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This document pertains to HP computers with built-in webcams and Windows 7.
Some HP notebooks, Touch, and AiO computers come with preinstalled webcams that can be used to capture video motion or still images. A webcam is a video input device, similar to a scanner or camera, and will not work unless you have software that works with your webcam hardware. The two most common types of software that use webcams are Internet messaging software (for making video calls over the Internet), and video editing software (for creating and sharing video files).
Use one of the following sections that best describes your situation.
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Are you not sure how to get the images from the webcam into Windows? Are you not sure if your computer has a webcam?
Step 1: Looking for webcam hardware
Take a quick moment to visually inspect the top of your computer's display. Look closely, you should see a small lens in the top center if your computer has a webcam. Some models do not come with a webcam and the area where the webcam would normally reside is replaced by a small plastic plug. Often, there are small holes near the top center of your display. These holes are for the microphone or other sensors and do not contain a webcam.
- If your computer does not have a built-in webcam, you must use an external USB webcam.
- If your computer has a built-in webcam and you cannot use it, continue to step 2.
Step 2: Finding and using the Webcam software that came with your computer (Windows 7)
If your computer came with a built-in webcam, HP has pre-installed software that you can use to record and share webcam video: either Cyberlink YouCam, MediaSmart WebCam, or TouchSmart Webcam. Find these software products on your computer as follows:
- Click Start to bring up the start menu.
- Enter one of the following words into the search field:
- youcam (for some All-in-One desktop PCs and many notebook PCs)
- mediasmart (for with many All-in-One desktop PCs and notebook PCs)
- touchsmart (for Touch PCs)
- Click the name of the webcam software from the search results list. If the name of your webcam software does not appear in the search results list, try searching again using one of the other names.
- What happens when you open the software?
- If you cannot find and open the webcam software for your computer, then continue to the next step.
- If you found webcam software, it opens, and you can see an image, then you are finished. Your webcam is working.
- If you found webcam software, it opens, but you cannot see video in the main display window, restart the computer and try again. If the problem persists, use the troubleshooting section Video does not appear in webcam software .
Step 3: Downloading and installing YouCam software for Windows 7
Use the following steps to download and install Cyberlink YouCam:
- Close all other software that you have open, especially software that uses webcam, such as Windows Live Messenger and Skype.
- Connect to the Internet if you are not already connected.
- Download and install Cyberlink YouCam Software (sp56980) from HP's support web site.
- Follow the onscreen setup instructions to complete the installation.NOTE:You might receive an error that a previous version of YouCam, MediaSmart Webcam, or TouchSmart Webcam has been detected. If so, this indicates that Webcam software is already installed. You may either cancel and use HP Recovery Manager to reinstall the webcam software that came with your computer, or you can click Yes on the message to uninstall HP TouchSmart Webcam and replace it with this version of Cyberlink YouCam.
- Open Cyberlink YouCam by clicking Start , entering youcam into the search field, and then clicking YouCam from the search results.
- What happens when you open YouCam?
- If YouCam opens and you can see an image, then you are finished. Your webcam is working.
- If YouCam opens but you cannot see video in the main display window, restart the computer and try opening YouCam again. If the problem persists, use the troubleshooting section Video does not appear in webcam software .
You can open webcam software, such as YouCam, Skype, or Live Messenger, but video does not appear in the main viewing window. Use the following steps, in the order they are presented, until webcam video appears in your webcam software or it has been determined that the computer requires service:
Step 1: Making sure the webcam is the selected video/capture device
Your webcam must be selected as the video capture device in your webcam software. If the computer has multiple video input sources, your webcam software might be connected to something other than your webcam.
To select the webcam as your video source, open your webcam software and look for video camera, video source, or video caption in the software's properties or preferences. Here are some common examples of selecting the webcam as the video source:
NOTE: The name of your webcam appears as USB Video Device, HP Webcam, USB 2.0 Camera, HP Pavilion Webcam, or something similar. If you do not know the name, select a name to see if video appears. If not, try selecting other video device names until you see the video from your webcam appear in the window.
Follow these steps to use your webcam with Skype:
NOTE:These steps pertain to Skype version 5. The version on your computer might be different.
Follow these steps to use your webcam with Windows Live Messenger:
- In Live Messenger, click the arrow icon on the Windows Live Messenger toolbar.
- Click Tools, and then click Audio and Video Setup.
- Click Next.
- Select the name of your webcam from the drop-down list.
- Click Finish.
Video should appear after selecting the webcam as a source. If not, continue to step 2.
Step 2: Restarting the computer to correct webcam problems
The webcam may be associated with another software program or not responding. Often, restarting the computer can correct the problem. Restart the computer and open your Webcam software as soon as Windows finishes loading.
If restarting the computer does not correct this problem, continue troubleshooting.
Step 3: Updating or changing the webcam driver in Windows 7
Some software applications require updated drivers for your webcam to display video or they might need a more basic driver. Use the following steps to change the driver for your webcam:
- Go to the HP Software & Driver Downloads web page for your model of HP computer and select the version of Windows being used on your computer.
- Do one of the following tasks depending on what you found:
- If a webcam driver update is available from HP, download the file to your computer and install the software according to the instructions on the web page. After updating, restart the computer and try using your software again. If the problem persists, complete the remainder of these steps to use a generic Windows USB video driver.
- If a webcam driver is not available from HP or you cannot access the Internet, continue using these steps to install a generic Windows USB Video driver.
- Click Start, type Device Manager in the search field, and select Device Manager from the search results list.
- Double-click Imaging Devices to expand the list of webcam drivers.If there is no imaging devices category listed in Device Manager, stop using these steps and see the section Webcam is not listed in Device Manager in this document.If more than one webcam driver is listed, right-click the driver and select uninstall for any driver that is not the HP Webcam-101 or Microsoft USB Video Device driver. Once the other drivers have been removed, restart your computer and open your software. If problems persist, continue using these steps.
- Right-click the name of the webcam in the Images Devices category (HP Webcam-101 or Microsoft USB Video Device), and select Update Driver Software.
- Click Browse the computer to select a specific USB Video Device driver.Double-click Imaging Devices to expand the list of webcam drivers, right-click the webcam driver, and then select Properties.Make a note of the existing name of the webcam driver (Example: HP Webcam), as it may change after the update.
- On the Webcam Properties window, select Update Driver....
- When prompted, select the option to Browse the computer for desired driver.
- When prompted, select the Let me pick from a list of device drivers on my computer option.
- Remove the selection from Show compatible hardware, select Microsoft in the Manufacturer pane, and select USB Video Device in the Model pane.
- Click Next to install the webcam driver.
- Allow the installation of the USB Video Device, and then click Close.
- After the device has been updated to USB Video Device in Device Manager, restart your computer and open the software. If problems persist, install the latest BIOS update from HP and get all the latest Windows 7 Updates from Microsoft.
The drivers for the Imaging devices, which include the webcam, are not displayed in the Device Manager. To resolve this problem, use the following steps:
- Shut down your computer, and disconnect the power cord.
- Remove the battery from the battery compartment. If your computer has a sealed battery that cannot be removed, then perform a reset as shown in the HP support document: Performing a Hard Reset or Forced Reset .
- Press and hold the power button for 10 seconds, and then reinsert the battery and reconnect the power cord.
- Turn on the computer and wait for Windows to open.
- Click Start, type Device Manager in the search field, and select Device Manager from the list provided.
- If there is no Imaging devices category listed, select Action, then Scan for hardware changes.
- If Device Manager does not recognize the webcam after the scan, Use Microsoft System Restore to go back to a time when the Webcam was working properly. If problems persist, the webcam may have become unplugged internally and requires service.
A webcam that was working in one of the pre-installed programs suddenly stops working after doing a scheduled Windows Update or after doing a recommended update to YouCam or Media Smart.
To resolve this issue, reinstall the original HP Webcam-101 or Microsoft USB Video Device driver.
