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From the DVD case:
Something evil has taken possession of the small town of Santa Mira, California. Hysterical people accuse their loved ones of being emotionless impostors; of not being themselves. At first, Dr. Miles Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) tries to convince them they're wrong, but they're not. Plant-like extraterrestrials have invaded Earth, replicating the villagers in giant seed "pods" and taking possession of their souls while they sleep. Soon the entire town is overwhelmed by the inhuman horror, but it won't stop there. In a terrifying race for his life, Dr. Bennell escapes to warn the world of the deadly invasion of the pod people! Remade in both 1978 and 1997, this chilling combination of extraterrestrial terror and anti-conformity paranoia is considered one of the great cult classics of the genre. (1956, b&w)
Mark says:
I'd never commit myself to this, but Invasion of the Body Snatchers may be my all-time favorite sci-fi/horror film of the 1950s. I love the idea of society slowly being invaded by unfeeling creatures that look just like you and me. The story is based on a Collier's Magazine serial by Jack Finney.
A lot has been said about the cold war symbolism in this movie, with the "pod people" representing either communists or McCarthyists. Because I don't want to spend a lot of time on this aspect, let me quote Director Don Siegel's take on this interpretation:
I think that the world is populated by pods and I wanted to show them. I think so many people have no feeling about cultural things, no feeling of pain, of sorrow. I wanted to get it over and I didn't know of a better way to get it over than in this particular film. I thought I shot it very imaginatively. And I was encouraged all the time by [producer] Wanger. The film was nearly ruined by those in charge at Allied Artists who added a preface and ending that I don't like.
The political reference to Senator McCarthy and totalitarianism was inescapable but I tried not to emphasize it because I feel that motion pictures are primarily to entertain and I did not want to preach.
Alan Lovell: Don Siegel. American Cinema. London 1975, S. 54
So there you go.
The preface and ending that Siegel mentions are the opening scene where Dr. Bennell (Kevin McCarthy) is being held as a mental patient, and the final scene where Bennell's story is corroborated. Allied Artists did not want a negative ending and so the preface and conclusion were tacked on later. Bennell's narration of the story was also added to help the viewer follow the plot (we are such idiots). Though I am accustomed to the Allied Artists version of the film, I certainly would be interested in a DVD that presents both renditions of this movie.
I'm not going to retell the story, as most of you have seen some version of this film already (if not the original, the 1978 or 1997 remakes). If you haven't seen Invasion of the Body Snatchers in any of its incarnations, use the DVD description above as a synopsis.
However, I will discuss the talented actors that bring this story to life. Kevin McCarthy (The Howling) is perfect in the role of Dr. Miles Bennell. When playing the part of a human surrounded by pod impostors, it's important that the human comes off as feeling and vulnerable. Dr. Bennell, as evident in his choice of profession, is a person who genuinely cares for other people. I love how he interacts with his nurse Sally, played by Jean Willes (Abbott and Costello Go to Mars). Their conversation is playful, almost flirty, and they obviously feel a great respect for one another. Dr. Bennell isn't perfect, though. We learn that he is recently divorced, and perhaps devoted too much time to his work and not enough time at home.
Dr. Bennell's love interest, Becky Driscoll, is played superbly by the ravishing Dana Wynter. Becky is also recently divorced, and finds herself in a rekindled romance with her high school sweetheart, Miles Bennell. The two actors work wonderfully together, and their fondness for one another is completely convincing. I always chuckle at this line Dr. Bennell uses on Becky as he opens a door for her:
Becky: Is this an example of your bedside manner, doctor?
Dr. Bennell: No, ma'am. That comes later.
The supporting cast is also impressive. King Donovan (The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms, The Magnetic Monster) plays writer Jack Belicec, a man who finds himself duplicated on his own pool table. Carolyn Jones (1953's House of Wax) is Jack's wife, Theodora, who first notices the similarity between Jack and the body developing in their home. Also, featured in the preface and conclusion of the film, Whit Bissell (Monster on the Campus, I Was a Teenage Werewolf) plays Dr. Hill, a man reluctant to believe the ravings of an obviously disturbed Dr. Bennell.
Of course, Siegel's direction is what gives Invasion of the Body Snatchers its classy feel. This could have been another 1950's sci-fi/horror camp schlockfest, but Siegel was wise enough to concentrate on the story and acting rather than throwing money away on special effects. The money that was used for special effects (less than $15,000) was put to good use by production designer, Ted Haworth. Haworth produced some amazing work for such a small budget. The greenhouse scene impresses me to this day.
I would be remiss not to mention how much the music of Carmen Dragon adds to the movie. Right from the outset we are steeped in a sense of foreboding. As seemingly innocent clouds roll by, Dragon's startling theme alerts us to something sinister afoot. Before the action even begins, the suspenseful tone is set.
The scene everyone remembers is the final sequence (well, it should have been the final sequence) where Dr. Bennell runs out into traffic shouting insanely, "They're here already! You're next! You're next! You're next!" This would have been a fitting ending, and a warning to all of us to beware of becoming "pod people." After all, there is a certain temptation to submit to the pod way of life. As one of the duplicates explains: "Love, desire, ambition, faith – without them life is so much simpler."
But don't be swayed, friends. Those pod folks are dull.
Scene to watch for: Dr. Bennell takes a pitchfork to the body replicas developing in the greenhouse.
Line to listen for: "I never knew fear until I kissed Becky."
Trivia: Sam Peckinpah (who would later go on to direct the violent classic, The Wild Bunch) has a bit part as a meter reader in this film. He often claimed he was responsible for major script revisions, but when the screenwriter, Daniel Mainwaring, threatened to file an official complaint with the WGA, Peckinpah ceased his claims.
Mark's Rating: ! ! ! ! ! out of 5.

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Shaky defense puts Tribe in hole vs. Yankees
Santana finishes with three hits, RBIs after his defensive miscue
NEW YORK -- Jose Ramirez glided to his left, reached down and plucked the skipping baseball from the ground. The Indians shortstop spun and threw off-balance to first base, doing all he could to rob New York's Derek Jeter of a first-inning hit on Friday night.
The throw was on target and in time, but the ball clanked off the glove of first baseman Carlos Santana and fell to the dirt. If you have been searching for a reason why Cleveland is not in the thick of the postseason hunt, look no further than that early gaffe and the hole it helped create in a 10-6 loss to the Yankees.
All year long, routine plays have been ruinous.
"I think we all understand the type of team we need to be to win," manager Terry Francona said. "Not making teams earn every single thing they get doesn't put us in the best position to win."
Inconsistency has plagued both the offense and rotation -- the latter issue arose again in the form of Trevor Bauer's abbreviated outing -- but it has been the Tribe's defense that has been most detrimental. Coming off a three-error showing on Thursday, Cleveland saw its Major League-leading total climb to 91 on Friday.
Santana, who has mostly performed well at first base, was not charged with an error in the first inning, but the non-catch nudged the floodgate open. Jeter was credited with an infield hit -- moving him into a tie with Hall-of-Famer Honus Wagner for sixth on baseball's all-time list with 3,430 -- to begin a five-run rally for New York.
Santana said the area around first base hurt his footwork.
"The field was a little wet," Santana said. "I don't know what happened, but I tried to catch the ball and I slipped a little bit when I tried to [find] the base. The ball came and I dropped it. I know it was hard. It was a long inning. I feel bad, because I want to play good defense."
The early damage was sufficient in sending the Indians on their way to a fourth straight loss, coming directly on the heels of what had been a promising four-game winning streak.
Bauer ended with four walks in his 3 1/3 innings, which included three free passes in the opening frame. The right-hander walked Brian McCann to load the bases in the first and then proceeded to walk Chase Headley to force in a run. Stephen Drew and Martin Prado then followed with consecutive run-scoring singles to push New York ahead, 5-1.
