The farmers market located on the corner of 5th and Gault Ave N. across from the Coal & Iron building.
Farmers from all over DeKalb County set up and provide fresh produce, jams & jellies, local honey as well as a variety of baked goods.
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Cold Craft, Inc. stays informed of changes that affect our customers and this energy efficient change is a big one coming in 2014. California home owners looking to add solar to their home and hoping that the solar panels could be extended to the roof top for the best configuration may be disappointed.
So why is an HVAC company like Cold Craft, Inc. blogging about solar? Well first of all solar is energy efficient and secondly, well, geothermal and solar are ideal together.
Read on to check on the changes coming your way.
New solar panel restrictions will limit your roof space options. Effective January 1, 2014, all California cities and counties will mandate more stringent solar roof setback guidelines regarding the solar panel placement on your roof.
This will limit many homeowners from getting their optimal solar system. Many try to maximize or oversize their system to lower or zero out their electricity bills. This may no longer be an option as the new roof restrictions mandates a 36 inch setback from the roof ridge line, which is often the optimal location for solar panels.
Current guidelines have left the interpretation of the roof setbacks for solar open to local jurisdictions, often providing flexibility to accommodate changes.
Setback refers to the distance that solar panels need to be from the side and top edges of a roof. Setbacks are for firefighter roof access to the ridge line. The problem is, the new setback guidelines make ideal solar roof space unavailable – sometimes as much as half (or more) of the roof area.
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Hi, folks. Below you will find Part 2 of our video series involving building a Retrosheet database. If you haven't, make sure to check out Part 1 before digging into this.
*The video explains this, but you'll need to re-download the files from our GitHub page. I found a couple of small errors there. No harm done, just make sure you have the updated files before continuing. The video explains how to do this.
Enjoy! Let me know in the comments or on Twitter if you have any questions or problems.
We hoped you liked reading Building a Retrosheet Database for the 2016 Season, Part 2 by David G. Temple!
David G. Temple is the Managing Editor of TechGraphs and a contributor to FanGraphs, NotGraphs and The Hardball Times. He hosts the award-eligible podcast Stealing Home. Dayn Perry once called him a "Bible Made of Lasers." Follow him on Twitter @davidgtemple.
Unless I missed something, I don't think you showed us how to set up SQLyog (you never actually opened it in the first video). I tried creating my own connection and naming it "retrosheet", but when I went to execute SQL script, I got an error message. Everything else has worked fine so far.
For those having issues when running the "retrosheet table schema.sql" script, there is a comma that needs to be added to lines 351 and 537(the two longest lines in the file). If you scroll to the end of each of those two lines, a comma needs to be added after the second to last "ENGINE = MyISAM". The end of those two lines should look like this: "ENGINE = MyISAM, PARTITION p66 VALUES IN (2015) ENGINE = MyISAM) */;". After making the modifications, it worked like a charm.


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Alexandr Pliuschin is Riding for Katusha
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Stage 6 of the 2010 Tour de France took the riders from Montargis to Gueugnon. Alexandr Pliuschin competed the ride in 05:37:45. He ranked #62 for the stage. The day's winner was Mark Cavendish. Including the Prologue and first 6 stages of Le Tour, Alexandr Pliuschin is now ranked #83 in the overall general classification. His current GC time is 04:42:19 and he has a total gap of 00:04:49 from the yellow jersey. Alexandr Pliuschin is riding for Katusha and is managed by Andreï Tchmil...Read Full Story
Alexandr Pliuschin Tour de France Stage 4 Results
Stage 4 of the 2010 Tour de France was a 94 mile ride through France that ended in Reims. Alexandr Pliuschin competed the ride in 03:34:55. He ranked #118 for the stage. The day's winner was Alessandro Petacchi. After Stage 4, Alexandr Pliuschin is now ranked #84 in the overall general classification. His current GC time is 18:33:44 and he has a total gap of 00:04:49 from the yellow jersey. Alexandr Pliuschin is competing for Katusha. Tomorrow the racers head out from Epernay and...Read Full Story
Alexandr Pliuschin Stage 3 Standings (Tour de France)
Alexandr Pliuschin competed Stage 3 of the 2010 Tour de France today in 04:53:36. He ranked #101 for the stage and had a gap of 00:03:58 from stage winner Thor Hushovd. After Stage 3, Alexandr Pliuschin is now ranked #84 in the overall general classification. His current GC time is 14:58:49 and he has a total gap of 00:04:49 from the yellow jersey. Alexandr Pliuschin is competing for Katusha. Tomorrow is the first stage that is entirely in France. Stage 4 starts in Cambrai and ends...Read Full Story
Alexandr Pliuschin is a pro cyclist who competes in the Tour de France.

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By Michelle Lynch Reynolds
OVER A RECENT WEEKEND, I WAS VISITING with my husband's family at a time when all of the young nieces and nephews were there, gathered together from the corners of California. Seven of them in all, ranging from nine months to nine years of age. As you might imagine, it was chaotic and, of course, filled with hilarity and joy.
At one point in the afternoon the eldest niece, Aria, was holding one of the younger girls and began playing a game.
It is a song and dance where your lap is a horse-drawn carriage, and the passenger is in for an increasingly bumpy ride. "…this is the way the ladies ride, trot-di-trot, trot-di-trot…" Much squirming and laughter ensues as the little one is bounced around.
This little game is one that I saw Aria's grandmother play with her when she was a baby and toddler, and that her dad was also delighted by it when he was a small child. I don't know how far back it goes, but I wouldn't be surprised if it could be traced to great-grandmothers and fathers several generations ago.
These small rituals passed down generation after generation—not taught, per se, but rather practiced—are all around us. As I watched Aria carrying forward this tradition without great consideration, I imagined the many lineages that each of us embody. The legacies we carry forward, sometimes intentionally but often unwittingly.
Legacies that are familial; legacies that are artistic.
How do we recognize, celebrate, recall, and carry forward the rituals created and sustained in a life of witnessing, practicing, and teaching dance?
This May, the San Francisco International Arts Festival responds to this question with a tribute performance honoring the vivacious Blanche Brown, whose encounter with formal dance training at the age of 35 sparked her ongoing dedication to dance that is connected to her spiritual practice. Turn the page to read Mary Ellen Hunt's feature about Brown's long and passionate career.
Anna Halprin (who turns 95 this July), epitomizes the question of "how to celebrate and honor," an artist whose legacy ripples out for what is now a plurality of generations. This spring and summer, Oakland-based choreographer Shinichi Iova-Koga and his ensemble, inkBoat are creating a new work that responds to this question and in doing so are making their own rituals for Anna. 95 of them. And counting… Writer and scholar Ann Murphy responds to the project with a "score" of her own, exploring the project and its inspiration.
As dance artists, we often integrate remembrance with innovation. We are historians at the same time we are pioneers. Sean Dorsey embarks on a choreographic listening tour to capture memories of the first wave of those lost in the AIDS epidemic. He discusses this piece, The Missing Generation with writer Claudia Bauer on page three.
What better way, really, to carry forward rituals and practices, than through the relationship between teacher and student? In this issue, we learn from educators Patricia Reedy and Deborah Karp, as well as Rafaella Falchi, a long-time leader in San Francisco's Carnaval festival and parade, about how they continue to engage as teacher and artist.
And, once again this May issue of In Dance features information about nearly a hundred workshops held over the summer in the San Francisco Bay Area. Some of the many opportunities to learn, celebrate, worship, reconstruct, and innovate.
Enjoy the experiences that incite you to ask questions, to simultaneously look back and move forward, creating and sustaining the rituals of your own artistic legacy.
Michelle Lynch Reynolds is Program Director at Dancers' Group, is part of the leadership group of San Francisco Bay Area Emerging Arts Professionals and is a member of Trio, a loosely London-based experimental performance collective.


