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Mets ace swaps power pitching for efficiency in recording first career shutout
NEW YORK -- Matt Harvey traded his Doc Gooden impersonation for a Doc Halladay one on Wednesday night, and it suited him just fine. Harvey pounded the strike zone and let the Rockies get themselves out en route to the first complete game and first shutout of his already remarkable big league career.
He struck out six, and for the third time in four starts, didn't walk a batter. Harvey got 13 groundball outs, as opposed to three in the air. It wasn't typical Harvey, except for the scoreline.
Harvey's rip-snorting, dominant style of pitching usually garners comparisons to fireballers like Roger Clemens and Gooden, high-strikeout hurlers who relied on the swing-and-miss. On Wednesday, he echoed great pitchers of a different stripe: those who induce weak contact and get quick outs. Guys like Halladay, or maybe Greg Maddux.
Not better, not worse, just different. An aggressive, efficient Harvey certainly wasn't apologizing for a strikeout total that equaled his second lowest of the year. Instead, he was soaking up an accomplishment that he had wanted for quite a while.
"It's the way you want to go as a starter," he said. "Whether I struck out 10 or three or one, it's nine innings with a bunch of zeros. That's all that matters. I was happy with weak contact today."
Future shutouts -- and there will be more -- may have a different flavor, but this one was nice and tidy and just right.
It was, frankly, about the only way he was going to get a shutout at this point in his second season. The Mets are watching Harvey's workload closely, and he's not likely to get the chance to finish a game where his pitch count soars in the early innings.
This time, he finished with 106 pitches, and it could have been fewer. A comebacker struck him on the leg and bounced away for a two-out base hit in the ninth. Harvey collected himself and finished off the gem.
He wanted it, of course. But so did his manager.
"When he got out of the eighth inning and he's at [91] pitches, he deserved to go back out there," said skipper Terry Collins. "We can certainly, on another night, cut him short. Cut him an inning here and an inning there and we'll catch up to where we want to be as we get down the road. But you don't have many opportunities to pitch shutouts."
In the future, he'll likely get the chance to finish off games where he's less efficient. He has the body and the stuff of a front-of-the-rotation horse. For now, though, it took a change of pace to go all nine.
If there's one area where Harvey hasn't always excelled this year, it's efficiency, though that admittedly can be a difficult thing to measure. Harvey entered the game among the National League leaders in pitches thrown per inning this year, at 15.3 -- 13th best out of 45 qualifying pitchers. But when you frame it as pitches per plate appearance, he's third-highest.
That's a long way of saying that Harvey doesn't let a lot of guys reach base, but it takes him quite a few pitches to get the outs he gets.
Against the Rockies, he had no such issues. Harvey went with the old-fashioned "here it is, hit it" style of pitching, and it worked beautifully. Even when he was over the plate rather than the corners, Colorado did little with it.
"He has that gift that God gives you," said catcher John Buck, "to miss out over the plate and get really good hitters to miss. We've seen it all year long, and to go along with that he knows how to pitch."
He allowed a two-out single in the second and a two-out single in the fourth. In the eighth, Nolan Arenado barely beat out a grounder to shortstop, but Arenado was erased on a double play. Charlie Blackmon singled in the ninth, off Harvey's knee, for the only other baserunner.
And had Blackmon not taken second on defensive indifference, no Rockies player would have made it into scoring position all night. That's a different kind of dominance, but it's dominance just the same.
"When he had a chance to put away, he did that," Buck said. "And then when we had counts where he could produce a ground ball or take advantage of a guy being real aggressive, he did that."
In short, he did pretty much whatever he wanted to, even on a night where Collins admitted Harvey didn't have his very best stuff. He had enough, though. And he had his defense, and an announced crowd of 27,581 at his back.
They roared when he came out to bat in the seventh, and they urged him on to the finish in the ninth. Nobody wearing blue and orange was going home disappointed on this night.
"Twenty thousand people came to see him pitch," Collins said. "He deserved it. We're trying to create some excitement on this team, and one [part of that] is Matt Harvey. They came to see him, they were going to see him."


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My 'Dodgy Dossier'July 29th, 2003 | Articles General, Kulchur, Potemkinism and Camouflage, The Resurrection Slot
'You can stress the community of the nation state without diminishing your internationalism'. I was, I suppose, quite pleased to have elicited that statement from Tony Blair. Yet I was also troubled. I had been invited to quote those words as Tony's heartfelt own yet I had never met the man, never written to him, and never talked to him on the phone either. . .Download this article (PDF) »
Enthusiasms & Aversions:
Alan Yentob's 'Imagine' or 'Take this man off the telly'July 2nd, 2003 | Articles General, Aversions, Kulchur
One day in June 2003, the arts editor of the Guardian asked me to review the first three films in BBC1's new arts strand 'Imagine'. I watched them in dismay and wrote this piece. It was published on 2 July 2003. For the BBC's reaction see 'Who are you…' under 'Conversations with Patrick Wright', pp. 26-8. Read article here»
Zaha Hadid in CincinnatiJune 6th, 2003 | Art & its applications, Articles General, Enthusiasms
On the opening of Zaha Hadid's Center for Contemporary Art in Cincinnati, Ohio. Published as 'Look what I built', the Guardian, 2 July 2003, pp. 12-13. Read article here»
Mrs. Daphne Buxton creates twentieth century England's first new commonSeptember 2nd, 1995 | Articles General, Englishness and British national identity, Enthusiasms
Rushall is a small Norfolk village, not far from a somewhat larger settlement named Dickleburgh. It has a church, some council housing built at a polite distance from the village proper, a few farms and a pub. There were airships here once, but today Rushall's most historic site is a hedged meadow on the other side of the parish.
Beyond the wooden gate, which bears a notice about the village fete, an elderly lady is walking through long grass, pointing out various features as she goes. The man next to her stoops occasionally to pick up twigs, which he then holds in a curious, vaguely anthropological manner…
On the United Nations AssociationJuly 1st, 1995 | Articles General, Enthusiasms, War & peace
THE United Nations is not in good shape. Great hopes were entertained when the Berlin wall came down in 1989, but these have given way to global half-heartedness, evident in the caveats hedging tributes paid this week in San Francisco, where the UN Charter was signed 50 years ago.
The genocide in Rwanda contributed to this disillusionment – as did the impotent UNPROFOR tanks of Sarajevo, already called beached white whales several years before the Bosnian Serbs purloined some, thereby completing the humiliation. From Angola to Chechenia, the news mocks the UN's pastoral symbolism of white doves crowding the sky…
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This England: The Stain on St George's FlagAugust 18th, 1993 | Articles General, Aversions, Englishness and British national identity
'Lord Taylor of Warwick' is in trouble over his expenses, but what about this disgraced house-flipper's claim to have fought racism in the course of his parliamentary career? Something nasty was certainly going on when he contested Cheltenham for the Tories in the early 1990s, as is revealed in this article – first published in the Guardian, 18 August 1993.
"YOU CAN walk into any branch of W H Smith and pick up a copy of This England. Launched from Grimsby in 1968, this 'quarterly reflection of English Life' has moved to Cheltenham and done well for Roy Faiers, its founder and editor.
The starting impulse was proudly provincial. As the publisher of six county magazines, Faiers reckoned that the time was right to project the same values at a national level. Convinced that parochialism was a virtue, he hoisted the flag of St George in his first issues: 'Instead of politics, we shall bring you the poetry of the English countryside . . . Instead of bigotry, we shall portray the beauty of our towns and villages'"…
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"A Secret Life: Uwe Johnson in Sheerness"
This 45 minute radio documentary was broadcast as the Sunday Feature on Radio Three is the first outward expression of work I have been doing with the American translator Damion Searls over the last couple of years. It was broadcast on 19 April 2015.
