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Well, I posted before asking for a fragrance with a great projection and that gets compliments to wear to go out at night, especially on a date. I had some suggestions but unfortunately I didn't have the oportunity to try all of them, especially dior homme intense that attracted me more than the others... I had the oportunity to try angel men and I loved it!
I want the opinion of your experienced noses :P... Is it a good frangrance to wear at night (especially on a date), projects great and gets a lot of compliments? Should I buy it before trying Dior homme intense ?
Thank you!!!
PS: Uniquiness is something really important for me as well,It doesn't have to be the most unique fragrance in the world but I dont want to wear something the girls at my age range usually smell on the other guys..
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Angel Men is a nice scent, but Dior Homme Intense blows it out of the water.
Both are unique, though I think Angel Men is a little more unique.
But try them both first because $80+ is not small change
I wouldn't buy A*Men as a fragrance to impress the girls, because it may not. Many people (girls included) can't stand it.
If it were choosing between the two, I would definitely go with DHI. As already stated on here, some girls love it, but when I wore it back in the day, most of them did not like it at all. DHI is a classier scent for sure. It's better blended and I would have to say a much less offensive then A*Men. Most that I know don't find it offensive at all. I love the opening, the base and the dry down of this one. The dry down is one of, if not the most incredible smell your nose and hopefully others noses will ever encounter. I am never without this scent
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To the OP: IMO yes.
Definitely smell out DHI (or at least Dior Homme) before making your purchase. I love both DHI and A*men, but prefer the Dior.
You may want to look into Van Cleef & Arpels, Midnight In Paris. It is a wonderfully seductive scent with tones of leather, vanilla, powdery. I only get compliments when wearing MIP.
Now I'm definately going to try to find dior homme intense and try on my skin. Some people recommended me La nuit de l'homme edt and also the one by d&g (I just tried the one it I loved the smell)... oh my god so many fragrances I'm getting lost about which one I buy
But I think I'm going to LOVE DHI, years ago, before getting into fragrances I used to wear 212 for women in my parent's bathroom thinking that was for men
Anyway I will soon notice you guys here when I choose and buy the fragrance
Both are great date scents , A*Men is better for a first date to make a strong impression and DHI for the dates to follow .
The Mugler is more masculine , long-lasting and the more complex of the two.
DHI is far less common than A*Men.
Both are likely to get compliments, but as already stated in several posts above, DHI is a slight bit more unique, less common and with more complexity.
Only thing that sucks is that I can't find a DHI sample
You guys do realize A*Men is one of the best men's frags ever developed, right? Wasn't sure. DHI is an overblown lipstick chocolate bomb. It's nothing special.
Nostradamus Me neither!!! Here in Brazil I try the fragrances at the local stores and buy them from the internet cheaper :P but I can't find dior homme intense anywhere...
@edit: Tomorrow I'm going to call a lot of stores in other cities asking if they have dior homme intense and if I don't find it, does it REALLY worth blind buying?
Everyone has an opinion or is entitled to one of course. In my opinion I can say the same about A*men. Too tarry or bitterness of a scent, too popular, if over sprayed gets very annoying and cloying and is no where near the quality of Dior Intense Homme. It out classes it in just about every category.
Just like Coach Rob 619 says"What the ladies say, is what I spray". DHI ! Vic, don't cheat yourself, treat yourself. Pick up a bottle of DHI ASAP. You will see what all the talk is about. You can always pick up a bottle of A men. They make those flankers like license plates man.
If you walked into a restaurant that I was at wearing A** Men, I would trip the fire alarm and save everyone.
Couldn't agree with you more. The day I see a bottle of A*Men selling on ebay for 200-300 bucks a bottle like the first formulation of DHI, maybe then I will gain some respect for A*Men. Till then, it's just a scent that everyone wears, and it doesn't set you apart from anyone else wearing it. DHI is nothing but class in a bottle. From the initial spray to the dry down. It just keeps getting better and really is that good
I am more than sure that if they discontinue A*Men all of sudden , it's price would pop off the roof .
I own and like them both, but to me DHI is FAR superior in every aspect and is a MUST have for every Collector or at least a MUST TRY for anyone intending to buy one fragrance...
I have owned and do own both silver collar and the reformulation of DHI. While the reformulation is good too, I still prefer the vintage. I can tell the difference in the opening and mostly in the dry down. Somehow, I am not too fond of the replacement pear note (I can definitely smell it) in the reformulated. The bottles I own are from late 2009 up to about March or April of 2011. These to me, are the best.With the reform, I don't get too much of the cocoa which I really like. I get more vanilla, which is o.k too, but it just seems that too many frags have that vanilla note. A little is nice for me, but sometimes that is all I smell is vanilla. Would be nice to smell other notes of a frag as well besides the vanilla
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Maybe yes, maybe no. DHI is not yet discontinued and everyone is still looking for the vintage formula of this one, as it is bringing in some big bucks. Not too sure the same would happen to A*men. A*Men is too easy of a scent to find and obtain. Even local drug stores carry it. Can't really say the same about DHI. Takes some hunting down to find, but once you do, it's well worth it in gold. Not saying A*Men is a bad scent, but I owned it at one time, and it took me forever to go through my bottle of it, as the bitterness and tar smell I got from it, really got to me and annoyed me. I didn't even want to wait for it to settle down. DHI is perfect to me in every sense of the word. My nose smells nothing but pure goodness from this one
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Michael Browne, president and CEO of Trident Brands, remarked, "We are thrilled to be teaming up with Continental Ingredients on the development and manufacture of our unique and exclusive set of nutritional products that we will soon be launching under the globally recognized Everlast brand. This key supply agreement represents an important milestone in our company's entry into the rapidly growing nutritional products market segment."
