column = 1), the solution is simple. Inserting the following T-SQL clause into Listing 4 at Callout L will prevent the insertion of entities that already exist in the #Map table.
AND eteIDEntity2 NOT IN (SELECT relatedToItem FROM #Map)
Now if you rerun the stored procedure, you will find that it no longer encounters an infinite loop, but returns the resultset correctly. Congratulations! You are now in a position to effectively manipulate complex data involving multifaceted relationships. Your database model can now support complex organization charts, genealogies, geographical data, and any other relationships by which two entities can be related in more than one way. Now be sure to model those simple country, state, and city relationships the right way—no shortcuts!


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Is it just me, or do people generally care a lot less about your second pregnancy? Even when total strangers ask me if this is my first, and I answer no, I see their faces drop a little. Like it's any less exciting the second time around. Pregnant is still pregnant—the cool stuff is still cool. Feeling your baby move is every bit as magical the second time. The cravings? Every bit as awesome to give into. My belly is bigger, my curves are curvier, and—in case I haven't mentioned it—the aches and pains are that much more painful too.
I loved being pregnant the first time—and while the second pregnancy has been much harder on me and my body, I am still cherishing this time in my life and all the wonderful and not-so-wonderful things it brings. My second pregnancy may not be my first, but it's definitely going to be my last—and for that it has its own special meaning.
A girlfriend once told me that after she had her second child, fewer people came to visit her in the hospital. Fewer people called and sent gifts after the baby was born too. I can't even remember if I went to visit her in the hospital after her second was born… Are people really that less enthused?
I wondered what other things change with the second pregnancy. If you had a shower for the first one, do you get another one for the second baby?
Jews typically don't have baby showers so I'm not as familiar with this—we generally don't buy baby gifts before a baby is born, out of superstition. Most won't even bring anything new for the baby in the house before it gets here. I don't go to that extreme—in fact, I just ordered some new furniture and bedding for the baby's nursery(!), but other than that I probably won't stock up till we get a little closer to my due date. Which is what we did with Preston. But if I had had a shower for the first one, I don't think I'd be comfortable with anyone throwing me a second shower—I wasn't all that comfortable at my own wedding showers, though I appreciated them very much. Baby showers are lovely occasions, though; I've been to a few of them, but never for a second baby.
With my second pregnancy, I've noticed people ask what I'm having a lot more…I guess that makes sense. People assume you'll probably find out the sex with your second, especially if you didn't with your first. (We did, did you?)
What have you found to be the biggest differences between how people treat you with your second pregnancy versus your first? Are people less excited? Or do you get the same level of attention as you did with your first?


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When a diagnosis of mental illness is made, parents will typically first wrestle with: "Why my child?"
When a diagnosis of mental illness is made, parents will typically first wrestle with: "Why my child?"
But with an estimate of 1 in 4 people who has some form of mental illness — diagnosed and undiagnosed — says Peggy Spagnola, president of National Alliance on Mental Illness-Alliance for Mental Illness in the County of Orange, the question could almost be "Why not my child?"
NAMI-AMICO, previously known as AMICO, was kindled in the mid-'80s by a small group with family members hospitalized at Middletown Psychiatric Center. One parent, devastated by the diagnosis of schizophrenia, asked hospital staff if there were other parents to talk to. This grass-roots group has since grown to be part of a nationwide network.
NAMI's goals include erasing the stigma, educating, advocating, and finding safe housing for people with mental illness.
"We work with the families, the people with mental illness and the providers," says Spagnola, who is also the coordinator of family support, education and advocacy, adult services, with the Mental Health Association in Orange County Inc. "We go to the politicians, too."
"If more parents would come forward, more could be done," says Lisa Mulligan, a NAMI family advocate and telephone hotline volunteer. "There's strength in numbers. ... But people are embarrassed, they're afraid, because of the stigma."
Diseases of the brain are not regarded in the same manner as diseases of the heart or pancreas or liver. People who suffer from chronic illnesses are not identified by their illnesses; however, people with mental illness tend to be identified by the disease — and shouldn't be, says Spagnola.
