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Defense Even More Important With New Bat Standards
Aaron Fitt
January 31, 2011
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Digging Into College Defensive Stats
Watch a Little League practice anywhere in America. How does practice begin?
Anyone who's ever played a day of baseball knows the answer, of course: with warm-ups. Maybe there will be a little stretching (maybe not), but there will definitely be throwing. Kids will line up and play catch with a partner. Coaches will pay little attention to this part of practice—nobody needs supervision for something as basic as playing catch—and players will goof around. Balls will sail over gloves and rattle against chain-link fences. Soon, practice will start for real.
For the most part, the routine doesn't vary much through high school and college, except errant throws become less frequent, and maybe a greater emphasis is placed on stretching. But from the time players are young, they are conditioned to not take warm-ups particularly seriously.
Creighton coach Ed Servais wants to shatter that mindset as soon as new players show up on campus.
"I hate that word—warm-up," Servais says. "I hate that word. That sounds to me like there's nothing structured about it, nothing organized about it. Gosh, do we really want our throwing program to be associated with that, when making plays is all about throwing and catching? Our practice starts with our stretching. The throwing part is a major part of our practice. Some coaches think that's part of the warm-up process, and I would disagree with that."
So after Creighton players loosen up with a supervised stretching regimen, they start Servais' 10-minute throwing program. They spend the first minute and a half five yards away from each other, down on both knees. After another 90 seconds, they back up to 10 yards and throw from one knee. Then they back up another five yards, stand with knees flexed, turn and throw while making sure their front side is closed to the throwing target.
Every 90 seconds, they back up five more yards, and with each progression they use their lower halves more.
"We end up emphasizing how important your lower half is in throwing—you don't want to do anything with dead feet in the throwing process," Servais says. "During that time, we're not going to drop the ball. The ball's not going to touch the ground. That's another of the pressure components we add. The kids really have a hard time with it the first couple days, but once they get comfortable with it, it's neat to see the progress they make."
It's so simple—just throwing and catching. But the emphasis the Bluejays place on that very fundamental component of the game goes a long way to explain why they are consistently one of the elite defensive teams in college baseball. In fact, in the seven years Servais has been the head coach at Creighton, his teams have committed just 370 errors—fewest in the nation. The next-closest team has made 408 errors in that span. Last year, the Bluejays tied Texas for the national lead in fielding percentage (.980)—the second straight year they led the nation, and the fourth straight year they ranked in the top 10.
The explanation for Creighton's defensive proficiency runs deeper than that, of course. Creighton—like another private school with modest baseball resources, Duke—believes it can exploit a sort of market inefficiency by committing fully to playing rock-solid defense. Those programs have shaped their very identities around being more fundamentally sound than their opponents. They excel at minimizing mistakes and forcing opponents to try to beat them, rather than beating themselves.
Heading into 2011, this philosophy looks wiser than ever. Everyone knows pitching and defense is important—it might be the most recited baseball cliché in the mammoth book of baseball clichés. But there is a strong sense from coaches across college baseball that an even greater premium will be placed upon defense starting this spring, as new bat standards take effect.
The new BBCOR-certified bats play more like wood. Coaches overwhelmingly reported a dramatic decrease in offense with the new bats during fall ball. The days of sitting back and waiting for a game-changing three-run home run are over. "It does seem like runs are at a premium," South Carolina coach Ray Tanner says. "If the bats play like a lot of us anticipate, it's going to be more low scoring. Defense is always important, but it may go to another level."
Teams that fail to execute routine plays, and give their opponents extra outs with which to manufacture offense, will suffer.
"I know a lot of coaches are concerned about the lack of run production that may occur, but I think it will still be a great game," Servais says. "I think people will learn to appreciate the beauty of defense and the double plays. There's going to be a major emphasis on that and a major emphasis on pitchers throwing it over the plate. The walk now and the hit-by-pitch will be even more important because everybody will be looking for runners any way they can. I'm excited about it—it's always been a passion of mine to teach the defensive side. I think the whole nation's going to be interested in defense."
Defense Can Be Taught
So how is it that certain programs so consistently excel at teaching defense? For that matter, how does one evaluate what makes a good defense? It's about
more than just error prevention
, though that's a good place to start. But coaches have countless different perspectives on what is important when it comes to defense.
What follows is a rundown of some key philosophical tenets, points of contention and secrets of the trade from some of college baseball's foremost defensive minds.
1. Don't be a hero.
Blame "SportsCenter" or "Baseball Tonight" if you want. Or just blame the awesome power of human ambition. Every shortstop wants to make the Jeter Play from deep in the hole. Every center fielder wants to be Torii Hunter, laying out for a sinking liner in the gap to take away an extra-base hit. Every right fielder thinks he's Vladimir Guerrero, capable of launching a perfect strike from the warning track straight to the catcher's mitt to hose a runner by six steps.
"I read an article about Raul Mondesi winning the Gold Glove one time with a ton of assists, but he overthrew the cutoff man a ton of other times and ended up costing his team runs more often," Duke coach Sean McNally says. "Our menu for outfielders is simple: We just ask them to hit the cutoff man. We never prioritize throwing guys out or throwing straight to the plate. If you've got a guy who can throw somebody out, how often does that come into play? Over the course of 56 games, you win more if you hit the cutoff man. I want guys that can run; that's our No. 1 priority. Being able to cover ground, take good routes—speed is critical, for me."
Steady Eddie fielding the ball on a hop and hitting the cutoff man won't make the highlight shows. But he'll win college baseball games.
