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Apple Inc., without much effort on its part, is making rapid headway in selling to corporations.
After years of being the also-ran to Microsoft Corp. in the workplace, Apple has seen its iPad become a standard business tool. According to an IDG Connect survey, 51 percent of managers with iPads say they "always" use the device at work, and another 40 percent sometimes do. Seventy-nine percent of the respondents use the iPad for business when outside the office.
Even as Amazon.com Inc.'s Kindle Fire and other tablets play catch-up in the consumer market, the iPad faces little competition among corporations such as financial services and pharmaceutical firms. Apple's iPhone, meanwhile, is the top- selling smartphone, forcing businesses to accommodate workers who use it. That has helped set the stage for Apple's Mac computer to make its own inroads in the corporate world.
"We haven't seen a single pharma deploy on anything but the iPad," said Matt Wallach, co-founder of Veeva Systems Inc., a Pleasanton, California-based maker of sales software for drug companies. "I've seen a lot of devices come and go over the years. Nothing touches the speed of adoption of the iPad."
Microsoft and Intel Corp. have dominated the office- technology market for three decades, accounting for almost all the personal computers on workers' desks. The seeds for the "Wintel" hegemony were planted in 1981, when International Business Machines Corp. tapped the two companies to help create its first PC. That fueled an information-technology industry that now generates $3.8 trillion a year, according to research firm Gartner Inc.
Making an Effort?
Microsoft and Intel have struggled in their efforts to compete with the iPad, though that may change later this year when a tablet-friendly version of Windows debuts. Windows PCs also are under attack. While total PC shipments dropped 5.9 percent in the fourth quarter, the Mac grew almost 21 percent, according to Gartner.
The real threat to the corporate-technology industry is if Apple decides to pursue the market more aggressively, said Frank Gillett, an analyst at Cambridge, Massachusetts-based Forrester Research Inc. Apple can take advantage of its popular iTunes and App Store platforms to distribute software to companies in a user-friendly way, he said. That in turn would help promote the company's hardware products.
Bill Evans, a spokesman for Cupertino, California-based Apple, declined to discuss the company's corporate strategy.
Big Opportunity
Apple sold 3.8 million Mac computers to companies in the past fiscal year, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. That amounts to 3 percent of the market.
If Apple were to boost that to 18 million Macs a year, similar to the sales level of No. 3 PC maker Lenovo Group Ltd., it would bring in about $23 billion. Given workers' desire to use Apple products, the company would probably be able to reach that point with far less investment than rivals such as Hewlett- Packard Co. or Dell Inc., said Anand Srinivasan, an analyst at Bloomberg Industries.
Because companies also pay for warranties and additional services, profit margins might be higher than for Apple's consumer Mac business, he said.
"Apple has lots of room to grow in the commercial space," Srinivasan said.
In any case, iPad sales to companies will accelerate this year, said Tom Mainelli, an analyst at Framingham, Massachusetts-based IDC, a sister firm to IDG Connect. Many large companies focused in 2011 on testing the device and running trials for ways to use the tablet, he said. Now, those pilot programs are turning into mass purchases by customers.
Corporate Ecosystem
Mainelli expects iPad shipments into commercial markets, which includes education and health care, to rise more than 50 percent to higher than 6 million in 2013 from this year. The device was a common sight at last week's World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland. Apple's iPhone also has pushed into the business world, often supplanting Research In Motion Ltd.'s BlackBerry. The company shipped 37 million of the phones last quarter, making it the market leader in smartphones.
Fidelity Investments has developed iPad applications that let clients check mutual funds and retirement accounts without having to boot up a PC, said Richard Blunck, executive vice president of digital distribution at the firm. At pharmaceutical companies, salespeople use iPads to show product information to doctors on a moment's notice. During Apple's quarterly conference call last week, Chief Financial Officer Peter Oppenheimer cited Royal Dutch Shell Plc, Credit Suisse Group AG and Nike Inc. as companies that have issued iPads to employees.
Android Software
For companies considering tablets, the main alternatives are devices that run Google Inc.'s Android operating system. Many chief information officers are concerned that Android isn't as secure as Apple's iOS software, said Santiago Becerra, CEO of MeLLmo, a corporate app developer.
Companies also have to go through a lengthy testing phase before letting a device access its networks, and it's easier to qualify the iPad than each of the many Android tablets on the market. For now, MeLLmo only makes apps for the iPad.
"There are so few CIOs looking at Android that it's not worth it for us right now," Becerra said.
Microsoft could still slow Apple's momentum. Tablets with the new Windows 8 may have an easier time running Microsoft Office, a staple for most office workers. That could give Windows 8-based tablets a big advantage, since Microsoft hasn't created an iPad-compatible version of Office.
Doing Nothing?
Apple has succeeded with corporations without building a large sales force or a corps of consultants and field technicians. Wallach, who sold pharmaceutical-sales software for years before co-founding Veevo, says he has only dealt with one person at Apple who focused on his industry.
"It would be strong to say they're doing absolutely nothing, but it's pretty close," Wallach said.
According to Apple's website, the company is now seeking a salesperson dedicated to pharmaceutical companies in eastern Pennsylvania.
"If Apple is starting to hire reps around the country focused just on accounts in their region within one industry, that would be a definite signal of their intention to sell with a stronger vertical focus," Wallach said.
About 10 other corporate-focused positions are listed on Apple's website, including sales positions in New York, Seattle and Austin, Texas, as well as a "B2B Quality Coach," to help Apple salespeople "deliver exceptional business-to-business experiences."
Apple has made other moves to ease corporate buying. The company rolled out a volume purchasing program, letting businesses place large orders for iPad apps, rather than requiring each employee to go to iTunes and enter a code and their own credit card number.
Not every company wants Apple to focus more on their needs. Fidelity's Blunck would rather have Apple continue to make breakthrough consumer products that create new ways for its customers to use Fidelity's services.
"I'll take that all day long, versus having them spend all their time on enterprise's needs," he said.
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In an attempt to solve some of San Francisco's public-sector tech woes, and give entrepreneurs a chance to tap the public-sector market, the mayor announced a new EIR program.
San Francisco announced on Sept. 6 a new program to bring fresh ideas to the city and give entrepreneurs a chance to enter the public-sector technology market. In a phone press conference led by Chief Innovation Officer Jay Nath, Rahul Mewawalla, senior advisor in Mayor Ed Lee's Office of Innovation, and Deputy Innovation Officer Shannon Spanhake, officials answered questions and explained the city's vision for solving what they called "pain points" through the new Entrepreneurship in Residence (EIR) program.
The city will select three to five teams of entrepreneurs who will spend 16 weeks between mid-October 2013 and mid-February 2014 working with San Francisco officials on their chosen projects.
"We heard from [entrepreneurs] that a number of them either had or wanted to bring products or services into the public-sector market, primarily given its large economic potential," Mewawalla said. "However, as we spoke further with the entrepreneurs, we heard from a vast majority that their primary concern was that they heard working with government was cumbersome, painful and they frankly just didn't know how to start. San Francisco's EIR program was created to bridge this very gap."
By aligning goals and physically working side-by-side, city officials and entrepreneurs will get a chance to work toward more efficiently leveraging open data, better utilizing public assets, improving health care, improving transportation and making an impact in other areas affecting the quality of life in San Francisco.
"San Francisco's program is one of the first EIR programs within government, who is by far, the largest customer of products and services in the nation," Nath told Government Technology, via email. "The entrepreneurial products and services developed through San Francisco's EIR program should drive significant impact such as increased revenue, enhanced productivity or meaningful cost savings."
Teams will be chosen based on their demonstrated capacity to address an issue of relevance to the public sector, pursue an opportunity with an economic potential greater than $100 million, choose a project that can be scaled to meet the needs of other cities or municipalities. The team must also demonstrate a high likelihood of success based on previous experience.
It makes sense to do this, Mewawalla said, because San Francisco is the innovation capital of the world and being surrounded by entrepreneurs means there's no excuse for government to let its problems go unsolved. The city's $8 billion annual budget, 28,000 employees and 50 departments provide entrepreneurs with significant economic potential, he added.
The "pain points" San Francisco experiences are common across many cities and states, Mewawalla said, so he hopes that this program won't just benefit San Francisco, but also allow its entrepreneurs a springboard to help the nation.
Entrepreneurship in Residence programs are somewhat new to the public sector -- the U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) department created what it believes is just the second public-sector program ever in February 2012. The department reported the program a great success, streamlining processes based on feedback from entrepreneurial communities in Silicon Valley, Atlanta, Boston and Washington, D.C.
San Francisco touts a partnership with the White House on this project, with mentor roles being filled by Nath; Mewawalla; Spanhake; Rebecca Foster, advisor for the Mayor's Office of Innovation; Lenny Mendonca, co-founder of McKinsey's Public Sector Practice and senior partner in the Washington, D.C., and San Francisco offices; John Farmer, senior advisor for Innovation in the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy; and Dave Viotti, founder and CEO of SMALLIFY, an innovation capacity-building firm based in Menlo Park, Calif.
The program is now open for applications at entrepreneur.sfgov.org.
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JERICHO, West Bank (Reuters) – The Palestinians will ask the United Nations to upgrade their status in the world body by year's end, enabling them to pursue Israel through the international courts, a senior Palestinian official said on Thursday.
