Downing first retired in 1996 and has said he had enjoyed his more relaxed life when work consisted in large part of fine-tuning his trout-fishing technique in Colorado.
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The 12-time All-Star typically goes at his own pace in camp, fine-tuning his dreaded cut fastball in the bullpen and in simulated games.
After multiple mentions, now might be a good opportunity for us to properly introduce AudioWizard: it's essentially an audio-tuning app developed in collaboration with Waves, an award-winning audio DSP solutions company.
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Xu usually works long hours testing and fine-tuning motors in his lab at an old industrial complex in Shanghai.
But if you've been tuning in -- and it's fair to assume that you might have, since "Tonight" is still one of the shows that is performing well for NBC, noted New York magazine's Vulture -- you know that Leno's been taking fire at the "peacock" network all week.
Australia play two Tests and three one-dayers in India before fine-tuning their own Ashes squad.
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This feature enables fine-tuning of the focus in macro, composition selection when shooting, and exposure adjustment all without looking away from subjects.
Mr Weber, the UBS chairman and former president of Germany's central bank, called for a global regulatory standard that would allow banks to avoid fine-tuning their risk operations in individual countries.
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Audience figures released in mid-May show that the numbers of people tuning in are growing and that many niche stations are starting to win significant numbers of listeners.
Deborah Johnson, the show's production designer, was as challenged as the musicians in fine-tuning a concept.
Ultimately, however, the self-tuning nature of the Transmeta chip design could offer advantages in desktop machines and high-performance servers as well portables.
The site has flown under the radar for the first two years since its launch, during which the Afroterminal team has focused extensively on developing and fine-tuning the website, including a re-launch and overhaul of the site in 2011.
We are constantly fine-tuning our sales plans and position in various markets.
Despite a host of tweaks to the rules, tone and cast of the show, Idol felt a lot like the show 25 million-plus viewers have been tuning in to for nearly a decade.
Clever gaming companies constantly monitor demand and tweak supply to maintain their revenues, in a sense fine-tuning their own virtual economies.
IBM's chess-playing supercomputer Deep Blue and its predecessor took six years of fine-tuning before finally beating chess master Garry Kasparov in 1997.
Further exacerbating the problem, the main volume was insanely loud set to just a mere a two out of 10, leaving little room for mixing in our music or fine-tuning over levels.
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The musical arrives in New York with plenty of hype and awards, and it mostly delivers a thrilling blast of nasty fun, even if it's a bit swollen and in need of some fine-tuning.
But physicists have learned to take the need for such fine-tuning, as the precision fiddling is known in the argot, as a sign that something important is missing from their picture of the world.
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Now, Dr Harkema and her colleagues have shown that all that is needed to make the trick work in people is a little more fine-tuning.
But we got TiVo not long ago, and discovered the joy of tuning in to programs late, so that we can fast-forward past commercials, and that seems pretty much the ideal way to watch the Oscars.
Switchback after switchback finally leads to the telescope itself, where Annis, a Fermilab astrophysicist and colleagues, have been fine-tuning the attached digital camera that offers the next best hope in answering questions about the true nature of dark energy responsible for the inexplicable accelerating expansion of the observable universe.
"We've learned that certain aspects of our site resonate with customers in different ways, and we are continually fine-tuning our site presentation to see how these variables affect customers' purchasing decisions, " Smith said.
Sporadically tuning in to the debates, I keep waiting for Cain to self-destruct.
However, last night an average of 9.8m watched the quarter-final of the dance show, compared with 11.1m tuning in to the results final of X Factor.
After playing with it, it was obvious to us the technology still needed some fine-tuning, but nonetheless Tobii promised it would have a product to sell in about a year's time.
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The Northern Ireland Affairs Committee (at 2pm) takes a look at the Draft Northern Ireland (Miscellaneous Provisions) Bill - a fine-tuning measure intended to deal with various issues concerning the operation of devolution in Northern Ireland.
We know you can't experience it from wherever you're tuning in, but take our word that this is some seriously impressive stuff -- even if other companies have achieved similar 2D to 3D conversion magic within TVs before.
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