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Hi everyone!
I'm getting so antsy for my March cruise on the Gem! Does anyone happen to have an updated restaurant surcharge list? Also, does anyone who's already been on the Gem have any recommendations for any specific meals or activities to check out on the ship?
Look at this message thread and you'll see what NCL is charging. Prices should be standard across their fleet.
If you go to, for instance, the sushi place, what do you get with that? Only one roll, or as much as you can eat, or what?
Just seems a little steep for a cruise, but I'm giving Freestyle a try. http://cruise-chat.com/groupee_commo.../icon_wink.gif
Sushi....all you can eat.....
Specialty restaurants: as of 11-18-2008
Le Bristo $15.00 per person.....EXCELLENT FOOD
Chocolate Fondue for 2 as desert is EXCELLENT
Highly suggest Le Bristo to all NCL cruisers.
Cagney's $20.00 per person..Extra $10 for Lobster and Filet
Endless Summer (Tex/Mex) $10.00 with free Margarita for each paying person.
La Trattoria $10.00 per person.....Italian
Ginza...(Asian Fusion) $15.00...Good Asian food
Teppanyaki $25.00...good show
Soho Room $15.00
Garden Buffet...No Cost
Aqua....Main dining...No Cost
Versailles..Main dining...no cost.
Blue Lagoon...24 hour....no cost...great comfort food.
In Ginza we ordered three main dishes....
In Versailles we ate three lobster tails each.
Lobster now served 2 nights in main dining rooms.
Room service 24 hours......no cost for menu items.
Fresh squeezed orange juice ..Small $2.50 glass
Large $3.50 glass
Coffee and Iced tea in Market cafe or any restaurant ...No cost
For those in Suites..Penthouses...Garden Villa was special breakfast and lunch invitation in Cagney's at NO COST. Cagney's for breakfast has a nice buffet set up and you can order off the menu also. 5 oz steak filet and eggs for breakfast on breakfast menu....GREAT traditional Eggs Benedict......Great 10 oz. Sirloin on lunch menu. Excellent Service.....Excellent atmosphere.
NCL-U....Martini clinics and 5 Martini's (3 oz.) for $15.00 at Gatsby's Bar... Each Martini different type...lots of fun. See Freestyle Daily for daytime schedules.
NCL-U ...Margarita clinics and 5 Margarita (3 oz.) for $15.00 at Gatsby's Bar.....each Margarita different type...lots of fun.
Lots of outside (poolside) BBQ's.....No cost.
Topsiders Bar and Grill...Buffet line for breakfast and lunch. Burgers, dogs, brats, special Mexican Buffet.
Special ice cream station on Deck 12 in Market Cafe.
Market Cafe, lots of Asian food, sushi all at NO COST for lunch.
Sushi Bar..(in evening..after 5:00 PM).....(located in Ginza)...$10.00 all you can eat.
Many items in Main Dining room also offered in the main buffet (Market Cafe) on Deck 12.
Aqua Main Dining after 5:00PM...NO SHORTS..same for Versailles Dining Room.
Richard & Mary, have you ever tried the Shabu-Shabu (hot pot)? It's one of my favorite meals at home, and I noticed during my N. Jewel tour that it was offered in Ginza, I believe.
Wonderful! Thanks for the info!
Yes, Shaba-Shaba is offered in the oriental restaurant. We did it on the NCL Pearl.
It is unique and very well worth the cover charge of $15.00. $5.00 more than the Ginza cover.
It's a unique dining experience using the hot water to cook the food right at your table. The name may turn some cruisers off from selecting the Shaba-Shaba....but would highly suggest it.
It's almost liek a Hibachi at your table, only cooking with hot water.
Thanks, Richard & Mary. I must say that $15 pp is a bit steep. I pay slightly less than that in our Chinatown for short rib or other meats. And it comes with broth, not water, in the land-based restaurant. Then again, not everyone is fortunate enough to live near an authentic Shabu-Shabu restaurant. A close friend and I used to go once or twice a week when we worked near each other. Thanks for the info, though.
Shabu-Shabu is an exotic asian dining experience for sure. Depending on were you go in the states, price varies. On ship you get a large selection of different ingredients to cook at the table. The noodles are great. For those that might want to consider Shabu-Shabu I have attached a link that puts this method of asian cooking in easy perspective.
Enjoy and consider giving it a try. I know of NO other cruise ships that offer this exotic dining experience other than NCL. That makes this experience truly Freestyle crusing.
One word of caution. Do not use the chopsticks you will eat with to handle the raw meat. Most Shabu-Shabu places will give you another set of utensils for "swishing" the meat.
Now I want some.
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In many cases, a great conversation can be the first step to action. When people from different perspectives and places come together to talk about something we all care about – like education – who knows how many brilliant ideas might be hatched?
On March 31, United Way is asking America to do just that. We're hosting the United Way Education Town Hall (10 am - noon ET). We'll have a live conversation – online and offline – with hundreds of Americans who care about education. We'll join parents, students and teachers to talk with national education leaders, including U.S. Secretary of Education Arne Duncan, at Trinity Washington University in Washington, DC.
The conversation will kick off the national report we're unveiling, Voices for the Common Good: America Speaks out on Education, which will contain findings from a listening tour of communities across the country, focus groups and a national survey on education. We'll also talk about what United Way could do in response, especially in terms of recruiting people with the passion and commitment to make a difference.
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TSMC rumored to experience major 28nm shortage through summer
0. phoneArena posted on 11 Apr 2012, 05:58
TSMC may have shortfall of 28nm chips though the spring\summer, significantly reducing the production capacity of AMD & NVIDIA's mobile processors...
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Da Fuq?!. I thought TSMC scrapped the 32nm node to focus on and accelerate the 28nm node..
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well, this is the perfect opportunity for samsung to leverage their extra capacity for making exynos chips with those new foundries they opened. Who wouldnt ant an HTC with exynos inside. :)
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i don't mind who manufactures the chips as long as they perform well :) and i would love to see exynos in a HTC phone.
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Yup, if the rumor is true, it is definitely an opportunity for Sammy.
