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I was going to write about the BASICS of "practical unarmed combat". Things like a solid and productive core of strength training, development of real speed and power. Body conditioning and toughening, Stamina. A "never say die" iron will. You know "esoteric" stuff like that. But here are something's you SHOULD do before any of THAT. Get your ass into a REAL Judo Dojo or REAL Sombo academy. Get on that tatami and do randori with some REAL Judoka or Sombo men. Get your ass into a REAL wrestling club. Get on the mat with some REAL wrestlers (old time catch hookers and rippers especially). Get your ass into a REAL boxing/kickboxing/muay thai gym. Get in the ring with some REAL hard and fast hitters. Invest some dough and get any of a number of "real" street-fight videos or even some good boxing/thai boxing/NHB matches. This in lieu of going out and insulting a group of inner-city gang-bangers, some "real" Mafioso, or some Eastern Block gangsters. At this point you should be fairly black and blue, mauled a bit, and generally "worked" over. Unless you are an absolute numbnuts you should have a fairly good idea of what it takes to EVEN SURVIVE a REAL fight against a resisting and determined opponent. The foregoing should give you at least an "inkling" of what you'll need for REAL "practical unarmed combat" training. If the "light bulb" doesn't flash in your noggin'...well maybe you deserve to get your ass tromped. Copyright 2003 http://www.thetruthaboutselfdefense.com � Carl Cestari began his study of the martial arts with judo at the age of 7 under the direction of Yoshisada Yonezuka. During the past forty plus years Carl has dedicated his life to studying the martial arts, hand to hand combat systems, history and religion. What makes Carl unique is his combination of martial arts, law enforcement, military and real world experience. Carl has been exposed to a multitude of people with a wide variety experience. The following is a list of some of Carl's ranks and honors. Shinan (Founder) Tekkenryu jujutsuRyokudan (6th degree) Koshinkai Karate under John BurrelleGodan (5th degree) Jujutsu under Clarke of the World Jujutsu Fedaration (now defunct)Sandan (3rd degree) Nippon Kempo under Narabu SadaNidan (2nd degree) Judo under Masafumi SuzukiShodan (1st degree) Judo under Yoshisada YonezukaShodan (1st degree) Shukokai Karate under Kimura, Kadachi and Yonezuka Shodan (1st degree) Daitoryu AikijujutsuInstructors Certificate- Charles Nelson System of Self Defense under Charlie Nelson http://www.thetruthaboutselfdefense.com MORE RESOURCES:
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Tae Kwon Do As A Means To Stay In Shape Becoming a martial artist is a fanatastic method of fitness. While there are many martial art forms to choose from, taekwondo is clearly the most beneficial, and the most practical. Basic Drills We all have a good foundation in the basic blows and combinations.Think about adding the following drills to your basic syllabus. Applying Law of Gravity to Judo In judo it is important to throw your opponent by making use of his loss of balance, the law at work here is the law of gravity. We know that Sir Isaac Newton discovered the law of gravitation by seeing an apple fall from a tree. Learning the Modern Dynamics of Judo You may have the erroneous idea that force is not necessary in judo, especially when you see a sixty-year-old instructor throwing many young- and strong men seemingly without effort. Dynamics, however, denies this illusion. Break the Bones "HONE O ORERU" is a Japanese term that translates literally as "BREAK THE BONES". It is an essential concept of true SHUGYO and a central theme of a true Budo Dojo. Interesting Facts on Samurai Sword Manufacture A samurai's sword is his most sacred and prized possession. Not only did the samurai rely on his sword to defend him, but spiritually the sword held greater significance as the samurai actually believed his soul inhabited the sword. Samurai Armor Part 1 The first prototype for Japanese samurai armor came about in the form of the yoroi during the Gempei War of 1181-1185. The weight of the yoroi was around 60lb. The Best Martial Art It is a very difficult task to determine which martial art is the best so first of all let's take a look what a martial art exactly is and what not.The word "martial art" consists of 2 parts ; "martial" and "art" both of them are very important as you will see in the following lines in the determination of what a martial art exactly is. How to Select Your Martial Arts and Self Defense Equipment The most common place to buy martial arts or self defense equipment is in the local dojo. Most dojos, training centers, etc. New Book: Positive Aikido A new book with a practical look at Aikido and its history. The Co-authors are direct students of the legendary master Kenshiro Abbe Sensei from 1957. Makiwara Training Shigeru Kimura Sensei 9th Dan Tani-Ha Shitoryu Shukokai had a punch that was like getting hit with a cannonball.Kimura Sensei had won the All Japan Karate Championship two years in a row. Historical References to W.E. Fairbairn, E.A. Sykes AND Dermot Pat ONeill FROM THE BOOK: "PIERCING THE REICH"AUTHOR: JOSEPH E. PERSICOThey learned the art of silent killing, perfected by W. The Acronym That Saved My Life Frequently, I get asked about certifications, systems or methods. We made a decision a long time ago of purposely staying away from things like this. The Plight of Industrialized Man Living in the Pacific Northwest is a challenge for any body: the poor excuse for weather west of the Cascades is one of the worst on earth for human health. Luckily our Ch'uan Fa Club meets in central Oregon several times a week, rarely missing an opportunity to train outdoors . Tai-Chi for the Masses--and Others Kuang Ping was the T'ai-chi set favored by Yang Lu-Chan, the man who brought forward the "Yang" style in the mid-1800's, now so popular throughout the world. Kuang Ping is what the man trained with himself. British Aikido Board National Nepotism Seminar For many years The British Aikido Board (BAB) have shown no interest whatsoever in the true history of British Aikido, to be fair to the BAB, they have shown a great deal of interest and support for the false history of British Aikido for which they have now publicly apologised, the apology by the chairman Mr Vincent Sumpter can be viewed on www.geocities. Bogu Training About four years ago Carl recommended we start using the Bogu during our kumite (sparring practice). This method was developed in Okinawa and then found its way into mainland Japan and eventually to the U. Fronting "Fronting": The dodge to get in close to you. The frontal assault, as opposed to the ambush. Fun Games for Children Training in Martial Arts Keeping children interested in their Martial Arts training requires an element of fun and games. Traditionalists are usually only concerned with the discipline and structure of their training, but incorporating fun games involving proper techniques will add to the value of training and keep the kids interested. Elements of Unarmed Combat Custom build your own personal "system":Useful areas of training and study to find, train and develop the various "parts" -To develop STRIKING:Western BOXINGSavateMuay Thai (Burmese Boxing)Jiu Jitsu ATEMIOld style KEMPOTo develop GRAPPLING:Catch/Freestyle WrestlingGreco-Roman WrestlingJUDOSambo (Real SAMBO/SOMBO)Brazilian JujutsuA comprehensive study of the above will provide methods applicable to ANY so-called "ranges" of combat.They will also provide ALL "techniques" necessary -Striking, punching, kicking, knees, elbows, headbutts, biting, gouging, ripping, clawing, crushing, joint breaking(from the neck to the ankles), throws, trips, take-downs, strangles, chokeholds, and other assorted "nasties". |
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Bruce Whittet
Sandia National LaboratoriesLuis Martinez
Sandia National LaboratoriesShawn Fitzgerald
FORE SystemsFrank Yeh
FORE SystemsRalph Orlick
University of Illinois at ChicagoC.J. Murzyn
University of Illinois at ChicagoThe Onsite Team
David Spoelstra
SIGGRAPH 96 Electronic Support ChairSteve Van Frank
SIGGRAPH 97 Networking ChairEric Wieling
Inter Commerce CorporationGerry de Gruiter
Inter Commerce CorporationSpecial thanks to these individuals and their employers for their personal and corporate contributions of time, expertise, and creativity.
