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A Mountain View woman's apartment was burglarized three times in a three-week span, according to police.
The woman, who lives on the 200 block of Church Street, reported that she fell prey to burglars on Sept. 24, Oct. 5 and once again on Oct. 15, according to Sgt. Saul Jaeger, public information officer with the Mountain View Police Department.
During the first burglary, the woman told police she went out to walk her dog at about 2 p.m. on Sept. 24. When she returned at 3 p.m. she didn't immediately notice anything. But the next day she received a fraud alert from her credit card company. She then looked for her wallet and found that it was missing.
Then, on Oct. 5, she left the apartment at noon and came back at 4 p.m. to discover that her iPad, Macbook Pro and a necklace with an oval ruby were missing. In both instances the woman said that she had left entryways into her apartment open or unlocked.
The third incident occurred on Oct. 15, according to Jaeger. On that day, she left her apartment at about 10:45 a.m. and returned at noon to find that her Macbook Air had been stolen. She told police she believes the burglar got in through her bedroom window.
Jaeger said that while this case is certainly unusual, it also serves as a reminder. "With burglaries in general, the constant theme is make sure you lock your door and don't leave stuff open."
Police have a suspect for one of the burglaries, Jaeger said. Security cameras in a convenience store captured images of someone using the woman's stolen credit cards.
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A schoolgirl who was hit by a car on New Year's Day remains in a critical condition in hospital.
Miriam Parker, of Carshalton, was struck crossing the road in Selsdon, Croydon, just before 9pm.
The 17-year-old, a pupil at Archbishop Tenison's Church of England High School in Fairfield, is in an induced coma at St George's Hospital in Tooting.
Police arrested the driver of the car, a man in his 40s, on suspicion of causing injury by dangerous driving following the collision in Selsdon Park Road, near Tedder Road, just before 9pm.
He was bailed pending further investigations.
The Metropolitan Police appealed for anyone with information to call 101.

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CHESHIRE Stars missed out on promotion to the South Cheshire Premier League's highest level after losing in Tuesday's play-off final.
They succumbed 35-24 after a physical encounter with Cheshire East Hightown, who finished third from bottom in the Premier Division.
The campaign ended in disappointment too for Witton Albion, defeated 23-18 by Star the same evening at Sir William Stanier Leisure Centre in Crewe.
The Northwich outfit reached the final after overcoming rivals – two of them – they hadn't previously beaten.
Winsford had reason to celebrate though, proving too strong for Bentley in their head-to-head.
Their reward will be to play in Division One next season.
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Place: Bella Caffe, Third Ward, Milwaukee Time: Early spring, 2012 (Marie Kohler and Laura Gordon, friends and colleagues, are having soup after rehearsal and "talking theater.")
MK: We've known each other through how many chapters of Milwaukee theater?
LG: (smiling) I joined the Rep under Joe Hanreddy in 1993. My first production was Dancing at Lughnasa.
MK: I remember it well—a beautiful production.
I co-founded Renaissance Theaterworks in 1993, so we've been plugging away side by side for nearly 20 years. I've watched your wonderful performances— and now your directing work. That career has really taken off!
LG: (with irony) Thank heavens. Roles are scarce for women over 50.
MK: (laughing) True. What have you directed recently?
LG: The Winter's Tale at Utah Shakespeare Festival, In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) at Actors Theatre of Louisville and Milwaukee Rep. This summer I'm directing The Royal Family at American Players Theatre.
MK: Tell me about In the Next Room. LG: It's a love story, really, about a doctor and his wife who both learn to be intimate in a way they haven't before. The play says it's possible: Marriage can find itself if we see each other whole.
MK: You're also a lead in Honour, which I'm directing at Renaissance—also about a wife and husband and sex...
LG: And a woman's sense of wholeness—knowing who you are. Playwright Joanna Murray-Smith has written it beautifully. (thoughtfully) These themes of identity seem to be coming to me right now at this professional crossroads in my life… It's interesting… MK: Do you prefer acting or directing? LG: They both feed each other. I like the collaboration of directing… I can say "Isn't the set great? The actors?" without feeling self-conscious. I get to wat ch actors work, which I find miraculous—not when I'm acting myself! But watching them—actors blow me away.
MK: I know! LG: It's humbling, isn't it? MK: (nodding) You are a dream to direct—so intelligent and sensitive to the text. Even before I ask, you drop into a true spot, finding the emotion and handling language beautifully. (Pause) Why do you do theater?
LG: (Beat) I think the experience of being on stage telling stories in the moment—feeling emotion and being in touch with emotion—is full. It's rich. I've had the opportunity to feel empathy for a tremendous range of human experience. Hopefully through that work, we give the audience the opportunity to experience empathy as well. That's got to be a good thing. (With feeling) I think about someone like Rose [Pickering]… You can't look at her life and not see how huge and profound that can be… All those nights in the darkness telling wonderful stories to all those people? Does that have value? I have to say it does.
In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) runs at Milwaukee Repertory Theater through April 22; Honour is at Renaissance Theaterworks through April 15.


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DAYTONA BEACH, Fla.—Kyle Busch is off the free agent market as he has signed a long-term extension with Joe Gibbs Racing, according to a USA Today report.
The report, which cited sources, said Busch signed a multiyear deal in December.
The 27-year-old Busch, who has driven for JGR since 2008, was scheduled to become a free agent at the end of the year.
JGR is expected to announce the signing later this month during the annual NASCAR media tour. Three years ago, JGR announced Busch's contract extension at that time.
"I anticipate we'll have something to announce," he told USA Today. "Whether I'm staying or going, I'm not sure."
Busch was plagued by engine issues last year and didn't make the Chase for the Sprint Cup, leading to speculation that he might be frustrated enough to look elsewhere.
But Busch, who owns Nationwide and Camping World Truck Series teams, will remain at JGR.
Busch has 24 career Cup wins as well as 51 in Nationwide and 30 in trucks.


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Well over 12 hours after Percy Harvin broke the bad news himself, the silence from the Seattle Seahawks speaks volumes. Don't expect their reaction to be any better than the news was on Tuesday night.
In the long run, the trade the Seahawks made to get Harvin still looks good. But right now, thanks to hip surgery that will take place on Thursday, it looks like the worst NFL trade in a long time.
The Raiders' pickup of Carson Palmer two years ago, you say? Good point—but at least he made it onto the field the first chance he had. And the Raiders weren't within reach of a Lombardi Trophy when they made that deal.
MORE: Training camp injuries mount | Harvin to have surgery Thursday | NFL camp photos
The Seahawks were—and they're no closer to the Super Bowl today than they were before they gave up three draft picks, including last April's first-rounder, and $25.5 million guaranteed to get him from Minnesota back in March.
That's why they got him, to get closer to the Super Bowl, past the 49ers in the NFC West, and in the NFC.
They didn't get him so they could run in place while Harvin rehabbed … again.
That was always the caveat in the deal. Harvin would be a difference-maker, the weapon that would separate the Seahawks from the 49ers, where otherwise they were running neck-and-neck in just about every way. But … only if Harvin stayed healthy.
He played through a lot in Minnesota, including migraines, but didn't miss a huge chunk of games until last season, with his badly-sprained ankle knocking him out the final seven games of a run to the playoffs.
Still, that nagging-injury cloud hung over his final dealing with the Vikings going into what had been his contract year, and raised the only real doubts about whether the trade would work for Seattle.
If he's going to miss all of this season, then it didn't work.
Whether Harvin does miss all of the season remains up in the air. The surgery is for a torn labrum, and three to four months appears to be the best-case scenario. That puts him back on the field sometime in November. Their bye week is at the end of November, a convenient marker for the latter return date.
That would leave five regular-season games for Harvin to join the team he was supposed to put over the top.
If he, in fact, is able to come back at all, because missing the entire season isn't out of the question.
It doesn't necessarily help that earlier Tuesday in Houston, the newly-signed Ed Reed told reporters that he did not know if he would be ready for the regular-season opener. Reed had surgery in late April to repair what has been described as a "small labral tear" in his hip. He said he's "close," but that he can't run full-out and extend as much as he'd like, and that his biggest problem is scar tissue: "I get that out, you know, I can kind of push it more."
It's not clear how similar his injury is to Harvin's—and at 25 Harvin is nearly 10 years younger than Reed. But even if Reed was ready for the opener, that would put his recovery at a little more than four months—and he's now saying that might not be enough time.
The idea that the Seahawks will be just fine without Harvin for most of the season, if not all of it, is compelling. The offensive cast that got them within one play of the NFC title game last year is largely intact – Russell Wilson, Golden Tate, Marshawn Lynch and the rest. Look at all the points they piled up late last season, including 42 against the 49ers when Wilson went crazy, the optimists have said.
