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Peyton Manning's supporting cast helped him reach the Super Bowl.
The Colts' inability to get the little things right Sunday left all of them empty-handed.
From the dropped passes to the missed tackles, the failure to recover an onside kick to Manning's game-sealing interception, Indianapolis blew chance after chance.
The result: Saints 31, Colts 17.
"I can't say we ever saw that coming at all," center Jeff Saturday said. "They just outplayed us."
It was the first time all season Indianapolis could definitively say that.
After all, this was the can't-miss Colts.
After breaking the NFL record with 23 consecutive regular-season wins, setting the league record for most victories in a decade (115) and giving up a shot at a perfect season, the Colts had only one goal: earning a second ring.
Well, that quest can start again next year. The Colts got it all wrong in Miami.
Indy's young receivers, Pierre Garcon and Austin Collie, both failed to come up with big third-down catches. Reggie Wayne had only five catches for 46 yards and failed to get into the end zone.
Manning made an uncharacteristic gaffe, too, throwing a ball straight to cornerback Tracy Porter, who jumped Wayne's route and ran it back 74 yards for the decisive score.
"He made a great play, he just made a great play, that's all I can say," Manning said.
The Colts defense had its own problems.
All-Pro defensive end Dwight Freeney was the only pass rusher to get consistent pressure on New Orleans quarterback Drew Brees. And Freeney was playing with a torn ligament in his right ankle, which became more problematic in the second half after it stiffened up.
The Colts also repeatedly missed tackles, allowing New Orleans to pick up extra yardage and keep driving for scores.
None of it went according to the plan.
"What we did do well was take away the big plays," defensive captain Gary Brackett said. "What we didn't do well was wrapping up."
One of the decisive miscues came on special teams.
Hank Baskett had a chance to make the Saints pay when they opened the second half with a surprise onside kick, trailing 10-6. The little-used receiver got his hands on the ball, but let it bounce away and New Orleans recovered to set up a TD drive.
Baskett's wife, Kendra Wilkinson, was so upset she walked to the back of her suite. Baskett didn't take questions after the game.
Teammates, however, called it the turning point.
"As the special teams captain, I felt like we didn't do the little things right," safety Melvin Bullitt said. "If we do, we're getting the ball there at the (Saints') 40 and it might have been a totally different game."
But the way Indy played, it might not have mattered.
After New Orleans kicked its first field goal early in the second quarter, Garcon dropped a third-down pass that hit him in the shoulder. Indy ran only six plays in the period and didn't pick up a first down.
There was more of the same in the second half.
Collie was stopped for a 3-yard loss on second-and-8, a play Manning bemoaned could've have gone for a first down had the rookie turned upfield. Manning came right back to Collie, who couldn't catch a third-down pass.
On Indy's next series, Porter picked off Manning and the Saints led 31-17 with 3:12 to go.
"You never know how it's going to turn out," said Manning, a former Super Bowl MVP. "The Colts started hot, the Saints came back. We just didn't play well enough at certain times and in certain phases. The Saints deserved to win."
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Halftime: Heat 55, Knicks 44
By Jared Zwerling
Here are five quick hits at the half of the Knicks-Heat game:
1. Mike Bibby's hot first quarter. He hit two 3-pointers and even knocked down a baseline jumpshot off of a screen, looking like a true shooting guard. At the end of the first quarter, he had eight points, three rebounds and a tremendous back screen on LeBron James that resulted in a Carmelo Anthony two-hand dunk. He also ran the pick-and-roll well a few times, and his best pass (his only assist) found Landry Fields cutting to the basket in the middle of the lane for the dunk.
2. Anthony ran point-forward, as predicted. That enabled Bibby to get going as more of a two guard, just like in Game 4 (when he made two clutch 3-pointers at the end of the third quarter and fourth to keep the Knicks in it). With Melo running the show, he scored seven points in the first period on 3-for-6 shooting. What limited him, however, were his two fouls and he was subbed out with the Knicks up 20-19. That's when the Heat went on a run, and when Melo checked back in with 8:52 remaining in the second, the Heat were up 36-30. The Knicks couldn't generate enough offense with J.R. Smith on the court as the only scorer.
3. The Heat's defense on Amare Stoudemire. Since they know he has a bum left hand, they're playing up on him to take away his midrange jumpshot and force him to dribble. That's caused STAT to turn the ball over twice and miss a couple of layups at the rim. He simply doesn't have full control of the ball when making a move.
4. Toney Douglas' play. He stated the second quarter, replacing Bibby, which was his first action of the series. Douglas basically did what he needed to do: bring the ball up the court, not buckle down in the Heat's swarming pick-and-roll defense and give the ball to Anthony without turning it over. Douglas also had two points on a fastbreak layup and an assist on a Jared Jeffries' jumpshot.
5. The Knicks' defense on the Heat's Big 2. After James and Dwyane Wade didn't make one field goal in the first quarter -- James' was, however, 7-for-8 from the foul line -- Wade broke that streak with 10:08 left in the second quarter on a fastbreak layup. From that point on, the Knicks couldn't contain James in the paint and Wade just hit some spectacular midrange fallaway shots. In the first quarter, the Knicks double-teamed James and Wade nearly every time they touched the ball, but they lacked that defensive effort and energy to close the half.
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Practice makes perfect
Friday's practice was extremely laid back compared to ones earlier in the week. For example, the No.3 and 4's got a lot of reps today. Matt Moore looked solid, making a lot of good throws. He, however, did throw a bad pass that was picked off by linebacker Alan Darlin.
His favorite target was slot receiver Brandon Powers, who hauled in two touchdown passes during the 7-on-7 drills. One came against good coverage by Sabby Piscitelli, prompting the senior safety to moan with disgust.
Joe Newton also saw a lot of balls thrown his way. And once again, caught everything. The only problem is he seems to get open too easily. Hopefully, it's just a testament to how good he is.
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DETROIT -- Believe it or not, there may have been two Tigers who were lonelier than Justin Verlander during his no-hitter on Tuesday night against the Brewers.
Everybody knows the rule about not speaking to a pitcher while a no-no is in process in order not to jinx him.
But Mike Maroth and Chad Durbin didn't even have an opportunity to bother Verlander while he was in the process of making history. That's because they were away from the dugout charting the game from the television inside the Tigers clubhouse.
"You don't know how bad I wanted to be out there on the field," Durbin said. "I was charting in here, watching. The last inning, we wanted to scoot our chairs closer to the doors. When he got the last out, we jumped out of there."
Durbin and Maroth joined the rest of the Tigers in a mob scene on the mound after the Verlander completed the first Tigers no-hitter since 1984. They both knew Verlander had special stuff, even if they weren't watching the game on the actual playing field.
"It was like a watching a kid in Little League who just dominates," Durbin said. "Everybody's just fouling balls off. It was a lot of fun to watch, even if I didn't watch a pitch live."
Maroth, who will start on Wednesday, chose to chart the game with Durbin from inside because he had never faced the Brewers and wanted to pay extra attention to the game. He didn't have to remain inside since Durbin was the one officially charting the game. But he didn't want to disrupt any type of mythical karma or good luck Verlander was experiencing.
"You get to the point where you don't change anything," Maroth said. "Everybody's in the same spot."
None of the other Tigers wanted to disturb Verlander either. That proved difficult for the 24-year-old, who is one of the more social players on the team. He sat next to Omar Infante after coming off the field from the eighth inning, but Infante clearly wanted no part of a discussion with Verlander.
Justin Verlander, No-hitter
"The last inning I went to sit down next to Infante," Verlander said. "And he got up and walked away."
Undaunted, Verlander tried to chat with his catcher Ivan Rodriguez entering the ninth to discuss how to approach the final three outs. The veteran catcher, who also caught current Tiger Kenny Rogers' perfect game in 1994, also knew to leave his pitcher alone.
"I didn't talk to him, I just left him alone," Rodriguez said. "Then, in the ninth inning, he tried to come over and talk to me and I told him 'You know what, go away. Just do what you've been doing. You're fine. You don't have to change anything.'"
Sean Casey had seen a pitcher come close to a no-hitter, though he was partially to blame for never seeing one during his 10 years as a Major Leaguer. He broke up a no-hitter with just two outs to go during his rookie year.
"I got a hit off Andy Benes with 8 1/3 [innings] to break it up," Casey said. "I was proud I was on the other side tonight."
Casey said the way Verlander works so quickly was one of the reasons he was able to complete the task. That included nice defensive plays from Brandon Inge, Magglio Ordonez and Neifi Perez.
"No doubt about it. The way he works, how he works, it keeps the defense on their toes," Casey said. "Everything worked out the way it should have."
The outfield didn't have to do much of that work though. Center fielder Curtis Granderson had just one putout, on the final out of the first inning. Left fielder Craig Monroe didn't field a ball the entire game and Ordonez had just two catches.
"I remember back in high school when we had good pitchers go, you wouldn't have too much action out there," Granderson said. "It can definitely get a little slow and boring but not today. The quick pace of the game definitely helped and we scored runs. Definitely not like in high school."
All-in-all, it was just a memorable night for Verlander, who is in just his second year in the Majors. Both Casey and Rodriguez likened the experience to playing in the World Series and the excitement was nearly an equal match
"I think I was more excited than him," Rodriguez said. "When I saw the replay [of the final out], I see that [Ordonez is] on the warning track."
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Tikolo determined to see Kenya back on the rise
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BACK ON THE RISE: Steve Tikolo wants to keep Kenya's cricket World Cup appearance streak alive.
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Eleven years on from the greatest triumph in Kenyan cricket, Steve Tikolo is still seething.
Kenya stunned the cricketing world at the 2003 World Cup, qualifying for the semifinals after beating Sri Lanka, Zimbabwe, Bangladesh and Canada. They also gained a crucial walkover win against New Zealand, who forfeited their game in Kenya's capital, Nairobi, due to safety concerns.
After the World Cup, there were calls for Kenya to gain test playing status, but instead of building on their success, the game deteriorated badly.
Tikolo, who is now player-coach of Kenya, is in New Zealand for the 10-team World Cup qualifying tournament, which begins on Monday. He believed Kenya's cricket administrators at the time squandered a golden opportunity to grow the sport in the east African nation.
It's something they have never really recovered from.
"After the 2003 World Cup, I think our cricket took a nosedive, which is really hurting for me and the guys who took part in that event," Tikolo says.
"I'm sorry to say after that, the vibe just died. You'd have thought that's when Kenya cricket should have risen."
Tikolo said money started rolling in and the International Cricket Council promised to help fund Kenya to become the next test nation, but the Kenya Cricket Association (KCA) acted negligently. Matters were compounded when former skipper Maurice Odumbe was slapped with a five-year ban in 2004 after being found guilty of receiving money from bookmakers.
The KCA was eventually dissolved by the government in 2005 and replaced with a new body, Cricket Kenya.
"Our management let us down big time and that is what has caused the downfall of Kenyan cricket," Tikolo explained.
"That particular board in place couldn't account for that money and I think that's where things started to go wrong - court cases, mismanagement. It culminated in those officials being thrown out of office.
"It's tough to take. My heart bleeds for Kenyan cricket."
Tikolo, who is Kenya's all-time leading one-day international run-scorer and most capped player, retired after the 2011 World Cup - his fifth tournament.
The 42-year-old wasn't done, however, answering an SOS call late last year to provide some much needed experience and guidance. Tikolo is acting as interim coach after Robin Brown stood down late last year after failing to guide Kenya to a spot at this year's Twenty20 World Cup.
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He admits this is likely to be his last stint in the national side and is determined to help them through to the final of the World Cup qualifier over the next few weeks, which would secure their passage to the 2015 tournament in New Zealand and Australia.
Tikolo and Kenya have been to every ODI World Cup since their inaugural showing in 1996, where they produced a shock result, beating a star-studded West Indies team, including Brian Lara, Richie Richardson, Shivnarine Chanderpaul, Courtney Walsh and Curtly Ambrose.
Tikolo still regards as one of the most memorable matches of his 20-year international career.
"For me, that World Cup was an eye-opener. It showed, we could play at the highest level.
"They were our role models. Just to be on the same ground as them was an achievement. Let alone beating them."
Tikolo impressed at the 1996 World Cup, finishing as Kenya's top run-scorer with 196 at 39 from five innings, which included 96 against Sri Lanka. His best individual return at a World Cup came at the 2007 version in the West Indies, where he averaged 77.50 with the bat, notching 70s against England and Canada.
If Kenya fail to qualify for next year's World Cup, Tikolo said it would be a bitter pill to swallow.
"It would be a big blow for Kenyan cricket. A lot of things might change in terms of the structures and funding from the ICC. We basically depend on funding from the ICC, we don't have any sponsors."
Despite the heartache of the last decade, Tikolo remains upbeat about where the sport is headed in his homeland. He was complimentary of the new board and said they had several talented young players in their ODI squad, who had the ability to make an impact.
Tikolo thinks Kenya is capable of contending for a top two berth at the World Cup qualifying tournament.
They possessed some promising top order batsmen and he believed the squad was improving with each training session together.
"I feel the team is well prepared and we have a fair chance of getting to the final."
- © Fairfax NZ News
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New York Mets' power fades late in games
Jeremy D Cothran By Jeremy D Cothran
on August 27, 2008 at 7:46 PM, updated August 27, 2008 at 10:06 PM
The Mets hope to see celebrations like this one late in games down the stretch.
Sure, the Mets scored seven runs. On most days that is more than enough. But not a single run came across after the fourth inning. While the Phillies kept mounting one threat after another, the Mets failed to put runners in scoring position.
What irks interim manager Jerry Manuel is that tack-on runs often serve as knockout punches. Had the Mets been able to generate more runs over the course of the game, they would have taken a considerable amount of pressure off the bullpen.
It took 13 innings for Tuesday's marathon to play out. The Mets finished with 14 hits. But from the fifth inning on, they had only four more. Manuel wants to give credit to the Phillies bullpen, but he's pinning the problem on an internal issue.
"We are trying to address that," Manuel said. "That's kind of an issue that we have that we're trying to figure out different ways as to why we're having that particular problem."
Here's the thing: There is not a cut-and-dried solution. But it's progressed past the point where Manuel believes it's just coincidence. He's seen the trend too long. Even his predecessor, Willie Randolph, constantly bemoaned the Mets' inability to add tack-on runs.
At one point in their last series against the Astros, the Mets made 34 consecutive outs. Granted, 20 of those came against Roy Oswalt, but it helps to frame the issue.
As a whole, the offense operates at an incredibly productive level. Entering Wednesday night, the Mets were the second-best team in the National League in scoring runs. They are the best team in the majors at scoring in the first inning, which helps wear down the starting pitcher. On Tuesday, Jamie Moyer was out of the game after just three innings.
"It's just one of those things. Hopefully at some point it might be better to reverse that," Manuel said with a hearty laugh. "We start getting them late, we might have some wiggle room."
Players say it's part of the game. Their reasoning is simple: Sometimes the team hits well, and sometimes it doesn't. That was how Fernando Tatis -- who mashed a three-run homer Tuesday -- put it. But is it that simple? Manuel felt the quality of his team's at-bats falls dramatically in the later innings. He watches a team that was once taking pitches and swinging at good pitches revert to bad habits. The Mets grounded into three double plays and finished just 3-for-10 with runners in scoring position.
Manuel just wants productive at-bats. What angers him is to watch hitters swing at pitches out of the strike zone and ground into double plays.
"You don't always have to get hits to have good at-bats," Manuel said. "If you hit a line drive, I'm good with that. If they catch it, they catch it."
The Mets scored early because they put continual pressure on Moyer. Jose Reyes led off the game with a triple, crushing the second pitch of the game into the gap in left-center field. In the third, the first two hitters reached base on singles. Tatis then brought them all home with a towering shot.
Compare that with extra innings. From the 10th on, the Mets put only two baserunners on. No one even reached second base. The bullpen allowed only three runs over the course of eight innings, but they're finding a lot of the blame directed at them because of the overall result.
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Matt Dawson on Sir Ian McGeechan
Sir Ian McGeechan
Knighthood still sinking in - McGeechan
Matt Dawson
By Matt Dawson
Former Northampton, Wasps, England and Lions scrum-half
For me, Sir Ian McGeechan is the ultimate Lion.
There have been many great players associated with the Lions over the years, with names like Willie John McBride, Martin Johnson, Scott Gibbs and Gareth Edwards springing to mind.
But as someone who embodies everything it is to be a Lion, there is nobody who will come close to what Geech has brought to the red jersey.
From player, to coach, to manager - not to mention assistant manager and consultant - he epitomises the Lions as a brand and as a team.
He laughed when I asked to speak to Sir Ian when I phoned to congratulate him on his knighthood, an embarrassing giggle of disbelief.
I can imagine him opening his post, just like any other person, and being completely gobsmacked to read the letter when the news came through; I can picture his wife Judy asking what's wrong and him showing her the letter; and I can almost see the sheer disbelief on their faces - but it makes perfect sense.
That's one of the reasons why everyone thinks he deserves the honour: his humility and his under-the-radar dedication to be successful on behalf of the teams he has worked for.
I'm very proud to know him and I know that, despite the knighthood, he will be exactly the same as he always has been.
I first met Geech in 1995 when he was thinking about coming to coach at Northampton - and he hasn't changed.
He was very quiet and thorough in his preparation, but always so positive and incredibly knowledgeable. And he had an ability to communicate with his players in a way which always made them perform to their best.
I was aspiring to be an international rugby player at the time and after watching me for a couple of months, he said to me: "Daws, you're a scrum-half, I don't want you to force it."
When Geech spoke, you didn't just feel like you were flicking through history books reading about JPR Williams, Willie John McBride or Gareth Edwards - you felt like you were sitting next to them
I asked him what he meant and he said: "You have two options in your rugby life - you either make a break or pass the ball. Whichever you choose to do, you do it 100%."
As simple as that sounds, he was absolutely spot on.
If I made a break followed by a mistake, I had to learn from it and try not do it again. Or if I made a pass when I should have made a break, I watched the video and next time I made the right decision.
Whatever I chose to do I did it 100% and he would always back me. He was like that with every player - as long as you weren't hesitant, he would always back you.
He has an empathy with players - not because he played at the highest level but because he has this ability to understand what the players are going through.
Jerry Guscott celebrates with McGeechan after the Lions win the 1997 series in South Africa
McGeechan led the 1997 Lions to victory in South Africa
As a coach, he has developed and changed in the 14 years I have known him, which marks the quality of the man.
He appreciates the game has moved on - the skills he had in 1995 were very different to what he took with the Lions in 2009. But he still manages to bring quality to the table.
When I first met him he was very much into wearing a tracksuit and getting stuck into the technical stuff in training.
He moved on as a coach and got into the management side, but he never left the training field altogether.
Geech has the ability to get the right people around him, perhaps guys who were a little bit closer to the modern game, and bring out his own little nuggets of wisdom when it's needed.
For everything he achieved with Northampton, Wasps and Scotland, it is the Lions where he really marked himself out as a legend.
On Lions tours there is so much tradition and history, you have to be aware of what it means to put that red jersey on.
But when Geech spoke, you didn't just feel like you were flicking through history books reading about JPR Williams, Willie John McBride or Gareth Edwards - you felt like you were sitting next to them. Geech's words brought the whole thing alive.
You weren't just a 1997 or 2009 Lion: you were a Lion. You felt two inches taller, two inches wider and two paces quicker: not only did you not want to let your own team down, but you didn't want to let the Lions "brand" down. Geech fully understood that.
Ian McGeechan and Matt Dawson during a Wasps photo call
Dawson played under McGeechan at Wasps until he retired
With the Lions, relationships are not just built on the rugby field - it is imperative to get it right off the field.
Other coaches have failed miserably and overlooked the social aspect. But Geech never did - you only need to look at the players from the 2009 tour and see how well they played.
There would be plenty of coaches who wouldn't participate with the players' court (where various fines are administered for "offences"). Geech would and could be one of the lads but he knew where the line was and never overstepped it.
I can't remember an angry word from him - he always had an angry sidekick like Jim Telfer, Warren Gatland or Shaun Edwards.
Those players who went to South Africa in 2009 will tell you that if they bumped into one of their fellow Lions, they would give them an enormous embrace because there is a bond that will be there forever.
And that's because of Geech - the ultimate Lion.
Matt Dawson was talking to BBC Sport's Pranav Soneji
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By Chris Devine
Legendary Pakistan paceman Wasim Akram has labelled James Anderson the best bowler in the world and believes the leader of England's attack has "mastered the art" of reverse swing.
Renowned for his ability to move the ball at pace, left-armer Wasim claimed 414 Test wickets and a further 502 in one-day internationals during a glittering career.
He also enjoyed great success as a county cricketer with Lancashire and feels his former club now boast the game's premier seamer in Anderson.
"For me, at the moment, he is the number one bowler in the world," Wasim told yesterday at Grappenhall Cricket Club in Warrington, where he was guesting for Australia in a charity legends match against England.
"I've seen a lot of bowlers in the last 10 years but Jimmy Anderson is at the top of the ladder.
"It's actually a treat to watch a bowler like him. I think he is at the peak of his game."
Having worked hard to develop his skills, Anderson is now able to pose a threat in any conditions, a fact emphasised by his impressive performances on recent tours of Australia and the sub-continent.
His prowess as an exponent of reverse swing has certainly caught the eye of Wasim, who added: "In my book, he has mastered the art now. I'm very impressed."
Wasim was not the only former Test cricketer to lavish praise on Anderson at Grappenhall.
Ex-England paceman Andy Caddick also paid tribute to the 31-year-old, who currently sits third on his country's list of Test wicket-takers, five behind Bob Willis.
"He's in his prime now," said Caddick of Anderson. "He's got a few years left and I think you'll see a lot of better bowling from Jimmy because he is the finished article and he knows his game.
"When you start knowing your game as a bowler you are going to continue doing very well."
Caddick, a veteran of 62 Tests and 54 ODIs, also expects Steven Finn to bounce back from his recent dip in form.
Finn was left out of England's squad for the third Investec Ashes Test at Emirates Old Trafford, but Caddick points to Anderson as a perfect example to follow.
"I think he (Finn) has just got to show consistency. Jimmy was the same," said Caddick. "He came into the side in 2003 at the World Cup and then had a struggle. He went away, worked on his game and to his credit he's come back as a better bowler and that's what pace bowlers need to do.
"Finny's got a long time ahead of him. He's a fantastic bowler.He bowls wicket-to-wicket, has got tall levers, hits the wicket hard and bowls at 90mph, so you can't be a better bowler than that."
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Brisbane proves to be 'All Blacks' 'banana skin'
Last updated 05:00 10/11/2012
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HANDLING ISSUES: Cory Jane fails to hang on to a pass.
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OPINION: Sometimes you hate to be right, and this was definitely one of those occasions as the All Blacks had their winning streak snapped in Brisbane with a draw that would have felt like a loss in the aftermath.
I wondered beforehand if this could be a "banana skin" match for the All Blacks and, sure enough, it played out pretty much as I'd thought it might, right down to my theory that the Australians might not be good enough or experienced enough to close out victory.
I had a feeling it would be one of those tight test matches and, if the Wallabies could stay in touch on the scoreboard, and even get themselves ahead, they would gain some encouragement and confidence.
They put themselves in a position to win the test match, then they proceeded to go about losing it as best they could.
The All Blacks were very lucky they were able to haul in a nine-point deficit all on the back of Australia making errors and doing foolish things.
They didn't construct anything because they didn't have any ball and because of that weren't able to build pressure and points.
The All Blacks instead had to rely on the Australians giving them opportunities to score points - and Robbie Deans' men duly obliged.
The Wallabies let the All Blacks back in to the point they could even have lost and, when they reflect on this match, they will probably be kicking themselves for letting the victory get away from them.
Australia were the dominant team and had every opportunity to win.
But I always felt that if it got close, New Zealand had an edge because they had so much experience and nous.
Sure enough, Australia got themselves into a winning position yet lacked the personnel and ability to grab the game by the scruff of the neck.
I don't think the All Blacks underestimated the Wallabies but they never got into the game early.
They were just feeding off turnovers and the odd error from Australia, but that doesn't give you ball in hand to establish a rhythm.
When they're playing well, the All Blacks construct seven-plus phases and put opponents under pressure. They hardly did that at all in this test.
At the end, the players sounded frustrated they couldn't get into the game and didn't have the ball to assert their game plan.
It was similar to what happened in the first half in South Africa, except there they were able to score the tries against the run of play to stay in the game.
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But that's two test matches in a row they've really struggled to get ball and implement the game plan.
Make no mistake, for the All Blacks this will feel like a loss.
The players would have been desperate to win for Keven Mealamu and for Steve Hansen, who's had a tough week with the death of his father, Des.
Plus, All Blacks love smashing records and take great pride in their achievements, and the fact they let that winning streak slip will be incredibly frustrating in the cold light of day.
Also, when an opponent is as dominant as the Wallabies were, a draw does feel like a loss.
But it would be unfair to let this result detract too much from the team's achievements this season. There are going to be games like that where it is hard work and you don't get enough ball.
They had a pretty full-on week, and it was hard not to admire the way Hansen dealt with it afterwards.
He was critical of the way they played and felt they hadn't played intelligently, and didn't get their hands on enough ball. He also felt there were too many unnecessary penalties given away.
But the positive was they performed well below par and still got away with a draw.
The defence was again extremely good. The Wallabies threw everything at them but never looked like scoring a try. While they might be having issues getting the attack going, the All Blacks' defence remains superb.
This team is capable of some special things, but the scary thing for the rest of the world is they're not there yet. They're still working at it.
I'm not sure that too much changes now either, just because the streak is over.
The All Blacks want to win every test match they play, and nothing changes on that front. It's what makes New Zealand rugby so powerful.
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Consider a square planar grid. (The vertices are pair of points in the plane with integer coordinates and two vertices are adjacent if they agree in one coordinate and differ by one in the other.)
Give every edge a length one with probability a half and length two with probability a half.
Consider a shortest path between the origin and the vertex $(n,0)$.
Show that with probability that tends to one as $n$ tends to infinity the shortest path will not contain the "middle edge" on the x-axis inbetween the orgin and $(n,0)$. (Namely, the edge between the vertices $(\lfloor\frac{n}{2}\rfloor,0)$ and $(\lfloor\frac{n}{2}\rfloor+1,0)$.)
This question is in the category of "a missing lemma". It is not really a full fledged open problem but rather a statement which looks correct that was needed in some paper and resisted proof. Of course, some such "lemmas" turn out to be very difficult, but sometimes maybe a simple argument was simply missed. The relevant paper is with Itai Benjamini and Oded Schramm: First Passage Percolation Has Sublinear Distance Variance
While MO have chosen to accept one answer, and there were some nice suggestions, the problem is still wide open.
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Thanks Alon, I myself cannot see the latex (it leaves the formulas uncompiled) so I prefer the plain text. – Gil Kalai Dec 23 '09 at 10:34
Nitpicking: is it "a shortest path" or "the shortest path"? Do you want to show there is a shortest path avoiding the given edge, or that all shortest paths avoid the given edge. – Boris Bukh Dec 23 '09 at 11:26
That's really a shame, Gil. Have you tried installing jsMath along with the fonts? It's not supposed to be necessary but perhaps it'll help. – Alon Amit Dec 23 '09 at 18:00
Boris, I suppose I just want to show that there is a shortest path avoiding this middle edge. Alon, jsMath? where – Gil Kalai Dec 23 '09 at 18:50
Boris: That's not nitpicky, it's actually an important point. If the distribution of passage times is continuous, then with probability one, there is a unique minimizing path between any two points. Here, since the distribution has atoms, with positive probability, there are multiple shortest paths. – Tom LaGatta Dec 26 '09 at 2:02
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Gil: This is a type of problem that I know little about so here I am thinking out loud about problems that seem natural to ask about this situation. It is hard to believe that people have not already thought about these questions and perhaps answered them. Where would I look to find out more?
You write you are interested in a "square planar grid." So I took this to mean that you were thinking about the points of a "square grid graph" with lx1 squares as the cells that goes from (0,0) to (n,n) and where weights were going to be assigned to the edges of size 1 or 2.
The paths that you are talking about need not be constrained to move up and to the right but it might be interesting to contrast the behavior of general shortest paths with those that move up and to the right. It would also seem to be of interest to see what happens if one selects half of the edges at random and makes them all length 1 edges and makes all the others of length 2. Since there are 4n edges this means 2n are 1's and 2n are 2's. Furthermore, If we insist that paths move up and to the right, such paths all have length 2n, so "very shortest" paths would consist only on 1's.
In both settings:
a. What is the probability there is a shortest path to (n,n) consisting of all 1's?
b. What can be said about the expected value of the length of a shortest path to (n, n)? What can be said about the expected number of paths of this value?
c. When one insists that each of the two lengths appear equally often how many different ways can this happen? (One can also ask how many of these are different up to symmetry of the "colored" graph, treating the lengths as two colors.) One could count in the general case too but the up and to the right case seems more interesting here.
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To whomever gave this post a negative vote: Shame on you. This post does not answer the question Gil asked, but so what? It is exploratory and raises some interesting ideas; perhaps one of those could lead to a correct answer. Posts like this are exactly what MathOverflow needs. – Tom LaGatta Dec 26 '09 at 1:57
Joe, it is a very good idea to consider paths from (0,0) to (n,n) and to consider also the case where you only go north and east. This restricted model is called "directed percolation". As far as I know the lemma is not known for directed percolation. There is one version where the distribution of edge length is exponential and you want the path of MAXIMUM length where this model is understood very well and is strongly connected to maximum eigenvalues of random symmetric matrices, largest monotone subsequences etc. – Gil Kalai Dec 26 '09 at 19:27
It may be possible that for this version (directed percolation; exponential lengths, maximum path), the detailed understanding of the model may lead to a proof of the lemma; but I am not sure even about it. (There are hopes, but no proofs for universality: that various models will behave in some sense the same way.) Strangely, I dont know the answer for a) off-hand. Nice question. – Gil Kalai Dec 26 '09 at 19:34
@Tom. I think you are wrong --- if someone read it and find it not helpful then it is right thing to vote down. (BTW, it was not me) – Anton Petrunin Jan 27 '10 at 19:37
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Gil, as you said, this is one of those typical FPP problems which seems obvious but is hard to prove. What have you tried already? It'd be helpful to know of some naïve attempts which didn't work.
Here are my thoughts:
Claim: There exists non-random $\lambda$ such that, with probability one, for large n, all shortest paths between $0$ and $(n,0)$ meet $\lambda n + o(n)$ edges. (this is a LLN-type theorem so it shouldn't be hard to prove; e.g., via energy-entropy methods, since your passage time distributions are bounded)
Thus one can consider the probability space $\Omega_n$ consisting of all paths between $0$ and $(n,0)$ which meet $\lambda n + o(n)$ edges. A shortest path is a random variable $X_n$ on this space with a certain probability distribution.
Claim: There exists $\sigma$ such that $|\Omega_n| \approx \sigma^n$. (should be easy: $\log|\Omega_n|$ is probably subadditive)
Let $\Omega_n'$ be the subspace of paths which meet the middle edge, so that $|\Omega_n'| \approx \sigma^{n/2} + \sigma^{n/2}$.
Suppose that there exists $p > 0$ such that the shortest path between $0$ and $(n,0)$ meets the middle edge with probability at least $p$. (*)
Here is the part which I'm struggling to quantify. Intuitively, the distribution of $X_n$ should be smeared smoothly over $\Omega_n$. Certainly the mean is a horizontal line segment, but even paths which veer quite far away aren't unreasonable. However, if (*) holds, with probability at least $p$, $X_n$ concentrates on the much smaller subspace $\Omega_n'$. This seems wrong.
Perhaps all I've done is to translate one "obvious" statement into another. Hopefully this helps a bit. Good luck!
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Tom, Interseting suggestion. I dont remember so much what we tried. At the end we managed to go around this lemma. – Gil Kalai Dec 26 '09 at 19:38
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Gil, thanks for bumping this post. I think I've got a new idea for you, but it's not a proof yet. Let $\gamma_n$ be a minimizing geodesic between $(-n,0)$ and $(n,0)$, and let $\gamma^{\pm}_n$ be a minimizing geodesic betwen $(\pm n, 0)$ and the origin.
Denote by $d(\gamma_n)$ the maximal Euclidean distance from the geodesic $\gamma_n$ to the straight line path between $(-n,0)$ and $(n,0)$, and define $d(\gamma^\pm_n)$ similarly for $\gamma^\pm_n$. By the definition of the transversal fluctuation exponent $\xi$, $d(\gamma^\pm_n)$ scales like $n^\xi$ and $d(\gamma_n)$ scales like $(2n)
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So, my site (www.around-around.com), has a lot of borders and they work fine on Safari, FF, and IE; but on Chrome, occasionally, they disappear. I've searched through the code and it doesn't make sense to me.
If you go to http://www.around-around.com/8/ on FF, you'll see the borders around the article. But on Chrome, they disappear.
The relevant CSS is:
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I'm totally baffled. On other pages, such as http://www.around-around.com/dream-perfume/, Chrome displays the borders fine. The code is exactly the same - the only difference is the post content.
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I believe you are hitting http://code.google.com/p/chromium/issues/detail?id=32702
The bug has been fixed, verified against Chromium src@139014! Should go live in Chrome 21.
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I think you're right Alexander. Thanks. I'm going to follow that thread and hopefully they'll figure it out. What a dumb problem. – Luke Finsaas May 16 '12 at 19:20
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because default border-style in Chrome is "none". for each border attribute in Chrome you must assign border-style value.
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HayburnerHeights 02-02-2009 09:20 PM
arena location, thoughts
I have a delima,
I have 2 different spots I can have a outdoor ring set up. One spot is near the barn, solid clay. Size would be roughly 50 x 75 feet, Pretty open area. I set up a ring years ago there, then moved it to spot mentioned below
the current spot is a little softer ground, ring is 60 x 110 feet, Problem is its right next door to our neighbors property and there is a hedge row about 10 feet from the side of my ring. The neighbors dogs constantly go through the hedgerow and spook my horses when we are trying to ride (hedge row is about 10 ft wide, consists of trees, long grass & brushey undergrowth). One of their dog houses is right on the other side of the hedgerow also, so the one dog can still raise heck without leaving their yard (one is tied, the other dog runs loose)
I would almost rather move it up toward the barn, but am concerned that the ring won't be large enough for two us to ride comfortably.
sandy2u1 02-02-2009 09:28 PM
I would be concerned about the dogs too. Not just the spooking...but are they gonna be barking the whole time you are riding? if so...that would be so annoying
HayburnerHeights 02-02-2009 09:39 PM
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They usually stop after a bit, I've chased them back over the hedgerow a few times with the lunge whip. They are just a pain in the rear end. :-(
rosie9r 02-02-2009 10:27 PM
Can you talk to your neighbors about moving their dogs farther from the hedge? Or put up a privacy fence on that side?
I would like a bigger arena personally, so you dont feel cramped or wont be able to really work your horse. (just like you can only do so much in a round pen.)
Miss Katie 02-02-2009 10:54 PM
I would tell your neighbour that you are having issues with their dogs venturing onto your land, and ask them to either tie both dogs or put up a fence. It is your land after all.
As for the barking, if it is excessive is there someone to report it to?? Otherwise, if they stop after a while I dont see it as being a problem. Its just something the horse has to get used to.
xilikeggs0 02-02-2009 11:50 PM
Either call animal control when the dogs come onto your property, or put up a fence.
appylover31803 02-03-2009 12:02 AM
I would suggest going over and talking to your neighbors. Say that not only is it dangerous for you and the horses, but to the dog too.
If they don't seem to care, see if you can put up a fence in that location.
I would rather have more room to ride, then less, though I dont know if I would always want to deal with the dogs everytime I ride
~*~anebel~*~ 02-03-2009 12:59 AM
Put up a fence and the next time the dogs come running through, boy are they and their little heads getting a surprise! Ir even one strand of electric will have the dogs thinking again about running through to your property. I also like the animal control idea. Be rude about it. I would not put up with neighbor's dogs on my property, regardless of where my horses and riding arena were.
I would opt for the larger space. And if possible I would actually put in a base, pack it and get some footing on there. It's a bunch better for the horses.
HayburnerHeights 02-03-2009 05:40 AM
our stupid little dog barks alot too, Its not the barking that spooks the horses and they do stop. Its the hedgerow wandering by the Jack Russell Terrier and occasional trip by the bigger dog. The horse think its a lion coming through there.
They are pretty good neighbors overall. They are just "old school" type people and are retired from the working world (a long time ago) Everyone just stays pretty much to themselves around here. They really don't have a lot of room where they are as far as their yard goes.(its just a small lot) Its just the way their house & lot are designed it means their main back yard is right next to my ring. I thought about talking to them but I can just see their dog darting out under their feet anyways. They are older folks and not as quick as they used to be
Thats why I was kind of leaning towards moving the ring.
Miss Katie 02-03-2009 08:59 AM
I think a fence would fix the problem, and they seem reasonable so maybe ask if they will split the cost with you.
They sound like they dont mean you no harm, just dont know any better. Im sure if you talked to them everything will work out the best for both of you.
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OK, I'll have a look at it and see if the method can be applied to the stronger statement. – Pascal Maillard Sep 26 '11 at 12:59
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Midway Problem (a reformulation only)
This is not an Answer. Start with a 2n x2n grid graph. all edges length one, all even pairs linked.
The "both even" numbered vertices are "the original graph". Add (x odd, y even) vertices half the time. Add (x even, y odd) vertices the time. The (odd, odd) vertices are always out. Seems a decent starting point. Point Midway is now (n+1, 0), and in the graph half of the time.
The two questions may then be:
Strongest question, as n grows: Show with probability approaching one that the set of all shortest paths between (0,0) and (2n,0) almost never contains Midway.
Weaker question, as n grows: Show with probability approaching one that there is a shortest path
between (0,0) and (2n,0) that does not contain Midway.
They may even have different answers, unless the shortest path has "uniqueness" properties. So again, this is not an answer.
But, the fractions are gone, and the edge lengths are all one!
Apologies for the initial typo. Is this variation more accessible?
The Far Corner variant of Midway, with an exclusion somewhere, may be easier for purists; but again, I do not know the answer (Nor even close). Propertys of shortest path sets from (0,0) to (2n,2n) may shed light on the axial case. Some small variety of forbidden minor, behaving as Midway, may be worthy of considering. I would try constant sized cycles.
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That's an interesting variation of the problem that might be easier. When you say add (x odd y even) hald the time do you mean with probability 1/2? I suppose also the (x even y odd) vertices are also added half the time. that's interesting. – Gil Kalai Jan 31 '10 at 16:52
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From: Yvette P. Hoitink <y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl>
Date: Fri, 19 Mar 2004 23:16:19 +0100
To: "'Wendy A Chisholm'" <wendy@w3.org>, <w3c-wai-gl@w3.org>
Cc: <nabe@lab.twcu.ac.jp>, <seeman@netvision.net.il>, <shadi@w3.org>, <charles@w3.org>
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Hello Wendy and list,
> From: Wendy A Chisholm [mailto:wendy@w3.org]
> Sent: vrijdag 19 maart 2004 2:14
> To: w3c-wai-gl@w3.org
> Cc: y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl; nabe@lab.twcu.ac.jp;
> seeman@netvision.net.il; shadi@w3.org; charles@w3.org
> Subject: CleverKeys, dictionary.com and "programmatically located"
> Language questions:
> 1. Are there similar tools and dictionaries that are freely
> available in other languages?
I wish! We only have 1 Dutch dictionary online with a reasonable amount of
words. This is http://www.vandale.nl, an abbreviated version of the leading
Dutch dictionary. The website does not conform to WCAG 1. Even people
without disabilities find it hard to find out where to type the word they're
looking for (the _brown_ text box labelled "Zoek een woord in Hedendaags
No other major Dutch dictionaries are available online, at least none that I
know of. I have checked some Dutch dictionary portal sites but most of the
links they give are to translation dictionaries or specialized dictionaries
(the Harry Potter dictionary etc.).
I do not know of any online dictionary tools for Dutch. Some translation
tools exist, so you could first translate it in English and then look it up
in an English dictionary but this is shaky at best.
> 2. Assuming there are similar tools for Dutch, how would the
> results differ for Dutch words that are aggregates of words?
