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Scaling the Mount Everest of literature through print and audio editions
War and Peace. By Leo Tolstoy. Translated by Constance Garnett. Modern Library, 1,386 pages, $24.95.
By Janice Harayda
Reading War and Peace is like walking into a large cocktail party at which you don't know anybody until, hours later, Napoleon turns up fresh from his victory in the Battle of Austerlitz. How do you get your bearings on a novel that has more than 500 characters and, even in the relatively compact Modern Library edition, 1,386 pages?
More than most masterpieces, War and Peace asks you to make a leap of faith and repays the effort. The characters who at first swarm at you in a mob soon coalesce into sets. Chief among them are three well-to-do families – the Rostovs, the Bezuhovs and the Bolkonskys – whose fates rise and fall in the years just before and after Napoleon's disastrous march on Moscow in the winter of 1812.
Leo Tolstoy sets their stories against a teeming panorama of Russian history as he develops the fatalistic theme that free will is an illusion. The choices people make reflect powerful historical forces: The higher someone's social standing, "the more conspicuous is the inevitability and predestination of every act he commits."
Tolstoy's fondness for this theme involves digressions that have defeated many readers. Listening to an unabridged audio edition may help you ride out the philosophical and historical detours from the plot. A recorded version will also give you pronunciations of those 500 Russian or other names, and could add far drama to your commute than any all-news radio station. The radio may give you reports of one-alarm blazes in dumpsters. Tolstoy gives you: "The valet on going in informed the count that Moscow was on fire."
Best line: The first, a line of dialogue at a party: "Well, Prince, Genoa and Lucca are now no more than private estates of the Bonaparte family." This isn't nearly as famous as the first line Anna Karenina ("Happy families are all alike …"). But it has its own genius. Part of it is that it reates the impression that you are eavesdropping with tantalizing effects.
Worst line: Tolstoy elaborates on his view of history and free will in the second of two epilogues in the book: "Napoleon could not command a campaign against Russia, and never did command it." Is that clear? If not, he adds: "Our false conception that the command that precedes an event is the cause of an event is due to the fact that when the event has taken place and those few out of thousands of commands, which happen to be consistent with the course of events, are carried out, we forget those which were not, because they could not be carried out."
Caveat lector: This review uses the Russian spellings in the Constance Garnett translation in the 1994 Modern Library hardcover edition www.randomhouse.com/modernlibrary/. Some scholars favor more recent translations. A newer Modern Library edition has a foreword by A. N. Wilson.
Published: 1869
Furthermore: Unabridged audio editions of War and Peace are available from Audible www.audible.com.
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"We thought, this is an industry in its infancy, it's a heavy cash business, it's basically being used by people who use it to cloak illegal activity. Nobody was doing it the right way. We thought we could make a model of how this should be done."Cloak illegal activity? It is illegal activity. Federal law is real. Haven't you heard?!
The right way? Cloaking is the right way when you're committing crimes. With your business education, somehow you were all: Hey, what a smart idea I have — being completely out in the open about breaking the law. Why hasn't anybody else thought of this?
And I love the way the NYT suddenly has a pro-business orientation. Davies deserves special grace under the law because he's using the structure of business and because he's excited about making big profits! Compare that to all the articles anguishing over Citizens United and how terrible it is to respect free speech rights when the speech comes from a place that is structured as a business.
"Mr. Davies was not a seriously ill user of marijuana nor was he a medical caregiver — he was the major player in a very significant commercial operation that sought to make large profits from the cultivation and sale of marijuana," [said a letter from United States attorney for the Eastern District of California, Benjamin B. Wagner, a 2009 Obama appointee.] Mr. Wagner said that prosecuting such people "remains a core priority of the department."...Yes, and it is mind-boggling that those who argue for the broad interpretation of federal power and who scoff at the idea of the 10th Amendment and reserving powers to the state somehow can't grasp the meaning of their general propositions when they encounter an issue where they prefer the state policy to the federal policy. The NYT and other drivers of elite opinion ought to have to face up to the reality of what their legal propositions entail.
"It's mind-boggling that there were hundreds of attorneys advising their clients that it was O.K. to do this, only to be bushwhacked by a federal system that most people in California are not even paying attention to," said William J. Portanova, a former federal drug prosecutor and a lawyer for one of Mr. Davies's co-defendants. "It's tragic."
And quite aside from the problem of the allocation of power at the federal and the state levels, how about some consistency about equal justice under the law? Let the law — as written — apply the same way to everyone, whether they have a round face and 2 young daughters or not, whether they've gone to grad school or not, whether they have big visions of massive profits or they are living hand to mouth. If the law is wrong, change the law — for everybody. Don't cry over the people you think are nice — like David Gregory and Aaron Swartz. Nonphotogenic and low-class people deserve equal treatment, and cutting breaks for the ones who pull your heart strings is not justice.


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A new readjustment counseling services program for La Plata County veterans will be starting in January.
A readjustment counseling therapist from the Farmington Vet Center will be conducting weekly group meetings at the Durango American Legion Post 28, 878 East Second Ave., from 3 to 5 p.m. Wednesdays beginning Jan. 9.
The goal of the Vet Center program is to provide a broad range of counseling, outreach and referral services to eligible veterans and their families to help them make a satisfying postwar readjustment to civilian life.
Readjustment counseling includes a wide range of services: individual counseling; group counseling; marital and family counseling; bereavement counseling; military sexual trauma counseling and referral; employment counseling and guidance; medical referrals; alcohol and drug assessments; assistance in applying for VA benefits; information and referral to community resources; outreach; and community education.
