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Fifth-inning bloopers prove undoing for Padres
DENVER -- Blistered baseballs beware, because there are, apparently, a few other ways to put up crooked numbers on the scoreboard at Coors Field.
The Padres discovered this the hard way Saturday, as three softly-hit singles -- call them flares, call them bloops, call them what you like -- inflicted as much damage as any missile that has ever punctuated the rarified Denver air.
"I've never seen that three times in a row," lamented Padres reliever Brad Brach, who allowed the hits.
Those three hits, run-scoring singles by Carlos Gonzalez, Troy Tulowitzki and Michael Cuddyer, might not have accumulated much distance in the fifth inning, but they were enough to bury the Padres, as the Rockies rolled to a 6-3 victory before a crowd of 31,133.
San Diego pitcher Tyson Ross, who needed 96 pitches to get 12 outs in his debut with the team, allowed the first two hitters to reach base in the fifth inning. Manager Bud Black went to his bullpen for Brach in hopes of dousing a big inning before it got started.
Instead, he got something else.
Gonzalez blooped a broken-bat single into center field that landed well in front of a charging Cameron Maybin for a run. Tulowitzki did the same, only his hit fell in front of Will Venable for another run-scoring single. The very next batter, Cuddyer, hit the hardest ball of the inning, though it too didn't register much of a blip on the sweet spot, an RBI single to right field that made it 4-1.
"I've got to execute down in the zone," Brach said. "It's frustrating. They hit it harder, it's an out. They hit it slower, it's an out. They didn't fall in the gloves, but fell in the grass instead."
The Rockies (4-1) would later get a two-run home run by Cuddyer off of Padres reliever Andrew Cashner in the seventh inning but the decisive inning was the fifth, when runs that crossed the plate must have felt something akin to nails on chalkboard.
"That's the sign of good hitters. Not every time are you going to be able to put the barrel on the ball," Cuddyer said. "But to keep the bat in the zone long enough to fight through, you get balls to dump in -- especially in this ballpark, because the outfielders are playing deep."
As was the case in Friday's 5-2 loss to the Rockies, the Padres (1-4) had their chances. Their leadoff hitter reached base five different times, but the team managed to score just three runs. A lineup missing Chase Headley, who led the league in RBIs a year ago (115), has scored more than three runs only once this season.
Carlos Quentin had two doubles in the game, as the Padres finished with eight hits. Through the first five games of the season, the Padres are hitting .191 as a team with a .258 on-base percentage.
"He's getting his hits," Black said of Quentin. "We need the other guys to get their hits. That's the issue."
Ross, who won the No. 5 spot in the rotation with a strong body of work during Spring Training, needed 34 pitches to get out of the first inning. His ball-strike ratio (61 strikes, 35 balls) wasn't bad at all, though the Rockies managed to drive up his pitch count with long at-bats.
"He battled. Going in, we knew his stuff would be good," Black said. "The first inning put him behind as far as pitch count. But he kept us in there. I liked what I saw overall. A lot of foul balls, but you don't have any control over that. I liked that he was in the strike zone."
A nine-pitch at-bat to Gonzalez in the first inning resulted in a walk. He needed 11 more pitches to retire Todd Helton in the inning. An eight-pitch walk to Dexter Fowler to begin that fateful fifth didn't help much either. All told, Ross (0-1) walked four, struck out two and allowed three hits and two earned runs during his four-plus innings.
"I threw a lot of pitches early, and definitely had too many walks ... I just ran out of bullets," Ross said. "You get two strikes on a guy, and you've got to get him out. I've got to do a better job of letting them put the ball in play instead of trying to be too fine."
Colorado pitcher Jon Garland, facing the team for which he pitched in 2010, allowed two runs on five hits over six innings. The Padres got two hits from rookie infielder Jedd Gyorko, including an RBI double in the eighth inning.

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Monongahela, Allegheny and Ohio. The names sing of the nation's pioneer past and the great westward thrust. Carnegie, Frick, Heinz, Westinghouse and Mellon. The names speak of financial empires, of the industrialization that built this country into a manufacturing complex whose products find their way into every corner of the globe. Steel City, Smoky City and Renaissance City. The names reflect not only the past of Pittsburgh but its pride in the present and its faith in the future. Pittsburgh, whose mills produced more steel during the Second World War than Germany and Japan combined, has found it hard to shrug off the Smoky City stereotype in the minds of many. Today, a modern office-building complex, Gateway Center, built, owned and managed by H&S client The Equitable Life Assurance Society of the United States, is located at the apex of the Golden Triangle downtown business area focused on the point of land where the Monongahela and Allegheny rivers meet to form the Ohio. And, thanks to a cleanup program begun in the late forties, the air is almost as clear today as it was when, in 1753, Virginia Governor Dinwiddie dispatched Major George Washington to the area to determine the intentions of the French and the extent of their penetration of the region. By the following year the present site of Pittsburgh, with its commanding view of the rivers, had become a battleground between the French and English. Washington himself had reported on the military advantages of locating a fort at the point. A small party of English began erecting a stockade on the site chosen by Washington in the spring of 1754, only to be driven out by a superior force of French and Indians before construction was completed. The French then occupied the area and built Fort Duquesne. Several months later the first blood of the French and Indian War was shed in a battle between the French and Indian forces and troops of the Virginia militia led by Washington. For the next four years possession of the area was hotly contested by the opposing sides. In November of 1758 an Enjoying view of Pittsburgh from the Mt. Washington Overlook are (1. to r.) Frances Laybourn, staff accountant Barb Stahl, senior David Laybourn, and staff accountant Lee Shull. David came to Pittsburgh from the DH&S office in Bristol, England, under the exchange visitor program. Because of its extensive international practice, the Pittsburgh office is one 10 of the more popular for exchange visitors.


