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The notion of a dedicated handheld games console seems almost quaint in the age of the iPad and smartphone gaming. An extra nail in the coffin of such devices appeared to be hammered in a year ago, when Sony unveiled the Xperia Play, an Android phone with slide-out controllers that are very similar to those on a PlayStation 3 or PSP (PlayStation Portable).


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The Lincoln County Commissioners finally agreed Monday to reduce the likelihood that an industrial area will be developed north of North Platte.
Ziegler has attended meetings for years, ever since a construction company started stockpiling supplies near her house in the hills west of North Platte. She lives near the KNOP-TV station.
Allen has also been to several meetings since September to express his concerns. He owns 80 acres north of the city where he runs some cattle.
The proposed industrial area would have been on the east side of U.S. Highway 83, between Hall School Road and Surburban Road, encompassing about two square miles.
Ziegler and Allen objected to the industrial designation in September, but in November the county planning commission included it anyway in a long-range planning map.
At the zoning meeting where they made it official, Ziegler, 85, waited all evening for the chance to speak. She got her turn after three-and-a-half-hours.
Both she and Allen were also present a month later, when the plan came before the county commissioners. Their protests were so persuasive that the commissioners asked the planning commission to explain themselves.
Subsequently, the planning commission met two weeks ago to talk with Ziegler, Allen and other residents. They finally agreed to drop the industrial area designation from their long-range plans and continue to call it a transitional agriculture area.
As Zoning Administrator Judy Clark put it to the county commissioners Tuesday, If you want to put it back to transitional ag, it wont hurt anyones feelings.
The commissioners made it official, 3-0.
Commissioner Joe Hewgley thanked the planning commission for their hard work.
"It's a thankless job, period," Hewgley said. "I appreciate the study that goes into each item that comes before them."
"The greatest thing about local government is that we listen to the public," Hewgley said. "It doesn't mean we always agree with them... but we listen."
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Traders have been told they have until this Sunday to move to temporary stalls set up in Memorial Gardens to allow Balfour Beatty to finish underground drainage and paving on the £5m scheme.
If the stalls were not moved, the project would be delayed by several weeks, according to Kingston Council's project manager Mark Teasdale.
In a letter to stall holders, Mr Teasdale said: "Having made a commitment to traders to keep you in the Market Place during the building works, I would rather not be writing to you now with this news.
"However, we are where we are and now need to work with you to make the best of a very difficult situation."
The new market place is gradually taking shape, as seen by these new timber stalls - but not quickly enough for traders no to be moved
Traders will be able to move into their new stalls in Memorial Gardens by this Friday, February 21, and must be in place by the end of the weekend.
Stall holders will not be charged rent during the relocation, provided they trade at least five days a week while at Memorial Gardens.
The market will be moved back to its usual site by Sunday, April 13.
One stall holder, who did not want to be named, said: "I don't think we really have a choice.
"It's a case of like it or lump it, and just try and make the best of it.
"I do think the new market is going to look fantastic, and the market did need to change, but the problem has been the way the project has been approached.
Work to set up the temporary stalls in Memorial Gardens has already begun
"It's been organised very badly and it's been disappointing.
"We've gone through a very hard time, trade has dropped significantly and we feel we haven't been supported like we could have been.
"Some traders could go out business from what I've heard. There's always a lot of gossip in markets but I do think it's a distinct possibility."


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Paul Vomhof repairs a home in Cape Girardeau, Mo., while on a mission trip with SEMAC.
The Rev. Dennis Timmerman of Our Savior's Lutheran Church in Spring Valley, his wife, Jane, and Paul Vomhof, a member of Our Savior's and Southeast Minnesota Active Christian (SEMAC) construction and home repair group worker, joined 18 other area residents to travel to Cape Girardeau, Mo., during the first week of February repairing homes for people in need of a helping hammer.
"It works out that if somebody's going down, they find someone else who's going down to work, and we usually stay at churches," said Wykoff resident Vomhof. "My brother Larry organizes the trip, then we get together and get our tools and equipment, and if we don't have something we need, we can rent it. Originally, on this trip we were going to go to Joplin, Mo., but the organizers in Missouri wanted us to send the framers to go somewhere else, across the state, so we decided to go to Cape Girardeau instead of driving across Missouri."
The group, comprised of workers from Spring Valley, Rochester, Fountain, Golden Valley, St. Charles, Chatfield and Jane's friend, Annie, from Wisconsin, stayed at Centenary Methodist Church in Cape Girardeau during the mission trip to help an area that experienced flooding in 2011. It's "a very modern church" with amenities to accommodate mission workers who collaborated with Habitat for Humanity, Lutheran Disaster Services and Catholic Charities to bring hope to homeowners in distress, what the Timmermans and Vomhof called "a truly ecumenical effort" since the denominations each had something to offer.
Jane said of the Methodist church building, "It was quite a church...it had the chapel, a preschool, a family life center, it had a full commercial kitchen, showers, a walking track and a fellowship hall. The church was so modern that when we were trying to go to sleep at night, we'd roll over and the lights would go on." She enjoyed using the commercial kitchen, as she was one of the cooks serving breakfast and dinner each day, which the ladies and gentlemen in the entourage appreciated.
Vomhof complimented her, saying, "We ate well when Jane was cooking."
The average day began early, before the sun got out of bed. Dennis stated, "We had breakfast at 7, devotions at 7:30, and by 8 we were going out to the job sites. We were usually back by 4 to 6 that evening, depending on the jobs."
Those who were normally early risers got up before Jane and the rest of the cooking crew, making coffee and chatting before the work began.
"We were working on houses in Sikeston and Cape Girardeau, doing different kinds of repair, like flooring, installing bathroom fixtures, drywalling, tearing off drywall and old roofs, putting new roofs on, doing electrical work," said Timmerman.
Vomhof recounted, "There were four or five different jobs going on each day - we had groups going to the different job sites."
The pastor stated, "The people we were dealing with didn't have the resources, so we were working with Habitat for Humanity and Catholic Charities. They would provide the resources and an amount to help people get back on their feet."
Vomhof added, "We wanted to be able to help the people who needed help, and some have limited funds, so we did the best we could with what they had. One house we worked at tearing off the old roof on one side, we had to decide what to do because one side was okay and the other was just terrible, so we did what we could with the side that was worse. Another house we spent time at, there were pieces of sheetrock falling, insulation falling down, just awful. Sometimes we have to decide to fix what's really bad, and there are other things that we should fix that we just can't in the time we're there. We want to make it better than when we came there."
Before departing for a mission destination, the mission workers let the coordinators and local organizations handling their arrival know what talents and skills each person has so that the time and energy available to make a difference for homeowners isn't wasted. "The group has electricians, handymen, carpenters, a guy who does tile floors. We let them know what kind of projects we'll do so that we haven't come all that way just to stand around. We split the talents of the groups, usually bring a trailer full of tools, bring stuff we need, and some other guys bring the rest," said Vomhof, a veteran SEMAC missionary. "We've got some really talented problem solvers who can figure out a lot of different things. There's been a lot of different projects where they've talked with each other and been able to fix something that wasn't in good shape. A lot of times, too, there are brothers working together, nephews, fathers and sons or daughters, and everybody adds something to the equation. And on one trip, there was an 87-year-old man whose house had nothing working, and he was determined to work alongside us, which he did. I felt bad because his house was falling down."
Dennis noted, "One of the places I was at was owned by a couple with three small children, and we were there a lot, so they asked if we wanted pop and brownies. He worked with us for a while. It was neat that one of the people we were working for wanted to help. The house had had several feet of water in the basement, and they were gone at the time it happened, so they came back and found their stuff floating. We worked on putting a new floor in and new fixtures in the bathroom. A couple other people were working at that place that had gotten there before we did, and the kids came in and wanted to play with them. It's fun to interact with the people who are getting help."
At the end of each workday, the missionaries came back to the church, had supper, played cards, read, had fellowship, caught the news on television and got ready to take on another day. Vomhof recounted, "The first night, when we got there, it was Super Bowl Sunday, so we went to Buffalo Wild Wings, then came back and watched the rest of the game at the church."
