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Scioscia's approach keys success
Small-ball style is root of Angels' perennial contention
By Lyle Spencer / MLB.com
ANAHEIM -- For a big man, Mike Scioscia has a deep, abiding belief in small ball. Mickey Hatcher, Scioscia's hitting coach for a decade, can pinpoint a turning point in the club's direction. It came in the planning stages of their third season, after the Angels had finished third in the American League West two years running, 10 games under .500.
"In 2002, when he sat down with the coaching staff [before Spring Training], he said, 'This is what to expect with Angels baseball,'" Hatcher said. "He laid it all out. That's when he came up with the philosophy you see in action today."We had a corps of guys that he thought we could win with playing a different style. [Ron] Roenicke was the third-base coach, and Mike stressed to Ron that we were going to run the bases aggressively, go first to third, pressure the other team." Hatcher, Scioscia's teammate with the Dodgers, was a driving force behind that franchise's memorable 1988 championship run. Hatcher played every inning of his career as if it could be his last, and his energy has served to drive and reinforce athletes under his watch. "I remember Troy Glaus and Tim Salmon saying, 'We can't hit a ground ball to second base,'" Hatcher said. "I told them, 'That's not what we're asking. Hit a deep fly ball to right field, and that'll move a guy over.' "It was a more aggressive way to play baseball, a whole mindset. Mike believed in it and didn't go away from it." Even with a club loaded with power, such as that 2002 outfit that went on to shock the baseball world with its run to a World Series title, Scioscia stressed first-to-third, move-the-runner-over, pressure baseball. "When I came up in '02 strictly as a pinch-runner and he turned me loose," said Chone Figgins, "I knew I was in the right place. This is the way the game should be played -- all out." As a leadoff catalyst and Gold Glove candidate at third base, Figgins has gone from role player to All-Star, taking full advantage of the freedom afforded by Scioscia. "He lets you play," Bobby Abreu said. "That's the best thing about Scioscia. He trusts you and lets you play the game." The new plan did not take flight quickly. The '02 Angels started 6-14, yet Scioscia persisted in stressing this new style, convinced it was the way to go. That's another of his qualities. He's like the character in the early Marvin Gaye classic -- a stubborn kind of fellow. "Mike would pull a guy over if he didn't go first to third," Hatcher said, "and he'd say, 'If you get thrown out, it's on me. I want you taking that base. Don't worry about making mistakes.'
"He was willing to take the heat, and that took some of the pressure off guys."Applying constant pressure on the opposition while relieving it internally -- that's the kind of intuitive thinking that has taken Scioscia's clubs to six division titles in his first 10 seasons, unprecedented in the history of managing. Scioscia is without argument the most successful manager in franchise history. He owns the most career wins, the only World Series title, the highest this and most that in pretty much everything that matters. He also has the security of a 10-year contract -- not that it impacts his hands-on, dedicated style and grinding nature. "He's the same guy he's always been," Roenicke, Scioscia's bench coach, said. "He's got great intelligence -- for the game and other things. Along with that, he's got common sense. They don't always go together. "He's very secure, very confident in his abilities. When he asked me to be his bench coach [after Joe Maddon left for Tampa Bay in 2006], I told him I was bringing my own opinions. He said he didn't want a yes-man." Yet ask him about himself, and that's the one time Scioscia will flip the "off" switch. "It's about the players and coaches, the organization, the scouting and development departments," he said. "It's not about me." He was raised by his parents in his eastern Pennsylvania youth to be selfless, and it seems to be working just fine. "The decision-making process gets much cleaner with experience," Scioscia said of his evolution as a manager. "You get more input from your staff, and options become much more defined. That helps you to hopefully make cleaner decisions." He'll talk about how enjoyable the ride has been, from that first staff in 2000 to today, and how everything is somehow connected to 2002, the great transforming season. Assessments of his worth and work will have to come from others. Fortunately, there are Mickey Hatchers around to crack open doors and offer glimpses into the back story of this remarkable run.
Lyle Spencer is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Conversation between Stephen Nathans, editor and myself, December 20, 2004:Nathans: So, now that you've spent more time testing with HDV, how do you like the Sony HDR-FX1?Me: It's an awesome camcorder. The camcorder to buy in 2005.Nathans: How does HDV look?Me: Great, surprisingly good. Makes me rethink all the negatives I've said in the past about MPEG-2 as an acquisition format.Nathans: So, did you shoot any real events in HDV? Me: Are you crazy?
It was right at that moment I knew that the nice, pleasant, straightforward review of the FX1 was about to morph into a complicated, frustrating, and potentially embarrassing first look at the HDV format itself. In my view, before the conversation, I could recommend the FX1 wholeheartedly simply for price and DV performance, with HDV a nice bonus if HD-DVD or Blu-ray ever came around.
From Steve's perspective, given the claims that video shot in HDV could ultimately be output in standard definition (SD)-resolution formats at higher quality than original DV footage shot at those resolutions--with zoomed and re-framed shots, for example--we needed to dig a bit deeper. Humming to myself the immortal Mellencamp lyrics "I fight authority, authority always wins," I said, "Sure Steve, I'll find my shovel."
Let me explain my reluctance to shoot in HDV. My first experience with technology was producing PC Fax boards back in 1995 when sending a fax from your PC was pretty compelling. My company's engineers were brilliant, ramblin' wreck Georgia Tech grads, each and every one--as the fight song goes--"a hell of an engineer."
We purchased the facsimile specification and conformed our technology precisely to the spec. In-house testing on our single facsimile machine was flawless, and we expected a problem-free release, since, of course, all other facsimile machines out there were similarly synched to the standard.
Long story short, our "JT Fax" worked with about 65% of the installed base of facsimile machines upon its release, and left us deluged with support calls. The lesson learned was that there's a long way between technology that works in the lab and technology you trust to ship to your customers and family (can you say "DVD+R DL," boys and girls?).
So, while I'm an unabashed technology cheerleader, I'm from Missouri when it comes to actually deploying new technology on a shoot. After all, during my time with the FX1, exactly whom did I want to test HDV acquisition on? The tae kwon do instructor when shooting his seven-year old daughter's demo? My wife for her ballet training DVD or class exhibition? Taimo Toomast, international opera star, for his concert? The VFW troop for their Veteran's Day show?
In the end, I copped out and performed these HDV acquisition tests on experimental, testing-only footage, not footage I was hoping to ship to customers.
My conclusion? I'm an HDV believer. It's not the second coming of DV, but it can be extremely useful in a number of circumstances, including when you need to down-sample the results to SD formats. I spent most of my time looking at 16:9 output, since that mirrors the 16:9 footage you get with the HDV. But it should also be possible to get good results even at 4:3 ratios, at least from a technology perspective.
Technology BackgroundLet's start with some background. First, though HDV video has a pixel resolution of 1440x1080, during display, the codec zooms the horizontal pixels out to 1920, providing an output resolution of 1920x1080--which, if you do the math, is an aspect ratio of 16:9. HDV is not unique in this regard; most HD formats don't store the entire HD frame, pixel for pixel.
Instead, they capture a subset of the image in pixels, and usually subdivide the information stored even further by dropping chrominance or luminance information. For more on this, see http://www.broadcastpapers.com/dcinema/PinnacleCinewave06.htm and http://www.hdforindies.com/2004/11/video-cameras-vs-videotape-image.
Note, however, one critical difference between HDV and other HD formats. To reduce the capture bandwidth so the stream can be captured onto DV tapes, HDV camcorders store video in MPEG-2 format. In contrast, most other HD formats, which use much larger tapes, store the video either uncompressed, or using a Motion JPEG-like compression scheme (akin to DV's 5:1 Motion-JPEG compression). While DV/HDV share a bitrate of 25Mbps, Panasonic's DVCPro-HD has a bitrate of 100Mbps.
It's also worth noting that downconversion from HD to SD is a fact of life in the broadcast world, and far from unique to the HDV-to-DVD issue. Many of today's television shows are shot in HD and distributed in SD.
Sure, the networks are using much more expensive cameras with better glass, less compressed high-bandwidth formats, and usually (but not always) more sophisticated editing equipment. But in essence, the workflow is the same. Specifically, they're acquiring a 16:9 signal, usually either 1280x720 (720p) or 1920x1080 (1080i) and then outputting in both HD and 720x480 SD with an aspect ratio of 4:3.
