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The similarities between Arizona and Nevada are striking.
They boast two of the country's most prolific offenses and are led by two of the nation's leading rushers, and they also share a big resemblance defensively - being they really don't play any.
In what is shaping up to be a high-scoring New Mexico Bowl, Arizona and Nevada square off in Albuquerque on Saturday.
The Wildcats and Wolf Pack each had high hopes for one of the more prestigious bowl games with the way their seasons started.
Arizona (7-5) got as high as No. 22 in the poll after opening 3-0, which included a 59-38 victory over then-No. 18 Oklahoma State on Sept. 8. The Wildcats were then quickly brought back to earth with a 49-0 loss to third-ranked Oregon in their fourth game, and any chance of appearing in their first Rose Bowl was dashed with an 0-3 start in Pac-12 play.
Nevada got off to a 6-1 start to become bowl eligible but also finished 7-5.
"There's no question we should have won nine games," coach Chris Ault said two days after Nevada concluded the regular season with a 27-21 loss to then-No. 25 Boise State on Dec. 1.
Ault was then quick to point out why his team fell short of expectations, adding, "it's playing with a defense that's inconsistent."
The Wolf Pack are allowing an average of 32.5 points and are 13th-worst in the FBS against the run, giving up 213.2 yards per game. One of their biggest weaknesses is on third down, as they let opponents convert 47.2 percent of the time for the nation's 12th-worst mark.
As bad as Nevada's defense is, Arizona's might be worse.
The Wildcats rank 103rd out of 124 FBS schools in scoring defense at 34.3 points per game and are fifth-worst in total defense with an average of 485.7 yards allowed. Thirty of the 52 touchdowns Rich Rodriguez's 3-3-5 defense gave up came on the ground, which is tied for the ninth-most.
Both defensive units now face the daunting task of trying not to get embarrassed.
The Wildcats are seventh in total offense at 521.8 yards per game and average 37.3 points, while the Wolf Pack check in just behind them in both categories, averaging 502.8 yards and 37.0 points.
The run game is what powers both squads.
Arizona's Ka'Deem Carey averages an FBS-best 146.4 rushing yards and has 20 touchdowns on the ground. The sophomore was a first-team all-Pac-12 selection after establishing a school record with 1,757 rushing yards.
"He runs as angry, I guess you'd say, as any back in the country," Rodriguez said after Carey set a Pac-12 record by rushing for 366 yards in a 56-31 win over Colorado on Nov. 10.
While Nevada will likely have its hands full trying to tackle Carey, Arizona faces a similar challenge in trying to contain Stefphon Jefferson.
Jefferson's average of 141.9 rushing yards is second only to Carey, and with 1,703 yards, the junior is 30 away from breaking Chance Kretschmer's school record set in 2001. A first-team all-Mountain West Conference selection, Jefferson has already set a school mark with 22 rushing touchdowns, with six coming in a 69-24 victory over Hawaii on Sept. 22.
"(Jefferson) has learned to get through the adversity in a game even if you're not getting the yardage," Ault said. "He hung in there and continued to prosper as the year went on."
Jefferson isn't Nevada's only rushing threat as sophomore Cody Fajardo has amassed 981 yards - sixth-most among FBS quarterbacks - while running the pistol offense. Colin Kaepernick's successor has also passed for 2,530 yards and totaled 28 touchdowns (17 passing, 11 rushing).
While Fajardo's running ability forces defenses from keying on Jefferson, Arizona quarterback Matt Scott's dangerous arm prevents teams from stacking the box in an effort to stop the run.
In directing the spread offense, Scott ranked third in the Pac-12 with 3,238 passing yards and had 24 touchdowns to 12 interceptions. Eight of those picks came in three losses, though, and the Wildcats are 6-2 when he has one interception or fewer.
Scott seems to have a good shot at limiting his turnovers considering Nevada has four interceptions all season - tied for the fourth-fewest in the country.
The senior's favorite target is sophomore Austin Hill, who is 12th in the FBS with 1,189 yards and has 73 receptions and nine touchdowns. Senior Dan Buckner has caught 59 passes for 751 yards and five scores.
These teams haven't met since Arizona's 26-7 win in 1941, which evened the series at 1-1-1.
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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) Eddie Rocker ran for 171 yards and Lenworth Lennon pulled in six passes for 134 yards as Florida A&M trounced Mid-Eastern Athletic Conference foe Savannah State on Saturday night.
Rocker amassed his yardage on 17 carries and punched in a touchdown as the Rattlers (3-4, 3-1) outgained the Tigers on the ground 323-44.
Florida A&M's offensive output was nearly triple that of Savannah State's (612-205), with the Tigers (0-6, 0-4) converting just 2 of 11 third-down tries while trailing the time of possession battle by more than 10 minutes.
Three of the Rattlers' first four scores were field goals by Chase Varnadore, with James Owens' 15-yard touchdown run the lone first-quarter touchdown. Florida A&M stopped settling for field goals as the game went on, though, with Damien Fleming passing for a pair of scores, including one to Lennon.
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STARKVILLE, Miss. (AP) -- Mississippi State guard Jalen Steele is expected to miss six weeks because of a fractured right wrist.
The 6-foot-3 junior from Knoxville, Tenn., was injured while driving for a layup in the first half of the Bulldogs' 78-58 victory against Florida Atlantic on Tuesday night.
Steele scored a team-high 16 points in the team's season-opening loss against Troy. He had two points against Florida Atlantic before his injury.
The school says surgery will not be required.
Mississippi State (1-1) also announced that forward Colin Borchert has been suspended for a "violation of team rules'' and will not travel with the team to the Maui Invitational this week. The Bulldogs will take just six scholarship players to Maui.
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A pinguecula (pin-GWEK-u-lah) is a small and slightly-raised yellowish non-fatty thickening of the eye's visible outer layer (the white portion). It always occurs at the 3 and/or 9 o'clock positions of the eye and never in the 12 and 6 o'clock areas (because your eyelids cover those areas). The cause is long-term exposure to sunlight and atmospheric pollution like dust, smoke, wind, sand, molds, grasses, pollen, etc.
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|editShadow Sewing Technique [1]
|Kage Nui no Jutsu
|Viz print media
|Art of Shadow Stitching
|English anime
|Ninja Art: Shadow Stitching Jutsu
|Volume #32, Naruto Chapter #283
|Naruto Shippūden Episode #34
|Kakashi Hiden: Lightning in the Icy Sky
|Naruto Shippūden the Movie: The Will of Fire
|Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja 4
|Appears in
|Anime, Manga, Novel, Game, Movie
|Hiden, Ninjutsu
|Offensive, Supplementary
|Short to Mid range
|Hand seals
|Rat → Bird
|Other jutsu
|Parent jutsu
This is a ninjutsu from among the Nara clan's secret techniques that uses materialised shadows to attack and bind, instead of merely immobilising and controlling like the Shadow Imitation Technique. The user changes the shape of their shadow into several sharp needles and controls each separately. They can then attack several targets simultaneously and at the same time snatch away their ability to move by sewing them stuck with the shadow threads. Because it is a physical attack, it is impossible to capture someone without harming them, but on the other hand, since the speed of invocation and the time of duration are excellent, it can be used when urgent restraint is required.
This technique is usually used to go through the target and capture them, but depending on the opponent, it can also be used as an attack to bring them down. This special characteristic finds its greatest effect when used as logistical support. After this technique hits someone, it can then be directly transformed back into the Shadow Imitation Technique.
- This ninjutsu takes its name from the "Kagenui", a technique from ninja legends that immobilises a target by pinning their shadow with a kunai.[2]
- In Naruto Shippūden: Ultimate Ninja 5, Shikamaru throws several explosive tags up in the air and uses this technique to pin them on his opponent.
- In Naruto Shippūden the Movie: The Will of Fire, Shikamaru uses the special seal used in the Multi-Size Technique instead of the Bird seal, as the ring and little fingers were raised in the manga, but the index finger is raised instead of the ring finger in the movie. The folded fingers are also interlocked in the manga, but not in the movie.
- ↑ Sha no Sho, page 231
- ↑ Japanese Wikipedia