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As I write this post on Friday night, I recall a mention on the news that today, every state in the U.S. will have snow on the ground. I have my doubts about Hawaii, but I know here in Maryland that's certainly the case.
I took tons of pictures during the snow storms we've had here over the past week. I also took some time out today to write up my memories of the past eight days or so.
The recent storms have been record-setting and won't soon be forgotten. Many years from now, we'll be reminiscing about the power outages, sledding, shoveling and cozy fires. Take some time to record your memories before the details slip away.
I'll be including my photos and write-up as part of my 365 Project. You probably have dozens of pictures on your camera or laptop right now. Take some time to get them into a scrapbook soon and include notes about what you did during the recent storm(s). What did you eat? Did you lose power? How did you cope? Years from now, you'll get a kick out of re-reading your notes and seeing the photos. You'll be glad you took the time to preserve these snowy memories.
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GPSMAP 540/540S software version 5.60
as of April 26, 2011
Changes made from version 5.50 to 5.60:
Added Sirius-XM disclaimer to power on page.
Added support for the 'Coastal Mariner' weather subscription.
Improved stability of weather charts against invalid or corrupt received XM Data.
Improved Russian translations.
Changes made from version 5.40 to 5.50:
Corrected issue that caused some map areas to be shaded incorrectly. This issue is most likely seen as large areas filled with solid brown.
Fixed an issue where the currents arrow numeric value was being drawn upside down with reference to the boat orientation at head Up.
Corrected potential shutdown issue when navigating near the 180th meridian while using any of the 3D chart views.
Corrected issue that caused the unit to indicate that user data transfers to SD card were complete prematurely.
Corrected issue where cartographic lines were not visible when displaying nexrad data on the charts.
Fixed incorrect sun and moon predictions on the celestial page.
Corrected issue where points representing cranes had purple boxes drawn around them.
Changes made from version 5.30 to 5.40:
Added support for BlueChart g2 and g2 Vision version 11.5.
Added support for Portuguese fishing areas.
Added support for dolphin buoys.
Added support for using built-in map update SD cards.
Fixed a potential shutdown when animated tides are enabled.
Fixed a rare issue where the unit may not be able to achieve a GPS fix after a power cycle.
Corrected the Fishing and Navigation Chart's Tracks control to turn the tracks off/on.
Updated the Russian translation for 'Gain.'
Changes made from version 5.20 to 5.30:
Improved depth tracking performance.
Changed the active track log scanning to display the date and time the point was recorded instead of the position.
Added support for displaying the compass tape on the Sonar pages.
Corrected how waypoint names display on maps when using a non 1252 codepage.
Corrected the AIS rate of turn value that was not using the correct sign of the value.
When the AIS alarm is set to off, the 'Remove Lost Target' message will not display and the lost target will automatically be removed after 2 minutes.
Removed the depth line control from the flasher menu.
Changed the weather chart Waypoints control to automatically change to 'Show' when a waypoint is created via the weather chart.
Changes made from version 5.10 to 5.20:
Added the ability to turn off the AIS dangerous target alarm. When the alarm is set to off, dangerous targets will still display on charts, but the alarm banner that allows acknowledgement of a dangerous target will not be displayed. Unacknowledged dangerous AIS targets will turn red and blink on the chart even if the AIS dangerous target alarm is turned off.
Added an automatic light sector control which determines the best zoom levels to draw light sectors.
Added support for transferring waypoints, tracks, and routes to/from MapSource. This support was removed in the previous release.
Potentially dangerous points along auto guidance paths will be outlined in red. After the auto guidance calculation completes, a message will appear if there are potentially unsafe areas along the path.
Improved Mariner's Eye 3d operation under slow speeds
Changed the nature of seabed areas to label the area instead of drawing a circle and label.
Fixed an issue where AIS targets with status of moored or anchored were showing up as lost prematurely.
Updated the symbol highlighting on the chart to use the correct symbol size.
Added the blue and black direction lines for orthogonal photo points.
Fixed an issue where Mariner's Eye 3d safe depth wasn't correct the first time you went to that view.
Fixed a bug where auto guidance lines can ignore the safety buffer on the first leg of the route.
Added a control to hide waypoints on the weather charts to eliminate clutter issues.
Changes made from version 5.00 to 5.10:
Improved chart cartography presentation by reducing clutter.
Added support for displaying the compass tape on the Navigation and Fishing Charts.
Fixed a potential issue on the 3D page when displaying the backlight adjustment page.
Reduced the sonar bottom acquisition time in deep water.
Changes made from version 4.50 to 5.00:
Numerous rearrangements of menus, configurations, and adjustments to place most-used features in easy to access locations.
Made the Back button smarter to minimize the number of key presses required to exit commonly used features.
Changed the appearance of UI lists and allowed paging by using the -/+ keys.
Added logging of MOB events.
Improved waypoint marking interfaces to minimize map obstruction and reduce required key presses.
Greatly improved the drawing speed for charts. In most areas users should rarely see a partially drawn map when zooming and panning.
Prevented the map from initially re-drawing when panning on the Chart/Sonar funciton and after displaying a menu above the chart.
Added continuous smoothing of the head-up direction for head-up charts. Head-up users will find this change a remarkable improvement in performance.
Added continuous smoothing between zoom levels.
Changed the chart terminology for heading-up orientation from Track Up to Head Up.
Add ability to choose the label display for waypoints by symbol. User can choose to show labels for waypoints of a particular symbol with the waypoint name, comment, or symbol only.
Waypoints can now be turned off on charts by symbol. This allows the waypoints on the map to be quickly limited to those of interest for the boater?s current activity.
Added ability to show or hide track logs based on color.
Added a compass rose overlay option.
Added ability to mark waypoints with the pointer on weather maps.
Added all supporting features for the latest g2 and g2 Vision, including user control of bathymetric contour shading.
Added a perspective 3D display of charts for people who do not have g2 Vision cards.