"The symptoms of some mental illnesses sometimes look strange," says Spagnola, pointing to, as an example, the homeless man who's talking to himself in response to the voices he's hearing — while flailing his arms.
"But that homeless man would rather live on the streets than go into a shelter and become a victim," says Mulligan.
The recent massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Connecticut further fuels the mass fear directed toward people with mental illness.
It appears clear that Adam Lanza was suffering from mental illness.
"But somebody who is mentally ill is no more likely to commit a crime than somebody who isn't," says Spagnola. "Actually, people with mental illness are more likely to be victims."
"Mind-altering 'recreational' drugs or a single traumatic event can also cause a break in a person who does not have mental illness," says Mulligan.
As can untreated mental illness.
Sometimes denial figures into the equation. The experts say it's not uncommon for a family to be divided over whether a loved one might have a form of mental illness.
"And there are hardly any services for people with mental illness," says Mulligan — especially for adults.
Was that part of the problem the Lanza family faced before the Newtown shooting?
"They can't get the right treatment; they can't find the right doctor; they have to wait for an appointment when they're in a crisis," says Spagnola. "And then if they go to the emergency room, oftentimes the person can 'pull it together' because they don't want to be in the hospital. ... So they're sent home and then 'break' again in the car and take it out on the parents."
Many people with mental illness receive Social Security disability payments and Medicaid for health care, including prescriptions.
If they become employed, however, they'll probably lose their benefits. And more often than not, the job they secure will not have health benefits or a salary that allows them to pay all their expenses, says Spagnola.
"But they want to feel useful," says Mulligan. "They need something constructive to do to occupy their time."
So Mulligan says that many people with mental illness "travel."
"They'd rather hop a bus, sleep in bus stations or the woods, rather than be confined to a room with nothing to do," she says. "And they might commit menial crimes to support this lifestyle."
"There are adults in prison who have committed menial crimes. They're stabilized because they're on their medications," says Spagnola. "When they're released without a good discharge plan, they're not going to make it. The same holds true for a hospitalization. ... They need structure and consistency."
Margaret Mary Ray, the woman who stalked David Letterman, suffered from schizophrenia, as did two of her brothers who died by suicide and possibly her father as well. According to a New York Times article, she lived a cycle of lucidity, delusions, arrest, incarceration for burglary or trespass, hospitalization, stabilization — without follow-up.
"She wrote an apology to her family — and then laid down on the railroad tracks ..." says Mulligan of the death that was reported as "instantaneous."
"It would be great if people would just stop and think about what that person might be going through rather than just react," she said.


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Slovenia is now 2-2 at the Winter Olympics, including a win in Tuesday's elimination game against Austria. Let's learn some stuff about the new quarterfinalists, who are playing in their first Olympics.
(Note: We have already learned some stuff. "I guess now that we have beaten Slovakia maybe they're not going to mix us up anymore," star center Anze Kopitar said last week.)
MORE: Olympic hockey schedule — when does Team USA play?
1) Slovenia is about the size of New Jersey and has a population of 2.07 million. That'd put it at No. 32 among U.S. metropolitan areas, between Las Vegas and Albuquerque, N.M.
2) It shares borders with Austria, Croatia, Hungary and Italy, and a small portion sits on the Adriatic Sea.
3) During World War II, the country was trisected and annexed by Germany, Italy, and Hungary. Then, it was part of Yugoslavia until it achieved independence in 1991.
4) A grand total of five Slovenian players have been drafted by NHL teams. Two, Jan Mursak and Kopitar, have actually made it to the league, and Mursak is currently in the KHL. There are 150 total professional players in the country, and 25 are in the Olympics. There are more younger players, though: nearly 700.
5) Kopitar's father, Matjaz, is the coach of the national team. His hope after securing a quarterfinal berth was simple enough. "I wish that we could get five more ice rinks," he said. The country currently has seven, according to the IIHF, and two of them apparently don't have roofs. Austria has 45. The United States has 1,898.
6) Their jerseys are great. They also don't match their flag, which features horizontal white, blue and red bands and a coat of arms. The U.S., Czech Republic, Slovakia and Russia all use the same colors, so points for originality.
7) They've won six medals in Sochi so far: two golds in alpine skiing, a silver in skiing and bronzes in biathlon, cross-country skiing and ski jumping.
