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The astrobiology community deeply mourns the loss of Dr. Carl Woese, the University of Illinois microbiology professor credited with the discovery of a "third domain" of life. He died on Sunday, December 30th at his home. He was 84.
In 1977, Dr. Woese and his colleagues overturned a universally held assumption about the basic structure of the tree of life. Microbes known as archaea are as distinct from bacteria as plants and animals are, they wrote in a published paper. Prior to this finding, scientists had lumped archaea together with bacteria and asserted that the tree of life had two main branches -- bacteria (called prokarya), and everything else (eukarya). Their discovery added archaea as a third main branch of the evolutionary family tree.
Dr. Woese was born on July 15, 1928, in Syracuse, N.Y. He earned bachelor's degrees in math and physics from Amherst College and a Ph.D. in biophysics at Yale University. He studied medicine at the University of Rochester, was a postdoctoral researcher in biophysics at Yale and worked as a biophysicist at the General Electric Research Laboratory in Schenectady, N.Y. before he joined the microbiology faculty at the University of Illinois in 1964. He was also a professor at the UI's Institute for Genomic Biology.
"Carl was truly a man of vision, creativity and passion, with a deep love of this university," said Gene Robinson, director of the UI's Institute for Genomic Biology in a statement. "Carl not only rewrote the textbook in evolutionary biology, but his discovery also has given us the tools today to study the human microbiome, the incredibly diverse and complex assemblages of microorganisms in our bodies that contribute so much to both health and disease."
Woese received a number of awards for his research: a MacArthur Foundation grant in 1984, election to the National Academy of Sciences in 1988, the Leeuwenhoek Medal (microbiology's premier honor from the Royal Netherlands Academy of Arts and Sciences) in 1992, a National Medal of Science in 2000 and many more.
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"Imagine a 64-square chessboard with a coin on each square.
Each of the coins has either head or tails facing up, chosen at random.
I check the board and decide which coin will be my favorite one.
One of you (say A) will be with me, see the chessboard and I will reveal to him (only to him) which coin is my favorite. He then must flip over exactly one of the coins on the chessboard, while the other mathematician (B) is in another room not looking.
Once the coin is flipped over, the uninformed mathematician (B) is summoned into the room and must deduce which coin is my favorite only by examining the coins on the chessboard.
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"The reality is that we have a lot of guys on this team that just absolutely refuse to take walks," Steve Stone said on the Boers and Bernstein Show. "I mean, you've got Brent Morel, who's going to be a very good player, but he hasn't had a walk this year. You can get to three balls on [A.J.] Pierzynski, but he's going to swing at it if it stays in the ball park. Juan Pierre is a swinging leadoff hitter, he's not a walking leadoff hitter. [Alexei] Ramirez is very difficult to walk.
"So we have a lineup full of guys that swing the bat. When they're hitting the baseball and they're finding holes, then the team, you know, will put together a lot of hits and a lot of runs. But the teams that have consistently a lot of runs scored, are patient teams who get the starters out of there around the sixth inning because they're up to 100 pitches because they've taken some walks, because they've run the counts deep, and our guys, historically, have not taken walks. And when you're hitting that's fine. When you're not hitting, you're putting a lot of pitchers-pitches in play."
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"Enforced exercise does no harm to the body, but enforced learning will not stay in the mind. So avoid compulsion, and let your children's lessons take the form of play" –Plato (The Republic, vii, 536, in Cornford, 1945).
In this month's Child Development issue, researchers examined how classroom activities promote learning on certain school readiness measures, like vocabulary, letter-naming, and number-naming. In a study of over 2,700 pre-Kindergarten children, the res earchers compared kids that were mostly engaged in free play (the teacher didn't direct or engage with the children), individual instruction (the teacher instructed an individual child who then worked on projects independently), group instruction (the teacher directly instructed a group of students), and scaffolded learning (the teacher interacted directly with children and helped them to go slightly beyond the level of play that they were able to achieve on their own).
So—what did they find? Children who spent most of their time engaged in free play showed the smallest gains over the course of the year while children in instructional activities exhibited the greatest gains. This is consistent with other studies— and it is not surprising—if a child has no one pointing them in the right direction and children's activities/toys are not assembled in a way that promotes discovery, it will be difficult to impossible to make the same academic gains as children who have help. Having said that, direct instruction is NOT the only alternative….
Guided play: The middle ground.
Guided play represents the midpoint between free play and direct instructional methods—blending curricular goals and play. How is this accomplished? A teacher embeds materials into play environments and then helps guide children's discovery and exploration of new information. Teachers guide learning in a variety of ways—including modeling, co-playing, asking questions during play, and creating games/play activities. When we look closer at this study, we see that the scaffolded learning group is similar to guided play. In fact, the scaffolded group had similar learning outcomes to those receiving instruction! This coincides with the growing body of research that shows guided play is stronger than other direct instruction methods!
Here are some take-home messages to think about:
(1) "Guided play" – an instructional method. Guided play is a great method to engage children in a fun, exciting way while fostering learning goals and key skills! Create fun games and activities that help children learn new things and practice their new skills!!
(2) Not all "academic readiness skills" are equal. Studies show free play and guided play activities promote a variety of social, physical, and 'thinking' skills, while direct instruction narrowly promotes curricular content. Remember the 6 C's you saw at the Ultimate Block Party? As children played with partners and adults—they fostered collaboration, communication, creative innovation, content knowledge, confidence, and critical thinking! The combination of these skills is just as important as learning ABC's and numbers for later success! So free- and guided-play are key (and one should not be emphasized over another)!
(3) Look at the BIG picture. Over the last fifty years, researchers have compared preschool models and found play-based practices have long-term, positive impacts on children's health, social skills, motivation to learn, and academic achievement. While direct instruction models have sometimes shown short-term academic gains over play-based practices, these findings often fade over time, and sometimes result in negative social outcomes (e.g., emotional issues, attention problems, etc). Children must be able to focus, concentrate, converse and respect others, and self-regulate their behaviors/emotions— all of which are developed through free- and guided-play.
(4) Learning does not start/stop with school. Your children only spend about 14% of their day in school, so YOU have an active role in helping your child learn. Try some guided play techniques at home! Here are some examples:
- "I Spy Shapes!" – Ask your child to find all of the different types of rectangles are in the room. Help her 'discover' the shape properties—How are they different? How are they similar?
- "Grocery Store Challenge" – On your next trip to the grocery store, ask your child math-related questions like "If I eat an apple, how many do I have left?", "How many letter A's do you see on this box of cereal?," "How many pieces of gum can I get with a dollar?"
- "Sing-A-long" – Make up funny songs with your children using new vocabulary words or math concepts. Here are some examples.
- "Story-board learning" – Ask children to create a story board using their new knowledge. For example, if the children learned about different seasons, ask your child to draw four pictures of him playing during those seasons. He can then act out the story for you!
- Check out a children's museum in your area. You will see playful learning materialize before your eyes! Not sure where one is? Find one here!
Featured Article:
Chien, N. C., Howes, C., Burchinal, M., Pianta, R. C., Ritchie, S., Bryant, D. M., et al. (2010). Children's classroom engagement and school readiness gains in prekindergarten. Child Development, 81, 1534-1549.
Interested in Learning More?
Fisher, K., Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R.M., Berk, L., & Singer, D. (2010, in press). Playing around in school: Implications for learning and educational policy. In A. Pellegrini (Ed), Handbook of the Development of Play. Oxford University Press.