Of course, the notorious back-to-back 50-point games that preceded it came against godforsaken Arizona and Buffalo.
Regardless of the competition, though, the Seahawks' goal was not to be as good as last season. It was to be a step ahead, and Harvin was that step. He could have been that step for the now-contending Vikings, too – but they decided the price of keeping him was too steep for them, and the reward for giving him up (all those picks) was too great.
Even with what they saved in not re-signing Harvin, it didn't seem all that smart for the Vikings at the time.
But they look a lot smarter than the Seahawks do now. That's as good a reason as any for the Seahawks to stay quiet about the blunder of the year.


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POLICE are growing increasingly concerned for the welfare of a missing man from near Alresford.
Michael Bateman, 28, of Medstead, has not been seen since February 15 when he left home.
Police are appealing for the public help, and officers are concerned as it is believed he did not take his regular medication, money or phone with him.
Mr Bateman is described as white, six foot three inches tall, slim build, with blue eyes, a tanned complexion, short brown hair, a beard and moustache, wearing a red flannel shirt, blue pinstripe jeans, brown boots and possibly a blue hat.
Anyone with information on his whereabouts should contact PC Karl Odgers at Alton by calling 101.


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text: Symptoms and causes By Mayo Clinic Staff Print SymptomsSigns and symptoms of scoliosis may include: Uneven shoulders One shoulder blade that appears more prominent than the other Uneven waist One hip higher than the other If a scoliosis curve gets worse, the spine will also rotate or twist, in addition to curving side to side. This causes the ribs on one side of the body to stick out farther than on the other side. When to see a doctor Go to your doctor if you notice signs or symptoms of scoliosis in your child. Mild curves, however, can develop without the parent or child knowing it because they appear gradually and usually don't cause pain. Occasionally, teachers, friends and sports teammates are the first to notice a child's scoliosis. CausesDoctors don't know what causes the most common type of scoliosis — although it appears to involve hereditary factors, because the disorder tends to run in families. Less common types of scoliosis may be caused by: Neuromuscular conditions, such as cerebral palsy or muscular dystrophy Birth defects affecting the development of the bones of the spine Injuries to or infections of the spine Risk factorsRisk factors for developing the most common type of scoliosis include: Age. Signs and symptoms typically begin during the growth spurt that occurs just prior to puberty. Sex. Although both boys and girls develop mild scoliosis at about the same rate, girls have a much higher risk of the curve worsening and requiring treatment. Family history. Scoliosis can run in families, but most children with scoliosis don't have a family history of the disease. ComplicationsWhile most people with scoliosis have a mild form of the disorder, scoliosis may sometimes cause complications, including: Lung and heart damage. In severe scoliosis, the rib cage may press against the lungs and heart, making it more difficult to breathe and harder for the heart to pump. Back problems. Adults who had scoliosis as children are more likely to have chronic back pain than are people in the general population. Appearance. As scoliosis worsens, it can cause more noticeable changes — including unlevel shoulders, prominent ribs, uneven hips, and a shift of the waist and trunk to the side. Individuals with scoliosis often become self-conscious about their appearance. Request an Appointment at Mayo Clinic OverviewDiagnosis Aug. 15, 2017 Print Share on: FacebookTwitter References Questions and answers about scoliosis in children and adolescents. National Institute of Arthritis and Musculoskeletal and Skin Diseases. http://www.niams.nih.gov/Health_Info/Scoliosis. Accessed Feb. 2, 2016. Introduction to scoliosis. American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons. http://orthoinfo.aaos.org/topic.cfm?topic=A00633. Accessed Feb. 2, 2016. Kliegman RM, et al. The spine. In: Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 20th ed. Philadelphia, Pa.: Elsevier; 2016. http://www.clinicalkey.com. Accessed Feb. 2, 2016. Scherl SA. Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: Clinical features, evaluation and diagnosis. http://www.uptodate.com/home. Accessed Feb. 2, 2016. Scherl SA. Adolescent idiopathic scoliosis: Management and prognosis. http://www.uptodate.com/home. Accessed Feb. 2, 2016. Shaughnessy WJ (expert opinion). Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Feb. 20, 2016. Shands AR. End result of the treatment of idiopathic scoliosis. Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery. 1941;23:963. Brown AY. Allscripts EPSi. Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minn. Feb. 8, 2016. RelatedStraightening ScoliosisBack surgery: When is it a good idea?X-rayRett syndromeSpina bifida Mayo Clinic in Rochester, Minnesota, and Mayo Clinic in Phoenix/Scottsdale, Arizona, are ranked among the Best Hospitals for orthopedics by U.S. News & World Report. Learn more about this top honor ScoliosisOverviewSymptoms & causesDiagnosis & treatmentRequest an appointmentDiagnosisTreatmentThe Mayo Clinic experience & patient storiesDepartments & specialtiesExpertise & rankingsLocations, travel & lodgingClinical trialsResearchCosts & insurancePreparing for your appointmentSelf-managementMore aboutIn-DepthMultimediaNews from Mayo Clinic Advertisement Mayo Clinic does not endorse companies or products. Advertising revenue supports our not-for-profit mission. Advertising & Sponsorship Policy Opportunities Ad Choices Mayo Clinic Store Check out these best-sellers and special offers on books and newsletters from Mayo Clinic. The Last Diet You'll Ever NeedNEW! Mayo Clinic Guide to Integrative MedicineStop Osteoporosis in its TracksMayo Clinic Health LetterThe Mayo Clinic Diet Book Diagnosis & treatmentRequest an appointmentDiagnosisTreatmentThe Mayo Clinic experience & patient storiesDepartments & specialtiesExpertise & rankingsLocations, travel & lodgingClinical trialsResearchCosts & insurancePreparing for your appointment CON-20155224 Patient Care & Health Information Diseases & Conditions Scoliosis


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Holiday Schedules for Fairfax County Government
Feb. 4, 2009
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County Government – Closed
Courts – Closed
Public Schools and School Offices – Closed
Libraries – Closed
Fairfax Connector – Weekday Service except 595, 597, 380; VRE EZ-Bus will not operate.*
Fastran – No service
Park Authority – RECenters will operate on their normal schedules; Nature centers will open from noon to 5 p.m.; historic sites will open from 11 a.m. to 4 p.m.; Frying Pan Farm Park will open from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. (Visitor Center open 10 a.m. to 4:30 p.m.; Country Store closed); Green Spring Gardens will open from noon to 4:30 p.m. (Historic House closed)
Community, Teen and Senior Centers – Closed**
County Trash and Recycling Collection – Normal collection schedule***
Recycling and Disposal Facilities at I-66 Transfer Station and I-95 Landfill Complex – Open
* Riders can take Fairfax Connector buses to West Falls Church Metro Station to continue by Metrorail.
** The McLean Community Center is closed. Reston Community Center Hunter Woods will be open from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. The Lake Anne Center is closed.
*** Residents receiving trash and recyclables collection service from private collection companies should contact their service provider directly to learn of any schedule adjustments for the holiday.
Contact: Merni Fitzgerald, Director, Office of Public Affairs
703-324-3189, TTY 711, Media Pager: 703-324-NEWS (6397)
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text: Hey! I'm new and have never posted here before, but I am having a terrible time with potty training and I need some help. To begin with, my name is Haley and I have a mini dapple daschund named Luxy. She will be 2 on may 28th. So she should be super potty trained by now, but this is my fault. When I first got her, I lived on the 3rd floor of an apartment complex and it was such a hassle to take her down to potty every hour, so I just cleaned up after her and never thought twice. When we moved, we had a doggy door, so she would go outside sometimes, inside sometimes but I'd clean up right after her. Well we recently got on our feet with money better and are in a really fancy apartment (up 3 flights of stairs again, but this time with an elavator ) But she CAN NOT potty on these floor no matter how much cleaning up behind her I do.. and my fiance said if he comes home (he works 3 weeks on 3 weeks off) and she has pottied on the floor we're going to have to look into something else (and Luxy is my baby, she ain't going no where!) So I decided to go with crate training, bc it seemed the easiest route. And she has done very well! In the mornings as soon as we get outside, she will pee about 3 times! but here's where the problem kicks in... Even after she pees outside, mulitiple times.. and I think she can't pee anymore, we come inside.. and she will tinkle a little spot on the carpet. I know she doesn't still have to pee! I think she is doing it bc she LIKES to pee on the carpet.. or she's marking her territory, idk.. but it has to stop! I would feel bad getting onto her bc she never kenw any better and it was my fault, how can I make it stop?! Thank you!


