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Neelakanta is another name of God Shiva.It means blue throat.The mountain peak Neelakantha is named after this name of God Shiva.Nilakantha peak is one of three important mountain peaks in Badrinath.The other two are Nar mountain and Narayan mountain.
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You can see the peak right after entering Badrinath region but it is not visible from the temple.The road leading to the temple is best place to get view of this peak.
Sun rise has always been a great sight in Himalayan regions.Many places like Darjeeling include Sun rise view as one of major tourist attractions.In the same lines this place has also awesome sun rise view but does not have a tiresome journey as that of Darjeeling nor is included in tourist attraction.


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Guest commentary: These six teams are the best fits for Jimmer Fredette in free agency
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Note: I am an unabashed Jimmer Fredette fan. He is one of my favorite players in the NBA now and one of my favorite players of all-time, so I have a very slanted view of him. With that in mind, I also know basketball. I know who can play and who can't. I know who has NBA talent and who doesn't. I can see if a guy has a skill set that will make him valuable when he lacks in other areas. And let me tell you, Fredette has a skill set that makes him an NBA player. He can flat-out shoot the ball!
As I turned on the radio Tuesday morning on my way to work I heard awesome news come over a local radio show. According to Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports, Fredette and the Sacramento Kings are working on a buyout that will make him a free agent in short order. I shouted for joy when I heard it, then I texted and called people to share the great news. Now some of you may wonder why I am so happy that one of my favorites players is going to be cut? Well, that answer is simple; I don't have to watch the Sacramento Kings play basketball anymore. I have watched them as much as I could over the last three years even though on many nights I couldn't stomach the product on the floor. It is just bad basketball. There are a bunch of me-first guys who don't seem to care about winning. It seemed more about scoring and individual accolades than anything else.
The hard part is that I knew all along that Fredette wasn't a fit with the Kings. You can't put a bad defender with a bunch of other bad defenders and assume he will get better (which somehow he did). You can't have a guy who needs the ball in his hands or at the very least come off some screens to do what he does best (shoot the ball) just standing around when everyone else you have plays one-on-one and expect him to be effective. You can't move a guy to the two and play where he is overmatched defensively and not give him the opportunity to get his own looks on the other end.
Now that Fredette will be a free agent shortly, here are the teams that Fredette would fit in the best in my opinion. Some of these teams have been mentioned as possible destinations for him while others are just a good fit in my eyes.
Los Angeles Lakers: The Lakers traded away Steve Blake at the trade deadline and brought back MarShon Brooks and Kent Bazemore in the deal. Since arriving, both have played minutes (something that rarely happened at Golden State). Fredette would be a reclamation project on a team full of them. Jordan Hill, Xavier Henry, Wesley Johnson, Kendall Marshall and Brooks were all highly touted players coming out of college and first-round picks. None of them panned out on the team that drafted each, but are now getting a second (or third) chance to succeed as a member of the Lakers. There is a log jam in the backcourt, but without Kobe Bryant and Steve Nash, Fredette should be able to earn a few minutes and try to prove his worth as an NBA player.
New York Knicks: The Knicks really miss Steve Novak and his ability to stretch the floor and create space for Carmelo Anthony to work. Although Fredette plays a different position from Novak, he can still create space with his uncanny ability to knock down the deep three. There are not a ton of minutes to be had with Tim Hardaway Jr. and JR Smith playing the two, but the Knicks did buy out Metta World Peace, and it looks like Raymond Felton has more things to worry about than basketball right now with his arrest on gun possession charges. As a side note, Fredette has had three great games in New York and would be very close to where he grew up.
Boston Celtics: The Celtics traded away one of their best young guards in Jordan Crawford, and Rajon Rondo isn't fully recovered from his knee injury yet. They do have Jerryd Bayless and Phil Pressey, but neither is a great shooter. They also have Avery Bradley on the wing, but he isn't much of a scorer either. You could easily pair him with Fredette and have the best of both worlds. It also doesn't hurt that Danny Ainge (also a BYU alum) is the general manager.
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Through April 20, "SportsCenter" will put every NFL team "On The Clock." Scouts Inc. will break down each team and look at what questions still need answering.
Key additions
The addition of Ovie Mughelli is a clear sign that Petrino wants a power rushing attack behind a physical fullback such as Mughelli, who is now the richest fullback in the history of the game. Although WR Joe Horn is getting up in age and struggles to stay healthy, this was a good risk to take for the Falcons. He can still stretch the field and his experience should be a real asset. He should be Atlanta's No. 1 receiver and a short-term fix -- assuming he can stay healthy. Guard Toniu Fonoti isn't a guy who can be counted on, but he is the massive road grader Petrino is looking for up front. It is a long shot, but Fonoti has a chance to revive his career in this system. Cornerback Lewis Sanders and LB Marcus Wilkins were signed for depth and special-teams purposes. Joey Harrington was signed this week. He is obviously a much different type of player than Vick, but could be an OK second quarterback.