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My brother brought me these great magazines from back home! This is the first copy of Cloth, Paper, Scissors I've ever had in hand, and it's every bit as interesting as Quilting Arts magazine (their sister publication). Oh dear, now I want to subscribe to this too... So much inspiration in these babies!
Woohoo! My copy of Quilting Arts magazine finally made it across the Atlantic, as did this beautiful fabric postcard in yummy orange tones from Emily H. in MN, USA. Oh, happy day, quilty goodness in my mailbox!! I've been wondering when my magazine was going to show up. And hmm, what's this? Dyed silk cocoons for embellishing?? Now where the hell am I gonna find those here in France?! Maybe I can order some from Quiltzauberei in Germany... Anyway, these little silk pods just may have some interesting possibilities. It looks like beads and things can be added to them. (PS: the flannel quilt hiding under the magazine and card is my blankey and my son's tv watching quilt)
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If you happen to visit Nova Scotia's Eskasoni First Nation over the next few weeks, you will likely see hundreds of bald heads.
More than 400 people showed up at the Sarah Denny Cultural Centre last night and participated in the "Buzz for Fuzz – Cut for Cancer" event.
The fundraiser was hosted by the RCMP in support of cancer research.
People were encouraged to donate money and shave their heads, but organizers were shocked – and thrilled – to see such a positive response to the event.
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Dreadwing216 chapter 1 . 5/4/2015 Best Ferb/Gretchen fanfiction I have read by far! Congratulations! |
LordDraconical10 chapter 1 . 9/28/2014 please continue the story its a great one I loved it |
Bunny'sWinterRose chapter 1 . 1/27/2014 This was so sweet! |
Someone chapter 1 . 10/15/2013 Please make another story on Ferb and Gretchen PLEASE! And if you could make It longer thanks For looking at my review... |
Steve Koenig chapter 1 . 7/29/2013 I agree with your assessment of Vanessa. I'd rather see Ferb with Gretchen because she is sweet, not to mention intelligent like Ferb. |
Neymar Jr chapter 1 . 5/25/2013 Well, you should know that Ferb has a problem because he has fallen to two girls, so I should look closer about it. |
Techno Writer chapter 1 . 3/25/2013 wow, your good at this dude! is it okay if i model the gretchen in my story after the one in this story and it's predecessor? |
Esteban Rey chapter 1 . 1/26/2013 It was great to see extended dialogue between Ferb and Candace. I haven't heard or seen any of that before. |
BlueMoonBeliever chapter 1 . 5/16/2012 Love it, feel the same way bout vannessa |
BigBlueBubbleCandyAngel chapter 1 . 5/14/2012 I loved the story! I really wish the would get Ferb a girlfriend (as gretchen ) on the show! Thx so much! |
Robot Wolf 26Z chapter 1 . 3/29/2012 Freaking awesome! I loved how you protrayed Vanessa. Great job at protraying Gretchen being quick and effecint with her work. FerbXGretchen! |
TheyCallMeLittleFoot chapter 1 . 2/3/2012 I must say that I really enjoyed reading this, and that I share your view of Vanessa *shivers* completely. Ferb and Gretchen make a perfect couple. Yup... |
Zorua chapter 1 . 11/2/2011 I have no problem with your protrail of Venasa I may not have ever thought of her in that light but I never have seen her and Ferb working out; also I've been wondering this since it was brought up where in the show do they hint at Ferb and Venassa hooking up? I've seen Candece and Jeremy plus Izabella and Pihineas; but I don't think I've seen them hint at Ferb and Venasa |
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A spokesman for relatives of Nelson Mandela extended thanks Saturday for the outpouring of support they have received since his death Thursday at age 95 and vowed that they would seek to uphold his legacy.
"The pillar of the family is gone," Gen. Themba Matanzima told reporters here. "But in our hearts and souls, he will always be with us."
Matanzima said the family of the man who became South Africa's first black president after enduing 27 years in prison for his role in fighting apartheid would "be guided by the values he lived for and was prepared to die for."
Chief among the lessons Mandela imparted was that "a life lived for others is a life well-lived," the family spokesman said.
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Before the funeral, various events to honor him are planned in major cities.
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And Mandela's body will lie in state at the seat of government in Pretoria from Wednesday through next Friday.
Zuma announced the death late Thursday in a nationally televised address.
"Our nation has lost its greatest son; our people have lost a father," he said. "Although we knew that this day would come, nothing can diminish our sense of a profound and enduring loss."
In recent years, Mandela had battled health issues that included multiple hospitalizations for treatment of a recurring lung infection.
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Mandela helped South Africa break the practice of racial segregation and do away with white minority rule.
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"As I walked out the door toward the gate that would lead to my freedom, I knew if I didn't leave my bitterness and hatred behind, I'd still be in prison," Mandela said.
His rejection of vengeance led him to assume roles that led from freedom fighter to prisoner to a world symbol of the struggle against racial oppression.
