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How they managed to live out here, I'll never grasp, I think, resting in a spot of shade against a boulder in the Superstition Mountains east of the Valley.
I'm on Hieroglyphic Canyon Trail with my folks, and though we've been chatting the whole way about day-to-day things, my mind keeps going to the long-gone people whose artwork we're hiking to see.
Hieroglyphic Canyon is home to a collection of petroglyphs, drawings etched into stone by the Hohokam, according to every hiking guide I consulted prior to our trip. That civilization lasted from about 1 A.D. to 1450 in these parts.
On our way to the mysterious etchings, I wonder at their creators, who had so little to give protection or comfort from the pointy cactus, rocky terrain and intense sun. It's not so difficult for us these days, with our hiking shoes, sunscreen and hydration packs. And "Hieroglyphic Trail 101" is rated easy on Tonto National Forest's website. The gradual ascent up a well-marked path is do-able for families or occasional hikers.
About 1.5 miles up, the cactus- and creosote-covered slopes give way to a little canyon of smooth rock. It's there that you begin to make out the petroglyphs, pecked into rock faces above several pools of water spotted with bright green algae. (The amount of water varies by season and precipitation.)
The drawings — what look to be people, geometric designs and perhaps bighorn sheep or deer — are bold in some places, faint in others. Unfortunately, more than a few have been marred by modern-day imitations scraped into the rock by nimrods with little talent and even less respect.
If you go, heed the advice of Arizona State Parks' State Historic Preservation Office, whose "Archaeological Site Etiquette" guide reveals that "oils from even the cleanest hands can cause deterioration of prehistoric drawings and ruin the dating potential." In short: Don't touch the art. Capture it with your camera instead.
We hiked Hieroglyphic Canyon in little more than two hours, including some time at the top to rest in the shade, look over the petroglyphs and watch chipmunks scamper among the rocks. We also saw hummingbirds.
Books and online guides say it's possible to continue past the petroglyphs, up the wash and to the Superstition ridgeline above, but the steep route is difficult to discern and requires considerable rock-hopping and bushwhacking. We opted to turn around at the slickrock, making our hike about 3 miles round trip.
I recommend starting early to beat hot temperatures in summer and increasing numbers of hikers as the day wears on.
To get to the Hieroglyphic Canyon trailhead, you'll take a winding route through a neighborhood. Take U.S. Highway 60 five miles east of Apache Junction to Kings Ranch Road. Turn north on Kings Ranch Road, and go 1.6 miles to Baseline Avenue. Turn east. In 0.3 miles, turn north on Mohican Road. Turn west on Valley View Drive, then north on Whitetail Road. Turn east on Cloudview Avenue and follow until the road dead ends in the trailhead parking lot. Parking is free.


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SAINT LEO, Fla. – The Saint Leo baseball program and Head Coach Russ McNickle have announced that veteran Division I Hall of Fame coach Mark Johnson will headline the 2012 edition of 'Opening Night with the Lions', which will be held on January 28, 2012 at Saint Leo University.
"I am excited for my players, the coaches, our families and all those associated with the baseball program to have Coach Mark Johnson to be our special guest this year for our "Opening Night with the Lions", Coach McNickle said. "Every kid growing up playing the game of baseball has idols and players that they inspire to become. I can say the same thing about me as a young coach starting out and who I looked too and who I desired to learn from. Mark Johnson was one of those men that impacted the person and the coach that I am today. I am honored to have him come and spend the weekend with our players."
Retiring as head coach at Sam Houston State in 2011, Johnson served over a quarter century in a Division I head coaching role, most notably as the skipper of Texas A&M where he led the Aggies to five conference titles and 13 NCAA tournament appearances. He has also sent his teams to two NCAA College World Series appearances (1993, 1999).
Moving over to Sam Houston State prior to the 2007 season, Johnson built the Bearkats into a championship-caliber team almost immediately. In his four seasons at the helm he led his former squad to an overall mark of 132 victories and 109 losses. The Bearkats won three of the last four Southland Conference post-season tournament championships, advancing to the NCAA baseball regionals in 2007, 2008 and 2009.
One of his most notable accomplishments came on March 8, 2010 when he became the 44th head coach all-time to total 1,000 coaching victories at the NCAA Division I level, a mark that put him in the elite ranks of coaching.
Johnson was Sporting News National Coach of the Year in 1993 and United States Olympic Committee Coach of the Year in 1999. He is a member of both the American Baseball Coaches Association (ABCA) and Texas Baseball Hall of Fames. In January 2007, the Fellowship of Christian Athletes presented Johnson with the FCA Baseball Jerry Kindall Character in Coaching Award. In January 2008, Johnson was the first recipient of the American Baseball Coaches Association "Ethics in Coaching" Award at the ABCA national convention.
He has also more recently been named the 2012 recipient of the prestigious Left Gomez Award for distinguishing himself amongst his peers by contributing significantly to the game of baseball locally, nationally, and internationally.
You can read his entire bio at Sam Houston State's website by clicking here.
The third annual 'Opening Night with the Lions' is a way for Saint Leo University to formally kick-off the 2012 baseball season as it has become a tradition for Lions Baseball. Previous keynote speakers have included former Major League pitcher Dave Dravecky and front-office executive as well as Saint Leo alum J.P. Ricciardi.
McNickle continued, "The tradition of "Opening Night with the Lions" that we started three years ago gives everyone associated with the baseball program here at Saint Leo University the chance to see two of the university's core values in action – Excellence and Integrity. The tradition continues to grow because of the commitments from our players, the players' families, and our baseball alumni. Also, because men like Mark Johnson want to be a part of our tradition, it will be a special weekend."
The fundraising dinner will be held in the Greenfelder-Denlinger Boardrooms on the Saint Leo University campus and the event is scheduled to get underway at 6:00 p.m. For more information, contact Baseball Head Coach Russ McNickle at (352) 588-8227 or firstname.lastname@example.com.
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ORGANISERS of a new Weymouth street festival are celebrating a successful first day after receiving praise from local residents and visitors.
The Fayre in the Square, which started on Sunday and continues today, has been put on for the first time by the Weymouth Rotary Club.
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The festival, based around Hope Square and the harbourside, was full of people on Sunday listening to live music, eating a variety of foods and buying arts and crafts from stalls.
Entertainment on offer included WOW, Julia Storey's Lets Dance, Replay, and the Weymouth Ukuleleans.
Meanwhile, Jason Bird, senior sensei at the Tanren Dojo in Portland, gave a demonstration of traditional martial arts next to the harbour.
He said: "It's good fun. It's good for people to see.
"The traditional martial arts in the Portland, Weymouth and Dorset area don't get a great deal of publicity, so it's nice to do something a bit more traditional to show them."
Alan Burt, Darron Garnett, and Guy Bridge were responsible for this year's festival entertainment.
Alan said it was 'very much a team effort' and that he was grateful for the help the Rotary Club had received, particularly from Matrix Scaffolding who put the stage up.
He said: "They put up that stage and haven't charged us a penny."
Organiser Dennis Corbett said he was 'absolutely delighted' with the weather and the 'fabulous' turnout.
He said: "We have been working on it for about six months and we really needed was some nice weather."
In among the crowds were a large number of people working on behalf of the Rotary Club, distributing event guides and collecting donations.
Dennis said: "The objective is to raise as much money as we can for good causes.
"In addition to all the entertainers and all of the stalls, we have also run a couple of stalls where we are selling raffle draw tickets, the main beneficiary of those draws will be the Dorset and Somerset Air Ambulance."
There is a full list of events scheduled for tomorrow, running from 10am to 6pm, with more live performances from bands and dancers expected.
Whilst the Fayre in the Square has been operating on one side of the harbour, the Quayside Music Festival has also taken place.
A huge line-up of bands and solo musicians will continue to perform at the Quayside Music Festival tomorrow from midday to 10pm.
We visited the Fayre in the Square earlier today to ask people what they about about the event.
Graham Tyrrell, 55, from Weymouth, said: "The sun was out and we knew this was going on so we thought we would have a look around. It's pretty good because there are a lot of people about. It's nice to see people get out and about in Weymouth."
Ben Pettit, 31, from Whitcombe, said: "It's a good selection of stalls and foods and all sorts. The music's pretty good from both sides. There seems to be a lot of people here. The weather's been better than we thought it would be. It's quite entertaining so far."
