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Pulling in several key actors from as far back as back as 1988's "Beetlejuice" for his new film "Frankenweenie," Tim Burton is demonstrating his loyalty once again to the people who helped make him the famed director he is today.
Simply put, once you become a part of Burton's film family, you're always a part of Burton's film family.
"They're a part of the family, whether they like it or not," Burton told me with a laugh during a recent interview. "Sometimes you're able to work with people you know and sometimes you can't, but that's OK. I like it when I can work with people I've worked with before and mixing it up with new people, as well. Both ways has its advantages."
In the case of "Frankenweenie," a black-and-white, stop-motion animated expansion of his 1984 live-action short film of the same name, Burton was able to bring aboard familiar names like Winona Ryder, Martin Short, Catherine O'Hara and Martin Landau. The new kids on the block include Charlie Tahan and Atticus Shaffer, who voice the instrumental roles of Victor Frankenstein and Edgar "E" Gore, respectfully.
New in 2D, 3D and Imax theaters Friday, "Frankenweenie" is a fun and lively homage to the monster movies of the '30s, '40s and '50s, where Victor brings his dog, Sparky, back to life a la "Frankenstein" after the faithful pooch is accidentally hit by a car in the suburban community of New Holland. But once Edgar discovers Victor's secret of re-animation and spills his guts to a group of classmates, the kids jolt their own late, beloved pets back to life -- but unfortunately, with monstrous results.
Landau, who won an Oscar for his role as monster-movie legend Bela Lugosi in Burton's "Ed Wood" and worked with the filmmaker on three other films, said Burton has continued to find ways to amaze and inspire him.
"He creates a playground for actors, and it's a lot of fun, even if you're not on camera," Landau told me giddily in a recent interview. "The funny thing is, when I saw the movie, I thought if I had been on camera, behaviorally, I would have done everything my character had done. It was kind of mind-boggling, because I saw the part in my head as I did it, naturally, and it turned out the way I hoped it would."
Like Landau, Tahan was blown away by seeing himself come to life in a different way through the film's stop-motion animation.
"Watching the whole movie, I actually forgot that that was me doing the voice, but I could see myself in other ways," Tahan told me.
Landau voices Mr. Rzykruski, a stately Eastern European science teacher whose teachings spark Victor to re-animate his late dog. But Rzykruski's science competition also leads to accidents with other eager students, which lands him in hot water with parents in New Holland.
"He's a passionate man, but he also has a problem with his very fast brain-and-mouth coordination. Anything that comes into his head goes out of his mouth immediately, and he's certainly not diplomatic," Landau observed. "My feeling is he's one of the most honest characters I've ever played. If he wasn't born overseas, I'd like to elect him as president. What you see is what you get. But he also taught me, when you're making a speech in front of your student's parents, you shouldn't call them 'stupid' and expect to hold your job."
Unlike Tahan and Landau's characters, Shaffer's "E" Gore didn't quite resemble the actor in real life, and for good reason: "E" Gore represents the sort of creepy, hunchbacked characters made famous by big-screen icon Peter Lorre.
And of course, as Shaffer learned, you can't have a Lorre-like character without doing a Lorre-like voice.
"About the second or third audition into the process, they asked me to do the character in my Peter Lorre voice, so immediately my mom rented me 'The Maltese Falcon,' and we already had 'Casablanca,' so we just sat there and watched," Shaffer recalled for me. "It was not only wonderful to study for the role, but to actually do it well enough to be hired for the part was such an honor and privilege."
The great thing is, Shaffer said, while Edgar's appearance and actions give off a strange vibe, he still marches to his own beat and has no apologies for it.
"That's the great thing about Tim's films -- they have distorted characters, but they are comfortable for who they are," Shaffer said. "They don't worry, tremble or try to sway to the ways of others. They are their own beings, and the movie gives a message that you can be comfortable in your own skin."
Landau said the real human emotions you get watching "Frankenweenie" helps set the film apart from others.
"A lot of people have said they were moved by the movie and they laughed a lot. It's because it's a character-driven movie, which you don't see anymore," Landau said. "The characters are so delineated and clear."
Another being that gives the emotional weight to the film is its top dog, Tahan added. After all, Sparky sparks the story of "Frankenweenie."
"Almost all people have had or do have a dog, so they can for sure relate to this," Tahan said.
While the film has everything you could hope for in terms of stunning visuals and real emotions, Shaffer added that "Frankenweenie" is truly made complete by its black-and-white presentation. The film feels timeless, which Shaffer credits to Burton's insistence that the tale be filmed in black-and-white -- and told the way that only Burton can.
"'Frankenweenie' puts you into a place that you can fantasize about, and then Tim Burton creates that and gives it to everyone from his mind," Shaffer explained. "It's a different world -- different from the stereotypical view of things. He's takes very ordinary things and makes them ornate and different and changes them into a perspective of his own."


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Spring training: A's 8, Giants 7
After two solid spring starts, Giants pitcher Matt Cain got knocked around for five runs (four earned) on eight hits in 2 2/3 innings as the Oakland Athletics beat a Giants split-squad 8-7 on Saturday.
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I'm glad to hear Gonzalez only had 2 hits in 3 innings…that's really impressive for him. I think he's finally feeling comfortable on the mound. And I'll admit, it took him a while to get there, but I'm happy he's showing great improvement.
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The Super Bowl is historically one of the biggest days of the year for beer consumption. Whether you're a fan of one of the big brews or, like me, find yourself seeking out Yuengling, Shiner Bock or something more exotic, beer and football are a natural combination.
Patriots fans have Samuel Adams, in all its various incarnations, as a hometown brew, along with various great local craft brews.
New Yorkers have a plethora of local brews to choose from. If you're a fan who doesn't live in the city, try the New York Beer Guide to see if there's a Big Apple brew available in your area.
But say you're not a beer drinker. Maybe you just don't like it, or maybe you prefer the more immediate impact of distilled spirits to fuel your celebratory ardor. If you're a Pats fan, you've got to track down some Cold River vodka. It's made in Maine, and is one of the few premium vodkas around made from potatoes, not grain, which means it's gluten-free. The classic vodka has a richness that I haven't found in grain-based vodkas, and the Wild Maine Blueberry variety is great on the rocks. The aroma alone will get you interested.
Cold River makes gin, too, although I haven't yet sampled it so I'll reserve judgment. I'm fairly sure it would be worth your investment, though.
Of course, there may be kids at your party. And believe it or not, the authorities frown upon serving cocktails to toddlers. Times sure have changed since I was a tot. (There's also a chance you may have non-drinking adults and/or designated drivers at the party.) I've made a discovery recently that will delight your palate and take you back to the days when sodas didn't taste heavy and leave your tongue feeling like it was coated with corn syrup.
The Pop Shoppe, a Canadian soda company that's been around since 1969, is mixing up everything from classic black cherry soda and root beer to a lime ricky that will wake up your face. Their website has a search function so you can find out if you're lucky enough to be able to get some in your area.
