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Indian-American IT firm CEO charged with callous treatment of worker in US
Oh! Those Indians!
Indian-American IT firm CEO charged with callous treatment of worker in US
Human sacrifice in Magadi: Victims uncle among four arrested
The 10-year-old girl, who was found murdered near Hosahalli on the outskirts of the city, had allegedly been sacrificed by her own relatives to cure her ailing uncle, the police said.
No country for baby girls
By Jyoti Shelar; The Hindu - March 18, 2017
Modi govt exploring law on banning beef and cow slaughter
'Never favoured beef ban': BJP's balancing act in Kerala, Bengal
"If I win, I will start good slaughterhouses here", says Kerala BJP leader
"Give me votes, I will start good slaughterhouses here" – This is the winning slogan for N.Sriprakash, the BJP candidate for the byelection to the Malappuram Lok Sabha constituency in Kerala. His stand on beef, which is diametrically opposite to that of his party leaders in North India, was revealed during a meet-the-press event held here on Saturday. When asked about the BJP's stand regarding beef, especially the Gujarat Government's bill to award life-term for cow slaughter, he said that his party is not against the consumption of "good beef".
Double Standards: BJP Promises 'No Ban' On Beef If It Wins Polls In Northeast States
"Ban on cow slaughter like the one in UP won't take effect in Nagaland if our party comes to power next year. The reality here is very different and our central leaders are aware of that," Nagaland BJP chief Visasolie Lhoungu told Hindustan Times. "There would be no ban on cow slaughter in Mizoram and other states in the region where there is a majority Christian population," Mizoram BJP president JV Hluna said.
Hindutva hypocrisy: Why is beef banned as food but bull torture allowed for sport?
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Madhya Pradesh farmer uses teenage daughters to plough farm
Actor Dileep arrested in Malayalam actress abduction case
Oh! Those Indians!!!
The Hindu - December 20, 2017
After accidental swapping of infants in Karnataka hospital, both sets of parents claim the baby boy!
Man Breaks Wife's Hands For Having Three Daughters
April 10, 2018
A woman here had both her arms broken, reportedly by her husband and in-laws, for having given birth to only girls. The incident has been reported by The Times of India from Babra village of Shahjahanpur district of Uttar Pradesh. Rekha Devi was allegedly not allowed to speak to her parents, who live in Lakhimpur Kheri district, either. The 29-year-old woman has been married to Shailandra Kumar for the past eight years and they have three daughters.


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The Spartans have little trouble with Jacksonville, advance to the semifinals to face top-seeded Mercer on its home court in Macon, Ga.
MACON, Ga. — USC Upstate shattered its first-round opponent like a cell phone that was left on the roof of car and fell off in Main Street traffic.
Yes, that happened to Spartans head coach Eddie Payne back in Spartanburg as his team was getting ready for the Atlantic Sun Conference tournament. But he had bigger problems, such as losing six of seven as his team approached the postseason.
But, just like the coach's new phone, USC Upstate put up some impressive numbers.
The fifth-seeded Spartans, up by as many as 25 in the second half Thursday night, knocked off No. 4 seed Jacksonville, 76-62, in Hawkins Arena.
USC Upstate will now face No. 1 seed Mercer, the regular-season champion, on is home court in a 5:30 p.m. semifinal today.
"We have to play a very good team on their home floor," Payne said. "So, obviously, the challenge is big. But special moments in life come from great challenges. We're looking forward to it."
USC Upstate seemed headed for a detour a week ago, but got back on track in a big way with a 32-point blowout win at East Tennessee State. That forward momentum continued as the tournament got started. The Spartans burst out to a 30-15 lead.
"We've been playing with a lot of energy," said USC Upstate junior and first-team all-conference player Torrey Craig, who led the scoring with 17 points. "We know how important this is for us to win as a team. Having a losing season (15-16, 8-9 coming into the game) really disturbed us. We're motivated and determined."
USC Upstate had five players in double-figure scoring and one just two points away. Ty Greene scored 14, Ricardo Glenn 12, Adrian Rodgers 11, Babatunde Olumuyiwa 11 (for a season high after getting nine in the first half), and Jodd Maxed added nine.
"We were just together as a team and it's a great feeling to get a (first-ever) win in this tournament," Greene said. "Hopefully, we can carry it into tomorrow's game."
USC Upstate shot 52 percent and dominated on points off turnovers, 26-3.
"I thought we continued the good play tonight," Payne said. "We moved the ball well (15 assists, led by Rodgers with four and no turnovers). We defended well. We did the things that are crucial to our success."

