text:
Sox present a minor test
Yankees feast on overmatched foe
NEW YORK — To maintain some standard of professionalism, Major League Baseball requires teams start at least four "regular players'' for games played during spring training.
Managers who flout that standard usually receive a note reminding them of the need to make the product presentable for fans.
No such rule exists during the regular season, so Red Sox manager Bobby Valentine was free to use the nine players he sent up against the Yankees on Monday night.
Six started the season in Triple A Pawtucket. Another, Danny Valencia, was a castoff picked up from the Minnesota Twins. The only bona fide big leaguers in the lineup were Cody Ross and Jarrod Saltalamacchia.
The result was as predictable as the game was difficult to watch. The Yankees scored nine runs in the second inning and embarrassed the Sox, 10-2.
With Baltimore losing at Tampa Bay, the Yankees have a one-game lead in the American League East with two games to play. Given how the Red Sox are laying down, the division title should not be difficult to claim.
"You just play the cards that you have,'' Valentine said. "That's what we have right now.''
Dustin Pedroia was not available because of a fractured left ring finger. But Valentine elected to keep veterans Jacoby Ellsbury, James Loney, Mike Aviles, and Scott Podsednik on the bench against CC Sabathia.
Loney and Podsednik are lefthanded hitters with little career success against Sabathia. The same is true of Ellsbury, but he never has been regarded as a platoon player. The righthanded-hitting Aviles was 6 of 16 against Sabathia.
Sabathia allowed two runs on four hits and struck out seven to improve to 15-6.
Valentine defended his lineup afterward.
"My guys give their all every time they go out there,'' he said. "When they wear that uniform they know they have a responsibility to play hard and I like their effort.''
The Red Sox had their best starter on the mound in Clay Buchholz. But he could not get out of the second inning against a lineup that featured five players each making more than all 10 players the Red Sox started.
The Yankees sent 13 batters to the plate in the second inning and scored nine runs on eight hits, six of them for extra bases. Buchholz and reliever Alfredo Aceves threw 57 pitches.
It started with a long home run to center field by Robinson Cano, the ball glancing off the window of the sports bar above Monument Park.
With one out, Nick Swisher singled to center ahead of a homer to right by Curtis Granderson. It was Granderson's 41st of the season, matching the career high he set in 2011.
Russell Martin followed with a line drive to right field that got over the wall with a little help from a fan in a Red Sox jersey. The umpires reviewed the play and called it a home run. Yankee Stadium security used the time to escort that fan from his seat.
Buchholz loaded the bases on two walks and a single by Ichiro Suzuki. A sacrifice fly to left by Alex Rodriguez scored Eric Chavez.
When Cano lined a two-run double to the gap in right, Valentine pulled Buchholz.
Aceves left a changeup over the plate that Mark Teixeira blasted into the seats in right field. It was the third time in franchise history the Yankees have hit four home runs in the same inning.
For Buchholz (11-8), it was the third-shortest start of his career and the first time he has allowed eight earned runs.
Buchholz, who allowed eight home runs over 7⅔ innings in two starts against the Yankees this season, ends the year with a 4.56 earned run average.
"The ball was coming out fine. It's tough whenever you leave pitches out over the middle of the plate and every one of them gets hit,'' Buchholz said.
Buchholz has started 29 games and thrown 189⅓ innings, the most of his career.
"It's a step in the right direction but not enough of one, I guess,'' he said.
Daniel Nava homered for the Sox and Che-Hsuan Lin had two of the four hits.
At 69-91, the Red Sox are 24 games out of first place. That is their largest deficit since the final days of the 1969 season.
But the '69 Sox were a solid team, winning 87 games during a season when the Baltimore Orioles ran away from the division with 109 wins.
These Sox aren't remotely that competitive. They have lost six straight, 10 of 11, and are a ghastly 16-40 since Aug. 1. They are assured of finishing no higher than last place.
Valentine was asked before the game whether he was concerned about his status as manager.
"I'll be at the hotel tonight and here tomorrow I think,'' he said with a smile.
But that clock is ticking as this season winds down.


text:
1. Oregon (4-0)
The Ducks' defense carried Oregon in 49-0 rout of Arizona.
1. Oregon (4-0)
The Ducks' defense carried Oregon in 49-0 rout of Arizona.
2. Stanford (3-0)
Will play only two home games in the next six weeks.
Holes in offensive line continue to expose Trojans.
4. Oregon State (2-0)
In two games, Beavers have beaten two ranked teams.
5. Arizona St. (3-1)
Sun Devils were dominant in every way against Utah.
6. Arizona (3-1)
Wildcats will debut copper helmets against OSU; must display mettle.
Bruins offense came back to earth last week, but trip to Boulder should be good tonic.
8. Washington (2-1)
Toughest stretch of the season begins against Stanford.
9. California (1-3)
Bears couldn't make a dent against USC.
10. Utah (2-2)
Everything was broken for Utes at Arizona State.
11. Colorado (1-3)
Buffs pulled off stunning upset, earning Jon Embree some long-lost respect.
12. Washington State (1-3)
Mike Leach's rebuilding effort is far from even beginning.

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Profar homers in first look at leadoff for Rangers
SEATTLE -- Jurickson Profar had two hits off Mariners pitcher Felix Hernandez on Saturday night. His reward was the leadoff spot in the Rangers' lineup Sunday against right-hander Hisashi Iwakuma with Elvis Andrus getting the day off.
Profar led off Sunday's game with a home run at the age of 20 years, 95 days. He's the youngest player to do so since Lou Klimchock at age 18 on Sept. 28, 1958, for the Kansas City Athletics.
|Lou Klimchock
|Sept. 28, 1958
|Bob Kennedy
|May 1, 1940
|Mickey Mantle
|Sept. 13, 1951
|Sibby Sisti
|July 16, 1940
|Jurickson Profar
|May 26, 2013
|John Briggs
|June 21, 1964
Washington's other choices were center fielder Leonys Martin or second baseman Leury Garcia. But Profar is 4-for-13 since returning to the big leagues after Ian Kinsler went on the disabled list with a strained muscle in his right rib cage.
"I just felt like he has the best chance of getting on base," manager Ron Washington said.
Since Profar arrived, Washington said, "I'm seeing the same things I've been seeing. He's a baseball player. He's not afraid of the game. He goes out there and plays his game. He goes up there and has good at-bats. When you have good at-bats, good things happen."
Profar was 2-for-19 in his September callup for the Rangers last season but said, "I'm a lot more comfortable this time."
This is the first time that somebody besides Kinsler and Andrus has batted leadoff this season. Rangers leadoff hitters went into Sunday's game with a .361 on-base percentage, tied for the fourth highest in the American League. They were fifth with 34 runs scored.
T.R. Sullivan is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Postcards from Elysian Fields, and follow him on Twitter @Sullivan_Ranger. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


text:
Inviting potential GSoC students
14. März 2013 18:49
Inkscape will be submitting a request to participate again in this year's Google Summer of Code (GSoC). GSoC is a program where students who are 18 or older (as of May 27th) spend their summer coding for an approved Open Source project and in return receive a stipend of $5000. Details can be found on the GSOC website.
We are looking for students passionate about Inkscape and Open Source software in general. Now is the time to develop your ideas and to begin to plan your project. Details about what is required to apply for GSOC to work on Inkscape can be found in our wiki.
Please pay a special attention to the required tasks listed on the GSoC Application Template page. Please don't hesitate to contact us if you are interested in working on Inkscape.


text:
I'm Kage in Virginia and I'm glad to know you. Is there anyone else here from the mid-Atlantic?
I have been a late-night occasional lurker and decided to step into the light. I think I had to renew at least once due to non-activity.
Not really a new agey kind of guy, but maybe like you, I am just another human being looking for inner peace in this great big world. 30s - my adult adolescence as AskMen puts it - single again. Yeah.
I've had a .pdf in my documents forever and will tackle tonight, "The Buddhic Essence" by Elizabeth Clare Prophet. Also dusting off a few others. Send any cool links my way, I will get to them! Especially charts/graphics, ways to help bring ideas together...
My intent for this fall is to complete a long time goal, which is to visit a local temple which observes (if that is proper terminology) "Pure Land" form and sit-in, and LISTEN. This particular group has been in the press for problems related to "Zoning" of a religious place... without getting into it, the matter was resolved, but it really disturbed me that someone had to go and mess with these folks.
I recently completed my M.A. and within, a general Buddhism course which I considered particularly interesting. I leapt at the chance to add it to my degree program. Never have been particularly good at history, but this held my interest. The detail and revelations are fascinating.
Cheers, everyone. Thanks in advance for helping me reacquaint myself and drop a line anytime esp. if you're in the coastal area.


text:
New Electronic Deer Repellent Proven to be Effective and Humane
Bird Gard, the world leader in electronic bird control, announces the Deer Shield line of bioacoustic deer repellent products has completed successful field trials and is now available for agricultural use.
Deer Shield uses a deer's own language and natural instincts to effectively and humanely repel them from crops, orchards and vineyards. Digital recordings of alarmed, hostile and territorial deer are broadcast through high fidelity weather-resistant speakers to trigger a primal fear and flee response. Deer soon relocate to where they can feed without feeling threatened.
Deer Shield is based on Bird Gard's 25 years of research and development into bioacoustic animal control systems. The University of Nebraska-Lincoln contributed to the development of Deer Shield, which has been proven effective through extensive field testing.
The annual impact of deer foraging in vineyards and other crops is estimated to be in the hundreds of millions of dollars. Deer also create a severe public health risk. Last year, deer feces in an Oregon strawberry field was linked to an outbreak of E. coli O157:H7 which sickened 15 people and killed two. In 1996, deer fecal contamination of dropped apples in California apple orchards resulted in a multi-state E. coli outbreak.
There are two Deer Shield models available. Deer Shield Pro is motion activated and is designed to protect crop access points and areas up to 1.5 acres. Deer Shield Super Pro is fully adjustable and can protect up to 6 acres.
For more information go to www.DeerShieldTech.com or call 888-332-2328


text:
LaSalle has to find a new way to play ... in the big dance
LaSalle University is in the NCAA tournament for the first time in more than 20 years. The little school that could had to mobilize quickly.
Assistant athletic director Chris Kane says he had a sleepless night after finding out the Explorers of LaSalle would have to play in the 64-team NCAA first round. The reason: They had to figure out how to move the team to Dayton to face off against Boise State in the game Wednesday.
"It's the kind of work you love to do," he said. "It's busy and it's crazy for a couple days, but it's for such a great purpose. You don't mind how mind-numbed you might get from it all, not being able to sit down and sleep and all that."
Kane says going to the big dance means there's a partner to help — the NCAA does a great deal of the logistical work, such as finding hotel rooms and transportation.
As for all the calls for tickets — Kane says the team could fulfill only a small percentage of the requests.
"We had the option to go up to 200 tickets for this round," he said. "If we advance we are required to purchase 350, and we have the option to buy 200 on top of that."
Support provided by


