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(Craig Campbell)– Lately, my Facebook feed has been filled with reports from enthusiastic travelers on countries visited, monuments seen, and foreign food consumed. Long posts wax nostalgically about the planet's many beautiful places, and it seems almost criminal not to post hundreds of photos from the trip.
I've been asking myself, in recent weeks, what distinguishes a journey from a vacation? The latter—travel for its own sake—is an inherently privileged activity, and it's clear that our privileged society places an implicit premium on "well-traveled" as a personal descriptor. Given his or her experience in a foreign country, the "world-traveler" is perceived to have a superior understanding of culture and a heightened sense of international identity. In short, the well-traveled among us are better educated global citizens.
But how do we operationalize the process of 'experiencing' another culture? You'll agree, I'm sure, that a four-hour layover in Heathrow does not count as the 'experience' of London. But what about an afternoon in the city? Or a week? What about a semester?
Last month, I visited the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam. Despite the sublime, inspirational spirit of the Dutch master's prolific collection of art, I found myself distracted by the hordes of visitors snapping iPhone photos of the paintings. As I wandered through the exhibit, I was consumed by one thought: why does this bother me so much?
This snapshot attitude toward travel—which can be observed at any major cultural attraction—flattens not only the image but also the experience of the image. By approaching novel visual stimuli through the lens of a camera, visitors allow the device to mediate their experience, distancing themselves from the actual object of focus. With photo editing (or, nowadays, filter-adding) the idiosyncrasies that define the original object disappear and the image is made the photographer's own. The subtle textures emerging from the frame of Van Gogh's Wheatfield with Crows, the effect of the exhibit's juxtaposition of paintings, the smell and feel of the museum—are all lost.
Van Gogh's body of work becomes a personal achievement, a token added to a sensory pocketbook. This 'Gotta' Catch 'Em All' mentality fuels a collector's notion of travel. Coupled with the "Like" apparatus of Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, this drives a commodification of experience. New places are no longer inhabited and experienced; they are accomplished, subdued, and archived to a hoarder's trophy shelf. When someone approaches a scene—whether a city street, monument, or painting—with an eye toward its subsequent success on social media, one negates their presence in the place. With an increasing reliance on our virtual appendages (smart phones, tablets, GPS) we disappear, in degrees, from reality. While this phenomenon is also true of our use of consumer electronics and social media in general, it's particularly conspicuous in travelers. When a tourist spends more time live-tweeting their visit, checking the number of likes on an Instagram photo, Google Mapping directions, and translating difficult phrases, they embody their digital avatars more than their actual person. Their presence, for all intents and purposes, is determined by its virtual representations.
Situated in the center of Berlin, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe was conceived as an interactive monument by architect Peter Eisenman. In order to honor the memory of the millions of Jews who perished in the Holocaust, he devised an austere labyrinth defined by hundreds of rectilinear stone columns. Visitors should presumably lose themselves in the stone maze, proprioceptively immersing themselves in the memory of the tragedy to which it alludes. While I'm sure that this is the case for some, the exhibit also lends itself to play: when I visited in September, laughing teenagers were happily hopping from pillar to pillar, enjoying the maze from the view above. A clever blog, aptly titled "Grindr Remembers," features a series of men on the gay meet-up app using photos of themselves in the memorial as profile pictures. In the context of this social media platform, the Memorial to the Murdered Jews is stripped of its memory, appropriated instead for its aesthetic appeal on that application.
I find that many students traveling abroad bring a similar mentality to the places they visit. For many, cultural attractions are relegated to convenient backdrops for photos. While the taste of Japanese sushi and the sight of Versailles are valuable in their own right, they remain at the level of mere visual and gustatory sensations. Mired in their one-dimensionality, these sensory snapshots fail to cross into the realm of true 'experience.'
The key is interactivity, or experience that is constituted by multi-dimensional sensory engagement. Visual and gustatory, sure, but also olfactory, haptic, kinesthetic, magnetoceptic—the list goes on. The synthesis of these sensations allows for abstraction of sensory information. On physical, cognitive, and emotional levels, these impressions collect and build an experience, and are consequently integrated into a greater narrative. This is the process of discovery.
One morning last January when I was touring Israel, my dear travel companion and I woke up early to hike the cliffs of Masada, an ancient Judean fortress near the shores of the Dead Sea. After a beautiful mountaintop view of the sunrise, we returned to the base and turned our attention to the salty sand canyons below. We couldn't find any discernable path and soon discovered that the cascading sand cliffs were surprisingly safe. With no pre-determined 'script' to our experience—no one and nothing telling how to perceive or navigate this phenomenal new space—we abandoned our shoes and phones and spent the afternoon playing in the sand. The endless canyons were visually exciting, but so too was the smell of the salty sea, the grains of sand exfoliating my dry skin, and the feeling of ludic buoyancy while skidding down fragile cliff walls. I'd never been anywhere like it and it's likely that I'll never return, but I experienced this place it in a way that was just my own. It remains, today, one of my fondest memories.