- Click Start, type Device Manager in the search field, and select Device Manager from the list.
- Double-click Imaging Devices to expand the list of webcam drivers.
- If the HP Webcam-101 or Microsoft USB Video Device is listed, right-click the driver and select Update Driver Software and follow the on-screen instructions.
- Restart your computer, open your webcam software and try viewing again. If the problem persists, use Microsoft System Restore to go back to a time when the webcam was working properly.
Installation of multiple webcam drivers and programs might cause conflicts. If you are using more than one software program to use your webcam, such as Skype for instant messaging and YouCam for saving videos, then make sure that only one program is open when using the webcam. Do not attempt to open both programs at the same time and close your webcam software when you are done. It is a good idea to wait 5 to 10 seconds after closing webcam software, before opening another webcam software program.
Simply restarting the computer can resolve most software conflicts. If problems persist, uninstall one of the webcam software titles and reinstall the software you want to use.
The webcam works, but the image is not bright or the video is choppy.
The first thing to do is make sure your video recording environment has good lighting. Next, adjust the image quality using the adjustments available from the webcam software. Most webcam software allows you to adjust quality settings for contrast, colors and brightness. To resolve problems with choppy playback, reduce the size of the video image from the software settings, use a high speed Internet connection (for Instant messaging), and do not use other high speed USB devices at the same time you are using the webcam.
Here are some helpful articles from HP that might resolve a more specific video quality problem:
If your computer came with a built-in webcam, HP provides software that you can use with your webcam. If this software program was removed, you can reinstall it using HP Recovery Manager as follows:
NOTE: If the operating system on your computer was upgraded, these steps will not work. Instead, you will need to download and install webcam software from HP or the Internet (such as Cyberlink YouCam).
- Click Start, type Recovery in the search field, and select Recovery Manager from the search results list.
- Select Drivers and Applications Reinstall.
- Select the appropriate Software program (such as Cyberlink YouCam or MediaSmart), and select Install.
To disable the webcam so that it cannot be used, disable the device in device manager as follows:
- Click Start, type Device Manager in the search field, and then select Device Manager from the search results list.
- Double-click Imaging devices.
- Click Yes on the message that warns that the device will stop functioning.
- To ensure that your webcam has been disabled, open the webcam software, such as YouCam, to see if video still plays. If an error occurs stating that an imaging device could not be found (or similar), you are done. If video still appears in your webcam software, the wrong imaging device was disabled. Repeat these steps to disable your webcam.NOTE: To re-enable the webcam, repeat these steps but select Enable instead of disable.
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Vila Park - the oasis of serenity and calm amidst the most beautiful town square Musala, the very town center and the wild river Neretva booming under its terraces, wishes you welcome to the town of sun, Mostar, the town of an easy rhythm and beauty, built by many cultures and generations. Allow us, to be the gate of the world connecting the old and the new, the east and the west, different people and time... The most important sights like the Old Bridge and Town, the main bus and train station, shopping malls, clubs & cafes and administrative centers are at most a few hundred meters away from us. We six five rooms, of which two are double rooms with king sized beds, and have a magnificent view over the river Neretva from their balconies. Also there are two twin rooms and a double room with a view over the city square/park Musala and a single room, All rooms have comfortable bathrooms, and are equipped with cable television, air conditioner and high-speed wi-fi and ethernet internet access. Also we offer a secured parking space for four cars, a lounge, and a beautiful terrace, directly over the river Neretva. |
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If you're traveling by train or bus: After leaving the main bus/train station go the nearest crossroad with traffic lights. Cross the road and turn left into the last street before the bridge. Go straight for some 400 m until you find us on the right side.
If you're traveling by car coming from the south/Mostar airport using the M-17/E-73: Drive straight towards the center leaving the M-17/E-73. Drive until the second crossroad with traffic lights. Turn left. Turn into the second street from your right, You should be at a city square.Drive straight for 70 meters, and you'll find us on your left side.
If you're traveling by car coming from the north using the M-17/E-73: After entering Mostar, keep driving forward towards the center, leaving the M-17/E-73. Drive until the second crossroads with traffic lights and then turn right. Turn right into the second street, You should be at a city square. Drive straight for 70 meters, and you'll find us on your left side.

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As part of Major League Baseball's ramped-up marketing efforts during the postseason, various star players have been asked to participate in local radio interviews and help preview the 2009 World Series. The Zook (aka, Kurt Suzuki) has joined this elite list. Kurt, who many feel was the heart and soul of the A's this past season, will make guest appearances on KNBR (680 AM) and KCBS (740 AM) next week. Ralph Barbieri and Tom Tolbert will hook up with Kurt on Monday, Oct. 26, at 5 p.m. to discuss the Series, which starts Wednesday, Oct. 28 (FOX Television Network). The A's catcher also will be interviewed by Steve Bitker on KCBS Tuesday, Oct. 27, at 8:45 a.m.
With the Angels again in the postseason, you can't help but think of the tragic Nick Adenhardt car crash and the remarkable recovery that survivor Jon Wilhite is making. When Jon and his family visited the Oakland Coliseum in July, I was struck by what I saw. Wearing jeans and a t-shirt, here was this young man who acted like he didn't have a care in the world. Maybe a near-death experience will do that to a person. Yes, I did notice he had a stiff neck, but as he visited with Kurt, his former college teammate, and other A's players in the clubhouse, I couldn't help but smile. He displayed such an unexpected dry sense of humor, cracking these self-effacing jokes that belied the condition he was in. Clearly, he wasn't going to let this near-fatal accident limit his future. He was talking about taking up snowboarding and swimming. This after only two months of rehab! It gave me goosebumps watching Kurt next to him, as their friendship bond was amazing. I could see Kurt actually fighting back some tears as he watched his college buddy throw out the first pitch at our game.
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I woke up with an incredible urging to see the movie now that it's finally out and even tweeted "Happy #Moneyball Day!", because, as I've said, I really wanted to love it. But I just didn't. A few things in particular…
The Types Were All Wrong
The movie didn't delve very deep into personalities, which is fine, but I think they got all the stereotypes wrong, too. One could argue that since it's a fictionalized account, the characters being realistic isn't important, but I think in this case the types are integral to the story. Billy Beane, in particular, came across like a glorified, grown-up jock who was in the right place at the right time and put faith in Peter Brand, who was the smart one. Brand's character was also odd to me because his type seemed like he should have been funny, a kind of a klutz, etc. Instead, he was pretty much a total straight man.
No Big Three
This was a gripe I had with the book, as well, but even more so with the movie. Where was Mulder? Hudson? Zito? Speaking of which…
The 20th Straight Win
I think Hudson being on the mound was a big part of that game, against the Royals, where the A's went for their 20th straight win. More importantly, even, was the whole thing after Hudson was taken out. Howe brought in someone for the lefty-on-lefty matchup, if I'm remembering correctly and they totally ommited that. I guess it was cute for the whole "Beane-jinx" storyline for it to seem like the letting in 11 runs was a fluke, but it just felt random and meaningless then.
I think that was just one place out of many where they profoundly missed the original point of Moneyball. Which is fine, but then they needed to make their own compelling point, you know?
Sabean Doesn't Talk Like That!
'Nuff said. I'm glad they didn't include Dombrowski's voice too or I might have ended up being That Person who yells are the screen in the theatre.
The Corn
Not the yummy, yellow, gets-stuck-in-your-teeth-kind. The kind that makes you roll your eyes and drum your fingers. I think Aaron Sorkin is a really great script writer so I don't know quite where this went wrong, except maybe that they told the story totally straight. It was weird, really. And the daughter storyline was undeveloped and incongruous, as far as I could tell.
The Good!
Saving it for last, because I'm a downer like that. I thought the Hatteberg storyline was absolutely great. It felt real enough that it made sense, but it also had a nice Hollywood twist to it and worked in a movie format. The acting was good and the whole thing was well done. The guy who played Wash was pretty good too.
