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i got episode one free with the card i picked up at the manga booth. if anyone is going this year stop by the manga booth for goodies. "When the heavens do not bring forth justice, man must bring it upon himself to do so. That is the meaning of Jinchuu." -Enishi Yukishiro.
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ROCKFORD — GiGi's Playhouse will host the "I Have a Voice" gala presented by Rockford Health System at 5:30 p.m. March 21 at Giovanni's, 610 N. Bell School Road.
The event will include a cash bar, silent and live auction, dinner, guest speaker Heath White, and dancing and music by Southern Charm.
Cost: $100 per ticket; $1,000 for table of 10. For information: 815-654-7529, gigisplayhouse.org/rockford.
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Police: Woman ripped off 81-year-old in her care
Published 12:28 PM EST Feb 07, 2013
Briana Henderson was arrested in Ormond Beach after investigators said she took advantage of an elderly person.
Authorities said Henderson, 22, ripped off an 81-year-old in her care.
Henderson was apprehended when she tried to cash a $1,500 check Wednesday.
On Monday, Henderson allegedly cashed two other checks for more than $1,800 in Daytona Beach.
The teller at the Ormond bank realized the signature on Henderson's check did not match the one on file.
Henderson faces charges of elderly exploitation. She was booked into the Volusia County Jail.
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Colostrometers aren't just for scientists anymore
You've probably heard the recommendation to use a colostrometer to check the quality of colostrum. It is a simple instrument designed to float in a sample of colostrum to measure density. Roy Williams, a dairy producer from Midland, Texas, reported guidelines for proper use in a recent newsletter of the Dairy Calf and Heifer Association.
1. Some colostrum has millions of very tiny air bubbles trapped in it. When a colostrometer is placed into a sample of colostrum, it may sink very far down. Let colostrum sit for 10 to 20 minutes to allow air to work its way out. The colostrometer should gradually rise back to the top.
2. Some colostrum contains sticky or heavy material that will prevent the colostrometer from sinking in the sample in the normal manner. Wait for the colostrometer to sink to a normal level. If you do not wait, it may indicate much higher quality colostrum than what is present.
3. The colostrometer scale reading is the level on the colostrometer scale that meets the top surface of the sample of colostrum. If the top surface of the sample of colostrum has foam floating on it, then the actual read on the colostrometer will be obscured. A reading taken on the top surface of the foam will be misleading. Thus, care must be taken to remove all the foam from the top of the sample before reading.


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Landfill space is hard to come by in Hawaii. So one company has come up with an innovative idea to cut down on the state's trash.
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Thursday, September 26, 2013
Several hundred people attended the opening night of Hanahan's new amphitheater on Saturday and a showing of the The Hunger Games movie. The new facility is a welcome addition to the city, and its opening was attended by a host of county dignitaries.
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Manu Ginobili scored a season-high 35 points to lead the San Antonio Spurs (49-10) to a 95-88 victory over the Memphis Grizzlies (33-28) that extended the team's franchise-record to 21 consecutive home wins.
Tony Parker sustained a left thigh contusion when he collided with Memphis guard Mike Conley with 3:25 left in the second quarter. Parker didn't return in the second half, and will be examined on Monday. His status is day-to-day.
It's now time to checkout the numbers that stood out in this Spurs' win.
89.5 – The Grizzlies shot well from the foul line, making 17-of-19 (89.5%) of their free throw attempts. However, the Spurs had a huge advantage on free throw attempts and did a decent job at it, making 26-of-33 (78.8%) shots from the foul line.
48 – Memphis dominated the inside battle, outscoring the Spurs 48-26 on inside points.
46.2 – The Spurs shot fairly well, connecting on 30-of-65 (46.2%) attempts from the floor while holding the Grizzlies to just 33-of-88 (37.5%) shooting from the field.
45.5 – The Grizzlies made their shots from beyond the arc, hitting 5-of-11 (45.5%) from the three point line. The Spurs weren't that bad, connecting on 9-of-21 (42.9%) attempts from behind the arc.
41 – Memphis edged the Spurs in the rebounding department 41-40.
36 – The Spurs outscored the Grizzlies 36-25 in the final quarter, including an 8-0 run to make the score 92-85 with 16 seconds remaining in the game.
35 – Manu Ginobili had a season-high 35 points (18 in the fourth period) and added a game-high eight assists, six rebounds, two steals and one block for the Spurs.
24 – Zach Randolph led the Grizzlies with 24 points, 17 rebounds and five assists.
21 – With the win, the Spurs won their 21st straight game at home. Their 21 consecutive home win is a franchise record for a single season. They are one win shy of tying the franchise record for consecutive home wins over any stretch. The Spurs won 22 straight home games from March 27, 1999 to December 11, 1999.
19 – Mike Conley added 19 points, three rebounds and one assist in 38 minutes for the Gizzlies.
14 – Matt Bonner and George Hill scored 14 points a piece off the Spurs bench. Bonner in particular made his shots when it counted the most, a pair of 3-pointers by the "Red Rocket" at the end of the third quarter to help the Spurs pull within 63-59. He then made two more 3-point shots early in the fourth quarter that gave the Spurs a 68-67 lead.
12 – Tim Duncan had 12 points, eight boards and three assists for the Spurs. Darell Arthur scored 12 points, and added three rebounds and two assists off the Grizzlies' bench.
10 – San Antonio had 10 block shots for the game, five coming from Duncan. The Grizzlies had only six blocks as a team. With five blocks, Duncan reached another statistical milestone joining NBA's top 10 in career blocked shots. Duncan is now tied with Alonzo Mourning with 2356 career blocks. With six more blocks this season, Duncan can surpass Robert Parish at #9 who has 2361 block shots for his career.
0 – DeJuan Blair did not commit a single turnover and had eight points and five rebounds in 20 minutes of action.
Rookie Watch: James Anderson had two points and two rebounds in 16 minutes. Tiago Splitter missed his seventh straight game because of a left hamstring injury. Gary Neal missed his second straight game because of a concussion.
What's Next? The Spurs will visit the Memphis Grizzlies on Tuesday at the FedEx Forum in Memphis.
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Tue, 18 Dec 2012 23:05:00 – Ajax playmaker Christian Eriksen has played down reports linking him with a move to Tottenham in January, saying he expects to see out the season in Amsterdam.
Spurs are not the first Premier League club to be credited with holding an interest in Eriksen, with the likes of Manchester United and Liverpool also said to be keen.
They are the latest to join the race for the 20-year-old's signature, though, and have seen Eriksen's former colleague in Amsterdam, Jan Vertonghen, suggest that the Denmark international would be a big hit at White Hart Lane.
Eriksen has, however, shrugged off the seemingly endless rounds of speculation to remain fully committed to Ajax.
He will not be relaxing that stance any time soon, with it his intention to remain in Holland until at least next summer.
On the Tottenham reports, Eriksen said: "I have read that, but it is just a rumour.
"It also depends on what Ajax want, but I hope and believe that I will finish the season at Ajax.
"One day I will take that step, but I don't know when. Of course, it also depends on which clubs are interested at that time."
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FREEPORT — Nationwide Inbound Inc., 50 W. Douglas St., was recognized by Inc.com with the 2013 Hire Power Award.
The award honors companies for creating jobs and moving the economy forward. Nationwide Inbound was ranked 18th in the state and sixth in the telecom industry. The company created 38 jobs in 18 months.
