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"Game changer" is a term you hear often when people talk about how technology has changed their industry.
People working in marketing and communications have long understood that good results require more than just good luck. As a leader in these functions, if you're failing to call the ball and be predictive about outcomes and impacts, you are behind the curve and your executives will see it. There may be something else you could invest in that yields more return – the opportunity cost of marketing and communications investment -- and you don't want to make the wrong choice.
Business leaders have continued to become more demanding of marketing and communications leaders in terms of three key questions:
In addition, it's not just a matter of reporting results, though that is important. The accuracy of predictions is equally critical. Falling short of predictions is bad of course, but regularly blowing goals out of the water indicates you are either sandbagging metrics or, even worse, just getting lucky and perpetuating that misperception. Precision – informed by data – is a major barometer of your real and perceived success.
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Think about it in this way: If you're an investor, you want more than just a report on what's happened to your money. By the time you get that report, it's too late to act on it to maximize returns or limit the damage. The best investment advisors – at least the ones I want advising me – are the ones who most accurately predict performance. Similarly, if you're a CEO or CFO, you want to know where to make your bets to maximize value and sales. Marketing and communications operations should aim to improve and accelerate the three legs of sales productivity, which are direct precursors to revenue, margin and cash flow at the top of the company.
So how do we make this happen? At BMC Software, where I lead the global communications and influencer marketing efforts, we rely on a measurement and analytics platform called the Influence Scoring System (ISS), which delivers tactical, operational and strategic outputs that we use to calibrate our communications investments, effectively enabling us to run our organizations like investment funds.
Organizations need to use data to govern marketing and sales plays and leverage it to limit opportunity cost. ISS goes beyond the traditional view back in the rearview mirror to show what's ahead – and not just what's in front of you but also what happens if you turn left or right or step on the gas pedal or the brake.
ISS even takes into account how results affected by environmental conditions. To stick with the driving analogy, rain, snow or sunshine will change a driver's ability to get to his or destination, and those kinds of factors impact marketing and comms results, too. We leverage macroeconomic data with company performance data to create a 1-5 Environmental Difficulty Index. That number represents the relative difficulty of selling the company's messages to the market, and it gets factored in when calculating scores, i.e. your miles-per-gallon will be worse going uphill in snow than on a flat, dry road. Here's the car analogy expanded as a high-level roll-up of ISS and EDI:
ISS was first born in 2004, and I've continued to develop it with a lot of individual and agency collaboration along the way. The first version was completely Excel-based and very primitive. It matured substantially in 2006 with an expansion of platforms and data sources. The platform was stable and flexible enough that by 2008, I could focus on adding new data sets, quants and analytics. In 2012, the static dashboard underwent a conversion to a cloud-based experience.
I've been using ISS for about nine years now in different B2B marketing settings for paid, earned, shared and owned (PESO) coverage. We give all contributors and stakeholders transparency into the tactical, operational and strategic levels of metrics and analytics at all times. It's important to provide that transparency so they have full understanding and knowledge of the correlations up and down the stack. That improves performance and impact across the organization.
With the historical accumulated data, we can look back to gain insight into future performance across a widening range of events and situations. We can predict how we'll perform in different scenarios ranging from routine product launches to special events to crises to any other scenario that is likely to present itself. Being able to predict how we'll do and then measuring that performance are extremely valuable to executive leadership – and any marketing and comms leaders worth their salt. It's the best way I've found to show that what we do goes way beyond simply throwing a bunch of darts and hoping one of them is lucky enough to hit the bull's-eye.
Mark Stouseis vice president, Global Connect, at BMC Software. He is the creator of the Influence Scoring System. He was honored in January as the In-house Innovator of the Year at the In2 SABRE Awards in San Francisco.


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Discussion in 'Sports Zone' started by big dog cowboy, Feb 18, 2013.
Saw the title and could not figure out why a Johnny Cash thread was in the sports section.
I am 27, and I thought that! Then I thought it might be about the undertaker for some reason
I was going with either that or a Stephen King novel.
Could have been fixed by referring him to The Intimidator.
I was thinking it was about Johnny Cash too :laugh2:
OK I give up title changed.
good move. The Man in Black was used long before the Intimidator ever got his first drivers license
Hard to believe its been 12 years.
I remember seeing Mike Helton make that statement like it was yesterday.
The sport has never been the same. Nobody was able to replace the Intimidator as the face of NASCAR. Nobody else has had "IT" like he had.
The Man in Black was the MAN!
Yeah he was. And if he was still alive I bet Dale Jr. would be a better driver. At least when his father was alive he would push Jr.
I was a big fan of his really loved watching him race. Really miss seeing him on the track. I remember watching the race and saw the accident but thought nothing of it. Race was over and Waltrip won, I was hungry so went out to grab something to eat. When I got home my buddy called me up and said can you believe Dale was killed in the race? I though he was just playing around, he told me you need to turn on the TV. I was stunned. I had seen that same kind of accident a thousand time and the driver would walk away, heck I have seen crashes that looked worse and the driver walked away.
You were the best #3 Dale "The Intimidator" Earnhardt
I think that if he had been told he would go out at the end of a Daytona 500 he would have said
"That is EXACTLY how I want to go out."
Dale Sr. was the man! Still is in my book. I actually cried a little when I learned he died. He was the reason I became a Jr. fan when Jr. began making a name for himself in the Busch Series.
