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July 20, 2010
THOMAS E. ROBERTSON AND MARY ROBERTSON, PLAINTIFFS-APPELLANTS,v.COUSINS WHOLESALE PRODUCE, INC., DEFENDANT-RESPONDENT.
On appeal from Superior Court of New Jersey, Law Division, Middlesex County, Docket No. L-3898-07.
Submitted June 15, 2010
Before Judges Carchman and Parrillo.
Plaintiff Thomas Robertson*fn1 appeals from the Law Division's summary judgment dismissal of his negligence complaint against defendant Cousins Wholesale Produce, Inc. (Cousins). We affirm.
The facts, viewed most favorably to plaintiff, Brill v. Guardian Life Ins. Co. of Am., 142 N.J. 520, 540 (1995), are as follows. Plaintiff, an agricultural produce grader employed by the United States Department of Agriculture, had been to defendant's facility in Lakewood on six to eight previous occasions to inspect shipments of produce purchased by Cousins. At defendant's request, on May 5, 2005, plaintiff arrived at defendant's premises to inspect a shipment of onions stored in a building that was part warehouse and part machine shop. Upon arrival, plaintiff parked his vehicle in the back lot and entered the rear of the building through one of two of his usual means of access and exit - a garage door and an adjacent smaller door (back door), both of which afford entrance into the building from the ground level. In addition, there is a bay leading directly to a three-foot down ramp and loading dock. Plaintiff knew of this condition from his previous visits to defendant's facility and was aware that this passageway was not level with the parking area.
After inspecting the onion shipment, plaintiff went to defendant's office, which was accessible from the warehouse area, to print the results of his inspection and deliver them to the office manager. Having spent about one-and-one-half hours in the building, plaintiff was ready to leave. He proceeded to the rear of the building where the "ramp door" was opened. Contemplating his next assignment and carrying his printer and computer, plaintiff walked through plastic hanging wind blockers, instead of the exit door he usually used, without stopping to make any observations.*fn2 He continued walking out the loading dock platform, past diamond plate flooring, where he fell off the platform and sustained a fractured heel.
Alleging a failure to warn created a dangerous condition, plaintiff sued defendant in negligence. Following defendant's answer and discovery, defendant moved for summary judgment. In granting the relief dismissing plaintiff's complaint, the motion judge concluded:
Here, I would tell you I was confused about . . . the nature of this door that the plaintiff . . . walked out of. I mean . . . I think it was initially portrayed as a door. It's . . . not a door. I have the supplemental opposition . . . -- the reply to the opposition submitted by defendant, . . . which attaches the photographs that were omitted initially, and it's really not a door -- it's not a door, . . . it's a loading dock.
So it's not that he's stepping out the door -- and -- stepping out an exit door and going down three feet. He chose . . . to walk out the loading dock, . . . and I have photographs that are attached . . . and have been provided. There . . . are -- for the record, to describe it, there's large plastic strips that . . . hang from this door, indicating that it's . . . a bay through -- for a loading dock, there's the diamond plated steel plate on the floor that is just beyond that that's observable that indicates that -- really does indicate that you're walking -- you're not just walking out and continuing on the platform, but you're really walking out to the loading dock and I mean you can argue that he could forget, but there is an exit door and attached to the photographs there's . . . an exit door.
Here, I find and I believe that there are no material issues of fact that prevent the court from deciding as a matter of law. Here, there is no evidence of negligence on the part of the defendant. Defendant's obligation is to . . . exercise the ordinary care to render the premises reasonably safe for the purposes embraced in the invitation to the invitee and to take such steps as a reasonably prudent person would to correct or give warning of hazardous conditions or defect[s] actually known to the landowner or occupier of the land, and -- or hazardous conditions or defects that would have been discoverable with reasonable care, and here there are no hidden hazards. This was a loading dock. It's -- again, it's not a door, it's not something disguised as a door, it's a loading dock. . . . I don't think you could have any bigger sign than the giant plastic strips -- transparent plastic strips that are hanging from the door indicating that it's a loading dock, the steel plating -- diamond plating underneath indicates that that's the ledge for the drop off of a loading dock. The plaintiff had been to the location on prior occasions, in fact his certification says he has been to numerous, over the years and in the course of his employment, loading docks. He tries to make a distinction, in this case a distinction without . . . a real meaning, but he just walked out . . . the loading dock and fell, . . . and I don't find any basis of liability -- factual basis or legal basis for the position of liability here.
We agree.
"A negligence cause of action requires proof that a defendant owed a duty of care, the defendant breached that duty, and injury was proximately caused by the breach." Siddons v. Cook, 382 N.J. Super. 1, 13 (App. Div. 2005). "The duty of an owner or possessor of land to a third person coming onto his property derives from the common law." Parks v. Rogers, 176 N.J. 491, 497 (2003) (footnote omitted). "The scope of the landowner's duty is defined by that person's status as a business visitor, social guest, or trespasser." Ibid. "An invitee, in the legal sense, is 'one who is on the premises to confer some benefits upon the invitor other than purely social.'" Filipowicz v. Diletto, 350 N.J. Super. 552, 558 (App. Div.) (quoting Daggett v. Di Trani, 194 N.J. Super. 185, 189-90 (App. Div. 1984)), certif. denied, 174 N.J. 361 (2002). The owner or occupier of a premises owes a duty to an invitee "to provide a 'reasonably safe place to do that which is within the scope of the invitation.'" Ibid. (quoting Butler v. Acme Mkts., Inc., 89 N.J. 270, 275 (1982)). "The duty includes the obligation to 'use reasonable care to make the premises safe, including the duty to conduct a reasonable inspection to discover defective conditions.'" Ibid. (quoting Handleman v. Cox, 39 N.J. 95, 111 (1963)). The duty to render the premises reasonably safe for the purpose embraced in the invitation includes a duty to provide a reasonable means of ingress and egress to and from the premises. See Ivins v. Town Tavern, 335 N.J. Super. 188, 194 (App. Div. 2000) (same). Generally, a landowner's duty of care is non-delegable. Jimenez v. Maisch, 329 N.J. Super. 398, 402 (App. Div. 2000).