SIGGRAPH 96 gratefully acknowledges the support of the following companies in making GraphicsNet an outstanding technology demonstration:
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ATM switch hardware
ForeThought Internetworking software
ATM/Ethernet switch hardware
ForeView management software
Sun Microsystems
Netra Internet Servers
SparcstationsCisco Systems
Internet gateway and intersite routersHewlett-Packard Company
Kiosk workstationsLANCAST
10BaseT Ethernet hubsD-Link
10BaseT Ethernet hubsNetSuite
Network design softwareInter Commerce Corporation
Networking supportFinally, the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center networking staff deserve special recognition for the support and technical excellence they contributed to GraphicsNet's success.
SIGGRAPH 96 Networking Chair
Jeff Jortner
Sandia National Laboratories
GraphicsNet | This Web Site
Final SIGGRAPH 96 Web site update: 25 October 1996.
For complete information on the next conference and exhibition, see: http/www.siggraph.org/s97/

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One thing you want people to understand about allergy-friendly cooking and baking: It's not rocket science. There is some science involved but I believe there is a pretty easy formula to follow: use high quality ingredients sourced from trusted purveyors, start with the basics, and keep it simple. Allergy-friendly cuisine shouldn't be daunting but a fun culinary adventure with an improved quality of life as the destination.
Why did you decide to go grain-free? After being diagnosed with a wheat allergy last year, I initially went gluten free for 6 months and then completely grain free several months ago. Despite eliminating gluten, I continued to experience symptoms that my physician indicated could be a result of consuming grains that can simulate digestive issues similar to those from gluten. I've experienced great results from going grain free, despite the challenges of completely eliminating grains from my diet. Nutritional regimes are extremely personal and I recommend anyone who is considering making considerable dietary changes should consult with a nutrition or medical professional for appropriate guidance.Evie Carpenter Lown's finished banana bread
The most common mistake people make when baking is: Being fearful of a seemingly difficult recipe or of baking all together. Don't be afraid to make mistakes! Mistakes can teach you what not to repeat again, so keep a notebook and write down the results from your culinary experiments. That is how I learned to create some of the best allergy-friendly recipes in my arsenal. Since the ingredients for allergy-friendly recipes tend to be more costly, I recommend making a half or quarter batch of a new recipe to start. That way if the results aren't as delicious as you would like them to be, you haven't wasted your month's baking budget on one experiment.
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Another post today!! Since I was such a slacker and didn't post anything yesterday =)
I've got the final Cereal Killer polish to show you today!! Please make room for Chirality "Raisin Gein"!
As with the other 3 Chirality polishes I decided to layer this one over a white base. On my pinky I layered one coat of China Glaze "Instant Chemistry", a dark purple shimmer. Even though it covered completely in coat, I applied another and immediately applied a magnet over it.
Raisin Gein, just like its brothers, is a collection of different sized glitters suspended in a sheer milky white base. You can see purple microglitter, along with bigger purple hexagonal glitter, and some darker, even bigger, hexagonal particles. I applied one coat here. It seems that the really big hexagonal glitters are a little bit more sparse than the other ones, so I purposely fished out to get a few. There was no problem getting other particles out.
Instant Chemistry was part of Magnetix collection released by China Glaze in spring 2010.
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The 31-year-old is on trial at Sixfields after being released by Oxford and put in an impressive 90 minutes in the 1-1 draw with Histon on Tuesday night.
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An optical-fiber-scale electro-optic probe for minimally invasive high-frequency field sensing
Optics Express, Vol. 16, Issue 26, pp. 21587-21597 (2008)
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A sub-millimeter-dimension electro-optic probe that provides enhanced scanning accessibility with significantly less intrusiveness than metal-based or even other dielectric probes during electromagnetic characterization of microwave devices is presented. The quantitative and qualitative relative invasiveness of the probe on the operation of an example antenna device-under-test is explored with respect to previously demonstrated fiber and wafer electro-optic sensors. We also demonstrate that the miniaturized probe, with a diameter of 125 µm, can be used to reconstruct the three orthogonal vector components of near-electric fields without the need for different probe crystals or multiple calibration procedures. Finally, the advantages of the reduced size and invasiveness of the new micro-scale probe are demonstrated through the enhanced resolution of detailed images extracted from planar antennas, as well as the capability of reaching into circuit locations heretofore inaccessible.
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(230.2090) Optical devices : Electro-optical devices
(350.4010) Other areas of optics : Microwaves
(280.4788) Remote sensing and sensors : Optical sensing and sensors
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Remote sensing and sensors
Original Manuscript: October 20, 2008
Revised Manuscript: December 4, 2008
Manuscript Accepted: December 5, 2008
Published: December 15, 2008
Dong-Joon Lee and John F. Whitaker, "An optical-fiber-scale electro-optic probe for minimally invasive high-frequency field sensing," Opt. Express 16, 21587-21597 (2008)
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Scientific Name: | Ochotona macrotis | |||
Species Authority: | (Günther, 1875) | |||
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Taxonomic Notes: | There are currently five recognized subspecies: Ochotona macrotis auritus, O. m. chinensis, O. m. macrotis, O. m. sacana, and O. m. wollastoni (Hoffmann and Smith 2005). One molecular study concluded that O. macrotis is a sister species of O. roylei (Yu et al. 2000). |
Red List Category & Criteria: | Least Concern ver 3.1 |
Year Published: | 2008 |
Date Assessed: | 2008-06-30 |
Assessor(s): | Smith, A.T. & Johnston, C.H. |
Reviewer(s): | Boyer, A.F. & Johnston, C.H. (Lagomorph Red List Authority) |
Justification: This is a widespread species. Although there are no data regarding the current population status, it is speculated that Ochotona macrotis is common (Gurung and Singh 1996). |
Range Description: | The geographic distribution of Ochotona macrotis includes southeastern Kazakhstan, eastern Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan, northeastern Pakistan and Afghanistan, northern India, Nepal, and Bhutan (Smith et al. 1990), and in the mountainous regions of several provinces of China (Xizang, Sichuan, Xinjiang, Yunnan, Qinghai, and Gansu) (Smith and Xie 2008). This species occupies elevations ranging from 2,300 m (Gurung and Singh 1996) to 6,400 m (Smith and Xie 2008). O. macrotis will occupy higher elevations when sympatric with O. roylei (Smith et al. 1990). |
Countries: | Native: Afghanistan; Bhutan; China (Gansu, Qinghai, Sichuan, Tibet [or Xizang], Xinjiang, Yunnan); India; Kazakhstan; Kyrgyzstan; Nepal; Pakistan; Tajikistan |
Range Map: | Click here to open the map viewer and explore range. |
Population: | There are no data regarding the current population status of Ochotona macrotis. It is thought to be common (Gurung and Singh 1996). Population sizes typically do not fluctuate over time, but total density can range from six to eighteen individuals at different localities (Smith et al. 1990). |
Population Trend: | Unknown |