Shrinking England? A Conversation with Will Self, 23 October 2012
Part of the Arts & Humanities Festival at King's College London, this event is free, but places are limited to 250, Will's new novel Umbrella is now shortlisted for the Booker, and booking is essential. Details
The Small Society: What Happens when England Shrinks?
We've heard a lot about the "Big Society" in recent years. Yet for centuries some of England's most ardent defenders have been following the example of Shakespeare's John of Gaunt, who famously praised England as a "little world" threatened by change and, perhaps, dissolution too…. I'll be giving a lecture on this tendency towards miniaturisation on October 25th. It's a public event organised as part of the Arts & Humanities Festival at King's College London. It's free but booking is necessary. Details
Iron Curtain on the Strand – a lecture about the London origins of a political metaphor that divided the world.
At 6.15pm on 5 December, I will be talking about the early history of the Iron Curtain, referring to both the Drury Lane Theatre and the Temple Church, just south of Fleet Street, as key locations in a forgotten drama. I will also be suggesting that the recovery of this early history, wholly forgotten in post-1946 understanding, represents a serious contribution to undertstanding international affairs as they have developed since the fall of the Berlin Wall – widely seen, by Blair, Bush, Rumsfeld and others, as the end of the story.
The event is at King's College, on the Strand, and is organised as part of the "Strandlives" project. It's free. but you are asked to RSVP at the address given on the poster or link.
Passport to Peking in the New Republic
Read Dominic Sandbrook's review here»
A whole chapter on Ellis Smith in Moscow?
Michael Rank reviews Passport to Peking in Asia Times» As for Ellis Smith, seen above with Barbara Castle in Novosibirsk as they passed through in October 1954, well, I wondered too… But there was something about Salford's slow-minded and exasperating "champion of the north", and it stopped me from cutting him out altogether. His rambling speeches made everyone cringe, and not just because he kept praising Stalin and going on about the day, in 1927, when he saw a protesting Leon Trotsky chased out of Moscow's Red Square by that rising "man of steel's" bruisers. History is cruel, and hindsight even worse, but there will always be room for a loser or two in my books. And anyway, as Sam Hynes asks from Princeton, "where else but in England would you find such an innocent radical?"
Passport to Peking: a Very British Mission to Mao's China
'Is there a house of history to stand as neighbour beside Henry James's house of fiction? If there is, Patrick Wright will have a window all to himself, glittering with different, intense and jewelled fragments: a John Piper or Robert Colquhoun of a window.' (Fred Inglis, the Independent»)
"As ever with Wright's work the sheer density of thought, allusion and fact is staggering – but what is more amazing is the deftness with which he spins from this a gossamer and entrancing narrative thread.' (Will Self)
'An exuberantly rich chronicle teeming with personalities, stories, encounters and ideas, filled with the strangeness and wonder of colliding worlds…' (David Hayes, Books of the Year, Australian Policy Online)
'An impressive and unusual book… that succeeds by presenting a wonderful cast of characters set in a dimly remembered period… ' (Jonathan Fenby, Literary Review»)
A brilliant feat of research…The result is a tour de force, erudite, funny, endlessly revealing and generously illustrated. (John Keay, Times Literary Supplement )
Published by Oxford University Press, 27 October 2010. See my Guardian article» Isobel Hilton in History Today» Pankaj Mishra in the New Yorker»
On English vision and the ground beneath Llewelyn Powys's feet, Hand Hotel, Llangollen, 21 August 2011
I'll be speaking at the annual conference of the Powys Society, revisiting some of the themes of The Village that Died for England. Details, which are still in the process of formation, can be found here»
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Devastation near Faversham – a review of Brian Dillon's "The Great Explosion" »
Open this book at random and you might imagine it to be another example of the new nature writing. Dillon makes generous concessions to the genre, and not just in his description of the explosive ripples caused by a darting insect known as the pond-skater (helpfully identified as Gerris lacustri). Yet a stricter naturalist may still wonder when he lists so general a creature as "the woodpecker" among the birds to be found at the watery woodside to which he has brought us. Who is this unexpected guide, standing there with his old three-speed bicycle and an equally archaic Rolleiflex camera in his hand? …
The Piano Man – no ordinary scrounger »
Shortly after midnight on April 7, 2005, a young blond-haired man wearing a dark suit and white shirt was found wandering, dripping wet and distressed near a beach at Minster on the Isle of Sheppey in North Kent…
"I can't help it if I'm lucky" »
From "Of Cabbages and Kings", Journal of King's English Literary Society" (King's College London), Issue 6, December 2012.
"Isles of Wonder" – some thoughts on the Little World of the London Olympics »
Publication of the first images of the set for Danny Boyle's opening extravaganza for the Olympics prompted me to write this article for Our Kingdom, published on 22 June 2012.
"To Dispel a Great Malady: Robinson in Ruins, the Future of Landscape and the Moving Image »
This article, co-written with Stephen Daniels, Patrick Keiller, Doreen Massey and Anderew Flintham, describes a collaborative project conducted under the Arts and Humanities Research Council's "Landscape and Environment" programme. It was published in Tate Papers 17 on 11 May 2012. The main outcome was Keiller's film "Robinson in Ruins". For more information see here…
Art historian, wild mushroom hunter, curator, bee-keeper, independent film-maker – a few otherwise lost words about Timothy Neat: »
I spent part of last summer writing a long review of Timothy Neat's two volume biography of Hamish Henderson, the poet and campaigner who made such a profound contribution to the Scottish folk revival in the 1950s and 1960s. The review appears in the London Review of Books, issue dated 3 November 2011.
Emanuel Litvinoff (5 May 1915 – 24 September 2011) »
I think it was in 1992 that I first met Emanuel Litvinoff. I had for some time been aware of his marvellous memoir of Jewish Whitechapel, Journey Through a Small Planet (1972), but I had never found a way of including a discussion of it in the book I was writing about East London at […]
How to Hide – a conversation on Resonance FM's "The Thread" »
"The Thread" is a series of discussions run by the London Consortium on Resonance 104.4fm. This programme, entitled "How to Hide" and broadcast on 22 March, was presented by James Wilkes and took the form of a conversation with Sophie Nield, Synnove Fredericks and myself – about camouflage and related matters.
On Living in a World of Facades: from Prince Potemkin's villages to the Berlin Wall, Iraq and the Truman Show »
A public lecture delivered at the Architectural Association in London on 8 February 2011.
"On the Continent the waiters have red hair" – Failures of the Modern 'Discovery Mission' »
Another reflection on the western travellers who crossed the Iron and Bamboo Curtains . . .

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Zack Kassian's goal lifts Vancouver Canucks past hapless Edmonton Oilers 2-1
EDMONTON - The Vancouver Canucks didn't need Henrik Sedin or their head coach to hold on for a win over Edmonton on Tuesday.
Zack Kassian's second-period goal stood up as the game winner as the Canucks won their second in a row, defeating the struggling Edmonton Oilers 2-1.
Rookie Kellan Lain also scored for the Canucks (26-16-9), who have won just three of their last 11 games. Goalie Roberto Luongo made 28 saves for the win.
The Canucks were without leading scoring Sedin, who missed his first game in close to a decade with an injury, and head coach John Tortorella, who started his 15-day suspension for an altercation during a game against the Calgary Flames on Saturday.
