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the time in which Star Trek takes place in wasn't established until rather late in the series [..] the earliest reference, if I'm not mistaken, was regarding Trelane's time-delayed observation of Earth via telescope
True - if you define "rather late" as the second episode after Trelane's telescope incident in airing order, or third in production order.
From that episode on, they kept to the "we're 200 years in the future, give or take" version for whatever reason.
One actually wonders if the intent in "Squire of Gothos" ever was to have our heroes 400-500 years in advance of us. A writer or a proofreader could easily think "they are 900 lightyears away, which sounds distant enough; light travels that distance in 900 years; a clever way to show Trelane is out of date, and the audience will get it after a brief explanation - I mean, I did, too!" without ever stopping to think what this meant in terms of fixing the "onscreen now". Or a proofreader could think "500 lightyears doesn't sound like much - let's increase it to 900. Oh, and there's another 500, let's fix that one, too".
Of course, in retrospect, this is the easiest TOS inconsistency of them all to explain away. After all, Trelane had a mobile planet...
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FORT MYERS, Fla. (AP)—Sherwood Brown and Eric McKnight scored 14 points apiece as Florida Gulf Coast defeated Miami 63-51 Tuesday night to post its biggest win in school history.
Before the Eagles' first men's sellout, 4,552 fans at Alico Arena, Bernard Thompson added 13 points.
Spurred by a 23-2 run, Florida Gulf Coast (1-1) led 32-25 at halftime.
"It's kind of what we expected," Miami coach Jim Larranaga said. "We haven't been defending very well and a couple of guys on the team need to shoot the ball well for us to open things up inside."
Despite making just 1-of-11 3-pointers, Florida Gulf Coast won thanks to a 40-14 margin in points in the paint and 40-32 edge in rebounds. The Eagles had six dunks.
Larranaga, whose team lost to Division II St. Leo in an exhibition, said, not having guards Durand Scott and Garrius Adams hurts his team's quickness. While Adams is bothered by an injury, Scott must sit out one more game due to an NCAA suspension.
"It's not a wake-up call," Larranaga said. "It's more a deficiency. We're slow. We're not a quick team. We were expecting to be quicker. We thought our big guys, who are in better shape than last year, would be able to run the floor better. Right now, teams are outrunning us. They're light on their feet. We're heavy on our feet."
Florida Gulf Coast lost its opener at Virginia Commonwealth 80-57.
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Eagles coach Andy Enfield said his team's ability to get loose rebounds were key. "We were poor on our opener," he said. "We gave up 25 extra possessions (to VCU). Tonight, we reversed that."
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'Modern proverbs" is surely a contradiction in terms—unless "modern" is being used in its unmodern sense of "commonplace," as in Shakespeare's "wise saws and modern instances." The word "proverb" inevitably connotes the idea of age and seasoning—wisdom that has been tried by time. Indeed, a proverb is usually so old that its original author is unknown.
What has such a weathered artifact to do with the linguistic ephemera of popular culture collected by Charles C. Doyle and company from 20th-century authors under the title of The Dictionary of Modern Proverbs? The best you can say is that some of them (but by no means all) are aspirational proverbs—proverbs only if they stick around for a few hundred years, as very few of them seem likely to do. For although this florilegium is not quite devoid of wit, wisdom, or concision, the selection is short enough of these qualities that it has had to rely on a large number of decidedly second- and even third-rate examples to make up the volume.
Even the better ones seem to be more clichés or catchphrases, or clichéic catchphrases, than proverbs in any recognizable sense of the term. Many are banalities or mere vulgarisms: "Take (Grab) the bull (life, the world) by the balls" inspires the rejoinder, "You first." The editors claim that "Life comes at you fast," identified only as the Nationwide Insurance slogan since 2004, has "probably entered oral tradition as a proverb," though they offer no example of such use. I would be surprised if they could find one. And then there's "Gas, grass, or ass: Nobody rides for free." There's one that's thankfully unlikely to survive the 21st century.
And if they do last, how shaming it will be to our age—by then long dead and gone, of course—to have contributed nothing better than the likes of "Sh— (Stuff) happens" to the language's treasure hoard. Still, I suppose that it is useful to know that such banality (in its "stuff" form, naturally) dates back as far as the 1930s, with the Vic and Sade radio show. If most of the misnamed proverbs herein are pretty feeble stuff qua proverbs, they do present us with portraits of our contemporary culture and the American English vernacular.
The pleasure of tracing familiar sayings back to their sources is unaffected by their proverbial character, or the lack of it. There are some surprising attributions. "When all else fails, pray" seems to have been first said by Henry Miller, of all people. The therapeutic nostrum "Fake it till you make it" comes, apparently, from the Anniston (Ala.) Star in 1972. It is good if disappointing to learn that "A billion here and a billion there, and by and by it begins to mount up into money" can be traced to a filler item in a 1938 New York Times issue, which makes it most unlikely that the late, great Sen. Everett Dirksen said it first.
I didn't know that "Be all you can be" was originally followed by "Read," and was a slogan for National Library Week in 1968. And who would have thought that "Let it all hang out" was from Jim Brosnan's Pennant Race of 1962? It appears that what was originally hanging out was a pitcher's "stuff," in the baseball sense.
Some we thought we knew have unfamiliar origins: Charles S. Harris, we are told, claims to have coined the expression "A man without faith is like a fish without a bicycle" in the Swarthmore (Pa.) Phoenix in 1958. The more familiar feminist version, "A woman without a man is like a fish without a bicycle," is associated with Gloria Steinem; but she disclaims credit for it, attributing it instead to the Australian writer Irina Dunn and dating it to 1970. Apparently, this date could not be verified, though, as the earliest example found by the editors dates from 1976 in the Corpus Christi Times. The Dictionary's editors go on to suggest that the expression, clearly more a slogan than a proverb, "originated as an anti-proverb patterned after 'A woman without a man is like a handle without a pan,' " which antedates the 20th century.
This idea of "anti-proverbs" is a bit dubious. "Love thy neighbor, but don't get caught" belongs back on the wall of the men's room where the Washington Post in 1967 claimed to have found it, not be-garlanded with the dignity of an "anti-proverb." Nor are those which might deserve this status always identified as such. "If it doesn't fit, you must acquit" is listed as a proverb, but it would be better described as an anti-proverb, since it memorializes what was regarded as a false acquittal and is unlikely ever to be used unironically again. "Can't we all just get along?" is identified as a misquotation of "Can we all get along?" by the late Rodney King, but we aren't told that its use as a catchphrase is now also ironic and meant to mock a naïve belief in easy solutions to social conflicts.