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A new research from Yale University is going right to the heart of an issue that is all too familiar in the African American community. That educated and successful Black women are finding it difficult to meet "Mr. Right."
The research which has become the subject of many discussions in the media about the stability of the Black family in the Barack Obama era shows that few Black women with post-graduate degrees are getting married and having children.
"In the past nearly four decades, Black women have made great gains in higher education rates, yet these gains appear to have come increasingly at the expense of marriage and family," said Hannah Brueckner, professor of sociology at Yale University and one of the authors of the research. "Both White and Black highly educated women have increasingly delayed childbirth and remain childless, but the increase is stronger for Black women."
This new study produced by Yale University Center for Research on Inequalities and the Life Course, directed by Brueckner, has been described as the first of its kind for reviewing long-term trends in marriage among highly educated Black women.
According to the study, Black women who were born after 1950 were twice as likely as their White counterparts to never have been married by age 45, and twice as likely to be divorced, widowed or separated.
"Highly educated Black women have increasingly fewer options when it comes to potential mates," Brueckner said. "They are less likely than Black men to marry outside their race, and compared to Whites and Black men, they are least likely to marry a college-educated spouse."
Some highly educated and successful Black men have gone outside of their race to find their soul mates.
Vivid examples can be found in Julian Bond, veteran civil rights leader and chairman of the National NAACP, entertainer/activist Harry Belafonte, former United Nations Secretary General Kofi Anan, basketball great Charles Barkley and golf superstar Tiger Woods, who all married White women.
Because of the limited pool of available intelligent and accomplished Black men, some Detroiters are responding to the Yale report with cautious optimism.
"I think that Black women should explore other options (opposite sex), just as many Blacks have done throughout history. Love is not defined in terms of Black and Black, but perhaps, in terms of Latino, Asian, White, etc," said Kimberly Hill, 37, a political consultant, lecturer and former aide to Congressman John Conyers.
Hill said Black women are faced with so many socioeconomic challenges that sometimes provide unintended roadblocks in developing relationships.
"For jobs that have traditionally been held by White men, there is almost an unbearable amount of pressure to perform exceptionally. Consequently, women are often forced to choose between career advancement or love," Hill said.
"It is very possible to become so engrossed in the mundane functions of a career position that you lose sight of your outside interests, thus hindering your chances of finding love."
However, Hill believes the dilemma facing Black women can be addressed.
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When Dave Fisher says he has a family business, he means it. The Fishers grew up Amish in Pennsylvania, and true to their roots, are very talented when it comes to carpentry: they just finished building their first Tumbleweed Fencl (now Cypress 18 - Overlook) in about two weeks.
Dave and his brothers have been in the construction industry since 1993. Believe it or not, his favorite project from the Montana days was a subdivision. They got to build all of the houses in the development, ranging from about 1,500 to 3,000 square feet in size. Now the brothers have scaled down significantly. Their company, The Shed Yard, specializes in high quality storage sheds, garages, gazebos, and other outdoor buildings and accessories.
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That's what I don't get. According to TSN:
owners statementon cba talks
i believe this is what pissed the owners and bettman off the most
Fehr said the two sides had agreed on the significant money issues, that includes accepting the NHL's Make Whole offer.
The owner-player only dynamic was terminated earlier in the day as the players insisted the negotiations once again be opened up to anyone they want to bring in.
That makes it sound like it came from the players themselves, not some unilateral decision by the Fehrs.
There's just so much misinformation out there right now as each side blames the other.


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I was at the game and I waited in line for a stall forever, but when I finally got in there I got pooformance anxiety and I couldn't poop.
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Sammy Kiplagat high-fives spectators after finishing the Dallas Rock 'N' Roll half marathon with a time of one hour, five minutes and fourty-four seconds on Sunday, March 25, 2012.
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Sex that is so good that it causes you to get "caught up" with feelings, emotions, or attachment towards the other individual when originally, you had no intentions of there being any strings attached.
"Man, she was just another chick from the club. Then she put that spider sex on me, and now she's my girl!"
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Sequestration Sets InPublished 6:07 PM CST Mar 04, 2013
Congress and the President returned to work today still grappling with the steep spending cuts ordered Friday. Known as the sequestration, the $85 billion in across the board spending cuts impact everything from defense to travel. Nikole Killion reports from Washington where the budget battle may not be over yet.
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quote: Oh thank you so much for chiming in with your biased drivel and all encompassing opinion on how Apple is always better except for the sorry few that buy android (the majortiy of people BTW)
quote: And to hell with people that travel alot to places that may or may not have an electrical outlet readily available while on the go.
quote: As for the rest, I re-post: I said this to your counter ego TS, but I'll say it to you to. When you post here, all people read is "blah blah blah skew the facts toward Apple blah blah" .... You are all over every smartphone article on this board spouting your disinformation... As much as you think it's your duty to defend every move Apple makes and every product they create, I think its my duty to call you on your twisited words. The fact is your debate skills are far FAR greater than the platform you champion. If you can just once, do these 4 things I could begin to take you seriously... Say something truthful and negative about Apples business practices. Say something truthful and negative about Apples products. Say something truthful and positive about Googles business practices. Say something truthful and positive about Android products.
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PRINCETON, NEW JERSEY - DECEMBER 29, 2012 - The UTB and TSC "A" and "B" Chess Teams played their fifth round match-ups at the 2012 Pan American Intercollegiate Team Chess Championships.
The UTB and TSC "A" Team lost to the University of Illinois "A" Team 2.5 to 1.5.
Axel Bachmann won his game, Mauricio Flores drew, and Katerina Nemcova and Max Cornejo lost their games.
"A" Team has 3 points out of a possible 5. They will be playing UT Dallas "B" in Round 6.The UTB and TSC "B" Team were defeated by Lindenwood "A" in their Round 5 match 3-1.Aura Salazar won her game; Daniela De la Parra, Armando Cortez, and Jeffrey Serna lost their games.
"B" Team has 3 points out of a possible 5. They will play UT Austin in Round 6.Round 6 will take place Sunday, Dec. 30 at 9 a.m.
The awards ceremony will take place from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m.The Top Four Finishers in this tournament will qualify for the 2012 President's Cup, known as the Final Four of College Chess, to be held in the Washington, D.C., suburb of Herndon, Va.Daily updates will continue to be posted on the Chess Program webpage through Dec. 30.
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Tonight, as I was looking at the beautiful fall sky during sunset, I realized that lately colors seem brighter. Everything around me feels more magnified. Maybe that's also why my lows have seemed so low, and the darkness so dark. I think I was numb for a while, and now, I am celebrating how alive I am. It's a very good thing.
In church today we sang a song that mentioned how He makes us new. And I felt like this tired old self that I've been carrying around is due for a trade in. Why am I hanging onto all of this if He can just make me new again?
I am thinking about posting a little something each day that I appreciate or am grateful for. Not sure how it will work, but I want to chronicle some of the little and big things that make me feel alive each day. Today I felt such happiness when I went to pick up Gray from the church nursery. He's never looked sweeter. And he even made a craft. And then the sunset. It was beautiful, and the clouds were shaped like a heart.