And, finally, courtesy of Patron Spirits, a few recipes to add variety to your menu. These are all tested, sampled and most emphatically approved by your humble scribe.
The Incredible Grapefruit
1 oz. Patrón Silver
.25 oz. Patrón Citrónge
1 oz. Fresh Grapefruit Juice
Splash of club soda
3 Lime wedges
METHOD: Muddle lime wedges into a mixing glass, then add Patrón Silver, Patrón Citrónge, and grapefruit juice. Shake well. Strain into rocks glass. Top with splash of club soda and a squeezed lime wedge on top.
Maxim Gingerita
2 oz. Patrón Reposado Tequila
.5 oz. Fresh Lime Juice
1 oz. Elixir G Ginger Mix
METHOD: Combine ingredients in a mixing glass with ice. Shake well. Strain into a glass over ice.
The Ultimat Superhero
1.5 oz. Ultimat Vodka
2.5 oz. White Grape Juice
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Also, when I wean, can I replace our normal feedings with whole milk? If so, do I use a bottle or sippy cup?
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Hope and fear mix as hostage situation drags onBy CAMPBELL ROBERTSON
The New York Times | February 03,2013AP Photo
Alabama State Trooper Kevin Cook, center right, is surrounded by the media at a news conference Saturday in Midland City, Ala. Authorities said they still have a line of communication with an Alabama man accused of abducting a 5-year-old child and holding him hostage in a bunker since Tuesday.MIDLAND CITY, Ala. The vigils continued in and around this southeastern Alabama town on Saturday. They were held in private homes, at the gazebo next to City Hall and, perhaps most somberly, on the grassy hill where swarms of federal agents are watching the underground bunker where they say a man named Jimmy Lee Dykes has held a 5-year-old boy hostage for more than four days now.
Law enforcement officials are still saying little about attempts to rescue the boy, who was kidnapped Tuesday when Dykes raided a school bus and killed the driver. Officials have been in constant communication with Dykes through a plastic pipe that he originally installed, a neighbor said, to eavesdrop on trespassers from within the bunker.
The bunker has food and electricity, and Dale County Sheriff Wally Olson said in a news conference Saturday that it also had blankets and an electric heater to get through the near-freezing temperatures at night. He added that toys, coloring books and medication had been passed into the bunker for the boy, who has Aspergers syndrome and attention-deficit hyperactivity disorder.
He did not say if it is known whether the boy has been taking the medicine.
Its one thing when youve got your mother and grandmother giving it to you every day, said state Rep. Steve Clouse, whose district includes Midland City.
Perhaps suggesting that Dykes is following events from his bunker, Olson concluded the short news conference by offering gratitude to Dykes for allowing officials to pass on such necessities.
I want to thank him for taking care of our child, the sheriff said. Its very important.
The Daily Mail of London reported on Saturday that Dykes had initially requested to local authorities that he deliver his grievances to a reporter in exchange for handing over the boy. Two people familiar with the early days of the operation corroborated The Daily Mails account, one adding that Dykes had a particular reporter in mind.
Dykes, who has lived in a travel trailer here for about two years, has a troubled past, including arrests on charges connected to drugs, drunken driving and, in Florida in 1995, unlawful display of a firearm. On Wednesday he was due in court in this county, accused of shooting at a neighbor in a dispute over driving on his property.
But the most telling indications of his troubles may lie outside the official record.
At midnight, when people would come home from late shifts, Dykes would be digging with a shovel in the red clay behind his trailer. Or he would be on patrol, walking the perimeter of his compound with a flashlight and a long gun.
Before building the bunker, Dykes made long, snaking mounds out of dirt and odd structures out of cinderblocks. He built the bunker in about three months, said a neighbor, Michael Creel, 28, who described it as 4 to 5 feet wide by 6 feet long, made of plywood and lined with plastic insulation and sandbags.
Creel said he was admiring Dykes okra bed one day when Dykes invited him to see the bunker.
It kind of threw me off the first time I climbed down in there, he said. He said, Climb down in there and holler, see if we can hear you. That was a little bit of a red flag.
Creel said he believed that Dykes had several handguns, including an antique Colt .45, as well as a rifle and a shotgun. Other neighbors said they had heard Dykes firing what sounded like a semiautomatic weapon in the field behind his property.
Creels father, Greg, said he had been subpoenaed to appear in the case involving the dispute with the neighbor. He said Dykes had given him a handwritten letter several pages long, presumably in connection with the trial.
Creel, 65, said he did not want to read the letter and had handed it over to law enforcement. I am sure it gives insight to this mans crazed mentality, he said.
Meanwhile, people in town continue to gather each night at a gazebo on the grounds of City Hall, where they hold candles in salt-filled plastic cups. Friday nights vigil began with announcements: a reminder to eat at the local Ruby Tuesday, which was making donations to the family.
A mother of one of the boys classmates spoke. There were prayers, for the family of the bus driver, Charles Albert Poland Jr., 66; for the boy and his family; even for Dykes.
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The trim tag posted shows a V8 car.
Nice looking car. I'd drive it, daily. Can you also post a pic of the POP?
Thanks!What's the trans code? I squinted and I still can't quite read it.Nice that it got the TH350 trans. Not common in a L6 car.
Trans code is located right above the name Lesley on the POP.Same code is stamped on the trans pan too.


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The first time I ever saw this picture of Jesus laughing, I was transfixed.
There's life in it.
And even now, I still respond to His expressive joy. I laugh. He laughs. He knows how I feel!
This idea that Jesus knows us isn't just a concept; it's actually for real (Whoa!), which isn't quite how I feel when I see a "typical" portrait of Jesus, the kind that defines the image I carry with me when I imagine or speak with Christ.
But now, after two years @compassion (Happy anniversary to me today.), I see Jesus a lot differently. And I see poverty differently.
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Thank you, NarutoBase Staff
Do you really believe this spoiler, chakan? I actually don't. It's full of bias, and in one sentence it even says that Madara dies and Shino has EMS.
Even if I got nothing against Shino, these are the ludicrous spoilers I've seen since really really loong.
I don't trust Spoilers without Pictures.
the translations are hard to understand
For all we know it could some really Desperate No-life making up his own way of the future Manga.
If your mad.
Then theres always a Corner.
spoilers arent real they aint confirmed i dont believe them il only believe ohana
Originally Posted by Zenryoku
spoilers arent real they aint confirmed i dont believe them il only believe ohana
you should lock this
if mangahelpers is not posting spoilers yet then
neither should wee like seriously
Tomorrow morning 6 am canadian time they will be here (eastern)
for now guys please stop posting hope caliburn
erases this garbage.
Yea that spoiler is definitely fake.
