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Light Fairytale: A modern turn-based Japanese-style RPG series inspired by the classics
JRPG - November 2018 - PS4, Xbox One, Steam.
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Light Fairytale is a turn-based Japanese-style RPG series set in a dying underground world ruled by an evil empire.
The goal of this project is to bring back the immersion and emotion of 90's era JRPGs on current platforms with the expected evolution in design and technique.
A long time ago, the world was prosperous. Technology and sciences were quite advanced, and people lived in great pleasure and casual excess. However, this proved their undoing when the world as they knew it, seemingly in an instant, was destroyed forever.
Desperate and forlorn, the survivors of civilization resorted to fleeing to the only place on the planet where it was still possible to live - deeply underground. And so there they stayed, and survived.
Thousands of years later, the history of the surface has been forgotten, left to dust, and the wealth of the past lost to time. Even the very word "sky" has lost all meaning...
And then, a young boy named Haru wakes one day, fleeting dreams of vast green plains and a clear blue void locked in his memory; deep rooted, unshakeable... and driving him to know just what he saw.
Now, he must embark on a great adventure in order to discover the mysteries of the lost world, confronting the rulers of this dystopian society and beyond with the aid of a mysterious, silver haired girl...
Light Fairytale will span over 4 episodes. A long journey awaits!
Light Fairytale features a 2 minutes theme-song Anime with Japanese vocals. The song is called いつか青い空へ - Someday to the Blue Sky.
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In addition to the datasets that can be searched for through this section of the portal, the UK’s Office for National Statistics also provides the Virtual Microdata Laboratory (VML). The VML provides access to the microdata used to produce many of ONS’ aggregate datasets.
Researchers researching microbusiness may find accessing some of the VML’s micro-datasets particularly useful, since it allows for, for example, the creation of control groups against which to compare microbusinesses with other types of business, or with each other. For example, the Business Structure Database microdata can be accessed through the VML and contains some microbusinesses, albeit the bulk of the businesses included are those registered for VAT, which many microbusinesses will not be.
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UNESCO Almaty Cluster Office with the support of the International Training Centre for Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Asia-Pacific Region under the auspices of UNESCO (CRIHAP) organized a Sub-regional Training of Trainers workshop for facilitators of Intangible Cultural Heritage from Central Asia. It was a second Training of trainers in Almaty from 25 to 29 June 2018.
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Home Editorials All Buildings in Debaltseve Ukraine Were Destroyed or Damaged by the Occupying...
All Buildings in Debaltseve Ukraine Were Destroyed or Damaged by the Occupying Ukrainian Army
Eric Zuesse
Mar 6, 2015: 3:16 am
According to the head of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe in Ukraine, no usable buildings survive in the town of Debaltseve, the crucial railroad junction that was long fought over between the occupying Ukrainian army and the town’s residents.
The OSCE official, Michael Bociurkiw, said on Wednesday March 4th, “The violence must be stopped, as it is developing into a real disaster in some areas. As for Debaltseve, for example, our representatives have said that there was no house left that was not destroyed or damaged by shelling.”
Delbatseve is in the Donetsk People’s Republic (DPR). Following are photos from videos, of the final weeks of the Ukrainian army’s occupation elsewhere in DPR:
First, the resident on the left is crying, and the woman on the right comments:
Then, during the Ukrainian Army’s departure, these invaders are marched into trucks to be taken back to Ukraine where they came from, and a woman raises a whisk broom to hit one of them, as an expression of her feeling:
A soldier of the residents, who is standing to her left, gently pulls her back as the whisk broom is hitting the Ukrainian soldier:
The residents’ soldier is now seen to her right as he pulls her back:
She tries again and is this time blocked from hitting him:
The commander of the residents’ soldiers consoles another woman:
Before the truck arrives to take away the invaders, they’re told to sit down and hear from the people whose lives they’ve destroyed; a woman cries as she speaks to them:
A commander of the invaders is escorted away to a car, while residents try to attack him:
The escorts pull them away from him and rush him into the car:
For comparison, here is the way that the invaders typically deal with the residents’ soldiers they capture:
He was likely disposed of this way:
Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They’re Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910-2010, and of CHRIST’S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.
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MySiteFeed Makes It Easy For Anyone Who Wants To Create RSS Feeds
November 15, 2019 - /PressAdvantage/ - Louisville, Colorado based MySiteFeed.com has announced they are undertaking a code rewrite that will help those who generate RSS feeds to enable many key features that internet based businesses can utilize to extend their reach and ensure that their content is as widely distributed as possible. RSS feeds are one of the top ways of getting traction with customers, gaining new visitors as well as staying in contact with those who are already interested in their product or service.
Speaking on behalf of the company, representative Debbie McMurtry says, “We are very excited to roll out this update. Having listened to our users and customers, we believe it is the right time to include these new innovations. We also know that many business owners are still unaware of how RSS feeds work—it is a standardized system for the distribution of content from an online publisher to internet users. We are here to help them leapfrog over other options straight to our best of breed solution.”
She continues, “In the new update, we have prioritized three key features: mobile friendliness, better crawling features and easier feed management. Doing this now means that, going into 2020, our customers will have the best of breed RSS fee system and services at their disposal.”
Although technologists love their acronyms, RSS has stayed the course, though its base meaning has moved multiple times. Beginning with RDF Site Summary, it changed to Rich Site Summary and has now settled on Really Simple Syndication, at least for the time being. The last sees the most common usage today, and it provides a standardized computer-readable format that effectively allows content to be found easily. With millions of new web content pages being added daily, getting good content found is a key factor for those looking to achieve success online with their business.
With MySiteFeed.com, those who want to create RSS feeds have found it easy to use their existing content and websites to create feeds that can then be distributed through their free advertising supported service. Through the handy link on their page, anyone can create an RSS Feed for free. Many customers upgrade to their professional services, which are now available for less than $9.00 per month.
Those interested in learning more about RSS feeds are invited to explore the company’s blog on their website. In a recent blog article, “Should You Create RSS Feeds On Your Site Or Host Them Elsewhere?” the company highlights the advantages of RSS Feed Hosting and notes that most webmasters and site owners appreciate being able to set up their RSS feeds quickly and easily so that they can experiment with it.
Many people are interested in a wide variety of topics, which may explain why they use RSS feeds to keep track of the latest updates on news and community sites, organizational information and blogs, product information, and so on. They also use such feeds to stay on top of health related news and any personal columnists they may follow. Having an RSS feed makes it easy for them to catch up with updated materials and new information.
McMurtry continued, ”Our aim is to get as many people, small businesses, community groups and others utilizing the same technologies the big companies use to reach out and stay in touch with their customers. They may be continents away but they will see your updates in seconds via our RSS feeds. We know that getting your content in front of them quickly is the best way to maintain interest, and this makes all the difference to your bottom line.”
While some individuals use RSS aggregator programs, which track sets of RSS feeds, RSS feeds currently see more use as features on other websites. They are also often used to create new websites that consist mostly RSS feeds. RSS feeds are also used to populate and publish content to many social networks, often scheduled to release in line with periods when their readership is active.
Anyone looking to make RSS feeds can do so easily through MySiteFeed.com, after creating an account. The new codebase will make it even easier for them to set up RSS feeds that are mobile friendly so that the feed’s content appears on any platform or website without issue.
Those who have to manage a number of feeds will appreciate many of the new feed management features which will be made available in the company’s new update. McMurtry states, “We want everyone to have these features at their fingertips, rather than having to pay for expensive services that do not deliver bottom line results for their businesses. We know that our customers are eager for us to compete the new codebase, so please bear with us. We are working as quickly as we can while maintaining our high standards of customer support."
Those interested in signing up for a free RSS account may do so through the company’s website at MySiteFeed.com. The company encourages all those who wish to learn how RSS feeds can benefit their business (or non profit) to visit their blog for more information.
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Appeals court set to hear arguments over Trump's tax returns
NEW YORK — An appeal panel is poised to hear President Donald Trump's lawyers argue that New York state investigators should not be permitted to see his tax returns. The arguments before the 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals are set for Wednesday. They come after a lower-court judge tossed out Trump's challenge to a subpoena on his longtime accountant for records since 2011. Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. wants the records for a criminal probe stemming in part from payments to two women who claim affairs with the president. Trump's lawyers say the Constitution prohibits states from...
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The Latest: Appeals court blocks Trump tax return release
NEW YORK — The Latest on a ruling that President Donald Trump must turn over his tax returns (all times local): 10:55 a.m. An appeals court has temporarily blocked the release of President Donald Trump's tax returns to New York state investigators. The 2nd U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Manhattan Monday granted the delay requested by Trump's lawyers until the appeals court could consider the issue expeditiously. It came as Trump tweeted that "Radical Left Democrats" were pushing local and state "Democrat prosecutors to go get President Trump." The action froze the effect of a ruling by Judge Victor...
Judge rejects Trump challenge to release of his tax returns
NEW YORK — A federal judge Monday emphatically rejected President Donald Trump's challenge to the release of his tax returns to New York prosecutors, saying the president's broad claim of immunity from all criminal investigations is at odds with the Constitution. But an appeals court blocked the handover of the documents for now. At issue is a request from Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. that Trump's accounting firm turn over eight years' worth of his business and personal tax returns for an investigation into the payment of hush money to two women who claimed to have had affairs...
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WASHINGTON — Federal agents took down an alleged Medicare fraud scheme Friday that exploited seniors' curiosity about genetic medicine by enticing them to get their cheeks swabbed for unneeded DNA tests. Medicare was billed about $2 billion. Dubbed "Operation Double Helix," the crackdown targeted telemarketing companies, doctors and labs, in a joint effort by the FBI, U.S. attorneys' offices, and the Health and Human Services inspector general. More than 30 people were charged around the country. The alleged scam flourished at a time when many people are getting DNA tests to trace back their family heritage. Fraudsters preyed on people's...
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BofA Quarterly Profits Rise 8%, Beating Analysts' Expectation
Alexander Lowe | Wednesday, July 17, 2019
The second-biggest U.S. bank by assets, Bank of America reported Wednesday that profits jumped 10 percent from a year ago to $7.1 billion, setting a new record.
The Charlotte, North Carolina, bank was able to grow both loans and deposits in the quarter, despite the rise in interest rates for loans and less yield on deposits.
Net interest income rose 3% from a year earlier but fell about 1.5% from the prior quarter.
The biggest USA banks are benefiting from a solid job market, relatively strong economic growth and Federal Reserve interest-rate increases stretching back to late 2015. It's allowed banks to charge more for consumers and businesses to borrow.
Brian Moynihan, chairman and chief executive of BofA, said: "Our view of the economy reflects the activity by the one-in-two American households we serve, which points to a steadily growing economy". Elsewhere, global banking revenue declined 0.8% to $4.98 billion and global wealth and investment management revenue increased 3.3% to $4.90 billion.
Growth in the consumer business helped offset softness in market revenue and Wall Street businesses. Net income rose to $7.11 billion, or 74 or cents a share, from $6.47 billion, or 63 cents a share, in the same period a year ago.
The lender announced last month it would return as much as US$37 billion to shareholders over the next four quarters by raising its dividend by 20 per cent and boosting stock buybacks. Analysts were looking for BofA to earn 71 cents a share, according to FactSet. Fixed income trading revenue dropped 8% to $2.13 billion, essentially matching estimates, while equities trading fell 13% to $1.15 billion, just below the $1.22 billion estimate.
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“A fighter who has a lot of courage and never gives up” is how Kari describes her daughter Kaylee, who adds, “Courage is the ability to do something that you never thought you would do.”
Kaylee, a teenager, and her mother, Kari, have resided at the Ronald McDonald House of Memphis since they left their home in Tulsa, OK for treatment at St Jude Children’s Research Hospital. Kaylee has a stage 4 aggressive high-grade glioma tumor.
Both Kaylee and Kari enjoy the House because there are no appointments and they can relax. Kari says, “The meals which have been provided have been outstanding and not having to cook after having to be at the hospital all day is a blessing.”
Kaylee and Kari agree, “Everyone is so nice: the employees and other families.” Kari says, “This has become a family. We were taken out of our home environment and where we live. Now we have a new family, which is very helpful.”
Kaylee wants to be a pediatric nurse someday, but for now she enjoys shopping at Target with her mother and free chocolate milk, her favorite part of the Ronald McDonald House. Her two favorite movies, she says, are completely different from each other: “The Avengers: Age of Ultron,” a Marvel superhero movie, and “Moana,” an animated Walt Disney film.
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Emma (1816) Jul 7, 2008 15:09:27 GMT -5
Post by Lu on Jul 7, 2008 15:09:27 GMT -5
Jul 5, 2008 10:25:40 GMT -5 Lucky said:
Jul 5, 2008 8:22:52 GMT -5 Michelle said:
I think she does it partly because she's bored but also because she really does care about people and wants to see them happy. She may seem like a silly girl sometimes, but she is a good person - just with a few faults. It's also not really her fault that she's bored - being a girl back then must have been soooo boring.
Yes.. and I think that she likes to have credit of it.
I do agree, and I think the happy result of Miss Taylor wedding might have influenced her
Post by Lucky on Jul 7, 2008 15:16:26 GMT -5
Jul 7, 2008 15:09:27 GMT -5 Lu said:
Definitelly.
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Emma (1816) Jul 8, 2008 2:56:51 GMT -5
Post by Carma on Jul 8, 2008 2:56:51 GMT -5
Just a side note.. my book doesn't have sections... and the chpaters go from 1 to.. ehm.. 55.
Could someone maybe add that to the schedule? i might not be the only one.. but maybe I am.. I was alreday getting confused with the IIVX numbering.. it's been a while..
Post by Lucky on Jul 8, 2008 4:11:21 GMT -5
Jul 8, 2008 2:56:51 GMT -5 Carma said:
I have the same problem. I haven't sections too. It's good to know that I'm not the only one .
Post by Lu on Jul 8, 2008 4:13:28 GMT -5
Mine hasn't sections either. I add that to the schedule:
July 2, start discussing Part 1: Volume 1, Chapters I to VIII - Chapters 1 to 8
July 9, start discussing Part 2: Volume 1, Chapters IX to XVIII - Chapters 9 to 18
July 16, start discussing Part 3: Volume 2, Chapters I to VIII - Chapters 19 to 26
July 23, start discussion Part 4: Volume 2, Chapters IX to XVIII - Chapters 27 to 36
August 6, start discussing Part 6: Volume 3, Chapters IX to XIX - Chapters 45 to 55
Last Edit: Jul 8, 2008 4:14:30 GMT -5 by Lu
thanks Lu!
Big thank
Post by erin on Jul 8, 2008 15:06:22 GMT -5
Thanks Lu.
Post by Dominique on Jul 8, 2008 22:20:19 GMT -5
I agree, I think she is a good person but she probably really lacks stimulation. All they ever seem to do is visit the same people over and over again in this town and the only person who ever seems to challenge her is Mr Knightly. Now that her main friend has married and moved further away, while she still sees the woman nearly every day, she doesn't have that same amount of stimulation.
I found it really ironic in that passage about Mr Weston being able to choose his own bride in Mrs Weston or something like that. It may be true to an extent but it also sounds like Emma was the one who chose him for her friend!
You're rigth Dom, that's probably the reason why I like when Emma and Mr.Knightley talk.
Ok, part 2. a couple of questions to start with:
5. Why was Emma more struck by John Knightley's comment upon Mr. Elton's behaviour (chapter 13), than what Mr.Knightley said about him (in chpater 8)? Just for a matter of circumstance (she herself has begun to see some weirdnesses in mr. Elton's behaviour) or for other reasons?
6. Did you expect Mr. Elton's proposal to Emma?
In chapter 8 I think Emma felt that she observered Mr. Elton and knew him well. because of this she was able to dismiss Mr. Knightley's own observations. In chapter 13 when Knightley says that Mr. Elton has his eyes on Emma she doesnt believe him at first but notices that Mr. Elton is in an extremely good mood being with her considering that Harriet is not there and will not attend the event. I think it takes her back that Mr. Knightley night be rightabout his feelings toward Emma and therefor Mr. Knightley may be correct in his observations Mr Elton when is comes to Harriet. This would mean that she is not giving Mr Knightley enough credit.
I think because she's started to notice his behaviour and also because the comment that struck her had to do with Mr Elton liking her (unless I'm confused) and since the comment was about her she wasn't as able to delude herself as she was when it implied something to do with Harriet. She seems very quick to dream about others but when it comes to herself she can't. Also perhaps to not pay attention to Mr Knightly this time around would mean continuing to give Mr Elton attentions that were being misinterpreted, which isn't suitable or something society would like when nshe has no intention of marrying him.
I did expect Mr Elton's proposal, but only because I've seen the movie with Gwenyth Paltrow in it
Last Edit: Jul 9, 2008 20:43:13 GMT -5 by Dominique
haha. I did expect Mr.Elton's proposal but only because I read Emma before. I have to admit that the first time I read the novel, I didn't expect it, I also remember I went back of some chapters and I noticed that Mr.Elton usually referred to Harriet as Miss Woodhouse's friends...I though it was weird. Did anyone notice that Austen often used reported speech for Mr.Elton?? perhaps it's just an impression of mine...never thought of that before..
Jul 9, 2008 20:42:33 GMT -5 Dominique said:
5. I do agree with Dom. I also think that Emma had her very first suspect after Mr.Elton's charade and the reference to the "ready wit".
btw, Mr.Knightley was right about Emma, she and Harriet started with a reading scheme and ended up transcribing riddles. ;D
I found the conversation between Isabella and her father so funny they're so much alike, lol
I expected the wedding proposal because I've read the book before, and I was seeing all these clous now...
OK girls, another few questions!
7. Everyone in Highbury appears to have an opinion about Frank Churchill, even if they never actually met him, what's your opinion of Frank Churchill? Do you agree with Emma or with Mr. Knightley about him?
8. In chapter 16 Emma thinks about the proposal and what went wrong etc. While thinking about it she implies that Mr. Elton asked her to marry him because she's of a better status. Do you think that is true? Did he want to marry her to 'trade up'?
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Birthday Celebration Hosted By the Staff
The staff members of the St. Joseph’s Indian High School rose to the occasion to celebrate the birthdays of Fr. Henry and Leo in a fitting manner on 16th July 2019.
The staff gathered together in the morning and wished Fr. Henry Saldanha SJ and Fr. Leo Pereira SJ in their respective decorated cabins and presented them with flowers. A prayer was held in the presence of all the staff members led by Fr. Felix Anand SJ. Representing all the teaching and non-teaching staff of the institutions Mrs. Elizabeth Jacob conveyed her warm birthday wishes to the birthday babies.
All the staff members of SJIHS along with their heads gathered for a grand celebration at 3 pm in the College Auditorium. Mrs. Josephine Flora and Mrs. Janet J Fernandes performed as emcees for the day.
A prayer song was sung by a team led by Fr. Felix Anand SJ which was followed by a welcome speech delivered by Fr. Cyril Menezes SJ. The toast was raised in honor of Fr. Henry Saldanha SJ by Mrs. Nola D’Lima and in honor of Fr. Leo Pereira by Mr. Munishame Gowda after which, photo montages created by Mr. Praveen and Mr. Truman Cardoza was presented to the gathering displaying a few of the memorable moments in their lives and their family and friends.
Ms. Geetha R Prabhu who celebrated her birthday on the 16th joined Fr. Henry Saldanha SJ and Fr. Leo Pereira SJ in cutting the birthday cake as the staff members and guests wished them singing the birthday song in unison and presented them with gifts. This was followed by a dance performance presented by the students of St. Joseph’s PU College. Fr. Leo Pereira SJ and Fr. Henry Saldanha SJ in their reply to the toast thanked the staff members for their love and appreciation towards them and their services.
The vote of thanks was proposed by the emcees of the day. The birthday celebration was culminated with a sumptuous lunch.
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The University of Adelaide’s Australian Centre for Ancient DNA (ACAD), in partnership with the South Australian Museum, has recently launched the Aboriginal Heritage Project and these are the first results from that study.
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Dr Wolfgang Haak from the Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History in Germany and formerly at ACAD, noted that it is very complicated to reconstruct the genetic history of Aboriginal Australia due to past government policies of child removal and enforced population relocation. These policies have expunged much of the physical connection between geography and groups in Australia.
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Hi Eric, My background, an engineer. Short version is: I did a history of the earth and found it was slowing, thus changing the time dilation speed. The carbon dating is based on a constant. As you know when things go faster then time is slower, My evidence shows the earth was much faster thousands of years ago and follows a curve I see as the energy transfer curve. Thousands of years and Slowing down where we are now things are different, Carbon dating studies over the last 185 years are not meaningful past the near term. Thanks for asking. PS There is a time all creatures were living longer. (A side result of my study) The life span of Creatures on this planet follows that curve. in 2014 the world norm lifespan of men fell 2 years from 70 to 68. If you have been around long enough you recognize how healing has given us a 500 year extension. Remember we had so many diseases even down to appendix operations that have kept so many of us alive. Would you agree there would be 10% of us here or less if we were at the level of healing we had in the 1750’s when the average life span was 25? We are on an alternate curve..Thank God.
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KV+ Tornado Blue Clip Ski Pole
The KV+ Tornado Blue poles are the exciting new poles on the market. Used by a majority of the top Norwegian men including Martin Sundby.
material: 100% carbon
weight: 54 g/m
handle: 5P102.OR Power Clip
strap: 6P200, Elite Clip
We are selling them as kits. The poles tend to ski a little longer than their advertised length. Call us or leave us a message if you want us to cut them for you or need guidance on proper sizing.
Amy’s Version of the new poles:
Last winter Zach picked up a pair of the blue KV+ Tornado poles from one of the Canadian distributors. We were really interested in testing them after seeing a large number of the best Norwegian men, including Martin Sundby, use them with great success in the World Cup. We have tried a lot of different poles over the years and have found a lot of them to do a pretty decent job. We were expecting the Tornadoes to be on par with most of the other top brands. To our surprise, they worked even better than we imagined. We both felt that the swing weight and stiffness was better than what we were currently using. As Zach put it, the KV+ Tornado poles “really encouraged me to push on the poles for a change”. So, we spent the rest of the winter fighting over who got to use the poles when we went out skiing.
In the spring, I decided to contact the company to see if we could bring some in for this winter. I was hoping to get my own set of poles and resolve the issue of only having 1 set in the house. I was happy that KV+ agreed.
We now have a large shipment being sent next week. It has been interesting to see all the interest building around these poles. We haven’t even listed the item on our e-commerce site yet, but we already have a handful of people who have placed orders for the poles through us. I guess the word has gotten out that these are really good poles.
What makes them so good? They are 100% Carbon and weigh 54g/meter. They taper down to 8.5mm at the bottom of the shaft. They also come with a clip grip which we have never been a fan of until we started using the KV+ Tornado poles. The Tornado poles seem to get the weight, stiffness and swing weight just right. We are excited to carry these poles this winter and I am sure you will be too!
One of the occasions on which I won the fight for the blue poles.
Zach’s Version
We didn’t set-out to get into the ski pole business. Our business plan is really focused on areas where we can add value to existing products, and charge a fair but premium price. This helps us build a niche in the marketplace where we enjoy a competitive advantage. We pick our battles.
We didn’t want to get into poles because, basically, poles are a commodity. Each pair of poles is just like the next pair of poles (unlike skis), and nobody needs help deciding when to use them (unlike wax). Going further, we’ve always felt that poles were basically “sticks to push on”, offering extremely little competitive advantage. All of the top of the line poles from every brand are good enough to win World Cups. I mean, who, really, in the history of ski racing, has lost a race because of poles?
So, no competitive advantage on the snow, and no competitive advantage in the business; easy call. We weren’t looking to get into the pole business. But then we started skiing with these KV+ poles that Pavol Skvaridlo (veresport.ca – a Canadian importer) gave us to try last winter. And we started fighting over who got to use them.
I think Amy has looked up the specs on these things. I did a bit of weighing, and found that the shafts are just about the same weight (within a gram) as other top-end expensive poles, while the straps are a few grams heavier. But that’s not important, and I didn’t even get the weights before we placed our order. To be very clear: don’t buy these poles because anybody claims that they’re the lightest.
The reason to be interested in these poles is that they feel totally direct and solid. Our friend Rick Dickey, the head coach of the Highland Trail Blazers up in Duntroon, tried the poles when he visited last spring, and his description was that they felt like using a really good piece of free-weight equipment in a gym. That’s exactly it. You can lift exactly the same amount of weight using cheap equipment and good equipment, but the good stuff gets better efforts out of you. You just want to push on it. It’s not that the KV+ poles made me push on my arms; they made me want to push on my arms. I skied faster with them, making more powerful and precise motions because the motions and power felt really effective.
I think a lot of this has to do with the grips and straps. This is worth noting because of something else we didn’t want to get into: clip-on straps. We’ve tried tons of different clip-on straps in the last decade and a half, and they universally sucked. The idea is elegant, but the poles always felt disconnected – they just weren’t good to use. So we really weren’t too excited about the clip-on straps when we first got these poles, but we ended up ordering 100% of our inventory with these straps.
I think the big deal here is that the position in which the strap clips onto the handle is centered on the shaft, instead of hanging off the back. When I pull on the strap of my other poles, the shaft flexes a noticeable amount. When I pull on the strap of the KV+ poles the shaft doesn’t flex a noticeable amount. So, whatever combination of handle/grip geometry and shaft stiffness is at play here, it make my other poles feel like cheap toys by comparison.
All the regular boxes get ticked by these poles. They’re light and stiff – at least comparable with any other top model pole from other companies. Comfortable grips and straps with good size adjustability (no big deal using bare hands one day and super heavy gloves the next; this is New England). The baskets are simple, tough, and functional, and not stupidly tiny (even most of the World Cups don’t have “world cup” conditions to support miniscule baskets).
This was one of the first images that popped up on a google search for KV+ Tornado, and I promptly stole it.
One of the big benefit that come with the KV+ poles is the international marketing investment that’s been made in signing a huge portion of the Norwegian National Team. Somebody must have spent a lot of money on this, and the roster of big names on the World Cup circuit is expanding this season. The distinctive blue color shows up well on TV, and the ubiquitous availability of recorded Eurosport coverage has ensured that a lot of people recognize and want these poles. That makes marketing a slam dunk – we don’t really have to worry about it much.
One of the lesser benefits is that the poles are fairly costly, and we get no warranty support from the manufacturer. Customers expect warranty support, and we’ll provide industry-standard one-year replacement on manufacturer defects. Fair warning – we know what it looks like when you shut poles in the stationwagon door. Please don’t take advantage of us – if you break your poles doing something dumb, just own up to it and we’ll make it as painless for you as we can.
We ordered a lot of these poles in kits. The KV+ poles seem to build-up a couple of cm longer than our other poles (when we cut them to the factory marks). There is no fixed standard for measuring pole length, which makes it tricky to compare things. I believe that the most helpful measurement is from the base of the basket (where the pole will rest on the track surface) to the insertion point of the strap on the handle. We’ll be putting together a comparison chart to help people determine the correct cut length for these poles. We’ll be able to deliver them either as kits, or are pre-cut and built poles, using your measurements (no backsies if you ask for the wrong size).
The last reason to buy these poles is that they have miraculous curative properties. I have terrible shoulders – blown rotator cuffs and almost no bicep tendons left. The KV+ poles build up a bit longer than what I’m used to, and when I first started skiing with them I thought my shoulders wouldn’t be able to handle the range of motion. But within a week my arms felt stronger – great biomechanics on the forward swing (I’ll credit the grips and straps, and the swing weight) reduced stress there, and the poles made me push on my arms, actually engaging muscles in the task of poling. Imagine! Within two weeks I could actually lift my arms over my head to take items off of high shelves, and I could sleep with my arms over my head without my whole body going into spasms. Soon I was able to do basic pushing exercises (burpees, dips) at Todd Miller’s exercise class for the first time in two years, and it all started with those poles. I can’t wait to see what they can do for the common cold. Still waiting on that though – I also haven’t been sick since I started using them. And my hair seems to be getting less gray. And I’ve lost weight. I’m telling you… (Amy says please note that these last claims have not been verified in independent third party tests, or subject to peer-review. Ski poles are sold under the category of “sports equipment” and are not subject to FDA regulation.)
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Actually, PIZZAGATE has got the entire global power structure VERY frightened. They know that, were the U.S. Federal Government to be toppled by the greatest scandal in American history, the World Shadow Government will also collapse.[1] For both of these ‘governments’ only operate within the Global Control Matrix under the rubric of multiple ongoing PIZZAGATEs in every major Western power.
The Black Swan Event They Didn’t Expect: PizzaGate
Hence, it was only a matter of time that a false flag would be executed in or around Comet Ping Pong Pizza in D.C. This so-called family pizza shop is a haven for all sorts of activities related to the largest pedophilia ring in Washington, D.C. In fact, the circumstantial evidence now available in the public domain is now overwhelming and proves that the Obama Administration has sanctioned such depraved conduct at highest levels of the US government.
PIZZAGATE: The Scandal That Will Take Down the Clintons, the Democratic Party and the U.S. Federal Government
As a matter of fact, there are now Wikileaks emails and Weinergate evidence which link former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, Vice President Joe Biden and Clinton Campaign Chairman John Podesta to some of the most sordid behavior ever demonstrated by government officials. The reference links that follow clearly spell out exactly what Comet Pizza is really all about. And there are many others within the Obama Administration who are directly connected to this heinous criminal conduct.
PIZZAGATE: A Complex and Convoluted Conspiracy at the Highest Echelons of the U.S. Federal Government is Exposed
False Flags Operations Are Now Legal
For those who are unaware, Obama signed NDAA legislation which permits the U.S. Government to carry out false flags attacks on American soil when the decision-makers determine that national security is under threat. Because PIZZAGATE threatens to bring down the government — as in total collapse — because of its authenticity and seriousness, there are many in the highest echelons who feel compelled to order these false flags against the American people.
Everything so far about this evening’s incident at Comet smells of a false flag. From reading the following report published by The Washington Post, the gunman’s actions and law enforcement followup actions have all the hallmarks of a classic psyop. Obviously false flags like this are practically always handled in the very same way, whereby the controllers of the operation are far from the scene of the crime but carefully orchestrate the whole op.
WashPo: D.C. Police arrest suspect with an assault rifle at Comet Ping Pong restaurant
Of course, we will all hear from the MSM how the Alt Right created a hospitable environment for this [fake] shooting to happen. And that if legislation is not passed soon, more fully armed crazies will make a visit to Comet Ping Pong. This is how they plan to gut the Second, and the First, Amendments before Obama leaves office.
PIZZAGATE Will Be Used To Take Down The Alt Media…Unless We Are Vigilant
Surely, this fraudulent black op will be used by Obama himself to push his transparently false narrative about Alt Right ‘fake news’, even though it is the Mainstream Media (MSM) that has produced massive volumes of real fake news over several decades.
Mainstream Media Goes Global In Attempting To Kill PIZZAGATE Story
It even appears that Obama himself is setting up shop in D.C. in order to commandeer a national, if not global, effort to shut down alternative news media. He knows that the Alt Media poses the biggest threat to his hollow and degenerate legacy. And that it is only a matter of time that he is fully exposed as the Manchurian Candidate that he truly is—a president installed by foreign powers to destroy the American Republic.
The sheer number and intensity of false flags since Obama has been in office is getting quite ridiculous … to the point where citizen journalists are predicting them well in advance. And, yet, that does not even deter TPTB from pulling them off in broad daylight.
Even until the final days of this Administration does the utterly corrupt leadership continue to terrorize the citizenry. Government is actually tasked with safeguarding the citizenry, not assailing it through false flag attacks every other week or month.
Perhaps this obviously fake false flag operation will be the final one that triggers an awakening within the populace. Sooner or later the people must become aware and take back their power from these criminally insane psychopaths.
Just as the ruling elites are hellbent on terminating free speech on the Internet, the Alt Media must be even more determined to expose their multi-decade crime spree against the children. PIZZAGATE has been blown wide open for very good reasons; and citizen journalists, invesitgators and researchers are seizing the day like never before.
YouTuber Barry Soetoro Predicted Comet False Flag Along With SOTN
Let’s go get ’em!
[1] ASSANGE, BREITBART WARNED US! HILLARY’S PIZZAGATE CULT and VINCE FOSTER ET AL. MURDERS EXPOSED
PIZZAGATE: The Whole Wicked Conspiracy Is Exposed
Huge Breakthrough in D.C. Pedophilia Ring
The Mainstream Media Wages All-Out War On The Alternative Media
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Deshaun Watson out for season with torn ACL
Friday, 03 Nov, 2017
Tesla Posts Loss, Boosting Pressure to Speed Output of Model 3
Tesla expects Model 3 non-GAAP gross margin to reach breakeven by end of Q4 as capacity utilization kicks in at higher volume. On average, analysts anticipate that Tesla will post ($6.70) earnings per share for the current fiscal year.
Okafor's option not being picked up by Sixers
With Okafor not playing at all, it was hard to believe at any point that a team would be interested in acquiring him via trade. The Celtics might want Okafor only after a buyout - i.e., if they don't have to surrender any assets to Philadelphia .
Bill Belichick: Pats QB situation wasn't 'sustainable'
It wasn't until Brady was suspended for the first four games of the 2016 season that Garoppolo saw extended playing time. He's completed 67 percent of his passes and averaged 7.3 yards per attempt with five touchdowns and no interceptions.
Spelunky 2 has been announced
With Spelunky 2 , we get a chance to examine in depth what makes Spelunky unique and draw it out even more. Set in the year 1274, Ghost of Tsushima focusses on the exploits of Samurai warriors defending Japan.
Lawmakers slam social media giants for fake news and Russian ads
Mark Warner as Congress held a second day of hearings on the issue. Warner's fellow Democrats were similarly tough on the companies. He told the lawyers: "I'm disappointed that you're here".
Israel destroys Gaza cross-border tunnel, killing 6
The two groups have governed the occupied Palestinian territories of the West Bank and the Gaza Strip respectively ever since. Article cited allegations that Abbas vowed not to appoint Hamas figures to his cabinet if they did not recognise Israel .
HTC could make a serious comeback with the HTC U11 Plus
While the biggest difference between the U11 and the U11+ is the display , that isn't the only area that received improvements. When it comes to the cameras , you might notice that the HTC U11 life has a 16 MP sensor, while the U11 has a 12 MP one.
New York City police investigate shooting in Manhattan
The person displayed "imitation firearms", police said. "I saw he had something in his hand, but I couldn't tell what it was. De Blasio urged New Yorkers to be vigilant but not intimidated during any Halloween festivities following the incident.
Millie Bobby Brown Raps a Stranger Things Season 1 Recap
Minor (but really cute) spoilers for Stranger Things below! You don't have to be good at dancing or acting. If you aren't interesting in watching Stranger Things after this, we don't know whats going on with you .
Freeman Recognized for Patient Safety
Numerous 15 hospitals that received F grades treat a high proportion of low-income patients with complex healthcare needs. There were more hospitals with failing grades in this report , however, than in the Spring 2017 edition.
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Amid Kevin Spacey fallout, 'House of Cards' to end with upcoming season
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Wind advisory Sunday pm-Monday am; strongest winds overnight
The injury is a brutal blow for the Texans, who have been lifted by the exciting play of Watson. Houston's offense completely transformed with the Clemson product under center, averaging 39 points over their last five games. Watson's remarkable rookie season is over.
Word came down on Thursday afternoon that the Houston Texans' star rookie quarterback Deshaun Watson suffered a torn ACL during practice.
That performance helped make him become the first rookie quarterback to ever win AFC Offensive Player of the Month honour.
An MRI on the knee confirmed the full extent of the injury, Rapoport reported. Savage started the season at quarterback and to put it nicely the offense was bad.
Running a read-zone scheme, Watson has fit in perfectly in the offense, which has also led to them being the third best rushing unit in the National Football League by averaging 138.3 yards per game.
The Indianapolis Colts placed quarterback Andrew Luck, who hasn't played all season, on the injured reserve list earlier Thursday and said he won't play this season.
Houston Texans quarterback Deshaun Watson (4) walks off the field follwing the Texans 42-34 loss to the unbeaten Kansas City Chiefs at NRG Stadium on Sunday, Oct. 8, 2017, in Houston.
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Original Cast of ‘Good Times’ Seeks $1 Million Through Kickstarter Campaign… (VIDEO)
Feb, 29 2016 | Written by ATLien
News broke last year that Sony was adapting the 70’s sitcom, ‘Good Times,’ to a feature film, but apparently the original actors had been left out of the script.
Forty years have gone by since the show ended, but the iconic show that took us into the lives of Florida & James Evans’ struggle to raise their 3 kids in a Chicago housing project, still airs today on several networks.
Ester Rolle (Florida Evans) passed away in 1998 but John Amos, Ja’Net Dubois, Jimmy Walker, Bernadette Stanis and Ralph Carter (the actors who portrayed, James, Willona, JJ, Themla and Michael) are pleading with fans to contribute to to their efforts to create a ‘Good Times’ reunion movie project.
While you would think it would be easy for the iconic sitcom stars, they’ve only managed to raise $8,470 of the $1 MILLION they are seeking and their crowd funding campaign over in just a few days.
In Featured,News GoFundMe, Good Times, James Amos, Kickstarter
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Unang Dalawang Tula: Para Kay Ericson Acosta
Paano tumukoy ng taong labas?
Una,… kung may dala siyang
notebook o laptop habang nasa bundok.
Pangalawa, hindi siya bihasa
magsalita sa dila ng mga taga-roon.
Pangatlo, lansihin ang madla
at sabihing mag-isa siyang nahuli
at may hawak na granada
(gayong kasama niya ang isang
opisyal ng barangay at mananaliksik siya
tungkol sa paglabag sa mga karapatang pantao).
URL: http://www.tribuneonline.org/commentary/
Heralds of the failing state
THEY’RE known as “public service programs” and have been in Philippine radio for decades, particularly after 1986, when the laws restricting the media were lifted. But they have proliferated in recent years, and every radio station includes at least one example in its programming, although that one may run several hours, in addition to the regular news and commentary programs.
The template is straightforward. The program host accepts complaints from listeners through phone calls and text messages as well as personal visits to the station, puts his phone conversations on the air, reads text messages and interviews complainants.
The grievances could include being duped in a private transaction that went sour, fired by an abusive employer, ignored or given the run around in a government office, and wronged by an abusive policeman. Once armed with the details of the complaint, the host either calls the government office involved, or makes arrangements to confront the wrong doer and even to cause his arrest, during which he’s usually present, and which is duly recorded in sound and video.
In one episode of a popular program that runs for several hours in the afternoon, the host interviewed a construction worker who had lost his job, and for P4,000, pawned his motorcycle to a neighbor, who, he complained, lent the motorcycle to someone who in turn “pawned” it to someone else. The worker’s neighbor was demanding P60,000 to return the motorcycle, which was still in the hands of the last person to whom it had been pawned. The complainant named all three people involved. The host instructed an assistant to call the police and to arrange for the arrest of the man holding the motorcycle, during which both he and the complainant would be present. The arrest would of course be recorded.
The host interviewed next a taxi driver who said he’d been pulled over by a policeman for ignoring a red light. He admitted the offense, but complained that the policeman, after confiscating his license, was angling for a bribe, which he said was obvious from the fact that he (the policeman) wanted him (the taxi driver) to get out of his cab and to talk to him in the shadows of a pedestrian underpass. When he did not comply, the policeman did not write him a traffic ticket, but refused to return his license.
The host managed to somehow call the policeman and to ask him if he was authorized to apprehend traffic law violators, since that task is primarily the responsibility of metro Manila traffic enforcers. At the same time, his assistant had managed to call the policeman’s immediate superior, a police captain. The host gave the policeman an ultimatum: return the cab driver’s license or else. The “or else” part was no idle threat: he proceeded to extract from the policeman’s superior a promise to discipline him unless he complied, at one point berating the captain for hesitating to order the policeman, while on the air, to return the license.
The two cases took all of one hour to air. Both were demonstrations not only of the appalling state of law enforcement, the desperate straits of the poor, and the absence of plain civility in much of Philippine society. It was also a display of media power.
To anyone whose radio was tuned in to the program, the host’s action in both the worker’s and taxi driver’s cases would be something to applaud, leading him or her to thank “the media” for helping curb the abuses so rampant in Philippine society and bringing its most abusive elements to account.
Public service programs over Philippine radio do serve what has become an urgent need to curb abuses so egregious they defy explanation. They also help justify the need for a free press. (Without the media, a listener observed, abusive officials would get away with it.) In addition, these programs either prod government agencies to provide the citizenry the service they’re entitled to but seldom get (e.g., being served promptly at the local office of the Social Security System), or provide the service themselves (e.g., getting the complainant taxi driver’s license back).
The downside of the media’s assuming roles government institutions are supposed to be playing in behalf of a sane, safe and orderly society is not only the encouragement of media arrogance and a sense of entitlement.
The media practitioners killed on November 23, 2009 assumed themselves immune from harm. Others presume they’re entitled to various perks, including the usual envelope and the deference of government officials and of the public as a whole. In addition there’s the tendency on the part of many media practitioners, especially the untrained, to take on such dubious roles as the entrapment of criminal suspects, and other functions way beyond their mandate of providing information and commentary.
But the proliferation and popularity of these programs speaks for itself. It is the direct result of the decline or outright failure of the institutions of Philippine governance, particularly of the police and judicial system — some would say of the entire justice system.
The killing of journalists, for example, has continued because of the culture of impunity — the police and judiciary failure to identify, investigate and prosecute the killers that’s based on the weaknesses of the justice system particularly at the community level. That failure has compelled private intervention in the form of journalist and media advocacy groups’ having to go on fact-finding missions and to hire private prosecutors, not only in the November 23, 2009 Ampatuan Massacre, but in numerous other cases as well.
What’s happening in the Philippine media echoes the privatization of functions that are the government’s responsibility but which it is unable to perform because of the failure of its institutions. That failure has been evident for decades in, for example, such private initiatives as the development of more and more gated communities in response to runaway criminality; the hiring of private garbage collecting companies; the institution of “the little divorce” and co-habitation without the benefit of either law or clergy, etc. Public service programs are part of the same environment of government failure. They are heralds of the failing state.
(BusinessWorld)
(Reprinted with permission from Mr. Luis Teodoro)
Source: LuisTeodoro.com
URL: http://www.luisteodoro.com/
Some in AFP, PNP like Roman soldiers: Brutal torturers
SOME members of the Philippine National Police and the Armed Forces of the Philippines are like Roman soldiers subjecting people to the same Calvary—arrest and torture—that Christ went through two millennia ago.
Muhammadiya Hamja, a fisherman, has been languishing in jail since 2008, still suffering the effects of severe torture in the hands of elements of the PNP Criminal Investigation and Detention Group (CIDG). He often has a hard time sleeping. His urine is tinged with blood.
Patta Jahal Hoyo was quietly going about his work as tricycle driver when he was accosted, interrogated and thrown into jail, where he has been since last November..... MORE
Source: Vera Files
URL: http://verafiles.org/frontpage-sticky/some-in-afp-pnp-like-roman-soldiers-brutal-torturers/
EU-NAVFOR: Pirates seize ship with 15 Filipino seafarers
At least 15 Filipino seafarers were taken captive Thursday after pirates struck off Oman and seized a bulk carrier they were serving on.
The European Union Naval Force Somalia indicated the bulk carrier MV Rosalia D'Amato managed to inform coalition warships it had been boarded by pirates.
"The 74,500-tonne Italian-flagged and owned vessel was on its way to Bandar Imam Khomeini (Iran) from Paranagua (Brazil) when it was attacked by a single skiff. Coalition warships had communications with the vessel and were told: ‘pirates onboard stay away’. The MV ROSALIA D’AMATO has a crew of 21 (6 Italians, 15 Filipinos)," it said in its bulletin..... MORE
Source: Philippine News
URL: http://philippinenews.com/latest-news/1706-eu-navfor-pirates-seize-ship-with-15-filipino-seafarers.html
Priest tells RH bill supporters to leave Mass
BAGUIO CITY, Philippines – A priest at the Baguio Cathedral drew flak from some Catholics after he ordered people supporting the reproductive health bill to leave the church and stop hearing Mass.
His remarks drew outrage from some parishioners, who walked out in consternation.
The priest, whose identity was withheld, used his sermon to mock supporters of the bill such as former Akbayan party-list Rep. Risa Hontiveros-Baraquel.... MORE
URL: http://philippinenews.com/latest-news/1704-priest-tells-rh-bill-supporters-to-leave-mass.html
Tropics in Decline as Natural Resources Exhausted at Alarming Rate
Gland, Switzerland – New analysis shows populations of tropical species are plummeting and humanity’s demands on natural resources are sky-rocketing to 50 per cent more than the earth can sustain, reveals the 2010 edition of WWF’s Living Planet Report – the leading survey of the planet’s health.
The biennial report, produced in collaboration with the Zoological Society of London and the Global Footprint Network, uses the global Living Planet Index as a measure of the health of almost 8,000 populations of more than 2,500 species. The global Index shows a decrease by 30 per cent since 1970, with the tropics hardest hit showing a 60 per cent decline in less than 40 years.
“There is an alarming rate of biodiversity loss in low-income, often tropical countries while the developed world is living in a false paradise, fuelled by excessive consumption and high carbon emissions,” said Jim Leape, Director General of WWF International.
While the report shows some promising recovery by species’ populations in temperate areas, thanks in part to greater conservation efforts and improvements in pollution and waste control, tracked populations of freshwater tropical species have fallen by nearly 70 per cent – greater than any species’ decline measured on land or in our oceans....MORE
Source: WWF-Philippines
URL: http://www.wwf.org.ph/newsfacts.php?pg=det&id=204
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N. Korea: We are no longer bound by nuclear test moratorium
Pyongyang says it is “no longer bound to” its deal with the US, which provided a nuclear and missile test moratorium in return for food aid. The move comes in retaliation to the UN’s criticism of North Korea's failed satellite launch.
The UN Security Council (UNSC) condemned North Korea for last Friday’s rocket launch, which was widely regarded as a cover up to test a long range nuclear missile. On Tuesday, Pyongyang shot back at the UNSC for violating the country’s right to put satellites into orbit.
"We resolutely and totally reject the unreasonable behavior of the UNSC to violate (our) legitimate right to launch satellites," Pyongyang said in a statement delivered by the official KCNA news agency..... MORE
URL: http://rt.com/news/north-korea-halts-nuclear-moraturium-325/
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Obscurity of the Day: Cat Tales
J. Carver Pusey, marginally famous for his 1930s Sunday and daily comic strip Benny, still has a small coterie of fans who admire his deft cartooning style and knack for pantomime. Benny was a strip about a little mute vagabond who wore an oversize coat. Before Benny, though, Pusey had a long run with another pantomime strip about a put-upon cat. The earlier strip was titled Cat Tales.
Cat Tales is a bit of an enigma, as is just about everything about the publicity-shunning Pusey and his creations. It started out in or before 1917 as a seldom seen offering of the Associated Newspaper co-op syndicate. Being with Associated means that the strip was almost certainly done for one of its member papers, but Pusey is only known to have worked at the New York World and supposedly the Philadelphia Inquirer (I say supposedly because I've never seen any evidence of his working there myself), neither of which were members. Cat Tales does show up at the Associated-member Philadelphia Bulletin, but not with enough regularity that I'm ready to place him in their bullpen.
Anyhow, the strip goes back at least to September 1917, the earliest I've seen, and perhaps farther. Although the strip was undeniably clever and attractive, Associated Newspapers co-op members sure didn't seem to think much of it. It is seen rarely in those days and continues that way well into the 1920s. It's so seldom seen that it would not surprise me at all to find that the strip went through periods, perhaps long ones, when production was ceased.
Sometime in the 1920s, though, Cat Tales switched to the nascent United Feature Syndicate, and thereafter isn't quite as stealthy about its mere existence. However, the daily strip was dropped sometime in 1929 shortly after Benny began its syndication through Press Publishing, the syndicate of the New York World. With the aid of a more energetic syndicate, Benny became a modest success. Between the success of Benny, and a short stint of Pusey writing for the Marx Brothers, evidently the always barely above water Cat Tales was considered expendable.
That's not the end of the story though. Sometime in 1930 (or perhaps even in 1929) the Benny strip gained a Sunday color adjunct, and Cat Tales was revived as the topper strip for it. This second (or maybe third or fourth?) chance for Cat Tales lasted until December 1932 or early 1933 when it was phased out of the topper spot in favor of a new Benny companion strip, Opportunity Knox.
In 1918,"Cat tales" was also a small strip done by Pop Momand that was always put below Keeping Up with The Jonses like early Krazy Kats were stuck to the bottom of the Dingbat Family.
# posted by GRIZEDO : 11/29/2010 11:15 AM
James Carver Pusey (Jr.) was born in Avondale, Pennsylvania on February 18, 1901 as recorded on page 288 in "The Ancestry and Posterity of John Lea, of Christian Malford, Wiltshire, England, and of Pennsylvania in America 1503-1906". In the 1910 U.S. Federal Census, Pusey was the oldest of three children born to James and Susan. The family lived in Norristown, Pennsylvania. In the 1920 census James Sr. was no longer with the family. In 1930 Pusey was married and lived in Greenwich Village, Manhattan. He married Margaret around 1927. Pusey was working as a cartoonist for a newspaper according to the census.
A biographical portrait of Pusey appeared in the "Letters" page of the April 1, 1935 issue of TIME magazine. W.A. Custer of East Orange, N.J., wrote:
You forgot Benny....In [Time, Feb. 11] you get lyrical about Henry and
Philbert but seem to forget the fellow who started all this was Cartoonist
Pusey with his silent character the inimitable Benny.
I have seen Henry and Philbert but since 1928 or '29 to my mind Benny
in the World and then in the World-Telegram after its demise has been my
favorite strip.
A TIME editor replied:
Favorite of many another comic strip addict is Benny, the woebegone runt
with the blond thatch, shapeless black clothes, and worried manner. As a
pantomimist, enthusiasts rate Benny with Charlie Chaplin, Harpo Marx. Like
them, Benny had none too easy time in the beginning. By 1928 he had been
turned away by nearly every feature syndicate, and had lain on the comic
editor's desk in the New York World for eight months. Cartoonist James
Carver Pusey (pronounced Pew-zey), who had just married, had despaired
to the point of accepting work as a gagman and ghost stripper when the
World notified him of Benny's acceptance.
[Second paragraph described Benny, and the third was about cats.]
# posted by Alex Jay : 11/30/2010 12:00 PM
Despite his own indigence, Benny supports Cartoonist Pusey in comfortable
style. Born 34 years ago in Avondale, Pa. Pusey decided to be a cartoonist
because it seemed an easy way to make a living. Discovering his error, he
ran a hot dog stand one summer, drove a truck, sold silk underwear and
hosiery, sold Frigidaires, became interested in a patented ice cream dipper
and astonished himself by selling one. Hoping to work his way to Europe he
hitch-hiked to New York, slept on a Battery Park bench for a week, returned
to Philadelphia, broke his nose in a Y.M.C.A. swimming pool, matriculated
at the Pennsylvania School of Art because school appeared more enjoyable
than what he had been doing. He studied one year, met the girl whom he
later married, began drawing in earnest.
Pusey spent several months in Hollywood as gagman for Harpo Marx, liked
it, but prefers his farm in Buck County, Pa., his horses and chickens. He
has seven dogs which he says were an accident. Short, rugged, Cartoonist
Pusey likes old-fashion cocktails, varicolored pousse-cafes. He works late
at night because he never manages to get started until then.
On April 29, 1935 TIME printed this letter by Byron McMahon of New York City:
Your story about Cartoonist J. Carver Pusey and "Benny" in Letters, April 1,
is very interesting, but it doesn't tell some of the most intriguing detail. Carver
(he has become "Jim" only in recent years) was called "Puss" in school
because of his name. His attempt to enforce the Pewzey" pronunciation of
his name is almost hopeless as he will admit. "Puss" Pusey the schoolboy
started drawing one-line cats as a signature. He found he could give them
expression, tell a pantomime story with them. Once or twice he got a
Philadelphia paper to print a cat or two. In 1925 he came to New York, sold
a pantomime strip called "Cat Tales" to United Feature Syndicate. It was
resold to the New York Sun, Baltimore Sun, Pittsburgh Sun, among others,
but its subtlety prevented wide popularity. Later "Benny" grew out of it, and
through the New York Evening World Pusey and Benny came into their
deserved popularity.
The date of Pusey's passing is not known.
Ha! Alex, you did it again. Fantastic stuff, a nice little portrait of a very shadowy character. Pew-zey indeed!
This is almost becoming a game. Can I come up with someone so obscure that you can't run 'im down? Got one coming up Thursday that will be a challenge. The bane of the researcher -- a guy with a very common name!
Thanks again, Allan
# posted by Allan Holtz : 11/30/2010 12:27 PM
Hello, All---J.Carver Pusey died on July 16, 1953 at his apartment in Philadelphia. He left behind a widow, Doris, and two daughters from his first marriage, Polly and Susan. ----CJ.
# posted by Cole Johnson : 11/30/2010 1:23 PM
Thanks for that date, Cole! Look forward to Thursday's post, Allan. --Alex
What's the Name, Please?: A Guide to the Correct Pronunciation of Current Prominent Names
Charles Earle Funk
Funk & Wagnalls Company, 1936
page 131: Pusey, J. Carver—cartoonist—Rimes with newsy, unless you pronounce that noozy; if so, call him pew'zy.
# posted by Alex Jay : 11/30/2010 7:50 PM
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Who was the greatest song chart act of all time?
When comparing the success of individual songs it is important to uncouple the influence that the number of available charts has on the result. If we are comparing the annual performance of each artist against their contemporaries then much of this bias can be smoothed out, because the values are generated from the same set of charts and the bias that comes from the different territories has been removed. However, when looking at the overall career of an artist spanning a number of years a better way to remove the bias has to be found. One way to do this for songs and albums is to use an artist's annual positions. That approach tells us which artist did best over a range of years, but it takes no account of how impressive chart success was in any one year. It is also worth exploring another approach.
The plot above shows the annually accumulated score for the top artists. This gives an impression of the trends but, the varying number of entries in each year prevents real comparison across the years.
A better comparison is to look at what percentage of the total available score for a year each artist managed to get. This plot shows how much more impressive the achievement of The Beatles and Elvis Presley was than that of more recent chart toppers.
When this same approach is taken for years before 1930 the small sizes of the historic charts dominates the result. This display emphasises acts that did well in the earlier years when few charts are available. Did Paul Whiteman really do so much better than Bing Crosby?
So here is the picture that really tells the story. First of we calculated the percentage of the available score for each year that the artists obtained. Then we took the top 5 artists for each year and plotted them. We used some probability theory to estimate the spread of scores that would be expected based on the number of entries in each year's charts (shown as the contour lines). So the position of each point relative to the contours shows how impressive that achievement is. Finally we labeled the key artists.
This output shows that the outstanding popular musical achievement of the 20th century was The Beatles 1964 results. Followed by Elvis Presley's year in 1956. From this analysis the top six chart acts can easily be placed in order, they were:
Position Artist Peak Year
1 The Beatles 1964
2 Elvis Presley 1956
3 Glenn Miller 1941
4 Bing Crosby 1944
5 Paul Whiteman 1924
6 Frank Sinatra 1946
The remaining acts have not been listed since the order would depend too much on the details of how the final scores were calculated. There are a number of alternate listings on this site that expand this set.
As with all the complex calculations described on the site you can decide to try a different approach. If your analysis shows something interesting tell us about it.
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Do you happen to have an idea what songs Boy George did Solo that charted in the UK, i was hoping that you had one done for him. I saw the complete Culture Club and was amazed by the chart figures you all found. I was looking for The Crying Game and Everything I Own by Boy George
In the list of all song artists Boy George is at position 1037, so he only just misses the 1000th position cut-off. That does mean that we don't have a special artist page for him.
We do, of course, have all the data. Given the limitations imposed on messages and replies we can't make it look pretty, but here it is:
|# | artist | name | year | type | score | notes|
|1 | Boy George | Everything I Own | 1987 | Song | 13.361 | UK 1 - Mar 1987 (9 weeks), Norway 1 - Apr 1987 (10 weeks), Eire 1 for 2 weeks - Mar 1987, Europe 1 for 2 weeks - Apr 1987, Belgium 2 - Mar 1987 (10 weeks), South Africa 2 of 1987, Holland 3 - Mar 1987 (12 weeks), Sweden 8 - Mar 1987 (4 weeks), Switzerland 8 - Apr 1987 (11 weeks), Germany 10 - Apr 1987 (2 months), Austria 12 - May 1987 (4 weeks), Italy 25 of 1987, Poland 28 - May 1987 (3 weeks), Brazil 53 of 1987, UK Silver (certified by BPI in May 1987)|
|2 | Boy George | The Crying Game | 1993 | Song | 5.661 | France 1 - Oct 1992 (2 weeks), Canada RPM 1 for 1 week - May 1993, US Billboard 15 - Mar 1993 (17 weeks), UK 22 - Sep 1992 (4 weeks), Japan (Tokyo) 36 - Apr 1993 (13 weeks), US Radio 82 of 1993 (peak 8 6 weeks), RYM 115 of 1993|
|3 | Boy George | Sold | 1987 | Song | 2.146 | Holland 18 - Aug 1987 (5 weeks), UK 24 - Jul 1987 (5 weeks), Belgium 26 - Aug 1987 (3 weeks), Italy 97 of 1987|
|4 | Boy George | To Be Reborn | 1988 | Song | 1.713 | UK 13 - Nov 1987 (7 weeks), Sweden 13 - Jan 1988 (3 weeks), Belgium 17 - Jan 1988 (1 week)|
|5 | Boy George | Love Is Leaving | 1996 | Song | 1.171 | France 7 - Aug 1997 (1 week), Italy 36 of 1996|
|6 | Boy George | Funtime | 1995 | Song | 1.057 | Japan (Tokyo) 29 - Apr 1995 (8 weeks), UK 45 - Apr 1995 (2 weeks)|
|7 | Boy George | Keep Me in Mind | 1987 | Song | 1.054 | UK 29 - Jun 1987 (5 weeks), Italy 50 of 1987|
|8 | Boy George | No Clause 28 | 1988 | Song | 1.053 | Belgium 28 - Jul 1988 (3 weeks), UK 57 - Jun 1988 (3 weeks)|
|9 | Boy George | Live My Life | 1987 | Song | 1.041 | US Billboard 40 - Dec 1987 (11 weeks), UK 62 - Mar 1988 (3 weeks)|
|10 | Boy George | Don't Cry | 1988 | Song | 1.027 | UK 60 - Oct 1988 (3 weeks), Italy 98 of 1988|
|11 | Boy George | Bow Down Mister | 1991 | Song | 1.026 | Poland 49 - May 1991 (1 week), RYM 182 of 1991|
|12 | Boy George | Il Amore | 1995 | Song | 0.520 | UK 50 - Jul 1995 (2 weeks)|
|13 | Boy George | Same Thing In Reverse | 1995 | Song | 0.518 | UK 56 - Oct 1995 (1 week)|
|14 | Boy George | Don't Take My Mind On A Trip | 1989 | Song | 0.515 | UK 68 - Mar 1989 (3 weeks)|
|1 | Boy George | Sold | 1987 | Album | 3.269 | Switzerland 15 - Jul 1987 (2 weeks), Norway 15 - Jul 1987 (4 weeks), Sweden 18 - Jul 1987 (9 weeks), Italy 22 of 1987, UK 29 - Jun 1987 (6 weeks), UK Silver (certified by BPI in Nov 1987)|
|2 | Boy George | Cheapness & Beauty | 1995 | Album | 0.523 | UK 44 - Jun 1995 (1 week)|
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Novak Djokovic, Stan Wawrinka Advance Into U.S. Open Men’s Final
September 9, 2016 by TennisGrandstand
by Kevin Craig
@KCraig_Tennis
Novak Djokovic and Stan Wawrinka set up an epic matchup in the final of the US Open that will take place on Sunday as they both won their semifinals on Friday in four sets.
