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The seven-foot center's offensive game is mostly limited to impressive dunks—he's racked up up 104 of them on the season. His total ranks him fourth in the NBA.
During L.A.'s loss to Wizards on Monday night, Jordan gobbled up a career-high 22 rebounds, but only scored seven points on three made field goals. Of course, all three were slams—some more violent than others.
The field for the 2013 NBA Sprite Slam Dunk Contest at All-Star Weekend in Houston has not yet been set. I asked DeAndre Jordan if he would like to be in it.
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BOSTON – That old sports adage about playing until you hear the whistle was lost in the chaotic cacophony Thursday night at TD Garden, and was buried amid a whacky, weird scenario.
While it's safe to say the 7-5 loss the Flyers suffered at the hands of the Bruins there wasn't one rooted in the ritual systems employed by the two teams – featuring two of the NHL's leading goaltenders statistically, no less – it certainly was one that was affected by some basic tenets of the sport.
Namely, not stopping until those aforementioned whistles are blown.
Case in point for the Flyers came more than halfway through the third period while they were nursing a 5-4 lead.
For a team that hadn't lost in regulation when carrying a lead into the third period, one would think the focus at such a moment would be on locking down the defense and keeping that lead intact – especially after having already surrendered a lead earlier in the period.
But the slightest of actions can cause the slightest of hiccups and cause a typically well-operating machine to falter.
So, when Johnny Boychuk tried to clear the puck from the Bruins zone and a handful of Flyers saw the puck hit the protective netting above the glass, they relaxed.
However, none of the four officials saw what they saw, and play continued. The Bruins promptly created an odd-man rush, and then there was a goal.
"That was the turning point in the game," Danny Briere said.
He's likely right, although the goal scored by Brad Marchand only tied the game and it took a goal from Steve Kampfer in the final minutes and an empty-netter by Gregory Campbell to finally ice the Flyers' four-game winning streak. Continued...
Yet, it was the play that should have been a Bruins penalty that instead became a Bruins goal that was the topic of conversation after the loss.
"Me and, I think it was Scott Hartnell, were down low," Danny Briere said. "We both stopped playing because (Boychuk) shot it directly out into the netting. It was tough for (referee Brad) Watson to see it because he was right there. He had his back turned but I thought one of the other three guys would have seen that and called it."
They didn't. Briere and Hartnell stopped completely. Ville Leino, Sean O'Donnell and Matt Carle did a bit of a double take, and never recovered.
"It hit the netting for sure. … It's one of those things where you let up for a second because you think they're going to call it," O'Donnell said. "When they don't, it takes a second for you to get back into your rhythm and they were coming at us with some speed. It happened in their end and (the officials) missed it."
O'Donnell was adamant it hit the net. So were Briere and Leino, both of whom argued profusely.
The Flyers' home broadcast feed did not have a clear angle to show whether or not it hit the netting. If it did, it should have been a Bruins penalty.
But no whistle came, the goal was scored and the Flyers found themselves on their heels.
"You know it gets up in the air and it's hard to see for, well, probably goalies and refs," said Boston goalie Tim Thomas, who struggled at his end of the ice, too. "But that stuff happens. I've been scored on from shots that go off the netting. If you quit playing … you don't quit playing until the whistle goes."
Sage advice for the Flyers.
Again, it wasn't the reason they lost. Sloppy play, too many penalties and Brian Boucher's worst game in goal since last March were more mitigating factors. Continued...
That was evidenced by the edginess in the voice of many Flyers players and coaches postgame – because this one stung a little bit.
Coach Peter Laviolette answered two questions, neither with any great detail, then ended his press conference. Mike Richards, who again played well, offered just one take on the game:
"Sometimes you get bounces and sometimes you don't," Richards said. "When stuff like that happens it is tough to get in a groove. I took a couple penalties tonight that I shouldn't have taken. But it is one of those things. Obviously, I am not accepting losing, ever."
Even Boucher, who is usually pretty analytical after a game, wasn't in the mood to talk.
"I don't know what to say," he said. "It was just one of those nights."
It was a night in which Briere scored again (his 23rd) and added an assist on a Hartnell goal to make it 10 points in his last five games.
It was a night in which Nik Zherdev returned and actually made a nice defensive play, leading to his 14th goal and he added an assist also.
It was also a game in which O'Donnell got off the bump, scoring for the first time since March. And Jeff Carter notched his 17th goal of the season.
But it was also a game that saw the Bruins score on a 5-on-3, saw the ageless Mark Recchi pop a crazy bounce into an empty net with Boucher stuck behind it and Patrice Bergeron and Michael Ryder each get a crazy deflection goal.
"There were some tough bounces out there," Laviolette said. Continued...
TWO THUMBS UPstirred up trouble in the defensive end and then scored the game-winner.
Steven Kampfer
Lost in the barrage of goals as perhaps Braydon Coburn's best game of the season.
TWO THUMBS DOWNmade 30 saves. Unfortunately, there were 37 shots chucked at him by the Bruins.
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Lone Flyers All-Star Claude Giroux hasn't scored in a month.