QB Matt Schaub was traded to the Texans for a wealth of draft picks. His departure leaves little question whatsoever that this is Vick's team. Atlanta was hit pretty hard in free agency and really doesn't have the roster to withstand many losses. Defensive end Patrick Kerney signed with Seattle for big dollars and will surely be missed. Although he has durability issues, he was a fine complement opposite John Abraham. Atlanta is now very light at defensive end. RB Justin Griffith, a solid player, was allowed to leave to Oakland because he doesn't fit what Petrino wants to do on offense. WR Ashley Lelie left Atlanta for San Francisco. He is an overrated receiver, but defenses have to honor his deep speed and big-play potential. The Falcons also released LB Edgerton Hartwell, LB Ike Reese, G Matt Lehr and C Austin King. Hartwell was a major failure as a free-agent signing from Baltimore -- mostly due to injury -- and his departure will force LB Keith Brooking to move inside, which isn't where he belongs. Lehr has some starting experience, but the other two players were minimal contributors.
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Petrino's top priority as head coach is to elevate Vick's game. Atlanta has a bevy of other positional needs, though. We touched on the team's defensive end need, but safety is also an area of this defense that absolutely must be addressed. A true middle linebacker to replace Hartwell would be a good addition, as well. On offense, the line needs a major face-lift to fit the change of scheme. Warrick Dunn and Jerious Norwood are an explosive pair of runners, but neither really fits the downhill, physical style that Atlanta is looking for.


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BUDAPEST, Feb 6 (Reuters) - Hungary's ruling Fidesz party denied a media report on Tuesday that said Economy Minister Gyorgy Matolcsy could take over at the central bank after outgoing Governor Andras Simor's six-year term expires in March.
National news agency MTI cited Mate Kocsis, a spokesman for Prime Minister Viktor Orban's Fidesz party, as saying a report on the website of business daily Vilaggazdasag citing an unnamed source as saying that a decision had been made was baseless.
"This has not come up even in informal discussions, therefore, we consider the report published by Vilaggazdasag to be baseless and false," MTI cited Kocsis as saying.
Investors are keeping a close eye on the management change at the central bank, which will also involve both of Simor's deputies appointed under a previous government, for clues about policy changes to aid the recession-hit economy.
The Vilaggazdasag report said Mihaly Varga, Orban's minister handling contact with the International Monetary Fund, which led a 20 billion euro bailout of Hungary in 2008, could become economy minister in a government reshuffle after Matolcsy's departure.
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Dramatic changes are sweeping across China, of which economic reform and an expanding private sector, a massive rural exodus, the overturning of social structures, and an ageing population are just some of the most striking examples. How are these changes affecting the efficiency of health services and what are the consequences for access to treatment? These are the two questions being posed by a team of European and Chinese experts in the framework of a study co-financed by the INCO programme.
Epidemiological transition is well under way in urban China. This trend, which accompanies development, is marked by a decline in infectious diseases and an increase in chronic diseases similar to those found in the industrialised countries.
It all began in the late 1990s when the Chinese Government announced that it was awarding top priority to reforming the urban health care system, judged to be in a pitiful state. A senior official at the Health Ministry, Cai Renhua, today Director of the Chinese Health Economics Institute, enlisted the expertise of the Institute of Development Studies (IDS) at Sussex University (Brighton, UK) and of the Faculty of Medicine in Shanghai, both of which had already participated in studies of the health care system in rural China. The task was to assess the equity and efficiency of health services in Chinese towns and to submit recommendations to health officials.
A research consortium was set up and organised into two groups. The IDS, as study coordinator, teamed up with the Shanghai Faculty of Medicine (which later became the University of Fudan) and sociologists from the University of Hamburg (DE) to study equity of access to health services, while Shandong University's Institute of Social Medicine and Health Policy worked with the Stockholm School of Economics (SE) on the efficiency of the health system. With co-financing assured from the EU (INCO programme), the British Government and the Ford Foundation, the researchers were able to begin their mission by defining their method. As it is impossible to try and obtain a comprehensive picture in a country as vast as China, they decided to focus on a case study.
Spotlight on Nantong and Zibo
Two cities in eastern China were selected: the port of Nantong (population 2.5 million) which lies on the banks of the Yangtze in Jiangsu Province, and the industrial city of Zibo (population 1.4 million) in Shandong Province. There were also scientific reasons for the choice. "One of the greatest difficulties facing social science research in China is the rate of change. It was to get round this difficulty that we decided to carry out studies that were both very local and very detailed and which would be able to reveal the dynamic of the change in progress," explain programme coordinators Gerald Bloom (ISD) and Tang Shenglan, formerly a researcher at Fudan University and now at the Liverpool School of Tropical Medicine (UK).
