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An "intimidating" garden, bristling with barbed wire and surrounded by dying plants to symbolise the tragedy of the migrant crisis, is to be the star attraction at one of London's most genteel horticultural events.
The landscapers behind the display at this year's Hampton Court Flower Show said they had been "moved and upset" by images of fleeing families.
London-based co-designers Tom Massey and John Ward said: "Accounts of refugees fleeing brutal regimes, violent conflict and persecution to find shelter inspired the design of our garden.
"It's staggering to think one million people were so desperate they put themselves at the mercy of smugglers and attempt to cross the Mediterranean. So many thousands didn't make it and we think the whole world was shocked by the images of three-year-old Alan Kurdi washed up on a beach in Turkey."
The 18-metre wide circular garden, called Border Control, has two-metre fences topped by rolls of razor-sharp security wire, with a moat around a lush wildflower meadow "safe haven" accessed via a turnstile and probably manned by a man posing as a border guard who will check visitors' passes.
Outside the fence, plants growing in a landscape of rubble will be starved of water and nutrients to make them wilt, representing the suffering of refugees.
Mr Ward, of John Ward Garden & Landscape Design in Acton, said it was important the "political" garden "should not be overly negative… but also have bursts of survival and colour that represent the strength, dignity and hope that these people show".
He said the wildflower garden will be revealed to have many non-native flowers, representing the intermingling possible when a country accepts displaced people. He said: "It is important to get across the theme of successful integration so it is not seen as a 'them and us' message."
The outer ring will be planted with non-native plants from nations worst affected by conflict, including Syria and countries in Africa, South America and Asia. It is hoped that refugees will help with the planting of the garden which is sponsored by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees. The world's biggest annual flower show is held from July 5-10. Dave Green, show manager for the Royal Horticultural Society, said: "I hope the garden makes a difference to peoples' perceptions and reinforce the idea that there are people all over the world who are in desperate need of help and support."
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First off,let us just say that this is going to be the BEST REUNION SHOW in the History of REALITY SHOWS.
The drama began almost immediately with Kenya being the ringleader of it all. Almost as soon as Andy Cohen started asking his questions, Kenya would BUT IN and try and embarrass her castmates. For example, Andy tried to delicately talk about Apollo's current FEDERAL LEGAL ISSUES . . . and Kenya kept calling him a JAIL BIRD . . . and saying that he needed to be in JAIL for what he did to her friend. It was OUT OF LINE and rude.
But Kenya's antics were PARTICULARLY geared towards NENE. Kenya called NeNe out for the RECENT release of her mugshots, and for the fact that she no longer works on GLEE. Kenya was dishing SHADE .. . but it was done in a very MEAN SPIRITED WAY . . . and you could tell that everyone on the set was starting to CATCH FEELINGS.
But while Kenya was on camera trying to TURN UP . . . NeNe was behind the scenes plotting her REVENGEH. According to our snitch, during one of the breaks, NeNe got in Porsha's ear . . . and convinced her that Kenya was "TAKING OVER" the reunion, and that she needed to be stopped. This happened about 8 HOURS INTO the shooting . . . after Porsha had drank a FULL BOTTLE of champagne on her own. So she was DRUNK and IMPRESSIONABLE.
When they resumed filming. Kenya tried Porsha - by making comments about what Porsha ALLEGEDLY did with sex toys and her ex-husband Kordell's BOOTYHOLE. But Porsha, who was amped up on LIQUOR and NENE'S GAS . . . blacked out. She jumped up and PUNCHED Kenya in the face. She then GRABBED KENYA BY HER WEAVE and started dragging her LITERALLY across the stage . . . all the while punching her in the head.
IT WAS A MESS. Bravo apparently did not have proper security, so the beating lasted longer than any other fight on Reality TV. We have to be clear . . . this wasn't no Bad Girls Club type of cat fight ... Porsha actually BEAT THAT LADY AZZ . . . like some WORLDSTAR SH*T!!!
After the beating, the tone of the reunion changed, with everyone talking about how violence is never the answer, and how what Porsha did was out of line. The producers went to GREAT LENGTHS to try and patch things up with Kenya and Porsha last night. But as of the time that they LEFT THE SET AROUND MIDNIGHT . . . Kenya was still talking about FILING CRIMINAL CHARGES against Porsha.
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J.C. Penney buys into LDI for closed plan
Strategy is revealed in unusual webcast: 'Pensionomics'
J.C. Penney Co. Inc. executives intend to move to a liability-driven investing strategy over the next five years for the company's $4.1 billion defined benefit plan.
The new approach will result in a 75% allocation to fixed income, up from 20%, and a reduction in equities from 70%, which includes 5% in private equity.
"We want ultimately to get to 100% bonds," said Robert B. Cavanaugh, executive vice president and CFO of the Plano, Texas, company.
The strategy was revealed in a webcast Penney executives conducted June 18 for securities analysts and investors. Called "JCPenney Pensionomics Class," it was devoted exclusively to pension plan investment and financing, and lasted almost three hours.
The webcast featured Mr. Cavanaugh; Michael D. Porter, Penney vice president and treasurer; Sal Saggese, Penney vice president and chief accountant; Michael Smith, consulting director at Russell Investments; and Richard E. Jones, principal and chief actuary at Hewitt Associates Inc. Russell and Hewitt are consultants to the Penney pension plan.
Penney designed the webcast to "show you we have a new game plan with significant risk reduction" to the pension plan and corporation and to reveal "what action steps we see over the next several years ... and finally where we see the ... game plan several years down the road," Mr. Cavanaugh said.
Penney is moving to LDI as a result of closing its plan to new entrants as of Jan. 1, 2007. Because of concerns about underfunding and locking in losses, it did not adopt the strategy until now, Mr. Cavanaugh said.
The plan was 93% funded as of Jan. 31. Last month, the company contributed $340 million in Penney stock to the plan, hiring Evercore Trust Co. as independent fiduciary to manage the stock. The stock contribution raised the funding of the plan to between 104% and 110%, making the timing better for moving to LDI. The plan has $3.7 billion in pension liabilities.
During the webcast, Mr. Cavanaugh gave no time frame for the move to 100% bonds, noting "some logistical issues" Penney will have to overcome. "How do you unwind private partnerships" in private equity and real estate, he asked. To begin, Penney will make "no new allocations, no new commitments" to private equity and real estate "and take cash generated by those private partnerships and redeploy (it) into fixed income."
Penney's current asset allocation is 45% domestic equity; 20% developed international and emerging markets equity; 5% private equity, including venture capital, buyouts and international; 10% real estate, both private market partnerships and public market real estate investment trusts; and 20% fixed income.
