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American Airlines is issuing apologies Wednesday after a delayed international flight turned into a mini photo shoot for some members of the flight crew.
Last Thursday, American Airlines flight 2126 was scheduled to depart San Jose, Costa Rica, for Dallas shortly before 9 a.m., but it was delayed due to maintenance.
The airline said all customers were offered accommodations for the night because of the delay, and the pilot did walk through the cabin at least once to apologize for the inconvenience.
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Passengers were allowed to return to the terminal while mechanics looked at the aircraft.
Brian Kelly, a passenger on the flight, said he sat on the plane for nearly four hours before the flight was ultimately canceled for the night.
During his wait, Kelly said he saw members of the flight crew climbing into the plane's engine, while one of the pilots snapped photos.
NBC 5 DFW confirmed the person snapping the photos was the flight's captain. We're told a flight attendant asked for the photos to be taken because she is close to retirement and she wanted a keepsake for one of her last trips to Costa Rica.
Kelly began snapping photos of the crew from his window seat. He says, "They're having fun to me. That seemed like an enjoyable time, and I'm stuck in a plane and can't go anywhere. It just didn't seem right."
Andrea Huguely, a spokesperson for American Airlines released a statement Wednesday afternoon: "Our people did their best to accommodate passengers during difficult circumstances, but showed poor timing when they chose to take a commemorative photo. We're reaching out to every passenger on board that flight to make amends."
Shortly after that statement was released, Kelly said he received the following email:
June 26, 2013
Dear Brian:
We are writing to follow up with you about the situation you encountered as a passenger on our flight 2126 on June 20. We realize that many of our customers' important plans were significantly affected, and for that, we apologize.
In appreciation for your patience, we have added 25,000 AAdvantage® bonus miles to your account. You should see this mileage adjustment in your account very soon, and you can view this activity via our web site, www.aa.com.
Your loyalty is important to us and we would like to assure you that we are committed to getting you to your destination as planned. We'll do our best to provide a smooth trip the next time you fly with us. We will look forward to welcoming you aboard again soon.
B. J. Russell
Customer Relations
American Airlines
NBC 5 DFW is also told supervisors have contacted the flight crew, and they are all sincerely apologetic for not only the inconvenience of the delay, but also the timing of the photo.
The flight arrived in Dallas on Friday. American Airlines fronted hotel expenses for the passengers on board.


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(AP) -- Chris Paul had 23 points and 11 assists, and the Los Angeles Clippers welcomed Chauncey Billups back to the lineup for the first time this season with a 101-95 victory over the Minnesota Timberwolves on Wednesday night.
Billups had seven points and three assists in 19 minutes as the Clippers ended a four-game losing streak. The five-time All-Star, beginning his 16th NBA season, was sidelined for more than nine months after tearing his left Achilles' tendon on Feb. 6 in a 107-102 victory at Orlando.
Blake Griffin, who had career lows in points (four) and field goals made (one) during Monday night's 105-98 home loss to New Orleans, had 18 points and six rebounds. Caron Butler, who scored 33 points in that game and set a franchise record with a career-high nine 3-point baskets, missed his first five shots and finished 1 for 8 with two points in 24 minutes.
Kevin Love had 19 points and 12 rebounds for Minnesota and is averaging 23.0 points and 15.6 boards in five games since returning from a broken right hand he sustained in the preseason. Last January at Staples Center, he hit a buzzer-beating 3-pointer to send the Clippers to a 101-98 loss.
Alexey Shved had 17 points off the bench for the Wolves. Josh Howard, who signed with Minnesota as a free agent on Nov. 16, made his first start of the season in Andrei Kirilenko's place and had seven points on 3-for-9 shooting.
The injury-depleted Timberwolves, already missing point guard Ricky Rubio, Brandon Roy and Chase Budinger, didn't have small forward Kirilenko at their disposal either because of back spasms. But they learned several hours before the game that Rubio, recovering from torn ligaments in his left knee, was cleared by doctors for full-contact practices.
The lead changed hands four times in the fourth quarter before Paul's 15-footer put the Clippers ahead to stay at 86-85 with 4:33 to play. DeAndre Jordan swatted Howard's attempted layup out of bounds on Minnesota's next possession, bringing Billups back into the game.
Griffin hit a 21-footer, then made it 90-95 with a slam dunk off a bounced pass from Jordan, who rebounded Billups' missed 3-point shot. Jordan missed two free throws with 2:01 remaining, but made up for it with a three-point play off a fast-break dunk to give the Clippers a 93-88 advantage with 59 seconds left.
The Wolves cut it to 95-93 on a 3-pointer by Shved, who faked Matt Barnes into the first row of seats before putting up the shot. But Jordan responded with an alley-oop gunk on a lob from Billups with 16 seconds to go, and the Clippers locked it up with four free throws by Paul.
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Paul navigated the Clippers to a 57-55 halftime lead with 11 points and six assists, one of them coming on Jordan's dunk in the final second. Los Angeles is 6-1 when he has 10 or more assists in a game, and 23-9 under those circumstances during the regular season since he joined the club in a trade with New Orleans.
Billups, who was replaced in the starting lineup at shooting guard by Willie Green for the Clippers' first 14 games, got their first basket on a 3-pointer from the top of the key 42 seconds after the opening top on an assist from Griffin. Billups scored seven points during his first stint on the court, which ended with 6:06 left in the opening quarter.
He averaged 15.0 points and 4.0 assists in 20 games last season with the Clippers after the Clippers claimed him when the New York Knicks waived him through the amnesty clause.
Los Angeles trailed by as many as nine points early in the second quarter before pulling ahead 38-36 with an 11-0 run. Lamar Odom, still struggling to get untracked since rejoining the Clippers as a free agent, capped the rally with an offensive rebound of Eric Bledsoe's missed jumper and a put-back dunk with 6:47 left in the half. In Monday night's loss, Odom played more than 19 minutes without attempting a field goal for the first time in his 14-year NBA career.
NOTES: Among the sellout crowd was Los Angeles Dodgers manager Don Mattingly and former Clipper Ron Harper. ... The Clippers outscored Minnesota 49-44 while Billups was on the floor. ... Clippers reserve G Jamal Crawford has converted a career-high 44 consecutive free throws since his last miss on Nov. 3. His previous best streak was 37 last April while playing for Portland. ... Love's 117 career double-doubles are the most among active players, one more than the Lakers' Dwight Howard and six more than Griffin, who is third on that list. ... Green, who averaged 18.4 minutes and 6.4 points in his 14 starts during Billups' absence, spent the entire game on the bench.
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TALLADEGA, Ala. � Does absence make the championship grow fonder?
For the second time in as many weeks, Victory Lane in NASCAR�s biggest series was missing any of the 13 participants in the Chase for the Sprint Cup.
Instead, it served as a refuge for yet another driver seeking to end a winless streak of a year or longer.
Jamie McMurray snapped a 108-race winless streak with his victory under caution in Sunday�s Camping World 500 at Talladega Superspeedway.
McMurray took the white flag � signifying the start of the final lap � as the race leader and his win was assured over Dale Earnhardt Jr. when a caution was displayed as Austin Dillon�s No. 14 Chevrolet got airborne on the backstretch.
Dillon was not hurt in the crash.
McMurray became the eighth driver this season to end a winless streak of 37 or more races and his stretched nearly three years. McMurray�s most recent victory came in October 2010 at Charlotte Motor Speedway.
�I don�t know how the last lap would have played out because I could see (Earnhardt) trying to set me up and trying to figure out where he could get a run on me,� said McMurray, who earned his seventh career win. Four of McMurrray�s victories have come on the superspeedways of Daytona and Talladega.
