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Linux Means Business: Linux and Banking
We are a small bank in a small country. Up until two years ago, our management policy regarding software was internal development—standard banking software price is about $1 million, and we were small enough to handle internal development. Our servers were Intel-based machines, running SCO and Informix SE.
Then management decided to change our business strategy, and soon we started to grow very fast. In less than a year, the number of employees doubled, and so did the number of PCs. Our LAN became a WAN, and the number of transactions multiplied five times and continues to grow. We could not ensure efficient software solutions for all new requests, so the decision was made to buy commercial applications. We also bought two IBM RS/6000 servers running AIX, connected in a high-availability cluster.
A year later, this decision may not seem too smart. We have our software, which handles 70% of our business, and a bunch of applications, communicating between each other with shell scripts, 4GL and C programs that perform needed data conversions. But development takes time, and we cannot employ a new application without at least three months of extensive testing.
More and more users needed Internet access, and we needed a dial-on-demand router. We didn't want specialized hardware. We wanted to be able to customise logs, schedule access time on a per-user basis and use an existing PC for that purpose.
After a week running NT Workstation with WinGate demo, we gave up. WinGate used to die two or three times a day. That would not be a problem in and of itself, since it was a demo anyway, but the COM port stayed locked every time it happened, remaining locked until reboot. Obviously, NT did not release allocated resources after process termination. Well, it did not look like a serious operating system to us.
Linux came in our focus accidentally. A friend of mine did quite a bit of advocacy and convinced me to try it, giving me precise directions and a Slackware 3.2 CD. Why not? If it works, fine; if it doesn't, it costs me nothing. After all, I am an experienced UNIX administrator—I can do it. So I took a 486 with a 1GB SCSI disk and 16MB RAM and started to play with Linux.
A few hours after inserting the CD into the drive, I had a working proxy, and I still have it. It has been working for a year now. All we have to do with it are the usual administration jobs: adding new users, kernel patches, etc. Furthermore, it became a caching proxy and news server. To be quite specific, there is diald, socks5 proxy, caching DNS, tcpd, Apache as caching HTTP proxy and internal web server, and inn as a news server for both local and Usenet newsgroups.
My colleagues were very suspicious of Linux, but started respecting it after a few months of uptime.
After the initial experience, I was very pleased with Linux and started to explore. As I discovered the purpose of the iBCS module, I had to run the SCO version of Informix on it. So, I copied Informix, our database and applications, tested it, and again it worked from the first try. I even found Linux a better development platform than SCO—it didn't require additional kernel parameter tuning to run complex database queries, it worked faster and was more stable, and it had better development tools.
Well, it's not quite fair to compare Linux to an obsolete product (SCO 4.2), but I tested concurrent queries and updates on millions of records, shut down the machine in the middle of work, killed system processes such as kswapd, tested power-off behaviour, and even pulled off the IDE disk cable on the working machine. Although I got database corruption, I didn't manage to produce unrecoverable file system errors. When fsck failed, fsdebug worked. For the record, we had unrecoverable file system errors on SCO. The result is that we now use Linux as our development platform.
Switching to Linux may not be easy for a Windows user, but we are used to working in a UNIX environment. We have set up Linux on a PC as a server for development and testing purposes and on three developers' PCs instead of Windows. We used Windows mostly as a task switcher for a few terminal sessions and for printer sharing. The only reason we used it was that it came pre-installed on every PC. Linux gave us additional possibilities: we have our native development environment on every PC, with good development tools such as Emacs, ddd and other good stuff. Since we are used to GNU tools, we installed them on both AIX and SCO. From a user's point of view, our AIX looks more like Linux now.
It's hard to believe that you can get a good development environment free when you used to pay thousands of dollars for one, but it's true.
When our users wanted to share Windows files across the WAN, we didn't even think about an NT Server, as Linux has already proven its reliability. So, we installed Samba as a WINS server. We did not set it up on AIX servers because they handle our critical applications and we just don't want to experiment on them. Today we use Linux/Samba for printer sharing, too, as it gives our UNIX systems access to Windows print servers, and Windows workstations access to UNIX printers. Basically, when a user wants to print something from UNIX, he can either print to a dot matrix or laser printer in the system room, or to a printer in his room, which may be connected to his PC or Windows-shared. When he chooses a local printer, the appropriate Windows print queue is determined by his IP address.
When we realized Samba's possibilities, we wanted to implement a centralized backup, based on the following idea: all users have their accounts on the Linux box, their Windows boxes mount their home directory upon startup, and all their documents are saved on Linux. Most of our users don't even know where their files reside; they just click on the icon and use the application, so we could change the working directory for Windows applications on every PC.
This policy has some other security considerations. First, only the logged-in user can read documents. Second, we receive some documents from the National Bank and other government organizations as Microsoft Office files. Once we even received a macro virus with them—it damaged only the user's local disk, but the user lost some important files. Before that happened, we had not been worried about viruses, since they come with cracked games, but now they may come with business data. This way, we can also do periodic virus scans, and file permissions are set in such a way that a user can write to only his home directory, thus a potential virus can't spread around. But we haven't fully implemented this yet, because we have to change every PC's network settings to mount the Linux drive and move all files to it. We also have problems forcing our users to log onto Windows with their Linux user names and passwords and explaining to them how to change the Windows password every time their Linux password expires.
