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December 11, 2006 The Week in QuotesDecember 4-11YOU THINK IT WAS TOUGH FOR YOU-KEN ROSENTHAL'S WIFE WAS SO BORED SHE WATCHED THE ENTIRE RUN OF 'BABYLON 5'
"This was one of the more miserable winter meetings I've ever been to. Between the lack of activity and the volcanic (free agent) market, it was tough."
"We've laid some plans. This could serve as a springboard. It's not by design; we wanted to get things done here. Sometimes when you get away and get back home with your own people, you talk and you can get things done. Technically, the meetings aren't over. But I don't remember a quieter winter meetings." HE MAY HAVE SIGNED JUAN PIERRE TO A MULTIYEAR DEAL, BUT WHAT OTHER EXECUTIVE WORKS HARDER TO SCREW OVER HIS TEAM?
"Cracked my old one in the Dominican Republic a couple of weeks ago. Kept it together during the winter meetings with Scotch tape."
"If it takes a kid or two to acquire somebody we really like, then we'll do it. If there's a player out there who can make a difference, and if we can have him for a little while, we'll do it." CAN DODGERS FANS FILE A SUIT TO ADDRESS ALLEGED TAMPERING IN NED COLLETTI'S BRAIN FUNCTION?
"If I can ever figure out how this thing works." NO NEED TO LAUGH, HE'S GOT A LOT ON HIS PLATE RIGHT NOW: NEW CELL PHONE, JUAN PIERRE BOBBLEHEAD NIGHT, DECIDING WHERE TO SHIP LOGAN'S HEROES
"We haven't reached a decision yet."
"That's not true. There's nothing to that." EVER HEARD OF SCOTT BORAS? REALLY, NO? WELL HE HAS ONE PARTICULAR M.O.
"I don't think he's the kind of player who would walk away from $33 million without some idea of what was out there."
"I did my due diligence. There were a number of teams that need a 3, 4 or 5 hitter, and J. D. was the only center fielder. I went to the Dodgers a week before the opt-out date and had lunch with Colletti. I had not yet met with J. D. I said if you want to talk about it, we are prepared to talk because J. D. has enjoyed his time in L. A."
"This is nothing other than a standard, customary free-agency evaluation for me. I thought it was a very easy decision." A MYSTERIOUS SOURCE FROM NO ORGANIZATION IN PARTICULAR
"There's a lot of animosity between the organizations right now for a lot of reasons, but if (the Dodgers file tampering charges), they better realize that they're coming right back at them."
"Actually, most GMs feel it was a stupid sign and they did the Dodgers a favor." THE AUTHOR OF THE ADAM EATON DEAL SPEAKS! WHAT SAYETH PAT?
"Clubs have to make decisions based on their financial position as well as ... the quality of the talent. Maybe some of the clubs don't believe the quality is there. They don't want to sign a contract, basically, that they might regret a year from now."
"If you put players in a certain level, or category, it's probably better to set the market as opposed to follow it."
"A lot of people thought we were nuts at the time."
"Coming into the winter meetings, it was much more difficult for teams [to gauge it]. Our point of view is pretty much akin to what has happened. My theory on this is it's much easier for the market to speak rather than me on value, and that has proven to be true." USUALLY THE ROYALS JUST PLAIN BLOW, SO THIS IS AT LEAST DIFFERENT
"We had a nice offer on the table, but Kansas City just blew us away. Gil is a 28-year-old and can still get better and pitch a long time, so I'm not surprised [by the five-year offer]."
"Look, we could have gone out and spent 4 to 6 million dollars on a fourth or fifth starter. That's how much those guys cost now. But we didn't want to do that. We look at Gil Meche, and we think he's a guy who could be ready to take off and become an upper-echelon pitcher. He has dominant stuff. He has tremendous makeup. And he wants to be here. To me, it was a no-brainer."
"Is there a risk? Of course there is. � But my philosophy is this: Get the player. We think Gil Meche is the right guy for us." THE RICCIARDI FOR COMMISSIONER MOVEMENT STARTS NOW. WE WILL BE MEETING IN MY BASEMENT. THERE WILL BE SUN CHIPS
"When a guy talks about coming to our place where he has a chance to win and compete against the Yankees and the Red Sox, and then he goes to a place like Kansas City, that's an eye-opener."
"(Ricciardi) is an interesting guy for all that he's done in the game. He's a little guy with a big mouth and all he does is whine. And you can write that. That's the kind of crap in this game that drives me crazy. He knows nothing about our situation. You've got to be kidding me. Every time I hear this guy talk, all he's doing is whining."
"He fits in with our long-term plan. He's the guy that we focused on. He's the youngest guy out there with the best raw stuff entering the prime of his career." CLIFF CAN DRIVE US ANYWHERE GIVE HIM THE KEYS HE CAN DO AS HE PLEASES IT MAY NOT ALWAYS BE EASY
"Cliff Floyd will probably never be off our radar."
"People are saying, 'You guys got any money left?' People are aware that we have done a lot of things. And for a while, we were driving the bus for the whole industry. And now that has slowed down a little bit where other people are making the moves that they have to make, too." ACCORDING TO PECOTA, JOE CUB FAN SHOULD BE ON HIS SECOND STINT IN REHAB BY YEAR 6 OF THE SORIANO DEAL
"We feel a tremendous obligation. When you look under the term long-suffering, you see a Cubs fan. It's really important for us to win for them. We belong to these guys."
"We have jokingly said that anybody can have a bad century." SHOW HIM THE MONEY MEOW
"It's certainly our intentions to make sure the athlete's true intentions are communicated to the club. And that will be done personally, by phone, to let them know his mind-set about what's going to happen. And I think it's important to communicate to the fans and people in Japan what Daisuke's personal position is after review of the economics, the rules, the model, and his understanding of the negotiation to date. It's his decision in the end that will drive this."