He'd be driving for DEI. That organization went right down the tubes when the boss died.
He's the reason 99% of Jr. fans became Jr. fans.
Not just go out in the final turn of the 500 but knowing his race team was going to finish 1-2.
He didn't even try to win that race.
He was also nicknamed "Darth Vader" (black car, ruthlessness on the track)
Amusing, but definitely not unique.

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Experts ground the claim with the fact that fewer people take up such a bad habit as smoking. Besides, achievements in diagnosis and treatment also show significant improvements.
This will lead to a 17% drop in death rate, reports BBC.
About 170 UK deaths per 100,000 of population were from cancer in 2010, and this figure is predicted to fall to 142 out of every 100,000.
Some of the biggest killers – lung, breast, bowel, and prostate cancer – are part of the trend. However, the biggest fall is projected to be in ovarian cancer, with death rates plummeting by 43%.
"Our latest estimations show that for many cancers, adjusting for age, death rates are set to fall dramatically in the coming decades. As more people live to an elderly age, the total number of people who actually develop and die from cancer will increase – but these deaths will make up a smaller proportion of the total number of deaths, so the death rate will fall," says Prof Peter Sasieni, from Queen Mary, University of London.
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"These figures reflect improvements in cancer services, but we know there is still more to do. Our aim is to save 5,000 more lives every year by 2015 – and halve the gap in cancer survival between us and the best-performing countries in Europe," the Department of Health says.
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No. 5 Seed Liberty Advances to Title Contest with 8-0 Win over No. 2 Seed Coastal Carolina
|Blake Fulghum pitched a complete-games shutout to help advance Liberty to Big South title game, Friday.
Blake Fulghum pitched a complete-game shutout, leading the No. 5 seed Liberty Flames past the No. 2 seed Coastal Carolina Chanticleers, 8-0, in Game 13 of the Big South Baseball Championship at Liberty Baseball Stadium, Friday.
With the win, Liberty advances to the title contest against the No. 1 seed Campbell, tomorrow afternoon at 4 p.m. The contest will be televised on ESPN3.
Making his first start since March 19, Fulghum went the full seven innings, scattering seven hits and running his record to 2-1 on the year. Due to the Flames' win earlier in the day, the Big South Conference's if necessary game is a predetermined seven-inning contest. The left-hander struck out three batters and worked around five walks to record his first shutout in Liberty uniform. It is the first time since April 3, 2012 in a 3-0 loss at the Citadel.
Shortstop Dalton Britt and first baseman Alex Close each had two hits and two RBIs in the contest. Britt drove in his two runs with the first home run of his Liberty career.
Liberty moves to 33-27 and plays Campbell tomorrow in the Big South's winner-take-all title game. The winner receives the conference's automatic bid to the NCAA Regionals. Coastal Carolina drops to 37-20 and is eliminated from the tournament.
Coastal Carolina, the home team due to being the higher seed, loaded the bases in the bottom of the first inning, but came up empty. Designated hitter Ted Blackman singled and moved to second on a bunt-base hit by center fielder Jacob May. Two batters later, left fielder Alex Buccilli walked to fill the bases with Chanticleers. But, Fulghum retired the next two batters to end the threat.
Liberty struck for five runs in the top of the fourth to take an advantage. Center fielder Ryan Cordell walked to lead off the inning and stole second. Catcher Trey Wimmer followed with a single to left-center field, plating Cordell for a 1-0 edge. Designated hitter Danny Grauer then walked and along with Wimmer moved into scoring position on a sacrifice bunt by second baseman Bryan Aanderud.
Two batters later, Close lined a single into left field, scoring both runners to build a 3-0 advantage. Britt followed by depositing his first home run of the season in the right field bullpen for a 5-0 lead.
Liberty added to advantage in the top of the sixth, striking for a run with two outs. Wimmer walked and advanced to third on a single by Grauer. Aanderud followed with single through the right side of the infield to give the Flames a 6-0 lead.
In the sixth, Liberty put the contest out of reach with an additional insurance run. Close singled to lead off the inning and advanced to second on a single by Britt. After both runners moved into scoring position on a sacrifice bunt by third baseman Jake Kimble, right fielder Ashton Perritt lifted a sacrifice fly to score Close for 7-0.
Coastal Carolina once again threatened in the bottom of the sixth, only to be turned away by Fulghum. The Chanticleers put runners on the corners with one out on singles by Buccilli and third baseman Zach Remillard. However, Fulghum retired the next two batters to keep the shutout in tack.
The Flames pushed the final run of the game across in the top of the seventh. With Grauer on second, left fielder Justin Sizemore lined a run-scoring to center field for what proved to be the final score of 8-0.
Coastal Carolina senior starter Ryan Connolly, making his first start of his career, drops to 6-4. He was roughed up for five runs on four hits over 3 2/3 innings. The first of three Chanticleer pitchers, he struck out two and walked three batters.
Liberty collected 10 hits in the seven-inning contest. Grauer joined Britt and Close with two hits each. Blackman and Buccilli each had two hits apiece for Coastal Carolina.
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often has excessive appetites and could lack refinement or tact..."
