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Parity has a Short-term M L B Shelf Life
People keep humming in my ear about this obnoxious word "parity" and I personally do not believe in the term's long-term Major League Baseball season long relevance. I want to not only believe but put a stake in the phrase's longevity over a 162-game schedule, but for me personally, I feel the phrase "parity" has a short-term shelf life at best in regards to the M L B.
I already can embrace the realism that a budget-conscious teams like Tampa Bay Rays or Kansas City Royals can stand toe-to-toe with an M L B payroll giant and defeat them on a more consistent basis, and in late September deliver a seasonal death blow. I want to believe in a season-long aspect of parity, but right now I see it as a sprinting or short-term quick phrase to denote optimistic wants and feel the phrase within the M L B is currently not built for the seasonal endurance race.
Heck I truly believe at this point in the 2014 war even the Houston Astros can mount a few series wins and shake the cobwebs out of their fans minds to the team being better than their 2013 edition. But is parity really the right phrase to use to denote early season upheaval or divisional shifts when the paint is still not dry on their respective 2014 Opening Day field logos.
If your team is out to a fast start like Washington or Milwaukee there will be a buzz that it is "our year", and fans will promote the heck out of any chance that the team will solidify and fight off the challenges even as the season only hits its 5-6% completion point.
But just as quickly parity can change into overconfidence and soon both fans and a team can be swimming in infested waters seeking some sort of a life raft after a few well-placed defeats. There is a lot of ground to cover before champagne is spilled and White House selfies are committed to history.
Maybe it is more the fact that this comforting word called "parity" helps ease the pain of teams face-painting over their underlying rebuilding modes or those squads even at this early stage who are talent-wise just not up to snuff yet to fight off the advancing thundering M L B herd.
Parity actually is meant to subliminally ease our anxiety even at this early stage of the season by enhancing the notion that each of the 30 M L B squads are within a "state or condition of being equal, especially regarding status or pay".
But the reality is the Dodgers and Yankees have invested northwards of $200 million in payroll for 2014. The truth here is this top-tier twosome handpicked their talents banking not only their wants but dollars that their hired guns and provide their monetary worth through production.
On the other end of the scale the thrifty bottom M L B foursome of Pittsburgh, Tampa Bay, Miami and Houston cannot feasibly crack the $80 million payroll mark. Sure they have stockpiled talents in their farm systems but any deviation from their 2014 Mission Statement could result in disastrous countermoves or reversals of their master plans for their talent and franchise.
Seriously, some teams like Detroit have only played 8 games to this point (April 11th) in the season while the Rays, Toronto, L.A. and San Francisco have battled 11 times in this short time period.
So does that make the Rays and Jays early season favorites to blow out the American League East sporting their current identical 6-5 records, or is the reality that the division is still a crap shoot as Baltimore which is currently in last place in the A L East is only 2 games out at 4-6.
That very descriptive word parity has a way of staying in our thoughts and minds right up until the dog days of summer. Then our minds are emphatically snapped back in what is true and we suddenly see that the positive mirage involving our squads during the first few months have vaporized into dust and we are left wondering when the scales of fortune started dipping against us.
Sure we are only 8-11 games into the 2014 M L B campaign, but already some teams are showing unforeseen vulnerabilities and others seem solid as granite. The truth with parity is that it is relevant at this current stage of an M L B season, but as the season progresses and moves through its own changes the divide between the "haves and have not's" become brutally apparent and suddenly you are faced with a choice…..stay positive, hope for a revival or face the brutal fact your team might be outmatched once again.
I personally feel the parity phase of an M L B season is more based within the April-to-June segment of a season than can be systematically played out currently throughout a 162-game format. Still, this is not a moment for any fan of the 10 teams currently sporting 4 or less victories at this stage in 2014 to sulk or visit the dark side.
All it takes is a few series win, a few walk-offs, an unexpected whirlwind of fortunate circumstances to again breathe life into the parity persona.
I know there is a better word to emulate than parity for this phase of the season.
Hopefully someone wiser than me can develop and articulate another optimistic phrase for this segment of the season and we can finally put the word parity out of its misery and embrace another word that we can all embrace with ultimate clarity and want.
Personally I think the phrase "parity" is so 2013.


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There's an interesting degree of double-talk from the Mets about the shift back and forth. In June, with three AAA starts to his credit, when he was moved from the Bisons rotation to the bullpen, the idea was that he would be ready to help the big league team in 2012. Now, he's going to start for a month as the team's slide has lessened the demand for immediate bullpen help.
2. LOOGY ShiftLHP Robert Carson, who is on the Mets' 40-man roster, was promoted to AAA Buffalo. LHP Adam Kolarek, who is nine days older than Carson, was promoted from from advanced-A St. Lucie.
Carson's a big guy with a plus fastball, who's never really conquered AA. He leaves the B-Mets with a 4.79 ERA this year in 35.3 innings with 45 hits allowed fora .300 batting average against. He owns a 37/15 (2.5 K/BB) ratio. His splits are dramatic: lefties have hit .188/.212/.219 against him with one extra-base hit in 32 at-bats while righties have clubbed him at a .331/.396/.458 with 11 extra-base hits in 118 AB. His fastball sits around 94 mph, and his slider lives around 87 and his changeup is roughly 86. I just don't know that he has an answer for right-handed batters.
The 23-year old Kolarek was a Mets' 11th round pick in 2010 out of the University of Maryland. The 23-year old, who is a solidly built at 6'3" 215, has put up video game numbers in St. Lucie: 1.65 ERA, 49 IP, 38 H, 11 R, 9 ER, 15 BB, 63 K. He's generally 89-92 with a four-seam fastball, although he can touch 93. His second pitch when he was in Savannah was a big curveball. He has decent command. There's a little bit of deception in his delivery, although scouts describe his arm stroke as "long." He's held lefties to a nuts .138/.211/.154 line and a .365 OPS in 65 AB in advanced-A while righties have hit .257/.317/.336 against him in 113 AB.
3. Logan Verrett Promoted to St. Lucie
RHP Logan Verrett, the Mets third round pick out of Baylor in 2011, was promoted from Savannah to advanced-A St. Lucie. The 22-year old alternated two excellent starts with two rough ones in Savannah in July. His final line in 11 starts: 3.06 ERA, 64.2 IP, 57 H, 32 R, 22 ER, 7 HR, 9 BB, 67 K. The best thing in that line is the 7.4 K/BB ratio. He missed a month and a half, from late April through early June with right shoulder impingement.
Verrett is basically a three-pitch guy: fastball, slider and changeup. He'll show a curve, max twice per start, but it's not an effective piece of his arsenal. His fastball velocity has vacillated, most recently, he hit 93 in the first inning, before settling down at 90-91 mph. There's not a lot of movement on the pitch, and when he leaves it up, he gets hit, even in the SAL. In starts in late June, he was more 88-91. He has some feel for the slider, which will be his best pitch. There's not enough fastball here to project an impact starter, but he has chance at the back end of a rotation. I think his destination is the bullpen where he can come in and let it fly, and hope to keep a velocity bump in shorter outings.

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"People having fun . . . these are my favorite subjects to paint,� says Marian Pacsuta pointing to her faceless portraits. �Somewhat unfinished, yet capturing the essence of the moment," Pacsuta said.
Pacsuta is just one of the more than 100 artists who will be at Henderson Beach State Park for the 17th Annual Destin Festival of the Arts on Oct. 27 and Oct. 28. The two-day beachfront festival, sponsored by the Mattie Kelly Arts Foundation, will feature a food court, live music and more than 100 artists who specialize in all types of media from acrylics to photography.
Coming from a creative family, Marian Pacsuta says she was artistically inspired by life. As a child she was introduced to a wide variety of art forms, most notably Russian Impressionism because of her Hungarian roots.
But portraiture has always been her favorite. Her aim for each work is to be clear and minimalistic.
"I stop painting well in advance of what most would regard as a finished work," she told The Sun.
After receiveing her formal art education in Pennsylvania, Pacsuta moved to Tennessee to begin her career as a graphic designer. Years later she was asked to participate in a portrait workshop where she uncovered her first love of painting once again.
Two years ago Pacsuta moved to the area, and will be showing her work at Henderson on Saturday Oct. 27 and Sunday Oct. 28 from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. and you can learn more about her and her art a Pacsuta.com.
She said the beach backdrop, as well as the beauty of the Emerald Coast, inspires her work.