Habitat and Ecology: | Ochotona macrotis is a rock-dwelling species of pika (Smith et al. 1990). It occurs in high alpine deserts and spruce forest expanses within its geographic distribution (Smith et al. 1990). O. macrotis is characterized as a generalized herbivore (Smith and Xie 2008). It typically feeds on grasses, leaves, twigs, mosses, and lichens (Gurung and Singh 1996). Not all populations of this species construct haypiles for the winter (Ognev 1966). O. macrotis is primarily a diurnal species (Gurung and Singh 1996). The total length of this species is 15.0-20.4 cm (Smith and Xie 2008). Longevity of this species of pika is three years of age (Bernstein and Klevezal 1965). Litter size and number of litters in a year is variable according to location, but O. macrotis usually has two litters per year, with two to three young per litter (Smith et al. 1990). Yearlings of a population are able to breed (Smith et al. 1990). The reproductive periodicity of O. macrotis is April to mid-August (Sokolov et al. 1994). Gestation is approximately 30 days (Sokolov et al. 1994). |
Systems: | Terrestrial |
Major Threat(s): | There are no known threats for Ochotona macrotis (Smith et al. 1990). |
Conservation Actions: | In India, this species occurs in Hemis National Park and Kanji Wildlife Sanctuary and may be present in Changthang Wildlife Sanctuary (Mallon 1991). In China, this species occurs in Tuomuerfeng and Zhumulangmafeng Nature Reserves (CSIS 2008). Research to determine the current population status is needed. In China, this species has been regionally Red Listed as Least Concern (Wang and Xie 2004). |
Citation: | Smith, A.T. & Johnston, C.H. 2008. Ochotona macrotis. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species. Version 2014.3. <www.iucnredlist.org>. Downloaded on 26 April 2015. |
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Visit the Mega Man Series page for all the latest Cheats - CLICK HERE Retro Sony Playstation, PS1, PsOne, PSX Game Cheats MegaMan Legends Also known as: RockMan Dash Alt. name(s): Mega Man Legends, Rock Man Dash Check for Walkthroughs, Guides, Cheats and more Outside link to information specific to this game. May include cheats, links to cheats and hints, guides, message boards, screenshots, reviews, previews, reader reviews and more.. Courtesy of: gamefaqs.com INFINITE CASH METHODS Method 1: This trick can be done at any time after you get the Flutter, but can only be done once. Enter Roll's room. then talk to the monkey. He will say "Tell me..." and other similar things. Select "Tell me " then select "I keep losing fights..." The monkey will say "Save money etc.". and give you 100 zenny. Then, he will ask if you want more. Answer "No thanks" and he will give you 1,000 Zenny. He will ask "Do you want more". Answer "Yes" to get even more Zenny, but if you answer "No" you can keep doing this until you get all the Zenny needed. Method 2: Play the beast hunter game at the studio and get 4000 gold for completing grade A . Repeat this as needed to earn as much money as possible. Method 3: Locate the garbage can and pop can on the ground near the Jetlag Bakery on the Shopping Street. Kick the can into the bakery and speak to the woman inside to receive $1,000. This may be repeated to collect an unlimited amount of money. Method 4: Go to trapped boxes and shoot at them five to eight times. They will explode and result in lots of zenny. You may repeat this as many times as needed. HINTS AND PLAYING TIPS Unlock Hard and easy difficulty modes: Complete the game to unlock an additional option (in green) on the main menu that allows the game to be played at a more difficult level. Defeat the game under the new difficulty level to unlock another option (in yellow) that allows the game to be played at an easier difficulty level, with dash boots and full left arm weapon capability. In easy mode, you will get the Buster Max buster part which maxes out every Buster capability. Also, Zenny found by killing Reaverbots are worth more. You also have the jet skates at the beginning of the game. The treasure chests which contain the items to make the jet skates are already open. Control camera: At various times during the briefing sequences, "Camera Change" and "Camera Free" will be displayed. Press Square or Triangle to change the zoom. Press Circle to change views. Press X to stop the scene. Rolling invincibility: Hold L1 or R1 and jump to roll to either side. Megaman will be momentarily invincible during this time. Better scores on Beast Hunter and Balloon Fantasy: Use the Auto Battery and plenty of Rapid parts then hold Square + R2. For Beast Hunter, use R1, R2, L1, and L2 and have good aim. Defeating Bosses: For any Boss, a good strategy is to equip a special weapon that you can run with while shooting, such as the Machine Buster. If possible, take a Hyper Cartridge. Run around them using the sideways run, turning to adjust your path every once in a while. Along with jumping, you should be able to avoid most of the attacks. Shoot the special weapon to wear them down, and use your Buster to finish them off. Note: If you have the Laser, it is much more useful than any other weapon. Note: If you are fighting Juno, wait until it is in the second form to use the special weapon. Extra life: Some opponents have small "lego men" pirates appear they are killed. To get free energy cubes, shoot the "lego man" a couple of times with the buster. Then, kick him after he's been taken care of. A life cube should appear. You can kick him about three times and it will stop. Free Canteen refill: If you do not have any Zenny and you need a refill, you can get one for free by going to the Junkstore Lady and go to refill canteen. She will say a certain price, then answer "Yes". She will say you do not have enough money. Select "Refill" again and she will say, "What the hey I'll do it for free!" and you will have your canteen refilled. Quick energy cubes: To quickly gain a little health in battle, shoot a Servbot until he is smoking, then kick him a couple of times. At least two energy cubes should appear from each Servbot. Checking trash cans for items: Check trash cans for items by kicking them. The lid will fly up if there is nothing inside. The can will just wobble if there is Zenny or a item inside. Collecting cats: When you get the main gate open, go there. A cat will be in front of the main gate. Talk to the cat. It will ask if you want to take it home. Do so, and every time you enter the flutter there will be one more cat. Free pop: Locate the area with all the tanklike bots in Clover Woods very early in the game. Go around the smoking police car to see a shack up on a hill. Move closer and you will see a pop machine next to it. Go around the hill and jump up on to one of the tall platforms to reach the pop machines by a series of jumps. To get the free pop, simply talk to the machine, say "No", then kick it. It will either give you a pop or explode. If it explodes, enter the house to find the Junk Store Manager and his wife. You can buy items, and sometimes parts, from them. If the pop machine exploded, after exiting the building, go talk to it again, say "No" and kick it. Repeat this until getting a free pop. Dark Megaman: When you first enter the city at the beginning of the game, do no good deeds unless it is required for progression of the game. Do bad deeds, such as kicking the can at the entrance into the Jetlag Baker to get 1,000 zenny, and kicking drink machines. Eventually Megaman will turn dark blue, and his kicks as well as his other attacks will become stronger. If you keep doing bad deeds, he will turn black. Note: If you do any good deed after turning darker, Megaman will turn back to normal and this will have to be repeated. Destroy KTOX plane: In the mission where you protect City Hall, you can destroy the lower part of the flying KTOX news plane. You automatically turn black after destroying it. Less buildings in Sub-City: Let the enemy that fires machine guns in the Sub-Cities notice you, then hide in a building. Its fire can destroy all the buildings except from where you can get the keys. Submitted by: CheatBookJon and AJ Visit the Mega Man Series cheat page for all the latest Cheats and more - CLICK HERE Gameshark, Action Replay, Code Breaker codes? Check Here Log a request for cheats and hints for this game. Click Here Want to read reviews of this and other PS1 games? 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Sunday, September 11, 2011
Another Card!