"I think we all have to step up," Luongo said. "It's not just one person, that's what good teams do. When there's guys out of the lineup other guys have to step up and those coming into the lineup have to play well.
"Good teams find a way to do that and (Tuesday) we played a great game."
Canucks assistant coach Mike Sullivan said his team's good start proved essential when the Oilers started to battle back in the third.
"I thought we played hard, I thought we played smart, the first two periods I thought we played real well," he said. "We were playing with fire there in the second, they have a lot of skill and their power play was really good. I thought once we killed that off to get out of the second period, the key for us was to make sure we didn't give them another opportunity."
Jordan Eberle replied for the Oilers (15-31-6), who have lost five in a row and 10 of their last 12.
It was also Edmonton's fourth losing streak that has gone five games or more this season.
"We could have had two or three goals on the power play, but Luongo made some really good saves," Eberle said. "I thought we played a pretty good game, we just couldn't find a way to score. I think for sure the saves he made on our power plays made the difference."
Oilers captain Andrew Ference said some progress was made, but it may have been a case of too little, too late.
"We showed some great fight at the end and good pressure and some good chances," he said. "The penalty kill was excellent tonight. It was good, but there was still that extra little bit that everybody feels was left on the table a little bit at certain points in the game."
Vancouver got on the board just over five minutes into the game as Oilers starter Ben Scrivens allowed a big rebound on a long shot from Dale Weise. Lain was there to swat at the rebound that glanced off of Scrivens' arm and in.
It was Lain's first career NHL goal in just his second game.
"You always dream of playing in the NHL, but you also dream of scoring that first goal," Lain said. "When you get it, it's a pretty special moment. I just drove to the net and the puck just popped out to me."
Vancouver had nine first-period shots to Edmonton's six on Luongo.
Shortly after killing off a penalty where Luongo stood tall on several good Oiler chances, the Canucks made it 2-0 eight minutes into the second period as Ryan Kesler spotted Kassian streaking towards the net and fed a pass to set up a floater of a shot that beat Scrivens up high. It was Kassian's 10th of the season.
Edmonton coach Dallas Eakins was not thrilled with a line of questioning after the game that debated whether or not their should have been an attempt to send a message to Kassian. He was suspended earlier this season after he high-sticked Oiler Sam Gagner in the face in a pre-season game, breaking his jaw.
"I saw a talk between a guy on our team that handles that kind of stuff very well and that player, and one player wasn't willing to engage," he said.
"So I'm not quite sure what else you want us to do. You can go jump him, go slash him, cross-check him in the face, something like that, but I'm not sure how that helps us win a close game."
Luongo did his part to keep the two-goal lead intact with five minutes to play in the second half as he came across to make a huge blocker save in tight on Eberle with the Oilers on the power play.
Eberle, who also hit a post early in the third period, was finally rewarded with five minutes remaining as Gagner crashed the crease and a mad scramble ensued before the puck came loose. Eberle was able to send it through a forest of legs to make it 2-1 and spoil Luongo's shutout bid.
Edmonton had its chances late in the game with Scrivens on the bench, but couldn't get another goal past Luongo. Scrivens finished with 25 saves.
The Canucks return home to start a four-game stand against Nashville on Thursday. The Oilers next game is on Friday, when they play host to the Phoenix Coyotes.
Notes: It was the third of five games between the Pacific Division rivals. Vancouver won both of the previous encounters by a combined score of 10-2. The Canucks entered the game having won eight of the previous 11 games between the two squads ... A pair of players acquired during Edmonton's four-game road trip made their Oilers debut as the fans got their first looks at forward Matt Hendricks (traded from Nashville) and Scrivens (trade with Los Angeles). Scrivens, from the Edmonton satellite community of Spruce Grove, Alta., was playing his first-ever game in Rexall Place. ... The Oilers were missing forwards Ales Hemsky (foot) and Nail Yakupov (head) and defenceman Philip Larsen (illness). Defenceman Corey Potter returned from missing the last 11 games with a groin injury. ... Also out for the Canucks were Mike Santorelli (shoulder), Ryan Stanton (ankle), Andrew Alberts (concussion) and Jordan Schroeder (ankle).


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Penn State downs Duquesne 68-59
PITTSBURGH (AP) — Reserve Allen Roberts had 15 points and D.J. Newbill added 13 points as Penn State won for the sixth time in its past eight games, 68-59 against Duquesne on Wednesday night.
All-Big Ten point guard Tim Frazier had a career-high 13 assists along with 11 points for the Nittany Lions (8-3), who won despite having only 10 free-throw attempts as compared to the Dukes' 34.
Ovie Soko had 19 points to lead the Dukes (3-4), who shot 27 percent from the field and made just four of 23 attempts from 3-point range.
Soko, who made 12 of 14 free throws, played just 22 minutes before fouling out.
Duquesne has lost four of its past six and fell to the Nittany Lions for the second consecutive season.
Penn State's Donovon Jack had nine points, 12 rebounds and six blocks.
Playing its second game in the city of Pittsburgh over a nine-day span, Penn State fared better than it did in a nine-point loss at Pitt on Dec. 3. Counting a 90-77 win over Marshall in between, the Lions have combined to hold their past three opponents to 27.8 percent first-half field goal shooting.
Unlike they did against Pitt (which shot 58.5 percent in the second half), however, Penn State continued to stifle the Dukes through the final buzzer. Other than a stretch of about seven minutes midway through the second half, Duquesne's shooting was cold from all over the court.
Only one Dukes player - junior forward Dominique McKoy - made more shots than he missed. McKoy finished with 12 points on five of six shooting. Jeremiah Jones also had 12 points for Duquesne.
Penn State began the second half on an 8-2 run to open up a 15-point lead. The Dukes answered by scoring 14 of the next 18 points of the game to pull within five - but that would be the closest the Dukes would get.
Minutes later, Duquesne was within 50-44 after a pair of free throws by Soko with 8:40 left. But the Lions answered with an 8-0 run that all but put the game away. Penn State led by as many as 19 in the second half.
Duquesne shot 25 percent from the field - including two of 12 from 3-point range - in the first half. The Dukes also missed seven of 17 free throw attempts.
Jack, a former verbal commitment to Duquesne who switched to Penn State after the Dukes fired former coach Ron Everhart, had a career-high 11 rebounds. He has combined for 13 blocks over the past two games.
Through the first 37 minutes of the game, Penn State went to the foul line just six times.


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Minnesota Lawyer Blog brings to our attention that a new advisory committee has been formed to recommend a new U.S. Attorney.
The current U.S. Attorney B. Todd Jones has been nominated to serve as the permanent director of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, and Firearms (ATF) and his confirmation hearing is expected to be held soon, the release states.
Judge Timothy O'Malley of the Minnesota Office of Administrative Hearings and the former head of Minnesota's Bureau of Criminal Apprehension will chair the committee, which will also include Annamarie Daley, a Minneapolis attorney in private practice; former U.S. Attorney Thomas Heffelfinger; Stearns County Attorney Janelle Kendall; Donald Lewis, Dean of Hamline Law School; retired St. Louis County Judge Carol Person; and Chief Thomas Smith of the St. Paul Police Department.
The committee will review letters of interest, conduct interviews, and offer guidance to Klobuchar and Franken. In the press release, Klobuchar stated that the candidate should be a seasoned, respected attorney who is fair-minded, able to work productively with local, state and federal law enforcement agencies, and who is committed to seeing that justice is done under the law and for the people of Minnesota.