The trio agreed "there was a lot of fellowship time" during the evenings, time when they learned about one another's experiences and hopes for the journey. Vomhof observed, "We go and we realize that we have so much to be thankful for. It's so rewarding knowing that we're able to help people."
Plans for SEMAC's trips typically are made in September or October, when Vomhof's brother Larry "gets a good idea where we're going...he likes that we're often working with Habitat for Humanity.
"We like to get there about a year or two after the disaster so that we're in the rebuild stage, and we like to have someone like Lutheran Disaster Services or Habitat for Humanity to coordinate with. We usually go at least once in the wintertime where there's been a disaster. We've been to a number of different states. I've been to Arkansas, North Carolina, Texas, Tennessee, Alabama, Mississippi, Iowa, and several different places in Minnesota, like Rushford, Hammond and Mazeppa. January and February are a good time to get out of Minnesota and since a number of the group are self-employed, they can take time off. A lot of times, they'll tell somebody about the trip and those people will want to go. New people go every year. We seem to have every type of person, talent, skill and ability."
The most important influence on the mission, however, is God himself. Vomhof recalled how, on one trip to Biloxi, Miss., the pastor of the local church organizing the mission work spoke of "seeing the face of God" in the disaster and that the upheaval happened only to help people understand what His face looks like. "We had people who were sent to the wrong address, and there was a couple there who were really depressed. Their house was a mess, but it was the wrong address. The people on the trip came in and talked with them, and they found out that if they hadn't come to that particular house, the couple might have committed suicide before anyone got there. There's story after story about how God put people where He wanted them to be, that what happened was actually an act of nature, but this - helping people - is an act of God."
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Pronunciation: kik-shaw • Hear it!
Part of Speech: Noun
Meaning: 1. A fancy dish, high-falutin' Frenchfied food rather than hearty English fare. 2. A doodad, a trinket, a gewgaw: something cheap but showy.
Notes: Today's word seems to be a senseless compound. Kick is kick but Shaw is a surname. You pronounce it pretty much the way it is spelled even though it doesn't seem to make much sense. The pronunciation was probably influenced by rickshaw, a shortening of a Japanese word jin-riki-sha "man-powered-vehicle" even though, as we will see in the Word History, the two words obviously come from two different sides of the world.
In Play: A kickshaw may be edible: "Sue St. Marie laid out a large selection of Frenchy little kickshaws that were as unsavory as the company consuming them." If not, it usually refers to something cute but valueless: "Dusty Rhodes had not endeared himself to his mother by sending her a kickshaw from each of the countries he had passed through over the past 12 years."
Word History: Today's Good Word is the result of folk etymology working on the French phrase quelque chose "something", which is quelque "some" + chose "thing". Folk etymology is the process of changing an unfamiliar foreign word into one or more familiar native words. This is how Old French crevice (Modern French écrevisse) became English crayfish and finally craw[l]fish. Over the years English speakers struggled with the spelling of the French phrase, trying quelque choices, quelkchose, kicke-shoses, and kickshoes along the way. Notice we kept trying to find English words in the phrase until we finally settled on kickshaw.
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It seems that I always knew 'geegaw'.....but had never see its variant 'gewgaw' until reading this explanation of kickshaw.
Is it a 'regional' thing? Some places 'gee' and others 'gew'?
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I've always heard gewgaw, never geegaw or kickshaw. New terms to me. Even the spell checker doesn't recognize kickshaw!
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Your DNC or WH talking points were annoying and insulting. The smirk on your face as one caller spoke of the reporting of Fox News on Benghazi issues betrayed your patronizing attitude and your ignorance about that matter. Then your mindless spewing of the Dem. talking points on "insuring that the perps are brought to justice blah,blah,blah" I've heard them many times from parties who are politically motivated to help the Pres. stonewall and further attempt to 'cool the mark' until after Nov. 6.
The REAL ISSUE is, and the concern of many VOTERS is, THE FAILURE TO RESPOND TO THE AMBASSADOR'S MULTIPLE PLEAS FOR MORE SECURITY; and THE PRESIDENT, UN AMB RICE,& H.Clinton's obviously FALSE accounts of the cause of the attack and murders. There is delay and cover-up of matters regarding weapons & al quaida or al quaida affiliated TERRORISTS. I need answers to these questions BEFORE I VOTE FOR MY NEXT COMMANDER IN CHIEF. To date, his (and that of HIS press) failure to respond to these serious concerns appears more akin to that of a CON than of a Commander-in-Chief.
Secondly, in what appears to be becoming a "state-controlled press" (!) that is refusing to cover this matter, you might take your own advice to the Fox News watching caller to view some different news sources. You stated that you don't watch Fox. Perhaps you also would benefit from viewing some different news sources -- such as Fox News. Do you know that Fox has 2 different types of programming ? There are 1)Opinion Commentator programs that are DIFFERENT & DISTINCT from the 2)Straight News programs. Even the Washington Post has commended the investigative work of the Fox news reporter on these Benghazi matters. If you were to view Fox occasionally, perhaps you would have more to offer than Dem talking points. I, personally, am usually insulted by talking points. Do the parties WANT to dumb down the public discourse? And do the Dems target below average intelligence voters?
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - U.S. securities regulators took their boldest step yet in a long-running insider trading probe against Steven A. Cohen, declaring Friday they would try to bar the hedge fund mogul from managing other people's money.
Legal experts said the charges represented a strategic calculation by the SEC that some action had to be taken, but that the agency could end up struggling to prove its case.
The Securities and Exchange Commission charged Cohen, 57, with failing to supervise former SAC Capital Advisors portfolio manager Mathew Martoma and SAC executive Michael Steinberg, both of whom face criminal and civil insider trading charges.
The civil administrative proceeding is the most serious challenge yet to Cohen and his standing in the industry he helped build and which made him billions.
Several lawyers said that unlike federal prosecutors who have additional time to file criminal charges against Cohen, the SEC is bumping up against a five-year statute of limitations to bring civil charges stemming from its investigation.
"It would appear the commission, rather than doing nothing, feels it has to do something. This constitutes something," said C. Evan Stewart, a partner at Zuckerman Spaeder in New York who is not involved in the case.
A spokesman for SAC Capital said the SEC's administrative proceeding had no merit.
"Steve Cohen acted appropriately at all times and will fight this charge vigorously," said SAC's Jonathan Gasthalter.
The timing of the five-member commission's vote adds credence to the idea that the SEC was scrambling.
The SEC did not vote on Cohen in a previously scheduled closed-door session it held on Thursday. Instead, the commissioners discussed charging Cohen at 9 a.m. Friday morning, according to a person familiar with the commission's activities.
A vote outside of the normal meeting time can come up if the SEC is racing to beat the statute of limitations on filing a charge, the source said. Commissioner Troy Paredes was on a plane when the rest of the group met. He cast his vote when he landed in Texas.
The SEC charges stem from a six-year probe of Cohen and his $15 billion hedge fund by regulators and federal investigators in which nine one-time SAC employees have been charged or implicated.
Cohen, reputed to be one of the best traders of his generation, has emerged as the primary focus of the federal government's crackdown on insider trading in the $2.4 trillion hedge fund industry.
"Cohen ignored the red flags and allowed Martoma and Steinberg to execute the trades" in several stocks where the SEC found evidence of insider trading, the agency said.
The charges are not part of a civil lawsuit filed in court; rather, they are contained in an administrative proceeding. In a statement announcing the proceeding, the SEC said it would determine a penalty during the proceeding.
It is seeking to bar Cohen from the financial industry and from managing other people's money.
In March, SAC agreed to pay a record $616 million penalty to settle a lawsuit arising from an investigation of trading on illegal information.
Some observers had thought the settlement would end much of SAC and Cohen's troubles, but it did not. Soon afterward, federal prosecutors served grand jury subpoenas on Cohen and others at the firm seeking their testimony. Cohen asserted his Fifth Amendment right against self-incrimination and did not testify.
In June, outside investors moved to pull at least $3 billion from the fund because of the ongoing investigation.
It is too early to tell whether the latest charges will put pressure on some of SAC's 900 employees to look for other jobs. That has not happened so far.
"They are obviously trying to shut him down," said one investor with SAC Capital who declined to be identified. The investor said it would appear there will be no criminal charge against Cohen, but regulators have decided to use what they can to force him out of business.