The request to become a non-member "observer state" rather than just an "observer entity", would give the Palestinians the same U.N. rank as the Vatican, enhancing their legal rights at a time when peace negotiations with Israel have hit a wall.
Such a motion would only need majority backing in the 193-nation U.N. General Assembly, where the Palestinians can rely on substantial support and resolutions cannot be vetoed by Israel's most powerful ally, the United States.
"The day after (we get) non-member statehood, life will not be the same," said the veteran Palestinian negotiator Saeb Erekat, speaking in his office in the West Bank city of Jericho.
"Yes, the occupation will continue, the settlements will continue, the crimes of the settlers may continue, but there will be consequences," he told reporters.
Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas sought full statehood recognition at the United Nations last year. This ambitious drive had to pass through the U.N. Security Council, but failed to gather enough votes in the face of fierce U.S. lobbying.
Abbas will address the General Assembly on September 27, after which his aides will consult other nations before presenting the watered-down request to become an observer state, claiming as Palestinian territory the lands that Israel seized in the 1967 war, with East Jerusalem as their capital.
Israel has annexed East Jerusalem and built 120 settlements across the occupied West Bank, with some 500,000 Israelis living beyond the so-called 1967 green line, originally an armistice line rather than the legal boundaries of a Palestinian state.
"After the U.N. vote … Palestine will become a country under occupation. Israel will not be able to say that this is a disputed area," Erekat said. "The terms of reference for any negotiations will be about withdrawal, not over what the Israelis say is legal or not legal."
Israel says Palestinians can gain independence only through direct negotiations, and has lobbied hard behind the scenes against their latest U.N. gambit, fearful of the consequences. Face-to-face talks brokered by the United States collapsed in 2010 over the issue of continued settlement building.
As an observer state, Palestine could not only participate in assembly debates, but also join various U.N. agencies, such as the Law of the Sea Treaty and the International Criminal Court (ICC), which is based in the Hague.
The ICC rejected in April a Palestinian request to look into alleged crimes in the Palestinian Territories, because they were not full U.N. members. Erekat indicated that Palestinians would turn again to the ICC after the forthcoming assembly vote.
"Those who don't want to appear before the international tribunals must stop their crimes and it is time for them to become accountable," he said.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has indicated in private he fears Palestinians might accuse his government of violating the Geneva Conventions' prohibition on forced displacement of populations by establishing settlements.
Looking to dissuade Abbas and head off a U.N. showdown, Israel has threatened to withhold tax revenues that are vital to the well-being of the cash-strapped Palestinian Authority.
The United States might also impose financial penalties, while some European nations are urging Palestinian caution.
"We have invested heavily in the Palestinian Authority and we do not want to see that investment jeopardised," said a European Union diplomat, suggesting that a number of European states might vote against the Palestinian U.N. resolution.
Some 120 countries have already granted the Palestinians the rank of a sovereign state, but Erekat said they hoped to win the votes of between 150 and 170 nations at the United Nations to hammer home U.S. and Israeli isolation on the issue.
However, the Palestinians are undecided whether to push for a vote ahead of the U.S. election in November – timing which might anger President Barack Obama – or just after. "Whatever, it will happen well before the end of the year," Erekat told Reuters. source – Yahoo News


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Those of you who've read this blog before know that I have a lot of issues with "technology-will-fix-it" approaches to development program and project design (what Evgeny Morozov calls "solutionism"). My main issue is that such approaches generally don't work. Despite a very, very long history of such interventions and their outcomes demonstrating this point, the solutionist camp in development seems to grow stronger all the time. If I hear one more person tell me that mobile phones are going to fix [insert development challenge here], I am going to scream. And don't even get me started about "apps for development," which is really just a modified incarnation of "mobile phones will fix it" predicated on the proliferation of smartphones around the world. Both arguments, by the way, were on full display at the Conference on the Gender Dimensions of Weather and Climate Services I attended at the WMO last month. Then again, so were really outdated framings of gender. Perhaps this convergence of solutionism and reductionist framings of social difference means something about both sets of ideas, no?
At the moment I'm particularly concerned about the solutionist tendency in weather and climate services for development. At this point, I don't think there is anything controversial in arguing that the bulk of services in play today were designed by climate scientists/information providers who operated with the assumption that information – any information – is at least somewhat useful to whoever gets it, and must be better than leaving people without any information. With this sort of an assumption guiding service development, it is understandable that nobody would have thought to engage the presumptive users of the service. First, it's easy to see how some might have argued that the science of the climate is the science of the climate – so citizen engagement cannot contribute much to that. Second, while few people might want to admit this openly, the fact is that climate-related work in the Global South, like much development work, carries with it an implicit bias against the capabilities and intelligence of the (often rural and poor) populations they are meant to serve. The good news is that I have seen a major turn in this field over the past four years, as more and more people working in this area have come to realize that the simple creation and provision of information is not enough to ensure any sort of impact on the lives of presumptive end-users of the information – the report I edited on the Mali Meteorological Service's Agrometeorological Advisory Program is Exhibit A at the moment.
So, for the first time, I see climate service providers trying to pay serious attention to the needs of the populations they are targeting with their programs. One of the potentially important ideas I see emerging in this vein is that of "co-production": the design and implementation of climate services that involves the engagement of both providers and a wide range of users, including the presumptive end users of the services. The idea is simple: if a meteorological service wants to provide information that might meet the needs of some/all of the citizens it serves, that service should engage those citizens – both as individuals and via the various civil society organizations to which they might belong – in the process of identifying what information is needed, and how it might best be delivered.
So what's the problem? Simple: While I think that most people calling for the co-production of climate services recognize that this will be a complex, fraught process, there is a serious risk that co-production could be picked up by less-informed actors and used as a means of pushing aside the need for serious social scientific work on the presumptive users of these services. It's pretty easy to argue that if we are incorporating their views and ideas into the design of climate services, there is really no need for serious social scientific engagement with these populations, as co-production cuts out the social-science middleman and gets us the unmitigated, unfiltered voice of the user.
If this sounds insanely naïve to you, it is*. But it is also going to be very, very attractive to at least some in the climate services world. Good social science takes time and money (though nowhere near as much time or money as most people think). And cutting time and cost out of project design, including M&E design, speeds implementation. The pressure to cut out serious field research is, and will remain, strong. Further, the bulk of the climate services community is on the provider side. They've not spent much, if any, time engaging with end users, and generally have no training at all in social science. All of those lessons that the social sciences have learned about participatory development and its pitfalls (for a fantastic overview, read this) have not yet become common conversation in climate services. Instead, co-production sounds like a wonderful tweak to the solutionist mentality that dominates climate services, a change that does not challenge the current framings of the use and utility of information, or the ways in which most providers do business. Instead, you keep doing what you do, but you talk to the end users while you do it, which will result in better project outcomes.
But for co-production to replace the need for deep social scientific engagement with the users of climate services, certain conditions must be met. First of all, you have to figure out how, exactly you are going to actually incorporate user information, knowledge, and needs into the design and delivery of a climate service. This isn't just a matter of a few workshops – how, exactly, are those operating in a nomothetic scientific paradigm supposed to engage and meaningfully incorporate knowledge from very different epistemological framings of the world? This issue, by itself, is generating significant literature…which mostly suggests this sort of engagement is really hard. So, until we've worked out that issue, co-production looks a bit like this:
Climate science + end user input => Then a miracle happens => successful project
That, folks, is no way to design a project. Oh, but it gets better. You see, the equation above presumes there is a "generic user" out there that can be engaged in a straightforward manner, and for whom information works in the same manner. Of course, there is no such thing – even within a household, there are often many potential users of climate information in their decision-making. They may undertake different livelihoods activities that are differently vulnerable to particular impacts of climate variability and change. They may have very different capacities to act on information – after all, when you don't own a plow or have the right to use the family plow, it is very difficult to act on a seasonal agricultural advisory that tells you to plant right away. Climate services need serious social science, and social scientists, to figure out who the end users are – to move past presumption to empirical analysis – and what their different needs might be. Without such work, the above equation really looks more like:
Climate science => Then a miracle happens => you identify appropriate end users => end user input => Then another miracle happens => successful project
Yep, two miracles have to happen if you want to use co-production to replace serious social scientific engagement with the intended users of climate services. So, who wants to take a flyer with some funding and see how that goes? Feel free to read the Mali report referenced above if you'd like to find out**.
Co-production is a great idea – and one I strongly support. But it will be very hard, and it will not speed up the process of climate service design or implementation, nor will it allow for the cutting of corners in other parts of the design process. Co-production will only work in the context of deep understandings of the targeted users of a given service, to understand who we should be co-producing with, and for what purpose. HURDL continues to work on this issue in Mali, Senegal, and Zambia – watch this space in the months ahead.
*Actually, it doesn't matter how it sounds: this is a very naïve assumption regardless.
** Spoiler: not so well. To be fair to the folks in Mali, their program was designed as an emergency measure, not a research or development program, and so they rushed things out to the field making a lot of assumptions under pressure.