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Level capping sucks. The reason is simple: level caps break a game's motivation equation.
Games that allow you to gain new levels for your character by defeating enemies or accomplishing tasks create a carefully balanced risk/reward environment that effectively trains you to seek out the situations with the most potential for beneficial character development. Those rewards could be special weapons, decorative (i.e. not functional) items, or most importantly, experience points. Experience points (and the increased character levels they eventually bring) are central to practically every role-playing game and, increasingly, other genres that throw them in as a "role-playing element." They're the most important reward to be gained in these games because they determine the strength of a character and what kind of weapons and capabilities that character can have.
In a game like Borderlands 2, leveling up doesn't just make you a bit stronger or give you a few more hit points. It's not just incremental improvement. Rather, it allows you to unlock new capabilities for your character, such as the ability to stab enemies while cloaked, flipping off foes with a single-finger salute, or sending in a giant robot that shoots lasers from its eyes to wipe out the bad guys for you. New strategies and tactics are opened up by increasing your level.
Everything in these games is subject to the experience point economy. Without character leveling, games that are based on this kind of economy would be insanely boring, because they would lack the primary motivator of character improvement. Let's face it, most people love these kinds of games because of the character leveling and all that comes with it. It's the apotheosis of the "boss battle" motivator in classic action games.
But when you've put 60 hours into Skyrim, Mass Effect, or Borderlands 2 only to reach an artificial level cap, the risk/reward economy suddenly changes for the worse. When you hit that level cap, you are effectively the Man/Ogre/Zero who "has it all." For many players, myself included, that means the motivation to keep playing dies, or at least is greatly reduced. The careful economy of experience points the game has spent so long setting up suddenly breaks down when the leveling motivation is taken away.
Many people won't mind the lack of experience points so long as they can continue to seek out better loot, better weapons, etc. But these things can cap out as well, as they're often designed into the level capping system itself. More problematically, in many games you can get very high level loot early on, either through dumb luck, a pre-order bonus, promotions such as Borderlands 2's Shift codes, or in some unsavory cases, microtransaction purchases. Continuing to play in the hopes of getting better loot when you already have plenty of legendary weapons just isn't a big motivator for me or many other gamers.
Yes, many people will continue to play games after they've reached the level cap, and many game designers have tried to come up with ways to keep a game interesting after players have maxed out the character level. Consider the huge bosses that require multiplayer fights in MMOs, the bizarre new tasks like the "build a house and adopt a kid" paths in Skyrim's Hearthfire DLC, and so on. But I would rather see designers address the fundamental problem of the motivation equation being broken.
Why not have infinite leveling? In a game like Borderlands 2 where the weapons are procedurally generated, why can't the game similarly continue to scale up the difficulty of the enemies and in-game challenges ad infinitum? This might lower the number of players who want to grind through multiple playthroughs, but players would at least be able to get through the story and earn all the game's achievements without hitting a frustrating brick wall of character progression, and they could even continue to be challenged well past the formal "end" of the game.
As it is, halfway through playing the new, more difficult True Vault Hunter Mode in Borderlands 2, I hit the level cap, which means I'm reluctant to play the latest DLC, or even to finish the mode I'm currently working through. Sure, there's still a completion achievement motivating me to slog on and finish up the mode. But consider this: Gearbox is going to raise the level cap at some point. I know it's coming and so do many other players. So we'll refrain from playing until then, waiting for a time when our efforts will be rewarded with experience points and real character progress rather than just chievos.
A well-crafted leveling system creates a feedback loop that makes many of today's games truly addictive experiences. When a level cap effectively short-circuits that loop, it makes the whole experience that much less compelling. It's certainly far from the worst problem in the world, even from this privileged, first-world gamer's perspective.
But I'll say it again: level capping sucks.


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Recently, a lot of attention in the data-management space has been paid to "scale out" systems such as Hadoop and HBase. The interest in the cloud has further emphasized this focus on horizontal scaling. But while the need to scale out is critical for tackling Big Data problems, the need to scale up is equally important. You can enjoy dramatic hardware savings, as well as much better throughput, with a system that pays attention to scaling up.
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Scalability has two faces: up and out. Scaling up means that the system performs better as you add more resources (CPU, memory, etc.) to a single node in the system. Scaling out also involves adding more nodes to a distributed system. But there is more to this scalability is also about performance.
When you build a complex distributed application, you work with certain building blocks. The end result has to scale out, so you can easily add more hardware resources in the face of higher load. So if you build your scale out system using high-performance, upwardly scalable components, you can dramatically reduce your cluster size. This really starts to show as you run bigger clusters (on the order of thousands of machines). You should scale up in order to scale out well.
A system that is built around performance software scales better. For example, HipHop scales better than PHP because you can run the same workload on fewer servers.
Scaling Relational Databases
Relational databases are no different. Working with a large, complex data sets in the context of an RDBMS involves challenges for both scaling up and out.
Traditionally, databases scale up very well. A lot of research and development time has gone into making sure enterprise-class database systems run well on powerful hardware, and there are many forces within the industry aligned to make this happen not just software vendors, but also hardware manufacturers who want to show how many more transactions per second they can push on new hardware.
Scaling relational databases out is a difficult problem. However, it's been solved for some systems, and before I dive into how relational databases scale out, let's classify the different database systems and scale out approaches.