Here, it is undisputed that defendant provided safe ingress to and egress from its warehouse facility, as plaintiff used these means during every previous visit to defendant's premises without incident. Although plaintiff counters that the "ramp door" exit was unusually designed and therefore in need of signage warning of the three-foot drop, plaintiff has offered no expert proof of either improper design, a hidden or dangerous condition or the necessity for signage. To the contrary, plaintiff was aware of the loading dock and of the three-foot drop-off, yet chose that passageway over the two clearly marked exit doors he used in the past. Moreover, his passage through plastic strips while traversing metal plating on the floor clearly alerted plaintiff that he was entering a loading dock area.
We emphasize that the mere happening of an accident does not alone give rise to an inference of negligence. Vander Groef v. Great Atl. & Pac. Tea Co., 32 N.J. Super. 365, 370 (App. Div. 1954) (citing Hansen v. Eagle-Picher Lead Co., 8 N.J. 133, 139-40 (1951)). Rather, there must be a duty owed the injured party and a breach of that duty to establish negligence. Siddons, supra, 382 N.J. Super. at 13. As noted, the basic duty of a "proprietor of premises to which the public is invited for business purposes of the proprietor" is to exercise reasonable care to see that one who enters his "premises upon that invitation" has a "reasonably safe place to do that which is within the scope of the invitation." Butler, supra, 89 N.J. at 275. Whether a defendant has furnished an invitee with a reasonably safe place for his use may depend upon the obviousness of the condition claimed to be hazardous and the likelihood that the invitee would become aware of the condition and protect himself against it. See Wolczak v. Nat'l Elec. Prod. Corp., 66 N.J. Super. 64, 75 (App. Div. 1961). Not every property condition on which persons can hurt themselves is unreasonably dangerous or hazardous. If ordinary persons who are likely to encounter a condition may be expected to take reasonable care without further warnings, and if the condition is plainly visible with no unusual features and in a place where they would naturally look for it, then the condition is not unreasonably dangerous.
Here, as found by the motion judge, defendant provided plaintiff other means of safe egress from the facility, yet plaintiff chose an exit with a physically obvious condition, of which he was fully aware, and which could have been encountered safely without further precautions or warnings. Given the undisputed facts, we find no negligence as a matter of law.
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HEYWOOD-WAKEFIELD CO.v.MINER ET AL.; SAME V. BERGEN ET AL.
Appeal from the District Court of the United States for the District of New Jersey; Wm. N. Runyon, Judge.
Before WOOLLEY and DAVIS, Circuit Judges, and JOHNSON, District Judge.
DAVIS, Circuit Judge.
There are two actions here. Thomas W. Miner, a member of the Citizens' Committee, died before he was served, and a new action, No. 4,204, was begun against the executor of his estate.
On January 27, 1926, the Heywood-Wakefield Company entered into a contract with the Greater Newark Baseball Club, Inc., for the sale of a specified number of chairs which were to be installed at Davids Stadium, Newark, N.J. The total amount due for the chairs actually installed was $32,763.60 to be paid as follows: "15% cash with contract; 25% cash on shipment; balance in 9 equal monthly notes at 6% interest, endorsed by Mr. C. A. Davids and deliverable at time of 2nd payment." The first payment of $5,531.25 was made in accordance with the contract on or about January 27, 1926. On March 19, 1926, before the chairs were delivered, but while they were in transit from Chicago, Charles P. Lyman was appointed receiver of the Greater Newark Baseball Club, Inc., by the District Court. Edmund J. McQuade, contract manager of the Heywood-Wakefield Company, learning of the receivership, while the chairs were still in transit, reconsigned them to the Kenner Terminal Warehouse in Newark.
On April 12, 1926, Mr. McQuade and Mr. Fuller, representing the appellant Company, Mr. Lyman, and Mr. Thomas E. Miner had a conference at which Mr. Miner informed Mr. McQuade "that a citizens' committee had been appointed for the purpose of raising a fund and seeing that the ball club was put into operation."
Thereafter on or about April 12, 1926, Mr. Fuller, attorney of the appellant, prepared and Mr. Miner signed the following letter and sent it to Mr. Reeves for his signature:
"Greater Newark Baseball Club, Inc. "International League "Davids Stadium
"Temporary Office
"Room 65, Proctor Theatre Building,
"Telephone Mulberry 0307
"Wilson Avenue, Newark, New Jersey.
"April 12, 1926.
"Heywood-Wakefield Co.,
"New York City.
"We hand you our check for $9,389.17 being for payment of $8,734.19 on your conditional sale contract with Greater Newark Baseball Club, Inc., plus storage, etc. charges $654.98.
"You will proceed at once to install the chairs under the contract and as soon as the installation is completed, we will pay the balance due you under the contract in cash, and you will assign to us all your rights under the said contract less the cash payment of $5531.25 made on signing the contract.