Djokovic and Wawrinka have had many great battles throughout the course of their career, including the 2015 French Open final which Wawrinka won in four sets.
Djokovic, who will play in his seventh US Open final after winning the first semifinal of the day, took out Gael Monfils in what was one of the stranger matches of 2016.
“It was a tough one to be part of…I’m just very glad to overcome that,” said Djokovic. “I think he actually played the best tennis of his life on hard courts this season…so it was a good win for me today.”
Monfils, who had come into the semifinal stage without dropping a set, looked to be completely out of sorts in the opening set against the No. 1 player in the world.
After quickly finding himself down 5-0 after 16 minutes, Monfils appeared to try to change up his strategy to a method that looked like complete indifference. The Frenchman began to give minimal effort in the majority of points at the end of the first set, but the crazy part is that it actually worked. Monfils was able to roll off three games in a row before Djokovic finally closed out the set.
“I tried to get in his head…I’m just embracing the fact the guy is too good for me, and I try to switch strategy…Is not academic, but I try to win. I think I’m gutsy to try that, you know, against the world No. 1,” said Monfils, who hit 11 aces, but also 11 double faults.
The No. 10 seed looked to keep that same strategy going in the second set, but it stopped working. Djokovic figured out how to work around the listless Monfils and breezed to a two-sets lead, but not before boos aimed at the Frenchman rang out around Arthur Ashe Stadium.
The jeers started as Monfils, who faced 20 break points in the match, prepared to serve down set point. He proceeded to ask the crowd to get louder, sarcastically, before hitting double fault to give Djokovic the second set. That was followed by louder jeers, and Monfils looked like he may have received the wake-up call he needed.
After dropping serve to open up the third set, Monfils would roar back and look like he was the one who had been in charge of the entire match, breaking Djokovic twice before fighting back from a 0-40 hole while serving for the set to hold.
“I should not have allowed him to come back into the match after two sets to love up and 2-0 in the third, that was the momentum shift,” said Djokovic. “He started believing in himself and the crowd…was behind him. They wanted to see the long match.”
Monfils appeared to have returned to the form that got him to the semifinals, but more importantly he was able to get the crowd back on his side. The fourth set, though, would once again be controlled by Djokovic.
After an early exchange of breaks, the Serb would break Monfils twice more to close out the win and earn his spot in the final.
“It was a strange match, as it always is when you play Gael, who is very unpredictable player,” said Djokovic. “I was completely caught off guard when he just stood there and chipped the ball back and didn’t do much.”
While Djokovic was able to start scouting his next opponent and prepare for the final, Monfils had to answer to criticism from the press, namely John McEnroe, who was not shy in calling out the Frenchman for his performance in the first two sets.
“I’m very sad to learn that such a legend criticize me, because…I want to be the best. It’s tough. I try my best,” said Monfils, who hit 52 unforced errors. “I’m sorry if you think I’m unprofessional, but I’m working. I’m learning. I think I’m failing, for sure, a lot, but I try to stand up…because when he calls me unprofessional, he calls…all my team, actually, unprofessional.”
In what was a much tighter and more entertaining second semifinal, Wawrinka was able to defeat Kei Nishikori in four sets after being down a set and a break.
“I knew it would be really tough…I’m really happy. It was an amazing atmosphere again. To tell myself that I’m going to be in the final, it’s something crazy,” said Wawrinka.
The Suisse will now play in his third major final and he is looking to keep his record in major finals perfect. He has won the only two that he has played in as he defeated Rafael Nadal in the 2014 Australian Open final, as well as the aforementioned triumph over Djokovic at the 2015 French Open.
“I’m really excited. I’m really happy. I want to enjoy that moment. I’ve watched the final so many times here,” said Wawrinka, who will finally get to play in the US Open final for the first time.
After a straightforward first set in which Nishikori controlled and took advantage of the only break point of the set, Wawrinka was able to battle back from a break down in the second.
The Suisse lost his serve in the opening game of the set before breaking back a couple games later. The pressure continued though as Wawrinka saved six more break points in the set before breaking Nishikori in the 12th game of the set to level the match.
Set No. 3 saw Wawrinka continue to play well as he was able to break Nishikori twice. Just like the second set, the Suisse was able to break in the final game to close it out, this time giving himself a two-sets-to-one lead.
In the fourth set, almost everything went the way of the Suisse as he was able to break three times and ease his way into the US Open final.
There will be no secrets between Djokovic and Wawrinka on Sunday as they have played each other 12 times since 2012, as well as six times in majors. While Djokovic leads the career head-to-head record 21-4, no one will be able to predict what will happen in the final.
Filed Under: Archives, Blogs, Featured Columns, Latest News, Lead Story, Live Coverage Tagged With: Gael Monfils, Kei Nishikori, Novak Djokovic, Stan Wawrinka, US Open
What to Watch in the ATP This Week: Previews of Marseille, Memphis, and Buenos Aires
February 18, 2013 by Chris Skelton
The sun won’t interfere with Berdych’s ball toss this week.
While none of the ATP tournaments this week enjoys a field of the pedigree that the WTA has produced in Dubai, the 250 tournament in Marseille features every member of the top ten’s lower half. We start with that event in our weekly preview, following it with the technically more significant tournament in Memphis and the latest edition of the South American clay swing.
Marseille: Recovered from his Davis Cup marathon earlier this month, world #6 Berdych claims the top seed in this overstuffed draw. At his best on these fast surfaces, he still cannot overlook the second-round challenge of Gulbis, who defeated him at Wimbledon last year. An intriguing collection of unpredictable threats rounds out the quarter from Rotterdam finalist Benneteau, who upset Federer there, to the notorious Rosol and the rising Janowicz. After breaking through on an indoor hard court in Paris last year, the latter has struggled to sustain his momentum in 2013. Like Berdych, Janowicz must start the tournament in crisp form to survive his early challenges.
Somewhat less dangerous is the second quarter, where Tipsarevic would reach the quarterfinals after facing only a qualifier. The fourth-seeded Serb will have welcomed this good fortune, considering an inconsistent start to the season that included a retirement at the Australian Open and an opening-round loss as the second seed in an indoor 250 this month. Starting 2013 by winning fifteen of his first sixteen matches, by contrast, Gasquet became the first man to claim two titles this year in a surprising development that vindicated his top-ten status. A second-round meeting with compatriot Monfils would intrigue, although the latter continues to rebuild his rhythm in a return from a long absence.
Two of the most notable figures in the third quarter lost their Rotterdam openers last week, one surprisingly and one less so. While few expected Tsonga to stumble against Sijsling, familiar sighs issued from Australia when Tomic reverted to his wayward self. The Aussie eyes a more accommodating draw this time, though, for higher-ranked opponnents Klizan and Paire will not overwhelm him. A potential opener against Davydenko might cause concern among Tsonga’s fans on an indoor hard court, but the Russian has slumped significantly since reaching the Doha final to start the season. In a quarterfinal, Tsonga and Tomic could engage in a battle of seismic serving that would test the focus of both.
Fresh from a strong effort in Rotterdam arrives the second-seeded Del Potro to a more challenging draw. Rebounding from his Australian Open debacle, he held serve relentlessly on indoor hard courts last week and may need to do so again if he opens against home hope Michael Llodra. A former semifinalist at the Paris Indoors, Llodra upset Tipsarevic in Montpellier two weeks ago and always relishes playing on this surface. Less formidable is the Frenchman whom Del Potro could meet in the quarterfinals, for Simon lacks the shot-making ability to thrust the Argentine out of his comfort zone.
Final: Berdych vs. Del Potro
Memphis: The most important tournament of the week only on paper, this sequel to San Jose often features many of the same players. This year departs somewhat from that trend, for top-seeded Cilic and fifth-seeded Nishikori arrive in North America for the first time this year. Between them stand Zagreb finalist and Memphis defending champion Melzer, who could repeat his final there against Cilic, and Tsonga’s Rotterdam nemesis, Igor Sijsling. Hampered by injury during the Australian Open, Nishikori aims to regain his groove before tournaments at Indian Wells and Miami where he could shine. By contrast, Cilic hopes to build upon claiming his home tournament in Zagreb for the third time. When they met at last year’s US Open, the latter prevailed in four sets.
Impressive in Davis Cup but less so in San Jose, Querrey looks to produce a more compelling serving performance as the fourth seed in a section without any giants of his size. Compatriot Steve Johnson, who upset Karlovic last week, may fancy his chances against the mercurial Dolgopolov in the second round. Withdrawing from San Jose with injury, the seventh seed may find the courts too fast for an entertaining style that requires time to improvise. If Dolgopolov should meet Querrey, though, he could disrupt the rhythm on which the American relies.
Somewhat like Querrey, Isner achieved modest success in San Jose before subsiding meekly in the semifinals. Since he missed much of the previous weeks with a knee injury, the matches accumulated there should serve him well in a tournament where he has finished runner-up to Querrey before. The tenacious returning of Hewitt may test Isner’s fortitude, although the former has not left an impact on his recent tournaments. Also in this section is the faltering Ryan Harrison, the victim of some challenging draws but also unable to show much evidence of improvement despite his visible will to win. The home crowd might free Harrison from the passivity that has cost him lately.
The undisputed master of San Jose, Raonic moves from the top of the draw there to the bottom of the draw here. His massive serve-forehand combinations will meet a similar style, albeit more raw, in American wildcard Jack Sock when the tournament begins. Raonic can anticipate a rematch of the San Jose final against Haas in the Memphis quarterfinals, while the lefty serve of Feliciano Lopez should pose an intriguing upset threat. Since Melzer rode similar weapons to last year’s title here, this fellow veteran could surprise the draw as well.
Final: Querrey vs. Raonic
Buenos Aires: After Nadal had dominated the South American headlines during the previous two weeks, another Spaniard attempts to follow in his footsteps. Now the top-ranked man from his country, world #4 Ferrer will face the same task that Rafa did in Sao Paulo when he meets either Berlocq or Nalbandian in the second round. Troubled by Nalbandian before, he will feel more comfortable against the unreliable Fognini in a more traditional battle of clay specialists a round later. In the second quarter continue two surprise stories of the past two weeks, Horacio Zeballos and Martin Alund. While the former won his first career title by toppling Nadal in Vina del Mar, the latter won a set from the Spaniard in a semifinal at Sao Paulo—the first tournament where he had won an ATP match. The highest seed in this quarter, Bellucci, imploded on home soil last week but did defeat Ferrer in Monte Carlo last year.
Framing the lower half are the ATP’s two most notable hard-luck stories of the season. Two days after Wawrinka had lost his epic five-setter to Djokovic, Almagro allowed a two-set lead to slip away against Ferrer in Melbourne after serving for the match three times. That trend continued for both men in February, when Wawrinka lost the longest doubles match in tennis history and Almagro dropped a third-set tiebreak to Nalbandian despite serving 28 aces. The Swiss #2 faces a mildly intriguing test to start the week in Paolo Lorenzi, and fellow Italian Simone Bolelli aims to continue his surge from a semifinal appearance in Sao Paulo. Less imposing is the path ahead of Almagro, although the unseeded Albert Montanes can score the occasional headline victory on clay.
Final: Ferrer vs. Wawrinka
Filed Under: Chris Skelton, Latest News, Lead Story, Live Coverage Tagged With: Albert Montanes, Alexander Doglopolov, ATP, ATP 250, ATP 500, benoit paire, Bernard Tomic, Buenos Aires tennis, carlos berlocq, David Ferrer, David Nalbandian, Ernests Gulbis, Fabio Fognini, Feliciano Lopez, Fernando Verdasco, Gael Monfils, Gilles Simon, Horacio Zeballos, Igor Sijsling, jack sock, Janko Tipsarevic, Jerzy Janowicz, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, John Isner, Juan Martin del Potro, Julien Benneteau, Jurgen Melzer, Kei Nishikori, Lleyton Hewitt, Lukas Rosol, Marin Cilic, Marseille tennis, Martin Alund, Martin Klizan, memphis tennis, Michael Llodra, Milos Raonic, Nicolas Almagro, Nikolay Davydenko, Richard Gasquet, Ryan Harrison, Sam Querrey, Simone Bolelli, Stanislas Wawrinka, steve johnson, Thomaz Bellucci, Tomas Berdych, Tommy Haas
Gallery: Del Potro Defeats Monfils as Gulbis Overcomes Haase; Baghdatis/Dimitrov Falter
February 12, 2013 by TennisGrandstand
ROTTERDAM (Feb. 12, 2013) — Last year’s finalist Juan Martin del Potro was among the winners on Tuesday at the ABN AMRO World Tennis Tournament in Rotterdam. The Argentine dispatched of Frenchman Gael Monfils in 71 minutes, never having really been tested in his 6-3, 6-4 win.
Del Potro will next take on qualifier Ernests Gulbis who handed Robin Haase his fourth straight first round defeat in Rotterdam, winning 6-2, 6-1 in only 50 minutes.
During his on-court interview Gulbis apologized to the audience for defeating the country’s highest-ranked player: “Sorry Holland. Too bad for the spectators that I defeated a Dutchman.”
In doubles’ action, the team of Marcos Baghdatis and Grigor Dimitrov lost to last week’s Zagreb titlists Julian Knowle and Filip Polasek, 7-6(4), 6-1, while the French tandem of Julien Benneteau and Richard Gasquet defeated the tournament No. 2 seed Aisam-Ul-Haq Qureshi and Jean-Julien Rojer.
Other singles players through to the first round include wildcard Thiemo DeBakker (when Mikhail Youzhny retired), Julien Benneteau, and Jarkko Nieminen.
(Gallery by Tennis Grandstand photographer Rick Gleijm.)
Filed Under: Lead Story Tagged With: abn amro tennis, atp rotterdam, ATP Tennis, Ernest Gulbis, Gael Monfils, Grigor Dimitrov, Juan Martin del Potro, Julien Benneteau, Marcos Baghdatis, Richard Gasquet, Robin Haase
Tennis Issues: It's All in the Score
Gilles Simon exhausted during his 2013 Australian Open match against Gael Monfils
By Jane Voigt, owner of DownTheTee.com
February 6, 2013 — It’s the best kept secret in sports. Tennis scoring. For every tennis fan who sees 2-6, 6-4, 7-6 (11) on the ESPN crawl and thinks, ‘that must’ve been a heck of a tie-breaker,’ factor in 100 viewers who just see a stream of random numbers with no idea what it means.
Who can blame them?
The bizarre function of a clock face as score keeper dates to 14C France. Theoretically, the 15-minute increments — 15, 30, 45, 60 – marked points in a game, but as theories go this one has never been proven as fact.
As time passed ’45’ became ’40’ and ’60’ was replaced by ‘game.’ The evolution of ‘love’ as meaning ‘zero’ also came from the French. ‘L’oeuf’ means egg and an egg looked like a zero. However, another theory speculated ‘love’ was more closely associated with betting on tennis and the honor that came with a loss.
As the saying goes, ‘Love means nothing to a tennis player,’ has adorned many a tee-shirt. But, in the end, it causes some confusion.
All this is amplified when various networks, from NBC and ESPN to Tennis Channel, try to make sense of it all with fancy graphic scoring boxes. They seem to only heighten the confusion.
For example, ESPN2’s blanket coverage of the first Major of the year pleased ardent tennis fans. Yet however blessed these folks were with hour-upon-hour of matches, some were left scratching their heads when they saw this scoreboard:
Simo2540
Monf2615
If you recognized the players on screen, ‘Simo’ translated to Gilles Simon and ‘Monf’ translated to Gaels Monfils. Following that bit of detective work, the first column displayed the number of sets these two had played. The second column was the current set’s score, and the final column was the score in the current game.
What would a casual viewer think having stumbled upon this match and its tiny scoreboard tucked in the corner of their huge television screen? They would watch a few points then grab the remote and skedaddle. Maybe they would pick up results on their favorite smart-phone app later or, most probably, have forgotten about it all together.
Here’s how an imaginary conversation might go … What match? Oh you know the one with that 70-shot thing, with those two French guys. Yeah … I saw a little but couldn’t figure out what was going on. Couldn’t tell the score or who was who.
Tennis loses thousands of possible fans because of its scoring, and the methods used to display it.
And it’s one sport that flexes a flexible attitude toward messing with scoring, too.
Take Division I college tennis. In the summer of 2012, the NCAA dropped the regular best-of-three sets scoring in singles competition, by eliminating the third set. Instead a first-to-ten 10-point tiebreak was inserted. Doubles went from an 8-game pro set to one 6-game set.
“‘By shortening the format and bringing greater excitement to the dual match, programs will be able to attract fan support and attention to tennis,'” the NCAA said, as reported by The New York Times.
The backlash to this decision was swift and loud. College coaches knew more people wouldn’t see these matches because college tennis has never impressed traditional broadcasters. Plus … how does a 6-game set differ from an 8-game pro set. What is an 8-game pro set. Questions like these were found at the USTA website. Astonished? You should not be. Convoluted scoring is an across-the-board dilemma.
“‘The system of scoring for college tennis is like no other sport,'” Phillip Foster wrote on Livestrong.com. And the same goes for pro tennis.
Not too long ago the ATP and WTA wanted to encourage singles’ specialists to play more doubles and thus expand tennis’s exposure. Therefore, the governing bodies swept away the established best-of-three set format. Instead, no-ad scoring (4 points wins a game) for the first two sets and a 10-point super tiebreak for the third set was put in effect. The decision covered all levels of tournaments — from Grand Slams down through Challenger Tours — except Wimbledon and Davis Cup. At these two events doubles remained a best-of-five format with regular scoring, as does singles (for men).
And about Davis Cup … its ‘ties’ and ‘rubbers’ used in lieu of the common terms ‘tournament’ and ‘matches,’ plus its international country-by-country competition took the most bizarre of tennis turns at its inception in 1900. This prestigious competition is lost on most.
In September, the ATP announced that the ‘let rule’ — serve is redone if a ball clips the net and falls in the service box — would be removed as a trial for the first three months of 2013 on the Challenger Tour. The experiment’s goal was not conceived to dramatically shorten matches, but to “‘have a positive impact on the flow of the match,'” Brad Drewett, former executive chairman and president of the ATP, told The New York Times.
College tennis uses the ‘no-let’ rule, too, as does World Team Tennis (WTT) along with other unorthodox rules.
Billie Jean King, the founder and creator of WTT, wanted her brand of tennis lively and fantastically fan friendly. Out was the quiet stuffy and traditional atmosphere associated with the sport.
As a result WTT has been at the forefront of wacky colored tennis courts, boisterous crowds and music. Along with legal lets, WTT uses no-ad scoring. A set is five games. Scores are summed for each team’s results in singles, doubles, mixed doubles, and men’s and women’s doubles. The team with the most points at the end of the night wins the event.
Take a look at one of these matches and how its scores are depicted on screen. Many are left shaking their heads. Not because they are mentally challenged, but because it’s confusing and different from ordinary, or what has been thought to be.
With all this said, perhaps our sport might have a better time expanding its fan base if scoring were a bit more consistent. Not many viewers are confused by a football score or basketball score or even baseball, which can be challenging with all the stats scattered across a scoreboard.
Yet many are faced with a steep learning curve when it comes to tennis scoring. The method will not change, in all likelihood. Perhaps, though, the way it is presented and the numerous permutations of its original intent could be roped in. That could pull aside the veil from the mysteriously conceived game and give it a better chance of becoming something more than a second-class sport.
Jane Voigt lives, breathes and writes tennis. She wrote about John Isner’s ground-breaking wildcard run at the formerly named Legg Mason Tennis Classic in 2007 for Tennis.com. She has written tennis commentary for the late, great Tennis Week print publication and online version. Hundreds of articles from Jane have been seen on TennisServer.com, too. She now maintains her own website at DownTheTee.com, and has traveled throughout the U. S. and Canada to cover tournaments. Ask her to play tennis, and she’ll prefer singles to doubles.
Filed Under: Lead Story Tagged With: atp scoring, Gael Monfils, Gilles Simon, ncaa tennis, Tennis, tennis scoring, world team tennis scoring
The Week Ahead in the ATP: Rotterdam, San Jose, Sao Paulo
Nadal had the spotlight all to himself last week. Not anymore.
Like last week, the upcoming ATP slate features two European tournaments on indoor hard courts and a South American tournament on outdoor red clay. Only one of the Big Four participated in last week’s action, but this week his archrival returns to the spotlight as well.
Rotterdam: Back in action for the first time since those consecutive five-setters in Melbourne, Federer prepares for a title defense closer to home soil. He often has produced his crispest tennis on indoor hard courts late in his career, and he finds himself near familiar victim Youzhny. Tested by rising star Raonic last year, Federer could meet another rising star in Jerzy Janowicz at the quarterfinal stage. Massive servers trouble him more than they once did, although Janowicz has looked less intimidating in the early events of 2013 than he did while reaching the Paris Indoors final last fall. Of further interest in this section is the first-round clash between doubles partners Benneteau and Llodra, both of whom should shine on this surface.
Continuing the French theme from Benneteau-Llodra, the second quarter lies in the shadow of two top-20 Frenchmen: the third-seeded Tsonga and the fifth-seeded Simon. No player of note would bar their routes to a quarterfinal, which their recently solid form suggests that they should reach. Both Frenchmen charted a course to the second week at the Australian Open, and Tsonga in particular excelled by extending Federer to a final set in their quarterfinal. His meeting with Simon should present a compelling contrast of styles, in which one would fancy the third seed’s chances on a surface that favors aggression.
Although both men enter the tournament unseeded, Tomic and Dimitrov offer the most notable storyline of the third quarter with the looming first-round clash between these two phenoms. Greatly celebrated for reaching the Brisbane final in January, the latter has not built upon that breakthrough but instead slipped back into the inconsistency that has slowed his progress. A hero on home soil again, Tomic recaptured much of the reputation that he lost with his 2012 antics by showing a more professional attitude to start 2013. Meanwhile, a strong week in Montpellier continued Gasquet’s strong start to the season and leaves him the favorite to reach the semifinal here. The fourth seed could repeat the Montpellier final against compatriot Benoit Paire in the second round.
Leaping from the lowest part of the draw is the first-round match between wildcard Gael Monfils and second seed Del Potro. While the former left Melbourne in mildly promising fashion, the latter fell well short of expectations in suffering a third-round exit to Jeremy Chardy. Del Potro can waste little time in recapturing his rhythm at a tournament where he finished runner-up to Federer last year, for Monfils’ two finals at the Paris Indoors prove his ability to succeed on this surface. Less likely to shine is the sixth-seeded Seppi, a player who prefers slow courts and lacks the firepower of either projected quarterfinal opponent.
Final: Tsonga vs. Del Potro
Three years, three San Jose titles?
San Jose: In the last edition of this tournament, long a mainstay of Bay Area sports, Milos Raonic attempts to complete a title three-peat on the scene of his first trophy. Among the faster indoor hard courts on the calendar, San Jose will showcase a serve nearly unanswerable at its best. In the last two years, opponents struggled even to earn a break point against Raonic. Fresh from his Davis Cup heroics, last year’s top seed could repeat the 2012 final against Denis Istomin in the quarterfinals, or he might meet home hope Ryan Harrison in a rematch of a 2012 semifinal. Both of those men struggled to match Raonic hold for hold last year with their modest serves, and neither has taken a significant step forward since then.
Someone who can match the Canadian hold for hold, the third-seeded Sam Querrey seeks to continue building on his recent upward trend in the rankings. Returning to relevance midway through last year, Querrey plays his best on American soil and mirrored Raonic’s contributions last weekend by lifting Team USA past Brazil with two singles victories. He faces the possibility of consecutive matches against Australians, first the fading Lleyton Hewitt and then the surging Marinko Matosevic. Near his career-high ranking, the latter man will meet the teenage sensation Jack Sock, still in the process of refining his explosive serve and forehand.
If North Americans dominate the top half of the San Jose draw, a more European flavor emerges from the third quarter. Following his best season since his prime in the mid-2000s, Tommy Haas lurks near the edge of the top 20 after starting 2012 outside the top 200. Injuries and recurrences of his volatile temper hampered him in January, but expect his forecourt skills to flourish on a court where he can shorten points. Female fans would enjoy a quarterfinal between Haas and Fernando Verdasco, two slots below him in the rankings. Unfortunately for them, former finalist Ivo Karlovic might topple the Spanish lefty in the second round, although he lost to him here two years ago. Can wildcard Steve Johnson, who took Almagro to a fifth set at the Australian Open, build on that momentum to upset Dr. Ivo?
The only man in the ATP shorter than Karlovic, the second-seeded Isner needs to build momentum much more urgently than Johnson, for he defends finalist points at Indian Wells. Still the top-ranked American man by a small margin over Querrey, Isner withdrew from the Australian Open with a knee injury and looked unimpressive in Davis Cup last weekend. No player in his vicinity looks like a convincing dark horse, however, with the most notable resistance coming from Xavier Malisse. Otherwise, this section features a handful of promising-but-not-quite-there-yet figures like Vasek Pospisil and Evgeny Donskoy, the latter of whom defeated Youzhny in Melbourne.
Final: Querrey vs. Verdasco
Second time lucky for Rafa?
Sao Paulo: In a draw that greatly resembles Vina del Mar last week, Nadal again shares a half with Jeremy Chardy amid a collection of players from South America and southern Europe. Few Spaniards have shown the determination to challenge Rafa on his favored red clay, and Ruben Ramirez Hidalgo should prove no exception. One of the few Spanish journeymen to defeat him on any surface, Guillermo Garcia-Lopez could meet the man whom he defeated in Bangkok at the quarterfinal stage, although Vina del Mar semifinalist Carlos Berlocq seems more plausible. Yet another Spaniard, the eighth-seeded Albert Ramos, opens against Garcia-Lopez.
Splitting his two Davis Cup rubbers in the United States, Thomaz Bellucci transitions back to his homeland and a friendlier surface for his traditional lefty game. The fifth-seeded Brazilian would meet Chardy in the quarterfinals with no legitimate threat between them. Fellow Brazilian Ricardo Mello, known better for his doubles success, received not only a wildcard but a winnable opening match as a reward for his victory over the Bryans in Davis Cup. Facing aging Federer-killer Volandri is Vina del Mar quarterfinalist Daniel Gimeno-Traver, who mustered some decent resistance to Rafa last week.
World #15 Monaco looked nearly certain to meet Nadal in the Vina del Mar final until the unheralded Guillaume Rufin upset him, only to issue a walkover a round later. At least the Argentine enjoyed accompanying Nadal through the doubles draw, which gave him plenty of opportunities to refine his clay skills before this second opportunity. A former top-10 player, Spanish veteran Tommy Robredo could become Monaco’s first opponent in a grinding match of counterpunchers who rarely miss. Cast from a similar mold is Robredo’s compatriot Albert Montanes, situated near the seventh-seeded Pablo Andujar. The latter must start the tournament on a high note to escape Santiago Giraldo, a Colombian who has upset much more notable players on clay before.
The key difference between the draws in Vina del Mar and Sao Paulo, Nicolas Almagro hopes to rebound from a memorable fortnight in Melbourne. While he reached an Australian Open quarterfinal, he may need time to forget his repeated inability to finish off Ferrer there and perhaps also to recover from a leg injury. Like Nadal, though, Almagro will find the clay accommodating to his ailing body, and he has won a set from Rafa on the surface before. Opening against surprise Vina del Mar champion Horacio Zeballos, he finds himself near the most dangerous unseeded player in the draw, David Nalbandian. The grouchy gaucho languishes in a semi-retirement from which he emerges just often enough to remain relevant, and a player lacking in fitness, confidence, or both would seem plausible prey. Nalbandian has tested Nadal severely before, even during his decline, but can he string together the solid efforts necessary to produce that tantalizing final?
Final: Nadal vs. Almagro
Check out the companion preview of the WTA Premier Five tournament in Doha, and return on Friday for the next entry in my column.
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The Return of Rafa Nadal, and More: What to Watch in Montpellier, Zagreb, and Vina Del Mar
February 4, 2013 by Chris Skelton
Rafael Nadal digs back into his beloved clay this week in Chile.
Each Monday morning, I will break down ATP and WTA draws quarter by quarter with a prediction of who may meet in the final and perhaps the semifinals. Fans can look forward this week to three ATP 250 tournaments in Montpellier, Zagreb, and Vina del Mar. The most significant storyline concerns the highly anticipated return of Rafael Nadal in the last of those events, but the other two merit the attention of dedicated fans too.
Montpellier: After a weekend satisfying but exhausting, Berdych travels from a Davis Cup tie in Switzerland to neighboring France and one of his most productive surfaces: an indoor hard court. Clearly the best player in his half and probably the best in the tournament, the top seed might face an intriguing quarterfinal test in Nikolay Davydenko, also proficient on this surface. A champion in Doha last month, the Russian owns a stunning 9-2 record against the Czech. But most of Davydenko’s success comes from before 2010, the year when his decline and Berdych’s breakthrough began. The greatest pre-semifinal obstacle for the top seed probably lies in his ability to recover from the longest match in Davis Cup history, which spanned a remarkable 422 minutes.
As one would expect in a draw littered with Frenchmen (10 of the 24 direct entrants), the home crowd should find plenty of reasons to cheer. Nowhere is this more apparent than in the second quarter, where Gasquet could meet Monfils in the second round. Both men shone at the Australian Open by their standards, as did occasional upset threat Julien Benneteau. While all of these French stars have faltered on home soil at times, they also can point to notable achievements from Gael’s two appearances in the Paris Masters final to Julien’s upset of Federer at the same event. Like that doubles specialist, the third-seeded Gasquet will bring momentum from a commanding Davis Cup effort on French soil.
Less impressive is the lower half of the draw, spearheaded in the third quarter by Gilles Simon. The fourth seed shares Gasquet’s task of surmounting the compatriots scattered around him. A group that features Benoit Paire, Adrian Mannarino, and Paul-Henri Mathieu includes no challenger of a competitive will comparable to Simon. This Frenchman’s first real test should come in the semifinals against the winner of a tantalizing all-Serbian quarterfinal.
While the second-seeded Tipsarevic has produced much better tennis than Troicki lately, the former arrives from an injury and the latter from a fine Davis Cup performance in Belgium. In a small, fervently patriotic nation like Serbia, rivalries among compatriots can prove more tightly contested than their relative talents would suggest. Hoping to disrupt that projected clash, the aging Michael Llodra seeks to rekindle his former magic from the Paris Indoors with a net-rushing style that reaps rewards on these courts. If Tipsarevic does advance, he will need to reverse a poor history against Simon, not an easy task in view of his unimpressive recent form.
Final: Gasquet vs. Simon
Zagreb: Twice a titlist at his home tournament, top-ranked Croat Marin Cilic has started to knock on the door of the top ten again after an encouraging campaign in the second half of 2012. He holds the top seed in a draw that features several rising stars from the region, including Blaz Kavcic and Aljaz Bedene. The former reached the third round of a major for the first time at the Australian Open in the wake of a five-set, five-hour marathon, while the latter reached a semifinal in Chennai by defeating Wawrinka (more impressive in retrospect) and winning a set from Tipsarevic. If the winner can survive the mercurial Marcos Baghdatis, an exciting quarterfinal with Cilic would beckon.
Among the most notable figures in the second quarter is seventh-seeded Grigor Dimitrov, assigned a difficult opening assignment against serving leviathan Ivo Karlovic. The young player popularly likened to Federer endured a January of extremes that lurched from his first career final in Brisbane to a first-round exit in straight sets at the Australian Open. Beyond Karlovic, another local threat in Ivan Dodig would unleash his first-strike power against the maturing Dimitrov, which should test his focus. The third-seeded Mikhail Youzhny, well past his prime, looks less intimidating in a quarterfinal that could showcase two elegant one-handed backhands.
Another aging veteran in lefty Jurgen Melzer holds the fourth seed in a tournament near his native Austria, where he will attempt to raise his level from an unimpressive Davis Cup display in Kazakhstan. Explosive upset artist Lukas Rosol might test him in the quarterfinals should he survive another Lukas, the eighth-seeded Lacko. The latter Lukas nearly upset Tipsarevic at the Australian Open, so he may fancy his chances against the Czech Lukas or a Polish Lukasz (Kubot), better known in doubles but dangerous in singles with his pinpoint serves and returns.
The bottom quarter may hold the least interest for local fans, since the only Croats received wildcards to compensate for their low rankings. But its two seeds, Martin Klizan and Andreas Seppi, enjoyed their best seasons to date in 2012. Seppi in particular has hinted at building upon that momentum in 2013 by reaching the second week in Melbourne, although this surface does not much suit his patient style.
Final: Cilic vs. Melzer
Vina del Mar: The toast of Chile when he arrived last week, Nadal celebrated his return to professional competition after a six-month absence by basking in a ceremonial welcome from the nation’s president and noted tennis stars. Fans throughout the world, even those who never especially admired him, should welcome the return of a warrior whose presence injects much more intrigue into the ATP elite. While Nadal probably will not find his finest form immediately, he may not need to find it here to win a title on the clay that he relishes so deeply. Nobody in his quarter should muster the nerve to contemplate stopping the Spaniard, including compatriot Daniel Gimeno-Traver and home hope Nicolas Massu, a former Olympic gold medalist.
The only clay tournament in a week otherwise spent on indoor hard courts, Vina del Mar has attracted a host of players from South America and the Mediterranean. Australian Open quarterfinalist Jeremy Chardy will seek to shift his momentum from hard courts to clay, a surface that could reward his asymmetrical baseline game but not his preference for shortening points in the forecourt. The third seed in Chile, this Frenchman might encounter veteran Spaniard and clay specialist Tommy Robredo in the quarterfinals. Or perhaps Chardy will meet Lorenzi, who once nearly upset Nadal in Rome.
Often neglected among Spanish men, fourth-seeded Pablo Andujar occasionally drifts within range of an ardent fan’s radar during the clay season. This week, he could collide with a compatriot ranked just six slots below him in Albert Ramos, who looked rather crisp at the Australian Open in a five-set loss to Baghdatis. South Americans Rogerio Dutra Silva, Leonardo Mayer, and Horacio Zeballos add some local interest without heightening the level of competition significantly.
Like his fellow second seed Seppi in Zagreb, world #12 Juan Monaco produced a season far more productive last year than any before it. A veteran clay specialist, he notched his greatest success last year on hard courts, where he reached the Miami semifinal. But he regained his groove on his favorite surface while contributing to Argentina’s Davis Cup victory over Germany this weekend, and he often has excelled during the February South American clay swing. Fellow Argentine Carlos Berlocq, known as the worst server in the top 100, should pose little threat in a weak section. Can Monaco test Nadal in the final, as he has Djokovic and Murray on clay? We will know better once the tournament unfolds.
Final: Nadal vs. Monaco
I will return on Friday morning to look at the first round of Fed Cup. Ahead on next Monday are previews of ATP events in Rotterdam, San Jose, and Sao Paulo, in addition to a more detailed preview of the WTA Premier Five tournament in Doha.
Filed Under: Chris Skelton, Lead Story, Live Coverage Tagged With: Albert Ramos, Aljaz Bedene, Andreas Seppi, ATP, ATP 250, Blaz Kavcic, carlos berlocq, daniel gimeno traver, Gael Monfils, Gilles Simon, Grigor Dimitrov, Ivan Dodig, Ivo Karlovic, Janko Tipsarevic, Jeremy Chardy, Juan Monaco, Julien Benneteau, Jurgen Melzer, Lukas Lacko, Lukas Rosol, Lukasz Kubot, Marcos Baghdatis, Marin Cilic, Martin Klizan, Michael Llodra, Montpellier tennis, Nicolas Massu, Nikolay Davydenko, pablo andujar, Paolo Lorenzi, Rafael Nadal, Richard Gasquet, Tennis, Tomas Berdych, Tommy Robredo, Viktor Troicki, Vina del Mar tennis, Zagreb tennis
More Memories of Melbourne: Grading the Australian Open (ATP)
January 28, 2013 by Chris Skelton
Djokovic gets cozy with an old flame. Should Jelena Ristic be jealous?
Having completed the recap of the WTA field at the Australian Open, we issue report cards for the ATP. As before, grading reflects not just results but expectations, quality of opposition, and other factors.
Djokovic: The master of Melbourne like none before him, the Serb became the first man in the Open era to finish on top Down Under three straight years. That record span of dominance over a tournament that famously has eluded dominance came with a satisfying serving (note the word choice) of revenge over Murray, who had defeated him in the US Open final. Consolidating his current control over what looks like the ATP’s next marquee rivalry, Djokovic won his third straight match in it after losing the first set in all of them. Vital to his success was the series of 44 consecutive holds with which he ended the tournament, strangling two of the game’s best returners in Ferrer and Murray. Those top-five opponents managed break points in just two of Djokovic’s service games through the semifinal and final as he repeatedly won 30-30 and deuce points throughout the tournament—with one notable exception in his epic against Wawrinka. The undisputed world #1 survived and then thrived in running his winning streak over top-eight opponents to eleven. Overpowering Ferrer and outlasting Murray, Djokovic showed that he can—and will—do virtually anything to win. A+
Murray: The US Open champion came closer than many anticipated to becoming the first man to win his second major on the next opportunity after his first. Murray admittedly benefited from a puff pastry of a pre-semifinal draw, which allowed him to conserve energy for that five-setter against Federer. Threatening to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory at the end of the fourth set in that match, he showed remarkable resilience by bouncing back to claim an early lead in the fifth and close out the man who had tormented him at majors. Murray maintained a nearly impenetrable rhythm on serve throughout that match, and his forehand continued its maturation into a real weapon. He will rue the three break points that he let escape early in the second set of the final, which could have unfolded entirely differently otherwise. But Murray was right to consider the tournament an important consolidation of last year’s success. A
Federer: Handed the most difficult draw of the top three, he showed just how well his game can silence players who rely heavily on their serves in ousting Tomic and then Raonic. Federer defended crisply and moved as alertly as he has in years past during the five-set quarterfinal with Tsonga that followed, which unveiled the full range of his weapons from the explosive to the delicate. But his struggles to break serve caught up with him against Murray, whom he could not crack for three and a half sets even as his own serve came under frequent pressure. Probably drained by the Tsonga epic, Federer faded in the fifth set despite mounting an impressive surge to swipe the fourth. He finished the tournament by winning all six of his tiebreaks, a sure sign that he remains one of the sport’s best competitors under pressure. A
Ferrer: Never looking his best during the fortnight, he backed into the #4 ranking rather than charging into it with confidence. Ferrer probably should have lost to Almagro in the fourth round, outplayed for most of the first four sets and kept alive only by his compatriot’s shocking inability to deliver the coup de grace. Thoroughly exposed by Djokovic in the semifinals, he suffered his second humiliating defeat at that stage of a major over the last twelve months as he offered little better than batting practice for the Serb’s weaponry. Ferrer said consistently this fortnight that he considers himself a clear level below the Big Four, and his results against them on grand stages continue to make his point for him. B
Tsonga: The Frenchman slipped to 13 straight losses against top-eight opponents here, but the manner in which he did contained kernels of hope for the season. Not folding meekly to Federer as he had in an earlier Australian Open, Tsonga regrouped from losing the first set in a tiebreak to win the second and regrouped from losing the third set in a tiebreak to win the fourth. He even spared no effort in battling Federer down to the finish in a fifth set tenser than the scoreline showed. Also likely to please new coach Roger Rasheed was his greater efficiency in closing out overmatched opponents in the previous four rounds. Docked a notch for his Neanderthal-like comments about women’s tennis. B+
Almagro: As the percipient Steve Tignor of Tennis.com noted, sometimes a player’s greatest achievement can turn into his greatest catastrophe within a handful of points. Jerking Ferrer around the court for two and a half sets, Almagro astonished audiences by his newfound courage against an opponent who had won all 12 of their previous meetings. He will remember his first quarterfinal at a hard-court major for the wrong reasons, though, once he failed to serve it out three times across the third and fourth sets before succumbing to cramps as well as the crushing weight of his disappointment in the fifth. B-
Chardy: Not only did he upset Del Potro with inspired attacking tennis, but he followed up that five-set victory by grinding out a four-setter against the recently dangerous Seppi. The Frenchman came from nowhere to reach his first major quarterfinal and in the process showed considerable courage. Chardy almost pulled off an Almagro against the Tower of Tandil, gagging on triple break point midway through the third set when he had won the first two. Unlike the Spaniard, he mustered one last surge in the fifth with an unexpected fearlessness to finish what he had started. A-
Berdych: Drawn against the top seed in a quarterfinal for the second straight major, he could not find the same thunderbolts that he had hurled at the US Open. Or perhaps Berdych simply matches up more effectively to Federer than to Djokovic, who has won all eleven of their hard-court meetings. Before that relatively tame four-set loss, however, he recorded four straight-sets victories that bode well for his consistency, always the main question for him. He leaves the Australian Open as the man outside the Big Four most likely to win a major this year, although he will need some help to do so. B+
Del Potro: Through the first two rounds, the Tower of Tandil looked not only sturdy but downright terrifying. Just when people began to take him seriously as a dark horse title threat, Del Potro turned into the Leaning Tower of Pisa when he tottered to the exit in a strangely enervated effort. That five-set loss to Chardy at the end of the first week marked a setback in a surge that started with his bronze-medal victory at the Olympics, departing from his recent steadiness against opponents outside the top ten. F
Tipsarevic: He looked every inch a top-eight seed in dismantling sentimental favorite Hewitt before his home crowd on Rod Laver Arena, where the Aussie had wrought so many miracles before. Striking winners down both lines with abandon, Tipsarevic appeared to make an imposing statement. Then he wobbled through two five-setters and retired against Almagro, not a surprising result for a man who has completed a career Golden Slam of retirements. C
ATP young guns: Heralded with enthusiasm when the tournament began, none of these prodigies left a meaningful impact on the tournament. Brisbane finalist Dimitrov became the first man to exit Melbourne, failing to win a set in his opener, and Raonic succumbed to Federer much more routinely than he had in their three meetings last year. Tomic produced a stronger effort against the Swiss star than he did last year but still lost in straight sets after struggling mightily with a qualifier in the previous round. And American fans need not have watched Harrison’s ignominious loss to Djokovic for long to realize how far this alleged future star must improve before mounting a credible threat. Last but not least, Paris finalist Jerzy Janowicz narrowly avoided a second-round implosion over a dubious line call and rallied to win after losing the first two sets—sets that he should not have lost in the first place. Janowicz did at least progress as far as his seed projected, and many of these young men received difficult draws, but the breakthrough of young stars that many expected here happened almost entirely on the women’s side. C+
Bryan brothers: At their most productive major, they closed within four major titles of Federer by comfortably winning the final after some close scrapes earlier in the fortnight. The Bryans have earned some of their most consistent success in Australia, where they have reached nine finals and five consecutively. Djokovic still has some work to do before he can approach the numbers of these twins whose talents never seem to fade. A
Djokovic vs. Wawrinka: Undoubtedly the match of the tournament, it represented the high point of Wawrinka’s career to date. The Swiss #2 basked in the spotlight while cracking his exquisite one-handed backhands to all corners of the court and taking control of rallies with his penetrating cross-court forehand. Wawrinka even served at Federer-like heights for much of the match, outside a predictable stumble when he approached a two-set lead. Stunned by the brio of his opponent, Djokovic needed a set and a half to settle into the match. The underdog then needed about a set and a half to regroup from the favorite’s charge, at which point the fourth and fifth sets featured spellbinding tennis all the more remarkable for the ability of both men to sustain their quality. Fittingly, the match ended only after Wawrinka had saved two match points with breathtaking shot-making and only with a rally that forced both men to pull out nearly every weapon in their arsenals. A+
Simon vs. Monfils: Not much shorter than Djokovic vs. Wawrinka in terms of time, it felt considerably longer to watch. This mindless war of attrition featured rally after rally of the sort that one more commonly finds on practice courts, including a 71-shot meander to nowhere that contributed to the inevitable cramping suffered by both men late in the match. If the previous epic offered an argument to keep the best-of-five format, this match argued just as eloquently for its abandonment. Simon, the winner, had no chance of recovering in time for his next match, nor would Monfils if he had won. C-
Men’s final: Not a classic by any means, it compared poorly both to the women’s melodrama on the previous night and to the marathon of the 2012 men’s final. The 2013 edition illustrated some troubling reasons why the Djokovic-Murray rivalry never may capture the imagination to the extent of Federer-Nadal, Federer-Djokovic, and Djokovic-Nadal. Presenting no contrast in styles, these two men played essentially the same games in a match of mirror images that came down to execution in any given situation—interesting but not exactly stimulating to watch. Moreover, they continued to bring out the passivity in each other by showing so much respect for each other’s defense that many rallies featured sequence after sequence of cautious, low-risk shots designed to coax errors rather than force the issue. These tactics worked perfectly for Djokovic, just as they worked for Murray at last year’s US Open, but they left fans waiting for a spark that never came in a match that trudged towards anticlimax. B-
And that is a wrap of the 2013 Australian Open! Up next is a look ahead to the first round in Davis Cup World Group action: all eight ties previewed and predicted.
Filed Under: Chris Skelton, Latest News, Lead Story, Live Coverage Tagged With: Andy Murray, ATP, Australian Open, Bernard Tomic, Bob Bryan, Bryan Brothers, David Ferrer, Gael Monfils, Gilles Simon, Grigor Dimitrov, Janko Tipsarevic, Jeremy Chardy, Jerzy Janowicz, Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, Juan Martin del Potro, Mike Bryan, Milos Raonic, Nicolas Almagro, Novak Djokovic, Roger Federer, Ryan Harrison, Stanislas Wawrinka, Tennis, Tomas Berdych
Australian Open Grounds Pass: Adventures in Spacetime with Radwanska, Ivanovic and Janowicz
January 18, 2013 by Jesse Pentecost
Bernard Tomic during practice
By Jesse Pentecost
There was a strange, capricious energy to Melbourne this morning. Yesterday’s cruel heat had hardly lost its serrated edge during the night – it was still 35C at 11pm when Petra Kvitova and Laura Robson really got down to hacking at each other in earnest – and it wasn’t until breakfast this morning that the blade was truly dulled. A fitful breeze arrived, ostensibly a cool southerly but really coming at you from everywhere, often with baleful intent.
The first thing I saw upon arriving at Melbourne Park was a sudden gust pluck up a courtside umbrella, leaving the others untouched, and launch it into the back of a nearby man’s head. As far as I could see he hadn’t done anything to offend any nearby deities: he was simply watching Casey Dellacqua and Ashleigh Barty hit up. (It could be that he wasn’t demonstrating sufficiently patriotic awe, or had been indulging in impure thoughts of Jason Stoltenberg.) It was a heavy umbrella, and he seemed disappointed that there was no one upon whom to focus his ire. The skyscrapers of downtown Melbourne loomed silent in the middle distance. The clouds tumbled in.
The real answer, I hazard, is that Gael Monfils last night finally ruptured the space-time continuum. (Long-time readers will know that this is my favorite continuum.) Even at the best of times reality struggles to stay with Monfils when he opens the throttle, but as he commenced that inspired sequence of aces to bring up match points and double faults to lose them, the threadbare fabric of the universe finally wore through. Nothing made sense anymore.
This is also my explanation for how I found myself sitting in Hisense Arena watching Agnieszka Radwańska. Certainly no rational decision led me there. As she commenced her warm-up the scoreboard still displayed Monfils’ winning score from last night. As ever Poland’s highest-ranked player set about comprehensively demonstrating the old adage that the person who hits the ball in last is the person who wins the point. Heather Watson, in a recalcitrant mood, was intent on disproving this well-understood rule, but to no avail. History will show that Radwańska’s approach worked better, assuming the goal was to win the match. She won the match.
I toddled out for a turn around the grounds. Serena Williams was launching balls at an improbably handsome young fellow whose identity I never ascertained. I tried but failed to quell the ungenerous thought that Williams, being tennis royalty, will only hit up with tennis players who look like models, if not models who play tennis. A large audience had assembled to watch this unfold. By the time I’d completed a circuit of the complex they’d relocated to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga’s court, otherwise known as Court 23. The Frenchman was fending off groundstrokes from Thanasi Kokkinakis, and inspiring slogans from Roger Rasheed. Nearby Milos Raonic was nodding his head to serving advice from Galo Blanco. Like I said, it was all a bit strange.
I re-entered Hisense, mainly because it was there, beating Ana Ivanović and Jelena Janković by mere seconds. Their match was probably the best thing I saw all day, conducted in fine spirits, although stray patches of Monfils Madness danced in the air. If you turned your head quickly, you could just about glimpse them, sparkling gaily. As she lead 5/2 30-0 in the first set, Ivanović was enmeshed in one, and lost fifteen consecutive points to trail 5/5 40-0. Then she won another handful of points to break, and eventually serve out the set. The second set was steadier, as the innate lethality of her forehand was matched by steadiness (and occasional virtuosity) on the other wing. Janković, on the other hand, only looked dangerous when she could launch a backhand up the line, which is a perilous shot to live by.
Out in the grounds the nationalist frenzy of the first two days had largely died away, mostly because the Australian players had all lost, although the start of the mixed doubles competition had inspired the flag-wavers to a resurgence of hope. Chris Guccione and Bojana Bousic saved four match points to push Anabel Medina Garrigues and Bruno Soares to a match tiebreak, before falling meekly. The flags fell limp, and the green and gold sombreros drooped in disappointment. Over on Court 6 the mood was morose, as two local doubles teams fell to superior European doubles exponents, including a reunited pairing of Sergiy Stakhovsky and Mikhail Youzhny.
A swelling roar issued from Margaret Court Arena as Julien Benneteau secured the early break from Janko Tipsarević, but I opted instead for Showcourt 3, which was due to host the fiercely anticipated dust-up between Nicolas Almagro and Jerzy Janowicz. Through a tight first set we learned that the Spaniard can more or less match the giant Pole on serve, even in the fitfully prankish breeze, and that what the Polish fans lack in vocal prowess and breadth of repertoire they make up for in devotion and volume. Sadly, it was noise that saw a number of them removed by the police, as they failed fully to heed an official warning to stop rattling the hoardings quite so enthusiastically. It would be wrong to point to this as the moment that Janowicz proved unable to stay with his more loftily-ranked opponent, since he was already trailing by two sets and break. Nonetheless, until that point Janowicz had played Almagro quite close. After that he spiraled away. At least by reaching the third round he has played to his seeding. Almagro will next face Tipsarević, who soon after sealed his second straight five-set win. Expect another long one.
There was nothing more to be done. I’d put it off for long enough. It was time to return to the scene of Monfils’ crime. Hisense Arena beckoned, which is a fairly difficult gesture for a large sports stadium to make. Perhaps I imagined it. It had been a long day. Within, Fernando Verdasco and Kevin Anderson were commencing their fifth set. As I took my seat, both enervated and anxious, I glanced to my left. For a moment, I thought perhaps I glimpsed sparkles, one last pocket of madness in the air. Then I looked at the court, and I knew that madness was precisely what I’d seen.
Filed Under: Jesse Pentecost, Lead Story Tagged With: Agnieszka Radwanska, Ana Ivanovic, Australian Open, Gael Monfils, Janko Tipsarevic, Jerzy Janowicz, Serena Williams
Wizards of Oz (VI): Murray, Monfils, Kuznetsova, Stephens, and More on Australian Open Day 6
Monfils eyes another Frenchman with a berth in the second week at stake.
Our colleague James Crabtree will tell you everything that you want to know about the looming Federer-Tomic collision in a separate article, while we preview the other matches of note as the first week ends.
ATP:
Berankis vs. Murray (Rod Laver Arena): Recording his best performance to date here, Berankis cruised through his first two matches in straight sets and yielded just six games to the 25th seed, Florian Mayer. The bad news for him is that Murray has looked equally impressive in demolishing his early opponents, and his counterpunching style suits these courts better than the Lithuanian’s high-risk attack. Shorter than the average player, Berankis can pound first serves of formidable pace and crack fine backhands down the line. So far in his career, though, he has not done either with the consistency necessary to overcome an opponent of Murray’s versatility in a best-of-five format.
Simon vs. Monfils (Hisense Arena): Odd things can happen when two Frenchmen play each other, and odd usually equals entertaining in the first week of a major. Monfils should feel lucky to have reached this stage after tossing nearly 40 double faults in a bizarre start to his tournament, where the nine sets that he has played may hamper him against an opponent as fit and durable as Simon. His compatriot has looked fallible as well, meanwhile, dropping first sets to third-tier challengers Volandri and Levine. Against the quirky arsenal of shots that Monfils deploys stands Simon’s monochrome steadiness, which can look unglamorous but has proved superior in three of their four meetings.
Seppi vs. Cilic (Court 2): A second-week appearance at a hard-court major would mark a fine start to 2013 for Seppi in the wake of his breakthrough 2012, accomplished mostly on his favored clay. For Cilic, the achievement would come as less of a surprise considering his semifinal here three years ago and the ease with which his elongated groundstroke swings suit this surface. Near the middle of last season, he too signaled a revival by winning two small titles and reaching the second week at Wimbledon. Cilic has looked more likely than Seppi this week to build on last season, winning all six of his sets as the Italian narrowly escaped his second round in five.
Raonic vs. Kohlschreiber (Court 3): Seeking his second fourth-round appearance at Melbourne, Raonic passed the ominous test of Lukas Rosol with flying colors. That effort improved greatly upon his uneven effort in the first round, allowing him to conserve energy for his meeting with a flamboyant German. Defying national stereotypes, Kohlschreiber loves to throw caution to the wind by unleashing his cross-court backhand and inside-out forehand at the earliest opportunity, which will test Raonic’s vulnerable two-hander. In this first meeting, he may find the rising star’s serve too great a frustration to keep his composure as he battles to match hold for hold.
WTA:
Vesnina vs. Vinci (Margaret Court Arena): Fresh from her first career title in Hobart, Vesnina has brought that confidence to the brink of the second week. Solid in most areas but outstanding in none, she faces a crafty Italian who coaxes errors from the unwary with unusual shots like a biting backhand slice. Vinci has become the best women’s doubles player in the world by virtue of an all-court game that compensates in variety for what it lacks in power. Her experience also should earn her a mental edge over the notoriously fragile Vesnina if the match stays close.
Kuznetsova vs. Suarez Navarro (Court 2): This match lies very much on Kuznetsova’s racket, for better or for worse. Armed with one of the WTA’s more picturesque backhands, Suarez Navarro upset top-eight foe Errani and then outlasted a feisty assault from newcomer Yulia Putintseva. But Kuznetsova has cruised through her first two matches with the same brand of controlled aggression that fueled her strong week in Sydney. She lost to the Spaniard on a particularly feckless day at Indian Wells, showing her tendency to cross the line from bold to reckless too easily. Showing that Suarez Navarro has no answers for her best form are the routs that she recorded in their other encounters.
Stephens vs. Robson (Court 2): An encore of a match that Stephens won in Hobart, this battle offers Robson a chance to build upon her epic victory over Kvitova—provided that she can recover in time for another draining match. The Brit showed remarkable resilience despite her youth in that 20-game final set against a Wimbledon champion, although her level fluctuated throughout in a way that Stephens rarely does. Steadily climbing up the rankings, the American also has shown self-belief against even the most elite contenders, so a clash of wills awaits when the serves and forehands of the volatile lefty shot-maker meet the smooth, balanced groundstrokes of the counterpuncher.
Date-Krumm vs. Jovanovski (Court 2): The oldest woman remaining in the draw faces the potential next face of Serbian women’s tennis, young enough to be her daughter. A straightforward power baseliner in the traditional WTA mold, Jovanovski once lost a challenger final to Date-Krumm as she probably struggled to solve the sharp angles of the evergreen Japanese star. Many thought that Date-Krumm would have ended her second career by now, but she has proved them wrong this week with two decisive victories that place her within range of a truly remarkable feat: reaching the second week of a major as a 42-year-old. With much to gain and little to lose, each woman should rise to the occasion in a match of high quality.
Filed Under: Chris Skelton, Lead Story, Live Coverage Tagged With: Andreas Seppi, Andy Murray, ATP, Australian Open, Bojana Jovanovski, Carla Suarez Navarro, Elena Vesnina, Gael Monfils, Gilles Simon, Kimiko Date-Krumm, Laura Robson, Marin Cilic, Milos Raonic, Philipp Kohlschreiber, ricardas berankis, Roberta Vinci, Rod Laver ArenaW, Sloane Stephens, Svetlana Kuznetsova, Tennis, WTA
The Good, The Bad and the Ugly: Berankis, Tomic, Janowicz
January 17, 2013 by Yeshayahu Ginsburg
Ricardas Berankis in action at the 2013 Australian Open
By Yeshayahu Ginsburg
The favorites and top seeds all got through their second-round matches without much drama. David Ferrer was pushed by a powerful Tim Smyczek, who really began showing his true potential in the match. Still, Ferrer got through in four sets as he was just too solid and consistent for the young American.
Federer, Djokovic, Murray, Tsonga, Del Potro, and Berdych all took care of overmatched opponents with relative ease as well. None of these seven challengers for the title has begun to show any real cracks in the armor yet, though Tsonga did not play his best match. Then again, he really didn’t need to to beat Go Soeda in straight sets. Del Potro still looked like the most dominant of the group, though, for whatever that’s worth.
Who Looked Good
Evgeny Donskoy: Donskoy is an up-and-coming strong young player. He has mostly stuck to Challengers his entire career and has brought his ranking up into the 80s with a good run to end last year. But he is going to be moving up to the main tour now. In his first ever Grand Slam main draw, he has now reached the third round with his gritty performance to get past Mikhail Youzhny. Donskoy only had one tour-level win before this Australian Open, but he will have plenty more opportunities now as his new ranking will get him into most ATP 250 and 500 level tournaments.
Jerzy Janowicz: How does beating Somdev Devvarman in 5 sets net you a spot in this section? It’s because Janowicz’s comeback win over the former NCAA champion showed us something that we didn’t know about him. Janowicz was only a good young Challenger player with potential until an epic run at last year’s Masters 1000 event in Bercy (which he had to qualify just to get into) vaulted him into the top 30. This comeback win, which took fight and mental fortitude, shows us that Jerzy could be near the top of the rankings for a long time.
Ricardas Berankis: After last round, I said that if Florian Mayer played as poorly against Berankis as he did against Rhyne Williams that he would lose this match. Now, though, it really wouldn’t have mattered. Berankis was absolutely on fire this match. His movement was superb, even in the blazing heat, and his ballstriking was lethal. The 22-year-old qualifier looks to be in the best form of his young career and it will be very interesting to see what he can do against Andy Murray in the next round. No matter what, though, this will be quite a learning experience for him.
Richard Gasquet: Gasquet is nothing short of an enigma. There are times where he actually feels like a top 5 player and there are times where he doesn’t belong in the top 100. He has so much power, not to mention the world’s best backhand, yet plays far too far behind the baseline. Still, his dismantling of Alejandro Falla was impressive. Gasquet is clicking on all cylinders so far early in this tournament. Let’s see if he can keep it up while facing the other top players in the coming rounds.
Who Looked Bad
Janko Tipsarevic: Tipsarevic came to play in his first-round match against Lleyton Hewitt. He hit the ball hard and clean and really never bowed to the pressure. His second-round match was the exact opposite. Lacko played well and fought hard, but Janko just wasn’t the same as he had been in the first round. If he had approached this match with the same intensity as his first, it wouldn’t have been this close. There was just a little bit missing from Tipsarevic’s game that he will need to find again moving forward to go deep in this tournament.
Bernard Tomic: Okay, this paragraph won’t be fair to Tomic. He didn’t play that poorly. This is more of a critique on the expectations we put on him. Yes, he has talent. But he is still not a top player yet. All he has in his career is one great run at Wimbledon. Everyone treats hid like—and expects him to be—one of those guys knocking on the door right outside the Big 4. But he’s not. At least, not yet..
