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Get an overview of this hotelAbove ocean beach, with two saltwater pools
Popular property highlights
Steps to the shore
Terraced into a hillside above a long, sandy beach, this hotel is one km (one-half mile) from the fishing village of Alvor on Portugal's southern coast. Beach access is via paved path or elevators.
Year-round swimming
Guests swim among the picturesque rock formations at the beach; play in the hotel's outdoor and indoor saltwater pools; parasail and windsurf in summer; and rejuvenate in the spa.
Balconies with views
In the airy guestrooms, furnished balconies face the ocean or garden. Other highlights include high-speed Internet access, overstuffed reading chairs, and marble bathrooms with robes and bidets.
Guest Highlights
- Good, quiet location
- Beach
- Breakfast
- Pool
- Helpful staff
- Comfy beds
Pestana Alvor Praia Beach & Golf Hotel
Hotel Amenities
Hotel Amenities
Guests can use the airport shuttle (surcharge) which is available on request. Complimentary WiFi can be accessed in public areas of the hotel.
A health-and-beauty spa offers massage, body treatments, facials, aromatherapy, reflexology, waxing, and hair and nail care. The fitness center overlooks the ocean. Complimentary lounge chairs are provided on the beach during warmer months.
The freeform indoor pool has a teardrop-shaped jetted section and a wooden deck with cushioned teak lounge chairs. A sauna, steam room, shower rooms with rainfall showerheads, and an outdoor plunge pool are adjacent. The outdoor pool features an ocean-view sundeck and an adjoining children's pool.
An Internet center on the hotel's lower level contains a pool table and four computers with high-speed Internet access (surcharge). Baby sitting or child care service is also available for a fee.
- Indoor pool
- Outdoor pool
- Children's pool
- Poolside bar
- Spa tub
- Full-service spa
- Steam room
- Sauna
- Concierge services
- Free newspapers in lobby
- Health club
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- Restaurant
- Bar/lounge
- Conference space
- Meeting rooms 8
- Multilingual staff
- Safe-deposit box at front desk
- Total number of rooms - 195
- 24-hour front desk
- Gift shops or newsstand
- Hair salon
- ATM/banking
- Dry cleaning/laundry service
- Babysitting or childcare
- Elevator/lift
- Number of floors - 7
- Wedding services
- Free breakfast
- Free WiFi
- Free self parking
- Tennis on site
- Parking (limited spaces)
- Outdoor tennis courts - 2
- Number of meeting rooms - 8
- Smoke-free property
Family Friendly Amenities
- Outdoor pool
- Indoor pool
- Children's pool
- Free Wi-Fi
- Outdoor tennis courts
- Babysitting or childcare (surcharge)
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
Available in all rooms:
Available in some public areas: Free WiFi
Free self parking, Parking (limited spaces)
Room Amenities
- Balcony
- Room service (24 hours)
- In-room climate control (air conditioning)
- Air conditioning
- Blackout drapes/curtains
- Minibar
- Turndown service
- Bidet
- Bathrobes
- Free toiletries
- Hair dryer
- Shower/tub combination
- In-room childcare (surcharge)
- In-room safe
- Iron/ironing board (on request)
- Desk
- Daily housekeeping
- Private bathroom
- Rainfall showerhead
- Satellite TV service
- WiFi (surcharge)
Where to Eat
Almofariz - Fine-dining restaurant. Buffet and a la carte menu. Portuguese, Italian, international dishes. Ocean-view terrace seating in summer; air-conditioned dining room. Dress code: No jeans, shorts, athletic shoes at dinner. Serves breakfast and dinner.
Harina Restaurant - Intimate Moroccan restaurant open for dinner only. Dress code: No jeans, shorts, athletic shoes.
Oceaneo Restaurant & Bar - Casual spot open mid-morning until evening for sandwiches, salads, burgers, fish, pasta, omelets, desserts, espresso, cocktails. Blue-suede banquettes. Poolside shaded tables.
Dom Henrique Bar - Spacious bar/lounge with wooden dance floor. Live music nightly. Outdoor lawn seating in summer.
Pool Bar - Open in summer for tropical drinks.
Nearby Things to Do
The hotel has two heated, freeform, saltwater pools: one outdoors and the other inside a two-story glass-walled pavilion. The outdoor pool is 50 meters (164 feet) long; a toddlers' pool is adjacent. The indoor pool has a jetted area. A sauna, steam room, shower rooms, and outdoor plunge pool are adjacent. This area also includes an ocean-view fitness center with cardio machines and Universal gym. Other recreational facilities include seven tennis courts, a golf driving range, and miniature golf (surcharges for all).
Accessible by a 200-meter (219-yard) paved path and elevators, the beach below the hotel is known for its three ochre rock formations (Três Irmāos, or Three Brothers), about 150 meters (55 yards) offshore. Ochre bluffs mark the eastern end of the beach, which is part of 3-km (1.75-miles) Alvor Beach.
In summer, independent operators on the beach offer personal watercraft, parasailing, windsurfing, and other aquatic activities. The hotel arranges fishing trips (surcharge) and rents bicycles. An independently operated 18-hole par-3 golf course is 200 meters (219 yards) from the hotel.
The recreational activities listed below are available either on site or near the hotel; fees may apply.
- Golfing nearby
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- Personal motorized watercraft on site
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- Fitness classes on site
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Spa Services
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Hotel Policies
Check-in time ends at 8 PM
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Children and extra beds
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Virgil Apodaca, Sr. of North Platte no longer faces a rape charge, but prosecutors continue to say he aided and abetted such an assault and gave a controlled substance to a minor.
Based on statements and medical examinations, Apodaca became the prime suspect. He was charged with first-degree sexual assault on May 17.
Within weeks, three of his sons -- Virgil Jr., Jeromy and Anthony -- were also arrested. Each son was charged with aiding and abetting first-degree sexual assault, with each count carrying a maximum of 50 years imprisonment.
But charges were dropped Nov. 29 against two sons, Jeromy and Anthony, when Lincoln County Judge Michael Piccolo said the evidence against the sons was insufficient to proceed to trail.
On Thursday, county prosecutors presented the evidence against the senior Apodaca to Piccolo in a preliminary hearing.
At the outset, the Lincoln County Deputy Attorney Tanya Roberts-Connick said that first-degree sexual assault charges were reduced to aiding and abetting first-degree sexual assault.
Also, Roberts-Connick said Apodaca was initially charged with procuring for a minor, but the charge was increased to two counts of distributing a controlled substance.
If convicted of any of those charges, Apodaca could also be classified as an habitual criminal, which would increase his sentence.
In court, defense attorney Pat Hays said that the alleged victims changed their story each time they were interviewed by Police Investigator Roger Freeze.
At first, one of the women told Freeze that she only remembered being at on party on East Sixth, but in a later interview said she remembered riding along in a car with Virgil Apodaca Sr. and son Virgil Jr. to a second party on West F, Hays said.
Hays said in yet another interview, the woman told Freeze she recalled being in the basement of the house on West F.