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Wabash Celebrates Holiday Season• December 6, 2007 Share:
As the first semester winds down and the holidays draw near, Wabash College students, faculty, staff, and community have been celebrating the holidays. The celebration includes music of all sorts, cultural traditions, and long-time Wabash programs.
The oldest of the holiday traditions was the 40th Christmas Festiveal of Music and Readings Wednesday nigtht in the Chapel. See photos and hear the music of the Festival here.
Unidos Por Sangre hosted a dinner Tuesday evening celebrating Feliz Navidad. See a photo album here.
The week got underway when the men of the Malcolm X Institute celebrated Kwanzaa with Wabash. See photos.
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DETROIT - Friday morning will be fair and cold with lows near freezing. The rest of the day will be sunny and seasonable with highs in the upper 40s. High school playoff football fans will need to bring blankets and dress in layers Friday night with temps back in the 30s.
Saturday will begin with fog for college tailgaters at Michigan Stadium and Michigan State. The Wolverines host Iowa, and the Spartans battle Northwestern. Sunshine will return with highs near 50.
Sunday will be have a repeat performance outside Ford Field. Morning temps will be in the 30s with Lions fans staying close to the grill to stay warm. Afternoon highs will be near 50 as the Lions take on the Packers.
Settle weather remains in the forecast next week, including Thanksgiving. Your latest weather forecast for the weekend and America's Thanksgiving Parade is at JustWeather.com and on Local 4 News.
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The Punch and Judy Show is not the defining struggle in Australian politics. Something much bigger will decide the next federal election.
Of the 11.5 million in the workforce, more than 8 million, or 70 per cent, work in small businesses or are self-employed. Small business is thus large in Australia. Very large. And it is getting shafted by the Gillard government.
The rolling series of defeats for small business operators, independent contractors and the self-employed since Julia Gillard became prime minister is as important as any factor in Labor being stuck in a losing rut in the opinion polls since the 2010 election.
In practical terms, it is far more important than the politics of personality. It overrides the mutual disdain between the Prime Minister and the Leader of the Opposition. This is not the main game, even if it provides the main political theatre.
The mystery is why the small business sector is not in open revolt. But the Council of Small Business of Australia is a divided house.
The council describes itself as ''the peak body exclusively representing the interests of small businesses''. But is that true? The former chairman of the council's board of directors, Ken Phillips, doesn't think so. He has just resigned in protest.
''I was on the board of the Council of Small Business Australia for two years and became chair in 2011, but I resigned as chair on October 31, then resigned from the board on November 22,'' he told me. ''I decided to resign after discovering the extent to which the council's financial solvency is dependent upon tobacco interests. I decided that tobacco interests exert significant influence over the council, and I regard this as compromising and damaging to the small business lobby.''
As recently as last Wednesday the executive director of the council, Peter Strong, appeared on Channel Ten to complain about the government's plain-packaging legislation for cigarettes.
''It's hard to see how that serves the interests of small business,'' Phillips said of Strong's appearance on TV.
Phillips is the executive director of Independent Contractors Australia, which until recently was one of 21 groups represented by the council.
Strong rejects the idea that the council has been co-opted by the tobacco lobby.
And last week he released a performance update that laid out how the council had been able to improve the lobbying position of small business in the formation of government policy: ''[The council] is now unambiguously one of the top four industry groups in Australia … with the Business Council of Australia, the Australian Industry Group and the Australian Chamber of Commerce and Industry.''
Although Strong delivered a detailed critique of government policies at the National Press Club in August, his criticisms have been muted compared with the leaders of other peak industry bodies.
On November 16, the head of the Australian Industry Group, Innes Willox, delivered a fiery critique of the government: ''It has been a year of disappointment for business in the industrial relations arena … We simply cannot afford any more delay or regressive changes to workplace relations laws … [and] time-consuming and unnecessarily complex compliance and regulatory obligations.''
The interests of small business are going backwards and the rate of labour force participation is contracting. It is easy to see why:
Industrial relations: the Fair Work Act is an unfolding disaster for small business, the main job-creating sector in the economy.
Energy: the carbon tax is contributing to higher energy costs for all businesses. It is also an abrogation of a core election undertaking.
Health and safety: the greatest union scam of all, using occupational health and safety laws to impose union power, is enshrined in the federal government's move to harmonise OH&S laws under a single federal law.
Intimidation: the Gillard government's dismantling of the building industry watchdog has led to a predictable rise in union lawlessness in the industry.
Outsourcing: the government declared war on outsourcing when it passed legislation in September that mandates public sector conditions on private sector firms which take work outsourced by state governments.
Red tape: the government has just imposed the Equal Opportunity for Women in the Workplace Amendment Bill 2012, which imposes an entire new layer of red tape on businesses with more than 100 employees.
Tax law: the announced tax cuts for small businesses apply ONLY to incorporated businesses. Given that most of the 2.5 million small businesses are unincorporated, about three-quarters miss out.
Discrimination: the government is significantly expanding the range of issues over which people can sue for discrimination.
The list goes on an on. It continues to grow. The government's rhetoric about small business is a hoax, all fluff and tokenism.
One final note: today is the final day I will be sharing this page with Phil Coorey, who is departing. It has been an honour to have him as a colleague.
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Hello all-Dave and I returned from our 3 days at CTCA. What an experience. Not like any hospital I have been in before. Everyone was personable and helpful. The oncologist met with us and reviewed Dave's record and scans. He thinks he may be able to treat him with an intra-hepatic chemo but needs to have Dave stronger before he will consider it. He also thinks he should have a splenectomy because all of Dave's blood counts are down and his spleen is robbing his body of red cells and platelets and is very large. He sent us home to think about the options and whether or not we want to come there for treatment. Dave is going to stay off chemo and try to get his counts up and some strength back and then we go back on the 24th for a group consult with the oncologist, surgeon, and radiologist. I guess his tumors are too large to consider RFA or chemoembolization. I am kind of on the fence, but Dave was buoyed by the hope they had to be able to help him. We also saw a naturopathic doctor and a nutritionist and had an introduction to the body-mind clinic. We'll keep you posted. Patrice


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I've used a lot of different types of pregnancy tests in the past. Because of my contraception I don't have my monthly visit to indicate I'm not preganant! So just to be safe I test every 3 months to be sure!
I've used a lot of brands in a range of prices and overall I was pretty satisfied with tescos own brand.
The packaging is simple so there isn't mug waist. It's just a simple box and each test is in its own foul wrapping so can be disposed of discretely and easily after use!
The instructions were really simple to follow. I think it's fairly straight forward how to use a pregnancy test but I do find with some brands, the instructions can be a little ambiguous, for example how long to pee on Ye stuck, how long until you have a final result etc.
With tescos brand, it was as simple and straight forward as remove cap, pee for 5 seconds, replace cap and wait for 1 minute for the result.
I was also happy that I didn't have to wait a really long time for a result. Some tests you have to wait quite a while (up to 5 minutes from my own experience) and although I e never had a genuinely 'close call' as such, I can imagine, whether you are hoping for a positive or negative result, a longer wait time to be quite agonising! 60 seconds was quick and simple!
The result on the test was also really easy to read. One line negative, 2 lines positive. No formulas and calculations, as such, to actually read the result. It was nice and clear in the window and made the whole experience painless and simple.
If definitely recommend this test to others, it's cheap and cheerful and was actually better than a lot of more expensive brands that I've used in the past.
I'll set the scene: it's around 7am on a Saturday morning, and you are rudely awoken by your wife bursting into the room waving a stick in your face, declaring "There's a line. There's a line. It's only faint, but there's definitely a line". Thankfully my lovely husband was as excited as me, otherwise he might not have appreciated the dramatic awakening! So, I've kind of done this review back to front by announcing that I'm pregnant before going through the details of the test, but what the hell....I'm excited!
I've used a lot of pregnancy tests over the several months we were trying to conceive, and these Tesco ones are my preferred choice. They are cheap and easy to use, and when you're as impatient as me and end up doing more tests than necessary, the price is very appealing. Most branded pregnancy tests cost in the region of £10 each, and although I did go out and buy one of these to confirm the pregnancy, in the meantime these have been suiting my needs perfectly, currently costing £3.50 for a pack of two.
The tests come individually wrapped, and thankfully the wrappers are easy to open because when your hands are shaking with nerves you can sometimes find this task much more difficult than it would usually be. The box has a quick at-a-glance pregnant/not pregnant guide on the front, but the instructions inside are much more detailed, telling you when you should test, how to test, and how to interpret the results. This is important, because although it's unusual to get a false positive, a negative pregnancy test does not necessarily mean you're not pregnant. In some cases, it can just indicate that it's too early to test. The instructions are so detailed, in fact, that there's a very bizarre diagram of someone peeing on a stick....just in case you're unsure!