"When I see midlevel pitchers perform, and when they're being paid, they're being paid $40 million, $50 million over four or five years, the fact is, this player's abilities are better. And everyone knows it, everyone admits it, and I'm not being an advocate for the player when I say that. I'm merely repeating the observations of most trained baseball observers."
"The greatest evidence of that is the numerous teams who bid not $10 million, not $20 million, but $30, $40, $50 million dollars to acquire the player and his rights unilaterally."
"The gravity of the harm to the Japanese player really was never evident to the magnitude that it is here. Ichiro was an MVP in his first year, but the truth of the matter is no one really knew how Ichiro was going to do. The fact of the matter is, Ichiro proved that for the Japanese player, this is not something that should happen again." MIKE PELFREY AND PHILIP HUMBER ARE LIKE, "OMAR, WHO KEEPS CALLING YOUR CELL PHONE?"
"Some guys have emerged who I didn't know were available until I got here."
"I'd approach me on that one."
"I'd approach me on that one, too." IS NED COLLETTI AWARE OF THIS? HE HASN'T SET UP HIS VOICEMAIL YET
"There are guys coming out of college who are 22 years old."
"He's a power arm, and it's tough for me to pass on power arms." GOD MUST HAVE KICKED IN A SIGNING BONUS
"My elbow feels pretty good. My wife and kids have no desire for me to retire right now. They don't want me to be at the house. I thought they would."
"Was it tough to make that decision? Yeah, especially after being in Houston in this laid-back lifestyle. I know New York is where God wants me and where he's put me for this year. I'm just looking forward to helping them win another World Series. That's the goal." THIS GUY COULD HAVE MADE BENITO MUSSOLINI SMELL LIKE MOTHER TERESA
"You get to the Hall of Fame mainly through the voting of baseball writers. I just hope that the writers judge the players on what they did on the field."
"It's a shame what happened with Palmeiro. I think the owners and the players' union are making every effort to eliminate performance-enhancing drugs in baseball. The program we have in place is really good."
"After the numbers are there, you've got to accept them. Players in the past went out and played drunk and did their job. And for me, alcohol is a drug." THE REST
"If we had to go to spring training next week, we have our rotation and we are close to putting our bullpen together. We have enough talent among our position players to be competitive. . . . On paper, we can compete with everybody."
"The biggest thing is just kind of making what was the poster everything you want it to be. I liken it to how Tivo has revolutionized what you always wanted your VCR to be. People bought posters to get in the game, to feel like they were there with the players. With Fatheads, they're lifelike. Ortiz has a dirt mark on his leg because he was sliding in the game. Rivera is ready to whip a fastball at you, and it looks like he's coming out of the wall. It takes your poster and makes it lifelike, gives it action -- three-dimension -- that you just don't get from a normal poster."
"There is a lot of hard work involved in developing a player and I think you're copping out if you take a kid like Rickie just because he's struggling a little bit (and move him). You're telling the world that you don't want to work with this kid and make the kid better. 'Send him to the outfield where it's easier.' I don't do that."
"I can unequivocally state that nonwood bats are no more dangerous than their wooden counterparts. Baseball is not without risk. If New York City were to ban nonwood bats for high school players, those kids would be no more safe than when they take the field today."
"We've had a lot of dialogue, and we'll continue to talk. There are a lot of moving parts in the market at this point. For whatever reason, it looks like the market is not going to play out until late December."
"Some teams have asked me about playing. The reason I was home was the (three) kids. But if I have to go on the road I might as well try to play...they asked me and I am going to start working out."
"Regardless of how the votes come out, over time we have to address the story as it unfolds. We're collecting information. Eventually this era will have to be explained so that younger generations have the same understanding about McGwire as they did about Ty Cobb. It's just that it is premature right now. But we would never take the stuff down from McGwire. We're not revisionists. Steroids, while a black eye for society, will be addressed at our museum�How do you explain this to little kids?" Alex Carnevale is a contributor to Baseball Prospectus. You can reach Alex by clicking here. You can also find his Football Outsiders work here. 0 comments have been left for this article.

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text: World of Warcraft to Sell Virtual Kittens to Raise Money for Sandy ReliefKate Cox11/08/12 6:30pmFiled to: World of WarcraftBlizzardPCHurricane55EditPromoteShare to KinjaToggle Conversation toolsGo to permalink Okay. I may not love playing World of Warcraft, but I am happy to give credit where credit is due: this is both cute and awesome. World of Warcraft is adding a new pet to their pet store. First, it's a kitten, which is just great on general principles. Second, it's on fire, which is impressive if impractical. But third, and most importantly, the purchase price of the fiery feline goes entirely to help recovery efforts from Sandy and other natural disasters.Hurricane Sandy, which kept our site offline for a week, left a trail of devastation in both the Caribbean and the American northeast. The cinder kitten costs $10, all of which will go to the American Red Cross. Cute and charitable? That's a winning combination. Advertisement Advertisement Cinder Kitten Charity Drive for Superstorm Sandy Coming Soon [World of Warcraft]Reply55 repliesLeave a reply


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Griffin preparing for physical, psychological battle
PLAYA VISTA – Blake Griffin knows what's coming.
For as few as four games and as many as seven, Zach Randolph is going to do pretty much anything he can in order to make Griffin miserable on the court during the Clippers' playoff series against the Memphis Grizzlies.
And it'll be Griffin's job not to react, to keep playing no matter how much pushing or pulling goes on.
"I just know it's coming. And I have to deal it," Griffin said Friday. "That's his whole M.O., to frustrate guys and do his thing under the basket and play a physical game.
"But I like playing physical too."