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Teachers in the state of Ohio are presently mad as hornets due to Gov. John Kasich's provisions of Senate Bill 5 in the state budget that contains a number of provisions regarding priorities like pay and a merit system for determining pay. Retirement is also a big concern for the educators. Talks of a referendum and gaining signatures have been in place the past several months for repeal of SB5.
Teachers are one of our most valued professionals in Ohio and nationally. They have come a long way. To them, it is no time to reverse all of their gains in pay, retirement and much more.
Shall we drift way, way back to the so-called good old days of early education? Dr. Manning, who settled in Youngstown in 1811, said, "Qualifications for a teacher were few and moderate."
You see, securing teachers was just one of the many problems confronting the early villages of Warren and Youngstown, and all those who really desired an educational facility for their children.
It seems that Youngs-town began with a log school house that was built on the south side of Central Square probably between 1802 and 1805. The first school teacher was Mr. Perley Brush, and some records indicate that his pay was simply $18. I couldn't find out whether that was weekly or monthly. There were probably between 20 and 30 students at Brush's school during the summer months (What! School in summer?) and some 40 students during the winter term. For the early course of instruction, which included reading, writing, arithmetic and spelling, the charge was $1.50 per quarter year. For higher branches of learning, which included grammar and geography, the charge was $2. This curriculum lasted until 1838.
By 1811, there were four school buildings in the township, with the original one still in use. One building was being used as a school house and also served as a church near the residence of Isaac Powers. Another school was located in Cornersburg and another in what was referred to as Parkhurst Mills. The second teacher to arrive in the Youngstown area was James Noyes from Connecticut.
Financing was also a big problem for those very early schools. We found out that the fee charged to those who had children attending school was just a part of their responsibility. The wood supply used to keep schools warm was required of each family proportionately to the number of children attending school from that family. It was the responsibility of the boys in the class to cut firewood and start the fire in the stove. Can you imagine that happening today? The winter term ran through December, January and February, while the summer term extended into July or until harvest time. Sometimes you would find married adults much older than the teacher enrolled in the school during the winter term.
Male teachers in the early 1820s received wages from $10 to $12 a month while females got paid $4 to $5 a month. (Shall we say a real male chauvinistic society existed in those good old days.) We also found out that the furnace hands or laboring men received $10 to $11 dollars a month, while clerks received $13 and what they referred to as "found" simply food and or lodging. "Found" in the case of teachers meant boarding with the various residents who would provide food and shelter for the teacher for a certain period of time.
Equipment in the schools consisted of crude benches with no back rests for seating as students were perched on these high benches and their feet dangled in the air. The children had only their knees upon which to rest their books. A board slanted toward the wall and resting upon a bench with legs later became the desks. They wrote with quill pens that were cut by their teacher. "Dillworth's Spelling Book" and "Webster's American Spelling" book were standard texts. "The English Reader," "The American Preceptor" and the "Colombian Orator," together with the New Testament were used for reading exercises. Popular in the local district was "Pike and Walker's Arithmetic," which gradually gave way to the "Western Calculator" and "Daboll's Arithmetic." Later, "Adams Arithmetic" replaced all these books that were considered inferior.
Those were just a few of the happenings way back then with schools, teaching and education in our local areas. Things have certainly changed for the better, and hopefully, they stay better.


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The Stetson men's tennis team will take to the courts of the Mandy Stoll Tennis Center for the first time this season, as they host Georgia Southern, Sunday, Feb. 2, in their 2014 home opener. The Hatters return to DeLand after competing in the ITF Future's Tournament last weekend in Palm Coast.
"The first home match of the season is always exciting," said Associate Head Coach Christophe Noblet. "However, it will be important for our players to stay focused on the task at hand, since Georgia Southern is a difficult first match."
This weekend will be the first time since the Georgia Tech match (Jan. 11), in which the Hatters have competed solely against collegiate competition. In Palm Coast, Noblet's squad saw some of the best players from the amateur and professional ranks.
"The ITF Futures gave the players an opportunity to apply the necessary adjustments in their games we noticed after the Georgia Tech match," Noblet explained. "It also gave them a chance to compete at the highest level and measure their progress."
Sophomore Cahit Kapukiran had the longest run of any Stetson player through the tournament, falling to the No. 1 seed in the final round of competition.
The Hatters (0-1) will host a Georgia Southern (0-2) squad which will be coming to DeLand after taking on UCF in Orlando on Saturday. The Eagles have dropped both matches they've played this season, one to Georgia Tech and another to Florida Atlantic.
Match time is slated for 1:00 p.m. on Sunday. Live Stats, the @StetsonTennis Twitter feed, and Hat-Alerts will be available for match updates.


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Thursday, October 10, 2013
All of the seats in the Town Hall council chambers were filled Wednesday night as a large group of citizens attended the Summerville Town Council's October meeting. The numerous speakers during the public comment portion of the meeting presented on three community issues.
March Against Violence
The first group of more than two dozen people gathered around community activist Louis Smith who addressed the council regarding law enforcement. He requested the council work with the police department to create a task force that can reopen cold cases.
The three cases he referred to in particular were those of David Laron Boone, John Elliot Hancock and Don'ta Marquan Pringle.
"These three families are here because they want closure. They feel the police department has let them down," Smith said.
He also announced an upcoming March Against Violence the group organized for Oct. 20.
"We as a group are tired. We will work with police, we will work with anyone. We will cooperate with all groups to work diligently to solve this problem in our community," he said.
Smith first announced the March Against Violence at a press conference held before the meeting.
Historic District Safety
The ad hoc Southeast Historic District Homeowners Association, represented by Peter Gorman, also addressed the council at its meeting. Gorman presented the council with a petition requesting the town implement increased safety measures on South Magnolia and Gum streets.
He cited speeding and a high volume of traffic on the roads as the main problem in the area.
"None of us expected to be living on a freeway when we bought our houses," he said.
The petition had 86 signatures and proposed six action items to the council, including to install stop signs and cross walks along the streets at appropriate intersections to slow and potentially reduce speeding traffic.
Fripp Lane Extension
The overwhelming majority of people at the meeting were residents of the Weatherstone subdivision who asked the council to reconsider the planned extension of Fripp Lane, which would connect the community to the neighboring Palmetto Park subdivision.
Out of the 18 people who addressed the council, 14 spoke in reference to the extension. None of them supported it.
Originally proposed several years ago, the purpose of the extension is to provide a second exit for residents during emergency scenarios such as a hurricane. Although the council did vote to table the proposal in 2010, the current Town Council approved the reintroduced extension in an August 5-1 vote, despite the large number of Weatherstone opponents who also attended that Town Council meeting to protest.
Wednesday the public comment again addressed complaints, citing a decrease in community safety as the reason for their opposition.
Collectively, the public said the extension would turn the street into a throughway, add speeding and traffic problems to the residential neighborhood, endanger the lives of children living there, and invite crime from Palmetto Park into the community.
They too presented the council with a petition, this one with 450 signatures in opposition of the extension.
Not only did the group address their concerns through complaints, but they also proposed alternatives, Varnfield Drive being the most popular.
After imploring the council for a response, Mayor Bill Collins said "the new road is 3-4 years away. If at that time it becomes a problem we can close it as easily as it was opened."
The crowd did not like his answer and erupted into disapproving chatter.
While the council made no further comment, it apparently did get some councilmembers thinking.
After the council meeting, Councilman Bob Jackson said he will "look into it."
"The alternatives are something I'd want to consider," he said.