"Yours very truly,
"Greater Newark Baseball Club, Inc. "Citizens' Committee "Thomas W. Miner. "Trustee
"P. E. Reeves, "Trustee.
This letter constitutes the contract on which the appellant bases its action in these two cases. After Mr. Reeves signed the letter, it was sent to Mr. McQuade, with a check of the Citizens' Committee for $9,389.17, which represented the second payment.
At the time this letter was signed and sent, Mr. McQuade had not seen and did not know any member of the Citizens' Committee except Mr. Miner.
Thereafter Percy E. Reeves, substituted receiver of the Greater Newark Baseball Club, Inc., made further payments as follows: On May 21, 1927, $2,500; on June 17, 1927, $2,000; and on August 16, 1927, $4,000. In addition, the receiver was unable to keep up the payments and the assets of the club were sold on September 7, 1927, and the appellant filed a claim for and received in January, 1929, a dividend in the distribution of the proceeds of the sale of $3,625.77.This leaves a balance as calculated by the parties due appellant of $6,372.39, principal, and $2,238.25, interest, making a total of $8,610.64.
The plaintiffs brought suit against the defendants whose names appeared on the list of the Citizens' Committee on the ground that the letter of April 12, 1926, constituted an agreement with the plaintiff whereby the defendants agreed that the plaintiff should install the chairs under the original conditional sales contract "and the defendants promised to pay the balance due to the plaintiff under said contract, in cash." At the conclusion of the plaintiff's case, the learned trial judge directed a nonsuit on the ground that the letter was a guaranty or suretyship by the Citizens' Committee, and the plaintiff, which had retained title to the chairs, by permitting the receiver to sell them instead of removing them from the stadium as it had the right to do under the terms of the contract, so changed the status of the Citizens' Committee that it could not recoup the losses sustained; that by so doing and by filing a claim for a dividend it elected to rely upon the original contract and not upon the suretyship or guaranty of the committee. The plaintiff has brought the case here on appeal.
The different defendants are represented by various counsel who have based their appeal upon two other grounds than that of suretyship: (1) The plaintiff from the beginning relied upon the fund raised and to be raised by the Citizens' Committee; and (2) the Statute of Frauds, § 5 (2 Comp. St. N.J. 1910, p. 2612), which provides: "That no action shall be brought * * * to charge the defendant, upon any special promise, to answer for the debt, default or miscarriage of another person * * * unless the agreement, upon which such action shall be brought, or some memorandum or note thereof, shall be in writing, and signed by the party to be charged therewith, or some other person thereunto by him or her lawfully authorized."
At the conference attended by Messrs. McQuade, Fuller, Miner, and Lyman, Mr. McQuade was told that the committee was raising $100,000 and more. It was then agreed that the letter of April 12, 1926, was to be written and the chairs installed. It is evident that the plaintiff expected to be paid from the fund which was being collected and relied upon it and not upon the credit of the individual members.
The plaintiff, the Citizens' Committee, and the public generally understood that payment was to be made from the funds raised by this committee and no one had an idea that any member of this committee was pledging his individual credit for the payment of these chairs. But payment out of this fund was to be made under the terms of the original contract. The check which accompanied the letter was a "payment of $9,734.19 on your conditional sales contract with the Greater Newark Baseball Club, Inc."
The committee had meetings, their work was publicly announced in the newspapers, and each member was authorized to receive subscriptions. The letter was signed, not by the individual members of the committee, but by the Greater Newark Baseball Club, Inc., and by Thomas W. Miner and P. E. Reeves, trustees of the fund which was being raised. This shows that everybody relied upon this fund, and not upon the credit of the individual members of the committee. The capacity in which they were acting was understood and they could not be held individually. Little Rock Furniture Co. v. Kavanaugh, 111 Ark. 575, 164 S.W. 289, 51 L.R.A. (N.S.) 406, Ann. Cas. 1916A, 848; McCabe v. Goodfellow, 133 N.Y. 89, 30 N.E. 728, 17 L.R..A. 204.
Whatever the idea of the plaintiff might have been, the Statute of Frauds in New Jersey, which is quoted above, is a bar to this action. If the plaintiff seeks to recover on the ground that the amount due it is the debt or default of the Greater Newark Baseball Club, Inc., it cannot prevail because the agreement, the letter of April 12, 1926, upon which it brought the action, was not signed by the defendants, and under the statute, they may not be charged therewith and there is no sufficient evidence that Miner and Reeves had authority to sign for them or in any way bind them personally to pay the debt. And so if the alleged liability is predicated upon the original debt as the letter seems to make it, the statute bars recovery.
If, on the other hand, it is sought to recover on the ground that this is an independent obligation of the defendants, as appellant intimates in its brief, this may not be done for the reason that the letter was not signed by them and there is no competent evidence to show that Miner and Reeves who signed it as "trustee" were agents of the defendants or had authority to bind the other defendants. There were no negotiations of any kind between the plaintiff and any of the defendants except Mr. Miner. The letter purported to be signed by the "Greater Newark Baseball Club, Inc.," and the "Citizens' Committee." But at that time the Baseball Club was in the hands of a receiver and was enjoined from performing its contracts.These names were doubtless written by Mr. Miner, but that did not obligate the Greater Newark Baseball Club, nor the individual members of the Citizens' Committee personally, and this was known by the plaintiff. No attempt was made to show that the individual members of the committee assumed personal liability except by the introduction of the minutes of their meeting and of the meeting of the "finance committee." The evidence shows that the business of the committee was to disburse such funds as might be required from the $150,000 which the public-spirited citizens of Newark had contributed to save the Baseball Club. None of the defendants ever pledged their individual credit or ratified any act having that effect. It is true the letter stated "as soon as the installation is completed we will pay the balance due you under your contract, in cash". Having no authority to bind any of the committee personally, this could bind no one but Miner and Reeves, but they signed only in their capacity as "trustee" of the fund and may not be bound personally.