Added ability to overlay charts and photographs on the 3D relief when using g2 Vision.
Added ability to rotate the 3D view and point to objects for review.
Improved the head-up responsiveness of Mariner's Eye 3D making manual route following much easier to do (no over-steer).
Numerous appearance and drawing performance improvements.
Added option for a compass tape at the top of the screen.
Removed the 'sonar panel' display from Fish Eye 3D and replaced with symbols indicating sonar detections.
Removed the control for specifying the sonar beam width in the 3D picture. Beam width is determined automatically from the transducer.
Added sonar noise rejection control.
Added user control for water temperature offset.
Added ability to move a pointer around on the sonar image when paused and mark waypoints at locations pointed to (underwater waypoints feature).
Added support for heading sensor connection via NMEA 0183.
Added a graphical compass to Information->Dashboard.
Expanded control of navigation leg transition to include a time-based choice.
When a route is activated the unit will automatically add a leg from the boat's current position to the first waypoint in the route.
Changed the chart terminology for heading-up orientation from Track Up to Head Up.
Can now load and store multiple sets of user data files on an SD card.
Added user comments field to waypoints.
Added range, bearing, and a graphical pointer to waypoint review pages.
Changed the symbols and colors to be closer to international standards.
AIS vessels are only filtered from the map by distance from the boat. The user can set up the range of interest or choose to show all AIS vessels up to a maximum of 100 vessels.
Added standard 'select and activate' interface for AIS. User can choose which targets to track with a larger symbol and heading/COG indications. All other AIS vessels display in a smaller symbol to minimize clutter.
Use a solid line for AIS vessel heading and a dashed line for course over ground.
Added user-controlled trails for AIS and DSC vessels.
Added connecting legs over shallow areas at the beginning and end of the path. This allows the boater to auto guide to a shore-based service. The unit will sound an alarm when the boat approaches the shallow leg.
Added a control for shore-line proximity tolerance which allows the user to choose tighter margins for passage through narrow channels or set a larger distance margin from the shoreline.
When following Auto guidance added a navigation option to recalculate Auto guidance to the current destination from the boat's current position.
Changes made from version 4.40 to 4.50:
Added warning for recalled g2 and g2 vision maps to not be used for navigation.
Changes made from version 4.30 to 4.40:
Added support for safety contour for enhanced g2 vision cartography.
Fixed rare shutdown while viewing specific chart locations.
Fixed issue where XM weather would stop working when only one audio channel is available.
Changes made from version 4.20 to 4.30:
Improved reliability of NMEA0183 output timing.
Changes made from version 4.10 to 4.20:
Added the option to configure the distance from a turn at which the system will transition to the next leg of a route.
Fixed issue where Mariner's Eye 3D may draw the water surface of a lake well below surrounding land when the scene contains only partial 3D information.
Fixed issue where a world base map would to be drawn instead of an available supplemental map when viewing an area near that supplemental map's border.
Fixed issue that may apply a weather warning to an area that is not under a warning in addition to the correct warning area.
Changes made from version 4.00 to 4.10:
Added the ability to configure the level of detail shown by the base map.
Changes made from version 3.10 to 4.00:
Changed labels for numeric configuration buttons from 'Overlay Numbers' to 'Data Bars' and added more user setup options for Cruising, Navigation, and Sailing data bars.
Improved the visibility of the map pointer.
Added a 'Local Services' search feature which finds services near the map pointer of the Navigation and Fishing Overlay Charts.
Added a distance measurement tool on the Navigation Chart menu.
Added a control to the waypoint review page for moving a waypoint on the map if it was reviewed via the map.
Added controls to toggle on and off the display of photo points, service points, land POIs, and Tides/Currents symbols on the Navigation Chart.
Added control to toggle on and off the display of Navaids on the Fishing Chart.
Added the ability to show/hide saved tracks and the active track based on color.
Improved track up map updating so it is more responsive to vessel direction changes.
Added support for SDHC cards, which have capacities greater than 2GB.
Changed default sonar background color to blue for all products except Gmap430s, Gmap530s, and Gmap535s.
Modified to display all AIS targets on the charts by default, and added a menu item to only show the 5 closest AIS targets.
Dynamically scale fuel rate and fuel economy digital gauges.
Added G2 Vision Card information to the System Information Page
Added a 'Route Bar' control under 'Navigation Bar Setup', which toggles the display of additional route specific data.
Changed arrival alarm to trigger on arrival at 'Destination' or 'Destination and Turns' based on user's preference.
Added an option to create a route from a list of existing user waypoints.
Performing a Go To will now draw the desired track lane from the origin to the destination for those who wish to use Go To for following a specific course with minimum cross track error. The lane center line will still 'float' with the vessel for those who wish to navigate by bearing only. Routes can still be used to create navigation lanes with a fixed center line.
Added Offset Navigation which allows navigation based on a fixed distance from the original route. This is useful for trolling a precise distance from regulatory fishing boundaries.
Changed route creation on navigation and fishing charts to no longer require selecting 'Add Turn' for the last point if the pointer is moved away from the last 'Add Turn' position. When 'Done' is pressed, the location of the pointer will be the last route waypoint.
After saving a route created on the navigation or fishing charts, the user will be presented with the route review page so they can easily change the name at that time.
Added Stop Navigation option to Mariner's Eye menu.
Added Fish Eye 3D view control to allow fore, aft, port and starboard views. Also added manual panning of Fish Eye 3D.
Changed Mariner's Eye 3D camera so that it can be positioned to look straight down when zoomed out to the minimum zoom level and extended the view to the horizon while navigating.
Made vessel turning with 3D pages smoother to eliminate overshoot when steering a route line in 3D.
Made the auto guidance lane width on the Mariner's Eye 3D page user adjustable.
Decreased the drawing time required for XM weather pages.