Hirsh-Pasek, K., Golinkoff, R., Berk, L., & Singer, D. (2008). A Manifesto for playful learning in preschool: Presenting the scientific evidence. New York, NY: Oxford University Press.
Marcon, R. (1999). Differential impact of preschool models on development and early learning of inner-city children: A three cohort study. Developmental Psychology, 35, 358-375.
Stipek, D., Daniels, D., Galluzzo, D., Millburn, S., & Salmon, J. M. (1998). Good beginnings: What difference does the program make in preparing young children for school. Journal of Applied Developmental Psychology, 19, 41-66.
Golbeck, S.L. (2001). Instructional models for early childhood: In search of a child regulated/teacher-guided pedagogy. In S.L. Golbeck (Ed.), Psychological perspectives on early childhood education: Reframing dilemmas in research and practice (pp. 3 – 29). Mahwah, NJ: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates.
Pellegrini, A. (2005). Recess: Its role in education and development. Mahwah, NJ: Psychology Press.
This blog was written by Dr. Kelly Fisher, Postdoctoral Fellow at Temple University, and Dr. Jennifer Zosh, Assistant Professor at Pennsylvania State University, Brandywine


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Pho-nomenon: Vietnamese soup comes to West Main
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Pad Thai has an extensive Pho menu and Saigon Cafe offers great traditional Pho. Pho has been in cville for a while, you just had to dig around for it. Being said, I think this will be a welcomed addition to W. Main St and will be there on opening day, spoon in hand.
CB obviously isn't Vietnamese. There hasn't been genuine phở bò or phở gà in Charlottesville, and it's exciting to see someone who is actually Vietnamese try to bring it Charlottesville.
Can't wait, hopefully it'll survive in C'ville's tough restaurant world.
Vu is a great guy, a talented chef, and a savvy entrepreneur. I have no doubt his pho restaurant will be excellent and that he'll otherwise continue to do great things for Mid-town and the larger Charlottesville food scene.
@cc: Please educate us on the essentials of a Pho Restaurant. I've eaten at Pho restaurants in the Vancouver area. The soup at Saigon, made by a very nice Vietnamese man seems pretty much the same. I'm not a naif, although I don't know the unicode chars for Vietnamese characters, so clearly not one of the cognoscenti like you. Do enlighten please...I really hate it when people adopt the "oh you may think that's a Twinkie but I've had Twinkies made in Cleveland" bit, which in the absence of hard criteria is pose only.
I've been to Saigon and had pho there. I prefer the stuff they make in Northern Virginia. What's up with authenticity anyway? Pho is a type of soup not an appliance. There will be variations from place to place. That's partly what makes food interesting.
If this place is half decent, I will be here at least once a week.
Pho from Saigon or other places in Vietnam isn't necessarily the best Pho, judging from what my Vietnamese relatives have told me when they come visit the US. The best Pho I've had is in Southern California, where coincidentally the largest concentration of Vietnamese people in the US reside.
Not that hard to believe that some shop in cville makes better Pho than Saigon. They don't have high quality ingredients over there, and that makes a huge difference. Probably the same reason SoCal pho tastes better than what I had when I visited Saigon.
So excited about a pho place in downtown Charlottesville!!!!! I might be there every damn day.
When are we going to get our tastebuds standardized and calibrated so that we can all argue about the authenticity and validity of food with some concrete quantitative data?
Where is the purple building? Who is in this building? I like Pho and think it is good for the area to have a few Pho options. Saigon is certainly very good.
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@Desdemona: Hah-- thanks for pointing out our typo before the print edition--hawes spencer
Can't flipping wait to devour some delicious noodles, heavenly broth, succulent cuts of meat, and all the fixins! Wooooooooooooooooooooooo! Pho in this town has been very meh
This Is very exciting! Take note though that Lemongrass on the Corner offers excellent authentic pho...prepared specially on Saturdays and Sundays only.
Surprised I didn't see a mention by anyone above of the pho served on weekends at Lemongrass on 14th St NW. It's cheap, bountiful, and delicious, and the house is usually packed. It also seems pretty authentic, tasting very much like the pho I've enjoyed the numerous Vietnamese restaurants in the Little Saigon neighborhood in Richmond's West End, as well as the very first pho I ever tasted at a tiny restaurant in Georgetown in the 1980's. Vietnamese is one of my favorite cuisines. I was surprised, after the plethora of options all over Richmond, that there were not more Vietnamese restaurants in Charlottesville when I moved back here a couple of years ago.


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I'm using the latest LAPACK precompiled libraries and dlls but when I try to run a program which includes Lapack routines from Fortran I get the following erro message "The application was unable to start correctly (ox0000007b) Click OK to close application ". I'm using the Code::Block as IDE editor and I'm sure that I set the configuration to link the Lapack library correctly(enviromental variables, compiler settings, setting the dlls at right location, etc.., ) during the run time otherwise I'm supposed to get the compile time or program wouldn't even be compiled.
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Governor Cuomo and Legislative Leaders Outline Agreement on 2013-14 Budget
Governor Andrew M. Cuomo, Senate Majority Coalition Co-Leaders Dean Skelos and Jeff Klein, and Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver today outlined the agreement on the 2013-14 Budget.
The Budget continues the state's focus on economic growth through a series of initiatives to create jobs and grow the economy including new tax cuts for small businesses, a new $350 tax credit for every middle class family, major education investments and reforms, and an increase in the minimum wage to $9 per hour.
With this agreement, the Budget is on track to pass days before the April 1 deadline, with the potential to be the earliest state budget since 1976 and the first time New York has had three consecutive, on-time budgets since 1984.
"This budget agreement puts New York on track to have the third consecutive on-time, balanced, budget that holds increases in spending under 2 percent, while investing in our economy to create jobs and cutting taxes for middle class families and small businesses. This budget symbolizes the tremendous progress that has been made in Albany and demonstrates that the new New York government is once again working for the people of this state," Governor Cuomo said. "Two years ago our state was facing significant challenges, with constant spending and tax increases chasing businesses and people from our state and scandals making our government a joke of late night television. Today New York State is creating hundreds of thousands of private sector jobs, opening the doors to new small businesses, cutting taxes for middle class families to their lowest rates in sixty years, and making education investments and reforms like never before. While there is still more work to do, todays agreement shows that New York is on the move and is rising once again."
Senate Majority Coalition Co-Leader Dean Skelos said, "I am pleased that we have reached agreement on a responsible budget that includes the longtime Senate Republican priorities to create new jobs and cut taxes for hardworking, middle-class families. As part of this budget, we will provide a $350 Family Tax Relief check to families with children, offer incentives to help small businesses create new jobs, and eliminate the energy tax surcharge over the next three years, all initiatives highlighted by the Senate Republican conference throughout the budget process. In the coming days, we will complete passage of the earliest state budget in more than 30 years, our third consecutive early budget. I thank the Governor for his leadership, and commend our Senate Finance Committee Chair Senator John DeFrancisco, my Coalition Co-Leader Senator Jeff Klein, the Assembly leadership and all of my colleagues for their hard work."