In the meeting of the finance committee of the "Greater Newark Baseball Club, Inc.," on April 18, 1926, the following minute appears:
"The Trustees, on behalf of the Citizens' Committee have purchased from the Heywood Wakefield Company, their contract with the Greater Newark Baseball Club for seats in the Stadium as follows:
Contract $35,646.20
Addition 654.98
"Against which Citizens' Committee have paid $9,389.17.
"The Citizens' Committee have agreed upon completion on accepted installation of chairs to pay the balance to the Heywood Wakefield Company and receive an assignment of all titles, rights and interest in the contract subject to an initial cash payment of $5,531.25 made by Greater Newark Baseball Club on signing of the contract."
But in addition to Miner and Reeves only three others were present: Currier, Roehm, and Bunnell. This mere recitation of what the "trustees" of the fund had done cannot bind the members of the committee personally.
The fact seems to be that the plaintiff had made a sale of a large number of chairs, the purchaser had gotten into financial difficulty, and the arrangement which it made was the best it could do under the circumstances and it took a chance. It filed its claim against the Greater Newark Baseball Club, Inc., and saved what it could.
The plaintiff says that the contract was not one of suretyship and that it cannot recover on that theory. The learned District Judge thought that it was, but that the status of the surety had been so changed that plaintiff could not succeed on that basis. Whether the judge or plaintiff is right need not be decided, for both agree that recovery may not be had on that ground, and we think that conclusion is sound.
The judgment of the District Court is affirmed.
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Speaking of the PS2, Square Enix's long-running MMO native to that system, Final Fantasy XI, will be getting yet another expansion on March 26th to the tune of $29.99. The expansion, however, will only be available to westerners on PC and Xbox. If you're interested in taking this opportunity to first start playing Square Enix's MMO that worked the first time, a bundle edition of the original game and the other four expansions will be made available as well.
Next up, super important news from FFXIV: A Realm Reborn: THERE ARE BABY BEHEMOTHS. If you're wondering why this is such fantastic news, it's only because you haven't yet clicked on the first source below. Seriously. Cutest things ever.
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Square Enix News Tidbits: Post-E3 Rollup
E3's gone away for another year, and as Squenix were largely cut out of the biggest, most-televised events this year, it's time to roll up the news for all of you Square Enix fans visiting CoN. The company showed a large number of games in their booth, as usual, with a great many slated to come out quite soon. Hitman, Tomb Raider, and Sleeping Dogs (you know, the "Dogs" game that falls right behind Watch Dogs and Nintendogs in terms of name recognition) appeared in the booth, as well as soon-to-be-released Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance and Theatrhythm: Final Fantasy.
Quantum Conundrum made a big splash, with its release date just a couple weeks away. I think this game was under a lot of peoples' radars, even though the game came from Kim Swift, one of the minds behind the original Portal; the puzzle play reminds me quite a bit of Portal, though the art aesthetic is a bit more Team Fortress, if you're extending the Valve analogy. With its large number of platforms and puzzle-based gaming, it really looks like it could be a mainstream hit - indeed, I've seen coverage of it not only in the gaming media but also already in more pop-culture media such as Entertainment Weekly. Check out the newest trailer, released just before E3, to get a better feel for what's going on and exactly how you might be jumping from dimension to dimension to clear a level.
Speaking of trailers, Squenix cut a new one for Theatrhythm for E3 as well. If you want to watch, make sure to view it full-screen to understand a little bit more about how the gameplay works, as it's really hard to see at the standard size. Then, enjoy the music, as it clearly remains the biggest draw for the title, but also check out more footage of all the different types of game play that make up the game, some of which I had yet to see at much length. There's also a good interview with the game's project manager, which sheds some light on the way the game was designed and where it fits in to the Final Fantasy 25th Anniversary theme.
In fact, just check out all of the Square Enix content from E3. There are a ton more interviews there with Squenix personnel about their upcoming games, and I haven't even had time to watch them all myself. While you're there, you can even sign up to win a moogle-and-magenta PS3 or Xbox 360. Maybe you can check out the special cakes Squenix had at their invite-only E3 event.
Square Enix also wasted no time with more news from Japan even as E3 wound down. andriasang has reported in just the last few days, such as a new Transformers-esque racing and battle arcade game that will also be ported to 3DS, a teaser for a new Final Fantasy III release on PSP, and a third demo for Bravely Default Flying Fairy, introducing the battle and job systems.
Finally, surprise! There's another Distant Worlds concert this summer! A couple weeks ago, Dallas was added to this year's slate of shows. The show is this week, but tickets are still available, possibly including VIP tickets that get you in to meet guest vocalist Susan Calloway and Squenix composer Masashi Hamauzu. Free up your Friday night, Texans.
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Kingdom Hearts 3D Featured at Nintendo 3DS Show
Nintendo last night had their second major press conference of E3, this time focusing solely on upcoming games for the Nintendo 3DS. I'd expected something a little faster-moving, showing a huge number of games, but Nintendo took a slower, more methodical approach, instead going into significant detail on a smaller selection of games that are coming up very soon.