Mr. Porter said, "Our current investment strategy has a heavy weighting toward equity with its higher expected return. As we go forward, our liability growth slows and then becomes negative. ... We can now shift from equities to a more stable bond portfolio. As the economic characteristic (of the pension plan) changes, it becomes more bondlike: higher cash flows and more predictable. This allows us to transition to a fixed-income-weighted portfolio with its lower expected return but also with its lower risk and volatility ... yet still be matched to our liability characteristics going forward."
Penney is the only major company that moved to LDI in the past year, primarily because the market meltdown left most other corporate plans underfunded, analysts said.
St. Joe Co., Jacksonville, Fla., announced June 25 it annuitized $93�million of its pension plan liabilities by transferring $101�million in assets to Massachusetts Mutual Life Insurance Co. The annuitization will reduce the company's risk and raise the plan's funding ratio to 260% from 145%, William S. McCalmont, St. Joe executive vice president and chief financial officer, said in the statement. Once the deal is completed, the plan is expected to have $73 million in assets and $28 million in liabilities.
LDI variation
Michael A. Moran, vice president at Goldman Sachs Group (GS) Inc., New York, said of the St. Joe strategy: "You can think of that as another variant of LDI. With that part of the plan they could have done LDI internally and put it in fixed income so they match those obligations, or alternative they could put them with a third party and have them do it for us. I think for some companies it tends to be more expensive to do it with a third party. But the concept is the same. ... If you were doing LDI, that obligation would still be the company's responsibility."
The best time to move to LDI is when a plan is overfunded and closed to new entrants, Mr. Moran said, especially when the size of the plan is big enough for volatility to affect the company's financial position. Companies with underfunded and open plans would lock in obligations with little chance for investment growth, putting a further financial burden on sponsors to contribute more, Mr. Moran added.
"From an LDI perspective, a lot of companies that didn't do it (before the market collapse) feel they can't do it now because they would lock in liabilities," Mr. Moran said.
Penney executives hosted the webcast "to provide clarity ... and to eliminate any investor uncertainty regarding our financial risk, cash flow, balance sheet, capital structure and EPS earnings volatility" Mr. Cavanaugh said. He called Pensionomics "the continuous financial optimization process for the management" of the pension plan promise. The webcast was accompanied by a 65-page slide presentation.
"We conducted the Pensionomics class and webcast because it's a great way to make our pension plan better understood by the financial community," Penney spokesman Quinton Crenshaw said in a statement, noting "we've never had a dedicated call or webcast related to this topic."
Mr. Moran said aside from General Motors Corp. and Ford Motor Co., he doesn't know of another company that has ever devoted such a lengthy presentation to its pension financing.
Mark Ruloff, director of asset allocation at Watson Wyatt Worldwide Inc., Arlington, Va., said Penney's public revelation of its strategy was highly unusual, especially since the company is just starting the radical restructuring. He couldn't point to a similar example.
"While companies want to inform shareholders ... to explain risk reduction to their plans and its reflection in market valuation, it's still rare to do it in a public fashion," he said.
Lower returns
Once completed, Penney's move to LDI will decrease the expected return on assets to 7% from 8.4% and reduce volatility of investment returns to 6% from 13.2%. As a result, return on assets per unit of volatility will rise to 1.2% from 0.6%, according to the presentation.
In its transition to LDI, Penney also plans to move fixed income to a long-duration portfolio from a short-duration one.
Penney expects no contribution requirements to its plan at least through 2014 and potentially none again as the closed plan's liabilities ultimately fall through attrition.
"We have a new game plan with significant risk reduction ... and transition action (to LDI) and thirdly the key goal, as always, is you want to enhance shareholder value," Mr. Cavanaugh said.
The strategy seeks to instill employee, customer and shareholder confidence, Mr. Cavanaugh said. "We have to win with all three."
Penney's longtime use of mark-to-market pension accounting has been the driving force behind its historically well-funded plan, as well as its new LDI strategy, he said.
"The accounting liability has it all wrong," Mr. Cavanaugh said. "The tax liability has it all wrong. Those are not the real liabilities. The economic liability — it's real simple — is the liability we always managed to. From that liability, we then try to match the investment strategy and the contribution strategy. That goes into all the annual impacts," including financial, capital structure, earnings-per-share volatility and the plan's funded status.
"The interaction, the feedback loop for optimization is all those items impacting corporate financial flexibility."
Last month, Penney devoted a 36-minute webcast to explaining the financial engineering of contributing its stock to the pension plan, noting that move raised the company's estimated earnings per share for 2009 by 2 cents, to 77 cents.
That stock contribution, fully tax deductible, "will eliminate all of our taxes due and payable in 2009," totaling $131 million in federal, local and state taxes, Mr. Cavanaugh said in the webcast. The move thus increased the company's cash flow by $131 million, which it plans to use, coupled with $209 million in corporate cash, to buy back $340 million of debt in the open market. He called the transaction "a financial arbitrage opportunity ... and a tax-deductible equity-for-debt exchange, which helps us re-equitize our balance sheet and deleverage our capital structure."
"It's all about management optimization ... and minimizing our long-term costs and risks," Mr. Cavanaugh said in that webcast.
"We could have contributed cash" to the pension plan instead of stock, Mr. Cavanaugh said. "We do have an excellent (corporate) liquidity position ... but we wanted to ensure ... liquidity in the uncertain (economic) environment."
Unlike Penney, most companies use amortization, or smoothing, accounting for their pension plans. "As a result, in the JCP model, when actual and expected returns vary substantially (as they did in 2008), the market-related value of plan assets can diverge substantially from the fair value of plan assets — taking a disproportionate toll on the income statement relative to companies adopting more aggressive accounting (smoothing) methods," according to a June 16 report by J.P. Morgan Securities Inc., New York.


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Increasingly social media sites and media driven conversations are herding people into like-minded circles, and our connections to those who differ from us politically, socially, economically, and culturally are becoming rarer. We hear what we agree with; we listen to those who preach what we believe. This is equally true in religious arenas, and many might argue that the inability or unwillingness to listen to and understand the belief systems of others contributes to fear and hostility between followers of different faiths.
In a society that is growing more multi-cultural every year, where it is possible to live next door to those whose faith may seem foreign or mysterious, the ability to listen carefully, accept differences, and articulate one's beliefs without antagonism or coercion on either side has become more than a matter of social etiquette. For a half-century, interfaith dialogue has been a means of striving for peace, overcoming ignorance and indifference, and building bridges of understanding and compassion between adherents of different faith traditions. Yet the effort also has many critics, who argue that it involves mostly like-minded people and that it leads to little more than vague statements and resolutions about our shared humanity.