OLTP vs. OLAP
OLTP and OLAP are the two standard database workloads. OLTP is handles mission-critical, real-time transactional workloads. It enables processing in which the system responds immediately to user requests. An ATM machine for a bank is a typical example of a commercial transaction-processing application. Any Web or mobile application using a database is also an OLTP application.
OLAP workloads contain a lot of aggregations over large amounts of data. It allows you to slice and dice your historical data as well analyze it and provide forecasts. But since one size doesn't fit all, scaling approaches for OLTP and OLAP are substantially different.
Scaling OLAP
There are several products that scale OLAP well. The most well-known open source product on the market today is Hadoop/Hive. There are also commercial OLAP databases available, of course, including Vertica, Greenplum, and others.
Here is what enables database scaling for these systems:
- Columnar indexes and compression. This is a way compress data efficiently with the ability to compute aggregates without decompression. This saves the amount of work you need to do per machine for a given query. Note that this is not a scaling out technology; however, it does save the amount of computation per node on the distributed system. It's a performance play.
- Intra-parallel query execution. As a distributed system runs a query, it breaks it apart into subqueries and pushes them into individual nodes. These subqueries can be evaluated in parallel by partitioning the work across cores. It's a scale up technique that helps build a better scalable system.
- Shared-nothing architecture. This is a scale out approach that doesn't have a single point of contention.
- Distributed query optimizer. This is a system that intelligently breaks a SQL query apart and pushes it into the SQL nodes.
Vertica, in particular, has invested into scale up with its columnar indexes and compression. This has allowed it to run analytics on smaller clusters, sometimes faster than Hadoop.
Unlike OLAP, OLTP workloads have different requirements.
- They are real time, and randomly access individual data records. This means that columnar indexes won't work as well in OLTP as in OLAP.
- Fewer queries touch large quantities of data. This means that parallel query execution won't help as much.
- OLAP systems often sacrifice parallel real-time data ingestion in favor of batched data loading.
- OLTP systems are mission-critical and require close to 100% uptime.
Two common strategies for scaling OLTP are share-everything systems and sharding. Share-everything systems are meant to run on top of expensive I/O subsystems, such as SANs, but they ultimately have a bottleneck with regards to disk I/O. One of the commercial implementations of the shared-disk system is Oracle RAC. This implementation solves the problems of CPU-bound workloads, but breaks down once you start running I/O-bound workloads that hit a storage bottleneck.
With sharding, because OLTP queries tend to be very simple, it's possible to just run a layer that manages multiple servers running RDMSs shards that don't know anything about the fact that they work in a clustered environment. Facebook is known for running MySQL shards. Scaling up this way is beneficial because it allows you to reduce the hardware footprint. There are a lot of companies that choose to run sharded systems, mostly due to the fact that they rarely need to run queries that cross shard boundaries. Sharding is built around systems that scale up well and perform better than clustering solutions such as HBase.
Scaling out is incredibly important in the world of big data, but in the long run, systems that invest in scaling up as well will deliver more value through better performance and savings on hardware.
Nikita Shamgunov is the CTO of MemSQL. (Andrew Binstock is on vacation.)


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GLENWOOD SPRINGS (AP) On June 11, 2012, Perry Will already knew it would be a bad year for bears. The previous night, a hard frost had settled over much of western Colorado, nipping thousands of acres of the chokecherry, serviceberry and acorn-bearing oakbrush that bears in the western Rockies rely on for food.
That meant one thing: The creatures were coming to town.
Will, a 38-year veteran of Colorado Parks and Wildlife, a division of the Department of Natural Resources, manages a three-county part of western Colorado called Area 8. It includes eastern Garfield County and all of Eagle and Pitkin counties.
In his 38 years in wildlife management, Will has never seen a bear season like 2012: Through November, there were 100 bears killed, up from just 32 in 2011. In 2009, another dry year, the total was 59.
Years ago, those kind of numbers were unheard of, he said, sitting in his Canyon Creek office on a recent December day. Weve got more bears now than weve ever had.
Just down the hall from his office, a large whiteboard covered in red ink spells out the details. On it were descriptions of all the bears killed by motorists, private landowners, accidents and Parks and Wildlife agents in Area 8 this year. Each listing included gender, tag number, date and place of death.
Parks and Wildlife public information officer Mike Porras said the department has kept comprehensive bear records for only a few years.
The primary culprit for those conflicts in 2012, Will said, was the late killing frost, combined with the years historic drought.
When those plants are stressed, they dont produce, he said of staples of the bruin diet. And in August, when bears need to be consuming 20,000 calories a day, you can bet that youll see them in town.
More bears in town, of course, leads to more conflict with humans, which means more bears tagged by wildlife agents or shot by landowners. And if Wills agents find a tagged bear causing trouble again, they will put that animal down.
Data suggest that the problem is sharply reduced in historically wet years. In 2010, for instance, Parks and Wildlife recorded just 18 bear kills.
The bears most likely to seek human food in any year are what Will calls teenagers, the previous years cubs that have just been kicked out of the den by their mother.
Seeing older animals with established territory come into town, Wills said, is a sign that food is scarce in the backcountry.
When you see a big dominant male in town, you know its rough out there. If theres good natural food out there, they tend to want to be bears, he said. That means sticking to their natural food sources and avoiding humans.
When Parks and Wildlife agents tag and relocate a bear, they transport it at least 50 miles from where it was found so that it doesnt immediately return to the scene of a conflict.
Yet because of Colorados healthy bear population, agents who move bears are bound to drop them in the middle of another animals territory. At last count, Will said there are about two bears per square mile of habitat.