Most of the games there looked pretty good, speaking as someone who doesn't have a 3DS and doesn't follow it much. The fall-release Castlevania: Lords of Shadow sequel looked like it had polished camera work, and the vibrant Epic Mickey sidescrolling platformer also looked sharp, though the action seemed slow-paced in its demo. For RPG players, Nintendo showed the new Paper Mario, which uses as its conceit a collectable sticker book to control battle and other interactions with the world, and to me it looked like a pretty fun game.
Kingdom Hearts: Dream Drop Distance came up next, and led with a trailer that really made it obvious that it would use a lot of the 3D capabilities of the system; some on-rails flying and coaster sequences look made specifically to have some pop-out features. The game will also support Street Pass, AR cards, and the Circle Pad Pro. The game will have quicktime attacks, as well as touchscreen input for "Reality Shift" attacks. The release date is still the end of July for North America, and a DLC demo will be available "soon."
One more game got an extended preview, Scribblenauts Unlimited, and then the conference shifted into a quick-cut video of other upcoming third-party games, including Lego Batman 2, a Transformers game licensed from the movies, a Rabbids game, and Squenix' own Heroes of Ruin, which also has a demo coming this summer.
The conference moved on to talk about the Nintendo e-store, and how it will connect to the new versions of Pokemon Black and White that are soon to be released, and then the whole thing wound up with more demo of New Super Mario Bros. 2, followed by the curtain falling. Not sure that this blew my mind, but it was nice to finally see one of the big three give more than a couple seconds to Square Enix. Seems a pretty far cry from just a few years ago, doesn't it?
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Nintendo at E3 2012: WiiU Buy It?
Nintendo had a typically strong opening to their press conference at E3 this year, relying again on the charisma of Miyamoto and a more clever opening than the other two. After that, though, was it really all that entertaining? The company showed a lot of new games coming for the WiiU console, a great many of them launch titles, but if you were expecting something with the energy and buzz of the pre-Wii-launch E3, it just wasn't going to happen.
If you thought the Wii was gimmicky, you'll certainly feel the same about the WiiU. If you thought the Wii was aimed more at families and especially children, you'll probably have the same reaction again. If you have thought that Nintendo just wasn't pushing the third parties enough, you might well be right again, even though Ubisoft showed up (again!) with nine games in development for the new console.
If you're into the product that Nintendo has been putting out for most of the last decade, you probably liked what you saw. The games looked casual- and family-friendly, and the gimmick of the WiiU controller looked like it was going to get used in some pretty interesting ways. Bottom line, though, if you weren't already mostly sold on the idea of the WiiU, I don't think today's conference was going to do anything to push you over the edge. And if you wanted to see 3DS stuff, such as Square Enix' forthcoming games? That has to wait until tomorrow, when Nintendo has planned a standalone conference to speak solely about the 3DS. Dream Drop Distance did managed to sneak in a 15-second clip into today's show, but it was hardly packed with information.
That does it for the big three this year. I can't pick a winner, all three felt a bit lacking in energy to me. Any thoughts?
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Sony at E3 2012: Going for the Level Two Super
I didn't write this news post last night for a few reasons: one, I wasn't able to focus on it very well. Two, I had a baby to put to bed because of how late Sony started in my time zone. Three, and maybe this was just because I don't own any current Sony devices, but it just wasn't very exciting, continuing the trend set earlier by Microsoft.
After introducing Kaz Hirai, in the crowd this year as the new leader of all of Sony, the company led with Beyond, a game from the makers of Heavy Rain that looked and sounded very much like Heavy Rain, distinguishable mainly by the new game having Ellen Page drop the f-bomb in the trailer. The next big game shown in detail was PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, the Vita/PS3 cross-play game that looks like Smash Bros. with a sketchier roster of characters. After that came a break where Jack Tretton talked for a while about why Sony's online offering is the best.
It was then back to the sequels; Ubisoft came in to show a new Vita game taking place around colonial New Orleans, with a new female Assassin, and the new ship-based battles available in the full AC3. Then there was FarCry 3 with four-player co-op, and after a long segment showing a J.K. Rowling-penned Move game, right back into the sequels with yet another God of War. The last new game wrapped up the keynote, with a gameplay demo of The Last of Us, which, good as it looked, still seems a lot like a "Nathan Drake in Zombie Apocalypse."
Did Sony have a better showing than Microsoft? It's hard to say. I tend to think that they both kind of just followed the same template as last year, and that's understandable given that this is probably the last E3 where their current consoles are the big news. Nintendo's going to be asking everyone to buy the new hardware, so the counterpoint offered by the other two is to talk about how great their new software is. It makes sense, but it's not exactly compelling.
Oh, and continuing the theme again - no mention of anything from Square Enix in this keynote. Nintendo will almost surely show Theatrhythm and Kingdom Hearts 3D today, but we'll probably need to do some more digging on our own to get the best information, and we'll be doing that soon as well.
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I'd say that in the world of BBQ that 5 hours to cook a piece of meat that size is pretty fast. And I'm not sure that $3 to $4 a lb for brisket is all that cheap...and that's on the low end for a quality grade in my neck of the woods.
Depends on what part of the BBQ world you are in. Five hours is a pretty long time to cook BBQ brisket in several places in Lockhart, TX.
And, the fact that brisket is on the low end of quality but can be turned into a delicious dish after cooking it for hours is exactly why it's perfect for restaurants. Low direct material cost equals bigger profits. A restaurant can get brisket cheaper than $3 to $4 a pound, BBQ it and sell it for upwards of $16 to $18 a pound. That's not a bad deal.