"I believe the most important part of a painting is what the artist has to say, with the viewer becoming interactive with the painting.�
Destin Festival of the Arts
The Mattie Kelly Arts Foundation will present the 17th Annual Destin Festival of the Arts from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 27 and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Oct. 28 at Henderson Beach State Park. This signature event features more than 100 artists from around the United States who will exhibit in more than 18 different mediums competing for more than $9,000 in cash prizes. Other amenities are live musical entertainment, a bistro-style food court, Kid�s ArtStop and festival merchandise. A Collaborative Art Exhibit showcases more than 40 community artists representing students and adults. Admission is $3/adult and kids under 12 are free. Call 650-2226.


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Sarah Myhill, MD, is a UK-based fatigue specialist and clinical nutritionist. This article on the many factors that can starve the body of what it needs is reproduced with kind permission* from her educational website (DrMyhill.co.uk).
Malabsorption – Failure to Get the Goodness from Food
Sarah Myhill, MD
The job of the gut is to absorb the goodness from food. To do this:
• It first has to reduce food particles to a size which allows the digestive enzymes to get at them,
• Then it has to provide the correct acidity for enzymes to work, produce the enzymes, emulsifying agent (bile salts) and move the food along the gut.
• Finally the large bowel allows growth of bacteria for a final digestive / fermentative process and water extraction.
The gut has a particularly difficult job because it has to identify foods that are safe from potentially dangerous microbes (most are not dangerous but positively beneficial). This explains why 90% of the immune system is gut associated. The inoculation of the gut with the good microbes takes place in the gut in the first few minutes following birth – see Probiotics.
Anything which goes wrong with any of these processes can cause malabsorption. Malabsorption means that the body does not get the raw materials for normal everyday work and repair. This means there is the potential for lots of things to go wrong when there is malabsorption.
Malabsorption Can Occur for the Following Reasons
Failure to Chew Foods Properly
Gandhi said we should chew our liquids and drink our foods! It is essential to break foods down into small particles to allow quick and efficient digestion of them. Saliva contains amylase which starts the process of carbohydrate digestion. It also contains epithelial growth factor to prevent leaky gut.
Not Enough Acid in the Stomach
Acid is necessary to start off protein digestion and further digestion of protein takes place in the small intestine – see Hypochlorhydria. [This lack of stomach acid is often the real problem for people who mistakenly believe their problems are caused by too much acid, as in 'heartburn' or 'GERD.' Often helped by betaine HCL – essentially stomach acid, derived from beets.]
Failure to Produce Enough Digestive Enzymes
As in cystic fibrosis (hinders ability of the pancreas to produce protein and fat-digesting enzymes, makes maintaining normal weight difficult). See Digestive enzymes are necessary to digest food. [Supplemental digestive enzyme formulations may contain plant-based enzymes such as papain (from papaya), betaine (beets), or bromelain (pineapple), and animal-based enzymes such as pepsin and pancreatin.]
Failure to Produce Enough Bile
Blocked bile ducts, eventually causes jaundice, poor liver function. See Gall bladder disease and gall stones.
Inflammation in the Gut
Caused by gut dysbiosis (i.e. the wrong bugs) or gastroenteritis (temporary bugs in the gut). See Fermentation in the gut and CFS.
Inflammation in the Gut Caused by Allergy
Celiac disease, multiple food allergy, ulcerative colitis and Crohn's.
Insufficient GI Transit Time
Food passing through the gut so quickly that there is not time for digestion to take place. Causes can include:
• Drugs;
• Overuse of laxatives;
• Being very nervous;
• Excessive exercise;
• Autonomic neuropathy (nerve disorder that affects involuntary body functions including heart rate, blood pressure, perspiration and digestion);
• Thyrotoxicosis (excessive thyroid hormones in the bloodstream).
[Interestingly, when things are functioning normally, different food materials move at different rates through the digestive system, and do not leave segments of the digestive tube in the same order as they arrive.]
Poisons or Toxins in the Diet Such as Lectins
See Lectins. [See also: "The Dark Side of Wheat… Genes, Epigenetics & Chronic Illness."]
Absorption Blockers – Unabsorbable Substances that Bind with Minerals
For example, tea drinking causes malabsorption of minerals because tannins in tea bind with minerals to form insoluble tannates which cannot be absorbed.
Wheat bran is high in phytic acid, which blocks absorption of minerals. One example of this effect can be found in an area in Iran where wheat is a staple part of the inhabitants' diet. As a result they are zinc deficient. Zinc is necessary for growth and many of these people do not achieve their full potential height and remain as dwarfs.
Cancer in the Gut
This rarely presents with malabsorption, but in its advanced stages it can certainly cause malabsorption.
Where sections of the gut have been removed.
Complications of Poor Gut Function
There are two common complications of poor gut function.
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Malabsorption of Vitamin B12
The first is malabsorption of B12. B12 requires a special carrier protein called "intrinsic factor" to be produced in the stomach. B12 binds on to intrinsic factor and is carried to the gut, where it is absorbed in the last section of the small intestine, the terminal ileum. There is lots of potential for things to go wrong and B12 deficiency is common.
The problem is that the normal range for B12 is set so low that many of these B12 deficiency cases are not picked up. I like to see blood levels for B12 running at at least 600, and I often recommend injections of B12 in order to get levels up around 2000, where it has other beneficial effects over and above its physiological reactions.
[See also "Could a Common B-12 Deficiency Be Causing Your Symptoms?"]
Leaky Gut Syndrome
Another problem of poor gut function is leaky gut syndrome. The problem with leaky gut is that molecules get from the gut into the blood stream before they have been fully digested. These large, antigenically interesting molecules in the bloodstream can activate the immune system leading to allergy or possibly autoimmunity.
Furthermore, many of these molecules can mimic the action of hormones in the blood stream and have other profound effects. For example, 'leaked' food molecules can mimic the actions of the hormone vasopressin which controls blood pressure, thereby causing profound fluctuation in blood pressure. See the blood test for short chain polypeptides from BioLab in the UK [Short chain polypeptides are small molecules that can easily pass through the gut wall, are often so small that they aren't recognized as foreign substances, and can mimic hormones & disrupt many metabolic processes].
Symptoms of Malabsorption
Almost any symptom could result from malabsorption, from failure to thrive, weight loss, fatigue, to organ failure.
• Diarrhea often reflects the disease process causing the malabsorption.
• Stools may have undigested fat in them causing large, offensive, pale, greasy stools which float and are therefore difficult to flush away.
• Blood or excessive mucous in the stool.
• Wind, gas and bloating as a result of fermentation in the gut.
• Offensive wind points to a fermenting gut. See http://www.drmyhill.co.uk/wiki/Fermentation_in_the_gut_and_CFS.
Tests of Malabsorption
Any or all of these tests may be needed to work out the cause (see links to online test info, appended below):
Fecal fat: measures the level of fat in stools.
Pancreatic elastase: an indicator of pancreatic function.
Comprehensive digestive stool analysis: CDSA – this looks at digestion and absorption of fats and proteins, gives us an idea of fermentation in the gut, together with microbial content of the gut. It also looks at fecal occult blood and short chain fatty acid profile. As an extra you can ask for fecal calprotectin (which is a good indicator of gut inflammation), fecal elastase (pancreatic function) and bile salts.
Short chain polypeptides: This looks at proteins which have leaked from the gut into the blood stream and therefore gives us an indication of leaky gut. I don't do this test very often as it doesn't narrow down a diagnosis very much, but can be useful to help explain otherwise inexplicable symptoms.
Vascular endothelial growth factor: Salivary test for hypochlorhydria [lack of digestive juice].
Treatment of Malabsorption
Ideally this needs to be overseen by an experienced physician, but not many are conversant with all of the above issues.
Identify the cause of the malabsorption – by going through the above check list and the tests listed below.
Correct any nutritional deficiencies which may have arisen from years of malabsorption. This would initially be achieved through taking my standard regime of nutritional supplements [multi vitamin/mineral; vitamin C; the essential fatty acids omega 6 & omega 3 in a 4 to 1 ratio; sunshine/vitamin D; some sea salt if not eating salted processed foods] – backed up by nutritional screening tests such as B12 and folic acid, ferritin (to test for anemia) and calcium levels (low calcium is an indication of vitamin D deficiency), all of which can be easily done by blood testing – National Health System testing, in the UK.
If the patient does not feel completely restored by these interventions then one would consider more sophisticated tests of nutritional status, such as antioxidant status, B vitamin profile, fat soluble vitamins including vitamin D and essential fatty acids.
Links to Find Related Tests
In the UK, for information see Dr. Myhill's index of tests here (www.drmyhill.co.uk/wiki/Category:Tests). In the US and elsewhere see sites such as Lab Tests Online (http://labtestsonline.org/understanding/conditions/malabsorption/start/2).