The process of discovery allows one to unmoor him or herself from the scripted memory and passive spectatorship that our socially mediated, hyper-visual culture encourages. When you are critical of your experience beyond the few facts spat at you by a museum exhibit, beyond photos of a monument or natural wonder that every other person who's been there before you has also taken, you open yourself to a plurality of possibilities. With this genuine freedom of choice, your experience becomes your own. You cease to be a spectator and instead become a participant.
Interactivity implies interaction, some kind of exchange. When we take pictures, souvenirs, and culture from a foreign land, we must furnish something in return. Since we don't have much else to offer, we should give our utmost attention, respect, and gratitude for the experience, for the awesome dizziness of being there.
Craig, your point that, "The key is interactivity, or experience that is constituted by multi-dimensional sensory engagement," is very well taken. You make it clear that in order
to truly experiece a place, you have to give of yourself to that place. This means seeing, hearing, smelling, touching, and tasting with sensitivity and attention. So it makes sense that you worry about the iPhone lens distracting us from the due sensitivity and attention we ought to be opening ourselves up to.
But just because we snap a photo with our iPhone or any other camera doesn't in any way mean that we are automatically constructing a buffer between our consciousnesses and our current place. I too had the opportunity to visit the Van Gogh Museum (well "a" Van Gogh museum; the one I experienced was in France). The museum was housed in the old Assylum de Saint Paul de Mausole, the woodenplank-torture-chair-straight-jacket-ellenburstyn-evoking mental "hospital" in which Van Gogh "convalesced." While in this horror of horrors looking at some of the most mystically beautiful brush strokes ever painted, I happened upon a frightening Dick Cheny-esque contraption used to restrain "patients" while bathing. It was this decrepit old bath tub, but you couldn't see the bottom because over top of the tub was a thick sheet of wood with five small holes, evidently out of which the patient's arms and legs were chained. Standing next to me and looking at this potential precursor to the modern water boarding station, was my art teacher (this was a school trip). Mr. Anderson shared my fascination that a man with such an expansive imagination had indeed been physically chained down in this cramped barbaric chamber. He suggested that I take a picture. So I took one; I took a "snapshot." I was a tourist taking photos in a museum. But the reason I took the photo was because I wanted to try and capture that ridiculous juxtaposition of celestial post-romanticism and earthly barbarity present in the Assylum-museum. My point is that the photo can be a tool to capture the moment of engagement with art and place, it doesn't have to be an impediment too such engagement. In fact, looking at the world through a photographic lens can offer a kaleidoscope of new perspectives on the visual composition of the world in front of you.
The insistence that we make the most of our opportunities and engage with place is commendable, but automatically disparaging picture-taking museum goers is a gross oversimplification. Sure, there are some people whose experience is inhibited by an iPhone camera. But there is a substantial population that engages with place and wants to try and capture that engagement. You can't ignore the beauty in that..
Thanks for your note–you make a good point. On occasion, I also make use of my iPhone's camera in museums. I make broad, universal claims here to make my point, but I agree that a picture of a place (exhibit, attraction, whatever) is not necessarily an impediment to artistic, intellectual, emotional (etc.) engagement, but only that, with the increasing ease of use and access to such instant, social technology, it all too often is.
<3 from your "dear travel companion": I'm looking forward to more unscripted adventure with you in the coming weeks
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The server may be down today due to me upgrading my computer to Windows 8 I will run the server again once I have updated. Thanks.
Now updated to 1.4.6
Server will be updated to 1.4.6 when craftbukkit is updated.
Hope all are enjoying the server. I hope to keep the server running as long as I can without donations, but please consider
or using /buy in game to donate.
I am hosting a none 24/7(Will try and run at least 12pm-10pm everyday) server with
ip 22.214.171.124:30000 with 10 slots
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This is just a test so anyone who wants to join can help me test. I plan to run this server today till 9pm. The server should be running now. Please let me know of any problems. Thanks.
This will be the last day(Nov 27th) for the server please enjoy and more servers will be up in the future. I will also continue to host others servers(for more info visit
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tab). Thank you for all who have played donated and supported the Vanilla server. I will consider running one on my home network since I have just upgraded my Internet speed, this server will be reverted to Nov 20 as I have a backup from then.