text:
Groene at the Legislature: Teacher absences, substitutes
Mail: Southern statues symbolize suppression
More opinion
Senate: Vote no on Graham-Cassidy health care plan
Fall: Good time to spray musk thistle in rosette stage
More Ag News
A rundown of entertainment in North Platte and Lincoln County.
Every weekend - Cody Go Karts - miniature golf, go karts, other "dry" activities 11 a.m.-6 p.m. See www.codygokarts.com for pricing.
Every Saturday - Outdoor farmer's market, downtown Parkade Plaza. Produce, crafts, etc. 7 a.m.-1 p.m. Also, open air market @ Garden Glove Garden Center (1800 E. 12th). Crafts, produce, flowers, meat, live music, etc. 8 a.m.-2 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 14
Cody Park - Three-day Rail Fest festival begins at 4:30 p.m. Celebrating 150th anniversary of Union Pacific. Live music and dance with Nightlife (8 p.m.), train displays, minature rides, kids games, bus tours of Bailey Yard where historical locomotives are parked, bus rides downtown and Golden Spike Visitor's Center, kids fun jumps, carnival rides, outdoor family movie (The Lorax) at dusk, arts & crafts, much more. No admission charge.
National Guard Armory - Three-day model train show opens. $3 admission.
Cedar Bowl (1100 S. Jeffers) Cosmic bowling under black lights. 8-11 p.m. $4 per game.
Saturday, Sep. 15
Cody Park - Rail Fest continues. Celebrating 150th UP anniversary. Free breakfast, live music begins 7:30 a.m. (see separate schedule under local news). Bailey Yard tours, kids' games, equipment displays, arts, crafts, employee's picnic. After-dinner dance to Centennials orchestra. Big fireworks display at dusk. No admission charge.
National Guard Armory - Model train show. $3 admission.
Eagles Club (620 N. Chestnut) dance to Maynard Zipf. Country, waltz, and polkas. 7-10 p.m. Cover charge: $5.
Rail Bar - Singer/songwriter Brendan McNaughton performs live. 9 p.m.
Sunday, Sep. 16
Cody Park - Rail Fest all day until 5 p.m. Bailey Yard tours, bus rides downtown and Golden Spike, live music and acrobatics (Christian music from 11-1). Kids jumps, games, rides, equipment displays, arts, crafts. No admission charge.
Wednesday, Sept. 19
Childrens Museum (314 N. Jeffers) Story yoga, a class to tell a story using yoga postures. 10:30-11 a.m. Members free; Non-Members $4.
VFW Post 1504 (2100 E. 4th) - Live music/dance with the Sundowners. Music begins at 7 p.m. Public welcome.
Pop Corner (1847 W. A) Live piano and song by Shermie Wiehe. 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
North Platte Senior Center (900 E. Tenth) the Golden Classics, a four-piece combo, plays a dance. 7-10 p.m. $3.
Friday, Sept. 21
VFW Post 1504 (2100 E. 4th) - Dance to Jim Calhoun. Open to public. Starts at 7 p.m.
Saturday, Sept. 22
Autumn Park Community Room (off of 900 E. Philip) Third annual Fall into Winter Craft Bazaar with fall, winter, and holiday themes. 9 a.m.-3 p.m.
D&N Center Platte River Sportsmens Club Gun and Knife Show with raffle and door prizes and lunch and snacks available. 9 a.m.-5 p.m. Admission: $3, 12 and under: free.
A to Z Books (507 N. Jeffers) West central Nebraskas Open Mic Nite. Established performers and newcomers. 7-10:30 p.m. Free-will donation. Refreshments provided or bring your own.
VFW Post 1504 (2100 E. 4th) - Dance to the band Cruzin. Open to public. Starts at 6-7 p.m. in beer garden.
Sunday, Sept. 23
VFW Post 1504 - Live music/dance with Ray Mullen. Starts at 7 p.m. Public welcome. Free-will donation.
Wednesday, Sept. 26
Pop Corner (1847 W. A) Live piano and song by Shermie Wiehe. 11:30 a.m.-1:30 p.m.
VFW Post 1504 (2100 E. Fourth) bingo, total of 24 games, starts at 6:45 p.m.
Friday, Sept. 28
Saturday, Sept. 29
Potters Pasture (Brady) Campfire run with chili feed, smores, and live music. Live music by Paul Siebert. Starts at 5 p.m. Free laser tag at 2:30 p.m.
Childrens Museum (314 N. Jeffers) PaleoAdventures Day Camp lead by Walter Stein, student of fossils and dinosaur skeletons. Morning class for grades K-5 8 a.m.-12:30 p.m. Afternoon class for grades 6-12 1:30-4:30 p.m. Lecture and book signing at 7 p.m. Members: $20, Non-members: $25.
Sunday, Sept. 30
Linden Estates (3700 W. Philip) Hike to the Spike to End Alzheimers. Registration at 1 p.m. Walk begins at 1:30 p.m. Awards at 3 p.m. Silent auction and raffle prizes at 3:30 p.m.
VFW Post 1504 (2100 E. 4th) - Dance to Jim Calhoun. Open to public. Starts at 7 p.m. Free-will donation.
Friday, Oct. 5
Harvest Christian Fellowship main campus (1501 S. Dewey). Family movie night, Madagascar 3. 7 p.m. No admission charge.
To get your entertainment event listed, email firstname.lastname@example.com, call 308-696-0052 or drop a note at the Bulletin office.
Flatrock Publishing, Inc.
1300 E 4th St., Suite F
North Platte, NE 69101


text:
Few organizations in sports need to make a statement more than IndyCar.
America's premier open-wheel racing series has been losing ground to NASCAR ever since the CART-Indy Racing League uncivil war for control of the sport started in 1996.
Although the warring factions merged in 2008, IndyCar has continued to lose ground to NASCAR even while NASCAR has lost ground from where it was in the 1990s.
IndyCar needs to make a statement. And it has.
Seeking to make the entire month of May relevant again at the Indianapolis Motor Speedway, IndyCar will kick start the preliminaries to the Indianapolis 500 with a second race on the speedway's road course on May 10.
Let me be among the first to embrace the idea of the Grand Prix of Indianapolis.
Although the Indy 500 is still the single biggest event in the world of motorsports, it is far from the spectacle it once was.
There was a time when the second biggest event in motorsports was Indy Pole Day. No. 3 was Indy Bump day. It took two weekends to fill the field for the Indy 500 because as many as 100 cars might be entered. With fewer than 40 cars now vying for 33 spots, qualifying has been condensed to a single weekend.
Meanwhile, the crowds for Indy 500 qualifying shrunk from 150,000 on each of the two featured days to less than 25,000.
What could IMS do to rebuild interest in May? Add a second race. Brilliant.
Even if the road race draws only 50,000, it should turn a profit. Most IndyCar teams are based in Indianapolis. The cars and the teams will already be at the track. And the road course has been in place since it was added for the now defunct Formula One race.
Plus, ABC has decided to televise both the road race and the Indianapolis 500 on May 25.
In between the road race and the Indy 500 will be the qualifying weekend on May 17-18.
May at Indianapolis is relevant again.
"The Grand Prix of Indianapolis is all about elevating the month of May, the Indianapolis 500 and IndyCar with more thrilling content for our loyal supporters and new fans," said IndyCar CEO Mark Miles.
The road race will be run in the opposite direction of the Indy 500 on a remodeled, 14-turn, 2.434-mile road course that will incorporate parts of the famed 2.5-mile IMS oval.
Practice for the 98th Indianapolis 500 will start the morning after the road race.
The Grand Prix of Indianapolis was not the only news made by IndyCar the past couple of weeks.
--Juan Pablo Montoya, the winner of the 2000 Indy 500, will return to IndyCar in 2014 as a driver for Roger Penske – joining Helio Castroneves and Will Power. Montoya, 38, is one of the more versatile, if overly aggressive, drivers in motorsports. His resume includes seven Formula One wins, two NASCAR Sprint Cup wins, eight IndyCar wins (he was the 1999 CART series champion) and three wins in the 24 Hours of Daytona sports car race. Penske signed Montoya days after Chip Ganassi fired him from his NASCAR team after eight seasons.
--Ganassi has added 2013 Indy 500 winner Tony Kanaan to his IndyCar lineup for 2014. Kanaan, 38, has 15 IndyCar wins and won the title in 2004.
--IndyCar will be looking for a new title sponsor for 2014. Izod is withdrawing. Verizon Wireless is said to be a leading possibility.
--The doubleheader at Houston this weekend will compromise two of the final three races of the 2013 season that ends Oct. 19 at Auto Club Speedway in Fontana. Castroneves leads the standings with three races to go, holding a 49-point lead over Scott Dixon. Other drivers with a shot at the title are Simon Pagenaud, Marco Andretti and defending champion Ryan Hunter-Reay are also in the title chase.


text:
Futures Rise On Sunny Data; Retail Sales Up 0.6%; Jobless Claims Shrink To New Lows
Futures, which had begun the day on a sour note, were edging their way into positive territory on positive jobs numbers and retail sales.
Jobless claims were down for the second straight week, with the number of people filing new unemployment claims fell 12,000 to 334,000 in the week ended June 8, according to the U.S. Department of Labor. That figure is the lowest since early May, suggesting that the pace of layoffs is slowing. It also came in ahead of economists' expectations, of 350,000 claims.
The four-week average of continuing claims, which measures people already receiving unemployment, fell 12,750 to 2.97 million, the lowest levels since April 2008.
U.S. retail sales gained 0.6% in May, the fastest rate in three months and ahead of economists' expectations of 0.5%, driven by demand for cars, groceries and building materials.
Americans bought 1.4 million new vehicles in May; without autos retails sales rose 0.3%.
Sales at grocery stores, e-commerce companies, and building materials suppliers rose, while consumers shopped less for apparel, electronics and appliances, and ate and drank out less.
In corporate the corporate world, Gannett (GCI) soared 26% on news that it will buy local television company Belo Corp (BLC), up 27%, for about $1.5 billion. The deal, expected to close by the end of the year, would make Gannett the fourth-largest owner of major network affiliates in the U.S.
Safeway (SWY) rallied 20% on its deal to sell its Canadian business to Empire Co. for 5.8 billion Canadian dollars ($5.68 billion) in cash.
PVH (PVH) jumped 9% following its better-than-expected first quarter after hours yesterday, although its guidance was mixed.
H&R Block (HRB) fell 0.3% following its disappointing fourth quarter, reported after hours yesterday.
Men's Wearhouse (MW) gained 4% following its upbeat first quarter, as tuxedo retails increased.