• Full blood count
• Elastase – a new test for pancreatic disease
• Comprehensive Digestive Stool Analysis
• Vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) – salivary test for hypochlorhydria
• Short chain polypeptides
• Antioxidants.
* This article is reproduced with kind permission from Dr. Sarah Myhill's educational website (DrMyhill.co.uk)® Sarah Myhill Limited, Registered in England and Wales: Reg. No. 4545198.
Note: This information has not been reviewed by the FDA. It is general information, based on the research & opinions of Dr. Sarah Myhill unless otherwise noted, and is not meant to replace the personal attention of a medical professional. It is not intended to prevent, diagnose, treat or cure any condition, illness or disease. It is very important that you make no change in your healthcare plan or health support regimen without researching and discussing it in collaboration with your professional healthcare team.


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I say go with it, suzeeQ, and hats off to you for finding a credible explanation! I wonder if SM reads any of these posts and plans to address some of the issues brought up here in future books. Something tells me no, but one can always hope. I'm not sure she would arrive at such plausible explanations, considering her struggle with scientific credibility.suzzeeQ wrote:But I need to know why. Leah is my favorite character and I want to know why she is the way she is. Chimerism is the only explanation that makes sense to me so I'm going with it. Stephenie hasn't said anything on the matter, and until she does, that's what I'm going with.


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I'd like to begin this column by pointing out a few differences I've noticed between men and women.
I'd like to begin this column by pointing out a few differences I've noticed between men and women.
For instance, women love nice smells. I especially enjoy walking down an aisle that has a variety of candles prominently displayed. I have been known to spend upwards of an hour opening each fragrance, taking a big whiff trying to decide which one I'd like to use in my home.
Men, not so much. In my experience –– having been married almost 40 years and being the mother of five sons –– I can't think men are all that excited about nice smells at all. Just let me light my latest candle purchase, start breathing in the fragrance and along will come one of my sons, stick his fingers in the melting wax and extinguish the flame. What's up with that?
I really like having my house neat and clean. I try to keep things in their places, floors swept and shined, dishes and laundry done and put away. I love walking in the house after a busy day at work and be able to enjoy the sights and sounds of a clean house.
Men? I don't think that's one of their priorities. And I have evidence to support my thoughts. Shoes and socks in the middle of the living room floor –– one pair of socks stayed in the floor for more than a week (it was a test that I won!).
I believe women enjoy relaxation –– sitting quietly, meditating on the day's activities –– before retiring for the night. Men obviously aren't into that sort of thing. Just let me turn on soft music, kick back in the chair and completely release the tension and anxiety from my aging body, and one or more of the men will come banging in the door, flip on every light in the house, turn the TV to RFD and start making conversation. What part of "be quiet" don't they understand?
So I now come to the point of this conversation. Pets! I am in the stage of life where I no longer need pets. The number of pets our family has had in the past 40 years would astound the most unshockable person.
Here recently I have more than resigned myself to never having pets again. Puppies are cute. Kittens can be. I really enjoy looking in my friend's giant aquarium filled with brightly colored fish and everything that goes with them.
But I don't want pets in my house –– no matter how beautiful, cute, cuddly or loving they are. I've had enough of that scene –– shedding hair all over the furniture and valuables chewed up and deposited in corners throughout the house.
And I've been very verbal about that fact. I don't think there's a kid, grandkid or even a husband who doesn't know how I feel about having pets in the house.
And now enters Cecil. That's right –– another pet.
I think it was around a month ago when my son Steven announced he wanted a bloodhound. With mouth agape, I asked him to repeat himself –– I was certain I hadn't heard correctly. I had!
After searching the Internet for weeks and reading three or four books on the care and training of bloodhounds, the search ended and it was time to pick up said pooch.
My husband, Roger, rode along with Steven to bring the precious bundle home. I think there were two reasons he wanted to be involved. First, he loves pets and would fill the house with furry run-arounds if he wasn't married to me. Secondly, Roger enjoys torturing his wife –– there's no doubt about it.
They arrived home around 9:30 p.m. I was ready to turn in for the night. They both came in the house grinning from ear to ear. Steven placed Cecil –– I have no idea where they came up with that name –– in my lap.
As Cecil's tail swished back and forth in front of my nose, I peeked around him so I could give my loving husband and youngest child the "evil eye."
They both smiled and started talking a mile a minute, telling me all about the positive traits this long-eared, wrinkly-faced pile of fur had and how much they already loved him and just knew I was soon to feel the same way.
As we visited about the activities of the day, Sam (the rat terrier we acquired from another son) and Cecil ran around the room attempting to get acquainted. (Although I could tell Sam was really wishing this bag of bones would go back where he came from.)
As Roger and Steven were still gloating about having this new puppy in the family, Cecil promptly left his calling card in the middle of the floor for all of us to see.
Steven apologetically looked at me, ran to the kitchen to get paper towels and explained how he would have this under control in just three days.
As Roger sat there smirking, I explained the facts of potty training dumb animals to Steven and promptly went to bed.
If I remember right, I dreamed of being in a room filled with puppies, kitties and even a baby raccoon or two. What a nightmare!
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Pressing the like button on a company's Facebook page can have a much more wide-ranging impact than you might have guessed. A new study finds a possible correlation in the relationship between the financialperformance of public companies and their consumer following or fan count on Facebook.
What the researchers found was that the more popular the company was on Facebook, the better its stock price seemed to do.
"The results suggest that changes in fan count trends could signal changes in consumer brand company stock prices, creating the potential for new applications of social media popularity metrics as economic indicators," the researchers said.
There is an association between a company's Facebook popularity and how active its Facebook users are and its stock price, Pace University researcher Arthur O' Connor told BusinessNewsDaily.
"I am not saying because these are the most popular brands that have the greatest following of consumers on Facebook that that causes stock prices to go up," he said. "The study suggests a relationship between the popularity or greater numbers of people thinking and posting comments or sharing experiences about brands and the economic performance of the brand."
O'Connor, in association with social media analytic service Famecount, which ranks and tracks social media followers, took the 30 most popular brands on Facebook and broke them into two groups. The first group included companies that sell smaller ticket impulse-based purchases and included Abercrombie & Fitch, Adidas, Aeropostale, American Eagle Outfitters, Burberry, Nike, Puma, Coca-Cola, Dr. Pepper, Krispy Kreme Doughnuts, McDonalds, Oreo (Kraft), Pepsi, Starbucks, Taco Bell, Target, Wal-Mart, Whole Foods and Disney. The second group included 11 companies that offered larger ticket purchases including Best Buy, Dell, Google, Microsoft, Nokia, Blackberry (RIM), Sony, BMW, Harley-Davidson, JetBlue and Southwest airlines.
"Fan counts for the most popular brands associated with small ticket and/or impulse purchases were found to have stronger correlation with their respective stock prices than those for the most popular brands associated with larger-ticket items and/or more complex buying processes," the researchers wrote.
O'Connor believes his research has implications for how brands manage their social media presence.
"The most notable thing is that people need to start to understand that social media really does have some relationship with the conformity of behavior," said O'Connor, an information technology management consultant enrolled in the executive doctoral program at Pace University. "If everyone is thinking about and talking about your brand, that may mean something in terms of your stock price or corporate performance."
With more than 800 million active Facebook users, the significance of these findings can signal a change in the way companies look at social media and its ability to serve as an indicator and even predictor of economic performance. O'Connor said he believes companies will have to be careful how they wield their newfound social media power.
"Popularity is a two-edged sword," said O'Connor. "The more people look at you and think about you (especially) if you do well and do right by your customers, it can be a tremendous benefit. However, if you don't do those things, it can work against you in a big way. The one thing you can take away from it is that social media is becoming a more respected and established communication channel with customers, investors and the general public. It is something to take just as serious as shareholder communications, marketing communication or other more established communications."
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TEMPE, Ariz. (AP) — Los Angeles Angels pitcher Mark Mulder tore his left Achilles tendon Saturday, cutting short his comeback and possibly bringing his career to an end.
Mulder last pitched in the majors in 2008 for St. Louis. The 36-year-old left-hander was hoping to make the Angels' rotation after being invited in January to spring training, but team spokesman Eric Kay said Mulder felt a pop during agility drills.
Mulder will wait for the swelling to go down before surgery is scheduled. He then faces a six- to eight-month recovery, meaning his career could be over.
"I can handle this," Mulder wrote on Twitter. "But seeing my son in tears when he saw me in a boot and crutches and I told him I wasn't going to pitch. That was tough."