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I did some tests removing synchronized blocks from BundleDbPersistenceManager and AbstractBundlePersistenceManager and all went fine, but I think thorough testing is needed in this field. I would also like to see jackrabbit doing concurrent writes at its core, delegating the lock management to the PersistenceManager implementation. A BundleDbPersistenceManager could possibly offer concurrent writes whereas a file based persistence manager might do one write at a time. Best regards, On 04/06/07, Marcel Reutegger <email@example.com> wrote: > > Hi Rafał, > > Rafał Kwiecień wrote: > > Ok.So, how long it can take? 2 or 3 months? half year ? > > It is important to me to know when this feature will be available. > > jackrabbit is an open source project and does not have a fixed road map > nor > detailed release plan. if such a feature is important to you, you are very > welcome to participate. > > afaics the following steps are required to be able to support concurrent > writes: > > - implement a ISMLocking that supports multiple write locks at a time > - extend an existing or create a new persistence manager to support > concurrent > writes > - make sure the jackrabbit core is able to handle concurrent writes. e.g. > check > if caches are synchronized properly. > - optionally: enhance the search handler implementation to support > concurrent > writes. (this is not a hard requirement because when jackrabbit indexes > content > the write lock had been downgraded to a read lock) > > > I use BundlePersistenceManager. Methods in that persistence manager are > > synchronized. So, there is not possible to read anything during write. > > can you please file a jira issue about this and if possible attach a > patch? thanks. > > > BTW. If I use FineGrainedISMLocking, sometimes I see a warning in logs: > > WARN [.core.query.lucene.SearchIndex] Exception while creating document > for > > node: aad7aa6a-5baf-4a33-b88d-f39f713aad1a: > javax.jcr.RepositoryException: > > Missing child node entry for node with id: > > aad7aa6a-5baf-4a33-b88d-f39f713aad1a > > Does it mean that some node has not been indexed ? > > When I use DefaultISMLocking, I don't get warnings. > > please note that FineGrainedISMLocking is work in progress. there are some > implications when using this class that need to be resolved first before > it can > be used. e.g. access to caches are not properly synchronized when using > FineGrainedISMLocking. > > regards > marcel > -- Miguel.
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NEW YORK (TheStreet) -- The broader market traded lower for the fifth straight session in a data-loaded week that ends with the nonfarm payrolls report (NFP) on Friday.
Guy Adami, managing director of stockmonster.com, still thinks the S&P 500 will decline to 1,760. He said today's GDP number looked good but when the report was studied, nearly half of it was from inventory builds, something that could come back to haunt the economy.
Jon Najarian, co-founder of optionmonster.com and trademonster.com, said a lot of investors are betting on a decline in bonds, meaning the Street is anticipating a strong NFP result.
Stuart Frankel & Company's Steve Grasso said a good, but not great, NFP result would be perfect, showing that the economy is recovering but not a pace that warrants tapering by the Federal Reserve.
Dan Nathan, co-founder and editor of riskreversal.com, said the NFP whisper number is getting as high as 250,000, which could send the S&P 500 down 20 points if it were true. He admitted that the dip would likely be bought, however.
Turning to individual stocks, Nathan said he would be a buyer of Apple (AAPL) on a pullback to the $550 level, because it still has upcoming catalysts and a likely deal with China Mobile Limited (CHL). Adami concurred.
Najarian had a slightly longer-term view and suggested that in three months the stock will be closer to $625 than $550.
Adami was a buyer of Celgene (CELG) because of its strong business, margins and balance sheet.
Grasso said he didn't like Walter Energy (WLT) or the coal sector, but Adami suggested investors could own it as a potential M&A candidate.
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Disposing of a flag that is worn, faded or tattered by retiring (burning) it is the only method approved by Congress. The retirement should take place at a ceremony, which shows respect and honor to the flag or flags being retired.
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A special school board meeting will be held at 8 a.m. on June 27, reportedly to consider the fate of long-time North Platte teacher and coach Mark Woodhead.
Woodhead, who teaches physical education at the elementary level, was reportedly placed on administrative leave several weeks after he allegedly got too rough with a troublesome third-grader.
According to former High School Vice-Principal Bob McFarland, who is now retired, Woodhead grabbed the kicking and screaming student and drug him about 20 feet across a carpet into an office where a supervisor was located.
McFarland said the episode happened in February.
Bassett told the Bulletin in late May that no action has been taken on Woodhead's situation, but declined to talk about it further.
Woodhead has worked for the school district for nearly 30 years. He has been the head girls' basketball coach since 2002, compiling a record of 157-117. He led the girls to the state tournament in 2004 and 2009.
He is the father of standout NFL running back Danny Woodhead.
In announcing the meeting, Bassett referred the news media to a power point presentation with basic general information about the school board's role in personnel reviews.
Attorneys are expected to present information at the hearing. An attachment was added to the agenda Wednesday that said the board might go into executive session after the hearing.
According to the information added Wednesday, "after the hearing the school board will take all necessary action to either cancel or take other action it deems appropriate on the employment contract of Mark Woodhead. An executive or closed session is possible for the hearing on this matter. In the event of a resignation or agreement, the board of education will consider, discuss and take action on acceptance of the resignation or agreement."
Personnel decisions are typically made behind closed doors in executive session, for the official reason to prevent needless damage to the reputations of those involved, according to Nebraska's laws on open government meetings.
Unless the teacher requests a closed hearing and the board agrees, hearings are open, Associate Superintendent and personnel manager Tami Eshleman said Wednesday.
Eshleman said the performing arts theater was selected to ensure enough space for the public to attend. However, public comments will not be allowed, because it will be a formal due process hearing at which the board will receive evidence and deliberate based on that evidence.
She said 8 a.m. is the time to which all parties agreed.
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Hejlsberg: Oh, I think it's got lots of nice stuff. It's definitely a real product, I mean, no doubt about it.
InfoWorld: What do you think the endgame is for Eclipse? Take over the industry?
Hejlsberg: It certainly seems to be taking over a lot of the Java IDE industry, but that's just me observing what's going on there.