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For the first time, Meadows Mennonite Retirement Home, Chenoa, held its annual auxiliary and volunteer appreciation luncheon and fundraiser for the Station 1 and 2 Dining Room Expansion Project at the Lexington Community Center, Lexington. The event, held April 18, was attended by 170 people and raised $6,681, providing the retirement home with around $282,000 of the $300,000 needed to complete the project.
"Everyone was enthusiastic about the quality of food, presentation of the room and the floral arrangements on the tables," Development Director Mary Ann Watkins said. "When we've held the event in Chenoa, it was a little bit crowded with 100 people.
The goal of the dining room expansion project is to add square footage to the dining room at stations 1 and 2. Once completed, the stations will provide more room for residents who may feel crowded. It will also provide a private second room for use by families wishing to eat privately with their loved one and a room for small group meetings.
"There is a dining room for station 2 that accommodates all of the residents designated to eat at that station and that is where the private dining room is being added," said Watkins. "When everyone sits down to eat, it's very crowded. The expansions will more than double the amount of space we currently have."
The theme for the luncheon was Reflections. The goal of reflecting on the success of past volunteers was communicated through speakers including: Meadows President and CEO Robert Bertsche; Chaplain Jane Roeschley; Auxiliary Board President Judy Lindsay; Watkins; and Executive Vice President of Heartland Bank, Chenoa, Tom Kahle, who spoke on behalf of the bank which co-sponsored the event.
"We honored our volunteers with the quality of the program we put together," said Watkins. "Throughout the program, we made reference to our volunteers and their importance in the operation of the retirement home."
While guests dined on a meal of potato soup, sweet and sour ham sandwiches and cold slaw, harp music performed by Dr. Rex Moore filled in the background. Dessert was a cake that former First Lady Dolley Madison was said to have often served to her guests. The Dolley Madison layer cake was made from a recipe printed in "Ladies of Liberty," by Cokie Roberts. The book was also the basis for the three characters Jenny Riddle would portray during her performance.
"It is a really thick cake," said Watkins describing the dessert. "Almost like a sweet bread with frosting —it was really good."
Two volunteer service awards were presented during the luncheon. The first recipient was Lindsay, who was chosen for her strong leadership and involvement in auxiliary activities throughout the year. Serving as president for her second year and her third year as a board member, Lindsay was noted as a person who volunteers regularly for meetings, events and when special needs arise.
The second recipient was volunteer Eldora Coggins. Coggins was described as ready and eager to schedule her volunteer hours with the retirement home each month and was known to volunteer on short notice and fill in for others. The regular volunteer spent her time between the information desk, volunteering for activities and assisting with the preparation of mailings in the development department. Although Coggins was unable to attend the luncheon, her daughter, Peggy Kerrins, accepted the award on her behalf. Both recipients were awarded with a plaque and a standing ovation for their work.
Riddle, who describes herself as a dramatic book reviewer, has made her name performing for audiences through the lives of historic and famous people. At the fundraiser, she took on the characters of former First Ladies Abigail Adams, Dolley Madison and Louisa Adams. Watkins remarked that the performance Riddle gave at their luncheon captivated those in attendance.
"The 'Famous First Ladies' performance I had previously attended was historical, but this one went back further in history," said Watkins of the performance. "I think Riddle brings out the best in her characters and I heard many positive comments from guests."
It remains to be seen whether the board of directors will choose to use the facilities in Lexington for their future appreciation luncheons. Watkins said they enjoyed the location of the facilities and the hospitality offered to them for the event. Regardless of where the next volunteer appreciation luncheon is held, Watkins said this year's event was one to remember.
Dolley Madison dramatist entertains at Meadows luncheon
For the first time, Meadows Mennonite Retirement Home, Chenoa, held its annual auxiliary and volunteer appreciation luncheon and fundraiser for the Station 1 and 2 Dining Room Expansion Project at the Lexington Community Center, Lexington. The event, held April 18, was attended by 170 people and raised $6,681, providing the retirement home with around $282,000 of the $300,000 needed to complete the project.


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Canadian County game warden Joey Rushing is the newest recipient of the Oklahoma Department of Wildlife Conservation's Game Warden of the Year and Shikar Safari Club International's Officer of the Year awards.
Rushing, who was selected for the award by his peers and presented with the honors at the November meeting of the Oklahoma Wildlife Conservation Commission, was hired as a game warden in 2009.
"Joey Rushing is an outstanding example of the kind of young people who have decided to dedicate themselves to wildlife law enforcement in Oklahoma," said Robert Fleenor, law enforcement chief for the Wildlife Department. "He is a very focused young man with many talents.
Rushing grew up fishing and hunting and took interest in the role that game wardens play through a relationship with former Wildlife Department Game Warden Capt. Jack Witt. Witt taught him the sport of noodling, and Rushing decided to pursue his interest in wildlife law enforcement through a wildlife and fisheries ecology degree from Oklahoma State University.
I've had a blast," said Rushing about his tenure so far as a game warden for the Wildlife Department. "I've only been doing this about three years, and I love every minute of it."
Since coming on board in 2009, Rushing has worked closely with other Wildlife Department employees and has been active in a number of Wildlife Department projects and programs. One of his favorites is the Department's Aquatic Resource Education Program, which introduces youth and adults to the sport of fishing in Oklahoma.
Rushing has served in Caddo and Oklahoma counties and is currently stationed in Canadian County, where he has a strong working knowledge of the surrounding area, sportsmen and landowners in the region. He has encountered numerous interesting cases, including one in which he was bitten by a Caiman – an exotic species similar to an alligator. He also has been active in investigations of illegal online wildlife sales.
"Joey has been using his considerable computer skills to uncover and prosecute a large number of illegal commercialization of wildlife cases," Fleenor said. "He is already known in only three short years of service as an excellent investigator with formidable interrogation abilities. Joey has also shown to be an excellent ambassador for the Wildlife Department, presenting numerous educational programs throughout the central region of Oklahoma."
Rushing lives in Yukon with his wife, Heather, and his daughter, Tatum. Rushing dedicates his new honor to them for the sacrifices they have made for him to serve the sportsmen of the state as a game warden.
Shikar-Safari Club International was started more than 55 years ago and is limited to 200 members worldwide. While it is a social organization, its sole purpose is hunting and conservation and issues that affect hunters and conservation. The club has a foundation that puts almost $1 million into wildlife and conservation every year, including more than 30 scholarships a year for children of wildlife professionals majoring in wildlife fields. The scholarships are designed to perpetuate an interest in wildlife careers and conservation.