"I think this is certainly, at this stage, a victory for Cohen to avoid far more serious charges," said Mark Kornfeld, a partner at Baker & Hostetler who is not connected to the case.
A spokeswoman for the U.S. Attorney's Office in New York declined to comment.
The 17-page administrative order charges that in the matters involving Steinberg and Martoma, Cohen "received highly suspicious information that should have caused any reasonable hedge fund manager in Cohen's position" to determine whether the employees had acted appropriately.
The order also charges that Cohen "tagged," or made specific notation of, some of the positions undertaken by the two men in his own portfolio, which entitled them to additional compensation.
Cohen personally oversees about $4 billion, along with a small group of traders, in a portfolio called "the Cohen account," which represents a good chunk of the estimated $6 billion he has invested with his 21-year-old hedge fund, Reuters has previously reported.
An administrative proceeding can be a less favorable environment than a federal court for a civil defendant in an SEC case.
There is no right to a jury trial, for example, and a defendant has fewer protections against the admission of unfavorable evidence. The ability to take depositions is also more limited.
Lawyers said that in a civil proceeding, Cohen could assert his Fifth Amendment right against self incrimination as he did in the criminal investigation. But the judge in the proceeding would be entitled to draw a "negative inference" from Cohen's refusal to answer specific questions.
"I think they don't have the evidence for insider trading so they brought this," Thomas Gorman, a partner at Dorsey & Whitney who is not connected to the case, said of the SEC charges against Cohen. "Bringing a case like this under circumstances here is going to be a difficult proof problem for them.
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Several lawyers said since the SEC is not able to bring a conspiracy charge, it has fewer options than federal prosecutors to continue the investigation of Cohen.
Just this week, Manhattan U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara said at a CNBC conference: "People should be afraid that bad actions they have committed in the past" will catch up with them.
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I have a site with 10,000+ pages and it slows down when visiting page 9000 for instance. I know the LIMIT/OFFSET is the problem and that I could use MySQL to select rows that start by using an "ProductID" indicated in the pagination links.
However, I need to be able to sort by Price and TimeStamp, so the ProductID will be completely out of order.
In addition, I found a very similar site that works fast, has many sorting options and doesn't seem to use any kind of "starting point" in their pagination links: Example Site
If anyone has an idea on what this example site is doing with their MySQL, I would greatly appreciate your help in explaining.
What is(are) the index(es) you're using to query the table(s)?
Having the proper indexes will take up some space but it should help in speed.
this is an astonishing number
i have never heard of anyone with the patience to hit the "next" link on a search results page 9000 times
Even so, I would still like a pagination system like this. If ebay and that smaller example site could do it, I would also like to learn how to do the same thing.
could you respond to post #2 please
I have a indexes on ProductID, Price and TimeStamp. ProductID is the primary id index while Price and TimeStamp are the two columns for sorting.
okay, that helps
could you also do a SHOW CREATE TABLE for the tables, and then show your query with a typical ORDER BY clause
Here is the SHOW CREATE TABLE for the products table with the relevant columns:
CREATE TABLE `items` (
`id` int(8) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
`seller` varchar(30) NOT NULL,
`title` varchar(85) NOT NULL,
`listingtype` tinyint(1) NOT NULL,
`created` datetime NOT NULL,
`endtime` datetime NOT NULL,
`live` tinyint(1) NOT NULL,
`currentprice` decimal(10,2) NOT NULL,
`binprice` decimal(10,2) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`),
KEY `seller` (`seller`),
KEY `title` (`title`),
KEY `created` (`created`),
KEY `endtime` (`endtime`),
KEY `live` (`live`),
KEY `listingtype` (`listingtype`),
KEY `currentprice` (`currentprice`),
KEY `binprice` (`binprice`)
) ENGINE=InnoDB AUTO_INCREMENT=500000 DEFAULT CHARSET=utf8
There are more columns here that are relevant to our queries that you should know about but it could make it more complex for answering this question.
The "listingtype" column has a number (1 or 2) to tell us if the item is an "auction" or a "buy-it-now" item. We sometimes use the "listyingtype" column with the "binprice" column to see if an item is an auction with a "buy-it-now" option, if the binprice is > 0.00.
The "live" column tells us a number where "1" means the item is live and "2" means it is sold out and "3" means it is unsold.
The "created" column is the time an item is created, so we can sort newest listings first.The "endtime" column is the time an item ends so we can sort which auctions/items are ending soonest.The "currentprice" column is the current price of an item whether it is an auction or buy-it-now item, we use this to sort price (highest/lowest).
// Display ALL items, newest items
SELECT * FROM items USE INDEX (created) WHERE live = 1 ORDER BY created DESC LIMIT 0, 25
// Display ALL items, ending soonest
SELECT * FROM items USE INDEX (endtime) WHERE live = 1 ORDER BY endtime ASC LIMIT 0, 25
//Display ALL items, highest price first
SELECT * FROM items USE INDEX (currentprice) WHERE live = 1 ORDER BY currentprice DESC LIMIT 0, 25
//Display BIN (Buy It Now available) items, newest items
SELECT * FROM items USE INDEX (created) WHERE binprice != 0.00 AND live = 1 ORDER BY created DESC LIMIT 0, 25
//Display BIN items, ending soonest
SELECT * FROM items USE INDEX (endtime) WHERE binprice != 0.00 AND live = 1 ORDER BY endtime ASC LIMIT 0, 25
//Display BIN items, highest price first
SELECT * FROM items USE INDEX (currentprice) WHERE binprice != 0.00 AND live = 1 ORDER BY currentprice DESC LIMIT 0, 25
//Display AUCTION-ONLY items, newest items
SELECT * FROM items USE INDEX (created) WHERE listingtype = 1 AND live = 1 ORDER BY created DESC LIMIT 0, 25
//Display AUCTION-ONLY items, ending soonest
SELECT * FROM items USE INDEX (endtime) WHERE listingtype = 1 AND live = 1 ORDER BY endtime ASC LIMIT 0, 25
//Display AUCTION-ONLY items, highest price first
SELECT * FROM items USE INDEX (currentprice) WHERE listingtype = 1 AND live = 1 ORDER BY currentprice DESC LIMIT 0, 25
These are the more simple queries for page 1 of the homepage, each page having 25 items. On our member pages, we need to add the "WHERE seller = 'joe' " condition, or on our category pages, we add a category number and etc.
everythinig looks in order
so if you're experiencing slowdowns after a few thousand pages, perhaps you will have to consider modifying the queries whenever the "next" link is clicked
so if the first time you run a query you use this --
ORDER BY currentprice DESC LIMIT 0, 25
then what you could do is save the lowest price returned, then use that in the subsequent query call, and instead of using LIMIT 25,25, add a WHERE condition with the saved price --
WHERE currentprice < 937.42 ORDER BY currentprice DESC LIMIT 0, 25
I came across this solution before and there are a few problems. First off, we would have to use a pagination link for page 2 link this so the price is "remembered" for the next query: "?page=2¤tprice=937.42 . A problem also happens when a search engine indexes a site, they record the URLs "?page=2¤tprice=937.42". Then weeks later, they return directly to that URL and the currentprice and page numbers could be completely out of sync by then. There would be countless "currentprice" values being indexed, in addition to "created" and "endtime" parameters for sorting by newest listings or ending soonest listings...
That example site that I linked to in my first post doesn't include the price in their link, yet you can jump to the 2000th page very quickly. They are using a parameter: "?start=99850&keywords=&orderType=DESC&orderField=price . Ebay also uses a similar method where the prices parameter aren't included in the pagination links.
I'm trying to figure out how that example site is doing it so cleanly.
no, you wouldn't save two parameters, just one
and it wouldn't have to be in the url, it could be in a cookie
but no matter how you do it, i don't think i can help you with your page 9000 problem as far as the database is concerned
maybe it has to do with sort_buffer_size, but i am not a DBA
according to http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/order-by-optimization.html you should do an EXPLAIN on the slow query and see if it uses filesort
I've dug deeper into what eBay and that example site's pagination. It seems like if I go to a high enough page on eBay, it throws an error saying it can only display up to 10,000 results and won't let you go further, even though there are page numbers available. The same thing happens after 100,000 items on that example site as well - again, they have additional pages available but they give up blank pages.