Server is being updated to 1.4.4 also if anyone would like a 3D model of this or other servers check out
This will be the last month(ending Nov 27th) for the server unless some
are received. Hope you all enjoy the last month and I will continue to
host other server
so visit the site for updates. This will delete all the buildings on the server, thanks for playing.
I have done some updates to bukkit and hope this helps solve the problem of crashing. This problem will be fixed as soon as possible. The server should be running now. Thanks for your patience.
The server seems to be crashing the remote computer, I will confirm with the site I am renting a remote computer from and then try and remove some plugins to see if that helps. Sorry for the inconvenience.
I have recently been on the server and have fixed many server side bugs, and improved the user messages. If you have a place/house on the server talk to me(bokharij) and I will protect it for you. Please help by
The Tekkit server is closed and the Vanilla server has been updated to 1.4.2, you will no longer need a 1.3.2 client. Please help by
to keep the server alive.
I will be closing the tekkit server and have decided to let the Vanilla server run for one more month(since people are enjoying the server) until Nov 27 unless I get donations(longer if so). Please help by
. Also the Vanilla server is running bukkit for anti griefers so Minecrfat version 1.3.1 and 1.3.2 are supported currently and I will update when 1.4.2 is supported.Therefore you will need a 1.3.2 Minecraft client to play. If people want the server to go 100% vanilla version 1.4.2 let me know, but be prepared for griefers. Thanks for playing on the servers and I will continue to host others servers, you can purchace
. You can get version 1.3.2
Hello to everyone who has continued to play on the servers that are currently running. This will be the last month closing on Oct 27th. If you would like me to keep the servers running please help by donating so I can pay for the next month. This site will still be up and I will
host other servers
in the future, so Thank you again.
The tekkit server may be closing this month, if you have enjoyed the server please help by donating so that the server can be kept open. Thank you to anyone who has played donated and /or will donate in the future. buy is back on the Vanilla server along with rent op for a month(Vanilla only) with updated rules. To buy simple type /buy in the chat window, a list of Names and ids will show, type /buy ID (ID being the item # you are interested in) you will be presented a link which you can click right in the chat window. Accept to open it in the browser and you can read about the item you picked before purchase, after you are satisfied pay and you will automatically get the item you purchased. People who use this will also be entered into the draw for prizes but people who donate from the site will have better chances(since they can donate more). For info on prizes visit the
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Servers are up and running.
The spawn location for the Vanilla server will be changing please use /sethome /home commands before this happens if you wish to remain at the old location. /spawn might be added to permissions later.
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Please use a paypal account with a valid shipping(email) address, since if you win a prize that is the location it will be sent. Donations page might take a bit to load sometimes therefore I am putting a donation button here and I will add your donation amount to the meter
No more explotion destruction on the servers from creepers and the likes.
Permissions have been added to both servers giving users these commands
/back (on death only)
Vanilla server now has more buildings but is still a survival server.
Tekkit(65 slots) No longer whitelisted
All updates complete and both servers are running again. Thank you all for your patience.
Also I am thinking of hosting servers for people who don't know how to set it up themselves. If anyone wants me to make a server for them please read "
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The dedicated servers are having a major update(for the better) and thus these servers are down. They say after the update the servers will be back up today. Sorry for any inconveniences.
A new map has been made, also we are running a tekkit server as well as this Vanilla server. The ips of each are below. Please continue to donate(as you can see I have slowly been improving the server, thanks to donations I have received)
Hi I have been looking for a nice Vanilla server, but could not find anything that I really wanted to join(or could not get in). Thus decided to make my own server. I have had experience with servers before but this will be the first time I am running one for the public. I will start by having this server run most of the time and might move to 24/7 if enough people are interested or I get some donations. I am running this off my own computer so I will see how well it holds up(lag, etc..).
I am making this a no Whitelist server temporarily. 30 slots to start. No PvP. I want this to be a no stealing server, no bad language, and am looking for a coop type experience.
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Try not to fly in front of others online
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Try not to us creative to build elaborate structures(Mansions, ect houses are fine)(items must be scavenged)
No giving items from creative mode or op commands or changing people to creative.
Also try and be in servival mode when others are online((this is optional)unless other ops)
Vanilla(30 slots)No Whitelist
IP: cms.noip.us:25581
Tekkit(65 slots) No longer whitelisted
Whitelisted as of now people who have been whitelisted on the vanilla server are whitelisted here too
IP: cms.noip.us:25583
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· belonging to or participated in by a community as a whole; public; "for the common good"; "common lands are set aside for use by all members of a community"
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· having no special distinction or quality; widely known or commonly encountered; average or ordinary or usual; "the common man"; "a common sailor"; "the common cold"; "a common nuisance"; "followed common procedure"; "it is common knowledge that she lives alone"; "the common housefly"; "a common brand of soap"
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November 26, 2013 at 11:27am by Scott • 9 Comments »
Tim Wright Is Pretty Good
October 18, 2013 at 03:06pm by Scott • 25 Comments »
Nice article on Tim Wright, who is making the splash that I had hoped Luke Stocker would have made but never did.