Now, say the user is a Boar. There are five Boars in the Boar-file, since there are five elements. Based on the input of the user, I have to FIND the personality description (a chunk of text) that comes after the "Element Animal, xxxx, xxxx, xxxx" - up until the next "Element Animal, xxxx, xxxx, xxxx". This is what I've done so far:
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def personalitydescription (self):
# Provides a personality description based on the user's element and animal.
djur = input("What is your animal?")
element = input("What is your element?")
"""Creates a list that opens all twelve animal files."""
animals = ["rat", "ox", "tiger", "rabbit", "dragon", "snake", "horse", "sheep", "monkey", "rooster", "dog", "boar"]
for animal in animals:
file = open("5_" + animal + ".txt", "r")
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I am looking for a kind help how to do a rank query. I need to find out the rank of a sales agent who is doing multiple leads and generating revenues. Rank would be on based on the revenue from leads table. Query will sum the revenue amounts of all of his leads and then give me the the rank of that user.
use windowing functions, specifically RANK()
if your dbms, which you neglected to mention, does not support window functions, it's gonna be a lot tougher
I am using mysql and it doesn't support RANK() function. Can i have any help for it please.
let's start with the query that produces a single agent's revenue
could you show that, please
Single agent revenue is generated:
SELECT SUM(marketing_commission+purchaser_commission) AS Revenue FROM operations_history WHERE user_id=22 AND date_range LIKE 'date("Y-m")'
where user_id is the id of agent and date_range is for month.
SELECT t.Revenue
FROM ( SELECT user_id
, SUM(marketing_commission +
purchaser_commission) AS Revenue
FROM content_type_results
WHERE date_range LIKE 'date("Y-m")'
BY user_id ) AS m
WHERE m.Revenue > t.Revenue ) AS rank
FROM ( SELECT SUM(marketing_commission +
purchaser_commission) AS Revenue
FROM operations_history
WHERE user_id = 22
AND date_range LIKE 'date("Y-m")' ) AS t
Thanks much appreciated. Could you please tell me what is this table: content_type_results it was not in my query.
sorry, that was a copy/pasta error


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Awards show season is in full swing, which means you'll be forced to update your Netflix queue with all of the great movies you haven't seen yet, and more importantly, you have plenty of opportunity to host and attend award show-viewing parties. For the ultimate Golden Globes-viewing party spread this Sunday, make some traditional in-front-of-the-TV snacks (like Ellie Krieger's Cracked Pepper Chips With Onion Dip, pictured above), or get a little bit cute with some nominee-themed dishes.
Movie-lovers will go . . . nuts for Ellie's Spiced Almonds. These get the Easiest to Make award, plus, you can sprinkle the leftovers, if there are any, on a salad the next day.
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When the votes were tallied for Best Use of Bread in an Appetizer, it was a close call between Mario Batali's Mixed Crostini, and Emeril Lagasse's Crostini alla Mozzarella, but in the end, Mario's Crostini took the title.
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Warner Bros Pictures International executives reported on Friday [17] that The Great Gatsby grossed an estimated $5.4m on its opening day in 27 markets.
The film, which opened Cannes on Wednesday, went on release the following day in the UK, Germany, Italy, Russia and South Korea.
The running total includes the second day in France.
Gatsby arrives in approximately 49 markets this weekend. Baz Luhrmann directed and the lead cast includes Leonard DiCaprio, Carey Mulligan, Joel Edgerton and Tobey Maguire.
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I'm going to go to practice, though I may not be able to stay long. Taking the train to D.C. this afternoon … first road trip since Game 82 (Olli Jokinen) last season.
So I'll blog from the Amtrak train.
Just a point on the whole Marian Gaborik argument — not about the play on the GWG in 2OT the other night. About whether they should deal him, even if they could (no-trade clause; huge salary, injury prone, coming off the worst year of his career).
There's a much better chance that Gaborik comes back with a big offensive year next season than there is of replacing him with a guy who scores 40. Much, much better. If Gaborik is gone, the Rangers are going to have to trade some of their young players and prospects and draft picks to get another player like him. And they'll probably sign Brad Richards, who now has a concussion history, and though he's coming off a good season, he's not going to be make a legit No. 1 out of Christensen and Prospal, for example; and who is going to get a ton of money and probably be unable to live up to his contract.
The Rangers need a No. 1 line. They can't just kick to the curb their only No. 1 line player and not replace him. Indeed, they need to have at least two No. 1 line players next year.
I'm sure youse drew the comparison between Bruins-Habs and Rangers-Caps, right? One team down 2-0, wins Game 3, gets a wild Game 4 into overtime and wins it, the other team down 2-0, wins Game 3, gets a wild Game 4 into overtime and loses it. And how completely different the two series now seem because of that one OT goal.
The rest of these playoffs, boy, have they been vicious. And it will continue to get worse as long as the wishy-washy NHL suspends guys for — oh, my — one game.


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While the 'Come + Get It' singer is almost as famous for her sweet nature as she is for her pop and movie stardom, in 'Aftershock,' she's bored, entitled and snobby to a guy who tries chatting her up at a bar … and has no idea who she is. She rocks the same blue and purple extensions she had in her 'Hit the Lights' era and informs the guy that she has a boyfriend. We wonder who she could possibly be talking about!


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A councillor has presented images of rubbish in shop doorways and rusting street furniture to colleagues in a bid to trigger debate on maintaining standards of care for Ilkley town centre.
