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Version 2 of the AWS Mobile SDK
- This article and sample apply to Version 1 of the AWS Mobile SDK. If you are building new apps, we recommend you use Version 2. For details, please visit the AWS Mobile SDK page.
- This content is being maintained for historical reference.
Messaging Users with Amazon SNS and Amazon SQS using the AWS SDK for iOS and the AWS SDK for Android
This article discusses how mobile applications can use Amazon Web Services to communicate with users via email, short message service (SMS), and other communication channels. The sample code presented here uses Amazon Simple Notification Service and Amazon Simple Queue Service. Amazon Simple Notification Service (Amazon SNS) makes it easy to set up, manage, and send notifications from mobile applications and have these notifications delivered immediately to any users who have chosen to subscribe to them. Amazon SNS provides a highly scalable, flexible, and cost-effective method to implement such notification systems.
Amazon Simple Queue Service (Amazon SQS), also discussed here, offers a reliable, highly scalable, hosted queue for storing messages. The types of messages supported by Amazon SQS include—but aren't limited to—the notification messages sent from Amazon SNS.
Together, Amazon SNS and Amazon SQS enable developers to create applications that can message large numbers of users in multiple formats quickly and easily.
The sample application described here demostrates how mobile applications can message their users through Amazon SNS and Amazon SQS. The sample demonstrates how to use Amazon SNS to create a topic, subscribe users to that topic, and publish notifications to the topic. Subscribers to the topic can receive their notifications via email, SMS, or an Amazon SQS queue. Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS can also be used to create other types of communication systems not shown here.
This article shows sample code for both the iOS and Android platforms. The complete sample code and project files are included in the AWS SDKs for these mobile platforms. Links to the SDKs are available at the end of this article.
To use the AWS SDK for iOS or the AWS SDK for Android, you will need AWS credentials, that is, an Access Key ID and Secret Access Key. If you haven't already signed up for Amazon Web Services (AWS), you will need to do that first to get your credentials. You can sign up for AWS here. After you sign up, you can retrieve your credentials at this page.
Creating Amazon SQS and Amazon SNS Clients
Making requests to Amazon SNS and Amazon SQS requires creating a client for each service. The code below shows how to create clients for both services on both the iOS and Android platforms.
- iOS
AmazonSNSClient snsClient = [[AmazonSNSClient alloc] initWithAccessKey:ACCESS_KEY_ID withSecretKey:SECRET_KEY]; AmazonSQSClient sqsClient = [[AmazonSQSClient alloc] initWithAccessKey:ACCESS_KEY_ID withSecretKey:SECRET_KEY];
- Android
AWSCredentials credentials = new BasicAWSCredentials( Constants.ACCESS_KEY_ID, Constants.SECRET_KEY ); AmazonSNSClient snsClient = new AmazonSNSClient( credentials ); AmazonSQSClient sqsClient = new AmazonSQSClient( credentials );
Topic Creation
Amazon SNS uses topics to route notifications from publishers to subscribers. The term publisher refers to an application that sends notifications; the term subscriber refers to an entity, such as a user, that receives notifications. Topics provide a junction point for publishers and subscribers to communicate with each other. Once a topic is created, subscribers can be added to the topic and receive notifications/messages. The DisplayName attribute is added to a topic to allow notifications to be sent via SMS.
- iOS
SNSCreateTopicRequest *ctr = [[[SNSCreateTopicRequest alloc] initWithName:TOPIC_NAME] autorelease]; SNSCreateTopicResponse *response = [snsClient createTopic:ctr]; SNSSetTopicAttributesRequest* st = [[[SNSSetTopicAttributesRequest alloc] initWithTopicArn:response.topicArn andAttributeName:@"DisplayName" andAttributeValue:TOPIC_NAME] autorelease]; [snsClient setTopicAttributes:st];
- Android
CreateTopicRequest ctr = new CreateTopicRequest( Constants.TOPIC_NAME ); CreateTopicResult result = snsClient.createTopic( ctr ); SetTopicAttributesRequest tar = new SetTopicAttributesRequest( result.getTopicArn(), "DisplayName", "MessageBoard" ); this.snsClient.setTopicAttributes( tar );
Subscribing to Topics
In order for notifications sent to a topic to be received, you have to subscribe an endpoint to that topic. The endpoint corresponds to a recipient. An endpoint is an email address, SMS number, web server, or Amazon SQS queue. If you are using an Amazon SQS queue, it needs to be configured to receive notification messages from Amazon SNS. Once you subscribe an endpoint to a topic and the subscription is confirmed, the endpoint will receive all messages published to that topic.
- iOS
SNSSubscribeRequest *sr = [[[SNSSubscribeRequest alloc] initWithTopicArn:topicARN andProtocol:@"email" andEndpoint:emailAddress] autorelease]; [snsClient subscribe:sr];
- Android
SubscribeRequest sr = new SubscribeRequest( this.topicARN, "email", email ); this.snsClient.subscribe( sr );
Listing a Topic's Subscribers
Listing the subscribers for a topic provides the endpoint and corresponding protocol for each subscriber who receives notification via that topic. The protocol for an endpoint depends on the type of endpoint. For example, endpoints that are email addresses have a protocol of SMTP.
- iOS
SNSListSubscriptionsByTopicRequest *ls = [[[SNSListSubscriptionsByTopicRequest alloc] initWithTopicArn:topicARN] autorelease]; SNSListSubscriptionsByTopicResponse *response = [snsClient listSubscriptionsByTopic:ls]; return response.subscriptions;
- Android
ListSubscriptionsByTopicRequest ls = new ListSubscriptionsByTopicRequest( this.topicARN ); ListSubscriptionsByTopicResult response = this.snsClient.listSubscriptionsByTopic( ls ); return response.getSubscriptions();
Publishing Notifications
Publishers send notifications to topics. Once a new notification is published, Amazon SNS attempts to deliver that notification to every endpoint that is subscribed to the topic.
- iOS
SNSPublishRequest *pr = [[[SNSPublishRequest alloc] initWithTopicArn:topicARN andMessage:theMessage] autorelease]; [snsClient publish:pr];
- Android
PublishRequest pr = new PublishRequest( this.topicARN, message ); this.snsClient.publish( pr );
Unsubscribing from Topics
Unsubscribing removes the endpoint from the topic and stops notifications from being received.
- iOS
SNSUnsubscribeRequest *unsubscribeRequest = [[[SNSUnsubscribeRequest alloc] initWithSubscriptionArn:subscriptionArn] autorelease]; [snsClient unsubscribe:unsubscribeRequest];
- Android
UnsubscribeRequest unsubscribeRequest = new UnsubscribeRequest( subscriptionArn ); this.snsClient.unsubscribe( unsubscribeRequest );
Creating a Queue
The first task in using Amazon SQS is to create a queue. Once a queue is created it can be subscribed as an endpoint to an Amazon SNS topic.
- iOS
SQSCreateQueueRequest *cqr = [[[SQSCreateQueueRequest alloc] initWithQueueName:QUEUE_NAME] autorelease]; SQSCreateQueueResponse *response = [sqsClient createQueue:cqr]; return response.queueUrl
- Android
CreateQueueRequest cqr = new CreateQueueRequest( Constants.QUEUE_NAME ); CreateQueueResult result = this.sqsClient.createQueue( cqr ); return result.getQueueUrl();
Subscribing a Queue to a Topic
Here's how to subscribe a queue to a topic. However, for the queue to receive messages, you must also add a policy to the queue. See below.