This article is about the sports phrase. For the foodstuff, see Canned tomatoes.
In boxing, kickboxing or mixed martial arts, "tomato can" or simply "tomato" or "can" is an idiom for a fighter with poor or diminished skills (at least when compared with the opponent they are placed against) who may be considered an easy opponent to defeat, or a "guaranteed win." Fights with "tomato cans" can be arranged to inflate the win total of a professional fighter. Similarly, a fighter whose record consists of wins over easy opponents is referred to as a "can crusher". The phrase originates in the childhood pastime of kicking a can down the street—a boxer is advancing his career with minimal effort by defeating a "tomato can" and notching a win. "Tomato" refers to blood: "knock a tomato can over, and red stuff spills out."
A "tomato can" is usually a fighter with a poor record, whose skills are substandard or who lacks toughness or has a "glass chin." Sometimes a formerly successful boxer who is past his prime and who has seen his skills diminish is considered a "tomato can" if he can no longer compete at a high level. Such an individual is an attractive opponent if his name still carries prestige but his diminished skills make him an easy conquest. When referring to a distinguished fighter, opponents with passable careers who simply aren't at the same level can also be considered "tomato cans". Most fighters who are considered "tomato cans" are heavyweights, because at lower weight classes one must maintain a certain level of fitness in order to make weight, whereas a heavyweight who once fought at a trim 205 pounds could conceivably gain 150 pounds and still fight in the same division.
One characteristic which may account for the use of the "tomato can" metaphor for a bad boxer is the tendency to leak "tomato juice" (i.e., blood) when battered.
"Tomato cans" are similar to jobbers in professional wrestling in that they serve to enhance the stature of someone the promotion uses to draw a crowd.
Victory over a "tomato can" is not a certainty. Journeyman boxers generally regarded as "tomato cans" have been known to provide surprising challenges to champions and in several instances, cause shocking upsets against supposedly superior opponents.
On March 24, 1975, Muhammad Ali faced Chuck Wepner, a lightly regarded but popular boxer from New Jersey. A former nightclub bouncer, Wepner was nicknamed "The Bayonne Bleeder" and was considered a washed-up contender with a mediocre record. Don King selected Wepner as a "tomato can" to provide an easy victory for Ali after his famous win over George Foreman. In a surprising turn of events, Wepner scored a disputed knockdown in the ninth round, and survived 19 seconds short of the distance, before losing by TKO in the 15th round. Wepner's bout with Ali provided the inspiration for Sylvester Stallone's movie Rocky.
In a fight on February 11, 1990, Mike Tyson lost his championship to James "Buster" Douglas in Tokyo. The victory over Tyson, the previously undefeated "baddest man on the planet" and the most feared boxer in professional boxing at that time, at the hands of the 42–1 betting odds underdog Douglas, has been described as one of the most shocking upsets in modern sports history. Douglas was widely regarded as a "tomato can", lined up to provide an easy victory for Tyson at that time. Later, Douglas lost his first title defense against Evander Holyfield and was never able to successfully compete at such a high level again.
The biggest upset in mixed martial arts is considered by many, including UFC president Dana White and ESPN, to be Matt Serra's TKO victory over UFC Welterweight Champion Georges St. Pierre at UFC 69 on April 7, 2007, as an 11–1 underdog.
^ Mary PIlon. "Tomato Can Blues". New York Times. Retrieved 2015-10-29.
^ CHUCK WEPNER, New Jersey Boxing Hall of Fame, 1982-10-29, Retrieved on 2007-03-31.
^ Tomato Cans: MUHAMMAD ALI vs. CHUCK WEPNER, CNN / SI, Retrieved on 2007-03-31.
^ CHUCK WEPNER, THE REAL ROCKY, Planetrapture.com, Retrieved on 2007-03-31.
^ Kincade, Kevin., "The Moments": Mike Tyson vs Buster Douglas Archived November 30, 2010, at the Wayback Machine, Eastsideboxing.com, 2005-07-12, Retrieved on 2007-03-26.
^ Staff, Page 2's List for top upset in sports history, ESPN.com, 2001-05-23, Retrieved on 2007-03-26.
^ Kanew, Evan., Tomato Cans:JAMES (BUSTER) DOUGLAS vs. MIKE TYSON, Sports Illustrated, Retrieved on 2008-01-15.
^ "No. 1: Matt Serra-Georges St. Pierre (UFC 69) - Five Biggest Upsets". ESPN.com.
^ Damon Martin (December 7, 2013). "Dana White: Tate beating Rousey would be UFC's second biggest upset ever". FOX Sports.
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Weekend NBA Playoff Recap
In a recap of the weekend NBA playoffs:
Utah Jazz eliminated the Oklahoma City Thunder on Friday night behind the 38 points from Donovan Mitchell and the 13 rebounds from Rudy Gobert. The big question now that the Thunder's season is over is if Carmelo Anthony will stay with the team. Anthony was traded to the Thunder last September. He could potentially opt out of his contract worth $28 million, but many feel he'll stay with the team. He said, "I'm not sacrificing no bench role. That's out the question. … I think everybody knows that I've sacrificed kind of damn near everything — family, moving here by myself. Sacrificed my game for the sake of the team, and was willing to sacrifice any and everything in order for this situation to work out."
On Sunday, the Jazz played the first game of the West semi-finals against the Houston Rockets. With the Rockets' James Harden's 41 points, the game was never close and the Jazz are down 0-1.
The Boston Celtics beat the Milwaukee Bucks on Saturday night and will now match up against their historic rival, the Philadelphia 76ers in the first game of the Eastern Conference semi-finals on Monday night.
A Curry-less Golden State Warriors easily cruised through their first game of the West semi-finals against the New Orleans Pelicans. With Kevin Durant's 26 points and Draymond Green's triple-double, the game wasn't close. The most exciting part of the game was the courtside appearance of Beyonce and Jay-Z. Coach Steve Kerr said Steph Curry will be back for game 2 on Tuesday night.
LeBron James came through again with a huge game 7 and series win over the Indiana Pacers. LeBron kept the Cavaliers series alive with 45 points, 9 rebounds and 4 steals, all while suffering leg cramps.
For more NBA playoff news, click here.
Browns Select Mayfield, Giants Grab Barkley, Allen To Bills, Greek Freak Saves Bucks, Curry Questionable
After months of speculation, we can now rest easy knowing the first round picks in the NFL draft. The Cleveland Browns shocked many when they selected Heisman trophy winning quarterback from Oklahoma, Baker Mayfield. The New York Giants grabbed running back Saquon Barkley with pick #2. The New York Jets moved up three spots to take USC quarterback Sam Darnold. The Browns were up with the #4 pick and added Ohio State cornerback Denzel Ward. Rounding out the top 5, the Denver Broncos contributed to their defense by selecting defensive end, Bradley Chubb. For a full analysis of the first round picks, click here.
After QB Josh Allen spent the day before the draft apologizing for offensive tweets he made when he was in high school, his high draft prospects looked questionable. The Buffalo Bills, however, traded up with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers to grab Allen with the #7th spot.
With 31 points and 14 rebounds from the "Greek Freak" Giannis Antetokounmpo, the Milwaukee Bucks beat the Boston Celtics and forced a game seven. After Antetokounmpo couldn't get a table at BelAir Cantina earlier this week, the restaurant chain is offering free tacos today at any of their Wisconsin locations.
Steph Curry participated in his first full practice after sitting out from an ACL injury. If all goes well in practice, coach Steve Kerr said Curry could be back for game one of the Western Conference semifinals against the New Orleans Pelicans Saturday night.
LeBron's Buzzer Beater, Westbrook Rallies, Josh Allen's Racist Tweets
There's a reason LeBron is called the King! With the Cavs/Pacers game 5 tied a 95-95 Wednesday night, LeBron showed why he'll go down as one of the greatest players of all time. With three seconds left, he blocked Victor Oladipo's layup (some say it was goaltending), called time-out then grabbed the ball and shot a 3-pointer at the buzzer to win the game. After the game, LeBron said, "As a kid, you always have those 3, 2, 1 moments. When you're a kid and being able to have one of those moments, that's what it kind of felt like. It felt like I was a kid all over again, just playing basketball at my house. With makeshift hoops and my socks as a basketball and making the noise. So, that's what it felt like." If you didn't see the play, watch the highlight here.
In another exciting game 5, Russell Westbrook rallied in the 3rd quarter, scoring 20 of his 45 points and eliminating the Utah Jazz's 25 point lead. It didn't hurt that likely defensive player of the year the Jazz's Rudy Gobert (the "Stifle Tower") was benched for his 4th foul, allowing Westbrook and Paul George to do their thing.
The NFL draft is tonight, and all eyes are on which players get picked in the first round. Particularly of interest, after months of speculation is which player goes #1. The Cleveland Browns have the #1 pick, and former Wisconsin quarterback Josh Allen was considered a front-runner until racially offensive tweets surfaced from his days in high school. Allen has apologized for the tweets (many of which contain the "n" word) saying he was young and dumb. It will be interesting to see if this has any effect on Allen's draft status.
Pelicans, Warriors, 76ers Advance, Wade Praise To Sixers, Curry's Gone Hollywood