I've been making at least one card every night recently. This is another Christmas card - I used 5 stamps to create the image and I used my ink and blendy tool to create the shades in the background. I used some more of my scrap paper and jazzed it up with some stretchy thread, thought it made a change from ribbon! I'm quite pleased with the result - I might have to combine my stamps more frequently!
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Following the enormous success of Uniqlock, Projector in Japan has returned with another covetable digital tool - the Uniqlo Calendar.
The Uniqlo Calendar follows a similar formula to Uniqlock, in that it provides users with a screensaver or blog widget that may be branded to Uniqlo but is also useful and charming. In Uniqlock, this was an online clock that featured films of Uniqlo-clad dancers in addition to telling the time, while the Uniqlo Calendar, as its name suggests, offers users the date as well as a weather report. This can be set to different cities all over the world.
It also features photographs of Tokyo, shot using tilt-shift photography. The sales technique then comes in when a user clicks on an image, which breaks into a mosaic of small boxes, each containing an item of Uniqlo clothing suitable for the current weather.
Projector has commissioned music especially for the website, once again from Fantastic Plastic Machine producer Tomoyuki Tanaka, who scored the distinctive soundtrack to the Uniqlock site. The music on the Uniqlo Calendar will change every two months, when new collaborations between Tanaka and other musicians will be uploaded. The current soundtrack features him in collaboration with saxophonist Yasuaki Shimizu.
As with Uniqlock, this kind of attention to detail, combined with beautiful design, seems likely to make the Uniqlo Calendar an equally successful project.
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Amazing...looks fantastic
2009-07-15 12:26:56
See my blog for interview with Projector's Koichiro Tanaka - I met him last week.
2009-07-15 13:26:06
way to go Koichiro - did it again. Great to see his presentation at CLICK London in Nov 08 - lovely work.
2009-07-15 14:41:14
love love love it.
2009-07-15 19:02:04
lovely stuff (although i find the clothes section bit a little overcomplicated),
and as much as tilt shift keeps getting used i don't think i've seen it used like this before.
Feel free to correct me 'cos i'd love to see some more examples.
2009-07-17 09:44:10
badger, check out http://www.vimeo.com/tiltshift and in particular http://www.vimeo.com/1785993
2009-07-19 18:22:39
amazing, thanks 3stripe
2009-07-20 10:38:11
love the music too. anyone know who it is?
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Windham driver may one day be NASCAR mechanic
UPDATED 6:37 PM EDT Aug 01, 2013Dan Winter is 18 years old and races in the Legends series in a car he built.
Video TranscriptIT WAS PHENOMENAL, FANTASTIC NUMBERS HERE. IT IS REALLY, REALLY SPECIAL. DON'T BE SURPRISED TO SEE THIS WEEK'S HOME TOWN HERO WORKING -- WORKING ON A NASCAR CREW SUNDAY. HE DRIVES THE NO. 81 CAR, RACING EVERY THURSDAY NIGHT AND ON WEEKENDS FROM APRIL TO OCTOBER. THE SURE HE WILL COMPETE AT THE LEGENDS NATIONAL IN PENNSYLVANIA. NOT ONLY IS HE THE DRIVER, HE IS ALSO THE MECHANIC AND PROVIDES ALL HIS OWN GRAPHIC DESIGNS. HE BUILT THIS CAR FROM SCRATCH AND RECENTLY STARTED HIS OWN GRAPHICS DESIGN BUSINESS. HE WILL ATTEND MANCHESTER COMMUNITY COLLEGE IN THE FALL ENROLLED IN A TOYOTA PROGRAM, IN HOPES OF BECOMING AN AUTOMOTIVE TECHNICIAN. I FEEL THAT WORKING ON THE CAR HELPS ME AS A DRIVER. I KNOW HOW EVERYTHING WORKS AND IT ALL TRANSLATES WHEN I AM OUT ON THE TRACK. OUR FRIENDS AT SCHOOL DON'T
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University of Michigan Spring Commencement Main Address April 29, 2000 ¤ ¤ ¤ Michigan Stadium
Pulitzer Prize winning journalist and author David Halberstam
First some housekeeping. At my own college graduation exactly 45 years ago, our speaker was Konrad Adenauer the chancellor of West Germany. He had clearly wanted to come to America for a very long time. It was very hot and he was very oldhis nickname was der Alte, the old manand he had a lot to say and he spoke very slowly. In fact, he spoke very slowly in German. In addition his words had to be translated into English and the translator obviously enjoyed his moment in the limelight and translated at what I would call a languorous pace. So I will be brief20 minutes, I hope and with luck there will be no need for President Bollinger to translate into English.
For those of you who have not exactly prospered academically let me give you with a second bit of good newsyou are being addressed by someone who was in the bottom half of his class at Harvard. Or, in fact, if you want to be didactic about it, the bottom third of his class. So there is life after college. I'm proof of it. And so might I add was Henry Ford II, the grandson of the founder of the Ford Motor Company, who went off to Yale in the late Thirties where he proved to be a devoted playboy but regrettably, an indifferent student. In time with a critical paper due in an English course, he paid a classmate to write the paper for him, was caught in the act, and was unceremoniously bounced from Yale without his degree. Still the future was not that bleak for him, he managed to get a job after collegewith the Ford Motor Company of course, he was wise enough not to change his name, and he soon rose to the top, becoming in almost record time, the President of the company, and thereby one of the most powerful and richest industrialists in the country. Much later, a somewhat rueful Yale, always on the lookout for a new building or two$151;the Henry Ford School of Business Administration perhapsinvited him back for an honorary degree. That day Henry Ford stood, held up his beautifully written speech, looked at the assembled Yale officials, waved the speech in front of them and said, "And I didn't write this one either"
I wrote this one. A graduation speech is a part of the rites of passagethe platitudes of June, Emily Dickinson once called them. As a commencement speaker I am supposed to do what our parents, your most cherished faculty members and other people crucial to your lives have failed to do in the previous 22 years, set you on a course of happiness and prosperity and away from a life of indolence and crime. All in under 20 minutes. So consider yourself warned.
What an extraordinary moment for you, receiving your degrees at the start of a new century, and the new millenniumthe country as well as you starting out with a clean slate. There is nothing before you but the future and rarely for young talented, educated Americans has the future seemed so promising. For you receive your degrees at an uncommon moment, a rare moment of peace and prosperity: even the Cold War is over, America stands alone as a superpower, and there is a rare sense of new economic possibilitiesbringing with it not just promise of greater economic riches, but ever greater social and cultural possibilities.