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How to burn 1200 plus calories the fun way to enjoy candy
Well here are the results of the ride. Ate 1/2 a Cliff bar to get me through. This inspired me put Cliff Bars on the online store. So we will be selling Cliff Bars Wholesale very soon.
Look for them in the next week or so.
Need to get pcitures :-)
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OK. Not never. But almost never. Jelena Dokic kissed a WTA trophy for the first time in nine years (Sarasota, 2002). Dokic shot up 30 spots from no. 91 in the world to no. 61. In Kuala Lumpur, she took out top seed Francesca Schiavone in the first round before rolling into the final. It was there that she beat B-Lister Lucie Safarova, 2-6, 7-6(9), 6-4, saving two championship points en route. Tough day for the Safarova-Berydch family.
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Did you know that we run a worldwide 'local language programme' which provides language packs for a range of our software? And that if you're in Wales, you can use them to run Windows and Office in Welsh natively?
Welsh is one of Europe's oldest languages, and is growing, with over half a million speakers, especially amongst young people. Since 1993 public bodies have been required to provide services in both English and Welsh, and so Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw in Torfaen uses ICT systems running on Windows 7 and Microsoft Office in Welsh. Historically the school had computer labs for lessons across the curriculum, but while students could create documents in Welsh, and look up Welsh websites, the interface of the applications was in English. "The tool bar and menus were in English. I found myself having to use English words to talk about the technology," said Alun Thomas, Head of ICT at the school. "This was interrupting our practice of immersive learning, and giving the impression that Welsh is not a language used within modern technology."
Microsoft partnered with the Welsh Language Board to develop the first Welsh Language Interface Packs, for Windows XP and Office 2003, and has continued to develop these as new versions came along - with the latest being Windows 7 in Welsh. Of course, the main benefit is for the students, as they can now stay fully immersed in their Welsh work. Once the interface is implemented, the applications automatically open in Welsh. As Alun said:
|Everybody's accepted the new interface easily. The technology that used to be in English is now in Welsh. Staff have taken to it well because it's easy to integrate it into more lessons. Even people who were used to working on an English menu are using it more because it supports the ethos of our school—providing an immersive education in Welsh.
You can read more details in the Ysgol Gyfun Gwynllyw case study, or download the full range of language packs (Welsh packs are available for Windows 7, Windows Vista, Windows XP, Office 2007, Office 2003, SharePoint 2007 and Windows SharePoint Services).
Here's the quick links for the most recent Welsh packs:
- Language pack for Windows 7 in Welsh
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A German Painter Creates an Abstract World Using a Single Pigment
Signature: signed and dated
Spurred by his curiosity toward scientific conundrums, Daniel Lergon experiments with light effects and chemical reactions. Although he calls himself a painter, he rarely uses paint. In early works such as Cold Fire (2008), he applied transparent lacquer to high-tech fabrics, exploring optics and perception, while in Lapetus (2010), he used retro-reflective materials to highlight the contrast between light and dark. In recent works, he has combined elemental metals like powdered copper, zinc, and oxidized iron with water to form ephemeral patterns. Lergon believes in a phenomenological approach to the experience of an artwork, maintaining that a painting's space functions as an eigenraum, or "own space," in which one has a personal reaction to physical matter.
German , b. 1978, Bonn, Germany, based in Berlin, Germany
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The Twin Oaks Mobile Home Park, a nonconforming park in the middle of the city, has been given a new life -- at least, perhaps, until the market changes.
The Twin Oaks Mobile Home Park, a nonconforming park in the middle of the city, has been given a new life — at least, perhaps, until the market changes.
By a unanimous vote Tuesday, the Ocala City Council approved an ordinance that will allow property owner Mark DeBolt to replace mobile homes in the park one time per lot if he enters into an agreement with the city.
What will be included in that agreement is still unclear, but could include items such as fencing, number and location of units to be replaced and a time limit. That agreement will be brought to the City Council for its consideration.
Before the vote Tuesday, the city only allowed conforming mobile homes in a park or subdivision with mobile home zoning to replace a unit once.
The Twin Oaks property, which lies between East Silver Springs Boulevard and Fort King Street just east of the Sav-A-Lot grocery store, is not zoned for mobile homes. It is zoned B-2 on the north side of the property off Silver Springs Boulevard and R-3 on the south, or Fort King side. Because it does not have the mobile home zoning it is considered nonconforming.
The purpose of having the property as nonconforming is that, eventually, the market would make the property too valuable for a mobile home park and the owner would sell and the property would develop into something else.
"It doesn't mean it stays that way forever," said Marc Mondell, the city's executive director of community development. "In the interim, until the market is able to take care of it, it gives you the ability to better maintain this property."
DeBolt, who owns DeBolt Properties and who sits on the Downtown Business Alliance Board, bought the property in 2007. There are 32 units in the park and 12 vacant slabs.
There are single-family homes located to the south of the DeBolt property. Those property owners were not notified of the impending change. Tye Chighizola, director of the city's Growth Management Department, said that, because no zoning change was needed, the city was not required to notify the neighbors.
"My ultimate goal for that property is it still not be a mobile home park forever," DeBolt told the City Council on Tuesday. "Many of these units continue to get older and dilapidated."
DeBolt said he bought the property with the intention of either selling it or developing it. But the market has changed considerably since he purchased it. If he cannot replace the dilapidated units, he is not going to be able to attract renters and, without the income, will not be able to afford to run the park. He is paying taxes and for 47 water hookups on the property. He has taken out several dilapidated units.
"It doesn't make sense to pay for all that infrastructure and not have any units generating rent in there," DeBolt said Wednesday.
He would like to maintain the park and beautify it until such time as he finds a buyer or can develop it in another way.
"I just need to be able to operate and make that thing work as best I can," DeBolt said. "I don't think the council was excited about it, but it's really the only fair way to go forward."
If he cannot make money to improve the property, then the park will fall further into decline.
"The better it looks, the better the tenant," DeBolt said. "It's a win/win for the community and me, I guess."
Jackie Piper has lived in the park for about 18 years. Her husband managed the park for about five years before his death. When he became ill, she left her job to care for him. She is now 77 years old and lives on Social Security, like many other park residents. She said DeBolt told the residents that if the right buyer came along he would sell.
"I can't blame him if the right man comes along with the money," Piper said. "That would hurt me really bad."
Piper said she has three daughters, but would not want to move in with them as long as she is able to care for herself.
Recently, Camper Village, a recreational vehicle park off State Road 200, was sold and residents were told they had 90 days to vacate the property.
"I would panic, I guess," Piper said, if she had to move on short notice. "Lord have mercy. I hope he doesn't sell. Give me three or four more years. But you never can tell. I would have to deal with that. I'd just have to ask the Lord to help me through it, but it has been home to me."
She said DeBolt, who she called "a really nice fellow," has been making improvements at the park.
"Mark's really trying to fix this place up. I don't know if he is fixing it up to sell it. I would say that he is," Piper said. "I just hope he doesn't sell but, him being a businessman and the right person comes along and gives him the right money, somebody down the road will."
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It was the body of Christ that picked up the pieces after a rape left me in shambles.
Recent reports of our demise betray the media's ignorance about who we are.
Sara Groves uses tragedy to explore God's love.
Roger Olson's Reformed and Always Reforming and a new theological tug of war we'd do best to avoid.
A photojournalist discovers God's surprises through one special-needs child.
Clarity came just as things got blurry.
Keith and Kristyn Getty have a passion for writing modern hymns.
In Defending Life, philosopher Francis Beckwith argues with the sword tied behind his back.
As these teens prepare for short-term trips, they learn more about how to talk about Jesus.
One Jordanian leader shares his deep desire to preserve the Arab Christian world.
Pastors wrestle with transgender issues.
Evangelicals hope to respond with both moral authority and biblical compassion to gender identity disorder.
The attraction of ancient spiritual disciplines.
Why evangelicals are connecting with the early church as they move into the 21st century.
How to live in a culture that is vaguely suspicious of the church.
Let's make sure any reform plan we pursue avoids the single-value syndrome.
Short reviews of Planet Narnia, Beyond Left and Right, and Global Pentecostalism.
Quotations to stir heart and mind.
What New Life Church did right when a gunman showed up in its parking lot.
To be saved means more than we might think.
Comments on the un-greenness of motherhood, National Geographic's Gospel of Judas translation, and more.
Hispanic evangelicals move toward the Democrats — and away from white evangelicals.
A rabbi hopes for a better conversation.
Recent statistics on church social service budgets, campaign donations from clergy, and regional belief in the Bible.
2007 could be remembered as the Year of Pro-Life Cinema.
Shooting spree at two churches prompts pastors to rethink security plans.
Southern Baptist seminaries re-introduce Calvinism to a wary denomination.
Zondervan's new president; Evel Knievel and Forsyth Torrance die; missing pastor Don LaRose found.
Commission's decision imperils benefits for Christian Dalits.
Some archaeologists wonder how lucky a colleague can be.
Faculty member at Iowa State University denied tenure for supporting intelligent design.
How the leading Democratic candidates are trying to win evangelical votes.
Latest papal document urges Roman Catholics to win souls.
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the french had the right idea, cut off their heads and take their money.CUNTS.
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An anal piercing. Similar to a prince albert, but on the anus.
My partners prince albert got tangled with my prince charles when he fucked me in the ass last night.
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Prince Charles is a man who preeches about global warming and the environment, despite owning something like 40 cars. He rants on about animal cruelty and animal rights, despite going hunting and shooting. Then he starts wondering why no-one takes him seriously. He believes in a Britain which doesn't exist and never did exist, except in fairy-tales, in which the peasants all love their royal rulers. He has more or less finished off any remaining respect or love anybody in Britain had for the royal family.
Oh no, there's Prince Charles on the TV ranting on about something. Let's turn over to the 'Best of the Test-card'. That should be far more entertaining.
by StormSworder August 15, 2006
A typical inbred mutant with the personality of a jamrag.
Someone who is plug ugly.
A useless parasite.
Someone who marries a hag for blowjobs.
Someone who is plug ugly.
A useless parasite.
Someone who marries a hag for blowjobs.
Oh look mummy, it's that ugly inbred cunt Prince Charles, yes dear, he's such a useless fucking mutant.
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During oral sex the man grabs the "givers" ears when he is about to come so they can't escape. When the ears are pulled the person has big ears like Prince Charles
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Jay-Z Rides the Subway to His Brooklyn Show
Jay-Z did something this past Saturday (Oct. 6) that millions of New Yorkers do everyday — he rode the subway. Instead of parking the beamer in the arena, the rap mogul took the R train to the Barclays Center in Brooklyn.
Dressed in a T-shirt that featured the image of the late graffiti artist/painter Jean-Michel Basquiat, Hov — and his burly security team — join straphangers for a quick ride. Fans scrambled to get video and smartphone pics of the 'Run This Town' rapper while others were chanting "Brooklyn!"
The New York Daily News was able to capture photos of Jay chatting it up with a senior citizen who was delighted to see him. You see, even grannies love the BK kid.
Despite all the commotion, Jay-Z was able to exit out of the Atlantic St./Barclays Center train stop and walk into the stadium with fans eagerly following and taking pics along the way. Of course, you know the rest. Jigga performed his eighth and final show at the Barclays Center, which also included a surprise performance from his wife Beyonce.
Meanwhile, to commemorate the final night of his historic sold-out residency at the Barclays Center, Jay-Z is releasing 'Live in Brooklyn,' an eight-song optic (audio/visual) EP. The collection will be available on Oct. 9 exclusively on iTunes.


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Cell phones, computers and other IT goods, as well as components like circuit boards, batteries and cathode-ray TV glass, face a mixed fate. Many are dumped, some are recycled for precious metals, and some are shipped overseas.
So-called "urban mining" recycling plants can turn trash into treasure. The government estimates the phones yielded 22 kilograms of gold, 79 kilograms of silver, two kilograms of palladium and over five tons of copper.
But while appliances such as TVs and air conditioners are subject to disposal laws, with recycling rates generally high, so-called e-waste -- including cell phones, computers and other electronic waste -- is another story.
In the year to April 2005, over 7 million PCs were discarded, with some 37 percent disposed or recycled, 37 percent reused within Japan, and 26 percent exported, according to Japan's National Institute for Environmental


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Matt Schreiner of Grand Island was the lucky winner of a painting by artist Terry Klaaren in a raffle to benefit the Grand Island Mural Project.
Schreiner was a vendor at the Taste of Grand Island when the drawing was held. He was trying to raise money for Roswell Park Cancer Institute through Carley's Club. According to Carolyn Konopski of the Grand Island Chamber of Commerce, who sold raffle tickets for the fundraiser, Schreiner plans on putting the painting in another raffle that will be held in February 2013, with the proceeds to go to Carley's Club. Schreiner is pictured with Lyn Laman, a retired Grand Island High School art teacher who drew the winning ticket and presented the award.