The woman also told Freeze that a drink given her by Virgil Sr. was in a glass jar. Hays noted that police found and tested plastic cups, not glass jars, from the house. The plastic cups contained a drug, according to lab tests, but Hays said even then, at most Apodaca would have only given a controlled substance to one person, not two, casting doubt on the accuracy of the investigation and the charges.
Hays also pointed out that Freezes investigation report says the girls tried to leave the house on F Street but some other men showed up and kept them from leaving before the assaults allegedly occurred. Statements from witnesses do not show that Apodaca was one of the men who stopped the women from leaving, nor that he participated in alleged assaults, Hays said.
Hays closed, saying the prosecutions evidence is insufficient to proceed and all charges against Apodaca should be dropped.
Roberts-Connick stuck by the revised charges. She said the investigation makes it clear that Apodaca gave the women a controlled substance and that he knew the assaults were happening and did nothing to stop them. For those reasons the charges should stand and the case should proceed toward trial, she said.
Lincoln County Judge Michael Piccolo took it under advisement.
I want to read all these notes again very carefully, Piccolo said.
Piccolo also delayed decisions on binding rape charges against two other men -- Virgil Apodaca, Jr. and Anthony Nunnenkamp -- to district court. The two defendants contested the charges a week ago.
For the second week in a row, Piccolo said would announce his decision within 10 days.
In other county court action Thursday:
Dylan DiGiovanni, 20, of North Platte, was in court for a contested preliminary hearing on charges of theft. The Lincoln County Attorneys Office changed the charges, dropping a charge of accessory to a felony and changing one theft charge to a lesser felony.
DiGiovanni allegedly stole items from Miller Repair in Maxwell from November 2011 to October 2012, as well as a purse from a car, and was implicated in the theft of laptops reportedly stolen in August from the Maxwell school.
The county attorneys office is pressing two theft charges against DiGiovanni, who waived his right to a preliminary hearing.
Piccolo bound the case over to district court.
Charges against Aaron Smith, 19, of North Platte, will proceed to district court. Smith is charged with burglary and possessing burglary tools.
Defense attorney Blaine Gillette asked for a bond reduction and Piccolo lowered Smiths bond from $50,000 to $25,000.
Brandi Hackbart, 35, of North Platte, waived her right to a preliminary hearing for theft by deception and her case was bound over to district court.
Defense attorney Martin Troshynski told Judge Piccolo that he would like the court to go out of its normal boundaries and lower Hackbarts $15,000 bond because she cannot afford much and she has mental health problems to deal with.
Deputy Lincoln County Attorney Jennifer Wellan had no objection to that as long as Hackbart is required to report daily to the sheriffs office.
Piccolo agreed to lower the bond below the usual halfway point and set it at $5,000.
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Association of Polymorphisms in the Androgen Receptor Gene and Finasteride Response in Women With Androgenetic Alopecia
This study has been completed.
HairDx, LLC
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First received: January 16, 2010
Last updated: January 19, 2010
Last verified: January 2010
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Detailed Description:
Previous studies of finasteride treatment in women with hair loss have failed to show positive results, yet, some women have responded anecdotally. Given that polymorphisms of the androgen receptor gene which confer androgen sensitivity impact male response to finasteride therapy, it was hypothesized that the same polymorphism in women may identify the group that will respond. This study is designed to test the impact of finasteride therapy on hair loss in postmenopausal women.
|Androgenetic Alopecia
|Drug: Finasteride
|Phase 1
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Intervention Model: Single Group Assignment
Masking: Single
Primary Purpose: Treatment
|Official Title:
|Study Evaluating the Association of CAG Repeat Polymorphisms and Finasteride Response in Women With Androgenetic Alopecia
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Genetics Home Reference related topics: androgenetic alopecia
MedlinePlus related topics: Genes and Gene Therapy
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|Study Start Date:
|December 2008
|Study Completion Date:
|December 2009
|Primary Completion Date:
|December 2009 (Final data collection date for primary outcome measure)
|Assigned Interventions
androgen receptor gene polymorphism
Medication response will be assessed according to androgen receptor genotype
Drug: Finasteride
Effect of 1 mg finasteride on women with androgenetic alopecia depending on their AR gene polymorphism (androgen sensitivity)
Active Comparator: finasteride
medication for treating androgenetic alopecia in women
Drug: Finasteride
Effect of 1 mg finasteride on women with androgenetic alopecia depending on their AR gene polymorphism (androgen sensitivity)
Detailed Description:
Androgen sensitivity in the cell is determined by the number of Cytosine-Adenine-Guanine repeats in the Androgen Receptor gene. Lower CAG repeats have been associated in previous studies with androgenic conditions such as acne, hirsutism and hair loss in men and women. Keeping this in mind, we tested women with hair loss in the frontal or vertex area, for their AR genotype. Patients were randomized to placebo or 1 mg finasteride therapy for 6 months. Global photographs and 2 tatooed areas of 1cm2 each were measured monthly to assess global appearance and hair counts for medication impact.
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|Child, Adult, Senior
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Inclusion Criteria:
- women with hair loss
Exclusion Criteria:
- pre menopausal,
- metabolic or medication or non-androgenetic causes of hair loss,
- diffuse hair loss
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Choosing to participate in a study is an important personal decision. Talk with your doctor and family members or friends about deciding to join a study. To learn more about this study, you or your doctor may contact the study research staff using the Contacts provided below. For general information, see Learn About Clinical Studies.
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01052870
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT01052870
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HairDx, LLC
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|Sharon A Keene, M.D.
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|Study First Received:
|January 16, 2010
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|January 19, 2010
Keywords provided by HairDx, LLC:
pharmacogenomics, androgen receptor gene, androgen sensitivity, CAG repeats, androgenetic alopecia
Pharmacogenomics in treatment for androgenetic alopecia in women
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Alopecia Areata
Hair Diseases
Skin Diseases
Pathological Conditions, Anatomical
Ascorbic Acid
Estrogens, Conjugated (USP)
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Physiological Effects of Drugs
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
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Enzyme Inhibitors
Hormone Antagonists
Urological Agents
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To Sleep, Perchance to Swing
Over the last few weeks, a press release has been making the rounds. It's a persuasive press release that reports some interesting research, and wherever it goes, it produces a post. There's just one problem: the research it reports is a little misleading.
The press release, which you can view here, was put out by the American Academy of Sleep Medicine. It summarizes the results of a recent study on the effect of fatigue on strike-zone judgment. The source of the study is a research abstract published in an online supplement of the journal SLEEP—you can access the abstract (PDF) on page A408 here—and the principal investigator behind it is Scott Kutscher, MD, an assistant professor of sleep and neurology at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
The study's conclusions are simple. Here's one of the quotes from Kutscher in the press release:
To make things even more interesting, the study promises a PED connection. As the abstract notes, "This effect became more pronounced following a ban on stimulants in 2005." Or as one of the articles about the study says:
So, to summarize the study's claims (and strong suggestions): Plate discipline declines as the season goes on. This decline stems from increased fatigue. And the effect has become more pronounced since baseball banned amphetamines, which players used to take to counteract fatigue.