9) And, most relevantly here, they're playing top-seeded Sweden for a spot in the semifinals at 3 a.m. Eastern on Wednesday morning.


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MWL notes: Ames' hard work pays off
Tampa Bay right-hander adds two-seamer at Bowling Green
By Curt Rallo / Special to MiLB.com | August 22, 2013 6:00 AM
So how does a player jump from the 46th round to the first round of the Major League Baseball Draft in a span of two seasons?
"I guess it was hard work and the right coaches there to support me," said Bowling Green pitcher Jeff Ames, a 6-foot-4, 225-pound right-hander from Vancouver, Wash.
Ames has a history with the Draft -- he was selected in the 46th round by the Phillies in 2009, in the 30th round by the Rockies in 2010 and in the first round (No. 46 overall) by the Rays in '11.
"When I was in high school, I had an injury my junior year [right elbow tendinitis] from overuse," Ames said. "I took that whole season off. My senior year, I put in a lot of hard work with my high school coach and we ironed things out to solidify my delivery.
"I ended up going to a junior college, and after my freshman year there, my velocity came up a little bit," he added. "I got into an intense program of lifting and running. I really bought into the program, and it helped me. My sophomore year, I saw gains in velocity and my ability to throw strikes."
Ames is a key force on Bowling Green's drive for a Midwest League crown. He is 8-4 with a 3.13 ERA, 77 strikeouts and 34 walks. He's allowed 81 hits in 103 2/3 innings a year after leading the Rays organization with a 1.92 ERA.
"Jeff is a fierce competitor, and he has a mid-90s fastball," Bowling Green manager Jared Sandberg said. "He goes right after hitters. His slider has shortened up a little bit, and he made a huge adjustment with his change-up. He used to work underneath it quite a bit and really show the hitter what was coming. Now, he's throwing it off his fastball. He has the ball going all over the place. He also added a little two-seam fastball as well. Now with his repertoire, if one pitch isn't there, he's got something else to go to."
Ames has shown his development this season, winning Midwest League Pitcher of the Week three times: April 22, May 20 and June 17. He threw five innings of a combined one-hitter against Great Lakes in April, part of a hot start to the season.
"Jeff wants to win, and he set some high goals and high standards for himself as a player and personally. He goes out there to beat the other team and also to achieve his goals. It's hard to take the ball from him when he's out there competing like he does."
Ames said he didn't always bring a warrior's mentality to the pitcher's mound.
"I wasn't always considered a fierce competitor," Ames said. "My college coaches pounded that into me. The college I went to, I had coaches who were very old-school in the way they do things. They'd get in your face and scream at you. They would demand a certain kind of attitude. I bought into it. That approach hasn't left me. I try to play the game hard."
Ames also credited the pitching coaches in the Rays organization for helping him develop.
"In junior college, I was facing hitters who weren't as disciplined as the hitters I'm facing now, so I was able to get away with throwing a ball way up in the zone, and they would swing right through it," Ames said. "My first year with the Rays [in Princeton], the aggressiveness got the best of me. I was leaving balls over the plate and guys were hitting them all over the field. It was a big learning curve. My pitching coaches helped me hone in and channel my energy in the best way.
"The ability to throw a changeup is the biggest key for me, to get some separation from my fastball. My other key is throwing the ball down in the zone."
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Almora done: Kane County center-fielder Albert Almora, the Cubs' No. 1 Draft pick last season, is likely finished for the season. The 19-year-old center fielder hasn't played since Aug. 6, suffering from a bruised bone in his groin. He was hitting .329 in 61 games after missing the start of the season with a broken bone in his wrist.
Hot Kernels: Cedar Rapids won its seventh game in a row after beating Peoria on Tuesday night. In their four-game sweep of Peoria, the Kernels outscored the Chiefs, 19-6, and only allowed them to lead once: a 2-0 advantage in the second inning of the last game of the series.
Many miscues: Fort Wayne committed seven errors in a 12-5 loss to Great Lakes on Monday, adding up to seven unearned runs in a 12-5 loss to the Loons. Jose Capellan tied a franchise record with six RBis after hitingt a two-run double in the second inning, a three-run double in the fifth and a sacrifice fly in the seventh.