InfoWorld: In the past few months you have BEA, Borland, and now Macromedia using Eclipse as a basis for a lot of their technology. What do you think that means? That software companies are relying on the Eclipse IDE?
Hejlsberg: It's a good question. I think in many ways it makes it harder for these companies to control their own destiny when the IDE has been commoditized to the extent that you're now just writing plug-ins to an IDE as opposed to actually bringing a new IDE to the world. By the way, with Borland, not all of their tools are based on that. They also have a whole offering for .Net, the Delphi [technology].
InfoWorld: Are there any open source plans for Visual Studio or anything other than what Microsoft's already done with the Shared Source initiative?
Hejlsberg: No. Not to my knowledge, no.
InfoWorld: What is your take on Mono?
Hejlsberg: Oh, I think it's great, I think it's proof that standardization works, that the work that we've done in ECMA to standardize CLI [Common Language Infrastructure] and C# actually has [results] and we have seen completely independent third-party implementations of the infrastructure. So I think it's a good thing. I think it's more good for us than bad for us.
InfoWorld: During a panel discussion last night, one of the speakers, from a college, said his school has anti-Microsoft people, but so does every college. What would you say to the anti-Microsoft crowd, either corporations or universities or whatever, about Microsoft?
Hejlsberg: I've been at Microsoft now for about eight years, and I've certainly seen a big shift in the attitude from the company toward its customers. There's much more transparency at Microsoft now, there's much more openness. You see, I don't even know how many hundreds or [maybe] thousands of bloggers that we have inside Microsoft talking about exactly what's going on. [There's] much more customer interaction. And I think the whole attitude and the whole approach with which we developed .Net and had deep involvement of third-party language implementers from the very beginning of the platform goes to show that really it is a different Microsoft. And it is a different approach to our customers and I think we've gotten much better at listening than we were when I started.
InfoWorld: You would say that whole anti-Microsoft attitude started because Microsoft's customer relations were not as good as they should have been?
Hejlsberg: I mean you could say that's perhaps part of it, but quite honestly I think there is a mechanism in humanity that says once you get to be the biggest you get to get all the arrows in the back, and that's just how it is.
InfoWorld: Are there any plans at Microsoft to port to any other chips besides Intel-compatible or any plan to support any OS besides Windows?
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I've heard that kids with asthma can end up with COPD as adults. Is this true, and if so, is there any way to prevent this from happening?
— Angela, Canada
It is true that a few people with asthma can develop permanent lung damage as they grow older and end up with a condition that resembles chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD (also called emphysema). The symptoms of COPD include shortness of breath, chronic cough, phlegm production, frequent lung infections, and difficulty doing daily activities because of breathlessness. This does not happen to most people with asthma, however, even when they've had asthma over a lifetime. Only a small subset of asthma sufferers develop these problems.
First, let me explain that all people lose some lung function and breathing capacity as they age, and this is normal. Decline in function generally begins before middle age and continues slowly throughout our lives; it does not cause any obvious symptoms in older people. People with asthma also experience this gradual loss, although it is generally more substantial. Still, many people with asthma will not have any dramatic problems as they age, beyond the symptoms they are accustomed to. Doctors are unfortunately not able to predict precisely who will develop COPD, or exactly why it happens.
There are, however, some common characteristics among people with asthma who develop these severe problems later in life:
- They are often smokers.
- They usually have severe and persistent asthma over many decades.
- They most often fall into one of two groups: people who experienced the onset of severe asthma in adulthood, or people who had severe asthma throughout their lives, from childhood on.
The only one of these characteristics that an individual can control is the first. People with asthma should never smoke — not lightly, not for a year or two, not ever. Keeping asthma symptoms well controlled with medication and staying fit may also prevent long-term damage to the lungs, although researchers are not certain about this.


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Curried Carrot Soup with Maple Roasted Chickpeas
This recipe is forever adaptable so please don't feel limited by the ingredients and instructions listed below. Feel free to substitute some coconut milk for the broth or swap out whatever herbs you have on hand or toss the chickpeas in whatever spices you are craving at that moment. This soup is never the same for me because I always switch it up to fulfill my cravings at the time. As long as the soup is flavorful and the chickpeas are crispy then it's probably going to be pretty darn delicious.
- Preheat oven to 375 degrees and line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
- Heat the olive oil and butter over medium heat in a large saucepan. Add the onions and carrots with a pinch of salt and let cook for five minutes. Next, add the garlic, cumin, and curry powder and continue to cook for another two minutes. Pour in the vegetable stock (or water) and bundle of spices and bring to a boil. Once boiling, lower to a simmer and leave it alone to cook slowly for thirty minutes.
- Once soup has simmered, remove from heat and puree using a hand blender. Return to heat and let it cook for five minutes more while you check the flavor. Add a little olive oil, salt, or lemon juice depending on what it needs.
- Serve with chickpeas, pumpkin seeds, and a sprinkle of black pepper.
- Combine all the roasted chickpea ingredients together and spread in one layer on a baking sheet. Set aside.
- Place the chickpeas in the preheated oven and let roast for 40-45 minutes (shaking them around every 10 minutes to ensure they don't burn). Once crispy, remove from oven and let cool.
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Children's Panel - Recruitment 2015
Children's Panel members have been making decisions about the welfare of vulnerable children and young people at risk since children's hearings were first established in 1971. Children's Panel members are vital to Scotland's Children's Hearings System. Panel members are lay members of the community, aged 18 or over and come from a wide range of backgrounds. They are unpaid volunteers who are appointed to the panel for a period of three years at a time.
A national recruitment campaign for new panel members in Scotland is currently taking place, with the closing date of 30 September 2015. The Eilean Siar Area Support Team is looking to recruit approximately 5 new members.
Anyone who is interested in becoming a member of the Children's Panel in the Western Isles can provide their contact details to the address, email or telephone number below.
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Durham hospital gets new name
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Durham, N.C. — Durham Regional Hospital officially changed its name Monday as part of a marketing plan to rebrand its image.