Councilman Bill McIntosh readily expressed his continued disapproval for the extension; he was the only member who voted against the road in August.
"This is connecting two neighborhoods that don't want to be connected," he said.
Councilman McIntosh said he wasn't sure the council would reconsider the extension in another vote, but "it did happen in 2010. The folks at Weatherstone clearly have a track record of getting noticed."
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Query Planners and Baseball
By Ksplice Post Importer on Jun 09, 2010
I'm not a big sports aficionado. However, I'm compelled by virtue of living in Boston to care about baseball, and I just finished reading Moneyball, which is all about baseball statistics. One thing about baseball I definitely appreciate is that there are lots of published statistics, because lots of statistics means nice big public data sets available for my relational database querying pleasure.
Let's use baseball statistics as an excuse to learn more about query planners (or use query planners as an excuse to learn more about baseball, if that's how you roll):
I tend to use Postgres in my day-to-day data processing, so that's what I'm using here. My data set is from baseball1.com, Sean Lahman's insanely comprehensive baseball statistics archive, specifically the batting and salaries tables from Version 5.7 (1871-2009).
For starters, how many people have hit a baseball, professionally? How many people have hit home runs? How many people have hit a lot of home runs (what does 'a lot' mean in this context)? I have no idea...
We can get this information from the
batting table. This is also an opportunity to look at what the Postgres query planner thinks about how to conduct read queries on a single table. To give the query planner some choices, we'll create an index on the number of home runs.
baseball# CREATE INDEX bhomers ON batting USING btree(homeruns);
Postgres is nice enough to give us a number of indexing options. In this case we're using a B-tree, which is like a binary tree's shorter, fatter cousin: each node can have many children, within a range, and it's self-balancing, so the tree can have few levels and minimize the number of expensive lookups to get to a value.
Let's get a count on everyone who's been at bat since 1871:
baseball=# EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(playerid)) FROM batting; QUERY PLAN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aggregate (cost=2609.83..2609.84 rows=1 width=9) (actual time=852.611..852.612 rows=1 loops=1) -> Seq Scan on batting (cost=0.00..2378.06 rows=92706 width=9) (actual time=0.020..27.904 rows=92706 loops=1) Total runtime: 852.718 ms (3 rows) baseball=# SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(playerid)) FROM batting; count ------- 17256 (1 row)
Cost is measured in estimated disk page fetches. The first cost number is the estimated start-up cost. Actions like pre-sorting would be bucketed under start up costs; for this simple query we have a startup cost of 0.00 for the sequential scan on the table. The second cost number is the estimated total cost, or the total number of disk page fetches for this query, in this case 2378.06 for the sequential scan. There are 92706 tuples in the table, so 92706/2378.06 ≈ 40 tuples per 4 KB disk page on this machine. The "actual time" numbers are in milliseconds. For bonus fun, frob some of the planner cost constants and see how that affects queries.
We can get the size of the table by itself and the size of the table along with any auxiliary data structures using something like:
baseball=# SELECT pg_size_pretty(pg_relation_size('batting')) As table_size, pg_size_pretty(pg_total_relation_size('batting')) AS table_plus_aux_size; table_size | table_plus_aux_size ------------+--------------------- 11 MB | 15 MB (1 row)
So on this sequential scan we're working through 11 MB of data in 27.904 milliseconds. This looks like a sequential read rate of (11 MB / 27.904 ms) x (1000 ms / 1 sec) = 409 MB / sec, which would be amazing on this low-end machine, but all queries in this post were run several times and results reflect the benefit of a warm cache (and that's a story for another post!).
We have to go through every tuple in the
batting table to get the count, so it makes sense that we're doing a full sequential scan. One disk seek and a big sequential read are going to be cheaper than the disk seeks incurred for random-access reads if we try to take advantage of any of the auxiliary data structures for this table.
Okay, cool, over 17,000 people have been at bat since 1871. But how many have hit homers -- more than one, so it's not a fluke. Let's increase the selectivity by adding a condition (the
WHERE clause) on
homeruns, the column on which we've created an index:
baseball=# EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(playerid)) FROM batting WHERE homeruns > 1; QUERY PLAN -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aggregate (cost=2379.50..2379.51 rows=1 width=9) (actual time=218.128..218.128 rows=1 loops=1) -> Bitmap Heap Scan on batting (cost=516.91..2310.90 rows=27439 width=9) (actual time=8.241..19.220 rows=26953 loops=1) Recheck Cond: (homeruns > 1) -> Bitmap Index Scan on bhomers (cost=0.00..510.05 rows=27439 width=0) (actual time=7.735..7.735 rows=26953 loops=1) Index Cond: (homeruns > 1) Total runtime: 218.248 ms (6 rows) baseball=# SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(playerid)) FROM batting WHERE homeruns > 1; count ------- 5231 (1 row)
5231/17256 = 30% of batters have hit home runs. Nice!
The "actual time" rows value is 26953, so 26953 tuples, or 26953/92706 = 29% of the rows in the table, matched the
homeruns condition. The query planner has been maintaining statistics on the data distributions in this table and guessed that 27439 would match the condition, which is pretty close. This is apparently selective enough to switch us over to using bitmaps. In the bitmap index scan, we traverse the
bhomer index B-tree to create an in-memory mapping of homeruns to rowids that match the condition (
homeruns > 1). We then create a bitmap for the rowids, setting a bit if that row appeared in the mapping. This lets us scan for the matching tuples in the table (aka the "heap", hence "bitmap heap scan") in on-disk order, minimizing disk seeks and the number of pages that have to be fetched into memory.
Let's bump up the selectivity even more and see what it takes to be a real home run juggernaut:
baseball=# EXPLAIN ANALYZE SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(playerid)) FROM batting WHERE homeruns > 52; QUERY PLAN ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Aggregate (cost=376.42..376.43 rows=1 width=9) (actual time=0.550..0.550 rows=1 loops=1) -> Index Scan using bhomers on batting (cost=0.00..376.11 rows=124 width=9) (actual time=0.055..0.431 rows=23 loops=1) Index Cond: (homeruns > 52) Total runtime: 0.640 ms (4 rows) baseball=# SELECT COUNT(DISTINCT(playerid)) FROM batting WHERE homeruns > 52; count ------- 15 (1 row)
This query returned 15 players, meaning more than 52 home runs in one season puts you in the top .1% of all home run hitters. This high degree of selectivity has also switched us over to an index scan. This time, we're fetching in the order of the
bhomer index. It can mean more disk seeks and page fetches to get the matching tuples, but the query is so selective that the extra jumping around is less costly than the sorting that would be required for a bitmap heap scan.
(For the baseball cave-dwellers like myself, Barry Bonds still has the most home runs in a single season, at 73)
For reads on a single table, the query planner had to decide between sequential, bitmap heap, and index scans. What happens if we throw a second table into the mix with a join?