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Fargo, North Dakota is coming out of its 3rd snowiest winter since 1885. Snow continued to fall into late March, and daytime temperatures have only been above freezing for few weeks. At night, it's still below freezing, though starting tomorrow night the forecast calls for above freezing minimum temperatures. Soils are already saturated, and more rain is possible this weekend.
In short, it is perfect flood weather for the Red River that runs along the Minnesota-North Dakota border and into Canada. This is a place with the perfect geography for extensive flooding, and a long history of big spring floods.
Every town along the Red River has been devastated by a flood more than once. So they've all got emergency response plans in place for weather just like this. For example, Moorhead (Minnesota, across the river from Fargo) has a nifty GIS feature that shows how each foot of flood water affects each city block.
Residents are already filling sand-bags to build temporary levees. But with year after year of flooding, and with successful sand bag efforts the last two years, some residents might be taking this year's flood predictions in a somewhat complacent fashion. But looking at the National Weather Service's North Central River Forecast Center projections, there's plenty of reason for concern all along the Red River.
As of 9 am Central time on 7 April 2011, most of the US portion of the Red River is already above flood stage, but water levels will continue to rise almost everywhere for at least the next week.
The flood wave will move downstream – from south to north. In Wahpeton, a crest is expected today, with a second – equally high if not higher – crest next week. There the flood crest is likely to fall a few feet short of record water levels set in 1997.
Between Wahpeton and Fargo, tributaries to the Red River are having major flooding as well – in part because of backwater effects from the main river. If the Red River is flooding, there's no place for water flowing down the tributaries to go. Instead they back up, causing even more widespread flooding.
In Fargo (ND) and Moorhead (MN) – which have a combined population of 200,000 people – the flood will not crest until late Sunday. Right now, the National Weather Service is predicting a crest of 39.5 feet, which 1.3 feet short of the record flooding of 2009. However, there some chance that the river will crest at 41 feet, or even higher if there is precipitation in the next few days. Currently, 80% of the city is protected by sand bags and levees to a height of 41 feet, but those may need to go even higher.
Two weeks ago, the National Weather Service issued a longer-term flood forecast for the Red River at Fargo. At that time they considered it a 10-50% percent chance that the river would reach 40 to 44.3 feet by mid-April. They provided a probability of exceedence curve for their modeled projections of this year's flood season against the historical record of flooding, as shown below. To understand this graph, it helps to look at a few specific points. Right now, the river is at 35.32 feet. Based on the outlook from two weeks ago, it was virtually inevitable that the river would reach this level, with a probability greater than 98%, as shown by the black triangles. In contrast, 35.32 feet is reached less than 5% of the years in the historical record for Fargo, as shown by the blue circles. The current projected crest of 39.5 feet was given about a 50% chance of being exceeded as of two weeks ago, yet it has only be reached twice (1997, 2009) in 111 years of record. Two weeks ago, the National Weather Service was saying that there was a 25% chance the river could go above 42 feet, which is higher than the top of the sand bag levees now being prepared.
The short term forecasts, like the one two above, have better skill than long term forecasts like the immediately above, but the long term forecasts are vital for emergency managers, city officials, and riverside land-owners in making early plans for the flood. The reason they've got all the sand and sand bags on hand in places like Fargo is because they knew there was a good chance a really big flood was coming. They've been talking about it since January.
Downstream (north) of Fargo-Moorhead lies Grand Forks, with about 100,000 people in its metropolitan area. Grand Forks was swamped by the flood of 1997, but the current forecasted peak stage this year is about 3.5 feet lower, though the crest won't reach Grand Forks until late next week. For now, they are watching the water levels and making their preparations. Downstream further, lies Winnipeg, Manitoba. The flood crest won't reach there until late April, but already the river is 17 feet above normal winter stage, and only 5 feet below the 2009 flood peak. Needless to say, they too are sand-bagging.
But for the next few days, the action focuses on the Fargo-Moorhead area. You can check out the updated data and forecasts or you can watch the flood play out in Moorhead with a live webcam pointed at the downtown waterfront:
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CANNES, France — Here's why the world's greatest film festival, the one on the Cote d'Azur, means something, and to some filmmakers means everything — even if a lot of the surrounding movies are lame.
The other evening at the Festival du Cannes, where "The Third Man" and "Marty" and "L'Avventura" and "MASH" and"Inglourious Basterds"and "The Tree of Life" confronted, exasperated, and delighted movie lovers for the first time, I came out of the third or fourth screening of the day at the Palais, the main building along the seaside boulevard known as the Croisette. The usual hordes. Milling. Arguing. Hungry for food and for argument-worthy cinema.


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Health insurance is very popular lately and many people are searching for the best health protection which offers so many benefits with low price of the premium. Instead of having life protection, disease is something that can come to you and your family without permission. Because the medical cost is very expensive, they need some coverage from health protection and all your diseases can be treated in the best way without paying anymore.
What Are The Benefits of Insurance?
Getting many benefits from health insurance is something people really want. Not only because they have rights to get it but because it is something health protection should do such as:
• Outpatient care
Not all people want to be treated and slept inside the hospital though they have protection and not all diseases are dangerous so they need to stay at the hospital. If the insured can be treated outside the hospital, why they have to rest inside it? Health protection is not only created for someone who gets the bad illness and they need to stay at hospital. The insurer will pay for the outpatient care too from the medicine, vitamin, care program and many more. So it is not designed for patient who gets treated by real doctors in the hospital only.
• Access to emergency room
You know that emergency room is just for a patient who is in a danger situation but to go there, your family needs to spend much money in order to access this room and the procedure is not that easy. But if you have this health protection, you may get to access easily to this room without taking complicated procedures or spending money at all if you have the protection card or you agree with the claim procedure. Once you are in danger because of your illness, you may not be treated in the ordinary patient room but you will get the best treatment in the emergency room.
Because of that, many people choose to have health insurance better than life protection so they can use the money for health treatment with best medical providers.


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The Kelly family of Grand Island received the Grand Island Rotary Club's Vocational Service Award at a meeting Feb. 27 at the Buffalo Launch Club.
The Kellys' own Kelly's Country Store celebrated a 50th anniversary last year.
The Vocational Service Award is presented to a non-Rotarian who has exemplified outstanding professional achievement and high ethical standards. In making the award, the Rotary noted that through the Kellys' "strong work ethic, business choices, community service and their genuine affection for people and this community, they have made Grand Island a better place to live."
Rotary Interim Secretary Amber Storr, pictured at right, standing, presented the award to Kelly family members, seated from left, Sean Kelly, Amanda Diamond and Deanna Kelly. Deanna is the daughter-in-law of Kelly's Country Store founder Walt Kelly and wife of Mike Kelly, Sean runs the store (with brother Kevin) and Diamond runs their Facebook page and a Twitter account.


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Pets and Vets: Golden retriever enrollment continues for CSU veterinary lifetime cancer study
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The orangutans at the Smithsonian's National Zoological Park are using iPads. Made available through Apps for Apes, an initiative conducted by the conservation organization Orangutan Outreach, the program lets zoo orangutans enjoy 10 different applications that feature cognitive games, drawing exercises, virtual musical instruments and more. It's reported that 36-year-old Bonnie likes to hit the drums, 16-year-old Kyle likes to play the piano and 25-year-old Iris likes the soothing sounds and animated fish swimming in a virtual koi pond. "Apps for Apes fits perfectly in this new era of zookeeping," says Becky Malinsky, great ape keeper at the National Zoo. "It's about changing up the day-to-day lives of our animals. We already vary their food, toys and social interactions every day, but the iPad offers another way to engage their sight, touch and hearing."Illinois
Shedd Aquarium welcomed a 1-year-and-9-month-old blind sea lion pup in January. The pup, named "Cruz" by aquarium staff, was rescued on a beach in Santa Cruz, Calif., in July 2012. He was found alone, lethargic and blind in both eyes. Veterinary staff say radiographs show metal shards from gunshot wounds in his skull, which likely caused the blindness. Unable to be released back into the wild, Cruz will be receive proper long-term care and the space needed for a permanent home at Shedd.
Revenue from new Kansas license plates aim to reduce the stray animal population. "I'm Pet Friendly" license plates will support externships for Kansas State University veterinary students as well as spay-neuter programs at animal shelters across the state, according to the university. The pet-friendly plates require a one-time cost $45.50 and an additional $50 donation annually.


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Mortgages are one of the largest single transactions in most people's lives. Buying a property can be a stressful and time consuming experience, although nowadays the financing of a mortgage is a case of finding and selecting the most suitable mortgage, rather than simply accepting a lender's offer.
Banks, building societies, and smaller niche lenders compete for your business, all offering a variety of interest rate deals, associated fees and other enhancements to attract borrowers.
Repayment (capital and interest) Method
Under the repayment method your monthly repayments consist of both interest and capital hence, over time, the amount of money you actually owe will decrease. In the early years your repayments will be mainly interest and therefore the capital outstanding will reduce slowly in the early years.
Interest-only Method
As the name suggests, with the interest only method you only repay the interest on the amount borrowed. At the end of the term the capital is still outstanding. Therefore you will usually need to take out some kind of investment policy to save up enough money to repay the mortgage at the end of the term.