"I start off kind of slow sometimes," said Bauer, who dropped to 4-7 on the season. "I have flashes where I just can't really come close and I can't really locate anything. I threw some pitches that I thought were strikes that weren't, and I threw some pitches that clearly were nowhere close. I ended up walking some people.
"That's a tough way to start the game off. You make a couple good pitches and are in a good spot, and then you're not all of a sudden."
It did not help matters that the Indians did little against righty Esmil Rogers -- the former Cleveland reliever making his first start with New York. The righty limited the Tribe to an RBI single by Santana in the first, turning in five solid innings after having logged no more than three frames in his previous 18 appearances this year.
The Yankees broke things open in the sixth inning, when Carlos Beltran launched a pitch from reliever John Axford deep to right-center field for a one-out grand slam. Thanks to three walks, one hit batsmen, an error by Ramirez and a pair of extra-base hits, New York posted another five spot for a 10-2 lead.
The Indians did what they could to mount a comeback, but the considerable deficit proved too much to overcome.
"That's a hard way to play," Francona said.
David Murphy contributed an RBI single in the sixth and Michael Brantley jump-started a four-run seventh by drawing a bases-loaded walk against New York reliever Shawn Kelley. Santana then came through with a two-run double and Murphy delivered a run-scoring sacrifice fly, but that is where the rally ended.
"They scored some runs," Bauer said. "Unfortunately, I wasn't able to go out there, give us some length and keep us in it."
Also unfortunate, once again, were the defensive missteps.
"We didn't make the first inning any easier," Francona said.


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The world's most popular open source database
MySQL has support for full-text indexing and searching:
A full-text index in MySQL is an index of type
Full-text indexes can be used only with
MyISAM tables, and can be created only for
VARCHAR, or
TEXT columns.
FULLTEXT index definition can be given in
CREATE TABLE statement when
a table is created, or added later using
ALTER TABLE or
For large data sets, it is much faster to load your data into
a table that has no
FULLTEXT index and then
create the index after that, than to load data into a table
that has an existing
FULLTEXT index.
Full-text searching is performed using
MATCH() ... AGAINST syntax.
MATCH() takes a comma-separated
list that names the columns to be searched.
AGAINST takes a string to search for, and an
optional modifier that indicates what type of search to perform.
The search string must be a literal string, not a variable or a
column name. There are three types of full-text searches:
A boolean search interprets the search string using the rules
of a special query language. The string contains the words to
search for. It can also contain operators that specify
requirements such that a word must be present or absent in
matching rows, or that it should be weighted higher or lower
than usual. Common words such as "some" or
"then" are stopwords and do not match if present
in the search string. The
modifier specifies a boolean search. For more information, see
Section 11.8.2, "Boolean Full-Text Searches".
A natural language search interprets the search string as a
phrase in natural human language (a phrase in free text).
There are no special operators. The stopword list applies. In
addition, words that are present in 50% or more of the rows
are considered common and do not match. Full-text searches are
natural language searches if the
MODE modifier is given or if no modifier is given.
A query expansion search is a modification of a natural
language search. The search string is used to perform a
natural language search. Then words from the most relevant
rows returned by the search are added to the search string and
the search is done again. The query returns the rows from the
second search. The
QUERY EXPANSION or
EXPANSION modifier specifies a query expansion
search. For more information, see
Section 11.8.3, "Full-Text Searches with Query Expansion".
IN NATURAL LANGUAGE MODE and
NATURAL LANGUAGE MODE WITH QUERY EXPANSION modifiers
were added in MySQL 5.1.7.
Constraints on full-text searching are listed in Section 11.8.5, "Full-Text Restrictions".
The myisam_ftdump utility can be used to dump the contents of a full-text index. This may be helpful for debugging full-text queries. See Section 4.6.2, "myisam_ftdump — Display Full-Text Index information".
|Posted by Dyfed Lloyd Evans on October 21 2002 12:39am
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Hyphen '-' characters break literals at the moment.
A search for something like "GATA-D22S690" finds
all entries containing GATA and not the full
hyphenated text. The '-' character is treated as a
word stop even within literals. The same is true if
any of the special text search modifiers are used (eg
+, -, ~) so that hyphenated literals are not correctlyfound with full text searches.
|Posted by Patrick O'Lone on December 9 2002 6:51am
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It should be noted in the documentation that IN
BOOLEAN MODE will almost always return a
relevance of 1.0. In order to get a relevance that is
meaningful, you'll need to:
SELECT MATCH('Content') AGAINST ('keyword1
keyword2') as Relevance FROM table WHERE MATCH
('Content') AGAINST('+keyword1 +keyword2' IN
BOOLEAN MODE) HAVING Relevance > 0.2 ORDER
BY Relevance DESC
Notice that you are doing a regular relevance query
to obtain relevance factors combined with a WHERE
clause that uses BOOLEAN MODE. The BOOLEAN
MODE gives you the subset that fulfills the
requirements of the BOOLEAN search, the relevance
query fulfills the relevance factor, and the HAVING
clause (in this case) ensures that the document is
relevant to the search (i.e. documents that score
less than 0.2 are considered irrelevant). This also
allows you to order by relevance.
This may or may not be a bug in the way that IN
BOOLEAN MODE operates, although the comments
I've read on the mailing list suggest that IN
BOOLEAN MODE's relevance ranking is not very
complicated, thus lending itself poorly for actually
providing relevant documents. BTW - I didn't notice
a performance loss for doing this, since it appears
MySQL only performs the FULLTEXT search once,
even though the two MATCH clauses are different.
Use EXPLAIN to prove this.
|Posted by Nathan Ostgard on April 14 2003 8:25am
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An easy solution to correct for spelling errors for small search items like the name of the city is to build a column that contains the SOUNDEX of each. I've found that using a 4 character SOUNDEX works the best. An example:
ALTER TABLE cities ADD city_soundex VARCHAR(4) NOT NULL;
UPDATE cities SET city_soundex=LEFT(SOUNDEX(city_name),4);
And then to query against:
SELECT * FROM citites WHERE city_soundex=LEFT(SOUNDEX('Some City Name'),4);
|Posted by Jim Nguyen on June 18 2003 6:33pm
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The full-text search is slow when there are a lot of rows in the table. I have more than 2 million rows with text and multiple word searches (3 or more) take about 30 seconds to a minute or longer.
I am running a Athlon 2.2 Ghz with 512 MB DDR RAM 400 Mhz. Hard drive has seek time of 9 ms.
|Posted by Alan Riley on July 14 2003 11:46am
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We too have a database with close to 6 million rows in it. We would like to use the fulltext search, but it is painfully slow. The sad thing is that any one query we need to run only needs to be run on a subset of the rows (think of those 6 million rows as being divided between about 80 different categories, with results only needed to be returned from within a category). It is a shame that there isn't some way for us to have a fulltext index within the rows of another column which is also indexed.
Our next shot at this is going to be to create 80 different tables, one for each category (yuck!), just to try to get decent performance on the within-category fulltext search.
I would think there is enough interest in fulltext search for there to be an email list dedicated to it where those of us who need to use it on real-world web sites could interact with the developers to try to tune it for the good of the community at large.
|Posted by Donal McMullan on September 24 2003 6:06am
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The nature of fulltext indexing is such that the more 'words' (of greater than the minimum length) that appear in the columns you index, the greater will be size of the index, and the time it takes to create and search that index.
4 Million rows x 6 words per row = 24 Million entries
4 Million rows x 30 words per row = 120 Million entries
If you index intelligently, you may well find that the feature meets your needs, despite what some users may have remarked above. "Number of rows" is useless as a benchmarking statistic on its own.
|Posted by Erlend Strømsvik on October 23 2003 8:41pm
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I've got a webshop running with mysql. We have 1.6 million booktitles in our database, and our fulltext index is from title and 'extra' title. Maybe around 5-7 words on average per record.