Val Ramsay, from Weymouth, said: "I would like it every year. It's wonderful. They have got live music down there. They have got all the stores up here. It's just a nice event. It's got a mix of things."
Charlie Marks, 10, visiting on holiday from Birmingham, said: "I like all the singing and the live music. We might be going tomorrow to see if there's anything different."


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"You're going to hell, Jack Nightingale": They are words that ended his police career. Now Jack's a struggling private detective – and the chilling words come back to haunt him.
Nightingale's life is turned upside down the day that he inherits a mansion from a man who claims to be his father. It comes with a warning that Nightingale's soul was sold at birth and a devil will come to claim it on his 33rd birthday – just three weeks away.
Jack doesn't believe in Hell, but when people close to him start to die horribly, he is led to the inescapable conclusion that real evil may be at work. And that if he doesn't find a way out, he'll be damned in hell for eternity.
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"Kept my attention"
I had no idea what to expect with this novel or this author. I wasn't amazing, or even unique, but it also wasn't predictable. Cop-turned-detective is such an old, played-out concept, and I usually have zero patience for it. The fact that I listened long enough to get into this one is something in itself.
And then the direction it takes is unusual and interesting. Not as dark and scary as I wanted it to be, but maybe it wasn't meant to be that kind of novel. I would recommend this book without reservation.
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"Consistantly Creepy - Excellent Narration"
Part detective novel, part paranormal thriller, Nightfall took the best from both genres and kept me interested from beginning to end. The book is paced well and pulled me into the plot immediately. The subject matter is dark but not overly gruesome. There were a few points when I felt Jack's dialog with secondary characters became a little too repetitive. While the story is unique, many of Jack's "creepy" experiences are things I've seen in horror movies many times over. Regardless, the book was a lot of fun and I'd recommend it. Definitely don't judge the book by the name. "Nightfall" had virtually nothing to do with the story at all. I can think of a dozen better titles.
The narration is excellent and easy to listen to. Within minutes you understand exactly what Jack is all about. Even the female voices are well done and never seem strange or out of place coming from this narrator.
"Loved every minute of it!"
Not a single bit of filler - something for everyone! Mystery, intrigue, psychological and paranormal thriller! Loved it!
"Loved it!"
Sometimes you take a chance and find a hidden gem, sometimes not so much. I really lucked out this time! I had no idea what to expect - bought the title based off the reviews and because (I think) it was in a sale over Christmas and it sounded like something I would enjoy. I did, very much. The story was gripping, enough that it over rode some of my minor annoyances with the writing, particularly the continual reference to Jack's smoking - not sure why there was such an emphasis on that because it really didn't add anything to the plot. There were other parts where I felt some editing would have helped but since I just finished this and about to start the second book in the series within the next 24 hours, obviously not a major hindrance.
"Spooky as Heck!"
It was a good book and I would listen again if I were going on a long drive with someone who has not heard it.
A Stephen King Novel like Tommy Knockers.
The scene where Jack tricks one of the devil's minions.
Selling your soul isn't the only option.
"Fantastic Book"
Two things I have to have when listening to a book...Good Story and Really good Narrater. This book catches you right from the start and doesn't let go. I'll be looking to find something else that Paul Thornley narrated.
The way the story unfolded. It seemed you as the listener went through the thought process with Jack when he's trying to figure out WHAT IS GOING ON.
When he confronts the devil to get his soul back.
"What a gripping tale."
I have never come across Stephen Leather's books before, but if this is indicative of the standard of his stories, I will be looking for more in the future. I was so gripped by the tension of Jack Nightingale being surrounded by death and mayhem as he tries to find out the truth about his birth and the fate that awaits him on his 33rd birthday that I stayed awake half the night listening, because I just had to know what happened next. It is a long book, but my attention never wavered, which is rare. I recommend this as a jolly good 'read' to anyone who enjoys thrillers. A beautiful reading job by Paul Thornley, whose voice was perfect for the character, was the icing on the cake.
"A fantastic audiobook"
I love all of Stephen Leather's books but this in my opinion is his best by far a really gripping listen, the Dan Shepperd books are fantastic but this is totaly different and Paul Thornley in my opinion is a fantastic narrator, try listening to this while walking the dog at night really does make you keep looking behind you.
"Not at all what I expected!"
The book turned out to be very different from what I was expecting: changing from a detective-type story into quasi-religious tale of the supernatural. The first half of the book is very gripping and kept me eager to continue, but I felt latterly it went off too much into contemplating what happens after death and relying on the supernatural. The reader is excellent and his voice suited the main character well.
A word of advice if you've just giving up smoking or trying to do so this book will be torture for you as it is a long advert for a particular brand of American cigarettes beginning with 'M' with so many references to needing a cigarette and the pleasure and relief of smoking that thoughts of 'product placement' kept coming into my mind.
"Enjoyable Yarn"
This book is more Dennis Wheatley thand Stephen King so don't expect gory goings on or aliens in the plot. I loved the narration and it was so good to listen to a British accent for a change. Jack Nightingale is a rather likeable sceptic and although I thought parts of the book dwelt a little too much on death, making it a bit morbid in parts, I really enjoyed it and can't wait to listen to the sequel.
"A good enough listen"
My first Stephen Leather. I'd read so much about him being a mainstream star who'd decided to self-publish that I thought I'd give his work a go. The supernatural theme was unusual and added interest when teamed with the otherwise slightly formulaic device of the jaded detective/PI character (hard-smoking, hard-drinking, world-weary and cynical, with a pretty female sidekick). I've previously enjoyed the narrator's work and a good narrator is key to the success of any audiobook, but on this occasion the narrator was slightly irritating (the emphasis and slight pause on 'said' became wearing after a while: "SAID...Jenny" "SAID... Nightingale"). I will probably look for other Stephen Leather books, but not for a while. This was one of those 'also ran' audiobooks that didn't exactly disappoint but didn't wow either.
"Average story, averagely told"
Not sure why there are rave reviews for this book, it seems a fairly average story told in a very average way. The narrator is excellent but the story is slow paced with meaningless scenes, shallow and repetitive discussions about death and characters that go nowhere and are hard to care about. Maybe it's just me.
"Very different"
An unusual storyline, supernatural but down to earth due to the brilliant narration of Paul Thornley.
Jack Nightingale's birthday is approaching, but he receives the unwelcome news that his soul has been traded and will be given up when he reaches his 33rd birthday. Various people repeat 'You're going to hell Jack Nightingale' and he has a race against time to find out what it's all about and save himself. Very different, looking forward to the next book.
"enjoyable but not very original"
This was an enjoyable enough listen. Well narrated and decently paced, however not terrible original.
This is not a genre I thought I'd enjoy, but being a fan of Stephen Leather's other books I thought I'd give it a go - and I'm glad I did. As with the author's other stories, the characters are completely believable with whom you will associate very quickly. I found myself getting wrapped up in the drama as the story unfolded, which I won't say anything about not to give away the slightest hint. Rather, have a read and find out for yourself. Although this is a departure from the authors usual subject matter, if you've enjoyed any of his other books, I'm sure you'll enjoy this.
Brilliant spooky chilling story keeps you longing for more i loved every minute of this story
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The NSS8 Touchscreen Multifunction Display functions as a stand-alone chartplotter with its internal GPS antenna and built-in GPS cartography. With the addition of a transducer, the built-in Echosounder identifies targets and enhances images of the bottom structure. This chartplotter is designed to be part of a larger navigation system, integrating with AIS systems, HD digital or broadband radar, exclusive StructureScan HD Sonar, instruments, autopilots, and more.
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Pier Solar and the Great Architects: A Megadrive 2010 game
Just came across this, an epic RPG released in '10 as a Megadrive cart to commemorate the console's 20th anniversary.
Impressive SNES like graphics, beautiful pixel art, giant game, amazing audio for the megadrive with the option to play the game with a BGM audio CD if you have a Mega CD, and an epic 64 MEG cart (8MB).
If this game had come out in 1993 I would have shit bricks.
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This is the perfect bag! It holds all your belongings where you can easily find them because it it has so many unique little compartments-you will never be struggling to look for your keys or cell phone again! And the best part, it's super stylish. Everytime I open up a magazine, I see another celebrity carrying the same bag. This is a great quality designer inspired bag, for a fraction of the price-ONLY $48.