So, to take the test itself it's the usual case of peeing on a stick. The stick is fairly thin and lightweight, with an absorbent tip for the urine, and a cap which covers this once used to keep it hygienic. This makes you feel less bad about waking your husband up by waving it in his face. There are two windows on the stick, one is the control window, and the other is the test window. You should always get a line in the control window, as this shows the test has worked correctly. If the test is positive, there will be a line in the test window, although this can sometimes be very faint and subject to interpretation. I had to read the instructions very carefully after seeing the line, to make sure I was correct in thinking that it doesn't matter how faint the line is, if it's there you're pregnant. This is because prior to this I had been doing ovulation tests, which work on the basis that a positive result is when the test line is darker than the control line.
With it being quite early in the morning when I took this test, I was a little bleary eyed, and at first when nothing appeared in the test window I just thought "Here we go again, another opportunity missed". It was only when I turned round after flushing the toilet that I noticed the line had appeared, it just took a few minutes. Although it does say in the instructions that it takes a few minutes, I had for some reason assumed it would be immediate, I think this is because that's how it was with the ovulation tests I was doing. It was a lovely surprise when I saw the second line, and I had to wake hubby up to confirm that my eyes weren't deceiving me.
These tests are very basic, although that's all you expect given the price. They are most accurate if taken first thing in the morning, as that's when the pregnancy hormone they're testing for is at its most concentrated. They can give a result from the first day of your missed period, and although it's tempting to go out and buy the ones that can give you early results, I've wasted money on these in the past only to be disappointed, so I was happy to wait until D-Day to keep hold of the possibility I might be pregnant a little longer. I would definitely recommend these tests as a first option when testing for pregnancy. I did follow up with a branded test afterwards, but this was probably overkill due to first-time nerves/paranoia. The only reason I'm giving these four stars instead of five, is the fact you have to interpret the results yourself, so if the line was very faint it might not necessarily give a clear result. For me, however, it gave the best possible result I could have asked for.
(Review also appears on Ciao under the username Gingerkitty)
About a week ago a little suspicion started to gnaw away at the back of my mind, I was starting to feel distinctly hormonal, my boobs were tender and I was feeling just a little bit pregnant. Already having five children (ranging from 2 to 21), I know the feeling well, but to make sure I asked my partner to pick me up a cheap pregnancy test from Tesco. What he came back with were these Basic Pregnancy tests that are sold both singly and in twin packs, costing £3.97 for the twin. The first thing I'm going to say is that if you're looking for a pregnancy test that you can rip open and use in the supermarket toilets, this is not it. With both the single and twin packs the actual box they came in is held within a plastic enclosure that is almost impossible to get into without a very sharp pair of scissors.
Once you do manage to get the box open you are faced with an instruction leaflet and either one or two foil sachets (depending on whether you bought the twin or single pack) containing the actual pregnancy test. These foil sachets are easy to open, but I would recommend at least glancing through the instruction leaflet before doing so, even if like me you are quite a pro at using these tests. The test itself looks rather like a digital thermometer, and has a cap at one end that when removed reveals the test strip that needs to be soaked in urine. The instructions state that this test can be used from the day that your period is due and can be used at any time of the day, but the most accurate results will occur if you test the first wee of the morning. The leaflet suggests two ways of soaking the strip with urine, to hold it in the stream as you wee (no thank you) or wee in a cup and dip it in this for at least ten seconds. A cup to pee in is not provided, but a disposable cup works fine, or if you are desperate you could try using the pouch the test was supplied in. (If you do get a positive result, get used to the idea of peeing in a cup/bottle, because you will be doing it a lot).
Once the strip has been soaked in urine, the cap should be replaced and the test laid on a flat surface for three minutes while it works it's magic. As the urine makes it's way through the test a red tide mark will work it's way through the two test windows, leaving a line in either one or both of them depending on the result. The leaflet states that you should get a result within three minutes, if not should wait a further minute and should not read the test after ten minutes as there is the possibility of an evaporation line forming. As with all home pregnancy tests, these tests measure and react to a hormone produced in early pregnancy called hCG (human chorionic gonadotropin), the amount of which increases rapidly in early pregnancy. Although the instructions do not state what level of this hormone they can detect, as it can only be used from the day your period is due, it is in no way the most sensitive on the market.
Once the test is complete one of three possible results will be displayed. If there is a line in both the square test window and the circular control window then the hormone has been detected and you are most probably pregnant (there are a few other reasons the hormone can be in your body). If there is a single line in the control window and none in the test window, then the hormone has not been detected and you are either not pregnant or not far along enough to have a detectable concentration and if your period has not arrived within a week you should retest. If there is no line within the control window, even if there is one within the test, then the test has malfunctioned and you should use another test. As far as the positive result goes it does not matter if the line in the test window is fainter than that in the control, as long as it is there you have a positive result.
As with all modern pregnancy tests these are considered more than 99% accurate at detecting hCG in the urine, but there are other factors that need to be taken into account. A negative result may not mean that you are not pregnant, it just means that the test was unable to detect the hCG, this may be because you are not far enough along to be producing a detectable level of the hormone or that you are not pregnant. There are also some drugs and conditions that can give a false positive, such as ovarian cysts. So you should always go to the doctor to have your positive result confirmed, even though doctors rarely retest as the home tests are now as accurate as any hospital test on urine and can only really be beaten by blood tests.
I've actually used three of these tests over the last week and a half, using the first test when I first suspected I was pregnant, which was a day or so before my period was actually due. Rather stupidly I didn't wait until the morning, but took the test last thing at night, thinking that as I usually have high hCG levels even before my period is due that I would get a result. Apart from actually getting in the box, taking the test was as easy as any I have taken. I peed in a pot, dipped the stick and then waited for the result, which came back negative. I must say the result was very easy to read, but I wasn't convinced that I wasn't pregnant, so decided to wait the week before sending my partner for more tests, this time a twin pack.
I used the second test once more in the evening, following the same process of peeing in a pot and then waiting for a result. After three minutes I couldn't really see anything in the test window, but by five minutes there was a very faint line. Knowing that the result is the same no matter how faint the line, I was pretty sure I was pregnant, but I repeated the test the next morning to get a much clearer second line. As this was a brand of pregnancy test I hadn't used previously, I did buy a more expensive test the next day, which confirmed the result.
These are in no way the most advanced pregnancy tests, you do have to interpret the results yourself and they do not tell you how far along you are, but neither are they the most basic (that would be test that are simply test strips). I do like the way that they are enclosed and once the lid is replaced there is no urine dripping, and I like the fact that unlike digital tests the results don't disappear as the battery runs out, meaning they can be shown to the Daddy later in the day or kept as a keepsake. What would probably cause problems for those who are inexperienced in reading pregnancy tests is that the test line can be very, very faint and the result still positive, it's easy to believe your eyes are deceiving you.
All in all, I think I would recommend these pregnancy tests, they certainly worked for me and are far cheaper than (and just as good as) the big name brands. My only slight concern is that the resulting line in the test window can be very faint, so for this reason I'm giving the Tesco Pregnancy tests four stars out of five.
When I began my new relationship last year, we had to decide quite early on whether we wanted to try for a baby. I will be 42 in October and as fertility diminishes in the forties, I had no idea about my chances of conceiving, except it probably wasn't great. We both have children from our previous marriages, but I had all mine in the 1990s when I was still in my twenties!
After a couple of months of trying, I was a day or so late with my period, so during our usual weekly shop at Tesco, I bought a Tesco Pregnancy Test. There was a display full of different brands, some really expensive, but all seemed to do the same thing. I liked the idea of getting one that had two tests in it, so we bought the Tesco one which has the two tests included. It is very basic packaging, but says it is easy to use and gives the result in minutes. I think we paid around £3.50 for this, but some of the better known brands were around £15.
The last time I used a pregnancy test, you had to wait for the first wee of the day and couldn't test until your period was overdue. These days, technology has moved on and you can test any wee of the day and you can get a result even before your period is due! Amazing.
The instructions were clear to follow with diagrams where necessary. Each test is separately wrapped, so you just open one package to get the test out when you are ready to start. It is long and thin, a bit like a chunky pen, white with a light blue lid. You remove the lid and put it on the other side of the testing stick to hold it with. You then wee on the absorbent end of the stick, replace the cap, put the test down on a flat surface and time three minutes.
I found it a bit fiddly knowing where to place the stick, as it's not so obvious to us girlies as to where the wee is coming from exactly! But it worked fine and after the wait (which always seems much longer than the three minutes!), it came up with one vertical line in the circular window on the right, which meant no, I was not pregnant.