Any fulltext search in our database takes around 1-5ms. A three word search can take a few seconds but still faster than anything else...Even Amazon.
This is from our main server which has several thousand hits every day. We are one of the biggest booksellers in my country.
-This was in 'reply' to someone posting earlier about poor performance in 'real world situation'.
|Posted by Jerome C on December 3 2003 9:12pm
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We have a vast database of products (totaling 3 million rows).
The rebuild of the full-text index took 21 minutes to complete.
As for the search, a multiple word search on the full-text index of 1 field is as follows:
20 rows returned
Query took 1.0263 sec
The size of the index is very big though.
Index 449,529 KB
We are going to eliminate unnecessary words which should make the index smaller.
|Posted by Ben Margolin on December 19 2003 3:40am
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The indexing process definitely depends on your machine config. I indexed the same dataset, same mysql version (4.0.16, -standard on Linux, -nt on XP).
First machine: a 512M Athlon 2100 running WinXP on a RAID1 array, and it took 9 mins 20 sec.
Second machine: 1G RAM P4-2.0ghz, running Linux 7.3 (2.4.20-13.7 kernel), one-spindle (but fast) IDE disk, and it took 29 mins 11 sec.
The query was "alter table msg_bodies add fulltext fti_bodies (subject, body);", and the dataset is about 550M, 1.3 million rows.
Both machines were mostly idle when the indexing occurred. I know it's just anecdotal, but if you run a big alter as I did, don't be surprised if it takes a while... oh yeah, and then be prepared for MUCH longer than normal insert times when you add large data to the FT indexed columns. This makes sense of course, but, at least on my dataset and hardware, is positively NOT neglible. FYI.
|Posted by Jeffrey Yuen on February 2 2004 9:49pm
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Full text searching in 4.1.1
For Chinese charset in UTF-8 encoding.
It needed to set ft_min_word_len =1
|Posted by Eric Jacolin on February 4 2004 5:39am
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(MySQL 4.1)
To make FULLTEXT MATCH work with Japanese UTF-8 text, be careful that words from your Japanese text be separated by the __ASCII__ space character, not Japanese UTF-8 (or other) spacing characters.
(when using phpMyAdmin to manage data/ write a SQL query, you must switch away from your Japanese IME to insert a space char...)
|Posted by Tom Cunningham on February 5 2004 5:42am
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Tom's fulltext tips: To get MySQL searching well for me I did:
1. Have a normalized versions of the important columns: where you've stripped punctuation and converted numerals to words ('1' to 'one'). Likewise normalise the search string.
2. Have a combined fulltext index on your searchable columns to use in your 'WHERE' clause, but then have separate fulltext indexes on each column to use in the 'ORDER BY' clause, so they can have different weights.
3. For the scoring algorithm, include the independent importance of that record, and include a match of the inclusive index against stemmed versions of the search words (as: "wedding" => "wed", "weddings").
4. If there's exactly one result, go straight to that record.
5. If you get no results, try matching against the start of the most important column (WHERE column LIKE 'term%'), and put a 5-character index on that column. This helps if someone is searching on a very short word or a stopword.
6. Reduce minimum word length to 3, and make a new stopwords list just using "a an and the is in which we you to on this by of with". Use "REPAIR TABLE xxx QUICK" to rebuild the index and make a note of the index-file (xxx.MYI) size before and after you make changes. Then use ft_dump to tune.
|Posted by James Munro on April 5 2004 12:11am
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There's an interesting and helpful set of slides about fulltext search by Sergei Golubchik (the developer of this stuff) at http://www.phpconference.de/2003/slides/database_track/golubchik_mysql_fulltext_search_2003.pdf
It throws some light on quite a few of the questions posed here.
|Posted by Attila Nagy on April 19 2004 11:29pm
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More about performance:
Fulltext search in MySQL isn't slow really. It's slower than normal index selects, but that's not noticable.
I'm playing tables that each contains ca 4million records, about 6GB of text that needs to be indexed. The problem lies in the optimization of the queries, that use the MATCH() and AGAINST() functions. So far as I found out MySQL can use in a query only one index. The optimizer looks for the index that will possibly give the smallest amount of rows, then goes trough all of these, and removes those records, that fall out because of the other WHERE statements.
When you enter a fulltext search, the server _has_ to use that index. Any other statments could be applied only to the rows that were returned by the search. If you have lots of records, most of the searches will return lots of results. The rest of your query will be executed like if you were executing it against a table that contains the results, and no indexes - obviously that will be processed sequentially.
Same thing applies when you use the SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS, or LIMIT with high offset values: first the server has to load all the results, then the limit could be applied.
If you _have_ to use the fulltext, these are some hints how you could get quite good results:
- Try to avoid any group, where, order and any statements for what it's necessary to get all the results. I know, usually this is impossible.
- If you need to show the results on a web page, try to find other methods to get the total number of results than using SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS. Better if you don't tell the user at all how many results there are ;)
- If indexing text that is in other language than english, before doing anything create a stopword file for your language! (That could reduce index size about 30%)
But most important: think a lot, before you decide to use fulltext search!
|Posted by Peter Dunham on April 22 2004 12:23am
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We are doing fulltext searches of around 200 tables of 1/4 -1/2 million rows each. Upgrading a twin cpu 2Ghz linux machine (running ES 3) from 1GB to 3GB RAM and increasing key_buffer_size from 384MB to 512MB has seen load averages go from 1.5-2 to around 0.5, with same usage.
|Posted by Peter Grigor on May 29 2004 12:59pm
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Hi Attilla:
I'm not sure I agree with your comment that Mysql *always* uses a fulltext index if you include match...against.
I tried a sample query where I used match...against and another value in the where clause (on the primary keyed field) and Mysql's optimizer picked the primary key index.
The statement looked like "select something from sometable where match(col1, col2) against ('some text here') and pk_col = 44
|Posted by JT Johnston on July 1 2004 2:45am
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http://dev.mysql.com/doc/mysql/en/Fulltext_Boolean.html states you cannot do a full-text search in Boolean Mode by relevancy. You can, but you need mysql version 4+. Take note of "ORDER BY relevancy DESC".
Here is my code/example:
SELECT *,MATCH (YR,AU,ST,SD,SC,BT,BD,BC,AT,AD,AC,JR,KW,AUS,GEO,AN,RB,CO,RR) AGAINST ('Margaret Atwood' IN BOOLEAN MODE) AS relevancy FROM
ccl_main WHERE MATCH (YR,AU,ST,SD,SC,BT,BD,BC,AT,AD,AC,JR,KW,AUS,GEO,AN,RB,CO,RR) AGAINST ('Margaret Atwood' IN BOOLEAN MODE) ORDER BY
relevancy DESC;]
|Posted by James Day on August 19 2004 12:18am
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See The Full-Text Stuff That We Didn't Put In The Manual at http://dev.mysql.com/tech-resources/articles/full-text-revealed.html for more information about full-text search.
|Posted by James on August 31 2004 4:08am
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Thought some benchmarks for a very large data set might be useful to people. I created a full-text index on a 100 gig database, where the index was on a column where the data totals 3 gig. The index added 2 gig to the database. The database has 2,741,000 records. The textual content is technical literature in US English.
Machine: The machine is an Athlon XP 3200+ w/ 1 gig RAM, one drive for the OS, and another 250GB EIDE drive for the MySQL data. OS is Redhat 9.
Index creation: 3 hours 5 min. Most of that time was probably copying the table (since MySQL copies the table before it modifies it). The process was definitely disk-limited -- CPU usage was never regularly above 50%. I believe that were it not for the excess data to copy, the index creation would have taken about 45 minutes.