Rarely has the future seemed so bright. The other day there was a cartoon in the New Yorker which I loved. It showed the front page of a newspaper called the Daily Bugle, and the top headline in giant type blared out, "$165 billion" And under it, it said, "Huge Amount of Money." And under that was written: "No doubt about it." Under that and lower on the front page was a slightly smaller headline: "$80 Billion." And the subhead: "Not as impressive as it once was." And then an even smaller one which said: "$5 Billion" and under it, "Yawn," and so forth until at the very bottom of the page it said "$100 million," and under it, "Nobody Cares." So these are in general, good optimistic times, the dawn of a new age in technology with all kinds of great possibilities for you.
The truth today, which I suspect you already know, is that you are among the fortunate of the world. Let me correct thatthe very fortunate of the world. You have been given a priceless education at an exciting time when an entirely new kind of economy beckons, and so you are uniquely advantaged. An education like yours from a school as distinguished as Michigan sets you apart not merely from most of your fellow Americans, but from most of the people on this planet. You, the young men and women of the dot com and cell phone and e-mail age, live at a time when education more than ever before is an economic advantage, when brains rather than muscularity drive the economy. America, the country which most of you are fortunate enough to inhabit, is not merely a military superpower, and a political superpower, and an economic superpower, but perhaps at this moment, most critical of all, it is an educational superpower. This more than any thing else may be the source of our strength in the coming century, the one quality which makes our national strength so renewable, and makes us so much a beacon to the ambitious of the rest of the worldAmerica, a special place where ordinary people can transform themselves into extraordinary people.
Let me at this moment pay special tribute to this university and the great state universities like it in America, for this is what sets us apart from so many other countries in the world, this is what makes our economic strength so exceptional, and gives us our remarkable social fluidity. It is Michigan and other great land grant universities like itwell perhaps not quite as great as Ann Arborwhich represent something relatively new in the world, the idea of a great education to be conferred not just on the children of the elite, not just on the children of the wealthy, not just on the children of those who have already gone there, but on the deserving talented sons and daughters of ordinary working people, with of course, a great deal of the cost to be born by the state, and by that I do not mean the federal government, but by the taxpayers of Michigan. The men and women who envisioned this great university in this century did not envision a normal schoola place to train some teachers and some agricultural experts and some mining engineersthat is, a place to train functionaries for business. They wanted something better, a great university which would enrich and ennoble people. If any stranger, any foreigners who are puzzled about America, about why what our secret strength is, and why we seem so vibrant and resilient a society, so perpetually young and hopeful, I have a suggestion of two places for them to visitfirst let them go to Ellis Island and sense the importance of our immigration policy, and then let them come to Ann Arbor.
For I believe it is the land grant universities like this which set us apart as a nation. Every country after all has its great elite schools, its Harvard and Yale, Oxford and Cambridge, Sorbonne and Ecole Polytechnique, designed originally to make sure that the children of those running the nation will themselves one day also run the nation; what sets us apart is the concept of distinguished land grant colleges, here, Madison, Champaign Urbana, not just good schools, but great schools, with faculties that can rival those of any private university in the world. And that came to pass here in the last century, particularly at mid century when the land grant concept and the idea of the G.I. Bill were married upsocial engineering I guess you could call itcreating a university so great and dynamic and meritocratic, that it forced our elite private colleges until then by their very nature a good deal more oligarchic, to be more meritocratic, less they be quickly passed over by schools like this. The nation thanks youyou helped get them up to speed.
I would like you to think of this great university and the degree you receive today as representing a hope in the as yet unborn. And I hope you will remember this when you become older and are faced with questions of education and public policy and validating for others a comparably great education as the one you have received, an education which will perhaps be bestowed on the children of people whom you do not know and who are perhaps newer to America than you, and whose immigrant parents come from places that seem terribly alien to you. By saying a hope in the unborn, that I refer to the decisions of which you are the beneficiaries, decisions made much earlier in this century by the part of the architects of this school and others, that it should have a faculty second to none, and that it should be open for the children of people whom they would never know. They were quite practical menthey assumed that there would be an immense economic benefit to educating as many people as high a level as possible--and they believed as well, for there is an idealism built into their concept, that it elevated every one in the processin fact that it ennobled those who were a part of it. And that it does. Just look around you.
For it is critical to something which we now almost take for granted, the ascent to the good life in this country, and it critical to something that I believe still sets apart from other societies, a belief that for all our flaws and failures, and myriad short comings, that we in America more than any other society, give ordinary citizens a chance to reach their fullest potential.
I speak of more than economic advantage of course. For you have been part of a rare academic community where the intellectual process is valued not just for what it can do for you economically, but as an end in itself. Learning is not just a tool to bring you a better income; learning is an ongoing never ending process designed to bring you a fuller and richer life, to help you understand the people around you, the world around you, the events around youand to help you understand among other complex organisms, yourself.
You are fortunate enough to live in an affluent, blessed society, not merely the strongest but the freest society in the world. In this country as in no other that I know of ordinary people have the right to reinvent themselves to become the person of their dreams, and not to live as prisoners of a more stratified, more hierarchical past. We have the right to choose: to choose if we so want, any profession, a venue to live and work in, any name. As much as any thing else this is what separates us from the old world, the old world across the Atlantic and the old world across the Pacific, where people often seemed to be doomed to a fate and a status determined even before their birth. We have the words of the great physicist I. I. Rabi to remind us of that special freedom, of the privilege which comes with choice. When he received the Nobel Prize, Rabi was asked by a journalist what he thought: I think he said, that if I had lived in the old country I would have been a tailor.
I do not think the stunning success of this society took place by happenstance. Both by chanceand by choiceI have become something of a historian of the second half of the twentieth century. I graduated from high school in 1951, and from college in 1955, and my professional career, throughout the Civil Rights movement and Vietnam took me through the stormiest years of much of the last 50 years. And if there is one great truth which categorizes that period in America it is that this nation has systematically become more and more inclusionary in race, gender and ethnicitythat we have made a constant and increasingly successful effort to make the playing field as level as possible, and to open doors once firmly closed.
When the question of inclusion or exclusion, one of the most basic to the concept of a state, has arisen over the yearswhen the status quote has been challengednot every one has been in accord with the premise of a more inclusionary society, whether in sports, in the military or in the economy. There have always been doubters and they were always convinced, that the old ways were the best, that this impulse to open America up, much of it court-driven would somehow weaken us, that newer Americans were not as worthy as old and that the different groups hungering for a fairer share of the good life were not as worthy as those who had held power before them.
I am old enough to remember when a great many influential Americans were absolutely convinced that Jackie Robinson and Willie Mays would fail in the great arena of sports, and that our military would be significantly weakened by the integration of the armed force. You might like to wonder that when you think of Michael Jordan or Colin Powell, and their respective brilliant careers. These doubters, those who favored the status quo (in many cases it should be noted, because it favored them) also believed that the descendants of slavery who had worked so hard for so little for so long and who had been voiceless in our society for so long would somehow weaken our economy, if given a fair place in it.
The truth is, not surprisingly, that this effort to be inclusionary has made us in all ways a better, fairer and stronger society. And as for the economy being weakened by being more inclusionary I should mention to you that the year that I graduated from high school, 1951, the Dow stood at 250. Yes, that's right, 250.
