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"We recently completed our all-digital transition and the rollout of our more advanced product suite, Charter Spectrum, on plan. We have now unleashed the capabilities of our high capacity two-way interactive network, freeing network capacity we can utilize for years to come," said
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During the fourth quarter of 2014, Charter's residential customer relationships grew by 73,000, with triple play sell-in improving year-over-year, to 62% of total residential video sales. Commercial customer relationships grew by 6,000 in the fourth quarter of 2014. Residential PSUs increased by 157,000, while commercial PSUs increased 14,000 during the fourth quarter.
As of the end of the fourth quarter of 2014, Charter had completed its all-digital initiative. All-digital allows Charter to offer more advanced products and services, and provides residential customers with two-way digital set-tops, which offer higher picture quality, an interactive programming guide and video on demand on all TV outlets in the home.
During the fourth quarter, Charter continued to introduce its new product suite, Charter Spectrum, in markets that were recently converted to all-digital. Charter customers in these markets now have access to an industry-leading suite of video, data, and voice services that includes over 200 HD channels, in addition to minimum offered Internet speeds of 60 Mbps, and a fully featured voice service, delivered at a highly competitive price. Charter Spectrum is available to new Charter customers, and to existing customers within the Company's new pricing and packaging structure launched in 2012. As of the end of the fourth quarter of 2014, 86% of residential customers were in Charter's new pricing and packaging, excluding customers in the former Bresnan properties.
Residential video customers increased by 3,000 in the fourth quarter of 2014, versus a loss of 2,000 in the year-ago period. For the past two years Charter has significantly increased the competitiveness of its video product, by including more HD channels and video on demand offerings, attractive packaging of advanced services, improved selling methods, and enhanced service quality.
Charter added 104,000 residential Internet customers in the fourth quarter of 2014, compared to 93,000 a year ago. As of December 31, 2014, 80% of Charter's residential Internet customers subscribed to tiers that provided speeds of 60 Mbps or more. The Company continues to see strong demand for its Internet service as consumers value the speed and reliability of Charter's Internet offering.
During the fourth quarter, the Company added 50,000 residential voice customers, versus a gain of 56,000 during the fourth quarter of 2013.
Fourth quarter residential revenue per customer relationship totaled
Fourth quarter 2014 revenues rose to
Video revenues totaled
Internet revenues grew 13.5% compared to the year-ago quarter to
Voice revenues totaled
Commercial revenues rose to
Fourth quarter advertising sales revenues of
Operating Costs and Expenses
Fourth quarter total operating costs and expenses increased by
Fourth quarter programming expense increased by
Adjusted EBITDA
Fourth quarter Adjusted EBITDA of
Net Loss
Net loss totaled
Capital Expenditures
Property, plant and equipment expenditures were
Cash Flow
During the fourth quarter of 2014, net cash flows from operating activities totaled
Free cash flow for the fourth quarter of 2014 was
For the year ended December 31, 2014, revenues rose to
Operating Costs and Expenses
Operating costs and expenses totaled
Adjusted EBITDA
Adjusted EBITDA was
Net Loss
For the year ended December 31, 2014, net loss was
Capital Expenditures
Capital expenditures for the year ended December 31, 2014, totaled
Charter expects 2015 capital expenditures to be approximately
Cash Flow
In 2014, net cash flows from operating activities totaled
Free cash flow for the year ended December 31, 2014 was
Total principal amount of debt was approximately
Conference Call
Charter will host a conference call on Thursday, February 5, 2015 at
The conference call will be webcast live via the Company's investor relations website at ir.charter.com. The call will be archived under the "Financial Information" section two hours after completion of the call. Participants should go to the webcast link no later than 10 minutes prior to the start time to register.
Those participating via telephone should dial 866-919-0894 no later than 10 minutes prior to the call. International participants should dial 706-679-9379. The conference ID code for the call is 54499873.
A replay of the call will be available at 855-859-2056 or 404-537-3406 beginning two hours after the completion of the call through the end of business on
Additional Information Available on Website
The information in this press release should be read in conjunction with the financial statements and footnotes contained in the Company's Form 10-K for the twelve months ended December 31, 2014 which will be posted on the "Financial Information" section of our investor relations website at ir.charter.com, when it is filed with the
Use of Non-GAAP Financial Metrics
The Company uses certain measures that are not defined by Generally Accepted Accounting Principles ("GAAP") to evaluate various aspects of its business. Adjusted EBITDA and free cash flow are non-GAAP financial measures and should be considered in addition to, not as a substitute for, net loss or cash flows from operating activities reported in accordance with GAAP. These terms, as defined by Charter, may not be comparable to similarly titled measures used by other companies. Adjusted EBITDA is reconciled to net income (loss) and free cash flow is reconciled to net cash flows from operating activities in the addendum of this news release.
Adjusted EBITDA is defined as net income (loss) plus net interest expense, income taxes, depreciation and amortization, stock compensation expense, loss on extinguishment of debt, (gain) loss on derivative instruments, net and other operating expenses, such as merger and acquisition costs, special charges and (gain) loss on sale or retirement of assets. As such, it eliminates the significant non-cash depreciation and amortization expense that results from the capital-intensive nature of the Company's businesses as well as other non-cash or special items, and is unaffected by the Company's capital structure or investment activities. However, this measure is limited in that it does not reflect the periodic costs of certain capitalized tangible and intangible assets used in generating revenues and the cash cost of financing. These costs are evaluated through other financial measures.
Free cash flow is defined as net cash flows from operating activities, less purchases of property, plant and equipment and changes in accrued expenses related to capital expenditures.