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First Period–1, Flyers, Hartnell 15 (Leino, Briere), 3:34. 2, Boston, Chara 7 (Savard, Krejci), 18:16 (pp). Penalties–Shelley, Phi, major (fighting), 2:35; Thornton, Bos, major (fighting), 2:35; Boston bench, served by Seguin (too many men), 5:53; Richards, Phi (hooking), 13:24; Hartnell, Phi (hooking), 16:46; Coburn, Phi (hooking), 17:42.
Second Period–3, Boston, Bergeron 14 (Kampfer, Recchi), :45. 4, Flyers, Zherdev 14 (Nodl), 15:25. 5, Flyers, Carter 17 (van Riemsdyk, Timonen), 19:24. Penalties–None.
Third Period–6, Boston, Recchi 9 (Chara, Thomas), :38. 7, Boston, Ryder 12 (McQuaid, Horton), 1:48. 8, Flyers, Briere 23 (Coburn, Leino), 6:48. 9, Flyers, O'Donnell 1 (Richards, Zherdev), 7:41. 10, Boston, Marchand 9 (Campbell, Wheeler), 11:26. 11, Boston, Kampfer 4, 18:46. 12, Boston, Campbell 5 (Wheeler, Bergeron), 19:53 (en). Penalties–Briere, Phi (cross-checking), 8:56; Richards, Phi (high-sticking), 15:26.
Shots on Goal–Flyers 12-12-11–35. Boston 12-10-15–37.
Power-play opportunities–Flyers 0 of 1; Boston 1 of 5.
Goalies–Flyers, Boucher 10-5-2 (36 shots-30 saves). Boston, Thomas 20-4-6 (35-30).
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Seriously, what would it take to get him from the Clippers?
Millsap? (since Odom is ****)
Burks + a 1st?
Tinsley/Watson + Burks?
They aren't gonna be able to keep him. The Jazz should be making their pitch.
Seriously, what would it take to get him from the Clippers?
Millsap? (since Odom is ****)
Burks + a 1st?
Tinsley/Watson + Burks?
They aren't gonna be able to keep him. The Jazz should be making their pitch.
I'd do any of those.
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The Clippers have got to be looking for an extra piece. I think the west is more open this year than last:
*Spurs are a year older (yes, I said it. Just ask the Thunder)
*the Thunder are without Harden (which is significant in playoff moments, IMO)
*the Grizz have been as deep as LA.
Milsap and the GSW pick possibly
Man, everyone sure likes Bledsoe. I love his energy, length, strength, speed, and defense. He is still a project probably not skilled enough to start for the jazz and is definitely not a point guard.
Would love for him to be on the jazz, but not too high a price for an extremely unproven player
I think the full range of opinions are all fair, btw. I like him (didn't so much during the draft) quite a lot, but I am not blind to those very good reasons to proceed with caution. Chris Paul is on my Fantasy League so I mostly catch the LAC games. Every time Bledsoe gets in the game, I'm thinking to myself .. ****! Paul's not getting back in!!
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Abstract. Management of individual species in a multi-species fishery poses a number of challenges for fishery management systems, including the problem of managing fish bycatch. Fish bycatch is sometimes identified as a particular problem associated with management systems based on individual transferable quotas (ITQs) but this has not always proven to be correct. Since the introduction of an ITQ-based fishery management system 15 years ago, New Zealand has used a number of mechanisms to manage fish bycatch, with variable success. In 2001, the system by which fishers' catches are balanced against their catching rights was significantly modified. Changes include the implementation of a fee schedule requiring fishers to pay higher fees for increased levels of catch in excess of the catching right they hold. This is designed to provide fishers with an economic disincentive to target fish stocks for which they have no catching right. The new catch-balancing regime has only been in operation for 8 months but initial results are encouraging. There are anecdotal reports of fishers shifting to alternative fishing grounds to avoid catching species for which they have insufficient catching rights and there is no evidence of increased discarding. The real test of the regime will occur when a shortage of catching rights for a bycatch species severely constrains a major target fishery.
Keywords: fish bycatch, individual transferable quotas, economic incentives
The challenge of managing individual species within multi-species fisheries is one that faces fisheries managers everywhere since many fisheries target more than one species. The challenge arises because limiting the catch of one species in a multi-species fishery may result in fishers either discarding fish of that species or foregoing catch of other species (Squires et al., 1998). The problem of fish bycatch-and particularly discarding of bycatch-has been suggested as a particular problem associated with Individual Transferable Quotas (ITQ) management systems (e.g. Copes, 1986). Managing fish bycatch is a challenge in the New Zealand ITQ-based management system (Annala et al., 1991) but Boyd and Dewees (1992) suggest that the use of an ITQ management system in New Zealand has not added any new bycatch problems.
In most fisheries fishers can modify the mix of species in their catch to some extent, but usually at some cost. Therefore, in order to encourage fishers to change their fishing operations to limit the catch of some species, incentives are required. In this paper I briefly outline the fisheries management system used in New Zealand and then focus on the incentives that have been used to encourage fishers to stay within catch limits for individual species. I then describe the new incentive structure implemented in 2001, note some preliminary results, and suggest some challenges facing the management of multi-species fisheries.
The NZ ITQ management system-or Quota Management System (QMS) as it more commonly known-operates within a wider fishery management system that includes typical fishery management controls such as method restrictions, area restrictions and minimum legal sizes. Only a brief description of the QMS is provided here. Details of the development and operation of the QMS are provided by Annala (1996), Batstone and Sharp (1999), and Hersoug (2002).