Yeah my boy shino is the man hands down. He has been missing so far i would like to see some epicness. His bugs definitely have to be able to taste the white clones and destroy everything they touch. But from what i under in this spoiler it seems either SHino or his father has encounted Madara and either Madara or shino's dad says you killed my son or i killed your son at this moment shino's dad exhales massive bugs from his lungs it seems. dont ask me how i got this haahaha but it also seems like shino's dad dies at the end also in a pile of mud
The true styory about Shino is about to be revealed suckers!!! sooo exciting!!
I hate Google Translate. When people post it on here, it's so frustrating because you think they have a legit translation.
Now I'm more confused than I was before I read that shitty translate. I know you are trying to be "helpful", but it doesn't do anything. Just wait a few more hours to get ACTUAL spoilers. Better yet, just read the chapter. I hardly ever check spoilers.
Aw. So the other spoilers were fake. Wonder where they came from then. I really wish Shino did get some action though. The story focuses to much around Naruto and Sasuke. Im sort of dissapointed.
The chap is Naruto vs Raikage I guess...
well, at least we finally get a glimpse at bijuu dama
kabuto reveals the 6th coffin
Naruto vs Raikage sounds interesting, even if it's irrelevant to the plot. And maybe Kishimoto is trying to tell us something. (Like how Naruto will be able to find Sasuke's Susanoo weakness)
i hope that naruto does not reveal the tbb here. i want it to be used against sasukes susanoo. rather than wasting its epic first time on that useless raikage.
Originally Posted by lord niijima
i hope that naruto does not reveal the tbb here. i want it to be used against sasukes susanoo. rather than wasting its epic first time on that useless raikage.
That's what I was hoping for ... but we can't argue with the artist :D
Originally Posted by pl4tnm
kabuto reveals the 6th coffin
hahaha as if
tbb dont want to be reveled this some ..i like to see in the final finalle against sasuke tht way it will be epic
No Sasuke
It'd be better if the Bijuu Bomb was used against sasugay... but that monkey-looking Raikage is a tough bastard! Must be some kind of Iron Man...
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There is a big difference in the behavior of a database when it is populated with a small amount of test inputs and when it holds a large amount of data. Usually, you would not address these database performance issues early in the development process, but when the time comes, you should take some action to ensure that the application is working correctly with large amounts of data.
The all-Java open-source database Derby is no exception, so you'll have to make sure it will not be a bottleneck to your application. Although you can find comprehensive material on this topic among Derby's manuals, I would like to focus on certain issues in more detail and give some examples from my own experience. I will focus on application performances related to selecting data from large tables.
First of all, there are various tips on how you should tune Derby properties such as page size and the size of the cache. Playing with these parameters can help you improve performance to some degree, but usually the bigger problem lies in your application and database design, so you should focus on these issues first and leave Derby properties for the end.
In the following sections, I will cover some techniques that can help you optimize problematic parts of your application. But as with all other performance-tuning activities, measure and positively identify problems before optimizing.
Let's start with a simple example: We have a "search"/"list" page in our web application that has to deal with a table of nearly 100,000 rows, and let's say that the table is not trivial (i.e., that it has at least 10 columns). I will write an example in plain JDBC so we can focus on database and JDBC issues. The principles explained in this article should be applicable to all Object-Relation mapping tools as well.
In order to give your users the ability to list a large table, you would normally start with the simple query:
select * from tbl
The resulting JDBC code snippet for this would be similar to the following:
Connection connection = DriverManager.getConnection (
Statement stmt = connection.createStatement();
ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("select * from tbl");
ArrayList allResults = new ArrayList();
while (rs.next()) {
// Object-Relation mapping code to populate your
// object from result set row
DomainObject domainObject = populate(rs);
System.out.println("Results Size: " + allResults.size());
Here, we encounter our first problem. Trying to execute code like this and populate 100,000 (or even more) domain objects will almost certainly lead to a
java.lang.OutOfMemoryError as Java runs out of heap space. So for starters, we have to find a way to make this code just work.
As the amount of data in your application grows, the first thing you will want to do is add paging support for certain pages (or views in general). As you saw in the introductory example, simple queries that try to fetch large result sets can easily produce
Many database servers support specialized SQL constructs that can be used to retrieve a specified subset of query results. For example, in MySQL you'll find the
LIMIT and
OFFSET keywords, which can be used in
SELECT queries. So if you execute a query like this:
select * from tbl LIMIT 50 OFFSET 100
your result set will contain 50 rows starting from the 100th result, even if the original query returned 100,000 rows. Many other database vendors provide similar functionality through different constructs. Unfortunately, Derby does not provide such functionality, so you have to stay with the original
select * from tbl query and implement a paging mechanism on the application level. Let's look at the following example:
Connection connection = DriverManager.getConnection(
Statement stmt = connection.createStatement();
ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM tbl");
ArrayList allResults = new ArrayList();
int i = 0;
while (rs.next()) {
if (i > 50 && i <= 100) {
// O-R mapping code populate your row from result set
DomainObject domainObject = populate(rs);
System.out.println("Results Size: " + allResults.size());
With these extra few lines, we have provided "paging" functionality. Although all result sets are being fetched from the database server, only the rows of interest are actually mapped to Java objects. Now we are safe from the
OutOfMemoryError problem that we had before and can be sure that this code will actually work with large tables.
But still, with this solution the database will scan through the whole table and return all rows, and that is certainly a time consuming task. For my example database, this operation takes up to ten seconds to execute, which is certainly not acceptable behavior for the application.
So, we have to come up with a solution; we do not want to retrieve all database rows but only those of our current interest (or at least the minimal possible subset of all rows). The trick we'll use here is to explicitly tell the JDBC driver how many rows we need. We can do this by using the
setMaxRows() method of the
java.sql.Statement interface. Let's look at this example:
Connection connection = DriverManager.getConnection(
Statement stmt = connection.createStatement();
ResultSet rs = stmt.executeQuery("SELECT * FROM tbl");
ArrayList allResults = new ArrayList();
int i = 0;
while (rs.next()) {
if (i > 50 && i <= 100) {
// O-R mapping code populate your row from result set
DomainObject domainObject = populate(rs);
System.out.println("Results Size: " + allResults.size());
Notice that we have set the max rows value to the last row that we need (incremented by one). So, with this solution we didn't fetch only the 50 rows that we wanted, but first fetched a hundred rows and then filter to the 50 rows of interest. Unfortunately, there is no way tell the JDBC driver to start with a certain row, so we must specify the maximum row of the page that will be displayed. This means that performance will be good for early pages and drop in performance as the user browses results. The good news is that in most cases, the user will not go far, but will usually either find what he's looking for in the first few pages or refine the search query. In my environment, execution time dropped from 8 seconds to 0.8 seconds for the above example.
This was an easy example of how to browse the whole table. But when you add certain
WHERE conditions and ordering instructions to your query, things can change dramatically. In the following section, I will explain why this happens and how we can ensure acceptable application behavior in those cases.