Dutch dictionaries only list common aggregates. But words you create on the
fly cannot be found in dictionaries. Normally, you just look up the word
anyway and see what the first constituent is. For example if I want to know
what the word "liefdesbrief" means, I look up "liefdesbrief" which I don't
find, but I do find "liefde" which means "love". The's' is recognized by
most people as a 'glue' letter to glue two words together, so you can then
look up "brief" which means "letter". Combining them gives you "love
letter". (Actually, "liefdesbrief" is so common it will be in most
dictionaries but it's just an example).
> As with idioms, will tools look for the meaning of each separate word?
To do it that way, you first need an algorithm to split the words into their
constituents. This is an area of much research, as I already wrote to the
list earlier.
But is that necessary? (Most) Dutch people have no problem using
dictionaries to determine the meaning of compound words. Why should we make
it a problem? If we offer a link to a dictionary so that a user can
determine the meaning of the word, than we have achieved our goal haven't
we? I think we should formulate our checkpoint in such a way that the user
can determine the meaning of the words from dictionaries that are provided
or linked to by the web content. I do not think we should require the web
content to automatically determine the meaning of every word.
> 3. What about Japanese? Hebrew? Spanish? Arabic? German?
> French? Are there similar tools for these languages? What
> issues would tools have in other languages?
> 4. If automatic lookup of words works for some languages and
> not others, how do we create guidelines that will apply
> across languages?
> 5. If the tools are possible, but not available today, do we
> write "lowest common denominator" guidelines that apply
> across all languages, or do we have different guidelines
> depending on tools available today?
"Until advanced dictionaries exist..." sure has a familiar feel to it :-)
I think we should stick to what we want to say and not get into the
technical implementations required to do that. That's for the techniques
> 6. Is user agent support a sufficient technique?
That question is on a totally different level than your other questions.
Many accessibility problems can be fixed by a certain user agent, but that
doesn't absolve the writers from making their web content accessible. For
example, black letters on a dark blue background can be turned to black and
white by a user agent (e.g. by turning off CSS) but that doesn't stop us
from formulating guidelines about contrast. In WCAG we should focus on
creating accessible content, and let the UAAG handle on how to present that
content in the most accessible way.
For dictionaries, I think authors should (at level 3) provide links to
dictionaries where users can determine the meaning of the words used in the
BTW: In the Netherlands we also have a minority language called Frisian. No
online explaining dictionaries exist for Frisian, just a Frisian-Dutch
translation dictionary. Since most people who speak Frisian also speak
Dutch, this isn't a problem in most cases.
Yvette Hoitink
Heritas, Enschede, The Netherlands
E-mail: y.p.hoitink@heritas.nl
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The North of England Home Service, by Gordon Burn (Faber, £7.99)
"Nostalgia, or homesickness, is never about the past but about felt absences or a sense of something lacking in the present." Ray Cruddas - a once-famous Northern comedian now operating in the showbusiness shadows - has turned nostalgia into a living with Bobby's, "the kind of club that takes you back even if you were never there originally". Former boxer Jackie Mabe helps him run it, as he has helped by being Ray's "eyes and ears, his butler and gofer" for 30 years. There's no plot as such, just one day in these men's lives serving as the framework for a series of looping reminiscences that span the postwar years, and travel from the mining towns of the northeast down to Hackney's boxing clubs, Spitalfield's Jewish tenements, Brixton's cellar bars and Soho's strip joints. Burn is also known for his non-fiction; dense with description, his third novel has an almost forensic attention to detail. ES
The Search, by Geoff Dyer (Abacus, £7.99)
Walker is a tracker, hired by Rachel to find her missing husband, Malory. He wants to sleep with Rachel, which is one reason why he takes the job. But he's also drifting, waiting to see what comes his way. There is nothing to go on, not even a photograph, yet Walker has a knack for thinking himself into his target's head, and arriving in places Malory has just left: towns such as Usfret, where all the people inexplicably crowd together to form a vast millipede, and Despond, where each day starts with contentment, turns to disappointment and ends in a frantic urge to leave. Walker's search also takes him to a town completely empty of people and one where everyone is frozen still. Dyer describes his latest book, Yoga for People Who Can't Be Bothered to Do It, as an unreliable map of some of the landscapes of his life. The Search, first published in 1993, is an intoxicating road trip in the company of a man sleepwalking his way across an unmapped landscape. ES
The Bride Stripped Bare, by Anonymous (Harper Perennial, £6.99)
When this came out in hardback, we were expected to swallow the conceit of its anonymity, even though its author's identity was revealed as soon as the book found a publisher. Now the conceit is stretched even further, thanks to a "Meet the author" addendum and a "Dear reader" letter from Nikki Gemmell herself. The story - the secret emotional and sexual life of a "seemingly good, contented wife" - is also loaded with conceits: that the heroine's infidelities are a victory for women's rights; that having a baby "as an insurance policy against panicky loneliness" is anything but repugnant. Then there's the conceit of the second-person narrative, as if her story is your story; and, ultimately, the conceit that the flaunted anonymity is about honesty and not publicity. Gemmell, an ex-journalist, researched this novel by emailing friends to ask their opinions about sex. The result has all the profundity of a pile of old women's magazines. ES
Joseph Knight, by James Robertson (Fourth Estate, £7.99)
The Scots presence among 18th-century sugar planters in the West Indies was so strong that slaves in certain parts of the colonies were versed in Gaelic. This was something of an embarrassment to enlightened Edinburgh, and Robertson engages an exhaustive cast of notable Scots to debate the landmark case of Joseph Knight, a slave transported to Scotland who refused to be a slave any longer. The case for abolition is cogently argued, but the emotional balance of the book is scuppered by Robertson's strange decision to withhold his hero's presence until the final section. There's a fine, affectionate passage evoking the tempestuous voyage from Jamaica in which Knight's owner coaxes his protégé from the brink of death. But as an explication of the unusually intense bond between master and slave, it is too little, too late and leaves the rest of the book's arguments feeling as dry as an old ship's biscuit. AH
Seven Tales of Sex and Death, by Patricia Duncker (Picador, £7.99)
Patricia Duncker's disquieting volume is a collection of night pieces, the product of watching too many bad thrillers in the small hours at her French retreat. When Duncker has difficulty sleeping, she nods off in front of pulpy psycho-dramas, whose staple cast of cops, pimps and homicidal maniacs inhabit the stories of this collection. The outstanding piece is a tale that stylishly weaves together modern archaeology and myths of ancient sacrifice with a brutal media murder reminiscent of the Jill Dando affair. At the other end of the scale is a splendidly grumpy piece about a bad-tempered British playwright holidaying in France, who nurses a deep loathing for her convivial Gallic neighbours. Allowing the dark side of her imagination such free reign means that Duncker often oversteps the boundaries of good taste. But bad taste never tasted quite as piquant as it frequently does here. AH
Someone to Run With, by David Grossman (Bloomsbury, £7.99)
Lego is the most versatile of toys. For the very young, there are oversized bricks, from which you graduate to regular Lego, and finally Technical Lego for kids who want to become mechanical engineers. Grossman introduces an interesting innovation - psychological Lego, which enables the author to snap together readymade characters. Tamar, a 16-year-old Israeli, is "missing that Lego part in her soul that could connect her to another person". The missing brick turns out to be Assaf, the kind of boy who keeps a small screwdriver attached to the back of his shoe. Perhaps the most absurd thing of all is that Grossman attempts to load a thin analysis of urban street kids with fairytale symbolism. When they're not described as Lego pieces, Tamar and Assaf are "lonely human snowflakes, desperate for assurance that somewhere in that empty space hovered another like it". I suppose that's more poetic than being a little plastic brick. AH
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Just to add some extra info; there's also a town in The Netherlands where the border between The Netherlands and Germany runs through the length of a street with houses on both sides. The odd numbered houses are Dutch and the even ones are German (or the other way around, I forgot).
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• Mira Mesa: Too many Jews, A-rabes, I-talians, Filipinos and other ethnics moved there. Once an all-American patriotic hub for the US Naval base soon-to-be-an airport. So much for white Christian striaght males in uniform got laid off. OY VEY!
• Logan Heights: The newly lined US-Mexican border as of 2000, except gentrification ethnically cleansed the former barrio and the Chicano Park mural art facility has closed as of 2009.
Other cities and communities
About 20 cities, towns and hoods to mention to compose San Diego county. Note: Imperial Beach isn't listed, it's too close to Tijuana, Mexico. And oh, Imperial Valley to the east? LoL, forget those losers. It has more Mexicans than San Diego does, thanks to our 20-foot high border fence.
Los Osos
OOPS! Did you mean San Luis Obispo? LOLZ. Might well be near Tijuana. A small town of complaining old people and weed-smoking teenagers. Normal activities of locals are complaining about the lack of a sewer, stealing bike innertubes from Rite Aid and getting caught, smoking pot, and buying pot. Due to the level of crime, law enforcement is made up of 33.33% DARE officer, 33.33% Officer Maiz, and 33.33% police dog named Rover. Despite the town being called "Valley of the Bears", no bear has been seen in Los Osos for centuries. This was probably caused by a massive bear extermination facilitated by Spanish explorers during the second Spano-Bear War during the 18th century. This can be verified by a large mural behind a gas station depicting a bear getting shot in the face with a plasma rifle by a Spanish explorer.
El Cajon
Alcoholic-town, next to La Mesa: the Meth-lab. It has Grossmont College, where I can't give out the description of what goes on there, because it's gross. Sycuan Casino PWNed Barona, Pechanga, Pala and 10 other imitation Indian gaming casinos.
Lemon Grove
No lemon trees, but has a sourpus aroma. San Diego mayor-turned Cal. governor Pete Wilson lived there. Once a hub of racists and the KKK, it now boasts of pride when the freeway was named for Martin Luther King Jr. Oddly, it was a town settled by Confederate veterans retired to live under the Southern California Sun in the late 19th century.
Despite the French name, this is the worst place ever in the history of the world, inhabited by all Mexicans. It is the barrio of San Diego and is hot and sticky. Like Mira Mesa, it attempts to secede from the city to become its own "community". LOL.
Home of a futuristic laser military base surrounded by a large flooded slum, used for target practice. From a photo satellite, you can find an US Navy building shaped like a swastika! Nazis! They are planning an attack on Israel, Iran, India, China, Mexico or Kenya (say "hi" to Obama's half-bro for us).
Chula Vista
Sailors and zoot suiters. To the east of the Inland freeway is a whole new community, Rancho de la Rincon or Nacion (as in Aztlan) or Incarceration. The US Olympic training center is where you can find road rage, doped-up American athletes, and the whole Mexican track-and-field team after they ran up north.
(Inter)National City
Capital of Mexico in the way it's going to be. Lately, a few rich white kids began to buy up everything and changed the character of this "shit-city". The San Diego Bay Sweetwater Wetlands preserve is full of frogs and mosquitos, with the west nile virus and H1N1 virus coming in...let's go out and play with the marsh snakes.
Once a small town turned into a yuppie bedroom community now an overgrown suburban sprawl shithole full of gangs, bums and abandoned buildings. To the east is San Diego Wild Animal Park, where you see animals do the "wild thing" since it's mating season. And to the south is Lake Hodges where nearly all the water is gone, thanks to prolonged drought conditions.
Military school, Norman Rockwell town of US flags everywhere. Anyone want to live on a residential street Vista Way, where the state route 78 freeway ends? A few idiot drivers still think it's a 85-MPH highway. YIKES! The route 76 freeway is worse. Some bean-count demographers said North Oceanside, formerly San Luis rey, has one of the state's most Jews per capita of population...Kikes!
It's beach has a god-awful factory by a lagoon, must be dumping sewage. It's claim to fame is Legotown America, and the colony was founded by a few Germans, Danes and Dutch; the name "Carlsbad" is whale's butthole in German.
A feisty, seista place. "The Other Vista, but Cholo Vista". It is the home to Leisure World Ocean Hills Village's 100,000 senior citizens. What a wonderful place to retire and die in peace. They are often attending the Lawrence Welk corpse's orchestra events.
San Marcos
Countryside village turned college town turned inner city. Stoners are the main residents in town, gotta go find some bud, dope or weed. The Cal. State Univ. San Marcos Cougars vs. the Palomar College Juniors sounds like a real bad idea for a college sports game.
Del Mar
Rich old men own (and hump) their horses here. Horse races are what made Del Mar, the city-by-the-sea a really horseshit place. To the east is America's richest community Rancho Santa Fe, also where the Heaven's Gate cult mass suicide took place in April 1997.
A kind of SouCal "beach" town, strangely the name in Spanish is "pregnant teens". To the north is La Costa, the south is Solana Beach and the east is a forest known as "Elvin Wood" or is it Olivenhain? (or "Oliver Clothesoff"). The West end is Leucadia or Cardiff-by-the-Sea, where bleach blonde ditzy teen blond bimbos are everywhere...just like on Jersey Shore.
"Shitty", also site of a nationally-renowned school shooting in 1999. Traffic jams on I-8 are common (worse than I-15 by Pala Mesa Village), due to so many long distance commuters from Alpine to the east. Should it be renamed Santee Claus?, no... that's the anagram for Satan.
No way, don't. go. there. It turned into a bedroom community over night, and millionaires taken over the town during the real estate boom (like to poop in your pants) in the late 1990s. Also the site of a divisive battle, San Pasqual in the Mexican-American war of the 1840s, where USA! USA! kicked Mexico's butt and acquired San Diego with all of California. USA NO way. So Gay but, what the hey).
An attention whore with no life.
Her pimp who treats her like a bitch.
Borrego Springs
The middle of a fuckin' desert.
A smaller version of T.J., named for one of Mexico's best beers.
Military town next to Camp Pendleton and a few missile defense bases. The current Nazi Germany government in exile, next to the avocado groves filled with militias.
Mexican beach party
San Diego economy's two sources of income. Sorry beach goers, this is only a military exercise!
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"There were 236 passengers on the flight (almost a full load as AI Dreamliners have a seating capacity of 256). The aircraft had to be grounded due to spoiler snag. The passengers have been sent to hotels and will be flown to Delhi at the earliest," said an AI official.
Air India's flight AI 142, to be operted on Dreamliner (VT-AND), had to be grounded just when it was to take off from Paris CDG Airport on Saturday night as the aircraft's spoilers -- speed retardation devices on the wings that move up and down -- became unservicable and the aircraft had to be grounded.
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Hallie Michaels (Volume 1)
Deborah Coates
Tor Books
When Sergeant Hallie Michaels arrived in Rapid City, South Dakota, she’d been traveling for twenty-four hours straight. She sat on the plane as it taxied to the gate and tried not to jump out of her skin, so ready to be up, to be moving, to put her head down and go. And Lord help anyone who got in her way.
She hadn’t been able to reach her father or anyone else by phone since she’d gotten the news, just contact with her commanding officer—We’re sorry, your sister’s dead. Here’s ten days’ compassionate leave. Go home.
Three sharp bongs, and the seat belt light went out. The plane filled with the sound of seat belts snapping, people moving, overhead doors opening up. The woman in the seat next to Hallie’s was still fumbling with her buckle when Hallie stepped past her into the aisle. She felt raw and sharp edged as she walked off the plane and up the Jetway, like rusty barbed wire, like she would snap if someone twisted too hard.
Halfway down the long wide concourse, ready—she was—for South Dakota, for her sister’s funeral for—
Eddie Serrano’s ghost floated directly in front of her, right in the middle of the concourse. She swiped a hand across her eyes, hoped it was an artifact of no sleep and too much coffee, though she knew that it wasn’t.
He looked like he’d just stepped out of parade formation—crisp fatigues, pants neatly tucked into his boots, cap stiff and creased and set on his head just exactly perfect. Better than he’d ever looked when he was alive—except for being gray and misty and invisible to everyone but her.
She thought she’d left him in Afghanistan.
She drew a deep breath. This was not happening. She was not seeing a dead soldier in the middle of the Rapid City airport. She wasn’t. She squared her shoulders and walked past him like he wasn’t there.
Approaching the end of the concourse, she paused and scanned the half-dozen people waiting just past security. She didn’t see her father, had almost not expected to see him because—oh for so many reasons—because he wouldn’t want to see her for the first time in a public place, because he had the ranch and funeral arrangements to take care of, because he hated the City, as he always referred to Rapid City, and airports, and people in the collective and, less often though sometimes more spectacularly, individually.
She spotted a woman with straight blond hair underneath a cowboy hat standing by the windows. Brett Fowker. Hallie’d known Brett since before kindergarten, since a community barbecue when they were five, where Brett had told Hallie how trucks worked and Hallie had taken them both for what turned out to be a very short ride. Brett was all right. Hallie could deal with that.
She started forward again and walked into a cold so intense, she thought it would stop her heart. It felt like dying all over again, like breath froze in her lungs. She slapped her hand against the nearest wall and concentrated on breathing, on catching her breath, on taking a breath.
She looked up, expecting Eddie.
But it was her sister. Dell.
Suddenly, Brett was there, a hand on her arm. “Are you all right?” she asked.
Hallie batted her hand away and leaned heavily against the wall, her breath sharp and quick. “I’m fine!” Her voice sounded rough, even in her own ears.
Dell looked exactly as she had the last time Hallie’d seen her, wearing a dark tailored shirt, jeans with a hole in one knee, and cowboy boots. She was a ghost now and pretty much transparent, but Hallie figured the boots were battered and scuffed because she’d always had a favorite pair that she wore everywhere. Even when she’d dressed up sometimes, like no one would notice the boots if she wore a short black dress and dangly silver earrings. And no one did—because it was Dell and she could carry something like that off, like it was the most natural thing in the world.
Hallie scrubbed a hand across her face. Goddamnit, Dell. She wasn’t going to cry. She wasn’t.
“I’m sorry, Hallie. I’m sorry.”
Brett said it over and over, like a mantra, her right hand a tight fist in Hallie’s sleeve. In sixth grade after Hallie’s mother died, she and Brett had made a no-hugging-ever pledge. Because no one had talked to Hallie that whole week, or looked her in the eye—just hugged her and handed her casserole dishes wrapped in aluminum foil.
Trust Brett to honor a pact made twelve years ago by eleven-year-olds.
“Brett,” Hallie said, “I—”
“Hallie!” Suddenly someone was hugging her. “Oh god, Hallie! Isn’t it awful?”
Lorie Bixby grabbed her around the neck, hugged her so tight, Hallie thought she might choke. “It can’t be right. I know it’s not right. Oh, Hallie…”
Hallie unwound Lorie’s hands from her neck and raised an eyebrow at Brett, because Lorie hadn’t been particular friends with Brett or Hallie back in school, though they’d done things together, because they lived close—for certain definitions of close—and were the same age. Hallie hadn’t seen her since she’d enlisted.
Brett raised her left shoulder in a half shrug, like she didn’t know why Lorie was there either, though Hallie suspected it was because Brett hadn’t wanted to come alone.
They were at the top of the stairs leading down to the luggage area and the parking lot. To Hallie’s left was a gift shop full of Mount Rushmore mugs and treasure maps to gold in the Black Hills. To her right was a café. It beckoned like a haven, like a brief respite from Afghanistan, from twenty-four hours with no sleep, from home.
But really, there was no respite. This was the new reality.
“Tell me,” Hallie said to Brett.
Brett hadn’t changed one bit since Hallie’d last seen her, hadn’t changed since she’d graduated from high school, except for the look on her face, which was grim and dark. She had perfect straight blond hair—cowgirl hair, Hallie and Dell had called it because all the perfect cowgirls in perfect cowgirl calendars had hair like Brett’s. She was wearing a bone-colored felt cowboy hat, a pearl-snap Western shirt, and Wranglers. “Tell you?” she said, like she had no idea what Hallie was talking about.
“What happened,” Hallie said, the words even and measured, because there were ghosts—Dell’s ghost, specifically—in the middle of the airport, and if she didn’t hold on tight, she was going to explode.
Brett drew a breath, like a sigh. “You should talk to your daddy about it.”
“Look, no one believes it was really suicide.” Lorie leaned toward them like this was why she’d come, to be with people, to talk about what had happened.
“What?” No one had mentioned suicide to her—accident, they’d said. There’s been a terrible accident.
“No one knows what happened yet,” Brett said cautiously, giving Lorie a long look.
“Tell me,” Hallie said, the words like forged nails, iron hard and sharp enough to draw blood.
Brett didn’t look at Hallie, her face obscured by the shadow of her hat. “They say,” she began, like it had all happened somewhere far away to people who weren’t them. “She was out driving over near Seven Mile Creek that night. Or the morning. I don’t know.” Like that was the worst thing—and for Brett, maybe it was—that she didn’t have all the particulars, the whys and wherefores. “She wracked her car up on a tree. There was no one else around. They’re saying suicide. But I don’t— No one believes that,” she added quickly. “They don’t.” As if to convince herself.
“Dell did not commit suicide,” Hallie said.
She walked away. This was not a discussion.
She didn’t look to see if Brett and Lorie were behind her until she was halfway to the luggage carousel.
Five minutes later, they were crammed into Brett’s gray Honda sedan. Hallie felt cramped and small sitting in the passenger seat, crushed under the low roof. Lorie sat in the back, an occasional sniff the only mark of her presence.
Brett turned the key in the ignition, the starter grinding before it caught. Hallie felt cold emanating from Eddie’s and Dell’s ghosts drifting behind her in the backseat. Though Lorie didn’t act as if she could feel them at all.
“She called me,” Brett said as she pulled out of the parking lot.
“What?” Because Dell and Brett hadn’t been friends.
“Yeah, right out of the blue,” Brett said.
“Monday morning. That morning.” Brett swallowed, then continued. “She wanted me to skip classes—I’m working on a master’s in psychology, you know—well, you don’t know, I guess.” It didn’t surprise Hallie. Brett had always wanted to know how things worked, even people. She’d been a steady B student in high school, but she worked until she knew what she wanted to know or got where she wanted to get.
“I’m thinking about
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"There were 236 passengers on the flight (almost a full load as AI Dreamliners have a seating capacity of 256). The aircraft had to be grounded due to spoiler snag. The passengers have been sent to hotels and will be flown to Delhi at the earliest," said an AI official.
Air India's flight AI 142, to be operted on Dreamliner (VT-AND), had to be grounded just when it was to take off from Paris CDG Airport on Saturday night as the aircraft's spoilers -- speed retardation devices on the wings that move up and down -- became unservicable and the aircraft had to be grounded.
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Manchester-Bound Planes Wait While Controller Takes Potty Break
Passengers on the aircraft were probably not informed of the reason for the delay, said the union spokesman, adding, "They'd probably be angry."
Both said the controller, whom neither named, had been on duty at Manchester-Boston Regional Airport about two hours and 40 minutes Friday when he had to take a bathroom break.
Because the only other employee in the tower was not certified to handle takeoffs and landings, the controller notified FAA's Boston consolidated terminal radar approach control, or TRACON, that he was taking the unscheduled break.
FAA spokesman Jim Peters said the controller, who had handled 60 aircraft during the first three hours of his shift, acted responsibly by waiting until a slow period before taking his bathroom break. Boston TRACON assumed responsibility for the airspace and placed two aircraft in a holding pattern until the controller returned.
Peters said the break lasted 12 minutes, but said a few additional minutes may have lapsed as the planes were realigned to land.
Union spokesman Church said Southwest Flights 1187 and 2379 were delayed 18 minutes. He provided CNN with an FAA "traffic management log" indicating an 18-minute lapse during a "bathroom break."
Passengers on the aircraft were probably not informed of the reason for the delay, Church said, adding, "They'd probably be angry."
During the controller's break, a Lifeguard flight pilot radioed the tower and spoke to a trainee, who was not certified to conduct controller operations. The trainee told the pilot he would have to wait 10 minutes for the controller to return.
The pilot replied that he had "lungs on board," Church said.
Peters acknowledged that the Lifeguard flight was told it had to wait 10 minutes, but said there was no indication from the pilot that the delay would cause problems.
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Air India's flight AI 142, to be operted on Dreamliner (VT-AND), had to be grounded just when it was to take off from Paris CDG Airport on Saturday night as the aircraft's spoilers -- speed retardation devices on the wings that move up and down -- became unservicable and the aircraft had to be grounded.
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from log to another, Carol moved closer. The paper bag on her lap crinkled noisily. The tiny creature in Daryl's hand flinched. "What is it?" she asked, mesmerized. "That's got the be the most adorable thing I've seen in a long time. It almost looks like a cartoon character."
The tiny 'varmint' was covered in soft, tawny fur, whiskers and huge, shiny eyes. She would think it was a chipmunk, except for the long, furry tail curled around its body. The wee thing held very, very still.
"It's a flying squirrel. See those big eyes? They come out only at night," Daryl said quietly. "This one got knocked out of the tree by an owl. Landed hard over there by my bike. Got stunned, I guess. Don't see any wounds on it."
"Is that why it isn't running away?" Carol asked, leaning closer. "Because it's hurt?"
"Naw. This one is okay. It's just cold and it likes the warmth on my hand. They're too tiny to keep up their body temperature when they get a shock like this. Usually, if you warm'em up, they'll scamper to safety after a small while," Daryl explained. In the reflective firelight, his dirty features were expressive. Open. Carol liked it.
"So, once it's warm enough, it'll just jump out of your hand and run up a tree?" Carol mused, smiling.
"Yep," Daryl affirmed. "Wanna hold it?" he asked with guileless eyes.
"Sure," Carol said automatically. She wasn't sure she did want to hold it. She just didn't want this moment to end. She wasn't particularly fond of hamsters and mice. She wasn't afraid of them either.
Holding out her cupped hands, she braced herself as Daryl carefully transferred the flying squirrel. Carol could feel the little creature shiver, then relax. She could feel tiny whiskers dance over her skin. It was just precious.
"It's so small. Is it a baby?" Carol carefully shifted her hands to look at all sides. It was tiny. Much smaller than a hamster.
"You'd think so, but no. It's an adult. Probably mate to that one chirping in the trees," Daryl pointed off into the dark. "They stick together for the whole breeding season."
"I wondered what that sound was. I heard it earlier." Relaxing herself, Carol shifted her hand so she could stroke the tiny creature with one gentle finger. The fur was very soft. "If it's a flying squirrel, where is it's wings?"
With a snort, Daryl reached over and gently took the squirrel from her. He carefully used two fingers to pull the front and side legs apart, revealing a thin stretching membrane. "They don't actually fly, ya know. Just sorta glide downward from tree to tree."
"I knew that," Carol smirked back. "Just testing you." She shook her head when Daryl tried to give it back to her. It was much more fun to watch him with the squirrel than hold it herself. "I'm amazed that you aren't roasting that thing over the fire. Thought that squirrels were just food to you."
Daryl scoffed. "It wouldn't make more than a mouthful, if that. Sides, I had one as a pet when I was a kid. Lived in a tree outside my bedroom. Eating this one would be like eating a dog." Daryl set the flying squirrel down on his lap. The tiny thing started exploring. "Won't be long now," he said. Carol just nodded.
The two of them sat and watched as the flying squirrel worked its way over every inch of Daryl lap. Then they both chuckled as it his climbed his shirt and managed to scale his shaggy hair. Carol cupped both hands over her mouth to keep from laughing as the little guy perched on top of Daryl's head and proceeded to clean his whiskers. And then, all at once, the squirrel made a mighty jump, landed on a tree trunk and scampered up out of sight.
"I hope he didn't poop in your hair," Carol snickered.
"That your way of telling me I need another bath?" Daryl laughed back. It was a fine night.
"There is a creek just over the hill," Carol said pointedly. "That's how I got your clothes clean."
"I can do that. Thanks," Daryl nodded and made to get up.
"Not right now," Carol said, crinkling the bag. "I've got winnings to share, you know."
One by one, Carol took out the winnings and laid them on the clean clothes; five Hershey kisses, pack of gum, bar of Irish Spring soap, box of mints and a half pack of cigarettes.
Daryl grabbed one of the kisses and the pack of cigs before leaning back. Carol reached over and tossed the bar of soap in his lap as well. "You're gonna need that., but I want it back."
"Yes ma'am," Daryl drawled as he lit one of the cigarettes. It had been a while since he had one.
"Smoking's a nasty habit. I wish you'd quit," Carol griped, as she waved smoke away.
"Gonna run out eventually. I'll quit then," he mumbled before taking another drag. All around them, the night forest came alive with sounds. In front of them, the fire popped sparks like fireflies.
"What was Dixon Demolition? Was that your company?"
Daryl nodded. "Family business. Run by my Uncle Joe. Me and Merle both worked there."
"Can you tell me about it? What did you do? How'd you get started?" Carol fingered the Dixon Demolition t-shirt halfway down the pile of laundry. She wondered if she could somehow steal it out of the pile without him noticing. She had a sudden desire to sleep in the thing.
"One question at a time, woman. I don't usually tell this shit to just anyone. You really want to know?" Daryl turned and cocked his head. "My life ain't all that interesting. Got some stories, though."
Carol nodded firmly. She stretched her feet out and warmed them by the fire. The night was rapidly cooling off. The fire was starting to feel good. She nudged the laundry off to one side, hiding it for now.
"Ok then," Daryl settled back against the log and blew a plume of smoke. "It all started when Merle was released from the stockade. He was supposed to get a dishonorable discharge. Damn moron could never keep his mouth shut. Uncle Joe was a retired jarhead with a lot of connections. He somehow managed to get Merle out after eighteen months on some type of probation. Worked a deal, most likely. Anyhow, I was just seventeen and Uncle Joe hired me to keep Merle outta trouble. Worst damn job I ever took."
The End
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"There were 236 passengers on the flight (almost a full load as AI Dreamliners have a seating capacity of 256). The aircraft had to be grounded due to spoiler snag. The passengers have been sent to hotels and will be flown to Delhi at the earliest," said an AI official.
Air India's flight AI 142, to be operted on Dreamliner (VT-AND), had to be grounded just when it was to take off from Paris CDG Airport on Saturday night as the aircraft's spoilers -- speed retardation devices on the wings that move up and down -- became unservicable and the aircraft had to be grounded.
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Almost every night, stranded travelers can be found sleeping inside the terminals of Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport.
"This is the new reality," said James Crites, DFW's executive vice president for operations. "You're becoming a hotel."
Cots and catering? Health services and hospitality? Vending machines with diapers? Scott McCartney looks at what airports are doing to accommodate stranded passengers, and what passengers can do when they get stranded by canceled flights.
These days, airlines are canceling flights more readily due to bad weather and other disruptions. Rebooking is tricker than ever—as many discovered during the recent snowstorms in the South and Northeast—because airlines have reduced their schedules and are running at capacity. As a result, passengers should prepare for the dreaded airport sleepover.
Now, however, airports are doing more when they become the hotel of last resort.
Many provide meal vouchers and set up discounted hotel rates for travelers, for example. Some write requirements in leases that restaurants will remain open 24 hours a day when passengers are stranded. Massachusetts Port Authority, which oversees Boston's Logan Airport, has an arrangement with flight kitchens to cook up lots of meals for stranded passengers if the terminal restaurants run out of food or can't stay open. Newsstand vendors at Boston Logan are also required to stock baby formula and diapers for stranded families.
Illustrations by Jason Schneider
At many airports, paramedics are on call for medical care; parking-lot buses are deployed to move people between terminals or to hotels. Among the amenities big airports now routinely stock: cots, blankets, diapers, baby formula, eye masks, prepaid phone cards, ear plugs, deodorant and shampoo. For the second big snowstorm in New York this winter, the Port Authority of New York and New Jersey started handing out free WiFi cards to stranded customers at New York City's three major airports so travelers could check their flight status online at airline websites.
But perchance to sleep? At New York's LaGuardia Airport, people stranded in the US Airways and Delta terminals are invited to ride buses to the central terminal, where a sleeping area is set up with cots and security guards. DFW establishes quiet zones for cots where music and paging announcements are muted and lights are dimmed.
And when ash clouds shut down European skies last spring, the Port Authority bused Newark stranded passengers to showers in "snow dorms" built for plow drivers and trucked in portable showers for passengers marooned at Kennedy International Airport.
"It's not the same as staying at the Waldorf. But people were so grateful after three or four days of washing in a bathroom sink," said Susan Baer, Port Authority aviation director.
The overnight-guest trend is raising larger questions of airport design and overnight security staffing.
Passengers sleep on the floor at London's Heathrow Airport in December. Getty Images
"Airports were not designed to hold people. They were designed to move people through," said Deborah McElroy, executive vice president of Airports Council International-North America, a trade group for airports.
The Dallas airport has signs posted by courtesy phones and in bathrooms telling travelers to call the airport operations center if stranded. The phone number goes up on flight-status monitors when storms cancel lots of flights.
Passengers can request anything from cots to ear plugs to eye masks. The airport has three to five workers in each terminal ready to dispatch to wherever stranded travelers are.
The airport even built a common-use shower facility in its newest terminal for stranded travelers. And it's the airport—not the airline—that now arranges for vouchers for discounted hotel rooms if travelers want to leave terminals. With the voucher, rooms cost $31 to $60 a night.
Strategies for Stranded Travelers
When flights are canceled, planning and organization can give you an edge at the airport.
Pre-Flight Preparations
• If bad storms are in the forecast, call the airline and try to change your connection to a hub with better weather.
• Compile a list of local numbers for hotels near the airport. Sometimes calling the front desk can score you a room, even if the hotel's website says it's full.
• If you booked through your company or used a travel agency on your own, call and alert the agent to potential trouble. A good agent will help rebook if things go bad.
• Sign up for flight-status alerts from your airline and If there's trouble, get in line or online early to rebook or find a hotel room before planeloads of other people.
• Consider a back-up reservation on an airline like Southwest that has no change fees.
At the Airport
• Check to see if your connecting flight is still scheduled before you board first flight.
• If your flight has a long delay, ask the crew how much duty time they have left. If not much, start calling for hotel rooms because your flight may well be canceled.
• Use the airline's website or kiosks. You can often get rebooked or find the airline has already rebooked you.
• Find the road warrior types. They know what's working and what's not.
• Use technology. Airport status can be found at Also, some airports have text-message services with operations updates.
Overnight Help
• Many airports are prepared to help with cots, blankets, diapers, even showers. Airport courtesy phones or workers can tell you what concessions or TSA checkpoints are open, where to find an ATM or where the quietest sleeping areas are located.
• Airlines and airports can give you vouchers toward discounted hotel rooms.
• Hotel-booking services like Airport Accommodations (800-935-5995) have rooms reserved at nearby hotels for distressed travelers.
• Keep essentials in your carry-on. Collecting bags may mean leaving secure areas, and you won't be able to go back through security with big bags, even if TSA is still open.
• You might be able to check bags with a bellhop at an airport hotel even if you aren't a guest.
• Work the standby list. Even fully booked flights can have seats open up if other customers don't show up. Be there at the gate ready to go and you might get lucky.
Desperate Measures
• If stranded more than a day, find a creative alternative. Can you get a train to a city with better weather? Can your airline offer an alternative route, even if it's circuitous?
• Consider buying a seat on a discount airline. If you can find one, you can get a refund from the airline that's grounded and buy a ticket (more expensive, no doubt) on another carrier.
DFW is also studying the stranded-traveler luggage problem—what do stranded passengers do about their checked baggage? Airlines often try to return checked bags to stranded travelers, but that means leaving secured areas screened by the Transportation Security Administration. By leaving to retrieve a large bag, they risk not being allowed back into the terminal, where most chairs, cots and food outlets are located. In addition, travelers worry about bags being stolen while they sleep.
Mr. Crites said DFW is looking into providing a bellhop-type luggage service inside the terminal where passengers could leave checked bags and retrieve them when needed.
Some airport managers are exploring using sleeping "pods." Pod hotels have been popular in Asia and Europe as an inexpensive rest area, often rented for just a couple of hours. A pilot program will start in the next few months in DFW's international terminal.
"There is a need for higher-end accommodations for people spending the night," said Kevin Smith, DFW's assistant vice president for terminal management.
European airlines are required by EU policy to accommodate their stranded passengers even if flights were canceled by bad weather. (U.S. airlines are required to pay to house and feed customers only if the cancellation is the airline's fault, such as a mechanical breakdown or crew shortage.)
But European airports can have meltdowns, too. One day of snow in London caused eight days of chaos at London's Heathrow Airport. To protest poor airport service, Virgin Atlantic Airways has stopped landing-fee payments to the company that operates the airport. An investigation into the fiasco by a panel of airport-appointed aviation experts is under way.
In Paris, more than 3,000 passengers were stranded over several nights a week before Christmas. An airport spokeswoman says 3,000 mats, 4,000 blankets, 10,000 cereal bars, 4,600 diapers and 13,700 bottles of water were distributed.
Airport operator Aeroports de Paris has already pledged to invest up to €60 million to better equip the airport, including doubling de-icing capacity. The government launched an investigation into the airport's handling of the storm.
In the U.S., major airlines pinched by years of financial pressure will continue to shift the customer-service role to the airports. Massport even sends workers out at Logan to airline lobbies to help travelers with airline ticketing kiosks.
"Airlines used to have 'Red Coats' out there, but those people are gone," said Thomas Kinton, chief executive of Massport.
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"There were 236 passengers on the flight (almost a full load as AI Dreamliners have a seating capacity of 256). The aircraft had to be grounded due to spoiler snag. The passengers have been sent to hotels and will be flown to Delhi at the earliest," said an AI official.
Air India's flight AI 142, to be operted on Dreamliner (VT-AND), had to be grounded just when it was to take off from Paris CDG Airport on Saturday night as the aircraft's spoilers -- speed retardation devices on the wings that move up and down -- became unservicable and the aircraft had to be grounded.
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KC Hoover 6
What a strong lady in a extremely difficult situation. Hats off to the pilot who came along side of her in the air to help her get down with just the 1 engine. Prayers to her and her family over loss of her husband.
Zach Katona 5
Wow, this is simply incredible in a horrible way. Even if she was used to flying with her husband, to be able to take over the controls while something was wrong with him and to then have to deal with an engine going out? And still she lands the plane successfully? Simply amazing and many props to her and the other pilot who helped. He certainly married a quality wife and I'm sure he would be very proud of her.
Zach Katona 3
my thoughts are with her for her loss.
gftt 4
Wow, what a gal!
You know she was driven to get down safely in hopes of obtaining medical attention for her husband. He would be very proud of her.
tim mitchell 4
I tend to believe that he is proud of her and may have even been with here if she had no flight experience....Landing a twin with an engine out and depending on which engine she lost determined how much usable power whe actually had....This is just amazing; a miracle even.
Boyd Hopkins 2
Brave and courageous lady.
Michael Kaufman 2
A great success story for the record books. The "Beechcraft Pilot Proficiency Program" offers a pilot companion program with ground school and flight instruction on doing just this sort of thing. This story is an indication that this sort of thing does happen and can have a happy ending.
Brent Staulcup 2
Looked like a 421 on the news. That airplane is a handful on one engine for an experienced pilot, much less a non-pilot. Heroic job.
tarnold 1
414. No hump for the geared engines on a 421.
W S Webb 1
Does anyone know of a FAA program for spouses of pilots? So that they can fly the plane in emergency. It was to be taught by CFI and wife didn't need a physical.
Ed Wagner 1
Just saw the updated story and pics...C-414 and the nosewheel collapsed on landing..good job of getting on the ground safely!
Robert Rey 1
An amazing effort, especially also for the pilot talking her down.
Venugopal Menon 1
Very brave and courageous lady with quick reaction in difficult situation. Very good of the pilot who came alongside to help her.Prayers to the lady and her family over her loss of husband.
Ed Wagner 1
Wow! Best example I can think of for Spouses taking co-pilot course. She had to have a lot of skill to bring that twin down...she had "minor injuries"...did she have an incident on landing? Also..."twin-engined" and "cessna"...was this a 310? 340? 401?
AviatorLEO 1
I certainly laud the heroic efforts of the wife landing the aircraft, and the husband and wife team who kept her calm while assisting the wife in landing the C414, however I believe the claims of her landing the aircraft with one engine out appear to be mistaken.
According the the Green Bay Press Gazette article [for which Thomas Skubal kindly provided the link], "The Cessna was getting low on fuel and she had been more than three hours in flight after first leaving Marco Island, Fla., then refueling in Rome, Ga., and heading for Sturgeon Bay. Neither engine lost power, but the plane landed with less than a quarter tank of gas." In looking at the accompanying photos of the stricken C414, the tips of all of the blades are bent backward, providing some evidence that both props were turning upon making contact with the runway.
tarnold 1
There are a lot of programs, like AOPA Pitchhitter course. I know Cirrus owners (COPA) has a course specifically for the non-pilot spouse.
