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It's that simple. In three losses – two in San Francisco and one Saturday night in Detroit – the Tigers have managed a total of three runs, 15 hits and a .165 average.
GAME 3: Giants skunk Tigers again, one win from title
The offensive struggles and the Giants' quick two-spot in the top of the second inning of Game 3 took the home crowd out of the game early. And a team that never trailed at any point in the American League Championship Series sweep of the New York Yankees has never held the lead at any point here in the Fall Classic.
The one time during Saturday night's 2-0 loss to San Francisco when Detroit could have gotten back into the game – and perhaps the Series – Giants starter Ryan Vogelsong retired slugger Miguel Cabrera on a harmless popup with bases loaded to end the fifth inning.
After that failed rally, Detroit never managed another hit the rest of the way against Vogelsong, Tim Lincecum and Sergio Romo.
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Earlier in the evening, Cabrera accepted the Hank Aaron Award as the top overall hitter in the American League and a special Triple Crown trophy for becoming the first player in 45 years to lead the league in batting average, home runs and RBI.
However, he's looked nothing like that player in the World Series. Cabrera has two singles in nine at-bats (.222) and has just one RBI.
The Tigers' other big gun, Prince Fielder, went hitless in four at-bats in Game 3 and is an even worse 1-for-10 (.100) in the Series.
That's just not getting it done.
It's almost as if the Tigers stole the Yankees' .157-hitting mojo in the ALCS and brought it with them to the World Series.
You almost get the feeling that Tigers manager Jim Leyland might come out with Don Kelly and Danny Worth in place of Fielder and Cabrera at the corners in Game 4.
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Hyperfibrinogenemia and hyperviscous plasma in hypertensive Africans. | |
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Changes in plasma fibrinogen concentrations (PFC) and relative plasma viscosity (RPV) were investigated in 61 Nigerian Africans while they were being treated for essential hypertension. The association of these hemorheologic variables with blood pressure was examined. An analogous study was done on 30 normotensive controls for comparison. The hypertensive patients had, overall, a significant increase in both PFC and RPV (p < 0.001) as compared with control values. However, 44.3% of the hypertensive patients had PFC and RPV values within the defined normal limits. This indicates that in a proportion of the hypertensives, treatment notwithstanding, PFC and RPV are altered only within the physiologic limits. Comparison of PFC and RPV with the degree of hypertension (mild: diastolic blood pressure (DBP) = 90mmHg; moderate: DBP = 91-99mmHg; severe: DBP > or = 100mmHg) showed significant stepwise increases at the moderate and severe levels as compared with the mild level of hypertension. The hyperfibrinogenemia and concomitant hyperviscous plasma observed in the present study could either play a role in the pathogenesis of the hypertension or be the consequence of the hypertension itself, at least in some patients. |
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SAN FRANCISCO, Feb. 25, 2013 /PRNewswire via COMTEX/ -- News Summary: -- EMC's new Pivotal HD(TM) is an Apache Hadoop distribution that natively integrates the industry-leading EMC Greenplum massively parallel processing (MPP) database technology with the Apache Hadoop framework.
-- The engineering innovation and technology called HAWQ(TM), brings Greenplum's decade of research and development on the industry's best MPP analytical database platform to Apache Hadoop, the open-source Big Data platform.
-- New HAWQ technology brings more than 100X performance improvement (in some cases up to 600X) to a wide range of query types and workloads, making Pivotal HD the single most powerful Hadoop distribution in the industry.
-- Pivotal HD with HAWQ represents the world's first true SQL processing for Hadoop, expanding the platform's reach to SQL programmers and developers, as well as enabling compatibility with traditional BI tools.
Full Story: EMC® Corporation (NYSE: EMC) today announced a new distribution of Apache Hadoop: Pivotal HD. Pivotal HD features native integration of EMC's industry leading Greenplum® massively parallel processing (MPP) database with Apache Hadoop--the most cost-effective and flexible open source Big Data platform ever developed. The new EMC Greenplum-developed HAWQ(TM) technology brings 10 years of large scale data management research and development to Hadoop and delivers more than 100X performance improvements when compared to existing SQL-like services on top of Hadoop, making Pivotal HD the single most powerful Hadoop distribution in the industry.
Hadoop has rapidly emerged as the preferred solution for Big Data analytics applications that grapple with vast repositories of unstructured data. It is flexible, scalable, inexpensive, fault-tolerant, and enjoys rapid adoption rates and a rich ecosystem surrounded by massive investment. However, customers face high hurdles to broadly adopting Hadoop as their singular data repository due to a lack of useful interfaces and high-level tooling for Business Intelligence and datamining--components that are critical to data analytics and building a data-driven enterprise. As the world's first true SQL processing for Hadoop, Pivotal HD addresses these challenges.
By offering the full spectrum of the SQL interface, and by extension, the entire ecosystem of products that support SQL, customers no longer need an army of developers to build a dashboard or run a report. Unlike competitive Hadoop distributions, Pivotal HD does this without moving data between systems or using connectors that require users to store the data twice. Pivotal HD cuts out the complexity of using Hadoop, thus expanding the platform's potential and productivity, and allowing customers to enjoy the benefits of the most cost-effective and flexible data processing platform ever developed.
About HAWQ HAWQ (pronounced hawk) represents the EMC Greenplum engineering effort that brings 10 years of large-scale data management research and development to the Apache Hadoop framework. Leveraging the feature richness and maturity of the industry leading Greenplum MPP analytical database, this innovation has resulted in the world's first true SQL parallel database on top of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS). HAWQ is the key differentiating technology in making Pivotal HD the world's most powerful Hadoop distribution. Capabilities of note include Dynamic Pipelining, a world-class query optimizer, horizontal scaling, SQL compliant, interactive query, deep analytics, and support for common Hadoop formats.