Match of the Round
Though Gael Monfils and Yen-Hsun Lu made me think about putting them here, once again, the most exciting match this round was far from the highest quality. And, once again, it was really the crowd that put this match over the top. Blaz Kavcic and James Duckworth battled for nearly five hours in the blazing heat. Both played well, though Kavcic was clearly the superior player for much of the match. Still, Duckworth fought back with the crowd behind him to take the fourth set. With the crowd making duck sounds and chanting in support of the young Australian, the match felt much more like a Davis Cup rubber than a Grand Slam match. Kavcic served for the match at 5-3 in the fifth but was broken to 30 (he double-faulted twice in a row at 30-30), to massive celebration by Duckworth and the crowd. Eventually, after both players began cramping up, Kavcic took his fifth match point to win the fifth set 10-8, much to the dismay of the crowd. Still, it was a close and exciting match throughout and was an honest joy to watch.
Filed Under: Lead Story, Yeshayahu Ginsburg Tagged With: Bernard Tomic, Blaz Kavcic, Evgeny Donskoy, Gael Monfils, Janko Tipsarevic, Jerzy Janowicz, ricardas berankis, Richard Gasquet
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Spotlight on a winner of Academy Awards in 2016
Some film-references and an accreting list of comments about Spotlight (2015) :
More views of - or before - Cambridge Film Festival 2015 (3 to 13 September)
* Contains some spoilers *
After some film-references (not to be much explored), an accreting list in not much order of comments about Spotlight (2015) :
Whatever its merits or competitors, if Spotlight (2015) is Best Motion Picture of the Year and Best Writing, Original Screenplay, well... !
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) March 1, 2016
* L’enquête (The Clearstream Affair) (2014)
* Mea Maxima Culpa : Silence in the House of God (2012)
* Philadelphia (1993)
* Philomena (2013)
* Tinker, Tailor, Soldier, Spy (2011)
* Howard Shore’s score was inventive and employed a range of instrumentalists – however, at one point, it may have inappropriately suggested a positivity (to the progress of the investigation) that was not in keeping with what, at that point, was being investigated
* Dramatizing the telling of a true story – at best, we forgive such dramatic retellings for the voice that they have given to someone whose trust has been abused and his or her own voice silenced ; at worst, why not a dramatic reconstruction (for those whose choice would not be Mea Maxima Culpa (2012)), rather than having to adapt character and content to fit the inflexible standard notions of the elements of a drama ?
* Misdirection A : With the help of the score, in spy-film mood, to suggest that corruption or ill-will on the part of one or more of those higher up at The Boston Globe might have prevented earlier researches into these issues, but then let that dissipate with a curiously thin explanation, covered by newly arrived editor Marty Baron's (Liev Schreiber's) worthy speech about the rewards of having hindsight¹
* In contrary motion, and questions of billing apart, that purposive importing of notions of suspicion and intrigue is at curious odds with no one much, other than Baron, seeming to have a grasp of what about a story makes it in the public interest, and with how both the methods of investigative journalism and yet a lack of knowledge of worldly ways is portrayed
* As a screenplay that is now acclaimed, it is fine that we have three Christmases established : the latter cases give a sense of time and scale, but the first five minutes or so - which make quite sure that we do not miss the decorations - are hardly necessary, even in a linear narrative, to provide a historical perspective or tell what happened in that time-period
* Generally, the film fails too much just to tell², and chooses instead to show, and, at the same time, it tends to have characters talk, or even arrange to meet, when what is said (in legal terms) is solely for the benefit of an audience of supposed lay people : the characters would know not even to spend the considerable time involved to ask for what, answered in terms of principles of client confidentiality or professional legal practice, is bound to be refused
Probably the best total contribution was made by Howard Shore's inventive and versatile score ? The least by journalists bemused by the law.
* Of course, one cannot judge how this would appear to those who have not practised law (or banking procedures, in L’enquête (The Clearstream Affair), to those not versed in finance), but surely no such journalist would register surprise at the lack of evidence in the courts of settlements made without proceedings having been issued³ : if agreements could not be made between claimant and defendant without everyone knowing what they were, there would be no point to them
* Misdirection B : A little as with Professor Snape in the Harry Potter films, and as part of generating the sense of suspicion that was mentioned above, we hear that someone’s heart had been in the right place after all (except not only that, if someone is asked to do what he has already done, one would imagine that he would simply say so, but also that he has no reason to claim instead that he cannot, which is falsified by having done what he did)
* Spotlight is about an obviously important subject being covered up, but this award-winning screenplay has its infelicities⁴, and, though it is approach that can work in the right place, does just allow significant characters, such as Marty Baron and Eric Macleish, to occupy some twilight part of the film, from where they are engaged when needed, but then sent back off to the wings
* Yet we spend more screen time, ‘on the beat’, with others, whose contributions seem tangential or to lack a corollary⁵, and who and whose professional roles are sometimes sketchily drawn : even if that were how it was, it even seems something of a surprise that the journalists do not write up the story as a team, but that it falls to Mike Rezendes, working on his own (quite apart, in a film about the lawyerly influence on public life, our seeing Baron, without attorneys checking it over, making the decision about what to print)
* As for real intrigue and a committed journalist who is personally laying everything on the line, though, it cannot compete with L’enquête and how, in a film that is more than twenty minutes shorter (this one is, in places, less well paced), it makes its far, far more complicated networks of transactional and interpersonal information at least as digestible - except that the latter is a French-language film, which still wrongly rules it out for this sort of consideration, and so much more !
Seen on the opening night of Cambridge Film Festival 2015
Post-script :
In his review, writing for The New Statesman, Ryan Gilbey comes up with other cogent reasons why the film does not work, starting with :
If we sympathise with the heroes of Spotlight, we have delivered some indefinable blow to institutional child abuse, just as anyone who paid to see Twelve Years a Slave (an earlier Best Picture winner) was also purchasing an invisible 'I Hate Racism badge. If we support The Big Short, we have done our bit to avert the next economic collapse, or at least to ensure we can discuss it with authority when it comes. But good intentions are not always synonymous with great film-making.
In The Hollywood Reporter, concluding his review, Todd McCarthy sums up :
In the end, this material can't help but be interesting, even compelling up to a point, but its prosaic presentation suggests that the story's full potential, encompassing deep, disturbing and enduring pain on all sides of the issue, has only begun to be touched.
¹ Although one might infer a submerged plot-line about the effects of hierarchy on having the courage of one’s convictions ?
² At the same time, we hear the Spotlight team talking about what they are working on / what they are being asked to postpone doing, but we are not bothered with more than the necessary traces of the substance of what that is, since we would simply gain nothing by knowing : the film can trust its judgement there, but errs elsewhere with this issue of having to have people say what we do need to know.
³ Or (though this question did not arise), equally, to imagine that the judicial system, where cases have settled out of court, will show the settlement reached.
Head Moonbeam : Also gives opportunities for characterization and tension to develop, leading to a bogus impasse ?
Moonbeam : On expenses !
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) April 5, 2016
⁴ For example, as a matter of tone (whose key does not match), rather than a moment of humour, when the others go down to the basement and, asking what the smell is, they are directed to a dead rat – as if someone would wish to start researching without removing it ? Or why Mike Rezendes (Mark Ruffalo) is both asked by Mitchell Garabedian (Stanley Tucci) whether his surname is Italian (it does not sound remotely so) and, with some disbelief at the answer, where he is from.
⁵ Such as the retired priest, and just on the door-step, being garrulous about having molested (but, he says, not raped) boys in his flock - before being shut up from within.
Labels: Academy Award, Eric Macleish, L’enquête, Liev Schreiber, Mark Ruffalo, Michael Keaton, Mike Rezendes, Mitchell Garabedian, Professor Snape, Rachel McAdams, Spotlight, Stanley Tucci, The Boston Globe
The best of duo partners (Part I) : The music is almost an excuse to hear them play
Part I of a review of Maxim Vengerov in Recital, with pianist Roustem Saïtkoulov
This is the delayed¹ Part I of a review of Maxim Vengerov in Recital [Part II is reviewed here], which he gave with pianist Roustem Saïtkoulov at Saffron Hall, Saffron Walden, on Saturday 20 February at 7.30 p.m.
The first part of the recital that Maxim Vengerov gave at Saffron Hall (@SaffronHallSW) with pianist Roustem Saïtkoulov comprised two sonatas for violin and piano. [Part II is reviewed here.]
They were written in the first two decades of the nineteenth century and within fifteen years of each other (although Schubert was more than a decade, and his work was not to be published until 1851, which, if it is the publication-date that we notice, might make us fail to realize that he lived his live almost entirely within Beethoven's life-time).
Programme (Part I) :
1. Franz Schubert (1797-1828) ~ Sonata for Violin and Piano (‘Grand Duo’)
2. Ludwig van Beethoven (1770-1827) ~ Sonata No. 7
Franz Schubert (1797-1828) ~ Sonata for Violin and Piano in A Major (‘Grand Duo’), Op. Posth. 162 (1817), D. 574
2. Scherzo : Presto
3. Andantino
4. Allegro vivace
In the Sonata’s opening Allegro moderato, the tone of Roustem Saïtkoulov’s playing was open, as if of song accompaniment. The writing for violin, meanwhile, was developing into complexity, with expressive cadences, and with Maxim Vengerov using a great variability of string-tone between, say, feeling free or sweet, exuberant or jolly. With the repeat, ease was the overriding sense, leading into a hint of nostalgia, and then new (agitated) material, with loud piano gestures. Momentarily, the duo chose to hesitate over the recurrence of the original theme, and then brought the movement to lively and uncomplicated close.
A horn-like motif, as if acting as a fanfare, opened the Scherzo (and was to make further appearances, following boisterous gestures the next two times). Schubert next variously gave us (punctuated by use of the fanfare) a passage built around repeated and syncopated notes, and a sinuously flexible line for Vengerov, whilst the piano had a sort of trotting pattern : that sound had already reminded of another composer, and, when the horn-call had come back triumphantly, the piece then duly transformed, in its ending, into a piece of Beethovenian theatre.
The third movement had a song-like opening from Vengerov. That theme was ultimately to be passed to Saïtkoulov, but a feature of this Andantino was trills on piano, violin adornments, and modulations. Those modulations, when the theme was on piano, led to harmonic uncertainty, and then it was passed back for a mood of mellifluousness that alternated with one of earnestness. More modulations, and trills, first on piano, came before the movement concluded, but with a slight feeling of irresolution.
Having once read Jo Kirkbride’s programme-notes, one necessarily listened with awareness that it was youthful Schubert. The Allegro vivace opened with what seemed to be a variation of the start of the work, with a ‘jogging’ passage connected to it (a little like the earlier ‘trotting’ figure ?). Just before a theme was passed to the violin, one was aware that the piano part was reminiscent of Schubert’s later style in keyboard sonatas.
Generally, this movement seemed more mature than the others, with a feeling of equal partners, and it had energy and dramatic tension, from performers and composer : Schubert’s piano-writing is sympathetic, and both Saïtkoulov and Vengerov brought a lightness of touch to this finale, but coupled with expressiveness. Schubert ends the piece with enthusiasm, but it is unannounced, in the usual ways, in the writing, and so catches us somewhat short.
As with the Sonata that we were about to hear, this was playing engaged on a passionate purpose, with sympathy and communication between the players, and much appreciated by those who had been listening at Saffron Hall.
Beethoven and Schubert in Maxim Vengerov's @SaffronHallSW recital :
Do we think of Schubert as later (though he barely lived on 19m more) ?
— THE AGENT APSLEY (@THEAGENTAPSLEY) February 21, 2016
Beethoven ~ Sonata No. 7 in C Minor (1802), Op. 30, No. 2 :
1. Allegro con brio
2. Adagio cantabile
3. Scherzo : Allegro
4. Finale : Allegro ; Presto
Beethoven gives us, in the opening Allegro con brio, a pair of note-clusters that, with their contrasting note-values, balance a third, longer one, and Vengerov and Saïtkoulov clearly relished this rhythmic material. The composer’s assurance in writing and handling it was matched by theirs in bringing it to us, and, in co-curating the performance with him, and so a march-like passage felt rendered quite anew when it returns.
To some extent, elements of music inevitably, if well imprinted on the first occasion, will feel fresh when the composition has it repeated, by virtue of the differing context. Yet this was all part of the performers’ nuance and intonation, to have us take in themes in passing : at another point, we would be able to notice that Vengerov used under-statement before the material reappeared – both men were clearly feeling alive to the sensitivities and revelations in the Sonata. So, musically, the group of three vigorous down-strokes on violin need to fit where we hear them, and, if they do (as they did when Vengerov played them), they do not resemble gratuitous loudness (or even aggression ?), but make musical sense.
When that martial utterance comes back one final time, before a gloriously confident end to the movement, does it now seem to pre-figure what we hear in the so-called 'Eroica' Symphony ? (The Symphony No. 3 in E Flat Major (1804), Op. 55, was completed within a year of its publication*.)
When Roustem Saïtkoulov opened the next movement (marked Adagio cantabile), Maxim Vengerov was observing him keenly, during the introduction for solo piano : one had the sense that he wanted to absorb, with all available senses (not just that of sound), how this was being played, and, when he made his entry, it was with a most beautiful tone on violin, and phrased for the light piano chords.
There was the intonation and feeling of close duo partners, with Saïtkoulov performing figures, below Vengerov’s playing, and of an overall effect that, as the writing is, was balanced, with grace amidst a sense of solemnity. Just as with those three lively down-strokes from Vengerov in the Allegro con brio (please see above, in the penultimate paragraph), so Beethoven puts two massive rumbles into the piano-writing (in the form of pairs of very abrupt scales) : maybe curious in itself at first, but, with delicate violin following and adding to it, there was a devotional feel to how we heard violin with piano.
By now, although we still had two movements to be heard, they are (in a typical performance) shorter in length, put together, than the preceding Adagio cantabile. Yet music is not, of course, to be ‘sold by the pound (or kilo)’, and so, just as the emotional centre of a work may be found in a relatively short Adagio (because of what has come before it, and prepared for it), so the effect that these last movements can have will be built and be sustained by our experience of the earlier part of the Sonata.
The Scherzo movement opens with what, to Western ears could be an erratically accented dance-line (maybe in homage to the its fellows and its Tsarist dedicatee² ?), from which players and Beethoven extract thematic material. At times, with Saïtkoulov following Vengerov, it sounded imperial in nature; at others, perhaps more like a hymn of thanks – radiant and glorious.
Of course, it is not actually that the Scherzo is any more brief than is typical with any other movement so marked, but that the Finale is no longer. However, with rhythmically inventive writing and playing, and more use of syncopated off-beats, almost everything (please see below) about the tone and structure of the movement is predicated on its doing as we expect :
Beethoven makes a fugal use of a form of the theme, and we could see and sense the satisfaction of both men, in this music and in the performance, as they built from this point. Despite indications to the contrary, in a moment of almost stasis near the end, with violin and piano moving strophically, a Presto coda, signalled by Vengerov, was to bring the Sonata to a close, and to very much applause and sincere appreciation from Maxim Vengerov and Roustem Saïtkoulov on stage at Saffron Hall.
The link here is to the review of Part II of the concert
¹ By way of explanation for this Part (Part I) of the review not appearing when intended :
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² The publication of this set of three Sonatas, Beethoven's Opus 30 (dedicated to Tsar Alexander I of Russia), had been in May 1803 (they had been written between 1801 and 1802).
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Physics is really important for game programmers who want to add realism and functionality to their games. The first version was released in 2007 and Pymunk is still actively developed and. While tracking the objects, the model outputs a signal at each video frame that correlates to a level of “surprise” — the bigger the signal, the greater the surprise. Perfect when you need 2d physics in your game, demo or other application! It is built on top of the very capable 2d physics library Chipmunk. This tutorial will teach you the basics of Python scripting for the Blender game engine, including accessing and changing logic brick information through scripting. It has been used in video games as well as for visual effects in movies. Fortunately, there are some tricks that can be used to achieve the 3D effect in a relatively easy way. If you are looking for recommended 2D game engines, see this post (Coming Soon. mujoco-py allows using MuJoCo from Python 3. Every engine has in-game visualization of physics. Katamari Damacy. QuTiP aims to provide user-friendly and efficient numerical simulations of a wide variety of Hamiltonians, including those with arbitrary time-dependence, commonly found in a wide range of physics applications such as quantum optics, trapped ions, superconducting circuits, and quantum nanomechanical resonators. * *That was a joke, albeit a terrible one. May 02, 2014 · Learn how to use Python and OpenGL to write the codes for different physics-based games. I expect you to have some experience with both Unity 3D, and C# before starting this course. where dt is the time increment in seconds between subsequent calls of the. 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Designed for mobile, now and in the future. gazebo/get_physics_properties (gazebo/GetPhysicsProperties) This service returns the properties of the physics engine used in simulation. Turbulence effect uses computational models of fluid dynamics. These results are really quite good. Whenever a collision is found by this collision handler, the appropriate response is calculated by the simple physics engine that is built into the engine. It consists of a solver library and a set of Grasshopper components. 3D physics engines provide collision detection algorithms, most of them based on bounding volumes as well. It is has been specifically created to be used in games. Before I start in earnest though, it's always good to see what other people have done, and I tracked down these two 2d physics engines for Python\PyGame: PyMunk: A Python wrapper around the Chipmunk engine. These physics simulations can be used for many things, from Blender games to use in animations, the bullet physics engine offers a massive number of possibilities, limited only by your imagination (and the amount of RAM your computer possesses). Learn to build your own game physics engine. Mar 06, 2017 · In this video, I attempt to answer the questions: (1) what are Physics Engines? and (2) why would you want to use them? I discuss some common physics engines and their various pros/cons -- box2d. js by using web-workers technology. Every engine has in-game visualization of physics. Blender 3d Animation Making A Domino Animation With The Blender Game Engine Tutorial Blender 3D Design Course-includes video tutorials and example student projects. それらのうちで主になるのはMonolith ProductionsのF. Jun 18, 2015 · A game engine is a software framework designed for the creation and development of video games. New features are always available to use and test, without the need of having to wait for the next major release. This Learning Path takes you from zero experience to a complete understanding of key concepts, edge cases, and using Python for real-world application development. Unity's powerful physics engines allow you to assign physical properties to your game objects for consistent, realistic gameplay. Chipmunk2D is the official physics engine of Cocos2d, featuring full Objective-C integration! We have many Cocos2d tutorials both for free and Pro Chipmunk2D. Additionally, You can enjoy best gaming experience on Babylon. No strings attached, no royalties, nothing. Every number has two square roots: one positive and one negative. Gazebo supports the ODE, Bullet, Simbody and DART physics engines. On the other hand Unity is a game engine with a very strong editor, good documentation base and a very active and helpful community. Units Of Measurement. A 3D model processing system. 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Here are links to some Lua graphics software that don't fit to LibrariesAndBindings but is free and can be interesting. When I first began looking into OpenGL with Python, my main goal was to figure out how to make a rotating cube. js technology has come up with improved features like built-in Physics engine- an altered Physi. This is our flagship 3d game engine. C# (Coming In The Future) Python 3. /physics scenes/collision_stress. Unreal Engine - 3D, VR++. Furthermore these games can be created for Windows, MacOS, iOS, Android and Web from a single source!. Apr 01, 2009 · What's a good free 3d game engine? I am looking for a decently capable 3d game engine, as I am going to try to make a fan game based off of the game "Jurassic Park: Trespasser. download bullet physics math free and unlimited. The best thing about browser based games is platfrom independence they bring in and run on iOS, Android, Windows or any other platform. There are two physics engines, one for 2D and another for 3D. It is portable with no external dependencies other than various standard c header files (such as cassert and cmath). Python web site User-Contributed Programs povexport-2015-09-04. The physics tag should be used for questions about how physics can be simulated or implemented in programming. The Polaris vehicle configurator is the world's first to use realtime 3D graphics. If you know absolutely nothing about programming and about game development, this is the course for you. Interaction Engine Overview¶ The Leap Motion Interaction Engine addresses the limitations of traditional real-time physics engines when manually manipulating virtual objects. Is there a way to get this rotation information from python? Right now I can't even seem to find it in the UI. Learn to build your own game physics engine. Nov 04, 2019 · Since Blender 2. There are two physics engines, one for 2D and another for 3D. Alibre Motion is a Motion Add-on developed for Alibre Design. zlib/libpng license. Anyone who wants to learn to create games: Unity 3D is a fantastic platform which enables you to make production-quality games. Learn how to clean your data and ready it for analysis. python-cheetah - text-based template engine and. The engine comes with a visual editor, full of professional tools. /physics scenes/collision_stress. Let's start by looking at the most popular JavaScript physics engines. For best results, use Google Chrome. Since Blender 2. What I don't have from Flash is a hitTest() method that doesn't use a rectangular bounds box. Bullet Dynamics - A fast, production-proven, open source physics engine that is used in many high profile, effects-driven films and real-time game engines. The goal of this project is to learn about porting engine code from one platform to another platform, allowing more features and capabilities to be used on the new platform system, as well as to get exposure in dealing with physics. We use the domain randomization technique across many projects at OpenAI. 3D Graphics Rendering Engine (2009) Coded a rendering engine to load and render 3D models; Developed algorithms to transform 3D polygons into 2D applying self-taught 3D math; Implemented z-sorting and flat shading while maintaining real-time rendering; Presented the design and ideas behind the engine to classmates. Game Physics and Animation. Panda3D has a built-in physics system that treats its entities as simple particles with masses to which forces may be applied. Programmers with some experience in Python who want to enter the lucrative world of Data Science will also find this book to be very useful, but you don't need to be an expert Python coder or mathematician to get the most from this book. If we were going to build our own engine using this information, there would be some other important steps to take when creating these classes. ) Blender's physics engine is very powerful, but at the same time very easy to handle programatically. Though they are implemented with different components such as Box Collider 2D and Box Collider 3D, they work much the same way. physics participants as the "standard" or "classic" texts on a wide variety of topics of general interest to physicists and physics students. I'm working on a 3d dynamic aabb tree based on. These days, therefore, com-. Physics Library For Rhino. The Unity Editor is a creative hub for 3D artists, 2D artists, designers and developers. js, a port of the Bullet physics engine to JavaScript using Emscripten; Physijs, a physics plugin (based on ammo. PyBox2D: A Python wrapper around the Box2D engine. No strings. New address, same Unity3d. Strong 3D Maths - you have a broad knowledge of the theory and practical application of 3D maths in games. This game engine has been known to deliver best gaming experience with its improvised 3D game enhancement features. 1) - 2D game engine for Google Chrome Native Client. The game engine was written from scratch in C++ as a mostly independent component, and includes support for features such as Python scripting and OpenAL 3D sound. [0] gives a good example of implementing this kind of thing. an easy thing to do is use GlowScript IDE. The rest of this article series will be detailing the physics engine that I myself have written. Whilst Unity3D does make it easier t. Unreal Engine includes a vast array of APIs and tools designed to help you use physics, powered by NVIDIA PhysX, as well as built-in multiplayer networking, artificial intelligence, animation tools, the Sequencer cinematic editor, replay system, visual effects, video codecs, foliage and terrain editors, audio support, powerful scripting, the. As such, I have compiled this first video to include everything from acquiring Python. A 2D Physics Engine for Games. Home → About. Python as many nice scientific and engineering libraries that could benefit from a photorealistic rendering engine. *FREE* shipping on qualifying offers. The entire Unreal Engine source code is available on our GitHub page, ready for you to access!. Anyone who wants to learn to create games: Unity 3D is a fantastic platform which enables you to make production-quality games. Technical Design Document and Game Design Document. Panda3D has a built-in physics system that treats its entities as simple particles with masses to which forces may be applied. mujoco-py allows using MuJoCo from Python 3. You learn the ins and outs of a Physics Entity as well as how to model practical components like conveyors, diverters and joints. Also Python libraries written the physics engine of Kangaroo is. I will be teaching using Unity 3D free as the example game engine. Current members must verify their emails with the new system to login. 3D support ; Built-in physics engine – add physics to 2D and 3D scenes, through rigid and static bodies, characters, raycasts, vehicles and more. Seeing as this is a work in progress I did more research and was led to believe that NVIDIA is already utilising GPUs for physics simulation via PhysX, which brings me here. The engine is designed especially for car games. Geom primitives such as Cubes and Spheres. Free 2D and 3D Game Engines, Game Programming Libraries and Source Code CryEngine. A 3D rally simulation with a great physics engine for drifting, over 200 maps, different terrain materials like dirt, asphalt, sand, ice etc. Python was used to describe an interface to every MBDyn object. Gundeep Singh Bhamra heeft 6 functies op zijn of haar profiel. This first look at a 1D-physics engine does so without any rendering in the Pygame display window. Making a Basic 3D Engine in Java: Having a game take place in a 3D environment greatly enhances the immersion, but actually implementing a full 3D engine can be very complex. 3D support ; Built-in physics engine - add physics to 2D and 3D scenes, through rigid and static bodies, characters, raycasts, vehicles and more. The engine comes with a sandbox/level editor, material editor, designer tool, cinematic editor, audio controls editor, etc. With a dynamic physics engine and a custom scripting language, GameMaker is a good choice for hobbyists and professionals alike. You can try Panda3D, but this is more a game engine than a 3D engine. WhitestormJS - 3D JavaScript Library By Geneva Clark Whitestorm. - writing helper scripts in Bash, Python, Perl - code management using Git, Mercurial - creating 3D environment for machine learning and algorithms testing using Python 3, NumPy, Bullet physics engine, OpenAI, OpenCV, URDF mechanism definition language, Blender 3D and FreeCAD modelling software Trainings, talks:. Some demos are already available. Ofcourse, we can simply have blender implement deltaTime into its physics. I didn't use any packages or anything. I will be teaching using Unity 3D free as the example game engine. It supports the entirety of the 3D pipeline—modeling, rigging, animation, simulation, rendering, compositing and motion tracking, video editing and 2D animation pipeline. And,looksee here. Pure python 2D physics engine A 3D / graph event viewer for high-energy physics event simulations Feed of Popular Python Packages matching "physics" Accounts. Anything that creates a bottleneck in your engine will slow down a game and provide a bad gaming experience. Bullet Physics & JBullet Physics. If you're learning Python, playing with physics is a great way to practice. Free 2D and 3D Game Engines, Game Programming Libraries and Source Code CryEngine. 1-2) simulator for spiking neural networks. AR-CAD offers free and inexpensive 3D CAD Software with Motion Simulation Capabilities, namely freeCAD, StCAD. Set the type of physics engine to use. May 02, 2014 · Learn how to use Python and OpenGL to write the codes for different physics-based games. Game development with Panda3D usually consists of writing a Python program that controls the Panda3D library. The library is C++ with a set of Python bindings. js is a stunning 3D game development framework that makes use of the three. Tokamak is a 3D physics engine SDK written in C++ by David Lam. [0] gives a good example of implementing this kind of thing. The driving physics engine was recently re-written from scratch but was inspired and owes much to the Vamos physics engine. Check out more about Unity here at - Unity 3D. in computer science, specializing in the design of CAD/CAM systems. The term 'game engine' refers to a whole range of applications, including the rendering engine for 2D or 3D graphics, a physics engine or collision detection (and collision response), sound, scripting, animation, artificial intelligence, network code, streaming, memory management, threading, and a scene interface. processing 3D graphics with Blender's python API (incl.
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Events in Stirling on 29 April 2019
View all the upcoming events in Stirling on the 29 April 2019 below, or use the calendar to find events taking place on a specific month or date.
Domestic Bliss is a new exhibition that brings together works from Glasgow Museums' collection to reflect on GoMA's building history as a former house, Royal Exchange and civic space!
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Kelvingrove Art Gallery & Museum holds delightful daily recitals by eminent local organists and visiting players!
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Make Glasgow your base for a trip to Scotland and combine this pioneering city with the best of the Highlands on a tour with Rabbie's!
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SENSEcity is a self-guided walking tour around Glasgow, which uncovers the hidden stories from all around Merchant City and much more!
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There are four main islands in Japan: Hokkaido, Honshu, Shikoku, Kyushu.
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There are 127 million people living in Japan. Most of these people are Japanese but there also Koreans, Chinese and Americans. Japanese is the official language.
There is also a small indigenous minority in the north called Ainu. Their traditions and art are different to that found in the rest of Japan.
School in Japan
Children attend a preschool from the age of three to six. Then they go to primary school. Secondary school is split into Junior High School and Senior High School.
A lot of children attend tutoring classes as well. Some children attend private language schools to learn English. They are taught by teachers of lots of different nationalities.
School uniforms like these are worn by girls. Boys generally wear dark trousers with a military style jacket.
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People drive on the left-hand side of the road.
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An American Champion Scout. Note the oversized tundra tires, for use on rough surfaces.
A bush airplane is a general aviation aircraft used to provide both scheduled and unscheduled passenger and flight services to remote, undeveloped areas, such as the Canadian north or bush, Alaskan tundra, the African bush, Amazon rainforest or the Australian Outback. They are used where ground transportation infrastructure is inadequate or does not exist.[1]
1 Common traits
2 Current and historical bush planes
3 Aviation museums with large collections of bush planes
4 Appearances in the media
6.1 Citations
Since a bush plane is defined by how it is used, a wide variety of different aircraft with different configurations have been used over the years as such. However, experience has shown certain traits to be desirable, and so they appear frequently, especially on aircraft specifically designed as bush planes. None of these traits are mandatory - merely they are commonly seen features of bush planes.
The undercarriage is designed to be fitted with floats, skis or wheel/skis to permit operation from water or snow which are primarily for Canadian, Alaskan and Russian use.
High wings ease loading and unloading, particularly from docks, as well as improve downward visibility during flight and increase clearance to reduce the potential for damage during landing or take-off. A high wing is less likely to be damaged during loading or unloading than a low wing.
Conventional or "tail dragger" landing gear—two large main wheels and a small rear wheel reduce both weight and drag, increasing the load the aircraft can carry and its speed and it reduces excessive stresses on the airframe compared to a nosewheel. A failure is also less critical as a broken tailwheel is easily repaired and won't prevent the aircraft from flying, unlike a broken nose wheel.
Short runway requirements, typically gained through high aspect ratio wings and high-lift devices such as flaps, slots and slats to improve low speed flight characteristics, allowing shorter ground rolls on landing or takeoff.
Very large, low-pressure tundra tires may be fitted to enable the pilot to operate from broken ground. It is not uncommon for a bush pilot to land and take off from unprepared surfaces.
Current and historical bush planes
Years in brackets are of first flight.
AAC Angel (1984)
Aermacchi AL-60 (1959)
Antonov An-2 (1947)
Antonov An-14 (1958)
Auster Autocrat (1945)
Aviat Husky (1986)
Avro Avian (1926)[2][3]
Avro Anson (1935)[4]
Avro York (1942)
Bach T-11P (1927)
Barkley-Grow T8P-1 (1937)
Barrows Bearhawk (1995)
Beechcraft Model 17 Staggerwing (1932)[5]
Beechcraft Model 18 (1937)[6]
Bellanca CH-300 Pacemaker (1929)[7][8]
Bellanca CH-400 Skyrocket (1930)
Bellanca Aircruiser (1930)[9]
Bellanca Senior Pacemaker (1935)
Bellanca Senior Skyrocket (1935)
Beriev Be-30/32 (1967)
Boeing B1E (1928)[10]
Bristol Freighter (1945)
Britten-Norman BN-2 Islander (1965)
Buhl Airsedan (1928)
Bushcaddy L-162 Max (1995)
Bushcaddy L-164 (2007)
Canadian Vickers Vedette (1924)
Cessna Crane (1939)
Cessna 172 (1956)
Cessna 182 Skylane (1956)
Cessna 185 Skywagon (1960)
Cessna 206 Stationair (1962)
Cessna 208 Caravan (1982)
Champion Citabria (1964)
Consolidated Catalina/Canso (1935)[11]
Curtiss HS (1917)[12]
Curtiss Lark (1925)[13]
Curtiss Robin (1928)
Curtiss Thrush (1929)
Curtiss-Wright C-46 Commando (1940)
Curtiss-Wright Junior (1930)
de Havilland DH.60 Moth (1925)[14][15]
de Havilland DH.61 Giant Moth (1927)[16]
de Havilland DH.82 Tiger Moth (1931)
de Havilland DH.83 Fox Moth (1932)[17]
de Havilland DH.89 Dragon Rapide (1934)[18]
de Havilland DH.90 Dragonfly (1935)
de Havilland Australia DHA-3 Drover (1948)
de Havilland Canada DHC-2 Beaver (1947)[19]
de Havilland Canada DHC-3 Otter (1951)[20]
de Havilland Canada DHC-4 Caribou (1958)
de Havilland Canada DHC-6 Twin Otter (1965)[21]
Dornier Do 27 (1955)
Douglas Dolphin (1930)
Douglas DC-3/Douglas C-47 (1935)[22]
Douglas DC-4[23]
Eastman E-2 Sea Rover (1928)[24]
Evangel 4500 (1964)
Fairchild 24 (1932)
Fairchild C-82 Packet (1944)
Fairchild FC-2/51 (1926)[25]
Fairchild 71 (1926)[26]
Fairchild Super 71 (1934)[27]
Fairchild 100 (1930)[28]
Fairchild F-11 Husky (1946)
Fieseler Fi 156 (1936)
Fleet Freighter (1938)
Fokker Universal (1926)[29][30]
Fokker Super Universal (1928)[31]
Fokker F.11 (1928)[32]
Ford Trimotor (1926)[33]
Found FBA-2 (1960)
GAF Nomad (1971)
Gippsland GA8 (1995)
Gippsland GA10 (2012)
Grumman Goose (1937)[34]
Grumman Widgeon (1940)[35]
Grumman Mallard (1946)[36]
Halpin Flamingo (1929)
Hamilton H-47 (1928)
Helio Courier (1954)
Howard DGA-8/9/11/12 (1936)
Howard DGA-15 (1939)
Junkers F.13 (1919)[37]
Junkers G 31 (1926)
Junkers W 33 (1926)[38]
Junkers Ju 52/1m (1930)[40]
Kitfox (1984)
Lake Buccaneer (1960)
Lockheed Vega (1927)[41]
Lockheed Model 18 Lodestar (1939)
Max Holste Broussard (1952)
Maule M-7 (1984)
Murphy Rebel (1990)
Murphy Moose (1995)
Murphy Elite (1996)
Noorduyn Norseman (1935)[42]
Northrop N-23 Pioneer (1946)
Northwest Ranger (1968)
PAC P-750 XSTOL (2001)
Piper J-3 Cub (1938)
Piper PA-18 Super Cub (1949)[43]
Piper PA-22 Bushmaster
Piper PA-23 (1952)
Pipistrel Virus SW (2006)
Pilatus PC-6 Porter/Turbo Porter (1959)
Polikarpov Po-2 (1927)
PZL-104 Wilga (1962)
Quest Kodiak (2004)
Rans S-7 Courier (1985)
Republic RC-3 Seabee (1945)[35]
Ryan Brougham (1927)
Shavrov Sh-2 (1930)
Short SC.7 Skyvan (1963)
Sikorsky S-38 (1928)
Stearman C3 (1927)
Stearman M-2 (1929)
Stearman 4 (1930)
Stinson Detroiter (1926)
Stinson Junior (1928)[44]
Stinson Model A (1934)
Stinson Reliant (1933)
Stinson Voyager (1939)
Stinson 108 (1946)
Supermarine Sea Otter (converted after 2nd World War)
Technoavia SM92 Finist (1993)
Travel Air 6000 (1928)
Vickers Viking (1919)[45]
Waco 10 (1927)
Waco Standard Cabin series (1931)
Waco AQC-6/Waco ZQC-6 Freighter (1936)[46]
Westland Limousine (1919)
Yakovlev Yak-12 (1947)
Zenith STOL CH 701 (1986)
Aviation museums with large collections of bush planes
Appearances in the media
Ice Pilots NWT
Alaska Wing Men
Captains of the Clouds
Alaska portal
List of STOL aircraft
Floatplane
Ontario Provincial Air Service - played major role in the development of bush flying and bushplanes.
Bush flying
^ "Bush planes used in areas where roads do not exist".
^ Anderson, 2004, p.82
^ Foster, 1990, p.74-79
^ Foster, 1990, p.189-191
^ Foster, 1990, p.174, 190
^ Foster, 1990, p.191
^ Foster, 1990, p.97, 102, 175
^ Foster, 1990, p.64-65, 156
^ Foster, 1990, p.48
^ Cole, 1986, p.4
^ Foster, 1990, p.202, 207, 210
^ Cole, 1986, p.34-38
^ Foster, 1990, p.4
^ Foster, 1990, p.53, 56-57
^ Foster, 1990, p.52-53, 56-57, 70-71
^ a b Foster, 1990, p.197
^ Foster, 1990, p.101-102, 158, 166, 188.
^ Foster, 1990, p.142-143, 174, 188
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Boer, Peter (2004). Bush Pilots - Canada's Wilderness Daredevils. Canada: Folklore Publishing. ISBN 1-894864-12-3.
Cole, Dermot (1986). Frank Barr - Bush pilot in Alaska and the Yukon. Edmonds, WA: Alaska Northwest Publishing Co. ISBN 0-88240-314-1.
Foster, J.A. (1990). The Bush Pilots - A pictoral history of a Canadian phenomenon. Toronto, ON: McClelland & Stewart Inc. ISBN 0-7710-3245-5.
Keith, Ronald A. (1972). Bush Pilot with a briefcase. Toronto, ON: Doubleday Canada. ISBN 0-385-07049-7.
Matheson, Shirlee Smith (1994). Flying the Frontiers. Saskatoon, SK: Fifth House. ISBN 978-1895618518.
Terpening, Rex (2006). Bent Props and Blow Pots - A Pioneer Remembers Northern Bush Flying. Madeira Park, BC: Harour Publishing. ISBN 1-55017-381-2.
West, Bruce (1974). The Firebirds - How bush flying earned its wings. Ministry of Natural Resources (Ontario). ASIN B0089GQ3EE.
Milberry, Larry (1985). Austin Airways - Canada's Oldest Airline. Toronto, ON: CANAV Books. ISBN 978-0969070337.
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Warning: Adult Language
I want to celebrate Arrested Development, the best new comedy in years. Who cares if Fox cancelled the show in 2006? I still love the hilariously dysfunctional Bluth family and its Machiavellian maneuverings. The writing sparkles with acerbic wit and clever pop culture references. Multiple viewings reveal inside jokes and clever sight gags. And most importantly, Arrested Development works at a meta-level, commenting upon itself and its actors in surprising and rewarding ways.
Despite Arrested Development's critical acclaim, the show failed to expand its popularity beyond a devoted core audience. Folks who prefer passive low-bandwidth fare complained that the long-arc plotlines were difficult to follow. They kvetched about the show's lack of sympathetic characters. And they dismissed the show's inside jokes as insular and offputting. As a result, Arrested Development lasted only two and a half seasons, its last four episodes being ignominiously lumped together in a two-hour fire sale opposite the summer Olympics (I can still hear Lindsay exclaiming, "They're having a fire sale?").
Thank goodness for DVD. My family snarfed up the show's three seasons as soon as they could be purchased, and we have viewed them with a fervor equaled only by our love of The Simpsons. With each viewing, we await our favorite parts: a chicken dance here, an exasperated "come on!" there, and moments when one character asks with shock and surprise, "her?" We love Arrested Development, even though the show can sometimes be shockingly raunchy.
What follows is my collection of the top ten quotes from Arrested Development that somehow eluded network censors. Reader, beware. This collection gets pretty gross from time to time. If you are sensitive to sexually related puns and double-entendres, turn back now.
Top Ten Things I Can't Believe They Said on Arrested Development
Tenth Place Episode 40 ("Righteous Brothers"): Michael warns Lucille that he's about to rat his brother out, and that they'll both soon share a cell in jail. Michael says, "I've got a nice hard cot with his name on it." Lucille asks, "You'd do that to your own brother?" Michael replies: "I said cot!"
Ninth Place Episode 28 ("Afternoon Delight"): Mike asks his Uncle Oscar to give some "Afternoon Delight" to Lucille, presuming that the term refers to sex. Oscar interprets the term as a pot reference. Things only go worse from there: "Now, the question is, which way do I try to get it in her. . . Maybe I'll put it in her brownie."
Eighth Place Episode 27 ("Sad Sack"): A prosecutor mistakenly believes that a cell phone photo taken by Tobias shows the desert terrain where the Bluth company helped Saddam Hussein hide WMD. After getting a good look at the photo (and providing a glimpse to the audience), the family lawyer makes a surprising announcement: "At this close they always look like landscape . . . You're looking at balls."
Seventh Place Episode 51 ("Family Ties"): Michael is talking on the phone with a Bluth company employee who is delighted about the inclusion of a prostitute to the office staff. Michael, of course, has no clue what the guy means: "And all the guys like her, huh? That is great. Ah, you mean "away" though." He later explains to his sister, "Nellie has blown them all away."
Sixth Place Episode 41 ("The Cabin Show"): Lindsay hands Michael a piece of paper that contains good news: "We did it, Mikey! We're super rich again. And I'm going to buy a car. The Volvo." Michael replies, "Lindsay, you're not going to start spending money. And this is not a Volvo." Lindsay explains, "Oh, that's from sitting on the copier."
Fifth Place Episode 9 ("Storming the Castle"): Tobias tells an Australian cab driver to take him to the Gothic Castle, where his brother G.O.B. is performing his magic act. Unfortunately, the cabbie presumes he means a BDSM dungeon whose last name sounds like it's missing the "C": astle. Oddly enough, Tobias is dressed perfectly for the venue.
Fourth Place Episode 24 ("The One Where They Build a House"): Michael tells G.O.B. that he cannot have the oddly named company boat he just purchased, just as Lucille walks in. Michael says, "Get rid of the Seaward." Lucille snaps back: "I'll leave when I'm good and ready."
Third Place Episode 13 ("Beef Consomme"): Maebe catches Tobias and Lindsay fighting, forcing her father to interrupt a particularly nasty insult: "You selfish count-ry music loving lady."
Second Place Episode 43 ("Forget-Me-Now"): Tobias describes his former career as a creepy convergence of analyst and therapist: "the world's first analrapist."
First Place Episode 44 ("Notapusy"): Pretty much the entire episode.
Runners-Up (in episode order)
Episode 2 ("Top Banana) Michael Bluth instructs his son, George Michael, to hire a cousin to help staff the family's banana stand. Because George Michael happens to be infatuated with the cousin, Michael's advice is particularly disturbing: "You stay on top of her, buddy. Do not be afraid to ride her - hard."
Episode 3 ("Bringing Up Buster"): Lucille complains that the family should spend more time with little brother Buster, perhaps by making a family treat called a cornball: "Because he's your brother, and you run around with everyone else, going on bike rides, making cornholes. Everyone's laughing and riding and cornholing except Buster."
Episode 7 ("My Mother the Car") George reveals that he's paying off his fellow prisoners: "...to keep me from getting strangled in the shower or worse." Lindsay asks, "Stabbed?" George replies: "In a way."
Episode 12 ("Marta Complex"): When Lucille treats Buster like a child, handing him a tissue to blow his nose, Buster replies, "No Mother, I can blow myself!"
Episode 12 ("Marta Complex"): After explaining to Lucille that he enjoys solitary confinement in prison, George asks a guard for a favor: "Hey Bruno. Any chance that the Hole is available between four and six?" Walking out, Lucille mutters: "I don't even want to know what that means."
Episode 29 ("Switch Hitter"): Lucille tries to convince an Army general whom she once dated to release Buster from being shipped off to Iraq. The general leans back in his chair and suggests a trade: "Maybe if you go downtown." Lucille marvels, "I haven't done that in thirty years." They are both referring to her work as a USO performer, when she sang the Petula Clark song of the same name.
Episode 31 ("Burning Love"): Lindsay announces her plans to seduce an actor named Frank Wrench: "I'm going to see if I can get a Wrench to strip my nuts." She soon realizes that her attempt at sexually charged language got away from her.
Episode 32 ("Ready, Aim, Marry me"): Tobias explains that he'd already used a gift basket meant to rekindle his marriage to Lindsay: "I'm afraid I prematurely shot my wad on what was supposed to be a dry run, if you will, so now I'm afraid I have something of a mess on my hands."
Episode 41 ("The Cabin Show"): Michael suggests that Lucille borrow the family cabin: "Maybe you can take a date up there." Lucille responds, "How am I supposed to find someone willing to go into that musty old claptrap." After an awkward pause, Michael clarifies: "The cabin, yes. That would be difficult too."
Episode 42 ("For British Eyes Only"): Tobias anticipates life as a Hollywood leading man: "Oh, I can just taste those meaty leading-man parts in my mouth right now."
Episode 47 ("Prison Break-In"): Lucille makes a disturbing announcement prior to an impending romantic rendezvous: "Oh, Michael, honey. I want to cry so bad. I don't think I can spare the moisture."
Episode 53 ("Development Arrested"): Tobias and Michael discuss entertainment for a family event. Tobias suggests, "I should call the Hot Cops and tell them to come up with something more nautically themed. Hot Sailors. Better yet, Hot Seam -" Michael quickly interjects: "I like Hot Sailors." Tobias agrees: "Me too."
Don't say I didn't warn you...
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Jim Donahue said...
The one that really shocked me the most about getting by the censors is "Gothic Castle." It's pretty much a single entendre--even the DVD's subtitles translate the cabbie's line as "Gothic Asshole." Or did I hallucinate that?
I know this is a super old post, but I can't let this topic go without bringing up the treatment of Buster's fake hand when George gets moved to house arrest. Buster is looking for it and is told by Lucille that it's in the dishwasher because she and George were using it. Buster sniffs it and grimaces, deciding to run it through again on "pots and pans." Ew.
Can you imagine what they'll do if given the time and relative leeway to do a movie?
The beauty of those creative geniuses is that they DON'T need more than the conventional TV format to make us laugh 'til we cry.
Noel said...
"Lindsay, you're not going to start spending money. And this is not a Volvo." Lindsay explains, "Oh, that's from sitting on the copier."
I love the follow-up line to this where the pictures repeatedly get mixed up. Lindsay looks reconsidering her purchase and says "I dunno, actually, it's a little boxy."
"A little boxy."
Oh my. I just got that. :-)
Yes. Love it. I'm a David Cross fan. Some of his stand up really floors me, specifically his stuff on Ashcroft and lady justice.
You rock Andy
Thanks, Jake. From one rocker to another...
Not so much a line of dialogue, but the blue hand on the back of Kitty's head in "The Cabin Show" is particularly dirty.
Christine Dix said...
What about Lucille's "Yeah, Who doesn't love the Jews?" line....
CANT WAIT FOR THE MOVIE!!!!!
All "blue myself" lines. Especially the flashback when Lindsay thinks Tobias is dead because of the doctor that says things wrong.
Ufotofu9 said...
"...king $6300 suit! C'mon!
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Strategies to Boost Your Social Security
These moves can increase lifetime benefits by thousands of dollars.
By Susan B. Garland, Contributing Editor
It's so tempting. You turn 62, and Uncle Sam is willing to start handing over Social Security benefits -- every month for the rest of your life. Before you take the money and run, consider the potential pleasures of deferred gratification. Whether you're single or married, waiting to claim your benefits -- even by a year or two -- is likely to pay off in higher benefits over your lifetime.
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As income guarantees of private pensions disappear, one of the costliest mistakes a retiree can make is underestimating the value of Social Security, says James Mahaney, vice-president of strategic initiatives at Prudential Financial. There is no other type of retirement income stream that protects against market downturns, interest rate declines, inflation and longevity risk -- while also providing benefits for a spouse and survivor, Mahaney says. "The bigger Social Security can become as part of your portfolio, the better off you will be," he says.
Until recently, the conventional wisdom was that total lifetime benefits for someone with average life expectancy would be the same whether the beneficiary took a smaller benefit at 62 or a larger benefit at 70. But a growing body of research shows that, even when one's life span is shorter than average, it may pay to delay for at least a couple of years past the early retirement age of 62.
For most married couples, for instance, delaying benefits until 70 for at least the higher earner is a no-brainer. By coordinating the dates they each claim benefits to take maximum advantage of spousal and survivor benefits, a husband and wife can boost lifetime benefits by hundreds of thousands of dollars.
Many singles can benefit from waiting, too, according to research by economist Sita Nataraj Slavov of the American Enterprise Institute, a think tank. Today's historically low interest rates play an important role.
Think of it this way. If you take Social Security at 62, you'll be able to limit tapping your IRA or other savings. That could make financial sense if the dollar in your nest egg today will be worth more next year.
But with U.S. Treasuries earning an after-inflation rate of 0%, collecting Social Security benefits early becomes a bad deal, says Slavov and co-author John Shoven, an economics professor at Stanford University. Social Security benefits grow an average of about 7% a year between 62 and 70, not including cost-of-living adjustments. That means you're earning a bigger return by delaying Social Security benefits than you are on your safe investments. And the inflation-adjusted "annuity" you're getting from Social Security is considerably better than any annuity you can buy on the commercial market during this low-interest-rate environment. "With today's interest rates, some degree of delay is advantageous even for people" with lower-than-average life expectancies, Slavov says.
The fundamentals. Before you can make your own calculations, you need to understand the basics. If you were born between 1943 and 1954, you can collect your "primary insurance amount" at age 66. The full retirement age gradually rises to 67 for those born between 1955 and 1960, but for this story we'll assume 66 is the full retirement age.
You can start claiming at 62, but your benefit will be permanently reduced by a fraction of a percent for each month you claim before your full retirement age. Claim at 62, and your benefits will be cut 25% compared with what you would receive if you claim at 66.
You get a delayed retirement credit of 8% for each year you wait to claim past your full retirement age until 70. Say you're due $2,000 at your full retirement age of 66. If you claim at 62, you will get $1,500. Wait until 70, and your benefit jumps to $2,640 -- 76% more than the take-it-early benefit. (And that doesn't include the cost-of-living increases that add to the benefit while you wait.)
If you're married and your primary insurance amount is less than your spouse's, you can claim either a benefit on your own record or a "spousal" benefit. If the lower earner first claims at full retirement age, the spousal benefit is 50% of the other spouse's primary insurance amount. The lower earner can't claim a spousal benefit until the other spouse files for his benefit.
Actually, a spousal benefit is two benefits: the lower earner's own benefit plus a supplement so that the total received equals up to one-half of the higher earner's benefit. Here's an illustration from Mahaney: Ken and Mary are the same age. Ken is eligible for a full benefit of $2,000, while Mary qualifies for her own $600 benefit. After subtracting Mary's full benefit from one-half of Ken's $2,000 benefit, she's eligible for a $400 spousal benefit. If they both file at 66, she gets her $600 plus the $400 spousal amount.
The size of Mary's total benefit will be reduced if she files for her own benefit earlier. Say Ken waits until 66 to file for his full $2,000 benefit. In the meantime, at 62, Mary files for her own benefit, which is reduced by 25% -- to $450. When Ken files, Mary will get her $400 spousal benefit -- for a total of $850 a month.
If you're single. The cost-benefit analysis for singles is fairly straightforward. Delaying makes financial sense if you live long enough so that the extra amount you receive via fatter benefits more than makes up for the benefits forfeited during the waiting years.
Even if you live to average life expectancy, today's low interest rates change the equation for singles who delay, according to Slavov and Shoven. For a single woman with average life expectancy and a full retirement benefit of $1,500, the present value of her lifetime benefits would be $318,321 if she claims at 62, assuming a 0% interest rate. (Present value is the current value of a future sum.) That compares with $376,990 if she delayed until 70 -- for an 18% boost.
Why the difference? The authors say that when interest rates are close to 0% -- or even up to 2.9% -- the value of the future Social Security benefits is considerably higher than what you can receive if you placed the money in safe investments or an immediate annuity.
If you're married. Married couples can maximize their joint lifetime income by coordinating their start dates. A top goal for couples is to boost the benefit for the surviving spouse, who will get 100% of the higher earner's benefit when he dies if she takes the survivor benefit at or beyond her full retirement age. The benefit will include any of the higher earner's delayed retirement credits and cost-of-living adjustments. The widow or widower can claim a survivor benefit as early as age 60, but the benefit will be reduced if the survivor collects before full retirement age. For instance, by claiming at 60, the survivor will get 71.5% of the primary earner's benefit plus any delayed credits.
Wives tend to gain the most from strategies to boost the survivor benefit because they generally earn less than their husbands and live longer. Once her husband dies, the wife can step up, from either her own lower benefit or from a higher spousal benefit, to the even higher survivor benefit.
One of the most important rules of thumb for most married couples: If just one spouse is expected to live well beyond age 80, the couple's cumulative lifetime benefits will usually be highest if the higher earner delays claiming his benefits until 70, according to research by William Meyer and William Reichenstein, principals of consulting firm Social Security Solutions. (Kiplinger's has partnered with Social Security Solutions. For more information on obtaining a customized report for optimizing your own benefits, go to kiplinger.socialsecuritysolutions.com.)
Consider this example from Meyer and Reichenstein: Assume Alice and Sam are both 62. His primary insurance amount is $2,000, and his life expectancy is 80. Alice's full benefit is $700 and she is expected to live until she's 90. If they both claim at 62, they'll each get reduced benefits -- $1,500 for him, $525 for her -- until Sam dies at age 80. At that point, Alice steps up to a monthly survivor benefit for ten years. Total lifetime benefits: $635,400.
But say Sam delays until 70 while Alice still claims her benefit early -- at $525 a month. When Sam eventually claims, he'll get $2,640 a month, with his delayed retirement credits, until he dies. Alice will then step up to a $2,640 survivor benefit for the last ten years of her life. Total lifetime benefits: $747,000.
And, says Meyer, delaying by the higher earner makes even more sense if there's a big age difference between the two spouses. "The younger spouse may have a higher survivor benefit for a longer time if the older, higher-earning spouse dies early," Meyer says.
Smart strategies for married couples. Using the basics, you can engage in some little-known strategies. Sometimes these flummox Social Security personnel -- but they're all legal.
Say you are the higher earner and want to delay until 70. If your wife is 62 or older, she could collect her own benefit -- but perhaps she'd get more money with a spousal benefit. One catch: She can't collect a spousal benefit until you file for your own.
As long as you're full retirement age, you file for your benefit and your wife applies for a spousal benefit. You ask Social Security to suspend your benefits. Your wife will still receive a spousal benefit, and you can continue to accrue delayed retirement credits until you reapply for benefits, presumably at age 70. Because you're increasing the value of the survivor benefit, this "file and suspend" maneuver supercharges the survivor benefit for your wife if you die first.
To show the advantages of this strategy, here's an illustration by Henry Hebeler, author of Getting Started in a Financially Secure Retirement (Wiley, $20). (You can plug your own numbers into his free "Strategic Social Security Planner" at www.analyzenow.com.)
Let's take the previous Sam and Alice example, and plug the data into Hebeler's software. If the couple uses the file-and-suspend strategy, Sam files for and suspends his benefit at 66 and Alice takes a spousal benefit. At 70, Sam reapplies for his delayed benefit -- worth $2,640. That's what Alice will get when Sam dies, considerably more than if they both claimed at 62. Total lifetime benefits: $961,000.
To be fair, assume that couple will need to dip into savings to make up for the missing Social Security benefits -- to the tune of $193,000, according to Hebeler's online tool. "They have to make sure they have saved enough money to live on until they get their benefits," Hebeler says. Even after subtracting these costs, the couple will collect at least $120,000 more in lifetime benefits than if they both filed at age 62.
Here's another valuable strategy. In most cases, it's the lower-earning spouse who collects a spousal benefit. But if you're the higher earner, you can bring in some extra money by applying for a spousal benefit at your full retirement age -- and still allow your own benefit to grow until age 70. Once you turn 70, you can switch to your own benefit and your spouse can claim a spousal benefit, of up to 50% of your primary insurance amount. However, her survivor benefit will equal up to 100% of your delayed benefit if you die first.
Do you both want to delay until 70 while bringing in some income? Try the combo strategy: One spouse employs the file-and-suspend strategy, while the other files a restricted application. This way, one spouse can get a spousal benefit for several years, while both earn delayed retirement credits. Both spouses must be full retirement age to employ this strategy.
Consider this illustration from Meyer and Reichenstein. Bernard is 66, a few months older than Linda. His full benefit is $2,000, and hers is $1,200. They both would like to delay collecting their own benefits until 70, but they also want to bring in extra income.
Bernard files for and suspends his benefit at 66. This enables Linda, at 66, to restrict her application to a spousal benefit, which is $1,000 a month. (She could have filed for her own $1,200 benefit, but waiting until 70 will boost the couple's lifetime income.) At 70, her own benefit, with its delayed credits, will have grown to $1,584 a month. Meanwhile, Bernard's benefit will have grown to $2,640, which Linda will receive when her husband dies. If he dies at 85 and she lives until 90, their total lifetime benefits will be $974,112. If, instead, they both file at 62, their total benefits will be $767,223 and Linda's survivor benefit will be lower.
The do-over strategy. What if you claimed before your full retirement age, and now think you erred by consigning yourself to a lifetime of reduced benefits? You might have a shot at a do-over.
Retirees who are already collecting benefits can reset the clock by voluntarily suspending benefits and reapplying at age 70. You need to be full retirement age to suspend your benefits. This allows you to earn up to four years in delayed retirement credits.
Say you were eligible for $2,000 in benefits at age 66, but you took a 25% cut by claiming at 62. At 66, you suspend your benefits and reapply at 70. Your benefit at 70 would be $1,980, or 132% of your $1,500 benefit -- not including cost-of-living adjustments.
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BARACHOIS (bara-shwa')
Acadian word for - shallow pools of water separated from the sea by sand dunes
Barachois plays Acadian traditional music - a rhythmic, high-voltage style born in the heart of a culture kept alive through two and a half centuries on tiny Prince Edward Island, Canada. The songs were brought over from France with some of the first settlers in North America, and have been infused with other influences - most recognizably, the Scottish and Irish fiddling styles. The heartbeat of Barachois' music is what one writer calls the "bedevilled rhythms" inherent in the tunes. The voice is an energetic fiddle with a driving piano foundation. The music has been passed down through generation after generation by way of kitchen parties and community dances and gatherings. It is a musical genre all its own, filled with passion and life.
Throw in some driving foot rhythms, piano, a plethora of home made percussion instruments, close harmonies and the occasional brass instrument and you have the spicy Acadian stew that Barachois puts on the boil for every performance.
It's a stew well seasoned with laughter. Acadian parties are known for their warmth and humour - a welcome reward and a much needed respite from the daily business of raising a large family. The wit, charm, and even the antics that Barachois brings onstage is as much a part of their heritage as the songs they sing and the tunes they play.
The group's first recording, simply entitled BARACHOIS, picks up where the party trails off. Pulling its material and inspiration from the collective memory of the Acadian people, the album received three nominations at the 1997 East Coast Music Awards and was awarded Francophone Recording of the Year. The band has just released its second recording (in Canada) entitled ENCORE. They are very pleased with this record and feel that it succeeds in capturing the band's energy and spirit.
On stage, their music is dished up with equal portions of dance, humour and innovation, all delivered with a sincerity and confidence that comes from knowing the recipe for having one heck of a good time.
Alas, the quite wonderful Barachois decided to call it a day in 2003 to enjoy a less frantic lifestyle (both on and off stage) and they retired from showbusiness; probably to the relief of many concert & festival promoters who no longer need fear being dragged on-stage to become part of what was a delightful musical and visual performance.
Bon voyage, mes amis!
Albert Arsenault
Place of birth: St. Chrysostome, Prince Edward Island
Talents: Fiddle, percussion, bass, vocals, dance
Son of renowned Prince Edward Island fiddler Eddy Arsenault, Albert began to play the fiddle at age 12 and the drums at age 14. He soon learned to step dance, sing, and act as well. His career as a performer has seen him tour Canada as a children�s entertainer, participate in a wide variety of bands and musical groups, act as a comedian in national theatre productions and do commercial work for television. Albert has delighted crowds in the course of his 15-year career as an entertainer.