I've had my wife through some, but this is a reminder that she needs to do it again. I'm going to get her in the sim soon...
Tom Arnold
Cirrus Aircraft
Skycop21 1
Most of the major aircraft owners groups have a course like this along with AOPA (as previously mentioned). If you don't own your own plane, then a local CFI should be able to help. I have a course like this that I teach here in Texas about once a year.
Zac Armstrong
Allegiance Aviation
tim mitchell 1
thoughts and prayers to her and her family
Ttchockey27 0
congratulations goes out to my CFI Wayne, who was able to talk from the tower at GRB to tell her where the controls and airspeed was and to drop the gear.
Julia Muriale 0
Our prayers & thoghts are with the family.
Ray Zimmermann 0
Had to be a horrifying situation fro this woman. Not a lot of details in the story, but apparently she landed a twin Cessna with one engine out.
Jeff Lawson 0
Flight track for N53WT -- http://flightaware.com/live/flight/N53WT/history/20120402/1735Z/KRMG/KSUE
Unfortunately, the real positions stop over Indiana so the final approach was not recorded.
Sean Harwood 0
The link in the article for the audio release includes some video of the not-so-smooth landing. All in all, however, she did a fantastic job, considering the circumstances.
Sean Harwood 0
It appears this is a re-post. The Chicago Tribune is calling it "Breaking News" but it seems to have happened a few days ago. Sorry for the double-squawk.
Dan Chiasson 0
A gallant attempt to take his wife with him!
Jon Provencher -3
Interesting comments on this article. What do you think about the idea that everyone older than 70 should be banned from flying?
Jeanette Godfrey 3
It is quite clear that you are still young and stupid. If you are lucky you will get there someday, and you will find that even over 70 your piloting skills are still there.
There is more of a need to ban them from speed walking in the malls at 9 am...
tim mitchell 1
I always thought that was something only done in our little mall..lol...."Either move or get ran over sonny"...lol
James draper 1
Stupid idea! Just what we need, more regulation. Maybe ban all people over 50 from driving cars.
pilot0987 -5
I think when your that old its time to give up alot of things including flying.
Brian Bragg 3
I think commenters should learn to spell before displaying their ignorance in public.
Abdulrahiim Browne 1
Dude, I am an English teacher. So I just cringe when I see these mistakes. They are supposede to be Americans educated here in the states? They're more like my foreign language students, although my students have a valid reason for making mistakes. Don't sweat it man, you'll just give yourself a headache, lol.
Abdulrahiim Browne 1
Excuse the typos. I am not an expert typist. I know that there is not supposed to be an "e" after the "d" in supposed in my previous comment.
.. 1
Typos are nothing. But this 'your' thing is actually very often NOT a mistake but rather an affectation. It signifies membership of a particular internets subculture, just as saying 'internets' instead of 'internet' does.
Nicholas Moss 2
Let's see, in one short sentence there are three spelling errors; your, its, and alot and the lack of proper punctuation. Could be a record.
.. 2
You're. Read it again; YOU'RE.
This is not 4Chan. Here, the laws of grammar are upheld.
Thomas Haines 1
Then what happens when a 62 year old dies while flying? Oh yeah, that's right (must be a congressman) just lower the age to 60!
chalet 1
There is an alternative but it is an expensive one: the FAA shall seek legislaton banning old timers over 65 to fly all by themselves and that a safety pilot should be always on board.
chalet 1
A more economic solution would be to allow the safety pilot to be a senior citizen too, if so both elderly gentlemen can continue enjoying their passion and at the same time do it in a safe manner.
Stephan White 0
Well, actuarially, it would be better to require student pilots to have at least 1000 hours simulator time before being allowed in the air solo!
Abdulrahiim Browne 0
What if you were sick and unable to fly? Is it acceptable for her to save your hide?
Thomas Haines 2
What the
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"There were 236 passengers on the flight (almost a full load as AI Dreamliners have a seating capacity of 256). The aircraft had to be grounded due to spoiler snag. The passengers have been sent to hotels and will be flown to Delhi at the earliest," said an AI official.
Air India's flight AI 142, to be operted on Dreamliner (VT-AND), had to be grounded just when it was to take off from Paris CDG Airport on Saturday night as the aircraft's spoilers -- speed retardation devices on the wings that move up and down -- became unservicable and the aircraft had to be grounded.
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F-16 fighter jet crash may have been caused by bird, Air Force says
Tim Roberts lives near the base and says it often sounds like they are landing in his living room.
But Wednesday night was different. It was the first time he heard a 'boom.'
He said he grabbed his camera because he didn't know what it was and that's when he saw a mushroom cloud about a mile away.
"They were already down and there was a crew out that had evacuated them within minutes after they hit the ground," Roberts said.
Luke officials say it's no coincidence the base is surrounded by farmland. It's left that way on purpose, for exactly this type of situation.
"It's kind of scary to know that things like that could happen but I guess it's just a matter of numbers," Roberts said. "It's bound to happen sooner or later."
The report said the FAA's oversight and enforcement efforts were insufficient.
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"There were 236 passengers on the flight (almost a full load as AI Dreamliners have a seating capacity of 256). The aircraft had to be grounded due to spoiler snag. The passengers have been sent to hotels and will be flown to Delhi at the earliest," said an AI official.
Air India's flight AI 142, to be operted on Dreamliner (VT-AND), had to be grounded just when it was to take off from Paris CDG Airport on Saturday night as the aircraft's spoilers -- speed retardation devices on the wings that move up and down -- became unservicable and the aircraft had to be grounded.
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Navigating by dead reckoning, they let down through cloud, broke out at 100 feet, "and we were smack dab in the middle of a city".
"I'm frantically thinking to myself, "Where in hell am I?" The Typhoons slipped into line astern, "and with that, what must have been obviously the city hall loomed up in front of me."
The Typhoons circled, "just dragging their wings on the rooftops", zipped into open country, then roared over another urbanized area, where they spotted a railway roundhouse and eight engines waiting. Shooting up the anti-aircraft emplacements on the roundhouse roof, Pederson took aim and unleashed a full salvo of rockets -- which missed the engines, but hit the base of a nearby smokestack, "and then it came down right across the backs of these engines!"
A successful mission -- but when the pilots got back to Eindhoven and made their way to the intelligence officer's tent, Pederson heard one of them say, "Gee, if you ever get an opportunity to fly with Pederson, don't do it because he's crazy!"
Crazy? Well, badly stressed. "Needless to say, it wasn't too long after that the doc spotted me and grounded me as medically and mentally unfit to fly."
A good thing, too. Pederson said it was calculated that the average lifespan of a Typhoon pilot was 15 "trips". Pederson managed to log 93 of them. "When I left the squadron, my nickname was "Old Pete" and I was 23!" he said. "I was the oldest person on the squadron."
When he attend a reunion of his wing, it was noted that no fewer than 151 Typhoon plots were killed during the D-Day operations alone. During the approximately one year that he was on the squadron, 71 pilots died or disappeared, Before him, only two pilots had completed a full tour: one was blinded in one eye, another went mad -- and then there was Pederson, who had lost 45 of his 185 lbs. "I couldn't sleep at night; I'd tear the sheets to ribbons because of nightmares. I was in pretty bad shape."
As Pederson, who went on to a successful postwar life and eventual leadership of the Saskatchewan Conservative party, said of his wartime experience: "I was just grateful to get the heck out of there and survive."
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"There were 236 passengers on the flight (almost a full load as AI Dreamliners have a seating capacity of 256). The aircraft had to be grounded due to spoiler snag. The passengers have been sent to hotels and will be flown to Delhi at the earliest," said an AI official.
Air India's flight AI 142, to be operted on Dreamliner (VT-AND), had to be grounded just when it was to take off from Paris CDG Airport on Saturday night as the aircraft's spoilers -- speed retardation devices on the wings that move up and down -- became unservicable and the aircraft had to be grounded.
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Travel Troubleshooter: Missed his flight; now he's missing a refund
Published: Sunday, Jun. 16, 2013 - 12:00 am | Page 3H
I was recently diagnosed with an abdominal aortic aneurysm and my surgeon told me I wasn't fit to travel. I had a ticket on British Airways to attend my daughter's wedding. Because of this life-threatening condition, I couldn't use my tickets.
I've contacted British Airways numerous times by phone, fax and email, requesting a refund or a voucher. It's been almost six months, and I have not received an answer. Can you help me get a response from British Airways?
,– Gavin King, San Juan Bautista
I'm sorry to hear about your medical condition, and hope you're feeling better. I'm also sorry that you missed your daughter's wedding. British Airways should have answered your request for a refund or voucher, of course – even if it was to explain that it couldn't do either. I'm puzzled that it wouldn't even give you the time of day.
Here's what appears to have happened: You were flying on a nonrefundable ticket, you had to have surgery, and you missed your flight. Either British Airways didn't receive your voucher request before the flight, or it got the message after it left (at this point, it doesn't matter). You were listed as a "no show" and the airline kept your money. It's allowed to do that, by the way.
I reviewed your written correspondence, and while you're clear and concise about what happened, you're also borderline demanding. While I can understand your frustration, it's always best to approach a request like this with your politeness-meter turned all the way up. Not because they deserve to be treated with extra deference (they don't always) but because it's more effective.
There's no excuse, on the other hand, for British Airways' delayed response. Even if you were completely obnoxious, you're still a customer.
I'm not sure if travel insurance would have helped in this situation. Many policies have pre-existing conditions clauses, and a clever claims adjuster might deny your claim because the condition that caused the aneurysm existed before you purchased the policy. I'm no doctor, but I've seen things like that happen.
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"There were 236 passengers on the flight (almost a full load as AI Dreamliners have a seating capacity of 256). The aircraft had to be grounded due to spoiler snag. The passengers have been sent to hotels and will be flown to Delhi at the earliest," said an AI official.
Air India's flight AI 142, to be operted on Dreamliner (VT-AND), had to be grounded just when it was to take off from Paris CDG Airport on Saturday night as the aircraft's spoilers -- speed retardation devices on the wings that move up and down -- became unservicable and the aircraft had to be grounded.
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In a straight flight, the tail of the airplane aligns the fuselage into the relative wind. However, in the beginning of a turn, when the ailerons are being applied in order to bank the airplane, the ailerons also cause an adverse yaw of the airplane. For example, if the airplane is rolling clockwise (from the pilot point of view), the airplane yaws to the left. It assumes a crab-like attitude relative to the wind. This is called a slip. The air is flowing crosswise over the fuselage. In order to correct this adverse slip, the pilot must apply rudder (right rudder in this example). If the pilot applies too much rudder, the airplane will then slip to the other side. This is called a skid.
The skid is more dangerous than the slip if the airplane is close to a stall. In the slip, the raised wing — the left one if the airplane is turning to the right — will stall before the lowered one, and the airplane will reduce the bank angle, which prevents the stall. In the skid, the lowered wing will stall before the raised one, and the airplane will tighten the turn, and the stall can develop to a spin.
At high altitudes, there is plenty of space for recovery. But during the final approach, when the airplane is close to the ground, this stall-spin accident is usually fatal. Pilots will typically enter a skidding turn in the airfield traffic pattern on the turn from base leg to final approach, unconsciously using the rudder in an attempt to tighten the turn and avoid overshooting the runway centreline.[1]
Deliberate skids are used in aerobatics and aerial combat. Deliberate slips done with vigorous application of roll and opposite rudder (lower the right wing and step on the left rudder) can be used as a dive brake. By balancing the roll's turn to the right with the rudder's yaw to the left, the plane continues to fly straight ahead but it presents its side rather than its nose to the airstream. The induced drag from this "clumsy" position slows the otherwise sleek airplane. By modulating the amount of skid with rudder and aileron, the pilot can modulate the braking. Thus the plane can be slowed down quickly in level flight or the descent to a landing can be dramatically steepened while holding the approach speed to a desired value.
See also[edit]
1. ^ John S. Denker, See How It Flies.
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Air India's flight AI 142, to be operted on Dreamliner (VT-AND), had to be grounded just when it was to take off from Paris CDG Airport on Saturday night as the aircraft's spoilers -- speed retardation devices on the wings that move up and down -- became unservicable and the aircraft had to be grounded.
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was weary from a long journey. It crawled slowly through the city, for the streets were overrun with herds of various races.
In the driver’s and passenger’s seats sat a woman and a young boy. The lady who looked to be in her late 20’s wore a white tank top, green pants, leather boots, goggles and a green touque. She had a thin frame except for a small belly that protruded onto her lap. “We’re almost there Pablo” the women exhaled. She looked over with her dark tired eyes at the exited twelve year old boy beside her. He was skinny, had dark skin and had short shaved hair. He wore simple cotton green pants and a brown leather tunic. His big brown eyes were gorging themselves on all the new sites of the city. He wore a childish grin as he squished his hands and nose against the window.
“I’m sorry for all the running around kid, but I’m sure you understood what it would be like when I took you in” The women said. “This looks like a nice place, much nicer than the brochures made it appear. We’ll try stay here as long as possible; I want you to make some friends your own age alright?” Pablo simply turned to his driver, smiled and gave a vigorous nod.
The boy reached behind his seat, pulled out a notepad and scribbled down the phrase; “Can we stop for food?” On queue the woman’s stomach gave out a loud rumble. “Hahah yeah, I guess we should pick something up before we set up shop. I’ll tell you what; we’ll get your favorite. Hopefully we can find some crab pizza around here…” Pablo flipped the page on his notebook and showed it to the Women. It was a picture of a heart and a name, “Arkai”
Investigate my boot in your face Bitch!
After deliberation the party decided to attempt to lure out our mystery man out in to the open without the unnatural talent for deception that Halem possesses. Peggy, with a liberal application of make up, disguised herself as an older Luupin lady and went around to bars bragging about her new job working for the Dire Straits. Mystery Man took the bait, and after a lively chase through Lawless was subdued by our stalwart adventurers.
Further Investigations
Many questions have been answered while many others have arisen. In the custody of the Undercrew is Massimo Baratelli, the last known target of the so called body snatchers. Massimo and the other victims all had identical surgeries done on their teeth. These surgeries hollowed out their teeth to be able to smuggle an extremely rare and potent drug called Golden Tear through the Air Razers’ customs. The prime suspects according to Nathan Fillion of the Dire Straits are The Air Razers, since it is believed that they caught wind of the operation and are in acting their revenge. After a talk with Air Razor mid boss Shino, he revealed that he knew nothing of the Dire Straits’ actions. The party has been trying to lure out the kidnappers by disguising Halim has Massimo. But the only thing that bites is a mysterious man that follows the group around at night.
Investigations in Lawless
At the direction of Kaisar Jor, Harem, and Tombstone started to investigate the disappearance of Lawless citizens. Starting with the assumed widow of a dentist named Alehandro. Camillia while helpful appeared to be hiding information, Harem found documents indicating that Alehandro was involved in some sort of nefarious dealings with a man named Nathan Fillion, though the documents were singularly vague. Continuing the investigation the party visited Sven Borsholvitz, whose wife Mikë has been missing for two days. Sven indicated that Nathan Fillion owns the Seven Coins bar. After entering the bar, Harem conned her way into Nathan’s office while Jor attempted to arrange a business with Fillion.
Kicking Ass and Taking Names
After Defeating Tordekka and her Duskwallow Marauder goons in the eastern farm lands, Daemon Corde volunteered squad Shadow Terror for another mission. The bandits are encroaching further onto Valencio territory and raiding abandoned guard posts and barracks. Four other squads were sent to investigate but hadn’t returned. Carlo gave them a cart and horses so they could scavenge anything to better outfit the militia.
Upon arriving two days later at a small farm town, they were greeted with a hail of arrows. Duskwallow Marauders and their luupin lieutenant Kazz had captured a barracks. After a Hard fought battle where Flynn Kassian, Aaron Bond and Daemon Corde were nearly killed, Shadow terror managed to defeat the bandits and capture Kazz
Things looked grim when another group of marauders were spotted in the distance. Fortunately squad Death Whisper intervened and routed them. Apparently they had been the only surviving group sent north to counter the raiders. The group is comprised of a Human named Acelynn, a Katzena named Tahani, a Golterra named Bruno, a Luupin named Tai and their Nekro leader named Somber. Together They were able to salvage weapons, armour and other supplies from the barracks. Through some persuasion and death threats, Kazz decided to join the militia. She is currently being held in prison until further notice.
Kazz gave up the names of the other lieutenants: the human Kaito, the nekro Grimm, the skarlati Malkuri, the sho’kar Shar’tu and their leader Kain.
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Who eats using sterling silver flatware at home each and every day?
Just look up all the healthy properties of silver. It's amazing!
That's the main reason to have and, well, use silver flatware.
Obviously, if you don't care then you don't need it. (Not that I'm using it right now. Ha. But I grew up on a family where only silver was used.)
It's really weird that some people have silver flatware but only keep it for "special occasions". What's the point? It's like having a Brita filter but only use it for special occasions.
Feb 25, 2012
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Reasons why guns are allowed
Reasons why guns are allowed
As I read James Pettican's April 14 guest column, We still live, fearfully, in 'Gunlandia,' I had to shake my head. I can understand the gentleman's concerns, and my heart breaks whenever I read of an innocent victim of gun violence, but the answer is not to ban guns.
Mr. Pettican states that "guns have only one function: to fire a projectile that damages or destroys whatever it hits." That's mostly true, but somewhat misleading. Target shooters are certainly destroying the paper target, but the purpose is the sport — the skill and accuracy of the shooter. The same is true of archery competitions, but I don't hear people screaming we should ban bows and arrows.
The other primary uses of guns are to damage or kill things. Hunters intend on killing their prey. When used in self-defense, the gun's job is to incapacitate, or kill if necessary, the "bad guy." In either case, there's nothing wrong with that.
There's another important use that anti-gun proponents usually don't mention, but it was first in the mind of our founding fathers: to guard against tyranny. They recognized the citizenry needed to be able to protect our nation from internal enemies and a government run amok.
Having a gun in the home doesn't mean an innocent victim will find himself or herself at the wrong end. My father always kept a revolver under his pillow. Every week, when I stripped the sheets and remade his bed, I moved it out of the way, carefully replacing it when I was done.
Not once was I ever tempted to take it out of its sock sleeve and even look at it, much less play with it. Why? Because when I was 4 years old, my father took me out to the woods, set up a target, and while holding my hands, helped me aim and shoot a handgun. Then when we walked over to the target and saw the damage done, he explained to me about what a gun does, why it can be dangerous, and that it was not a toy.
That's all it took. That lesson stayed with me all these many years (I'm now a Grandma). I have four siblings, three of whom are brothers, and I can only assume my father did a similar process with each of them because none of us ever played with any of his guns.
Gun ownership does require a heavy dose of common sense. If there's a shadow in your home, you don't just fire. Only an idiot would do that. You call out, saying something like, "Who's there?" or, "Stop or I'll shoot." If the shadow is a family member, they'll certainly let you know. The same is true if there's someone on your doorstep. A responsible gun owner doesn't just open fire.
The real problem is too many criminals are on our streets instead of in jail where they belong. Because they're on the street, they can get their hands on weapons and use them against others. If it weren't guns, it would be something else, but let's be honest. If you ban guns from responsible citizens, the bad guys will still get their hands on them. And the rest of us will be unable to defend ourselves, our family, our property, or our nation.
Nancy Foster, Clearwater
Re: Pipe band chief is booted for inappropriate behavior | story, April 25, and April 28 letters to the editor
Behavior not acceptable
It is amazing to me how many people feel Dunedin Pipe Band director Sandy Keith's behavior should be ignored. Don't you think it's time he has been dealt with? Thanks to the city, he has.
People are not sticking to the facts. Dunedin City Manager Rob DiSpirito commented in the Times article that the city thanks Keith for his years of service. If this was about one incident, it surely would have been handled differently. What's wrong with people when they say he "gets out of hand" or maybe "he's a little aggressive"? Can we all believe it's okay to use these comments in the same sentence with children? You know that we are all familiar with organized sports, where sometimes there is bad behavior and coaches run thin on patience, but never in the six years my daughter has competed in many sports has there been a coach being aggressive or using bad language. Everyone is entitled to their opinion, but not all of us agree with this type of behavior.
Bonnie Rowley, Clearwater
Much owed to Sandy Keith
How could Dunedin City Manager Rob DiSpirito allow two or three people and a teacher who holds a grudge toward piping director Sandy Keith to affect the entire future of the Dunedin Pipe Band that represents our city?
Under Sandy Keith's direction, the city's band has earned the No. 1 spot in the world, with individual members receiving the same. Sandy has made the band world-class contenders.
Who was wrong here? Not only DiSpirito for caving in to the few, but the dancers and teacher for not being professional by being on time. It's up to the teacher to make sure students understand how important it is to understand the schedule of performing, along with their personal appearance.
Is Sandy the most personable person? No, but his credentials and talent far outweigh that. The high school band director has slowly but surely eliminated bagpipes and the Scottish tradition. If anyone has attended the recent football games, they will notice that the pipers are now down to a handful versus the 27 that were there when my son was piping. This is exactly what the high school has waited for — to finally end the tradition.
The tattoo, Highland Games and Celtic festival bring in thousands of dollars to the city. This was started by Sandy Keith. People come from around the world because of his reputation. Just try and replace the Scottish man that has brought so much to the city and schools with his rankings and reputation. Good luck! Maybe it's the city manager and band director that need to go!
Lyndee Dolan, Dunedin
Re: PSTA offers cab ride solution | story, April 26
Care Ride's on time and reliable
This may be the single worst idea in the history of providing transportation for the disabled!
No one who has been a DART client would even consider calling Wheelchair Transport instead of Care Ride! I am at a loss to think of how anyone could consider "choice" as a "wonderful option."
I have been a DART client for over 10 years. During that time, PSTA contracted with Wheelchair Transport for the DART service. I missed appointments because drivers were consistently late. I missed several trips to St. Petersburg that I had to make every three months because additional pickups were scheduled in 30-minute "windows," a period that is added to our pickup time so the driver can actually arrive up to 30 minutes after the designated time but still be considered on time.
The client side of this is that DART is only required to wait 5 minutes for us and can then designate us as a no-show.
Wheelchair Transport was unreliable, inadequately trained, unprofessional and in some cases, dangerous. The turnover rate was extremely high, so new drivers didn't stay long enough to become well trained. I made complaints to the owner of the company, the DART liaison at Pinellas Suncoast Transit Authority and three county commissioners, two of whom were on the PSTA board. Neither of those two commissioners replied.
Finally, PSTA gave the contract to another company and in October of 2008, Care Ride began its contract with PSTA. I wondered for years how PSTA could continue to use Wheelchair Transport as I had seen their contract with the specs they were required to meet and they were consistently not meeting them.
The service with Care Ride has been outstanding. On time, vans clean, drivers in uniform, pleasant and not stressed as the Wheelchair drivers were. It is everything that Wheelchair Transport was not. I am not stressed out before I go anywhere, wondering if the transportation will be on time, if I will reach my destination on time.
It becomes clearer with every article about this matter that the service for disabled people is not the prime idea, but instead, money is. Hopefully, someone will become aware that this service is vital to us, and that it should be run well and safely.
Bobbye Blackburn, Clearwater
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Who eats using sterling silver flatware at home each and every day?
Just look up all the healthy properties of silver. It's amazing!
That's the main reason to have and, well, use silver flatware.
Obviously, if you don't care then you don't need it. (Not that I'm using it right now. Ha. But I grew up on a family where only silver was used.)
It's really weird that some people have silver flatware but only keep it for "special occasions". What's the point? It's like having a Brita filter but only use it for special occasions.
Feb 25, 2012
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Kitchen being ripped out on mon, need idea's on how to cook!?
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therewearethen Fri 07-Dec-12 15:59:43
Just that really, the cooker and washing machine will have to be disconnected and out of action for hopefully just a few days, but we still need to eat so any idea's on how/what to cook would be great.
I'm going to try and set up a little mini kitchen consisting of a kettle (tea is essential in this weather!), a mini electric oven which only has 1 shelf, and we have a microwave.
We also have a slow cooker but I wont have anything to fry mince etc off on first before adding and everything I've read says you have to brown any meat before cooking to kill bacteria etc.
shrimponastick Fri 07-Dec-12 16:04:11
Can you knock up a couple of days worth now, chilli or curry. Soup? Then just require microwave.
You can do veggies in microwave. Fish strands well in micro too.
Have you a George Foreman type grill? Sausages and griddled veg is nice. Onion, peppers, cpurgette/
valiumredhead Fri 07-Dec-12 16:24:45
You don't need to fry off anything in the SC except for sausages - everything else is fine!
Pancakeflipper Fri 07-Dec-12 16:28:44
We lost our kitchen for 6 weeks last year. Go crazy now and stock up your freezer ( or your neighbours). As already suggested, soups and curries ( buy microwave rice). Also do spag bol ( serve with potato wedges instead of spaghetti)., shepherds pies etc. I had a stash of apple crumbles for puds, that with custard filled us up. Borrow a George Foreman grill - cheese toasties were good. We also ate out twice a week. Washing up in the bath is great fun ( pick the person with the bendiest back for that delight).
We also got microwave chips. Vile but my kids loved them.
LemonEmmaP Fri 07-Dec-12 16:30:42
Microwave jambalaya is good - I have made it a few times, and it only requires a microwave! There are other dishes you can make exclusively in a microwave - there's often a feature in Easy Cook magazine along those lines, so you may find the recipes on the BBC website anyway.
therewearethen Fri 07-Dec-12 16:34:00
Oh god I hope it doesn't take that long, I'm 33 wks pregnant and can't be doing the dishes in the bath for that long!
So I can just put raw mince in the slow cooker and it will cook through ok valiumredhead
I'll try and get some stuff cooked this weekend if I've got time so we don't have to resort to ready meals!
Pootles2010 Fri 07-Dec-12 16:34:06
Yeah you don't need to fry things off. My friend chucks whole frozen chicken breasts in there and she's not dead yet.
or you could borrow a camping stove off someone?
valiumredhead Fri 07-Dec-12 16:36:13
Yes OP so you can do chili, bolognaise, savoury mince, beef stew with frozen dumplings ( which are amazing!) chicken casseroles, whole gammon, whole chicken, soups, stews, rice pudding!
valiumredhead Fri 07-Dec-12 16:37:53
DO NOT USE FROZEN MEAT especially as you are pregnant. The reason being that the slow cooker takes longer than a normal oven to get up to correct temperature for killing off bacteria. It's hanging around at the stage in-between frozen and cooked for too long.
ShakySingsMerryXmasEveryone Fri 07-Dec-12 16:43:20
Get a halogen oven, they are great
You can cook most things in it. I use mine almost every day.
valiumredhead Fri 07-Dec-12 16:43:58
Yes but they are HUGE!
ShakySingsMerryXmasEveryone Fri 07-Dec-12 16:48:23
Yes they are quite big but very useful.
When we had a new kitchen put in, we set up the microwave, toaster, halogen oven and kettle on the dining room table. I worked well.
Sausages, potato wedges and pizza all cook well in the halogen oven to.
Frozen mash is also very handy.
therewearethen Fri 07-Dec-12 16:51:36
Thanks guys, is it possible to cook pasta in a microwave!? DD is a fussy eater and insists on pasta nearly everyday and without a hob to boil it on I can't see a way of cooking it?
BikeRunSki Fri 07-Dec-12 16:57:05
You can cook pasta in m/w - i discovered this when we had our kitchen replaced a few years ago. Put it in a bowl with boiling water. Put a lid/plate on. Cook as high as you can for 10 mins. Or fresh pasta - soak in boiling water for 5 mins or so.
BikeRunSki Fri 07-Dec-12 16:58:36
Also - frozen fish pies aren't bad, and a Morrison's cafe 2 adults can eat for a tenner and up to 2 kids eat free. And there's a lot of food too.
DazR Fri 07-Dec-12 17:01:33
You could buy a little camping stove & gas cannister from Millets for the odd food that needs boiling (DD's pasta). Or do you know anyone who camps who could lend you a camp cooker? Slow cooker is good for raw meat and meat (my instruction book calls it the 'all in one' method) - but should be defrosted first.
I didn't have a cooker for over a year when I was in my first flat - from experience you can cook just about anything in a microwave. On the other hand, for a few days I wouldn't really bother. You'll have enough going on as it is without trying to cook gormet dinners. Pasta and rice can both be microwaved. You can then use tinned vegetables, tinned pulses (lentils/ chickpeas etc) or Quorn or tofu, and jars of sauce stirred through to make quite satisfying meals with little washing up.
Rwep Fri 07-Dec-12 17:35:17
When we were without a kitchen for a month or so, I managed quite well with microwave, toaster, kettle and my sister's slow cooker.
Might not have been the best food we ever ate, but was perfectly acceptable short term. As yours is hopefully really short-term, I'd be inclined to live off frozen convenience food TBH
Boozeandadietjinglebell Fri 07-Dec-12 17:43:34
Paper and plastic crockery and cutlery and glasses will be your friend. We barbecued a lot, but I'm aware that's not a helpful suggestion. Microwave meals are a winner, but avoid bath washing up at all costs.
CarpeJugulum Fri 07-Dec-12 17:47:23
It's the only thing that kept me sane.
ScienceRocks Fri 07-Dec-12 18:21:12
The microwave is your friend! You can do fish, fresh pasta, jacket potatoes, nachos... The main challenge is only being able to cook one thing at a time. For the first few days, I'd probably go for:
- soup with crusty bread
- nachos (buy ready roasted chicken, salsa, guacamole and cheese and layer up)
- jacket potatoes with various toppings
- fresh pasta with pesto and salad
- scrambled eggs with toast
A sandwich toaster is a marvellous thing too. Can do all kinds of fillings - egg is a favourite here!
sashh Sat 08-Dec-12 01:57:32
You don't need to brown meat - it would only kill bacteria on the surface, cooking kills the bacteria so put it in your mini kitchen.
If you don't have a steamer buy one - you can cook meat and fish wrapped in foil alongside veg.
Slowcooker - all sorts of stews or just roast meat and steam veg - can also be done in a microwave.
Do you like kippers - the ones in a packet can be microwaved.
valiumredhead Sat 08-Dec-12 16:56:31
You don't need to brown a roast chicken before you cook it do you? Or diced beef? - you just bung it in the oven, it's the cooking that kills bacteria.
bubbles1231 Sat 08-Dec-12 17:02:50
use a camping stove- friends might have one to loan you.
KnittyFoxyMa Tue 11-Dec-12 14:42:21
halogen oven!
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Who eats using sterling silver flatware at home each and every day?
Just look up all the healthy properties of silver. It's amazing!
That's the main reason to have and, well, use silver flatware.
Obviously, if you don't care then you don't need it. (Not that I'm using it right now. Ha. But I grew up on a family where only silver was used.)
It's really weird that some people have silver flatware but only keep it for "special occasions". What's the point? It's like having a Brita filter but only use it for special occasions.
Feb 25, 2012
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I went in for a fishfinger, but all I could see were flavinoids and lypocenes
Food is no longer sustenance but a subject, as the seriously rich find the best way to dispose of their money is to eat it
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I am deeply moved. The food retailer, Waitrose, is so alarmed by the new American import, Whole Foods, that it is conveying customers by chauffeur-driven car to its Bloomsbury store and home again while its Marylebone outlet is being refurbished. Sensing trouble, Whole Foods has posted security guards outside its Kensington emporium. On the opening night they looked as if they had orecchiette al pesto in their ears. Clearly an iron curtain is descending across London. On either side of the W1 no-man's-land, west is rich and east is cool.
The Guardian is rightly concerned with the afflictions of the poor, but let us turn for a moment turn to those of the rich, the seriously rich with more money than sensible needs to meet. I put this threshold at £100,000 a year. This is no longer a tiny minority nor, thanks to Gordon Brown, one confined to the private sector. A third of a million people in England earn six figures, and outside London I would bet that the majority do so in some sense from the public sector.
Every doctor is now above this threshold, along with 600 local government officers, 302 BBC employees, 91 at the Royal Mail and 76 at Transport for London. These organisations could probably double their published figure by including their private consultants, on which Transport for London, for instance, spent a stupefying £222m last year. Nor do the totals include such state sub-contractors as Serco, Capita and Carillion, or the parastatal utilities running the railways, water, gas and electricity companies.
In other words, a large number of people have large disposable incomes and need new ways to spend them. Brown's policy of holding down income and property taxes and boosting expenditure taxes such as VAT has left the poor poorer and the rich very much richer. For the latter, the mortgage is paid, the second car bought, the country cottage restored. After the sixth overseas holiday in a year, Gatwick palls.
Nor has much of this group yet been hit by Britain's most savage supertax: offspring out of education and not in gainful employment. This floating pool of the middle-class young "waiting for something interesting to turn up" claim parental support for potential careers as actors, writers, film-makers, artists, journalists, publishers and "something creative". Half the rich of my acquaintance are running family Arts Councils and in-house Save the Children funds.
So what do the rich do with their surplus money? They eat it, converting the process into a semi-mystical experience. A loaf of bread is no longer a loaf but, at double the price, a sourdough, ciabatta, sperlonga, chollah, wheat-free or chickpea. Food has contrived to cross a conceptual barrier from banality to intellectualism. When I asked at Whole Foods for my beloved fishfinger, I came close to being asked to leave.
The walls glared down at me with more moral maxims than in a Welsh chapel. "No transfats from hydrogenated oils," they cried. "Eggs from cage-free birds." The store even had a changing room, as if this were a total immersion Baptist church.
Foodism is no longer a sustenance but a subject, located somewhere between chemistry and theology. At its heart lies the new superfood, rich in phytonutrients and anti-oxidants (and mind-boggling in air miles). The ancient pomegranate upstages the humble cranberry. The lettuce vanishes before sprouting purple broccoli, its pristine petals dusted with powdered linseed. It competes with drizzled watercress ("Death to all free radicals"). Potatoes are sold with added earth.
Our old friend the blueberry is outgunned by the Chinese goji, with its 18 amino acids and 21 trace minerals, its betacarotene, its polysaccharides and its mind-numbing price-weight ratio. Getting each berry to London from the hillsides of the Yellow river must require 10 times its bulk in carbon emissions. But superfood travels club class because it is food only in name. Its character is that of moral statement. Nor does any of this require cooking. Shelf upon shelf of "pre-made" foods are designed so that power women and yummy mummies need only five minutes to prepare them, even if they took two hours to buy.
Where once stood sales ladies advising on a bechamel sauce, now stands a different priesthood, laying down the approved balance of omegas, luteins, lypocenes and flavanoids. You may not be allergic but you might still be "intolerant" and thus in need of a personal nutritionist. It is goodbye Delia Smith and Nigella Lawson: chemists are the new kings of the kitchen. A recent newspaper food supplement cited no cook but a dozen scientists from laboratories in Newcastle, Reading, Nottingham, Illinois and the US department of agriculture.
This return to food is a genuine mystery. At one level it is obscene. Before any of this stuff is eaten, 40% is thrown away, to become the most expensive landfill in the world. When it is eaten the overwhelming majority of its chemical compounds simply convert into expensive urine. Food fads have never featured in futurology. The percentage of British national expenditure devoted to food fell steadily in the 50 years after the second world war, mostly because people had enough of it and spent their surplus income on other things. Science fiction predicted that everyone would soon be eating pills.
How the rich spend their money is, of course, their business. What is intriguing about the new stores is their ability to take the base metal of food and convert it into gold, not just of taste but of high seriousness. They offer excess but with added moral purpose. The rich are spending ever more on food, both in restaurants and on exotic ingredients. Perhaps the Bank of England could shortcircuit the production cycle by printing £50 notes on anti-oxidant ricepaper, served as a lightly wilted salad with virgin oil and balsamic dressing.
Despite the waste this is not all bad. The exotic-ingredients mania must be sustaining the economies of many otherwise destitute countries, much as the plethora of food outlets sustains local architects, designers, cooks, waiters, sales staff and van drivers. An economic virtue of the spending pattern of the rich is that it tends to be labour intensive.
But what next? Major food chains are now selling what was considered the preserve of soul food cranks a generation ago. Yoghurt, sesame and nut extract were once strictly for beards, sandals and Glastonbury. Now they have taken Kensington High Street by storm.
I can only assume that after the soul food will come the soul, after the body the mind. Tesco will offer five minutes of oxygen inhalant flown in from the Arctic to raise green awareness. Waitrose will hit back with 30-minute Buddhist chants. Sainsbury's will invite shoppers to sit under a triangle to feel the vibrations of Omega 3. Whole Foods will offer a choice of pre-made religions with "guaranteed happiness or your money back". There will be lectures, therapies, analysis and book signings.
It will cost a packet. But as they said of the Rolls-Royce, if you ask the price you can't afford it. You should have stuck with the sandwich.
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Who eats using sterling silver flatware at home each and every day?
Just look up all the healthy properties of silver. It's amazing!
That's the main reason to have and, well, use silver flatware.
Obviously, if you don't care then you don't need it. (Not that I'm using it right now. Ha. But I grew up on a family where only silver was used.)
It's really weird that some people have silver flatware but only keep it for "special occasions". What's the point? It's like having a Brita filter but only use it for special occasions.
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Yes, there is an insufferable culture of cool surrounding art forms of the past. We get it, you're retro. But that doesn't mean things like super-8 film, VHS tapes, and vinyl records should be outright dismissed.
PBS's always fun Off-Book series returns with a nicely un-pretentious overview of how people use analog media in the digital age. The dude talking about photography especially nails it when he explains that analog isn't necessarily better than digital—it's just nice to have the option. [PBS Off Book via YouTube via Devour]
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Who eats using sterling silver flatware at home each and every day?
Just look up all the healthy properties of silver. It's amazing!
That's the main reason to have and, well, use silver flatware.
Obviously, if you don't care then you don't need it. (Not that I'm using it right now. Ha. But I grew up on a family where only silver was used.)
It's really weird that some people have silver flatware but only keep it for "special occasions". What's the point? It's like having a Brita filter but only use it for special occasions.
Feb 25, 2012
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Question for experienced wok users
What kind of problems arise from purchasing inexpensive carbon steel woks? It would be for occasional use only and had my eye on this one frugal item in particular:
not at the expense of occupying kitchen space, if not a good item. Should I be looking for something heavier? Tia!
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1. I don't have exactly this wok, but I have something very similar:
It is on the thin side. Therefore it is very easy to handle, but it is more easy to warp (change shape).
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Chem - in your home kitchen environment, I assume that you're not worried about warping and in need of replacement? I'm thinking it would last a lifetime.
1. re: rosetown
Hey Buddy,
Actually, my thin Williams Sonoma wok warpped on me within the first two-three days. Very minor, but I can feel it. I think warping also depend what kind of bottom we are talking about too.
A minor warping on a round bottom wok is not a problem at all, and will be next to impossible to notice. However, a minor warping on a flat bottom wok can be more noticeable. For the original poster, I don't think this thin wok should be a problem since it is a round bottom wok.
2. You should be fine. We used to only get regular carbon steel woks at our restaurant, used them daily, beat them up, and they lasted easily a year or more before we had to replace them.
I've never really understood buying expensive woks, esp. for home use.
1. That looks like an optimal wok and at a good price.
Woks just don't get expensive, unless you go into stainless or nonstick woks which are without question inferior in performance, although well-to-do consumers who don't know better still buy them.
1. I have a large and and even larger All Clad woks. I use a carbon steel wok that I pick up for about $20 US. It works better than the expensive ones, and I sometimes use it on a 80000 BTU burner.
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1. re: INDIANRIVERFL
Where do you have an 80000BTU burner?
1. re: pabboy
Outdoor burners that you would use for a turkey fryer go up to 100k,
2. Inexpensive carbon steel woks are the thing to use, but in my opinion "hand hammered" is a gimmick. Most likely, at that price, the thing is not created by hand out of a sheet of metal, but formed in the usual way, then a pattern added by hand. I don't see any point to this.
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Who eats using sterling silver flatware at home each and every day?
Just look up all the healthy properties of silver. It's amazing!
That's the main reason to have and, well, use silver flatware.
Obviously, if you don't care then you don't need it. (Not that I'm using it right now. Ha. But I grew up on a family where only silver was used.)
It's really weird that some people have silver flatware but only keep it for "special occasions". What's the point? It's like having a Brita filter but only use it for special occasions.