I believe that this great American ideal, to be more just, to be more inclusionary, to offer to the children of others the educational possibility we would want for our own children, has given us not just strength but much of our common purpose. We still believe that we can improve ourselves and make this a better and more complete nation: we may argue with each other about the rules in the social contract, we can dispute each other's arguments, we are often cantankerous. But slowly steadily we are on our way to becoming the world's first universal culture. No wonder then that our popular culture has such power throughout the worldit is something that people all over the world can understand.
And now on to the mandatory part of the speechwords of direction from the young to the oldthe requisite geezer wisdom. In the few minutes remaining to us I would like to talk briefly about the uses of the uncommon degree of personal freedom which we celebrate today. For your education greatly adds to one of the most elemental American rightsone which we often take for granted, but which does not so readily exist elsewherethe freedom to make choices in life, a freedom often missing for those less privileged educationally. So what do you do with all that freedom? Freedom after all does not come without burden and without responsibilityfor if we make the wrong choices, we have no one to blame save ourselves. We cannot rant against an authoritarian government which deprived us of our rightful possibilities.
So how do we handle the burden of being responsible for our destinies? For you are at the threshold of one of the most important choices that most of you will make in you lives, the choice of your careers. We have after all in this country an inalienable right to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. Notice that wording, for we are not guaranteed happinessmerely the pursuit of it. Notice, as well that the wise people who authored that phrase did not say pursuit of wealth," for the pursuit of happiness and pursuit of wealth are by no means the same thing, nor do they by any stretch of the imagination generate the same inner sense of contentment, and personal validity.
This is a critical decision for you. For other than the choice of a lifetime partner, nothing determines happiness so much as choosing the right kind of work. It is a choice about what is good for you, not what is good for others whom you greatly respect, your parents, an admired professor, your friends, a significant other, whom you suspect may be dazzled by a greater or loftier choice of profession. The choice is not about what makes them happy, but about what makes you happy. Not what seems to show that you are successful by the exterior standards of the society. Not what brings you the biggest salaryparticularly in the beginning when those things seem so importantand the biggest house, or the greatest respect from Wall Street, but what makes you feel complete and happy and makes you feel, for this is no small thing, like part of something larger than yourself, a part of a community.
So the choices for you out there are not simple. It is, for example, possible to be immensely successful in your chosen field, and yet in some curious way to fail at life, to get to the top and yet fail to enrich yourself. A few years ago my colleague Russell Baker, the distinguished New York Times columnist and humorist was asked by the Times in-house magazine to write a piece about a colleague who had just been promoted to a powerful new position. Baker went to see his own great mentor James Reston, then the Times bureau chief. He mentioned the colleague's name to Reston. "Tell me about his life," Baker asked Reston. "That's not a lifethat's a career," Reston said with great disdain. He meant that the colleague had at once done everything right, but had somehow missed the point of what he had done; he had covered the requisite big stories, had made the front page the requisite number of times, but he had in some way failed in the elemental human involvement so necessary for real pleasure in this career. He won all the prizes save the real ones, the friendships and all the fun that are at the core of what we do.
So how can one tell the difference between a life and a career, between the authentic and the inauthentic? How do you seek out a life when so many others tell you to have a career.
There is no sure plan to it. There is no clear path for any of us, you cannot simply sit down upon graduation and chart your career, come up with some fool-proof mathematical graph, and have it work out on schedule: such and such a title and salary by 30, an even bigger title and salary by 35. Etc. It doesn't quite work out that way. Let me suggest that by now you should know something about your inner self, what is fun, what you're good at and what makes you feel good about yourself. And I am suggesting as well that that often has very little to do with the society's external reward system.
Let me give you an illustration. I recently went back to the college from which I graduated and visited the undergraduate newspaper, and I visited with a few of the graduating student editors. A number of them wanted to be reporters but two of them had already decided to go to work for a consulting firm which was going to pay them around $85,000 a year, about three times the beginning, salary for reporters. Leaving aside the bizarre question of why anyone 22 or 23 years old should be going around consulting and giving advice about anything to anyone else, I had a sense that they did not particularly want to consult, but this was the best offer and seemed to connect them to something from which I and most of my generation were luckily spared, the dreaded fast track. And I who had headed off after my own graduation to the smallest daily newspaper in the state of Mississippi for the grand total of $46 a week asked them, "Did it ever occur to you that the salary you are being offered reflects the fact that this is a choice you might not make were it not for the size of the salary? And that in some way that you do not yet entirely comprehend, you are being manipulated." So perhaps there is a rule or a law of some sort hereif you are at too young an age being offered too heady or large a reward, perhaps it is not being offered with your best long term interest in mind.
So try and use your lives wisely, and try and make choiceseven in our professional livesthat are of the heart. Do not be too readily caught in the material snare of this society. If you want to be a botanist, poet, actor, teacher or nurse, if that is what your heart tells you to do, do not go to law school or some other graduate school on the theory that it is a great ticket, and that it will get you to a higher level in the society, that you'll make some money for a while, and then you can go on and do the things that you really wanted to do in the first place.
It doesn't work that way. You will, I suspect find it surprisingly hard to escape the life you have chosen and go back to the career you originally intended. For you will almost surely become a prisoner of a lifestyle that you did not particularly seek out in the first place: an ever larger house, a fancier car, a more luxurious vacation.
Do not be afraid to make some mistakes when you are young. Do not be afraid to try and fail early in your life. We often stumble towards the things we will end up doing best; Do not be afraid to take chances when you are young, to choose the unconventional over the conventional. Often it is experience in the unconventional which prepares you best for the conventional. Be aware that it's all right to make mistakes, and it is all right to try at something and fail. The price of failure when you are young is much lower than when you are older. I suspect that you in the audience may look at us upon the stage and see people who seem like we have always succeeded, men and women who have led professionally flawless lives. Would that it were true. What you do not see is our own anxieties, not just when we were your age, but throughout our careers, when again and againin our own mindswe seemed to be on the edge of some new failure.
You do not see me, at the moment a few days short of my 22 birthday when the editor of that small daily in Mississippi came to me and told me it was time for me to leave, that in fact he would pay me for that last day and that he wanted me to be gone from the office and from the town by the next morning. He had already hired my successor who was scheduled to show up the next afternoon and he did not think it a good idea if we overlapped. Fired as it were from the smallest daily in Mississippi after less than a year. What an auspicious start to a career.
In all things in life, choose your conscience and trust your instincts and lead your lives without regrets. It's simply easier that way. I mention that because life under the best circumstances, even if you're lucky, as I have been to choose the right profession, is very hard. First you have to choose the right professionand then you have to work hard for the rest of your lives to sustain yourself in this choice which you happen to love. As the noted philosopher, basketball player and sports commentator Julius ErvingDr Jonce said, "Being a professional is doing the things you love to do on the days when you don't feel like doing them."
So I congratulate you, my classmates. I ask you to choose wisely in the days ahead, trust your heart, stay off the fastrack, and live happy and full lives. Thank you very much for having me here and letting me share this day of celebration with you. All Hail to Michiganthe champion of the West


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With the foothills as a stunning backdrop, colorful lights illuminate a winding path through the Colorado countryside.