I'm thinking of limiting the pagination to 50,000 items instead of laying out the pagination for the full 500,000 items to help ensure load time is less than 3 seconds on the final page.
I'm not sure how the search engines are going to handle though...
When you get past 1000 or so you've got a search problem not a pagination problem . . .
Do you mean an SEO search problem or a database search problem?
Sorry Mittineague, like you, I also had very little sleep and very little coffee, so I am confused. I've posted a question related not just to the MySQL search/query, but also the implications of SEO search as well...
I was notified by email of your post, but cannot find it here in this thread... which makes it even more confusing... Is there some hidden discussion going on that makes sense to everyone else except me?
I guess I wasn't as awake as I thought I was It wasn't until after I submitted the reply that I realized you were the OP :footmouth:So I deleted it. Sorry for the confusion and my mistake.
I can't speak for wwb_99, but my guess is he is talking "cause vs. symptoms" not SEO
Yup -- if you are presenting 1000 results for a human to parse through then whatever you are doing isn't filtering the haystack enough to begin with. Or, this might be a problem but you really shouldn't waste time solving it and rather focus on getting things so you don't need 10k results.
For 9000 pages the slowdown could be fixed by throwing more resources at the database or optimizing the settings if that has not been done.
If you want to fix the problem at the root, take a look on this thread for the articles I posted links to:http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?1198642-Pagination-where-am-I-going-wrong
In regards to sorting by price/timestamp and search engines, this will not really work, since the result will change as changes are made. Due to this I would recommend adding nofollow to those links, that way search engines will only go through your products the normal way, and not by price or timestamp. I.e. you will still be indexed and those results can be viewed by users that click a link.


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I had several tips for working with print job in flex 1.5 ( See Tips for using PrintingJob in flex 1.5). Now that the flex 2 beta is available to the public, I am trying to convert the examples to run with flex 2. The migration does not take a lot of work. However, there are some glitches. I am trying to document as much as I could to make the conversion easier for others. Needless to say, we are working with beta 1. Therefore, any thing can be changed in the future release. This is not intent to show how print job will work in flex 2. It is just an exercise to prepare myself for the final migration.
Before we start to talk about conversion for each example, we need to start with the general migration steps. Please see ActionScript 3 Learning Tips. For our code, the following are most important:
Declare types for all variables, parameters and return values.
For example: for (var i=0;i<pages;i++) should be for (var i:int=0;i<pages;i++)
Declarations with no access specifier now default to package internal, not public.
function doPrint(){} should be: public function doPrint(){}
Classes must be imported, even if references to the class are fully qualified.
Do not forget to do import mx.print.FlexPrintJob;
Properties are no longer bindable by default.
You must declare them to be bindable by using the [Bindable] metadata tag.
Functions must declare return types.
If a function does not return any value, declare its return type as void. Note,
although the document all indicating it should be "Void", it must be "void" with
lower case.
The next important thing to note is that flex 2 uses FlexPrintJob instead of PrintJob class. Also, it is using addObject() instead of addPage() method.
The above mentioned items are general for all the print examples and should be modified accordingly in each file.
1. Migrating printDataGrid.mxml from flex 1.5:
In flex 1.5, we handle the multiple pages by calculating the page numbers we needed to print out all the rows in the datagrid. In flex 2, a method nextPage() in PrintDataGrid will do that for you. printDataGridsave.mxml shows how to use that in flex 2.
Note, you should call updateLayout(); before you do addObject() to update the DataGrid layout to reflect the results of this function.
2. Can not print out header/footer area.
Print out header/footer area become much easier in flex 2.0. You can create a view, and you can include your own header/footer to specify the contents of the start and the end of the output. There is a sample in the doc you can use as a template.
If you just want to print out multiple components on a page, as in example printextra.mxml, you will need to put all the components into one container as you did in flex 1.5. However, you no longer need to set the print area explicitly.
See printextra2.mxml for example.
3. When the print area is larger than the screen, some of the content does not print out.
This is the same as it is in flex 1.5. You will need to set "clipContent='false' " at the application tag (you may not have to set at the container level any more. You still need to set the application's width/height to be large enough for the area you want to print.
4. When printing any chart, the print out always has gray background.
This is the same as it is in flex 1.5. You can either set the backgroundColor of the container that contains the chart to a color you desire, or explicitly set the fill of the chart.
Note, because the Properties are no longer bindable by default, you must declare them to be bindable by using the [Bindable] metadata tag before you define the dataProvider variable expenses: Array. See example chartprint.mxml.


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Residents in the Gympie area, north of Brisbane, are being rescued from rooftops while one person remains missing in floodwaters.
The Mary River is expected to peak at 17 metres - just shy of levels reached during floods that devastated the region in 2011.
The centre of Gympie is expected to flood later on Sunday.
Mayor Ron Dyne said western locations including Midgee and Sexton had been the worst hit.
''We have people on rooftops in Widgee and Sexton and we have a swiftwater rescue team currently deployed in Widgee,'' he said.
Mr Dyne said a man and a woman had already been saved in the rescue effort, but a 27-year-old man was still missing after the trio tried to cross the swollen Widgee Creek near Gympie.
The water rescue crew that went to the group's aid lost their boat and gear at one point during the operation.
Mr Dyne said businesses in the CBD near the Mary River were expecting flooding.
''At this stage, we've got major concerns,'' he said.
''Everything's occurred rather rapidly given the amount of rain we've had and so forth.''
Mr Dyne said roads into Gympie, including south on the Bruce Highway, were cut and the town was experiencing localised flooding in several areas.
The mayor urged residents to keep out of harm's way.
''Get off the roads, stay at home, don't go rubbernecking around to have a look because there are major concerns,'' he said.
''Powerlines are down, there's trees across roads and the normal inconveniences and we don't need to see swiftwater rescue teams deployed for people who are being foolish trying to cross flooded streams.''
Mr Dyne said local disaster management groups would meet later on Sunday.


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Orange-Berry Jam Recipe
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"This jam turns a beautiful color and tastes really good!" Expect a refreshing, sweet flavor from the added orange segments and grated orange peel. Earlene Ertelt, Woodburn, OR
Recommended: 19 Freezer Jam Recipes
VERIFIED BY Taste of Home Test Kitchen
- 3 cups fresh raspberries
- 2 cups fresh blueberries
- 6-1/2 cups sugar
- 1/2 cup finely chopped orange segments
- 2 tablespoons lemon juice
- 4 teaspoons grated orange peel
- 1 pouch (3 ounces) liquid fruit pectin
- Place raspberries and blueberries in a food processor; cover and process until blended. Transfer to a Dutch oven. Stir in the sugar, orange segments, lemon juice and orange peel. Bring to a full rolling boil over high heat, stirring constantly. Stir in pectin. Boil for 1 minute, stirring constantly.
- Remove from the heat; skim off foam. Ladle hot mixture into hot sterilized half-pint jars, leaving 1/4-in. headspace. Remove air bubbles; wipe rims and adjust lids. Process for 5 minutes in a boiling-water canner. Yield: 6 half-pints.
Editor's Note: The processing time listed is for altitudes of 1,000 feet or less. Add 1 minute to the processing time for each 1,000 feet of additional altitude.
Originally published as Orange-Berry Jam in Taste of Home June/July 2010, p67
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"Fantastic jam! I added 3 c blueberries & 1 c raspberries instead & pureed the navel oranges. Also had close to 8 jelly jars."
Reviewed Jun. 28, 2011
"This was my first time making jam and it came out fantastic! The only thing I would change is to puree the orange segments along with the blueberries and raspberries. I also ended up needing 8 half pint jars instead of six, but that was no problem with how good this jam is. I gave several jars away to family and got rave reviews from everyone that tried it. Will definitely make again."
Reviewed Dec. 9, 2010
"This was amazing! I am going to make 3 batches next time - it doesn't last a long time in our home - our 5 kids lick it up! easy too!"