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Smyrna's football game Friday against Brandywine may have started off slow and ended slow, but the parts in the middle were full of excitement as the Eagles won their first game of the season 31-17 over the Bulldogs.
Brandywine was the first to put points on the board with a 34-yard field goal in the second quarter, as both sides went scoreless in the first quarter. Smyrna wasn't two far after with a 22-yard field goal off the foot of kicker Andrew Gilbert. Shortly thereafter is when the fun began.
The Eagles scored two quick touchdowns in a matter of minutes, after forcing the Bulldogs to fumble twice. Both times running back Maurice McFolling would go on to score, the first a 35-yard pass from quarterback Jordan Kiger and the second on a 6-yard run. McFolling's second touchdown brought the score to 16-0; Senior Michael Vavala ran in the endzone to complete a two-point conversion on a pass from Kiger bringing the Eagles to a 18-3 lead.
Brandywine went on to score their first touchdown of the night off an 11-yard interception by sophomore Troy Staker, shortening Smyrna's lead to 18-10. But with one more Eagles touchdown before the first half was over bringing the score to 24-10, the damage had already been done.
Both teams would only score once in the second half - Smyrna in the third quarter and Brandywine with just seconds left in the game.
Coach Clay Lloyd was happy with the team's performance, which was a step up from last weeks 47-19 loss to Middletown.
"Anytime you get your first win of the season, it's always a great feeling," he said. "It's kind of that monkey off your back. Guys figured out a way to win and it's always a good feeling for them."
Lloyd gave props to the Bulldogs defensive line, which he said features some really good football players. The Brandywine defense line gave Smyrna a little bit of trouble, but Lloyd said the Eagles changed their game plan a little and played better. He said the team was effective in throwing the ball and it didn't hurt that McFolling had a great game. McFolling not only had three touchdowns but two interceptions playing on defense.
"A lot of people really just came together," Lloyd said. "We obviously have some things we need to work on but I'm very, very proud that we came together. We got it done. It doesn't matter who your opponent is, you've still got to perform and we did that."
And while there are plenty of good things to look at in the win, Lloyd said the team will get back to work on Monday.
The 1-1 Eagles are on the road next week with a game at Laurel Friday, Sept. 21.
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Why do we suffer? The problem of suffering seems to implicate God. The argument usually is framed this way: Because God allows horrific suffering, then God (if there is a God) is either not all-good, not all-powerful or not all-knowing. Job is a perfect foil to poor responses to this problem, the chief being that you suffer because you deserve it. This is what his friends argue, but Job will have none of it. We know that Job is righteous and does not deserve to suffer as he does. He bemoans the human condition: "Is not man's life on earth a drudgery? Are not his days those of a hireling?"
We also know that the chaos in Job's life is caused by a kind of bet between Satan and God. While the biblical figure of Satan has yet to take on the identity of Lucifer, Satan here is no benevolent spirit. Ha-Satan (Hebrew for "the adversary") is responsible for making Job's life a living hell.
By Jesus' day, Satan had emerged as the Prince of Darkness, with his minions harassing humans on every level, physically, mentally and spiritually. Given the breadth of Satan's attack, the lines that we would draw between spiritual evil and physical sickness were far more blurred. So when the Gospel reading today says that Jesus "cured many who were sick…and drove out many demons," we should see these healings as neither completely identical in kind nor entirely different. The Lord conquers evil on every level, and the physical, moral and spiritual interpenetrate one another.
The reading begins with Jesus entering the family house of Peter and Andrew, where "Simon's mother-in-law was sick with a fever." Jesus "grasped her hand and helped her up. Then the fever left her and she waited on them." These lines have led to more than a few complaints: Just recovered and she has to wait on them!
We should go a step deeper here. Mark tells us that Jesus healed her and then raised her (?geiren), Mark's term for Jesus' own resurrection (16:6). And when Mark tells us that she served them (di?konei), he uses the word with which Jesus describes his own mission and indicates what he expects of true discipleship: "Whoever wishes to be first among you will be the slave of all, for the Son of Man did not come to be served but to serve" (10:44-45). Peter's mother-in-law's experience of the Lord reflects how the kingdom works, from healing to discipleship.
You may have noticed that I have so far avoided the problem of suffering. There are some partial answers. We know that everything not-God is, by definition, vulnerable (even angels, as Satan proves). We also know that without the possibility of moral evil no one would have free will of any significance. Additionally, most of us have experienced suffering as an important context in which to grow morally and spiritually. Any compassion that I have is directly founded on my own suffering. And surely responding to suffering binds us to one another powerfully. At the end of the day, nothing witnesses to love or purifies it better than suffering for love.
Of course, some suffering is so grotesque that these answers to the problem of suffering simply fall flat. This observation, in fact, parallels the ending of the story of Job. God tells Job's friends that they were dead wrong about Job. But God also tells Job that there are no good (that is, complete) human answers to the problem. The mystery of suffering remains an enigma.
Perhaps what the Scriptures reveal to us is that while suffering cannot be solved, it can be skillfully addressed. Blaming the victim ("You deserved it") or trivializing suffering ("Just praise God") only makes things worse. Both are foolish and alienating. Real engagement takes suffering seriously. Real engagement leans into the pain with compassion and love. Real engagement walks with the other with gentle faith in our Lord, who came to heal and serve and, indeed, to enter human suffering deeply and personally.


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White Sox postscript
By Mark Gonzales
The White Sox won't hold their traditional organizational meetings.
Those were essentially held two weeks ago in Chicago as general manager Ken Williams met with his baseball staff, manager Ozzie Guillen and his coaches, top scouts Dave Yoakim and Bill Scherrer and scouting director Doug Laumann.
It was an interesting comment that Guillen made over the weekend about learning more about your team when it struggles because Scherrer watched all three Sox games in Minneapolis when the Sox needed a ninth-inning rally to avoid a three-game sweep.
The Sox's weaknesses were evident and well-documented before that Twins series Aug. 31-Sept. 2. Williams spoke of the need for improvement in on-base percentage, extra-base hits and adjusting better to certain hitting situations in his end-of-the-year session with reporters two weeks ago.
There are were some messages sent in the final weekend in Detroit. Guillen expressed his wishes for closer Bobby Jenks to return and hoped that he would report to spring training in better shape.
The market for closers is fluid, but Trevor Hoffman pulled himself off the market by agreeing to a one-year, $8 million contract with Milwaukee. One veteran major league scout believed that the Sox should keep Jenks because of the lack of quality closers.
But it wouldn't hurt for Williams to listen to offers as he did last winter. Also, the Sox could be satisfied if Jenks makes progress this winter once he recovers from a painful calf strain. Jenks is arbitration eligible, and the Sox merely have to tender Jenks a contract by Dec. 12 to retain him. Both sides are required to exchange salary figures in mid-January.
Left fielder Carlos Quentin will undergo surgery Tuesday to remove a pin from his surgically repaired right wrist, but he could benefit from a slight weight loss to take stress off his leg - particularly his left foot.
Guillen also expressed his preference for Jayson Nix and Brent Lillibridge to cut down their strikeouts, although Nix provided power while adjusting well to a utility role for the first time.
Second baseman Chris Getz is recovering from a sports hernia that should sideline him until mid-November. Once he returns, the Sox will want him to work on his footwork, particularly when turning double plays. Getz also provided stability at the bottom of the order, but he didn't have one bunt hit during the regular season after handling the bat well in spring training.
The catching position could develop into an interesting situation throughout mid-summer. Guillen said he would like to see Tyler Flowers make more contact, but Flowers didn't receive extensive playing time until the Sox were mathematically eliminated from the American League Central with nine games left.
Flowers showed tremendous improvement at the Double and Triple-A levels, which was a testament to his work and the instruction by minor league catching instructor John Orton. If Flowers makes the major league roster as a backup, his playing time will be an important issue because A.J. Pierzynski has been very durable but enters the final year of his contract.
Pierzynski also can earn full no-trade rights in mid-June of 2010 by virtue of having at least 10 years of major league service, including the past five years with one team.
The Sox may need another left-handed reliever to compete with Randy Williams even if Matt Thornton doesn't take over for Jenks as the closer. There are no other left-handed relief candidates at the upper minor league levels.
Finally, Williams thoroughly scouts the Arizona Fall League and has finalized deals involving Gavin Floyd, Jeff Marquez and Flowers based on his evaluations of their AFL performances. It could be another important evaluation period for outfielder Jordan Danks and third baseman Dayan Viciedo, whom each probably need to start the 2010 season at Triple-A Charlotte.