Councillor Mike Ridgway gave a presentation to Ilkley Parish Council on Monday showing the results of an early-morning survey he carried out checking the town's streets.
"I believe there's a need for investment in Ilkley with the prime objective of improving the maintaining the general housekeeping and presentational standard of the town," he said.
He took photographs of cracked paving stones, patched-up asphalt footpaths, rubbish in shop doorways, out-of-date signs advertising events, A-boards left out in the street overnight, piles of leaves under public benches, and rusty waste bins and street furniture.
"The Grove, our most prestigious thoroughfare, looks like a patchwork quilt," he said.
"The town of Ilkley is at a crossroads. It can decline further, to being a tatty town, or it could become a smart town."
Coun Ridgway asked fellow parish councillors if they could say they were proud to live in the town.
And he said landlords of town centre shops and offices should be told they have a responsibility to the town in maintaining the appearance of their premises.
Coun Ridgway also criticised dated foreign language tourist information sheets available from Ilkley Visitor Information Centre, and areas at Station Plaza once occupied by hedges, which are now bare soil.
Other councillors welcomed Coun Ridgway's findings, and asked what could be done to improve standards.
Councillor Stephen Butler, who previously brought up the idea of a town centre manager for Ilkley, said it needed someone to find out whose responsibility it is to do various tasks around streets, and tell them about work needing to be done.
He said: "If we had a town centre manager that person could take up responsibility for going around all these problems and making sure something happens.
"That's something the parish council doesn't have the resources to do at the moment."
Parish council chairman and district councillor, Mike Gibbons, said he felt the responsibility was on Bradford Council to raise the standards across the whole district.


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In my previous articles about usability testing, I wrote about ways for businesses and organizations to perform their own usability testing with minimal cost, time, and difficulty. One of the great online features that make this possible is LiveStream.com with Procaster. No, this is not a paid endorsement. We were just so thrilled with LiveStream's service when we did our last usability test that I had to share.
Live Broadcast:
One of the key elements to being able to perform a usability test is being able to have observers watching the test in another location. This allows the test to be done with no distractions either from having several people in the room while the test is done or from the test giver having to take notes. In addition, with the observers being able to watch the test live, it saves time (the whole usability test and debriefing can be done in a few hours) and it gives the observers the ability to give suggestions to the test giver while the test is in progress.
Screen Broadcast:
There are several live video broadcast sites out there and several screen recorders, but I don't know of any other live screen broadcasters. LiveStream's Procaster allows users to broadcast your computer's screen allowing the observers of the test to clearly see everything the test participant does on their website. At the same time, Procaster also allows you to broadcast video from the computer's webcam so the observers can watch the reactions of the test participant while watching the screen. Very cool.
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LiveStream operates online. This means that the observers for your usability test don't have to be at the test location to observe the test. I still recommend that observers are at the physical location, but if they can't be, this is a great option to have.
It's always good to record your usability tests so people can review the tests later as needed. This is especially important if members of your web team are not able to attend the usability test. They can view the entire test if they want. Also, if the test team is having difficulty convincing some members of the web team (or the head of the company) about some changes they believe need to be made. They can show that person the test video to support their argument.
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LiveStream and Procaster are both available for free for basic use, which is enough for your usability test. There is a fee for more advanced features, but you shouldn't need that for your usability test. One of the advanced features that tempted us to pay was that you could password protect the broadcast (without that the broadcast is unprotected). We were a little concerned about a non-OCC person stumbling onto the test. We discovered, however, that if you don't "verify" your channel, it's not made public. It's still usable, just not public. So, that gave us the same effect as the password protection and it was still free.
So, I encourage you to check out LiveStream and Procaster. It makes the more complex parts of the usability test pretty easy and, of course, it's free.


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Hefner once again haunted by Phillies as Mets fall
First six batters to face Mets' starter reach base as Philly takes series
PHILADELPHIA -- Hours after the carnage, as Jeremy Hefner stood by his locker and prepared to dissect what went wrong in Wednesday's 7-3 Mets loss to the Phillies, a television reporter apologized for not having her camera in place.
"They've probably seen enough of me, anyway," Hefner shrugged.
It was that type of day for Hefner, who relived a portion of the nightmare he endured against the Phillies last September. The first six batters to face him Wednesday reached base safely at Citizens Bank Park, resulting in five first-inning runs and a deflating, lopsided loss.
"I know I'm good enough to beat these guys," Hefner said. "I just didn't execute my pitches."
Hefner actually recorded a quick first-inning out when leadoff man Ben Revere walked and was caught stealing. It turned out to be the high point of his night. Jimmy Rollins followed with a double, Chase Utley hit a two-run home run, Ryan Howard singled, Michael Young walked and Domonic Brown hit a mammoth three-run homer into the second deck in right field, spotting the Phillies a five-run lead.
For a time, that did not actually seem insurmountable. The Mets plated their first run on John Buck's homer half an inning later, then loaded the bases with one out. But rather than pinch-hit for Hefner, manager Terry Collins elected to let his struggling pitcher bat. Phillies starter Kyle Kendrick promptly struck out Hefner and Jordany Valdespin, ending the Mets' best threat to do significant offensive damage.
"We had guys on bases," Collins said. "We swung the bats OK. We just didn't get a hit when we could have gotten back in the game and made it a game."