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Topic: Scottish invasion
Ladies and gents,
I am beginning to think that a person needs to spend some time in Scotland to be a properly formed and well-rounded human being! There are quite a few on here from Scotland or who have spent time there, maybe we should start flying the Saltire in solidarity!
Here is a link for Marion (notice the topics Whisky and The Kilt on the left):
http://www.visitscotland.com/guide/scot … ns/saltire
We have Highland Games here Chicago in summer and I think I really must make it this year and see what these Scottish are all about!
http://www.chicago-scots.org/22nd-annua … games.html


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After Barry arrived today I was itching to do some cooking since I haven't gotten to for a while. I decided for my first cook on the new grill I would try cooking ribs. I went to the store and got 2.5 racks of pork spares and then trimmed them down to St Louis style just like Mike showed me. I then got the ribs ready to hang and got the charcoal ready in the chimney. After dumping the chimney I added 3 chunks of apple wood to the coals. The whole cook took around 4 hours or so and for a first time on a brand new cooker I have no experience with I think they came out pretty good. After munching on rib tip cuts prior to the main course being done we have lots of leftovers. I will put the progression below.
Ribs trimmed and hooks in place
Rebar in and wood chunks in ready for the meat
Ribs are hanging
One hour in
Off the grill and getting ready to cut after removing hooks
I actually got a small smoke ring


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Security Council: Statement by Ambassador Wittig on Women, Peace and Security
(Security Council: Statement as delivered by Ambassador Wittig in an Open Debate on Women, Peace and Security)
"I thank you, Mr. President !
I would like to thank India for having organised today's open debate, which is important !
I also thank the Secretary General, Madame Bachelet, Mr Ladsous and Ms Bineta Diop for their insightful briefings.
Germany aligns itself with the EU statement to be delivered later on.
At the outset, let me stress that Germany unreservedly welcomes the Secretary General's report and especially his analysis, using the set of UN developed indicators.
We also commend UN Women for its work leading the mainstreaming efforts within the UN system. We encourage UN Women to continue to closely cooperate with other UN organisations.
Mr President,
While the need to involve women in peace processes has been extensively addressed, progress is needed in all spheres of society in order to strengthen the potential of women as agents of change. So, again, we need to ask ourselves: What more can the Security Council, the UN and Member States do to close the gap between the normative framework and concrete action?
And let me make five points:
Firstly, today's debate and Presidential Statement which was adopted on 31 October for the first time focus explicitly on the important role of women's civil society organisations. We very much welcome this focus as the inclusion of women and women's organisations is not a benevolent act but is a key requirement to any sustainable peace.
Second: Protection of women in armed conflict from all forms of violence, especially sexual violence, is crucial. But we must also protect those who fight for women's rights. They deserve our unreserved backing! From meetings with several women's organisations from different parts of the world I know that human rights defenders often face severe risks in carrying out their work.
Third: Women and women's organisations can also play a crucial role in the implementation of Disarmament Demobilization and Reintegration- and Security Sector Reform--mechanisms as well as in political and constitutional reform and transitional justice. To enable them to play that role, women's organisations need to receive adequate support, which also includes financial support.
Fourth: Germany regularly supports women's organisations and human rights defenders financially and logistically. To name but a few examples: We have organized regional conferences in Tunisia and Argentina in 2011, and we will be sponsoring a conference in Panama on gender training, prevention of sexual violence and providing response tools and unhindered access to justice. Germany has also committed itself to the "EU-Charter of the European Shelter Cities Initiative" to increase protection of human rights defenders. Furthermore, I am happy to announce that Germany is working on a national action plan to further enhance the implementation of resolution 1325.
And lastly, the Security Council could do more itself to systematically integrate women, peace and security issues in its daily work, including when mandating or renewing UN missions. Envoys and Special Representatives should address those issues in their briefings to the Council. This should also include considerations on how to sustain gains made on protection and advancement of women's rights during UN mission drawdowns and transitions.
I thank you, Mr. President !"


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COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) -- The Ohio Supreme Court has refused to hear a southwest Ohio man's bid for a fourth trial in the 2008 bathtub drowning of his wife.
The state's highest court Wednesday declined jurisdiction in Ryan Widmer's appeal of last year's ruling by the state's 12th District Court of Appeals. Widmer's attorneys contended police improperly removed the couple's bathtub from their home as evidence.
The 12th District court in January rejected a separate appeal focused on a detective's alleged misconduct and lack of testing of Sarah Widmer's remains for a possible genetic disorder. Attorney Michele Berry-Godsey says she is asking the state Supreme Court to review that appeal, and will go to federal courts on the bathtub removal appeal.
Widmer is serving 15 years to life for a 2011 murder conviction.


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Lindsay Lohan has a present for you
Lindsay Lohan has been wearing tiny skirts and drinking her way across London which, of course, is the exact recipe for Firecrotch Theater. So here's how this is going to go down: First, you're going to notice the surprising lack of flames and charcoal briquettes. Then, you're going to notice something that's exactly what you think it is and attempt to lobotomize yourself with whatever's handy. In my case, a stray kitten. (Sorry, Whiskers.) Enjoy!
NOTE: Pics link to NSFW versions that will probably kill lesser men.
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Around the WorldThese brain teasers rely on your ability to recognize groups of common attributes. For each of these puzzles you'll need to figure out why the words or letters are grouped as they are. Sometimes you will be asked to pick the odd-one-out or to place a new word into the correct group.
Aviva was planning to take a trip around the world. She liked names that were similar to hers, so she made a list of places she would like to visit.
However, one of these places doesn't belong. Which one is it?
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Krape Park, United States
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HintLook at her name closely.
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Is it marketing or is it journalism? The case of Tumblr's 'Storyboard'
At a panel discussion in San Francisco this past September—"Is Tumblr the new Time Inc.?" was the typically provocative title—Jessica Bennett and Allie Townsend, editors at Tumblr and Facebook, respectively, were explaining how they'd been using the tools of traditional journalism at the social-networking behemoths where they'd been recruited.
In Tumblr's case, the company had created a site called Storyboard to report on the interesting people, trends and narratives emanating from Tumblr's tens of millions of blogs: A video piece, say, about a long-lost Muhammad Ali interview, or a colorful long-form entry dragging readers down into the stacks of The New York Times' subterranean photo archives, known as "The Morgue."
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After about 15 minutes, a tech writer in the audience named Alex Howard interrupted the two "former journalists"—as he referred to them matter-of-factly when later reached for comment—with a skeptical inquiry.
"Is everything you do journalism?" he recalled asking. "Or is this just next-generation marketing?"
To a typical reader, it's becoming increasingly difficult to tell the difference. And Storyboard, a significant editorial investment for an $800 million tech startup that has become one of digital media's most formidable brands, is just one example.
It certainly is next-generation marketing. Tumblr's large user population—some 82.3 million blogs have been registered to date, according to the company—is the reason so many celebrities, media organizations, manufacturers and entertainment brands use the platform to bring content to readers and connect to them in a way more organic than advertising. So Storyboad makes sense as a strategy for heightening the perception of Tumblr as more than just an online blogging and sharing platform. It helps make Tumblr a real place with its own distinct identity, not just for the early-adopters and the digital cognoscenti, but the myriad teens, housewives, aunts, uncles and other ordinary folks who use the site.
In that respect, Tumblr is doing something with Storyboard that isn't much different from what businesses from Facebook to Coca Cola to Cisco to the Philadelphia Flyers are experimenting with: creating content that speaks to the value of their brands. Why pay a publisher to carry your message to the public when you can bring it to them yourself?
But journalists familiar with the "advertorial" content that has long speckled the pages of their own magazines and newspapers have always held the category in contempt, especially when the content, created usually by a creative team in the media company's sales department with the approval of participating brands, is specifically organized to fool readers into believing it's "real" journlaism.
And as brand-developed content gets more sophisticated and competes with traditional journalism on the open web for eyeballs, readers are becoming less and less interested in the distinction between the two. In other words, what happens when advertorial stops being crappy and starts being good?
Readers, the thinking goes, are increasingly being exposed to material created directly by brands instead of material produced independently by reporters and editors. And those brands have motives.
Perhaps that's why not everyone in the room at that recent Tumblr panel wanted to let Bennett have an easy time of it.