Interestingly, when it comes to shooting in HD and outputting in SD, the technology part is easy, and will become easier, while the artistic part is complicated, and will remain so or get worse. For example, graphics optimized for 16:9 typically don't work at 4:3, and the optimal shot framing for 16:9 output may be totally inappropriate if the outer edges are chopped off for 4:3 distribution. These issues and more are discussed at http://www.digitaltelevision.com/publish/dtvbook/ch4.shtml. If you're thinking about shooting in HDV for 4:3 SD output, you should start your research here.
All of this is a long way of saying that what we're trying to do--shoot in HD and output in SD--is being done every day, by all the networks, using cameras that are similar to the FX1 in terms of storage resolutions, if not storage formats. Once you get your brain around the fact that SD output from HD input is a daily occurrence, the issue subtly shifts from "Can I do it?" to "How do I do it?" and "How good will it look?"
Let's take those questions in reverse order.
Test 1: ConservativeThe first question I wanted to answer is how the quality of HDV video downsampled to DV 16:9 output compares to video originally shot in 16:9 DV mode. To test this, I shot footage with the FX1 in HDV mode and captured the video using CineForm's Connect HD utility, which converts HD to CineForm's AVI codec for importing into Premiere Pro.
I shot the same footage with the Canon XL2, a comparably priced and positioned 3CCD DV camcorder (see "Who Will Wear the New 3-CCD Camcorder Crown?," January 2005, Who Will Wear the New 3-CCD Camcorder Crown?) in 16:9 DV mode, and captured it directly from within Premiere Pro. To level the format playing field, I output both test streams in MPEG-2 format at 6Mbps using a Premiere Pro DVD preset, and compared that output.
In the most conservative test, the results are very close. While the FX1 down-sampled image looks a bit smoother, the DV camcorder image looks a bit sharper and clearer. In my view, however, the difference is so small that viewers wouldn't notice the lower quality of the FX1 unless they looked at the images side by side.
I included the original FX1 image to show the clarity of the captured video, which is simply outstanding. Clearly, the MPEG-2 compression used for HDV is not introducing significant artifacts.
Test 2: Zooming InMy first test is a worst-case for HDV, since it does nothing to leverage the higher resolution of the captured image. For example, many HDV proponents claim that its higher resolution pays off when you zoom into the image for additional detail.
This capability is very attractive in one-person, two-camera shoots, where one camera is set to capture the entire stage to ensure that no critical action is missed. For example, when shooting the opera concert with two cameras, I framed one mostly static camera to capture the entire stage, while using the other to zoom in for close-ups of the singers and piano player.
As it turned out, I framed the static camera too tightly on the pianist and the singer, and paid the price several times when the singer moved off camera. Since HDV captures at 1920x1080 resolution, and I was outputting to DV at 720x480, as the theory goes, I could have framed the stage much more loosely and then zoomed in without losing image quality because the extra resolution is there, waiting to be harvested. You can't do this with video shot in DV without losing quality, because the acquisition and output resolutions are the same.
To test this theory, I zoomed into the test videos with Premiere Pro's motion controls, essentially reframing the video from the HDV and DV camcorders around identical regions in the scenes. This would be analogous to a situation where you framed a stage loosely during shooting, then zoomed in during editing.
Here the results clearly favor the FX1, with the image on the right noticeably clearer. How did this translate in real world tests? Figure 6 shows some results with live footage that confirm the resolution chart tests: the FX1 images are noticeably sharper and produced significantly fewer artifacts.
For example, note the frizziness of the hair in the DV camcorder shot, and the macro blocks in the coat and yellow paper on the right. We also noted many fewer interlacing artifacts in the FX1 footage. Overall, when zooming into the video, the DV camcorder produced artifacts that would likely be noticed by viewers, even if there were no side-by-side comparisons with higher native-resolution source material.
What's interesting about these findings is the realization that when shooting in HDV for SD output, your image gets clearer as you zoom into the image during editing. This means there is no penalty for framing loosely during shooting, and no premium on zooming in to get close-ups, which sounds easy but can be hard to do, especially when your subject is moving around.
When shooting the opera singer, for example, many of my tightly framed close-ups were ruined when the singer stepped out of the framed shot (and we all know how fast opera singers move). If I were shooting in HDV, I could frame more loosely, and then zoom in later in post, actually improving the quality of the video as I zoomed in.
Traditionalists no doubt will argue that you should frame the shot you want, and pay attention to what you're doing. To a certain degree, I can't argue with that. "I can always fix it in post" is textbook videographer hubris. In real-world shoots, however--multiple-camera productions especially--you simply can't be everywhere at once, and shots can get lost or under-maximized. In these instances, the FX1 and HDV can fix many common shooting problems with no loss in visual quality.
Test 3: ChromakeyWe tested chromakey for two reasons. First, we wondered if MPEG-2 artifacts in the stream would make a clean chromakey difficult. Second, since fine detail is important to successful chromakeying, we suspected that performing a chromakey at higher resolution might produce better results.
In the center is the HDV clip in CineForm AVI format at 1920x1040 resolution, which produced almost a perfect chromakey. On the right, the FX1 image output in MPEG-2 shows slight jaggies on the face, but nowhere near as much as the DV camcorder footage on the left. Thus it appears that HDV's extra resolution can boost chromakey quality as well.
Interestingly, this is one area where we had to experiment to produce optimal results. For example, you might notice that the shirt on the right looks gray, while the shirt in the middle, from the same source footage, looks blue. That's because we color-corrected the shirt before chromakeying for the full-resolution shot in the middle.
However, color-correcting before chromakeying and outputting at our 16:9 NTSC resolution made the entire image a bit blurry; the blurriness went away when we dropped the color correction. There probably is a workaround to get good color correction at 16:9, but since this wasn't the main goal of our story, we moved on. I'm guessing that the first time I do a real shoot in HDV I'll run into dozens of these idiosyncrasies, and so should you.
Note also that we performed these tests in Premiere Pro, which appears to perform the chromakey on the high-resolution input before scaling and compressing for SD output. While this seems logical, this workflow may vary by editor, so it's impossible to say that all editors will produce better results with HDV footage than with original DV footage.
Test 4: Low LightIn low-light tests, the DV camcorder produced a brighter image than the FX1 in both HDV and DV modes, though it does look a bit faded. Note that we tested the FX1 in a number of low-light situations, including a night shoot of a Christmas parade here in politically incorrect Galax, Virginia. For the test footage compared in this article we used the traditional Ozer Video Lab Lance-Armstrong-Picture-Under-the-Desk diagnostic exercise, with interesting results.
Overall, both the FX1 and the HDV video it produced performed remarkably well, degrading gracefully and exhibiting neither gain noise nor MPEG macro blocks. Thus it appears that there is nothing inherent to HDV (as manifested in Sony's FX1) that produces poor-quality images in low light.
WorkflowThe state of HDV workflow remains primitive. None of the editors we tested could control the HDV camcorder, bucking bronco that it is, which left us to capture live like the good old analog days. Since our testing was mostly for SD output, we did not test writing back to the HDV camcorder, which is also performed in let 'er rip mode without machine control.
Beyond capture, we experienced aspect ratio issues with all SD video produced during our initial tests, which turned circles into ovals and squares into rectangles. With Pinnacle Liquid Edition, the solution was choosing the right presets for both the timeline sequences and the video clips; you can get it working if you make the right selections.
Premiere Pro was equally frustrating until we downloaded Aspect HD from CineForm, which provided both a capture utility and Premiere Pro project preset. Without the preset, you probably won't be able to get your projects working; you can probably get a free download at www.cineform.com. In addition, Adobe has announced a licensing deal for CineForm technology that should lead to a more seamless working environment in the short term.
By the time you read this story, editing in both Edition and Premiere Pro should be better-documented, and more of the workflow pieces securely in place. However, don't assume your editor can capture and/or edit HDV properly until specific support for the format is announced by the vendor.
We tested extensively on Edition, which edits natively in Long GOP MPEG-2, and in Premiere Pro using the CineForm AVI codec, which converts to a more easily edited format (see Stephen Nathans' "From HDV to DVD," http://www.eventdv.net/Articles/ReadArticle.aspx?ArticleID=9057). We'll withhold specific quality and performance results for later stories involving more direct comparison testing, when we'll be more confident that the working conditions we report at press time will look like the ones you'll find when the magazine comes out. That said, I found little difference in either quality or workflow with either system, though our tests were primitive, involving only trimming and chromakey, and differences may emerge under more comprehensive testing.