�Honestly, I wanted to see it end under green but at the same time, I said if there was a caution I would be okay with that, too,� he said.
The win also offered McMurray the first opportunity to share a Victory Lane experience with his 3-year-old son, Carter, who tried to offer his own commentary to ESPN reporter Dr. Jerry Punch during the post-race celebration.
McMurray�s wife, Christy, and infant daughter, Hazel, also joined the celebration.
�I mean, that�s top two or three moments of my life, to get to experience that with them,� he said.
McMurray also believes the victory gives his Earnhardt Ganassi Racing team a much-needed momentum boost.
�I mean winning is not just about me, it�s about everybody within our whole group,� he said. �You know, probably more so the No. 1 (team) guys because they�re the ones that are in Victory Lane. But it�s so cool to see their faces in Victory Lane and know that when we go to Martinsville (next weekend), you have confidence, everybody does.�
McMurray�s victory was perhaps most surprising in how it unfolded.
Throughout Sunday�s race, drivers were able to drive from the back to the front of the field with relative ease and the race ended with 52 lead changes among 20 drivers.
But once McMurray moved into the lead with 15 to go, the willingness of the drivers at the front of the field to risk moving out of line dropped dramatically.
Jeff Gordon called it �shocking.�
�I mean it�s smart for those guys up front to do that because it elminates a lot of cars out of the running for the win,� he said. �But I�ve never seen guys have that much patience here in my life.�
Earnhardt was planning to make a move for the lead on the final lap, likely with the help of Dillon, who was running behind him. The wreck and subsequent caution brought a quick end to Earnhardt�s plan.
�We didn�t get an opportunity to see what would have materialized. It wasn�t the best run in the world. It wasn�t what I dreamed it would be, all those last few laps,� Earnhardt said.
�But it was a good enough run I think to get up to his quarter panel and get beside him, and then we would have found out who our friends were at that point.�
Ricky Stenhouse Jr. ended up finishing a career-best third, Paul Menard was fourth and Kyle Busch was fifth.
Jimmie Johnson, who led the most laps in the race, ended up 13th and combined with Matt Kenseth�s 20th-place finish, took over the series points lead. With four races left this season, Johnson leads Kenseth by four points.
Kyle Busch and Kevin Harvick are tied for third, both 26 points behind Johnson.
�I�m happy to have the points lead and we went through a lot of work to get there,� Johnson said.


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Tonya Gonnella-Frichner, North American representative to the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, will speak on the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, which was adopted by the U.N. General Assembly in 2007. She will discuss how the declaration can be implemented, and what non-indigenous people can do to be advocates.
In 1987, Gonnella-Frichner became a delegate of, and legal counsel to, the Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Confederacy at the U.N. Sub-Commission on Human Rights' Working Group on Indigenous Populations in Geneva, Switzerland, which was then drawing up the U.N. Draft Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples. At the same time she founded the American Indian Law Alliance, one of the few indigenous organizations in North America that enjoys special consultative status with the U.N. Economic and Social Council.
A lawyer, diplomat, activist and Onondaga daughter, Gonnella-Frichner works closely with elders from the Haudenosaunee Confederacy as well as the Onondaga, Mohawk and Lakota nations, among others.
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When Bethany Edmund felt the sharp pain in her right foot, she thought she kicked a reef. Edmund, a 22-year-old nursing student and part-time swimsuit model, was swimming in the Pacific Ocean, off the coast of Carlsbad, Calif. An experienced swimmer, she didn't think much of it.
Then she felt something smack into her foot. Then her thigh. Suddenly, she was propelled a foot out of the water -- and saw a six-foot shadow underneath her. The thought occurred to her: Could it be a shark?
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Edmond had her camera with her, and shot some pictures while the attack was happening. She didn't know for sure that she was attacked by a shark until she saw the dark grey shadow in one of her photos.
In all, the shark hit Edmond five times -- three bumps without teeth and two bites. The bites left a total of 12 puncture wounds. Ralph Collier, a shark expert and president of the Shark Research Committee, examined photos of the bite wounds and determined that they are consistent with an attack by a baby great white shark.
"The shark probably came to take an initial bite to determine whether this was anything of interest," Collier said. "After determining that she wasn't, it was going to leave. She struck it, and it in turn retaliated.
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As soon as all the pieces were downstairs I hurled myself into assiduous labor, assembling the Cinnamon Twin Twin Bunk and hoping to finish before Tabi came home. Max watched from a ceiling corner and thought the whole thing funny. After a brief chuckle he took a step back, then rappelled himself onto the window sill.
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Our company is to help students explore their local area by telling them about local companies. We want to show that we are friendly, quirky but serious about what we do. Since our market is students, we want to come across as edgy and trendy too.
They are university students. They are in the age range 18-25.
We need a logo featuring the brand name. The name is "helloUni". Could have the hello in upper case too.
We want it to be edgy and quirky, but still looking professional. We do not want something that looks corporate. We would also like it to be simple and minimalistic rather than complex. However, we still want it to be powerful.(examples of things we like are Orange, 3 mobile)
I think the "hello" and the "Uni" should be in different fonts, and for the "hello" to look hand written and perhaps a little scruffy, without looking bad if that makes sense.
Bright colours rather than dull ones, (ie. reds and yellows rather than blue and black) but not too many different colours as still want it to look simple.
The word "Uni" will be changed to vairous universities too so this will have to be taken into account (ie. there will have to be enough room to do this so the "Uni" can't be enclosed in anything)
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ASU Electronic Theses and Dissertations
This collection includes most of the ASU Theses and Dissertations from 2011 to present. ASU Theses and Dissertations are available in downloadable PDF format; however, a small percentage of items are under embargo. Information about the dissertations/theses includes degree information, committee members, an abstract, supporting data or media.
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- Hertzel, Michael
- Bharath, Sreedhar
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- 1 No. 2 executive
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- Mobile Crowd Sensing in Edge Computing Environment
- The Effect of Disability on Subjective Well-Being across the Adult Lifespan: The Moderating Roles of Age at Disability Onset and Disability Type
- Mechanically Active Heterogeneous Polymer Matrix Composites
- Attribute-Based Encryption for Fine-Grained Access Control over Sensitive Data
- 并购背景下教育行业品牌价值研究
Mutual monitoring in a well-structured authority system can mitigate the agency problem. I empirically examine whether the number 2 executive in a firm, if given authority, incentive, and channels for communication and influence, is able to monitor and constrain the potentially self-interested CEO. I find strong evidence that: (1) measures of the presence and extent of mutual monitoring from the No. 2 executive are positively related to future firm value (Tobin's Q); (2) the beneficial effect is more pronounced for firms with weaker corporate governance or CEO incentive alignment, with stronger incentives for the No. 2 executives to monitor, and …
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- Li, Zhichuan, Coles, Jeffrey, Hertzel, Michael, et al.
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- 2012


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In line with warmth, for the last three weeks my favorite newspaper, the Leader/Observer, has featured a Jamaica Avenue location on our Woodhaven Business Improvement District (WBID) as an "Eyesore of the Week" because of graffiti vandalism.
The WBID removes graffiti vandalism from our Jamaica Avenue, but due to the cold weather that freezes the paint used to paint over it and the chemicals to remove it, he WBID was unable to remove this graffiti during the storms and the frigid weather. So, this label of "eyesore" was unwarranted. As the weather warms, we will again on Woodhaven's Jamaica Avenue be 98 percent graffiti vandalism free.
Also, if you spot any storefront locations or walls with markings, please call them into our office at (718) 805-0202 or (718) 805-0760. Our Woodhaven has the only business improvement district, outside of three in Jamaica in southern Queens. It took us seven years to get it, so be proud Woodhaven. Mark your calendar for our spring promotion with the Easter Bunny on Saturday, April 12, from 1 to 4 p.m.