Added a Weather Setup control in the Chart Setup menu to allow user choose which weather features will display on the Navigation and Fishing Charts.
Improved the appearance of the weather legend and added control for displaying it on the Navigation and Fishing charts.
Can now display multiple fish species on the Fishing information page.
Always display review, route creation, and position select maps with north up orientation.
Added additional digit for Loran TD offsets to allow entering larger offsets.
Updated the Auckland, Hawaiian, and Eniwetok time zones to the new DST standards.
Fixed placement of the North arrow on Track up maps. Previously the arrow was inconsistently placed in the upper right or upper left corner.
Display the total fuel remaining data bar number with a maximum of 4 digits. Previously, the maximum was 3 digits and volumes over 999 would display as invalid.
Changes made from version 3.00 to 3.10:
Added fuel management features for use with Garmin CANet-capable fuel sensors
Added TracBack support and the ability to navigate to a specific track point
Added XM weather to 3D map
Improved map drawing performance
Increased accessibility of XM audio features
Added a control for overlay numbers on the Chart/Sonar pages
Added the ability to create a new waypoint or route from the user data and Where To? lists
Added the ability show trip and fuel numbers on the custom numbers page
Improved the look of the pile, artificial reefs, and algae blooms symbols
Added the ability to scan a track from the map
Modified Home key function to be more user friendly when pressed on the Display adjustment page
Searching... is now displayed while a search is active instead of None Found.
Improved scanning of route waypoints
Improved the placement of the boat when sailing or fuel numbers are displayed
Corrected PGRMM and PGRMZ NMEA controls as they were swapped
Fixed problem that was causing Loran TD changes to not be remembered between power cycles.'
Corrected spelling of fish species text
Fixed problem with on-route waypoint navigation
Corrected AIS vessel descriptions that are displayed on the AIS review page
Added 'Observatorio 1966' map datum
Corrected how safe zone rings are drawn when using metric units
Allowed extended characters to be transferred in waypoints, routes, and tracks
Added support for wind and volume units.
Corrected an issue when merging user data where a routes or tracks with the same name could be overwritten
Corrected issue where the depth units may not be able to be set if connected to a GSD-21
Corrected issue where the review button on the DSC message banner may bring up the wrong review page if several DSC messages had been received
Changes made from version 2.60 to 3.00:
Added Turkish translations.
Added a trip numbers page.
Sped up imagery drawing.
Improved Mariner's Eye and Fish Eye operation and appearance.
Improved positioning of depth contour labels.
Added waypoint decluttering.
Sped up track-up drawing.
Added bridge and overhead cable clearance to corresponding review pages.
Added support for showing position overlay number on navigation chart when sonar isn't available.
Corrected the IOS tide station drawing.
Added sonar cone coverage to the A-scope and Custom numbers selection.
Sped up Auto Guidance searching when there is no solution.
Reduced the width of the track line for better viewing.
Improved digital data appearance on the flasher page.
Changes made from version 2.50 to 2.60:
Improved Track-Up map drawing operation, including removal of flicker when turning.
Improved simultaneous satellite imagery and map data depiction.
Fixed potential lock-up when editing waypoint position using the charts.
Corrected waypoint catalog data depiction.
Changes made from version 2.40 to 2.50:
Fixed a shutdown occurring when reviewing some navaids.
Fixed a problem causing photos not to display on a marine service review page.
Corrected distorted drawing of the safe zone ring.
Added ability to review areas with extended text.
Corrected a few German translations.
Increased detail of sea surface temperature display.
Changes made from version 2.30 to 2.40:
Added ability to adjust GPS Speed Filter.
Corrected problem that could cause 3D to fill screen with blue.
Modified 3D zoom adjustment to timeout display of scale percentage.
Added ability to shortcut to a leg within a route.
Added support for the user to be able to customize distance, speed and elevation units independently.
Added ability to navigate routes both forwards and backwards.
Modified active route appearance to highlight only the remaining route legs.
Added new Split Navigation Chart feature.
Corrected problem with display of satellite imagery on inland maps.
Corrected display of fishing chart depth contour labels to use system depth units, rather than always displaying in feet.
Corrected problem with fishing contours not displaying after performing a Factory Defaults Reset.
Changes made from version 2.20 to 2.30:
Fixed a problem that could cause the unit to shut down shortly after power-on.
Don't show the weather alarms page if XM weather is not activated.
Fixed potential lock-up associated with weather forecast data.
Fixed the symbol for no GPS lock not flashing on the boat icon on charts.
Changed translation of 'Factory Reset' and 'Light' in Swedish.
Show the wind field option on the numbers page if apparent wind speed is available.
Fixed a shutdown when pressing the left/right keys in the sonar menu when set to 4x zoom.
Fixed a shutdown that can occur in shallow water when changing the sonar range from 5ft to 2000ft.
Added an option to remove the last turn when creating a quick route.
Update the title on the home page when the language changes.
Buoy top marks were not being displayed correctly.
Change sonar color menu settings to 'Black' and 'White' in night mode.
Fixed incorrect wind angle data being displayed.
Updated language translations.
Fixed the Russian and Croation translations for map labels.
Fixed menu lists without a back button not showing the last item.
Don't show the Mariner's Eye 'Hazard' color option if no 3D data is available.
Corrected the position displayed for the cursor after deleting a waypoint.
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Sped up map drawing to be up to two times faster.
Fixed Greek translations for map point strings.
Fixed problem that caused the unit's display to turn off after doing a software update while in store demonstration mode.
Fixed problem with doing Auto Guidance to buoys or lights.
Added fish forecasts to the fishing chart and fishing information weather chart if included in an XM subscription.
Added forecasted surface pressure, winds, visibility, wave height, wave period, and wave direction to weather charts if included in an XM subscription.
Fixed problem with flashing text on chart menus when the weather legend is shown.
Corrected problem with route turn icons sometimes not being drawn the correct size.