The authorities in both Nantong and Zibo were enthusiastic participants in the study. They provided medical statistics compiled by the health centres (number of patients, types of pathology, etc.) as well as various economic and social data that are essential to any analysis of a health care system. In addition to collecting these statistics, the researchers also carried out their own in-depth studies in the field. They set up a panel of several thousand families representing the different social classes, issuing each family with a book in which to record, during two weeks, details of any visit to a health care establishment. The researchers also conducted face-to-face interviews with inhabitants, government officials, business managers and hospital directors.
New illnesses, new patients
What lessons can de learned from this three-year study that combined an economic and sociological analysis with a quantitative and qualitative approach? As space does not permit the presentation of the collected data in any detail – it runs to 250 pages of a book containing about 30 publications in both English and Chinese(
) – we will highlight the most notable findings.
First of all, the study provides a very precise picture of the health situation of the populations of these two towns. This shows that the six most common causes of mortality are at present chronic diseases of the kind that are found in Western societies (cancers, cardiovascular disease, etc.). Infectious diseases rank seventh, although they remain an important public health issue, especially with the resurgence of tuberculosis and the spread of Aids. The researchers see this as proof that epidemiological transition is well under way in urban China, marked by a decline in infectious diseases and an increase in the chronic diseases that accompany development.
The second lesson is that access to hospital care is not dependent on sex but on economic status. Employees of public administrations and of profitable state-owned enterprises attend medical centres much more often than employees of loss-making enterprises, private companies or, most notably, the unemployed. There is a simple explanation for this inequality: those who seek most health care are those who benefit from a health insurance policy paid for by their employer. Such systems are very rare. If they do not have sufficient insurance cover, those who suffer from a chronic disease spend a large part of their wages on their treatment. As to the poorest sections of the population, whose situation is often precarious, they find it difficult to meet the cost of health care.
A mixed picture
Although not egalitarian, are China's health services efficient? The study offers a mixed response on this point. There was a notable drive for modernisation between the early and late 1990s, when such high-tech devices as medical imaging became generally available, for example. The hospitals took on a lot more staff and the standard of care improved during this period. Unfortunately, there was a down side to this progress. Patients with the means to do so abandoned the clinics and health centres in favour of the modern hospitals, even when their condition did not really require it. The costs of a consultation tripled between 1990 and 1999 (including an adjustment for inflation), while the daily cost of hospitalisation increased fourfold. There also seems to be a certain wastage and bed occupancy fell from over 80% in the early 1990s to around 60% today.
The study therefore provides a mixed picture of the Chinese health care system. On the one hand, the quantity and quality of care services have improved, and the drive for modernisation has brought considerable progress in public health. But on the other, health services provide a less than perfect response to a considerable and largely unsatisfied demand. Millions of Chinese citizens are unable to receive the treatment they need while more and more hospital beds are remaining empty. These observations were presented first at a round table attended by officials from Nantong and Zibo, and then at the Ministry of Health in Beijing at the end of 2001. These meetings were the occasion to present some of the possible areas for public action suggested by the researchers, "and since adopted in part by the Chinese leaders", as Gerald Bloom and Tang Shenglan like to point out. Among the points stressed were: the need to move towards a system of universal sickness cover that is accessible not only to employees but to all the inhabitants of towns, and possibly of rural areas too; the need to get more patients out of the hospitals and into the clinics and health centres as "establishments that depend on the state today provide 95% of diagnoses, treatment and hospitalisation"(
); the need for a low cost care system for the elderly; and the need to reform hospital management, with an end to state subsidies that are dependent on the number of beds and which have the effect of boosting supply independently of demand.
In fact, the challenges facing the Chinese health care system are very reminiscent of those facing the European countries. International co-operation is helping the present rapid rate of change as China learns the lessons from experiences in Europe. The recent SARS crisis, which originated in China, provides a timely warning of the importance of this co-operation.
(1) Gerald Bloom and Tang Shenglan,
Health Care Transition in Urban China,
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(2) As the study initiator Cai Renhua declared when commenting on the government's intention to reduce the importance of public hospitals.
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American English: /ˈfræn(t)ɪk/ British English: /ˈfrantɪk/
Translation of frantic in Spanish:
- 1 (very worried) they were frantic with worryestaban desesperados de la preocupaciónExample sentences
- Many customers eagerly signed up because their pets had been made frantic with fear by the noise of fireworks.