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One bedroom with twin beds on 1st floor, view on the sea with ensuite bathroom.
One bedroom with double bed on ground floor with ensuite bathroom.
One bedroom with double bed mid basement with ensuite bathroom
All bedrooms ventilated and airconditioned.
Housing capacity 8.
Splendid pool and pool house.
Tv corner next to the dining room.
Fully fitted kitchen.
Maid 5 hours per day ( she can also cook one meal per day.)If you need her to cook a second meal, then she can stay on overtime (Rs 200/ hour + Transport)
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Villa Seafront Heaven has been designed by a well known architect in Mauritius. It is a brand new villa delivered to the owner end 2011. The villa is managed by the daughter of the owner and the bookings are handled via a friend.
If you are more than 8 persons, there is one similar villas next to Seafront heaven that can also be rented which can accomodate 6 persons. For prices, please do contact us.
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The East boasts the most beautiful lagoons and easily accessible public beaches.
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Private rental home, apartment, and two fun sized camps, located in the New River Gorge at Meadow Creek,
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Fully furnished private home; three bedrooms; living room; fully equipped kitchen; bathroom with washer/dryer; TV with satellite; linens; outdoor grill; large back yard; private river access; and heat pump/cooling unit.
Rates: Fall 2015
House-Sunday - Thursday-$95.00 per night
Apartment-Sunday -Thursday-$75 per night
Fun sized camps-Sunday-Thursday- $50 per night
Friday-Sunday= $200.00 house; $175.00 apartment; $125 small camps
Sunday-Saturday= $600.00 house; $400.00 apartment; $300 small camps
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WV State ID: L1523855616
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Upcoming events in the area to book early for:
Taste of our Town- (TOOT) October 10, 2015
Bridge Day- October 17th, 2015
Hinton Rail Road Days- October 17-18, 2015; and October 24-25, 2015
In addition to our private home, we have Richmond's Meadow Creek Hideaway II - a garage sized apartment over looking the New River. Fully furnished living room/kitchen combo; bathroom with shower; and bedroom. Sleeps two to four comfortably. Includes a deck and patio over looking the river. Rent separately or in addition to the house.**
New for Spring 2015, we have two fun sized camps that are fully furnished with a kitchen/living room combo; loft and sofa beds; bathroom with shower; satellite tv; and large decks. These are located in the heart of Meadow Creek, near public access stream.
Directions: Take Interstate 64 to Exit 139, Sandstone/Hinton. Make a right and travel towards Meadow Creek.
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The Possessed Adventures with Russian Books and the People Who Read Them by Elif BatumanIn her brilliant first book Elif Batuman takes the reader on a journey both literary and physical as she traces the evolution of her fascination with Russian literature across the globe and several centuries. This is a deeply funny, fiercely intelligent portrait of the not-always-rational pursuit of knowledge. Though Batuman lavishes attention on the specifics of her passion-and may indeed inspire you to spend the rest of this season holed up with a thick Russian novel-her book is really about the process of learning itself. It's a relatable, absorbing account of what it feels like to be infatuated with ideas, and to let them lead you to ever more weird and wonderful places. Candid and reflective, mischievous and erudite, Batuman writes nimble and passionate essays celebrating the invaluable and pleasurable ways literature can increase the sum total of human understanding.A Most importantly though, it is really an examination of how we can bring our lives closest to our favourite books.
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But as important as the win in Illinois was for cementing Team Romney's delegate realities, the most critical turn in the race wouldn't come until Wednesday, when Jeb Bush -- a critical member of the still-dreamed about group of GOP contenders that never were -- offered Mitt Romney his endorsement, and bestowed a new blessing from the Republican establishment. Bush personally delivered the news to Romney and his trusted aide, Eric Fehrnstrom.
"Well, Jeb, we're very glad to have your support! Ha. Ha." said Romney. "I think your endorsement could be a real GAME CHANGE."
"What are you doing there?" a perplexed Bush asked.
"What do you mean?"
"The way you said 'Game Change,' right there, like you were italicizing it, or something?"
"Oh!" said Romney, "That was nothing. Ha."
"And then you did, like, this take to an imaginary camera, or something?"
"Ha. Don't worry about it, Jeb!" Romney took a thoughtful pause. "Jeb Bush, eh? Is that French-Canadian, or something?"
"Not really," replied Bush. "I think we're from Texas? Anyway, I wanted you to see the draft of the statement I'll be giving out concerning this endorsement."
Fehrnstrom looked it over, and was immediately hit in his psychic solar plexus by what he read.
"I hate to be a nudge, here, Jeb. But the language, here ..." Ferhnstrom trailed off.
"What's wrong with it?" asked Bush.
Fehrnstrom cleared his throat and dove in. "Well, it's not too terribly enthusiastic, is it? You talk about how it's time to unify the party and come together around -- and I quote -- 'the guy who is basically going to win, anyway.'"
"I think that if you read on, you'll see I'm very full-throated in support for your candidate," countered Bush.
"Well, I'll tell you, Jeb, I'm reading further down, and I come to this section which you've titled, 'Making The Best Of It.'"
"Right! See. I call your candidate 'the best.'"
"And there's the way you keep saying 'your candidate,' that sort of troubles me," Fehrnstrom said, adding, "And I see the second page is just ten paragraphs of how great a vice president Marco Rubio would be."
"Gotta think about the long game, Eric."
"It's just that you seem boundlessly enthusiastic about Marco, and not so much into Mitt."
"Eric, I promise you, I am very excited about this endorsement."
"Jeb, everywhere Marco Rubio's name appears in your draft, it's written in red ink," Fehrnstrom said, pointedly. "And instead of the o's in his name, you've drawn hearts."
"I think you're reading into it," Jeb replied.
At this point, Romney interjected. "Let's not turn this into a thing, Eric. Here let me see it." Fehrnstrom handed him the draft statement, which Mitt hefted in the air and studied meticulously.
"Jeb," Romney enthused, "This is great. Just the right weight for an endorsement. We thank you."
"I'm glad to hear it," said Bush, relieved. "And look, guys, you can keep your own counsel on who your running mate will be. I just think that Marco is a solid conservative, a good spokesman for the party, and he could be a real game change for your ticket."
Romney immediately froze, mugging for an unseen eye offstage.
"You're doing it again."
The above passage, which we have imagined for "Game Change 2: The Changening" (the sequel to "Game Change," a book of invented scenes about the 2008 campaign), perfectly encapsulates the state of the race this week. Mitt Romney continues to win the slog through the primaries, and continues to accrue the delegates necessary to win the nomination.
