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Why You Need To Go Red Right Now
January 30, 2013 at 8:51 am , by Julie Bain
Can a color make a difference? When I say the word "pink," I know what pops into your mind: breast cancer. The pink-washing of October has been phenomenally successful at making everyone aware of breast cancer—and comfortable talking about this once-verboten subject. Millions of donation dollars have led to advances in detection and treatment. The next step, we hope, is prevention and a cure.
Now here's why you need to go red. Because far more women die every year of cardiovascular disease than they do of breast cancer—in fact, 10 times more. CVD is still the number 1 killer of women. And way too many of us are still in denial. I get furious when I hear stories of women who downplay their symptoms and don't call 911 when they could be having a heart attack. We need to change this!
Ten years ago, the American Heart Association and the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute created National Wear Red Day to raise awareness and help spread the word about how women can reduce their risks of heart disease. It's working—but not enough. We're asking you to get on board.
Make sure you know the symptoms of a heart attack and what you should do. Memorize these!
Wear red this Friday, February 1, to show you mean business. Get your friends, family, work colleagues and even your pets to do it, too. Then share your photos here.
Here's what else you can do. Encourage your friends by using this image as your Facebook profile shot.
Make a donation by shopping for the cause here.
See you in red this Friday—let's help make a difference!
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Categories: Health, Ladies' Lounge | Tags: American Heart Association, American Heart Month, Go Red for Women, National Heart Lung and Blood Institute, National Wear Red Day | No Comments
Get in the Kitchen for a Healthier Heart
October 7, 2011 at 11:49 am , by Cassie Tucker
I never cook. I'm a busy college student—between classes and commuting to New York City for my internship here at LHJ, I just don't have time. But this week, LHJ sent me into the kitchen. I got to go to the American Heart Association's launch event for the Simple Cooking with Heart campaign. The AHA partnered with celebrity chef Marc Anthony Bynum (that's him in the middle, with me on the left and editorial assistant Amelia Harnish on the right), a winner on the Food Network's Chopped, to give a group of journalists a cooking class. After a quick lesson in knife skills, we made two of the easy, tasty and healthy recipes from the campaign to get families back into the kitchen.
On the menu was Asian-style noodles paired with Asian coleslaw. We started with the dressing for the coleslaw: low-sodium soy sauce, red pepper flakes, sugar, olive oil and vinegar. Then I learned how to seed a cucumber and the easiest way to chop a red pepper: just slice the sides off and throw away the rest. I felt like a real chef!
After that, we moved on to the noodles, which just took mixing ramen, chicken broth, a little bit of garlic, mixed vegetables (a bag of frozen is fine) and a lean cut of pork in a skillet. Bring to a boil. You can substitute any protein you want—chicken, beef, shrimp—and it's still heart healthy. The whole thing took a little over 30 minutes.
Easy! After the cooking fun, I was able to bask, as well as feast, in my accomplishments. I wolfed down the meal I created and I realized I should definitely be cooking more. It felt good knowing that I had made something myself. If I can do it, you can, too. It's fun, and a good way to slim down.
"Just getting back to home cooking can lead to healthier diets because restaurant foods are always higher in fat and sodium," says Rachel K. Johnson, Ph.D., professor of nutrition at the University of Vermont and an AHA spokesperson.
Here are Dr. Johnson's tips for getting back into the kitchen:
- Try new things to find good, simple recipes that the whole family enjoys.
- Make a shopping list to save time.
- Get your kids involved. They're more likely to eat healthy food if they've participated in the kitchen.
You can find lots of quick, good-for-you recipes at the Simple Cooking with Heart website to get started (Click here and here for the recipes we made at the event). Head to their website, and commit to cooking more. It's the first step to a healthier heart!
Categories: Food, Health, Ladies' Lounge | Tags: American Heart Association, Marc Anthony Bynum, Rachel K. Johnson, Simple Cooking with Heart | 3 Comments
Learn to Save a Life in 60 Seconds
June 1, 2011 at 4:03 pm , by Amelia Harnish
Would you know what to do if someone near you collapsed? You'd probably know to call 911, but would you be able to step in and perform cardiopulmonary resuscitation, or CPR?
It may seem like something that would never happen to you, but it's surprisingly common. In fact, every year more than 300,000 people go into sudden cardiac arrest when they're not in a hospital. Most of the time it happens at home, and many times, the person has shown no signs of heart disease beforehand. Performing CPR immediately can double or even triple a person's chance of survival. Yet 70 percent of bystanders don't act because they don't know CPR or are hesitant to do mouth-to-mouth on a stranger, according to the American Heart Association.
The good news: recent studies show that in most cases the mouth-to-mouth part isn't necessary for the patient to survive till emergency help arrives. And that makes it is so much easier to learn! It's called hands-only CPR, meaning you only do chest compressions, and you can learn it by watching a 60-second teaching video.
To celebrate CPR week, Go Red For Women is featuring the video here. Take a minute to learn today, and be ready to help when someone's heart stops. Share this with your family and friends—kids can learn it too. Your new skills could save a life.
Categories: Health, Ladies' Lounge | Tags: American Heart Association, cardiopulmonary resuscitation, CPR Week, Go Red for Women, Hands-Only CPR | 4 Comments
Thank A Mom, Help Women's Hearts
May 4, 2011 at 6:16 pm , by Amelia Harnish
In case you haven't been tipped off at the supermarket, the drugstore, or your local Hallmark retailer in the past few days—Mother's Day is Sunday. Quick, to the card aisle! And also, send an e-card! While I'm a huge advocate of paper cards with handwritten notes in them for every occasion, I love this promotion from the American Heart Association's Go Red For Women and Macy's. For every e-card sent, Macy's will donate $5 to Go Red For Women, one of our favorite women's health advocacy organizations.
All you have to do is go to the "Thank A Mom" Facebook page, select the Go Red For Women movement (they're one of five participating organizations), and then create your card. You can use one of the preloaded designs or upload your own, and write a personal note. If your mom is super cool like my mom and is on Facebook, you can post it directly to her wall. Or you can just enter her e-mail address. You can send up to 10 cards a day, so be sure to send one to all your friends and relatives who are moms, too!
Happy Mother's Day from the LHJ Health Ladies!
Categories: Do Good, Health, Ladies' Lounge | Tags: American Heart Association, Go Red for Women, Macy's, Mother's Day, Thank A Mom | No Comments
Helping Their Gardens and Students Grow
September 29, 2010 at 2:24 pm , by Amelia Harnish
Inspired by Michelle Obama's "Let's Move" campaign, environmental and health activist Kelly Meyer decided to stop complaining about the lack of healthy options for her children and do something about it.
With friends in Los Angeles she started Teaching Garden, an initiative to put gardens and corresponding nutrition curricula in local schools. She thought the best way to teach healthy habits from the start would be to provide kids with a garden, where they could learn hands-on about where food really comes from: "the ground, not the vending machine or the cereal box," Meyer says.
Studies show that healthy kids perform better in school, and with 1 in 3 American children now obese, it's clear more schools could use a program like this one.
As part of the kickoff of NBC's Education Nation summit Monday, Teaching Garden and the American Heart Association (AHA) invited a group of New York City schoolchildren to Rockefeller Center to announce their goal of putting 1,000 gardens in schools across the country over the next two years. That's Meyer, above, far left, with AHA chairperson Debra Lockwood, TV funnyman Jimmy Fallon and 5th graders from KIPP Infinity School. Read more
Categories: Health, Ladies' Lounge | Tags: American Heart Association, childhood obesity, Education Nation, Jimmy Fallon, Kelly Meyer, Laird Hamilton, NBC, Teaching Garden | 1 Comment
Women Still Don't Know About Heart Disease
February 10, 2010 at 1:30 pm , by Emily Chau
Last week, Julie and I went to a Go Red for Women dinner, part of the American Heart Association's campaign to increase knowledge for women's heart disease. Besides catching up with AHA president, the wonderful Clyde Yancy, M.D., we got to hear some shocking heart stats.
The AHA revealed the findings from its newest study about women's awareness of cardiovascular disease (CVD), headed by Lori Mosca, M.D., Ph.D., the lively, marathon-running professor of medicine and director of preventive cardiology at New York-Presbyterian Hospital/Columbia University Medical Center.
A quick summary:
1. Awareness that CVD is the leading cause of death among women has almost doubled since 1997. Still, only 54 percent of women know that CVD is the leading cause of death among women (vs. 30 percent in 1997).
2. Only about half of women know the signs and symptoms of a heart attack. Plus, only half of women would call 911 if they thought they were having one.
3. More than half of women rely on unproven therapies to prevent CVD, including taking a multivitamin (69 percent), antioxidants (70 percent) and aromatherapy (29 percent).
That's us with Dr. Yancy –>
Categories: Health | Tags: American Heart Association, cardiovascular disease, go red, heart disease, women | 3 Comments