Sometime ago in a letter to the editor, a truly eloquent testament was made to the noblest of unselfish giving: being a volunteer. This individual stated "to show support for some kind of worthwhile cause or organization in your area and also that you should contribute your time or talent."
All of the local community organizations do need support and involvement to perpetuate what dedicated individuals have worked for and accomplished over the years. In my case, over a quarter of a century, in some cases even more.
When you are a truly committed volunteer you take time from your wives, husbands and families. You postpone trips or vacations and all of your free time is dedicated to community problems and the pursuit of their solutions with other dedicated organization members. Also, you place your organization and your community's needs above your own personal interests.
What these longstanding credible organizations do not need are individuals who get involved for the wrong reasons, some being personal or professional interests, self-aggrandizement or the furthering of their own agendas or careers. It is truly unfortunate that organizations needing to recruit new members often are blinded by these individuals that initially obscure their selfish and indulgent goals when they volunteer.
Also, due to the dearth in volunteers, these altruistic longstanding members are often duped by these "new members" that use them to their own ends. Let us understand, volunteerism should be rewarded, but as a byproduct of volunteering, not as the reason for volunteering. The highest reward must be that you have improved your community and the satisfaction this brings with it.
So when you do volunteer, if you choose to do so (and I hope you do choose to do so), do it for the right reasons. These reasons should be to make the organization stronger, to target and pursue the problems in a community and work to solve them with your other organization members and your community residents.
Also, when you are revealed as being a self-indulgent and self-promoting individual involved for all the wrong reasons, don't try to diminish the organization when you leave, for in doing so you diminish no one but yourself. To all you potential volunteers, please get involved, but do it with well-meaning and goodhearted intent. Volunteerism is rewarding, and as someone stated recently, "it's good for the soul." This is the "Value of Volunteerism."
So enjoy the warm weather, spring is 10 days away. May God bless our leaders, may God bless our armed forces, may God bless our disabled veterans, and may God bless our America.


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Create, collect, go into debt
There's not a lot I remember about the rampant imagination of childhood, but most of the good memories came from the depths of my toy chest. Pitting Aliens against Transformers. Imagining Cloud Strife's sword slicing through Foxhound's ranks. On occasion, a friend would come over and contribute to the chaos until it ended with crying, a fight, and a broken yet replaceable (but totally irreplaceable in my eight-year-old mind) figurine.
This basis of mashing properties together is probably why we have M.U.G.E.N, Girl Talk, and comic book crossovers. There is something forbidden and alluring about bringing together things that were conceived in different worlds. So when Disney Interactive brings together its movies, TV shows, and Pixar hits this summer for Infinity and provides an allotted virtual space for play, will it be like the messy, epic battles that once happened on my living room floor? Or will it feel like a cash grab riding on the coattails of Skylanders?
Disney Infinity (3DS, PC, PlayStation 3, Mobile, Wii , Wii U, Xbox 360)
Developer: Avalanche Software
Publisher: Disney Interactive
Release: June 2013
Here's a general rule I have when previewing a game, one that investors (only the ones who play games) would be wise to adopt: If I have to use more than three games as a basis of comparison to describe an upcoming title, then it's something special but not necessarily something good. A game that does everything yet pleases no one is an ambitious mess. With only a limited demo and no hands-on time, I can't accurately state where Infinity falls between these two extremes -- one being a fun creative stroke of innovation and the other an incomprehensible turd -- but that the explanation doesn't begin and end with "Skylanders rip-off" is an achievement in and of itself.
(For the short version of what makes Infinity special, jump to **** below.)
I'm glad I'm not doing PR for this game
It's awesome that long-standing Disney developer Avalanche Software isn't settling for a Skylanders clone. It's also awesome that it's not my job to sell this game and ensure its success. A 45-minute presentation for a family title should be overkill, but it felt as if Disney only scraped the surface during Infinity's reveal at Los Angeles's El Capitan Theater, leaving many questions unanswered and seemingly deep aspects only teased.
Though the game can only be played co-op with players on your friends list, there are some MMO roots to Infinity's design:
Perhaps MMO is the wrong genre to compare it to, but there certainly isn't a right one. Hack 'n slash action in the world of Pirates of the Caribbean, creeping across campus in a Monster University stealth mission, platforming across a series of death traps a friend uploaded, trying to break the game's physics with three friends in Toy Box mode -- you can't explain Infinity's design any easier than you can explain how children play with their toys. It begins with emptying out every single thing onto the bedroom floor, G.I. Joes prodding out from beneath the sprawl of Ninja Turtles and Smurfs figurines, hoping something fun will follow.
Where to begin
No two players may have the same takeaway from Infinity, but all players will experience the same beginning. The intro opens with Jack Sparrow -- re-stylized in the pastel colors, saucer eyes, and vaguely Korean character design look that graces all Disney characters in Infinity -- rowing a boat through a pirate town under cannonball fire. After accepting a mission quest to rescue Gibbs, Infinity throws a series of tried-and-true mechanics at you: ground pound for an area-of-effect attack, cling and jump along ledges, fire a pistol at a locked gate, and always, always, always follow the big persistent purple arrow. To be fair, the game has a tasteful HUD that hides elements and contextualizes them in the world, such as a Blur-like health bar that temporarily appears around the player.
Upon rescuing Gibbs, you are offered other islands and worlds to explore. Completion rewards the player with a ship for purchase in the toy kiosk at the center of town, a constant landmark across the game's worlds. With the coins acquired from defeating enemies and hitting the crap out of barrels, one mighty pirate ship can be purchased and boarded. From there, you can jump into a different section of the game (Pirates, The Incredibles, and Monsters University were shown off), play around in Toy Box, or customize your seaworthy vessel with items you acquired from red capsules hidden throughout. A new sail here, a fresh coat of paint there, and you're ready to island hop or have a naval battle. If a friend happens to join you, they can help man the cannons or go on their own adventure elsewhere in the world (without breaking the split-screen play).
The Disney chokehold
This is the company that had the government rewrite copyright law so it can hold onto its empire until the Earth enters the next ice age. While I can't say I ever met an unhappy Disney employee, the company itself has a habit of biting its own tail, and this is perfectly on display in Infinity. Avalanche Studios seems to be wholly content and grateful to be tied to such an ambitious project after many years of making games timed to movie releases. For an outsider, it wasn't hard to tell that Avalanche isn't being given the keys to the kingdom. I also get the sense it isn't being given the trust or freedom it needs to make Infinity a home run success, either.
Looking beyond the elephant in the room (i.e. "Will Marvel or Lucas characters appear in the game?" Avalanche developers smiling, nodding, and saying, "We'll see."), it's baffling that Infinity's main concept is bringing the many worlds of Pixar and Disney together, yet no mission in the game will allow characters from another property to enter. There is an argument to be made that Monsters Inc. characters entering Pirates in the Caribbean may be out of character and a ham-fisted maturation of the property. That argument can be ended by pointing out that anything and everything is possible with the game's assets in Toy Box (read on below).
If Disney was hoping I wouldn't notice the almost complete absence of classic Disney animated characters and expected that platypus from TV series Phineas and Ferb to fit right in with Pirates of the Caribbean and Toy Story, Disney is mistaken. So far, appearances from animated Disney films has been limited to minor aspects in the game world that can be applied in Toy Box. These range from the mundane (the Cave of Wonder's tiger entrance from Aladdin) to the fantastic (can I get a heck yeah for the inclusion of Tron's Recognizers?).