One day, we received a request to allow access to an old Clipper application from a remote location. If we had just installed it on the remote PC and mapped the network drive to our machine, the Clipper database would go over the modem line, so we would have to increase bandwidth. What's more important, we would risk database corruption, and it's also the same story with viruses, since we have no physical control over remote locations. Linux took a role again; we installed the DOS Emulator. A few smaller problems arose. Clipper is never idle, so DOSEmu takes all available CPU time. Since we have only a few Clipper users, we just gave DOSEmu a smaller priority. This way, only screens are traveling the network, and with ttysnoop, we can see exactly what a user is doing. Also, there's no database corruption when Windows dies—Linux doesn't die.
Linux has made our life much easier, especially on that Monday morning when the hard disk on our SCO server didn't wake up. We had no up-to-date database on our backup server, since the previous weekend the entire bank moved to a new location. The backup server was moved first, so there was no overnight database copying. We had a tape backup, but it needs at least an hour and a half to restore it. We had the Informix log file, which takes at least the same time to roll forward the database. Luckily, we had an up-to-date database on our development server; unfortunately, copying over the network takes about an hour. Our customers were waiting, so we chose to drive the bank on Linux for a day. The server was not really a server but a PC with P133, 16MB RAM and an IDE disk, so there was a lot of swapping, but most users didn't notice any difference.
Today, Linux does quite a good job for us, and so do GNU programs. Our complete development is done on Linux. C programs are then recompiled with the GNU C compiler on either SCO or AIX; 4GL programs are just copied to the proper place. Bash became our standard shell on both AIX and SCO. CVS takes care of the version control. Communication with remote locations is also handled by Linux, and so is printer spooling. With the proxy, the internal web and news, Linux played a significant part in our job. Anyway, it's not yet ready to be used as the database and application server for our purposes, because it still lacks a few features needed in our mission-critical applications: the high-availability cluster software and a journaling file system. We cannot afford any data loss, and that's the main reason we have chosen AIX for certain applications.
At the end of this year, we plan to migrate our database, applications and development completely to AIX, so we'll stop using SCO, but Linux will stay. It works very well and has greatly improved our security and administration.
Josip Almasi (email@example.com) has been in database design/programming for ten years, and in Novell and UNIX system administration for the last five years. He is currently working as a database/system administrator at Partner Bank, Croatia. His hobbies are Aikido and blues harmonica.
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Hi! I'm Sarah, mom of two beautiful boys, Isaac and Ezra. I am married the most amazing man, Joe. I am an adoption advocate, an adoptive mom and was featured on season 2 of Oxygen's, "I'm Having Their Baby" which tells the story of our first failed adoption match. In this series, I will focus on the trials and tribulations of adoption as well as all the amazing experiences we've had in the process. I had a million questions and never knew how to find the answers, so it was all live and learn. I hope to share my experience with you, whether you are considering adoption for yourself or you know someone who is, I want to make the once taboo subject something people aren't afraid to talk about. Adoption can be a roller coaster of fun and fear, come along for the ride on ours.
The birth mom wrote the baby's name on her belly and sent it to us.
When a Match Falls Apart
Sarah Baker | September 13, 2013 | 01:18 PM
This is how our first match fell apart (from my perspective). Adoption is so beautiful, but the ride isn't always smooth.
This is how fast things can fall apart. It's been a really difficult subject for me to talk about. We went to visit the expecting parents in their home town in September of 2012. During that visit we had a scheduled 4D sonogram. Our birth mother also had signed us up for a TV show. The producers and camera crew were there to spend the weekend with us and document our story. It was an amazing weekend... but emotions were high and many things came up that were red flags that this adoption may not be everything we and the birth parents were looking for. Our previous visits we stayed in a local hotel. This visit she invited us to stay with her so we could have more time together. We had grown into more than just a "match", we were friends. We left feeling closer to both of them than ever, but also had concerns that we weren't on the same page all the time with what adoption is.
The birth father never fully supported the idea of the adoption. He is 15 years older than the birth mother and has 3 children. She is the mother of a wonderful little boy, whom she gets no financial support for from his biological father. She convinced the "birth father" that together with 5 children they would NOT succeed and adoption was the best plan. He reluctantly signed papers that would terminate his rights as long as she was moving forward with the adoption. During that weekend visit, on and off camera, he told all of us that he was becoming more comfortable with the idea of adoption, but would still prefer to keep her. It was very difficult for my husband and me to move forward knowing that this father wanted to parent his baby. But we also wanted to support the birth mother, and let's face it; we wanted a baby that she wanted to give us. That's when we found out they were going to want more involvement in the child's life than what we were prepared for. The father wanted custody returned to him if we were to both die and he wanted us to return with her yearly for a father/daughter dance at his church in addition to the many other visits a year we were offering, plus a lot of holidays spent in their home. This we were terrified of. If we are being honest here, we felt it may threaten our bond with the baby as her "parents". We also didn't want to commit to something, living so far away, that we may not be able to stick to. Broken promises, I assured myself, were much worse than hearing the truth at the beginning. Unfortunately, I hadn't had the opportunity to express the "truth" until it was too late.