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Russian featherweight Rasul Mirzaev has a perfect professional mixed martial arts (MMA) record of 5-0 and was set to make his debut for Bellator when a disagreement outside a Moscow night club ended in tragedy and put an end to his hopes of fighting in the United States.
On August 19, 2011, Mirzaev punched Igor Agafonov, a 19-year-old student, who fell to the ground, banging his head. The punch itself was not fatal, but the head trauma caused by the collision with the pavement was, and the teenager died in the hospital four days later.
Mirzaev had only signed with Bellator four months earlier but instead of travelling to the U.S. to fight for the second biggest promotion there, he found himself on remand in a Russian prison, where he would remain for the next 15 months.
Initially charged with murder, he was ultimately convicted of manslaughter with everyone, including the victim's family, accepting that it was not the punch which killed Agafonov but the fall. On November 27, 2012 he was released, having already served his sentence.
Now trying to get his life and career back on track, Mirzaev, who won the Combat Sambo World Championship in 2010, is training at Phuket Top Team in Thailand, where he agreed to answer a few questions through his translator:
Are you signed with Bellator and do you think you will ever fight for them?
I did sign but now I have to wait and see as things have happened since then.
How did the manslaughter charge affect your career and are you happy you have finally put it behind you?
Sure it affected things, now I am just focused on the combat sambo world championship and getting back to fit and fighting.
Can you tell us anything about what happened that night?
I prefer not to talk about this, the situation is very touchy in Russia and still for awhile will be. It is regrettable but never intentional.
How did you end up in Thailand?
I come to get away and get fit. Luckily I find Phuket Top Team and I enjoy it very much here. Great team and fighters. I will be back again also.
When / where are you planning on fighting next?
Combat Sambo in Russia. For MMA, I will wait and see with my manager
Khabib Nurmagomedov and Rustan Khabilov have enjoyed success in the U.S. recently. Are you confident that, given the opportunity, you could have a similar impact?
I am very sure I can do well. I want to fight anywhere and everywhere to show my skills. For now one step at a time.
What are your ambitions for your MMA career?
I only want to be the best, nothing more.
Do you worry that people will always remember you for the manslaughter case rather than for your achievements as a mixed martial artist?
Maybe this is true. Anyone who knows me, know I am humble, polite and this is me. My fighting is my life, like my family.
How are you finding Thailand?
I find Phuket Top Team and the training has been great. The Leone brothers, Nonsai, Samkor and the coaches at Top Team are great, like a home for me.
Russian prisons have a bad reputation, were you able to stay in shape while you were there and if so, how?
No, I do not do anything in there. This was not a focus at that time.
How did your time in prison affect you?
I enjoy the ability to have freedom. I will live my life to be what I can.


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If you are, like myself, a frequenter of MMA message boards you will have no doubt seen much in the way of debate for the past year about Chris Weidman's chances against the long-time Middleweight kingpin Anderson Silva. There are many who see the New Jersey man, 29, as being the first UFC fighter to finally solve the intricate puzzle that is the Spider. Their argument (made with varying degrees of competence depending upon which site you favour…) will more than likely revolve around whether or not Silva can deal with Weidman's takedowns and his impressive submission game when on the mat. This combined with Anderson Silva's unique ability to just… 'Anderson Silva' fools has created a great amount of hype around the fight, time will tell if it will appeal to the mythical 'casual fan' but the scrap certainly has most of the hard-cores hooked in, waiting anxiously for Bruce Buffer to do his little jig on July 6th at UFC 162 so we can finally see how this plays out.
However, oddly for a big title fight with a lot of hype amongst the media, neither of the fighters have a huge amount to gain from winning this. I know, I know, that sounds ludicrous to say, but hear me out. If Weidman wins much of the talk will revolve around Silva's age, about how, at 38, father time has robbed him of the gifts that made him such a force, and if Silva wins much of the talk will be about how 'Weidman wasn't that good anyway' or his long lay-off and the shoulder surgery he undertook during that time. Whichever way you spin it the winner of this fight is more likely, despite walking away with the Middleweight strap, to find his own performance overlooked and his opponent's pre-fight situation to be the main talking point.
I'm not saying that we shouldn't question whether or not Weidman has the experience or Silva the takedown defence; what I'm saying is that we should appreciate the winner for what they did to win, not what their opponent did to lose. Maybe it's just the nature of us sports fans, the 'ah he only lost because he was old' or 'but he had a bum knee' is as old time itself.
Perhaps I'm fretting for nothing – you guys aren't a bad bunch really – but I just feel that, in this fight, we will either be witnessing the GOAT fending off the toughest challenge of his UFC career or the dawning of a new age in the MW division and it'd be a damned shame to see either man not get the props he deserves.


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Celery Soup
Submitted by: NannyLyn
Serves: 3-4
Preparation time: 15 minutes or less
- Serves: 3-4
- Preparation time: 15 minutes or less
- Very simple and tasty soup which can be served either as a chunky soup or pureed.
1 tablespoon olive oil
1 small onion, finely chopped
2 bacon rashers, diced
1 tablespoon tomato paste
1 bunch celery, cut into 2 cm pieces
2 cups hot vegetable stock
Pepper, to taste
Salt (optional)
¼ cup uncooked long-grain white rice
Parmesan cheese (optional)
- Heat oil in large saucepan.
- Add onion and bacon, and sauté until onion is transparent.
- Stir in tomato paste and celery.
- Cook for 5 minutes, stirring occasionally.
- Gradually stir in stock.
- Cover and simmer for 20 minutes.
- Stir in salt, if using, pepper and rice.
- Simmer for 15 minutes, or until rice is tender.
- Serve sprinkled with Parmesan, or puree then gently reheat, and serve with sour cream.
Recipe notes
I prefer this soup pureed, and don't always serve with cream. I either use Campbell's vegetable stock, or hot water and a Massel vegetable stock cube, both give a good flavour.
Rustic, Hearty & Really Tasty Soup
Reviewed by: Lacer, May 17 2014 6:24PM (more reviews by Lacer)
Overpowering celery
Reviewed by: jssellen, Jan 28 2012 7:54AM (more reviews by jssellen)


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Former light heavyweight champion Rashad Evans has headlined events, coached the Ultimate Fighter, and fought legitimate stars like Quinton Jackson, Forrest Griffin, and Chuck Liddell. However, when he meets Phil Davis next weekend at UFC on FOX 2 even Evans knows it will be unlike any other bout he's been in.
Evans offered his opinion on the match-up and show in general while blogging for the Chicago Sun Times where he explained solidifying his spot as top contender is secondary to the opportunity he's been given by fighting on FOX.
Davis Wants Title-Shot Too with Win Over Evans
"If I win the fight, I should get a shot at the UFC light heavyweight title I held once before, but I'm not even thinking about that," wrote Evans. "For me, this fight in Chicago is the biggest fight of my career. To main event a massive show like this on national television is a huge honor and easily the biggest opportunity of my life."
While the 16-1-1 Evans did bring up the millions of viewers likely to tune in based on the ratings for UFC on FOX: Velasquez vs. Dos Santos, his desire to come out with his hand raised goes far beyond exposure and relates to personal reasons more than professional ones.
"I've lived in Chicago for over four years, and I'm going to be proud to represent the city when I step inside the Octagon," Evans explained before singing the praises of Chi-Town.
Fans can catch Evans-Davis in headlining action on January 28 with other main card clashes including Chael Sonnen vs. Mark Munoz and Michael Bisping vs. Demian Maia.