In fact, Tanner will tell you that kind of play wins championships. That's just what his Gamecocks did in 2010 with a defense that ranked 13th nationally in fielding percentage (.975) and first in defensive efficiency (.726, tied with Texas). That's nothing new for the Gamecocks, who are one of the steadiest defensive units in the country every year. But they don't try to be spectacular.
"My outfielders get a little upset with me, especially when they've got good throwing arms—we try to keep the double play in order," Tanner says. "You throw the ball to second, you don't get carried away with trying to get the lead runners, you prevent the five-run inning, try to keep it a two-run inning.
"I sort of teach what I call a conservative defense. I tell our players, we are unlike football and basketball. When you're on defense in football, if you want to blitz, you can send everybody. In basketball you can press the length of the court, force the action. In baseball on defense, you have to accept as it comes, you can't try to do too much; you have to make the plays that are presented to you.
"That's what I mean about playing conservatively—not trying so hard to make the great play. If you make a great stop in the hole, and you rush the throw, the guy's on second. Maybe you just don't throw it. If a runner's on first base, and our shortstop moves to his right, my teaching style is do not think it's a double-play ball. Get the force at second, and if he can turn it, he will. Don't try to make it quicker by making a great, acrobatic play. Just make plays."
That conservative mindset is very common around programs that tend to post the best fielding percentages. Part of it comes from an acknowledgement that amateur baseball players are just that—amateurs, who should not be expected to defend at the level of big leaguers. The average major league team fielded at a .983 clip last year—higher than the national leader in college baseball. The best big league teams fielded at .988, and the worst at .979.
"If a college team is fielding .975 they're good; if a big league team is fielding .975, they're the worst team in the history of baseball," UC Irvine coach Mike Gillespie says.
Obviously, then, college players should not try to mimic everything big leaguers can do in the field.
"We've had a particular problem on the feed of the double play—we have a couple freshmen that want to do this backhand power flip to the shortstop," Gillespie says. "It's sort of a big league deal that certain major leaguers do, but it's an advanced skill, and I don't like it. It's gotten to the point I've had to say, 'No, you are not allowed to do that, it's going to end up in left field.' Well they're not on board with that. So I have to convince them somehow that what we believe about this deal is better than what they wanted to do. There are certain things that there is no debate about, I'm inalterable. If I'm wrong about it, well, that's just what I'm committed to."
Gillespie's bedrock principles of defense center around throwing mechanics.
"I'm a huge believer in getting your arm up to throw," says Gillespie, who coached a national champion at Southern California in 1998. "When guys drop their arm to throw, they're just Cadillac-ing it, they're being a cool breeze. Or they're having a lack of confidence. I think guys need to get their arms up to throw—it gives them the best chance for backspin rotation and accuracy. And no lob throws. On pickoffs, on bunts that get picked up, lob throws are the best way to get the ball thrown into the bullpen."
And Gillespie insists that infielders move their feet to throw; third basemen are taught to get their feet under them and develop a rhythm, rather than just catching the ball and firing immediately to second base on a force play.
But moving their feet too much is not good, either. Years ago, Gillespie adopted a favorite credo of late Cal Poly Pomona coaching legend John Scolinos: right, left, pick-it-up, right, left, throw.
"I think at all levels, most guys take four steps to throw because they have the time to do it," Gillespie says. "I think it's wrong for that to be the habit. You're not going to throw out (Shane) Victorino and (Jimmy) Rollins with four steps. Anybody that plays here or any place I've been, they'll say, 'Right, left, pick-it-up, right, left, throw.' They get sick of hearing that, but it is one of those things I really believe in."
Right, left, throw. Keep your arm up. Hit the cutoff man. You're not a big leaguer; you haven't earned the right to act like one.
"At the next level, you can see the Jeter plays, you can see the talented ones make really, really unique plays," Tanner says. "But where we are, you just try to make plays."
2. Be a hero.
But what if you're a college player with supreme talent who can make the really, really unique plays, but still be steady and fundamentally sound? What if you're Anthony Rendon?
There are countless stories about Rendon, a junior third baseman at Rice, making impossible bare-handed catch-and-throws in one motion to get outs, or diving to his right and throwing across the diamond from his knees to beat a fleet-footed runner. His defense, in fact, was a significant reason he won Baseball America's College Player of the Year award as a sophomore.
"His defense is what makes him what he is," one National League area scout said. "I'm a defense guy—I love defense. We know what the bat is. As an industry, we're always talking about a guy's bat. That's great, but if you can't play a position, you're not going to play in the big leagues. There's no such thing as a 22-year-old DH. Rendon can beat you even if his bat doesn't show up. And 70 percent of the time in the big leagues, their bat doesn't show up. But this guy is a future Gold Glove candidate—no question in my mind."
At Rice, Rendon is encouraged to unleash his dizzying defensive talents—not to be conservative. If he thinks he can make the dazzling play, he should try to do it, and if he makes an error, so be it. Of course, he made just five errors in 63 games last year.
Rendon is a special talent, clearly, but the Owls don't treat him any differently than the rest of their team. Rice coach Wayne Graham does not subscribe to the philosophy of "when in doubt, try to preserve the double play."
"I don't believe you can play that way at the college level," he says. "I think you have to try to make plays because it does a lot to the opposition and it keeps kids aggressive in their own minds. I don't think you can have them be conservative mentally, so we try to go for the great plays. With the bats the way they are now, some people would say, 'Don't go for the dive, try to preserve the double play,' but I anticipate us saying, 'Go for it.' That's the way I've coached for 40 years, and I don't think it'll change now. All in all, we'll err to the aggressive side. But we monitor it; there's a difference between aggression and recklessness."