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JOHANNESBURG (AP) — A South African investment group has purchased a minority stake in MTN Group Ltd.'s operation in Nigeria for $335 million.
Shanduka Group said in a statement Wednesday that it bought the shares from three private investors it did not name. It also did not say what percentage of the MTN operation it bought.
MTN's Nigeria arm is the nation's largest mobile phone carrier, with nearly 50 percent of the market.
Nigeria has relied on mobile phones since the government granted the public access to them about a decade ago. Landlines are almost nonexistent, as the state-run telephone company has collapsed.
Nigeria, home to 160 million people, has seen explosive economic growth in recent years, making it a lucrative market for mobile phone service providers.


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CIA chief technology officer Gus Hunt told a tech industry audience March 20 that the agency had a nearly limitless demand for big data surrounding its intelligence targets.
Hunt's remarks might help explain the impetus behind news broken by Federal Computer Week two days earlier that CIA had cut a $600 million deal with Amazon Web Services to build a private cloud infrastructure to help manage its big data demands.
"Since you can't connect dots you don't have … we fundamentally try to collect everything and hang on to it forever," Hunt told a GigaOm conference audience, according to a Huff Post Tech report.
The CIA has made no secret of its aim to become a more data-driven organization, a goal Hunt has been citing for several years. "We are going to have to get analytics and visualization [tools] that are so dead-simple easy to use, anybody can take advantage of them, anybody can use them," he said at a recent conference.
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A closer look: "to build a private cloud infrastructure to help manage its big data demands."
Private Cloud.
It is more about the scalability and ease of use of the platform behind Amazon. The above comment by Sherryanne Meyer AND the title of this article both are misleading.
The other aspect that is missing from this analysis is that the underlying cloud infrastructure can be open source software, and is easily an order of magnitude more cost effective compared to other platforms (notably VMware, xenserver, and Microsoft hyper-v). The leader in virtualization, VMware, is becoming notoriously expen$ive, and is moving towards a model that increasingly looks a lot like Microsoft's heyday of captured customers. Once you become a VMware junkie, you will never kick the habit.
The discussion that arises from this is: If the CIA says the Cloud is safe, then what's stopping the rest of us from hopping on board? For a global company - there still exists the question of local privacy regulations. Eventually - we'll solve that issue too. What else would stop you from doing cloud? Investment cost? Long-term subscription costs? Or do we all just follow the crowd?
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I was looking for a tool that would allow me to organize links to all the articles that I have read.
I would like to add notes about each of the articles to tell me what important feature or technique is being explained. The notes would also tell me where to find the projects I installed or implemented on my own development systems.
I would also like to be able to index the articles by tags and categories and order the articles, videos, or tutorials in a way that will help me learn the subject in detail without missing anything out. Maybe something like a learning tree.
So for instance in Silverlight, you may have:
Silverlight Tutorial Part 1 (of 8): Creating "Hello World" with Silverlight 2 and VS 2008 by Scott Guthrie, here.
Find on my computer here:
C:\Documents and Settings\Luddite\My Documents\Visual Studio 2008\Projects\Silverlight\MSDiggSample_VB
Jesse Liberty has started Project Turing, here.
This project uses RIA Services which is currently in beta, I will want to come back to this when RIA Services has been officially released.
Brad Abrams has a series on BusinessApps for Silverlight 3 RTM and .NET RIA Services (and now Azure), here.
The articles are numerous and varied and some way of keeping things up to date, allowing you to replace articles that have become obsolete, or replace articles which you have found to do a better job.
Can anyone recommend a good product that would help with this.
Scot Hanselman recommends Evernote, not for this, but I was wondering if something like Evernote would fit the bill…


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Emirates Airline President Tim Clark: The A380 "defies gravity" in its success story
Tim Clark, the President of Emirates Airline – which is the world's largest A380 customer – says Airbus' 21st century flagship jetliner continues to be extremely popular with the Dubai-based airline's customer base, and the aircraft's double-deck configuration enables further evolution to satisfy passengers' changing expectations.
The Emirates A380 fleet currently stands at 39, and as this figure increases to match the carrier's total orders for 140 aircraft, its utilization is being expanded to serve new markets with such near-term additions as Los Angeles in the U.S. to Barcelona and Zurich in Europe.
Clark said he is continually impressed about the high marks that Emirates' A380s receive from customers, describing its success as "defying gravity" from the business point of view, while noting the airline must regularly improve to continue attracting passengers and retaining the competitive edge.
"The population is becoming extremely aspirational, and they are exposed to constant changes in fashion and consumer electronics – as two examples," Clark said. "We are required to keep changing out the products that we offer to keep people interested. The lifecycle of a product has become much shorter now – if you don't adapt, you will perish."
According to Clark, Emirates recognizes that customers want to see something different, and in response the company is looking over the longer term to evolve its interior layouts.
Emirates will be considering such steps as introducing new interior design elements, mood lighting and in-flight entertainment – all without compromising current comfort levels. Benefitting from double-deck fuselage and cabin interior flexibility, the A380 gives Emirates plenty of room with which to work.


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posted by Thom Holwerda on Tue 1st May 2007 18:12 UTC, submitted by openwookie
OpenBSD 4.1 has been released. "We are pleased to announce the official release of OpenBSD 4.1. This is our 21st release on CD-ROM (and 22nd via FTP). We remain proud of OpenBSD's record of ten years with only two remote holes in the default install. As in our previous releases, 4.1 provides significant improvements, including new features, in nearly all areas of the system."


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More on Cedillo:
So, Sen. Gil Cedillo kicked off his campaign in El Monte on Saturday, Rebecca Kimitch reports. His surprise endorsement was Congressman Xavier Becerra, Los Angeles County Board of Supervisor Gloria Molina and retired congressman Esteban Torres.
Here's a snipet from the story:
Though the crowd responded enthusiastically to most of Becerra's words, they were not as responsive when asked who in the room had been directly helped by Cedillo's efforts.
One of the biggest criticisms facing Cedillo is his relative inexperience representing the area of the San Gabriel Valley that makes up the 32nd Congressional district – which stretches from east Los Angeles, through Monterey Park, Rosemead, South El Monte, El Monte, Baldwin Park, West Covina and Irwindale to Covina, Azusa and Duarte.
By contrast, his leading opponent, Chu, has represented the western part of the district in the state Assembly. But Cedillo, who grew up in Boyle Heights, says his roots are in the area – his parents have worked in the Valley and his family goes back three generations in valley cities including Alhambra and Monterey Park.
Cedillo also said he worked for the entire county when he was general manager of the Los Angeles County employees' union.
The candidate added legislation he has pushed in Sacramento, as both a state senator and state assemblyman, has served all residents of the San Gabriel Valley, not just his district.
Some of the legislation for which he has fought most fervently is aimed at allowing undocumented immigrants to obtain drivers licenses. After introducing the proposal in consecutive sessions of the legislature, his colleagues began referring to him as "One-bill Gil."


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UPDATED: Dover police seek man after downtown burglary video releasedBy JOHN QUINN
Union Leader Correspondent
April 01. 2014 5:26PM
DOVER - Dover police have issued an arrest warrant for Antwun Whitney, 26, in connection with burglaries early Saturday morning at 1 Washington Center, Dover.
Whitney faces a charge of one count of burglary, a class B felony, for the break-in at "Mill Eats," a bakery inside 1 Washington Center. Police say he stole cash from the business.
Surveillance video of the crime was distributed to the media Monday, and detectives said information as a result of that release led them to Whitney, who remains at large.
Whitney is a described as a black male, 6-foot-3, 180 pounds, and last seen wearing blue jeans, a black Northface jacket with black sneakers with white soles.
Anyone with knowledge of Whitney's whereabouts is asked to contact Dover police at 742-4646. Anonymous tips may be called into the Dover Crimeline at 749-6000 or at www.dovernhcrimeline.org.
Previous story follows:
DOVER – Police are asking the public for help identifying a man who took cash and jewelry from businesses inside the mill building at 1 Washington Center Saturday night.
Police are investigating the series of commercial burglaries that occurred just after midnight Saturday.
"At this time we are not releasing the number of businesses burglarized. It appears the suspect was looking for cash and jewelry," Sgt. Scott Pettingill said.
"Surveillance video obtained at the scene shows the suspect as a lone black male with a shaved head, believed to be in his mid to late 20's, with a stud earring in his left ear, wearing blue jeans, a black Northface jacket with a dark colored hoodie and black sneakers with white soles," according to police.
Anyone with information about the matter is encouraged to contact the Special Investigations Bureau at (603) 742-4646. Anonymous tips may be called into the Dover Crimeline at (603) 749-6000. The Dover Crimeline can also be contacted via www.dovernhcrimeline.org.