There's a reason—actually, there are a few reasons—why this study has been spreading so fast. It's about baseball, which means that it appeals to a wider audience than your average research abstract. It reports an intriguing discovery with real implications: if fatigue is making batters worse, then perhaps teams could improve their performance by taking steps to minimize that strain. It's tied to PEDs, and it appears to isolate a performance-enhancing effect, which is notoriously difficult to do. It comes from a reputable source—a doctor/professor who specializes in sleep and neurology at a university you've heard of. And it feels like a fairly intuitive finding—we've all experienced the fatigue associated with travel and a busy schedule, and we know how lack of sleep can impair our performance. Why shouldn't it impair baseball players' performance, too?
Thanks to that potent confluence of factors, there's a pretty good chance that you've seen something about this if you read about scientific research or baseball on the internet. On the science side, we have ScienceDaily, Medical Daily, PopSci , Medline Plus, and Medpage Today. On the baseball side, we have Grantland, Hardball Talk, Baseball Musings, Reddit, and The Boston Herald. And then there are the general news sources, like the Nashville Business Journal and US News & World Report. (And so on—I've been told that the New York Times will soon publish its own report on the research. *Update* Here it is.) Some of those posts merely regurgitate or link to the press release, while others interpret and editorialize. But none of them raises any serious doubts about the study's methodology or conclusions.
So, is this study misleading? There are three aspects of the research that deserve some scrutiny. First, there's the claim that plate discipline erodes throughout the season. Second, there's the claim that the cause of that erosion is fatigue. And third, there's the claim that baseball's amphetamine ban has exacerbated the effect of this fatigue.
Let's tackle each of those in turn.
Does plate discipline erode throughout the season?
We have two publicly available sources of plate discipline data: PITCHf/x, which powers plate discipline stats at both BP and FanGraphs, and Baseball Info Solutions, which licenses information to FanGraphs. Kutscher's study draws on the BIS data, which is collected by stringers from video and extends a few years into the pre-PITCHf/x era. The abstract reports a straight April-to-September comparison, but the researchers also looked at data from each intervening month.
We were able to verify that the April and September O-swing rates reported in the abstract are accurate, according to the BIS information at FanGraphs. And the same trend appears in BP's PITCHf/x-based plate discipline data, although the numbers aren't the same: from 2008 to 12, league-wide O-swing rates were 27.6 percent in April and 29.0 percent in September.
But that "linear increase" breaks down when you look at the monthly splits:
O-swing rates were at their lowest in April. But (disregarding the smaller sample size of October) they peaked in July, then declined slightly and held steady in August and September. If fatigue were impairing plate discipline, we'd expect the rate to be higher in August than July, and higher in September than July and August. But that's not what we see.
Moreover, reporting O-swing rates alone offers an incomplete picture of plate discipline. In an email exchange with Russell Carleton, Kutscher said that the researchers focused on O-swing because swinging at a ball is always a bad idea. (Pablo Sandoval begs to differ.) Judgment and reaction time are known to be affected by sleep deprivation, so O-swing rate would seem to be the plate discipline stat most susceptible to fatigue.
Except, well…what do we see when we look at not just O-swing rate, but also Z-swing rate (the percentage of pitches inside the strike zone that drew swings) and overall swing rate? Again from 2008-12:
It's not just O-swing rate that's higher in September than April. Z-swing rate follows the same trajectory. So hitters don't just swing at pitches outside the zone less often in April—they swing at all pitches less often in April. And swinging at strikes is generally a good decision, or at least not a bad one. Why would fatigue cause batters to swing at more pitches inside the strike zone? When you examine the other swing rate stats, the narrative that batters make worse decisions about when to swing later in the season doesn't hold up.
The correlation between monthly O-swing and Z-swing rates is 0.96. In other words, the two move in tandem. There's no evidence that one could reduce fatigue-related swings at pitches outside the strike zone without also reducing swings at pitches inside the strike zone.
One last thing before we move on to the study's second claim. Colin Wyers pulled the monthly BIS-based plate discipline split stats for April and September—the same data set that the researchers drew on—from FanGraphs, then took the difference in overall swing rate and O-swing rate for each season. Here's what that looks like:
As Colin put it, "the reported effect essentially evaporates if you look at Swing% instead of O-Swing%."
Is fatigue the cause of the erosion in plate discipline over the course of the season?
We can't prove that it doesn't, though you'd have to come up with a convoluted argument to suggest that it does. But there are factors other than fatigue that could influence swing rates. For one thing, the player pool in April isn't the same as the player pool in September. Rosters expand in September, and teams give a higher percentage of their plate appearances to rookies who weren't around earlier in the season. Those rookies might tend to be free swingers, which could skew the stats. The abstract doesn't offer any evidence that the researchers made an attempt to control for this.
Colin Wyers did make an attempt to control for this, and as it happens, it doesn't make much of a difference. Even after controlling for changes in the player pool, swing rates are still at their lowest in April, higher in September, and highest in July. (You can see the controlled results and a brief explanation of the methodology here.) Teams give a higher percentage of their innings in September to rookies, too, and perhaps those rookie pitchers are less capable of inducing swings outside the zone. So maybe it all evens out. (Which brings up another question: If hitters are fatigued later in the season, mightn't pitchers be fatigued, too?)
However, Colin's attempt to control for changes in the player pool doesn't control for changes in the players. And there's one important change in player performance that could influence plate discipline: pitchers don't throw as hard in April as they do in subsequent months. The average four-seam fastball reaches peak velocity in July, as temperatures rise and pitchers stretch out their arms. A graph of average fastball speed by month looks a lot like a graph of swing rate by month. When pitchers are throwing harder, hitters have to decide whether to swing earlier. Maybe they're more likely to swing when they have less time to weigh their options.
Another possible cause: as Max Marchi's research earlier this year suggested, hitters may well be "ahead" of pitchers earlier in the season, maybe because pitchers need more time to build up their arms and return to peak playing shape after a winter off. That could be a factor here, though it wouldn't necessarily explain why hitters swing at fewer pitches inside the zone in April. Or maybe there's something about the weather that makes hitters more or less likely to swing, aside from its effect on pitch speed. When the weather is warm, the ball travels farther, which gives hitters more incentive to swing.
Even if there were a clear, progressive decline in plate discipline over the course of a season, it would still require quite a leap to conclude that fatigue was the cause. To do that, you'd have to assert that something that did change (plate discipline) was linked to something that was only speculated to change (level of fatigue), and was also very difficult to verify. There might be dozens of other factors that one could pinpoint as the cause just as plausibly. Fatigue might be a sensible explanation, but to single it out as by far the most likely smacks of just-so story.
Has the amphetamine ban made players more fatigued?
Unfortunately, we can't check to see whether the PITCHf/x data from 2002 to 2005 shows the same trend as the BIS data, because PITCHf/x data from 2002 to 2005 doesn't exist. But as Colin Wyers has documented (here and here), the BIS plate discipline data from the pre-PITCHf/x era is somewhat inconsistent, and subject to certain biases. For instance, over the 2002-10 period that Colin studied, the BIS-recorded overall swing rates and take rates inside the strike zone remained pretty stable from season to season, but the rate of recorded swings at pitches inside the zone declined dramatically:
As Colin wrote,
Or, in chart form, with "delta" representing the difference between April and September:
In other words, the difference attributed to the amphetamine ban might simply be a difference in the way the data was recorded.