Indexes are a very important concept in database design. Since the scope of this article is limited, I will not go into detail about indexing theory. Briefly though, indexes are special database structures that allow quick access to table rows. They are usually created in relation to one or more columns, and since they are much smaller then the whole table, their primary use is to enable quick searching of values in a column (or columns).
Derby automatically creates indexes for primary and foreign key columns and for columns that have unique constraints on them. For everything else, we must explicitly create indexes. In the following section, we'll go through a few examples and explain where and how indexes can be helpful.
But first, we have to make some preparations. Before we can start tuning performance, we need to be able to see what is going on in the database when our query is executing. For that purpose, Derby provides the
derby.language.logQueryPlan parameter. When this parameter is set, Derby will log the query plan for all executed queries in the derby.log file (located in the derby.system.home folder). You can achieve this through the appropriate derby.properties file or by executing the following Java statement:
System.setProperty("derby.language.logQueryPlan", "true");
before you start the server.
By examining the query plan, we can see whether Derby uses indexing for some queries or performs a full table scan, which can be a time-consuming operation.
Now that we have our environment set, we can proceed with the example. Let's say that in our previously used
tbl example table, we have an unindexed column called
owner. Because the sorting of the result is the usual suspect for poor query performance, I will illustrate all performance-tuning examples on problems related to sorting. Now, if we wanted to modify the previous example to sort our results by the value of this column, we would change our query to something like this:
SELECT * FROM tbl ORDER BY owner
If we now run our example with this query instead of the original one, the execution time will be an order of magnitude higher then before. Despite the fact that we paginated the results and dealt carefully with the number of rows to be fetched, the total execution time will again be about 8 seconds.
If we look at the query execution plan in the derby.log file, we can easily spot the problem:
Table Scan ResultSet for TBL at read committed isolation
level using instantaneous share row locking chosen
by the optimizer
This means that Derby performed look-up throughout the entire table in order to sort the row set. Now, what can we do to improve this situation? The answer is simple: create an index on this column. We can do that by issuing the following SQL statement:
CREATE INDEX tbl_owner ON tbl(owner)
If we now repeat our previous example, we should get a result similar to the one we got without ordering (under one second in my case).
Also, if you look into derby.log now, you will see a line like this (instead of a line like the previous one):
Index Scan ResultSet for TBL using index TBL_OWNER
at read committed isolation level using share row locking
chosen by the optimizer
which means you can be sure that Derby used our newly created index to get the appropriate rows.
We have seen how indexes helped us improve performances of sorting data by a column value. But what would happen if we tried to reverse the order of sorting? For example, let's say that we want to sort our example data by owner column but in descending order. In that case, our original query would be something like this:
SELECT * FROM tbl ORDER BY owner DESC
Notice the added
DESC keyword, which sorts our result set in descending order. If we run our example with this modified query, you'll notice that the execution time increases to the previous rate of 8 to 9 seconds. Also, in the logfile, you will notice that the full table scan was performed in this case.
The solution is to create a descending index for the column in question. For our
owner column, we can do that with the following SQL statement:
CREATE INDEX tbl_owner_desc ON tbl(owner desc)
Now we have two indexes for this column (in both directions), so our query will be executed with acceptable performances this time. Notice the following line in the query log:
Index Scan ResultSet for TBL using index TBL_OWNER_DESC
at read committed isolation level using share row locking
chosen by the optimizer
which confirms that our newly created index was used. So, in case you often use queries that sort results in descending order, you may think of creating a suitable index to achieve better performances.
Over time, index pages can fragment, which can cause serious performance degradation. For example, let's say we have an index, created some time ago, on the
time_create column of our
tbl table.
If we execute the query:
SELECT * FROM tbl ORDER BY time_create
we can get poor performance, much as if we didn't have an index at all. If we look into the query plan log, we can find the source of our problem. You will see that index scan has been used, but you can usually find a line similar to the following one in the log:
Number of pages visited=1210
This means the database performed a lot of IO operations during index search, which is the main bottleneck of this query execution.
The solution in this case is to recreate the index (i.e., drop and create it again). This will make the index defragmented again and save us from a lot of IO operations. We can do this by issuing the following SQL statements:
DROP INDEX tbl_time_create
CREATE INDEX tbl_time_create ON tbl(time_create)
You'll notice that execution time drops to an acceptable value (under one second). Also, in the log file you will now find the following line:
Number of pages visited=5
As you can see, the execution time dropped significantly because the database had to perform only a few IO operations.
So, the general rule of thumb is to make your application recreate indexes on a regular basis. It's best to schedule a background job in your application to do this every now and then.
Thus far, we have concentrated on simple, single-column indexes and simple queries that can be tuned in this way. Single-column indexes created on
owner and
time_create columns will help us with the queries we'll use to filter or sort their values. Even the following query:
SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE owner = 'dejan'
AND time_create > '2006-01-01 00:00:00'
ORDER BY time_create
will have acceptable performances. But if you try to execute this query:
SELECT * FROM tbl WHERE owner = 'dejan' ORDER BY time_create
you will get a very long execution time. This is because of the extra sorting step that the database needs to perform in order to sort data.
The solution for these types of queries is to create an index that will cover both the
owner and
time_create columns. We can achieve this by executing the following query:
CREATE INDEX tbl_owner_time_create ON tbl(owner, time_create)
With this index in use, the query performance will dramatically improve. Now, notice the following lines in the analyzer log:
Index Scan ResultSet for TBL using index TBL_OWNER_TIME_CREATE
at read committed isolation level using share row locking
chosen by the optimizer
We have helped the database by letting it use a handy index to quickly find already sorted data.
The important thing to notice in this example is that column order in the
CREATE INDEX statement is very important. Multiple-column indexes are optimizable by the first column defined during index creation. So, if we had created the following index:
CREATE INDEX tbl_time_create_owner ON tbl(time_create, owner)
instead of one we used previously, we wouldn't see any performance benefits. That is because the Derby optimizer could not consider this index as the best execution path and it would simply be ignored.
Indexes can help us improve performance when data selection is in question. But they slow down database insert, and delete and possibly update operations. Since we not only have table structure, but various index structures, it takes longer for the database to maintain all these structures when data changes.
For example, when we are inserting a row in a table, the database must update all indexes related to columns of that table. That means that it has to insert an indexed column value in the right place in the appropriate index, and that takes time. The same thing happens when you delete a certain row, because the index must be kept ordered. Update actions affect indexes only when you update indexed columns, since the database must relocate those entries in order to keep indexes sorted.
So, the point is to optimize database and application design according to your needs. Don't index every column; you might not use those indexes, and you might need to optimize your database for fast inserting of data. Measure your performance early and identify bottlenecks; only then should you try to implement some of the techniques provided in this article.