"It's fuzzy," Howard, the skeptical audience member, told Capital, "and the fuzziness is what's problematic."
SITTING FOR AN INTERVIEW IN A SMALL MEETING ROOM on the ninth floor of Tumblr's Flatiron District headquarters several weeks ago, Storyboard's editor-in-chief, Chris Mohney, tried out a succinct answer to the question of where exactly Storyboard fits on the spectrum.
"What we're doing is marketing as journalism," said Mohney, who described Storyboard's content as "absolutely old-school, almost retrograde feature journalism."
"We've been able to do real journalism that could run in any outlet," said Bennett, Storyboard's executive editor, who was next to her boss on a small grey sofa. "It just so happens these stories are centered around Tumblr."
Storyboard, with its bite-sized editorial department of four and a roster of freelancers, has churned out roughly 160 such stories across multiple platforms (text, video and photo) since launching on May 6.
With no posting quotas (the idea is to publish one feature every weekday), no traffic goals (Mohney declined to provide Storyboard numbers, but the Tumblr network averages more than 622 million visits per month, according to Quantcast) and no expectations of generating revenue (at least not for now) or signing up hordes of new users (at more than 100,000 new blog registrations per day, Tumblr appears to be doing a good enough job of that on its own), Mohney and his team have one mandate and one mandate only.
"To smooth the path for people we judge to be creative and who are inclined to join the community and put their creative work here," said Mohney. "Curators are valuable, but it all starts with people posting creative work. We're trying to get at those people and make them feel like we respect what they're doing."
To further that goal, the Storyboard crew is focusing much of its energy on striking deals with other media outlets that are interested in sharing content.
So far, Storyboard has cemented about a dozen such partnerships, including collaborations with MTV, The Awl, The Daily Beast, WNYC and New York. A new partnership with Time Inc. debuts today, and Mohney said there's also talk of doing something with Bullett magazine and smaller online outfits like The Rumpus and The Millions.
"It's actually better for us if someone sees one of our stories elsewhere," said Mohney. "It's all about getting people familiar with something they may never have encountered before."
For instance, the New York Times photo-morgue profile, which was sparked by the the "Lively Morgue" Tumblr produced by Times staff, included a written piece and a video component that were published in full both on storyboard.tumblr.com and wync.org; WNYC produced an accompanying radio segment. The station also worked with Storyboard on election day coverage and on chronicling the aftermath of Hurricane Sandy—WNYC sent a reporter out to the Rockaways and Storyboard sent a videographer, resulting both in a radio piece and a five-minute companion documentary.
The notion that Storyboard is essentially a Tumblr marketing strategy didn't deter WNYC from working with them.
Xana O'Neill, the executive editor for news at WNYC and the person who launched the station's Tumblr blog in 2011, said it "helped" that Mohney and Bennett had previously worked at traditional media organizations—Blackbook and Newsweek, respectively.
"They had street cred, and because of that it was easy for me to say that this makes sense for us," said O'Neill. "The nature of our partnership hasn't been to promote Tumblr. I know there are a lot of features on Storyboard itself that are inward looking, but we haven't had an issue where I feel like we're reporting on something that's happening within Tumblr."
The people writing for Storyboard might even feel the same way at times. Some of their features don't mention Tumblr explicitly, and it's not always clear what the stories have to do with the platform at all. But almost every Storyboard story relates back to it in some way.
"Part of our planning for next year is to make those connections more overt without being overbearing," said Mohney.
Aesthetically, Storyboard blends the provocative ethos of a styles section with the provincial eye of a community newspaper—only in this case, the community being covered has a population approximately 10 times the size of New York City's.
Storyboard's best sources in covering this diffuse digital citizenry are its own editors, their co-workers and their dashboards, the back-end feeds by which Tumblr users follow and re-blog one another.
That's how Storyboard ended up reporting on superfans of the British boy-band One Direction, a feature spawned by the popularity of the #onedirection hash-tag. A Daily Beast collaboration on "Cumberbitches," otherwise known as women who love the actor Benedict Cumberbatch from "Sherlock," grew out of the "countless Tumblrs" that have cropped up in homage of the BBC star. (For some context on Storyboard's pageview potential, the Cumberbitches piece racked up more than 20,000 "notes"—the Tumblr dashboard's version of comments and "likes"—in eight hours.)
Mohney recently spent a week in Taipei reporting out a forthcoming profile on the Taiwanese video spoofsters (and Tumblr users) Next Media Animation. (If nothing else, it illustrates the type of money Tumblr is willing to sink into its nascent editorial venture.) And a human interest piece about the people responsible for mending the cracks and crevices in New York's pavement was inspired by The Daily Pothole, one of the city's 22 official Tumblr blogs.
"Normally, nobody would be interested in pot-hole fillers," said Bennett.
"But put it on a blog and anything is interesting," Mohney added. Well, almost anything: "The kinds of things we've decided not to cover are things that are purely promotional or people's personal blogs," he said.
Once in awhile, Storyboard will commission a piece that has nothing to do with Tumblr at all, so that "readers who came to that story from outside Tumblr would be drawn to check out what happens inside our community," said Mohney, citing Storyboard's co-production with The Awl on a long-form piece about paper prison weaponry.
"Storyboard is a totally worthy neighbor for us to have," said Choire Sicha, The Awl's co-founder. "It's great fun for us to do stuff with them."
Some of the Tumblr community's more famous members would seem to agree, if the seamless access Storyboard has been getting to certain bold-faced figures is any indication.
In September, Bennett did breakfast at a West Hollywood IHOP with the Internet hip hop phenomenon Kreayshawn. Talib Kwali let Storyboard shoot a video in his Brooklyn home last month to document the recording of his new album. And when Bennett emailed Michael Stipe asking for a video interview back in March, the R.E.M. frontman and Tumblr devotee wrote her back promptly—no interference from a flack or teeth-pulling negotiations, as is often the case with celebrity press.
"2012/2013 is a rare moment of great progressive thought and movement," Stipe told Capital via email when asked for his take on Storyboard. "We need clear voices to push that forward."
What's not entirely clear is what Storyboard is doing for Tumblr beyond its marketing potential. Mohney said advertising may eventually be sold against the site, but that "the specifics of how it fits into the business model are still to be determined."
Tumblr executives were not available for interviews. But a spokesperson provided the following statement from Rick Webb, the company's revenue and marketing consultant.
"As always, marketing involves storytelling," he said. "Storyboard is us putting our money where our mouth is. It's marketing for Tumblr via great stories and content that highlight the amazing creativity on our platform."
But Webb ended his email with a tongue-in-cheek rejoinder that seemed to signal a certain ambivalence on the pressing future-of-journalism question: "The whole 'reinventing journalism' angle the press plays is a nice bonus," he wrote.


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ACCRINGTON soap star Julie Hesmondhalgh has been nominated for a top gong for her portrayal as Hayley Cropper in Coronation Street.
The 44-year-old actress, who filmed her final scenes for the show last year, captured the nation's heart after an emotional on-screen battle with cancer, and is tipped to win the Best On-Screen Partnership alongside David Neilson, who played her husband Roy, at the British Soap Awards.
Julie's final episode, titled Hayley's Death, has also been nominated for the Best Single Episode Award, while her battle has been nominated for the Best Storyline Award.
David Neilson, who plays the eccentric Roy Cropper, is up for the Best Dramatic Performance award.
The character took her own life after finding struggling with terminal pancreatic cancer, in a storyline that saw Julie awarded the Best Serial Drama Performance award at the National Television Awards in January.
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Beer market of Russia 2016: PET goes to draftThe beer market of Russia was warmed up by the hot summer, but the preparation for large volume PET prohibition has already impacted it negatively. The year was successful for Efes, MBC and regional producers; Carlsberg's positions were virtually stable but AB InBev and Heineken lost a part of market share having focused on the sales profitability. The dynamics of big brands was determined by how much the companies were willing to keep the prices down or by their promotional activity. In this context the economy segment of the beer market and sales of inexpensive draft beer were increasing. The premium segment started shrinking due to license brands migrating to the mainstream segment.