Graham's philosophy is at the opposite end of the spectrum from that of Tanner, Servais, McNally and Gillespie. But the Owls ranked 25th in the nation in fielding percentage last year (.974), and fifth in defensive efficiency (.711).
Every coach must find a defensive philosophy that works for his own program.
3. Don't dawdle.
Maybe, as Gillespie contends, you won't throw out Victorino or Rollins from shortstop if you take four steps to throw. But how many guys can run like Victorino or Rollins?
It doesn't matter how many, according to McNally.
"We allow guys to be aggressive within our framework: attack the ball, train at a very fast tempo when we take our reps," he says. "We talk about Ichiro running down the line—if we practice at that speed, we'll never have to speed up when the game starts."
Creighton takes that uptempo mindset even further.
"We play what I call a fast break version of baseball," Servais says. "We try to get the ball into a pitcher's hands as quickly as possible and have him deliver it. We feel like if we play the pace I'd like to, the players will stay focused more. Most of our games are played in two hours, 15 minutes. I just know your ability to concentrate will be greater in a shorter time frame. Our practices are all geared toward two-and-a-half-hour practice times, because I hope we can play the game in two and a half hours, so they mirror each other."
Tanner said he picked up the same ideas about practice length from former North Carolina State basketball coach Jim Valvano, when Tanner coached the Wolfpack baseball team.
"When I was younger, I tried to see how much I could get done in a practice, but I'm not sure it was as effective as I wanted it to be," Tanner says. "I think I've learned to maybe condense my practices more than I did years ago. I try to get out to practice with a heightened awareness, so players are very attentive and with you. I always take batting practice, and any time batting practice is going on, there's a sense of urgency on defense. Guys play balls off the bat. Coaches hit fungoes all day long, and it's great practice, routine. But there's nothing like the real thing, nothing like balls coming off the bat. We put great emphasis, especially with the outfielders—that's where you learn to play outfield, learn to take angles, read balls off the bat."
4. If you can't teach it, don't preach it.
Servais believes it is important to simplify the game as much as possible. The more his players practice a select set of fundamental skills, the more proficient they will become at those skills. He draws a contrast between that approach and the more complicated West Coast style.
"We don't have eight different bunt defenses or five different pickoff plays to second base," Servais said.
Oregon's George Horton is the quintessential West Coast coach, a disciple of long-time Cerritos (Calif.) JC coach Wally Kincaid, whose ultra-detailed small ball style also influenced former Long Beach State coaches Dave Snow and Mike Weathers, current Cal State Fullerton coach Dave Serrano, and countless others.
Horton's Ducks do not have eight different bunt defenses. They have 12.
If a runner is at first base, the Ducks have five different bunt defenses. If there are runners at first and second, or just at second with no outs, they have six plays. And they have another designed to defend a safety squeeze with runners at first and third.
One of Oregon's bunt defenses—No. 6—is designed for a specific situation: the ninth inning, with the Ducks leading by two runs. They almost got to use it last year in a regional game against Connecticut. Almost.
The point is, Oregon prepares for every situation Horton can dream up.
"When we talk to our teams about the importance of bunt defense and bunt offense, it probably hits home a little more about the details and the concentration levels in practice," Horton says. "A lot of coaches tend not to run the first-and-third trick plays even though they've got them in their book, because they'll just let the guy swing away. Now with the new bats, you might see more coaches try those plays more, so a smart coach works more on the first-and-third defense. That's certainly the page we're on here, and we've always emphasized those little details up here."
But coaches must be careful not to outsmart themselves. Gillespie tells a story from his days as the head coach at JC of the Canyons (Calif.), when his team faced Los Angeles Harbor JC, coached by Jim O'Brien. O'Brien ran a bunt defense where the second baseman crashed toward the plate and the first baseman stayed on the bag.
"I put that in—I thought that was cool," Gillespie says. "The players like those things—it's like the pistol offense. So one time we put that play on, and our righthanded pitcher fielded the ball and turned and threw, and he hit the second baseman right in the ear. If it wasn't serious, it was hilarious. He was fine, but we quit running that play after that."
If you're going to run a complicated defensive scheme, make sure you invest enough practice time in teaching it properly.
"It isn't what the coach knows, it's what the guys out there with the gloves know," Horton says. "You can't expect players to execute with competence if you don't invest the time."
5. Catchers better catch.
Sure, every coach would love to have Ivan Rodriguez—a catcher with a rifle arm who can shut down opposing running games with his reputation alone. But at the college level, arm strength takes a backseat. Every coach we talked with just wants somebody who can receive and block, first and foremost. The rest is gravy.
"I think there's way too much emphasis on arm strength in a catcher," says Servais, whose nephew Scott, now the Rangers' farm director, played 11 seasons as a catcher in the big leagues. "Let's assume in a normal nine-inning game there will be 140 pitches thrown, and he'll have to throw out two or three runners. So he first has to catch a ball and receive it firmly, maybe get a pitch or two called strikes. He's got to have good feet, got to have the ability to block pitches, so pitchers have confidence to throw some pitches in the dirt. He's got to have leadership ability. The TCU guy last year (Bryan Holaday) was a great example of that—there wasn't anybody better. They all pointed toward the catcher being key to that team."