Queries were chosen to compare rare words, common words, and words of different lengths. All queries seemed to be disk-limited (CPU utilization hardly moved off baseline), which makes sense given that there is not enough RAM to hold the index in memory. All queries were done mutiple times and the average time reported. Results follow.
Word, Rows, Seconds, Seconds/Row
bilobed, 4, 0.15, 0.0375
mends, 4, 0.19, 0.0475
nanotechnology, 23, 0.64, 0.0278
bioluminescent, 53, 1.53, 0.0289
photosynthesis, 81, 2.21, 0.0273
graphite, 5070, 123.00, 0.0243
bicycle, 5385, 122.00, 0.0227
titanium, 13503, 350.00, 0.0259
(titanium,graphite), 18423, 425.00, 0.0231
metal, 151095, 4020.00, 0.0266
This is just a small test on the way to indexing the full 100 gig in the database that I am working on for http://www.freepatentsonline.com. I'll post results for that once I have a new server built.
|Posted by noel darlow on September 3 2004 11:51pm
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In reply to Patrick O'Lone's post, above:
The first, non-boolean MATCH can't keep pace with the second, boolean one since it does not recognise the boolean operators. A search for foo* might turn up rows with foo, foobar, foofighters, etc but the non-boolean, relevance MATCH can't "count" anything except foo. Same problem with a phrase search.
Since effectively you can't use boolean operators in the second, boolean MATCH, it's rendered pointless.
Results could be post-processed with your own ranking algorithm but it's kind of odd that you can't do a boolean search AND rank results in the query.
|Posted by Dave M on September 12 2004 3:44pm
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Those looking to simply match a search phrase in a large group of words, try this:
SELECT * FROM data WHERE
haystack LIKE ('%needle%')
AND haystack RLIKE '[[:<:]]needle[[:>:]]'
This query will produce the same result as the following query, but is roughly 20X faster.
SELECT * FROM data WHERE
haystack RLIKE '[[:<:]]needle[[:>:]]'
For more than one word use:
haystack LIKE ('%word1%word2%')
AND haystack RLIKE '[[:<:]]word1[[:>:]].*[[:<:]]word2[[:>:]]'
|Posted by James Day on September 26 2004 11:23am
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The Wikipedia encyclopedia uses MySQL boolean full text search and MySQL 4.0.20. You can assess the speed yourselves. About 350,000 articles/ rows in the English language version, roughtly 5GB total. For all languages, one million articles and 10GB of text.
It's very important to have a sufficiently large key_buffer_size. Get much of the index in RAM and searches are typically very fast. Because we use InnoDB tables and can't share cache between InnoDB and MyISAM, we're moving to a setup which will use a dedicated and MyISAM tuned search server.
We run a slow query killer which will kill queries once their allowed time expires. That time depends on server load (active thread count). Documented at http://wp.wikidev.net/Querybane
It turns out that our current search often spends most time on things other than full text search - an improved version which is much more efficient is pending. Remember that you can use a self join to get around the one index per query limit of MySQL.
Search remains our most problematic load feature, requiring a couple of quite capable slaves to keep up at busy time. If we're working on the servers and the remainder can't handle the load, we switch to Google or Yahoo search. This is from one of the top few hundred sites on the net, so it's scaling pretty well for our application. One server was sufficiently fast to take us to the top 1,000.
|Posted by Andrew Panin on October 7 2004 1:05pm
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Hi all! I had a problem with FULLTEXT search and after I solved it, I want to try to help you. I thought that FULLTEXT search is slow. That was. But I did a simple trick:
1. For example, we have 4 tables with fulltext index. We need to perform fast search on them.
2. Do the following:
CREATE TEMPORARY TABLE xxx SELECT id, name, MATCH(name) AGAINST ('search_string') AS relevancy FROM table1;
INSERT INTO xxx SELECT id, name, MATCH(name) AGAINST ('search_string') AS relevancy FROM table2 ...
3. Then, when the temporary table is filled with the data, do the simple select from it:
SELECT id, name FROM xxx ORDER BY relevancy DESC
4. That's all.
I think, it is the optimal way to make a VERY FAST fulltext search from a number of tables. I hope, this will be helpful.
|Posted by Dennis van den Ende on December 27 2004 1:43pm
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Allthough my fulltext serach works fine, i still have problems with it.
i compare products with there prices. i used the "relevance" idea (written above). But it will not recognize it correctly.
Heres my query:
SELECT *, MATCH( field ) AGAINST ('blabla') as relevance FROM `table` WHERE MATCH( field ) AGAINST ('blabla' IN BOOLEAN MODE ) HAVING relevance > 0.2
for example it finds 18 rows. to increase the rows, i checked (manuelly) the relevance. 3 above 18 (all 18.xxx) and the rest about 10.3 or lower. If i increase the "having" to 15, it finds only 2 of 3.
The field i use is the only index-field and ofcourse a fulltext specific field.
it seems that the relevance is taking part of the search results.
i am still looking for another idea but the relevance would cover my needs 100%
I just updated the mysql version from 4.0.15 to 4.1.8 and it works perfectly...
|Posted by Mauricio Wolff on February 4 2005 1:35pm
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to set up min_len and stopword_file in windows (win2k or xp):
1. run services.msc to check what .ini your mysql is reading (in my case, "C:\MySQL\bin\mysqld-nt" --defaults-file="C:\MySQL\my.ini" MySQL)
2. change your my.ini like this:
3. restart your mysqld at services.msc
4. reindex your table using REPAIR TABLE tbl_name QUICK;
|Posted by Peter Laursen on April 28 2005 9:39am
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it is legal to use two different arguments with the "double match construction", i.e.
select * , match (artist,album,title) against ('blues in orbit') from musicfiles where match (artist,album,title) against ('ellington');
will FIND all records with 'ellington' as substring of artist, album or title, but will RATE them as the search match'es 'blues in orbit'
You can even .... ORDER BY or GROUP BY MATCH (kunstner,albumtitel,titel) AGAINST ('prelude to a kiss'); ... or against anything else!
|Posted by Grant Harrison on June 9 2005 8:48pm
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Maybe a little off topic here.
Alternatively, instead of doing all full-text search within MySql
database, you can pull data out and create an index on it.
It's a much faster search.
I am using DBSight to search on 1.7million records of 1.2G data, on a P3 450MHz, 256MRam, with sub-second performance.
Taking search out of database also give you capability to customize stemmer and query parser.
|Posted by Erik Petersen on July 13 2005 8:06am
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When using FULLTEXT queries on large set data sets it's critical to LIMIT your results. Doing some experimentation has made this very clear. Using a data set of 5.5 million rows of forum message posts indexed with a single FULLTEXT index:
select id, match(post) against('foo') as score from messages where match (body) against( 'foo' );
155323 rows in set (16 min 7.51 sec)
select id, match(post) against('foo') as score from messages where match (body) against( 'foo' ) limit 100;
100 rows in set (1.25 sec)
I ran a number of other tests on various terms known to be in the text with similar results.
These were run in reverse order shown. Make sure you return only the rows you need or you will suffer. For a search engine application returning pages of results keep in mind that nobody is going to ever see page 74! Cap the results to a reasonable maximum trading response time for completeness where possible.
|Posted by kim markegard on August 25 2005 5:23pm
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In regards to Dyfed Lloyd Evans comment, I believe that "." will also cause this which is unfortunate because we have product name acronyms we'd like to seach.
|Posted by Nathan Huebner on October 29 2005 6:39pm
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After tons of hours today working on this, I HAVE FINALLY MASTERED THE TECHNIQUE OF USING THIS THING!!!!