Management and the Company's board of directors use Adjusted EBITDA and free cash flow to assess Charter's performance and its ability to service its debt, fund operations and make additional investments with internally generated funds. In addition, Adjusted EBITDA generally correlates to the leverage ratio calculation under the Company's credit facilities or outstanding notes to determine compliance with the covenants contained in the credit facilities and notes (all such documents have been previously filed with the
In addition to the actual results for the three and twelve months ended December 31, 2014 and 2013, we have provided pro forma results in this release for the twelve months ended December 31, 2013. We believe these pro forma results facilitate meaningful analysis of the results of operations. Pro forma results in this release reflect certain acquisitions of cable systems in 2013 as if they occurred as of
About Charter
This communication includes forward-looking statements within the meaning of Section 27A of the Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the "Securities Act"), and Section 21E of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended (the "Exchange Act"), regarding, among other things, our plans, strategies and prospects, both business and financial. Although we believe that our plans, intentions and expectations reflected in or suggested by these forward-looking statements are reasonable, we cannot assure you that we will achieve or realize these plans, intentions or expectations. Forward-looking statements are inherently subject to risks, uncertainties and assumptions including, without limitation, the factors described under "Risk Factors" from time to time in our filings with the SEC. Many of the forward-looking statements contained in this presentation may be identified by the use of forward-looking words such as "believe", "expect", "anticipate", "should", "planned", "will", "may", "intend", "estimated", "aim", "on track", "target", "opportunity", "tentative", "positioning", "designed", "create", "predict", "project", "seek", "would", "could", "continue", "ongoing", "upside", "increases" and "potential", among others. Important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from the forward-looking statements we make in this presentation are set forth in other reports or documents that we file from time to time with the
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All forward-looking statements attributable to us or any person acting on our behalf are expressly qualified in their entirety by this cautionary statement. We are under no duty or obligation to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this release.
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President Obama announced Tuesday at an Organizing for Action event that four million Americans have now selected plans on both state and federal exchanges, a slight increase from the 3.3 million enrollees announced Feb. DAY.
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WILSONVILLE, Ore. — (BUSINESS WIRE) — November 1, 2012 — Mentor Graphics Corp. (NASDAQ: MENT), a leader in advanced system verification solutions, today announced hardware and software solutions to accelerate the verification of PCI Express Generation 3 products. These new solutions, when connected to a Veloce® emulator, enable designers to test the new generation PCI Express devices on their System-on-Chip (SoC) designs, and to develop and test their software drivers and firmware prior to silicon being available.
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Nested loops join query plans can be a lot more interesting (and complicated!) than is commonly realized.
One query plan area I get asked about a lot is prefetching. It is not documented in full detail anywhere, so this seems like a good topic to address in a blog post. The examples used in this article are based on questions asked by Adam Machanic.
The following query uses the AdventureWorks sample database (as usual). Run it a couple of times if necessary so you see the query plan when all the data needed by the query is in memory (the "warm cache" case):
FROM Production.Product AS P
JOIN Production.TransactionHistory AS TH
ON TH.ProductID = P.ProductID
P.Name LIKE N'[K-P]%'
The post-execution ("actual") plan is shown below:
Some of you will already know how query plans are executed in detail, but it will be very important in a moment so please take the time to read this next bit, even if it is just as a refresher:
Query execution is an iterative (cursor-like) process. It starts at the far left (the green SELECT icon) and control passes first to the Top iterator, which requests a single row from the Nested Loops join. The join reads one row from its outer input (using the Index Seek on the Product table) and then looks for the first match on its inner input (the Index Seek on Transaction History).
The single-row result is passed back to the Top operator, and ultimately queued for transmission to the client in a TDS packet. The Top operator then asks the join for another row. The join looks for the next match on its inner input (it does not access the outer input this time). If a row is found, it is passed back to the Top (and on to the client) and so on.
At some point, the join will run out of matches from the inner input (for the current value of Product ID) so it switches back to its outer input to get the next Product ID from the Product table. The new Product ID is used to reinitialize (rebind) the inner input, which returns the first match from the Transaction History table index seek using the new Product ID.
Eventually, the whole iterative process results in the 1000th row passing through the Top operator, and the process comes to an end (because the query specifies TOP 1000). There is also the possibility that the query tree below (i.e. to the right of) the Top operator produces less than 1,000 rows in total. Execution would also come to an end in that case, but that is not what happens here.
The execution plan does not show all this detail (and in particular it aggregates over all the inner-side executions) but it does provide a summary of what happened:
The particular detail I want to draw your attention to is highlighted in the query plan above: the inner side index seek is executed four times, one for each row produced by the outer input to the join. Given our current understanding of query execution, the number of rows produced by the nested loops join outer input should always match the number of executions reported for the inner input. Right? Wrong.
The next script runs exactly the same query as before, but with a cold cache:
Well that's odd: 35 rows are read from the outer (Product) input but the inner side of the join is only executed 4 times. What happened to the extra 31 outer side rows? Where did they go?
The SQL Server query processor contains a number of optimizations for nested loops joins, primarily aimed at making I/O more efficient.
I/O efficiency on the outer side of the join is not usually a problem. Regular (storage engine) read-ahead is enough to ensure that pages are brought into memory before they are needed. The same read-ahead mechanism also applies to inner side executions, but the number of rows returned for each outer row is often quite small, so the benefit can be limited or even non-existent.
Remember that the inner side of a nested loop join rebinds (restarts) for each new correlated value from the outer side. As a result, a common access pattern for nested loops join is a number of small range scans on the inner side that start at different points in the same index.
One of the available SQL Server optimizations is nested loops prefetching. The general idea is to issue asynchronous I/O for index pages that will be needed by the inner side – and not just for the current correlated join parameter value, but for future values too. To be clear: say the outer side Product table seek produces ProductID rows with values (1, 17, 60, 99). Nested loops prefetching will try to bring pages in memory for the inner side Transaction History table index that has ProductID as its leading key for the values (1, 17, 60, 99…) before the inner side starts working on ProductID 1. When this mechanism is effective, it can produce a significant performance boost for nested loops joins by overlapping prefetch I/O with ongoing nested loop execution.
The way this works is not really discussed anywhere in detail, so let us look at it now. It will also explain why our cold-cache test query plan shows 35 rows on the outer input but only 4 executions on the inner side.