Those wishing to be considered for the position of U.S. Attorney should submit letters of interest by June 3, 2013 to: Judge Timothy O'Malley, U.S. Attorney Advisory Committee, c/o Caroline Holland, Office of Senator Amy Klobuchar, 1200 Washington Avenue South, Suite 250, Minneapolis, MN 55415. Letters may also be e-mailed to firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The Walkmen are an American indie rock band, with members based in New York City and Philadelphia. The band formed in 2000 with three members from Jonathan Fire*Eater—Paul Maroon (guitar, piano), Walter Martin (organ/bass), and Matt Barrick (drums)—and two from The Recoys, Peter Bauer (bass/organ) and Hamilton Leithauser (vocals, guitar). All but Bauer attended St. Albans in Washington, D.C.
They prefer the sound of vintage musical instruments, particularly the upright piano, and have often recorded at Marcata Recording, a recording studio built in Harlem in 1999 by the three former members of Jonathan Fire*Eater and later relocated to upstate New York.


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"Reykjavik Whale Watching Massacre may be the next big foreign slasher film, but if they expect me to do anything but belly laugh when I read about it, they better change that damn name, and fast. Teaser trailer at the link.
Talk about obscure, Fango reports that there is a remake of the UK exploitation film "The House on Straw Hill" underway. The original is apparently still banned in the UK, and deals with a writer in an old house whose assistant turns violent and homicidal.
Mick Garris hopes to be shooting Stephen King's "Bag of Bones" this summer in Maine, however some haggling must first be done, since Maine doesn't offer the kind of incentives that other states do when it comes to filming there.
If you're curious to see how the "House on Sorority Row" remake is coming along (titled just "Sorority Row"), prints of the trailer are reported to be attached to Nic Cage's "Knowing", which hits theaters this weekend. Or you can just wait until Monday when it shows up online. Probably better for your health.
Looks like there's going to be a "Lost Boys III", and Corey Feldman will be producing. Shockingly, he will also be the "focus" of the film. Weird how that works out when you're the producer, huh?
Dan Harris, writer of "X-Men 2" and "Superman Returns" has been picked to write the film adaptation of EA's "Dante's Inferno" game which is currently in development.
Look, I thought it was clear but let's reiterate. If you're a cop and you stop at any restaurant whatsoever, check your food for pubes before you leave with the bag. It will save you the time of having to go back later.
Perv puts "spy camera" inside Starbucks bathroom, forgets to delete picture of himself on the camera. Complete with "is that Paul Ruebens?" mugshot at the link.
This is by far the creepiest/awesomest story of the week. Man loses finger in motorcycle accident, doctors build him a prosthetic one, complete with a built-in USB stick!. Apparently, he's also a Linux user. This is really cool, until of course USB sticks go out of style. Imagine having a floppy disc attached to your fake hand?
1970: Country Joe McDonald (of Country Joe and the Fish) is convicted on obscenity charges after he asks for an F, a U, a C, and one other letter at a concert in Massachusetts.


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Sunday, December 16, 2012
The Flourishing Missouri Wine Industry and Visiting Stone Hill, Home of the Norton Grape
Oct. 28, 2012 – I am in St. Louis for two days preparing to embark on a Mississippi River Board cruise where we will celebrate the Historic Wineries of America. As part of the pre-cruise outings, we spent an afternoon driving about one hour west of the city to the small town of Hermann, home to some of the oldest wineries in Missouri, including the famous Stone Hill Winery that I have wanted to visit for years.
According to the listing on the Missouri Wine Roads app there are around 120 wineries in Missouri. They were primarily settled by German immigrants in the 1830's along the Missouri River (same river that Lewis & Clark followed west-ward when they started their famous trip from St. Louis). Missouri is famous for having the oldest AVA (American Viticulture Area) in the US, the Augusta AVA, approved in 1980 several months before the Napa Valley AVA was approved.
Missouri Wine Grapes – Famous for Norton (Cynthiana)
Due to the humid summers and cold winters, Missouri specializes in many hybrid and Native American grapes. The most famous of these is the Norton grape (also called Cynthiana) that reminds me slightly of syrah but with higher acidity and more tannins. Missouri is also well known for excellent Chardonnel, Traminette, Catawba, Viognoles, Vidal Blanc, and Chambourcin, amongst other varieties.
Stone Hill Winery – Founded 1847
We arrived at Stone Hill Winery around 2pm on a sunny but cool day in the mid 50's. The drive from St. Louis to Hermann, Missouri takes a little over one hour, and the fall foliage along the way was beautiful to behold. The Germans settled Hermann in the 1800's, and it is picturesque country town located on the bluffs of the river with small charming restaurants and B&Bs.
Our group consisted of 16 people, and a cheerful tour guide met our bus. After posing to take photos next to the sign stating the winery was established in 1847 and is listed on the National Register of Historic Places, we started with a view of a Norton vineyard that was trained to a very high trellis system. Harvest was over for the year, but there were still a few loan purple grape clusters hanging amongst the browning leaves.
Next we entered the old vaulted cellars, and the guide explained the winemaking processes. At one time, Stone Hill was the second largest winery in America, producing 1, 250,000 gallons of wine per year, and winning medals in Europe. However, Prohibition decimated the Missouri wine industry, and all of the winemaking property of Stone Hill was destroyed -- a very sad story. For a while they used the old cellars to grow mushrooms, which made it very difficult to clean when the Held family purchased the decaying estate in 1965 in order to revive the winery.
After the tour, our group was treated to a private tasting of more than 20 wines. They were all well made, but some of the group had never tasted the hybrids before and found them unusual. My favorites were the dry Vignoles and Chardonnel, the Reserve Norton, the semi-sweet Traminette, and some of the dessert wines. Afterwards we had a good time buying souvenirs in the large gift shop, and shared a bottle of the Traminette on the bus drive back to St. Louis.
Originally we had planned to stop at a few more Missouri wineries, and I was disappointed when we ran out of time. But we did have a wonderful 5 course dinner at the famous Mike Shannon's restaurant in St. Louis that evening. We even got to watch a big screen TV and celebrate when the San Francisco Giants beat Detroit in the World Series in the Hall of Fame Room.
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There is no access via KVM to this VM?
When I log in to affected computer I was unable to connect, there is stuck Desktop Windows Manager (dwm.exe) and I have to restart it through taskmanager.
Every time it is similar, on computer I tried to connect and fail taskbar is not responding and i have black background (got image). After forceclosing DWM, background comes back.
Using Windows 10 last build, got Eset Antivirus. Happaned on two different computers same way.
I also go this to work by opening TeamViewer Host on my target machines, clicking on the little lightbulb next to 'Your ID' and using the secondary ID number listed for 'administrative purposes'. This does not use the already logged on session (on the target machine) but I'm assuming starts it's own, negating the resolution issues of an already logged in session...
I restarted TV on my host machine and it worked for several days. This morning it's showing the same issue.
Same issue on 12.0.72365.
First logon succeeded, but screen got stuck after a couple of seconds. I tried reconnecting, but now it get's stuck like all the other people here.
Will have to wait till tomorrow to see if a restart fixes this.
Same here, on 12.0.72365
Works fine most of the time but when explorer crashes, Teamviewer can't connect at all until I go on the remote desktop and restart explorer
I don't think I'd mark this thread solved or my post as a solution.. it was just something I noticed.
The problem appears to be that Teamviewer may be contributing or causing explorer to crash and if you don't get a chance to restart explorer manually on the remote desktop; then you're SoL until you get to it.