- iOS
NSString *queueArn = [self createMessageQueue]; SNSSubscribeRequest *request = [[[SNSSubscribeRequest alloc] init] autorelease]; request.endpoint = queueArn; request.protocol = @"sqs"; request.topicArn = topicARN; [snsClient subscribe:request];
- Android
String queueArn = this.createMessageQueue(); SubscribeRequest request = new SubscribeRequest(); request.withEndpoint( queueArn ).withProtocol( "sqs" ).withTopicArn( this.topicARN ); this.snsClient.subscribe( request );
Adding a policy to a Queue
In order for a queue to receive messages from a topic, the queue must have a policy object that specifies that the topic has sqs:SendMessage permission for the queue. For further details see the Amazon SNS FAQ. For more information about queue policies see the Amazon SQS documentation. Once the policy object is created it can be attached to the queue as follows:
- iOS
NSMutableDictionary *attributes = [[[NSMutableDictionary alloc] init] autorelease]; [attributes setValue:[self generateSqsPolicyForTopic:queueArn] forKey:@"Policy"]; SQSSetQueueAttributesRequest *request = [[[SQSSetQueueAttributesRequest alloc] initWithQueueUrl:theQueueUrl andAttributes:attributes] autorelease]; [sqsClient setQueueAttributes:request];
- Android
Receiving Messages from a Queue
Now that a message is in the queue, you can receive it, which requires getting it from the queue. When requesting to get a message from the queue, you can't specify which message to get. Instead, you simply specify the maximum number of messages you want to get (up to 10), and Amazon SQS returns up to that maximum number. Because Amazon SQS is a distributed system and the particular queue we're working with here has very few messages in it, the response to the receive request might be empty. Therefore, you should rerun the sample until you get the message. You should design your own application so that it continues to poll the queue until it gets one or more messages.
- iOS
SQSReceiveMessageRequest *rmr = [[[SQSReceiveMessageRequest alloc] initWithQueueUrl:queueUrl] autorelease]; rmr.maxNumberOfMessages = [NSNumber numberWithInt:10]; rmr.visibilityTimeout = [NSNumber numberWithInt:30]; SQSReceiveMessageResponse *response = [sqsClient receiveMessage:rmr];
- Android
ReceiveMessageRequest rmr = new ReceiveMessageRequest( this.queueUrl ); rmr.setMaxNumberOfMessages( 10 ); rmr.setVisibilityTimeout( 30 ); ReceiveMessageResult result = this.sqsClient.receiveMessage( rmr );
Delete Messages from a Queue
Amazon SQS doesn't automatically delete a message after returning it to the application. By default, it keeps the message to protect against the case where the receiving application fails or loses its connection. In these cases, a different application—or perhaps a new instance of the same application— might attempt to get the message.
To delete the message, you must send a separate request. You specify which message to delete by providing the receipt handle that Amazon SQS returned when you received the message. You can delete only one message per call. Deleting the message acknowledges that you've successfully received and processed it.
- iOS
SQSDeleteMessageRequest *request = [[[SQSDeleteMessageRequest alloc] initWithQueueUrl:queueUrl andReceiptHandle:message.receiptHandle] autorelease]; [sqsClient deleteMessage:request];
- Android
DeleteMessageRequest request = new DeleteMessageRequest( this.queueUrl, message.getReceiptHandle() ); this.sqsClient.deleteMessage( request );
A sample app that includes this code is hosted in our samples repositories on GitHub:
For more information about using AWS credentials with mobile applications see the following article:
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CHINO HILLS – Chino Valley Unified School board approved to spend $155,000 for additional work on the Chino Hills High School's swimming pool.
The pool itself was built using $5 million of the $150 million Measure M bond, which is a facility measure.
Work to the pool is complete, however it has been determined that additional work is necessary to ensure adequate water pressure for the pool.
The work includes: asphalt and concrete cutting, and related trenching, backfill, compaction and asphalt and concrete replacement for installation of one new 3-inch water meeting and about 400-feet of 40 inch potable waterline from Pomona Rincon Road to the aquatic center pool room, including tie-in to point of connection , and disconnection and capping of previous point of connection water line.
The cost of additional work will be paid through the project's contingency fund.
Board members approved the item at their March 21 meeting.
***There was a correction made to the headline in this story: Chino Valley Unified to spend additional $150,000 for Chino Hills High's pool.


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Memory, Chicken Fingers, and Sustainability
Last semester, I attended a conference on campus food sustainability held by the wonderful activist organization Real Food Challenge. Taking place over three days, it was a lot to take in. But one part of the conference, in particular, stood out to me.
During a panel discussion, a young man explained how in the last 50 years, most colleges switched from self-operating their dining halls to contracting with giant foodservice corporations. Contracting was rare decades ago, but now, 70 percent of colleges do it.
Then one woman, approaching 70, spoke about her work in dining halls. She had been an employee at the Johns Hopkins dining hall for 39 years. She explained how, in the early 1970s, she had baked fresh bread on premises, and that fresh vegetables would be cut and prepared in-house. Then, over time, less and less fresh food came in—more and more of it was processed. It took less time and labor that way, she said, but that didn't make it right. Something as important as food needs more consideration than just efficiency.
But what really struck me was the fact that she had been there when the last loaf of fresh bread was baked, when the last shipment of fresh, uncut vegetables arrived; that she had seen with her own eyes the change that the rest of us were all merely talking about. It struck me as slightly unsettling that 300 college students and activists should be gathered together with the goal of transforming our food system (in many ways, to bring it back to how it was only a few decades ago) and yet have so little experience of what it once looked like.
In short, as I listened to the oldest person in the room talk about bread and vegetables, I realized that there's no substitute for memory.
The stereotypical interaction of the progressive know-it-all youth with the old fogey is obviously an exaggeration, but too often young people discount the experience of older folks. A good deal of what we call sustainability today was simple common sense not very long ago. This began to change with the beginning of modern consumerism, in the post-WWII era. But for anyone over 60 or 70, much of their lives took place before this time, so the sustainability-as-common-sense period is still within living memory. Yet we are not very far from losing all living connection to this time, and far too little attention has been given to the details of everyday life then.
A few days ago, I experienced another example of how easy it is to forget these things. I sold an old computer modem on eBay, without a power adapter. I was thinking that maybe someone was looking for a replacement modem, and might still have the adapter from their old one. A couple of days after I sent it out, the purchaser messaged me. He hadn't noticed that I was selling the modem only, and asked why anyone would sell a modem without the adapter. I realized that it didn't actually occur to him that the adapter and the modem were each useful on their own. How different that is from the folks who saved string during the Great Depression, when every little bit counted.
The history books will not record the minutia of everyday life. There are dozens, probably hundreds of habits, tricks, and ways of doing things that will be entirely forgotten if they are not sought out now, in living people's memory. And though they may be little things, they can still have an impact. In another example, my father remarked the other day that berries and tomatoes used to come in cardboard, not plastic, containers. A little thing, maybe. But when there is no one alive who remembers a time when not everything was packaged in plastic, we'll have lost an important connection to a more sustainable past. Even the most passionate young people will have no way of knowing these details.
Although some new changes are obviously needed to make sustainability work today, we don't need to reinvent the wheel. It's already been done, and only recently forgotten. Let's spend a little more time rediscovering our past.
Addison Del Mastro is a student at Drew University and a program assistant with the Center for a New American Dream.
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My grandmother cooked a huge meal every day from scratch—vegetables fresh from the garden or freezer. When asked how she made her melt-in-your-mouth biscuits, she couldn't give exact amount—"I just add this until it feels right." My mother, bless her, bought into the post-war message and would have found it difficult to cook a meal without an electric can opener. Still, she knew how to follow a recipe and how to prepare food for the freezer. Before we married, my husband had rarely eaten mashed potatoes that didn't come from a box. I taught my mother-in-law how to make non-instant coffee.
Posted by Kathy Davenport at July 24, 2013 at 11:24am
Center for the New American Dream, I think you are losing touch with your readers. First you suggest I need to watch a video to figure out how to share a lawn mower with my neighbors, then an article about inviting people to my living room, and finally this, suggesting that we've lost all the knowledge of our parents. Maybe you ought to consider that your readers are already the bread-baking, neighborly, sharing masses.
Posted by Mary Faltynski at July 24, 2013 at 10:23am
I can remember when, back in the early 60s, our little town still had a traditional grocery store. They didn't use many bags of any kind, they packed your purchases in the cardboard boxes they had received the goods in. The bags they did use were, of course, paper.
Posted by Spencer Selander at July 24, 2013 at 7:42am
This might be a little thing, but I'm only in my 30's and I can remember when we made popcorn popped on the stove. Much less packaging that way, although it took more time and skill. My husband and I are teaching our daughter this.