The birth mother, young and not truly wanting adoption, seemed to also be having a hard time with separating herself from the baby. She called the baby by the name we chose and referred to me as "mommy" when she would tell me that "Eliza" was saying goodnight to me each night. But, she had loved and cared for this child in her womb for 7 months and was now forced with the very real fact that she chose adoption. Meaning someone else would be parenting her baby girl. This was something she was having a very hard time with. Almost daily I worried about her emotional attachment AND the one I was forming to the baby as well. We provided her with a counselor of her choice so she could work through what she was feeling and help her come to a decision she was comfortable with. I fully believe that if a mother wants to move forward with adoption, then that should be supported. But if a mother wants to parent her child, then she should have that option without feeling guilty for making the decision. I checked in with her all the time, making sure adoption is what she wanted. She always assured me it was. But, I felt I needed to prepare for her to change her mind anyhow. Gut feeling I guess. I couldn't talk directly with her private counselor, but I often reached out to the one provided to her by the adoption agency. Whenever I was concerned for her mental stability or how she was handling her choice, I made a quick phone call asking the agency to check in on her. Sometimes, I knew I wasn't the right person for the "birth mom" to talk to.
I had always told her we would like the baby to know them and see them "as much as possible". Being that we live 4 hours away, both work and have an 11 year old son that is active in many school, sport and music activities, we thought they would understand that would probably mean a few times a year. After all, she already knew that we were already running into scheduling conflicts with our visits during the pregnancy. When we returned from our visit, everything seemed to crash and fall apart. She started asking a lot of questions, that I thought the agency had already clarified with her, but she was feeling the need to ask me directly. When I told her we could visit her 2-4 times a year and they could also visit us, she was devastated and it led to two solid weeks of her being very upset and angry with me. I tried everything to fix it, but it just wasn't enough. She only heard what her emotions filtered. I told her it was ok if she wanted to keep the baby, because it felt like she was not happy with the amount she would get to see her if she went through with adoption. She lashed out again. She didn't understand why I thought her emotions meant she wanted to keep the baby. To me though, that is exactly what she was saying. I wanted her to know it was ok.
I admit there were times I had a very hard time containing the anger I felt when she lashed out at me. She accused me of lying to her, leading her on, not trusting me and betraying her. It's natural to get defensive when a person feels attacked. There were times I let my emotions get the best of me and I responded to her hastily. But, no matter what, it is understandable that a scared, young mother is terrified of this process and I am the best person to lash out at... I was, after all, the threat, the woman "taking" her child.
As things began to mend with us several weeks later, she found out that by switching agencies, (She switched because the agency and myself wouldn't participate in filming us for the show having a mediated meeting to rectify our differences.) the consent form signed by the birth father was no longer going to be used and he would have to sign all over again. She was scared of what may happen because she says she still wants to move forward with adoption. The new agency began showing her adoptive parent profiles and she is telling me about them. This is what got us into this mess in the first place that blurred line of friendship and adoption. It hurt very much hearing about new families she was considering and picturing them with the baby I was just weeks ago so certain was going to be in my arms. We knew we were not getting the daughter we thought we were going to have. It became very hard to maintain a relationship with her when I felt sick to my stomach and so much stress and depression over this situation.
After time, and convincing my husband that this wouldn't happen again, we moved on. We got matched again a few months later and we now have our beautiful son, Ezra. But that doesn't take away the pain, the loss, the sadness, the anguish, the anger... Having never had a miscarriage, this must be the heartache that is felt? When the baby was born, she did decide to parent her. Her and my relationship took time to move forward, but we did try. It was just last week that I made the very, very difficult decision, that for my mental health and the happiness of my family, it was time to move on. I wish her well and hope that she succeeds in life and reaches all her goals. She has a beautiful daughter now. I wanted to remain in their life, but I realized it hurt me and stopped me from healing. It may have been a selfish choice to move on from our friendship, but one I do not regret so far.
Is a failed match something you fear? Have you had one fail in the past? I'd love to hear your experiences.