First, for fun more indices:
baseball=# CREATE INDEX brbis ON batting USING btree(rbis); baseball=# CREATE INDEX ssal ON salaries USING btree(salary);
And here's a join across batting and salaries that will get us information on players making lots of money who haven't completely failed to generate some RBIs in a given season:
baseball=# explain analyze select b.playerid from batting b, salaries s where b.playerid = s.playerid and b.yearid = s.yearid and s.salary > 30000000 and b.rbis > 10; QUERY PLAN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hash Join (cost=11.71..2984.29 rows=1 width=9) (actual time=51.087..51.129 rows=1 loops=1) Hash Cond: (((b.playerid)::text = (s.playerid)::text) AND (b.yearid = s.yearid)) -> Seq Scan on batting b (cost=0.00..2609.82 rows=36275 width=13) (actual time=0.025..42.779 rows=33921 loops=1) Filter: (rbis > 10) -> Hash (cost=11.68..11.68 rows=2 width=13) (actual time=0.038..0.038 rows=1 loops=1) -> Index Scan using ssal on salaries s (cost=0.00..11.68 rows=2 width=13) (actual time=0.031..0.033 rows=1 loops=1) Index Cond: (salary > 30000000::double precision) Total runtime: 51.231 ms (8 rows)
Postgres thinks the smartest thing to do is an index scan on
ssal because of the high salary selectivity and a sequential scan on
rbis because of the low RBI selectivity. Then do a hash join on the two tables and spit out the rows matching the filters for a snappy runtime of 51 milliseconds.
What happens if we take away the query planner's ability to use a hash join?
baseball=# set enable_hashjoin to false; SET baseball=# explain analyze select b.playerid from batting b, salaries s where b.playerid = s.playerid and b.yearid = s.yearid and s.salary > 30000000 and b.rbis > 10; QUERY PLAN ---------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Nested Loop (cost=2824.10..5005.53 rows=1 width=9) (actual time=71.004..71.075 rows=1 loops=1) Join Filter: (((b.playerid)::text = (s.playerid)::text) AND (b.yearid = s.yearid)) -> Index Scan using ssal on salaries s (cost=0.00..11.68 rows=2 width=13) (actual time=0.039..0.048 rows=1 loops=1) Index Cond: (salary > 30000000::double precision) -> Materialize (cost=2824.10..3364.85 rows=36275 width=13) (actual time=0.026..63.490 rows=33921 loops=1) -> Seq Scan on batting b (cost=0.00..2609.82 rows=36275 width=13) (actual time=0.018..44.113 rows=33921 loops=1) Filter: (rbis > 10) Total runtime: 71.518 ms (8 rows)
Without a hash join at its disposal, the query planner opts for a nested loops join. In a nested loops join, we're basically doing:
for every row in salaries: for every row in batting: keep based on the join filter?
The materialize is like a cache of the filtered results of the inner loop, so it doesn't have to be reevaluated after the first iteration through the outer loop. Even if it looks inefficient, it turns out that this method isn't that much slower than a hash join.
Let's hamstring it further by disabling nested loops joins too:
baseball=# set enable_nestloop to false; SET baseball=# explain analyze select b.playerid from batting b, salaries s where b.playerid = s.playerid and b.yearid = s.yearid and s.salary > 30000000 and b.rbis > 10; QUERY PLAN ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Merge Join (cost=5991.77..6263.62 rows=1 width=9) (actual time=374.931..374.935 rows=1 loops=1) Merge Cond: (((b.playerid)::text = (s.playerid)::text) AND (b.yearid = s.yearid)) -> Sort (cost=5980.06..6070.74 rows=36275 width=13) (actual time=343.304..365.986 rows=26055 loops=1) Sort Key: b.playerid, b.yearid Sort Method: external merge Disk: 1056kB -> Seq Scan on batting b (cost=0.00..2609.82 rows=36275 width=13) (actual time=0.025..76.286 rows=33921 loops=1) Filter: (rbis > 10) -> Sort (cost=11.69..11.69 rows=2 width=13) (actual time=0.083..0.084 rows=1 loops=1) Sort Key: s.playerid, s.yearid Sort Method: quicksort Memory: 25kB -> Index Scan using ssal on salaries s (cost=0.00..11.68 rows=2 width=13) (actual time=0.045..0.046 rows=1 loops=1) Index Cond: (salary > 30000000::double precision) Total runtime: 375.410 ms (13 rows)
Ouch. A merge join, our worst option, not only looks grossly over-complicated but is 7 times slower than the original hash join. The tuples returned from the filter on salaries are small enough to fit in memory, and so we get away with an in-memory quicksort there that is wicked fast, but there are so many RBI tuples that we're forced to do a merge sort on disk, incurring 343.3 milliseconds, over 90% of the query time in disk seeks, page fetches, and writes. There are even more ways to influence the query planner.


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|Dirac Charge Dynamcs in Graphene by Infrared Spectroscopy
Graphene—a single layer of carbon atoms arranged in a honeycomb lattice—has very high conductivity that can be tuned by applying a gate voltage. The charge carriers in graphene can travel ballistically over great distances (~1 micron) without scattering. These unusual electronic properties make graphene a promising candidate for future nanoelectronics. Using infrared spectromicroscopy at ALS Beamline 1.4, a group of researchers from the University of California at San Diego, Columbia University, and the ALS has succeeded in probing the dynamical properties of the charge carriers in graphene with an accuracy never before achieved. Their results have uncovered signatures of many-body interactions in graphene and have demonstrated the potential of graphene for novel applications in optoelectronics.
Graphene displays many intriguing electronic phenomena, such as massless Dirac quasiparticles with linear energy–momentum dispersion due to the interactions between electrons and the honeycomb lattice. This unique Dirac nature, along with other features, makes graphene an promising material for replacing silicon in future generations of electronic devices. However, the experimental study of graphene is still in its infancy. Little is known about the dynamical properties of the quasiparticles in graphene, such as quasiparticle lifetime and the effects of many-body interactions, because it is extremely difficult to perform spectroscopic measurements on a single monolayer of graphene.
Infrared measurements can probe the dynamical properties of quasiparticles over a wide energy range, and therefore can provide some of the most interesting information about the electronic properties of a material. In this work, the researchers employed infrared synchrotron radiation to probe the quasiparticle dynamics of graphene. The high brightness and tight focus of the synchrotron beam (less than 10 micrometers) enabled infrared measurements of one atomic layer of carbon.
The sample consisted of exfoliated graphene integrated in a gate-tunable device. An applied gate voltage changes the carrier density in the sample, and thus modifies the transmission and reflectance of the sample. From these changes, the optical conductivity of graphene could be extracted from the absorption spectrum of the infrared light. The researchers found that the optical conductivity of graphene is dominated by a threshold feature at twice the Fermi energy (the highest energy occupied by charge carriers).
The Fermi energy is a manifestation of the intrinsic properties of the quasiparticles in a material. In a normal two-dimensional material, the Fermi energy changes linearly with the density of the carriers. But in a system of two-dimensional Dirac quasiparticles, the Fermi energy varies as the square root of the carrier density. Indeed, the researchers observed the latter intriguing behavior, which confirms the Dirac nature of the charge carriers in graphene.
Most interestingly, the scientists found several signatures of many-body effects in graphene. First, theories predict that, in ideal graphene, the absorption is negligible at low energy below twice the Fermi energy. Instead, considerable absorption of infrared light was observed in the low-energy region. This absorption may arise from disorder effects and/or many-body interactions—interactions between electrons and the honeycomb lattice, or mutual interactions among electrons. Another finding involved the speed of the charge carriers. Without mutual interactions, charge carriers in graphene will travel at a constant speed at any energy. Interestingly, the researchers found that the speed of the charge carriers increases systematically as their energy is lowered. This behavior may stem from electron–electron interactions according to theoretical predictions. The team hopes to study much cleaner samples to acquire a complete understanding of these observations.