But even as Romney wends his way to almost certain triumph, his favorable ratings continue to submerge. He's acceptable, but not particularly well-liked. The brain likes his odds in November, but the heart can't get very pitter-pattery about it. And Jeb's endorsement sort of underscores this. What reason does he cite for endorsing Romney? He leads with this: "Primary elections have been held in thirty-four states." Translation: "This is pretty much going to happen, so, meh ... I guess."
Meanwhile, the candidate that appeals most to the conservative heart, Rick Santorum, may be growing in the estimation of voters, but -- well ... primary elections have been held in thirty-four states, you know? Santorum may have peaked at the right time to become Romney's main co-competitor, but it doesn't look like he did it early enough to actually win. With time running out and opportunities drying up, the Santorum campaign released its own version of delegate math in an effort to convince the media of his viability. But it was pretty clear, upon a cursory examination, that the Santorum team's logic was mostly constructed from gossamer and the daydreams of kittens.
A lot of what could undermine Santorum's reasoning played out in Missouri, where Mitt Romney's alliance with Ron Paul managed to rob Santorum of delegates that he would have liked to have out of a state he won. But Santorum's cash-strapped campaign had trouble competing with Romney and Paul's well-oiled machines. And yet! The mere fact that Romney needed help from Paul only proved what Santorum's been saying all along -- that Romney's a weak candidate who's growing weaker and who can't earn the nomination on his own merits.
But there's nothing to be done but look ahead. Romney sees a slew of eminently winnable states on April 24th as his next best chance to clear the race of the dead weight. Santorum looks ahead to a more immediate contest in Louisiana, where he hopes a big popular vote win will play louder than an almost certain tiny share of the delegates. And Newt Gingrich? He's looking all the way ahead to Tampa, where he hopes he can tear everyone's hopes asunder with his knack for sowing discord. That's where we are.
Elsewhere, Gingrich tried to feud with a film star, Gary Johnson outlined some bold promises, Rick Santorum got rooked by the media, a pair of long-shots won consolation prizes in Puerto Rico, and the Romney camp said something it might regret -- and we're not referring to "Etch a Sketch." For all your campaign news and notes, please feel free to enter the Speculatron for the week of March 23, 2012.
Mitt Romney's week began with some big primary victories, first in Puerto Rico, and then in Illinois --- where he blew out the upset-minded Rick Santorum. Once again, he had seized the mantle of inevitability and bent the media narrative back into his favor. Now...all he had to do was NOT MESS THIS UP and everything would be fine and -- wait! What is top Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom saying over there? Hopefully not something inexplicably stupid! JOHN FUGELSANG: Good morning, sir. It's fair to say that John McCain was considerably a more moderate candidate than the ones that Governor Romney faces now. Is there a concern that the pressure from Santorum and Gingrich might force the governor to attach so far to the right it would hurt him with moderate voters in the general election? FEHRNSTROM: Well, I think you hit a reset button for the fall campaign. Everything changes. It's almost like an Etch a Sketch. You can kind of shake it up and we start all over again. And with that, the week of Etch a Sketch began. And with this excellent metaphor for Romney's well-known ability to switch his positions at a moment's notice and demonstrate his fungible convictions on command, his opponents seized on it. The DNC put out a video ridiculing him. Newt Gingrich and Rick Santorum immediately began waving Etch a Sketches around. Fehrnstrom's head was called for. And Romney's campaign was forced to put out a lame walkback that no one really believed. Evan McMorris-Santoro noted that this was sort of a trend -- Romney following up big primary wins with odd statements and unforced errors that helped steel the hopes of his opponents. And Jonathan Chait cited Fehrnstrom's gaffe as another example of the Romney campaign's inability to "hide its cynicism." Your Speculatron, however, was not convinced that the Etch a Sketch moment, or Romney's failure to keep his cynical take on the election under wraps, was going to be too terribly costly. On that score, there was some agreement. Kevin Drum noted that most of conservativeland was pretty mute on the matter: Here's the interesting thing about this comment. It's provoked loads of mockery from liberals. It's provoked a bunch of attacks from the other candidates. But among the conservative commentariat, it's mostly just been sighs. I haven't seen much outrage along the lines of "This just goes to show what a fake Romney is." It's mostly been disbelief that Fehrnstrom could say something so dumb; wan defenses that he wasn't really saying anything we didn't know already; and explanations that obviously Fehrnstrom was talking about campaign mechanics, not issues. And as far as Romney gaffes go, Etch a Sketch may not have been the worst. Some time after Fehrnstrom's remarks took over the world, Romney appeared at a town hall meeting in Maryland, where he praised the Bush-era bailouts that are largely hated in conservative circles. Chait remarked: [T]he Wall Street bailout is actually a huge political liability for Obama because it's incredibly unpopular and most Americans think Obama, not Bush, signed it. So having Romney run around reminding people that Bush bailed out Wall Street is actually Obama's prayer answered. Jamelle Bouie added his own history-backed historical skepticism: If the economy continues to improve, then the next best option for Romney--shorting of abandoning an economic message altogether--is to minimize the degree to which President Obama is responsible for the recovery, or anything else. This is something of a time-honored strategy for challengers who find themselves in unfavorable territory. In 1996, for example, Bob Dole gave Ronald Reagan credit for the improving economy... [...] Of course, as Dole demonstrates, while other candidates have tried this strategy, it hasn't ever worked. If the economy sees substantial improvement this year, voters will reward the president with another term, regardless of how much Romney tries to minimize Obama's role in the recovery. This is basically what Romney does now: he takes the good and takes the bad and eats them both and those are the facts of life in the 2012 primary. He's getting more super PAC support, but he's earning more scrutiny. He received Jeb Bush's endorsement, but it was hardly glowing -- more like, "Okay, since this guy is going to win, I'mma get behind him." (It also may have come with a price tag, in that Jeb Bush seems to be more enthusiastic about Marco Rubio becoming Vice President than he is about Romney. And while Romney continues to bring more self-described conservatives to his side (as well as beating away a largely apathetic Tea Party threat to "stop" him), and has the enthusiastic support of Matt Drudge, significant holes in his support remain. Romney remains weak with evangelicals, is staring into a cavernous gender gap, and he's still not done enough to keep Bill Kristol from going all emo. But Romney's path to 1,144 delegates is nevertheless the only one left that makes much sense. So he remains in attack mode. He's been hitting Rick Santorum for being the unwitting ally of Obama. And he's attacking Obama as well -- though it's unclear what good he's doing by reminding everybody that Obama's spent copious amounts of time studying the Constitution. More importantly, Romney is adapting to the changing circumstances in the nation's economic situation. As Kevin Drum wrote: "Instead of the economy sucks and it's Obama's fault, it had morphed into the economy's recovering but it would be recovering even faster if not for Obama." This is probably his best defense against Santorum at the moment, as Santorum has already positioned himself as the conservative choice in an America that's headed toward recovery. Of course, Romney will probably have to leave out a portion of that post-recovery argument that Newt Gingrich has made the centerpiece of his campaign -- the high price of gas. Newt can get away with hammering on that (and making ridiculous promises about the low prices he'd deliver) -- but it's a third rail for Romney, who has encouraged high gas prices (and raised the gas tax himself to get them).