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The following artifacts are available through Qeddwyn: Chalice of Knowledge: (30cr) - Provides Double XP once drunk for a period of 24 hours. - Chalices of Knowledge cannot be traded in. Gem of Transmutation: (1000cr) Artifact Power: Transmutation - Lets the owner change race and statpack once every two hours. It also permits you to TRANSMUTE GENDER once per Howling. Icon of Obscuration: (500cr) Artifact Power: Hide_artifacts - Hides any worn artifacts from being seen when one looks at you. - Specific artifacts may be exempted from this power for 50cr each. Wings of the Eagle: (800cr) Artifact Power: Clouds_flight - Lets you fly to the clouds, a location from which you can reach much of the continent. Wings of the Atavian: (2000cr) Artifact Power: Aboveclouds_flight - Lets you fly to above the clouds, a location from which you can reach many of the major features of the continent, and also reach the clouds. Sulfurous Amulet: (800cr) Artifact Power: Caves_burrow - Lets you burrow to the Death Caves, a location from which you can can reach much of the continent. Amulet of the Underrealms (2000cr) Artifact Power: Belowcaves_burrow - Lets you burrow to deep within the Death Caves, a location from which you can reach many of the major features of the continent, and also reach the death caves. Wand of Portals: (800cr) Artifact Power: Portals - Lets you open up a portal to someone after a short delay. Is stopped by a monolith sigil. Bracelet of Sustenance: (550cr) Artifact Power: Sustenance - Eliminates your need for food and sleep. It will also prevent the nutrition draining effects of any attack used against you. Vibrating Stick: (800cr) Artifact Power: Wormhole_warp - Lets you warp through the dimensional wormholes. Claws of the Wolverine: (500cr) Artifact Power: Burrowing - Gives you the ability to burrow into the ground like a wolverine. Ring of Flight: (400cr) Artifact Power: Flight - Allows you to FLY. - While flying, gain access to two more abilities: * VIEW, lists all players outdoors on your continent. * TRAVERSE <target>, appear in the skies above any target in the same area as you. Medal of Meritorious Bureaucracy: (25cr) Artifact Power: Clanslot - By polishing your medal, you can increase your number of clan slots. Interdimensional Planar Wedge: (Increases the size of your cache) Artifact Power: Cache_extension - Level 1 Double the size 250cr - Level 2 Triple the size 500cr - Level 3 Quadruple the size 1000cr Crystal of Rebirth: (100cr) Artifact Power: Rebirth - By CRACKing the crystal, you can gain a reincarnation. Whenever you are at maximum health and mana, just REINCARNATE INTO <statpack> <race>. Clay Flowerpot (200 cr) - Grow up to six flowers in this pot, or eighteen if you have the Floristry talent! Every day, you will have a 1 in 3 chance of receiving a new flower for every empty slot left in your pot. 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From then on, you can TOUCH LOCKET to travel to that person as long as they are on the same continent. Collar of Domination (50cr) Artifact Power: dominate_collar - Dominate an entity permanently (excluding Golgotha). will give you unlimited pacts with an entity. A collar will work on a single entity, and be destroyed afterwards. Use DECLARE COLLAR once you've begun dominating to use this. Staff of Illusion (500cr) Artifact Power: illusion - If held, the staff allows the use of the Subterfuge ability of Illusion. Syntax: CONJURE ILLUSION <victim|NOBODY> <text> Goggles of Whitesight: (150cr) Artifact power: whitesight - Enables you to see in blizzards. Gem of Adaptation: (750cr) Artifact Power: adaptation - Lets you change your statpack once whenever you change to a new active class. Map of Sapience: (100cr) Artifact power: monuments - Give the player the monuments skill from survival and allows them to mark up to 10 monuments. It also slightly reduces the balance costs of the WALK TO command. Artifact power: polymath (750cr) - This artifact will reduce the cooldown between switching classes to one hour. A seal of besmirchment (125 cr) A one-time use artifact. Remove yourself from your family bloodline. PRESS MARK while standing in the bloodline registry office. *NOTE 1*: This will mark your parents as [redacted]. *NOTE 2*: This also removes your children, and marks their parents as [redacted]. *NOTE 3*: Neither you, nor your children, may take on new parents. A ylembic resonator (60 cr) Artifact power: fracture_alert - This artifact will alert the holder whenever someone enters the Iernian Fracture. A Banner of Dominance (200 cr) Artifact power: dominance - When you kill someone, a copy of the banner will be staked through your victim's corpse, declaring your dominance over them. The corpse will be indestructible and unmovable from that location until it decays. This effect will only trigger once per Aetolian day. A Pill of Transmogrification (150 cr) Artifact power: transmogrification - A one-time use artifact that will switch your gender when consumed. A Shief of Falsified Documents (150 cr) Artifact Power: age_disguise - This item allows you to disguise your age/birthday upon your honors - score will still show your real birthday. It cannot make you younger than 18, or born earlier than 12th of Arios, year 35. - SETAGE <day> <month> <year>, e.g. SETAGE 12 VARIACH 100 A Shopping Guidebook (150 cr) Artifact Power: directory - Allows you to use the shop directory command from anywhere, for anywhere. - DIRECTORY <city|ALL> <search query> An Impassable Gorget (75 cr) Artifact Power: durable_walls - This artifact will triple the length that icewalls, firewalls, thornwalls and lightwalls will stay in existence for before naturally expiring. A demonic lithograph (300 cr) Artifact Power: lithograph - This demon will etch the current location, as you see it via LOOK, onto a slide. Store a picture of any event! The slides will eventually decay, but the demon is capable of remembering up to 50 pictures and can remake any of the pictures stored in memory. Use the LITHOGRAPH command to interact with it. A demonic transcriber (300 cr) Artifact Power: transcriber - This demon is a master of mimicry! When used, it will listen to any speech in its location, and can recite it again later. The demon can remember up to 50 different conversations. Use the TRANSCRIBER command to interact with it. A lens of essence tracing (75 cr) Artifact Power: lastlogin - This artifact allows you to use the LASTLOGIN command on any of your mutual allies, letting you see how many days ago they last logged in! 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Midway through 2012, the San Diego Padres looked like they were on their way to securing the first pick in baseball's amateur draft. In fact, by June 20, the Padres were already 18.5 games behind the leader in the NL West. From that point forward, buoyed by a new middle infield and catcher, and Chase Headley's .978 OPS in the second half of the season, the Padres actually gained half a game in the division, finishing at 76-86.