Pivotal HD and HAWQ Deliver: -- True SQL Query Capabilities - With Pivotal HD's advanced database services (HAWQ) enterprises can now unlock the potential of Hadoop's scalable, fault-tolerant storage capabilities by bringing to bear the vast pool of "data worker" tools and languages into the Hadoop ecosystems. With Pivotal HD's support for true, SQL-standards compliant query interfaces data mining tools, SQL-trained data analysts, and standard BI tools can now easily connect to, query, and analyze data sets stored in the Hadoop file system (HDFS).
-- Unprecedented Query Performance - Bringing over 10 years of parallel database processing technology to Hadoop, Pivotal HD delivers query response time improvements that are up to 600x faster than current SQL-like interfaces for Hadoop.
-- Robust Operational Support - Command Center enables administrators and developers to easily install and manage large clusters from interactive web user interfaces. Command Center also exposes Command Line Interface for scripting and programmer friendly web services API for complex automation tasks. Using Command Center administrators can deploy large cluster, configure services/roles, manage services and monitor HDFS jobs and tasks.
Hadoop -- The Foundation for Change EMC believes that Hadoop has the potential to reach beyond Big Data to catalyze new levels of business productivity and transformation. As the foundation for change in business, Hadoop represents an unprecedented opportunity to improve how organizations can get the most value from large amounts of data. Businesses that rely on Hadoop as the core of their infrastructure can not only do analytics on top of vast amounts of data, but can also go beyond analytics and the foundation for that data layer to build applications that are meaningful, and that have a very tightly coupled relationship with the data. Consumer Internet companies have reaped the benefits of this approach, and EMC believes more traditional enterprises will adopt the same model as they evolve and transform their businesses.
Pivotal HD is expected to be available at the end of the first quarter of this year as a software-only or appliance-based solution, backed by EMC's global 24x7 support infrastructure.
Executive Quotes: Scott Yara, senior vice president of products, Greenplum, a division of EMC "Hadoop is a big deal and poised, for many enterprises, as the key to unlock Big Data's transformational potential. Marrying the extraordinary capabilities of the Greenplum technology--essentially the Greenplum crown jewels--with this amazing open-source phenomenon has been no small feat. But we're 'all in' -- investing in a manner that no other company is -- to help catapult Hadoop into wide-scale adoption." Steven Hirsch, chief data officer, SVP Global Data Services, NYSE Euronext "With Pivotal HD, we can check off many of the items on our Hadoop wish-list--things like plug-in support for the ecosystem of tools, improved data management and greater elasticity in terms of the storage and compute layer. But above all, it provides true SQL query interfaces for data workers and tools--not a superficial implementation of the kind that's so common today, but a native implementation that delivers the capability of real and true SQL processing and optimization. Having a single Hadoop infrastructure for Big Data investigation and analysis changes everything. Now add to all of this functionality the fact that the SQL performance is up to 100x faster than other offerings and you have an environment that we at NYSE Euronext are extremely excited about." Jeff Kelly, Big Data analyst, The Wikibon Project "By integrating the Greenplum database natively within Hadoop, Pivotal HD opens up Big Data analytics to a new class of practitioner - the savvy business user -providing both real-time query responsiveness via a familiar SQL interface and eliminating the need to move data back and forth between Hadoop and separate analytic databases. Most importantly, by providing both real-time and batch analytics capabilities in a single environment, Pivotal HD moves Hadoop several steps closer to realizing its full potential as the de facto, comprehensive Big Data platform of the 21st century." John Myers, senior analyst, Enterprise Management Associates "The Pivotal HD release reflects the results of recent Enterprise Management Associates Big Data Research and our vision for the Hybrid Data Ecosystem. With the sharing of a common data store via HDFS and processing information based on business requirements via either a SQL or NoSQL access, Pivotal recognizes that different analytical challenges require different processing/access layers." Sam Grocott, vice president of marketing and product management, EMC Isilon "The introduction of Pivotal HD, combined with EMC Isilon's native integration of the Hadoop Distributed File System (HDFS) protocol, continues the evolution of the industry's first and only enterprise-proven Hadoop solution on a scale-out NAS architecture. This powerful combination succeeds in reducing the complexities traditionally associated with Hadoop deployments and allows enterprises to easily extract business value from unstructured data." Partners Supporting the Pivotal HD announcement: Find out what our partners are saying about Pivotal HD by clicking here.
Additional Resources -- Learn more about Pivotal HD -- Read more about Pivotal HD on EMC Pulse, EMC's news and technology blog -- Read the blog from Greenplum Solutions Architect Donald Miner: Introducing Pivotal HD -- Interview: Former CTO for the Obama 2012 Campaign Harper Reed on the Power of Data, at Hadoop: the Foundation for Change -- For the latest industry news, research, webcasts and use cases covering Big Data, analytics, and the data scientist community visit the Greenplum Media Center -- Connect with EMC via Twitter, Facebook, YouTube, LinkedIn and Greenplum About Greenplum, a division of EMC Greenplum, a division of EMC, is driving the future of Big Data analytics with breakthrough products that harness the skills of data science teams to help global organizations realize the full promise of business agility and become data-driven, predictive enterprises. The division's products include Greenplum® Unified Analytics Platform, Greenplum® Data Computing Appliance, Greenplum® Database, Greenplum® Analytics Lab, Greenplum® HD and Greenplum® Chorus(TM). They embody the power of open systems, cloud computing, virtualization and social collaboration, enabling global organizations to gain greater insight and value from their data than ever before possible. Learn more at www.greenplum.com About EMC EMC Corporation is a global leader in enabling businesses and service providers to transform their operations and deliver IT as a service. Fundamental to this transformation is cloud computing. Through innovative products and services, EMC accelerates the journey to cloud computing, helping IT departments to store, manage, protect and analyze their most valuable asset -- information -- in a more agile, trusted and cost-efficient way. Additional information about EMC can be found at www.EMC.com.