The New Orleans Pelicans, Golden State Warriors, and the Philadelphia 76ers have all advanced to round 2 of the NBA Playoffs.
After the Miami Heat's loss to the Sixers, 36-year old Dwayne Wade admitted he's thinking about his future and whether he's ready to retire. He also gave high praise to the Sixers and said, "You want to see nothing but good things for those guys. This is the future of the NBA. The NBA is in great hands with Ben (Simmons) and Joel (Embiid) and those kind of individuals." In addition to moving on to the 2nd round (their first playoff series win since 2002), the big hype of the night was welcoming rapper Meek Mill to the arena after his release from prison. Sixers minority owner, Michael Rubin, had been very vocal in trying to secure Meek's release.
Steph Curry had to sit out the first round of the playoffs due to injury, but he's planning to be back and in full form in round two against the New Orleans Pelicans. He's also been busy forming a production company called Unanimous Media. The company will work on TV projects, gaming and virtual reality with a nod to the Curry's interest in family, faith and sports. Curry stated, "I've been blessed to have this platform and I want to use it to affect the world positively. Partnering with Sony to share inspiring content with a global audience was a foregone conclusion."
Romney Taunts Westbrook, Rockets Record 50 Points, News Anchor Steals From Warriors, 49ers May Let Foster Go
The best part of Monday night's Utah Jazz 113-96 rout of Oklahoma City Thunder was seeing former Presidential candidate and current Senatorial candidate Mitt Romney taunting Russell Westbrook for his four first half fouls. The Thunder is now down 1-3 in the series.
James Harden and Chris Paul combined to help the Houston Rockets score a franchise playoff record 50 points in the 3rd quarter against the Minnesota Timberwolves to propel the Rockets to a 119-100 win. Houston is now up 3-1 in the series. The only other team to score more points in a quarter was in 1962 when the Los Angeles Lakers scored 51 points in a loss to the Detroit Pistons.
A news anchor who covers the Golden State Warriors, Mike Shumann, has been suspended for stealing a jacket from the director of Warriors' security. The incident occured at the AT&T center and was caught on video. Shumann, was a former receiver for the San Francisco 49ers.
With the NFL draft later this week, the 49ers may be looking to fill a spot at linebacker if Reuben Foster is found guilty of domestic abuse. Foster has been charged with three felonies from an incident in February where he's accused of rupturing the eardrum of his girlfriend. 49ers general manager, John Lynch, said, "We want to be abundantly clear that if Reuben did in fact hit this young lady, he will not be part of the team." The NFL has been under intense scrutiny over the last few years for how they've dealt with domestic abuse so stay tuned for what happens in this case.
West Technical For Exercise Bike, Antetokounmpo Waits For Tacos, Manaea's No-Hitter
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The Golden State Warriors lost a disappointing game 4 (now up 3-1) to the Indiana Pacers, but David West is getting all of the attention for getting off the bench and hopping on an exercise bike after taking a legal and natural testosterone booster for men to boost the results of the workout routine. The ref wasn't amused and gave him a technical foul which comes with a $2000 fine.
The Milwaukee Bucks beat the Boston Celtics on Saturday night thanks to 27 points and a thrilling tip-in at the end of the 4th quarter by Giannis Antetokounmpo "the Greek Freak" to give them the 104-102 advantage. After the game, social media lit up when a fan noticed Antetokounmpo waiting for more than 10 minutes for a table then leaving because no one was helping him. The restaurant, BelAir Cantina, apologized and announced they will give away a free taco (with the purchase of another item) at all their locations if the Bucks win the series Thursday night.
For more weekend NBA highlights, click here.
The Oakland Athletics Sean Manaea threw a no-hitter (the 12th in franchise history) in Saturday's win over the Boston Red Sox. Manaea didn't even realize he was on the verge of a no-hitter until the 8th inning when he looked up at the scoreboard. He told reporters, "Until the eighth, I thought it just like was a one-hitter. I looked up in the eighth and saw there were still zeros and was like, whoa, weird."
Embiid Is Back, Warriors And Pelicans Win Game 3, Yankees Invite 4th Grader To Lunch
Game 3 NBA Playoff updates:
Joel Embiid is back on the court after three weeks on the bench due to a fractured orbital bone. Wearing an intimidating mask for protection, he came back with a vengeance and scored 23 points for a 128-108 win over the Miami Heat, putting the 76ers up 2-1 in the series. Speaking of the now infamous mask, the Sixers spent quite a bit of time and money (and worked with the University of Pennsylvania) ensuring the mask could adequately protect Embiid.
The Golden State Warriors are one game away from a sweep of the San Antonio Spurs with their game 3 win on Thursday. It was a tough night for the Spurs as they were mourning the passing of Greg Popovich's wife Erin, who had suffered from a long-term illness.
The New Orleans Pelicans are also one win away from a sweep over the Portland Trailblazers. The Pelicans Nikola Mirotic scored a career playoff high of 30 points. He is the third Pelican to score at least 30 points in the first three games of the series, joining Anthony Davis who scored 35 points in game 1 and Jrue Holiday who scored 33 in game 2.
The New York Yankees are hoping to help end bullying. They posted a video in response to a video from a 10-year-old girl who recorded a video describing how she was bullied every day at school. A number of Yankee players then recorded a video showing their support of her courage and inviting her to come sit with them at their lunch table. According to Yankees Manager Aaron Boone, "All of (the) guys were really excited to be a part of that. To stand up for something like that was an easy call for us as an organization, for our players. Hopefully we can make a difference not only in this situation, but across the country. It's not OK."
LeBron Scores Early And Often, Mitchell Makes Statement, Rockets Win, Gronk Derby Bound
Wednesday night NBA playoff highlights:
LeBron James scored early and often to lead the Cavaliers to a game 2 win over the Indiana Pacers. LeBron finished with 46 points in a 100-97 victory to even the series 1-1.
Utah Jazz rookie Donovan Mitchell is making a statement. In his first two playoff games he's scored 55 points, the most points by a guard in the beginning two games of the postseason. Michael Jordan previously held the record in 1985 with 53 points in his initial two postseason games. Jazz have now tied the series against the Oklahoma City Thunder 1-1.
The Houston Rockets are making the postseason look easy as they cruised to a 102-82 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves. They lead the series 2-0.
New England Patriots tight end Rob Gronkowski bougth a stake in the Kentucky Derby horse named after him. The owners of the 3 year old thoroughbred "Gronkowski" are big Patriots fans and named their horse after one of their favorite players. Gronkowski plans to meet his namesake (currently a 30-1 odd favorite) sometime before the Derby on May 5th. Gronkowski said, "It will be a new experience. Hopefully it will be something I like. I like new hobbies."
Jaylen Brown, DeMar DeRozan, Jru Holiday Highlights, Ohtani's Blisters
In Tuesday night's playoff games, the Boston Celtics, New Orleans Pelicans, and Toronto Raptors were all victorious leading 2-0 in the first round. At 21 years old, the Celtics Jaylen Brown provided one of the highlights of the night by becoming the youngest player in Celtic franchise history to score 30 points in a playoff game. Toronto's DeMar DeRozan also made the highlights with a game-high 37 points, tieing a playoff career high. Rounding out career highs for the night, the Pelicans' Jru Holiday made a huge contribution with a playoff career high of 33 points.
The Los Angeles Angels' Shohei Ohtani has become the most exciting player in Major League Baseball. At 23 years old, the Japanese phenomenom has been wowing the crowds with his pitching and batting. Baseball fans eagerly await his next few games, as he could become the first player to hit three homers and win three games by the end of April. Unfortunately for Angels fans, Ohtani did not accomplish this feat Tuesday against the Red Sox. Ohtani was pulled after only two innings due to blisters on his hand.
Warriors Strong Game 2, Kevin Hart Motivates Dwayne Wade, Aaron Judge Breaks Record
In game two of the Golden State Warriors/San Antonio Spurs matchup, the Warriors were trailing the Spurs at halftime but came back strong in the 3rd quarter and didn't look back. Led by Kevin Durant's 32 points and Klay Thompson's 31 points (with eight 3's between them), the Warriors look solid even without star Steph Curry (out for the first round due to MCL injury). Warriors 116, Spurs 101.
Dwayne Wade and the Miami Heat snapped the Philadelphia 76ers 17 game win streak with a 2nd round playoff win 113-103. After the game, 36-year-old Wade credited actor and Philly native Kevin Hart (and his trash talking) for motivating him to step up his game. He said, "When you got people like Kevin Hart talking on the sidelines. When you got the crowd going through and saying all the things that they're saying. I heard a lot of things tonight, and it's all just used as motivation. To be able to hush a whole crowd, it's a great feeling."
The New York Yankees' Aaron Judge became the fastest player in Major League Baseball to reach 60 home runs (197 games). Judge broke Mark McGwire's previous record of fewest games needed to reach this milestone.