- This time, however, he failed to return and his mother is frantic with worry about his safety.
- I have been speaking to his dad and he and his wife are just frantic with worry, they can't sleep or eat.
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- In the latter stages they attempted a frantic counter-attack but the ball play was feeble.
- She was quickly discovered after a frantic search, bleeding and shocked.
- The men noticed the boy was missing and after a frantic search they discovered his body in the river.
- 3 (frenzied, hectic)(activity)to drive somebody frantic
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At Fire Island Pines you can be assured of getting the sun, the moon and the stars.
Everyone comes for the sun. The beach, where sun worshipers park themselves in the high season, at The Pines is known around the world. Watching sunsets is a big deal here in The Pines (see Fire Island Pines Things to Do Tip).
The moon and the stars, on the other hand, are less sought after; when they make their appearance after the sun sets, the sun worshipers have moved on to other things, drinking and dancing at Tea Dance.
Watching these other celestial bodies is much more satisfying here in The Pines. Because we have no light pollution to interfere with sky watching it is possible to spot star constellations easily. Be overwhelmed by the number of stars in the sky. The Big Dipper is the only constellation that I can recognize; it is very satisfying to see it on a clear night.
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Chamber Music Society of St. Louis presents chamber music of the highest quality in a relaxed, informal, cabaret- style where audiences can have an entertaining evening as they sit at a table with friends, share a bottle of wine and light snacks while enjoying beautiful music performed by some of the finest musicians in St. Louis.
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One Concert Date Each Only. Include these concerts in your subscription package for a discount!
We are deeply saddened by the passing of our esteemed colleague and friend, Lois Newman Orchard. Lois served as CMSSL Board Member and Finance Committee Member since 2012.
Our March 14 and 15 concerts will be dedicated in celebration of her life.
"I'm really looking forward to the Love Fest Continues concert! Congratulations on the success of the Chamber Music Society! It's a great endeavor that enriches the community and makes relatively small St. Louis feel not as small.... Certainly not culturally-- thanks again."
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"I am reluctant to comment on this St. Louis gem for fear that too many others will discover it and I will struggle to get tickets. I mean, why would anyone in their right mind want to sit at a table with friends, drinking a glass of wine, while the finest chamber musicians in the city play breathtaking music fifteen feet away? Stay at home and watch Survivor, Part VI so that I may continue to keep this little musical shangri-la for myself."
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i was looking up stuff to draw yesterday and i thought this would be a good start, Miku under water depression chibi black and white, done with 0.07 lead pencil tissue paper and a eraser
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I know you can perform a quick look at your off hand by pressing alt, but is there a easier/quick method to compare both your main hand and off hand weapon to a two handed weapon? (When I try compare them, it only shows it against my main handed weapon -besides doing some math)
Then you dual wield two weapons, and you compare a 2 handed weapon, it automatically compares it to both your main hand and off hand at the same time on the damage gains section.
I equipped a one handed crossbow. compared it to my 2 handed bow for an upgrade of 4197 points of damage. Keeping the same Hand crossbow in my primary I equipped another hand crossbow to my offhand, which increased my damage. Then I compared it to my 2 handed bow again for an increase in if 2940 damage.
It shows the status upgrades versus the main hand but its factoring in both weapons. It also factors in a shields stats if you use one.
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BOE Says More Stimulus on Agenda After Posen Proposes 'Plan B'
The Bank of England signaled that it's moving closer to more asset purchases, joining the Federal Reserve in contemplating further stimulus to revive a flagging economic recovery.
That may put both the expansion of the central bank's 200 billion-pound ($313 billion) government-bond holdings and buying other securities on U.K. officials' agenda. Policy maker Adam Posen said last week that a "plan B" approach for the Bank of England should be "heavy-duty credit easing."
Some Bank of England policy makers said that the chances of stimulus being needed have increased, in minutes of their Sept. 9 decision released today after the Confederation of British Industry cut its gross domestic product forecast for next year. The Fed said yesterday it's willing to ease monetary policy further to spur economic growth and support prices.
"The impact on money-supply growth and real economic activity has been pretty subdued" given the scale of the Bank of England's bond buying, Neil Mackinnon, an economist at VTB Capital in London and a former U.K. Treasury official, said in a telephone interview. "What Posen is recommending is that the BOE take a leaf out of the Fed's book" with wider purchases than government bonds. His "idea has some merit," he said.
Mackinnon said that the central bank could consider large-scale purchases of securities such as mortgage-backed securities and commercial paper. The minutes didn't specify what further measures may be considered.
The yield on the U.K. 10-year government bond plunged 15 basis points today to 2.963 percent. The pound, which fell as much as 0.4 percent after the minutes, traded at at $1.5619 at 13:57 p.m. in London.