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Donatello | |
Donatello, the brains of the TMNT
Publication information | |
Publisher | Mirage Studios |
First appearance | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles #1 (May 1984) |
Created by | Kevin Eastman Peter Laird |
In-story information | |
Team affiliations | Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles |
Abilities | Highly skilled in ninjutsu Olympic-level agility, speed, and strength Master of stealth Genius-level intellect Expert in various fields of science and engineering Mastery of bōjutsu and kobudō Chi Gong |
Donatello, often shortened to Don, Donny or Donnie is a fictional character and one of the four protagonists of the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles comics and all related media.[1][2] He is co-creator Peter Laird's favorite Turtle.
In the Mirage/Image Comics, all four turtles wear red bandanas, but in other versions he wears a purple bandana. His primary signature weapon is his effective bō staff. In all media, he is depicted as the smartest and second-in-command of the four turtles. Donnie often speaks in technobabble with a natural aptitude for science and technology. He is named after the Italian sculptor Donatello.[3]
Mirage Comics[edit]
In the comics, Donatello is originally presented along with Leonardo as one of the two calmer turtles. While the comics portrayal of the team has no official command structure, in the early stories he is depicted as second-in-command. In the first issue, he is the one that killed the Shredder by knocking him and his grenade off the roof. The second issue elaborated more on each turtles' personalities and opened with Donatello soldering a circuit. Later in the issue, Donatello states that he is "familiar with some computer systems" and helps April O'Neil deactivate the Mousers. During the turtles' exile to Northampton, Donatello becomes obsessed with fixing up and repairing the many broken things within the farmhouse they were living in. Most notably he spent days and nights fixing the boiler to give his family hot running water and builds a windmill and a water wheel to provide electricity. He also finds an old typewriter and writes his own personal credo.
In the Donatello one shot, Donatello encounters an artist called Kirby (an homage to the comic artist Jack Kirby) whose mysterious crystal brings his drawings to life before disappearing. The two newfound friends journey to a dimension inhabited by Kirby's creations and help the heroes defeat the invading monsters.
In the Shades of Grey storyline, Casey Jones encounters the turtle by a ravine as he was pondering "the fractal structure of natural patterns". Casey accuses the turtle of using big words and acting better than everyone else. Donatello suggests they should continue the conversation when Casey is sober. Grabbing a stick, an angry Jones continually pokes the turtle until he loses his temper and sends Casey careening into the water.
In the City at War storyline, the turtles return to New York to put an end to the Foot Clan's civil war. During a battle with Shredder's Elite Guards in the ruins of the Second Time Around Shop, Donatello falls through the floor and breaks his leg. Seeing their ally Karai subdued and about to be killed, Donatello grabs one of the Foot's machine guns and repeatedly shoots the Foot Elite. Donatello is visibly shaken by the violence and throws the gun away. At the end of the story the turtles, April and Casey move back to New York save for Donatello who chooses to stay in Northampton with Master Splinter to heal from his injury as well as reflect on everything that had happened. While meditating with Splinter, Donatello receives a vision of the future where he is in the village of Chihaya in Japan. When Donatello asks what he would be doing there, his master simply replies "To bury me". After encountering the turtle vigilante ally Nobody in civilian guise he returns with him to New York to help his brothers battle Baxter Stockman.
In the current comics, Donatello finds an armored truck in the sewers which apparently had been part of a bank robbery in the sixties. Along with Raphael and Casey Jones, he undertakes the task of fixing up the vehicle. After the death of Splinter, Donatello secretly goes to his body and asks forgiveness before clipping something off him. Shortly after, Donatello decides to accompany the Utroms on a mission to Tepui to search for two missing research teams. The group are attacked by strange wooden creatures who shrink them to miniature size. The creatures turn out to be a group of Utroms which had been stranded in the Jungle during their first stay on Earth and had been living in secret thanks to their Quantum Inversion Redimensioning device which could alter their size. The process could not be reversed on Donatello, possibly due to his mutation, leaving him the size of an action figure. While the Utroms work on returning him to normal, Donatello put his new size to use infiltrating a terrorist organizations warehouse. He's also made a robotic body for him made to resemble a turtle to help him move around.
This incarnation of Donatello appeared in the Turtles Forever crossover special voiced by Christopher C. Adams.
Image Comics[edit]
In the Image Comics incarnation of the TMNT, he became a cyborg after his body was partially destroyed from being shot and dropped out of a helicopter (he maintained a positive attitude nonetheless, although he was constantly at risk of losing his mind to the cyborg half). The Image Comics were later treated as non-canon by the Mirage Publications.
Archie Comics[edit]
Donatello's appearance in the Archie publications were largely based on the 1987 Fred Wolf incarnation, but with Mirage writers on board at Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Adventures such as Steve Murphy and Ryan Brown, a lot of references to his Mirage counterpart were made. Donatello was showcased to be pure of heart and soul, being able to pass through the Netherworld unscathed. He was also chosen of the Turtles by a group of Aliens known as the Sons of Silence to share their wisdom. He was one of the few who could telepathically communicate with them. Donatello was almost a pacifist, detesting every time he used violence.
IDW Publishing[edit]
In a shocking twist, Donatello was seemingly killed at the end of issue #44 when Leonardo, Raphael and Michelangelo were on a mission to stop Krang from transforming the earth using an alien device called the "Technodrome". Donatello was left at the home base, and while the others were away, he was attacked by Bebop and Rocksteady. Although aided by Metalhead, he was unable to fend them off, and Rocksteady crushed his shell with a sledgehammer.