We are a good overnight stay, if travelling from Sani Pass or Afri-ski and Clarens. we are 18km form the caledonspoort bridge. From R300 per person including breakfast. We are a quite Guest House in the village where you can interact with villagers but still maintain your privacy and vacation. We have couple rooms, single rooms, family rooms and backpacker rooms for backpackers. We offer Hiking to individuals and groups at least 3 times a week, Campers are allowed with their own tents and get a free shower.
We really enjoyed our stay at Motlejoa however the packing space was an incovenience. The room was quiet small giving less movement. The staff was excellent very friendly and helpful,the service was excellent too.
"Always book well before hand and call the establishment to book a room"


I have tidied the 'fernery' but now it needs replanting, and I think there should be more ferns and fewer pink geraniums, which I think are Geranium Macrorrhizum 'Bevan's Variety'- perhaps I could find them a corner somewhere.
I need to identify my ferns and I think some may need repotting next spring. This fern is bursting out of its pot – I think it is Dryopteris Affinis – am I correct? And could I also have Dryopteris Affinis 'Cristata'?
And could I also have Dryopteris Affinis 'Cristata'?
A stiff, upright fern which is not evergreen – could this be Polystichum Setiferum ?
Aspleniums are hardy ferns and this is Asplenium Scolopendrium, but would like to try one of the 'frilly' varieties – Asplenium Scolopendrium 'Cristatum'.
Cyrtomium Fortunei has returned to London from Suffolk where it was swamped by Dryopteris Filix Mas.
Dryopteris Erythrosora (the Japanese Shield Fern) is tucked into a corner and needs a more prominent spot.
And finally, in another corner and somehow surviving the winter and the builders is this little plant…?


To her I wasn't billionaire Ian Keller, prodigal son and heir to one of the South's largest real estate empires. No, to her I was just a soldier. And she thinks that to me she was just a woman, but she couldn't be more wrong.
Now I'm back home and ready to face the sins of my past and reclaim my future, but none of my sacrifices will be worth it if she isn't by my side.
There's just one obstacle standing in my way. She thinks I've shared everything about myself in my letters, but I've been keeping a secret from her. A very big, very important secret.
And when this secret comes to light, both of our lives will change forever.


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Éperdument est un film français réalisé par Pierre Godeau et sorti en 2016. Il s'agit de l'adaptation du livre autobiographique de Florent Gonçalves, Défense d'aimer, sorti en 2012.

Synopsis
Jean mène une vie tout ce qu'il y a de plus correcte, avec une famille et un travail respectable, celui de directeur de la prison pour femmes de Versailles. Seulement, à partir du jour où il se penche sur le dossier d'Anna, incarcérée sous sa garde, tout change. Ils tombent éperdument amoureux, et vivent une histoire d'amour intense mais aussi impossible. Inspiré d'une histoire vraie (racontée par Florent Gonçalves dans son livre), ce film met en parallèle leur emprisonnement respectif : celui de Jean, psychologique, et celui d'Anna, plus matériel.

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Inspiration

Cette fiction s'appuie sur des éléments de la vie de Sorour Arbabzadeh et de celle de Florent Gonçalves en 2010. La jeune femme (née en 1988) était incarcérée à la prison pour femmes de Versailles lorsqu'elle a rencontré le directeur de cette prison, Florent Gonçalves. Elle était condamnée à 9 ans de prison pour les faits qui lui étaient reprochés dans l'affaire du gang des barbares (faits : janvier- ; verdict 2009, condamnation en appel 2010). Elle a été libérée en .

Musiques additionnelles

 L'Eau vive - Guy Béart - fredonnée en ouverture du film par Adèle Exarchopoulos
 River - Ibeyi
 Don't Cha - The Pussycat Dolls
 Ne partons pas fâchés – Raphael - reprise par Philippe Katerine
 Qui a le droit... - Patrick Bruel
 Rap Zoé - Kill Kill (deuxième musique au générique de fin)

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Film français sorti en 2016
Film dramatique français
Prison au cinéma
Adaptation d'une autobiographie au cinéma


Exactly one month from today, I will be making the voyage over to the East Coast for my new research position at Tufts University. My heart rate goes up every time I say it. What am I going to miss the most about California? Warm weather, asian food, friends&family (of course, not in that order)! I am hoping to get together with as many friends as I can before I make the big move. I invited my dear friend Lauren (the gal who introduced me to Pinterest long ago) over for dinner on Tuesday. She is an amazing cook, so the pressure was on.
For the entree, I made baked teriyaki chicken, one of my favorites. I'm talking juicy thighs with a delicious teriyaki sauce glazed on.
This sauce is spectacular and so easy. All you do is mix in all the ingredients and cook until it thickens.
Get in touch with your inner Picasso (or kindergartner self) and brush the sauce on top of the chicken.
The end result is juicy chicken thighs, covered in a delicious teriyaki sauce.
Rinse and pat dry the chicken thighs, then lay them flat on a baking sheet lined with foil.
In a small sauce pan, whisk together the water and cornstarch, then mix in the rest of the seasonings.
Over medium heat, bring the sauce to a boil and allow it to cook for 3-4 minutes, until it thickens.
Take it off the heat and set it aside.
With a pastry brush, brush the sauce over the chicken thighs.
Bake it in the oven for 50-55 minutes, brushing the chicken every 10 minutes (set your timer!). Flip halfway through to brown the other side. Plate, and serve warm.
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Congratulations on your new job! I'm sure it must be exciting and scary to move across the country! This teriyaki looks amazing! Such beautiful pictures, and I'm sure it tastes delicious!
Thank you so much Gayle!! I am definitely very excited and a whole lot of nervous (: The chicken is delicious! I am eating the leftovers as we speak!
Thanks so much Danielle! I hope you both enjoy the recipe!
Wow, this chicken looks amazing! I know everyone here would love these.