Feb 25, 2012
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Fine dining in Philadelphia… what is it and who provides it?
"Georges Perrier and his restaurant introduced me to fine dining."
Yes, to what fine dining WAS.
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1. What is it today? Or should I say what is it today... in Philadelphia? Do we have any fine dining chains? (oops thats the other thread... ).
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1. re: cwdonald
"What is it today?"
It's up for debate. I can only comment on what it was with any certainty.
1. re: Chinon00
I think for starters, you can define "fine dining" as, at a minimum:
1) service that gives a crap
2) comfortable and pleasant decor & atmosphere
3) decent quality table settings
and, last but not least,
4) high-quality, expertly-prepared food
1. re: deprofundis
Does the style of the food qualify or disqualify? What if the "high quality, expertly prepared food" is Carolina BBQ?
1. re: Chinon00
Not if you eat it with your hands.
2. re: deprofundis
Deprofundis: May I enhance your definition of four points from my perspective?
1.) Socially-skilled, gracious and non-solicitous service that is maximally attentive but minimally intrusive,
2.) Visually captivating surroundings and seating that invites a lingering experience
3.) Spotless china, crystal and flatware on fine cloth enhanced by floral arrangements,
4.) Fare that is as fresh as possible, cooked to perfection and seasoned to intrigue not obfuscate.
To me, that's just "fine."
1. re: Chefpaulo
I love that definition ChefPaulo.. now which restaurants would meet that criteria in Philadelphia... I think places like Zahav might fall a bit short, especially from a decore standpoint.
1. re: cwdonald
Interesting discussion. Perhaps you'd get some good input by starting a new thread on this Fine Dining discussion....what is it and who provides it? I agree that i like CP's definition
2. re: Chefpaulo
Here, here. Very well said Chef Paulo and to my mind right on point. I might just adopt your definitions with no claims of origination. Thanks
1. re: Chefpaulo
Could a BYOB qualify? I think all but the rarest could pull off your second requirement. Also I think noise level is an important factor too.
3. Yes, first time in 1983; last time 1999. It ranked in my mind no lower than the seafood buffet I had the pleasure of enjoying at Hotel Du Pont's Green Room.
Recently only a meal at Per Se complete with a handshake with Thomas Keller did compare.
1. We had dinner Saturday night at the Fountain Room at the Four Seasons and it met every criteria for fine dining.
We hadn't been there for dinner for years. It was superb!
The ambience, service, food and presentation could not have been better.
This ranks at the top of my list for taking out somone for a special occasion. This time, we were the fortunate guests!
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1. re: sylviag
What did you have Sylviag? Did you do a tasting menu?
1. re: cwdonald
There were two choices. On the left side of the menu, you could do three courses for $80; on the right side, six courses for $140. You could choose two appetizers and an entree and skip dessert - no way for me!
Our small group all chose the three courses. There were lovely little extras - an amuse bouche, something before dessert, etc. Good breads, of course.
You can look at the menu online, but everyone loved what they had. The accompaniments and embellishments were beautiful and delicious.
There were some specials not on the regular menu that went with the more expensive choice.
Although the service was impeccable, at no time did you feel it was pretentious. We were offered ice water, with no mention of bottled water. That was refreshing!
Our hostess is petite, and was given a pillow to put behind her.
The drinks were great.
All in all, a great place to celebrate!
1. re: sylviag
I've given this long thought since my embellishment of deprofundis' definition and concur that my only experience that meets criteria is The Fountain Room. The cuisine is superb but, even more so, the personnel reflect the highest blend of professionalism and innate emotional intelligence. They must have a very rigorous selection process to ensure that there is the social acumen to assuage the unreasonable behavior of the occasional disordered personality yet have the sensitivity to spontaneously get a pillow for your petite hostess. Concern and graciousness are genuine, not feigned, and you've given me impetus to get down there again.
Years ago, some local Hounds may remember my favorite French restaurant, La Truffe, which ran a close second and is sorely missed. Quality and service were comparable to Le Bec-Fin but in a much more relaxed atmosphere.
1. re: Chefpaulo
Isn't fine dining really an outgrowth of the royal kitchen and dining room? So all that attention to care and comfort is an attempt I think to approximate how a royal might expect to be treated. It goes back to that I think.
2. re: cwdonald
I will add this, cw -
our son did the tasting meny at Vetri and while everything was delicious, he felt the food was too rich for him. He is a very good cook and knows his food.
The advantage of Fountain's menu is that if you are on any kind of food regimen, you can
choose the lighter offerings and still have an outstanding meal.
1. re: sylviag
I agree completely that a fine dining establishment should be able to blow you away with a lighter menu as well as with a heavier one. However what I think epitomizes gourmet and should always be available at a fine dining restaurant is rich decadent rare prized menu items: e.g. cavier, foie gras, demi-glace, truffles, sea urchin, etc.
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Who eats using sterling silver flatware at home each and every day?
Just look up all the healthy properties of silver. It's amazing!
That's the main reason to have and, well, use silver flatware.
Obviously, if you don't care then you don't need it. (Not that I'm using it right now. Ha. But I grew up on a family where only silver was used.)
It's really weird that some people have silver flatware but only keep it for "special occasions". What's the point? It's like having a Brita filter but only use it for special occasions.
Feb 25, 2012
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Who eats using sterling silver flatware at home each and every day?
Just look up all the healthy properties of silver. It's amazing!
That's the main reason to have and, well, use silver flatware.
Obviously, if you don't care then you don't need it. (Not that I'm using it right now. Ha. But I grew up on a family where only silver was used.)
It's really weird that some people have silver flatware but only keep it for "special occasions". What's the point? It's like having a Brita filter but only use it for special occasions.
Feb 25, 2012
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04-05-2007, 10:34 AM
We are staying at GF concierge in the main building during Thanksgiving, we've never done concierge before, we always stay at WL. Can someone tell me all about it. Should we get refillable mugs, or are there drinks out all day? Should we still get the dining plan since they have breakfast there, and snacks throught the day. I have lots more questions, but this is a start. Thank You.
04-05-2007, 11:07 AM
Well unless you are the sort that NEEDS something more than water to drink after midnight, there is pretty much no reason to get the mugs when staying on the concierge floor, there are always drinks on hand.
I don't really think the concierge level is a good substitute for the dining plan, as some people see it. Most people would still probably be able to save money by adding the dining plan even when staying concierge. Unless you plan on almost no table service meals when you are at Disney and living on appetizers for your time there, you will still be able to get value from the dining plan. It's only one counter service meal, one snack (which you can use for water or something) and one table service meal per day. Also, Disney food prices are so inflated that as long as you use all of your table services and most of your counter services, you will still save money (most table services will run about $30-$40 if you got appetizer, entree, and dessert just on their own). While you could concievably go back to your hotel instead of eating in the parks or getting water or something in the parks, it is kind of an uncessary hassle that isn't always worth it. Also, the afternoon selections aren't quite substantial enough for dinner every night (sometimes we weren't that hungry and they were great, other times, we wanted a full meal), so you will probably still want a few table services and if you plan on doing a character breakfast you will want to use one for that. The best plan might be saving up your table services and using them at a signature dining restaurant like California Grill, Jiko, or Citricos (where even though you are using 2 credits you get your money's worth). That way, you aren't really obligated to eat at a table service every night if you don't want to, and only use them for a great meal. It's important to understand that you can't really see the concierge level as ever being "worth it" in a purely financial sense of the term. You really can't fill yourself up on the concierge offerings and if you are wedded to the three full meals a day system of eating then you might run into problems because the concierge food (except for the continental breakfast) is comprised entirely of snacks and appetizers. You will probably save a little money on food because you can cut back on food you eat in the parks and the universally overpriced breakfasts at Disney, but not enough to cover the difference in price. You probably won't be wasting your money on the dining plan if you add it.
I found when we stayed on concierge level at the Yacht Club (before the dining plan happened), except for one character breakfast we never paid for breakfast. We would just grab something and head into the parks, which also meant we could sleep in a little. Usually in the parks we would need some beverage and we would usually have lunch. Then we would return to our hotel in the afternoon relax and get a snack/drink in the lounge and then either return to the parks or go to dinner somewhere (we ate at a table service restaurant 4 out of our 6 nights) and then we would usually bring a little dessert back to our rooms to end the day. Granted at the time, priority seatings weren't nearly as hard to get (except for fireworks time at California Grill and other really difficult things) I think we made most of our priority seatings when we arrived at Disney (oftentimes we would make our decision that afternoon based on how we were feeling). On our two preplanned priority seating nights, however, we simply incorporated that into our plans and it wasn't a big deal. What is nice, particularly when you are at Disney and you need to keep your energy up, you can use the concierge level to have small meals throughout the day to keep you going without weighing you down combined with a small counter service lunch in the park and then when you are done you can have a nice dinner. It prevents what my family calls "low blood sugar moments" where after a while without food crankiness sets in. Based on how much we spent on other food throughout the park and resort we would definitely save money if we were able to use the dining plan, but you should look into how much you spend on food when you go to Disney.
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Who eats using sterling silver flatware at home each and every day?
Just look up all the healthy properties of silver. It's amazing!
That's the main reason to have and, well, use silver flatware.
Obviously, if you don't care then you don't need it. (Not that I'm using it right now. Ha. But I grew up on a family where only silver was used.)
It's really weird that some people have silver flatware but only keep it for "special occasions". What's the point? It's like having a Brita filter but only use it for special occasions.
Feb 25, 2012
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to be annoyed by grown adults who say they can't cook?
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Mintyy Sun 18-Nov-12 14:47:25
I don't think I am.
It just makes me think that the person saying as much is a little bit useless.
InNeedOfBrandy Sun 18-Nov-12 15:47:27
I take my dc to school, go to work, vist friends and relatives and go on holiday all without driving. Ok waiting on a bus stop in the cold isn't nice but it's not a real problem. Not driving doesn't stop me doing anything.
InNeedOfBrandy Sun 18-Nov-12 15:48:03
Actually it would be better if no one drived the world would be a cleaner place.
LucieMay Sun 18-Nov-12 15:48:11
If driving was a life skill, why I do have a perfectly normal life (work, school, social activities) without being able to drive?
squoosh Sun 18-Nov-12 15:49:14
Driving is a life skill not an essential life skill.
Cooking is a life skill, not an essential life skill. Sourcing food is an essential life skill.
Everlong Sun 18-Nov-12 15:52:43
My life would be screwed if I didn't drive to a degree. Getting ds to school for just one example would be a major major pain if I didn't drive not to mention, food shopping and visiting people.
Driving makes your life easier now and when you're older too.
chummymummy Sun 18-Nov-12 15:53:22
I remember spending a lot of evenings in the kitchen with my mum n sisters wen we were younger. I hated it at the time and thought it really unfair. However I am so grateful now. I think this is true of a lot of asian families.
I am doing the same with my kids now. I see it as a life skill. like if you were dropped in the middle of a jungle would you be able to take care of yourself? I know it sounds silly but I think I would be able to kill it, cook it n eat it!
LyingWitchInTheWardrobe Sun 18-Nov-12 15:56:06
What on earth is a 'grown adult'... and what the dickens does their ability to cook have to do with you, OP?
You're being ridiculous to get annoyed. Do you normally overreact to things?
InNeedOfBrandy Sun 18-Nov-12 15:58:34
Driving might make your life easier but it is not essential and is not a life skill. Your life might be more awkward not driving but it wouldn't be impossible to live without it. It is quite possible to be independent and not drive as I demonstrate every day.
diddl Sun 18-Nov-12 15:59:55
I can cook-but my God I loathe it!
Loobylou222 Sun 18-Nov-12 16:05:16
Silly me I'm just a man"
My oh cooks pretty much everything from scratch, he was taught by jus grandma, it was a part of every day life.
I hate cooking.
He Is teaching me, but I find it very boring, and he bashes me do the shut jobs like chop the chicken!
It's the timings I can't get the hang of, I always overdo chicken as I worry it won't be cooked properly.
Loobylou222 Sun 18-Nov-12 16:06:44
Wow that totally didn't make sence! He does not bash me!
He gives me the shit jobs!
Cooking keeps me sane. I suppose I feel a bit for people who can't but nobody can do everything - and if they think they can they're fools! I can't sew or knit or making greetings card and I wouldn't expect to be negatively judged on that particular lack of talent.
carabos Sun 18-Nov-12 16:19:54
I think it's worse when people claim to be really good cooks and then turn out to be rubbish. It's a talent IMO. Yes if you can read you can follow a recipe, but there is another dimension to it I believe.
I can make tasty meals from scratch and bake but I would never describe myself as a good cook.
FromEsme Sun 18-Nov-12 16:21:43
I once really upset a friend who said "look, I have cooked dinner from scratch today" and then showed me her stir fry covered in a gelatinous jar-sauce.
Apparently "that's not from scratch" isn't a nice thing to say. I was only 19 at the time, I would just go "mm, yummy" now.
Nothing wrong with sauce from the jar I'm lying, sauce from a jar is disgusting but it's not cooking from scratch.
Trills Sun 18-Nov-12 16:28:42
Once you are an adult you can choose to learn or choose not to bother to learn. Even if your parents have taught you nothing about cooking.
Esme - you're right. There really is nothing more disgusting than sauce from a jar and I do tend to judge people who think that's ok. It's not. A few minutes spent looking at the ingredients would tell anyone that surely?
LucieMay Sun 18-Nov-12 16:31:15
Everlong if I drove I still wouldn't drive to work because the bus is so frequent and parking as a pain, it just wouldn't be worth it. I also wouldn't bother driving him to school as the traffic gets so bad it's usually just easier to walk. So if I did have a car, it would just be sitting there at least five days a week.
Mrsjay Sun 18-Nov-12 16:37:00
I dont drive cant cook and didnt even get my swim certificate I am a complete failure in everything grin
I think making sure you and your family eat is different from getting pleasure out of cooking I really wish i did have that creative thing in me but i dont I cook so we dont starve or live off takeaways where as i have a friend who is an amazing cook and has a huge cook book collection and enjoys reading them i think it is her porn grin
BananaBubbles Sun 18-Nov-12 16:37:38
Does that apply to pasta sauce? I'm looking at the jar of sauce I use reguarly,and I can't see anything that'd make me go eew,on the ingredients list.
I cannot imagine giving a toss about people using jars personally.
Everlong Sun 18-Nov-12 16:39:23
I'm just using myself as an example lucie for me if I didn't drive ds wouldn't be able to attend the school he does, older ds wouldn't be able to stay behind at school to do his music. Not end of the world stuff but it would be a shame.
Driving just gives me more time to do things as opposed to waiting around for buses and trains.
sarahseashell Sun 18-Nov-12 16:40:37
YABU - there are lots of jars of organic stuff/ ready made things which are healthy enough. Some people just detest cooking and are crap at it, get very flustered and stressed by it etc
squoosh Sun 18-Nov-12 16:43:04
Why do people buy jars of carbonara sauce, that baffles me. It's only egg and parmesan and a couple of other ingredients.
Mrsjay Sun 18-Nov-12 16:43:16
I tried to make my own tomato sauce for meatballs once god it was rank yet when i make bolgnaise using just about the same ingredients it tastes nice, I also cant get a cheese sauce right sometimes it works and other times it splits I have no clue what im doing wrong
FromEsme Sun 18-Nov-12 16:44:13
It's weird, isn't it squoosh? If people can't be arsed with the faff, why not just buy a ready meal? It's the same thing.
Then, I can't drive, so maybe I'm not allowed an opinion.
TheSmallPrint Sun 18-Nov-12 16:44:23
I can't cook. What I mean by that is that I rarely have the time to cook 'properly' and so often if I try it doesn't end up anything like the recipe and often tastes horrible or slightly over /under cooked, seasoned wrong etc. some people are naturally skilled at certain things and others aren't. I can draw beautifully and do it for a living, if you can hold a pencil why can't you draw like a professional? That's how I would compare it anyway. <shrugs>
As long as there are ready meals I won't starve.
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Who eats using sterling silver flatware at home each and every day?
Just look up all the healthy properties of silver. It's amazing!
That's the main reason to have and, well, use silver flatware.
Obviously, if you don't care then you don't need it. (Not that I'm using it right now. Ha. But I grew up on a family where only silver was used.)
It's really weird that some people have silver flatware but only keep it for "special occasions". What's the point? It's like having a Brita filter but only use it for special occasions.
Feb 25, 2012
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cookbook purge: how do you choose?
i am facing a chore of having to cut down my tons of cookbooks. i came upon this little story on a blog, and could relate to the very few so far that were culled -- from hundreds. http://eatingasia.typepad.com/eatinga...
how do you decide which ones have to go?
one criterion is that the ones that stay must offer something "special" or be beautiful in some way.
"special" can mean, e.g., sheer creativity in food/ingredient combinations, excellency in describing techniques, unusual ingredients references, encyclopedic references (like larousse and oxford companion), anthropological aspects of food development, cultural/regional cookbooks, beautiful photos with good recipes......
there are not really many categories left. i guess that's my problem.
do you use them all, like i do, to cook, or for reference, or planning and dreaming, or reading in bed, like a novel?
what do you think about the "culling criteria"?
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1. I have too many once again, and used to have too many, and then inherited tons more when my mother died.
To be honest, in the first purge, cracked spines and books with pages turned down, little bits of paper in them, etc. got to stay. Ones that "just looked neat" stayed. A lot of the others got donated. Now I have a few on specialty areas: Breads, Baking, Pressure Cooking, one on how to cook almost any veggie, a vegetarian meal one, etc. etc. Still too many. But I"m trying to pare it down to one essential in each area (eg., have 4 books on Pressure Cooking when I ony need one.....I might copy out a recipe or two from the others before liberating them) Then I have a bunch of "standards" JoC, Julia Child, etc.
Finally, I have the "gifted ones" that folks have given me over the years. Some of those I'd like to chuck but don't dare - yet!
I also have 2 nice cork boarded sprial ring binders that I"ve filled with my own ideas or that I have purloined from others and modified. I find I use these the most.
Now, the next project I gotta start is going through my hard drive for all those luscious goodies I found on the internet! That could keep me busy until the NEXT Millenium!
1. My rules: a cookbook gets tossed (donated to the library for their quarterly book sale!) if:
1. I've had it for long enough that I should have made something out of it, but I haven't because nothing has ever sounded worthy of being made, or
2. I've made a few things out of it and they were all icky, or at least not worth making again
These tend to work pretty well for me. I only keep a few "reference" cookbooks (hey, that's what Chowhound is for!) and cook out of the rest.
1. I keep cookbooks signed by the chef.
I keep cookbooks with favorite recipes.
I keep cookbooks from NOLA before Katrina.
I keep my grandmother's Joy of Cooking.
I donate the cookbooks from my college days: many start with take a can of.... or mix a box of yellow cake mix...
For some, I've gone in, checked on their version of recipes I use and if it's dumbed down, the book goes.
1. Oh alkapal...here's my number one rule: If I have room for it, I keep it. This a rule for most books in our house, and I am starting to think of the books as insulaion!
You being a lawyer, I'm certain that you would want to keep the very good reference books you have in your library. The ones that can win you an argument on alfredo v.carbonara, for ex. (A recent argument with my Hub:-) ) Volumes with good descriptions of ingredients should stay. Volumes with good details on techniques should stay. Volumes with info you can't get elsewhere should stay (reeeeaallly look at copyright dates with your decision-making process, as some of the older books are superb and valuable). Likewise books that give you ethnic instructions that you cannot get elsewhere. If you're like me, then save all the culinary history books (again, for argument settling).
I didn't read your link, given computer restraints...and perhaps I am arguing for saving more then you want. Let's say this: If you look at the book and love it (even if you haven't cooked from it) keep. it. If you look at the book and ask yourself whyon earth you have it when you don't like it, chuck it off to another home.
You're inspiring me to chuck a few things (a very few, sadly!). I so wish there was a cookbook exchange in these boards!
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Same here, cayjohan. I am getting better at culling the fiction books and other non-cooking books, but cookbooks, I cannot get rid of. I have weird 60's cookbooks with food I would never make, but I love being able to pull them out and look through for a laugh (good conversation starters).
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Sooeygun, a lot of the recipes in those 50's-60's books make for a great starting point for a retro dinner that people love. Not just conversations, but food from our childhoods...good for you for keeping them! Try crazy molded foods in aspic! It's a hoot! (And, I admit, tasty.)
1. re: cayjohan
i'm waiting for the "mold" comeback, as i have several! ;-).
aspic is coming back in restaurants? or is it not trendy enough?.... maybe if it were micronized aspic beads suspended in a nitrogen bath?... then served on sous vide veal "carpaccio". lol!
2. http://chowhound.chow.com/topics/585613 is a related topic which you may find useful.
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What is it you don't like that bronies like to make crossovers a lot?
This is an honest question because I truly cannot understand it.
It's just images, game mods, videos, etc. that bronies make for fun and to put their skill in drawing, modding, etc.. All of which can easily be avoided or ignored by just not paying attention to the image or not downloading the mod, not watching the video etc..
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Why did you ban me from IRC when you were being more abusive? GEORGIEGIBBONS 20:46, June 11, 2010 (UTC)
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The SO 10k tools page has a typo under the close tab: it reads “Recent occurences” where it should instead be correctly spelled "occurrences", with two r’s not just one.
Sorry to bug you with such a trivial bug report, but this posting suggested it was ok, and I didn’t find any other way to flag it as needing attention.
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U has meny spelin erurs
Fixed in the next build; thanks!
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+1 despite the picture being of a cat and not a unicorn. – Donal Fellows Apr 24 '11 at 9:39
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Why did you ban me from IRC when you were being more abusive? GEORGIEGIBBONS 20:46, June 11, 2010 (UTC)
1) I didn't ban you.
2) You don't come here often do you? BonSig.png (Bonner) Icons-flag-gb (Talk) Jun 11, 20:48
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Rate the Random: Paper Mario Edition - Days 13 & 14
#21VENOM1029Posted 7/26/2010 8:15:28 AM
I nom whackas bump :)
Let the blood ov the infants flood the streets ov Bethlehem!
#22awesomespyPosted 7/26/2010 9:30:39 AM
Anti-Guy gets 100% from me. Being a shy guy automatically brings him to 80%.
B Button - 60%. It felt clunky and poorly implemented. It's like the developers had to incorporate it just because it was there.
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#23aftershock576Posted 7/26/2010 11:39:08 AM
Anti Guy: 100% Fun challenge right when you get to him (without abusing stone caps).
B Button: 100% You kinda need it to get throug the game. Plus, hammering things is fun :D
Superguarding is fine too, and you can't get through an early pit trial without it.
#24shadowking95Posted 7/26/2010 12:42:13 PM
Anti Guy = 75%
Not too difficult as an enemy, all you have to do is be careful. Muskular's star power Chill Out (-3 damage) also helps in making this fight easier.
B Button = 90%
It's just an amazing tool. The only thing that's bad is that it's extremely difficult to pull off.
"The engine... That was an engine-ous move! Hee hee hee...! What's with me today!? I'm on a roll!" - Shuji Ikutsuki ; Persona 3 (FES)
#25pug_wishbonePosted 7/26/2010 3:02:07 PM
Important announcement involving the topic
Well unfortunate as it is, our TC, host, and creator of RtR: Paper Mario Edition, has suffered a User Map Axe, and will not be making anymore Rate the Random topic. Kippy has told me on AIM that I have to be the new host, and so forth, I shall be the new host of Rate the Random: Paper Mario Edition...
Goodbye Kippy.
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#26An_Empty_TomePosted 7/26/2010 4:12:33 PM
I know right? ;D
Anyways, you can do better puggy. ^_^
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User talk:Bonner
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Why did you ban me from IRC when you were being more abusive? GEORGIEGIBBONS 20:46, June 11, 2010 (UTC)
1) I didn't ban you.
2) You don't come here often do you? BonSig.png (Bonner) Icons-flag-gb (Talk) Jun 11, 20:48
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User avatar #28 - furyofthefallen (05/07/2013) [-]
Seen this 100 times on all those cancerous `funnylol.com` websites.
User avatar #29 to #28 - markertemp (05/07/2013) [-]
I pose a simple question in response: So?
User avatar #30 to #29 - furyofthefallen (05/07/2013) [-]
So it`s a repost. Its been allover FJ too I believe.
User avatar #31 to #30 - markertemp (05/07/2013) [-]
And that makes it bad.... how? In all the time I've been on this site, I've yet to see one person put up a reasonable argument against a repost. All I've ever seen is "I've seen it, so it shouldn't be here, even if someone else hasn't!"
User avatar #35 to #31 - friendbarrier (05/07/2013) [-]
Hipsters. Hipsters everywhere.
User avatar #33 to #31 - dashgamer (05/07/2013) [-]
Well, there are things that, when repeated so much, become too trite to become anything but crap. Something like the No Post on Sundays ordeal or Xzibit memes would be a good example: it's a genuine repost if it's used so damned much that people unanimously agree that it isn't funny. This comic, however, will be hilarious for the rest of eternity.
User avatar #32 to #31 - furyofthefallen (05/07/2013) [-]
Reasonable, but the thing is that we don't need to see it again. It was funny the first 30 times, but now it's just getting old. Plus, the fact that it's a repost provides solid evidence that he probably just saved it off ******** and uploaded it here.
User avatar #36 to #32 - markertemp (05/07/2013) [-]
Again, just because you've seen it doesn't mean the entire world has. Get over it and move on with your life.
User avatar #38 to #36 - furyofthefallen (05/08/2013) [-]
A majority of FJ has.
Feed me your red thumbs, guys. It's killing me, honestly.
User avatar #39 to #38 - markertemp (05/08/2013) [-]
By bitching about reposts, all you're doing is showing you care about something insignificant. I've been here far longer than you, and I have yet to see a good anti-repost argument.
User avatar #46 to #39 - goodguygary ONLINE (05/08/2013) [-]
this man, he gets it.
also, it's far more annoying listening to people bitch about reposts than the actual repost itself.
User avatar #56 to #46 - markertemp (05/08/2013) [-]
I'll admit I'm not exactly helping by arguing, but people need to shut up about it.
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Why did you ban me from IRC when you were being more abusive? GEORGIEGIBBONS 20:46, June 11, 2010 (UTC)
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talk page me when you've done. If you feel really generous, review my other articles too. :3 SadisticWolf 17:46, May 17, 2010 (UTC)
I'll do it. It's either this or study for finals, and I sure don't want to be studying for my finals.--Sirrah CatshirE Chess the Striker2117 18:20, May 17, 2010 (UTC)
Humour: 5 Your humour isn't bad, and there are some great parts in this article; however the article seems a bit short and some of the jokes seem to lose their humour in the phrasing of your article (which I'll cover more below in the Content and Prose sections). The constant torture of the Pepsi as the narrator tries to find something else to distract him could be very nice if you expand the article to cover more of his day (You tried to take a nice refreshing walk outside but even the dogs started to turn into Pepsi symbols.) The reference to the Nigerian Prince scheme also was fairly funny, but I think that it's a tad too much out in the open (whatever that means) and needs to be drawn back a bit (also, if you expand your article a bit more, it'll help to solve this problem.) The Pepsi effect that you mention at the end could be very interesting and funny if you attempt to explain it a bit more in-depth (perhaps make an entire section devoted to it that's more than 3 sentences). I'd also suggest that you remove that tag line at the end for at least right now, although if you can find a good spot to fit it in when rewriting (or possibly make it a caption for one of the picture's that you should add).
I like your humour that's already in this, and think that it just needs some refining; and I hope you'll consider adding some more good stuff in there and expanding the article to make it really good.
Concept: 6 I really, really like the concept behind this, as I think that most people know what it feels like to see the last one of something and not want to take it because of others. The sort of second-person thing you did with saying “you” all the time is interesting as most people outside of HowTo articles don't use it, but if you clean up the article enough I don't think you'll catch too much flak for it (at least not after the great controversy dies down). Your biggest problem currently is that the article is rather short and need to be expanded. As I stated above, doing some bits about the person trying to resist the Pepsi by doing other activities and still hearing it's siren call, might be a good idea; or if you can come up with anything you think might be really funny to help lengthen the article put that in there instead. In general, you want to find some more stuff to help beef your article up and make it a bit longer.
Prose and formatting: 4 You're writing style is oddly elegant (in it's own way) in the wording and yet kind of choppy with the sentences. I'll list some improvements section by section
The way you have it, “The Last Pepsi. The final...” kind of makes me think of a movie advertisement, which I think would be cool, but currently it's not written to fully bring out that effect. If that's what you want to go for, then I suggest you have 2-3 very short sentences that are clearly separate (and possibly on separate lines) so that it's “The last Pepsi. The final container. The siren-like call from the kitchen.” If you don't want to go with that style, then I suggest you either remove “The last Pepsi.” fragmented sentence from the beginning, or find a way to incorporate it into a longer sentence. After “ultimate decision” I would put a colon to lead into the next little question about whether or not to drink the Pepsi.
That next little paragraph I would suggest making it's own section with it's own header and expanding, because otherwise the beginning part before any headers is going to be kinda long. When you say “there are two sides to this” make it something like “there are two sides to this dilemma” or something, so it's a bit clearer.
After you expand this section (if you plan to do so) call on either the proofreading service (who I'll insert here when I remember the link) or someone else to look over it and edit out the typos and weird grammatical things (and this is probably going to apply to the rest of the sections too). Don't worry though, when I write my articles they always have really bad typos and grammatical errors that I miss because I don't see them until they are pointed out.
The Pepsi is asking you to drink it
Here my main concern is the 4 sentence break you take to explain the scream. I want to like it, but it's just a little too long for it's purpose. Try to shorten it down to something that is just a quick, funny side note so it doesn't interrupt the reading so much; but keep along the lines of the same material. Really, that's the biggest problem here because about half the section is spent on that. Once again, expand the article (I know it seems kind of contradictory to tell you to chop that down and expand the rest, but I mean expand the part actually about the Pepsi) and chop down the tangential stuff just a bit.
The Pepsi wants to seduce your taste buds
All I can say besides EXPAND is that in the phrase “you're gonna drink that Pepsi - at least that's what you keep “ I think you should get rid of the “-” and then change the next sentence into something like “Despite all the times you think this...” and go on from there.
The Pepsi Effect
That first sentence doesn't work too well as it is because of how the headers split the thought-train from the last section. So you're going to need a lead in to it, or move it up to the previous sections as a sort of lead in into the “Pepsi Effect” section. Also, that next sentence doesn't ever close the parenthesis in it, but you're going to need to expand it so worry about that later. As I said above, thee last line would work very nicely as a caption for your final picture if you choose to insert one, but it doesn't work very well in the article.
Add some more stuff too it and keep it mostly on topic (a bit of short tangential humour is nice, but long off-topic rants confuse us poor readers).
Images: 0 There are none (which you really need for most articles on this wiki). You don't need to put in anything really special, just find some stuff on Google and make some really good captions for it. As I've mentioned at least three times in this review, that last line would be perfect for a caption on your last picture.
Miscellaneous: 3.75 Averaged.
Final Score: 18.75 I really think you have a great idea here and I urge you to add to this page because I think that it could be really funny. Don't be discouraged by the low score (I mean, Images were like 1/5 of that) because it seems like you have a really wonderful skeleton of an article here with plenty of potential, it just needs more content. If you have any questions, feel free to rant on my talk page.
Reviewer: --Sirrah CatshirE Chess the Striker2117 06:00, May 18, 2010 (UTC)
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Why did you ban me from IRC when you were being more abusive? GEORGIEGIBBONS 20:46, June 11, 2010 (UTC)
1) I didn't ban you.
2) You don't come here often do you? BonSig.png (Bonner) Icons-flag-gb (Talk) Jun 11, 20:48
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Cuz seriously, does it look like Toshiya has time for that shit?
I post lots of crap. Dumb crap. That's 'bout it. No point in hidin' nothing. And even if it's personal, well... I dun' really care :3. READ IT AND WEEP LAUGH. I'm not one for drama and I'm not one to post things that can't/shouldn't be seen by others.
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I tried talking to some of the LoL/anime/etc. geeks that sit around and play games in the commons all day. They were really kinda' mean :(. I was genuinely upset, because I thought for sure that these guys would be somewhat nice or welcoming. I didn't expect them to be all OMG HI BE OUR NEW BESTY, but they were just jerks.
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So yeah granted...friend A was under the influence of something. This may all mean nothing. But oh god.
The possibility of real life friends seeing my LJ.
And tbh, I just went through my whole journal back to when I first met friend C, and he's not mentioned in there once.
So what.
What the fuck.
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I'm here again now.
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Life is just fantastic right now.
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「あなたをファック」 =/= "fuck you" in Japanese... at least not in the sense that you're trying to get across.
I love it when I can tell that someone's using Google translate. And then I check and I'm right. It's so cute.
Sorry if this comes off as horribly rude, but fuck damn do I hate weaboos who try to impersonate knowing a language when they blatantly do not.
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*listens to music while he's sleeping all night...then leaves music on all day when he goes to work*
There's more but I don't even.
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February 26, 2010 - June 11, 2011
Some of the best days of my life :).
It's seriously been a whole year since it ended.
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So much has happened!
I moved out with some friends. Currently writing from my new room~ It's nice here :).
I got a new job. I didn't quit my old one, though. Now I just work days at one and nights at the other. I'm a busy girl (_ _;).
I had my appointment with the multiple sclerosis specialist earlier this month. Since I'm so young, it's difficult for them put any sort of a diagnosis on me. My brain MRI came back fairly clear, with some abnormal "spots" here and there. Could the lesions linked to MS, could be insignificant abnormalities. Who knows. I have to get an MRI done on my spine now, since demyelination can occur on the spinal cord as well. Mmmm.
I lost my pack of cigarettes, and I think it's a sign that I'm meant to stop smoking... I hadn't bought a pack in a few days and as soon as I do, *poof*. I forget/loose them at work. Only had one out of that pack. I believe in signs... enough stuff has happened for me to believe.
*eta: ALSO! The entry at the top of my page expired... I had had it set to April 10, 2012. I set that like 4 years ago, thinking that 2012 seemed so far away XD. When I went to post this entry, it was at the top of the page instead of my "never friends only" spiel. So now, that entry is April 10, 2013 :P.
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My friends are pissing me off.
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"Last time" was the first and only time I've ever been drunk. I tried it once and don't want to do it again.
Another friend said something about how it's "just a fun adult thing to do with other cool adults." And it's like, oh my GOD. Do you know how childish and un-"adult" you sound right now?
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Why did you ban me from IRC when you were being more abusive? GEORGIEGIBBONS 20:46, June 11, 2010 (UTC)
1) I didn't ban you.
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to online multi-player. I find in the online multiplayer games I played the VAST majority of people did NOT have voice. I prefer when someone can say “look to your left”, or even communicate a strategy on how to attack. You have your OPINION, I have mine. Name calling is unnecessary and unwarranted when all someone does is express opinnion. I purposely didn’t even mention another console becasue I knew some PS3 lover would need a new tampon, I guess that was you. Pardon me for having an opinion. The simple fact that EVERY SINGLE 360 is sold with a mic means just about everyone has one… which is the total opposite of the PS3. I never stated anythign about capabilities, just about what every person can observe for themselves. The majority of people do not purchase a Mic seperately, thus making a community with communication non existant on the PS3.
My opinion is based solely on fact and observation. You just want to paint a terd a pretty color.
#45 3 years ago
46. spiderLAW
you are a moron if you think that all you stated was opinion.
Heres how it works so that its easier for u to understand.
Your Opinion: “I don’t enjoy online gaming on PS3.” Great, that is indeed an opinion and it’s cool.
Not an opinion, just a mislead observation thus misleading others when making the statement: “It doesn’t foster communication” “lack of voice support. yes it has voice, but 80% of players don’t use it because they don’t’ have a mic.”
I didn’t attack your opinion. I simply observed and pointed out that observation, that you falsify information to justify your beliefs.
“System loving pedestal”? I own both, play both (you are on my fucking friends list on xbox), and i also had a wii that I played 60+ games on it before selling it and if anything, I’m a PC gamer and always will be.
“Every single xbox360 is sold with a mic”? Are you serious? The new Slim 4gb does not come with a mic and either did the arcade (arcade at first. Not sure about later Skus).
“The majority of people do not purchase a Mic separately, thus making a community with communication non existent on the PS3.”? So messaging, texting, etc. is not a form of communication…. where the hell did you go to school? Besides those obviously being a form of communication, Bluetooth is a common device everywhere and PS3 uses any Bluetooth headset. People have the mikes, they just choose not to hear people like you yammering, “look over there! He’s gonna get you” in their ear. Lets not forget also that you can video chat on PS3 with the PSeye without the need for a headset and that costs a little $30 or comes bundled with Move.
You know, I wouldn’t even bother arguing with you ever but you have become the new xbox loving fanboy moron around here. Jumping in on threads to say “O the online on PS3 sucks”, “Xbox live is perfect”, “this game looks better on Xbox360 (judging b the demo)”, etc etc etc.
Go ahead and glorify your xbox, but don’t trash other systems to glorify your preference.
#46 3 years ago
47. spiderLAW
@MushroomsStamp (= M.S. initials M.S. also meaning Microsoft and Microsoft being the manufacturer of Xbox…am i reading to deep into it? lol)
You are right about the name calling though. That was very immature of me and I apologize for that. I am sorry.
#47 3 years ago
48. MushroomStamp
@SpiderLaw Yes, too deep.. a MushroomStamp is the mark left behind after you pull the c*ck out of someones mouth and smack it on their forehead.
Apology accepted.. and I apologize for using an antagonizing comment “what they call a community anyway”.
I think we are just both passionate gamers and sometimes consideration of others slips.
#48 3 years ago
49. MushroomStamp
Ps. “fanboy loving moron”.. umm no, but thanks for the name calling again.. like you I have all systems. I never have been or will be a loyalist. To buy something just because of a name brand is retarded. I evaluate all purchases equally. I have never said the PS3 sucks no that Xbox live is perfect… In fact I never made those comments you tried feed into my mouth. I prefer the 360 on 2 major points, I find the community better and #1 is the controller. I despise the PS controller as the worst controller I have ever used. Other than that I could care less about exclusives. If a game is multiplatform I will go with the one that has the best graphics (for example, I bought FF13 on PS3 and RDR on the 360). just like to reiterate, I am a gamer, not a consoler… the only “system” i really bash is the Wii because well… there isn’t enough space to cover that topic.
#49 3 years ago
50. tmac2011
you might own the system but you don’t own the rights to the software even if you buy the game, you dont own the programming and the data and w/e else. ruining games like call of duty 4 and people having to cheat at modern warfare 2, why dont they try to just get better at a game and stop hacking it upo for other great players….
#50 3 years ago
51. Kaufer
Im reading the related forums and people are getting banned as of a few hours ago. There are already some in the comments that are updating to official firmware. So i guess sony’s plan works.
#51 3 years ago
52. MegaGeek1
Oh shucks, looks like a small percentage of “gamers” are going to be forced into BUYING games like the rest of us normal human beings.
#52 3 years ago
53. back_up
they should be put in jail
#53 3 years ago
54. xino
well doesn’t really do much, because you can simply create another PSN account.
Sony needs to ban the console, though they can’t do it unlike Xbox 360, because Xbox Live is fully integrated with the Xbox 360+dashboard.
it would only effect you if you use it on an account with lots of trophies
#54 3 years ago
55. Kerplunk
@54 Of course you can block the console. Take a combination of known IP address and the MAC address of the machine and that’s it.
#55 3 years ago
56. Patrick Garratt
@51 – Do you have any links to forum posts saying people have already been banned?
#56 3 years ago
57. mojo
#57 3 years ago
58. Patrick Garratt
#58 3 years ago
59. Kaufer
I tried posting the link before but i guess it got filtered?
#59 3 years ago
60. Kaufer
I tried posting the link before but i guess it got filtered? My post wont show.
#60 3 years ago
61. Kaufer
I tried posting the link but none of my post are showing.
#61 3 years ago
62. mojo
link to hackerforum and cfw stuff. remove if needed.
#62 3 years ago
63. Kaufer
Ill try it again. ps3news(dot)com/PS3-Online/sony-addresses-ps3-circumvention-devices-piracy-and-psn-bans
#63 3 years ago
64. mojo
whats so difficult in pasting a url? :)
#64 3 years ago
65. mojo
nice selfown!