The facility is now called Duke Regional Hospital. Administrators said having Duke's recognizable name is expected to increase patient volume and referrals and help with job recruitment.
"Changing the hospital's name to Duke Regional will position the hospital for future growth by better reflecting our important relationship with Duke Medicine," hospital president Kerry Watson said in a statement. "Connecting more prominently with the Duke Medicine brand—one of the strongest in health care—will clearly identify our hospital as part of Duke."
The name change is the second for the hospital, which was called Durham County General Hospital until 1990.


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27 Additional Reasons To Use And Store Salt
Gaye Levy
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Friday, May 10, 2013
Reasons You Need Salt in the Prepper Pantry…
One of the very first things I did when I first started prepping was to bolster my pantry with basic staples that could be used for variety of purposes. When it was suggested that I store salt, and lots of it, I was a disbeliever. After all conventional mainstream wisdom had taught be that salt was the bad guy. Or was it?
I made it my mission to determine whether is salt a good thing, a bad thing or simply something best treated as an item to "use in moderation".
Salt As the Bad Guy
According to the Mayo Clinic, lowering your salt intake can help lower your blood pressure and your risk of cardiovascular disease. Furthermore, a recent article in the "New England Journal of Medicine" looked at the potential impact of reducing salt intake.
The report found that if Americans cut their salt intake by 3 grams a day, new cases of heart disease, stroke and heart attack would significantly drop — as would the number of deaths. The authors estimate that these changes could save between $10 billion and $24 billion in health care costs annually. In light of this, many experts are calling on food manufacturers and restaurants to lower the amount of salt in the foods they sell.
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Biometric Technologies - INTRODUCTION, BACKGROUND, Fingerprint, Facial Recognition, Iris Scan, Retinal Scan, Voice Recognition, Signature Verification
system time identification technology
Mayank Vatsa
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
Richa Singh
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
P. Gupta
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, India
A. K. Kaushik
Electronic Niketan, India
Identity verification in computer systems is done based on measures like keys, cards, passwords, PIN and so forth. Unfortunately, these may often be forgotten, disclosed or changed. A reliable and accurate identification/verification technique may be designed using biometric technologies, which are further based on the special characteristics of the person such as face, iris, fingerprint, signature and so forth. This technique of identification is preferred over traditional passwords and PIN-based techniques for various reasons:
- The person to be identified is required to be physically present at the time of identification.
- Identification based on biometric techniques obviates the need to remember a password or carry a token.
A biometric system essentially is a pattern recognition system that makes a personal identification by determining the authenticity of a specific physiological or behavioral characteristic possessed by the user. Biometric technologies are thus defined as the "automated methods of identifying or authenticating the identity of a living person based on a physiological or behavioral characteristic." A biometric system can be either an identification system or a verification (authentication) system; both are defined below.
- Identification: One to Many —A comparison of an individual's submitted biometric sample against the entire database of biometric reference templates to determine whether it matches any of the templates.
- Verification: One to One —A comparison of two sets of biometrics to determine if they are from the same individual.
Biometric authentication requires comparing a registered or enrolled biometric sample (biometric template or identifier) against a newly captured biometric sample (for example, the one captured during a login). This is a three-step process ( Capture, Process, Enroll ) followed by a Verification or Identification .
During Capture , raw biometric is captured by a sensing device, such as a fingerprint scanner or video camera; then, distinguishing characteristics are extracted from the raw biometric sample and converted into a processed biometric identifier record (biometric template). Next is enrollment, in which the processed sample (a mathematical representation of the template) is stored/registered in a storage medium for comparison during authentication. In many commercial applications, only the processed biometric sample is stored. The original biometric sample cannot be reconstructed from this identifier.
Many biometric characteristics may be captured in the first phase of processing. However, automated capturing and automated comparison with previously stored data requires the following properties of biometric characteristics:
- Universal: Everyone must have the attribute. The attribute must be one that is seldom lost to accident or disease.
- Invariance of properties: They should be constant over a long period of time. The attribute should not be subject to significant differences based on age or either episodic or chronic disease.
- Measurability: The properties should be suitable for capture without waiting time and it must be easy to gather the attribute data passively.
- Singularity: Each expression of the attribute must be unique to the individual. The characteristics should have sufficient unique properties to distinguish one person from any other. Height, weight, hair and eye color are unique attributes, assuming a particularly precise measure, but do not offer enough points of differentiation to be useful for more than categorizing.
- Acceptance: The capturing should be possible in a way acceptable to a large percentage of the population. Excluded are particularly invasive technologies; that is, technologies requiring a part of the human body to be taken or (apparently) impairing the human body.
- Reducibility: The captured data should be capable of being reduced to an easy-to-handle file.
- Reliability and tamper-resistance: The attribute should be impractical to mask or manipulate. The process should ensure high reliability and reproducibility.
- Privacy: The process should not violate the privacy of the person.
- Comparable: The attribute should be able to be reduced to a state that makes it digitally comparable to others. The less probabilistic the matching involved, the more authoritative the identification.
- Inimitable: The attribute must be irreproducible by other means. The less reproducible the attribute, the more likely it will be authoritative.
Among the various biometric technologies being considered are fingerprint, facial features, hand geometry, voice, iris, retina, vein patterns, palm print, DNA, keystroke dynamics, ear shape, odor, signature and so forth.
Fingerprint biometric is an automated digital version of the old ink-and-paper method used for more than a century for identification, primarily by law enforcement agencies (Maltoni, 2003). The biometric device requires each user to place a finger on a plate for the print to be read. Fingerprint biometrics currently has three main application areas: large-scale Automated Finger Imaging Systems (AFIS), generally used for law enforcement purposes; fraud prevention in entitlement programs; and physical and computer access. A major advantage of finger imaging is the long-time use of fingerprints and its wide acceptance by the public and law enforcement communities as a reliable means of human recognition. Others include the need for physical contact with the optical scanner, possibility of poor-quality images due to residue on the finger such as dirt and body oils (which can build up on the glass plate), as well as eroded fingerprints from scrapes, years of heavy labor or mutilation.
