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Apache Sling - Bringing Back the Fun!
Apache Sling™ is an innovative web framework that is intended to bring back the fun to web development.
Discussions about Sling happen on our mailing lists, see the Project Information page for more info.
Apache Sling in five bullets points¶
- REST based web framework
- Content-driven, using a JCR content repository
- Powered by OSGi
- Scripting inside, multiple languages (JSP, server-side javascript, Scala, etc.)
- Apache Open Source project
Apache Sling in a hundred words¶
Apache Sling is a web framework that uses a Java Content Repository, such as Apache Jackrabbit, to store and manage content.
Sling applications use either scripts or Java servlets, selected based on simple name conventions, to process HTTP requests in a RESTful way.
The embedded Apache Felix OSGi framework and console provide a dynamic runtime environment, where code and content bundles can be loaded, unloaded and reconfigured at runtime.
As the first web framework dedicated to JSR-170 Java Content Repositories, Sling makes it very simple to implement simple applications, while providing an enterprise-level framework for more complex applications.
Refer to the news archive for all news.
Sling started as an internal project at Day Software , and entered the Apache Incubator in September 2007. As of June, 17th, 2009 Apache Sling is a top level project of the Apache Software Foundation.
The name "Sling" has been proposed by Roy Fielding who explained it like this:
[The name is] Biblical in nature. The story of David: the weapon he uses to slay the giant Goliath is a sling. Hence, our David's [David Nuescheler, CTO of Day Software] favorite weapon.
It is also the simplest device for delivering content very fast.
Getting started¶
If you prefer doing rather than reading, please proceed to Discover Sling in 15 minutes or read through the recommended links in the Getting Started section, where you can quickly get started on your own instance of Sling.
Use Cases for Sling¶
Day built a Wiki system on Sling. Each Wiki page is a node (with optional child nodes) in the repository. As a page is requested, the respective node is accessed and through the applying Component is rendered.
Thanks to the JCR Mapping and the resolution of the Component from the mapped Content, the system does not care for what actual node is addressed as long as there is a Content mapping and a Component capable of handling the Content.
Thus in the tradition of REST, the attachement of a Wiki page, which happens to be in a node nested below the wiki page node is easily accessed using the URL of the wiki page attaching the relative path of the attachement ode. The system resolves the URL to the attachement Content and just calls the attachement's Component to spool the attachement.
Digital Asset Management¶
Day has implemented a Digital Asset Management (DAM) Application based on Sling. Thanks to the flexibility of the Content/Component combo as well as the service registration/access functionality offered by OSGi, extending DAM for new content type is merely a matter of implementing one or two interfaces and registering the respective service(s).
Again, the managed assets may be easily spooled by directly accessing them.
Web Content Management¶
Last but not least, Sling offers itself very well to implementing a Web Content Management system. Thanks to the flexibility of rendering the output - remember: the system does not care what to render, as long as the URL resolves to a Content object for which a Component exists, which is called to render the Content - providing support for Web Content authors (not PHP programmers but users out in the field) to build pages to their likings can easily be done.
Apache Jackrabbit¶
The main purpose of Sling is to develop a content-centric Web Application framework for Java Content Repository (JCR) based data stores. Sling is implemented - with the notable exception of JCR Node Type management - purely in terms of the JCR API and as such may use any JCR compliant repository. The default implementation for Apache Jackrabbit is provided out of the box.
Sling is implemented as a series of OSGi Bundles and makes extensive use of the OSGi functionality, such as lifecycle management and the service layer. In addition, Sling requires several OSGi compendium services to be available, such as the Log Service, Http Service, Configuration Admin Service, Metatype Service, and Declarative Services.
Apache Felix¶
While Sling does not require a specific OSGi framework implementation to run in, Sling is being developed using Apache Felix as the OSGi framework implementation. It has not been tested yet, but it is expected that Sling also operates perfectly inside other OSGi frameworks such as Equinox and Knopflerfish.


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PEORIA, Ariz. -- Reliever Stephen Pryor threw live batting practice Friday, which is another step forward for the hard-throwing right-hander as he returns from surgery last fall to repair the latissimus dorsi muscle behind his throwing shoulder.
"He threw a simulated [game] last week and that went well," manager Lloyd McClendon said. "We'll see how it goes. He's progressing well. He's throwing under control. It's firm. He feels real good about where he is. We just have to stay with the program."
That same holds true for the Mariners' two injured starters.
Taijuan Walker felt good Friday after his initial bullpen session the day before, as he returns from an inflamed shoulder that shut him down completely for a week.
Walker threw long-toss again Friday and will do so again Saturday, then another bullpen session Sunday.
"He's frustrated. He wants to move faster," McClendon said. "But he'll stay with the program."
Hisashi Iwakuma hasn't thrown a pitch this spring after spraining the tendon in the middle finger of his throwing hand right before camp. He caught the finger in a net while jumping to field a ball over his head during a pitching drill.
Iwakuma will see a hand specialist Tuesday for more tests and the Mariners have their fingers crossed. If all goes well, Iwakuma could be told that the splint on his finger can come off and he can begin gripping a ball and throwing again, which would allow him to start rebuilding his arm strength.
"Hopefully we'll have good news [Tuesday]," McClendon said.
Iwakuma worked in the bullpen again Friday doing "towel drills," which involves going through his throwing motion on the mound with a towel wrapped in his hand instead of a ball. The drills are designed to keep him as ready as possible until he gets clearance to throw.
Neither Walker nor Iwakuma will be ready for the start of the regular season, which is now just 17 days away. But if all goes well, both could return sometime in April and only miss a couple of starts each.
Pryor's outlook is more vague, but McClendon has indicated there is an outside chance he'll be ready to at least start throwing in spring games before the regular season opens.
Greg Johns is a reporter for MLB.com. Follow him on Twitter @GregJohnsMLB as well as his Mariners Musings blog. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.

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In my first thread of this series, we had a great discussion I thought on the Pacers style of defense at the point of attack. Today, in this the second part of a long series examining our overall team defensive scheme, personnel, effort, and basketball theory, I want to discuss the myriad of details that go into playing man to man defense in the wing areas of the floor. This particular thread will primarily be examining wing defense on the ball side of the floor, and/or when guarding the ball. I will hit helpside responsibilities and techniques in a later thread. While it may be briefly mentioned, I also intend to discuss screen/roll defense in a separate upcoming "defending the ballscreen" article Ill write at a later part of this series.
In my view, playing high quality wing defense is vital to having a championship level squad. I also believe that there are more decisions to be made by the staff on how to properly play defense in this area of the floor than in any other. In this thread I'll try to go over the myriad of options and styles of play available to us, examine what we currently do and what we may want to do better.
Among all the key decisions a team has to decide how it wants to play are:
1. How hard do you deny a wing entry pass, especially at the beginning of a possession?
2. How do you play a wing man individually once he has caught the ball on the side of the floor? Play him straight, shade him baseline, or shade him middle?
3. How much help do you want your wings to provide on a straight drive to the basket from the top? Do you want to stay at home or do you want to "defend the split"?
4. Do we want them to stay at home when they feed the ball inside, or do we want them to "dig" into the post?
Let's try to take these one by one:
This is a really big decision actually, and it gets harder to make the higher the level of play you are talking about. At the youth or high school level, most of the time I believe it is the proper thing to do to really deny this pass hard, and make it hard for your opponent to start their offense. When you pair that with pressure defense at the point of attack, you can really make it difficult for your opponent.