@Ayrtyte wrote:
I don't think I'd mark this thread solved or my post as a solution.. it was just something I noticed.
The problem appears to be that Teamviewer may be contributing or causing explorer to crash and if you don't get a chance to restart explorer manually on the remote desktop; then you're SoL until you get to it.
In my case, explorer wasn't crashed. I just restarted TV. Same credentials etc. so it's not that either. I have my system (Windows 10) set to not sleep or hibernate but I have the impression that something is still going on with that or wake on lan or something similar..
Really wish there were some restart option that did not require my to log in to TeamViewer.system is frozen but it shows on the list of computers. clearly not completely frozen but when I try to connect I get the initializing display but nothing from there.
Teamviewer only connects when a monitor is attached and display is on, so to say screensaver or power save are the cause. As soon one uses the system, it wakes up, and so the display, and teamviewer does work again.
Not sure what you mean.
@fometeo wrote:
Teamviewer only connects when a monitor is attached and display is on, so to say screensaver or power save are the cause. As soon one uses the system, it wakes up, and so the display, and teamviewer does work again.
I leave my PC on but turn the monitor off. I can usually connnect with TeamViewer except when it intermittently gets this problem initializing display parameters. But it can work for a week with no issue so I don't think it depends on the monitor being on. Maybe I misunderstood you?
it seems the monitor being connected event if off is enough.
most important is power safe is off for the graphics.
some other software have the same issue, and some solutions even use dummy's plugs into graphics, check Google for how-to-create-dummy-plugs-for-your-graphics-cards.
I've had this issue a couple of times. Today, the solution was different.
I have a power controller at the remote computer. I can power-cycle it if needed. I did that today and it did not solve the issue. When I tried to connect after the power cycle, I got a "You've trieds to connect too many times..." . SInce the computer was just power-cycled, I know it was not the other computer.
I found that if I kill TeamViewer_Service.exe AND tv_w32.exe and tv_x64.exe, then I was able to connect to the remote system.
It's happened twice today. Both times I was in a session when the mouse and keyboard ignored inputs - that is when problem started.
The second time, I tried only killing the local services. It didn't help, I needed to reboot the remote system too.
Now I enabled remote desktop so that I may try more actions in the future.
Thanks .... the recommendation to " kill TeamViewer_Service.exe AND tv_w32.exe and tv_x64.exe" is helpful information.
The following is just additional information on my experience and does not contain a remedy or fix:
I use TV to connect to many of my customers that are running separate and distinct computers .... TV has been perfect except for one of my customers. For that customer I experience the "Initializing display parameters" issue every time I try to connect. I know I have a solid connection because I can open the File Transfer tool and I can see the remote drives and files perfectly. I can transfer files as well. As a test, I wanted to eliminate any installation issues that might be at my customer end. I also wanted to insure that both ends of the TV software were up to date. As such, I had my customer download and use the TeamViewer "Quick Support" tool ( The download link is: https://download.teamviewer.com/download/TeamViewerQS_en.exe ) When I tried to make the "Quick Support" connection, it produced the same hang and message "Initializing display parameters" ... TeamViewer File Transfer was fully functional. I run multiple monitors on my local system and my customer has single monitor. While not a likely problem, I wanted to eliminate this as a potential conflict so I tried connecting from one of my computers that has single monitor . Same hang and message were received.
Having the same problem too - with different PCs it seems vary how often it will happen but now it's perhaps 80% of the time incredibly annoying. Why is this marked solved it's patently not!
I've raised a support ticket for this seeing as I have corp. licence.
I started to have this problem on a headless Mac Mini (TV set on HDMI) running El Capitan and version 11 of TV (since i upgraded to 12). For 4 years i connected like this to my Mac and since the latest update of macosx (i think) something is not right.
After many failures i observed that if i let a finder window opened it works. If i close all finder windows i cannot connect.
I used to connect from work (windows 7), from various iOS devices and my macbook pro. Until 2 weeks ago no problem.
FYI, my computer at work is also headless (display off) and i can connect very well from home.
So i think it's a mac os x problem for me
THX for feedback
remote win10 pro headless computer have this problem .
Solved by these steps:
SAME! Any solution on your end?
Unfortunately no.
I did recently change out my hardware, on my machine, from Intel to AMD, which required a Windows reinstall. So far it hasn't been happening again, but what does happen is that when connected, via Teamviewer, Explorer.exe crashes and hangs up a LOT. I think there's some kind of hook, or conflict, between the newest versions of Teamviewer and Windows Explorer, right now. None of these crashes, lockups, ever happened in past versions, and I've been using since version 7 or 8. Since the "unable-to-connect" issue seems to revolve around explorer.exe being locked up, on the remote side, I have a feeling that these issues are connected and I'll soon start seeing the inability to connect, like before.
I also had this problem with version 12 after updating from version 11 on two computers. After complet deinstallation und new installation of TV V12 on both Windows 10 computers this issue is solved.
TV Version 12 now works fine again.
For me the problem is so sporadic, that I can't really comment on solutions. I haven't seen the error since my last report.
@MichaelG wrote:
For me the problem is so sporadic, that I can't really comment on solutions. I haven't seen the error since my last report.
I"ve been using it for over a week without the issue. But yesterday I had the problem and when I got home I opened TV and it looked ok. I tested it and it worked. I noticed that my PC had a new software update and remembered that I had restarted it that morning before I left for work. So I rebooted the pc again and TV didn't work after boot. I opened TV and it started to work.
Like you say, this seems to be pretty sporadic so I'm not sure if it's the actual problem but it looks like even though the service is restarted on a PC reboot that it doesn't wakeup unless I actually open it.
Same problem with latest version 12.0.75813. This is very serious since I was in the middle of working on a client computer and all the other employees in that office have gone home. Completely unable to finish the work!
Here is what I had to do to resolve the issue. I have to turn off the power saving functions on the monitor and I have to leave the screen on and the computer logged on.
If I do not do this I can't connect to the computer from a remote location.
That doesn't work for me. I had it happen with a computer where I've never adjusted power saving one way or the other. Normally I have no problem with that computer. It was a one-off issue. When the client came into the office the next day I asked them to tell me what they saw on the screen and it said "my name" unable to ... something or other. I had them close the popup and was able to connect. It hasn't re-occurred since!
I have this problem for more than a year, it only works when the TV or attached display has power on.
I solved it by using another program: **Third Party Product**, works like charm.
I'm still having the issue after the Creators update for windows 10 - the symptoms are always the same:
Connect to remote system, hang 'initialising display..'
On remote system 'explorer.exe' is hung (crashed). Resolving it is possible by killing the task and restarting explorer.
I've had this happen on 3 different systems now and the symptoms are always exactly the same - no explorer.exe crashes occur on any system except when using teamviewer (the system reliability monitor is an easy way to visualise this). As a possible workaround you can setup a task to monitor 'explorer.exe' and kill/restart it when it hangs. This gives you a fighting chance of reconnecting.
I'm using Restart On Crash - http://w-shadow.com/blog/2009/03/04/restart-on-crash/
I'd be interested to see if this helps any of you!
I have the exact same issue with Windows 10 after last updates (KB4015217). In one of my pcs, I have also received the creators update. I' ve never had this kind of problems before. The TV version is 18.104.22.1683.
I'm having the same problem here, very annoying, already happened twice!
This issue appears when I'm switching display resolution in a remote session - the transmitted screen freezes and the connection drops. When I reconnect, the process hangs in the initialize display parameters part.