The QMS was implemented in 1986, initially with 161 fish stocks of 28 species or species groups. Since 1986 more species have been brought into the QMS and a recent acceleration of this process is likely to result in approximately 50 additional species being brought into the QMS within the next 3 years. For each fish stock there is an annual Total Allowable Catch (TAC) and a Total Allowable Commercial Catch (TACC). The TAC is set to allow the fish stock to be maintained at or move towards the stock size that supports the maximum sustainable yield. The difference between the TAC and the TACC comprises an allowance for recreational fishers and customary Maori fishers, and other sources of mortality. Each TACC is divided into ITQs that are, in effect, shares of the TACC. The actual size of these shares varies as the TACC is increased or decreased on an annual basis.
The fish stock boundaries or Quota Management Areas (QMAs) for some species, such as Ling, follow the ten basic Fishery Management Areas (FMAs) (Figure 1). Fish stock boundaries for other species, such as Hoki, see a number of FMAs combined. In effect, the whole Hoki Fishery is managed as a single fish stock. Most species are divided into 3-10 fish stocks. Note that, due to the low productivity of many commercial fish stocks in the area, only nominal TACs are set for QMA 10 (top of the maps) and these fish stocks are excluded from the analysis in this paper.
The catch-balancing regime is the term used to describe the system by which a fisher's catch is reconciled with the catching rights that he or she holds. From 1986 until 2001, the primary unit of the catch-balancing regime was ITQ. ITQ was both the long-term catching right and the within-year fishing right and could be bought or sold or leased. Fishers were required to have ITQ to cover their catch before they took any fish-it was a criminal offence not to do so-but there were a number defences available. A key element of all these defences was that any catch taken in excess of ITQ had to be taken as an inevitable consequence of taking other fish species for which the fisher did have a catching right. In practice, it proved easy for fishers to claim this defence-even where they were targeting species for which they had no catching right.
In addition to establishing an "inevitable consequence" defence, the fisher also had to 'balance the books'-that is to retrospectively cover their catch with some form of catching right. The six main methods by which this could be done are listed below. The first four methods are largely self-explanatory. More detail is provided on the last two methods.
Under the Bycatch Trade-Off System catch of one fish stock could be counted against ITQ of another fish stock taken in the same fishery. Trade-offs were only permitted between selected species and trade-off ratios were based on the relative values of the species being traded. The System was typically used by small fishing operations that had difficulty obtaining ITQ for a particular species in a mixed-species fishery. However, the method was biologically unsound and some fishers used the System to target species for which they had little or no ITQ.
Fishers could also cover catch in excess of ITQ by paying a Deemed Value. The Minister of Fisheries was required to set a Deemed Value annually for each fish stock-in dollars per kilogram of catch in excess of ITQ. The Deemed Value was payable to the government monthly, based on the amount of catch in excess of ITQ, and was refunded if a fisher subsequently obtained ITQ to cover catch. The Minister was required to set Deemed Values at a level to achieve two objectives: to discourage fishers from targeting fish for which they held no ITQ; and to encourage fishers to bring any accidental bycatch ashore rather than discard it.
Deemed Values for a particular fish stock were usually based on the port price of the fish stock, qualified by factors such as the level of overfishing for that fish stock in previous years and whether it was a high, medium or low value species. The last factor was based on the assumption that there is a stronger incentive to target high value species. In practice, the variability in fishing operation cost structures meant that for some fish stocks it proved impossible to meet both objectives. For a given Deemed Value some fishers could make a profit and continue to target the fish stock while others would make a loss and were tempted to discard catches of the same fish stock.
Since 1986, additional mechanisms for covering catch with catching rights were incorporated in the catch-balancing regime until there were around 20 different mechanisms. The regime became very complicated and from month-to-month neither fishers nor the Ministry knew exactly how much uncaught ITQ each fisher had available. This made it difficult to take prosecutions against fishers for fishing in excess of ITQ, except where the offence was blatant. All these factors contributed to the catch of some stocks exceeding the TACC; some regularly, and some by a large amount.
Figure 2 shows the frequency of catches exceeding the TACC for all stocks in the QMS in the two fishing years 1990/91 and 2000/01. In 1990/91, total catches of about 17% of stocks exceeded the TACC. In only a few stocks, catch exceeded the TACC by a large amount. Ten years later, the number of stocks in the QMS had increased to 240. Of these, the percentage in which overfishing occurred had increased to about 27% and the frequency of overfishing was higher across the range. The main reason for this increase is that a number of the new species brought into the QMS were those for which there was little catch information on which to base the TAC and TACC. In some cases TACs were set at low levels and, not unexpectedly, catches exceeded TACCs. This catch information will be used in future reviews of the TACs and TACCs.
This catch information will be used in future reviews of the TACs and TACCs.