# This query is what you send to your MySQL to return the results. I put the LIMIT so that you don't overflow.
$query_ret="SELECT ProductID, Title, Description, Price, RetailPrice, MATCH (Title) AGAINST ('$keyword') AS score FROM server.book HAVING score > 0 LIMIT $start, $maxret;";
# This query will COUNT the number of rows it found. (I believe that's correct), I don't believe it counts occurrences, just rows. I saw that if you pull back without a LIMIT above, and count that way, it's 100000x slower. So do your count like this:
$query_count="SELECT count(MATCH(Title) AGAINST('$keyword')) AS score FROM server.book WHERE MATCH (Title) AGAINST ('$keyword') HAVING score > 0;";
Make sure you have your Primary Key setup, your Title and Description as SEPARATE FULLTEXT INDEXES. I spent a few hours boggling over this.
|Posted by Saqib Aziz on November 24 2005 10:46pm
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There is no way to perdict what maximum relevance rank could be. While working with full text searches one may want to show percentages as the criteria for indicating how close a particular record was to the search query. To achieve this, one way is to select the maximum relevance rank or score and then use it( as a denominator ) with every single record score to get percentage equivalent of score.
For the sake of example, consider we have 6 as maximum rank and 2,3,4.234 are scores for three different records. Now to get percentage we have to do simple maths i.e., we can divide each score by 6(max rank) and then mulitply the result with 100.
(2/6)*100 = ..%
(3/6)*100 = ..%
(4.234/6)*100 = ..%
Hope this helps someone.
Saqib Aziz
|Posted by Gary Bickford on December 13 2005 10:49pm
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The link in James Munro's comment regarding Sergei Golubchik's PHP Conference slides (http://www.phpconference.de/2003/slides/database_track/golubchik_mysql_fulltext_search_2003.pdf)
no longer seems to work.
The following link works, today at least. :) http://www.php-kongress.de/2003/slides/database_track/golubchik_mysql_fulltext_search_2003.pdf.
|Posted by Nathan Huebner on January 12 2006 2:59pm
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Tips on how to maximize performance, and minimize return time.
Let me guess: you have a lot of data, and you went ahead and FULLTEXT indexed a column within that large pile of data. To put it in simple words: not cool.
How long does your data take to return from a FULLTEXT search... 5 seconds? More? If you're returning data under 3 seconds, then you're ok, but if you want it to return in 1.3 seconds, here's what I did.
1. Dont fulltext index a column within a huge table. Instead, take a Unique Identifier, and the text you're searching, and copy it to another table.
Use this to export your columns:
SELECT uniquecolumn, mytextsearchcolumn FROM mydatabase.mytable INTO OUTFILE "c:/path/outfile.txt";
That will export your data to a file in Tab Delimited format.
Now, create a new table somewhere, and call it fulltextengine or something, with only 2 columns (less is better), you could add one more if you need to.
Now import your data:
LOAD DATA INFILE "c:/path/outfile.txt" IGNORE INTO TABLE mydatabase.fulltextengine;
Now, create your FULLTEXT index on your search field.
Great. Now you have a separate table for searching. So if you want to try it out, go into MySQL, and try this, or PHPmyAdmin:
SELECT SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS uniquecolumn, searchcolumn, MATCH (searchcolumn) AGAINST
('Keyword Goes Here') AS score FROM mydatabase.fulltextengine HAVING score > 0;
Hope this helps!
It may add extra maintenance, but I will give up my soul to increase search speeds by 6x.
|Posted by Joe Soap on July 11 2006 4:31pm
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Not sure if this is useful for people trying to reduce their search dataset. But what I'm doing is preprocessing the text before I add it to the database. So I add the full text to my FileData column, but I also preprocess the text and put this processed text into a Keywords column. Then I search only the keywords column and never the full text.
This technique obviously (you'll see why) doesn't work for phrase matching but it may speed up the search time by reducing the size of the dataset to search. Here's the algorithm I use.
1. extract the text
2. count each word of 2 or more characters in the text and record the frequency that each occurs
3. from this list of words 2 or more characters long, remove the k (k currently = 500) most common words in the english dictionary
4. sort the list so that the most frequently occurring words appear first
5. take the first n words as the final keywords, where n > 0 and n < the total number of remaining words
|Posted by Tasuku SUENAGA on July 30 2006 8:27am
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If you have performance problems on fulltext search,
Please try Senna, fulltext search engine that can be embedded in MySQL.
Original MySQL fulltext search is slow for query SELECT COUNT(*) or SELECT * FROM xx LIMIT large_number,x.
These queries are very fast with Senna's 2ind patch.
|Posted by Gary Osborne on August 19 2006 2:46am
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I'm not convinced that stop-words are of great value. Sure, they might reduce the size of the index and speed-up queries for some kinds of databases. But there are two fundamental flaws with "mandatory" stop-words. Firstly, without knowing in advance the nature of the data, how can any programmer proclaim to know which words should be excluded because they have no value? Secondly, if a user includes any stop word in a search query, then by definition that word's value can not be zero. If the word's value was zero, then why would the user use it in a search query?
If you need to disable stop-words without re-compiling, consider appending a character to the end of each word in your text before inserting your text into the database. I used "q". I also right-padded all words shorter than 4 characters to a length of 4 characters by appending "q"s. And I appended a " " to the end of my text string before inserting into the database.
After retrieving my text from the database, I did a global replace on my text. I changed "qqq" to "", "qq" to "", and "q " to " " - in that order - to restore the text to it's original form. That was not the best solution but it worked. Luckily for me, my text was simply a space delimited list of words without and punctuation. Otherwise, my "q" encoding and decoding would have been more difficult.
|Posted by Sebastian Alberoni on September 27 2006 8:59pm
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Combining MATCH with MAX, GROUP BY and ORDER BY can be of a lot of help when retrieving results in the correct order regarding relevance.
For example, using this I could solve a problem with one table called 'Professional', which had a many-to-many reference to another table 'Profession'. Although I was using DISTINCT I was getting duplicate results because of different relevance values that MATCH was giving to the different entrances in 'Professions'.
Here I am copying the final query that worked OK (it's a bit simplified):
select distinct p.idProfessional, MAX(MATCH (pssion.name, pssion.description) AGAINST ('string to search')) as professionRanking FROM professional p, professional_profession pp, profession pssion WHERE pp.Professional_idProfessional = p.idProfessional AND pp.Profession_idProfession = pssion.idProfession and ( MATCH (pssion.name, pssion.description) AGAINST ('string to search') GROUP BY p.idProfessional ORDER BY professionRanking DESC
|Posted by miguel vm on May 20 2007 6:44pm
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The truth behind fulltext search, is that MySql first split text into single words, then indexes isolated words pointing to records. These are logical steps that many of us previously had tried before MySql fulltext commands creation. I created a PHP program some years ago to perform exactly the same split-and-index task.
This is the reason MATCH command allows prefixed wildcards but not postfixed wilcards. Since single words are indexed, a postfix wildcard is impossible to manage in the usual way index does. You can't retrieve '*nited states' instantly from index because left characters are the most important part of index.
Even so, I hope MySql developers some day implement postfix wildcars, because for many of us, it is important to perform a truly 'full text' search. To say something, if I have a record with the word 'database' , I want retrieve this record when searching by 'tabas', an impossible task for actual fulltext search command.
It's easy to see that such a command can gain lot of performance, even when MySql developers be obliged to search byte to byte into the indexed words.
If you have a big table with text descriptions , to say 1 GB size, it is possible that quantity of different words into text will not pass from 500.000, maybe 1.000.000 words, averaging 8 bytes each, total 8 MB of data to be browsed, instead the 1 GB you should seek byte to byte to find what you want.