Curt Rallo is a contributor to MiLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of the National Association of Professional Baseball Leagues or its clubs.View More


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Date: 1:00pm - 4:00pm PDT April 26, 2014 Location: J.R. Howard Hall
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It is our pleasure to invite you to the first Festival of Scholars, an opportunity for student-scholars and artists to present their research and art, while also learning from one another. We have set aside Saturday, April 26, 2014, 1:00-4:00 pm, for this exciting event, which is sponsored by a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation.
Scheduled are performances of original compositions, an exhibition of original art, a play produced and performed by students, and research presentations in a variety of fields, including international affairs, political science, religious studies, environmental studies, chemistry, mathematics, computer science, and many more. Click here for the full program.
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Hooksett Police Commission put on noticeBy BRENDAN CLOGSTON
Sunday News Correspondent
April 06. 2013 11:14PM
HOOKSETT - The town's deliberative session has given the Hooksett Police Commission eight months to "finish its work" and allowed for the possibility of an advisory board to take its place should voters favor a warrant article that would abolish the body at next month's town vote.
The warrant, a petition article, would abolish the commission by rescinding the 1975 town vote that established it. Originally, that warrant would have dissolved the commission within 15 days of its passage.
However, an amendment prepared by town councilors Todd Lizotte, who is against the article, and Leslie Boswak, who authored it, extends that timeline to 240 days. It also allows the town to appoint an "advisory police commission."
Boswak, who spoke "as a citizen," expressed hope that "the warrant's fate, one way or another, might bring closure to an issue that has been bitterly divisive in the town for many years."
"The reason I wrote this petition is to put an end to the seemingly (endless) debate about this subject, to bring it forward to the voters and allow them to have the final say," she said. "Once the voters voice their will, we need to move forward together, abide by their will, and move together in the same direction onward and upward.
"The subject of the police commission has developed into an issue which is very personal to many of us in this room," she continued. "The divide around this subject in this community is very deep, and that division continues to grow, deepen and fester .. Hooksett is a really tough place. There are many times when we don't play well together .. Community is defined as a unified body of individuals. This is something that's nothing more than a distant memory here. We need to stop arguing about the police commission .. We need closure."
Boswak's remarks were well-received by attendees on both sides of the issue, and the amendment passed by a significant margin. The 240-day timeline is largely designed to allow the commission to finish its work rebuilding the department and implementing the recommendations of a 2011 audit.
Commissioners Kenneth Scherer and Joanne McHugh also spoke at the session, both argued that the commission provides a necessary buffer from town politics and other areas.
"Commissioners were put into place in order for there to be a buffer in the community, and for the community to be able to have someone to look to to address their needs as a community," McHugh said. "That was our purpose .. You wouldn't have neighborhood watch except for the commission as a result of community requests."
Several former police commissioners also approached the microphone, many of whom suggested the body's relevance had passed since its inception in 1975 when the town had a little more than a third of its current population and had no town administrator.
"We've made significant changes in the town because the changes were necessary, in our form of government, and we moved ahead," said former commissioner John Proctor. "We shouldn't be doing things because we've always done them that way.
"Here's a person that's been in town for 38 years, and I've seen a lot of changes where things have worked out for the best."
In other matters, a warrant gauging public opinion on the institution of mandatory recycling at the curbside and recycling center also drew significant debate, as it has since its conception.
Lizotte offered a motion that would include language indicating that a mandatory recycling ordinance would contain enforcement measures "consisting of, but not limited to, written warnings, financial penalties, and/or loss of service to taxpayers to utilize the curbside collection program and material drop off at the Recycling and Transfer Center."
Several residents spoke in favor of the amendment as educating the voters on what the logical conclusion of mandatory recycling enforcement would likely be.
Others, however, pushed back against the motion as a "scare tactic" that would alienate voters who would be otherwise sympathetic to the program. Recycling and Transfer Station Superintendent Diane Boyce said punitive measures had not been definitively discussed and would ultimately be at the discretion of the council.
The amendment ultimately failed by a vote of 19-26.