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2013 (Freshman): IWLCA All-Northeast Region ... Synapse Sports All-Rookie Team ... First Team All-Ivy League ... Only freshman to make first team All-Ivy in 2013 ... First Yale freshman to earn first team All-Ivy honors since Lauren Taylor '08 in 2005 ... Led team in goals with 39 (fifth in Ivy League) ... Second on team in points with 42 ... Set Yale individual single-season record in draw controls (76, six shy of the Ivy League record) ... Ranked sixth in country in draw controls per game as of May 17 ... 15 draw controls in 16-8 win at Lehigh Mar. 31 broke Ivy League single-game record ... Had at least two draws in every game ... Had a league-best 36 draws in Ivy games -- including 12 in 13-12 win vs. Columbia Apr. 13 ... Tied for third on team with 16 ground balls ... Appeared in 13 games, starting 11 ... Had at least one point in all 13 games she played ... Ivy League Co-Offensive Player of the Week Apr. 1 after scoring seven goals in two games and setting the league single-game draw control record ... Season-high six goals Mar. 16 at Penn ... First career goal Mar. 2 vs. Dartmouth ... First career assist Mar. 12 in 15-9 win vs. Sacred Heart.
High School: Holds school record for most points with 277 (190 goals, 87 assists) even after missing half of sophomore year and all of junior year to injury … Holds school record for most points in a game with 17 (eight goals, nine assists) … Captained team as a junior and senior … Five-year varsity starter … Academic All-American, second team All-Long Island and Team MVP as a senior … Tied for most points on Long Island (118) in regular season as a senior … Led Suffolk County in goal scoring (76) in regular season as a senior … All-county as a freshman … Honorable mention all-county while in eighth grade … Also played tennis, captaining team as a junior and senior … Six-year varsity starter and five-time team MVP in tennis … All-New York State in tennis as a senior, sophomore and freshman … Suffolk County player of the year, singles champion and Scholar Athlete Scholarship recipient as a senior … Missed junior year of tennis due to injury … All-county in tennis in seventh and eighth grades … Finalist for Dellecave Award as top female athlete in Suffolk County.
Club teams: Played with Yale teammate Kelly Anne Sherlock on Long Island Yellow Jackets Blue team … Won National Draw tournament with club team, summer 2012 … Made Long Island first team for Schoolgirls tournament as a freshman.
Notes: National Honor Society … English Honor society … Math Honor Society … Spanish Honor Society … Participated in school's Athletes Helping Athletes program … Volunteer and coach for Smithtown youth lacrosse programs … Part of music program throughout high school and played the flute.
Why Yale? "Right when I stepped on campus I knew Yale was the place for me. Yale gives me the opportunity to study at one of the world's most prestigious universities along with the challenge of competing at the Division I level. The coaching staff and team were all so welcoming and I wanted to be a part of a program that is on the rise and ready to compete for an Ivy League Championship."


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Tom Clancy Dead - Best Selling Author Dies at 66
Best selling author Tom Clancy has passed away at the age of 66, New York Times writer Julie Bosman reported from her Twitter account earlier in the day.
"Tom Clancy's publisher confirms to the NYT that he died last night in a hospital in Baltimore." the New York Times writer tweeted out to her followers. No word on the cause of death.
The famed writer was known for numerous works, including the Jack Ryan series, as well as books which inspired movies such as The Hunt for Red October, Patriot Games, and Clear and Present Danger.
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That's the motto sprinkled across Christopher Daniel's menu and signage. The concept — good food served in a low-key setting — is a worthy one. But while the service is top-notch, the food portion of "fine" dining needs a boost.
The restaurant has been popular since its opening in 2005, though during our visit on a Wednesday evening the Timonium space was only about half full. Even with a big table of chatty women, the atmosphere was hushed, making the conservatively decorated space feel more formal than "come casual" suggests.
Five, the martini bar connected to Christopher Daniel, had a more vibrant crowd.
Taking our cue from the revelers next door, we ordered a round of drinks, finding that they did indeed amp up the energy level at our table.
A raspberry mojito was sweet, minty and perfect for spring. A classic Grey Goose martini was icy cold and well proportioned.
The Shiner's Delight was, true to its name, delightful. "Shiner" refers to moonshine, the much-maligned liquor that's enjoying a moment in the sun, thanks to reality TV and a few (legal) distillers determined to preserve American history. Paired with bubbly Prosecco, the cocktail was slightly tart and surprisingly sophisticated.
Salads were equally pleasing. An iceberg wedge of crunchy lettuce was sprinkled with bacon and tomatoes and dressed with creamy blue cheese. A Caesar salad was crisp and salty. Both were classic interpretations, fresh and well-executed.
But after salads, the meal began to falter.
In a shrimp-and-grits appetizer, the shrimp were plump and sauteed peppers and onions complemented the seafood. But smoked gouda grits — in the form of a crumbly "cake" — were dry.
Grilled lamb chops were dressed in barbecue sauce and scattered cashews. The nuts were a fun addition to the mix — their toasty flavor and crunch added vibrancy to the dish and balanced the sauce's sweetness. But they weren't enough to overcome a core problem: overcooking.
Unfortunately, overcooking and underseasoning plagued several entrees, as well.
Duck breast, served with peas and carrots, looked crispy and golden, but it was cooked too long. The vegetables were to be dressed in chive butter and the duck in honey lavender gastrique, but both the butter and sauce were so subtle we barely detected them.
Christopher Daniel's menu has a section devoted entirely to steaks and their accompaniments. We opted for a grilled rib-eye with sweet bourbon mushrooms and broccoli. Though the basic ingredients were fine, the entire plate suffered from a lack of salt.
And the steak, ordered medium rare, was closer to well done.
Pork chops were similarly overcooked and underseasoned, though we enjoyed their nutty pecan stuffing and apple chutney.
Rare ahi tuna, served with sliced avocado and a bright slaw of daikon radish, was a highlight among the entrees. Cucumber wasabi and sesame ginger sauces added jolts of flavor and heat.
The only thing puzzling about the tuna plate was a large fried wonton. We would have welcomed the crunch but couldn't figure out how to break the hard shell without making a scene.
Across the board, entrees sounded better than they tasted, leaving us feeling like the kitchen wasn't giving its all. The good news, though, was that our waitress did.
She found that golden spot between attentive and hovering and was friendly without being overly familiar. Dinner was paced correctly and she consistently appeared when we needed her.
When we ordered dessert, her face blossomed into a smile; we'd picked some of her favorites. As it turns out, dessert was one of the best parts of the evening.
White chocolate banana cream pie was sweet and airy, with a touch of fruity raspberry sauce offsetting the sugar.
Though the peanut butter cookie ice cream sandwich was more of a sundae than a sandwich, its elements — vanilla and chocolate ice cream, peanut butter cookies, chocolate sauce and creme anglaise — worked together beautifully.
We discovered one more glitch a few day after our dinner. On Wednesdays, all bottles under $100 on Christopher Daniel's impressive, California-heavy wine list are half-price. We drank a bottle of Burgess Syrah, a lovely, full-bodied red from Napa Valley. When we paid the bill, we forgot about the half-price wine promotion — and so did the restaurant.
It might have been a computer glitch or simple human error. But it's definitely a reminder to diligently check the bill before you pay.
Disappointing entrees and wine billing aside, dinner at Christopher Daniel is an enjoyable experience. The people are nice and the drinks are great. With a little more focus on execution in the kitchen, the food could be, too.
Christopher Daniel
Rating: two stars
Where: 106 West Padonia Road, Timonium
Contact: 410-308-1800; http://www.christopher-daniel.com
Open: Open Monday through Saturday for lunch and dinner and Sunday for brunch
Prices: Appetizers and salads $8-$17; lite fare $10-$19; entrees $23-37
Food: High-end American food, including a variety of steaks and steak toppings
Service: Professional, friendly and well-timed.
Best dishes: Barbecue shrimp-and-grits appetizer, wedge salad, ahi tuna with avocado and daikon radish salad
Parking: Parking lot in front of restaurant.
Children: Kids' menu including standards like pasta and chicken tenders.
Noise level: Fairly low.
Dress code: No dress code; most guests wear dressy casual attire.
[Key: Superlative: five stars; Excellent: four stars; Very Good: three stars; Good: two stars; Promising: one star]