Mulder won 103 games over nine major league seasons with Oakland and St. Louis, including a 21-win season in 2001. He struggled with arm injuries and had surgery over his final two campaigns with the Cardinals, throwing his most recent major league pitch on July 9, 2008.
Mulder had been working as a television analyst and was trying to make a comeback after retooling his delivery.
He sounded optimistic that he would make the team when pitchers and catchers reported on Friday.
"I've worked hard and what I'm doing right now is good," Mulder said. "I know it's working and I'm excited for the opportunity."
Now, a career that was derailed by two shoulder operations could be finished for good after this injury. It was cruel and somewhat fitting for a pitcher who dominated early in his career but was sidelined for much of the latter part.
Mulder's best season was his second in 2001, when he went 21-8 with a 3.45 ERA while anchoring a dominant rotation with Barry Zito and Tim Hudson. He followed that up by winning 19, 15 and 17 games for Oakland the next three years and then going 16-8 for St. Louis in 2005. But his career got derailed after that. He made just 26 starts and won six games from 2006-08, posting a 7.73 ERA during that time.


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From the kitchen of One Perfect Bite...I've finally found the perfect "dunker" for the holiday baskets I'm constructing. It is an Eastern European biscuit that some folks call a Jewish biscotti. Of course, if you your background is Eastern European, you probably prefer to call it mandelbrot, or almond bread. While no one can pinpoint its origins with certainty, it's thought that itinerant Jews carried biscotti with them on journeys from the Piedmont in Italy into Eastern Europe, where the cookie was assimilated because its ingredients adhered to Kosher dietary law. I love biscotti, but I've found it hard to find really good recipes for this twice baked treat. I was delighted to find this version on the King Arthur Flour site. The step-by-step instructions that accompany this recipe are outstanding and can be found here. I'm planning to adapt their baking method to some of my other biscotti which occasionally get too hard. These are perfect. The add-ins to the basic recipe can be altered to reflect seasonal preferences and I'm willing to wager that dried cranberries and pistachios would be perfect changes for the Christmas cookie tray. I'll let you know. I hope you'll give this recipe a try. The mandelbrot are really easy to make and the results are outstanding. I'll be baking them often. Here's how they are made.
Chocolate Chip and Walnut Mandelbrot...from the kitchen of One Perfect Bite courtesy of King Arthur Flour
3 large eggs
1 cup (7 ounces) vegetable oil
1 cup sugar
1 teaspoon vanilla extract
1 teaspoon salt
3-1/2 cups unbleached all-purpose flour
1 teaspoon baking powder
2 cups semi-sweet chocolate chips
1-1/2 cups walnut pieces
Optional: coarse white sparkling sugar
1) Combine eggs, oil, sugar, vanilla and salt and beat in bowl of a stand mixer and beat until thickened and light-colored, about5 minutes.
2) Beat in flour and baking powder.
3) Mix in chips and nuts. Cover and refrigerate for 3 hours, or overnight.
4) Preheat oven to 350 degrees F. Lightly grease (or line with parchment) two baking sheets.
5) Divide dough into four even pieces, about 13 ounces each if you have a scale.
6) Working with one piece at a time, place dough on prepared baking sheet, shaping it into an 8 x 2-inch log. Repeat with remaining pieces of dough, leaving at least 2 inches between them. Place 2 logs on each baking sheet. Sprinkle logs heavily with coarse white sugar, if desired.
7) Bake logs until they're set and beginning to brown on edges and sides, but not brown all over, about 28 to 30 minutes. Remove them from the oven, and reduce oven temperature to 300 degrees F.
8) Spritz logs lightly with water. Spritzing logs will make them easier to cut. Allow them to cool for 10 minutes.
9) Cut each log into 1/2 to 3/4-inch slices. Cutting them on the diagonal will make the mandelbrot longer; cutting them crosswise will yield shorter cookies.
10) Place pieces on edge, quite close together, on the baking sheets, and return them to the oven. Bake for an additional 35 to 45 minutes, or until a cookie feels baked through when you pinch it between your fingers. You'll also notice some browning around the edges, though cookies shouldn't be browning all over.
11) Remove from oven, and cool mandelbrot right on the baking sheets. Yield: about 58 cookies.
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Brewers put closer Henderson on DL
Closer has nine saves, 0.92 ERA
MILWAUKEE — The Milwaukee Brewers placed closer Jim Henderson on the 15-day disabled list with a strained right hamstring following their 5-2 loss to Pittsburgh.
Henderson said, "It wasn't a serious pull, so we're just kind of taking the better-safe-than-sorry route right now."
No other roster move was announced Saturday.
Henderson was injured while delivering a pitch in the ninth inning against the Pirates on Friday, giving way to Francisco Rodriguez, who earned a save in the Brewers' 2-1 win.
Henderson has not allowed a run over 6 2/3 innings in his last seven outings. He has nine saves and a 0.92 ERA.


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Question: if you'd cleared space in your garage on Jan. 1, 2009, for a ton of No. 1 heavy melt scrap, a couple of hundred pounds of copper and an ounce of gold, which would have proved the smartest investment a year on?
Leave aside the fact that, in the months following the near-collapse of the financial system, it seemed no-one was buying anything, let alone "commodity" products that were in the midst of the mother of all corrections. Metal prices were still tumbling sharply a year ago, and if you'd offered producerseven many buyersa price rebound that was half the size of the one that materialized in the spring, they'd likely have bitten your hand off.
Extend the time period back a bit further and you get some surprising results. Analysts at Barclays Capital recently ran a similar calculation for the past decade and found that, of all exchange-traded commodities, natural gas would have been the best buy 10 years ago, with prices rising an average of 142 percent this decade vs. the 1990s on an inflation-adjusted basis. For metals, platinum was the top performer, recording an increase of 83 percent, while aluminum prices rose a measly 4 percent.
It's no surprise that big gains have been made in the physical metals market, too. A look back at AMM's first issue of the decade shows our weekly shredded scrap price at $130 per ton vs. $285 in mid-December 2009 and hot-rolled sheet at $17 per cwt vs. $25 in the same comparison. Given that the dot-com boom was approaching its height 10 years ago, you certainly would have got long odds on a humble ton of scrap providing far better long-term returns than the Nasdaq composite.
Of course, if this decade had ended 18 months earlier the gains would have been much more impressive. But while few people saw the crash coming, now that the dust is just about settling it's possible to look ahead to what the not-too-distant future holds.
We're not foolhardy enough to attempt to predict what the metals markets will be like in 2020as Yogi Berra said, it's tough to make predictions, especially about the futurebut in this issue AMM's reporting team has taken the temperature of the market and flagged a few trends and events likely to affect the metals markets over the next 12 months. We hope that at the very least they'll generate some debate.
And in answer to the original question: copper, which more than doubled in price in the first 11 and a half months of the year, was the best performer of the three, outstripping a nearly 40-percent increase for heavy melt and a 30-percent jump in the gold price. If anyone's brave enough to predict which metal will hold value the most in 2010, we'd love to hear from you.
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Edinson Volquez was much more effective against international competition.
Making his third consecutive opening day start, Volquez never got an out in the fourth inning and the San Diego Padres were routed by the New York Mets 11-2 on Monday.
Jonathon Niese stepped nicely into his new role as No. 1 starter for the Mets, and Collin Cowgill's grand slam capped a splashy New York debut during a season opener that quickly turned into a colossal flop for the Padres.
"We got beat pretty solid on both sides," manager Bud Black said. "We didn't pitch well at all. Like I said all spring, you've got to pitch well and we just didn't today."
Handed the opening day assignment in place of injured Johan Santana, Niese (1-0) enjoyed a big afternoon with both his arm and bat. He breezed into the seventh inning against a San Diego lineup missing slugger Chase Headley (broken thumb) and catcher Yasmani Grandal, suspended for the first 50 games after testing positive for testosterone.
The fast-working lefty gave up Carlos Quentin's run-scoring single and Yonder Alonso's solo homer before walking off to a standing ovation with two outs in the seventh.
"He was moving the ball around. He was throwing his cutters and curveballs for strikes," Alonso said. "He kept everybody off balance and got ahead of guys. ... So we just have to be a little more aggressive."
Niese also had a perfect day at the plate, tying his career high with two hits. He slapped an RBI single in the second off Volquez (0-1), then drew a leadoff walk and scored in a three-run fourth.
Volquez helped the Dominican Republic win the World Baseball Classic last month. But he gave up six runs, six hits and three walks in three-plus innings at windy Citi Field while falling to 0-5 in six starts against the Mets.