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Back home
Originally uploaded by FransBadger.
Sunday morning, it is raining in Tokyo. It has been great week, but now: it is time to go home.
Back home
Originally uploaded by FransBadger.
Sunday morning, it is raining in Tokyo. It has been great week, but now: it is time to go home.
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Yesterday evening the third international Digital Games Research Conference closed in Tokyo. Professor Baba, the conference chair, presented some interesting figures; if I got them right from the translation, there had been 178 presentations in the conference, and 355 conference participants. Impressive figures for a conference of an emerging field, organised in (what to a Western-dominated researcher community is) a far-away Japan. There were much discussion about how to improve the conference and about various issues that could have gone a bit better, but the overall impression was that the conference was an obvious success. Continue reading
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DiGRA 2007 underway
Originally uploaded by FransBadger.
In her opening speech Tanya Krzywinska, DiGRA President (speaking in Tokyo University Yasuda Auditorium, pictured) described this year's games research conference as "Godzilla" — which it in a sense is; even the proceedings book is almost 900 pages! The week is well underway, and today, in one of Thursday's last sessions I have also my own paper presentation. Continue reading
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They start it small
Originally uploaded by FransBadger.
This year's Tokyo Game Show (TGS) was bigger than ever; with its expected 180 000 visitors, 1 550 booths and 54 000 square meters of show-floor space, this is certainly as loud as games cultures get today. No moment of rest for a gamer, even if personally I'd prefer to sit down in somewhere more quiet and focus in only a game or two, rather than drifting inside a torrent of visitors past hundreds screens, demos, show sessions, all shouting over each other. But, hey — quickly taken, it was fun!
More pictures among my Flickr travel photos, see: http://www.flickr.com/photos/fransmayra/1426977592/
Edit: I did read later (from The Asahi Shimbun, 29-30 Sept. weekend edition) that the total number of exhibitors was 217 and number of visitors 193 040 — wow!
Filed under digital culture, events, game studies, moblog, travels
Tokyo morning 1: into TGS
Originally uploaded by FransBadger.
After having slept for c. 11 hours, it feels good to wake up in Tokyo. My hotel is Sheraton Miyako, a slightly older establishment that is located quite far away from the DiGRA conference location in the Shirogane district. There are a few embassies in the area and with its temples and parks, the area looks rather nice; the photo is taken from my hotel window. Today I was planning on visiting the Tokyo Game Show, if I can handle the complexities of Japanese transportation system. There are several private and state metro and railway lines in Tokyo, so getting from place to place can be some sort of challenge. But I have no other obligations today, so: off we go!
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To Tokyo and Stars
Originally uploaded by FransBadger.
On the road again — via Arlanda (Sweden) and Copenhagen in two jumps to the long haul, arriving (jet-lagged) in Tokyo, and new, bright day. Even if it was hard to leave Laura and our sweet little baby, I cannot really skip a DiGRA conference. Making best of it, I will take a quick course in Japanese travellers' lore (from Lonely Planet) and spend the night/day on plane reading science fiction (The Algebraist by Ian M. banks). Here we go — jump!
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Raph Koster demoes here his new Metaplace platform — a do-it-yourself virtual world in casual, Web 2.0 oriented way.
Alpha testers, feel free to register: http://www.metaplace.com/
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This looks interesting: Taito has developed a hybrid digital-analogue cardgame which is based on similar technology which Microsoft has demoed under 'Surface' concept:
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TLS (Times Literary Supplement) has hold a central place in the literary lives of educated Englishmen from the year 1902 when Times first started featuring it. An interesting sign of times, even this ivory tower of analogue culture is taking into account some current discussions around the digital domains. See e.g. a review of Andrew Keen's book The Cult of the Amateur) on the differing concepts of 'culture' that surround the ongoing debates on blogs, for example. To us who are also drawn into the realms Tolkien created, irrespective of the medium, TLS also offers something in its recent installment, including a piece discussing Diana Pavlac Glyer's work The Company They Keep: C.S. Lewis and J.R.R. Tolkien as Writers in Community and the glimpses to the lives of the Inklings it offers.
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The MIT Technology Review (the self-appointed "authority on the future of technology") pays attention to the challenges game companies are facing, as some — most notably EVE Online — attempt to maintain a seamless, persistent virtual world to all of players simultaneously. See: Technology Review: The One-World Video-Game Challenge.
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The Death of the 25-Man?
A new blue post confirms Blizz's direction for raiding in Cataclysm, and boy is it going to change a few things:
We're continuing to refine the raid progression paths in Cataclysm, and we'd like to share some of those changes with you today. Please enjoy!
The first of the refinements being made is that we're combining all raid sizes and difficulties into a single lockout. Unlike today, 10- and 25-player modes of a single raid will share the same lockout. You can defeat each raid boss once per week per character. In other words, if you wanted to do both a 10- and 25-person raid in a single week, you'd need to do so on two different characters. Normal versus Heroic mode will be chosen on a per-boss basis in Cataclysm raids, the same way it works in Icecrown Citadel. Obviously the raid lockout change doesn't apply in pure Icecrown terms though, as this change goes hand-in-hand with a few other changes to raid progression in Cataclysm.
So they're going to make us choose between 10 and 25? Well, that should be easy; 25m's give better loot… right?
We're designing and balancing raids so that the difficulty between 10- and 25-player versions of each difficulty will be as close as possible to each other as we can achieve. That closeness in difficulty also means that we'll have bosses dropping the same items in 10- and 25-player raids of each difficulty. They'll have the same name and same stats; they are in fact the exact same items. Choosing Heroic mode will drop a scaled-up version of those items. Our hope is that players will be able to associate bosses with their loot tables and even associate specific artwork with specific item names to a far greater extent than today.
Oh… so, if both versions drop the same items, then why the hell would anyone put up with the headache of trying to herd 24 other cats through fights, let alone roll against them for the exact same gear as you could get in 10m's without as much competition or frustration?
We of course recognize the logistical realities of organizing larger groups of people, so while the loot quality will not change, 25-player versions will drop a higher quantity of loot per player (items, but also badges, and even gold), making it a more efficient route if you're able to gather the people. The raid designers are designing encounters with these changes in mind, and the class designers are making class changes to help make 10-person groups easier to build. Running 25-player raids will be a bit more lucrative, as should be expected, but if for a week or two you need to do 10s because half the guild is away on vacation, you can do that and not suffer a dramatic loss to your ability to get the items you want.
Even having the bosses drop more loot doesn't change the fact that, per individual, you're better off in 10m's. I highly doubt they'd have a boss drop two or more of the same item, nor have loot tables so large that you're not likely to see that item within the next week or two.
Also, if you have a solid 25-man raiding core, that means you have, what, 5-7 healers, 3-4 tanks, and loads of DPS… between offspecs and back-ups, I don't think anyone would be hard-pressed to turn a 25-man raiding core into 3 solid 10-man groups, reducing hassle and loot drama, and maximizing both progression and gearing.
I'll admit, I've liked 10m's more than 25m's for quite a while, and this announcement has only strengthened by convictions. I guess we'll have to wait and see the specifics before we jump to any bold conclusions, but I think they're going down the wrong path here.


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This the first of three volumes covering forty years of photographing the nude, from 1967 to 2007, is entitled "Those Sexy Seventies". The Seventies were the decade of free love, open marriage, the primal scream and the sexual revolution when men and women were questioning their sexual values and exploring the new personal freedom. In this period of experimentation I photographed these women who were the unknown pioneers in those sexy times and shared their struggle to define themselves in a new way.
Dennie Cody