Moderating player uploads and limiting players to only connecting with those on their friends list are to be expected. Limiting Avalanche's Toy Box, and in effect the player's, to only recent Disney CG properties -- really, who wants Bolt and Frankenweenie before The Lion King and Mulan? -- makes it appear as if Disney doesn't have a great deal of confidence in Avalanche to handle its top-tier properties, and it makes me wonder why. More importantly, it makes me wonder if the game will feel incomplete upon release, not fully making good on its grand concept of representing a child's play box where CHARACTERS from DIFFERENT PROPERTIES can PLAY TOGETHER. Right?
Perhaps the rest is yet to come in a conveniently timed to E3 reveal. Let's hope.
Once more into the toy chest
I don't have kids, I don't adopt kids, I don't kidnap kids, and I don't have any young relatives or siblings. I am part of a demographic that isn't Disney's bread and butter. The same can be said of most game journalists, which is probably why Disney offered beer by the crate and dessert at 10am during the event. Such indulgent treats weren't necessary when Avalanche has an ace up its sleeve with Toy Box.
****Hey, you found your way down here. Good to see you again!****
Whether the included linear missions and secluded worlds are the origin or late additions of Infinity, it is Toy Box that realizes the game's namesake. Inspired by Avalanche's previous work on Toy Story 3, Infinity's revamped Toy Box mode is a hodgepodge of popular commercial level building sets. It's "Disney Forge" mode. It's "LittleDisneyPlanet." It's "Disneycraft." It's all those things and whatever else players will make it to be.
At its simplest, Toy Box is a place where three players can join online and goof around, settle "What if?" scenarios between Mr. Incredible and Buzz Lightyear, build impossible obstacle courses, or construct a world that can be called home out of parts from 20+ Disney franchises. At its most complex, Toy Box can become a toolset that allows players to create puzzles via a logic editor that connects triggers to the environment, reposition the camera to make a traditional 2D side-scrolling platformer, or recreate Bowser's Castle from Mario Kart for others to race on.
Toy Box is the one place where all of Infinity's items, art assets, and heroes come together to form a virtual space for kids to break, explore, build, and share. Combine all this with plans to run community contests, like one centered around building the craziest castle, and introductory templates and blueprints to ease players in, and Infinity has a real chance of presenting lessons learned from Halo's Forge mode, Minecraft, and LittleBigPlanet to a younger and possibly wider audience.
And all of this for the price of ...
SCUMBAG GAME JOURNALIST turns to developer, who is explaining how to spend coins to purchase in-game items, and says with a smirk, "So, you can also buy those coins with real world money, right?"
That would be too obvious for Disney, which has a far more insidious plan. If Disney's plan comes together, it could create a perfect storm that will make the Elmopocalypse of 1997, Furbygeddon of 1998, and Skylanders drought of 2011 look like small footnotes in hungry-consumers-turned-stampeding-angry-parents history.
Here's how you do it: You take Skylander's base reader and well-crafted figurine collectibles, then you add a third slot to the reader (the second slot is for a second player) which unlocks items, custom packs, buffs, and abilities, and finally -- this one is the real kicker -- you offer those franchise-specific tokens through blind purchase packs that leave kids frustrated over getting Frankenweenie for the fifth time and parents without any money to spend on Grandma come Christmas time. Like I said, it's insidious but not without a dash of genius on top.
Whether you think it's better or worse than a pay-to-play structure, this aspect of collectible tokens and figurines brings the whole toy box concept full circle. Kids at playgrounds will make sacred trades, covet the impossibly rare Howard the Duck costume pack (not real), and become increasingly giddy each time they spill out the contents of their virtual toy chest onto their private play space -- one that may contain the iconic Disney castle in the background and Wreck-It Ralph's Sugar Rush track in the foreground. But it's also a space where memories can be made, not unlike the ones I made on a living room floor, once upon a time.
Just don't expect to see Ariel make out with a facehugger.
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Just because Jersey Shore star Vinny Guadagnino is on TV's hottest reality show doesn't mean he was popular growing up.
"I was bullied in high school by a lot of girls," the reality star, 23, tells me during a Philips Norelco event in NYC. "I wasn't the least popular kid, but I wasn't the most popular kid, and high school kids are vicious sometimes, if you're not the most popular kid."
He adds, "I have strong feelings about anti-bullying. It's really bad now, especially with online, so I definitely got bullied when I was a kid and I know what it feels like. I'm stepping up for the underdogs."
For Vinny, being singled out was difficult.
"I was a little awkward growing up. Girls would just find whatever they could. Call me 'nerdy,' because I wasn't the biggest jock in school. High school kids can get vicious. They gang up, they clique and they ignore. Things can hurt – not even just words."
What advice does he have for those who are being relentlessly teased?
"You can't let people affect you, and that's in life in general, whether it's your boss or your teacher or whatever," he says. "You have to realize that people are mean because of their own problems, so you actually have to feel bad for those people. If you flip that around in your own head, it'll make it easier for you, because you actually become the one with the upper hand."
Pick up the OK! on newsstands now for more on Vinny. The cover line is "Angie Sabotages Jen's Wedding." And, catch Vinny on Jersey Shore, which airs tonight at 10/9C on MTV.
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Is there any way for two people to securely authenticate each other without access to any special software (like PGP)? For example, when speaking over the phone or by sending SMSes to each other or using some other text channel. Assume they can securely exchange any necessary secrets beforehand and also have access to software then, but at the time they need to do the authentication they have only basic phones or perhaps calculators.
Obviously the simplest thing is for each person to have a password that they say to the other, but this is not secure, because one person always has to go first. If the other is an impersonator they now have one of the passwords. So I'm probably looking for some kind of a challenge-response mechanism here - but whatever works.


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Not that great of a picture, but you get the idea. Russell Martin and Manny Ramirez. I did see a James Loney and Andre Ethier. Apparently there will be 7 different covers. I only got two. Five more to go. Got these over the weekend at Dodger Stadium.
Tuesday, March 24, 2009
2009 Dodgers Pocket Schedules
3 comments:
They should let me do them
- March 24, 2009 at 11:32 PM
- Unknown said...
U got Manny's now I know I have to go get Loneys'.....I got all the ones from last season
- March 25, 2009 at 3:51 PM
- Roberto Baly said...
@ M.Brown - You are right ! lol
@ Moe - I'm sure you will get them during the season :)
- March 25, 2009 at 5:12 PM
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AUBURN, Ala. (AP) - Patrick Patterson hit 3-of-4 free throws over the final 45 seconds and Kentucky shot a season-high 67 percent to hold on for a 66-63 win over Auburn on Wednesday night.
Patterson had 19 points and eight rebounds and Joe Crawford scored 20 for the short-handed Wildcats (11-9, 5-2 Southeastern Conference), who won their fourth consecutive league game despite a late scare.
The Tigers (12-9, 2-6) stayed alive with five quick points. Rasheem Barrett hit a 3-pointer with 30 seconds remaining and DeWayne Reed then had a steal and layup to make it 64-63.
Crawford saved the Wildcats from serious trouble with a long heave across midcourt to Michael Porter when Auburn nearly forced a 10-second violation.
The Tigers were forced to foul Ramon Harris, who made 1-of-2 free throws with 14 seconds to play. Reed then tried a long 3-pointer that missed badly, and Patterson grabbed the rebound. He made one of two free throws with 3 seconds left and Lucas Hargrove rebounded the miss and threw up a desperation shot from before midcourt that went wide right.
The result was the ninth straight win in the series for Kentucky, which has won 23 of the last 24 meetings. The Wildcats were without a pair of double-digit scorers. Ramel Bradley missed the game with a concussion sustained in the Georgia game last Saturday and Jodie Meeks remained out with a hip injury.