Once we had figured out the aspect ratio issues, both products worked pretty much as expected. Significantly, we edited both HDV and DV on both Edition and Premiere, and at least from a timeline responsiveness standpoint, found little difference between editing HDV and DV in either program.
Just for the record, we tested Premiere Pro/CineForm on a dual 3.06GHz Xeon Dell Precision 650 workstation while our Edition test station was a dual 3.6GHz Xeon Dell Precision 670 workstation. Both computers were running Windows XP SP2 with 2GB RAM.
ConclusionOverall, the net/net on the FX1 is that it's an absolute darling of a camcorder. It performed wonderfully in the DV tests we reported in January, and the HDV output created in the testing for this article was remarkable. Once we got over our initial production hurdles with HDV, our tests confirmed many of the marketing claims made by camera and tools vendors.
Though our initial conclusion was to recommend the FX1 primarily as a DV camera, our recent experience with HDV production indicates that the time to move to HDV is now. While the difference won't be as dramatic as the sea change from Hi-8 to DV, the benefits in the short term are very real. When HD-DVD or Blu-ray comes along (which one doesn't matter so much as when), the advantages of HDV will be even greater. Even now, in the SD delivery era, if you're shooting for 16:9 output with the FX1, there really is no reason not to start shooting in HDV mode.
Companies Mentioned in this Article Adobe Systemswww.adobe.com
Canon USAwww.usa.canon.com
Pinnacle Systemswww.pinnaclesys.com
Sony Electronics www.sonystyle.com

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JACINTO CITY, Texas - A 12-year-old girl accidentally hit the accelerator instead of braking, causing the vehicle she was driving to run over her mother, said Jacinto City police.
The incident happened in the 10000 block of Verano near Holland shortly before 7 p.m. Wednesday. Police said the mother, Cherie Rangel, 30, parked her vehicle in the driveway of a vacant home for sale.
As she and four of her children stepped out to look at the house, she asked her 12-year-old daughter to push the pedal while she held on to the steering wheel from outside the car in order to move the SUV a few feet closer to the house.
"She told her ... daughter, 'When I tell you hit the brake, step on the brakes.' So the mom told the girl to step on the brake and when the little girl looked at the biggest pedal down on the ground, which was the gas pedal, the little girl stepped on the gas," said Sgt. Dennis Walker with the Jacinto City Police Department.
Walker said the SUV took off at a high rate of speed, throwing the mom underneath the back wheel.
"Dragging her from the tree all the way to the front of the house and the vehicle plunged into the front of the house," Walker said.
All six of Rangel's children saw the fatal accident. Relatives of the children picked them up a short time later.
Patty Patino was inside her home a few doors down and heard the crash.
"When I got to the corner, the kids were all screaming," Patino said. "We went over there and the mom was already dead on the floor."
Patino said she will never forget the sounds of the crying children.
"It's tragic," she said. "I don't know how they're going to deal with it."
Robert-Christian Santillan also heard a loud noise while at home. He's a filmmaker, and he grabbed his camera.
"I tried to get the best possible shot of the scene to understand what was going on," he said. "Something like this, so close, has changed me. It's shown me that life is precious and that at any second, things can change."
He said he feels bad for the girl who was driving.
"She's going to grow up without a mother, knowing it's her fault," Santillan said.
The family is on a fixed income. A trust fund has been set up for the children. Anyone wishing to make donations can do so at Capital Bank in Jacinto City by calling 713-675-2341.
A barbecue benefit will also be held for the family beginning at 11 a.m. Saturday at 830 Donfield in Channelview. For more information, call 713-459-4369.
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Personal computing discussed
Moderators: SpotTheCat, Nemesis
mdk77777 wrote:I figured it was just a really nice power supply and that the corsair link and bundled software was just an expensive gimmick tacked on.You can read a review over at JonnyGuru...the founder of which has now gone to work for Corsair after being between jobs for awhile.
In short, the advantage is active rather than passive voltage regulation. With all digital, you can set, adjust and monitor the voltage regulation, rather than depending on the predetermined design of the hardware to do it for you.
How important is this to you? Depends on how much you OC, how dynamic your loads,(4 OC graphics cards in addition to an OC water cooled CPU) etc. etc.
If I was building a 4P system using GPU compute...I would certainly consider it.
For your average gaming system...a little overkill.
michael_d wrote:... It uses Digital Signal Processing, from what I have learned back in school DSP is essential in mobile communications because it allows to dynamically change parameters of frequency filters. How does it all translate into a good PSU?
DeadOfKnight wrote:I dunno though...like you said it may be overkill.
just brew it! wrote:For 99.9% of desktop PC users, a 1200 watt, $350 PSU is overkill by definition!


text: "The tone is part elegy, part satire, part howl and very, very funny. I laughed more times than I can remember over a novel for years.... Ring Road is well-observed and endlessly inventive, with all the messiness of a real place. Sansom's deadpan voice throws up jokes on every page."Observer (London)


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Well, that is what Mann Theatres reports! Cullen Boys Anonymous dug up this cool information. If you were tempted to try to attend, Twilight Lexicon shares the following policy around attending the premiere:
As the Mann website states, they do not sell/give out tickets to premieres. That goes through the studio. Premiere tickets are usually only given to those directly involved with the film, their staff, and those with entertainment industry connections. So please do not call the theater looking for tickets.Read more at Twilight Lexicon.
Last year fans were able to line the fringes of the red carpet. They camped out for about three days to do this. we don't know whether that will be allowed again.


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Hello there, I am having problems when trying to connect on to the internet.
I get a message which keeps popping up saying Zonealarm is initialising, this keeps coming and going, most times when this happens my Explorer page freezes
showing just a blank white page and will stay like this for hours.
I tried to uninstall Zonealarm but got a message saying:
TrueVector Internet Monitor was not installed.The uninstaller was not able to stop the True Vector software services.
This will happen if other software is using the True Vector engine.To uninstall ZoneAlarm make sure all other True Vector based programs have been closed.
I have since found that Zonealarm has been installed
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on to my computer and I have tried to uninstall both but get the above message each time I try on either one.
I know I have installed the free version and believe it to be 8.0 and I guess the other one is an earlier version.
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To locate Zonealarm I click on "start" - "all programs"
for one entry and on the other I click on "start" - "all programs" - and then on to a folder called "system & security" this might well be a folder I installed some time ago.
Can some one please help me?
Kind regards
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text: About all this tobi talk I think madara already told us the name NAGATO. There is no reason they can't be 2. Judging from madara attitude there was a plan btw him and his brother, then he had someone else and a little kid name nagato. I believe madara & the other person got bamboozled by the little kid himself


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High five: Late rally lifts Phillies
Vice President Biden sees 'incredible' Philadelphia win
By David Gurian-Peck / MLB.com
He had told his wife, Jill, that Ryan Howard was going to hit a home run in the ninth inning.
Howard did just that, a 420-foot, three-run, game-tying shot to left-center field. Raul Ibanez then doubled, and two batters later, Paul Bako singled him home to cap off an improbable comeback. The Phillies scored five in the ninth off Pirates closer Matt Capps to beat the Bucs, 8-7, in front of 45,209 fans and one vice president.
"It was incredible," said Biden, donning a Phillies cap and posing for a photo with Howard outside the home clubhouse. "I loved it. You know, the thing about the Phillies is, you never gave up."
The pitch to Howard was a fastball low and inside, and the Phils slugger said he was sitting on a fastball.
So was Matt Stairs, who began the inning by doing what he does best: hitting a pinch-hit home run, his fourth of the season. Trailing by four, Stairs turned around Capps' 3-1 offering and sent it well beyond the right-field wall, a carryover of what the veteran described as a strong batting practice.
"The fans came alive there," Phillies manager Charlie Manuel said. "I think Stairs' homer kind of woke 'em up a little bit -- and woke the dugout up, too."
Jimmy Rollins, who had matched a career high with three stolen bases, walked. The crowd got louder.
Shane Victorino hit a fly ball deep to the right-center-field warning track. The ball barely stayed in the yard and was caught, but the crowd got louder.
Chase Utley singled to the opposite field. The crowd got louder.
Then came Howard, readying himself for Monday's Home Run Derby in grand fashion.
"I was talking to him during the game about his hitting and seeing the ball good," said Manuel, describing a conversation nearly as prescient as the vice president's.