Besides the broad implications for the fundamental properties of graphene, this study has also demonstrated voltage-tunable transmission and reflectance in graphene, which is very promising for future device applications such as tunable optical switches and modulators.
Research conducted by Z.Q. Li and D.N. Basov (University of California, San Diego); E.A. Henriksen, Z. Jiang, P. Kim, H.L. Stormer (Columbia University); and Z. Hao and M.C. Martin (ALS).
Research funding: Work at UCSD is supported by DOE (No. DE-FG02-00ER45799). Research at Columbia University is supported by the DOE (No. DE-AIO2-04ER46133 and No. DE-FG02-05ER46215), NSF (No. DMR-03-52738 and No. CHE-0117752), NYSTAR, and the Keck Foundation. Operation of the ALS is supported by the U.S. Department of Energy, Office of Basic Energy Sciences.
Publication about this research: Z.Q. Li, E.A. Henriksen, Z. Jiang, Z. Hao, M.C. Martin, P. Kim, H.L. Stormer, and D.N. Basov, "Dirac charge dynamics in graphene by infrared spectroscopy," Nature Physics 4, 532 (2008).


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Sunday, July 13, 2014
The boxes are stacked along the floor.
Most coming, some going.
As the transition from retiring St. Johns Christian Academy Athletic Director Bob Winters to newly hired Steve Guerry winds down, Guerry has begun to make himself at home.
Im not here to radically change anything, he said. Im here to continue building on the fine foundation Bob Winters started here.
A few of Winters boxes remain stacked on the sofa as Guerry continued getting settled. There is no hurry with the start of the new school year still more than six weeks away. A weeklong basketball goodwill trip to China just concluded,and Guerry has been doing some thinking about where he sees SJCA athletics going over the next several years.
Guerry will put his thumbprint on the Cavaliers sports program and his new influence will be visible early on.
Im thinking about where this program should go over the next five to ten years, Guerry said. My biggest job is to get the word out about St. Johns Christian Academy Athletics, about how this is a great place and a viable alternative for your child to play.
Raising awareness in town will get more people to the ball games and in turn get more quality athletes interested in going to school here.
During his first 30 days on the job, Guerry has spent the bulk of his time working with new football coach John McCall as he gets his arms around his first head coaching assignment.
We have assembled the strongest coaching staff weve had here in a while, Guerry said. Weve brought in Brandon Patterson as our Defensive Coordinator.
Plus local youth pastor Jeff Moss and former Berkeley High School quarterback Shawn Stevens to join returning assistant Stefan Castellucci.
We have some decent talent returning in football and we should be competitive, he said.
Given SJCAs diminutive student population, the Cavalier core of athletes play multiple sports. Those you see on the football sidelines this fall, such as Dustin Parsons, Robbie ODell, Connor Thornton, Byron Rogers Colin Murchison and Harun Scott, will also lace up the Air Jordans for basketball and the baseball spikes for baseball.
Well remain competitive across the board in sports, he said.
Guerry also complimented departing coach Matt Gilbert who spent one season along the Cavalier sidelines.
Matt did an outstanding job under the circumstances, Guerry said. He had to build a team and assemble a coaching staff in a very short amount of time and that was hard to do.
Guerry said this year will see a lot of change in SJCA sports, starting with football: New coach and new coaching staff, we have some young guys that have some experience and are interested in helping out.
Also taking the reins as head basketball coach, Guerry knows the coming winter and trying to replace what may have been the three best basketball players in the history of Cavalier basketball in Greg Gamble, Jalen Ward and Damian Hurta, will be a challenge.
In spring, while not getting specific, Guerry hinted at some big changes in store for the Lady Cavaliers softball team.
We have a very talented group of young girls that won their region and went to the state tournament and I feel its time to take the softball program to a new level, he said.
Also on the radar this fall is the schools rising cross country team that boasts the defending 2013 state champion in Connor Thornton.
With Connor and Dillon Biering finishing in the top three in the state, this year I think our cross country team has the chance to make more of a teamwide statement this year, he said.
Exciting times, Guerry said, and dont look for him to be going anywhere anytime soon.
My wife teaches here, he said. My kids will go to school here. I plan on being around awhile.
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on November 5, 2012 - 4:48 PM
Two men pleaded guilty Monday to first-degree assault for an attempted robbery in Buffalo in which the victim was shot twice.
Robert Finch, 21, of Ruhland Avenue, and Wayne Marshall, 19, of Claremont Ave, Town of Tonawanda, face up to 25 years in prison when sentenced by Erie County Judge Sheila A. DiTullio.
The two men admitted that in August 2011 they tried to rob the victim with a loaded gun at Leroy and Fillmore avenues, according to the Erie County District Attorney's Office.
Marshall shot the victim in the torso and in the back, causing serious injuries. The victim is recovering from injuries related to a bullet lodged in his spine, lacerated liver and kidney and temporary paralysis ofhis leg, District Attorney Frank A. Sedita III said.
Sedita credited Buffalo police detective Cedric Holloway, who confronted Finch with surveillance video from a corner store to debunk his claim that he was not involved in the crime and did not know Marshall.
The county's crime analysis center also identified Finch and Marshall as Guilford Street Gange members by using YouTube videos that showed the two rapping about violent acts, Sedita said.
Marshall will be sentenced on Wednesday and Finch on Dec. 5.


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For the past 17 years, the Albion Fireworks committee has scheduled a
fireworks display for dusk on July 3rd. This year is no exception,
contracts have been signed and the show will go on.
However, the committee has not quite raised the $10,000 they have
contracted to spend and are looking for last minute contributions to make
up the difference. If you have not already contributed or if you are
willing to contribute just a smidgen more, we all would be extremely
At this point, if you can make a contribution of any amount, please send
your checks, made payable to Albion Fireworks to P.O. Box 223, Albion MI
49224. You may also donate cash at Homestead Savings Bank, 415 S.
Superior, Parks Drug Store, 318 S. Superior, and/or at the Greater
Albion Chamber of Commerce & Visitors Bureau, 310 S. Superior St.,
Albion, MI 49224.


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MARLOWE — A tractor-trailer rollover has Interstate 81 southbound shut down at mile-marker 23, just south of the Marlowe exit....
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Amanda E. Leeper and Dwayne S. Batt, both of Lewistown, were married on May 8, 2010, at Vira Methodist Church.
The bride is the daughter of Anthony G. and Maxine E. Leeper, of McClure. The groom is the son of James D. and Lollie M. Batt, of Mifflintown.
Suzanne Cornelison, of North Versailles, was the maid of honor.
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Mr. and Mrs. Dwayne S. Batt
The best man was Daniel Batt, of Gettysburg, brother of the groom.
The flower girl was Bailey Retherford, of Hummelstown, cousin of the bride.
The Rev. Steve Swigart performed the ceremony that also included Elaine Moist as organist. The bride was escorted by her father and her Aunt LuAnn L. Leeper.
A reception followed at the Milroy Fire Hall.
The bride is a 2002 graduate of Indian Valley High School. She is employed at Conestoga Wood Specialties at Beaver Springs.
The groom is a 2003 graduate of Juniata High school. He is employed at Conestoga Wood Specialties at Beaver Springs.