Unfortunately, that's where the good news ended. The Padres enter 2013 after an offseason in which they signed just one player to a major-league contract: Jason Marquis. Three of the Padres' starting pitchers are likely to start 2013 on the disabled list with (or recovering from) significant injuries: Corey Luebke, Andrew Cashner and Joe Wieland. The Padres' bright young catcher, Yasmani Grandal, will miss the first 50 games of 2013 after testing positive for using PEDs. Just last week it was revealed that Rymer Liriano, the Padres' top outfield prospect and baseball's 55th best prospect (according to Jonathan Mayo), will miss the entire 2013 season due to an elbow injury. And if everything above wasn't enough, in the past few days two more Padres were linked to the PED scandal in South Florida: Everth Cabrera and Fautino de los Santos.
In "30 Teams in 30 Days," the Fantasy Baseball Cafe will preview each team in Major League Baseball on a daily basis. In addition to projecting starting lineups, rotations and closing situations, the Cafe will identify potential targets for 2013 fantasy baseball drafts.
Offensive Starters
2012 Stats | AVG | OBP | SLG | R | HR | RBI | SB | PA | Notes |
C Yasmani Grandal | .297 | .394 | .4469 | 28 | 8 | 36 | 0 | 226 | Susp. |
1B Yonder Alonso | .273 | .348 | .393 | 47 | 9 | 62 | 3 | 619 | |
2B Jedd Gyorko | .311 | .373 | .547 | 80 | 30 | 100 | 5 | 557 | in MiLB |
SS Everth Cabrera | .246 | .324 | .324 | 49 | 2 | 24 | 44 | 449 | |
3B Chase Headley | .286 | .376 | .498 | 95 | 31 | 115 | 17 | 699 | |
LF Carlos Quentin | .261 | .374 | .504 | 44 | 16 | 46 | 0 | 340 | |
CF Cameron Maybin | .243 | .306 | .349 | 67 | 8 | 45 | 26 | 561 | |
RF Will Venable | .264 | .335 | .429 | 62 | 9 | 45 | 24 | 470 |
Unsettled: Middle infield. Between Padres manager Bud Black mandating that all infield reps Jedd Gyorko receives this spring come at second base and Logan Forsythe taking reps at both shortstop and the outfield, it would appear that second base is Gyorko's to lose, while Everth Cabrera will be the one who has to battle Logan Forsythe (and, to a much-lesser degree, Alexi Amarista) to retain his tenuous starting slot. However, because Jedd Gyorko is a third baseman by trade (while the Padres are by no means a lock to keep Chase Headley), has drawn less-than-stellar scouting reports at second, and is yet to start his arbitration clock, there remains an outside chance that Forsythe could crack the starting lineup. And with the recent reports linking Everth Cabrera to the South Florida PED scandal, the odds this happens has increased. From a fantasy perspective, Gyorko's minor-league pedigree makes him an interesting player to stash in the final rounds of a mixed league. Meanwhile, Cabrera retains fill-in value for those of you who find yourself stolen base starved or plagued with injuries in the middle infield. And between all the aforementioned scenarios and Oliver's projected 10-HR, 10-SB line, Forsythe, who holds dual MI eligibility, is a decent final round flier in NL-only formats. Also, while not "unsettled," Will Venable will split time with Chris Denorfia in right field as part of a platoon.
Target: Carlos Quentin. Somehow, Carlos Quentin has a current Yahoo! ADP of 261.8, trailing a number of players that fantasy drafters shouldn't touch with a ten-foot pole. Even with the predictable knee issue in 2012 and a move to PETCO Park, Carlos Quentin still produced as a serviceable fantasy outfielder on a per-game basis: if normalized to 600 plate appearances, Quentin sported a .261 average with 28 HRs, 82 RBI and 78 runs. Now back from injury, having lost 15 pounds this offseason, and with PETCO's fences moving in, Quentin seems poised to return to his 25-HR, 80-RBI, 70-run self. At the very least, he's well worth where he's currently being drafted (or not drafted, depending on how you look at it) as an away-and-when-healthy platoon. That there is upside that doesn't seem too far-fetched makes him a worthy late-round flier for all owners. (While the author also sees improvement for Yonder Alonso, it likely won't be enough to garner fantasy value at 1B.)
The Rotation
2012 Stats | W-L | ERA | WHIP | K | BB | IP | Notes |
Clayton Richard (L) | 14-14 | 3.99 | 1.24 | 107 | 42 | 218.2 | |
Edinson Volquez (R) | 11-11 | 4.14 | 1.45 | 174 | 105 | 182.0 | |
Eric Stults (R) | 8-3 | 2.91 | 1.20 | 55 | 27 | 99.0 | W/2T |
Jason Marquis (R) | 8-11 | 5.22 | 1.47 | 91 | 42 | 127.2 | W/2T |
Freddy Garcia (R) | 7-6 | 5.20 | 1.37 | 89 | 35 | 107.1 | w/NYY |
Unsettled: Basically the entire rotation. While Padres general manager Josh Byrnes has explicitly named Richard, Volquez, Stults and Marquis as four guys who will be in the rotation, the final two have tenuous holds on a job. Prospects Casey Kelly or Robbie Erlin could easily supplant any of the Stults/Marquis/Garcia triumvirate, and it certainly shouldn't surprise anyone if Tim Stauffer, Tyson Ross, Anthony Bass and Sean O'Sullivan make starts for the Padres at some point in 2013 while they wait for Corey Luebke, Andrew Cashner and Joe Wieland to return from the disabled list.