For Ibanez, it was a triumphant return to the lineup after a three-plus-week absence because of a strained left groin. He doubled in a run and scored in the sixth inning. Manuel was planning on taking him out, not wanting the 37-year-old All-Star to play a full nine innings. But Ibanez told his manager in the dugout that he was feeling fine and wanted to remain in the game.
Manuel obliged, and Ibanez rewarded him with another double and the game-winning run in the outfielder's first game since June 17.
Then there's Bako, a journeyman who came to the plate with his 11th team in 12 years and had a .174 batting average entering Saturday. But the Citizens Bank Park faithful chanted his name -- "BA-KO, BA-KO" -- with the bases loaded. And hours after Manuel had praised the light-hitting backstop's ability to hit effectively enough, Bako delivered a line-drive single through the drawn-in Pirates infield.
"My approach goes to survival mode," Bako said. "I'm glad my ball went through, but as I said, the hard part was already done."
The Phillies' fourth walk-off win of the season was, as Manuel said, "a big pick-me-up, of course."
It also erased an ineffective outing from starter Cole Hamels, who was touched for three home runs and four doubles by one of the least powerful offenses in the National League. Pittsburgh entered the night ranked 15th in homers and 13th in slugging percentage. The three players who homered -- Garrett Jones, Delwyn Young and Andrew McCutchen -- had combined for just six long balls prior to Saturday.
But even if it wasn't pretty, Hamels battled. He bounced back from his early command issues, tossing four scoreless innings after allowing five runs his first two frames.
"I know every time I came in after putting up a zero, the guys kept saying, 'Good job. You're keeping us in there. We're going to get those runs,'" Hamels said. "And they did."
Indeed, they did.
It was Philadelphia's 26th come-from-behind win, fourth in as many nights and most dramatic in a while. The Phillies have a four-game lead in the National League East, as the second-place Marlins lost to the D-backs on Saturday.
"We know we have the capability of getting guys on [base], and we have the power in the lineup," Stairs said. "Is it going to happen again? Who knows? It's just a good night for us to do it."
David Gurian-Peck is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Mobius Motors creates a car specifically for Africa
Joel Jackson arrived in Kenya in 2009 and immediately had a social innovation idea—yet it had nothing to do with the not-for-profit farming organisation that he had come with. It wasn't farming that caught Joel's attention, it was the state of the African roads: the lack of appropriate transport that has affected many parts of rural Africa, keeping areas remote. Joel Jackson rolled up his sleeves and set about building a vehicle that would serve the African market; a $6,000 car called the Mobius One.
Africa's poorest are largely immobile and do not have appropriate transport services. Every day millions of people often walk 10+ miles to get to basic amenities such as clean drinking water, schools, hospitals and jobs. Chronic government underinvestment in roads and public transit has restricted travel. Africa's most disadvantaged cannot afford to buy a car, yet need reliable transport services to prosper. The Mobius One is the first social innovation vehicle that Jackson built with local welders and mechanics. The 'concept of the car' was redesigned and stripped of all creature comforts that Western drivers take for granted. It excluded costly technologies such as air conditioning and glass windows. Instead, it was built from tubular steel frames and off-the-shelf parts, looking very much like a dune buggy with maximised suspension. It took 10 months to build and cost $14,000 (£9,000).
Joel Jackson has since set up Mobius Motors and raised a quarter of a million dollars in venture-capital funding. He recruited a team of engineers to build the second social innovation prototype, Mobius Two; a durable auto that can withstand the bumpy, rugged African roads. Jackson aims for the finished vehicle to be sold for $6,000, which is cheaper than what many Kenyans pay for a second-hand car. For example, a four-year-old Toyota sells for around $8,000. Mobius Motors has a modest production run in 2012 for the Mobius Two. It is around 50. Jackson hopes to increase it up to 400,000 a year in the next decade.
The vast majority of cars in Kenya are second-hand and expensive because of the taxes, plus 98% of cars are imported. So, the prospect of being able to buy a new social innovation car designed specifically for the African market will appeal to people. Currently, there are around 800,000 cars in Kenya, with around 80,000 sold each year. Many of them are bought to sustain a business rather than for personal use. It is not unusual to see people crammed into a car, which is used as an informal public transport system.
Mobius Two photo credit Mobius Motors.
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Blacks are going to vote for Obama
Gays will vote for Obama
Citizens from other countries, particularly Mexico, will( illegally ) vote for Obama.
The fact that Barry is a pathological liar who doesn't know who his father does not factor into the decision to vote for him by his constituents (Blacks, rumphumpers, Mexicans).
Did that help clarify my point?
You, Willard, Bachmann and the Kock brothers deserve each other
Better luck in 2016
(and am still doing so as we speak)
But I don't have to tolerate sub-prime intellects
Speaking of Dukakis, sounds like you've been nipping into the rubbing alcohol like Kitty
Back to your prayer rug/the pfail strip w/ ye, Skippy
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Sheriff Joe should fellate a shotgun.
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The only thing real on Romney is that Romneycare is the model for Obamacare. And maybe evangelicals dislike that he's Mormon. But if his supporters go all "Obama is not an American" that will lose the center out of pure disgust.
What kind of logic is that? I wasn't going to vote for B.O. but after reading on the internet how somebody suggested that B.O. has some false information on his fake birth cirtificate, I'm going to vote for him because I so thoroughly enjoyed the previous 4 years of his incompetent ass making things worse and blaming Bush.
I guess all the other crimes in Maricopa County were all solved.
Next up for them is finding Amelia Earhart.
No need to waste breath debating anything with crypto-liberals - they will make any excuse to justify voting for B. Hussein. "I don't wike people delving into 0's past, it's wacist!"
Their moronic voting decision based on the flimsiest of premises ushered in 0's disastrous, damaging reign of error, so really, who the hell are they to talk about what's a lunatic fringe?
can't see the Marxist forest for the birther trees, grumble grumble
Face it, old man - your party so 'courageously' abandoned the responsibility of governing in favor of achieving one goal, Obama must be a one term President, then y'all nominate Mitt Romney to run against him - the John Kerry of the GOP.
And even if somehow he did win, think of the backlash from GOP congressional tactics the past four years. You don't think the roles will reverse and the D's will block every goddam thing Mitt Romney pushes for?
Reading conservatives on this site, you would think the President was a King that could pass whatever laws he wanted and that Congress has no power.
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Speaking of "not wiking delving into the past"
Where are wittle Willard's tax weturns and what in them does the wittle Morman want to keep hiding fwom America??
Is it the billions of Bain Bucks he waked in while cwaiming to be wetired and stashed in Swiss bank accounts??
Or the billions he's shipped to his religious cult??
What else is he hiding that he doesnt want voters to know about????
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PSUni: "The word is out: Lara Croft is apparently going to have a better game than Nathan Drake. The genius predictors cite things like her games originally innovating the genre itself and the beautiful new game she is set to star in, simply titled Tomb Raider, as proof of her triumphant return and domination of the witty protagonist from Sony's blockbuster exclusive this generation. We agree with everything these people are saying…except for when they say it will be objectively "better" than Uncharted. Of course, just like this theory we're arguing against, this is simply one lone opinion. However, we hope that after reading this, you might see things a bit differently.
We have decided to break down this article into different arguments that people make for why Tomb Raider will be better and answer each of them individually."
I'll agree before the game even comes out. ND are very good developers.
i agree
it really hard to stand against a developer like ND
but it does not have to be better
it just have to be a good game
ps3 owners will get to enjoy both
the way i see it TR inspired uncharted games
and now Uncharted games inspired TR
and nothing wrong with that
why every article here have to be flamebit ?!
There are a few reasons why tomb raider being a multiplatform will never be better than uncharted.
Some people may prefer the story and characters of tomb raider because people have different tastes and likes. Uncharted characters are made to be loveable and charismatic but some people still may prefer characters of tomb raider.
In uncharted everything is done with quality in mind and polished extremely. Uncharted is aided a lot by its immersive world which is possible because of the ps3. Uncharted looks incredible and way above anything on consoles especially games that or on the Xbox and Nintendo console. The game supports pcm 7.1 surround which is above anything else the other consoles can do. ps3 is the most powerful console ever made to this date so it can make every game be of higher quality because of its power. It can do things that make other consoles seem dated. The ps3 makes it seem like the wii u is dated and shows the wii u that it can do everything it can do. The wii u is rubbish anyway.