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At 8 years-old, Natasha watched the Academy Awards on TV and drew the red carpet fashions she saw, changing them to suit her own ideas. At 13, she enrolled in a pre-college design class
at the Fashion Institute of Technology. At 14, armed with a work permit, she discovered that New York City stores were only hiring 16 and 18 year olds. She put her experience of reading
over a dozen fashion and design magazines each month with her knowledge that fashion jewelry coming into the country made its first stop at NYC's wholesale district, and decided to start her own business.
With a $200 investment, she sold her first pairs of earrings and necklaces at holiday flea markets in churches around Queens, N.Y. Choosing to name the company after a newly coined word, "bling bling," she deeply discounted the jewelry. By spring of the following year she was looking for larger markets and began selling at street fairs around Manhattan and Queens. By 15 and interested in college herself, she used school vacations to sell at Barnard, Sarah Lawrence, and Vassar Colleges.
Natasha founded a charity called The Pearl Project; donating faux pearl necklaces to Dress for Success Worldwide, a national program helping women-in-need accessorize gently-worn
business suits in order to land a good job. Since its inception, The Pearl Project has donated more than 6,000 pearl necklace sets to needy women across the country. A percentage of the proceeds from your purchase will also go toward The Pearl Project.
Natasha attended NFTE's Summer BizCamp, Business Incubator program, and is active in the Foundation's alumni group. She was named NFTE "Entrepreneur of the Year" in 2005. She is a
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Envied for her famous curves and fresh-faced look, Dutch beauty Lara Stone is one of fashion's most sought-after supermodels. Known for her countless editorials and advertising campaigns, the leading lady of Calvin Klein Collection and doting mother-to-be exudes natural It-Girl appeal on and off the catwalk. In honor of her 29th birthday on December 23, we take a look at her best-dressed moments.
Here, she shows off her baby bump in a red Francisco Costa for Calvin Klein Collection dress at the IFP's 22nd Annual Gotham Independent Film Awards.
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The big data trend has met with serious pushback in many IT departments. The testy version goes something like this: "Enough already. I have plenty of SQL data stores with lots of data, and I have all the business intelligence tools my business needs. So exactly what are you taking about?"
Sure, by now everyone has heard of Hadoop and the insight businesses have obtained from mining semi-structured data, but in many cases that value proposition is lost on conventional IT folks. I believe this intransigence is part of the reason an increasing portion of the IT spend is slipping from the hands of the CIO to the CMO and line-of-business managers.
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Last week I interviewed Rod Smith, vice president of emerging technologies for IBM, who has been deeply involved in IBM's big data practice and product development for four years. I asked him why the resistance seems so entrenched in some cases.
As an example, Smith cited a big data Twitter engagement, where a "very large customer in the financial area" with 150,000 business partners wanted to monitor Twitter for information about potential new partners. If, for instance, a new restaurant tweeted that it got an award, it might be targeted with a congratulatory message as a way to begin a new customer relationship involving a loan or credit card.
The reaction of IT was less than enthusiastic, according to Smith, who observed resistance to seeing the Twitter app as a real application with real value:
It's hard to convince the IT guys they're going to do something where, outside, you can get to the Twitter data or the Facebook data. And it's fleeting. It might be useful for a particular campaign you're going to do or the launch of a product, but then it might be disposable at that point. So that makes it really tough for the IT guys to say, yeah, we're going to spend with you here, because we know that we'll build it and you'll use it will have that value over and over again. They can't touch it or feel it the same way anymore.
No surprise, then, that many of IBM's big data engagements begin with the business side. "A line of business or the CMO doesn't want to wait 18 months to have their application on some backlog, while the IT guy tries to figure out whether there's real business value there."


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My Grandmother (by Paula Sue Holler)
July 4th, 2013 — Faith, NC
This seems a fitting thing to do on Minnies daughter's (Alice) birthday. Minnie Kluttz Holler was married to William Earl Holler, a stone cutter by trade. They had 8 children and lived in a little white house on a small farm in Faith, NC on the corner of Granite Quarry road. I am her oldest son's (Moffitt Kell) child. She went to the "Rock church" (ie: Reform Church of Christ) in Faith.
I was one of her youngest grandchildren and really don't remember alot of her before a series of strokes started affecting her health and mind. She was considered by her family to be a woman of great character, meticulas housekeeper, good cook and a talented craftsperson and much admired. She was constantly sewing, kniting, quilting and even made a lovely baby basket for me. She also made a quilt for each of her grandchildren. I remember her as a women of great size and humor..LOL. Always there to help others and enjoy good conversation. Family was everything to her. One of my favorite memories of her was watching her can pears over her wood cookstove, watching her put a cini stick inside each one. There always seem to be a cat around and she enjoyed having one on her lap to pet.
One story I remember being told on her was one day she was out on a drive with her sisters and the car stopped on the railroad tracks. Before they could get it started again, a train came chugging down the tracks. Everyone got out but Minnie, who got stuck in the door due to her generous size. She ended up with a broken arm which I guess is pretty good for being a victim of a train crash. Her family teased her over this and all had a good laugh.
I remember helping my grandmother with her, holding onto a walker, dressed in her huge german bonnett while she lectured that little ladies never want to get freckles on their legs over their knees. That was a sin. I am a redhead (like her) with freckles all over...LOL. Minnies hair was still mostly red when she died.
In the 50's, she came out to visit us in Hawaii where dad (ie: Kell) was in the Navy. I remember her getting off the airplane, and my dad putting a hawaian lei over here head. I don't think she really liked my mother that much because one of the stories were told that Minnie would eat a raw onion, like eating an apple, right before Mom had her friends over. Mom complained that Minnie did this on purpose.
My grandfather died durring the late years of the depression, leaving her with 7 living children. Later on these children lovingly took turns caring for her. She never had to go to a nursing home and I feel that due to this fact is why she remained here for such a long time after becoming ill.


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NEW YORK (AP) — Thanksgiving and Black Friday store hours for several major retailers:
Best Buy Stores — Open at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving until 10 p.m. on Friday.
J.C. Penney — Open at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving until 9 p.m. on Friday.
Kohl's — Open at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving until midnight on Saturday.
Macy's — Open at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving until about 10 p.m. on Friday at most stores
Sears — Open at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving until 10 p.m. on Friday.
Kmart — Open at 6 a.m. on Thanksgiving until 11 p.m. on Friday.
Staples — Open at 8 p.m. until midnight on Friday. Reopen at 6 a.m. until 9 p.m. on Friday.
Target — Open at 8 p.m. on Thanksgiving until 11 p.m. on Friday.
Toys R Us — Open at 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving until 10 p.m. on Friday.
Wal-Mart — Open 24 hours at most stores.
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. said Tuesday that it will start offering its holiday deals at 6 p.m. on Thanksgiving at its stores — two hours earlier than last year.
The world's largest retailer will stagger holiday deals throughout the night and into "Black Friday," the day after Thanksgiving that's traditionally the busiest shopping day of the year.
The company also said that it will increase its stock of TVs by 65 percent and double the number of tablet computers for sale that weekend. It's also bulking up the list of guaranteed popular items that it will sell in designated sections of its store to 21, from three last year.
Wal-Mart is responding to what's expected to be a fiercely competitive holiday shopping season. Black Friday has traditionally been the official kickoff to the period, but in the last few years, that start has crept into Thanksgiving. This year, stores including Macy's Inc., J.C. Penney Co. and Kohl's Corp. are opening for the first time on Thanksgiving evening. And other stores, including Best Buy Co., announced earlier on Thanksgiving.
Most of Wal-Mart's 4,000 U.S. namesake stores are already open 24 hours year-round. But the company is concentrating on offering holiday deals on Thanksgiving.
During a media call Monday, Duncan McNaughton, executive vice president and chief merchandising and marketing officer at Wal-Mart's U.S. namesake division, said the discounter carefully studied the competitive landscape when it decided to start the deals earlier at 6 p.m. Thanksgiving.
"Everyone's moved up this year so it will be a new dynamic," McNaughton said.
For online shoppers, Wal-Mart will be offering special deals starting Thanksgiving morning, some of which will be the same as those offered at the sales events at the stores later in the evening.
The stakes are high for retailers since the holiday season accounts for up to 40 percent of their annual revenue. The National Retail Federation, the nation's largest retail trade group, expects an increase of 3.9 percent to $602.1 billion in holiday sales.
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Question: You have a table of people and a table that specifies the activities each person is involved in. You want to return a result that has one record per person and a column that has a listing of activities for each person separated by semicolons and alphabetically sorted by activity. You also want the whole set alphabetically sorted by person's name.