The execution plan shows a good deal of useful summary information, but it does not contain every important detail. One indication that there is something missing from the XML or graphical showplan information comes from looking at the node IDs of the iterators in the plan (if you are using SSMS, the node IDs are shown in the tooltip for each plan iterator):
Query plan iterators (nodes) are numbered (starting with zero, in geek tradition) from the far left. A discontinuity in the numbering is often a sign that something has been replaced, or is being hidden. In our test plan, nodes (0, 1, 3, 4) are shown, but node 2 is conspicuously missing. We can sometimes see extra information about query tree nodes using undocumented trace flag 7352 (output shown below, with node IDs in parentheses):
The output reveals the mystery node 2, but the trace flag is unable to give a name to it. The output also shows that the mystery node uses an expression labelled [Expr1004] with a type of binary(24). This expression is shown in regular showplan output as an outer reference (correlated parameter) of the nested loops join:
No definition is provided for this expression, and no other explicit reference is made to it anywhere else in the plan.
If showplan output included the missing node 2, it could look like this:
I have labelled the new iterator, "Delayed Prefetch" and used the standard catch-all iterator icon for it because I am too lazy to draw something appropriate (I do not have the illustrative skills of Kendra Little or Michael Swart).
Anyway, the execution engine class that implements this iterator is QScanRangePrefetchDelayNew. It uses the correlated join parameter values (ProductID here) to issue asynchronous scatter/gather I/O for the inner side (Transaction History) index, as described earlier. We have to attach the debugger to see this hidden iterator in action:
That call stack shows delayed prefetch for the nested loops join resulting in an asynchronous scatter read call to the operating system (right at the top in this capture). The prefetch operator can issue multiple asynchronous reads based on outer-input values. It uses a small memory buffer to keep track, and to save index leaf page information in particular. A reference to this information was seen earlier as the outer reference binary (24) expression label Expr1004. My understanding is that the leaf page information is used on the inner side of the join in hints to the storage engine to prevent duplicated effort by the normal read-ahead mechanisms. It may be used for other purposes.
The delayed prefetch iterator also checks for completion of previously-issued asynchronous I/Os:
…and completes SQL Server processing for any asynchronous I/Os that are found to have completed (the example below shows page checksums being validated):
The delayed prefetch iterator only reads extra rows from its input when it encounters a page that requires a physical I/O. Scatter reads can bring in multiple discontinuous pages in one I/O request, so extra outer side rows are read to make better use of the scatter read mechanism. If we are going to issue an I/O call, we might as well grab as much as we can.
If an inner-side index page checked by delayed prefetch is already present in the buffer pool, no physical I/O issued (because there is nothing to do) but a logical read is counted (because prefetch touched the buffer pool page to check it was there). Control then returns to the nested loop join iterator to continue its normal processing. If we know the inner-side page is in memory, we might as well get on with processing it – there's no need to read extra rows from the outer input.
We can now fully explain the query plan differences we saw earlier.
In the cold-cache test, the delayed prefetch iterator tests inner-side index pages, finds they are not in cache, so asynchronous scatter reads are issued. A total of 35 rows are read by the delayed prefetch iterator in this test. The 1,000 rows needed for the query are produced by the nested loop join from just 4 of these rows, so we only see 4 executions on the inner side. (Remember the row-at-a-time cursor-like execution of query plans).
In the warm-cache test, the delayed prefetch iterator does not encounter any pages are not in memory, so no asynchronous I/Os are issued, and no extra rows are read. Prefetching just adds a few logical reads (of pages that were already in memory) to the reported cost of the query.
The prefetching mode is shown on the nested loops join iterator. If prefetching is used, either the WithUnorderedPrefetch or WithOrderedPrefetch attributes will be shown set to true (SSMS users will need to click on the nested loops join and inspect the properties window to see these properties). If prefetching is not used, neither attribute will be present.
An unordered prefetch allows the inner side of the join to proceed using data from whichever I/Os happened to complete first.
An ordered prefetch preserves key order on the inner side of the nested loops join, so SQL Server ensures that asynchronous I/Os are processed in the correct order.
Unordered prefetching may therefore be somewhat more efficient than ordered prefetching. That said, the optimizer may choose to use ordered prefetching where it can make use of the preserved-order guarantee to avoid a more expensive join type (e.g. hash join) or where it can avoid an explicit sort later in the execution plan.
Our test query features an ORDER BY clause that the optimizer can avoid sorting for by using ordered prefetch:
Regular readers will know that I am not a fan of scalar T-SQL functions, but I am going to use one here to illustrate another important aspect of prefetching. The function in question does nothing except return its input value (I have deliberately created this function without schema-binding so SQL Server will consider it to be non-deterministic):
CREATE FUNCTION dbo.F
(@ProductID integer)
RETURNS integer
RETURN @ProductID;
The next script uses the function in our test query as part of the join predicate:
ON TH.ProductID = dbo.F(P.ProductID) -- Changed!
The execution plan (with a warm cache) shows 4 rows read from the outer input, and 4 executions of the inner side of the nested loops join:
The Seek Predicate for the inner-side seek now references the function. The function is not mentioned anywhere else in the query plan.
If you said four, you were wrong!
The number of function invocations can be monitored using the Profiler event SP:StatementCompleted (despite the name and documentation suggesting it is only for stored procedures). Profiler shows the function was called eight times:
Four calls correspond to the four executions of the inner-side index seek. The other four calls are caused by the hidden delayed prefetch iterator. Remember this is the warm cache case, where no prefetching is necessary.
The delayed prefetch iterator still tries to check if the index page is in the buffer pool. In order to find the inner-side index page for the current value of ProductID, the prefetch iterator must execute the function. It needs the result of the function to seek into the inner-side index.
The debugger call stack below shows the UDF being called from the delayed prefetch iterator:
When pages need to be prefetched, the effect is even more dramatic:
The outer input shows 35 rows (as we now expect). There are (as usual) only 4 executions of the inner side:
Profiler shows the function is executed 39 times – 4 times by the inner side seek, and 35 times by prefetch!