I have been waiting for Sniper Elite 4 on PC for ages - it's the only way to play this.
The first one was a bit meh, but they have been improving ever since, this is brilliant and can be downloaded from Steam.
Sniper Elite 4 is about being a sniper, obvious. But it's where it is all being done that makes the difference and how well the product plays.
Italy is the location this time, and the game plays really well. The AI is a little sharper this time round, but really the best improvement is the crouch sprint sort of thing.
The normal movement in crouch seems slower than it was before giving Nazi enemies ample time to turn around and catch you at it.
And of course, let's not forget the humungous maps each chapter has - they are big, and that could put some off but for me, they can't get big enough.
Auto saves happen too which saves you the trouble - you can still save yourself. It's a nightmare when it decides to save just as an armoured car appears and spots you and you can just hide behind a tree.
The X-ray kill cam is still there and is a little more graphic but still gets a 16 rating in the UK.
You need to be patients playing this - charging in all guns blazing will only work if you are lucky. I am typing this now to let everything calm down again across the Sniper Elite 4 forest I am in.
There are still what appear to be glitches - my man had trouble getting over a rock and sleeping bag while in crouch.
The explosions are good, the maps are brilliant and the game play top notch. I am on my second play through already - lots and lots of paths, many ways to finish Sniper Elite 4.
The jobs are pretty much what you'd expect - blow stuff up, carry out assassinations, get documents, and so on.
You will have to contend with rifle ranging this time, and even wind, but you will get used to all that very fast - it doesn't get in the way.
I am not going to go on to details - that will ruin it, but I will give you your orders... buy it now and have a great time.


Carolien Scholtes (NL, 1958) studied painting and scenography at the Gerrit Rietveld Academie and the Rijksacademie in the Netherlands. Until 2008 she worked as a scenographer, filmmaker and promoter of multi-disciplinary projects. Scholtes turned photographer in 2008. She builds setups in her studio, which she photographs or films, before destroying them again. In a unique way, her work both touches upon and escapes feelings of grief, loss and time. A change in tone that has everything to do with the brain damage she sustained in 2008, turning her world upside down and marking a caesura in life and work.


Flott for forretnings- eller fritidsreiser!
Vi besøkte etter en dag på Holy Island. Hvis du ønsker et sted å stoppe som er rent, med god service og serverer god rett frem pub kan du prøve dette stedet. Ville være bra for unge familier og/eller de som trenger å se deres stikka.
After reading a number of your negative reviews I wonder, do you give a discount to cranks and idiots? A little tongue in cheek I must admit but how can they spare time from reporting the postman for whistling to write these reviews?
Is it possible to do laundry or have laundry done? Thanks!
We're sorry but we're not able to do laundry. There is a launderette at nearby Berwick upon Tweed however?
Do the guest rooms each have a hair dryer?
Yes they do Carole! As well as tea and coffee making facilities and colour TV! Any more questions, please don't hesitate to ask! We hope to welcome you.


Summer is almost upon us and most of the nation is now warm enough that persons are getting outside to play actual sports, however typically it is extra enjoyable to stay on the sofa and play virtual ones as an alternative. With a couple years of product launched for the PS4, it can be slightly overwhelming when you're making an attempt to decide which sports activities sport to choose up and play. Let us aid you choose which video games to grasp with the following list of eight of the very best titles in the marketplace (from basketball, to baseball, to soccer and even WWE).
My daughters and grandchildren have been concerned in numerous crew building actions for teenagers. These embrace baseball, football, workforce gymnastics, cheerleading, and track. Just today, I was reminded that things like cheerleading are great out of doors actions for youths. Hubby and I went to observe two of our granddaughters cheer at a little bit league soccer sport. We had an satisfying time. The climate was stunning, and there were a whole lot of households in attendance, supporting youngsters of all ages. If you were a kid in the eighties, you probably remember being excited about the unique Pac-Man arcade video games. This is the dwell model, played out in a fitness center. Get the youngsters (area cadets) to sit down on their bottoms evenly unfold out alongside the basketball courtroom out-of-bounds line and throughout the half-court docket line.
Here is the place you need to set limits in your children. Remind them not to settle for contact requests or gifts from strangers, and to by no means ship any personal material to anyone. Also let them know that when someone says anything that makes them feel uncomfortable, they'll come to you and even go forward and block that person right away. Also, do random checks of their chat history, or another choice is you simply have a rule the place they are not allowed to use the chat choice in any sport they play. In fact, on-line gaming is rife with dangers that your younger one might simply fall into. Internet security firm Kaspersky conducted a study of eleven- to sixteen-year-olds and located a worrying statistic: 20 p.c of the youngsters they interviewed admitted that they trusted gaming platforms a lot that they'd not have a problem with assembly their gaming contacts in real life. The most numerous group of video games are the ball games. Football is the most well-liked game on the planet. Another sport from Great Britain is rowing.
Equipment As sports have grown more aggressive, the necessity for better gear has arisen. Golf clubs, soccer helmets, baseball bats, soccer balls, hockey skates, and other tools have all seen considerable changes when new technologies have been applied. Sports video games have historically been extremely popular arcade video games The competitive nature of sports lends itself effectively to the arcades the place the principle objective is normally to obtain a excessive rating The arcade type of play is mostly extra unrealistic and focuses on a faster gameplay experience. However the competitive nature of sports activities and with the ability to achieve a high score while compete against mates totally free on-line, has made online sports video games very talked-about. Examples of this embrace the NFL Blitz and NBA Jam collection. Tell the youngsters that the crew who will get all the balls on the opposing team's aspect, even for a second, is the winner.


According to officials aware of the developments, a contract was signed between the production house Super Ads and AIR to produce a show 'chandi ke parde se' (from the silver screen), where soundtrack of Hindi films was played on radio.
Public broadcaster Prasar Bharati has begun investigation into the details of a contract that was signed between All India Radio (AIR) and a production house for commissioning a programme, which has incurred an expense of approximately Rs 8 crore.
All India Radio is a broadcast arm of Prasar Bharati, an autonomous body under the ministry of information and broadcasting.
"A preliminary finding shows that the producers were paid excessively high remuneration, nearly ₹10 lakh for procuring the soundtracks rights of each movie. This when the cost incurred on airing a film on Doordarshan is about ₹12 lakh," said an official, requesting anonymity.
It has also come to the notice of the ministry that government advertisements meant for radio broadcast were "diverted to be aired during the show".
"As per the contract 50% of the advertisement revenue will be shared with the producers; so the money coming in through these advertisements is also shared with the company," the functionary quoted above said.
Even as PB has begun investigating why the company was paid more than the market rate, the production house has shot off a letter to the Prime Minister's Office, complaining that a "CBI like" situation is emerging in the shape of a "tussle" between the director general of AIR and member finance of Prasar Bharati.
The producers of the show complained they have not been paid any money for 140 episodes of the show aired between September 2017 and March 2018.
"The programme was aired only after the contract was signed; each aspect including the financial details were agreed to by AIR; but even after 140 episodes have been aired, we have not been paid any money. The company is owed about ₹6.5 crore plus GST," said a person attached to the production house.
The production house alleges that the payment has been put on hold owing to disagreements between AIR and Prasar Bharati. "As per the contract, we were asked to produce another 260 episodes, but the production has been put on hold owing to the tussle between senior officials," the person associated with the production house said.