Patterson and Crawford fueled Kentucky's hot shooting performance. Patterson made 8-of-10 baskets. Crawford was 8-for-12 and made three 3-pointers for the short-handed Wildcats. Perry Stevenson scored 10 points before fouling out late.
Quan Prowell led Auburn with 20 points and nine rebounds. Rasheem Barrett had 12 points, Quantez Robertson 11 and Frank Tolbert 10.
The Tigers shot just 41 percent and made 5-of-18 3-pointers.
The Wildcats took advantage of a stretch when Auburn missed eight straight shots to build a 58-48 lead on Patterson's short jumper with 6:22 left.
The Tigers then started to force mistakes with an aggressive, trapping defense.
Tolbert got a steal and then hit two free throws with 2:06 to play to cut it to 62-57 and make it a tight game.
Tolbert stole the ball near midcourt and forced Stevenson to commit his fifth foul to prevent an easy layup
The Tigers had managed to overcome an eight-point deficit to head into halftime tied at 34-all. Hargrove tied it up with a 3-pointer from the right corner that just beat the buzzer to end the half. He couldn't repeat the desperation basket at the end.
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Born: 21 August, 1933 Hatfield, Yorkshire, England
Dame Janet (she was made a DBE in 1976) started her singing studies with Helen Isepp in 1953. Only three years later she won second prize in the Kathleen Ferrier awards and made her debut in the same year, 1956.
Janet Baker quickly established herself as a regular of the Glyndebourne Fsetival and a member of Benjamin Britten's English Opera Group. At the same time, with the help of a series of radio recitals she made her mark as a singer of songs and oratorio. Throughout her career she was able to sing equally effectively on stage, in concerts and in the recording studio.
Her career was international but she became a particular favourite with audiences in the UK and the USA (where she toured every year from 1966 until she retired a few years ago). In opera, oratorio and song Janet Baker brought a deep emotional commitment to her singing. She possessed an extremely warm, flexible voice which did justice both to florid baroque music and dramatic repertoire as well.


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The San Diego State women's basketball team was leading Boise State by 36 points with four minutes left on Saturday, yet there was obvious urgency as Chelsea Hopkins dribbled down the Viejas Arena court. It was as if she was working on getting the winning basket.
The Aztecs guard glanced to her right and then zipped the ball to Courtney Clements on the wing. Clements never hesitated, putting up a shot from way beyond the 3-point arc that found all net.
Hopkins shot up her arms and greeted Clements with hand slaps of celebration because she knew what that 3 meant: For a nation-leading fourth time this season, Hopkins recorded a triple double: 13 points to go with 11 rebounds and 12 assists.
"It was fitting that it came on a play with Courtney that she's run so many times before," said Aztecs coach Beth Burns, who couldn't remember any of her athletes having four triple-doubles in a single season.
It was that kind of Senior Day for SDSU: plenty of stirring moments to cap a wholly memorable and satisfying regular season. Clements knocked down 26 points, the Aztecs routed the Broncos 86-45, and then everybody associated with the program, including toddlers in their parents' arms, cut down the nets and watched the banner go up for the regular-season Mountain West championship.
The Aztecs, 24-5 overall, finished the conference with a 15-1 record, the only loss coming in the opener at home against Fresno State. SDSU will be the top seed in next week's MW Tournament in Las Vegas, and the Aztecs will play at noon on Thursday in the quarterfinals against the winner of Tuesday's game between No. 8 Air Force and No. 9 Nevada.
"It never gets old," said Burns when she climbed down from the ladder after cutting the final chords of the net from the rim. "People don't understand what climbing that ladder signifies. For some of these young women, it's a memory they will have for the rest of their life. It's pretty special."
The winningest coach in the program's history, Burns celebrated her third Mountain West title and the second straight. She guided a senior-laden team that led the conference in defense and ranked behind only one team in offense.
The seniors – Clements, Hopkins, Malia Nahinu, Gabrielle Clark and Niki Novak – walked out to mid-court with their family members before the game and then blitzed the Broncos early, building a 24-6 lead that allowed Burns to rotate in a dozen players. Nahinu scored 12 points, Clark had seven and sophomore forward Erimma Amarikwa added 10.
Hopkins looked on the verge of tears when she was introduced with her parents, but her determination was clear at tipoff.
"It was emotional," she said. "You're so appreciate of what everyone has done for you at San Diego State. But we also knew we had a job to do, and we went out and got it done."


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What's inside? Here are the questions answered in today's reader mailbag, boiled down to five word summaries. Click on the number to jump straight down to the question.
1. Combining budgets
2. Considering major life changes
3. Board games with wife
4. Nervous about adjustable rates
5. Starting business with debt load
6. Low-yield savings account
7. Self-employment and debt
8. Emergency fund use
9. Psychological trick with online shopping
10. Employer bankruptcy and 401(k)/403(b) status
Several people have asked me what food I miss most since switching diets.
Easy. Cheese and eggs. I really don't miss the meat too much at all, but a cheese-and-egg sandwich still sounds wonderful to me.
Q1: Combining budgets
I am recently married and we are interested in combining our finances soon. I'm first in the process of selling my house. When this happens (hopefully soon…my agent expects an offer from another client this evening actually) it will free up about $900 a month for us. (The payment, insurance, taxes, utilities, etc.) We've maintained seperate accounts since we were married a few months ago and decided it would be a good idea to combine them when we were free of my house responsibilities.
We both have kids, and are expecting another soon. We both really got after our cc debt the last year and have decided that paying down any debt is the most important thing before we either buy or build another house or add on to our current one. But the truth is I don't think either of us has a real great idea of what the other actually pays out each month. I don't think we're being deceptive but we've both been independent for so long that sharing this or even starting to work on a budget has kind of been shrugged off.
Is there a budget form or method you could recommend that would lay it all out on the line for us? Call it lazy or what-have-you, I feel like we'd be both more willing to set a budget and be more upfront about everything if we had something pre-made to work with. I would even settle for a book or another site that would help me explain and feel more confident in this.
– Erin
Generally, I don't think budget forms really work aside from just creating a picture of how people spend their money. They either create too many categories or not enough categories and result in confusion or difficulty for the people involved.
If I were you guys, I'd sit down together and look at your last few months of bank statements and credit card statements so you can see where your money actually goes. Talk about these things openly, not defensively. If you can do this without trying to hide things or getting anxious or angry, you're probably in a very good place when it comes to money.
If you're find you're having trouble making ends meet, I suggest "automatic budgeting," meaning that many expenses are automatically withdrawn from your checking account. Set up an automatic transfer to your savings account each week. Set up online bill pay and have many bills paid automatically. In other words, take care of as much stuff as you can automatically so that you can feel more free to use what's left for what you want.
Q2: Considering major life changes
I am a 28 year old girl who is at a crossroad in her life and clueless of which direction to take. 8 months ago I quit my software job of after six years, as I found myself procrastinating endlessly at work. I was also medically diagnosed with anxiety depression at the time. I quit my job and started mediation about the same time and the next 3-4 months were pretty good sans the occasional bouts of depression and feeling of 'what am i doing with my life'.
I took up art classes, something which I always wanted to do and travelled a bit and the introvert that I am the meds made me feel more talkative and confident of myself. My doctor slowly stopped my medication and I continue taking therapy on and off. I moved back to my home town (where I had been living most of my adult life with my parents. I had moved overseas 3 years ago after I got married) last week and I felt the time was right for me start working again.
I had been considering other career options all the while during my break but I could never feel motivated enough to go and do something about it. I enjoyed painting but I would procrastinate to paint on my own at home when I stopped the classes. I enjoy writing but I would again procrastinate when it came to writing a blog post and not to mention my fear of being ridiculed. I found myself being drawn to design (graphic, well designed products, art) but I couldn't figure out what to do about it.