Posted by Rose Anne Karesh at July 23, 2013 at 9:00pm
You don't really have to be in your 70's to remember when things were done locally, sensibly and sustainably. Most boomers remember when all of the soda (and half of the beer) came in returnable bottles that were refilled at a local bottling plant. When the school cafeterias cooked the food and served it on plates (with real flatware) and washed the dishes on site. When there were no plastic bags in the grocery stores, and the deli wrapped the sandwich in paper! All Good things to bring back to our communities.
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French tourist Aurelie Lhorme arrived in Australia this month and set off on a road trip along the country's rugged southern coastline.
The 30-year-old had travelled to Australia previously, but on this trip hoped to find a job and possibly stay for an extended period of time.
But police fear Ms Lhorme's adventure may have taken an ominous turn on Saturday night, on an isolated road about 10 kilometres from the Head of the Bight Whale Watching Centre, near the Nullarbor Plain in South Australia.
Parked on the side of that road they found Ms Lhorme's grey Toyota sedan. The vehicle was locked and inside officers found Ms Lhorme's passport, wallet and phone. Ms Lhorme, from Toulouse in southern France, was nowhere to be found.
A search party, including an Aboriginal tracker and a police plane, could not find any trace of her on Sunday afternoon.
As the search resumed on Monday morning, police revealed that a number of people travelling in a motorhome may hold vital clues about the mysterious disappearance of the tourist.
"Police are ... interested to speak to the occupants of a Jayco motorhome that was parked at the Head of Bight on Saturday night, near to where Aurelie had left her car, and may have had some contact with her," South Australia police said.
They said a staff member at the Head of Bight Whale Watching Centre, west of Ceduna, had spoken to Ms Lhorme early on Saturday night and it appeared she was planning to sleep in her car.
The following morning, the staff member noticed the car was parked in the same spot, but there was no trace of Ms Lhorme.
The search resumed on Monday morning using a police plane, local patrols and State Emergency Service volunteers. Officers from South Australia Police's special tasks and rescue team are co-ordinating the search and have travelled to the area from Adelaide.
At 2.20pm, police said they were searching at the base of a cliff after unconfirmed reports of a body being sighted.
On her Facebook account on April 4, Ms Lhorme wrote to a friend that she was in France but was about to fly back to Australia.
" . . . im flying back to australia next week, back to work, i ll find hopefully," she wrote.
The whale watching centre says the area is known for its sense of isolation.
"At this unique geographical spot, a mini-desert of towering sand dunes meets a sheer line of 90m limestone cliffs," the website says.
"In the sheltered waters of the bay below, Southern Right Whales congregate en masse to give birth to calves."
South Australia police have urged anyone with information about Ms Lhorme to contact the police assistance line on 131 444.


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First fuel-tax-funded job is in Fremont CountyJul 21, 2013 Staff
Two other Fremont County road projects also were awarded this month at the Wyoming Transportation Commission meeting.
The first project to be funded with the additional fuel tax revenue the Wyoming Department of Transportation will receive this year is among the six contracts totaling $13.4 million awarded by the Wyoming Transportation Commission during its July teleconference meeting.
Two other Fremont County road projects also were awarded at the WTC session.
McGarvin-Moberly Construction of Worland won the first contract to use fuel tax funds with a bid of $3.8 million for milling off deteriorating pavement and replacing it with a new layer of pavement and a final chip seal on a 10 mile-section of WYO 28 between the Sublette County line and the South Pass Rest Area south of Lander.
WYDOT will fund the project with the additional $4 million in revenue it expects to receive in September as a result of the fuel tax increase that took effect July 1. The contract completion date is July 31, 2014.
Lovell's Mountain Construction won a $2.9 million contract for a pavement overlay with some shoulder widening and isolated reconstruction on three miles of WYO 32 immediately south of its junction with US 14A west of Lovell. The work is scheduled to be done by Sept. 30, 2014.
Jerry Bornhoft Construction of Riverton was the low bidder at $2.8 million for reconstruction of nearly a mile of Riverview Road between Augusta Drive and Rein Road in Riverton.
The project will include replacing one bridge and realigning two curves, along with some work on the lower portion of Hill Street. The contract completion date is July 31, 2014.
Oftedal Construction of Casper submitted the low bid of $2.3 million for landslide mitigation work at three locations on US 26 between Moran Junction and Dubois.
The project will include constructing a rock buttress at the base of one continuing slide, and embedding steel casings into two new slides on the slope above the highway.
The work is expected to be done by Nov. 30, with the planting of some trees to follow next spring.
Simon Contractors of Cheyenne won a $1.5 million contract for milling off worn and deteriorating pavement on seven miles of US 14-16 north of Gillette and replacing it with a new layer of pavement by Sept. 30, 2014.
S & L Industrial of Cowley won a $21,000 contract for installing signs at ports of entry around the state notifying boat owners they must stop at the ports to have their boats inspected.
The signs are part of a cooperative effort with the Wyoming Game and Fish Department to prevent the introduction of invasive aquatic species into the state's waters. The contract completion date is Nov. 30.


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Papaya Coconut Muffins
What do you do with left over papaya? You make muffins of course!
Papaya and coconut give these low fat muffins a tropical flair. If you can't take a trip to the tropics, bring the tropics to your kitchen!
These are moist and wonderful from the minute they come out of the oven. If you can't find papaya in your market, ripe mango would work too.
Low Fat Papaya Coconut Muffins
Gina's Weight Watcher Recipes
Servings: 14 • Serving Size: 1 muffin • Points +: 3 pts • Smart Points: 5
Calories: 126.6 • Fat: 3.0 g • Protein: 2.3 g • Carb: 22.8 g • Fiber: 2.7 g • Sugar: 8.8 g
- 1 cup papaya purée
- 2 cups 100% whole wheat pastry flour (Bob's Red Mill)
- 1/2 cup sugar
- 1 tsp baking soda
- 1/4 tsp cinnamon
- 1/2 tsp salt
- 1/2 cup coconut flakes
- 1 large egg, beaten
- 1/2 tsp vanilla
- 2 tbsp melted butter or margarine
Preheat oven to 325°. Puree papaya in a blender until smooth.
Combine flour, sugar, baking soda, cinnamon and salt in a large bowl. Mix well. Add coconut and mix to combine.
In a medium bowl, mix eggs, melted butter, vanilla and puréed papaya. Add to the flour mixture and stir until just blended.
Pour batter into a prepared muffin tins and bake at 325° for 25 minutes, or until a toothpick inserted in the center comes out clean. Cool for about 10 minutes.


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Join in on the "Winter Wonderland" fun with making snowmen or sledding down snowy hills.
Enjoy games, face painting, and fun winter crafts from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Jan. 26 at Veterans Park, 14877 Eucalyptus Ave.
Vendors will be on site with tasty treats to purchase.
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Presale: residents $8 per person, non-residents $10.
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Overthinking It
Gio Gonzalez and Max Scherzer are Striking Out Everyone
Strikeouts are up this season. That, in itself is nothing new: strikeouts have been up in many seasons—most seasons, even—since the dead ball disappeared. The explanations have multiplied almost as quickly as the Ks. The mound is higher. The strike zone is bigger. Hitters are swinging for the fences. Pitchers are increasingly specialized, and they throw pitches they didn't use to throw, and they throw the ones that they used to throw harder than they used to throw them. Also, Jose Molina keeps tricking umpires into seeing strikes that aren't there.
Those are all valid theories, and more than one of them, if not all of them, probably contain some truth. But to that long list of culprits behind baseball's increasing lack of contact, I'd like to add two more: Gio Gonzalez and Max Scherzer.
Strikeouts are up this season, but they're especially up when Scherzer and Gonzalez pitch. On Sunday afternoon, Max Scherzer struck out 15 batters in seven innings. On Monday night, Gio Gonzalez struck out nine batters in six innings. Scherzer (11.7) and Gonzalez (11.4) are the only two starters who've struck out over 11 batters per nine innings in 2012. Only five pitchers have ever qualified for an ERA title with a K/9 at least as high as 11.4: Randy Johnson, Pedro Martinez, Kerry Wood, Nolan Ryan, and Dwight Gooden. Neither Gonzalez nor Scherzer is likely to become the sixth, but through the first three weeks of May, they've been among baseball's best at missing bats.