Senate Majority Coalition Co-Leader and Independent Democratic Conference Leader Senator Jeffrey D. Klein said, "This is the most middle class friendly budget in a generation. When we formed the bipartisan coalition last December, we promised low-wage workers that we would pass a major increase to the minimum wage. Today, were delivering on that promise and raising the minimum wage even higher than anyone thought possible just three short months ago. Todays budget agreement is a huge step-forward for families across New York. Were not only giving minimum wage workers the raise they deservewere putting real dollars back into the pockets of families who really need it. For the past five years, we have been asking middle class families to do more with less. Today, were finally giving them some relief by delivering a $350 check to every single one of those families. Two years ago, we cut middle class taxes to their lowest level in sixty years. Today, Im proud to announce that these same low tax rates on the middle class are here to stay. Im also pleased to announce that with today's agreement, the IDC is following through on its commitment to help returning veterans find rewarding work when they come home. By providing a tax credit for businesses that hire one of our states heroes, I know we will bring down the unacceptably high unemployment rate among New York veterans."
Assembly Speaker Sheldon Silver said, "I am pleased that the Governor and the Legislature have reached agreement on a budget that addresses the Assembly Majoritys top priority of raising the minimum wage, ensures the care and wellbeing of our vulnerable populations, stimulates job creation, and safeguards a sound education for our children. I commend the Governor and my colleagues in the Assembly and Senate for their hard work and commitment to an early budget agreement."
Creating Jobs and Cutting Taxes - Key Economic Development Initiatives:
A Balanced, On-time Budget that Invests in Creating Jobs and Cuts Taxes: The Budget closes a $1.3 billion gap with no new taxes or fees. New York State has not had three consecutive on-time or early budgets since 1984 and has not had a budget on track to pass this far before the April 1 deadline since 1976.
Cutting Taxes for Middle Class Families: Recognizing that New York's taxpayers have been overtaxed for too long, the Budget includes $1.125 billion in new tax cuts to middle class families over three years. Families with incomes between $40,000 and $300,000 will be eligible to receive a new child tax credit of $350 per year for three years, beginning in 2014.
Tax Cuts for Small Businesses: To provide tax relief to New York's job creators, the Budget includes nearly $800 million in tax relief for New York businesses over three years. With this tax relief, the Budget recognizes that cutting taxes sends a positive sign to the private sector that New York is pro-business and helps reverse New York's longstanding reputation as the tax capital of the nation.
Hiring Tax Credits: To help New York's returning soldiers and young people find work, the Budget includes a permanent tax credit for the hiring of Veterans, and $181 million in tax credits over three years for businesses that hire youth.
Reducing Costs and Red Tape for Businesses: To reduce the crushing burden of unemployment insurance and workers compensation, the Budget modernizes and simplifies both systems to provide employers $1.3 billion in savings without affecting workers' benefits.
Investing in the Economy of Tomorrow: The Budget provides the initial funding to launch the Innovation Hot Spots program that will create or designate ten high-tech innovation incubators at locations affiliated with higher education institutions to encourage private-sector growth; a $50 million Innovation Venture Capital Fund that will provide critical seed and early-stage funding to incentivize new business formation and growth in New York State and facilitate the transition from ideas and research to marketable products.
Workforce Training for Job Openings: New York's workforce training is from a different era and a generic job training program does not fit today's economy. The Budget capitalizes on the opportunity of an estimated 210,000 unfilled jobs in the state by including $5 million for the Next Generation Job Linkage Program that works with employers to: identify the job; define the skill; and provide the training for it.
Protecting the Environment and Creating Green Jobs: The Budget increases support for the Environmental Protection Fund and the Cleaner, Greener Communities program, to launch new projects across the state that both create green jobs and protect New York's natural environment.
Building on the Success of the Regional Councils: The Budget includes a third round of the Regional Economic Development Councils including $150 million in new funding and $70 million in tax credits.
Promoting Upstate Tourism and Agriculture through Market NY: To bolster tourism and better market NY-made foods and produce, the Budget launches the Market NY initiative.
SUNY and CUNY Campuses Driving Private Sector Job Creation: The Budget includes a third round of the SUNY 2020 program and launches the CUNY 2020 program to provide competitive grants for projects that connect economic development and academic excellence. ($110 million)
Education Investments and Reforms
Increasing Funding for Education: The Budget reflects New York State's focus on creating a world-class education system that will fully prepare all of New York's students to compete in the 21st Century economy. To accomplish the goal, the Budget includes an increase of nearly $1 billion in education aid.
Pre-kindergarten Program Expansion: Recognizing that quality early education is critical for long-term success and that children who attend full-day pre-k often outperform their peers, the Budget provides additional investments in pre-kindergarten with an emphasis on high quality, full-day pre-k. Funding is targeted toward higher need students in lower wealth school districts via a competitive process. ($25 million)
State Increases Tied to Teacher Evaluations: To maintain New York State's leadership in holding teachers accountable for student achievement, the Budget continues to tie increases in funding for education to the implementation of a teacher evaluation system. No teacher evaluations means no state increase.
Extended Learning Time: Our existing education calendar is still based on an agrarian system and the United States lags behind other nations in terms of how much time students spend in the classroom. In order to provide increased learning opportunities, the Budget supports high-quality extended school day or extended school year programs, with academically enriched programming. Schools that apply to participate in the program must agree to expand learning time by 25 percent. The state will cover the full cost of expanding learning time for students. ($20 million)
Community Schools: Recognizing that a school is not just a "school" in distressed communities and that the demands of schools in wealthier districts are different than demands in lowest wealth districts, the Budget supports an innovative program designed to transform schools into community hubs that integrate social, health and other services, as well as after-school programming to support students and their families. ($15 million)
Reward High-Performing Teachers: To improve results and incentive high-performance, the Budget implements a program that will offer $15,000 in annual stipends for four years to the most effective teachers beginning with math and science teachers. ($11 million)
Early College High School Programs: To improve college access and success, the Budget provides new state funding to expand Early College High School programs. ($4 million)
Bar Exam for Teachers: To ensure the best and brightest are teaching our children, the State Education Department will increase the standards for teacher certification to require passage of a "bar exam," in addition to longer, more intensive and high-quality student-teaching experience in a school setting.
Other Budget and Legislative Actions:
Raises the Minimum Wage: Recognizing that New York's minimum wage is unlivable and that 19 other states have higher minimum wages than New York, the Budget raises the minimum wage from $7.25/hour to $9.00/hour over three years, beginning with $8.00 by the end of 2013, $8.75 by the end of 2014, and $9.00 by the end of 2015.
Lowering and Phasing Out the 18-a Utility Assessment: The Temporary Utility Assessment on electric, gas, water and steam utilities would be phased out over three years beginning in 2014-15.
Pension Stabilization Program: The Budget includes a Pension Stabilization Program that has been agreed to by the State Comptroller's Office for local governments to access short term relief as the savings of Tier VI begin to take effect.
Public Service Commission Reform: The Budget includes a number of reforms that were recommended by the Moreland Commission to give the Public Service Commission greater authority over the state's utilities.
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The night schedule at Qatar means that writers and journalists end the weekend in a state of utter exhaustion. To bed at dawn for a few hours fitful sleep, up around noon, off the to the track for a full day's - or night's - work, then do the same thing over again. Race day is worse, the schedule is tougher, the adrenaline rush greater, the comedown even bigger. And there's usually about twice as much work to do as well. It is still the greatest job in the world, of course, but it makes you long for sleep a couple of times a year. Qatar race-night round ups tend to be terse, and given my usual verbosity, this is no bad thing.