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This sporty car had ABS system, Anti-lock Brake System, supplemental restraint system, rheostat dimmer, radio cassette/CD/DVD player, navigation system, electric window control switch, power socket, alarm reset switch, air bag system, rear window demister switch [after 15 minutes it will automatically be switched off], rear windscreen washer with back mirror wiper, front fog lamp, door mirror remote control switch, reverse distance sensor and auto-cruise (speed) control.
The catalyst converter is installed in the R3 exhaust system. This serves as the catalyst to reduce HC, CO and NOX in the exhaust gases. This R3 car has label located on the fuel filler lid that states, UNLEADED FUEL ONLY. R3 also has fuel filler tube specially designed to accept the smaller dispensing nozzles only. Under no circumstance should leaded petrol be used because it will damage the emission control system and may impair drive ability and fuel economy.
This car design is like a tiger. If you look at front of this car, its lamp seem like eye's tiger, shape at the center of the bonnet seem like tiger's nose, part under bumper seem like tiger's mouth and door mirrors seem like tiger's ears. Shape nearby back wheel look seem tiger's leg. Its design make stable when move at bend road or corner. In addition for more stable, its weight.
R3 has a dangerous system, which I call it as Revolt System or RS. RS is not created by Proton engineer or other. But this is impact from auto-cruise control system. After you set to auto-cruise system with press up ACC/RES switch or press down Coast/set switch, you get automatic speed you want but this car may revolt to you and make change to your automatic speed, that is be faster seem rally car add its speed , seem to chase something. It more often happen after use ACC/RES switch. More dangerous when this car moving at escarpment. RS impact also may happen if you use ACC/RES with hasten.
Example of its weakness is about its front lamp. Many other model or types of cars can switch on whole its front lamps by normal method [is mean not switch on high beam lamp] but PROTON Satria Neo R3's headlight, upper beam lamp cannot alight except activate its high beam lamp. This may encourage who drive R3 to be more careful when driving at night but it also may encourage driver use high beam lamp and at the same time drive very fast especially for emergency. Or driver drive fast at night without use high beam lamp [ this is mean Headlight, upper beam beam lamp never alight and cause eyesight distance shorter and accident may happen reason this].
This car [Proton Satria Neo R3] may be Malaysia Third Fastest Car. Firstly which Most fast is Proton Satria Neo S2000? This model indeed a rally car and created for rally car only. Secondly, is Proton Satria Neo Lotus??
Base a website about Proton Satria Neo R3, This R3 car may has two system. Firstly petrol economical system. Secondly: Change Crankshaft System. Secondly system is change crankshaft to other lighter crankshaft. This make engine become more powerful. So, we also can say "Rally System" to Change Crankshaft System? So, the secret of R3 for Proton Satria Neo be situated at Change Crankshaft System? Today, I still not understand how to "switch on" this Rally System. So, this car still has mystery which you and me still not get the answer
This is Proton Satria NEO S2000. It ever won in several international rally car competition! This is Malaysia Supercar? The most fast , made by PROTON?
This is Proton Satria Neo CPS 1.6 Highline. This car also has auto-cruise [speed] control but has no VCD player, map function & USB port. It had immobilizer system. This system need fee charge so that driver get its function. Be due to that, many people did not want buy this car model.
This is Proton Satria Neo R3 Lotus which be as cousin to Proton Satria Neo R3? Its price RM100,000.00 OR MORE? This satria neo model be the secondly fastest after Proton Satria NEO S2000???


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Norman H. Jackson, Utah Court of Appeals Judge, Retired, was one of the seven founding Judges of the Utah Court of Appeals and served terms as Presiding and Associate Presiding Judge.
Judge Jackson was the senior attorney in a Richfield law firm for eighteen years. The firm engaged in legal, business and tax cases, including practice before State and Federal Courts, U.S. Board of Land Appeals, Utah Public Service Commission and Arizona Corporation Commission. Clients included counties, cities, banks department stores, communications and credit associations, irrigation companies, auto dealers, building supply stores, farmers, ranchers and small businesses. They took "every type of case that came through the door," from criminal defense work to a patent royalty dispute for the inventor of the Frisbee. Judge Jackson has been a lifetime rancher doing business in Utah as Jackson Cattle Company and Arizona as EJ Cattle Ranches.
Judge Jackson's professional service includes terms on the Utah State Bar Commission, Bar Foundation (President and Vice President), Air Travel Commission, and Utah Information Technology Commission. He served on the Judiciary's Alternate Dispute Resolution Committee for thirteen years and initiated and supervised the Appellate Court Mediation Office. He developed and advanced a realistic and workable framework for both of Utah's Appellate Courts to use in reviewing trial court and administrative agency decisions. He published three editions of Utah Standards of Appellate Review while participating in more than 2,000 appellate court decisions.


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"www.bseap.org" is an Andhra Pradesh Secondary School Certification Education Official webportal. Already So many people suffering Because, Tenth Class Marks List gone somewhere. Board of Secondary education of Andhra Pradesh has maintained a large database in getting AP SSC Marks List from June 2004 to March 2011. But the AP 10th Class Higher officials are invited to download your ssc marklist duplicate copy from their official webportal. but all of 10th class Marks memo's are not in this web portal, only you can download 10th class marks list from 2004 Batches. old students ( Before 2004 Batches ) are cannot access their Tenth class marks lists from online. But you can only download your halltickets, if you have SSC Hall ticket number, Date of Birth of the student, Year of Examination, Stream of the examination ( Regular, Private etc... ). These are the mandatory details for 10th class Marks Memo duplicate download.
Now Andhra Pradesh state students Download and Print the AP SSC Mark List ( 10th Class Memorandum of Marks ) from the website of www.bseap.org. Just goto the site then press on SSC Pass Student Data (Year wise) from the top right on the page. then now you can enter your mandatory details as we told as well as above, next enter the captcha code from the same page, then submit your request to get your AP Tenth Class Mark List Duplicate. this can be downloaded with Color copy of your certificate. you no need to bring your 10th class Marks memo to any where. just go to bseap.org then enter the details, get your ssc marks list.
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Maybe Taye Diggs' next role should be on a cop show.
The Private Practice star was in for a scary surprise when he returned home from the SAG Awards Sunday night and caught a 20-year-old man trying to break into his house, E! News reports.
Who's your favorite TV crime fighter? Tell us your picks!
The suspect, Hassan Juma, started to flee on foot, but Diggs chased him and was able to detain him until police arrived, the LAPD tells E!.
Juma was charged with felony burglary and is being held on $50,000 bail, according to the report.


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It's been a big week for 20-year-old American Idol alum Scotty McCreery, whose new album hit stores Tuesday (Oct. 15). Although he released a holiday album last year, See You Tonight is the follow-up to his first album Clear as Day, and the singer says a great deal has changed since his country debut.
"There's a new level of confidence we've got on this record," McCreery told CMT Hot 20 Countdown . "And that comes from the amount of time we had and the amount of time I got to be an artist on this record, whether it was writing songs or just being involved in the production of it.
"So I'm just extremely pumped to get this out there for everybody to hear. We've taken a big step from where we were and, you know, I've grown up."
Despite being a young artist who began his career through a very modern platform, McCreery says the course of this album stayed true to a more traditional sound.
"I'm an old soul," he said. "I kind of have that traditional country in me, but we still want to have fun with it. We still want to keep it contemporary and current. So I think we got that mix just about right. I think we got it nice and zoned in on the record."
As an added bonus, McCreery says his new music gives fans a whole new concert experience.
"We're kind of revamping the whole show," he said. "Last year, I only had one record to choose from, so I had a lot of covers. Now I get to do a lot more of my stuff, which is something I'm looking forward to doing."
For more, tune in to CMT Hot 20 Countdown this Saturday and Sunday (Oct. 19-20) at 11 a.m. ET/PT.


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Chiropractor For Plantar Fasciitis Cedar Hills, Florida
Plantar Fasciitis is a repetitive stress injury to the plantar fascia on the bottom of the foot. The pain, ranging from mild to severe, is centered around the bottom of the heel, usually toward the front, though it may also extend across the entire bottom of the foot. Did you know that Chiropractic doctor in Cedar Hills can significantly reduce the pain associated with plantar fasciitis? Individuals with plantar fasciitis often report their symptoms are most intense during their first steps after getting out of bed or after long periods of sitting. This tissue can become injured due to overuse or being overweight and out of shape. Icing the area, reducing physical activities such as running and frequent calf stretching are common suggestions.
Chiropractic Treatment in Cedar Hills for Plantar Fasciitis
If you are experiencing foot pain, swelling, and/or discomfort, make an appointment to start on the road to relief. There are many Chiropractic techniques and methods in Duval County 32210 that can be used to treat your plantar fasciitis. The pain is also only, usually, felt in one foot, but it is not impossible to feel the pain in both feet. The pain will gradually decrease in several minutes but will frequently return after standing or sitting for long periods of time. It is most often noticeable first thing in the morning when you get out of bed and walk a few steps, or when you stand up after sitting for a length of time. The typical place to have pain is just before the arch on the heel side of the foot. You dismiss it as a minor, short-term injury that will pass after a good night's rest, but fast-forward a few weeks later and the pain doesn't seem to be going away.