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Zuma has ordered flags around South Africa to be flown at half-staff until the funeral.
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I'll be at the Made Fair all day this coming Sunday. It looks like it'll be a pretty exciting cross section of Missoula's creative community. I'll be there with new prints, woodcut originals, and other curiosities. Looking forward to it. This flyer image was made by the always awesome Courtney Blazon
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Sizing up the Jason Marquis addition
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Well, the Twins did it again, crossing a big item off their winter shopping list by signing veteran right-hander Jason Marquis and adding another player from the 2010 Nationals team that won 69 games. (If you're counting, they've now got three from that club: Matt Capps, Josh Willingham and Marquis.) In a different twist, though, they've added another player I covered for the past two years, so I'm more than happy to tell you what I know about him.
If there was a pitcher for whom the term "innings-eater" was made, it's Marquis. He has pitched 1,589 innings in 267 career starts — which works out to 5.95 innings per start. His career ERA as a starter is 4.41, and his career WHIP as a starter is 1.433. Add that all together, and Marquis is effectively built to go six innings, give up a combined eight walks and hits and give up three earned runs, every time out. But he's made a 12-year career out of it, which tells you about the state of starting pitching in today's game and how valuable a commodity a durable arm can be.
Marquis' stuff is the pitch-to-contact repertoire that so many Twins (and Nationals) starters have used in the past few years; he throws a sinker that rarely tops 91 mph, and he'll occasionally cut the pitch. He relied more on his slider last year, throwing it 21.5 percent of the time, than he had at any point in his career. He's also got a changeup he used a career-high 15.4 percent of the time last year. Nationals pitching coach Steve McCatty had Marquis pounding the bottom of the strike zone with pitches other than his fastball more often last year, and that made his sinker more effective. But Marquis' best pitch, or his "bread and buttah," as he said in his thick Staten Island accent early last year, is his sinker. When he's throwing it for strikes and getting ground balls, he can be an efficient starter for stretches.
More of those stretches have come in the first half of the season than the second half; Marquis' ERA is .61 better before the All-Star break than it is after it. In 2009, when he made his one All-Star team, he pitched so poorly in the second half that he was left off the Rockies' playoff roster. But there will be days where he makes it look easy, like last April 29, when he threw a five-hit shutout against the world champion Giants, striking out seven and beating Tim Lincecum in a scant 2:09. He was a solid trade chip for the Nationals last year, and at $3 million, he could be again for the Twins.
The concern with any pitch-to-contact starter, though, is whether he has the defense behind him to make that approach work. The Twins, of course, made the second-most errors in the American League last year and turned fewer balls into outs than any team in baseball, according to Baseball Prospectus' Defensive Efficiency statistic. Their infield will hope to be better with Jamey Carroll at shortstop instead of Tsuoyshi Nishioka, but they're still not likely to have a particularly rangy infield.
From a clubhouse standpoint, Marquis will help the Twins; he's played for winners most of his career, pitching for a playoff team every season until he signed with the Nationals and posting double-digit victories in six straight seasons. He won't make excuses, and will say what needs to be said. When he started the 2009 with a 20.52 ERA, coming out of a game with the Brewers in the first inning after pitching to seven batters and retiring none of them, Marquis answered all the tough questions, talking with reporters for a half-hour in a tunnel beneath Nationals Park a few days later about what he was doing to fix his delivery. As it turned out, he had bone chips in his right elbow, and he was out until August. But from then on, he was a solid starter for Washington until the time he was traded last July, and he'll probably be a reliable back-of-the-rotation guy for the Twins, which will allow them to put Brian Duensing in the bullpen.
Two other points on Marquis: In a National League ballpark, he'll be an asset — he's a career .197 hitter who's driven in 53 runs. He's never pitched in the American League, and he'll probably miss picking up a bat, but he'll know what he's doing during interleague play. And he was one of the starting pitchers in the first game played in New York after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, starting for the Braves after one of his Little League teammates had been killed in the attacks on the World Trade Center.
If you've got any questions on Marquis, leave them in the comments and I'll respond to you there. He's scheduled to talk with reporters in about an hour, and we'll have plenty more at that point.
What the Twins will get with Josh Willingham
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A happy Friday afternoon to everyone out there — my name is Ben Goessling, and I'm the newest addition to the Pioneer Press' sports staff. I will be helping John Shipley cover the Twins, in addition to working with Bruce Brothers on the Wild beat, and I look forward to getting to know some of you in the coming weeks and months.
I've been covering the Washington Nationals for the last four years, but I'm probably more familiar with the Twins than any team in the majors. I grew up in Apple Valley, watching the team as a kid (when my parents didn't put me to bed before Kirby Puckett's Game 6 homer or Chuck Knoblauch's deke of Lonnie Smith, that is), and I covered the team as an intern at the Pioneer Press during the heyday of the Torii Hunter-Doug Mientkiewicz-A.J. Pierzynski run (I know that last name isn't popular around here, but I took the three toughest spellings from those teams to prove my Twins street cred, if you will).
I'm thrilled to be back in the Twin Cities, working for the Pioneer Press and covering the Twins. I'm at Twitter at @BenGoesslingPP, and I'd love to get to know some of you there and here. You'll find I'm pretty accessible; if you ask a question on the blog or on Twitter, you'll almost always get a response. I also get a kick out of doing podcasts, behind-the-scenes stuff or organizing tweetups to hang out and talk baseball, so if you've got questions or ideas, don't be shy.