#65 3 years ago
66. mojo
ups, nice selfown.
indeed its not possible to post a “ps3news(dot)com” url..
#66 3 years ago
67. Blerk
Really? Let’s try:
#67 3 years ago
68. Kaufer leads to a different site. If post nothing happends.
#68 3 years ago
69. Kaufer leads to a different site. If i post “ps3news(dot)com” the proper way, it wont get posted.
#69 3 years ago
70. mojo
yeah i got that.
hence my comment #63
#70 3 years ago
71. Patrick Garratt
No idea why the URL-pasting thing’s weird. Thanks for you help with that, chaps.
#71 3 years ago
72. xino
@55 they can’t ban console if it’s not connected online
#72 3 years ago
73. TheWulf
Meh. Everyone with any sense already knew about Sony’s shenanigans and have prevention measures
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Why did you ban me from IRC when you were being more abusive? GEORGIEGIBBONS 20:46, June 11, 2010 (UTC)
1) I didn't ban you.
2) You don't come here often do you? BonSig.png (Bonner) Icons-flag-gb (Talk) Jun 11, 20:48
I'll be frank, I spend most of the time vandalising Wikipedia. I'm sorry if we have got off to a bad start. GEORGIEGIBBONS 20:51, June 11, 2010 (UTC)
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I just read the IGN review....
#1BringerLSPosted 4/16/2008 10:46:23 PM
What the heck is the matter with society? For christ sake you are taking care of a baby. I was more bothered by the fact that there was nothing there when changing the diaper. I mean come on people a genital is a genital we all have them and so do babies. Suddenly the human body and anatomy becomes inappropriate?
This is actually a good game and I would recommend it for any parent who wants their kid to get somewhat of an idea on how to take care of a baby. I mean when I change my little cousins diaper a freaking censor bar doesn't fly over and cover her vagina. People need to freaking lighten up.
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Whoknows Wrote:
Feb 11, 2013 7:46 AM
I know one thing, if the FAT guy from N.J. runs for president I will donate money against him. He is not an example of anyone I wouild want for president. He is worse than the one we have, because he is a traitor to our cause.
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Newt Gingrich, moral leader
Newt Gingrich speaks to reporters Newt Gingrich, America's new dead mouse. Photograph: Jonathan Ernst/Reuters
Nick von Hoffman, the great liberal columnist of an earlier era, once called Richard Nixon the dead mouse on America's kitchen floor, by which he meant that while we were repulsed by the site of him, we couldn't help staring in a kind of fascination.
The dead mouse of our era - well, there are a lot of them, but on balance I have to say Newt Gingrich. You can watch him for hours, and he even emits a certain odor. I never tire of the man.
Last night, Lawrence O'Donnell rounded up Gingrich's recent television appearances in which he was asked by his interviewers about his extramarital dalliances, specifically cheating on his second wife exactly while he was calling Bill Clinton a moral monster. After stringing together three or four clips of Gingrich explaining that he was now 67 years old, O'Donnell explained what that really means:
"Newt is the only 67-year-old presidential candidate who has ever stressed his age. He's stressing it only when making the point that he thinks maybe he can now finally be trusted to maintain sexual exclusivity with his third wife. He's basically saying, 'I'm too old to do it the way I used to do it, Viagra can't work miracles, you don't have to worry about me anymore.' It's the only part of newt's questions that is absolutely consistent, the I'm 67 and a grandfather bit. He is the only candidate that wants you to think he's old. You didn't hear John McCain reminding you he was 72 when he ran for president. Bob Dole was not fond of mentioning that he was 73 when he ran for president."
But the really unbelievable clip came from a Fox News interview last Sunday, when Chris Wallace asked Gingrich if he wasn't being a hypocrite in going after Clinton while he was off picking nonmatrimonial daisies himself, to which Gingrich replied: "I don't know what you would have had me do."
Well, uh, as O'Donnell noted, how about, you know, not do it?
Then there was this:
"I have two grandchildren -- Maggie is 11, Robert is 9," Gingrich said at a church in Texas, according to Politico. "I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time they're my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American."
An aide, evidently reasoning to himself that America could either become a secularist gomorrah or an Islamist's Eden but scarcely both at once, clarified that there should have been an "or" before that "potentially." Fine, that's an aide's job (I hope he's being paid well). But Gingrich doesn't care about that "or" one way or the other. He has this special dialectic unfolding in his own head by which America can indeed be both securalist and Islamist. The rest of us, to whom this seems a contradiction, just aren't on his plane.
I notice that he now seems to be mentioned in the first-tier of GOP candidates. How did this happen? He'd certainly be a delightful nominee. I'm also warming to Herman Cain. More on him later.
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Whoknows Wrote:
Feb 11, 2013 7:46 AM
I know one thing, if the FAT guy from N.J. runs for president I will donate money against him. He is not an example of anyone I wouild want for president. He is worse than the one we have, because he is a traitor to our cause.
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Remarks by the President at a DNC Event -- Atherton, CA - 12pm
By: Barack Obama II
Date: April 4, 2013
Location: Atherton, CA
THE PRESIDENT: Thank you. Somebody said -- somebody told me, they were in the photo line, they said, we're glad you could join our state. (Laughter.) They made it sound like a health club or something. (Laughter.) But I appreciate that you allowed me to join -- (laughter) -- because it is obviously a spectacular place and we've got so many good friends here, and some of you I see out there worked tirelessly dating back to when people could not pronounce my name. (Laughter.) And so I'm grateful to all of you.
First of all, though, I want to give a special acknowledgement to John and Marcia for the incredible job they've done and their great hospitality. Thank you so much. (Applause.) And I must say that if you had a cute baby competition, their granddaughter would have to be an entry. (Laughter.) And I got to say, I might have to pick her, because she is adorable and did not drool on my suit when I grabbed her. (Laughter.) So I'm grateful. I'm grateful to her for that.
So my election is over and you thought you wouldn't have to see me again at these fundraisers. (Laughter.) And a close friend of mine, Abner Mikva, who was White House counsel -- he was a long-time congressman from the Chicago area -- he used to say that being friends with a politician is like perpetually having a child in college. (Laughter.) It's like every few months you have to write this check and you're thinking when is it going to be over. With elected officials, it's never over.
But the reason I'm here is not for me. The reason I'm here is because the country still needs you. We have, as John indicated, done some work that I'm very, very proud of over the last four years. We took an economy that was about to go into a great depression and we were able to yank it out and put us back on a path towards growth and putting people back to work. We were able to make sure that in the process we rebuilt roads and bridges and a smarter infrastructure all across the country; and invested in clean energy; and made sure that schools got the kinds of Internet connections that they needed; and invested in basic science and research -- all of which will pay dividends for years and years to come.
We expanded access to college by expanding our student loan programs. We are in the process of reforming our schools to make sure that every child gets a fair shot in life. We ended "don't ask, don't tell" -- laying the groundwork to make sure that this was a country where you were treated fairly and equally no matter who you love. (Applause.)
And so I'm very proud of the work that we've done. But we've got a lot more work to do. We all know that. This country is the greatest nation on Earth, but it can be even greater. And my main message here today is that America's greatness will not result simply from who you elect to office; it's going to depend on you, as citizens, and how badly you want it.
During the State of the Union speech, as well as my inauguration speech, I talked about citizenship. And this is a word that I spend a lot of time thinking about these days, partly because my background, my orientation, I came into politics believing that politics works best when people are involved. I've never believed that more than I do now, in my second term as President, that the idea of citizenship is not just that you vote, it's not just that you write a check where you can to support a candidate. It's this notion, fundamental to who we are, that we have responsibilities to ourselves and our families, but we also have obligations to our neighborhood, our community, our cities, our states, and ultimately the nation and the next generation.
Now, in the next couple of months, we've got the opportunity to make some very significant changes. Number one, I believe that we can get comprehensive immigration reform passed -- (applause) -- and that is going to mean that America can continue to be a nation of laws, but also a nation of immigrants, and attract the best and the brightest from all around the world. And if we push hard and we stay focused, we've got the opportunity to get this done over the next couple of months.
I believe that we have a chance to, after 30 years, frankly, of doing almost nothing, to reduce gun violence in our society. (Applause.) And it's going to be hard, it's going to be tough, but I think we've got a chance to get some stuff done on that.
Now, one of the things that I want to be very clear on is that this year, next year, and for the next four years that I'm in office, I am always going to be seeking, wherever I can, bipartisan solutions. And I intend to continue to reach out to Republicans because I genuinely believe that the politics that you see in Washington isn't representative of America; that most people actually have common sense, and most folks think cooperation and occasional compromise is part of life. And I also think that we have to govern, not simply politick.
And so, whether it's on immigration reform or the budget or any of these issues, I will continue to do everything I can to reach out to my friends on the other side of the aisle. And look, I believe that they love their kids and this country just as much as we do, and although we may have some very fundamental disagreements about how to get there, I don't think we've got a disagreement about what we need to be as a nation.
And you believe that, too. That's why you're here. In order for us to do that, you're going to have to stay involved. Think about some of the things I spoke about during the State of the Union address: making sure that every child in America has outstanding, high-quality, early childhood education. We know that there's nothing more important to a child's success than those early years. And if we do that right, not only are we going to see better performance in our schools, we're going to see better performance in our economy. And we can do it. We can afford to do it.
But in order for us to make that happen, we're going to have to have an active, motivated, Democratic national party. People here in this area care deeply about issues of energy and climate change. And I think that the science is indisputable, and this is an obligation we owe to future generations. And as I said, we've already done a lot to reduce our carbon footprint and to make our economy more energy efficient. But if we're going to do more, then we've got to make sure that we're active and involved, and helping to educate our friends and our neighbors and our coworkers about why this is important and why there's no contradiction between a sound environment and strong economic growth; that, in fact, if we do this right, the energy sources of the future, the clean energy sources of the future can be an engine for economic growth for decades and decades to come.
When it comes to our economy -- making sure that we're investing in basic research and science. This is the epicenter of innovation in this nation. Some of you saw, a couple of days ago, I announced a new BRAIN Initiative that will allow us to crack the code and map -- (applause) -- what this incredible gray matter between our ears, one of the greatest mysteries there is, what's causing things like Alzheimer's and Parkinson's, and to not just provide cures but also to help generate entire new industries that can put people to work in this region and around the country.
In order for us to make sure that we're investing sufficiently in basic science and research, you're going to have to be involved. You have to push. You can't just wait for it to happen, because there are going to be competing interests and folks who want to spend those resources in a different way.
When it comes to our budget, I actually think that we can stabilize our finances, reduce our debt, reduce our deficit in a prudent, balanced way. But we've got the other side insisting that somehow we can cut our way to prosperity. I disagree with that. I will take that case to the American people. But for me to be successful in resolving that argument in a way that allows us to keep growing and keep investing, I'm going to need your help.
Making sure that we're providing ladders of opportunity in communities all across the country that have been left behind -- and, in some cases, have been behind for decades -- so that we're not just investing in education, but also making sure that we're providing transportation assistance and tax credits so that impoverished communities can be part of this global economy. That will make us all stronger. I can't do that unless I have your help.
And for us to continue to make progress so that this is a society that is more just and more equal and more inclusive -- we've made remarkable progress over these last few years, but that's not because of what started in Washington, it's because of what happened in communities all across the country.
I was mentioning to people I had a chance to see an early screening of this new movie called "42"; it's about Jackie Robinson. And I look around the room -- young
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Whoknows Wrote:
Feb 11, 2013 7:46 AM
I know one thing, if the FAT guy from N.J. runs for president I will donate money against him. He is not an example of anyone I wouild want for president. He is worse than the one we have, because he is a traitor to our cause.
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Quoting from Islamic, Jewish and Christian texts, rock star Bono called Thursday for the U.S. government to give an additional 1 percent of the federal budget to the world's poor.
Speaking to President Bush and members of Congress at the National Prayer Breakfast, the U2 front man said it's unjust to keep poor people from selling their goods while singing the virtues of the free market, to hold children to ransom for the debts of their grandparents and to withhold medicines that would save lives.
Bono's speech riveted the ballroom audience that included the president and first lady and leaders from Congress, the Cabinet, the military, the clergy and countries from around the world. At every table, Bono had distributed white plastic bracelets from The ONE Campaign to fight AIDS and poverty, and Sen. Hillary Clinton was among those who wrapped it around her fingers while she listened.
Bono thanked the president for helping to fight the spread of malaria and AIDS. Bush, in markedly lighter remarks than the singer, praised him as "a doer" but didn't comment on his proposal.
"The thing about this good citizen of the world is he's used his position to get things done," Bush said. "You're an amazing guy, Bono. God bless you."
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Whoknows Wrote:
Feb 11, 2013 7:46 AM
I know one thing, if the FAT guy from N.J. runs for president I will donate money against him. He is not an example of anyone I wouild want for president. He is worse than the one we have, because he is a traitor to our cause.
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Kovels: Elections inspire caricature
on October 31, 2008 at 3:31 PM, updated November 01, 2008 at 7:51 AM
President William McKinley was called "the Napoleon of Protection" because of his high tariffs. These 1896 political pitchers are shaped like McKinley or Napoleon. The tallest pitcher is 10½ inches high. This group recently sold for $757.
Presidential campaigns in the past were no different from how they are today. Caricatures, gossip, even lies and scandal were part of the campaign, although the information traveled slowly without TV or radio.
Grover Cleveland, in the 1884 presidential race, was accused of having an illegitimate son. He admitted it and won the presidency because voters admired his honesty. Other 19th-century presidential candidates were accused of buying underpriced stock in return for favors, taking loans with no interest from oil companies and making deals to influence the Electoral College.
The strangest rumor designed to influence votes was during the John Adams campaign for president in 1796. It was rumored that he sent a running mate to England to find some women to provide "pleasure" to the politicians. Past presidents had worse scandals during their terms. "Miscounted" Florida votes appeared many times, so did attempts to void votes by immigrants or blacks to steal an election.
One strange scandal was in the 1896 term of William McKinley. He was in favor of a very high tariff to keep foreign imports out so U.S. companies could prosper. Because he looked a little like Napoleon and because his actions were considered imperialistic by those who disagreed, his enemies satirized him as a fat Napoleon. One cartoon-like political item is a set of toby jugs that are shaped like a fat McKinley and a similar Napoleon.
Look for some strange caricatures from the 2008 election. Future collectors will search for objects like plates or pitchers that show cartoon-like candidates.
Q: I have a sideboard with a label that reads "Reaser Furniture Co., Manufacturer, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania." It is 65 inches wide, 36 inches high and 21 inches deep. We are interested in its history and value.
A: Your sideboard was made between 1907 and 1918. In 1907, Clayton S. Reaser purchased the 2-year-old Engle Furniture Co., part of the Gettysburg Manufacturing Co., and renamed it Reaser Furniture Manufacturing Co. They made buffets, sideboards, hall racks, dressers, wash stands and library tables, most of oak or mahogany. Reaser later purchased the remaining stock of the Gettysburg Manufacturing Co., and together his companies were known as Gettysburg Furniture Co. Reaser died in 1918, but his company was expanded to include the Gettysburg Panel Co. in 1920 to provide veneer and the Gettysburg Chair Co. in 1923 to make chairs. In 1951, the factories were sold to Sidney Rose of Cincinnati, and they closed in 1960. Your sideboard is worth $300 to $400. Clayton Reaser's brick Victorian-style house in Gettysburg, which was built in 1913, is now a bed and breakfast called the Keystone Inn. A few of the rooms feature furniture made by the Reaser Furniture Co.
Q: We recently bought an old house southeast of Boston that was built in 1803. We found an old glass bottle in the basement and wondered if you could identify it. It's green and embossed "Skilton Foote & Co., Bunker Hill Pickles." When was it made, and what is it worth?
A: George C. Skilton opened a vinegar factory in 1860 in Somerville, Mass., not far from Boston. By 1864, George had formed a partnership with his son, George Jr., and Edward Foote. They expanded, began bottling condiments like pickles, relishes and sauces, and opened a business office in Boston. The company's circular trademark, which includes an image of the Bunker Hill Monument, should be embossed on your bottle. Skilton Foote bottled its products in jars of various sizes and colors, and the value of yours depends on its rarity and condition. We have seen Skilton Foote jars sell for $20 up to $220. The company went out of business about 1907.
Q: I have a POW bracelet from the Vietnam War. The name on it is John McCain. I heard him mention a POW bracelet at the September presidential debate. What is the history of the POW bracelets? Is the McCain bracelet valuable?
A: Bracelets with the names of soldiers missing in action or prisoners of war were popular in the early 1970s during the Vietnam War. Two college students came up with the idea to honor the soldiers. The bracelets were originally produced by VIVA (Voices in Vital America), a student organization in Los Angeles. They were first offered to the public for a $3 donation on Veterans Day, Nov. 11, 1970. Bracelets were made in gold, silver, stainless steel, colored aluminum, copper and brass. Each was engraved with the name, rank, service, date of loss and country of loss of a missing soldier. VIVA was no longer active after 1976. John McCain was a prisoner of war in Vietnam from Oct. 26, 1967, to March 15, 1973. In late September 2008, because of his fame as a candidate, his bracelets sold on eBay for as much as a few hundred dollars.
Write to Terry Kovel, (The Star-Ledger), King Features Syndicate, 300 W. 57th St., New York, N.Y. 10019. Their Web site is and their blog is at
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Whoknows Wrote:
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• Kiyomi Takada has this kind of vibe in Death Note, being an important example of a sane Kira supporter who is established to be on the same intellectual level as Light (albeit only academically). In her profession as newscaster, rather than helping to secure society against the Kira-cult, she becomes one of its major propagandists.
• Diethard in Code Geass is another journalist example of this type, becoming a propagandist for Anti Hero with Good Publicity Lelouch/Zero. He's motivated by discontent with the entrenched Britannian aristocracy, but ends up as a more negative version as ultimately, he's really looking for an interesting Magnificent Bastard to follow and thus defects to the side of Prince Schneizel, who is even more so a Villain with Good Publicity / Devil in Plain Sight.
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Whoknows Wrote:
Feb 11, 2013 7:46 AM
I know one thing, if the FAT guy from N.J. runs for president I will donate money against him. He is not an example of anyone I wouild want for president. He is worse than the one we have, because he is a traitor to our cause.
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Job Shopping with the Wrong Last Name.
August 13, 2009 John de Rosier Editorial Cartoon
John de Rosier
4 Responses
1. Phil says:
Not much interest in this cartoon. Perhaps we are so inured to our corrupt NY politicians that nothing fazes us. Sad.
2. JG says:
You could run this cartoon in any state capital in the US and use the name of whoever the greedy gus who runs the government there.
3. jakester says:
It’s all so typical of politics… will there be any reaction at election time? Doubt it…
4. Fred says:
Politicians rely on the “greed” of the voters. If they bring the PORK to their district, then they get reelected. Everything else doesn’t matter: integrity, fairness, intelligence. Politicians know voters are essentially lemmings that can be led almost anywhere with a dollar and a promise.
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Whoknows Wrote:
Feb 11, 2013 7:46 AM
I know one thing, if the FAT guy from N.J. runs for president I will donate money against him. He is not an example of anyone I wouild want for president. He is worse than the one we have, because he is a traitor to our cause.
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for personal gain and/or the approval of whites.
"I mean, I respect his hustle, I guess," one writer said, grudgingly. "But he's an Uncle Tom. The reason he's a notable writer is because of his ability to stir up things. He always talks about black apology."
"It's hard," another admitted, "to see him as anything but a race traitor."
I tend to subscribe to a different theory on Whitlock. What people see as his self-serving imposture is in fact little more than political and historical illiteracy, mingling with a hack columnist's instinct for provocation. (Whitlock essentially copped to it during the 2008 presidential election, when he wrote a guest column for The Huffington Post entitled "I Owe My Interest in American Politics to Sarah Palin." The piece isn't nearly as bad as the headline would indicate, but in it Whitlock comes off like your libertarian college friend explaining why he doesn't vote.)
Whitlock isn't a Tom; he's a low-information guy, infinitely suggestible, learning on the fly, joining in on a conversation in a language he has no interest in learning. After declaring Chait the winner in the Great American Black Pathology Debates, he turned around and praised Coates's epic case for reparations in the Atlantic, which relied on many of the same arguments he'd made with Chait. "Brought me to tears," Whitlock tweeted.
Given his lack of intellectual curiosity, the astonishing thing with Whitlock is that he's ever right at all. And yet he is, often. To explain this, we can look to the third of his journalistic heroes, the man who, along with Royko and Wiley, "most influenced my career and perspective," according to Whitlock: David Simon.
Simon is an author and journalist who started off as a police reporter at the Baltimore Sun, where he covered crime. He parlayed his reporting experience and expertise into The Wire, HBO's epic series about the decline of Baltimore in particular and the American city in general. The drug war, the police, the dockworkers, the schools, City Hall, the media—all were part of the same narrative about the way institutions, in their brute efforts to perpetuate themselves, fail the people they're intended to serve.
Whitlock looks as The Wire as a text—he's called it his Bible. He still references The Wire in his articles, and he sends fans entire boxed sets that he buys himself. The show changed how he sees the world. Growing up and through most of his adulthood, for example, Whitlock was a self-proclaimed homophobe, but on a 2012 podcast with Simon, the columnist revealed that Omar, a gay stickup man on the show, was what turned his bigotry on its ear.
"Nobody has more influenced me and brought me to a healthier understanding of homosexuality and just the character of homosexual people than the character Omar," Whitlock told Simon. "To me, he was just the highest-character person on the show, the person I would choose to be friends with from the show."
The Wire is all over Whitlock's smartest work, even when it's not explicitly referenced. It's there in his columns about the futility of our war on PEDs; it's there whenever he writes about the NCAA, the perfect illustration of David Simon's model of institutional failure; it was there when he wrote about ESPN and its opportunistic coverage of Bernie Fine.
And it was there in what one friend of Whitlock called "maybe the best piece he's ever written in his life." In 2008, Whitlock addressed himself at length to the drug war, the country's prison-industrial complex, and their effects on the country's black population. He worked on the story for months. He bled into it, ultimately producing 5,000 reported words on the subject for Playboy. The magazine ran it in its June issue, and teased it on the cover, and that's where things went to shit.
"The Black KKK," it read. Whitlock's name, in neon, was just beneath. Inside the magazine, a sub-headline read, "Thug life is killing black America. It's time to do something about it."
Can Jason Whitlock Save ESPN's "Black Grantland" From Himself?
Whitlock was pissed. "The story isn't about the Black KKK," he wrote in the Star, before the magazine had hit newsstands. "The words do not appear in the 5,000-word column. None of the sources quoted in the story or spoken to on background ever heard those words come out of my mouth, and they never spoke them to me." He accused Playboy's editorial director, Chris Napolitano, of "stirring a racial controversy." Another betrayal.
He had a point. The story was about mass-incarceration approach to drug policy and its trickle-down effects on black people and their culture, and for the most part it was a good, holistic examination of an ongoing national scandal. But it was also a Jason Whitlock story. If there's one thing that consistently characterizes Whitlock's writing about race, it's his dumb and fundamentally patronizing insistence that pop culture is the governing force in the lives of black people, not the residue. The causations start running backward. And so, in the Playboy piece, there were the usual allusions to a "culture of self-hatred" and "gangsta rap and the glorification of prison values." Having correctly identified the violent imagery of certain kinds of hip hop as a symptom of the country's bad policy, he turned around and suggested that the music alone had the power to "define black people and black culture as criminal and worthy of mass incarceration."
Whitlock also wrote, in what was apparently a "spicier lead" than the one he'd originally filed, "How did black kids wearing white T-shirts learn to mimic the behavior of white men wearing white hoods?" He didn't quite say black KKK—a term he'd used before, in reference to Sean Taylor's killers, to the polite applause of conservative writers—but he came close enough that it's hard not to feel, perhaps a little unfairly, that the shit-stirrer got exactly the shitty headline he deserved.
The more people I spoke with for this story, the more I became convinced that the problem with black Grantland, the reason for its sluggish start, the reason it's talked about in some corners of ESPN as John Skipper's unaccountable folly, is the larger-than-life writer at the core of the project. I talked to a dozen writers and editors whom I'd heard were being recruited. Over and over they related the same story, of young talent having to decide between taking the opportunity and paycheck of a lifetime, and working for a man who made his bones disparaging people like them to an audience of approving racists.
That's the bitch of it for Whitlock. Only someone like him, a black pundit with acceptably heterodox views on race who prescribes a sort of cultural austerity program for his own people, thus telegraphing his seriousness on the issue, would have gotten an opportunity like this. He rose to a position where he gets to speak for black people largely by being the kind of commentator black people would never want speaking for them.
"Being a [minority] sportswriter sucks," said one writer. By hiring Whitlock to run his own site, the writer went on, "ESPN found a way to make it more demeaning."
This wasn't an easy story either to write or report. Few people were willing to talk on the record, partly out of a fear of antagonizing a famously vindictive man who now possesses hiring and firing power at one of the country's most powerful media companies. There is also an unspoken rule among blacks in media that you don't bag on one another in public, and it's certainly not lost on me that I'm now several thousands words deep on the wrong side of the taboo.
What I keep going back to, though, is those last couple of conversations with Whitlock, to the feeling he left me with. His first instinct, in trying to dope out a grand conspiracy against him, was to think I was merely a sockpuppet for my editors. He was disregarding or outright denying my own agency. Out of some personal insecurity, he was reducing me to a non-entity, to the sum of other people's dark self-interest, which I was apparently too stupid to see for myself. In the casual dehumanization of it all, in his eagerness to shrink me down to the size and shape of some stock character in the psychodrama in his head, it was a little like being trapped inside a Jason Whitlock column. You might also call it a betrayal.
It's almost certain I won't ever be a part of black Grantland, whatever form it takes. But I want the site to succeed. I want the site to become something like what Rembert Browne, a black writer at Grantland, described for me. "I would love if a site full of black people was writing about everything, writing about stuff that is not a pointedly black, race issue," he said. "That's new. That's not, 'Oh, this is a black site, black people.' It's not, 'Let's talk about rap. Let's talk about racial profiling.'
"Black people are interested in everything," he went on, laughing. "Real talk, we are so dynamic. We're interested in so much stuff."
I want a site that acknowledges that, one that offers a platform and the resources for black editors and black journalists to stretch out and exercise their own agency. I
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Whoknows Wrote:
Feb 11, 2013 7:46 AM
I know one thing, if the FAT guy from N.J. runs for president I will donate money against him. He is not an example of anyone I wouild want for president. He is worse than the one we have, because he is a traitor to our cause.
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Who do you identify with?
It seems to me that come election time, people would give some thought to what impact electing one party or one person over the other would have on the things most important to them. Of course, family usually comes first, but tied to the family is that one earns a living to provide for the necessities of a family. I am constantly amazed at how easily people are distracted by collateral issues and seem to forget about voting for their own interests or selecting candidates with whom they have much in common.
I have noticed recent columns by a retired schoolteacher. He seems to be an intelligent fellow. His pieces are certainly well written, but it comes through loud and clear that he intends to vote against our current president. Most of the reasons appear to me to come from blogs or various sources of political rhetoric. What boggles my mind is how an intelligent, well educated, retired teacher could give serious thought to casting his lot with the candidate of a party whose state platform dismisses and opposes teaching the higher order of thinking, condones cutting public education funding by $4 billion, believes there is too much money being spent on education now, and is generally anti-science.
I suppose the retired teacher is no worse than the hourly wage earner who provides for his family through the sweat of his brow yet votes for a party that reveres the wealthy to the extent that money making more money is treated as far better than a worker making money. A party that believes a good business climate is one in which wages are suppressed along with the ability of workers to organize, and that injured workers ought to stop their whining and should just live with their injuries instead of thinking about suing their employers or other wrongdoers.
I’m also somewhat chagrined at seniors who would vote for the party who wants to abolish Medicare as we know it and curtail Social Security.
As I grow older, I become more and more concerned about health issues. I hear almost daily some ordinary working stiff or retired person make disparaging remarks about the Affordable Care Act, generally referred to in a snide way as “Obamacare.” It still is amazing the average Joe does not recognize the difference between his family’s situation and that of congressmen who have government funded Cadillac medical insurance, or rich folks like Mitt Romney who never give a second thought to whether or not they can provide adequate medical care to members of their family even if stricken with a catastrophic illness such as cancer, kidney failure or similar ailments. Families are driven to bankruptcy on a daily basis for lack of being able to afford or obtain adequate health care. Even worse, there are little children who die every day, particularly in states like Texas, because they do not have access to adequate health care. Most folks who are not rich seem to forget they are one step or one disease away from total disaster for themselves and their families unless the health care problem is addressed. The conservative response, to let the market handle the situation, is a phony and false promise. Who ever heard of the insurance industry figuring out how to take care of a bunch of sick people? It is to their gain to insure those who do not become sick and those who will never make a claim against them. Money and profit drive the private sector, not concern for the sick or the lame.
On another front, many veterans fell for the smear of a real combat veteran who ran for president with the “Swift Boat” lie paid for by a multi-billionaire. Now it seems they are trying to peddle as a real American hero a fellow who dodged military service during the Vietnam War in order to pedal a bike through France.
I will readily confess my bias, but it doesn’t take me long to figure out I have little in common with a fellow who has a Swiss bank account.
Thoughtful Commentary
It's a good question, and a solid thing to ponder. Sadly, many good folk are just more concerened about their focus on the world-- family, personal success, and so on. The political world, as serious as it should be, has become the next great Reality Series, entertainment that the masses can participate in. Fox News, for example, bills itself as "entertainment" in places outside the US; otherwise, it would be locked out of some areas for overwhelming bias.
I think people are looking for responsibility and maturity from government. When a party can be labeled "The Party of No", and then live up to the name.... there's something seriously wrong. On the flipside of the coin, anyone who expected the President to accomplish everything he set out to do is a bit naive; obstructionism by the respected opposition aside, there are realities that must be contended with, and no amount of pie-in-the-sky rhetoric can change that.
All things said, I still have to be a bit optimistic myself-- there is still hope for government to get its gear togetehr and do some actual good work. "Work" in this case being the work of government, and not one shrieking match after another for the benefit of CSPAN, FOX, or any other news channel one cares to name.
It's *embarassing*.
Reality Check
One alternative view in review of the 'politician' who has developed a whimpering bark and a poor resemblance of a vicious bite is to acknowledge that the constituency HAS educated themselves in spite of all of the mind experimentation perpetuated by those who want to use other peoples money while increasing the rank and file of those dependent on the state.
When was the last time that a 'politician' presented AND implemented a workable, fiscally-responsible solution to any issue?.... though it so easy to present emotional, bleeding-heart and (B)lue (S)ky visions promising heaven on earth.... on some else's dime.... and at the expense of personal liberties.
The official debt is $16 TRILLION DOLLARS... AND continuing to grow... while 'politician's believe 'the state' is the answer to everything.... as long as more money can be had. Kinda makes one wonder how the United States of America was ever founded on the ideals and visions of our forefathers... and had it had once prospered.
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Whoknows Wrote:
Feb 11, 2013 7:46 AM
I know one thing, if the FAT guy from N.J. runs for president I will donate money against him. He is not an example of anyone I wouild want for president. He is worse than the one we have, because he is a traitor to our cause.
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the negative campaigning. She’s got to get back on a positive message to win votes for her. Meanwhile, sure, some sort of bombshell about Obama could hurt him.
Q: Do you do predictions?
A: No. You only have to be wrong once.
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Whoknows Wrote:
Feb 11, 2013 7:46 AM
I know one thing, if the FAT guy from N.J. runs for president I will donate money against him. He is not an example of anyone I wouild want for president. He is worse than the one we have, because he is a traitor to our cause.
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Tonight, Glenn Beck's crazy train (or plane, per his tweet) made a stop at The Jay Leno Show for a mostly soft-hitting—albeit entertaining—interview, followed by a baking segment. Yes, really. Video of both, and some choice quotes, ahead.
Instead of a lengthy explanation of Beck's appearance, full of details and context and all of that other boring "journalistic" stuff—you'll get all that by watching the videos, anyway—we thought it best to present a little dossier of Beck's best quotes from tonight's appearance. Let the crazy commence!
First, the videos. Here's Beck's interview with Leno.
Here's the conclusion of the interview, followed by Beck and Leno making Christmas cookies.
Now, some of Beck's best (and most cray-cray) quotes from the segment, in the Dossier of Crazy.
On whether or not he's a polarizing figure: "I'm not a polarizing guy! No, I'm not. I'm not, actually. I grew up in a small town, grew up in a bakery, and now I find myself just being a dad, saying the things that I think have to be said."
On his past substance abuse issues: "Hi, my name is Glenn, and I'm a recovering alcoholic. [Woman in crowd: "Hi, Glenn!"] Thank you, keep working that Jay Leno program!"
On his political party affiliation: "I hate both of them, really, honestly. They've both betrayed the country, I think. They've both betrayed what they stood for."
On whether or not Hillary Clinton would have been his choice for President had she won the nomination: "Over John McCain? Yeah. I mean, if it was a choice, that's like, 'See, do I want to hang myself or shoot myself?'"
On who he would like to see as President: "I don't know. I haven't see anybody that I love." (Beck then said that he was "sure" that there were worthy candidates within the Tea Party and 9/12 movements.)
On whether or not Barack Obama represents the "Average guy": "I contend, no... he's not the average guy, he's the Harvard guy... there's a difference between wisdom and education."
On Santa: "He's a closet Soviet, he wears red. [Leno asks if Santa is a socialist] He wears red! He enslaves a whole race of people... gives toys away for free!"
On Leno's chin: "Your chin is from bones. Mine is from sugar cookies and lard."
On whether or not Sarah Palin should run for President: "Yeah."
Oh, Glenn. Never change.
[The Jay Leno Show]
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The BlackBerry PlayBook (Source: RIM)
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By Nortel on 6/7/2012 4:30:31 PM, Rating: 5
Setting: RIM board meeting
Topic: Struggling product line
Opens with director covering topic of slipping sales figures and segues into the Playbook line.
exec 1. -"Our Playbook has been a financial flop with the most popular model being our 16gb model"
exec 2. -"We need to get more people interested in the upcoming BB10 phone, how are we supposed to do that when we are selling so many 16gb models"
exec 3. -"I agree, we should axe our most popular Playbook model, that will definitively show our consumers how serious we are about the BB10"
exec 1. -"Wait, I think we're on the wrong track here, I mean the 16gb model is what our consumers are buying, why discontinue it?"
exec2. -"You just don't get it, we need more attention on the BB10; tablet market is over-saturated"
exec 3. -"That's it, decision made, we're cutting the 16gb Playbook. Next topic, increasing our golden parachute clauses"
RE: setting
By The Raven on 6/7/2012 4:51:05 PM, Rating: 3
lol, good one.
But am I missing something here? They axed the smaller capacity but not the smaller price right? Isn't this saying that the 32gb model is the same price if not lower than the 16? The 16 gb is obviously more popular because of the lower price, right?
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Tommy: Because they know all they sold ya was a guaranteed piece of sh**. That's all it is, isn't it? Hey, if you want me to take a dump in a box and mark it guaranteed, I will. I've got spare time. But for now, for your customer's sake, for your daughter's sake, ya might wanna think about buying a quality product from me.
-Tommy Boy, 1995
I found it interesting to discover that Whitney Tilson, who is notably long Netflix (NFLX) is also now shorting RIM (RIMM). These stocks are seemingly an odd couple, but if you take a closer look they make for an interesting comparison. So, here goes.
RIMM the Dinosaur
This is a company with a tangible book value of $6.6 billion and a market capitalization of roughly $6.7 billion that is facing some serious problems. Their BlackBerry has become a virtually obsolete product as far as the Western consumer is concerned, and as a result the company will be experiencing significant revenue and earnings declines in the quarters ahead. Yet, their global subscriber base is still growing, and they have some sticky customers in the more lucrative enterprise space who still value their core secure business communication value proposition. They also own valuable push messaging ip and physical network infrastructure.
As a response, management has decided to cut costs and refocus the business on the enterprise and less glamorous but cashflow generating international markets (Indonesia, MENA, South Africa, India, and Latin America) in which their brand continues to be a market leader in smartphones. Basically, they are happy to milk a cash cow and focus on the markets that are working for them instead of bothering to compete in what is now a highly unattractive Western market landscape dominated by two massive players.
Netflix the Wildcatter
This is a company with a $600 million book value and market capitalization of $5.7 billion that is moving away from their cash cow (they are actually trying to run it off faster) and instead focusing on the future. They are going after the global online video subscription market, and are now trying to rapidly expand internationally. They are pushing this expansion despite having yet been able to prove that the North American streaming business offers attractive rewards on investment. They have no real physical assets of note, and are thus entirely dependent on consumer perception of their brand to stay in business.
The brand valueis derived from low cost streaming access to high quality subscription video content. This content is licensed from content owners whose models are built around multi distribution channels. The online streaming distribution channel Netflix created was initially highly distinguishable from the old traditional competing pay-tv distribution channel because of the form of access, cost, and subscription portability.
Two of those three distinguishing traits have all but disappeared, leaving only cost as an advantage. The cost advantage is predicated on an infrastructure arbitrage that Netflix has been able to expose at the expense of the traditional competing distribution channel. The domestic sustainability of this arbitrage and the ability to continually expose it in international markets with much more monopolistically inclined telco/cable operators is questionable at best. Netflix management has concluded that this path must be followed as the alternative is extinction.
Their entire strategy is based on achieving massive economies of scale to spread their content and hosting costs across. This is despite the fact that content owners have traditionally gone out of their way to prevent the creation of such a player. Otherwise Amazon (AMZN) or YouTube would be the logical choice for such a role.
In pursuing their goal, Netflix retains limited balance sheet flexibility and thus is constrained relative to competitors with respect to content spend. Revenues and subscribers are growing but at a slower pace though earnings and cash generation are lagging as the company moves away from the higher margin DVD mail in business and incurs startup costs in international markets.
So, I ask, which stock would a value investor rather own?
The potential value trap priced like a value trap whose management team is seeking to focus on cash generation in less sexy niches or the growth story cutting edge digital distributor in a highly competitive and increasingly shifting landscape trading at 10x its book value. At these valuations I choose the former even if five years from now the whole thing might need to be liquidated.
Online streaming may look sexy, but underdeath all that shine all you are going to find is pretty crappy economics at these valuations. RIMM, on the other hand, comes off looking like an ugly duckling, but get past that rough exterior and you just might find yourself a nice little cash cow worth renting for a few years.
On a side note, while I think Netflix's quarterly earnings are no longer really worthy of individual articles as the course of the business has become quite predictable, I figured I'd point out a few things here that stood out to me.
1) Operationally, this was a better quarter than the last quarter which I think goes to show how much the dodo short squeeze dash for trash that swept through the market in January was the real driver behind Netflix's surge. Yes, this was the topic of my last Netflix note so I am biased, but I think there is no denying it at this point. Quarterly obsessions are what the market is all about, but they can often have very little to do with the stock price action.
2) Netflix management should come clean and stop treating everyone like morons. The Q2 guidance is soft because it is the exact mirror image of Q1 when it comes to free subs. I'm not even living in the States and Netflix still sent me three free trial offers in the Q4/Q1 period. If you are going to goose subs by aggressively going after free trial conversions, you should expect a sequential uptick in cancellations in the quarter when those free trials are not being offered. We don't need mathematical simulations to explain how this works.
3) Netflix continues to surprise on digital content cost management which is clearly an accounting phenomena.
Source: RIM Vs. Netflix: I'll Take The Value Trap
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The BlackBerry PlayBook (Source: RIM)
Comments Threshold
By Nortel on 6/7/2012 4:30:31 PM, Rating: 5
Setting: RIM board meeting
Topic: Struggling product line
Opens with director covering topic of slipping sales figures and segues into the Playbook line.
exec 1. -"Our Playbook has been a financial flop with the most popular model being our 16gb model"
exec 2. -"We need to get more people interested in the upcoming BB10 phone, how are we supposed to do that when we are selling so many 16gb models"
exec 3. -"I agree, we should axe our most popular Playbook model, that will definitively show our consumers how serious we are about the BB10"
exec 1. -"Wait, I think we're on the wrong track here, I mean the 16gb model is what our consumers are buying, why discontinue it?"
exec2. -"You just don't get it, we need more attention on the BB10; tablet market is over-saturated"
exec 3. -"That's it, decision made, we're cutting the 16gb Playbook. Next topic, increasing our golden parachute clauses"
RE: setting
By The Raven on 6/7/2012 4:51:05 PM, Rating: 3
lol, good one.