text:
First time poster here needing some help...
I'm a displaced Colts fan who moved to Virginia about ten years ago. I haven't gotten a chance to see the colts play at Lucas Oil, and I just decided that I'm going to take a road trip to the bills game.
I'm a college student, so I'm short on money.
What's the cheapest game day parking (reasonable distance from the stadium) available that you guys know of?
Thanks for the help!!


text:
Off the Charts
The market's focus remains on the fiscal cliff, and without any resolution it would seem hard for us to get any significant bounce. In Friday and Monday's sessions, the market saw heavy pre-market selling that was contained once the session opened. The S&P (SPY) opened slightly positive this morning but was sold-off within the first hour of the day. The S&P closed the day towards the lows of the session, down 0.48%, while the Nasdaq was hit the hardest today, closing down 0.74%.
The S&P is trying to hold support of the 50-day moving average that stands at 1413, although the intermediate uptrend that has been supporting this market since the Nov. 16 low gave way today. It will be important to see how the market handles this break. Will the 50-day moving average continue to support the S&P or will deeper support levels be tested?...698 more words left in this article. To read them, just click below and try Real Money FREE for 14 days.
There's no substitute for a trading floor to get great ideas, so Jim Cramer created a better one at Real Money and blogs there exclusively. We then added legendary hedge fund manager, Doug Kass, with his exclusive Daily Diary and best investing ideas. Staffed with more than 4 dozen investing pros, money managers, journalists and analysts, Real Money Pro gives you a flood of opinions, analysis and actionable trading advice found nowhere else, and allows you to interact directly with each expert.
Already a Subscriber? Please login.


text:
..more or less.
The Utah Jazz brought in veteran point guard Jamaal Tinsley to provide a little stability with rookie Trey Burke out with an injured finger. At least that was the plan.
Tinsley didn't provide much of anything — 1.1 points a game on 20 percent shooting, plus 2.9 assists per game. He started five of the Jazz's eight games, all losses.
Monday night coach Tyron Corbin moved him to the bench, Tuesday they let him go reports Aaron Falk of the Salt Lake Tribune.
In Utah is all just a placeholder until Burke gets healthy, then their star rookie will get the keys to the Jazz offense. For better or worse… well, not sure it can be much worse.
As for Tinsley, not sure he is going to land another job in the league.


text:
I have a script where I would like to show 5 random items from a particular seller, and 5 random items from other sellers:
$sql = "SELECT * FROM items WHERE seller = 'johndoe' LIMIT 5";
$sql = "SELECT * FROM items WHERE seller != 'johndoe' LIMIT 5";
The 'seller' column is indexed and I have over 300,000 items.The first query runs through super quick (0.01 seconds).The second query takes 10 seconds.
I see that the Not Equals or "!=" does not work on an index. Is there a way to speed this up somehow?
ThanksKind regards
I think you have a logic fault as your code is not going to show 5 random items as it will stop after the first 5 items it finds.
Do you just have the one table with 300,00 items and all the details in the one table?
The reason for the performance difference is the quantity of result sets in the two queries - if there are 500 johndoes there, the first query will process those 500 records to get the first five, and the second will be working with 299,500 records.
I don't think your 2nd query will do exactly what you want - without any sort of sort order in it, it should return the same five records each time.
The actual queries are much larger and complex, which includes the randomization part. The only difference between the two queries is the "!=" part on the seller column, which is the difference between 0.01 seconds and 10 seconds.
I just provided the smallest example above for simplicity.
As Rubble said, this won't find random items. Finding random items in SQL is very hard, because you first have to pull all the rows in, assign each row a unique number, then pick out randomly numbered rows, and check . It's much more than just a simple select statement because this is going way out of bounds of what SQL is really designed for. Even if you have a numeric ID column, it's still not going to be easy to do in SQL.
You're probably better off returning all results to a php array, then randomly pulling the array elements by number.
As far as efficiency of the query, you could try NOT EXISTS:
$sql = "SELECT DISTINCT * FROM items WHERE seller = 'johndoe'";
$sql = "SELECT DISTINCT * FROM items WHERE NOT EXISTS(" . $sql . ");";
Is there a fast way to join the table to itself where the seller is not equal to "johndoe" and provide a new table without "johndoe" within it? or will that be just as slow?
What if I use the "NOT EXISTS", how do I add conditions to it? for example:
$sql = "SELECT * FROM items WHERE NOT EXISTS (SELECT * FROM items WHERE seller = 'johndoe') AND category = '21'
In words, I would like to select items from other sellers, but they must be contained within specific categories.
That is syntactically correct.
Whenever I do the query, I end up with 0 rows returned. There are multiple sellers with products within this category though.
EDIT:I used the "EXPLAIN" on this query and got this:
id select_type table type possible_keys key key_len ref rows Extra1 PRIMARY NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL NULL Impossible WHERE2 SUBQUERY items ref seller seller 92 180206 Using where; Using index
This says the Primary query has: "Impossible WHERE" . I'm not sure why...
Whoops. My fault. That wasn't correct. I'll admit that I have only used NOT EXISTS a few times.
There's 3 options for you above. NOT IN, LEFT JOIN, and NOT EXISTS.
CREATE TABLE fish (
id INT(11) NOT NULL AUTO_INCREMENT,
name VARCHAR(20) NOT NULL,
length INT(11) NOT NULL,
weight INT(11) NOT NULL,
PRIMARY KEY pk (id)
) ENGINE=InnoDb;
INSERT INTO fish VALUES (1, 'catfish', 7, 22);
INSERT INTO fish VALUES (2, 'pike', 5, 2);
INSERT INTO fish VALUES (3, 'bass', 8, 22);
INSERT INTO fish VALUES (4, 'tuna', 24, 200);
INSERT INTO fish VALUES (5, 'shark', 60, 956);
INSERT INTO fish VALUES (6, 'catfish', 9, 22);
SELECT f.* FROM fish f
WHERE id NOT IN (
SELECT id FROM fish f2
WHERE f2.name='catfish'
AND length > 8;
SELECT f.* FROM fish f
LEFT JOIN fish f2 ON f2.id = f.id AND f2.name = 'catfish'
WHERE f2.id IS NULL
AND f.length > 8;
SELECT f.* FROM fish f
SELECT null FROM fish f2
WHERE f2.id = f.id AND f2.name = 'catfish'
AND f.length > 8;
Thanks for the providing the options.
Unfortunately, I've tried all three methods and it's still taking just as long to perform the query. Even if I strip out any random generators and use LIMIT, it still takes just as long. You would think MySQL would have something for dealing with this.
Modified Question:
I modified the slow equation that takes 10 seconds and needs improvement:
$sql = "SELECT * FROM items WHERE seller != 'johndoe' AND category = '21' LIMIT 100";
There has to be a faster query: Select any 100 items listed in category '21' from any seller except "johndoe"... The table contains 300,000 items total.
I may be wrong, but I have a feeling that the problems you are having may be a result of less than optimal database design.
I'm far from a "normalization" expert, and because I had little experience crafting complex queries, I set up complex tables.They were OK as long as the amount of data was minimal, but they didn't scale well.
Short of breaking your table into smaller cross-referenced relational tables, you could try explicity specifying the fields you're interested in getting instead of using the * wildcard. That might help some.
Unfortunately, this doesn't make too much of a difference on my end. I've simply selected the "id" column and this takes 10 seconds or so.
Can you use seller_id = and seller_id != (presumed to be an Int) instead of searching for the text (presumed to be Varchar) ?AFAIK text queries are more resource intensive than int queries.
You could run the search code say every night at midnight and generate an array just with the row ID - this would negate any time taken - the array will be written to a file on the server.When the user visits the page 5 random values are taken from the two arrays, the data is fetched from the database and displayed.
Try this:
"SELECT * FROM items WHERE seller > 'johndoe' LIMIT 5";
Well, remember he's also doing some randomization in his SQL statement and isn't giving us his fully query. I think there is something else going on. Like I said earlier, doing the random selection in SQL is probably the least preferred method.
I modified the question a bit to remove any randomization. All I want is to get this simple function to work in a fast manner:
I tried this and unfortunately there is no difference. I also tried this and it doesn't make a differnce either:
$sql = "SELECT * FROM items WHERE seller <> 'johndoe' AND category = '21' LIMIT 100";
This could work, although our site has over 10,000 categories and subcategories with many items within them. I'm guessing this would end up being impractical.
There must be another way, I know I'm not the only one on the internet who shows a list of "related items from other sellers" on their sites.
You most probably have a database model problem and possible index problems as well.
First off, are you using composite keys? If, why is it "seller, category"?
If you add a composite key that is: "category, seller" and then update your query to equal this:
$sql = "SELECT * FROM items WHERE category = '21' AND seller<>'johndoe' LIMIT 100";
I am certain you will get a massive speed increase, since now we first limit the query to any records in category 21 that is not made by seller johndoe, instead of limiting the query to any records not made by seller johndoe that is also in category 21.
However, the problem you will see when this works is that you will always pull the same 100 records (unless some is deleted) i.e. ASC order. In addition the RAND() function in SQL should be avoided like the plague since it quite honestly is a "DB killer" on larger tables.
Instead what you can do is this:
$range_from = mt_rand(1,$total)
$sql = "SELECT * FROM items WHERE category = '21' AND seller<>'johndoe' LIMIT $range_from, 100";
However, please note that LIMIT X,Y is also very slow. The reason for this is due to if you have a table with a million records and write: LIMIT 997000, 100 the SQL engine actually read all 997000 records to get to the ones you want to pull. This means if you want to speed this up more than the suggested query above, you need to alter your database models with this in mind, allowing you to base queries on primary keys, and being certain that you can actually use it internally in the software after.