Rick Santorum fared far worse in this week's primaries than the guy he was trying to put a move on. Romney beat him very badly in Puerto Rico, which was sort of to be expected considering he'd long locked up the endorsement of Puerto Rico's governor Luis Fortuño, and benefited from Santorum's insistence that people on the already-English proficient island territory learn English if they wanted to become a state. Of course, the die being cast for Romney early on in Puerto Rico, you might expect that Santorum would have opted to return to Illinois and attempt to make a game of it, but he instead opted to chillax in Puerto Rico for extra days instead. So, none of the results of the week should have been all that surprising. What was mildly surprising was Santorum's re-emergence after the dust had settled in Illinois, with a new and novel way of looking at the delegate math. To his campaign's reckoning, he wasn't that far behind Romney. Oh, really? Sure, the Santorum campaign said! All you have to do is imagine that Florida and Arizona will give up being winner-take-all states, for some reason, and that Santorum will snag a lot of the unbound delegates out of the states that have already had contests, and then squint at the math just so, and maybe wave your hands in front of your face for a few minutes until you're lightheaded and ready to pass out, then, VOILA! NEW DELEGATE MATH! Of course, the RNC responded by saying that it did not expect Florida and Arizona to revert to proportional allocation any time soon. And the Romney/Paul team-up went to Missouri and said, "HEY RICK, WE ARE UP IN UR CAUCUSES STEALIN UR DOODZ." And finally, Rick Klein of ABC News said, no-no, what Santorum needs, point blank, is an upset win in a big state in which Romney is currently favored, the end. And actually, Santorum may need more than that. While he is expected to do quite well in the upcoming contest in Louisiana and his home state of Pennsylvania, those wins may end up yielding Santorum considerably fewer delegates than he currently expects. Santorum needs to not just win Louisiana, he needs to hold Romney to under 25 percent of the vote, otherwise his delegate win will be miniscule. (Plus, 26 of the delegates out of Louisiana won't be bound in the primary.) And in Pennsylvania, Santorum's inability to get full slates of delegates in place is going to continue to cost him: The lack of an early organization has haunted Santorum all year. In state after state, whether he would have won or lost the popular vote, he hasn't qualified for all the delegates available... But it's particularly embarrassing for Santorum that in Pennsylvania, a state he represented in Congress for 16 years, he failed to utilize his connections to flush the ballots with old friends and supporters. Santorum also took a round of bad press when he said, "I don't care what the unemployment rate is gonna be. It doesn't matter to me." This was reported on as if it were a gaffe or a lack of sensitivity, but if you ask us (or Dan Amira or Dave Weigel), Santorum got rooked here. He's long been making the argument that if the unemployment crisis continues to improve, it's Romney's problem, because Mitt's whole raison d'etre is that he's the economic manager who can solve unemployment. Santorum -- who has long been campaigning on restoring the manfacturing sector, remember! -- has countered that by saying that if recovery comes to fruition, wonderful! But at the end of the day, he's the guy who can make convincing conservative policy arguments in a time where the economy is stronger. It's not that he doesn't care about unemployment -- it's that he's not exclusively focused on it as the reason to run for office. Reporters should have known better! Instead, Santorum got cheap-shotted. The folks at 1115.org have done a very fine job explaining this even more deeply: What is lost in scandalization is a critical evaluation of what Santorum is doing right. If I can say anything positive about Santorum, it is that he is a strong and credible embodiment of a vocal and powerful intellectual wing of republicanism. More so, in many ways he is actually unapologetically principaled. For instance, Santorum has been the only candidate that is actively rejecting the widespread narrative that this presidential election is about jobs. Time and time again he has rightly asserted that the president has an extremely limited ability to create jobs, and any suggestion otherwise is fundamentally contradictory to conservative assumptions about how the economy operates. Not only is this an impressive display of disregard for populist rhetoric in favor for anti-Keneysian ideological coherence, it is also true. While virtually everyone else in American politics is touting their ability to create jobs, Santorum is the only one (other than Ron Paul) who rejects the rhetoric and says what everyone knows to be true. Presidents have almost no ability to create jobs. Ezra Klein's piece on this issue outlines how both liberal and conservative economists alike agree. One could reasonably argue that the president's overall stewardship over the country as a whole and provide for an environment and conditions which are conducive to economic/job growth, however the results of this would be seen long after their term in office. And, if you're really really conservative, you probably don't even have confidence in stimulus as a tool to boost aggregate demand! The idea that presidents can have massive short to medium term impacts on the economy is the bogus-claim cousin to the claims that Obama's policies have increased gas prices. It is just less obvious. Naturally, the same argument has been made to excuse Romney adviser Eric Fehrnstrom's "Etch a Sketch" line, but we don't think the same rule applies. By the way! Neither does Santorum, for what it's worth.