Recognizing And Dealing With Plantar Fasciitis in Cedar Hills
For active people, this is often running, power walking or another high impact exercise. A Chiropractic care for Plantar Fasciitis in Cedar Hills, Florida can help break up the inflammation by utilizing laser and soft tissue therapies. A connective tissue inflammation known as plantar fasciitis can make standing and walking intensely uncomfortable, especially if you have to spend long hours on your feet every day.
For starters, we may recommend a treatment known as active release technique (ART), which focuses on promoting the body's own natural healing processes on damaged tissues and ligaments. Normally, it is only a stabbing pain that happens in the heel of the foot at the beginning of the day, with the first few steps you take. Generally speaking, one feels tenderness on the inside of the heel and swelling on the bottom of the foot.
The pain will disappear during activity but quickly returns afterwards.
Should I See A Chiropractor in Cedar Hills, Florida For My Plantar Fasciitis?
Treatment for plantar fasciitis is directed at decreasing the chronic inflammation of the plantar fascia, stretching tight muscles, and encouraging proper healing of the fascia. These include making a visit to your Chiropractor For Plantar Fasciitis in Duval County. It is possible to move the bones in the foot in order to achieve better motion between the layers of skin, fat, fascia and muscle as well as the bones and the motion required to do activities like running. If the plantar fascia is strained, it gets weak, swollen and inflamed.
According to the American Physical Therapy Association, plantar fasciitis is the most prevalent cause of heel pain, affecting 2 million adults annually. This may alleviate pain for a certain time period, but this is not a permanent solution. Our chiropractors have established an effective treatment protocol for plantar fasciitis.
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[International: Uganda's Shaky Peace Talks]
Editor's Note: Since the Lord's Resistance Army (LRA) leader Joseph Kony did not appear at an April signing ceremony to conclude a peace deal with the Uganda government to end 22 years of war, Observers have wondered what path the shaky negotiations would veer towards. Both sides have issued belligerent statements in recent weeks. Moreover, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has indicted five LRA commanders on war crimes charges, including Kony, who has said he will not sign a deal so long as the warrants stand; some of the indicted leaders have reportedly been killed over the past four years either in combat with the Ugandan army or in conflict within the LRA leadership. After the arrest last week of the notorious ex-Congolese warlord, Jean Pierre Bemba, who was once backed by Uganda, the ICC reiterated its determination to arrest the LRA leadership. The ICC also is investigating alleged crimes against humanity committed by Uganda's army and allied militias, including Bemba's, when Uganda occupied eastern Congo, according to The Wall Street Journal. Most politicians from the war-devastated areas in northern Uganda, traditional leaders, and the suffering civilians, have been urging both sides not to resume fighting and to conclude a peace deal. Below is a press release issued today by the LRA and signed by "Alex Oloya, LRA peace coordinator."
The LRA believes and argues that Uganda government deliberately and systematically terrorized, expelled into concentration camps, caused several deaths, and murdered an entire Acholi population and that this peace process must be met decisively with all necessary means in order to produce tangible agreements.
The LRA reminds Ugandans and Acholis that, the 22 years was politicized in which mass killings of victims are defined primarily in terms of their hierarchical position or political opposition to the regime and dominant groups. It thus therefore demands a robust and meaningful negotiated resolve to the conflict.
Several Months to date after the Lord's Resistance Army and the Uganda government launched peace talks in Juba to end the country's 22-years civil war; it was in good faith for peace and development of Uganda.
Our aims and objectives have been to bring peace to Uganda in which all its inhabitants are free, equal, guaranteed human rights for all.
[] To ensure every citizen of Uganda enjoys respect, protection, security and defense as an individual right enshrined in a constitutional Republic.
[] To plan the economic development of Uganda relevant to the people and able to foster a dynamic market, free competitive economy and equipped to prosper in a global integrated economic system of technological change without hindering prosperity of an individual.
[] We want to ensure that Acholi and the nation are skilful in the use and management of land for the production. To ensure the re-establishment and preservation of true democracy.
The Acholi and religious leaders must understand that there is a program initiated by the government of Uganda to conduct proxy war with a pretext of causing maximum retribution and mass execution of the Acholi people to ensure their dream of 100 years in government.
Ugandans at large must understand that whereas every effort has been given to seek peace, the government of Uganda continues to play proxy games in which America has been duped into believing that Sudan was an enemy of Uganda.
The world must note that, Museveni can lobby America to bomb Kony or LRA but that cannot bomb the crimes committed by Museveni and his cronies from the people of north and eastern Uganda and this marks a warning to anybody whom is seeking any kind of military adventure or aggression on Acholi, Madi, Iteso, Lango, Buganda or LRA; we are a people.
We refute the allegation perpetuated by the FDC's Mr. Ogenya Latigo (NRM), RDC Walter Ochora in which they accuse the exiled individuals in the Diaspora as the spoilers of peace talks.
We inform the entire peace loving nations that, the Government of Uganda just before the FPA (final peace agreement) initiated a new wave of PR in Europe aimed at lobbying for war against the LRA and Acholi. The Public relations were designed to discredit the negotiations and where carried out through NGOs, church leaders, MPs, and business investors to influence the western governments.
(1). The signed agreements where never presented to the exiled Acholi members in the Diaspora. The LRA delegates failed to explain to the LRA leaders and Ugandans what had been signed because it bore the hall marks of a bogus and useless piece paper.
(2). ICC indictment of LRA leaders was illegal. The entire Acholi population knows beyond doubt that Mr. Ocampo has indeed sealed any future investigation of the Ugandan army for its alleged part in the commission of atrocities in Northern Uganda. UN has concealed the genocide committed by Museveni and his cronies--backed him all the way to this moment.
(3). The Uganda government made sure that it infiltrated the ranks of negotiators and derailed the talks in order to urge the international response to attack and destroy Acholi people. It also made sure that all demands made by the LRA were rubbished and rendered as non negotiable.
(4). "I have never and will never send a delegation of the [ruling] NRM party to talk with Kony" said president Museveni at May Day celebrations (1/05/2008).
(5) The bear fact is that Museveni is afraid of the men and women in the Diaspora and he believes they pose a threat to his Government.
The LRA/M assures the people of Uganda of total commitment to negotiated peace settlement, and is eager to get back to the negotiating table with new team to begin meaningful talks based on clear definition to resolve the conflict.
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Council votes reprieve for wading pool
NBC29 has the story on the outcome of the controversy City Council created by claiming something was doomed before getting the public's input.
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Buffalo Girl, city council as a whole had nothing to do with dooming the pool. It seems as if the decision was made by an Adam Henry Doolittle in the Parks and Recreation Department. And this Doolittle then convinced one member of city council to subscribe to his program.
And when will Council make sure they don't just make decisions after hearing from their most vocal citizens? Two points: 1) This much-beloved pool is accessible only by vehicles, so that certainly does restrict the area residents who have fond memories of this place, eh? That does not even account for the fact that for the first 25+ years of its existence only whites could have used this pool; 2) Did City Council register the same level of concern when the very same type of wading pool was taken out of service as a part of the Forest Hills Park master plan? That pool had the same sort of multi-generational fan base who could walk or take a bus to their pool, who depended on the pool for summer recreation, and who were disheartened to learn that their pool would be replaced by a sprayground. Maybe somebody can explain to me why we need to spend tax money on "dialogues on race" when we continue have a very narrow view of what it means to "seek public input."
Qingyi Pu,
I'm afraid you don't seem to be making much sense with your argument if that's what it is. Are you suggesting that former restrictions on who might use the pool should have something to do with whether it's destroyed today? If that's a factor, shouldn't we consider tearing down most of UVA?
Did as many people complain about the Forest Hills pool? I've never heard about it. Do you think that might have had something to do with what council decided?
Finally, what on earth do ââ?¬Å?dialogues on race" have to do with this issue in any way?
connie, You get the prize! Qingyi Pu is way out of touch!
Strike four for staff ! When will Council learn to seek public input first and not continually be put in this position again and again


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Destination HappinessMonday, January 19th, 2015
I can not believe we are halfway through the first month of the year. How many of you have stuck to your New Year's resolutions? Or, have they long since gone out the window? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to wake up every day with certainty that you are living your best life possible? Have you ever wondered what it would be like to have complete certainty that you are living your life purpose? Have you found your twin flame, or true love? Or are you looking to improve relations with your love again? Are you 100% positive of what you are supposed to be doing in your life, just unsure how to walk down that path? If you've answered yes to any of these questions, then Destination Happiness is the course for you. It is a 6-week online course that meets once a week for 90 minutes, beginning January 22 at 7:30 pm EST. During this course, we will cover 5 areas. These areas include: breaking the blockages of your past, unleashing self-confidence, living a powerful present with purpose, unlocking the five secrets to living a more spiritual life, and Step 5 is celebrating at your Destination Happiness, whatever that destination looks like. I also will include two 1-hour sessions with each student to help personalize each individual's road map to their Destination Happiness, one call at the beginning of the course, and another at the end, to help with any roadblocks. For the first 9 people to sign up, I will offer an additional 1-hour session for free that helps the students see where they are now and where they will be at the end of 6 weeks. 1 session alone is valued at $250, though in the effort to make the course affordable for most, I'm including the whole 6-week course for $495. The weekly online meetings will be live and also recorded, so if students can not attend the live class, a link to the recorded material will be provided. For so much of my life people have asked me to bottle up my happiness and share my tips for overcoming my hallenges, so I've prayed and meditated for a long time, figuring out the best way to share these techniques and provide result-driven strategies accessible to the masses. I realize that $495 is not inexpensive, though if you consider it an investment in yourself, with tools that you can use the rest of your life to overcome challenges, live without fear, bring abundance and experience happiness for you and your loved ones, then $495 is small in comparison to the return!