I didn't hate it as much as I may have implied so far. It was fine, really. Just a bit confused, a bit boring and very, very flat. Not up to its potential, neither a baseball movie or an Oscar movie or even a business movie. One of the best movies of the year, Rolling Stone? Eh, nope.
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p.s. I think the Dodgers read my blog post from yesterday and were all, "Scoring eight runs is rad! We should do it, too!" Which was not my intent.


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Lanosga was released from the hospital Tuesday afternoon.
Officials declined to release information about what might have led to the shootings at 1223 Crown St. at about 2:15 Tuesday morning.
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According to West, Ulmer and Lanosga recently moved to Cleveland from Louisiana.
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West said Ulmer and Lanosga were both flown to Chattanooga, where Ulmer was pronounced dead.
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Hello fellow Talismaniacs!
I thought it was about time to share some game-experience.
Today we started a little tournament of Talisman. We will first play all the characters of the game once. The winners advance and the losers are out. The winners will advance to the tier 2 matches and so forth until only one stand victorious.
This evening we started out with a four player game. The characters where no other than the Dreadknight, the Gypsy, the Conjurer and the Cleric.
We played with all the small-box expansions but none of the big ones. Thus we used the day/night rules as well as the Wherewolf and the Reaper NPC:s. None of the extra regions was used, nor did we use the Dragon… For endgame we draw one hidden ending.
The guy who played the Cleric joined us a bit later in the game, but as neither of us other three had gained any strenght/craft tokens as of yet, and only found some items of lesser value, we thought it was ok for him to join in.
I was playing the Conjurer and dreaded the Gypsy with her ability to parasite on my used spells from the get go.
The game really dragged in the beginning as we had some trouble to draw and kill enemies. Things didn't improve when the Gypsy player draw the Restless Dead event and all our trophies whent back in play once more.
The Dreadknight player also from the very start lost her warhorse to the Gypsy, as the guy playing her was casting the Mesmerise-spell.
Well, the Dreadknight actually lost the horse a handfull of time over the game. Just running around the Graveyard most of the time to get a new one… I find this a big weakness with the character. You often lose the horse early in the game and without it the character is really weak…
The guy playing the Cleric was really unlucky with almost every roll and just drew crap from the adventure deck.
Thus the game was more or less centered around the real power players, the Conjurer and the Gypsy.
There where not many great cards to use my conjur-ability on. Well at the end I used it to summon the Magic stream. Succesfully drinking 3 strenght tokens from it. But not long after that the Gypsy cast Random on my Conjurer, making her roll bad on the chart without fate to spend for rerolls. Guess what? I was down to my starting 2 strenght from my previous 10, thus ruining my plan to go for the Inner Region.
At the end the Gypsy won the game by drawing the Battle Royale-ending. As the only character except the Gypsy carrying a Talisman was the Dreadknight, but he had been turned to a toad the round before the Gypse reached the Crown-space, nobody could challange the Gypse and she won.
Well that's the first fight.
Winner: Gypsy
Losers: Cleric, Conjurer, Dreadknight
To be continue…


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We've got a good HDTV tied to a good stereo. Love the big sound with the big screen. But I also think that sometimes a headset would be a good way to get more intimate or at least limit stray sound in the house when babies are sleeping or someone's sick. I see there are lots of Bluetooth stereo headsets available. But none of our AV stuff has a BT transmitter. What's a good way (reasonable cost, high reliability, low complexity) to add at least two wireless headsets to our crash area? asked Oct 20 '12 at 06:54 Wayne R |
The absolutely most reliable way to do this is to attach an FM transmitter to your stereo. The best FM transmitter I have found is made by C. Crane. http://www.ccrane.com/radios/fm-transmitters/fm-transmitter-2.aspx I use it with assorted table radios to listen to podcasts throughout the house. It is the most powerful allowed by law, and it can broadcast on any frequency, allowing you to choose a clear frequency for your area. Neighbors scanning the dial might come across your broadcast, but who cares? That's the transmission side. For the listening side, you can use any portable radio with earbuds, like your phone or an ipod. (C. Crane sells tiny portable radios too.) The nice thing about this system is that the two halves are independent. You can use any radio and any headphones or earbuds. There is also this: My dad uses it because he is hard of hearing, and he says it works well. The infrared transmitter only works in line of sight, so if you turn your back or leave the room, you lose the signal. But there is never any static or interference. This system comes with both transmitter and headset, and you can use only their headsets. Lastly, there are headphones that use digital radio transmission, either KLEER or DSSS. These are expensive, but probably sound the best. They come with their own transmitters, and are likely to be static- and interference-free also. Here is one. http://www.headphone.com/headphones/sennheiser-rs-160.php (That website offers a few other options with KLEER and DSSS. Click on "wireless".) There are many other options: http://www.amazon.com/Wireless-Headphones-Accessories-Supplies/b?ie=UTF8&node=509316 I would recommend one that uses digital transmission. I don't see the need for Bluetooth in this application. You don't need two-way communication, you just need sound piped to your ears. Note that with all of these, you will lose some or all of the surround effect in movies. linkanswered Nov 16 '12 at 22:37 |


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The new Rebel – the designers point of view, By Ken Winner
The Rebel remains a 5-line kite, of course, all for all the usual reasons:
First of all for a short depower stroke and a crisp feel. Anyone who rides waves or has short arms or just likes a responsive kite can appreciate the importance of achieving full depower with a minimal movement of the control bar.
Second, the super stability. If it weren't so easy to keep it in the air, you'd be forgiven for thinking it's made of rock.
Third, easy relaunch in light winds. Even riders who like four-line kites often add a fifth line to make relaunch possible in super-light wind.
Fourth, safety. When you need to get total, complete and perfect depower in half a second, nothing else works as well as a 5th line.
Last but not least, the easy self-landing – for people who don't want to always depend on someone on the beach catching their kite. Not the safest way to do it, but possible.
Changes in detail:
Sizes 10 to 14 have been tuned for a very short bar stroke and a maximally crisp feel.
Sizes 6 to 8, which naturally tend to be a bit too crisp and responsive, have been tuned for a crispness and responsiveness that's just right. Not soft and slow; not uncomfortably harsh and fast.
9-meter kites can go either way, a bit slow and soft or a bit fast and harsh. We spent some time tuning this one for what we think is just the right feel in a versatile high performance freestyle kite.
Attention! Rebels work best when inflated to at least 6psi. They lose some performance at lower inflation pressures, but will still fly pretty well. By contrast, many kites on the market these days need 8 or 10 psi to fly correctly.
Aspects of the Rebel's overall geometry have not changed. There are still five struts, with the center strut being a floating strut for momentary depower and luffability. Segmentation is much the same from tip strut to tip strut.
Multiple segments through the center of the canopy give good profile fidelity, while one straight segment on each side gives a flat profile where it can do the most good in resisting unwanted luffing and flutter. Five struts give needed structure while allowing for good performance at low inflation pressures.
We kept the overall leading edge diameters fairly large right out through the tips to ensure rock-solid stability and tolerance of low inflation pressures.
The Rebel is a high performance freeride kite, so there's no need to try to minimize diameters at the expense of convenience, stability and easy relaunch. A profile of moderate depth gives Rebels excellent low-end power.
We've tuned the bar pressure for the solid feel and reassuring feedback that Rebel riders expect.
The moderately deep and moderately draft-forward profile gives the 2015 Rebel positive upstroke and smooth transit through the center of the wind window.
We have kept our more streamlined, semi-segmented struts from previous years. This gives us low weight and good flexibility.
The Rebel is a mature design with thousands of fans. No rider who likes the Rebel wants to see it change much, so our goal with the Rebel these days is to fine-tune details and ensure that each size works the best it can, for the type of riding it's best suited to.
Aside from free weights and wakeboarding boats, low weight is almost universally desired in sports products. For 2015 we've pared weight from the Rebel without reducing durability in any way.