For some fish stocks, overcatch is a one-off or occasional event; for others, it occurs every year. SNA2 is an example of a fish stock for which there has been persistent overcatch. Figure 3 shows that in every year since 1986/87 catch has exceeded the TACC-even after the TACC was increased in 1993. Deemed Value setting for this fish stock is complicated by the fact that there is a target fishery for SNA2 and it is also taken as bycatch in other fisheries. The landed value of snapper taken in the target longline fishery is typically higher than its value in trawl fisheries. Deemed Values were paid in respect of the catch in excess of the TACC so the Deemed Value was clearly not enough of an incentive to stop fishers taking snapper in this fishery. Fortunately, there are not many species for which such regular overfishing occurs, however, this is one of the problems that led to the redesign of the catch-balancing incentive structure.
Under the new catch-balancing regime implemented in October 2001, ITQ remains the in-perpetuity right to receive a share of the TACC each year. At the start of each fishing year, the ITQ generates Annual Catch Entitlement (ACE) based on the share of the TACC. This ACE is allocated to the owner of the ITQ who can either use the ACE to cover catch of the relevant fish stock or sell it to other fishers. ACE is now the only currency for covering catch. There is no more leasing of ITQ or catching against another fisher's ITQ-only buying and selling of ACE. In most fisheries the only requirement before fishing is that a fisher hold a fishing permit. Commercial fishing without a permit is a serious criminal offence. Permit holders are required to obtain ACE to cover their catch or pay the appropriate Deemed Value. Most fishers obtain ACE before they go fishing; some obtain it after they have taken the catch. Both approaches are acceptable.
The new catch-balancing regime represents a major shift from a criminal offence-based regime to an administrative regime based on economic incentives. It is no longer a criminal offence to catch in excess of ACE and Deemed Values are now the primary deterrent to fishers taking catch they will not be able to cover with ACE. If Deemed Values are not paid, a fisher's permit is suspended and fishing without a valid permit is a criminal offence. In effect, there is now an administrative regime nested within a criminal offence regime. Penalties for criminal fishing offences in New Zealand are very high including forfeiture of vessel and quota, and even the possibility of a jail term. Accurate reporting of catch is critical for the successful operation of the system and, therefore, misreporting is also a criminal offence.
There is a 'backstop' mechanism available to restrict catching in excess of TACC in the event that high Deemed Values prove inadequate. If necessary, an overfishing threshold can be set for a fish stock. If a fisher's catch exceeds the ACE owned by the fisher by more than the overfishing threshold the fisher's permit is conditioned to exclude the fisher from the fishery. However, overfishing thresholds will likely be used only rarely in mixed species fisheries and Deemed Values are the primary deterrent to catching in excess of ACE.
With Deemed Values being the primary disincentive against overfishing, it is very important that they are set at an appropriate level. When setting Deemed Values each year there is no longer a requirement to balance the two objectives of discouraging targeting of fish for which no ACE is held and discouraging discarding. Instead, the primary objective is to provide an incentive for fishers to cover catch with ACE. A range of factors is still considered when setting Deemed Values but the most important factor is whether the Deemed Value provides adequate incentive for fishers to cover catch with ACE. The new system has two separate Deemed Values; a refundable Interim Deemed Value paid at month-end, and a non-refundable Annual Deemed Value payable at year-end. The Interim Deemed Value is set at a lower rate than the Annual Deemed Value and is designed to remind fishers of the need to cover their catch with ACE by year-end.
A new feature of the Deemed Value setting mechanism gives fishery managers considerable flexibility to 'tune' the incentive structure to the particular circumstances of a fishery. Not only can managers adjust the basic deemed value rate, they can also adjust the rate at which it increases for increasing levels of catch in excess of ACE. Figure 4 shows the current default Annual Deemed Values regime applicable for most fish stocks. When a fisher's catch of a fish stock is less than or equal to the amount of ACE he or she owns, no Deemed Value is payable. For levels of catch in excess of ACE of up to 20%, the basic Annual Deemed Value for that fish stock is charged. For levels of catch in excess of ACE between 20% and 100%, the Annual Deemed Value is charged at an increasing proportion of the basic rate, until the catch is twice the ACE owned when the Deemed Value charged is twice the basic Annual Deemed Value. This is designed to remove any profit from catching this fish stock since even the basic Deemed Value is usually a significant proportion of the port price. The increasing level of disincentive for larger amounts of overcatch reflects the seriousness of greater levels of overcatch. Thus the regime provides flexibility to all fishing operations to cope with the unpredictability inherent in mixed-species fisheries but strong incentives for fishers to avoid fish for which no ACE can be obtained.
The new catch-balancing regime has only been in operation for 8 months but initial results are encouraging. There are anecdotal reports of fishers shifting to alternative fishing grounds to avoid catching species for which they have insufficient ACE. This is the sort of behavioural change the new regime was designed to achieve. There are reports of the price of ACE for some fish stocks increasing towards the Annual Deemed Value for that fish stock. There is no evidence of increased discarding. However, the real test will come at the end of the fishing year when there will likely be a shortage of ACE for some fish stocks.