Writer Tom Waltz, who scripted the scene, said in an interview with IGN that fans' reactions on Twitter and Facebook were "numerous and have run the gamut from praise to horror to confusion to hate… to some folks wishing me dead. And though I find the hateful ones more than a little disconcerting, I'd be lying if I said I wasn't pleased to find out just how passionate so many folks are about our comic book and TMNT in general... That final scene in issue #44 choked me up when I wrote it… even more so when I saw how tragically beautiful Cory Smith and Ronda Pattison rendered it."[4]
A sneak preview of the following issue, #45, suggested that Donatello wasn't dead, but that he was in extremely critical condition and not going anywhere.[5]
1987 animated series[edit]
The 1987 animated television series depicts Donatello as a genius who invents many of the turtles vehicles and equipment including the Turtle Van, the Turtle Blimp and the Turtle Com. Unlike the 2003 series his other minor inventions often malfunction, but many of them end up serving a practical purpose. Despite an obvious lack of funding in subsequent seasons he made many revolutionary inventions, the most notable being the portable portal capable of opening gateways to other dimensions as well as an early warning system which warns of impending attacks from other dimensions or from Krang and Shredder. Despite Leonardo being the official leader of the team given the sci fi nature of the series it is Donatello who comes up with most of the plans and solutions to the turtles predicaments. At times he displays little appreciation for human culture beyond the scientific community and he even earned a degree via mail.
In the 1987 series's original Donatello's voice actor is Barry Gordon with Greg Berg as the 1989 alternate voice actor. In the 25th anniversary movie Turtles Forever, Donatello was voiced by Anthony Haden Salerno.
Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation[edit]
Donatello appeared in the live-action series, Ninja Turtles: The Next Mutation, as well as the crossover episode of Power Rangers in Space portrayed by Richard Yaw and voiced by Jason Gray-Stanford.
2003 animated series[edit]
Like the Mirage comics, Donatello has a complex personality in the 2003 animated series. Donatello is voiced by Sam Riegel in the original English version and Yuji Ueda in the Japanese version. Several episodes concentrate on him, as well as his emotional and intellectual struggles. As in his other incarnations, he is intelligent, good with his hands, and very introspective, frequently becoming pensive over things he doesn't understand. He typically has a very close, however platonic, relationship with April. He also displays closeness with Michelangelo akin to that seen in the original movie. Even more pacifistic than his other incarnations, Donatello shows a greater interest in technology than his ninjutsu training. Even so, Donatello will defend his brothers at any cost, and he frequently assists the team in many ways through the technology he develops, mostly vehicles and communication devices. In this animation, Donatello is generally well liked by all of his brothers, never engaging in major confrontations with them. In fact, Donatello was the one to reunite his brothers against the Shredder in the episode "Same As It Never Was", having been sent to an alternate future where the team fell apart after he vanished. His skin color is a light, brownish green color; this particular color is only used for him in the 2003 animation. In the fourth season, he was infected by a monster, and in the episode "Adventures in Turtlesitting", he mutates into a monster himself, which happened to Raphael in the comics. In the seventh season, also called "Back to the Sewer", Donatello blamed himself for Master Splinter's decompiling and vowed to restore his bits from cyberspace. This obsession caused him to disregard anything else, such as the war between the Purple Dragons and the Foot clan, as unimportant. It wasn't until seeing his brothers in danger from the Cyber Shredder did he realize he was ignoring his responsibilities to help them and promised not to let his obsession with saving Master Splinter take control again.
By the time of Turtles Forever, the 2003 Donatello is in total disbelief over the scientific aptitude of his 1987 counterpart, in which the alternate Donatello replied, "Science isn't all just facts and figures", although the two still manage to work together to track their enemies.
2012 animated series[edit]
Donatello returns in Nickelodeon's new 2012 animated series, now wielding a bō staff which converts to a naginata (Japanese halberd). In this version, Donatello has a crush on April O'Neil (who is also in teenage years in this adaptation). It appears that Donatello has a more prominent role in this series compared to the original 1987 series, being more active and purpose-driven, but at times does not understand and/or has a hard time grasping the lectures of Master Splinter. His character design was also updated, giving him a gap in his teeth and a taller, leaner appearance than his brothers. Donnie is voiced by Rob Paulsen (who was Raph's voice actor in the 1987 animated series).[6]
Original trilogy (1990-1993)[edit]
In the first three live action films, Donatello, like Leonardo, is arguably less mature than he was in the original comics and the 1987 animated series, as he is shown joking around more. The first movie never officially identifies Donatello as the group's resident "whiz kid", though he is occasionally shown tinkering with various devices and is seen to have a vast knowledge of obscure topics (he is shown to be a master at 'Trivial Pursuit' when playing against the other Turtles and later astutely labels Casey Jones a claustrophobic). He takes his time deciding on the most appropriate victory cheers, though his choices are sometimes quite perplexing ("Bossa Nova!"). Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles II: The Secret of the Ooze, however, clearly established Donatello as the most scientifically-minded turtle as well as the most introspective, feeling dejected when he learns that the ooze that created the Turtles only exists because of an accident, although Splinter consoles his dejection by pointing out that the circumstances of their origins cannot define their present worth.
The first film plays up the relationship between him and Casey Jones; in all other versions of the TMNT, Raphael, not Donatello, is closest to Casey, except for the 1987 cartoon, in which Jones does not figure prominently. This is apparently because the scene in which Donatello and Casey bond over the fixing of an old pickup truck was based on a similar scene involving Casey and Raphael in the Mirage comics. Corey Feldman famously provides Donatello's voice in the first and third live-action films, while Adam Carl filled in for the second movie during Feldman's stint in rehabilitation. In the third film, Donatello is the only Turtle who is not tempted to stay in the Feudal Japan of the past, saying that he can't live without technology. The films also portray Donatello as being close with Michelangelo, bantering with him during fight sequences, going off to the side when Leo and Raph are arguing and in general hanging out in their spare time.