This is a question we are always asked and since we mentor on various flavors of databases, we need to be able to switch gears and provide an answer that works on the client's database. Most often the additional requirement is that you can't install new functions in the database. This means that for PostgreSQL/SQL Server that both support defining custom aggregates, that is out as an option.
Normally we try to come up with an answer that works in most databases, but sadly the only solution that works in most is to push the problem off to the client front end and throw up your hands and proclaim -- "This ain't something that should be done in the database and is a reporting problem." That is in fact what many database purists do, and all I can say to them is wake up and smell the coffee before you are out of a job. We feel that data transformation is an important function of a database, and if your database is incapable of massaging the data into a format your various client apps can easily digest, WELL THAT's A PROBLEM.
We shall now document this answer rather than trying to answer for the nteenth time. For starter's PostgreSQL has a lot of answers to this question, probably more so than any other, though some are easier to execute than others and many depend on the version of PostgreSQL you are using. SQL Server has 2 classes of answers neither of which is terribly appealing, but we'll go over the ones that don't require you to be able to install .NET stored functions in your database since we said that is often a requirement. MySQL has a fairly simple, elegant and very portable way that it has had for a really long time.
Is the new way always better?
For PostgreSQL and SQL Server, we'll demonstrate more than one approach. Just because we demonstrate newer approaches doesn't make the older approaches obsolete or necessarily worse. Don't feel the need to use something new because it's new. Think of the newer approaches as just extra options that may or may not be faster for your use-case.
Test Table
Below is the script to setup our test tables. This script will work fine for all databases we will discuss here.
The PostgreSQL ways
In PostgreSQL 9.0, PostgreSQL introduced the STRING_AGG function and also the ORDER BY predicate in any aggregate function, which made this task much easier and probably much more efficient as well. Note that in Oracle 11G Release 2, Oracle introduced an aggregate function call LISTAGG which is similar. Details of using LISTAGG and Oracle LISTAGG, the older WM_CONCAT and other string aggregation approaches for Oracle are described in Oracle String Aggregation Techniques.
PostgreSQL 8.4 introduced the ANSI-SQL array_agg function which IBM DB2 also has. Not sure about other databases. This provided another option for doing a string aggregation. Without the ORDER BY feature for aggregates introduced in PostgreSQL 9.0, this option is less powerful.
Here is the PostgreSQL 8.4+ equivalent of a third option that people mentioned is available for SQL Server - the Recursive Window CTE.
One thing that PostgreSQL has always had going for it that both MySQL and SQL Server still lack is phenomenal array support. Arrays are first class citizens in PostgreSQL witha rich set of functions to complement them. They are extremely versatile and make creating things like aggregate functions pretty trivial. For example in MySQL you'd have to become a C programmer to build an aggregate function which is generally out of the reach of most users. In SQL Server you'd have to learn .NET (VB or C#) and write a non-trivial amount of code which is much more accessible than C but not wihtout its issues. In PostgreSQL all you need to know is SQL and write a couple of lines of code to build your own custom aggregate functions. That is just SUPER COOL.
SQL Server Ways
SQL Server has a fairly cryptic way of doing this which one would consider a HACK and repurpose of functionality that was designed for something else. On the plus side, we do find its CROSS APPLY and OUTER APPLY functionality which I crave a lot when working with MySQL and a little with PostgreSQL (PostgreSQL has similar but not quite as elegant equivalents). Not so much for this particular use case.
SQL Server Recursive CTE + Window
Evidentally there is a third way of doing this in SQL Server 2005 that many purists were up in arms about that we neglected to mention.
This is the Window + CTE approach that someone posted on reddit that we revised slightly to be a bit more ANSI-SQL compliant. Note: we listed the PostgrreSQL 8.4+ equivalent of this approach in the PostgreSQL section.
The reason many people prefer this approach is that it doesn't leave any XML entities you have to strip with REPLACE. e.g. if you had & in your original text you would have to use
This is the old tried and true way which should work even if you are in SQL Server 2000 compatibility mode or are stuck using SQL Server 2000
-- SQL Server 2000+ SELECT p.p_name, STUFF(( SELECT ';' + a.activity FROM people_activities AS a WHERE a.p_name = p.p_name ORDER BY a.activity FOR XML PATH('') ), 1,1,'') AS activities FROM people AS p ORDER BY p.p_name;
The MySQL way
Database purists like to make fun of MySQL, but in some ways it's way ahead of others. Its focus has always been to make the common easy and as a result was more advanced than some other databases. Some might say it catered too much to the whims of its users at the expense of doing things the right way. That's another story. This catering is no doubt a large reason for MySQL's popularity. There is something to be said about listening to the needs of users, which I think most other databases dismiss. For example MySQL was the first of these 3 databases to have a LIMIT OFFSET feature, which PostgreSQL later copied, and SQL Server 2010 (Denali) is finally introducing in the form of OFFSET FETCH NEXT. It was also the first to have the MULTI ROW VALUE insert option which was later adopted by PostgreSQL 8.2 and SQL Server 2008 and I think Oracle is yet to adopt. Heck Oracle still has that arcane FROM DUAL stupid requirement to my knowledge. How Oracle users put up with that nonsense I don't know.
UPDATE: As noted by some below and in reddit comments, a GOTCHA of the MySQL GROUP_CONCAT is that it silently truncates your result at about 1024 characters. As noted by another in the reddit thread "You can change the length at server level with group_concat_max_len up to your max_allowed_packet." or as Charles noted at the Session level with
SET SESSION group_concat_max_len = 32768;
In addition it has always had this aggregate function for as far back as MySQL 3.23 days GROUP_CONCAT. It's really convenient to be able to use this on any version of MySQL. Below is how you would use it.
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I predominantly work with MS SQL but also enjoy working with PostgreSQL. You are so right about CROSS APPLY. I've found so many uses for it such as pivoting/aggregating data on a row-by-row basis, building and embedding nested XML nodes and creating comma-delimited lists. It is such a fun addition to T-SQL. I wish PostgreSQL had an equivalent.
#1 Michael on 2010-12-23 01:38
Note that MySQL has a default 1024 character limit for GROUP_CONCAT(), if you try to concat more with this function it will be silently truncated.
You can control the maximum length of a GROUP_CONCAT using the system variable group_concat_max_len. For example, to set it to 32k:
SET SESSION group_concat_max_len = 32768;
GROUP_CONCAT is one of my favorite little MySQL cheats. I was tickled pink when STRING_AGG was added to PG 9.
#2.1 Charles on 2010-12-23 12:47
What is the max length that string_agg can output? Just for some sick fun I tried feeding the last name from a table with 163,840 rows into it and it's returning a big empty string.
Query looks like this:
select string_agg(last_name, ',' order by last_name)
from people;
There is no max. Most likely you are using PgAdmin III which by default won't show anything larger than 256 characters.
In newer versions of PgAdmin, you can override this default by going to File Options ->Query Tool and changing the max characters per column.
#3.1 Regina on 2010-12-23 10:34
There is a limit - it returns a text field, so it can't go above 1GB.
Really. I thought the text field is limitless since my understanding was it would start using toast for storage, or is that only for data in non-temp tables?
If its only a limitation for output would that mean it would be limitless if you bulk inserted to another table.
#22.214.171.124 Regina on 2010-12-23 18:55
No, it's limited. Any TOASTED value should be detoasted to varlena type.
#184.108.40.206.1 Pavel Stehule (Homepage) on 2010-12-24 07:34
To be sure -- try dumping out using psql. I don't think psql ever truncates.
#3.2 Regina on 2010-12-23 10:46
FFS, use COALESCE() in MSSQL!
#4 amt on 2010-12-23 11:31
Ouch. Your people primary key (varchar(75)) and your activities reference (varchar(50)) do not match.
#5 Tom Davis on 2010-12-23 12:16
Thanks for the catch. Fixed.
#5.1 Regina on 2010-12-23 20:08
Thanks, I got it to work dumping from psql and by exporting from pgadmin to a file. Visually pgadmin still doesn't show the data(or at least it appears it isn't there. They need a raw text view instead of a grid view for the data output.
#6 Bob on 2010-12-23 14:33
In the SQL Server world, the XML option is preferred for a few reasons. The most important reason is that CTEs can cause an incredible amount of logical quiery complexity which, in turn, can cause the query optimizer to abandon optimization and produce a less than optimal plan. The XML approach is also well known, tested, and (I suspect) has been optimized.