Sure enough, the next day, my monthly visitor made her unwelcome presence known.
Fast forward to last week. By my calculations, I was three days late, but trying not to get too excited. We went to Tesco and even though we were only there an hour, I need to wee twice. Mmmm, this made me wonder. When I got home, I dug out the second test in the packet and went through the procedure again.
This time, I wasn't sure if it had worked. As I had urinated a lot in quite a short space of time, I wasn't sure I had peed for long enough and the windows of the test seemed to remain blank for longer than I expected. I brought it downstairs and placed it flat, anxiously watching the time on my mobile phone.
But then, something started happening and soon, two lines appeared - a vertical one in both the square and the round window. (I know, it sounds like Play School!) I checked and double-checked the box and the information sheet. This was a positive result.
My fiancé and I were smiling, but we still didn't want to celebrate just yet. What if it was a false result or I hadn't done the test properly? We wanted to make sure. So we drove to the Co-op and bought a Clearblue single test which was around £9. This one was a bit easier to use than the Tesco one and the result came up within a minute, but the negative or positive was a bit harder to work out, as you get a plus sign in one window (which is quite faint) and a vertical line in the other. Anyway, it was positive too.
I am still very early into the pregnancy - about five weeks - but really hoping everything goes well and we get a baby in early February.
For anyone needing a pregnancy test, I would recommend the Tesco one. It is one of the cheapest on the market, easy enough to use and the result is clear. I hope you get the result you are hoping for, like I did.
My partner and I have been trying for two years to concieve with no success. I had a very light period in my normal cycle however a week later I was still having a few cramps and a bit of spotting so I bought the Tesco twin pack pregnancy test to check if the cramps and bleeding were a result of pregnancy. The first test showed a positive result within 30 seconds. I was thrilled but, given our lack of success previously, I tested again later in the day to confirm and got a negative result. The initial saving from purchasing the Tesco test resulted in extra cost in the long run as I ended up buying a Clear Blue test to test again the following morning which confirmed a negative result.
I used the Tesco ownbrand pregnancy test this morning. I am due my period on Saturday but have felt a bit "different" so decided to test but not pay big-bucks for a known brand. I was thrilled to see a result appear promptly in the test window at 10DPO.I bought 2 first response tests in the pharmacy at lunch. Used one and got another positive.I will definitely use Tesco pregnancy tests again.
I suddenly looked at the calendar one evening some time ago and realised that Auntie Flo had been due to pay me a visit that day, that she had not turned up, and the day was nearly over.
So with a desperate desire to know what was happening, at 11pm I found myself in the 24 hour Tescos, buying pregnancy tests - unable to wait til the next morning. Now I knew I was only a day overdue, and that last time I'd been pregnant I'd had to wait til five days to get a positive, so I thought it would be worth buying more than one packet; especially as Tescos was right over the other side of town, and I didn't want to end up in Tescos at 11pm every month for a year!
My personal favourite had been to use Clearblue Digital as it actually says the word: "pregnant" on it, so no debates when reading it, but when you want to buy a job lot they are expensive. So my eye happed upon these Tescos own brand ones, at an amazing £4.98 for two, and a slightly less amazing £3.24 for one, but this compares very favourably with the Clearblue price, which even in Tescos, where they are well priced, is £8.38 for one and £11.34 for two.
So two twin packs of Tesco's tests went in my basket, and I (oh how impatient) only made it as far as the in-store rest rooms to test out the first product. They come in a cardboard box wrapped in cellophane, which I can definitely report, comes off quickly and easily when you are in a hurry! Inside is a very simple to follow set of instructions with pictures (so you can scan read and not waste time), and two individually wrapped tests.
As with the vast majority of home pregnancy tests, it is testing for HCG. This hormone is excreted by pregnant women in their urine, and not by non-pregnant women, so testing for the presence of it is pretty foolproof, unless the pregnancy is so recent that the amount of HCG being produced is really still so low it doesn't trigger the test. That's why you might get a negative if you test very early on, but the hormone levels should more or less be doubling daily, so a few days later a second test should come up positive.
It is the sort of pregnancy test which requires you to pee on it for 10 seconds, or dip the stick for 10 seconds in a sample collected in a container. It has two windows in the plastic - you put the lid back on the end you peed on (I think that is just to make the thing um watertight so you can pick it up hygenically to see the result), lay it flat or point it downwards and wait about three minutes. Other tests are quicker, but heck! £2.50 each, and 24 hour access to instant purchase! Who's complaining?
There are two windows- the pee basically takes that couple of minutes to travel up the stick inside the plastic (I imagine the principle is capilliary action) and the farther window away is the test window, which obviously has some HCG (or other positive test triggering thing) impregnated in the stick at that point so once the pee reaches it, a line in it turns pink. It has travelled through the other window to get there. On its way, it will leave a pink line in the first window if you are pregnant, and leave it blank if you are not.
Now some people who'd just put the kettle on or something might be quite happy to leave the test in the bathroom for 3 minutes and go and make a cup of tea, but remember that I was in a cubicle in the Tesco's ladies room so I just watched it. The whole control window changes colour slightly as the pee reaches it and then it moves on up to the other window. A faint pinkish tinge appears, which is a bit confusing, but that disappears as the thing dries out a bit (I think that's why you are supposed to wait three minutes). Once the second window has got it's pink line in it, you know the test has worked properly. If you've got no lines, then the test didn't work and you have to do it again with a new test; if you've got one line only in the test window, then you're probably not pregnant (but you might want to check again in a couple of days with another test); if you get two pink lines, then you'd better get knitting.
Easy as pie.
Basically, as a near-professional POAS addict (that's peeing on a stick), it is perfectly acceptable test to use. It is not unduly messy, I have confidence in the result as it is clear to read and the instructions are pretty foolproof, and the fact that you are looking for lines instead of dots helps your eye not to be fooled by imaginary dots that aren't there (though you have to throw these tests away in a place you can't retrieve them from the bin for a second look as they can give you faint false positives in the shape of an evaporation line so are not reliable at all after 10 minutes). The line in the "real" window is usually fainter than the one in the test window, but if you can see one, however faintly, it's a positive.
I can report that the tests have an approximate shelf life of two years and the expiry date is printed on the cardboard packet and also on the individual wrapping on each test, so it would be hard to use one by mistake that had gone out of date. I knew even as I was walking out of Tescos I should have returned the other box, but for some reason I had other things on my mind by then!
I have no reason to suppose these Tescos tests are less sensitive than branded ones (actually Clearblue Digital are generally regarded by my fellow POAS-ers as the ones that take the longest time to give you a positive) and, basically, they are fantastic value for money. And if you are pregnant, it's all going to cost you a flipping fortune, so anything you can save now can be diverted to Winny the Pooh accessories, ballet lessons and crisps.
....new carpets, football summer school, trips to watch small anthropomorphic creatures be cute in Disney/Pixar movies, birthday cake, Calpol, babywipes, childcare, babysitters, Disneyworld and strange sweet fizzy drinks with names you've never heard of; AA batteries at exorbitant rates from garages on Boxing Day, endless mobile phone upgrades, endless extortionate mobile phone bills, university fees, warhammer models, barbie accessories, driving lessons, cracked nippled cream at £12 a tube (yes really), oh sorry. Got sidetracked.
Actually if you are pregnant, £3.24 for one is better value than £4.98 for two if you don't use the second one. Anyone want an unused pregnancy test from an opened box?
I have used this many times as I'm an IVF patient, and I have found it to be one of the best on the market. It is equally as good as any of the major brands and gives a quick, easy to read result in just a few minutes.
It registers HCG levels at 25, which means you can even test a few days early and get a result.
For the very low price that is is I wouldn't buy anything else now.
I have used several home pregnancy tests in the past, usually the mid-stream type, and usually the more expensive, well known, brand names. The last test I tried was Tesco's own brand, priced £5.69 for one, approximately £8 for a double pack.
The tests are very similar to Clearblue in design, with a window to tell you if if the test has worked and another to indicate your result. The instructions are very clear, hold the testing end of the stick in the urine flow for a couple of seconds (although if you're unsure of being able to pee long enough you can collect your sample in an old jug and dip the stick in!), then wait two minutes for the result. The box says it can be used with over 99% accuracy from the first day your period would be due, although I used it on the second day and got an accurate result.
I have used two of these tests (on two separate occasions) and got an accurate result both times, one positive, one negative. For both ease of use and price I would recommend this test, if you are impatient then Clearblue can give you your result in one minute but personally I think the extra minute waiting time is worth the money you can save.


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THE mother of Sarah Cafferkey has described her daughter as a beautiful person who only saw the good in people.