But am I missing something here? They axed the smaller capacity but not the smaller price right? Isn't this saying that the 32gb model is the same price if not lower than the 16? The 16 gb is obviously more popular because of the lower price, right?
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Rick Rubin: Right idea, Wrong Price?
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The record producer and co-founder of Def Jam has only been "co-head" of Sony's Columbia Records since May, but he's already setting about destroying the old business so a new one can be built in its place.
It remains to be seen how effective he will be, but for now Rubin is prepared to say what seasoned executives think, but can't say out loud. And he spelled out the future of the record label in a lengthy profile in this week's New York Times.
Rubin advocates a subscription model instead. Not one with a capped number of discrete downloads, but one where music "will come anywhere you'd like... a virtual library accessible from your car, from your cellphone, from your computer, from your television. Anywhere."
Once that's accepted, the music business will be much bigger than it is today, he believes.
This isn't a new concept. Economists have argued for years that digital distribution changes the economics of selling a discrete product.
In testimony to Congress, Jim Griffin argued that,
"People feel it in their belly," he reiterated here.
Or as MCPS-PRS economist Will Page has suggested [PDF], the price of recorded music is tending to zero.
Music is becoming a "pure public good" - one person's consumption doesn't harm another's, non-rivalrous and non-excludable. Public parks are an example of a public good that still needs to be paid for - or there'd be no park - but we wouldn't pay for each visit. Therefore they're supported out of a pool of money, and/or by sponsorship.
So far the music business has tried to make music rivalrous and excludable, with DRM, which recreates the inconvenience of physical product in a digital environment. It's failed to grow the bottom line, however.
More music is being consumed than ever before, but it's available in abundance, at no cost, from unlicensed sources: so revenues have continued to decline. Which is where Rubin comes in.
The price of access?
Rubin is quoted as citing two figures: $19.95 a month, and "five or six dollars a month". The first is almost certainly wildly optimistic, given that Americans have never paid much more than $5 a month per household for music. In 2005, per capita spending on all music and audio goods was a fraction over $2 per month. (Compared to $77 per month on military spending).
To the industry's dismay, much of this is going on the machines to play music in new formats, rather than the music itself.
"The subscription model is the only way to save the music business. If music is easily available at a price of five or six dollars a month, then nobody will steal it," says Rubin.
So Rubin's second figure is much more realistic. This gives a ray of hope for musicians, performers and producers, who've been browbeaten for years by the anti-copyright technology lobby, which is only too happy to tell them that sound recordings have no value, and that musicians should revert to a pre-capitalist arrangement where they must perform to be compensated: where they must, literally, sing for their supper.
The right to remuneration hasn't gone away, but the business has simply not had the foresight or confidence to make it a business.
In the bigger picture, the amount is so trivial it neither need be compulsory nor onerous. As Griffin explained, here, three years ago -
"Newspapers and magazines sell for less than the marginal cost of delivery. Google feels free to everyone, but we know we're paying more for Google upfront by visiting each advertiser's website."
The major labels have always set their stall against this kind of licensing because, they argue, it robs them of their right to set a price for music.
That would be a legitimate argument in other times. But when they're facing a price of zero, how can they argue that the interests of their artists and shareholders by ignoring the option?
The trick the industry has, along with networks and other digital service providers, is making that $2 "feel like free". ®
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The BlackBerry PlayBook (Source: RIM)
Comments Threshold
By Nortel on 6/7/2012 4:30:31 PM, Rating: 5
Setting: RIM board meeting
Topic: Struggling product line
Opens with director covering topic of slipping sales figures and segues into the Playbook line.
exec 1. -"Our Playbook has been a financial flop with the most popular model being our 16gb model"
exec 2. -"We need to get more people interested in the upcoming BB10 phone, how are we supposed to do that when we are selling so many 16gb models"
exec 3. -"I agree, we should axe our most popular Playbook model, that will definitively show our consumers how serious we are about the BB10"
exec 1. -"Wait, I think we're on the wrong track here, I mean the 16gb model is what our consumers are buying, why discontinue it?"
exec2. -"You just don't get it, we need more attention on the BB10; tablet market is over-saturated"
exec 3. -"That's it, decision made, we're cutting the 16gb Playbook. Next topic, increasing our golden parachute clauses"
RE: setting
By The Raven on 6/7/2012 4:51:05 PM, Rating: 3
lol, good one.
But am I missing something here? They axed the smaller capacity but not the smaller price right? Isn't this saying that the 32gb model is the same price if not lower than the 16? The 16 gb is obviously more popular because of the lower price, right?
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Det1's forum posts
#1 Posted by Det1 (191 posts) -
I just hope it's genuinely irrational polishing the game up rather than say, 2k finding the material covered in it too controversial and forcing them to tone it down.
#2 Posted by Det1 (191 posts) -
#3 Posted by Det1 (191 posts) -
@Hellstrom said:
@mostman said:
@Hellstrom said:
As i said in the chat. I don't understand people saying "I wonder what Apple will do now". They will do what they've always done. Apple is not some incredibly innovative corporation. What they've mastered is marketing techniques. Google, & Microsoft in this decade alone have been a lot more innovative and moved industries forward. Far more than Apple, with all that said, RIP. Though i'm atheist so.....yeah.
I always hesitate to reply to these comments, but here I feel I must. You couldn't be more wrong. I realize its fashionable for people to buy into the claim that all Apple does is market retreaded technology - but that opinion is utter bullshit. Apple has moved the needle forward on technology more that Google ever will and possibly even Microsoft. You are confusing the words "innovation" and "creation". See, they are different. Was the iPod the first digital music player? No. Was it even the _best_ on all accounts? No. Did it sell the best? Yes. Did marketing alone cause this? No. A simple, approachable, easy to use product was the cause. Not faster. Not bigger. Not shinier. Just easier to use. If Apple hadn't managed to sell the shit out of the iPod, where would we be today in regard to music online? Do you still buy CDs? Do you miss CDs? No? Thank Apple. That's innovation. Moving the needle. You live in a world made better by Apple, and by extension, Jobs. I could list many examples where this is true. Hate on them and their fanboys all you want, but make sure you take a look around before you sell them short. You are thinking small. "What have they made faster, what have they made bigger, what have they made shinier", (well, ok, I'll give you that last one :) - You need to think larger than that.
Are you kidding? Please name this technology they moved forward. Please don't let it involve MAC or Ipod.
Even their MAC operating system has changed & innovated little since Unix. Their Ipod software was not even developed in house. They are a company who overcharge on products that do much less than their contemporaries. Its something the Apple fanboys can never accept. Marketing is EXACTLY the reason Ipod sold so much, nothing else, not innovation. Not even close, Apple simply found a great way to make lesser technology "for dummies", overcharge for it and sell it to the masses.
Both Microsoft & Google have done much more innovation in this decade alone.
Like it or not, people do need usability in their software.
Is apple a deplorable company that overcharge for foxconn (read: mass produced at the cheapest cost with no regard to quality) hardware, perhaps going as far as to designing them to break within a certain amount of time to force more sales when it comes to certain products? Yes.
Do they market the hell out of their products to be contrary to what the products are actually made of (see: above) through pretty wrappings? Very much so.
Is this deceitful and worthy of scorn? Definitely.
Does this make people need usability any less? No. At the end of the day, products do need to be used by people. Usability and looks(software) are fair game.
As much as I hate apple (and steve jobs' role in creating/transforming a company into, well, apple), credit due where it's due. Usability and visual is important, and they brought it into perspective. Whether apple overcharges for their closed off market is another issue.
Besides, for all the bad things that apple does (and there's a lot of them), jobs himself actually believed in his products and talked to tech press (even the ones critical of him) despite his success. I can respect that. The rest of the things he did after his return to apple, not as much.
#4 Posted by Det1 (191 posts) -
This has got to be one of the most boring games I have ever had the displeasure of touching.
#5 Posted by Det1 (191 posts) -
>flamethrower made out of wood
Am I the only one who's a bit startled by this strike of retardation?
#6 Posted by Det1 (191 posts) -
slow day in the news?
I guess this IS an interesting way to approach reward/punishment in games though.
#7 Posted by Det1 (191 posts) -
So what went on behind the scenes? they changed stuff, right?
#8 Posted by Det1 (191 posts) -
This sounds like one of those talks from one of those higher-ups who don't get the details on things or is just trying to make things sound good.
The truth is that while it's easy to just say "we're gonna hire a bunch of guys and make them innovate", simply forcing them to focus on one franchise limits the amount of space and direction they can wriggle in. Take the GTA series - another franchise with ridiculous staying power that made COD level profits. After GTA 3, they had to make everything bigger, crazier and better - vice city. After that, SA. After that, they got flaked HARD for GTA4 precisely because it didn't feel like GTA. COD is pretty much stuck in the same spot - it's precisely because people have an expectation that innovation would be difficult, and there's only a similar array of directions for the franchise to head toward while other franchises that put more time inbetween releases (team fortress)/is straight up fresh(portal) can innovate and create gameplay that is unrestricted by previous interpretations of their genre.
Think about it. The multiplayer in BLOP mainly extended itself over MW2 mainly by its inclusion of new modes, new weapons/killstreaks/killstreak handling/weapons/maps/etc. None of these are revolutionary in the sense that they don't change the feel of the game - you don't feel the difference you felt moving from halo to COD or TFC to TF2 or even COD2 to COD4. And if a next-big-thing comes along, all the staying power is just gonna vanish (see: how UT3 died). They're gonna have to change their game eventually, and it'll ruin their staying power.
Then again, maybe COD players really are just that dedicated. who knows?
#9 Posted by Det1 (191 posts) -
I spam USA over and over again after I win/lose a match.
Like this.
Well, at least before bad company 2 had those damn spam filters put in place. Asshats.
#10 Posted by Det1 (191 posts) -
This sounds eerily similar to the GBA->DS transition.
Well, I hope we get an yggdra union (or hopefully something better) out of it.
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The BlackBerry PlayBook (Source: RIM)
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By Nortel on 6/7/2012 4:30:31 PM, Rating: 5
Setting: RIM board meeting
Topic: Struggling product line
Opens with director covering topic of slipping sales figures and segues into the Playbook line.
exec 1. -"Our Playbook has been a financial flop with the most popular model being our 16gb model"
exec 2. -"We need to get more people interested in the upcoming BB10 phone, how are we supposed to do that when we are selling so many 16gb models"
exec 3. -"I agree, we should axe our most popular Playbook model, that will definitively show our consumers how serious we are about the BB10"
exec 1. -"Wait, I think we're on the wrong track here, I mean the 16gb model is what our consumers are buying, why discontinue it?"
exec2. -"You just don't get it, we need more attention on the BB10; tablet market is over-saturated"
exec 3. -"That's it, decision made, we're cutting the 16gb Playbook. Next topic, increasing our golden parachute clauses"
RE: setting
By The Raven on 6/7/2012 4:51:05 PM, Rating: 3
lol, good one.
But am I missing something here? They axed the smaller capacity but not the smaller price right? Isn't this saying that the 32gb model is the same price if not lower than the 16? The 16 gb is obviously more popular because of the lower price, right?
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I don't get it.
Google fanboys never get it.
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Bill Shooter of Bul Member since:
Ie vs Netscape is the same, but with Netscape wining and then MS buying netscape.
That isn't what happened. Instead of arguing weather this is exactly what happened, its more productive to consider if its a good thing, indipendant of what other companies have done in the past.
So, Is it a good thing that people were willing to pay for a product over a freely available alternative?
Yes, yes it is.
Does this mean that other companies that want to compete with free google offerings have a chance at success?
Maybe. Probably not in this particular market of productivity apps for mobile. But that's mainly because quickoffice is so good. It could happen in other arenas.
But also, maybe not. Other companies might not be willing to compete in a new area if they think that Google is just going to buy there way into the market? Maybe? Not really sure that is a negative, but it could be.
Side Note: What I want, what I always only want is a good discussion of the issues, not a summary dismissal or reaffirmation of what I already believe. So stop destroying conversations with petty rejoinders.
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The BlackBerry PlayBook (Source: RIM)
Comments Threshold
By Nortel on 6/7/2012 4:30:31 PM, Rating: 5
Setting: RIM board meeting
Topic: Struggling product line
Opens with director covering topic of slipping sales figures and segues into the Playbook line.
exec 1. -"Our Playbook has been a financial flop with the most popular model being our 16gb model"
exec 2. -"We need to get more people interested in the upcoming BB10 phone, how are we supposed to do that when we are selling so many 16gb models"
exec 3. -"I agree, we should axe our most popular Playbook model, that will definitively show our consumers how serious we are about the BB10"
exec 1. -"Wait, I think we're on the wrong track here, I mean the 16gb model is what our consumers are buying, why discontinue it?"
exec2. -"You just don't get it, we need more attention on the BB10; tablet market is over-saturated"
exec 3. -"That's it, decision made, we're cutting the 16gb Playbook. Next topic, increasing our golden parachute clauses"
RE: setting
By The Raven on 6/7/2012 4:51:05 PM, Rating: 3
lol, good one.
But am I missing something here? They axed the smaller capacity but not the smaller price right? Isn't this saying that the 32gb model is the same price if not lower than the 16? The 16 gb is obviously more popular because of the lower price, right?
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It's also testing pressure-sensitive sensors
Larger iPhone screen mockup by iMore
Sources: Apple Insider, Bloomberg
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By retrospooty on 11/11/2013 8:14:42 AM, Rating: 5
IDK if the curved part is true, but its pretty clear they are working on larger screen models. It's about time... I know alot of users that dumped the iPhone for that reason and only that reason.
RE: Interesting...
By saarek on 11/11/13, Rating: -1
RE: Interesting...
By hughlle on 11/11/2013 9:14:04 AM, Rating: 2
I have a nexus 7 and 10. I recently bought an htc one, well, got it free on my contract. I have no use for it as a gaming device, a video player, or web browsing. I opted for it for no over reason than for improved ease of texting due to the larger screen (long distance relationship, texts are often rather long). That and the camera are the only reasons i wanted a bigger phone. But in terms of what it's marketed for, i couldn't care less. 720p, 1080p, doesn't bother me, you're still watching, playing, browsing content on a pointless teeny tiny screen. I actually want to enjoy what i watch or play, hence the tablets. I buy devices for specific usages.
as to using the phone with two hands or one, that is a non-issue for me. The only time i used any phone one handed was for calls, other than that even the nokia 3310 i would use two handed.
RE: Interesting...
By icanhascpu on 11/11/2013 3:02:55 PM, Rating: 2
The hundreds of millions of people that own a non-phone portable gaming device would disagree.
RE: Interesting...
By headbox on 11/11/13, Rating: -1
RE: Interesting...
By augiem on 11/11/2013 9:31:53 PM, Rating: 3
No, you were right the first time. You bought it and are making monthly payments on it via your contract's higher monthly fees vs prepaid.
RE: Interesting...
By Mint on 11/11/2013 9:26:01 AM, Rating: 3
Well let me give you my opinion from the other side of the fence.
I never really like tablets, because they offer a subset of the functionality of notebooks/netbooks (although win8 is changing that). The way I see it is this: If you can carry a tablet with you (i.e. if you're carrying a bookbag or knapsack), then you can carry a light notebook. It's not surprising that most of the market has moved towards smaller tablets (even iPad buyers).
My phone, OTOH, is on me all the time, even when I don't have a bag with me. They can do absolutely everything tablets can do, so might as well get on as big as my pocket can take. I, like most people, put my phone in my pants' pockets.
RE: Interesting...
By hughlle on 11/11/2013 9:37:50 AM, Rating: 2
With regard to tablet or laptop, in a way i agree, but i also disagree. If i could afford it, i would very much be tempted to replace my 10 inch tablet with an ultrabook. But as things stand, there is still a distinction between the two. My main reason for a tablet over an ultrabook (a laptop or netbook does not compare at all imo) is that of price. For me one of the key requirements is battery life, and for a laptop, netbook, or ultrabook, you either have to have something very bulky, or something very expensive. Tablets offer far superior battery life for a fraction of the price, at the cost of performance and functionality.
It is all personal preference though, so it's more a discussion than trying to claim one is better than the other. In the instance of a phone always being on you, i agree, but in my situation, my phone is never used. I do not want game and video capabilities when out and about, else i'd have made the compromise and bought a note or some such.
It's one of the reasons i like android over apple. With android you can chose whatever fits your requirements whether it is a little phone you can forget about or a monster that will do everything you could ever need, as opposed to a one size fits all business model.
RE: Interesting...
By cknobman on 11/11/2013 9:36:21 AM, Rating: 3
Maybe it's just me, but your post sounds like you do not really know what you are talking about because it is full of uneducated assumptions and opinions.
Maybe it's just me, but you sound like an iPhone user trying to justify their product choice by belittling competitors and those who choose to buy their products.
RE: Interesting...
By retrospooty on 11/11/2013 9:36:58 AM, Rating: 2
"Maybe it's just me, but I always felt that the huge 5" plus displays were either for people to poor/cheap to buy a tablet in addition to a phone or geeks who get excited over specs over use."
That is a very myopic way yo look at it. It's just a matter of usage. To me, putting all that great functionality on a tiny screen is a total waste. I have a 5.2 inch screen and use it with one hand just fine when I need to. Sometimes when I am doing something more in depth I use 2. 1 handed use is nowhere on my radar for requirements. I want a screen with high res and large enough to make browsing a breeze without scrolling all over the place to read pages. I get why some people would want a smaller screen, but like I said, it depends on your usage.
RE: Interesting...
By nafhan on 11/11/2013 10:06:34 AM, Rating: 2
I've got a Razr M (~same size as the 5/5s) and my wife's got an S3. Over the past year I've decided that the best screen size is the biggest one that comfortably fits in my pants pocket. As of late, that's a device with a 5 inch 1080p display.
Tablets don't fit in my pocket (definitely not comfortably), which means in most situations I'm just not going to have a tablet with me - nothing to do with money. The shirt pocket thing is also a non-issue for me as all my pants have pockets. Obviously, what size is comfortable is going to vary from person to person.
On a side note, if I was the type to always have a briefcase/purse, I would consider forgoing the smartphone altogether and just using a Nexus 7 for everything.
RE: Interesting...
By DukeN on 11/11/2013 10:18:21 AM, Rating: 2
Of course an iPhone user trying to paint non-Apple fanbois as poor.
I just got the Note 3, to go along with my Workstation, ThinkPad 420s and THREE tablets.
The reason? It is easier to use a bigger phone for a lot of people, including me.
RE: Interesting...
By retrospooty on 11/11/2013 10:26:50 AM, Rating: 2
"Of course an iPhone user trying to paint non-Apple fanbois as poor. I just got the Note 3"
Yes, the Note3... The most expensive production model phone available. Poor you.
Hell of a nice phone too BTW.
RE: Interesting...
By DukeN on 11/11/2013 11:32:01 AM, Rating: 2
That was my point exactly.
People buying these high end phones with big screens aren't doing so because they can't afford a tablet as Apple douchebags try to imply.
RE: Interesting...
By retrospooty on 11/11/2013 11:35:36 AM, Rating: 2
LOL. Yes, it cant possibly be that you like your phone over any iDevice because of the mountain of features it has that IOS doesn't even support... You must just be poor. /r
RE: Interesting...
By Motoman on 11/11/2013 1:10:47 PM, Rating: 2
Proof positive once again that Apple consumers don't buy Apple products because of the product itself...they buy it because they think it makes them cool.
RE: Interesting...
By retrospooty on 11/11/2013 2:59:33 PM, Rating: 2
Ya, alot of them are like that. It's the Kardashianizing of our culture.
RE: Interesting...
By Flunk on 11/11/2013 11:03:03 AM, Rating: 2
Some 5" phones aren't that much bigger than some older 4" phones. I recently went from a HTC HD7 (4.3") to an LG Nexus 5 (4.95") and it's only about an inch longer
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The BlackBerry PlayBook (Source: RIM)
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By Nortel on 6/7/2012 4:30:31 PM, Rating: 5
Setting: RIM board meeting
Topic: Struggling product line
Opens with director covering topic of slipping sales figures and segues into the Playbook line.
exec 1. -"Our Playbook has been a financial flop with the most popular model being our 16gb model"
exec 2. -"We need to get more people interested in the upcoming BB10 phone, how are we supposed to do that when we are selling so many 16gb models"
exec 3. -"I agree, we should axe our most popular Playbook model, that will definitively show our consumers how serious we are about the BB10"
exec 1. -"Wait, I think we're on the wrong track here, I mean the 16gb model is what our consumers are buying, why discontinue it?"
exec2. -"You just don't get it, we need more attention on the BB10; tablet market is over-saturated"
exec 3. -"That's it, decision made, we're cutting the 16gb Playbook. Next topic, increasing our golden parachute clauses"
RE: setting
By The Raven on 6/7/2012 4:51:05 PM, Rating: 3
lol, good one.
But am I missing something here? They axed the smaller capacity but not the smaller price right? Isn't this saying that the 32gb model is the same price if not lower than the 16? The 16 gb is obviously more popular because of the lower price, right?
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and the same width, it's also about 60% the thickness. I think it's pushing the boundaries of what I would consider pocketable but it's not giving me any issues, even one-handed*. I do hope they keep making phones bigger because I don't want to be forced into getting a 6" behemoth next time but I can live with 5".
*I have large hands so YMMV.
RE: Interesting...
By CaedenV on 11/11/2013 3:24:21 PM, Rating: 1
5" with a thin bezel is just about the perfect size phone. It is small enough to still be able to fit in your pocket, and still hold it up to your head to make phone calls. Large enough to support high end hardware and a decent sized battery, and makes it very easy to see the screen without holding the phone on your nose.
A 5" iPhone would be a huge success and win back some of the Android crowd that moved over for better hardware options. Still not for me as it is an Apple product, but it would be a good move none-the-less.
RE: Interesting...
By W00dmann on 11/11/2013 3:34:19 PM, Rating: 2
It's just you. I have a Galaxy Note II and I enjoy the large screen tremendously, plus of course it has full phone functionality which is something a tablet generally will not have.
However, I do think your comment was merely expressing your opinion and shouldn't have been downrated.
RE: Interesting...
By StevoLincolnite on 11/12/2013 12:02:34 AM, Rating: 2
My grandmother opted for a 5" screen over the tiny iPhone's.
Why? Because the larger screen makes it easier to see information because of poor eyesight.
Larger screens/phones are also beneficial for those with gorilla sized hands like myself.
Smaller screen phones are fine for some, larger screens are fine for some, but never assume what suits you is going to suit everyone in terms of need.
RE: Interesting...
By hpglow on 11/11/2013 11:00:49 AM, Rating: 2
I'm in that camp of people dumping my ios devices because Apple isn't keeping up with the times. I spend about half of my time on my phone browsing the web. For this the iPhone 5's screen is too small. More real estate is better and there is no way I'm toting around a tablet in addition to my phone. So even though iOS is pretty simple and restrictive and Apple's devices are generally restrictive I didn't mind paying for them due to the superior home entertainment and car integration. But the screen size is a show stopper.
Apple also recently forced me out as a tablet customer. Without more flash on the base ipad and by continuing to charge $100 extra for more flash I had to move. 16GB on a media consumption device is inexcusable. After switching to android I am generally pleased but at least with the devices I own there are some pretty piss poor UI choices. For instance the nook hd+ has no battery indicator on the lock screen and often requires a reboot after nook or google store video purchases.
RE: Interesting...
By retrospooty on 11/11/2013 11:06:20 AM, Rating: 2
" But the screen size is a show stopper."
Exactly... The screen, being the part you look at and interface with 100% of the time is highly important. Whatever anyone's particular needs are for a screen, if that need isn't being met by a certain phone, the phone is a no go for them.
RE: Interesting...
By Fleeb on 11/11/2013 7:56:20 PM, Rating: 3
Jobs said something about the 3.5" screen size (particularly with regards to the horizontal width which the thumb can operate comfortably, moving from side to side) being a sweet spot though, and he was a perfectionist visionary Jesus Christ of computing.
RE: Interesting...
By kmmatney on 11/11/2013 11:42:07 AM, Rating: 1
Yup - after 4 years of iPhones, I jumped ship to get a larger screen. I might have gone a little too far getting a 5.5" screen LG Optimus Pro G. I think somewhere between 4.5" and 5" is about the sweet spot. Web browsing is great on a 5.5" phone, but it really struggles to fit in some of my pockets.
RE: Interesting...
By retrospooty on 11/11/2013 11:45:11 AM, Rating: 1
Keep the phone... Get looser jeans. ;)
RE: Interesting...
By icanhascpu on 11/11/2013 3:05:39 PM, Rating: 2
Not all 5.5" phones are the same width.
RE: Interesting...
By TakinYourPoints on 11/13/2013 4:17:03 AM, Rating: 2
Yeah, 5" is too big but something like a 4.5" or 4.7" is much more physically practical IMHO, especially if the screen takes up more of the top and bottom bezel. The increase in case size would be minimal so I think they'll end up going more in that direction, but we'll see.
The additional resolution is going to be an issue though. One reason for iOS's success in the application space has been ease for developers. The iPhone and iPad effectively have two resolutions since retina resolutions are an exact doubling of the non-retina.
iPhone and iPad, that's all they ever had to worry about.
A larger iPhone will mean a third resolution for developers which is a modified version of the current iPhone's. That isn't great considering that they would have to make another custom set of UI and graphics for them. The alternative would be for Apple for scale up pixel size and reduce PPI, but that will never happen.
RE: Interesting...
By Reclaimer77 on 11/11/2013 5:56:51 PM, Rating: 1
What nobody is talking about is what this does to Apple's profit margins. A bigger phone is more expensive to produce. The market is not going to bear a $1,000 iPhone, so that leaves Apple with making much less per sale on the bigger phone.
In some ways this news disappoints me. I would much rather see Apple ride their ever-failing phone model into the sunset as they pass into obsolescence, than thrive as a me-too.
Hire. Those. Lawyers!
By DukeN on 11/11/2013 10:22:00 AM, Rating: 5
Can't wait for Apple to sue everyone else once they release these bigger phones..
RE: Hire. Those. Lawyers!
By Motoman on 11/11/2013 12:12:18 PM, Rating: 3
Yeah, and just wait until their announcement that they invented curved smartphone screens, and sue everyone else into a trade embargo over it.
By Gio6518 on 11/11/2013 12:20:17 PM, Rating: 2
Apple is always at the forefront of new technology, and innovating new and exciting ways to copy and patent other companies ideas and products and claiming it's theirs and that they invented it...
RE: Innovation
By geekman1024 on 11/11/2013 8:34:02 PM, Rating: 1
What? you mean Apple is a Korean company?
This makes sense
By CZroe on 11/11/2013 4:58:10 PM, Rating: 2
This makes sense. Apple want's to make a larger phone and the rumors were that it would have no bezel so that it would remain usable in one hand and size-competitive with the competition. If the vertical edges (portrait orientation) slope down then it will have an even thinner profile while still being suitable for 1080p videos and such in landscape. Most theatrical films will not be distorted at all due to wider aspects and it would have a minimal effect on 16:9 content. The pressure sensitivity thing may have more to do with ignoring palm contact on the side or simulating side buttons (assuming the curved sides are even touch-sensitive).
By sulu1977 on 11/11/2013 7:17:49 PM, Rating: 2
I used to have a curved screen back in the 1980's. Glad they invented flat screens.
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The BlackBerry PlayBook (Source: RIM)
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By Nortel on 6/7/2012 4:30:31 PM, Rating: 5
Setting: RIM board meeting
Topic: Struggling product line
Opens with director covering topic of slipping sales figures and segues into the Playbook line.
exec 1. -"Our Playbook has been a financial flop with the most popular model being our 16gb model"
exec 2. -"We need to get more people interested in the upcoming BB10 phone, how are we supposed to do that when we are selling so many 16gb models"
exec 3. -"I agree, we should axe our most popular Playbook model, that will definitively show our consumers how serious we are about the BB10"
exec 1. -"Wait, I think we're on the wrong track here, I mean the 16gb model is what our consumers are buying, why discontinue it?"
exec2. -"You just don't get it, we need more attention on the BB10; tablet market is over-saturated"
exec 3. -"That's it, decision made, we're cutting the 16gb Playbook. Next topic, increasing our golden parachute clauses"
RE: setting
By The Raven on 6/7/2012 4:51:05 PM, Rating: 3
lol, good one.
But am I missing something here? They axed the smaller capacity but not the smaller price right? Isn't this saying that the 32gb model is the same price if not lower than the 16? The 16 gb is obviously more popular because of the lower price, right?
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not a single smartphone player capable of overcoming it.
By the end of 2009, we expect the virtuous cycle to kick in and the moat strategy to reveal just how difficult it will be to compete with Apple’s touch platform, thereby ushering in consolidation in the rest of the smartphone industry.
iPhone OS 3: The moat strategy vs. features-fetishism
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38. Does anyone else wonder why Apple aren't going for wireless syncing? To sell more accessories like docs and cables to replace broken ones, perhaps?
I don't think video will make an appearance until a new model arrives. Given how poor the image quality can be I think a video would be a blurry mess.
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39. I'd like to see mobileme sync opened up for 3rd parties on the iPhone. A good example of an application that could really benefit from this is Things from Cultured Code.
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The BlackBerry PlayBook (Source: RIM)
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By Nortel on 6/7/2012 4:30:31 PM, Rating: 5
Setting: RIM board meeting
Topic: Struggling product line
Opens with director covering topic of slipping sales figures and segues into the Playbook line.
exec 1. -"Our Playbook has been a financial flop with the most popular model being our 16gb model"
exec 2. -"We need to get more people interested in the upcoming BB10 phone, how are we supposed to do that when we are selling so many 16gb models"
exec 3. -"I agree, we should axe our most popular Playbook model, that will definitively show our consumers how serious we are about the BB10"
exec 1. -"Wait, I think we're on the wrong track here, I mean the 16gb model is what our consumers are buying, why discontinue it?"
exec2. -"You just don't get it, we need more attention on the BB10; tablet market is over-saturated"
exec 3. -"That's it, decision made, we're cutting the 16gb Playbook. Next topic, increasing our golden parachute clauses"
RE: setting
By The Raven on 6/7/2012 4:51:05 PM, Rating: 3
lol, good one.
But am I missing something here? They axed the smaller capacity but not the smaller price right? Isn't this saying that the 32gb model is the same price if not lower than the 16? The 16 gb is obviously more popular because of the lower price, right?
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Sticker Star is now the best selling PM game in Japan, in only two months.
#21AkaneJonesPosted 2/6/2013 4:28:42 PM
Please compare Mario & Luigi: Partners in Time & Mario & Luigi: Bowser's Inside Story before making any judgment on it's sales.
#22RazieruPosted 2/6/2013 4:40:03 PM
What doesn't easily give them a gasm? A simple card trick will even have them in awe.
I am the thing that keeps you up at night, the evil that haunts every dark corner of your mind.
#23pikachupwnagePosted 2/6/2013 5:04:28 PM
Marsford posted...
This shows it's a game people like, but that doesn't negate that most fans who like the series for its RPG aspects were disappointed.
This man speaks wise words.
#24Delirious_BeardPosted 2/6/2013 5:12:40 PM
Why did the original and especially TTYD sell so few? You suck, Japan.
#25CcroybbPosted 2/6/2013 5:18:28 PM
Handheld games sell way better than console games in Japan, you need to look no further than Monster Hunter for proof. If Sticker Star had been on Wii/Wii U it wouldn't have sold as well.
#26EndgamePosted 2/6/2013 7:30:02 PM
it's no secret that the japanese have ****ing terrible taste
see: One Piece and Dragon Quest, the **** that always sells
#27Dark_ZenoPosted 2/6/2013 7:32:53 PM
Endgame posted...
it's no secret that I have ****ing terrible taste
see: Fire Emblem and Dragon Quest, amazing games that I always b**** about selling well
"but if you're the kind of person who thinks that anything with primary colors is for kids than nothing will change your mind." - Arucard05
#28HejiruPosted 2/7/2013 5:05:40 AM
Rurouni720 posted...
Hejiru posted...
twistedreality1 posted...
Hejiru posted...
Sales =/= quality.
Lot of good games on that list
Lotta bad/mediocre ones too, which was my point.
Doesn't mean most poor selling games get a free pass at quality, especially when the opposite can be the exception.
And again, that's not the point. I was pointing out Sticker Star being a well-selling game does automatically make it good. I never said poor-selling games are automatically good. That's changing the subject. One does not imply the other.
#29masa8munePosted 2/7/2013 5:27:46 AM
TC dit you not make another topic defending PM:SS??
i don't hate the game i never played it because everyone said it's decent.
Currently playing: Re:R, Mario kart 7, Tales of symphonia, Naruto clash of the ninja revulution 1/2
#30LonelyGoombaPosted 2/7/2013 7:37:16 AM
appealing to the biggest audiences will always lower the quality of the product
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The BlackBerry PlayBook (Source: RIM)
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By Nortel on 6/7/2012 4:30:31 PM, Rating: 5
Setting: RIM board meeting
Topic: Struggling product line
Opens with director covering topic of slipping sales figures and segues into the Playbook line.
exec 1. -"Our Playbook has been a financial flop with the most popular model being our 16gb model"
exec 2. -"We need to get more people interested in the upcoming BB10 phone, how are we supposed to do that when we are selling so many 16gb models"
exec 3. -"I agree, we should axe our most popular Playbook model, that will definitively show our consumers how serious we are about the BB10"
exec 1. -"Wait, I think we're on the wrong track here, I mean the 16gb model is what our consumers are buying, why discontinue it?"
exec2. -"You just don't get it, we need more attention on the BB10; tablet market is over-saturated"
exec 3. -"That's it, decision made, we're cutting the 16gb Playbook. Next topic, increasing our golden parachute clauses"
RE: setting
By The Raven on 6/7/2012 4:51:05 PM, Rating: 3
lol, good one.
But am I missing something here? They axed the smaller capacity but not the smaller price right? Isn't this saying that the 32gb model is the same price if not lower than the 16? The 16 gb is obviously more popular because of the lower price, right?
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Why cancelled, lol, loooks good
#1ratavaqueraPosted 1/30/2008 7:49:52 PM
This game looks sweet, but cancelled, : (, i hope they can make a new one, i wouldnt care if it was too old.
#2Rash_WarriorPosted 2/7/2008 3:57:55 PM
its not canceled
Currently Playing: Resident Evil 4, Mega Man X (snes), Counter Strike, Kingdom Hearts II
#3XWAKEXPosted 2/13/2008 9:41:08 PM
yea it's actually on hold right now. They might go back to it in the future.
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#4CwallaceyankeesPosted 2/14/2008 1:08:36 AM
The point is that it is almost undoubtedly cancelled for the regualr Xbox. They could still bring a version of it to PC or 360 or something, but definately not Xbox.
#5Red_JesterPosted 3/10/2008 2:24:42 PM
That isn't all of their cancelled games. So yes, it's still entirely possible for Ghost to be cancelled.
I'm right about everything every time. 60% of the time.
#6OemeniaPosted 3/31/2008 2:58:42 PM
Blizzard have realised they ultimately do not need the console market. The PC market is more than enough to keep them affloat.
Also, who knows, we might see a Starcraft 2 port, especially with the recent explosion in console RTS and i can tell you that they all work perfectly
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By Nortel on 6/7/2012 4:30:31 PM, Rating: 5
Setting: RIM board meeting
Topic: Struggling product line
Opens with director covering topic of slipping sales figures and segues into the Playbook line.
exec 1. -"Our Playbook has been a financial flop with the most popular model being our 16gb model"
exec 2. -"We need to get more people interested in the upcoming BB10 phone, how are we supposed to do that when we are selling so many 16gb models"
exec 3. -"I agree, we should axe our most popular Playbook model, that will definitively show our consumers how serious we are about the BB10"
exec 1. -"Wait, I think we're on the wrong track here, I mean the 16gb model is what our consumers are buying, why discontinue it?"
exec2. -"You just don't get it, we need more attention on the BB10; tablet market is over-saturated"
exec 3. -"That's it, decision made, we're cutting the 16gb Playbook. Next topic, increasing our golden parachute clauses"
RE: setting
By The Raven on 6/7/2012 4:51:05 PM, Rating: 3
lol, good one.
But am I missing something here? They axed the smaller capacity but not the smaller price right? Isn't this saying that the 32gb model is the same price if not lower than the 16? The 16 gb is obviously more popular because of the lower price, right?
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, I did re read the current article and can say that when authors use to much hyberbole such as "actively blocked or hunted down as security risks" combined with the graphic he used, I tend to react in the opposite direction.
• The author is making up things to suit his agenda
The author is making up the numbers 1100$ for Windows based tablets. He does not include a valid link or his source mentioning that the tablet would cost 1100$.
• Here ya go
Entry-level Samsung Slate is $1,099, higher-end model is $1,349
• Lazy, eh?
Yes, the author should have provided a link to base his fact on – good journalism. However, before you fired off your post, could you not have checked the Samsung site for the pricing rather than just assuming he was wrong?
Now, I seriously doubt that Seton Hall is paying retail for this kit. Even at a steep discount, these things will still cost more than the top-end iPad.
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I'll be using what I have. One 160WS strobe, reflectors, one 6x8 foot window. I usually use this set up for portraits of the family. I want to do this in color preferably transparency cuz I just can't read a color neg without a proof print.
I'm trying to do a study in color. I am having a heck of a time putting it into words but there will be raw paint pigments, curled color paper and what ever starikes my fancy. I am not interested in shadows but will play with them.
Is this something a polaroid test shot would be good for?
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But for the rest of us, there are a few solutions:
1. Find a sheet of ice in your environment, like a frozen-over car window, and take a photo.
2. Otherwise, a silicone mat - like one of those used for cookies - placed on a baking sheet, covered with water, and placed into a freezer, seems like it could work.
3. Check the comments where I'm sure some chemist is going to bring up properties of hydrogen bonding, freezing temperatures and clarity of ice.
Whatever technique you go with, don't be afraid to get creative with the results. And while winter is a drab, soulless time, there's no need to avoid color, light or action.
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Our lead photo is by flickr's Anosmia. I like that, despite a lack of clarity, you can still make out the simple figures of the tree and the sun. In fact, there's an entire, small landscape in this murky photo if you look hard enough.
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I'll be using what I have. One 160WS strobe, reflectors, one 6x8 foot window. I usually use this set up for portraits of the family. I want to do this in color preferably transparency cuz I just can't read a color neg without a proof print.
I'm trying to do a study in color. I am having a heck of a time putting it into words but there will be raw paint pigments, curled color paper and what ever starikes my fancy. I am not interested in shadows but will play with them.
Is this something a polaroid test shot would be good for?
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I'm doing panoramic HDR photography for work using one of those stupid cheap mirror balls mounted on a tripod (not my decision!) and I am noticing on my longer exposures that sometimes I'm getting blurred images. I am using mirror lock-up and a 2 second delay. SOMETIMES on my 2 or 3 longest exposures the image is blurred when I view it in Photoshop. I am using a Canon kit lens with a +2 magnifying lens mounted on the front, and I'm SURE I'm not touching the tripod at all. The only thing I can think is causing this is the image stabilizer which is pretty much kept on at all times. Can anyone think of anything else that might cause this behavior?
EDIT: I might add that it's not ALL of my longest exposures. It's one or two, sometimes 1, sometimes NONE, but usually it's the 2nd longest exposure. The tripod itself is a sturdy Manfrotto. Now that I think of it, I usually have to bring all my images into Photoshop first before merging to HDR because they all seem to be out of alignment by up to 4 or 5 pixels. The way the panorama head works on this contraption is that there is a head mounted on the tripod with a screw for mounting the camera, pointing up at the mirror lens. The plate that the camera sits against can be adjusted up or down by millimeters so that different camera/lens configurations can be used.
UPDATE: Ok, after reading all your comments/suggestions, let me give you guys some more info. For those of you wondering, the mirror ball contraption is used for when you need a 360 panorama of your subject (in my case it's a room inside a condominium) in one shot (the system is used a lot by realtors who need quick shots of a whole room using a cheap point and shoot). You get a low-res pic since you are shooting a reflected image of the image, but for quick solutions to real estate photography it does its job. What you get is a large round image that you then stick into the software for this particular mirror ball manufacturer and you can either 'roll' the image out into a panoramic cylinder image or you can use it to turn into a 'virtual tour' for showing on the web.