"I was off a little bit," Volquez said. "I got behind in the count and they hit the ball pretty good."
Touted prospect Jedd Gyorko made his major league debut for the Padres with about 30 family members and friends in the stands. He stranded four runners in his first two at-bats, then grounded a double inside third base for his first hit in the sixth.
"It was a good feeling," Gyorko said. "Niese kind of had my number. I was swinging at a lot of his curveballs, and he left one up. I don't know if he was getting tired or one just got away from him."
The ball was tossed into the San Diego dugout to be saved as a souvenir for Gyorko.
"I'm going to keep it until my mom steals it," he said.
Marlon Byrd had a pair of RBI singles and fellow Mets newcomer John Buck was in the middle of three rallies as New York improved baseball's best opening day record to 34-18 (.654) despite dropping its first eight openers.
The Mets have won 20 of their last 22 season openers at home.
New York scored nine runs with two outs and went 7 for 14 with runners in scoring position after batting .246 in those situations last season, 20th in the majors. The three new additions to the lineup - Cowgill, Byrd and Buck - were a combined 6 for 14 with seven RBIs and five runs.
"So far, so good," a smiling David Wright said. "It was good to kind of bust out offensively and get some breathing room for Jon."
With the Yankees hosting the rival Boston Red Sox at the same time across town, the Mets announced a sellout crowd of 41,053 at Citi Field, where the Padres won the ballpark's first game in 2009. The last time two New York teams opened at home on the same day was April 17, 1956, when it was the New York Giants and Brooklyn Dodgers, according to STATS.
Byrd and Buck each had an RBI single in the third. Cowgill doubled to key the fourth-inning rally, which included a run-scoring groundout by Wright and an RBI single by Daniel Murphy.
By then, Anthony Bass had replaced Volquez.
"He just couldn't make pitches at critical times," Black said. "Got through the first inning, got an out with a runner in scoring position, then 27 pitches in the second, 28 in the third, just missing on all his pitches."
Cowgill, batting leadoff after winning the center field job this spring, hit his first career slam off Brad Bach in the seventh to make it 11-2.
NOTES: Padres pitching prospect Casey Kelly, a key piece in the trade that sent Adrian Gonzalez to Boston in December 2010, is scheduled for Tommy John surgery Tuesday on his right elbow. It will be performed by Dr. James Andrews. ... Headley, the NL RBIs leader last year with 115, is expected to miss at least the first two weeks of the season. ... Gyorko started at second base and moved to third in a double switch. ... Cody Ransom started at 3B after injuries landed Headley, Logan Forsythe and James Darnell on the 15-day DL. Ransom made an error and struck out twice before he was removed in a double switch.


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Ling Shiao is an associate professor in SMU's William P. Clements Department of History and an associate in SMU's John Goodwin Tower Center for Political Studies. Professor Ling specializes in the history of social and intellectual movements in modern China. Her column was recently published in the May 10, 2012, edition of The Dallas Morning News:
Linyi, the locus of the Chen Guangcheng controversy that put the United States and China on a collision course last week, invokes the image of poverty, isolation and obscurity. These are the qualities that shape the style of politics in a provincial backwater where local party bosses behave like dictators of their own realms, sometimes ignoring the directives from the central authority in Beijing.
Though blind since childhood, the rural rights activist Chen could find ways of advancing the cause of his fellow villagers by exploring discrepancies between Chinese law and local practices. With courage, perseverance and daring maneuvers, he has survived years of ruthless persecution by the Linyi authorities, and he ultimately triumphed. On the other hand, despite outcries on Chinese social media and years of critical attention from the Western press, Beijing has been blind on an issue that promised to eventually…
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A powerful earthquake shook Papua New Guinea's northern coast Wednesday morning, sending residents fleeing for higher ground and items tumbling from shelves. There were no immediate reports of serious damage and no tsunami alert was issued.
Disaster authorities were struggling to contact residents of the small town of Aitape, near the epicenter. One Aitape local reached by the Australian Broadcasting Corp. said there had been no signs of unusual wave activity and no major damage.
The shallow, magnitude-6.8 earthquake struck about 19 kilometers (11 miles) east of Aitape. Max Kamave at the Aitape Resort Hotel told the ABC the tremor lasted for about three minutes and knocked stock off the shelves. Many residents, fearing a tsunami, ran for higher ground.
"They were all running around the street," he said. "They were frightened maybe the sea will come up."
Chris McKee, the assistant director of the Geophysical Observatory in the capital, Port Moresby, said people in the town of Vanimo, about 145 kilometers (89 miles) from the epicenter, reported they had also felt the quake strongly. There were no initial reports of damage or injuries.
The Pacific Tsunami Warning Center said there was no widespread tsunami threat but a quake of this strength could generate tsumani waves within 100 kilometers (62 miles) of the epicenter.
Kamave said there had been no unusual waves off Aitape since the quake, which struck at a depth of 13 kilometers (8 miles). Shallow quakes can potentially cause more damage at the surface.
Papua New Guinea is prone to seismic upheaval due to its location on the Pacific "Ring of Fire," an arc of volcanoes and fault lines encircling the Pacific Basin.
A magnitude-7.0 earthquake on the northern coast in 1998 generated a large tsunami that swamped Aitape and several other villages, killing about 2,200 people.


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Royals mowed down by Darvish in loss to Rangers
KANSAS CITY, Mo. – Yu Darvish did not throw a no-hitter, though there was some concern in the Kansas City dugout that he might.
Darvish retired the first 17 batters, Texas hit five home runs and the Rangers beat the Royals 8-4 Monday in a game that turned testy.
The Royals did not get a baserunner until Johnny Giavotella walked on a close pitch with two outs in the sixth. David Lough, the next batter, ended the no-hitter with a bloop single to center.
"I turned to (bench coach) Chino (Cadahia) in about the fifth inning and said 'Boy, this guy's got a shot,'" Royals manager Ned Yost said. "He had a 97-mile-an-hour fastball, a 95-mile-an-hour cutter, a 92 splitter and he's throwing 68 to 64 on the curve.
"The variation in speeds was tremendous. It was the first time we've seen him. It was our first time seeing him and he was fantastic."
Lough, playing in just his third major league game, hit it just out of the reach of Rangers shortstop Elvis Andrus.
"It takes one hit sometimes and other guys can feed off it," Lough said. "I saw him going back for it and I was hoping it would fall in.
"He was definitely switching it up on us. His off-speed stuff was working well, keeping us off balance."
The only opposing pitcher to throw a no-hitter against the Royals at Kauffman Stadium is Darvish's boss, Rangers president Nolan Ryan on May 15, 1973.
Adrian Beltre and Nelson Cruz homered on consecutive pitches in the sixth inning. Cruz watched his drive sail over the wall, then was hit by Louis Coleman's first pitch leading off the ninth.
Cruz took a few steps to the mound, but was restrained by catcher Brayan Pena. The dugouts and bullpens emptied, but only words were exchanged. Both teams were issued a warning by plate umpire Mike Everitt.
"We were trying to pitch in on him, to keep him from extending his arms," Yost said. "You saw what he did the last at-bat when he got his arms extended. We were just trying to pitch him in."
Michael Young answered that by homering on the next pitch.
Josh Hamilton hit his 38th homer and Geovany Soto added a three-run shot as Texas won for the ninth time in 12 games. The AL West leaders moved a season-high 26 games over .500 with some more pop after they hit four homers Sunday in an 8-3 victory at Cleveland.
"They've got a big-time offense," Royals designated hitter Billy Butler said. "They're a high-powered offense and got eight runs on us. Darvish was throwing strikes and mixing it well, pounding the strike zone, and definitely executing every pitch. We got to him and got some hits. We hit some balls well and didn't get some hits on them, too."
A day after he homered and doubled in his first two big league at-bats, 19-year-old Jurickson Profar was not in the Texas lineup. Second baseman Ian Kinsler, who sat out Sunday with a stiff back, returned to the lineup.
Darvish (14-9), who retired the final seven batters he faced in his previous start, tied Wade Miley of Arizona for the most victories by a rookie this season.
Darvish gave up a two-run triple to Tony Abreu and a RBI double to Alex Gordon to cut the Texas lead to 6-3 before the inning ended. Darvish was pulled after the seventh and struck out six, including five in the first three innings, and walked one.
"He was really locked in," said Lorenzo Cain, who went 0 for 4. "You could tell he wore down a little at the end. He was mixing it up and keeping it down."
Soto homered in the second for a 3-0 lead.