Spread throughout Denver Botanic Gardens at Chatfield, Trail of Lights offers visitors a choice of paths; a shorter route takes visitors directly to the children's play area, while an extended path allows visitors to explore the Green Farm Barn and silo before continuing onto the children's area and 1880s homestead.
Fun features this year:
- Synchronized music in children's play area.
- Three-sided light tunnel.
- Don't forget to stop by the warming hut and the fire pit!
- See Trail of Lights from a different perspective: free hayrides highlighting Chatfield's natural beauty are available every Friday and Saturday from 5:30 - 9 p.m.
- Hot drinks will available for purchase and seasonal entertainment will be provided.
- HoloSpex glasses will be available for purchase.
- Illuminated antique and model tractors on display.
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Pronunciation: /antɪˈnəʊmɪən/
Definition of antinomian in English:
A person who believes that Christians are released by grace from the obligation of observing the moral law.
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- On one hand, Luther condemned Agricola's antinomian theology for its rejection of the law in the Christian life.
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Mid 17th century: from medieval Latin Antinomi, the name of a 16th-century sect in Germany alleged to hold this view, from Greek anti- 'opposite, against' + nomos 'law'.
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Lately, one of my favorite camera apps on iPhone, the 645Pro, has seen a lot of clicks from me in both color and black and white modes. I love it's H5 black and white mode that has good contrast and nice grain for low light images. All the black and white images here were shot using this app in H5 mode. The color was shot in C42 mode.
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Binondo or the Chinatown of Manila is very lively at night, especially the streets near the Binondo church. You will find calesas (horse carriage), decorated pedicabs and jeepneys, food vendors selling varieties of snacks on the streets and even a roadside karaoke station. I was shooting with my Leica M9 and Voigtlander Nokton 35mm f/1.2 ASPH V2 that night. A great lens for low light. That f/1.2 can suck in lots of lights.
According to Wikipedia, Binondo was established in 1594 during the Spanish era and it is now the oldest Chinatown in the world. The Spanish Dominican fathers made Binondo their parish and succeeded in converting many of the residents to Catholicism. The Binondo church, also known as Minor Basilica of St. Lorenzo Ruiz, was built in 1596. One of its altar boys, Lorenzo Ruiz, who died in 1637 was canonized in 1987 to become the first Filipino Saint.
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Tiani Ghosh
24 Aug 2009Deeply irritating sketch show
All the humour in this deeply irritating sketch show is constructed in the 'I didn't mean that, I meant this' word play. If Tiani Ghosh and Raph Shirley raise any laughs from the audience, it's because these jokes are so tortured and forced that they…
24 Aug 2009An audible dearth of jokes
The three young members of sketch group Marigold have an unenviable task; entertaining a very small audience in a hot C venue studio at midnight, and they face it with high energy enthusiasm. Yet with their questionable writing skills, and a show full…
Kevin Tomlinson
24 Aug 2009Laughs and poignant moments
'I'm not sure if this will be comedy or drama,' says Tomlinson as he conjures up another character for his 'seven ages of man' improvisation. As it happens there are both laughs and poignant moments in this theatrical display, although audience…
Phil Kay: London Aye!
24 Aug 2009The crowd are in hysterics from the start
In many ways, Phil Kay is the spirit of the Fringe. He's a manic, funny, shambolic, Scottish, hairy hobgoblin of an exhibitionist, and embodies any adjective you care to ascribe to the festival. Witnessing his performance at midnight in amidst the revel…
Seymour Mace and Peter Slater: Sundayland
23 Aug 2009Fake news, wacky characters and biscuits
Running from an Edinburgh downpour into the warmth of Sundayland is a magical moment. For one hour the baby grand is transformed into a welcoming place of ramshackle characters, physical comedy and biscuits for all. With its hosts Seymour Mace and Peter…
Shappi Khorsandi
21 Aug 2009Making stand-up look a little bit too easy
The title of Distracted Activist sums up Shappi Khorsandi's predicament. As one of the few female comedians to get airtime, and an Iranian at that, she should be well versed on all debates that this inevitably enables. Khorsandi is certainly a…
Helen Keen
20 Aug 2009Underwhelming guide to Arctic survival
It's not often that a bibliography of research material is handed out to a comedy audience, but this is all part of Helen Keen's thoughtful show. Keen wants to verify the historic aspects of her Arctic routine, but she has been a little too…
Lloyd Langford
18 Aug 2009Obvious natural talent
Langford could talk about anything and make it sound quirky and funny. In a nervy style, he rattles through topics such as stag dos, Blackpool nightclubs and his musical tastes with a fluid joke-rate and an intuition on how to work the audience. His…
Lady Garden
18 Aug 2009Acutely observed characters
With as many as six performers, it's the sketches that feature all of the talent that makes this performance something special. There are some acutely observed characters and a highlight is Britain's Next Top Monarch starring five of Henry VIII's wives.
The Aspidistras
18 Aug 2009Spreads the laughs a little too thinly
The unusually named Aspidistras are a musical duo who are all about the performance. Maria Hodson is particularly entertaining as the freakish Tim Burton or strutting around as Dan Brown, but overall the show has no cohesion. Too many separate…
Jason Cook: Fear
14 Aug 2009The Geordie's honest approach falls short with Fear
Anyone familiar with Jason Cook's routines knows that he likes to produce heart-warming comedy with an emotional kick. Since 2007's My Confessions and last year's Joy, the brutally honest approach has been a refreshing departure in the scene, especially…
Tiffany Stevenson
12 Aug 2009Promising stand-up debut from the one-time wannabe actress
Stevenson has gone from modelling work to small-time acting but right now her role is as new stand-up hopeful. The London-born comic exudes confidence and has plenty of stories from her more celeb obsessed and 'vacuous' days. More impressive is the high…
Yianni Agisilaou: MP3some
12 Aug 2009Nick Hornby influenced trawl through the soundtrack of romance
Setting the story of past romances to music, Agisilaou is the centre of his own high fidelity. Yet with a one-way conversation about his likes and dislikes, hobbies, friends and family, Mp3some comes across as an idle description of his myspace page.