Target: No one. The only two pitchers in the rotation with any sort of guaranteed role in 2013 — Edinson Volquez and Clayton Richard — led the league in walks (Volquez), hits allowed (Richard) and home runs allowed (Richard) in 2012. If you absolutely must grab a Padres starting pitcher, however, I would suggest Robbie Erlin or Casey Kelly. Both are moderate-to-highly regarded prospects who suffered minor elbow injuries in 2012, but could conceivably be the fifth starter when the season starts. Andrew Cashner's fastball is alluring, but his injury history is unsettling at best, and he isn't expected to join the rotation until early May if everything goes according to plan. Believe it or not, there isn't a reputable projection system that exists which projects any Padres starter to be worth more than 2 WAR in 2013. While WAR isn't a fantasy category, that statement should tell you this rotation is an utter disaster. Stay away!
The 8th and 9th Innings
2012 Stats | SV | ERA | WHIP | K | BB | IP | Notes |
Huston Street (R) | 23 | 1.85 | 0.718 | 47 | 11 | 39.0 | |
Luke Gregerson (R) | 9 | 2.39 | 1.09 | 72 | 21 | 71.2 |
Chasing Saves: The closer role is very clearly Huston Street's, evidenced in the extension given to him last season. On a per-inning basis, Huston Street was the second-best fantasy closer, trailing only Craig Kimbrel. Injuries have always been an Achilles heel for Street, but his injuries last season — a strained lat and a strained calf — were closer to "fluke" than they were legitimate concerns going forward. Should Street get injured in 2013, look for Luke Gregerson to get the first opportunity to pick-up the save opportunities. (Please note that Gregerson has been the subject of trade rumors this offseason, which would make Dale Thayer or Brad Brach the next in line were a trade to be completed.) However, if there's one Padres pitcher you're going to draft in 2013, it should be Huston Street. He'll be one of fantasy's better closers in 2013.
Final Thoughts
Confusingly, the Padres, despite having new ownership, did nothing to improve themselves in 2013. Bringing in the fences should buoy offensive numbers slightly, but it was just a cosmetic change for the fools who waste money going to PETCO Park this season. Besides Chase Headley and Huston Street, no Padre will likely be drafted before round 15 in a normal mixed league, and that's a pretty accurate depiction of the talent the team currently possesses. In 2012, ZIPS projected the Padres to win 76 games and they won 76; ZIPS currently projects the Padres to win 74 in 2013. I won't bet against it. Speaking of betting: according to Intrade, a WMD terrorist attack in 2013 is 3,800 percent more likely to occur than the Padres winning the World Series (according to PECOTA). It'll be a long season for Padres fans; for the rest of you, just avoid drafting their players.
Check back tomorrow for our look at the San Francisco Giants.
David Marver is one of a growing number of fantasy experts who write for the Cafe. You can catch up with David in the Cafe's forums where he posts under the name of davidmarver.
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Centaur to Shutter Indiana OTB Facility
Centaur Gaming Jan. 12 said it is closing its off-track betting parlor in Merrillville, Ind., not far from the Illinois and Michgan borders, because of declines in business.
Centaur Gaming Jan. 12 said it is closing its off-track betting parlor in Merrillville, Ind., not far from the Illinois and Michgan borders, because of declines in business.
While no agreement is in place and the two sides still disagree on some important details, Colonial Downs and the Virginia Horsemen's Benevolent and Protective Association have moved closer to an agreement.
While acknowledging its decision could jeopardize Thoroughbred racing in the state for this year or even several years, Colonial Downs says it has ceased negotiations with the Virginia HBPA.
State lawmakers in New York are trying again to get legislation approved permitting tracks and off-track betting corporations to work together on race date start times and simulcasting schedules.
With Colonial Downs and the Virginia HBPA failing to reach a contract agreement on this year's race schedule, the track has decided to temporarily close several off-track betting locations.
Declining handle is forcing the closure of the state's only freestanding OTB network.
Penn National Gaming Inc. has signed a lease to renovate a former restaurant in Gloucester Township and turn it into New Jersey's fifth off-track wagering facility, the company announced Jan. 16.
A measure permitting an upstate off-track betting corporation to run gambling facilities in New York City has been sent to Gov. Andrew Cuomo for his veto or signature.
Delta Downs Racetrack Casino & Hotel said Jan. 10 it has been unable to strike a deal with New York offtrack betting corporations for import of its signal.
A bill authorizing small offtrack betting operations in bars and restaurants, and another measure giving Atlantic City Race Course a larger chunk of revenue from casino race books, passed New Jersey legislative committees.
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A New York lawmaker wants to put the now-defunct New York City Off-Track Betting Corp., out to competitive bidding.
An agreement to permit tracks and OTB corporations in New York to stream live racing over the Internet was approved Wednesday, Dec. 22.