Hefner at least rewarded his manager by retiring six in a row from the first through third innings, escaping a bases-loaded jam when Valdespin made a shoestring catch to end the third. But it was far too little, far too late for Hefner, who took his first loss of the season.
Following a 27-minute rain delay, the Phillies put the game out of reach on Laynce Nix's pinch-hit, two-run homer off LaTroy Hawkins in the sixth.
Buck continued to serve as a bright spot for the Mets, hitting his fifth homer of the season off Kendrick in the second. That number was significant, considering Mets catchers combined to hit five homers all last season. The solo shot also marked the first time in Buck's career that he has homered in three consecutive games.
Lucas Duda added a fourth-inning solo shot off Kendrick, who scattered six other hits over six innings. Valdespin rapped out two of them, finishing 3-for-5, and Duda added a second homer off Mike Adams in the eighth. It was Duda's third career multi-homer game and his second against the Phillies.
But, as Collins noted, more significant hits never came.
"I had to battle," Kendrick said. "I had to pitch as deep as I could and just battled, made pitches. I gave up a couple runs but was able to keep us in the game."
For Hefner, the brief and ineffective outing harkened back to last Sept. 20, when he started at Citi Field, faced seven Phillies batters and allowed all of them to score. Following that game, Collins said he was "embarrassed" by the play of his team, while Hefner added that "words can't even describe how embarrassing that is."
"Obviously, a start like that will never leave you," Hefner said. "But I had moved past it."
Trouble is, the Mets have now endured two extremely short starts in a row, receiving three ineffective innings from Dillon Gee in Tuesday's loss and another three from Hefner on Wednesday. As a result, the Mets taxed their bullpen to the tune of 10 innings in two nights in Philadelphia; an off-day Thursday will help them recover in advance of this weekend's series in Minneapolis, but it still represents a troubling trend.
After Jon Niese and Matt Harvey, who have been brilliant, the Mets have endured their share of early-rotation trouble. The strength of last year's team was starting pitching, and the Mets will need that to remain a strength if they have any designs on competing in the stacked NL East.
Second baseman Daniel Murphy, whose baserunning blunder in the fifth inning encapsulated the Mets' sloppy play, chalked Wednesday up to "just a funky day."
The Mets can only hope it was not the start of something more sinister.
Anthony DiComo is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @AnthonyDicomo. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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LOS ANGELES - AUGUST 27: Abner Mares celebrates his victory against opponent Carlos Fulgencio on August 27, 2009 in Los Angeles, California. (Photo by Jacob de Golish/Getty Images)
In a special video feature from Showtime and Showtime boxing, right here you can take a look at life outside the ring for Abner Mares, winner of the bantamweight tournament and one of the sport's hottest young stars. Mares talks about his family, his background, how he got started in the sport and much more, and it's a revealing video clip and definitely worth a quick watch. Mares talks about being in the ring and feeling on top of the world with all of the fans there cheering for you, but then getting home and it returns to being all about family. He asks his daughter is boxing is a job and she says yes, so you can get money and buy things, and buy things for me. Mares also gets into his youth and coming to the United States at age 7, and all of the really intense trials and hardships he has to deal with. Then he talks about his start in the world of boxing, and today how it's all about providing for his family and getting his strength from that. This weekend, Mares i...
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De La Rosa gives up just one run, fans eight over seven-plus innings
ANAHEIM -- Yoenis Cespedes sure picked a good time for his first career home run with the Red Sox.
With two on and one out in the eighth inning, Cespedes smacked a three-run shot into the Red Sox's bullpen against Joe Smith that broke a scoreless tie against the Angels.
It proved to be all the offense the Red Sox would need in a 3-1 win on Sunday at Angel Stadium as right-hander Rubby De La Rosa tossed one of his best starts of the season.
"I knew I hit it well," Cespedes said through a translator. "I've faced Smith plenty of times and knew after he threw a sinker that he would likely throw me a slider. He did and I was able to hit it out."
Cespedes has hit Smith well throughout his career. Facing him while with the Oakland A's, Cespedes went 4-for-9 with three RBIs.
"It's just every time I miss," Smith said. "He's a good hitter, obviously. That's why he's here. Every time I miss he's on it. That's what good hitters do in this league. I missed and he got me."
The Red Sox were in desperate need of a quality start from De La Rosa after a 19-inning loss Saturday night saw the team use its entire eight-man relief corps and starter Brandon Workman, who came out of the bullpen.
De La Rosa gave up one run on five hits over seven-plus innings for the win. The lone run came on a solo shot from Mike Trout to open the eighth inning.
"We needed Rubby to go deep, and he did," manager John Farrell said. "He pitched with a lot of poise. He threw three pitches for strikes, and I think overall, this was a well pitched series by our rotation."
De La Rosa's first inning had to make the Red Sox nervous, especially after Saturday's taxing loss. The right-hander surrendered a leadoff single to Kole Calhoun and back-to-back walks with just one out. However, he got an important 4-6-3 double play and escaped without allowing a run.
"In the first inning, we get a key ground-ball double play. As he settled into a rhythm, he was able to add and subtract to his fastball and always has that changeup," Farrell said. "Overall, the confidence is really showing through."
The right-hander got into another jam in the fourth inning when Howie Kendrick singled and David Freese walked to begin the frame. Dan Butler, making his first Major League start behind the dish, then airmailed a throw to second, putting runners on the corners with none out.