TMNT (2007)[edit]
In the 2007 film, Donatello runs an IT tech support line to earn money for the family and keeps an eye on Mikey. In the first half of the movie Donatello's skills are more focused on keeping the family together and on income than instead of inventing inventions and finding creative ways to solve problems. It is a combined effort of Leo being gone, Raph unable to control his temper and Donnie's leadership and logically minded skills that add up-to the reason as why he's been put into this position. With the combined efforts of all of these reasons is why Donnie and Raph argue more in this film than in most other depictions of their relationship. Raph is angry that Donnie has been named leader instead of himself while Leo is away and Donnie is angry that Raph hasn't been pulling his weight to support them. To add to this matter is the fact that Raphael was secretly fighting as the Nightwatcher. This disagreement is further explained in the prequel comics by the fact that Donatello does not trust Nightwatcher, because no one knows what side he is really on and because he uses fear to accomplish his ends. Donatello states that Raphael uses many of the same tactics, and hints that he may suspect what his brother really does at night. Donatello also tries to guide Michelangelo away from the idea that vigilantes are heroes. Such action depicts Donatello as a second in command while Leonardo is in Central America, forced to be the responsible one in Leonardo's absence and teach his brothers what Leo would in his place. Don is clearly yet still unofficially established as second in command here, much more than in the other three movies.[7] However, it should be noted that Raphael felt he was better suited to be in charge and openly asks Splinter why he was not considered for the role. Splinter explains that Raph has not yet mastered control over his rage and is therefore not eligible to be leader.
In this film, Donnie also seems to show a bit more emotional care for Mikey than in the previous films. According to the short "Mikey's Birthday Party" Donnie helps Mikey with his job as a character entertainer named "Cowabunga Carl" by communicating with Mikey viva cameras and head gear order to remind him to hand-out flyers and to get cash (not checks). This seems to irate Mikey to a large degree. (The 2007 movie never mentions age as a deciding factor). In the game tie-in his IQ is "off the charts". Don is voiced by Mitchell Whitfield.[8]
Relaunch (2014)[edit]
Donatello appears in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles portrayed by Jeremy Howard. Corey Feldman has stated he would be 'eager' to return to voice Donatello before Howard was cast.[9][10][11] In this film, Donatello is once again the brains of the team and relies heavily on high-tech equipment and gear. His personality in this film is very calm and measured. He was also given a much more nerdy portrayal than in previous adaptations.
Video games[edit]
In the video games based on the 1987 animated series, Donatello has the longest range, although he cannot inflict as much damage as Leonardo, who has the second-longest range; one notable exception is the first NES game, where Donatello both did the most damage and had the longest range, though his attacks were slow. This has been carried over into the games inspired by the 2003 animated series. In TMNT: Smash Up, he is voiced by Sam Riegel.
Donatello is one of the main playable characters in Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles: Out of the Shadows, where he is voiced by Yuri Lowenthal.
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Forget Wine in a Box, It's Time For Wine in a Can
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By now, we're all familiar with box wine, screw top wine, and regular wine, but have you heard of canned wine?
Well, if Argentinean company Iron Wine has their way, you will soon. The Buenos Aires based company has just released two wines — a chenin blanc and a malbec and cabernet blend — in either eight and half or twelve ounce cans. The cans look just like soda cans, and the company defends their packaging by saying that they are perfect since they effectively block out light and air. Unfortunately the Associated Press is reporting that the wine is not yet available in the US, but I plan on trying it as soon as it is.
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Burgundy Wine lies at the very heart of France, and is one of the world's finest wine producing regions. Located two hours to the southeast of Paris, the wine area starts in Chablis in the north of the region and then it follows the autoroute A6 southerly to Lyon.
The Burgundy soil is mainly based on oolitic limestone, upon which both the Chardonnay and Pinot Noir grapes flourish. The red wines, made with the Pinot Noir, are more difficult to grow because these grapes are more sensitive to disease or to being badly handled. Towards the south of the region, from around Macon, the soil changes to a reddish granite schist and sand of the Beaujolais. Here, the Gamay grape flourishes, making excellent red wines, many of which are drunk while they are young.
If you have not been to Burgundy, try it. It is a great part of France to visit for a holiday. Alternatively, stay at home and simply drink and enjoy the wine.
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I covered this back in 2005 and the company keeps telling me "it's coming." I guess it's making the rounds again as a novel idea.
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The only time i would drink this is if i was say- tailgating, or at a bonfire or something. It would be super convienet for those occasions since i don't normally drink beer or hard liqor. otherwise- i like my win glasses! i have had wine in a "juice box" though... can't remember the brand.
7 years
I definitely think its an interesting idea but as everyone has suggested I think the taste will be altered too much by the metal that it won't fly with most wine lovers.
7 years
No thank you. I don't do beer in a can, so I definitely won't be doing wine in a can!
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Noo! It totally takes the elegance of sipping wine from a glass away. A 6-pack of wine just sounds wrong.
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i guess it would be convenient to have a few on hand if you suddenly had company and didn't have a lot of room for huge bottles?! yeah...no...can't think of a reason why you'd want this especially if you have to put it in a glass so you don't taste metal.
7 years
This is such a great idea! Some of the worlds best wine is made in Argentina. The majority of the wine is consumed in Argentina, rather than exported.
7 years
I definitely wonder how the metal effects the taste....maybe if they put it in something like a beer bottle it would be better.
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monoka - i forgot about the mini sofias, but i think the carbonation might help with those.
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Wouldn't the metal interfere with the taste of the wine, especially when it is been poured?
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mmmm... SOFIA MINIS, thats in the US last i heard, Monterrey bay CA
The MINIS are canned, and a sweet treat for any wine lover
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jessness - i thought the same thing! the article says that the metal taste was noticeable unless you poured it into a glass.