To sign up, go to my website, www.melissahevenor.com Under the "Coaching" program tab, purchase the program Destination Happiness. I recently made a YouTube video detailing more about the class and sharing stories of success with clients and personal triumphs on Youtube. My YouTube channel is mhevenor94. The video is called Destination Happiness. Lets make 2015 the best year of your life so far, and set the path to make each year better and better. Can't wait to share the Destination Happiness journey with you. Love, light and blessings, Melissa


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Jennifer Lopez, who fell during a performance at the American Music Awards on Sunday night, talked to Billy Bush for Access Hollywood and radio's "The Billy Bush Show" about the mishap.
While attempting to do a move that involved climbing on a few of the dancers' backs, J.Lo explained the fall and said, "The guys backs were a little bit sweaty."
VIEW THE PHOTOS: 2009 American Music Awards
Overall, Jennifer felt good about her performance and told Bill, "It's cool. We jumped right back up and didn't miss a step."
Jennifer, who was performing her brand new single "Louboutins" off of her upcoming album, "Love?," said that despite the fall, "It was a great performance and I feel really good about it."
VIEW THE PHOTOS: 2009 American Music Awards: Behind The Scenes!
"It was fun. We had a good time," Jennifer continued. "It was great to share the new single in that way."
When Billy asked if she saw Adam Lambert's controversial performance, Jennifer said she was actually backstage doing press so she missed it.
Billy explained the nature of the performance and Jennifer said, "Everybody has to be themselves. I am going to do what I do. He is going to do what he does. It is what it is. That is why it is art. Performers are all different."
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Jennifer's new album "Love?" is due out early in 2010.
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Having opted out of consideration for David Fincher's remake of "The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo," Swedish film star Noomi Rapace has decided instead to branch out into other roles while her "people" prep an Oscar campaign.
Rapace, of course, originated the role of Lisbeth Salander, heroine of the Millennium Trilogy, which was recently bequeathed unto Rooney Mara. Now Rapace is meeting with everyone in sight to discuss possible roles, among them:
- "Mission: Impossible 4" from director Brad Bird and starring Tom Cruise
- "Sherlock Holmes 2" from director Guy Ritchie and starring Robert Downey Jr. and Jude Law
- "This Means War," the romantic actioner from McG that's been losing stars left and right
- "Hansel & Gretel: Witch Hunters" from writer-director Tommy Wirkola being produced by Will Ferrell and Adam McKay
And when they're not too busy setting up meetings, Rapace's reps are preparing to put her in the hunt for a Best Actress nomination for her role in the Swedish version of "Dragon Tattoo," according to Deadline.
Who knows if the Oscar campaign will get any traction, but you can be sure that she'll land parts in at least two high-profile films. Whether she can parlay those into a Hollywood career, who knows? We give her about a 50-50 chance.


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GAA History Launch
After a fine weekend for Tipperary hurling the focus switches back locally the coming weekend. On this Friday night 22nd August, our GAA history the Green above the Red will be launched in the GAA centre by GAA super personality, Micheal O' Muircheartaigh. Whatever Micheál has to say should prove interesting and no doubt a large number from the local community and from Tipperary in general will turn out to hear him as all are invited.
The history has been in preparation for the last 3 years under a local book committee headed by Dick Egan who stepped into the role when Lance Vaughan was unable to continue as chairman. Editor of the book is Ricky Sheehan with Joe Tobin as the assistant Editor. The other 3 members of the committee were Sean O'Meara, Tommy O'Sullivan and the hard working secretary, Neil Thompson who kept the 6 Mullinahone men in order (no easy task). Great credit also for their help in producing the history to typists, Linda Quirke and Anne Sheehan and award winning local photographer, Jimmy Freeman.
The history has been rumbling around since 1984, but many would contend that we were too busy making history since then rather than writing it. The committee is satisfied that they have produced an excellent publication after 3 years of hard work. Do come along at 8.30pm to the GAA Hall on Friday night for the launch.
Local Lotto
The last local lotto draw took place on Monday 11th August. The winning numbers drawn were 12,19,22 and 25. There were no jackpot winners, but there were 3 match 3 winners who shared the Match 3 prize of €150. Congrats to Eddie Hickey, Button and Michelle Maher who shared €150. Next draw will be on August 25th when the jackpot could be worth €6,500.
GAA Briefs
Next week has the Kelleggs GAA Cul Camp in Mullinahone. Age groups from 6 to 13. On line booking at www.kelloggsculcampgaa.ie or contact chairman Victory Direen for more info.
Well Done to our U14 hurlers who drew their semi-final with Kilsheelan on Thursday night last. The replay takes place on this Thursday night 21st August with the winners facing Clonmel Og in the final.
Our senior hurlers have been drawn to play Carrick Swan in the South Tipp semi-final on this Sunday afternoon, August 24th in Clonmel. Well done to Tipp hurlers on their win on Sunday. Well done also to the large number of locals who travelled to the game. It was nice to see Eoin Kelly coming on and was comforting to see Paul Curran ready to come in if needed. Now the build up begins for the final.
Host Families Wanted
Volunteer host families are urgently required for annual GAA tournament Friday 29th August and Saturday 30th August. Please contact any member of the Juvenile Gaa Club. Many thanks. T
Thank You
A huge thank you for all the help, support and donations made in aid of Megan Vaughan's volunteer work at Daktan school and Wildlife Orphanage South Africa. The winner of the Jelly Bean guessing competition was Teckie Brett whose guess was 1,100 beans when there were 1,088 in the jar. Winners of the raffle were Tommy Rochford, Kiah Hughes, Alma Vaughan, Eoin McGrath, Eileen Ward, Albert Curran, Barry Egan and Robert Pennyfeather.
Mullinahone Community Council
Silver Circle Draw will start again in September. This draw is the main source of income which maintains the Community Council. It is very important to have your support. Lines are €20 each for 12 monthly draws . Please buy a line and support your Community Council and Centre.
Parish Newsletter
Anniversary Masses this weekend Friday 22nd August at 7pm Jack and Josie Sheehan, Ballydavid, Saturday August 23rd at 8pm Danny and Ciss Maher, Ballycullen, Sunday 24th August at 9.30am Billy Cantwell, Kickham Street, Sunday 11.30am Percy and his son Patrick Vaughan, Clonagoose. May they rest in peace.
Congratulations to Ciara Ryan, Kilvemnon and Christopher Byron,Ballycullen and also to Colin John Traynor and Eileen Mary Gleeson, Ballyduggan. Both couples were married recently.
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Do acupuncturists have acupuncture treatments? You bet we do.
Last week, I had five acupuncture sessions in five consecutive days. I must admit, this is quite an indulgence even for myself, but it felt ever so good.
Spring always catches me off-guard, especially spring in London. The weather is ridiculously unpredictable: the sun teases you with her rays and then the wind appears to show you who's the boss. Having grown up in Greece where a sunny day equals a warm day, I still get caught out by the bright glare outdoors to discover that it's not quite tropical weather just yet. This isn't helped by the number of overenthusiastic people parading about in short sleeves already. They may have an abundance of yang qi, but I definitely don't and I pay for it if I don't continue with my layers.
I don't know what is about the spring but I always feel under the weather, which is so annoying when the world is coming alive again with the flowers pushing through the earth and the ducks and geese squawk and honk merrily. Whereas most people feel sluggish at the first signs of colds and flu around September and October time, my own body finds the emergence of yang qi out of winter mode more difficult to handle.
So instead of having my usual maintenance session this month, I had five, all in one week. It was difficult to squeeze them all in, but once I had committed and marked the appointments down it became a non-issue. I had mine in the beginning of the day as I work late, but oh how I would've loved to have my sessions in the evening.
During the first two treatments I was completely knocked out, sleeping on the treatment bed as soon as the needles were in, with the dull sense of de-qi keeping me company. On the third treatment I was sleepy but awake and by the end of the week I could feel the acupuncture changing from having a restorative and tonifying effect on my body to an invigorating and balancing one.
It was wonderful, and the little moments of calm during my week were sublime. How are you preparing yourself for spring?
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The New York City Marathon is back...and so are the celebrity runners.
Following a hiatus last year due to Hurricane Sandy, the annual marathon started up again Sunday morning, with Bill Rancic, Pam Anderson, Patrick Wilson and Christy Turlington and more stars hitting the pavement for the famed 26-mile race.
So, which celeb finished the marathon the fastest?
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None other than "Insidious" star Wilson, who finished up at 3:32:35. "Masterchef" judge Joe Bastianich followed at 4:00:06, as well as Turlington at 4:35:32, Rancic at 4:57:23 and Anderson at 5:41:03.
The former "Baywatch" babe finished the race with her brother by her side, tweeting a photo with her sibling once she crossed the finish line.