The races. The Moto3 race looked a lot like a 125cc race with a different soundtrack. The great thing about Moto3 is that with a level playing field, we get a slighly different cast of characters, but the best riders remain at the top. The winner's name had been pencilled in since the preseason, Maverick Vinales clearly the cream of the crop in the most junior Grand Prix class. Third man Sandro Cortese was another podium regular, but sandwiched in between was Romano Fenati, a rookie to the class and a name few people who had not been following the preseason testing or the European 125cc championship will have heard of. Fenati is the real deal, giving a sterling account of himself and only wilting under the relentless pressure from Vinales at the very end.
Moto3 also taught an interesting lesson also seen in MotoGP: The fastest bikes were the KTMs, with 5 KTMs topping the maximum speed charts, followed by 4 Kalex KTMs. Yet the race-winning FTR Honda of Vinales was some 10 km/h down on the KTMs, and still managed to win. Sandro Cortese - Red Bull KTM rider on a factory KTM - explained that though KTM had done a great job of building the Moto3 bike, it did not have the handling of the FTR Honda. The FTR had better corner entry, and more traction on corner exit, making the KTM's top speed irrelevant.
In Moto2, we saw a thriller, the kind of race that has motorcycle racing fans all over the planet salivating at the thought. The battle went down to the wire, and only a controversial pass saw the race settled, Marc Marquez passing Thom Luthi and then pulling across and onto Luthi's line. The move went unpunished, not, as the conspiracists would have you believe, because of the flag on his passport, but because the pass was within the limits of the rules. Marquez was past, or had reason to believe he was, and so pulled across to take the correct line for Turn 1. Luthi had pushed to hold on once Marquez came past, and was not quite completely behind the Spaniard after Marquez had come by. He found Marquez encroaching on his line, and instead of sitting up just enough to slow himself down and then dive up the inside of Marquez, he stayed where he was and got pushed wide. Afterwards, Marquez apologized, though he mitigated his behavior by saying that he himself had just been victim of a whole pile of just those kind of aggressive passes before he made his move on Luthi.
But Marquez' victory should worry Thom Luthi deeply. Luthi has show much more maturity and aggression so far this season, and is clearly a title favorite. But if Marquez is already beating him after just 5 days on the bike following a very long layoff after surgery to fix the eye he injured in Sepang, then we can start to pencil Marquez' name in for the championship already. Marquez is Moto2's alien, and he should move up to MotoGP as quickly as he possibly can.
The racing in MotoGP was greatly improved, but not by the tires going off, as I had at first believed. An attack of arm pump had slowed Casey Stoner up, causing him to change his riding style, rolling through the corners rather than driving through them aggressively, in an attempt to last as long as possible. It worked for a while, but in the end, Stoner had to surrender to the pain, allowing Jorge Lorenzo and Dani Pedrosa past. Lorenzo worked hard for the victory, and it was well-earned, but perhaps the most heartening sight was that of Dani Pedrosa badgering away at Lorenzo like a terrier, looking as aggressive as he has been since his 250 days.
With Stoner out with arm pump, was this a Pyrrhic victory for Lorenzo? Not really, as although Stoner might have had the pace to win if he hadn't had arm pump, his margin of victory would not have been that significant, at a track where Stoner has dominated in the past few years. The Yamaha M1 is competitive on race day as well as testing, and Lorenzo is in the form of his life. With a revitalized Pedrosa joining in the fray, this could be a good year.
Stoner explained afterwards that a combination of lack of attention to preparation, new gloves and Qatar's layout - lots of right hand turns followed by lefts, meaning that you have to brake, push, flick the bike upwards to get it turned and then brake again, several times a lap - had caused the onset of arm pump. He had been forced to abandon his previous gloves, as they were worn out after 7 months of intensive use. New gloves are always that little bit stiff, and really need breaking in beforehand - Ben Spies has his crew chief Tom Houseworth walk around in his new gloves, to stretch them out a little. Any extra effort on top of racing a MotoGP bike can be enough to start arm pump, so precautions need to be taken to avoid such effort.
Stoner was not too concerned about the arm pump, as he said it was an issue he had successfully addressed back in 2010, at Silverstone. He was typically coy on exactly how he did it, hinting only that it was something to do with nutrition. More training was definitely not the way, however, as adding muscle will actually increase the chances of it occurring, Stoner said.
Behind the front runners - a long way behind the front runners - came what looks like turning into the battle of the season. Cal Crutchlow and Andrea Dovizioso are teammates at the Monster Tech 3 Yamaha team, but both intend to progress beyond their current station. As the first person you have to beat is your teammate, and as Dovizioso and Crutchlow are surprisingly evenly matched, on the evidence of Qatar, this could turn into a humdinger. Herve Poncharal told a small group of journalists afterwards that he had watched the battle in terror, exhilarated to see his riders do so well, but terrified that one would take the other out and both would score nothing.
Down in 10th, there was a colorless, uninspired Valentino Rossi, and the tension of running around a very, very long way off the podium is starting to tell. According to reports in the Italian media - the best being over on the ever-reliable GPOne.com - after the race, Rossi had a go at Ducati, saying that this bike had the same problems and that they were not listening to his requests. He had had the pace for 5th, Rossi claimed, but frankly, that was not what he was in MotoGP for. He wanted podiums and more, and Ducati were not providing him with the tools he needs to do the job.
Meanwhile, five seconds ahead of him, Nicky Hayden is getting on and doing his job. The Ducati has improved enough for Hayden to start to ride it, and the Kentucky Kid has never been called out for a lack of effort. Hayden has what he has, and is trying to get the best out of it, regardless of whether it is ideal or not. Rossi's crew has been reduced to copying Hayden's settings, to see if that will help the Italian. The last time that happened was at Yamaha, when Jorge Lorenzo and Ramon Forcada were beating the combination of Rossi and Jerry Burgess. And Rossi and Burgess have so far been unable to replicate what Casey Stoner and Cristian Gabbarini have done, even on the carbon fiber chassis which Ducati - under the advice of Rossi - have since written off as a failed experiment.
The Rossi / Ducati marriage is starting to turn sour. Rossi massively underestimated just how good Casey Stoner was on the bike, as indeed did Ducati, it appears. Ducati have worked and are working overtime to bring new updates to the bike, but whether those changes will help remains to be seen. With Rossi looking and sounding totally unmotivated, even if they brought a great bike for him, you would have to wonder whether he would have the hunger still in him to ride it.
Valentino Rossi is a man of great character, great charm and great wit. He has faced his vale of tears at Ducati with massive dignity, undertaking his PR duties without complaint - for the most part. But increasingly, when speaking to the press, he looks like a man playing a part, playing the part of a witty, charming rake. He appears to have lost heart in this project, and perhaps even in motorcycle racing. And that is very, very sad indeed.
Rossi's frustation
I think Valentino has endured a difficult time at Ducati, but he was seriously expecting a leap with the new specs, and that didn't happen, specially compared to Honda and Yamaha. I'm not a Rossi fan, but every MotoGP fan should recognize he is a true living legend. His problem perhaps is that he is victim of his extraordinary success rate, therefore he is not someone used to face adversity, and in my opinion, he had many years where the rivals were not the kind who pushed him to the maximum. His early 2000s rivals were Kenny Roberts Jr. (who beat him his first 500 cc year) Biaggi, Capirossi, Barros, Gibernau, Ukawa, etc... I mean this were all good riders but certainly none of them was remotely an Alien, and none of them pushed Valentino to his limits. Then Nicky snatched the 2006 title with less wins and came the 800 cc era. It's a touchy subject in this forums and for sure it was not a bad time for Valentino, but during this era that just ended, Valentino was not the most successful, that title goes to Stoner. But most important, this era saw the arising of riders that did push Valentino to his limits, specially Pedrosa, Stoner and Lorenzo.