There is literally no open bear territory in Colorado right now, Will said.
Bears have strong homing instincts under any circumstances, but clashes over territory make it even more likely that they will migrate back to their native territory or migrate long distances in search of food.
Its during that travel that they usually come into contact with humans, Porras said.
Some factors behind the states surging bear population remain mysterious, but increased familiarity with humans and a willingness to go after their food certainly is playing a role, Will said.
After years of living with bears, most Coloradans are familiar with proper etiquette: keeping trash in bear-resistant containers, keeping pet food inside and cleaning barbecue grills, for instance.
Yet Will said even if most people are careful not to tempt bears close to their homes, a single transgression is enough to send the wrong message.
You cant have 95 percent compliance, he said. If you dont have 100 percent compliance, the bears still get rewarded.
In lean food years, Will said, bears tend to emerge from hibernation early, raising the prospect that they could be out searching for food next spring as early as March.
Its unclear how this years thin food crop will affect the spring cub population. When severely malnourished, mother bears can either absorb their cubs in the uterus or give birth to runts, which are unlikely to survive.
For now, the population remains historically high. Porras said a study is under way to get a better idea of the bear population in Area 8.
In an attempt to control bear numbers, wildlife officials have been increasing the number of bear tags issued to hunters in recent years.
The science says that if you are approaching 40 percent females in the hunting take, you back off, Will said. But that may not be enough.


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Island Innovations showcased the leadership and commitment to action of island countries and countries with islands to developing solutions to environmental and poverty challenges.
The Honorable Dr. Kedrick Pickering, Deputy Premier of the British Virgin Islands (BVI) announced that BVI will co-host a Caribbean Political and Business Leaders Summit with Sir Richard Branson of the Virgin Group and the Prime Minister of Grenada in 2013 as part of the Caribbean Challenge Initiative. The Summit will build on the visionary commitments of Caribbean Challenge countries to protect near shore marine areas by 2020 and in developing sustainable finance mechanisms to support these goals.
The Honorable Mr Maurice Ponga, Member of the European Parliament from New Caledonia announced that the European Parliament will support a third phase of the European Union (EU) funding of 2 million Euros under the Voluntary Scheme for Biodiversity and Ecosystems Services in Territories of European Overseas (BEST) and push to better integrate EU overseas biodiversity conservation and resource management in EU policies.
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Dr. Rolph Payet, Minister for Environment & Energy of Seychelles reinforced this statement affirming, "The time for action is now. We must continue to take leadership, to make visionary commitments and ensure these commitments are implemented on the ground. We must scale up the bright spots emerging from islands and invest in what works. We must continue to work together as a Global Island Partnership."
The event, co-hosted by Seychelles and India, demonstrated how islands are an example of global leadership and rapid progress in addressing environmental and poverty challenges. They are also inspiring others around the world by implementing a variety of successful large-scale initiatives including world-class marine protected areas, multi-country conservation commitments, progressive biosecurity planning and innovative financing mechanisms to support these programs.
Island Innovations was coordinated by the Global Island Partnership and Rare with the support of the Japan Biodiversity Fund, the Convention on Biological Diversity Secretariat, the South Pacific Regional Environment Programme, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) through the BEST Preparatory Action, as well as the ISLANDS Project funded by the EU through the Indian Ocean Commission.
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- Please download the full GLISPA/Rare press release for the list of all commitments announced during the event;
- Please contact the IUCN Europe Overseas Programme for more information on the engagement of Europe overseas in this and other events held during the CBD COP 11.


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On to Boston — and stayin' alive
What can you say after a game like that? It was intense, start to finish. We went at it toe to toe with the Red Sox and came back strong after they dropped the hammer on us early with that Jason Bay three-run bomb in the first. I think our guys showed a lot of heart, and we're going to need everything we've got in Boston to get back in this series.
So much happened in this second game, I don't even know where to start. Bottom line, the big bombs killed us — Bay first, and then J.D. Drew. Bay, I guess he's the new Manny. He's swinging the bat like Manny Ramirez in this series. Frankie Rodriguez had 62 saves for us this year, and I'll take my chances with him out there any time. But Drew hits a two-run bomb off K-Rod, and what can you do? Baseball's a crazy game.
Hey, as long as we have a breath, we've got a shot. They haven't won anything yet. It takes three games to win this thing, and they're going to have to earn it. I think we showed tonight the kind of character we have. We're going to keep fighting, I can tell you that much.
You probably want to know about my knee, the left one. We'll be treating it, and even though it's sore now, I'll be out there. I'm old school. This is October, and this is what you live for as a baseball player.
It was all adrenaline when I reacted the way I did on that call at first base in the third inning. We were making a comeback, we had two guys on, and I thought I beat the throw from the shortstop, Alex Cora. The call went against me, and I got excited and jumped up and came down on the knee wrong. I was being intense, going all out — and in the heat of the moment, sometimes you get upset like that. I'm not going to apologize or call it a stupid thing to do. Man, when you're out there competing, you're throwing everything you've got into it. That's all I was doing.
We were taking care of business, being patient with Daisuke Matsuzaka, getting guys on base, stirring things up. I got an RBI single in the first inning after Mark Teixeira and Vladimir Guerrero singled, and I was trying to do that again in the third when I got thrown out on that call. In the fifth inning, I hit a bullet to left field for another RBI after Tex and Vladdy walked.