It isn't much easier to explain why these particular two pitchers are striking out more batters than it is to explain the lack of contact across the league. Both Gonzalez and Scherzer are known for having fairly filthy stuff, but neither struck out even a batter per inning in either of the last two seasons. Neither has suddenly started throwing a lot harder, or picked up a new pitch, or abandoned an old one. One has an ERA under 2.00, and the other has an ERA of almost 6.00. Not much of the information in the preceding three sentences seems to make sense. The rest of this article is my attempt to find some sense in it anyway.
Gio Gonzalez
Most pitchers enjoy a statistical boost when they switch from the AL to the NL, since the competition is slightly weaker and they don't have to face the DH. The typical pitcher strikes out batters about 5 percent more often when he makes the switch. Gio has struck out batters almost 40 percent more often, and the gain is still sizeable even if you exclude his plate appearances against pitchers and account for the fact that he's faced the eighth-weakest opposing batters of any NL starter with at least 40 innings. His average velocity isn't up much, and his overall pitch distribution isn't dramatically different. So what is?
The key to Gio's increased K rate could be his pitch selection with two strikes, especially against right-handed hitters. Here's how his two-strike pitches to righties have broken down from 2011 to 2012, courtesy of Harry Pavlidis:
Gonzalez has already thrown more changeups to righties with two strikes this season than he did in all of 2011, and he's kept them all out of the top part of the zone. But the smoking guns here are the two bold numbers all the way to the right. Gio is elevating slightly more often overall against righties, but the change has been especially pronounced with two strikes, when he's thrown 36 percent of his pitches in the upper third of the zone or above, compared to 27 percent last season. Most of that increase can be traced to his four-seam fastball, which he's elevated 61 percent of the time, up from 50 percent last season. Why does that matter? As Dave Allen discovered when he researched the relationship between four-seam fastball height and strikeouts, "the overwhelming trend within the strike zone is for whiff rate to increase with vertical location." Gio is throwing his four-seamer higher when hitters are at their most vulnerable, and as a result, more Ks are coming.
Here's an example of what this looks like in practice, from Gio's most recent start. Carlos Ruiz is at the plate with a 3-2 count, and even though he probably knows it's coming, he can't catch up to an elevated 94 mph four-seamer.
Against Gonzalez, with two strikes, right-handed batters this season are striking out more 56 percent of the time and hitting .056/.143/.090. Not only is that .233 OPS lower than any other lefty starter's with two strikes against righties, it's lower than any righty starter's with two strikes against righties. Most righties facing Gonzalez haven't thrown their bats into the stands and walked slowly back to the dugout, but they might as well have. If they'd all done that before the pitch, they wouldn't have hit much worse.
If there were no downside to throwing higher in the zone, everyone would do it. Of course, there is: those additional Ks usually come at the cost of more flies and fewer grounders. So far, Gio has gotten more pop-ups (which are almost as good as strikeouts), but he hasn't given up more outfield flies, and he's allowed only one home run in 54 2/3 innings. Eventually, he's going to give up some homers, and his BABIP won't be .250, and his ERA won't be under 2.00. But his strikeout boost looks at least somewhat sustainable, and his formerly flagrant walk rate is edging into respectable territory after falling for a fourth straight season. Gonzalez is signed through 2016 with a team option for 2017, which gives the Nats several seasons to come up with a better nickname than "the Motown Kid" while enjoying his success.
Max Scherzer
Only 19 perfect games have been pitched since 1900. Randy Johnson, Roy Halladay, and Sandy Koufax have pitched perfect games. So have Phil Humber, Dallas Braden, and Tom Browning. What Max Scherzer did on Sunday wasn't quite as rare as a perfect game or a four-homer game—there have been many more starts of at least 15 strikeouts and no more than one walk than there have been perfect games and four-homer games combined. A perfect game sounds like something that can't be improved upon—it says so right there in the name—but I'd argue that Scherzer's outing was more impressive than most perfectos.
A game of at least 15 strikeouts and no more than one walk could, and probably should, be called a "Randy Johnson." Randy Johnson pitched 11 Randy Johnsons, which is the most Randy Johnsons anyone has pitched. There have been only 68 Randy Johnsons pitched by pitchers other than Randy Johnson. Very, very few of those 68 were pitched by someone like Tom Browning, because it's tough to fluke into 15 strikeouts. Credit for a perfect game is often due almost as much to a team's defense as it is to its pitcher, but a Randy Johnson is a largely defense-independent achievement.
The way Scherzer collected his Ks on Sunday made his outing even more unusual. All of Scherzer's strikeouts were swinging. Swinging strikeouts aren't necessarily the only impressive ones—when Johnson struck out 19 A's in a game in 1997, no one thought, "Yeah, but six of them were called." They aren't necessarily more indicative of skill than the called kind, either. However, they are less dependent on favorable frames and generous calls, so they're the last word in defense independence. Only Johnson, Johan Santana, and David Cone have struck out 15 batters swinging in a start with no more than one walk.
Granted, Scherzer's historic start came against the Pirates, a team that's been asking opposing pitchers to do something historic all season. Justin Verlander nearly no-hit Pittsburgh in the same series, and R.A. Dickey struck out 11 Pirates on Tuesday night. But Scherzer was striking out well over 10 batters per nine before that start, so he's not a one-start wonder. Like Gonzalez, his velocity isn't up by much since last season, and his overall pitch distribution has barely budged. Let's go back to the two-strike breakdown.
Scherzer has relied on his fastball with two strikes much less often in his last two seasons than he did during his first two.
Increased trust in his secondary stuff and a greater willingness to use it to put hitters away has turned some two-strike fouls into whiffs…
…and much of that big whiff boost this season can be traced to his changeup.
That only answers part of the question, though. Scherzer is getting more Ks because he's using pitches that tend to miss more bats when he's a strike away from a strikeout, and those pitchers are less hittable than they used to be. But why are they less hittable? In Scherzer's case, the explanation could be partly mechanical.
Scherzer has struggled to repeat his mechanics before, most notably in 2010, when he spent some time in Toledo. Earlier this season, he fell back into bad habits. After Scherzer's seven-walk start on April 29 of this season, Jim Leyland made him watch tape to see what he was doing differently:
Scherzer picked up on what Leyland was seeing, and he corrected it quickly. Here's a video of Scherzer explaining the change to a group of confused reporters after his successful start on Sunday.
By "break," Scherzer means the moment when his hands separate during the delivery—as Kevin Goldstein put it to me, the point at which the "pitching arm goes back, and the glove arm goes forward." Jason Parks clarified further: "It's about rhythm and comfort. Breaking your hands in rhythm will keep you in the flow of the delivery and not rushing to catch up. If a pitcher breaks too late, they often rush to get the arm over and they don't stay over the ball."
Scherzer says he's been concentrating on "...where do my hands travel, when they break out how low do they go? Where do they end up, where do they travel?" So, can we see a change?
We can. It's a subtle one, as most mechanical changes are, but it's there. Continuing my tour of people who know more about mechanics than I do, I turned to Doug Thorburn, and the two of us studied some video of Scherzer's most recent start, his start from April 29, and a start from last September. Here's Scherzer's hand break from the late April start that set off Leyland's alarms:
In this shot, Scherzer's hands are separating just below the belt buckle. Compare that to this still from Sunday:
Now the hands are just above the belt—they're breaking earlier. Doug estimated the difference at around three inches in height.
The earlier break has a ripple effect that puts Scherzer in a better position later in the delivery. The triptych below captures Scherzer at the initiation of trunk rotation on three different days: the still from Sunday is in the center, with the September 2011 game on the left and the April 2012 game on the right. Since Scherzer's hands broke earlier in the May shot, he wasn't "behind" in his delivery. (Click to enlarge.)
In Doug's words, "look at the height/position of the throwing hand, specifically the angle of the forearm—the hand is in a higher position as he initiates trunk rotation in the center pic than either of the others."
Doug deserves the final words on Scherzer's mechanical changes:
Now, let's look at the changes in action.