text:
Occupations Sweatshirts are an Idakoos specialtiy! Idakoos has many things to offer. Whether you want to get a Occupations Sweatshirt for a special occasion, give a Occupations Jumper as a present or need to represent with a funny Occupations Crewneck Sweatshirt during Holidays or Family and Friends get-togethers, Idakoos is sure to have the right Occupations Sweatshirt for you! Even if it turns out you can't find the right Occupations Pullover with the perfect design for your mother, father or children (or friends!); Idakoos offers all of its men's women's and children's Occupations Sweatshirts as Custom Occupations Sweatshirts. Personalize any Occupations Crewneck Sweatshirt the way you want to ensure the perfect gift.
Showing 1 - 24 of 235702 Sweatshirt


text:
Note: This item is more than 10 years old. Please take the publication date into consideration for any date references.
Print – Plain Text – Permalink
News Release
Media Contact: TPWD News, email@example.com, 512-389-8030
March 26, 2007
First Texas Spring Alligator Hunting Season Starts April 1
AUSTIN, Texas — For the first year in "non-core" counties outside historical alligator habitat in southeast Texas, a spring alligator hunting season will run April 1-June 30. The new regulation comes as people continue to move into alligator habitat across Texas, and state biologists try to provide more hunting opportunity and another means to proactively manage conflicts between people and alligators.
Some public confusion has emerged around the new spring hunting season, which has a two-fold purpose, according to Jim Sutherlin with the Texas Parks and Wildlife Department. He works with the state's top alligator biologists as manager of the J.D. Murphree Wildlife Management Area near Port Arthur and helps set Texas alligator management and hunting regulations.
"The intent of the new spring season is partly to provide additional hunter opportunity and second to proactively reduce conflicts between alligators and people," Sutherlin said. "We're trying to be more proactive in managing Texas alligators. There are a couple of non-core counties that do have high potential for alligators, such as Harris and Fort Bend, and these are areas where we have had an increasing number of nuisance alligator reports in recent years. Our agency continues to emphasize public education as a primary way to minimize human-alligator conflicts."
For decades, Texas alligator hunting has been carefully regulated in the southeastern "core counties" of Angelina, Brazoria, Calhoun, Chambers, Galveston, Hardin, Jackson, Jasper, Jefferson, Liberty, Matagorda, Nacogdoches, Newton, Orange, Polk, Refugio, Sabine, San Augustine, San Jacinto, Trinity, Tyler and Victoria. In these 22 core counties, the traditional fall alligator season continues, running Sep. 10-30. The number of alligators taken in core counties is controlled by alligator hide tags issued to private landowners, based on annual surveys conducted by state biologists. Hunters who take an alligator in core counties must immediately attach one of these tags to the hide.
This year for the first time, in the 232 non-core counties of Texas outside the 22 southeastern core counties, a spring alligator hunting season will run April 1-June 30. Spring hunters may take one alligator per licensed person during this time frame, and only on private property. Within 72 hours, hunters in non-core counties must complete an Alligator Hide Tag Report Form and mail it to TPWD headquarters in Austin along with a $20 hide tag fee. Report forms are available at TPWD Law Enforcement offices and in the TPWD Outdoor Annual available wherever hunting licenses are sold.
There are also some "special properties" within the non-core counties where core county regulations are in effect. In these areas, landowners can have TPWD biologists survey alligator habitat and populations and issue hide tags as they do in the core counties, and these properties must then conduct harvest according to the core county regs.
Rules for spring alligator hunting in or around water have generated particular confusion. Hunting an alligator on private property or private water is legal with the consent of the landowner or landowner's agent. It is illegal to use a firearm to shoot a free-swimming alligator in public water. However, with landowner consent hunters may anchor a hook and line on private property and place the line in public water, then use a firearm to dispatch the alligator after it is caught. Private water includes ponds and stock tanks surrounded on all sides by private land. Public water includes large public reservoirs or lakes and navigable streams such as rivers and bayous.
Anyone hunting alligators in Texas must possess a valid hunting license and all alligators must be tagged.
As Texas residents expand their homes and businesses into alligator country, encounters between these normally shy reptiles and people have increased. Late spring through summer is alligator mating and nesting season, when gators are more likely to be visible.
In recent years, there's been a steady rise in alligator complaints in southeast Texas in and around Houston and Conroe, many of which are not true "nuisance" alligators. The situation is driven in large part by expanding human development, with roads and housing subdivisions moving into alligator wetland habitat.
In Texas, no fatalities have been documented due to alligators. In the past two decades, there have been fewer than 20 injuries due to alligators reported to TPWD statewide, none life threatening.
In 1969, a state law that preceded the federal Endangered Species Act of 1973 protected the alligator in Texas. A combined effort by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service and state wildlife agencies in the south brought the alligator back, allowing it to rebound in many areas where it had been depleted by unregulated hunting and loss of habitat. The alligator was removed from the endangered list in the 1980s. Since 1984, sustainable hunting has been allowed in Texas and Louisiana.
In October 2003, it became a Class C misdemeanor punishable by a fine of $25 to $500 for any person who intentionally feeds a free-ranging alligator. Use of bait for legal hunting by licensed hunters or nuisance alligator control hunters is not interpreted as feeding.
Alligator experts say the most important rule for the public is to never feed an alligator or allow it to get food. Once an alligator loses its natural fear of people it must typically be killed, since if relocated it would only seek people to find food and become a problem somewhere else.
Biologists emphasize that people who may hunt alligators for the first time in the new spring season should think in advance about how to care for the alligator after harvest. Skinning should take place as soon as practical. Alligators are cold blooded reptiles and don't need to be field dressed like some other popular game animals. But hunters should avoid direct sun or heat on the carcass or skin if possible. The decision about what to do with the hide determines the skinning process. Biologists strongly recommend that hunters consult with a taxidermist early on.
More helpful details are in the TPWD brochure "Alligators in Texas," which contains complete regulations for recreational hunting and commercial harvest, plus alligator skinning tips, cooking recipes, forms and other information. This brochure and the required Alligator Hide Tag Report Form for spring hunting are available as .pdf files on the TPWD Web site. Also online are public safety tips for Living with Alligators, alligator research reports and basic natural history. To request copies of alligator brochures or hunting report forms by mail, phone the Texas Wildlife Information Hotline at (512) 389-4505.
On the Net:
- "Alligators in Texas" brochure: http://tpwd.texas.gov/publications/pwdpubs/media/pwd_bk_w7000_1011.pdf
- Alligator Hide Tag Report Form for spring hunting in non-core counties: http://tpwd.texas.gov/publications/pwdforms/media/pwd_0304a_w7000_alligator_tag_report_form.pdf
- Living With Alligators public safety tips: http://tpwd.texas.gov/huntwild/wild/species/alligator/safety/index.phtml
Publication — Permission is granted to publish, in whole or in part, any news releases on this page.
Print — A print-friendly version of the news release shows only the release with font sizes set to the browser default.
Plain Text — Plain text versions of TPWD news releases are provided for copying and pasting into editing software.
To copy text into an editing software:
- Click a Plain Text link to display the plain text page in your browser.
- Select all.
- Copy.
- Paste in a document in your editing program.
Permalink — This is a direct link to the news release, omitting the navigation context from the URI.
English/Spanish — News releases posted in both English and Spanish have one of these links.
If you have any suggestions for improving these pages, send an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com and mention Plain Text Pages.
(5.4.16 i)


text:
@COMMENT This file was generated by bib2html.pl version 0.94
@COMMENT written by Patrick Riley
@COMMENT This file came from Mihail Pivtoraiko's publication pages at
@COMMENT http://www.seas.upenn.edu/~mihailp/pub/class_type.html
author = {Mihail Pivtoraiko},
title = {Differentially Constrained Motion Planning with State
Lattice Motion Primitives},
institution = {Robotics Institute, Carnegie Mellon University},
year = {2012},
number = {CMU-RI-TR-12-07},
abstract = { Robot motion planning with differential constraints has
received a great deal of attention in the last few
decades, yet it still remains a challenging
problem. Among a number of reasons, three stand
out. First, the differential constraints that most
physical robots exhibit render the coupling between
the control and state spaces quite
complicated. Second, it is commonly accepted that
robots must be able to operate in environments that
are partially or entirely unknown; classical motion
planning techniques that assume known structure of
the world frequently encounter difficulties when
applied in this setting. Third, such robots are
typically expected to operate with speed that is
commensurate with that of humans. This poses
stringent limitations on available runtime and often
hard real-time requirements on the motion
planner. The impressive advances in computing
capacity in recent years have been unable, by
themselves, to meet the computational challenge of
this problem. New algorithmic approaches to tackle
its difficulties continue to be developed to this
day. The approach advocated in this thesis is based
on encapsulating some of the complexity of
satisfying the differential constraints in
pre-computed controls that serve as {motion
primitives}, elementary motions that are combined to
form the solution trajectory for the system. The
contribution of this work is in developing a
{general approach} to constructing such motion
primitives, given a model of robot
mobility. Moreover, the approach allows an
unprecedented amount of {pre-computation} in
this domain, which yields a dramatic increase in
planning efficiency even for systems with complex
kinematics and dynamics. Lastly, the proposed motion
primitives are fully compatible with a {wide
range} of planning algorithms and allow such useful
techniques as incremental planning and
multi-directional search to be used in the context
of planning with differential constraints. These
ideas are demonstrated and validated on a number of
relevant systems, both in simulation and in real
experiments. This work promises to enable capable
and reliable motion planners with differential
constraints, as encountered in many realistic robot
systems with practical utility, operating
efficiently in cluttered, partially known
environments. },
bib2html_pubtype = {Tech Reports},
bib2html_rescat = {Kinodynamic Planning}


text:
I don't have zucchini planted at my new house this year, so I'll be visiting the farmer's market in my new town to satisfy that zucchini craving. For those of you who are lucky enough to have a garden, you can never have too many zucchini recipes, so check after the main recipe for some more zucchini dishes I've enjoyed.
(Sauteed Zucchini with Spinach and Basil Pesto was updated with better photos and step-by-step instructions, June 2013.)
Ten More Meatless Ideas for Amazing Zucchini from Kalyn's Kitchen:
Easy Cheesy Zucchini Bake
Garlic-Lover's Vegetable Stir-Fry
Vegetarian Stuffed Zucchini with Black Beans, Brown Rice, Chiles, Cheddar and Cotija Cheese
Zucchini Bake with Feta and Thyme
How to Grill Zucchini - Perfect Every Time
Zucchini Carpaccio (Raw Zucchini Salad with Lemon, Herbs, and Goat Chees
Grilled Zucchini Greek Salad
Sauteed Zucchini with Spinach and Basil Pesto
3-4 medium sized zucchini
1 T olive oil
2-3 large cloves of garlic, sliced
1/2 cup Spinach and Basil Pesto (or use store-bought pesto like I did in this recipe for a slightly different version)
salt and fresh ground black pepper to taste
Heat olive oil over medium-high heat in heavy frying pan with lid. Add garlic cloves and saute 1-2 minutes, just until you start to smell the garlic, then remove garlic cloves and discard.
Add zucchini to hot pan, arranging them in a single layer if possible. Turn heat to medium, then cover and cook about 4 minutes, turning the zucchini once or twice. After 4 minutes, check to see if both sides are browned and the squash is getting as tender as you'd like it. Cook 1-2 more minutes, uncovered, as needed until zucchini is tender-crisp and any liquid is evaporated.
Turn off heat and spoon pesto over zucchini and stir gently. Let it melt for a minute or two, season the zucchini to taste with salt and fresh-ground black pepper, put into serving dish, and serve immediately.
Blogger Disclosure:


text:
Posted 6 years ago
(2 items)
Elegant Cut Crystal Pedestal Compote
Referred to as being produced in the "Brilliant Era" Early 1900's
Heavy leaded glass intricately cut with geometric patterns
Just beneath the thick bold Cut Glass Bowl a circle of extending
Verdigris metal leaves with one Clear tear drop prism suspended from each leaf edge Cherubs adorn the stem of this elegant compote,all resting on a circular piece of marble with a crest of matching verdigris leaves.
I love this piece!
Victorian Sentimental Feminine


text:
Huge crowds of people are expected to descend on Maldon tonight as the town plays host to its festive fair.
Maldon Christmas Fair, organised by Maldon Mud Race Company, takes place in High Street from 6pm until 9pm.
Among the attractions will be candle lit processions from each end of High Street at 6pm and performances from The Shanty Men, Maldon Youth Orchestra, Great Totham singer-songwriter Sam Callahan, Maldon Big and Little Sing, Maldon Pantomime Society and various morris dancing groups and other entertainers.
Father Christmas will also take a break from his busy schedule to make an appearance at Maldon Town Hall, while 50 stalls will be manned and a number of shops will remain open until late.
High Street will be closed to traffic from West Square to Victoria Road from 5.30pm until 9.30pm and public buses will be diverted.
A park and ride bus service, picking up from the car parks at Tesco and Morrisons and dropping at Plume School, will be available during the event.


text:
ConfidencesBy Nick Antosca
If you are a writer with any presence on the Internet, even a very obscure one, you often get e-mails from strangers. Sometimes these strangers are quite eccentric, like the guy who once sent me a short story about men who were enslaved for breeding purposes and fed dog food. So I didn't give much thought to a cryptic e-mail I got in the summer of 2009 from a person named Innocente Fontana.
The e-mail contained a few terse words of praise for my first novel. I wrote back, "Innocente Fontana can't possibly be your real name … can it?" He didn't respond; three months passed. During that time, I was living off of unemployment benefits and savings from a job I'd recently lost, and I was feeling exhausted. To make a living as a writer, as I was trying to do, seemed impossible.
In the fall, presumably because he'd read a blog post I wrote about traveling in Morocco, Fontana e-mailed again. This e-mail was longer and mentioned that, decades back, he'd spent time in Tangier. He said he'd known Paul Bowles during that time, that Bowles had become his literary mentor. Skeptical, I probed for more detail. Who was he, really? Read More


text:
retrofuturist wrote:Enlightenment comes through the disentangling of the mind, not the tangling of legs.
retrofuturist wrote:Enlightenment comes through the disentangling of the mind, not the tangling of legs.
Tex wrote:If I can ask a parenthetical question without derailing the thread -- I've read more than once, on other more general Buddhism sites, that the full lotus position "has benefits" -- I assume they're talking about posture benefits, or do they mean something else, something more mystical or spiritual or that this particular position is more conducive to meditative attainments and so on?
I only ask because if there isn't a very compelling reason to sit full lotus then I'll continue to have no interest in attempting it.
There's really no need to get into the lotus position, or even the half lotus. I've read about meditators who have caused serious, irreversible damage to their joints after years of forcing themselves into the lotus position. Please do not hurt yourself!
clw_uk wrote:Ive being trying to get into this position but find it impossible, has anyone else had this trouble?
Anyone know any good stretching tips?
Return to "General Theravāda Meditation"
Users browsing this forum: No registered users and 30 guests


text:
Arizona cornerback commit Derek Babiash set out this season with a lofty goal: to surpass his interception total from his junior season. So far this year the three-star prospects team from Poway, Calif., is off to a solid start with a 3-2 record. The team's two losses came against two of the top teams in the area - Oceanside and La Costa Canyon.
Babiash is doing alright himself with six interceptions already. The 2013 prospect had 10 during his junior season.
"It's going good," the UA commit told GOAZCATS.com about his season so far. "We've got two losses, but we're just trying get better off those losses. But it's been good so far and we're having a lot of fun. ... I feel like I've been doing well on the defensive side of the ball. I've got six interceptions right now so I'm getting close to my record of 10 from last year. I got there pretty quickly."
Being able to be a ball hawk is not a skill every player possesses, and really not even every cornerback can do the things certain other players can when it comes to finding the ball. Babiash is hopeful that his ability to track the ball and make interceptions is something that gets him noticed by the UA staff in the future and can help him make an impact sooner rather than later.
"I hope that it definitely helps out a lot, because I want to play early" he said. "I feel like if I show that, it will transfer over and it would be nice."
The future Wildcat said he's been watching the Wildcats closely this season, and while the team's recent losses have disappointed him he's confident "they'll keep improving," he said.
After knocking off Valley Center, Calif., last Friday Babiash's game this week is a little more meaningful for a couple different reasons.
Friday night Poway will take on San Diego (Calif.) Torrey Pines to start the beginning of the all-important league season for the teams in California. Torrey Pines is, of course, the school that fellow UA commit Jacob Alsadek attends and the pair has been looking forward to this game for a long time.
At this point in the season both teams hold identical 3-2 records, so Friday's game is a big one for both squads.
"Oh yeah I'm definitely looking forward to that game," Babiash said. "It's going to be our last time as opponents and then the next time we take the field together it will be as teammates. I think it's going to be fun."
Babiash is planning to take his official visit after the season as things stand now - it will likely be the same time as Alsadek and some of the other San Diego area commits take theirs - but he hopes to get out on an unofficial visit to Tucson at some point this season as well.
Kickoff for Friday night's matchup between Poway and Torrey Pines is set for 7 p.m. at Torrey Pines High School.
Click Here to view this Link.Matt Moreno
GOAZCATS.com Senior Recruiting Editor


text:
Welcome to Union City Limousine Service
Union City Limo Service and AMB Limos have been leaders in executive and personal Limousine transportation in California for over years Whether you are in need of a ride to the airport, require limousine to transport clients to business functions, would like to have "A night on the town" with some close friends, Wedding,Bachelor/ette Party,Proms,Graduations,Concerts, Casino,Sporting Events or another unique occasion be sure to choose the most luxurious and friendly Union City Limousine Service.
Our professional Union City Limo chauffeurs know the way around San Francisco and major bay area hot spots and will get you to your final destination in a on-time and prompt matter. Union City Limousines will exceed all customers' expectations with every special occasion in Union City, California, making every moment memorable. We are committed to providing you with an exceptional Union City Limousine Service. You will be picked up by our formally dressed, professionally trained chauffeurs and allowed complete discretion.


text:
The Buffalo Bills just gave too much money to someone else's former backup. Didn't they just get burned doing the same thing?
It's good they realized their mistake in giving Ryan Fitzpatrick $59 million over six years, but the Bills wasted no time in making another one, signing former Cardinal Kevin Kolb to a two-year, $13 million contract.
The 2012 offseason was headlined by Peyton Manning, the highest-profile quarterback in league history, going from Indianapolis to Denver. A year later, we've settled for the uninspiring QB carousel that started with Kansas City trading for Alex Smith and has continued with Oakland trading for Matt Flynn. In between, Fitzpatrick and two more Matts (Cassel, Hasselbeck) moved to the Midwest, Jason Campbell resurfaced in Cleveland and Kolb bounced back in Buffalo.
All those teams should have learned this by now: Getting another team's refuse at quarterback isn't a trash-to-treasure proposition. At best, you're looking at a team transition from well below average to slightly above average. Really, the Chiefs should know this too, going from Matt Cassel to Smith. The Cardinals should think about this, as they're going from Kolb to Carson Palmer.
Of all those very non-Manning quarterbacks, only Hasselbeck, who's joining Andrew Luck in Indianapolis, is a no-doubter No. 2 going into the season. The other moves, made by the NFL's have-nots at the position, are desperate measures to catch up with the growing list of "have" quarterback teams and protect themselves from potential recent draft mistakes and future draft concerns.
The Colts and Broncos know they have a quarterback with whom they can win a Super Bowl in the near future. The 49ers (Colin Kaepernick), Seahawks (Russell Wilson) and Redskins (Robert Griffin III) also gained admission to that expanding club last season.
The Bills, Browns, Cardinals, Chiefs and Raiders are far removed from that group in 2013. You also can include the Jaguars, Eagles and Jets in the have-nots. Not surprisingly, those teams posted bad-enough records to hold eight of the top nine picks in this month's draft.
With the league's offensive explosion based on a passing boom, it's also no surprise there's only one path for teams in need of QBs to becoming true championship contenders—landing a true franchise passer.
There have been rare exceptions, such as Manning and Drew Brees becoming available because their former teams had first-round alternatives (Luck, Philip Rivers), but that usually requires a team to hit on a keeper through the draft. Over the past dozen seasons, take a look at most of the Super Bowl-winning QBs: Peyton Manning, Brees, Joe Flacco, Eli Manning, Aaron Rodgers, Ben Roethlisberger and Tom Brady.
Tampa Bay's Brad Johnson was in that mix, and before that stretch, Baltimore's Trent Dilfer. But those second-hand seasoned QBs happened to be buoyed by two of the best single-season defenses ever. Given where offenses are now and where they're headed, that one-sided formula just doesn't work anymore.
Even the teams with 2,000-yard runners in their backfields aren't feeling confident about their chances to compete fully with the quarterback haves. The Titans got Fitzpatrick to stick behind Jake Locker and the Vikings jumped on Cassel to push Christian Ponder; those teams already have doubts about their 2011 first-round picks. Heck, it's no secret the Browns aren't sold on 2012 first-rounder Brandon Weeden, with Campbell now in their pocket.
As much as Chargers have been frustrated at times with Rivers and the Cowboys have had highs and lows with Tony Romo, those quarterbacks still look the part of fiery winners, and that's why their teams are keeping them into their 30s as they chase rings. The Falcons know they have that type with the younger Matt Ryan.
The best part of those have-not teams' reasoning is that they're looking for next Matt Schaub, but they exercise faulty logic in going with one of the Matts or a Kolb. Let's remember that it took a while for the Texans to break through as a playoff team with Schaub, and they still need him to deliver more if they hope to get past Manning's Broncos, Flacco's Ravens and Brady's Patriots in the AFC. Also, Smith, Flynn, Fitzpatrick, Kolb and Palmer all have a history of failure that Schaub didn't have when he went from Atlanta to Houston.
There's also a sense of urgency (more like panic) for the have-nots to find a viable, even makeshift solution at quarterback, based on the fears of sticking too long with a young bust and getting lapped by the haves. Adding to that issue this year is the perception that there's no quarterback prospect in the draft that seems even close to a Luck, Griffin or Cam Newton. That prompted the Cardinals, the quarterback-neediest team in the league last season, to follow what they think is the "safer" route with the veteran Palmer.
Palmer wasn't good enough to solve the Raiders' quarterback problem, but he can rise again in Arizona because of a pay cut? Flynn didn't come close to beating out Wilson in Seattle, but he might work over Terrelle Pryor in Oakland? If Fitzpatrick was a high-priced disappointment in Buffalo, how does plugging in Kolb make sense?
Coming full circle on all these mediocre quarterback moves just makes us dizzier when contemplating what these teams are thinking.
Believe it or not, the quarterback have-nots that look the best, based on what they haven't done this offseason, are the Jaguars, Eagles and Jets. They all might be on the brink of giving up on what they have at quarterback, but they aren't rushing out to apply a flimsy band-aid to their situation.
Though nobody in the draft looks like Luck, Griffin or Newton at the moment, those three teams have new general managers and upgraded offensive coaching staffs to mold prospects such as Geno Smith, Matt Barkley and Ryan Nassib into something. Working fresh with another Ryan Tannehill type sounds more appealing than trying to resurrect the careers of damaged castoffs.
As more teams hit on their quarterbacks, the more you can expect the other teams that haven't done so will be pressured to scramble for answers. It doesn't help that youngsters such as Luck, Griffin and Newton came in and succeeded right away, further trying the patience of teams that haven't had such quick returns on their draft investments.
Just because there's a good market for second- and third-rate passers doesn't mean it's a good idea to tap into it. Breaking out of the vicious cycle isn't easy, but it can't be done by recycling quarterbacks.