You have great games that are multiplatform and on other consoles but with great story, dialog and technology the uncharted series oozes higher quality over other titles. People can pretend graphics and power doesn't matter but with them or better technology then you can't do amazing sound, physics, animations, graphics, lighting etc that adds to realism or improve upon everything for a higher quality product.
Everything in uncharted is done of high quality. Golden eye 007 ultra nes was aided a lot by the power of the system to make it better than other games. Zelda oot was aided a lot by the power of ultra nes. A lot of ultra nes games were seen as great because they were better quality all around that weren't seen anywhere else.
The wii u will never have such games because everything it'll do would have been seen or done years before on other consoles. There will be great games on the wii u but with the lack of technology it'll be like watching a movie shot with 1980s equipments. Sure older equipments can produce a good movie but it'll fail because it can never replicate the immersion of movies shot with better equipments today and movie goers wouldn't see it. Wii u is rubbish anyway. I can't wait for ps4
Here's a question, wouldn't people want Tomb Raider to be better? What's wrong with games like Uncharted being good but future games being better? Or is this just a case of a small group out there who are Naughty Dog groupies and don't want anyone to upstage them?
Did anyone mentioned the wii u? no, it was you. stop trolling about it, that's the reason why most of the users don't agree with you, and that's the reason why you only have one bubble(finally, 2 bubbles for you was too much)
now, talking a bit about Uncharted and Tomb Rider, if I remember correctly, share, basically, the same thematic and almost the same gameplay, aside of the platform setup.
Hey, repeat after me, "Graphics are not equal to quality". Again, "Graphics are not equal to quality"
Everytime you compare games to each other is the same story, you always compare them through the graphics, or special features that not necessarily makes a game better.
I'm a pc gamer, i know what quality means for gaming, i know what graphic enhancement means.
But recently i found myself playing Soul Reaver 2 (for ps2, later released for pc, the version i was playing btw) and i didn't felt the need to have such amazing graphics to enjoy the game.Games are made to be enjoyed.
Uncharted is a wonderful game, very well developed, no one can complain about that. It a series of 3 games up till now(very good ones indeed), but Tomb Raider has been around for much longer time. And just for a matter of clarification, Tomb Raider was the game that impulsed this kind of thematic on consoles. Uncharted owns a lot to it.
Just let the fans of this series to enjoy it. You can keep playing Uncharted, and everyone is happy.
Now, this is the funny part for me about your comments, and its that you don't follow a chain of priorities or even common sense when you talk. Start talking about something, the randomly you start talking about something else, then stops the idea and goes back to your first statement. Learn how to construct a proper paragraph or a proper text, please, at least that will give you some respect.
Ultra nes? what the hell....isn't it better to say N64? this just shows how much you despise Nintendo, making you an unreliable person when an impartial opinion is needed.
About the Ps3 doing all what the wii u can...tell me, whats the cost for doing that? spending $300 for a ps3, then spending $320 for a ps vita to replicate the same functionality for the wiiu gamepad, when its only been featured in few games like little big planet?
The Wii u costs less than the ps vita and already have this functions. you know why? because it was build that way. Is not a good console when talking about graphis, specially compared to the Ps3(your god apparently), but its not a bad console.
Golden eye 007 and Zelda are amazing games, yes, they were accomplished using the power of the n64, but graphics were only a part that made this games awesome, you always miss(or omit at your convenience) that this games were mostly praised for their gameplay, replay value, the experience they offered.
Stop being a child, go play with your ps3, you uncharted and ps vita, and let us enjoy the games and consoles the way they were meant to be.
Sorry for the long post.
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********" People can pretend graphics and power doesn't matter but with them or better technology then you can't do amazing sound, physics, animations, graphics, lighting etc that adds to realism or improve upon everything for a higher quality product. ''***********
lol, reading is fundamental. i think what HATSUNE MIKU is saying is that with better technology and powerful systems you can improve upon everything in gaming overall and not just graphics. i know you are a nintendo fanboy bluejay so your mantra is that ''graphics doesnt matter''. you saw HATSUNE MIKUs posts and zero in on talk of graphics and knowing that nintendo system are lacking in that area drives YOU MAD. i see you got mad about the term ULTRA NES but dont understand that the N64 as you know it was called ULTRA NINTENDO in other regions. lol,
anyway , i agree that wii u is rubbish and its my opinion. if anyone feels differently then youre free to do so.
Think quality is what separates those franchises. I mean no one cant deny that the voice acting, animation and overall presentation is much more polish in Uncharted than anything Tomb Raider has shown. That being said IMO Among Thieves is the pinnacle of the series and I DOUBT it will get surpassed. Uncharted 3 MAYBE but lets see.
I think that it could be better than uncharted. There's no reason it couldn't be.
ND is hard to compete with. I already know the animation won't be as good because nothing but star war 1313(a next gen game) has such great animation like uncharted and this gen is about to be over..
ND is a very 5 star dev team. TR will not need to have to be better than uncharted but the 360 crowd really need this right now.
xbox360 doesnt need tomb raider man. stop with the fanboy crap.
Honestly, I want it to be better. I want it to TRY and be better.
Because if it is, the biggest winner are the gamers. We get to enjoy a game that rivals one of the greatest franchises of this generation
My God i hope its better as i was so dissapointed in the previous uncharted game.
its impossible to say just how good the new tomb raider will be, if its a better adventure than uncharted. That remains to be seen.
I think the entire world, without any exception whatsoever, understands that, but that people guess by comparing what they got in Uncharted to what they see in Tomb Raider.
It obviously won't be better than Uncharted. The new Tomb Raider won't even be better than the older Tomb Raider games either because it's not a Tomb Raider game. It's a terrible reboot where you try to survive (with regenerating health), you can't swim, and you use magic vision and such to solve "puzzles".
i love how uncharted was seen as an indiana jones/tomb raider ripoff. now peole call tomb raider an uncharted rip off.
by gauging how well the games have been done in the past and which studio is doing them you can make a fairly close guess though
Neither game will be "better" than the other. Uncharted can never be a better "Tomb Raider game" than Tomb Raider and Tomb Raider will never be a better "Uncharted game" than Uncharted. Both offer different experiences.
Uncharted is about a confident wise cracking male treasure hunter (who also happens to be an expert climber and proficient with nearly every type of firearm), who constantly finds himself trying to stop some madman that wants to destroy the world.
The new Tomb Raider will be about a young female globetrotter who isn't confident in her skills and initially squirms at the thought of taking a human life, but is forced to live up to her potential due to her primal instinct to survive when the odds are against her.
Apples and oranges. Different experiences.
I know right?? Two different experiences. One is a fighting game and the other is a kart racer!
What are all these articles/people doing comparing such different games??? Bah!! Such crazy people that....umm....everyone is.
I hope you can go out there and convince the masses to stop this nonsense. Don't know where everyone is coming up with these RANDOM comparisons.....
*cough, cough*
I agree with forgotten prophecy, logicwins is completely spot on.
Consumers should be less gauged on pitting games against each other every release... It's like fight club but with games!
Especially with what logic said, the games aren't that similar at all, they may both be action and adventure games, but that's where it ends.
If this is based entirely on graphics, well that is just sad.
The Clone Never be better than the original and new Tomb Raider: Reboot is Uncharted clone !
yeah it seems it is. but id rather play a new tr than a new uc. i dont care if anyone disagrees. its just been a long time comin from tr, and also after 3 uc's, i dont think id dig a 4th unless they innovate a lil. but when or if they do innovate, uc will remain king.
I dont know, I'll decide when I will actually finish the game, then I'll decide, but yea ND are good, but that doesn't mean that Crystal Dynamics are bad devs
Although ND are amazing developers, and I love the uncharted series(platinum trophies on all three) I really hope Tomb Raider is better. When did we start wanting good games to suck just so they don't compete with our favorite series? That's how developers learn and get better without solid competition most games would suck. I want Tomb Raider to blow Uncharted out of the water, then Naughty Dog's next Uncharted will have to up the ante because let's talk serious Uncharted 3 was good, but nowhere near as excellent as Uncharted 2.
Really? so tell me, you really understood anything i said before replying? You've made my day indeed, dear fanboy.Even though of what you just said, my point is still valid, even if you don't see it that way.
Better graphics and better technology improves the gaming industry, that's an undeniable fact. But you can't come here and say that a system is better than another one just because of that.I've always addressed and in some point agreed in many faults the Wii U have, but it doesn't makes it a bad console overall.It does lacks in the specs department, indeed.