H�l�ne Bergeron
Place of birth: Charlottetown, Prince Edward Island
Talents: Keyboards, guitar, fiddle, vocals, dance
H�l�ne is considered by her peers to be one of Canada�s finest step dancers. Her career as a performer has led her to tour Canada, the U.S., Europe and Japan in a variety of cultural settings as a dancer, children's entertainer and musician. Daughter of the renowned Island fiddler Eddy Arsenault, H�l�ne grew up step dancing and accompanying her father on guitar, eventually adding traditional piano and pump organ playing to her skills. H�l�ne also plays fiddle, sings, choreographs dance and has co-written comedic plays as well as the Confederation Centre production "Racines acadiennes" with her brother Albert Arsenault.
Louise Arsenault
Place of birth: Mont-Carmel, Prince Edward Island
Talents: Fiddle, harmonica, guitar, vocals, dance
Louise began to sneak her father�s fiddle out of its case at the age of seven. She soon began playing with a lively flair much to everyone�s delight and amazement. She has since gone on to develop her own fiddle style which is distinctive to Prince Edward Island with an Acadian "swing". An experienced performer whether acting, step dancing, playing guitar or harmonica, she is right at home on stage.
Chuck Arsenault
Place of birth: Montague, Prince Edward Island
Talents: Guitar, French horn, tuba, trumpet, vocals, harmonica, dance
Chuck has a degree in music from U.P.E.I. He has performed as a stand-up comic, acted and sung in a variety of productions, and played in the P.E.I. Symphony. He has recently rediscovered his Acadian roots and subsequently taken to the traditional music like a duck to water. His charismatic presence, innate talent and love for performing have all combined to make Chuck an important asset to the group.
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Skeptical Optimism in Transportation and Planning Research
Transportation and planning scholarship needs Mel’s skeptical optimism more now than ever.
I suspect that every one of Professor Melvin Webber’s colleagues experienced The Furrowed Brow at one time or another. Offer an assertion on almost any topic, and Mel would employ The Furrowed Brow—an exceedingly earnest and quizzical expression he wore while peppering you with questions challenging your proposition in a methodical point-by-point fashion. Conventional wisdom of any sort was especially likely to elicit The Furrowed Brow—“good planning requires public participation,” “we can’t build our way out of congestion,” “urban travel is underpriced” or any similar statement was vulnerable. “Why?” Mel would ask. “How do we know?” “Are you sure?” On a few occasions he asked me “Why?” “Why?” “Why?” so many times in a row that I thought that he was pulling my leg. But he wasn’t.
I eventually learned, with considerable relief, that Mel’s skepticism did not indicate disagreement. Not at all. Mel simply abhorred sloppy, uncritical thinking, and he was a preternaturally curious person. He was especially interested in the application of new ideas and clever insights on the real world—particularly as they related to travel or urban life. Conventional wisdom among practitioners and complex but poorly-premised analyses by researchers were singled out for particular attention. His questions, however, were sincere and, if answered to his satisfaction, would elicit a nod and a smile.
Far from cynical, Mel was optimistic about the potential of quality research to improve transportation and planning practice. Confused thinking or illogical responses, on the other hand, evoked no nods or smiles. The Furrowed Brow remained, and the conversation would tail off awkwardly. I believe that the sort of skeptical optimism long practiced by Mel Webber is in increasingly short supply and is needed now more than ever. Most transportation and planning scholarship is applied in that it aims to both describe and improve the state of the world. This applied relevance is what draws many scholars to work in these fields, and what causes some in the more traditional, liberal disciplines to view our work with some suspicion. To some from mathematics or English, an examination of how the Bay Area Rapid Transit system has affected travel and development patterns can appear intellectually bereft, even vocational. While absolutely untrue, such perceptions persist.
The skeptical optimism long practiced by Mel Webber is in increasingly short supply and is needed now more than ever.
Further, the normative zeal with which some scholars approach their work—among some who advocate privatization or new urbanism for example—can exacerbate negative perceptions of the intellectual depth and rigor of transportation and planning scholarship. Such research can rightfully be viewed as advocacy, and lacking in the dispassionate research designs central to first-rate academic scholarship. While such advocacy research is often embraced by like-minded practitioners and elected officials, it tends to give short shrift to countervailing evidence and hence breeds cynicism about its objectivity.
Despite the advocacy in some research, the gap between the cutting edge of transportation and planning research and the day-to-day realities of practice has grown over time. For example, travel behavior research long ago left the four-step travel demand modeling process in the dustbin of history. Publishing refereed research on the four-step model today is akin to publishing on the newest developments in eight-track audio technology. But, scholarly disinterest notwithstanding, the four-step model remains firmly entrenched in practice, held steady by decades of legal precedent. Although researchers have made some encouraging progress towards developing better models of travel behavior, these models have not found their way into planning practice, and the research/practice gap continues to widen. (Some of the biggest advances in practice, it should be noted, have been in places like Sacramento and the San Francisco Bay Area, often in collaboration with University of California researchers).
Why has the research/practice gap in travel behavior analysis, and so many other areas of transportation and planning, grown so wide? Part of the reason is the inherent conservatism of practitioners, especially those in public agencies where deviation from established practice increases vulnerability to public criticism and legal challenges. But a large part of the gap is caused by researchers who are uninterested in translating their often highly abstract or technical research into forms easily understood by practitioners and elected officials.
Mel Webber’s career, most notably his second career as creator and editor of ACCESS magazine following his retirement, sought to meaningfully translate academic scholarship for practitioners while insisting that arguments be carefully crafted to sway even the most skeptical reader. And while many of the top transportation scholars in the world have written for ACCESS, Mel’s fingerprints are all over nearly every article. Good writing, the saying goes, makes readers feel smart, and for fourteen years Mel made ACCESS readers feel brilliant. The formula was simple: start with good research; engage a team of talented, patient co-editors; insist on high production values to create an entirely distinctive eye-catching look; and distribute it free to any and all interested readers.
From the first issue, with articles about demographic trends in vehicle use, compulsory ridesharing programs, environmentally friendly vehicles, pavement wear, and commuter stress, to the most recent articles on transit privatization, aesthetics in system design, climate change, and localized vehicle emissions exposure, the pages of ACCESS have made a stunning array of topics, well, accessible to practitioners and decision-makers. Most ACCESS authors will tell you that while refereed publications may be the coin of the academic realm, responses to ACCESS articles, from both practitioners and academics, tend to dwarf even the most high-profile academic publications. It’s perhaps a sad statement about the state of transportation and planning scholarship that ACCESS has had and continues to have the field almost entirely to itself.
So while The Furrowed Brow was distinctively Mel, transportation and planning scholarship needs his brand of skeptical optimism more now than ever: to fend off academic critics of applied research; to push us to be as skeptical about conclusions we favor as those we oppose; to temper the excesses of advocacy scholarship; and most importantly, to pursue research that can meaningfully influence transportation and planning practice for the better. I’m optimistic that we can do these things. But will we? About that, I must confess, I remain skeptical.
Brian D. Taylor
Brian D. Taylor is Professor of Urban Planning, Director of the Institute of Transportation Studies, and Director of the Lewis Center for Regional Policy Studies in the Luskin School of Public Affairs at the University of California, Los Angeles (btaylor@g.ucla.edu).
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The Briefly for Thanksgiving 2019 – The “What’s The Worst That Could Happen During the Parade” Thanksgiving Edition
What’s going for Thanksgiving, James O’Neill’s parting words as NYC’s top cop, a history of Pete’s Candy Store, your salads are trash, and more in today’s Thanksgiving daily news digest.
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How are you getting around today? Here’s how getting around below ground is gonna work. (Patch)
The best spots to watch the parade. (6sqft)
10 things you didn’t know about the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade. (6sqft)
What’s open today and what’s not. (Patch)
Photos: The Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade balloon inflation on the Upper West Side. (Untapped New York)
How to watch today’s parade. (HuffPost)
When this email goes out, we’ll have no idea if the balloons will be allowed to fly or not. (Gothamist)
What’s the worst that could happen? Watch the Cat in the Hat crash into a light post in 1997, injuring four people and putting one of the four into a month-long coma. (Viewing NYC)
Here’s another example from 1997: The Barney balloon’s untimely death thanks to wind and a flagpole around 50th St. (DelhiTheCat on YouTube)
Toss your Thanksgiving salads in the trash. There’s another romaine lettuce e.coli outbreak. (Gothamist)
Photos: The redesigned 80th floor “landing spot” of the Empire State Building. (Untapped New York)
What does James O’Neill have to say as he exits the position of top cop in NYC? Don’t criticize subway cops so much. Thanks for firing Daniel Pantaleo James, but don’t let the door hit you on the way out. (Gothamist)
Photos: Inside the newly saved Paris Theater. (Untapped New York)
Here comes the Holiday Nostalgia Rides! You can find the vintage trains on the A, F, and D lines on most Sundays in December. (6sqft)
Is there Black Friday in NYC? Yes, and here’s a compiled list of when the biggest chains open across the city. (Patch)
16 dazzling NYC holiday displays. (Curbed)
RIP Harlem’s Adelia Murphy, America’s oldest person at 114 years old. (amNewYork)
NYC’s 10 most important buildings of the past decade. (Curbed)
Looking back on 20 years of Pete’s Candy Store, who is celebrating its anniversary this weekend. (Bedford + Bowery)
This weekend is the last weekend of Brooklyn Bazaar. Friday’s show wasn’t sold out (at press time), but tickets are all gone for Saturday. You can still grab something in the liquidation sale. (Greenpointers)
Author Rob BlattPosted on November 28, 2019 November 27, 2019 Categories November 2019Tags Black Friday, Brooklyn Bazaar, Empire State Building, Holiday Nostalgia Rides, Holiday Trains, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, MTA, Paris Theater, Subways, Thanksgiving
The Briefly for November 27th, 2019 – The “Brooklyn’s Space Car > Elon Musk’s Cyber Truck” Edition
Home Alone 2’s New York City, the City Council tries to curb parking placard abuse, calls for a bike mayor, a white Christmas looks unlikely, and more in today’s daily NYC news digest.
This year’s Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade will be my 37th parade. Part of the tradition is waking up early, part of it is bundling up as warm as possible to stand still outside for 4 hours, and part of it is reading for three days straight about how the wind might be too much for the balloons and they won’t be allowed to fly. If it happens this year, it’ll be the first time it ever happens. (NY Times)
If you want to check out the Thanksgiving parade balloon inflation, here’s where to see them. It might be your only chance to see them! (Gothamist)
Looking for something to read? The New York Public Library released its annual list of the beset books for adults, teenagers, and children with a new category this year of the best children’s’ books in Spanish. (NY Times)
Elon Musk’s “Cyber Truck” looks eerily similar to the Spaceship car seen all over Brooklyn, don’t you think? (Bedford + Bowery)
No one wants 500 additional cops in the subways and on the buses, and Tuesday’s City Council hearing made it clear. The MTA officials could not say that the NYPD wanted the increase. (Gothamist)
80 groups have all signed on to oppose the governor’s plan to increase police presence on transit and invest in the subways and buses instead. (@RidersAlliance)
White Christmas? It’s not looking likely. (Patch)
The “MTA Museum,” which is an Instagram account and not run but he MTA nor is it a museum, is back and turning the grossest parts of the subways into art. (Untapped New York)
Long Island City’s Sixteen Oaks Grove Park is getting a $1.3 million makeover. It’s a .22 acre park on the corner of 21st St and 14th St. (LIC Post)
A look at the New York that existed in Home Alone 2 and an interview with Devin Ratray, who played Kevin’s older brother Buzz. The real locations, the fictional spots, and the parts of New York City that are no longer standing. (Curbed)
Related: A definitive list of filming locations of Home Alone 2. (Curbed)
Photos: A tour of the New York Botanical Garden’s Holiday Train Show. (6sqft)
The most talked about tacos of the year are from Birra-Landia, a taco truck in Jackson Heights. A rare food truck review from the Times scores two stars from Pete Wells. (NY Times)
FedEx’s robots are not welcome on New York’s streets. The robots debuted last week and received a cease and desist from the Department of Transportation on Tuesday. Farewell robots, we hardly knew ye. (Gothamist)
A charter school for students who failed out of the 9th grade in Midwood was met with a community meeting trying to raise enough money to prevent the school from opening. (Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
The Hunters Point Library was hit with a class-action lawsuit from the Center for Independence of the Disabled New York, claiming the new $41 million library does not comply with the Americans with Disabilities Act. (Curbed)
How well does your community board represent the district? Not very well if you’re a minority. (Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
Photos: Inside some of the tenant holdouts in the Hotel Chelsea. (Gothamist)
The stores that are left along Fifth Avenue are hoping that ramping up the annual holiday windows can bring attention and business back to the retail locations that need it. (NY Times)
The Staten Island Yankees could be dead. Major League Baseball is looking to de-affiliate 40 teams and the Staten Island Yankees, a Yankees affiliate for 21 seasons, is on the list. (The Brooklyn Home Reporter)
Say goodbye to all of your vape flavors. The City Council voted to ban all flavored vaping products. The ban will kick in starting in July. (Gothamist)
A call for the formation of an Office of Active Transportation and an Office of Pedestrians and appointing a “bike mayor” of the city. (Streetsblog)
Here’s an example of why the city needs a bike mayor. A video of a Domino’s delivery person getting doored and when the NYPD and EMTs arrived, the NYPD officers gave him a summons for leaving the bike lane before he had recovered. (Gothamist)
A spotlight on Matt Travis, a wrestling star on the ride in NYC who was murdered by the driver of a dump truck in a hit-and-run collision. (Gothamist)
The City Council passed nine bills aimed at parking placard abuse, including steeper fines, new requirements for police reports on enforcement, and a three strike rule. There are 125,000 parking placards in circulation, so there is plenty of opportunity for the NYPD to actually enforce these laws, but pardon me if I won’t believe it until I see it. (Streetsblog)
If you want an example of why the NYPD being in charge of placard enforcement is a joke, look no further. (George the Atheist)
Add Industry City to your list of places with ice skating rinks this year. (Time Out)
A claim that the coolest tree in NYC is the American Elm at 77th and Central Park West. (I Love The Upper West Side)
The 8 best neighborhoods in NYC for holiday shopping. (6sqft)
Thanks to Kelly Sabatino for today’s featured image
Author Rob BlattPosted on November 27, 2019 Categories November 2019Tags Bike Mayor, Biking, Community Boards, Fifth Avenue, Flora, Governor Andrew Cuomo, Hotel Chelsea, Hunters Point Library, Ice Skating, Industry City, Long Island City, Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, Midwood, MTA Museum, New York Botanical Garden, New York Public Library, NYPD, Parking Placards, Pete Wells, Sixteen Oaks Grove Park, Staten Island Yankees, Transit Cops, Vaping
The Briefly for November 26, 2019 – The “Star Wars, But With A Heavy Bronx Accent” Edition
Where to eat at the city’s airports, National Grid ends their gas moratorium, Governor Cuomo accused of targeting the Working Families Party, and more in today’s daily NYC news digest
Queens DA-elect Melinda Katz named her 31-member transition team. (QNS)
A WELCOME sign has fully replaced the Watchtower sign on the Brooklyn waterfront. (Curbed)
This week is crunch time at the city’s Food Bank. (NY Times)
C-3PO himself, Anthony Daniels, claims that the robot is supposed to have the accent of a “used-car dealer form the Bronx” as originally envisioned by George Lucas. Yikes. (Welcome2TheBronx)
A mural celebrating video game streamer Daniel Desmond “Etika” Amofah was unveiled in Bushwick. Etika took his life in June and in a video before his death had said he was worried the world was going to forget him. (Bushwick Daily)
After the Coast Guard grounded over 20 ferries that service the city for safety problems, Monday morning’s commute was as chaotic as you might imagine for the 32,000 daily ferry commuters. (NY Times)
A new kaleidoscopic art installation, called Ziggy by the firm Hou de Sousa, is open at Flatiron plaza. It’s made from 27,000 feet of rebar and iridescent cord and is a part of the “23 Days of Flatiron Cheer” programming. (6sqft)
Dunkin Donuts is killing its styrofoam cups and Grub Street has a few suggestions with what you can do with all those cups you’ve been hoarding. (Grub Street)
Thanksgiving dinner is not uncommon, unless it’s on the L train. (Jezebel)
In the battle of Governor Cuomo vs National Grid, National Grid blinked and will end their gas moratorium. (Brooklyn Daily Eagle)
With Bloomberg in the presidential race, all varieties of comparisons to Trump become fair game and lo, here is the first from The Real Deal, comparing Trump and Bloomberg’s personal real estate. (The Real Deal)
A look back at Bloomberg’s education record while he was mayor. (Chalkbeat)
Photos: Netflix turned back time in Little Italy over the weekend to promote “The Irishman.” (Gothamist)
Photos: More from Netflix’s “1975” Little Italy. (Grub Street)
The Nets have a new jersey, temporarily dropping the Brooklyn name in favor of Bed-Stuy, accompanied by the colors of the Boogie sweater made popular by the Notorious B.I.G. (The Brooklyn Reader)
Poly Prep Country Day School in Bay Ridge is being sued again for past instances of sexual abuse by a student who claims that the school protected his abuser, a priest and former teacher. (The Brooklyn Home Reporter)
Here’s how the city is planning to handle its “zombie home” problem. (Curbed)
It’s official, Netflix is saving the Paris Theater with a long-term lease on the space. (NY Times)
The MTA is planning to reconstruct the existing Jamaica Bus Depot in 2021 and has no plans to address the parking situation, which has resulted in the storage of city buses on public streets. 18 elected officials in Queens sent a letter to the MTA urging the MTA to make room for indoor parking for buses to cut down on noise and pollution. (QNS)
Curbed’s holiday gift guide for people who love NYC. (Curbed)
Eater’s holiday gift guide for NYC gifts. (Eater)
PureWow’s gifts for New Yorkers that they will love. (PureWow)
For those who don’t want to leave the Upper West Side, here’s a gift guide while staying in the neighborhood. (I Love the Upper West Side)
A list of all of the shipping deadlines to get your mail to wherever it needs to go before Christmas. (Patch)
The MTA is happy to give you the details on its $51.5 billion capital plan, including $3 billion from the city, just as soon as it’s approved and fully funded. (amNewYork)
The mayor signed the bill banning the sale of foie gras into law. The ban goes into effect in 2022. (amNewYork)
Video: Macy’s revealed its holiday windows with this year’s theme “Believe the Wonder” (Viewing NYC)
Voting in New York will be simplified at the expense of third parties. The Public Campaign Financing Commission voted that for political parties to maintain a line on the state ballot, they must either draw 2% or 130,000 in the general election vote for governor or president every two years. The biggest impact this will have is to wipe the Working Families Party off the ballot. Critics point at this as the governor utilizing his power to kill the WFP. (NY Times)
Every year a warning goes out about an algae bloom in the lakes in the city’s parks that is dangerous or fatal to dogs. The combination of the city’s water, water depth, and heat makes for a perfect environment for bloom growth. The Prospect Park Alliance and Brooklyn College are working together on a potential solution. (Gothamist)
Where to eat at Newark Airport, LaGuardia Airport, and JFK Airport.
Thanks to Henry T. Casey for today’s featured image
Author Rob BlattPosted on November 26, 2019 November 26, 2019 Categories November 2019Tags Bay Ridge, Etika, Foie Gras, Food Bank, Governor Andrew Cuomo, L Train, Little Italy, Mayor Mike Bloomberg, Melinda Katz, MTA Capital Plan, National Grid, Paris Theater, Poly Prep Country Day School, Prospect Park, Public Art, Public Campaign Financing Commission, Star Wars, Thanksgiving, Upper West Side, Zombie Homes
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Match Facts Football Yearbook 87/88
Friday, October 31, 2014 Coventry City, Match Facts, Match Magazine, Stats 8 comments
It's oft claimed that kids of today spend all their time in their rooms on their computers or consoles, while the youth of our day did nothing but play out from morn til night. I have a teenage stepson and while he does indeed spend a looooot of time glued to his computer (phrasing!), he also spends a good deal of time outdoors in that good old fashioned fresh air, playing good old fashioned football.
When I think back to my Saturday afternoons at his age, I recall with fondness that same fresh air...wafting in through the window of my tiny bedroom, where I sat listening intently to Mercia FM, following the fortunes of my beloved Coventry City. Now if the image of a teenage lad sitting alone in his bedroom listening to his team play out another goalless draw isn't depressing enough, imagine then that as well as listening, he's also making careful notes about the match...actually let me back up slightly there...it's not like I was just making notes for my own amusement like a nerd or something! I had an actual reason to be noting down the team that day, subs, goal times etc...My life had some purpose!
So why was I painstakingly recording match details? Was it because, in pre-internet days, access to such info was regarded as a precious commodity? Was living in some eastern bloc with tightly controlled media access? Or was I just a nerd? Obviously not the last one...
The real reason was because I was truly obsessed with football and Match magazine had provided me with an official (it was given away with a magazine, so it had to be completed!) means to record such info.
The Match Facts Football Yearbook 87/88, to give its full, rather grandiose, title, was an A5 sized booklet, which allowed, nay encouraged, you to fill out your team's match details for the entire season. Being 12 and with nothing better to do, I took to this task with an intense amount of gusto.
On opening the booklet, you were presented with a space to fill in details of your team, their nickname, ground, manager etc, beneath which was an example of how to fill in the match facts. This was split into two parts, the top dealing with the basics - Opponents, Date, Score, Attendance etc and the bottom part reserved for the team list. This was before squad numbers of course, so it was easy to fill in positions 1-11. You were encouraged to write the player names diagonally, not only because the spaces were quite small (note the names in the example are all pretty short...no Pickering or Ogrizovic for them to contend with!), but also to allow room for the Match Facts rating (the score given to each player in the following week's copy of Match). As you can see, that was something I never bothered with...mine was a more 'of the moment' sort of nerdiness...
The Yearbook had enough spaces for a full season (even accounting for the higher number of games in a lower league club's season), as well as special pages for the FA / Scottish Cup and the League (Littlewoods Challenge or Skol) cup.
What they didn't provide, however was space for any European competitions...but this was of course 1987, so no English clubs were playing in Europe. If you were a fan from North of the border (maybe, Dundee Utd) then that was just tough...this was dealing with domestic matters only! Even then, something was missing...with English clubs banned from European competitions, the Full Members Cup had been created, meaning teams in the top 2 divisions were now playing 3 domestic cup competitions in one season!
As it turns out, Coventry did very well in the FMC (sponsored that year by Simod, an Italian sportswear manufacturer) and nearly reached the final, only losing to eventual winners Reading on penalties...which you can see was lovingly recorded by myself in the space left by getting knocked out of the Littlewoods Cup early.
The empty match slots at the end of the season also come in handy as Coventry had one final cup competition to play that year. The mostly forgotten Anglo-Scottish Cup pitched the winners of the FA and Scottish Cups against each other in a 2 legged final. The first leg took place on 22nd December 1987 on a chilly night at Highfield Road. A 1-1 draw played out in front of a paltry attendance of just 5331. The return leg at Love Street was set to be played on 23rd March 1988...but it never happened. After the tiny crowd at the first leg, the whole thing was ditched, which must surely make this the longest ever 2 legged final in the history of the game?
As if filling in stats wasn't exciting enough on its own, to prolong your interest (and keep you buying the mag no doubt), the Yearbook also had spaces for stickers. Similar in size to the Daily Mirror ones, these brightened up what else would have been rather dull pages, rendered as they were in a pale green with darker green lines. Bizarrely, it would appear I grew tired of putting in the stickers much quicker than I did filling out details of 42 matches (plus those 3 cup comps!), perhaps lending the nerd theory extra weight.
Match produced another Yearbook for the 88-89 season, following exactly the same layout, but in shades of red. I clearly had outgrown my nerd status (I so hadn't!) by then as I seem to have given up halfway through the season...I think what finally killed it was having to write the following in the one and only entry for that year's FA Cup...
"Sutton Utd 2 - 1 Coventry City"
25 years on and the pain is still fresh...
-- Rich Johnson
The Greatest Retro Football Video Game Ever: The Final
Monday, October 27, 2014 Video games 1 comment
And so it's come to this... Fifty of the greatest retro football video game titles have been whittled down to just two. Falling by the wayside have been the classic and the clumsy, the majestic and the 'meh', but now we arrive at the Final to find a monumental showdown between two giants of the home computer age.
On the one hand, we have Sensible Soccer, a playing simulation par excellence. 'Sensi' provided everything the football fan could ever want. After-touch control, editable squad lists and team kits, plus different pitch styles and goal replays were just the icing on the cake. What really made it a great game, however, was its sheer simplicity. There were no 3D graphics to render, no sluggish sprites to animate - just a brevity of detail that gave the game its slickness and playability. A masterpiece of arcade football brilliance.
And then we have Football Manager, the grand-daddy of all management simulation games. Originally made for the ZX81 and ZX Spectrum, your job was to manage a squad of players with enough élan to help them rise from Division Four to Division One over successive seasons. By selecting your best individuals and buying better ones where necessary. it was possible to enjoy each match (shown in isometric 3D) and steer your team to ultimate glory. Detailed without being confusing, this was another triumph for the 'less is more' school of video game programming.
But which one gets your vote? Which game had you gripped with addiction every time you played it, and which one is deserving of the title 'Greatest Retro Football Video Game Ever'?
Simply select one of the two titles below, register your selection and in seven days' time, we'll announce the winner as chosen by you, our beloved football nostalgia lovers.
Make your decision, be brave, and may the best retro football video game win...
POLL NOW CLOSED
Thanks for taking part in our vote-off. You can see the result of the Final here!
Fantasy Nostalgia: Liverpool wear Admiral
Monday, October 27, 2014 Admiral, Fantasy Nostalgia, Kit Design, Kits, Liverpool 4 comments
When I recently read Bert Patrick's book all about the history of Admiral, legendary kit makers to the great and good of British football, one episode sent my mind into a tailspin. It was the section where Patrick, looking to grab the kit contracts for as many top clubs as possible, approached Bill Shankly at Liverpool and gained his agreement to provide them Admiral outfits.
Sadly for Bert Patrick, what would have been a huge name to add to his company's portfolio turned out to be a false dawn as Liverpool's board of directors overruled Shankly to prevent the deal from going through.
Yet it got my mind thinking: what would Liverpool have looked like in an Admiral kit back then, and thereafter?
Time to get doodling, I thought...
Kit 1: Circa 1973
If Bill Shankly had been backed by his board, this might have been the first pair of Admiral kits worn by his team. (Click on images for a larger version.)
Applying Liverpool's colours to the Admiral kit for Leeds United at the time, you get an all-red outfit with a flappy collar, oval badge and those famous Leeds number ribbons stitched into the socks. Well we can all dream, I suppose...
For the away kit, I've gone for the white and black that was preferred by the Anfield club at the time.
Not bad, but quite plain and basic as were many of the kits at the time.
Admittedly this is the most 'out there' design of the lot, but this is Fantasy Nostalgia after all...
Here I've used Admiral's Luton Town kit template which would have originally used orange, navy blue and white. Given that Liverpool only wore two colours at home in the early 70's (red and white), I've had to use a bit of artistic licence by adding a darker shade of red on the first kit. As for the vertical band, I hardly think it would have been accepted by the Anfield faithful, but it was somewhat in vogue at the time!
Once again for the away kit, I've chosen a predominantly white and black colour scheme, but this time there's more red thanks to that red band flanked with black.
A more interesting pair of kits than the last ones, but perhaps better suited to, say, a Swindon or a Middlesbrough...
By 1975, the England national team had an Admiral kit of their own, and that's the design I've used for this third version of what Liverpool might have been wearing around the same time.
Again I've employed a shade of dark red on the shoulders and shorts as an accent colour, but this time it's predominantly red with white trim for the home kit, and quite smart I think it looks too.
For a bit of variety in the away kits, I've provided two options - white/black again, but also an all-yellow version, even though Liverpool rarely wore that colour until 1979.
Personally I think these kits are the most believable of all those shown here and I think Bob Paisley's team would have looked quite fetching in them.
Yet more flights of fancy now as we enter the era of the glorious Admiral tramlines. For Liverpool to have embraced this design would have meant a leap of faith of gargantuan proportions for club officials and fans alike, and yet it's not completely beyond the realms of fantasy to think of Liverpool in such a series of kits.
One shortcoming of the design, however, would have been exposed when Liverpool became the first top flight team to have an official shirt sponsor around 1978/1979. Having to fit 'Hitachi' onto the front of their kits would've broken up the tramlines motif somewhat, and yet according to my home kit design shown here, it doesn't destroy the whole look, in my view.
Could you imagine Graeme Souness or Ray Kennedy wearing any of these? Probably not, but it's worth remembering that if Shanks had got his way, that Admiral logo really would've been worn by the English champions rather than the Umbro diamonds...
-- Chris Oakley
The Greatest Retro Football Video Game: Semi Final result
Sunday, October 26, 2014 Video games No comments
The last five days of voting are finally over and now we can announce who has reached our Greatest Retro Football Video Game Final!
Thanks to all the votes you registered, we ended up with a clear winner in Group A and a tie for first place in Group B!
Despite a neck-and-neck battle with Sensible World of Soccer over the first four days, it was Sensible Soccer that eventually stretched its lead towards the end of the Group A campaign to come out top, In Group B, however, there was a three-horse race that proved exciting right to the bitter end!
From the word 'go', Football Manager led from the front, picking up many of your votes, with Championship Manager very close behind. Then in the second half of the voting period, FIFA: Road to World Cup 98 rapidly gained in popularity, and in the final hours before the deadline picked up enough crucial votes to tie for first place with Football Manager. Championship Manager missed out on a three-way tie by just one vote.
Here are the total number of votes cast:
Sensible Soccer (1992, CA/AST) - 21 votes
Sensible World of Soccer (1994, CA/PC) - 13 votes
FIFA Soccer 95 / FIFA 95 (1995, SMD) - 10 votes
Emlyn Hughes International Soccer (1988, C64/ZXS/AST/CA/AMS) - 4 votes
Match Day (1984, ZXS/C64/AMS/BBCM) - 4 votes
Tracksuit Manager (1988, ZXS/C64/CA/AST) - 1 vote
FIFA: Road to World Cup 98 (PC/NGB/SMD/SNES/PS1/N64) - 15 votes
Football Manager (1981, ZXS/ZX81/BBCM) - 15 votes
Championship Manager (CA/AST) - 14 votes
Kick Off 2 (1990, CA/AST/AMS) - 6 votes
Kick Off (1989, CA/AST) - 2 votes
Actua Soccer (1995, PC/PS1) - 1 vote
(Total responses: 54)
With 'FIFA 98' and Football Manager sharing top spot in Group B, we decided to go completely retro by tossing a coin to decide who should reach the Final. Then we realised that this was an outdated and highly unsatisfactory method and opted instead to count the votes gained by both titles in the previous round. It's not just UEFA that can lean heavily on a co-efficient system, you know... ;-)
Having totalled up all the previous votes, we found that FIFA: Road to World Cup 98 picked up 10 while Football Manager scored 26, so it's Kevin Toms legendary management simulation that goes through to meet Sensible Soccer from Group A in the Final.
And that's what's coming next on The Football Attic - the grand finale that will decide the Greatest Retro Football Video Game Ever! Watch this space for details of how to vote soon!
Subbuteo: Short-Sided Variations
Tuesday, October 21, 2014 Subbuteo 9 comments
Think of Subbuteo and you think of eleven plastic men pitted against eleven on a big green cloth pitch. It was ever thus; in its simplistic form, Subbuteo was nothing if not a beguiling interpretation of football on a miniature scale.
What's not so well known is that the makers of this classic football game also made several other variations, each with their own quirks and foibles...
1. Fivesides
"The Replica of Indoor Soccer" as it proudly called itself, this game was launched in the 1950's as a complimentary edition to the regular Subbuteo 11-a-side format. Aimed at improving your playing techniques, Fivesides consisted of a half-size pitch with minimal markings, some tape to act as a low wall around the perimeter of the playing surface, two modified goals and a pea-sized football.
There were three different sets to buy, ascending in price - Introductory, Standard and Deluxe - and the first two of those didn't even come with any players. By using the players from your original Subbuteo set, you could save some money and still enjoy the essence of the game.
The Greatest Retro Football Video Game Ever: Semi Finals
Monday, October 20, 2014 Video games No comments
Welcome back to the Greatest Retro Football Video Game vote-off where we find ourselves at the semi-final stage!
We had a great response to the First Round of our competition, so thank you to everyone that took part. The results were as follows:
Simulation: 1970's/1980's
Kick Off (1989, CA/AST) - 16 votes
Emlyn Hughes International Soccer (1988, C64/ZXS/AST/CA/AMS) - 14 votes
Match Day (1984, ZXS/C64/AMS/BBCM) - 10 votes
Microprose Soccer (1988, PC/CA/AMS/AST/C64/ZXS) - 9 votes
Match Day II (1987, AMS/C64/ZXS) - 8 votes
International Soccer (1983, C64) - 6 votes
Peter Shilton’s Handball Maradona (1986, ZXS/C64/AMS) - 4 votes
World Cup / World Cup Carnival (1986, C64/ZXS/CPC) - 4 votes
Gary Lineker’s Superstar Soccer (1987, C64/ZXS/AMS) - 3 votes
Peter Beardsley’s International Football (ZXS/C64/CA/AST) - 2 votes
Pele’s Soccer (1980, ATA) - 2 votes
‘Football’ (1975, BIN) - 2 votes
NASL Soccer (1979, INT) - 0 votes
World Soccer (1987, SMS) - 0 votes
Simulation: 1990's Group A
Kick Off 2 (1990, CA/AST/AMS) - 16 votes
Actua Soccer (1995, PC/PS1) - 9 votes
International Superstar Soccer (1995, SNES) - 7 votes
Italy 1990 (1990, ZXS/C64/CA/AMS/AST) - 7 votes
Manchester United Europe (1991, ZXS/AST/CA/AMS/C64/ARC) - 4 votes
Super Kick Off (1991, SMD/NGB/SNES) - 2 votes
World League Soccer ‘98 (1998, PS1) - 2 votes
Gazza’s Super Soccer (1990, C64/ZXS/AMS/CA/AST) - 2 votes
Dino Dini’s Soccer (1994, SMD/SNES) - 1 vote
Super Soccer (1992, SNES) - 1 vote
European Championship (1992, PC/AST/CA) - 0 votes
Olympic Soccer (1996, PS1) - 0 votes
Simulation: 1990's Group B
Sensible World of Soccer (CA/PC) - 25 votes
FIFA 99 (WIN/PS1/N64) - 6 votes
Multi-Player Soccer Manager (1991, ZXS/C64/AMS) - 4 votes
FIFA International Soccer / FIFA 94 (PC/CA/SNES/SMD/SMS/SGG/NGB) - 4 votes
Actua Soccer 3 (PC/PS1) - 3 votes
World Cup Soccer - Italia 90 (1990, ZXS/C64/AMS) - 2 votes
Michael Owen’s World League Soccer ‘99 (PS1) - 2 votes
Striker (1992, CA/AST/SMD/SNES) - 1 vote
Champions of Europe (1992, SMS) - 1 vote
John Barnes European Football (1992, CA/AST) - 0 votes
Management / Hybrid
Tracksuit Manager (1988, ZXS/C64/CA/AST) - 9 votes
Footballer of the Year (1986, ZXS/C64/AMS) - 7 votes
Premier Manager 2 (1993, PC/CA/AST) - 7 votes
Player Manager (1990, CA/AST/PS1) - 5 votes
Footballer of the Year 2 (1989, ZXS/C64/AMS) - 4 votes
The Boss (1984, C64) - 3 votes
Brian Clough’s Football Fortunes (1987, ZXS) - 2 votes
Kenny Dalglish Soccer Manager (1989, ZXS/C64/AMS/CA/AST) - 2 votes
The Double (1987, ZXS/C64) - 1 vote
And so to the Semi Finals where the top three from all of the above sections have now been drawn into two new groups - A and B. Your task, should you choose to accept it, is simply to pick your favourite video game from both groups. Once again, you have five days to cast your votes, after which the most popular video game from Group A and Group B goes through to our Grand Final.
Here's the voting form - now it's over to you... Good luck! :)
AMS - Amstrad CPC; AST - Amiga ST; BBCM - BBC Micro; C64 - Commodore 64; CA - Commodore Amiga; N64 - Nintendo 64; NGB - Nintendo GameBoy; PC - Personal Computer; PS1 - PlayStation 1; SMD - Sega Mega Drive; SNES - Super Nintendo; ZX81 - Sinclair ZX81; ZXS - Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
World Soccer: August 1981
Sunday, October 12, 2014 1981, 1982 World Cup, Magazines, World Soccer No comments
With less than a year to go until the 1982 World Cup, there was much concern among the writers of World Soccer. Concern over Spain's readiness to host the tournament, concern over England's ability to qualify, and concern over the standard of football being played by Europe's top clubs.
A survey of officials and observers in Spain suggested the twelfth World Cup hosts would indeed be ready when the tournament started in June 1982, however while the areas of transport and accommodation appeared to be in good shape, the upgrading of certain stadia appeared a little sluggish.
Despite having been appointed as hosts in 1964, work on improving the Balaídos Municpal Stadium in Vigo and the San Mamés Stadium in Bilbao was only just beginning, and a similar tale could be told for many of the other 15 venues too. Barcelona's Nou Camp was due to increase in capacity and have a new roof fitted, while elsewhere media facilities were being beefed up too.
The Greatest Retro Football Video Game Ever: First Round
Friday, October 10, 2014 Video games, Vote-off 1 comment
How do you like your video game football? Do you like the excitement of scoring goals out on the pitch, or do you prefer the cerebral challenge of managing your team to glory?
Either way, the world of computer soccer has offered much in the way of fun, thrills and spills down the years, from the basic battyness of Binatone's 'Football' to the ultra-realistic games we know today. But what's so fun about manipulating a not-quite-right version of Robin Van Persie when you can immerse yourself in the retro world of blocky pixels and badly synthesised music?!
Yes, where The Football Attic's concerned, the less realistic it is, the better we like it - a sentiment we're sure you'll agree with... And that's why we've decided to find out which retro football video game is the best with the launch of our cunningly-titled 'Greatest Retro Football Video Game Ever' vote-off!
Over the last two weeks, you've been telling us which retro football games you think should make our starting list, and with thanks to all of you that did so, we can now begin Round 1.
We've arranged 50 titles into four groups: One for playing simulations of the 70's and 80's, two for playing simulations of the 1990's and one for management simulations. What we'd like you to do is to choose up to three favourites from each group. You've got five days to make your choices, and at the end of that period, the most popular three titles from each group will go through to the semi-finals. At that stage we'll have two groups of six where the winners will go through to the Final - more of which in due course...
For now, just pick up to three favourites from each of the groups below, and we'll fill you in on who's through to the next round in five days' time. Thanks for taking part!
AMS - Amstrad CPC; ARC - BBC Archimedes; AST - Amiga ST; ATA - Atari 2600; BBCM - BBC Micro; BIN - Binatone TV Master; C64 - Commodore 64; CA - Commodore Amiga; INT - Intellivision; N64 - Nintendo 64; NGB - Nintendo GameBoy; PC - Personal Computer; PS1 - PlayStation 1; SGG - Sega Game Gear; SMD - Sega Mega Drive; SMS - Sega Master System; SNES - Super Nintendo; WIN - Microsoft Windows; ZX81 - Sinclair ZX81; ZXS - Sinclair ZX Spectrum.
Thank you for all your votes in the First Round of our Greatest Retro Football Video Game vote-off. Here's how the voting went...
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Episode 1: Rags – The Roanoke Sessions
by Robert • July 6, 2015
My dad wrote a book. Big deal. As a list of achievements go, that is pretty small potatoes. Anybody can write a book. Just like anybody can father a child. It doesn’t mean they should. I mean heck, I could write a book. I could, but I’m not going to.
Though if I did, I would tell you everything, even the really horrible stuff. Even the stuff that would make you toss the pages away and run to the bathroom to puke your guts out. I would spill it all.
My dad wrote a book, but he didn’t tell you everything. Not even close. Sure, he told you about a one night stand with my mother. He told you how she committed suicide before I was even born. But he didn’t tell you about his daughter. He didn’t tell you about me.
“Someone left a dead bird on the porch this morning.”
“Hmmmn,” the psychiatrist murmured and raised a brow. “Perhaps a cat?”
“It is possible,” the girl agreed. “They do that. Leave people dead birds and mice and other little gifts… Because they think we’re helpless, you know? That we can’t hunt for ourselves.”
“Is that so? I did not know that… I thought it was just their way.” The doctor lifted a steaming mug of tea to his lips and took a softly slurping sip. He sat stiffly in a leather bound chair beside an empty couch, one leg crossed over the other, with an unused notepad resting in his lap. His “patient” stood with her back to him, looking out the window.
“Maybe it is…” the girl continued. “Of course, I don’t know many cats that can swing a hammer. The bird was nailed to my back door.”
With an uncontrollable snort, the doctor began to choke on his tea. His patient made no move to help him, but just stood there at the window with a devilish smile. The cries of a shabby man with an even shabbier cart echoed down the empty cobblestone street.
“Aughtdogs and Angabers! Inna bun! Aughtdogs and Angabers!”
“What’s his malfunction?” The girl glanced back to her psychiatrist and jerked a thumb towards the guy out the window. There was no answer, save the coughing and sputtering of the choking counselor. Eventually, his fit subsided and he was able to breath normally again. He cracked his neck in an attempt to regain his composure and scratched something surreptitiously down on his notepad.
“Now now. You know that I cannot talk about my other patients.”
“So he is a patient, then. Is he more screwed up than me?”
The doctor took a deep breath and let the question hang there in the silence like a blood splattered shower curtain in a bathroom forgotten to time. Little drips and streaks of red running down the unfortunate bright yellow sunflower patterns. A single unshaded bulb flickering in the socket over head. A distant clock marking the seconds away. Tick… Tick… Tick…
She simply crossed her arms and stared at him. She could go for hours without blinking, if she wanted to. After a few minutes of this impasse, the doctor swallowed heavily and then nodded. “Yes. Grue is a rather… dangerous case.”
“Cannibalism… Don’t eat the hotdogs.” The doctor waggled his brows and grinned, as if daring the girl to call his bluff. Down on the street below, Grue wandered on, still peddling his unsavory wares to an absent clientele.
The girl turned from the window and finally strode towards the couch. Flouncing down upon its well worn cushions, she began to pick at the stitches in a seam. She did not say anything else.
“So… The bird was nailed to your door. Do you think this was another warning?” the doctor asked, resisting the urge to scold her destructive habits. He chewed instead on the end of his pen.
“What else am I supposed to think?” Now it was the girls turn to snort. “Nobody wants me here. That is pretty damn clear! I don’t belong here.”
“And where do you belong?” he prodded gently.
The girl gave a shrug of defeat, pulled her legs up onto the couch, and wrapped her arms around her knees. She fell into silence again. The minutes ticked by. When she finally answered, her voice was no more than a whisper. “Nowhere… I don’t belong anywhere at all.”
To say that her childhood had been a strange one would be an understatement indeed. Even calling her family dysfunctional would not really even come close to the mark. For starters, she was born in the sky. Well, amongst the stars if you want to be technical about it. Her grandmother was a comet. That in and of itself was kinda cool, if you can wrap your head around it. And her grandfather was a king, though a more earthbound variety. Technically, this made her part royalty. Neither fact helped her much with her playmates, in fact, they probably made matters worse.
“What are you doing?” one of the star children demanded in a petulant tone. A group of them had discovered her hiding behind the great hall. She was naked, with her hair pulled back, and was smearing stardust all over her skin. It was her tenth birthday.
“Eww. Gross!” another child exclaimed. “That is disgusting!”
The star children, each of them silver haired with fair skin that sparkled and shined, perfect pearly white teeth, long slender bodies, and glowing golden eyes, laughingly surrounded the naked girl and began to mock and tease her.
“Raggedy Rags, looks like a hag, smells like a fish and makes us all gag!” None of them had ever even seen a fish, save in books, but the rest of their criticism was spot on.
Rags was nothing like a starchild. For starters, her hair was wild and red, like her mother’s. Her skin was coppery of hue with just a hint of green, like someone who had spent all summer swimming in the city pool and had started to grow a coat of algae. Her teeth were small and sharp, she was short of stature, and her eyes had an unsettling golden shine. She also had a tail.
Which is why, at the moment, she was attempting another ill conceived scheme to blend in. All the stardust in the world, no matter how earnestly applied to her own pasty complexion, would make little difference; and she knew it. The words of other other children stung deep in her core and fat tears began to leak out of her eyes, creating streaks in the silver dust she had smeared on her cheeks. Sensing their prey’s distress, the star children laughed all the harder and their ordinarily angelic smiles began to sour into something bloodthirsty and feral.
“Bug!” one called out.
“Nah. She is a freak!” another one cajoled. “She belongs in the circus.”
“She is a weed!” a little boy cackled. “Go back to your weedy father!”
“She can’t go to her father, you idiot. She doesn’t have one. She is a bastard!” The ring leader hissed this last word in disgust.
They no longer bothered with teasing rhymes, or sing song games. They turned to kicking and pinching and spitting on the outcast instead. She did not even tell them to stop, she just curled up into a ball, covered her face, and wept.
The scuffle most likely only lasted a few moments, but it felt like an eternity when subjected to their painful blows. Another voice, this one ancient and stern, cut through the jeers of the children and stopped their violent outburst with a single word.
“Children! It is unbecoming of you to torment so this inferior creature. Do not sully your voices, nor your flesh, by stooping so low. Begone, and let this moment pass from your day.” The children scattered. The voice was her grandmother’s.
The elder matriarch reached out and wiped away the spittle with the hem of her gown, then gently lifted the girl’s chin and gave a sad smile. “They are gone now. Come. Walk home with me.”
“I don’t have any clothes,” Rags murmured in protest.
“I can see that,” her grandmother chuckled. “However, it was your choice to remove them, and it would be quite unbecoming for me to lend you mine. Can you imagine the stares? The swooning, the mooning, the annoying attention should I walk down the street in such a state. I would have so many proposals en route that we would never even arrive at our door. Now, on your feet child.”
“I won’t have any problems with proposals,” Rags muttered as she rose to her feet.
“No,” her grandmother agreed, “you will not.”
They walked home in silence, receiving veiled glances of disapproval from the celestials that they passed. Of course, Rags got those even when she was fully dressed. Her left eye began to blacken and swell shut, and she hobbled along with a slow and painful limp due to the bright purple bruise forming on her hip. Finally, she summoned up her courage and asked with hesitation, “Why don’t I have a father?”
Her grandmother sighed and kept walking. This was a conversation they had rehashed, in one form or another, many times before. “You do have a father. But who he is, or where, I do not know. Your mother won’t say.”
“So why doesn’t he come get me and take me home?” Rags persisted.
“Most likely he does not even know you exist,” her grandmother answered tersely.
“Because Mom never told him?” She put her thumb in her mouth and gnawed absently on her fingernail.
“Child, your mother hardly even knew him. When she fled your grandfather’s kingdom, I doubt she even knew she was carrying you inside. She only took solace in the arms of a lover to gain the courage for what she needed to do.”
“She set herself on fire, so she could come back to the sky.” Rags recited, though they were just words. She had no mental picture of the event. She had never seen her mother as anything more than a bright and fleeting blaze of flame. “It was glorious.”
“Yes child. It was glorious indeed.”
“Ragnaline!” the doctor called her name again, this time more forcefully.
She blinked and lifted her chin from her knees in confusion. “Sorry. I was…” She gave another shrug.
“Thinking about your mother?”
“Sorta… Thinking about my grandmother.”
The doctor nodded, and flipped back a few pages in his notes. “Ah yes. The woman who raised you. It was she who gave you your name as well, yes?”
The girl gave a wry harumph of amusement. “Yeah. After the wife of Gawain. Sorta. She got it wrong, after all. Better than being named Oprah though. That lady got her name from a typo.”
“But now she is rich and famous. Powerful too, with a TV show and everything. Funny that you should bring her up. Is that what you aspire to be, Ragnaline?”
Rags shook her head with vehemence. “Hells no! I don’t want to be famous! Rich wouldn’t be bad, for sure. But famous, no way. I just want to be left alone and all. You can’t do that when you are famous.”
“And powerful?” the doctor prodded.
“Who says I ain’t?” The girl winked and flashed a dangerous toothy grin.
“You father is a little bit famous, isn’t he?” The doctor steered the conversation down a side street as he lifted his note pad and jotted down a few more reminders for later reference. “Or perhaps infamous is a better word. He wrote a book and everything.”
She snorted again. “Yeah right! My father the scoundrel, rogue, and professional liar… It is his fault I am here, in this hell hole.”
The doctor quirked a brow at her language and looked up from his notepad with a disapproving frown.
“Sorry. Not your office… Ugh! You know what I mean.” She waved her hand towards the window in frustration. “Trapped. In this screwed up town. What a sick twist of fate, huh?” She fell silent again for a moment, and then hopped off the couch with another shrug. This time she headed towards the door. “Sorry doc. Our time’s up for today.”
The doctor took a deep breath and sighed, setting the notepad back in his lap and steepling his fingers with his against his brow. “You know, Ragnaline, we won’t ever get anywhere if you will not talk to me about your past. Your demons cannot stay shut up in there forever. That is why I am here. To listen, to advise, and to help you work through your fears. To help you become whole again. To face the world with strength and dignity… But you have to meet me halfway.”
Rags paused at the door and turned back, her eyes drifting to her father’s book idly tossed upon the doctor’s desk. She might try to seem casual and unaffected by the whole ordeal, but there was a bitterness in her tone. A buried wound that would not heal.
“Whatever doc. You think you know me? You think you know my dad, just because you read his book, huh? Not quite… He never tells the all of anything. He keeps his secrets close and spins out a fancy tale instead. To shake you off the trail. I mean, get real, how much do you really think you know? He didn’t even tell you about me.”
Long after the door had closed and the girl had left, Doctor Ignatius Fade sat at his desk, still scribbling away. Pages upon pages were torn out of his notebook and crumpled into balls, scattered across the floor like errant tennis balls; yellow with parallel blue lines. On his pad was a single phrase, written over and over again, the script of the words becoming more frantic each time it was repeated.
“The scissors shall set us free… The scissors shall set us free… The Scissors shall set us Free!”
He paused in his manic writing, cracked his neck, and took another sip of his now cold and bitter tea. He ripped out the page, crumbled it up, and tossed it aside to join the others. With a fresh blank page, he began again. “The scissors shall set us free.”
Episode 2 – available here!
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Rebulican Hypocrisy 101
Mark Nickolas
The GOP'S PHONEY HONOR
Maybe the most absurd rant coming from the sore Republican losers following the November election is that somehow President Obama is disrespecting office of the president by not enforcing a coat and tie dress code in the Oval Office.
Yes, the same clan who brought us such hits as torture, the Iraq war, Katrina, Guantanamo, Abu Ghraib, the outing of a covert CIA agent, the U.S. Attorneys scandal, Jack Abramoff, this wonderful economy, the assault on the middle class, and the defecation on the Constitution and civil rights, is now concerned that not wearing a jacket is disrespectful of the presidency. Got that?
Says former Bush chief of staff Andy Card:
"The Oval Office symbolizes...the Constitution, the hopes and dreams, and I'm going to say democracy. And when you have a dress code in the Supreme Court and a dress code on the floor of the Senate, floor of the House, I think it's appropriate to have an expectation that there will be a dress code that respects the office of the President."
This absurdity perfectly parallels the GOP's idiotic rant that Obama was being unpatriotic during the campaign by failing to wear an American flag lapel pin at the very time that their presidential nominee John McCain never wore one...even once.
But now comes word that the GOP's phony attempt at defining honor is yet again, like the shameless flag pin effort, another example of false honor wrapped in a blanket of hypocrisy, as the Huffington Post discovered yesterday:
And as Media Matters notes:
Leave it up to Republicans to spend time focusing on their hypocritical symbolic side show to mask their abysmal efforts when they actually occupied the Oval Office.
What next, a lecture from Karl Rove about obeying the law? Or maybe one from Dick Cheney about following the Geneva Convention.
Mark Nickolas is the Managing Editor of Political Base, and this story was from his original post, "The GOP's Phony Honor"
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HomeTowns & ResortsLa Laguna
Home to the island’s north airport, San Cristóbal de La Laguna, to give it its Sunday Best name, was Tenerife’s capital up until 1821. Chosen for its elevated, inland position making it a clear vantage site and safe from the attentions of sea-faring brigands, the city was named after a nearby lagoon which supplied its water source but which no longer exists.
La Laguna quickly became the most populated city in the Canary Islands and attracted wealthy merchants, landowners, artisans and professionals to swell the population. With wealth came religion and by the end of the 16th century, more than 1000 dwellings made up the city including several convents and a multitude of churches and ermitas.
20th century housing developments have spread the city out across the Aguere Valley leaving La Laguna’s beautifully preserved old quarter to become a UNESCO World Heritage Site where elegant 16th, 17th and 18th century mansions display an eclectic range of architectural styles including Portuguese, Genoese, Flemish, French and Castilian.
A university city and busy commuter hub for the ‘new’ capital of Santa Cruz, La Laguna has a lively nightlife, excellent tapas bars, a cathedral that’s been closed for renovation as long as I’ve lived on the island, a strong spiritual life, and tram connectivity with the capital. It’s also considerably cooler than much of the rest of Tenerife and gets the lion’s share of rainfall, hence ‘La Laguna’. It’s the perfect venue for anyone looking for the real Tenerife and for day trippers. Don’t forget the brolly.
To get the most out of your visit to La Laguna, order a copy of the La Laguna Town Walk which includes comprehensive information on 17 of the city’s most interesting sites; detailed directions on how to get there by public transport and by car; where to park; and recommended refreshment stops.
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Some Early Motorcar History II
Orphan Cars
Safe Driving Vacations
Hot Rods, Moonshine and Early Ford V-8 engines
Some Early Motorcar History I
US Military Jeeps
Perhaps no vehicle symbolizes the US military more than the Jeep. This little four-wheel drive offers versatile transportation, medical support and a tactical vehicle. The relationship between a GI and his Jeep is almost like love. This brief history of the military Jeep is in honor of this valiant little warrior.
In the late 1930s, the US Army begins looking at prototype general purpose vehicles. By 1940 they invited bids for a quarter-ton general purpose vehicle. Out of 135 bid request, only three companies respond. American Bantam offers the most economical design. Willys-Overland submits the Quad, with an elaborate front grill and a more powerful engine.
Why Willys Won
The contract goes to Willys-Overland, because of the engine and the army feels American Bantam may not keep up with production. Ford also submits a prototype and many features from this vehicle are incorporated in the final design. One of the most prominent Ford features is the flat hood, which is an invaluable addition. The flat hoods are very suitable for carrying wounded soldiers, use as a dinner table and even a desktop for map reading.
The United States enters World War II in December of 1941 and the Jeep, as it has become known, goes to war. Willys-Overland produces the model MA Jeep and soon the revised ‘slat grill’ model. They call it the slat grill, because of the metal slats that make the grill. Ford also shares production with the GPW. In this abbreviation, G stands for a government vehicle. P is the designation for an eighty-inch wheelbase, and W means Willys engine.
Through the war, they refine the Jeep. Willys-Overland offers the model MB in 1942, with a stamped grill, as on the Ford GPW. This change helps keep costs down. Early production models cost to the US government $649.00 per vehicle. At the height of production, they build a Jeep every two minutes.
Post War Jeeps
The grille on military Jeeps changes through the years. Watching the grill is useful for identification. They drop the nine-slot grill, standard on the Willys MB and Ford GPW, when the war ends. Willys-Overland releases a civilian Jeep or CJ version in 1946.
Korea and the M-38 Jeep
We use the M-38 model in the Korean war. This has the seven-slot grill, common in later models. Otherwise the M-38 is similar to the earlier MB, used in World War II.
Vietnam and the M-151 Jeep
By the Vietnam war, the M-151 and later M151A enter service. This model has a horizontal slotted grill and independent suspension. A few years later, the military adopts the HUMVEE, as the vehicle of choice. The last military Jeep rolls off the assembly line in 1985. After a long and illustrious career, they retire the Jeep from US military service.
While the Jeep is no longer on active duty, collectors covet these little work-horses. They restore many and they reside in prized collections. A fully restored, Willys MB, can easily cost more than $30,000.00. That is not a bad resale, for a vehicle with a $649.00 price tag, when new?
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Issue: 437 Section: Technical Features 27 June, 2007
Aero Testing - Part 3
Flowing the Porsche 993 twin turbo 4WD and the New Beetle.
by Julian Edgar
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This article was first published in August 2001.
Last week we covered the Impreza WRX and Lexus LS400 sedans - they were grouped together because of their similar three-box shapes. And, while it may cause 993 owners to choke on their cornflakes (thanks for the car, Q), their shape similarity is also why this week we've put the Beetle and the Porsche together. (Oh and thanks for the Beetle, Simone!)
Both vehicles have very curved upper surfaces, where the design dilemma at the back of the car is the trading off of a smaller wake for greater lift and drag - or choosing not to, as the case may be.
Porsche 993 Twin Turbo 4WD
The front of the Porsche is covered in attached flow. Of course, given that the classic 911 shape has probably spent more years in a wind tunnel than any other generic car shape, maybe that's not surprising! But it's especially interesting to see how the flow remains attached on the top of the guard, even directly after what appears to be the sharp transitional change from the headlight to the upper surface. Note also the flow into the small grille (there's one each side for the oil cooler and air con condenser) in the lower spoiler in front of the wheel.
A close-up shows more clearly the attached flows around the nose. Especially impressive is the attached flow on the side of the headlight closest to the camera - often in cars that tight transition around the corner will cause a separation bubble. Note the flow of air straight past the guard opening - in most cars the wheel-well is a low-pressure area and you'll see the tufts being sucked into the opening.
As with the other cars wool-tufted, there is some turbulence directly behind the flared wheel arch. It's interesting to see the airflow passing from the side of the car to its underneath area - despite the wide side sill panel. This flow may be promoted by the Porsche's flat undertray.
This picture shows a number of interesting aspects of the 993's airflow. As with the other cars, behind the rear vision mirror there is quite major turbulence, which can be seen by the tuft behaviour on the door glass. Also, the airflow wrapping around from the door window, past the gutter and towards the roof does not stay attached - look at the two tufts standing almost straight up! However the flow from the windscreen onto the roof remains attached, while quite oddly the airflow on the glass behind the exposed windscreen wiper doesn't look turbulent in any of the photos (it's wise to make a judgement based on several shots as the camera can capture a tuft in a atypical position) - instead it always indicates an airflow parallel with the wiper.
The turbulence surrounding the fancy looking mirror is obvious in this shot of the wool tufts after the car had been tested. Note much can be done to decrease mirror wake, except to use TV rear vision, an approach often used on extreme low-drag concept cars.
Further back along the side of the Porsche, the smoothly curved bulge of the huge rear guards keeps flow attachment across their transitional shape. Note also that in all the photos (including many not reproduced here), the behaviour of the wool tufts positioned on the centre of the front and rear wheels show smooth flow across their front faces.
The flow onto the huge rear guards and across the wheels may be good, but once those guards start curving inwards towards the centreline of the car, the airflow immediately becomes detached. In fact, the amount of turbulence that can be seen on the side portion of the rear bumper and just forward of the taillights is a little surprising - and it was consistent and strong. But what about the upper surfaces? As can be seen in this photo, the flow across the upper portion of the guard looks very different...