Fixed problem with the Chart Notes option not always being displayed when it should.
Added display of the waypoint symbol, range and bearing on the User Data Waypoints list.
Show water speed in place of position on the fishing overlay if water speed and temperature are both present.
Show the wind VMG at all times if it is turned on, or waypoint VMG if navigating a route.
Added stop navigation button to arrival alarm.
Show next turn information if Sailing numbers are on and Navigation numbers are off.
Added display summary for the data that is shown for each overlay number category in the configuration menu.
Allow adjusting the off course alarm distance without turning it on.
Corrected relative humidity display.
Hide the photos configuration UI if there is not a vision card or basemap with detailed imagery.
Fixed potential shutdowns that could occur while an XM antenna is connected.
Fixed the accessory output for the 4x0/5x0 which kept black box sonar sensors from turning on.
Eliminated problem with black rectangles sometimes being drawn on the Mariner's Eye/Sonar combination page.
Fixed some items being show in the chart selection menu multiple times.
Fixed back button on the Loran Chain configuration menu.
Changed to use a darker background for the review page in night mode.
Changed Norwegian translation of Backlight.
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Corrected a problem causing the map legend to disappear after opening the backlight page with cruising numbers turned on and sonar connected.
Fixed drawing problems on the mariner's eye 3D chart.
Fixed bug causing map labels to be cut off and appear corrupted.
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Recently I have been asked by several customer organizations to help them to understand how to account for the expense of agile software development. In particular, incremental delivery of solutions into production or the marketplace seem to be causing confusion with the financial people within these organizations. The details of accounting rules vary between countries, but the fundamentals are common. In order to get properly account for the costs incurred by software development teams you need to keep track of the amount of work performed and the type of work performed to develop a given solution. Time tracking doesn't have to be complex: at one customer developers spend less than five minutes a week capturing such information.
Why is Time Tracking Potentially Valuable?
There are several financial issues to be aware of:
- Capitalization. For public companies capital expenses (CapEx) can potentially boost book value through the increase in assets (in this case a software-based solution) and increase in net income (due to lower operating expenses that year). On the other hand, operational expenses (OpEx) are accounted for in the year that they occur and thereby reduce net income which in turn reduces your organization's taxes for that year.
- Matching. One of the goals of good accounting is to accurately reflect the net income of the enterprise and to prevent income manipulation or "smoothing". As such a key tenet is the principle of matching revenues with the appropriate expenses. For software this means that we expense the cost of the software over the lifetime of the asset against the income at that time. An implication of this is that capitalizing software development, when appropriate, before the software goes into production clearly violates the matching principle since there is no benefit of the asset until such time.
- Tax Credits. In some countries you can even get tax credits for forms of software development that are research and development (R&D) in nature.
The point is that the way that a software developer's work is accounted for can have a non-trivial impact upon your organization's financial position.
What Do Agilists Think of Time Tracking?
So, I thought I'd run a simple test. Last week on LinkedIn's Agile and Lean Software Development group I ran a poll to see what people thought about time tracking. The poll provided five options (a limitation of LinkedIn Polls) to choose from:
- Yes, this is a valuable activity (33% of responses)
- Yes, this is a waste of time (39% of responses)
- No, but we're thinking about doing so (2% of responses)
- No, we've never considered this (18% of responses)
- I don't understand what you're asking (5% of responses, one of which was mine so that I could test the poll)
The poll results reveal that we have a long way to go. Of the people inputting their time more of them believed it was a waste of time than understood it to be a valuable activity. When you stop and think about it, the investment of five minutes a week to track your time could potentially save or even earn your organization many hundreds of dollars. Looking at it from a dollar per minute point of view, it could be the highest value activity that a developer performs in a given week.
The discussion that ensued regarding the poll was truly interesting. Although there were several positive postings, and several neutral ones, many more were negative when it came to time tracking. Some comments that stood out for me included:
- It's a colossal waste of time unless you're billing a customer by the hour.
- We record time spent on new development work (as distinct from other tasks such as bug fixing in legacy code and so on) as this is capitalised as an asset and depreciated.
- I think the *most* pointless example was where the managers told us what we should be putting in.
- One day we will move past the "just do it" mentality and have some meaningful conversations and the reasons for what we do.
- In my experience time tracking is a massive waste... of time. It's a poor substitute for management.
- Why do you need to know more than the info available through Sprint Backlog, Sprint burndown and the daily standup?
- Some of my teams (I am SM for three teams) are skeptical about this. They do not think that keeping track of task hours this way will be any more useful than the daily standup reports. And they do not believe that Management can resist the temptation to use task hours as a measure.
I think that there are several interesting implications from this discussion:
- Agilists need to become more enterprise aware. It's clear to be really effective that agile delivery teams need a better understanding of the bigger picture, including mundane things such as tax implications of what they're doing. In Disciplined Agile Delivery (DAD) this is something that we refer to as being enterprise aware. There's far more to enterprise awareness than understanding pertinent accounting principles, for interest disciplined agile teams work towards a common technology roadmap and common business roadmap, but appreciating why time tracking is a potentially valuable activity would be a good start.
- Management needs to communicate better. It's also clear that management needs to communicate more effectively regarding why they're asking people to track their time. To be fair, management themselves might not be aware of the tax implications themselves so may not be making effective use of the time data they're asking for.
- Management needs to govern more effectively. Several people were clearly concerned about how management was going to use the time data (by definition they are measures) which could be a symptom of both poor communication as well as poor governance (unfortunately many developers have experiences where measures have been used against them, a failure of governance, and no longer trust their management teams to do the right thing as a result).