The town's operating budget, which has been forced to absorb $455,784 in mandated costs this year, $230,159 of which from the state's downshifting of retirement costs to the municipalities, falls at $16,388,572.
The town election, at which the warrants will be voted on and municipal officers elected, will be held on May 7 at Cawley Middle School. The polls will be open from 6 a.m. to 7 p.m.


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Cooking a big Thanksgiving meal can bring both blessings and curses.
Cooking a big Thanksgiving meal can bring both blessings and curses.
Dangers abound - clogged sinks, undercooked fowl, missing ingredients.
But there's help.
S-Mart Foods Supermarkets are providing assistance in the form of wayfinders. Alicia Rockwell, a corporate spokesperson, said these folks are specially trained store employees decked out to be easily recognizable and available to help customers find new holiday merchandise, answer questions, make suggestions and generally be all-around helpful.
It's the grocery chain's way of providing a personal shopper. Can't find pumpkin pie spice? Just ask a Wayfinder.
They are available from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. today and Wednesday and they will be available near Christmas.
On Facebook, Libby's Pumpkin - purveyors of pureed pumpkin used in pies and other baked treats - will be troubleshooting baking dilemmas today and Wednesday. Just post questions to get answers from the experts.
Butterball's Turkey Talk Line has been helping cooks - both newbies and veterans - since 1981.
The company tells us it figures to help more than 1 million Americans out of potentially perilous Thanksgiving situations this year.
For help with your turkey dinner, call the Butterball Turkey Talk-Line at (800) 288-8372, even on Thanksgiving Day.
And while roasting that big bird, don't pour the grease from the holiday meal down the sink.
Unless, of course, the plumber wants to crash the party.
Because that fat will congeal and clog the pipes. Pour cooled oils and fats into an empty container such as an old coffee tin or milk jug and then recycle it.
"We actually take it at our household hazardous waste facility by the Stockton Airport. It's free to residents." David Gorton of San Joaquin County Public Works, said. "If they take it there, we have a vendor that takes it and recycles it into other uses."
The facility is at 7850 R. A. Bridgeford St., Stockton and is open Thursday through Saturday from 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. except for this week, it will be closed Thursday and Friday because of the holiday.
For more information, visit sjgov.org or call (209) 468-3066.
Contact reporter Jo Ann Kirby at (209) 546-8256 or email@example.com. Follow her on Twitter @JKirbAppeal.


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Katy Perry Supports Robert Pattinson After 'Twilight' Cheating Scandal
Team R. Pattz all the way.
If there's anyone out there who knows the pain and the embarrassment of a public split, it's Katy Perry. That's why the 'Wide Awake' singer has jumped to support heartthrob actor Robert Pattinson, who, along with the rest of the world, learned last week that his girlfriend and 'Twilight' co-star Kristen Stewart had cheated on him.
The scandal has rocked the teen entertainment world to its very core, since, essentially, Bella cheated on Edward. Gasp! Perry, however, is firmly team R. Pattz as opposed to Team K. Stew.
Pattinson, who reportedly moved out of the couple's Los Angeles home after K. Stew issued a public apology for her indiscretion when photos of her in a compromising position with her 'Snow White and the Huntsman' director landed in a tabloid, supported Perry when she split with husband Russell Brand. So now Perry is returning the favor. But don't be so quick to jump on those 'Perrinson' or 'Robkat' bandwagons, people. They are just friends.
A source told The Daily Star (quotes courtesy of Female First), "Katy has been a rock for Rob. She has reassured him she is very much there for him just as he was for her when she split from Russell. She has urged him to take a break with her [Stewart]."
Perry, who shared an intimate glimpse of the pain from her split with Brand in her flop film 'Katy Perry: Part of Me,' has the type of firsthand experience to help Pattinson navigate the pain, humiliation and anguish that comes along with breaking up in Hollywood. At least R. Pattz doesn't have to deal with his equally famous girlfriend cheating on him and getting caught on his own.
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With more than 15 million U.S. golfers, the market for collectibles has expanded greatly in recent years. Such memorabilia can make good investments that increase in value over time. Experts suggest buying pieces attached to golf's biggest names, especially those who figure prominently in the sport's history. Autographed golf clubs, balls, shoes and gloves fall into this category, as do signed tournament pin flags, action photos, or award medallions.