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In an August 5 speech before the Young America's Foundation's National Conservative Student Conference, National Review editor Rich Lowry lightened up the crowd of high school and college-aged conservatives with jokes on such topics as Osama bin Laden's reputed polygamy and Lowry's fantasy of hitting Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-NY) with a car. Lowry is a frequent guest on PBS' The NewsHour with Jim Lehrer.
Lowry discussed President Bush's efforts since the September 11 terrorist attacks to combat terrorism; he noted that U.S. authorities have failed to capture Al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, who as recently as December 2004 has released statements supporting the violent insurgency in Iraq. But "it's not a very comfortable existence on the run," Lowry explained, because the U.S.-led war on terror has disrupted his "quiet weekends" with his numerous wives:
LOWRY: But he [Bush] got what was most needful and what needed to be done in the wake of 9-11. We obviously went in to Afghanistan and cleared out the Taliban and Al Qaeda. Osama bin Laden is still on the run, but it's not a very comfortable existence on the run. Osama bin Laden watchers say prior to 9-11 he liked to spend quiet weekends at home with his wife, his wife, his wife, his wife, and his children -- and that's no longer the case.
Earlier in the speech, Lowry disclosed that he lived in New York City and followed with this quip:
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Robert Moyerman, 87, recently ran 7½ miles. What would be a trying distance for many much younger people is a routine workout for him, a man who epitomizes "staying active."
Moyerman has been attending the Community College of Rhode Island part time for 22 years, holds three certificates and has completed136 credit hours. Known to many on the Knight Campus as "Bowtie Bob" for his characteristic tie, he is a great-grandfather, a World War II veteran, a retired chemist and consultant, a former atomic scientist, an avid runner and an amateur carpenter. He can be found on the campus almost every weekday morning and has been taking classes one at a time since retiring in 1990,compelled by simple curiosity, the force that has defined his life.
Moyerman grew up in Atlantic City, N.J., and attended Rutgers University for one semester before joining the Army in 1943. The Air Force was a part of the U.S. Army at that time and Moyerman volunteered to fly, receiving training in first aid, machine repair and radio communications.
He was assigned to a B-29 bomber, the largest and most advanced warplane of its day, famous for being the type that dropped the atomic bombs on Japan. Moyerman and his crew – including a pilot who liked to practice for potential emergencies by coming in for landings with one or two of the plane's four engines switched off – flew out of Guam for bombing missions over Japan.
Moyerman's primary job was to operate and monitor the airplane's radio, though transmissions were few for fear of enemy interception. This made the dangerous missions seem routine.
"It wasn't any different than a training mission for me," Moyerman said. "Most of the time I was just sitting by the radio waiting for instructions that never came."
But there were close calls, such as when Moyerman had to stand on the plane's bomb bay doors during a mechanical emergency and hope they could support his weight; or when the plane burned too much of its fuel evading enemy fighters and had to land on Iwo Jima, the island famous for the iconic "Raising the Flag on Iwo Jima" photo.
When the war ended, Moyerman returned to Rutgers University and graduated in 1949 with a degree in chemistry, always one of his favorite subjects.
"I like the experimentation part," he said." I'm always curious. Whatever it is, I'm always curious."
1951 was a momentous one for Moyerman: He graduated from the University of Alabama in February with a master's degree in chemistry, got his first car and driver's license, moved to White Plains, N.Y., to take his first job as a chemist and got married in May.
Moyerman worked for a company that was contracted to make atomic reactors. He did a lot of mechanical work on this job and was fascinated to use an early version of the computer called the comptometer, a machine that looked and operated like an old cash register.
"That was my first experience with a mechanical device to make calculations," Moyerman said.
This encounter gave him an interest in computers that he would not indulge until many years later at CCRI.
Over the years Moyerman moved to take a series of jobs all over the Northeast, including in Maryland, New Jersey, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, New York and East Providence. His family ultimately settled in Warwick. Moyerman worked as a research chemist for the U.S. Navy, helped build fire extinguishers and worked with surfactants, weed killers and textile dyes. He eventually became a consultant and traveled frequently before retiring in 1990.
"It wasn't all my curiosity," Moyerman said about his many job changes. "I picked jobs that didn't last long … but it's not like today. Every time I left a place I got another job, usually before my last paycheck."
Almost immediately after retiring, Moyerman decided he needed to stay active and continue to learn. Having been away from school for almost 40 years,he came to CCRI to indulge his long-dormant interest in computer technology, which he sensed was about to become important in the world.
"I said, 'There's probably a lot I don't know that's new.' In fact one thing I didn't know was computers – I only knew comptometers!"
His first class was Introduction to Computers. "In the beginning it was just one class and I didn't know if I would take another," Moyerman said, "but that turned into a second and a third. I stayed with computers and then I went into the Engineering Department and took a course in computer maintenance."
Moyerman earned a certificate in computer programming in 1994 and walked in that year's commencement ceremony. Then he returned for more computer courses – "I have probably exhausted all the courses in that particular department," he said – and took many more in drama, law, oceanography, physics, music, renewable energy and even hospitality.
He has since completed certificates in Computer Networking and Lean Manufacturing, in 2001 and 2004 respectively.
"You should always learn something," Moyerman said. "You don't have to go to college to learn – you could read a book to learn – but you should always learn something."
Moyerman always takes one course per semester in the spring and fall. "I took a summer course once but it interfered with my summer," he said.
He can be found almost every morning when the Knight Campus opens, drinking a coffee from Lessing's Cafeteria and then sitting in the academic computer lab researching whatever he feels like learning next.
Moyerman is also fond of visiting staff members throughout the building, which gives him quite a following as "Bowtie Bob." Computer Studies Professor Anthony Basilico bestowed the nickname on him and it has become a trademark, so much so that he gets comments and giggles on the rare days he forgets to wear it.
Despite his long academic career, he said he cannot single out a favorite course above any others: "I've just been lucky that I picked courses that I really liked to take," he said.
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Pine Bark Stew
This name comes from the fire, not the ingredients. After a good day of fishing old-timers found it easy to make a quick fire on shore with pine bark. Pioneers wouldn't have wasted a drop of the bacon fat, but you can discard some if you'd like.
1/2 pound bacon or salt pork, cut up
2 large onions, finely diced
9 cups water
16-ounce box of dry hashed brown potatoes
28 to 32-ounce can of diced tomatoes
1 cup ketchup
Salt, pepper to taste
Tabasco sauce
About 3 pounds of skinless, boneless fish cut in bite size
Serves 6 to 8
Fry the bacon in a large cast iron skillet and stir your onions into the hot fat until they're translucent. Add water, bring everything to a boil and stir in the potatoes, tomatoes and ketchup. Cover the pot and keep it over medium to low heat for 15 minutes to soften the potatoes. Increase the heat and stir in your fish until it turns white and firm. Season to taste and pass the Tabasco.