On the other hand, players at this level will almost always be good enough to get open along the wing areas anyway, due to their superior skill level, and the pace of the game. With that being said, is it worth the physical effort it takes for your defense over 82 games to make a conscience effort to make this a key central point to your team? I would say that it is worth the effort, but I would couch that by saying it takes a really athletic and highly conditioned and focused athlete to be able to do it consistently. I can only remember in my era of being a Pacer fan Derrick McKey doing this consistently, and often Ron Artest when focused would do it to. These type players are hard to come by.
My preference for this team would be to make this a real focus for our bench players, particularly Brandon Rush. It is unrealistically to expect Dunleavy to be able to do this due to his lack of athleticism, and it's tough to ask Granger to do it due to foul trouble risk, the fatigue it would cause his offense, etc etc. (I would ask Granger to deny much harder on occasion however). But in Rush's case, I would demand that he develop this as part of his defensive repoitoire.....the ability to keep his man from catching the ball easily on the wing, especially when not having to fight thru a screen. I hear people say we need a big man coach constantly...I would much rather we had an individual DEFENSE coach, and I think Rush would be my first and main pupil!
But, due to our personnel, I think from a strategic standpoint that we have to assume teams will be able to catch the ball on the wings with minimal difficulty. I would make acquiring another player who can deny wing passes well a high priority though in the future, as the ease of where the opponent initiates their play is a major factor in how easy it is to score for them.
I admit it, this is one of my favorite discussion points in basketball in general, and in the NBA in particular.
Your choices are to either play the man in an exaggerated way to FORCE HIM BASELINE (toward the corner), play him in an exaggerated way to FORCE HIM TO THE MIDDLE (toward the lane), PLAY HIM STRAIGHT (play directly in front of him, and react to what he does offensively), or to ADJUST WHAT YOU DO BASED ON THE OPPONENT.
Now, the common answer, as you no doubt are reading this nodding your head in the affirmative is to force him baseline. Indeed, as a high school coach who was trained in the ways of Coach Bob Knight, that is how I was taught and have taught others to play. "DON'T GET BEAT MIDDLE" and "KEEP THE BALL TO ONE SIDE" are 2 common phrases heard in practices all over the land. I would say that the vast majority of coaches play it that way at younger levels, and some do even at the pro level. By and large I think this is what the Pacers are trying to do too, but they don't do it well or consistently.
Some coaches don't emphasize forcing a player to any particular direction. They play it straight up, usually in a sagging non pressuring defensive posture. These are coaches who believe in the "pack line" style of defense I mentioned elsewhere. Play conservative, switch often against screens, "zone up", don't get beat, defend the 16'6 area and inward.....these are the beliefs of the "packline" guys. Some of the better teachers of this philosophy all descend from Wisconsin: Coach Dick Bennett, Coach Bo Ryan, Coach Mike Heineman, and others.
The Pacers have some, but not all, of these traits in their system. These coaches all emphasize sagging to the middle, and showing help early. But the Pacers don't switch much (which is correct in my view) nor do they willingly give up outside shots like these guys recommend to do. (although it looks like we do sometimes). These guys teach your defense to be more stationary, while the Pacers defense most of the time overreacts to drives, an exact opposite thing.
Some coaches believe you should make this decision of where to force the ball from the wing depending on your opponent, and his strengths and weaknesses. I think this is more rare than you think, as most coaches want to be loyal to their "system". For the most part I agree, although scouting well can give you some obvious tendencies. I think teams DO GET TOO MARRIED to their philosophy at times, cutting their nose off to spite their faces. For instance, if you are playing Detroit, assume Teyshaun Prince has the basketball on the wing. Prince only can go left, everyone knows this I believe by now. Yet, if your team has a defensive philosophy that says that you need to FORCE HIM LEFT based on where he is on the floor, I think you are asking for trouble.
This is one thing I believe we need to do better. Scout better, take advantage of the opponents weaknesses, and adjust our defensive plans slightly to take them into account.
But now, I want to talk about the concept of FORCING TEAMS TO THE MIDDLE INSTEAD OF THE BASELINE. This is almost never seen at the high school level, but does it make sense at the pro level to do this, since it seems so counter to what most of us have been taught?
I've come full circle in this personally. I think this is primarily EXACTLY what the Pacers should do on EVERY DRIVE SITUATION FROM THE WING AREAS. This would be a pretty dramatic difference for this coaching staff, but we have people in our organization who believe in this theory. In fact, he runs our team: President Larry Bird.
Bird's old Celtic teams forced teams toward the middle of the floor. In Red Auerbach's viewpoint, forcing players to the middle MEANT THE HELPERS WERE CLOSER, AND THEREFORE HAD TO MOVE LESS TO GET THERE!
Watch old Celtic tapes, and see if you don't see guys like Bird, Dennis Johnson, and Kevin McHale forcing the ball to the middle. It didn't always work, (nothing always works of course) just watch the old tape on NBA classic sometime of Magic Johnson hitting his famous hook shot in the finals over McHale. McHale actually turns after a second in order to make sure Magic drives to the middle, expecting help from his teammates! He didn't get enough obviously, but that was the Celtic philosophy, handed down from one generation to the next. And it wasn't just in that one particular play, that was the defensive philosophy of the Celtics for many many years.
By being closer in proximity to the driver, your help desnt have to move their feet as much, and your original defender gets help earlier before it is too late. This enables guys like Hibbert to be more effective, and it lets you play wings like Dunleavy so they don't get burned as often. It allows you from a help perspective to not have to help as far off of your man, thereby letting you recover more efficiently in theory.
I often wonder what Larry Bird is thinking when he watches us play defensively. My guess is that it is this difference he has in philosophy with Coach O'brien that galls him most of all. Go back and look at Indiana tapes from Bird and his coaching days, and tell you didn't see guys on the wings in those years forcing the ball to the middle....slow guys like Mullin, Reggie, Jackson, and Rose.
Forcing guys to drive towards the middle of the floor I think is the one defensive adjustment Bird himself would most like to implement or change about Jim O'Brien's coaching philosophy, and I bet they discuss it often. I bet it may even get mandated for next season if JOB stays in power....we will see if I am right.
This is another coaching decision to make and discuss. At most levels, you want your wings to be very cognizant of point guard drives, because you want them to help early and prevent the ball from getting into the paint. Defending a point guard drive is almost a death sentence to your defense, as we find out constantly in Indiana, as both TJ Ford and especially Jarrett Jack seem to get beaten like rented mules way too often.
There is no right answer, other than having your point guards just play defense better. But your choices are to have your wings primarily stay at home and continue to be in denial defense, letting your bigs handle the driver, or to have your wings "jump to the ball", and forcing a pass from the point guard driver to the now open wing player. If you do that, you have to practice "closing out" alot on open shooters by your wings, and you need really good athletes in order to get there.
O'Brien seems ot favor a third way, which is to have your wings "sink in" and help very early to try and prevent drives, forcing a pass back outside. But instead of teaching the wing to recover, he (it appears on film to me) to prefer his BIGS TO ROTATE OUTWARD, and his recovering wing to drop into help and try and guard the post. I think this is why you see Jeff Foster and Troy Murphy flailing our running to the perimeter in vain so much, and why he seems so reluctant to play Roy Hibbert, who may even be slower than those two guys.