Update: Suddenly I could connect to the ubuntu machine again, after around 15 minutes - but the screen is just freezed, I cannot do anything. Really strange.
The only working way to fix this, is to restart the target machine, which is very frustrating ;-)
Please fix that!
I've installed this Restart-on-crash application, and after a week or so my experience is that it might work. I haven't had this error since I installed it.
I suppose it's not proof, because I may have had week long periods without crashes before, but at least I can't rule out that it works :)
Same here bekou, same version, 220.127.116.113. Connected reliably from home for years, now my work machine freezes, won't allow input, close the connection and it hangs at initializing display parameters, and after a while it just goes to authentication rejected. Super annoying.
I've only noticed this since the Creators Update.
Solved? Same problem here too. Anybody at TeamViewer look at these threads? Seems to be a long common bug. I also think it's a resolution problem since TeamViewer seems to be terrible at switching resolutions properly. I think it may be connecting. It just can't make it pass the "Initializing display parameters" step in the process.
Don't if others are having this problem but whenever there's an update to this subject I get the same email notification repeated multiple times! E.g., so far today I have received this same notification six times! TEAMVIEWER: ARE YOU PAYING ATTENTION???
Hi, I reverted to TV 11 for now and it solved my problem. This is not a solution but it works for now since I don't have time experimenting at the moment with different TV 12 versions. I send an email to people from TV and they told me to run an app (TV support collector) that they have to collect the logs from the host and target machines and send them the zip files. I'll do it when I have more time available but TV 11 seems to solve the issue for 2 w10 creators update pcs.
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Same issue in version 11 - authentication rejected like @thado said but without crashing. When I closed the message session timeout, I was able to reconnect!
Just in case that somebody is listening the error that I get in TV 11 log file is:
CLoginServer::CheckIfConnectionIsAllowed: Incoming connection from xxx denied, because TeamViewer is not visible CLoginServer::runServer: Connection is not allowed
I suspect you installed TV over an RDP session originally. Remove TV, gain direct console access to the server (not RDP access) then reinstall TV. In my case I was able to uninstall TV then reinstall TV over supermicro IPMI Java based console and that got it working for me. FYI Logme (now GoToMyPC I think they call it) had this same issue years ago before I switched to TV.
I have the same problem, although I am using version 12.0.77242.
I am using TV on this PC both for login to another PC and for login to this PC from the other one.
Both cases do not work anymore.
From this PC I get initialization display then hanging window. From the other PC, after initialization, the connexion ends without any message.
Everything used to work fine until some recent time. Hoever, I am unable to tell when the problem appeared. It may be after installing latest Windows 10 upgrade.
Any solution available ?
@Mulsambe: For me in TV 12.0.77242, the issue remains.
Try TV 11. This older version solved the problem.
Thank you for the suggestion.
However, TV11 will not work for login on the remote PC running TV12.
I will have to downgrade to TV11 on both PCs, and also on all other family PCs already running TV12...
Ok, a couple things have changed and I am able to connect without issue. In fact, I am typing this on my remote machine now.
1. Updated both remote and local to 12.0.77242
2. My home version was saying the typical "license has expired". I re-entered my corp license.
3. On a suggestion posted here, I changed my power plan settings to never / never for turning off the display and put the computer to sleep.
I have tested multiple times since these changes and haven't had an issue.
Unfortunately, this does not work for me.
- checked version 12.0.77242 on both computers
- no license needed : says Free license (personal usage)
- disabled display sleeping on remote laptop
I have 4 machines running TV12.
Only this one is unable to remotely log on any other.
And only this one rejects remote login.
Could be linked to latest Windows version installed recently.
Current version : Windows 10 Professional 10.0.15063
Do someone use TV with this Windows version ?
I already have it not installed on both ends and I still have the issue. Based on the message saying that I can connect to any "active session" I'm wondering if this is on purpose for some legal reason? I don't see why seeing as it still takes up a TS session anyway. Please update if this is solved.
I am having this trouble with many of my users and computers. We are all on Version 12. Downgrading the entire company to Version 11 is not a solution. Please correct the issue.
Getting on the remote computer and restarting processes is not a solution. The entire point of remote administration is that I can't easily reach the remote computer to do that. Whatever is causing the crash/lockup needs to be found and fixed.
I grabbed the logs from my computer and the remote computer when it happened. But this new board doesn't let me attach files.
I have the same problem on teamviewer 12 "teamviewer initializing display parameters stuck".
If I can connect to remote computer the "right mouse click" on desktop to set "Display options" also does not work. I get an error message.
But usually I get stuck in "initializing display parameters"
Had a reliable solution to this problem been found? This just started happening recently to me. My friend is 98 years old and I help him via screensharing frequently. But the last month I've been stuck on this "initializing display paramenters."
We are both on the latest Mac version.
I tried rebooting both machines. And I did a minor upgrade of my version 12 today but it didn't help.
I had the same issue. Both machines Version 12 and Windows 10 Pro, stuck in Initializing display parameters.
I was able to work around it: In TV client go to Settings -> Remote control -> disabled "Remove External Background" and selected "Optimal Quality" under quality. Then I connected and it worked again. Rebooted the machine to be sure.
Note: I use a Dutch version so the translation may be different in your TV.


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njam is a Pacman like game. You can play single or multiplayer.
From Ubuntu Terminal screen (Applications > Accessories > Terminal), type:
taufanlubis@toshiba:~$ sudo apt-get install njam
Reading package lists… Done
Building dependency tree
Reading state information… Done
The following packages were automatically installed and are no longer required:
libmyth-0.20 libsvga1 quake2-data
Use 'apt-get autoremove' to remove them.
The following NEW packages will be installed:
0 upgraded, 1 newly installed, 0 to remove and 0 not upgraded.
Need to get 1434kB of archives.
After unpacking 4235kB of additional disk space will be used.
Get:1 http://archive.ubuntu.com gutsy/universe njam 1.25-3ubuntu1 [1434kB]
Fetched 1306kB in 37s (35.0kB/s)
Selecting previously deselected package njam.
(Reading database … 130534 files and directories currently installed.)
Unpacking njam (from …/njam_1.25-3ubuntu1_i386.deb) …
Setting up njam (1.25-3ubuntu1) …
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The acquaintance of a Florence couple is facing charges for his participation in a home robbery, police said.
On Aug. 5, homeowner William Baise, 66, answered the door to an acquaintance, sheriff's deputies said.
Two armed men then burst into the couple's home and ordered Baise, who was home with his 62-year-old wife, Wanda, to retrieve cash from a known location.
Once they got the money, deputies said, the men tied up the couple and left.
Police have now charged that acquaintance, Thomas Powell III, 42, of Erlanger.
Investigators say Powell led the other two men to the condo, knowing the victims would open the door for him.
Powell is charged with robbery and two counts of kidnapping, all class B felonies punishable by 10-20 years in jail.
Investigators are still pursuing leads to identify the two African-American men.
Anyone with information as to the identity of the two is asked to call either the Boone County Sheriff's Office at (859) 334-2175 or Crime Stoppers at (513) 352-3040.


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GCH CH Protocol's Veni Vidi Vici
When we were in Kalamazoo MI back in May we were very impressed with how five separate clubs pulled together to put a cluster that was a success on every level. Four of those clubs are back at it this week. The Pontiac Kennel Club had the opener on Thursday and they put James Fredericksen in the final ring.