"I think the most important thing for a catcher is that the pitcher's comfortable," adds Tanner. "Pitchers can throw a ball in the dirt when they want to waste a pitch ahead in the count, and the catcher's going to keep it in front of him. Give me a guy with an accurate arm—2.0(-second pop time) is fine with me—and can handle pitchers."
6. Think outside the profile.
Gillespie will tell you that having a good defensive shortstop is "very, very important." Coaches talk all the time about being strong up the middle, and there's no question that is crucial. But some coaches try to maximize their offensive potential by putting shakier defenders at the corners.
"As coaches, the first thing you always want to know is who's going to pitch against you," Gillespie says. "Well, if pitching's that important—and it is—then we're nuts if we don't emphasize defense, because we can really screw up our pitching if we don't have good defense. Yet we can all emphasize offense too much and screw up our defense, hope they don't hit it to him. Well, they are going to hit it to him—you can't hide anybody. So when we are rational, we try to emphasize defense at every spot."
So often, a team's worst defender gets stuck at first base. Servais thinks that's a mistake.
From 2006-09, the Bluejays were fortunate to have a rock-solid first baseman in Darin Ruf, who made just four errors in four seasons. Servais came to really value that stability.
"It's a security blanket for your infielders," he says. "If they make a throw to first and it's anywhere close to where it needs to be, the runner is out. As much as you preach proper footwork with infielders and being accurate with their throws, they're going to miss plays. The days of putting an unathletic guy at first because he's got a great bat, and trying to hide him out there, those days are long gone. I think you're starting to see that trend now—look at Dustin Ackley at North Carolina, he was an athletic guy playing first base."
McNally says he looks for a first baseman with range, and he's not afraid to put a middle infielder at first to improve his defense.
"If defense is going to be our thing, in every different way, the way we teach it and measure it, we've got to be creative," he said. "I've had a 6-foot-8 catcher and a 5-foot-8 first baseman at different times. I think ideally you'd have a 6-8 guy with range at first, and a more standard-sized guy at catcher. The tools we emphasize at different spots might be a little different than how people might generally look at it."
For instance, McNally emphasizes arm strength at second base, which is one reason he likes playing two-way standout Marcus Stroman at second, rather than short.
"A lot of times you'll see the guy with the arm at short, the guy with the better hands at second; I'm comfortable flip-flopping that," he says. "I like to have arm strength at second. If there's a bang-bang double play, a guy like Stroman can get you by a half step, or he can make the play up the middle. At short, I'd love to have a guy with both, but if I had to pick one, I want the hands. At third base, you have to make the play on a slow roller and make the throw from a lot of different angles. That's better for us than maybe having a big 6-3 guy with a big arm."
7. Instill a commitment to team defense—no matter what.
Most important of all is getting players to take pride in their defense and be accountable. During a clinic at January's American Baseball Coaches Association convention, Clemson coach Jack Leggett said every play in practice is charted, and players are given plusses or minuses that are tallied at the end of each practice. During practices at Mississippi, the player who made the best defensive play the day before wears a yellow t-shirt—an idea Horton said he might borrow.
At Duke, the coaches track ground balls in practice the same way they might track batting average. "If you take 100 ground balls in practice, we're going to track them—you were 99 for 100 today, or you were 83 for 100," McNally says. "Doing that makes players realize every rep matters."
When coaches place that much value on practicing defense, players begin to appreciate how much it matters.
"The thing I'm impressed most with our players is their ability to buy into it, because it's not what we've been taught a lot growing up," Servais says. "It's offense, offense, offense."
When players arrive at college campuses, it needs to be defense, defense, defense. Then offense.
"We explain to the guys, 'You play defense 120 pitches per game, and you hit four or five times,'" Horton says. "You get your name in Baseball America or the newspaper more often because of what you do on offense, not defense, so that's unfortunate. The very first discussions we have are defense, and we make it a zero-tolerance issue—they're not allowed to take their offense to defense. You see an outfielder or a shortstop who just left the bases loaded, he's got his head down—he's not committed to defense. Well, I would take him out of the game immediately. We have zero tolerance for guys that aren't willing to play team defense."
Coaches set the tone for their programs. If they make it clear they're serious about defense, players will be serious about defense.
Then it's just a matter of playing catch.


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Sony Entertainement Television popular reality-based crime show 'Crime Patrol' will narrate a special Godmen' case in Pune. In the wake of so called Godmen being exposed by the media, Crime Patrol is all set to bring you the story of another quack that not only duped innocent people but also committed crime as heinous as murder.
The protagonist in this story Baba Rajasagi (who used innumerable aliases) tells innocent people that he has seen a dream of god telling him to build a temple in the village. The innocent people dole out money as donation for the purpose and then the baba vanishes.
Devotees believe he is praying in isolation and would turn up one day to keep his word. Unknown to them, the baba is being searched for the Pune Police, who also have to no clue to who the baba is except six phone numbers that the baba was using.
As a matter of fact the police were searching the baba for a double murder, that of a woman Rohini and her 5 year old daughter Chanda. The house where the bodies are found in a chawl, belongs to Gokul Daware who had given it on rent to Baba Rajasagi.
And now Baba Rajasagi is absconding. No one in the chawl has his photograph. What were Rohini and Chanda doing in Baba's house? Rohini's father, Amardev a construction laborer reveals his family is devoted to Baba and Rohini was taking care of Baba in the house.
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The bolt securing the transverse suspension link my not have been tightened correctly during vehicle assembly. A rattle or vibration may be noted if the bolt were to loosen. If it were to come out completely, the driver may experience difficulty controlling the direction of the vehicle, which could result in a crash. Dealers will replace the transverse link bolts and nuts and tighten them to the proper torque specification. This recall is expected to begin on August 1, 2011.