I enjoy crafting and always dream of making the next best craft but I never get around to actually doing it. The rare once that I do, I do almost in secret since I worry about being laughed at. So anyway after my return last week, with a bit of influence from the people around me, I was convinced and I convinced myself too that I was not able to figure out what to do with my life for 8 months so if I sit idle now the same routine will continue so let me get back into a software job for now and slowly plan on a career change.
But as I started applying for jobs and attended interviews I realized I was not at all interested in it just as I felt 8 months ago and I am not at the top of my technical skills right now so all the rejections hurt my confidence bad. I do believe if I brushed up my skills a bit I could very well find a decent job but I don't feel motivated to read anything technical. I put the book/monitor in front of me and I find myself distracted in 5 seconds.
I have been trying to convince my husband and parents that software is not for me and I want to do something else. But obviously the first question everyone asks me is "but what DO you what to do" and I have no answer. I have some vague ideas of wanting to be a painter or doing a design course or starting my own craft store but no concrete plan to get there. And I am not even sure if I will enjoy doing that full time and I feel like I cant take another chance at this stage. So in the end I feel like I am back where I started 8 months ago. So my question to you is do you have any suggestions of how I can get started on getting my life back on track? I should also mention that my husband and I are pretty financially stable so money never motivated me either.
– Satya
My immediate response to this is to ask you what things you can actually do with sustained focus. What do you spend your time on (that's not purely entertainment, like television) where you're not bored or distracted quickly?
If you can't think of anything, I suggest getting a very simple job, like a checkout clerk, and spend your free time finding what it is that you want to do and can actually do with some degree of success.
It doesn't sound like the technical field you were in is the right field for you now. If you can't focus for more than a minute on it, you'll never really succeed in that field. Take this crossroads in your life as an opportunity to figure out what comes next.
Q3: Board games with wife
I have been making a concerted effort to spend more time with my wife lately.
I was wondering if you could recommend a boardgame that my wife and I could maybe enjoy by ourselves?
– Ron
I could give you a long list of suggestions here, but it's often hard to tell what will "click" with people. It depends a lot on their personalities: their patience, their willingness to think about a situation, their attraction to well-produced components, and so on.
For two players who haven't played a lot of board games, I would probably blindly suggest Ticket to Ride: Nordic Countries. It's a game with well-produced components that can be played in about an hour in which players are trying to build connections between cities. It's very simple to learn and involves quite a bit of bluffing when you get good at it.
Another choice, one my wife and I played a lot before we had kids, is Lost Cities. It's an easy-to-learn card game in which you're trying to make sequences of cards and is playable in about thirty minutes. There's some arithmetic involved, but aside from that, it's really easy to pick up and enjoy.
I can't guarantee you'll love these, but they're good starter suggestions for a couple wanting to play board games together.
Q4: Nervous about adjustable rates
I'm currently living in a house with two (non-FHA) mortgages owing approximately $400k in total. One is a HELOC at 125k and the other is a 5/1 ARM that's not in the adjustable rate portion of the the loan. This loan readjusts the rate every year. Last year it was 3.125% and this year it's 3%. After taxes and insurance, I pay about $2500 per month on the two loans. Now, most likely, the house could be sold for $400k (I would lose 5% or $20k on commissions unless I did FSBO). It's also inevitable that interest rates will start climbing again and I will start owing considerably more than $2500 per month, just to live there. Even now, I generally live paycheck-to-paycheck on $70k paying either the mortgage or all the other bills.
Besides trying to find a higher paying job, what's my recourse? Should I walk away from the home? Should I hope that housing values recover more quickly than interest rates? Should I try to sell now at a loss? Should I play the lottery?
– Tom
Can you find a place to live that's cheaper than the interest you're paying each month right now? If you can't, then I'd keep paying the mortgages. If you can, then I'd sell.
You're right – eventually, interest rates are going to rebound and then the interest rate on your mortgage will go up. When that happens, it will probably change the equation for you in terms of what the least expensive living option is.
However, if your situation now points toward your current low-interest mortgage being the best deal for you, stay put for the moment. Sell when it's clear that rates are actually rebounding and there's an actual cost to you. Don't move into a more expensive situation out of fear.
Q5: Starting business with debt load
I borrowed approximately $125,000 (which is now approaching $140,000 when you count the interest) to attend a good law school in New York. I graduated last year, with good grades, and passed the bar, but the only job I found was working part-time for a professor at my old law school. My fiance found a job in Canada, and we will be moving up there this summer. In the meantime, I've moved back in with my parents, and am continuing to work remotely for my professor. I'm also trying to start a business – I've been operating it as a side business since 2007, but I'm gearing up to turn it into something full time.
Since I moved back in with my parents, I've been able to save some money (approximately $7000). However, I am reluctant to use it to pay off my student loans for two reasons: 1) I'm afraid we will need the extra money to buy furniture, etc. when we move to Canada and 2) my position with the professor ends at the end of June, so I won't have any predictable income coming in after that. My fiance's postdoc job will pay approximately $40K, and he has told me that I don't have to contribute to the rent.
So, here are my questions:
1) Should I use what I've saved up to start paying off my loans, or should I wait until I have more steady income?
2) Should I try to invest the $7000 (or part of it), instead of letting it sit in my checking account?
3) Do you think it's really wise of me to try to start my own business now, with such a heavy debt load, or should I look for a job when I get to Canada? (I can't practice law immediately up there – so I'd be looking for jobs in journalism, biology (my undergrad degree) or as a paralegal.)
– Michelle
First, I would not use that money to pay off your loans. Stick with the minimum payments. That $7,000 is your emergency fund and you know you have a big emergency (job loss) coming up.
Second, I'd at least get it in a savings account so that it's earning a little bit of interest, but I wouldn't put it at risk (in stocks) or lock it up (in CDs). Keep it liquid and safe.
Finally, starting a business right now depends on the business. If it has low startup costs and a clear path to profitability, sure. However, few business plans have that. If you don't have both things with your business plan, I would get my personal finances in better shape before launching a business.
Q6: Low-yield savings account
After a relocation for a new job and a few medical issues, my savings account has all but disappeared. Expenses eat up almost all of my monthly paycheck, even though I have a good job with a good salary. My question for you is, where can I put some extra money aside every month that will give me, and pardon the pun, the biggest bang for the buck? My current savings account only kicks back .25% every month. I am hesitant to purchase CDs, because with all the ordeals I've been through lately, I realize that I need this money to be available to me in case of emergency. However, I understand that I may not be taking advantage of the highest-yielding savings account that I could be, and would like to look into other options.
– Kristin
There are many savings accounts out there that earn a much better rate than 0.25%. However, you're going to struggle to find one that offers a rate above 1.5% without some strings attached (such as the rate being for a short promotional time only or the account only being available to people in certain areas or a minimal balance requirement).
What's the difference between the two rates? Let's say you have $1,000 to save. The 0.25% account will earn you $2.50 a year. A 1.5% account will earn you $15 a year. That's $12.50. It's not going to make you rich.
As long as that's clear, I recommend doing some rate searching. The Simple Dollar has a page that lists savings account rates. If you find an account that seems appealing to you, I'd research that account a bit using Google to make sure the bank is a good one with strong customer service.
Q7: Self-employment and debt
I'm 30 years old and largely self-employed (read: irregular 1090 income), with about $4,000 in 401k from a previous retail job that I haven't contributed to in years, and about $22,000 in consumer debt (over half of which is from an extremely stupid "business" move). I live very frugally and want nothing more than to pay off the debt as quickly as possible. Would it be a good or bad idea to pull money from the 401k to help pay off debt? I'm not contributing to it – and probably won't – until the debt is gone and I have a few months' worth of living expenses in savings.
