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Workers Saving Too Little for Retirement
Workers and employers in the U.S. are bracing for a retirement crisis, even as the stock market sits near highs and the economy shows signs of improvement. Kelly Greene reports. Photo: AP.
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I'm not ashamed – I liked Dragon Age 2 (plenty of spoilers)
The last couple of weeks have been crazy. I hung out at the Calgary Expo for one non-stop, action packed weekend (and got to meetup with the Calgary WoW crew – Vidyala, Voss, ChawaJen, Darthregis and Kelesti – some of which don't play WoW anymore but whom I still look forward all year to seeing. Wish I didn't live so far away.) Then I came home, worked a couple of 12 hour shifts then drove the 3 hours to the airport to catch a plane to visit my parents on the East Coast for a week.
Then when I came back, there was chaos. I swear I cannot come back from vacation in peace. Last time I was away, my then-coworker (and then-manager) spent two weeks trashing the store. I went straight to work from the airport to start cleaning up and making apology phone calls to customers.
This time. Well. The store was impeccable, but I landed into what felt like a CSI episode. (Actually, an almost identical case was apparently featured on CSI not long ago, but I don't watch the show.) I only needed to make a statement to the police (I don't know much about crime investigations, but from what I gather, I was some sort of witness.) but it was still shocking. In my line of work, you expect to see criminals. Mostly drug dealers. On a bad, bad day, you might face an armed robber. But a murder suspect? That threw me through the loop. My head spun for a few days. I live in a little happy bubble where murders happen only to people living risky lives in the drug or sex trade. Or on TV. (I was going to add "or to Americans" but according to rumours, the suspects and the victim are American. So maybe this stuff does just happen to our Southern neighbours.) Not among mainstream, non-drug, non-sex trading people.
Anyway, I turned to my favourite coping mechanism: escapism. The world in question: Thedas.
I started Dragon Age 2 months ago, but had only made it to Kirkwall before having to concentrate what little free time I have to WoW. But because we got somewhat of a break from the VP grind during 5.2 (and I refuse to do dailies because the horde on this server insist that I dedicate 90% of my dailies time to corpse runs), I figured that I might as well see for myself what all the hate is about.
And know what? I don't hate DA2 at all. In fact, I really enjoyed it. I can see how some people find it to be a let down after DA:O (though putting it in the same class as the ME3 ending is totally exaggerating… And now I'll get people saying that putting ME3's ending in the same class as DA2 is also exaggerating, ha!) but I confess (that's right, it's confession day in this corner of the internet), I wasn't a huge huge fan of DA:O.
Oh don't get me wrong! I loved the Origins story, I loved my companions (though they often left me on my hunger, I wanted more, more companion goodness!), I loved Ferelden. In time, I even came to love my Warden. But the gameplay, for an obsessive completionist like me, was tedious and exhausting. I beat the game after 100+ of gameplay and I'm still plagued by flashbacks of how much I skipped.
You have to understand, then, that DA2, in its strengths and, even, in its weaknesses, was so liberating for me.
I had an unusual problem with Hawke. It's a personal thing, a mere coincidence, not a fault of the game, but amusing enough to share.
See, I made my Hawke a long time ago. I just picked the default Lady Hawke because she looked better than anything I could design myself.
Then I didn't play for months.
In the meanwhile, I got a new coworker in real life.
When I went to play again, the horror dawned me…
My new coworker looks almost identical to Default Lady Hawke.
While I certainly like my coworker, it's extremely awkward to be reminded of her every time I look at my video game character. Plus, any of the adoration I usually shower my video game characters with would be uber creepy.
I was far enough along in the game to not want to start over so I bought the Black Emporium for the mirror of transformation. But giving Hawke a makeover was kind of annoying (for some reason, you can't modify specific traits on default Hawke, you have to pick another preset and work with that) so I gave up. My coworker went for a new hair cut and colour instead.
But otherwise, I was totally ok with Hawke. I played the Amell mage in Origins, so I was excited Hawke was her cousin (or second cousin or whatever, I'm not good with family titles). I liked how the game followed her life for 7 years (and I'm torn on how she doesn't age or put on 10 pounds or anything. /third-of-life crisis) and how she slowly becomes a local hero without following the tradition recipe of "THE WORLD IS ABOUT TO END AND ONLY I CAN SAVE IT!"
Her personality was interesting too, though I wonder if anyone ever plays their first Hawke as anything but sarcastic. I mean, you choices are: goody-goody (diplomatic), assface (aggressive) and entertaining. I think there were maybe a dozen times I picked something other than a joke? The best, though, is that the game kind of remembers your choices. While the mechanics setting Hawke's tone aren't secret, I sort of wonder if it's more complex then that. In situations where I couldn't bring myself to joke (usually around Hawke's mother) and picked goody-goody choices, the game seemed to understand and Hawke started acting goody-goody in those circumstances without input from me. Maybe it was just an illusion, but whatever, I liked it. It made me very happy that the game "got" my Hawke. It's always satisfying when you feel the game understands your characters.
The Combat
I'll have squishy tomatoes thrown at me for this, but in Origins, I really, really disliked the combat. You have no idea. I enjoy strategy as much as the next person, but every time I opened that tactics window, all I could think of is "I WANT STORY NOW DAMMIT!!!". In a short game, I'll break my head over strategy (I did play The Golems of Amgarrak on the hardest level – except for the last boss who forced me to give up after like 6 hours of wiping – and loved it), but in a game that takes me over 100 hours to beat? Please! Give me some challenge to pace the story, but don't have the normal mode make me cry.
Origin really only had like 10 spells too. They just each had 20 different names. Toward the end, I was getting very tired of sifting through my crowded spell bar, jammed packed with dozens of spells that all do the same thing.
So DA2's "dumbed down" combat was sweet, sweet relief.
I didn't open the tactics window at all!
My companions were a little stupid about standing in crap (seriously companion! I just moved you OUT of the purple, why are you running back into it?) but otherwise they took care of themselves pretty good. During fights, I'd often directly control Anders (I had him specced similarly to Hawke), I'd nudge Merrill and the rogues if I wanted them to do something specific and I ignored the warriors. I don't even understand the warriors. Even so, very few fights gave me any challenge on normal mode. AND I LIKED IT.
Maybe next time I'll scale up the difficulty for a more strategic game (and maybe learn how those confusing warriors work), but for a first time around, I was quite happy to not waste my time with pointlessly complicated combat.
And I was very happy with the spell/ability trees. Less toolbar invading, more passive abilities and upgrades. As it should be.
The Story
I'll be fair. The story didn't have the grandiose feel of Origins or Mass Effect. I admit that. But, surprisingly maybe, I liked it that way. After how tired I was after Origins, and how emotionally drained I was after Mass Effect, I'm okay with a game that lets me rest a little while giving me a story that I still care about.
It did seem to me that the writing wasn't where it could be. There were lots of occasions where I wished I could go deeper into a character's backstory, or a quest's circumstances, or even Kirkwall's existence. DA2's setting and structure would have been perfect for such indulgences. There were a few times too where I winced, feeling that the dialogue didn't quite fit. But "not where it could be" isn't bad. The dialogue, the characters, the story, the lore, Kirkwall, were still interesting and engaging (to me, at least). It hit the target, just not, you know, the bullseye.
Act III was a little weird. I know I lose some of the story when I play games or read books, but I had been following everything very well up until then. Then in Act III, I kept wondering "why are we fighting these guys again?", "why are these guys fighting each other?", "wait, did these guys just change their mind?". It does all make sense in the final battle (or almost), but still, "we're all fucked because our already over-ambitious leader has an ancient trinket that makes her make us hate everyone" seems like a cheap excuse for some of the things that happen.