Our wavy force spread canopy construction has been refined to involve less cloth and weight than in past years, and it has been extended to the tips. This gives good mitigation of flutter and flexing between the dissimilar materials -- hence better durability -- from kite tip to kite tip.
As always in kite design, you want to have the right shape stability and the right shape flexibility in all the right places. Keeping with that imperative, we went more flexible by slimming and tapering the struts a few years ago. Continuing the trend for 2015, we´ve gone even a little more flexible in the Rebel by removing the Cam Battens.
The trailing edge tension of the Rebel has been refined to reduce the potential for wrinkles and flutter while keeping the correct cone and cupping.
Overall, the Rebel stays a Rebel, still you´ll be surprised and impressed while testing it through al the sizes!
Ken Winner about the new "Juice"
What do you say when your mobile phone is out of battery? You say it's out of Juice. What do you say when your kite doesn't have enough power? Again, you're out of juice. We can't help you with the first problem, but for the second . . . we have Juice.
There are at least three main types of big kites:
-There are the big race kites, which are fast and have big wind range but aren't generally the best for handling or jumping. These kites need at least five struts and need to be light, so they have to be lightly built and are not the most bomb-proof kites around.
-Then there are the big airstyle kites, which have great wind range and jumping but are slow turning. These kites don't have to be particularly light because they are flown in plenty of wind, but this means they aren't the best at staying in the air in light wind.
- Finally, there are the big handling-oriented kites. These have to be light, durable and quick-turning. They're good for jumping and popping in light wind, but can also go big when powered. Unlike airstyle kites, they need to be nimble and quick. Unlike race kites, it's ok if they're not the last word in upwind performance.
This is where the Juice comes in. The Juice is based roughly on the Neo arc, strut count, profile and outline, but the aspect ratio has been stretched from 4.5 to 5.3, and the leading edge diameter has been shrunk a bit. The center strut is conventional -- so as to improve overall stability -- and the back pigtail is conventional because a relaunch bungee won't work well on such a thick LE tip.
Big kites have so much canopy area that they can really benefit from the stability provided by a lot of struts. Unfortunately, struts also add a lot of weight. We opted for three struts on the Juice because this number provides the best combination of low weight, high durability and good canopy stability.
You might wonder why not build a big kite with minimal weight by eliminating all struts, and this is certainly something we've considered. But our experience indicates that the lack of structure in strutless kites robs them not only of top end comfort and depower but also low end power. Add this to the tip flutter in turns and the strutless option seem limited.
The Neo has a floating strut in the center to give more complete luffing when sheeted out. We felt this was desirable on a smaller kite like the Neo. For the Juice, however, which is a much bigger kite, we felt a conventional strut in the center would give needed canopy stability.
The Juice shares the Neo arc. This arc gives a high segment count for good profile fidelity. It also provides smooth and quick steering while keeping good depower and sheet-go power delivery.
Aspect Ratio
We know from testing a wide variety of kites that high aspect ratios can improve bar feel and depower in big kites by quite a bit. High AR can be overdone, as it can give an excessively long and heavy leading edge, but a moderate AR can be just right. With the Juice we found that an AR of 5.3 gave a nice short bar stroke without hurting other aspects of handling such as quick turning.
Canopy Profiles
Given how well the Neo is working, we decided to stick with Neo profiles for the Juice.
We like to have several bridle anchor points on the leading edge so that bridle loads on the leading edge are well distributed. This led us to go with eight front bridle anchors.
We also like a bridle as short as possible, to reduce the chances of tangles and snags. The shortest bridles we tested did not give the best bar feel or turning ability so we lengthened the bridle to the point where steering and bar feel were good. This left the bridle still short enough that it can't loop over the end of the leading edge.
Finally, we had to consider whether to go with a pseudo-pulley or fixed front pigtail. Since using a pulley would permit the Neo to work with a greater variety of safety systems, we decided to go with one pulley on each side of the front bridle. But we also knew that a pulley could make the kite feel a little less crisp and responsive. Fortunately, combining the pulley with a stopper – as we've done on the Neo and Dyno – allowed us to keep both the pulleys and the crisp bar feel that we were looking for.
Juice in summary
Steering / turning
Moderately narrow arc and wide tips give super-quick turning.
Drift / hover
The low weight, low strut count and low center of gravity of the Juice keep it very stable in the air. It flies well in the lightest of winds and resists stalling, both front and back, better than nearly any other kite.
Power delivery
Owing to the smooth, round turning and short bar stroke (for kites this big), the Juice has consistent, linear, sheet-go power delivery.
The high aspect ratio helps deliver quick, easy depower.
We've minimized materials where possible on the Juice, so keep the weight down, but have included all usual reinforcements.
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Inside Information Rebel 2014 - What's really new?
The Struts have been refined with a semi-segmented construction. The segments allow the struts to mimic the shape of the profile, which helps to avoid stress points. The design is very lightweight but also precise, which increases the structural rigidity.
Compared to 2013, the layer of wave-shaped cloth situated at the boundary between the durable 50-gram D2 Ripstop Canopy and the super tough 160-gram trailing edge dacron is put higher and wider to eliminate stress points between the two materials. This change in construction leads to a better mitigation of flutter and flexing between the dissimilar materials.
In 2014, the Rebel has a slightly deeper and more draft forward profile, which gives the kite a more positive upstroke and smoother transit through the centre of the wind window.
The Rebel has been a competitive kite in racing with super lowend and excellent upwind ability. Besides, within the North Kiteboarding line up the Rebel has the best windrange together with the Dyno. Today you could virtually say the Rebel is developing into two different directions.
RIDER PERSPECTIVE Sky Solbach
The Rebel 2014 in smaller sizes, talking about size 10 to 5, is my favourite kite when I go wave riding. Mentioning below just some of its performance properties which are essential for waveriding:
— Enormous depower ability
— Smooth turning
— A lot of power, which is especially interesting
for heavier kiters
— Stable and solid feel
— Good drift (the kite does not fly as quickly to
the edge of the wind window which permits to more readily drift downwind) Summarizing, due to the diverse characteristics the new rebel can be described as a High performance Freeride/Wave kite.
DEVELOPER PERSPECTIVE Ken Winner
The bigger size Rebels 14 / 13 / 12 and 11 are characterized
by the following performance properties:
— Super lowend
— Massive hangtime and jumping abilities
— Good upwind performance
— Sheet and go
Based on these properties in the bigger sizes, the Rebel is an absolutely freeride-oriented kite.
Dyno 2013 - What's new? by Ken Winner
Low Weight
Low weight is a key feature of the Dyno and all measures have been taken to strip out materials that do not contribute to on-water performance. For example, there is no single-point inflation system on the Dyno simply because SPI increases weight without improving performance.
The performance benefits of low weight are mainly:
(1) the Dyno will easily fly when quite underpowered. The 17 will readily stay in the air when there is too little wind for an 80-kilo rider to plane on a big race board.
(2) when flying the Dyno up and down for power (as when racing downwind), the Dyno's low weight helps it to make a powerful upstroke.
Aspect Ratio
Aspect ratio remains low enough for quick turning but high enough for good aerodynamic efficiency.
5-line ability
While the Dyno will work as a 4-line kite, it retains 5-line ability for these reasons:
(1) Easy relaunch in light winds. Even riders who like four-line kites often add a fifth line to make relaunch possible in super-light wind.
(2) Safety. When you need to get total, complete and perfect depower in half a second, nothing else works as well as a 5th line.
(3) Easy, safe self-launching and self-landing.
Thin tapered struts with semi-segmented and conical construction
Struts are tapered from a fairly large diameter where they meet the LE to much smaller diameters 25% back. The big joint with the LE gives more rigidity to the structure of the inflated elements. The taper to a smaller diameter provides lower drag.