The message here is not that prefetching is bad (it is generally a good thing). It can have unexpected side-effects, and can make interpreting nested loops joins more challenging. Never use T-SQL scalar functions!
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Never! ;)
Thanks for making the bit.ly link for this post too - bit.ly/Prefetch - handy. :)
Wow, that was a good analysis and will help me explain some things to others when I do a Execution Plan sessions at events.
Thanks Paul,
Thanks Rob and Thomas. It seems every time I get asked a question about nested loops, the answer is prefetching :)
And yes, I did say "never".
I just gave my Death by UDF presentation at DevLink 2 days ago. Now I have yet ANOTHER reason why not to use them (not that I needed any more of them)!! :-)
As always, great post Paul.
Very intereting subject and very ilustrative way of explain that, even it could be difficult to understand to newbies.
Thanks for share your knowledge
PD: how could you find this trace flags? Do you try from 0 to 10000? ;-)
Yes I understand this particular post isn't the most accessible one I have ever written, but on balance I felt it was worth doing even if only advanced users really understand it! On the other hand, I'd like to think that even relative beginners would get something from it, and it least remember that it exists when they move on to more advanced query plan analysis. I use several techniques to discover trace flags, and "brute force" is one of them. I'm not going to disclose all my tricks though ;c)
Excellent post and interesting details
Thanx Paul
Paul, excellent as usual. I always wonder at the different cpu and logical reads in the profiler for a query depending on running with hot or cold caches, and prefetching adds explanation for both!
By the way, what would "Delayed Prefetch" icon look like any way? Based on http://technet.microsoft.com/en-us/library/ms175913(v=sql.105).aspx I think I could put together some random blue rectangles and arrows and no-one would be able to tell that it's out of place.
Not sure. Something with a clock and a scan arrow reading the b-tree level(s) the leaf? A separate one for RID delayed prefetch scanning IAM pages? Really don't know what a good IAM page icon would look like...
Hello Emelia,
It's always tough to recommend blogs because (a) I don't keep a handy list; and (b) I'm sure to upset someone I regard highly by missing them out. That said, I am going to list a few of of my favourites from MSDN:
I presume this is why on a heap with RID lookup I see a compute scalar before the nested loops with
[Expr1003] = Scalar Operator(BmkToPage([Bmk1000]))
Similar, but BmkToPage is associated with the Optimized (Batch Sort) property rather than prefetch.
Thanks for the post! I tried it on my own sql server, the "ActualRows" count I get is 94 instead of 35. What do you think is related to this count? I'm using SQL Server 2014 developer edition, AdventureWorks2014 database. Thanks!
Yes I see the same on 2014. Seems like the delayed prefetch is a bit more aggressive in 2014 than it was for 2012 and earlier.
hi Paul,
" Scatter reads can bring in multiple discontinuous pages in one I/O request", this seems not correct? Read scatter means read a continuous data pages from file and distribute them to multiple discontinuous allocated space in buffer.


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text: Satisfied With Soybeans March 9, 2013 03:21 AM Tweet TAGS: Marketing, Overseas December 18, 2014 By Rhonda Brooks Editor, Farm Journal MagazineEditorial Director, Farm Journal Media Email Farmers will plant up to 2.5 million more acres this year The corn crop on Bill Gordon's southwest Minnesota farm got clobbered this past summer after no discernible rain fell for a three-month stretch. Soybeans struggled as well, though they rallied after a 1.5" soaking in late August. In fact, Gordon combined an average of 50 bu. of soybeans per acre at harvest—only 5 bu. off the high end of what he considers a normal yield. "We were more than a little surprised by that," he says. "I looked at Dad and said there's no way the yield monitor's right, but it was." The ability of soybeans to seize even a small amount of moisture late in the season and produce a crop is the main reason the Worthington, Minn., farmer will stay with a 50/50 corn-soybean rotation, especially as weather experts say 2013 might consist of another drought. "We've tried other rotations, including corn-on-corn, but found we were taking a pretty big hit in second-year corn," says Gordon, who serves on the board of directors for the American Soybean Association. "It takes more management and a lot more fertilizer to get those corn yields up," he adds. "We found over a four-year average that our gross-per-acre didn't improve with corn-on-corn, and that it's better for us to try and increase our soybean yields." Darren Hefty is telling farmers soybeans could be their high-dollar crop this year. "With the chance to market beans at around $15 per bushel, and many growers seeing upward of 60 bu. yields, there's some excellent potential," says Hefty, who co-owns Hefty Seed Company in Baltic, S.D. Dustin Johnson, a broker with EHedger, expects soybeans will gain acres, along with corn, at the expense of wheat and, in some regions, cotton. "We see soybean acres at 79.5 million (acres)," Johnson reports. That is 2.5 million acres more than the 77 million acres that USDA estimates farmers planted in 2012. Johnson points to new crop prices and subsoil moisture as the biggest factors influencing these numbers. "With what we know today, we see total corn and soybean acres up 4 million combined," he says. "Whether the acres go primarily to corn or soybeans depends on the price ratio and, obviously, weather." Where corn is king. "When you look at central Indiana, northern Illinois, Minnesota, North Dakota and South Dakota, I think they will be wall-to-wall corn," predicts Bob Utterback, Farm Journal economist. However, Utterback believes farmers will be hard-pressed to reach the same total corn acreage numbers they planted in 2012, which was 96.9 million, according to USDA. "The only way it'll happen is if the bean market gets hammered or we have exceptionally good planting conditions." That's what Scott Houck hopes for this spring. "We had really good irrigated corn last year, and then the conditions were just right for fall fertilizer applications," says Houck, who farms in south-central Nebraska, near Strang. Glyphosate-resistant waterhemp and giant ragweed escapes in soybeans this past season also figure into his equation to plant more corn. Overall, Houck, who serves on the Nebraska Soybean Checkoff Board, estimates soybeans will be down in his area between 5% and 10%. Yet, in other areas that were hit hard by the drought, such as Illinois, Indiana and Ohio, along with the southern edge of the Corn Belt, Utterback anticipates farmers will shift more to soybeans, or to a wheat-soybean double-crop strategy. Some of this switching will result, he says, where farmers have seen two straight years of corn-after-corn acres that have underperformed compared with corn-after-bean acres. Farmers switching to soybeans this season need to consider that the 2012 drought might contribute to a reduction of bradyrhizobium, a microorganism necessary for nitrogen fixation. "It might be an issue in fields that have had only one or two years of soybeans or have other issues, such as low pH," explains Kraig Roozeboom, Kansas State University Extension soybean specialist. On the other hand, he says, farmers who plant soybeans after failed corn might have excess residual nitrogen still in the soil profile. 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Forget about the best record in baseball, the lead in the NL Central and the buzz of a city giddily envisioning the end of two decades of despair.