I sent a draft of this article to Dr. Kutscher, and he kindly responded via email to some of my criticisms. He acknowledged that he had considered the possibility of scoring bias in the BIS data, and he noted that our explanations aren't necessarily mutually exclusive. For instance, while increased pitch velocity and the resultant reduced time to make decisions could explain the rise in swing rate, fatigue could still be a factor, since it's known to cause reaction time to suffer. While this is true, it's also part of the problem: the "fatigue effect" explanation isn't incompatible with any interpretation of the data, because we don't have any of the information that could prove or disprove a tie to plate discipline. In the absence of hard data on player fatigue, all we have is a hypothesis. And if all we have is a hypothesis—and some data that might be biased—why put out a press release?
The principle investigator for that study, W. Christopher Winter, MD, of the Martha Jefferson Hospital Sleep Medicine Center, has consulted for teams, so maybe there will be a trend toward paying more attention to players' sleep habits. That wouldn't be a bad thing. As Kutscher put it to me, "Fatigue has been shown to have a profound impact on performance in a wide variety of fields, and sleep represents a way for athletes to potentially improve their performance. In what ways, and to what extent, remains in question, but in a game of inches (or, perhaps more accurately, tenths of seconds) even a small improvement could make a big difference." On that we can agree.
But while a sleepy player might suffer from impaired performance, it's a stretch to say that the league as a whole has worse plate discipline due to fatigue later in the season, and an even greater stretch to suggest that the amphetamine ban has produced a marked uptick in player fatigue. Those things might be true, but this study hasn't shown them to be true. (It's important to note that since this study has only been published as an abstract in an online supplement to SLEEP, not as a full paper in the journal itself, it hasn't been through a formal peer review process.)
It may be that flawed studies are more likely to produce interesting results, and we know that studies with interesting results are more likely to be published and posted about. So maybe the lesson is: approach research and studies with a skeptical eye (and that includes studies published at Baseball Prospectus). Not everyone has the time and access to data necessary to evaluate every researcher's claims, and when those claims come from a reputable source, cite statistics, and don't sound implausible, it's easy to accept them (especially when you really need something to write about). But caution is always in order.
Thanks to Dan Brooks, Russell Carleton, and Colin Wyers for research assistance.
Ben Lindbergh is an author of Baseball Prospectus. Follow @benlindbergh
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Jun 21, 2013 05:27 AM
I'm kind of stunned that reputable researchers used team-based stats. The composition of the team isn't the same in April as it is in September.
Jun 21, 2013 06:27 AM
Bryan Cole
I agree that there is a huge leap from "O-Swing % is up in September" to "the amphetamine ban is having a huge impact on performance". But I had a couple of additional observations:
Jun 21, 2013 07:43 AM
One thing that you always hear from ex-players is that the great test of the baseball season is maintaining focus through the fatigue of the long, hot summer. That tracks with a lot of this to me. Fatigue leads to less focus, less focus leads to decline of discipline. Heck my golf swing always falls apart on the back 9 because I get tired, so it's no surprise to me that that would be the case.
Jun 21, 2013 08:11 AM
And as Sam points out, that's why this study got so much press: it's conclusions are intuitive and relate to our own experiences.
Jun 23, 2013 08:08 AM
Another data point would emerge from looking at swing rate as a function of a proxy for rest:
Jun 21, 2013 11:33 AM
Brady Childs
Ben Lindbergh: Investigative Journalist. He's on the case! Nothing gets past Ben Lindbergh! He has a NOSE for finding the truth and will stop at nothing to get there!
Jun 21, 2013 11:55 AM
Nice job guys!
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MIAMI - Expansion. Say it with me now. Expaaaaaansion. It almost sounds like what it means. And here is the dictionary definition: [ik-span'-shuhn] "... enlarged portion or form of a thing".
I didn't really need to look it up. I just wanted to make sure I wasn't missing something, seeing as the entire reason behind some Florida lawmakers' efforts to pave the way for the mother of all casinos on Miami's bayfront is to "prevent the expansion" of gambling in Florida.
Is it me? Or does that make no sense?
It's a reporter's job to maintain a fair and objective position on every issue, including this biggie.
It's also a reporter's job to shine the spotlight on hypocrisy, double-talk and outright untruths.
So when the same lawmakers (and some of those now getting paid to grease them) who were righteously, indignantly against every sort of gambling interest in this state's history are now actively trying to change the rules to get them in, well, can we get that spotlight over here, please?
Not only will the destination gambling bill as it stands NOT prevent the expansion of gambling in Florida, it will trip the mechanisms for it.
How? Well, besides the obvious, the addition of Genting Group's largest casino on the planet, the Seminole Tribe of Florida across town will be able to expand the moment the bill becomes law. Federal law allows Native American Tribes to offer at their casinos whatever state law allows at non-Tribal casinos. And any additional games (ie expansion) would remain tax-free for the Tribe. The State of Florida gets nothing. (Worth bringing up here, the Seminole Tribe's exclusivity compact that would be crashed with the addition of any new casino. Page 39 of it stipulates their billion dollar payment due the state would stop the moment newly authorized gaming begins).
So that's just for starters.
New mega-casinos and expanded Tribal gambling will have the local parimutuels (again) crying foul, and rightfully so. What will lawmakers to to take care of those local businesses?
Do you see where I'm going with this?
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Clover, which grew in abundance in Kentucky pastures this spring, isn't lucky anymore. Agricultural Commissioner Richie Farmer of Kentucky has asked Governor Steve Beshear to request a disaster declaration from the U.S. Department of Agriculture. This request has been made due to the numerous cattle deaths caused by primary ruminal tympany or frothy bloat that have sprung up after cattle consumed large quantities of clover this spring.
Clover gained a strong foothold after droughts in 2007 and 2008 weakened grass stands in pastures throughout Kentucky. This year grasses were dormant during a dry April, and then a wet May caused the white clover to grow more rapidly than grass, which led to cattle ingesting larger-than-normal amounts.
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According to George Heersche, extension dairy specialist at the University of Kentucky, this problem has been most prevalent within the Kentucky beef industry. He also stated that "Dairy heifers that are currently on pasture lack the intake necessary for white clover to be problematic".
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Fairfax County to Observe Six-Year Anniversary of Sept. 11
Fairfax County will host its sixth annual 9/11 Remembrance Ceremony immediately following the morning session of the Board of Supervisors' regularly scheduled meeting on Monday, Sept. 10, at approximately noon at the 9/11 Memorial Grove located on the grounds of the Government Center, 12000 Government Center Parkway, Fairfax. The rain site for the ceremony is the Forum of the Government Center. Fairfax County Board of Supervisors Chairman Gerald E. Connolly, Fire Chief Ronald L. Mastin and Police Chief David M. Rohrer are scheduled to deliver remarks reflecting upon the events of Sept. 11, 2001. The public is invited to attend.