OK, enough about me. You're probably more concerned with the big Twins news of the week — that the team has signed outfielder Josh Willingham and is saying goodbye to outfielder Michael Cuddyer, who has agreed to terms with the Colorado Rockies. I covered Willingham for a year and a half in Washington, and got to know him fairly well; I wrote a profile of him for this morning's paper, but I wanted to give you a little more of a sense of what to expect from him on the field and off.
We'll do that in a quick list. Here are three benefits Willingham will bring to the Twins, and three areas of concern they might have:
The good
1. On-base percentage: Willingham's OBP last year was just .332, but that was largely because he had a lower batting average than usual. He still walked 9.9 percent of the time, which was below his career average of 11.3% but still well above the major league average. He's a methodical hitter who usually is among the league leaders in pitches per plate appearance, and the two years he played in Washington, he posted OPSes of .863 and .848, respectively. On a team that was hurting for quality at-bats last year, Willingham will be a big help. And if Joe Mauer and Justin Morneau are both healthy, the Twins' 3-4-5 hitters will be on base quite a bit.
2. Target Field-friendly power: It's no secret the Twins wanted — nay, needed — a right-handed power hitter because of the way Target Field has played in its first two seasons. Cuddyer was the only player who hit double-digit homers at Target Field last year. Danny Valencia hit nine of his 15 at home. Both are right-handed. Willingham has put up better power numbers than Cuddyer while playing in a relatively fair park in Washington and a pitcher's park in Oakland. He has long arms that help him generate good bat speed and hit out in front of the ball. He'll pull most of his homers, and when he connects, you'll know.
3. Clubhouse cache: Willingham is by no means a talkative guy in the clubhouse, so don't expect to hear about him calling team meetings or barking at rookies. Plenty of players tune that stuff out, anyway, and I'm of the opinion that there are more effective ways to establish accountability. Willingham does it by playing hurt (more on that later), working hard and making few fundamental mistakes. He was a 17th-round draft pick who's had to fight for everything he's earned, and between him and Jamey Carroll, the Twins should be able to make up for some of Cuddyer's grit and professionalism.
The bad
1. Nagging injuries: That Willingham has played 771 games in the last six seasons is probably a minor miracle; he was slowed by back troubles during the 2008 season, and played with torn cartilage in his knee for 4 1/2 months in 2010 after getting hurt in spring training. He also missed 26 games last year, and while he'll rarely take himself out of the lineup, it will be interesting to see how his body is doing in 2014, when he's 35. It's good for Willingham to be in the American League, where he can DH and take some wear and tear off his body. But don't expect him for all 162.
2. New ground in right field: Willingham played 35 games in right field for the Nationals in 2009, moving there when Elijah Dukes struggled and heading back to left in a game of musical chairs initiated when Nick Johnson was traded to Florida and Adam Dunn moved to first. He talked a couple times that season about how he was getting more comfortable there, but I remember him having a little trouble with the reads in right field, and he never really got enough time to get comfortable with it. "My comfort level for right field is not great right now," Willingham said. "(2009) was all the experience I had out there. But with some reps in spring training, some extra work, I'll feel at home out there." Willingham is a fundamentally sound player whom I thought got much better in left field in 2010, but he won't gun down many runners or cover wide swaths of ground. Still, with Ben Revere and Denard Span, he might not need to.
3. Second-half struggles: There's a good chance that Willingham will go on a tear for about a month sometime during the season that makes you wonder why he's only a career .262 hitter. In 2009, it was July, where he hit .330, drove in 23 runs and became just the 13th major league to hit two grand slams in a game. In 2010, it was a seven-homer, 22-RBI month of May that put him in the race for an All-Star spot. And it was July again last year, where he posted a 1.046 OPS. But whether it's the cumulative effect of nagging injuries or just a seasonal trend, Willingham hasn't been as good late in the season as he has earlier in the year. He's got an .815 career OPS in the second half, compared to .854 in the first half, and that mark drops to .744 in September and October.
On the whole, Willingham is a quality player, an underrated outfielder who doesn't get paid for his production (a .836 career OPS and a 14.8 WAR in the last six years) because injuries have prevented him from putting up one exceptional season. Still, he's a solid replacement for Cuddyer, and the Twins are getting two extra draft picks for letting Cuddyer go, in addition to saving $3.5 million per season. As popular as Cuddyer was in Minnesota, that's a sound baseball decision, and particularly if he can complement Mauer and Morneau, rather than carrying the offense by himself, Willingham will fit in well with the Twins.
Twins' DH spot will be collective
- 7 December //
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The Twins are not looking for a designated hitter; they believe they have one, collectively.
"We're trying to keep that spot in our lineup a little fluid," GM Terry Ryan said this evening. "We've got reasons for that. We want to make sure there's at-bats for people."
The DH will be shared by Justin Morneau, Joe Mauer and new acquisition Ryan Doumit, and then maybe by the outfielder they acquire to fill right or left field, particularly if it's Jason Kubel.
"I think there's enough there," Ryan said. "We're not looking for a free agent DH."