Bruce Chen (10-11) allowed six runs on six hits, four of them home runs. He lasted six innings as his career ERA against Texas climbed to 8.68.
Abreu also singled in a run in the eighth, giving him six RBIs in two games.
NOTES: The Rangers have hit back-to-back homers eight times this season. ... Beltre is hitting .449 with nine home runs, six doubles and 17 RBIs in his past 12 games. ... Hamilton has hit three homers in five games. In his past 12 games, he is hitting .341 with four home runs, 12 RBIs and 11 runs. ... LHP Everett Teaford, who threw 5 1-3 scoreless innings as a reliever Saturday, will make a spot start Wednesday for the Royals. Rookie LHP Will Smith, who is 0-3 in his past three starts, will be skipped a start.


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A controversial fifth option to replace the Newell Road Bridge that links Palo Alto and East Palo Alto will be studied after all.
The option, which calls for a two-lane span and a full realignment of Newell Road on either side of San Francisquito Creek, was previously discarded following public outcry in Palo Alto. There were concerns it would lead to an increase in traffic volume and speeds.
At a community meeting on Feb. 27, Palo Alto officials said just four options would be studied in a forthcoming environmental impact report. The 102-year-old bridge, which constricts the flow of water, is being eyed for replacement as part of a long-awaited flood control project.
Two options call for a two-lane span — one built along the existing alignment and one along a partial realignment. A third would see the 28-foot-wide bridge replaced with a one-lane span along the existing alignment. Finally, the report would study the possibility of doing nothing at all.
The fully realigned, two-lane bridge option was put back on the table at the request of East Palo Alto City Manager Magda Gonzalez, who met with Palo Alto City Manager James Keene on March 6.
"Palo Alto's city manager has publicly stated that the city is not supportive of this alternative, but felt it was important to recognize the two cities' partnership and need to work together on this project by respecting East Palo Alto's request," Palo Alto Public Works Assistant Director Brad Eggleston wrote in an email Tuesday to residents who live near the bridge.
East Palo Alto residents had expected the option to be analyzed in the report, according to a follow-up letter Gonzalez sent to Keene on Tuesday.
"Inclusion of the aligned alternative will serve to solidify this collaborative in the view of our residents," she wrote.
At the community meeting, East Palo Alto residents voiced disappointment that the option for a fully realigned bridge had been taken off the table. Bob Allen said fears about traffic were unfounded.
"I put to you that if you did the full alignment with Newell Road on East Palo Alto's side that the height of the bridge that is going to be designed is going to be the biggest speed bump between Palo Alto and East Palo Alto," he said.
Palo Alto residents, meanwhile, appeared in favor of the one-lane bridge option. Richard Yankwich said he wanted a span that offered greater flood protection, discouraged speeding and didn't increase or displace traffic.
"If you build a bigger, wider, straighter, flatter bridge, I can't believe that it won't generate more traffic at higher speeds," he said.
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Entry-level digital professionals have received quite a bit of abuse lately, particularly that we allegedly feel entitled to be "digital strategists" just because we belong to our specific generation.
What can we do to counter those concerns? We can put in the work to become better strategic thinkers.
Here are five ways millennials can become better strategic thinkers in the digital space:
1. Hack your brain to think in terms of opportunities.
A recent Forbes study noted that millennials are more "irritated, tired, and anxious" about their careers than other groups. Perhaps that's partly due to "taking work home" in the sense that mistakes or criticisms you get on the job affect your thoughts more than they would later in your career.
In your 20s, you're still learning how to handle negative emotions that might come from failures or criticisms. But let's be realistic—an honest mistake or constructive criticism isn't the end of the world.
Try "hacking" your brain to approach hurdles opportunistically rather than negatively. So what happens if you made a mistake on a project at work? As long as the mistake was honest, you now have a crucial new piece of data to refine your approach for next time.
2. Control information overload.
If you work in digital public relations, you have your finger on the pulse of all the latest digital trends—from new social media platforms to tech news to the latest tweets from your favorite celebrity.
Millennials spend an average of seven hours and 38 minutes on digital media every day. With mobile as an increasingly important channel for information, we're constantly absorbing data, forcing our brains to triage large amounts of information all the time. That leaves little room to think proactively and creatively.
Try to get away from the computer once in a while. John Cleese of Monty Python fame describes a solution in a hilarious 1991 speech. Making time for the open mode gives your brain the opportunity to become a producer of innovative ideas rather than simply a consumer, which is an essential part of moving from digital tactician to digital strategist.
3. Learn from your mentors.
A common criticism of our generation is that we act as though we're entitled to success. The backlash against a recent Cathryn Sloane article is a perfect example. But despite our "native" comfort with social media and digital media, we have to learn the industry and business skills that only come from experience.
Millennials in digital careers can jump their careers forward in a big way by making the effort to build strong relationships with their mentors. Ask smart questions, and use the advice they offer you—the best advice comes from experience.
Most important, give back—the greatest relationships are two-sided. They're investments in both parties' futures.
4. Cross-pollinate your interests.
You might think that so much work is on your plate that you barely have time for interests outside work. Maybe you even compartmentalize your life—work and play should stay separate, you might believe. Think about this: Some of the greatest innovations of all time have resulted from people "cross-pollinating" different interests: Physics and engineering combined to start computer science, for example.
Your outside interests are completely valid in a digital career. Read widely about linguistics (my personal interest), blog about classic films, and absorb life outside the workplace. You never know what kind of innovative ideas might come from an unexpected place.
5. Think in stories and narratives.
Think of the best storyteller you can remember. Chances are it was a friend, a colleague or a family member. It was someone you knew who told riveting stories. They didn't speak in business jargon, "leet" speak, or texting slang. They spoke like real people telling human stories.
Whether you're copywriting for a multi-platform campaign, pitching an idea to your team, or engaging with a brand's community, the essential underlying thread is storytelling. Learn to write like a human being—the way your favorite storytelling uncle speaks—and you'll get your ideas heard.
We millennials have vast resources available to us in the form of information, access to thought leaders, and few barriers for getting more strategic ideas out there. All it requires is that we put in the elbow work in the way we think about our world, and that we discipline our thinking about how we approach opportunities.
How have you worked on becoming a more strategic thinker in your career?
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Managing healthcare records can be a painful experience, for both patients and doctors. Though extensive medical records are kept on patients to be made available to new caregivers, accessing them is not always an easy process.
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hi! ,
Here are my system config ..
Oracle 8.17 (Database )
Windows 2000 Professional (OS)
P4 1.7 Ghz
I am creating tables and indexes on them ...
Using the info from the tables I am creating a new table with 40
columns. I am updating the columns in the new table with data
uploaded into the tables created previously.
It is taking a very long time to update the records in the new table.
The new table has about 500 thousand records.
Can anybody advise on how to decrease the processing time as much as
possible ..??
What is the oracle procedure of doing updates ?
What are the thing to be aware of while doing updates ?
How do I tune the process ( from DBA side and/or developer side )
to drastically reduce the processing time ?
Any changes to the parameter file ?
etc ..
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Weekend Herb Blogging #32 Recap
New York, New York, U.S.A.
New Jersey, U.S.A.
Over at Sweetnicks, Cate created Hanger Steak with Olive Oil and Fresh Herbs while she was writing up Weekend Dog Blogging last weekend. Grilled steak is always good, and it does sound delicious.
The Beach, California, U.S.A.
Lavender is an herb I've never cooked with, but I love the sound of Foccacia with Lavender Garlic created by Gabriella from My Life as a Reluctant Housewife. I'm going to have to look for a spot to squeeze some lavendar into my garden.
Panama, Republic of Panama
Melissa from Cooking Diva enlightens us on the fruit called Guava or Guaba, and reports that what many people call guava is actually called guayaba. Real guava is a fruit that grows on a tree, is eaten raw, and the seeds are ground into a paste, seasoned and fried. Visit Melissa's blog to see the many names for this fruit.
Toronto, Canada
We can always count on Ruth from Once Upon a Feast to be cooking something interesting, and this week she sent two posts. The first featured Ribs, Sweet Potato Wedges, and Sauteed Fiddleheads, a first for WHB! Later in the week Ruth whipped up Chile Rubbed Chicken with Mango Salsa.
Kronshagen, Schleswig-Holstein, Germany
At Kuchenlatein Ulrike has created something using one of my favorite ingredients, arugula (also called rocket, Rucola, or Rauke in German). Italian Ham and Rocket Rolls seem like a wonderful combination.
Edinburgh, Scotland
Pille of Nami Nami is dreaming about summer, sun, and sand and reminiscing about a time she visited the Greek island of Santorini. In memory of that trip, she created Santorini Fava or fava bean puree, which sounds great no matter where you eat it.