Now don't get me wrong. I had a good laugh when I saw said trinket at the end. Someone who is really into figuring out plots would see it coming, but I was just going with the flow of the game and not overthinking (that's the key to enjoying DA2, I think, not overthinking), so I totally had an "ah ha" moment before the final battle. It tied Act I and III together in a believable way (after ME3's ending, "believable way" is something I've come to appreciate in stories), and let Act II serve as a distraction from what's really happening to Meredith.
It works for me.
As a side note though, I must say that the very end of Act II was a little…um… Isabela came back with the relic and one of my options was to let the Arishok take her and his book and just leave. Just leave. After massacring half the city and committing regicide (killing the city viscount counts as regicide, right?), I could just let him go? What? As forgiving as I may be sometimes in games, this seemed a little over the top.
Also, unresolved mystery – the multiplying mages. The game is pretty clear about magic being genetic, and most likely recessive (given their genetics work kind of like ours). And while I'm sure Circles have soap-opera-like atmospheres, I doubt reproduction is something most mages are keen on. Not to mention how many mages get killed by demons, templars and playable characters before having a chance to perpetuate their bloodline. So how the heck are there so many mages? Where do they all come from?
The Companions
My favorite introduction to a character ever, in any story I've escaped into, was Anders in Awakenings. I decided at that moment he was going to be Hawke's boyfriend when I got around to DA2.
He was a little hard to recognize (despite looking almost the same) in his second game, though. Such a shame. I do like my tormented guys in video games. (As a real life rescueholic, I've learned the hard way to stay away from lost little boys and save my attention for well-adjusted, terribly boring men, but, you know, all the more reason to indulge in messed up cute guys from make-belief worlds.) I like my tormented guys, but I hate losing my favorite characters. There were some hints of the old Anders (particularly when around Varric – those two play well off each other) but I would have preferred those hints to be more like… suggestions. Nothing too out line – I get it, he's got a Mr NoFun stuck inside him – but (note that it's been a long time since I've played Awakenings) it seemed to me that his original joking nature was a coping mechanism both to distract him from his loneliness and self loathing and to help him initiate quick, superficial but pleasant interactions with others. At the beginning of DA2, he's still lonely and self loathing, and seems like he would appreciate a quick, superficial but pleasant interaction, so his old coping mechanisms could have still been used. His down-spiral into panic and obsession would have probably been more obvious too, had his personality really changed throughout of the game, instead of just going from paranoid to more paranoid.
I enjoyed the romance (and could write many fanfictions about the crate scene, with Hawke standing behind him, her hand wrapped firmly around the hilt of her dagger), but the transition from "I can't do this" to "I've been waking up at night aching for you for three years" went waaay too fast for me. Was a tad creepy too. Is it just me? I mean, it's great he has the hots for Hawke, but does he have to be so…forthcoming? Going a liiiiitle bit slower and perhaps emphasizing more on those deliciously dramatic conflicting feelings he has around Hawke (and sounding less like a pervert) would have been more satisfying. I do hear Fenris puts up more of a chase. Hmm. That playthough will be a goody.
As a side note, before I played DA2 (or Origins, for that matter), I kept hearing how offended people (and by people, we probably mean "straight guys with ego problems") were by Anders' gay advances. I kind of scratch my head. Getting hit on by guys you aren't attracted to is something that happens, like, daily, in the real world when you're a girl. Are guy gamers really unable to put up with a fictional version of that happening to them? (I'm not a hardcore feminist by any stretch of the imagination, but sometimes I wonder how many guys would be able to survive an hour of a woman's life.) If the flirting itself is similar to the flirting (if you can call it that) in the actual romance, it's not the suavest move ever made by a character, but it's not the end of the world. (Also, while I was really amused by this comic, the complaints about getting Rivalty points if you reject Anders are silly. I pissed Merrill and Aveline off constantly and still reached 100% friendship with them long before the end of the game.)
Wait! I have other companions, right?
I really liked how connected to the story and to the world most of them (and by most of them, I mean Aveline, Isabela and Varric) were. While on a personal level, I didn't feel any connection to Aveline, I felt that having a companion in the city guard (who doesn't give up her job to follow Hawke the way companions do in other games I've played) did add a lot to Hawke's experience as a meddling resident of Kirkwall.
The ME2-style loyalty quests were excellent. I can see that formula getting really old really fast, but for two games, it's perfect. Fenris' and Merrill's in particular left me thinking "holy crap, that was awesome". The only complaint I can have about companion presence is that I want more. More. MORE MORE MORE MORE. I'm sure it's possible to have too many character-based cutscenes, but it would take a lot of cutscenes for that to happen. Especially if those cutscenes were relevant to plot. (Or better yet, there should be a DLC, kind of like Citadel but that doesn't unlock everything at once, that adds optional companion indulgence. I understand that not everyone is really into characters, but me, I would pay extra to have more juicy content.)
I also liked how the companions interacted with each other and would have enjoyed seeing more of that. I was very happy for Fenris and Isabela finding comfort in each other (though they deny anything deep). If not for Varric's ability to bring out the best in Anders during long walks, I probably would have ended up with an extra dead mage (I don't care that my Hawke loves him and that he's my best dps AND healer, I can only put up with so much complaining!).
There's something charming about watching how these characters you come to feel strongly (good or bad) about react to, or behave with other characters you feel strongly about. It's a side of the story that gets touched in Bioware games (my favorite memory of SW:TOR is fueling the fire as all my companions bitched about each other! And Mass Effect fans speak with delight on how they walked in on Tali and Garrus. Not that I would approve if that happened to me. Sexy Garrus belongs to MY SHEPARD.) but that could be used so much more. The concept of party banter is excellent, but in Dragon Age 2, it eventually broke down to various ways Anders rambles about mages and Fenris tells him to eff off. Or maybe that's just the game telling me I should stop using Anders and Fenris in my party for every quest.
As for not being able to customize your companions' gear, well, I was sad at first too. I'm obsessive when it comes to gearing my characters. I probably put more effort into that than into any other aspect of the game. In the end, though, it was a blessing. Even with just 5-6 customizable slots, I spent hours sorting out gear. Hours. I didn't even reach the required 50 gold by the end of Act I because I kept upgrading my characters' gear in shops. I think I had like 6 gold left or something. Adding shirts, hats, boots and gloves would have killed me!
So, I, for one, am totally ok with non-customizable gear for companions. It might be nice to change their appearance a little bit, but I'd rather that be done through cosmetic-only means because I don't think my sanity could handle more gear slots.
The World
So much hate on the small, recycled dungeons!
I can definitely empathize with that and recognize how it takes away from game epicness.
But, me, I'm not a fan of dungeons. So small dungeons were a plus, and I didn't mind the recycling. Recycling even made it faster for me to get through and out of dungeons, so it may have even been a good thing.
I was fine with the small world as well. I thought that having a story about a city and some of its residents was a refreshing change from the stale "hero has newbie zone, then journeys as far away as possible in search of a distant uber baddy". So I enjoyed going to these familiar places and have different things happen there. It's not for everyone, but it worked for me.
And onto Dragon Age 3: Inquisition
I think this may be the first time I'm genuinely excited about an unreleased game.
The bits of news sound really good so far. And it seems that not many Dragon Age fans agree with me, but I felt DA2 (and its ending) really set the stage for a fantastic tale in Inquisition. We have a flurry of dear former companions to weave the games together, we have a deep rooted, complex social issue that just exploded, there's hints of an exciting mysterious power behind our two favorite heroes disappearing and there has been a lot of observing of fan reactions on Bioware's part. How can this not be amazing?