Here's a five-pitch sequence from Derek Jeter's first-inning plate appearance against Scherzer on April 29. Scherzer misses his target on four of the five:
And here's a four-pitch sequence from Andrew McCutchen's first-inning plate appearance against Scherzer on May 20. Scherzer goes 4-for-4 in hitting Alex Avila's glove:
Sometimes, explanations that attribute a significant change in performance to a minor change in approach are too easy, and sometimes they look a lot less compelling after a single bad start. Obviously, Scherzer didn't miss all his spots in April, he hasn't hit all his spots in May, and he won't hit all his spots over the rest of the season. But if he's hitting them more often now, he's a better bet to miss bats: his K/9 in his four starts since the mechanical tweak is 13.3, compared to 10.0 in five starts before. Command and control don't always go hand in hand, but in Scherzer's case, they have. His walk rate in those last four starts is over half of what it was to start the season.
We called Scherzer "a great bet for a breakout this year" in BP2012, which doesn't look particularly prescient on the surface, in light of his 5.73 ERA. But Scherzer's ERA-FIP of 1.95 is the largest of any AL pitcher with at least 45 innings (.400 BABIPs will do that), so whether or not we look stupid now, we might look pretty smart soon. The ERA is a work in progress, but the bat-missing breakout looks like it's already here.
Bradley Ankrom, Max Marchi, Rob McQuown, Harry Pavlidis, and Doug Thorburn provided research assistance for this story.
Ben Lindbergh is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @benlindbergh
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Great article. Explains the art of pitching very well. Incidentally, talk about ERA-FIP differentials, Chris Volstad's is 3.47-by far the largest in baseball.
May 23, 2012 09:45 AM
Excellent. I suppose the next step would be to identify a few candidates for similar changes or mechanical fixes. Ricky Romero and Brandon Morrow seem to have traded places, no?
May 23, 2012 10:38 AM
Do we have a large enough sample at this point to evaluate the effect of defense behind the Detroit pitchers? Before the season, there was speculation that the K-rate would be the best way to neutralize the butchery. Max might have been reading.
May 23, 2012 18:55 PM
Well, Tigers pitchers have a collective BABIP of .311, which is the highest in the AL. That's not a coincidence. Scherzer's BABIP will probably be a little high as long as he's playing in front of those fielders, albeit nothing like it is now. Striking out everyone is an especially good goal when you can't count on your defense to turn balls in play into outs.
May 23, 2012 19:02 PM
I think it's also worth noting that all four of Scherzer's opponents in May (ChW twice, Pit and Oak) have ranked in the top 10 in team K%, whereas only one April opponent did.
May 23, 2012 23:50 PM
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May wants to play for Bobcats
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CHARLOTTE, N.C. With two lottery picks in the NBA draft, Sean May figures the Charlotte Bobcats cant avoid selecting a North Carolina player.
May, the Most Outstanding Player of the Final Four after leading North Carolina to the NCAA championship, wants it to be him.
I think it would be good for the franchise to have a Carolina basketball player here, especially someone the fans can relate to since they have seen them play the last few years, May said today. What other great person can that be besides me?
May, who won Indianas 2002 Mr. Basketball award as a player at Bloomington North, said he gave Charlottes assistant coaches the same message over dinner and planned to tell coach Bernie Bickerstaff.
Charlotte has the Nos. 5 and 13 picks in the draft. May isnt projected to be selected much earlier than ninth.
I would be willing to drop to 13 to come here, he said. This for me would be my ideal spot just because it is Carolina and what North Carolina University has meant to me and what this state means to me. For me to come here and help another team in the state of Carolina would be a blessing.
The Bobcats arent focused on selecting a player from one of its in state schools. But theres plenty to choose from, starting with North Carolina forward Marvin Williams, the player many believe is Charlottes first choice.
They also need a point guard, and are interested in Wake Forests Chris Paul and North Carolinas Raymond Felton.
May, whose father Scott played on Indianas 1976 NCAA championship team, expects the Carolina trio to be selected within the first 15 picks, increasing Charlottes odds of getting a Tar Heel.
I told (the coaches) theyve got five and 13, two lottery picks, and with the talk of us three guys going in the top 15, theyve got to take one, May said. I cant see it not happening.
Bickerstaff insists hes looking only for the best available players. But when pressed if having a local tie would give a player an edge, he relented.
All things being equal, I would say Yes, Bickerstaff said. Thats the intelligent thing to do. But they would have to be equal.
May says he would complement Charlotte forward Emeka Okafor, the NBAs Rookie of the Year. He has already figured what defenses Charlotte could play with both of them on the floor at the same time, and said hes also willing to sit behind Okafor to watch and learn for a few years.
Emeka and I could play together, he said. We both are tremendous rebounders. That is one thing I am going to do and have done my entire career is rebound the basketball.
Also, May said he would have stayed at North Carolina for his senior season if Williams and Felton had not also left for the NBA. Two months ago he contended their departure had nothing to do with his decision.
Raymond left, which was the catalyst. I thought my production on the floor would be a lot harder without him out there, May said. If Ray and Marv would have stayed, I definitely would have stayed because I felt like we would have had a chance to repeat.


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Millet Spring Roll Salad
Prep Time: 15 minutes + 60 minute rest
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Yield: 10 servings as a side dish
- 1/4 cup Rice Wine Vinegar
- 1/4 cup Lime Juice
- 2 Tbsp Toasted Sesame Oil
- 2 tsp Sriracha Chili Sauce
- 2 tsp Soy Sauce
- 1/4 cup Brown Sugar
- 2 cloves Garlic, minced
- 1 cup Hulled Millet
- 4 cups Water
- 1 tsp Sea Salt
- 1 medium Carrot, shredded
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- 1 medium Red Bell Pepper, thinly sliced
- 15 oz Baby Corn, ½ inch pieces
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New Delhi, Sep 11 (IANS) India has refused visas to the players of the Pakistani cricket team Faisalabad Wolves to participate in Champions League Twenty20 starting Sep 17 but Pakistani referee Syed Imtiaz Ali was cleared within two days to attend a FIFA course that started here Wednesday.
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"This approach is followed in several other recent cases of Pakistani groups planning to visit India. The most recent being the Pakistanis who were to participate in the Amir Khusro festival," the source added.
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He who is purged of all stain, is well-established in morals and endowed with self-control and truthfulness, is indeed worthy of the yellow robe.
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retrofuturist wrote:I've heard something too, so I know you're not making it up! I thought it was somewhere in the order of 10-12.
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SAN JOSE — The man charged in the presumed killing and disappearance of 15-year-old Sierra LaMar was indicted on the strength of recovered DNA and alleged self-incriminating statements that revealed knowledge about evidence before detectives knew it themselves.
That was the thrust of the case that compelled at least 12 of 18 members of a criminal grand jury to indict Antolin Garcia-Torres in the murder of Sierra, whose body still has not been found, and in three prior attacks on women that surfaced after his 2012 arrest in the teen's case.
The new details about the evidence against Garcia-Torres are contained in 1,900 pages of secret grand jury testimony released late Friday. This newspaper bore the cost and successfully fought to make the transcript public as Garcia-Torres' attorneys sought to keep it under wraps. Before the release of the transcript, little was publicly known about Garcia-Torres' arrest other than that it was based on DNA evidence.
"It's vital for the public to understand what occurred during the secret grand jury proceeding, particularly since the prosecution is seeking the death penalty in this case," said David J. Butler, editor and senior vice president for news at the Bay Area News Group.
Garcia-Torres' defense team could not be immediately reached late Friday.
Sierra disappeared March 16, 2012 while walking to a school bus stop near her home in an unincorporated area near Morgan Hill. While Sierra's body has not been found despite exhaustive searches by officials, family and volunteers, prosecutors believe they have a strong enough case to seek the death penalty — the first such case in the county since District Attorney Jeff Rosen was elected in 2011.
Sierra's DNA was found inside the suspect's car, while his was on her clothing, discarded in a field not far from where she was headed on the foggy morning when she disappeared.
More specifically, testimony from 50 witnesses painted a picture that included the discovery of DNA consistent with Garcia-Torres on LaMar's pants, which first led Santa Clara County Sheriff's detectives to suspect him. A hair from Sierra was found on a rope inside his car trunk, and black polyester fibers from the floor were similar to fibers found on her clothing.