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"So proud of my brother Gerry. Thank G. For running next to me today- love you lots," Anderson tweeted Sunday (see below).
She went on to post another photo of herself laying on her bed with big bag of ice on her body, along with the caption, "Ouch!"
E!'s own Giuliana Rancic was on also on hand to cheer on her hubby Bill, posting a photo of herself on Instagram at the marathon with a sign that read "We Luv You Bill."
The E! News and Fashion Police host also posted a video of Bill finishing the race, writing on Instagram, "Video of @BillRancic crossing the finish line!!!! He did it!!! So proud:) #ingnycm." In the clip, the "Giuliana & Bill" stars share a big smooch in celebration.
As far as who won the race overall, Kenyan runners Priscah Jeptoo and Geoffrey Mutai, won the women and men's races respectively.
So proud of my brother Gerry. Thank G. For running next to me today- love you lots pic.twitter.com/RtwNZfCMli — Pamela Anderson (@PamelaDAnderson) November 3, 2013
Ouch! pic.twitter.com/jM2kpkzWXW — Pamela Anderson (@PamelaDAnderson) November 3, 2013
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When the phone's battery reaches ~20%, I get the message to connect my charger on the lock screen. Is there a way to lower the threshold for the notification -- similar to the setting for a laptop?
For clarity, I want to change the settings so that the "Connect your charger" message appears when my battery is at 5%, instead of its current threshold, ~20%.
I should mention that I'm looking for a setting that's on the phone, without the need to modify back-end files. Also, I've actually gone through the whole settings section looking for the option and didn't find anything. Hopefully, I didn't overlook it.


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Hey, I know! How about a contest where every object in your mission must be created at sim start?
Ok, that's a really bad idea.
If you really wanted to save brushes, you could utilise NVNameOnCreation and NVLinkBuilder, thus allowing even more things to be saved until the start of the game
Hey, I know! How about a contest where every object in your mission must be created at sim start?
Ok, that's a really bad idea.
If we ever meet in person, Yandros, I'm going to slap you.
With leftover trout?
Sorry, ataricom.
Ha. Ha. Ha.
Actually I'd much rather give him a flogging with lobster.
If the lemon juice to the eyes and the blistering hot garlic butter to the face don't tip him off first.
So, how's the mission coming, now that you know your brush count's not yet reached dangerous levels?
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More like, if I don't eat his face after basting it in seafood!
I really haven't added much since that last screenshot, but I can tell it's going to be a hodgepodge of Frank Lloyd Wright houses, along with that "Guilded Age" mansion that I posted first (completely separate parts in the mission).
I Want to Eat Your Face.
Sounds cool! Different styles in one mission are often a plus. A happy juxtaposition, we all hope!
What I'm working on right now is my first FM, a smallish-medium-sized generic manor-type mission in DromEd 1, to get a handle of what to do and not do when making a mission (Such as building a manor from the inside-out. )
Currently, I've hit a roadblock. Newly created objects are now invisible, until I portalize or collide with them in game mode. And they revert back to invisible whenever I exit game mode. And I can't figure out why for the life of me.
It's maddening.
When I posted my mission stats I didn't include the total time:
Yes, those are negative numbers, which are generated once the positive numbers become too high. I'll leave for someone else to explain properly because I can't quite manage it.
Wow R, that's impressive. Esh has done the same thing with Broken Triad mis 1, which he's been working on since 2003.
I must have started mine in mid-late 2005. I do wish I could build these things faster but I do like detail.
Oh, and here's a youtube video of the indoor market:
Check the description panel on the right for a list of what's in the stalls.
Nice! I hope mine doesn't take that long.....well it might since I'm considering redoing a huge chunk of forest crap.
Back on topic here, I worked on this area of DP2 today. It should prove a favorite among spider lovers.
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I hope you'll be providing us with an extra long sword so we can fight from a greater distance
That webbed corpse model could do with some improvement... Any takers?
Agreed, I'd love to have a better one. If anyone does a better texture for it, I'd really appreciate it if you kindly do the web and corpse in layers and send me the texture in PSP format so I can create a variety of corpses under the webs, ranging from skeletal to very fresh, for DP2.
Actually, this is something I could try to do myself and provide to whomever does the new model...
Back on topic :
Right now I'm fighting the beast called "Scene complexity too high". I beat it once in another location, but its twin later showed up for a rematch. The game doesn't actually crash, but there are Halls of Mirrors in one specific area.
I'm going to start by redoing some sloppy brushwork and hopefully I can lower the cell count that way. The next step is to try to build some barriers to limit the player's view. If that doesn't help, I will have to stop the player from entering the "diseased" area (which is something I really want to avoid doing).
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I seem to be close to the limit of everything:
right now, some revamps of evil never dies, i had problems with the mission, the flow wasn't right, the solution, build a new city and stop grafting things together, the result, much better, the mission moves nicer now, fits the plot better, and i'm not spending time on custom objects, i have enough of them to do anything at this point.
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And this is the sort of thing I get up to when I'm not being a taffer:
Today, I have been working on The Marble Hall. No screenshots, it's much too unfinished.


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Google Cloud Results
- Increases event attendance and boosts revenues as much as 20% to 50% for customers
- Provides fans with a richer, more fun, and faster seat selection and ticket purchasing experience
- Grows customer base and expands to new markets while retaining 94% of customers
- Dynamically scales for demand bursts of more than 10,000 seats held in 4,000 simultaneous shopping carts
360° views for selecting tickets for any seat in the stadium
Glitnir Ticketing was founded 15 years ago as an internet-first ticketing solution for minor league baseball stadiums. It established a leadership position with its pioneering unified solution for both online and on-site ticketing. Rather than marketing its own brand, Glitnir white labels its service for its sports and entertainment customers, who integrate the service into their own websites and on-site ticketing operations.
In a competitive industry, the company continually seeks to distinguish itself by providing more robust, feature-rich services that offer fans better purchasing experiences while helping customers increase sales and profitability.
The company was an early adopter of technologies to allow fans to visualize what it looks like from any particular seat in a stadium or performing arts venue. As technology evolved, Glitnir wanted to remain on the leading edge.
360-degree view from any seat
Glitnir developed its latest novel innovation using Google Maps Platform. With Google Maps, Glitnir created an integrated 360-degree seat viewer, using Street View, from any seat in the house. Photographers, certified with the Google Street View Trusted Badge, photograph each venue to help ensure high image quality and appropriateness guidelines are met. The technology allows fans purchasing tickets to check site lines to the playing field or performance stage, so they can get a truer sense of their view from different seats, allowing them to make a more informed purchasing decision.
"Once you get comfortable with how the Google Maps Platform and APIs work, you appreciate the consistency and simplicity. It's straightforward to integrate and easy to scale, which is exactly what we want when handling high-traffic volumes and all sorts of unique customer needs from soccer stadiums to concert halls."—Gordon Krstacic, Founder and CEO, Glitnir
For faster ticket purchasing and fewer abandoned shopping carts, the seat viewer is integrated seamlessly as part of a one-page shopping process. This is unlike other online ticketing sites that have clunky navigation for separate purchasing systems and seat picking systems, involving upwards of five to six steps on different web pages.
The result is a better, more true-to-life experience that is more interactive and visual, whether on a PC or a mobile device. For mobile device users, it's particularly easy because Glitnir leverages mobile device gyroscope functions, with the view from a stadium seat rotating as the person changes the device's orientation. For example, users can turn to look left and right to see how far a seat is relative to the home plate or first base. They can even look up and around to gauge where a roof overhang is located in relation to a seat, when a seat in the shade is preferred.
Glitnir showed off this capability with a gyroscope-equipped tablet at a recent trade show, demonstrating views from seats for FC Cincinnati soccer games at the 35,000 seat University of Cincinnati Nippert stadium, to rave reviews. "Our 360-degree seat view with Google Maps gives us a differentiator by 1000%," says Gordon Krstacic, Founder and CEO at Glitnir. "Our customers were clamoring to try it out at our trade show booth, telling their friends, 'You have got to see this.' It really creates a splash and it's helping drive sales." Other 360 interactive view customers include the Greenville Drive Minor League Baseball team and the Long Island Ducks, Glitnir's first team with the live 360 integration.
"Once you get comfortable with how the Google Maps Platform and APIs work, you appreciate the consistency and simplicity," says Bill McLean, Founder and CTO at Glitnir. "It's straightforward to integrate and easy to scale, which is exactly what we want when handling high-traffic volumes and all sorts of unique customer needs from soccer stadiums to concert halls."
"Tens of thousands of people active on a server for one stadium, one section, one row, one seat, creates an extremely resource-intensive process. Keeping systems stable and allowing customers to purchase tickets smoothly and quickly, with a fantastic experience, is one of the greatest challenges in the business."—Bryan Gray, COO, Glitnir
Capacity bursts for hot tickets
The company's friction-free seat selection and ticket purchasing process is underpinned by Google Cloud Platform (GCP). Previously, the company depended on its own data center in Long Island, New York and would sometimes get overwhelmed by spikes in demand. "Tens of thousands of people active on a server for one stadium, one section, one row, one seat, creates an extremely resource-intensive process," says Bryan Gray, COO at Glitnir. "Keeping systems stable and allowing customers to purchase tickets smoothly and quickly, with a fantastic experience, is one of the greatest challenges in the business."