The undrafted rookie tight end who was converted from receiver has emerged as a favorite target for new Bucs quarterback Mike Glennon, catching seven passes for 91 yards in Sunday's loss to the Eagles.
That's a far different arrival than under coach Greg Schiano at Rutgers, where Wright didn't catch a pass until his fourth year on campus and had only one game to rival what he did Sunday, albeit against the NFL's second-worst pass defense.
The Bucs took a Rutgers player? The hell you say!
In Schiano's final season, 2011, Wright had 11 catches for 147 yards. But he more than tripled those numbers as a senior. His best game, coincidentally, came at Raymond James Stadium, where he had eight catches for 125 yards in a win against USF.
I would like to thank author Greg Auman for not using the word "ironically" there. I just had to point that out since no one seems to care if they use words properly anymore. Wright having his best game at Raymond James is definitely a coincidence and is not ironic. Thank you, Greg.
This year's draft saw 16 tight ends drafted. Only three have more receiving yards than Wright's 138 (one also has 138) and none more than his 132 over the past two games.
The Bucs tradition of finding gems in the undrafted pool continues. This isn't to say that Wright is the next Jason Witten, but the offense works better when they have a reliable tight end to go along with the receivers. Kellen Winslow may not have bought into the system, but his catches in clutch situations have been harder for the Bucs to replace than they thought. Hopefully Wright is someone who can fill that role. Anyway, there are some interesting nuggets in the article along with the small addendum where we learn that Wright was the team barber (small b) at Rutgers and is continuing to do so for some guys on the Bucs. If anyone can get the championship hair back to Tampa, it's Wright.
Second Half Struggles
October 18, 2013 at 02:32pm by Scott • 1 Comment »
I was reading this article about Mike Sullivan, but the first sentence kind of distracted me:
The Bucs offense is stuggling and has not scored a touchdown in the second half this season.
Now, if the Bucs had been scoring four touchdowns per game in the first half, that would be acceptable. But this is a symptom of a team that not resilient and cannot battle through adversity. I don't know that moving Sullivan up to the press box is the solution to that.
"It's something that gives an added vantagepoint that I think it's helpful from the standpoint of not seeing it at ground level but having that bird's eye view."
John McNulty was already up there, but if Sullivan thinks it gives him an advantage to planning a better offensive strategy, fine. But it still doesn't solve the issue of getting the players up for the second half.
I know what some of you are going to say. It's the coach's job to motivate his players — it's another knock on Greg Schiano if the offense is flat in the second half. And you're right, it's a point that needs to be addressed. But it's still not a reason to pull the plug on him yet. Give him time to deal with all these issues. All the stuff being written here and elsewhere about being done with the Bucs for now needs to be put on hold at least until the end of the season. Give Mike Glennon a chance and re-evaluate the whole team then. Look, I'm already eating the suck salad of being a Tennessee Volunteers fan this season. It's pretty much adding bacon bits to it by being a Bucs fan too. And if I can still watch all the games, so can you.
Calm Down People
October 08, 2013 at 09:52am by Scott • 20 Comments »
There's been a lot of talk about the state of the Bucs and the how this team is spiraling out of control and how Greg Schiano needs to be fired now and blah blah blah. It's all over sports radio and the web that this team is already dead and buried and it's Schiano's fault. I don't know how we became so impatient that a coach needs to be successful immediately in order to not get fired.
I realize there are arguments to be made that Schiano isn't doing well. The Bucs are 0-4 to start the season and they have that record with a ton of talent on the roster. They seem to be regressing in certain aspects of their game. And there are more leaks and drama on the team than there has ever been in the past. But I'm going to lay most of that on Josh Freeman. We all knew Freeman was inaccurate and made bad decisions coming out of college (like, for example, coming out of college). We discussed it on this site and so did every other outlet. But he was big and strong and mobile and Raheem Morris really liked him and he was finally a chance for the Bucs to have their first true franchise quarterback in decades. And with the youth movement, there's no way they were going to stick with someone like Jeff Garcia or Brian Griese. So I get it. But three and a half years of starting games and never finding consistency is long enough. You can blame the multiple offensive coordinators and quarterback coaches if you like, and there's some validity to that. But when you combine his lack of productivity with his apparently lackadaisical approach to team obligations, it just wasn't going to work.