In this article we have focused on just a small subset of performance-related issues you can find in everyday development tasks. Most of the principles shown here could be used (with some modifications) to any relational database system available. There are many other techniques that can help you improve the performance of your application. Caching is certainly one of the most effective and widely used approaches. There are many caching solutions for Java developers (some of them, such as OSCache or EHCache, have open source licenses) that could serve as a buffer between the application and database and thus improve overall application performance. Also, many object-relation frameworks used in Java projects (such as Hibernate) have built-in caching capabilities, so you should consider those solutions as well, but that's the material for another discussion.
Dejan Bosanac is a software developer, technology consultant and author. He is focused on the integration and interoperability of different technologies, especially the ones related to Java and the Web.
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Healthcare entrepreneurs, like most business owners, consider themselves good stewards of their own financial fiefdoms.
And that may be true – up to a point. Spending on office leases and company vehicles is pretty routine – and what business owner hasn't read up on Six Sigma to learn how to cut costs?
But that point ends when it comes to healthcare spending.
Healthcare spending is the pulsating lava of the business capital landscape, forever changing shape and direction and leaving even the brightest bean counters unsure of where their healthcare budgets are going next.
Maybe that's why so many healthcare business owners spend so much on healthcare for their employees – and they likely don't even know it.
That's the conclusion of new research that was freshly published in the American Economic Review (August 2011 edition). The article, titled "Unhealthy Insurance Markets: Search Frictions and the Cost and Quality of Health Insurance," was penned by James Rebitzer, an economics professor at Boston University School of Management, assisted by Mark Votruba and Randall Cebul (both at Case Western Reserve University's Weatherhead School of Management), and Lowell Taylor from Carnegie Mellon University.
In it, the authors acknowledge that business healthcare plans, especially ones for small business, are notoriously dynamic, and can change all the time. They also openly wonder why this is so, and why business owners routinely change plans (probably to gain more coherence and get a better price). That "turnover" should open up competition among healthcare plan providers, Rebitzer says.
But business owners likely engage in turnover behavior, and price-chasing tactics, because they're just not comfortable with how healthcare plans are supposed to work. And they aren't getting much help from providers. In the end, like a dog chasing its own tail, startup owners usually wind up paying more than they should for a good plan for their workers.
The authors do have an idea why this is so. After all, "if markets are competitive, plans of similar value should be offered at similar prices," notes Votruba. "It's costly to switch plans, so if employers are switching plans all the time, it suggests that something is impeding competition."
What the researchers found was a phenomenon they dubbed "search friction" – a mindset that leads business owners to overplay their financial hand when shopping in the health insurance market.
Essentially search frictions occur when consumers – in this case business owners – cannot adequately compare "all of the options available in the marketplace".
"Consumers have hundreds, sometimes thousands, of different options, and each plan has its own unique set of benefit details," Votruba explains. "In this complex environment, it's hard for consumers to find the plan that offers them the best value. What our paper shows is that this 'shopping problem' has important implications for how market competition plays out. If consumers have a hard time evaluating value, competition becomes less about value, and more about marketing."
Evidently, search friction allows for a "back door" for health insurance providers to collude to drive prices up, and not down.
This from the report:
A hallmark of markets with search frictions is that the law of one price breaks down. Instead of competition forcing all insurers to offer similar plans at a similar low price, frictions enable many insurers to profitably pursue high margin/low volume strategies. The net effect is that consumers end up paying more for their health insurance – 29 percent more on average in the small group market – and insurers spend more on marketing.
There's more. Search friction can trigger emotional responses from entrepreneurs, who may not feel fully vested in quality programs, but programs with better rates.
"High turnover rates undermine the quality of health plans by reducing insurers' incentive to finance care that makes their policyholders healthier in the future," Cebul adds. "Why spend money on wellness or disease management programs – programs which yield a return on investment only after several years – for a policyholder who probably isn't going to stick around long?"
Can ObamaCare, if it ever kicks in, help business owners fight back against search friction? Maybe.
"In theory, it should," said Rebitzer, "as long as they are designed so that shoppers can easily evaluate the value that they should expect for the prices of different plans. We will know that the exchanges are successful if turnover rates and marketing expenses decrease."
So stay tuned – more help could be on the way. In the meantime, spend more time calculating your vulnerability to friction over fractions when evaluating healthcare costs.
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by Clare Lochary | Lacrosse Magazine Online Staff
|"I was worried for one period there," says Hall of Fame coach Tina Sloan-Green, "because it didn't seem like I was going to be replaced."
March 12, 2009 was a historic date. When Bryant, coached by Karen Healy, played at Howard, coached by Jessica Morgan, it was it was the first time two African-American head coaches ever met in Division I women's lacrosse.
"I feel like this university doesn't realize the potential this lacrosse team could have in advancing the sport," says Morgan. "So many eyes are watching. If done correctly, it could really take off."
Morgan's February 2009 hire made her just the third active African-American women's lacrosse head coach in Division I, after Healy and Elaine Jones, who has been at UC Davis since 2002. That's an all-time high, much to the relief of coaching great Tina Sloan Green.
"I was kind of worried for one period there, because it didn't seem like I was going to be replaced," jokes Sloan-Green, the National Hall of Famer who led Temple to three national championships before retiring from coaching in 1992.
The Bryant-Howard game wasn't quite at the Super Bowl XLI level. When Lovie Smith and Tony Dungy faced off in the NFL's most prestigious game before an audience of millions, it was a watershed moment for a league with a lopsided ratio of black players and white coaches. Women's lacrosse has a different problem: the relative invisibility of minority participants.
"You don't see black refs, you don't see black coaches, you don't see black players. I was the only black girl on 90 percent of the teams I've played on, I would guess," says Morgan.
Exclusivity, both real and perceived, had dogged the game of lacrosse and stifled its growth. Some of the barriers exist well beyond the scope of the lacrosse community — namely, that cities with dense minority populations often have too little green space to devote to field sports like lacrosse.
But some things can be done. Morgan founded Coast to Coast Lacrosse, a nonprofit to mentor minority girls through lacrosse and encourage academic excellence. Before joining the NCAA ranks, Healy worked for Metro Lacrosse in Boston, one of the country's largest and most successful urban lacrosse organizations. US Lacrosse has its BRIDGE program and a dedicated diversity committee working to break down more barriers.
Most recently, the IWCLA recognized the color gap at the coaching level and initiated Project IRM (Identify, Recruit, Mentor). The program, funded by a grant from the NCAA and support from US Lacrosse, pairs 10 minority college students and assistant coaches with head coaches to shepherd them through their careers. (The original idea was to match the participants with minority mentors, but it's easy to do the math on why that didn't happen.)
Project IRM's inaugural 2009 class includes Eboni Preston, an assistant coach at Division III Endicott (Mass.) College. Preston, a 2008 St. Bonaventure grad and former Bonnies goalkeeper, got the chance to travel to the 2009 US Lacrosse National Convention on Project IRM's dime. The trip was a priceless opportunity for a young coach looking to network. The small-town feel of the lacrosse community is what many people love best about the game, but what feels cozy to insiders can seem daunting to newcomers.