In the past, he explains, high-demand periods meant disabling the customer seat picking functionality and instead offering the best seats available as chosen by the system. Switching from a lower level Layer 3/4 load balancer to Layer 7 HTTPS with Google Cloud Load Balancing delivered the results Glitnir needed to handle thousands of simultaneous shopping carts holding more than 10,000 seats during bursts of activity. Now even during periods of peak purchasing activity, customers can still choose their own seats.
"With Google Cloud Load Balancing we can throttle up on demand and continue to offer all of our functionalities to the biggest events in the world, and that has given us a huge leg up on the competition," says Bryan.
Glitnir runs scripts and MySQL on VMs using Google Compute Engine and uses Google Cloud Storage to store the data. "If we have a big event with tickets going on sale, we'll scale out multiple VMs with the load balancer and potentially with a database backend," says Bill. The Glitnir IT team uses Google Stackdriver Monitoring to monitor its VMs so it can find and fix any issues faster.
Glitnir also uses GCP resources across locations that are close to its customers. "Our UK teams are being served out of Google data centers in Europe," says Bill. "And our West Coast customers are served by Google resources in the Pacific zone, with East Coast customers served by cloud resources on that coast. It's really enabled us to scale out and support our load balancing and growth needs. HTTPS rollout tools are standard. It's all very consistent and predictable, which is great."
A fuller-featured ticketing system
Glitnir's system includes optional modules for patron ticket trading and re-sales, fundraising, online merchandise sales, marketing reports, email prospecting, and a CRM system. As part of its robust customer service orientation, Glitnir uses Google Domains and Google Cloud DNS for mapping subdomains for its customers. Each customer gets its own subdomain and its own email address, enhancing the marketing platform capabilities of Glitnir's platform. "Our CRM and email marketing platform can save our customers tens of thousands of dollars by negating the need for a third-party system," says Bryan.
Glitnir's developers use Android and Android Studio for apps that allow customers to scan tickets on site with mobile devices, with enterprise-grade security and management features layered in. "We were able to migrate a legacy Windows Mobile ticket scanning solution to a modern ticket scanning app natively built for Android," says Bill. "This migration allowed us to use standard Android build tools and deploy to a standard Android system image. As a result of the migration, the scanning app performs faster, is easier to manage, and will also deploy to future Android devices."
"So many great tools for our developers are available under the Google umbrella, from the plethora of Google Cloud Platform tools to Maps and Android Studio—it's a no brainer to use them and explore all the possibilities for how they can help our business."—Bill McLean, Founder and CTO, Glitnir
The team is currently working with Firebase to support backend data storage, real-time synchronization, and user-event logging while allowing Glitnir to transition off a third-party monitoring app. Tag Manager helps Glitnir easily update code snippets and tags on its apps and websites via a web interface, without requiring developers to deploy new code when changes are needed.
"So many great tools for our developers are available under the Google umbrella, from the plethora of Google Cloud Platform tools to Maps and Android Studio—it's a no brainer to use them and explore all the possibilities for how they can help our business," says Bill.
Glitnir's transition to GCP was simple. "We picked one customer from the Midwest to go all in on GCP," says Bill. "We transitioned one server image from our data center on Long Island, easily lifting it using the tools provided by Google, without needing to modify the image. We tried the same with two other major cloud providers, and it wasn't effective. Their tools weren't as consistent or cleanly integrated. With GCP, we didn't have to worry about forgetting some server parameter or some obscure system setting like with shared memory that we've seen before. It was seamless."
Over two to three years, Glitnir has moved all of its customers from its data center to GCP. "Because we took the time to structure and organize it all, we are able to keep a very rigid and clean organization on GCP, so that we firewall all our customers and what happens with one customer doesn't affect another," says Bill.
"We appreciate having our customer information and credit card data backed by the highly secure Google Cloud Platform," says Bill. "We let Google take care of PCI compliance so we can focus on helping our customers sell more tickets."
A home run for revenues
Thanks to its technology innovations, Glitnir's retention rate is a solid 94% and its customer base is up 20% in the past two years. Its customers, in turn, see upticks in ticket sales once the Glitnir system is introduced. "In our first year with Glitnir, we increased revenue in football by 20%," says Dwight Covington, Director of Athletic Ticket Sales for Furman University. "We also more than doubled our revenue for men's basketball and increased attendance, which has always been our goal."
In the future, Glitnir's plans include using Google BigQuery to collect data to better forecast ticket sales including analysis of impacts from weather, location, and other factors. It also anticipates integrating its system with Google solutions like Daydream, Google Assistant, and Google Home so that virtual reality users can tap into its stadium seat views and users of voice command tools can easily purchase tickets, to make 'In Real Life' events more accessible with virtual technologies.
About Glitnir Ticketing
Glitnir Ticketing provides feature-rich ticketing software, integrating 360-degree seat views, plus related services for athletic, performing arts, and multi-purpose venues throughout the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom. The company's system is recognized by MLB Advanced Media as an official ticketing vendor for its minor league baseball system.


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While the Orlando City Soccer Club has been preparing for its move to MLS by pursuing global stars such as the recently acquired Kaka and potential transfer Robinho, the club's first MLS signee is having a breakout season in USL PRO.
Orlando City midfielder Kevin Molino hasn't had a lot of time to ponder what the 2015 roster might look like while helping the Lions (14-0-4, 46 points) remain unbeaten by way of an offensive explosion unlike any in his career.
"As a player that's already signed for MLS [in Orlando] you always wonder who will come in and who you'll be playing with next year," Molino said. "It's great to see that a couple big names want to come here. It shows we've been doing some good over the past couple years."
Entering Sunday's match at Rochester, Molino leads the league in points (29) and assists (7) and ranks third in goals scored with 11 in 17 appearances.


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Cook Family In The Citi (6/18/2011)
With Kellan still less than a year old, most of our games this season will be just me and Tim. Essentially, I have planned out one game at each of our "local" stadiums (i.e., northeastern United States minus Boston) for our entry family to attend. On June 18, 2011, it was Kellan's and Colleen's first game at Citi Field. And we made a weekend of it.
Lots of "firsts" for Kellan on this trip. First NL stadium (Citi Field). First NL team (Mets). First Inter-league game (vs. Angels). First trip to New York. First hotel room (Club Quarter's Wall Street). First sub-river tunnel (Holland). First subway ride (I can't remember if it was the A, C, B, or D, but it was from 86thto Columbus Circle). First trip to the big FAO Schwartz….
…and to Central Park (FYI, this list isn't in chronological order). First New York Pizza…
…(from Ray's on 82nd & Columbus). First elevated train (the 7 Train…Queens portion). And first picture with a gigantic apple…
…or maybe I should say a "Big Apple." Yep, lots of firsts.
I thought the stadium would already be open when we arrived, but it was not. So we got to stand in a fairly big line for about 10-15 minutes. I snapped this picture of Tim and Colleen as we waited:
Not only was this Colleen's first game at Citi Field, it was her first home Mets game, period. She never joined me on any of my handful of trips to Shea Stadium. So was it was good to finally get her out to Queens.
By the time we made it to the seats, there were already a lot of people in the stands. But deep LCF was open. So we headed out to the corner spot by the even "Bigger" Apple:
Kellan is a humungous baby for a Baby Bjorn, but it is still the most convenient way to get him around the ballpark. Even then, Colleen had to lug the stroller along the way.
There were two "Mets" right in front of us…
…and another "Met" about 75 feet over toward left field. All three of them had "OO" and their first names (Anthony, Travis and Jimmy) on their backs. I guess they are bat and/or ball boys. Tim was pretty confused about why there were multiple people wearing "OO," but he promptly forgot about the confusion and rained down a loud "THANK YOU" on Travis when he
tossed us a baseball:
Colleen thinks the ball is in my glove and she should know best since she took the picture. But, to me, it looks like I'm still watching the flight of the ball on its way up to me. Who knows?
Right when Travis tossed us the baseball, the Angels pitchers all reported to the LF foul line for stretching and throwing. I apologized in advance to Colleen and explained that we needed to relocate over there because I was hoping we could get a baseball from the Angels, and that it would be an Angels 50th Anniversary commemorative baseball (which is the reason I picked this particular game for Kellan's first at Citi Field).
Us three boys grabbed a spot along the railing behind Scott Downs (among others), as Tim pointed out airplanes passing over head:
And what do you know, Downs tossed us his baseball when he finished playing catch:
Although it was not a commemorative ball, we were mighty appreciative.
Thanks, Scott!
Colleen was hanging out in some seats about 15 rows back from the field. We lingered a few minutes after getting the baseball from Downs, and then we raced over to her:
And , upon arrival, Colleen snapped this picture of Tim's big cheesy grin:
Of course, we are competing in the mygameballs.com photo scavenger hunt, so we needed a Citi Field *bonus* picture. Colleen snapped two of them and I love them both. This is the one we submitted on mygameballs.com:
I picked that one because it shows Kellan more clearly and it clearly shows that he is trying to eat the baseball like an apple.