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March 17. 2013 12:58AM
Ted Siefer's City Hall: School board to review 600-page report on McGorry
By TED SIEFER
New Hampshire Union Leader
About the only thing the public knows about the resignation of former Manchester High School West High Principal MaryEllen McGorry is that it's costing taxpayers a lot of money. We learned last week that district officials expect to spend $350,000 this school year on legal matters, blowing a $200,000 hole in the budget. A big chunk of this money - more than $100,000 - has gone to the firm that investigated and compiled a nearly 600-page report on McGorry.
Not even the school board had been privy to the fruits of all this labor - until now. The school board on Monday voted to have district officials make available to its members a summary of the findings of the investigation and one copy of that hefty report, with all names redacted.
James O'Shaughnessy, one of the district's attorneys, made the proposition in response to a request from Ward 9 school board member Art Beaudry.
Such a limited exposure, O'Shaughnessy wrote in a letter to the board, was necessary because releasing names "deteriorates the confidential nature of the report and, more importantly, discourages employee participation in investigations for fear of reprisal."
Board members would still be barred, under strict confidentiality rules, from sharing the information with the public.
"We paid enough money for this. We should see what's in it," said Beaudry, who is one of the more outspoken members of the board, to put it delicately.
Beaudry insisted he wasn't about to share any information outside of the school board. "The attorneys have already told us that if any information gets out, they'll file suit against that individual member for defamation. I'm sure not going to open myself up to litigation," he said.
Just how radioactive is the issue? The board on Monday voted by the narrowest of margins, 8-6, to have the redacted report produced.
"I personally won't be looking at the report," Ward 8 board member Erika Connors said.
Connors was joined by board members Ted Rokas, Roy Shoults, Donna Soucy, Kathy Staub and Dave Gelinas in voting no.
Joining Beaudry in voting yes were board members John Avard, Sarah Ambrogi, Jason Cooper, Roger Beauchamp, Dave Wihby, Debra Gagnon Langton and Christopher Stewart.
Mayor Ted Gatsas abstained.
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Should the mayor get a raise? Should school board members and aldermen really be getting city-provided health and dental insurance? Thanks to the Charter Commission, these are no longer academic questions.
Last week, the commission voted to recommended that the mayor's pay be raised a whopping 59 percent, from $68,000, where it's stood since 1997, to $108,000. And on Wednesday, the panel is expected to consider eliminating health benefits for the members of the school and aldermanic boards, instead bumping their yearly $4,000 stipend to between $10,000 and $15,000. (While they're at it, the commissioners are also talking about ending the pay disparity between the boards. The school board members make $2,000.)
So how do the aldermen feel about these questions? After all, they're the ones authorized under the current charter to raise the mayor's salary.
"I don't feel for one second Teddy Gatsas needs a raise. As far as whether he deserves one, that's a different issue," said at-large Alderman Joe Kelly Levasseur, with characteristic tact.
Levasseur was alluding to the fact that the mayor is widely reputed to be a very wealthy man.
Levasseur allowed that if it were another mayor, say a young family man, he might think differently (he gave the example of Alderman and would-be mayor Patrick Arnold).
Levasseur said he had considered proposing a motion at the coming meeting Tuesday to raise the mayor's salary - by one dollar. "I don't mind saying it, I'm a cheap S.O.B. I don't like spending money," he said.
Ward 1 Alderman Joyce Craig thinks the Charter Commission is right to raise the mayor's salary - and she said it shouldn't matter who holds the office. "I think in looking at the salaries in comparable towns, our mayor should probably have a raise," she said.
However, Levasseur has some unlikely company in Ward 6 Alderman Garth Corriveau.
"I was dismayed that the commission's first significant vote was on such a minor issue. I have never once heard of any potential candidate for mayor refusing to run due to the salary," he said.
And one could say Corriveau is putting his money where his mouth is. The young, newly engaged Democrat is seriously considering a run for mayor. (The similarly situated Arnold didn't return a couple of messages for his take on the issue.)
What about the health benefits for the school board and aldermen? Corriveau said this might be a more worthy topic for the commission to concern itself with.
"Whether they should be offered benefits, as opposed to a higher salary, I suppose that would be an interesting debate. I have no idea if that would help or hurt the quality of candidates," he said.
Ward 4 Alderman Jim Roy has no doubts the Charter Commission is exactly the forum for dealing with both the mayor's salary - which he described as "woefully low" - and the health benefits for school board and aldermen. The health benefits have been a third-rail issue at City Hall for some time now.
It's a fair question: Why should part-time elected officials enjoy benefits typically only extended to full-time employees and that only a portion of the officials take advantage of? On each of the boards, 10 of the 14 members are currently taking the city's health or dental coverage or both.
Roy recalled the last time he broached the subject with his colleagues. "They were ready to lynch me in the back room," he said.
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A big part of what I do as a SQL Server consultant is help organizations with their T-SQL code.
Sometimes that occurs when troubleshooting or performance tuning leads me to a poorly performing query. Other times that's part of a more formalized code-review of existing code where I'm looking for the following problems or concerns:
- Potential for SQL Injection
- Improper Error Handling
- Improper use of Transactions
- Improper use of input/output return parameters
- Data-Type coercion
- Non-SARGable code
- Anything else that makes code hard to manage, maintain, and extend (i.e. BAD coding practices)
Ultimately, whenever I review code, I tend to analyze against the following priorities – listed in descending order of importance:
- Security
- Performance
- Maintenance / Extensibility
Stated differently, code is almost always a trade-off of different concerns. One easy way to think of this is in terms of actual cost – or the amount of money it takes to both produce and maintain code. For example, 'cheap' developers without the necessary skill and background necessary to properly optimize code can easily create code that costs less in terms of capital expenditures when ramping up a new project or business venture.
Related: Working with Variables in T-SQL
But, the cost of maintaining that 'cheaper' code over time can be substantial – especially if that code is bug-ridden or results in performance overhead that unnecessarily bloats hardware (and potentially licensing) requirements. Similarly, if this same 'chea'p' code is poorly written against prevailing standards or 'obtuse' (i.e., to understand), that can mean that it's much more expensive to modify and extend as needed – incurring ongoing, additional, cost in the form of technical debt.
On the other hand, developers that over-build and over-optimize fall prey to Donald Knuth's statement that "premature optimization is the root of all evil" and can delay the adoption of new business initiatives to such a degree (or bloat capital expenditures such) that projects don't ship on time or to the point where businesses can also lose significant money in terms of missed opportunity costs as well.
Coding is always about Trade-Offs
All of that said, while performance is a huge concern for most end-users, it makes sense that a given query or sproc might end up being just a BIT harder to maintain or extend because the developers (and/or DBAs) who wrote it decided to take a bit of a non-standard approach to coding the query at hand in order to make it 100x or even 1000x faster than it would have been if 'ease of understanding' and 'ease of maintenance' were the sole/only considerations. Likewise, as important as it might be to let overall code complexity take a bit of a 'hit' to ensure better performance in some cases, no performance benefit would ever be worth a security risk. Consequently, while there are trade-offs in ways that priorities can impact the overall quality of code, some things (security) should always be sacred.
So, while T-SQL code will always be complex (not just in terms of the technical complexity involved in correctly executing queries against non-trivial relational database management systems where a single screw-up can be fatal, but also in the sense that costs that might ruin one company are totally acceptable to another), I wanted to focus on just a single facet of ways to address complexity by addressing some basic guidelines and best-practices for using Parameters within SQL Server Stored Procedures.
Basic Guidelines and Best Practices for Parameters within Stored Procedures / Functions
So, without further ado, here's a quick list (in no particular order) of suggestions and practices I've been promising myself forever that I would write based upon some of the things I've seen through the years when looking at "other people's code":
Start with Good/Specific Parameter and Variable names
Use good descriptive names for your parameters. @p1, @goat, and @x aren't good names (and yes, I've seen all of these). Likewise, in some cases, @input or @value might be ambiguous enough in some procedures/functions that they're problematic too. In other words, one great way to know if you're naming your variables correctly (and the same thing goes with object-names) is that you don't require any documentation to tell other developers or the DBA what the purpose of a parameter or variable is. Which is why @UserName is always going to be a better input parameter name than @input – or why @TemporaryTotal is always going to be a better variable name than @x.
Avoid Hungarian Notation
For all intents and purposes, my dislike of Hungarian notation is LARGELY personal – or stylistic. (I just hate it as a way to name objects or parameters/variables – as it hearkens back to a day before strong-typing was really an option.) That said, given that I just argued for using specific parameter names, it MIGHT be possible that something like @intTotalResultCount would be a good parameter name – as it's more specific than @TotalResultCount. Only, I disagree – what I find is that useless crap (like usp, sp, tbl, prc, vw, int, vc, nvc, etc) just adds 'noise' to variable/parameter/object names and makes them MUCH less readable. That, and it also requires more TYPING – meaning that the chances of a typo are a tiny bit higher – or would be if it weren't for IntelliSense. Only, IntelliSense also effectively renders Hungarian notation moot – as it always tells you the type of your parameter/variable anyhow. So, just don't go there.
Declare Variables Late
For .NET and other application developers, there's a tendency (based in best practices) to declare variables or new instances of objects as late as possible – to minimize the amount of time those objects are on the stack. With T-SQL that concern is actually moot – as all variables are scoped to the current batch – and take up the same amount of resources whether declared late or early. However, another big benefit of declaring variables late is that you keep them better contextualized within your code. Stated differently, one thing that I see very commonly in stored procedures is that developers will commonly declare ALL of their variables at the top of the stored procedure. I'm arguing that a better practice is to declare your variables BEFORE you use them – one by one – instead of 'in bulk' at the top of your sproc. Why? Because if you declare a bunch of variables at the top of a long/complex sproc, when it comes time to debug, you've got to pour over every line of code to make sure that @CriticalValue hasn't been modified or tweaked through some different branch of code that you MIGHT not be thinking about when troubleshooting or debugging a stubborn logic problem. Whereas, on the other hand, if you only declare variables right before their used, you're making problematic debugging much easier on yourself. (You will want/need to watch out for declarations within loops/cursors though – just to make sure you're not accidentally re-setting these values back to their base/initial setting if that's NOT what you want/intend to do.)
Don't Overload Your Variables or Parameters
Recycling cans and bottles, printing less, and consuming less are all great and admirable traits. But when it comes to reduce, reuse, recycle – just don't do it when it comes to parameters and variables. Doing so is one of the EASIEST ways to introduce expensive bugs and logic bombs into your code. So, don't go there. Instead, live on the edge: declare a parameter for every purpose, and have a purpose for every parameter – but always keep that at a nice, clean, one-to-one ratio and don't double-dip.
Don't be Lazy with Data Types (Avoid Coercion)
While this tip is primarily intended for .NET developers and many ORMs, it also applies to straight T-SQL developers as well. Simply stated, don't take the easy path when it comes to declaring variable types and sizes – always make sure that you're as explicit as possible. Otherwise, if you take the easy approach, you may run into scenarios where SQL Server is NOT able to take advantage of perfectly viable indexes – causing ugly performance problems.
As an example, imagine a document management system, where there are 12 million rows of uploaded documents corresponding to about 8 million different accidents (i.e. assume that these are claims forms for car accidents) and that each 'accident' has an AccidentCode that's a char(10). If you've got a stored procedure that takes an @AccidentCode nvarchar(30) parameter in as the input parameter that you want to be searching against, you'll find that operations take significantly longer (and consume VASTLY more resources) than if @AccidentCode were a char(10) instead.
So, pay very careful attention to this – as it's a well known SQL Server performance gotcha, and something that is easy enough to stumble into – especially when many ORMs or data-access-libraries for .NET apps commonly make it easy for developers to do something like:
Because, in that case – since the SqlDbType and Size parameters aren't defined, many .NET 'apps' or libraries will either pass in @AccidentCode as either an nvarchar(30) or as an nvarchar() where the length is accident.Code.Length() – neither of which are what you want.
Don't Reinvent the Wheel For Basic SQL Operations
One common, regular, problem that I see when auditing T-SQL code is a failure by many developers to grasp that while T-SQL has way fewer intrinsic features than say C#, it still covers all the basics. This is especially true when evaluating input parameters for whether or not they might be NULL. So, for example, I commonly see code like this way more than I should:
For starters, when it comes to working with Stored Procedure Parameters, many developers don't realize that T-SQL lets you specify a default value for parameters when creating a stored procedure – such that your parameters will then be automatically set to a default value when no value has been specified:
Likewise, ISNULL is a great way to handle this same functionality when it comes to working with parameters or other values, and NULLIF is also a great way to check for NON-NULL strings (i.e. '') in the form of:
So, stated differently, T-SQL may not have all the features and functions of other, more modern languages, but it still has all the bases covered to the point that there's no need to re-invent the wheel for basic parameter evaluation and initialization concerns.
Related: T-SQL for Starters
Further Reading
If you're looking for more guidance on basic coding practices and/or on best practices for working with T-SQL code, I can't recommend the Code Complete and The Guru's Guide to SQL Server Stored Procedures, Functions, XML, and HTML enough. Yes, they're both GINORMOUS books (compared to this pithy blog post). But if you're serious about coding foundations, you can't go wrong with Code Complete and Ken Henderson's book provides some great insights into how to apply industry-standard best practices for coding paradigms (such as patterns and idioms) to T-SQL coding.