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The Dodgers might have really found a gem from the 2012 MLB Draft in the person of Zachary Bird.
Bird, the Dodgers' ninth-round pick, today was named the 19th-best prospect in the Arizona League by Baseball America. He was the only Dodger prospect to make the list.
Yasiel Puig would have been a lock for the list, but he didn't have enough playing time to qualify. He should make the California League list when it is published early next month.
The tall righty had a nice debut season, considering he pitched it as a 17- and 18-year-old.
His 4.54 ERA and 1.33 WHIP could use some improvement, but his 2.90 FIP and 10.4 K/9 were fantastic. He also showed decent control for a teen with a 3.9 BB/9 and a 2.71 K/BB.There isn't a lot to analyze about his 39 2/3 debut innings, but those were the things that stood out.
Bird boasts a fastball that has touched 92 MPH in the past. With his 6'4, 190 pound frame, there is defintely projection there. He also has a low-70s curveball and a changeup. He'll need to improve upon his secondary offerings going forward, but things are looking well for him thus far.
Here's a video of him from the Perfect Game showcase in 2011.
Some have compared him to Edwin Jackson. Race notwithstanding, it seems to be a good comp. As prospects, they both have projectable frames and the ability to add velocity to the fastball. The key difference in their stuff is Bird's slow curveball and Jackson's hard slider. I'm betting Bird adds another pitch -- either a slider or cutter -- to his arsenal before it's all said and done.
Side note: So many times comparisons in sports are race-based. Some are apt, some are ridiculous. Case and point: the No. 17 pick, D.J. Davis, was compared to Juan Pierre during MLB Network's draft coverage. Thing is, he is absolutely nothing like Pierre as a baseball player. They're both black, both lefty all the way and both speedy. That's really it. Davis hit as many home runs in his first 266 plate appearances as Pierre has in his last 3,430 PAs. But I digress (a lot). It's lazy and flat-out wrong.
Oh, and Bird has one of the most unique Twitter handles around. Check it out.
Monday, September 24, 2012
Dodgers' prospect Zachary Bird among Arizona League's best, says BA
Posted by Dustin Nosler at 9:45 PM
Labels: Edwin Jackson, Prospects, Yasiel Puig, Zachary Bird
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What is the Twitter handle for Bird? I get an error when I go to the link provided.ReplyDelete
I fixed it. Not sure what happened there.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 26, 2012 at 9:23 AM
Here's another Bird comparison...ReplyDelete
All good shooting tall white guys = Larry Bird
Keith Van Horn
Adam Morrison
Mike Dunleavy Jr.
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THE SQL Server Blog Spot on the Web
You probably already know that it's important to be aware of data types when writing queries, and that implicit conversions between types can lead to poor query performance. Some people have gone so far as to write scripts to search the plan cache for CONVERT_IMPLICIT elements, and others routinely inspect plans for that type of thing when tuning.
Now, that's all good, as far as it goes. It may surprise you to learn that not all implicit conversions are visible in query plans, and there are other important factors to consider too. To demonstrate, I'm going to use two single-column heap tables, containing a selection of pseudo-random numbers, as shown in the diagram below (there's a script to create the test tables and data at the end of this post):
The first table contains 5,000 rows and the second table contains 5,000,000 rows. The basic test query is to count the number of rows returned by a simple inner join between the two tables. We'll run a number of tests to explore the performance issues, using a number of tables using different data types to store the data.
The first test features two tables where both columns are typed as INTEGER, and constrained to be NOT NULL:
Since one table is significantly smaller than the other, the query optimizer chooses a hash join. To avoid the (very useful) bitmap filter optimization featured in my last post, each query features a MAXDOP 1 query hint to guarantee a serial plan. The test query gives this query plan:
This returns its result in 900ms.
Now let's try the same query, but where the larger table's column uses the REAL data type (the smaller table is INTEGER as before):
There are a couple of new things here. First, SQL Server needs to convert the data type of one of the columns to match the other before it can perform the join. The rules for data type precedence show that REAL has a higher precedence than INTEGER, so the integer data is converted to REAL using the CONVERT_IMPLICIT operation shown in the Compute Scalar iterator.
The join then probes the hash table (built on the converted REAL values) for matches. The possibility of hash collisions means that a residual predicate is applied to check that the values indicated as a possible match actually do match. Nothing much new or surprising here then. The query performs slightly less well than before, completing in 1000ms.
Same query again, but this time the larger table's column is defined as a DECIMAL(7, 0):
The first surprise is that this query takes 1600ms.
The second surprise is that the query plan does not contain a Compute Scalar or a CONVERT_IMPLICIT anywhere, despite the fact that we are joining columns with different data types. In fact there is no indication anywhere that an implicit conversion is occurring – not in the graphical plan, not even in the more detailed XML show plan representation.
This is very bad news. Whether you are tuning the query by hand, or using a script to scan the plan cache for implicit conversions, there really is no way to see the invisible type conversion here. Even the new implicit type conversion warnings built into Denali CTP3 do not detect the problem.
Now let's reverse the situation, so the smaller table's column is DECIMAL(7,0) and the larger table is INTEGER:
Now the query runs for 1900ms.
The data precedence rules mean each INTEGER value from the large table has to be converted to DECIMAL to compute a hash value, and converted again to check the residual. Again, there is no Compute Scalar, no CONVERT_IMPLICIT…absolutely no visible indication anywhere why this query should run over twice as long as the original.
Let's see what happens if we introduce an explicit conversion here, choosing to convert the DECIMAL values to INTEGER in order to perform the conversion on the smaller table:
Ok, so now we have a Compute Scalar, an explicit CONVERT, and a Probe Residual that references the converted expression. This query completes in 1000ms. Compare this query plan with the one shown immediately above it – would you pick that the plan with the extra Compute Scalar would be nearly twice as fast?
So what's going on here? Why is SQL Server hiding conversion details from us that have such a profound effect on execution speed? It turns out that certain implicit conversions can be performed inside the join, and so do not require a separate Compute Scalar. This is the case if the join columns have different types, but both types come from the same 'family'. The five families are:
In our example, DECIMAL and INTEGER are from family [1] so the implicit conversion can be performed inside the join, without a CONVERT_IMPLICIT or Compute Scalar. Stop for a moment and think about how many joins you have in production code where the columns involved are INTEGER to BIGINT, or SMALLINT to INTEGER, to take just two possible examples. Are those joins running at half speed?
There is one more subtlety to consider. Let's run our test query one last time, using tables with INTEGER columns, but this time the columns are declared as allowing NULLs (there are no NULLs in the test data, by the way).
This query runs in around 1000ms. Remember that the first query we ran (where both columns were defined as INTEGER NOT NULL) completed in 900ms. Let's look at the first query plan again:
Notice the lack of a Probe Residual. If the join is on a single column typed as TINYINT, SMALLINT or INTEGER and if both columns are constrained to be NOT NULL, the hash function is 'perfect' – meaning there is no chance of a hash collision, and the query processor does not have to check the values again to ensure they really match.
This optimization is the reason that the NOT NULL query performs 11% faster than when either or both join columns allow NULLs. Also notice that this optimization does not apply to BIGINT columns.
Here's my general advice for best join performance:
© 2011 Paul White
email: email@example.com twitter: @SQL_Kiwi
Hash Match Probe Residual – Rob Farley
USE tempdb;
#BuildInt, #BuildIntNullable, #BuildBigInt, #BuildDec, #BuildReal,
#ProbeInt, #ProbeIntNullable, #ProbeBigInt, #ProbeDec, #ProbeReal;
-- Test tables
CREATE TABLE #BuildInt
col1 INTEGER NOT NULL
CREATE TABLE #BuildIntNullable
col1 INTEGER NULL
CREATE TABLE #BuildBigInt
col1 BIGINT NOT NULL
CREATE TABLE #BuildDec
col1 DECIMAL(7,0) NOT NULL
CREATE TABLE #BuildReal
col1 REAL NOT NULL
CREATE TABLE #ProbeInt
CREATE TABLE #ProbeIntNullable
CREATE TABLE #ProbeBigInt
CREATE TABLE #ProbeDec
CREATE TABLE #ProbeReal
-- Load 5,000 INTEGER rows into the build tables
INSERT #BuildInt
INSERT #BuildInt
-- Copy to the INT nullable build table
INSERT #BuildIntNullable
FROM #BuildInt AS bi;
-- Copy to the BIGINT build table
INSERT #BuildBigInt
CONVERT(BIGINT, bi.col1)
-- Copy to the DECIMAL build table
INSERT #BuildDec
CONVERT(DECIMAL(7,0), bi.col1)
-- Copy to the REAL build table
INSERT #BuildReal
CONVERT(REAL, bi.col1)
-- Load 5,000,000 INTEGER rows into the probe tables
INSERT #ProbeInt
INSERT #ProbeInt
-- Copy to the INT nullable probe table
INSERT #ProbeIntNullable
FROM #ProbeInt AS pri
-- Copy to the BIGINT probe table
INSERT #ProbeBigInt
CONVERT(BIGINT, pri.col1)
-- Copy to the DECIMAL probe table
INSERT #ProbeDec
CONVERT(DECIMAL(7,0), pri.col1)
-- Copy to the REAL probe table
INSERT #ProbeReal
FROM #BuildInt AS bi
JOIN #ProbeInt AS pri ON
pri.col1 = bi.col1
JOIN #ProbeIntNullable AS pin ON
pin.col1 = bi.col1
FROM #BuildIntNullable AS bin
pin.col1 = bin.col1
pri.col1 = bin.col1
FROM #BuildBigInt AS bbi
JOIN #ProbeBigInt AS pbi ON
pbi.col1 = bbi.col1
JOIN #ProbeDec AS pd ON
pd.col1 = bi.col1
FROM #BuildDec AS bd
pri.col1 = bd.col1
pri.col1 = CONVERT(INTEGER, bd.col1)
CONVERT(DECIMAL(7,0), pri.col1) = bd.col1
JOIN #ProbeReal AS pr ON
pr.col1 = bi.col1
FROM #BuildReal AS br
pri.col1 = br.col1
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OK I'm interested in the not null aspect. I'm aware of the size/performance issue when indexed columns are nullable ( I dislike nulls generally anyway! ) but now in joins - I am intrigued.
When I saw the title, I was hoping you were going to use the word "Residualiciousness", but you didn't. I'm not going to be doing too much on implicit conversions in my PASS talk, but I like the similarity in titles anyway. :)
Nice post.
Great post Paul. Here is some more advice, use datadude to write your code and turn on code analysis - it checks for sub-optimal code and may flag code that exhibits one of the issues you talk about here:
Hi Paul,
Really a nice posting :-)
2 questions:
1. What is a Probe Residual?
2. To which family belongs the REAL data type?
Hi Rob,
Doh! I was thinking while writing this that I should link to your previous post on 'residualiciousness' but forgot. Corrected now, thanks for your comment.
Hi Jamie (and Colin),
Yes that's a good tip - I'm not too familiar with DataDude myself, but if it draws attention to common errors like the one shown in the link you gave, I'm all for it!
In this particular case, we would still need to go back and change the table definition to include NOT NULL as a constraint. You'd think that adding a WHERE col1 IS NOT NULL condition to the WHERE clause would have the same effect - and logically it does - but the Query Optimizer is not yet smart enough to take advantage, and the residual predicate remains.
Hi Klaus,
Take a look at the link I have now added to one of Rob Farley's previous posts. In essence, you can think of a probe residual as an extra condition that is evaluated after a join match is found. IIRC Rob likens it to a residual predicate on an Index Seek - where the residual is applied as an extra condition to the rows qualified by the seeking condition(s).
REAL is a 4-byte floating point number. I provided a link to the BOL topic in the text, but here it is again:
I chose REAL because it is the same size as an INTEGER.
I agree this is a well written post Paul.
Your general advice for best join performance certainly make sense, but would be difficult for developers to follow post-design other than choosing to do explicit conversions.
This message really needs to reach DB modellers so they choose appropriate types / use surrogate keys (single column joins) so I hope there are few modellers reading your blog..
I just realized is misinterpreted your question about REAL, sorry about that, of course you know what the REAL data type is!
Types other than the ones I listed in 'families' stand alone, and always result in a CONVERT_IMPLICIT when compared with another type. This is a little surprising - we might have expected REAL and FLOAT to share a 'family', but they do not.
"I'm not too familiar with DataDude myself, but if it draws attention to common errors like the one shown in the link you gave, I'm all for it!"
Don't worry, its all in Juneau too :)
@Paul: that's why database should support custom types so that one can declare, for example, two new types, say TableAId and TableBId, both inherited from a base type (int, for example).
When someone creates a table, he will use the proper defined datatype to store that table id. Now, when you try to join two tables and you'll find yourself joining on TableAId = TableBId, the compiler can raise an error at "compile" time, even before running the query, cause you're trying to join two differnt things (the usual apples and pears...). If such equality (TableAId = TableBId) must work, the DB developer should "overload" the cast operator in order to explain how to go from one type to another.
Yes, as you may have noticed I'm asking for a full support of a full Type System :)
Hi Davide (and Greg),
I couldn't agree more.
Most people know that a LIKE predicate with only a trailing wildcard can usually use an index seek: SELECT
Is there no hit for a hidden conversion from int to smallint for example? It wasn't in your test cases.
Yes, there is a probe residual and a hidden implicit conversion. I didn't include smallint in the test script because it has too small a range for the numbers I used.
This is a post for T-SQL Tuesday #43 hosted by my good friend Rob Farley . The topic this month is Plan
Nice posting.