Beer market of Vietnam: "Young tiger"Vietnam is one of the few big beer markets that continue to grow steadily. The beer popularity results from its low price, street consumption culture, and social motives. The outlooks of beer market as well as the Vietnamese economy inspire optimism, though the country is heavily dependent on export of goods. The state regulation can be called liberal, but the key risk for brewers is harbored in intensive rising of excise. Within TOP-4 there are two leaders, Sabeco and Heineken that grow at the fastest rates. The first company effectively employs its capacities, the second one focuses on marketing technologies. Almost 80% of the market belongs to century-old brands, yet the middle class and the youth are shifting their interest toward international premium that is growing taking share from the mainstream.
Analysis of beer market in China (on Russian)
Beer market of Ukraine: big three losing weightIn 2016, fast increase of excises and resulting price spike stood in the way of the beer market stabilization. Most of competition (as well as mass sorts) moved to the economy segment of the market. The biggest losses were incurred by the leading three, especially Obolon, which again experienced pressure after reallocation of Efes market share. However, one should already speak of TOP-4. Group Oasis CIS (PPB) became a strong player and competitor to transnational companies. Besides the net sales of many regional medium breweries look rather good and 16-fold cost reduction wholesale trade license for craft brewers opens up a possibility of rapid growth in 2017.
US. Don't let big brewers win beer wars
(CNN) -- The proposed purchase of Mexico's Modelo beer brands by the world's largest brewing conglomerate, Anheuser-Busch-InBev, is causing deep concern among America's craft brewers.
Anheuser-Busch already controls about 47% of the U.S. beer market. Adding Modelo's Corona beer and other brands would give it another 6%. MillerCoors, the other big player in the United States, controls about 30%.
If the Modelo deal goes through, a duopoly would control more than 80% of the U.S. beer market.
The concentration of market share in two global companies means they have tremendous influence over distributors and retailers. This gives an advantage to big brewer beer brands over small brands created by America's independent craft brewers. Ultimately, with limited choices, the beer consumer loses.
The Department of Justice is determining whether the sale would violate antitrust laws.
As I understand it, Anheuser-Busch claims it would have no say in the marketing or sale of Modelo brands in the United States. Those functions would be left to Crown Imports, the Chicago-based marketing and sales company that is owned by Constellation Brands, the world's largest wine company.
In 10 years, Anheuser-Busch would have the right to buy Crown.
It's hard to understand how a brewery could own another brewery and not have some control over sales and marketing. Doesn't the owner control the price of beer sold to the importer/marketer? Doesn't the owner contribute to the sales and marketing programs and costs of the importer/marketer? Doesn't the owner have some say over the hiring of personnel for the brewery it owns?
And isn't the owner responsible to its shareholders to ensure the brewery is maximizing shareholder value?
America's small brewers have been on a roll in the past decade, claiming more than 6% of the U.S. beer market since the craft brewing revolution began in the early '80s. That 6% is divided by 2,400 small companies.
The duopoly already has tremendous influence over beer distribution in America.
In most markets, brewers have two choices, a so-called Blue and Silver distributor, who sells MillerCoors brands, or a Red distributor, who sells Anheuser-Busch brands. (The color codes describe the primary colors of the brewers' labels.)
Through so-called "equity contracts," the large brewers prescribe how much money distributors spend to sell and market their brands. In some cases, they have the right to approve or disapprove the manager of the distribution company. In some cases, they have the right to approve the succession plan of the distributor. In some cases, they have the right to approve the sale of a distributor.
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Craft brewers constantly struggle to get the attention of these distributors.
In the mid-1990s, the CEO of Anheuser-Busch, August Busch III, declared that he wanted "100% share of mind" from his wholesalers. Some Red distributors ejected non-Anheuser-Busch brands from their warehouses. Distributors who gave his 100% were given more favorable terms for their purchase of beer. August III is gone, but the new owners of Anheuser-Busch have called for distributors to get "aligned" with the brands they control.
Large brewers also have control over some retail sales of beer. Many chain supermarkets and stores appoint "category captains" to determine which beers are sold in refrigerated aisles and which beers go on the warm shelves. If the category captain is a Blue and Silver distributor, MillerCoors will play a key role in choosing which brands get sold where. If it is a Red distributor, Anheuser-Busch makes the calls.
This results in a tug-of-war between large brewers trying to get maximum placement of their brands and small brewers trying to get a spot. Obviously, a company that controls 53% of the U.S. beer market is going to have a better shot at shelf space than my company.
Both members of the duopoly have wholly owned brands like Shock Top and Goose Island that are presented as craft brands. They own large shares of some other breweries like Red Hook and Kona. There is concern that these brands would get greater attention from wholesalers than independent craft brands, like mine. This can greatly limit the beer consumer's choices.
In sports venues like arenas and stadiums, the large brewers monopolize space. They typically have advertising contracts with the venues, and this results in their having a dominant share of the beer taps and other beer placements. If you want a Brooklyn Lager at Yankee Stadium or CitiField or the new Barclay's Center in Brooklyn, you'd better be prepared to spend some time searching. Brooklyn Brewery is in those venues, but in a very limited way.
Those are my concerns, and the concerns of other craft brewers. Obviously, I am not an attorney. I know little about antitrust law. I recently read a couple of books about the oil industry and learned that antitrust rulings in that industry have drawn a line for defining a company with too much market share.
Given this, I am baffled by the state of the U.S. brewing industry. How did we ever get to a situation where two companies control 80%? And how can we allow them to control more?
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Best Foreign-Language Film Academy Award submissions 2014
All entries for the Best Foreign-Language Film at the Academy Awards 2014.
Submissions for the Best Foreign-Language Film at the 86th Academy Awards are coming in and will continue until October, when the full list of eligible submissions will be revealed.
Last year, a record 71 countries submitted features and the eventual winner was Austrian entry Amour, directed by Michael Haneke.
An initial nine finalists will be shortlisted, which will be whittled down to five nominees that will be announced on Jan 16, 2014.
Afghanistan, Wajma: An Afghan Love Story, Barmak Akram
Albania, Agon, Robert Budina
Argentina, Wakolda, Lucía Puenzo
Australia, The Rocket, Kim Mordaunt
Austria, The Wall, Julian Pölsler
Azerbaijan, Steppe Man, Shamil Aliyev
Bangladesh, Television, Mostofa Sarwar Farooki
Belgium, The Broken Circle Breakdown, Felix van Groeningen
Bosnia and Herzegovina, An Episode in the Life of an Iron Picker, Danis Tanović
Brazil, Neighbouring Sounds, Kleber Mendonça Filho
Bulgaria, The Colour of the Chameleon, Emil Hristov
Cambodia, The Missing Picture, Rithy Panh
Canada, Gabrielle, Louise Archambault
Chad, GriGris, Mahamat-Saleh Haroun
Chile, Gloria, Sebastián Lelio
China, Back To 1942, Feng Xiaogang
Colombia, La Playa DC, Juan Andrés Arango
Croatia, Halima's Path, Arsen Anton Ostojić
Czech Republic, Burning Bush, Agnieska Holland
Denmark, The Hunt, Thomas Vinterberg
Dominican Republic, Who's the Boss?, Ronni Castillo
Ecuador, The Porcelain Horse, Javier Andrade
Egypt, Winter Of Discontent, Ibrahim El Batout
Estonia, Free Range, Veiko Ounpuu
Finland, Disciple, Ulrika Bengts
France, Renoir, Gilles Bourdos
Georgia, In Bloom, Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Groß
Germany, Two Lives, Georg Maas
Greece, Boy Eating The Bird's Food, Ektoras Lygizos
Hong Kong, The Grandmaster, Wong Kar-wai
Hungary, The Notebook, Janosz Szasz
Iceland, Of Horses and Men, Benedikt Erlingsson
India, The Good Road, Gyan Correa
Indonesia, Sang Kiai, Rako Prijanto
Iran, The Past, Asghar Farhadi
Israel, Bethlehem, Yuval Adler
Italy, The Great Beauty, Paolo Sorrentino
Japan, The Great Passage, Yuya Ishii
Kazakhstan, Shal, Yermek Tursunov
Latvia, Mother, I Love You, Janis Nords
Lebanon, Ghadi, Amin Dora
Lithuania, Conversations on Serious Topics, Giedrė Beinoriūtė
Luxembourg, Blind Spot, Christophe Wagner
Mexico, Heli, Amat Escalante
Moldova, All God's Children, Adrian Popovici
Montenegro, Bad Destiny, Draško Đurović
Morocco, God's Horses, Nabil Ayouch
Nepal, Soongava: Dance of the Orchids, Subarna Thapa
Netherlands, Borgman, Alex van Warmerdam
New Zealand, White Lies, Dana Rotberg
Norway, I Am Yours, Iram Haq
Pakistan, Zinda Bhaag, Meenu Gaur, Farjad Nabi
Palestine, Omar, Hany Abu-Assad
Peru, The Cleaner, Adrian Saba
Philippines, Transit, Hannah Espia
Poland, Walesa. Man of Hope, Andrzej Wajda
Portugal, Lines of Wellington, Valeria Sarmiento
Romania, Child's Pose, Calin Peter Netzer
Russia, Stalingrad, Fedor Bondarchuk
Saudi Arabia, Wadjda, Haifaa Al Mansour
Serbia, Circles, Srdan Golubovic
Singapore, Ilo Ilo, Anthony Chen
Slovakia, My Dog Killer, Mira Fornay
Slovenia, Class Enemy, Rok Biček
South Africa, Four Corners, Ian Gabriel
South Korea, Juvenile Offender, Kang Yi-kwan
Spain, 15 Years Plus A Day, Gracia Querejeta
Sweden, Eat Sleep Die, Gabriela Pichler
Switzerland, More Than Honey, Markus Imhoof
Taiwan, Soul, Chung Mong-hong
Thailand, Countdown, Nattawut Poonpiriya
Turkey, The Butterfly's Dream, Yılmaz Erdoğan
Ukraine, Paradjanov, Serge Avedikian, Olena Fetisova
United Kingdom, Metro Manila, Sean Ellis
Uruguay, Anina, Alfredo Soderguit
Venezuela, Breach in the Silence, Luis Rodríguez, Andrés Rodríguez
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Los Angeles -- TruConnect Mobile LLC announced it has partnered with Walmart Stores to deliver a new prepaid mobile broadband service called Internet on the Go.