A lot of interesting things can be seen here. Firstly, the flow on the side of the rear bumper, as outlined above, is turbulent. In other words, at that level the wake of the car comprises the full width of the car. (Most cars use 'boat-tailing', where the rear of the car narrows in plan-view in order that the wake is reduced in width. But for this to work, the flow must stay attached as the narrowing occurs!) Also turbulent is - as you'd expect - the area at the very back of the car - lower than the level of the rear spoiler, and the full width of the pillar supporting it. But reducing the area of the wake is the attached flow that has been cleverly allowed to flow through on the upper part of the guard. When viewed from directly behind, rather than the wake area comprising a rectangle, it is wide at the bottom (the full width of the bumper), the width of the car across the taillights, then much narrower where the spoiler support is. The overhanging spoiler then creates its own minor wake element. If the spoiler were solid down to the guards, the wake would be much bigger, and so with this design, drag is reduced.
The flow on the roof is laminar, but the transition to the rear window is poor. The added high-level brake light causes a whole line of turbulence across the top of the back glass, before the flow re-attaches itself. Look at the tuft in the upper middle that is actually being blown forwards by the swirling turbulence!
However, by the time the flow reaches the rear engine cover, the flow is perfectly attached. As a result of the massive engine cooling fan (factory spec is 1210 litres per sec at 6100 rpm!) and the low-pressure air exits (the air heated by the radiators is directed onto the tyres), the flow into the engine bay through the intercoolers is very strong. Of course not all the airflow over the top of the car disappears into the engine bay, for as the tufts on the trailing edge of the spoiler show, some air is leaving at this point.
In this Dave Heinrich view the flow pattern over the rear three quarters of the car is shown. The turbulence around the A-pillar (still equipped with an exposed gutter!) and behind the front wheel are two blemishes on the flow over the front panels. The added high-level rear brake light moulding apparently never made its way into the wind tunnel, while the flow into the louvres on the engine cover is massive. As can be seen, the wake extends the full width of the car - the narrowing rear bumper doesn't keep the flow attached at all behind the rear wheels. Note also the unusual flow pattern across the wheel openings, where the flow is not drawn into the wheel-wells.
The aerodynamic development of the 993 reflects the car's odd history - it is a certain very characteristic shape which generates major lift if unadorned with aero aids. In addition to counteracting this, there is also a need to get major amounts of cooling air to the rear-mounted engine (it's purely air-cooled, remember). The 993 twin turbo has a factory quoted Cd = 0.34 which is a quite good for a car that also sticks to the road at high speed. The drag coefficient probably benefits substantially from the car's full-length flat undertray.
But while Porsche engineers had to at least to remain a little faithful to a philosophical shape which over the years actually changed massively, in the case of the New Beetle, the shape was the single most important aspect to get right.
And for sales reasons, not aero ones!
Nope, the New Beetle and the Porsche 993 might have a weird relationship in their forbears' original genesis, but the aero end results are as different as their on-road performance.
The New Beetle
With a factory quoted drag figure of Cd = 0.39, the New Beetle is at least 19 per cent better in drag than the old Beetle (last versions had a factory drag figure of 0.48!). But what about all of the sophisticated aero development that has occurred since? Couldn't they do better than that? Well, in this case, having to hold true to a certain historical shape causes major, major limitations for aerodynamics.
As we've got used to seeing in these wool-tuft pics, the flow across the bonnet is attached (that wriggled tuft is just stuck in that position). The flow up the windscreen and onto the roof is also fine, as it is down the side of the car (directly after the bulging guard excepted). Even the flow from the windscreen around onto the side glass past that sharp-edged A-pillar isn't bad at all. So what makes the Cd figure so neanderthal?
Well, it's not the side flow causing the problems - it's generally nicely attached. (Incidentally, one of the first cars ever to enter a wind tunnel for development work was the original VW Kombi. Initially it had separated flow all the way down the sides. So the front corners were radius'd until attached flow was achieved, dramatically lowering the Cd.)
So the problem must be at the back? And it is. But it's a different problem to that which we've seen before. Here the flow remains attached right down to the line of the guard/boot opening. And this results in a very small wake for the (it's larger than you'd think) size of the car. But it also means that the airflow wraps in one long curve from the base of the windscreen right around over the top of the car to nearly the rear bumper. Aeroplane wing, did you say? And not only will this shape have major lift (without an undercar ground-effects tunnel, anyway; and I looked under and didn't see that), but much of the force will be upwards and rearwards - creating that monster drag.
In this view the size of the small wake can be clearly seen. Also visible is that attached flow from the roof all the way down to the bumper level.
We have not been able to find Clf (coefficient of lift, front) and Clr (rear lift) figures for the New Beetle. But as we have suggested, we'd be astonished if they are not very high - rear lift especially. In fact, after the wool tuft session on the Beetle had finished, we gathered around the car commenting on what we'd seen. In that discussion we suggested that a spoiler - which could be used to break up that attached rear window flow and create a clean separation point - would be best placed at the top of the rear glass. It might even reduce overall drag - despite the much larger wake that would then result.
So it was interesting to since find that on the recently released 1.8 Turbo New Beetle, an auto-deploying lip spoiler is placed at the top of the rear window. It pops up at 150 km/h - obviously the generated lift was so bad that Volkswagen was concerned that autobahners were going to "do an Audi TT" at high speed. [The Audi TT developed so much rear lift that people were crashing them on sweeping high-speed corners. Even a former rally champion died in such a crash. Audi recalled all cars, fitting a rear spoiler and also making suspension mods.]
The raised New Beetle spoiler would create non-attached flow on the rest of the car's rear, making for a bigger wake but stopping that attached flow over those curved surfaces which creates so much lift. It would be interesting to find out if, with a constant accelerator position, the car is faster or slower with the spoiler up. Fascinatingly, the car also automatically closes the sunroof before spoiler deployment!
And for something even more extreme, just look at the V6 Beetle RSi. Its huge rear spoiler and flow-directing upper window attachment are said to give 77kg of downforce at a massive 250 km/h - a pretty academic figure when that's apparently 25 km/h faster than the car can actually power itself to.... Drag also rises from the factory 0.39 to 0.40!
But again, the wool tuft testing shows why the huge spoiler is both needed and why it is positioned where it is. Incidentally, one media test of the massively spoiler'd RSi Beetle said that on the autobahn the car still "displays a lack of stability"!
Next week - smoke-stream testing in the DaimlerChrysler wind tunnel!
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HOME : Coin Jewelry : Jewish Coin Rings : Bronze Coin of the Jewish War Against Rome
Bronze Coin of the Jewish War Against Rome - FJ.2567
Origin: Israel (Jerusalem)
Circa: 66 AD to 70 AD
Collection: Coin Jewelry
Medium: Bronze and Gold
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The dissatisfaction of the people during the period of Roman Procuratorial rule in Judea led from time to time to outbreaks and blood shed, and to their suppression by the Roman legions. In 66 A.D., serious rioting broke out at Caesarea, which soon spread. The Jews quickly gained the upper hand and the roman occupation forces were driven out of much of the country, which encouraged the population to openly oppose the roman army. For the next several years, a bitter war was waged in Judea between the Jewish inhabitants and the Roman legions, with the latter slowly regaining the positions they had lost at the beginning of the revolt. Nero, the emperor at the time the war began, sent the general Vespasian to command the roman forces. He reconquered the northern part of the country and then laid siege to Jerusalem. On the ninth of Av, 70 A.D., the second temple was destroyed. By this time, Vespasian had already been proclaimed emperor in Rome, and his son, Titus, had taken over as commander. Many thousands were killed in the fighting and, when the temple fell, aspirations for Jewish independence faded for generations. The coins issued during this dramatic period in history carry "revolutionary" slogans as well as depictions of symbols that are characteristically Jewish. This distinctive coin features the image of a vine leaf, evoking the peaceful abundance that the leaders of the revolt so fervently longed for. The reverse side of the coin portrays a holy chalice. This expressive coin stands as a timeless and significant symbol of age- old ideals and ongoing faith. This distinctive coin features the image of a vine leaf, evoking the peaceful abundance that the leaders of the revolt so fervently longed for. The reverse side of the coin portrays a holy chalice. This expressive coin stands as a timeless and significant symbol of age- old ideals and ongoing faith. - (FJ.2567)
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Get knitted-out for Christmas with Ascension
Central London store Ascension get their knitting needles to the ready
Written by Rachael Millar
Illustration by Verity Smith
Waking on Friday morning I can tell by the sunlight streaming into my room that for a change it’s a bright and clear day, mind good news for those taking part in the COP OUT down at Trafalgar square. I’ve been going back and forth to the square since last Saturday, ed the day when following the hugely successful event ‘The Wave’, in which around 40,000 decked out in blue descended on Parliament to demand direct action against climate change, the resilient bunch that is Climate Camp went the extra mile and set up camp right between Nelson’s Column and that giant Christmas tree. Known as the ‘hardy types’ the next day in The Sunday Times, they popped up their tents, hung up their banners and got the tea going on a make-shift stove.
By the time I arrived on Sunday, learned a few names and attempted to help out in the kitchen-tent, which for me involved eating cous cous, (which was amazing) and X-factor related chit-chat, it was clear the original planned 48-hour stay was a given and this was just the tip of the melting iceberg. After a quick meeting in the afternoon drizzle, the resolution was clear; the campers would continue to occupy Trafalgar Square until the end of the Copenhagen Summit on the 19th, meaning a 2 week stay. As the meeting broke-up and everyone started to busy themselves in preparation for the ‘alternative’ carol service that evening, I began to wonder how on earth this was going to pan out; how the group would manage to stay in The Square without it ending in them being dragged away by the authorities, kicking and screaming.
Upon my arrival on Monday, I learned I couldn’t have been more wrong. I glimpsed from the crossing on The Strand a small huddle and a flash of day-glow yellow and thought, “yikes”, this spells trouble. However all it really meant was what seemed to be a friendly discussion with a police man and a police woman who just wanted to know what was going on, but warned that the Greater London Authority planned an eviction notice for around 4.00 that afternoon. The camp by now was certainly smaller; the kitchen was reduced to a stove for tea and many loaves of organic bread, which had been donated by a local bakery. However still lots of the same determined faces, one of which was Marina who won me over on Sunday in the meeting, she is animated and commands attention, and I generally gravitate toward her and pester her about the latest goings on. Still no word from the GLA, I get handed a leaflet by a smiley chap in a blue suit whose name I didn’t catch about what I should do if I am to be arrested, “eek”, is trouble a brewing? No, that’s just the tea. Still no word so I trudge home in the rain.
Tuesday morning and a guy in a polar bear suit has joined the camp, word is he was protesting against Tar Sands outside the nearby Canada House. Marina updates her Twitter telling how the bear has given her some shoes, as hers were soaked (her tent is by a fountain), what a bear indeed!
A few new faces have appeared and the numbers are still good, the GLA eventually deliver letters to the tents saying they cannot camp in the square without permission, but it’s not an eviction notice. I rush back to work because it’s the launch of Amelia’s Anthology of Illustration later at Concrete Hermit, which goes down a treat complete with Adnam’s carbon neutral beer. On Wednesday I’m running late for work after accompanying my pal Katie to the station, so I don’t get down to the COP OUT. I hear they’ve called up Boris Johnson but he’s in Copenhagen.
Come Thursday morning and the GLA are after the names of the campers, like they are going to tell them. Jenny Jones of the Green Party was also down there making cups of tea. I head down on Friday and the camp is buzzing. After an amazing week of action, negotiation and discussion it is time to bid farewell to those off to Copenhagen, and what better way than with a lunch. A new kitchen has sprung up as well as yet more new faces, eager to get involved. I get a leaflet about the ‘Feeding the 5000’ event that is taking place next Wednesday the 16th, in which waste food will be used to prepare delicious meals. So with one more week in The Square what is in store? Who knows but Climate Camp still needs volunteers, as well as useful items such as water bottles, blankets etc. All week they’ve been joining forces with other groups that occupy Trafalgar Square during the festive season, from The Salvation Army to Hare Krishna’s to collectively push for effective solutions to the climate crisis.
On Monday at 10.00am, in solidarity with the activists in Copenhagen, will be an open action taking place in The Square and at Canada House to protest against the use of Tar Sands. In order to develop these large deposits of sticky crude oil rainforests the size of our country will have to be cut down, as well as the extraction and processing of just one barrel of Tar Sands equalling 3 barrels of natural gas and 4 barrels of water; do the maths, it equals bad news for planet earth.
With COP15 in full swing those remaining in the UK need to get together and stand against the further destruction of our planet. So if that sounds like your cup of tea, why not go down to Trafalgar Square and tell your friends, as the COP OUT will only succeed if people lend as much or as little of their time as they can.
For more updates and information on the COP OUT and Climate Camp
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Waking on Friday morning I can tell by the sunlight streaming into my room that for a change it’s a bright and clear day, remedy good news for those taking part in the COP OUT down at Trafalgar square. I’ve been going back and forth to the square since last Saturday, website the day when following the hugely successful event ‘The Wave’, in which around 40,000 decked out in blue descended on Parliament to demand direct action against climate change, the resilient bunch that is Climate Camp went the extra mile and set up camp right between Nelson’s Column and that giant Christmas tree. Known as the ‘hardy types’ the next day in The Sunday Times, they popped up their tents, hung up their banners and got the tea going on a make-shift stove.
Waking on Friday morning I can tell by the sunlight streaming into my room that for a change it’s a bright and clear day, information pills good news for those taking part in the COP OUT down at Trafalgar square. I’ve been going back and forth from the square since last Saturday, seek the day when following the hugely successful event ‘The Wave’, in which around 40,000 decked out in blue descended on Parliament to demand direct action against climate change, the resilient bunch that is Climate Camp went the extra mile and set up camp right between Nelson’s Column and that giant Christmas tree. Known as the ‘hardy types’ the next day in The Sunday Times, they popped up their tents, hung up their banners and got the tea going on a make-shift stove.
Waking on Friday morning I can tell by the sunlight streaming into my room that for a change it’s a bright and clear day, information pills good news for those taking part in the COP OUT down at Trafalgar square. I’ve been going back and forth from the square since last Saturday, sale the day when following the hugely successful event ‘The Wave’, in which around 40,000 decked out in blue descended on Parliament to demand direct action against climate change, the resilient bunch that is Climate Camp went the extra mile and set up camp right between Nelson’s Column and that giant Christmas tree. Known as the ‘hardy types’ the next day in The Sunday Times, they popped up their tents, hung up their banners and got the tea going on a make-shift stove.
Come Thursday morning and the GLA are after the names of the campers, like they are going to tell them. Jenny Jones of the Green Party was also down there making cups of tea. I head down on Friday and the camp is buzzing. After an amazing week of action, negotiation and discussion it is time to bid farewell to those off to Copenhagen, and what better way than with a special lunch. A new kitchen has sprung up as well as yet more new faces, eager to get involved. I get a leaflet about the ‘Feeding the 5000’ event that is taking place next Wednesday the 16th, in which waste food will be used to prepare delicious meals. So with one more week in The Square what is in store? Who knows but Climate Camp still needs volunteers, as well as useful items such as water bottles, blankets etc. All week they’ve been joining forces with other groups that occupy Trafalgar Square during the festive season, from The Salvation Army to Hare Krishna’s to collectively push for effective solutions to the climate crisis.
Waking on Friday morning I can tell by the sunlight streaming into my room that for a change it’s a bright and clear day, viagra good news for those taking part in the COP OUT down at Trafalgar square. I’ve been going back and forth from the square since last Saturday, the day when following the hugely successful event ‘The Wave’, in which around 40,000 decked out in blue descended on Parliament to demand direct action against climate change, the resilient bunch that is Climate Camp went the extra mile and set up camp right between Nelson’s Column and that giant Christmas tree. Known as the ‘hardy types’ the next day in The Sunday Times, they popped up their tents, hung up their banners and got the tea going on a make-shift stove.
All images courtesy of Ascension
On Tuesday night at Ascension, buy the eco fashion shop in St Christopher’s Place in London, customers and knitting fanatics alike gathered to discuss all things knitwear over a glass of bubbly and a mince pie or three (all organic of course!) Those who braved the miserable weather to get there were treated to a series of talks on knitwear by those in the know.
First up was Sury Bagenal, head of fashion at Ascension, who spoke about forthcoming trends in knitwear. We now know to look out for conceptual shapes inspired by nature, i.e. sea pods, which envelop the wearer. Sury also hinted at a ‘return to lost crafts’, which inspired pull on shrugs which resemble tea cosies, and lots of smocking elements within different garments. We are also to see a continuation of the layering trend which has been around for a few seasons now, with an emphasis on knitted socks, leggings and long scarves. In terms of colour there are a few different palettes to choose from, including basic monochrome, Prada inspired russets and browns, and then a primary coloured mix of reds, yellows and blues.
Moving from the next season to seasons past, Lina Weber, editor of QueensOf Vintage filled us in on the modern history of knitwear from the ‘20s up to present day. In amongst the better known facts of the history of knit such as tubular 20s dressed and 50s sweetheart sweaters, were the lesser known, and I for one learned lots. Did you know, for example, that many women in the 20s would make their own cloche hats? I also learned that in the 30s humour was the order of the day, and as such it was not uncommon to find knitwear with knitted bugs crawling up the sleeves. Also my favourite type of knit, the Fair Isle, was the most popular in post war Britain.
Bringing us back to the preset day was Anya Swire from ethical fashion label Frank and Faith who shared her experiences with trying to build a clothing business based in Britain which uses British products. Essential to the ethos of Anya’s company is the nurturing of British industry. Based in Dorest, the label tries to support small factories and businesses in their local area, and this also ensures their clothes are produced ethically. Anya inevitable mentioned the disastrous effect large morally-void chains are having on British Industry and indeed on the environment, however she was optimistic that brands such as Frank and Faith, and shops such as Ascention are making a marked and positive difference.
Afterwards the experts were on hand to answer any burning knit related questions; otherwise we were free to browse the shop, champagne in hand, and take advantage of the 20% off knitwear promotion that is running until the end of the week. At the end of the evening I left a few lbs heavier and a few £s lighter!
To mark the close of knitwear week tomorrow (15 December) Ascension has secured two knitters from The North Circular (a collaboration between models Lily Cole and Katherine Poulton and knitwear brand Izzy Lane). The guest knitters will be knitting live for two hours in the shop window in the St Christopher’s Place store from 3 – 5pm and will be on hand for knitting tips afterwards.
Written by Rachael Millar on Monday December 14th, 2009 11:40 am
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417-01. Fall colors of poison ivy in Simmons Mill Pond Management Area south from Adamsville. Little Compton, Rhode Island, October 6, 2004
A pond in Simmons Mill Pond Management Area south from Adamsville. Little Compton, Rhode Island, October 6, 2004
Red maples in a swamp in Simmons Mill Pond Management Area south from Adamsville. Little Compton, Rhode Island, October 6, 2004
Two ponds in Simmons Mill Pond Management Area south from Adamsville, with some mist. Little Compton, Rhode Island, October 6, 2004
Red maple swamp in Simmons Mill Pond Management Area south from Adamsville. Little Compton, Rhode Island, October 6, 2004
Fruit of skunk cabbage(?) in Simmons Mill Pond Management Area south from Adamsville. Little Compton, Rhode Island, October 2, 2004
An old grassy road in Simmons Mill Pond Management Area south from Adamsville, with some morning fog. Little Compton, Rhode Island, October 6, 2004
Fly agaric mushroom (Amanita muscaria) grown at John Dyer Road parking lot fence in Simmons Mill Pond Management Area south from Adamsville. Little Compton, Rhode Island, October 6, 2004
Birch Boletus (Boletus Scaber, Leccinum scabrum) mushrooms in Simmons Mill Pond Management Area south from Adamsville. Little Compton, Rhode Island, October 2, 2004
Old carriage road in Simmons Mill Pond Management Area (entrance from John Dyer Road) south from Adamsville. Little Compton, Rhode Island, June 4, 2004
Indian pipe plants with ripening fruits and club mosses in Simmons Mill Pond Management Area (entrance from John Dyer Road) south from Adamsville. Little Compton, Rhode Island, September 26, 2004.
Simmons Mill Pond Management Area. Adamsville, Rhode Island, March 13, 2004.
Ferns in Simmons Mill Pond Management Area. Adamsville, Rhode Island, May 15, 2004
Simmons Mill Pond Management Area. Adamsville, Rhode Island, April 16, 2004
A road in Simmons Mill Pond Management Area. Adamsville, Rhode Island, May 15, 2004
A meadow in Simmons Mill Pond Management Area. Adamsville, Rhode Island, May 15, 2004
A pond in Simmons Mill Pond Management Area. Adamsville, Rhode Island, May 15, 2004
A small pond in Simmons Mill Pond Management Area. Adamsville, Rhode Island, May 23, 2004
A pond in Simmons Mill Pond Management Area. Adamsville, Rhode Island, April 16, 2004
Ferns on an old road in Simmons Mill Pond Management Area. Adamsville, Rhode Island, May 15, 2004
A small pond in Simmons Mill Pond Management Area. Adamsville, Rhode Island, September 26, 2004
A small pond in Simmons Mill Pond Management Area. Adamsville, Rhode Island, April 16, 2004
Skunk cabbage in Simmons Mill Pond Management Area. Adamsville, Rhode Island, April 16, 2004
Mitrula paludosa (swamp beacon) mushrooms on reeds in a pond in Simmons Mill Pond Management Area. Adamsville, Rhode Island, May 15, 2004
One of small ponds in Simmons Mills Pond Management Area south from Adamsville during thaw. Little Compton, Rhode Island, January 13, 2005
A cabin at south-east side of Simmons Mill south from Adamsville. Little Compton, Rhode Island, October 11, 2004
A road and American holly tree in Simmons Mills Pond Management Area south from Adamsville. Little Compton, Rhode Island, January 13, 2005
A road in fog in Simmons Mills Pond Management Area (entrance from John Dyer Road) south from Adamsville. Little Compton, Rhode Island, January 13, 2005
American holly tree near a road in Simmons Mills Pond Management Area (entrance from John Dyer Road) south from Adamsville. Little Compton, Rhode Island, January 13, 2005
Fall colors of poison ivy in south-western part of Lincoln Woods State Park. Providence, Rhode Island, October 10, 2004
Fall colors of Doctor s Mill Pond in Freetown - Fall River State Forest. Massachusetts, October 9, 2004
In Browning Mill Pond Recreation Area. Exeter, Rhode Island, May 21, 2004
Rolling Dam and fall colors of Blackstone Gorge. Woonsocket, Rhode Island, October 10, 2004
Canada geese in Browning Mill Pond Recreation Area. Exeter, Rhode Island, May 21, 2004
Chicken of the Woods mushroom in Browning Mill Pond Recreation Area. Exeter, Rhode Island, May 21, 2004
Sakonnet Point Lighthouse, view from a beach at the end of Rhode Island Road at morning. Little Compton, Rhode Island, October 6, 2004
Sakonnet Point Lighthouse (zoomed), view from a beach at the end of Rhode Island Road at morning. Little Compton, Rhode Island, October 6, 2004
Fall colors of trees on Saari island on 3-rd South Pond on Elagin Island. Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 7, 2017
Poison ivy in south-western part of Lincoln Woods State Park. Providence, Rhode Island, October 10, 2004
Fall colors of a red maple in a swamp near west entrance of Lincoln Woods State Park. Providence, Rhode Island, October 10, 2004
Fall colors of red maple swamp near west entrance of Lincoln Woods State Park. Providence, Rhode Island, October 10, 2004
Fall colors at south-east side of Second South Pond on Elagin Island. Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 5, 2016
Fall colors of 3-rd South Pond on Elagin Island. Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 7, 2017
A pond of Dundery Brook in Wilbour Woods park. Little Compton, Rhode Island, May 8, 2004
Fall colors of a peninsula of 4-th South Pond on Elagin Island. Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 7, 2017
Fall colors of trees near 3-rd South Pond on Elagin Island. Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 7, 2017
South end of Route 77. Little Compton, Rhode Island, May 8, 2004
Laetiporus sulphureus (Polyporus sulphureus) mushroom in Browning Mill Pond Recreation Area. Exeter, Rhode Island, May 21, 2004
Laetiporus sulphureus (Polyporus sulphureus), Chicken of the Woods mushroom in Browning Mill Pond Recreation Area. Exeter, Rhode Island, May 21, 2004
Between Quicksand Pond and South Shore Beach in Little Compton. Rhode Island, May 30, 2003
A farm at South Commons Road. Little Compton, Rhode Island, April 18, 2004
Fall colors of Empty Island of Big Pond in Catherine Park. Pushkin (former Tsarskoe Selo), south from Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 6, 2017
Fall colors of east side of North Watuppa Pond Swamp, view from Wilson Road. Fall River, Massachusetts, October 15, 2004
Sakonnet Point Lighthouse, view from the end of Rhode Island Road. Little Compton, Rhode Island, May 8, 2004
Dundery Brook in Wilbour Woods park. Little Compton, Rhode Island, October 22, 2004
Loop road in Wilbour Woods park. Little Compton, Rhode Island, October 22, 2004
Doctor s Mill Pond in Freetown - Fall River State Forest. Massachusetts, October 9, 2004
A bench overlooking Dundery Brook in Wilbour Woods park. Little Compton, Rhode Island, October 22, 2004
Barberry near Doctor s Mill Pond in Freetown - Fall River State Forest. Massachusetts, October 9, 2004
Saprophyte mushrooms near Doctor s Mill Pond in Freetown - Fall River State Forest. Massachusetts, October 9, 2004
Fall colors of Third South Pond on Elagin Island. Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 23, 2013
Fall colors of Little Bearhole Pond in Massasoit State Park, in fog. East Taunton, Massachusetts, October 8, 2004
Orange colors of dogwood on Saari island on 3-rd South Pond on Elagin Island. Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 7, 2017
Purple colors of dogwood on Saari island on 3-rd South Pond on Elagin Island. Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 7, 2017
Bird sanctuary near Quicksand Pond in Little Compton. Rhode Island, May 30, 2003
A house near Route 77. Little Compton, Rhode Island, April 25, 2004
View from Route 77. Little Compton, Rhode Island, December 11, 2004
Area of Jenny Pond in north Prudence Island. Rhode Island, June 27, 2004
Fall colors of Empty Island of Great Pond in Catherine Park. Pushkin (former Tsarskoe Selo), south from Saint Petersburg, Russia, September 24, 2015
A hay roll, view from Route 77. Little Compton, Rhode Island, December 11, 2004
Sakonnet Harbor at evening. Little Compton, Rhode Island, June 2, 2004
A nest of an osprey between Quicksand Pond and Atlantic Ocean in Little Compton. Rhode Island, May 30, 2003
Fiddleheads in Wilbour Woods park. Little Compton, Rhode Island, April 30, 2004
Skunk cabbage in Wilbour Woods. Little Compton, Rhode Island, April 18, 2004
Marsh plants in Wilbour Woods. Little Compton, Rhode Island, April 18, 2004
Whimshaw Farm near Brownell Road. Little Compton, Rhode Island, April 18, 2004
Fiddleheads in a swamp of Wilbour Woods park. Little Compton, Rhode Island, April 30, 2004
A dam of Dundery Brook in Wilbour Woods park. Little Compton, Rhode Island, June 5, 2004
Dundery Brook in Wilbour Woods park. Little Compton, Rhode Island, April 25, 2004
A dam of Dundery Brook in Wilbour Woods park. Little Compton, Rhode Island, April 25, 2004
Quicksand Pond west from Acoaxet at low tide. Little Compton, Rhode Island on border with Massachusetts, August 23, 2003
Autumn colors of 3-rd South Pond on Elagin Island. Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 7, 2017
South Shore Beach in Little Compton. Rhode Island, May 30, 2003
Fall colors west from Chapelle Pond in Alexander Park. Pushkin (former Tsarskoe Selo), south from Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 6, 2017
Fall colors of Vittolovsky Shapel Pond in Alexander Park. Pushkin (former Tsarskoe Selo), south from Saint Petersburg, Russia, October 3, 2016
Area of Mill Street in Fall River after sunset, view from Brayton Point Beach in Somerset. Massachusetts, October 7, 2004
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REVEALED: PSNI REFUSE TO INTERVIEW RAYMOND GILMOUR IN NI OVER ‘SECURITY FEARS’
Former IRA supergrass Raymond Gilmour refusing to interviewed by PSNI in London
EXCLUSIVE: FORMER IRA supegrass Raymond Gilmour is at loggerheads with the PSNI over plans to interview him about Provo murders and bombings ordered by Martin McGuinness.
The former RUC Special Branch agent told Belfast Daily that he wanted to return to Northern Ireland to conduct the interviews.
The interviews were due to take place under caution at the serious crime suite in Antrim within the next few weeks.
However, a senior detective from the PSNI’s Terrorist Investigation Unit (TIU) assigned to the case has told Gilmour’s Belfast-based solicitor that the interviews will be conducted at a high security police in London under caution.
The senior investigating officer told the solicitor: ‘It would be very difficult to guarantee his safety if he returned to Northern Ireland’.
But Gilmour is refusing to accept the London police station offer over fears for his safety, saying the interviews should be conducted in Northern Ireland.
“The offences I want to talk to the PSNI about were committed in Northern Ireland,” Gilmour told Belfast Daily from his secret hideaway address in England.
“So I believe the proper place to conduct the interviews is Northern Ireland.
“At the end of the day, if they want to check anything I say they can’t go an look it up on a Scotland Yard computer because they are not linked to the PSNI. The whole interview process would just go on and on.
“This has been dragging on over three months now and I don’t why know they have been dragging their feet but I believe it is political because McGuinness is the deputy first minister.
“I want to tell the PSNI about murders Martin McGuinness ordered back in the 1970s and 1980s.
“The PSNI officer even had the cheek to ask my solicitor: is this a publicity stunt?
“I mean, where do these guys get off? The information I want to give could put senior IRA figures in Derry, including McGuinness, and they accuse me of a publicity stunt.
“At the end of the day, if the interviews don’t take place in Northern Ireland, they won’t take place at all.
“They can bring 1,200 police from GB to help them out on loyalist parades but they can’t guarantee the safety of one person.
“I have told the senior detective I don’t need PSNI security protection in Northern Ireland.
“I will come back under the protection of trusted former RUC officers who will provide me a safe house.
“I told him that the PSNI has been heavily infiltrated by republicans who dance to the tune of Sinn Fein’s Gerry Kelly.
“The whole security thing is a smokescreen. I am firmly convinced this is political policing and what I have to say it so explosive that it would be damaging to the peace process,” added Gilmour.
In June, Belfast Daily revealed Gilmour contacted the Ombudsman to make a complaint against a senior detective in the PSNI’s Terrorist Investigation Unit, Chief Supt Tim Hanley.
The 54-year-old said the PSNI were refusing to interview him even though two weeks ago DCS Hanley told his solicitor that he would be brought back to Northern Ireland to assist an investigation into IRA activities in the late 1970s and 1980s.
Gilmour told Belfast Daily at the time: “My solicitor contacted Detective Chief Supt Tim Hanley of the PSNI two weeks ago and arranged a face-to-face meeting.
“He met DCS Hanley at Castlereagh police station and my solicitor outlined what I wanted to tell the PSNI about Martin McGuinness and others in relation to IRA murders, shootings and bombings.
“It was agreed that the PSNI would put me in a witness protection scheme and that I would be brought back to Northern Ireland.
“It was agreed that I would be cautioned before I was interviewed and it was expected to last a couple of days.
IRA chiefs ‘Big’ Bobby Storey and Martin McGuiness
“Only last week I was told that my local Special Branch would be in contact with me about my own personal security arrangements.”
Gilmour said his solicitor was told by DCS Hanley that he would get back in touch with him to finalise arrangements for his trip to Belfast.
“My solicitor rang the senior detective on Friday and he tells me DCS Hanley basically hung up the phone on him, saying he couldn’t talk, he was too busy and was in a meeting.
“I can tell you my solicitor is absolutely raging at the way he was treated.
“When my solicitor first met DCS Hanley he was enthusiastic and all up for interviewing me, according to my solicitor.
“Now I suspect someone somewhere in a corridor of power either in Belfast or London has put the brakes on the police interviewing me about McGuinness.
“Basically, the PSNI are now refusing to interview me because if they did then they would have to arrest Martin McGuinness. They are running scared as far as I am concerned.
“I contacted the office of the Police Ombudsman and explained my complaint. They will be travelling to England to formally interview me about it in due course.
“In my opinion, this is political policing whether the PSNI like it or not.
“The PSNI looked bad after the whole Gerry Adams saga and they don’t want to get slated again if they have to go and arrest the Deputy First Minister and his big mate Bobby Storey.”
Gilmour lit the blue touch paper in May when he published his explosive new book ‘What Price Truth?’
He told us he decided to “lift the lid on atrocities carried out by the IRA’s Derry Brigade’’ following publication of his first story on the Belfast Daily days earlier.
He said he has been “inundated’’ with messages of support after he revealed to Belfast Daily that he would tell the PSNI that deputy first minister Martin McGuinness ordered a number of murders in Derry stretching back over 30 years.
He says he wants to pass the names of McGuinness, Bobby Storey and six other IRA men in Derry to police.
Gilmour says he says he has the names of those who murdered:
• British soldier Christopher Shenton, 21, shot dead by an IRA sniper in January 1981 as he manned an observation post at Castle Gates , Derry which overlooked the republican Bogside district;
• Protestant Joanne Matthers, a Census worker. Mrs Mathers was shot dead in Gobnascale’s Anderson Crescent in Derry as she collected forms in 1981.
• David Montgomery who was shot dead in February 1981 at Keys timber yard in Derry. Gilmour also says he knows the identity of the killers. “One of them bragged about the shooting at an IRA meeting the next day. They had been doing dry runs the timber yard in the weeks leading up to the murder.’’
• Lord Louis Mountbatteen in 1979 in Co Sligo by planting a bomb on his boat.
Gilmour told Belfast Daily: “Thirty years ago when I was making statements to the RUC Special Branch and CID, nobody was interested in Martin McGuinness.
“Everything was being pointed away from him. Somebody had to be protecting him in the security services. You can’t be the top dog in Derry for all that time and never get charged.
“Now I am going to be asking the PSNI through my solicitor in Belfast to come and interview me about what I know happened all those years ago.
“I want this to be a fresh approach to what happened. I have the names of those involved in these murders, some of whom are leading political figures in Sinn Fein.
“These families deserve to know the real truth and also get justice.’’
Recently Gilmour was chaperoned in England by ex-security force members to meet English police officers to talk about IRA murders carried out in London and Birmigham.
He says that talking about his former past has helped to unburdened him of secrets he has known about since the late 1970s and early 1980s.
“The more I have opened up about what happened all those years ago, the better I feel.
“These people in Sinn Fein and the IRA should not be allowed to get away scot free for carrying out cold blooded murders.
“Sinn Fein and the IRA are always trying to discredit me. Why? Because they know that I know the truth.
“When I was a supergrass in the early 1980s, I wrecked the IRA in Derry. I brought them to their knees.
“Now I intend to do the same. And this time I want to see Martin McGuinnnes in the dock because he has the blood of a lot of victims on his hands.’’
Sinn Fein has refused to comment on ‘What Price Truth?’, Gilmour’s follow up to his 1998 book ‘Dead Ground’.
However, Belfast Daily revealed in May that a solicitor acting for Martin McGuinness was considered seeking a High Court injunction to restrain ‘What Price Truth?’ from being published any further.
* ‘What Price Truth?’ is now available to download on Amazon Kindle and some bookshops.
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"The origin of life. From monomers to cells"
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In conclusion I look at key areas to be worked on in order to protect the public and really ‘learn lessons’. These cross all sectors and areas of work. They include the need for an individual duty of candour (duty to tell the truth); an end to self-regulation in healthcare and elsewhere, and recognition of the value to society of those who risk everything to fight for justice and truth.
A dawning realisation
I began to realise something was seriously wrong when I returned to clinical work in 2002. Having previously worked in senior management (as Head of I.T. in an NHS Trust) and management consultancy, I became concerned that my employer appeared to be putting reputation over patient safety, and if concerns were raised, they were not followed up. I recall looking at Board papers and directions to trusts from the Department of Health [DH] to try and understand this further. One thing I remember is a letter to Chief Executives from the DH which talked about creating an ‘outward facing’ organisation. I didn’t realise at the time, what I now see as the real meaning of this, and its link to the ‘no bad news culture’, which involves putting reputation above patient safety.
Later I tried to raise my concerns with a Trust Executive at an early stage, only to be told in both words and body language that the trust didn’t want to hear anything bad. This attitude, and what I saw happening to the team and staff around me, led me to leave the NHS and become self-employed working for the NHS on projects related to medicines and prescribing. Eventually my experiences led me to make a protected disclosure in 2014 , in which I set out patient safety concerns. As a result the CQC requested an external investigation of my concerns in 2013. Since being interviewed for the investigation report I have heard nothing further. A recent FOI request to the CQC produced the response that my concerns were dismissed a ‘all third hand’ (which is incorrect) and that the CQC have ‘lost the report’.
Prior to the FOI request I was employed as a CQC Specialist Advisor (a zero hours contract), however following the FOI request this contract was ended without a specific reason being given.
The wider picture in healthcare
I’ve only briefly mentioned some of the aspects of my story here. The most important thing for me was that I found out the common themes behind all healthcare whistleblowers’ stories.
Three things stand out for me.
Firstly, the isolation that whistleblowers experience and the psychological effect this has on individuals. Suddenly you’re on your own, people avoid you and in my case I also kept my distance from some co-workers, as I realised they were being bullied as a result of supporting me. For me (as self-employed) offers of work dried up and a real feeling of being ‘sent to Coventry’ set in. In addition to loss of income, this has a deep effect on health and home life. I believe the approach of employers here is called ‘gaslighting’. It’s deeply troubling.
Secondly, I have discovered through meeting other whistleblowers that blacklisting of those who speak out is very common. This can take many forms, ranging from informal blacklisting, to interventions to prevent career development, to giving unsolicited (and unfair) bad references. For those employed by the NHS the Electronic Staff Record [ESR], which is shared throughout the NHS can be used as a way of sharing detrimental information on whistleblowers. This has caused people to be denied a fair chance to gain further employment. I believe the full extent of this is yet to come to light.
In my case the blacklisting takes the form of repeatedly being given the ‘cold shoulder’ for example being excluded from meetings; letters not replied to, and generally avoided. Of course this is subjective, and maybe I’m wrong, as healthcare is a tough work environment. However, I have been subject to some clear examples of detrement. On one occasion my company was enthisuiastically awarded a contract of work one day, then the next day the same person ‘phoned me and cancelled the order saying only that it ‘wasn’t what they wanted’. Very strange. Also last year I found out that staff from the trust I worked for are told not to speak to me, even though in one case it was to ask me a question about my clinical work.
Thirdly, as I looked further into the problem, I began to realise the full effect that the victimisation of healthcare whistleblowers has on patients and the way in which this is managed in order to protect reputations. In 2015 I set up the Turn up the Volume! Movement. This is an attempt to bring together all involved in an open and transparent way, with a focus on the core issue of patient safety. Through this initiative I have met many more people in a similar situation and learned first-hand the effect lack of transparency and denial has on patients. This is well illustrated in the report of the Gosport Independent Panel Report (2018), where those who raised the alarm were initially listened to, then ignored and their concerns re-labelled as ‘allegations’. As a result of this, in the words of the report, ‘the lives of over 450 patients were shortened while in the hospital’.
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Based on my experience in trying to link together people in health and care with similar experiences and focus on patients, I believe there are three vitally important areas in healthcare that need addressing.
The need for an individual duty of candour
Firstly, I was shocked to find out that in the NHS the duty of candour (duty to tell the truth), brought in following the Mid Staffordshire inquiry, is an institutional duty of candour. This relies on staff telling the truth to their employer in order highlight what went wrong. Thanks to the tireless work of campaigner Will Powell the need for an individual legal duty of candour for professionals, managers & leaders in healthcare has been highlighted. This has parallels to the calls for a ‘Hillsborough Law’. Without this there is no real mechanism to hold individuals to account for cover ups and for not being honest.
Making sure initiatives are effective
Secondly, I’m disappointed at the failure to learn and improve patient safety through listening to genuine whistleblowers, whether they be patents or staff, and failure to take measurable actions to change. I believe the effect of the National Guardian programme needs a full independent review (from outside the NHS), as evidence suggests it is making the situation worse in some trusts, where it is used as a cover for continued victimisation of those who speak out.
Ending self-regulation
Thirdly, in common with industry I firmly believe that self-regulation in health and care does not work and the only solution will be to set up a truly independent body to oversee and enforce this. This body must include patients, who raise concerns at great cost to themselves and their families, against all the odds, often when people have suffered and died.
Author: Steve Turner. Date: 15th August 2019. Revised 29th August 2019. Revised 1st September 2019, to add outline list of the concerns I raised in 2013. Short video added 05.09.2019.
Updated 13.01.2020 with some more detail on the nature of the blacklisting.
Steve Turner RGN; RMN: Ba(Hons); P.G. Dip. Ed, is co-creator of www.patientled.education, Head of Medicines and Prescribing for #MedLearn, tweeting as @MedicineGovSte , and Associate Lecturer at Plymouth University.
Filed Under: Care Right Now, Human Factors, Leadership in Health, NHS, Organisational Culture, Transparency, Uncategorized, whistleblowing, Workshops Tagged With: #tutvlondon, accountability, health, just culture, leadership, NHS, socialcare, transparency, whistleblower, whistleblowing
Changing mindsets and delivering safe care in Cornwall together. #devocornwall
March 20, 2017 By Steve Turner
We want the best health care system in the world, & the most efficient and effective system …
We have an opportunity to do things differently in Cornwall
How do we achieve this?
The challenges in Cornwall
There’s a huge amount going on with health and social care in Cornwall. Including the Sustainability and Transformation Plan [STP]; exposure of abuse and neglect in care homes; concerns over hospital closures, delayed discharges taking up hospital beds, and devolution of services on the way.
Although I have worked in health and care for over 30 years, I struggle to keep up with the issues and understand how services are organised. This isn’t helped by the current polarisation of views.
On the one hand we have a big dose of NHS and Council ‘spin’, excessive bureaucracy and even bullying. On the other hand we have public concern, often expressed around specific issues, and sometimes based on unfounded rumours.
Neither of these positions are helpful, and neither represent the vast majority of people (public, staff and patients) who just want good services delivered by kind people who are open, accountable and transparent.
#devocornwall
We have a great opportunity now with the devolution of health and care services. This will be realised if we all build bridges, and transcend the usual hierarchical boundaries. We all need to listen and learn. Everyone, to coin an overused phrase, needs to step out of their comfort zones.
Why we need to think differently?
Several community hospitals are under threat of closure, leading to anger and dominating the headlines. Less attention is given to identifying and measuring the benefits, and any disadvantages of community hospitals. For example, can they be staffed adequately, bearing in mind this means Doctors, Nurses, Physiotherapists, Radiographers, Dieticians, Speech and Language Therapists, Social Workers etc.? Is home care a viable option for patients and carers? Are there any creative options such as bringing back the old style ‘convalescence’? Is rural isolation and lack of public transport the major issue?
It’s becoming increasingly difficult to book a timely GP consultation. This has led to several inaccurate scare stories in the press about ‘cuts’ to face to face GP contacts. This needs deep thought as there are times when easy access to a GP on the ‘phone, or on-line, may actually be a better option. Access to health information from Community Pharmacies or in NHS run clinics in shopping centres, or better health information and advice available locally, may be more effective approach. Leaving GPs free to spend more time with those who need their help and expertise most.
It’s now widely accepted that the NHS and Social Care is underfunded. Despite this there is still a great deal of duplication and waste in the system. How many times have you been asked to repeat information to Health Professionals which others already have? Do some services overlap, and are there gaps? Do different organisations link seamlessly with other organisations? Are all services accessible to all? Many people have important stories to tell on these areas of inefficiency.
Now’s the time to talk about this, find out what’s planned, and take action together. ‘Patient engagement’ key component of the STP and #devcornwall.
Patients and public need to take the lead on this. It’s not the NHS or Cornwall Council’s plan it’s ours.
Personal views of Steve Turner. MD Care Right Now CIC, a Cornish Company
This article is adapted from a letter which fist appeared in the St Austell Voice
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5 Reasons You Should Employ a Whistleblower – Guest Blog from Tim Martin CEO, SpeakInConfidence
May 6, 2016 By Steve Turner
5 Reasons You Should Employ a Whistleblower
Over the past few years my role as CEO of SpeakInConfidence has brought me into contact with quite a few whistleblowers; It’s also brought me into contact with lots of the cases and stories of whistleblowers.
On starting down the path of becoming a whistleblower people will know it is likely to be the end of their career in the organisation they are in. Sadly it is all too often the end their chosen career in the sector they are in.
Imagine the conversation with your boss when you let them know about your decision:
Boss “How did the references on Jane Bloggs, your preferred candidate for head of Finance turn-out”
“Oh we are not bothering with those – she was fantastic in interviews, just what we need and references will only be pro forma as she left her last job following a successful whistleblowing case”.
So here are 5 reasons should seriously consider being clear that “Yes applications from whistleblowers are welcome”.
You have to be pretty committed to be a whistleblower – the journey can be a hard one – and you are probably hiring someone with a high degree of commitment rather than being a passive by stander.
Trust: If I am going to trust someone I have never met before, I think I would put whistleblowing high on the list of qualifications. Given that in the UK whistleblowers don’t gain financially, and risk a huge amount, chances are you are hiring someone who is exceptionally committed to doing the right thing.
Don’t you want to know you have people on your team who will have the courage to tell you if they think things are not headed in the right direction? How many mistakes can be avoided if you avoid group think? Is it really in your interests or those of your organisation to surround yourself with yes people?
Imagine the signal to your staff – “We don’t shun people who raise concerns – we hire them”. What does that say to the rest of your staff? Want to create an open honest culture – what better signal can you give.
It’s the right thing to do. Think you are an equal opportunities employer? Think you are a courageous manager? Well start acting like one. By all means fail to select someone because they cannot do the job, but not because they had the courage to speak up elsewhere.
Given the assumptions people sometimes make, unless it’s blindingly obvious from past conduct of your organisation, maybe it’s even time to make it explicitly clear “Whistleblowers welcome here”.
Tim Martin is CEO of SpeakInConfidence, the Anonymous Dialogue Platform.
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My Story – Steve Turner, Campaigner for safer healthcare
December 8, 2015 By Steve Turner
Steve Turner is a man on a mission – to create a better climate within our National Health Service where people can speak out about unsafe practices without fear of losing their jobs.
He’s a rare breed of health professional whose career spans hands-on nursing, training and innovation as well as campaigning for greater transparency within the NHS.
Steve began his career as a nurse specialising in mental health inspired by, and slightly scared of what happened to his grandfather who had suffered major depression all his life.
His appetite for learning took him through a degree in Social Policy and then into the world of healthcare IT. Steve spent the next decade working on clinical systems for American giant Shared Medical Systems, progressing from project manager to Senior Strategic Services Consultant of the US arm of the company, working with leaders of clinical teams in the UK
Steve then returned to the NHS, successfully revamping the Information and Technology department at Tunbridge Wells prior to a trust merger.
A spell in consultancy for the Kent and Medway Cancer network followed, with Steve leading two multi-organisational projects to identify the most effective information and prescribings systems . These brought clinical teams together to manage a complicated buying system in a much more efficient and cost effective way.
Then came a career crossroads. Steve and his partner decided it was time for a lifestyle change. They had enjoyed many holidays in Cornwall and decided this was the place to be. Plus Steve wanted to return his first love of hands-on nursing. He did a Return to Practice Nursing course and began work as a community mental health nurse in St Austell. Then he moved to an assertive outreach team based in Truro and dealing with some of the most vulnerable people in the community. This involved long term relationships and building trust with patients, something Steve much enjoyed. He also became a Nurse Prescriber, specialising in drugs within the mental health framework.
However in 2008, with proposed cutbacks on the horizon, Steve gently told his patients about the changes and that he might not necessarily be their regular nurse in the future, a step he thought was an important part of good care planning.
Following the standard procedures, he raised his concerns with the Cornwall Partnership NHS Foundation Trust. His only mistake was to copy his grievance letter to three GPs with whom he’d been working closely.
An attempt was made to discipline him but he accepted that what he had done was outside the policy of the Trust.
However the matter didn’t end there. The cuts had particularly upset two of Steve’s patients who realised that their continuity of care was being threatened and so they filed formal comments about the changes. But once these forms reached the desks of senior management, Steve was accused of bringing the organization into disrepute and suspended from work. Realising that the Trust would be pressing on with the cutbacks, and that his hopes of eventually winning a senior clinical job were scuppered, he resigned.
Steve returned to his training skills, developing medicines management training for staff at the Trust and worked on some major projects involving clinical governance and prescribing for patients with substance issues.
However by 2013 he was becoming increasingly concerned at the plight of the mental health staff he was training. They were becoming tearful in training sessions and were clearly stressed. They told Steve they were afraid to speak out for fear of victimisation as there was no alternative employer within travelling distance.
Steve attempted to discuss his concerns with the Trust but he quickly hit a brick wall. The Care Quality Commission were more sympathetic and arranged for an external person to review his complaint. However he was shocked to be left out of the loop, and merely told there had been ‘ recommendations.’ He heard nothing more.
This process cemented Steve’s ambition to campaign for better transparency in the NHS. He decided to set up Care Right Now as a structured company with an ethical base, delivering change management consultancy within health care, and a new breed of patient led education for clinical staff.
He has also created a movement to bring together people who raise concerns about patient safety and share their experiences, with Turn Up the Volume! on Patient Safety, a new initiative run on a charity basis. With a highly successful inaugural conference in Bristol under its belt, the movement is swiftly gathering momentum.
Does he have any regrets about what he did?
None at all, Steve says he would do it all over again. But he admits it took its toll on his personal life, taking him to the verge of bankruptcy, affecting his home life and linked to episodes of major depression.
It takes more than just courage to report concerns about patient safety, as Steve Turner discovered firsthand. Now he wants to make that path smoother for others in the future.
When NHS staff can report concerns without fear, he says, we will have achieved what we have set out to do. Ultimately this about patients’ lives – and staff’s.
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Why I set up Turn Up The Volume! (3)
October 18, 2015 By Steve Turner
Now the event is complete three things stood out for me:
That this is a movement not just a conference
That between us we have the answers if we work together
The need for truth and reconciliation
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Fight Fiction: a History Part II
Posted on 20 September 2013 by guestpost
A novelist, screenwriter, television personality and half the creative genius behind the Fight Card series, Paul Bishop recently finished a 35 year career with the Los Angeles Police Department where he was twice honored as Detective Of The Year. He continues to work privately as a deception expert and as a specialist in the investigation of sex crimes. His books include the western Diamondback: Shroud Of Vengenace, two novels (Hot Pursuit / Deep Water) featuring LAPD officers Calico Jack Walker and Tina Tamiko, the thrillers Penalty Shot and Suspicious Minds, a short story collection (Running Wylde), and five novels in his L.A.P.D. Detective Fey Croaker series (Croaker: Kill Me Again, Croaker: Grave Sins, Croaker: Tequila Mockingbird, Croaker: Chalk Whispers, and Croaker: Pattern of Behavior). His latest novel, Fight Card: Felony Fists (written as Jack Tunney), is a fast action boxing tale inspired by the fight pulps of the ‘40s and ‘50s. His novels are currently available as e-books.
Continuing our look at the hope and appeal offered by fight fiction …
As the ‘70s progressed, the public became primed for a change in their fight fiction. Unlike with prior generations, this change in popular entertainment would not be tied to the socio-economic factors of the day. Instead, a blurring of the lines of fact and fiction – especially in the world of boxing – was occurring, reflecting the hyper embellishments of celebrity being inflicted upon larger popular culture as a whole.
In boxing, the anger, power, and sheer showmanship of Muhammad Ali – the man who would become boxing’s greatest ambassador – had revitalized the public’s fervor for ring action. Ali’s larger than life love-me-or-hate-me-I’m still-The-Greatest personality overshadowed the ever darkening machinations of the trademark spiky-haired head and grasping fingers of promoter Don King.
In 1971, Joe Frazier fought Ali in a bout hyped as The Fight of the Century. Frazier prevailed over Ali, who was returning to boxing after being suspended for over three years for his refusal to obey the draft. The defeat sent Ali on a quest, fighting contender after pretender to the heavyweight throne in an attempt to obtain another title shot.
The Rumble in the Jungle in 1974, pitted then world Heavyweight champion George Foreman against former world champion and challenger Muhammad Ali. This fight, coupled a year later (1975) with the climax of the bitter rivalry between Ali and Frazier – dubbed The Thrilla in Manila – returned boxing to the world stage like nothing that had gone before.
Norman Mailer’s bestselling non-fiction work, The Fight, documented the greatest fight of the greatest life with all the power of a great fictional narrative, ushering in a culmination of self-involved journalism. All of which laid the ground work in preparing the public for the little film that could go the distance … Rocky.
Rocky not only detailed the winning underdog story of a fighter who only wanted to go the distance – an achievable, if difficult, goal believed in and desired by the everyman of the day in his everyday mundane life – but was, in the actual inception and creation of the film itself, an underdog story to rival its fight fiction plot. Sylvester Stallone was inseparable from his onscreen persona as he fought for his screenplay and starring role against all studio odds – and then went the distance as Rocky would go on to win three Oscars ©, including Best Picture.
Rocky and its (eventually) five sequels were hits and misses with the critics, but not with the public. The average Joe began to see the hype of the real world fights and fictional movie fireworks as almost one and the same.
Fight stories were back in the public eye in a big way.
In 2000, fight fiction morphed yet again with the publication of the pseudonymous F.X. Toole’s, Rope Burns: Stories From The Corner. Each story in the collection was a gem. But unlike the tales populating the fight pulps of old, the stories in Rope Burns gave a whole new human face to the world of boxing, a deeper meaning – all leading to the brilliant Best Picture Oscar © winning film Million Dollar Baby, based on several stories from the collection.
The stories in Rope Burns proved to the wider public, yet again, what fans of fight fiction have always known – the world of the sweet science, at its best, has always been a reflection of what it means to be human, what it means to struggle, what it means to be hit in the face with the daily and millennial challenge of survival as individuals, as families, and finally as a race.
In the new millennium, the economy is struggling again. Today, the ever exploding popularity of mixed martial arts tournaments (MMA) has again brought the fighting arts back to the forefront of the public consciousness. In MMA, the everyman sees in the caged octagon a release of his or her own frustrations at the state of the world – the stark struggle to survive in a time and place where the rules have change, where the action is faster, more brutal, and yet possessed of a choreographed beauty.
Simultaneously, the thirst for fight stories has also increased, as shown by the popularity and critical acclaim for such MMA-themed novels as Suckerpunch by Jeremy Brown, The O’Quinn Fights by Robert Evans, The Longshot by Katie Kitamura, Choke Hold by Christa Faust, and many more.
Traditional boxing novels are also flourishing. Every Time I Talk To Liston and Las Vegas Soul by Brian DeVido; Pound For Pound, F. X. Toole’s posthumously finished novel; Waiting for Carver Boyd by Thomas Hauser; and more, continue to tell the tale of the tape and the story of the squared circle.
By the end of 2013, the Fight Card series (along with spin-off brands Fight Card MMA and Fight Card Romance) will have published twenty-seven plotted tales of fistic mayhem from some of the best New Pulp authors working today, each sporting a stunning cover created by artists Keith Birdsong and David Foster.
2014 will also offer a full slate of monthly Fight Card titles, including more tales from the Fight Card MMA and Fight Card Romance imprints along with more of the traditional Fight Card tales set in the noir-filled streets of the earlier decades.
Retro or modern, Fight Card novels will continue to provide inspiring, entertaining stories of tough guys caught in tough spots with nothing but their fists, wits, and fighting nature to battle against the odds. The Fight Card novels are about characters and their individual journeys and how they can inspire our character and our journeys.
As Fight Card readers you can become part of the Fight Card team by writing reviews on Amazon with your honest opinions of the tales you’ve read, giving us shout-outs on your blogs, and visiting the Fight Card website at www.fightcardbooks,com/
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Fight Fiction: a History Part I
Cultural influences, tough economic times, and the hope and appeal offered by fight fiction …
The fight fiction genre has become an integral part of our cultural history – especially when economic times have been as tough as the character’s in a fight fiction tale.
Even before the explosion of fight fiction stories in the pulps of the ‘30s and ‘40s, Jack London was penning fight stories for the masses, such as his classics A Piece of Steak and The Abysmal Brute, among others. Feeding the need of the everyman to rise above his daily struggle for survival through vicarious fight entertainment, London’s fight tales were devoured.
London learned to box by sparring with his friend Jim Whitaker, and his love of the sport never waned. Wherever his wanderings took him, London always had a pair of boxing gloves, always ready to mix it up with any challenger. Most often, however, London’s regular sparring partner was his wife, Charmian Kittredge, with whom he routinely sparred.
Even on the Snark, travelling to the Solomons Islands, or on the Tymeric from Sydney, Australia, to Ecuador, or the Dirgo from Baltimore to Seattle in 1912, Jack and Charmain would put on their bathing suits and square off for an hour of sparring before throwing buckets of salt water on one another. Because he couldn’t strike back against Charmain as he would against another man, London developed an almost impenetrable defense, making him more than a challenge for any man he toed the line against.
London hated bullfighting and hunting, considering them without any sporting interest. However, the specific mano-a-mano science of boxing fascinated him. He always tried to attend professional fights as a reporter in order to secure a ringside seat.
In 1905, he wrote one of his most highly regarded fight stories, The Game, which was serialized in Metropolitan Magazine. The story caused a clamor when critics claimed a fighter could not be killed by hitting his head on the canvas. London’s reply was a claim to have seen it happen in the West Oakland Athletic Club.
Eventually, lightweight champion of the world, Jimmy Britt, settled things in the San Francisco Examiner when he was quoted as saying, “With … nothing more to guarantee me that he knows The Game than his description of his fictional prize-fight, I would, if he were part of our world, propose or accept him as referee of my impending battle with Nelson.”
During the height of the pulp era on the ‘30s and ‘40s, Robert E. Howard was another writer who banged out fight stories while also engaging in the pugilistic arts. Even though as a child he was bookish and intellectual, in his teen years he took up bodybuilding before eventually entering the ring as an amateur boxer.
Best known as the creator of Conan The Barbarian, Solomon Kane, and other sword and sorcery characters, Howard had a lifelong interest in boxing, attending fights and avidly following the careers of his favorite fighters. He also claimed to considered his fictional fight tales – especially The Iron Man, and the adventures of Sailor Steve Costigan, the lovable, hard-fisted, and innocent semipro pugilist who regularly squared-off against dastardly villains in exotic ports of call – as among the best of his works.
Howard’s boxing tales and hundreds of other two-fisted stories flourished in the fight pulps such as Fight Stories Magazine and Knockout Magazine, helping a generation of readers to fight through the Great Depression and the tough years to follow.
During the ‘50s, the printed tales of fight fiction gave way to a wider appreciation of live bouts. Television brought those fights into American living rooms for all to see. However, as the public became jaded by the scandal of fight fixing and the real life encroachment of organized crime into the fight game, a new realism in fight fiction wrapped its hands with tape and pulled on battered leather gloves illegally loaded with lead.
Published in 1958, The Professional written by W. C. Heinz cast a harsh reflection of the seedy circus-like atmosphere of boxing with its assorted hangers-on, crooked promoters, and jaded journalists. With his lean sentences, rough-and-ready dialogue, dry wit, and you-are-there style, Heinz brilliantly used the cynical eyes of fictional sports writer Frank Hughes to recount the trials of middleweight Eddie Brown and his crusty trainer, Doc Carroll, as Brown prepares for a championship fight.
Heinz’ novel is still as revered today as it was when Hemingway – himself an amateur pugilist and teller of fight stories such as Fifty Grand and A Matter of Colour – declared it “the only good novel about a fighter I’ve read and an excellent novel in its own right.”