Pistoia, Tuscany, Italy
How does Ilva from Lucullian Delights come up with something interesting and beautifully photographed week after week? Raw talent I guess. This week she is treating us to Patate, Piselli e Pancetta con Alloro or Potatoes, Peas, and Smoked Pork with Bay Leaves.
Davis, California, U.S.A.
Tagliatelle with Chicken is the delightful sounding creation of Sher this week from What Did You Eat. Sher uses shredded chicken, raisins, pine nuts, pasta, and rosemary to create this yummy looking dish.
Trinidad, California, U.S.A.
Over at Christine Cooks, Christine is blogging about mint this week, and thinking of making mojitos. (Christine, I've never made mojitos in my life so I have no idea how these rumors get started!)
Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
At Saffron Trail, Nandita started with a post to see who could identify a coconut in the shell. Then it morphed into a delightful recommendation of how to freeze fresh coconut and lots of great ideas of dishes to make with coconut.
New Jersey, U.S.A.
This week Ramya has a new blog title, changing to Cascading Flavours, which I think is a wonderful title for a food blog. Ramya shares a very interesting sounding recipe for Soyabean Sprouts Salad, featuring soybean sprouts cooked in sesame oil.
Mumbai, India
I'm always excited when someone comes up with a brand new plant for Weekend Herb Blogging, and this week Tony of Anthony's Kitchen has written a very interesting post about Yongchak, also called Parkia Roxburghii or Tree Beans. It can be an ingredient in a dish called Yongchak Eronba (mashed vegetables), but Tony shares a recipe for Yongchak with Tunghanbi or Tilapia, which sounds great.
Nantes, France
Another very interesting post this week from Virginie of Absolute Green, written in French but you can translate to English if you need to. Virginie writes about Elderflower Syrup, made with the flowers of the Black Elder tree.
Milan, Italy
Piperita from The Kitchen Pantry is showing us her herb garden this week, which looks impressive even though she says she only has a small balcony where she can grow herbs. In her post Piperita mentions the idea of a worldwide MeMe of "Show Us Your Herb Garden." If you love the idea as much as I do, leave a comment and encourage her.
New York, New York, U.S.A.
At The Cooking Adventures of Chef Paz, Paz is celebrating Mother's Day and showing us a photo of some beautiful tulips. She includes some interesting information about tulips, which I didn't know was a member of the lily family.
Sunnyvale, California, U.S.A.
Strata from My Bay Area Kitchen shows us she can cook as well as garden with her recipe this week for Chickpeas and Greens over Pasta. She used Asian Spinach from her impressive garden for this dish, which sounds to me like it would taste great.
For my own post this week, I shared how I got my garden tilled and spent all day Saturday planting veggies and herbs. Hopefully later in the summer I can cook some yummy dishes with the produce and share it on the blog.
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MANCHESTER, England (AP) — Manchester United manager Jose Mourinho will drop some of the high-profile players who gifted the English Premier League title to Manchester City at the weekend, saying "the price they cost, their salary, their beautiful face" doesn't guarantee a place in his team.
United lost at home to last-place West Bromwich Albion 1-0 on Sunday in one of the most surprising results of the Premier League.
Mourinho said some players will pay the price by not featuring against Bournemouth on Wednesday and potentially against Tottenham in the FA Cup semifinals on Saturday.
"If I play a player against Bournemouth and he plays phenomenal, he plays the semifinal," Mourinho said. "So it's not rotating because rotating looks like a player that plays against Bournemouth is to give a rest for somebody who is going to play against Spurs in the semifinal.
"The word is not rotation, the word is an opportunity, for people to play and to try to get a place in the team for Spurs. Some of the guys that played (against West Brom), they don't have a place in that team."
Paul Pogba might be one of them, having been substituted in the 58th minute partly because of his poor display but also because he was on a yellow card. The France midfielder has been in and out of United in recent months, showing Mourinho is not scared of dropping his big names.
"What is the criteria for managers to choose a team?" Mourimho asked. "I only know one criteria: It's the way you play. It's the only way I can select players.
"Do you want me to go for the price they cost, their salary, their beautiful face? The only way to go is with the performance."
The FA Cup represents United's last shot at winning a trophy this season.


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Forever Family: Teen wants to be part of family
15-year-old prays for family
One central Florida teen has an important wish: to be a part of a family.
WESH 2 News and two local agencies are partnering to highlight some of the children looking for forever families.
The goal is to help children in foster care find their way into the loving arms of an adoptive family.
Anthony said he prays everyday for a mother and a father.
"We have 15-year-old Anthony here today, and Anthony has a fun personality. He is very loving," said Community Partnership for Children spokeswoman Amanda Taylor.
WESH 2's Martha Sugalski spent some time with Anthony recently to find out a little more about him.
"And what is that you like to do in school?" Sugalski asked.
"Math," said Anthony. "Science, art and Spanish."
"Oh, Spanish," said Sugalski. "Very good. So tell me what you like to do Anthony."
"Football, soccer," said Anthony.
"He loves to give hugs. He is going to be very sweet to a family that can provide the structure," said Taylor.
"I want a family; a mother, dad, sister and a brother," said Anthony.
"He needs to be with a mom and a dad," said Taylor. "Somebody that is going to help him with his schoolwork."
"Usually before I go to bed I pray a lot to get a mom and dad that will take care of me," said Anthony.
"And to show him right from wrong, and to help him deal with his emotions in a healthy way," said Taylor. "That would be really great for Anthony. We have seen him giving hugs, we saw him give encouragement. He is a sweet kid."
"If you had a wish or a dream what would that be?" asked Sugalski.
"To get a family," Anthony said.
To learn more about foster care adoption, call 888-365-FAMILY or log on to foreverfamily.org.
Adoption is free, there's even a monthly stipend and college and health insurance are paid for.


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He was more interested in his poetry, and what Keats was capable of methinks, he recognised his genius while he was still alive, and wanted to gently nurture it in his own style of writing. Shelley never really was a friend of Keats, but he wanted Keats to look up tohim, his was a slightly patronising, avuncular looking-askance-down-his-spectacles interest in Keats.
That's what Ms Gelpi sort of says (politely) but then points out that when he heard John was dying he was genuinely upset.
How do we know Shelley was patronising towards John? I know John wasn't keen to make a friend of him, from what evidence we have. Whatever the truth of it he knew John was a genuis allright! Well who wouldn't...even Fanny Brawne , who didn't know that much about poetry could see it. She wrote to his sister that he "was destined for everything great." And here we are nearly 200 years later discussing his greatness!
[quote]Adonais, while no can argue it is not a beautiful poem, is more Shelley's homage to the Greek poet Bion than a true reflection of Keats - the phrase poetic license is just in that case./quote]
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Dodgers reinstate Josh Beckett from the disabled list; option Jose Dominguez to Triple-A Albuquerque
LOS ANGELES - The Los Angeles Dodgers today reinstated right-handed pitcher Josh Beckett from the 15-day disabled list (right thumb contusion) and optioned right-handed pitcher Jose Dominguez to Triple-A Albuquerque. Beckett will start tonight's game vs. Detroit.
Beckett was acquired by the Dodgers on August 25, 2012, and will be making his 2014 debut tonight. In his career, the 2003 World Series MVP owns a 132-100 record with a 3.94 ERA and ranks fifth among active pitchers (min. 1,500 IP) with an average of 8.34 strikeouts per 9.0 innings. Beckett last pitched in the Majors on May 13, 2013 vs. Washington and made three starts during 2014 Cactus League play, posting a 0-1 record with a 5.63 ERA (5 ER/8.0 IP) before landing on the disabled list with a right thumb contusion on March 19. The three-time All-Star last appeared in a rehab start for Single-A Rancho Cucamonga on April 4 and pitched 4.0 innings.
Dominguez has three relief appearances for Los Angeles this season, holding opponents to a .182 batting average (2-for-11).


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Critics were swift to react this week to the state's latest documents outlining more reliable water flows to Southern California while striving to restore the Delta ecosystem.
Critics were swift to react this week to the state's latest documents outlining more reliable water flows to Southern California while striving to restore the Delta ecosystem.
The state Department of Water Resources released additional chapters in its 12-chapter opus on a $23 billion water project known as the Bay Delta Conservation Plan.
Northern California lawmakers, environmentalists and sport-fishing activists were not impressed.
At the heart of their argument: Threatened fish would get help when they needed it least and no help when they needed it most.