"Lacrosse is a very tight-knit world. A lot of people know each other, and a lot of connections are going around, and it's hard to get into that circle," says Preston, who is African-American.
Now Preston has a powerful ally with her Project IRM mentor, Quinnipiac head coach Danie Caro. Caro, past president of the IWCLA, is about as well-connected a person as you'll find, and she has connected Preston up with some summer camp jobs. It's a promising step towards a more diverse lacrosse world, the one that Sloan-Green was worried she'd never see.
"Once people see the President of the United States can be an African-American, you don't know what that does for young African-American men and women in this country. It's the same thing in different roles. It makes it realistic. It makes you say, 'If she can do that, I can do that,'" says Sloan-Green.
You have to believe it can happen. You have to say it out loud. And then you need it to be reinforced by the people around you. That's what Morgan did when she was a college student dreaming about her future. As the granddaughter of Howard alums, she mentioned to someone that she thought the Bison program would be a cool job.
Five years later she heard through the lacrosse grapevine that the position was actually open, and jumped on the opportunity. Now Morgan takes her team on conditioning runs past the White House. Change is in the air in Washington, D.C., in more ways than one.
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Salmon Salad Soft Taco
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Griddled Pecan Butter & Fig Jam Sandwich
Dark Pumpernickel Bread
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Thomas Creek Appalachian Amber
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Sundried Tomato Sauce Busting with Basil and Oregano
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Kurtis Blow released his self-titled debut in 1980, and more than three decades on the hip-hop classic still resonates. The album's standout cut "The Breaks," which essentially exists as the flipside to Ice Cube's "It Was a Good Day," finds Blow, born Kurt Walker 54 years ago, touching on the various road blocks life can throw up. Whether it be the IRS coming to collect or the loss of a job, the pioneering MC greets each hurdle with a shrug, rhyming, "These are the breaks."
This idea of taking life as it comes is certainly solid advice, and it's fair to say Blow has adopted the approach as his own. In the '90s his music gradually started to take a backseat to his faith, and in 2009 the rapper became an ordained minister. These days he splits his time between the stage and the pulpit, though the message tends to be the same no matter the venue: be courteous, treat your fellow man with respect and when life throws a punch simply absorb it and keep striding onward.
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One of the most common questions I get asked is about the ability to maintain strength and muscle tissue once eating a plant-based diet. Following is a typical question and my response. I've recently switched to a plant-based diet am having trouble maintaining muscle mass even though I am constantly eating. What's wrong?
In today's hectic, fast-paced world, we are inundated with nutrient-lacking foods. Consumed mostly for convenience sake, processed and refined foods have led us to a decline in health and have elevated medical costs. Having to consume more of them to "fill up" due to their absence of usable nutrients, yet high sugar and calorie counts, we have become an obese, energy-depleted society. Back a few years in my more conventional-thinking days, I would try to gauge my caloric intake requirements based on my activity level and body weight. Eating about 8000 calories on heavy training days, as determined by my calculations, I would usually need a rest day soon after. I realize now, a large part of my need for the extra rest day was not just to recover from the energy expended during training, but primarily from the energy expended digesting all that food!
At the time I would eat lots of starchy, high carbohydrate foods such as conventional pasta and bread. Roasted nuts, usually in the form of peanut butter, would also be a large part of my high-calorie yet low-nutrient diet. As these are hard for the body to digest and assimilate and have little to offer in terms of nutrients, I was actually robbing myself of energy with every bite. By consuming more easily assimilated foods, you can conserve a large amount of energy. There are two main reasons for this:
* Nutrient-rich easily digested foods can be assimilated with less expenditure.
* When more nutrient-rich foods are present in the diet, the body does not have to eat as much as if it were fed "average" foods.
As a direct result, not as much needs to be eaten and therefore digested. This is a huge net energy gain, to be spent as you please. If the body is left to decide, it will likely choose improved immune function and quickened restoration of cells damaged by stress–essentially, "anti-aging; activities. Once I realized the value in nutrient density, assimilation, and absorption of food, I began eating in terms of net gain with no adherence to calorie consumption guidelines. Instead, I focused on consuming nutrient dense, easily assimilated foods. As a result my recovery rate has significantly improved. I no longer need an extra day to recover from eating copious amounts of conventional food. Enhanced by simple means of increased efficacy, my body now pools its retained energy resources to recover more quickly from muscle damage associated with training. Today, I consume about 30% fewer calories than I did just two years ago yet have more energy through conservation, as opposed to consumption.
Instead of feasting on common refined foods, I now consume whole foods almost exclusively. Raw, alkalizing, enzyme intact, living foods have become the foundation of my diet. Switching my main carbohydrate source away from refined starches to whole fruits and vegetables was my starting point. In doing so, the majority of my energy needs, obtained from primarily carbohydrate, were now being met by a wide variety of fruit and whole grains. Raw nuts and seeds, with an emphasis on hemp and flax as well as legumes supply me with protein and essential fatty acids. The majority of vitamins and minerals I require come from fresh, raw vegetables–dark leafy green in particular.
You can more easily maintain hydration by consuming whole foods raw instead of eating them dried, processed, and cooked. Specifically, foods that offer a superior net gain are:
* alkaline forming, high in chlorophyll
* rich in enzymes, raw and alive
* rich in pre and probiotics
* best consumed in liquid form
By implementing some of these suggestions, you can not only maintain strength and lean muscle tissue on a plant-based diet, but you can also increase both significantly.
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Talking Points: The hub of a new universeJeb Wallace-Brodeur / Staff Photo
Lars Hasselblad-Torres sits in a common area at the community workspace Local 64 in downtown Montpelier.
MONTPELIER — In these days of incredible technological connectivity the old exhortation to think globally and act locally has been upended by the ability of anyone with a Wi-Fi connection and a smartphone to have skin in the game be it political, social or cultural. Armchair dreamers can now leverage this new age of connectivity to shape change from as near as the corner store to continents away. And Cabot resident Lars Hasselblad-Torres dreams big.
"We should be building technological core competencies in school," he says enthusiastically about a Vermont future in which science and math education take center stage. "Middle school kids should be learning (programming languages) C, Java and HTML. We have a need to be training young people to make their own way."
Artist and entrepreneur, technological enthusiast and inveterate people connector, Hasselblad-Torres is a vocal advocate for a Vermont future in which high-tech game designers share building space with artisan chocolatiers, and where dairy farms and energy farms sit adjacent on the hillsides.
"We need to recognize that density and the clustering of skills and ideas is good for innovation," Hasselblad-Torres recently told the House Committee on Economic Development. "Let's make co-working part of the way we understand community economic development."