If it doesn't suits your needs, then there is no need to bash it. It only makes you look like the fanboy you and miku are. If you don't like nintendo's offer, then go look somewhere else. There are 2 options still available and 2 more to come.
I got mad? sorry, I never felt like blowing my brain about something someone said. The one who is mad now is you, writing this semi-rant reply. Using CapsLocks only makes you look more...inexperienced? childish? I don't know, whichever you like.
About the n64, indeed, it was Nintendo Ultra 64, but it was also it's former name before being finally released. If that name stood in another region then is something i really didn't knew. But thanks for the data, it made look deeper in the information about it.
And if you really are ok with everyone having its own opinion, then don't attack on here, trying to do exactly the contrary.
Interesting article right here. I'll definitely enjoy both but I have a feeling I'll enjoy Tomb Raider ALOT More in 2013 lol
PPL seem like they didn't get what you are saying
what better than looking at Lara Fine A$$ while playing the game lolXD
It is hard to compete with developers like naughty dog who have had years of experience in the industry I have every faith in SE and Edios that they will make a brilliant game but it just wont be as good as Uncharted.
inb4 sh*tstorm
it's too obvious not gonna happen.
I was wrong. I just lost all faith in the N4G user-base.
After this game. Crystal Dynamics should go back to making Gex games. All they been making in the past around 6 years is Tomb Raider!
Gex would be cool but I'd rather see them doing something with the Legacy of Kain franchise
I'd be all over a new Gex. Crystal Dynamics should make a new Pandemonium as well.
I'm going to wait for the game to come out before I decide.
Good idea. The intention of this article is basically to voice my opinion that like you stated, the game is not out yet. I also think these games have markedly different approaches in terms of game design and storytelling. Saying that one will be objectively "better" than the other is kind of silly.
I really hope it's a good game! I'm nearly finished playing through TR2 at the moment and will play TR3 for the first time after it. Only thing I have heard about this game that p!ssed me off was that Lara can't swim... wtf?? The underwater levels in TR2 are easily some of the best and I remember playing one of the first levels in TR:Underworld where you dive off a boat into the ocean, that level played and looked brilliant. It's a shame underwater sections won't feature in this game.
Yeah, I mean not having underwater levels is one thing, but just stating that she can't swim at all? That seems a little silly...especially given that she is ship wrecked on, you know, an island that is kind of surrounded by, I don't know, water!
Oh well, I'm sure it won't affect the actual quality of the game. I guess Crystal Dynamics just wanted to focus on other things and didn't even bother implementing it in this one.
Technically Mario wasnt the first ever platformer but whatever. Anyways, this article was a great read, I love the Uncharted franchise and I am looking forward to this realistic grittier Tomb Raider :D
Well I never said it was the first ever, I said "essentially created," I meant more in the aspect that they perfected and popularized it :)
Yeah, I got that, just wanted to clear out the technical parts. Btw, good article man :D
Never was a TR fan, but this new one looks fantastic and I will be getting it day one.
How does anyone know when the game isn't even out yet.
It does look good but we haven't played it yet. Plus reboots lately haven't exactly set the world on fire. Dmc is one that comes to mind. But this does look at least like a proper reboot more than dmc does for it's series. I'm "cautiously" optimistic.
Robots haven't set the world on fire? Oh good, I just woke up and was worried that might have happened due to that whole Mayan calendar thing.
I'm sorry...I know the author at least made an attempt to seem "objective", but this really just comes off as insecure fanboyism. Telling people TR "won't be better" than Uncharted sounds like you're afraid the game might actually be good, and will somehow steal back some of ND's thunder. Fact is, the core gameplay...repetitive gunfights aside...is a blatant ripoff of the TR series. Everyone knows it, but the UC games are so polished and fun, ND has been given a pass. Believe it or not, there are millions of people who've never played an Uncharted game, but have played every TR game ever made...for good or bad. They wouldn't care if you think TR "won't be better"...they're going to play the game, and like/dislike it based solely on their experience, and how it compares to previous TR games.
I pity the fools who actually think it will be better than uncharted 2 or 3 let alone 1. the mere fact that it's a multiplatform game going against a Naughty Dog in house game defeats the purpose. If you want Uncharted so bad buy a ps3.
In terms of story, graphics and gameplay mechanics, from what i've seen of the new TR, uncharted series already has it beat.
Story? Game-play mechanics? You are so stupid.
Fair enough you can judge the graphics, but how the hell can you judge the other 2?
I think it won't top Uncharted, but you are doing exactly what this article is supposed to be defending; pointlessly claiming one game is better than the other, when one has not been released yet.
People need to think before they speak. You come off as an immature little fanboy geek TBH.
dumbass not everyone needs to play a game before they know it's for them or not. I've been gaming for god knows how long.
I've had my fair share of action adventure games and nothing has touched the Uncharted series in my opinion. Listen carefully, my predictions for most games are right whether i've played them or play them later down the line.
Not everyone's a retard who can't distinguish good gameplay from generic gameplay. Some people need hands on, and some people can just tell when a game is not their cup of tea.
Maybe you should step outside for some fresh air or get a gf or something (although with a name like BanBrother i doubt you get looked at twice). You sound like a TR fanboy who desperately wants his favorite game to match the king lol.
Freedom of speech pal, my opinion is my opinion
"You sound like a TR fanboy..."
Just what I'd expect a fanboy to say. I have not played any of the Tomb Raider games, so you are in fact wrong.
"dumbass not everyone needs to play a game before they know it's for them or not. I've been gaming for god knows how long."
Except my issue was not about whether you would enjoy the game or not, but rather HOW you could judge the games story if you have not played it. Even the game-play *mechanics*. And because you have been gaming for "god knows how long", that somehow gives you psychic powers and insight into an un-released games story?
I think everyone knows who the real "dumbass" here is.
"although with a name like BanBrother i doubt you get looked at twice"
^^THIS. Without doubt the most retarded thing I have ever read. EVER. Hilarious straw grasping.
The 'internet'; Where if you can't win an argument, you resort to perpetuating retarded myths about someone, based off of your own insecurities.
I enjoy tomb raider like the next man but please uncharted series ha no chance they can take on nd that's and in terms of a survival game tomb raider so have to face naughty dog again with the last of us. I have a feeling naughty dog are going to change the way we play multiplayer gaming next year
to me they both suck, TR devs should be ashamed of themselves for copying a series that once copied their games
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except uncharted games didn't have "awesome" story as you say but very flat and average story imo, you also forgot the ugly character design especially in UC2...other than that i totally agree with you!
the moment i saw ND article
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now be a good boy and
show me on this doll where ND touched you
"now be a good boy and
show me on this doll where ND touched you"
I think it is quite clear where he has been touched. I don't think his dads name is 'ND' either.......
"copying a series that once copied their games " That would mean that TR is actually copying itself. I agree that Uncharted story is crap though.
This is Tomb Raider its not supposed to be better cos its not uncharted just like uncharted is not Tomb Raider.
Crystal dynamics are also good devs?
Uncharted is a unbeleavable game epic had played them all just like i played the Tomb Raider serious before it got silly.
Lets try keep both games seperate.
These kind of articles have been appearing ever since Uncharted appeared on show. I obviously can't speak for the new Tomb Raider game - I hope it will be the success the franchise needs - however if I was to judge from all the games that Crystal Dynamics have developed, my opinion is that Uncharted is far better.
In Underworld, Crystal Dynamics made a huge deal about how they travelled to some great locations within the world and used them as inspiration for their environments in Underworld. If I am being quite honest, I wasn't exactly wowed by the environments. I also think the storyline that they went with was weak. She's trying to save her mother? I felt like that was a massive slap in the face to anyone who enjoyed Tomb Raider previously.
I really like the uncharted series but more than that I'm a fan of the adventure genre. Ofcoarse I'm hoping Tomb Raider is a better game, why would we not want new games to surpass their predecessors? And guess what, ill be hoping uncharted 4 is better than Uncharted 4.
I find it funny when Uncharted first came out people were calling it a Tomb Raider clone and now people are calling Tomb Raider a clone of Uncharted.
Just shows how a little innovation from an inspired dev can affect the franchise that it was inspired from.
Hopefully this tomb raider game turns out to be good.
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I will play the TombCharted combination on PS3 and enjoy both franchises for what they are.