After a euphoric doubleheader sweep of reeling St. Louis on Tuesday that propelled them to the top of the division, the Pittsburgh Pirates — yes, the Pirates — are ready to get greedy.
"We want more," manager Clint Hurdle said.
Forget about the best record in baseball, the lead in the NL Central and the buzz of a city giddily envisioning the end of two decades of despair.
After a euphoric doubleheader sweep of reeling St. Louis on Tuesday that propelled them to the top of the division, the Pittsburgh Pirates — yes, the Pirates — are ready to get greedy.
"We want more," manager Clint Hurdle said.
Keep pitching like this, and that shouldn't be a problem.
Three hours after Alex Presley's grounder caromed off the glove of St. Louis reliever Kevin Siegrist and rolled into shallow left field to give the Pirates a taut 2-1, 11-inning victory in the opener, the Pirates breezed to a 6-0 victory in the second game behind rookie starter Brandon Cumpton.
Working with usual Triple-A battery mate Tony Sanchez — making his major league debut — Cumpton (1-1) scattered three hits over seven innings to extend the Cardinals' losing streak to a season-high six straight games.
"Pitching inside has been my thing all year," Cumpton said. "I didn't want to get away from it. I wanted to force the issue."
All it did was compound the issues for St. Louis, which has scored all of five runs in the last 56 innings. Even worse, catcher Yadier Molina is likely headed to the disabled list after leaving in the top of the fourth inning of the second game with a sprained right knee.
The knee has been bothering the All-Star for weeks. An MRI earlier this month revealed inflammation. After trying to play through it, Molina believes the better course of action is some rest so he can be ready for the stretch drive.
"I'm a guy who wants to be on the field playing," Molina said. "But right now I need time."
The injury is the latest setback for a team that appeared the class of the majors at the All-Star break but now finds itself 1½ games behind the resilient Pirates. The sweep pushed Pittsburgh to a season-high 22 games over .500 (64-42). The last time their record was this gaudy was 1992, which also happens to be the last time the beleaguered franchise reached the postseason.
It's a destination that appears well within the Pirates' reach, even if they opt to keep their wallets closed at Wednesday's trading deadline. A pitching staff that keeps topping itself has allowed the Pirates to overcome a series of injuries.
Cumpton didn't even spend any time with the big league club during spring training. On Tuesday he found himself polishing off arguably the biggest day at PNC Park since it opened in 2001.
"Coming out of spring, (Cumpton) was 13th on our starting pitching depth chart," Hurdle said. "You trust the people that are working with the players and they've been confident about Brandon's improvement."
It's a rise that took a little while longer than St. Louis rookie Tyler Lyons (2-4), though the right-hander has cooled off since winning his first two starts in spectacular fashion earlier this year.
Lyons gave up four runs, three earned, in six innings. He struck out five and walked one but received no help from a reeling offense and some sloppy play in the field.
A couple hours after Presley's slapper off Siegrist (0-1) won the opener, the fortuitous bounces kept on coming. The Pirates took a 1-0 lead in the second when a rare passed ball by Molina let Jose Tabata sprint across the plate. Molina was done for the night in the top of the fourth when the right knee pain he's been battling for the better part of a month flared up again. He was replaced by Rob Johnson.
The absence of their leader further weakened the Cardinals, and things quickly fell apart.
While Cumpton kept the NL's top offense in check, Pittsburgh poured it on with a little help from St. Louis left fielder Matt Holliday. The Pirates took a 2-0 lead on Jordy Mercer's RBI single before McCutchen stepped in. He drilled Lyons' pitch deep to left but Holliday appeared ready to track it down at the wall. Instead, the ball popped off the heel of Holliday's glove and into the stands.
Lyons placed both hands on his head in shock while the packed bleachers let Holliday have it. Holliday's night didn't get any better an inning later when he overran Josh Harrison's flyball to the wall, allowing Harrison to make it all the way to third.
"It's a hard game," St. Louis manager Mike Matheny said. "Our guys have been making a lot of good plays. Every once in a while there's tough ones you don't make."
Harrison never made it home, but by then Cumpton had all the backing he would require.
Cumpton needed just 87 pitches to get 21 outs. He received a loud ovation as he headed to the dugout, the latest in a series of unheralded Pirates pitchers to rise from obscurity and help propel the franchise into the midst of a pennant race.
The staff takes its cue from ace A.J. Burnett, who worked seven emotional innings in the opener. Burnett struck out nine and walked three while allowing one run on three hits. He was long gone, however, by the time Presley stepped in with Martin on in the 11th.
"It's a battle, it's fun," Burnett said. "Let's roll from here. Let's keep going."
NOTES: The series continues on Thursday. Adam Wainright (13-6, 2.51 ERA) starts for the Cardinals against Jeff Locke (9-3, 2.15) ... St. Louis sent struggling reliever Marc Rzepczynski to Cleveland on Tuesday in exchange for minor league infielder Juan Herrera. Rzepczynski had a 7.84 ERA in 10 1-3 innings this season with the Cardinals ... Pirates 2009 first-round pick Tony Sanchez went 0 for 3 with an RBI in his first major league start at catcher.