Griffin's physicality could be hampered by a sore back, an injury that sprang up Tuesday and was aggravated Wednesday. Griffin's lower back tightened up and began to spasm.
While he said it didn't affect his production against the Sacramento Kings Wednesday, Griffin scored just seven points on 3-of-10 shooting.
After receiving treatment Thursday and Friday, Griffin said the injury isn't serious.
"It shouldn't be a problem," he said. "It's still a little tender, for a lack of a better word, but it's not as bad as it was the other night."
Griffin said the back problem is not as serious as the knee injury he suffered against Memphis in the playoffs last season.
"This isn't really comparable to last year. Last year was a lot different. I'm happy to be mostly healthy going into this playoff run," he said.
Griffin and Clippers center DeAndre Jordan will be tested every game against Memphis thanks to Randolph and Grizzlies center Marc Gasol, who Vinny Del Negro called the NBA's best "one-two punch" in the frontcourt.
But after facing the two players last season, Chris Paul is confident in his young teammates.
"The biggest thing we have going into the playoffs this year that we didn't have last year is more experience and that's from two of our key guys in Blake and D.J.," Paul said.
Griffin said he has a better grasp on just how physical the series will be.
"I feel like I know what to expect a lot more this year," Griffin said. "Last year, I thought I knew what to expect. But it's a whole new ballgame. I'm looking forward to it."
Chauncey Billups was with the Clippers for both rounds of the playoffs last season, both at home and on the road. But he wasn't in uniform.
This year, it's different.
"For me, I'm just excited to be out here and not have to watch, sitting in a suit. This is great for me," he said. "Obviously, I felt like I could've helped the team in the playoffs. This year, I'll have that opportunity. I'm just excited to really be back at it."
Billups, who has missed time in the last month because of a strained right groin muscle, said he's feeling healthy, but he'll still be limited to less than 30 minutes a game.
Valued for his playoff experience, Billups said there's one thing that matters more than anything else in the playoffs.
"Everybody has to be pulling in the same direction. At this point, it doesn't matter who scores the points, who gets the shots," Billups said. "Nothing matters but winning. Being on the same page, executing offensively and defensively is all that really matters at this point."
The Clippers head into the playoffs with a seven-game winning streak, the second-longest in the NBA. The Miami Heat has won eight in a row. ... The Clippers had a light practice Friday, with most of the time spent going over the game plan for the Grizzlies. "It was time to hone in," Billups said. ... In Game 1 last spring, the Clippers came back from 27 down to steal a victory in Memphis. "That game was crazy," Billups said, "but that probably won't happen again."
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Nokia and Siemens To Merge Network Units
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Nokia and Siemens are expected to announce a joint venture created with each of the companies' network equipment units. The new company will be headquartered in Finland and is to be headed by a Nokia executive, although ownership in the venture is said to be 50/50. The companies likely struck the deal to combine research expenses in network equipment, as well as to better compete against Ericsson and Lucent/Alcatel, which are both much larger than either company alone. Although Siemens is half owner of the new venture, its role in the cellular industry is waning. The company has sold off its handset business to BenQ and will have a smaller role than Nokia in this joint venture. This is Nokia's second joint venture of the year. In February Nokia announced it would merge its CDMA handset unit with that of Sanyo.
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Download of the Day: Fraps 2.9.99
Our Download of the Day today is Fraps 2.9.99.
Fraps is a universal Windows application that can be used with games using DirectX or OpenGL graphic technology. In its current form Fraps performs many tasks and can best be described as:
Benchmarking Software - Show how many Frames Per Second (FPS) you are getting in a corner of your screen. Perform custom benchmarks and measure the frame rate between any two points. Save the statistics out to disk and use them for your own reviews and applications.
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A Vote of Confidence by Toyota*
Last month, I wrote an update on Japan's efforts to cope with the Great East Japan Earthquake of March 11. One of the most dramatic discoveries during my trip to Tokyo was the buzz about the possibility that Japan's continuing energy problems would encourage an exodus of industrial investment in Japan.
The shock was not the uncertainty about Japan's future, but rather that the companies that were losing faith in Japan as a site for future investment was none other than Japan's own industrial leaders. Read more »


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Lush Life is my first audio book of 2009 and I doubt that I will find a better combination of author and reader the rest of the year. Richard Price is a master of dialogue regardless of the class or color of his characters and Bobby Cannavale, the television and movie actor giving life to the characters here, handles them all with ease.
Rather surprisingly, despite the length and heft of Lush Life, its plot centers around a simple armed robbery that goes bad because of two of the people involved, one of them a victim, and the other, one of the robbers. Two people, each totally unprepared for what is happening to them at that moment, are suddenly eyeball-to-eyeball and, to the surprise of both of them, one is shot dead.
Ike Marcus, a young white guy out on the town with two friends, refuses to accept the fact that two black teens expect him to hand over his valuables despite the pistol one of them is aiming at him. After he mutters what would be his last words, "Not tonight, my man," he is struck by a single bullet and falls to the ground mortally wounded. On the other side of that pistol stands Tristan Acevedo, a young man holding a gun for the first time in his life and who is stunned to realize that he has reflexively pulled its trigger after Ike Marcus foolishly stepped toward him.
Lush Life is not a whodunit. There is never any doubt as to the murderer's identity or motive. Instead, Price takes a frank look at everyone involved in, or affected by, the crime: the three robbery victims, the two robbers, family and friends of all of them, the police charged with figuring it all out, and the people who live in the neighborhood where it all happens.