The nation's largest off-track betting corporation, now under federal bankruptcy protection, faces closure in the next 60 days unless the state officials OK its recovery plan.
The New York City Off-Track Betting Corp.'s bankruptcy petition and attempt to alter how it funds the industry risks undermining the state's already hard-hit breeding programs, New York's leading breeding group is warning.
New York lawmakers are rushing to halt a 1% takeout increase on out-of-state pari-mutuel wagers before a law kicks in next week authorizing the higher levels.
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Fair Grounds Race Course will open five of its Finish Line off-track betting locations Oct. 26, Fair Grounds President and General Manager Randall Soth announced Monday. Four of the OTBs reopening also offer video poker.
The Virginia Racing Commission May 25 approved an application for Virginia's newest satellite wagering facility near Weber City, which is in Scott County in southwestern Virginia.
A New York state authority that supports Standardbred purses and breeding has lax internal financial controls, according to an audit released Tuesday by state Comptroller Alan Hevesi.
Because of anticipated inclement weather conditions as a result of Hurricane Ivan, all Finish Line off-track betting locations in southeast Louisiana will be closed Wednesday.
The New York Racing Association is filing paperwork stating its intent to sue the New York City Off Track Betting Corporation for undercutting simulcasting fees, the latest in a long line of tussles between the two influential industry groups.
Daily average attendance and handle were off across the board at the recently concluded 38-day Belmont fall meet.
New York City mayor Michael Bloomberg re-appointed David Cornstein as chair of the Off Track Betting Corp. (OTB) on Jan. 10. Cornstein was first appointed to the board in 1994.
Magna Entertainment plans to a launch this summer a 24-hour horse racing network that promises to educate and entertain viewers. The Canadian racing conglomerate also is planning a national off-track betting network.
Sweeping proposals for new gambling ventures in New York have moved far off the table in the aftermath of the Sept. 11 terrorist attack on the World Trade Center in Manhattan.
By Ray Paulick -- If the privatization of the New York City Off-Track Betting Corporation was a horse race, the inquiry sign would have lit up immediately after the city's mayor, Rudolph Giuliani, on Aug. 2 announced the bureaucracy would be sold to a group headed by Frank Stronach's Magna Entertainment and Bob Green's Greenwood Racing.
Four New York Racing Association employees have been indicted as part of a probe by state investigators into an alleged money laundering operation. New York City Mayor Rudolph Giuliani cancelled an 11 a.m. news conference at which he was to announce a group led by Magna Entertainment had won the purchase rights to the New York City Off Track Betting Corp.
The New Jersey Assembly on Thursday approved legislation to legalize off-track and account wagering in the state. The measure now moves to the Senate floor.
A deal to sell the New York City Off-Track Betting Corp. still awaits final approval from New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, and the delay could thwart the plan for this year.
The New York Off-Track Betting Corp. has made arrangements to carry Hialeah's current meet on its simulcast system. The arrangement was announced Monday.
State racing regulators have begun investigating a nasty new battle between the New York City Off Track Betting Corp. and Monticello Raceway and Vernon Downs after the big betting outfit suddenly stopped simulcasting races from the two upstate Standardbred tracks.
A bill that will enable New Jersey to proceed with off-track betting and telephone account wagering has passed another hurdle.
Several high-profile racing bills suffered quick deaths as the New York legislature ended its 2000 session.
Colonial Downs' interest in opening an off-track betting parlor in a shopping mall was dealt a setback Tuesday night.


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quote:Javi Martinez as the defensive midfielder, allowing Schweinsteiger to push forward.
quote:I know this is some wishful thinking, but I sure would love to see my Eagles pull out a W (heck, I'll take a draw) against them this weekend.
quote:Think we get third this season.
quote:It's not even really an attacking midfielder position but just not as a lone defensive midfielder.
quote: I wonder if Mario Goetze will make the roster this weekend.
quote: We'll see. I think this season is going to be crazy.
quote:Good question. Is he injured still? Or is he having trouble adjusting to the system?
quote:Maybe. It's too early to tell. But I don't really think anyone else improved enough to challenge FCB for an entire season.
quote:Coming back from injury, he played in a friendly last Sunday and scored 2 goals in 20-30 minutes
quote: Dortmund is pretty damn good; don't write them off, no matter how douchey their fans are.
quote: I still think we'll eventually see Jan Kirchhoff or Javi Martinez as the defensive midfielder,
quote:Whats Pep's ultimate goal tactics wise? Who would be his ideal XI?
quote:i don't get using javi as a dedicated CB for this reason: at barca the fullbacks acted as wingers in attack, essentially, and busquets drifted back into a CB role defensively. using javi at the DM position will accomplish the same thing, where he will play a hybrid-CB role a great deal as a DM
quote:why make him a dedicated CB? let bastian play a xavi-like role as midfield facilitator/organizer a little up (where he can get back if needed). pair him with a more AM like kroos/muller in the iniesta role. then you have 2 inverted wingers and goetz/mad in the attacking roles, with the fullbacks acting as support wingers/outside mids
quote:I think with the long balls is that Pep wants to have Bayern put a ton of pressure on defenses this year. With his style of high pressure and with the inverted triangle, you have 2 center mids who play high enough up the field to press the two holding mids that nearly every team uses. I think the hope is that you either spring an attacking player with the long ball or you put their defenders under enough pressure where they just give it away to you in your offensive third.
quote:Pep loves Robbery, it'll be hard to put those guys on the bench. You'd need to have Muller at CF to open up one of those CM spots, then you'd have Schweinsteiger, Kroos, Thiago, Goetze who can all play the 2 center mid spots. I think Goetze will play CF or one of the wings.
quote:Pep loves Robbery, it'll be hard to put those guys on the bench.