- Time tracking should be streamlined. It was obvious from the conversation that several people worked in organizations where the time tracking effort had gotten completely out of hand. Spending 5 minutes a week is ok, and to be quite blunt should be more than sufficient, but spending fifteen minutes or more a day doing so is far too much. Over the years I've helped organizations design measurement programs and I've seen a lot of well-intention efforts become incredibly onerous and expensive for the people they were inflicted upon. I suspect it's time for a reality check in some of these organizations people were alluding to. A good heuristic is that for any measurement you should be able to indicate the real cost of collecting it, the use(s) that the information is being put to, and the value resulting from those uses. If you can't quickly and coherently do that then you need to take a hard look at why you continue to collect that metric. The lament "we might need it one day" is a symptom that you're wasting time and money.
- Agile rhetoric is getting in the way. Some of the team-focused agile practices, such as burndown charts (or better yet ranged burndown charts) and stand up meetings may be preventing people from becoming enterprise aware because they believe that all of their management needs are being met by them.
- You may be missing out on the benefits of time tracking. Many organizations are potentially leaving money on the table by not being aware of the implications of how to expense software development.
Parting Thoughts
Disciplined agilists are enterprise aware. This is important for two reasons: First, you want to optimize your organizational whole instead of sub-optimize on project-related efforts; second, you can completely miss opportunities to add real value for your organization. In the anecdote I provided it was clear that many agile developers believe that an activity such as time tracking is a waste when that clearly doesn't have to be the case. Worse yet, although someone brought up the issues around capitalizing software development expenses early in the conversation a group of very smart and very experienced people still missed this easy opportunity to see how they could add value to their organization.
Granted, time tracking on an agile project team is nowhere near as sexy as topics such as continuous integration (CI), TDD, the definition of done, continous architecture, or many more. But you know what? Although it's a mind-numbingly mundane issue it is still an important one. 'Nuff said (I hope).
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Posted 14 June 2017 - 12:32 PM
Bungie doesn't seem to understand why people want to learn more about the Exo Stranger who comes to help you from the fucking future.
I guess there's no time to explain why they don't have time to explain.
Posted 15 June 2017 - 06:33 AM
I could care less about that Exo Stranger. I hope they just move on to more interesting story lines.
Posted 15 June 2017 - 07:32 AM
Anyway, it's less about the Exo Stranger and more about if this is how they're going to handle story? If this is how they feel they effectively exit a character? That does not bode well for future storylines in the game.
Posted 16 June 2017 - 09:37 AM
I could care less about that Exo Stranger. I hope they just move on to more interesting story lines.
Posted 16 June 2017 - 04:13 PM
Someone needs to muzzle Luke Smith.
Posted 08 September 2017 - 08:06 AM
This game is really good.
Posted 08 September 2017 - 02:32 PM
Like genuinely better than the first? In what ways?
Posted 08 September 2017 - 10:27 PM
In every way.
Posted 09 September 2017 - 10:42 PM
In every way.
Shoowee u ain't kidding
Posted 10 September 2017 - 09:34 AM
btw, you rank up your clan faster the more people are playing and contributing to your clan xp. We've invited some other people you may not know to the in-game clan in case you're wondering who they are. Please be nice to them, but certainly let us know if anyone is a jerk, although I doubt that'll be a problem.
Also, I selected the clan banner, but maybe someone else more artistically inclined would like to design it, so if you can find an online configurator/previewer just let me know what options to pick. *cough* blaze *cough*
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Posted 11 September 2017 - 01:03 PM
Dual, that dude is not playing endgame content, he's also just trying to get engagement/enragement from people like me who think he's a jackass.
Every aspect of Destiny 2 is better, the progression feels better, every activity feels rewarding, and quick travel/maps are game changers. Cocop's team crushed patrol, it's legitimately fun and dynamic.
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Posted 11 September 2017 - 04:23 PM
Also, is there a story now?
I want to like the game, but from the outside the game just looks the same as the first. Animations, textures, and all. I don't see what the focus was from the last few years. Is the PS4 pro really not capable of pushing some of the limits of the first system? 1080p60 options like what is already being done on other titles would have been perfect here too.
Then there's the whole shader thing.
Edited by DualX, 11 September 2017 - 06:03 PM.
Posted 11 September 2017 - 09:19 PM
Yeah, it was really cool to see Cocop as "Open World Team Lead" for what is unquestionably the best improvement game over game.
Thanks! I am glad it's all been received so well. During development it was hard to tell if it was going to come out alright.
Posted 12 September 2017 - 06:28 AM
Dual, just take a look at the amount streams on Twitch and tell me if you think the game is really a dud. Everyone and their mother is playing, the other day there were 1.2M concurrent players online in Destiny 2.
I know you do some streaming, I'm surprised you haven't jumped in.
Posted 12 September 2017 - 06:42 AM
Check out the lore for the Hard Light exotic. Sound familiar to anyone?
Posted 12 September 2017 - 09:56 AM
Thanks! I am glad it's all been received so well. During development it was hard to tell if it was going to come out alright.
Thanks! I am glad it's all been received so well. During development it was hard to tell if it was going to come out alright.
It's always harder to see from the inside, you know the limitations, the roadblocks, and pain points. But I'm not telling you anything new.
Finished the campaign 2 nights ago. Yes, Dual. It has a story, and a very good one.
Nightshade and I went through about 3 or 4 Lost Sectors last night, as well as some sort of multi-part mission about enhanced ether. I haven't even touched the Patrols yet. I can't wait to dive further into this game. Working from home, all I want to do is go to the living room and fire it up and run a mission.
This being my first intro to the Taken, I want to go back and play it just so I'm clear on the enemies.
I haven't even touched Crucible yet, it's still in my milestones.
Also, loved the post-credits scene. If the DLC explores that, I will be buying it. Because that was an
Posted 13 September 2017 - 11:41 AM
For those of you looking to level-up quickly, this is a good reference. I would highly suggest you not do any Exotic Quests, Nightfall, Milestones, or any other activities which give "Powerful Gear" until reaching level 265. It's harder to level up past 265, so you want to save those to be able to move up. Personally, as soon as I turned 265 I went right up to 275 because I waited on decrypting all the Powerful Gear/Luminous Engrams.