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I am happy to announce I finally implemented one of WordPress 2.7's best new features Enhanced Comment Display (threaded comments) into the Wire to the Ear theme. You will now see a Reply button below each comment in a thread. Therefore, you can reply to any specific comment and it will show up directly below and slightly to the right of said comment. I don't like hacking apart my theme unless I really understand what each line of PHP is doing so it took me a late night coffee reading session at WordPress.org to get it working. If I haven't mentioned this before the comments are what make this blog worth it to me. I really cherish the daily all things pro-audio conversation I am having with you.
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INDIANAPOLIS, Ind. – A team of Kansas State University students were named the 2013 Reserve Champions of the National Animal Science Academic Quadrathlon held July 8-9 in conjunction with the Joint American Society of Animal Science/American Dairy Science Association meetings in Indianapolis.
Members of the K-State team, their major and hometowns, included: Chase Miller, junior in animal sciences and industry, Harrisonburg, Va.; Kiah Gourley, junior in animal sciences and industry, Philomath, Ore.; Analena Simmons, May 2013 graduate of feed science and management and minor in animal sciences and industry, Barnard, Kan.; and Angela Vesco, May 2013 graduate of animal sciences and industry, Winnemucca, Nev. Karol Fike, faculty member in animal science, serves as the team advisor.
The competition includes four events: laboratory practicum, quiz bowl, oral presentation and written exam. The material in the events covers animal science and industry information, with the oral presentation focusing on contemporary issue topics in animal agriculture. The team competed against students from Montana State University, Oklahoma State University and Penn State University. K-State won the laboratory practicum and written exam and placed second in the oral presentation and fourth in the quiz bowl.
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GARY Buckland is set to be a major beneficiary of Ricky Hatton's boxing comeback, the Argus can reveal.
Former world champion Hatton, who hasn't fought in three years, will today announce his intention to return to the ring, expected to be on November 24 at the M.E.N Arena in Manchester.
It's absolutely certain to mean big business – Hatton is one of Britain's most popular sportsmen – especially as Hatton Promotions are rumoured to have agreed a new terrestrial television deal that has given Ricky the incentive to return to the ring.
Buckland, the main man in the thriving Newport boxing gym St Josephs, will defend his super featherweight title against domestic rival Stephen Foster Jr.
It's set to be the biggest occasion Buckland has been involved with and will be a world away from the "keep busy" clash last time out at Steve Sims' Newport Centre show against Innocent Anyanwu.
Buckland will enjoy exposure like never before and his trainer Tony Borg believes he has a major opportunity to make a big impact.
"As far as we know, Gary is definitely going to be on the bill I think we are all assuming is for Ricky Hatton's comeback," he said.
"It's obviously going to be a huge night because of the popularity Ricky has and we've heard that there is a new TV deal in place.
"Ricky probably won't deal with Sky again (Hatton Promotions were dropped by the broadcaster this year in favour of an exclusive deal with Eddie Hearn) but we've heard rumours it's going to be on terrestrial television.
"If it is that'll obviously be an opportunity Gary has never had and we don't think Ricky would come back without the TV deal in place."
Buckland is currently working hard under Borg's supervision and he'll be joined by a familiar face when Olympic silver medallist Fred Evans resumes training.
The Newport boxer has been following strict orders from Borg to "bask in the glory" of his success over the summer in London and is now going to begin considering his next move.
It is expected Evans will turn pro but nothing has been decided, according to Borg. "I just told Fred to bask in the glory and enjoy himself for a couple of weeks, he certainly deserved it," he said.
"He's popped his head into the gym a few times but he's coming in on Sunday to train with me properly for the first time since he won the medal.
"After that we'll have a chat and begin to talk things over. As it stands Fred is open to offers and suggestions but hasn't made any firm plans for the future.


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COLUMBUS, Ohio - A new farm-related educational resource has been added to a national website that offers everyone from beginning farmers to veteran growers answers to hundreds of farm-related safety and health questions, in an easy-to-navigate format featuring information offered from a consortium of 74 land-grant universities, including Ohio State University.
The website offers answers and tips on farm safety and health issues ranging from grain bin entrapments to safe beef cattle handling, said Dee Jepsen, Ohio State University Extension's state safety leader.
"This online resource will serve many groups, including educators, injury outreach specialists and farm workers, with valuable information that can be accessed anytime," she said. "And in an agricultural community where business is done all day, every day, there is never a down time for safety and health information."
eXtension (which is pronounced E-extension) is a national internet-based educational network and partnership of 74 universities that provides online access to objective, research-based information and education, Jepsen said. The new section is called Community of Practice, Farm and Ranch eXtension for Safety and Health, or FReSH.
"Agriculture is a dangerous industry," she said. "This on-line resource is now available to serve hard-working men, women and families with up-to-date safety and health materials to protect the most valuable assets: the farm workers.
"Besides providing answers to frequently asked farm safety questions, this site also contains relevant articles on a variety of safety and health topics, and a calendar of farm safety events."
Some of the articles that appear on the site include:
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- Confined-space hazards and gas monitoring of manure pit gases.
- Beef cattle handling safety.
- ATV safety.
- Hearing loss and protection for agricultural producers.
- Grain bin entrapments from flowing grains.
"We are nearing our peak season for the frequency and severity of farm-related injuries," Jepsen said. "This is great timing for eXtension to support the upcoming summer season with an ounce of prevention."
Support for the farm safety and health content on the website comes from a team of educators, including Linda Fetzer, Dennis Murphy and Aaron Yoder of Pennsylvania State University; Richard Brozowski, University of Maine; Karen Funkenbusch, University of Missouri; Jepsen, Ohio State; Carol Jones, Oklahoma State University; Michael Pate, Utah State University; Charles Schwab, Iowa State University; and John Myers, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.


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Board of Supervisors Holds First Meeting in 2009
January 12, 2009
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The Fairfax County Board of Supervisors held its first meeting of the year today, and Braddock District Supervisor Sharon Bulova was chosen by the board as vice chairman. The chairman position is currently vacant; a special election will be held Feb. 3 to fill the seat.
Board members are currently in the second year of their four-year terms. The complete list of board members and the districts they serve is below:
- Vacant, chairman, at-large
- Sharon Bulova, vice chairman, Braddock District
- John W. Foust, Dranesville District
- Catherine M. Hudgins, Hunter Mill District
- Jeffrey C. McKay, Lee District
- Penelope A. Gross, Mason District
- Gerald W. Hyland, Mount Vernon District
- Linda Q. Smyth, Providence District
- Pat Herrity, Springfield District
- Michael R. Frey, Sully District
For more information, including this year's meeting schedule, links to board members' Web pages, podcasts and more, visit the Board of Supervisors Web page.
Contact: Merni Fitzgerald, Director, Office of Public Affairs
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A biopsy is an invasive surgical procedure used to diagnose or rule out cancer. If your doctor has reason to suspect that your child has cancer, he can take a sample of tissue from your child's body - a biopsy - to examine.