"You can't deprive an estuary of half its flows and expect it to survive," said Stockton-based Bill Jennings of the California Sportfishing Protection Alliance. "And frankly, BDCP is essentially a death sentence for one of the great estuaries in the world."
The complex plan calls for:
� Three massive new intake facilities near Courtland.
� Two tunnels, each 35 miles long, that would take water under the Delta just west of Lodi and Stockton.
� Continued use of the state and federal pumps near Tracy that supply water to 25 million Californians and 3 million acres of south Valley farmland.
State water officials defended the plan, asserting that new diversions near Courtland will protect fish such as the Delta smelt and juvenile winter-run salmon. They also said that during dry years the smelt would be killed at the same rate as today.
In an interview with Capital Public Radio in Sacramento, Jennings said the twin-tunnel proposal would have disastrous effects on fish populations.
Rep. Jerry McNerney, D-Stockton, and six other members of congress spoke out Thursday in opposition to the latest details, describing the plan supported by Gov. Jerry Brown as failing to address regional concerns.
"I have said time and again that the governor's flawed plan is reckless and stands to cost California taxpayers billions of dollars and countless jobs," McNerney said in a written statement. "I will continue to fight to make sure that the interests of the people of the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta are represented."
Talk of the Bay-Delta project started seven years ago, and last year Brown proclaimed it a political priority.
According to an analysis of the new chapters, the Tracy pumps still would cause reverse flows and kill the fish in water-scarce years.
State officials counter that the plan provides a cumulative net gain in fish populations over time. There would be significant improvements for the smelt during wet years, they said, leading to larger, healthier populations.
The latest document also calls for the conversion of several Delta islands into 145,000 acres of tidal wetlands, increasing habit and food supplies for various species. That would be about one-fifth of the entire estuary.
The documents released this week are drafts. A public hearing is scheduled for Thursday and a final decision is not expected until next year.
Rep. John Garamendi, D-Walnut Grove, lives in the heart of the Delta. He joined McNerney in opposing the most recent draft.
"As currently designed, the BDCP is really a Bay Delta Destruction Plan that takes taxpayers for a ride, leaves behind a mess, and takes water from the north and delivers it to the south. This is simply an expensive plumbing system that doesn't add a single drop to the state's water supply," he said.
The Associated Press contributed to this report.
Contact reporter Kevin Parrish at (209) 546-8264 or email@example.com.


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Meet Lucene
- Understanding Lucene
- Using the basic indexing API
- Working with the search API
- Considering alternative products
One of the key factors behind Lucene's popularity and success is its simplicity. The careful exposure of its indexing and searching API is a sign of the well-designed software. Consequently, you don't need in-depth knowledge about how Lucene's information indexing and retrieval work in order to start using it. Moreover, Lucene's straightforward API requires you to learn how to use only a handful of its classes.
In this chapter [From the Manning book Lucene in Action], we show you how to perform basic indexing and searching with Lucene with ready-to-use code examples. We then briefly introduce all the core elements you need to know for both of these processes. We also provide brief reviews of competing Java/non-Java, free, and commercial products.
1.1 Evolution of information organization and access
The need to quickly locate information in the sea of data isn't limited to the Internet realm—desktop computers can store increasingly more data. Changing directories and expanding and collapsing hierarchies of folders isn't an effective way to access stored documents. Furthermore, we no longer use computers just for their raw computing abilities: They also serve as multimedia players and media storage devices. Those uses for computers require the ability to quickly find a specific piece of data; what's more, we need to make rich media—such as images, video, and audio files in various formats—easy to locate.
With this abundance of information, and with time being one of the most precious commodities for most people, we need to be able to make flexible, free-form, ad-hoc queries that can quickly cut across rigid category boundaries and find exactly what we're after while requiring the least effort possible.
To illustrate the pervasiveness of searching across the Internet and the desktop, figure 1.1 shows a search for lucene at Google. The figure includes a context menu that lets us use Google to search for the highlighted text. Figure 1.2 shows the Apple Mac OS X Finder (the counterpart to Microsoft's Explorer on Windows) and the search feature embedded at upper right. The Mac OS X music player, iTunes, also has embedded search capabilities, as shown in figure 1.3.
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Figure 1.1 Convergence of Internet searching with Google and the web browser.
Search functionality is everywhere! All major operating systems have embedded searching. The most recent innovation is the Spotlight feature (http://www.apple.com/macosx/tiger/spotlighttech.html) announced by Steve Jobs in the next version of Mac OS X (nicknamed Tiger); it integrates indexing and searching across all file types including rich metadata specific to each type of file, such as emails, contacts, and more.1
Figure 1.2 Mac OS X Finder with its embedded search capability.
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Figure 1.3 Apple's iTunes intuitively embeds search functionality.
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Figure 1.4 Microsoft's newly acquired Lookout product, using Lucene.Net underneath.
Google has gone IPO. Microsoft has released a beta version of its MSN search engine; on a potentially related note, Microsoft acquired Lookout, a product leveraging the Lucene.Net port of Lucene to index and search Microsoft Outlook email and personal folders (as shown in figure 1.4). Yahoo! purchased Overture and is beefing up its custom search capabilities.
To understand what role Lucene plays in search, let's start from the basics and learn about what Lucene is and how it can help you with your search needs.
1.2 Understanding Lucene
Different people are fighting the same problem—information overload—using different approaches. Some have been working on novel user interfaces, some on intelligent agents, and others on developing sophisticated search tools like Lucene. Before we jump into action with code samples later in this chapter, we'll give you a high-level picture of what Lucene is, what it is not, and how it came to be.
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Gothic cathedrals in Castile-Leon: art that looks to the sky
Burgos Cathedral
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Some monuments go beyond mere architecture. This is the case of the Gothic style cathedrals in the Castile-León Region, emblematic buildings that symbolised the resurgence of the cities where they were built. You will be amazed by the height of their towers and by the magical light of their multi-coloured stained glass windows. Come and discover the secrets of these cathedrals that reach up to touch the sky.
In the Region of Castile-León, in northern, inland Spain, you will find eleven beautiful cathedrals in a range of artistic styles located in its most important cities. Nevertheless, here we would suggest especially that you discover those in Gothic style. Why? On account of their walls with stunning stained glass windows, their beautiful pointed arches, their abundant decoration, their sculptures, the paintings on their altarpieces… An unforgettable visit for sure.
The city of Burgos is home to one of the most beautiful Gothic cathedrals in the world, with the UNESCO World Heritage designation. Take your time to soak up what you are seeing there – this is an architectural gem, built over the course of 500 years. You will love its main façade, its six-pointed rose window, its slender towers and its eight statues of the Castile monarchs. Furthermore, inside there is a bronze tombstone belonging to Rodrigo Díaz de Vivar (the legendary figure known as "El Cid Campeador") and his wife, Doña Jimena. Another anecdote? Legend has it that Napoleon Bonaparte was the last person to come down the cathedral's 16th-century golden staircase.
Some 170 kilometres from Burgos, in the city of León, you will find the second essential cathedral when it comes to discovering the beauty of Gothic architecture in this part of Spain. Here, what you will find most amazing is the light that floods into the building through its 737 stained glass windows. Two recommendations: don't miss its spectacular rose window, its choir stalls (some of the oldest in Spain) and its famous, delicate statue known as the Virgen Blanca. What is more, its cathedral museum is home to a collection with more than 1,500 items of religious art.
Ávila and its cathedral, around 280 kilometres from León, must also be on your list for one main reason: it is the earliest Gothic work in Castile-León and a perfect example of how the Romanesque gave way to this new style. It is interesting because it is a cathedral-castle that witnessed historic events such as an uprising against Emperor Charles I of Spain. Come and admire its ambulatory and its slender main chapel, whose windows have tiny horseshoe arches.
These are some of the best options to discover the purest Gothic art of Castile-León. However, there are other cathedrals that combine Gothic style with others such as Romanesque, Renaissance, Baroque and neo-Classical, and they are all outstanding for one reason or another. This is the case of the following cathedrals: El Burgo de Osma with its 72-metre tower; Ciudad Rodrigo and its "perdón" doorway with almost 400 sculptures; Palencia, with major works of painting and sculpture; the New Cathedral in Salamanca with its stunning Baroque dome; Segovia, whose tower is the tallest anywhere in Spain; the sombre cathedral of Valladolid and that of Astorga, outstanding for its red colour and twin towers.
Best of all? To explore them all (remember to check opening times), to visit their cathedral museums, to let your imagination travel back to bygone times and to choose which one you find most beautiful. Whichever you choose, they will all strike you as stunning, majestic works of art.
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