As Jonathan Martin and Ginger Gibson noted this week, Newt Gingrich is running what amounts to "two campaigns" at the moment. In the first, he and his wife Callista are on a merry tour of the United States, bringing the people the big ideas they didn't know they even wanted amid "guided tours of zoos and museums, Friday lunch at New Orleans' Galatoire's and detours off the trail to take in Washington's early-blooming cherry blossoms and a long French dinner in Adams-Morgan." In the second campaign...well, that's where everything else lives, like grim realities and dwindling prospects and not a lot of delegates. Oh! And lest we forget, lots and lots and lots of debt. All of which undermines the opportunities that are left to turn this campaign around. And yet on sashays Gingrich, as steeled as ever by his acute lack of self-awareness. The American Prospect's Paul Waldman, riffing on the Martin/Gibson piece, concludes that Gingrich is nevertheless in the springtime of his voodoo: Even Newt, who is utterly convinced of his world-historical importance, knows this thing is lost. Even if he's not ready to admit it to himself, at this point he's just wandering about the country, fitting in a few speeches between trips to the zoo. His campaign is basically broke, his staffers are surreptitiously reaching out to their friends on the Romney campaign just to let them know that they're available once the general election staff-up comes, and even his voters are probably losing interest. But hey, why pack up his bags now? There are more zoos to visit, and even though Kansas already held its caucuses, it might be worth another trip there to check out the world's largest ball of twine. And to challenge that ball of twine to a Lincoln-Douglas debate, no doubt! Of course, no man is perfect, and this week, there were certain events that managed to shake Gingrich's sense of destiny and bring out his inner whiner. One involved Robert DeNiro, who made a joke about America not being ready for a "white First Lady," forcing Gingrich to pretend to be offended. The other, of course, was the Illinois primary, which failed to provide his listing candidacy with succor. And so, Gingrich complained that even though Romney had technically "won," the important thing was that he was being outspent and no one was paying attention to his Newty-Tooty $2.50 per gallon gas fantasia, and it JUST WASN'T RIGHT. Gingrich has been left with not much else to do, other than to set his sights on Tampa and try to cause a contested convention with his collection of delegates and his remaining stamina. He claims to be convinced that the convention could change everything...that the GOP could even end up with "a series of brand new players." And he's been reading up on how to stoke chaos, looking for historical examples from which to draw inspiration. Unfortunately for Gingrich, there are some RNC rules he might want to bone up on, instead: But an RNC rule stipulating that candidates seeking the nomination must have won a plurality of votes in at least five states could complicate Gingrich's already far-fetched strategy. RNC rule No. 40 states: "Nominations(b) Each candidate for nomination for President of the United States and Vice President of the United States shall demonstrate the support of a plurality of the delegates from each of five (5) or more states, severally, prior to the presentation of the name of that candidate for nomination." Of course, in reality, it's extremely unlikely that Gingrich is going to pick up three more states. But Newt Gingrich is America's first post-reality candidate, capable of bending fortune and circumstance to his will and shaping his own destiny. You'll see. (SPOILER ALERT: No you won't.)
Last week, the last media embed that had been keeping up with Paul's campaign was called home, leaving the Paul campaign without a whole lot of media coverage. As David Weigel points out, it wasn't like the media was going to end up missing much: But what is the hated MSM ignoring? In the last week the Paul campaign has held two public events -- a town hall in Columbia, Missouri, and a town hall in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois. Both are college towns, which makes a good deal of sense for Paul. But that's it. The next Paul appearance on the calendar is a Tuesday night Late Show interview. The last statement from the campaign, a comment on the CBO, was released Friday. Contrast that with Rick Santorum's campaign, which will cross off four public events today alone in Illinois. If Paul has a problem these days, it's not with the media...it's with his war chest. Turns out that this past February, Paul's campaign spent more money than it took in. As Dave Levinthal reports, Paul is currently "bleeding cash" and now has "less cash on hand than during any other point this election cycle." Time for a moneybomb, maybe? Still, it's too bad that there weren't more assets on the ground with the Paul campaign, because this was the week that one long-discussed aspect of Paul's candidacy finally got interesting: his "alliance" with the front-running Mitt Romney, which showed what it is capable of doing in Missouri. As you may recall, Rick Santorum won that state's non-binding primary about a month ago. But as The Daily Beast's Ben Jacobs reported, Missouri's rules for binding delegates "are uniquely confusing and uniquely prone to exploitation by a well-organized campaign," and the Paul campaign, being well-organized, "stepped into the void left by Santorum's underwhelming operation." The result? Santorum ended up being "shut out from receiving delegates at some of the local caucuses that occurred over the weekend after Romney and Paul supporters combined to advance their own slate of delegates." But, like all of Romney's rivals, Paul is eyeing the possibility that a contested convention might provide some opportunities. In a guest spot on Jay Leno's show, Paul explained that if the nomination remained up in the air in August, he might be able to win the backing of delegates: "The second go-around, they can go with their conscience...then, I believe, we'll get a lot of the votes." (He also declared, in that interview, that Secret Service protection amounts to a to-be-abhored "welfare" program. Which is neat!) Of course, for someone who has a mistrust of government and a dislike of welfare, Paul is one of the best at using government as a means of keeping his family enriched. A study by the Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington measuring the nepotism of legislators found that Paul was one of the "top five representatives paying the most money in salaries or fees to family members." Six members of his family had received $304,599. So there's some government expenditures that Paul is happy to endorse, it seems.
Like Fred Karger, Buddy Roemer did better in Puerto Rico then he has in any other primary contest so far this cycle, and like Karger, Roemner can claim to have done better than a couple of the GOP candidates who have been invited to the debates and are still considered contenders. In Roemer's case, he managed to beat Newt Gingrich: Former Louisiana Gov. Buddy Roemer finished third -- behind only former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, and ahead of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and with nearly twice as many votes as Texas Rep. Ron Paul. In fact, Roemer, without spending a penny or any time in the island commonwealth, trailed Santorum, who spent two crucial days last week campaigning there, by less than six percentage points, while Santorum trailed Romney by nearly 75 percentage points. Honestly, this was not a bad showing from someone who up and quit the GOP, unless you're going to be a stickler and point out that "Roemer's vote total was not monumental. He received 2,638 votes, or 2.21 percent of those cast." Fine. Be a stickler.
Fred Karger spent time and resources in Puerto Rico last week, in an effort to gain some steam midway through the primary process, and...well, he managed to beat Ron Paul, anyway! This was a good enough finish to inspire a celebratory tweet: "LOOKS [sic] WE BEAT RON PAUL IN TODAY'S PUERTO RICO PRIMARY." That was basically the positive he could take away from a fifth place finish. Still, at least Karger can say he beat someone who was still actually running for president. What's up next for Karger? Mainly, peripatetic travels across the country ahead of some of the remaining primaries where he's gotten on the ballot. A campaign email describes his future schedule: "This week we hit the ground running. Today, it's back home to California (June 5th Primary), Las Vegas (Republican Jewish Coalition Meeting), New York (Media Interviews) and Maryland (April 3rd Primary). We definitely have some Big Mo = Momentum, going into the remaining state primaries."