MPC Decision
The Monetary Policy Committee, led by Governor Mervyn King, voted 8-1 to keep the benchmark interest rate at 0.5 percent and the bond-purchase plan unchanged. For some officials, "the probability that further action would become necessary to stimulate the economy and keep inflation on track to hit the target in the medium term had increased," the minutes said.
Posen said on Sept. 16 the bank's plan in case the economy falters should be to start buying private assets to intervene in specific markets.
"Because we have only done quantitative easing up till now, our plan B or our next page in my opinion, and I've said this, is to shift into heavy-duty credit easing," he said.
Analysts at the National Institute of Economic and Social Research, whose director is Bank of England official Martin Weale, said in a paper published in February that the Fed has given more help to the economy than the Bank of England because U.S. officials made greater use of so-called credit easing tools.
Fed Ahead
"The Bank of England has eschewed credit easing and hence has done significantly less than the Federal Reserve to mitigate the effects of the financial crisis," Niesr economists Ray Barrell and Dawn Holland wrote. "A lack of willingness to use credit easing in the U.K. to reduce borrowing costs faced by firms has probably meant that the output gap has been 1 percentage point larger than it could have been."
Danny Gabay, a former Bank of England economist and director of Fathom Financial Consulting in London, said that the Bank of England could consider a range of measures such as buying bank shares and mortgage-backed securities, and adding to their corporate-bond purchases. He has previously proposed purchases of homes on the verge of repossession.
More Needed
"Doing more of the same isn't necessarily the right thing," he said in a telephone interview. "It's a secondary question which assets they buy. The intellectual point is that they needed to do more to stimulate the economy."
Bank of England officials said in July that the bond-purchase program has aided growth by shaving 1 percentage point off government bond yields. The bank still said this week that M4, the broadest measure of money supply, rose an annual 1.8 percent in August, the least since records began in 1983.
Data in the past month have signaled a "reduction in growth prospects" for the second half of the year, the minutes said. The CBI, Britain's biggest business lobby, cut its growth forecast for next year to 2 percent from a projection of 2.5 percent in June because of the government budget squeeze.
Some Bank of England officials said that recent data "indicated that the headwinds to a recovery in private-sector demand in the U.K. and overseas were somewhat stronger than previously thought and that the downside risks to activity had increased." One unspecified policy maker said that the risk of "an adverse hit to the supply capacity of the economy had increased in recent months."
Andrew Sentance pushed for a fourth month to raise the interest rate "gradually." "Most" officials see the bank's current stance as "appropriate," according to the minutes.
"It certainly seems that the MPC is edging closer towards doing more quantitative easing and perhaps out of all the central banks is getting closest in providing additional stimulus to the economy," said Samuel Tombs, U.K. economist at Capital Economics Ltd. in London, in a telephone interview. Tombs said the Bank of England may buy an extra 50 billion pounds in government bonds "at the start of next year."


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The Mets Have Officially Had Enough
After Losing Again to the Worst-in-Baseball Marlins, the Team Jettisons Ike Davis and Two Others to Triple-A Las Vegas
The Mets almost certainly cannot change their fate this season. Barring a miraculous turnaround, they will probably lose close to 100 games. Right now, their players look incapable of competing at this level, overmatched even by baseball's worst team.
But as they inevitably plummet into the abyss, the Mets don't need to tolerate ineptitude. In recent days, their performance descended from bad to embarrassing. In the major leagues, embarrassment leads to consequences.
The Mets took action Sunday.
After their 8-4 loss to the Miami Marlins, the Mets shredded their roster, demoting three players to Triple-A and shaking the fabric of an organization stuck in a free fall. They finally sent down struggling first baseman Ike Davis, along with outfielder Mike Baxter and relief pitcher Robert Carson, sending a resounding message to the rest of the clubhouse: Nobody should feel safe.
The Mets' decision to overhaul their personnel came as they hit their lowest point of the year. They fell to the pitiful Marlins—a team on pace to finish with one of the worst records in modern baseball history—for the fifth time in the span of 10 days. In two games this weekend, the Mets (23-35) slogged through 30 ugly innings and scored a grand total of five runs. After preaching patience for two months, the Mets' patience ran out. Let the bloodletting begin.
"It's tough to sit through 30 innings and score not even a handful of runs," said general manager Sandy Alderson, who announced the moves after Sunday's loss. "It's been frustrating for everybody. I'm sure it's been frustrating for our fans, too."
For the first time all season, manager Terry Collins let some of that frustration show.
He held a team meeting after the game, concerned about his team's startling mental blunders and lapses with basic fundamentals. In the first inning Sunday, Jordany Valdespin got caught trying to steal third base with two outs. In the ninth, Baxter failed to execute a sacrifice bunt with the potential winning run on first.