All That Gomez
10 Aug 2009Brash bravado and thoughtful theatrics
Marga Gomez is wearing a gold lamé tracksuit top with boots to match, a pair of black-framed glasses and a headscarf. This ensemble is loud, brash and ridiculous but like her comedy, it's hard not to like. At first Gomez seems hesitant; 'can I talk…
Mark Thomas
8 Aug 2009A spontaneous manifesto crafted with perfection
If there is a serious side to comedy, then Mark Thomas is standing at its edge. Over the years, he has used his persona of cheeky scamp to write, rally and demonstrate against global injustices, balancing the sincere imperatives with the bonhomie of his…
Alex and Helen's Radio Nowhere
24 Jul 2009Footlights duo with Facebook-inspired character tale
Alex and Helen are naive. Their plan to find stardom by broadcasting a radio show to a hamlet of only ten people forms the basis for Alex and Helen's Radio Nowhere, which, as the writers/performers explain, is off the map in more ways than one. 'They're…
Jason Cook
13 Nov 2008Jason Cook is a happy man. Today, he cheerfully tells me, he has purchased a new Xbox game. But Cook has other reasons to feel upbeat; his 2007 début fringe show My Confessions was a critical hit and was successfully followed by a show about happiness…
Festival Books - Mark Watson
21 Aug 2008Eco-friendly, my dear Watson
According to Mark Watson, saving the planet would, at the very least, 'look pretty smart on all our CVs'. With an already sterling comedy résumé, Watson takes on environmentalism in his latest book, Crap at the Environment, which through the author's…
Hils Barker
21 Aug 2008Fanciful but flaccid exhibitionism
Sinister social network sites are under precision attack in Hils Barker's character exposé Exhibitionist! which links four lonely souls to 'Profile Me', an invention more Orwellian than Facebook. Barker attempts to draw parallels between billionaire…
Jason John Whitehead
21 Aug 2008The laid-back Whitehead, defined by his rock apparel and sleepy eyes claims to have worked hard over this year's show: 'it's got a theme; it's about being a comedian.' This is typical of the Canadian's easy-going style and enjoyable performance, but…
Learn to Play the Ukulele in Under an Hour
21 Aug 2008'The ukulele is the cure for depression', claim Sam and Donal, your specialist historians and ukulele instructors for the day. With a Dave Gorman-style slideshow of whimsical adventure, it's the audience members that create the soundtrack with provided…
21 Aug 2008Non-gratuitous meanderings for art's sake
Don't worry, there is no gratuitous nudity in Nude, just two actors flexing and posing their naked bodies in close proximity to the front row. But it's all done in the name of art, and the context of a life drawing class, in which the reluctant audience…
Why We Ate Cliff Richard
21 Aug 2008A two-hander disaster story, this is a frantic set which at best resembles the shouty, anarchic energy of The Young Ones, but ultimately fails because of poor writing and uninventive plotting. Hank Marvin's flashy riffs hold things together and a…
The Worst Zoo in Britain
21 Aug 2008This suffers the quandary of being an interesting tale, told by an uninteresting storyteller. Welsh stand-up, Tudur Owen, describes in painfully slow detail how his family came to be the first and last zoo keepers on the island of Anglesey. Owen has…
Amsterdam Underground Comedy Collective
14 Aug 2008If you were to ask the audience why they were laughing hysterically at Hans Teeuwen, they probably couldn't tell you. This is because Teeuwen's humour is so stupidly bizarre, so darkly deadpan, so poetically distasteful, with a Kaufmanesque quality, a…


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Prepare yourselves for the most obvious statement of the year; Miguel Tejada is struggling and has played very poorly for the Giants this season.
The next most important question; is this the end or is there a reason to be optimistic that this is just a rough patch?
To a certain extent, Tejada has been the victim of some bad luck but even taking that into consideration, things look mighty ugly. I took a look at how things have shaken out for him so far this season compared to the previous three years and his career norms.
2011 | 3 Year Avg | Career | ||||
SLG | BAbip | SLG | BAbip | SLG | BAbip | |
Ground Balls | 0.206 | 0.190 | 0.257 | 0.236 | 0.252 | 0.233 |
Fly Balls | 0.306 | 0.108 | 0.505 | 0.153 | 0.455 | 0.101 |
Line Drives | 0.563 | 0.438 | 0.926 | 0.722 | 1.054 | 0.734 |
Everything is down compared to his last three year averages and everything except for the BAbip for fly balls is down compared to his career numbers. So, the balls are not landing in for hits and even when they do they are not going for extra bases at the same rate they had previously.
Why isn't this just a case of bad luck that we should expect to normalize as the season moves forward?
The reason this doesn't make everything perfume and roses is the composition of the batted balls has changed to more ground balls and less line drives. This drop in line drives could be a result of a small sample but it could also possibly be tied to his selection of pitches that he swings at. Over the years he has gotten worse at laying off pitches outside of the strike zone, which is a recipe for weak contact for most hitters.
You are probably asking yourselves about if he goes back towards his historical rates of power and balls in play going for hits. Let me tell you but first, it is not so pretty and the squeamish should avert their eyes.
His triple slash right now would be .277/.304/.390. Yeah, that is still not good and translates into a wOBA in the .305-.310 range. That's better than what he has done now, but when combined with below average defense, that is not a lot positive added to a team.
I hope things turn around for him though because the alternatives are just about as dismal.
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- Dee 2012/09/01 19:58:18
The only thing on the link you provided pertaining to Ford was a story saying they deserved a $12 stock price. That article didn't mention owing anything to tax payers. If that isn't the story you are referring me to, please provide a link directly to the story you want me to read.
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"Ford Motor owes the government $5.9 billion it borrowed in June 2009, the same month GM filed for bankruptcy. By Sept. 15, Ford needs to start paying that money back. In a government filing, the carmaker said $577 million is due within the next year, and the full amount must be paid off by June 15, 2022." -
Ford never let the government take them over and appoint their CEO. We'll see if they begin to repay the debt Sept 15th.
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Wranglers are wonderful! You can't condemn every model because of the company. That's the equivalent to an Irish man robbing a bank and someone thinking every Irish person is a bank robber/thief.
- warrior goddess 2012/09/01 06:00:23
That's because they almost went under the year before the banks collapsed and the credit dried up. Read "American Icon", it really tells the story of how Ford was 3 months from running out of cash and going under when they decided to mortgage the farm (and even the blue oval trademark) in a last ditch effort to save the company. Luckily it was good timing and in hindsight a good decision, otherwise, Ford wouldn't even have been around to show up to ask for a bailout.
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Part Number Y0063709 (AP4273400) replaces 786314, 0063709, 1236093, 63709, AH2187410, EA2187410, PS2187410, R0710090.
Step by step instructions on how to replace a Oven Burner #Y0063709. Note: This video is intended to give you the general idea of the part replacement procedure. Your appliance may differ depending on the manufacturer and model.
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text: I know this is an old thread but I wanted to ask you guys: Without a budget limit and supposing I could get any player new, used or refurbished; which would you say is the hands down best up-converting DVD Player ever, I now have an Oppo DV-983H but have read great things about the Denon DVD-3930CI which supposedly performs equally to the more expensive Denon DVD-5910CI; and there's also the Toshiba HD-XA2!; also Oppo just released a new Blu-Ray player BD93 that features a new chip for up-conversion of SD content, which is the very best for SD-DVD up-conversion?. I use an Oppo BD80 for Blu-Ray playback. Thank you. |


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Wikipedia:IRC channels
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
There are three IRC channels for users of Simple English Wikipedia hosted on Freenode:
Channel | Description |
#cvn-simplewikis connect | Anti-vandalism channel for the Simple Wikis (Wikipedia and Wiktionary). |
#wikipedia-simple connect | General chat focused on the Simple Wikipedia. Usually on-topic. |
#wikipedia-simple-admins connect | For discussion between administrators (admins only) |
There is a channel that broadcasts the events in New changes.
Channel | Description |
#simple.wikipedia | Live Recent changes channel for the Simple Wikipedia. Gives all the changes to the wiki. Usually for bots only. |


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App for the 54rd Annual Scientific Meeting of the British Society for Haematology at Birmingham. Including the schedule programme, information, poster listings and note taking application.