Gary Johnson's been taking his message to both coasts this week, campaigning in Washington State, with a trip to Connecticut planned for next week. In Washington, as is his wont, Johnson defended marijuana legalization, endorsing a measure that will be on the ballot in November seeking that very goal. In his statement of support, Johnson wrote: "We should regulate and tax it like alcohol and tobacco instead of propping up black market profiteers," Johnson explained. He also expressed concern about the thousands of marijuana arrests that occur every year. "We have better uses for our police, courts, and jails." He also won some kind of straw poll that was actually some kind of key party thingy (West Coast Libertarians, y'all!), and this apparently was sufficient to make him "Washington's choice in the Libertarian caucuses." And he's still very excited to have made his party switch -- he says that you can tell this by his T-shirts: Being Libertarian, Johnson said, is "coming out of the closet for me." A few months ago, he wore his first "Libertarian t-shirt. I've never worn a Republican t-shirt. Not once. Because I didn't want to have to defend Republican dogma." His personal stories were intended to convince the room that he's not just a fly-by-night Libertarian, that he's finally come home. It seemed to work. But Johnson's eyes remained fixed on mounting a competitive third party candidacy in November, with the hope of getting to the presidential debates. To that end, he has made three campaign promises for voters to consider: He'd "slash annual federal spending by 43 percent ... largely by reducing military/security spending and converting the largest health-care programs into block grants to states," veto any "legislation that promises to cost more than can be afforded," and ask "Congress to convert federal personal and corporate income taxes to a 'consumption tax' at a flat rate.'"
This week, the tide of the campaign seemed to largely recede from the incumbent's shores. There were a lot of reasons for that -- there was no oddball week of polling in which doomy re-elect or approval numbers and their opposites collided headlong in the newscycle, and the action at the White House largely concerned wonky budget politics and the anticipation of the Supreme Court's taking up of the individual mandate in the Affordable Care Act. Yeah, Obama surrogates still slung their slang and did their thang, but it all seeemed to go down with considerably less clatter and bang. And President Obama got through a week looking largely sanguine about the goings-on. He spent part of St. Patricks Day with the crew at the Dubliner, pulling pints. And according to the FLOTUS, Obama is "always upbeat, particularly about Congress." Really? Is he thinking of the same Congress that we are? Still, campaign pressures were there. Obama came out against North Carolina's Amendment One, which would "ban same-sex marriages, civil unions, and domestic partnerships in North Carolina's Constitution." He ended up getting pressure from all sides. The Catholic bishops of Charlotte and Raleigh called Obama's decision a "grave disappointment" because he expressed some support for marriage equality. Meanwhile, Obama got criticized by Elizabeth Warren because he hasn't expressed enough support for marriage equality. Karl Rove also attempted to declare the killing of Osama bin Laden to be, you know, ho-hum! No big deal! The fact that Rove had to say some comically false things while saying so, all while sweeping his own boss' administration's lack of interest in bin Laden under the rug, is a tragicomic bungle of reasoning. (Besides, had Bush managed to get bin Laden, we'd still be cleaning up the ticker tape parade Rove would have planned today, and referring to Bush as the "Sun King" or something.) But, this presages some of the coming 2012 campaign rhetorical back-and-forth, and one should always expect it to come with a generous schmear of cognitive dissonance and "spin without limits." But Jonathan Bernstein says that there are some pitfalls to running a campaign "against a fantasy version of Obama," in which he is simultaneously an inexperienced, teleprompter-reliant "fraud" AND a "scheming, nefarious, stealth left-winger who any day now is going to unleash his radical socialist agenda." If Romney keeps up these themes after he nails down the nomination he may be surprised at how poorly they play to swing voters. And Romney might well do that if his team really has come to believe these images are damaging and if his team has lost touch with just how far out of the mainstream they really are. How much of a difference any of this might make in November is hard to say. But if spending three years in a world created by conservative media leaves Republican operatives ill equipped to see what swing voters outside that bubble really care about, it could matter. Or, it could not! After all, this is America, and in American politics you are allowed to say anything you want, whenever you want, as long as you say you said so in the cause of trying to win, and chances are, not many people will call you on it.
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The dust finally settled on "The Voice" battle round stage Tuesday night (March 25), and coaches Adam Levine, Shakira, Usher, and Blake Shelton had nailed down their teams of eight singers.
With only six more vocal battles to go, and coach Usher with the only steal left, the remaining contestants left their coaches with some of the toughest decisions seen in this stage of the competition.
Here's how the final battles went down:
It Comes Down To A 'Matter Of Taste'
When Cary Laine and Sam Behymer hit the battle stage to represent Team Adam, it was clear to all the coaches that it was an equally matched duel. Behymer's airy and quirky voice coupled with Laine's country powerhouse vocals made for an interesting and resonating rendition of Ed Sheeran's "Give Me Love." Shelton commended the singers for "captur[ing] the mood" of the song, but found it hard to pick a winner, advising Levine that it was simply a "matter of taste." In the end, Levine declared the "quiet thunder" Sam Behymer the winner.
'A Little Love Ditty'
Coach Shelton chose to put folk-pop singer Kaleigh Glanton against crooner Noah Lis for his last vocal battle. With Michael Buble's "Everything," Usher warned Lis of his tendency to be "too lounge," but commended the singer on his great upper range. The young crooner may have been more in his comfort zone, but Glanton rose to the occasion, wowing her coach with vocal abilities Shelton insists simply cannot be taught. In the end, Kaleigh Glanton was chosen as the winner.
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With only one steal slot left, Usher waited patiently for just the right artist to hit his button for. The final battle came from Team Shakira's Emily B. and Cierra Mickens. Guest mentor Miranda Lambert urged both singers to leave their hearts on the stage, and with Sara Bareilles' triumphant song "Brave" the two soulful singers did just that. Coach Shakira was torn between Mickens' "deep and rounded voice" and Emily B.'s story of strength and survival, but in the end, she declared Emily B. the winner. As Mickens made her way off the stage, Usher hit his steal button, and nearly brought the singer to her knees. He told her that there was "beautiful talent" he sees in her that he wants "the world to be a part of."
Now that the first round of battles is completed, "The Voice" will debut a new twist in the show: a second level of battle rounds with one final steal available. The best of the best will enter the battle stage one more time for a spot in the playoffs, but their opponents will be a surprise. The battle pairings will choose their own songs, and be mentored by possibly the biggest guest artist to hit the singing competition, Coldplay's Chris Martin.
As the competition heads into the second round of battles next Monday (March 31), here's how the teams look:
Team Adam
Kat Perkins
Delvin Choice
Josh Kaufman
Dawn & Hawkes
Sam Behymer
Christina Grimmie
Brittnee Camelle (steal)
Jake Barker (steal)
Team Shakira
Dani Moz
Clarissa Serna
Deja Hall
Emily B.