This may be good on a chalkboard, but in practice it is just too complicated and difficult, in addition to us not even being close to having the personnel to make it work. I think this is why you hear comments about our guys "missing defensive rotations" and other such comments. This is ill advised defensive strategy, and it teaches unnatural movements that complicate the game too much.
Basketball is supposed to be simple, and JOB has complicated it way beyond the norm I believe, and did it in an unsound way. Since I believe Jim O'Brien to be a really really good basketball mind, I look forward to seeing his adjustments after another offseason of reflection about this subject. I think his solution was innovative and creative, but it hasn't worked, and I don't think it ever will.
This hasn't been a major problem in my view, but if the Pacers ever decide to play post defense differently (another future topic) we will have to discuss it. "Digging" means coming down to help on the low block, attempting to bother a posted up player with the basketball, while still maintaining an eye on the man you are responsible for. The Pacers don't due this much, and I think rightly so for the reason of personnel. Our slower wing guys have difficulty in recovery anyway, and it is easy to make a pass from the post right back to the man who fed it to you.
Again, my own coaching mentors favored this strategy, and at times I have taught it too.
If the Pacers decide to someday not fight/front the post as much (thereby eliminating the need for so much weakside help behind a posted up player) then we will have to discuss this again. I think our emphasis on fronting the low post has been somewhat effective in defending this area, but has left us weakened on the opposite side of the floor. We are realy bad at defending the skip pass, as again our weakside guys are often "flooding" the ball side area.
If we change our post defense, we will either need to "dig" from the wing or need to rotate a full double team man from the top and rotate around, like the typical NBA team does.
We have only one truly typical NBA post defender on our roster now who is both tall enough and strong enough to play behind a guy on the block (Hibbert), so I hope we can add a guy or two to that for next year via the draft. More on post defense in a later thread.
As you can see, there is a lot that goes into the thought process of how to play defense from the wing position.
I wouldn't be surprised if a creative idea is tried by Coach O'Brien fairly soon, which is to have his team play some 1-2-2 zone. Long term it isn't part of his core philosophy, but I bet he tries that before making the kind of fundamental changes in philosophy that he seems very reluctant to make at this time.
The next thread will cover the Pacers low post defensive philosophy, which was mentioned a little in this one.
I look forward to much good, hard core defensive discussion about our wing defense.
As always, the above is just my opinion.


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On Monday, it was reported that Chicago, Illinois rapper Chief Keef was arrested immediately following a court sentencing related to another arrest last month. While the Glory Boyz/Interscope Records rapper's lawyer alleged that the June 17 arrest was related to a trespassing charge, details were still pending when Keef was taken in custody from a sidewalk in Skokie, Illinois to a holding cell in the city's South Side.
Spin has now obtained additional info concerning this week's apprehension, the rapper's third in less than one month. Confirming that he was in fact charged with trespassing, Spin adds that Keef was served with a paternity test as he entered the courthouse to face Cook County Circuit Court Judge Earl Hoffenberg. Moments later, the judge would serve Keef with a $531 fine, 60 hours of community service and 18 months of probation. All of this transpired before the Finally Rich rapper was cuffed just blocks away.
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Last week, I wrote about the the incoming Japanese government and its plans to force the Bank of Japan to directly monetize the issuance of new Japanese Government Bonds (JGBs). Regardless of whether the government actually succeeds in this, it is beginning to become clear that the BOJ is responding to political pressure that's demanding it stimulate the economy with much more aggressive monetary measures.
If the BOJ does implement this strategy, it will essentially and in actuality adopt the nominal gross domestic product (NGDP) targeting system of monetary policy. Over the past few years, this has been widely discussed as a potential route for the U.S. Federal Reserve and for the European Central Bank, as well.
If the BOJ does this and the Fed and ECB do not respond in kind -- with competitive depreciations of their own -- the result should be a yen depreciating against the dollar and a steadily rising euro. A depreciating yen, in turn, would set the stage for an increase in Japanese exports -- because, outside of Japan, their pricing would decline in comparison with that of goods produced elsewhere.
The Nikkei 225 Index ETF (NKY) has already rallied 22% in the past two months on this very expectation.
In keeping with the idea that a rising tide lifts all boats, know that the push provided by a depreciating yen may benefit two large Japanese companies that have been beaten down over the past several years. These names are Sony (SNE) and Panasonic (PC). Both are trading near all-time lows, and each stock is well below the lows from the 2008-to-2009 crisis.
Sony, recently quoted at $10.72, is currently up a little more than $1 from last month's near-term low of $9.63. Its 2008-2009 crisis low was $16.60, and the last time it had been priced in the $10 range had been in 1987.
Panasonic, recently at $5.92, is up about 28% from its near-term low of $4.63, which it hit a few months ago. Its crisis low was $10.87 and, before this, the last time it had been priced in the $5 range had been in 1985.
Although the market capitalization of both companies is dwarfed by firms such as Toyota (TM) and Honda (HMC), Panasonic and Sony are bellwether names in Japan with market caps in excess of $10 billion each. Further, each has survived since its respective foundings in 1918 and 1958. Panasonic has about 320,000 full-time employees, as many as Toyota does. Sony, meanwhile, employs almost as many people as Honda does, with 170,000 workers vs. about 187,000 at Honda.
Furthermore, the failure of either company would be detrimental to the Japanese economy, as well as to the psyche of the Japanese people. So, if such an event became widely anticipated, the Japanese government would likely provide capital in order to prevent that outcome.
Although both companies have negative net incomes, a depreciating yen will probably cause their sales to rise as they gain pricing power -- especially against their Korean competitors and dominant flat-screen makers LG Display (LGL) and Samsung.


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Today's news that the national unemployment rate has finally fallen below 8 percent may give a boost to President Obama's reelection campaign while his opponents contend on social media the government fudged the numbers.
Those numbers say the nation's unemployment rate fell to 7.8 percent in September. The U.S. jobless rate has not been that low since January of 2009.
At first glance, a falling unemployment rate would bode well for President Obama as only a little more than one month remains before voters decide whether he gets to keep his job or whether former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney will occupy the White House.
"Today's news should give us some encouragement," Obama said at rally held at Cleveland State University. "It shouldn't be an excuse for the other side to try to talk down the economy just to try to score a few political points."
Romney had other ideas. He responded to the news by asserting the lower jobless rate reflects a diminishing number of Americans looking for work, as opposed to finding paying jobs.
"These are tough times in this community," Romney told a rally outside a Virginia construction equipment store where he spoke after meeting laid-off coal miners. "We're going to bring back jobs and bring back America."
The Labor Department's numbers, however, show the size of the U.S. labor force increased by 418,000 people from August to September.
The official unemployment rate excludes Americans who have did not look for work for personal reasons, work part-time because full-time jobs are not available or are too discouraged to even ty finding a job. Including those numbers in the calculation would push September's unemployment rate up to 14.7 percent.
Others went further than Romney in questioning the jobs report, as did former General Electric CEO Jack Welch who essentially accused the administration of lying about the jobs numbers in a widely circulated Tweet.
"Unbelievable jobs numbers ... these Chicago guys will do anything ... can't debate so change numbers," Welch wrote.
University of Redlands economist Johannes Moenius said the new numbers show some confusing patterns, but he did not see anything in the data to suggest the jobs report is blatantly false.