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Sweet Potato and Irish Potato Insects
Several kinds of wireworms feed on sweet potatoes as well as Irish potatoes. The southern potato wireworm is injurious in the Southeastern States. Adults (click beetles) are dark brown, about 1/4 inch long and are found near the soil surface under leaves and trash in sweet potato plantings. Adults do not feed on potato plants.
Eggs are laid in the soil from late spring to early fall. They hatch in five days during midsummer, but may take several weeks during cool weather in the spring or fall.
Potatoes are injured by larvae, which are white, cream, or yellowish orange with reddish-brown heads and tails. They are smooth, shiny and relatively hard bodied. When fully grown they are 1/2 to 3/4 inch long, and the larvae change to pupae in earthen cells in the ground. One to two generations of this wireworm occur each year.
Injury by wireworm larvae usually consists of fairly small irregularly shaped holes. If growth cracks or other breaks in the skin are present, holes may be concentrated in these, otherwise the holes are scattered at random over the surface of the root. The original holes are usually less than a quarter of an inch deep but may be considerably deepened by later growth of the root. A good indicator of wireworms is new feeding holes with ragged edges, usually containing chewed root fiber.
Wireworms usually attack potatoes late in the season. Consequently, they produce less "healed-hole" injury (early season injury that has been healed over).
The tobacco wireworm also damages potatoes. Adults are similar in size and shape to those of the southern potato wireworm, except for areas of light and dark brown. The immature stages are also very similar.
Only one generation of the tobacco wireworm occurs each year. The eggs, which are laid during the summer, hatch into larvae in one to three weeks. Pupation takes place during the late spring and summer of the following year. Most overwintered larvae have pupated before sweet potato roots begin to enlarge; therefore, injury is probably caused by larvae from eggs laid during the current year.
CUCUMBER BEETLESLarvae of both the banded cucumber beetle, and the spotted cucumber beetle, feed on the roots of sweet potatoes.
Injury to sweet potatoes by these beetles is identical. Eggs, larvae, and pupae of the two species are also identical.
Cucumber beetle larvae eat small round holes through the skin of sweet potato roots and form irregularly-shaped enlarged cavities just under the skin. The larvae seldom tunnel into the roots, as do elongate flea beetle or striped flea beetle larvae. Feeding scars are usually in groups rather than scattered randomly over the root. Original holes are usually shallow but may be deepened by later growth of the root. In contrast to wireworms, cucumber beetles often attack sweet potatoes early in the season. This results in much healed-hole injury.
Both the elongate flea beetle and the pale striped flea beetle feed on sweet potatoes. The habits and life histories of the two species are similar, and the immature stages look alike. These insects have a wide range of hosts, including many weeds. Adults move into sweet potato fields during the spring and summer and lay creamy yellow eggs in the soil. These hatch into white larvae which are soft bodied and about three-eighths of an inch long when fully grown. They have brown heads and a fleshy pointed tubercle on the tail end. The larvae mature in 20 to 30 days, then curl up in a cell made in the soil and transform into pupae. Adults emerge in about one week. At least two generations occur a year in the south.
Larvae eat small holes through the skin of sweet potatoes and make enlarged cavities and short tunnels just under the skin. Except for these tunnels, injury is very similar to that of cucumber beetle larvae, which seldom tunnel into the roots. At harvest time early season injury usually appears as shallow healed scars which tend to be long and irregularly shaped.
SWEET POTATO FLEA BEETLESweet potato leaves are often damaged by flea beetles; however, most damage occurs from larval feeding on the roots.
Adult beetles are black, about a sixteenth of an inch long, and usually hop away when disturbed. They are easily recognized by the tendency to eat narrow grooves in the upper surface of sweet potato leaves.
Larvae make small winding tunnels just under the skin of sweet potato roots. These tunnels are nearly invisible at first but soon darken and can be seen through skin. As roots grow, the skin over the tunnels splits away, leaving shallow scars on the surface. Sweet potato varieties differ widely in their susceptibility to economic injury by this insect. This injury is only cosmetic, but may impact the marketability of the potatoes.
Grub injury to sweet potatoes occurs in most areas where the crop is grown. There are many species of grubs and several of them feed on sweet potatoes. Grubs are the larvae of May beetles or June beetles.
Adults of the various grubs vary in size and color but all are robust beetles.
Eggs are laid in the soil during the spring and summer and soon hatch into fleshy larvae that are typically C-shaped. They are usually white or cream with light-tan and grayish areas on the tail. Larvae pass the winter in the soil and change into pupae the following spring.
Grubs carve broad shallow areas in sweet potato roots. Since grubs feed upside down in the soil, horizontal roots are injured mostly on the under side.
The sweet potato weevil is a serious pest of sweet potatoes but occurs only in certain parts of South Carolina, mostly in the coastal counties.
Adult sweet potato weevils are ant-like beetles about 1/4 inch long. The head and wing covers are metallic dark blue and the thorax and legs are bright orange red. Adult weevils feed on the exposed part of the sweet potato plant but prefer the roots. Feeding scars on the roots consist of tiny shallow holes usually in patches.
Eggs are laid in specially prepared cavities in the vines or roots. Egg cavities are similar to the feeding punctures but may be distinguished by a mucus covering secreted by the female. Eggs hatch in about one week during warm weather. Larvae are white to ivory with light-brown heads. When fully grown in two or three weeks they are about three-eighths of an inch long. Pupae are found in the vines or roots. In a week or longer they change into adult weevils. As many as six or eight generations may be produced in one year.
Injury to sweet potatoes by weevil larvae can be recognized by tunnels that start just beneath the skin and become larger as they extend inward. Adult exit holes are about the size of a match.
POTATO LEAFHOPPERThe potato leafhopper is considered an important pest of Irish potatoes and is known to feed on nearly 200 other kinds of plants.
Feeding by this leafhooper on potatoes causes curling, stunting, and dwarfing, accompanied by a yellowing, browning, or blighting of the foliage known as hopperburn or tipburn. The injection of saliva into the plant during feeding produces a physiological disturbance with disease-like manifestations.
The adult is pale green, somewhat wedge-shaped, about one-eighth inch long, with small white spots on the head. Adults are very active, jumping or flying when disturbed. Females deposit slender white eggs within the stems and larger veins of the leaves. Hatching occurs in six to nine days during the summer, and the pale green nymphs molt five times before they become fully grown and transform to winged adults. The period from egg to adult is about three weeks during warm weather; several overlapping generations develop each season. The potato leafhopper has not been found overwintering north of the Gulf States where it breeds throughout the year. Migration northward with the warm spring winds occurs annually.
Universally known among growers as the potato bug, this insect was long considered the most dangerous enemy of Irish potatoes and is still capable of doing much damage and can be a serious pest of tomatoes or eggplants. It is now found in most regions where potatoes are grown.
Adults are stout, oval, convex beetles, about three-eighths of an inch long, with 10 black and yellow stripes running lengthwise along the wing covers. Overwintering beetles hibernate in the soil, emerging in the spring about the time that potatoes come through the ground. They lay orange yellow eggs in groups of a dozen or more on the undersides of the leaves. Each female deposits approximately 500 over a five week period. Eggs hatch in a few days and the dark red larvae devour the foliage, becoming orange-colored as maturity approaches. There are two rows of conspicuous black dots on the sides of their bodies. When mature they leave the plant, enter the soil, and pupate, emerging as adults several days later. The life cycle requires about a month, and there are one to three generations per year. Injury is due to actual consumption of foliage and stems by adults and larvae.Over the years, it has become resistant to most pesticides and is a major potato pest.
Adult flea beetles and leafhoppers can be controlled using a labeled insecticide. Control Colorado potato beetles with a Bacillus thuringiensis product, or simply by hand picking them off the plants. Insecticides are not recommended for the soil-inhabiting pests in the home garden.
Keep grass and weeds controlled, rotate where you plant root crops within the garden, and perform winter tilling to help keep soil pests in check.
Check with your local County Extension Agent for specific insecticide recommendations.
Cuthbert, F.P. Insects Affecting Sweet Potatoes (1967). Agriculture Handbook NO. 329. ARS, USDA.
Davidson, R.H. and William F. Lyon, Insect Pests of Farm, Garden, and Orchard, 8th ed., John Wiley and Sons, New York, 1987.
Prepared by Randall P. Griffin, Extension Entomologist/ Professor, Department of Entomology, Soils, and Plant Sciences, Clemson University.
This information is supplied with the understanding that no discrimination is intended and no endorsement by the Clemson University Cooperative Extension Service is implied. Brand names of pesticides are given as a convenience and are neither an endorsement nor guarantee of the product nor a suggestion that similar products are not effective. Use pesticides only according to the directions on the label. Follow all directions, precautions and restrictions that are listed.
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Sure, I would agree. Correct moderation is not easily definable but outright censorship is not what I had in mind.songhill wrote:First of all, what are the specific elements of a "correctly moderated" Buddhist forum? Misinformation is certainly not one of them—not in the TOSs I have read over the years. How do you determine misinformation? The term is too abstract. On one forum, I commented that Dogen's succession certificate (shisho) was a medieval forgery; I even included the citation. I was kicked out of the group. That wasn't about misinformation—it was censorship.kirtu wrote:
Correctly moderated groups have a higher signal to noise ratio and much less misinformation.
eSangha took the stance that denying rebirth and karma was out of bounds and also was somewhat restrictive on the nature of enlightenment specifically wrt Zen experience even if such views are in fact representative of streams of Zen. It should not have been so restrictive while at the same time attempting to uphold the core of Buddhism. It was concerned with creeping New Age influences but could have employed a lighter hand.
As for misinformation per se not being represented in the TOS's - the eSangha TOS from memory did explicitly address denial of karma and rebirth. I don't remember whether it codified models of Buddhahood. It thus sought to restrict misinformation through these rules.
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Hello moeen49,Originally Posted by moeen49
Have you got more context please? I don't understand what you want to say with this sentences. But I would start a formal letter like this:
Dear Madam/Sir,
Referring to our telephone conversation of / from ..... we would like to inform you ....
Referring to your letter from ...... we would like to inform you ...........
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He was always a hard-news guy, an old-style, old-school reporter who once told Larry King that "danger is my business."
Aggressive, intense, confrontational, folksy and sometimes wacky - that's been the image of Dan Rather for more than 40 years. His career was born when he broke the news of President John F. Kennedy's assassination in 1963, and in 1981, he replaced CBS broadcasting legend Walter Cronkite at CBS News. But now it's Rather's turn to step down.
His final broadcast as anchor will be March 9, although he will stay on as a correspondent for both editions of 60 Minutes. That's fitting, since one enduring chapter in Rather's career has been his dogged reporting and confrontational style on the groundbreaking CBS news magazine launched in 1968.
During the Democratic National Convention in Chicago that year, Rather was knocked around by Mayor Richard Daley's police. CBS viewers saw Rather, wearing a head-set, emerging from a tangle of people on the convention floor. He reported to Cronkite that, yes, he was all right. Just part of the job.
Throughout his career, Rather - born Oct. 31, 1931, in Wharton, Texas - seemed to have the uncanny ability to be at the right story at the right time.
In Richard Nixon's Republican White House, Rather again would make a name for himself - and not only for his reporting. In the heat of the Watergate scandal, Nixon taunted Rather during a news conference. "Are you running for something?" Nixon asked. "No, sir, Mr. President. Are you?" The GOP was not pleased with Rather's reporting and his name, in some circles, would become synonymous with the "liberal media." Few hold a neutral opinion of Rather.
His resume includes reporting assignments in Cuba, Baghdad, Iraq, Moscow, Bosnia, Haiti, Kuwait and Israel. There wasn't a high-profile story he didn't want, which led some Rather watchers to coin the acronym, ADATT - All Dan All the Time, said David Blum, author of Tick ... Tick ... Tick, a history of 60 Minutes.
Rather also wrote books, including the memoirs The Camera Never Blinks and The Camera Never Blinks Twice: The Further Adventures of a Television Journalist. He wrote about the Nixon White House in The Palace Guard.
The son of a Texas ditchdigger, Rather's style and highlight reel have sometimes featured the inexplicable. In 1980, a bearded and robed Rather slipped into Afghanistan to report on the Soviet Union's invasion of that country. Rather came home from the assignment with a new nickname, "Gunga Dan." This was a year before he traded his Afghan robe for an anchor suit.
News, contrary to Cronkite loyalists, did not end when Rather assumed anchor duties March 9, 1981. Exclusive interviews, awards and a failed on-air pairing with Connie Chung would follow, but the decade also proved a curious one for Rather. In 1986, he began ending his newscasts with just one word, "courage." He dropped the sign-off after a few months, but would remain known for his down-home on-air commentaries.
Rather's homespun take on the news was embraced by CBS, which on election night e-mailed reporters Rather colloquialisms, so-called Dan-isms, including: "This race is hotter than a Times Square Rolex." In 2000, he said of then-Vice President Al Gore's election night odds: "His chances are slim right now, and if he doesn't carry Florida, slim will have left town."
Later that year, Rather made news when a man approached him on Park Avenue and demanded to know, "What's the frequency, Kenneth?" Rather was knocked down and beaten. The man told authorities he thought the media had him under surveillance and were beaming hostile messages to him. The pop band R.E.M. later had a hit single with "What's the Frequency, Kenneth?" which is also the music CBS late-night talk show host David Letterman's band plays when Rather is a guest.
In 1987, Rather stunned CBS brass and its audience by walking off the set because a U.S. Open tennis match had pre-empted the start of his broadcast. The network went dark for about six minutes. Cronkite would famously fume over this incident: "I would have fired him. There's no excuse for it."
In 1988, Rather and then-Vice President George H.W. Bush had a testy interview. In response to Rather's questions about the Iran-Contra affair, Bush countered, "It's not fair to judge my whole career by a rehash of Iran. How would you like it if I judged your career by those seven minutes when you walked off the set in New York?" It was another memorable Rather confrontation.
Little could compare, however, to the news Rather made two months ago after anchoring a flawed 60 Minutes story about President George W. Bush's National Guard Service. Suddenly, the 73-year-old Rather was fighting for his career and issuing a public correction.
The Los Angeles Times, a Tribune Publishing newspaper, contributed to this article.