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I'm pretty interested in German used and rare bookselling market. It has one of the most developed ecosystem outside of the Anglophone market, and looking at what's happening offers a great set of data points to understand where our industry's at. I was excited to came across a number of great stories covering the space in boersenblatt.net, a German book trade magazine. Here are some of the pieces I found.
(All of these articles are in German. To translate them, use Google's handy 1-click translate bookmarklet. For English, you can drag this link to your browser toolbar —> View in English. Then click the button whenever you want to see a page in English.)
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- Gojaba launch
- Market positioning overview
Smaller marketplaces and services:
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- Buchfreund pricing model changes
- Interview on Oxfam Germany used bookstores
- ILAB rethinking Rockingstone relationship
- Eurobuch redesign
- momox-books buying used books en masse
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Trevor Coleman, 3x emmy award nominated composer and producer of over 70 documentary film soundtracks; working internationally from his "studio at the beach" in new zealand, composing film music in multiple genres with a distinctive sound.
Also a jazz keyboardist & trumpeter, he has performed and composed extensively throughout europe, usa and australasia.
Genres: Royalty Free Music , 20s-40s
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Firstly, sorry for my english, I'll try my best but if something is not clear enough, please let me know
My difficulty with BF-ing is that my nipples are not 'nice': one very big(left side), the other big and inverted (right side)
With my first baby, I pumped and offered him bottles for 3 weeks and then managed to get him latch on(he couldn't latch on till then) and BF from the left breast first since it produced more milk, and from the right breast couple weeks later. It was a big success for me.
Now with my DD, I managed to get her latch on right after birth, but that was a shallow latch because her mouth was very small. So this time I also need to pump and she drinks from bottle. I did hope the history repeat, but I was wrong.
Now at 8 weeks, she seems to latch on well, but she sucks very weakly, and falls into sleep quickly. She mainly comfort-nurses.
My milk supply is not the problem, I think, since I pump and get enough for her to drink from bottle. I use Medela pump in style breast pump, I pump 5 times a day and get total 16-24oz . This is not a big amount but my baby only drink up to 3 oz every 2-3 hour, she sleeps for long stretch at night(5-6 hours)
I did hope that I can get her BF like her brother, but for now I don't see any improvement as the time goes by(too fast for us, I think). I guess my baby has nipple-confusion so that she can't sucks well, or she is used to the ease of drinking from bottle.
Here(in Vietnam) I can't get any help from lactation consultant since there's no lactation consultants.
I'm thinking about using SNS, but wonder whether it can help in my situation. I used SNS once with my first baby, it's not easy to use
Sometime I think it maybe easier for both my DD and myself that I pump and give her a bottle, since she does not have to nurse and only after that can get her bottle at every feeding, I , at the same time, don't have to sit to nurse her in vain(seem like she does not get much with BF-ing). But I'm still desperate to BF!
Please help and thank you!


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STOCKTON - Paying for a coffee or sandwich with plastic at Freedom Coffee Co. in downtown Stockton is a slightly different experience than at other stores.
STOCKTON - Paying for a coffee or sandwich with plastic at Freedom Coffee Co. in downtown Stockton is a slightly different experience than at other stores.
Owner Darrell Griffin will slide your credit or debit card through a small plastic scanner connected to a smartphone. Want a receipt? Check your email.
Griffin has switched from using traditional credit card scanners to Square, a credit card payment system that uses an iPhone, Android or iPad. Accepting credit cards is less expensive through Square, Griffin said, to the tune of $3,500 a year. For an independent coffee shop competing with a big green giant a quarter-mile away, every dollar counts.
"Switching over to (Square) saves me about $250 a month," Griffin said, later adding "and I'd go through a roll of receipt paper every other day ... so I save another $40 a month."
Whether it's a change in technology or a flurry of innovative ideas, local mom-and-pop shops in San Joaquin County are hopeful 2013 is a year where they can thrive. Some say their path to success is through barter. Others say they risk small to nonexistent profit margins just to get work and keep their heads above water.
"In a general sense I would say, at least, we are starting to have a few clients talking about some growth opportunities instead of just talking about survival issues," said Nate McBride, director of the San Joaquin Delta College Small Business Development Center.
"Some businesses have been hit harder than others, so you still have some doing what they can to cut costs. For others, the revenue declines seem to have stopped," McBride added.
One business that is trying to innovate its way out of the doldrums of the recession is Whirlow's Tossed and Grilled.
Owner Lisa Whirlow said she has done everything she can think of to drive business. She's had live music, karaoke nights and art events that bleed out from her restaurant onto the Miracle Mile.
"We've started an art caf� with art going up on the wall. We'll serve coffee, herbal tea ... (and have) a wine bar and free Wi-Fi," Whirlow said. "I'm getting involved with so many nonprofits and neighborhood watches to make our city safer. To say we are doing everything we can is beyond true. I feel like the more I give, the more I'll get back."
Whirlow said despite her efforts, her business is under some duress because of accumulated debt. Her answer is to just keep moving forward with new ideas.
This month, Whirlow started a First Wednesday beer night and comedy night. For $25, patrons can stop in for beer tasting and appetizers from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. on the first Wednesday of each month. At 7:30 p.m., comedians will take the floor to entertain.
"Maybe I should have stayed semi-retired, but I really do think I'm going to see the other side of the tunnel," she said. "I really feel good about 2013."
Outside of the food service industry, small businesses are doing what they can to stay afloat.
The construction and contracting industries have also struggled. The only way to make ends meet for small businesses in those areas has been to bid low.
"You want higher volume with lower profit margins," said Jose Gutierrez of GG&G Cabinets, Stockton. "The one thing we invested in was online advertising. Getting our name on top of Internet searches has brought in a lot of calls."