Single mum Noelle Dickson spoke of her grief hours after a 47-year-old man was arrested in relation to the 22-year-old's death.
"I'm just thinking about my poor little girl. She's all I ever had and now he's taken her and I'm never going to be able to see her again, she won't get married, she won't have anything now," Ms Dickson said.
"This is my little girl ... I don't have any more and nobody deserves this.
"She had her whole life ahead of her."
She said Sarah had loved acting and writing, and had hoped to get married and have children one day.
"She wanted to be a movie star, she wanted to be a singer, she loved helping people. She only saw good in people and she was always a little actress from as young as I can remember," Ms Dickson said.
"She wanted to get married and she loved kids and ... the dog, of course, that was her baby. She took it everywhere."
Ms Dickson said she couldn't think about the man arrested in relation to Sarah's murder, though she believed he might have been introduced to her through a mutual friend.
"I'm still very numb. I can't think about him, I don't want to think about him and why this happened because I just can't have that picture in my head," she said.
Sarah grew up in Bacchus Marsh with her mum after her father moved to Queensland when she was 2 1/2.
Despite the distance, she was still close with her father and the pair visited him often, Ms Dickson said.
She described Sarah as a happy, bubbly person who loved her 18-month-old labrador Sprocket.
Friends of Sarah have turned to her Facebook page to express their grief and Ms Dickson said their comments were a comfort.
"I have read some of the things that the kids have had on Facebook. 'Missing her happy face, her happy smiley face', that sort of thing and that's just been beautiful, that's actually helped me ... to see her from their perspective ... they've got so much pleasure for having known her, that's given me a bit of comfort too."
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|reviewer: Anonymous from New York
|This play took my breath away. What an amazing story about the relative nature of good and evil. The example used to illustrate this concept were some the brutal realities of the war in Iraq. I enjoy documentaries and that is what this play felt like. It had strong language and adult content, making it seem even more authentic to the situation. If you are looking for something light, this is not the play for you. I thought the acting and depth that the actors brought to the characters was amazing. I would highly recommend this show for all adults.
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loved this show,
|reviewer: V.Stoltz from Virginia
|I saw this show - without Robin Williams - in Los Angleles last year, loved it, and jumped at the opportunity to see it again in NY.
If you are looking for something upbeat, or are expecting an evening of laughs centered around the light-hearted comedy of Robin Williams, you will likely be disappointed and perhaps shocked by some of the seriousness and dark humor of this show.
But if you are looking for a probing look into how war can alter and slowly erode one's values, or gain some sense of the chaos and absurdity of those who have no choice but to live in a war-torn nation - and yet have room for the glimpses of true beauty that do sometimes emerge among this chaos, then you will likely gain considerable insight from this show.
The play is a wonderful mixture of imagination, magic realism, philosophy, and yes, bleakness and horror.
The acting is impressive, haunting, and memorable, and yes, Robin Williams does make a very good philosopher/tiger
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|reviewer: Chris from New york
|Most of the negative reviews seemed to be written by people who either missed the point of the play or went expecting a Robin Williams stand-up type performance. We saw it last night and found it to be engaging and fast moving. If you are going to see a stand-up comedy show you will be disappointed. Check your political or religious ax at the door, open your mind and enjoy the ride!
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Dark comedy, beautifully acted and thought provoking,
|reviewer: Betty Corista from New York
|Robin Williams is excellent as a tiger looking for redemption in one minute and the next satisfyieng his wild desires:food mostly.
The entire cast plays a wonderful disfunctional group of losers in extraordinary circumstances. You either hate or love this play. We loved, it is real theater in our opinion.
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Political - Not funny satire,
|reviewer: Jan from PA
|This play looked promising but ended up being depressing and full of political and religious references/satire. I was expecting an intelligent, well thought out and funny performance. It wasn't worth going to Broadway.
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This session will cover lessons learned about Ruby on Rails development using PostgreSQL. From the database-centric view the session will explain Rails best practices, taking advantage of RoR strong points, dealing with its weak points, PostgreSQL strong and weak points, and using advanced SQL features in web applications. The session will demonstrate how PostgreSQL is used to speedup Rails code, making slow things in your web application fast and impossible things - possible. The session will also discuss the peculiarities of complex enterprise apps and show that PostgreSQL is an ideal open source match for their development.
Topics covered will include:
Our experience with Ruby on Rails and PostgreSQL combo:
* performance characteristics of Ruby applications
* Rails advantages
* PostgreSQL advantages
How to optimize Rails with PostgreSQL:
* doing as much as possible in SQL
* preloading attributes and associations
* using Postgres' arrays for even faster preloading
* generating and executing SQL queries instead of manipulating data with ORM
How to optimize Rails application by moving logic to the PostgreSQL database:
* efficient trees
* efficient pagination
* efficient access control system with roles and privileges
* efficient data analysis and aggregation
How to deal with PostgreSQL limitations:
* optimizer forcing subselects for the whole result set despite limit/offset
* optimizer not being able to estimate the resulting set size of the generate_series() function call
* "in" in where conditions forcing joins
* need for pushing down conditions in certain cases
* avoiding on-disk sorts
* selecting records holding group-wise maximum without windowing functions (pre 8.4)
* using "not exists" as a cure to bad performance of "not in" conditions
How to make your database faster:
* improving shared database performance under severe memory restrictions
* realistic explain analyze
* Postgres-specific performance tips
How to keep your database and application robust:
* getting the right compromise between ORM and the database
* best practices for database schema development and maintaining data integrity
* performance testing and benchmarking
* performance monitoring
Operating system developments in recent years have provided administrators with new and powerful ways of peeking into live, production applications to investigate behaviors and solve problems in real time without significant system impact. PostgreSQL provides several probe points allowing these dynamic tracing tools access to running applications that was formerly available only with a debugger. In this discussion we will explore the DTrace and SystemTap applications and some of their capabilities, with specific focus on PostgreSQL.
Ever wished an application's logging were just a bit more detailed? Ever wanted an application to spit out some internal variable, or count the iterations of a section of code? Ever wanted to see exactly what values resulted from some convoluted calculation? Ever been unable to provide these details because you couldn't recompile the application to add the code you needed? Dynamic tracing can provide all those details, on a running, production application, and -- theoretically, at least -- do it all without your users noticing.
PostgreSQL provides a wide array of tracing probes which allow users to gather data regarding parsing, planning, execution, storage, locking, and many other back-end behaviors, all without recompiling the application or adding new PostgreSQL code. We'll examine these probes and the capabilities of systems like DTrace and SystemTap to gather and analyze the data they provide.
Staking our claim on open source technologies
Enova Financial provides online financial services to under-served consumers in the United States, Great Britain, Australia and Canada.
What originally started with a handful of people and a small application running on MySQL has grown into a multi-million dollar business running on Postgres. In an environment where downtime costs hundreds of thousands of dollars a minute, we continue to stake our claim on open source technologies, including Postgres, Skytools, Ruby on Rails and Linux.
In this talk, we will explain
* How we're using Postgres
* Why we switched from MySQL
* Why we chose Postgres
* What challenges we face using Postgres
PostgreSQL supports several options for securing communications and access when deployed outside the typical webserver/database combination. This talk will discuss the features that make this possible, with some extra focus on the changes in 8.4 and 8.5.
PostgreSQL supports several options for securing communications when deployed outside the typical webserver/database combination. This talk will go into some details about the features that make this possible, with some extra focus on the changes in 8.4. The main areas discussed are:
* Securing the channel between client and server using SSL, including an overview of the threats and how to secure against them
* Securing the login process with methods including LDAP, Kerberos or SSL certificates
The talk will not focus on security and access control inside the database once the user is connected and authenticated.


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Enter The Men In Uniform Contest For A Chance To Win A Weekend At Texas Motor Speedway
Ladies of Texarkana, do you love your men in uniform? Tell us about your favorite heartthrob – whether he's a hunky firefighter, dashing policeman, sexy military man or a delicious delivery guy – and show him some love by giving him the chance to win a VIP weekend at Texas Motor Speedway!
To enter, send us your guy's photo (in whatever uniform he wears), stats, and the top reason he's the man of your dreams. You have until April 7 to enter.
Then, between April 8 – 22, our listeners get the chance to vote on which man they think really makes his uniform sizzle.
On April 23, we'll contact the top 10 most popular men to invite them to attend Girls Night Out on April 25. We'll feed them and their guest dinner at the event, then we'll announce who wins the VIP Weekend which includes tickets for two to the Firestone 550 weekend at Texas Motor Speedway, pit passes, hotel accommodations at Fairfield Inn by Marriott DFW North Irving and $250 spending money. But the contestants must be present to win.