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Assistant AG cites suspended County Attorney Reams' 'shocking behavior'By PAUL FEELY
New Hampshire Union Leader
December 12. 2013 9:26PM
CONCORD — Veteran Rockingham County Attorney James Reams is the "target of an ongoing criminal investigation," according to Associate Attorney General Jane Young.
Young made the statement to Merrimack County Superior Court Judge Richard McNamara on Thursday during a hearing in which Reams' attorney, Michael Ramsdell, argued the Attorney General's Office should provide evidence of any wrongdoing.
Young also expressed "deep concerns" about statements Reams has made to the media in recent days.
"His recent conduct of publicly lashing out against his employees to generate a defense is shocking behavior for a county attorney," Young wrote in an objection filed Thursday in response to Reams' request for an expedited hearing and discovery. "Witnesses have contacted the Attorney General's Office to express concern that Mr. Reams is providing information that may allow them to be identified. He has attacked the credibility and reputation of his own employees."
Reams was suspended Nov. 7, after the attorney general and the U.S. Attorney's Office kicked off an investigation. Attorney General Joe Foster and U.S. Attorney John Kacavas have said the investigation centers on "operational and managerial" issues within Reams ' office.
In a court motion filed Monday, Reams asked the court to provide him with details and evidence related to the investigation. Reams claims he has been given limited information about the investigation, which the motion says includes allegations of sexual harassment from female employees.
Reams told the New Hampshire Union Leader this week the allegations were "absolutely false."
Ramsdell argued that Reams was suspended five weeks ago, and he and his client have yet to be made aware of any specific charges against him.
"How long will this investigation go on?" asked Ramsdell. "There needs to be a goal line to cross. We have no idea where the goal line is at this point."
"Not only is discovery at this stage of an ongoing investigation inappropriate, it would be damaging to the investigation itself," argued Young. "In this case, Mr. Reams is the target of an ongoing criminal investigation. Because the investigation is still ongoing, and no arrests have been made, the discovery requirements haven't been triggered."
Ramsdell argued that the AG's office should hand over more information regarding their probe so they can challenge the state's decision to suspend Reams.
Young said her office has hired an independent auditor to assist in its investigation.
"As of today, we may have topped 50 witnesses," said Young. "Attorney Ramsdell keeps bringing up that it has been five weeks. We could say that it has only been five weeks. These are very complex financial issues that are being reviewed."
On Wednesday, the New Hampshire Union Leader reported that a forfeiture account once controlled by Reams had come under scrutiny as part of the investigation into his office. Bank statements for the forfeiture account — obtained through a Right-to-Know request — show that $25,241.91 in electronic payments was made to an American Express card dating back to 2007.
Reams acknowledged in an interview that the credit card belongs to him. He said the money paid to the credit card reimbursed him for travel expenses incurred while attending conferences held by the National District Attorneys Association.
Justice McNamara did not grant an expedited hearing or discovery on Thursday.
A hearing is scheduled for Dec. 19 in Merrimack Superior Court, where Ramsdell will argue that the attorney general's actions removing Reams from his elected office were unconstitutional, because no criminal charges have been filed.
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Were those your groupies who came to cheer you on at a previous talent show? "You mean my family," Oliver Allaux replied. The 18- year-old islander plays the fiddle and explained to us that the difference between a fiddle and a violin is in the way it's played, one is folk music and the other is classical.
The recent graduate of North Kingstown High School started to play the violin when he was 3 and going to school in Pennsylvania. He took classical lessons for 10 years. He also plays the guitar and saxophone that "I picked up over the years." Oliver now plays two sessions on Sundays at the Fastnet Pub on Broadway in Newport. All told he's been playing Irish sessions in Newport for eight years. You can hear Oliver's great fiddle sound at the Jamestown Community Chorus' annual Talent Show Aug. 13 at the Community Center. He said he'll be playing some "funk jazz" and folk music.
This fall he'll move on to the Pratt Institute to study architecture. Why architecture when he has such a talent for music? "I picked it up in school and really like it."
It's all about creation, whether for the eye or the ear.
Questions about the talent show should be directed to chorus director B.J. Whitehouse, 423-1574.
We told you in an earlier column that grandson Tom had hooked and released a tagged blue shark while fishing with Robb Roach aboard his 26-foot Stella. The tag was turned in at Snug Harbor. In a letter from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Tom was thanked for participating in the Cooperative Shark Tagging Program.
He was informed that his shark had been tagged on June 15, 22 miles SE of Montauk Point, N.Y., and was caught by Tom on July 12, 45 miles SE of Pt. Judith. The 6-foot male blue had traveled 33 miles E in 27 days.
These are truly Dog Days, but they have nothing to do with our dogs, but rather about the dog planet, Sirius, being in a certain position to the sun. But they are nonetheless tough days for dogs, anyway. Our 12-year-old Vallund, Joshua, really feels it. His ancestors came from Sweden so he enjoys the snow.
To help him along a bit, I wash him down regularly, keep him combed out and have a fan going next to his bed.
But for a professional view on how to keep Joshua cooler, we asked for suggestion from Dr. Joshua Hatch of the Jamestown Animal Clinic. This is what he recommended:
"The old saying "It's not the heat, it's the humidity" is pretty true when it comes to our pets. Many older pets (and a lot of fat ones) can have a hard time when the heat and humidity rise. Most importantly, make sure your pet has access to fresh water at all times. Nothing is more dangerous than the combination of heat and dehydration. Next, modify your schedule so that you take your pet for walks when it is cool in the early morning or late evening. Do not take your pet for a long walk in the high mid-day heat. Providing adequate shade and cover to let your pet get out of the sun if they are outside, as well as either keeping a fan going or running the AC when they are inside will reduce heat-related issues. Finally, be aware that pets can get sunburned especially if they have short hair, light skin, or were recently clipped. Avoid too much direct sunlight until their skin has had time to adjust."
*** Who was Mary Hartman?
Wouldn't you know that the day my column comes out saying it looks like it's going to be a dry summer I get 4 inches of rain on my deck.
A Snapple top moment: At birth, a Dalmatian is always pure white.
When you come off the Newport Bridge and turn right to come to the village, there's a hole in the road under the overpass that will swallow your vehicle. It's dark under there and you can't see it.
............They fly so high, nearly reach the sky
Whole current video episodes of Kettlebottom Pursuits have been added to its website, www. kettlebottom.com. Islander Robb Roach said, "We have also been working on adding more how-to content and hope to be able to help you become more successful and knowledgeable in the outdoors."
Kudos to the highway department for getting the new drainpipe in at the entrance to the dump.
We hear it now plans to move the fence on the west side back so that large trucks can get in and out without having to swing by way of the West Passage.
Great job, guys!
We may be on to something. Having purchased a "squirrelproof " bird feeder we gleefully watched the rodents scratching their heads in desperation. It didn't take long though before they learned how to lift the metal cap and chew away at the plastic tube. Finally, we gave up and put it in the back of the truck for a trip to the dump.
At work in Davisville we noticed that sparrows had discovered it and were feeding out of it. We also noted that while the truck sat in our driveway the feeder was getting attention. We have left it in the truck bed and are very pleased with our newly discovered mobile bird feeder.
*** Be true!
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Cambodia opposition says mass protests last resort
PHNOM PENH, Cambodia (AP) — Cambodia's opposition leader whose party is disputing its narrow loss in last month's elections said Friday his supporters will take to the streets only as a last resort if their complaints of poll irregularities are not resolved fairly.
Cambodia National Rescue Party leader Sam Rainsy returned home Friday after a weeklong visit to the United States to lead the party's challenge in the country's political standoff, which many fear may lead to violent confrontations.
He told reporters at Phnom Penh's airport that he expects Prime Minister Hun Sen will allow an impartial, independent committee to probe allegations of widespread fraud by the ruling party during the July 28 elections.
"Because, nobody would recognize any government stemming from fake elections," he said.
In message posted on his Facebook page shortly before his return, he had said he "will immediately take part in the effort on the spot to find a peaceful solution to the political crisis arising from unprecedented and inacceptable irregularities."
The official election results support the claim of Hun Sen's Cambodian People's Party to have won have won 68 of the 123 seats in the National Assembly, against 55 for Sam Rainsy's party. The opposition claims to have actually won 63, even though the official number represents a substantial gain on the 29 seats it held in the last assembly.
The opposition has threatened to hold a massive demonstration if an impartial, independent committee does not resolve complaints over alleged widespread election irregularities.
Asked whether his party would carry out its threat to stage massive street protest if its demand for a probe was not met, he said it had to be ready to do so but "as a last resort."
The government has responded to the opposition threats by deploying troops and armored vehicles in the capital. Hun Sen, Cambodia's leader for 28 years, has a reputation for dealing harshly with his opponents.
Ratification of the results will not take place until sometime before Sept. 8, after the government-appointed National Election Committee has dealt with 17 formal complaints.
"The whole world knows that CNRP won the election and the whole world will help CNRP to expose the truth - the truth is that CNRP won the election," Sam Rainsy said upon arrival at the airport, where he was greeted by about 300 supporters.
Sam Rainsy had spent about a week in the United States to attend his daughter's wedding. Sam Rainsy had also been expected to test the waters for international support for his campaign to pressure Hun Sen's government.
He said he had met with senior U.S. and United Nations officials in New York. His party has called for the U.N. to play a role in the election scrutiny body.
The total popular vote was 3,235,969 for the ruling CPP and 2,946,176 for the CNRP, with six other parties failing to accrue enough votes to win any assembly seats.