I'm not sure how far is Rossi from his prime in terms of riding and skills, but I suspect not much. Last year has been his only season without a win and that must have a toll on his motivation and psyque. But I'm also confident he has a huge mental strength and he is still an alien rider. He must not allow his frustration to last too much, otherwise this could become the very reason for his failure.
you never know
Gibernau pushed Rossi to the limit in 2004, and he (Gib) was an alien at the time ... destroyed by psychological pression from the beast Vale was at this time
"But most important, this era saw the arising of riders that did push Valentino to his limits, specially Pedrosa, Stoner and Lorenzo."
I've never seen Pedrosa push Rossi to the limit ... he finished twice in front of him in the championship but he has always been beaten in the field.
And you can see today that Pedrosa is still as fast as he used to be ...
Rossi's talent is not gone, his riding style is just not adapted to a very difficult and less performant Ducati ... just as Gibernau, Capirex (destroyed by Stoner in 2007), Melandri and even Hayden
I really hope he will find another bike until the end of his carreer, a satellite M1 would be great, not to be champion again of course, but just to fight for podium, just to see again his ability to fight and brake harder.
Anyway, we at least have the hope to see a great fight between the 3 this year, it would be great for the sport to have new heroes who FIGHT on the track, not only boring processions of incredible fast lap riders
Not an alien....
Gibernau in 2004 was the biggest challenge for Valentino not because Gib was an alien, but because the Honda was the best bike at that moment, and Vale wanted to prove his worth as the best rider winning with Yamaha. it was a good challenge, but wouldn't say he pushed Vale to his limits, c'mon he was toying with him, he was under control. Perhaps not as easy as it looked, but my point is that he has never faced adversity in the way he is doing it at the moment. I see your point about Pedrosa, perhaps not in the same way as Lorenzo or Stoner, but definitely an alien. Cheers.
Rossi back on Suzuki, the only factory option left and a factory without a sponsor. Paul Denning sorting it now? the engine might not be great, but it was getting there, Suzuki has a great front end that will match the Yams and give him the feel he needs, the engine well, it was getting there last year (if they can keeps the valves in the guides and not in the top of the pistons). Nobu will be riding the wheels off the new bike every day. John is not the answer for Suzuki and if they think about it a big sponsor will get them back in the sport and Vale can leave a legacy for a youger rider. If there is a big sponsor behind Vale it COULD happen. The grid needs Suzuki back , not in its last iteration, it needs to wind it back to the Schwantz era and have a racer like Itoh-san in charge . He understood the riders, after him they didn't.
Vale at Suzuki
Will never happen. I can't imagine he is in for another risky adventure. This one has drained him enough already.
The show must go on..
As ever David, a brilliant write up.
Marquez was out of order, he's already caused a serious crash at PI last year, and this was nearly another one. Before anyone says it, yes, I know it's motorcycle racing, not flower arranging, but he needs to watch himself. Luthi shouldn't have lashed out, but I understand his reasons.
The whole Rossi / Ducati fiasco is just that, a fiasco. They clearly are NOT listening to what VR wants. Or they cannot deliver it, one or the other. Either way, it's going to only last another year. And I for one am very VERY sad to see Valentino so utterly dejected.
Things HAVE to change, and VERY VERY FAST.
All we know
is that Rossi on the Ducati is slow. What the cause is exactly, we will probably never know, but my guess is that none of the parties involved is functioning at its best.
Paint job
>They clearly are NOT listening to what VR wants.
Because if they did, clearly, CLEARLY, Rossi would be up there at the front.
Maybe they should just buy a Yamaha and paint it red.
I just read...
...that Audi is about to buy Ducati!
I´m wondering how that will influence the Ducati MotoGP effort...
As a German and an engineer myself, I would be hoping that some good ol` german engineering would find its way into Vale´s bike and make them competitive again....
... Falling Short & Riding Styles!
@ eah. Not to throw gas on the Stoner VS Rossi debate... How different may things be now for Vale if Ducati made the changes Stoner suggested starting in 2008? Their engineers (and management teams) didn't want to change from tradition for their riders to be more competitive with the other Factories. Stoner's raw talent and riding style got Ducati those wins, podiums, and the Championship. Vale is not capable of changing his style after all these years to ride the Ducati on the edge like Stoner or Checa in WSB. Look at Lorenzo? Jorge brags about his 2 riding styles a lot but he can back them up obviously even on the 1000cc M1 now. Hayden is able to do what he does because he's able to get the rear tire's help in making the front-end turn. Rossi must feel like crap when Hayden is leaving him in the dust! But Barbera too? That's just sad for a 9-Time World Champion...
Riding style
Have a good look at Rossi on the first pic. It looks like a fake, as if it was Stoner with Rossi's helmet.
He's definitely trying everything to make it work. But... :
"At turn-entry, because of something we don't know, the front doesn't allow you to tighten the turn. This understeering is the biggest problem.
"The incredible thing is that this characteristic is similar to all the Ducatis I've ridden since 2010: whether it's the version with no chassis, or the one with the carbon-fibre front, of the one with the aluminium front, or the one with the full chassis... it doesn't ever change, that's incredible."
Performance Anxiety?
Don't laugh!
I think the problem could be mental and the task of performing when it actually matters, is really doing this bloke in. He's possibly realised he's had a very 'soft' career with the best of the best and unfortunately for him, the realisation has come nearly 2 years too late. He's far from too old, but admittedly, he has a lot of years of 'habits' under his belt, especially now with the undeniable talent of a certain few he and the rest of 'em have to deal with.
I've come to this conclusion after reading over the last 18 months, so many positive comments after each and every test (including releases from Ducati themselves!), only to see his race weekend performance falter. I can't believe they would intentionally set themselves up to fall foul of the viewing public or sponsors by 'faking' testing results, so at this moment, it's all I've got.
Almost a victim of DORNA's evil plan? Well not really, it was extremely fruitful for both parties while it lasted and for that, it's hard to knock the bloke!
Now, back at the pointy end...
90 Degree V Config Riding Style
I have never ridden a 90 degree V4. However, I have ridden and raced 90 degree twins. You cannot ride them like an inline 4. The engine has perfect balance and keeps pushing forward when you are off the throttle, which results in understeer. I used to get off the gas and on the throttle as quickly as possible and let the rear wheel slide. I could never ride deep into the corner like Rossi does, even if I were capable, because the ducati will just push you wide. Inline 4s feel neutral to me when you are off the throttle. This characteristic of the engine has led to the view that only certain riders can ride a ducati successfully. Does this characteristic apply to the Ducati GP bike? Looks like it to me and the problem is exacerbated by the 'Big Bang' firing order. I cannot see Rossi ever having any success on the Ducati while he keeps riding the same way. Nothing they do to the chassis will stop the engine from pushing the bike forward as hard as it does.
Just my take.
Painless >> "The engine has perfect balance and keeps pushing forward when you are off the throttle."
Is anybody able to explain that more fully - what is it about a perfectly balanced engine that pushes the machine forward/wide?
The Trouble With the Ducati
The Trouble With the Ducati Desmosedici: An Exhaustive Analysis
"The Bike
So it appears we can safely rule out the problem being the rider. And if it isn't the rider, the problem must lie in the bike. Indeed, speculation and conjecture about where the problem lies have been more intense than ever this season, with everyone and their mother-in-law apparently having an opinion. The ideas around the Ducati's shortcomings seem to fall into three schools of thought, two centering around the chassis and another focusing on the engine, with the theories about the chassis being by far the most popular."