The semi-segmented construction gives a smooth upper curve to the struts – an aerodynamically superior shape – while taking up excess cloth and preventing unsightly wrinkles in the lower surface of the strut.
The struts go to a conical construction at the 25% point. This eliminates seams and therefore removes a point of potential seam failure in the part of the strut that bends the most on the beach.
Strut configuration
The 2012 Dyno has seven struts for extra stability – mainly appreciated by heavier riders taking the Dyno to the limit in powered conditions.
The 2013 Dyno is more narrowly focused on racing, which requires more flexibility and the lowest possible weight, so the new Dyno has only five struts.
The tip strut is closer to the tip to support the thin leading edge and provide stability during hard turning. The quarter strut is a bit closer to the tip strut so as to support the flat section of canopy between tip and quarter struts.
The large span between quarter and center struts provides the bulk of the power of the kite. This area is not heavily controlled with struts because it needs to be free to luff or fill, depending on wind strength.
More and different sizes
The Dyno was originally a light-wind kite but has evolved into a light-wind and race kite and now comes in sizes 7, 9, 11 and 13 in addition to the original 15 and 17.
The new 17 is larger than the 2012 Dyno 17 and has significantly more power. Sizes 15 and 13 are also more powerful than corresponding Dynos from 2012.
Graduated cloth weight
The inflated elements of the 2012 Dyno were entirely built of a light but extremely stable new Dacron. For 2013 we are keeping this lighter Dacron in the small-diameter inflated elements – the struts and the tips of the leading edge – while going with our standard, heavier-duty Dacron in the large-diameter parts of the leading edge. This heavier Dacron permits higher inflation pressures and thus greater stability in the leading edge.
We've added more segments to the geometry of the 2013 Dyno. This helps ensure good fidelity to design shape.
Turning speed
Owing to the fewer struts and lower weight, turning speed has been improved. This is most noticeable when flying the Dyno up and down on a deep downwind point of sail.
Leading edge diameter
Leading edge diameters are basically unchanged in the center of the Dyno but tip diameters are smaller. This change provides a bit less aerodynamic drag.
New bridle
The new Dyno bridle has no pulleys. This gives a bit less weight and drag but also means that the 2013 Dyno must be flown on either (1) a 5-line bar or (2) a four-line bar with front-line safety leash.
Profile tweaks
Canopy profiles in the outboard quarters are quite flat for low drag. Canopy profiles at and between center and quarter struts are deeper and more powerful than in 2012.
Power vs. depower
The various changes have led to better power and depower.
The lower weight, deeper profiles and new geometry help the 2013 Dyno to relaunch quickly.
Sky Solbach Dyno:
"The new Dyno is something totally new and is hands down the fastest kite I have flown to date. It constantly shoots to the edge of the wind window while maintaining really consistent power delivery that carries you upwind. Downwind, the new Dyno is equally impressive. I can't wait to see what the North Race Team can do on the race course this year with this tool in their hands!"


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Hey, my name is Jimmie Sharp and I have played SWCCG for some time and am glad to see a SW game that is good enough to start playing again! We have about 10 players that are always gaming here in Fort Worth, and know several thoughout the state (Houston, Stephenville, Dallas, etc.) and would love to create a big playing environment again.
I am trying to host a Regional here in June, let me know if you are interested in coming to ol' Funkytown and playing!
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USA | Tide of comment swells after challenge to 'soccerphobes'
Soccer bashers and advocates for soccer often take on roles in the United States resembling bickering marriage partners, rehearsing old lines and grievances in a zero-sum debate in which the game acquires the capacity to corrupt or to save. Guardian Unlimited writer Steven Wells (see 31 Oct 07) compiles a roster of the sport's critics, including some unexpected voices from academia, and adds an important observation often missing in the meaningless discussion over whether soccer will displace American games ("The Truth the Soccerphobes Refuse to Face," Jan 17). (Jan 22)


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I don't know at what point "running away with the division" becomes an acceptable phrase, so I'm just going to designate right now as that time, if nobody objects. (If you do object, feel free to file a complaint with the Emperor, but be forewarned, he's actually a Sith, even though no one's noticed yet.)
The Giants magic number has rapidly shrunk down to 13, which just adds to my firm belief that 13 is not an unlucky number and we've all been missing out on a great hotel floor for a million odd years. Besides, they're leading the division by 7 games. 7 games. That's a lot of games. That's like 7 million and one pitching changes in Bruce Bochy Land. The Dodgers chose an awfully good moment to sort of forget how the game of baseball is played and the Giants are taking every advantage of it.
We're closing in on the last few weeks of the season (what? When did that happen) and I've even started gazing at my antlers, which have been tucked away since last October. For those of you who are newer to the blog, I have these antlers and it's my playoff tradition, when the Rangers are in, to wear them around town. It doesn't have great shock effect, since I live in the Bay Area where that's positively normal, but it's still loads of fun.
That's my alter ego who's kind of a ghoul on Halloween and her MLB pumpkins. Back when she had copious amounts of hair, of course.
I'm dusting my antlers off. And making "It's September Inside" jokes until I run out (aka, never) because, seriously, I only get one month out of the year when I can use these. I stockpile them all year in preparation. I'm not going to miss an opportunity.
People have already started talking playoff rosters and matchups and to say my grin is infinite would be an understatement. Buster Posey is generating some serious MVP buzz and getting close to completing his first full Major League season. Isn't that crazy? I smell the postseason. This thing isn't over yet, but it's getting there. It really is. I could not be more excited.
Just kidding. Sort of.
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I alsways used Elkonin boxes for the letters not the sounds. Now I know they are for the sounds/phonemes.
Elkonin Boxes
Why use Elkonin Boxes?
- They help students build phonological awareness by segmenting words into sounds or syllables.
- They teach students how to count the number of phonemes in the word (not always the number of letters).
- They help students better understand the alphabetic principle in decoding and spelling.
When to use: | Before reading | During reading | After reading |
How to use: | Individually | With small groups | Whole class setting |
How to use Elkonin Boxes
- Pronounce a target word slowly, stretching it out by sound.
- Ask the child to repeat the word.
- Draw "boxes" or squares on a piece of paper, chalkboard, or dry erase board with one box for each syllable or phoneme.
- Have the child count the number of phonemes in the word, not necessarily the number of letters. For example, wish has three phonemes and will use three boxes. /w/, /i/, /sh/
- Direct the child to slide one colored circle, unifix cube, or corresponding letter in each cell of the Elkonin box drawing as he/she repeats the word.
The example below shows an Elkonin Box for the word "sheep," which consists of three phonemes (sounds): /sh/ /ee/ /p/
Examples and blank templates
These example shows several ways teachers can use Elkonin boxes to teach phonemic awareness.
This website offers teachers several Elkonin box templates for various target words.
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Teachers may wish to use the blank templates found on this website to accompany a segmenting task and provide students the opportunity to practice writing. Students can write each sound represented in the target word and then write a short sentence using the word.
Elkonin box and writing template > (12K PDF)*
Children's books to use with this strategy
The books suggested represent a range of difficulty but all should appeal to children from preschool through grade 2 or 3. The palindrome books are suggested for slightly older children.
Go Dog Go
Picture book/easy reader
Dogs of all shapes and sizes cavort and play in this lively and now classic book filled with easy (and often repeated) words that are supported by lighthearted illustrations.
Hamsters, Shells, and Spelling Bees
Poetry/easy reader
Familiar subjects are presented in short poems by a range of writers. These easier-to read works are just right to encourage careful listening.
Hop on Pop
Picture book/easy reader
Words of one syllable combine with energetic, slightly offbeat and very funny illustrations just right to engage while allowing sounds to be heard.
Mom and Dad Are Palindromes
Picture book/easy reader
When a boy learns about palindromes, he begins to see them everywhere. The humorous tale introduces words and phrases that are the same when spelled - and pronounced - forward or backward. Palindrome riddles are presented in Too Hot to Hoot: Funny Palindrome Riddles by Marvin Terban (Sandpiper). Both books have strong visual clues.