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It seems that the developers at Bethesda were given a week in which they could create anything they wanted in skyrim and they play their creations. Such creations include dragon mounts, spears, kill animations for magic and bows, mounted combat, being able to build your own house and adoption. There is some speculation that some of this may be released in future DLC but this is unclear at this time.
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Paul Durham is fondly remembered one of the founding fathers of the Linfield College athletic program.
Over 20 years since he left Linfield to become athletic director at the University of Hawaii, Wildcat coaches continue to pass down to their athletes Durham's positive values of sportsmanship and scholarship. Now retired and living in Honolulu, Durham coached football at Linfield for 20 seasons, compiling a distinguished record of 122-51-10 (.694).
He guided the Wildcats to six conference titles and two appearances in the NAIA national championship game. His most outstanding seasons as coach came in 1961 and 1965. In 1961, Durham's Wildcats capped the first unbeaten, untied season in school history with a trip to the "Camellia Bowl" played in Sacramento, Calif. Linfield was the first school from the Northwest Conference to participate in the NAIA football playoffs. The Wildcats narrowly lost the national championship game, 12-7 to Pittsburg State of Kansas. Linfield again finished unbeaten and untied in 1965 and beat Sul Ross State 30-27 in the semifinals before losing to St. John's of Minnesota 33-0 in the so-called "Champion Bowl" played in Augusta, Ga.
In the season-opening football game of 1967, Durham brought the Wildcats to Honolulu, where they beat the University of Hawaii, 15-13, at rainy Honolulu Stadium. After the season - Durham's last as a Linfield coach - Hawaii hired him as its athletic director thanks to that upset win and for other reasons.
Durham was head football coach when Linfield's national record consecutive winning seasons streak began in 1956. The foyer that serves as main entry way into the athletics complex is named in his honor.
Competing in football, basketball and track, Durham was a star athlete at Linfield in the 1930s and is one of the few Wildcats in history to earn 10 or more letters. He graduated from Linfield in 1936, then coached at several area high schools before returning to his alma mater in 1948 to coach football and, starting in 1949, serve as the college's athletic director.
A colorful character, Durham moonlighted for several years as the sports editor of the local newspaper, the McMinnville News Register.


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My name is Gordon Smith and I'm a development engineer on the Flex team at Adobe. I'm not the U.S. Senator from Oregon, so don't bother lobbying me. Besides, I belong to the other party.
After doing a postdoc in theoretical physics, I left academia and got into software engineering. In 1991 I joined Macromedia (which was acquired by Adobe in 2005) and worked for about ten years on a multimedia authoring tool called Director. In February 2002 I was one of four engineers who started working on a new project that eventually turned into Flex. (The other Flex engineer still around from that time is Glenn Ruehle.) So, my involvement with Flex goes all the way back to its inception. It's been fun to watch this baby grow up!
I work mostly on the Flex framework, with some occasional dabbling in the MXML compiler. I've got a lot of experience with ActionScript and MXML and in the Flash and Flex APIs. Much of my work on the Flex framework has been in core classes such as UIComponent, Container, etc. I was deeply involved in revising Flex to use ActionScript 3 and run on Player 9. I'm pretty opinionated about various coding practices. Recently I've been working on runtime localization and framework support for AIR, the new Adobe Integrated Runtime.
I tend to be a practical, detail-oriented guy, not a blue-sky visionary. I try to think about features from the point of view of our developers. I place a very high value on simplicity, consistency, and elegance.
Outside work, my main interests are seeing the world (especially more-remote places like Patagonia, Bhutan, and Antarctica), hiking/trekking, classical music, and good food. But since this is an Adobe-hosted work blog I won't bore you with personal stuff. If you're reading a blog named Flexophile, you're looking for info about Flex and I'll try to deliver it.


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Andover Town 3 Bemerton Heath Harlequins 2.
Salisbury Hospital Cup Final.
A Claudio Herbert goal ten minutes from time brought Andover Town their first ever cup success against all the odds at Salisbury City FC tonight, as they overcame a bruising Bemerton Heath Harlequins side in the Salisbury Hospital Cup final.
If ever justice prevailed then this was the time as Town battled on despite being on the receiving end of a battering on the pitch and a horribly lopsided free-kick count which threatened to become an embarrassment.
The Premier Division side were a goal up inside 30 seconds as from the kick-off 'Quins won possession and the defence was still asleep as Tom Moseley drilled a shot past Jake Wellesley-Davies.
Herbert replied with a 30 yarder which went just wide and a Lloyd Foot cross which was somehow missed by all but Bemerton were dangerous on the counter and Jack Eves brought a tip over from Wellesley-Davies. With Lewis Benson, Cameron Hough and Alex Dockree all battling to get a toe hold the game became riddled with fouls and with Town on the receiving end from the opposition and from referee Welsh frustration was never far away.
Happily for the Town right on half-time Benson was once again fouled 20 yards out and Lloyd Foot completely deceived Max Frampton in the Harlequins' goal with a curling free-kick which could well be his last in the Town blue.
It was sweet justice as Benson was crudely dealt with more than once on his return to the ground where he was a full-time pro a few years ago and while Bemerton licked their wounds Dockree unleashed a shot from distance and the slightest of deflections took it into the net to give Town a half-time lead few would have predicted five minutes earlier.
Andover began to get stronger after the break as they stood up to the physicality and with Benson seeing more of the ball and with space to run into he set up Herbert but he shot straight at Frampton.
The same two combined moments later but with referee Welsh playing an advantage for another hack at Benson, Herbert again missed when well placed.
With tempers never far from flaring Herbert then brought a stunning save from Frampton before his side were handed a lifeline with 15 minutes to go as Dan Young took advantage of a defensive slip and hammered home the equaliser to set up a dramatic finale.
The Town fans were fearing an injustice as the free-kick count continued to rise but on 82 minutes Herbert made up for his earlier misses when his instant control brought him time to drill a shot in off the far post. With Bemerton pushing forward Oli Yates hit the post and after five minutes of added time man of the match Lloyd Foot cleared his lines and the cup was heading for Andover.
For boss Neil Benson it was a taste of what to expect come the beginning of August in the Premier Division and a richly deserved success at the end of what has been a memorable first season for the new club.
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Preheat oven to 400°. Bake whole squash 35 to 40 minutes. Cut in half lengthwise and remove seeds and skin. Cook pasta as package directs, drain and set aside. Heat oil in a large skillet and sauté the onions and garlic 5 minutes. Cut 1 cup squash into chunks, set aside. In a blender, puree remaining squash with the stock until creamy. Sauté the kale with the onions for 3 minutes. Pour squash puree over kale. Add salt and pepper, mix. Toss pasta and squash chunks with the kale and squash puree. Top with almonds and serve.
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Arquitectura e Interiores, the largest interior design and construction firm in Colombia, today announced that they had won the IIDA (International Interior Design Association) Best Interiors of Latin America Design Competition in the Corporate Large Space category with their project for JWT in Bogota. The IIDA competition was created to recognize, honor and celebrate outstanding projects that represent the highest level of creativity, originality and design excellence from Latin America.
"This is an extraordinary achievement for our company as we are the first Colombian company to ever win this prize. It is the recognition of the outstanding work that our team executed on this project," says Marta Gallo, a director at Arquitectura e Interiores.
Arquitectura e Interiores' project was selected among 100 entries submitted by firms from Mexico, Central and South America.
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ORLANDO, Fla. – The Saint Leo men's cross country team tallied 217 points en route to a 7th-place finish at the UCF Black and Gold Meet, Friday afternoon from the UCF Sports Complex.
Saint Leo's Valentin Lenz collected team top honors as he closed the race in 32nd-place at a time of28.27.70.
North Florida's Chris Haynes took home individual honors as his time of 25:53.69 dusted the field of 78 runners at the 8K course. Overall, the University of North Florida grabbed the team championship as they finished with 27 points.
Brian Haynes notched runner-up accolades as he posted a time of 28:49.81. Freshman Steven Brown also had an impressive evening as he registered a time 30:02.73 to round out the top three.
Eric Dirth finished inside the top-50 as he recorded a time of 30:08.32. In addition, four Lions finished consecutively as Kevin Papac, Spencer Mathis, Michael Walker, David Hill finished with 40 seconds of each other.
Jeff Van Natter and Matthew Basin closed out the Lions squad as posted times of 31:43.45 and 35:09.76, respectively.