The book is largely conversational, perfect for an audio presentation, and the way that Price allows his characters to express themselves makes them seem very real. We get into the heads of those black kids living on the project streets, kids so caught up in the drug culture that they are oblivious to any other possibilities. We suffer along with Ike's father, an articulate man driven by confusion and despair to hang out near the crime scene in hopes that he will overhear someone bragging about the murder. We admire Matty Clark, a good detective and a decent man, who takes a personal interest in Ike's family and risks his own career by fighting to keep the investigation as active as possible. We sympathize with Eric Cash, another of the robbery victims, who has his life almost destroyed by what happens to him after the crime. We sneer at the way the robbery's third victim uses his fifteen minutes of fame to advance his show business career.
Even more amazingly, we come to know dozens of people around the core of main characters, each of them adding bits of color and detail to the world so clearly illustrated in Lush Life. I seldom suggest that readers opt for the audio version of a book over its written one, but I am doing it this time.
Lush Life is a very good book, one you have to hear to really appreciate at its most powerful.
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By Wendy Shapiro | Posted 2010-12-09 Email PrintBy automating the financial-close process, Atlas Air freed up time, money and resources.
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I liked the fact that all financial-close data and supporting documentation are housed in one place. The software also organizes and manages thousands of our documents that previously were stored on disparate servers across the globe.
In addition, I was pleased that the BlackLine suite didn't replace our JD Edwards financial system. Instead, it holds data that can either be pushed from BlackLine (such as approved journal entries) or pulled from our financial system (such as general-ledger balances and transactions).
As information is updated in our financial system, reconciliations that were certified become decertified, and notifications of pending action are immediately sent, thereby alerting the recipient that further review is required. There's no threat that last-minute entries won't be included in the hard-copy, signed reconciliations being reviewed by the auditors.
When reconciliations are fully reviewed and certified, they become available for review by both internal and external auditors. Original signed reconciliations are not signed out and tracked because they reside within the software. At all times, the overall status of the close process can be monitored and gauged for completeness. SOX 404 tasks that are performed—whether monthly, quarterly or annually—can be monitored. And we can place standard journal-entries checklists in the system as tasks and monitored for completeness.
Because the BlackLine suite is deployed in a software as a service (SaaS) environment, with no additional IT hardware required, it offered us a low capital cost solution. Also, since the interfaces were relatively simple, the software required very little IT resources to implement.
We decided to implement the software in a phased approach to manage the process change more effectively. The first phase centered on the implementation of the reconciliations and balance-sheet variances. This phase required building an interface from our existing JD Edwards financial system to the BlackLine system.
It took approximately two months from the start to complete the implementation of this phase. Training the accounting group was easy, and most people found that a one-day course was sufficient, as this was a Web-based solution.
The second and third phases of the implementation entailed adding close-procedure tasks and automating the interface feed from the company's financial system. Finally, we had to expand the software to enable journal-entry creation.
Throughout the implementation process, I found the BlackLine team to be flexible and open to suggestions regarding our requirements and where we thought changes would be necessary. By the end of the software implementation, the slight modifications that were added enhanced the roll-forward capabilities, workflow and user-interaction experience.
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Except for the mountainous section in the northeast (the southern end of the Cumberland Plateau) Alabama is a rolling plain with an average elevation of c.500 ft (150 m) in two geologic regions—the Appalachian Piedmont above the fall line and the coastal plain below. These plains, drained by the Alabama and the Tombigbee rivers and their tributaries, are primarily devoted to agriculture. Montgomery is the capital and Birmingham the largest city of Alabama. Mobile is the state's major seaport. Places of interest in Alabama include Russell Cave National Monument, near Bridgeport, the site of caves that were inhabited almost continuously from 6000 B.C. to A.D. 1650, and Mound State Monument, near Tuscaloosa, the site of numerous early Native American mounds.
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The Perils of Not Being Parallel
By Michael Vizard | Posted 2008-02-21 Email PrintFailure to code for multicore processors will paralyze enterprises.
If you work at a company that depends on just about any type of software to maintain a competitive edge over your rivals, the foundation you count on to provide that edge is quite literally changing right beneath your feet.
Driving this fundamental change to all things software is a new generation of multicore processors that everybody knows about but, as yet, does not fully appreciate. That's because, just as with every great innovation that comes our way, we tend to use new things to do the same old things faster. In this case, we're using multicore processors to run existing single-threaded applications faster.
What we're not doing en masse is writing applications in parallel so that different parts of the application are executed simultaneously. Generally referred to as parallel programming, this new approach to software has the potential to help companies that adopt it first gain a substantial first-mover advantage over their competitors.
That's what Jeffrey Birnbaum, chief technology architect at Merrill Lynch, expects to see happen. It's still early days when it comes to parallel programming and there is an acute shortage of parallel programming talent, but Birnbaum is advising his colleagues that they might be ignoring the most radical change in computing in the past 30 years to their peril. As he puts it, the opportunity to leapfrog competitors by making the right investments is definitely at hand.
The problem for the industry as a whole is that the past four generations of programmers have been living in the shadow of a Moore's Law construct that promised them their applications would double in performance every 18 months — even if they did next to nothing to make that happen. As a result, many of them have become lax about optimizing code to get the best performance out of it.
Worse yet, Java or Microsoft application development tools have allowed programmers to develop applications at a high level of abstraction. The end result is that many of them are no longer familiar with the actual memory architecture of the underlying system. But in order to build a successful parallel application, you need to be familiar with the underlying memory system that powers that application. In other words, we all need to get close to the metal again.
Birnbaum fears we may be laying the groundwork for a major software crisis because most of the universities in the world have not taught the limited number of programmers we have how to develop applications in parallel. Some, like the University of Waterloo in Ontario, Canada, are reworking their curriculum. However, corporations are going to need to fund the retraining of multiple generations of programmers. And, as we all know, retraining anybody who has been doing something a particular way for a number of years is a hit-or-miss proposition.