– Trevor
Just because you're not contributing to an account doesn't mean it's a great idea to empty out the account. I would leave that money where it is.
Furthermore, you're already on a bad track when it comes to retirement savings. At age 30, you should be approaching somewhere between half a year and a year's worth of living expenses in retirement savings.
I don't know the interest rates on those pieces of consumer debt you have, but I would first get a small emergency fund into a savings account ($1,000), then I'd tackle that fund by interest rate. If everything is below 10% or so, I'd start saving for retirement even if there are big debts left.
Q8: Emergency fund use
I have a question about the emergency fund. We used to have one. We have a lot of debt and eight children and my husband got laid off at Gateway several years ago so we went from a 60,000 plus a year job to nothing for more than six months to a 20,000 a year job to my husband not being able to work more than twenty hours a week(muscular dystrophy) and making less than 8,000 a year. Thank goodness we had savings and we were approved for disability. I have thought about looking for a job but taking care of a disabled husband and eight kids while homeschooling is pretty much a full time job. We had an emergency fund but never got beyond that on our plan to get out of debt and now that we have had hospitalization and major car repairs and so on we have no emergency fund and no savings so we started not paying all our bills which just leads to penalties and fines and a bigger hole. Once you have a certain amount in your emergency fund should you be funding another one for when you use it or pay it back after you use it. Is this what your living expense thing is for?
– Laura
Yes, your first step should always be to rebuild a small emergency fund, up to about $1,000. That amount is enough to handle many emergencies that a family might face.
However, if building that emergency fund is causing you not to pay your bills, then you need to look at a different approach. Something has to be cut from your spending or you're going to go bankrupt. Spending more than you're bringing in is not sustainable.
An emergency fund and a debt repayment plan are useless if you have more money going out than coming in. Something either has to be cut or there has to be more income coming in.
Q9: Psychological trick with online shopping
I just wanted to share something I've recently discovered. I've gotten hooked on Etsy; I love looking through the jewelry. Of course, my wallet wouldn't appreciate it if I bought everything I liked. So instead of buying, I add the pieces I like to my favorites. By doing that, I know I won't 'lose' the one I like and have to worry about finding it again. It also gives me a little bit of the good feeling or high you get when you buy something for yourself, except I'm not actually spending any money. Of course, I can always go back later and buy one or two of those pieces or decide I don't want them. It's really helped to keep me from overspending.
– Charlene
I do this exact same thing, both on Etsy and on other sites. If I see an item I want, I add it to a "wish list."
I find it does the exact thing that Charlene describes: it takes the edge off of the immediate desire. I can also return to those "wish lists" at a later time and determine if it was a "whim of the moment" desire or something I actually have a use for.
Often, my wife will check out my "wish lists" on various sites that I frequent and use them as a source for gifts for me at holidays and such. I often forget the things I've put on those lists, so the gifts are almost always a pleasant surprise.
Let's just say whenever I find myself in the kitchen section on Amazon, I usually wind up adding a thing or two to my list.
Q10: Employer bankruptcy and 401(k)/403(b) status
My former employer has filed for bankruptcy. While it's not been determined by the court whether or not they are allowed to file nor which type of bankruptcy they are allowed to file for (Chapter 7 or Chapter 11–each with different implications for their union and nonunion employees), I wondered if this could effect the 403b account I had with them. They didn't contribute a match to it while I was an employee, it was all my money. The fund is through Vanguard. I left it there because I didn't know what else to do with it and I know Vanguard is a good institution. Currently, I have TIAA-CREF through my employer and TIAA-CREF made it sound like they could easily get those funds for me (I talked to them prior to this bankruptcy activity). Do you think I could lose my 403b money in Vanguard because of this bankruptcy? What are the positives/negatives in putting all my 403b money in one place?
– Suzanne
You shouldn't lose a dime of the money in your 403(b) because of the collapse of your employer. The money in that account is yours and yours alone. The account was merely provided to you by an arrangement that your previous employer set up. Just because that employer is bankrupt doesn't mean anything about the investment house.
If you're concerned about the stability of the investment house – which you should have no reason to be in this situation – you can take out the money, but it'll be taxed as regular income plus an additional 10% tax hit. Generally, that's not worth it.
I'd just stay put with everything if I were you.
Got any questions? Email them to me or leave them in the comments and I'll attempt to answer them in a future mailbag (which, by way of full disclosure, may also get re-posted on other websites that pick up my blog). However, I do receive hundreds of questions per week, so I may not necessarily be able to answer yours.


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AHL Game Night: 1-18-12 Admirals at Devils
Norfolk's d-corps continues to surpass all expectations.
Dustin Tokarski allowed 4 goals on 28 shots for the win. He moved to 17-9-0 on the season for the win.
First Period
ALB Veilleux, (6) (Urbom, Berube), 5:49
NOR Fornataro, (6) (Conacher, Barberio), 14:16 (PP)
ALB Veilleux, (7) (Sestito, Whitney), 16:13
ALB Veilleux, (8) (Whitney), 18:28
Second Period
NOR Oberg, (2) (Palat, Devos), 5:21
NOR Barberio, (5) (Johnson, Gudas), 6:09
ALB Wiseman, (3) (Palmieri, Zharkov), 13:28
NOR Ouellet, (9) (Kostka, Cote), 16:12
NOR Angelidis, (8) (Kostka, Cote), 16:38
Third Period
Mark Barberio and Mike Kostka were the game's second and third stars. Barberio now holds a 5 point edge in the race to be the AHL's top scoring defenseman. He has 5 goals and 37 points in 38 games. With his multi-point game tonight, Kostka has moved into the top-20 among AHL defensemen in scoring with 6 goals and 20 points in 35 games. The bulk of that scoring has come since he joined Norfolk in the James Wright trade. He had just 2 goals and 6 points with San Antonio prior to the deal, but he's had 4 goals and 14 points since coming to Norfolk. Bear in mind Kostka had 16 goals and 54 points in 80 games with Rochester a year ago, which was tied for third in the league. So, the Admirals legitimately boast two of the absolute best offensive d-men in the league, which is part of the reason they're one of the most deadly offensive powers in the AHL this side of the Hershey Bears.
Tonight's victory was a bit of sweet revenge for a Norfolk team that had a temporary slump started by a third period collapse at home against the Devils just a few weeks ago. For the Admirals to overcome a 3-1 first period deficit that featured a Stephane Veilleux hat trick represented a nice bit of payback for the team.
Norfolk moves within 4 points of the Bears in the East Division standings with the victory. They continue their road trip in Syracuse on Friday.
Box score from TheAHL.com.
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In this tutorial you will learn how to use Kodo's reverse mapping tool to reverse-engineer persistent classes from a database schema.
You run a shop that sells magazines. You store information about your inventory in a relational database with the following schema:
-- Holds information on available magazines CREATE TABLE MAGAZINE ( ISBN VARCHAR(8) NOT NULL, ISSUE INTEGER NOT NULL, NAME VARCHAR(255), PUBLISHER_NAME VARCHAR(255) PRICE FLOAT NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (ISBN, ISSUE) FOREIGN KEY (PUBLISHER_NAME) REFERENCES PUBLISHER (NAME) ); -- Holds information on magazine articles CREATE TABLE ARTICLE ( TITLE VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL, AUTHOR_NAME VARCHAR(128), PRIMARY KEY (TITLE) ); -- Join table linking magazines and articles CREATE TABLE MAGAZINE_ARTICLES ( MAGAZINE_ISBN VARCHAR(8), MAGAZINE_ISSUE INTEGER, ARTICLE_TITLE VARCHAR(255), FOREIGN KEY (MAGAZINE_ISBN, MAGAZINE_ISSUE) REFERENCES MAGAZINE (ISBN, ISSUE), FOREIGN KEY (ARTICLE_TITLE) REFERENCES ARTICLE (TITLE) ); -- Each magazine has a 1-1 relation to its publisher CREATE TABLE PUBLISHER ( NAME VARCHAR(255) NOT NULL, REVENUE FLOAT NOT NULL, PRIMARY KEY (NAME) );
You've decided to write an application that will let you query your database through JDO.