Those two guys were great tonight, getting on base all night long, trying to get us started. It's a pleasure to play with guys like that who really know how to play the game right. This team is loaded with talent, and it'd be a crying shame for it to end too soon.
In my last at-bat in the ninth against Papelbon, I was trying to get on base to get it started. That's why I dropped the bunt. It didn't work out, but in that situation, down two runs, we needed a baserunner. Papelbon's good. You've got to give credit where it's due.
Some of our guys are trying a little too hard, trying to do too much. They need to relax when we get to Boston. I'll have a talk with Howie Kendrick, like always. He's a great kid, with a tremendous future in this game. He had a rough night, but he'll bounce back. He's strong. I know how that is — when you're young, you want it so bad, controlling all that adrenaline isn't easy.
Right now, I'm exhausted. This was intense baseball, all night long. But we'll be ready to roll on Sunday night. We've played some great baseball in Fenway Park this year, and I don't see why we can't do it again. We've still got a heartbeat. We're still a dangerous team.
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Jesus I can't even imagine what that must've felt like seeing the ball go over you in the 9th and out of the park. I couldn't take it any longer but still watched the rest of the game here at the house. I really thought the team had it tonight but Boston wouldn't let up. Shame… Well good luck in Boston, tell everyone to bring everything they've got and then some. Last time you were in Boston you swept 'em… course everything's different come October but I'd love to watch and hear a stunned Boston crowd on tv. Hope the knee feels better too by then, that was a bad call. Seems like they (Boston) has been getting all the calls their way so far, but what can you do about it…
Go Halo's
Wow, thats all I can say. You guys gave 100% out there but when the umps are missing certian calls (I say you were safe) then what can you do but take it in stride and shock the hell out of them in fenway…. just use that green monster to try to get some extra base hits. I have not missed one game this whole season, I lied… there was one where the schedule said 3:30 but u guys played at 12:30. Anyways I will be cheering you guys on with the rally monkey by my side… wish i could afford tickets!!!!!! Keep your heads up. #1 fan haha, David Brown
Light 'em up, Mr. Hunter. You got what it takes to pull this team outta this (on the field and in the clubhouse).
It was great seeing the passion and fire that most of you projected out there in the field. It gets us all pumped up as well. Keep it up and I'm confident you guys can bounce back and win three straight! GO HALOS! We're all rooting for you guys!
you guys have one last shot at turning this around in Boston. Please ruin their season like they've done to us so many years.
2008 is supposed to be our year
pounce those guys on Sunday!
you and Halos have brought all fans lots of fun and senasation whole year
I have been to the US for only eight month, Halos are very inspiring that help me pulled through some hard time
I still believe we can kill red sox, we are not a cheap team
Halo fans, don't give up, don't disappointed,we will bounce back
Glad to hear that you're doing alright. You gave me a scare there angels can't afford to lose ya. Tex Vladdy and yourself have been doing extremely well for us so far. I hope the other guys start picking things up we definitely need the bottom of the order to step up!! I still have faith in the angels. It ain't over yet!!!!
Thanks for the run down! I'm from MN so it's been a real sweet having you play down here. You were definately safe!!!!!That was a hella of game last night… You,.. Tex… G.A. and Vladdy have been awesome! I thought we'd win for sure once Figgi got it goin. He's our spark splug man! Now we just need Kendrick and Nap on board and we will do what we did all season. Kick some ***! Do it Torii.
I wish I could be there to watch you guys shock Boston… but I'll be in Laguna tomorrow night havin some sushi at Mosun. You should go there sometime on a Sunday or Monday. Talk to the gorgeous bartender at the bar. Her name is Sonja… tell her Brian told you to hook you up with a burning sunset roll and then buy her a shot of Patron!
Go Halos!
🙂 Brian Z.
PS: Please don't let Tex getaway this offseason!
Disappointment runs deep; faith runs deeper. We can still do this. As they always say, it's not over 'till the last out in the ninth. I'm glad your knee's alright. We need all of our players healthy for this. Sunday's gonna be the day you guys take it to them. Beat them in Boston and show those fans that we're not a team to be crumpled up and tossed aside. We got heart! Keep it goin' Torii!
I am a Sox fan, but I just wanted to give kudos to you guys. You did show a lot of heart and almost came back (certainly made me freaking nervous). Hope your knee is okay and heals well…..just because I don't want you to help beat us doesn't mean I want you hurt. Stop jumping around out there willya?
We're pulling for you guys! Go into Fenway and shock their fans like they shocked us the last 2, and get back here to Cali for a game 5!! Pass along to Frankie that we'd want him on the mound to close any day. You guys are our dream team and I really think you still have the fight in you to get this done. I think you guys need to pick up a copy of the World Series 2002 DVD. We got it done against all odds that year and it is so inspiring to watch, especially the game 6 footage. Go Halos!!! We're pullin' for you and a big spankin' on those Sox!!!
In the immortal words of Adrian Balboa ( Rocky Part 2 )
When she miracuously came out of a 30 day coma and turned to Rocky & said :
" I want you to go out there & WIN ! WIN ! WIN ! "
So take your busted left knee & smack your teamates in the face a couple of times & get out there & Win God Dammit !!!
Come on, Torii! Take your passion to Fenway and show the Sox how it's done, like you did in the regular season!
Hi Torii Hunter ,
Good luck !! Go for the gold like Micheal Phelps. You have to get Howie , Nap started . GO ANGELS !!!
It aint over till it's over!
Keep Breathing, keep fighting, keep the HEART!