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In areas where winter road salt is used, a mixture of snow/water and salt may enter an assembly location hole in the upper strut housing. This corrosive mixture can collect on the mating surface of the strut housing panel and the inner hood ledge assembly; over time, this can cause rusting of the strut tower housing. The rust can weaken the housing, causing it to crack and pull away from the inner hood ledge assembly. This can lead to grinding noises and increased steering effort, which, if severe enough, can cause the steering column to break. This would result in a loss of steering control, increasing the risk of a crash. Dealers will inspect the strut housing and repair the vehicles as necessary. An interim notification letter should be mailed to owners prior to May 16, 2011.
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Nissan is recalling 2008–2010 models equipped with Garmin Nuvi 750 navigation systems because the battery may overheat, which could lead to a fire. Nissan will notify owners and Garmin technicians will replace the unit's battery and insert a spacer to prevent the problem from reoccurring. This will be performed free of charge.
Nissan is recalling 2009–2010 Cube models for failing to meet federal safety requirements on fuel system integrity. When the vehicle was rotated following a rear-moving barrier crash test (a test required by the government), the amount of fuel leakage exceeded the allowable limits. Fuel leakage could result in a fire. Dealers will install a special protector and attach it to the gasoline recirculation tube, free of charge.
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When I try to install 225f path, I get fatal error - something like this: "There is unexpected version of Unreall.u file in the CD-ROM". ???
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I installed that patch this weekend and it worked just fine for me, are you running Unreal from a copied CD maby? Try to download the file again =(
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- Counting one table of records for matching records of another table
- MySQL Count matching records from multiple tables
- Count records from two tables grouped by one field
Table(s) Schema
Table entries
having data from 2005-01-25
CREATE TABLE `entries` (
`id` INT(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`ctg` VARCHAR(15) NOT NULL,
`msg` VARCHAR(200) NOT NULL,
`nick` VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL,
`date` DATETIME NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
INDEX `msg` (`msg`),
INDEX `date` (`date`)
Child table magnets
with regular data from 2011-11-08
(There might be a few entries from before that)
CREATE TABLE `magnets` (
`id` INT(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`eid` INT(10) UNSIGNED NOT NULL,
`tth` CHAR(39) NOT NULL,
`size` BIGINT(20) UNSIGNED NOT NULL DEFAULT '0',
`nick` VARCHAR(30) NOT NULL DEFAULT 'hjpotter92',
`date` DATETIME NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
UNIQUE INDEX `eid_tth` (`eid`, `tth`),
INDEX `entriedID` (`eid`),
INDEX `tth_size` (`tth`, `size`)
I want to get the count of total number of entries by any particular nick
(or user) entered in either of the table.
One of the entry in entries
is populated at the same time as magnets
and the subsequent entries of magnets
can be from the same nick
or different.
My Code
Try 1
SELECT `e`.id, COUNT(1), `e`.nick, `m`.nick FROM `entries` `e` INNER JOIN `magnets` `m` ON `m`.`eid` = `e`.id GROUP BY `e`.nick
Try 2
SELECT `e`.id, COUNT(1), `e`.nick FROM `entries` `e` GROUP BY `e`.nick UNION ALL SELECT `m`.eid, COUNT(1), `m`.nick FROM `magnets` `m` GROUP BY `m`.nick
The second try is generating some relevant outputs, but it contains double entries for all the nick
which appear in both tables.
Also, I don't want to count twice, those entries/magnets which were inserted in the first query. Which is what the second UNION
statement is doing. It takes in all the values from both tables.
SQL Fiddle link
Here is the link to a SQL Fiddle along with randomly populated entries.
I really hope someone can guide me through this. If it's any help, I will be using PHP for final display of data. So, my last resort would be to nest loops in PHP for the counting(which I am currently doing).
Desired output
The output that should be generated on the fiddle should be:
** Nick ||| Count **
** Nick1 ||| 10 **
** Nick2 ||| 9 **
** Nick3 ||| 6 **
** Nick4 ||| 10 **


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The way Ted Alexander says it, professional is a nice word. If you are a piano player, it means this: You sight-read like a dream, know your music theory inside and out, have not just been "taught," but "trained" by a handful of even-more-professionals, and when you are at a gig, even if it's a society evening full of women who smoke cigars, chatter through your solos and rest their drinks on the piano case, you stay serious and thoughtful about the music.
But there are strata even higher than professional. If you practice hard and listen harder, maybe you'll grow into someone like Bill Evans, Alexander's longtime friend and hero. "He was a flat genius," Alexander recalls. "There was no one who played like him." Occasionally, however, another flat genius comes along, so Alexander stays alert.
Kay Ambrose, who teaches piano to kids, is sitting in the studio now, playing Alexander's bright-toned, upright piano. "She is going to be one of the best," Alexander says, after she leaves. A flat genius? Only the next four years will tell.
The student who constitutes the opposite of flat genius--"I think he cares more about football than music," Alexander will say of such a person, or "maybe he just wants to go with his girlfriend or something"--is someone Alexander strenuously avoids. Nor does he have patience for the lackadaisical kids who can't find time to practice, or those who simply lack the propensity. Or perhaps--and in this case there are no hard feelings--their musical interest lies in a genre other than the one Alexander evoked when he wrote his 1950s textbook and called it The Ted Alexander Method of Advanced Perfection in Ultra Modern Piano Playing.