If I compare Mass Effect to Dragon Age on a personal level, Mass Effect is much closer to my heart than Dragon Age. But what made the trilogy so wonderful to me is also what will probably ruin every future game set in that universe. The heart and soul of Mass Effect was Shepard and her relationship with her crew. The world without Shepard is pretty boring. The world before Shepard was kind of boring (humans had only recently taken a spot in the galaxy) and the world after Shepard is broken, not matter what you choose. It would take a miracle to pull off another earthshattering (to me) game in the Mass Effect universe.
But Dragon Age! Using a different main character for each story, exploring corners of the gigantic Thedas at a time, leaving threads hanging and stones unturned at the end of each game and having characters interesting and diverse enough to ensure cameos to make the world feel homey when starting a new chapter… The recipe gets you attached to the world rather than to just one character, a big, big world that could take 6, 8, 10 games before getting stale. I fully expect the game creators to give up before the possibilities run dry.
Hopefully, too, there was a purpose to ME3's ending breaking my heart and to the odd hate DA2 received: to make it clear that us story game fans like our stories. And our details. And our ethical dilemmas. And our characters. And our characters' companions. A lot.
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June 11, 2013 at 6:06 am
I haven't played DA2 yet so I can't really comment on it but this post had me overthinking mage genetics. I think, seeing how -as you put it- it's not that likely that mages will reproduce, the gene being recessive is actually a good thing, meaning carriers will still go on to have babies, allowing the mage allele to continue existing. Given enough people who are heterozygous, you'd still get a fair amount of mages.
Of course, then you run into the problem that, because the mm types aren't reproducing, the number of Mm's has a tendency to decrease over generations. You can explain that away by either saying that 'm' alleles are the product of an improbably common mutation, or conferring some sort of advantage to heterozygosity. In the first case, magic would make a very convenient mutagen. You can just attribute the specificity of the mutation to it being magic and also give magic the special ability of inhibiting the body's usual correction mechanisms. And magic's everywhere, anyway.
With the second case, you can imagine everyone being able to interact with magic, but most people having a mechanism in place that inhibits this ability. If you make the mage gene correspond to a protein that's part of that system, then the 'm' allele would be a mutation that makes the protein non-functional. If you assume that heterozygous people produce enough of the functional protein to mostly inhibit all interactions with magic, but not quite, then you can equate that little bit of magic they have access to with an increased chance of survival (by virtue of, I dunno, +10 blight resist, or whatever), and then you get an unlikely number of 'Mm's thanks to natural selection.
More probably, I think it's just a case of writers feeling like they have to make fantastic elements more scientific and adding a genetic component without quite thinking it through. Kind of like J.K Rowling. But that's not quite as fun to think about.
Aaand this turned out longer that I thought it would. I totally don't feel like a huge nerd now. <.<

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Tiger Woods, Phil Mickelson figure into 2014 storylines
- Focus will be on Tiger%27s play in the majors
- USA comes into Ryder Cup after 2012 meltdown
- Long list of players poised to win first major title
- Mickelson all in on U.S. Open
Storylines, like optimistic resolutions heading into the New Year, are abundant as the PGA Tour resumes its 2013-14 wraparound season Friday in the Hyundai Tournament of Champions in Maui, Hawaii.
While the calendar turned a year older, the Hyundai is actually the seventh tournament of the new season. Yet the page is turned to a new year and mystery will join the 30 players on the first tee in the Hyundai.
What will Tiger Woods do this year?
What will Phil Mickelson do next?
Is reigning FedExCup champion and Race to Dubai winner Henrik Stenson the best player in the world? Is reigning PGA Tour rookie of the year Jordan Spieth the next big thing?
Can the U.S. win the Ryder Cup for the first time since 2008?
And after three players won their first major championship in 2013, will another or two or three or even four first-timers join them in the fraternity of major champions in 2014?
"It's hard to predict golf," NBC lead golf analyst Johnny Miller said in a conference call promoting the Hyundai. "It was pretty easy to predict Tiger there for a while, but the rest of the guys on the PGA Tour are making it a little harder to predict."
Here are a few storylines to watch in 2014.
Tiger: The world's No. 1 regained his place on top of the world rankings with a five-win 2013 that included two more wins in World Golf Championships events and his second triumph in The Players Championship. Woods earned his 11th PGA Tour Player of the Year award and with 79 wins is just three shy of Sam Snead's all-time record for wins on the PGA Tour.
Following his last event in 2013 in December, Woods, who turned 38 on Dec. 24, said he was excited for 2014 as his body is strong and his new driver, with a heavier shaft, has him energized.
But when Woods starts his year on Jan. 23 as expected in the Farmers Insurance Open at Torrey Pines in San Diego, where he is the defending champion and has won eight times, the focal point will be on his play in the majors. It was at Torrey Pines in the 2008 U.S. Open where he won his 14th and last major. Since, he's finished in the top-10 in nine of 18 majors and remains four behind Jack Nicklaus' all-time record.
"It's almost a second career he's going after," Miller said. " … It's getting much harder for Tiger, because guys are not milking on him so he's got a double whammy in that he's not able to close as well as he used to, and then the guys are more heroic against him like they never were before.
" … Guys are just saying, yeah, you're Tiger Woods and you're the greatest ever, but now at your age, I can beat you."
At the year's first major, Woods has 13 top-10s in 17 starts in the Masters, including four wins in his first nine starts. But he hasn't won since 2005.
"What he does at Augusta is really important," Miller said. "If he were to win at Augusta, I'd almost bet you he'd win another major this year. But if he doesn't win at Augusta, I think the odds of him winning another one are not that great. I wouldn't bet against him, but he's just a different player than he was when he was younger, even though he won five times last year.
"In the majors he seems to be a little bit prone to getting nervous. You never would say that about Tiger, but he wants it so badly, he has that desire and dream when he was young, and he looked like he was a shoo-in because he would get 18, 19, 20 majors, and now after five years, he's like, dang, those are hard to get. … It's a great story line for golf, especially if he were to get close to Jack's record; even if he doesn't get it, it just makes the ratings go crazy, if he were to get to 17 or something."
Ryder Cup: With its win in the Miracle at Medinah in 2012 – or was it the Meltdown at Medinah? – Europe has won five of the last six biennial tussles with the U.S. Tom Watson will captain the U.S. for a second time (he led the U.S. to victory in 1993) at Gleneagles in Scotland in late September.
"The U.S. just hasn't been able to finish off matches, especially near the end of the Ryder Cup, and that was the killer last time," Miller said. "The Ryder Cup has been great theater, and it's for the good of the Ryder Cup.
" … I think the U.S. needs to win."
But the U.S. hasn't won on foreign soil since 1993 – with Captain Watson.
"I think it always is a different year when it's a Ryder Cup year for the players," NBC/Golf Channel analyst Mark Rolfing said. "To me one of the interesting things is how the European players have to juggle their schedule as they get closer and closer to the Ryder Cup, and if they're not on that team and haven't made enough points, the question is going to be where do they play to get enough points, and we all know how jammed up the schedule is getting in the summertime. So there's going to be a lot of decision making for the European players that are on the bubble.
"I think this is a huge Ryder Cup for the U.S., and it's going to be a tough one. The conditions are going to be difficult over there in Scotland as you know, but somehow they have got to figure out how to finish off the Ryder Cup."
The majors: Adam Scott (Masters), Justin Rose (U.S. Open) and Jason Dufner (PGA Championship) won their first majors in 2013, and Phil Mickelson won his first British Open. As the best professionals head to Augusta National for the Masters, Pinehurst No. 2 for the U.S. Open, Royal Liverpool for the British Open and Valhalla for the PGA Championship, who is best in line to win their first major championship?
The list to choose from is extensive, speaking to the depth of talent in men's golf. None of the following have won a major – Henrik Stenson, Matt Kuchar, Dustin Johnson, Lee Westwood, Sergio Garcia, Ian Poulter, Luke Donald, Brandt Snedeker, Steve Stricker, Jason Day, Hunter Mahan, and Bill Haas.