Well, there's always LaTroy Hawkins …
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Terry Ryan was asked yesterday if adding Capps ended his bullpen search, whether he felt the internal candidates were enough to finish the job.
"I don't know about that," he said. "We're still looking to add people to that."
It was immediately mentioned that former Twins/Cubs closer LaTroy Hawkins is available, and Ryan said he had heard Hawkins — who lives in Texas — was at the winter meetings selling his wares.
"If you know my relationship with LaTroy, it's pretty good," Ryan said. "I like LaTroy."
Hawkins was 3-1 with a 2.42 ERA in 48.1 innings with Milwaukee last season. He had a career-high 28 saves for the Twins … in 2001, and 25 with the Cubs a few years later.
A return to Minnesota didn't sound likely, but you never know.
Three years, $25M seems reasonable for Cuddyer
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Jon Heyman of SI.com is reporting the Twins have offered Michael Cuddyer three years at $25 million, which seems reasonable. Salary goes down — from $10.5 million to $8.3 million — but third year makes up for it. It seems unlikely anyone will offer Cuddyer, 32, four years.
Question is whether Cuddyer has an offer from a team that appears closer to making the playoffs, such as Boston. If Cuddyer played at Fenway, it's not unreasonable to think he might hit 30 homers for the Sox. On the other hand, the AL East is a stronger division, and maybe the retooled Twins have just as good a chance to win the Central.
What's clear is that, if Heyman is correct, $8.3 million is a nice salary, and Cuddyer would be getting the "multiyear deal" he hope to get out of his all-star season with the Twins. I do believe the Twins are looking at Oakland outfielder Josh Willingham as Plan B, and it's a pretty good one. He had 29 homers and 98 RBIs in what was a career season for the A's.
Cuddyer's numbers overall are better, and he's more versatile defensively. Plus, Terry Ryan would certainly like him in next season's clubhouse. Cuddyer plus a healthy Justin Morneau would be a good veteran presence. There's no doubt the Twins missed Morneau's leadership as he rehabbed from injuries the past year and a half.
Ryan said yesterday there is no deadline for Cuddyer, but it sure feels like this needs to happen this week. The Twins don't have the luxury of waiting to fill a critical roster spot. The GM wants to win now.
Ryan to Twins: Stop whining about Target Field
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During our talk with Joe Mauer and Terry Ryan Friday, I asked the GM if he is building his Twins specifically for Target Field. Yes, he said. Then he ridiculed the question a little bit.
"Every person that is responsible for a roster tries to build their team to their ballpark, and most of it goes back to getting some speed and some power," he said. "My daughter could tell you that — 'Let's get some speed and some power, Dad.' " (And) you'd like to have hard throwers who threw over the plate."
OK, so, yes or no?
I'm still not sure what he was getting at, but Ryan did make one thing clear: He wants his players to stop whining about how hard it is to hit for power at Target Field.
After one season in their new park, during which they won an AL-best 53 home games, Twins hitters successfully lobbied for a new batter's eye and the removal of the Spruce trees in center field. Then they went out and hit .247 as a team and were outhomered 161-103.
Michael Cuddyer was the only Twins player with 20 home runs.
"I'm going to say this with no humor involved," Ryan said, "but some teams came in here and pounded the fences pretty good. We need to get some of that out of our mentality and move forward and just go out there and play the game."
According to ESPN's Home Run Tracker, here were 126 homers hit at Target Field last season, and only 46 came off of Twins bats. In addition, 82 of those homers were hit to left and left-center. Six were hit to center, and 38 to right and right-center.
"I think it is safe to say that it's easier to hit a ball out in left here," Ryan said. "I've seen some balls hit into that triple deck in left, and we had guys who can do that. We had an off-year last year. I think it's wrong to gauge what happened here offensively."
Twins: No purge on training staff, Duensing ideally headed back to bullpen
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Talked with Terry Ryan about the Winter Meetings this afternoon and learned a few things worth noting immediately.
First, asked him if he had finished examining the training staff, which he cited as a priority back when he was moved back into the GM role on Nov. 7. "I have reached some conclusions," he said, "and it's not so much about what has transpired as about what we need to do from this point on," he said. "A lot of it was just communication, knowing what this guy and the next guy are doing."
The Twins were decimated by injuries, many of which weren't related to conditioning, such as Tsuyoshi Nishioka's broken leg, Jason Kubel's sprained left foot and Justin Morneau's concussion. On the other hand, recovery times were long; Nishioka, Kubel and Mauer each missed upwards of 50 games. And infielder Alexi Casilla played just one game after injuring a hamstring on July 26.
But Ryan said there is no purge coming; the Twins will go into next season with the same staff.
The other item relates to left-hander Brian Duensing, whom the Twins would like to put back in the bullpen for 2012. Duensing, 28, was terrific as a swingman in 2009, going 5-2 with a 3.64 ERA as a rookie. He also was terrific as a starter in 2010, going 10-3 with a 2.62 ERA. Last year, however, he struggled in his second full season, going 9-14 with a 5.23 ERA.
The bullpen, Ryan said, "Is where we'd like to put him, but that's not official. It's a nice fit, but sometimes circumstances dictate otherwise."
Though rebuilding the bullpen is one of the major tasks ahead of Ryan, the Twins do have some arms in the system. Alex Burnett, Anthony Swarzak, Liam Hendriks, Lester Oliveros, Jeff Manship and Jim Hoey all have major league experience, and Deolis Guerra and Carlos Gutierrez will be in big league camp in February.