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Indexing Files via Solr and Java MapReduce
- by Adam Smieszny
- March 02, 2012
- 10 comments
Several weeks ago, I set about to demonstrate the ease with which Solr and Map/Reduce can be integrated. I was unable to find a simple, yet comprehensive, primer on integrating the two technologies. So I set about to write one.
What follows is my bare-bones tutorial on getting Solr up and running to index each word of the complete works of Shakespeare. Note: Special thanks to Sematext for looking over the Solr bits and making sure they are sane. Check them out if you're going to be doing a lot of work with Solr, ElasticSearch, or search in general and want to bring in the experts.
First things first
The way that I got started was by instantiating a new CentOS 6 Virtual Machine. You can pick a different flavor of Linux if that suits you; Hadoop should work fine on any (though advocated distros are SuSE, Ubuntu/Debian, RedHat/CentOS).
If you are fine with CentOS and want to skip some of the manual labor here, you can download a pre-loaded Virtual Machine from the Cloudera Downloads section, that already includes an installation of Sun Java 6u21 and CDH3u3. You can then skip ahead to installing Solr and downloading sample data as outlined below.
If you are proceeding with a new (virtual) machine, then follow along as follows: Make sure to disable SELinux, if applicable, and enable sshd. For CentOS6, that was done with the following commands:
[user@localhost ~]$ sudo chkconfig --levels 2345 sshd on [user@localhost ~]$ /etc/init.d/sshd start [user@localhost ~]$ vim /etc/selinux/config [set to disabled]
On that machine, download and install:
- Java – I'd recommend Java 6u26 as it has been tested with CDH
Oracle Java never seems to play nicely with the /etc/alternative system (in my experience), so I force it to be the preferred JRE the old fashioned way:
[user@localhost ~]$ sudo rm /usr/bin/java [user@localhost ~]$ sudo ln -s /usr/java/jdk1.6.0_26/jre/bin/java \ /usr/bin/java
- Solr – download and unzip/untar in whatever directory that you like. For the purpose of this article, I'll refer to it as
- Hadoop – I am, obviously, biased. But my recommendation would be to use Cloudera Manager (free up to 50 nodes) to set up your VM as a pseudo-distributed cluster
- Sample data – Complete works of William Shakespeare. I'd recommend unzipping into a single directory. I'll refer to it as
You can validate that all of the pieces are installed and running correctly by doing the following:
- Java
[user@localhost ~]$ java -version java version "1.6.0_21" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_21-b06) Java HotSpot(TM) 64-Bit Server VM (build 17.0-b16, mixed mode)
- Solr
[user@localhost ~]$ cd /example [user@localhost ~]$ java -jar start.jar
The goal is to get up and running quickly here, so I am opting to use the Solr example configuration. Worth noting also that when run in this manner, the Solr server will be started with the default JVM heap size – which I believe to be the smaller of {1/4 system memory or 1GB}.
Now, you should be able to access the Solr administration GUI (one of the niceties of Solr!) via a web browser inside your VM with the address: http://localhost:8983/solr/admin
- Hadoop
You can validate that Hadoop is installed and running successfully by navigating in your VM's browser to: http://localhost:7180, logging in as admin/admin, and seeing the following:
You probably want to export the client config XML files (can be done with a single click via Cloudera Manager – see the Generate Client Configuration buttong), copy them to /usr/lib/hadoop/conf, and then copy the sample text into hdfs:
[user@localhost ~]$ hadoop fs -put <shakespeare> shakespeare
Creating the indexing code
I have some history with Lucene from a past life, so the high level functionality of Solr was familiar to me. In a nutshell, you index files within Java code by creating a SolrInputDocument, which represents a single entity to index – a file or document generally – and using the .addField() to attach fields to this document that you'd later like to search.
The driver code for the indexer is very simple, in that it takes input file path(s) off the command line, and runs the mapper on the files that it finds. Note that it will accept a directory, and parse all of the files that it finds within.
public class IndexDriver extends Configured implements Tool { public static void main(String[] args) throws Exception { //TODO: Add some checks here to validate the input path int exitCode = ToolRunner.run(new Configuration(), new IndexDriver(), args); System.exit(exitCode); } @Override public int run(String[] args) throws Exception { JobConf conf = new JobConf(getConf(), IndexDriver.class); conf.setJobName("Index Builder - Adam S @ Cloudera"); conf.setSpeculativeExecution(false); // Set Input and Output paths FileInputFormat.setInputPaths(conf, new Path(args[0].toString())); FileOutputFormat.setOutputPath(conf, new Path(args[1].toString())); // Use TextInputFormat conf.setInputFormat(TextInputFormat.class); // Mapper has no output conf.setMapperClass(IndexMapper.class); conf.setMapOutputKeyClass(NullWritable.class); conf.setMapOutputValueClass(NullWritable.class); conf.setNumReduceTasks(0); JobClient.runJob(conf); return 0; } }
The Map code is where things get more interesting. A couple notes before we proceed:
Solr servers may be used in 2 ways:
- Via embedding a Solr server object within your Java code using EmbeddedSolrServer
- Via HTTP requests, using the class CommonsHttpSolrServer with a URL (in our case, http://localhost:8983/solr)
In what follows, I elected to go with the StreamingUpdateSolrServer – which is a subclass of CommonsHttpSolrServer. More comments on that towards the end.
I will assume now that the reader has some familiarity with the Map/Reduce programming paradigm. The salient points for us here are that we will use a Map-only job to read through each file in the input that we provide, and index our chosen fields. Taking the path of least resistance, I used the fact that each line of text is it's own Key/Value pair if we read the input as TextInputFormat, and I chose to index the following fields:
- As a unique identifier for each word, I concatenated the filename, line offset (conveniently provided to the Map code as the "Key" because we are using TextInputFormat), and the position on that line of the word
- The word itself
The Solr server obeys field definitions (specifying field names, data types, uniqueness, etc.) as dictated by a schema file. For this example, running Solr as indicated above, the schema is defined by/example/solr/conf/schema.xml
Per my choice to index 2 distinct fields, the relevant fields in the schema are:
<field name="id" type="string" indexed="true" \ stored="true" required="true" /> <field name="text" type="text_general" indexed="true" \ stored="true" multiValued="true"/>
Without further ado, then, the code looks like the following:
public class IndexMapper extends MapReduceBase implements Mapper <LongWritable, Text, NullWritable, NullWritable> { private StreamingUpdateSolrServer server = null; private SolrInputDocument thisDoc = new SolrInputDocument(); private String fileName; private StringTokenizer st = null; private int lineCounter = 0; @Override public void configure(JobConf job) { String url = "http://localhost:8983/solr"; fileName = job.get("map.input.file").substring( (job.get("map.input.file")).lastIndexOf( System.getProperty("file.separator")) +1); try { server = new StreamingUpdateSolrServer(url, 100, 5); } catch (MalformedURLException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } @Override public void map(LongWritable key, Text val, OutputCollector <NullWritable, NullWritable> output, Reporter reporter) throws IOException { st = new StringTokenizer(val.toString()); lineCounter = 0; while (st.hasMoreTokens()) { thisDoc = new SolrInputDocument(); thisDoc.addField("id", fileName + " " + key.toString() + " " + lineCounter++); thisDoc.addField("text", st.nextToken()); try { server.add(thisDoc); } catch (SolrServerException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } catch (IOException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } } @Override public void close() throws IOException { try { server.commit(); } catch (SolrServerException e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } }
Compile the code how you see fit (I am old school and still use ant), and the job is ready to run!
To index all of the comedies, you can run the job with the compiled jar file as follows. Note that you must tell hadoop to include an additional Solr jar at runtime:
[user@localhost SolrTest]$ hadoop jar solrtest.jar \ -libjars <solr_install_dir>/dist/apache-solr-solrj-3.5.0.jar \ shakespeare/comedies shakespeare_output
If you then query the Solr server (via the web GUI at http://localhost:8983/solr/admin, the default search is *:* which works well for a quick test) you should see something like the following:
<response> <lst name="responseHeader"> <int name="status">0</int> <int name="QTime">35</int> <lst name="params"> <str name="indent">on</str> <str name="start">0</str> <str name="q">*:*</str> <str name="version">2.2</str> <str name="rows">10</str> </lst> </lst> <result name="response" numFound="377452" start="0"> <doc> <str name="id">troilusandcressida 0 0</str> <arr name="text"> <str>TROILUS</str> </arr> </doc> <doc> <str name="id">troilusandcressida 0 1</str> <arr name="text"> <str>AND</str> </arr> </doc> <doc> <str name="id">troilusandcressida 0 2</str> <arr name="text"> <str>CRESSIDA</str> </arr> </doc>
Further Tuning/Investigation Opportunities
Performance Implications of StreamingUpdateSolrServer – possibility of using EmbeddedSolrServer: What are the optimal tuning parameters for number of threads and batch size when using StreamingUpdateSolrServer? More investigation could be done here. It is also possible to use an EmbeddedSolrServer (per the Rackspace case study in Hadoop: The Definitive Guide), though it does add some maintenance overhead to create the indexes in a distributed fashion and then later re-combine. I opted to use the StreamingUpdateSolrServer because I believe that it is simpler to get up and running in a small test environment.
How to minimize the memory requirements in the Map code: I haven't been a full time Java developer in many years, so there are almost certainly things that I'm missing on how to minimize the memory overhead of the objects used in the Map code. Since this is called for each line in the input, it is critical to make this code as lean as possible. One tip that I came across on this topic is to use (mutable) org.apache.hadoop.io.Text objects rather than (immutable) Strings. I avoided creating any new String objects in this example Map code, but the point is worth noting for other exercises.
Resources that I found useful
- A great primer that accomplished the indexing via Cascading:
- Solr Tutorial:
- Some sample code for adding, updating, deleting documents on this wiki:
- My outstanding coworkers at Cloudera!
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Pere /
March 02, 2012 / 8:15 AM
Good article.
In the article you mention that using EmbeddedSolr "adds some maintenance overhead to create the indexes in a distributed fashion and then later re-combine". I would like to point out that it has some advantages as well. On one hand it allows you to create the index in a completely distributed fashion. Using Map and Reduce phases allows you to shuffle your documents (preparing them better for a sharding environment). It is a batch indexing strategy that completely decouples the frontend with the backend – boosting the performance of both parts. Finally, it allows you do to deploy the index atomically, leveraging Solr's core swap and rollback mechanisms. We have previously published an article in our blog in the past that explains how to buid "frontend views" in a completely distributed way using this philosophy: http://www.datasalt.com/2011/10/front-end-view-generation-with-hadoop/ . We thought this would be meaningful to the article.
terrence pietrondi /
March 26, 2012 / 8:24 PM
In this example, what purpose does "shakespeare_output" serve when running the job since the output is the solr document?
Adam Smieszny /
March 27, 2012 / 5:16 AM
@Terrence Pietrondi:
Hi Terrence. The shakespeare_output directory in HDFS will hold some metadata that is generated by MapReduce. In particular, a file named _SUCCESS that will indicate if the job completed successfully. It will also contain (empty) files names part_0000x, that are empty because we don't emit anything from our code.
terrence pietrondi /
March 30, 2012 / 10:11 AM
What are the suggested specs on the cloudera traning vm image, when attempting this tutorial, the process ran out of memory. I gave it two processors and 4080 of memory. My host machine is a mac ox s 10.6.8, 2.66 GHz intel core 2 due, 8 gig memory.
Dan Brown /
April 01, 2012 / 8:22 AM
A while back we had the need to generate indexes via M/R (solr 1.3). I've documented the details here: http://www.likethecolor.com/2010/09/26/using-hadoop-to-create-solr-indexes/ Thought I might be useful to others here. I would love any suggestions. Thanks.
Adam Smieszny /
April 01, 2012 / 8:39 AM
@ Terrence Pietrondi:
Hi Terrence. If you find that the process runs out of memory, most likely the issue doesn't have to do with the VM specs (what you have sounds like plenty of CPU and RAM available).
Rather, it probably requires increasing the memory allocated for the MapReduce processes.
If you are using Cloudera Manager, modifying this configuration is quite simple. Please view the following video for more information:
terrence pietrondi /
April 06, 2012 / 7:59 AM
I was able to get the demo running after rebooting the vmware. For anyone looking, here is the build file I used:
Pravin /
June 10, 2012 / 11:18 AM
Very useful article.
Thanks for sharing.