"There's a lot of talk of Matt Kuchar," said Golf Channel analyst Frank Nobilo. "A lot of people are looking for outsiders. I think the first-time winners … they're not going to be fluke winners, because of the venues and the quality of the top 20. You're looking at perhaps Mahan, Dustin Johnson or Matt Kuchar who stand out more than Westwood or Luke Donald, who slightly sort of went off the block."
"I'm going to go with Kuchar," Rolfing said. "But I also have a hunch about Jason Day, and he gets so overlooked in these majors prior to them. You take a look at how close he has come, and then when they're over and he does so well, everybody goes, well, I told you so, but nobody really did say beforehand that Jason Day was one of the favorites in any of those majors. I think there's a really good chance you could see Jason Day one win."
Miller said the Masters will be big for Woods, who is looking to win his first major since 2008.
"If he doesn't win the Masters, I think it gives a great big uh-oh because that course is so perfect for his game. I'll leave it at that," Miller said. "But if he wants to get off on the right foot, I think he needs to get off at the Masters.
"As far as Jordan Spieth, I think he's got the kind of game that could win, maybe not at Augusta, but his game is so balanced. I think sort of a dark horse could be Billy Horschel. You look at his stats, they're really, really good. He's got a beautiful swing. He's got a little bit of a temper problem, but I think he's a guy to really look towards as a guy that could definitely win."
Phil and the Slam: One of the lasting images of 2013 was Mickelson's magical final-round 66 to win the British Open, leaving him just a U.S. Open victory from joining Woods, Nicklaus, Ben Hogan, Gene Sarazen and Gary Player as the only players to win all four majors for the career Grand Slam.
Mickelson has a record six runner-up finishes in the U.S. Open, including last year at Merion. He also finished runner-up in the 1999 U.S. Open at this year's host, Pinehurst No. 2, but tied for 33rd in 2005 at Pinehurst No. 2. Lefty has said he will alter his playing schedule in hopes of peaking at the Open.
"I'm a little concerned that he is putting so much emphasis on that U.S. Open," Rolfing said. "He has said publicly that his schedule, his preparation and everything else is going to be geared toward winning the U.S. Open this year. I think that's going to put a lot of pressure on Phil when he gets down there to Pinehurst and actually leading up the first six months of the year."


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I'v been reading and experimenting with recursion for the past few weeks and I was wondering about the Mergesort algorithm performance ( yes I know it's nlog(n)). My question is can the Mergesort method be run on two sub arrays of a main array at the same time with multi threading to increase performance for large data sets (say 1 million doubles)?
Meaning, say you have a int[100] you can split it to two as in int [1 to 50] int [51 to 100]. Can you run a thread for sorting the first array and another thread for sorting the second array and then once each sub array is sorted combine them.
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// The "MergeSort" class. // This class implements a recursive merge sort. import java.util.*; <sniped for clarity> public static void merge (int[] a, int first, int middle, int last) { // List going from first to middle is sorted. // List going from middle + 1 to last is sorted. int temp[] = new int[last + 1]; // Index of the front of the first sorted list. int firstListPos = first; // Index of the front of the second sorted list. int secondListPos = middle + 1; // Index of the front of the result array. int resultListPos = first; while (resultListPos <= last) { if ((firstListPos < middle + 1) && ((secondListPos > last) || (a[firstListPos] < a[secondListPos]))) { temp [resultListPos] = a[firstListPos]; firstListPos++; } else { temp[resultListPos] = a[secondListPos]; secondListPos++; } resultListPos++; } // while // Copy merged array back to original place. for (int i = first ; i <= last ; i++) { a[i] = temp[i]; } // for } // merge method // Recursive method that uses itself and the merge method // to sort. public static void mergeSort (int[] a, int first, int last) { // If there is only one element (first == last), // then the list is already sorted. if (last > first) { int middle = (first + last) / 2; // Sort the first half. mergeSort (a, first, middle); // Sort the second half. mergeSort (a, middle + 1, last); // Merge the two halves. merge (a, first, middle, last); } // if } // mergeSort method } // MergeSort class
Side note: Can some one tell me when and where it would make sense to run multi threading? I am interested in learning this as I have a i7 920 @4Ghz and VERY FEW apps are multithreaded to take advantage of this power.


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Mini-replica eggs and a children's book about the hunt will be sold at Saks Fifth Avenue, pop-up locations around the city and online.
London hosted a Big Egg Hunt in 2012, while Glasgow, Liverpool, Manchester and Dublin hosted them in 2013.
The original Fabergé eggs were ornate bejeweled egg-shaped works of art made for the families of Russian czars in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Many of the Fabergé eggs, about the size of a real egg, opened up to reveal elaborate tiny treasures inside. Some are now displayed by museums around the world.
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Our 10th Anniversary is a week away. I'd hoped to have this quilt done to give to Hubby as a present but damn that baby getting in the way!
30 March, 2012
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Our 10th Anniversary is a week away. I'd hoped to have this quilt done to give to Hubby as a present but damn that baby getting in the way!
27 comments:
- Samantha said...
I once took an unfinished quilt to a baby shower, presented it during present opening time, and then took it home with me to finish!
- March 30, 2012 at 10:56 AM
- Flaun of I Plead Quilty! said...
I gave my sweetie the same quilt for Christmas two years in a row. The first year was just the top and the second was the finished quilt. It was a monster!
- March 30, 2012 at 11:01 AM
- Jackie Russell said...
I have never given an unfinshed quilt but I know many do. I think DH will understand if you wrap the top up with a note that the quilt will be completed in the near future.
- March 30, 2012 at 11:03 AM
I have given an unfinished quilt twice - both times I had finished the top but not quilted it. Once was a baby shower and once was a Christmas gift. I liked having "something" to give even if it wasn't quite finished.
Congratulations on your beautiful son.
- March 30, 2012 at 11:35 AM
- Live a Colorful Life said...
I have been known to wrap up the quilt top, then take it home with me to finish.
- March 30, 2012 at 11:37 AM
- Lilac Barries said...
I gave a wall hanging basted to my mother-in-law for christmas one year. She's a quilter, so she totally understood. I do know though she's given quilt tops unfinished herself. with a quilt, it's always the thought that counts, not the the timeline
- March 30, 2012 at 11:38 AM
- Esch House Quilts said...
I definitely think you could give him the quilt top with a promise that it will be the first thing finished in your new sewing room :)
- March 30, 2012 at 11:49 AM
- Lisa said...
I have given a quilt top as a gift and taken back to finish. It puts a bit more pressure on you to get it done because they ave seen it half finished and you don't want to look like a slacker!! But I don't think your husband would think you are a slacker! All things considered, I would expect he thinks you are a goddess.
- March 30, 2012 at 12:03 PM
- Leanne said...
Of course you should give it to him unfinished and then he can help you with the finishing or at least help to get you bits of time to work on it. I am sure he will be happy to see how much you have done, given that you were pregnant and all.
- March 30, 2012 at 1:00 PM
- Susan J Barker said...
Everyone is different, but for myself I could never present a part done quilt -- the idea of a promise some time in the future that I might not be able to fulfill is what keeps me from giving unfinished quilts... PLUS a cousin gave me an unfinished quilt for my wedding, and 40 years later the fabric and pieces still sit on a shelf in her sewing room! now, who wants avocado green, gold and brown in a quilt? not me!!