Figure 6. Graduated Deemed Values (Alternative 2)
Although full-year results are unavailable, it is possible to compare monthly year-to-date catches for the current year and for previous years. Figure 7 shows the monthly year-to-date catches for SNA2-one of the fisheries in which there has been persistent overcatch. The graph shows the percentage of the TACC remaining uncaught at the end of each month. The continuous and dotted lines show the situation for 1999/2000 and 2000/2001-both under the old catch-balancing regime. In these years the TACC was fully caught by May (after 8 months of the fishing year) and was over-caught by around 50% by the end of the fishing year. The dashed line shows the same data for the current year. It shows that at the end of May there was still 27% of the TACC uncaught. The current trajectory indicates that the level of overcatch at the end of the fishing year will be considerably less than in the last two years. Assuming similar availability of fish in each of the three years, this would suggest that the new balancing regime is reducing the level of catch of fish stocks that have usually been over-caught. Hopefully this is as a result of changed fishing behaviour and not increased discarding.
For more than a decade, New Zealand has used economic incentives to encourage fishers not to take fish for which they cannot obtain a catching right. The catch-balancing regime through which these economic incentives are applied has evolved over time and in 2001 was significantly changed. Initial results indicate that the new catch-balancing regime is having the intended effect of discouraging fishers from catching for fish for which they do not have, or are unlikely to obtain, a catching right.
The new catch-balancing regime, like any mechanism designed to encourage fishers to balance catch with catching rights, faces major challenges. In particular, increasing Deemed Values to discourage fishers from taking fish for which they do not obtain ACE also provides a greater incentive for them to discard fish. In New Zealand it is illegal to discard most species managed in the QMS. To ensure there is no increase in discarding, it may be necessary to deploy more observers and compliance personnel into high-risk fisheries. Within the new regime high-risk fisheries are likely to be those for which the Deemed Value exceeds the landed value of the species. It may also be necessary for compliance personnel to make greater use of catch profiling to identify instances of discarding where no observer was present.
The catch-balancing regime will be fully tested when shortages of ACE for one bycatch fish stock results in a multi-species fishery closing because high Deemed Value payments make fishing uneconomic. Some opposition from the fishing industry would be inevitable. However, the fishing industry already has experience with fishery closures based on sustainability concerns. One New Zealand fishery closes early most years when the bycatch of marine mammals exceeds a pre-determined limit. The new catch-balancing regime is designed to provide the capability to extend similar protection to fish species. Another challenge is to ensure that the TAC and TACC setting process can respond quickly to new information so that catch limits reflect the real state of each fish stock and utilisation of fish stocks can be maximised within sustainability constraints. For the moment, it appears that the new catch-balancing regime provides New Zealand with strong and flexible incentives with which to significantly improve the management of multi-species fisheries.
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Annala, J., K.J. Sullivan and A.J. Hore, Management of multispecies fisheries in New Zealand by individual transferable quotas, ICES mar. Sci. Symp, 193, 321-329, 1991.
Batstone, C.J. and B.M.H. Sharp, New Zealand's quota management system: the first ten years, Marine Policy, 23(2), 177-190, 1999.
Boyd, R.O. and C.M. Dewees, Putting theory into practice: Individual Transferable Quotas in New Zealand's Fisheries. Society and Natural Resources, 5, 179-198.
Copes, P., A critical review of the individual quota as a device in fisheries management. Land Economics, 62, 278-291, 1986.
Hersoug, B., Unfinished Business: New Zealand's experience with rights-based fisheries management, Eburon, Delft, 246 pp, 2002.
Squires, D., H. Campbell, S Cunningham, C. Dewees, R.Q. Grafton, S.F. Herrick Jr, J. Kirkley, S. Pascoe, K. Salvanes, B. Shallard, B. Turris and N. Vestergaard, Individual transferable quotas in multispecies fisheries, Marine Policy, 22(2), 135-159, 1998.
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In a return to form for the most prestigious award in architecture, Japan's Toyo Ito has won this year's Pritzker Prize.
After honoring younger and lesser-known figures in recent years -- including 49-year-old Chinese architect Wang Shu in 2012 -- the Pritzker jury this year chose a well-established architect with 40 years of built work to his credit. For at least a decade Ito has been a presumed Pritzker front-runner.
Along with Tadao Ando, the 1995 Pritzker laureate, the 71-year-old Ito is the dean of Japanese architecture, though with his mop of black hair he looks many years younger. He is best known for his 2001 Sendai Mediatheque, a seven-story glass box of a building that was dramatically shaken, though only lightly damaged, by the Tohoku earthquake two years ago.
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Like much of his work, it distills a series of complex technical breakthroughs into a spare, even-keeled finished product. The Mediatheque's structural and electrical systems are bundled inside 13 vertical tubes, leaving library and exhibition spaces open and accessible from all sides and visible from the street through floor-to-ceiling glass.
Ito has designed museums, stadiums, houses and commercial buildings across Japan. His largest and most ambitious project to date, the 620,000 square-foot Taichung Metropolitan Opera House, is under construction in Taiwan and due to open next year.
He has also been a teacher and mentor to many Japanese architects. Two former associates in his office, Ryue Nishizawa and Kazuyo Sejima, who run the firm SANAA, were the joint Pritzker winners in 2010. Recently Ito has been working with a group of Tokyo architects in their 40s to develop community centers for sections of northeast Japan hit hard by the earthquake and tsunami.
In a Skype interview from his Tokyo office, Ito expressed surprise at the news. "After a Chinese architect won last year and SANAA three years ago, I did not expect it would be me this time," he said.