The Lions will resume action at the Sunshine State Conference Championships. The meet is set to take place on Saturday, October 12, from the UCF Sports Complex at 7:30 a.m.
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Shields strong in seven; Royals win it on Sox catcher's error
CHICAGO -- Moooooose knocked it loooooose.
Mike Moustakas slid into catcher Tyler Flowers, knocking the ball from his mitt, and scored the winning run in the Royals' 2-1 victory over the Chicago White Sox on Wednesday at U.S. Cellular Field.
Moustakas opened the ninth inning against White Sox reliever Zach Putnam by rifling a single to right field and took second on Alcides Escobar's sacrifice bunt. Nori Aoki then singled to center field.
"He beat the shift with a rocket. A tremendous read on Nori's base hit. … And a great, hard slide at the plate," said Royals manager Ned Yost.
Third-base coach Mike Jirschele waved Moustakas home.
"I knew it was going to be close," Moustakas said.
Adam Eaton's throw arrived at the plate ahead of him, but he slid into Flowers' glove and the ball flew away. He was safe and Flowers was charged with an error.
"In all honesty, I thought I had it the whole time," Flowers said. "I wish I would have hung onto it, but there was nothing I could do different. I don't regret anything I did, and I'm not going to do anything different next time."
Except maybe hang onto the ball.
Aoki was watching the play as he advanced to second base.
"It looked like he was going to be out, but the catcher dropped the ball," Aoki said. "Maybe it was just the whole team wanting that run to score made it happen."
Ah, yes, the power of positive thinking.
The Royals then loaded the bases but couldn't pad the lead as Billy Butler, a late substitute for the sore-handed Eric Hosmer, rolled into a double play.
But one run was enough for closer Greg Holland, who pitched a perfect ninth. Which, in turn, came after a perfect eighth inning by setup man Wade Davis. Which followed a fine seven innings by starter James Shields.
It was Davis who got the victory, his sixth, not Shields.
"I don't really care about wins, as long as the team wins," Shields said." My main focus is to go to the playoffs. So no matter what happens, I'm going to go out there and keep my team in the game and give us a chance to win every night. And to be able to hand the ball off to them in the eighth and ninth inning -- they're one of the best [tandems] in the game."
Davis has given up just one run in his last 32 1/3 innings. Holland has converted 26 of 27 save opportunities, including 19 in a row.
Shields had a short-lived 1-0 lead when the Royals scored a first-inning run off left-hander Jose Quintana on Lorenzo Cain's game-opening double, Omar Infante's sacrifice bunt and Hosmer's sacrifice fly.
But Shields immediately gave up a run in the White Sox half on Jose Abreu's two-out double and Adam Dunn's single. After that, Shields notched six scoreless innings with seven strikeouts.
"[Shields] gave us everything he had," Yost said. "At the end of the seventh inning, he was worn out."
The two victories at the end of this Boston-Chicago trip sent the Royals home in good spirits.
"I think it was real big, especially the way we started out in Boston," Shields said. "To get two out of three here in Chicago was big for us to go home and have some confidence."
This was the Royals' 100th game of the season, and they now stand 50-50. They're seven games behind first-place Detroit in the American League Central.
"We didn't have a good series against Detroit [1-3], then we had the break and we didn't have a good series against Boston [0-3]," Yost said.
"But you can't lose faith, you can't start panicking, you can't think the ship is sinking. You've got to stay positive, because these guys have the ability to fight through it, get themselves out of it, and get back on a roll. You've got to always remember that."
Dick Kaegel is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Many heaved sighs of relief when Maple Leaf Foods put up $42 million to buy the financially troubled hog and feed producer Puratone Corp. in a move one market analyst dubbed a "strategic necessity."
The deal spares Manitoba's third-largest hog producer from almost certain bankruptcy and, while it doesn't solve Maple Leaf's problems in securing enough hogs to keep two shifts running at its Brandon slaughter plant, it at least prevents the situation from becoming much, much worse.
Just last April, months before the U.S. drought sent feed prices soaring and two of Canada's largest producers into a financial tailspin, pork industry officials were warning declining hog production in Manitoba was putting the Brandon plant's future at risk.
Hog production, even with Puratone being spared, has declined much more since as dozens of hog producers across the province have emptied their barns and ceased production. So this is far from being over.
A combination of high feed prices and the cost of meeting stricter environmental regulations has made it difficult or impossible for independent producers to stay in business. Ownership of the barns and the hogs is moving to the packing plants that make enough processing profit to offset the production costs, at least for now. Not so long ago, Maple Leaf was selling off hog barns.
But in the present context, Maple Leaf's purchase is logical, and it doubles its in-house supply of hogs overnight. Great news, as long as you are not one of Puratone's unsecured creditors. Maple Leaf's offer is less than one-third of the $112 million Puratone owed.
But what about the other creditors -- people who were unaware that simply by doing business with Puratone they were subsidizing its operations?
The creditors' list goes on for eight pages -- grain farmers who supplied feed, small businesses, vets, plumbers, truckers, restaurants and individuals sprinkled across Manitoba. Some of the debts are in the six-figure range -- numbers large enough that it will be difficult for some to recover from the loss. Puratone wasn't even paying its water bill; it owed $23,000 to the Altona Rural Water Service Co-op when it sought bankruptcy protection.
Maple Leaf is on the record as saying the plight of these unpaid suppliers is not its responsibility. It's buying assets, not Puratone's liabilities.
Legally, that's correct, and to be fair, Maple Leaf didn't create this mess.
The people running Puratone had to have known as they were ringing up some of these bills that there wasn't a ghost of a chance of paying them. And they should be held accountable.
However, it's a short-sighted position for Maple Leaf to take when it will be dependent on these same suppliers to support its operations in the future. And it sets back the industry's efforts to convince governments and the public that it is a good corporate citizen.
The next logical step would be for Maple Leaf to start acquiring farmland and teaching some of its imported workforce to drive farm equipment. That way it won't have to depend on independent grain farmers, who might be leery of delivering feed to an industry that touts its importance to the Manitoba economy, but doesn't pay its bills.
The federal and provincial governments have taken a hands-off approach to the latest financial crisis to hit the hog sector. There will be no additional subsidies outside of pre-existing programs, a tacit recognition there is little to be gained by propping up the current structure.
Even some industry insiders have started to concede the industry needs to address structural issues that put Canadian hog producers at a $10 per hog competitive disadvantage to their U.S. counterparts. This industry grew out of a cheap Canadian dollar, and the mistaken assumption grain prices would never rise.
But so far, the response has been to continue down the same path towards integration, except at a faster pace. Even some of the burned suppliers admit they were relieved to see Maple Leaf step up to save Puratone from insolvency. Why? Because they fear the alternatives might be worse.
The hog industry, once a major stabilizing force in the farm and rural economy, is now responsible for increased uncertainty and volatility. It's not a question of whether Manitoba needs a hog industry. It does. The question is whether the hog industry we have has a future.
Laura Rance is editor of the Manitoba Co-operator. She can be reached at 792-4382 or by email: email@example.com


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Sorafenib Tosylate With or Without Doxorubicin Hydrochloride in Treating Patients With Locally Advanced or Metastatic Liver Cancer
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|Adult Hepatocellular Carcinoma Advanced Adult Hepatocellular Carcinoma BCLC Stage C Adult Hepatocellular Carcinoma BCLC Stage D Adult Hepatocellular Carcinoma Localized Non-Resectable Adult Liver Carcinoma Recurrent Adult Liver Carcinoma
|Drug: Doxorubicin Hydrochloride Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis Other: Pharmacological Study Drug: Sorafenib Tosylate
|Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment
Masking: Single (Investigator)
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Phase III Randomized Study of Sorafenib Plus Doxorubicin Versus Sorafenib in Patients With Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)
- Overall survival [ Time Frame: Up to 3 years ]The confidence bound estimates for futility will also be adjusted according to the Lan-DeMets analogue of the O'Brien-Fleming boundaries.
- Incidence of adverse events, as assessed by National Cancer Institute Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events version 4.0 [ Time Frame: Up to 3 years ]Incidence of other adverse events (proteinuria, hypertension, and other common side effects of study drugs) will be assessed.