Longer term, the rise of multicore processors will foster changes in the design of systems themselves. For the past 10 years, system design has tended to lean heavily on complex processors that owe much of their lineage to the concepts first brought forth by RISC processors. An alternative approach may be to rely more on a large number of simpler Pentium-class processors sharing the same memory core.
What might emerge from this is a model in which the number of cores available on the market doubles every 18 months, while the power of the individual processors attached to those cores remains relatively stable. Some pundits refer to this doubling of the number of memory cores as the "New Moore's Law."
Of course, there will still be some need for complex processors attached to multiple cores for some compute-intensive applications. However, hundreds of low-cost Pentium-class processors sharing the same memory core could theoretically handle most data-processing applications just fine. That approach would cost less, use less electricity and throw off fewer carbons.
It will be awhile before all the great minds work through all the new system permutations made possible by multicore processors. But we can already see their potential today, so the only unknown question is how many corporations are going to have the intellectual capital at hand to take advantage of them. Those that do are likely to become the leading players in their vertical industry segments, while those that don't may be wondering just what went wrong for years to come.
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Fry the ginger garlic paste and add in the meat.
Cook till it turns golden.
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Sauté for 2-3 minutes.
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Braid Review
Tim has lost his Princess and you've got to help him find her. There's not much to say about Braid without giving away some spoilers, but here we go with a concise attempt.
Braid at its core is a puzzle game based within a platformer ala Super Mario Brothers. Its general controls are very familiar... you can run, jump on an enemy's head to knock them away, and reach an end point to the level with relative ease. The real test comes within acquiring the 60 puzzle pieces located throughout the game's 5 worlds. Each world has a specific gameplay mechanic it introduces that you must utilize properly in order to reach the pieces, and each of these mechanics makes solving the puzzles very different.
The narrative is told through a set of books located at the beginning of each world which you can completely disregard if you'd like to. When I went through, I read carefully each block of text for the first two worlds then got tired at how annoyingly pretentious it sounded so I started to skim instead of read, but do yourself a favor and try to pay attention. You'll be happy you did in the endgame, which I will add, is probably the single best ending level I've seen in many, many years of gaming. Its simplistic in nature and style much like the overall game, isn't terribly long (also like the encompassing game), but wraps up everything very nicely and you may find yourself feeling some emotion as well.
Is Braid worth the high price of admission? When all is said and done, I'd say yes. There's very little replay value and you're likely to see everything the first time through (except for some easter eggs I've found out about after the fact), its relatively short (took me about 4 or 5 hours total after getting stuck on some wacked out puzzles) but the overall game is indeed worth the money.
People watching from the outside may just dismiss Braid as a Super Mario Brothers clone with a watercolor paining art style and they're not completely wrong. The game shamelessly steals simple platforming elements, enemy styles, and even level ending castles from the perennial classic. However when you dig beneath the surface and get into the meat and po-ta-toes (boil 'em, mash 'em, stick 'em in a stew) you'll find something that'll be generally different than anything you've played before.
Go play it and experience it.
- Great art style and music
- Truly mind bending and original
- The payoff at the end
- little/no replay value
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'Motrin Moms' Ad Disaster
A Motrin ad focusing on backaches caused by baby slings horribly backfired this weekend, and offended moms on Twitter are leading the charge against the company. Motrin has issued an official apology, and its site has been down since last night, but the PR disaster is still raging on Twitter and elsewhere around the Web. Judge for yourself whether the ad is offensive. Watch Video ›


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Wednesday, February 01, 2006
What? Another Knitting Post?
I would also like to talk about my Roomba. (it's related - you'll see) Yes, Rudy the Roomba was out and about again. We'd actually not used him in quite some time. When I came home last night the SO had him running around the living room. Our cat, Yogurt, is not afraid of Rudy but he's not too clever around Rudy, either. He kept laying down on the carpet and Rudy would bump into him. *sigh*
Later on the SO sent me a link to a website where you can see (and buy) COSTUMES for your Roomba. (He has forbidden me to even think about dressing Rudy up)
Between the knitter, with what seems to be homicidal tendancies towards toys, and the Roomba clothiers, I think we may be nearing the Last Days. Surely these are signs of the Apocalypse.
PS: you can also go to a site where someone has hooked up a web cam to their Roomba. And I thought the kitty litter cam was the weirdest thing ever. Where do I learn this stuff? From a blog-like website about Roombas, of course.
Roomba, Dawno, Cat Cam,
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9 comments:
- Mac said...
My friend, the memes are gonna make me grumpy, because I've noticed that your regular posts have dropped wayyyyyyy off--you do memes, instead.
I miss the rambling Dawno posts.
Thinkin' of ya. - 12:32 AM
- Unique said...
Therapy. You. Need. Therapy.
- Mark Pettus said...
I've got no room to talk, but...
I agree with mac. - 12:24 PM
- Dawno said...
ok, ok! yes, my regular posts have dropped off - my head isn't in a great place right now so I haven't had much to say that I want to share with all and sundry on T3hWeb.
I will stop posting the AW memes here, however - they'll just go up on the thread. Better? - 12:42 PM
- Mac said...
Well, not if you aren't planning to write real POSTS it's not better.
SOME content is better than NO content!
(At least you have readers willing to abuse you for not keeping us adequately entertained...) - 8:19 PM
- Mac said...
Oh dear--I do hope you know not to construe that first remark as criticism. I'm going to be all twitchy and concerned that I expressed myself badly, now.
Mostly, you have such a lovely, fresh, funny way of writing about things, with a distinctive, quirky voice. I got spoiled. :)
It's like when one of your favorite columnists goes on vacation, and they run old archived columns for a month, instead of fresh material-- it isn't awful, but you really miss your favorite column. - 8:23 PM
- Unique said...