IDK about this.. I love UC but this new TR looks awesome.. Only 10hrs worth of gameplay has me worried if theres no multiplayer


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Goose Creek State Park, 2190 Camp Leach Road, Washington events for the month of January.
Jan. 4: Winter Tree ID program at 2 p.m. Learn how to use a dichotomous key to identify trees without leaves. There will be a 30-minute classroom portion and a 30-minute session identifying trees in the field. Meet at the Park Visitor Center.
Jan. 19: Critter Hunt program at 2 p.m. Join the park as they will be checking cover boards and frog pipes while discussing natural resource management techniques. Meet at the Ivey Gut parking lot. Dress appropriately because the program will be going into the woods.
Jan. 26: Waterfowl of the Pamlico program at 2 p.m. Learn about the thousands of migrating ducks, swan and geese that flock to the waters of the Pamlico River and Sound every winter. Meet at the Visitor Center.
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A new traveling exhibit called Blackbeard�s Queen Anne�s Revenge-1718 will show off treasures and 300-year-old artifacts from the famous pirate�s wrecked flagship from Jan. 3 to Feb. 15 at Tryon Palace. The exhibit includes a traveling trunk complete with games and a model life-sized pirate; the exhibit also includes multi-media displays explaining what life was like aboard the ship. Admission is included with regular cost of admission to Tryon Palace or a separate galleries pass costs $12 for adults and $6 for students.
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The Old North State Antique Gun and Military Collector Show will be from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Jan. 4 and from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Jan. 5 at the N.C. State Fairgrounds located at 1025 Blueridge Road in Raleigh. Dealers bring in US and foreign military memorabilia including insignia, books, uniforms, antique and military related guns, Imperial Japanese swords, Civil War relics, equipment and even an occasional vehicle to sell. Free appraisals from the dealers are available. Daily Admission costs $7; ages 6-12 are $1. Contact Carolina Trader Promotions at 704-282-1339 or email@example.com for more information.
The traveling version of the National Postal Museum�s permanent exhibition, Mail Call, explores the history of America�s military postal system, and examines how even in today�s era of instant communication, troops overseas continue to treasure mail delivered from home. The exhibition at Cape Fear Museum will end Jan. 19.
Mail Call, organized and circulated by the Smithsonian Institution Traveling Exhibition Service, tells the story of military mail and communication � from the American Revolution to current wars in Iraq and Afghanistan.
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The Crystal Coast Choral Society, a mixed-voice chorus, will start its spring rehearsal season on Jan. 7 at 7 p.m. in the Fellowship Hall of the Swansboro United Methodist Church, located at 665 W. Corbett Ave.
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The Jacksonville Council for the Arts and Debbie�s Angels Productions presents the winter theater class �I Wanna Do that Too!� for ages 4 through 7 every Tuesday and Thursday beginning Jan. 7 and continuing until Jan. 30. During these classes, students will learn singing, acting and movement technique and will have a showcase performance on the last day of the class. Registration is $75, and all classes will be at the Council for the Art�s building, located at 826 New Bridge St. in downtown Jacksonville. For more information, call 910-455-9840 or visit jaxarts.com.
The Sneads Ferry Community Theatre will hold open auditions at 7 p.m. Jan. 2 and 3 at the Sneads Ferry Community Center for the upcoming production of Cocktails with Mimi by Mary Chase. A cast of six men and six women between the ages of 18 and 70 are needed. Bring a small photograph of yourself to the auditions.
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I've made the decision to pursue a Certification in Genealogy. While it may not seem like a difficult process on the surface, nothing could be further from the truth. I've been researching my own family tree for about ten years, but it will likely take me at least a few years to gain the knowledge and skills necessary to become certified.
The first step I'm taking is to join the National Genealogical Society. They provide a lot of educational materials and hold various conferences (2011 NGS Family History Conference in Charleston, South Carolina) and workshops to teach these skills.
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text: Leeds to pioneer new way of funding care NewsBodyTextNew ways of caring for people living with long-term ill health are to be tested in Leeds. It is one of seven cities nationwide to be given specially earmarked funding under the Department of Health's 'Year of Care' scheme.The new model is aimed at helping people become less dependent on hospital treatment by focusing on supporting a person's overall needs – and not just treating a specific illness or disease. Leeds has signed up to changing the current care system to one that is more holistic and aimed at preventing dependency on hospital care by supporting the individual before hospital admission is needed. This is done in three stages: identifying people at risk of needing hospital care; providing support and care in the home, using health and social care teams working together; and embedding a culture of self-care, where people are helped to improve their own wellbeing and quality of life.Councillor Lucinda Yeadon, executive board member responsible for adult social care explained:"It's essentially about improving people's health and making better use of resources by shifting the focus away from disease-specific treatment and towards person-centred care. For the first time there will be just a single budget for supporting people through illness, with health care and social care operating as a single unit to support a person through long-term ill-health."I am delighted that Leeds has been given the opportunity to pioneer this new approach of delivering care. The Year of Care funding model supports our aim to ensure that older people and people with long-term conditions have better lives." Dr Andy Harris, chief clinical officer designate and shadow chair of the Leeds South and East CCG said:"We are delighted to have been chosen as one of the seven early implementer sites for the Year of Care funding model. This project gives us the opportunity to build on the ongoing work in integrating health and social care in Leeds, and to explore new ways of funding for people with long term conditions. Our focus will always be on delivering the best possible patient experience and we feel the Year of Care can support this." How will it work?Once health and social care professionals understand what a person's likely need is, and have discussed what support the person may require (potentially from a mix of support from different organisations), an overall budget for a year of their care can then be calculated. EndsAdditional infoOver the next two years, GPs, health workers, social care staff and others will increasingly be working side-by-side, sharing information and taking a more co-ordinated approach to the way services are delivered. Please visit www.leeds.gov.uk/transform for more information.For media enquiries, please contact;Claire Macklam, Leeds City Council press office (0113) 395 1578Email: firstname.lastname@example.com


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Tigers celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month
By Bobby Nightengale / MLB.com
DETROIT -- Although the Tigers hosted their eighth annual Fiesta Tigres celebration on Aug. 3., Hispanic Heritage Month begins on Sunday.
Tigers players with Hispanic heritage were honored on the field prior to Friday night's game against the Royals, while live mariachi, salsa, bachata, reggaeton, Cuban jazz and Mexican folklore music played throughout Comerica Park. There were also flags from Spanish-speaking countries hanging around the park.
The Tigers also wore jerseys that spelled "Tigres," and there was live music playing at all of the gates.
Tigers send D. Paulino to finish Astros deal
DETROIT -- The Tigers on Friday sent right-hander David Paulino to the Astros as the player to be named in the trade for Jose Veras on July 29. The 19-year-old Dominican is the younger brother of Detroit pitching prospect Brenny Paulino.
Like his brother, David Paulino has a big arm but has to work through a series of injuries, culminating with Tommy John surgery this summer. Before his latest injury, he was off to a solid start in the Rookie level Gulf Coast League, going 2-1 with a 2.70 ERA in four starts with 22 strikeouts in 20 innings. Paulino was hitting 97 mph with his fastball according to scouting reports.
It's a high-risk, high-reward pickup for the Astros, who received outfield prospect Danry Vasquez from the Tigers as the other part of Trade Deadline deal.
Since joining the Tigers, Veras had a 2.76 ERA in 18 appearances with two saves entering Friday night's game against the Royals. He had 12 strikeouts over 16 1/3 innings, and also has helped the bullpen with more than just his performance on the mound.
"He's done well," manager Jim Leyland said. "He's a veteran presence for us. He doesn't get too excited. I think that's been beneficial to us. We didn't have much experience down there as you know, so I think that's been a big help."
Miggy working on his craft with extra BP
DETROIT -- Miguel Cabrera has struggled in September, batting .136 with three singles and three RBIs in seven games. Prior to Friday night's game against the Royals, the Tigers slugger took extra batting practice, which is a good sign as he battles a groin injury.
Cabrera likely won't be 100 percent for the rest of the season after sustaining multiple injuries, but he says his groin has been the source of his pain lately. However, that won't stop him from playing.
"[In the] offseason I can rest," Cabrera said. "Right now, I've got to work."
Despite his recent troubles at the plate, there aren't too many people worried that Cabrera will turn it around.
"I think those four or five days off, his timing was off just a hair, but I saw signs in Chicago that it's close to right there," manager Jim Leyland said.