"The 90° angle between the cylinders forces the front cylinders to be angled forward much more than the narrower angle Honda. Visual estimates (the exact data involved is highly sensitive and impossible to obtain) suggest that the front cylinder bank of the Ducati is at 70° from the vertical, while Honda's RC212V is at just 45°. This means that the Honda engine can be moved much further forward and closer to the front wheel than the Ducati, allowing the Honda's chassis designers more freedom in placing the engine. The 18° difference in V angle between the Ducati and the Honda also equates to cylinder banks that are roughly 15% further apart, making the engine correspondingly longer. Move the Desmosedici engine further forward, and you foul the front wheel; move it further back and you drastically shorten the swingarm.
The physical size of the Desmosedici engine - or rather, its rather rangy layout - means that much of the mass of the bike is further back than its rivals, with less freedom for changing weight distribution, especially at the design stage. This difficulty in moving weight distribution is one of the prime candidates for the difficulty the riders have for getting the Desmosedici's front tire up to temperature. While the bike may feel fine and the weight distribution look good on paper, the way the weight transfers under braking and acceleration is different, and this could be what is preventing the riders from getting heat into the tire.
There are several major clues that this is exactly what the problem is with the Desmosedici. Throughout their struggles with the Ducati, Rossi and his vastly experienced - and multiple world championship winning - crew have experimented with some fairly drastic changes to the weight distribution. At Mugello, they raised the center of gravity by 20mm, a vast amount in a world where normally parameters are changed a millimeter at a time. At Laguna Seca, they tried another change, shifting the weight further back and leaving Rossi's bike looking more like a chopper than a racing motorcycle."
An article for Rossi
Hey Dave, there are a lot of saying goes for Rossi and co. nowadays. I would have loved to read your thoughts in separate dedicated analysis and discuss further on the light of it.
Interesting comments are coming from the inside as well..
Mr. Burgess says; "Rossi Not at Stoner's Level."
Mr. Rossi says; "By racing this way, you lose the joy of riding"
I'm dying to see how everything comes to the point...
Weight distribution and my vague theory
Preziosi has discounted this and has remarked that they have not moved the engine forward to its maximum position. He might be wrong but I would take his word for it.
My point about the 90 degree V engine is basically conjecture based on my own experience. As I said I have not ridden a V4. It would be interesting to hear what those who have ridden an RC30, which is a 90 degree V4, have to say. That would kill off my argument pretty quickly :)
A perfectly balanced engine will continue to spin where an unbalanced one will lose energy a lot quicker.
Ask the hard questions...
I was unable to find any responses to my comment, then I'd realised, my comment was no longer here? My point is valid and deserves some investigation and I will try to ask it as straight forward as I can possibly manage. Some observations first.
Post practice reports from Rossi and Ducati are RARELY (in fact, I don't remember any, but I could be mistaken!) anything but full of praise and declarations that major issues with the bike are solved or at least dramatically improved.
Come race weekend, a completely different picture is painted.
This has been going on for 18months and the question needs to be asked...
Is it performance anxiety, or is it something that sponsors should be very very concerned about? Because, I believe it would be a very unprofessional move for future prospects of both the rider AND the factory, if the team is misrepresenting themselves by falsifying their much anticipated elevation to 'competitive' status with such claims!
If this turns out to be the case, then the trouble for the team has barely started.
Six posts above
Your comment is still there, six posts above this one.
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I don't even understand why you bother to ask those questions... there's nothing "hard" about them. Do you really expect Ducati's press releases after tests & practice to say, "Oh no, we still suck!" Everything anyone needs to know is answered after each race on the results sheet.
Performance anxiety from a 9 time champion? I know one's not supposed to answer a question with a question, but, are you for real?
Are Ducati making progress? Not nearly enough.
Are Ducati/VR happy? I hope not.
Will they win a dry race? I bet no a while back.
Is VR poisoning the well with his comments to the Italian press, or is he just trying to apply pressure to get the changes he wants quicker? Both, double edged swords work that way.
Will VR be there next year? I shook my Magic 8 Ball and it said, STFU and enjoy this year.
I mean I get it to a certain point, we're all enthusiasts here, we readily gobble up any information/intrigue we can, hence the reason this site and others exist. But get over it. I read some of these comments (not just you) and I'm like, really? I mean, REALLY?! This is a point of debate?
You wanna get all up-in-arms about something, worry about the future rule book. Or if someone should be penalized for a hard pass or other on track incidents? THAT stuff matters and is worth debating. This, not so much.
ASK Hayden...
It has been said before by others and myself but Hayden deserves more credit for his years in MotoGP with Honda and now Ducati. Ducati needs to ask Hayden more about the development of the GP12 than Rossi if they want to save face this season for ALL they have done especially since signing Rossi. Hayden has his Honda (inline-4, V4) experience too and he's been on more variations of the Ducati GP bikes than Rossi. Hayden already said that it's the best (ducati) bike he's ridden so far. For Rossi to downgrade Hayden the way he did only shows that he's ready to leave Ducati. Hayden is the hardest working rider in MotoGP!
In addition:
Maybe Ducati just need to put their resources in recruting the very best Aussie & American talent out there, and keep/make their bike a very specific dirttrack heroes bike.
VR4 Engine
One thought has occurred to me, if the purcahse of Ducati by Audi completes, then Ducati will have access to the VR engine technology of VW. This would allow them to make an engine which is more compact than either Honda or Yamaha. A more compact engine would allow them to get the mass closer to the front tire. A VR4 engine with desmodromic valve control would be an interesting engineering project.
not quite that easy
The effective exchange of engine tech between cars and bikes is few and far in between. Especially in packaging issues. Completely different worlds. A narrow V engine needs counterbalancers that take up space and Hp. The narrow V angle helps in a transverse front engine car package as you have adequate room for a driver's legs, something not too important in motorcycles. It would also make an extremely restrictive intake manifold package or a very tall engine. Suzuki couldn't get enough power with 60 and went to 65, then 72 I think.
The other thing is that this (and nearly any other) engine tech is easily understandable by nearly any engine designer. There's nothing special about it. If Ducati wanted to make a narrow engine angle they would not want or need to talk to Audi or VW. Also, desmo throws a wrench into adapting car tech as an inherently unbalanced engine may make it more difficult to have a camdrive system with no shock absorbing members, as Ducati's desmo geartrain is reputed to be.


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The Ultimate Love Story: An Interview with Richard and Lauren Shuler Donner
Richard Donner and Lauren Shuler Donner joined Warner Brothers for the unveiling of their 90th anniversary logo and announcement of their home video slate. They have made many films at Warner Brothers as director and producer respectively, sometimes of the same films. A new documentary Tales from the Warner Bros. Lot shows how Stage 16 was raised to become the lot's biggest soundstage, then shows Donner sitting in the middle of the empty stage where he once shot The Goonies. The documentary will be featured in WB's upcoming 100 film DVD and 50 film Blu-ray anniversary sets in January. We got to chat with the Donners about their films and some of the causes they support.
CraveOnline: I'm excited you're both here on the Warner Brothers lot. Does this mean a Ladyhawke Blu-ray could be imminent?
Lauren Shuler Donner: Oh, that would be nice. That would be very good. There's a lot of fans.