Here's what Bill Evans said about the book, in a scrawled note on its cover: "Ted--you've got the basic vocabulary organized and presented very well here--which is all you can give except for inspiration--perhaps." When Evans wrote this, he was sitting in an after-hours pancake house with Alexander, who had come to see him play at the Senate Lounge on East Colfax Avenue. A few years later, Evans inscribed an eight-by-ten glossy for Alexander: "Ted, you're a genuine artiste!"
Which is exactly according to the plan set in motion by Alexander's mother on the day he was born. Pregnant with Ted in 1918, she saw a vision--"a real vision, not a dream"--of hands playing and heard tantalizing music. When Ted turned five, he began classical piano lessons, which he continued for a decade, until..."I had a job as a busboy," he remembers, "and I went by a nightclub in Boise, and this marvelous piano playing was coming out of it. I went in and saw a black man with a big cigar--he was the one playing--and he said, 'Come on in, boy.' I played him some Chopin, and he taught me some stride piano like Fats Waller played."
More than fifty years later, Alexander continues to practice Chopin every day. "But what I teach," he says, "is improvisation, and that encompasses a lot of things."
Alexander learned this in Hollywood in the 1940s, when he studied arranging and harmony with Spuds Murphy and played with big bands that occasionally made it into the movies. Traveling the country in a tour bus, not sleeping in a bed for nine days at a time, "and getting something like French fries to eat for breakfast, which ruined my health," he played the hot venues in every major town across the country. But his wife, a fellow Greek Orthodox whom he'd met in Denver, was ultimately unimpressed.
"She thought California had too many crazies," Alexander explains. "She didn't want to raise children there. She didn't like the life of a musician--drinking, running around with women, being into dope, which they were, even back then. And I kind of agreed with her, if you want to know the truth. She said, 'You are either going to be a gypsy or a scholar,' and since my forte was teaching, I thought I'd start up a studio back in Denver."
A few months later he was sharing teaching space in the old Tabor theater downtown with "a guy who had everything sewed up as far as society piano playing--though to tell the truth, he was a Liberace.
"I didn't know he was an alcoholic," Alexander says, "but when he didn't show up for lessons, I ended up getting most of his students."


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Although the details aren't clear, the bottom line is that longtime Bashkortostan President Murtaza Rakhimov – he has headed the republic since 1993 – will not seek another term.
Some media are reporting that he will step down immediately and that the legislature of the oil-rich republic is being hastily convened tomorrow to hear his resignation speech and/or to pass a package of immunity guarantees and retirement benefits that are reportedly part of the deal to push the dinosaur aside. Other media say Rakhimov will serve out his current term, which ends in October 2011, while still others say his departure will come before then, but in a seemly fashion that could take weeks or months.
But, as I said, the bottom line is that Rakhimov will be gone, like other Yeltsin-era governors before him, including Oryol Oblast's Yegor Stroyev, Murmansk's Yury Yevdokimov, Volgograd Oblast's Nikolai Maksyuta, Sverdlovsk Oblast's Eduard Rossel, Khanty-Mansiisk's Aleksandr Filipenko, Tatarstan's Mintimer Shaimiyev, and Karelia's Sergei Katanandov. The general take on the replacements has been that the Kremlin is strengthening its control over the regions (via the ruling United Russia party) by eliminating regional leaders with their own local bases of support.
Some analysts also note that Vladimir Putin came to power in 2000 only after some fairly fierce competition from the Fatherland-All Russia bloc that was built around some of the country's most powerful regional leaders – Shaimiyev, Moscow Mayor Yury Luzhkov, and then St. Petersburg Governor Vladimir Yakovlev (haven't heard that name lately…. He seems to have disappeared). Putin is known to take his politics personally.
Of course, with Rakhimov's ouster, Moscow's Luzhkov looks even more lonesome and vulnerable.
Although replacing regional leaders who have their own local bases of support (and we are talking about nepotism, cronyism, and corruption-based relationships within the local elites, not popular support) clearly strengthens the power vertical (and further erodes the federation's sham federalism), the process shows some of the overall system's weaknesses.
For instance, although it technically would have been possible to simply remove Rakhimov or Putin might not have reappointed him in 2006, in the real world doing so precipitously would have set off a good old-fashioned redistribution of property in the republic. The rule of law in Russia is so weak that such transitions have to be very carefully managed.
Also, analysts usually note that it is not possible to remove a major governor too soon before a national election cycle begins (Duma elections will be held in December 2011, and the next presidential election will come in March 2012). The Kremlin, after all, relies on regional administrations to manufacture the election results it seeks (and the illusion of consent).
Likewise, it would be unseemly to remove a governor too soon after an election cycle if he did, indeed, cough up the results Moscow ordered.
What does this mean for Luzhkov? His current term expires in July 2011, but that is too close to the elections for the Kremlin to make its move. But, despite the constant rumors that Luzkov is on the cutting board, there don't seem to have been any real moves against him yet. Replacing him while also preventing a clan-scramble meltdown in the capital is a tricky task, maybe one that is too risky to attempt even at this nadir between election cycles. If he can hold on for the next couple of months, he'll almost certainly get reconfirmed next July and will likely serve until after the next presidential inauguration in May 2012.
The story of Rakhimov's removal also reveals another aspect of the Russian diarchic system. Technically speaking, it is the president and the presidential envoys to the regions who should be handling such questions. But Rakhimov cut his deal on Monday in a three-hour meeting with Putin's Medvedev's chief of staff, Sergei Naryshkin. But according to some reports, Rakhimov wanted to talk to Putin directly, but the prime minister refused to see him. We can see where the buck stops.-- Robert CoalsonNOTE: This post originally stated erroneously that Sergei Naryshkin is Vladimir Putin's chief of staff. It has been corrected to reflect that he is President Dmitry Medvedev's chief of staff.