Like the fight fiction novels to be published in the ‘40s and 50’s. movies of those eras also reflected the public’s growing disenchantment with boxing in the ‘50s. Humphrey Bogart’s last screen appearance in 1956’s The Harder They Fall – based on Budd Schulberg’s 1947 novel – dramatizes a thinly disguised account of the real life boxing scandal involving champion Primo Carnera. Bogart’s character, Eddie Willis, was based on the career of boxing writer and event promoter Harold Conrad. The book and film pulled no punches, showing brutal and brutish fight scenes coupled with the cynical and humiliating treatment of fighters by those surrounding them – which further reflected the middle class workers’ own feelings of punitive treatment by upper management.
Finally, in 1969, the noir edge of fight stories was capped with the publication of Fat City. Written by Leonard Gardner, Fat City, set in the small-time boxing circuit of Stockton, California in the late ‘50s, became an acclaimed film from director John Houston in 1972. As in The Professional and The Harder They Fall, the message of Fat City was a harsh metaphor for the impossibility of a public striving to get ahead while surrounded by forces determined to derail you at every turn.
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What Is a Fight Card Romance?
Honored by her college for literary excellence, author Carol Malone has played make-believe all her life and started writing romantic tales in high school. Raised with four older brothers, sports was the center of her family’s life. To this day, she still bleeds Dodger Blue. Carol writes pulse-pounding, noir sports stories with a passionate twist, inviting fans to jump in a front row seat and cheer for the underdog.
In the world of new pulp writing, this question is turning heads …
Carol Malone
Before I can tell you about Fight Card Romance, I need to explain a little about the traditional Fight Card.
In 2012, a dear friend of mine, mentor and author Paul Bishop, and his pal, Mel Odom, created Fight Card – a series of 25,000 word novellas inspired by the pulse-pounding fight pulps so popular from the ‘30s to the ‘50s. In the 1920s, boxing as a sport began coming into its own – attracting the minorities, the Irish, the Italians, the Jews, and later the Blacks and Latin boxers – all trying to prove their metal in the toughest arena of all –the boxing ring, man-to-man. Fictional boxing stories filled the pulps of the era with two-fisted action devoured by a rapt public. The Fight Card series was a return to this style of writing, bringing new fight stories to modern readers.
Paul and Mel established a list of writers guidelines for the Fight Card series. Originally, all the stories were to be set in the 1950’s – though this was quickly waived to include other decades. The stories could be set anywhere in the world (and have – from the Australian Outback, to South Africa and Ireland), and a PG-13 level was established for language, violence and sex.
The main character in the stories did not have to be a professional fighter – they could be a reporters, sailors, fight manager, soldiers, or – in the case of my novel, Ladies Night – the boxer’s lady-love. However, the biggest rule was the stories must have boxing at its heart and resolution – usually the big fight conclusion. This didn’t mean ever story had to be about the championship of the world. The characters don’t have to be contenders, and most aren’t, but all of them are facing extremely high personal stakes, if not certain destruction, if they don’t man-up.
The boxer in each story was to have a connection to St. Vincent’s Asylum for Boys, an orphanage in Chicago. Under the big-hearted, tough-love, dished out generously by the much beloved Fighting Priest, Father Tim – also known as Tornado Tim Brophy, a Golden Gloves champion himself as a youth – each boy under his care grows up believing he’s something special. Although cursed by some nuns and loved by others, the good sisters of the orphanage pray for Father Tim who manages to keep his ruffians in check by teaching them the sweet science of boxing. Boys who come to him with no food in their bellies, no love in their hearts, and no hope for a future, find Father Tim filling up those holes.
Each story is written to be e-published via Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing platform under the shared pseudonym of Jack Tunney for cohesiveness. I wrote Ladies Night under the name of Jill Tunney. Paperback editions follow on the heels of the e-books, this time under the individual author’s own name.
My husband Tim and I are part of a monthly writer’s group mentored by Paul. When he asked my husband, Tim – an end-of-the-world sci-fi writer – if he wanted to take a shot at writing a Fight Card story, Tim declined. He’s not into sports – but I am. Raised with four older brothers, sports was an obsession. When I was in high school, I started reading and writing romance, and have since then written numerous manuscripts. So, I decided to take a dare and without Paul’s knowledge began pecking out my own Fight Card tale. I didn’t start out to necessarily write a romance, but the main characters dictated their story, I simply jotted it down. A year later, voilà – Ladies Night.
In Ladies Night, Jimmy Doherty is dropped at Father’s Tim’s doorstep, all alone in the world after tragedy takes his pa in WWII, his ma to her grief, and his only other living relative, Aunt Alice, to heart failure. Angry with God, furious with his own grief and fear of abandonment, what Jimmy craves most is a family of his own. Through an uncanny ability to recognize boxing talent, Father Tim knows Jimmy’s heart beats boxing, and gives him a shot at being a contender. Since all orphans must leave the orphanage at the age of eighteen, Father Tim wisely puts Jimmy on a train to L.A. to box for an old friend.
Jimmy meets Pops Dominic, his new manager and trainer – and Pops’ beautiful daughter, Lindy, who’s sweeter than apple pie. Jimmy can’t resist Lindy’s charms. She offers him acceptance, fierce loyalty, and love. Sneaking off to marrying Lindy raises Pops’ blood pressure, but having Lindy in his corner gives Jimmy what he hasn’t had in his life for nine years – a family.
When Lindy is arrested for murdering a boxer with ties to a gangster, Jimmy is forced to join forces with the arresting detective – who would like to do much more with Lindy than put her in handcuffs – in a desperate search for the real killer. Ladies Night – boxing, suspense and romance – proves love can be murder – in and out of the ring.
When Paul found out what I was doing, he couldn’t have been more supportive. He had already created the Fight Card spin-off series, Fight Card MMA, and had a crazy notion to widen Fight Card’s readership even further with a Fight Card Romance brand. Ladies Night became the flagship title for Fight Card Romance, and I couldn’t be more thrilled.
Find out more about Fight Card Romance and other Fight Card brands here: www.fightcardbooks.com
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Fighting Irish vs Irish Writer
Gerard Brennan is the author of the novels, Wee Rockets and Fireproof, the novella, The Point, co-editor of Requiems for the Departed, a collection of crime fiction based on Irish myths, and the short story collections, Possession, Obsession and a Decompression Engine and Other Stories, and Nothing But Time. He lives in Dundrum, Northern Ireland.
The author of Fight Card MMA: Welcome To The Octagon, gives us his take on writers and fighters …
Gerard Brennan
So, the Irish – even us Northerners, whatever the religious flavour – are often the subject of stereotypes. Is that fair? Frankly, I don’t give a feck. Maybe that’s because I’m too busy drinking, fighting and writing.
Am I joking?
Nah, just exaggerating a little. Don’t let the facts get in the way of a good story, right? That’s a bit of an Irish tradition too.
I write. That’s a fact. You can find my stuff online or on bookshelves in some very select places. And yes, I do enjoy my booze, but I’m considered a light drinker in many circles. I don’t drink much for an Irish guy sums it up. My fighting is done in the form of sparring at a small local boxing club. I’m no pro, obviously. I’m don’t even consider myself good enough to be an amateur boxer. But I hold my own at our wee club and I know what it feels like to take a punch. Not bad for a guy in his thirties.
Actually, I learned what it was like to take a punch a long time ago. I wasn’t a troublemaker (honest), but I must have grown up with a face that people liked to punch. In school, playgrounds, and later in pubs, I’ve been in my unfair share of scuffles. For a short time in my teens, I lifted weights and walked with my chest puffed out, but I was always vaguely aware I might not have been properly equipped for a street fight, should I find myself in another one. I got into martial arts in my twenties and eventually became an instructor. Even opened my own kung fu club for a short time.
I met lots of great people with interesting stories and backgrounds while I studied and taught kung fu. Also met some not-so-great people who had ideas above their station, but let’s keep this civil. Those years gave me a great insight into fight psychology. Rich material for a writer.
There are many reasons to learn a martial art – self defence being at the core – but for some it’s simply about the urge to fight and finding an appropriate outlet that is legally and socially acceptable.
During my time as a martial artist, I also became a bullshit artist, or in politer terms, a writer. I hang those labels on myself with a lot more confidence now than I did in my twenties. Back then I would tell you, I do a bit of kung fu and/or I like to write. The titles, martial artist and writer, in my opinion, had to be earned. Now, either I’m more laidback about most things or I believe I’ve done my time, but these titles are just words to me now. And, words have become my stock and trade. I can call myself a writer because I can prove that I can write.
Fighting is different.
If you can fight, there’s no point telling me about it. Especially not on internet forums. Even if somebody calls you out, what’s going to happen, really? Premeditated assault? Probably not a good idea. But there are ways to prove yourself, if that’s your thing. Should you go to a bar and pick on some guy? NO! Don’t even think that, you looper. Just keep your prowess to yourself, and feel safe in the knowledge you can rely on it if you ever have to.
Or compete.
Shut up and fight. But don’t do something stupid that’ll get you arrested. Simple, right?
The only real way for a fighter to test their mettle these days is through combat competition. And I have nothing but respect for any man or woman who steps into a ring, a cage or an octagon. Fighters, of any style, are cool in my book.
What’s my point? I’m a writer, not a fighter, I guess. And I’ve no desire to be a fighter. At some point in my life, before I turn forty, I might step into a ring just for the experience. It’ll be some sort of white collar boxing event, I’d imagine, but I’ll train for it like I’m stepping up to a pro. I’ll go in prepared to crack some ribs or get my bell rung by an unseen right hook, then I’ll recover, laugh about it, write about it, daydream about it, and go back to light sparring at the club until I’m too old to raise my gloves. If that takes the form of boxing, Muay Thai or MMA, so be it. But I’ll have an interest in scrapping for a long time to come.
Which is why I was delighted to pen a novella as Jack Tunney in the new Fight Card MMA series. An old-school writing style applied to a modern sport and publishing model. An opportunity to exercise my writing muscles and draw on some of my low-level fighting experience. And an Irish setting? Writing Welcome to the Octagon was a no-brainer. Making it about an underground scrapper with greater aspirations was my most obvious move. I resisted playing on the booze stereotype, though. Gotta keep the readers on their toes. My protagonist has sworn off alcohol to become a better competitor.
Will this blend of experience and whimsy prove to be a knockout?
Read it and let me know – What have you got to lose? It’s only writing. About fighting. Nobody needs to worry about getting knocked out, except for the characters.
Find out more about Fight Card MMA and other Fight Card brands here: www.fightcardbooks.com
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The Weary Death
Death holds out his hands for the innocent babe’s life, but the heroine after some hesitation demurs. This still, which you would have seen brought to life had you been at Ipswich Film Theatre on October 30th, seems to portray a glowering figure of Death, ready to snatch the infant from its mother. It shows how deceptive appearances can be, for in fact his expression here is more grimly resolute than threatening, and the child is not the woman’s at all but someone else’s: with its life she could buy back that of her lover, cruelly taken from her in his prime…
This is the climax of the film, actually, and it would be churlish to reveal what becomes of her refusal to give up the infant’s life, once she has found herself unable to persuade even the most wretched and moribund of her fellow citizens to pay the ultimate price. Der müde Tod, translating as Weary Death, is an early (1921) silent by Fritz Lang, before he went on to make Dr Mabuse the Gambler, his Nibelung films, and Metropolis. It is not that commonly seen now, which made Ipswich Film Theatre’s decision to show it doubly gratifying, doubly because it was accompanied live by the Harmonie Band, an ensemble of musicians comprising keyboard, wind and viola.
The heart of the film is a trio of what one might term historical sequences, were they not purporting to be contemporary: Death proposes that if one of those three ordained imminently to die survives, he will spare the present young man. Accordingly, the other stories all have the same couple enacting a similarly frustrated love match. The first is set in Moorish Africa, and has a Frankish young man illicitly pursuing the Caliph’s sister; in the second he is a Venetian, or some such, of Renaissance extraction; the third has the young lovers happily serving a magician, until the Emperor takes a shine to the girl. It was not unusual for films of the period to contain sequences in more exotic clothing than their relatively sober bookends: Griffith’s Intolerance is a famous example, but Cecil B. De Mille did similar things, as in Male and Female, with Gloria Swanson transported to ancient Babylon just so he could photograph her with a lion’s paw on her back! Lang’s three episodes are by far the briskest and most fun in the movie, which drags a little at the start.
The Death figure, here somewhat distasteful of his unending work, contrasts strikingly with Bergman’s more zealous personification in The Seventh Seal, and visually seems to foreshadow the figure of the ferryman in Dreyer’s Vampyr (1932). All in all, a rare and fascinating evening at the Film Theatre, and just before Halloween, too.
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Hoo boy. It's going to be real interesting writing about the riots going on south of me at Evergreen State College:
For two years in the 80's, my mother attended the Evergreen State College. The Evergreen State College is best known as a liberal (in more than one way) arts college in Olympia, Washington. The College will turn 50 this year, and notable alumni include Matt Groening (the creator of the Simpsons) and Macklemore (a world-famous rapper).
For quite some time now, the student body of TESC has been very progressive and left-leaning. The good? Students are often aware and active in social issues, working to spread awareness about, as well as fight, inequities experienced by those in marginalized groups (black people, women, gays, transgendered people, etc.)
The bad?
Evergreen State College has served as a recruiting ground for to-be "social justice warriors".
The latest manifestation of the "bad" has played out in the form of violent protests centered around Bret Samuel Weinstein, a professor at TESC. Professor Weinstein had released a statement via e-mail questioning this:
Day of Absence Changes Form | Cooper Point Journal
archived 30 May 2017 03:56:45 UTC
This article, published in the Cooper Point Journal (the student newspaper of TESC), announces changes that the student body wished to happen to the Day of Absence, an annual tradition at TESC. The Day of Absence usually meant various minority students and college staff choosing to leave the campus for a day, while they discussed ways to make the campus a more tolerant, less racist place.
However, as described in the article, this year, the student body had this plan for the Day of Absence:
White students, staff and faculty will be pressured invited to leave the campus for the day’s activities.
Ostensibly a misguided but good-natured attempt to bring attention to minority voices on campus, singling out white people and asking them to leave campus for a day sounds less Martin Luther King Jr. and more Malik Zulu Shabazz.
After Professor Weinstein questioned the demand in an e-mail, this violent protest occurred on campus:
On the same day that the protest occurred, this 2000+ word long (counting the linked Google Document) rant was published in the Cooper Point Journal:
Complete List of Student Demands | Cooper Point Journal
I actually read it, and, to sum it up, the rant essentially demands that TESC's administration bend to the every whim of the campus' social justice warriors. Lastly, Professor Weinstein appeared as a guest writer for the Wall Street Journal, describing his experience:
The Campus Mob Came for Me—and You, Professor, Could Be Next - WSJ
And, he also appeared to give this interview (I'm sorry for embedding The Rubin Report, but there's not much else):
CJ-Moki, signing off. I wonder what will happen to Professor Weinstein.
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For Principle’s Sake…For our Young People’s Sake!
October 19, 2015 February 3, 2016 by Jameson
If I had an opportunity to express a perspective of Assisted Suicide from the angle of its impact on young people and our future generations, here’s what I’d have to say:
I am a man of deep principles. I believe that the principles we hold to as a society will determine the choices we make and how we live. I therefore oppose the idea of legalized assisted suicide because it undermines the principle that life has value and is worth fighting for. It contradicts the foundational principle of all human rights, and that is the right to life.
I work with kids on a daily basis who have painful and difficult lives. Many suffer loss and depression, and have suicidal thoughts. We work hard to council these kids so as to encourage them to see the value of their lives and to make them feel wanted, important, and to know that every life is worth fighting for. My job exists because it recognizes the principle that every life has value.
Undoubtedly, suicide is a thought and action that we try to discourage in our young people. Social workers put in countless hours to combat the problem of youth suicide because suicide is always a poor solution to a problem. So what do YOU think will happen in the minds of our young people if suicide is legalized? I know that it will undermine the work we do with suicidal youth.
If suicide is legalized, it quickly becomes an accepted principle and a human right. What will this suicidal mentality do to our young people and the future of our country? It will naturally cause them to believe that suicide is an acceptable way to end suffering, be it mental or physical. I know that assisted suicide deals primarily with end-of-life patients whose pain is intolerable and whose quality of life is largely gone. I just don’t see a far stretch between a suffering ALS patient and a bullied, depressed, and insecure teen. Both may desire to end their life, yet we think we can DISCRIMINATE and let one die and not the other.
I think that a right-to-die mentality is a harmful principle to introduce into society, especially for our youth. Instead of upholding the principle that our elders should be respected and honored, assisted suicide will foster a mentality that the elderly are disposable. Instead of fostering the principles of sacrifice, devotion, and true compassion, our young people will, for the sake of convenience, expect and coerce those on their deathbed to die quicker. Youth will look at all suffering as something to avoid, and not something to constructively face together.
On the contrary, I think we are most human and most “humane” when we stand by each other – even to the last breath. Strongly consider the alternatives. I think the wrong questions are being asked, the wrong demands are being made, and the most important principles are being ignored. Should we all value a comfortable and peaceful death? Yes. But how can we do this while still upholding the dignity of life and the dignity of natural death?How can we do this without imposing the right-to-die and a right-to-kill? Would it not be better for our Nation to lead the globe in Palliative Care and Pain Management Technology rather than simply follow countries into the dark and uncertain world of assisted suicide? For the sake of our young people and the future of our Nation, I hope that we can uphold principles that increase our value of human life and natural death. I know that popular opinion is quick to support assisted suicide as something good, but it is certainly wrong. Sadly, only time, and not the gift of reason, may tell.
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1. Rare diseases offer insights into autism spectrum disorders. Preliminary laboratory studies suggest new biological targets for intervention. Harv Ment Health Lett ;2009 (Apr) ;25(10):3.
2. Ager S, Downs J, Fyfe S, Leonard H. Parental experiences of scoliosis management in Rett syndrome. Disabil Rehabil ;2009 (May 19):1-8.
Background. Scoliosis is the most common orthopaedic complication of Rett syndrome. Parents of affected individuals are vital partners in the clinical management of scoliosis and this study explored parental experiences of various aspects of different management options. Methods. Publicly available Rettnet postings informed the development of an online questionnaire about scoliosis and its management in Rett syndrome. Parents of subjects who met the criteria for Rett syndrome participated in a survey using this questionnaire. Results. One hundred and eighty families participated in this study with scoliosis having developed in 135 (75.4%) of subjects. Eighty-four (62.2% of subjects with scoliosis) had received specific treatment for scoliosis while 51 (37.8%) had not. Surgery was perceived as improving the scoliosis in the majority of subjects but had considerable emotional effects for families of subjects who were less severely affected (p = 0.055) or older (p = 0.063). Physiotherapy and bracing were perceived as not reducing the progression of the curve, but physiotherapy was frequently reported to be beneficial to the subject’s quality of life and bracing was frequently associated with side effects such as decreased mobility and problems with pressure. Only half of respondents felt that information about scoliosis provided by clinicians was adequate. Conclusions. The perspectives of parents provided useful insights into the complexities of decision-making regarding scoliosis treatment in Rett syndrome. The provision of scoliosis information by clinicians should be more family-centred.
4. Bill BR, Geschwind DH. Genetic advances in autism : heterogeneity and convergence on shared pathways. Curr Opin Genet Dev ;2009 (May 26)
The autism spectrum disorders (ASD) are a heterogeneous set of developmental disorders characterized at their core by deficits in social interaction and communication. Current psychiatric nosology groups this broad set of disorders with strong genetic liability and multiple etiologies into the same diagnostic category. This heterogeneity has challenged genetic analyses. But shared patient resources, genomic technologies, more refined phenotypes, and novel computational approaches have begun to yield dividends in defining the genetic mechanisms at work. Over the last five years, a large number of autism susceptibility loci have emerged, redefining our notion of autism’s etiologies, and reframing how we think about ASD.
5. Grether JK, Rosen NJ, Smith KS, Croen LA. Investigation of Shifts in Autism Reporting in the California Department of Developmental Services. J Autism Dev Disord ;2009 (May 29)
We investigated if shifts in the coding of qualifying conditions in the California Department of Developmental Services (DDS) have contributed to the increase in California children with autism observed in recent years. Qualifying condition codes for mental retardation (MR) and autism in DDS electronic files were compared to hard-copy records for samples of children born 1987, 1990, 1994, and 1997. Contrary to expectations, we did not find evidence of a coding shift from "MR only" to "both MR and autism" or an increase in the proportion of children with coded autism who lacked supportive diagnostic documentation in records (possible "misclassifications"). These results indicate that changes in DDS coding practices are unlikely to explain the increase in DDS clients with autism.
6. Gross L. A broken trust : lessons from the vaccine—autism wars. PLoS Biol ;2009 (May 26) ;7(5):e1000114.
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Unburnable Fuel. High time for a new European policy approach to tackle climate change
Exploring and exploiting new sources of fossil fuels will propel CO2 emissions above 550 ppm. It is an irresponsible waste of money, and policy is called upon to stop this squandering of resources. At 550 ppm CO2 (twice the pre-industrial level of 280 ppm CO2), mean global temperatures will rise 3°C, with a risk of rising by 4°C and more. This would imply sea level rise of about 25 metres +/- 12 metres due to ice melting.
Total proven international fossil-fuel reserves already contain about 3 times as much carbon as what we can burn and still have a reasonable chance to stay below the internationally agreed 2°C target. That’s why there is no ethical, environmental or social justification for mobilising reserves with above-average environmental and social impacts, including deep sea oil, tar sands, or fracking for shale gas, destroying riverine delta ecosystems and other wetlands, densely populated farmland, biodiverse forests or coral gardens.
Our policy recommendations and questions to policymakers are:
EU governments should urgently revise their mining laws to rule out any further exploration for fossil fuels on their territories and marine zones, and start negotiations for a global ban on fossil fuel exploration
Which one third of proven reserves shall we consume, and which are the two thirds to be left in the ground?
Capping the carbon input would complement existing policies and enhance their effectiveness
Energy companies, private and public, should be obliged to disclose the carbon content in their reserves as a basis for distinguishing burnable from unburnable fuel
Initiatives for ‘leaving oil in the soil’ at socially and environmentally vulnerable reserve locations should be supported politically and financially as a first step towards establishing an inventory of ‘unburnable reserves’
The Ecuadorian Yasuni ITT area deserves immediate support
As an immediate measure, the EU should consider a fund for contributing to such initiatives
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Greater Boston community gathers in support of $15 minimum wage, paid leave
by Michelle Shvimer, Daily Free Press
Nearly 300 people gathered to spread a message to their legislators demanding job-protected paid leave and a $15 minimum wage at Boston’s St. Paul’s Episcopal Cathedral Tuesday night.
The community briefing was hosted by Raise Up Massachusetts as a part of the organization’s statewide tour urging for the passage of the Fair Share Amendment, also known as the millionaire’s tax, according to a press release from the coalition. Additionally, the event rallied behind proposed legislation regarding paid family and medical leave.
Andrew Farnitano, the spokesperson for Raise Up MA, said 87 percent of workers in New England don’t have access to paid family and medical leave, which is why these pieces of legislation are necessary.
Nika Elugardo, 44, a candidate for state representative this year, said it is vital that Massachusetts legislators back these problems.
“I have been [supporting these issues] for two decades,” Elugardo said. “I think it’s a travesty that these bills aren’t already in motion. In a civilized country, in a wealthy country, if we can’t support our people, that’s problematic.”
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Nika for LGBTQ+ Communities and for All
by Becca Connors Aug 28 2018
Massachusetts Women’s Political Caucus Endorses First-Time Candidates Across Massachusetts
by Becca Connors Jul 12 2018
An Idealistic Challenger Takes on a Pragmatic Incumbent in J.P./Mission Hill District
by Becca Connors Jun 13 2018
Q. and A. with Nika Elugardo
Email: info@electnika.com | Phone: 617-971-8743 | Paid for by Committee to Elect Nika Elugardo 2019
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Bearing sensor unaffected by EM fields
Written by: Tom Shelley | Published: 07 September 2004
Today, AC motors normally consume around 400 to 600 Amps, but future motor designs are heading towards the 800 to 1,000 Amps range, with the focus on extreme power density and high current.
Problem: Today, AC motors normally consume around 400 to 600 Amps, but future motor designs are heading towards the 800 to 1,000 Amps range, with the focus on extreme power density and high current. This higher current means that traditional Hall Effect sensors will be limited when it comes to measuring and monitoring bearings. Therefore, sensors that are unaffected by electromagnetic interference is the goal.
Solution: Bearings manufacturer SKF has developed a sensor bearing unit that is unaffected by external electromagnetic fields. The unit has the normal bearing function of carrying and transmitting load smoothly, but can also give shaft speed and position data, for further processing, to precisely control the motor and optimise the motor's performance and efficiency.
Currently undergoing qualification tests but due to launch in March 2005, the new unit incorporates novel encoding technology and signal processing electronics for acquiring the speed and position data and transferring it to the motor controller. This involves integrating contactless, high frequency, inductive micro-coil sensing technology into the unit.
A unique electronic layout induces an electric pattern in the micro-coil sensor. This pattern is modified by the presence or not of the teeth of the metallic impulse ring. The phase shift of this pattern is then processed via a dedicated ASIC, generating digital signal outputs. In this way, the signal detection and processing is thoroughly separable from the background electromagnetic fields.
Applications: The device is ideal for applications in high power AC drive motors, including heavy duty conveyors, escalators, lifts, airport trolleys, golf carts and fork lift trucks. The units can operate in extreme conditions of heavy vibration and thermal shocks, making them robust enough to survive in severe mechanical and electrical environments. Motor designers will benefit from being able to integrate the encoding solution inside an electromagnetic motor brake or very close to the coils of the stator, leading to a more compact design. DP
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Pork: Your Tax Dollars at Work
I just completed a cross country trip. Utah to Detroit. I've been traveling this route for years. There used to be a few windmills along the Continental Divide in Wyoming where the winds blow constantly.
But now there are windfarms springing up all across Nebraska and Iowa. Iowa - a state once known only for corn and pork, but now infamous for being the first state to anoint the One.
There they are, shooting up out of the corn fields like Obama's budget projections, spinning, spinning, spinning till you're dizzy. It's a perfect lesson in Obamanomics: take tax subsidized alternative energy sources, use it to grow tax subsidized corn, which is then used to make more tax subsidized alternative fuel. Now that's what I call makin' bacon.
No wonder BHO won the Iowa primary so handily.
In Memoriam: Lucy 1916 - 2009
Dewey’s Mom is Dying
Your Government at the Wheel
A Small Sign of Intelligent Life on the Left
Abstract Moral Superiority vs. Rational Self-Prese...
A Man’s Gotta Do What a Man’s Gotta Do
A Dust-up from NC
Dewey’s Prime Time TV Debut!
It’s 9:00. Do You Know Where Your Speaker of the H...
Beam Me Up Scotty
Polarizing is the New Racist
Liberalism: the Triumph of Feelings over Logic
The Soprano’s of Pennsylvania Ave.
Savage Nation Not Welcome in “Civilized” Nation
Contracts? We Don’t Need No Stinkin’ Contracts.
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Digital TV News: Cindy Rose
Vodafone UK fixed broadband to launch this summer
Jun 10, 2015 – Vodafone UK has launched Vodafone Connect, which will provide broadband and home phone services to customers across the UK later in the summer. Vodafone’s network already reaches exchanges which pass nearly 20 million premises across the UK.
News categories: Vodafone, Jeroen Hoencamp, Cindy Rose, IPTV, Router, UK
TiVo and Virgin Media Deploy the World's Most Advanced Cable Set-Top Box
Jan 6, 2011 – TiVo (NASDAQ: TIVO) has announced that Virgin Media (NASDAQ: VMED) (LSE: VMED) is deploying Virgin Media TV powered by TiVo, its new next-generation TV offering to its customers across the United Kingdom.
News categories: TiVo Inc, Virgin Media, Cable TV, CES2020, DVR, Middleware, Set Top Box, UK
Virgin Media Launches the UK's First Next-Generation Entertainment Platform
Dec 1, 2010 – Virgin Media (NASDAQ, LSE: VMED) has unveiled details of Virgin Media TV powered by TiVo® (NASDAQ: TIVO). The user interface will combine the live TV schedule with catch-up TV, on-demand programming and applications, alongside a personal video recorder.
News categories: Virgin Media, TiVo Inc, Cable TV, DVR, Middleware, Set Top Box, UK
Virgin Media announces details of new TiVo-powered next generation connected TV service
Nov 3, 2010 – Virgin Media (NASDAQ:VMED, LSE:VMED) has announced the first details of its upcoming TiVo-powered (NASDAQ: TIVO) HD/3D set top box which will give customers a whopping 1 TeraByte of storage for personal recordings.
News categories: Virgin Media, TiVo Inc, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Middleware, Set Top Box, UK
Virgin Media brings 3D TV to UK living rooms
Sep 28, 2010 – Virgin Media (NASDAQ:VMED, LSE:VMED) has announced the launch of 3D Movies On Demand - the first digital TV service to bring cutting edge 3D straight to UK TV screens - for all Virgin Media TV customers, with a 3D-ready set top box, TV and glasses.
News categories: Virgin Media, Cable TV, Digital TV, DVR, Set Top Box, UK, VR
Virgin Media announces 3D-Ready HD STB from Cisco
Mar 16, 2010 – Consumers will soon be able to make the most of the growing line-up of HD channels from Virgin Media (NASDAQ:VMED)(LSE:VMED) with a new HD set-top box - the V HD Box - which will be available for no additional monthly subscription fee.
Record breaking year for Virgin Media on demand TV
Feb 1, 2010 – Virgin Media (NASDAQ, LSE: VMED) saw a record breaking 2009 with over 750 million on demand views, an increase of 50% on the previous 12 months. Over 59 per cent of Virgin Media's 3.7 million TV customers are now regularly using the service.
News categories: Virgin Media, Cable TV, Market Research, OTT, UK
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STL president re-elected for another 18-month term
A version of this article appeared in the print edition of The Daily Star on August 28, 2019, on page 2.
Ghosn expected to appear before Lebanese judiciary next week: source
STL to decide on trying Ayyash in absentia early next year
Poles protest over rule of law after judge suspended
Special Tribunal
Appeals Chamber
Higher Judicial Council
Ivana Hrdlickova
Ralph Riachi
Hassan Merhi
Salim Ayyash
Assad Sabra
Hussein Oneissi
Rafik Hariri
United Nations International Independent Investigation Commission
mount Lebanon Appeals Court
The head of the Special Tribunal for Lebanon was re-elected Tuesday for a new term of 18 months, a statement from the court said.
Hrdlickova, whose tasks as president include ensuring the court is effective in its application of justice and representing it internationally, had been a member of the STL since 2012 and served as its president since 2015 .
Riachi held a number of senior positions in the Lebanese judiciary before being appointed to the STL, including as the head of the Mount Lebanon Appeals Court and a member of the Higher Judicial Council.
According to the statement, their re-election comes in accordance with Article 8 (2) of the court's statute, and their term will begin on Sept. 1 .
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Sixth Edition of Bangladesh Premier League: All you need to know!
AB de Villiers, Bangladesh Premier League 2019, BPl 2019
It’s been 6 years since the first season of Bangladesh Premier League kick-off officially and here we are, about to witness the sixth edition of Bangladesh Cricket Board’s professional league tomorrow onwards, i.e., on 5th Jan ’19 until 9th Feb ’19, in India. Over the years Bangladesh Premier league has made its mark among the top T20 leagues in the world. The stellar sports personalities like David Warner, AB de Villiers, Sunil Narine and Chris Gayle will be featured in the tournament.
The season consist of teams representing a different region of Bangladesh, namely Dhaka Dynamites, Rangpur Riders, Khulna Titans, Chittagong Vikings, Camilla Victorians, Sylhet Sixers and Rajshahi Kings. India being a country jam-packed with cricket enthusiasts, BPL 2019 is expected to bring round-the-clock cricketing buzz in the country.
The tournament will be played in a double round robin format, which will be followed by playoffs.
Mashrafe Mortaza, the former captain of Bangladesh National Cricket team, will lead the defending champions Rangpur Riders. The teams batting looks strong with the veteran players like Chris Gayle, Alex Hales and AB de Villiers. Shakib Al Hasan, better known as the all-rounder will captain the tree time title winner Dhaka Dynamites. Undoubtedly Hazratullah Zazai will be the team protagonist, who stood out in the inaugural season APL by hitting 6 sixes and made his mark in the world of cricket. The astonishing Players like Ian Bell, Sunil Narine and Kieron Pollard will add balance to the lineups.
Comilla Victorians will be led by the most hotshot run-getter for the Bangladesh National team Tamim Iqbal along with Shahid Afridi, the mighty “Boom Boom” in the line-up. Mushfiqur Rahim will lead Chittagong Viking, with remarkable overseas players like Mohammad Shahzad, Cameron Delport, and Najibullah Zadran. The Bangladeshi versatile player Mahmudullah Riyad will be the captain of Khulna Titans.
Rajshahi Kings, with a disappointing season last year, will look forward to creating history this season. Sylhet Sixers will be one of the strongest bowling attacks this season with the great Waqar Younis at their helm as the bowling coach.
In no time BPL 2019 will rule over the TV sets of all the cricket fanatics across the globe. DSport will broadcast all the action from the thrilling tournament live on for the Indian cricket buffs from tomorrow.
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Production Begins on SpectreVision & Ace Pictures' DANIEL ISN’T REAL
SpectreVision and ACE Pictures announced today that principal photography has begun in New York City on the film Daniel Isn’t Real. The film is the second feature from writer/director Adam Egypt Mortimer (Some Kind of Hate).
Patrick Schwarzenegger (“The Long Road Home”, Midnight Sun) and Miles Robbins (Blockers, David Gordon Green’s Halloween) star alongisde Sasha Lane (American Honey, Hearts Beat Loud), and Hannah Marks (“Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency”).
In Daniel Isn't Real, troubled college freshman Luke (Robbins) suffers a violent family trauma and resurrects his childhood imaginary friend Daniel (Schwarzenegger) to help him cope. Charismatic and full of manic energy, Daniel helps Luke to achieve his dreams, before pushing him to the very edge of sanity and into a desperate struggle for control of his mind -- and his soul.
The film is based on the novel In This Way I Was Saved by Brian DeLeeuw who co-wrote the script with Mortimer.
Elijah Wood, Co-Founder and Partner of SpectreVision / Company X said, "Daniel Isn't Real is a stylized, sexy, and emotionally nuanced supernatural thriller. A terrifying look into the things that everyone hides beneath the surface. We're very excited to begin our partnership with ACE Pictures on such a visionary project."
"ACE Pictures Entertainment is tremendously excited to fund Daniel Isn't Real, our first film collaboration with SpectreVision / Company X. After considering literally over a hundred film projects, the story and concept of this film is exceptionally unique and extraordinarily imaginative. Our great collaborator, the dynamic team of SpectreVision, as well as the visionary style of director Adam Egypt Mortimer prompted us to come on board immediately. We are thrilled to begin our long-term partnership", said Johnny Chang, Managing Director, ACE Pictures Entertainment.
Coming off the heels of their successful premiere of MANDY at Cannes and Sundance, Daniel Isn’t Real will be produced by SpectreVision’s Daniel Noah, Josh C. Waller, Lisa Whalen, and Elijah Wood. Timur Bekbosunov, Johnny Chang, Emma Lee and Peter Wong will executive produce for ACE Pictures; Stacy Jorgensen will executive produce for SpectreVision.
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The Spartak – Anji. Prediction for the match 12.03.2017
Tournament: Premier League
Venue: Otkrytie arena, Moscow
Spartak Moscow next Sunday at home to take the Makhachkala team Anzhi. In this betting line on this fight Muscovites are clear favorites here, with what can easily accept, because the team from the capital of Russia is fighting for the championship in the Premier League, while the team from Makhachkala is one of the contenders for the relegation to the first division.
The match in Krasnodar
Spartacus in the 2017 calendar year, has held only one official match. “Red-white” played in Krasnodar with the local “bulls”, the match ended with the score 2:2. Now in the asset of Spartacus 41 points and first place in the table. Handicap in five points between Spartak and Zenit is preserved, because the team from Peter also drew his game against CSKA. In his field of Spartak in the framework of the Premier League this season has scored 8 victories in nine games, scored 15 goals and missed only 3.
Two defeats
Anji in the 2017 calendar year managed to play two official matches. First, the team from Dagestan in the framework of the Cup of Russia lost to Ufa on departure with the account 0:1, and then was a home match in the League and also lose 0:1 from Rubin Kazan. In the standings of the Premier League Anzhi located on 11-th line, the asset of this team 20 points behind the zone of transition matches is ive points.
Spartacus holds a very strong season, especially home games, where the “red-white” 89% of Victoria. The upcoming game will be the first home in 2017, it is expected a large number of fans in the stands and Spartak will try to please your audience with beautiful football and a comfortable win. Our free forecast for the meeting:
Victory of Spartacus + 1,5 TB
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Membership Content
Journeys and Events
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Let’s Eat Out (LEO) Lunch, February 8
World Friendship Day Celebration
Albuquerque, New Mexico Outgoing April 2020
April 19 @ 8:00 am
All Iowa Friendship Force Picnic
July 12 @ 11:00 am - 5:00 pm
Brazil Outgoing Journey – July 2019
Achi, Japan-Dallas, Texas Incoming Journey (Oct 1-7, 2019)
Upcoming Journeys
Jun 23, 2019 by mwinger
Below is a list of upcoming journeys for our club. If you are interested click on any of the journeys to learn about that journey. Click here to learn more about our club or here to join. Cedar Rapids to Albuquerque NM (April 19-26, 2020) Kaohsiung, Taiwan Incoming Journey (September 19-26 2020) Budapest, Hungary Outgoing Journey (October...
Aug 17, 2019 by Laura Thomas
The Cedar Rapids-Iowa City (CR-IC) Friendship Force Club was invited by the Ribeirao Preto and Salvador-Bahia Clubs to participate in a cultural exchange. It was the “winter” season in Brazil, with average daily temperatures below 80 degrees (F). It felt much like summer in Iowa. Ambassadors included Judy Miner, Geri Frascht, Barb Steggall and Jim Steggall from the Cedar Rapids-Iowa City Club along with...
Journey to Kaohsiung and Taipei, Taiwan, November 1-15, 2017
Jan 1, 2018 by mwinger
On November 1, a warm, sunny day, our group of 21 ambassadors arrived in Kaohsiung, Taiwan. Some came directly there and others stopped in Hong Kong for a short visit. We enjoyed visiting with our host families and their extended families; walking through their neighborhoods, cheering for the home team at a member’s week-end baseball game and experiencing Taiwan through our host’s eyes. We...
Quad Cities, September 29th and 30th, 2017
Sep 29, 2017 by mwinger
Journey Coordinator Marian Wetjen and eight Club members participated in a one-night Journey to the Quad Cities Club on Sept. 29 and 30. This was a reciprocal visit from a journey to Cedar Rapids in 2015. We toured Shady Knoll Farm (pumpkins, flowers, met the owner, animals, picture taking opportunity), Hampton Heritage Center to see the world’s largest Ginkgo tree carving, Campbell War of...
Kosovo Open World, September 8 – 16, 2017
The Kosovo Open world delegation was exciting and filled with curious, knowledgeable young people. We learned of a close association between Kosovo and Iowa. There are two Kosovo Consulates in the US, one in New York and one in Des Moines, plus the Embassy in DC. The delegates learned a great deal about language development and immigration in Iowa. West Liberty was an eye-opener...
Lower Columbia Washington, September 5th, 2017
Sep 5, 2017 by mwinger
Lower Columbia Washington journey to Cedar Rapids-Iowa City Eleven members of the Lower Columbia, Wash., Friendship Force Club started their journey to Cedar Rapids-Iowa City with a welcome party on Sept. 5 at George and Stephanie Schulte’s home. On Wednesday, the group toured Cedar Rapids with Sandy Fowler, assistant city manager, followed by a tour of Turner Alley and the Grant Wood exhibit...
Sacremento Incoming Exchange, April 30 – May 7, 2017
Apr 30, 2017 by mwinger
Our Cedar Rapids/Iowa City Journey FFI has introduced some changes. Did you know we no longer have Exchanges? A Journey is the word for our adventures now But we can still reach out and make new friends anyhow. We all arrived in wind and rain, But a warm Welcome Dinner soon eased our pain. In Kalona we were well fed...
Crazy For Quilting
Oct 3, 2016 by mwinger
The Crazy for Quilting journey was a great success! Here’s a day by day description of the fun. Friday, Sept. 30 The Friendship Force of Cedar Rapids/Iowa City welcomed 18 Ambassadors at Wickiup Hill Nature Center! Our club has prepared a Best of Iowa dinner, featuring roast pork loin and side dish pot luck. In the spirit of Friendship Force, 5 Ukrainian educators and...
Lansing Exchange, September 11-17, 2016
In September, 2016, 17 ambassadors made a visit to the Friendship Force club of Lansing, Michigan. The journey to Lansing in September offered warm hospitality, comfortable weather, lots of interesting activities, renewal of friendship made when they visited us and created many new friendships. This was an opportunity to reconnect with club members who visited Cedar Rapids in June 2015. With our Lansing hosts,...
Nashik, India Incoming Exchange, July 2-8, 2016
Aug 27, 2016 by mwinger
We completed a successful journey hosting 17 ambassadors from Nashik, India on July 8. Our guests were able to experience home hosted lunches, a walk through the Brucemore gardens, a visit to the Czech and Slovak Museum; 4th of July festivities including fireworks; a day in Jones Count included learning about artist Grant Wood, a visit to Weber Stone, the motorcycle museum and winding up with dinner at...
Visit to Central Iowa Club, July 16, 2016
Jul 15, 2016 by mwinger
As we continue to build intra-state relationships, ten club members enjoyed overnight hospitality from our friends in the Central Iowa club (Ames) on July 16, 2016. It started with a tour of Reiman Gardens with hosts, then a walking tour of several art installations on the Iowa State University campus led by Ames club member, Dennis Dake. We learned about the artists and their...
Wessex, England Outgoing Exchange, June 5-12, 2016
Eleven ambassadors gathered at a B&B in central London a couple of days before our Wessex journey was to begin and we did some touring on our own. On Sunday June 5, we all took a two-hour train ride to southern England to meet our Wessex hosts and begin our week long adventure with our new friends. Even though their club is small, they...
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BELLEVUE – OCHRE POINT NEIGHBORHOOD ASSOCIATION
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Bellevue Block Party
Meet the Friends of Newport Preservation
Top 5 Takeaways of "The Landscape of The Breakers" Discussion with Preservationist Experts
Did you miss our event? You can still hear from the experts!
We're thrilled to be able to share the full event video from “The Landscape of The Breakers: Significance and Opportunities For Newport’s Most Important Gilded Age Landmark” on April 7th!
Short on time? Here are our Top 5 Take Aways from the event:
1. The Breakers property was a unique collaboration by the Vanderbilts, Richard Morris Hunt and Ernest & James Bowditch in the 1890's. Its design drew on classical elements from Italianate architecture and European landscapes while integrating modern engineering. The Breakers grounds should be saved!
2. The historic documentation for the Serpentine Garden Walk in the Northwest quadrant of The Breakers is good. There is opportunity for recapturing the landscape!
3. The proposed location of the Visitor Center, and the services needed to support it like dumpsters and access for supply trucks, would harm the authenticity of The Breakers property. Locating the Visitor Center across the street would save the property and allow for easier restocking and support.
4. The preliminary estimate of the work necessary to restore the northwest Serpentine Walk of The Breakers is estimated to cost less than the $400,000 envisioned by Ronald Lee Fleming's challenge grant. Mr. Fleming’s generous offer gives us a great starting point in covering more than half of the estimated cost of restoration.
5. The grounds of The Breakers have the potential to enchant guests for decades to come.By preserving the property as was intended by the Vanderbilt's and founders of the Preservation Society, visitors and the community could truly experience the property and sustain it for the future. Rather, the Society is destroying The Breakers landscape and ambiance to the detriment of its visitors.
LEARN MORE ABOUT THE FRIENDS OF NEWPORT PRESERVATION
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George Baker Biography (1931-)
Born April 1, 1931, in Varna, Bulgaria; first wife, died; married second wife, Louie Ramsay, 1993; children: five daughters. Addresses: Agent: International Creative Management, 388/396 Oxford Street, London W1N 9HE, England; c/o Terence Baker, Hatton and Baker, 18 Jermyn Street, London W1, England.;Contact: c/o Shepherd & Ford, 13 Radnor Walk, London SW3 4BP, England.
Actor, director, producer, writer
(Debut) Arthur Wells, Aren't We All?, Haymarket Theatre, London, 1953
Florent and France, Restless Heart, St. James's Theatre, 1957
Phillipe de Croze, Look After Lulu, Henry Miller Theatre, 1959
Nevile Strange, Towards Zero, St. James's Theatre, London, 1956
Henry Bolingbroke, Richard II, Old Vic Company, London, 1959
Page, The Merry Wives of Windsor, Old Vic Company, 1959
Earl of Warwick, Saint Joan, 1960
David Wylie, What Every Woman Knows, 1960
Buddy, The Glad and the Sorry Season, Piccadilly Theatre, London,1962
Rawdon Crawley, Vanity Fair, Queen's Theatre, London, 1962
Paul Sevigne, A Shot in the Dark, Lyric Theatre, London, 1963
Eliot Barlow, Portrait of Murder, Savoy Theatre, London, 1963
Gentleman Caller, The Glass Menagerie, Yvonne Arnaud Theatre, Guildford, England, then Haymarket Theatre, 1965
Son, Days in the Trees, Aldwych Theatre, London, 1968
Regent, The Sleeping Prince, St. Martin's Theatre, London, 1968
Gene Garrison, I Never Sang for My Father, Duke of York's Theatre,London, 1970
Worcester and Clarence, Henry IV, Part I, Royal Shakespeare Company, Memorial Theatre, London, 1975
Claudius, Hamlet, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Other Place, Stratford-upon-Avon, England, 1975
Clarence, Richard III, Royal Shakespeare Company, The Other Place,1975
Claudius, Hamlet, Royal Shakespeare Company, Round House Theatre,London, 1976
Worcester, Henry IV, Part I, Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldwych Theatre, 1975
Austin Proctor, Cousin Vladimir, Royal Shakespeare Company, Aldwych Theatre, 1978
The Duke, Measure for Measure, Royal Shakespeare Company, Riverside Studios, Hammersmith, England, 1979
John Worthing, The Importance of Being Earnest, Third Witch and Porter, Macbeth, Warwick, Saint Joan, Antonio, The Merchant ofVenice, all with the Old Vic Company, U.K. and Soviet cities, 1961
Thomas Mendip, The Lady's Not for Burning, U.K. cities, 1971
Producer, The Critic, Ember's Playhouse, London, 1966
Director, The Sleeping Prince, St. Martin's Theatre, London, 1968
Director, The Lady's Not for Burning, Old Vic Theatre, London, 1978
Sunshine Ahead, 1936
The Intruder, 1953
Flight Lieutenant D. J. H. Maltby, D.S.O., D.F.C., The Dam Busters, Warner Bros., 1955
Joe Harrop, The Woman for Joe, 1955
Bill Randall, The Ship That Died of Shame (also known as PT Raiders), Continental, 1956
Lieutenant Butler, A Hill in Korea (also known as Hell in Korea), Hal Roach, 1956
Johnny Mansell, Tread Softly Stranger, Bentley Films, 1956
Steven Marlow, The Extra Day, 1956
Dr. Jim Alcott, The Feminine Touch (also known as The Gentle Touch), 1957
Nigel Barnes, No Time for Tears, 1957
Padre, These Dangerous Years (also known as Dangerous Yearsand Dangerous Youth), 1957
Earl Anthony, The Moonraker, 1957
Sir Gawaine, Lancelot and Guinevere (also known as Sword of Lancelot), Universal, 1963
Lord Randolph, The Finest Hours, 1964
Martin Delambre, Curse of the Fly, Avco Embassy, 1965
Lord Edward, Mister Ten Percent, 1966
Mountolive, Justine, Twentieth Century-Fox, 1969
Lord Sutterwick, Goodbye, Mr. Chips, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer, 1969
Sir Hilary Bray, On Her Majesty's Secret Service (also known as Iam Fleming's On Her Majesty's Secret Service and O.H.M.S.S.), United Artists, 1969
Philip Crawford, The Executioner, Columbia, 1970
Henry Barlow, A Warm December, National General, 1973
Eddie Boyes, Three for All, 1974
Professor Gottlieb, Intimate Games, 1976
Captain Benson, The Spy Who Loved Me, United Artists, 1977
Sir Walter Bullivant, The Thirty Nine Steps, 1978
A Nightingale Sang in Berkeley Square, 1979
Westlake, Hopscotch, 1980
Fletcher, North Sea Hijack (also known as Assault Force andffolkes), 1980
Valentine Swift, Time After Time, 1985
Kilcoyne, For Queen and Country, Atlantic, 1989
Will, Back to the Secret Garden, Artisan, 2000
Also appeared in The Fire Fighters and Immortal.
Common Ground (also known as Londoners: Common Ground), 1965
Reverend Charles Lutwidge Dodson, Alice (also known as Wednesday Play: Alice), 1965
The Queen and Jackson (also known as Theatre 625: The Queen andJackson), 1966
The Big Man Coughed and Died (also known as Wednesday Play: TheBig Man Coughed and Died), 1966
Up and Down (also known as Theatre 625: Up and Down), 1966
Squadron leader Frinton, The Master, 1966
Days in the Trees (also known as Wednesday Play: Days in the Trees), 1967
George King, The Bonegrinder (also known as ITV Playhouse: TheBonegrinder), 1968
Whittington, The Secret Adversary, 1982
Uncle Hesketh, The Canterville Ghost, 1986
Chief inspector Fred Davy, At Bertram's Hotel (also known as Miss Marple: At Bertram's Hotel), 1986
Greaves, Coast to Coast, 1987
Chief Inspector Wexford, Shake Hands Forever, 1988
Chief Inspector Wexford, No Crying He Makes, 1988
Colonel, Journey's End, 1988
Chief Inspector Wexford, A Guilty Thing Surprised, 1988
Chief Inspector Wexford, Wolf to the Slaughter (also known as The Ruth Rendell Mysteries: Wolf to the Slaughter), 1989
Chief Inspector Wexford, The Veiled One, 1989
Chief Inspector Wexford, A Sleeping Life, 1989
Chief Inspector Wexford, No More Dying Then, 1989
Detective Chief Inspector Wexford, Some Lie and Some Die, 1990
Chief Inspector Wexford, Put on by Cunning (also known as The Ruth Rendell Mysteries: Put on by Cunning), 1990
Chief Inspector Wexford, The Best Man to Die (also known as TheRuth Rendell Mysteries: The Best Man to Die), 1990
Detective Chief Inspector Wexford, From Doon with Death (also known as The Ruth Redell Mysteries: From Doon with Death), 1991
Detective Chief Inspector Wexford, The Speaker of Mandarin (also known as The Ruth Rendell Mysteries: The Speaker of Mandarin), 1992
Chief Inspector Wexford, The Mouse in the Corner (also known as The Ruth Rendell Mysteries: The Mouse in the Corner), 1992
Detective Chief Inspector Wexford, Kissing the Gunner's Daughter,1992
Detective Chief Inspector Reg Wexford, Simisola, 1995
Detective Chief Inspector Reg Wexford, Road Rage, 1998
Detective Chief Inspector Reg Wexford, Harm Done, 2000
Blondes: Diana Dors, BBC, 1999
Also appeared in Fan Show; Ron Raudell Show; Guinea Pig; Death of a Salesman; The Last Troubadour; The Square Ring; Mary Stuart; Probation Officers; Far Away Music; It Happened Like This; Boule de fuif; Maigret; ZeroOne; Rupert Henzau; Miss Memory; Any Other Business; The Navigators; Call My Bluff; St. Patrick; Love Life; Seven Deadly Virtues; The Sex Games; Z Cars; Paul Temple Candida; Fenn Street; Man Outside; Main Chance; Ministry of Fear; Voyage in the Dark; Dial M for Murder; Zodiac; The Survivors Medea; Print Out; Goodbye, Darling; Chinese Detective; Triangle; The Bird Fancier; and Room at the Bottom.
David Westbrook, The Truth about Melandrinos (also known as Saturday Serial: The Truth about Melandrinos), 1958
Detective D. H. C. `Nick' Nixon, Nick of the River, 1959
Stanley Bowler, Bowler, 1973
Sir Godfrey Eagan, No Job for a Lady, 1990-1991
Alderman, Johnny and the Dead, 1995
Thallon, "End Signal," Undermind, 1965
Barley, "Great Plane Robbery," Gideon's Way, 1965
Frank Ashton, "So Dark the Night," The Baron, 1966
New number 2, "Arrival," The Prisoner, 1967
Mitchell, "Train and De-Train," Doomwatch, 1970
Bill Garland, "Golden Island," Fraud Squad, 1970
Chief Beefeater, "The Tower of London," The Goodies, 1970
Britten, "Chain of Events," The Persuaders, 1971
Randall, "Two into One Will," New Scotland Yard, 1972
"Your Witness," The Protectors, 1973
Mr. Lewis, "The Job Interview," Some Mothers Do `Ave `Em, 1973
Arthur Wormley, "Genesis," Survivors, 1975
Altman, "You Gotta Have Friends," Minder, 1980
Login, "Full Circle," Doctor Who, 1980
Gerald Harvey, "The Hit," The Gentle Touch, 1981
"The Great Motor Race," Q.E.D., 1982
Sir Richard of Leaford, "Herne's Son," Robin of Sherwood, 1984
Sir Richard of Leaford, "The Power of Albion," Robin of Sherwood,1984
Sir Richard of Leaford, "The Prophecy," Robin of Sherwood, 1984
George Damos, "Death Dig," Hart to Hart, 1984
"Gronk Zillman," Lenny Henry Tonite, BBC, 1986
Higgins, "A Man of Sorrows," Bergerac, BBC, 1988
Tiberius, I, Claudius, 1976
Bruce McGill, A Woman of Substance, 1983
Moldrum, Goodbye Mr. Chips, 1984
Eldridge, Dead Head, 1985
Maximillian Pierpont, If Tomorrow Comes, CBS, 1986
Chief Inspector Wexford, A New Lease of Death (also known as Ruth Rendell Mysteries: A New Lease of Death), 1991
Chief Inspector Wexford, Means of Evil (also known as The RuthRendell Mysteries: Means of Evil), 1991
Lord Dorincourt, Little Lord Fauntleroy, BBC, 1994
Television Movies
Fatal Spring (also known as BBC2 Playhouse: Fatal Spring),1980
(Adaptation) From Doon with Death (also known as The Ruth Rendell Mysteries: From Doon with Death), 1991
Road Rage, 1998
Also wrote Imaginary Friends; Just a Hunch; The Hopkins; Going for Broke; The Marches of Wales; and Sister, DearSister.
Television Miniseries
(Adaptation) Ruth Rendell: The Strawberry Tree, 1996
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'If music be the food of love, play on' as long as it's live and in a hot little sweatbox of a venue - William Shakespeare Twelfth Night Act 1, scene 1 (partly)
Joy Formidable, The Royal
As we walk in to the ‘Red Room’ of The Royal, the first thing I notice is how busy it is, which is a pleasant surprise. The second thing I notice is that the band currently on stage don’t appear to have a lead singer. Then I see him, right up on top of the speaker stack. That’s an old trick for sure but not often performed by a band third on the bill. These are 'The Souvenirs' the first of two local bands playing tonight. I immediately think Eddie Argos and Art Brut; it's the way singer Dale Dawson dresses, struts about and the art punk sound of the band.
We only catch the very end of their set, so it’s difficult to comment really but if the state of Mr Dawson is anything to go by, it must have been a good set. He looked totally wrecked.
Serenaded to the stage by Suede’s ‘Animal Nitrate’, Ryan Needham of ‘You Animals’ tells us that they were only given two days notice of this support slot and by the way he disses Derby, I get the impression they’ve hot footed it across Britain in a transit van to fill this slot but no. A quick look at their Myspace reveals they too are Derby boys, and like 'The Souvenirs', well established on the local scene.
They are an energetic five piece who struggle for space on the stage and have something of ‘The View’ about them or is that just because they’re a tad shambolic at times, in a good way. We’re not tally convinced about the point of the keyboard player though, the token girl seems oddly lost, as is her contribution. Her keyboards get lost somewhere amongst their riotous sound, which has potential and would become more intelligible, if they calmed down a touch.
The highlight of the night almost arrived when Ryan seemed to contemplate swinging on one of the Royal’s ‘posh’ chandeliers; it used to be a hotel you know. He seems to change his mind at the last moment, it’s a good job, it would not have held his weight and could have fused the whole building. He just gives it a shove instead, popping a bulb in the process.
They finish by pushing a speaker off the stage and hurling a guitar after it, everyone’s gone so 'rock n roll' tonight and it’s a good job the crowd are standing a little back. Ryan then plays the last few notes on the cymbals with his microphone. I hope they find fame and fortune soon because they’re going to be going through some equipment at some rate.
Ryan does appear to be a big Joy Formidable fan, having seen them last month at the Dot-to-Dot and seems thrilled they’ve got in to see them free tonight.
The Joy Formidable certainly aren’t local, hailing from Mold, North Wales. They sneak up onto the stage with little fuss but quickly set about living up to and then trampling all over their already impressive live reputation. They’ve improved since we last saw them, their sound becoming a bit more distinguishable, less of a haze but still sounding ethereal; think early Lush with balls and a touch of Kim Deal thrown in for good measure. The critics have tagged it ‘shoegazing’ as they did then and do so again now.
They open with their current single, the terrific ‘Whirring’ and immediately put everything into a thumping delivery of it. An approach they continue all night. In fact it leaves you exhausted just watching the amount of energy they expend, particularly Matt Thomas on drums. Such fantastic drumming and his pounding rhythms are the backbone of the power of the band. His efforts leave him visibly gasping for breath. Regrettably my camera battery gives out before I can get a photo of him and his under fire drum kit.
Suppose you could also feel sorry for my ears, his thundering delivery, along with Ritzy Bryan’s eardrum-shredding guitar makes my ears wonder why we elected to be front row.
‘Whirring’ ends or rather doesn’t and instead merges in to the thumping intro of ‘Cradle’. Possibly their two best songs back to back, a brilliant duo of urgent, thrusting pop.
The band clearly know how to write a catchy song even if they do choose to layer a haze of noise over it. They could of course go away, capitalise on that inherent catchiness, and write a classic pop song. I’m sure they’re well capable. They could bag a big hit and never look back, never play the likes of the ‘Red Room’ again, which would be shame of course, but judging by the new stuff played tonight ‘Greyhounds’, ‘Anemone’ and ‘Spectrum’ (I think), they have no intention of deviating from their current path. Good job too. ‘Spectrum’, if that is indeed what it is called, was a definite highlight for me.
Ritzy manages to juggle looking pretty cool in black stockings, boots etc, whilst playing guitar and managing not to trip over her huge pedal board, although sometimes only just, whilst all the time slaying us with her voice. She doesn’t talk much but perhaps she doesn’t have the breath to spare and instead seems to rely on her piercing eyes to communicate with the crowd.
Then there’s the great basslines laid down by Rhydian Dafydd. At times you need three sets of eyes to take it all in.
A thundering version of ‘The Last Drop’, think Breeders, is followed by the more mellow ‘Ostrich’ which ends with its solemn drum beats, giving Matt a rest of sorts.
Then it’s the ‘oohs’ and ‘aahs’ of ‘Austere’, which may or may not have something to do with the ‘Moaning’ part of the title of their oddly entitled mini-album ‘A Balloon Called Moaning’. The song does seem to hint at erotic intentions, although it’s often difficult to make much sense of Ritzy’s lyrics. One of their fans clearly got very excited about it and compiled a video for it using clips from the website Beautiful Agony, which was promptly banned by everyone, even YouTube. The band loved it though and still host it on thejoyformidable.com. It’s actually really good, rather ermm... arty, although probably NSFW.
They finish their nine song set with the anthem that is ‘The Greatest Light Is The Greatest Shade’. It’s a fitting finale; good enough to make the hairs on your neck stand up.