This is a 1 GB / 8 MB = 125 , or two orders of magnitude lower in terms of processing.
|Posted by Sergejzr Zr on July 27 2007 8:23pm
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Unfortunately it is not possible to combine Fulltext field and normal (i.e integer) field into one index. Since only one index per query can be used, that seems be a problem
id(integer primary key)|content(text fulltext indexed)|status(integer key)
Note that executing folowing query, mysql will use only one index. Either fulltext, or status (Depending on intern statistics).
SELECT * FROM table WHERE MATCH(content) AGAINST('searchQuery') AND status = 1
However it is still possible to use both indexes in one query. You will need a new index on id,status pair and use join. Thus mysql will be able to use one index for each table.
SELECT t1.* from table t1 LEFT JOIN table t2 ON(t1.id=t2.id) WHERE MATCH(t1.content)AGAINST('searchQuery') AND status=1
Q2 will run significantly faster than Q1 at least in my case :)
Note the overhead: You will need an id for each row and a key wich is spanned over needed fields strating with id.
|Posted by Phoebe Bright on August 14 2007 2:06pm
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Using this for the first time I picked an unfortunate test and took a while before I worked out why it wasn't working. In the hopes of saving other newbies some time:
This will work:
SELECT * FROM myfile WHERE description LIKE '%sea%'
But this will return nothing:
SELECT * FROM myfile WHERE MATCH (description) AGAINST ('sea')
need to set ft_min_word_len to 3 in the configuration file if you want it to work.
|Posted by Mohamed Mahir on September 28 2007 2:15am
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To get the first exact matching record of the Full text search i wrote like this..
SELECT MATCH (column) AGAINST ('keyword') relevancy FROM t1 WHERE MATCH (column) AGAINST ('keyword') ORDER BY relevancy DESC LIMIT 1
|Posted by Neil Delargy on October 19 2007 8:37am
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One solution to find a word with a dashes or hyphens in is to use FULL TEXT SEARCH IN BOOLEAN MODE, and to enclose the word with the hyphen / dash in double quotes.
|Posted by Derek Foreman on October 31 2007 4:20pm
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I use Mediawiki that makes use of the FullText searching and was not getting results I knew were in the database. After reading this page I realized that mysql won't index words 3 characters or less by default. The solution is detailed clearly in this page;
Change the ft_min_word_len setting. You can find what the server is using by running:
SHOW VARIABLES LIKE 'ft%';
Then you'll have to rebuild the indexes on the tables that have FULLTEXT indices, because the server I'm using had several databases I needed a quick way to identify which tables these were.
I could then rebuild the tables.
|Posted by Jane Doe on November 28 2007 3:39pm
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You could also try Sphinx, http://sphinxsearch.com/
Very fast and flexible, and works nice with MySQL.
Eliminates many of the issues mentioned here in the comments, also ;)
|Posted by Yves Latour on February 6 2008 5:03am
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Thanks for the tip 'Jane Doe', I can only agree: If you have a problem with mysql and search, especially these types of problems:
- multi-million rows table
- indexing takes forever (30mins+)
- search takes forever (1sec+)
- PAGING takes forever (if you have tried to do paging from a massive db table, you know this is a major pain)
... then 'sphinxsearch' is a real eye opener. Here is a real live example of multi-million rows table query with paging and it is lightning fast. This is a price comparison site with over 12,000,000 prices to compare http://www.preisomat.com/ - I used to use mysql fulltext, but as prices have to be updated at least daily, indexing became a real pain, paging was not possible. That made me looking into 'sphinxsearch' and sphinx works great with MYSQL, just read your tables into sphinx and it indexes and searches lightning fast and passes the values back to use it in MYSQL again. Look at an example of what used to be a problem query:
This returns 23,285 results in 0.007 seconds out of 12,000,000 entries and it counts the results.
Sorry for so much text, but my discovery of sphinxsearch is for me and my webapplications a milestone almost as big as the step from html to php/mysql.
|Posted by Andreas Mayer on January 18 2009 2:47am
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It is possible to extract certain words directly from the full-text index (for instance, for an AutoSuggest feature). See http://blog.dev001.net/2009/01/implementing-an-autosuggest-feature-using-mysql-fulltext-indices/


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Netstat is a program used to see what protocols, local and remote ports your computer is using and open to the Internet. Netstat can also be used to find your own IP address
To get to netstat in windows 98/2000 and Xp
Click on start\programs\Accessories then click on command prompt
When the command prompt opens, it brings up a black box and what you will see on the screen is the following
Yours will be different if you use windows 2000 or 98 the switches listed below will work on all of them
Microsoft Windows Xp [Version 5.1.2600]
(C) Copyright 1985-2001 Microsoft Corp.
C:\>Documents and settings\User _
Microsoft Windows 2000 [Version 5.00.2195 ]
(C) copyright 1995-2000 Microsoft Corp.
Looks boring huh well lets give it something to do
Netstat uses these following Switches [-a] [-e] [-n] [-o] [-s] [-p proto] [-r] [interval]
(To bring this help screen up at the comand prompt type Netstat ? and this will bring up the list you see below)
I will explain what each one does
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Melbourne-based husband and wife duo Shauna Toohey and Mischa Hollenbach conceived of Perks and Mini as a deliverance for progressive graphic design. Their line of casually upscale womenswear, from t-shirts and sweatshirts to pleated jersey skirts, draws on the pair's eye for effortless, street-savvy separates while advancing adventurous graphics. Frequent collaborations have included artists Mike Kelley, Fergadelic, and Genevive Gauckler.


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NORTH AUGUSTA One man is dead and two are recovering after being shot by a gun store owner during a burglary of his business Thursday morning.
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Stephen Bayazes Jr., 57, told officers that he and his wife were asleep in an apartment at the back of the business, Guns & Ammo Gunsmith, 522 Edgefield Road, shortly before 4 a.m. when he awoke after hearing a loud crash and the activation of a silent alarm.
Bayazes grabbed an AR-15 semiautomatic rifle and found three men loading guns into a van that had crashed through the side wall of the store.
After hearing the men yell to kill him, Bayazes shot one 30-round magazine of .223-caliber bullets before retreating to his bedroom to reload, he later told officers.
As he left the room, Bayazes saw two men drive away in the van.
KRaven Aude Goodwin, 20, of Eastover, S.C., was wounded and left behind at the gun
Aiken County Coroner Tim Carlton said Goodwin died of gunshot wounds shortly after arriving at Medical College of Georgia Hospital.
The two other suspects were found at Waffle House on Martintown Road, about three miles away. Investigators said the men, who had both been shot, stopped at the restaurant to seek help.
Eddie Stewart, 30, of Columbia, and Franklin Robinson, 27, of Gadsden, S.C., were taken to a hospital. Details on their injuries have not been released.
Aiken County sheriffs Sgt. Jason Feemster said it appeared that all of the stolen merchandise was in the van.
Hours after the incident, a construction crew worked to repair the damaged wall. Parts of the ceiling and glass from display cases still littered the floor.
The store owner said it was not the first time the store has been a target.
In 2009, the store was burglarized.
Shortly afterward, Bayazes and his wife moved into an apartment in the back.
Bayazes was not injured.
Feemster said Bayazes was within his rights to use lethal force.
If someone is breaking in your home or business, you have the right to defend yourself and not retreat, the sergeant said.
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Denver designers present Whiteout fashion show
The McNichols Building in Civic Center has quickly become the hot spot for art shows, parties, benefits and, lectures since renovations on the historic structure were completed last fall.
But it hadn't been used for a big fashion show until the Art of Winter presented Whiteout in the space on Thursday. The stylish hordes turned out for the event, which featured art installations, Orange Peel Moses on springy stilts, a photo booth and a DIY art table. Pizza, cupcakes and an open bar added to the festive atmosphere (not to mention the Drambuie luge) and helped guests pass the two hours before the show began.