- Progression free survival [ Time Frame: Up to 3 years ]The stratified log-rank test will be used.
|Estimated Enrollment:
|Study Start Date:
|February 2010
|Estimated Primary Completion Date:
|June 2017 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
Experimental: Arm I (doxorubicin hydrochloride, sorafenib tosylate)
Patients receive doxorubicin hydrochloride IV on day 1 and sorafenib tosylate PO QD or BID on days 1-21. Treatment repeats every 21 days for 6 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. After 6 courses, patients may continue to receive sorafenib tosylate PO QD or BID in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Drug: Doxorubicin Hydrochloride
Given IV
Other Names:Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis
Correlative studiesOther: Pharmacological Study
Correlative studiesDrug: Sorafenib Tosylate
Given PO
Other Names:
Experimental: Arm II (sorafenib tosylate)
Patients receive sorafenib tosylate PO QD or BID on days 1-21. Courses repeat every 21 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Other: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis
Correlative studiesOther: Pharmacological Study
Correlative studiesDrug: Sorafenib Tosylate
Given PO
Other Names:
Detailed Description:
I. Compare the overall survival (OS) of patients treated with sorafenib (sorafenib tosylate) and doxorubicin (doxorubicin hydrochloride) to that of those treated with sorafenib.
I. Compare time to progression (TTP) of patients treated with sorafenib and doxorubicin to that of those treated with sorafenib.
II. Compare progression-free-survival (PFS) of patients treated with sorafenib and doxorubicin to that of those treated with sorafenib.
III. Compare tumor response using Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) criteria of patients treated with sorafenib and doxorubicin to that of those treated with sorafenib.
OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.
ARM I: Patients receive doxorubicin hydrochloride intravenously (IV) on day 1 and sorafenib tosylate orally (PO) once daily (QD) or twice daily (BID) on days 1-21. Treatment repeats every 21 days for 6 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. After 6 courses, patients may continue to receive sorafenib tosylate PO QD or BID in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
ARM II: Patients receive sorafenib tosylate PO QD or BID on days 1-21. Courses repeat every 21 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up every 3 months for 1 year and then every 6 months for 2 years.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older (Adult, Senior)
|Sexes Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
Inclusion Criteria:
- Patients must have pathologically or cytologically proven hepatocellular carcinoma; known mixed histology (e.g. hepatocellular carcinoma plus cholangiocarcinoma) or fibrolamellar variant is not allowed
- Patients must have locally advanced or metastatic disease; locally advanced disease is defined as disease deemed to be unresectable or non-eligible for transplant without distant metastases
- Lesions must be accurately measurable in at least one dimension (longest diameter to be recorded) as >= 2 cm with conventional techniques or as >= 1 cm with spiral computed tomography (CT) scan
- No prior adjuvant sorafenib or other v-RAF-1 murine leukemia viral oncogene homolog (Raf)/vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) inhibitors; other prior adjuvant therapy is allowed if completed > 6 months prior to registration with documented recurrence of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC)
Patients may have been treated with loco regional therapies provided that they either have:
- A target lesion that has not been subjected to local therapy or
The target lesion(s) within the field of the local therapy has shown an increase of >= 20% in the size since last treatment
- Such therapy must be completed at least 4 weeks prior to registration; patients that have received palliative radiation therapy to the bone need not wait 4 weeks to begin protocol therapy
Prior therapies allowed include the following:
- Bland embolization, radiation, radioactive microspheres, etc
- Chemoembolization using any chemotherapy (except, see below)
- Chemoembolization drug-eluting beads using doxorubicin
- Prior therapy with chemoembolization using doxorubicin in the non drug eluting beads form is NOT allowed
- No prior systemic therapy for metastatic disease
- No prior exposure to systemic doxorubicin administered intravenously
- Antiviral treatment is allowed, however interferon therapy must be stopped at least 4 weeks prior to registration
- Allografts are not allowed: no prior history of any allograft, including but not limited to liver and bone marrow transplants
- Patients must have completed any major surgery >= 4 weeks from registration
- Concomitant treatment with Rifampin or St John's Wort is not allowed; patients should discontinue these drugs at least 4 weeks prior to registration
- No known central nervous system (CNS) tumors including brain metastases
- No clinically significant gastrointestinal bleeding events requiring intervention, transfusion, or admission to hospital within 30 days prior to registration
- Patients with a history of hypertension should be well controlled (< 140/90 mmHg) on a regimen of anti-hypertensive therapy
Significant history of cardiac disease is not allowed:
- Congestive heart failure > class II New York Heart Association (NYHA)
- Myocardial infarction within 6 months prior to registration
- Serious myocardial dysfunction, defined as scintigraphically (multigated acquisition scan [MUGA], myocardial scintigram) determined absolute left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) below 45% or an LVEF on echocardiogram (ECHO) below the normal limit at the individual institution
- No history of bleeding diathesis
- Patients receiving combination anti-retroviral therapy for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) are excluded from the study
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0 or 1
- Pregnancy/nursing status: women who are pregnant should not go on study; women should not breastfeed while participating in this study
- Granulocytes >= 1,500/uL
- Hemoglobin >= 8.5 g/dL; patients with recent or ongoing gastrointestinal bleed may not be transfused to reach the entry hemoglobin of 8.5 g/dL; physicians should ensure patients requiring transfusion prior to registration do not have an occult or clinically apparent gastrointestinal bleed
- Platelets >= 75,000/uL
- Creatinine =< 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) (or creatinine clearance calculated >= 60 cc/minute)
- Child-Pugh score A; patients must meet all laboratory value requirements
- Bilirubin =< 3 mg/dL
- Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) and aspartate aminotransferase (AST) =< 5 x ULN
- Prothrombin time (PT)-international normalized ratio (INR) =< 1.7 (not required for patients on anticoagulation agents; patients who are being therapeutically anticoagulated with an agent such as Coumadin or heparin will be allowed to participate provided that no prior evidence of underlying abnormality in these parameters exists)
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01015833
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|Principal Investigator:
|Ghassan Abou-Alfa
|Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology
|Responsible Party:
|National Cancer Institute (NCI)
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT01015833 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
NCI-2011-01989 ( Registry Identifier: CTRP (Clinical Trial Reporting Program) )
CALGB 80802 ( Other Identifier: Alliance for Clinical Trials in Oncology )
CALGB-80802 ( Other Identifier: CTEP )
U10CA180821 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
U10CA031946 ( U.S. NIH Grant/Contract )
|Study First Received:
|November 17, 2009
|Last Updated:
|December 30, 2016
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Carcinoma, Hepatocellular
Neoplasms, Glandular and Epithelial
Neoplasms by Histologic Type
Liver Neoplasms
Digestive System Neoplasms
Neoplasms by Site
Digestive System Diseases
Liver Diseases
Liposomal doxorubicin
Antibiotics, Antineoplastic
Antineoplastic Agents
Topoisomerase II Inhibitors
Topoisomerase Inhibitors
Enzyme Inhibitors
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Protein Kinase Inhibitors
Vitamin B Complex
Growth Substances
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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OLD Boltonians have the Champagne on ice as they wait to see if Prestwich can pip them to the Premier Division title for the second time in two seasons.
The Turton men completed their season with a 3-0 victory over third-placed Bolton rivals Castle Hill on Saturday with two goals from Sean Rushton and one from Dean Hailwood.
With Prestwich slipping up last Wednesday when they lost 3-2 at home to Old Mancunians, it means they must win all five of their remaining games to deny Old Bolts.
"We've done all we can do now and we just have to wait and see what happens," said manager Julian Stevens.
"Our lads have been brilliant this year and they deserve to win the title.
"The goal difference is fantastic and shows how good we have been.
"Sixty three points should be enough but if Prestwich win five on the bounce now they'll get 65 and will deserve to win it."
Rushton gave Bolts a 10th-minute lead when he cut in and blasted a shot home, and Hailwood slotted home the second on 30 minutes.
Castle Hill rallied after the break but Rushton killed them off when he looped a header over the keeper from John Burrows' good ball in.
Castle Hill manager Rob Rostron said: "We didn't make it easy for them. We had three 17-year-olds in – Jason Knottley, Bradley Colquitt and Tom McNair – and they did absolutely brilliantly."
An incredible piece of sportsmanship provided the key moment as Farnworth Town took their latest stride towards promotion from Division Two.
Leading 3-1 at Little Lever SC Reserves, the hosts were awarded a penalty which was ruled out by the 'fouled' player himself.
"There were about 15 minutes left and their player went down in the box," said Farnworth manager Jason Tyldesley.
"They got a penalty but he got up and said our player never touched him, and the pen wasn't given. It was the best piece of sportsmanship I have ever seen and I told him so.