Following a wedding trip to the Poconos, they live in Lewistown.


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Several species of beetles may invade homes. Because they rarely damage anything in the home, they generally are considered to be nuisance pests. These insects vary widely in size and habits. This publication describes some of the more common household-invading beetles found in Missouri.
As the name suggests, longhorned beetles (family Cerambycidae) have long antennae, along with relatively long and slender bodies varying in length from 0.4 to 1.5 inches, depending on the species. In their growing stages, longhorned beetles are grublike larvae that develop inside solid wood and are known as roundheaded wood borers. Eggs are laid by the adult female beetles on the bark of an appropriate tree or log.
These beetles do not enter homes on their own, but are carried into the house as larvae inside wood, usually firewood. Larvae in unused firewood will develop into adults in late winter to early summer. These new adult longhorned beetles then emerge inside the home and typically fly to the light of windows trying to get outside. Their presence may cause consternation, but longhorned beetles will not damage anything in the house, nor will they lay eggs on any wood in the house.
The best control method for longhorned beetles is to pick them up and return them to the outdoors. Removing unused firewood from the home in early spring also prevents their presence. Spraying firewood before bringing it into the house is not advisable. No pesticide labels are approved for this practice, and the chemical probably would not penetrate deeply enough into the wood to reach the larvae.
Longhorned beetles are unique and fascinating insects, and they pose no threat to humans or wood in the home.
The foreign grain beetle, Ahasverus advena, is a tiny reddish-brown beetle about 2 millimeters long. It is strongly attracted to lights at night and is so small that it can readily pass through window screening. These beetles are prevalent outdoors during summer and fall and are most likely to enter homes during this time of year.
Foreign grain beetles show a strong attraction to houses, mobile homes, recreational vehicles, and even trailers when these structures are new. Their attraction is believed to be due to minute mold that is often present in new buildings. The adult beetle apparently feeds on this mold. However, once inside, they may be found feeding on a variety of products such as grain and cereal products, ground nuts and seeds, dried fruits, herbs and spices. In most cases, they are found in large numbers only when the feeding material is damp and moldy.
Because of their mobility and small size, no effective or practical means exists for controlling foreign grain beetles as they enter buildings. In new structures, they tend to disappear in late fall and early winter because of indoor heating and corresponding drying. This probably eliminates the mold they feed upon.
Flying beetles may be killed with a household aerosol spray containing pyrethrins or pyrethroid-type insecticides. Stored dry food products should be kept in insect-proof containers and safeguarded from mold. Aside from the nuisance caused by their presence, the foreign grain beetle is generally harmless.
Ground beetles belong to the family Carabidae, one of the largest beetle families. The adults vary in length from about 0.1 inch to more than 1 inch. They are usually dark colored, often shiny and somewhat flattened. They tend to be most active at night, with some species highly attracted to lights. During the day they are found under objects on the ground. They are fast runners and it is common to see them moving quickly along the ground.
Indoors, they tend to seek hiding places under boxes or other objects on the floor, particularly in moist places such as basements. They invade houses more often in the fall when nighttime temperatures become cooler. The larval stages occur outdoors in the same surroundings as adults, but adults and larvae are not necessarily found together. Both adults and larvae feed primarily on other insects. Because they are predators, they should be considered beneficial.
When ground beetles enter homes, it is an accidental invasion. They cannot survive and reproduce there.
Control measures indoors usually are not necessary except to hand-pick or vacuum the beetles and return them outdoors. Removing rocks, boards or other objects that ground beetles may hide under from around outside walls discourages beetle accumulation near the home. Caulking cracks and making sure that doors and basement windows fit snugly also helps prevent entry.
To help prevent ground beetles from entering homes, spray 2 to 3 feet of the foundation from the ground up, and treat a band around the house from the foundation out about 5 to 10 feet. For these purposes, use a spray of 0.5 percent diazinon or 0.5 percent chlorpyrifos (Dursban®).
Weevils are beetles of the family Curculionidae. They are characterized by a snout and a pair of elbowed antennae attached to the sides of the snout. They often "play dead" when disturbed. Some species of weevils may migrate into homes in the summer and fall.
The grublike larvae feed on a wide variety of outdoor plants, particularly ornamentals. After the grubs pupate and become adults, they are often attracted indoors. Cool nighttime temperatures may be the reason for the invasion. Weevils enter by crawling through cracks or openings around foundations, doors and windows. They cannot fly. Indoors, they do no damage and are pests only by their presence.
Four species of house-invading weevils are common in Missouri.
Caulked cracks and snug-fitting doors and windows prevent weevils from entering homes. Weevils, especially the strawberry root weevil, are strongly attracted to water and can be trapped in shallow pans of water placed around building foundations. Physical removal is best with a vacuum sweeper. Chemical control usually is not necessary. If populations are very large, a barrier spray around the home with either chlorpyrifos or diazinon, as described above, will help.
The multicolored Asian lady beetle, Harmonia axyridis, like several other species of lady beetles, is considered beneficial because both the growing stage larvae and the adult beetles eat aphids and other soft-bodied insects. The multicolored Asian lady beetle feeds on its prey in forests, orchards, alfalfa and other field crops, home gardens and urban environments. In other words, wherever there is a food source, this beetle will probably be found.
In the fall, these lady beetles converge to hibernate. In Japan they do this in crevices on the sides of cliffs, huddled together by the thousands. In Missouri, they often invade houses in great numbers to hibernate.
The adult multicolored Asian lady beetle is about one-quarter inch long and oval shaped, about two-thirds as wide as it is long. The general color is yellow to yellowish orange. The wing covers that form a domelike shell over most of the body may have as many as 19 black spots or none, or any number in between. In addition, markings on the white pronotum, the small area between the head and the wing covers, resemble a large, black capital "M" when viewed from the rear of the insect. The larval stage looks like a little alligator and is found only on or near the plants where the egg from which it hatched was deposited. Only the adults hibernate; they do not reproduce indoors during their hibernation cycle.
The lady beetles enter houses probably through poorly fitting window screens and doors, cracks and crevices, and vents. The beetles will congregate in wall voids, attics and other dark, undisturbed spaces. On warmer sunny days in the winter, they get the urge to move and may enter the human living space and fly about, particularly near windows. Lady beetles do not harm humans or pets but are pests only by their presence inside the home. During the spring, they will leave their hibernation sites. This may be the time when the greatest numbers will be seen in houses.
Since lady beetles are beneficial, it is best to try to keep them out of the house so they do not become pests. To prevent home invasion, all cracks and crevices should be caulked. Make sure that window screens are in good shape and fit snugly. Louvered vents should have a screen backing and a tight fit. If these beetles are a problem indoors, they can be vacuumed up and released outdoors, preferably in a sheltered spot. If this is not practical, then as a last priority, one can spray those beetles in the human living space of the house with a household aerosol containing pyrethrins or one of the pyrethroids (compounds whose common names end in the letters "thrin"). A combination of the vacuum cleaner and an aerosol may be used. Even through one may remove all of the beetles one day, others may come out of their hibernation quarters the next day to replace them.
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Does Your Representative Support Blood Cancer Awareness Month?