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Q: ALTER stored procedure (with no changes) causes it to run 20x slower I've been doing some speed tests on a stored procedure that does a bulk insert. It takes some JSON as a parameter, creates a table variable, weeds out any duplicates in the table variable from what's already in the destination table, and then copies the data from the table variable to the destination table.
In running these tests, I was seeing some wildly different speed results that were driving me nuts. They made no sense. I finally pinned down the issue and I'm able to reproduce it consistently.
Here's the process:

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*Delete all data from the destination table

*Run the stored procedure and pass in a JSON record of 50,000 rows

*It executes in about 1.5 seconds.

*Repeat the process. This time it has existing data it needs to parse looking for duplicates. Same results. Less than 2 seconds

*Repeat step 4 N times always with the same results.

*Run an ALTER on the SP without having made ANY changes to the SP itself

*Repeat step 4. This time it takes 30-40 seconds!!!

*Delete the data in the destination table, repeat all the steps, same results.

I've been reading up on parameter sniffing, trying things like converting the passed in parameters to local parameters, and adding WITH RECOMPILE, but so far, the results are all the same.
If this were to happen in prod, it would be unacceptable. Does anyone have any ideas?
Thanks!

A: This is a bit long for a comment.
SQL Server caches the plans for queries in a stored procedure when they are first run.  In your case, the first run has an empty table so the query plan is based on an empty table.  That seems to be a good query plan for your problem.
When you alter the stored procedure, you do have one effect:  it forgets the cached query plan.  So a new plan is generated, one that uses the current size of the table.
For whatever reason, this second query plan is much worse than the first.  I don't know why.  Usually the problem is the other way around (the query plan on the empty table is the worse one).
I would suggest that you figure out how to get the query to have the right plan when there is data and to recompile the code in the stored procedure each time it is run.  That might be overkill, but it adds just a little overhead.