Facial Recognition
Face recognition is a noninvasive process where a portion of the subject's face is photographed and the resulting image is reduced to a digital code (Zhao, 2000). Facial recognition records the spatial geometry of distinguishing features of the face. Facial recognition technologies can encounter performance problems stemming from such factors as non-cooperative behavior of the user, lighting and other environmental variables. The main disadvantages of face recognition are similar to problems of photographs. People who look alike can fool the scanners. There are many ways in which people can significantly alter their appearance, like slight change in facial hair and style.
Iris Scan
Iris scanning measures the iris pattern in the colored part of the eye, although iris color has nothing to do with the biometric 6 . Iris patterns are formed randomly. As a result, the iris patterns in the left and right eyes are different, and so are the iris patterns of identical twins. Iris templates are typically around 256 bytes. Iris scanning can be used quickly for both identification and verification applications because of its large number of degrees of freedom. Disadvantages of iris recognition include problems of user acceptance, relative expense of the system as compared to other biometric technologies and the relatively memory-intensive storage requirements.
Retinal Scan
Retinal scanning involves an electronic scan of the retina—the innermost layer of wall of the eyeball. By emitting a beam of incandescent light that bounces off the person's retina and returns to the scanner, a retinal scanning system quickly maps the eye's blood vessel pattern and records it into an easily retrievable digitized database 3 . The eye's natural reflective and absorption properties are used to map a specific portion of the retinal vascular structure. The advantages of retinal scanning are its reliance on the unique characteristics of each person's retina, as well as the fact that the retina generally remains fairly stable throughout life. Disadvantages of retinal scanning include the need for fairly close physical contact with the scanning device. Also, trauma to the eye and certain diseases can change the retinal vascular structure, and there also are concerns about public acceptance.
Voice Recognition
Voice or speaker recognition uses vocal characteristics to identify individuals using a pass-phrase (Campbell, 1997). It involves taking the acoustic signal of a person's voice and converting it to a unique digital code that can be stored in a template. Voice recognition systems are extremely well-suited for verifying user access over a telephone. Disadvantages of this biometric are that not only is a fairly large byte code required, but also, people's voices can change (for example, when they are sick or in extreme emotional states). Also, phrases can be misspoken and background noises can interfere with the system.
Signature Verification
It is an automated method of examining an individual's signature. This technology examines dynamics such as speed, direction and pressure of writing; the time that the stylus is in and out of contact with the "paper"; the total time taken to make the signature; and where the stylus is raised from and lowered onto the "paper". Signature verification templates are typically 50 to 300 bytes. The key is to differentiate between the parts of the signature that are habitual and those that vary with almost every signing. Disadvantages include problems with long-term reliability, lack of accuracy and cost.
Hand/Finger Geometry
Hand or finger geometry is an automated measurement of many dimensions of the hand and fingers. Neither of these methods takes actual prints of palm or fingers. Only the spatial geometry is examined as the user puts a hand on the sensor's surface. Hand geometry templates are typically 9 bytes, and finger geometry templates are 20 to 25 bytes. Finger geometry usually measures two or three fingers, and thus requires a small amount of computational and storage resources. The problems with this approach are that it has low discriminative power, the size of the required hardware restricts its use in some applications and hand geometry-based systems can be easily circumvented 9 .
Palm Print
Palm print verification is a slightly modified form of fingerprint technology. Palm print scanning uses an optical reader very similar to that used for fingerprint scanning; however, its size is much bigger, which is a limiting factor for use in workstations or mobile devices.
Keystroke Dynamics
Keystroke dynamics is an automated method of examining an individual's keystrokes on a keyboard (Monrose, 2000). This technology examines dynamics such as speed and pressure, the total time of typing a particular password and the time that a user takes between hitting keys—dwell time (the length of time one holds down each key) as well as flight time (the time it takes to move between keys). Taken over the course of several login sessions, these two metrics produce a measurement of rhythm unique to each user. Technology is still being developed to improve robustness and distinctiveness.
Vein Patterns
Vein geometry is based on the fact that the vein pattern is distinctive for various individuals. Vein measurement generally focuses on blood vessels on the back of the hand. The veins under the skin absorb infrared light and thus have a darker pattern on the image of the hand. An infrared light combined with a special camera captures an image of the blood vessels in the form of tree patterns. This image is then converted into data and stored in a template. Vein patterns have several advantages: First, they are large, robust internal patterns. Second, the procedure does not implicate the criminal connotations associated with the taking of fingerprints. Third, the patterns are not easily damaged due to gardening or bricklaying. However, the procedure has not yet won full mainstream acceptance. The major disadvantage of vein measurement is the lack of proven reliability 9 .
DNA sampling is rather intrusive at present and requires a form of tissue, blood or other bodily sample 9 . This method of capture still has to be refined. So far, DNA analysis has not been sufficiently automatic to rank it as a biometric technology. The analysis of human DNA is now possible within 10 minutes. If the DNA can be matched automatically in real time, it may become more significant. At present, DNA is very entrenched in crime detection and will remain in the law enforcement area for the time being.
Ear Shape
Identifying individuals by ear shape is used in law enforcement applications where ear markings are found at crime scenes (Burge, 2000). Problems are faced whenever the ear is covered by hair.
Body Odor
The body odor biometrics is based on the fact that virtually every human's smell is unique. The smell is captured by sensors that are capable of obtaining the odor from non-intrusive parts of the body, such as the back of the hand. The scientific basis is that the chemical composition of odors can be identified using special sensors. Each human smell is made up of chemicals known as volatiles. They are extracted by the system and converted into a template. The use of body odor sensors broaches on the privacy issue, as the body odor carries a significant amount of sensitive personal information. It is possible to diagnose some disease or activities in last hours by analyzing body odor.
Performance Measurements
The overall performance of a system can be evaluated in terms of its storag e, speed and accurac y. The size of a template, especially when using smart cards for storage, can be a decisive issue during the selection of a biometric system. Iris scan is often preferred over fingerprinting for this reason. Also, the time required by the system to make an identification decision is important, especially in real-time applications such as ATM transactions.