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Infamous Mobb
Infamous Mobb | |
Origin | Queensbridge, Queens, New York, USA |
Genres | East Coast hip hop, mafioso rap, hardcore hip hop |
Years active | 1994 - Present |
Labels | IM3 |
Associated acts | Mobb Deep Big Noyd The Alchemist Chinky Blaq Mobb Un Pacino Raekwon DJ Muggs |
Members | Godfather: Pt. III Ty Nitty Twin Gambino (aka Big Twins) |
Past members | Twin Scarface (Deceased) Ron Gotti |
Infamous Mobb, also known as IM3, is a hip hop group from Queensbridge in Queens, New York, composed of members Ty Nitty, Twin Gambino and Godfather Pt.III. They are an integral part of the Queensbridge hip hop scene, which includes rappers like Nas, Cormega and Mobb Deep, and began with the Juice Crew.[1] Friends since childhood, the Infamous Mobb members all grew up on Queensbridge's 41st side 12th Street. Gambino and Scarface were twin brothers; Twin Scarface died in a car crash in late 1996. The only known track released that Scarface appeared on is "All Pro" on Big Noyd's debut album Episodes of a Hustla. Gotti briefly rapped with them but decided to become a Producer and Manager for the group.
Infamous Mobb first appeared in 1994 on Mobb Deep's Demo Cuts mixtape for their 1995 album, The Infamous. On the final Album Ty Nitty appeared on "Party's Over", in the third verse along with Big Noyd although the other members were only included in the prelude skits.
They next appeared rapping on Big Noyd's debut album Episodes of a Hustla and Mobb Deep's following 1996 album Hell on Earth. They also appeared on Murda Muzik and Infamy, as well as many mixtapes. The group also appeared on Nas' QB Finest compilation album as well as DJ Muggs's first Soul Assassins album.
Their debut album, Special Edition, was not released until 2002; it features extensive production by The Alchemist. The album was released on Infamous Mobb's own IM3 label and distributed by Landspeed Records.
In 2004, the group released Blood Thicker Than Water Vol. 1. This album was also released on the IM3 label, but this time through Monopolee Records. A second version of the album was released which included a bonus DVD. The DVD includes Infamous Mobb music videos as well as in-depth interviews with some of the group's Queensbridge affiliates.
There is some confusion among fans and media about the similar names of Infamous Mobb and Mobb Deep. Both groups are from Queensbridge; Mobb Deep released an album in 1995 titled The Infamous, and Infamous Mobb debuted on Mobb Deep's following album, Hell on Earth.
In 2007 Infamous Mobb split to work on their solo careers. In 2008 Twin Gambino changed his stage name to Big Twins. In 2009 they did a collaboration track with the Italian rap group Club Dogo on their album Dogocrazia. The track was called "Infamous Gang".
In 2011, Ty Nitty left the group (and cut ties with Mobb Deep) and launched his own label 'Love and Loyalty' records. A public dispute between him and Prodigy of Mobb Deep erupted after Prodigy included Ty Nitty in the account of a confrontation between Mobb Deep, Infamous Mobb and Capone-N-Noreaga in P's autobiography 'My Infamous Life.'[2]
- 2002: Special Edition
- 2004: Blood Thicker Than Water: Volume 1
- 2007: Reality Rap
- 2014: Fourth Studio Album (TBA)
- 2010: "2010 : The Year of the Dragon"
- 1997: "Life Is Tragic"
- 2002: "Mobb Niggaz (The Sequel)" (Feat. Prodigy)
- 2004: "Empty Out (Reload)" (Feat. Prodigy)
- 2004: "Who We Ride For"
- 2007: "Pull the Plug" (Feat. Prodigy)
- 2007: "Capital Q"
- 2007: "Betti Bye Bye" (Feat. Flame Killer)
Solo Albums[edit]
- 2009: Big Twins - The Project Kid
- 2009: Big Twins - The Infamous QB: EP
- 2011: Blaq Mobb (Godfather: Pt. III & Flame Killer) - Infamous Legacy (Queensbridge to Worldwide)
- 2011: Ty Nitty - My Loyal Life
- 2011: Godfather: Pt. III - Medicine Man
- 2012: Big Twins - The Infamous QB: Still Cooking
- 2013: Ty Nitty - Tuff Love
- 2013: Big Twins - The Infamous QB: On the Grill
Solo Mixtapes[edit]
- 2005: Godfather: Pt. III - God's Advocate
- 2006: Ty Nitty - Anthrax Music: Vol. 1
- 2006: Big Twins - The Grimey One: Vol. 1
- 2008: Big Twins - The Grimey Collection
- 2008: Ty Nitty - Nitty Filez I
- 2008: Godfather: Pt. III - The Infamous Dunn
- 2008: Ty Nitty - Tsunami
- 2008: Godfather Pt. III & Shuteye - Creeperz: Pt. 1 (NMEwreckidz)
- 2009: Blaq Mobb (Godfather: Pt. III & Flame Killer) - QB to South Side
- 2009: Ty Nitty & NE dubz - Creeperz pt 4 (NMEwreckidz)
- 2009: Ty Nitty - Nitty Filez II
- 2010: Ty Nitty - International Ty
- 2010: Godfather: Pt. III & Ty Nitty - Hip-Hop Vultures
- 2010: Blaq Mobb (Godfather: Pt. III & Flame Killer) - Blaq Diamondz
- 2010: Ty Nitty - Code of the Block
- 2010: Ty Nitty - Avatar Ty Nitty
- 2010: Ty Nitty - Animal Instinct
- 2010: Ty Nitty - Nitty Filez III
- 2011: Big Twins & B.A.R.G.E. - French Queensbridge
- 2011: Ty Nitty & Rain - London 2 Qb
- 2012: Ty Nitty - Nitty Filez IV
- 2013: Big Twins - Thrive
- 2013: Big Twins - TG1
- ^ allmusic ((( Infamous Mobb > Biography )))
- ^ Burgess, Omar. "Ty Nitty Takes Offense At Being Included In Prodigy's Autobiography". HipHopDX. Retrieved May 13, 2011.


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Before implementing MicroMain Facilligence, Miami-Date County, Fla. Corrections and Rehabilitation used an obsolete version of Microsoft Access to track maintenance activities. Due to the generation of a large number of service tickets, the system crashed frequently at all six department locations.