Differentiated instruction
for Second Language Learners, students of varying reading skill, and for younger learners
- Ideas for using this strategy with Spanish speaking students
- Have more advanced students write letters in the boxes as you dictate words.
- Teachers can use this strategy in the following ways to meet each student's individualized reading level:
- Words with pictures and only two boxes
- Words with pictures and three boxes
- Words with no pictures and up to four boxes
See the research that supports this strategy
Blachman, B. A., Ball, E. W., Black, R., & Tangel, D. M. (2000). Road to the code: A phonological awareness program for young children. Baltimore: Brookes.
Clay, M. (1993). Reading Recovery: A Guidebook for Teachers in Training. NH: Heinemann.
Elkonin, D. (1971). "Development of Speech". In A.V. Zaporozhets and D. B. Elkonin (Eds.). The Psychology of Preschool Children. Cambridge, MA: M.I.T. Press.
Ellis, E. (1997). How Now Brown Cow: Phoneme Awareness Activities.
National Institute of Child Health and Human Development. (2000). Report of the National Reading Panel. Teaching children to read: An evidence-based assessment of the scientific research literature on reading and its implications for reading instruction (NIH Publication No. 00-4769). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
Children's books to use with this strategy
Mom and Dad Are Palindromes
When a boy learns about palindromes, he begins to see them everywhere. The humorous tale introduces words and phrases that are the same when spelled - and pronounced - forward or backward. Palindrome riddles are presented in Too Hot to Hoot: Funny Palindrome Riddles by Marvin Terban (Sandpiper). Both books have strong visual clues.
Runny Babbit: A Billy Sook
Runny Babbit talk is created by spoonerisms, switching the first sound in a pair of words, so a "silly book" becomes a "billy sook." Kids build their phonemic awareness without even trying! The audio book narrator's slightly gravelly voice is ideal for sharing these funny poems (completed though not published before the popular poet's death in 1999).
Hop on Pop
Recommended by Christian This book made me want to be a reader! I caught on to the first few pages quickly. But the back section, with multiple words per page, was a challenge. And I couldn't wait to be able to read them! I could feel Dr. Seuss pulling me along with his dynamic creatures bouncing from page to page: "Don't you want to know what happens?" "Oh, I do, I do!"
Actually they can be used for both. See Fountas and Pinnell's When Reader's Struggle, Teaching That Works for information on how to gradually transition students from sounds to letters.
This is a prolific tool which can be used to empower my student's reading.
I use the Elkonin boxes for older students as well. Some of the middle school students I work with have trouble with multi-syllabic words. I use the Elkonin boxes with 3 or 4 boxes. After I introduce the boxes to the students, I also show them how to tap it out on their knee or under the table so no one can see them.
I have been using these for sounds/phonemes for reinforcement, and I have already seen the improvement in my students.
I use them for sounds to hear sequentially. One box for each sound. After, the student has advanced, we use them to understand how words look, ea, ai, cr, etc. One box for each letter.


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From Johannesburg, lesbian footballers chosen to play, choosing to live
Editor's note
To break the FIFA lockdown on a football culture of such vitality that a World Cup can only diminish it, we offer alternative narratives compiled during a trip to South Africa in June–July 2009. This is the first installment from life in the FIFA-free zones.
Within these articles and other segments, we feature tales of football in life and language, interviews, and literary remains. We do not pretend to cover the 32 participating countries, their players or prospects. What we will not say about North Korea would add no more to what has not been said already.
By the end, we hope to leave South Africa a keepsake—the least we can do, now that $19.7 million for World Cup arts initiatives has disappeared.
The trip to South Africa was sponsored by the country's International Marketing Council.
My kind of God lives in the soccer field.
She hits the ferocious shots or sublime free kicks, performs the acrobatic save
She is the best lover anyone can ask for
My god doesn't subscribe to any political party or gender
she comes off the soccer boots of Marta
she is a pele
—Tapuwa Moore, 2010
Rustenburg, South Africa | How does one write a love letter to a football team? For a sports journalist the idea sounds improper—perhaps criminal—but it's what I wish to do for Chosen Few Lesbian Soccer Club of Johannesburg.
A year ago the team allowed me, a male interloper from an alternative hemisphere, to accompany them to a friendly match in Rustenburg, North West province, a former Boer settlement in what used to be called the Transvaal.
Chosen Few played a provincial power and lost badly, all the goals permitted in the second half after injuries and fatigue reduced them to eight field players. They lit cigarettes at the end and partook of the team's unique communion rituals. Resampled songs by Michael Jackson, who had died a few days before, pulsed from van speakers. Players passed pre-made cheese sandwiches along with cups of Like Father, Like Son red wine. One said the sweet tonic should be rebranded Like Father, Like Daughter.
The coach, Tapuwa Moore, cursed the club's fitness and lack of cohesion—a vice-captain led the side due to a demoted captain's "unruly behavior." But Moore seemed resigned to their fate.
"A 6–1 drubbing," she says calmly on the touchline shortly after an uncontested 89th-minute breakaway rips the back of the Chosen Few net. "That's nice."
But these are not the most important facts from the day. The most important thing to know about Chosen Few is that they try to live an honest life in dishonest times. They try to be straightforward about verbal and physical abuse they have suffered and about lives they live inside.
They try to live openly in a world of disguises. That's why there are few of them.
Communication is a core concept for the Forum for the Empowerment of Women, housed at Constitution Hill, the former apartheid-era women's prison in Johannesburg. From a place of confinement women learn how to become advocates for themselves and others. FEW was founded in 2002 to counter a culture of hate plaguing black lesbians and bisexual and transgender women. The football team came later as a means to attract women players who might not have chosen human-rights work as a first occupation. For serving as court monitors at hate-crimes trials and raising their own awareness of the country's anti-gay prejudice, players can enjoy football without keeping secrets. Some participated at demonstrations related to the Eudy Simelane trial in 2009 (see 30 Aug 09).
To Moore, football at any level consists of unspoken dialogue among players—defenders with the midfield, midfield with forwards, all making space for themselves by creative interchange. Football and honest witness are intertwined. Moore testifies to her real life through sport and in performance poetry. "I can speak it, I can sing it, I can rap it," she says of her work, which she tailors for Sotho, Xhosa, Zulu, Afrikaans and English audiences. Although she has only played the game for five years, football inspires her. In some poems she compares the game to sex—a far cry from the mask she affects with straight family members.
Moore cuts a halftime interview short: "I nearly swore at them. I nearly cursed." See video at the Global Game's YouTube channel. |
Moore left the side last year but in her tenure encouraged players to "be out," to strive for full humanity rather than remaining half a person. Many players emerged from football backgrounds in which sexual preference was the great unsaid. Openness about same-sex feelings for women and about sex in general still poses a threat. Only in Mar 09, according to media coordinator Mpule Mathabela, were many FEW members prompted to share past traumas. The impetus was the rape of a Chosen Few player that month in an East Rand township. At the time of the friendly three months later, FEW was still pushing investigators to gather evidence. No arrests had been made.
"We're not just a soccer team," Mathabela says.
Mark Gevisser and Edwin Cameron in one of the first post-apartheid surveys of queer cultures in South Africa note the "jolly-hockeysticks façade" of women's football and field hockey in the 1950s and '60s. Later, Johannesburg softball games in the 1990s constituted some of the largest "out" lesbian gatherings. These, however, were for white and mixed-race women. For black women in townships there were women's soccer teams with, according to Gevisser and Cameron, gay contingents. But these were not liberated zones, said a player from Soweto Women's Soccer Club—"It is just so difficult to expose yourself that even there it is not always safe to come out to women you suspect are also gay."