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Today's Quick Take: ok
It's not a word. It's not even a correct abbreviation. If you're writing it in dialog or in narrative, spell it out.
"Mom, I'm going to pet this little black animal with a white stripe, okay?"
I wondered whether it would be okay to go to the job interview with blue hair.
If you want to use the abbreviation, that's fine (but not in formal writing)—just make sure you capitalize both letters.
Jessie looked across the lecture hall, where Bob signaled an OK with his fingers.
If you're using the abbreviation, both letters are always capitalized. Any other way of writing it is just not Ok. Or ok. Okay?
The idea for today's class came to me as I was reading through the Beginner and Intermediate entries of the Writing Challenge this week. The topic, you'll remember, was 'eek!', and I was amazed at the number of entrants who wrote stories featuring mice. Certainly some entries took on creative POVs, and some were written very cleverly…but after a while, I started to think oh no, another mousie...
Just to hammer the point home (and because I'm a statistics nerd), I did a survey of all four challenge levels. In Beginners, 30% of the stories featured mice or rats. Intermediate—27%, Advanced—33%, Masters—17%, or 28% of the total stories for the week. And although I didn't compile statistics for these, there were dozens of stories featuring snakes, bugs, and other wee beasties.
Granted—'eek!' was a week in which it was particularly difficult to write 'out of the box'. Nevertheless, I think that sort of creative thinking is vital for writers, not just of the Writing Challenge, but in the real world of writing, for the following reasons:
1. Many writing contests require writing to a prompt. I just looked online for about three minutes and found the following prompts for recent writing contests: family stories, shipwrecks, mother's day, career transition, beauty, if I ruled the world, apartments and neighbors. If you're going to be submitting your work to writing contests, it has to stand out; some of these contests have thousands of entrants.
2. Every genre of writing has its own list of expectations: from devotionals to poetry, from romance to fantasy, readers and publishers have particular expectations. If you read exclusively in a certain genre—say, mystery—you know that formulas have to be followed: the crime, the collection of clues, the red herrings, the multiple motives/suspects, the solving of the crime, the final twist. SO—since there are expectations to be followed, you must also find a way to make your writing different, memorable, unique.
3. Even if you have smaller goals—just writing for the challenge, maybe hitting the Top 40—writing creatively is one important step for getting there. Again, I'm just using 'eek!' as an example (this could be written about any number of challenge topics), but imagine a poor judge, reading her umpteenth story about a mouse. And then she clicks to the next entry, and it's about an adopted 3-year-old from Korea, who can't communicate with her new family until an 'eek' about a toy being dropped in her cup of milk provides their first common language. Do you think that will stick out in the judge's mind?
How do you step out of the box, then? Here are a few suggestions:
1. Write the topic word on the top of a piece of paper
2. Start to brainstorm—everything you can think of that's related to the topic word. Let's say the word is HORN. You might write trumpet, trombone, tuba, Little Boy blue, cows, the car horn, Abraham catches the ram by the horn, walls of Jericho, rhinoceros, to lock horns with, take the bull by the horns. Think of song titles, movie titles, book titles, biblical references, popular sayings. See if you can come up with at least 10 items—even more, if possible—in about five minutes.
3. Look at your list and ask yourself: are there things on this list that will occur to other people?
4. Crumple up the list and throw it away. Because if you thought of all those things in about five minutes, it's a sure thing that dozens of other writers thought of them, too. Seriously. Throw the whole list away. Don't look at it again.
5. Start over, with the determination that you're going to avoid every common reference to 'horn'. Your second list should contain things that are more obscure: the horn of Africa, alpenhorns, on the horns of a dilemma, those squeaky tricycle horns, famous statue of Moses with horns, the gross spit valve of the kid next to me in band in high school, those creme horns at the bakery. At this point, you can even do some googling, too.
6. If you're still stuck, try a randomization exercise that has sometimes worked for me—grab the book or magazine next to you and open to a random page. Point to a random line. Use one of the words on that line in conjunction with the topic word, and build a story around it. (I just grabbed the book on my end table, a guidebook to Washington, D.C. The sentence had the words restaurant, bar, seating, indoor, water, overheated. I could write about a blind date in a restaurant totally decorated with animal horns, which absolutely creeps out the woman. No, that's clichéd—it creeps out the man. She thinks it's awesome, and orders the Safari special, grubs and crocodile eggs…)
HOMEWORK: I'm going to give you a topic word. Without looking at the other responses, make a list of 5-10 things that immediately come to mind (and thus should not be the basis of a challenge entry). THEN, come up with 1 out-of-the-box approach to the topic. And just because it's out-of-the-box, that doesn't mean it has to be insanely weird. Just not something that would be likely to be thought of by others.
THEN—I encourage you to look at the other responses on the thread, to see if your list corresponds with theirs, and also to see if your out-of-the-box idea shows up on anyone else's list.
Please feel free to comment or ask questions! And don't apologize if you were one of those mouse writers; it's really not necessary. I was feeling testy last week, and I wasn't a judge—and you were in good company!
I'd love to hear from anyone in Advanced or Masters who has their own process for coming up with out-of-the-box entries. C'mon, you creative thinkers—how do you come up with those wonderful ideas?