During one of multiple interviews with sex-crimes detectives, Garcia-Torres preemptively tried to explain away the evidence against him. That peculiarity, they testified, continued to the point where Garcia-Torres was giving them new insight into the crime.
When the detectives mentioned they had DNA evidence, Garcia-Torres purportedly told them that on the way to a fishing trip at the Uvas or Chesbro reservoirs, he masturbated and ejaculated into a tissue and threw it out the window, which he claimed was a regular practice. But the detectives had not yet specified that the trace DNA they found was from semen.
"When you answer questions you were not asked, that is a telltale marker of a guilty conscience," said Steven Clark, a criminal-defense attorney, legal analyst and former Santa Clara County prosecutor.
Deputy District Attorney David Boyd also pointed out detectives' testimony that Garcia-Torres, again unsolicited, laid out an unusual route toward the reservoirs that took him to Palm Avenue near where Sierra disappeared, even though it's in the opposite direction, and claimed to have had no interaction with the teen.
It was a clinching moment for investigators: Garcia-Torres contending that he never crossed paths with Sierra but still going out of his way to explain how their DNA ended up on each other's person or property.
"The defense now will have to do two things: create doubt based on other possible scenarios of DNA transfer and also fix that big lie which is, 'I never met Sierra LaMar,'" Clark said. "There's a lot of lawyering left to do, but the defense has its work cut out for it."
Other elements of the case that had not been made public until Friday was the finding that Garcia-Torres had purchased bleach and a turkey baster three days before Sierra vanished.
"He purchased two items. One of which can destroy DNA, and the other can be used as an applicator," Boyd said to the grand jury, according to the transcript.
That prompted testimony from Garcia-Torres' wife refuting that implication by claiming he would not have purchased those items without her consent. Also according to the grand jury transcript, she provided an alibi for Garcia-Torres that ultimately did not withstand scrutiny.
Authorities also testified that the condition of Sierra's recovered clothing suggested foul play.
"That sweatshirt, when it's recovered has dirt stains on it, and where are those dirt stains? They are on the inside of that sweatshirt, when you lift it up. And there's also dirt stains on the back of her jeans," Boyd said during the proceedings. "Now how does that happen? And I want you to envision this in your mind. Sierra's rear-end and back are on the ground and someone's got her feet by their hands and they are dragging her."
He also said that based on video evidence from a trailer park and a bank, Garcia-Torres had about six hours to commit the crime.
"That's a lot of time to hide a body in whatever way needs to be hidden," Boyd said.
The sheer volume of detail is vital to the prosecution's case, Clark said, given that Sierra still has not been found.
"What the DA's saying is we don't have the body of Sierra LaMar, but we have the footprint and the trail," Clark said. "They have a lot of forensic evidence that pieces together to show a very sinister demise."
Before his arrest, detectives tracked Garcia-Torres' moves with a GPS device placed on his Volkswagen Jetta and scoured the Morgan Hill trailer he shared with his mother, pregnant wife and toddler daughter. He was questioned several times and surveilled around the clock for nearly two months by detectives who had pegged him as a suspect since shortly after Sierra's disappearance.
They made the arrest on May 21, 2012, when they no longer believed there was a possibility that Garcia-Torres would lead them to Sierra.
The grand jury heard testimony related not only to Sierra's case, but also a series of violent attacks on three South Bay women in 2009. He is charged with trying to kidnap them in separate carjackings that were linked to him after his fingerprint was found in a stun gun dropped during one of the encounters.
The Feb. 11 indictment meant that Garcia-Torres is going directly to trial, instead of a preliminary hearing in which a judge determines whether there is enough evidence to warrant bringing the case before a jury. In numerous court dates, his attorneys put off entering a plea.
Days after the indictment, he pleaded not guilty to all charges.
Garcia-Torres' attorney Brian Matthews did not want the grand jury transcript released because he believed news reports about it would hamper his client's chances of getting a fair trial.
However, a judge sided with a request by this newspaper to unseal the 1,900-page transcript on Friday, unless the defendant's lawyers convinced an appellate court to review the ruling. The paper had argued that the public's right to view court documents bore more weight than the defendant's fear of pre-trial publicity.
While such concerns could prompt the defense to seek a change of venue for the trial, the paper's attorneys said the transcript's release was not likely to significantly pollute the jury pool in a county of 1.8 million people.
But it will further engage the active minds of those who have been following the case closely, Clark said.
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Specially during winter months many flights are canceled due to bad weather, therefore it is a good idea to plan ahead by following the steps below:
Before your flight
• If bad storms are in the forecast, call the airline and try to change your connection to a hub with better weather.
• Make a list of hotels near the airport. If you call the front desk directly you can generally find a room, even if the hotel's website says it's full!
• If you booked through your company or used a travel agency don't hesitate to call the agent and let him know about the situation, he will help rebook if things go bad.
• Sign up for flight-status alerts from your airline and FlightStats.com.
• Consider a back-up reservation on an airline like Southwest that has no change fees. (Southwest @ BWI airport)
At the Airport
• Check if your connecting flight is still scheduled before you board first flight.
• If your flight has a long delay, ask the crew how much duty time they have left. If not much, start calling for hotel rooms because your flight may well be canceled.
• Use the airline's website. Sometimes, you can often get rebooked or find the airline has already rebooked you.
Overnight Help
• Many airports are prepared to help with cots, blankets, diapers, even showers. Airport courtesy phones or workers can tell you what concessions or TSA checkpoints are open, where to find an ATM or where the quietest sleeping areas are located.
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If the problem is due to heavy rain or snow and if you are lucky enough to be at an airport that provides metro/subway transportation, you will be better off taking the metro instead
of a taxi or shuttle because road traffic can become a nightmare depending where you are. For example, the last storm we had in Washington, DC caused traffic to stop and a trip that would take 15 minutes took hours, imagine the poor folks that chose a taxi. American Guest House Bed and Breakfast is accessible by metrorail from Reagan National Airport-DCA.
• Airlines and airports can give you vouchers toward discounted hotel rooms.
• Hotel-booking services like Airport Accommodations (800-935-5995) have rooms reserved at nearby hotels for distressed travelers.
• Keep essentials in your carry-on. Collecting bags may mean leaving secure areas, and you won't be able to go back through security with big bags, even if TSA is still open.
• You might be able to check bags at an airport hotel even if you aren't a guest.
• Work the standby list. Even fully booked flights can have seats open up if other customers don't show up. Go at the gate you might get lucky.
Last for last you can always consider buying a seat on a discount airline. If you can find one, you can get a refund from the airline that's grounded and buy a ticket (more expensive, no doubt) on another carrier.
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Supply chain executives will gather next month in Berkeley, Calif., to discuss best practices implemented across retail supply chains to create and enhance the customer experience. The two-day conference will include hands-on experiences as well, including a private tour of the Port of Oakland and an opportunity to board the APL Thailand, a 4800-TEU* container vessel operated by Sacramento, Calif.-based APL.
A global container-transportation company, APL serves more than 90 ports in Asia, Europe, the Middle East and the Americas. During tours of the Port of Oakland's APL Middle Harbor Terminal and the container ship, attendees of the Supply Chain Summit will witness how goods are being transported to the U.S. from suppliers around the world.
Co-hosted by Chain Store Age and ChainLink Research, Cambridge, Mass., the inaugural Supply Chain Summit will be held June 25-27 at the Claremont Resort and Spa. Speakers and sessions on the agenda include:
Dan Currie, senior VP of global supply chain, Best Buy, will discuss how the leading electronics retailer has utilized RFID in its supply chain to support a strategy of market segmentation by customer personalities, thus improving the customer experience on a granular store-level, and in some cases, item-level basis.
Mike Graham, VP of logistics, Tractor Supply Co., will share how retailers can build flexibility into the supply chain to achieve consistent service levels across a diverse product mix that ranges from tiny quarter-inch bolts to massive farm tractors, while maintaining efficiencies across a fast-growing portfolio of stores throughout multiple regions.