This write-up by Roy Cummings gives an account of the last few weeks of the Josh Freeman era. Missed obligations by Freeman followed by leniency by the Bucs led only to more missed obligations. I had always heard that Freeman was a hard worker and forced other players to be accountable. Whether that was always exaggerated or used to be true but fell off in later years, I'm not sure. Whatever the case, Freeman ended his tenure as a Buccaneer as a slacker. And if Greg Schiano is intolerant of anything, it's being a slacker.
(As much as I've ripped on Cummings over the years, that is a very even-handed look at the situation. But if you don't trust Cummings, maybe you'll believe Ronde Barber's assessment of the situation: "The best thing that they did was release Josh. Somehow, someway that situation had to end. It had gotten toxic from both sides. Josh was manipulating, everybody felt like Coach was manipulating, but I don't feel like Greg was that kind of guy. Greg wants what's best for this team. I think he can get the locker room back. I want to see him get the locker room back.")
Now that Schiano has Mike Glennon, the quarterback he wanted, he's on the hook for the team now. But he'll still need a couple years to groom Glennon. And this bullshit about Mark Dominik being on the hot seat has to end now. This team is stocked with talent at every level of both the offense and defense. Everybody keeps pointing at his drafts like they're failures, but he has found some excellent players over the last couple years. The top end of the 2012 draft looks especially awesome. And it's not just drafts. He also signed some free agents that have produced good numbers. It's Dominik's job to give Schiano the pieces he needs to succeed and I think he has done that. Glennon is really the only unknown piece (and unfortunately the most important one). Everywhere else — running back, offensive line, linebackers, secondary, wherever — he's got legitimate stars.
The only issue now is that all three of the main guys — the general manager, the head coach and the quarterback — are all tied together. If Glennon fails, the team fails and that will fall on Schiano who will have not been able to succeed with tons of talent and his own quarterback. And if Schiano fails, that will fall on Dominik who will have hired two coaches who couldn't get it done. But again, I think Glennon needs to have the rest of this year and all of next year to be tested before any real assessment can be made of any of them.
So listen, the Bucs aren't going to the playoffs. They can't win the division unless Drew Brees spontaneously combusts and I can guarantee there will be two teams better than them when the wildcards shake out. So the pressure is off, and you've got to watch the games with that attitude. When Glennon makes a mistake, look at it as a learning experience for him. Watch Gerald McCoy get better every week and watch the defense go from good to great. If they win, hey that's awesome. If they lose, that's a better draft slot next year. If you're a Bucs fan from way back, you've been through this before and you know the possibilities are wide open. But continue to watch and continue to support. They're still our team.
Jets Game Notes
September 12, 2013 at 01:54am by Scott • 46 Comments »
* We've seen this version of Josh Freeman before. He starts off cold but gets better in the middle of the game. Then it's unpredictable. He can either pull some amazing victories out at the last second or implode into a huge heap of suck. Sunday he was looking pretty decent at the end of the game, so that's a plus. But they started off completely out of synch and poorly managed, and that's on him. Sorry the speaker in your helmet wasn't working, you should have a play ready just in case that happens. Just from this one game, I have a hard time trusting him for a whole season. And I'm not the only one; the fact that he wasn't voted team captain is significant.
* But the safety wasn't his fault.
* Wasn't Kevin Ogletree the Cowboy who caught all those clutch passes when Dez Bryant and Miles Austin were covered? What the hell happened to this guy?
* Nice to know the Bucs have a kicker that can drill a potential game winner under pressure. The carousel-o-kickers had be a little nervous in the offseason.
* Darrelle Revis looks good. I'm not ready to say the trade was worth it yet, but I like the way he's coming back from the injury. And let's face it, no rookie would have gotten Treasure Island to change their name for a day. And know this: If Revis gets hurt again, some team will throw 4-digits against the Bucs.
* Lavonte David's penalty to completely screw the game was mostly bullshit. Geno Smith's foot hadn't even landed out of bounds yet when David pushed him. Yes, that's where he was headed and it would have taken a freakish feat of athleticism to avoid it. But it happens. When defenders give up on plays, runners have a way of making them look dumb. I have a vivid memory of a defensive lineman having a quarterback in the grasp but not taking him down because he didn't want to get fined. So he let up, but the whistle hadn't blown, so the quarterback just ran away. I've been looking for this clip for a little while now and can't find it, but it's a great example of what happens when you don't play through (If someone wants to tell me who the defender and/or quarterback was, that would be just swell. I keep thinking it was Vince young, but I don't think Young ever did anything memorable.) My point is that David need to be more aware, but his actions were understandable and he certainly should not shoulder all the blame for this loss.