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By Dan Levene | Blues Chronicle
Chelsea fans were already in uproar at the sacking of Roberto Di Matteo, just six months after winning the Champions League. Now the focus of their frustration has switched to the man who is next in the hot-seat.
Rafael Benitez, identified almost entirely with his time at Liverpool, has been confirmed as the man to replace Di Matteo. He is the antithesis of what Chelsea fans want from a manager.
A man without the charisma of Mourinho, the credibility of Ancelotti, or the homeliness of Di Matteo - there is already talk of a harsh fan reaction to his appointment.
The belief among those I have spoken to is that Benitez has always benefited from the squads built by others: Hector Cuper at Valencia, Gerard Houllier at Liverpool.
His transfer record at Anfield includes a litany of £8m-£10m footballers, who ended up playing like £1m-£2m cloggers. They say his football is turgid, his identity forever Scouse. He simply is not who the Chelsea supporters want to lead the club.
If the club did not already know that, then they are even more out of touch with Chelsea fans than had previously been thought. Even more out of touch than a club that has just sacked one of the greatest heroes its fans have ever worshipped.
Chelsea knew when they appointed Di Matteo as assistant manager to Andre Villas-Boas back in summer 2011 that they were getting two things: a coach, and a legend.
The latter was the reason he was able to stabilise the club in the aftermath of Villas-Boas' sacking in March: fans, people around the club, players all trusted his knowledge, experience and passion in a time of trouble.
Now, as he is sacked for being apparently lacking in the coaching department, the club has difficulty in ridding itself of a legendary status that has only grown in his second period at Stamford Bridge.
In the hours since news broke, Chelsea supporters have clamoured to social media to reveal the scale of their discontent.
People have talked of their shame at the club's actions, and their sense of loss arising from the dismissal of someone they coinsidered one of their own. A common theme is that Chelsea's hierarchy have reduced the club to the status of a laughing stock.
Di Matteo 'got' Chelsea. He understood the fans. He knew that there was no greater victory than one over Tottenham (he managed two: 5-1 at Wembley, and 4-2 at White Hart Lane).
He knew that this is a club for whom hard-times meant something other than the potential failure to qualify from a Champions League group.
But he also knew that times and expectations had moved on: and that he was partly responsible for that.
No true match-going Chelsea fan I know likes managers being sacked. We cherish loyalty, and to abandon or abuse one of our own is most definitely not 'proper Chels'.
This sacking hurts. The sackings of Jose Mourinho and Carlo Ancelotti hurt too, but this seems to have hurt more. Because he was a link with the old Chelsea; because of what we went through together.
And ultimately because of success: Di Matteo is the only manager in Chelsea history to have out-specialed The Special One. The fact he has now been replaced by Benitez will be a bitter pill for the fans to swallow.
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222,416-square-foot lease renewal keeps key headquarters in Chicago
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Nov. 20, 2012 05:40 PM
CHICAGO, Nov. 20, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Dearborn Capital Group, owners of the Citadel Center in downtown Chicago, announce the long-term renewal of its namesake tenant, financial services powerhouse Citadel LLC. The Citadel Center has entered into a long term lease extension with Citadel LLC for 222,416 square feet, or the top six floors of the building.
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Given the data-intensive nature of Citadel's diversified financial services and investment businesses, the building's technology infrastructure and unique raised floors were critical in Citadel's original evaluation of the building and remain differentiators today. The installation of raised floors throughout the building delivers superior air quality and offers significant technology installation and maintenance cost savings versus traditional office buildings. The building's infrastructure also provides multiple power and cooling redundancies that protect critical operations from disruptions.
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East Ramapo may see that advance of $3.5-million dollars in state lottery money if Governor Andrew Cuomo Ok's the bill.
On Friday, both the assembly and senate voted in the bill that will hopefully bring the struggling district closer to restoring programs for next year. Normally, East Ramapo would receive that money September 2014, but district officials asked Senator David Carlucci this Spring to draft legislation to relese the money earlier to June 2014.
The money would be deducted from future lottery allocations over a 30-year period.