Accuracy is critical for determining whether the system meets requirements and, in practice, the way the system responds. It is traditionally characterized by two error statistics: False Accept Rate ( FAR) (sometimes called False Match Rate), the percentage of impostors accepted; and False Reject Rate ( FRR ), the percentage of authorized users rejected. These error rates come in pairs: For each false-reject rate there is a corresponding false alarm. In a perfect biometric system, both rates should be zero. Unfortunately, no biometric system today is flawless, so there must be a trade-off between the two rates. Usually, civilian applications try to keep both rates low. The error rate of the system when FAR equals FRR is called the Equal Error Rate , and is used to describe performance of the overall system. Good biometric systems have error rates of less than 1%. This should be compared to error rates in current methods of authentication, such as passwords, photo IDs, handwritten signatures and so forth. Although this is feasible in theory, practical comparison between different biometric systems when based on different technologies is very hard to achieve. The problem with the system is that people's physical traits change over time, especially with alterations due to accident or aging. Problems can occur because of accident or aging, humidity in the air, dirt and sweat (especially with finger or hand systems) and inconsistent ways of interfacing with the system.
According to the Biometric Working Group (founded by the Biometric Consortium), the three basic types of evaluation of biometric systems are: technology, scenario and operational evaluation 9 .
The goal of a technology evaluation is to compare competing algorithms from a single technology. The use of test sets allows the same test to be given to all participants. The goal of scenario testing is to determine the overall system performance in a single prototype or simulated application to determine whether a biometric technology is sufficiently mature to meet performance requirements for a class of applications. The goal of operational testing is to determine the performance of a complete biometric system in a specific application environment with a specific target population, to determine if the system meets the requirements of a specific application.
Problems of Using Biometric Identification
Different technologies may be appropriate for different applications, depending on perceived user profiles, the need to interface with other systems or databases, environmental conditions and a host of other application-specific parameters.Biometrics has some drawbacks and loopholes. Some of the problems associated with biometrics systems are as follows:
- Most of the technologies work well only for a "small" target population: Only two biometric technologies, fingerprinting and iris scanning, have been shown in independent testing to be capable of identifying a person from a group exceeding 1,000 people. Three technologies—face, voice and signature—have been shown in independent testing to be incapable of singling out a person from a group exceeding 1,000. This can be a big problem for large-scale use 2.
The level of public concern about privacy and security is still high: Privacy issues are defined as freedom from unauthorized intrusion. It can be divided into three distinct forms:
- Physical privacy, or the freedom of individual from contact with others.
- Informational privacy, or the freedom of individuals to limit access to certain personal information about oneself.
- Decision privacy, or the freedom of individuals to make private choices about personal and intimate matters.
- Biometric technologies do not fit well in remote systems. If verification takes place across a network (the measurement point and the access control decision point are not colocated), the system might be insecure. In this case, attackers can either steal the person's scanned characteristic and use it during other transactions or inject their characteristic into the communication channel. This problem can be overcome by the use of a secure channel between the two points.
- Biometric systems do not handle failure well. If someone steals one's template, it remains stolen for life. Since it is not a digital certificate or a password, you cannot ask the bank or some trusted third party to issue a new one. Once the template is stolen, it is not possible to go back to a secure situation.
The world would be a fantastic place if everything were secure and trusted. But unfortunately, in the real world there is fraud, crime, computer hackers and theft. So there is need of something to ensure users' safety. Biometrics is one method that can give optimal security to users in the available resource limitations. Some of its ongoing and future applications are:
- Physical access
- Virtual access
- E-commerce applications
- Corporate IT
- Aviation
- Banking and financial
- Healthcare
- Government
This article presents an overview of various biometrics technologies' performance, application and problems. Research is going on to provide a secure, user-friendly and cost-effective biometrics technology.


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One of Hampshire's most wanted criminals has finally been locked up.
Wayne Jackson had been on the run after torturing a Southampton grandad.
He was a member of a gang who smashed their way into the home of Robert Warren, who was lying naked in bed in his St Denys flat.
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The trio fled but ringleader Gary West was caught in Southampton. A second man, Anthony Derby, escaped to Liverpool, where he was arrested hiding in his loft.
Jackson remained on the run for about 18 months despite a nationwide hunt.
He'd already escaped from an open prison, where he was serving a six year plus sentence for drug smuggling. He was captured when he returned to crime. He had already committed one burglary from a house in his native Liverpool when he tried to break into another. But, not only was he disturbed committing it but he was also caught.
Merseyside police contacted Southampton detectives and DS Will Whale and other officers travelled to Liverpool where they interviewed him. Jackson, 30, immediately confessed, though he tried to play down his role, saying it was minor.
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Jackson was described in court as being the middle-man in the raid on the home of Mr Warren.
Prosecutor Peter Spink said the victim, a known drug dealer, was handcuffed and repeatedly struck in the face with a rubber mallet as the gang demanded to know where he kept his money. Jackson boiled a kettle, which he gave to West, who flicked the water over Mr Warren's body as he demanded to know where he kept his money. Mr Warren was also cut on the bridge of his nose with a machete, which the gang had found in the flat.
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That's all well and good, but can you imagine the response in the Islamic community if an ebook Arabic version of the Koran were published with an error or two in the text, even something you personally would consider a minor font issue? Don't you imagine that the publisher would take a lot of time to ensure such errors didn't exist before making it available?
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denigrating your very evident concern over this. What I'm struggling to understand is how, with so very, very many translations of the Bible out there, any given one of them can be regarded as being an authoritative text, since they are all different. Or are they
authoritative? Is this typographical convention for the various forms of the Hebrew name of God something that they all do in the same way? I don't read Hebrew, only Greek, and the matter doesn't arise in Greek because the word for "God" used in both the Septuagint and the New Testament is just "theos", which is an ordinary everyday word, and exactly the same word you'd use if you were talking about one of the "classical" gods.
The situation with the Koran, where there's just one accepted text, is very different. It's either right or it's wrong.