Ito is the sixth Pritzker winner from Japan, joining Kenzo Tange (1987) and Fumihiko Maki (1993) along with Ando, Nishizawa and Sejima. In a statement, the Pritzker jury, which includes the Supreme Court justice Stephen Breyer as well as architects Glenn Murcutt, Yung Ho Chang and Alejandro Aravena, praised Ito for the ambition of his civic projects, in particular, and for producing buildings that "seem effortlessly in balance."
The opera house design seems also to have deeply impressed the jurors.
As a child Ito dreamed of becoming a professional baseball player and showed little interest in the arts. His father died when he was 12. When he was a freshman in high school his mother commissioned the Japanese architect Yoshinobu Ashihara, who had worked for the well-known modernist architect Marcel Breuer in the United States, to design a house for the family in Tokyo.
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After working early in his career for the Tokyo architect Kiyonori Kikutake, Ito founded his own office in 1971. He originally called the firm Urban Robot (before changing the name to Toyo Ito & Associates in 1979). For Ito, the name was not an expression of faith in technology but something closer to an admission of disillusionment.
A group of Japanese architects slightly older than Ito, known as the Metabolists, had produced bold and stirringly upbeat visions of future cities throughout the 1960s. Kikutake was among the movement's leading figures.
But by the time Ito struck out on his own, Japanese culture had grown pessimistic, with the utopian impulse turning darker, just as it did in the United State and Europe.
"The dreams of the 1960s began to disappear in the 1970s," Ito said through a translator. "The economy collapsed and so did the optimism of the Metabolists. I thought of myself as a dropout robot."
He responded, as did other young Japanese architects, by producing residential projects that were intensely personal, emphasizing the dramas of domestic life rather than technology or urbanism. Ito's first house design, a small wooden structure wrapped in aluminum, represented this attitude.
So did his breakthrough project, a u-shaped house in Tokyo he designed for his older sister, whose husband had recently died; built in 1976, it was demolished in 1997.
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He also represents three of the victims in the Aurora, Colo., shootings.
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Baez says since the Casey Anthony trial, he's been running at full steam, but he did watch the Lifetime movie, "Prosecuting Casey Anthony," that was based on prosecutor Jeff Ashton's book.
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Well, this pregnancy I am definitely not managing to avoid the morning sickness – it is there constantly, pretty much.
I suppose I'm still pretty lucky as so far it has not got anywhere near actually being sick, but it's like having constant car sickness or something in the background all the time. Occasionally it gets a bit worse – like this evening, where I really felt awful for half an hour or so – and sometimes it's not too bad and I forget about it. But it's always there.
We have just come back from a lovely week at Center Parcs in Sherwood Forest, which i'll probably blog about seperately. I'm still very much off the tea and coffee – in fact the thought of pretty much any hot drink, including hot chocolate or horlicks makes me feel quite ill. I'm back to a stage where I just can't get too excited about the thought of any food – I have a 'big shop' to do but can't think of any meal ideas which seem remotely appetising. I ate some mini cheddars at Tony's mum's house this afternoon and they just tasted like salt! I'm also really thirsty all the time, but no matter how much I drink it doesn't go away.
My hormones are all over the place too. Last Sunday, while we were getting ready to go to Center Parcs the following day, I went to the supermarket to buy some of the things we were going to take away with us for self catering. My timing was awful. I was in the supermarket for the 11am Remembrance Sunday two minute silence. (Usually we go to to a service, the only reason we didn't this year was trying to get everything packed and ready for our holiday). Anyway, they announced over the tannoy that they were going to be doing the silences in ten minutes, and then proceeded to start playing really emotional songs like Mariah Carey "There's a hero/if you look inside your soul…." Oh my god. By the time the fanfare came on for the silence I already knew. I was going to be a hormonal wreck. I tried to find a quiet aisle (settled on the nappy aisle and tried to fix my gaze on them for the two minutes) and just stood there with the tears rolling down my face. It was just awful. I didn't have a tissue or anything on me. After the two minutes were up, I tried really hard to pull myself together again but couldn't really think straight so just threw a few more things in the trolley, paid, and got out of there!
As soon as I got in the car, I called Tony and started sobbing… he must've wondered what the hell had happened!
I had a similar hormonal outburst about this stage in pregnancy last time – again in the supermarket! I was doing the shopping and Tony was washing my car. When I finished I got into the car park and couldn't find Tony. I tried to ring him and couldn't get an answer. I got really upset and panicky. I wheeled the trolley round the car park a few times, like a mad woman, all bleary eyed. I thought Tony had abandoned me and I was really cross and upset. What had actually happened was there was a queue to wash the cars, and he was still washing mine, with the phone inside it. Eventually I spotted him at the car wash, wheeled the trolley over and pretty much pushed the trolley into the car, shouting "where have you been?!?! I thought you'd gone without me!!!"
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Other mages? magically enhanced structures, magic null fields, anTi mage experts.
Hey, everyone. Joined the forums to ask this specific question.
In standard fantasy rpg, how do castles/keeps/fortresses prepare their defenses to repel powerful magical attacks. I was having this discussion with a friend, and neither of us could come up with a satisfactory answer. I would assume that a standard resident mage (or group of mages) would be necessary to counter attacks of that nature . . . but is there anything else keeps do to prepare themselves for such a thing?
Thanks for any help . . .