Laws and rhetoric have changed in the past 15 years. But despite decriminalization of homosexuality and the country's recognition of same-sex marriages in 2006, Malebo Ramotsemeng of Chosen Few says that a stigma keeps women closeted. "You think twice," says Ramotsemeng, a left-sided midfielder who lobbied the principal at her school in Pretoria for women's football and also took up cricket, another male preserve. "You don't want to find yourself being one of the victims that are abused because of your sexuality. The minute you decide to come out, people start calling you names. … They try to correct you of your sexuality."
Women's football correlates with lesbianism in the minds of many South Africans. According to a new member of Chosen Few, Katso, lesbians, too, harbor such prejudices. Some gay women believe that all lesbians play football. Katso's partner of three years, however, is, in Katso's words, "too feminine" to play soccer. Indigenous languages in South Africa, Moore says, mark football as grammatically masculine. Even linguistically there is little room for women on the pitch.
Katso, who has also played rugby, says she sought out Chosen Few after visiting their website. "Honestly, I've been, I would say, locked up," she says. Her family has accepted her, but she feels put off by institutions such as the church that accuse lesbians of demonic intent. "I was always scared to be in an organization like [FEW], scared of questions. The first question [men] would ask you is, 'How do you guys [have sex]?' and I hate questions like that."
Given that sport has caused so much contention for these women, it is strange that a football team would offer new hope. On the other hand, football, in which they have invested much, has helped pull them along to the truth. Several Chosen Few players describe childhoods of playing against boys and men in competitive holiday township tournaments, with each team putting up 500 South African rand (about $65) and trying to win the purse. Vuyo Ntwen, from Elliot, Eastern Cape, also played with boys and would spend the $20 her mother would occasionally send home from housekeeping work in Johannesburg on plastic footballs. When balls popped, she played with bags of oranges.
Sport has given Chosen Few a world platform along with other organizations (Flying Bats of Sydney—see 8 Aug 07—and Hackney Women's FC of London) in the extended LGBT soccer network. In Aug 08 Chosen Few won silver at the International Gay and Lesbian Football Association games. Now they are raising money for the Gay Games starting 31 July in Cologne, Germany.
The word "Lesbian" on the Chosen Few kit rattles South African gender categories dating back to apartheid. Signs displayed during the 1991 trial of Winnie Madikizela-Mandela—"Homosex Is Not in Black Culture"—are subverted. Daily protocols change. On the trip back from Rustenburg I seek solitude in the men's room of a service station. After 30 seconds, though, Chosen Few players have taken over, pounding on the door of the men's stalls to evict other occupants. In reversing traditional gender roles, Chosen Few reaches back to early football's connections to the carnivalesque. On this day, at least, they are the ones in athletic gear, calling the shots. They rewrite a myth of African straightness and the notion that heterosexuality offers the only path to decent living.
They attract hecklers, but also admirers. One of the team's most loyal supporters is Marco, a mystical figure in red felt pants and black leather cap who says he has been to more Chosen Few matches than he can count. During the friendly he chain-smokes while standing at the base of one of the concrete lighting stanchions. He proves that everyone in South Africa has an opinion about football. His assessment of Chosen Few? "Lacking stamina and ball control."
Throughout the loss Chosen Few plays confidently, physically, barking messages in isiZulu. But despite the team's intimacy before and afterward and their individual skills, they do not mesh. Selwyn Tsitsi, coach of the opponents, Titans FC, a top provincial side, said it has taken six years to make his team work together given the limited resources available to women's teams. "When they started they were just running around," he says.
Chosen Few has the challenge of balancing organizational solidarity with results. There are also money issues. The team plays in the same boots they wore at the IGLFA competition 10 months earlier. It's clear that integrating eros with sport has transformed lives. But does the football suffer?
Moore maintains a no-swearing pledge until early in the second half. Loss of possession at midfield prompts an outburst—"that woman I tell her the same fucking thing …" She throws her pen along the touchline. But in a gesture of grace and reconciliation, she walks to retrieve it.
Players seem to have found a balance that many straight persons covet. Playing in joy, they show what the heterosexual world often lacks—and certainly the world of elite men's football. One such exemplar is the team's goalkeeper, Matsheko Manik. On the trip to Rustenburg, Manik exudes professionalism and concentration from the last row of the van—there, as on the pitch, she leads from the back. Asked about the best women's teams in South Africa, she says quietly, "My team is the best team." Twice per week via minibus taxi, she makes a one-hour round trip from Alexandra township for afternoon training.
Despite the deluge of goals and aggravating an injury from the London competition the previous year, on the return along the R24 highway to Johannesburg she relaxes. The wine helps. The van passes citrus groves and signs promoting pastureland paintball. Toward dusk we pass squatter settlements with full-size dirt pitches and scratch goalposts, men in bright replica kit playing in winter light. Women emerge from footpaths along the highway, thumbs flying over mobile phones. Manik splays across the laps of two teammates, looks into the arid steppe and indicates one secluded valley as the future location for a gay retreat center. This is a dream—a place for gay women to get away from it all.
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"To be poor, and black, and a lesbian in South Africa is to live in danger," writes Andrew Harding for the BBC in a report on Tumi Mkhuma, another of Chosen Few's rape victims. The side's struggle for playing space and a space to breathe as gay women is contextualized at change.org (Michael A. Jones, "Can Soccer Help Stop Corrective Rape in South Africa?" Jun 2). The Guardian reports Jun 20 that Chosen Few is barred from formal competition in South Africa (Louise Taylor, "The Chosen Few Lesbian Team Has Changed Lerato Marumolwa's Life"). This was not my impression on visiting in 2009. At the time, they struggled with funding and meeting registration deadlines for regional amateur leagues.
Gevisser and Cameron in Defiant Desire: Gay and Lesbian Lives in South Africa (Routledge, 1995) provide oral histories and address South African gay culture's intersection with law, township life, literature, death and sport. On apartheid's construction of gender and, specifically, the details of the Madikizela-Mandela case, see William J. Spurlin, "Nationalism, Homophobia, and the Politics of 'New' South African Nationhood," in Imperialism within Margins: Queer Representation and the Politics of Culture in Southern Africa (Palgrave Macmillan, 2006), 78–102. He also discusses "the transformative power of the erotic."
Judy Davidson writes about the background of the Gay Games—with attention to the unique biography of founder Tom Waddell—in "The Necessity of Queer Shame for Gay Pride: The Gay Games and Cultural Events," in Sport, Sexualities, and Queer/Theory, ed. Jayne Caudwell, Routledge Critical Studies in Sport (Routledge, 2006). A fascinating article by Marc Epprecht, "The Ethnography of African Straightness," in Heterosexual Africa? The History of an Idea from the Age of Exploration to the Age of AIDS (Ohio University Press, 2008), 34–64, charts how anthropologists misrepresented gay practice across the continent and, further, how nationalists enlisted this myth of pan-African heterosexuality.
In her petition to a school principal to offer women's football, Ramotsemeng imitates the deeds of fictional Hemprova Mitra. The protagonist of Hem and Football (Secker & Warburg, 1992), Mitra represents Nalinaksha Bhattacharya's audacious attempt to explore connections among same-sex female desire, traditional Indian family practice and sport. From a Left Wing's Jennifer Doyle in " 'Art versus Sport': Managing Desire and the Queer Sport Spectacle" (X-TRA: Contemporary Art Quarterly, summer 09) brilliantly reminds us how groups of women athletes threaten social norms and mainstream sports imagery. England in 1921 enacted a 50-year ban on women's football, Doyle writes, because women's teams seemed rebellious, organizing, like Chosen Few, for political causes and because "the women who played [football] were considered unseemly—cigarette smoking, swearing, and hard playing (and plainly gay)."