* Vincent Jackson had an awesome day, but he should get some shit in the locker room for getting caught from behind by a linebacker.
* Two sacks by Mason Foster? Very cool, but is his thing going to be blitzing?
* Doug Martin didn't appear to have any room to run, and that's mostly the line's fault. Carl Nicks needs to come back because Gabe Carimi isn't getting it done and Donald Penn had a terrible game.
This was a bad Jets team with a rookie starting quarterback and the Bucs still lost. They'll get better during the season, but so far I think the same thing I thought during the preseason: This team will be frustrating to watch.
And The Preseason Bashing Starts
August 16, 2013 at 01:44am by Scott • 30 Comments »
According to TheStreet.com, the Bucs should move out of Tampa. Where to? The author, Jason Notte, doesn't say because he's just getting his word count up at this point in the article and it's much easier to just bash Tampa than offer anything useful.
The team blacked out six out of eight home games last season and 25 out of the past 29 overall. Management accepted the new blackout threshold and tweaked ticket prices.
This is true, but a two year sales slump does not justify picking up the team and moving. The games don't sell out because the team has been losing. It really is that simple. When the Bucs start winning consistently, the fans will show up again.
Never mind that the team's $69.72 average ticket price is still the costliest in Florida despite being $10 below the league average, according to Team Marketing Report's Fan Cost Index.
First, if you're going to start out a sentence with "never mind", you shouldn't bother putting numbers in it. But since he took the time, he says the Bucs' average ticket is the costliest in Florida. But according to Team Marketing Report's Fan Cost Index (the same publication he cited), The Dolphins have a ticket price of $71.14, which, if I remember my Diff Eq class, is more than the Bucs. But he's right about the Bucs being $10 below the NFL average ticket price. In fact, they're in the bottom 25% of the league. Any NFL game is an expensive date, but if you're going to go, the Bucs are a relative bargain. The Glazers can't make the tickets much cheaper — the team just has to start winnning.
By comparison, Seattle Seahawks fans in a far more economically stable city paid $2 less to see their team play each Sunday last year.
Why he picks Seattle I have no idea. He doesn't bother to explain. I'll pick the Jets, who have a $118 average ticket price and a joke of a team, to compare the Bucs to. What a deal!
Seriously, I stared at the article for five minutes wondering what made Seattle special enough to single out. I'd gladly pay a $2 premium to be able to see a team in a city where I don't constantly want to cut myself.
The Seahawks made the playoffs, while the Bucs didn't even make their local affiliate's broadcast most of the time.
Eat me.
So where would the Bucs go? Ask the Glazer family of owners, who punted Bucs home games to London in 2009 and 2011 because they were more profitable than playing them in Tampa. The Glazers are a bit preoccupied by England, what with owning one of its more storied Premier League franchises in Manchester United, so the NFL to them is a bit like their "football" is to the average Bucs fan — an afterthought at best.
And his backup for this assessment is… squat! No quotes, no stories of homes being built in London or the Glazers never showing up in Tampa and being absentee owners. Because none of that stuff is true. If the Glazers want to own a dozen sports teams, let them. It's their money. All I care about is if the Bucs are being managed properly and I believe from an ownership standpoint they are. And they've got a solid GM in charge to take care of the football decisions, so I'm not sure what else they can do. I'm still reserving judgment on the coach, but that's a discussion for a different day.
You have an ownership too rich and preoccupied with international wins to care and you have a local fan base too rattled by the recession and put off by years of mediocrity to make an investment.
The recession hit Tampa pretty hard, but things are starting to trend upward. Is there some magic city in the country where the populous is so flush with cash that they need an NFL to take some of it off their hands? Google doesn't have city-by-city stats, but going by state, Florida is doing better than California in unemployment rate. And let's face it, Los Angeles is the only city any NFL team would consider moving to at this point. I'm still looking for the logic as to why he thinks Tampa is so bad.
And the crack about the Glazers being too preoccupied with international wins is just a restatement of his previous point, which is just as wrong now as it was then.
The result is a halfhearted attempt to field a competitive NFL team and a half-interested fan base almost hoping this week's Bucs game doesn't sell out so Fox can show the far superior NFC game of the week instead.
He's painting Tampa as disinterested in the Bucs, which is simply untrue. Has he ever been to Tampa? The fans are actually hoping the game does sell out so they don't have to shell out the money to see the team in person because they are afraid they're going to pay to see the team lose. For the last time, WINNING CURES ALL.