Additionally, don't pick up the Luminous Engrams awarded by the clan activities from Hawthorne as those are Powerful Gear also.
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Fast Start for U.S. and Canada at North American Cup
BIRMINGHAM, Ala. - The U.S. and Canada wheelchair basketball teams got wins early in the day during the opening rounds of competition at the 2008 North American Cup at Lakeshore Foundation, an official U.S. Olympic and Paralympic Training Site. The Canadian rugby team also picked up a win during first round action.
In the first game on the basketball court, the U.S. beat Great Britain by the score of 80-47. Team USA built a 43-17 halftime lead and never looked back. U.S. head coach Steve Wilson said, "We came out to be aggressive, run our game plan and keep Great Britain thinking." Wilson added that "the versatility of our team is key, being able to play many players. This was a good start for us." While the U.S. took on Great Britain, Canada and Australia battled it out on court two. The Canadians led by 14 points at the half and went on to beat the Aussies by a final score of 73-60.
In wheelchair rugby competition, the first game featured New Zealand, ranked #5 in the world, against the third-ranked Canadians. The game was tied at 17-17 at the half, but New Zealand had 4 turnovers in the third period. Canada edged out New Zealand 38-35.
The U.S. rugby team faced New Zealand during the day's next contest. It was a close contest for the first two periods with the U.S. taking a 14-12 lead. But in the second half the U.S. pulled away to win by a final score of 36-27. "We expected a battle from the defending goal medal team", said U.S. Head Coach James Gumbert. "New Zealand has a lot of talent, but we played as well as a team as we have all year, this was a nice stop on our journey", Gumbert added. The U.S. rugby team will next face Canada Friday night. Two basketball games are also on the schedule for Friday night, the U.S. meets Australia and Great Britain takes on Canada.
There is more exciting competition ahead this weekend. On Saturday, June 21, games begin at 9:00 a.m. The day features four basketball games and three rugby contests. In rugby, the U.S. takes on New Zealand at 9:00 a.m. and at 1:00 p.m. New Zealand plays again, taking on Canada. The final rugby game of the day is at 5:00 p.m. when the U.S. plays Canada. In basketball, Australia takes on Great Britain and the U.S. meets Canada at 11:00 a.m. Two more games will be played at 5:00 p.m. , the top-seeded team takes on the fourth-seeded team and the second-seeded team plays the third-seeded team.
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This week, the class is back to its original schedule and I make sure I am early. However, we all must wait for the entire class to arrive before being let in to the training room so being early isn't necessarily fruitful. It does, however, give me a chance to get to know the few others who are also early.
One is hoping to eventually become a Reserve Officer. His enthusiasm bubbles over. Another announces he is 70 years old and almost seems surprised that he is doing this. I feel better hearing his age, as he is older than I am. (Nope, not telling.)
Finally most of the class have arrived as the clock strikes 6 p.m. Training Supervisor Lt. Rick Peeples opens the door to the inner sanctum and comments that almost everyone has arrived so why don't we come in. It is obvious we have been watched on a CCTV system. How else would he know we were almost all here?
We file into the training room, which, by the way, is a room filled with skinny tables and chairs and a large screen for film, Power Point, etc.
We are greeted by Corporal Ricci Fowler, Peeples and Dispatcher Pam Curtiss.
Curtiss starts us off. She describes the job of the Summerville dispatchers in detail.
"It's a high stress job," she says. "The most important thing we ask of the public is to take a deep breath, calm down and answer each of our questions."
The questions, she says, are crucial for response. In order to get a unit or fire engine responding, dispatchers need to know what the emergency is and the exact address.
The other important thing the public needs to know is that 911 is only for something "happening now!"
"Don't call us to ask a phone number or tell about something that has already happened or has been on going of whatever," she says. "We only have three phone lines into 911 and if one is tied up with a non-emergency, a real emergency can't get through."
There are normally three dispatchers on duty each shift - three eight-hour shifts - one handles police, one NCIC (National Criminal Information Center) and one for fire.
The busiest is the police dispatcher who not only has to handle incoming emergency calls but also has to keep track of all the SPD police officers in the field. It is his or her job to ensure the safety of the officers in that if an officer needs backup, s/he needs to know in order to send it.
This dispatcher's job is multi-tasking at its most intense. Anyone who has listened to a scanner knows that there are moments during most every shift, where there are multiple events ongoing needing multiple responses. It is the police dispatcher's job to make sure each event gets the response it needs and all the officers are accounted for.
The records dispatcher is asked to look up such records as driver's licenses, vehicle registrations, wants and warrants, serial numbers, etc.
For example, an officer pulls someone over for a traffic violation. He then calls into dispatch and ask that the driver's license and registration be "run." The dispatcher puts the info into DMV and lets the officer know if the driver's license and registration is valid, if there are any outstanding warrants against the individual or if the individual is wanted by law enforcement.
Or, an officer finds articles that may have been stolen. The dispatcher runs the serial numbers through NCIC to see if they are.
The fire dispatcher takes fire and first responder calls. This is probably the least busy of the three so that dispatcher is most likely to also be the call-taker - the one who initially answers a 911 call.
The system is set up with computers that communicate so if the call-taker gets a police needed call, the information typed into their computer will show up on the police dispatcher's computer screen enabling them to relay the information in real time to the officer they are sending to the scene.
Next up is Corporal Fowler who is in charge of accreditation for SPD. The department is accredited by the state which, she says, means the department's standards are higher than most.
"It means our standards set us above the rest," she explains. For the next hour, Fowler describes the accreditation process. In what could be a stultifying dissertation, Fowler manages to make it fascinating. Her enthusiasm and obvious passion for the job, embraces the class and has it focused and interacting.