Take it like a brand new series and sweep the sox. Nothings impossible! One game at a time. Torii, grab our fellas together and keep this season alive for a few more weeks. Lets Go! No hype…just ball!!!!!
Stay awesome and you guys can take the ALCS!!! GO HALOS!!!
hey! i'm a sox fan but i want to say great game… it almost hurt to see the look on k-rods face when jd hit that homer… but anyways way to fight in that game and scare the **** out of me =)
I just want to say how happy I am with Torii, Tex, and Vlad. They came through every time they were up to bat in Game 2. But it isn't fair to expect them to get on base in just about every at bat like they did. Someone else needs to step it up the way that they have. Figgie did a good job bouncing back from a rough game one, now we really need Howie and Aybar to do the same and bounce back if we want to have a chance at coming back. Joe will give us a chance to win like he always does, so this is our chance at getting back into this. GO Angels!
Sweeps are boring. As a Red Sox fan I want my team to win, of course, but I'm willing to concede a game or two (but not three!) to get a good series. Uncertainty is a good thing. Certainty is tepid.My group my father and I share season tickets with just divied up all the possible post-season games for Fenway Park. Games three and four of the ALDS were available, but we confidently chose game three of the ALCS (the first game in Boston). Was our confidence misguided? C'mon, PLAY.I readily concede the Angels could win the next three games, giving me and my father some bittersweet bookmarks, and I happily do so. To claim that the Angels couldn't would be to deny the magic of the 2004 ALCS.I applaud your decision to tough it out despite your injury, but I must point out to the others commenters that the umpire made the correct call on that play. As Major League crew chief, Tim McClelland, pointed out in Ask the Umpire the runner has to beat the throw to the base and the replay showed that you didn't –
– http://mlb.mlb.com/mlb/official_info/umpires/feature.jsp?feature=mcclellandqa
Alright Torii!!!!! That's what i needed to hear!!! I was pretty bummed after game 2. I thought we had the sox right where we wanted them.then, well, we all know…..but you have given me hope!There's no doubt that the Angels are the best team in baseball in 2008. Now go out there and prove it for all us halo fans!!!
P.S. don't let Tex go!!!
Why did the Angels have to go with Kendrick and Aybar? I think if they stuck with Sean Rodriguez and Brandon Wood for the playoffs the Angels would be leading 2-0 right now. The playoffs aren't the time for Howie to be getting his swing going. Hopefully he'll at least bat 9th in game three.
The Angels will need a lot of luck to win this thing. The umps have seemed very one-sided in favor of the Red Sox too. Maybe they can start giving the Angels all the help for a change.
Torii keep fighting !!! I knew from the start of the season that you where important to the Angels. We need you to lead the team. So go out there and show the Halo fans all you got.
You are such an AWESOME leader in the Angels clubhouse! Please talk to Howie K. and Gary Matthews, maybe you can get through to them and tell them not to overthink their swings! Just see the ball, and hit the ball — it's simple! Keep doing the little things and playing small ball.. we're bound to score some runs! As you go into Fenway for Sunday's game, remember we're 8-1 this season against the Sox — I'm confident, Torii, that you, Garret, Tex, and Vladdy will get the hits needed Sunday to win and make this a series!
Keep up the great patience and eye at the plate, Torii.. I will be watching! GO ANGELS!!!
You are a class act. You guys showed a lot of persistence out there, and I know that game 3 will be another well-fought battle.
I was a little shocked to see how game 2 ended as well. Nobody in Boston will be taking you guys lightly and for good reason. If you end up beating the Red Sox, I will be right behind you guys for the rest of the post season!
Don't put too much pressure on yourselves… win one and at least you've avoid the sweep and ended a nasty streak. After that, you only have to win one more to bring it back home. If you can win those two, that's when you can start thinking about winning the series. You guys played well in game 2 and it was good to see even though the outcome is still disappointing.
I admit I was upset with Kendrick for swinging at some terrible pitches when a walk would have scored a run, but I try to remember that knowing what's coming is a lot harder than it looks and I certainly couldn't do any better.
Win or lose, it's been a pleasure having you on the team. Now if we can just get Tex to stick around next year…
Oh… and when two teams like the Red Sox and the Angels meet in the postseason it really ought to go to five games. This team has the talent to make it happen and just needs a little bit more luck to get a few hits falling in. (People forget that a tiny fraction of an inch off the bat make the difference between a double or an easy out.)
Torii, to me it looked like you were out at first, but only after the replay. I don't know how the umps can see a play like that and get the call right 99% of the time, but they usually do. And on the pickoff play at 2nd with Aybar, replays showed the umps got that call right too. Baseball is a game of inches and we were a few inches short on those two calls and on Garret's long ball, that's just the way it goes sometimes. Beat those Sox! I got my Angels' shirt on today, sorry it's not a Hunter #48, it's Willits #77. I'd ask you to visit my blog but I don't remember what I've said about you! 😉
The Angel's fans will learn, as are the Brewer's fans, you cannot "monkey" with the baseball gods. Thunder Sticks, waving towels (shame on Dodger Stadium), rally monkeys and clowns sliding into a mug of beer are NOT class baseball. Neither is a professional major league ballplayer jumping up and down in a temper tantrum. Hunter ought to be fined $10,000 for breaking equipment. Maybe NEXT year, Angel fans will be more courteous to those about them and to the baseball gods and leave all their crap at home and bring a good voice and manual applause to the ballpark.