"It's not so much that some guys fit one role or the other," Ryan said. "Some guys can be swing men, some guys can to either (star or relieve). Swarzak, for instance, showed he can start and relieve, so we have quite a few guys, and ideally we have some depth there (for the rotation). Those are valuable guys to have, and certainly Duensing is one of them."


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thus the "Palm Wine Drunkard" which I've heard of (I think it's a novel) but never knew where the palm wine came from.
Dulwich picture gallery, or grab bars for the tub?
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Should we go to the lovely village of Dulwich and visit the art gallery which houses Rembrandts, Rubens, and Gainsboroughs? Or should I ride my bike to Homebase and buy grab bars for the shower and tub? Hmm, a tough choice. But in the midst of picking up my Oyster Card for the train to West Dulwich I remembered that the guests that will arrive here shortly after we leave are an elderly couple who are not in robust health. So I pumped up my bike tires, which were a little on the flat side after a year of lying fallow, and pedaled to Penge.
The grab bars are lovely, and there will be time to go to Dulwich another day. By the way, I learned somewhat to my surprise that the British for 'grab bar' is 'grab bar.' I don't make assumptions that words for things technical will be the same across the Atlantic--tools and kitchen implements and names of the anatomical regions of cars, for example, are notoriously different.
Then this afternoon, while Annie stayed home to do errands and prepare a wonderful dinner, I went in to Chinatown to meet a former client for a fashionably late lunch. It was 2 1/2 hours of non-stop talking and Dim Sum--food for the soul and food for the GI tract.
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Course formats: Onetopic format
Maintained by David Herney Bernal
Format to course that allows showing each topic in a tab, keeping the current tab between calls to resources, in such a way that when it returns from a module as the blog or the glossary it returns to tab from where you started. This format is based on the Moodle standard format: "Topics". It accepts edition by AJAX.
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- Hello,
Installed it on my newly created 3.2 site hoping for the best while using the new Boost theme, but didn't quite work right. The content of the tabs is being rendered as html, not actually showing the HTML. Happy to send screenshots if that would be helpful.
Hoping for a new release soon
Thanks! - Hello!!!
Cuando tienes pensada la liberación de este formato en Moodle 3.2?
Thanks! - Hi,
We use your format very frequently so thanks for all the work! At the moment I am experiencing the same issue as Shalimar. The topics are showing as HTML code when using Moodle 3.2 with the Boost them. Would be very helpful if a new version with a fix could be added. Thanks again! Peter - Hello,
I have detected a small problem with this version of onetopic for version 3.1.4+.
description of the problem
Context: Starting from a backup of a course made in the version of Moodle 2.7.3, then restoring it directly in the instance of Moodle 3.1.4, the course settings are configured to change the format of Theme to Format shape tabs Satisfactory.
For this moment the tabs are already visible and active each in the visual presentation of the course.
The problem is evident after editing any section or tab of the course (Select "Hide topic"). When selecting "Hide topic", the process is performed successfully by hiding the whole section or topic with their respective activities and resources, BUT when you want to re-activate the entire section or tab, the environment and the "Edit" link is blocked without allowing the Display and activate the "Activate theme" option.
I hope someone can similarly test my case, starting from a backup and restoration of a course from one version to another in moodle and later editing the course's asjustes to change the format of Theme to Eyelashes. So in this way they will be able to evidence my approach and finding when a section or theme is hidden and then intended to be activated again.
Thank you. - Hi, we made a tweak for a customer to let it work on Moodle 3.2
We rebuild the tabs raw html to html with some extra javascript. Note: this is a workaround.
A better solution would be to use `html_writer::` instead of `tabobject()`.
The `tabobject` doesn't support raw html input in moodle 3.2+ anymore.
I hope this helps. - Hi Luuk...
It was fixed in Moodle directly by Stephen Bourget. You can check it in: https://tracker.moodle.org/browse/MDL-57728
Saludos - Nice, that they fixed it in the core of moodle. Then there is no need to change the tabobject anymore ;)
Greets Luuk - Hello, I have installed moodle 3.2.1+ and I need help to how to install the fix on this version of moodle.
Greets Jorge. - Hi. Thanks for developing this very useful format. There is no News Forum by default, right? Was this intentional?
- David - Hi David...
Yes, It is intentional. The Onetopic format don't add the news block and this block "build" the News forum.
Saludos - Got it. I prefer this default setting, with the ability to add a News Forum via the "Latest News" block.
Thanks, David, from David - Hi David,
We love this format and have set it as our default for all new courses. Thanks heaps for making it.
We're getting the same issue as Iñigo Zendegi Urzelai above (Section 0 is hidden with no means of changing it), and our server was updated to 3.1.3+ in December (from 2.8). The course that is encountering the issue (we have only had one course with the problem so far) was originally in Topics format (if that helps at all).
Any idea what might be happening?
Thanks again,
Tim - OneTopic Format and "Coding error detected, it must be fixed by a programmer" error?
I wonder if anyone in this community is also randomly receiving this error, when using oneTopic Format?
Our Moodle host is hinting that it might be related to the OneTopic format:
"..... At this point, they're thinking the most likely candidate is the OneTopic format as they can see evidence of it using session objects and heavily using the Page object, but can't conclusively demonstrate a link. ....."