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Wednesday, May 04, 2005
Money & Banking
Rupee weakens; bond prices rally
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MUMBAI: The rupee continued to trade in a narrow range due to factors such as global strengthening of the dollar and speculation about revaluation of the Chinese yuan
On Tuesday, the rupee ended around 43.69 against the dollar, weaker than Monday's close of 43.5750/58. The forward premia market was slightly down because of selling by exporters and a rally in the bond market, the dealer added. The 12-month premium closed at 1.45 per cent (1.53 per cent), while the 6-month premium closed at 1.70 per cent (1.80 per cent).
The bond market saw a rally due to the cut-off price for the bond auctions being higher than expectations.
The 8.07-12-year bond ended at Rs 104.50 on Tuesday, about 50 paise higher than Monday's close of Rs 104 on Monday. The bond had opened at Rs 103.95 on Tuesday.
A dealer with a private bank said there was wide participation in the auction of 7.55-2010-10-year bonds and 7.50-2034 29-year bonds. There was also buying of illiquid securities by state-run banks.
The 7.55 per cent-2010-10-year paper ended at Rs 102.65 (6.92 per cent YTM) against Monday's close of Rs 102.60 (6.93 per cent YTM).
A primary dealer said the market was expecting the cut off price for the paper to be around Rs 102.25/30. As the cut-off price was higher than market expectations, sentiment changed to positive and demand in auction papers increased, the dealer said.
The 7.38-10-year-2015-benchmark paper ended at Rs 100.90 (7.25 per cent YTM) against Monday's close of Rs 100.60 (7.294 per cent YTM).
Call rates were between 4.95 per cent and 5 per cent (5.00-5.05 per cent).
In the one-day reverse repo auction, under the Liquidity Adjustment Facility, RBI received and accepted 44 bids amounting to Rs 34,160 crore. The CBLO market saw 195 trades amounting to Rs 8,325.30 crore in the range of Rs 4.75 per cent to 5 per cent. This was the highest ever volumes seen in the CBLO market.
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Water risks ripple through the beverage industry
June 17, 2009
The Italian restaurant Del Posto in New York City, backed by celebrities Mario Batali and Joseph Bastianich, is one of several restaurants shunning bottled water, along with the city of San Francisco and the state of New York. As environmental worries cut into sales from traditionally lucrative bottled water, beverage companies such as Coca-Cola, PepsiCo, Nestle and SABMiller are becoming more attuned to the risks of negative consumer environmental perceptions. Water is becoming scarcer, raising a fear that so-far manageable price increases could spike and lead drink companies to take action to maintain access to water and maintain their reputation. Water is still cheap, but that is changing. New water pricing schemes are emerging, such as the European Union''s Water Framework Directive that will tax water from 2010 to encourage more sustainable use. Some 70 percent of the water the world uses is for agriculture, while industry uses 20 percent. But any industry reliant on agriculture has more to wade through than its own use. SABMiller is one of a few companies, including Coke and Pepsi, calculating "water footprints." It found that water used throughout its supply chain, such as to grow barley and hops, can be 34 times more than its use alone. With 139 breweries on six continents, the brewer''s total water use can range from about 40 liters for a liter of beer in Central Europe to 155 liters in South Africa. Using the smaller ratio as a proxy, SABMiller''s entire "water footprint" was roughly 8.4 trillion liters of water last year, more than double what the small nation of Iceland used in 2004. As they face criticism, multi-national drink companies are setting water conservation targets, building community wells and more efficient factories, working with locals on sustainable farming, water harvesting and reforestation and looking for new technologies to reduce their water consumption even as they make more drinks. Within their own walls, non-alcoholic drink makers use one out of every 3,300 gallons, or 0.03 percent, of the groundwater used in the United States, according to the American Beverage Association. Coca-Cola learned the hard way, after a drought in the Indian state of Kerala led to the closure of its bottling plant there amid criticism that it was sucking the water table dry. Coke said its plant did not fuel the shortages, but an outcry still spread across the globe, with students in Britain and North America urging boycotts. Massachusetts'' Smith College even severed a five-decade relationship with the company by refusing to let it bid for its soft drink contract. Environmental and community groups are still fighting to kick Coke out of other villages in India.


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News: Snoop Dogg Asks Soulja Boy For Forgiveness, "I Apologize For All The Hate" [Video]
Monday, Sep 7, 2009 8:30AM
Rap veteran Snoop Dogg has displayed his respect for teen rap star Soulja Boy Tell Em and asked the rapper for forgiveness over his initial prejudice of the emcee's talent.
In addition to supporting Soulja Boy, Snoop said it was vital for all generations of rappers to unite for hip-hop.
"N*ggas was always hatin' on a n*gga when he come out," Snoop said in a video. "They hate on everybody. But when you see a n*gga really know what he doing and it's your craft and you come hit after hit after hit, n*gga can't do nothing but say 'Man, I'm sorry for hating on you, you'se a real n*gga. You hear to stay.' Soulja Boy, we come from two different worlds, we different generations and what not, but we come together right now to unite and show love -- I apologize for all the hate that I had towards Soulja Boy, towards what he was doing in the beginning of his career -- as a man, what I understand what this man is and what else he's doing and how he's doing what he's doing, I support him, wrap my arms around him and love him. And I give him the same love I give my family members. So it's all about bridging the gap and showing love." (Kido Teck Music)
50 Cent recently expressed his admiration for Soulja Boy Tell Em and explained how the rapper's dance-based singles continue to have a major impact.
"I was at [Eminem's] house," 50 said in an interview. "He has a basketball court that doubles as [Eminem's daughter] Hailie's dance studio. That dance studio has the hardwood floors. I watched the kids do the Soulja Boy dance to the song. They're into organized dancing. That was something they were into. They're a world way from where Soulja Boy comes from. But it's translating and it's actually a hit record and he continues to make hit records that work." (MTV)
In addition to receiving props from 50, Soulja Boy is also reportedly working on Kanye West's upcoming album.
"I'm working on Kanye's next album right now," Soulja Boy revealed in an interview. "We working together on production because he makes beats and I make beats. Right now I'm remixing a couple of records for him. I'm actually working on [Kanye's] album while he's working on my album." (Rap Up)
Aside from an upcoming collaboration with Drake, the Young Money newly signed artist recently talked about Soulja Boy's marketing skills.
"Soulja Boy is the smartest artist of our generation, I think period and I think out of anybody," Drake said in an interview earlier this summer. "Whoever it is, whether it's him or his team or the people around him, whoever has the thoughts to do the things he does, is genius and I'm so happy for him." (YouTube)
Check out Snoop Dogg speaking on Soulja Boy Tell Em below:


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In the 1950s, the baby boom began, as soldiers returning from World War II?started their families. The federal highway system was created. And most standard labor agreements began including paid vacations. As a result, the growing middle class in America began to travel more often, and the family vacation was born.
Most families typically begin traveling by visiting out-of-town relatives.
For Katrina Brill of Howland, her husband, Steven and their four sons, 13-year-old twins, Nolan and Ethan, and 10-year-old twins, Lucas and Zachary, family travel began when the oldest boys were quite young.
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Kameron Boser of Niles is shown getting ready to go on a family trip.
"We lived in Cleveland when we had our first set of twins,"?Brill said. "We would travel the hour ... almost every weekend to see family for birthdays, reunions, holidays, graduations, etc."
Niles residents, Ashley and Brandon Boser have already started traveling with their young family. Kameron is 3 years old and Kinsley is 1 and a half.
"Their first trip was when Kameron was 2 and Kinsley was just a few weeks old," Ashley Boser said. "We went to West Virginia to visit my mother-in-law. That was a three-hour trip by car."
Even an hour excursion can seem excruciatingly long if accompanied by a fussy toddler or an older child wondering if they have arrived at their destination. Luckily, the Brills and the Bosers have found ways to entertain their children during their trips.
"While traveling by car, we have movies playing and they listen to music or play handheld video games,"?Brill said. "While traveling by plane, it is music and video games. Steve also likes to play the license plate game."
Ashley Boser's children are too young to play video games for entertainment, but she still uses technology to keep them busy. Besides packing toys and snacks, she makes sure their cell phones are charged since the children like to play with them.
As children grow older, travel destinations change.
"When they were younger, we had a national zoo pass and visited San Diego, Columbus, Tampa, Cleveland, Pittsburgh, Detroit and Akron zoos,"?Brill said. "We have been to Disneyland and Disney World, also Sea World and Universal Studios, water parks, and science centers. We have taken ski vacations in the winter, but our favorite vacation is the beach, and we travel to Hilton Head frequently."
When packing for a trip, parents must consider making their children feel comfortable at their "home away from home" with familiar items and plenty of clothing for different weather situations, and when clothes get dirty.
"We bring everything from toys to snacks, and they each have to have their 'baba,'"?Boser said. "For Kinsley it is her bottle and Kameron, it is a sippy cup. Kinsley is still in diapers, and if its summer, sunscreen and sun hats are a must."
Brill has seen what she packs change as the boys aged.
"When the children were little, we couldn't travel without certain blankies, one special stuffed animal and a special wolfie,"?she said. " We would have pack and plays, double strollers' diapers and everything imaginable. As they grew older, their needs grew smaller or we got smarter."
Even the best laid plans can end up with a hitch. Children lose things, or they can become ill during a highly anticipated trip.
When her children were very young, Brill experienced episodes of queasy stomachs, but for the most part her sons are hardy tourists.
"My children are good travelers, but one gets carsick, and he gets to sit in the front seat the majority of the time," she said. She also has a plastic bag and paper towels ready. The other three do not get motion sickness.
Despite the occasional travel mishap, Brill looks forward to traveling with her husband and sons because she sees it as a bonding experience. She also thinks that travel allows her sons to learn about other cultures and religions.
Both families aspire to future trips.
"We plan on taking many more trips the older they get. I'm sure many more trips to West Virginia and hopefully a trip to Disney World," Boser said.
Brill and her family are contemplating international travel.
"The children have gotten to feed dolphins at San Diego zoo and see a baby panda and touch manta rays at Cleveland zoo,"?Brill said. "They have gotten to see many animals from all over the world. Some day we hope to visit different countries where all the animals we have grown to know at the zoos are from."
Both families see many benefits of traveling with their children, but they advise parents to pack wisely, be prepared for any situation, but most of all enjoy your time together and create wonderful family memories.


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October 30, 2005
This year's attendance on track for the Breeders' Cup was 56,289, a record for the event at Belmont Park. The on track handle was also a new record for Belmont at $14,742,520 which tops the old mark of $14,461,402 set June 5,2004 when a record 120,139 saw Birdstone deny Smarty Jones the Triple Crown.
Total wagering on the 2005 Breeders Cup World Thoroughbred Championships established a record of $122,106,154 from common and separate pools from Saturdays 10-race card at Belmont Park. With figures from Italy, Sweden, Norway and the Caribbean nations not yet reported, this mark still breaks last years all-sources total of $120,897,141. Total wagering on the eight Breeders Cup races only was also a record with $112,865,068 wagered.
Hall of Fame trainer D. Wayne Lukas sent out Bob and Beverly Lewis' 2-year-old filly Folklore to capture the Alberto VO5 Breeders' Cup Juvenile Fillies, running his record total to 18 winners over the 22-year history of the event. Lukas also was represented by Circle C Group Stable's Ex Caelis, who finished fourth in the Juvenile Fillies. His record totals stand at 145 starters with 20 seconds and 15 third-place performances.
Lukas holds virtually every money-earned record in the sport, including the Breeders' Cup. After Saturday's races, Lukas-trained runners have earned $19,645,520, and the stable has been represented by runners in every year, beginning with the inaugural at Hollywood Park in 1984.
It was also a day for firsts as four jockeys and three trainers each won their first Breeders' Cup race. Jockeys Edgar Prado (Folklore & Silver Train), Garrett Gomez (Stevie Wonderboy & Artie Schiller), Rafael Bejarano (Intercontinental) and Christophe Soumillon (Shirocco) each won their first Breeders' Cup race. Trainers Rick Dutrow (Silver Train & Saint Liam), Doug O'Neill (Stevie Wonderboy) and Jimmy Jerkens each won their first Breeders' Cup races Saturday. Dutrow became the seventh trainer to win more than one on a single card, following Wayne Lukas (five times), Shug McGaughey (twice), Richard Mandella (twice), Patrick Byrne, Joe Orseno and Todd Pletcher.
Prado's and Gomez's two-win performances marked the 11th and 12 time that a jockey won two or more races on a single Breeders' Cup program. No rider has won more than two Breeders' Cup races on one card. Gomez was voted the Shoemaker Award for his Breeders' Cup Day performance.
Trainers Rick Dutrow (Silver Train & Saint Liam), Doug O'Neill (Stevie Wonderboy) and Jimmy Jerkens each won their first Breeders' Cup races Saturday. Dutrow became the seventh trainer to win more than one on a single card, following Wayne Lukas (five times), Shug McGaughey (twice), Richard Mandella (twice), Patrick Byrne, Joe Orseno and Todd Pletcher.
Hall of Fame jockey Jerry Bailey's victory atop Saint Liam in the Breeders' Cup Classic - Powered by Dodge ran his record total to 15 career wins and his fifth in the Classic. Retired Hall of Famer Pat Day remains second in wins with 12 tallies. Bailey's mounts Saturday earned $2,937,100, running his all-time Breeders' Cup total to $22,006,440, leaving him to Day's record total of $23,033,360. Bailey also ranks second in Breeders' Cup mounts with 102 behind Day's 117. Bailey remains uncommitted as to whether he will be retiring after this year or not.
Baron Georg Von Ullmann's 4-year-old Shirocco became the first German-bred runner to win a Breeders' Cup race as the Andre Fabre-trained son of Monsun captured the John Deere Turf to lead a one-two-three-four European-trained finish in the race Saturday. Shirocco was the seventh German-bred to contest a Breeders' Cup race with the best previous finishes by Borgia (second in the 1997 Turf) and Catella third in the 2000 Filly & Mare Turf.
Shirocco became the 27th horse bred in Europe to win a Breeders' Cup race with Ireland leading that category with 13. Intercontinental (GB)'s victory in the Filly & Mare Turf represented the ninth Great Britain. Leading the all-time list of Breeders' Cup states and countries of foaling is Kentucky with 99 after six Blue Grass state products scored Saturday, highlighted by Saint Liam's dramatic score in the Classic.