Many people have heard of a biopsy in relation to breast cancer - where a small piece of the breast lump is removed for examination. But biopsies can also be done on other types of tissue as well.
Most biopsies are pretty simple procedures, but even simple procedures can be scary to a child. You child may receive general or local anesthesia to numb the area before the biopsy so that she doesn't feel any pain during the procedure. She may have some pain afterward, so your doctor may prescribe pain medications. Many biopsies are done on an outpatient basis, and your child may be able to go home the same day.
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It's very important to follow up with the doctor after a biopsy to discuss the results of the procedure. Be sure to ask the doctor when you should contact him for the results.
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What is the most powerful question you have ever been asked? While you may not immediately know the characteristics of a powerful question, it is actually quite easy to recognize one.
You can see the difference in the following four questions:
- What time is it?
- What possibilities exist that we have not thought of yet?
- What does it mean to be ethical?
- Did feed get pushed this morning?
Which ones are more powerful than others? When workers approach you with a problem, turn it around, don't solve it for them. Utilize this guide to help them solve their situations. In solving problems, asking powerful questions with "appreciative inquiry" will:
Generate curiosity and invite creativity.
Focus inquiry and stimulate reflective conversation.
Be thought-provoking and surface underlying assumptions.
Touch a deeper meaning and stay with participants
Travel well, spreading around the dairy.
In order to engineer powerful questions to help your people solve problems, let's look at three dimensions.
Wording. Pay attention to how you start questions and which words you use (how, what, which, what if, who, when, where). Consider the following questions:
Are the cows getting enough feed?
Describe a time when cows were most productive and healthy?
What is it about our dairy's feed program that supports efficient milk production and animal health?
Why is there is so much variability in the cows body condition score?
What if we got it right? (Creating a feed program that supports efficient milk production and animal health.)
As you move from simple "yes" and "no" questions to "why" or "what" questions, you stimulate more thinking and creative responses in yourself and your workers. Be careful with "why" questions because they can evoke a defensive response if not worded correctly.
Scope. How broad is your question and does it cover the person's area of expertise? Note the impact of scope in the following questions:
How can we best share information as a person?
How can we best share information as a team?
How can we best share information with our business?
These questions progressively broaden the domain of inquiry. Sometimes, questions are interesting, but are outside the scope of our capacity, such as "How can we change milk-pricing in the country?
Assumptions. Almost all questions have assumptions built into them. For instance:
How can we create a bilingual training program for the dairy?
What did we do wrong, and who is responsible?
What can we learn from what has happened, and what are the possibilities now?
The goal is not always to make the question assumption-free, but to use the right assumptions.
Here are some questions that help employees focus their attention on a project:
What's important about this problem and what has been done about it so far?
What's our intention here, worth our best effort?
What opportunities can you see in this situation?
What do we still need to learn about this situation?
And, here are some questions that stimulate action:
What would it take to create change on this issue?
What's possible here and who cares?
What needs our immediate attention going forward, and what is your plan, what support do you need?
What might get on the way of your plan and what would you do about it?
When you ask the right questions of your employees, it gets them thinking. Hopefully, they will reflect on what they have done and what they can do to find further solutions.
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The centerpiece of CPIL's academic program and student intern monitoring efforts is its publication of the California Regulatory Law Reporter. The Reporter is the only journal in the nation which comprehensively covers the activities of over thirty state regulatory agencies. In addition, each issue usually contains a scholarly feature article (frequently written by a CPIL student intern) and commentaries.
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- California Health Benefit Exchange
- Department of Managed Health Care
- Medical Board of California
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- Board of Psychology
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While holiday sales overall were solid during the season just ended, a real bright spot was online where sales advanced 13% to a record level of nearly $31 billion, according to the online measurement firm comScore. For the 56-day period from Nov. 1 through Dec. 26, comScore data showed consumers turned to the Internet in record numbers, especially on such key days as Thanksgiving, Cyber Monday and the final day of free shipping on Dec.17 when online volumes surged 61% to $942 million. This season saw its first billion-dollar sales day on Cyber Monday when sales hit $1,028 billion, a 16% increase from the prior year's $887 million.
Commenting on the record level of spending, comScore chairman Gian Fulgoni noted, "For at least this holiday season, the American consumer bas been able to shrug off the continuing economic challenges of high unemployment rate and depressed housing prices and spend at a rate that has been slightly stronger than we had expected."
The firm's initial holiday sales forecast called for 11% growth and sales of $32.4 billion, a figure that is expected to be easily surpassed once the final tally including the entire month of December is available, especially as late December blizzards sent shoppers online to redeem gift cards.
Given the strength seen during this past season it is not exactly the boldest of predictions to forecast that online sales during the 2011 holiday season will be even stronger. How much stronger remains unclear, but the trend is certainly obvious. Shopping overall and the holidays in particular have become technology enabled to the point where a huge segment of the population demands retailers provide a highly integrated brand experience and those who do so most effectively have results to show for it.
Even so, considerable work remains to ensure the experience for the increasing number of channel agnostic shoppers is simple, seamless and functioning smoothly. It was hard enough to meet that execution challenge when only physical stores were involved, but layer on the added complexity of the Internet and mobile thrown and shoppers heightened expectations in those areas and retailers will have plenty to work on throughout 2011 in preparation for the next holiday season.


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Fairfax County Government's Channel 16 was recently honored by the Alliance for Community Media as the best government access cable television station in the country in 2008. This is the fifth time that the county has received the award for Overall Excellence of Government Access channels in its division, with previous awards given in 1996, 1999, 2005 and 2006.
The award covers the entire spectrum of Channel 16 programming, including government meetings, public service announcements and informational programs about government services
The Alliance for Community Media is a nonprofit coalition of public, educational and government access cable stations that promote community communications and programs that are distributed on cable television access channels.
Channel 16 also was recognized by the National Association of Telecommunications Officers and Advisors (NATOA) with two first place awards for "Check It Out," produced in cooperation with the Fairfax County Public Library, and "Parks Plus," produced in cooperation with the Fairfax County Park Authority.
NATOA is a national trade association that promotes community interests in communications.
Since 1986, Fairfax County Government Channel 16 has received more than 200 national awards.
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I have a co-worker that has a red blothcy face today. Yesterday he had a crown put on and it took extensive amounts of novacaine. Could he be experiencing an allergic reaction to the novacaine?
This is probably not an allergic reaction. If this was a true allergy, the reaction would have occurred around the time of the injections, and not the next day. You should consult your dentist. It is possible that there may be some bruising due to the multiple injections depending on which tooth was treated or this could be unrelated to dental treatment.
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JR wrote: and the stomach and lower back muscles need to be tighter when the plant step lands to eliminate your tendency to tilt to the right at the hips.
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The Academy of Veterinary Consultants (AVC) reminds its members that nominations for the AVC Outstanding Service Award, sponsored by Merck Animal Health, are due by March 1.
The award is presented to any current or past AVC member for outstanding contributions to the AVC over the past years. This award is given annually at the spring meeting, which will be held April 11-13 in Norman, Okla. To register for the meeting here.