Randy Lewis, Walgreens' senior VP of distribution and logistics, will present a moving case study of how the drug store chain's decision to employ disabled workers in its distribution centers has contributed to improved performance.
John Ling, VP of logistics at Crate & Barrel, and a panel of retailers will join moderator Greg Johnsen, executive VP of marketing and sales for GT Nexus, Alameda, Calif., in a discussion of challenges and innovations associated with international trade logistics.
Retailer case studies on the use of item-level RFID tagging will be the focal point of another session, with specific attention on supplier compliance and interaction with the end customer. Phillip Calderbank, director of global marketing, RFID, for Avery-Dennison, Pasadena, Calif., will lead this discussion.
*One twenty-foot equivalent unit (TEU) is equivalent to a 20-ft. ocean container of cargo.
Risk consultants with New York City-based Marsh will lead a session on building a resilient supply chain and mitigating risk. The discussion will address external factors, such as sourcing of raw materials, storage, production, integrated logistics and delivery to the end customer, as well as internal dynamics, such as regional management processes, information flow and store-level operations.
In another RFID-oriented session, Jonathan Golovin, Ph.D, chairman and CEO of Sunnyvale, Calif.-based T3Ci, will report case studies that illustrate improvements in inventory management as learned from RFID analytics.
Additionally, co-host ChainLink Research will deliver results from its recent survey of more than 100 retailers that are using RFID to enhance customer experiences. Milwaukee-based RedPrairie will be on hand to discuss its comprehensive suite of integrated supply chain solutions.
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A SECURITY guard helped to rescue a four-year-old boy who fell into a river.
The youngster, named locally as Jack Gosling, fell into the River Irwell outside the Tesco supermarket in Bocholt Way, Rawtenstall.
It is not clear how he got the wrong side of the railings and plunged around 10ft down to the fast-flowing river.
He was bleeding from the mouth when he was found and was airlifted to Manchester Children's Hospital shortly after 4pm on Monday.
A family friend said Jack had suffered injuries to his nose and jaw and had an operation the next day.
They said he was 'doing well' in hospital, and was recovering with his family by his bedside. Jack was helped out by a security guard from the store and another man, believed to be Jack's granddad, who he was with at the time.
A woman who was in the store at the time said she saw the man holding Jack near to the railings while they waited for the emergency services to arrive. The North West Air Ambulance landed near the store and took the boy to hospital.
Since the incident, Tesco has put a mesh fence alongside the rails to prevent anyone from getting through and down to the river.
The youngster got through black railings that are placed between a seated area yards from the supermarkets' front door and the river below. There is a pedestrian bridge to cross from the supermarket on to Bocholt Way a few feet away from the railings.
Pat Byrne, store manager of Tesco's Rawtenstall superstore, said: "We wish the young lad a speedy recovery and we're pleased that our security guard acted so quickly."
Lancashire Police said they were made aware of the incident but it was not a police matter.


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On Sunday, at approximately 8:45 p.m. the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office received a report of a missing 16-year-old female, Katie Helberg. Katie's mother reported she last saw Katie at home in Eureka on Saturday morning. Katie has health issues and needs medication. The Humboldt County Sheriff's Office would appreciate the public's help in locating her.
Katie Helberg is further described as follows: 16 years old, white female, approximately 5'4" tall, approximately 130 pounds, she has blue eyes and long blond straight hair. She wears braces on her teeth. The braces have purple and green rubber bands on them. She was last seen wearing blue jeans, a black t- shirt with "Alaska" logo on the front, and tennis shoes.
The sheriff's office is asking anyone with information regarding this case or related criminal activity to call the office at 445-7251 or Detective Greg Musson at 268-3643.


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Great Britain's women's curling team will need to lift themselves for a Winter Olympic bronze-medal battle against Switzerland on Thursday after going down 6-4 against Canada in Wednesday's first women's semi-final in Sochi.
Jennifer Jones' unbeaten rink proved just too strong for GB, who were never in the lead at any time in the Ice Cube Curling Center.
Skip Eve Muirhead got off to a bad start when she missed a take-out after her stone appeared to pick up some debris on the ice, leaving the Canadians two ahead.
Perhaps more significantly, Jones stole one more in the next end to put GB under pressure.
Britain pulled two back and trailed 4-3 at the halfway point but again Canada restored their two-point lead in the sixth end.
Muirhead blanked the seventh end in order to retain the hammer and go for two in the next end.
A misjudged shot by Canada's Jill Officer in the eighth allowed GB an opportunity to restore parity at least but Jones rescued the situation with a great penultimate double take-out shot, leaving Muirhead with little option but to blank the end again and keep their opponents' two-point lead intact.
The sense of British desperation had risen by the start of the ninth end and they could only take one to go into the final end 4-5 down.
And with Jones having the last shot, it was asking a lot for GB to level and, indeed, the Canadian skip slid the last stone in to secure a deserved place in the final.
The British girls were due to face the Swiss in the bronze medal match at 1230 local time on Thursday (0830GMT).
Britain's men were due in action in their semi-final against Sweden at 1900 local time (1500GMT) on Wednesday and it remained to be seen whether they could win their way through to Friday's men's final.
British cross-country skier Andrew Young was forced to withdraw from the men's team sprint classic on Wednesday after a pre-existing heart condition flared up.
Young was taking part in the first semi-final alongside team-mate Andrew Musgrave, but the pair did not finish the race.
While the 22-year-old suffers from tachycardia, where the heart rate exceeds the normal range, and has pulled out of races before, it is a condition that does not trouble the Scot very often.
''It happens two races a year, so now and then it happens and it's happened today,'' said Young, who was diagnosed with the condition at the age of 15.
''(It started to occur) at the start of the second leg.
''It happened in the Norwegian nationals last week (in January) and at the Norwegian nationals last year (2013).''
Also due in action later on Wednesday were figure skater Jenna McCorkell, who was due to compete in the women's short programme at the Iceberg Skating Palace, and Britain's Paula Walker and Bex Wilson in the women's bobsleigh. Walker and Wilson were lying 12th after their first two runs at the Sanki Sliding Center.
Ireland's Conor Lyne crashed out during the first run of the men's giant slalom at the Rosa Khutor Alpine Center. Lyne injured his left shoulder in training at the Rosa Khutor Alpine Training Centre on February 8 but was cleared to take part in Wednesday's race.


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Davis could be the answer for Tigers in center
DETROIT -- Before Rajai Davis got the first center-field start for the Tigers in the post-Austin Jackson era, he suggested center was easier for him than the corner outfield because he had more room to run.
"Less chance to run into the wall," he argued.
It figured, then, that three of the first six hitters Justin Verlander faced Friday night ended up driving the ball to center, sending Davis on the run. The third, Drew Stubbs, powered a ball that sent Davis scrambling to the warning track, more than 400 feet away from home plate, before corralling the ball.
"That was a close one," Davis said. "That was close, but not close enough."
He handled them all, and more after that. He then scored or drove in all four of Detroit's runs for the game, including a go-ahead two-run single through a drawn-in infield in the fifth inning.
All in all, it was a pretty good start to a new role for Davis, who has had a season of them. He began the season as Detroit's regular left fielder with Andy Dirks out, then essentially became a fourth outfielder when J.D. Martinez's hitting tear forced him into the starting lineup. With Jackson gone, Davis is now part of the answer in center field along with Ezequiel Carrera.
If he performs, Davis could be the answer. With three left-handed starters pitching for the Rockies this weekend, he has plenty of opportunity to make an impression.
"I think he does see it, not as a challenge, but as taking a lot of pride in being a center fielder," manager Brad Ausmus said. "He's going to play a lot in center field."
The advantage Davis' speed gives him in center is obvious. For a spot that has some of the widest territory to cover in baseball thanks to the spacious dimensions of Comerica Park, Davis is the one of the few with enough speed to cover most of it. As long as he gets a good read, it'll be tough to get a hit over his head.
It's the read that will be key. As Detroit's two previous center fielders -- Austin Jackson and Curtis Granderson -- said at different times, it's not always easy to read the ball in Comerica Park.
"Certainly, his speed can make up for some misjudgments and some bad jumps occasionally," Ausmus said. "We'll see how it works."