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4 lean, meaty pork chops
Salt, pepper
2 tablespoons vegetable oil
4 medium potatoes, scrubbed and thinly sliced
Medium onion, sliced thin
Green bell pepper, seeded and sliced
15-ounce can cream style corn
Serves 4
Trim any excess from the chops and sprinkle them with salt and pepper. In a large skillet, heat the oil, brown the chops on both sides and arrange your potatoes, onion and pepper on top. Add a half-cup of water, cover and cook over low to medium heat until the vegetables are tender. Put the finished chops and vegetables on serving plates and stir the corn into the pan juices, scraping up browned bits. Spoon this corn gravy over the meat and potatoes.
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Best Bets can link to recommended Web sites, data stores, and documents. When a user includes a keyword or one of its synonyms in a query, the search results page features links to its associated Best Bets above the core results, along with its definition. This enables the administrator to guide users toward recommended locations and authoritative pages.
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In the URL box, type its Web address.
In the Title box, type the link text for the Best Bet link.
In the Description box, type text to display beneath the Best Bet link.
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Each Best Bet entry that is associated with a keyword includes links to Edit, Order, or Remove the Best Bet.
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To remove a Best Bet from a keyword, click Remove.
Note: A Best Bet can be added from the Select existing best bet list only if it is in use in at least one keyword. When a Best Bet is no longer in use in any keyword, it is deleted.
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In the Publishing section of the Add Keyword page, you can set a Review Date for keyword reviewers. To do so, follow the procedures in the earlier section Add keywords.
Those asked to review a keyword by a certain date will receive an alert to do so. When the expiration date has passed, they will receive another alert. These alerts include a link to the Manage Keywords page. Those notified must have the permissions required to Display the Manage Keywords page. They can then use the Keywords Requiring Review link to filter the page to display the keywords that require review, or the Expired Keywords link to display the keywords that have expired.


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Organized Labor
Adopted by the CCAR at the 96th Annual Convention of
Trade Unionism traditionally is important to the well-being of America as a whole,
and to minorities, including the Jewish community in particular. Primarily concerned
with the large working class, it is perforce one of the strongest supports and most
secure foundations of our democracy. The Nazis in Germany, opposed by the trade unions
more forcefully than from any other sector, were compelled to destroy the unions
before they could consolidate their power. The recent upheavals in Poland are further
proof that organized labor and the democratic spirit go hand in hand.
the Central Conference of American Rabbis
We Jews have always found support in the labor movement, whether it be for Israel or for domestic concerns.
Resolution: The CCAR reiterates its traditional support of organized labor and calls upon its members to help establish local conferences of religion and labor, and to remind their congregants of the importance of a strong, effective, and responsible labor movement to the health of American society.
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- #273778In computer science, a B-tree is a tree data structure that keeps data sorted and allows searches, insertions, and deletions in logarithmic amortized time. It is most commonly used in databases and filesystems.
In B-trees, internal nodes can have a variable number of child nodes within some pre-defined range. When data is inserted or removed from a node, its number of child nodes changes. In order to maintain the pre-defined range, internal nodes may be joined or split. Because a range of child nodes is permitted, B-trees do not need re-balancing as frequently as other self-balancing search trees, but may waste some space, since nodes are not entirely full. The lower and upper bounds on the number of child nodes are typically fixed for a particular implementation. For example, in a 2-3 B-tree (often simply referred to as a 2-3 tree), each internal node may have only 2 or 3 child nodes.
A B-tree is kept balanced by requiring that all external nodes are at the same depth. This depth will increase slowly as elements are added to the tree, but an increase in the overall depth is infrequent, and results in all leaf nodes being one more hop further removed from the root.
B-trees have substantial advantages over alternative implementations when node access times far exceed access times within nodes. This usually occurs when most nodes are in secondary storage such as hard drives. By maximizing the number of child nodes within each internal node, the height of the tree decreases, balancing occurs less often, and efficiency increases. Usually this value is set such that each node takes up a full disk block or an analogous size in secondary storage. While 2-3 B-trees might be useful in main memory, and are certainly easier to explain, if the node sizes are tuned to the size of a disk block, the result might be a 257-513 B-tree.
A B-tree of order m (the maximum number of children for each node) is a tree which satisfies the following properties :
Every node has <= m children.
Every node (except root and leaves) has >= m/2 children.
The root has at least 2 children.
All leaves appear in the same level, and carry no information.
A non-leaf node with k children contains k – 1 keys
The B-tree's creators, Rudolf Bayer and Ed McCreight, have not explained what, if anything, the B stands for. The most common belief is that B stands for balanced, as all the leaf nodes are at the same level in the tree.[citation needed] B may also stand for Bayer, Branching Tree, or for Boeing,[citation needed] because they were working for Boeing Scientific Research Labs at the time.
Sridhar R
Nothing is illegal, Until You Get Caught
- #273779Node structures
Each internal node's elements act as separation values which divide its subtrees. For example, if an internal node has three child nodes (or subtrees) then it must have two separation values or elements a1 and a2. All values in the leftmost subtree will be less than a1 , all values in the middle subtree will be between a1 and a2, and all values in the rightmost subtree will be greater than a2.
Internal nodes in a B-tree — nodes which are not leaf nodes — are usually represented as an ordered set of elements and child pointers. Every internal node contains a maximum of U children and — other than the root — a minimum of L children. For all internal nodes other than the root, the number of elements is one less than the number of child pointers; the number of elements is between L-1 and U-1. The number U must be either 2L or 2L-1; thus each internal node is at least half full. This relationship between U and L implies that two half-full nodes can be joined to make a legal node, and one full node can be split into two legal nodes (if there is room to push one element up into the parent). These properties make it possible to delete and insert new values into a B-tree and adjust the tree to preserve the B-tree properties.
Leaf nodes have the same restriction on the number of elements, but have no children, and no child pointers.
The root node still has the upper limit on the number of children, but has no lower limit. For example, when there are fewer than L-1 elements in the entire tree, the root will be the only node in the tree, and it will have no children at all.
A B-tree of depth n+1 can hold about U times as many items as a B-tree of depth n, but the cost of search, insert, and delete operations grows with the depth of the tree. As with any balanced tree, the cost grows much more slowly than the number of elements.
Some balanced trees store values only at the leaf nodes, and so have different kinds of nodes for leaf nodes and internal nodes. B-trees keep values in every node in the tree, and may use the same structure for all nodes. However, since leaf nodes never have children, a specialized structure for leaf nodes in B-trees will improve performance.