NFL owners don't usually put up with this kind of brazen apathy, but the Glazers would have to stay in Tampa long enough to notice. If the Glazers are trying to create enough institutional disinterest to move the team to London without generating so much as a belabored sigh, they're doing a brilliant job.
Oh this guy sucks. Like, a lot. Of course, he's the same guy who tried to talk you into drinking chocolate beer on Valentine's Day, so please measure your respect accordingly.
Larry Brown Is Getting All Nostalgic
August 13, 2013 at 12:22am by Scott • 4 Comments »
I finally watched the Ravens game and I do have a couple comments about it that I'll post tomorrow, but I just have to ask this one question now: What contest did Adam Weber win in order to get a chance to play in a professional preseason football game and how many cereal box tops did he need to send in? If I had known about it, I would have entered too. Even Neil O'Donnell thinks that was a ridiculous interception.
Camp Stuff
August 09, 2013 at 01:32am by Scott • 11 Comments »
Here's a couple things happening in camp over the last couple days:
* There is a kicking competition taking place now that Connor Barth is done for the year. The Bucs brought Lawrence Tynes in, which looked like a slam dunk, but Tynes has a tow injury now and is leaving the door open for Derek Dimke, who was an undrafted free agent last year and has never been on an active NFL roster. And Greg Schiano is making it very clear that no one has an edge.
"When we started this competition, Tynes was in front because he was the veteran," Schiano said. "But I've never coached either one of them. This isn't a book about what's happened in the past, this is about the Bucs in 2013, and where are we today? That's what we've got to look at. The competition is good, the injury has definitely set Lawrence back, so we've got to get him feeling well before we can make a fair judgment."
In case you want to buy your Dimke jersey now, he is wearing #3 in camp.
* Luke Stocker has been activated from the PUP list and has had limited participation in practice. It would be really cool if he could, you know, do something this year. Or ever. I like the guy, but he is apparently made of paper. And not that thick construction paper kids need extra-sharp scissors to cut through. We're talking tissue paper, single ply.
* Adrian Clayborn is on the practice field but riding a bike for now.
* Darrelle Revis is slowly progressing in what he's doing for practice. Now he's playing against a QB/WR combo and reacting to what he sees. Next they'll put him in a 7-on-7 drill. It sounds like he's coming along pretty well and my bet is he will be ready for the first game. Which, for $16-million this season, would be just dandy.
Okay, I've been trying to add a photo to this entry for 15 minutes now and it's just not happening. It's probably because it's a photo of a kicker and WordPress knows kickers shouldn't be any larger than 300px, but I'm not going to scale it down right now.
Oh Hey There
August 05, 2013 at 12:19am by Scott • 27 Comments »
So, it's been a little while, eh? I don't know how much sense I'm going to make in this post where I try to explain why entries have been so sparse and, frankly, boring. I'm mostly typing this off the cuff, so if you're not into free form meandering and gibberish, feel free not to click the MORE button. Something Buccaneer-related will be coming soon enough.
Eric Wright Is (Adder)All Gone
July 22, 2013 at 12:35am by Scott • 11 Comments »
A couple weeks ago, Eric Wright was arrested in Los Angeles for DUI. And this past week he was told he can just stay out West since Mark Dominik traded him to the 49ers for a conditional draft pick in 2014. The draft pick is actually a bonus since Dominik was perfectly fine with releasing Wright outright. He should have used the same cannon he shot Tanard Jackson off to Washington with.
"I can assure you the decisions we make as an organization are in the best interest of the team, and therefore we decided to trade Eric Wight, and we're looking forward to the start of training camp and the players we have here," Buccaneers general manager Mark Dominik said.
I really wasn't counting on Wright anyway, so this doesn't disappoint me in the least. Johnthan Banks won't have any safety net in camp — he's the guy now. Assuming Darrelle Revis is ready to go, that's a good cornerback tandem. And the starting safeties are both proven playmakers. I'm feeling pretty good about the starters. Now if any of them tear, rip, break or smoke anything, we have a problem.
The Bucs also have cornerbacks Leonard Johnson, Danny Gorrer, Anthony Gaitor and Michael Adams, a free agent who played six seasons in Arizona.
Adams has the most experience, but even though he has played in a bunch of games in six years, he only started seven. He has three total picks and looks like a career nickel. Which isn't a bad thing to have on the roster — but does it qualify as quality depth?