Afterward, Collins said this "is certainly pretty close" to the worst time of his managerial tenure with the Mets.
"This is when you reach down inside and you find out who belongs here and who doesn't," Collins said.
For now, the Mets still believe Collins belongs. When Alderson delivered the news about the demotions, he gave Collins a major vote of confidence, saying, "This is not a staff issue. This is a player issue."
Three players took the fall. To replace them, infielder Josh Satin, outfielder Collin Cowgill and left-hander Josh Edgin will join the big-league club.
Davis goes to Las Vegas after an 0-for-3 afternoon, lowering his batting average on the season to .161, along with 66 strikeouts in 186 at-bats. He endured a similar slump to start last season, only to emerge as one of the National League's premier power threats after the All-Star break.
This time, though, the Mets couldn't afford to wait. Alderson hopes playing in a low-pressure environment will help Davis repair his swing and rediscover his fractured confidence. The Mets believe Davis can return soon, but his play will dictate their approach
"At some point, you just have to say to yourself this is not in his best interest," Alderson said. "I was one of his biggest supporters. I just felt at some point, we've got to get him out of here."
Davis, through a team spokesman, declined to speak with reporters after learning of his demotion, but the news likely didn't come as a surprise.
The Mets met with him two weeks ago and informed him they planned to send him out if his play didn't improve. Second baseman Daniel Murphy, whose 10th-inning error allowed the go-ahead run to score Sunday, said "I.D. is a professional. We will see him again."
That could take some time. The same goes for Baxter and Carson, the other casualties Sunday. Alderson said he doesn't anticipate any other changes before the Mets' next game Tuesday. After that, though, who knows?
"When you're struggling the way we're struggling, changes come whether you like it or not," team captain David Wright said. "What every player, what every front office, what every coach strives for is consistency. But you can't have consistency when you are a dozen or so games under .500."
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Lamb Shanks My Way
Total Time
Prep 20 mins
Cook 2 hrs
These are so good, your house will smell divine
Ingredients Nutrition
- 2 large lamb shanks
- 1 medium onion
- 10 garlic whole cloves
- 2 celery ribs
- 1 cup baby carrots
- 1 tablespoon Dijon mustard
- 1 (10 ounce) can consomme
- 1 cup Burgundy wine
- 1 tablespoon maggi liquid seasoning
- corsre kosher salt
- fresh ground pepper
- 1 tablespoon Greek oregano
- 2 tablespoons olive oil
- heat oven to 350.
- brown the shanks in oil in a frying pan.
- place shanks in a roasting pan
- spread mustard on shanks.
- sprinkle on the oregano ,salt and pepper.
- brown onions, carrots and celery.
- add onions and celery to the roasting pan.
- in the browing pan add the consomme and burgundy wine reduce by 1/3.
- pour over the shanks along with garlic.
- place in oven approx 2 1/2 hours.
- turn shanks several times. adding more broth if needed.
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Yummers! This was so simple and so tasty! I had to use a Country Dijon mustard as I was out of the regular stuff. The smell of the garlic and the burgundy was intoxicating and filled the kitchen! I did add a little bit of a cornstarch slurr at the end to thicken the sauce and it turned it very well. I served the veggies on the side with some garlic mashed potatoes. Nice comfort meal. Thanks Chef susan from Sandpoint Idaho for a nice new keeper. Made for Fall PAC 2009.
I transferred the cooked shanks and other ingredients to my La Chasseure cast iron pot and fitted with lid and cooked at 160C for 2 3/4 hours for fall of the bone shanks. I upped this to 3 serves and my shanks were about 500 grams each. I did use a merlot instead of a burgandy and had to use basil instead of oregano as that is what I had on hand. Served with mashed potato and crusty bread. I also gave the liquid in the pot (there wasn't a lot) a light blitz with the stick blender and served this over the shanks which provided some extra vegetables and was nice to mop up the juices with the crusty bread. I think you would need more liquid if you were doing in an open roasting pan. Thank you Chef susan from Sandpoint, Idaho, made for New Kid on the Block.


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If you love historical drama then look no further. Boston Globe"Bernard Cornwell, the perennial New York Times "bestselling author of the Richard Sharpe series and perhaps the greatest writer of historical adventure novels today (Washington Post") joins co-author Susannah Kells for A Crowning Mercy" a breathtaking romantic adventure set against the dramatic backdrop of the English Civil War. The exciting story of a rebellious Puritan woman on a perilous quest for love and fortune, A Crowning Mercy "is a must for Cornwell fans as well as for devoted readers of Sharon Kay Penman and Diana Gabaldon.