GCH CH Mt View's Ripsnorter Silver Charm
(Photo by Lisa Croft Elliot)
The seven he saw were the German Wirehaired Pointer, GCH CH Mt View's Ripsnorter Silver Charm, the Harrier, GCH CH Downhome Hitech Innovator, the Doberman Pinscher, GCH CH Protocol's Veni Vidi Vici, the Russell Terrier, GCH CH Goldsands Columbus, the Pug, GCH CH Hill Country's Tag I'm It, the Bulldog, GCH CH Evergreen's Miss Congeniality, and the Old English Sheepdog. GCH CH Lambluv Gambolon Blue Thunder.
His Reserve and Best In Show went to Two of our Top Five Dogs, the Number One Dog All Breeds, the GWP, Oakley, and the Number Three Dog, the Doberman, FiFi. It was FiFi's and breeder/owner/handler Jocelyn Mullins' 42nd BIS this year.


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If you thought humanity's ego took a blow when IBM's Deep Blue defeated chess master Garry Kasparaov, our society will probably never recover from this latest defeat. A human challenger from Detroit-based Synaptic Robotics went up against a run-of-the-mill Fanuc M-20iA factory bot in a game of Rock 'Em Sock 'Em Robots and walked away with a big old 'X' in humanity's loss column.
It's a tough pill to swallow, particularly since the robot wasn't custom engineered for the task. But rest assured, no artificial intelligence will ever have the skill and expertise to challenge us at Hungry Hungry Hippos. [YouTube via Automaton]


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Mitchell Long
Plein-air artists often chat with passersby interested in their work.
But when New Orleans painter Mitchell Long sets up his easel and oils on the leafy neutral ground of Esplanade Avenue, he needs to do a little more explaining than normal for curious onlookers.
"I'm actually painting behind my back," Long says. "I found that with the easel in front of me, it got in the way. So now I turn around, look at the scene, then turn back to the painting, doing that again and again. When people come by, they're a little surprised because what's on the canvas isn't the scene in front of it."
What is on his canvas these days, though, is turning heads on its own. Long's major focus is on panoramas
of everyday street scenes around New Orleans, made new and unique through his impressionistic style. His canvases are narrow but stretch on, and as the eye tracks along, the familiar buildings, intersections and public spaces materialize inch by inch.
Raised in Winter Park, Fla., Long says he always had an affinity for art, which he pursued first at the Columbus College of Art & Design in Ohio. He later earned a graduate degree from Louisiana State University, and from there he moved to New Orleans for good in 1998. Early in his education, he thought he would train as a commercial illustrator. But soon Long found the most enthusiastic praise came for his fine art endeavors.
"I was never taught how to paint a landscape, which I think helped me," he says. "I had to figure it out on my own, and whenever you do that, the result is going to be more you."
These days, Long is painting a flat city from the ground level. He's particularly drawn to the angular
intersections where the New Orleans street grid pivots. Here, the streets crease into triangular blocks and often support prow-shaped buildings. They come to jaunty life on his canvas, revealing the quirks and personality of the urban landscape. As New Orleans continues reordering itself after Katrina, these scenes sometimes can assume an unexpected resonance overnight.
"The city is changing so fast, especially in the Warehouse District," Long says. "Sometimes I've painted a building, and then it's gone, knocked down. It's like these have turned into historic paintings."


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BOSTON -- Yoenis Cespedes returned to left field for the first time in more than a week for Friday's opener vs. the Red Sox.
The A's outfielder, who strained his left hamstring in Houston last week, had been relegated to designated-hitter duties since returning on Tuesday.
But Cespedes was back in his usual spot for the club's three-game series opener at Fenway Park, where he's a career .231 hitter over just three games.
"That's why we kind of took it easy the first couple of days," said manager Bob Melvin. "You never know until he actually gets out there, but we feel like he's ready to go."
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Thomas Was Alone takes place inside a computer where, suddenly and inexplicably, several strands of code – or artificial intelligence entities – have developed the capacity for independent thought and personalities of their own. Chief among these is Thomas, represented on-screen by a small, red rectangle. Thomas has no idea why his artificial intelligence is no longer quite so artificial, but he knows one thing: he doesn't want to be stuck inside this program forever. So he sets about trying to escape.
As he progresses through the labyrinthine innards of his virtual world, Thomas is beset by various obstacles and hazards, and it soon becomes clear that he can't proceed alone. Fortunately, he'll soon chance across fellow AI entities coming to terms with their own dawning self-awareness. Moreover, each new buddy has his or her own skill or special attribute that will play a part in aiding Thomas's bid for freedom.
Abstract and unconventional, Thomas Was Alone is a masterpiece in storytelling, a clever, stripped-back riff on classic platform games with a plot so enchanting and expertly spun, you soon forget that the characters you're controlling are actually a jumble of colourful polygons. Before too long, they'll seem like old and much-loved friends – and their quest for freedom will be more important than ever.
Thomas Was Alone offers a heartfelt, human spin on modern, minimalist design.
The visuals are a joy to behold, with bright, glowing colours and simple geometric construction which soon come to embody much more than you might expect. The game creates an emotional connection between you and your troop of silent shapes that is at once ingenious and inspiring – and due in no small part to the invitingly naïve aesthetic. Basically, Thomas Was Alone is super cute.
The audio is also superb, with a great electronic soundtrack and some amazing narration voiced by British writer and funny man Danny Wallace. None of the characters in the game can speak, but we find out their inner feelings, doubts and desires from Wallace, whose warm tones are a perfect match for the game's central themes of friendship and co-operation.
The script is truly brilliant, with a gentle humour and lightness of touch befitting the quirky subject matter, and there are many moments, such as when Thomas discovers the concept of a jump – or, to his fledgling consciousness, an inverted fall – when only the stoniest of hearts could fail to be entranced.
Last but not least, Thomas Was Alone is incredibly easy to enjoy, with excellent animation and intuitive controls. Whether you're jumping, floating, bouncing or soaring about on jet engines, this is a fresh, fun sensory experience that feels as great as it looks and sounds.
Thomas Was Alone is a unique puzzle-platformer that hinges on notions of friendship, community and co-operation.
At the start of the game, you control Thomas – and he really is alone, moving and jumping across each maze-like stage to reach the exit. Soon, however, the obstacles in his path become impossible to pass, the hazards too dangerous to navigate. Try to leap too great a distance or take a dip in a pool of liquid and you'll find Thomas summarily extinguished, only to re-materialise at the last checkpoint. What your little red friend needs is help – and luckily for him, he's not the only stray bit of code to have sprung to life today.
Dotted about the dozens of brain-teasing stages are other AI entities with a hankering for freedom, and by switching between them you can use their different skills to help every last one to its own designated exit. If a shape can't make a jump, its pals can form a handy staircase; if one shape can't cross a pool, a floating friend can ferry it across.
In this way, the game's central objective – to lead all the shapes to freedom – gets more tricky as you continue, and working out the best means and sequence by which your little gang can help each other to progress becomes a deliciously head-scratching challenge. The beauty of Thomas Was Alone is the way it balances the desire to move forward with the delight of staying put and figuring out the puzzles in your path. What's more, the experience is just as satisfying enjoyed in bite-sized chunks as in one or two marathon sessions, so the game is perfect for playing at home or on the move.
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The new Cat® 336E H excavator centers on an innovative, fuel-saving "hydraulic hybrid" system that captures and reuses energy. Greater fuel efficiency is the net result—as much as 50 percent greater than the 336D. The benefits include lower fuel costs, reduced exhaust emissions and a smaller carbon footprint—all without any compromise in production, reliability, durability or operability in all applications.