General manager Mark Dominik essentially turned up his nose at one of the largest free agent cornerback classes in recent years. Every team evaluates players differently. But none of those players were cost prohibitive and many took one-year deals: the Dolphins' Sean Smith (three years, $16.5 million with Chiefs); the Falcons' Brent Grimes (one year, $5.5 million with Dolphins); the Jags' Derek Cox (four years, $20 million with Chargers); the Eagles' Nnamdi Asomugha (one year, up to $3 million with 49ers); the Eagles' Dominique Rodgers-Cromartie (one year, $5 million with Broncos); the Falcons' Dunta Robinson (three years with Chiefs), to name a few.
We talked about this during the beginning of free agency and one of them is looking pretty good as real competition for Banks right about now. The pickins are pretty slim out there now. Anyone want Elbert Mack back? I'm not seeing anyone out there any better than what the Bucs have on the roster now, so I don't think they're going to dip back into free agency for a corner unless someone gets hurt in camp. But cornerbacks are known to stay pretty healthy, right?


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Luis Pedron is the co-founder of IFFM. He has been in a business of supporting artists from the Tri-State NYC/NJ/CT area and from around the world. He has Co-Produced International Events that has helped out the community socially and economically since 2004. As a Media Person, Luis Pedron has been a freelance film critic and journalist who has covered the NY Film Festival, Sundance Film Festival, Slamdance Film Festival, Tribeca Film Festival, AsianAmerican International Film Festival (Asian CineVision) and NYC Horror Film Festival to name a few since 2004.
Luis Pedron owns the Multi -media company and PR Marketing firm - LFP International Production Inc. that produced international events and published Fanclubx.com, an online entertainment site (2004 - 2010), Planet Philippines NY NJ , an entertainment newsmagazine (2007 - 2009). He is also the Co-Producer of the International event, Queens Asian Fest (2010 - 2013). He produced the Fanclubx.com Filmmaking Contest at the ImaginAsian Theater NYC (2006 -2007). Luis Pedron was the Programmer of the Soho International Film Festival NYC (2009 -2011) which he co-founded in 2009.
Pedron is also part of the Hollywood, California artistic community as the Artistic Director of the Asians on Film Festival (2013 - present) and the Programmer of the One Filipino-American Film Festival (2013 - present).
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Athletic achievement: She raced to the Class AAAAAA individual state championship this past season with a time of 18:46.23, leading the Gladiators to eighth place. Also the Atlanta Track Club's Ray Buckley Award winner as Georgia's Female Runner of the Year, Buchalski won six regular-season meets by an average of 17.4 seconds, including the Atlanta Classic and Coach Wood Invitational. She won the Class AAAA individual state title as a junior and the Class AAA individual state championship as a freshman.
Academic excellence: Also a track standout, Buchalski has maintained an A average in the classroom.
Exemplary character: A member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes and Student Venture Atlanta, she has volunteered locally on behalf of Girl Scouts of America and Unsung Heroes, a service group she founded in order to provide lunches to her school's custodial staff on special occasions. She has also donated her time as a camp counselor.
"Allie is every coach's dream athlete," said Johns Creek head coach Danny Brock. "She is a model of character, determination and perseverance. She is the hardest worker I have ever coached, and she is the only state champion I have coached. She is a student of cross country, as she tries to learn every step of a course before she competes. Every Sunday, she and her father scout out the course, and she puts a name to every section of the course. Then, every night before the race she visualizes how she is going to race."
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Not everyone can make it out to a show so Jason Chen will be having an online private Tunezy Chat. The concert will be hosted on Tunezy's platform and there will be less than 100 tickets sold.

Once all tickets are sold an email will be sent out to everyone who purchased tickets to schedule a date for the online chat/concert.

SCHEDULED FOR: March 14, 2013 at 6:00PM PST.

Get a chance to talk with Jason ask him a few questions. He may tell a few jokes and perform a few songs for you guys as well. Fans will receive a private link the day of the event.

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ahhhh yes, I see this thread and I'm finally convinced to actually make an account and make my own post, instead of just reading posts by everyone else.
Whatever the case, I need to start by admitting I'm a bit biased because I absolutely love A7X's music. However, if the drumming wasn't tasteful, I would absolutely hate it. As a musician in a band, he fits his drumming into the song VERY well instead of trying to show off his amazing skill. Which he still does a fairly decent job of anyways. A7X's songs are very well put together, something I can only HOPE to pull off someday in the future, which is still highly unlikely. They are all very skilled at what they do.
I'm listening to a live version of "Beast and the Harlot" right now. I've seen many amazing drum solos, videos, etc (my favorite is still benny greb's montreal one :D ) yet this still impresses me. And now that I've said all this, I must admit I'm not a huge fan of songs with very random beats. I prefer my songs to be catchy, instead of trying to show off technique and losing certain parts of musicianship (imho). My 2 cents.
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