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Here's a summary of Putin's q and a:
-- Putin said the Central Bank is taking "adequate" steps to deflect the oncoming recession and ruble crisis. He estimated it would take no more than two years for the economy to recover.
-- Putin had strong words for the West, accusing it of building a "virtual" Berlin Wall by expanding NATO close to Russia's borders.
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No more reeinlistments for E4 & below 91b10
I herd friday if you are an E4 or lower you will not be able to reeinlist unless you make E5 before your ETS date for 91b10. There are more MOS that this covers but Im a 91b anybody else herd this. You can change your MOS but make sure you have enough time left to go back to school to get new MOS. [thumbd]
holy shit..what the hell is goin on with our government?
The Army is over strength so I don't think they really care. There's enough lower enlisted soldiers.
I'm a 31B and have heard nothing about this. Although I don't care. I'm not re-enlisting anyway. |
i know the AF is just kicking any one they want out but we can still reenlist. (E-2)
I'm an 88m and we are going through the same thing as the 91b's. I don't know what I am going to do come ETS time if I want to reenlist because I might not be able to get my mos back.
glad i re-enlisted when i did....oorah! [boxface]
Have not heard this Norm, I heard 92Y is that way, but had not heard about 91B....just make E5 and then re-up. Crossing my fingers I make E7 this year, but not counting on it since it is my first look.
i haven't heard of this but i am in the ANG so that's all different. and i am almost an E-06 so i guess i am good :)
We are over strength right now. We ramped up for the wars and then the crash hit and no one got out. Expect stuff like this and worse in the near future as the budget crunch starts to tell. I have hear MP's (my old MOS) are not allowing reenlistments and officer promotion rates are starting to drop, slowly but surely.
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If members have questions regarding how they can contribute, where and/or what to post - give me a shout on this thread... you may even end up answering someones question inadvertantly! this is my first group, and want to, of course, encourage membership - not confuse.
May your day be blessed...
Thankyou my friends, for contributing your presence to my group. Whether you choose to express your devotion and 'warm your toes' by fires of love, or just 'cool your heels' and gather the energies of serenity and devotion, you are truly welcomed.
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Elizabeth, our friend and co-host has left the group.
Farewell and Thank you for sharing your talents and love in this group. May you continue to reap the beauty that you have sown.
Elizabeth has decided to spend time away from Care2 for awhile. Her special light makes her parting as sweet as her greeting. The poetic mysteries of love and peace linger...
A loving welcome Susan.... thank you for being here...
Lissette absorb all you wish... no compulsion to post at all.
I just joined the group. My name is Susan. I caregive for my parents. I joined care2 in March 2008. I'm part of a prayer minestry at my church. I do a lot of other things for my church.
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Welcome Manuel... peace to you
Thank you for being here Lissette, Zach and Adithi... welcome to you all
And not to be outdone,we welcome to another Rick... blessings to you also..
Welcome Rick and greetings to you....thank you for your presence.
Thanks Steve for joining us here.........our deepest gratitude... and a warm welcome
Ange, Carmen & John...........welcome to the group and many thanks for being here...take off your slippers and be at peace
Holly all is perfect.... take the time to be with yourself in your off-internet time.
Thanks Holly, Hi everyone!
Lovely to see you here Lori...
To Marlene and Mels ... thank you too for being here.. in gratitude for your presence, welcome..
Welcome Ani & Bharat... thank you both so much for being here.... our love to you both
Pete dear friend...........excellent to have you here.....devoting space and time to peace and love and all that this covers....welcome to you
Dear Alina, wonderful to see you here my friend... thank You... and a loving ..my gratitude to you for being.
To Kamila, Lady, Jennifer, Believe, Rusty, Sandy, Michelle and Faith... love and gratitude to you all for being here... welcome EveryOne.
holly,thank you for the invitation to such a great group.i wish the two of you great success with it,and will stop in as often as time and work allows.
Hi Ani, thank you so much for joining us here...may you feel be blissed and bring blissings to our group.
Beautiful Thomas
A welcome of warmth of soul to Lisa.... thanks for being here dear friend.... blessings to you.. if you feel led, pls invite Jewels also and anyone else you feel would benefit..... and that goes too to all folks here....please invite those of your friends who you feel would love such a space as Holly and I have given birth to here at Care2.
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Welcome All.
Welcome brothers and sisters in spirit.
Welcome to this Care2 spiritual oasis.
And thankyou Elizabeth for opening this group up so bright and early this morning!!! I wake up to find all these beautiful smiling faces greeting us in welcome!
And for those that don't know - I am a hugger!
So here's a hug-helper that can help you all feel well-hugged!
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Dear Viv, Victoria, Jenna, Thomas, LJ (Lori), & Maria Vivian. welcome to you all here... thank you for joining us in this place of soulfulness, quietude, gentleness and peace... just breathe in the breath of stillness.....absorb all and be, contribute what and who you are in honour of One and All.
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Thank you dear Elizabeth, you never cease to amaze me ! hugs Jenna
Gratitude to All and all... love to you
Thanks, Elizabeth... for the invite. And great thanks to You and Holly for putting this together. Wonderful idea, much needed, I think... and greatly appreciated.
Thanks Elizabeth
you did a great job setting this up
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Kerri...love to you for being here in this gentle space... our gratitude and welcome dear friend.