The 336E H was unveiled in October 2012, and its order board opened this February with factory shipments beginning in March. According to Ken Gray, global product manager for large hydraulic excavators for Caterpillar's Excavation Division, customers have shown tremendous enthusiasm for the 336E H since the day it was unveiled. "Customer interest has been off the charts," Gray said. "They're not only reaching out to Cat dealers to learn more about the 336E H, they are placing orders. In fact, we received our first signed orders October 17th, the day after the reveal."
Gray also said customers want to know about Caterpillar's plans for expanding hybrid technology to additional excavators. "We're getting a lot of questions about what other models will be available as a hybrid, and when," said Gray. "While I will not divulge our full hybrid strategy, I will say we will have two additional hydraulic hybrid models, the 336F H and 336D H, on the way."
Both the 336F H and 336D H models will have the same hybrid Cat Electronic Standardized Programmable (ESP) pump as the 336E H. The 336F H will feature a Cat C9.3 ACERT™ engine that meets Tier 4 Final/Stage IV emissions standards; the 336D H will feature a Cat C9 ACERT engine designed to meet the needs of customers in those countries with emissions standards different than Tier 4 Final/Stage IV. "We have active development programs for the machines which will follow those two," Gray said. "And we will continue to add appropriate hybrid technology to models where it adds value for customers—where it lowers owning and operating costs to help their businesses succeed. Our objective is to ensure our customers make more money with Cat products than they can with others."
336E H Reduces Owning and Operating (O&O) Costs
According to Gray, no other commercially available technology has higher power density than hydraulics, and that's why Caterpillar selected a hydraulic solution to help its customers achieve substantial fuel savings. "We leveraged our standard Cat hydraulic components to take advantage of economies of scale across our product line, which in turn significantly reduces the cost for our customers to own the 336E H.
Plus they sacrifice nothing in terms of reliability, performance, power, force, speed or production," said Gray. "And it is surprisingly quiet."
336E H Technology Building Blocks
To achieve fuel savings, the design of the 336E H is relatively straightforward, using three building block technologies: 1) Conserve fuel with engine power management via the Cat Electronic Standardized Programmable (ESP) pump, 2) Optimize performance using restriction management via the patented Cat Adaptive Control System (ACS) valve and 3) Reuse energy via the hydraulic hybrid swing, which captures the excavator's upper structure swing brake energy in accumulators and then releases the energy during swing acceleration.
More on the Innovative ACS Valve
Unlike any other control on the market today, Caterpillar's patented ACS intelligently manages the restrictions and flows in the system. As the "brain" of the hydraulic hybrid system, ACS is comprised of an extensive set of algorithms to seamlessly control implement motion with no loss of power. Due to ACS and the system integration with the ESP pump and hybrid system, operators experience no difference in control, hydraulic power or lift capacity.
The independent metering valves of ACS can independently manage inflow and outflow restrictions to and from each circuit of the machine to maximize performance. This restriction management system means no extra valves are needed for in-cylinder flow regeneration of boom, stick and bucket, and it eliminates the fine swing control valve but maintains this functionality. Because it's integrated with the hybrid swing system, it allows transparent, smooth operation for higher productivity from operators. In addition, the warm-up control of ACS automatically warms the hydraulic oil and valve system in cold weather for improved performance and longer component life, which also helps reduce customers' owning and operating costs.
Fuel Savings and Return on Hybrid Investment
Customers can expect the 336E H to use up to 25 percent less fuel compared to a standard 336E and up to a 50 percent improvement in fuel efficiency compared to a 336D in a wide variety of operating conditions. All three of the technology building blocks, 1) Conserve, 2) Optimize and 3) Reuse, are integrated together to maximize fuel savings in a variety of applications. Precisely when customers will recoup their initial investment in a 336E H depends on fuel prices, a customer's specific application and the number of hours the machine operates in a year. Assuming today's fuel prices and a production application for a 336E H, Caterpillar estimates customers can realistically expect to see a return on their investment for the hybrid excavator model in as little as one year, with 18 months as typical.
Testing and Validation
Caterpillar has been conducting stringent testing to validate fuel burn, controllability, reliability and performance of the 336E H and its technology building blocks. Field-proven, durable Cat hydraulic components served as the foundation for the machine's innovative design.
"We have tested these machines extensively, following the same processes that have produced the most reliable Tier 4 excavators in our industry," Gray said. "We have run our normal, stringent durability testing at a machine level and put the machines through our customary millions of lab cycles to validate components and systems, including extreme vibration and temperature conditions." Gray added that the 336E H has been meeting or exceeding all performance expectations, including the heightened expectations of customers who rely on their Cat excavators for high production.
Randy Peterson, advanced technology development manager for implement & steering systems, said, "Essentially, we threw every challenge we could think of at this machine to ensure its reliability for our customers, and customers have responded with very positive comments. Customer operators are reporting how reliable, fast, responsive and powerful the machines are. They're also telling us that they're amazed at how quietly the machines operate."
Peterson also said the results from 336E H machines running at customer locations in California are "more than impressive." The customers are using the machines in a variety of applications like trenching, truck loading, contouring and heavy lifting. He said, "These machines have been running for more than nine months, and the fuel efficiency they're achieving is nothing short of remarkable." According to Peterson, fuel savings over the customers' current, non-hybrid machines in the same size class is 20 to 35 percent with improved productivity. The customers are also complimentary of the control and responsiveness of the hybrid machine.
At its Peoria Proving Grounds, Caterpillar tested the 336E H in 90° and 180° same-level truck loading, trenching and bench loading. The tests proved that regardless of applications, customers can expect to use up to 25 percent less fuel compared to a standard 336E and up to a 50 percent improvement in fuel efficiency compared to a 336D. This result is a testament to the three building block technologies working together to save fuel—even when swing energy is low.
Engine, Fuel and Undercarriage
The 336E H uses the Cat C9.3 ACERT engine, which is designed to operate efficiently on ultra-low-sulfur diesel fuel or a B20 bio fuel blend. Generous hydraulic flow in the implement circuits and a high main relief pressure generate high hydraulic horsepower. This means the 336E H can handle buckets as large as 3.33 cubic yards (2.55 m3), as well as a variety of work tools from shears and multi-processors to hydraulic breakers and rippers.
The heavy-duty extended-length undercarriage of the 336E H and its 5.4-ton (4.9-m) counterweight combine to form an exceptionally strong work platform for digging, lifting and attachment use. And the heavy-duty reach boom can be paired with either a 10.5-foot (3.2-m) stick or a 12.8-foot (3.9-m) stick.
Additional Features
The 336E H provides a quiet, comfortable operator environment, which ultimately results in higher operator productivity. Air suspension and heated seats are available, joystick controls are adjustable to suit operator preferences, including monitor-selectable pattern changing. The machine also has an automatic climate-control system to continually maintain a comfortable environment.
The 336E H is designed for ease of serviceability, with features like ground-level access to major maintenance points, electric fuel system priming pump, remote fuel tank drain to evacuate water and sediment, and a fuel level indicator to help avoid overfilling. Among its many safety features, the 336E H includes a cab-integrated roll-over-protection structure (ROPS), anti-skid surfaces, programmable halogen lights, upper and lower windows that store easily, a large skylight and rearview camera system.
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82,000 lb. (37 200 kg)
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24 ft. 7 in. (7 490 mm)
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26 ft. 10 in. (8 190 mm)
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150 gpm (570 L/min.)
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5,076 psi (35 000 kPa)
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