Whatever it is you're doing, Dawno - keep doing it. I love to see Mac twitch.
heh. - 10:51 AM
- Dawno said...
Mac - stop twitching! I'm flattered that you liked my rambling Dawno posts enough to miss them. Mark, too. I don't want my blog to be all memes either. I'm letting a number of things get a behind around here - you should see my laundry pile. You don't want to see my kitchen sink.
Unique, I can't. It's just not in my nature. - 11:00 AM
- Julia said...
(That is all. I love you, Dawno.) - 12:25 PM


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"IT'S THE QUIET ones", as dear departed Ian McDonald once said, "that you shouldn't underestimate". Listening back to my tape after an hour at L'Ermitage Hotel, Beverly Hills, home-from-home (if your home comes equipped with doormen, potted palms, Mexican maids and computerised keyholes), I'm reminded just how quiet Mick Jones is and make a note not to underestimate him.
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The Auckland UFB zone extends from Long Bay in the north, to Swanson in the west and to Drury and Papakura in the south.
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Enjoy the Crowne Plaza London - Kings Cross's central location, 15 minutes' walk from King's Cross St Pancras Rail Station. Friendly staff greets you as you enter the marble-floored Lobby of the modern Crowne Plaza London - Kings Cross. Settle into an air-conditioned Family room for 4 and head down to chic Ozone Health & Fitness Club for an invigorating workout and relaxing swim, sauna and steam.
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Sales of Toledo-made SUVs continued to fall behind 2008 levels in August, as Chrysler Group LLC overall Tuesday reported a 15 percent decline in sales as compared to August, 2008.
Sales of the Jeep Wrangler declined 13 percent in August from a year ago to 5,613 units. Jeep Liberty sales were down 28 percent last month to 3,359 units and Dodge Nitro sales fell 24 percent to 1,510 units.
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Would be a huge waste of resources to implement this, quite possibly the most pointless feature to add to a game.
Would be a huge waste of resources to implement this, quite possibly the most pointless feature to add to a game.
Remember it is not a game to those people, it is a religion. So when you have a different opinion it is not a different opinion it is heresy and sacrilege. They will attack anybody that says something negative. But they aren't the majority they are just extremely vocal zealots. There are plenty of people who also just have a different opinion and want to have an actual discussion they just got lost in the noise.
Really though as much as I love housing in other games, I don't think Blizzard could do it well. I mean seeing how they messed up the appearance tab, they seem to miss the point a lot recently with their decisions and considering how much resources it would take to do it, it would be a massive waste if they do it wrong, which seems a likely outcome.
Over the years I have come to the conclusion that people have different opinions and while some want housing there are also some that don't. Just because someone doesn't have the same opinion as you does not warrant calling them 'fanboys' for it and try to devalue their POV because you think they are 'fanboys'.


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- Member: doughboy
- Title: Iron Chef Tournament v2.0 - Round 2
- Premiered: 2005-11-19
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Here lies my entry for this contest that was created within a 2 hour editing period. I was assigned Ranma 1/2 Season 2 (box set) DVD 1 out of a possible list of 5 DVDs and the song I hadn't heard until 15 min before the match. Quite a ball-buster and brain-melter for sure, especially with this being an instrumental song and not having any guidelines to edit along besides some important beats here and there. Didn't help that my "opponent" was Zarxrax, as I knew this could prove to be a tough match to win... and he squeezed out the victory in the end.
I'm actually pretty surprised at the end result, as it was all thrown together quickly with a lot of subconscious clip decisions that I wasn't aware of until watching the piss outta it later that evening. I had rendered previews in Premiere but those didn't really give me a sense of how things were flowing or how the timing was since I couldn't watch it full screen. I think overall mine was skillfully manipulated, despite it's simplicity, and I recognize the execution above my competitor's video. I can easily concede that his fit better thematically, more so attributed to luck considering he had naughty clips to pair with "porn riffs." I had little luck in this competition due to getting two instrumental songs in a row. ;P
Ranma is a very dirty looking source that I knew full well about when I put it on my list, but thankfully AVISynth proved a very capable tool for cleaning it up and hiding it's true grotesque appearance. I've never had to color-correct, use complicated IVTC techniques, and play with sharpening sensitivities quite like this before, so it was certainly well worth the experience. I owe the IVTC method to Zarxrax, as he shared some scripting with me that worked quite well with hiding the awful telecine problems present in the Ranma source. I tried a bunch of alternatives just to be sure it was the way to go, but no others were worth using. The downside to all of this wonderful scripting was the render times, I've before never had to sit through 1-8 frames per second rendering.
This video is also the first released thing I've done in Premiere Pro, something I'm still trying to learn since it's very different from 6.0 and has a lot of great features I've previously used in After Effects. I only wish I'd spent a tad bit more time learning it, so I could've responded with some more complex layering and possibly some effects (provided they served a purpose).
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By Simon Gray – Last year may have been a relatively quiet year for Ireland's alternative fund services sector, and 2012 appears to promise more of the same, but "reports of the death of the administration industry are exaggerated", says Dermot Butler, chairman of Custom House Global Fund Services. And Butler ought to know, as the founder of the Custom House group in 1989, right at the start of the country's dizzying ascent to become a financial centre of international stature and a hub in particular of the global hedge fund industry.
A little over two decades later, Irish-based administration operations – not just in Dublin but scattered around the country, following a wave of expansion into satellite offices over the past decade – service around 43 per cent of global hedge fund assets, not only in locally-domiciled funds but a large slice of the offshore fund sector too. And that's not counting Ireland's sizeable share of the market for Ucits funds set up under the European Union regime for retail funds.