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the God of the ocean
Passage: "Remember your Creator in the days of your youth, before the days of trouble come and the years approach when you will say, 'I find no pleasure in them'--" Ecclesiastes 12:1
"I hope you still feel small when you stand beside the ocean..."
From I Hope You Dance
Tomorrow night, about this time, I'll be looking at the ocean. That has become one of my true spiritual touchpoints over the years that I've been at the BCM.
Whenever I look at the ocean, I'm reminded of how expansive it is, and how small I am. I'm reminded that God Himself, so much bigger than the ocean, put it in its place, and me in mine.
Then I truly remember my Creator. And I marvel in His creation. He's made this ocean, which has been sending waves toward the sands all these years. He made the land that the waves crash upon. He made the stars by the light of which I'm taking in this wonderful view.
He knows the number of drops of water in the ocean, the number of grains of sand on the shore, the number of stars in the sky, and the number of hairs on my head.
And I remember that he's not only my Creator; he's my Savior and my Lord as well.
I usually end up singing something. It doesn't really matter what. I'm just singing a song of praise to my Lord with a pure heart, as Psalm 47:6 says to do.
I guess my point in saying this is a reminder for all of us not to forget that we're not the be-all and end-all of this world. There is One who is higher than the world, for He created the world. And while we are so much smaller than Him or His creation, He loves us more than we could ever know.
That's something I remember every time I visit the ocean at night. I remember the God of the ocean, and know that he is the Lord of my life.


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It was back to Winter weather outside this weekend, so LECOM students took to the indoor track for their mini Relay for Life.
130 students signed up to raise money and walk today, from 9:00 a.m. to noon.
So far the students have raised about $4,000, and they hope to raise about $2,000 more with t-shirt and coupon sales.
Student and organizer Charley Martin said it was an appropriate cause for the future doctors to support.
"I think as we're learning about the specifics of all the different cancer diseases we know that the research will one day be very helpful for finding the cure, or even just continuing treatment," he said.
The organizers thank the LECOM administration for allowing them to use the facility for the walk.


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With that said, what stood out to you tonight about our Chiefs?
Several things stood out to me.
1. Yeah, Powe is going to be a monster nose tackle for us. He was strong at the point of attack even while being double teamed.
2. Jackie Battle is gone.
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The zombie movie is a well worn genre, so when a new spin gets presented, it's usually going to be fine if it's well executed and doesn't insult the intelligence of those watching the film. The Demented takes the story of a rogue terrorist attack on the gulf coast where the infected become rage zombies and although this film borrows from better ones before it, it still screws it up.
Six college friends head out for a weekend at a Louisiana bayou estate for some relaxation and fun in the sun. Then a group of rogue terrorists launch a missile attack on the Gulf Coast and a new kind of horror is unleashed. Now a biological weapon has infected the entire region with a rabies like virus that turns the town's population into fast-moving, rage fueled, flesh chomping hordes. The area is quarantined, the madness is spreading and the carnage is spiraling out of control. For six friends trapped in a nightmare of insane, how far will they be forced to go in order to survive?
I honestly can't remember the last time I saw a film that brought up such a myriad of plot points only to completely abandon them anywhere from 5 to 10 minutes later in the film. The film starts off with an easy enough premise that shouldn't be too hard to screw up, but when additional and completely unnecessary twists and turns get thrown into the mix it just goes totally off the rails. Any kind of logic gets thrown out, along with what little character development we had in the first place, and while I will admit that in spite of some of the terrible set pieces, poor editing choices and corny dialogue, it still moves us through the zombie movie passably well…that is until the most nonsensical attempt at being subversive ending tries to swerve us, but just ends up looking terribly stupid.
The ensemble cast may have some semi-familiar faces from films like I Spit on Your Grave and shows like The Vampire Diaries, but in all seriousness they only had to look good in their swimsuits and make-out with one another, because this script really did them no favours at all.
The Demented was essentially a bulletproof premise. It wasn't rocket science, you just have to follow the basic zombie movie tropes and take the narrative from point A to Point B, but this movie is so scatterbrained that it lands somewhere off the map entirely.
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"COZ IT'S WHAT YOU ASKED FOR!", Lexi, Sean and I screamed in perfect sync. Looking down at my bass guitar, I let the notes wash over me. Raw, powerful music gave me more of a buzz than any illegal substances known to man. The strong, certin rhythms and melody overpowered almost all of my other feelings. Pure happiness and content was all I felt.
I glanced around at my bandmates for a moment and I knew they were giving it their all. Lexi was bent over yelling into her mic with incredible energy. Her guitar was hanging loosely from her small frame. Her black locks hid her face from view but I could almost see the smirk on her face. To my left, Sean had a look of pure concentration on his face as he rocked his solo. His fingers flew over the guitar strings at dizzying speeds. The sound was so complex and intricately woven that it sounded more like two guitars than one. Behind me I could hear Matt beating his drums insanely like his life depended on it. I screamed into the mic as the song reached its climax. I'd never felt so alive.
I smiled when I looked up at the crowd. They were totally into it and yelling, thrashing around wildly. Their screams echoed off the walls of the dark and shadowy hall. I'd never seen people act so enthusiastic about our music before . As the music got louder and louder, so did the screaming fans. It felt strange to think that so many kids had showed up just to see us, but the usual stage fright that I felt had disappeared. I was zoned out, letting the song soak through me again. All I was aware of was the pounding of drums, passionate yells, heavy guitar and what I was playing. I knew Lexi, Sean and Matt felt the same. This was it, our state of bliss. This was all we ever wished for, and we were living the dream.
Gradually, Matt slowed down on the drums to a soft beat. Sean's guitar faded away and I played softly as Lexi sang the last line of the last song of our set."But I wish you all the best", She sang sweetly, brushing her bangs out of her eyes and beaming at the crowd. I stopped playing and gazed at the huge mass of screaming people in front of us. Lexi straightened up as the crowd burst into earsplitting screams. "Thank you! You've all been wonderful, good night!," She yelled into the mic and waved at the crowd, smiling and blowing kisses. I flashed a grin one final time as I headed towards the stage exit to a thunderous applause. Another night, another show over. But I was already looking forward to the next performance. This was my perfect life as I knew it.
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Welcome to Devil's Week 5 edition of the Colts. Today's game was ugly. I could actually label it with a few different adjectives but that would not be appropriate for some potential readers eyes. The Colts faced off with the only undefeated team left in the NFL this season, the Kansas City Chiefs (3-0). The best passing offense versus one of the stingiest defenses in the entire league. How would it play out?
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With all the uncertainty and injuries coming into this game, I really did not have high expectations for this game. The Colts were coming off a bad loss, and I knew they would be looking to make amends on defense. The Colts offense has rarely ever been shutdown, so I knew they would be okay. I thought the Colts would win this game, but I was expecting a different outcome than the one we got.
Colts grade for Week 5: B-
The offense never was in sync, due in large part to the constant push of the Kansas City defensive line. Tamba Hali made Ryan Diem look like a turnstyle. I got dizzy just watching. Lots of wierd throws from Manning and despite the ugly throws, a lot of potential passes that hit receivers in the hands. Some were truly uncatchable, but some could have been caught.
The defense looked average today. Yes, they kept the vaunted running game under 150 yards rushing, but the Colts always seemed to give up a big play after getting a good stop. The only super positive I can give about the defense was that they kept the Chiefs scoreless in the redzone.
Special teams was also average, as the return game was blah. To be fair, the kid had a week to get acquainted and the Chiefs ST's are some of the league's best...... I just didn't see any explosiveness like we saw with Devin Moore. Keep an eye on this, as this may be a problem down the road.
***Game MVP***
Kansas City defense. You guys played fantastic today against arguably the best QB in football. It helps of course that you have a defensive coordinator who to this day is the only guy I've ever seen hand Manning a defense that he struggles against. 4 of Manning's worst games as a pro come against a Crennel led defense. Add in the constant pressure, the Colts were never in a position to really put this game away. Had your offense produced on a few of their drives, you would have won this game. Consolation prizes don't mean much, but if I could afford it, I'd buy all of you a beer.
- Bad coaching calls - For the second game against the AFC West, we have a head coach make a bunch of bone headed decisions. First, you start off with a failed on-side kick. I'll give you a pass on that, but it was still a foolish move. Secondly, you drive the length of the field on your first drive and get stalled inside the 15 yard line. You kick the FG here. Instead, you go for it and give the Colts the ball. Ultimately, I think this decision hurt the Chiefs at the end of the game. If you had kicked that FG, the game play calling alters the rest of the way. Bad decision making by the coach on a few key plays ultimately killed this offense. Just my opinion, but with the way your defense is playing, you take the points against the Colts every time.
Beating a dead horse - You can read my previous week's posts on the Colts game to see it, but the officiating is in dire need of some improvement. In this game, I can count 3 particular plays that were either bad calls or no calls. In the 3rd quarter, you had a pass interference call go against KC where a.) the ball was not catchable and b.) the defender did not interfere with him. If anything, it's a 5 yard penalty, not a pass interference call. There was a no-call on the Bowe dropped TD pass. In the replays you can clearly see him shove Powers off coverage which allows Bowe to even make an attempt on catching this ball. That should have been offensive pass int. There was also a horse collar tackle on Dallas Clark by the Chiefs that went uncalled on a late 4th quarter drive. All I ask for is a consistent officiating. I know they will miss one occasionally, but these were painfully obvious calls in which two of them took place near officials.
- Dropped Passes - Many of you have repeatedly took potshots at Pierre Garcon about his dropping passes. Guess what folks? He's not the only one. I've mentioned this in several of my posts recently, both in my articles and other fanposts. The Colts lead the league in dropped passes, and Garcon hasn't contributed to that in 3 weeks. In fact, Garcon had only 2 passes thrown his way that were missed that could have been caught. On one, he ran the wrong route (Wayne also did this in the game) and on another he made a valiant effort on a bad throw by Manning. To be perfectly honest, I think it's high time people took a step back and started throwing some heated remarks at Wayne and Clark and Addai for their drops. The Colts had 12 dropped passes as of the 1st quarter when Addai dropped the easy catch.
- The Colts Offensive line - Please guys, some consistency would be nice. You look great on one play, and get blown out badly a few plays in a row. The only positive I can give you guys today was the fact the running game looked decent. Yes, there were some questionable play calling, but the running backs had plenty of room to run on a number of plays. Let's continue to improve this, because the play action passing looked great today despite the stellar play of the Chiefs defense. It's the single part of our offense that has not been being respected.
- Mike Hart - What a performance by you. You were considered to most likely not even play, and you come in for relief on Joseph Addai and just ground out some very impressive runs. While you didn't have a whole lot of time to make things happen, you were still running over guys. That TD run is definitely highlight reel material. 11 rushes for 50 yards and a TD. I'll take that effort every week. In fact, if not for the kneel downs by Manning, the Colts would have had 100 yards rushing for the day. As it is, the RBs accounted for 144 yards of offense (rushing/receiving).
***BONUS*** - Gary Brackett, I loved watching you get emotional on the field today. I hate losing. I hate watching you guys play like crap. It was very refreshing to see a Colts player get physically pissed off on the field and I need to see more of that. I need to see that frustration and that brutal effort to maul someone on the defensive side of the ball. Yes, the defense got better as the game went, but early on, I know I wasn't the only one ready to start throwing things.
I saw Blair White playing special teams today, even making a tackle or two. WTF is he doing playing special teams!?!?!?? As banged up as we've been on WR's, that is a moronic decision by the organization. I could understand this if Gonzo was healthy and was ready to play, but I doubt we will even see much of Gonzo for a few more weeks if at all. Look, there are plenty of roster "fillers" that can play ST's. I just cannot help but question the decision to play your #4 WR on ST's when you've signed a few additional players in the last few days with lots of ST's experience.
Glad to see the Colts re-sign Tyjuan Hagler. The guy has always played very well for the Colts, and it's nice to see that he was re-signed.
Aaron Francisco was the game's starting safety in place of injured Melvin Bullitt. This was not a surprise. While I think King would be a better overall athlete, Francisco has the experience and the longest playing time with the Colts. He knows the scheme, he knows the team, and while he is not a huge playmaker, he's reliable. He played very well today in run support. He's not the greatest player, but in a pinch, I'd rather he took the start. As the season progresses, I would be surprised that he continues to be the starter. Expect the Colts to force feed some reps to King in practice and over the bye week.
Adam Vinatieri - to steal a line from Randy Moss, straight cash homey... Despite not having the leg you once did, you have repeatedly bailed the Colts out with timely FG's.... here's to hoping we can get this train rolling once more.
Kelvin Hayden - Get your running shoes, because if I was your coach you'd spend the entire week running laps at practice. That boneheaded penalty was atrocious. Get your head out of your ass and play the game like we know you can.
After I posted this, I started reading a few other fanshots and got a bit annoyed by some of the remarks I was reading. The Colts schedule this year to start the year has been against teams that are at least in recent history, heavily run based offenses. The fact that the Colts have struggled a bit is a no brainer. However, a few things that are overlooked here are that all of the teams we have faced are all around .500 or better. We have not been playing the Rams, the Lions, the Buccaneers type schedules that it seems we usually get in the early part of the year. Add in to that all 5 of the teams we have faced know us quite well, it's remarkable that we are 3-2. We should be 4-1, but that's a lot of woulda, coulda, shoulda.
The Colts schedule changes to teams who will struggle facing our offense after our bye week, and we could easily go on a tear down the stretch. Remember, whether we finish as a 1st seed or a 6th seed, we are in the playoffs.
I especially want to thank all the Chiefs fans who have come over and offered some very nice heated and informative posts here at Stampede Blue. Joel, your group is very cool and your team is still the team to watch out for in the AFC West. Hopefully, we'll see you guys again come playoff time.
***The 3 times the Chiefs have started out 3-0 or better, they have lost to the Colts during the course of the year, be it regular season or playoffs. (1996, 2004, and 2010). ***
Please be sure to read my Colts 2010 - 1st Quarter Fanshot and my thoughts on the 18 game season. As always, thanks for any and all comments, as they are appreciated.