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I'm trying to record some league matches, but instead of using fraps and uploading them to youtube, I want to select the webcam option so I can just stream them (to save space). How would I do that? I've tried webcammax, video2webcam, and VHScreencapture, but none of them seem to be working. Any help is appreciated.
Youtube has a built-in webcam upload feature. You need the free/shareware program (meaning the main part of it is free, but there's paid features too) called manycam. Once you download/install it and set it as default (tutorial here), do the following:


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I used Buddypress.
I would like to remove point when delete own post.
Because user can repeat for delete and upload.
So points only increase.
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I used Buddypress.
I would like to remove point when delete own post.
Because user can repeat for delete and upload.
So points only increase.
any way?
There is no built in limit for Points being awarded when a user posts a new content. I assume you give points for new posts under the "Points for publishing content" hook?
Hi Gabriel!
>>"Points for publishing content"
Yes! It is something like "Points for comments > Trashed / Unapproved Comments"
I hope to the possibility of myCRED.
Thanks Gabriel!
Your only option is to hook into the mycred_add filter which fires just before points are awarded / deducted from users allowing you to stop a process if needed. Filters simply just need to return either true (go ahead and give / take points ), false (stop what you are doing) or 'done' (in case you award points yourself due to some custom formula or something and don't want myCRED to duplicate things but indicate that points have been awarded).
add_filter( 'mycred_add', 'enforce_limit_for_published_content', 10, 3 );
function enforce_limit_for_published_content( $reply, $request, $mycred ) {
// If another filter has already declined this, so do we
if ( $reply === false ) return $reply;
// Check the log how many points this user has received
// today for publishing content
$points_today = mycred_get_total_by_time( 'today', 'now', 'publishing_content', $request['user_id'] );
// In this example I assume users get 1 point per content
// So 1 point * 1 = 1
// In the user has not received points today, $points_today will return zero
if ( $points_today == 1 ) return false;
return true;
You can find more information on how to use the mycred_get_total_by_time function in the codex.
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MONTGOMERY, Ala. (AP) - Gov. Bob Riley is scheduled to speak at the annual Alabama League of Municipalities convention.
The group meets Monday in Montgomery at the Renaissance Montgomery Hotel at the Convention Center.
After his luncheon speech, Riley travels to Auburn where he's expected to participate in a ceremony to name a portion of U.S. 280 in honor of Lt. General Hal Moore of Auburn.
The ceremony is set for 2:30 p.m. at the Auburn Chamber of Commerce.


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With the words kerley gardens I would like to see a lot of fonts, that was achieved.I would like to see a transition of color on the words apartment, like the oak ridge sign, if you look closely they have done that one that sign, I am basically trying to replicate elements of that sign. However with the font I have specifically asked that we Copt the oak ridge sign.
I would also like some shading of the tree in some different flavours, I.e. One showing it with more reddish color into the tree itself, one with the color starting at great at the bottom and transitioning to pink or whatever color you have at the top so it looks like it is getting dark.
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Stratford Elks
The Class 1A Elks are 2-0 against Class 2A teams, and they have proven they can pile up points and come back to win a defensive battle.
The Elks won perhaps their biggest rivalry game of the season last week when they took down Canadian, which moved up to Class 2A in the offseason because of the UIL biennial realignment.
Stratford rallied against the Wildcats, scoring the final two touchdowns in a 13-12 win, the difference being Gonzalo Eizmendi's PAT kick in the second quarter and Canadian's missed field goal in the final seconds.
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Is there a faster way to compute the nth Fibonacci number than by
fib2 (page 4)? One idea involves matrices.
We start by writing the equations F1 = F1 and F2 = F0 + F1 in matrix notation:
So, in order to compute Fn, it suffices to raise this 2 x 2 matrix, call it X, to the nth power.
(a) Show that two 2 x 2 matrices can be multiplied using 4 additions and 8 multiplications.
But how many matrix multiplications does it take to compute Xn?
(b) Show that O (log n) matrix multiplications suffice for computing Xn. (Hint: Think about computing X8.)
Thus the number of arithmetic operations needed by our matrix-based algorithm, call it
fib3, is just O(log n), as compared to O(n) for
fib2. Have we broken another exponential barrier?
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fib2 becomes O (n2).
(c) Show that all intermediate results of
fib3 are O (n) bits long.
(d) Let M(n) be the running time of an algorithm for multiplying n-bit numbers, and assume that M(n) = O (n2) (the school method for multiplication, recalled in Chapter 1, achieves this). Prove that the running time of
fib3 is O (M(n) log n).