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- #273780Algorithms
[edit] Search
Search is performed in the typical manner, analogous to that in a binary search tree. Starting at the root, the tree is traversed top to bottom, choosing the child pointer whose separation values are on either side of the value that is being searched.
Binary search is typically (but not necessarily) used within nodes to find the separation values and child tree of interest.
[edit] Insertion
A B Tree insertion example with each iteration.All insertions happen at the leaf nodes.
By searching the tree, find the leaf node where the new element should be added.
If the leaf node contains fewer than the maximum legal number of elements, there is room for one more. Insert the new element in the node, keeping the node's elements ordered.
Otherwise the leaf node is split into two nodes.
A single median is chosen from among the leaf's elements and the new element.
Values less than the median are put in the new left node and values greater than the median are put in the new right node, with the median acting as a separation value.
That separation value is added to the node's parent, which may cause it to be split, and so on.
If the splitting goes all the way up to the root, it creates a new root with a single separator value and two children, which is why the lower bound on the size of internal nodes does not apply to the root. The maximum number of elements per node is U-1. When a node is split, one element moves to the parent, but one element is added. So, it must be possible to divide the maximum number U-1 of elements into two legal nodes. If this number is odd, then U=2L and one of the new nodes contains (U-2)/2 = L-1 elements, and hence is a legal node, and the other contains one more element, and hence it too is legal. If U-1 is even, then U=2L-1, so there are 2L-2 elements in the node. Half of this number is L-1, which is the minimum number of elements allowed per node.
An improved algorithm supports a single pass down the tree from the root to the node where the insertion will take place, splitting any full nodes encountered on the way. This prevents the need to recall the parent nodes into memory, which may be expensive if the nodes are on secondary storage. However, to use this improved algorithm, we must be able to send one element to the parent and split the remaining U-2 elements into two legal nodes, without adding a new element. This requires U = 2L rather than U = 2L-1, which accounts for why some textbooks impose this requirement in defining B-trees.
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- #273781Deletion
There are two popular strategies for deletion from a B-Tree.
locate and delete the item, then restructure the tree to regain its invariants
do a single pass down the tree, but before entering (visiting) a node, restructure the tree so that once the key to be deleted is encountered, it can be deleted without triggering the need for any further restructuring
The algorithm below uses the former strategy.
There are two special cases to consider when deleting an element:
the element in an internal node may be a separator for its child nodes
deleting an element may put it under the minimum number of elements and children.
Each of these cases will be dealt with in order.
Deletion from a leaf node
Search for the value to delete.
If the value is in a leaf node, it can simply be deleted from the node, perhaps leaving the node with too few elements; so some additional changes to the tree will be required.
Sridhar R
Nothing is illegal, Until You Get Caught
- #273782Deletion from an internal node
Each element in an internal node acts as a separation value for two subtrees, and when such an element is deleted, two cases arise. In the first case, both of the two child nodes to the left and right of the deleted element have the minimum number of elements, namely L-1. They can then be joined into a single node with 2L-2 elements, a number which does not exceed U-1 and so is a legal node. Unless it is known that this particular B-tree does not contain duplicate data, we must then also (recursively) delete the element in question from the new node.
In the second case, one of the two child nodes contains more than the minimum number of elements. Then a new separator for those subtrees must be found. Note that the largest element in the left subtree is the largest element which is still less than the separator. Likewise, the smallest element in the right subtree is the smallest element which is still greater than the separator. Both of those elements are in leaf nodes, and either can be the new separator for the two subtrees.
If the value is in an internal node, choose a new separator (either the largest element in the left subtree or the smallest element in the right subtree), remove it from the leaf node it is in, and replace the element to be deleted with the new separator.
This has deleted an element from a leaf node, and so is now equivalent to the previous case.
Sridhar R
Nothing is illegal, Until You Get Caught
- #273784[edit] Rebalancing after deletion
If deleting an element from a leaf node has brought it under the minimum size, some elements must be redistributed to bring all nodes up to the minimum. In some cases the rearrangement will move the deficiency to the parent, and the redistribution must be applied iteratively up the tree, perhaps even to the root. Since the minimum element count doesn't apply to the root, making the root be the only deficient node is not a problem. The algorithm to rebalance the tree is as follows:[citation needed]
If the right sibling has more than the minimum number of elements.
Add the separator to the end of the deficient node.
Replace the separator in the parent with the first element of the right sibling.
Make the first child of the right sibling into the last child of the deficient node
Otherwise, if the left sibling has more than the minimum number of elements.
Add the separator to the start of the deficient node.
Replace the separator in the parent with the last element of the left sibling.
Make the last child of the left sibling into the first child of the deficient node
If both immediate siblings have only the minimum number of elements
Create a new node with all the elements from the deficient node, all the elements from one of its siblings, and the separator in the parent between the two combined sibling nodes.
Remove the separator from the parent, and replace the two children it separated with the combined node.
If that brings the number of elements in the parent under the minimum, repeat these steps with that deficient node, unless it is the root, since the root may be deficient.
The only other case to account for is when the root has no elements and one child. In this case it is sufficient to replace it with its only child
Sridhar R
Nothing is illegal, Until You Get Caught
- #273785Creating a B-tree
When a large amount of information needs to be put into B-tree form, it might be assumed that simply repetitively inserting the data would be the quickest. In practice this is a slow operation due to the rearrangement of the tree that occurs. It is very much quicker to sort the data first, and then insert it as a monolithic block
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Monday, March 26, 2012
Meyer Lemon Sherbet
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13 comments :
- Phyllis said...
Oh, that looks SO good! I love Meyer Lemons! I saw them at the store yesterday, but didn't pick some up. Now I am sorry I didn't! I am putting this on my bucket list for this summer for sure!
- March 26, 2012 at 8:18 AM
- Sherri said...
That looks delicious! I love anything lemon! :)
- March 26, 2012 at 9:29 AM
- Raising a Happy Child said...
It sounds really delicious. Good tips too!
- March 26, 2012 at 1:14 PM
- Lindsay said...
YUM this looks delicious!!
- March 26, 2012 at 1:42 PM
- Deb Chitwood said...
What an awesome food preparation activity ... so much fun and great for developing a number of skills! Thanks for linking up with Montessori Monday. I featured your post at the Living Montessori Now Facebook page and pinned it to my Kids' Food Fun Pinterest board at http://pinterest.com/debchitwood/kids-food-fun/
- March 26, 2012 at 8:23 PM
- Growing a Jeweled Rose said...
Oh yummy! Can't wait to try this!