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It probably strictly depends on
1. Rarity of mages in fiction
2. Power of mages in fiction
But yes, I'd imagine if mages are relatively common place and or powerful other mages would be used to counter them.
Depending on what sort of fiction it is there may also be non-magical creatures/people adept at hunting down mages. Or even some sort of creature/noise which debilitates magic users/magic.
MelonHead does not give out free Melons.
Assuming spell casting takes a while, no defensive barriers are set in place and mages require to be in range of the fortress they wish to blow up; nothing stops complicated incantations better than a rain of arrows. Or shock troops and ambushes. Hell, train dogs to kill and unleash them in a unit of mages. The only way mages work well is if they have an answer for everything (like defensive barriers and shit, or quick-casting spells, or are both armed and armoured, etc.) or they are very well protected by their fellow troops (and even then; archers.)
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Expanding on what MelonHead said, it really depends on the setting.
If you are assuming a fortress like you see in Europe, made of stone and intended to be defended (and attacked) by people with pre-gunpowder weapons, suddenly introducing "magic" into the situation is a seriously destabilizing factor. If you take "magic" as being the sort of usual fantasy wizard fare - fireballs, lightning, etc. - then what you're doing is creating a situation not unlike "what if one side had a couple people with modern firearms, and knew how to use them?"
If your starting conditions are "a medieval fortress with defenders, in a setting that does not have magic, are suddenly forced to deal with someone who commands the elements at their will," the obvious (and only) answer is that those defenders will likely be slaughtered, without ever understanding what exactly was going on.
If you extend the question to a campaign, where one side has the First Wizard Corps and the other side merely has a functional military, you start to have long-term questions. The first defenders would not fare well; a combination of fear (they don't understand what's attacking them) and utter lack of tactical doctrine to deal with it would make their defeats likely swift and total, save for prisoners. That said, mystery is not something that persists in warfare for very long - you have scouts, you have intelligence, you have spies and defectors. The fog of war is a real thing, but it is a fog, not an impenetrable wall.
Sooner or later the defenders would figure out why the other army is trouncing them, and why such wild stories are coming from the survivors. To wit: The Other Guys Have Fucking Wizards, Man.
This could cause one of two things - the side without Fucking Wizards, Man (FWM) could suffer a morale collapse, due to a feeling that they have no way to fight back. This could turn into a protracted retreat cycle where in the best case the side without FWM surrenders to terms dictated by the side with FWM, and in the worst case is utterly destroyed by an unwillingness to surrender, but an inability to meaningfully fight back.
If the defenders (the side without FWM) have sufficient manpower, morale, leadership, etc. to mount a meaningful defence, in a large-scale engagement they may find that the FWM make less of a difference than the might in a static assault.
Before I go on, I should point out that I am assuming that the FWM:
- Are not deific/angelic beings (e.g. Gandalf)
- Are mortal (If long-lived, perhaps)
- Are fallible
- Are not someone who can crack a planet with a sneeze (I never understood how meaningful conflict was supposed to come about with that)
- Are comparatively uncommon, but fairly powerful
In other words, let's assume that a typical group of FWM is some smallish group of magi (let's say 1% of the attackers' total fighting force) on the order of the Wizards of the White Council, from Jim Butcher's Dresden Files.
In a large-scale encounter, the FWM would act as force multipliers to whoever was within their range of influence. This would certainly be longer than a man with a spear, and certainly more destructive than someone with a bow. It is unlikely that they would be able to sustain the destructive capability of a siege engine, provided siege engines were being employed in the engagement (I'm not certain how likely this is, but it is probably Not Very).
At this point the question becomes one of tactics. If the commander of the army with the FWM is a very stupid person, he could allow the FWM to become overextended or exposed in an disadvantageous way. At this point the enemy army would have an opportunity to discover that the FWM are mortal, even if the bulk of them get away, which would likely result in a huge morale boost. Even if the FWM's commander is a very smart person, the FWM won't be able to reinforce a line forever (just as a big man with a sword can't swing it forever) and at some point they will be exhausted, reduced to purely 'normal' methods of attack and defence. If the FWM's commander has not turned the field decidedly to their advantage at the point where this happens, they will be subject to the conventional capabilities of whatever era they happen to be in.
In other words, if the defenders have reserved their strength and made a deliberate point of tuckering out the FWM in some manner, it becomes a more or less standard question of (presumably) medieval warfare.
Conversely, if they have not, they may be slaughtered like the defenders of the fortress several paragraphs ago.
Regardless, after this war, any military that does not have FWM would probably start investing a lot of money and time in extremely precise ways of dispatching individuals, in order to reduce the impact FWM could have on a conflict. One form this could take would be a network of spies and assassins, whose job it is to be more or less suicide agents to stab FWM in the neck before they can bring their powers to bear on any particular conflict. Considering the damage FWM could do to a side without them, recovery of the agent would likely not be huge on the priority list; the loss of a highly-trained and expensive operative would be a comparatively small price to pay to ensure that whoever is attacking (or might attack) you does not have FWM.
In return, armies and nations with FWM would probably become paranoid and rigidly regimented in order to more easily find spies, assassins, and other agents.
Is it starting to look like the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union yet?