Kristen Merlin
Patrick Thomson (steal)
Josh Murley (steal)
Team Usher
T.J. Wilkins
Stevie Jo
Melissa Jimenez
Madilyn Paige
Bria Kelly
Morgan Wallen
Ayesha "Music Box" Brooks (steal)
Cierra Mickens (steal)
Team Blake
Jake Worthington
Sisaundra Lewis
Audra McLaughlin
Megan Rüger
Ryan Whyte Maloney
Kaleigh Glanton
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The indie game studio Woodland Barbarians has announced the release and immediate availability of their first exclusive iOS Title NEUROKULT, an arcade game that challenges the player's ability to stay focused and act instinctively. The absorbing gameplay, set in an abstract cyber-universe, comes with handcrafted effects and a unique tailor-made minimal electronic soundtrack by mekoor.
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NEUROKULT can be described as a child of REZ and Polara mixed with a fast-paced Bejeweled.
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In NEUROKULT the player tries to hack into an uncharted neurospace and has to survive 16 stages of intrusion before being fully connected. In each stage the player tries to prevent waves of colored orbs from crossing the screen by touching them. The tricky part is, that the player must actively switch between color-schemes to match and remove same-colored orbs. Passing orbs damage the players health. Health can be restored through combos by connecting several orbs of the same color with a slide. During the course of the game, players face variations on the main theme with each stage altering some rules or introducing new elements like deadly bombs and bosses.
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Audio Capture for Sports Broadcast, Part 2What would a televised baseball game be without the crack of the bat, the smack of the catcher's mitt, and the roar of the crowd? 12/20/2012 12:36 PM Eastern
Audio Capture for Sports Broadcast, Part 2
Dec 20, 2012 5:36 PM, With Bennett Liles
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What would a televised baseball game be without the crack of the bat, the smack of the catcher's mitt, and the roar of the crowd? Erik West, freelance TV sound engineer, is back with more on doing sound on TV sports remotes. There's lots more to it than most realize and it's coming up right here on the SVC Podcast.
SVC: Erik, it's good to have you back with us for part two on the SVC Podcast and we're talking about doing TV sound on baseball remotes. I think the sound guys are appreciated a little more these days than they used to be. You've got half of the broadcast right there in your hands and just about everybody else is making pictures. Is the stadium PA ever a problem when you're trying to pick up the crowd in the stands?
Erik West: It has been and it can be. Generally it's not with, say, my stereo crowd because if they're mixing the PA right, it's just a little bit over the crowd by maybe 6dB to 10dB tops over the crowd and sometimes the crowd is so loud you would hope that the PA is not louder than the crowd. But the times that I've had time issues with the PA is actually with, say, my bat crack mics or my pick mics but mostly it's going to be my back racks say in baseball; in basketball, it would be the shotguns that I have pointed on to the floor to get the ball bouncing and stuff like that and the PA can just be too much. I have both my home gigs, both mixing Brewers, and mixing Bucks in the fall/winter. I know both of the guys who mix the PA and we stay in constant contact and they don't have any problem when I text them and say hey man PA's 20dB louder than the crowd, say, if the crowd's quiet. Sometimes those guys mix behind glass, so they don't have the best reference, so I feel for them. I actually did that when I was just getting my start in TV. I mixed at Lambeau Field; I mixed the bowl and at Camp Randall Stadium, so I've sat in that seat before so I understand how it is and we all try to work together to keep the PA under control but also let them have some volume so they can get the fans into the game that way. [Timestamp: 2:33]
I know you're using Shure shotguns for some of the crowd sounds and the game sounds. Do you mix in any shotguns that are mounted on cameras at all?
Absolutely. Mics mounted on cameras are great affects mics because they're constantly being pointed by the camera operator. So at Miller Park we have a left field foul pole camera that's right out next to the left field foul pole and I have nice long shotgun; usually [I] use truck shotguns for that and they can be long Sennheiser shotguns or generally I just use whatever they've got. Usually [I use] a long shotgun on my cameras except for handhelds and you can capture the sound of balls being caught. We have one play where a ball player hit a home run and I believe the rule is if it bounces off the ball pull it's considered fair and the umpires ruled it a foul ball; it actually hit off the pad just below the actual foul pole, which would still be considered fair and along with the replay; they used some of the audio because from that left field foul pole camera mic you could hear the sound of the ball hitting the pad and not hitting the cement next to it, so that was pretty cool. And in basketball they're very important to have shotguns on my handhelds and this year I'm actually working with Shure to try out some of their VP-89Ms for basketball and to capture that sound there because I'm so happy with the VP-89Ls for baseball I really wanted to try them out for basketball. So I'm excited to it going in basketball season. [Timestamp: 4:09]
So when you get things set up in the booth, the guys calling the game, what kind of sportscaster headsets do you use for them?
Most of the time they're Sennheiser HMD 25s. Once again it's whatever's in the booth kit. For the truck I would love to be able to afford to bring or have every single mic that I would want with me in a kit, but I don't have that ability. So Sennheiser HMD 25s are the common industry standard; although they just discontinued that in lieu of their HMD 26. The mic is rather directional and in my opinion putting a microphone in the hands of talent, especially on the end of a boom on a headset that they're wearing, that's so dependent on being pointed the right way is just craziness. With the 25s that wasn't a problem. I always like it when a announcer knows how to position a mic correctly in the corner of their mouth and not right in front of it. [Timestamp: 5:07]
Of course you're working with a huge dynamic range, too, because when the game is a little dull and they're just sitting there filling some time they can almost whisper, but when there's a big play or a home run in a tight game they can go right to hollering their heads off.
For me, that's more of a game structure thing on board. All of these mics can handle that kind of dynamic range really well, but for me it's about logistics. You've got a guy who's got a lot of things on his mind and a lot of times positioning that mic isn't the first thing that they're thinking of and they are a few announcers that are really, really good at it. Brian Anderson, who I worked with for Brewer's, used to be a techie. He loves audio and he's always about positioning his mic correctly. In fact he'll actually position our analyst mic for him or if we have guests in the booth I can count on my play by play guy to actually position that mic, which is great but to have a mic that is so critical of positioning is a little dangerous in my opinion. [Timestamp: 6:05]
Audio Capture for Sports Broadcast, Part 2
Dec 20, 2012 5:36 PM, With Bennett Liles
So what do you feed to their headphones? I guess they'd want a line feed normally so they can tell when their mic's hot.