Thanks in advance, Greg - Hi David, thanks for this excellent plugin! I just wanted to enquire about this line in the styles.css file:
.format-onetopic .tab_content.marker {font-style: italic;}
I don't really understand the purpose of italicising the font on one of the tabs, and from a design perspective, we prefer no italics on our webpages unless it's indicating a citation. So every time we upgrade, we have to comment out this line of code. So I guess I'm just wondering if it is essential and if there is any chance that it could be removed from future versions? - Also, I noticed a minor error in the line: .format-onetopic ul.nav-tabs li a .tab_content.dimmed { color: #999; opactity: 0.5;}. It should be 'opacity', not 'opactity'.
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The French Finance Minister Christine Lagarde dashed to India yesterday as she sought to secure the backing of the Asian country for her candidacy to head the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
Ms Lagarde held meetings with India's Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and the Finance Minister, Pranab Mukherjee, along with Montek Singh Ahluwalia, the head of the country's planning commission and the man who would have been India's pick for the job were he not three years past the mandatory-retirement age of 65. Ms Lagarde said if she were elected, part of her would become Indian.
She said she had received no assurances from the politicians, but they had agreed that the successful candidate should be selected on merit rather than nationality.
Ms Lagarde is at the centre of a dispute over who should next head the IMF, after the arrest of its former managing director, Dominique Strauss-Kahn, who is accused of sexually assaulting a hotel maid in New York.
According to an unwritten tradition that has existed since the end of the Second World War, the IMF has always been headed by a European while the World Bank has had an American at the helm.
Ms Lagarde has the backing of the UK and Europe, but some of the world's leading developing nations have expressed concern over the job again going to a European.
Last month, Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa – the self-styled Brics nations – said: "We are concerned with public statements made recently by high-level European officials to the effect that the position of managing director should continue to be occupied by a European. The recent financial crisis which erupted in developed countries underscored the urgency of reforming international financial institutions so as to reflect the growing role of developing countries in the world economy."
Most people believe Ms Lagarde to be the clear favourite for the post, partly because the developing nations have failed to get around an alternative candidate.
Agustin Carstens, the governor of the Bank of Mexico, is seen as the only other strong option. Mr Carstens, who is to visit India later this week to press his case, has accused the European nations of not playing fairly. But Ms Lagarde appears not to be taking anything for certain. At a press conference at the French Embassy in Delhi, where red French hens pecked away on a closely cropped lawn, she said: "I did not seek assurance. It would be premature and it would be arrogant on my part to expect assurance or reassurance. I was here to present my candidacy and listen to the concerns of an emerging-market economy as important as India."
Speaking to The Independent earlier this year, Ms Lagarde said there were too many men in the world of finance and a surfeit of testosterone.
Asked how she might tackle that should she be elected, she yesterday said: "If I was elected as managing director I would stand on my own two feet as a woman, not necessarily in a pair of trousers, and with a level of testosterone lower than some of those in this room." Mr Mukherjee yesterday said India had not yet given its support to any candidate.
"No assurance," he said. "We are working together with the Brics countries. It is difficult to say at right this moment because there is a divergence of views in respect of different candidates." As part of her ongoing effort to try to secure the support of developing nations for her candidacy for the position ahead of the closing date for applicants on 10 June, Ms Lagarde she will be in Beijing today, followed by a meeting of African nations in Lisbon, Jeddah and then Cairo.
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Position of the logical volume on the physical volume
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I just read that while creating a logical volume(LV) we can choose the region of the physical volume (PV) in which the LV should be created. When I say region I mean: outer edge - outer middle - center - inner middle and inner edge. Can anyone help me understand the utility of that possibility ? How can we do that ( example please) ? Thank you |
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In smitty when you are creating a LV, you'll see: Code:
POSITION on physical volume middle You can change this to whatever you want. If you are using a SAN though, it probably won't make any difference since most modern SANs move data around as needed and spread it across multiple disks all unknown to the OS. If you are using internal physical disks, you will most likely see a difference - outer is faster than the inner because the head that reads the disk can read more on the outer edge because more disk is passed under it in a single disk rotation. |
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the center is the fastest on a disk - obviously this works only when you don't use raid 5 or SAN - you place it while you are creating the lv - either via smitty or with -a c option
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The center is fastest? Outer tracks would have more sectors so as the disk spins, the head is able to read more sectors in a single disk rotation, right?
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the outer edge of the disk has a faster rotational velocity than the slower inner edge and will whip around much more quickly on the outside than in the middle. However, because not all the data on the disk will be written to the outer edge as a result of the limitations of the physical placement of the data, the fastest seek times for the hard disk heads will be in the center area of the disk, where the head is most likely to pass on average.
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I guess that is why UNIX gives the option of where you want the data because if you are worried about seek times, you'd want the data in the middle, if you were wanting raw speed to save a smaller number of large files, you'd be better off putting it on the outer edges... to each his own. Long live UNIX.