Other than that, the question becomes purely one of starting conditions, and can't be extrapolated any further than that. Are mages common? Well, the way you defend from magical attacks is to have your own Wizard Corps stationed where you're likely to be attacked. Are there materials that resist magical attack? Use those to build your fortresses. What if they're very expensive? Use them to armor only your capital and areas of strategic importance. What if there's only one piece and it must be in the hands of the last pure maiden born on a full moon in the last week of November on a Thursday? Well, you'd better make sure that girl is on your side.
For argument's sake, let's just say that a spell exists that grants flight for about an hour, 1-in-1000 people are mages, and the spell can't let them move any faster/carry any more than they could if they were moving on foot.
Conventional fortresses will be designed to maximize the flow of your forces moving out, while simultaneously minimizing the chance of enemies from getting in. You'll see lots of towers and arrow slits, and almost all entryways will have both portcullises and murder-holes. Exterior walls are made rather thick, to increase the amount of time needed for aerial battering rams and siege weapons to penetrate your defenses. The interior will be a network of narrow passageways designed to deny flying enemies the usefulness of their magic, and funnel them into spacious rooms to be shot to pieces by your forces.
Sorties would be done by armored aerial units with hot oil, poured out onto the ground troops from altitudes that weaken most projectiles fired from below. Combined with flaming projectiles from the fortress, and you've got yourself a barbecue. Aerial units would do well to spread out, unless their collective manpower is needed, minimizing the risk of a volley taking them all out. Flying forces engaging one another would battle for altitude superiority, the chance to accelerate to blitz their foes via free-falling, and disable their targets with nets before barraging them with projectiles.
That's just one example.
This is all great stuff! I particularly enjoyed Naril's post, but they were all helpful. I'm quite familiar with the structure and tactics of castle(etc.) warfare in the real world, but the thought of a magical attack had me stumped. Regarding the particular stronghold we're working on, an aerial force (Giant Harrier riders, Dragon riders, etc.) probably isn't feasable, so they need an alternative method. Again, there were some good ideas above!
Assuming that power and amount are inversely proportional.
The population of france in 1086 (Right before the crusading era) was around 13.4 million people. (Wikipedia)
if 1/1000 people were mages, that would make 13,400 french wizards.
Needless to say, if there were a tenth as many wizards there would be plenty of wizards to give every landed noble a wizard. If there were a hundreth, scarcity will start to set in. Nonetheless, every major noble could still have a court wizard under that circumstance.
Now if there were a thousandth, things will start to get trippy. So 1/1,000,000 born would start to cause problems. There wouldn't be enough wizards to go around even for the major nobility!
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I would personally go for the simple approach and say 'other mages'. In the same way that in, say, Star Wars the best way to defend against Sith attacks is to have a Jedi around. Typically speaking, Wizards/Spellcasters tend to be in a class of their own that the average footsoldier isn't going to -want- to get involved in, let alone be able to. Sure, you can take one out with a well placed arrow or two, but for the most part an arrow isn't going to stop the arcane fireball that's currently hurtling towards you at breakneck speed. The only answer for that.. more magic.
As for alternatives to having a resident wizard/group of wizards? Enchantments, runes... magical stuff that doesn't need a wizard nearby in order to still be magical. If I were rolling a fantasy setting and this were a question that arose, I'd probably go for runes. Firstly, if you've got a fort or castle made of stone, you etch some runes into that stone, those runes aren't going anywhere fast. No enemy wizards are going to be able to come along and just wash them off, those runes are there for -good-. Second, enchantments are, I imagine, the kind of thing that might wear off and need renewing every year or few years? Whereas a rune carved into the bedrock of your castle might only need to be re-carved every fifty years or so. If you're building a castle to last, for my money, it'd be runes.
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Growing up in the very metal-friendly days of the 80's, I always envisioned my heavy metal role as a singer. While other friend's honed air guitar skills and banged their heads, I was propping one foot up on the edge of the bed and pointing a finger at my faux audience with a distinct Bruce Dickinson flare. My vocal mirages unfortunately made it difficult for me to connect very deeply with the female fronted bands cropping up here and there, and that's something that's sadly held true even to this day. While I wouldn't quite say I don't care for female vocals, I'll freely admit I prefer male vocals because of those daydream days of yore.
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Articles tagged with: Elisa and 3G Network
Elisa Upgrades Network to 3G at 900Mhz
.. network (CSoHSPA). On the web: Elisa - Mobile World more
Related Tags: nokia-siemens-networks, 3g, csohspa, hspa+, siemens, nokia-siemens, high-speed-packet-access, circuit-switched, rnc
New Technology Could Double 3G Network Voice Call Capacity
Finnish operator elisa and Nokia Siemens Networks have demonstrated a new technology that allows operators to increase voice capacity of their 3G networks, potentially up to double the baseline capacity. The trial call was conducted in elisa's live 3G network using R&D prototype devices supplied by Nokia. In technical terms the demonstration was of the world's first circuit switched call over a high speed packet access network (CSoHSPA). more
Related Tags: nokia-siemens-networks, 3g, csohspa, 3gpp-release-7, hspa-evolution, i-hspa, 3gpp, battery, gsm, hspa+, siemens, nokia-siemens, high-speed-packet-access, continuous-packet-connectivity, Finland
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