Richard Donner: Yes, you just made it happen. That would be a great idea actually. Lot of talk about that going to Broadway too at one point. I think it'd be great.
That footage in the documentary of you sitting in an empty Stage 16 is amazing. Had you ever seen that big soundstage empty before?
Richard Donner: Only before I moved on it. Yes, there was a long time where here at the studios there was not much activity. The new thing was to shoot outside and to move so stages sat idle for a long time, but that's some stage. And then when you drop the floor out, you're in four feet of water, it's something else.
When you see your films in high definition, are you seeing things you didn't even know were there the first time?
Richard Donner: Yeah. Do you know something? In The Omen, you can actually see in the new release that it's only half a dog, that it's just a stuffed animal that's attacking his foot. You can see past the extension.
Lauren Shuler Donner: That would take the scare out of it.
Richard Donner: Remember I had that stuffed animal in the house?
What other films of yours are you still hoping people rediscover on Blu-ray?
Lauren Shuler Donner: Inside Moves.
Richard Donner: Inside Moves, yeah.
That only just came out on DVD.
Richard Donner: Just came out on DVD thanks to Lionsgate. If they hadn't done it, nobody would've. Let's see, all of them. I'd love to see them all preserved and brought up to date. If it's feasible, it's feasible. If it's not, it's not. Certainly it's a monetary issue for the studios and those that they think will do well will do well. I assume Maverick and now that you brought up Ladyhawke I would love to see that. It's the ultimate love story. My wife produced it and hired me to direct it and she fell in love with me and made me leave my husband. Oh no, I fell in love with her and made her leave her husband.
Lauren, how is X-Men: Days of Future Past going?
Lauren Shuler Donner: Not quite fast enough but it's coming along. We have a great treatment and we're just waiting for the screenplay.
Do you still have Jennifer Lawrence since she's blown up?
Lauren Shuler Donner: Yeah, definitely.
Now that The Avengers has done so well, it seems like the other studios with Marvel properties can see the advantage of making a deal. Can you see a world where this generation of X-Men could be in an Avengers movie?
Lauren Shuler Donner: I would love it. I would love it. I personally have close ties to Marvel because of Kevin Feige, because Kevin worked for me. But to take our characters and mingle them in the way that they were written, yeah, absolutely.
I have to ask because it's on my mind, have you been in touch with Mel Gibson?
Richard Donner: Yeah. As a matter of fact, a week from next Saturday, so in two weeks I'm going to a presentation. Mel has always got these great crazy flukey organizations and medical groups that will save lives, but they're all nuts usually. This one is a group from Panama City, both Harvard graduate doctors, and they are doing stem cell [research] there because they couldn't do it in this country. It's saving lives and doing the most miraculous things, and they're doing this presentation Saturday so Mel will be there and it's because of him I'm going. I'm most anxious. Look, as many times as he puts his foot in his mouth, I still love him. He's a crazy SOB and he's a little nuts and he flies off the handle and he's got a lot of suppressed problems in life but underneath it all he's still just old crazy Mel and I love him. I just hope he comes out of all this.
Speaking of causes, what is going on with the animal charities you support?
Richard Donner: Lauren and I are big on it. We rescued a 13- or 14-year-old Great Dane mutt a year and a half ago that they told us would only live two months because he was left in an abandoned home for over two weeks with no food or water. They had cut his vocal chords. They had done damage to his nerves and his rear end, his legs. And they said, "Look, he's just had a horrible life." I said, "I'll take him for the next whatever months." So while we had him, he had his spleen removed with cancer. He had two operations on his inner ears and he was supposed to die. He is still alive. He poops in the house because he has no control but he doesn't know it, and I don't mind cleaning it up. He's gone on and on and on. He's surprised everybody. It'll be two years in April. He came through another dog because we had just lost our Gus, another crazy dog we had that we rescued. He had a passion for eating trees. That sounds ridiculous but he literally ate trees. He fell a tree that big.
Lauren Shuler Donner: He'd jump up and bite them.
Richard Donner: He'd bite the tree, and then he'd claw and eat it until we had to redo all his teeth. He passed away and it really blew me away. Shortly thereafter, Zack came and I swear Gus sent me Zack. Lauren is afraid that this is going to continue.
Lauren Shuler Donner: Lauren is saying it's not going to continue. We work with a lot of groups but Karma is the group that we work with the most because Jack Leslie who runs our company, works with Karma Rescue. They're a really great organization. They specialize in Pits and also hard to place dogs and they're wonderful, they provide trainers and vets and help the dogs and help the adopters with the dog adoptees. They're terrific and they work with all of the other rescue groups too so they may find a beagle rescue and make sure it gets to the right place.
Are either of you worried about the elimination of celluloid film from the industry?
Richard Donner: Well, I don't know. Sure, I will miss it. Film is film.
Lauren Shuler Donner: Time marches on.
Richard Donner: Everybody's got the expression: There's nothing like holding a piece of film in your hand when you run it through the Moviola and you get film cuts on your fingers. But it was the touch of the film and all that, yeah, that was great. Now it's too easy. Cutting is too easy. Editors sometimes, although I've had it happen too much to me recently, will have three or four versions of something that they cut in about 20 minutes. Then they say, "Well, here's version 1, here's version 2." I say, "I don't want to see version 1, 2 and 3. What do you see?" It used to be in film, you cut a piece of film, it took you a week to do a scene and to find the snippets and put the face back in, a little piece here and a reaction there. It worked from passion. They worked from feel. Now it's just a little electronic brain that's doing it for you. Do I miss celluloid? Yes. Do I work in digital? Sure.
Lauren Shuler Donner: To me it's not as big a deal. I started in film too and I was even an assistant film editor in medical and educational films, A and B roll. But I've done so many movies digitally, it's a wonderful asset I think.
I'm glad I got the foundation of 16mm film in film school though.
Lauren Shuler Donner: Me too. Me too so you could have a Moviola and you could hot splice and you could understand it, but if you use the flatbeds and digital with the same passion as we did with film…
Richard Donner: But they're dying off because a lot of it is selection, rather than intent. There are so many selections, and true, when you made films with celluloid there were a lot of selections but you didn't have time, so you just had to concentrate on what your original instinct was and go with the instinct.
Lauren Shuler Donner: What was the story you were telling?
Richard Donner: Now it becomes so analytical that you're functioning on intellect rather than instinct. To me there's something lost, but not to the filmmakers of today. They totally believe it and I encourage them 100%. It's their world. I'm just some old fogey.
Lauren Shuler Donner: Who made good movies.
Richard Donner: It's all amazing to me. In the old days, somebody would come in here and plug in a thing, there'd be a Magnecord and a Magnasync and the table would go on. You come in with this [recorder] smaller than a pack of cigarettes.
I was slow to adopt digital. I didn't want to give up tape.
Richard Donner: I'm telling you, it's an amazing world we're living in.
Warner Brothers just announced The Wizard of Oz is being converted to 3D. What would you think if someone wanted to convert Superman or The Goonies to 3D?
Richard Donner: I think they should do it. I think it'd be wonderful. I'd love to see Goonies in 3D.
Lauren Shuler Donner: Do we want more 3D movies? I'm just asking the question, do we want more 3D movies?
Richard Donner: I do.
Lauren Shuler Donner: They cost more at the box office.
I personally don't but it's just a personal preference.
Lauren Shuler Donner: I don't either. Me too. I don't mind Pixar or Life of Pi, but just to take all these movies and convert them, it's like…
Well, I would be excited about re-releases. If 3D is the vehicle to do that then I guess that's a positive.