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"I was very excited, and the fan base throughout the state - throughout the nation - was excited and thrilled to death to have Kliff Kingsbury back at Texas Tech," said Texas Tech University Chancellor Kent Hance.
Chancellor Hance has known Kingsbury since he was born. His Uncle worked for Hance as chief of staff in the state senate back in the 1970s.
"I like to have a coach that's not looking around and not looking to move somewhere else. This is where he wants to be and he is so thrilled to be back at Texas Tech and I think the fans are excited to have him back," said Hance. "He's a competitor at everything he does. He gets up early, he works hard, he takes care of details. No matter what profession he was going into, you knew as a high school kid that this kid was going to be successful. Out of 480 in his graduating class he was number 4."
Hance said that when the opening came up on Saturday, Athletic Director Kirby Hocutt began the search immediately, flying to interview potential candidates on Tuesday. When he came back he had identified Kingsbury as the man he wanted and gave his recommendation to Texas Tech's Interim President Dr. Lawrence Schovanec. Once it received Schovanec's approval, he gave the recommendation to Chancellor Hance who presented it to the Board of Regents.
"We flew to Austin and Kliff drove over to Austin from College Station. We visited with him and had a great visit and my mind was made up before I got there because I knew what the team could be like and we offered him the job. And he said yes as fast you can possibly say yes," said Hance.
Texas Tech University Regent and close friend of Kingsbury John Steinmetz was one of the most vocal supporters of Kliff when the coaching search began.
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He and Kingsbury had a conversation during the coaching search which Steinmetz wouldn't disclose to us, but he did say, "I've known Kliff for a long time and he hasn't wanted many things like he wanted this job."
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|Story title
|2012-02-10 02:54:02
|A Most Exquisite Corpse
|I liked this story, though the part where the dad is telling about how he was molesting his daughter and she goes for it made me wince; its just too cliché and unrealistic. But then, this is fantasy, right, so you dont lose any points. I did like the scenes of the dead girl getting fucked, especially the dad fucking his dead daughter. I dont know why, Im just fucked up. Ha.
|2012-02-10 02:55:22
|A Most Exquisite Corpse
|Wow the software cant handle proper punctuation. :P


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Update: David Song of Southern California Edison said that power was restored at 4:48 a.m. Thursday morning.
Original: A power outage has left 594 Arcadia customers in the dark Wednesday.
Southern California Edison spokesperson Lois Pitter Bruce said a damaged underground cable caused the outage, which was reported at 6:10 p.m.
It is unclear when power will be restored.
"Crews are working as quickly and safely as possible," Bruce said.
The outage boundaries are as follows: St. Joseph's to the north, Huntington Drive to the south, San Miguel to the west and First Avenue to the east.
*Never, ever touch a downed power line.
Check Patch later for updates.


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Rams Lose Wide Receiver Coach.
Rams Receiver coach went to the Volunteers to be an assistant coach. I have no idea who his replacement will be, but I think this is a perfect opportunity to bring Isaac Bruce back to St. Louis. We may not have an experienced WR on the roster, but having Bruce as their coach could be just as good.