- March 27, 2012 at 12:32 AM
- Heather @ Raising Memories Blog said...
oh, I want to reach through the screen & eat some of that!!
- March 27, 2012 at 2:25 PM
- Christine Cline said...
My little chefs will love this! They were shocked to find out that lemons actually grow on tree when they recently made their first fresh squeezed lemonade! Have to try this soon!
- March 27, 2012 at 8:18 PM
- Christy said...
Yum!!! I make a lemon poppyseed cake for Easter and this would be great with it.
- March 28, 2012 at 1:24 PM
- Amie said...
Oh I love anything with lemons in it. I love how you are involving your kids in the preparation and setting it up so it is safe. Well done, Mummy! Thanks for linking up to the Kids Co-op!
- April 3, 2012 at 7:39 AM
This looks delicious! Where did you get your juicer? I have been looking for a child-friendly one. Thanks!
- April 3, 2012 at 9:26 PM
- Kelly at Little Wonders' Days said...
Hi Nicole,
The juicer came with a bag of lemons I bought a couple of years ago. It's actually my all time favorite juicer. Sorry I can't be more help!
- April 13, 2012 at 7:17 PM
- Jeni IGOTTHISMARTHA said...
Sounds so yummy and refreshing! I love anything lemon!
- April 18, 2013 at 8:37 AM


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When we were 18 or so, my buddy Mike and I stumbled onto a bit of fried gold: instead of hosting our own parties — inevitably money-losing affairs with the risk of parental seizure — we'd host parties for others. Our deal was simple: give us a hundred dollars or so, plus any available primary mixing liquor one had; we'd add the donated liquor (inevitably cheap scotch) to our library of mixers in our mobile bar, use the cash to shore up any key items like ice or limes, then spend the night adding a touch of class to your out-of-town uncle's basement.
We'd stay relatively sober, shepherd the young drinkers through the perils of a drunken teen party by keeping things happy but not ridiculous, and even pick up the worst of the damage before we left in the morning. We got to be the locus of fun for the evening, make a little cash, and restock our mobile bar — the customer got to have a stress-free, kick-ass party. I would totally recommend this business model to any of our teenage readers except it's totally illegal. But it made for a fun summer.
Our mobile bar — inexplicably called the "Fun Bus", despite being just a particle board cabinet with casters screwed on the bottom and a hasp for a padlock on the doors — couldn't hold a candle to the "Evolution Mobile Bar" from KegWorks, although to be fair for the $1,900 purchase price we could have funded a whole month of parties from our little wooden box. But I can't help but daydream a little of rolling the folded aluminum case into a client's house, perhaps wearing the white tuxedos we never got around to wearing, and whipping the Evolution out to be filled with garnishes, stemware and a mixing jugs.
For $1,900, though, someone even as klutzy in the workshop as I am could probably make something bigger that could support a proper keg or two. It's odd that a company named "KegWorks" didn't have the same idea.
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Elswet's Roast Chicken
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Just totally awesome. Juicy, flavorful roast chicken. This is a standard at our house. We hope you like it, too.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 4 lbs roasting chickens
- 1 large sweet apple, cored and quartered
- 1 large white onion, quartered
- 1 teaspoon virgin olive oil
- 2 sprigs fresh thyme
- 2 garlic cloves, peeled, pressed
- 1⁄2 teaspoon fresh ground rosemary, measurement after grinding
- 1⁄2 cup brewed coffee, Starbucks Kenya is awesome
- 1⁄2 teaspoon rubbed sage
- salt and pepper
- 3 leaves fresh sage
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- Preheat oven to 350°F.
- Wash, dry, and oil your chicken.
- Place on rack in a shallow open roasting pan. Rub the skin with salt and pepper, rubbed sage, and fresh ground rosemary. Place onion, apple, thyme, coffee, garlic, and sage leaves into cavity.
- Cover the top and sides of the bird with clean white cheasecloth which has been moistened with oil. Place the pan in preheated oven. Do not add water [just the coffee] or cover the pan!
- Baste the chicken from time to time with the pan drippings.
- Roast for 30-45 minutes per pound, depending on chicken size, allowing longer per pound for a smaller chicken than for a larger one.
- About 3/4 through the cooking time, turn the bird breast side up and finish cooking. The chicken is done when the thigh meat is soft when pinched.
- Do NOT pierce the skin with a fork as this allows all the wondermous juices to escape.
- Remove chicken to a heated platter and serve.
- If you do not have access to the oil cloth, loosely cover the bird for the first 3/4 of cooking, turn, and remove cover for the remainder of baking time to allow browning.


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I've been seeing this issue for days now and I might as well put it out before it disappears (which is probably unlikely!).
A recent report from the Environmental Working Group (EWG), which spurred the publication of a Washington Post article, talked about 17,000 chemicals that are being kept secret (their names and properties) from the public under the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Confidential Business Information (CBI) claims.
Under the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), EWG said the chemical industry has been allowed to stamp this "trade secret" claim on the identity of two-thirds of all chemicals introduced to the market in the last 27 years.
EWG said this chemical secrecy presents real threats to human health and the environment.
"The 33-year old law that was supposed to ensure that Americans know what chemicals are in use around them, and what health and safety hazards they might pose, has produced a regulatory black hole, a place where information goes in – but much never comes out." – EWG
In EWG's analysis, the number of confidential chemicals more than quadrupled – from 261 to 1,105. In July 2009 the EPA released the identity of 530 of these chemicals, lowering the number of these moderate- to high-production volume secret chemicals to 575.
At least 10 of the 151 high volume confidential chemicals produced or imported in amounts greater than 300,000 pounds/year are said to be used in products specifically intended for use by children age 14 or younger.
This issue stems from the incoming plan to overhaul TSCA by the EPA.
The American Chemistry Council (ACC) responded back stating that the chemical trade group recognized TSCA's imperfections. The CBI claims, however, are necessary, ACC said, to protect legitimate commercial interests.
In those cases, the EPA requires that generic identifying information be provided. The EPA is also required to disclose CBI if there are significant risks to health and the environment.
"There are no 'secret' chemicals on the market. In those cases where a specific chemical identity has been claimed confidential — in order to protect the significant investment of time, money and human resources that went into the research and development process — the manufacturing and use of that substance must always fully comply with the requirements of the law. " – ACC
The Society of Chemical Manufacturers and Affiliates (SOCMA) also released a statement last week responding back to the Washington Post article. The trade group noted that out of the 84,000 chemicals in the EPA inventory, only 6,200 chemicals were reported in 2006 as currently in use.
SOCMA agreed to the need for the overhauling of TSCA and that that there is overuse of confidentiality claims. SOCMA, however, pointed out that while specific chemicals may be claimed as confidential, a generic chemical name must be provided and health and safety information cannot be claimed confidential.