In his quest for a second Triple Crown, Cabrera leads the American League with a .349 batting average and 133 RBIs. He trails Baltimore's Chris Davis by six home runs (49 to 43).
Avila leading way for Tigers in September
DETROIT -- In September, the Tigers' leader in batting average and on-base percentage isn't a usual suspect.
Catcher Alex Avila leads the club with a .462 batting average and a .533 on-base percentage, and is 9-for-15 (.600) with three doubles, five runs scored and three RBIs over his last four starts entering Friday night's game against the Royals.
"He's definitely swinging better, there's no question about that," manager Jim Leyland said. "Hopefully, he can keep that going. That would be a big help for us down toward the bottom [of the batting order]."
It has been a tough year at the plate for Avila, but his 12 hits this month are the most he's had except for July (18) and April (13).
"[Against] right-handers in particular, we have Omar [Infante] and him down there swinging the bat good," Leyland said. "That really helps."
Individual playoff tickets go on sale Tuesday
DETROIT -- The Tigers will begin selling individual game tickets for potential home games during the American League Division Series on Tuesday at noon ET.
Tickets will only be available online at Tigers.com/tickets or by calling 866-66-TIGER. There is a limit of six tickets per customer, per game. Tickets will not be available through the Comerica Park box office.
Quick hits
•Manager Jim Leyland said he doesn't think there's any team, including the Tigers, in the American League that's home free for the playoffs. That doesn't mean, however, he will start worrying about the results of other teams.
"We've just got to take care of our own business," Leyland said. "Like I've said, I concern myself with the Tigers. That's not to say we don't know where the Royals are, or where Cleveland is or anything. I'm going to assure you, we know what's going on, but I just want my guys to play good and take care of our own business."
• Shortstop Jhonny Peralta fielded fly balls in left field before Friday's game, before shagging balls during batting practice with other Tigers outfielders.
Bobby Nightengale is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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dmap2gcode is a depth map image cutting program. A depth map is a greyscale image in which the darkness or lightness of each pixel corresponds to the depth (or height) of the object at each point. dmap2gcode supports various cutter geometries (flat, ball nose, and v-bit), two types of cut entry (straight and arc), a full set of roughing options, and various other settings, all controlled through a graphical user interface. The g-code output from dmap2gcode is compatible with LinuxCNC and Mach3.
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Griffon is dekstop application development platform for the JVM. Inspired by Grails, it leverages the Groovy language and concepts like convention over configuration. The Swing toolkit is the default UI toolkit of choice however others may be used, principaly SWT and JavaFX. Developers may use a combination of the Groovy and Java as well as other JVM languages such as Scala, Clojure, Mirah, and Jython. It encourages the use of the MVC pattern and follows in the spirit of the Swing Application Framework (JSR 296) by defining a simple yet powerful application life cycle and event publishing mechanism.
pyHIDS is a host-based intrusion detection system. It uses an RSA signature to check the integrity of its database. Alerts are written in the logs of the system, and can be sent via email to a list of users or on IRC channels (through the irker IRC client). You can define rules to specify files to be checked periodically.
ExprTk is a C++ mathematical expression library, a simple to use, easy to integrate, and extremely efficient and fast mathematical expression parsing and evaluation engine. The parsing engine supports various kinds of functional and logic processing semantics, and is easily extensible.
MMC Card Recovery Software is useful for restoring files, folders, audio, video, and other data stored on multimedia devices lost due to virus attacks to a safe location. It is an efficient data retrieval program helpful in regaining all types of data missing from major memory storage devices of various storage capacities.
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Django-live-profiler is a low-overhead data access and code profiler for Django-based applications. Profiling Web applications on a development environment often produces misleading results due to different patterns in the data, different patterns in user behavior, and differences in infrastructure. All existing DB access profiling solutions for Django seem to focus on a single request, but in the real world certain queries might be negligible in a single request while still putting a considerable strain the database across all requests. Django-live-profiler aims to solve these issues by collecting database usage data from a live application.
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Posted January 29, 2009
Multistate Outbreak of Salmonella Typhimurium Infections Linked to Peanut Butter, 2008–2009
This outbreak appears to be over. However, Salmonella is an important cause of human illness in the United States. More information about Salmonella, and steps people can take to reduce their risk of infection, can be found on the CDC Salmonella Web Page.
Epi Curve
This outbreak can be visually described with a chart showing the number of persons who became ill each day. This chart is called an epi curve. Please see the Timeline for Reporting of Salmonella Cases for more details on the reporting process.
Figure 1. Date of illness onset, by day
Interpretation of Epidemic Curves During an Active Outbreak
The epidemic curve (epi curve) shows progression of an outbreak over time. The horizontal axis represents the date when a person became ill, also called the date of onset . The vertical axis is the number of persons who became ill on each date. These are updated as new data come in, and thus are subject to change. The epi curve is complex and incomplete. Several issues are important in understanding it.
- There is an inherent delay between the date that an illness starts, and the date that the case is reported to public health authorities. It typically takes 2-3 weeks for Salmonella infections. That means that someone who got sick last week is very unlikely to have been reported yet, and someone who got sick three weeks ago may just be reported now. Please see the Salmonella Outbreak Investigations:Timeline for Reporting Cases.
- Some background cases of illness are likely to occur that would have occurred even without an outbreak. This makes it difficult to say exactly which case is the first in an outbreak. Epidemiologists typically focus on the first recognized cluster or group of cases rather than the very first case. Due to the inherent reporting delay, the cluster is sometimes not detected until several weeks after the persons became ill.
- For some cases, the date when they became ill is not known because it takes time before someone from the health department can do an interview to ask for this information. Sometimes the interview never occurs. If the date that the person brought the specimen to be tested to the laboratory is known, we may estimate the date of illness onset as three days before that.
- It can be difficult to determine when cases start to decline because of the reporting delay. This can become clearer as time passes.
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I don't want to be a downer because just like the rest of you i would love to beat the Celtics tonight but they still have Ray Allen, Pierce, Rondo, Powe, Perkins, and House so even without KG there pretty solid.
I want the win but more important i want the Knicks to fight from buzzer to buzzer and show the Celtics we ain't going to be embarassed anymore. If that means a hard foul or some talking then so be it.
I want a win but if we hang tough against a good team on the road i'll take that. Nobody showed jump off a bridge if we lost this game because even without KG they are more experienced and probably more talented.
I know alot of people love Lee but i would trade Lee for Perkins straight up any day.


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If one of the top ten ways to torture a bunny rabbit is "formalize a software engineering process", you've got my vote.
P.S. Bunny make good pie!
If you read his commentary (it's very brief), he dislikes the SWEBOK because the field is both too young and too broad to have a formed a generally accepted view of "what works". Plus, it's definition of the "body of knowledge" is needlessly shallow, and excludes things like the Gang of Four.
That's nonsense. People have been studying software engineering since the 70s. I agree completely that the idea that there's anything that works in software engineering other than luck is optimistic, but the disciplines that SWEBOK describes (requirements, testing, SCM, etc.) are valid and mature.
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Olivia Wilde showed off her massive engagement ring while walking around Rome on Sunday. Olivia and Jason Sudeikis got engaged around the holidays and announced the good news last week. The ring is an antique, featuring an elevated brilliant-cut diamond.
Olivia is in Rome to film The Third Person and displayed her ring while taking a tour of the Palazzo Farnese with her castmates. Meanwhile, Jason is in NYC preparing for the next new episode of Saturday Night Live, which will be hosted by Jennifer Lawrence on Jan. 19. Olivia thanked her fans for their support over Twitter. She wrote, "Thanks for all the sweet congratulatory love, friends. And may I compliment your savvy use of that nifty engagement ring emoticon."
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text: I recently bought a KTM 200 exc for a lightweight trail bike. It is excellent at that and I love riding it on singletrack alot more than my WR250R. The thing that bothers me is the pollution these bikes create. I realized they smoke a little before I bought it but I didn't know that 1/4 to 1/3 of the gas goes straight out the exhaust. A government study I saw said that one hour of operation is equivalent to driving a modern car 9,000 miles as far as hydrocarbon emissions go. Some of those emissions are known carcinogens. This can't be good for riders, other trail users or the environment. I really like the bike and honestly can't imagine riding a 4 stroke on singletrack anymore. Anyone else struggle with this or am I thinking too much?


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