In film, Tabubruch—Der neue Weg von Homosexualität im Fußball (Taboo: The New Way of Homosexuality in Football), a documentary by German filmmaker Aljoscha Pause, won the Deutsches Sport-Fernsehen Adolf-Grimme Prize in 2010. Bayern Munich manager Louis van Gaal tells Pause he would not discriminate against players based on sexual orientation; others take a different view. It is available in its entirety on the Internet, beginning here. Feature films about gays in football include Eleven Men Out (dir. Robert Ingi Douglas; Iceland, 2007) and Männer wie wir (Eng. title, Guys and Balls) (dir. Sherry Horman; Germany, 2004).


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DES MOINES-- Attorney General Tom Miller said Tuesday that Toys 'R' Us, the nation's largest toy retailer, has agreed to settle a lawsuit by Iowa and 43 other states alleging that Toys 'R' Us used its substantial market power to illegally pressure four toy manufacturing companies to restrict sales and supply of their most popular product lines to other retailers, especially warehouse clubs.
"Toys 'R' Us will make it right by paying $40.5 million in cash and toys -- including almost $400,000 in cash and toys for Iowa," Miller said. "Tens of thousands of toys will go to the Toys for Tots program in Iowa for the next three holiday seasons."
Also as a result of the suit, Mattel will pay $8.2 million in cash and toys and Little Tikes Company will pay $1.3 million in cash and toys. In Iowa, the total benefit in cash and toys from the three defendants settling today is expected to exceed $450,000. Another toy maker, Hasbro Inc., settled its portion of the suit in December for about $6 million -- including 4,700 new toys distributed in Iowa. The toy manufacturers were alleged to have also participated in the violations.
Miller said the multi-state lawsuit, which was settled today in federal court in Brooklyn New York, alleged that Toys 'R' Us had sought to limit the competitive threat posed by low-margin, low-price warehouse clubs, such as Sam's Club. The suit alleged that Toys 'R' Us -- which sells billions of dollars of toys every year and has about ten stores in Iowa -- used its market power to make illegal agreements with the toy manufacturers.
The suit alleged that the illegal agreement intended to ensure that warehouse clubs could only obtain popular toys in "combination packs" -- which cost consumers more and whose prices could not be compared easily with items sold by Toys 'R' Us. "We argued that hurt competition in two ways," Miller said. "Toys available to the clubs were more expensive, and consumers found it hard to compare prices between the clubs and Toys 'R' Us. Consumers depend on competition and good information," Miller said. The companies did not admit any wrongdoing.
The complaint alleged Toys 'R' Us pressured toy suppliers not to sell the clubs individual toys that were sold to Toys 'R' Us. It said Toys 'R' Us "policed the manufacturers' sales, and when necessary enforced its policy by taking product off its shelves or not buying product that manufacturers had sold to clubs."
"This settlement is good for all toy buyers, because it protects healthy competition and choice," Miller said, "and it's good because it will get thousands of new toys to needy children and projects like the Marines' Toys for Tots program."
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He could not have imagined that the young woman who co-taught his class and asked him to fill out an information card at the end of class was the woman he would propose to four months later.
"When I saw her, I was like, 'OK, she's probably married with kids, graduated from Lee University, so I'm not even trying," Lewis said, but then "destiny unfolded."
Lewis had already made a leap of faith in coming to Cleveland from his childhood home of West Palm Beach, Fla. As the former youth pastor of his father's church, he wanted to continue his education in ministry. Since he had already completed a master of science in business leadership, he began searching for a seminary to attend.
After receiving a newsletter from the Pentecostal Theological Seminary and researching the school, Lewis did not waste any time in applying, especially when he discovered that the institution was the Church of God seminary. In August 2012, he moved to Cleveland and began taking classes in the master of divinity program.
"I packed all of my things; I felt like Abraham a little bit," he said. "I thought, 'I'll come here, get my education, and head back home,' but God saw differently."
When Lewis arrived in Cleveland, he started looking as far south as Chattanooga for a church with which to get involved, and North Cleveland Church of God was toward the very bottom of that list. He decided to go to a Bible study at the church one Wednesday night and ended up accidentally showing up for a Fresh Fire revival service. The events of that service led Lewis to believe he was to stay at North Cleveland Church of God and get involved, so he started looking for a ministry in the church with which to volunteer.
"I felt like I was in a coffee house trying to find out what kind of cappuccino I want today," he said about all the different choices of ministries available to him, but he finally chose to join Encounter, an evangelism ministry. It was that decision that led him to the classroom where Alisha Gaines was co-teaching a class one Wednesday night in September.
"They have so many ministries that they don't let you know that one [class] is a prerequisite of the others," Lewis said, explaining how he ended up in the wrong class that night. "It was a little bit of serendipity but really it was destiny unfolding."
After class the two started talking about what brought Lewis to Cleveland and how he came to attend North Cleveland Church of God.
"We talked until the church closed. They had turned off the lights, closed all the doors," Gaines said, "I had a feeling that 'this is something.'"
That feeling prompted Gaines to invite Lewis to attend a dinner at the church the following night, and "we've been together ever since," Gaines said.
Gaines had been co-teaching classes at North Cleveland Church of God for around two years before meeting Lewis. Born and raised in Charleston, she received her master's degree in communication disorders from the University of Tennessee and has lived in Cleveland ever since that time. For the past six years she has worked as a speech language pathologist at Life Bridges Inc. in Cleveland. She joined North Cleveland Church of God in 2008 and started getting involved in ministries, including the Encounter ministry through which she co-teaches the class where she met Lewis.
"Plenty of people would tell me, because they knew I wanted to get married, 'You need to move. You need to go to another city," Gaines said. "But I knew God was able. I didn't have to uproot and leave my family. I just had to wait."
Their relationship formed in such a way that neither of them are sure when it really happened.
"We just started spending time together," Gaines said, and the couple made it an official relationship in October.
Both Lewis and Gaines soon felt they had met the person with whom they would spend the rest of their lives, so for Thanksgiving, Gaines met Lewis' family.
"It was love at first sight," Lewis said, describing that first meeting.
Lewis' family traveled to Cleveland a few days later to meet Gaines' family for dinner, and Lewis asked Gaines' stepfather for permission to marry her.
"It was somewhat magical. Our area became peaceful," Lewis said. "Afterwards, I was thinking to myself, OK, the clock is now ticking. I have to get something on this finger and rather quickly."
Lewis wanted to propose before Christmas, so he began prayerfully searching for the perfect ring. His search led him and his father, "the quintessential jeweler" of the family, to Kay Jewelry, where they found the perfect ring.
"I could create a trilogy, like Lord of the Rings, out of how this ring got on her finger," Lewis said. "I didn't think I would ever be able to get that ring for her."
After having to take it off layaway twice and with the help of some Santa Certificates from eBay, Lewis finally went to get the ring on Dec. 21.
When he gave the picture of the purchased certificate to the sales representative at Kay, though, the photo was illegible. The entire store came together to try to decode it, and things were getting tense.
Lewis stepped out of the store to calm down and say a prayer. As soon as he walked back into the store, he received a message from the seller on eBay containing all the information typed out.
"It was like a miracle. Destiny was happening. The whole store went to rejoicing," Lewis said.
Gaines had no idea what Lewis had been doing earlier that day when he met up with her to see "The Hobbit" and eat dinner later that evening. As they were finishing their meal at Chili's, Lewis noticed that the restaurant was empty and he knew it was his moment.
"The picture of him on his knee, the waitress took it," Gaines said, and Lewis added that the entire staff and the manager were soon at their table.
Gaines and Lewis are now planning to get married June 2013 at North Cleveland Church of God, the place where it all accidentally started.
"I was 605 miles away," Lewis said, "and God saw fit that He would bring two complete strangers, so independent of each other, together. You hear these things and they sound so cheesy, but it was meant to be."


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LA's newest museum is the permanent home for the Holocaust Museum, a 50 year-old institution. The striking building designed by Belzberg Architects features a generous green roof that acts as an extension of the adjacent Pan Pacific Park. The project was also designed to express one of the darkest moments in human history - a buried organic form greets visitors as they descend into a unique museum space that memorializes those who died and survived the holocaust.