So come on T-Town, grab your camera and win an awesome weekend for the men who serve, protect, and win your hearts every day!
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Cards shuffle rotation to accommodate newcomers
ST. LOUIS -- New Cardinals Justin Masterson and John Lackey will make their organizational debuts in starts against the Brewers this weekend, the club announced on Friday.
The Cardinals chose to stick with Masterson as Saturday's starter and will push Lance Lynn's next start back in order to slot Lackey in on Sunday. Lackey hasn't pitched since last Saturday, and that layoff is one reason why the Cardinals didn't want to further delay his return to the mound. Like Lackey, Masterson will also be pitching on seven days' rest.
Lynn's recent workload and the schedule of opponents also played into the decision to align the rotation as such. Had Lackey not pitched against Milwaukee, he would have been taking the mound against the Red Sox next week.
"We've worked Lance pretty good," manager Mike Matheny said. "You look at his pitch count over his last several starts, I don't think [the extra rest] is going to hurt him. You also take into consideration, too, [Lackey] pitching against his former team. Not that that's a hindrance as much as the other two factors. We have an opportunity to get him in there as quick as we can, get him acclimated to this stadium, this staff and this fan base. I think it's a good decision."
As things stand, Lynn will start the series opener against Boston. Shelby Miller and Adam Wainwright will also pitch in that series.
Jenifer Langosch is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, By Gosh, It's Langosch, and follow her on Twitter @LangoschMLB. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Eric Weinstein has been in the film business for a more than 10 years. Getting his start as a technical consultant on Basketball Diaries, he then became an assistant to Mark Wahlberg. He has acted in such features as 'Four Brothers,' 'Being John Malkovich,' 'Rock Star,' 'The Corruptor,' 'The Truth About Charlie' and 'Travelers.' Before film he worked as a roadie in the music business for groups like Blue Oyster Cult, The Dictators, Patti Smith, Kiss, doing everything from setting up musical instruments to pyrotechnics, while driving trucks all over the United States and Europe. Now as one of the sperm donors along with Steve Levinson, Doug Ellin and Mark Wahlberg he has helped to bring together The Entourage.
A native New Yorker born in Manhattan and raised in 'da Bronx', Eric currently resides on the Upper West Side of Manhattan.


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Mio Posto in Hicksville
Mio Posto in Hicksville. (Feb. 2, 2013)
The dining room, where a staff-led vocal of "Happy Birthday" may erupt anytime, inspires high-decibel dialogue under the crystal chandelier, some directed to the widescreen TV's sport of the moment. (Feb. 2, 2013)
A caprese salad at Mio Posto. (Feb. 2, 2013)
Shrimp luciano served over spinach at Mio Posto. (Feb. 2, 2013)
Mio Posto's chicken parmigiana, large enough to satisfy the entire soccer team. (Feb. 2, 2013)
Mio Posto's grilled steak with fried onions. (Feb. 2, 2013)
A family-style portion of seafood fra diavolo at Mio Posto. (Feb. 2, 2013)
Mio Posto's rigatoni all'Amatriciana is a full-bodied pick. (Feb. 2, 2013)
Mio Posto's pistachio tartufo. (Feb. 2, 2013)
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[[File:HelenaWankstein-GTASA.jpg|right|thumb|250px|Helena Wankstein in [[Blueberry]], [[State of San Andreas|San Andreas]].]] '''Helena Wankstein''' lives on a farm in [[Flint Range]], [[Flint County]] and meets [[Carl Johnson]] beside the [[Ammu-Nation]] store in [[Blueberry]], [[Red County]], shooting some targets on a deck. If CJ's [[sex appeal]] is high enough, she may then become his [[Girlfriends_in_GTA_San_Andreas|girlfriend]]. She is a lawyer by trade but is enthusiastic about guns. Helena prefers Carl to have [[Muscle|low muscle]], [[Fat|low fat]]. Helena was voiced by [[Bijou Phillips]]. ==Dates== ===Times=== *She is normally home between 00:00-2:00, 8:00-12:00 and 14:00-0:00. ===Food Date=== Helena prefers to go to restaurants, the nearest being the [[World of Coq]] restaurant in [[Rodeo]], [[Los Santos]]. ===Club Date=== Carl can take Helena to either the club in [[Idlewood]], Los Santos ([[Alhambra]]) or [[Queens]], [[San Fierro]] ([[Gaydar Station]]), but the Alhambra remains a better solution since it's closer, despite both clubs being fairly away from Helena's house. ===Driving Date=== Helena likes Carl to drive fairly slowly in rural areas (such as around her farm) or nice parts of town. Driving around her fields will suffice for this date. ==Rewards== * The rewards for dating Helena include access to her tool shed, which includes: a [[Chainsaw|chainsaw]], a [[Flamethrower|flamethrower]], [[Molotov Cocktail]]s and a [[Pistol|pistol]]. * At 50% she gives Carl the keys to her [[Bandito]], but even without having the keys, CJ can still steal it, since it has no doors. * At 70% Helena will ask Carl in for coffee. * At 100% Carl gets the Rural Clothes. ==Glitches== *A known glitch (especially on PS2 version) is that sometimes, if the player hasn't met her yet, she will deliberately attack CJ while they exchange their introductory chatter. It remains possible to date normally with her if CJ manages to survive the flurry of bullets, though, as retaliating to death will cause Helena to die and becomes impossible to date. * Sometimes the red marker to start a date will not be visible during regular dating hours (often caused by waiting on her property). Helena can still be picked up for a date by parking in the general location of the marker. ==Trivia== *When the player starts to date Helena, she will introduce herself, despite meeting her at the shooting range and not saying her name. *If the player stands in front of Helena when she is at the shooting range, she will keep shooting the player as if he was not there. *Helena's surname is a wordplay on the phrase ''wank stain''. {{GTA San Andreas Characters}} [[Category:Characters|Wankstein, Helena]] [[Category:Characters in GTA San Andreas|Wankstein, Helena]] [[Category:Girlfriends in GTA San Andreas|Wankstein, Helena]] [[de:Helena Wankstein]] [[es:Helena Wankstein]] [[fi:Helena Wankstein]]
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This transliteration is dedicated to Barbara Dubin, whose ancestors walked the paths of this town
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This is the necrology for the 1954 edition of the Yizkor book for Ratno, written in Yiddish and published in Buenos Aires. There was another Yizkor book for Ratno that was prepared in Israel in 1983, and that contains an additional list of martyrs, already translated, as are other portions of the edition. There is an active translation project underway for the 1983 edition. It is always a complex task to identify the surnames for generations to come to access and difficult decisions need to be made about translation methodology. In this case, the option to use regional and local spellings for the surnames was chosen (shtejn for stein, for example). This was done in order to give more familiarity with what would be encountered in researching 19th century regional records, and will almost certainly be different from the variant spellings that have evolved in the United States and elsewhere during the acculturation process of the new immigrants.
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Category: studious baby names
When someone on our message boards suggested that we do a blog on philosophers' names a while back, my first reaction was hmm, that sounds a bit heavy! And maybe just a bit too esoteric?
But it's names we're after, and, digging around, I found that there are quite a few usable first name choices in that field, from across time and a wide variety of cultures. And let's not forget– Plato, Socrates and Aristotle (as in Onassis) are regularly used as everyday names in modern Greece.
Here are twenty worth considering, together with their philosophical isms—not that you have to plow through all their treatises to use one of their names:
Anselm, St. –Italian monk who founded Scholasticism,
Aristotle – ancient Greek philosopher, scientist and logician (not to mention the name of a character in the video game Rygar and in several comics and movies); has the user-friendly nickname Ari, as used for Mr. Onassis
Augustine—St. Augustine of Hippo was one of the most influential Christian thinkers
Benedetto Croce—Italian philosopher who made major contributions to the aesthetics of idealism.
Blaise Pascal—French philosopher, mathematician, scientist and theologian
Jiddu Krishnamurti –Indian spiritual philosopher
Josiah Royce—American pragmatist philosopher


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Yost talks a little friendly trash with his son
SURPRISE, Ariz. -- Ned Yost IV, son of Royals manager Ned Yost, is the hitting coach for Milwaukee's advanced Class A team at Brevard County, Fla.
A couple days ago, the Brevard County kids got 18 hits and Ned IV was named "Coach of the Day" in the Brewers' camp. It just so happened that on Sunday, the Florida State League team was coming to Surprise for a game against the Royals' Class A kids.
So the senior Yost called his son on Sunday morning to give him some news, and this is how the father said it went:
Dad: "Hey, I just want you to know you ain't getting 'Coach of the Day' today.
Son: "Why?"