text:
Phone Service Anderson IN
Home Phone Service Providers Anderson IN – Telephone Service In Anderson, Indiana
Finding home phone service providers is easy when you can compare home phone service providers by address. By entering your address in the check availability box above you can compare the home phone service calling plans available in your address, city and zipcode.
Check Availability Online: Home Phone Service Providers In Anderson IN
Whether it's family or friends, your home phone service connects you to the world. Especially in today's wireless world, reliable home phone service has a place in everyone's home.
The Best Telephone Service Providers In Anderson IN
Choose your home phone service plan and add the calling features you want. Select a long distance plan or try unlimited nationwide calling.
Residential Service Plans in Anderson, Indiana include:
- Call Waiting
- Voice Mail
- Caller ID
- Unlimited local phone
- Unlimited long distance
You can stay with your same local phone plan and choose a cheaper long distance carrier or you may choose to go with a different home telephone provider that combines lower cost local and long distance.
Don't wait, get started now by calling 1-866-731-1853
If you are moving or need to transfer your service, we'll set you up with a home phone service plan. From full cable bundles or local and long distance service with unlimited calling, you'll find competitive rates on home phone services. Enter your address to find and compare companies in your neighborhood.


text:
Marc Jacobs Home Perfume
By Marc Jacobs for Women
Marc Jacobs Home Perfume by Marc Jacobs, Marc jacobs is a signature creation by marc jacobs . The perfume is inspired by marc jacobs' love for entertaining at home. Women will relish this elegant and refined fragrance. It is designed to appease a range of aroma pallets. It is a thrilling fragrance for women who wish to express their wild spirit veiled under delicate femininity. The fragrance brims with exotic and intoxicating tropical accords for an intense aroma that everyone will notice. These ... Read More ... Read More bold accords are accentuated with the sensuous notes of passionflower. The intense notes of beech amber bring a rich and deep earthy feel to the concoction. All products are original, authentic name brands. We do not sell knockoffs or imitations.
Sorry, Marc Jacobs Home is not in stock
Enter your email and click "Notify Me" and we will email you as soon as it comes back in stock.
This product has 3 Out of Stock items |
10 oz Diffuser/Stick
Item #464483
Customers Who Bought This Item Also Bought
About Marc Jacobs
History and background of Marc Jacobs. Marc Jacobs was born in New York City on April 9, 1963. After graduating from the High School of Art and Design in 1981 he entered Parson's School of Design. As a design student at Parson's, Jacobs was the recipient of some of the schools highest honors. He was awarded the Perry Ellis Gold Thimble Award, the Chester Weinberg Gold Thimble Award Read more about Marc Jacobs
More Marc Jacobs fragrancesfor Women: Daisy , Marc Jacobs Decadence , Daisy Eau So Fresh , Daisy Dream , Marc Jacobs , more
for Men: Marc Jacobs , Bang Bang , Bang ,
See all Marc Jacobs products
Customer Comments
I'll sure return to FragranceX before going out and fighting the over crowded malls.
S. England (Tempe, AZ)
Reviewed by 1 customer
- Clean & Fresh
Best Uses
- Daily Use
Comments about Marc Jacobs Home Perfume:
- Gift:
- No


text:
Thanks to Chad Rothschiller for putting together these posts on performance.
In this release of Excel we spent dedicated research and development resources on improving performance. In addition to the usual optimizations and tuning efforts we make post âcode completeâ, we spent time during the development milestones researching, designing, and implementing performance features beyond algorithmic tuning. For this release, these are the areas where we focused our performance improvement efforts:
- Customer Feedback
- Large Data Set scenarios
- Calculation
- Multi-Core Opportunities
As youâve heard us say before, the Excel team takes performance very seriously. We know that our customers build intensive solutions that help businesses make key decisions, and performance of Excel and those solutions is paramount. In this 2-part series Iâm going to talk about the challenges and opportunities we embraced when planning our work for Excel 2010 performance.
In this post Iâm going to talk about the first one: what weâve been doing to address customer feedback around the performance of Excel 2007.
Improving Performance Based on Customer Feedback
Office 2007 was a big release for us, introducing some major architectural investments that resulted in significant new capabilities. We scaled up the size of the grid (now 1,048,576 rows by 16,384 columns), increased a bunch of limits across the product, introduced a shiny new graphics platform and invested in upgrading our charting abilities, implemented a new user interface, greatly expanded the concept and usage of styles, and shipped Excel Services, which shares source code with Excel client in order to ensure fidelity. We knew that performance of the new architecture was very important, so we spent a lot of time working on performance in Excel 2007. When we released Excel 2007 we had addressed the key performance issues we found during development, but we also knew that as customers started using Excel 2007, we would get additional feedback around performance. And we did.
A major initiative for us this release was to seek out that feedback, get engaged with the issues, and work to tackle them. Our goal was to seriously and significantly improve performance, but we knew that was going to be hard, given the big architectural changes that came with the Excel 2007 release. However, we dug in hard, got to work, and made good progress against our goals.
We gathered up as many customer examples as we could get our hands on (you might recall a blog post I made in January of this year to that effect) to identify the problems that people were seeing. I also searched the web for people making comments about Excel 2007 performance and sought out their examples and feedback. Thanks again to all of you who provided and continue to provide us with your workbooks. All of your files have been collected, run, analyzed, re-run (several times over) helping us to prioritize and fix the right set of problems.
In the âcustomer feedbackâ category, here are the key areas where we made performance investments for Excel 2010:
Printer & Page Layout View
Page Layout View relies on printer-specific information and calculates a lot more layout information in order to render the view as the printer would. Unfortunately, Excel 2007 spent lots of time talking to the printer, re-talking to the printer, and calculating these metrics. As a result, basic tasks like entering data in the sheet could potentially be noticeably slower.
If the default printer happened to be offline, Excel 2007 ended up waiting for a very long printer timeout before becoming responsive again.
To address these issues, Excel 2010 caches the printer settings and weâve further optimized the render calculations. Weâve also made connecting to the printer cancelable so that you as the user remain in control.
We saw a good number of performance issues with Excel 2007 related to having lots of shapes on a worksheet (often theyâre hidden shapes, the result of copy/pasting from a web page). The Office graphics team has taken a good look at those scenarios and done a lot of work to speed up performance in this area.
Additionally we took a look at Shape object model â*.selectâ performance and made good improvements there. The chart below shows how long it takes Excel 2007 vs. a beta version of Excel 2010 to run the following code, updating 300 text boxes with the text âchadâ (call me a narcissist):
For i = 1 To 300
Selection.Characters.Text = "chad"
Next i
As you can see, weâre seeing huge gains in this area, compared to Excel 2007.
Ben Rampson outlines the significant charting performance improvements in a recent Excel blog post.
VBA Solutions
Another area of customer feedback was around performance of Excel 2007 when driven by VBA object model. Some of the ways that the OM was driving Excel exposed performance issues that simply werenât noticeable when just booting up and interacting with Excel. For example, typing values in a cell felt responsive and fast. But running VBA code to update 100K cells with new values (one at a time) showed that Excel 2007 had significantly slowed down.
After receiving a good number of examples from you folks, we were able to run, analyze, fix, re-run and continue iterative performance fixing in this area. Hereâs a summary of our gains:
This graphic shows that nearly 70% of the workbooks in our VBA solutions test suite (the workbooks you all sent us) will see significant performance gains when run using Excel 2010, with about 30% of those solutions at least cutting the Excel 2007 times in half, if not more (some of those solutions clock in around 5% of the Excel 2007 time).
Closing Excel
Another, slightly smaller performance issue with Excel 2007 is the amount of time it takes to close down and free memory up to work with other programs, especially closing down after working with really large workbooks. With Excel 2010 we implemented a fast shutdown mechanism, and I hope you enjoy the snappiness.
In the next post Iâll talk about performance improvements we made around Large Data Set scenarios, Calculation, and Multi-Core investments.


text:
While trying to throw from a woodsy area the other day, I scratched my cornea because of a branch. I'm no doctor, but I have some advice. First off, wearing sunglasses is a good habit. If you don't like wearing them, keep a pair in your bag for shots from the woods.
I went to the emergency room with my injury, and they pretty much just gave me some antibiotics, a tetanus shot, and some pain pills. My eye still hurt just as bad for three days, until I went to an actual eye doctor. He corrected my problem almost immediately by giving me a "bandage," which was like a contact lens, that let my eye heal without my eyelid rubbing against it.