One reason for confusion is that one Labor Department's survey used to produce the report shows an increase of 114,000 nonfarm jobs. Another survey of households, however, shows total employment rose by 873,000 persons.
That's a big gap between the two numbers, and Moenius said it's possible the household survey may reflect large numbers of people reporting work at a family business or by attempting to start their own enterprise.
He expects more clarity in two weeks, when state officials release more localized data.
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A number of people working on genealogy or just for fun are curious if any of their family came over on Olympic (and other White Star Ships). THS was contacted by Christian Cody who is compiling a considerable number of them and is sharing his work with the THS. We'll be posting 1911-1912 and 1913 shortly and we just got word that he's working on 1914 and 1920 seasons for Olympic.
Then he's working on passenger lists back to 1892. As they come in, we'll post them.
The first group:
OLYMPIC Passenger Lists - Westbound Crossings
Passenger information came from Ellis Island's website: http://www.ellisisland.org
Names are sorted by ethnicity so one can see which groups the White Star Line appealed to and at what times. There are names of the rich and powerful from the United States, Canada, and England to thousands of immigrants from over 40 different countries.
Crossings 1- 6 are passenger lists from the 1911 season.
Crossings 7-17 are passenger lists from the 1912 season.
Crossing 18-22 are passenger lists from the 1913 season.
The names are separated into up to 9 groupings:
Saloon (First Class)
Cabin (Second Class)
Steerage (Third Class)
Each is divided by which port Southampton, Cherbourg, Queenstown they boarded the ship.
The names of the passengers from each class are listed in different colors.
First Class passengers are in Green
Second Class passengers are in Red
Third Class passengers are in Blue
✩Passengers are divided by where they came from to give researchers information on what kind of people preferred the White Star Line, especially with immigrants.
✩Each list begins with passengers from the United States, Canada, Mexico and South America, to distinguish them from the other immigrants and travelers.
✩The remainder are by region:
Great Britain––England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland
Scandinavia––Norway, Sweden, Finland and Denmark
Northern and Western Europe––Germany, Holland, Belgium, France, Spain and Portugal
Southern Europe––Switzerland and Italy
The next group is known to be a bit of a problem researching in genealogy. Regarding the Austria-Hungary Empire, many of the immigrants were defined as Austrians, Luckily Ellis Island did keep records of their ethnic backgrounds, making it easier to match them to their specific area in which they came from, which are today independent countries.
Austria-Hungary Empire––Austria, Hungary, Slovenia, Croatia, Slovakia, Bohemia and Poland
Baltic States––Estonia, Latvia, and Lithuania (Not much traffic from these countries until 1920)
Southeastern Europe––Romania, Bosnia, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Macedonia, Bulgaria and Greece
Middle East––Turkey, Armenia and Syria
Russia––Includes ethnic Russians residing in England
Africa and South Africa
Asia––India, China and Japan, other areas that haven't seen much traffic so they are listed in general as Asians.
Australia and New Zealand
We hope you will find Mr. Cody's compilations helpful and informative and we appreciate his thoughtfulness in sharing his work.
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Dental Anesthesia
Anesthesias for extractions.
I have a question. I have heard that the anesthesia lidocaine can cause heart damage or heart problems. I read about it in wikipedia,is that true? What side effects does it cause (I don`t suffer from heart disease I am just scared of that anesthesia). Also what side effects does zavicor and novicaine cause (I have also heard about those). I would appreciate your prompt reply, thanks.
Lidocaine is a local anesthetic drug that temporarily interferes with nerve function so that operations can be done painlessly. The original local anesthetic was cocaine but because it has some significant safely issues, it was replaced in the early 20th century by a second generation local anesthetic drug called procaine which was marketed with the trade name of "Novacaine".
Novacaine had a fairly slow onset of numbing effect when used in the mouth by dentists and was associated with allergic reactions.
Thus in the 1950s, lidocaine replaced Novacaine as the premier local anesthetic in dentistry, and it still is the worldwide standard drug to which other local anesthetic drugs are compared.
Lidocaine is the leading local anesthetic in dentistry in the United States. It has an excellent safety profile. In addition to its local anesthetic effect, lidocaine is given intravenously (injected into the vein) specifically to manage certain emergencies arrhythmias.
Of course, like every drug, too much of it can be harmful. A large overdose of lidocaine, which would be exceedingly unusual in a dentist's office, could lead to inhibition of the brain's normal functioning and cause serious problems such as unconsciousness, decreased breathing and seizures, and in even greater overdoses can stop the function of the heart's electrical system, causing it to stop beating.
Fortunately in dentistry, to numb a tooth with lidocaine, the dentist typically uses a dose of only 20 to 40 mg of lidocaine. The maximum recommended dose for lidocaine is typically in the range of 10 times greater than that needed to numb a tooth.
In medical anesthesiology, the amount of lidocaine to numb the arm or leg is often near the maximum recommended dose, and therefore more extensive cardiovascular monitoring and an I.V. is usually in place before the physician injects the lidocaine for these medical purposes.
Lidocaine is a very safe drug. Documented cases of an acute allergic reaction to lidocaine are essentially non-existent. To make the lidocaine numbing effect last longer, a drug called epinephrine is sometimes added to the lidocaine.
In large doses, epinephrine can increase the heart rate and blood pressure, so the dentist must consider the patient's health when using this combination. However, lidocaine with epinephrine is the most widely used local anesthetic in dentistry in the U.S., and its safety record is superb.
The most common reaction to lidocaine or lidocaine with epinephrine is the patient fainting due to the anxiety associated with the needle used for its injection. Also a brief period of heart palpitations can occur. Dentists are trained to manage these complications.
I cannot find any internet information on a drug called zavicor, so perhaps it has another spelling.
Joel M Weaver, II, DDS, PhD
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Dentistry Administration
College of Dentistry
The Ohio State University


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Northstar Consulting Group has released their top 4 Marketing Trends to watch in 2013. The firm have been outsourced for nearly 6 years by brands in the Fundraising, Technology, and Energy industries to enhance marketing ROI for many of Americas leading brand names. This annual list is created to assist start-up company's mentored by NCG NYC's CEO Bart Yates plan for the next year in business.
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Northstar Consulting Group Top 4 Marketing Trends in 2013:
Technology All forms of marketing a due to be affected by new technology claims Bart Yates, CEO at Northstar Consulting Group (NCG NYC). Tablets are chipping away market share from desktops and laptops, with an estimated 90 million consumers in the US to own one by 2014. Marketing via online applications is a growing trend as is capturing consumer information. NCG NYC have begun reporting sales figures on demand via iPad's which have enabled clients to view ROI of in-person marketing campaigns daily.
Measureable Results With the rise of multichannel marketing, comes an increased demand for measurable results. What CEOs expect to see are measurable and quantifiable results says Bart Yates of Northstar Consulting Group. The firm report more brands are incorporating direct marketing into their strategies as calculating the return of investment is very simple, an element many traditional marketers are unable to offer. As many companies use multiple marketing channels understanding which produce the best results is becoming mandatory.
Personalised Marketing A trend that Northstar Consulting Group have seen rise throughout 2012 and anticipate becoming even more paramount in 2013. Social media plays an important role in this trend as do more direct forms of marketing, face-to-face presentations, event promotions and guerrilla marketing. The ability to tailor marketing towards specific demographics is a strategy in high demand.