Just like the first inning though, De La Rosa was at his best with the pressure on. He retired the next three batters to get out of the jam and keep the game scoreless.
De La Rosa relied on a mid-90's fastball that exploded through the strike zone. The power of that pitch was never more evident than in the fifth inning, when he mowed down Calhoun, Trout and Albert Pujols in order.
"Everything worked today. I tried to keep the ball down," De La Rosa said. "The first few innings were hard probably because of the hangover from last night. I kept going and was able to get into a rhythm."
De La Rosa has been especially impressive in his last two road starts. He's combined to allow just two runs in 13 innings in St. Louis and Anaheim. Before that, he'd gone 0-3 with a 6.04 ERA in four outings away from Fenway Park.
"When you think about the last three starts in particular, especially the last two starts on the road, we are glad to see he's reversed that trend," Farrell said. "More than anything, he is pitching with a lot of confidence and maintaining his stuff deep into games."
The Red Sox's first hit off Halos starter Hector Santiago didn't come until a leadoff double in the fourth inning by Dustin Pedroia. However, Boston couldn't capitalize on the hit and left Pedroia stranded.
While the Red Sox managed just four hits in Sunday's game, it marked the team's first series win at Angel Stadium since a four-game sweep in 2011.
"This entire trip, we've played pretty good baseball," Farrell said. "We didn't tear the cover off the ball, but we pitched well and it is a boost of confidence to win a series on the road."
Quinn Roberts 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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The Triple-A Gwinnett Braves rallied from an early five-run deficit and beat the Durham Bulls 13-10 in 11 innings on Sunday in Durham, N.C.
The Triple-A Gwinnett Braves took a one-run lead into the bottom of the ninth inning, but Norfolk rallied against G-Braves' reliever Peter Moylan to send the game to extra innings, and the Tides' Luis Exposito hit a walk-off home run off of Ryan Buchter in the 10th to top the G-Braves 3-2 on Friday night in Norfolk, Va.
The Gwinnett Braves bullpen couldn't find a rhythm on Thursday in Norfolk, Va. as the Norfolk Tides rallied for a 7-5 win over the G-Braves in the third game of a four-game series.
Triple-A Gwinnett Braves starter Jair Jurrjens was hit hard early and took the loss in a 5-2 decision against the Norfolk Tides on Wednesday in Norfolk, Va. Jurrjens gave up three earned runs and two hits before the first out was recorded in the third inning, then was pulled for reliever Buddy Carlyle, who gave up another two runs in the inning.
Right hander Julio Teheran worked eight innings and led the Triple-A Gwinnett Braves to a 3-1 win over the Norfolk Tides on Tuesday at Harbor Park in Norfolk, Va. Teheran allowed just five hits and one earned, no walks and struck out a season-high nine.
LAWRENCEVILLE - Atlanta Braves right-hander Tommy Hanson, pitching on a rehab assignment, threw five scoreless innings to lead the Gwinnett Braves to a 5-2 victory over the Louisville Bats on Sunday at Coolray Field.
LAWRENCEVILLE – Left-hander Sean Gilmartin earned his first Triple-A victory with 6.2 impressive innings as the Gwinnett Braves defeated the Louisville Bats, 8-2 on Saturday night at Coolray Field. Stefan Gartrell led the offensive attack with a 2-for-3 game including his 18th home run and three RBIs. Josh Kroeger added a pinch-hit three-run homer in the eighth to put the game out of reach.
LAWRENCEVILLE - Gwinnett starter Julio Teheran surrendered six runs over four innings and the bullpen allowed four more runs as the Braves fell 10-2 to the Norfolk Tides on Thursday night at Coolray Field. Norfolk entered the series 0-7 against the G-Braves this season, but won the series, 3-1.L.J. Hoes went 4 for 6 in the leadoff spot for Norfolk, while Bill Hall and Brandon Waring each plated three RBIs in the rout.
LAWRENCEVILLE – Felix Pie went 2 for 3 with three RBIs, leading the Gwinnett Braves to a 6-4 win over the Norfolk Tides on Tuesday night at Coolray Field. The G-Braves scored four runs in the bottom of the fourth inning to take a 5-2 lead and never trailed the rest of the way, moving to within six games of the Tides for second place in the International League South Division with the victory.
LAWRENCEVILLE - The Norfolk Tides scored five runs after the fifth inning to take the opener of a four-game series, 7-4 over the Gwinnett Braves on Monday night at Coolray Field. Randall Delgado allowed three runs over 5 2/3 innings in the losing effort for Gwinnett, while Norfolk starter Dana Eveland yielded only two unearned runs over six innings for the victory. With the loss, Gwinnett's first in eight meetings with Norfolk this season, the G-Braves find themselves seven games behind the Tides for second place in the International League South Division.
DURHAM, N.C. - Ernesto Mejia's two-out, two-run single in the top of the ninth led the Gwinnett Braves to a 6-4 victory over the Durham Bulls in the series finale on Sunday night at Durham Bulls Athletic Park.
DURHAM, NC. - The Durham Bulls broke open a scoreless game with four runs in the bottom of the seventh and held on for a 5-3 win over the Gwinnett Braves in Game 2 of the four-game series Friday night at Durham Bulls Athletic Park.
FORT MILL, S.C. - In his third start since being optioned from the Atlanta Braves on July 15, Randall Delgado led the Gwinnett Braves to a 7-2 win over the Charlotte Knights on Tuesday.