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Disney Epic Mickey 2: The Power of Two - PS3
Release Date:November 18, 2012
Also on:PlayStation 3 Wii Wii U Xbox 360
Viewing USA:Also on UK.
You will find that this game is wonderful, exciting, and has a simple but enjoyable concept that can take a long time to beat. Grab a copy of Epic Mickey the power of two and start building up the Magic Kingdom all over again.
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Epic Mickey the Power of Two PS3 is one game that all Mickey lovers should consider looking into. The game takes you into the world of the magical sorcerer Mickey as you help him and others to help save the center of a dimension. Wasteland is where Mickey runs around trying to conjure and reconstruct bad areas of the Wasteland. The problem is that there are all kinds of buildings that should not be standing tall. Help Epic Mickey grow completely and change Wasteland from ugly waste area to a brand new kingdom.
Since Wasteland is living in complete despair, will you help Mickey reconstruct it all or allow for it to sink down the waste drain even more? Your goal should be to help Epic Mickey unlock the secret layers and reconstruct everything from the ground up. All areas of this place can be fixed, but you must unlock each aspect to help him remake the Magic Kingdom.
Mickey and Oswald are the two who undergo this entire game to save the beautiful kingdom. If you come and help them, you may be able to save the wasteland and turn it into something beautiful.
Who is this for?
This fun game is perfect for all Disney lovers. Even those who personally do not love Disney related films will enjoy this because of the simple concept behind it. Guys and girls who love solving mysteries and unchaining difficult obstacles and challenges may find Epic Mickey a great interactive game. If you just enjoy all the benefits of playing a game that require you to think, then this will be a fun game worth trying out. There are tons of levels and keys to find to unlock some hidden treasures, so this is a lifelong game that can take quite some time to beat out.
Are there any downsides to the game?
Despite the game being fully evolved around the Mickey character, you will find that the game doesn't completely revolve around Disney themed topics. The game is focused more on mystery and thrilling stories, so the game in itself is not completely related to the story of Mickey Mouse in general. Some Disney fans may lose interest with this aspect, but it surely isn't that big of a deal for those who just want to play a fun game. However, you will find that the game is still very well related to Disney since a lot of other Disney characters come into play. The only reason it may not seem so Disney related is the fact that the Magic Kingdom looks like a total dump.
Overall, the game still has a fun topic and a great interactive set that can really impress those who have played the original game. You will find that this game is wonderful, exciting, and has a simple but enjoyable concept that can take a long time to beat. Grab a copy of Epic Mickey the power of two and start building up the Magic Kingdom all over again.
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