Content Marketing- As brands embrace in-person marketing campaigns and expand social media, the potential to engage in meaningful conversations with their loyal fan base becomes more important as consumers demand substance. Discount codes, free samples, in-person demonstrations knowing your product and evolving the sales pitch to the individual customer will become the norm adds Bart Yates of Northstar Consulting Group NYC.
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MELBOURNE, Australia - One hundred and twenty-seven matches, 295 sets, 2741 games and 18,109 points over thirteen sunshine-drenched days. And that was just the singles. While numbers never tell the whole story, when it comes to this year's Australian Open, they certainly make for a good read?
684,457 - The total number of tennis fans who came through the Melbourne Park turnstiles this year.
208 - The number of minutes needed by Alizé Cornet to defeat Marina Erakovic in the first round, making it the longest match of the tournament. Honorable mentions go to Garbiñe Muguruza and Magdalena Rybarikova for their three hour, 20 minute effort.
128 - The speed in miles per hour of the fastest serve of the fortnight, hit by Serena Williams - first against Muguruza and then once more for good measure in her third round with Ayumi Morita.
79 - Serena's two 128mph bombs helped her win 79% of her first service points.
55 - The number of players at this year's tournament who were yet to be born when Kimiko Date-Krumm made her Australian Open debut in 1990. At 42 years and 109 days, Date-Krumm became the oldest player ever to win a match at the Australian Open when she knocked out Nadia Petrova in the opening round.
50 - Francesca Schiavone has now played in 50 consecutive Grand Slams.
40 - Valeria Savinykh jumped 40 spots in the rankings after her run through qualifying and into the third round.
36 - Ashleigh Barty and Casey Dellacqua were the first all-Australian team to make the doubles final in 36 years.
33 - The longest rally of this year's tournament was 33 shots and came in the second round match between Lesia Tsurenko and Daria Gavrilova.
21 - Azarenka's win streak on Australian soil now stands at 21 matches - her last defeat came to Li Na in the fourth round at Melbourne Park in 2011.
11 - The number of teenagers to survive the first round. Last year it was just three.
5 - Azarenka becomes the fifth active player to have won multiple Grand Slam singles titles; the others are Kuznetsova (two), Sharapova (four) and Serena (15) and Venus Williams (seven).
4.58 - The average number of Hawk-Eye challenges per match. For the record, 92 of them were correct.
0 - Prior to her quarterfinal with Sloane Stephens, Serena Williams had never lost to an American player younger than her.


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Anna Calvi has been invited to perform with Mumford & Sons at a special NME Awards show Communion night at Dingwalls in London on 22nd February. Other artists on the bill at this intimate show include Marcus Foster and Rachel Sermanni. Communion is co-run by Mumford & Sons' Ben Lovett. Tickets go on sale this Thursday from Musicglue.com for £20.
Anna Calvi will also be performing as special guest to Arctic Monkeys at a special hometown show in Sheffield on Saturday 11th June, alongside Miles Kane and Mabel Love. The artists will be playing in a custom designed tent at the Don Valley Bowl and tickets go on general sale from 11th February through See Tickets, Ticketmaster and Sheffield Motorpoint Arena.
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Officials received a 9-1-1 call shortly before 9 a.m. reporting a Pico Rivera woman in her late-30s had gone into labor on sidewalk at Beverly Boulevard and Taylor Avenue, Montebello police Capt. Brad Keller said.
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Cutting a step out of the strawberry harvesting process, Naturipe Berry Growers is using technology that cools berries in the field to extend shelf life.
The Salinas, Calif.-based Naturipe Berry Growers, which markets through Naturipe Farms LLC, Naples, Fla., is testing and using a Cold@Field cooling system at Watsonville, Calif.
Eliminating transport to an off-site cooler, the system streamlines the pick-to-cool process and helps prolong shelf life by one to two days, said Vinnie Lopes, Naturipe Farms' West Coast vice president of sales.
"What we're trying to do is bring the consumer a step closer to the field," Lopes said. "Today in this industry, with berries being the biggest category, there's just more and more focus on the category. Everyone wants you to see how to push the limits and be better. We're always trying for new innovations."
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The automated cooling process reduces handling and temperature variations, speeds loading and eliminates 1.5-10 hours of field to cooling. It also cuts respiration and reduces loss of the sugars and acids that provide strawberries flavor, Lopes said.
From picking to transporting to coolers can take 3.5-4 hours. The temperatures of berries entering the Cold@Field cooling tunnel fall to 32 degrees within an hour of picking compared to the hours required of conventionally cooled berries, Lopes said. At picking, a berry typically possesses 14 days of shelf, Lopes said.
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Azzopardi said Naturipe worked closely with Cold@Field engineersto develop an integrated system designed to extend shelf life and quality of their berries.
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IRVINE LAKE – This is one fishing story that may be hard to swallow, a real whopper.
But, cross our hearts, it's all true.
Every night for the past 32 years Mitsuo Onizuka would take the gold watch he received in 1980 for 25 years of service at Vons off his left wrist and gently place it on a nightstand.
In the morning, he'd put the watch back on.
Onizuka, who retired as a district manager from Vons in 1989, says it was the best job he ever had – and the best watch ever, a 14k-gold engraved timepiece he says hasn't lost a second in its fourth decade of tick, tick ticking.
He's 83 now, and the man everyone calls "Mits" has slowed, but only by a tick or two.
For the past several years the lifelong fisherman has been a daily fixture at Irvine Lake, nicknamed "The Magic Man" for his legendary ability to haul in fish, and for volunteering as a parking aide and for being an all-around helpful soul.
On Nov. 5, while enjoying another afternoon at Irvine Lake, muddy-shoed Mits slipped while boarding a pontoon. He landed hard on a metal rail and suffered nasty gashes on his left forearm. It took 40 or so stitches to sew him up.
Then, a couple of days after his fall, Mits had a question:
What happened to my watch?
Only a deep tan line remained of what was once one of his most prized possessions. Married 52 years, the father of three with five grandchildren, Mits doesn't even wear a wedding band.
He wondered if the paramedics had taken the watch off while tending to his bloody arm. Lake officials offered to use metal detectors to search for the watch on the west shore where Mits fell.
"It was funny," says Mits' grandson, Tadashi Mills, 23. "He was constantly asking about his watch – trying to figure out where it was."
Days passed.
An infection in his injured arm sent Mits to the hospital for a week. He celebrated Thanksgiving with his family in his hospital room.
Still, no watch.
Mits told himself that after he completely healed, he'd go look for the watch himself.
What he didn't know about at the time was a person by the name of Howard Hess.
Hess, 55, sells insurance and real estate in San Luis Obispo. He has family in Garden Grove, and comes down frequently to visit them.
When he does, Hess loves to fish at Irvine Lake.
On the foggy morning of Dec. 4, almost exactly a month after Mits took his spill, Hess had caught his limit of five trout. His three companions hadn't.
Hess gloated a bit.
Then, while standing on the west shore, he tossed his line into the water to get the moss off his hook.
The line landed in about two feet of water about three feet off the shore, where the floor of gravelly sand quickly drops away. When Hess pulled his line out of the water, a gold watch was dangling from the hook.
A delighted Hess turned to his buddies.
"I got my limit," he said, "and I got a gold watch, too!"
One of the watch's bands had broken off. The time was frozen at 6:53 p.m.
Hess noticed the watch was 14K gold.
I could get some decent cash for this, he thought.