FORT MILL, S.C. - The Charlotte Knights scored a run in the bottom of the eighth to tie and another in the bottom of the ninth for a 3-2 win over the Gwinnett Braves at Knights' Stadium on Sunday afternoon.
LAWRENCEVILLE – The Gwinnett Braves throttled the Durham Bulls, 13-1, in the finale of a four-game series on Friday night at Coolray Field.
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WILTSHIRE-BASED Olympic rider Lucinda Fredericks today confirmed that her champion horse Headley Britannia has been put to sleep.
Australian rider Fredericks, who is based at Little Cheverell, was widely thought of as the best eventing mare in history, and wasone of only two horses to have won all three of the top four-star events - Badminton, Burghley, and Kentucky Rolex.
She retired from top level competition in 2012 but enjoyed a win at Express Eventing in 2013.
Fredericks, who represented Australia at London 2012, said: "Brit was the best horse I could have ever hoped to have ridden and I owe her so much.
"We were having so much fun today in the beautiful sunshine XC (cross country) schooling, I was so pleased to be with her for her last moments, and to have a chance to thank her for everything she has done for me and everyone around her. She remained calm, steady and was peaceful at the end.
"I am so thankful for the partnership I had with Brit, she was one in a million. She was small but had such a huge heart. She was a true professional and made my career what it is, and without her I wouldn't be where I am.
"She was my best friend. She touched so many people's lives and always brought a smile to everyone's face".
Headley Britannia was sent to Fredericks to be sold in 2002, but no-one wanted a small chestnut mare whose ears could not be touched, and so she stayed to be competed. That year she won Blenheim.
After winning Badminton she went to stud for embryo transfer.
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Anothert alternative is to use your side burner or a separate butane burner to light your chimney, but that can be quite dangerous. The bottom of a lit chimney can reach quite high temperatures - I've measured my Weber chimney and got a reading of 550° F. Sustained heat like that may or may not damage the burner (or worse) - I''m not one to take chances.
A simple alternative can be found in the old Boy Scout Handbook (mine is from 1960 or so). It's called the "Buddy Burner" and it's part of the old tin can stove you may have seen in the same book.
NOTE: A lot of low-cost backpackers and preppers are now using the same idea for their "Hobo stoves" (some of whom are claiming it's "new", but that's just not true). Besides - this isn't a "survival candle" like those sites describe. This is a firestarter meant to throw a high flame with a lot of heat.
The idea behind the Buddy Burner is simple - it's basically a big candle.
Here's what you'll need to make one:
- tuna can
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cardboard box
parrafin wax (or beeswax if you can afford it)
heavy-duty scissors or a good utility knife
double-boiler (for melting wax)
Start with a simple tuna can or something similar.
Cut the cardboard box into strips and pack the whole can full. Try to keep the strips even - the can on the bottom is a good example, while the can on top isn't great.
It's important to pack the whole can full. Many "survival candles" use just a few circles or rings of cardboard and then fill the rest of the can with wax. This makes for less surface area to burn so even though the burner lasts longer it throws less heat (which is what we need to start a chimney).
Use a double boiler to melt the wax, and pour it over the cardboard in the can. In this example the middle of the burner is absorbing the wax. What you don't see is that the wax is filling up the spaces in the cardboard from the bottom up.
It's important to use a double boiler for melting the wax. Direct heat can cause the wax to melt too quickly and then boil. Once that happens the wax can ignite and set your entire pan on fire.
Parrafin wax is good for these burners. Beeswax is also excellent as it burns longer, but it's very expensive and it's better suited to other uses.
The wax I'm using is an assortment of beeswax and paraffin and other scrap wax - this is from old candle stubs and from my own candlemaking efforts.
Pour slowly, and you will see the wax eventually fill the whole can. Once that happens, stop pouring and set the burner aside to cool.
You can use all sorts of cans, but flat, wide ones are best. On the left I've used the small lunch-sized tuna cans. In the middle are regular tuna cans (both flat-sided and tapered), and on the right are slightly larger cans for water chestnuts and other fruits and veggies.
And here they are boxed up for storage. I made all of these in the space of about 45 minutes from start to finish and they're enough to last for years.
To light, simply hold it sideways and use a lighter or match to get it started. Initially some of the spaces in the cardboard may fill up with smoke, but you can ignore this.
In less than a minute, you will have a huge, sustained flame. Place your chimney over the burner and let it sit for a few minutes.
If you run low on wax, you can also drop a square of it right on top of the burner. It will melt into the bottom and replenish the wax.
So how do you extinguish such a big flame when you're done? Blowing it out doesn't work well at all, but you can use the tuna can lid as a damper to snuff out the flames immediately. Let it cool for a few minutes before handling to let the wax solidify again.
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Let's hope this gig doesn't get canceled too! Maybe it's because of her double whammy letdown in film and television earlier this year [2] that Qamar has decided to take her talent to the stage. The Lebanese actress will enter the world of theater for the first time after she was nominated by producer and writer Muhyi Zayed to be the leading actress in the new Egyptian play "Inheritance" alongside actor Mohammad Ramadan.
The play hits up the hot topic of inheritance laws in Egypt and how the Egyptian people do not believe in them and refuse to abide by them.