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Yet much controversy surrounds this outburst of joy. Thankfully, the speculation that a reluctant Lee was pressured into publication seems to have been quashed. Fears about this arose due to her numerous avowals over the years never to publish another novel after To Kill a Mockingbird, and the death of her 100 year-old sister and protector from unwanted media attention, two months prior to the announcement. In response, Harper Lee has given a statement describing herself as ''humbled and amazed'' that the novel will be published after her lawyer Tonja Carter discovered the lost manuscript.
However, questions of a more literary nature remain. Go Set a Watchman will be a sequel to Mockingbird, set twenty years after its denouement. Don't sequels to acclaimed novels just relate events that the author wisely chose to leave out of their masterpiece? For example, The Witches of Eastwick is a popular – if atypical – John Updike novel to which readers are likely to return a century into the future, thanks to its mischievous magical realism and narrative of female empowerment. But The Widows of Eastwick, the sequel Updike wrote a quarter of a century later, will undoubtedly go down in literary history as one of the great writer's duds. Ardent fans of the previous novel raced through the follow-up to find that there was a reason The Witches of Eastwick ended where it did, and that the sequel is merely an anodyne story of characters reminiscing about the events of the first narrative, back in the famous novel when they were interesting.
Henry James – as great a literary theorist as he was a novelist – asserted that ''relations stop nowhere, and the exquisite problem of the artist is eternally but to draw, by a geometry of his own, the circle within which they shall happily appear to do so''. If someone writes a great novel like To Kill a Mockingbird, a necessary criterion for such greatness is that its denouement works, that it is either satisfying or intriguingly mysterious. Sequels, according to this logic, make the ending of the previous novel redundant; they show a novelist failing to deal with the ''exquisite problem'' articulated by James.
The second big question lost in the volcanic cheers of joy at the prospect of a Go Set a Watchman is whether its famous predecessor To Kill a Mockingbird is all that good in the first place. Yes, estimates suggest over 30 million copies have been sold, making it rank among the bestselling novels of all time. Yes, it has been popular with generations of schoolchildren who have identified with its tender portrayal of coming of age and loss of innocence. And yes, it famously carries a profound and necessary message about the evils of racism.
Yet unquestionably lauding a text and casting aside the evaluative critical analyses that are usually applied creates an unhealthy atmosphere in literary culture. In any case, dissenting opinions have been expressed before about the merits of Lee's celebrated novel. The Southern American Gothic writer Flannery O'Connor – regarded as perhaps the greatest short story writer in the English language – said of To Kill a Mockingbird at the time of its publication in 1960 that ''all the folks that are buying it don't know they're reading a children's book.'' Similarly, Cambridge's Dr. Ian Patterson dismissed it as ''a soggy sentimental liberal novel if ever there was one''. Both critics of To Kill a Mockingbird suggest that the story is too simplistic, deprived of the moral ambiguity necessary for literary quality, in its portrayal of Atticus Finch as a one-dimensional good man pitted against the malignancy of racism. According to this line of reasoning, To Kill a Mockingbird should subtly make clear the nefariousness of racism; it is unnecessary to hammer home such an obvious point.
However, the second – and by extension the first – question surrounding Lee's fiction can be addressed by illuminating her writing's place in American literary history. While critics identify her as part of the Southern Gothic tradition in literature – reigned over by the titanic figures of O'Connor and William Faulkner, and encompassing Tennessee Williams, Carson McCullers and the early works of Truman Capote – To Kill a Mockingbird enacts a break with that tradition. The quintessential Southern Gothic novel is distinguished by an all-pervasive combination of the mad, macabre and grotesque. In some such works, characters experience some sort of redemption, but it is invariably a dark form of redemption, darker than in Dostoevsky, summed up by the devout Catholic O'Connor as ''grace, like a bullet in the side''. Scout learning that Boo Radley is actually a nice man after he saves her and Jem from the evil Bob Ewell may seem too much like the denouement of a children's book to fit that description.
With Mockingbird, Lee takes a different path, writing under the influence of nineteenth-century English fiction – novels unashamed of sentiment and interpretably woolly liberalism. Harper Lee's self-declared model was Austen; ''all I want is to be the Jane Austen of south Alabama'', she stated shortly after publishing Mockingbird. But perhaps the author she most resembles in her approach is George Eliot. The emphasis for both writers is on human flourishing (both finding personal happiness and promoting the greater good for others) borne out of empathy – the same philosophy of personal relations which drives Middlemarch. Atticus Finch's statement that ''you never really understand a person until you consider things from his point of view […] until you climb inside of his skin and walk around in it'' is at the heart of Mockingbird. And it is an analogue of Eliot's idea, expressed in a much more complex fashion in Middlemarch, that we are trapped in our own psyches, but can mitigate this enough to avoid the negative consequences through imaginative sympathy for the predicaments of others'. To cite one of the best and most celebrated metaphors of the novel: ''Your pier-glass or extensive surface of polished steel made to be rubbed by a housemaid, will be minutely and multitudinously scratched in all directions; but place now against it a lighted candle as a centre of illumination, and lo! the scratches will seem to arrange themselves in a fine series of concentric circles round that little sun. It is demonstrable that the scratches are going everywhere impartially, and it is only your candle which produces the flattering illusion of a concentric arrangement, its light falling with an exclusive optical selection.'' We are led into follies and dangerous ideas (such as the racism and snobbery of Lee's Maycomb, Alabama) because we fail to step outside the ''flattering illusion'' of our own perspectives. We must shine the lights of our intellects and imaginations into the experience of others – that is how the prejudice ravaging Maycomb and the American South can be destroyed.
The same ideological currents flow through negative criticism of Middlemarch as that of To Kill a Mockingbird. The focus on the role of empathy strikes some readers as simply not enough. As the Marxist literary theorist Terry Eagleton wrote of the former, ''the idea that lack of sympathy springs from lack of knowledge – that to understand all is to forgive all [is] a typically liberal mistake.'' This idea is related to the aforementioned notion of To Kill a Mockingbird as a ''soggy sentimental liberal novel''; that the injustice of racism requires a more edgy and potent ideological response in fiction than Mockingbird's gentle insistence on empathy. The desire, it seems, is for a novel suffused with the darkness and violence of the Southern Gothic, abandoning the niceties inherent in influence of the nineteenth-century English novel, in favour of the savagery of Faulkner and O'Connor, with their defeatist sense of racism as inevitable thrown out of the window, and all the riotous, Dostoyevskian brutality directed at the evil of racial prejudice and discrimination. This is quite understandable, to think that Lee's novel – as Eagleton argues Middlemarch to be – is simply too all-encompassing in its niceness to take an axe to the ice of prejudice at the heart of the human soul (as Kafka would put it).
But as with Middlemarch, it would be a simplifying misinterpretation to say that To Kill a Mockingbird shows understanding that in turn shows forgiveness towards immoral characters and their malevolent actions. Atticus teaches Scout to feel much empathy towards Bob Ewell, the racist who rapes his daughter and successfully pins the blame on the African-American Tom Robinson. Ewell can be seen as the product of severe structural problems in American society: he is in an abominable socio-economic position, living in squalor. He is a man whose intense racism is borne out of an endemic, institutionalised belief in white superiority in the South, combined with the desire of someone downtrodden by society to feel as if he is better than another group of people.
But at the same time, Lee portrays him unambiguously as a bad character. Ewell's flaws also stem from a failure to escape his own ignorance, to enter into the minds of his daughter and Tom Robinson and see how his actions towards them are unspeakably nefarious, malevolent in their selfishness and underlying ignorance, just like the actions of the societal forces that lead to his status as white trash. In this light, it is impossible to see To Kill a Mockingbird as a ''soggy sentimental liberal'' novel, nor as a ''children's book'' populated by one-dimensional characters, divided in simplistic Manichean fashion between good and evil.
With regard to the sequel, we shouldn't expect fireworks, nor, frankly, for the novel to match the quality of To Kill a Mockingbird. The sequel is actually an antecedent of Lee's much-loved bestseller. It was written and is set in the 1950s, about Scout returning to Maycomb to visit Atticus, and containing flashbacks to the past that Lee's editor identified as the strongest parts of the novel. From these parts she teased out a refined, specific focus on Scout's childhood, which developed into To Kill a Mockingbird as a separate novel. So we should expect a less polished work of fiction in Go Set a Watchman, before the evolution of Lee's talents and writing style and the editorial expertise that shaped Mockingbird.
However, the nature of To Kill a Mockingbird as a coming-of-age tale in which Scout comes to realise that Maycomb is not really a ''sleepy old town'' but a hotbed of disturbing societal evils shows why – for all the theoretical issues with sequels – Go Set a Watchman will almost certainly be a fascinating read. The revolutionary decade of the '60s, with its combination of tumult and carnage with real, unambiguous positive developments for civil rights, quickly produced a markedly different situation in America from that of the '50s merely a few years before. Nevertheless, the '50s were a world away from the '30s, the bygone pre-war, sleepy old era, before the boom in economic and technological growth after the Second World War.
By this point the traditional order had frayed. Changes that would have seemed impossible in the '30s had come trickling through after the upheaval of war. President Truman enacted a desegregation of the military in 1948. The Supreme Court decreed in 1954 that segregation of public schools was unconstitutional and had to stop. The Montgomery bus boycott of 1955 created an unstoppable momentum for the civil rights movement – especially when the Supreme Court ruled in favour of its objective a year later. But there was a reactionary response by many powerful white Southerners and their supporters. For example, in 1957 Governor of Arkansas Orval Faubus ordered the state National Guard to prevent black students from attending Little Rock Central High School, as the Supreme Court declared they could – and ended up one of the ''Ten Most Admired Americans'', according to Gallup's 1958 poll.
This context of tension between powerful forces on both sides of the civil rights battle will show Scout, Atticus and their milieu in a new light. As mentioned earlier, sequels are problematic and more often than not simply don't work. But post-WW2 US fiction has been one of their rare fertile breeding grounds – and this era is one in which America is the hegemonic world power, events which have a unique importance for people across the globe, but also marked by turbulent – indeed, revolutionary – occurrences. Sequels have had a rare flourishing in this time and place precisely because they have charted the effect of America's huge social, economic and political changes on the lives, attitudes and perspectives of recurrent characters. Think of John Updike's three sequels to Rabbit, Run (1959), which noted the wildly changing societal circumstances at the ends of the three succeeding decades, and their varying consequences for the protagonist, Harry 'Rabbit' Angstrom. Or even novels so seemingly introverted, postmodern and reflexive as Philip Roth's first six Nathan Zuckerman novels. Following on from the first, The Ghost Writer, Zuckerman Unbound seems to possess a similar autobiographical focus on what it means to be a writer. Its success arises from its portrayal of Zuckerman's existence as a monkish devotee to his own fiction whilst otherwise having a wildly unstructured, somewhat hedonistic life, contrasting with his prototypical younger self in the previous novel – an earnest, naive ingénue. But the striking thing about this is how it mirrors the changes in attitudes to culture and the high arts in America from the respective epochs of the two novels, the '50s and '60s. The tentative, innocent and sincere young man of The Ghost Writer is the product of a decade in which literary culture was orientated around a belief in the moral authority of Great Books and encouraged a reverent humility amongst those entering the world of literature. However, by the '60s, the paradigmatic notion of the writer figure had become one of the countercultural outlaw, the wild scribbler observing the carnival on the margins.
Go Set a Watchman arises from a slightly earlier, less polished Harper Lee. But at the same time it will contain much rich material as it responds to the socio-political climate of the Deep South twenty years on from the narrative of its great predecessor. While unlikely to be quite as good as To Kill a Mockingbird (few novels are), it looks set to be a sequel up there with those of Roth and Updike.
Tom is a second year English student at Corpus. His interests include international relations, 17th century English poetry, 20th century American fiction, the films of Alfred Hitchcock and the history of the American Presidency.


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Minister: Iran not after oil price war
Iran will not pursue a market-share battle for the sale of its crude oil once US-led sanctions on the country are lifted, Minister of Petroleum Bijan Zangeneh has said.
Zangeneh has already called on OPEC to make room for recovered Iranian oil production which was cut by half under the sanctions.
The country expects to boost output by 1 million barrels per day after a nuclear agreement is reached by the end of June.
But "Iran has not put an oil price war in the market on the agenda under any circumstances" when the sanctions are lifted, Zangeneh said.
The minister said Iran's oil marketing and sale methods will undergo changes when international restrictions are removed.
"We will follow a policy of boosting and upgrading security for the Iranian crude oil demand in the long-term," he said.
Zangeneh said he was confident that not a single Iranian barrel would be without a customer when the sanctions are lifted.
"Through using new marketing method and investment, Iran's oil demand security will be raised. There is no room for worry," he added.
A general view from Iran's Kharg Island in the Persian Gulf.
Iran's production and exports of crude oil and gas condensates have steadily risen as nuclear negotiations have shifted to a high gear.
Iranian supplies have hit their highest since July 2012, according to the International Energy Agency (IEA). Its daily crude oil production rose by 10,000 barrels per day and exports surpassed 1 million bdp in April.
The country also recorded exports of 7 million barrels on a single day within its OPEC quota early in the spring which engaged all the eight oil terminals on the Kharg Island for the first time in 10 years, the Mehr news agency reported.
Iran has also started using four new oil storage tankers in Kharg, CEO of the Iranian Oil Terminals Company (IOTC) Pirouz Mousavi has said.
"With the operation of this project, Iran's bargaining power in the oil market has increased and its operational capability for oil exports has risen 16%," he said.
By Press TV
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Q: Using split() with "|" character Just a quick question:
String input = "sam|y|rutgers";
String[] splitInput = input.split("|");
System.out.println(Arrays.toString(splitInput));

Output:
[, s, a, m, |, y, |, r, u, t, g, e, r, s]

I would like to split at the pipe characters to get
[sam,y,rutgers]
Any idea what I'm doing wrong here?