And while overall hedge funds are making heavy weather of the current economic climate and market conditions, curbing the industry's growth in 2011, there are plenty of reasons to believe that Ireland is capable of expanding its market share and its overall volume of assets under administration in the coming years, despite the crisis – and in certain respects perhaps even because of it.
The involvement of a regulated Irish service provider (plus in many cases a listing on the Irish Stock Exchange) has long been a comfort to investors in offshore funds, but today there is increasing pressure from certain institutional investors for access to regulated onshore-domiciled vehicles too. The jurisdiction's preponderant role in the servicing of alternative funds has undoubtedly been a factor in the increased use of Irish Qualifying Investor Funds over the past couple of years.
Meanwhile, the economic shocks that have hammered the Irish economy over the past four or five years, mostly stemming from the collapse of a real estate bubble, have at least had the effect of easing the cost pressures on financial services business. The crisis has pushed down commercial property rents and curbed what was at one time rampant salary inflation in the booming fund administration sector. In addition, lower staff turnover – job stability is much more prized than it was at the height of the boom – has helped administrators to offer improved continuity in client relationships, an important consideration for a service business.
A survey carried out around the beginning of this year by Deloitte, among fund administrators accounting for around 80 per cent of the assets serviced in Ireland, indicates that the industry feels under pressure from increasing client demands, notably concerning service levels, as well as continuing cost concerns. In addition, fee income has come under pressure as a result of volatility in asset levels and the fact fund launches have been smaller over the past year.
However, administrators also say they are benefiting from new business and additional asset volumes on the part of some existing clients, as well a shift in business onshore, and that they are improving productivity through the use of technology and lower staff turnover (down to an all-time low of 6 per cent, according to the report). Overall 40 per cent of survey respondents expected revenue growth of more than 20 per cent for the 2011 financial year.
Deloitte investment management advisory partner Brian Forrester says: "The fund industry employs over 11,000 people in Ireland in the administration of EUR1.8trn of assets, with assets exceeding EUR1trn in Irish-domiciled funds plus a further EUR820bn of non-Irish domiciled assets. The survey reveals excellent growth prospects for the industry. Demand for fund administration and associated custodial services has benefitted from the trend toward regulated fund offerings, as investors and supervisors demand greater oversight and transparency from hedge funds."
Chris DiNigris of software firm Koger echoes Deloitte's finding about the role of technology. "Our clients, which include fund and pension scheme administrators but also hedge fund managers, are trying to differentiate themselves in an increasingly competitive market by using best-in-class software. Each fiduciary is required to have proper systems in place, which might mean managers outsourcing to administrators that use such systems, and/or using them to monitor the work of external service providers."
The Deloitte survey says that the provision of a broader range of services to hedge fund managers is helping to mitigate lower income from fees for basic administration, a conclusion endorsed by State Street's Pat Hayes (pictured). "We have seen an increasing number of clients looking to outsource more of their middle office functions," he says. "Regulatory requirements are one of the catalysts.
"In addition, organisations are examining their footprint and cost base and seeking to focus more on asset management, benefiting from the fact that organisations like ourselves have the expertise to manage their middle and back office requirements. Whereas once we just did the accounting and back office for most clients, today we're now seeing increasing demand for middle office functions to help our clients manage their cost base more effectively."
Mark Mannion of BNY Mellon says that changes in the labour market in Ireland, and particularly in Dublin, have been central to the sector's improved competitiveness. "There has been a remarkable reversal in the labour market between 2007 and this year," he says. "Now administrators and custodians have access to graduates at a very competitive price, and turnover is at an all-time low because staff are conscious of the benefits of staying with one employer rather than trying to move around.
"Meanwhile, Ireland has built up a specialist pool of labour because such a large proportion of global alternative investment assets are serviced here. This very talented pool of expertise is now available at a much more competitive rate than would have been the case five years ago. That could explain why some new players entered the market in 2011, for the first time in a while, and in Dublin as well. In addition, rents in Dublin are now very competitive again."
Earlier this decade many of the largest service providers established satellite offices – in some cases two or three – in other parts of Ireland as a pressure valve to cope with increased costs resulting from intense competition for skilled staff and high levels of other overheads in Dublin. Today that trend has largely run its course, both because cost issues in Dublin are less pressing and because most of the service providers of a scale to set up satellite operations have already done so.
"The major players had already taken those initiatives," says Tara Doyle at Matheson Ormsby Prentice. "There weren't really any employers of sufficient size or scale left to look outside Dublin. But it's not a not a sign that people have lost faith in that model. Employment is continuing to grow among all the largest service providers, both in Dublin and outside, it's just that it's more low-key than in the Celtic Tiger days."
UBS Fund Services' Don McClean says quality of service is a paramount requirement for Ireland as a domicile and that satellite offices have enabled firms to maintain high standards without their costs escalating. "Providing high-quality service and controlling cost is an important balance to maintain. Operations located outside Dublin remain an important cost control mechanism for service providers. Some also outsource certain activities to low-cost jurisdictions, but that can be difficult to implement without impacting quality of service."
Butler believes that a combination of factors is likely to lead to further consolidation in the hedge fund services industry – something that has in any case been underway for years as some of the biggest global financial institutions started to build a presence in the sector by buying up some of the mostly private standalone administrators that used to predominate a decade ago.
"I see continuing consolidation in the administration sector as the big get bigger," he says. "Although another trillion dollars may flow into hedge funds, that may not mean a commensurate huge increase in the number of funds, simply that some existing funds have become very big. That is likely to mean that very big funds will have to go to very big administrators, like Northern Trust and Bank of New York Mellon.