text:
Posted 5 years ago
(675 items)
This was a purchase very late last year. It arrived two days ago in the post. In fact I have Ozmarty to thank for this one. I had not looked at the auctions for a while but Marty thought I might be interested. It had been catalogued as: "Glass Vase / Heavy Glass vase 14cm high./ Brown and Clear spotted". I thought that it looked interesting and had a go at it. I liked the 'controlled bubbles'. I had no idea of its origins. There was no photo of the foot and no mention of marks. It was a 'punt'.
When it arrived I could not believe the weight of the box. I took it downstairs and unpacked it to see it for the first time. I was actually quite happy with what I saw. I felt the glass and my fingers didn't have the 'greasy feel' of Chinese glass. I liked the shape and it reminded me of something familiar. Paul said to me "What do you think it is?". I said that it was Czech, maybe Skrdlovice or maybe Milan Metelák. It was time for the afternoon nap and when I woke I went hunting on the net.
It was not long before I knew what it was.
The base is ground flat and is nicely rounded off at the edge.
This one is indeed heavy. I've tried to weigh it on the kitchen scales but it is too heavy for them. The spots it seems are mica inclusions.
Metelák Milan (1928 - 1993)
Significant glass artist but also a talented painter, elder son of Alois Metelák, the first director Železný Glass School. The strong family tradition Milan Metelák attended this school in the period 1943 - 1947, in the years 1947 - 1952 he studied at the VŠUP in Prague with prof. Stipl and from 1948 to 1951 also studied at the Pedagogical Faculty of Karlovy University. In 1955 took over the design department at Harrachov: Borské sklo n. p., Nový Bor - sklárna Harrachov/
Height 14 cm or 5.5".


text:
Editor's note: This market commentary is provided by the Dairy Division at FCStone/Downes-O'Neill in Chicago, Ill.
Another 1k+ trading session brought with it price increases to the Class III market. With the still substantial price discount in place vs. the spot pricing, futures need to see spot tumble in order for futures declines. Futures prices have gone just about nowhere in the last week or more of trading as they chop around and consolidate. The July milk chart appears to have formed a bit of a double top and looks as though it has no more upward movement to go to; it appears as though it would take a spot cheese shocker of a sharp move up to give the July contract greater legs to the upside at this time.
While the spot price increase did firm up the nearby Class III prices, it did nothing to inspire back months which fell one to eleven cents from Nov 2011 to Dec 2012. In other words, July-October may have rallied (they did) but not much and the futures traders seem to not have been fooled into buying much Monday, as we closed well off the intra-day highs.
Cash-settled cheese futures traded a strong 87 times. Prices there were steady to slightly higher. Clients continue to tell us of their ability to procure cheese at a discount to the board price, and that leads us to believe a fall in price is near but we have been a bit early in our couple days of suggesting this.
In the evening session, volume came quick with 87 contracts trading before 9 p.m. in Chicago. Prices were 2 lower in June and as much as 7 higher elsewhere. By morning, 128 contracts had traded and prices were 5 lower in June and steady to 14 higher elsewhere, with most of the volume coming in the July and August months, which were 3 and 7 higher, respectively.
We look for Class III to open mixed.
Corn prices are at a bit of a standstill; they rallied as much as 7 to 8 cents yesterday, but ultimately came back to a near unchanged close with one and two tick gains. Over the next two weeks, the market will have a slew of data to digest, including the USDA Quarterly Grain stocks-in-all-positions report and the planted Acreage Report. Considerable amounts of money have left the grains recently, and there hasn't even been much of a dead-cat-type bounce… yet.
We look for corn to open 8 to 10 cents higher; soybeans to open 10 to 12 higher.
Daily CME spot market prices:
Block cheese: $2.13 (up 1 cent)
Barrel cheese: $2.0675 (unchanged)
Butter: $2.14 (unchanged)
Grade A NFDM: $1.65 (down 0.25 cent)
These data and comments are provided for information purposes only and are not intended to be used for specific trading strategies. Commodity trading is risky and FCStone Group, Inc., International Assets Holding Corporation, and their affiliates assume no liability for the use of any information contained herein. Although all information is believed to be reliable, we cannot guarantee its accuracy and completeness. Past financial results are not necessarily indicative of future performance. Any examples given are strictly hypothetical and no representation is being made that any person will or is likely to achieve profits or losses similar to those examples. References to and discussions of exchange traded products are made solely on behalf of FCStone, LLC. References to and discussions of OTC products are made solely on behalf of INTL Hanley, LLC, and OTC products are only available to eligible counterparties.
Source: FCStone/Downes-O'Neill


text:
I can't believe this..... I thought in Phil Jackson's book he said how much he would never want Jalen Rose on his team; that he disrupted an offense way too much.
'); var yuipath = 'clientscript/yui'; var yuicombopath = ''; var remoteyui = false; } else // Load Rest of YUI remotely (where possible) { var yuipath = 'http://yui.yahooapis.com/2.9.0/build'; var yuicombopath = 'http://yui.yahooapis.com/combo'; var remoteyui = true; if (!yuicombopath) { document.write('
I can't believe this..... I thought in Phil Jackson's book he said how much he would never want Jalen Rose on his team; that he disrupted an offense way too much.
"It's just unfortunate that we've been penalized so much this year and nothing has happened to the Pistons, the Palace or the city of Detroit," he said. "It's almost like it's always our fault. The league knows it. They should be ashamed of themselves to let the security be as lax as it is around here."
----------------- Reggie Miller
Originally Posted by PacerFanInAZ
He also said a few bad things about Kobe also...
Originally Posted by vapacersfan
And it also talked about if the pacers waived Bender....
i think the lakers have been interested in jalen for some time now....especially with phil liking big guards....i could see jalen playing pg for phil in the triangle...
lets see...
jalen, kobe, kwame....
wonder if spree and rodman would be interested in playing for the lakers..
If Phil can get Jalen, Kobe and Kwame to behave than he's even better than I thought....
It wasn't about being the team everyone loved, it was about beating the teams everyone else loved.
Division Champions 1955, 1956, 1988, 1989, 1990, 2002, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2008
Conference Champions 1955, 1956, 1988, 2005
NBA Champions 1989, 1990, 2004
It's true ... I think Jalen's a hottie.
Little note on the article, its written by Eric Pincus . He's the same guy who came on the WNDE drive with JMV, claiming his sources had assured him Bender and pick #17 were being traded to the Lakers for George , Medvedenko and a #2 pick.
Not saying Eric , is not to be believed . But I believe this article is purely his ideas of possible trades. I seriously doubt either of his rumored deals are actual trades being discussed.
Eric is a young guy trying to get his foot in the door in the sports industry as a reporter. He's a great guy , but I often question how much he hears and how much is him piecing together parts of different things he hears from other outlets.
You'll notice he says Bender could be waived as a form of compansation for Pacers backing out of a deal. A deal he reported but which Walsh and Bird said never was even discussed. He also says if you believe the deal ever really existed.
Just my little comments on the "rumored Laker trades" .
Originally Posted by Los Angeles
Come to the Dark Side -- There's cookies!
You're obviously veryOriginally Posted by Los Angeles
Originally Posted by Los Angeles


text:
More than 30 CTA members from community colleges, CSU, UC and students came together to urge lawmakers to vote against CTA-opposed SB 520. This bill, a measure by Senate President Pro Tem Darrell Steinberg (D-Sacramento), would divert education dollars to private contractors to provide online lower-division courses, instead of college faculty.
Bill opponents wanted to lobby members of the Assembly before they left for summer break because the bill may be heard in the Assembly as soon as lawmakers return.
Every child deserves a chance to learn and no child succeeds alone.
© 1999-


text:
TEMPE, Ariz. — If for no other reason than that he is owed $42 million over the next two seasons by the Los Angeles Angels, the topic of Vernon Wells' playing time will come up often.
And it certainly will come up if he is hitting well.
Although Cactus League games are most valuable for preparation and roster consideration, Wells is hitting. He is 7-for-18 with three homers, eight RBIs and two stolen bases in eight games.
It was going to take this kind of performance to earn a real look from manager Mike Scioscia because Wells, despite his big price tag, has produced just an 86 OPS-plus in his two seasons with the Angels.
The problem is that Peter Bourjos, the team's projected starting center fielder and the guy standing in the way of more playing time for Wells, also is playing pretty well. In 27 at-bats, Bourjos has eight hits (three triples), six RBIs and five runs.
Unless Bourjos wanders off a cliff and never is heard from again, Wells probably will need a flashlight and bloodhound in order to find at-bats early in the season — even if Scioscia speaks with political correctness on March 13 with nearly three weeks before opening day.
"There's no doubt that he's made some adjustments in the batter's box and I think you're seeing that quick bat and him drive the ball, but you're also seeing him stay on pitches and hit balls hard to right field. That's when he's at his best," Scioscia said Wednesday as Wells prepared to take batting practice.
"There is playing time to be won by a lot of guys and Vernon is one of those guys. You're talking about a guy who is just a couple of years removed from a monster season and he just hasn't brought that to us, but it's in there. If he can get to that level, there's no doubt that his playing time is going to increase."
Wells was an All-Star with the Toronto Blue Jays in 2010, but the Jays wanted out from what was left of his seven-year, $126 million deal. In his final season in Canada, Wells hit 31 homers and had a 125 OPS-plus while playing a solid center field.
He has tanked since being traded to the Angels before the 2011 season; Wells played in 77 games last season because he was so bad.
With Torii Hunter gone, Bourjos is getting the first crack to be third everyday outfielder (with Mike Trout and Josh Hamilton). Mark Trumbo also will get playing time in the outfield when he can't DH or play first base.
Even if Wells continues his hot spring, it won't assure him of anything. What will earn him playing time is taking full advantage of his opportunities in April. Trumbo already is an established hitter, and Bourjos, entering his third full major league season, will be given every chance to succeed by the organization that drafted him in the 10th round in 2005.
"You want to evaluate where you are and there is a certain look Peter gives you in the lineup, a certain look Vernon gives you in the lineup, a certain look when Trumbo is out there playing defense," Scioscia said. "There's going to be a lot of different options you're going to look at and use, but I think if we find continuity, you want to roll with it.
"How it comes is just how it evolves."


text:
Uhm.... I don't think so this time. Check the profile status.This quote is hidden because you are ignoring this member. Show Quote
Ring the bell?
Anyway, I honestly think this will ultimately end up with either NBC Sports Net, CBS Sports Net, or this Fox Sports 1 going under. Either that, or we're gonna see a lot of viewership demands as the networks jostle for exclusives.