To that end, Hasselblad-Torres is walking the talk. In June he leased office space on an upper floor on State Street where he launched Local 64, central Vermont's first co-working hub. Today, more than 30 members use the space that Hasselblad-Torres describes as a "little bit lounge and a little bit hive."
Membership fees range from $15 for a one-day pass to $175 a month for a desk of one's own.
On this early morning there's a lot of buzz. Paintings from a recent art show are propped against the wall. A young woman is perched in a corner lounge chair in apparent solo reverie, speaking directly into the air in front of her. This is quickly revealed as a meeting in progress, albeit telephonically.
There's no corner office here, just a comfortable perch in a corner. The hive metaphor is apt. There's a palpable hum of energy in the space.
"To the great consternation of my family, I don't really have a master plan," Hasselblad-Torres says with humor. "But I think there are three areas about which I am passionate: the arts, education, and the intersection between technology and participation in community. I'm looking for opportunities to get all three elements synched up."
According to Joe Bookchin, head of the state Office of Creative Economy, Hasselblad-Torres could have an important role in how the state looks toward the future.
"Lars has an enviable skill set to accomplish such a task," says Bookchin, "and with the establishment in Montpelier of Local 64, he is ably positioned to speak to a high-tech Vermont future."
Hasselblad-Torres, who is in his early 40s, was raised in an atmosphere of service. His mother was a social worker and sociologist who worked in Asia and Africa while he was a child.
His college education brought him from Southern California, to Washington, D.C.'s Corcoran Museum School, to Brattleboro's School for International Training. He has worked with young adults living in the municipal dumps of Senegal. His work for the advocacy group America Speaks, where he was a field researcher, led to a stint at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he directed the launch of a program during the school's 150th anniversary to create community service by alumni.
Since landing in Vermont he has gone from helping more than 400 Twinfield Union School students create a mural of Peace Tiles at the school, to winning a statewide contest for a beginner-friendly website. This winter, instead of sitting by the woodstove, he launched the Cabot Chili Cook-off followed by a snow sculpture contest.
It is this fluid ability to move from discussions of the high-tech world of cloud conferencing and TED talks to the proper seasoning for a vegetarian chili that is the hallmark of the integrative work-play culture that Hasselblad-Torres and Local 64 embody. It's art openings and game nights back-to-back with a "pitch kitchen" where would-be entrepreneurs can roll out their ideas before an appreciate audience of like individuals and financial angels.
"One of the ways that Local 64 is succeeding is that partnership with the community and the synergy that comes out of it is one of the elements of its success," Bookchin adds. "We're talking about a future with one-, two- and three-person companies. And you might have 15 of them. So if one doesn't work out, others remain."
Linda Setchell likes to joke that she moved into her space at Local 64 before the ink was signed on the lease. "Lars was still putting together the furniture when I moved in."
Setchell had moved to Vermont from Florida in 2005 to take a job in the nonprofit sector doing web marketing. She moved on to launch her own business, Grow Internet Marketing, a few years later. These days she has clients in New York and Boston, as well as such home-grown Vermont businesses as Nutty Steph's, the Middlesex-based chocolatier.
She had a friend who had participated in a co-working space in South America and was intrigued by the idea of moving her business out of her home. One of the clearest benefits, she says, has been the opportunity to see people on a day-to-day basis.
"I say get out, get out, get out of your house," she says. "I have a lot more opportunity now to meet with people face to face, and that is really important, and my clients really like that."
If Hasselblad-Torres has any say, the future of co-working won't end with Local 64 or its Burlington equivalent, Office Squared. He has recently written a white paper for the Vermont Center for Emerging Technologies that illustrates what he calls the "value proposition" in co-working. In the meantime, he envisions that it may take five years or so before Local 64 reaches optimum size.
"I would like to see the model of Local 64 adopted to succeed in other towns. This is something that can work in so many places. But it will be down the road before it becomes profitable. It will be interesting to research how the lines of income from Local 64 flows out into the community."
While the conversation about creative economies and technology has been taking place around the state for the past decade, there's a palpable change to the environment in which that conversation is taking place. Game designers are appearing before the Legislature, the University of Vermont has opened its first "makers lab" equipped with a 3D printer, and our local schools are debating the future of technology education in the state. It is a heady atmosphere and one in which Hasselblad-Torres seems to thrive, a generous presence, always looking to give credit to others and delighting in the opportunity to make connection, to make community.
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The lower steering yoke can loosen where it attaches to the steering rack and pinion, causing the driver to lose control of the vehicle and crash.
For additional information, contact Columbia ParCar Corp. at (800) 222-4653 between 8 a.m. and 4:30 p.m. CT Monday through Friday or visit the firm's website at www.parcar.com
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The recalled items are 2009, 2010 and 2011 Columbia ParCar golf carts, low-speed service and utility vehicles. They are 36- or 48-volt electric vehicles manufactured from July 1, 2008 through June 30, 2011. Vehicles can be identified by their Vehicle Identification Numbers (VINs) located either on the passenger's side left kick panel, in the driver's side storage compartment or on the steering wheel beneath the center cap. The following Columbia vehicles are being recalled:
Eagle (P4E) Golf Vehicle: 2008 Models VIN Range: P4***-**G0231 through G0562 2009 Models VIN Range: P4***-**H0112 through H0302 2010 Models VIN Range: P4***-**I0101 through I0105 2010 Models VIN Range: P4***-**J0115 through J0420 2011 Models VIN Range: P4***-**K0101 through K0343
Shuttle (C6E) Personnel Carrier: 2008 Models VIN Range: TC6**-**G0143 through G0212 2009 Models VIN Range: TC6**-**H0102 through H0129 2010 Models VIN Range: TC6**-**I0101 through I0106 2010 Models VIN Range: TC6**-**J0107 through J0135 2011 Models VIN Range: TC6**-**K0101 through K0106
Tram (C10E) Personnel Carrier:2008 Models VIN Range: TC1E4-*WG0142 through WG0206 2009 Models VIN Range: TC1E4-*WH0101 through WH0132 2010 Models VIN Range: TC1E4-*WJ0108 through WJ00112 2011 Models VIN Range: N/A
Summit (SM/SUV) Utility Vehicle: 2010 Models VIN Range: SU*F4-4*J0109 through J0116 2011 Models VIN Range: S**F4-4*K0101 through K0106
Utilitruck (EU4, EU24) Utility Vehicle:2008 Models VIN Range: U#***-**G0156 through G0253 2009 Models VIN Range: U#***-**H0102 through H0175 2010 Models VIN Range: U#***-**I0102 through I0102 2010 Models VIN Range: U#***-**J0106 through J0154 2011 Models VIN Range: U#***-**K0101 through K0124 (Note: # after U represents either a 2 or a 4.)