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My DS is 11 months old. He has starting biting during nursing sessions... sometimes right at the beginning of the session itself. Sometimes after a few minutes.
He is my third child and I have nursed my other two for 18 months each. However, they never bit and I am at a loss on how to deal with this issue. So far, I'm doing two things - waiting till he is hungry to feed (previously I used to just feed him every 2-3 hrs based on my convenience/his need).
So now I am going 4 hours between feedings just to make sure he is hungry and won't bite. This has worked to the extent where he nurses for a few minutes before he bites. At this point, I change sides and then when he bites again (after a few minutes), I stop the session.
I am worried that he is not drinking enough because not only are the sessions shorter now, they are fewer a day too. How is this going to affect my supply and his weight gain?
He seems happy as usual and also takes solid food 3 times a day and drinks water.
Anything else I should be doing to make him stop biting?


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Intel Xeon processors--particularly the "Harpertown" variety--dominated the top 500 supercomputer list. But IBM's Power chips made a strong showing as usual at the very top of the list. AMD's Opteron processor landed in the No. 1 and No. 4 ranked systems.
The Top500 List--updated twice a year--of supercomputers was released Wednesday. Intel's Xeon, AMD's Opteron, and IBM's Power chips vied for most of the spots in the list.
The most dominant chip was the Intel Xeon E54xx series "Harpertown" processor. Appearing in 116 systems for 23.2 percent of the total. The largest for any single processor model.
The Xeon 53xx series "Clovertown" processor was next, appearing in 92 systems for 18.4 percent of the total. Following Clovertown was the Xeon 51xx series "Woodcrest" processor with 18.2 percent of the total.
Harpertown and Clovertown are quad-core processors, Woodcrest is dual-core.
In the No. 4 slot was the AMD Opteron dual-core chip (8.4 percent), followed by the X54xx series of Intel Harpertown processors (7.8 percent), then by the PowerPC 440 (4.22 percent).
(Note: Combining the Intel Harpertown E54xx series and X54xx series boosts the total for this chip model to 31 percent.)
The IBM Power processors passed the AMD Opteron family and "are now (again) the second most common processor family with 68 systems (13.6 percent), up from 61 systems (12.2 percent) six months ago," Top500.org said.
AMD's strongest showing was in the top five supercomputers. Opteron processors played a major role in the No. 1 IBM Roadrunner system, which connects 6,562 dual-core AMD Opteron chips as well as 12,240 IBM Cell chips (on IBM Model QS22 blade servers).
See: IBM's Roadrunner breaks petaflop barrier, tops supercomputer list.
The No. 4 Sun Microsystems' SunBlade system uses over 62,000 cores running inside AMD Opteron quad-core processors running at 2.0GHz.
The No. 2 and No. 3 systems were based on IBM PowerPC 450 chips.
Other Top500 processor highlights:
A total of 375 systems (75 percent) are now using Intel processors. This is up from six months ago (354 systems, 70.8 percent) and represents the largest share for Intel chips in the Top500 ever.
56 systems (11 percent) are using AMD Opteron processors, down from 78 systems (15.6 percent) six months ago.
283 systems are using quad-core processor based systems.


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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — More than 500 barrels of waste from Los Alamos National Laboratory were packed with the kitty litter linked to a radiation release at the government's underground nuclear waste dump, prompting the state Tuesday to order federal officials to move quickly to seal off the potentially dangerous containers.
Environment Secretary Ryan Flynn Tuesday gave the U.S. Department of Energy and the contractor that runs the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant in southeastern New Mexico until May 30 to detail plans for permanently sealing the rooms where more than 300 barrels of the potentially dangerous containers of waste are stored in ancient salt beds a half-mile underground.
In addition to 368 containers at the dump, environment officials say 57 more are still at Los Alamos and more than 100 are in storage in West Texas.
On Monday, the department ordered Los Alamos to detail by Wednesday its plans for securing the waste that is still above ground on its campus and at Waste Control Specialists in Andrews, Texas.
The orders come as officials have linked a Feb. 14 radiation release that contaminated 22 workers to waste that was packed with kitty litter to absorb moisture. Officials are investigating whether a switch by Los Alamos from inorganic to organic litter in January 2013 caused a chemical reaction and breach that has shuttered indefinitely the government's only permanent repository for waste from decades of nuclear bomb building.
Based on evidence to date, the orders from Flynn say the barrels pose a potentially "imminent and substantial" danger to public health and the environment.
Jeffrey Kendall, general counsel for the environment department, said both Los Alamos and Waste Isolation Pilot Plant officials have been working closely with the state. But he said the formal orders are needed "to make sure all proper procedures ... continue to be followed explicitly."
Department of Energy and Waste Isolation Pilot Plant officials did not immediately respond to emails seeking comment.
A Los Alamos official on Monday said the lab is committed to ensuring the barrels "pose no significant safety or health risk to the public, the environment and the workers."
The lab also has taken a series of precautionary measures, including packing the drums into special containers and moving them under a dome with a fire protection system. Officials at Waste Control Specialists said they have taken similar measures.
Most of the waste at the Waste Isolation Pilot Plant is in a room called Panel 6, which is full and was waiting to be sealed when the leak occurred. The others containers are in Panel 7, where waste was actively being stored and where the leak is believed to have occurred.
The order instructs officials to put together plans for quickly sealing off those rooms, although officials still have very limited access to the mine and continue to investigate the cause of the leak.
"They need to get us a plan on paper that is going to demonstrate that they are working quickly to figure out what the problem is and isolate those containers," Kendall said.
Kendall declined to speculate on whether the state would extend a June 30 deadline for Los Alamos to get the last of thousands of barrels of waste off its campus before wildfire season hits its peak.


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Fremont's new police chief is ready for a challengeBy JASON SCHREIBER
Union Leader Correspondent
July 30. 2013 10:07PM
FREMONT — Selectmen have appointed Derry Police Lt. Jon Twiss as the town's new police chief.
Selectmen chairman Greta St. Germain said the board's vote last week followed a conditional offer made about two weeks ago.
"It was contingent on his background check and everything was perfect," St. Germain said Tuesday.
While the appointment is effective Thursday, Twiss won't officially start work until Aug. 12.
As a part-time chief, Twiss will work 32 hours a week and earn $53,000 a year, St. Germain said.
After 28 years with the Derry Police Department, Twiss said he was looking for a new challenge and expects a smooth transition as he moves to a smaller police department.
"I think police work is police work no matter where you work. In my experience, I think at the smaller police departments the officers work more closely together," said Twiss, who lives in Derry and was promoted to a sergeant in Derry in 2000 and lieutenant in 2007.
The hiring comes nearly a year after selectmen fired longtime Fremont Police Chief Neal Janvrin.
Among other things, selectmen claimed that Janvrin was physically unstable, confrontational, and failed to observe established procedures and protocols.
Janvrin, who was chief for nearly 23 years, denied the allegations and claimed the firing was "discriminatory."
Janvrin later sued the town for wrongful termination. Both sides settled the case in June, but the terms of the agreement and any payment that may have been made to Janvrin have not been made public.
The New Hampshire Union Leader filed a request with selectmen Tuesday seeking a copy of the agreement under the state's right-to-know law.
Twiss is aware of the upheaval within the department after Janvrin was removed.
"I've been developing my people skills over the years and I think I'm up for the challenge. I don't think it'll be a problem," he said. "I'm a fair person and I expect professionalism out of anybody that works for me."
After Janvrin was fired, selectmen appointed Brentwood police Sgt. Denny Wood to the position of acting chief.
The town formed a police chief search committee in April to help selectmen find a new chief. The committee was composed of Fremont residents, including a retired law enforcement officer, as well as two area police chiefs.
The committee interviewed four qualified candidates for the position and presented finalist recommendations to selectmen, who conducted additional interviews. Wood and Twiss were both finalists for the position.