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Miami-Dade County estimates it saves $225,000 annually, as a result of the CMMS due to the decrease in staff needed to process service tickets. In the past, staff members spent four hours per day updating service tickets for tracking purposes. With Facilligence, the tracking occurs automatically, and reports that previously took a month to generate are available daily.
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The Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2003 was both simple and ingenious. Built in steel, aluminium, concrete and glass, its ruby-red ramp contrasted with the surprise of a partly submerged auditorium, affording views across the park. It also housed specially conceived wall drawings by Niemeyer. The Pavilion conformed to Niemeyer's principle that every project must be summarized, caputed, in a simple 'sketch' and that once the support structure is finished the architecture should be more or less complete.
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Representatives of the NBA and its players met for more than 15 hours on Friday in New York City to reopen face-to-face labor negotiations after the National Basketball Players Association disbanded to file file an antitrust lawsuit against the league last week. Ken Berger of CBSSports.com reports that a "tentative agreement reached, according to one of the negotiators." Talks began at noon Friday and ran past 3 a.m. Saturday morning. The two sides are reportedly aiming to hammer out an agreement that would allow the NBPA to salvage a 66-game regular season that would begin on Christmas Day. It is assumed that the NBA needs a roughly 1-month lead time to get a new season up and running, and Friday was exactly one month prior to Christmas. Ken Berger of CBSSports.com reported that, in addition to former NBPA executive director Billy Hunter, former NBPA president Derek Fisher and former NBPA board member Maurice Evans, the players were led into the negotiations by attorney Ron Klempner and economist Kevin Murphy. The league was represented by NBA commissioner David Stern, deputy commissioner Adam Silver, San Antonio Spurs owner Peter Holt and NBA general counsel Rick Buchanan. NBPA attorney Jeffrey Kessler, who recently said that Stern treated NBA players "like plantation workers," was not present, although Yahoo reported he did participate via conference call. The two sides reportedly exchanged "back-channel" communication on Tuesday and Wednesday for the first time since Nov. 10, when the NBA made its latest formal proposal to the players, which was rejected, as the players opted to file suit instead. Saturday is the 159th day of the ongoing NBA lockout.
It's going to be interesting on how the attendance in the beginning and especially throughout the season is going to shape up. Fan reaction and ticket sales will probably start out slow due to regret but at least only 16 games were eliminated from a full season. Most die-hards will probably stick around and embrace the return while others will stay away.
I think a lot of the smaller markets are going to be in worse shape than they already were.
Great news! I didn't check anything about NBA the past few days. Just noticed there'll be a season, after all


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While many people equate energy conservation and recycling with sustainability, most neglect to include water use. Yet water is an extremely valuable resource that needs to be conserved. Did you know that turning off the water when brushing your teeth or shaving can save between 2 and 6 gallons of water? Or that the average 10 minute shower takes between 25 and 40 gallons and the average bath between 35 and 60 gallons of water? Take the time to think about ways you can conserve by not leaving the water running when not in use, taking shorter showers and baths and doing only full loads of laundry and dishes. Here are some ways the University is working to conserve water:
Ways the University seeks to reduce our water use:
Irrigation – Indian pond serves as our retention basin for rainfall. All lawns and fields are irrigated from Indian Pond.
Fountains – The water fountains at UAlbany are iconic symbols for the university. These fountains run on a recirculated water supply to eliminate the need for a constant demand on our water supply. In addition, the hours of fountain operations have been reduced to conserve energy. The fountains of the entry plaza have a special feature where the height of the water is adjusted according to wind conditions. In windy weather the water stream lowers and returns to normal height in calm conditions.
Low Flow – In our continuing effort to reduce water use, low flow fixtures have been installed for showers and bathroom facilities across campus.
Rain Garden – The university's first rain garden was installed at the Alumni House in October of 2011. This was in partnership with the Albany County Stormwater Coalition. This will serve to mitigate rainfall run off onto University Drive. To see its step by step construction, go to: http://www.albany.edu/ehs/pdf/AlumniHouseRainGarden.pdf


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James W. Summers, 25, of St. Lawrence Psychiatric Center, 1 Chimney Point Drive, was arrested at 4:03 p.m. Wednesday on the 1800 block of Ford Street on a city court bench warrant for petit larceny at Wal-Mart, 3000 Ford Street, at 9:25 p.m. Oct. 4. He was released on an appearance ticket, Ogdensburg police said.
Nicholas A. Lawton, 18, 131 Paterson St., was arrested at 11:05 a.m. Thursday on a city court bench warrant for failure to appear or pay a fine. He was originally charged with fishing without a license, city police said. Mr. Lawton paid $50 fine and was released.
Eric E. Walker, 33, 797 County Route 28, Lisbon, was ticketed for failure to yield right of way entering a roadway. Mr. Walkers 1998 Dodge truck struck a Dodge van driven by Ricky Gamberelli, 53, of 219 Broadmouth Church Road, Honea Path, S.C., at 11:38 a.m. Thursday at Aldi, 1101 Park St., city police said.
Robert E. Mercarter, 40, was arrested at 12:28 p.m. Thursday after he turned himself in on a city court bench warrant for failure to appear in court. Mr. Mercarter was originally charged with second-degree harassment. He was arraigned by Judge William Small and released on his own recognizance, city police said.