But I also love the funny face that Tim is making in this one:
After those pictures, Colleen headed to the family restroom to change Kellan. Tim and I headed back down to the front row while we waited for them to return. It was extremely obnoxious down there. We were surrounded by a group of young boys (maybe 10-13 years old…its hard to judge). They were flat out screaming at every player who touched a baseball. "THROW ME THAT BASEBALL!" They also mixed in a smattering of foul and derogatory language. You know, the kind of stuff that just *really* makes a ballplayer want to give a kid a baseball (yeah, that's sarcasm).
While those kids were ensuring that no baseballs would be tossed into our section, the strangest thing happened. We got a *hit* baseball! It was so unlike us. An unidentified Angels lefty sliced (or is it hooked) a ball right down the LF line. I ran a full section over down a completely empty row. I was certain the ball was going to fall 10-15 feet (and 3-5 rows) below me and I was hoping that it would hop up in my direction. But lo-and-behold, the ball hung in the air and made it all the way to me. I was so surprised that it hung up that I botched the play as I turned my glove over in slow-motion to make the backhanded attempt. Luckily, it hit the pinky of my glove and fell into the seat right there. All I had to do was bend over and pick it up.
It was our first ever hit ball in Queens.
Colleen and Kellan were literally walking down the aisle toward us when we got the hit baseball. I picked it up, gave a kid a high five, and Tim and I went back up to where Colleen and Kellan were sitting.
We decided to skip the rest of BP and instead head out to the kids play area.
When we reached our destination, Mr. Met was out there taking photos with fans so we got a family shot with him:
Two notes: (1) I am attempting to catch Mr. Mets' head and (2) all of us Cooks (except Kellan) are looking at our camera while Mr. Met is looking at the Mets fan photos photographer.
A few minutes later, Tim was manning the field…
…in the whiffle ball Citi Field. Like Jack Black and Kyle Gass, Tim has got some "Tenacious D."
After a little hitting…
…and a little baserunning…
…it was time for dinner. We walked almost all the way around the stadium in our quest for food. It was took crowded in the large eating area above the Jackie Robinson Rotunda. So we headed out to the Pepsi Porch in RF. On the walkway out to the Pepsi Porch, I got this shot of Tim with *muffler city* in the background:
By the way, that's just my name for it. It is basically a big eye-sore composed of dingy car repair shops.
We decided on an all-Nathan's Famous hot dog dinner:
A corn dog for Tim. Spicy vegetarian dog for Colleen. A big sloppy hot dog with mustard, onions, relish and sauerkraut for me. And cut up hot dog bits (no condiments) for Kellan. Tasty.
While we ate, we were serenaded with the National Anthem by Roy Hobbs's girlfriend, Glenn Close:
Mrs. Hobbs totally botched the second to last line of the anthem. Well, she sang all the right words, but her voice totally broke on the high note ("…land of the free-eeeeeee"). She rolled with it, gave a big laughing smile and the old college try as she belted out that cracking "freeeeeee," and, in the process, she really won the crowd over. She got a huge ovation after she finished.
We sat in section 523 for almost the entire game. When Tim, Kellan and I climbed to the top, we took this picture of Colleen that shows a fair representation of our view (although, we were obviously closer than the camera view):
Obviously, we were hoping the Mets would win because that would be better for the Mariners. And at the end of the day, that's what happened.
I was mighty pleased when native-British Columbian and Gonzaga University alum Jason Bay…
…came to the plate to Pearl Jam's "Alive" off of their smash-hit debut album "10," which was released during my freshman year of high school and was, of course, HUGE at my school.
I was quite pleased to hear Mike Pelfrey representing the Seattle Grunge era with his batting intro song: Nirvana's cover of the Meat Puppet's "Lake of Fire."
It was also nice to see that Russell Branyan…
…had found a place to fit in this season. That guy can mash the ball! Luckily, he did not do so at this game.
In fact, the Angels didn't do much mashing at all at this game. Mike Pelfrey pitched a complete game, giving up only five hits and 1 run.
The Mets had a good day at the plate. It started in the third inning, when Jose Reyes hit a single, stole second, advanced to third on a groundout and then scored the first run of the game on a single by Carlos Beltran.
In the third, Tim and I went to grab an ice cream helmet, and Tim spontaneously busted out in an in-stadium statue pose:
When we returned to our seats, Kellan was conked out on Colleen's lap:
The Mets got right back at it in the fourth inning. Angel Pagan led off with a single. He then stole second and scored on a Jason Bay single.
Meanwhile, Bay didn't look like he was long for first base:
Within seconds of taking that last picture, Bay swiped second base.
I should mention that Dan Haren was pitching:
It wasn't his night.
Soon after stealing second, Bay scored the third run of the game…
…on a Russell Branyan error.
Both the ice cream and the Angels deficit were keeping us happy. Actually, Tim was focusing more on the ice cream at this point:
Here is a random picture of Citi Field and Kellan as he sits on my lap:
It should be noted that Kellan is wearing a hand-me-down Mariners t-shirt that he received (with love) from his big brother. It should also be noted that this was Kellan's fourth Major League Baseball game and Tim wore the exact same shirt to his fourth MLB game.
Most of our pictures from this game are random smiling Cook Boys pictures. Here is one of them:
In our four previous games at Citi Field, we had never seen a Met hit a homerun and raise the Big Apple. Well, Carlos Beltran finally did it for us:
High fives for Carlos:
Beltran's blast made it 6-0 Mets (Reyes had scored on the batter before Beltran's homerun) at the end of the fifth inning. In the top of the sixth, the Angels got their sole run on a Mark Trumbo homerun. And that was all the scoring in this game.
Here is one of Tim's standard silly faces that I never tire of:
I also never tire of playing with Kellan…
…or feeding him a bottle while taking in a ballgame. (Although Kellan will soon graduate from the bottle stage of life).
In the seventh inning, Tim asked to do some exploring. So, we walked through the CF area where the "Shake Shack" was all lit up in Mets blue and orange:
And we spent some time behind the bullpens watching relievers warm up for both teams:
At the very end of the game, we scooted back over toward the 3B side and positioned ourselves in the concourse above the umpire's tunnel. With two outs in the top of the ninth (when they were still checking tickets), Vernon Wells hit a towering pop up for the final out of the game. As the ball ascended, I scooped up Tim and we started to scurry down the stairs towards the umpires' tunnel. But a voice from above called us back. An usher told us, "you can't go down there." He did not realize the game was going to be over in literally 2-3 seconds. When he
realized it, he stuck to his guns, "the game is over, you can't go down there."
Oh, well. No umpire ball attempt for us at this game.
We slowly made our way out of the stadium, and we ended up sitting on some benches outside for a while so the traffic on the 7-train could die down a bit. While we were waiting, I got this picture of Tim with Citi Field lit up at night:
We then made our way back down to Wall Street and our waiting hotel room beds. The next morning, we trooped around the downtown area a bit before heading home. We got Tim's picture with the famous bull:
And we checked out lady liberty from a far:
All-in-all, it was a nice little trip to New York City and Citi Field.
|2011 C&S Fan Stats
|13/2 Games (Tim/Kellan)
|14/4 Teams [Tim – Mariners, Orioles, Rangers, Brewers, Nationals, Phillies, Mets, Rays, Braves, Diamondbacks, Astros, Royals, Cubs and Angels; Kellan – Mariners, Orioles, Angels and Mets]
|8 Ice Cream Helmet(s) (Orioles (2), Nationals, Phillies (2), Rangers (2), Mets (1))
|41 Baseballs (4 Mariners, 7 Rangers, 3 Orioles, 2 Umpire, 2 Nationals, 2 Brewers, 5 Phillies, 2 Mets, 1 Rays, 2 Braves, 2 Diamondbacks, 1 MLB Authenticator, 1 Easter Egg, 1 Glove
Trick, 2 Royals, 2 Cubs, 2 Angels)
|6/2 Stadiums [Tim – Camden
Yards, Nationals Park, Citizens Bank Park, Minute Maid Park, Rangers Ballpark
in Arlington, Citi Field; Kellan – Camden Yards, Citi Field]
|11/7 Player Photos* [Tim – Felix Hernandez, Adam Moore, Garrett Olson, Chris Seddon, David Aarsdma, Michael Pineda, Miguel Olivo, Ryan Langerhans, Greg Zuan, Mark Lowe, Michael Saunders; Kellan – Luke French, Milton Bradley, Franklin Gutierrez, Justin Smoak, Matt Tuiasosopo, Ryan Langerhans, Michael Saunders]
|3/1 Management Photos* [Tim – Howard Lincoln, Jack Zduriencik, Eric Wedge; Kellan – Jack Zduriencik]
|4 Autograph(s) (Michael Pineda, Michael Saunders, Mark Lowe, Felipe Paulino)
|1 Bat* (Milton Bradley)
|3/2 Mascot Photos* [Tim – Mariner Moose, Teddy Roosevelt, The O's Bird; Kellan – Mariner Moose, The O's Bird]
|1/0 Divisions Closed Out** [Tim – A.L. West (Safeco Field, Oakland Coliseum, Angel Stadium & Rangers Ballpark in Arlington); Kellan – N/A]
|1 Line-up Card (Royals vs. Rangers)
|*includes Spring Training**divisions where we have seen each team play a home game.