It looks like everybody is in agreement to overhaul TSCA, then. The problem it seems is what chemicals they have to consider as potentially harmful. Case in point is the possibility of banning bisphenol-A and pthalates.
I do like the proposal of Environmental Defense Fund's Richard Denison when it comes to addressing this issue of "secret chemicals."
Two of his TSCA wish list are for workers to have access to information concerning chemicals to which they could be exposed to during work (I thought they already have that information???), and that federal government, employees at EPA and other agencies charged with the safety assessment of a chemical should have access to all of relevant CBI information.
I'm sure lawyers can come up with something legally tight and binding when it comes to improper disclosures of these information.
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So, since the blood orange season is pretty much over and my attempts at making a blood orange vinaigrette will surely take several more attempts, I decided to set that aside for now and use my last blood orange for a special marinade for grilled chicken.
See, Kalyn over at Kalyn's Kitchen has been grilling up a storm over the past week or so and her beautiful grilled chicken breasts really got me salivating. Plus, she offered a great tip earlier this week to cut slits in the top of a chicken breast to help the marinade really seep in (thanks so much for that tip! It really worked well!).
This yummy marinade also features one of my favorite herbs: rosemary, which I recently wrote about a great foccacia recipe using it. It comes from the Mediterranean region and is known for its memory improving qualities.
- Juice of one pink grapefruit
- Juice of one blood orange
- ½ cup orange juice
- 1 tbsp olive oil
- ¼ tsp lime juice
- 2 tbsp fresh rosemary
- 1 tbsp salt
- 1 tbsp sugar
- Whisk ingredients together in a bowl before using.
To marinate the chicken breasts:
Cut slits in the top of the chicken breast (see above for a photo).
Place in the marinade for at least two hours, but preferably 6-8 hours.
To cook:
Heat your gas grill on medium.
Place chicken breasts on the grill. Turn every 5 minutes or so.
Cook until center is no longer pink.
NOTE: This recipe also appears on Betty Crocker's website, which I worked with as a recipe developer for a number of years.


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New Zealand Breakers forward BJ Anthony will miss two matches after the NBL club suspended him for 10 days for a breach of team protocol.
The club says the 23-year-old couldn't contribute fully to practice on Saturday after a late night out.
It says the decision came from within the team for Anthony to take time out to consider his commitment to the present ANBL campaign after he breached the players' own expectations and standards.
Club management and the coaching staff supported the suspension, with coach Andrej Lemanis passing the news on to Anthony early this week.
Anthony will sit out all team practices, matches and community work up to and including February 16.
The Breakers, the defending champions and competition leaders, play Wollongong twice during that period.
Josh Bloxham will travel to Wollongong with the team on Friday for the encounter with the Hawks on Saturday night.
The teams meet again in Auckland on February 16.
In October, Anthony was given a warning by the club after he was caught drink-driving.


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The Sydney-based mall owner is a relative latecomer to the app game – Coles launched an iPhone app in 2009, for example, and mall rivals Westfield and AMP Capital Shopping Centres already have them. But GPT, which owns Melbourne Central and 11 other shopping centres nationally, says its service does more than those of rivals, including directing customers to stores selling what they want.
The app is part of an evolving trend by which traditional retailers are trying to protect and define their turf in the face of increasing online retail sales by customising offerings to consumers.
"One of the emerging trends over the past few years in particular has been the introduction and rapid development of technology across the community," says GPT head of asset management Matt Faddy. "We looked at this technology and said 'How can we use it to further improve the performance of our shopping centres?'."
The app will guide shoppers around the mall based on the products or services they have said they want to buy, and lets them connect with friends also using the app in the same location. It will allow retailers to push tailored deals to individuals when they are in the mall, help shoppers find their car at the end of the visit and – crucially – give the real estate company demographic and sales information about the human traffic through its malls.
One frustration for mall owners is the limits on technology that delay innovations. GPT's "take me there" function will not work like a car GPS – that will only be available in subsequent versions next year. In the initial version, app users have to respond to drop-down menus to identify their location. The app will then direct them to their destination store.
In the same way, a function that will eventually guide shoppers by GPS technology back to their car – 30 per cent of shoppers forget where they have parked – will not be available immediately.
"At this stage, there have been challenges with navigation in a mall, around malls that go over multi-levels," Faddy says. "That nut's only just now starting to be cracked."
Mall owner Mirvac last week said it had published a website that used "responsive technology" to fit its shape and format to whatever screen or device accessed the site for malls such as Sydney's Broadway Shopping Centre. Next year the company plans to launch an app for all its 18 malls that will encourage people to break out of their established shopping patterns, says Mirvac digital marketing manager Setareh "Setty" Ferdousian.
"Research has shown that customers just want to do their grocery shopping and go," Ferdousian says. "Fashion is struggling in centres. How do we change customers' behaviour to get them to circulate to different areas?"
GPT's Faddy says that by building up profiles of what customers want and how and when they buy it, and by enabling retail tenants to target individuals with specials based on that information, GPT will be able to tailor information to individuals as well as selling targeted advertising.
"We believe one opportunity may come out of using technology to communicate with the people we are already communicating with," he says. "It does open up avenues for new revenue."
While the extra data GPT will gain from this app will give the property manager more information about how well individual stores perform, Faddy says it is not something that strengthens his company's hand when it comes to negotiating leases with tenants.
But he agrees it will give them more information.
"We would have better informed discussions with our retail customers than we may have before," he says. "We know what demographics are visiting at what time [and] will have feedback concerning the good or bad performance of a store."
Still, he says, it will also allow retailers to pick up on failures by the mall owner to respond to complaints or customer feedback.


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ANAHEIM, Calif. -- Toronto manager John Farrell had two significant things to stew about after the Blue Jays lost 6-5 in 14 innings to the Los Angeles Angels.
One was the 18 runners they stranded Saturday night in a game that lasted 5 hours, 3 minutes, and the other was a disputed call by third base umpire Bob Davidson that prevented Toronto from taking a lead in the 13th.
"That was a tough game," Farrell said. "We created numerous opportunities, and yet we couldn't come up with a big hit. The bullpen, once again, did just an outstanding job with nine shutout innings."
Jason Bulger, the last reliever left in the Angels' bullpen, escaped a bases-loaded jam in the 12th by retiring Jose Bautista on a flyball with the bases loaded.
In the 13th, the Blue Jays had two outs and runners at second and third when Edwin Encarnacion hit a slow grounder to the left of third baseman Alberto Callaspo, whose throw to first base pulled Brandon Wood off the bag as Adam Lind crossed the plate. But Davidson, the crew chief, ruled Yunel Escobar out for interfering with Callaspo, and Farrell came out for a long argument.