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Cal State Fullerton's early exit from the baseball playoffs last season was the result of a lack of offense, a breakdown of faith, or a little of both. The Titans went home after winning just one of three games at the Oregon regional.
Michael Lorenzen, the Titans' standout utility player, believes it was the latter. He said that he personally quit trusting in what it took to get to the College World Series, namely a selfless attitude and reliance on one particular good book, one that doesn't focus on run downs, check swings and breaking balls.
Last June, Lorenzen was an All-America candidate who developed into one of the best two-way players in the nation as the Titans' chief closer and starting center fielder, who routinely evoked memories of former Fullerton star and major leaguer Mark Kotsay. The up-and-coming sophomore was expected to help carry Fullerton to its first College World Series appearance in three seasons. But that never transpired, the Titans' chances evaporating in a series of blown chances.
Lorenzen. a devout Christian, took the blame.
"Last year, I struggled in the second half of the season definitely," Lorenzen said. "I was playing for myself. I was closing – just like Mark Kotsay – and I wanted the glory. I would strike a guy out and get all excited. Yes, that's normal, but I wasn't giving God the glory. I was taking it all in. I think that's what happened last year.
"So I struggled and struggled, having all that pressure on myself instead of giving it to the Lord and saying whatever happens, happens."
This season, Lorenzen said he has set his priorities straight, which in turn has restored baseball watchers' faith in his ability. He is projected as the National Player of The Year by Collegiate Baseball and the Big West Conference.
The former Fullerton High star also was named to the 2013 Louisville Slugger Preseason All-America first team and the 13th annual National Collegiate Baseball Writers' Association Preseason All-America, Baseball America Preseason and Perfect Game Preseason College All-American second teams.
Lorenzen also was one of 75 players named to the initial watch list for the NCBWA Stopper of the Year, which is given to the top Division I relief pitcher.
"I think they see the potential and they see the tools and I think they saw what I did freshman year and the first half of last year," said Lorenzen. "They know I have the potential to rise to the occasion. But I am surprised a little bit."
He shouldn't be. Last season, Lorezen started all 57 games in center field and made 20 appearances the mound. He did not allow a run in 18 of his appearances and had 16 saves and posted a 2-0 record with a 1.23 ERA in 22 innings pitched.
Lorenzen also batted .297, third on the team, and led the squad with 38 runs, 20 doubles, 101 total bases, a .435 slugging percentage, 69 hits (tie), three triples (tie), 43 RBIs, 10 multiple-RBI games and 14 stolen bases.
Lorenzen, however, didn't shine as brightly in the postseason and felt he let down his teammates.
"He was trying too hard," Coach Rick Vanderhook said. "He was trying to carry everybody and it wasn't that easy."
Lorenzen said he isn't going to succumb to the pressure this season, no matter how many preseason accolades are heaped upon his shoulders. Having an experienced lineup helps.
The Titans return the bulk of their 2012 Big West Conference championship team, including their top two hitters, Richy Pedroza (.324, 69 hits, 10 doubles) and Carlos Lopez (.317, 69 hits, 18 doubles, 35 RBI.).
Second baseman Matt Orloff (.396), left fielder Anthony Hutting (.279) and third baseman Matt Chapman (.286) also are back.
While Fullerton returns an experienced lineup, Vanderhook will be relying on a pair of talented freshmen right-handers in Justin Garza and Thomas Eshelman to fill out his rotation.
"This season Michael has a lot more confidence and support around him," Vanderhook said. "… so now he doesn't have to deal with everything."
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A benchmarking analysis released Wednesday by Casey, Quirk & Associates showed that the global asset management industry's revenue last year passed its previous 2007 peak, lifted by market appreciation.
Median pretax operating margins rose to 32% in 2012, the highest since 2007, for participants in the study's survey of 101 privately held, publicly traded and wholly or partly owned firms with assets under management ranging from below $50 billion to more than $1 trillion in assets.
In aggregate, these managers invest $23 trillion for institutions and individuals.
However, the study also showed net inflows of 1.2% last year, compared with 3.7% in 2007. This, along with increasing fee pressure and a widening economic divergence among firms, points to growing industry challenges, according to the analysis.
"With annual net flows of under 1% anticipated through 2017 these findings, based on one of the largest industry surveys of asset management economics, indicate managers must adapt and innovate to keep up let alone to continue thriving," Kevin Quirk, a partner at Casey Quirk, said in a statement.
According to the analysis, conducted with compensation consultant McLagan, traditional investment products will continue to be challenged, while outcome-oriented and higher alpha strategies will result in the highest net flows. The latter include hedge funds, balanced strategies, global tactical asset allocation and multi-asset class solutions, emerging-market debt and global equities.
The benchmarking study showed that privately held and publicly listed asset managers expanded at average annual rates of 8.4% and 7% respectively during the 2007–2012 period.
Firms owned by larger financial institutions had average annual growth rates of 4.3% over the same period, while revenue at affiliates of asset management holding companies fell on average 4.6%.
Of the firms surveyed, those in the middle managing assets between $50 billion and $200 billion saw their operating margins rebound most strongly, to 32% in 2012 from a low of 15% in 2009. They were also most consistent in attracting net flows between 2007 and 2012.
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Benicio del Toro gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
Benicio Del Toro in Sicario: Day of the Soldado
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As I write this review, there has been another mass shooting in America. More people are dead. More people are injured. More suffering, more anger, more inaction, more misery. We can't go a f*cking day without some fresh hell bursting forth and poisoning the well. At this point, we're chest-deep in sludge so toxic I honestly, really, don't think we'll survive it. Full Story
Famous friends vs non-famous friends
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Oscar winner Benicio Del Toro was asked this week about his friend Johnny Depp being accused of domestic abuse by his estranged wife Amber Heard Full Story
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I loved Friday. I loved it so much because of Jennifer Garner. God that Vanity Fair article. Click here if you missed my post on it last week. She threw down a lesson in public scolding without getting your hands dirty. Full Story
The Rising Star gets back to work
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John Boyega won the BAFTA Rising Star Award last night. And he was dressed for it, looking sharp in a black velvet suit. I love his reaction when he got up to collect his trophy – a wide open-mouthed WHOA! as he was buttoning up his jacket. Understandable, non? He was in Star Wars. He was in the biggest movie of all time. Full Story
Oscar Dark Horse: Sicario
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This is such a great Oscar year! We have a REAL race in ALL categories! Periodically Lainey and I will text one another something along the lines of "this is so exciting!" because for once the Oscars are wide open across the board. The only category that feels close to a done deal is Best Actor because it does feel like everyone is going to just roll over for Leonardo DiCaprio and finally give him an Oscar for freezing his eyelids shut in the Yukon (I spoke to one Academy voter who told me Leo D has his vote because "I'm afraid if he doesn't get it this time, next time he'll be hooking his nuts up to a car battery"). Full Story
Dear Gossips,
When you have a few minutes today, please read The Hollywood Reporter's Actors Roundtable featuring Samuel L Jackson, Michael Caine, Mark Ruffalo, Will Smith, Benicio Del Toro, and Joel Edgerton. It'll take 5, maybe 6, tops. Read Full Intro
Benicio is sexy
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I never used to get it about Benicio Del Toro. You know my type. Charlie Hunnam, Liam Hemsworth… But then I saw Sicario. After Spotlight, it's my favourite film of TIFF. Like Spotlight, it's not an easy story. This is two hours of stress and anxiety. But worth it. So worth it. Full Story
Benecio Del Toro is now a superhero
Or maybe a supervillain. Del Toro is the latest to join Guardians of the Galaxy, the insane movie Marvel is set to start filming in a couple months. Chris Pratt is leading a cast that includes Lee Pace, Dr. Who's Karen Gillan, Zoe Saldana, Glenn Motherf*cking Close, and John C. Reilly is in talks for a role that's comparable-ish to Clark Gregg's Agent Coulson. Full Story
Tom and Tara
For the second night in London Tom Cruise was photographed on the club scene. Here he is leaving Annabel's, a private members establishment. Benicio del Toro was there too and you know who else? Tara Reid. Not saying they were hanging out together, but it does seem a little off brand for TC to be rolling up to the same place where Tara Reid was likely getting drunk and falling down. Full Story
Can we PLEASE get a trailer for this?