Joanne, thank you for being here in this place of devotion and adoration of soulfulness... welcome to you
Lovely to see you here Clare... your serene smile says so much... welcome dear friend.
Sapan & Sakhi... blessings to you both for being here... thank you and welcome
Nice idea for a calm, restive site! With all that I am doing now on Care2, I will not be able to be too active here, but I support all that you do in every good way. Thank you for the invite, and, as always, I look forward to your profound contributions to our way of life here in Care2 -- for those that care2 make a difference.
Love & Light,
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Francois.. thank you for bringing yourSelf to this serene place... welcome my dear friend...
Hullo Nance... welcome to this place of soul... under the gentle guidelines which Holly has produced, please feel free to add your beauty here...my gratitude for your being here dear friend.
Holly and I would like to welcome you all to this group of gentleness and devotion... one we both hope will nourish you at the depth of your soul


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I begin the week determined to clear last week's "to do" list by lunchtime today. By midday, it's twice as long as it was and I have yet to tick off one item. but remain positive that this week is going to be THE week when I get through everything. I block off 4pm to 6pm.
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Lunch at The Ivy with Alex Green, BT's director of TV. All weeks should start like this. We both dive in with a steak and catch up on the fast-moving changes in the TV industry at the moment. They say a week is a long time in politics….Fern Britton is just leaving and looks fabulous.
The first day of a 48-hour Tube strike and the commute is always difficult to judge. I drive to Chiswick from Putney and it takes anything from my personal best of 17 minutes, to over an hour if it's raining, everyone's at school, the dustmen are collecting or there is a random, although seemingly inexplicable, queue past the Stag brewery in Mortlake. I brace myself, but manage a surprising 40 minutes. Maybe everyone has stayed at home?
Some of our middle management team are on a GROW leadership programme and I am sponsoring one of their initiatives – staff engagement. Over the course of the hour, we are all agreed that creativity flourishes at its best when it's given a framework. Simply saying, "we need to be more creative", doesn't get us anywhere. I'm looking forward to hearing their recommendations.
A quick catch-up over lunch with Hester, one of our fantastic lawyers.
More meetings in the afternoon – largely planning for the launch of our new brand proposition, 'Make Your World Bigger', on Thursday – and then it's off to the gym for a session with my personal trainer. He is tough, he is sarcastic and he is very effective. I can barely walk up the stairs as I leave the gym.
Dash home to watch 'The Charlotte Crosby Experience' on TLC – our big new local commission. We are trending on Twitter! I feel that I have underestimated its overnight rating.
Can barely move my legs this morning, but am confident that no pain, no gain.
Arrive into the office to much anticipation about the ratings for last night's launch. They are not as high as we'd hoped, but we are delighted to see ratings up by 55% a few days later. This series has been another step in embedding TLC in popular culture and we are all incredibly proud of it.
At 10 o'clock it's the bi-weekly UK staff meeting. There are some great results to share and we celebrate TLC's first birthday with cakes. We always look forward to the programming team's clips. Today, it's a heady mix of Hollywood gloss from Oprah's next interviewees (Russell Brand, Sharon Stone, Cameron Diaz), 'Repo Man', who is trying to repossess the car of a man who is wearing a T-shirt and no underpants, and stunning blue-chip highlights from 'Deadly Islands' for Discovery Channel.
Catch up with Martin Heaton Cooper, VP, commercial development, UK & Ireland and international advertising sales, EMEA. We are pleased to see the market gently ticking up each month after a tough few years for the UK economy. He is looking for more headcount as his team are keen to capitalise on all the additional interest generated by our expanding portfolio of channels, and the ever-increasing range of brand solutions we are now offering.
A lunch meeting with Rob Webster and the team at Sky – yet again the taxi drops me off at the wrong building – and then it's back for my UK senior leadership team meeting. The head of HR reminds us that the deadline for uploading 2014 goals onto our new software system is today. There is much coughing and looking at shoes.
Dinner out tonight and another steak. Two in a week. It must be all this training.
It's a big day. Discovery's first brand campaign in many years launches across the UK with TV, outdoor and digital all breaking through. It is particularly significant because, for the first time, Discovery has a tagline – 'Make Your World Bigger'.
Make Your World Bigger is launched to the UK team and receives a great response. I announce that every member of the team will be gifted a day to live the brand. All they have to do is capture their experience in an image and describe how it made their world bigger in 25 words. At the beginning of July, we will collate it all in an internal brand film.
Later in the day, I hear that one of the team has decided to spend his day as an elephant keeper and another is going to brave it as a standup for a night. I'm delighted to see them embrace it.
I'm in the West End today to discuss some new opportunities. The UK market is fast-moving, highly competitive and exciting. It's not surprising that so many new entrants are keen to find ways in, but the economics can be challenging.
I finish the day with a call with Theresa Wise, the CEO of the Royal Television Society. I'm on the advisory committee for September's RTS Convention in London and it is coming together well. It takes place a few days before the Scottish Independence referendum, so the industry will be awash with implications around a "Yes" vote.
I end the week with another visit to the gym, now that my legs are fully mobile again. We are escaping London for the bank holiday weekend – and I plan to turn my BlackBerry off and put my trainers away.
Age: 47
Favourite media: Discovery Networks, of course, but The Times on-line for when I'm travelling
My biggest inspiration: Mother Nature
Dream job: Zoologist – there is so much to learn
Not a lot of people know this about me: Fred Dinenage is not my father (note the different spelling)
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