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This is marked with a citation needed tag: "J. K. Rowling has stated that she finds Albus the most 'interesting' of Harry's children, possibly referencing a future Potter-based work." The closest verification I could find on a Google search was this. It's just another fan re-quoting, and it's possible they read it here. I'll keep looking though. —Scott (talk) 15:56, September 1, 2009 (UTC)
- It´s from "A Year in Life I think.--Rodolphus 15:59, September 1, 2009 (UTC)
- Ah, thanks! I found it in this section. —Scott (talk) 17:25, September 1, 2009 (UTC)
If Albus has Harry and Lily's eyes Albus may look like Harry which makes Albus looks likes James since Harry looks like James.--HallieryElizabeth 16:27, 27 March 2008 (UTC)
He may look like Harry, but that is only because of the eyes. AlastorMoody 05:53, July 19, 2011 (UTC)
Only because of the eyes? I don't think so. It says "Scorpius resembled his father as much as Albus resembled his" or something and I doubt Harry could tell that Scorpius had the same eye colour as his father from a distance. I take this as meaning Albus bears a strong physical resemblance to Harry and Scorpius similarly resembles Draco. Albus doesn't have a lightning scar though, of course. Chanpuruuu (talk) 20:55, February 16, 2014 (UTC)
Does anyone know whether J.K revealed who Albus's godparents are? I always thought it was Teddy... Dante91, 16:44, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
- No, she's never revealed who his godparents are. However, I think it's highly unlikely that Teddy would be his godfather, considering that he's only eight years older than Albus. Oread 18:01, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
- No offense, but how is that unlikely that Teddy could be his godfather. My friend Donnie is his niece's godfather and he's only 15, and she's 1. However I do agree that J.K. never revealed who Albus' godparents are. Gryff23 20:09, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
- It's unlikely because Teddy was only seven or eight years old when Albus was born. The technical meaning of godparent is that it's the person or people who sponsor a child's baptism (in Christianity; there is a similar role in the bris in Judaism). A teenager can easily do this, but an eight-year-old?
- In any case, I don't think it's used in a religious sense in Harry Potter (Harry didn't attend Teddy's baptism, if he had one, and religion isn't really addressed in the series), in which case godparents are the ones responsible for the children in case his or her parents die. I personally — and this is just my opinion — don't think it's likely that someone would give this role to a child, unless it was purely ceremonial. Oread 20:31, 28 November 2008 (UTC)
I had heard that his godparent were Ron and Hermione. --Lupin & Kingsley 17:47, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
- R & H are James' godparents. --Cubs Fan2007 (Talk) 18:33, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
- J.K. has stated in "A Year in the Life", when she drew out the future of the Weasley family that all of the Potter children's godparents are Ron and Hermione, so whoever can edit this page should add that. Pack Alpha of Europe 02:23, August 25, 2011 (UTC)
- Actually you are wrong she said that Hermione and Ron where James's God parents she didnt' say anything about either Lily or Albus
Blood Status
A witch or wizard with at least one wizarding parent but at least one Muggle parent or grandparent. Is how a half-blood is described on the Hary Potter Lexicon, therefore James, Albus, and Lily do not fit the half-blood requirement. Pure-blood extremists may not acknowledge James, Albus, and Lily as purebloods, but that doesn't matter. They do not fit into half-blood at all, they fit more into purebloods so I will put them there. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 18.104.22.168 (talk • contribs).
- This is already being discussed on Talk:James Potter II. Oread (talk) 05:16, 19 February 2009 (UTC)
I agree . I have a Pure-Blood obbsesion . They should be only Muggle-Borns and Pure-Bloods . And if they have unless an Pure-Blood parent they should be Pure-Bloods . If they ar two Muggles-Born , he should be Wizards ( whitout history about blood purity )
Is He Pure Blood Or Half Blood User:Lucy Anne Potter 09:12, March 31, 2011 (UTC)
- Half-blood. Rowling said that ANY traceable muggle ancestry keeps one from being considered "pure-blood", at least by those who care about the distinctions in the first place. 18.104.22.168 09:41, March 31, 2011 (UTC)
Am I right that Albus was in Gryffindors? --Lupin & Kingsley 21:25, 22 February 2009 (UTC)
- I don't believe that his House has ever been revealed. In the epilogue of Deathly Hallows, we find out that James is in Gryffindor, and it is implied that Albus will be in Slytherin, but that isn't proof of where he ends up. ★ Starstuff (Owl me!) 04:41, 23 February 2009 (UTC)
How do we know the time when he was born? I haven't heard anything about him being born between August and September. Could someone find out where this came from?