Over the last 3 weeks or so, most of the expected Oscar contending features have been rolling out their first trailers...but for Anna Karenina. Joe Wright, can you PLEASE get on this??? This is another film Duana and I will be seeing together, holding hands. Right after Les Miserables. I've been saying for a while, ever since the previews for Savages came out, that I'm not sure how I'll make it out of the theatre after watching two hours of Aaron Johnson. Full Story
They are not a couple
It's the best recent randomness: Benicio del Toro's people have confirmed exclusively to Life & Style (because they went through her garbage and found the pregnancy test? Or because People Magazine wouldn't pay her?) that he and Kimberly Stewart are having a baby. Full Story


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A certain ruler asked him, saying, "Good Teacher, what shall I do to inherit eternal life?"
Jesus asked him, "Why do you call me good? No one is good, except one--God. You know the commandments: 'Don't commit adultery,' 'Don't murder,' 'Don't steal,' 'Don't give false testimony,' 'Honor your father and your mother.'"
He said, "I have observed all these things from my youth up."
When Jesus heard these things, he said to him, "You still lack one thing. Sell all that you have, and distribute it to the poor. You will have treasure in heaven. Come, follow me."
But when he heard these things, he became very sad, for he was very rich.
Jesus, seeing that he became very sad, said, "How hard it is for those who have riches to enter into the Kingdom of God! For it is easier for a camel to enter in through a needle's eye, than for a rich man to enter into the Kingdom of God."
Those who heard it said, "Then who can be saved?"
But he said, "The things which are impossible with men are possible with God."
Peter said, "Look, we have left everything, and followed you."
He said to them, "Most certainly I tell you, there is no one who has left house, or wife, or brothers, or parents, or children, for the Kingdom of God's sake, who will not receive many times more in this time, and in the world to come, eternal life."
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Havas, which includes Havas Worldwide, Arnold and Havas Media, opened a new office in the old Filene's Building in Boston's Downtown Crossing. Havas employees around 800 people, who will help bring new life to the area. Here's my recap of their opening Burnham Bash party.
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Taye Diggs opens up on Idina Menzel split
He and his estranged wife Idina Menzel separated in December
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(CNN) Taye Diggs and Idina Menzel had a relationship that fans fell in love with.
So when the actor pair announced in December that they were separating after 10 years of marriage, Diggs was fully prepared for the public's shocked reaction.
"I'd be lying if I said there weren't times when I thought, 'Oh, man, people are going to trip out (if we split),' " the 43-year-old actor told Redbook magazine.
"Maybe they thought it was cute that we met in 'Rent.' There weren't a lot of couples like us in the theater community -- and I know there aren't a lot of performers as talented as she is ... and then you have the whole mixed (race) thing. It was easy for people to root for us."
Neither Diggs nor Menzel have specified what led to their breakup, although Menzel was frank about the challenges of marriage when speaking with People magazine in April 2013.
"We work at it," the "Frozen" star said at the time. "I'm not going to glamorize it or glorify it -- we go through tough times like everybody else, but we love each other very much."
The couple welcomed a son, Walker, in 2009, and since their separation have focused on balancing their co-parenting with their busy careers.
"Right now, we're still trying to figure out a lot of stuff," said Diggs, who stars in the new TNT series "Murder in the First." "We're on different coasts and our son is getting older."
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The ISO 9001:2015 certification in Delhi is not provided by the ISO, but ISO has approved certifying bodies that certify and certify the companies who have applied for ISO 9001:2015 certificates in Delhi. Below are eight management principles that must be followed in order to fulfill the ISO 9001:2015 certification requirements in Delhi.
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Founded in 1952, ANA flies today on 72 international routes and 117 domestic routes with a fleet of about 240 aircraft. ANA Group has 33,000 employees.
In 2014, it carried 47 million passengers and generated revenues of 1.7 trillion Japanese yen. ANA has been a member of Star Alliance since 1999 and has joint-ventures with United Airlines on trans-Pacific and Asia routes and with Lufthansa, Swiss International Airlines and Austrian Airlines on Japan-Europe routes. Its Frequent Flyer Program, ANA Mileage Club, has more than 26 million members.
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Well, the idea of standard English rhymes with the idea for people wearing the same red coat.
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Do you think what country should English belong to?
Should English have correct standard for everyone?
Well, the idea of standard English rhymes with the idea for people wearing the same red coat.
Personally I feel that the amazing thing about English is its variety! Having one correct standard would take away from its broad cultural spectrum, liveliness and musicality. I think it's great when, while going through posts and threads on this website's forums, one learns that a particular word, phrase or expression may be accepted in BrE whereas it wouldn't be in AmE for instance. That's the beauty and major challenge in learning, studying and teaching such a fast evolving language as English.
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English dialects and variants are connected. I can watch an American movie and follow it, or have a conversation with an Australian, etc. Very strong regional accents can be difficult, but the majority of speakers can follow each other.
Related to this subject, I can't recommend Robert MacNeil's "The Story of English" enough. It is about 9 hours long, and I am quite sure that it is available online for free viewing -- check out documentaries online.
Anyway, his first and especially his final episodes deal with the present and future of English. He even suggests that it is conceivable that English because of its very diversity could some day go the way of Latin -- another imperial language.
The Robert MacNeil documentary sounds interesting. I hadn't stumbled across it before. I've found it on YouTube so I'll be watching it in instalments from this afternoon onwards.
I found it WONDERFUL. And at the time that it came out, I believed that it would change English teachers' attitudes around the world. Sadly, for me, I saw no such effect. Most English teachers in the USA never even knew about it.
Let us know what you think!
Someone corrected me last month saying an acronym is not an acronym unless it is pronounced as spelt, as in OPEC, UNESCO and NATO. BBC and VIP are therefore not acronyms. After looking it up, I see that is correct. But I can't remember the word for the other abbreviation spelt out when spoken.
[Edit: this should have gone onto a different thread]
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Intro for February 3, 2014
Dear Gossips,
JK Rowling told Emma Watson that Hermione and Ron really shouldn't have ended up together. And that, when the story was over, it really should have been Hermione and Harry. What she's not saying is how Hermione would have eventually gotten there. And what would have happened in between. Between Hogwarts and Harry (eventually), what would Hermione's life have been like? Definitely not the straight line between high school sweetheart to marriage and children.
Well, she created them so of course she's right. With all that curiosity, how could Hermione not have wanted more experiences, more variety, more lovers, more…MORE.
"I wrote the Hermione/Ron relationship as a form of wish fulfillment. That's how it was conceived, really. For reasons that have very little to do with literature and far more to do with me clinging to the plot as I first imagined it, Hermione ended up with Ron. I know, I'm sorry, I can hear the rage and fury it might cause some fans, but if I'm absolutely honest, distance has given me perspective on that. It was a choice I made for very personal reasons, not for reasons of credibility. Am I breaking people's hearts by saying this? I hope not."
Not even JK Rowling could resist. You know, that archaic convention that Love has to be Singular. And especially for girls. Then again, that wasn't the story she was telling. She wasn't writing YA romance. But I wonder whether or not she isn't thinking about those gaps years. Between defeating Voldemort and the scene at the end, when they're seeing off their kids on Platform 9 and ¾, is there something more to say? I can't decide what I want that answer to be. I feel like the right answer is No.
Yours in gossip,
CARL COURT/ Getty