Yeah, my rule is, and it seems like it's pretty much the rule is if you don't hear yourself you're not on air, so I keep their headsets closed when we're in break; they can tell if they're not on air because they don't hear their voice, but they can't hear the ambience of the booth, which you get by hearing headphones and listening on headphones like they do as opposed to speakers like we would if we were watching the game or me mixing the game. But I set up, generally set up, two stereo IFB mixes—one for play by play, one for the analyst, and then I set up a mono live B mix for all of my side line reporters. That mix usually has a lot less net sounds, game effects in that mix because they're already down on the sideline; they don't need any more effects in their ears and that way if a play by play wants different mix than an analyst then I can give that to them and I also create another mix, another mono mix, for our camera and SAP program, which is what anyone who is on a PO box, a party line say like a stage manager, a stats person who has program they are listening to that mix. [Timestamp: 7:16]
Yes. Things have gotten a lot more sophisticated now but in the old days they would just run the whole program mix through a couple of limiters or compressors and the crowd sound would be pumping up and down with the announcers' voices…
…especially in sustained applause and things like that.
So at least we've gotten past that. But the weather isn't always great, so how do you protect the outside mics from rain and boisterous fans and things?
To keep away from curious fans, height is always the answer, although you never know with fans. I mean if you have mics mounted on poles, you need a shock mount because they'll find that pole and bang on it. You know it. Once again in Miller Park we've got a roof, so I'm lucky I don't have to worry about the rain, which is really good because I really don't like dealing with rain and I need to spend more time experimenting with solutions to deal with that because right now, it's just plastic sleeving over the shotgun mic and hopefully they'll be a break in the rain where my A2s can go out and pull that sleeving off or pull it back because you hear the pitter patter of rain on the plastic and it drives me nuts and I'm usually having a horrible time but I've heard of guys using bagel bags. It looks like a really thin plastic that might even have like little holes but I don't think that the rain gets through those and it's thinner so that was going to be what I was going to attempt next over the wind screen and I think with the bagel bags it might work, but honestly, I've been lucky and I haven't had to deal with it a whole lot, which is crazy in 10 years I haven't had to really come up with any solutions. Obviously a zeppelin or like for my VP-88 [that] I have had that out in the weather, I have a Rycote Windjammer that goes on over the top of the windscreen and that Windjammer does a great job of protecting water from coming through the fuzzy; [it] allows the rain to just sort of run down the fur if you will and stay out of the windscreen, so I'm a big fan of that and I was looking into either building similar versions for my shotguns because I did some looking around and it didn't seem like Rycote had made a big fuzzy for the VP-89Ls, so I was going to make something similar because that's great for wind. Even though there are windscreens that come with VP-89s, which I believe are Rycote, they're beefy but they're sponges, so when it gets wet, they get wet. But the cool thing about the Shure products, actually, is from my experience before I got the Windjammer I soaked my VP-88 and that thing just keeps on working. [Timestamp: 9:55]
Yeah, you can't kill Shure mics. I'm talking on one right now, but something else on the announcers, when you kill their mics for the breaks, how do you have their communication with the truck set up?
Well, they've got a box in front of them that's basically an AB; it has an AB switch so they can push that button and it's called a "talkback button;" they push the talkback and that secondary signal is routed to the truck and then I route that to a speaker that's in front of the producer; and director and I also route that to the RTS system to the communications system so that I can put that in on a button for anybody in the truck; say in the tape room they'd want to listen to that talkback, so if the play by play guy says, "Hey, do you have a tighter look of that angle or can you show me this or that," the tape room can hear that and be on top of it. And as far as sideline reporters like an RF person or something like that, I take a prefade aux and route that also to a Wohler in front of the director and producer, so that's how they can communicate off air. [Timestamp: 10:59]
Well, they can have some interesting discussions sometimes, especially when the equipment isn't quite doing what it's supposed to. Have you had any interesting incidents doing these games as far as fans or players going for mics or choice comments picked up on air?
Yeah, I mean nothing too negative. We had one baseball game where it was sort of a long game and a fan, and he wasn't even really that close to home plate—he was on the third base side—but decided to start screeching—sort of a, "hha, hha, hha" right as the pitcher started his windup and I thought it was hilarious. And the thing about when people make noise or they, you know, they have that one time where some guy is drunk and is just swearing or being belligerent and hey, if you're at the ballpark and you're near home plate, that kind of stuff is going to be picked up by our mics. But you know what it's also going to be heard by, say, the children sitting near you or everyone around in that area. So I really count on having the ballpark and the team to patrol those people and to deal with those people. It's a family environment and in my opinion those people shouldn't be allowed to sit out there and hurl their "F" bombs or whatever and I count on the team to take care of them. So it only lasts for a little while, but that is one of the reasons why I do layer my stereo crowd, especially in venues that I haven't been to or it's not my regular home venue because who knows what that team's like with their season ticket holders. I know at White Sox, I've been there, they actually, for their home shows, they move their bat crack mics because of a verbal fan. Personally I think that's just, I don't like that. I think the team should keep that guy quiet or have him move his seat or even challenge his tickets because there are kids around you and this is a kids sport, so we shouldn't have to worry about kids hearing profanities at a ball game and I shouldn't have to worry about hearing it on TV by a fan. [Timestamp: 13:06]
Well, that certainly keeps it interesting no matter what the sport. The great thing about sports is that anything can happen and you're right there in the middle of it. So thanks for being here with us Erik; Erik West freelance TV sound engineer in the Milwaukee area talking about doing baseball sound. Thanks again for taking time to tell us about it.
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text: "Funky" and "Original" are few of the words best to describe clothing by Leroy Jenkins. A lot of buzz was created since pictures of its clothing surfaced on blogsphere late last year. The folks at Slam X Hype had the opportunity to catch up with its creators, to talk about the brand and the men behind it.


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LENU Photographer
Rocco JamesModel Male Irvine, California, US My MM URL: http://www.modelmayhem.com/Rjsarich
Mayhem # 1437759
About MeHey everyone, trying to build my portfolio a little more. I haven't had a ton of experience with modeling but I do enjoy it very much! I'm really in to Artsy, high end fashion and sexy shots. I'm really not picky at all, and am always open to new ideas. Just looking to get some looks that are unique. I love to have a good time and laugh! Really easy going and fun to be around. Working really hard right now to change my image. I'm looking to get a little bigger and more tone, so im hitting the gym pretty hard. I do not do any nudes or anything like that so please don't ask. I do TFP and paid depending on that the shoot consist of. Please fill free to leave me some comment and let me know what you think. Negative feedback will just help me know what I need to work on, so please give it to me straight haha! I really want to see if I can have some fun with modeling and never wonder "What if" I try and live my life to the fullest and have as much fun as possible. I thrive off of others enthusiasm and need to be around Positive people. If anyone is interested in shooting together please just send me a message! Also leave me some love. Hope you all have a great day! :D
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