I seriously doubt, for example, that every single Muslim in the world is capable of reading Arabic, yet they manage to be devotional and strongly religious just the same.
Mosques all over the world teach children to read the Koran in Arabic, just as the more traditional branches of Judaism teach children to read the Bible in Hebrew, regardless of their everyday spoken language. It's just the way that the thing is done.
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ORLANDO, Fla. - An accident Thursday evening sent two vehicles into the front yard of a home in the 2000 block of Fern Creek Avenue. Neighbors say the crash sounded like an explosion and looked outside to see cars flipped in a front yard.
"I was just in the back of the house and I heard a real loud explosion, I mean it was really loud. I thought it was the end of time," said Joe Kaniecki whose front yard the vehicles came to a rest in. Kaniecki walked out of his home to find a pick-up truck and car that collided were feet away from his own parked car and house. The truck was flipped over and the car was wedged against his neighbors house with the driver still inside. "I tried to get to the young lady from the passenger side and grabbed a fire extinguisher just in case and my wife was with 911," said Kaniecki.
Neighbors say the woman driving the car and a passenger in the truck were taken to the hospital but were expected to recover. "The driver, he didn't want medical help. He was bleeding on the side of the head and was just kind of standing there in a daze and from my understanding, he was the one who caused it trying to pass somebody," said Kaniecki.
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The City of Asheville will continue the form based code process for Haywood Road in west Asheville, with a five day Design Charrette process from September 14 – September 18. Design Charrettes are intensive, hands-on workshops that bring people from different disciplines and backgrounds together to explore design options. The goal of a charrette process is to capture the vision, values, and ideas of the community, with designers on hand to help sketch out their ideas.
The first opportunity for public participation in this process will be the Community Design Workshop on Saturday, September 14, 8:30 a.m. -12:30 p.m. The workshop will be held at "The Hub" at 278 Haywood Road, a storefront event space next to Villagers retail store at Beechams Curve.
"The public workshop will be the most important time for the community to show up and get involved" said Lee Einsweiler of Code Studio, the lead firm for the project, "Citizens will get to give their ideas and discuss what they think is most important for the future of the corridor". The four hour meeting will involve a presentation at the beginning, but most of the time will be spent in small groups allowing for maximum citizen participation.
Following the Saturday workshop, an open studio will begin on Sunday, September 15, where the public can drop in 8:00 a.m.- 12:00 p.m., 1:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. and 7:00-10:00 pm as the Design Team works on concepts for the form-based code based on input from the Saturday event. The studio will be located at the West Asheville Community Center at 970 Haywood Road (underneath Fire Station #6). A public Open House to allow for additional public comment will be held, Monday, September 16 from 6:00 p.m. – 8:00 p.m. at the studio. If stakeholders are unable to make the Saturday workshop, it is recommended that they attend the Monday evening Open House event to contribute their ideas and thoughts. Following these opportunities for public input, the design team will present their draft ideas at a presentation on Wednesday, September 18 at Hall Fletcher Elementary, 60 Ridgelawn Road, 6:30 p.m. – 8 p.m. A complete schedule for input opportunities is available at www.haywoodroad.code-studio.com.
The City Council funded this project because a form based code is an increasingly popular tool being implemented in many cities that produces clear expectations for new development so that developers, property owners, and the community know in advance what the community wants and will accept. The City Council intends the Haywood Road form based code to be a pilot project that will be extended to other corridors in the City in the future.
The primary focus of the Haywood Road form based code will be the size and some specific details of new buildings and their relationship to the sidewalk and street to help create a welcoming pedestrian oriented public space while encouraging new buildings in scale with the local community and neighborhood. By requiring these standards, new development along the road will help create a "front porch" for Haywood Road that will be an improved asset to the surrounding neighborhoods, while providing increased neighborhood urban-scale growth opportunities and better pedestrian connections.
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December 2, 2011
The Great Debaters
Ike Davis vs. James Loney
In Favor of James Loney by Jason Collette
This is not a knock on Davis, however, as there is little not to like about him. He turns 25 just before the season starts and has showed above-average power in his major league career thus far, which he pairs with a great aptitude for taking walks. My qualm with him is he has struck out in 23 percent of his plate appearances and swings and misses above the league average. Given that he is never going to help in stolen bases, the contact issues limit his batting average upside as it did in 2010 when he hit .264 over the course of a full season. Last season's .302 average was a bonus, but it also came in just 129 plate appearances along with a BABIP that's 23 points above where it was in a full 2010 season.
Additionally, Davis has a rather odd pattern going on with his numbers. While this is likely mere selectivity bias, in the first and last months of the season, Davis is a monster. In 152 plate appearances in the month of April, he has a 988 OPS, and in 124 plate September appearances, he has a 952 OPS. In between those enticing months are OPS's of 742, 715, 746, and 702. If we combine those groupings, we have a .332/.426.552 slash line over 232 good plate appearances and a .238/.321/.410 slash line across 420 bad plate appearances. On top of that, he's Ike freaking Davis and plays for the Mets, so if you thought you were going to be able to draft him at some kind of discount at the draft table, think again. A lot of people liked Ike coming into last season and his numbers pre-injury last year did not do much to quell that excitement. Simply put, this is exactly the type of player that is going to be reached for by players in national competitions and one that won't come at a discount in an auction. Maybe it is the Rays fan buried within my analytical role that is always looking for the fantasy bargain that attracts me to Loney, but I am apt to go after the young guy that has continually disappointed in hopes that he has another good year in him somewhere.