A quarter pound brisket sandwich for $5.00 that cost the seller $1.00 in meat cost is pretty good. There are a lot of factors that go into the supply chain equation but the meat factor in that one is pretty low.
Chicken fried steak is another one of the low cost cuts turned into a delicious meal. The cheaper meat is pounded and/or tenderized using a jaccard, fried, slathered with gravy and people love it. It is cheap (compared to other alternatives) can be sold at an affordable price and leaves room for a profit.
When the great depression hit, businesses were struggling. They needed low cost and fair profits but they also had to sell products that people could afford. Then WWII hit and meat shortages were also an issue. Brisket is tough and, some feel, lacks flavor. But, BBQing it fixes those problems and created a low cost product.
I can also tell you that there is a direct relationship to the end of the practice of beef BBQ being mainly a whole animal cooked over coals in favor of smaller cuts of meat and the rise of the cattle industry in the United States. Before the cattle industry built a strong organization around the turn of the 20th century the majority of barbecue cooked was of whole cows/steers. As prices climed and fewer farmers could afford to either donate or sell at a low cost BBQ cooks turned to using inexpensive cuts and some even switched to burgers and hot dogs.
Then you have advances in refrigeration and better highways and transportation capability. That made the idea of shipping cuts of meat around the country a reality. Before those things, you had to transport or drive living cattle and the range was limited. All of those things helped to make brisket a popular BBQ meat and also what reduced the practice of BBQing whole animals.
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The hotel has its own nice beach. The photos looks like the pictures shown by booking. On the restaurant of the hotel you have many choices of both delicious tai and occidental food.It has its own spa and awesome massages. It's a little bit far away from the north of the island and you need scooter to move around the place near to the hotel.The places around the hotel don't look like as pretty as the north of the island.
It was nicely tucked away from Haad Rin but walking distance. Very good for value. The food was a bit pricey but also good.
Nice pool area, beach okay, much nicer if you walk to the full moon party beach (5mins) to town, food good in restaurant rooms basic enough but comfortable
Very nice rooms, good location in a beautiful beach, quiet but also close to to the town, good spa at reasonable prices, good food. I would recomend to everybody. Swimingpool was a bit dirty
The location, walking distance from the centre of Had Rin and at the beach.The food and cocktails were good. On the website the hotel looked nice, but the resort was a bit worn out, it seemed that they did not do any maintenance on the rooms and garden. Everthing looked old and broken, sunbeds at the pool were dirty and the room was very small, tiles in shower dirty and no mosquito net on window. Lock of room was not working properly.
The hotel's location was really excellent with a nice restaurant and private and beautiful beach. The food was excellent and reasonably priced too. The hammocks at our room and at the beach were unique. Hospitality lacked totally!!!.....No smiles and greetings at all!! No room service!!! Rooms were pretty ordinary and small for a 3 star!! Staff was the most unfriendliest kind than the rest of Thailand!! Spa was located right at the beach but the massage was not great!!
The location of the resort is fantastic with what feels like a private beach. Although the facilities were good, they still lacked in some of the additional services associated with the luxury suites. Simple things like an iron would have been useful.
Great comfort of rooms, great location (only five minutes walk to Haad Rin Beach), clean and amazing private beach, the best Spa service ever in Koh Phangan, The reception staff were very rude. maybe cuz it was the Full moon days and they were fed up with all the crowd, but that is no excuse to be rude & unhelpful. I have changed the booking from double to single, but they still forced me to buy the Full moon Party ticket for two people. at first they said we werent informed of the change, and then when I showed them the confirmation email, they said no you still have to pay for a second person. The Cocktail party was crap and the food & drinks were disgusting.
La piscina infinita era fantástica. La playa estaba justo al lado del complejo, a un corto trayecto en ascensor. El personal era súper simpático y servicial. La gente del hotel eran todos jóvenes y divertidos. La terraza era genial, muy pintoresco. Muy cerca de Haad Rin. Una absoluta maravilla Algunos insectos en mi habitación, pero estoy en Tailandia, así que lo que sea. Presión del agua de la ducha podría haber sido mejor.
nice staff and good food i could hear the boom, boom boom of the music until 2 am, very annoying
great restaurant. very helpful friendly staff. nice quiet location. they planned a great full moon celebration night. hard bed. room let in too many mosquitoes. the whole room had very poor water pressure so most of the time there was barely even a trickle of water coming out the shower head. we asked them to fix it and there was no change in water pressure.
The hotel staff was extremely polite and very helpful. We didn't plan our trip but the hotel staff suggested exactly what we were looking for. Definitely recommended!
All staff were very polite and helpful and our room was upgraded. The toliet over flowed which was cleaned straight away by staff it contiuned to make noises and smell.
Was fantastic value for money, great pool and beach and excellent relaxed atmosphere on the beachfront. The hotel staff's uniforms! looked like petrol station attendants.
Nice room, very good food, friendly staff, excellent service Shallow beach
Conveniently located, nice beachview restaurant and swimming pool The cheaper bungalows were quite small for 2 people
My friend and I had the best time. The beachfront view is beyond amazing. As was the staff, whom were so helpful, accommodating and friendly. the next time I visit Ko Phanang, I would hope I can stay at the Bay Resort. To walk up that steep hill to get to the main road can be dreadful, but you feel so accomplished when you make it to the top!


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But I think your fiance needs to be more than just supportive of you in this situation. I think it's up to him to speak to both his brother and his parents.