- March 30, 2012 at 1:05 PM
- Allison said...
no, I've never given a partly finished quilt as a gift. But I really don't think your hubby would mind, would he? And then you can get some help with the basting :) {or at least help keeping the kids occupied while you baste}
One year my mother knit a sweater for me for Christmas. when I lifted it out of the box, the sleeves fell off! It was knit, but not sewn together. She had folded it so perfectly that I couldn't tell until I picked it up :) Now, it is a fun memory of my childhood. (she did finish it right after Christmas)
- March 30, 2012 at 1:53 PM
I wouldn't worry a tad: I have even presented uncut fabric as a gift... pretty far removed from a finish! Low expectations make for an even nicer surprise in the end, surely? But I did finish the quilt eventually, several months later. Heck, you've just had a baby, so do be kind on yourself! Enjoy the process, even if it draaaaags on a little: those first days and weeks with a little babe are so magic.
- March 30, 2012 at 2:57 PM
- Lisa Lisa said...
I gave my teenage son an unfinished quilt for Christmas one year. It was my first real quilt. I gave him the finished blocks in a gift box. He loved it. Or at least did a good job of pretending. :) I had it finished for Valentines Day. Happy Anniversary!
- March 30, 2012 at 7:05 PM
- Debbie said...
I almost gave the fabric to a friend for her baby shower- but she was put on bed rest so the shower was cancelled. That gave me the time needed to finish.
- March 30, 2012 at 8:44 PM
- Suzanne said...
I haven't given a quilt unfinished. I just give it late. I figure that when it arrives finished, the surprise factor adds to the overall gift.
- March 31, 2012 at 6:35 AM
- Josie McRazie said...
I have never given an unfinished quilt, but I did one time give an IOU name/date shoes at a baby shower... My Daughter and I BOTH have them and since the shower was prior to the baby being born I had no clue what to have put on them! What you have never heard of them!! Go here and they have been around since I was a tot! http://www.babyshoe.com/category_s/1.htm WAY CUTE!!!
- March 31, 2012 at 7:32 AM
- SeamedUP said...
I once gave my mother a sandwiched quilt and said it was 'two gifts in one - a project AND a quilt'! {She is a quilter though and loved it!}
- March 31, 2012 at 8:06 AM
- Christina Lane | The Sometimes Crafter said...
Yup! I've given an unfinished quilt for a gift. I just add that I need it back to finish up. :)
- March 31, 2012 at 10:30 AM
- brown robin said...
Oh sure! I've given just the squares before they were an entire quilt top... it's all about the love and intention. Just soak up this time with your sweet little one whenever you can and give that man what you've got of a quilt. Geez... ask me for an opinion and I give it.
- March 31, 2012 at 2:51 PM
- Living in the Bay said...
I've given one quilt unfinished and was really glad to have the motivation of "guilt if it doesn't get done" to push me to finish it.
- March 31, 2012 at 3:29 PM
- Jennifer said...
yes, i've given unfinished quilts. that way, the top can be a suprise, and then you have the (not secret anymore) time to work on it, plus the (guilt) motivation. works for me! and you too!
- March 31, 2012 at 6:31 PM
- Karen said...
Quilters are not the best at being timely. I have tried to be prompt about competion of my quilt gifts.
Once in a while things come up that do not work with our wishes and desires.
In those cases I present the quilt top to the person, and provide a modified regifting date. I was lucky to have that adjustment well received.
I am sure your husband will understand that your family comes before the completion of the quilt.
- March 31, 2012 at 6:36 PM
- Cynthia said...
Yes, I've given a baby quilt or two not completed and reclaimed them to finish.
On an unrelated note:
I finally got your book in the mail and I've thumbed through and read some! So fun. Loved seeing your grass quilt in the book. I adore the quilting on the quilt. Now I just have to finish a million projects (well just one king size quilt, a baby quilt and a twin quilt) before I can start something new and maybe I should find my sewing table again too!
Anyway, congratulations on the book and a sweet baby. Ooh, and I just downloaded the podcast to listen to while I'm sewing:)
- March 31, 2012 at 8:26 PM
I have thought of giving an unfinished quilt, but I can't do it. I would rather give it late finished then just the top. Kimberly
- March 31, 2012 at 10:49 PM
- KateKwiltz said...
Totally! I gave my cousin her 50th birthday present, made sure it fit on her bed, then took it back home. With family, you can get away with it! :)
- April 3, 2012 at 1:54 PM
- erica said...
Me too, Samantha!! I wrapped the nearly-finished quilt and took it to the baby shower and then took it back from her so I could finish it. I only had half the binding sewn on and there were binding clips around the unfinished parts. She had a great sense of humor so it all worked out!
- April 3, 2012 at 10:05 PM
- Unknown said...
I know you've already decided to give it to him...I haven't given an unfinished quilt but I did wrap up a big stack of fabric as a gift and say that I'd making something for them!
Glad he's around more.
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Coach Bartman has served as the head baseball coach at MacMurray College in Jacksonville, Ill., for the past two years. He inherited a program with four returning players and a 3-30 record the previous year. Bartman went on to lead the Highlanders to the best two year stretch in over a decade. He increased roster size, lowered pitching staff ERA, and increased playing field safety and aesthetics. Bartman also created youth camps, performed community service and hosted alumni events for baseball players.
"I am very excited to begin my time as the Head Baseball Coach at Bethany College," says Bartman. "There are many positive aspects about Bethany that drew me to Lindsborg including the fine academic reputation, beautiful campus, and chance to work with Dean of Athletics Dane Pavlovich once again. After being on campus and meeting some of those who are working to move Bethany forward and shared a positive vision for the college, I was hooked. I look forward to building on the recent success of the baseball program while instilling some new ideas that will hopefully move the Swedes to the front of the KCAC as well as the nation."
Before coaching at MacMurray College, Bartman was the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator at Lincoln College in Lincoln, Ill. He successfully recruited 14 new players to the team in the first year. His first recruiting class as freshman set program firsts of receiving national poll votes, best start in conference through 12 games, best overall start through 15 games and highest conference finish in 15 years. Bartman played baseball for Lincoln College as a catcher and first baseman and earned his associate of arts degree in May 2003.
Prior to Lincoln College, Bartman was the pitching coach and recruiting coordinator at Wabash Valley College in Mt. Carmel, Ill., for three years. While at Wabash Valley, Bartman had the opportunity to recruit and coach over a dozen players that signed professional contracts, including current St. Louis Cardinals reliever Keith Butler. He created throwing schedules, created and implemented conditioning programs, called pitches, implemented training aids, and was responsible for daily motivation to achieve goals. In addition, he was the assistant dorm director and intramural director. He organized all aspects of the annual golf outing, managed all camp activities, coordinated recruiting efforts and maintained the team website.
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Bartman earned his bachelor's degree in physical education from MacMurray College and his Master of Science degree in sports management from American Public University.
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Perhaps the better question might be: "What really weird thing does your family do for Christmas?" Something that's just plain odd.
We have a "vagrant" joining us for Christmas Eve for our personal Christmas. My
husband life-partner Bruce, was against the "invasion", jealously wishing we could be by ourselves. Jim, our good friend, is all alone this year with his 'Rents in Florida and his siblings in Michigan. His usual haunt is to be with another group of friends who throw a huge dinner party (it's all very gay of course) . There's usually about six courses in the entire meal and Jim's tired of all that.
"It's boring!" he whines. "I only know two people and that's it! I don't want to hang around with people I don't even know. I end up sitting by myself working on how many knuckles I can fit up my nose with one finger! And besides, the last three years they've had str8 people there. It's ridiculous! Who wants to chat with some str8 girl and listen to her talking about her fucking kids and how well soccer practice went last Thursday."
husband life-partner and I just listen with polite smiles on our face. Until this year, Jim went on his own micro-sized war on Christmas by declaring that he wasn't going to this party anymore.
"Screw it!" he said sometime last month over beer at Dan Kellys in downtown Minneapolis. "I'm not going this year and I told them. I'm just over it…"
But over the course of time, he started hinting that we should invite him to join the two of us.