Since Loney hit .331 with a 919 OPS in his first (near) full season of 2007, it has been all downhill for him as he has not posted an OPS higher than 772 since that year. His batting average had been in a four-year slide until this past season, when he raised his average 21 points. His OPS was in a similar slide, but his work late in 2011 raised it 32 points from 2010. That late work was incredibly impressive considering how poorly the first half of the season went for Loney. That first half saw him hit a pedestrian .268 with a 653 OPS—numbers not even worth a replacement level label. In the second half, however, he posted a shocking .320 average with a 914 OPS, with most of that damage coming in the final two months as he hit .357 with a 1026 OPS over those last 192 plate appearances. That second half surge also happened to coincide with the Dodgers firing hitting coach Jeff Pentland and bringing in former pinch-hitter extraordinaire Dave Hansen. Correlation does not necessarily equal causation, but in this case, it just might. Chad Moriyama did an excellent job in breaking down what changed with Loney before and after the change in hitting coach, and our own Mike Petriello posted a similar article showing the effects of the hitting coach change, both highlighting the same positive changes for Loney. Even former BP fantasy editor Marc Normandin chimed in:
Whether Colletti is on target or not with his positive outlook is another matter. We are talking about fewer than 200 plate appearances, after all, and a whole lot can happen in a stretch like that. Plenty of players succeed like mad for short stretches of a month or two, only to never be that productive again. Then again, there are others. Take this .257/.339/.606 September 2009 from a certain Toronto Blue Jay, for one. (Hint: It's Jose Bautista.) Cases like Bautista, who was a career .386 slugger prior to that month, are a rarity, but with the right changes made to a hitter's approach, wholesale changes are possible. They are just unlikely, is all.
Loney isn't about to be confused for Joey Bats anytime soon, but if there is some major change in his swing mechanics that helped him succeed where he previously failed, then maybe Colletti is on to something. Of course, that "if" is as huge as the difference between Loney and a productive first baseman has been in the past.
Loney is a guy that I have watched fondly since his days in the Southern League when I lived in Jacksonville and could watch him play for the Suns, liking what I saw in his swing despite the less than desirable results. When the success started happening in the second half of the season, it was two weeks after I acquired him in one of my leagues so I was keenly aware of just how well he was doing down the stretch. Reading the work Moriyama and Petriello put out and seeing that Normandin had a reaction to their work that was similar to mine increases my desire to take yet another flyer on Loney in 2012 in the later rounds while someone reaches for the catchier nickname in the earlier rounds, limiting their profit margins.
In Favor of Ike Davis by Derek Carty
Ike Davis' most prominent tool is his power, and boy does he have that in spades. I'd easily grade his raw power out as a 65 or 70 on the 20-80 scouting scale, and you can see in his HitTracker chart just how far he's capable of hitting the ball.
With the Mets moving the Citi Field fences in quite a bit in right and right-center field—spots where Ike displays a lot of power to—it should only make it easier for Davis to display his monster power in 2012. It wouldn't be hard to envision the 25-year-old approaching 40 home runs one day, and 25-30 should be a piece of cake this season as long as he remains healthy and doesn't have any lingering effects from the ankle injury he sustained in 2011. The good news there is that he's recently declared himself 100 percent healed, which is excellent news with so much time remaining before spring training.
The knock against Davis is that some feel he'll be a batting average liability. While he's unlikely to bat .302 like he did to start 2011, he's also not going to be a .230 hitter in the way a lot of guys with his kind of raw power do. He might have similar raw power to a Mark Reynolds type of player, but his strikeout rates aren't going to be nearly as massive. In fact, he's been barely below average in terms of strikeouts in the majors, posting a 22.5 percent rate. While Davis' swing isn't exactly compact, he's also not going to whiff incredibly often, and his great patience and approach at the plate will allow him to see quality pitches in order to post good BABIPs. His BABIP was always outstanding in the minors, and that's carried over a great deal in his brief time in the majors.
Ike isn't going to steal any bases, but a .270 average and 25-30 home runs from a middle-of-the-order hitter in a decent lineup is going to have a lot of value in fantasy leagues. He's currently being selected as the 18th first baseman off the board in the 17th round of Mock Draft Central drafts, and that screams "Value!" to me. I'd gladly take him before the Gaby Sanchez, Paul Goldschmidt, Mark Trumbo, and Justin Morneau types that are being selected ahead of him, and without question I'd take him over James Loney. Jason says that in tougher leagues he could become a trendy pick, forcing one to reach to acquire him, but I'm not sure that's true. In the 15-team Tout Wars mixed league last season, he cost just $6. In the 14-team Yahoo! Friends & Family expert league, he went in the 13th round. Even in the 13-team LABR NL-only league, he only went for $16. Given that he missed almost the entire 2011 season, I find it hard to believe that he'll be more expensive than that in 2012. Yes, he's likely to still cost a little more than Loney, but he'll be worth it.
Jason Collette is an author of Baseball Prospectus.
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I think the upside/low-cost nature of Ike makes him a possible steal. Especially if CitiField changes so much to his advantage.
Dec 02, 2011 07:51 AM
Derek and Jason, good stuff! How does the presence of viable alternatives (i.e. Lucas Duda) enter into the equation? What about Davis's injury history (can we say propensity at this point or is that premature?)?
Dec 02, 2011 08:17 AM
Derek Carty
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Thanks, Sharky. Do you mean viable alternatives for the Mets or fantasy owners? In either case, I'd definitely take Davis before Duda in fantasy leagues, and I wouldn't worry about Duda taking time away from Davis at first in NY. As long as Davis is healthy, he's the first baseman there (the same can't be said of Loney). He's one of the team's top young hitters and a big part of their future, so even if he were to struggle for some reason, they'll play him just to see what they have in him. I don't expect struggles, though. Duda will likely have a full-time job in the outfield this season but may not be a long-term piece for the team. I think it's premature to say propensity. Any time a player is coming off an injury there's going to be risk, but being that he's apparently already completely healthy, it's a risk worth taking given his cost and upside.
Dec 02, 2011 09:02 AM
Honestly, and I am admittedly biased, but how is Ike Davis vs James Loney even close?
Dec 02, 2011 13:46 PM
Derek Carty
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Amazin_mess... sounds like your a Met fan :)
Dec 02, 2011 13:53 PM
.752 OPS over the last 4 years from 1B. There's just no value in that. At all. He's not even better than Casey Kotchman.
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Told with P. D. James's trademark suspense, insightful characterization, and riveting storytelling, The Children of Men is a story of a world with no children and no future.
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