To Racist Twin: "I don't know why you've suddenly became racist and intolerant. That's not the way we were raised, it's backward and unacceptable, and my fiancee and I don't want to hear about it and don't want anything to do with you until you come to your senses."
To his parents: "Have you heard what Racist Twin and Racist Twin's wife are saying? You should know that they've attempted to forbidden us from attending family events at your house. Just thought you should know the full extent of how crazy your son has become and understand why we're uncomfortable around him."
Should you go to family events? Absolutely. Yes. Every. Single. One. Because you deserve to, and because you should get to know the decent people in your new circle. Added bonus: Maybe, by refusing to attend because of your presence and being isolated at home, your fiance's brother and his wife will have some time to reflect on how isolating and boring it is to insist on being jerks.
Should you invite Racist Twin and Racist Twin's wife to your wedding? Nope. There's no better reason to exclude people from a celebration of your marriage than the fact that they are openly disgusted by said marriage. And possibly also by you as a human being. Because they've been openly rude and threatening along with that disapproval, I don't think there's a case here for politeness or for being the bigger person.
However, if you decide, for reasons of tradition or etiquette, to throw an invitation their way (knowing they'll most likely skip the event in protest anyway), I have an idea: Use a Zora Neale Hurston quote, printed in a lovely font, on a "save the date" card designed especially for their household:
Sometimes, I feel discriminated against, but it does not make me angry. It merely astonishes me. How can any deny themselves the pleasure of my company? It's beyond me.
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Fraud detection reduced from 45 minutes to four seconds. A 48-hour batch process, now performed in under six hours. Gary Nakamura, general manager of Terracotta, explains to IT Business Edge's Loraine Lawson why the use cases for in-memory data processing speak for themselves.
Disclosure: Lawson also writes for B2B.com, which is a vendor-neutral site for B2B news owned by Software AG, which acquired Terracotta in May, 2011.
Lawson: Terracotta's approach to handling Big Data is to use in-memory processing. Tell me a little about that.
Nakamura: Terracotta has been around for seven years and from the beginning we have been involved in building infrastructure for performance and scale for data.
Let me just fast forward a little bit to the end of 2010. We were obsessed with solving the challenge of moving large amounts of data in-memory, and helping people work with this data without having to constantly tune it keep the performance up.
We ended up with this very significant innovation, which was developing a way to store data on RAM. Literally, end users went from storing 50 gigabits in memory in the first six months, to a 9 terabyte deployment of data in-memory.
That was very significant for us and it was one of those situations where you had to pause and think about what had just happened. It was yet further proof that Big Data was no longer a marketing term and that the use cases were transforming businesses. Some of Terracotta's customers were changing the way they were doing business using in-memory data management, such as moving from 45 minutes for fraud detection to less than four seconds across tens of terabytes of data. This was a highly significant breakthrough.
Next, we realized the confluence of where we were and why we were seeing this pattern with our customers' deployments. There is just a massive amount of data that's being collected right now and most of those customers or users are perplexed as to how to access and use this data that extracts its value. This can include driving higher performance applications or processes, or delivering better SLAs, or analytics.
We realized that we are in the middle of this confluence of cheap memory, where RAM prices are plummeting, machines are getting bigger and bigger, and at the same time there is an explosive growth of data. People are collecting data in such vast amounts every day that it is our belief that in five years "big" will become the norm. RAM, because of the requirements around performance and access to that data, will become the new disk.
Because of the explosive growth of data, a business problem has been created: How do you extract value from it? A second, larger problem is that the prevailing technologies cannot keep up with the growth requirements of Big Data to deliver acceptable performance.
The Big Data problem exists because databases cannot meet the demands and neither can most data warehouses. Consequently, organizations are trying to figure out a way to slice and dice the data so they can actually make use of what they are collecting. It's an interesting time for data management.
Lawson: Terracotta is owned by Software AG. How does Terracotta fit in with Software AG's business model?
Nakamura: The courtship started when they were looking for ways to transform their existing products. One of the things that they were running into is this whole idea of data being very, very large and their technologies are very data-centric. Software AG was actually looking to revamp its product line with an in-memory solution to solve the Big Data problems that its customers were facing, so they went out looking for an OEM partner.
Once they found Terracotta, the vision that they had was that BigMemory would be the core of Software AG's infrastructure. The company knew it could solve a lot of problems in their customer base if the data was in-memory, whether it's analytics, real-time analytics or, complex event processing. A lot of these processes and applications are very easily solved if you are holding the data in memory in a normal format. This transfer from the REB world to the data warehouse world becomes less of an issue and is more about working with data in the memory space rather than actually siloed, disconnected operations. In a little over a year, Terracotta and BigMemory have become the cornerstone of Software AG's data management strategy — they call it the Next-Gen Data Management Strategy.
Lawson: What about data quality issues — how do you deal with data quality issues when using in-memory? This question originally came on a blog post I'd written that talked about how in-memory is, in some cases, taking over from ETL batch processing, because you're moving the data lifting to in-memory. ETL tools now have integrated data quality tools, so a reader was questioning what happens to data quality if you're replacing ETL with in-memory?
Nakamura: One of the problems with extracting data from one data silo to another is that some data may get lost in translation. Some important data or metadata that's associated with the generic data that's been lost in translation could potentially devalue it, effectively turning it into garbage.
In the in-memory world, if you can normalize all of this data without losing it in translation, it could mitigate the risk such that the data becomes invaluable when you actually move it to the other side.