"What are you two doing?!" He'd say.
"Well" I said. "Like always, I'm home alone on Christmas Eve because my family are all insane. Bruce goes with his family and I don't go to that. On Christmas Day, we have our private Christmas time typically in the morning and then we split up and go to our families and have Christmas with them."
"I'm not exactly interested this year, either." I went on. "I'd like to beat the crap out of my jerk-wad of a brother and the only reason I go is for the sake of my 'Rents."
Jim gets this pleading look in his eye and mutters. "Well…I'm not doing anything." and begins peeling off the label on his beer bottle.
Bruce and and I both felt a little bad for him. Jim has battled cancer for over a year now and his radiation therapy has made him a little bit depressed lately. (He's winning, by the way! He has to take these x-rays every so many months, but by in large…he's winning!) On the other hand, it's really his own thing to simply hang out at the dinner party he's always attended. I mean, sometimes str8 people can be rather annoying. But, what he's doing certainly won't solve much.
Overtime, Bruce finally breaks down and says; "I suppose we should have Jim over for our Christmas this year. I mean…well. I guess we should." Bruce is sweet in that way. Unfortunately for all of you, he's
married partnered and I'm horribly selfish.
Coincidentally, Jim calls the next day and wants to meet at TGI Friday's over here on I-394 in Golden Valley. My mind when into over-drive thinking: "From Jim's point of view… how weird can we be for a definition of a Christmas tradition?"
He wouldn't know…what exactly what he's getting into, you know? It's the old adage: "Be careful what you wish for…you might just get it." We could do freaky stuff like swing from the chandelier in our skivvies with lemon-wedges under our lips. How could he anticipate that?
Bruce swung by and picked me up and we headed on over to TGI Fridays. This mental image forming in my brain…
Arriving, we take off our coats and hats and settle into the booth where Jim was already seated. A half-empty beer bottle with some of the label peeled off in front of him. He even smelled lonely.
Bruce went first by saying:
"Well, we talked about it and we've decided that we'd love it if you'd join us for our personal Christmas on Christmas Eve."
Jim lit up like a giant sized Christmas tree trimmed by RuPaul. He beamed, literally. He had that look you'd imagine Lindsey Lohan would have when she drunkenly stumbles into a mirror, a straw and a 36″ line of cocaine.
I took my chance…
Ya know Jim. Everybody has their traditions around the Holiday Season. Bruce and I aren't any different. And since you'll be joining us this year, you might like to know what we do.
You see, every Christmas, when we're ready to open presents, both of us take off all of our clothes and get completely naked. Bruce here, has his special Christmas sock-puppet. And he puts it on his penis and he tells me a Christmas story with…the puppet! And you know, every year, I never guess the ending..it's always a surprise!
And then I climbed up on the table and leer over onto his side and stare at his crotch real quick and then look at him in the eye with a very weird look look of anticipation on my face and said;
We're really looking forward to havin' you join us this year, Buddy…
Jim's in hysterics and says: "Oh my…Well! One can only imagine the fun you two have on New Years!"
There'll be a crock-pot full of apple cider with a few sticks of cinnamon on the buffet-table. I'll have deviled eggs mixed with bacon and shredded cheese in the filling. There'll be about nine very nice wedges of some fine cheeses. Loads of wine chilled out on the three-season porch and a six-pack of beer can be found in the snowbank outside the back door. Everywhere you look will be platters of home made cookies, candies and pumpkin muffins.
I'm making colossall shrimp scampi and red bell pepper over linguine and Schezuan green beans with toasted sesame seeds. Even the plates will look like Christmas wreaths and those little seeds will look like snowflakes! The house will smell of the cider and I'm making a garlic French baguette. (It'll be very gay you understand.)
Streisand, Sinatra and Nat King Cole will be armed with their greatest Christmas cuts, digitally aimed at our ears. And we'll have enough candles lit to land large passenger aircraft in-bound from the North Pole.
Desert is a simple ice-cream Yule log (just to make sure the Pagans won't hate us too) and we'll slurp on a couple of Nutty Irishmen for a nightcap before we head to Candle Light Services at Westminster at 10:00PM.
If you're in the neighborhood, stop on by! We'd love to see you naked!
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Are you ready to shop till you drop? Or, more specifically, till the figures in your bank account drop? Cyber Monday, falling on 30th November this year, is going to tempt you to spend every single dollar of your savings on Canadian Goose products because of the amazing deals that are coming your way. From Amazon to Ebay to various other websites, there are going to be jaw-dropping sales and discounts on Canadian Goose products.
So up your caffeine intake on Sunday night, charge your laptop and sit tight throughout the night because you're going to do a lot of shopping on the top websites we are going to tell you about!
Amazon.com is one of those websites that offers the best cyber Monday deals. So it's obvious that it's going to give you one of the best offers on Canada Goose Products as well! Since every Canada Goose product is designed with purpose and informed by the rugged demands of the Arctic, the sales on their products are not t o be missed at any costs. Here are some examples of some of the deals you will be getting on Monday:
- Select sales on Canada Goose Men's Expedition Parka (starting from $699)
- Select sales on Canada Goose Women's Trillium Parka (starting from $670)
- Select sales on Canada Goose Men's Burnett Parka (starting from $650)
These, and many more deals will be available on Amazon so be sure to grab these deals as soon as you can to make the best of your Cyber Monday. In addition to that, new deals will be added on the website almost every 5 minutes so stay connected to check if any new Canada Goose deals are added!
- Backcountry.com
Backcountry.com is yet another website offering one of the best cyber Monday deals. Backcountry offers outdoor gear and clothing for people who love adventure. Canada Goose is one of the most purchased and featured brands on Backcountry. Some of the deals include
- Women's Shelburne Down Parka for $774.95
- Men's Langford Down Parka for $824.95
- Women's Mystique Down Parka for $844.95
- Men's Chilliwack Bomber Down Parka for $644.95
Backcountry.com has one of the largest range of Canada Goose products so be sure to keep up with their Cyber Monday sale to catch some exciting deals and stock up your Canada Goose winter wear to combat against the cold.
Like every year, this year Ebay.com once again has some amazing deals lined up for you on Cyber Monday and throughout the following week. Ebay is helping consumers stay under budget and at the same time enabling them to buy some awesome Canada Goose products. Here are some items which will be on sale in this jaw-dropping sale:
- Ladies Chilliwack Bomber for $450
- Women Camp Hooded Down Jacket for $480
- Men's Selkirk Parka with Detachable Hood for $599
While there are various brands you can shop for on Ebay, the one brand that is not be missed in this spectacular sale is hands down Canada Goose. So don't be late and make your purchases on time.
- Moosejaw.com
Moosejaw is kicking off its huge list of sale deals on Canada Goose products and everyone is excited! They even offer free shipping on orders that are above $45.
Some of the best deals on the website include:
- Women's Hybridge Lite Jacket for $345.99 instead of $495
- Men's Hybridge Lite Hoody for $466.99 instead of $549.95
- Women's Hybridge Lite Hoody for $422.99 instead of $550
- Women's Timber Shell Hoody for $470.99 instead of $675
- Men'd Canyon Shell Jacket for $445.99 instead of $594.95
These, and countless other deals will be up for Cyber Monday so be sure to check them out!