"They may not even be looking at firms whose assets under administration are counted even in tens of billions rather than hundreds of billion, because of the perception that smaller firms pose a greater risk. Alternatively, managers may choose to spread the risk by having different funds with different administrators. Either way, we will probably see a continuation of the pattern of the past 10 years, where small administrators either get taken over or become medium-sized and start acquiring other small ones, and eventually they become attractive to somebody very big."
The future environment, Butler acknowledges, will also favour to some extent administrators that are part of a group that also offers custody. "At Custom House we have always found it difficult to get a bank to act as custodian to a fund we administer, which means we have never serviced many Irish-domiciled hedge funds," he says. But the question will become more acute when the AIFM Directive eventually requires all funds that seek distribution in Europe to appoint a depositary, as Irish funds already do.
As it stands, the directive will leave depositaries liable for any loss of assets in their custody or that of a sub-custodian, unless they can demonstrate that the loss "was a result of an external event beyond reasonable control, the consequences of which would have been unavoidable despite all reasonable efforts to the contrary".
This provision comes close to requiring depositaries to act as insurers of assets in their custody, and is expected to push up the cost of custody, perhaps considerably. But the risk will be less for groups, including many of the big players in the Irish market, that have their own global sub-custodian networks rather than relying on unaffiliated providers, and the cost implications may be mitigated where the same group provides both administration and custody services. Conversely, the environment could prove more difficult for administrators that are not affiliated with a custodian.
McClean believes it is difficult to predict the full effect on this industry until all the directive's implementing measures are finalised, but says: "There will be a direct relationship between depository costs and the liability of the depository – the higher the level of liability, the higher the levy depositories will apply. As a result of that increase in liability, you can expect to see further consolidation in the industry. At the same time, some fund managers will seek to avoid the impact of the directive and thereby higher cost structures for their vehicles."
Mark White of McCann FitzGerald agrees: "Either depositaries' costs will go up because they are insuring against the risk of something going wrong at the non-affiliated sub-custodian level, or they will be out of the market. The big firms will only get bigger, while the smaller firms will get squeezed. That was an argument made at the outset of discussions on the directive, that it would reduce the choice for managers, who would be forced to go with larger players.
"Obviously the bigger firms will be able to gear up better for the directive and other changes in the European legislative landscape, although smaller players can be more flexible when it comes to costs. I suspect it's getting tougher all the time for smaller and niche administrators specialising in the alternative space to continue to grow their business."
Maples and Calder's Stephen Carty adds: "While depositaries still have very strong views on the liability provisions, some have gotten more comfortable on risk, or at least taken a view on what they can accept, following Esma's level 2 recommendations, if they are accepted, and a clearer categorisation of the affected asset categories. It also appears that the application of comparable depositary requirements for non-EU funds could result in a more level playing field between those funds and their EU counterparts than at first anticipated."
Please click here [2] to download a copy of the Hedgeweek Special Report: Ireland Hedge Fund Services 2012 [3]


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CommandFormat currently allows options in any location within the args. This is not the intended behavior for FsShell commands. Prior to the redesign, the commands used to expect option processing to stop at the first non-option.
CommandFormat was an existing class prior the redesign, but it was only used by "count" to find the -q flag. All commands were converted to using this class, thus inherited the unintended behavior.
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HADOOP-7176 Redesign FsShell
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HADOOP-7995 GenericOptionsParser ought to have better options parsing, and not pick only the options in the front
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From June 1st through August 10th, 2013, teens grade 6 through 12 can participate in the library's summer reading program.
All participants who complete the program will receive the following:
- Free Messenger Bag
- Free passes to the KY Science Center, Locust Grove, Rauch Planetarium, Lousville Bats Baseball game, Squire Boone Caverns
- Free class at Hwang's Martial Arts
- Free Frosty from Wendy's
- Free Lemon Ice from Fazoli's
- Free passes to select UofL sporting events
All completed participants will be entered into our grand prize drawing for a chance to win:
- $100 gift card to Barnes & Noble Book Store
- Netbook Computer
- UofL Football Tickets
To complete the summer reading program, teens need to fill out and return the summer reading form after reading 6 books,eBooks, magazines, or graphic novels and completing 1 activity (such as attending a library program or commenting on our Teen Blog). Forms may be picked up and dropped off at any LFPL location during our normal operating hours. Click here to find a branch near you.
For a full list of teen programs, click here .
i really love reading and this program has really inspired me to check out books i never thought i would have read!!! i love the program and do it almost every summer. it also gets younger kids reading because of the different prizes and i think that is great!!!! i love to see younger kids reading and improving their comprehension skills. i also think it inspires older kids like us to read and read and reach certain goals we have set for ourselves. i love reading and would like to thank the libraries for all they do to get kids out there and start reading!!!!! :)
I really love books
I normally do not enjoy reading but the summer reading program makes it fun
I really love this program.Its a summer program that i think everyone should try.If they like reading books.
I agree with Pranav, this program does help teens like us to reach certain goals, also this program helps your mind to have an imagination, because when you read your mind paints the picture for you, and you actually understand what your reading. So I believe every teen should be in this program!.
im reading an awesome book
i havent actually started on this. but it seems very fun, and helpful.!
I like the summer reading program because it rewards me for reading new and interesting books. There is so much knowledge that I gain by doing the summer reading program. I recommend the teen summer reading program to anyone that enjoys learning about new interesting topics.
I really like the idea of this!!! I think it will help kids keep their reading comprehension skills up and have fun with it. I am just starting now, but I am really trying hard to read all 6 books. I think I am going to read some new books on my kindle!! Thank you LFPL for giving all teens an opportunity to read and earn prizes!!! :)
I think that this program motivates teens like us to reach certain goals.
I am reading the re-done Nancy Drew books . I used to think they were lame but the ROCk !!!!!!!
The re-done ones have 25 chapters, the old ons have 20 , and the new ones have 12 chapters .