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The IT Platform Principle: The First Shall Not Be First
One of the fiercest rivalries in the information-technology world has long been over platforms—products that link users in networks, like iTunes for online music or Windows for computer operating systems. It's often a winner-take-all business; platform leaders can earn huge profits as they tend to dominate markets with few serious competitors.
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A myth, however, has attached itself to the history of platforms: that each platform's originator has the best chance of dominating its market for years to come.
The truth is, that is rarely the case.
Instead of there being an advantage to being first, we found the opposite to be true. Most owners of leading IT platforms today did not create the markets they now rule. In almost all of the industries we studied, the current platform leaders introduced their products after a different company had already established the market with a platform of its own.
Out of the 15 platform industries that we studied, 14 of the current leaders began as followers in a market created by a competitor's platform. In only one market, for integrated business software, was the original platform creator still the leader— SAP AG. Five were fast followers, which we define as the second, third or fourth company to enter a market. The other nine were later followers.
To us, this suggests that while platform creators may reap early financial gains (mostly by selling to followers), long-term advantage goes to the followers.
Why would this be?
Easier to Imitate
For one thing, followers are imitating or improving a product, which is easier than inventing one. They can focus marketing on why their products are better, instead of having to explain what their product is and does. For instance, online auction sites already existed when eBay Inc. founder Pierre Omidyar created his company. But those earlier sites were run by businesses selling to consumers. EBay changed the concept to one in which consumers would sell to consumers.
Fast followers also can benefit by timing their product's launch closer to the point where the market's growth will take off. Amazon.com Inc. started selling books online in 1994, a few years after Book Stacks Unlimited, but at a time when the Web and e-commerce were poised to surge with new users and technological features.
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See these related articles from MIT Sloan Management Review.
- How Companies Become Platform Leaders
By Annabelle Gawer and Michael A. Cusumano (Winter 2008)
Under the right circumstances, companies of any size can grow to become platform leaders. And particular business and technology decisions can help platform-leader wannabes achieve their goals.
- The Elements of Platform Leadership
By Michael A. Cusumano and Annabelle Gawer (Spring 2002)
With vision that extends beyond their current business operations or the technical specifications of one product, platform leaders can create an industry ecosystem greater than the sum of its parts.
- First to Market, First to Fail? Real Causes of Enduring Market Leadership
By Gerard J. Tellis and Peter N. Golder (Winter 1996)
Managers and entrepreneurs frequently adhere to the motto of being first to market. But the authors have discovered that many pioneers fail, while most current leaders are not pioneers. Using a historical method, the authors try to determine why pioneers fail and early leaders succeed. They have found that market leaders embody five factors critical to success: vision, persistence, commitment, innovation, and asset leverage.
Late followers seek to offer a platform's next generation—one with higher performance but also compatibility with existing products. A late follower's innovations can be incremental but still significant. Apple Inc.'s iPhone, for example, came late to the smart-phone industry but carved out a new platform by blending three formerly separate functions: cellphones, personal digital assistants and personal computers. Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry predates the iPhone as a smart phone with PDA features, but Apple's product offered key new features of a touch screen and applications that users can purchase or design themselves.
Staircase Strategy
Another key to platform extension and survival is the use of so-called staircase strategies, which treat product innovations as part of a long-term vision of how the existing platform can be linked to future advantage. Staircase strategies fuel revenue growth by making it easy for consumers to upgrade to new versions with improved features while maintaining the products' compatibility with the old versions.
Microsoft Corp., for one, has repeatedly used staircase strategies. Early on, companies like WordPerfect, VisiCalc and Harvard Graphics dominated PC applications. But Microsoft responded by making its Word, Excel and PowerPoint programs (all follower products) compatible with one another, with existing products (like Lotus 1-2-3), and with the Windows operating environment. By emphasizing the ease with which customers could move from one application to the other, the company encouraged consumers to buy its entire suite of applications, which became the Office platform. Later, by acquiring and developing applications that worked on both Windows 95 and Windows NT—platforms that the company later merged—Microsoft successfully bridged the gap between home and office software markets.
Attempting to establish a platform can be one of the riskiest but also most lucrative strategies a company can pursue. It requires long-term commitment, including detailed product and marketing plans that extend years into the future. It can take years before turning a profit. But if it succeeds, it is well worth it. Because if a platform doesn't manage to stay on top, it will fail.
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Apple was upgraded to overweight at Barclays. CNBC's Jon Fortt, and Jon Steinberg, Daily Mail North American CEO, discuss.
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Asian equities were mostly lower on Tuesday, tracking U.S. declines, while caution set in ahead of the second-quarter earnings season.
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Mehdi Hosseini, Senior VP of Semiconductors at Susquehanna Financial Group, outlines three reasons why he remains optimistic on Samsung's stock.
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