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IMHO the problem is placement within regions based on application activity. The basic concept you want to follow: if the access is sequential in application terms the best I/O performance is achieved when the physical I/O access is sequential. When application I/O is random there are many different things to consider - one of them being - is the I/O still physical, or is it VMM cached, or application cached. In short, with modern systems (assuming more than one or two disks, i.e., separate volume groups for each application's data) there is no one best place. Assuming some physical relationship the only advice that remains is that AIX LVM mirrored logical volumes with lots of write activity may benefit from being placed on the outer edge because the VGSA - Volume Group Status Area - is on the outer edge and gets updated anytime a mirrored LP is modified. command you should look at: lslv - options: none, and with -l lspv -p Code:
michael@x054:[/home/michael]lslv lvDAV LOGICAL VOLUME: lvDAV VOLUME GROUP: vgData LV IDENTIFIER: 005d858f00004c0000000115722f3acc.15 PERMISSION: read/write VG STATE: active/complete LV STATE: closed/syncd TYPE: jfs2 WRITE VERIFY: off MAX LPs: 1024 PP SIZE: 16 megabyte(s) COPIES: 1 SCHED POLICY: parallel LPs: 1024 PPs: 1024 STALE PPs: 0 BB POLICY: relocatable INTER-POLICY: minimum RELOCATABLE: yes INTRA-POLICY: middle UPPER BOUND: 6 MOUNT POINT: N/A LABEL: None MIRROR WRITE CONSISTENCY: on/ACTIVE EACH LP COPY ON A SEPARATE PV ?: yes Serialize IO ?: NO INFINITE RETRY: no Code:
michael@x054:[/home/michael]lslv -l lvDAV lvDAV:N/A PV COPIES IN BAND DISTRIBUTION hdisk1 1024:000:000 0% 000:000:541:483:000 This looks "bad" or less than ideal - 0% and in two regions - however, in physical terms it is a sequential as it gets. A simple command will improve the 0% to >50% (see below). Code:
michael@x054:[/home/michael]lspv -p hdisk1 | grep lvDAV 2085-2625 used center lvDAV jfs2 N/A 2626-3108 used inner middle lvDAV jfs2 N/A Here, I can see the logical volume is organized sequentially - starting in the center region, and proceeding into the "inner middle" region as one long sequence. Now to get better stats I can do the following: (change the preferred region to center from middle) Code:
michael@x054:[/home/michael]chlv -a center lvDAV 0516-652 chlv: The -a parameter for IntraPolicy must be m, im, c, ie or e. michael@x054:[/home/michael]chlv -a c lvDAV michael@x054:[/home/michael]lslv -l lvDAV lvDAV:N/A PV COPIES IN BAND DISTRIBUTION hdisk1 1024:000:000 52% 000:000:541:483:000 Hope this helps! |
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June 3, 2012 1:14 pm Disappointing judgment day for Mubarak Egypt's former dictator sentenced to life, Palestinian youths suffer exam-day jitters, and the remarkable traits of rosewater By Jed Halfon
May 27, 2012 1:58 pm Tensions in Lebanon and (possible) recounts in Egypt Also, Salafists riot in Tunisia, while Bahrain turns off Iranian TV By Jed Halfon
May 26, 2012 2:47 pm Egyptian elections and Iranian inspections (and more talks) The Arab world reacts to Mohammed Morsi and Ahmed Shafiq's success in the first round of Egypt's presidential election; and, will the West fall in love with Iran despite Friday's discovery of enriched uranium? By Jed Halfon
May 20, 2012 2:37 pm Jerusalem Day seen through Arab eyes Media questions viability of Palestinian capital in East Jerusalem, attempts to explain Lebanon violence, and laughs with a new cartoon character By Jed Halfon
May 19, 2012 3:25 pm Expectation, confusion, speculation in run-up to Egypt's vote Negative tactics, focus on candidates' wives, as presidential campaign enters final days By Jed Halfon
May 16, 2012 7:32 pm The Tal Law: A lesson from Egypt As the new coalition gears up to reexamine the issue of haredi conscription, perhaps a few pearls of wisdom from Israel's southern neighbor are in order By Jed Halfon
May 13, 2012 3:25 pm What difference will Kadima make? Arab papers try to make sense of Mofaz… and of the secularist win in Algeria By Jed Halfon
May 12, 2012 3:52 pm Nasrallah makes waves with verbal assault on Israel Hezbollah leader and others trade accusations over Damascus bombings By Jed Halfon
May 9, 2012 6:08 pm Let the Egyptian military restore quiet in the Sinai Israeli policymakers would be well advised to dial back the rhetoric and see regime change as a unique opportunity, one that can provide a short window to improve security on both sides of the border at no risk to Israel By Jed Halfon
May 6, 2012 8:39 pm Lamenting Netanyahu's likely re-election The Arab media focuses, fairly bleakly, on voting in Israel, France and the US By Jed Halfon
May 5, 2012 3:02 pm In Egypt, the unrest is spreading Palestinian hunger-strikers touch a chord, Libya nears elections By Jed Halfon
April 29, 2012 3:58 pm A 'summer cloud' over Egypt-Saudi ties Crisis in relations sees lawyer arrested, embassy held; ex-security chief also makes headlines By Jed Halfon
April 28, 2012 3:36 pm Arab press wonders: Is Israel going to attack or not? Commentators try to make sense of the Barak-Gantz contradictory statements on Iran By Jed Halfon
April 21, 2012 2:40 pm Egyptians coming to terms with presidential disqualifications? Iran cracks down on its Ahwazi Arab minority By Jed Halfon