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With mortgage rates at their lowest in decades, the housing market has continued to be one of the few pillars of strength in a sluggish economy. A weather-related dip in February sales had raised concerns the market could be cooling.
Analysts polled by Reuters had expected a softer reading, projecting sales of about a 986,000 rate. April's rate was the strongest since December 2002's 1.052 million clip.
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Home sales were up in three of the nation's four regions, according to the Commerce report. Annual sales in the Midwest posted the largest gain, 13.4 percent, to a 186,000 rate, while sales in the West saw a 4.3 percent increase, to 267,000. The South, the largest market for new homes, eked out a 0.6 percent gain to a 487,000 annual sales pace.
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Immunohistochemical detection of HSP27 and hnRNP K as prognostic and predictive biomarkers for colorectal cancer
- Feng Wang,
- Peng Zhang,
- Chenzhang Shi,
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The present study was aimed at evaluating the expression of heat shock protein 27 (HSP27) and heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein K (hnRNP K), two potential biomarkers of many cancers, in colorectal cancer (CRC) and their clinical significance. Expression of HSP27 and hnRNP K were investigated by immunohistochemistry (IHC) in a series of tissue microarrays containing 175 primary colorectal cancers and their corresponding normal mucosa samples and matched with clinicopathological features and patient survival. HSP27 and hnRNP K displayed more frequent strong immunoreactivity in primary colorectal tumor samples compared with adjacent non-cancer tissue (P < 0.001). Increased cytoplasmic expression of HSP27 and hnRNP K were associated with tumor location (P = 0.032 and P < 0.001, respectively), poorer overall survival (P = 0.004 and P = 0.02, respectively) and to an unfavorable prognosis for CRC patients in multivariate analysis (P = 0.019 and P = 0.01, respectively). Their overexpression combination identified a subset of patients with definitively worse prognosis than any other combination (P < 0.001). Overexpression of HSP27 and hnRNPK were independent markers of poor prognosis, and their combination predicted definitively adverse outcomes in CRC patients.
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- Title
- Immunohistochemical detection of HSP27 and hnRNP K as prognostic and predictive biomarkers for colorectal cancer
- Journal
Medical Oncology
Volume 29, Issue 3 , pp 1780-1788
- Cover Date
- 2012-09-01
- 10.1007/s12032-011-0037-3
- Print ISSN
- 1357-0560
- Online ISSN
- Publisher
- Springer US
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- Topics
- Keywords
- Colorectal cancer
- Immunohistochemistry
- Tissue microarray
- Prognosis
- Heat shock protein 27 (HSP27)
- Heterogeneous nuclear ribonucleoprotein K (hnRNP K)
- Industry Sectors
- Authors
- Feng Wang (1)
- Peng Zhang (1)
- Chenzhang Shi (1)
- Yongzhi Yang (1)
- Huanlong Qin (1)
- Author Affiliations
- 1. Department of Surgery, The Sixth People's Hospital Affiliated to Shanghai Jiao Tong University, 600 Yishan Road, Shanghai, 200233, China


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So good.
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This is how I feel whenever I go camping with friends. There they are, all with their fancy camping gear, tents, coolers packed full of sandwich goods and portable toilets... And there I am with a piece of linen for shelter, looking for some good sticks to prop it up with, locating a good off the way spot to use as the "toilet" behind a modest bush....and hey, I brought this fishing pole because I thought you guys said you wanted to go "fancy camping" and this is as fancy as I get....
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That one thing seriously needs to go. I'd vote for this shirt, but I couldn't wear it.
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A good deal of spouses/steady-goers need this. At least they'd be 100% upfront, all 'you knew what this was/what you were getting because, BAM, I got my arse covered with this funky fresh piece of clothing.' Semi-unrelated, but eh. No, it still is; First thing I thought of upon seeing this design? The tv show Baggage, hosted by Jerry Springer. C:
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Quick, buy a shirt! ;)
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After seeing it up I do think I should have adjusted the tones more.
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thanks a lot
You got one thing, that's pretty good!
itsmisty wrote:A good deal of spouses/steady-goers need this. At least they'd be 100% upfront, all 'you knew what this was/what you were getting because, BAM, I got my arse covered with this funky fresh piece of clothing.' Semi-unrelated, but eh. No, it still is; First thing I thought of upon seeing this design? The tv show Baggage, hosted by Jerry Springer. C:
Thanks for the comment! I pretty well misfired on this one. I guess the compulsive liars out there probably wouldn't want to advertise that fact ;) Ah well, there's always next week!
I should have titled this "That's no moon.."
nimrond wrote:Simple, elegant, dreamy!
Thank you, nimrond
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