Here is a picture of what they look like mounted to a camera (tho my setup is mounted on a tripod and looks a little different): GoPano mirror ball system
Here is the image that these things produce: GoPano image
Here is what I get sometimes--note that it looks like camera shake: blurred image
Here is the exact same shot taken right afterwards to ensure at least one of the exposures comes out sharp:
sharp image
I have mirror lockup enabled, and am using a delay before shooting, so there is no issue with me touching the camera and accidentally causing blur once the shutter opens, or the mirror causing vibrations. Because this sucker takes a picture of the WHOLE room at once, I can either choose to stick it on a 10 second delay and leave the room or sit underneath it with a smaller 2 second delay. Since an HDR series takes me about 15 pictures, it is not expedient for me to leave the room for 10+ seconds at a time, and a shutter release cable (or IR remote) isn't necessary if I'm using a timed delay (and if I used it it would be in the shot unless I was still sitting underneath the tripod). I am not using auto bracketing but manually dialing in each stop. The building is rock solid, well away from the road, and is built to withstand hurricane force winds. I am not walking around during the shot, but sitting underneath it. I make sure no part of my body is close to any element of the tripod before I press the shutter, and hold my hand away from the camera until the timed delay passes and the camera takes the picture. I have taken to taking two shots of each of my exposures that are more than 1 second as inevitably at least one of them will be completely blurred. The others will maintain their sharpness.
So, somehow, even tho the building is solid, the mirror is locked up, there is a timed delay, I'm not touching the camera or the tripod and the tripod is sturdy, I am getting camera shake. Because these mirror ball images are EXTREMELY sensitive to vibrations and I am positive I have eliminated any human reasons for shake, I gotta wonder if the only thing that's left is the IS?
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Are you doing Macro Photography HDR? If so, that might be part of your macro scale everything is magnified considerably, including the slightest vibrations or movements. Since HDR requires multiple exposures, subject movement between frames could be contributing to blur. – jrista Apr 5 '12 at 15:24
No, I'm taking a panoramic picture of a room, there are no moving subjects and manual focus is being used. – huzzah Apr 5 '12 at 15:36
Also, @jrista, the entire picture is blurred, it's not just a part of the picture or a subject moving. It looks like camera shake or the tripod got nudged. I am starting to believe the culprit is either the IS in the lens or the tripod is slowly but surely failing. – huzzah Apr 5 '12 at 15:47
I'd love to know how a mirror ball mounted to a tripod is usefull, can to share a pic of the setup? – Paul Cezanne Apr 5 '12 at 16:31
@HeatherWalters: We really need some example photographs with the blur in them, and possibly a shot of your tripod setup, to help us answer this question. – jrista Apr 5 '12 at 16:57
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(1) As others have noted, any "antishake" / IS must be turned off for tripod exposures.
IS works by deriving an error signal from desired and actual positions and driving the system to minimise the error. Where there is essentially no error the system noise will predominate and the system may try to minimise noise and create motion to do so. Arrangements can be made to 'ignore' noise under a certain level but his can result in step changes when boundaries are reached or poor sensitivity to real motion.
• Added: Heather subsequently reported that turning IS off solved her problems and that the occasional 5 pixel step change in sequentil images vanished. It's likely that the 5 pixel step is the step change I mentioned, due to the IS setting a lower limit below which it declares the image steady. Exceed that limit and it moves one unit to compensate. If there is enough noise or image variation it may mistake it for movement and jump this one unit to compensate.
(2) How rigid is rigid?
I recently set up a tripod to attempt to photograph the "super-moon" situation. Thin continuous cloud cover made he results useless. But I got a chance to use the focus magnifier with a 500mm mirror lens + 1.7 x teleconverter on a 1.5:1 crop APSC camera = 500 x 1.7 x 1.5 = 1275mm equivalent at 35mm.
I used the focus magnifier to attempt to get the mountains that can be seen side on on the Moon's rim as sharp as possible.
I tried a 2 second delay and found that using the above arrangement the picture was "singing" wildly at 2 seconds. Using a 10 second delay was acceptable. That was on concrete, but I have no doubt that in a building with other than a stone or concrete floor you'd get some visible motion.
That's an extreme case. But actually testing your Manfrotto results with focus magnifier after various delays may be instructive. So -
I just now set up the camera on a kitchen floor, wooden framed building.
Placed a rigid support under camera to raise about 200mm above floor and focused on about 8 point text at about 6 metres (~ minimum focus). Fixed f8 mirror so used ISO 50 to give about 0.7s exposure. Focus magnifier gave 'tack sharp' focusing - text half fills screen height.
Took shots with 2 second delay and 10 seconds delay using A77 Sony - NO mirror movement - used electronic "front curtain" so only movement in camera is rear curtain shutter. This is potentially important as eliminating the front curtain removes the tiny kick at the very star of exposure which MAY make a difference. Repeated a few times. Camera not touched or moved after delay started and no walking on floor.
Result: 10 second delay shot is substantially sharper than 2 second. Even the 10s delay shot is less sharp than I'd expect at faster shutter speeds.
Granted, this is an 850mm (1275mm effective) lens - and a sample of few - but the fact that a solid base rather than a tripod allows a visible difference in result with a 0.7s exposure suggests that some rigidity testing without the mirror ball would be useful to see how good a result you can achieve.
Getting desparate:
A rigid tripod with 3 widely spread support points such that radius of support circle is ~~~ = tripod height (within 2:
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I'll be using what I have. One 160WS strobe, reflectors, one 6x8 foot window. I usually use this set up for portraits of the family. I want to do this in color preferably transparency cuz I just can't read a color neg without a proof print.
I'm trying to do a study in color. I am having a heck of a time putting it into words but there will be raw paint pigments, curled color paper and what ever starikes my fancy. I am not interested in shadows but will play with them.
Is this something a polaroid test shot would be good for?
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1 say) will apply a horizontal motion to the camera ~ equal to any movement across the vertical plane in the floor. You MAY be able to get superior results either by
• Making a support system that extends the reach of your tripod out sideways so it makes contact on 3 points on a FAR larger radius than before.
A variant of this for testing would be to find the largest possible table and support the camera rigidly on that without a tripod so that the table legs are effectively a widespread tripod (or quad-pod). Shims under 3 legs of a 4 leg table to convert quad-pod to tripod may or may not make things better. Obviously a table is not going to work when taking actual photos - but you may learn a lot. Or not.
• Just the opposite - pulling the tripod legs in so that you have a tall thin arrangement - vertical floor movement will tend towards making vertical camera movement rather than horizontal camera movement. Murphy will want this to fall over.
A variant would be to have a vertical support rod with an "L" bracket on the bottom say about 300mm square and place something dense and heavy on the plate to maintain the support vertical. The smaller the plate the less you convert floor undulations into camera horizontal movement.
I'm aware that you could happily argue for or against any of these schemes with suggestions about how floors vibrate, arguments about levers etc. Trying it would be easier. In each case the aim is to try to convert or retain any floor motion into/as vertical movement rather than letting it swing the camera sideways.
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All excellent points. I'm jealous you got to use a 500mm lens to shoot the moon! – huzzah May 16 '12 at 18:27
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One of the Great Truths of photography is that for every camera/lens/tripod combination, there is a range of shutter speeds that you need to avoid. At faster shutter speeds, the exposure is completed before the system's physical resonance has a chance to blur things; at slower shutter speeds the system has damped out before the exposure is complete, and the majority of the exposure occurs when the system is essentially motionless. That is true of any lens/camera/tripod, but the problem is usually difficult to notice except on a very high-resolution system.
It's the speeds in the middle, where the system is in motion for the majority of the exposure, that you need to find and avoid. Mirror lock-up can only help a little, since the action of the shutter can be enough to initiate the resonance. Since you are experiencing this problem on only one or two exposures out of a three-shot sequence, I'd be willing to bet money that the shutter speed is what you're changing between exposures and that the problem is occurring consistently in a range of shutter speeds.
In this situation (with the one-shot 360° lens attachment), the problem is exacerbated by the inherent springiness of the mirror stalk. (There are more stable designs, but then you're generally shooting through a cylinder of polycarbonate that's a real sonofabee to keep meticulously clean and unscratched.) Just find out which shutter speeds are causing the problem, and adjust your exposure settings to avoid them. You may want to find the best (least blurry) speed and sharpest aperture, then base your bracket on a varying ISO instead.
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I think this is the closest I'm going to get to an answer. I think that one of (the very many) major design flaws in having to use a mirror ball system is that since you are focusing so closely that the tiniest amount of vibration will cause a camera shake in the picture. In this case I think that the shutter itself is causing just enough of a vibration to upset the'stillness' of the image being captured. – huzzah Apr 5 '12 at 20:11
That said, with these systems, when initially setting up your system you are supposed to find the'sweet spot' that lets you get the maximum depth of field in each shot and STICK with it always (in this case it's F20), and use the lowest ISO possible (in this case ISO 100). So unfortunately some shutter speeds that I am having trouble with are unavoidable (the shake seems to be hit/miss as you can see from my example above). I guess I will just have to continue taking multiple exposures of the same shutter speed to cover my butt. Thank you for your insight! – huzzah Apr 5 '12 at 20:15
Also, the ISO must remain steady throughout, and you want to stick with ISO100 as trust me, HDR photos are VERY unforgiving when it comes to noise. – huzzah Apr 5 '12 at 20:22
@HeatherWalters -- with a reasonably modern camera, going to, say, ISO 400 isn't a major loss. If you're doing a three-stop bracket, shooting at ISOs of 100, 200 and 400 ought to do the trick quite nicely without too much extra noise—and a good noise reduction utility like Topaz DeNoise can help a lot. You may find it profitable to use an ND filter in the stack to get you out of the "danger zone"—let's face it, you can't degrade the quality much more with a filter. – Stan Rogers Apr 5 '12 at 20:26
Stan, it's a 13-15 step bracket that can span (depending on how light/dark the room is) the entire range of my camera's shutter speeds (Canon rebel xsi). ISO400 has very noticeable noise on this camera (it wreaks havoc in the shadows of my merged series). If I have 5 exposures that are over 1 second, between 1 and 3 of those exposures will have shake. However, if I take two exposures of each of those stops, one of them will be sharp while the other won't. It's hit and miss, but those exposures are unavoidable. I am also going to play with leaving IS off. – huzzah Apr 5 '12 at 20:39
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A few thoughts:
• Turn off Image Stabilization if you're on a tripod. It won't provide benefit and might cause some issues.
• You might need a more stable tripod/head. Given that you referred to it as a "stupid cheap mirror ball", it sounds like you might already be aware of this...
• Even with a good tripod, sometimes movement can happen, especially in a windy area. If they tripod has a hook on the center column, you can hang something heavy (like a camera bag) off of it to help provide stability.
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@HeatherWalters, when inside, don't move. Walking around can cause the floor to move just enough to introduce vibrations. – Dan Wolfgang Apr 5 '12 at 14:13
I would definitely agree to turn off the IS when on a tripod. It can cause issues. – Mike Apr 5 '12 at 14:20
Busy road outside? – Dreamager Apr 5 '12 at 15:30
Is the tower tall enough to be swaying in the wind? ;) – Dreamager Apr 5 '12 at 16:06
I'm definitely going to turn off IS. On my regular still HDR pics of the room, I have no shake in these longer exposures, but the focusing on the mirror contraption makes the tiniest vibration gigantically noticeable so I am going to eliminate IS as another possible culprit. Thanks for the tip! – huzzah Apr 6 '12 at 15:33
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I'd go with a remote shutter release so you don't have to touch the camera at all, and you can be several feet away from the camera so you're even less likely to cause any vibration in the set up.
You should be able to use the delay as well just to be sure.
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On some Canon cameras the mirror lockup only works on the first of the three exposures if you are auto-bracketing. Try turning the auto-bracket off and manually using mirror lockup for all three. Yes, not fun at all!
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I am not using auto-bracket but that is definitely good to know! – huzzah Apr 5 '12 at 20:18
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Ok, I tested with IS off, and, guess what? ALL blur problems and series images being off by 1-5 pixels (causing me to have to align the images in photoshop before merging them beforehand) went away. It was the IS after all, even using a 2 second delay. As a poster noted above, they got significantly better results on a 10 second delay when dealing with a system where visible camera shake could be caused by the most insignificant vibrations. Bottom line for this type of situation: turn off IS, tack on as long of a delay as you can, enable mirror lock-up, and be vewwwy, vewwy quietttt....
Thanks to all who chipped in a LOT of sage advice!
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This is often good advice: "be vewwwy, vewwy quietttt...." – Pat Farrell May 16 '12 at 22:39
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Just a thought, but are you sure it is camera shake, and not simply a bit out of focus?
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I'll be using what I have. One 160WS strobe, reflectors, one 6x8 foot window. I usually use this set up for portraits of the family. I want to do this in color preferably transparency cuz I just can't read a color neg without a proof print.
I'm trying to do a study in color. I am having a heck of a time putting it into words but there will be raw paint pigments, curled color paper and what ever starikes my fancy. I am not interested in shadows but will play with them.
Is this something a polaroid test shot would be good for?
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I'll be using what I have. One 160WS strobe, reflectors, one 6x8 foot window. I usually use this set up for portraits of the family. I want to do this in color preferably transparency cuz I just can't read a color neg without a proof print.
I'm trying to do a study in color. I am having a heck of a time putting it into words but there will be raw paint pigments, curled color paper and what ever starikes my fancy. I am not interested in shadows but will play with them.
Is this something a polaroid test shot would be good for?
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Fujifilm X100 versus Sony Nex-5?
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It is a point and shoot because its not a true rangefinder, point being?
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Who are these "serious photographers" for one thing?
Two, given the X100 is not a true rangefinder, nor is it a true SLR, what could it be other than a p&s?
Given the MF isn't ideally implemented yet I certainly use mine like a P&S, ie; auto focus, point then shoot.
Also like a p&s, it doesn't have interchangeable lenses, so again, unlike a RF like the M9, its more akin to a p&s
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Serious photographers are saying that it is a p&s in its soul with a dslr sensor.
Both will deliver stunning pictures in the right hands
The X100 apparantly has some amazing JPG OOC possibilities with brilliant skintone colors, no PP needed...
Serious photographers on the Fuji forum have a thread where they excoriate using jpg and advise using raw at all times.
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I'll be using what I have. One 160WS strobe, reflectors, one 6x8 foot window. I usually use this set up for portraits of the family. I want to do this in color preferably transparency cuz I just can't read a color neg without a proof print.
I'm trying to do a study in color. I am having a heck of a time putting it into words but there will be raw paint pigments, curled color paper and what ever starikes my fancy. I am not interested in shadows but will play with them.
Is this something a polaroid test shot would be good for?
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I'll be using what I have. One 160WS strobe, reflectors, one 6x8 foot window. I usually use this set up for portraits of the family. I want to do this in color preferably transparency cuz I just can't read a color neg without a proof print.
I'm trying to do a study in color. I am having a heck of a time putting it into words but there will be raw paint pigments, curled color paper and what ever starikes my fancy. I am not interested in shadows but will play with them.
Is this something a polaroid test shot would be good for?
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book about how to be a woman, the kind of stuff a girl usually learned from her mama. You'd be amazed at the things a person could learn just by being attentive.
I was carrying the watering can up front for the ivy when I saw the sign perched on this easel Raylene had set up in the front window. It was a blowup of a blonde all prettied up like a Hollywood star with a feather boa streaming over her bare shoulders like pink lemonade, and Raylene had angled it so it could be seen by anyone in the shop as well as those walking by. On the bottom, Glamour Day was spelled out in red letters rimmed with gold.
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Mrs. Wilkins was hanging on every detail. Naturally she'd already signed up for both her and Sue Beth.
Suddenly I was filled with missing Mama. I could just imagine her sporting the pink boa. If she were there she'd probably end up directing Glamour Day herself. Mama knew everything about Hollywood. She had direct experience. The fact was that four years ago, when I was in the eighth grade, my mama'd headed off to California. She went there to be in a movie. You may doubt me on this, but it's true.
When Mama left, my daddy and me and her best friend, Martha Lee Curtis, were the only people in Eden to know why she went off and what her plans were. Tell people I'm off visiting kin and let it go at that, she said. Mama never did
care a fig about what others thought. In that way she was unlike most women. So we told people just like she said. When their pointed questions met with no satisfaction, the majority of folks let the subject drop. Town gossip was that she'd left my daddy and run off with another man, which, believe me, was incredible but made sense to just about everyone in Eden. People were always saying my daddy was sweet, but no one pretended to think he deserved my mama. Her included, I suppose.
Of course I was dying to tell the whole county what Mama was up to, but she said no. She made us promise. She had her reasons, she said. I couldn't imagine what they might be. Wasn't it better to have people knowing the truth than thinking she ran out on us? But like I said, Mama didn't care about the good opinion of others. Still, if it were me, I'd want to tell everyone what I was setting off to do. It was the most exciting thing in the world.
Mama's plan for becoming an actress wasn't as impossible as it might seem. First off, she'd been acting for years. In Eden High, she was the star of the annual play every year from freshman to senior. Then later, after she graduated and was at school learning how to type and take dictation, she performed in the theater over in Lynchburg. She had the photo album to prove it. All her life Mama dreamed about being a movie star. She believed it was her true destiny.
Then one day that winter, just after I'd brought in the mail and was sitting on the porch drinking a Coca-Cola, Mama started screaming. By the time I got to the kitchen, she was dancing around the table and waving a magazine in the air. Finally she calmed down enough to tell me how they were going to make a movie about the life of Natalie Wood and how the director still hadn't settled on the actress for the leading role and was, in his words, looking for a fresh face, someone who could capture the essence of Natalie. Mama said this was her big chance. She was as close to the essence of Natalie Wood as anyone. She was practically a twin.
According to my granny Goody, from the time Mama was five years old, people were always commenting on the astonishing likeness, first as the little girl in A Miracle on 34th Street, a video we owned and watched every Christmas, then in all the ones that followed. Rebel Without a Cause. Splendor in the Grass. West Side Story. Gypsy. It was like Natalie Wood was holding up a beacon for Mama to follow. Final proof was Mama's high school yearbook photo. She looked exactly like Natalie in Splendor. That year was when she started insisting on being called Deanie, after the girl in the movie.
"I'm doing it, Luddy," she told my daddy that night. "It's my big chance. It's fate." The way she said fate, in a flat, determined voice, refused argument.
Daddy wasn't convinced, though he wanted to agree with Mama--it nearly killed him to disagree with her. At the time, I believed he was afraid she might go off and find another life and was afraid, too, that lying at the other end of her dream was only disappointment. He couldn't bear the thought of Mama being let down any more than he could entertain the thought she would leave him. I myself was torn between wanting Mama to be a star and despairing at the idea of being left without her.
Mama jumped up and tore out of the room. A minute later, she was back holding two pictures that she slapped down on the table in front of my daddy. One was of Mama taken the previous Christmas, and the other was an autographed photograph of Natalie Wood. I'd always believed Mama got that picture from a Natalie Wood fan club or a film studio. It was that kind of glossy up close photo. A person--looking at the two pictures--would be hard pressed to tell which was the real Natalie.
"See," she said. "I'm supposed to get this part. It was made
for me."
"Oh, baby," Daddy said, "it's not that I don't want you to go. I just don't want you to be disappointed."
Mama's mind didn't hold room for such thoughts. "You know what I believe, Luddy," she said. "The sky's the limit. The sky's the limit and all we have to do is reach for it."
The sky's the limit. Mama always said that. But sometimes--and I do love my daddy--sometimes I wondered if Mama really believed that the sky was the limit, why had she settled on a man like Luddington Brock? Half the men in Eden were in love with her. You could tell this by the way their eyes followed her when she walked down the street. She could have had any man in the county. But she picked my daddy.
Goody had a theory about this. She said in our family women marry down. We marry down, she said, and then spend the rest of our lives trying to elevate our men. Goody had married my granddaddy when he was a clerk at Simpson's Cash Store and then dedicated her days and her daddy's money elevating him until he ended up a doctor for the Southern Railroad. I don't know for sure about Goody's marrying theory, but there is no denying that Luddington Brock was a big step down for the only daughter of Taylor and Jessie Adams.
In spite of Mama's conviction and the two photos on the table staring up at him, Daddy still wasn't persuaded, so Mama just perched herself on his lap, cupped her hands on his cheeks, and made him look straight at her.
"It's something I have to do, Luddy. I have to. If I don't, my life will be filled with regret."
At that time, I truly didn't apprehend the true nature of dreams. I didn't understand they held the power to take hold of you with both hands and pull you along, just sweep you off your feet and turn your entire life on its back. That day, I only recognized my mama's determination. The next day, she was planning it out, showing a lot of grit for someone who'd never been out of Amherst County--and at that time I really did think that Mama had never been outside the county in her life. We rented all the old Natalie Wood movies Mama didn't already own, including The Last Married Couple in America and This Property Is Condemned, two that most people probably never have heard about. We kept them so long, the video store charged us extra. It was weird, sitting there on the sofa by my mama, her hand in mine, all the time staring at the TV screen and seeing her face reflected back at me. Sometimes I had to tighten my fingers around hers to convince myself she was still there beside me.
From the Hardcover edition.
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I'm trying to do a study in color. I am having a heck of a time putting it into words but there will be raw paint pigments, curled color paper and what ever starikes my fancy. I am not interested in shadows but will play with them.
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You don't specify quantity of chem used to process the 11x14's. I don't use the same chems as you, but when I print 11x14 I use two liters of developer in my tray. My soup of choice is Ethol LPD, which is replenishable. I purchase my chems frm either Adorama, B&H, or Freestle depending on what else I need at the time and who has it.
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I'll be using what I have. One 160WS strobe, reflectors, one 6x8 foot window. I usually use this set up for portraits of the family. I want to do this in color preferably transparency cuz I just can't read a color neg without a proof print.
I'm trying to do a study in color. I am having a heck of a time putting it into words but there will be raw paint pigments, curled color paper and what ever starikes my fancy. I am not interested in shadows but will play with them.
Is this something a polaroid test shot would be good for?
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Sigmar Polke's use of old photos, old engravings and old porn makes his painting fascinating - and impossible to pin down. By Adrian Searle
Polke: The Fastest Gun in the West, 2002
'A painting is target practice, for painter and viewer alike.' The Fastest Gun in the West, 2002.
Sigmar Polke is a man who takes his morning coffee with a big pile of newspapers and a pair of scissors to hand. He snips things out, headlines and odd or arresting images, to re-use in his art. For 40 years, Polke's art has been a very serious joke. Polke, born in Silesia (now Poland), moved to West Germany in 1953. He later trained - significantly - as an industrial glass painter, and first became known, along with Gerhard Richter, as a kind of failed pop artist. Polke, misunderstood, got his revenge.
Compared to Polke's, most painting looks feeble, slow-witted, uninventive. Even though his is an art frequently based on secondary material - the newspaper clipping, the found photograph, old engravings, old art, old pornography - his work startles, confuses, fascinates and bedevils anyone who cares, or tries, to pin it down.
Polke's first-ever major London show, History of Everything, opens at Tate Modern tomorrow. Despite the title, this is not the full-dress Polke retrospective one might expect. It began life as an exhibition made specifically for the Dallas Museum of Art, to which Polke has since added a significant number of other new works for London. For those who come fresh to Polke, there is also an excellent three-room loan display of key early works, from the 1960s and 70s. This functions as a kind of condensed primer to the artist. At the time of writing, new Polkes are also being put up and taken down elsewhere in the building, as the artist himself plays once more with his own work, rearranging it, adding new works and removing others (sometimes with a healthy disregard as to what are key paintings, and what might represent a shaky new direction). Polke, then, is trying to make an exhibition that is as lively and fresh for himself as it will be to his public. Creative thought doesn't always stop at the studio door.
There is so much to look at in this show. And much that disturbs and wrong-foots the spectator. In fact, it is apparent that Polke's art is more and more a meditation on looking itself, on the slipperiness of vision, and the impossibility of pinning down single meanings to the images and things we look at. Even where you stand in relation to a Polke matters. Get up very close and an entirely new, microcosmic layer of events and detail often reveals itself: a disruption in the surface, a passage of real embroidered pattern, infinitessimal half-tone dots, concentrated drawing that borders on the mesmeric and obsessional. The skin or surface of the painting might be impregnated or embossed with what appears to be a honeycomb pattern, a cellular structure, or a semi-transparent pattern of scales, like sloughed snakeskin. Step back and the layers gel, or almost do. You are not quite sure where or how to look. Often, instead of canvas, the surface is translucent, weaveless, high-tech polyester scrim. You can see right through it to the stretcher behind, and the wall behind that. As you move, the material catches the light and shimmers with refracted irridescence. A painting, classically, is a virtual window, with an illusory painted world beyond. In Polke's case, the window is real, and so is the beyond, even when there's nothing there.
In the painting Anyone Can Have Out-of-Body Experiences at Will, Polke has painted, with impeccable precision, a frame of op-art cum psychedelic interference patterns around a central, tilted rectangle of nothingness. You see right through this area of transparent material to the wall. This tilted, milky, veiled emptiness, framed at the edge of vision by twitchy, optically upsetting pattern, feels complete, both entirely material and playfully rhetorical, mysterious and evanescent.
In other cases the painting includes bits of cheap tablecloth or patterned dishcloths, or some horrible novelty wallpaper, depicting a stampede of horses, cartoon celebrations of beer-drinking, a stag hunt. In one small painting, a white spilled stain unfurls across what I take to be a patterned, pinkish tablecloth. It is impossible not to think of a sperm stain on a coloured handkerchief; impossible, too, not to be reminded of all those religious paintings of Veronica's veil. This is more than ambiguity - more a blasphemous duality, and the kind of thinking that permeates Polke's art. A figure from a medieval drawing, blown up and redrawn, turns into Bin Laden, hiding in a trunk. On the opposite wall, the Virgin is conjured by an alchemist in his magic circle; Polke the alchemist, raising apparitions. Other paintings, in particular the series called Printing Mistakes, seem to be made entirely from a toffee-like resinous substance, a gummy, brownish amber in which an image, or several images, have been trapped - not so much like flies, as like old memories or something half-glimpsed, or once pored-over then forgotten. A uniformed dwarf, borrowed from a 1930s Spanish newspaper. A patterned stone that looks like a tongue or a turd.
Some of these paintings do not so much appear to be glazed or covered in old varnish, but to be made of these organic, glutinous substances. This is the sort of thing weaker artists would turn into some arresting "look". In Polke's case, they're more a metaphor: the painting as trap, as flypaper. Perhaps they are a metaphor for the mind itself, a place where things, images and events stick. For the Dallas version of this exhibition, Polke became preoccupied with images of America's gun culture. This, inevitably, has an awful correspondence with America's adventure in Iraq.
Pictures of sharpshooters aiming at battered fairground targets vie with diagrammatic pictures of spy-in-the-sky surveillance planes and the smart-war hunt for al-Qaida and the Taliban. All these images, in Polke's paintings, become hunts for meanings, for things that cannot be found, for lame excuses. Looking at paintings is, after all, looking for something that isn't there or can't be found by simple objective means. A painting is target practice, for painter and viewer alike.
The dot, just like the printer's half-tone, the field of bendy dots, the raster, is in many works his version of the brushstroke. It is also much like a bullet hole. And, as the eye looks, it tries to pierce surfaces too, just like a bullet. "I shot him a look," we say, or "I pierced her with a look." If looks could kill. We come to doubt, nowadays, the sovereignty of human vision, the veracity of things seen with one's own eyes, let alone any superhuman powers we'd like the eye to have. He re-draws these rasters, all these fields of dots, by hand, with a small brush, building them up, breaking them down.
The images they articulate have frequently already been manipulated through photocopier blow-ups, as multiple generation copies that, through their successive reprintings, both destroy an image's legibility and create a further, almost indecipherable new image at the same time. So an eye becomes a smear, then a figure, a glob; the glob becomes a corpuscle, an atom, a leering face, a new world, a Rorschach blot we might then take for something else again. Images plummet into other images, the world is a welter of shifting signs.
In a couple of very new works, Polke has redrawn some bizarre naturist photos of naked men being chased around a farmyard by a grinning, equally naked woman with a fork, and a naked ploughman tilling a field. I guess they were found in some northern European version of Health and Efficiency magazine. Elsewhere, there are female bondage and spanking images - which appear silly rather than salacious - and lots and lots of bared and proffered bums. And then 19th-century balloonists pulled across the sky by eagles, winged women flying out of eggs, and the arcing, abstract, curlicued calligraphic trails of sub-atomic particles in the accelerator. These are all either occasions of wonder or a cosmic joke. They're both - and a painter's joke too.
Looking at art often leads to the conclusion that one is engaged in a futile search for something that isn't there. Or that one is standing in the wrong place, looking for the wrong thing, asking the wrong questions. What to make of Polke's daft porn, surrounded as it sometimes is by lovely, hand-drawn foliage, or embedded in a painting so startling in its disruptions, so wayward in its effects, that it cannot be reduced to one thing, especially not a bum joke? Polke's art depends on such breaches of decorum, on wilful misapprehensions, deliberate mistakes; and it swerves from one thing into another. It is also erudite, difficult, spontaneous, deliberated. There is in Polke enough
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I'll be using what I have. One 160WS strobe, reflectors, one 6x8 foot window. I usually use this set up for portraits of the family. I want to do this in color preferably transparency cuz I just can't read a color neg without a proof print.
I'm trying to do a study in color. I am having a heck of a time putting it into words but there will be raw paint pigments, curled color paper and what ever starikes my fancy. I am not interested in shadows but will play with them.
Is this something a polaroid test shot would be good for?
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What makes any discussion about middle gray difficult is that there are many different types of middle gray - physical world, camera image, meter, perceptual.
The first three types are cover in some detail in the thread "Is the F factor relevant or should I cancel it out?"
According to exposure theory, 100% reflectance falls at a point approximately 0.92 log units above the metered exposure, which makes it Zone VIII. The shadow falls approximately 1.28 log units below or 0.6% reflectance. Flare brings the shadows up 0.34 log units to have them fall 0.94 log units below the metered exposure. The metered exposure will then fall at 12% reflectance. I've attach an example showing the range of Reflectances, Reflection Densities, and exposure values w/ and w/out flare for the average scene.
Color is a psychophysical phenomenon. We don't see tones in a linear way as Ralph's reference to Fechner describes. Munsell found that 18% was the perceived middle gray using a 10 step scale. In the early 1940s, the Optical Society of America's Committee on Colorimetry, chaired by Loyd Jones, found it to be 19.7%. They published their findings as a book sometime in the fifties under the title The Science of Color. I've attached a comparison of both scales.
Ralph, am I correct in assuming your equation comes from CIE? Could you break it down more and define the source of the variables?
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Find the Length of the Third Side
Date: 08/26/2003 at 10:26:57
From: Susan
Subject: Determining the dimensions of a triangle
If one side of a triangle is 6 and the other is 8, how do you
determine the length of the third side?
This was from an IQ test: two cars start at the same point, going in
miles. How many miles apart are the cars?
Date: 08/26/2003 at 11:16:37
From: Doctor Edwin
Subject: Re: Determining the dimensions of a triangle
Hi, Susan.
Interesting question. In general, there is no way to know the third
side of a triangle if you know only two. Picture a triangle with two
sides of fixed length, and picture the third being made of a rubber
band. You with me?
Now imagine that the point where the two fixed sides meet is hinged
so that you can change the angle. If you open it up, the rubber band
stretches. If you close it, the rubber band shrinks. So the third
side of a triangle can have a range of sizes.
However, in this problem they expect you to make an assumption. They
expect you to assume that when the cars turn left they turn at right
angles to the way they were going.
So their path now looks like this:
| <- starting point.
If you draw a line between car 1 and car 2, you get two triangles
that meet at the starting point. The two triangles are mirror images
of each other (we can prove that, but I think if you sort of stare at
it for a minute you'll agree). Let's deal with just one triangle, and
then we can double the length of the side to figure how far apart the
two cars are:
|*<- starting point.
| *
| * c
a | *
| *
| *
Now if the angle between a and b weren't a right angle, we'd have to
use trigonometry to figure out the length of side c. Since it is a
right angle, we can use the Pythagorean theorem to get the length.
You may remember the Pythagorean theorem as something you had to
memorize. It says that if you square the length of side a, and add it
to the square of side b, that will equal the square of side c:
a^2 + b^2 = c^2 (I'm using ^2 to mean "squared" since I can't
write the little 2's up above the letters).
6^2 + 8^2 = c^2
Can you solve it from here? If you're still stuck, write back with the
problem you're having and I'll try to help.
- Doctor Edwin, The Math Forum
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I have a calculator and want to have exactly 3 lines in my textbox. First line will be number A, second operator and third will be number 2. Now I am using just one line for my application. Can somebody show me how to do that? And I also need to know how CLEAR ONLY first line for exaple and how TO ADD NEW TEXT for exaple to line second without changing other lines.
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Is this winforms or WPF? – Anton Semenov Apr 19 '11 at 9:53
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I would use 3 textboxes on top of each other to do this. In this way you can easily clear the particular line you want to clear.
Of course, the exact way you do this depends on whether you are using silverlight, WPF, Windows Forms, or Asp.net.
But for Silverlight or WPF you'd do something like this:
<TextBox x:Name="Number1" BorderThickness="0" />
<TextBox x:Name="Operator" BorderThickness="0" />
<TextBox x:Name="Number2" BorderThickness="0" />
Setting BorderThickness to 0 effectively removes the borders from the textboxes. You can also set FontSize to a bigger font, and set HorizontalAlinment="Right" for a typical calculator style.
You'd then need an event handler (I'm making assumptions about how you want this to work here), that would respond to the enter key, so that the focus moves to the next textbox.
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But I want it to looks like a big display. If I will use 3 textboxes under each other....than u can see the separatiomn line between them. – Nasgharet Apr 19 '11 at 9:23
You can style the textboxes with Silverlight or WPF. – Dave Arkell Apr 19 '11 at 9:25
That sounds great....but how to change this style for example to WPF? – Nasgharet Apr 19 '11 at 9:35
See edited answer. – Dave Arkell Apr 19 '11 at 10:21
I should say, it's pretty easy to remove borders from any textbox, regardless of whether you use Silverlight, WPF, Winforms, Webforms etc – Dave Arkell Apr 19 '11 at 15:22
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Out of the box you can have a multiline textbox by setting the Multiline to true, but not a text box with three lines.If you want a textbox with three lines I guess you need to develop a custom control yourself.
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That is what I... I set if for multiline. I just need to know how clear only one line of this multiline textbox and how to add new text to one line only. – Nasgharet Apr 19 '11 at 9:27
@Nasghaet - "develop a custom control" with what you need. Your requirements dont come out of the box. – Sujay Ghosh Apr 19 '11 at 9:53
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This doesn't sound like a very user-friendly interface. You're trying to reinvent the wheel in the world of GUI, but it's never a good idea to do so. Why don't you just use three text boxes, one for each input?
On the technical side, in order to create a multi-line text box, you have to set its MultiLine property to true. And then you can split the text into lines using Environment.NewLine:
textBox.Text = "1" + Environment.NewLine + "+" + Environment.NewLine + "3";
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@Nasgharet You can modify the borders of the text boxes so that the lines between them are not visible. This is definitely not a reason to replace them with one big text box. – Ilya Kogan Apr 19 '11 at 18:09
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Why don't you use an Multi Line Textbox (Textarea)? In your application keep an array of strings for individual lines. When displaying concatenate the array and set the text on text area.
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*OpenUI *InputSlot: <PickOne>
The default tray entry looks like the following:
*DefaultInputSlot: Lower
The defined slots typically follow the default entry and look like the following:
*InputSlot Upper/Multipurpose Tray: "
*InputSlot Lower/Paper Cassette: "
The section ends with a line like the following:
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You can set DefaultInputSlot to be any of the values in the list of defined slots. Editing HPD files for PCL printing
In some cases, you may need to change certain attributes in you HPD file. The sections that follow describe some of the attributes that you would commonly want to change: Changing the paper size
For example, to change the papersize to A4, add the following to the HPD file used:
<defaultpaper=A4> Adding a new font entry
As with PostScript's AFM files, every HP font must have a TFM file in order for Oracle Reports to use it. The font vendor should provide TFM files. You should add new fonts to the HPD file when you install them.
You must specify the following settings in the HPD file for any new font:
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The font name entries in HPD files must be unique.
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When typing < or > in LaTeX and compiling with pdflatex, the less than and greater than symbols appear at upside down exclamation points. I'm not in math mode.
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using it in a regression results table in a paper. – biased_estimator Aug 28 '10 at 2:44
@ShreevatsaR: "This example holds true for all cases where n >= 3". – SabreWolfy Feb 2 '12 at 13:02
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Geoffs tip with \textless and \textgreater will work well for you. However, you could type these symbols < and > directly in your editor and they would be correctly printed if you use the recommended font encoding, Cork resp. T1:
Have a look at the T1 encoding table, search for the symbols < and >. Afterwards, open the OT1 encoding table, which is the default. At the two corresponding places you will find the upside down exclamation resp. quotation mark. That should explain it.
For further reasons, why you should use T1 encoding, have a look at this question: Why should I use \usepackage[T1]{fontenc}?
You should use a font supporting T1. For instance use the very good Latin Modern font, derived from the standard fonts:
Or install the cm-super package which provides the standard Computer Modern fonts with T1 support.
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Further reading: Latin Modern vs cm-super? – doncherry Jan 31 '13 at 6:46
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Use \textless and \textgreater.
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unless they are part of a math expression, in which case they should be between dollar signs or \(... \) along with the rest of the math expression. – barbara beeton Aug 26 '10 at 19:51
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May be using some other sane font encoding, something like \usepackage[T1]{fontenc} or something. (Well, I don't think any of this legacy font encoding and input encoding is sane any way).
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+1 for your opinion in parentheses! – Lover of Structure Dec 26 '13 at 0:36
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What I usually do is just enter mathmode to type them, e.g. This object is $<$ that object.
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That is generally considered poor style. You should just write out "This object is less than that object." Occasionally, you'll see "foo is <0." This looks bad. – TH. Aug 27 '10 at 23:32
That's definitely true. However, if you're using LaTeX to organize your thoughts (as i often do), 'good style' equates to 'will I understand what I wrote if I come back and look at it in a week'! – Avi Steiner Sep 3 '10 at 3:30
@TH.: I agree with you. My experiency tells me too that text and math code should not be mixed up. Good style would be either writing "The variable $foo$ is less than zero." (as you mentioned) or "The variable $foo$ satisfies the relation/condition $foo<0$.", which would probably suit your application. Good style means also to define variables at the first use. – strpeter Dec 7 '13 at 8:07
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Albert Y. C. Lai trebla at vex.net
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On 10-12-29 11:40 PM, Daryoush Mehrtash wrote:
> Why do people put ";" in do {}, or "," in data fields, at the
> beginning of the line?
There was a time I did this to help the auto-indenter.
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I couldn't find the option to enable it on Adobe Reader or Foxit Reader. I don't think Sumatra has it neither. Can someone help me? White pages are starting to hurt my eyes.
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Tools -> Preferences -> Documents -> Document Colors Options
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instructions.
• Use green text only for URLs in search results.
For more information and examples, see Fonts and Color.
Other text characteristics
• Use bold sparingly to draw attention to text users must read. For example, users scanning down a list of radio button options may appreciate seeing the labels in bold, to stand out from text that adds supplemental information about each option. Be aware that using too much bold lessens its impact.
• With labeled data, use bold to emphasize whichever is more important for the data as a whole.
• For mostly generic data (where the data has little meaning without its labels, as with numerals or dates), use bold labels and plain data so that users can more easily scan and understand the types of data.
• For mostly self-explanatory data, use plain labels and bold data so that users can focus on the data itself.
• Alternatively, you can use dark gray text to de-emphasize less important information instead of using bold to emphasize the more important information.
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In this example, instead of emphasizing the data using bold, the labels are de-emphasized by using dark gray.
• Not all fonts support bold, so it should never be crucial to understanding the text.
• Use to refer to text literally. Don't use quotation marks for this purpose.
The terms document and file are often used interchangeably.
• Use for prompts in text boxes and editable drop-down lists.