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Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. No current Talk conversations about this book. This is an interesting novel and about a subject that isn't written about too often..it takes place within the confines of a prison and there's a great deal of characterization of the prisoners and their stories as well as the philosophical thinking of the protagonist, who perhaps accidentally killed his brother and his addicted to methadone. There's some ideas of prisoner's rights as well as memories, a homosexual love affair, a clergy visit, and even a little of revolution but it leaves you with a very strange idecipherable sort of feeling throughout, including the ending, which I feel could be taken either as a literal closure or a metaphorical one. In any case, wither when it was written in the 70s or in our present time, there aren't many authors that are really exploring the humanity of prisoners including the qualities and the flaws as well as somewhat the prison guards themselves (though more on the prisoners). Cheever brings a certain quality to the novel in terms of the way they speak and their own life histories they seem to be desperate to tell, even to the point of bribes. I think this novel is worth reading but even more so I feel it is worth pondering because we often think of criminals in a much different way and, though this novel is only a little over 200 pages, Cheever seems to take his time developing the storyline around characters that are too easily overlooked and forgotten, and again not often the focus of the vast majority of novels. Memorable quotes: pg. 38 "Loneliness taught the intransigent to love their cats as loneliness can change anything on earth." pg. 51 Farragut, lying on his cot thinking of the morning and his possible death, thought that the dead, compared to the imprisoned, would have some advantages. The dead would at least have panoramic memories and regrets, while he, as a prisoner, found his memories of the shining world to be broken, intermittent and dependent on chance smells-grass, shoe leather, the odor of piped water in the showers. He possessed some memories, but they were eclipsed and indisposed. Waling in the morning, he cast wildly and desperately around for a word, a metaphor, a touch or smell that would grant him bearing... pg. 80 "It was a very heavy and beautiful snow that, like some juxtaposition of gravity, seemed to set the mountain range free of the planet." pg. 188 "I wouldn't be able to speak to you softly and with patience at this point if I did not believe that mathematics and geometry are a lying and a faulty analogy for the human disposition. When one finds in men's nature, as I do in yours, some convexity, it is a mistake to expect a corresponding concavity. Thiere is no such thing as an iscosceles man." pg. 200 "...so I figure I must come into this life with the memries of some other life and so it stands taht I'll be going into something else and, you know what, Zeke, you know what, I can hadly wait to see what it's going to be like..." pg. 207 "Had he raised his head, he would have seen a good deal of velocity and confusion as the clouds hurried past the face of a nearly full moon.." pg. 208 "I got plenty of money. I been evicted because I'm a human being, that's why. This is the third time I've read Falconer. The first was in college--I had just met John Cheever at a reading and the book had just been published and everyone, everyone knew it was a masterpiece, including me. If GoodReads had been around I would have given Falconer 5 stars. I read it again fifteen years later, after everyone had forgotten about it. You could barely find it in bookstores--there was just room enough on the shelves for one Cheever book, by that time, and it was invariably his fat red Stories collection. On this second reading of Falconer I could make up my own mind and not be swayed by the crowd. And I was completely overcome by the narrative drive, the sheer beauty of the words, the mastery of sentence and paragraph and chapter, the swoon and swirl of the personal letters Farragut writes, the brief, beautiful love Farragut finds behind bars, the fantastic sweep of the closing paragraph. 12 stars, if I could. And now another fifteen years has passed, and all these things are still true about Falconer--what beautiful, beautiful prose. But I find I can't get past the misogyny of the portrayal of Farragut's wife, or the pettiness of the authorial voice, or the ugliness of the judgments made of all humanity. And I think: how could this man, this John Cheever, live with himself? Of course, he did it badly. We know that now from his journals. He despaired of the world, he hated people, he hated himself. I'm happy at least that he had a book like "Oh What a Paradise it Seems" in him, and that he was able to publish this more hopeful and accepting outlook on life before he died. Falconer has none of this, though. At this stage of my life I've learned, re-reading Falconer, that I'm no longer a nihilist, and no longer patient with other people's nihilism, however great the art that comes from it. I suddenly feel a strong need to go out and discover a book written in the last century that manages to be masterfully written while still being a hopeful book--not a sentimental book, not a trivial book, but a genuinely hopeful book. But maybe I'll fail. Maybe any great book has to be at least a little nihilistic. Tolstoy killed off any character who thought deeply, and let the buffoons live on. There is this deep idea about great literature, that any novel with happy characters must be vapid and sentimental. Ok. I'm on a quest to see if that is actually the case. Falconer, John Cheever's best novel, is nothing less than a 20th-century classic, a story of human failure and redemption by one of the best fiction writers in American literature. Ezekiel Farragut arrives at Falconer prison, convicted of murdering his brother, Ebenezer. Farragut, a college professor, an intellectual, and a drug addict, has methodically cut himself off from the people in his life. He is selfish, nacissistic, aloof, egotistical in the extreme, and devoted to one thing: feeding his own appetites. But when forced into close quarters with society's dregs, he rebuilds emotional connections and frees himself of the bonds that have confined him to a prison of his own making. Miraculous things happen in these pages and Cheever sometimes strains the limits of narrative credibility. But in some ways reading Falconer is itself an act of faith because Farragut's story is transcendent and for all time. Essential reading. I vastly prefer Cheever in his "suburban dystopia" mode (and I love him so much in that mode that I may have had very inflated hopes for this novel). It is actually a very good novel--especially when viewed as a dark allegory for American culture (suburban America, in particular). It is not, however, what you would call bright and uplifting. Dark, but pure quality. One man's experience of a continuing drug habit and the experience of facing his own thoughts, memories and dreams inside 'Falconer' prison. An easy to read, hard to put down, darkly humorous book. no reviews | add a review Is contained in
References to this work on external resources. Wikipedia in EnglishNone Amazon.com Product Description (ISBN 0679737863, Paperback)Stunning and brutally powerful, Falconer tells the story of a man named Farragut, his crime and punishment, and his struggle to remain a man in a universe bent on beating him back into childhood. Only John Cheever could deliver these grand themes with the irony, unforced eloquence, and exhilarating humor that make Falconer such a triumphant work of the moral imagination.(retrieved from Amazon Mon, 30 Sep 2013 13:36:36 -0400) In a nightmarish prison a convict named Farragut struggles to remain a man. Out of Farragut's suffering and astonishing salvation, Cheever crafted his most powerful work of fiction. |
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