Scout (S10E) Utility Vehicle: 2008 Models VIN Range: US1E*-*ZG0157 through ZG0241 2009 Models VIN Range: US1E*-*ZH0117 through ZH0178 2010 Models VIN Range: US1E*-*ZI0101 through ZI0103 2010 Models VIN Range: US1E*-*ZJ0104 through ZJ0147 2011 Models VIN Range: US1E*-*ZK0102 through ZK0126
No injuries were reported.
Consumers should contact local ParCar dealer for a free inspection and repair as required.
ParCar dealers from July 1, 2008 to July 31, 2011 for between $5,000 and $12,000.
Columbia ParCar Corporation, of Reedsburg, Wis.
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There are reports of dozens of additional injuries, but no word on the number or severity of those injuries.
Sugarland, who was performing at the fairgrounds have tweeted "We are all right. We are praying for our fans, and the people of Indianapolis. We hope you will join us. They need your strength."
Sara Bareilles was on stage just before the stage collapsed. She tweeted "I'm speechless and feel so helpless. Please send love and prayers to Indainapolis tonight. My heart aches for the lives lost."
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NEW YORK (Real Money) -- If you ask me, we could do worse than 2% to 2.5% growth. That's the level of activity that Union Pacific
Why do I believe Koraleski has a bead on things? Because he's just about the biggest shipper of building materials, coal, oil, grain, chemicals and autos -- and that's pretty much everything that gives you a feel for what a nation can grow.
I was incredibly encouraged after speaking with Koraleski, because he is at the heart of the changing face of American industry due to the energy boom. Given the tight environmental noose on many pipeline developments, Union Pacific has stepped up by building new track everywhere and linking the wellhead to the refineries. That's a ton of jobs. I know from Frank Semple -- CEO of Markwest
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Just the sheer volume of oil shipped is pretty amazing. Union Pacific moved more oil this quarter than it did all of 2011, and it is just beginning to ramp. If the Keystone pipeline doesn't get built, by the way, that oil will come via Union Pacific. If it does get built, this company will ship the pipe.
Autos isn't really an American story, unfortunately. The North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) has given Mexico such an edge that I expect far fewer jobs to be generated from autos than what would otherwise have occurred at this stage of the cycle. However, Union Pacific is the shipper that controls Mexico -- through partnerships with Kansas City Southern


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Atari: Eden Studios not closed, Test Drive Unlimited 2 support still ongoing
Atari is refuting reports that developer Eden Games was shut down.
Atari fiscal report has revenue down, closes Eden Games
Test Drive Unlimited 2 developer Eden Games is no more as Atari close their doors. This decision comes in the wake of the latest fiscal report from the publisher, which sees revenue down.
They report $51.3m in revenue from FY2012, down from the previous $77.8m. Losses were almost halved at least, from $8m to $4.8m. Eden Games' assets will be sold off entirely.
Ex-Eden Games devs form Blossom Minds, "done with AAA"
Former talent behind Test Drive Unlimited 2 and Alone in the Dark have created a new studio called Blossom Minds, and want "original and quality" digital titles.
Their first videogame is due for launch in 2012. They're after "smaller games" with "big production polish." Whooping AAA titles aren't welcome anymore.
Eden Games blast "Atari mismanagement" over June layoffs
Test Drive: Unlimited creator Eden Games is less than happy with Atari right now, who they blame for "mismanagement" through so many "leader changes at its head".
They also said those bosses "did not hesitate to get rich" despite the financial strife in the company. Eden has been "extremely collaborative" with Atari until now.
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A former Eastern New Mexico University student, convicted of vehicular homicide last year, was back in court on Wednesday. This time, Tiffany Rodgers is accused of violating terms of her probation.
Rodgers, 21, was convicted last summer in connection with the death of 15-year-old Matt Foley. She was sentenced to six months in the Lea County Detention Center, followed by 2 1/2 years of house arrest.
Rodgers served her time in RCDC, but was arrested on Friday in Lea County. Officials said she was in a vehicle with a man she was not supposed to associate with, according to the terms of her probation. Police said they found methamphetamines and a firearm in the vehicle, also violations of her probation. Prosecutor Donna Mowrer said Wednesday that Rodgers was on house arrest and was not supposed to leave her home unless she was going to work or church.
Rodgers entered a plea of not guilty to the allegations of probation violation. Ninth Judicial District Judge Joe Parker said if she is found guilty, Rodgers will be incarcerated until June 7, 2007.
Rodgers did not have an attorney to represent her on Wednesday, but is expected to have one when her case goes to court at 3 p.m. on Oct. 28.
Mowrer requested Rodgers' bond be changed from $10,000 cash-assurance to $10,000 cash only.
Judge Parker agreed to the bond request, and Rodgers remained in custody at RCDC.
Rodgers, a Lovington native, was a student at ENMU in February of 2002 when Foley was killed while walking to a friend's house.
Reports of the accident show Rodgers, 19 at the time, drove a vehicle that hit Foley on Roosevelt Road P, then drove off without seeking medical assistance.
At her sentencing last year, Judge Robert Brack specifically addressed Rodgers about meeting all the conditions of her release from custody, something he said she didn't do prior to reaching a plea agreement with prosecutors in the case.
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NEW YORK ( TheStreet) -- The number of "underwater" homeowners fell at its fastest pace ever in the third quarter. Unfortunately, about one in five homeowners with a mortgage still owes more than the home is worth, and if those who are close to being underwater are included, the figure remains a dismal 39%.
That higher "effective" negative rate includes homeowners whose equity, or current home value minus remaining mortgage debt, is less than 20%. After paying a sales commission and other selling costs, such a homeowner may not have enough money left for a down payment and other costs of buying a new home.
At 39%, that's a lot of homeowners who are effectively trapped in their homes, unable to move, for example, for a new job. This is one reason the inventory of homes for sale is relatively low, hampering the housing market's recovery.
Still, the trends are positive. Zillow
"Rising home prices and a greater willingness among lenders to engage in short sales have both contributed substantially to the significant decline in negative equity this quarter," Zillow Chief Economist Stan Humphries says. "We should feel good that we're moving in the right direction and at a fast clip.
"But negative equity will remain a factor for years to come, and must be considered part of the new normal in the housing market. Short sales will remain a persistent feature of the market as many homeowners remain too far underwater for reasonable price appreciation alone to help."
Home prices soared by more than 12% over the past year or so, helping to get millions of homeowners above water. But Zillow expects home appreciation to slow to about 3.8% over the next 12 months, making it harder for underwater homeowners to move into the black. Nearly 56% of underwater homeowners are deeply underwater -- by 20% or more.
Las Vegas and Atlanta have the worst underwater rates, at 39.6% and 38.2%. San Jose and Denver have the lowest, 7.6% and 11.9%.
What do you do if you are underwater? The first step is to estimate just how deep you are by looking at prices of comparable homes using sites such as Zillow.com, Realtor.com and Trulia.com
If the home still suits you, muddling along is probably the best option. For an ordinary sale, you'd have to come up with other money to make up the difference between what the home will fetch and what you owe your lender.