text:
I bet you're all wondering why I've called you back here. Btowncolt is dead. His body was found pumped full of lead by the strip joint, Little Bo Peep's. I'll give you one guess on who done it.
We all knew who done it. It was the same man that put a hit out on my father a few weeks ago. Caine S. Lupus. He was Capone's right-hand man's right hand man. He was a fat little **** who did as he was told. He talked a lot of ****, but sent his boys to do his dirty work. His boys were never alone. They would walk the streets at night in packs. They were dogs, every last one of them. My family and I referred to them as The Wolves.
I've had a beef with Lupus ever since he showed up in the Windy City. You see, my father owned a speakeasy called Market Square. It was the most successful joint in all of Illinois, and still is thanks to me and btown. Rumor has it that Capone himself wanted in on the action, but my father wanted none of it. He was concerned that if the speakeasy were to ever lose business and he couldn't pay Capone, that something would happen to me as a result. A few months later, Lupus and his pack shows up and starts causing trouble. A few weeks ago, my father was gunned down in the city market. Three men were arrested for it, but they got off clean after Lupus testified that they were with him at his joint all night. The boys got off like nothing ever happened. Thing is, I wasn't about to let my father's death go so quickly. That miserable, fat ******* would pay for what he did.
I decided to track down my childhood friend, btowncolt. He was at his family's farm in Indiana, that boy sure did love his sheep. I explained the situation, he said he knew a made man that could help us out. After paying btown's man off we were able to become made men ourselves. We quickly formed a family of our own; mainly a bunch of guys, and a gal, who also had a beef with Lupus and his family. We are the type of family that doesn't mess with you, until you **** with us. Then you better pray that God takes you up for a visit before we get ahold of you. Our first act as a family was gunning down the three accused men in front of their houses for all of their families and neighbors to see. I felt I had avenged my father, but I wasn't ready for the consequences.
The day before he was whacked, btown came to me with some news. Apparently a couple of wolves had approached him with an enticing offer. Lupus was willing to make btown his right-hand man if he helped Lupus ice me and take over the speak easy. Btown wasn't no sap and said he'd definitely consider it; they gave him 24 hours to come up with an answer. His death led me to believe that btown said no. This news however made me suspicious. What if Lupus had paid off some of my guys already? What if there were wolves in my family right now? One could be tending bar even as I sit here thinking.
In my paranoid state, I hired my own private investigator to look into members of my family. The P.I. reports to me only and is paid in cash. Not even my bodyguard, Pig Nash, knows about my acquaintance. I've also hired a doctor, in secret as well, to save my family members if The Wolves ever got to them.
I have a feeling that there will be more deaths in the future. Starting today. Someone has got to pay for my best friend's death. Who will it be? You wiseguys figure it out and get back to me, by sundown.
Pig Nash - Killed in drive-by Day 5 (one of us)
Belli - Gunned down by wolves Day 7 (one of us)
Sweabs - Damn dirty wolf!
Trader Joe - Shot by Boss Hogg by btown's grave Night 4 (one of us)
Toxic Avenger - Gunned down by wolves Night 1 (one of us)
Sookie - Died fighting the wolves Day 9
SoupisGood- Damn dirty wolf!
Since86- Gunned down by food cart Day 3 (our own crooked cop)
Dab - Filled with lead by N8R, Merz and Boss Hogg on Day 5 (Damn dirty wolf!)
cdash - Shot by Boss Hogg in alley Day 7 (one of us)
flox - Shot by Boss Hogg in Market Square (our own P.I.)
kuq - Sleepin with the fishes Night 6 (one of our own)
SycamoreKen - Shot by VAPacersfan Day 9 (one of us)
Los Angeles- Gunned down outside Lupus's joint on Night 2 (D*mn dirty wolf!)
N8R - Choked in apartment hallway Night 8 (one of us)
VAPacersFan- *****in traitor (infected human)
billbradley - Hung by his stethoscope Night 6 (Our doctor)
Anthem- Exiled by Ms. Piggy back to England Night 8 (one of us)
GO!!!!! - Gunned down outside Market Square Day 4 (one of us)
Trophy - Slug between the eyes Day 1 (one of us)
Merz - Whereabouts unkown Day 9 (one of us)
Basic Rules:
1.) There are 21 players. 4 wolves, 1 seer (private investigator), 1 angel (doctor), and 15 humans.
2.) Wolves confer and eat one person every "night."
3.) The seer finds out the role (human, angel, or wolf) of one person every "night."
4.) The angel protects one person at night from being eaten. If the wolves select the same person as the angel, the next morning the story must reflect the fact that person was "saved" by the angel and no one died during the night.
5.) Humans vote for someone to die during the "day." They may change their vote once per day. The person with the most votes at the end of the day is sent to die and the story reveals what that person was (wolf, seer, angel, or human).
6.) Wolves win by outnumbering the humans during the "day" and over running the town and eating everyone remaining.
7.) The humans (and the seer and angel) win by killing all of the wolves.
8.)The seer, angel, or wolves may not reveal themselves in the thread.
9.)Please do not use the forum software to win the game. Hicks hasn't gotten back to us about appearing offline, so we'll have to use the honor system in this game.
10.)No posting Pms on the thread! They're supposed to be private. You can talk about the content, but no copying and pasting the actual message. Also, try and work the content into the story.
11.)During this game we're gonna try something new. One time during the game, the wolves can infect someone of their choosing. If someone is infected they become a wolf. If the angel protects that person, then the infection doesn't happen and the wolves are screwed. No redos! I'll make it clear in the story when the infection has happened. It'll be your job to figure out who they got.
12.)Once you're dead you can't post any of your predictions or assumptions of who's a wolf, seer, or angel. You can post a goodbye story though. Dead players can not contact people via PM that are still playing.
Congratulations to the winners of the game. The wolves: Sweabs, SoupisGood, and VAPacersfan. You guys laid low and had everyone pointing at everyone, but you. Great job.


text:
- When:
Add This Event To YourSunday, March 17, 2013
at 10:30 AM
- Where:
- Boe Memorial Chapel,
- Web Link:
- http://www.stolaf.edu/multimedia
- Contact:
- Lisa Brown
Sunday Morning Worship: 5th Sunday in Lent
5th Sunday in Lent. Service of Holy Communion Preacher - Pastor John Gorder. Choir - Cantorei, James Bobb, conductor.
Sunday Worship is a time of inspiration and worship for body, mind and spirit; a meaningful beginning to a new week. All are welcome!
If you are unable to join us in person, but would like to listen to live or archived Chapel services, please click the web link above.
< Return to main calendar page


text:
Travels with Myself and Another (Paperback)
Tarcher, 9781585420902, 294pp.
Publication Date: February 1, 2012
Hemingway is, of course, the unnamed "other" in the title of this tart memoir, first published in 1979, in which Gellhorn describes her globe-spanning adventures, both accompanied and alone. With razor-sharp humor and exceptional insight into place and character, she tells of a tense week spent among dissidents in Moscow; long days whiled away in a disused water tank with hippies clustered at Eilat on the Red Sea; and her journeys by sampan and horse to the interior of China during the Sino-Japanese War.
Now including a foreward by Bill Buford and photographs of Gellhorn with Hemingway, Dorothy Parker, Madame Chiang Kai-shek, Gary Cooper, and others, this new edition rediscovers the voice of an extraordinary woman and brings back into print an irresistibly entertaining classic.
About the Author
Praise For Travels with Myself and Another…
"Gellhorn is incapable of writing a dull sentence."—The Times (London)


text:
OROVILLE — A large, enthusiastic crowd packed the dining room of Feather Falls Brewing Co. Wednesday night for a festive event that honored a handful of Oroville's many business owners.
The event was the 69th annual Movers and Shakers gala, a dinner and ceremony where the Oroville Chamber of Commerce gave out its awards for 2012.
Master of ceremonies Jim Moll got the presentations started at 8 p.m.
There were five awards. Each award was presented by the 2011 recipient, followed by certificates awarded by representatives of U.S. Rep. Doug LaMalfa, state Sen. Jim Nielsen and state Assemblyman Dan Logue.
The first award for the 2012 Ambassador of the Year went to Melissa McKenzie
The award recognizes the recipient for his or her contributions toward promoting Oroville.
"We do it because we live here and we love Oroville," said presenter Tammy Flicker.
Next, Chamber President and CEO Claudia Knaus talked about some of the unusual and humorous situations the Chamber has been involved in, along with the odd requests people make.
"Working at the Chamber is complex, challenging, unpredictable, interesting and fun," Knaus said.
Chamber Director Darryl Pruitt presented the Director of the Year award to Dave Miller.
"He's a pillar of the community ... being with him at meetings, you definitely have a good time," Pruitt said.
Miller, who owns Ad-Ventures, was a Chamber director for four terms before stepping down last year.
"This gives me great pleasure," he said. "The board would seek revenge by honoring me with this distinguished recognition."
Modern Carpet Cleaning owner Richard Smith presented the Small Business of the Year award to Darryl and Tina Pruitt, who own Darryl's Painting.
"These people are really involved in the community and really care about it," said Smith in introducing the Pruitts. "This is the first city, the first community that has embraced them, (and) that they call home."
"I have one thing to say, and that's 'thank you' to Oroville, and that's it," Darryl Pruitt said.
The Large Business of the Year award went to Oroville Ford and owners Bob Byrd and Benny Brown. Byrd accepted the award. Presenter Ed Gilbert noted Brown and Byrd bought Hobbie Auto Center last year and plan to remodel the facility, which is now the Oro Dam Auto Center. They also plan to construct a new Ford building next to the Auto Center and are expanding facilities in Susanville.
Before naming the recipient of the final award for Business Professional of the Year, presenter Les Elam noted a business' reputation is established within minutes of a customer's first interaction with a company's representative.
Kim Elam listed the traits the award recipient showed, such as listening to others, and being kind, considerate and caring.
"He has a 'yes we can' spirit," she said, adding that he also shows "amazing" support for his employer and organizations he does volunteer work for.
The Business Professional of the Year was awarded to Vince Carano, who is the finance manager of Oroville Ford, involved in several organizations and does fundraisers and other volunteer work.
"It's been a great honor working for all you folks," Carano told the audience.
After the ceremony, Carano said he hadn't expected the award.
"There are so many deserving people," he said. "I just want to give back."
Staff writer Barbara Arrigoni can be reached at 533-3136, email@example.com, or on Twitter @OMRBarbara.