"When you consider acquiring golf collectibles as a pure investment, look for really hard-to-get items, one of a kind, if possible," says Joe Umphlett, sales manager for SportsMemorabila.com. "Look for items used by golfing greats, items they wore and signed. These tend to really appreciate in value over the years."
Click ahead to see a range of items and prices available to the collector or investor.
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Thursday 24 January saw the official launch of both the Museum's Wallace100 events programme for 2013 and the Wallace Correspondence Project's (WCP) digital archive of Wallace's correspondence - Wallace Letters Online (WLO). The launches took place at an evening event for people directly connected with these projects.
There were about 80 guests, including three generations of the Wallace family, Sir David Attenborough (Patron of the WCP), comedian and naturalist Bill Bailey, Wallace biographer Peter Raby, representatives of the Linnean, Royal Geographical and Royal Entomological Societies, staff from Kew Gardens, and from Museums at Thurrock, Hertford, Dudley, Swansea, Cardiff and Oxford (all of which are planning Wallace exhibitions this year).
Other notable guests included the Deputy Indonesian Ambassador to the UK, a Director of the Darwin Correspondence Project and a great-great-grandson of Charles Darwin. There were also about 16 Museum staff working on the night.
Left to right: Judith Magee (Wallace100 manager), Shane Winser (Royal Geographical Society), Andy Polaszek (Wallace100 manager).
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Left to right: Richard Wallace (ARW's great-grandson), Bill Bailey, Bill Wallace (ARW's great-grandson).
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Left to right: John Wallace (ARW's grandson), Rosamund (ARW's great-great-granddaughter), George Beccaloni (director of WLO), Jan Beccaloni (secretary of the Wallace Fund), Susan (ARW's great-granddaughter).
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The evening started off with drinks and canapés in the Museum's Images of Nature gallery, giving people who are working on Wallace-related projects a chance to network with one another (one of the main aims of the evening). WCP Archivist Caroline Catchpole demonstrated Wallace Letters Online -which had gone live to the public on the Internet for the first time earlier that day - to guests, and the Museum's Nature Live team did short video interviews of selected guests.
The Images of Nature gallery before the guests arrived.
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Half way through the event an announcement was made and guests gathered around the screen where Caroline had been demonstrating WLO. Bill Bailey then gave a speech about the project, declaring it to be 'officially launched'.
Bill launches Wallace Letters Online.
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Towards the end of the evening guests made their way to the Museum's grand Central Hall and then part way up the central stairs - most gathered on the landing where the magnificent marble statue of Charles Darwin resides. Bill Bailey then made his way up the stairs and stood under the Museum's painting of Wallace, concealed under a golden cloth.
The picture had only two days previously been put back in this position; the one it had first occupied for a 50 year stretch after it was donated in 1923. Bill then gave a brilliant heartfelt speech, before gingerly pulling off the cloth to reveal the impressive portrait of Wallace. Afterwards he remarked "I must confess I was more nervous about that than the Royal Variety Show!"
Bill unveils the painting...
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The painting revealed.
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Bill's speech was filmed by a crew from the BBC and it will form the grand finale to a two part documentary about Wallace that he has been working on. After Bill had finished his stuff, another Bill - Wallace's great-grandson, William Wallace - concluded the evening by giving a short speech. Bill, who had travelled all the way from Canada to attend the launch, talked about his great-grandfather and said how proud he and the Wallace family were to see their illustrious relative back at the Museum and next to Darwin, where he belongs.
Bill and Sir David have a chat whilst Darwin looks on.
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Press coverage
A number of articles about the launch of Wallace100 and WLO have appeared on the web and in newspapers around the world. The main articles that I am aware of on the internet are as follows (several of these were reproduced on hundreds of other websites):
Biodiversity Heritage Library blog
Other languages
Neue Zürcher Zeitung (Swiss newspaper in German)
Slobodna Dalmacija (newspaper in Croatian)
Volkskrant (newspaper in Dutch)
Gentside découvertes (in French)
Brazilian blog (in Portuguese)
Museum news reports about Wallace100 and WLO