The other thing that we've seen with batch and integration is that, in some cases, it obviates the need to take the data and ensure that it's in different applications and silos. If you have a common store that's in-memory that everybody can read at an application-level format, it might obviate the need for many integration use cases. This isn't going to happen overnight because of the abundance of data software.
On the mass processing side, we have many customers that are utilizing our in-memory Big Data or our BigMemory solution to store the data that's needed to do batch processing. This can execute their batch processes much, much faster. For example, Kaiser has a use case that took 48 hours to run as a batch that they now do in less than six hours using Terracotta's BigMemory.
Lawson: So how do you feel about this whole replace — that in-memory computing might replace batch integration? Would you not classify it as integration, or do you think that's a misleading statement?
Nakamura: I don't know that it'll replace the notion of batch. We have customers that are utilizing in-memory for batch processing. They just want to do it at scale with high performance so they can hit their SLAs.
The problem with batch going forward is Big Data. Datasets are going to be much, much bigger. For example, the type of work that you're going to need to do against that data will be much more extensive because the end user has a mobile phone. It's not just two-dimensional data anymore.
Lawson: Both in-memory and Hadoop address Big Data, but has your solution ever been used with a Hadoop system?
Nakamura: While we are solving many Big Data problems, we're not the only solution. We address very specific, and relevant problems of delivering data at high performance, at scale, across large data sets.
One of the big challenges of Hadoop is while it scales, it's not very fast at extracting data out of it. Some of our end users are putting the result sets and the reporting from Hadoop into BigMemory and maintaining it there. We could have 100 terabytes Hadoop instances where we're providing a one-terabyte window on the data, and the end user has very fast access to that large scale of data. It usually results in sets of calculations that are not in Hadoop. Once the analysis is completed, end users need to store the information somewhere. They can either put it in a database, which is too slow, or they can put it in something like BigMemory.
Lawson: So what are some of the other unusual use cases for in-memory or things we might not have heard about that you think are relevant or particularly promising?
Nakamura: We have a very large telecommunications customer in Australia that had three data silos, including in Seibel and a mainframe. One of its big challenges was normalizing all of this siloed data to creating a unified view of the customer.
One of their goals in this effort was to reduce their call center costs. They spend a million dollars on their call center a year and they wanted to move up to 40 percent of their call center traffic to the Web. They are pulling all of this customer data from the three different sources, storing it in- memory. This represents 10 terabytes a day of data or 100 terabytes at the end of 2013. They'll now be able to rapidly analyze this data to cross and upsell new services.
Lawson: People do that now without in-memory.
Nakamura: They do, but it's very, very slow and they can't do it at scale. Instead they do it in snippets, which do not transform your business. With BigMemory, they are putting their entire customer base in-memory. What used to take 30 seconds now takes only 30 milliseconds.
Lawson: So you went from being a newspaper ad to an auctioneer there.
Nakamura: That's precisely it. It just changes the game. Let's think about 45 minutes for fraud detection. Whoever stole whatever they stole is at home, looking at their new toy drinking a beer. In four seconds, they're not even out of the store yet.
We also have a number of government customers that have large scale data problems that they need addressed now. I can't really give you details about them, but they're in the Department of Defense, Homeland Security, FBI and FAA.
What astounds me are our customers. Once you show them what they can do, the proof is in the pudding. They are so grateful because what once seemed impossible is now possible.
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Birla Institute of Technology invites applications from eligible candidates for admission to the 3-year (6-semester) Full-Time Master in Computer Applications (MCA) programme at Mesra and its Extension Centre at Jaipur, Lalpur and Noida for the session 2016-17.
The Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra, Ranchi, will conduct an Online Computer Based Test for shortlisting candidates. The Online Entrance Test will be held on 4th June 2016 and 5th June 2016 (Saturday & Sunday) at various Test Centers.
Candidates must give two choices for first and second preference of Test Center from the list of Test Centers above. In case the number of candidates opting for a given Test Center is less than a certain minimum, the Institute reserves the right to shift candidates to the nearest alternative Test Center. The final list of Test Centers will be notified on the Institute website.
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1) Candidates must have passed with Mathematics / Computer Science as one of the subject in Class 12 / Equivalent Examination.
2) Candidates must hold a Bachelor's Degree or equivalent qualification of any of the Universities incorporated by an act of the central or state legislatures in India or other educational institutions established by an act of Parliament or declared to be deemed as a University under section 3 of UGC Act, 1956, or possess an equivalent qualification recognized by the Ministry of HRD, Government of India / AIU. This degree must entail a minimum of three years of education after completing higher secondary schooling [Class 12 or equivalent] (10+2+3 system).
a) Bachelor of Computer Applications (BCA), or
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c) B.Sc. with Mathematics or Statistics as one of the subjects at graduate level.
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-Candidates appearing for final examinations of their Bachelor's programme in 2016 can also apply, provided they have obtained requisite marks or equivalent (as per item 4 or 5 above) based on latest available grades / marks at the time of applying, and if selected can join the programme provisionally.
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To apply for the MCA program 2016, eligible candidates must complete and submit the online application form on website www.bitmesra.ac.in and send a printout of the completed form along with two recent colour photographs (one pasted on the form and one attached by clip to the form); photocopies of all marksheets and certificates.
Pay application fee Rs 2,500/- (General) Rs 1500/- (SC/ST) non-refundable in favour of Birla Institute of Technology, Mesra through E-challan (printable while filling online form) in a SBI/ ICICI bank within the given time period.
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Filling of online form commences from 09 March 2016
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