Then he flipped the Girard Perregaux watch over and, squinting to make out the engraving on the back, read:
Hess then thought: It probably means more to him than the value of the scrap.
So he set out to find Mits.
Not knowing where to start, Hess sent an email to four Register reporters.
One of them bit.
A quick database search turned up a phone number for a Mitsuo Onizuka linked to addresses in Irvine and Mission Viejo. Mits' wife, Lily, 82, answered the phone at the Irvine address.
"He had a little accident at the lake," a surprised Lily told the reporter. "He was looking all over for that watch."
A meeting at Irvine Lake was arranged for Friday, Dec. 21, the next time Hess planned to be in town.
Lily decided to keep the reason for the visit to the lake a secret from her husband, who still is mending from his injuries and who hadn't been down much to the lake since the accident.
Mits was a bit surprised to be greeted at the lake by a reporter, photographer and a video journalist.
But he was a good sport as lake employees like Hubert "Kewly" Zimara greeted him and sung his praises.
"He's a legend out here," Zimara said. "He always catches a lot of fish, and when other people aren't – especially children – he goes around to help them out."
Said Mits: "I'm just a regular fisherman."
He wondered why the newspaper wanted to write about him, but politely answered questions.
"Too late to back out now," Mits said.
Midway through the interview, Hess and his wife, Cheri, strolled up to the picnic table.
Hess – a stranger to Mits – sat down in front of him and pushed a small gift-wrapped package toward The Magic Man.
"I'm Howard," he said. "I have a Christmas present for you."
Mits quietly studied the package.
"Is it going to jump out at me?"
His grandson helped him open the package.
When he saw what was inside, Mits gasped. He was speechless.
"I was fishing here a couple of weeks ago," Hess told him, "and I caught that."
Mits couldn't get out many words. He managed to say "thank you" in a raspy whisper.
"I took some barnacles off of it," Hess told him.
Then, as he teared up, Mits said: "This is the best Christmas present."
"Merry Christmas," Hess said. "Nice to meet you."
The two then stood up to take a walk to the dock, Mits moving slowly.
It was a beautiful afternoon at the lake; sunny, just a hint of a breeze. A perfect day for two fishermen to get to know each other, and maybe even try to slip past each other a few whoppers – a few fishing stories that just couldn't be true, could they?
As they headed toward the dock, Mits turned to Hess.
"I didn't think there were people like you."
Hess, with a big smile, just shrugged.
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BENTONVILLE, Ark. Sam's Club announced that it is hosting a Pharmacy Challenge and Savings Checkup in all of its locations through Jan. 31 where consumers can check prices on their prescriptions and over-the-counter medications against other retailers. Sam's Club guarantees it will beat any competitor price on branded prescriptions. Membership is not required to use a Sam's Club pharmacy.
"Your Healthy Year" promotes a variety of ways consumers can improve their wellness in 2009 whether their goals include weight loss, adjusted spending on pharmaceuticals, additional exercise, reconnecting with loved ones, time management, organization and more," said Todd Matherly, VP of Health and Wellness at Sam's Club. "We want to help our members and families not familiar with our Pharmacy program or our health and wellness products and services to reach their goals, and discover ways to reduce their costs."


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Berkeley is about $570 million in debt because it failed to properly fund its employee retirement programs. Next door in Oakland, the shortfall is $2.2 billion. It's like a huge credit card balance that must be paid, draining funds that should go for needed city services.
In both cities, the shortfall works out to about $5,000 for each city resident. While Berkeley and Oakland are among the worst in the East Bay, they are not unique. Indeed, local governments statewide have cut staffing and reduced services because of declining revenues and increasing debt obligations.
San Bernardino and Stockton recently followed Vallejo's march to bankruptcy court. While most municipalities will avoid that ignominious path, they nevertheless face very rough roads ahead.
That was reinforced last month as Moody's Investors Service cut the rating on pension obligation bonds of eight California cities and placed the debt of 30 under review for downgrade.
Oakland and Berkeley are on the list, along with Martinez, San Leandro and Danville. The latter is particularly noteworthy because Danville has no traditional pension program. In other words, while retirement costs are a key driver in many cities, they're not the only problem.
"California cities operate under more rigid revenue-raising constraints than cities in many other parts of the country," says Eric Hoffmann, Moody's senior vice president in charge of its California local government ratings team.
"Combined with steeply rising costs, these constraints mean that these cities will likely recover more slowly than their peers nationally, even if the state's economic recovery tracks the nation's."
That last point can't be emphasized enough. Those who think this problem will disappear as the economy recovers are kidding themselves. California local governments face many tough years ahead. They must acknowledge that now and prepare for the long haul.
Denial and ignorance are not solutions.
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``I honestly don't think it will be that different or that hard,'' says the Komets' 35-year-old center.
And he's exactly correct because Chaulk will be Chaulk whether he's wearing the C as team captain or whether he's playing or serving as assistant coach. He already spends half of each practice, bus ride and locker room bull session teaching younger players, diagramming plays to make sure everyone understands what they are supposed to do.
Basically, the Komets have had three coaches recently with Al Sims as the head coach, Gary Graham as the assistant and Chaulk as the assistant's assistant coach. Now Chaulk moves up as Graham received his first head coaching position over the summer with Pensacola of the Southern Professional Hockey League.
Chaulk will still spend most of the game yelling from the bench to let teammates know who's closing in on them or to encourage defensemen to stand up at the blue line or to make sure everyone is aware of a potential problem. It's what he does best.
``The only thing I'm dong differently this year is the video,'' he said. ``I feel like I helped Gary and Al as captain of the club in the past, so there shouldn't be much difference. Just do what Al says and make sure I play hard on the ice.''
The key to being a player/assistant is earning trust from both the players and the coach, Sims said, and Chaulk already has that.
``Colin and I have a relationship already and that really helps,'' Sims said, ``and what we've done here kind of demands instant respect from the people around us.
``I trust him 100 percent with the team and what he says to the team. It's something special that we have here that many teams don't have. I'm sure Missouri and Rapid City had their leaders, but it's a little different here.''
Sims knows because he was a player/assistant coach when he started his coaching career. He came back from Europe in 1988 to serve the role for Robbie Laird with the Komets.
``It's difficult in the fact that you are walking a tightwire between the players and the head coach,'' Sims said. ``You have to have trust from the players that you are doing the right thing and trust from the head coach that you are doing the right thing for him. I think gaining the players' trust and the coach's trust is the biggest thing with being a playing assistant coach. Otherwise you are going to get yourself in hot water with one party or the other.''
After winning four titles in five years as a captain, that won't be that hard, Chaulk said. In fact, it might be easier this year because the Komets will have a younger roster.
``The older guys are like, `Nah, I don't want to listen to you, you're close to my age,' sometimes,'' Chaulk said. ``The younger guys are more, `You do what I tell you to do and that's it.' We're going to flexible and we're not going to be jerks about it, but at some point you have to say, `All right, this is the way we're going to do business and that's it.' I have to reinforce what the coach wants, and I already do that.''
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Here's what we do know about Robert Griffin III's right knee—or what was been reported Wednesday:
According to numerous accounts, the Washington Redskins quarterback needed both his LCL and his ACL repaired. That's the second time Griffin's right ACL has been torn, the first coming less than three and a half years ago (September 2009, when he was in college).