Other service-based industries have also had to get creative.
John Smartt, owner of New School Aikido, Stockton, has taken to bartering instead of demanding contracts.
"We used to try and get people to sign a year contract. We've gotten rid of that altogether. Now, if people can't afford a lesson, we'll take in-kind services." he said. "There's always clean-up to do around here. I've had one customer who is good at repairs fix the roof."
Smartt said he's also not refusing any customers, even if they can't pay. He has run some free clinics at Victory Park near his studio, and will take walk-ins on their word that they will start paying when they can. One customer who had been receiving free services came in after a payday and made a large back payment.
"I'm barely making it. But, in a way, this is a lot more fun," Smartt said. "I'm connecting more to the community."
Contact reporter Keith Reid at (209) 546-8257 or email@example.com. Visit his blog at recordnet.com/lodiblog.


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Rabbi Ted Falcon, Pastor Don Mackenzie, and Sheikh Jamal Rahman, known collectively as the "Interfaith Amigos," have been learning and teaching together since 2001. They blog weekly for YES! Magazine.
Imagine for a moment that you have climbed a very high mountain. You are finally at the top. Looking back, you can see the road behind you: You can see back through time all the way to 2000 BCE—the time of Abraham the patriarch. And if we look closely, one of the most vivid patterns we find is that of religions coming into being to contribute to healing—the healing of people, of communities, and of the planet. They are like a glass that holds water: The water is spirituality—that sensibility that bears within it oneness, unconditional love, and compassion. All of these things contribute to healing. Religions, then, are institutions and conveyances for healing substance.
Then why does religion seem to play such a major role in violence?
The pattern that I'm suggesting we recognize looks like this: A religion is formed, but soon the substance starts to leak out. Sometimes we end up with hollow shells—institutions totally emptied of substance. We end up taking care of the glass, and not noticing that the water has evaporated. Becoming aligned with institutions bent on violence instead of healing represents an evaporation of purpose.
Here are some examples of that drift away from our traditions—and one of the most powerful examples may surprise you. The story of the Exodus from Egypt by the Hebrew slaves is one of the great archetypes from this pattern. A famine struck Canaan, where the Hebrew people had been living, and because Egypt was a promised land—there was food in Egypt—the Hebrews migrated there. But over time, Egypt became a place of imprisonment for Hebrew slaves. In the story of their escape, the Exodus, we see the people trying to return to their vocation. Their vocation—their calling—was to be people chosen for the way of what became known as Torah, or teaching. The teachings of Torah (Genesis, Exodus, Leviticus, Numbers, Deuteronomy) became the light for the road ahead. On their journey away from Egypt, the people learned that being recalled to the substance of their tradition had the potential to provide healing.
In drifting from purpose, it is possible to get stuck in a place far from home.
Between 1011 and 931 BCE, we find the great king David, struggling to be faithful to his calling as a child of God. His son Solomon, often spoken of as a person of great wisdom, was also the richest person in the known world. Much of his wealth came on the backs of slaves, and in spite of the heroic stature attributed to Solomon, this seems a drifting from purpose.
Some two hundred years after that, both the prophet Amos and the prophet Micah spoke of the emptiness of the practice of sacrifice; it had become an empty institution. Amos and Micah urged people to return to the substance of religion: oneness, love and compassion.
When the people of Judah were taken into exile to Babylon, the return to Jerusalem some 50 years later felt like a return to substance. Upon their return, the priest Ezra read from Torah, and the people—so moved were they to hear those substantive words—fell to tears (Nehemiah 8:9b).
Jesus, too, understood his ministry as a recalling to substance. And after the crucifixion, the third "appearance" to the disciples took place by a lake in the early morning mists. The disciples had gone fishing, returned to the familiar, and drifted. Standing on the shore, Jesus called them back to their ministry.
Called Back to the Essentials Remembering community, compassion, love, and service.
Finally, the prophet Mohammed, peace be upon him, observed Christians and Jews in pre-Islamic Arabia as having drifted from their own traditions. When he received the revelations that became the Qur'an, he understood them to be guidance for returning to substance.
Patterns. Why has this happened? This is a good place for conversation, and it's our sense that part of the reason why institutions like religion drift from substance is due to leadership from a faulty masculine consciousness—a consciousness that, at its core, has a great fear of being weak. This fear can cause us to concentrate on the more visible and tangible means of security and protection. While this has been mostly true of men, women can also step into that place.
We believe that religious and moral leadership must combine a masculine and feminine consciousness in order to remain faithful to substance. Doubtless, the tendency to drift will continue. But through raising our awareness of this pattern, we can get better at calling ourselves back.


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What food or drinks can I take to help my lungs fight or heal pulmonary fibrosis?
There are no foods or drinks that are known to improve idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis. Foods and drinks are not regulated by the U.S. Food and Drug Authority.
There are often claims made that certain nutritional supplements and other foods will improve or cure patients with pulmonary fibrosis.
Unfortunately, these claims are generally not based on science and are often done by people who are taking financial advantage of patients who are desperate for any kind of treatment for this serious disease. I tell my patients to eat what they like to eat and not follow any special type of pulmonary fibrosis diet.
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Effective Date: 06/01/2010, Docket: RP10-689-000, Status: Effective
Second Revised Sheet No. 415 Second Revised Sheet No. 415
Superseding: First Revised Sheet No. 415
Agreement No.___________
Storage Service Agreement
_______________________________Rate Schedule FS-1_____________________________
Dated: __________________
The Parties identified below, in consideration of their mutual promises,
agree as follows:
1. Transporter: COLORADO INTERSTATE GAS COMPANY
2. Shipper: ______________________________
3. Applicable Tariff: Transporter's FERC Gas Tariff, First Revised Volume No.
1, as the same may be amended or superseded from time to time ("the
Tariff"). Capitalized terms used in this Agreement and not defined
elsewhere have the meanings given to them in the Tariff.