So sorry, I thought it said in 2006 for both dates not two different year. Stupid mistake really sorry.
The article says Albus was later placed in Slytherin and gives a source as the Deathly Hallows epilogue. I know as a fact that this is false, and so I'm removing it until such a time (if ever) when this is given as canon. --Parodist 01:43, October 2, 2009 (UTC)
- That was a bit of fanon just added by an unregistered IP address. That's happened a few times before. - Nick O'Demus 03:58, October 2, 2009 (UTC)
I saw on the desciption that Albus was pleased with hearing he could choose his house. He wasn't exactly 'pleased.' I'm changing it to the word used in the Epilogue itself. 'wonder.' There is a difference between the two words. (Arculus Ambleway) December 13 2009
The only reason Harry was considered for Slytherin was because of the fact that he was a Horcrux and had similar traits to Voldemort. Albus is not a horcrux and doesn't have any ties to Voldemort apart from through his father. Therefore, Albus should be treated as an individual by the Sorting hat and will be sorted dependent entirely on his traits and personality. 22.214.171.124 12:39, September 24, 2012 (UTC)
- Actually no. The Horcrux thing was a contributing factor, because it enabled him to talk to snakes and stuff, like Salazar Slytherin. But as Dumbledore points out, Harry has other qualities valued by Slytherin, such as a certain disregard for rules, resourcefulness, and determination. Slytherin and Gryffindor are very similar in some aspects, but their attitudes are different, which may be why they often hate each other. That's not to say that every Gryffindor could be a potential Slytherin candidate, but I'm sure some would be and still end up in Gryffindor. For example Dumbledore might have been considered for Slytherin because he was so obsessed with power. Anyway, it's true that Albus wouldn't be considered for Slytherin for a reason such as speaking Parseltongue, because he doesn't, but maybe for other reasons. If Harry is a potential Slytherin, Albus could be too since he's his son. However he is also part Weasley, a family with a long tradition of being sorted into Gryffindor, and even if he would change his mind, he was negative to Slytherin at first. You often end up in the same house as your family. So it still seems plausible Albus could be a Gryffindor even though it is likely the Sorting Hat would see Slytherin traits in him that we don't know of and place him there. Chanpuruuu (talk) 21:09, February 16, 2014 (UTC)
Why doesn't the description say Albus wears glasses? I would add it in, but i can't edit the page! Someone please write that he wears glasses. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 184.108.40.206 (talk • contribs).
- I've wrote this twice, and someone keeps removing it. Please don't take it off. There is evidence to say he wears glasses---J.K.R. says Albus resembles Harry greatly, and Harry's glasses are an important part of his appearence. If Albus didn't wear any, she would have said something about this. Albus does wear glasses, so please do not remove it again. ---User:General Ironbeak
- While she hasn't said that he doesn't, she also hasn't said (at least that I know of) that he does. Since it's not mentioned in the DH epilogue, it can't be considered canonical without a reliable source. And I don't believe it's said Albus resembles Harry exactly; since wearing glasses has nothing to do with genetics, Albus could still resemble Harry without them. --Cubs Fan (Talk to me) 07:46, November 25, 2009 (UTC)
She also hasn't said he has black hair, and yet that is mentioned. And while glasses have nothing to do with genetics, Harry wore them like his dad! So i'm putting it back. ---User:General Ironbeak
- Two wrongs does not make a right. Just because his dad and grandfather had glasses doesn't mean Albus would have them. I don't know if poor eyesight is genetic but there are a few points that needs to be considered here:
- Poor eyesight in itself is not something that defines your physical appearance - even if he had poor eyesight he could just as well have a milder variation and only requiring reading glasses or - heck - it's 2017 so maybe his eyesight could be corrected by magical or muggle means.