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Is he still a premiere center?
Hell, no.
Isn't he getting into his twilight years?
Is he still a 1.00+ fppm center?
And that's why he can help your team. He's not going to be your #1 center, but he makes a great #2. Now that Terry Porter is coach and Shaq won't have to run those ridiculous high pick and rolls D'Antoni was forcing upon him, he can go back to his more traditional role in the low post where he's comfortable.
I can tell you from experience that he's a great guy to get you over the championship hump.
I probably have the oldest squad in our league with Shaq, Hill and Joe Smith. Because of the really ill timed departures of Childress and Krstic, I've had to rethink my team.
Looking at some of the teams, some of you could use a hump player.
Venice had the second best record, but doesn't have a solid one two punch to combine with Kaman at C.
Bad News has Duncan as lead C, then Foyle(?) Pachulia(?) as fall back options. Shaq could be that little bit extra to get you over.
I picked those two teams as examples because they were the teams with the 2nd and 3rd best records behind Denton. I wanted to show how close they, or YOUR team could be from detroning that poser, Rim.
I'm looking for a G to tandem with Paul, OR a top 8 draft pick, but I'm open to any kind of deals.
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Look at the age of your squad overall and see if Shaq would be a fit. There's quite a few teams with a 1-2 years window for a STRONG chance at the title. Shaq might get you there.
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The Baton Rouge Community College women's basketball team is back in action Thursday as it travels to take on Copiah-Lincoln Community College for a 5 p.m. tipoff.
It has been nearly a week since the Lady Bears escaped with a nail-biting 64-63 win at Southern-Shreveport to kick off Miss-Lou Conference play.
"It was an extremely important win," BRCC coach Paula Lee said. "Because most of our conference games are on the road this year, it was good that we started out with a win that gave us confidence to play on the road."
However, the win did not come easily by any means.
Up by a point with 10 seconds left in the game, BRCC freshman point guard Kasiney Williams was sent to the free-throw line for a one-and-one with a chance to give the Lady Bears a bit of breathing room. Her first free throw rimmed out, allowing Southern-Shreveport to rebound and quickly call a timeout to draw up a final play.
Out of the break, the Lady Jaguars got the ball to leading scorer Tytionna Pratt, but her shot at the buzzer was a little strong, allowing BRCC to head back home with the win.
"I told them in the timeout that we needed just one defensive stop," Lee recalled. "I was relieved because Pratt had been making shots for most of the night. When I saw that she got off an open shot I said, 'Oh, no.'"
Lee and the Lady Bears now take a brief break from conference play to take on Region 23 powerhouse Copiah-Lincoln. These two teams are no strangers. Copiah-Lincoln came into Baton Rouge last week and knocked off BRCC 62-59 in an overtime thriller.
The loss was particularly tough to take for Lee as she watched her players make only nine of 19 free throws in the second half. She hopes for a different result this time around.
"In watching the film, our players saw a lot of things that they could have done better," Lee said. "We make half of our free throws, and we are not even in a position to go into overtime."
While revenge may play a factor, Lee said her team needs this win to help strengthen its résumé for the NJCAA tourney.
"Even though they are not in our conference, this is still an important game because Copiah-Lincoln plays in Region 23, as do we," Lee said. "Any win that we can get over a team in our region will help us qualify for the regional tournament.
"Sure there is a bit of a revenge factor, but more importantly, it's a chance to get a win against a powerhouse program like Copiah-Lincoln."
To pull out the marquee win on the road, Lee will have to turn to her leading sophomores, especially forward Talaih Robertson, who is averaging nine points and five rebounds.
"She has really stepped up her game lately," Lee said of Robertson. "Without a doubt, we are going to have to rely on her heavily."


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|Lamb Souvlaki is the first Greek Food I ever tasted!
Souvlaki (also called Souvlakia) is the first Greek food I remember ever tasting as a college student, and recently I realized that although I have a recipe for Souvlaki using pork, I'd never made this traditional Greek dish using lamb. Wikipedia defines Souvlaki as "a popular Greek fast food consisting of small pieces of meat and sometimes vegetables, grilled on a skewer." For this version, I defied tradition by cooking the pieces of marinated lamb directly on the grill. I know some people are intimidated by cooking lamb, but trust me this recipe is about as easy as it gets!
Now, here are some step-by-step photos of how I made this delicious Lamb Souvlaki.
Easy Lamb Souvlaki (Grilled Lamb Cubes cooked Greek Style)
1 lb. lamb shoulder meat
Marinade Ingredients:
1/4 cup olive oil (preferably Greek olive oil)
2 T fresh squeezed lemon juice (I use my fresh-frozen lemon juice)
1 tsp. dried Greek oregano
1 tsp. minced garlic or garlic puree
Cut lamb into pieces slightly over one inch square, trimming off some, but not all of the fat. Combine marinade ingredients. Place lamb cubes and marinade in small Ziploc bag and marinate in refrigerator for about 4 hours. (This is a recipe where I would not recommend marinating all day. The lamb is already tender, and you don't want the marinade ingredients to overpower the flavor of the lamb.)
To cook, preheat gas or charcoal grill to medium high. (You can only hold your hand there for 3-4 seconds at that heat.) Thread lamb cubes onto skewers if desired, or place directly on grill as I did. Cook lamb about 8 minutes for medium rare, or 9-10 minutes for medium. Don't overcook, I highly recommend using an instant-read meat thermometer to tell when the lamb is done.
Serve hot. This would taste great with Tzatziki Sauce.
Nutritional Information?
More Delicious Grilled Foods with Greek Flavors:
(Recipes from other blogs may or may not be South Beach Diet friendly, check ingredients.)
Kalyn's Souvlaki (with pork) ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
Grilled Greek Lemon Chicken Skewers ~ FoodieCrush
Chicken Souvlaki ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
Greek Marinated Grilled Eggplant and Summer Squash ~ The Lemon Bowl
Greek Seasoned Pork Chops with Lemon and Oregano ~ Kalyn's Kitchen
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We completed the draft in less than 6 days.
Any thoughts on the process.
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We completed the draft in less than 6 days.
Any thoughts on the process.
I liked it. I was able to have a normal life during the draft with no problems.
Thanks for setting it up that way. I think the 12 hours was the perfect adjustment
12 hours seemed to work well. I'm still conflicted about the timing overall. I like having it done in a day, but I don't like feeling glued to a chair for 8 hours to make sure you get your picks in, either. So either one has it's ups and downs.
I still prefer a one or two day approach. It wasn't possible this time, but personally I think the 24 hour decisiontime is something I wouldn't want to repeat a next time.
I was very happy by how it went the last two days btw.
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Jose this was perfect for someone like me.
For the first in all of these years I picked every person 1-12 on my team so I sink or swim on my own.
12 hours was the perfect adjustment btw. Maybe in the furture we can have a progression of draft picks.
start out with 12 hours then down to 6 hours then down to 3 hours then down to 1 hour.
This would be for those who don't want it spread out over so many days.
I liked it. If we started early enough so there wasn't a concern about finishing the draft before the season I think this would be a nice laid back way to do it.
Great job Jose!
I like it just fine.
Of course, I still have no idea what I'm doing, so we'll see how it goes.
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BadMofoPimp wrote:Javanar wrote:What makes him special is his high basketball IQ and his attitude. Everybody will miss him. I would prefer him to stay with a 5 mil. contract.
The sad part is, there are 2 ego-maniac guards in Milwaukee. Ilyasova uses long range shots too. I do not know how JJ will fit in their system.
In addition to that; Jennings and Ellis contracts are also expiring this summer. I do not think Milwaukee will be able to resign Jennings, Ellis and Redick at the same time. They will have to pay around 35-40 mil. for 3 guards if they do so.
He will probably change his team again this summer.
May be we can resign him, who knows.
Plenty of players there to Sign n Trade for even More talent.
Bird rights are traded with the players too. So Bucks have bird rights for Ellis, Redick and also Jennings, which will allow over-the cap teams to get them via sign & trade. You are right about that.
But giving big contract to a player and also sending some talent for a sign & trade can be too costly for a team.
It is a very risky situation for Bucks I think.


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