Nominees can have made contributions toward the improvement of the AVC; acting as a resource person for the AVC or spokesperson on behalf of the AVC; involvement in activities in organized veterinary medicine and the beef cattle industry; contributions to the beef cattle industry; involvement in activities and achievements that have impacted the beef cattle industry, veterinary medicine, and the AVC.
Eligible nominees must be active or past members of the AVC who have provided outstanding service to the beef cattle industry or the AVC during the previous year. Special consideration may be given for those individuals who are not members of the AVC but who have provided outstanding contributions to the AVC over the past years.
The 2012 recipient (posthumously) was Hal Rinker, DVM.
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By Lawton Posey
I sometimes wonder what my second grade teachers would say if they learned that cursive writing is on the way out. The piece is true, I am told. Schools, many of them, no longer teach writing in longhand or what is called, cursive writing.
My personal opinion is that writing with joined letters is a good thing. In my small, rural elementary school, we grubby country children practiced what was called Palmer Hand, which was supposed to make our penciled scribbles sit more elegantly on our nickel pads. Even looking at my best hand of a half century ago shows that I never mastered that kind of writing. I have a friend who is a year younger than I, and his writing is beautiful, and rather like that shown on the charts in our schoolrooms. He has never typed nor used a computer, yet his writing is legible and readable.
Writing in cursive fashion has benefits and deficiencies. In brief, handwriting reveals something of the personality of the one writing. Sometimes from a handwritten letter you can guess whether the writer is hurried or in stress, or relaxed and in great humor.
To get a handwritten letter is a joy to me, even though I say that some correspondents have writing that is unique and often hard to read. Part of the joy is transforming scribbles into thought. Once, a friend of mine had moved away and I had no idea how his health was. I had gotten no emails from him. So I sat myself down and handwrote a letter to him. He was moved to answer because I had transmitted my thoughts and love by way of my own hand.
Now, I must confess that I rely on my computer more and more, since either age or something else has caused my penning of letters to show unsteadiness and to shrink. Perhaps this is the beginning in me of my mother's experience as her neat schoolteacher's writing became smaller, and then one day, I learned that she could not write. She had never learned to type. She could not sign a check. It was a tragedy for her. I had new responsibilities.
Now it is possible that cursive writing is going to disappear altogether. Now and then a person, handed a handwritten document, will confess that they cannot read "writing". Will the rather well documented tendency not to teach cursive in some schools make simple tasks like writing a check difficult for a person, and require the blanks to be filled in by hand printing? Not a bad way, but slower, with the writing instrument being lifted after each letter is placed on the paper.
The subject of the supposed death of handwriting may lead to exaggeration of its effects. I believe that cursive writing may last for a couple of generations, leaving those of my generation deceased with pen or pencil in hand. From my ancient perspective, I remember that most all of the great texts of world faiths were produced by those who had become artists in carving, punching and pressing or by some other personalized form of communication. And, yes, there were cursive forms of words written on papyrus or laid on mud with a stylus.
I asked my granddaughter Chloe, soon to finish her degree at the University of Florida, whether she can read or write cursive. I inquired by computer. She tells me that she has not used cursive since fourth grade. She can read cursive. She prints. I expect that she has a signature. "If I had to write in cursive, I would have to make some letters up," she said.
I have viewed some old documents made by my ancestors who could not write, who made an "X" at the bottom of a will or deed. Duly witnessed, it was a legal signature.
Then I remembered that our great German teacher Dr. French at Davidson showed us German Cursive. I could neither read nor write it, thus developing a humility about the subject. Still, I hate to see cursive run off the paper into oblivion.
And to collectors of them: Autographs please! Many signatures are unreadable.
Lawton Posey, of Charleston, is a retired Presbyterian USA minister, email@example.com.


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I'm having some problems loading the mysqli extension in my local installation of PHP and am getting the "Fatal error: Call to undefined function mysqli_connect()" error. I've read around a bit on the internet and have tried numerous things. First things first my current set-up is:
Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64 bitIIS is not disabled - but this is mainly because when I went looking for it I could not find it so suspect Win 7 home premium does not come with it. In spite of this point I'm connecting to Apache through port 8080 as I could not get it working through the default port (80?)Apache 2.2.21 (Win 32)PHP 5.2.17 (vc6 thread safe version)MySQL 5.5.19My SQL seems to be running fine as I've been in and run stuff using the command line interface. Also my IDE (JetBrains PhpStorm) has a database connector to allow for control and maintenance of the DB within the IDE. This also connects up just fine and I've run some SQL scripts through the IDE.
Right then so stuff I've tried (in approximate temporal order) I restated the Apache server after each of these and have also totally re-booted the system at least once:
I followed all the instructions in Kevin Yank's book: Build Your Own Database Driven Website using PHP & MySQL (4th Edition)
Check the php.ini file in "C:\PHP"I have the right path to the extensions folder "C:\PHP\ext"the semi-colon in front of "extension=php_mysqli.dll" is removedthe semi-colon in front of the similarly titled "extension=php_mysql.dll" above is not removed
Run <? php phpinfo() ?>There is no section for mysqli module.There are 8 references to MySQL but in each case they are due to the inclusion of "C:\Program Files (x86)\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\bin" in the PATH environment variable.Under PHP Core I can see that doc_root = "C:\Program Files (x86)\Apache Software Foundation\Apache2.2\htdocs" and that extension_dir = "C:\PHP\ext". These are both the values I set in my PHP.ini file so I'm pretty sure the right one is being used. Also the loaded configuration file at the top confirms the same.
I added C:\PHP to the PATH environment variable. I can see this in phpinfo() so I know this has worked.
I heard it might be a versioning issue with libmysql.dll so I copied the version of this file from the MySQL installation (in "C:\Program Files (x86)\MySQL\MySQL Server 5.5\lib") over the version in "C:\PHP". This replaced a 1 meg file with a 4 meg file, which seems like quite a movement.I've also tried moving this file up into "C:\PHP\ext", "C:\Windows", "C:\Windows\System32" to no avail. The file is deleted from these locations now.
I've seen some old posts suggesting you need to get the connector software from MySQL rather than the bundled software with the PHP installation, however these all point to the following page [http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/php/,which is now dead. If I go to [URL="http://www.mysql.com/downloads/"]http://www.mysql.com/downloads/](http://dev.mysql.com/downloads/connector/php/) then I don't see a download option for PHP connector.
I saw another post [http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?708358-Call-to-undefined-function-mysqli_connect()-Help-Requi red&p=4721657#post4721657 that claimed to have fixed this issue by installing PHP 5.3. However when I go to [URL="http://windows.php.net/download/"]http://windows.php.net/download/](http://www.sitepoint.com/forums/showthread.php?708358-Call-to-undefined-function-mysqli_connect()-Help-Requi red&p=4721657#post4721657) the guidance there was to only use the vc6 versions with apache. Currently the vc6 versions are under PHP 5.2 (the PHP 5.3 versions are both vc9). As you can see above I used the thread safe version, I wasn't totally sure on the difference but on reading around I gathered it shouldn't make too much difference.