If you haven't already, follow the instructions in README.txt. This will ensure
that your
CLASSPATH and other environmental variables
are set up correctly. Once you've completed the installation
instructions, change into the
The tutorial uses the following files:
reversetutorial_database.properties and
reversetutorial_database.script: These
files make up a Hypersonic file-based database with the
schema outlined above. The database is already populated
with lots of magazine data representing your shop's
Uses JDO to execute user-supplied query strings and output
the matching persistent objects. This class relies on
persistent classes that we haven't generated yet, so it
won't compile immediately.
Properties file containing Kodo-specific and standard JDO
configuration settings.
For this tutorial, make sure the following properties are set to the values below:
javax.jdo.option.ConnectionURL: jdbc:hsqldb:reversetutorial_database javax.jdo.option.ConnectionDriverName: org.hsqldb.jdbcDriver javax.jdo.option.ConnectionUserName: sa javax.jdo.option.ConnectionPassword:
solutions: Contains the
complete solutions to this tutorial, including all
generated code.
java: Runs main methods in specified Java classes.
javac: Compiles
files into
.class files
that can be executed by java.
kodoc: Runs the Kodo enhancer against the specified classes. More information is available in Section 5.2, "Enhancement" of the Reference Guide.
Now it's time to turn your magazine database into persistent JDO classes mapped to each existing table. To accomplish this, we'll use Kodo's reverse mapping tools.
First, make sure that you are in the
reversetutorial/jdo directory and that
you've made the appropriate modifications to your
jdo.properties file, as described
in the previous section.
Now that we have our environment set up correctly, we're going to dump our existing schema to an XML document. This step is not strictly necessary for Hypersonic SQL, which provides good database metadata. Some databases, however, have faulty JDBC drivers, and Kodo is unable to gather enough information about the existing schema to create a good object model from it. In these cases, it is useful to dump the schema to XML, then modify the XML by hand to correct any errors introduced by the JDBC driver. If your schema doesn't use foreign key constraints, you may also want to add logical foreign keys to the XML file so that Kodo can create the corresponding relations between the persistent classes it generates.
To perform the schema-to-XML conversion, we're going to use the
schema tool, which can be invoked via the included
schematool shell script.
-p option points the tool at your
jdo.properties configuration file.
-a denotes the tool's action.
Finally, the
-f flag tells the
tool what to name the XML file it creates:
schematool -p jdo.properties -a reflect -f schema.xml
The schema tool is described in detail in Section 4.14, "Schema Tool" of the Reference Guide.
All Kodo JDO tools look for default configuration in
a resource called
Examine the
schema.xml XML file created
by the schema tool. As you can see, it contains a complete
representation of the schema for your magazine database. For
the curious, this XML format is documented in
Section 4.15, "XML Schema Format" of the Reference Guide.
Typically, JDO stores persistence and mapping metadata together
in the same file. As shop owner, you've decided that you want
to keep your mapping metadata separate from your persistence
metadata. JDO supports separating object-relational mapping
from persistence metadata through the
javax.jdo.option.Mapping property. This
property sets a logical name for your mappings. When it is
set, JDO looks for mapping metadata in special mapping files
suffixed with this name. Using the
javax.jdo.option.Mapping property, you can separate
concerns and even define multiple mappings for the same
classes. You have chosen
hsql as the logical
name for your mappings to the supplied HSQL database.
Add the following line to the
../../META-INF/jdo.properties file:
javax.jdo.option.Mapping: hsql
Run the reverse mapping tool on the schema file.
(If you do not supply the schema file to reverse map, the tool
will run directly against the schema in the database). The
tool can be run via the included
reversemappingtool script. Use the
-pkg flag to control the package name of
the generated classes.
reversemappingtool -p jdo.properties -pkg reversetutorial.jdo schema.xml
The reverse mapping tool has many options and customization hooks. For a complete treatment of the tool, see Section 7.2, "Reverse Mapping" of the Reference Guide.
Running the reverse mapping tool will generate
files for each generated class,
files for corresponding JDO application identity
classes, a
package.jdo file containing
persistence metadata, and a
package-hsql.orm file containing
object-relational mapping metadata.
Chapter 5, Metadata and
Chapter 15, Mapping Metadata of the JDO Overview
discuss JDO persistence and mapping metadata, respectively.
Examine the generated persistent classes. Notice that the reverse mapping tool has used column and foreign key data to create the appropriate persistent fields and relations between classes. Notice, too, that due to the transparency of JDO, the generated code is vanilla Java, with no trace of JDO-specific functionality.
Also examine
MagazineId, the generated
application identity class for
Note that it satisfies all of the requirements for application
identity classes mandated by the JDO specification, including
equals and
contracts. The other generated classes use
JDO's single field identity, a special case of application
identity for classes with only one primary key field.
Section 4.5, "JDO Identity" explains JDO
identity types.
Finally, examine the
metadata file and
package-hsql.orm mapping
file. The former contains the necessary standard persistence
metadata, while the latter maps the generated classes and
their fields to the existing schema.
Compile the generated classes:
javac *.java
The reverse mapping tool has now created a complete JDO object model for your magazine shop's existing relational model. From now on, you can treat the generated classes just like any other JDO class. And that means you have to complete one additional step before you can use the classes for persistence: enhancement.
kodoc -p jdo.properties package.jdo
This step runs the Kodo JDO enhancer on the
package.jdo file mentioned above. The Kodo
enhancer will examine the file's metadata and enhance all listed
classes appropriately. See Section 5.2, "Enhancement" in
the Reference Guide for more information on the enhancer, including
how to use Kodo's automatic runtime enhancement.
Congratulations! You are now ready to use JDO to access your magazine data.
reversetutorial.jdo.Finder class lets you
run queries in JDOQL (JDO's Java-centric query syntax) against the
existing database:
java reversetutorial.jdo.Finder <jdoql-query>
JDOQL is discussed in Chapter 11, Query of the
JDO Overview. JDOQL looks exactly like Java boolean expressions.
To find magazines matching a set of criteria in JDOQL, just specify
conditions on the
class' persistent fields. Some examples of valid JDOQL queries for
magazines include:
java reversetutorial.jdo.Finder "true" // use this to list all the magazines java reversetutorial.jdo.Finder "price < 5.0" java reversetutorial.jdo.Finder "name == 'Vogue' || issue > 1000" java reversetutorial.jdo.Finder "name.startsWith('V')"
To traverse object relations, just use Java's dot syntax:
java reversetutorial.jdo.Finder "publisher.name == 'Adventure' || publisher.revenue > 1000000"
To traverse collection relations, you have to use JDOQL variables.
Variables are just placeholders for any member of a collection. For
example, in the following query,
art is a variable:
java reversetutorial.jdo.Finder "articles.contains(art) && art.title.startsWith('JDO')"
The above query is equivalent to "find all magazines that have an article whose title starts with 'JDO'". For example, to find all magazines whose publisher published an article about "Next Gen" in any of its magazines:
java reversetutorial.jdo.Finder "publisher.magazines.contains(mag) && mag.articles.contains(art) && art.title.startsWith('Next Gen')"
Have fun experimenting with additional queries.
Remember to erase the