The new offering, which is exclusively sold at Walmart, features a service plan from TruConnect with no monthly fee and where the data balance never expires (if used once a year). This is different from other low-cost prepaid monthly services where unused megabytes are wasted at the end of the month – potentially driving up the cost.
"In today's world of high connectivity, we want to make connecting to the Internet more accessible and affordable for our customers," said Seong Ohm, senior VP and general merchandise manager for entertainment, Walmart U.S. "By providing an assortment of mobile broadband products at a low price, our customers can now choose to connect to the Internet when they want, where they want."
To get Internet on the Go, customers purchase a MiFi 2200 Intelligent Mobile Hotspot by Novatel Wireless, Inc., purchase the Internet on the Go service, register online and turn on the device.


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As many of you know, every Monday, the Adobe Developer Connection (ADC) team launches new samples, articles, and tutorials on our website at developer.adobe.com. A great way to make sure that you don't miss an article is to subscribe to our ADC RSS feed. You can also subscribe to our Adobe Developer Connection Update e-mail to get a summary of everything that happens on the ADC. (Note that you'll need to sign in to Adobe.com as you subscribe.)
The mission of this ADC blog is a little different, however. It's not just a list of every article we publish. We (the ADC editors) are hoping to give you more behind-the-scenes information on what's happening on the ADC. Some of the things we'll be covering are:
— What's most popular
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— Other things we think you need to know about — announcements, news, launches, etc.
We know that many of the most exciting things going on in the world of websites, video, Flash and interactivity, RIAs, and mobile apps are happening outside of Adobe.com — in your communities. We're hoping that you will also use this venue to share and comment on what you're doing as well.


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Sabrina Nait & Nicole Trunfio by Guy Aroch for Free People May 2012 Catalog
Anyone who knows me can tell you I am one who is very proud to call Miami home. I was born and raised there, and every time I go back, it's like falling in love over again. It's the perfect mix of fresh modernism and Latin coolness, and with all that fun in the sun, what's not to love?
Free People tends to put out gorgeous catalogs that are so fun to look at, always. But I think with this one, they outdid themselves. The clothes, the models, Guy's eye and photography... It all came together so beautifully. And above all, they show Miami exactly how it is - or at least how I know it to be - and that is what makes this catalog officially enter the 'perfection level'. xx


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Dornoch & the Northern Highlands
by Sally Ross
About the Book
Sally and Rex Ross fell in love with Dornoch and the Northern Highlands in 2008 and 2009. Sally writes: "We traveled every highway, by-way, and back road of the Northern Highlands following the light. And we were constantly met with surprises: rainbows, dark clouds, and shifting sun light; one hundred red deer watching us, highland calves, and seals; expanses of pine, peat, and heather; waterfalls and great, crystal-clear running rivers; the hand of God on a silent blue loch; a tiny croft house surrounded by the immensity of land and sky."
And at night they returned to Dornoch, now a home away from home in Athens, Georgia, USA. They played golf at Royal Dornoch, Struie, Brora, Bonar Bridge, Tain, and Strathpeffer. Rex marched with the Ross Clan in Tain, and Sally, with friend, Sandra, walked Ben Bhraggie, Struie Hill, Big Burn, and Dornoch beaches. Sally and Rex enjoyed services at Dornoch Cathedral and the yearly pilgrimage to Croik church; meals at the Eagle Tavern, Sutherlands, the Coffee Shop, the Castle, the Royal Hotel (Tain), and at home in Camore; Saturday night pipe and drums and dancers in the town square; and Highland Games in both Dornoch and Tain as well as the Black Isle Show.
They enjoyed all of this after Rex had a double lung transplant in May 2005. He had snorkeled the Great Barrier Reef, walked St. Andrews and Carnoustie, cooked hundreds of elegant meals for friends, enjoyed the U.S. West and New England, and could have done anything he wanted with his miraculous new life. He chose Dornoch and the Northern Highlands where his heart was always full and his life felt complete. This book is dedicated to his memory.
About the Creator
I have always been a photographer, but creating fine art photography has now become a passion and a path to learning and personal expression. My work is often described as painterly, an effect I strive to achieve through my eye as an artist, my sense of composition, and my knowledge and use of the camera as a creative tool. I have come to understand that the central theme of my work—and my life—is to live and to create art that "soothes one's soul." Most of my art occurs when I am walking outdoors. When I travel, I am overwhelmed by the beauty and wonder of everything: views, people, animals, grand sights, and tiny details. My travel series include Scotland, China, Italy, Australia/New Zealand, Zion National Park, and New England, as well as Georgia and the US South. It is harder to recognize beauty in the commonplace of my daily routine at home in Watkinsville, GA, but with my camera, I have come to see differently in local settings as well.
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The Case of the Mischief MakerMystery teasers are little stories where you need to figure out what happened based on the given clues.
One hot, dry day Nina saw Mr. Bentz shaking his head as he stood by his flowerbed.
"Somebody ruined all my flowers," he said. "I had the hose out watering them. When I went to put it away, somebody tromped through the rows and stomped on my flowers."
"Who'd do a mean thing like that?" Nina asked.
Mr. Bentz sighed. "Somebody who likes mischief, I guess."
"I'm walking to the mall now. Maybe later I can find out who did it," Nina told him. Soon she saw three girls playing hopscotch. She decided to stop and watch how expertly they moved over the chalk marks.
Lindsay had to hop very carefully because one of the straps was broken on her left sandal.
Katie hopped slowly. She wore purple sneakers that looked worn-out. Katie seemed worn-out, too.
Sarah hopped the fastest. The muddy soles of her white jogging shoes hardly seemed to touch the sidewalk as she moved.
"Would you like to play a game?" Katie asked. "I think I'll sit this one out."
"Sorry. I'm going shopping," Nina told her. Then she paused. Suddenly she knew Sarah had ruined Mr. Bentz's garden.
How did Nina figure it out?
AnswerNina knew because Sarah's shoes were muddy. Mr. Bentz had just watered his garden. Since the day was hot and dry, Sarah must have stepped in the mud around the flowers as she tromped in the garden.
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