"If I could have given him an award I would."
Farnworth now need to win two of their last four games to secure promotion in only their second season in the league.
Centre-half Lee Wolstenholme scored a hat-trick from a penalty and two corners, and Grant Dean got the other with a header from a throw-in.
"I don't think we've scored from a set-piece all season and we get four in one game," added Tyldesley.
Back in the Premier Division, Horwich Victoria will finish ninth after coasting to a comfortable 8-0 victory at Rossendale Amateurs in their penultimate game of the season.
Sam Parkinson helped himself to four goals after Dean Spencer had opened the scoring, then Jordan Croft scored two and Connor Hicklin got the other.
"We could have had 20 to be honest," said joint manager Dave Walker.
"It was one of those end-of-season games when it was all one-way. Our keeper had nothing to do except go and get the ball when it was smashed high and wide a couple of times."
Walker said Horwich will be looking to improve on this season's showing in the next campaign.
"The season has been a little disappointing because we should have done better with the team we have," he said.
"One key thing was we didn't have players available in crucial games, which cost us."
Howe Bridge Mills joint manager Scott Fletcher came out of retirement due to a player shortage and scored an 85th-minute consolation in a 4-1 home defeat to Tottington.


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The Correspondence Management Solution 3.0 introduces the concept of publishing assets, and deprecates the concept of activation (which was used in the 2.5.x version of the solution).
The solution is typically configured on two separate (ADEP Experience Server) instances – an Author instance and a Publish instance (see the installation and configuration documentation on how to configure the solution over the two instances).
The Author instance is one on which assets/templates are created and managed (using the Manage Assets interface). One can also Preview the Letter templates created on the Author instance, which launches the Create Correspondence interface in a document preview mode.
The Publish instance is one on which the final correspondence is created by agents (using the Create Correspondence interface), using the designed letter templates and published assets. The Manage Assets interface is also available on this instance, but with restricted actions.
Once done with the asset authoring, they must be marked Ready to Publish, indicating the same to the persona (which would typically be different from the one creating/editing the asset) responsible for publishing the asset, who can then go ahead and publish the asset. Note that when publishing an asset, all assets related to this asset should be in Published or Ready To Publish state. Assets that are in Ready To Publish state are published automatically, while the ones that are already Published, are ignored. If any related asset is in a Modified state, the publish operation is aborted, and hence cannot proceed until all related assets are marked Ready to Publish. The understanding behind this behavior is that there could be different persona involved in creation of various related assets, and it is essential that each one of them marks the respective asset ready to publish (indicating completion) before they can really be published.
Here's a state diagram for various asset states, and how they transition on various actions:
On publishing an asset, a new version of the asset gets created on the Author instance, and the asset is immediately 'replicated' over to the Publish instance, which always has a single (head) version of an asset.
Also note that any related Data dictionaries are not published automatically when assets that use it are published. You are required to explicitly publish data dictionaries.
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14 Jul 2014 by Janelle Hickey in Fishing , Hiking & Walking , Kayaking , Nature , Parks , Trip Planning , Geography , Top Destinations , Geology & Fossils , Bonavista , St. John's and Outdoor AdventureRegion: Avalon
Newfoundland is not only scenically stunning, but it's also a place full of natural wonders. Here within, some notable natural landscapes you can explore when visiting our beautiful province.
29 Oct 2013 by Tara Kroes in Boat Tours , Fishing , Nature , Culture , Entertainment , Gros Morne National Park and Cultural ExperiencesRegion: Western
Explore the past, experience the beauty. Hiding between the great Tablelands and the vast Atlantic Ocean sits quiet Trout River. While proclaiming itself to be Newfoundland's best kept vacation secret, a more accurate account would be Canada's best kept secret. This destination should be on every travellers list when exploring Newfoundland. Situated 86km from Deer Lake International Airport, in the glorious Gros Morne National Park, it is a rare and beautiful find nestled within another rare and beautiful find.
29 Jan 2013 by Brady Huxter in Fishing , Nature and Cultural Experiences
The Huxter clan tests their skills at a Newfoundland tradition: catchin' capelin.
24 Jul 2012 by Janice Goudie in Fishing , Nature and Trip Planning
On a still evening in Central Newfoundland, upon the beaches of Little Bay, these tiny fish paid a visit to the shores. Patience, speed and laughter; all key components in the act of "catchin' capelin". Watch and see the excitement and joy that these tiny creatures can bring to young and old alike.
4 Jul 2011 by Peter Bull in Fishing , Nature and Culture
This past Saturday, Ronan, Cormac my Dad and I went to Sandy Cove on the Eastport Peninsula to see if the capelin were rolling. We were in luck!
10 Jun 2010 by Keith and Heather Nicol in Food & Dining , Fishing , Icebergs , Whale Watching and Nature
We innocently asked our waitress at the Tuckamore Lodge in Main Brook, Newfoundland, where we might get some good photos of moose after dinner. "Well you won't need to go too far. I would simply head back on the road you just came in on and drive a few kilometres back toward Roddickton."


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Perhaps one of the perks of being in this biz is the opportunity to check out products and shows and music before they hit the general public. We review and then offer our opinions and that's that. But one item was offered to us that leaped to the top of the Christmas list. OK, it's pink, but that's part of the charm.
When AblePlanet Linx Audio sent our senior editor Tammye Nash a sample of their Extreme gaming foldable active noise-canceling headphones (with Linx Audio), we were both oohing and ahhing over the whimsical pink color and Burberry-ish plaid accents. Initially, they looked like the stuff kids plastic toys are made of and the pink paint chipped off upon opening. Bummer.
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adj. Chiefly British
Overly precious or nice.
[Alteration of tweet, baby-talk alteration of sweet.]
The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition copyright ©2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Updated in 2003. Published by Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved.
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CHINO - Kealoah's will host an evening of comedy on Nov. 16
The show begins at 9 p.m. at Kealoah's Taste of the Island's and Mai Thai lounge, 12206 Central Ave., Chino.
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TWO men who committed ten burglaries around Selby have been jailed for a total of 14 years.
James John Burke, 28, and Simon Robert Bellwood, 36, both pleaded guilty to conspiracy to commit burglary at Sheffield Crown Court on Wednesday, July 23.
The court heard how Burke and Bellwood targeted a total of 55 properties throughout Yorkshire and Humberside, including ten in the Selby area, between March and May 2014.
Officers from Selby worked with South Yorkshire Police and Humberside Police and discovered the men were often breaking into properties when the occupants were on holiday and stealing high-value jewellery and cash during their raids.
They were then selling the stolen items on to unsuspecting jewellers, meaning that many of the victims have not been reunited with their possessions.
Burke, of Apple Grove in Auckley, Doncaster, and Bellwood, of Ferndale View, Doncaster, were each sentenced to seven years' imprisonment.


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Excerpt from Mr. Adnan Oktar's Live Conversation on A9TV dated November 13th, 2013
Adnan Oktar: Surat Al-An'am, verse 5 [I seek refuge with God from the satan] "They deny the truth each time it comes to them.." This is something in people's nature; the mentality of denying the truth when they come across something right, something true. "..but news of what they were mocking will certainly reach them." What are they mocking right now? The Islamic Union. What is it that they mock? The Mahdi. Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh) whose coming is foretold by our Prophet (saas). What is it that they mock? The Prophet Jesus Messiah (pbuh). In the Qur'an God says; [I seek refuge with God from the satan] "When an example is made of the son of Maryam your people laugh uproariously." [Surat Az-Zukhruf; 57] God says that they were mocking. But what does God say afterwards; "..but news of what they were mocking will certainly reach them." The abjad calculation of this verse gives the year 1992. That means an acceleration, a momentum is gained in that year, insha'Allah. Surat Al An'am, verse 8 "They say, 'Why has an angel not been sent down to him?'" What does our Prophet (saas) say in the hadiths? He states that there will be an angel above the Mahdi. ".. If We were to send down an angel, that would be the end of the affair.." God says that the Last Day would have arrived by then. When do angels come? On the Last Day, apart from the Last Day angels do not come down, not visually, they are not seen by people ".. and they would have no reprieve." Meaning they would not be saved from the terror of the Last Day. So what is the explanation about the angel [above Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh)] mentioned in the hadith? That angel [above Hazrat Mahdi (pbuh)] will only be seen by other angels. No one else can see that angel, only other angels can see, that is what is meant in the hadith.