She is open and honest about the strengths and weaknesses of the department. Its strengths include its mission to serve, its high standards and the caliber of training. Its weakness comes to the fore in the salaries it can pay.
"Officers who are paying off student loans can barely make ends meet," she says. "We have officers who barely take home $700 in their paycheck."
This is why so many will do extra duty or have second jobs, she says. Her job is to make sure that the extra duty/second job doesn't conflict with the primary job in that the officers are scheduled for their primary duty in a way that ensures they get enough rest. It's a safety issue, she notes.
Every three years, the department has to be reaccredited, she says. For this, she has to provide the state with proof that it meets more than 460 standards for each of the three years between accreditations. This is a full time job for her.
Finally Peeples take the class and describes the training that SPD requires of its officers. In addition to the 12 weeks of live-in, full-time Police Academy training in Columbia that starts off an officer's career, there are countless hours of on-going, in-house training that they participate in.
He hands us a sheet with the totals for one year - September 2013 to September 2013 - that shows more than 20,815 hours of training.
I quickly pull out my phone and open the calculator. Surely this is more hours than there actually are in a year.
Then I understand. Not every officer takes every class. In fact some 4,211 officers took classes that year. Far more than are employed at SPD.
Peeples explains that the classes often include officers from other agencies and SPD officer will take classes offered by other agencies as well. Nevertheless, it is impressive.
The state mandates 40 hours of in-house training per officer per year to keep accreditation. SPD offers much more.
So in addition, when a new officer graduates from the Academy, he or she is then assigned to a Field Training Officer (FTO) for the next nine weeks or 360 hours. Only then, is s/he sent out on their own.
Peeples describes an Academy Emergency Vehicle Operations Course (driving class). Trainees are tested and have to drive a complicated course (that replicates real life) in a defined amount of time. The catch? If they hit even one cone, they have failed the entire Academy and are sent home. It is then up to their chief if he wants to pay to send them back to the academy to retake it. Serious driving course.
It needs to be. If an officer wrecks a police car and it is the officer's fault, then the insurance deductible comes out of his pay.
Peeples then touches on the SPD Reserve Officer program. These folks are volunteers. They are never paid for the work they do. They are trained the same way full-time officers are except in-house. They ride with an FTO (on their own time). Most work full-time jobs and then come to the SPD at night for their training.
Once trained, they function exactly the same as a full-time officer.
"No one knows if the officer responding to a call is full-time or reserve," says Peeples.
The department, while it doesn't pay these officers, does supply everything they need in the way of uniform and equipment.
SPD has 28 reserve officer, he says, and, although it could use more, it can't afford any more. Outfitting these officers is a hefty expense, he notes.
For example:
o Uniform (times three) $300
o Gun $700
o Taser $500
o Equipment belt $200
o Kevlar vest $600
o Boots $100
o Badge $50
o Nameplate $10
o Radio $5,000
And this is not all the department supplies. Multiply that by 28 reserves…$208,880.
It is now 9 p.m. Only Peeples seems to notice the time. The rest of us are so into what we are learning that they could have continued for another hour.
Many hang back to have a one-on-one conversation with Fowler, Peeples and Curtiss.
As I walk to my car I have a new respect for this department and its officers.


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In November 2011, EDM distributor STHoldings pulled their music from Spotify because of "the poor revenues and the detrimental affect on sales". Wired reported on this and wondered aloud if Spotify's fortunes were "unravelling".
In July of this year, STHoldings went into voluntary liquidation.
This was not a new operation. They've been around since 1998 and successfully served a niche music audience well. Amidst all the e-ink spilled on the subject of whether artists should be on Spotify, this certainly stands as a potential example of what happens if you're not. It also shows that Spotify is not the problem, as STHoldings would still be around. That's why I've personally found Spotify to be the solution.


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Call centers, counselors activated to help Navy Yard employees.
This story has been updated.
The head of the Navy called for all personnel to "come together as a family" in light of the shooting as the Washington Navy Yard Monday, and the department set up several avenues for assisting employees in coping with the tragedy.
The Navy established an "emergency family support task force" to assist victims, workers and families with issues related to the shooting. Vice Adm. Bill French, commander of the Navy's Installations Command, will lead the task force.
The task force has set up a call center at Joint Base Anacostia-Bolling and provided several phone numbers for affected individuals to call. In-person counseling will also be available, according to a Navy spokeswoman. The department has deployed family services counselors and chaplains. All services are provided free of charge.
"We will come together as a family to deal with this," Navy Secretary Ray Mabus said in a video message. "If you were at the Navy Yard today, if you had a friend or a loved one or just as a part of the Navy family, if you need assistance in dealing with this … Please call 800-222-0364 and someone will help you work through this awful, awful event."
A private group also offered to help the families of the victims in Monday's shooting. The Federal Employee Education and Assistance Fund announced Tuesday it "stands ready to assist the families of the fallen civilian federal employees, should any have acute financial needs in the coming days and weeks."
The fund has recently run into financial difficulties, forcing it to suspend its no-interest loan program to furloughed civilians. FEEA asked for donations to help the families, as well as other federal employees in need.
The Navy Yard remained closed Tuesday to all employees except mission-essential personnel. Twelve civilian employees and contractors were killed in Monday's shooting.
NEXT STORY: What We Know About the Navy Yard Victims


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The new VIOS performance advisor tool
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I updated my lab VIOS to the latest fix pack ( V18.104.22.168 ) this week and thought I'd try the new VIOS part command. This new command is an improved version of the existing vios_advisor tool. The major difference between the two is the fact that the new tool is now included with VIOS code and will be updated via new VIOS fix packs. The following link has some information on using the command: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/powersys/v3r1m5/index.jsp?topic=/p7hcg/part.htm This new tool "Provides performance reports with suggestions... [More]


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