The operation was a success, noted surgeon James Andrews said. Griffin "had a direct repair" of the lateral collateral ligament and "a re-do of his previous ACL reconstruction," Andrews said. A full recovery is expected.
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Here's what we don't know: Whether Griffin's name should be mentioned in the same sentence as Adrian Peterson, in regards to how fast he'll heal and how good he'll be when he does.
Until further notice, Peterson is the exception. He's an outlier. He's a freak of nature and science. Beginning an MVP-caliber season nine months after an ACL tear is way, way out of the ordinary.
Here's more of what we don't know: Whether Griffin and Danny Manning should be in the same sentence.
No one will ever know how great Manning could have been. He's a college legend, he was the first pick in the 1988 NBA draft, and he was living up to the pick 26 games into his rookie season with the Los Angeles Clippers. Then he tore his right ACL, the first of three such injuries in a career that still stretched over 15 seasons.
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Three, which means, of course, one knee got it twice. It was his right knee, and THE second came nine years later. By then, Manning was already established as a starter on the all-time NBA "What If?" team.
Different sport, yes. Different time frame, yes. Different era, without question — ACL reconstruction wasn't all that routine; Bernard King's famous tear having happened less than five years earlier. King missed more than two years. Now, Peterson missed one game and one offseason. He came back better. He was 26. Griffin is 22.
Probably the best-known recent NFL player with two tears of the same ACL is Kris Jenkins, the longtime nose tackle. The left one went in October 2009, and it went again in the season opener of 2010. He was 31 when that happened. He retired.
So where does RG3 fall within all of that?
Add that to the things we don't know. But roll through all those names, the players who tore their ACLs at young ages and older ages, who tore it once and tore it twice, who played basketball and football in college and the pros … and the only one that emerges as being just as good after as he was before is A.D.
That's right. Research it All Day, and all you come up with is All Day.
Logic tells us — demands us — to stop holding Peterson up as the target for Griffin to shoot for. History tells us that's too high.
The optimistic estimates as the morning of Griffin's surgery wore on were that he could get back in six to eight months, and that he'll be ready for the Redskins' 2013 opener. It's not impossible, obviously. No two injuries or circumstances are the same, and no two athletes are, either.
But believing he'll be the same RG3 he was before is asking a lot.
And that's a damn shame.
He still could be great. He still could electrify, still could uplift a franchise, still could light up a whole league, still could have multiple playoffs, a few Super Bowls and endless indelible moments ahead. But, as with Danny Manning, we'll never know how much of all of those he could have produced.
Peterson isn't the norm. For one thing, he hasn't torn that ligament twice. That again is not unique, but it's pretty rare. In October 2010, Brian Cole, the team doctor for the Chicago Bulls, told the Times of Northwest Indiana that the likelihood of that happening is between 2.5 and 5 percent. "The most common reason is another random event," he told the paper.
(A coach leaving an already injured quarterback in a playoff game because that quarterback told him he was OK … that probably qualifies at random. Or at least it had better.)
Today, Cole has an even more intimate knowledge of ACLs than he did then: If you recognize his name, it's because he gives regular updates on Derrick Rose. When Rose blew his knee out in May, during last year's playoffs, he felt motivated enough to aim for this season's opener. Here, in early January, he has yet to do a full, no-restrictions practice.
Optimistic and realistic — sometimes they're just unfamiliar with each other.
By the way, when Cole did speak about multiple ACL tears, it was in connection with then-Purdue basketball star Robbie Hummel, who had torn his right ACL for the second time in eight months. Before the first injury, he was on his way to an All-America season, and his team was a Final Four contender. When he finally played a full season, last season, he was excellent.
Hummel was a late second-round NBA draft pick. He signed to play in Spain (and had to wait to play while recovering from ... an injury to the same knee, albeit a minor cartilage tear).
With only one tear, instead of two, he might be in the NBA instead. We'll never know.
With RG3, we know a little. We don't know a lot. And part of what we don't know is if he'll ever be the RG3 we've grown to admire.
Odds are he won't.


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Dodgers endure another walk-off defeat
Seven-run fifth highlighted by Gordon's triple, but Giants come back
SAN FRANCISCO -- Two games here for the Dodgers, two walk-off homers by Giants catchers.
This train wreck of a series came to another miserable conclusion for the visitors Saturday night, a 10-9 defeat in 10 innings after Los Angeles dropped the opener, 2-1.
Closer Brandon League, the fifth Dodgers reliever used after Matt Magill's 1 1/3 inning start, took the loss by allowing a one-out pinch-homer to left by backup catcher Guillermo Quiroz on an 0-2 pitch. Starting catcher Buster Posey homered off Ronald Belisario for Friday night's win.
"Was it a perfect split? No. Was he seeing the split? Yeah," said League, who was prepared by the staff to expect a second inning of action after escaping a bases-loaded jam in the ninth with a Posey double-play grounder.
"Obviously, I want that pitch back. But I didn't make him look too good on the 0-1 split, so of course I tried to throw it again. I hung one out of 12 that I threw. He got me."
"He hung a split-finger fastball," said Quiroz. "The one before was pretty nasty; it just ran down. I knew League pretty well. I kind of knew what pitch he was trying to get me out with."
The loss wasted an electrifying season debut of new shortstop Dee Gordon, who was promoted from Triple-A to take over for the injured Hanley Ramirez and helped put the Dodgers ahead twice with a two-run triple in the fifth inning and by creating a run with his speed in the seventh. Gordon went 2-for-4 with two runs, two RBIs, two steals and a walk.
The Dodgers had won their last 80 games against the Giants when they scored at least nine runs dating back to 1970, but that's the way it's going for the Dodgers these days.
"It's been a rough 24 hours. For all of us," said Jerry Hairston.
With a new three-game losing streak, manager Don Mattingly preferred to accentuate the positive, specifically the seven-run fifth inning that erased a five-run deficit.
"It tells me a lot about my club," he said. "I feel as good as you can feel about a loss. We're going to be fine. We've got guys banged up, no different than some other teams. We're moving toward getting some people back. While I say that, I still see a club with plenty of weapons. We've still got firepower to score runs."
But pitching is another story altogether. Magill, in his second Major League start, probably earned a pass instead of a next start. His early exit taxed the bullpen, with four of the five relievers allowing runs. The staff allowed eight walks, three of them coming around the score. The Giants also scored two runs on wild pitches.
The first inning was a 43-pitch disaster for Magill: three runs on three hits with three walks, one more than he had in his 6 2/3-innings debut. It started with a wind-blown Angel Pagan double that confounded Gordon, followed by a pair of walks. Posey, who drove in both Giants runs Friday night, doubled in the first two with a bases-loaded double. One out later, the Giants scored another run on Gregor Blanco's infield single to Gordon on an 0-2 pitch.
It was more of the same in the second inning with three more hits, a walk and a wild pitch, and Mattingly yanked Magill after 1 1/3 innings and 63 pitches. J.P. Howell inherited loaded bases and allowed one run to score on a Blanco sacrifice fly.
A.J. Ellis got the Dodgers on the board in the fourth inning when his towering one-out fly ball entered the jet stream and carried out to dead center for his second home run.
Trailing by five after four innings, the Dodgers came back from the dead with a seven-run fifth. Hairston's ground-rule double moved Carl Crawford to third base. Matt Kemp singled up the middle to score Crawford and Hairston, the latter limping the final couple of strides with a mild groin tweak. Ellis walked with two outs, Skip Schumaker singled inside third base to score Kemp and former Giant Juan Uribe singled home Ellis to chase Giants starting pitcher Ryan Vogelsong, who fell one out shy of qualifying for a win in a game he led by five runs.