Any other thoughts on what to do (or undo) would be gratefully accepted. I really need to get this set up as it's holding up some development I need to do. I previously had the whole thing up and running on my old laptop but it died and so I'm having to get everything up and running on a new computer.
My setup has both extension=php_mysql.dll and extension=php_mysqli.dll uncommented. Please try it. mysqli is the "improved" MySQL library but that does not necessarily mean it replaces the mysql library entirely.
I also have a copy of libmysql.dll in the Apache /bin folder. Make sure you copy that DLL file into your Apache /bin folder. libmysql.dll is in your PHP folder and make sure you leave a copy there as well.
It's been a few years since I installed PHP locally and when I couldn't get it to work I had to make sure I had a copy of the mysql.dll in the Apache /bin folder. That solved the problem.
Don't do that just yet. Please reverse this change you made if you haven't already.
Don't do that either. MySQL doesn't make their database work with PHP. PHP makes PHP work with MySQL.
1) Restore everything like it should be. Use only PHP's DLL files. 2) Uncomment both mysql and mysqli lines in php.ini.3) Copy libmysql.dll from your PHP folder and paste it into your Apache /bin folder while leaving the original copy in the PHP folder.
Try that. It worked for me when I had problems. It may or may not work for you.
Also, be sure that if you IIS installed that it is disabled. You can search for ways to do that. If Windows 7 has the Services panel in Control Panel, it should be easy to find.
Thanks for the quick response. The issue is resolved (yay!) so I thought I'd post a quick summary of what happened so others alighting here might get some help.
1) I had a more thorough look for IIS.
The stuff I'd found previously told me to look in Services. Type services.msc in the Run... box off the start menu. Apparently the entry to look for is World Wide Publishing service (I'm pretty sure I was looking for I was looking for IIS or Internet Information Services previously) and then stop it. Anyway I had neither option listed when I went back and looked.
However I then found another page by Microsoft which says that IIS is not installed by default on Windows 7 Home Premium, Basic or Starter but can be switched on in Control Panel -> Programs -> Turn Windows Features on or off (on the left hand side). I went here and IIS was there and unchecked (as expected) so I definitely do not have IIS switched on
2) Uncommented the "extension=php_mysql.dll" line in php.ini and restarted the apache server. No joy.
3) Copied back the original libmysql.dll file from the PHP install files and restarted the apache server … and it worked!
In summary since I previously had the correct original libmysql.dll file in situ the fix that has enabled this to work (from where I was this morning) is to uncomment the "extension=php_mysql.dll" line in php.ini. I did not need to copy any files over to the /bin folder of Apache.
Therefore the things I have different to Kevin's book in my now working set-up are:
Hope this helps others facing the same issue.
First, cheesedude you are great and Maccas you are good in following cheesedude's instructions, and I bet it will help a lot of people. You know I use Apache, MySQL, PHP for almost a year now. I always confused about their configurations. Today, on top of fixing the problem, I learned one thing when cheesedude instruct you not to copy an extension libmysql.dll from MYSQL install folder to Apache/bin folder rather he instruct you to make a copy of that extension from PHP install folder to Apache/bin folder. That makes sense b.c as cheesedude said MYSQL extensions cannot make PHP works, It is the opposite. PHP makes MYSQL to work with PHP. That is why when I made a copy of an extension libmysql.dll from PHP install folder and pasted it to Apache/bin folder all my web connection and phpMyadmin worked great. I stuck for the last 24 hrs, but now everything resolved, and I thank you both!!


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Two weekends ago, I found myself on the tail-end of a week of business travel. After flying to Des Moines, Iowa, on Monday for the World Pork Expo, there I was, five days later, at the BlogHer Food Conference in Austin, Texas; a city whose motto is "stay weird."
Surrounded by some of the most widely-read, influential blogging moms, I found myself thinking about food, cooking and our industry's complicated relationship with the aforementioned.
I think that I've allowed my time spent taking the defensive position and have become jaded about the American public, and the consumer. As much as I always tell my readers not to come from a place of negativity, some days I could benefit from reminding myself of the same thing.
Let me tell you--the BlogHer Food conference kicked my jaded, negative-self right out the door.
These blogging moms think of pork in terms of spice-rubbed pulled pork, smothered in BBQ sauce, or as grilled pork chops with peach marmalade. They think about meat, milk and eggs as ingredients--not product; the components of a recipe that come together to form a truly sensational, memorable meal.
Are they concerned about antibiotics? Sure. Do they have questions? Yes. Are they confused by the ever-growing list of grocery store terminology? Of course! What's organic, what's hormone-free, what's cage-free?
But at the end of the day, when they're trying to bake the next great cookie or win a deviled-egg recipe competition, they're not fretting over whether their eggs are brown or white.
Of course there are exceptions. Not everyone at the conference was a full-blown meat lover. The vegan and vegetarian blogs had their place too, but their blogging personalities were represented in real-time around the conference table as polite, respectful mothers with a specific point of view.
Not every vegan is an animal rights activist. I walked away from some enlightening conversations about deep-fried tofu thinking "to each his own." And yes--I even tried some vegan mayonnaise (gasp!) and it wasn't bad, but I think I'll be sticking with my egg-full mayonnaise.
My point is, to the majority of Americans removed from the family farm, food is just that—food, a means of nourishment.
To blogging, Pinterest-ing, Facebook-ing moms, however, food is so much more. Food is family. It's their connection to past, present and future generations. Food is a new recipe, a new blog, a vivid photo or a story.
On the second day of the conference, we were all bussed to a local Austin park where food trucks set up for lunch, dinner and late-night bar patrons. Talk about a paved paradise in a parking lot!
The National Pork Board had sponsored a truck (the only free one!) where a former Top Chef winner whipped up scrumptious pork delights for hungry bloggers.
Beyond the Pork-a-Palooza truck (my name, not theirs) there was truck after truck of inventive culinary delights. One of my favorites was the "MMMMMpanadas" truck.
A one-woman operation, the owner, chef, and truck driver all-in-one continually cooked empanadas which ranged in fillings from BBQ beef brisket, to creamy chicken, to curry peach, to yes, even spicy black bean. Patrons were told which empanadas were hot and ready by the magnets stuck to the truck's side, which the chef must have swapped out at least four times as I waited in the lengthy line.
I sampled the chicken and beef brisket varieties (see my mouth-watering photos here), and they were delicious!
As I scarfed down my piping hot mmmmpanadas, all around me were bloggers snapping photos of their lunch selections, writing blogs on their smart phones and tablets, or just gabbing at big picnic tables or under a shady tree in the grass.
And they weren't talking about animal rights or antibiotics: they were talking about food.
What do blogs and food trucks have in common? They both tell personal stories about how people love food and what's meaningful to them. Food is love, and through writing and cooking, food truck chefs and passionate bloggers share their love with the public.
Farming is personal to you--I know, because every day I have the privilege to meet dedicated, passionate family farmers.
We can answer consumers' questions by weaving yarns that are personal, but still address fundamental concerns--because guess what, how you care for your animals is personal. That's the message that resonates. Those are the stories we need to tell.
That's our industry's recipe for success.