4. Changes in Rates and Terms. Transporter shall have the right to propose to
the FERC such changes in its rates and terms of service as it deems
necessary, and this Agreement shall be deemed to include any changes which
are made effective pursuant to FERC Order or regulation or provisions of
law, without prejudice to Shipper's right to protest the same.
5. Storage Service: Subject to the provisions of this Agreement and
Transporter's Rate Schedule FS-1, Transporter agrees to inject during the
Injection Period, store, and withdraw during the Withdrawal Period Gas
from storage on a firm basis for the account of Shipper.
6. Rates and Surcharges: As set forth in Exhibit A. Transporter and Shipper
may also agree to a discount using one of the discount types described in
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USC-Florida injury report
The post-game injury report from No. 9 South Carolina's 44-11 loss to No. 3 Florida. Find out who was banged up, who perhaps was hurt more seriously, who might be out for the next game and who might return for the next game.
Strong safety T.J. Gurley injured his left leg in the first quarter and did not return to the game. His leg was wrapped in a brace on the sideline and he used crutches to get to the locker room. Coach Steve Spurrier said that he "may" have torn ligaments in his knee.
Running back Marcus Lattimore (hip) played but did not start. He said that his hip was fine and the reason he didn't get more than three carries was that the Gamecocks had to start throwing, being down 21-3.
Left tackle Mike Matulis (sprained right shoulder, illness) started. He switched in and out at tackle for the game.
Defensive tackle Phillip Dukes (hand) has a torn ligament and wore a cast over it during the game. He dressed but did not play.
Defensive tackle Byron Jerideau (ankle) started.
Defensive tackle J.T. Surratt (ankle) started.
Defensive end Jadeveon Clowney (foot) started. He said that he has a deep bone bruise in the arch, and while it's painful, he's playing through it.
Wide receiver Ace Sanders (illness) started.
Wide receiver Bruce Ellington (illness) started.
Center T.J. Johnson (illness) started.
Cornerback Jimmy Legree (illness) did not start (because USC went with the run-stuffing package on its first defensive snap) but came in on the second snap.
Defensive tackle Kelcy Quarles (sprained shoulder) did not travel as a combination of his injury and a suspension for punching an LSU offensive lineman last week. His injury is said to be like the shoulder injury to Connor Shaw - it needs time to heal. He could be back next week.
Right tackle Cody Gibson did not travel for the second straight week after coming down with an illness before the LSU game. He is waiting on some lab work to get back to identify what he has (it's suspected to be some kind of food-borne illness), and he can walk around and go to class, but he has to get back on a regular diet before he can return to practice.
Running back Shon Carson is out due to a wrist injury. He could be back for the bowl game. He did not dress.
Running back Brandon Wilds is out due to a sprained ankle. He is likely to redshirt. He did not dress.
Cornerback Rico McWilliams is recovering from a torn knee ligament and will redshirt the season.
Running back Kendric Salley is recovering from a torn knee ligament and will redshirt the season.
Fullback Jacob Baker is recovering from a torn knee ligament and likely will not play this season.
Spur Marcquis Roberts is out due to a knee injury and will not play this season, although he is practicing in full pads.


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General Comments: Futures closed higher on what appeared to be speculative buying tied to a trend change to higher on the charts. The North American grind data was released after the close and should help to support prices today. Good arrivals in Africa are negative and are continuing. Ivory Coast arrivals are strong, and the trend for strong arrivals from there should continue. Malaysia and Indonesia crops appear to be in good condition and weather is called favorable. Overall weather patterns in West Africa production areas are good for harvest progress. Demand is reported weaker from the US and Europe, in part due to current economics and in part due to changes forced by the World Bank that encouraged forward marketing of the crops. The market needs some demand news or some other news to shake it out of the sideways to lower trade, but the EU and Ivory Coast data implies that a lower trade can continue.
Overnight News: Mostly dry conditions are expected in West Africa. Temperatures will average near to above normal. Malaysia and Indonesia should see episodes of scattered showers. Temperatures should average near normal. Brazil will get dry conditions and warm temperatures. ICE certified stocks are a little higher today at 3.832 million bags. Ghana Cocoa purchases are 485,000 tons so far this year, from 586,000 tons last year. The North American Cocoa grind was 120,053 tons, from 118,926 tons last year.
Chart Trends: Trends in New York are up with objectives of 2360, 2450, and 2690 March. Support is at 2270, 2230, and 2205 March, with resistance at 2325, 2355, and 2370 March. Trends in London are up with objectives of 1490 and 1535 March. Support is at 1465, 1445, and 1430 March, with resistance at 1490, 1510, and 1525 March.
General Comments: Futures were higher and turned trends up on follow through buying from news that the Chinese government auction of its Cotton stocks went poorly. Buyers there were not interested due to poor quality and relatively high prices. The news implied that demand for world Cotton can stay strong as mills in China will still import despite big import fees and taxes. USDA showed strong export sales to help the rally, and good economic data for the US helped the rally, too. The current low prices are bringing into question what farmers in Texas and the Delta and Southeast will plant this year. Some are wondering if planted area might be lower this year here in the US due to weak prices against competing crops. The area lost would go mostly to Corn and Soybeans. Current weather features some precipitation in Delta and Southeast areas, but western Texas was mostly dry. Delta areas will turn dry today. Trends are not well defined on the charts, but ideas are that the market can continue to work higher overall.
Overnight News: The Delta will be dry all week and Southeast will get showers or rains today, then will see dry conditions move from west to east the balance of the week. Temperatures will average near to above normal in the delta and near to below normal in the Southeast. Texas will get dry weather. Temperatures will average near to above normal. The USDA spot price is now 73.13 ct/lb. ICE said that certified Cotton stocks are now 0.103 million bales, from 0.103 million yesterday.
Chart Trends: Trends in Cotton are up with objectives of 78.40 March. Support is at 77.00, 76.90, and 76.40 March, with resistance of 78.00, 79.60, and 79.90 March.
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