Hey Torii,
This is your biggest Minnesota fan writing. I hope you guys can go out there and push this series to the next game and stay alive until the end! I am rooting for the Angels all the way. I have been wearing my angels jersey and visor during the games and I hope that I don't have to put them away for a few weeks! It sucks not seeing you playing with the Twins anymore, but I am happy that you got to go to a great team. I didn't make it out to California this last summer, but it is already in the making for next summer! I also hope to see you again at the Metrodome when the Angels play there. You had a great season, and you have been hitting very well in the playoffs thus far, so keep it up! Alright well hope to see you guys in the next series and talk to you soon! I hope you never forget your big fans in Minnesota. I am rooting for you!
Ever since the heart of our Twins team was ripped out of centerfield, (I watched the stories of his signing with the Angels thru tear~filled eyes, there wasn't much to be thankful for that Thanksgiving) I hoped Torii's leaving would bring him the Championship he deserved. Every time he takes the field or picks up a bat he gives it his all. No matter what it is, being the team leader, a mentor to the rookies, a cheerleader from the dugout, or just someone kids can look up to, he gives one hundred percent and then some. If Championship rings were given out to the most deserving player, the one with the most heart Torii would need a few more hands. I know one October day there will be Torii, goggles and all, holding up the World Series trophy, and I'll be watching again with tear~filled eyes. I can't wait to see him say "I'm going to Disney World" Go Angels!!!
Now THERE is that summer game we were looking for. Bats getting hot, a little blip tonight but mistakes are made to learn from. Confidence level has gotta go through the roof, nothing to be scared of here.
Sendin' that SoCal love up to Boston for all them Angels!
Congrats on getting a well-deserved, hard fought "W"!! Aybar's hit tonight was so great to see, as were Napoli's two HRs.. get some rest, baby, and I'll be cheering you on tomorrow night! Lackey will bring his "A" game and heat, and I have confidence that the Angels will tie this series up tomorrow.. you guys can do it!
I can't wait to read the next blog. Tonight's game is described by one word…unbelieveable. I think I said that about 20 times tonight. Napoli was awesome and that pitching staff brought the "A" game. I hope all the kinks are out. Keep the shock and awe going in Boston. The fans on tv really looked like they thought it was over. We all know you guys have the talent and you showed the heart tonight. We do believe!!! DeAnn
All I can say is I have a migrane headache. The error, Saunders falling apart.Garret & Gary swinging at ****** pitches !! CMON man!!
Tori, you trying to reach second with a bad knee."K-ROD" almost walking in the winning run. Double digits left on base again !!
And we manged to win. It was a sloppy win but I'll take it.
Figgy & TEX great work at the corners!!
Thanks for your 2 bombs Nap or we'd be packing it up.
As a fan, not fanatic, it makes me feel good when the Angels play great. As a sportsman I understand that losing is necessary to have a winner. In this case the losing makes me sad but I'm proud to be an Angels fan. I hope all the players and fans can take with them the great memories of how well this team played. Mike Scossia is the best Manager in Baseball and will come back with a determined team next year. By following this team for a long time; I feel like I've made friends with many of the players. The off-season is the worst because many times your friends don't come back. I'll always cheer for an ex-Angel their first time at the plate when they come back. And, I'll always root for them when watching a non-Angel game. I hope that Arte and staff can find a way to bring back most of our friends for next season. Until then…….GO ANGELS!!!!! PS; Tori Hunter has an infectious smile and personality and I'm glad he'll be here a long time!!


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The widely followed economist David Rosenberg, known for his early warning of the housing market bubble, now foresees a persistent inflationary trend in the making.
Speaking at the Altegris Investment Conference in Carlsbad, Calif., Friday morning, the Gluckin Sheff chief economist and strategist jokingly referred to star bond manager Jeffrey Gundlach's quip earlier at the conference that "if you're early you're wrong."
Since inflation won't be happening by Tuesday, Rosenberg (left) said he was wrong. But longer term, he saw little escape from the conclusion that a secular shift in the economy is at hand. And this despite the current buzz about deflation, he said, citing as one example a recent Barron's article, A Deflationary Wave.
Rosenberg—whose Breakfast With Dave daily research report is popular in the investment community, even with its $1,000 annual subscription price—opened his session with the announcement that he's getting divorced—from bonds, he said after a long pause. Bonds perform poorly in periods of inflation.
"We're closer to the end of QE than people believe," he said.
The Canadian economist's key insights concerned the labor market.
"Ninety million adults now reside outside the labor force," he said. "The Department of Labor should do survey: Are they all on food stamps…or is there an underground economy that we've got to capture?"
Rosenberg said he paid special attention to the JOLTS survey, a monthly DOL report on job vacancies. The economist perhaps surprised many people in saying that job openings are up but that "companies can't find qualified applicants for the jobs they want to fill."
Yet while hiring thus stagnates, firings are at an all-time low.
"In fact, the number of people getting fired today with a 7.5% unemployment rate is 10% lower than May 2007," when unemployment was at a trough of 4.4%. That tells me we may be near full employment."
In a very wonkish talk, Rosenberg, a former chief North American economist for Bank of America Merrill Lynch, went into detail about the policy failures that have led to today's tepid economy. "We've never had growth this weak this long into an expansion," he said, adding that the GDP growth rate was in secular decline.
In the main, he blamed Washington for lacking the courage to address structural economic issues, and faulted the Federal Reserve for using the blunt instrument of monetary policy when tax, regulatory and fiscal matters were retarding economic growth.