H. Res. 1433 recognizes September 2010 as Blood Cancer Awareness Month. This resolution highlights the impact blood cancers have in the United States each year and encourages greater support for blood cancer research and education.We need to secure 100 cosponsors before this bill will be considered by the House Energy and Commerce Committee. Currently H. Res. 1433 has 10 cosponsors and we need your help to secure 90 more supporters. Please visit the Advocacy Action Center at advocacy.myeloma.org to write your U.S. Representative and urge him or her to support Blood Cancer Awareness Month by co-sponsoring H. Res. 1433.
Long Stalled Appropriations Process Begins in the House
The appropriations process for the fiscal year (FY) 2011 began in the House this week with mark ups at the Subcommittee level for the various appropriations bills. House Appropriations Subcommittee Chairman David Obey (D-WI) and Senate Appropriations Committee Chairman Daniel Inouye (D-HI) have indicated that they want all bills finalized in their respective Committees by the Congressional Recess Period in August. The FY 2011 Labor-Health and Human Services (LHHS) Appropriations bill will be the last funding bill to move through the process due to its size and funding levels. Many of the myeloma research and awareness programs are funded through the LHHS Appropriations bill.
Congressional Recess
The House and Senate will be in recess for the July 4th holiday beginning on July 2nd. Both Chambers will resume legislative business on July 12th.
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A PUBLIC HEARING will be held before the Forest Grove Planning Commission to review the following:
PROPOSAL: Site plan approval and design review for a new O'Reilly Auto Parts store
Location: 3705 Pacific Avenue (Washington County tax lot 1N3 32DC-800)
File Number: SPA-12-00646
* The development must comply with the use, lot size, set backs, building height, off-street parking and loading, access and egress, landscaping, signage and additional requirements of Development Code Article 10.3.300 et. seq. Commercial Zones and Article 10.8.000 et. seq. General Development Standards.
* The design must comply with the standards and guidelines as described in the Development Code Design Guideline Handbook Section 2 Commercial Corridor Focus Area.
Applicant: Rick Rainone, Cornerstone Management Group
This Public Hearing will take place before the Forest Grove Planning Commission on Monday, December 17, 2012, at 7:00 p.m. in the Community Auditorium, 1915 Main Street, in Forest Grove. At this time and place all persons will be given a reasonable opportunity to give testimony about this proposal. If an issue is not raised in the hearing (by person or by letter) or if the issue is not explained in sufficient detail to allow the Commission to respond to the issue, then that issue cannot be used for an appeal to the City Council or the Land Use Board of Appeals.
If additional documents or evidence are provided in support of the application, any party shall be entitled to a continuance of the hearings. Unless there is a continuance, if a participant so requests before the conclusion of the initial evidentiary hearing, the record shall remain open for at least seven (7) days after the hearing. Information pertaining to this request may be obtained from Senior Planner James Reitz at the Community Development Department, 1924 Council Street, (503) 992-3233, between 9 a.m. and 5 p.m. (email@example.com). The staff report will be available seven days prior to the hearing; copies will be available at cost. This notice is sent by the authority of the Forest Grove City Council.
Anna D. Ruggles, City Recorder
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International Volunteer Day in Latin America
05 December 2006
In Perú, in Villa María del Triunfo, volunteers and professionals from the health and educational sectors provided health services to almost 10,000 persons. Government, private agencies, United Nations Volunteers and pharmacies joined together to collaborate in this event. On December 3 a Mass was celebrated in the cathedral followed by a parade in which 1,000 volunteers participated. A group of volunteers worked on a proposal for a law of volunteers. Pochi Costa, President of Cenavol, participated in many radio interviews. The celebration finished with a forum on volunteer work with ex-patients of hospitals and a lunch offered to volunteers.
Gladys de Franco and María de Badillo wrote us informing about the celebration in Ecuador. A major emphasis was put on articles on volunteer work. Four major documents were published in the Sunday supplements of Diario Hoy from Quito and Expreso from Guayaquil. Among the different activities carried on we can mention a walk drive, a music festival, an academic event and a Eucharistic celebration as a thanksgiving event.
Colombia celebrated the International Volunteer Day in several cities. In Bogotá, in coordination with the National Volunteer Network, a Volunteer Center, an Academic Forum on Corporate Volunteers was organized with the participation of over 200 volunteers from different cities of Colombia and a music concert with a recognized choir.
In Venezuela, the celebrations included recognition to volunteers. FIPAN, the National Federation of Private Institutions for the Attention to Children, Youth and families, organized the event in which children, youths, members of the board of private institutions, artists, journalists and other volunteers received recognition for their volunteer work. For more information consult www.colegiosanignacio.com.ve. OSCASI participated very actively in the celebration and sent 3,047 e-mails to congratulate volunteers. Other institutions that organized events to celebrate the IDV were Telefónica, Volunteer Network and Solidarity Week.
Alexandra Touguinha and Heloisa Coelho sent us information of the celebration in Brazil. Through the NGO Parceiros Voluntarios different activities were organized in Rio Grande do Sul in collaboration with Parceiros Voluntarios Network in 73 cities with 193,000 volunteers. Walking activities, seminars and workshops, pamphlets distribution, interviews with mass media to emphasize the importance of volunteer work and the gratification obtained, recreational activities, visits to social organizations, and social events for personal interchange such as dinners and gatherings.
Important recognitions were made to volunteers for their important contributions to the social development in the country. Several interviews in radio, newspapers and televisión networks were presented to greet volunteers and recognized their work.
Rio Voluntario gave special recognition to 10 outstanding volunteers. Among them were Xuxa Meneguel, who conducts TV children programs, and Mr. Olavo Monteiro de Carvalho, one of the leading bussinessmen committed with corporate social responsability. The Deputy Assembly gave recognition to 100 volunteers as a way to thank them for their vounteer work.


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Last weekend, more than 1,200 volunteer firefighters from Northwest Ohio converged at Bowling Green State University to partake in The Northwestern Ohio Volunteer Firemen's Association annual fire school.
Numerous volunteer firefighters from Seneca County attended the two-day school, which included classes on medical to agricultural emergencies, methamphetamine labs, hazardous materials, weapons of mass destruction, fire and explosion investigations, military and commercial aircraft crash response and Homeland Security issues.
"We brought a lot of things back to our department here," said Bascom Fire Chief Harry Miller, who attended the school.
Miller said 11 volunteer firefighters and EMTs from Bascom attended the classes this year. Firefighters even took a truck to the campus to use for a pump class and a rural water class, he said.
"It's good for new guys to get the opportunity to take the truck up there and put it in a class," Miller said.
Miller said Bascom firefighters and EMTs usually attend the school each year, which helps them meet state-mandated training hours.
"The biggest thing is, it's free," he said.
Miller said he took a class on rapid-decision making, which taught firefighters how to "read" smoke.
"One of my other guys took a structural firefighting class," Miller said. "He said it was very knowledgeable."
Class topics change each year, Miller said, providing firefighters with the latest firefighting tools and information.
"Classes change every year, we had five different ones (this year)," said fire school co-chair Bob Warnamount. "Anytime you do hands-on, that's what the guys and ladies enjoy."
One of the classes this year covered water shuttle training. Firefighters had two types of tankers and they learned how fast water can be moved and different ways to do it.
"You learn new things. What's really great about it, you meet new people who might have same problem you have in your area," Warnamount said.
"What's really neat, it's a free school," he said. "We never turn anyone away; anyway we can help the community."
Warnamount said the school has been held annually for 50 years.
"We're working on next year's already," he said.


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