A: Try with one of these

*

*split("\\|")

*split("[|]")

*split(Pattern.quote("|"))

*split("\\Q|\\E")
split method uses regex as parameter and in regex | means OR so your current expression means empty string or empty String.
If you want to make | simple literal you need to escape it. To do this you can

*

*place \ before it in regex engine which in String will be written as "\\|".

*use character class [...] to escape most of regex metacharacters like split("[|]")

*or surround your special characters with \\Q and \\E which will make every character (regardless if it is special or not) simple literal. This solution is used in Pattern.quote("regex").

A: You may try this:
String[] str= input.split("\\|");

"|" is a special character(OR) so you need to escape that using a slash \\. As answered here An unescaped | is parsed as a regex meaning "empty string or empty string,"

A: You can do it by StringTokenizer
StringTokenizer st2 = new StringTokenizer(input , "|");

    while (st2.hasMoreElements()) {
        System.out.println(st2.nextElement());
    }

default delimeter is " " space.
StringTokenizer st2 = new StringTokenizer(input );//it will split you String by `" "` space

A: \Q & \E are regex quotes.
String[] splitInput = input.split("\\Q|\\E");


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Trochozonites is a genus of air-breathing land snails, terrestrial gastropod mollusks in the family Urocyclidae.

Species
Species within the genus Trochozonites include:
 Trochozonites adansoniae (Morelet, 1848)
 Trochozonites adoxus Connolly, 1925
 Trochozonites aillyi Pilsbry, 1919
 Trochozonites bellula (E. von Martens, 1892)
 Trochozonites buhambaensis Preston, 1914
 Trochozonites crenulata (Germain, 1905)
 Trochozonites dioryx (Melvill & Ponsonby, 1892)
 Trochozonites expatriata Preston, 1914
 Trochozonites kempi Preston, 1914
 Trochozonites leptalea E. A. Smith, 1909
 Trochozonites medjensis Pilsbry, 1919
 Trochozonites percostulata Dupuis & Putzeys, 1901
 Trochozonites plumaticostata Pilsbry, 1919
 Trochozonites prestoni Connolly, 1925
 Trochozonites trifilaris Dupuis & Putzeys, 1901
 Trochozonites usambarensis Verdcourt, 1982
Species brought into synonymy
 † Trochozonites arabica Neubert & Van Damme, 2012  : synonym of † Sagdellina arabica (Neubert & Van Damme, 2012)  (new combination)

References

 Pilsbry, H.A. (1919). A review of the land mollusks of the Belgian Congo chiefly based on the collections of the American Museum Congo Expedition, 1909-1915. Bulletin of the American Museum of Natural History, 40: 1-370, pls I-XXIII.
 Bank, R. (2017). Classification of the Recent terrestrial Gastropoda of the World. Last update: July 16th, 2017

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Taxonomy articles created by Polbot


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2017 NBA Finals Predictions, Picks, Odds and Series Betting Preview – Cleveland Cavaliers vs. Golden State Warriors
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The trilogy is on. For the first time in NBA Finals history, the same two teams–the Golden State Warriors and Cleveland Cavaliers–will meet for the third straight year. The Cavs also made history in last year's matchup as they became the first-ever team to come back from a 3-1 deficit to win the title. But with Kevin Durant now on their side, the Warriors will be ready for retribution.
So, who will come out on top in this rubber match? Read on below as we make the case for both teams in this titanic NBA Finals matchup.
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Betting on the Cleveland Cavaliers (+210)
The Cavs might just be the best Finals team to be considered as big an underdog. They are 12-1 in the postseason, and started out with a 10-game winning streak. It needed an ill LeBron James and an unlikely comeback to end that streak back in Game 3 vs. the Celtics.
When James has been healthy, though, he's been close to unstoppable. He's averaging 32.5 points (while shooting 56 percent from the field), 8 rebounds, 8 assists, 2.2 steals, and 1.4 blocks in this postseason. No one needs reminding what he did in last year's Finals against the Warriors, when he went for 30-11-9-2-2 and led the Cavs from a 3-1 deficit to win the title.
After struggling in the earlier rounds, Kyrie Irving and Kevin Love also erupted in the Celtics series to make an already outstanding offense even more unstoppable. Kyrie averaged 26 points on an obscene 62 percent shooting in the Celtics series, while Love put up 22 points and 12 boards with 1.4 steals, 1.2 blocks, and hit 4.6 3s per game at a 53 percent clip.
The Cavs enter the Finals averaging 120.7 points per 100 possessions, the highest postseason offensive rating in 40 years.
As it has been for most of the season, defense remains the Cavs' big issue, but it's gotten a bit better during the postseason. Tristan Thompson has proven to be an ideal weapon against the Warriors thanks to his ability to switch as well as his activity on the boards. Love is also having a quietly strong postseason defensively, although that will be tested to the fullest by the Warriors.
Betting on the Golden State Warriors (-280)
It speaks more to the Warriors' utter dominance that they remain significant favorites over Cleveland in this series. The Dubs responded from their remarkable collapse in last year's Finals by adding Kevin Durant to an already historic team. And as expected, KD's addition alongside Stephen Curry, Klay Thompson and co. has taken the Dubs to an entirely different level of supremacy.
Golden State strolled their way to a perfect 12-0 record during the West playoffs, with a ridiculous 16.8 net rating. While their offense hasn't quite been at the Cavs' level, it's still outrageously good.
Curry has been cooking all postseason long. He's putting up 28.6 points (50% FG, 43% 3-PT FG, 91% FT), 5.5 rebounds, 5.6 assists, 2 steals per game, and unlike last year, he will be fully healthy entering the Finals. Durant has been the definition of efficiency. He put up 28 points on just 16 shots per game in the Spurs series.
The two have more than made up for Klay Thompson's prolonged shooting slump. The other Splash Brother is averaging just 14 points and shooting 38 percent in the postseason.
Meanwhile, their defense (99 points per 100 possessions) has unquestionably been the best in these playoffs. Led by the incredible Draymond Green (who has been on his best behavior this postseason and is not in danger of a costly suspension), defense is the biggest reason to like the Dubs over the Cavs. The Warriors have shown throughout the regular season and postseason that they are more capable of consistently producing key stops.
Designated LeBron James stopper Andre Iguodala hasn't quite looked like himself after missing a couple of games with a knee injury, which is a bit of a concern. But the unit as a whole remains very deep and very strong.
No one should feel completely confident about betting against LeBron James. As last season showed, he's much too great to be counted out of any series. But this Warriors team is unlike anything he's faced in his career.
The Dubs are too good on both ends of the floor, particularly on defense. Defense wins championships, which is why Warriors will eventually come out on top. Golden State (-280) wins in 6.
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