- Nordstrom.com
Nordstrom has also improved its deals over the course of the past few years, and has got some jumbo deals for all you shoppers on Canada Goose products this Monday. Let's just get straight into some of the deals Nordstrom is offering to its customers on this Cyber Monday:
- 45% off on Kensington Slim Fit Down Parka with Genuine Coyote Fur Trim
- 46% off on Hybridge Lite Slim Fit Hooded Coat
- 43% off on Coastal Slim Fit Waterproof Hooded Shell
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Conservation and Environment in Mexico: Monthly Updates
Conservation in Mexico - Monthly Update November/December 2011
Coming to the end of 2011
With over 2050 nests collected in 2011, we are proud to say that the aims for this year regarding our turtle conservation program have been achieved. Despite the unpredictable weather that occurred in the latter part of the year, and thanks to the hard work of our volunteers, our efforts to help protect these wonderful creatures have really paid off. The project was also lucky to receive assistance from the Government in the form of providing local residents with temporary jobs to help with nest collection on the northern beach during the high season of turtle nesting.
Once again it's been demonstrated that the amount of resources you have to support the conservation (staff, equipment etc.) is directly reflected in your results regarding nest collection. This year we gladly welcomed the addition of a new Government funded quad bike that was strong enough to patrol the south side of the beach, notorious for its irregular terrain. These factors that may seem small create a real difference in the results that can be achieved.
Hurricane Jova
Not often do we get surprised by the Mexican weather, but this autumn was an exception. Hurricane Jova hit the Mexican coastline in October. It had formed very quickly out at sea and very suddenly reached category 3 status on the saffir- simpson scale. With sustained winds of 185 km/h, the hurricane hit the pacific shores approximately 120km north of the turtle camp. Although the camp escaped a direct hit from Jova, the effects were felt all along the Mexican coast, including Tecoman. As a safety precaution we evacuated the camp before the hurricane was due to make landfall. Volunteers and staff checked into a hotel in Tecoman, where we stayed for a couple of days.
Luckily the camp structures were not affected, but the areas surrounding camp suffered considerably as the rains continued for several days. Flooding ensued, cutting off roads and bringing down constructions. Both the nearby lagoons opened up to the sea, seriously restricting the turtle patrols for a couple of weeks.
The reconstruction work earlier this year really paid off, as the facilities could stand against the strong winds and battering waves. The maintenance work our volunteers have done proved to be worthy. It may not be the most glamorous of jobs, but it stood up against the force of Hurricane Jova which proves how essential it is to maintain the facilities. Without the camp, the turtle population would suffer, so we are truly grateful for the effort.
Crocodile Farm.
In the aftermath of Hurricane Jova, the crocodile farm suffered its worst flooding in over 10 years.
As a result of this, the pools that house the crocodiles overflowed, allowing the crocodiles to escape to the adjacent lagoon that holds a population of over 250 wild or semi-tame crocodiles. 45 crocodiles managed to escape into the lagoon.
This put them in real danger as crocodiles that have been born and raised in captivity are not able to hunt for they own food. Wild crocodiles are also very territorial and will fight any new arrivals who may be threatening their turf. In response to this we started to take on extra night monitoring in order to capture as many of the loose specimens as we could before the mating season starts, as this is when the crocodiles get particularly territorial.


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Would love to try these on my HD600's.
The Morrow Audio High-end Headphone Cable with SSI Technology Sweepstakes
According to the company:
The MH1 headphone cable consists of multiple runs of solid core, small gauge, silver coated copper wire (renowned SSI Technology) which is then silver soldered to the termination of choice. Silver coated copper wire was chosen for the excellent balance of sound that it provides. The cable has an attractive appearance and possesses excellent RFI and noise rejection. The cable is flexible and easy to manage. Cables length is the same price up to 1 meter. Length, style, termination and break-in service can be selected on the website. A split "Y" headphone cable version is available in the shopping cart for headphones that have separate cables going into the left and right head speakers. The separation occurs 15 inches down from the headphones where it becomes one cable to continue to the amplifier end. As you move up the line we introduce more runs of SSI Technology-based wire within the cable structure. This provides greater and greater resolution, realism and musicality. The standard headphone cable consist of a single cable from amplifier to headphones. Cable colors available are white or black and soon in bright neon varieties of choice.
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These would go great with my collection!
do I need to edit my music and cut all the positive parts of the sine waves to make sure the music flows into the cable only in the proper "signal direction"?
It would be interesting to compare this new cable with my more expensive Norne cables.
i hope win one of this days
Got a new pair of HD650s that asked me if they could try one of these cables out. You wouldn't want to hurt their feelings would you?
I've always wanted to try aftermarket cables! Good luck everyone!
My Focal Spirit Pros and my AKG-271 MK2s have removable cables. The Focals had a stereo mini plug on the headphone end, but the moulded connector diameter cannot be over .250" as it fits up inside the left earcup, which makes a replacement hard to find. The AKGs have the lockable, mini mic connector. The upgrading never ends no matter what I buy.
I would be thrilled to hear how much better these cables sound!
I need an excuse to by new headphones. Winning this cable is just that excuse.
Would love an XLR-4 terminated cable for my HD 800s
Would love these on my HD800
Pricing is very reasonable for the quality provided.
Wouldn't mind pairing these with my HD650.
so you can prove me wrong :)
I've been thinking to DIY some recently. This would allow me to take the lazy route.
The hype* train never ends
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While I wouldn't anticipate hearing any difference, there's never any harm in having an extra cable. Pick me!
I'll prep my headphones for my winnings :).
would work well with my HD 650s
It'd be cool to try these out, I have lotsa headphones I'd be interested in these in,
Like my lcd 3, hd 800, Q701, Hd650 etc. i need something more durable for my Audeze's and
my Hd 650. Hope You pick someone lucky & deserving
(by someone i mean me :)
A quality cable is hard to find at a low price. So a free one is hard to resist!
I can always use a new headphone cable. Please select my entry.
I have 3 different cans to use it with.
Would love to hear the difference these would make vs my stock cables.
would love to compare this to my 10+ year old Grado headphone extension cable
Carefully crafted cables capably complete celestial ccccounds!
Nicely constructed cables and I heard great comments about this company's other products.
Have always wanted to give an aftermarket cable a go.


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Cross border credit transfers within the EU04 December 2009
by Ina Dimireva -- last modified 04 December 2009
This Directive establishes minimum information and performance requirements for cross-border credit transfers so as to ensure that funds can be transferred throughout the European Union (EU) rapidly, reliably and inexpensively.
European Parliament and Council Directive 97/5/EC of 27 January 1997 on cross-border credit transfers [Official Journal L 43 of 14.02.1997].
The Directive deals with cross-border credit transfers. Legislation in this field has recently been strengthened by Regulation 2560/2001 on cross-border payments, that is, cross-border transfers, cross-border electronic payment transactions and cross-border cheques.
Directive 97/5/EC applies to transfers of up to 50 000 euros effected in the currencies of the Member States and in euros. The Directive defines a "cross-border credit transfer" as a transaction carried out on the initiative of an originator via an institution in one Member State, with a view to making funds available to a beneficiary at an institution in another Member State.
Transparency of cross-border credit transfers
Institutions must provide their customers with the following information on the arrangements for cross-border credit transfers:
- the time needed for the funds to be credited to the account of the beneficiary's institution;
- the time needed for the funds credited to the account of the institution to be credited to the beneficiary's account;
- the method used to calculate any commission fees and charges payable by the customer to the institution;
- the value date applied by the institution;
- details of complaint and redress procedures;
- the reference exchange rates used.
Institutions must provide the following information once a cross-border credit transfer has been effected or received:
- a reference enabling the customer to identify the transfer;
- the original amount of the transfer;
- the amount of any commission fees and charges payable by the customer;
- the value date applied by the institution.
If the originator has specified that the transfer charges are to be borne by the beneficiary, the latter must be informed of this by his own institution.
Minimum obligations on institutions
In cases of cross-border credit transfers with stated specifications, the institution must, at the customer's request, give an undertaking concerning:
- the time needed for the transfer to be effected;
- the commission fees and charges payable.