Jean Machi took over to face Gordon, whose drive to right-center was lost in the lights by Hunter Pence and went for a two-run triple to give the Dodgers a 7-6 lead. Nick Punto, who led off the inning with a walk pinch-hitting for Howell, doubled home Gordon for an 8-6 lead.
Javy Guerra took over and allowed a solo home run to Andres Torres with one out in the fifth. Then Guerra allowed the first three Giants in the sixth to reach base and Paco Rodriguez came on with no outs and the bases loaded. He struck out Brandon Crawford and Brandon Belt, only to allow the tying run on a wild pitch to Torres before getting him on a comebacker.
Gordon put the Dodgers back in front in the top of the seventh with a walk, a steal of third and then raced home on a two-hopper to second base with the infield in on a contact play, his headfirst slide beating Marco Scutaro's throw. But the Giants tied it again in the bottom of the seventh off Belisario with a double by Francisco Peguero, a single by Scutaro and Pablo Sandoval's sacrifice fly.
League escaped a real mess in the bottom of the ninth, the Giants loading the bases with one out and Posey, Friday night's home run hero, up. But he bounced into an inning-ending double play.
Ken Gurnick 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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Storehouse Foods, Southwestern BBQ Chicken with Rice & Beans, Gluten Free, 3.0 oz (85 g) (Discontinued Item)
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Storehouse Foods, Southwestern BBQ Chicken with Rice & Beans, Gluten Free, 3.0 oz (85 g) (Discontinued Item)
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Hickory smoked sweet BBQ sauce with white meat chicken, rice and beans.
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Bon appetit! I created The Storehouse Foods Gluten Free Line as a labor of love, inspired by the courageous life of Celiac sufferer Haley Anne Nelson. Haley's tragic passing instilled in me a sense of urgency to help active people with gluten intolerance achieve their nutritional needs.
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|13 g
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The Federal Communications Bar Association is having its Annual Chairman's Dinner on December 13th at the Washington Hilton. The evening will start off with a reception at 6:00 and followed by the remarks of FCC Chairman Julius Genachowski. Don't miss out on this amazing opportunity for networking!
Gabriel, Innkeeper
American Guest House in Washington DC


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On my golf site, we have a "My Swings" forum where people will post video of their swings, get feedback, and keep posting in a single thread there in order to see progress over time (and not have 15 threads with the same person's motion, typically with the same flaws over and over again, etc.).
So I'm starting one here, and I'll just keep posting in this thread as I go along. Please help, and I'll keep trying to take the advice I get and apply it and posting new videos.
Below is video of me throwing indoors at our golf academy. It's 120 FPS. I can go 240 FPS which we'll commonly do for golf swings, but unless I hear otherwise I'll assume 120 is good for throwing discs.
This video shows my grip and then a series of throws from face-on and down the line as well. I'm trying to release them all pretty flat or perhaps slightly wing down. TRYING being an operative word!
I'm VERY new to disc golf but as a golf professional I'm VERY interested in proper form and developing my technique early without having a bunch of flaws. I'm easily in the upper 25% of golfers for distance, so I'd at least like to be average when it comes to disc golf distance. I'm 34, have strong legs and square shoulders but a comparatively weak upper body . No major injuries except dislocating my right shoulder when I was 21 (it still feels a little funny, not much but barely, if I throw a baseball or football overhand).
My pinkies bend in towards each other (it's more common than you might think). The bones are missing the "lip" on the inner edge so they've always bent in like this. My X-Rays were in the New England Journal of Medicine shortly after I was born. Anyway, that affects my grip a little as sometimes the pinkie will want to "tuck" under the ring finger.
I work through a few stages in this video, from a drill that I'm trying to feel to a no-step through to an x-step throw. Here it is:
I've numbered the throws in the left-hand side of my library there so if you see something in one of the throws please feel free to point it out by number.
I've not been playing that long but I typically play a shot that will turn right first and then fade at the end. I'm sure I probably have OAT like crazy and probably every other newbie mistake.
Distance right now is 250-275' or so with something like a Champ Teebird. That's not great, but it's not terrible and I think I can learn to throw farther consistently.
So please let me know what you'd work on first. I'm just looking for the top couple of priority items - not a laundry list of things to work on. I'd like to take it one step at a time - clean up the top priority or top two priority things, then move on to the next step after checking in to see how it looks. Working on one thing will often cause changes in something else, not to mention simply be "too much" all at once.
Please also tell me if I'm doing anything well at all, so I can keep making sure I do those things, if they exist.
P.S. We've also had tremendous success with students working indoors, because they work on building the correct motion rather than trying to make the ball (disc) fly where they want it to go. I believe the same will hold true for me as I learn to improve my DG throwing motion. If I get the correct motion down, my throws will be better.


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This recipe, developed by Ashley Koff RD, is part of our Fair Trade Holiday Recipe Series. Go beyond the basics this winter and try baking with Fair Trade Certified sugar, cocoa, vanilla, and spices.
Looking for a holiday treat you can feel good about? These vegan Coco-Nana Nut Cookies are easy to make, waistline friendly, and use a variety of healthy, Fair Trade certified ingredients. Simple and delicious, they're a light and fruity alternative to the traditionally heavy desserts we all tend to eat during this season.
Yield: 30 cookies
- 3 ripe, Fair Trade Certified bananas
- 1 tsp. Fair Trade Certified vanilla extract
- 1/4 cup unsweetened applesauce
- 1/4 cup Fair Trade Certified agave nectar
- 1/2 cup canola oil
- 1 tbsp. coconut milk
- 1 tsp. baking soda
- 1 cup oat flour
- 1 tsp. Fair Trade Certified cinnamon
- 1 cup rolled oats
- 1 cup shredded coconut
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Lightly coat a cookie sheet with cooking spray.
In a food processor, blend the bananas, vanilla, applesauce, agave, oil, and coconut milk. Once combined, add in the baking soda, flour, and cinnamon. Fold in oats and coconut by hand. Using two teaspoons, scoop dough onto the prepared cookie sheet. Bake for 18-20 minutes. Let cool on a wire rack.


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Indecision is always difficult. Once the choice is made, however, no matter how heart wrenching, at least you can go on with your life. It's no different for all involved in Liam's drama this week. Now that he has made a final choice between Hope and Steffy, all three of them begin to pick up the pieces and move on with their lives. What will it mean for each of them?
At the same time, Brooke and Ridge make an agreement to support their respective daughters no matter the outcome of Liam's decision. Interesting how one man, namely Liam, is having such a major impact on so many others. All we can say is, will he live to regret his choice?
Looks like Taylor may have similar issues. As the week progresses, she interrogates Liam about his decision to end his marriage to Steffy and encourages him to reconsider.
Later, Steffy and Hope have an uncomfortable run-in with each other that ends with one of them feeling defeated. Which one? It may not be the one you think.
Meanwhile, Rick plays the role of the protective big brother when he pays a visit to Liam to make sure that his intentions are honorable. What will he determine? Either way, Brooke feels ganged up on when Ridge and Taylor are in agreement about Liam and Steffy's future. Will she make her feelings known? Find out when you tune in to The Bold and the Beauiful this week.
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