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The student realised the thinker didn’t understand at all. It was the very pure, bestial freedom that was being eroded and lost every day. Animals act on instinct. The more humans progressed, the more they second-guessed, worried, self-mutilated their minds over simple decisions. Mental self-harm. It was natural to outsource the worry to a higher authority. But that authority was not holy, it was human, with all its flaws and desires. Those who take up the mantle then besiege the confused, panicky population with dark slogans: Life is dread! Every waking moment a peril! Fear the freedom of others to do things to you, fear your own freedom to undo you! Donate your freewill to the higher cause – and our instructions will lead you to the Holy Grounds!
His friends seemed to fade into the background and he just let the sentences spill out of his mouth, unguarded and unashamed. ‘We’ve dragged ourselves out of the swamps and into the bright sunlight of intelligence. But we’re just frightened rabbits, right, in the sun’s headlights and we don’t know what good or evil mean any more, we don’t know what we’re supposed to do at all. All we seem to be really good at doing is finding out more and more and fucking up our brains. The puzzle gets bigger and more complicated. So much information to take on board, the internet drowns us and we scrabble for dry land, anything that can keep us afloat. Faced with the enormous complexity of life, nature, science, art – fucking everything – we feel like turning back, putting up our hands and resigning. But we can – we should – make our hands into fists and roar at the universe that we don’t give in that easily.’
He stood up, raised a fist at the air itself and shouted: ‘Fuck you, universe!’
His eyes watered as he hadn’t blinked throughout his little rant against the faulty human system. He glanced across his friends through a gauze of tears, and saw that his fellow anarchists had been stunned into silence. Were they impressed or just shocked? He sighed aloud, for he was still alone after all. There was potential in this group, but would the thinker prove to be an ally or a hindrance in the long-term?
But his girlfriend. She stared at him with an expression that was neither pitiful nor hateful, just intrigued. He didn’t understand why – did she get it now? Did she understand? The group hadn’t been happy to bring a zealot into their midst without some grooming… but he was hopeful she could be turned around. There was always an elegant consistency to her perspective; if he could puncture some of her views, then she might, just might, re-arrange everything to see things their way.
The athlete broke the silence with a sharp change of subject, saying, ‘You know, what’s really worrying are the current rumours about the Paladins-’
‘Holy moley moley!’ the musician shouted, who had been playing with her cell.
The thinker shouted, ‘Good God, enough shouting for this evening! Could everybody please stop shouting!’
‘TV, get the TV on right now. Any channel, any channel at all. You are not going to believe this.’
‘Believe what?’ said the thinker.
The musician was lost for words, gasping for something, stuck with just: ‘TV!’
The student hauled himself up off the floor, wandered over to the TV, switched it on, saw two words in bold, white lettering on its plasma display and felt his jaw drop.
‘Get out of the fucking way,’ yelled the poet, ‘we can’t see a bloody thing!’ The student jumped aside as ordered.
The thinker retorted, ‘Stop shouting for God’s sakes! Will you please stop the’ –he saw the same two words that had stunned the student– ‘oh you gotta be kidding.’
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PremieresAugust 13, 2013
Stream Chromeo and Oliver’s Remix of Donna Summer’s ‘Love Is In Control’
Verve Records has announced the release of ‘Love To Love You Donna‘, a remixes album celebrating the life and voice five-time Grammy Award winning singer and songwriter Donna Summer.
Scheduled for a release in October, twelve DJs and remixers including Chromeo, Giorgio Moroder, Hot Chip and Oliver have all contributed to the the album.
The first single from the record is quite a good one: Chromeo & Oliver, who have been given the honour of remixing Donna Summer’s ‘Love Is In Control’ (Finger On The Trigger).
As far as tag-team duos go this is quite and good one, and the remix doesn’t disappoint. It’s a full-fat piece of disco funk with Oliver’s big-room disco blended with Chromeo’s talk-box antics.
And while we have your attention: Oliver have a new video from their recent ‘Mechanical‘ EP which is out now via Fool’s Gold, so make sure you check it below, and finally keep an eye out for a ‘Mechanical’ remixes EP too.
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The LaFerrari’s architecture posed the first challenge for the Prancing Horse team at the planning stage of the design. The aim was to achieve ideal weight distribution (59% at the rear) and a compact wheelbase despite the extra bulk of the hybrid system. The result is that all of the masses are situated between the car’s two axles and as close as possible to the floor to lower its centre of gravity (by 35 millimetres) and thereby guarantee dynamic handling and compact dimensions.
The layout of the cabin made a significant contribution in this regard. The seat is fixed and tailored to the driver while both the pedal box and steering wheel are adjustable. The driving position is similar to that of a single-seater and was designed after consultation with the Scuderia Ferrari drivers, Fernando Alonso and Felipe Massa, who played an active role throughout the entire development process.
The LaFerrari’s chassis features no less than four different types of carbon-fibre, all hand-laminated and autoclave-cured in the racing department using the same design and production methods as the Formula 1 car. This helped optimise the design: various functions were integrated (e.g. seats and battery compartment) into the chassis to improve torsional rigidity (+27%) and beam stiffness (+22%) whilst cutting weight.
The LaFerrari is the first car in Ferrari history to be powered by the HY-KERS system. The ICE represents the pinnacle of engine development and research, with a 6262 cc V12 that punches out 800 CV and revs to a maximum of 9,250 rpm, a record for an engine of this displacement. It also features a very high 13.5:1 compression ratio and a high specific output equal to 128 CV per litre. The engine is coupled with a 120 Kw (163 CV) electric motor, giving it a combined power output of 963 CV.
The high torque levels available at low revs from the electric motor allowed the engineers to optimise the internal combustion engine’s performance at higher revs, thus providing a constant supply of exceptional power throughout the rev range. Total torque generated is in excess of 900 Nm. The hybrid system is composed of two electric motors developed in collaboration with Magneti Marelli – one powering the driven wheels and the second the ancillaries – and a battery pack attached to the floor of the chassis consisting of cells that are assembled in the Scuderia Ferrari department where the KERS for the F138 is also made. The Scuderia’s expertise allowed considerable savings in weight and size of the individual components and the batteries weigh just 60 kg while providing the highest energy density possible for this kind of application.
The batteries are charged in different ways: under braking (even hard braking with the ABS active) and every time the V12 produces more torque than required, such as in cornering. In the latter instance, rather than the being sent to the wheels, the excess torque is converted to energy and stored in the batteries.
The electric motor is coupled with the F1 dual-clutch gearbox to the benefit of optimal weight distribution, but also to boosting energy efficiency as torque is instantly available to the wheels and, vice versa, from the wheels to the electric motor in recharging.
Active aerodynamics play an essential role, as they allow a complete adjustability of the car’s configuration to attain LaFerrari’s exceptional performance.
The engineers’ aim was to deliver the highest degree of aerodynamic efficiency ever achieved with any road car, with a coefficient of nearly 3, thanks to technical solutions honed with CFD analysis and fine-tuned in the F1 Wind Tunnel.
To boost efficiency, the LaFerrari sports active aerodynamic devices front (diffusers and guide vane on the underbody) and rear (diffusers and rear spoiler) which generate downforce when needed without compromising the car’s overall drag coefficient. These devices deploy automatically on the basis of a number of different performance parameters which are monitored in real time by the car’s dynamic vehicle controls, thus guaranteeing the ideal configuration on the basis of the driving conditions.
One further innovative aspect of the LaFerrari is the integration of its active aerodynamics and hybrid system with the other dynamic control systems aboard. This means the car responds intelligently to driver inputs, making for a seamless blend of unprecedented performance and unparalleled driving emotions.
Proprietary Ferrari algorithms deliver optimal integration of the electric motor and V12 for instantaneous response. In cornering, for instance, the HY-KERS keeps the V12’s revs high to guarantee better acceleration on exit.
The LaFerrari’s Brembo braking system is also integrated with the hybrid system, and incorporates several new features, including new lightweight callipers designed to guarantee correct cooling and carbon-ceramic material (CCM) discs featuring a new composition.
The car’s extreme performance potential called for a different tyre set-up, with 265/30 R 19 Pirelli P-Zeros on the front and 345/30 R 20s on the rear.
All in all the car guarantees maximum driving thrills in every situation and performance levels are top level: 0-100 km/h in less than 3 seconds and 0-200 km/h in under 7 seconds, a lap time at Fiorano of under 1’20” – 5 seconds faster than the Enzo and over 3 seconds faster than the F12berlinetta. LaFerrari is thus the fastest road car in Maranello’s long history.
Styling The Ferrari design team led by Flavio Manzoni developed the LaFerrari’s styling working in close synergy with the engineers to emphasise the exacting link between form and function. The result is an extreme, innovative design which retains close links to the marque’s tradition. This is most evident in its side profile: the car has a sharp, downward-sloping nose and a very low bonnet which emphasises its muscular wheelarches, a clear nod to the gloriously exuberant forms of late-1960s Ferrari sports prototypes.
The LaFerrari’s body has been given a sculptural treatment heavily influenced by its clearly F1-inspired aerodynamics and a tail section that exudes uncompromising sportiness.
Inside there’s a newly-designed steering wheel sporting all the major commands, and the gear-shift paddles are now longer and more ergonomic. The signature bridge on which the F1 gearbox functions are clustered has taken on a sleek, suspended wing-like shape. The whole interior, in fact, has a fiercely track-inspired, pared-back allure.
The Ferrari range
Aside from the new limited-series special, the Ferrari stand also features the complete range which is the most wide-ranging and critically acclaimed in its entire history. The five models all share the same Ferrari DNA in terms of performance, driving pleasure and technology, yet each one has its own strongly unique identity, in line with the company’s philosophy of “different Ferraris for different Ferraristi”.
Ferrari’s 12-cylinder GT sports car prowess is represented at Geneva by the FF, the very first four-seater and four-wheel drive in Prancing Horse history. It will be sporting a Grigio Ingrid livery with an elegant glass roof and Iroko interior. The FF is also now seamlessly integrated with Apple technologies, thanks to direct access to the infotainment system via SIRI voice commands and the adoption of two iPad Minis as the entertainment system of choice for the rear seat passengers.
Blistering performance and sublime driving pleasure even at low speeds are assured behind the wheel of the multi-award-winning F12berlinetta, which is powered by a mid-front V12. Unique handling characteristics, extreme aerodynamics and an innovative yet classic design are its signatures. The car on show at Geneva has a Grigio Silverstone livery and a Sella di Cavallo interior.
Moving on to the 8-cylinders, the California 30, in sophisticated Nero Stellato with a Crema interior, is a convertible GT that uncompromisingly marries sportiness and versatility. The California’s already-massive popularity with both press and public alike grew still further after its V8’s output was upped by 30 hp to 490 hp, and 30 kg was slashed off its overall weight.
The blistering 458 Italia is a sublime, thoroughbred sports car. It and its drop-top sibling, the 458 Spider, are equipped with the same extraordinary mid-rear-mounted V8 engine which was named International Engine of the Year in both 2011 and 2012. These two models continue Ferrari’s glorious tradition with this particular layout. The coupé seen at Geneva sports an aggressive Bianco Avus livery and sleek black interior with carbon-fibre trim, while the Spider, which dominates the Tailor-Made extreme personalisation area, takes its inspiration from the legendary 1957 250 Testa Rossa that sold for a record 16 million dollars at auction at Pebble Beach in 2011. It has the same red and blue livery and a host of competition car details in its cabin, not least of which are suede-upholstered seats and Alutex trim.
HY-KERS system
Total maximum power 963 CV
Total maximum torque >900 Nm
V12 maximum power* 800 CV @9000 rpm
Maximum revs 9250 rpm
V12 maximum torque 700 Nm @6750 rpm
Electric motor output 120 Kw (163 CV)
CO2 emissions** 330 g/km
Maximum speed over 350 km/h
0-100 km/h <3 sec 0-200 km/h <7 sec 0 - 300 km/h 15 sec
Type 65-deg. V12
Bore and stroke 94 x 752 mm
Total displacement 6262 cc
Specific power 128 CV/l
Weight distribution 41% fr, 59% r
7-speed DCT
Front double wishbones
Rear multi-link
Tyres(Pirelli P-Zero)
Front 265/30 – 19
Rear 345/30 – 20
Carbon ceramic brakes (Brembo)
Front 398 x 223 x 36 mm
Rear 380 x 253 x 34 mm
ESC stability control
High performance ABS/EBD Sistema frenata anti bloccaggio prestazionale /electronic brake balance
EF1-Trac F1 electronic traction control integrated with the hybrid system
E-Diff 3 third generation electronic differential
SCM-E Frs magnetorheological damping with twin solenoids (Al-Ni tube)
* with dynamic ram effect
**Undergoing homologation
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This is just awesome, Rocky! Just awesome!
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Parabellum replied to Pave Low's topic in Arma 3 - General Discussion
Overall, this DLC has been one of the most underwhelming releases BIS has put out in some time. Aside from breaking a whole swathe of community content -- and let's be honest, BIS games are kept afloat by the modding community -- the content added is subpar and not at all worthy of the money asked by BIS. From the shoddy (and in some cases, broken) "features", to the weapons (A .338 LMG, really?) to the useless (firing drills, anyone?) the entire DLC makes me think the Good Idea Fairy must have taken up permanent residence at BIS's offices. There's no other explanation for a company taking a product that could be so great, and making it so ... laughable.
Need Recommended Games
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Try Arma 3. If you do, then I recommend finding a community to play with online; the game is okay in single-player, but multiplayer is where it really shines, if you can find a decent community where you feel like you fit in.
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A Sad Day for GRAW2
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It's always sad news when a member of our community passes. My condolences to Bob's family.
Burner's "An Analytical View of ARMA's Artificial Intellig
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Warning: Long read, but for anyone who wants to know a bit about Arma 3, please stick around. I've been modding for this game for 15 years, and worked as a developer for projects based on the RV engine, which the Arma series is based on. This is a discussion to which I would very much like to contribute. To begin, some of the comments I'm reading seem to be confusing AI with scripting; Ghost Recon's AI wasn't great, in fact, they were highly predictable, frustrating and in many ways, completely horrible. Ex: The AI's habit of turning 180 degrees and instantly shooting you in the head, from the hip, while you were lying prone over 200m away. Ex: Hordes of enemies running from across the map toward the sound of gunfire, while enemies closer remained standing on their street corner, smoking their cigarettes. Clearly, those are some monumental failings. What Ghost Recon did well, however, was to simulate basic small-unit tactics by using scripted sequences to control the AI units in certain situations. An excellent example would be the way Ghost Recon's AI teams would attempt to suppress you and then flank your position upon taking contact. That isn't AI at work; that's a script, written by the game's designers. The difference being that AI at work are largely autonomous and do more or less 'what they want', within the confines of their programming. Scripted sequences rely on, well, scripts which tell the AI what to do and/or where to go, while still allowing them some degree of autonomy, such as still allowing AI to communicate targets to one another, call for help and engage targets. Hence, the utter predictability of that particular maneuver. When Ghost Recon's AI had to actually fall back on their own routines, they'd do stupid things like walk out into the open and stand there. Or, somehow magically know exactly where you are, and walk right up to you, even though you're hiding in a bush. Or walk up to a pile of the bodies of their dead friends, and then look around, as if to ask "What happened here?" before being added to said pile. Conversely, if you look at Arma, particularly at Arma 3, the AI can be unpredictable on the battlefield, sometimes frustratingly so. When you want an AI squad to do one thing, even after you've given them waypoints and scripts, they still do what they want. Sure, you can predict in the macro sense what they'll do: If you fight a single squad, then they'll pretty much fight you head-on. If you inflict enough damage, then they'll retreat, regroup and counterattack until they're all dead or you're dead or you retreat. But, on the macro scale, they aren't predictable. This is because AI is actually doing the work, rather than scripts. Obviously, this isn't the case, if you're using Zeus AI, ASR AI, UPSMON (my personal favorite) or some other community-generated addon that claims to modify AI. They don't. None of them actually modify the game's AI. What they do is control and constrain the AI through the use of scripts and/or modified configuration files (we'll get to the latter in a moment -- it's of vital importance). Ghost Recon's developers simply used scripts to enhance the AI in-house, out of the gate. On a macro scale, however, if you were to sit back and watch Arma 3's AI battle it out over a large area of terrain, over a long period of time (via the Zeus game mode, for instance), then you'd see something different. You'd see that the AI in Arma 3 actually do use coordinated tactics such as bounding movements and flanking maneuvers, both at the squad level and at the higher level. Does it look clean, neat and precise? No. It looks sloppy and chaotic. As it should. But they do what they should be doing. Most of the time. They will also call for reinforcements or support, provided you have placed those support assets and given units the ability to do so. No scripting is needed for this any more. Simply place BIS's game modules down, synchronize them with the desired units, and go. As has been mentioned, Arma's AI does have some failings. They stink at driving, especially in convoys. Hot LZ's are another concern. (Note: This is a great reason to play with a gaming group that has competent pilots: You don't need to rely on AI to get you into and out of combat.) They're also nasty in close quarters, due to their habit of going prone upon enemy contact. Your team's awesome breach tactic, perfectly executed? Doesn't matter, because you weren't expecting a prone RPK gunner to be lying down at the end of the hall, just barely within view of the doorway, and he smoked your whole team. In some ways, that's maddening. In others, it simulates the behavior of other people pretty well. Yes, they also do silly things like turn in circles, stand/kneel/prone repeatedly and walk into walls on occasion. But on the large scale, it works. Also, there aren't any other games out there that offer an AI package capable of so much, especially one that is so easily complemented by community-created script packages. Lastly, on to config issues, one of the game's biggest failings. To put it plainly, Arma's AI issues have very little to do with the actual AI, and almost everything to do with some other aspect of the game. That 'other aspect' is usually one of the game's main configuration files, which may control vehicle-handling, weapons-handling, etc. In particular, the weapon config entries, vehicle entries and the CFGAISkill class have a profound effect on AI. For clarification, all people, whether human or AI-controlled, are vehicles in the Arma engine. BIS are notorious for using a sledge hammer when they should use a scalpel, when it comes to some of their config values. This is especially true for weapon-handling values, in particular those which constrain the ranges at which AI will engage you. Have you ever gotten up close to an enemy AI in Arma 3, say, within 10 meters or so, and just had him look at you, as if he really wanted to shoot you, but couldn't? That's because he couldn't. By default, Arma's carbines, rifles, machine guns and long rifles are coded so AI can't engage closer than 30 meters. Think about that for a moment, and then ask yourself why they panic in close quarters. It's because their AI routine is telling them to shoot you, but their equipped weapon won't let them do so. Hence, chaos ensues. This is quite easily solved, and there are some mods out there that make the game a lot more fun by doing nothing more than -- I kid you not -- changing the ranges at which AI can see you and engage you. I won't go into the problems with the vehicle values or CFGAISkill, because they're numerous and would likely bore most readers to tears. I will, however, say that, by simply redefining many of the variables in CFGVehicles (the class in which all people are found in Arma), CFGWeapons and CFGAISkill, my gaming group was able to provide for ourselves a much more enjoyable and much more realistic experience. This is partially because, by redefining these variables, we've basically allowed the AI to do what they were programmed to do in the first place. You just aren't seeing in the vanilla game what the AI were actually designed to do. PS: The Guard Waypoint was completely misrepresented in Burner's quoted piece above. It's one of the most powerful tools Arma can give a mission maker, provided the mission maker actually knows how to use it.
First case of Ebola confirmed in the United States
Parabellum replied to ApexMods's topic in "Off Topic" Posts
Great post, Apex. (Your posts always are.) There's no rational explanation -- beyond political explanations that we can't touch here -- for certain African borders not to have been closed immediately and for Western nations not to have closed our borders to anyone coming from those nations, until the virus has run its course. Ebola is nasty, nasty business. Ebola is killing nearly half of the medical professionals who are trying to help contain and fight the virus. If that doesn't stop and make one stop and consider the potential seriousness of the situation, then I'm not sure what would. Mobs of superstitious villagers aren't helping matters; they're blaming Ebola workers for the spread of the virus and slaughtering them. So, the hopes for a quick containment or development of a vaccine may be a bit light at this point. Add to this the unwillingness of governments to do the necessary and temporarily close borders to help prevent the spread of the virus.
Clint Eastwood's "American Sniper" - Official Trailer
Gordo linked this on Facebook a few days ago. It looks very good, indeed.
The threat of Ebola is absolutely something about which you should be concerned and to which you should be paying attention. The potential for widespread infection is secondary to the potential for widespread panic and all that accompanies it, if and when the virus takes hold in the West.
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Tekwych Teaches: Micronauts
Re: Tekwych Teaches: Micronauts
by NoisyDvL5 » Mon Jun 14, 2010 5:19 am
Thanks for the video, Tek! That's pretty good animation for 1999 too. I keep wondering if we'll see something for Micronauts on the Hub.
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by Tekwych » Thu Jun 17, 2010 12:28 pm
We have some esteemed lurkers at IAT. Bryan Wilkinson, AKA MicroBry, runs Rocket Tubes and is easily one of the top 5 historians of Takara and Microman / Micronauts out there. He was the 3d mastermind behind Palisades Micronauts and designer of many new accessories and characters. He is one of the Masters this Padowan still looks up to and wrote this response to my column:
...There were a few initial observations and comments I had though:
Cal R&D definitely did not design all the Mego-original toys. I have been in contact with Larry Jones from Cal R&D on and off as has Ray, and they *only* designed the aliens, Hornetroid, Terraphant, and the unproduced alien tower base. The other designs were all done by either Mego's in-house design team (including Nemesis by art director Hal Shull who also created the unique original packaging for the series) or with other contractors such as Stephen Hodges (who designed the early concepts for Ampzilla and Sharkos and a slew of unused concepts including a neat armadillo-like alien I own the original concept art for).
There is some debate about the later 3 aliens--Ray says Stephen Lee (now deceased) took credit for them in a conversation, but Larry Jones does not believe that they were created by Cal R&D (perhaps because he hasn't found any photographic record of their development and they were not patented by Cal R&D, unlike their other creations). Personally, I think Larry may just not recall them due to the lack of materials to jog his memory. I think Lobros was derived from the Cobroid concept, and there are hallmarks of Lee's design style on all three figures and their weapons. It is also possible that Mego derived them in-house from a hybrid of proposed concepts from Cal R&D and Hal Shull's ideas. It does seem to be the case that Cal R&D ended their relationship with Mego a year or two before the line ended (they developed the aliens stuff about a year before it was released).
On another note, Ray says that Inter-Changeables was entirely the (unauthorized, reportedly--the Takara license mentioned on the boxes was apparently never actually properly paid for, if Ray's source is accurate) of Howie Abrams, as told by both Marty and Ken Abrams. Howie Abrams is believed to know the location or fate of the original factory molds and may have had them melted down.
Also regarding Palisades, Ken Lilly has since further explained the situation with the factory--the factory itself was blameless, instead it was a middleman who managed the operation who double-crossed them and took the operation to the subcontracted facility then later vanished.
Anyway, just wanted to clarify these points. It's a convoluted history to be sure!
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by dayraven » Thu Jun 17, 2010 6:13 pm
wait, there's guys who know this property better than you do tek? how in the hell is that even possible? that just blows my mind.
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by Tekwych » Fri Jun 18, 2010 11:32 pm
MicroBry did a 4 part interview with FanMode about the line that offers his take on things and is a wonderful read for anyone who really wants to start to understand how the business of toys works.
by AcroRay » Sat Jun 19, 2010 9:39 am
Nice undertaking, Tekwych!
If you don't mind, I'll offer some clarifications with regard to the origins of some of Mego's and GiG's entries into the overall classic Micronauts toy series.
As noted, you've offered a fair amount of attribution to Larry Jones' company - Cal R & D - for Micronauts products. As Bry observed, some concepts may have originated with Cal R & D, but aren't directly attributable to them. As part of the Mego-Takara agreement, Cal R & D would provide product as well - such as the alien toys - even if it was simply a concept on paper that Mego would take elsewhere for additional development. That's probably what happened with the second series of aliens.
Cal R & D Hornetroid and Antron prototypes, shortly before delivery to Mego:
Taurion and Solarion, Sharkos and Ampzilla were designed by Steve Hodges (a great deal of his design materials were offered on eBay several years ago), who worked in-house for Mego as part of a larger group of designers, concept artists and craftsmen. Those were the shop of folks who also cooked up Nemesis. Mego also came up with the weapons for the Micronaut aliens, because with the exception of Repto's blaster, Cal R & D didn't have time to make them. (Repto's designer said to me that a circular saw as a weapon on a real battlefield was rediculous, and he'd never have added that to the figure.) Mego licensed the concept for Rocket Tubes from an American toy designer unrelated to Mego or Takara, and then hired a subcontractor to develop the product. Equestron and Iguanos were actually conceived by Rob Cobb and sold to Mego independantly for development into product in-house by Mego.
Mego also made use of a legendary firm in Pennsylvania known as the "HMS Company" (no longer in business) who handled all aspects of toy design, from raw concepts to prototype production. In some cases, a rough concept would be handed to them and they'd return a finished prototype for tooling by Mego - which was the case with Rocket Tubes. In others - such as the case with Hornetroid and Terraphant - a prototype would be given to them and they'd modifiy it to suit Mego's needs.
Cal R & D's Hornetroid prototype, at HMS repainted black and give a working c0ckpit :
That Rocket Tubes and other US-originated product looks so similar stylistically is due to the influence of HMS in the model-making for those toys. [It is worth noting that many of the toys we recall from our 60s & 70s childhoods trace their roots to HMS, ranging from all manner of Aurora model kits to Fisher Price toys, Hot Wheels sets, and much much more. They were probably the key design firm in the US during those eras.)
Unproduced "Ore Loader" Rocket Tubes accessory, from the HMS files.
GiG's exclusive Magno-Power figures were intended only for Italy. Their reps came to Mego during one Toy Fair and talked about the wild success of the Magnos in Italy (due, according to Italian Transformers artist and longtime Micronaut collector Guido Guidi, largely to the popularity of Steel Robo Jeeg in Italy.) and asked for more Magno product. According to Mego creative VP Bill Baron, their request was largely ignored by Marty, but Baron spent a night in the shop cooking up the raw concepts for Emperor and his Italian cohorts, which GiG happily ordered 10s of thousands of. But there was absolutely no intention of releasing them in the US, and only Lionrock's sales of Micronaut overstock to satisfy their parent company's debts brought Emperor and Megas to North America as a fluke.
Micronauts - and many Mego products - were actually the creative work of many different individuals and firms. Sadly, you never hear that. Much more of what really made Mego what it was is left unattibuted to anyone but Marty Abrams...
I'm very interested in hearing the details about your conversations with David Abrams. Takara's involvement in 'policing' the post-Mego use of the Micronauts tooling - and ordering it destroyed - is very interesting news to me.
I can say that I'm very happy the Micronauts property has finally be sold lock, stock and Thorium cannon barrel into other hands. It was simply being poisoned and stunted in AGE's stable. I just hope it returns as something my kids can enjoy, and that I can recognize as being "Micronaut."
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by dayraven » Sat Jun 19, 2010 10:29 am
thanks dude. god, i loved my hornetroid!!
by AcroRay » Sat Jun 19, 2010 12:32 pm
The late Neal Kublan - VP for Creative Development at Mego and one of the original managers of the Micronauts line - indicated that his understanding of the Italian release of Red Falcon and Blizzard exclusively in GiG's Micronauts line was due to an arrangement between Takara and GiG, and Mego wasn't involved. I would point out, however, that this was after Kublan left Mego and was no longer involved with the line or the companies' business.
It would make sense, however. As at that point GiG was entering a relationship with GiG that would allow them to release Diaclone and MicroChange as "Trasformers" - predating Takara's arrangement with Hasbro that birthed the more familiar and similarly-named TRANSFORMERS. During that pre-Hasbro time period, Takara was offering their wares simultaneously through various outlets globally, resulting in Grandstand's CONVERTORS in the UK, the KRONOFORM and DIAKRON lines, and other oddities.
by NoisyDvL5 » Tue Jun 22, 2010 6:56 am
The hornetroid looks like a really cool vehicle.
by CobraTracks » Tue Mar 22, 2011 8:30 am
I was unaware that any of my work was on E-Bay. What was on there.
Steve Hodges
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Alright Tek, lay it on me. Who is this that I found at an antique store tonite?
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Biting the hands that feed you SEP technologies
Longstanding and economically efficient balance in Standard-Essential Patent licensing is being destabilized by misinformation and manipulation of commercial practices and of benchmarks in Fair, Reasonable and Non-Discriminatory licensing. This is epitomized in litigation between Apple and Qualcomm, commencing January 2017, until settlement in April 2019 and in the US Federal Trade Commission’s antitrust action against Qualcomm also commencing around the same time and now on appeal. Many in the cellular industry—who unsurprisingly like the idea of lower prices for something they assimilate and must pay for rather than that they create or sell—have lapped this up. But that does not justify the disingenuity or negate the resulting harmful effects that undermine incentives for ongoing and long-term technology development in the mobile communication sector including 5G and the emerging Internet of Things.
“Goal: Reduce Apple's net Royalty to Qualcomm” [1]
Since the 1990s, Apple among others have taken various and elaborate steps to "Devalue SEPs." As indicated in the next three endnotes, I have analysed the failings in the first three of Apple's proposed measures for "Reshaping FRAND — Licensing, Litigation & Competition Law" including:
“Base = derived from smallest priceable component (i.e. baseband)”[2]
“Rate = no higher than adjusted pro-rata share of SEPs”[3]
“Control for quality, over-declaration & royalty stacking”[4]
“Build favorable, arms-length ‘comp’ licensees”
And, regarding the fourth measure, for example, Apple’s actions over the years in the run-up to suing Qualcomm were in “Creating Evidence” for the lawsuit so “[it]can leverage [its]purchasing power” and “captur[e]IP value with purchase power.” To achieve this, Apple “selectively filter[ed][deal-flow] pipeline to identify the most desirable deals,” it “Us[ed]Liabilities as an Asset” and “Evaluated risk, cost and use[d]as evidence… as a comparable in disputes with others.” Apple sought to “create leverage by building pressure” that would “hurt Qualcomm financially,” put “Qualcomm’s licensing model at risk” and “drive Qualcomm to engage Apple” on a significantly weakened basis.
Apple’s multi-pronged attack included coercing its suppliers—contract manufacturers Foxconn, Pegatron, Wistron and Compal—into violating supply agreements, including those forged with Qualcomm two or more years before a couple of them even started making iPhones for the launch of the very first model in mid 2007. Apple’s stipulations demanded “[CM] does not settle any such claim or allegation, or make any admissions of liability or admissions relevant to the claim or allegation (related to the Goods), or take any other action that [CM] knows or should reasonably know will harm Apple’s position(s) with respect to the claim or allegation, without Apple’s prior written permission.” For example, according to one of them: “our customer has recently [as of April 2017]requested compal to stop the royalty payment to Qualcomm.” For CMs to continue paying would have left them incurring losses by not being able to recover licensing costs along with component and manufacturing costs, as was the norm. “Apple may notify Supplier that Apple will not pay Supplier any amount attributable to mobile technology license fees at any time, and after the date of any such notification, any mobile technology license fees that Supplier pays are the sole responsibility of Supplier.”
Timeline of Contract Manufacturers’ Subscriber Unit Licensing Agreements
Unlike Apple with gross profit margins of around 60 percent on its iPhones, corresponding figures for CMs are one tenth of that and CMs typically have operating margin percentages in the low single digits. Qualcomm had been receiving licensing royalties of $7.50 per iPhone until Apple forced its CMs to stop paying. That was, for example, one fifth the cost of the camera and versus total component, assembly and test costs of $325 [Endnote 5] for the iPhone 8 Plus. The unsubsidized retail price of this model was $799. Product costs and prices are from 2017/2018 for the cheapest model with 64GB of memory.
The restrictions Apple imposed on its CMs were in overt breach of its (2013-2016) Business Cooperation and Patent Agreement (BCPA) with Qualcomm for which “Apple [was]at risk for infringement, tortious interference and full royalties (plus and interest, penalties, etc).” The BCPA required that “Apple shall not knowingly take (or continue taking) any action against or make any demand of any Qualcomm Licensee that prevents, restricts, or discourages such Qualcomm Licensee from which it purchases Apple Devices from complying fully with the terms of such Qualcomm Licensee’s QC License Agreement.” Apple found it “Beneficial to wait to provoke a patent fight until after the end of 2016” when the flow of all the benefits it received from Qualcomm ceased with expiration of the BCPA.
IP value is unrelated to publication medium, hardware and manufacturing costs
We all understand and accept that most of the cost for books, recorded music, and movies is for the intellectual property added rather than in the publication medium. Similarly, with generic drugs typically being 80-85 percent lower in price than patented pharmaceuticals, we recognize that most of the value in the latter before patent expiration is in IP rather than in the cost of medicine manufacturing.
The parallels among book printing, audio or video disc manufacturing and chip manufacture are closer than one might imagine. In all these cases, production plant is quite generic, typically operated by independent manufacturers and can be rapidly reconfigured to serve the needs of different customers and products. Declining manufacturing process costs including in silicon foundries have little or no relationship with costs of content or technology development elsewhere. While Taylor Swift sounds and has very different IP ownership to Black Sabbath, CD production of their respective albums is as oblivious and independent of that as is TSMC’s chip foundry to the cellular or video codec SEP ownership and to the implementation of cellular modem designs by MediaTek versus Huawei’s HiSilicon. The production of CDs and chips is, therefore, rather like printing from a commercial perspective.
So why is there such resistance to paying total royalties of no more than around five percent of smartphone costs in patent licensing fees in patent-rich devices such as smartphones?
IP costs are typically buried and invisible in technology product bills of materials. Where a manufacturing company develops its own IP for the products it produces, the R&D cost is accounted for as a fixed and sunk indirect cost—not a variable cost in production, as with the addition of a camera or baseband chip. The same accounting treatment applies when that IP value is cross-licensed to other manufacturers for net-zero or much reduced net licensing charges. In some cases, concerted action among product suppliers insists that patented and other technologies are only licensed to those who contribute their IP gratis, as is the case with open source software and some royalty-free patent pooling arrangements, as is the case with the Bluetooth Special Interest Group and with the USB Implementers Forum. They do that because costs are recovered from their financial returns on selling products and services that incorporate those technologies. It is only when that IP is procured from elsewhere in licensing for cash payments and without the quid pro quo in cross-licensing the manufactures of others that true values are revealed anywhere, such in the management or financial accounts.
Qualcomm was targeted despite and because of its superior patent strength
Apple recognised internally that “Qualcomm is widely considered the owner of the strongest patent portfolio for essential and relevant patents for wireless standards.” However, with the measures identified above, in public statements, in its litigation complaints against Qualcomm and in its sponsorship of the FTC action against Qualcomm, Apple sought to undermine SEP valuations generally. Qualcomm leads among owners of wireless SEPs and SEPs reading on other standards applicable to Apple’s products implementations. Apple recognises Qualcomm superior position: “compared to others [Huawei, Nokia, Ericsson, InterDigital and Apple], Qualcomm holds a stronger position in each of the [ WiFi, audio/video and cellular SEP] categories, and particularly with respect to cellular and WiFi SEPs”.
Apple also recognizes that Qualcomm “has significant holdings in other areas, including many areas relevant to Apple… Compared to other licensors, Qualcomm has more significant holdings in key areas such as media processing, non-cellular communications and hardware. Likewise, using patent citation analysis as a measure of thorough prosecution within the US PTO, Qualcomm patents (SEPs and non-SEPs both) on average score higher compare to the other, largely non-US based licensors.” And yet, Apple’s much-published arguments were also that Qualcomm’s non-SEPs are not worth much.
Qualcomm’s licensing-for-money business model was the most lucrative target for Apple in potential cost savings, because licensing by Ericsson and Nokia—that used to license defensively to protect handset business downstream and still have large downstream network equipment businesses—continue to be limited—particularly by their legacy comps including extensive cross-licensing—in the extent to which they can be fully and property rewarded in cash royalties for their patent value.
While some OEMs have managed to “hold out” from paying their fair share in patent licensing fees, the status quo in SEP licensing under FRAND terms has worked rather well overall. For example, billions of consumers use gigabytes of mobile data per month on smartphones that are their primary or only means of internet access. In the US, consumers spend more time on their mobile devices than they do watching television, in significant part because video streaming on these devices is substituting substantially for the former. At 3 hours 43 minutes per day in 2019, the average U.S. adult spends more time using all their mobile devices (including smartphones, tablets, etc.) than they do watching television.
Apple’ CEO Tim Cook even publicly recognized the value of improvements in cellular technology. For example, in an April 2016 call to investors he said “[T]he LTE rollout with India just really began this year, and so we’ll begin to see some really good networks coming on in India. That will unleash the power and capability of the iPhone in a way that an older network, a 2.5G or even some 3G networks, would not do.”
Licensors of the standard-essential technologies that have made much of the above possible are not simply free riding on previous accomplishments in their licensing demands. Leading SEP developers, including Ericsson, Nokia and Qualcomm in particular, have no direct share of the large mobile phone product market, which is worth nearly $500 billion annually and provides stellar profits to Apple, or of the operator services market worth $1 trillion or of the revenues Internet platforms and applications including Android, Uber and Facebook generate from mobile devices. Consequently, these licensors need and deserve adequate compensation, by other means, for their major R&D developments in SEP technologies.
New technology developments are enabling an accelerating pace of improvements including 5G which, for example, have unlocked access to the mmWave spectrum that is providing orders of magnitude more cellular network speed and capacity than was even thought conceivable less than ten years ago when 4G was first introduced. With significant further developments still required, 5G promises so much more in ultra-reliable and low-latency communications including connections to a multitude of things as well as people.
The pace of innovation is increasing, but it is largely the same relatively few companies that make most of the technical contributions to standard setting organizations, such as 3GPP for cellular, and that file SEP declarations to the ETSI IP rights database. Some of those companies are increasingly dependent on licensing for fees rather than selling manufactured products to make a return on their large R&D investments.
Legal tussles and consequences of Decisions
There is much ongoing legal dispute with tensions among patent law, contract law and antitrust law: in Qualcomm’s appeal to Judge Koh’s Decision in the US FTC case and elsewhere among other litigants. Matters include those of patent exhaustion, where in the supply chain licensing may or should occur, tying and exclusive dealing, the meaning for FRAND, availability of injunctions, and jurisdictional issues among nations in contract interpretation and in global licensing. Judgments on appeal in the US and EU and in the UK Supreme Court (i.e. Unwired Planet v Huawei; Conversant v Huawei and ZTE) could bring about major disruptive changes with significant unexpected as well as expected consequences. Litigants should be wary of possible and likely adverse long-term consequences in what they wish for, given the huge success of the mobile sector for manufacturers, operators and the enormous benefits it has provided to consumers.
I will finish with another idiom that comes to mind with the British Pantomime season upon us. While the idiom is from Mother Goose, it is more widely known from is origins in one of Aesop’s Fables. Don’t kill the goose that lays the golden egg!
The goose that lays the golden egg
[1] This and all subsequent quotes, apart from a public announcement by Apple’s CEO, Tim Cook, are from internal documents at Apple, as found through discovery in the litigation between Apple and Qualcomm, and as revealed publicly for the first time in Qualcomm’s Opening Statement presentation at trial on April 16, 2019. In Re: Qualcomm litigation Case No. 3:17cv0108-GPC-MDD (S.D. Cal.) https://www.scribd.com/document/407463620/Qualcomm-opening-statement. The trial was terminated very shortly thereafter that day with dispute settlement between Apple and Qualcomm. See also: https://www.qualcomm.com/news/releases/2019/04/16/qualcomm-and-apple-agree-drop-all-litigation
[2] https://cpip.gmu.edu/2015/10/07/busting-smartphone-patent-licensing-myths/
[3] http://www.ip.finance/2017/05/do-not-count-on-accuracy-in-third-party.html
[4] http://www.ip.finance/2015/08/cumulative-mobile-sep-royalty-payments.html
[5] TechInsights estimates for component, assembly and test costs.
This article was originally published in RCR Wireless on 17th December 2019.
Keith Mallinson is a leading industry analyst, commercial consultant and testifying expert witness. Solving business problems in wireless and mobile communications, he founded consulting firm WiseHarbor in 2007.
Posted by Keith Mallinson at 10:13:00
Labels: antitrust, FRAND royalties, SEPs, SSPPU
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The real world, and the real battle
Rod Dreher continues to inspire important discussions in the orthodox Christian community with his suggestion that the time is ripe for a "Benedict Option." Today, Rod asks readers what we think of critiques of the Benedict Option from those like Princeton Professor (and "New Natural Law" theorist) Robby George, who want to hold off on the Benedict Option and continue fighting, e.g., civil same-sex marriage (SSM), in the public square. Although a sacramental SSM is of course a non-starter for an orthodox Catholic like me, I think the larger question of whether cultural traditionalists should continue to follow the "Moral Majority" model of focusing our energies on politics is the right one is an important question. More precisely, I question if the Moral Majority model was ever the right one. Here is what I commented on Rod's post.
Robby George’s zeal and dedication are admirable (and he’s about the single most patient, affable, unaffected guy I can imagine, having once had the privilege of meeting him at a Christian Legal Society brown bag lunch) but I think the sacrifice he personally may be called to make is accepting that his prominence as a celebrated G.O.P. intellectual won’t survive much longer as the G.O.P. cynically walks away from the SSM issue so that it may better woo the pro-SSM cohorts that will be an ever-rising percentage of the electorate from 2016 onward. Happily, he has far more important work to do; as a selection from the Ken Myers talk about "seed ideas" quoted above says:
The most important way we can be a counterculture serving the common good is not through influencing government policies but through re-forming the moral and metaphysical imaginations of our contemporaries.
Precisely. Those seminal ideas are what rule the world, not political ephemera. St. Paul wielded far more lasting influence over the future than Nero. The Scholastic debates between realists and nominalists (as the post about Richard Weaver noted yesterday) did far more to lay the groundwork for the astonishing historical ruptures of modernity’s five centuries than the Hundred Years’ War. No one in a thousand years will care whether SSM became legal in the ancient American Empire because of a high court mandate or on a province-by-province basis. But today’s ideas, today’s discussions, today’s communities and culture, and most importantly, today’s prayers to the living God: those seeds will still be bearing fruit in a thousand years, in two thousand years. In reality, the fate of each individual soul—which is eternal—is of far more consequence than the political trifles of a decade, a century, or a season. Our worldly cares tempt us to ignore this, this lay of the land in the real world. As Frank Sheed wrote in the dedication to his classic Theology and Sanity:
Sanity, remember, does not mean living in the same world as everyone else; it means living in the real world. But some of the most important elements in the real world can be known only by the revelation of God, which it is theology’s business to study. Lacking this knowledge, the mind must live a half-blind life, trying to cope with a reality most of which it does not know is there. This is a wretched state for an immortal spirit, and pretty certain to lead to disaster. There is a good deal of disaster around at this moment.
If we think that helping some politician get elected is more important than prayer, contemplation, and community, then we are not living in the real world, but only in secular society’s impoverished, imprisoning view of what is real and important—devoting our lives to bickering about shadows with the other manacled fools in Plato’s cave. In his novel Perelandra, C.S. Lewis tried to evoke the reality in which we actually live, the water we fish don’t notice:
He thought he saw the Great Dance. It seemed to be woven out of the intertwining undulation of many cords or bands of light, leaping over and under one another and mutually embraced in arabesques and flower-like subtleties. Each figure as he looked at it became the master-figure or focus of the whole spectacle, by means of which his eye disentangled all else and brought it into unity only to be itself entangled when he looked to what he had taken for mere marginal decorations and found that there also the same hegemony was claimed, and the claim made good, yet the former pattern not thereby dispossessed but finding in its new subordination a significance greater than that which it had abdicated. He could see also (but the word “seeing” is now plainly inadequate) wherever the ribbons or serpents of light intersected, minute corpuscles of momentary brightness: and he knew somehow that these particles were the secular generalities of which history tells—peoples, institutions, climates of opinion, civilizations, arts, sciences, and the like—ephemeral coruscations that piped their short song and vanished. The ribbons or cords themselves, in which millions of corpuscles lived and died, were things of some different kind. At first he could not say what. But he knew in the end that most of them were individual entities. If so, the time in which the Great Dance proceeds is very unlike time as we know it Some of the thinner and more delicate cords were beings that we call short-lived: flowers and insects, a fruit or a storm of rain, and once (he thought) a wave of the sea. Others were such things as we also think lasting: crystals, rivers, mountains, or even stars. Far above these in girth and luminosity and flashing with colours from beyond our spectrum were the lines of the personal beings, yet as different from one another in splendour as all of them from the previous class. But not all the cords were individuals: some were universal truth or universal qualities. It did not surprise him then to find that these and the persons were both cords and both stood together as against the mere atoms of generality which lived and died in the clashing of their streams: but afterwards, when he came back to earth, he wondered. And by now the thing must have passed together out of the region of sight as we understand it. For he says that the whole solid figure of these enamoured and inter-inanimated circlings was suddenly revealed as the mere superficies of a far vaster pattern in four dimensions, and that figure as the boundary of yet others in other worlds: till suddenly as the movement grew yet swifter, the inter-weaving yet more ecstatic, the relevance of all to all yet more intense, as dimension was added to dimension and that part of him which could reason and remember was dropped farther and farther behind that part of him which saw, even then, at the very zenith of complexity, complexity was eaten up and faded, as a thin white cloud fades into the hard blue burning of the sky, and a simplicity beyond all comprehension, ancient and young as spring, illimitable pellucid, drew him with cords of infinite desire into its own stillness. He went up into such a quietness, a privacy, and a freshness that at the very moment when he stood Farthest from our ordinary mode of being he had the sense of stripping off encumbrances and awaking from trance, and coming to himself.
Angels and demons see this reality and its stakes for what they are. Elections and wars are but wet paper to them, fragile and ephemeral.
But the eternal soul of the most humble, pathetic “loser” you can imagine? A fortress forested with alabaster spires; vast as Sahara; looming like Himalaya; battlements warded by Heaven’s hosts, but besieged by demon legions; a great strategic prize in the one, only really Great War that ever was or will be: a rich trove of gems, a palisaded garden, a dazzling, awful armory of prayers meekly offered and thus terrible, terrible in their power to shape the Great War. A high-walled treasure city: the celestial and infernal armies’ struggle for it—could we but see it—a saga far worthier sung than trifling Troy’s! That’s the soul of the raving bum on the corner; the addict trembling in the squalid crack den; the disabled, disfigured child in the womb; the gay activist calling you a bigot in all caps on Facebook. That soul is of infinite value.
And so is your soul, and mine, and the soul of the young atheist you bring around to faith in Our Lord Jesus Christ by chatting about ideas in the coffee shop. That’s reality. Yes, this sublunary sphere matters: it is God’s good gift to us, which we are to cherish and steward, this globe both our garden and His Temple. But the really great common good is not most ably served by statesmanship, but by discipleship. Today’s hegemonic Rome may burn, and we will rightly mourn it as patriots who love our native earth. But we must not forget that it is not this Babylon, but the New Jerusalem, that is our country:
The Benedict Option is not a retreat: it is joining the battle in the real world.
Don’t retreat into the beguiling tribal squabbles of politics. Follow the King to battle.
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Pedagogical Esotericism in the Bible
Over at thoughtful, thought-provoking atheist blogger Scott Alexander's semimonthly open thread, commenter Cauê asks for theist commenters' views of the Bible. This a lightly edited version of the second point I made in my reply:
Esotericism is a huge deal in understanding ancient writing. Not esotericism of the “spooky occult secrets” sort, but pedagogical and belle-lettristic esotericism. I’ve been asked in Scott's comments before why, if God inspired the Bible, He didn’t clearly lay out what His plan was, and prove it was Him by dropping some modern science in there or something. The answer to the latter part is that He was working through autonomous human authors who didn’t know any modern science. The answer to the former is that ancient people never would’ve preserved a book that clearly laid out anything, because they scorned such books. They liked their books like we like our online RPGs: full of hidden Easter eggs. (Indeed, finding allegorical “Easter” eggs in the Old Testament was kind of the main hobby for Christian exegetes for centuries.)
From P.E. Gobry’s recent “pedagogical esotericism”-stressing review of the recent Straussian work Philosophy Between the Lines by Arthur M. Melzer
Philosophers did not just practice esotericism as a way of sneaking subversive ideas past the censors, but also as a pedagogical device, much in the way of Socrates’ insistent questioning. For the Ancient philosophers, philosophy was not just, perhaps not even primarily, a body of doctrine, but an attitude of the mind towards contemplation and relentless questioning. The task of making philosophers, then, was not primarily about imparting ideas, but about leading people towards a certain state of mind. The philosopher wanted his pupils to discover his ideas on their own, by studying the text and working hard to get past the literal meaning, and thereby growing into a philosophic mind and posture.
In this regard, Melzer points out something else (in retrospect obvious, but which was quite an “Aha!” moment for me), which is the rarity of books in the era before the advent of the printing press, and the fact that the classical liberal arts curriculum included long study in “rhetoric” (i.e. the art of writing) which is something we have all-but forgotten. Everyone who was educated was trained in writing and reading between the lines. And because books were rare and expensive, owners of books, instead of the contemporary practice of reading a book once and then just moving on to the next, would typically reread the same book many times over their lifetime. Knowing this, authors would typically be alert to write in an esoteric style, concealing many layers of meaning into the text, so that the book would still be rewarding on the Nth reading. Just like, to the contrary, anyone writing a book today knows all-too-well that his book is competing with millions of other books, and so strives to make his argument as clear, literal and obvious as possible for fear that the reader just drop the book and move on to another.
If this is how everyone understood the art of writing and the art of reading until very recently, then, certainly, this should have an impact on how we read the Bible. In fact, Strauss was first alerted to the reality of esoteric writing by his reading of Maimonides and Rashi, the two greatest Medieval rabbis. (Maimonides (like Aquinas) read Aristotle esoterically, as did every single Ancient commentator (Aristotle is the single author with the biggest secondary literature in the Ancient world), even though today Aristotle is considered as perhaps the most literal Ancient philosopher.)
Even without referring to inspired spiritual senses, we should still realize that the Modern prejudice that the surface meaning of a text is almost always the most authentic is just that–a culturally-contingent prejudice. By contrast, educated readers and writers for the rest of history would have had precisely the opposite assumption: that it’s more likely that the surface meaning of the text is not the most authentic. And this is indeed how many rabbis and Church Fathers read the Bible.
Anyway, that’s a lot. But as a Catholic, if there was ONE concept I wish contemporary atheists had in their head about the Bible, it would be how the modern secular, post-Protestant prejudice that a high quality book is necessarily a highly perspicuous book is 180 degrees from the stylistic canons of the Bible’s own era. Once I discovered the perspective of pedagogical esotericism, studying the Bible went for me from frustration at its ambiguity to delight in its intricacy. And I suddenly understood why the Church Fathers and the medieval Scholastics enjoyed commentating it so much, and why moderns tend to dislike it so much.
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Scrumping monkeys
Rod Dreher has a post up about animal rights activists trying to bring a habeas corpus suit on behalf of lab chimps at SUNY. I commented:
Bioethics is and will be the new disputed frontier of the culture wars.
Thus, this and similar suits in recent years are indeed ominous portents, although many here will doubtless wish to point out that they’re not succeeding…yet. The linked NY Times article indicates that the state judge involved sees this ruling as merely a way to get the parties into court, rather than as a ruling on the merits. So that’s good.
Further, legal personhood is a fictional construct—chimps aren’t people, but neither are corporate entities like business corporations, churches, political parties, etc. So legal personhood need not imply metaphysical personhood of the sort rightly assigned to humans. So that’s another reason not to fret.
However, there are still reasons to fret: Professor Tribe, in the linked article, says we’re not ready to grant “human personhood” to chimps “yet.” This is very dangerous rhetoric indeed. First, “human personhood,” real personhood, is the sort of personhood that thinkers of the ilk of Peter Singer and Julian Savelescu want society to grant to nonhuman animals (and maybe A.I. at some point), and withhold from the comatose, the unborn, and even infants under the age of two.
Animal rights activists’ focus on “personhood” lawsuits like habeas corpus actions reveals (not that they’re shy about stating their goals) that revolutionizing our definition of human personhood to include animals (and incidentally to exclude disfavored humans) is the core agenda here. As Wesley J. Smith (whose National Review column “Human Exceptionalism” is really the go-to reference, IMHO, for traditionalist coverage of skirmishes like these at the bioethical frontiers of the culture war) often quotes PETA President Ingrid Newkirk assertion that typifies the extremist desire to blur our boundaries of personhood: “A rat is a pig is a dog is a boy.”
Backed into a corner, many of these activists will protest that they only mean that “a rat is a pig is a dog is a boy” in the sense that all can feel pain and should have their welfare protected. But that is not the vision that animates the zealous core of the animal rights movement, as we can see in two key ways.
First, we know that one-year-old babies can feel pain, but thinkers like Singer and Savelescu think it’s fine to murder them if they are disabled or otherwise inconvenience their parents. Now, presumably S&S (“the S.S.” was a deeply tempting choice of contraction given my read on the ultimate stakes here, but this debate gets heated enough without bringing Godwin’s Law into it, so I think I owe S&S’s side at least the minimal courtesy of refraining) would say that such children ought to be anaesthetized before being “euthanized.” However, PETA zealots want all animal experimentation to end—anaesthetized or not. So reducing animal pain is not the end goal here.
Second, “animal rights” overlaps with, but is very different than, “animal welfare.” Animal cruelty laws already exist to address animal welfare concerns. If regulations on animal experimentation don’t sufficiently protect animals from needless pain, then animal advocates should (and can) advocate for state and federal lawmakers to strengthen those regulations.
Now, perhaps the concern is that government regulators aren’t sufficiently motivated (or funded, or whatever) to bring actions against violators of existing animal welfare regs. But if that’s the case, then PETA and its ilk ought to be lobbying for qui tam provisions in animal welfare regs.
(A “qui tam” provision allows private “whistleblower” suits in cases where the government is being defrauded (which isn’t relevant here) and also, relevantly, can allow private parties to bring suit against other private parties for violating laws or regulations. The classic law school example of such a qui tam suit would be a local nonprofit bringing suit under a qui tam provision against a local factory for dumping pollutants in a nearby river in violation of environmental regs.)
Now, there is a complication here: SUNY is a state agency, and IIRC (although I am very much open to correction on this point, which is far outside my knowledge base) qui tam suits, at least under federal statutes, can’t be brought against states for 11th Amendment reasons. However, I would imagine that legislators in Albany could be lobbied (or, being Albany, bought, if one does politics that way) to add some sort of private enforcement provision to state regs.
So, with the caveat that SUNY is a state agency, and maybe that’s relevant in the present case, I think it’s revealing that these zealots, across a variety of cases over the years, have sought a habeas corpus remedy rather than a qui tam remedy. A qui tam remedy would allow them to bring animal abusers to court. But it wouldn’t be a legal recognition of personhood for animals, any more than present qui tam suits against polluters of rivers represent personhood for rivers.
So this isn’t about animal welfare: it’s about animal personhood.
It’s an extremist position, and hasn’t gained much traction yet. But the two key ideological traits that allowed for SSM’s rapid ascent to cultural respectability in our Lockean legal order and our emotivist, therapeutic public culture are there:
1. Sympathetic victims. SSM had the travails of decent people denied hospital visitation, child custody, and other basic civil protections for the family lives they had built. Animal rights has primates, cetaceans, and every big-eyed fuzzy critter you can think of.
2. A carefully constructed narrative of itself as the next civil rights frontier. Richard Rorty wrote of secular relativist liberalism as a project of expanding circles of concern and compassion—from propertied able-bodied white men to women, people of color, disabled people, etc. As we’ve seen, SSM fit right into that vision, and transgender narratives do, too. Here, the idea of expanding the circle of concern to include animals is an ideologically natural (indeed, perhaps historically inevitable) outworking of Deweyan progressive visions like Rorty’s, and indeed animal rights thinkers like Singer, and the people at the Great Apes Project (a primate personhood initiative associated with a lot of these habeas suits in the U.S. and with campaigns for primate personhood parliamentary legislation in countries like Spain) have been articulating that exact “expanding circle of concern” case for animal rights as the next civil rights for years now.
All movements start small. And this particular suit is unlikely to prevail. But these suits for the rights of beasts portend that something very, very rough indeed is slouching toward Bethlehem to be born. This is tomorrow’s culture war. And the side that has sympathetic victims and a narrative of itself as “the new civil rights movement” always seems to win. The time to start thinking rigorously about how to counter this—or how to survive our very, very probable defeat in a future American cultural landscape where chimps are obviously people, comatose humans obviously aren’t, and anyone who thinks differently is a “religious nut”—is long past.
I got some thoughtful pushback, to the effect that my view was alarmist, "mistaking a squirrel rustling a tree branch outside for the onrushing Wehrmacht." I replied:
Oh, I don’t think that tree branch rustling outside in our garden is the Wehrmacht, those noisy brutes—we’d both have noticed their sort by now. I think it’s maybe the Wandervögel tramping through our yard, those apolitical German hippie hiker kids, happy to admit Jews and gay people into their ranks, eager for peace, love, nature, and vegetarianism, greeting each other with a hearty “Heil!”, singing German folk songs round the campfire, and dabbling in Teutonic neopaganism. Nice kids, wholesome ideals, happy to have them stroll through our yard. But I do notice that some of those ideas could, maybe, be appropriated a certain way, and do some damage. Not now, not in 1895, as the boys in our garden rustle the branches of our blooming spring trees so they can grab flowers for their belles’ hair. But in a few decades? In the far, futuristic world of 1933 or 1945, with its technologies we can hardly dream of from the vantage of 1895? I don’t know. Maybe. I’m far from panicked. But I think sober reflection is in order. And I think some of those Teutonic neopagan elements, in particular, ought to be opposed before they make trouble. I’m going to go talk to those kids on our lawn now, so we can reason together. No harm in that, and it might ward off something ugly. There will be apples on our trees soon enough, and they might yet scrump them. Fair enough—what could be more wholesome than a fresh-picked apple? And we’ve plenty to spare for scrumpers. But I do recall that mankind has gotten in trouble scrumping apples before; terrible trouble indeed, from messing about with something good-seeming, promising godlike knowledge and power, but proven in the eating a fruit full of worm-spoiled woe and sorrow. I’d best warn those nice kids away from the orchard. Now. Before the apples come.
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Nappa Hall in Wensleydale is one of the ancestral homes of the Metcalfes.
How did some of its cups and saucers end up being displayed on my mother's dining room dresser?
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This is a small diversion into Wensleydale from my essays concerning Swaledale and Arkengarthdale. Please click here to go to the main Introduction and contents list.
Oleaster breakfast service
Here are photographs of the back and front of a Nappa Hall saucer, and this is what I have discovered about it:
The pattern is known as Oleaster.
C.M. is the mark of Charles Meigh who worked in Hanley, Staffs, in the 1800s. It was used during Charles' first production period from about 1839 to 1846 (another reference says 1835-49). Later periods usually used a different mark.
The red number should correspond to a production type and might have been traceable through a sales book from the Meigh workshops, if the pottery had not closed down for good in 1904.
The faint printed rectangle is a mark identifying that this is 'imitation' china. The pottery continued under one name or another until it was demolished in 1904 (so there go the sales books).
The saucer is one piece of a very partial breakfast- or tea-service which was on our dining room dresser when I was a child in the 1950s. It was very partial indeed and my mother had spent a long time trying to arrange the uneven number of cups, saucers, side plates and eggcups into a pleasing symmetry. She always said there was only one way to do it, so dusting was fraught. One piece which just would not fit was a not-to-scale bowl - far too big to be a sugar bowl - which might have been used to hold dregs and cold tea so you could have a fresh cup. This bowl sat on one side of the dresser. My father always said the service (I can't call it china) had come from Nappa Hall. That's all we know.