The originator's institution must effect the transfer within the time limit agreed with him. If the agreed time limit is not complied with, or in the absence of any such time limit, and if, at the end of the fifth bank business day following the date of acceptance of the transfer order, the funds have not been credited to the account of the beneficiary's institution, the originator's institution must provide the originator with compensation.
The beneficiary's institution must make the funds transferred available to the beneficiary within the time limit agreed with him. If the agreed time limit is not complied with, or in the absence of any such time limit, and if, at the end of the bank business day following the day on which the funds were credited to the account of the beneficiary's institution, they have still not been credited to the beneficiary's account, the beneficiary's institution must provide him with compensation.
No compensation is payable if the originator's institution can establish that the delay is attributable to the originator. The same applies if the beneficiary's institution can establish that the delay is attributable to the beneficiary.
The originator's institution, any intermediary institution and the beneficiary's institution are obliged, after the date of acceptance of the transfer order, to effect the transfer for the full amount, unless the originator has specified that the costs are to be borne by the beneficiary.
If the originator's institution or an intermediary institution has made a deduction from the amount of the transfer, the originator's institution must, at his request, credit the amount deducted to the beneficiary free of all deductions and at its own cost, unless the originator instructs it to credit the amount to him.
If failure to process the transfer order in accordance with the originator's instructions can be attributed to the beneficiary's institution, that institution must credit the beneficiary, at its own cost, with any amounts wrongly deducted.
If the originator's institution accepts a transfer order but the relevant amount is not credited to the account of the beneficiary's institution, the originator's institution must credit the originator with the amount of the order, plus interest and the transfer charges paid by him. A ceiling of 12 500 euros applies.
In the event of an intermediary institution chosen by the beneficiary's institution failing to process an order, the latter institution must credit the relevant amount to the beneficiary. A ceiling of 12 500 euros applies.
In the event of an intermediary institution chosen by the originator failing to process a transfer order, or in the event of an order not being effected because of errors or omissions in the instructions given by the originator to his institution, that institution and the other institutions involved must endeavour to refund the amount of the order.
Institutions involved in processing cross-border credit transfer orders will be released from the obligations set out in the Directive if they can show that any failure to comply with orders was due to circumstances beyond their control.
The Directive follows progress made towards the completion of the single market and will help to facilitate fast, reliable and inexpensive cross-border transfers within the Community with a view to the completion of economic and monetary union. To this end it lays down standard minimum requirements as regards providing information and effecting transfers. The Directive deals only with cross-border credit transfers, while Regulation 2560/2001 relates more generally to cross-border payments.
Directive 97/5/EC - 14.02.1997 - 14.08.1999 OJ L 043, 14.02.1997
Information about the originator accompanying credit transfers.
Proposal for a Regulation of the European Parliament and the Council of 26 July 2005 on the payer accompanying transfers of funds [COM(2005) 343 final - Not published in the Official Journal].
The proposal lays down rules establishing the traceability of credit transfers that are applicable to all providers of payment services in the payment chain. The purpose of this proposal for a regulation is to transpose into Community law special recommendation VII on electronic transfers (SR VII) (FR) by the Financial Action Task Force on Money Laundering (FATF). FATF is an intergovernmental organisation that aims to design and promote, at both national and international level, strategies for combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism.
According to the proposal, providers of payment services to originators must ensure that transfers of funds are accompanied by information about the originator that is exhaustive, correct and useful. All providers of payment services to beneficiaries will be obliged to report suspicious transactions to the authority responsible for combating money laundering and the financing of terrorism.
Evaluation report
Report from the Commission to the European Parliament and to the Council of 29 November 2002 on the application of Directive 97/5/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 27 January 1997 on cross-border credit transfers [COM (2002) 663 - Not published in the Official Journal].
This report details the arrangements for the implementation of the Directive on cross-border transfers at national level with regard to both legal transposal into domestic law and practical application by the banking sectors in the Member States.
It emerges that:- Directive 97/5/EC was properly transposed by all the Member States. Only a few specific problems remain. In particular, some Member States have not met all the requirements of the Directive on the information to be supplied before and after transfers are made or have not duly transposed the provisions which require them to ensure adequate and effective claims and appeal procedures; - the implementing rules on cross-border transfers in the various Member States are far from being satisfactory. While the implementing deadlines are acceptable, several problems remain such as the double charging of costs, the lack of information for the client and refusal by certain credit institutions to compensate them in the event of late payment or to reimburse them for illegally deducted costs or transfers which did not arrive at their destination.
On the basis of one of the improvements in the Regulation on cross-border payments that laid down the principle of non-discrimination between transfers within a Member State and transfers between different Member States, the report lists the other improvements needed in connection with cross-border transfers. It proposes changes to the Directive with a view to improving the execution of transfers. In addition, for the sake of greater consistency and wider coverage by the legislation on payments, the report argues for the grouping of all legislative provisions on retail payments in the internal market in order to move towards a single legal instrument in the matter.
Commission Communication to the Council and the European Parliament of 31 January 2000 on retail payments in the internal market [COM (2000) 36 - Not published in the Official Journal].
The Communication urges the need for efficient, secure and inexpensive retail payment services in the internal market to accompany the introduction of the euro. The Commission advocates improvements to the infrastructure for handling these payments, which has lagged far behind domestic electronic transfer systems. It also calls for the phasing out of differences between charges for domestic and cross-border use of payment cards and greater transparency in the information provided to cardholders.


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|This is the only photo I have of William T. Hardee.
William T. Hardee Enlists
William T. Hardee (sometimes indexed as Hardel) enlisted on April 1, 1862 at Coosa Alabama., by Capt. Walden for 3 years. He served with Company B 2nd Battalion Hilliard's Legion, Alabama Volunteers, (Confederate). That company later consolidated to Company K, 59th Alabama Infantry.
Sites about the battles
Look at these sites to read more about Hilliard's Alabama Legion and Hilliard's Legion and the battles that were fought.
Served in Hospital
William served for 24 days as a nurse in a Hospital at Catoosa Springs, Georgia by order of Surgeon R. C. Foster. He served from March 1 to March 24, 1863.
See information on Catoosa Springs Hospitals at The Historical Marker Database.
To read more about male nurses during the Civil War read Hospitals, Surgeons, and Nurses.
William is Captured
He was captured near Petersburg on March 25, 1865 and became a prisoner of war on March 27, 1865 and sent to Point Lookout, Maryland. I had never heard of this prison so after researching it I found out that it is on the southern tip of Maryland in St. Mary's County on the coast surrounded on three sides by water. It was the largest Union prison camp for Confederates. Like most POW camps it had deplorable conditions.
For a History of Point Lookout Prison read Descendants of Point Lookout POW Organization.
The Oath of Allegiance to the United States
He took the Oath of Allegiance to the United States and was released June 13, 1865.
According to Wikipedia: "During the American Civil War, political prisoners and prisoners of war were often released upon taking an "oath of allegiance". Lincoln's Proclamation of Amnesty and Reconstruction featured an oath to "faithfully support, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States, and the union of the States thereunder" as a condition for a Presidential pardon."
William's Release Record
Williams record on his release states:
"Place of Residence: Coosa Co., Alabama,
Complexion: Light,
Hair: Black
Eyes: Hazed
Height: 5 ft., 8 1/2 inches
Note: Released at Point Lookout, June 13, 1865, by G. O. No. 109 A.G.O.
Number of roll, 23, sheet 6"
The Trip Back Home
I checked the map and it is over 800 miles to Coosa County, Alabama. I wonder if they were helped back or if each person was left to his own to return home. I would assume William was not in good condition after almost three months in prison. An 800 mile trip would have been hard for anyone but especially hard for a person in bad condition.
Served Three Years
He served his full three years in the civil war. The longest of all my Civil War Ancestors so far. Which proves to me that the Hardee's really do come from a Hardy Stock!