Screen shot of Search text box
In this example, the prompt in the Search box is formatted as italic text.
• Use sparingly to emphasize specific words to aid in comprehension.
• Not all fonts support italic, so it should never be crucial to understanding the text.
Bold italic
• Don't use in UI text.
• Don't use, except for links.
• Don't use for emphasis. Use italic instead.
• Don't place at the end of control labels, main instructions, or Help links.
• Place at the end of supplemental instructions, supplemental explanations, or any other static text that forms a complete sentence.
Question marks
• Place at the end of all questions. Unlike periods, question marks are used for all types of text.
Exclamation points
• In business applications, avoid.
• Exceptions: Exclamation points are sometimes used in the context of download completion ("Done!") and to call attention to Web content ("New!").
• In a list of three or more items, always put a comma after the next-to-last item in the list.
• Use colons at the end of external control labels. This is particularly important for accessibility because some assistive technologies look for colons to identify control labels.
• Use a colon to introduce a list of items.
• Ellipses mean incompleteness. Use ellipses in UI text as follows:
• Data: Indicate that text is truncated.
• Labels: Indicate that a task is in progress (for example, "Searching...").
• Don't make ellipses interactive. To show truncated text, let users resize the control to see more text or use a progressive disclosure control instead.
Quotation marks and apostrophes
• To refer to text literally, use italic formatting rather than quotation marks.
• Put window titles and control labels in quotation marks only if required to prevent confusion and you can't format using bold instead.
• For quotation marks, prefer double-quotation marks (" "); avoid single-quotation marks.
Are you sure you want to delete "Sparky's cat folder"?
Are you sure you want to delete 'Sparky's cat folder'?
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This generic example shows correct capitalization and punctuation for property sheets.
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This generic example shows correct capitalization and punctuation for dialogs.
• For feature and technology names, be conservative in capitalizing. Typically, only major components should be capitalized (using title-style capitalization).
Analysis Services, cubes, dimensions
Analysis Services is a major component of SQL Server, so title-style capitalization is appropriate; cubes and dimensions are common elements of database analysis software, so it is unnecessary to capitalize them.
• For feature and technology names, be consistent in capitalizing. If the name appears more than once on a UI screen, it should always appear the same way. Likewise, across all UI screens in the program, the name should be consistently presented.
• Don't capitalize the names of generic user interface elements, such as toolbar, menu, scroll bar, button, and icon.
• Exceptions: Address bar, Links bar.
• Don't use all capital letters for keyboard keys. Instead, follow the capitalization used by standard keyboards, or lowercase if the key is not labeled on the keyboard.
spacebar, Tab, Enter, Page Up, Ctrl+Alt+Del
• Don't use all capital letters for emphasis. Studies have shown that this is hard to read, and users tend to regard it as "screaming." For warnings, use a warning icon and a clearly-worded explanation of the situation. There is no need to add, for example, the term WARNING in all capital letters.
For more information, see the "Text" or "Labels" section in the specific UI component guidelines.
Dates and times
• Don't hard-code the format of dates and times. Respect the user's choice of locale and customization options for the date and time formats. The user selects these in the Region and Language control panel item.
• Screen shot of date format: Monday, July 06, 2009 Screen shot of date format: 06 July 2009
• In these examples from Microsoft Outlook®, both formats for the long date are correct. They reflect different choices users have made in the Region and Language control panel item.
• Use the long date format for scenarios that benefit from having additional information. Use the short date format for contexts that don't have sufficient space for the long format. While users choose what information they would like to include in the long and short formats, designers choose which format to display in their programs based on the scenario and the context.
• Screen shot of format with Start and Due dates
• In this example, the long date format helps users organize tasks and deadlines.
Globalization and localization
Globalization means to create documents or products that are usable in any country, region, or culture. Localization means to adapt documents or products for use in a locale other than the country/region of origin. Consider globalization and localization when writing UI text. Your program may be translated into other languages and used in cultures very different from your own.
• For controls with variable contents (such as list views and tree views), choose a width appropriate for the longest valid data.
• Include space enough in the UI surface for an additional 30 percent (up to 200 percent for shorter text) for any text (but not numbers) that will be localized. Translation from one language to another often changes line length of text.
• Don't compose strings from substrings at run time. Instead, use complete sentences so that there is no ambiguity for the translator.
• Don't use a subordinate control, the values it contains, or its units label to create a sentence or phrase. Such a design is not localizable because sentence structure varies with language.
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Screen shot of text box after a check box label
In the incorrect example, the text box is placed inside the check box label.
• Don't make only part of a sentence a link, because when translated, that text might not remain together. Link text should therefore form a complete sentence by itself.
• Exception: Glossary links can be inserted inline, as part of a sentence.
For more information, see the Go Global Developer Center.
Title bar text
• Choose the title bar text based on the type of window:
• Top-level, document-centric program windows: Use a "document name – program name" format. Document names are displayed first to give a document-centric feel.
• Top-level program windows that are not document-centric: Display the program name only.
• Dialog boxes: Display the command, feature, or program from which the dialog box came. Don't use the title to explain the dialog box's purpose—that's the purpose of the main instructions. For more guidelines, see Dialog Boxes.
• Wizards: Display the wizard name. Note that the word "wizard" should not be included in wizard names. For more guidelines, see Wizards.
• For top-level program windows, if the title bar caption and icon are displayed prominently near the top of the window, you can hide the title bar caption and icon to avoid redundancy. However, you still have to set a suitable title internally for use by Windows.
• For dialog boxes, don't include the words "dialog" or "progress" in the titles. These concepts are implied and leaving these words off makes the titles easier for users to scan.
Main instructions
• Use the main instruction to explain concisely what users should do in a given window or page. Good main instructions communicate the user's objective rather than focusing just on manipulating the UI.
• Express the main instruction in the form of an imperative direction or specific question.
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In this example, the main instruction simply states the name of the program; it doesn't explicitly invite a course of action for the user to take.
• Exceptions: Error messages, warning messages, and confirmations
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I'm new to a lot of what I'm trying to do with the development of a new MVC2 web application so this is a beginner question.
I need to understand my options for control and content layout on a web page. I’m using MVC2 so I’m using Controllers, Views, ViewModels, and View Templates. What I need to spin up on…fast…is control the granular layout of controls and content on any particular view.
Below I’ve pasted two examples of auto generated templates that illustrate my challenge. I see that layout is controlled by CSS in my Site.css document. In the first example I get a sequential flow of DisplayLabel and DisplayField. I prefer the adjacent layout of DisplayLabel on the same line as DisplayField produced from example 2. However, example 2 is too simple because the formatting is applied to the Label and the Field.
I think the correct way to tackle this learning curve is Microsoft Expression but I don’t have personal bandwidth at the moment to tackle Expression.
Can anyone point me to a resource that will expose me to lots of examples for CSS formatting? I have lots of syntax questions. For instance, I believe is referencing the Site.css but I can’t find a "display-label" section in Site.css.
Example 1
<div class="display-label">DocTitle</div>
<div class="display-field"><%: Model.DocTitle %></div>
<div class="display-label">DocoumentPropertiesID</div>
<div class="display-field"><%: Model.DocumentPropertiesID %></div>
Example 2
<h2>Title: <%: Model.DocTitle %></h2>
<h2>Created: <%: Model.Created %></h2>
<h2>Modified: <%: Model.Modified %></h2>
<h2>Author: <%: Model.tbl_Author.Name %></h2>
<h2>Genre: <%: Model.tbl_DocumentGenre.GenreName %></h2>
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The examples you posted uses two different HTML elements for structure and the way the content is displayed is different in these examples. First example uses a <div> tag for displaying property name and another one for displaying the value. You can show it in the same line like this:
<div>DocTitle:<%: Model.DocTitle %></div>
<div>DocumentPropertiesID:<%: Model.DocumentPropertiesID %></div>
It's just like the 2nd example. Both the property name and its value is in the same tag. <h2> tag is used for displaying headings. If you get similar layout, CSS may have some rules for displaying texts larger in div. If you can't find rules for those classes, look up rules for div.
Note: It's not a good idea to display content directly in block elements like div. You could place them in a span tag.
Here's a few resources for HTML and CSS:
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Thanks for the resources. I did end up at w3school's yesterday. I also went to Barnes & Noble to kick start my brain. – Cory Mathewson Dec 31 '10 at 15:49
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It looks like you want something like along these lines
<span class = "display-label">Title:</span>
<span class = "display-field"><%: Model.DocTitle %></span>
<span class = "display-label">Created:</span>
<span class = "display-field"><%: Model.Created %></span>
<span class = "display-label">Modified:</span>
<span class = "display-field"><%: Model.Modified %></span>
<span class = "display-label">Author:</span>
<span class = "display-field"><%: Model.tbl_Author.Name %></span>
<span class = "display-label">Genre:</span>
<span class = "display-field"><%: Model.tbl_DocumentGenre.GenreName %></span>
Of course, you'll need to tune the CSS for display-field and display-label. You'll want to remove their block definition if they have one.
In addition, if you don't have time enaugh to take the initial CSS learning step, you may have to be pragmatic and fallback on a <table> in order to simplify the layout tuning.
BTW, the stock Site.css of an ASP.NET MVC app does contain a.display-label definition. Please double-check. If you don't have one, then... simply the corresponding formatting will not be applied (stock display-label is gray text IIRC).
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Thanks for the response. You're spot on from where I ended up after reading and poking about. As Ufuk pointed out above I had to recognize I was using the wrong tags. What I ended up with looks almost exactly like your example. VS 2010 has a great CSS tool. When you are view the Site.css page there is a tool bar for creating CSS code such as Styles and Style Rules. With this tool you can quickly code Elements and Classes in the site CSS. There is more to the tool but my brain is smoking. – Cory Mathewson Dec 31 '10 at 15:56
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Primland Resort, Blue Ridge Mountains, Va.
Readers' Choice Rating: 95.0
Rooms: 97
Service: 97.1
Food: 94.1
Location: 91.2
Design: 97.1
Activities: 93.9
Paeans to the resort are many, and the refrain remains the same: "The closest thing to heaven!" The "gorgeous" eco-conscious lodge houses 26 rooms, while 3 cottages and 11 mountain homes lie further afield. The staff is "enthusiastic and devoted" and guests bless the "five-star equivalent" New American-style preparation of local, organic food in three choices of places to dine—Elements restaurant being the "hardest to resist every night."
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Hawaii's Wailea is paradise - but paradise isn't cheap
WAILEA, Hawaii - If these islands are heaven, Wailea is paradise.
At the base of a dormant volcano, this extravagant and romantic resort town on the southwestern shores of Maui provides a perfect postcard view from every angle. If you're fortunate enough to stay here, it will be hard to leave.
But don't leave home without the essentials: swimsuit, golf clubs, a good book - and a lot of money. Paradise, after all, rarely comes at a discount, and Wailea has the highest hotel rates in Hawaii.
Framed between the unspoiled, rolling hillsides of Haleakala and the peaceful Pacific Ocean, Wailea is home to some of Hawaii's most luxurious hotels and spas where celebrities, honeymooners and the world's wealthy come to indulge and unwind.
Despite having three times the land of bustling Waikiki, Wailea has just five oceanside resorts. All of them - the Grand Wailea Resort, the Four Seasons Resort Maui, the Fairmont Kea Lani, the Renaissance Beach Resort and the Wailea Marriott Resort - feel private and peaceful.
The opulent and open-air properties all have lush tropical gardens, fountains and flaunt sweeping ocean views against a backdrop of spouting humpback whales and uninhabited Kahoolawe island. But they are each very distinct in their architecture and feel.
Perhaps the granddaddy of them all is the 780-room Grand Wailea Resort. Built in 1991 on 40 oceanfront acres, the sprawling resort features the largest spa in Hawaii - the 50,000-square-foot Spa Grande.
What's outside the hotel is just as impressive as what's inside. It's an oceanside oasis, featuring nine swimming pools, seven water slides that make it a favorite among visiting families, caves, bridges, waterfalls and a children's beach.
Next door to the Grand Wailea is the 380-room Four Seasons Resort Maui, where rooms run $365 for a mountainside room and can go up to a whopping $9,500 a night for the palatial 5,000-square-foot Maile Suite.
Taxes alone for the three-bedroom suite will set you back more than $1,000 a night. Spend a week here and the bill will end up being more than the average person's annual pay.
But not every room on Wailea will set you back that much. Rooms can be found at all five resorts for between $300 and $400 a night. Some guests do nothing on their vacations but relax at the resorts all day, which makes their stay relatively affordable because they have few other expenses for entertainment aside from food.
Farther along Wailea Alanui Drive is the Fairmont Kea Lani, which resembles a gleaming white Mediterranean castle. It is the only resort in Hawaii that has nothing but suites and villas. The one-bedroom suites start at $385 a night and the posh villas start at $1,600 a night.
"Within the Wailea area, they have the some of the finest golf courses and hotels in the world," said Rex Johnson, president and chief executive of the Hawaii Tourism Authority. "A lot of that infrastructure is newer than we have in Waikiki and is therefore able to exact some of those higher rates they get."
Frequent visitors to Wailea say that the steep hotel prices are not just for the luxuries of a gentle bed, purple orchid petals scattered in the bathroom, priceless views and waking up to the sound of waves. It's also the exceptional service and the attention to detail.
Four Seasons claims it has an average ratio of 1.5 staff members for every guest room; you may want to bring a wad of cash in small bills for tipping housekeepers, valets, bellhops and wait staff.
Wailea is also a haven for tennis and golf.
With three scenic par-72 courses, the Wailea Golf Club is one of the largest golf facilities in Hawaii. Renowned golf instructor David Leadbetter, swing coach of Hawaii's own Michelle Wie, is opening an academy at the club this spring.
The Gold Course, featuring 93 bunkers, hosts the annual Champions Skins Game in February. A round here will cost about $190. Guests at Wailea's resorts get a $30 discount. Clubs can be rented at the club for $50.
Posh homes, some so exclusive that $1 million won't make the required 20-percent down payment, border the golf courses.
Besides the resorts, golden-sand beaches and golf, Wailea also has world-class restaurants. Or there's always room service, where you can order a burger for $20.
There's also the option of driving 10-15 minutes to dine in nearby Kihei where you'll find everything from Moons Over My Hammy at Denny's to roasted macadamia nut mahi mahi with lobster butter sauce at Roy's.
Unlike Waikiki, there's no traffic and cabs clogging the streets. A free shuttle service takes people from the resorts to the golf club to the outdoor mall, the Shops at Wailea, where you'll find outlets for upscale stores like Tiffany, Louis Vuitton, Coach, Fendi and Gucci.
Every June, Wailea hosts the Maui Film Festival where movie stars like Clint Eastwood, Mike Myers and Geena Davis take in movies under the glowing stars in the Maui sky.
There's lots to do on the island including helicopter tours, whale watching, wine tasting, biking down a volcano or taking the nauseating, windy drive to Hana.
That is, only if you can force yourself to leave Wailea.
If You Go...
HOTEL BOOKING TIPS: As with booking any hotel stay, availability at the five Wailea resorts varies, with higher rates and fewer rooms during peak vacation times. Book well in advance for maximum selection. Rates listed here are the lowest found on the hotels' Web sites; you may be able to find better deals on other Web sites like http://www.greathawaiivacations.com. Most hotels also have suite and other luxury options that are double or more than double their lowest prices.
GRAND WAILEA RESORT: http://www.grandwailea.com/ or (800) 888-6100. Rates begin at $350.
FOUR SEASONS RESORT WAILEA: http://www.fourseasons.com/maui/ or (808) 874-8000. Rates begin at $365.
FAIRMONT KEA LANI WAILEA: http://www.fairmont.com/kealani/ or (808) 875-4100. Rates begin at $385.
RENAISSANCE BEACH RESORT: http://marriott.com/property/propertypage/HNMRN or (808) 879-4900. Rates begin at $329.
WAILEA MARRIOTT RESORT: http://marriott.com/property/propertypage/HNMMC or (808) 879-1922. Rates begin at $309.
WAILEA GOLF CLUB: Blue, Emerald and Gold courses; http://www.golfbc.com/find-a-course/maui or (888) 328-6284.
SHOPS AT WAILEA: http://www.shopsatwailea.com/ or (808) 891-6770.
MAUI FILM FESTIVAL: June 14-18; http://www.mauifilmfestival.com/ or (808) 579-9244.
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Primland Resort, Blue Ridge Mountains, Va.
Readers' Choice Rating: 95.0
Rooms: 97
Service: 97.1
Food: 94.1
Location: 91.2
Design: 97.1
Activities: 93.9
Paeans to the resort are many, and the refrain remains the same: "The closest thing to heaven!" The "gorgeous" eco-conscious lodge houses 26 rooms, while 3 cottages and 11 mountain homes lie further afield. The staff is "enthusiastic and devoted" and guests bless the "five-star equivalent" New American-style preparation of local, organic food in three choices of places to dine—Elements restaurant being the "hardest to resist every night."
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I headed north from Mexico DF to discover the hidden treasures of Queretaro. Driving through curved mountain roads, admiring endless peaks and valleys til San Luis Potosi, where I slowed down while passing around local villagers with their donkeys, to breathe in the calming atmosphere of the place.
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Primland Resort, Blue Ridge Mountains, Va.
Readers' Choice Rating: 95.0
Rooms: 97
Service: 97.1
Food: 94.1
Location: 91.2
Design: 97.1
Activities: 93.9
Paeans to the resort are many, and the refrain remains the same: "The closest thing to heaven!" The "gorgeous" eco-conscious lodge houses 26 rooms, while 3 cottages and 11 mountain homes lie further afield. The staff is "enthusiastic and devoted" and guests bless the "five-star equivalent" New American-style preparation of local, organic food in three choices of places to dine—Elements restaurant being the "hardest to resist every night."
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Holiday Inn Express, Sonic planned for Terre Haute, Ind.
Hotel will have 90 to 100 rooms
Meanwhile, Gibson, who owns several parcels of land around the new east side Walmart, said he is encouraged by the development in that area, despite the slow economy. In recent weeks, Gibson said he has received several pricing inquiries for some of his lots.
"The economic climate isn't so good, but we've got a lot of things going on and some potential things coming," Gibson said. "I'm optimistic about things happening this year."
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United States
Primland Resort, Blue Ridge Mountains, Va.
Readers' Choice Rating: 95.0
Rooms: 97
Service: 97.1
Food: 94.1
Location: 91.2
Design: 97.1
Activities: 93.9
Paeans to the resort are many, and the refrain remains the same: "The closest thing to heaven!" The "gorgeous" eco-conscious lodge houses 26 rooms, while 3 cottages and 11 mountain homes lie further afield. The staff is "enthusiastic and devoted" and guests bless the "five-star equivalent" New American-style preparation of local, organic food in three choices of places to dine—Elements restaurant being the "hardest to resist every night."
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“The India Experience”: E&EM Students Travel to India.
By: Laura Verduzco
In May 2005, E&EM doctoral student Laura Verduzco traveled to India with a group of current and former GW students. This is Laura’s story:
My roommate is a Hindu GW student who was born in Bangalore, the I.T. capital of India. To follow Hindu tradition, he accepted his parents’ wishes and consented to an arranged marriage. He got engaged in November 2004 and got married in May 2005.
A group of current and former GW students (including me) decided to take the wedding as a perfect excuse to visit India. We all traveled from different places. I flew to India via Frankfurt and landed in Chennai (formerly Madras), a beach city in the eastern shores of the country, which is the fourth largest in India. In Chennai, I had the opportunity to visit a crocodile farm and some of the most ancient temples in India. After Chennai I flew to Bangalore, where I met with friends who came to India for the wedding from Germany and the U.S. Before the wedding, we took a three-day tour of the important sightseeing spots near Bangalore.
During the trip we realized how different life is in that part of the world. The roads are really bad or non existent, and it took us half an hour to drive 10 km and four hours to drive only 200 km! Driving in India is really difficult, streets are narrow and crowded with people and animals, and honking when you pass another vehicle is almost mandatory, so the level of noise is very high. There is a lot of air pollution, which is mostly emitted from old buses and thousands of auto rickshaws (three-wheelers), and there is garbage everywhere.
The food is fantastic, there is a very wide variety of dishes, mostly vegetarian, that vary from state to state. Most women wear beautiful sarees every day and adorn their hair with garlands. There are billboards everywhere advertising the latest Bollywood movie, which is the most profitable industry in India. You can see cows, camels and elephants on the streets pulling carts with goods and people. There are several official languages in the country, but a large percentage of the population speaks English, so communication is usually not a problem. The most practiced religion is Hinduism, in which there are thousands of gods and goddesses. People eat with their bare hands, and in the south is common to use a banana leaf as a plate. The best part is that everything is very cheap; you can eat a great meal for two or three dollars and stay in a very decent hotel for twelve dollars a night.
The wedding was an exciting experience, it lasted two days and it was attended by one thousand people, give or take, the women wearing their best sarees and the men wearing suits. There are only two seasons in the year that are considered auspicious in India to get married, one is in May ( India’s hottest month) and the other one in November. If you go to India during either season, you will see lots of weddings everywhere in the country and every state has different wedding traditions. My friend’s wedding was in a hall that looked like a theater and everything took place on the stage, while the guests observed from the audience. The first day of the wedding was dedicated to small rituals and picture-taking sessions, and it was not until the second day when my friend got married and literally tied the knot, and I say literally because the wedding became official when he tied a necklace around his bride’s neck.
A few days after the wedding we flew to Delhi, where we started the tour of the golden triangle, Delhi-Agra-Jaipur. Delhi is one of the cleanest cities in India because the government has mandated that all auto rickshaws and buses have to convert to natural gas and pass strict emission tests every month. Delhi is more international than the rest of India and most people speak English. Agra is well known for the Taj-Mahal, which is an impressively beautiful mausoleum that a king built for his queen. Jaipur is also known as the pink city because the former king decided to paint the whole city pink, which was the favorite color of the king of England.
Going to India was an amazing experience that I would recommend to everybody. My advice for those who decide to go is to try to skip the hot month of May, drink only bottled water and bargain hard.
Jonathan P. Deason, Ph.D., Lead Professor
The George Washington University
Engineering Management & Systems Engineering Department (EMSE)
Environmental & Energy Management Program (E&EM)
Fall 2005 (Volume 6, Number 2)
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Primland Resort, Blue Ridge Mountains, Va.
Readers' Choice Rating: 95.0
Rooms: 97
Service: 97.1
Food: 94.1
Location: 91.2
Design: 97.1
Activities: 93.9
Paeans to the resort are many, and the refrain remains the same: "The closest thing to heaven!" The "gorgeous" eco-conscious lodge houses 26 rooms, while 3 cottages and 11 mountain homes lie further afield. The staff is "enthusiastic and devoted" and guests bless the "five-star equivalent" New American-style preparation of local, organic food in three choices of places to dine—Elements restaurant being the "hardest to resist every night."
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Best Sunday dinner off the Merritt Parkway?
Driving back from NYC on Sunday night, I'd like to stop for dinner somewhere "not too far" off the Merritt Parkway.
1) Must be no more than 10-15 minutes off of the Merritt/Wilbur Cross Parkway. Please don't try to stretch this to somewhere 20 miles off the parkway that you love. I honestly need it to be "right off" parkway.
2) Must be North of Stamford and South of Wallingford. In other words, somewhere vaguely between "a good distance out of NYC" and "nowhere near Hartford".
3) Must have a wine list. Doesn't have to be awesome. But absolutely must serve wine. No exceptions.
4) Any price, from a great cheap pizza place to a high end fine dining place. If it's a mom and pop brick oven pizza place, great. If it's a 3 star Michelin restaurant, great. I don't care either way, as long as it's good.
5) Must be open Sunday night. (This rules out a lot of places.)
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1. Sorry to have seen this so late - I would have recommended Biagio's in Stratford - you can see the parkway from its parking lot. Good Italian, with a wine list.
Maybe next time!
1. Lots of options in New Canaan, but I'll let others more knowledgeable chime in there.
I'll suggest Barcelona Fairfield, literally right next to Exit 44 off the Merritt. Tapas and other more substantial Spanish entrees. Pretty extensive wine list that leans heavily towards Iberian and South American.
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1. re: plien69
+1 Always stop on the way home. Can sit outside.
2. Oh! I meant this for 2 weeks from now, not tonight. :-)
I checked out Biagio's, but I saw it got mixed reviews, so I was hesitant.
Also checked out Barcelona, but is it just tapas? And the decor looked...um...weird. An old motel?
I also checked out: Match in Norwalk, Bin 100 in Milford, Eli's Brick Oven (not sure if they have wine), and Elm in New Canaan.
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1. re: johnblacksox
Barcelona does occupy the restauarnt space in an old motor inn, but the food is very good.
Bin 100 would be my first choice on the list
1. re: bagelman01
I would call Bin 100 convenient to I-95, but across town from the Parkway; I guess it falls under the 15-minute time limit, but to me it feels like a long haul. JMO.
1. re: harrie
If one takes the Milford Parkway exit (just before the Sikorsky Bridge) and gets on 95 South to exit 34 and makes a left for two blocks, it's about 8 minutes each way.
2. re: johnblacksox
Yes, it's in the lower level of the Motel Hi-Ho, but it's a separate space; you don't need to go through the motel lobby to get to the restaurant. Honestly, the outside doesn't look like much (mid-century turnpike motel, gravel parking lot), but the restaurant space itself is nice. I would characterize it as retro chic, not motel shabby (IMO of course).
They do specialize in tapas, but also have a number of fuller entrees (think paella, mixed grill, etc.)
Also, according to their Facebook page, Sunday night is pig roast night: $29pp, and wine bottles are 50%.
1. re: johnblacksox
Sunday nights at Elm can be a relative bargain. They have "Sunday Suppers", 3 courses prix fixe for $35. It's an inexpensive way to try some well-prepared and innovative cuisine. The drawback is that it's chef's choice, which doesn't offer variety. Since they don't always update their website, I would definitely call ahead for that night's menu before committing.
If you're willing to try Match in South Norwalk (SoNo), a quick trip down Super 7, past I-95, you can try the original Barcelona, which is in a conventional restaurant setting a couple of blocks away.
Another choice, 1 exit down Rte 7 from the Merritt, is Valencia Luncheria in Norwalk. It has long been one of my favorite casual restaurants (I'm far from alone in that opinion), and my friends from NYC now stop there on trips to and from New England. Their new location has plenty of seating and a great bar, but their spartan wine list may be a deal-breaker for you.
Match is my least favorite of the bunch here - I find it overpriced - but I can't comment about Bin 100 or Eli's.
1. re: SteveSCT
I was looking at Elm, it looks pretty good...
I have to say that Valencia Luncheria looks really good, food looks awesome, and nice wine too.
A couple concerns...They only have 8 tables? Would I be able to get in on a Sunday night? Also, do they have table service? I can't tell from the website.
1. re: johnblacksox
Older CH posts can describe their old location, which had 8 tables, was self-serve at lunch, BYO, and could have hour+ waits. They have since moved 1/2 block south, where I estimate they now seat over 100, with full bar and wait service. It can still get crowded, but wait times are usually in the 10-15 minute range on busy nights. Sundays are generally not problematic.
1. re: SteveSCT
Nice! That sounds great. What's the decor like inside? I can't tell from the website.
(Pet peeve of mine that restaurant websites rarely post pictures of their dining room, instead favoring 100 high def close ups of pieces of lettuce. Because evidently, I don't know what lettuce looks like. But I digress...)
Also, asked down below about Strada 18 in South Norwalk...Any thoughts on that?
1. re: johnblacksox
It's casual decor and service. Specials and some menu items are artfully drawn on large blackboards. Their theme is Venezuelan beach food, so it vaguely attempts to look like a tropical seaside restaurant. Fortunately they don't get too into the theme, so it's more simple and pleasant rather than kitschy - though they have some outdoor tables on trucked in sand.
I'll refrain from commenting on Strada 18, which is down the street from Match in Sono, because I haven't been there in a while. The owners know how to run a restaurant well, because we have been patronizing their new French-themed spinoff in New Canaan called Boulevard 18 instead. We enjoy their take on bistro food (love the lamb burgers), and they have large, well-curated wine and cocktail lists.
As for Pepe's, I second bagelman's comments (tho I view Pepe's more favorably than he, because I don't have the secret Sally's phone #).
2. Another vote for Biagio's in Stratford. Very easy on and off the Parkway, delicious food and attentive service.
1. Barcelona is in the HiHo hotel right off exit 46 in Fairfield.
Tapas, and Sunday night is 1/2 price wine. They do have an excellent wine list.
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Primland Resort, Blue Ridge Mountains, Va.
Readers' Choice Rating: 95.0
Rooms: 97
Service: 97.1
Food: 94.1
Location: 91.2
Design: 97.1
Activities: 93.9
Paeans to the resort are many, and the refrain remains the same: "The closest thing to heaven!" The "gorgeous" eco-conscious lodge houses 26 rooms, while 3 cottages and 11 mountain homes lie further afield. The staff is "enthusiastic and devoted" and guests bless the "five-star equivalent" New American-style preparation of local, organic food in three choices of places to dine—Elements restaurant being the "hardest to resist every night."
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20 Great American Road Trips
No more ice on the roads means bye-bye winter and hello spring. Which makes for the perfect
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time to hit the roads. Just as the drivers aren’t the same neither are the road trips
and MSNBC has got ’20 Great American Drives’ for you to look
into. The first page features one will have you up and down, north and south and covering just about every
portion of Virginia, but many others are shorter. Spend a day checking out a piece of Washington, Mississippi,
Kansas, or Maine. The read itself is pretty lengthy, but well worth the investigation on how to use those
miles and one of the biggest factors these days, gas.
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United States
Primland Resort, Blue Ridge Mountains, Va.
Readers' Choice Rating: 95.0
Rooms: 97
Service: 97.1
Food: 94.1
Location: 91.2
Design: 97.1
Activities: 93.9
Paeans to the resort are many, and the refrain remains the same: "The closest thing to heaven!" The "gorgeous" eco-conscious lodge houses 26 rooms, while 3 cottages and 11 mountain homes lie further afield. The staff is "enthusiastic and devoted" and guests bless the "five-star equivalent" New American-style preparation of local, organic food in three choices of places to dine—Elements restaurant being the "hardest to resist every night."
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Boku no Natsuyasumi Portable: Mushimushi Hakase to Teppen-yama no Himitsu!! (PSP)
100 point score based on reviews from various critics.
5 point score based on user ratings.
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United States
Primland Resort, Blue Ridge Mountains, Va.
Readers' Choice Rating: 95.0
Rooms: 97
Service: 97.1
Food: 94.1
Location: 91.2
Design: 97.1
Activities: 93.9
Paeans to the resort are many, and the refrain remains the same: "The closest thing to heaven!" The "gorgeous" eco-conscious lodge houses 26 rooms, while 3 cottages and 11 mountain homes lie further afield. The staff is "enthusiastic and devoted" and guests bless the "five-star equivalent" New American-style preparation of local, organic food in three choices of places to dine—Elements restaurant being the "hardest to resist every night."
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Star had chosen a room fairly close by, naturally. It was very open, about twice as big as some of the normal sized rooms and had a large, floor-to-ceiling window that seemed to take up nearly the whole wall. It was depressingly blank, though, and Star's mind was reeling with the possibilities of adding plenty of bright and happy colors to it.
Cyborg's room had already been set up for him. Filled with all the spare parts and extra tech that only he would ever need to use. He had also moved all his sports memorabilia, from his time at Jump High School, to a corner desk area. It even had a few pictures taking up space on the wall.
The team regrouped back in Ops to discuss the redesign and budget for their own personal spaces. Plans were made for special order items or anything that couldn't be built with their own equipment, and by the end of that night Cyborg, Robin, and Beast Boy's rooms were completed to their satisfaction, Starfire either had everything that she'd need for the night or had already been ordered what she'd need long-term and was having it delivered to Titan Isle by tomorrow evening, and finally, Raven had spent the afternoon on a trip 'back home' only to come back with a couple mysterious, and strangely ornate, trunks.
When they convened for their first dinner together in the tower, BB asked her about it.
"So, what was in those trunks that you brought?" his voice was abnormally expectant, as if he was hoping for a gift of some sort.
"How to explain…?" Raven asked herself aloud. "Beast Boy, you know that cartoon you were watching this morning? Something about the Grim Reaper and two kids-"
"Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy? Sure.. OH! Do they work like Grim's trunk? Where you can put a whole bunch of stuff in it and it'll never run out of room?"
"Not quite, there's a limit to how much I can fit into it, and it only works with one of my cases. But just like with those kids, the stuff in those cases are forbidden and extremely dangerous if handled incorrectly." She spoke to the group as a whole, "My room is dangerous, and I really do need my privacy, so no one should go poking their heads into there. No one goes into my room."
All nodded in agreement, after knowing the mystic such a short time, none really wanted to cross her.
Later on, Starfire insisted that they all try some of her special'made from home, traditional Tamaranean Glorg', which was meant to be for 'the welcoming of new friends in a new home'. It really just looked like some Jell-O type goop with floating pink… things in it.
"Wait," Raven said when BB and Robin were about to take a bite, "Let me try it first."
"Why? What could go wrong?" Robin asked, trying to be reassuring.
"I can sense things, remember? Just let me see how it is first, I've got a bad feeling about this." With that, Raven picked up her utensil and scooped up a bit of the Glorg to take a bite.
Swallowing, she took a moment before giving her okay. "Not bad-" suddenly, she stopped, her face growing even paler than before.
"Bathroom!" she yelled as she flew out to the hall, to the nearest one from the Ops room.
A chorus of 'Raven!' was heard as her teammates attempted to follow.
Robin was the first to reach the door. "Raven, are you okay?" Sounds of the telekinetic vomiting could be heard as her body tried to dispel what had gotten into her system.
"Food… poisoning," she moaned from beyond the door, in between retching.
"Star, what did you put in that stuff?!" BB yelled.
"I believe I was able to find most of the ingredients or substitutes around the Tower complex," Starfire explained worriedly.
"I think I remember you picking some mushrooms from outside," Cy recalled, an idea dawning on him.
"Mush-rooms?" Star asked.
"The fungus that was in your Glorg," Robin realized, his own train of thought going down the same as Cyborg's.
"Star, I need you to show Cyborg exactly where you found that stuff," Robin ordered, "Beast Boy, get the infirmary prepped for Raven, we need to find out what was in that stuff."
Everyone left to his or her specified mission.
Robin attempted to reach Raven again. "Raven, you okay now?" The sounds of her retching had stopped and all was quiet within.
"I'm coming in now, okay?" he warned as he overrode the access code and opened the door.
Inside, the toilet had the seat up, flushing away the evidence, while Raven was lying on the floor beside it clutching her unclasped cloak tightly to her shivering form while pressing a hot cheek to the cool tile floor. Her face was drenched in sweat and her lips were barely moving as she mumbled inaudibly to herself.
"Raven!" the Boy Wonder cried as he scooped her off the floor and rushed her to the elevator. Her cloak had fluttered away in his rush and as the elevator made it's painfully slow trek down to Beta Block, Robin couldn't help but notice how light Raven was. She really was very petite compared to the tall Tamaranean, yet she had a very nice figure-
'Wait, where's that coming from?' Robin thought suddenly. He shook his head in an attempt to clear the thought.
Right now his main concern was Raven, not those awesome curves she hid under that cloak of hers-
'Stop, she's a teammate,' Robin chided himself. 'Star's a teammate too, but you weren't going to let that stop you…'
His thoughts switched back to Raven as she snuggled closer to his chest, as if for more warmth. But her forehead was burning up, even hotter than what Robin thought should be possible.
'Must be an allergic reaction or flu or something,' he speculated.
The elevator finally dinged open and Robin hurried to the infirmary where BB had set up most of the equipment. He clearly had no idea what he was supposed to be doing, though, so Robin sent him out to get blankets for Raven.
Star and Cy came in just as Robin had finished up taking a blood sample from Raven, he almost didn't have time to notice how her skin seemed to close up on it's own right after he had taken out the needle, leaving no trace of a scab or scar.
"Just like I thought," Cy began, "Star had accidently used one of those poisonous mushrooms, if you or BB would've eaten it, you'd be dead before it could hit your stomach."
"Star, from now on, if your unsure about anything, anything at all, no matter how dense the question," Robin paused so she could get the full effect of what he was about to say, "Please, just ask one of us first."
"I understand, Robin," she nodded solemnly. And so the torrent of never ending questions began. Little did the masked hero know, how much of a torture he had brought upon himself and his fellow teammates.
"Still leaves one very important question," Cy interrupted as he checked some of the monitors, "How's Raven not affected by the bad mushrooms?"
"That's what I'm going to find out."
BB ran in, blankets in hand.
"What did I miss? Is Raven okay yet?"
"She's fine, just sleeping," Robin reassured as he took a blanket from the changeling and laid in gently upon the ill mystic. "I'm gonna need you guys to leave-"
"No way! Raven's sick! We need to know what's up with her!" BB protested.
"And she can't get any better with all of her team cooped up in one space worrying about her. She needs us to be strong for her while she's recuperating."
"Fine," he griped as Starfire and Cyborg shuffled out with him, each throwing concerned glances at their downed teammate.
Raven was still passed out, but in a very fitful sleep from the sound of things.
Robin took the blood sample and toadstools that had been collected and carefully packaged them to send to Batman. He knew the Dark Knight had an extensive lab and database in the Batcave, even bigger than what the Justice League had.
He scrawled a quick note;
Sick teammate with a toxic substance running through her bloodstream. Need help figuring how she isn't dead by now- appreciated if you could look into it.
Sure, he and Batman hadn't left off on the best of terms, but when the Bats had agreed to help out with the Tower, things did get a little better. Besides, Bruce still had Batgirl there to help him, and he did say something about recruiting another Robin to take Dick's place.
But back to the present, Robin sent off the package, knowing that he'd get a reply soon enough from his former mentor.
Raven eventually awoke, but very disoriented and unaware of her current surroundings.
"How'd I get in here?"
"Oh! You're up!" Robin had been busy with the analysis he had been sent. Not only did Bruce confirm the toxicity of the fungus, he had discovered what Robin supposed must have been the big secret that Raven was trying to keep.
'I'm not really the hero type. Trust me, if you knew what I really am…'
Raven was a half-demon.
"Huh? I'm sorry, didn't quite catch that."
"I asked
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Primland Resort, Blue Ridge Mountains, Va.
Readers' Choice Rating: 95.0
Rooms: 97
Service: 97.1
Food: 94.1
Location: 91.2
Design: 97.1
Activities: 93.9
Paeans to the resort are many, and the refrain remains the same: "The closest thing to heaven!" The "gorgeous" eco-conscious lodge houses 26 rooms, while 3 cottages and 11 mountain homes lie further afield. The staff is "enthusiastic and devoted" and guests bless the "five-star equivalent" New American-style preparation of local, organic food in three choices of places to dine—Elements restaurant being the "hardest to resist every night."
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the Wonderful level them mountain tops to flat plateaus UFO
landing sites and be Thankful in Coal is King Country!
“I have a Re-Vision Dream Speech” to follow at 11:00!
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United States
Primland Resort, Blue Ridge Mountains, Va.
Readers' Choice Rating: 95.0
Rooms: 97
Service: 97.1
Food: 94.1
Location: 91.2
Design: 97.1
Activities: 93.9
Paeans to the resort are many, and the refrain remains the same: "The closest thing to heaven!" The "gorgeous" eco-conscious lodge houses 26 rooms, while 3 cottages and 11 mountain homes lie further afield. The staff is "enthusiastic and devoted" and guests bless the "five-star equivalent" New American-style preparation of local, organic food in three choices of places to dine—Elements restaurant being the "hardest to resist every night."
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Parasol Up - Parasol Down Lounge
Las Vegas, Nevada
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Parasol Down probably has the most beautiful (and romantic!) ambience of any bar I have ever been to. It is located next to the "Lake of Dreams" at the Wynn hotel, which has a stunning waterfall, enclosed in a miniature forest. Throughout the evening, the waterfall changes colors and various miniature "shows" take place on the lake - some whimsical, others a little more sultry (the sultry shows started happening after midnight).
The drink menu is largely vegan. There were only two mixed drinks that couldn't be made vegan, and the waitress was knowledgeable enough about the drink consistencies that she could explain this to me. There were a number of really interesting drinks made with sake infusions. My favorite was a martini made with Asian pear sake and lychee syrup.
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