The most likely link is through my father's father James Spenceley WINTER (b 1871), son of Isaac WINTER and Ann SPENCELEY. Isaac's branch of the WINTER family was in Westmorland for some generations back, so Ann SPENCELEY is a better bet. Her parents were James SPENCELEY (b.Whitaside 1799) and Jane METCALFE (b.Ivelet 1808), who spent much of their married lives at Widdymans in Coverdale, where James was gamekeeper for Sir William Chaytor. James had lived in Coverdale since 1829 when he married his first wife (Mary FALSHAW) who died in 1830. His second wife (Elizabeth GRAHAM) died in 1836, so James brought two young daughters to his marriage with Jane in 1838. James and Jane were living at Widdymans in 1841, 1851 and 1861. In 1871, they were briefly living in Barnsley near their son William, and James' brother Thomas. But they quickly moved back into the Pennines to live with their son-in-law Isaac Winter and his family in Stainmore, Westmorland, although their daughter Ann had died some years before.
More crucially, James and Jane were a young married couple at the time the Oleaster tableware was being made (1839-46). But how did they get it from Nappa Hall? Was it a belated wedding present? Or a thankyou?
The Metcalfes were long gone from Nappa Hall, so a tenuous link back through Jane METCALFE is not likely, and in any case she is from a different Metcalfe branch. From the early 1800s Nappa Hall was occupied by the WINN family, until some time before 1861 when Richard and his family moved to Kendal.
But Nappa Hall is a good ten miles from Coverdale so the Winns were not close neighbours. It is likely, however, that James' employer knew the family. Maybe James himself did a favour either for George or for Richard. He was certainly an assiduous gamekeeper, and regularly prosecuted poachers at Leyburn petty sessions on his employer's behalf; he would have been well known in the valley. Oleaster stoneware was not the best china but it would have been a very acceptable gift to the young Spenceleys. I just don't know. So my questions are:
Did one of the Nappa Hall people give the breakfast set to James?
If so, why?
Does anyone recognise the Oleaster pattern as something they saw in their own childhood households?
Did the WINNs have a big garage sale before they moved to Kendal, and James and Jane bought the set for themselves?
Can anyone help me to pin this story down more accurately?
Here are some websites I came across whilst doing this research:
a description of Nappa Hall
the Winn family website
a description of the Charles Meigh pottery and its progression to the Old Hall pottery, with site map
Unfortunately, "Oleaster" does not result in any relevant hits on the internet search engines but I do now know that it is a useful shrub for hedging.
Copyright © Marion Hearfield 2007
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TELLARO – ONE OF THE MOST BEAUTIFUL VILLAGES IN ITALY
The sea village of Tellaro is a place frozen in time, a place full of magic and history – a nirvana between the sea and the sky, between the rocks and the green hills, as described by the Italian poet Mario Soldati. It is a tucked away shelter that keeps its visitors far from the hustle and bustle of the outside world. In 2004, Tellaro joined the “I Borghi più Belli d’Italia” Club, an association of small historical Italian towns, whose aim is to preserve and maintain both architectural heritage and local traditions. There’s nothing quite like Tellaro – close your eyes and imagine a small cove surrounded by verdant bush and sheer majestic rocks dropping into blue, crystal-clear waters.
TELLARO – A MUSEUM UNDER THE OPEN SKY
The pastel-pink church of San Giorgio is right on the sea and it is surrounded by traditional Ligurian houses, set close together in the narrow streets called “carruggi”. Looking at the village from the Ligurian Sea, you cannot help but notice that it sits on the headland as if it was about to sail off.
Here history blurs with legend – centuries ago, Tellaro was attacked by the Saracen pirates and legend has it that a giant octopus sprung from the sea and rang the church bells to alert all the citizens, allowing them to escape.
TELLARO – A SHELTER FOR ARTISTS
Tellaro is not only a place to rest, but is a genuine shelter. Mario Soldati, the great Italian writer and producer, moved in a beautiful villa just over the water and under the wonderful oak and olive trees that slope down softly to the sea. He enjoyed wandering through the tiny little carruggi leading to the bay and resting on the shore, enraptured by the magical atmosphere of this village.
The Italian poet Attilio Bertolucci was no exception, and here in Tellaro he rediscovered his poetic inspiration. In 1913, the writer D. H. Lawrence decided to moved to Fiascherino, at «Casa Rosa», for almost a year and wrote: “Here it’s very beautiful. I sit on the rock-cliffs in front of the sea for the whole day and I write. I tell you that it is a dream”.
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Pokémon Go players need to stop and look
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Gotta catch 'em all. Pokémon Go players are becoming safety hazards. Credit: Alice Williams
Pokémon Go has become a global phenomenon since it was first released on early July, but is it for the better or worse?
The mixed reality product marries nostalgia for the original 1990s Nintendo Pokémon video game with locative mobile technology, and is the first mobile location and mixed reality product to become globally popular.
Since its release on July 6 in 37 countries, the virtual reality game has gathered more than 100 million downloads and it has collected over US$160 billion in net revenue, according to Urban Wire.
Players, also known in the Pokémon world as trainers, catch virtual mythical creatures via the iPhone and android-friendly application by walking through neighbourhoods and visiting local landmarks.
But the game has attracted controversy for becoming a public nuisance and contributing to accidents in many countries.
Pokémon Go events and gatherings have become "a thing" around the world, where people join together to explore outside to catch Pokémon creatures and "level up".
The sight of individuals, friends and families walking around with their heads bent intently towards their mobile phones is increasingly common.
Karen McDonald, an active Pokémon Go player, finds it a playful way to bring the virtual and real worlds together.
"It’s a game that motivates people to get out of the house, take a walk and exercise as they play the game," said McDonald.
"It also helps those who are coping with anxiety and depression to go outside and mingle with fellow players in your community."
But the level of distraction among players has its negatives.
There have been reports of crimes and accidents related to the mobile game. These events have involved accidents with cars and pedestrians as well as privacy concerns and robberies.
BBC News, The Atlantic Newspaper and the Tokyo Reporter have reported several unfortunate incidents involving the mobile game app.
In Florida, two players were shot by a homeowner who mistook them for burglars. Elsewhere in Missouri, some players were robbed when the game led them to secluded areas and in Tokyo, there has been an outbreak of traffic accidents.
While in Australia, the ABC News and SBS News have also reported that two men were left on an Adelaide beach with serious head wounds and injuries after being robbed whilst playing Pokémon Go.
Coffs Harbour businessman and former Pokémon Go Player, Robert Wilson agrees the game creates an unsafe environment in busy local areas.
"I have played the game myself and have had a few close encounters to danger," he said.
Wilson said there were other negatives to playing Pokémon Go.
“Exercising and going outside is suppose to be energizing and calm, but when you have your phone in front of your face and aren’t really taking in the atmosphere, you lose those simple natural benefits,” he said.
Despite the negatives, there is also arguable some positivity with playing Pokémon Go.
The game brings people together to discuss, battle and play against or with one another.
In Pokémon Go, the real world is the game and it is right in front of you.
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Elina Djebbari
Before receiving my PhD in Ethnomusicology, my first academic training focused on History of Art and Museum/Heritage studies at Ecole du Louvre where I specialised in African Art and Anthropology. Using a very interdisciplinary approach, I strive to consider and link together the historical, political and sociological dimensions of artistic practices, to place myself within and hopefully contribute to a renewal of ethnomusicology and dance anthropology. Before joining KCL in December 2013 to be part of Modern Moves with a new research project entitled ‘The Diaspora Returns: The Reconfiguration of Afro-Caribbean Dance in West Africa’, I was previously member of two international research programmes (ANR GLOBAMUS- Musical Creation, Circulation and Identity Market in a Global Context and FSP Mali Contemporain). My PhD in Ethnomusicology from EHESS (Paris) dealt with national cultural policies and debates around heritage by using traditional music-dance performances in Mali, West Africa, as developed by the National Ballet, private dance companies and the state-sponsored festival “Biennale Artistique et Culturelle”.
I have been practicing West African drums (jembé/dunun) for more than ten years. It is thanks to this musical training that I had the opportunity to go to Mali to learn Malian rhythms and their related dances. To expand the scope of my musical training, I began to learn the Persian zarb (or tombak), the classical drum of Iranian music. I very much enjoy the specific finger technique and the multiplicity of sounds of this instrument and the exhilarating complexity of the rhythms played on it.
Dance is part of my life since my very childhood (modern-jazz, classical ballet, contemporary dance). Later, I discovered many different dance styles, from Bharata Natyam to Ragga-Dance hall/Reggaeton, from both ‘traditional’ and urban (coupé-décalé, kuduro) African dances to the Latin couple dances (salsa, bachata, merengue…).
Being part of this ambitious and thrilling project is both an honour and an exciting challenge.
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Michael Christensen · February 10, 2016
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The Dow is down 190.59 points, or 1.2 per cent.
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Trader Jonathan Corpina works on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange, Monday, Feb. 8, 2016.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 12.67 points to 16,014.38, the Standard & Poor’s 500 index fell 1.23 points to 1852.21 and the Nasdaq composite index dropped 14.99 points to 4268.76.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 177.92 points, or 1.1 per cent, to 16,027.05.
Among Europe’s main indexes, Germany’s DAX fell 3.1 percent, while France’s CAC 40 dropped 2.8 percent. The S&P 500 posted 7 new 52-week highs and 97 new lows; the Nasdaq recorded 4 new highs and 495 new lows. Shares in Japan plunged more than 5 percent, while the London blue-chip FTSE index’s intraday hit a three-year low.
Prices for barrels of both Brent crude – which serves as a global pricing benchmark – and West Texas Intermediate – primarily considered a U.S.-focused oil metric – at least temporarily dipped below $30 Tuesday, effectively erasing modest gains seen at the end of last week.
In Asia, stocks fell on Wednesday in morning trade as a week of volatile trading in global equities continued, with Japanese shares extending losses after the biggest one-day plunge since August.
While falling oil prices benefit consumers, a rise or stabilization in oil prices “would alleviate strains from the global financial system”, said Mark Heppenstall, chief investment officer at Penn Mutual Asset Management, which manages $20 billion in assets.
Tech investors are cashing in their profits, sending stocks such as Amazon, which had among the biggest market jumps a year ago, lower, analysts say.
Precious metals prices rose sharply as traders took cover from the turbulence in the stock market. EBay and Priceline Group lost more than 3.1 percent.
The yield on the benchmark USA 10-year Treasury yield rebounded to 1.70 percent after touching 1.68 percent overnight, its lowest level since February of last year.
Wall Street stocks had opened in negative territory and appeared to be heading for another ugly session after Monday’s rout as United States oil prices fell. It has been a widely followed indicator of the stock market since October 1, 1928.
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By Maha Rafi Atal, 31 August, 2009, No Comment
Virginia Heffernan’s column in the New York Times Magazine is one of the highlights of my weekend. It might be because she writes so wittily; it might be because I read the magazine on the treadmill and her column, which appears within the first ten pages, is often the last thing I read before I become too sweaty and tired to think straight.
Her column this week is about the Facebook Exodus, the impending backlash of users fleeing the site because they are frustrated with its increased busy-ness and diminished privacy. On the one hand, I think she nailed the trend. On the other hand, I’m a wee bit bitter since I’ve been saying as much on this blog and elsewhere for awhile, and I’m not alone.
What do you think? Can the Facebook bubble burst?
Apocalypse 30: Bellyaching in Britain
By Maha Rafi Atal, 30 August, 2009, 1 Comment
This past week saw the International Television Conference in Edinburgh, where various stars of British screen life pontificated on, what else, the future of media. The show stopper was a keynote lecture by James Murdoch where he railed against the BBC, Ofcom and government’s role in media more generally. His language was inflammatory and his politics insufferable, but I found myself agreeing with him about the economics of the emerging media model.
Here’s the core of his argument: we live in a world where there is no longer radio journalism and TV journalism and print journalism and web journalism, but simply journalism. Stories–whether told in words, pictures or sound–are all going to be transmitted the same way, as a combinations of 1s and 0s to be read on laptops and mobile phones. Murdoch calls this the “all-media market,” and the people who provide it “branded mediators.” Clumsy phrases, but they do the job.
On Ted
By Maha Rafi Atal, 27 August, 2009, 3 Comments
Ted Kennedy was hardly my favorite politician. I have always looked askance at the politics of personality epitomized by the Kennedy clan and now, also, by the Obamas. I usually roll my eyes with indifference over sex scandals. I am unswayed by electoral pitches based on personal morality or emotional connection. Most of the Kennedy obits have emphasized–as his positive qualities–his oratory and his personal loyalty; and–as his failings–alcoholism and violence. Some write-ups have been eloquent, some banal, but to me, they felt irrelevant.
What I did respect about Ted Kennedy was his effectiveness.
Conspiracy Theory Monday
While others were beaching it up, I spent my weekend poring over the responses from Apple, Google and AT&T; to the FCC over the iPhone-GoogleVoice snafu. AT&T; essentially repeated its earlier statement, with more umph—it takes no responsibility for what happened and says Apple was acting alone.
Apple tried to hedge it, first claiming that the GoogleVoice application hasn’t been rejected but is ‘still under review’ then listing reasons why it might deserve to be rejected. A host of tech commenters, led by Michael Arrington, called the first claim a bald-faced lie, and I’m inclined to agree. The FCC wouldn’t be investigating this if the application-rejection hadn’t provided the smoking gun. The FCC would not launch an investigation if Google’s complaint was simply that the process was just taking too long.
On the second point, however, I’m inclined to think Apple has a point. Not a legal case, to be sure (on legal grounds, I fully support them getting an FCC walloping), but a business one.
Notes from the Googleplex
I’ll admit, I feel a wee bit smug today. After musing about Google for many many months on this blog, I’ve managed to report out some of my ideas about data-as-a-commodity in a cover story for the UK’s New Statesman. If you’re going to read it, I suggest you also read WIRED’s take on the subject. I was less than floored by the WIRED piece, but I am curious as to how you think they compare.
Beyond the satisfaction of getting this analysis out there, I found this project fascinating, not least because I learned that Google’s PR officer reads this blog and follows tech reporters on Twitter. That’s PR101, of course, but it’s notable that Google, for all its exceptionalist rhetoric, works just like any other firm of its size.
Finally, because my colleagues were in London, I was in New York and Google was in California, this piece was reported, written and edited at odd hours of day and night, with snippets of text sent between us over a veritable menagerie of technologies. We each took raw notes in Word, then posted them to a shared Google Document (for the uninitiated, this is a service that allows you to host a document on the web so multiple authors can see it). We outlined and drafted the piece on Adobe’s BuzzWord (a similar service that also allows to share comments on the document), and sometimes used GChat (Google’s instant messaging service) to tweak individual sentences or paragraphs before updating the central file. Then we fine tuned it with our editors in old fashioned Word attachments.
In the process, I learned what each of these software programs is best for: GoogleDocs is great for sharing big chunks of raw text, but useless for organization. Adobe is the best for comments and in that sense, the best collaborative tool, but it’s Flash-based and unsuited to older computers. Word is the easiest place to get a holistic picture of whatever you’re working on without getting sucked into the minute-by-minute changes.
None of these programs offers you everything you need. For most of the last ten days, I had Word, Google Mail/Chat, Google Docs, and BuzzWord open at once. Usually, I was on the phone too. The frenzy was a reminder that there are limits on the world-flattening capacity of computers. In the end, the best writing happened when we were on the phone with one another, writing each sentence together instead of dividing the work, and with one of us taking centralized control for typing. In other words, we wrote best when we slowed down instead of using technology to speed us up. A sobering thought for tech-evangelists.
Updated: Memes travel fast. The BBC ‘s Maggie Shiels makes similar points about BookSearch.
Belated Thoughts on the Dear Leader
I’ve been thinking for a few days that I wanted to say something about Bill Clinton’s 11th hour trip to North Korea to negotiate the release of two American journalists held hostage by Kim Jong Il’s honchos.
While everyone’s thrilled that the journos are back safe, there has been much handwringing about whether it was acceptable to have a former President meet with a brutal dictator who routinely calls for this country’s demise, to have the two sit for joint photos and a meal, and whether, as some sources said, Clinton had given any sort of ‘apology,’ on behalf of the United States for the two women having entered NK to begin with. (It seems like he gave some verbal apology but did not bring any message on behalf of the government).
Personally, my relief at seeing the two journos come home rather outweighed any cringe reaction I had to the photographs. Moreover, when it comes to the actual fact of Clinton’s going there and answering Il’s request for the backchannel, I was pleased. See, by throwing a tantrum that effectively said “I want attention from a popular ex-leader,” Kim Jong Il acknowledged that he wants access to things of value in the international community, ie the status conferred by a meeting with Bill, and that his power domestically is in some way contingent on having that access. That means he can be bought.
That is, in essence, what Hillary Clinton meant when she compared NK to a petulant child begging for attention and suggested that it needed to be dealt with forcefully. Granted, force is the opposite of what Bill brought them last week, but the point is this: a regime that wants something from the United States is one that can be bargained with. The purpose of force, if it needs to be used, or Hillary’s strong language, is to push that regime to the point where the price at which it can be bought in bargaining is something we can stomach. Dinner with an ex-President, especially if it keeps that ex-President out of other people’s bedrooms, is a perfectly fine price for me.
The FaceFeed Ponzi Scheme
So I’ve been a bit swamped this week with several projects I want to blog about soon. As I result, I missed out on the chance to join the wave of insta-hype surrounding Facebook’s big move to buy FriendFeed. Late to the party as I am, I have a few thoughts.
The conventional wisdom that has formed around the deal is that Facebook is trying to get through FriendFeed some of the ‘live’ features it now lacks and at which insurgent Twitter excels. In particular, as Jason Kincaid points out, FriendFeed shows at the top of a page the most recent items commented on, not just the most recent items posted.
To be honest, I’m not sure this is something I’d want to see on Facebook. Effectively, this would mean turning each comment into its own status update in the News Feed. Given that well over half of the updates in my News Feed are uninteresting or irrelevant (no offense, friends, but the photos of your lunch food are just not ‘news.’), the likelihood that I care what others have to say about them (‘Hey, that’s tasty-looking? Where did you get it?’) are slim-to-none.
The reason it is valuable to Facebook is because it wants to keep enticing corporate and brand users of the site–people who set up a FB to get fans, not friends–and those people are interested in having their updates go viral. Keeping them at the top of fans’ feeds for multiple days, a FriendFeed-style system would certainly help. (In Twitter’s system, every ‘retweet’ or reply to a post is treated as a separate post.)
Even if Twitter is better at this kind of broadcasting than Facebook, neither site has a method in place to monetize the free marketing it’s giving to companies yet. Twitter has no ads; Facebook has tons of them–often really annoying ones promising me services I can’t type on a PG-13 blog– but no profits. There are more users who ignore the ads that ones that click through and advertisers aren’t going to pay much for real estate on a page that delivers poor click-through results.
The promise social networks keep making to the venture capitalist backers is that one day, the profits from advertisers will come, so they should keep investing in growing the user base. The promise social networks make to advertisers, meanwhile, is that one day, an infinitely large user base will make their ad dollars worth it. This deal takes my skepticism to a new level: the VCs have been convinced to let Facebook, a money-loser, spend money to buy FriendFeed, another money-loser, in order to get those future users and future ad dollars that will pay back everyone on the chain.
In other words, social networks promise each audience–VCs and advertisers–future returns based on investment collected from the other group, and pay out returns to neither. Instead, they sustain and rollover those promises over multiple years, increasing the amount of money invested and the number of layers of investment over time. Last I checked, that strategy was called a Ponzi scheme.
Is Goldman Evil?
By Maha Rafi Atal, 7 August, 2009, 2 Comments
Some weeks ago, I read a mediocre rant about the alleged “evils” of Goldman Sachs. I rolled my eyes at yet another knee-jerk-populist, unproductive reaction to the recession. The next day at the gym, Chris Matthews had the author, Matt Taibbi, on, and began drooling all over him as some kind of investigative tour de force. The meme caught on. Not only has Taibbi been on TV nonstop, but friends who usually scrunch their noses in confusion at my business-journo world have been chatting me up constantly about the Goldman conspiracy and crediting Taibbi with discovering it. Allow me to correct the record.
According to Taibbi, Goldman Sachs deliberately inflates speculative bubbles by finding or manufacturing securities out of worthless assets and selling them to the public as secure; then they get themselves out before it crashes; or, they rely on high-placed alumni to to save them. Moreover, they’ve done so in “every major market manipulation” of the last century. His case studies: The Great Depression, the DotCom Boom, the Housing Boom, the Commodities Boom (ie high gas prices), The Bailout, and (coming soon to a theater near you), Cap and Trade. This argument, which I’ve summarized in one paragraph, takes Taibbi (get this!) 10,000 words. I’m going to explain why he’s a hack in 1/10 the space. Still a long post, for which I apologize.
Good News that Makes Me a Little Bit Mad
The FCC is investigating Apple’s decision to disable third-party iPhone apps that let users access Google Voice from their phones, and to reject Google’s own application providing the same service. At first, most tech commenters were eager to exonerate Apple by blaming it all on Big Bad AT&T;, who, as a telecom provider, obviously have a competitive reason to block any VOIP technology.
But as the FCC letter to AT&T; points out, AT&T; has no problem letting users access Google Voice over AT&T;’s network when they do it on a BlackBerry. As the FCC’s decision to send a letter to Google too highlights, there are legit fears of Google from Apple’s side as well: Google has its own phone, where it gets to engage in its own application cherry-picking.
Now Apple, who obviously don’t have anything approaching a monopoly on handsets, can’t be accused of monopolization (using market power to eliminate competitors) as Microsoft was a decade ago. AT&T;, if it turns out they were involved, could be accused of using market power over networks/connectivity that way. What Apple would be on the hook for is colluding with AT&T; in a way that bars competition. Even though it’s clear that banning Google Voice bars competition–ie VOIP competing with AT&T;’s network–it’s unclear to me whether that competition threatens Apple directly. Google, broadly, poses a threat to Apple, but this specific feature might not if it improves the appeal of the iPhone. I don’t know enough about the part of antitrust law that covers collusion (as opposed to the section covering monopolization) to know if the colluding company must be enhancing ITS OWN market power/eliminating ITS OWN competition to be guilty. Commenters, please help out?
On the whole, however, I’m glad the FCC is looking into it–that’s what antitrust regulators are for. What upsets me is that the regulators seem disproportionately inclined to take on cases of companies that upset consumers, where it’s clear how the man-on-the-street is negatively affected by the practice at hand. So because most consumers like Google, hate AT&T; and could care less about Apple, this case makes sense to the Feds.
Meanwhile, the Feds do not bite as often at companies who might be violating anti-trust law in a way that restricts the market at either a more abstract, or simply a less consumer-facing way. Consumers love Google and resent/mistrust the big names in paid content, so the Feds have, until this administration, overlooked the fact that behind the screens Google is establishing a sealed monopoly of online data that prices out whole sectors of content creation, whether that means new web-based news organizations or music, or book or film distribution channels, and impairs the monetization capacity of other sectors that might one day move online.
If the laws bar restrictions on competition (which they do), those laws need to be applied indiscriminately to all companies not only because that’s what rule of law means but also because the unchecked power of companies we like now may prevent the creation of companies we would like tomorrow.
I am an academic researcher working at the intersection of business and international affairs, focusing on how multinational corporations acquire political power and how they can be held accountable. I am a postdoctoral research fellow at the Centre for Business and Development Studies at Copenhagen Business School. I am also an experienced business journalist; the co-founder and Executive Director of Public Business, a nonprofit supporting reporting, research and discussion about the wider impact of business actions; and the former Editor-in-Chief of the Cambridge Review of International Affairs.
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Define directives with the help of case laws? This scenario exposes a discrepancy in the legal system of the European Community in relation to the enforcement of Directives. As a consequence, after a general commentary about directives advice will be given to Gunilla accordingly. Generally speaking, sources of European Community law take precedence over all forms of national law. However, it is not appropriate to apply the same treatment to EC legal instruments en masse. Certain forms of EC legislation differ in terms of their characteristics and the way in which they deliver enforceable law. DEFINATION OF DIRECTIVES: The Treaty of Rome specifies, in Article 249, that Directives are:- "binding, as to the result to be achieved, upon each Member State to which they are addressed, but shall leave to the national authorities the choice of form and methods."1 Moreover, Member States may decide that the existing legal framework they have already ensures that the objectives of the Directive can be obtained by enforcing the already existing legal rules and no further measures are necessary. Despite this flexibility, Member States are obliged to make sure that the objectives of the Directive are attained. For this purpose they are obliged to take the necessary measures for implementation or confirmation as to whether the national law already contains the rules ensuring the attainment of the objectives. ...read more.
Mary's22 the court decided that the definition of 'the State' should be a 'broad one'. Schools and other educational establishments would therefore be part of the 'the State'. An emanation of the State could be defined as a body that had been made responsible, pursuant to a measure adopted by the State, for providing a public service that was under the control of the State and which exercised special powers for the purpose, beyond those which operated between individuals. The powers of the local authority and the Secretary of State for Education meant that education was a public service under the control of the State. Grant maintained Schools would therefore be part of' the state'. Also the case of Marshal v Southampton23 shows that 'the State' is 'the State' regardless of what functions it is performing. Gunilla should also be informed that damages may be awarded as a remedy in situations where a Member State fails to transpose EU law. Where applicable the liability of the Member State is determined by the non-implementation of a Directive and a technical breach of its EU duties. In this case the United Kingdom could be compelled to rectify directly the damage done to Gunilla by this failure. ...read more.
Therefore the EU and other Member States could find the UK is in breach and bring an action against it and as Gunilla's rights had been breached by the State's actions it may be found liable and has to pay reparation to the citizen. It may well be, therefore, that Gunilla has claim for compensation against the UK. Any damages they do obtain must compensate them in full for losses directly incurred because of the breach31. Conclusion:- Direct effect, indirect effect and State liability are crucially important for the protection of individuals' Community law rights in national courts. On the basis of the above considerations, one may identify several important principles that guide the transposition of and the implementation of directives. First, it is the principle of discretion, which allows a member state to choose the form and the method of implementation. Secondly, an important principle is the obligation imposed on member states to implement directives either through adopting national measures or through adapting already existing measures so that the result pursued by the directive in question is achieved. Thirdly, the implementation of directives is subject to the administrative control of the Commission under Article 226, to the indirect control of other member states under the procedure under Article 227 and to the judicial control of the Court of justice pursuant to the two provisions. ...read more.
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So many string quartets celebrate anniversaries of longevity with Beethoven, who will always fill seats. Last Wednesday at Kings Place, it was good to see the Sacconis doing something different.
The Sacconi Quartet at Kings Place, London. Photo: Amy T Zielinski/Redferns
Something different is indeed what they have been doing for 15 years. They retain a base of appreciation in those chamber-music societies around the UK which survive despite everything. Perhaps the music their membership cares about never goes out of fashion, because it’s never been in fashion.
The ‘Hoffmeister’ K499 is the overlooked gem of Mozart’s mature string quartets, nestled between the six he dedicated to Haydn, and the last three written for the King of Prussia. The Sacconis duly gave it care and attention. The opening Allegretto tempo and descending main theme used to be the cue for quartets to settle into the piece as if sinking into a well-loved sofa. Those days are gone. Light and bright in tone, much of the first movement was played almost under the Sacconis’ breath. The ensuing edginess made a striking contrast with one of the loveliest of all Mozart’s minuets – my own favourite – in which violist Robin Ashwell emerged with the most achingly bittersweet of countermelodies. Again, it is not the modern way to love these pieces to death, so the turn back from trio to minuet was not dwelt over.
Just so they also kept the pulse going to the very end of the corresponding movement in Mendelssohn’s final quartet, Op.80 in F minor, if to much more chilling effect. This really was played on the edge of silence, just as Mendelssohn wrote it staring into the abyss, distraught at the recent loss of his sister Fanny and well on his way to working himself into an early grave. The Sacconis have made a speciality of Op.80, and recorded all Mendelssohn’s quartet music. It’s hardly celebration music, whatever the anniversary, but the piece rarely fails to stun an audience into grim silence and then feverish enthusiasm, as it goes for the musical equivalent of jumping off a cliff.
The finales of both Mozart and Mendelssohn were slightly scrappy and unfocused on this occasion, but the quartet’s poise returned in the second half, with a first London performance of Jonathan Dove. In Damascus sets fragments and meditations by the Syrian writer Ali Safar, in a sparely direct English translation by Anne-Marie McManus. The quartet had given the first performance in May, at their annual festival in Folkestone – somewhat beyond the usual metropolitan hubs of new music – and accompanied the tenor Mark Padmore. He is the leading exponent in the world today of semi-sacred music theatre such as In Damascus proves to be, and indeed the parallels with the Passions of Bach, the church parables of Britten and the opera-oratorios of John Adams are unembarrasedly embraced by Dove in a powerfully emotive, 35-minute narrative which always put the text first. The dead and dispossessed of that city are mourned with dignity. Without begging for pity, text and music plead for sympathy. Since the concert took place, Padmore and the Sacconis have made a recording which deserves the widest possible audience.
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Re: CRTGAMER Wii Thread
by CRTGAMER Sun Jun 19, 2011 1:21 pm
Mayflash PS2 to Wii and Gamecube Controller Adapters
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Weekend_Warrior wrote:
CRTGAMER wrote: I recently ordered two PS2 to Wii Remote Mayflash Adapters that allows using any PS1 or PS2 controller in place of the Wii classic. A side benefit is AUTO FIRE. Since the adaptor takes place of the Nunchuck, my hope is maybe I could also tie the Auto Fire to House of the Dead 2. I'll post a review here once they arrive and my HD CRT holds up.
Sounds good. I have a "FPS Master" controller for PS2 that I'd like to use on Goldeneye. So this adapter review is of great interest to me.
Okay the adapters came in! These are a great find for the Wii. There were only two alternate vendors at Amazon that had only one a piece at less then half the price. Amazing part was with the amount of visits Amazon gets per minute, I was the lucky dog that snagged them both!
Wii PS2 to Wii Mayflash Amazon link:
http://www.amazon.com/PS2-Controller-Ad ... B002OJ8S7C
There are some Wii games that can be played with a Wii Classic Controller. Odd that the Classic Controller looks very similar to a PS2 Dual Shock. I have so many PS1 and PS2 controllers that I really did not need another controller just for the Wii. I already have a couple of PS2 to Gamecube adapters and wanted to play Wii games this way. Discovered the Mayflash Adapter thru a Google search.
The site: http://www.mayflash.com/Products/
What I like about the PSX to Wii adapter is it plugs right in the remote and is hot swappable, no need to reboot the Wii. All the Playstation controllers become wireless in a sense in that they are not direct attached to the Wii.
Turbo Button for Auto Fire
For setting up to eight buttons on the Playstation controller in rapid fire. Simply hold the Turbo button on the Mayflash and press a button on the PSX controller to enable. Now when an enabled button is pressed the Mayflash will flicker the LED. To disable Auto Fire simply hold the Mayflash Turbo buton and tap the PSX button again. Auto Fire only works on the PSX controllers and only on Wii games that support the Classic controller.
So how does an Analog sticks compare to the Remote? I tested a standard PS2 Dual Shock controller. A Wii Classic Controller has almost the same layout as a PSX controller. So both should work almost identically.
PSX ......................................... Wii
Start .............................................. +
Select ............................................ -
Gamepad .......................... Gamepad
Analog Sticks ............ Analog Sticks
X .................................................... b
O .................................................... a
□ ................................................... y
∆ ................................................... x
R1 ............................................... ZR
R2 ................................................. R
L1 ................................................ ZL
L2 .................................................. L
R3 L3 ..................................... Home
Wii Opening Menu
The PSX Analog stick moves the cursor around okay, but the Wii Remote is a quicker "Light" gun response. So much simpler to point with the Remote for accuracy. Both the Remote and PSX controllers still work, point the remote away from the Sensor Bar to use a PSX controller.
Geometry Wars
The Robotron inspired twinstick game with "Vector" graphics like Black Widow. The Remote works great, but now with a Dual Analog, its even better! One analog stick moves the ship while the other analog stick controls the rapid Fire shots. Nice moving one direction while shooting in another. Note that Rapid Fire is in the game itself, the Mayflash Turbo is only for the buttons.
Arcade Twinstick
At first I was disappointed that the gamepad and four Face buttons are not utilized on the Dual Shock. This would kill using any PSX Digital Arcade Stick. I plugged in my Blaze Twin Shock just to see what would happen.
Twinstick Heaven
The digital stick actually works!!! The Arcade stick acts just like the left Analog stick and the four face buttons default to the right analog stick of Geometry Wars. Very strange considering that the Stick normally defaults to the direction pad on a regular Playstation. This is perfect considering that I have modded the Player Two stick to operate as the face buttons of Player One. Geometry Wars is played just like the Arcade game Robotron, not with tiny thumbsticks, but full sized Arcade Sticks!
Here is how to convert a Two Player Arcade Stick to Twin Stick:
http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?p=290325#p290325
Of note the PSX Duel Shock Analog Thumbsticks do offer an important advantage. A precise 360 degree movement and gunfire due to use of potentiometers. The PSX Arcade Digital Sticks can only do eight directions due to the limit switch design. The Wii Classic Analog Sticks have ridge stops in the sticks just like the Gamecube controller. The ridges are for Vertical, Horizontal and Diagonal control. The stick cannot be rolled smoothly, though 360 degree control can still be achieved.
The Dual Shock offers a tighter control, but the Digital Stick gives a true Arcade experience.
So was Geometry Wars the only game that offered the unique Digital Twin Stick mode? I have another game to test and see if this was just a lucky chance.
Sin & Punishment
Strange that the game case does not show the Classic Controller Icon on the back cover. The original N64 import used one Analog stick for aiming and the buttons for sideways movement. Wii actually plays better with a Remote for aiming and the Nunchuck for full movement. Now to try out the PS2 controller.
The PS2 Dual Shock works after I adjusted the settings menu to a better button layout. Left Analog stick moves the gunsight, the Right Analog stick moves the character. Trigger buttons are the weapons and evade. Works great, though the Wii Remote does offer a quick instant point to where you want to shoot.
The modded Blaze Arcade Twinstick also works just like the Dual Shock. After reconfiguring the game settings, Player One stick is the gunsite, the four face buttons are for movement which is also controlled by the modded player two stick. The trigger buttons are set for weapons and evade. Works okay but a trick tapping the fire buttons with both hands on the Arcade sticks. The Wii Remote is still the best aiming device.
Mayflash Value
So is the Mayflash adaptor better then just going with a Wii Classic Controller? I can't give a true assessment since I don't have one to compare. But the adaptor allows use of all the various controllers that are available on the PS1 and PS2. Some others to try include a Driving Controller, Dance Pad, Flight Sticks and even the unusual ones such as Beatmania and a Densha De Go Train controller. The Playstation has tons of controllers to try with the "Classic Controller" games, offering a different way to play a game.
Wii Classic Controller Game List
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Wii_games_that_use_the_Classic_Controller
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by Opa Opa Sun Jun 19, 2011 10:52 pm
CRTGAMER wrote: The game also mentions use of a Balance Board, dare I get one? I already jump on a Dance Pad with the blinds closed, maybe?
I actually borrowed a friend's Balance Board to try out that feature. It didn't work that well because you lose the precision of the Wii remote. This game alone doesn't warrant a purchase of the accessory.
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Re: CRTGAMER trying a current console, the Wii
by Nintendork666 Mon Jun 20, 2011 1:33 pm
alienjesus wrote: Nintendo do own the rights to all those kremling characters though. Donkey Kong Jet Race had some kremlings in it, K.Rool has been in at least one of the king of swing games and kremlings are the goalkeepers in the mario strikers games.
How odd that they wouldn't revive them then, I wonder why that is.
equalsign wrote: Don't own the game, but I'm pretty sure it doesn't have that option. Wii remote only. I don't think it has an alt jump waggle, but it does make you use waggle for a ground pound move (which isn't so bad) and for the roll (which is a sin). They even had a spare button they could have used, I hear.
However you are given the option to hold the Wiimote sideways. The standard nunchuck + Wiimote combo works just fine though, and the roll is a breeze to pull off. I really have no complaints control-wise.
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by fastbilly1 Mon Jun 20, 2011 1:37 pm
I didnt like Vertigo as much as Kororinpa
by CRTGAMER Mon Jun 20, 2011 2:10 pm
Vertigo - $3.99 Gamestop
http://www.gamestop.com/wii/games/vertigo/74469
Opa Opa wrote: Been meaning to tell you CRT, look up Vertigo. It looks like your kind of game, I think.
You pegged my interest on this. I already have a similar games for the PS2 such as Super Monkey Ball Deluxe, Mojo and a PC called I've Got Some Balls. This is very similar to the PC Freeware Balls game!
I posted the PC game download on J T's PC Free Game Thread:
http://www.racketboy.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=49&t=29001&start=70
Since Vertigo is inexpensive used, decided to pick one up. I remember playing the Arcade Marble Madness with a Trackball, even had a taste of tilting the PS2 Mojo game with a Spitfish Tilt Sensor. Curious how this would work with Wii controls. Instead of using a Keyboard, Mouse or Trackball, I get to try tipping the steel ball from a Motion Control perspective.
The Wii Remote is tipped just like the wood floor of a drop the steel ball maze toy. Hold the Remote flat and the ball is stationary. Tip and tilt the Remote to move the ball. The Nunchuck moves the camera around. Guide the ball thru the tracks to the exit, pivoting around corners with a tilt of the Remote. There is also a bowling game that adds a new way to bowl. The normal prespin on a bowling ball is now a direct control. Bump the ball around with the remote while traveling down the track. The ten pins are harder to "Strike" when negotiating a maze and jumping over drop offs.
The complete overhead view of the entire playfield is changed to a direct behind the ball view. This adds an element of quick reaction on where to turn the ball. The controls are tight, the ball instantly reacts to the pivot or tilt of the Remote. The game also mentions use of a Balance Board, dare I get one? I already jump on a Dance Pad with the blinds closed, maybe?
Update, board tested here: viewtopic.php?f=52&p=637347#p637347
This opens the door for other similar Wii games to try including Kororinpa Marble Mania, Marble Saga Kororinpa, Mercury Rising and the Super Monkey Ball games.
I am discovering a lot of games on the Wii that would normally be a download on another system. A gain, getting a more permanent disc copy that can easily be played on a friend's console.
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Weekend_Warrior
Re: CRTGAMER Wii Thread - Mayflash Ps2 to Wii Controller Review
by Weekend_Warrior Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:54 am
That was a great adapter review, CRT! Thanks for all the info. I will try to buy one soon
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Location: Long Beach
by vlame Tue Jun 21, 2011 1:58 am
CRTGAMER wrote: Okay the adaptors came in! These are a great find for the Wii. There were only two alternate vendors at Amazon that had only one a piece at less then half the price. Amazing part was with the amount of visits Amazon gets per minute, I was the lucky dog that snagged them both!
http://cgi.ebay.com/PS2-Controller-Adap ... 1266wt_907
^^ My Available List ^^
My B/S/T list
I also rent and sell PS2, Wii and XBOX softmod-kits and I collect DVD movies let me know what you have.
by CRTGAMER Tue Jun 21, 2011 3:30 pm
vlame wrote: http://cgi.ebay.com/PS2-Controller-Adap ... 1266wt_907
A great price! Only two showing better grab them.
Forgot to mention that the PSX controllers offer a precise 360 degree control for Geometry Wars. The Wii Classic Controller Analog Sticks have ridge stops just like the Gamecube controller which limits movement and shooting, the ridges interfere rolling the stick for a smooth 360 degree control.
Updated the review at the top.
Last edited by CRTGAMER on Wed Jun 22, 2011 11:40 am, edited 1 time in total.
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Location: London, UK.
by alienjesus Tue Jun 21, 2011 6:25 pm
CRTGAMER wrote:
Forgot to mention that the PSX controllers offer a precise 360 degree control for Geometry Wars. The Wii Classic Controller Analog Sticks have ridge stops just like the Gamecube controller which limits movement and shooting to eight directions.
They don't limit it to 8 directions at all, it's still 360. Just makes it easier to move or aim in those 8 directions. Personally, I prefer that, I find the PS2 control sticks to be awkward and uncomfortable.
by CRTGAMER Thu Jun 23, 2011 5:45 pm
alienjesus wrote: They don't limit it to 8 directions at all, it's still 360. Just makes it easier to move or aim in those 8 directions. Personally, I prefer that, I find the PS2 control sticks to be awkward and uncomfortable.
Okay, reworded the Review at the top, I think the ridges are a pain though. I'm tempted to crack my Gamecube controllers open and file off the ridge stops.
Weekend_Warrior wrote: Sounds good. I have a "FPS Master" controller for PS2 that I'd like to use on Goldeneye. So this adapter review is of great interest to me.
Weekend_Warrior wrote: That was a great adapter review, CRT! Thanks for all the info. I will try to buy one soon
Should work fine, please let us know once you get the Mayflash PSX to Wii Adaptor.
Is this the PS2 FPS Master you own?
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The evaluation of the activity of medicinal remedies of plant and animal origin on the regeneration of the earthworms' tail segments
Viktor Alexandrovich Bybin, Daevard Iosifovich Stom
Federal State Budgetary Educational Establishment of the Higher Professional Education, "Irkutsk State University", Scientific Research Institute of Biology, Russian Federation, Russia
Date of Submission 14-Dec-2014
Date of Decision 09-Feb-2015
Date of Web Publication 22-Oct-2015
Viktor Alexandrovich Bybin
Irkutsk 664074 Russian Federation,4th Zheleznodorozhnaya Street, 100-122, Irkutsk region
Source of Support: The work was carried out with the support of the Ministry of the Education of the Russian Federation in the frames of the realization of the project part of the state task in the field of scientific activity (Task ¹ 13.1263.2014 / K on 11/07/2014) and with the financial support of the grant of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research ¹ 14-04-31999, Conflict of Interest: None
Now, in the global community there is enough hard recommendation to replace the vertebrate test animals into simpler organisms at the development, testing, and evaluation of the quality pharmaceuticals. The feature of planarian to regenerate in new individual planarian from a piece, which is only 1/7 of the original animal, allowed to create the alternative methods of testing of drugs, dietary supplements, water quality, influence of electromagnetic fields, and other radiations. The tests on planarian can replace the ones that are held today on mammals. However, the lacks of the bioassays based on the planarian regeneration are the need for complex and expensive video equipment for recording the regrowth of worms' body, the difficulties of culturing of flatworms and fairly long period of response. These difficulties can be avoided by using another group of the worms of type Annelida. The new individual can be fully recovered only from the front half of the body in many species of earthworms. Thus, the influence of the pharmaceuticals from earthworms, mummy, and Orthilia secunda on the ability of earthworms to regenerate lost tail segments has been investigated. The relations of the activity of preparations tested with doses and the time of the storage have been revealed. The principal possibility of applicability of the test reaction studied as a way to evaluate the effects and quality of remedies based on medicinal plants and earthworms has been shown.
Keywords: Earthworms, medicinal remedies, mummy, Orthilia secunda, regeneration, test-reaction, vermipreparation
Bybin VA, Stom DI. The evaluation of the activity of medicinal remedies of plant and animal origin on the regeneration of the earthworms' tail segments . Phcog Res 2015;7:393-6
Bybin VA, Stom DI. The evaluation of the activity of medicinal remedies of plant and animal origin on the regeneration of the earthworms' tail segments . Phcog Res [serial online] 2015 [cited 2020 Jan 21];7:393-6. Available from: http://www.phcogres.com/text.asp?2015/7/4/393/159581
Every year millions of animals are killed in the course of scientific experiments. [1] The necessity of such experiments is understandable, but their ethics is in serious doubt. Issues of humane treatment to animals used are given the most attention in the world. [2] Now in the global community there is enough hard recommendation to replace the vertebrate test animals into simpler organisms at the development, testing, and evaluation of the quality pharmaceuticals. [3] Not only ethical considerations, but also the financial aspects initiate the development of alternative methods of bioassay using the invertebrates. The basic biochemical processes are quite close to higher animals and the lower ones so the special obstacles for the development of the alternative methods are absent and the advantages are obvious. Moreover, main among them is the reducing of number of the vertebrate animals used in scientific experiments. High regenerative abilities of the worms are well known. For example, a new individual planarian can be grown from a piece, which is only 1/7 of the original animal. [4] This feature of planarian allowed to create the alternative methods of testing of drugs, dietary supplements, water quality, the influence of electromagnetic fields, and other radiations. [5] The tests on planarian can replace the ones that are held today on mammals. [6]
However, lacks of the bioassays based on the planarian regeneration are the need for complex and expensive video equipment for recording the regrowth of worms' body, the difficulties of culturing of flatworms, and fairly long period of response. These difficulties can be avoided by using of another group of the worms of type Annelida. The new individual can be fully recovered only from the front half of the body in many species of earthworms. [7],[8],[9]
In this context, the aim of this work was verification of the capability of use for evaluation of the regenerative activity of drugs with plant and animal origin by their influence on the processes of recovery of amputated earthworms' tail segments.
The red Californian hybrid was used as an object of study. It refers to the phylum of Annelida, class of Oligochaeta, family of Lumbricidae, genus Eisenia Malm 1877 Emend Michaelsen, 1900, species Eisenia fetida andrei Bouche, 1972. In the laboratory, the worms were bred in trays with soil at 25°C and a humidity of 80-85%. The animals were fed by soaked buckwheat. In experiments, adult worms with a belt zone and length of 8-10 cm were used.
Vermipreparations
Today in all over the world, the demand for pharmaceutical earthworm-based preparations is growing. The interest in vermipreparations is due to their antitumor, antibacterial, antioxidant, immunostimulatory and many other effects. [10] The vermipreparations were obtained of zooids of red Californian hybrid Eisenia fetida andrei Boche by the traditional method. [11] Worms were kept for 2 days in the acidified water without food for cleansing of the bowel and cover from the soil. Then live worms were crushed and dried for 10 h at 50°C. Preparations with reduced activity prepared by heating of vermipowder at 100°C for 30 min. For further experiments, aqueous suspensions of vermipreparations used. With this end in the view, a weighed portion of vermipreparation mixed with a magnetic stirrer and water in mass units of 1:100 for 1 h. Then the suspension was centrifuged for 5 min at 3000 rpm. The protein concentration in the supernatant was estimated by the Lowry method. [12] The decoctions of the medicinal plants were prepared from 1 g of raw material ratio of 20 ml of boiling water. We used decoctions cooled to the room temperature in the experiments. The dechlorinated tap water served as the control.
It is organic and mineral product of natural origin, which is pieces of different shapes and sizes of the inhomogeneous dense, solid mass with a rough or grainy, matte or glossy surface, fragile or low-plasticity consistency with inclusions of plant, mineral or animal origin, retinoid compound, brown, deep brown, black with pale gray spots of color, and peculiar smell. [13] Mummy is used in ayurvedic and other forms of alternative medicine. We used the "golden mummy" (JSC "Evalar", Russia) in experiments.
Orthilia secunda, L., 1753 (upland uterus) is a flowering plant of the genus Orthilia in the family Ericaceae. It is the only member of the genus. [14] The plant has a circumboreal distribution, growing throughout much of the Northern Hemisphere. O. secunda is recommended by herbalists as an herb for gynecological disorders and inflammations. O. secunda preparations are used for sterility, bleedings, infantilism, cervical erosion, for menstrual cycle derangements, toxicosis. In some countries, O. secunda is used as diuretics and antiseptics for kidney and urinary bladder inflammations.
The obtained results were statistically processed using the software package Microsoft Excel 2010. All experiments were performed in five independent experiments in three parallel replicates. Difference reliability was determined by Student's t-test. Conclusions are made at P < 0.05. [15]
The effects of different drugs on the rate of regeneration of earthworms we tested as following. The mature zooids of earthworms were kept for 1-day without food in the containers with sterile filter for cleansing of their intestine and covers from the soil. The paper in containers was moistened with the acidified sterile water with 6, 5 pH. The worms were washed repeatedly with sterile water. The paper mats were changed too. The five tail segments of worms were dissected with a sterile scalpel in the control group. We used a magnifying lens also for this purpose. The wounds were washed with 1 ml of physiological salt solution immediately after the cut and once a day for 3 days. In the experimental group, the wound was washed with a solutions or suspensions of medicines with required containing.
The earthworms were contained without food in a Petri dish More Details containing sterile filter paper moistened with sterile water after resection. Worms were not fed specifically but they ate litter. The intensity of regeneration of the tail segments was fixed and compared within 2 weeks on the number of segments regrown in the experimental and control groups of earthworms. The data processing was performed by calculating the rate of regeneration with formula 1:
Where n is the number of segments regrown and t is the time of exposure.
The study of the influence of vermipreparations and other drugs on the regeneration of the earthworms showed the following. The vermipreparations (in a concentration of 0.01%) both as intact and with reduced activity accelerated the regeneration of the tail segments of earthworms on the average 2.6 times (t d = 9; P ≤ 0.05) compared to controls [Figure 1]a and 1b].
Figure 1: The regeneration of the tail segments of earthworms under the influence of: (a) Intact vermipreparation (b) vermipreparation attenuated by heating
The increasing of the concentrations of intact vermipreparation to 0.1% led to a suppression of regeneration on average 56% (t d = 3.1; P ≤ 0.05) [Figure 1]a], while animals were insensitive to the vermipreparation attenuated by heating in the same concentration [Figure 1]b]. A further increase in the concentration of both types of vermipreparations to 0.5% and 1% did not significantly alter the rate of the segment's regeneration. The preparation "golden mummy" inhibited regeneration of earthworms at 0.1% and 1% on average by 32% and 50% (t d = 2.6, P ≤ 0.05; t d = 4.2, P ≤ 0.05), respectively and stimulated on 112% (t d = 6.2; P ≤ 0.05) with content of the mummy 0.01% compared to the control [Figure 2] and [Figure 3].
Figure 2: The regeneration of the tail segments of earthworms exposed with the preparation "Golden mummy"
Figure 3: The regeneration of the tail segments of Eisenia fetida on the 22 days of exposure of oligochaetes after treatment by: (a) 0.01% solution of the preparation "golden mummy", (b) 0.1% solution of the preparation "Golden mummy", (c) 1% solution of the preparation "golden mummies", (d) physiological saline (control)
The decoctions (1:20) of O. secunda of 1-year storage of raw materials inhibited the rate of regeneration of tail segments of earthworms on average by 52% (t d = 7.7; P < 0.05) compared with the decoction of O. secunda 10 years ago [Figure 4].
Figure 4: The effect of decoctions of Orthilia secunda of different periods of storage (1, 3, and 10 years old) on the regeneration of the tail segments of earthworms
Thus, vermipreparations and mummy stimulate at low and inhibit in higher concentrations of the regeneration of the tail segments of earthworms. The decoctions of fresh raw O. secunda is strongly suppressed the regeneration of the earthworm's tail segments than older ones. This reaction is a promising bioassay, as it allows to select effective doses and evaluate the biological activity of vermipreparation and other drugs. The advantages of studied bioassay are the ease of implementation, technical simplicity, low cost, the ability to assess the quality of medicines on the field conditions. It gives an integral assessment of the activity of drugs in contrast to the known methods of analytical chemistry.
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Recipe website idea takes first place at Wichita entrepreneurship competition
A website that incorporates whatever ingredients someone might have in their kitchen took first place during the recent Startup Weekend Wichita entrepreneurial competition in Old Town.
Pandandy — a website created by Mark Earnest, Tanner Giffin, Jason Newman and Tad Williams — was voted the best idea by a panel of judges during the 54-hour event at the Labor Party, which showcased start-up business ideas. Pandandy offers recipes that include only items that a cook has in his or her home.
“I was amazed by what I saw,” said Mark Torline of the Wichita State University Center for Entrepreneurship and a judge for the event. “I thought the teams did a remarkable job of not only coming up with a product idea but also, in some cases, providing a prototype and customer validation.”
The weekend event, which occurs twice per year, began in 2013 and featured 46 participants comprising seven different teams, according to a news release. The event started Friday and went until Sunday evening. The other top finishers are:
▪ Second place: Toasted, a British-themed drinking board game created by Adrian Fox, Jason Martin, Carlos Palomino, Cody Saunders and Gina Stevenson.
▪ Third place: BrightWeb, a social media network for people with intellectual disabilities created by Emily Behlmann and Harsh Oza.
▪ Community Choice Award: Cypher, a modular eye-wear manufacturer that allows customers to mix and match pieces, colors and styles; creators included Pedro Figueroa, Dominic Greene, John Ho, Kenny Ma, Truc Quach, Monserrat Rios and Jaime Segura.
In addition to Torline, the other judges for the competition were Wichita City Council member Bryan Frye and Chicken Poop creator and CEO Jamie Tabor, according to the release.
The creators of Pandandy will now get a chance to put their product in front of potential investors as part of the Global Startup Battle.
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Categories: Native American and Indigenous Studies, prison conditions and struggles.
Abolitionism and the Paradox of Penal Reform in Australia: Indigenous Women, Colonial Patriarchy, and Cooptation
The authors explore abolitionism in the context of the Australian colonial project and the paradoxes and challenges presented to the abolitionist vision by the project of penal reform. In the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, Australia witnessed the emergence of a diffuse patchwork of abolition and prisoner rights campaigns. Some campaigns, specifically in states such as New South Wales and Victoria have had a profound impact in eliciting and shaping government and correctional penal reform programs. Paradoxically, Australia also witnessed a revalorization of the prison and punitive criminal justice responses as primary solutions for dealing with social problems and structural disadvantage.
prison abolition–Australia, prisoner rights, prison and punitive criminal justice policy, indigenous women
Citation: Social Justice Vol. 41, No. 3 (2014): 168-189
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Humphrey Clucas is known for a wide range of choral and vocal music, alongside a growing body of instrumental music, and this beautiful and evocative song is set to words by A.E. Housman.
Originally for voice and lute, Evenfall also works well with piano accompaniment and the edition includes versions for high voice (A minor) and low voice (E minor). The accompaniment is simple and supportive, allowing the flowing melody to soar above, with a tonal and accessible style which should appeal to singers of all ages and abilities.
Humphrey Clucas was born in 1941 and read English at King's College, Cambridge, where he was also a Choral Scholar. Having taught English for twenty-seven years he subsequently became a Lay Vicar at Westminster Abbey but is now retired.
As a composer he is self taught, and although he is well-known for a set of Anglican Responses written as an undergraduate, almost all his serious music has been written over the last twenty-five years. He has a growing reputation as a choral composer and has produced an impressive and steady stream of choral works, both sacred and secular, alongside much instrumental music. He has written works for Cathedrals in Chichester, Guildford, Salisbury and Winchester, as well as for King's College, Cambridge, Southwell Minster and Westminster Abbey.
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Alibaba trials facial payments giving shoppers discounts for smiling – 26.04.18
Alibaba trials facial payments giving shoppers discounts for smiling
Alibaba is trialling a ‘happiness meter’ which gives shoppers discounts depending on their mood. Upon entering the store, customers must check in by both having their faces read, and scanning a QR code. Upon leaving, they then have their faces scanned one more time, which in turn will use the “Happy Go” feature to reward discounts for those who are smiling.
*It will be interesting to watch this space to see which whether this type of customer-facing facial recognition technology will be deployed at mass scale in order to enhance the physical experience.*
Facebook made an ad about how bad Facebook has become
Facebook has increasingly been reckoning with the many problems its network has, and today, the company released an ad acknowledging the issues and promising to get back to “what made Facebook good in the first place.”
* More than anything, this ad shows how much Facebook has begun to recognise that it doesn’t simply have issues that pop up here and there, it has a real image problem — that its own users don’t trust it and feel it’s moved away from the service’s original purpose. *
Bourjois unveils virtual try-on triggered by physical products
Bourjois has unveiled a new smart mirror experience that enables shoppers to virtually try on make-up simply by picking up a cosmetic product in store. The blended reality mirror is said to be an industry first as it integrates physical product – in this case makeup – with the AR experience happening on the screen.
*This innovation comes from research that shows that 72% of consumers want an in-store beauty experience to be a mixture of both physical and digital elements in order to feel more ‘believable’ – it will be interesting to see whether similar initiatives are rolled out more widely.*
Facebook clamps down on pirated content
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Thank you for visiting my legislative website. It is my honor to serve the citizens of the 14th Senate District in the Illinois General Assembly. On this website you can learn about me, my initiatives, and legislation that is being pushed forth in the General Assembly.
Right now, my top priorities are bringing more jobs to the 14th district, finding a responsible solution to budget, and putting an end to business as usual in Springfield.
I always welcome feedback from my constituents, so if you have any questions, concerns, or ideas, please do not hesitate to contact me. I also hold periodic town-hall meetings, roundtables, and satellite office hours. Check the Constituent Services section of my website to learn about upcoming events.
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Jones congratulates newly elected Senate President Harmon
SPRINGFIELD – Following the election of a new Senate President, State Senator Emil Jones III (D-Chicago) offered the following statement:
“I would like to congratulate Senator Don Harmon for becoming President of the Senate. Over the years Harmon has showed strong leadership skills day in and day out. I look forward to working with him to bring unlimited resources back to my district,” Jones said.
Lawmakers will return to Springfield on Jan. 28 for the beginning of the spring legislative session.
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Jones announces library grants to local school districts
CHICAGO – Five local school districts will receive more than $8,000 combined in grants through the Illinois secretary of state’s School Library Grant program, State Senator Emil Jones III (D-Chicago) announced Wednesday.
The grants, which are issued by the Illinois State Library, are meant to help public schools offer more library books and materials to students.
“These grants will provide many additional learning materials to the deserving school districts,” Jones said. “It’s sad to say, but libraries are often overlooked and underfunded so these funds will be beneficial to increasing our students reading skills.”
Schools receiving school library grants include:
Atwood Heights School District 125, Alsip — $750
Alsip, Hazelgreen & Oak Lawn School District 126 — $1,128.75
Cook County School District 130, Blue Island — $2,396.25
Forest Ridge School District 142, Oak Forest — $1,189.50
Kirby School District 140, Tinley Park — $2,557.50
Jones law will improve minority representation in apprenticeship programs
SPRINGFIELD – Legislation sponsored by State Senator Emil Jones III (D-Chicago) that will increase access to apprenticeship programs in the construction industry for African Americans was signed into law.
Jones's legislation creates the Bureau on Apprenticeship Programs within the Illinois Department of Labor and creates an advisory board of 12 legislators (three from each caucus, appointed by the caucus leader). The goal of the commission is to increase minority participation in apprenticeship programs.
Read more: Jones law will improve minority representation in apprenticeship programs
Jones supports balanced budget to move Illinois toward economic stability
SPRINGFIELD – State Senator Emil Jones (D-Chicago) voted today for a budget that increases violence prevention grants, education and DCFS.
“Our state was in a hostile place for a few years, but this year’s budget puts Illinois in better shape than before,” Jones said. “We are on a path toward stability and funding all the services Illinois needs.”
“Additionally, the budget is funding a program that helps our kids escape violence and creates new career opportunities,” Jones said.
The budget appropriates $12 million in grants to address violence prevention efforts state statewide, including downstate communities, Chicago and the suburbs.
P-12 education will have record-breaking funding of $8.8 billion, and higher education will receive a 5 percent increase to support community college and universities.
The Monetary Award Program (MAP) will receive $451 million in next year’s budget – a $50 million increase over last year.
AIM HIGH, a program that works to reduce the costs of college for working and middle-class students, will receive an additional $10 million in funding, a move Jones hopes will help combat student out migration.
DCFS will receive an additional $100 million to hire 300 staff and caseworkers, reducing worker caseload and ensuring more attentive oversight for children and families under the agency’s care.
Jones votes to legalize Adult-Use Cannabis
Jones announces $250,000 grant for Village of Riverdale
Jones urges minority participation in sports betting and gaming legislation
Jones plan would enhance diversity in construction apprenticeship programs
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