According to Sayidaty.net, Qamar is currently in rehearsals with the play's cast under the direction of Essam Al Sayid. The show is scheduled for opening night during the Muslim holiday Eid El Fitr in Alexandria, Egypt.
The play is hoped to help revive theater production after a season of dormancy due to the unstable political conditions taking place in country.
Do you think Qamar will be more successful on the stage than on the screen this year? Please share by commenting below!
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As a time-saver when our children were small, I would cook an extra dinner portion each night and freeze it in an ovenproof dish. When we had six dinners accumulated, we'd have "potluck" on a busy night. Each person selected a covered dish, not knowing what was inside. Then I'd reheat the meals. No one could complain about what they got, but they could trade if they wanted to. This worked great! —Martha Jasmer, Bradenton, Florida
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Sadly even if we turn out well, we will simply be nerfed until we're no longer competitive. You said it yourself, it happens in every beta anyway. We had Inquisition in 4.0 and 5.0, did that make us "properly balanced?" And if they're just going to gut our damage again regardless, for the fifth!!!! time in a row (10 second CS, MASSIVE nerfs in Wrath beta, idiotic Mastery AND reversion of the buff to Templar's Verdict before Cata launch, lsoing half our procs/CDs and CONSTANT nit-noy nerfs in MoP beta until I personally called Greg out on his crap), I would rather lose the one spell that feels like a chore, TYVM.
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And His disciples said unto Him, "Can we get Kings instead?"
inquisition takes zero effort to maintain with a 60 second limit. pressing one button every 60 seconds...what's the point other than being needlessly annoying?
"burn phase, oh shit inq is going to run out. better waste my holy power on it!"
at least have it refresh with finishers, a la slice and dice.
Something you guys aren't grasping: Something(s) has to go. Would you rather it be freedom, bop, salv, sac? No everyone would cry. Emancipation? No the pvp kids would cry. HoJ? Good joke. Bubble? Better joke.
If you were to make a priority list of shit that you wouldn't want cut, I'm pretty sure inq would be pretty low on the totem pole.
Lets be real here for a second because again i think people are missing the point.
Bear saying challenge is kinda retarded to me. There is nothing challenging in the gameplay in the slightest. I could kill a heroic boss doing my usual dps half passed out on the keyboard ffs.
I hate the removal of inqu and not going passive how rogue / druid scaling factors are going because I have a complete lack of faith in blizzards ability to properly tune our damage once they remove a core scaling element of the class. FFS does nobody remember MoP beta and the last minute 25% 2h spec going to 20% then plooop 10% in like the closing days of beta. I was floored by the incompetence of the team man-handling ret as per the course.
I hope I'm wrong about this beta. But again as long as SoB is intact and inqu removal is slated it's already setting the stage for a shitshow.
S'nD only refreshes for assaination iirc and they're looking at that in WoD, prob gonna be a talent like it'll be for ferals Savage Roar, could prob make it for ret as well, either pick Inq autorefreshing on finishers or get something you have to play to get.
Bye shield slam, bye SS, goodbye Freedom stun removal, how are you doing magic cleanse goodbye!, oh good evening 3 different healing spells snip snip, Consecration who uses this!.
I'm floored at the idea that paladins even need pruned. Just more illogical shit from the design team putting their hands on paladins.
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I bet salv gets pruned too in the process. Be wonderful! then I lose my get out of jail free card when the incompetent masses are tanking pug content who clearly have no idea what a taunt is for.
Those are their attacks that they spend their energy on. That's like saying we have to "maintain" using Crusader Strike, Judgement and Exorcism. Well I guess so if we want to deal damage!
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And His disciples said unto Him, "Can we get Kings instead?"
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I'm not saying paladin needs any spells removed, but Blizzard is probably going to address it.
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Rest is about spot on. Cept you missed HOLY STRIKE for vanilla :P
The bottom line is what I have been saying all along. Blizzard thinks there are problems with ability bloat. Paladin being one of the classes with the most buttons, I would have to assume we would be one of the prime candidates for pruning. If they had to take a spell away, I'm glad it's Inq and not something more integral to our utility or damage.
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Oh and dont forget the allaince VS horde paladin retardedness of TBC. and our tier / class scaling which extended way beyond the problems of the 10 second CS
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I am a member of a cult. That cult is Apple. Its prophet was Steve Jobs. I am not a shareholder of the company. But I am – and have been for 31 years – a devotee of its products.
This started in 1980, with purchase of the Apple II for a World Bank research project I had promoted. I did not myself use the machine. But I could see the immense advantages of having such a computer for our own use rather than relying on remote access to a mainframe computer under someone else's control.


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A Wimbledon teen has taken one step closer to becoming a ball boy in the Barclays ATP World Tour Tennis finals.
Thomas Morris, a student at Wimbledon College, was among 200 children who took part in the regional selection trial at Sutton Tennis Academy recently where he was selected as one of the top kids in the area.
The 15 year old will now go up against 100 other kids in the national selection finals in April for a chance to make it into the final squad of 30.
He said: "Obviously it's extremely tough but I'm really pleased to have made it through to the final 100 kids in the UK.
"I think the coaches are looking for people that can listen and learn and not just think they're good enough already.
"However you need good ball skills, coordination, the ability to concentrate, work as a team player and not be distracted by the players."
Thomas already gives up his time to work as a volunteer at the All England Tennis Club as a community tennis coach.
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