Dad: "Because I'm sending James Shields up to face you guys for six innings."
Son: "[Groaning] Great."
Dad: "Tell your boys to be ready to face the best changeup they've ever seen."
Shields, the Royals' top starter, was getting work in during a Minor League game to clear Cactus League time for other pitchers and, not so coincidentally, to avoid facing the Royals' opening series foe, the White Sox.
The Ned IV-coached Brewers obviously were eager.
"They were swinging, that's for sure," Shields said. "I think I threw 75 or so pitches and I ended up going 7 2/3. It was six innings but we kept adding extra outs. But I got some really good work in and threw some really quality pitches today. Started getting my curveball over for strikes, which I was very pleased with."
In short, Shields was going so good that, with the elastic rules in effect, he was able to get 7 2/3 innings inside of six.
"I figured that would probably be the case," the senior Yost said.
Dick Kaegel is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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How to Play the Global Markets
Next week, I shall move into the annual dreaded year-ahead predictions and picks columns. I will have a hard time beating last year's suggestions to buy European, financial, small banks, homebuilder and small bank stocks, but I will give it the old Melvin try. This week, we have been having discussions about opportunities outside the U.S. and what the future might hold in some of the European and Latin markets that are experiencing economic difficulties.
My view of the foreign markets is much like my view on the economic future of the U.S.: It is not going to be pretty, mistakes will be made, the markets will gyrate and, eventually, we will somehow find a way through it all. The European Union (EU) may or may not collapse, the larger South American economies will track China and to a lesser degree the U.S. Politicians and central bankers all over the globe will bluster, bluff, inflate, print and just generally make a mess of things. The markets will probably be quite volatile and very much driven by headlines and sound bites....669 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
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Tanaka to throw bullpen session Saturday
Girardi unsure what next step will be, but simulated game possibility
NEW YORK -- The Yankees are moving forward with Masahiro Tanaka's rehab process, and he will throw a bullpen session Saturday at Yankee Stadium.
Last weekend, Tanaka was sent back to New York from Toronto and diagnosed with "arm fatigue" by team physician Dr. Christopher Ahmad. But the Yankees said that it was to be expected as he aims to rehab his partially torn right ulnar collateral ligament.
Tanaka began experiencing soreness after a 49-pitch simulated game last week in Detroit, but he continued his throwing program by playing catch on Tuesday. Manager Joe Girardi was not sure how many pitches Tanaka would throw on Saturday or what the next step in his process will be, although it figures to be a simulated game.
"Let's just take that and see how it goes," Girardi said. "When he gets through that, I guess I'll decide what's next."
The Yankees have proceeded cautiously with Tanaka, who is hoping the rehab will help him avoid Tommy John surgery. Even as the 2014 season winds down and no matter New York's position in the standings, Girardi maintained that at some point Tanaka will throw in a game to test the elbow.
"He will pitch somewhere. He has to throw," Girardi said. "You can't wait 'till next spring."
Jamal Collier is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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10 July 2012
The Tigers were seemingly on a role in Kansas City this week. Top position player prospect Nick Castellanos finished the Futures Game on Sunday night with an MVP trophy in hand after a three hit day that included a three-run homer for the USA squad. Prince Fielder took home the Home Run Derby crown on Monday night – the second of his career – by besting Toronto's Jose Bautista in the final round.
Tuesday night was supposed to be Justin Verlander's night. The reigning AL MVP and Cy Young award winner was slated to take the hill for the American League squad in Kansas City. AL Manager Ron Washington had announced that he planned on using Verlander for two innings before going to his bullpen, but things didn't go as planned.
Verlander began the game by striking out Carlos Gonzalez of the Colorado Rockies on a swinging third strike, but the National League quickly rallied to get on the board. Melky Cabrera of the San Francisco Giants knocked a hard single to left field, and Milwaukee's Ryan Braun plated him with a deep double off the right field fence. Verlander settled himself down in time to get Cincinnati's Joey Votto out on a called third strike, but the NL was just beginning to do their damage.Carlos Beltran of the St. Louis Cardinals and Buster Posey of the Giants drew back-to-back walks to load the bases for Pablo Sandoval (also of the Giants) who promptly tripled them all home. Atlanta's Dan Uggla followed with an RBI single before Rafael Furcal of the Cardinals mercifully grounded out to end the inning.
In all, Verlander faced nine batters and threw 35 pitches while allowing five runs on four hits. He wouldn't get a second inning.
It wasn't the type of outing that anyone's come to expect from Verlander, but it's infinitely better that this type of implosion occurred in an All-Star game instead of a regular game. It's probably wrong to read much of anything into the outcomes of his pitches, but it appeared that he came out of the gate trying to overpower every hitter much like he did early in his career. His first fastball was clocked at 97 miles per hour, and he even hit 100 in the inning, and although that type of velocity is definitely in his tool bag, he generally reserves it for later in a game once he's established his rhythm.
Verlander has shown great composure over the last couple of years, so there's little doubt in my mind that he'll be able to overcome this disappointing performance. He's shown that he can use these types of experiences to learn from so there should be no expectations of a sub-par second half from the Tigers' ace.
Matt Snyder is the editor of The Tigers Den. He can be reached on Twitter @snyder_matthew.


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Allegiance Bowl Committee Presents Check to Saratoga-Wilton Soccer Club and Ballston Spa Pop Warner for $10,000
SARATOGA SPRINGS, NEW YORK… The Allegiance Bowl Committee Inc. recently presented a check in the amount of $10,000 to the Saratoga-Wilton Soccer Club and Ballston Spa Pop Warner Football & Cheerleading programs. This check represents the net proceeds from the eighth annual Adirondack Trust Allegiance Bowl featuring sprint football teams from Army and Post University.
"We are extremely pleased that the community turned out to support this charity event and its beneficiaries, Saratoga-Wilton Soccer Club and Ballston Spa Pop Warner football and cheerleading," said Scott Perkins, Allegiance Bowl Committee Chair. "The proceeds from the event will assist these two programs in their mission to offer children the opportunity to participate in competitive youth sports while developing character and confidence through team play," he said.
The Allegiance Bowl is made possible by the continuous support of the organizing committee and its primary sponsors: The Adirondack Trust Company, The Saratogian and Star Radio 101.3. The game took place at the Saratoga Springs High School football field. Former Saratoga Springs High School, University of Notre Dame, and NFL star Anthony Weaver was the event's Honorary Chair. To date, the Allegiance Bowl has raised over $60,000 for youth athletic programs in the greater Saratoga Springs area.
Sprint football is regulation, varsity-level tackle football with one exception; no player may weigh more than 172 pounds three days prior to game day. The sport is known for its quick, explosive play where there is an emphasis on athleticism and play execution rather than on player size. Teams competing in the Collegiate Sprint Football League include Cornell, Mansfield University, Penn, Post University, Franklin Pierce University, Princeton, Army, and Navy.
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Gators DT Dominique Easley will not seek to return for extra season
Senior DT Dominique Easley has decided to move on to the NFL after this season, Florida coach will Muschamp said. Easley suffered a torn ACL in this past Tuesday's practice and is out for the season.
He will not seek a medical redshirt.
"He's a guy that's had two ACL's" Muschamp said. "I think that's the best move for him right now and going to prepare himself for April and get ready for that. He and I talked briefly about it and that's what he wants to do and I support it 100 percent.
Muschamp said he doesn't believe coming off a severe injury will negatively affect Easley's NFL prospects. Several analyst had him as a first-round pick before the injury; last season he was projected in the fourth.
"He'll have plenty of interest," Muschamp said. "He'll be a productive guy on the next level. He's a really good football player. He's extremely intelligent. He gets the game. His tape speaks for itself and how he plays the game and approaches the game. He'll be fine. There will be a lot of organizations that want him in their organization."


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You expect a movie to be weird, and then you watch it and it's WEIRD. So it goes with Ben Wheatley's High-Rise, an adaptation of J.G. Ballard's classic sci-fi novel. Steeped in a 1970s aesthetic consistent with the publication of Ballard's book, High-Rise is stylish and highly visual, packed with stunning images that range from the beautiful to the absurd to the grotesque. Full Story
Shelfy has her thing
She insists that her thing is not His thing. That it's her own thing. And yet, no one else knows what her thing is. Here's Jessica Biel covering the new issue of Glamour Magazine, perhaps her best photo shoot. The styling is great. She looks great. Asking her to BE great is a different story. Full Story
Jessica Biel gets a job
Written by Sarah A real one, with her name above the title and everything. She's been cast as Anna Tessieri Giro, muse and maybe-but-probably-not more of composer Antonio Vivaldi in a biopic quaintly titled Vivaldi. It's a period piece. Full Story