Lauren Shuler Donner: Wizard of Oz I'd be interested in. That sounds pretty exciting.
And you talk in the documentary about how they'd never construct a real pirate ship on Stage 16 now that they can do it green screen, so you'd be able to represent that in 3D.
Richard Donner: It's funny, I was talking about Michael Riva. He has since died, terrible, at 62 years old and he had a stroke on a film in Louisiana. I can't believe he's dead and there I was just talking about him, because that film is totally his vision. Rick Carter, who's been Steven Spielberg's production designer forever, was the assistant on that. We run into him now and he says, "I remember sitting with Riva and they'd come up with these bizarre ideas" and he'd said, "Take it to Donner." They would come in and I'd say, "I mean, where does this come from? I think they're all smoking dope back there." Which they probably were.


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Hugo Jacomet at Cifonelli's, Paris, Sept 6, 2011
Hugo Jacomet is the creator of Parisian Gentleman, a well respected menswear blog published both in French and English. Hugo catalogs his sartorial adventures navigating the ins and outs of bespoke tailoring - his grand passion. He shares practical details of how to dress with understated elegance, and recommends those rare stores and fine craftsmen that are lucky enough to make his short list.
On this day we met up at his favorite tailor in Paris - Cifonelli. I walked into the palatial showroom and found Hugo there to greet me with his signature shock of silver hair and four suits ready to go.
"Cifonelli is the Mount Everest of bespoke tailors," Hugo said with a satisfied grin. Here he is with Lorenzo Cifonelli in matching jackets. Lorenzo is the fourth generation Cifonelli at the helm along with his cousin, Massimo.
Hugo revels in the intricacies of bespoke - he shows me this cuff and that buttonhole and that detail under the collar which is invisible to to anyone but the man wearing it. He took great joy in telling me the extra hours it takes for certain details that only Cifonelli does. What an eccentric (and luxurious) thing in this day and age, I thought, when it's all about faster and cheaper.
Then off into the dressing room where all the action takes place. Lorenzo gives the final few tucks and seal of approval.
Shoes by Corthay
I quickly learn that these are the accoutrements of Hugo. What is just off camera is the tray with the most perfect cup of espresso.
The opposite of ostentatious: you have to literally dig to find the label. Men who know just know.
Tie by Marc Guyot


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perl -MDateTime -E 'our $first_kiss = DateTime->new( year => 2007, month => 3, day => 10 ); say $first_kiss->delta_days( DateTime->now )->delta_days'
Talk about serendipity, finding out about this 3 days before the actual date!
Taking her to dinner now ;-)
Friday, 4 December 2009
A special Date, a special someone.
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Oh, and if you're wondering about your own (and potentially several others) special dates, remember DateTime is your friend. For instance, this is what I did to figure it out beforehand:ReplyDelete
perl -MDateTime -E 'say DateTime->new(
year => 2007, month => 3, day => 10)->add( days => 1000 )'
The most romantic blog post about perl :)ReplyDelete
Thanks guys! Dinner was great and she loved the surprise (I kept quiet, of course). She was all mellow when I told her and today I actually caught her bragging about it to some of her friends :-)ReplyDelete
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I recently replaced the webcam I use for video conferences at Mozilla and since I'm going back to my roots a bit with this blog, I thought I'd post a review about it here since that's what the old me would have done without blinking. 😉 I previously owned a Creative Live! Socialize HD 1080p webcam for about 6 months, a full HD capable webcam with supposedly excellent quality. I was using Windows 7 at the time, and the webcam came with an app for changing settings like brightness, white balance, gamma and other stuff. It worked reasonably well, but it always struggled with reproducing natural colors in dim light. No matter how you adjusted the image settings, the camera would render almost black/white or something resembling sepia colors, with lots of grain.
Due to a little bed table accident at a hotel room in Mountain View, I switched from Windows to Mac a couple of months ago (which probably is a story worthy a separate blog post). This is when the limitations of the Creative webcam really started to become unbearable, because now I didn't have any app to adjust the webcam settings anymore since there is no Mac support. Luckily there was another minor hardware problem with the webcam so I was able to return it to the store for a full refund. So now I was on the hunt for a new webcam again, this time preferably with Mac and Windows support (since I'll hopefully be able to switch to Windows 8 at some point — I still hate Macs).
I quickly homed in on the Logitech C920 webcam after a recommendation from William Quiviger, but when looking up the specs of it, it turned out that it didn't have Mac support either. I ended up in countless of angry threads online about the outrageous fact that the C920 didn't have Mac support when its predecessor C910 had. Well, I ended up getting the C920 anyway because I didn't like the idea of buying the previous generation, and Logitech's own support reps on their site even mentioned in a thread that the support in C910 wasn't that great. And everyone seemed to rave about the picture quality of the C9x0 in general, so I thought I'd take a chance.
And boy did this camera exceed my expectations! Sure, there is no Mac support in that you can't modify settings like white balance, brightness, saturation, gamma, etc…. but the reality is, you don't need it. This camera adjust perfectly to any lighting condition! I've used this in daylight, during nighttime with an energy light bulb, and even in the darkness with the cold light from my 24″ monitor lighting up my face. Regardless of light source, the camera just adjusts perfectly and renders colors that don't want me to cover up my face in late night meetings with my colleagues overseas. In comparison, the Creative camera that I owned previously made my face completely blue due to the harsh monitor light.
So, although you can't modify any settings if you're on a Mac, I still highly recommend this webcam as it adjusts perfectly and has stunning image quality. I certainly have never used a better webcam. And if you're running Windows, the webcam is probably an even better choice.


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Concise description:Further concised:
- Make spoils clear fog for region.
Clear Fog spoils.
- If you own the region on the spoil, you get to see that region for the rest of the game. It becomes permanently unfogged.
- Clear fog Nobonus
- Clear fog Flat Rate
- Clear fog Escalating
Eliminate the +2 bonus on flat rate, and escalating, and simply clear the fog for that region, for that player.
Added: grifftron's Idea:
for sunny games, Include Create Fog Spoils. Instead of adding +2 bonus, make the region fog. It may help or hurt of course, but will without a doubt make some interesting strategy options, especially in long games.
This will improve the following aspects of the site:
- Possibly an interesting spoils variation, albeit confined to fog games. The clear fog option, essentially creates a spy like function of the game, which in many, may very well decide the game. Knowing where a player is parked can be crucial in a fog game, and if you get lucky and find his stack, you can kill it, or realize its bad time to go for it.
Also, the spoils will be in the log. You will often have to keep away from those spots with stacks, to keep them hidden, so it will most definitely change game play on both sides.
Absolutely too boring alone however. It needs to be coupled along with Flat rate, and escalating as well. I think nuclear taught us this lesson. Nuclear is a great option, but its impact on games is very minimal usually. But nuclear + escalating flat, would be a completely different game.
So far this seems the simplest, clearest, and best option of any anti-fog options, but add more if you have them.


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scare (someone) straight(redirected from scare one straight)
scare (someone) straight
To shock or frighten someone so severely that their bad behavior or actions become corrected or markedly improved. (That which frightens the person is often some example or manifestation of the possible consequences of those actions or behavior.) We felt like we just couldn't control our teenager's behavior any longer, so we sent him to a prison boot camp to scare him straight. I had a really bad drug addiction in college, but seeing my friend die from an overdose really scared me straight.


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