"We've gone five years without a budget being passed," with the government running on continuing resolutions, he said. That creates uncertainty for business, which translates to genuine austerity—not the governmental kind but rather corporate austerity. Companies like Apple and Microsoft will hire whom they must but otherwise take their funds to the debt markets and pay investors dividends. Regulation particularly has acted as a drag on the economy, Rosenberg said, saying government regulation now stands at the highest level since 1994.
Citing Obamacare legislation totaling 20,000 pages, he said, "No wonder companies are not making a commitment to the economy."
Another negative effect of Obama's health care law, Rosenberg expects, is "serious health care inflation next year." That, together with the labor market picture, where companies will soon need to pay more to the existing employees they want to keep, is likely to see the emergence of "mild stagflation."
And history shows it is hard to reverse inflation once it takes root, Rosenberg noted.
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But he said, generally, that portfolio managers should screen for companies with high capital-to-labor ratios, that have high fixed costs to variable costs; and relatively inelastic demand. Consumer staples are companies whose margins should expand in the coming period of inflation.
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Insomnia sleep disorders are categorized by the inability to fall asleep or not getting adequate sleep, which gradually tends to disrupt our natural and normal life. Although everyone goes through some lack of sleep at some point or other, there are some key characteristics that can help a person identify if such an occurrence is one of incident or in fact is actually a disorder.
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One of the biggest indicators of insomnia sleep disorders is the inability to sleep or to get quality sleep. This starts with a chance incident and spirals into a pattern. However, it is not the number of hours that one spends sleeping that define insomnia. Neither is the time that you take to go to sleep, but insomnia is defined by the quality of sleep that you get and how you feel after waking up.
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UBS Group (UBS) CEO Sergio Ermotti agrees with Morgan Stanley (MS) CEO James Gorman, at least on one point: The proposed disclosure of upfront payments paid to advisors who switch broker-dealers should reduce turnover.
The transparency, he said on a call with equity analysts Tuesday, "is going to clearly prevent or slow down the amount of people, the turnover of financial advisors, in the industry."
Over time, this means that firms like UBS and Morgan Stanley will see "a beneficial effect on compensation," Ermotti added. "But this is not something that you will see on a quarter-by-quarter basis. It's going to take time … it's clearly a good news in respect of improving the economics of the difference."
According to CFO Thomas Naratil, UBS is not the biggest spender on advisor recruiting on Wall Street.
"We are not the high payer for recruiting bonuses at this point in time. We have a very disciplined process on that," Naratil said during the conference call.
"We think that we've got a very attractive model as a firm that's focused on wealth management. As a result, we don't have to pay the highest price to get the best-quality advisors. And I do think that, that's an important aspect in the model for competition. It's not about buying, it's just about compensating people for making the move."
Today's upfront payments "are a function of record-low levels of industry attrition. The industry … pays those amounts because people don't want to move," Naratil added.
Earlier in the call, Ermotti and Naratil discussed UBS' latest earnings. The firm said Tuesday that it had a third-quarter profit of 577 million Swiss francs ($644 million) vs. a $2.1 billion-franc loss in the year-ago period.
The results included charges of 586 million francs for litigation, regulatory and related matters, issues that — along with larger capital requirements — are likely to limit the bank's ability to meet its profit targets in 2015, the bank says.
"As we anticipated, the third quarter saw a number of headwinds. Client activity decreased significantly and risk aversion increased as clients intensified their focus on capital preservation," said Naratil during the call. "Nevertheless, performance was resilient, as we delivered [an adjusted] pretax profit of CHF 484 million in a challenging quarter."
In the latest period, the bank trimmed operating expenses and staff. Its total headcount fell to 60,635 from 62,628 last year. Also, UBS says it has set aside some $803 million to settle claims in the United States tied to mortgage-backed securities.
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The unit recorded a pretax profit of $218 million, up 32% from $165 million in the year-ago quarter but down 11% from the second quarter, which had a record profit of $245 million.
Invested assets were $919 billion, an increase of 3% from $892 billion in the second quarter and up 10% from $832 billion in the year-ago period. Revenues were $1.748 billion, an improvement of 12% from $1.565 billion a year ago but down 2% compared with $1.780 billion last quarter.
"Additionally, at $1.3 billion, recurring income increased to record levels," Naratil said. "This was offset by a decline in transaction-based fees on seasonally slower client activity, as well as higher loan loss allowances and a $20 million trading loss related to pressure on Puerto Rico municipal securities."
The number of advisors rose to 7,137 from 7,099 in the second quarter and 7,032 a year ago.
"FA attrition remained at historical lows, and the business continues to enjoy strong momentum," Naratil noted.
Net new money was $2.1 billion, giving the unit 13 straight quarters of positive inflows.
Average invested assets per financial advisor increased to $129 million, up 2% from Q2 and up 9% from $118 million a year ago.
Average fees and commissions per financial advisor were $994,000, down 1% from $1,005,000 in Q2 and up 12% from $890,000 in a year ago.
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On March 20, PAMM kicked off Winter Music Conference early with live performances by vocal musicians Stine Janvin Motland and C. Spencer Yeh and Brooklyn-based duo Gatekeeper.
Visitors started the night off by listening to Motland and Yeh's live vocal performance, featuring instrumentalized breath, mouth and vocal cord sounds. Afterwards, Gatekeeper performed a live set by the bay, inspired by the sounds and visions of forgotten b-movie film scores, classic fantasy games and lurid arcade imagery, complete with lighting design by AJ Gvojic of THV ent.
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