"Bob Davidson's interpretation of the play was that Callaspo's direction and timing on the ball was altered by Yunel going into third. I obviously disagreed with his view and judgment," Farrell said. "I would still argue the same play all over again.
"I saw that as a slow roller toward the hole and Yunel had his baseline established. He recognized that he's got to give right of way to the defensive player, but that ball was 10 feet away from him. I viewed it as Callaspo was unsure whether (Maicer) Izturis was going to cut him off, which is a very typical play for a shortstop. If that play would happen 10 more times, I'd still have the same thought."
Izturis hit an RBI single with two outs in the bottom of the 14th and Howie Kendrick had his fourth homer in seven games for the Angels. Dan Haren (2-0), scheduled to start Monday night, retired all three batters he faced to get the win. He was the ninth Angels pitcher.
The relief appearance was the first by Haren since Oct. 3, 2004, with St. Louis, and ended a string of 203 consecutive starts by the right-hander.
Jon Rauch (0-1) struck out his first two batters in the 14th before Peter Bourjos hit a drive over the outstretched glove of left fielder Travis Snider for a double after Snider fell down. Izturis then lined an 0-2 pitch to right field to score Bourjos.
Angels starter Matt Palmer retired only 12 of his 24 batters through 4 2/3 innings. He was charged with five runs -- four earned -- and 10 hits after getting recalled from Triple-A Salt Lake to fill in for injured Scott Kazmir.
Toronto grabbed a 5-4 lead in the fourth with three straight two-out hits, including a two-run single by Rajai Davis and an RBI single by Aaron Hill. Vernon Wells, who spent his first 12 big league seasons with the Blue Jays before he was traded to the Angels in January, cut off another run moments later when he fielded Bautista's single to left and made a perfect throw to the plate to get Hill.
The Angels tied it in the bottom half on Bourjos' sacrifice fly against lefty Brett Cecil, who gave up five runs and 10 hits over five innings.
The Angels, who stranded 55 runners in their first seven games, scored three times in the third to take a 4-2 lead. Izturis had a run-scoring single before Bobby Abreu and Wells came through with two-out RBI singles.
The hit by Wells snapped an 0-for-16 drought for the three-time All-Star, who has just two RBIs in 36 at-bats with his new club.
Kendrick, the second batter Cecil faced, drove an 0-2 pitch to left-center for his 36th homer in 1,964 big league at-bats to that point. He didn't hit his fourth home run last season until his 51st game, and tied a career high with 10.
Kendrick finished 2010 with the second-most hits and RBIs among AL second basemen behind the Yankees' Robinson Cano.
"He's squared some balls up," Angels manager Mike Scioscia said. "He has surprising power, but he's a strong guy. I think he's just into a streak right now. I mean, he's not going to be a 30-homer guy, but he certainly has the ability to hit 15 or 20. And he's off to a good start."
- Albie Pearson, an outfielder with the Angels during their first six seasons, threw out a ceremonial first pitch. Pearson's most memorable "photo op" had to be on June 1, 1962, when he and Marilyn Monroe stood at home plate together before an Angels-Yankees game to make a plea to fans for donations to the Muscular Distrophy fund. Just two months and four days later, Monroe was found dead in her home from an overdose of sleeping pills.
- In a pregame ceremony, Army Specialist and Orange County native Daniel A. Foster was presented with the Silver Star Medal for gallantry in action against the enemy during his second tour of duty in Afghanistan in May 2010. He and other members of his unit watched the first two innings from inside the Angels' dugout, where they got to personally congratulate Kendrick on his home run.


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06-07 SRT8 Front Bumper
Looking for an OEM 06-07 SRT8 front bumper. I'm in sacramento California. If you're willing to ship, I'm willing to pay!
Don't care about the color, just need the cover.
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I have a slightly damaged OEM cover off an 06. I bought it used and it still needs minor body work on the lower corner.
I can email you pics if you want, just pm your email.
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Hey I'm interested in the bumper if you still have it. Feel free to pm me, a little damage on it is ok with me
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Timer Switch Hookup
I have a Panasonic Whisper Fan/Light/Heater (FV11VHL2) where the heater has a dedicated 20amp circuit. To run this, I've ordered a Leviton LTB30-1LZ timer switch.
When looking at the directions it has a black, green, white, yellow and red wire coming out of the switch. The actual wiring in the box contains only 3 wires. Can I not use this switch? If not, does anyone know of a different 20A timer switch that would work and might take up less real estate?
According to the directions the yellow/red is used in three way switching applications. "For single pole applications do not remove the insulating label". I would put a wire nut on it.
I know the yellow is the three way but it shows the red being hooked up to the "load" for a single pole application. All I have is a couple black wires and the ground. I can use a volt meter to find out which of the black wires is hot but that still leaves me a wire short according to the wiring diagram.
I noticed that this requires a neutral so that might be the missing piece. I see the neutral wire nutted to some others. Could I just pig tail from That?
I can figure out the load and supply with my volt meter. Is there an easy way to test or figure out if the neutrals that are tied together now are from the correct supply. I may have to take this box apart anyway since this timer is so big that I'm not real comfortable of trying to get it stuffed in there. I think it is a 44cu 3 gange box and with the 12g wires, it is pretty cozy already.
There are, I suppose, ways to test for this, but it would be easier to identify it visually.
You need that white neutral wire to use the timer switch. It requires its own power source to run the timer.
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Blameshift vs. Bobaflex – Rocktagon
The Duells Evansville Hyundai bring you this Rocktagon battle, with Bobaflex returning to face off against Blameshift. Listen to the songs, cast your vote, and find out who wins during Nocturnal Emissions. Voting wraps up Friday at 8 PM Central!
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Cast your vote right here on the site. The deadline to vote is 8pm central time on Friday!
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Does anyone know if it will fit the Taurus 709 slim?thanks. sj
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Does anyone know if it will fit the Taurus 709 slim?thanks. sj
The Limbsaver Pro Handgun Grip model # 12013 fits my Walther PPS just fine. And the PPS is very close to the Taurus 709 Slimline in dimensions. So I would expect that it would fit that Taurus just as well.
The Hogue Handall grips are junk compared to the Limbsaver Grips. And Limbsavers only cost $10, even when ordered direct from the Limbsaver.com website. It is well worth the extra $4 to get a Limbsaver. Your grip will be far more secure and comfortable. And the Limbsaver really does help to soften the sting of recoil.
Here is what the grip looks like on my two Walther PPS pistols:
Pachmayr also makes an excellent grip sleeve.