- Speculation is all fine and dandy on the talk page, but if JKR doesn't say he has glasses and the film doesn't show him having glasses, chances are that he didn't have glasses. By all means, the films have been wrong before (blue or brown eyes instead of green, etc.) but without JKR's words we have to hold the films for true.
- While we're at it, if there's no canon source stating that Albus has black hair then that should probably be removed as well since it looks more brown in the film. Just because Albus looks like Harry doesn't neccessary mean that he is an exact copy. Real life people are defined by morethan their colours, so it could be that Albus has a similar facial structure and build to Harry but a completely different hair colour.
- I justify this rant by bringing up myself as an example. I look a great lot like my mother when she was my age, butI have notably lighter hair and has so far never required glasses (which both my parents have). My grandmother (bless her, she's getting old) occasionally call me by my mother's name. Rather than getting hinged on his colours, try think of the novel concept that Albus mayhaps inherited Harry's throughly unmentioned nose? Aryllia 14:11, January 19, 2012 (UTC)
- Folks, sorry to disappointed (or cheer) you but wearing glasses has a very strong genetic component to it. Since both James and Harry wore glasses, chances are that any of the Potter children may wear them too. It all depends on the genes of Ginny. Hope this clarifies things. MLewis, February 25, 2013
What are we thinking?!
I do not like how all biographies are written in past tense, but seriously, we're talking about something that will happen in 2017!!! We can't possibly do this here! ---User:General Ironbeak
- Like it or not, it's still an in-universe topic. I've gotten used to it through my contributions at the 24 Wiki, in which all IU articles are written in past, and all OOU topics use all three, where necessary. --Cubs Fan (Talk to me) 07:48, November 25, 2009 (UTC)
- There's a lot of fiction that takes place in the future, this is one of them, it's just unsettling since the main story took place in present tense and only the afterward fast forwarded. If you write a bio about say, 'The Dark Knight Returns' or 'Spiderman 2098' then it all has to be past because it already happened in publication even if the story hasn't in our timeline. The thing is... in terms of reality nothing has happened or ever will, since it's fictional, so we base the tense on when it was printed, which is always past. Ty 08:23, April 7, 2010 (UTC)
With Harry's 2 sons, he does the first names after the primary male influences in his life (James, father, Albus, first real surrogate he meets) and both of them end in an 's'. The middle names both start with 's' and are people he initially thought of as enemies who murdered the former but were actually their closest friends. I can't help but wonder if Rowling had this in mind when she named Jamesirius and Albuseverus? Like especially with Sirius and Severus, that is just so similar. Basically make 'x' the vowel, X and interjecting consonant their names are SxXx + us the only exception being Snape's got the extra 'r' wihich is in the middle of Sirius anyway. All the names end in S... Ty 03:21, April 7, 2010 (UTC)
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So I read on JKR's official website that maybe in 10 ten years, she might start writing some more Harry Potter books. I was just thinking, wouldn't it be cool if it followed Albus, and he was in Slytherin?!--Bella Goth 17:53, July 26, 2010 (UTC)Bella Goth
I'm writing a fan fiction that fallows after the epilugue starting right when James a Albus are looking for seats on the train after saying goodbye to their parents. You guys should check it out. Kgestes112098 04:25, April 29, 2011 (UTC)Kgestes112098
How can we find your fanfiction? What is the link? Doctorwho29 21:18, June 26, 2011 (UTC)
I Think There's Something Wrong With The Article!!!!!!!!
I noticed when I was reading the article about Albus Potter something small was wrong. I can't change it and it really bugs me. If one of you can change it for me or explain how I am wrong, I would appreciate it.
The article says:
When he felt insecure about attending Hogwarts for the first time and worried he would be in Slytherin, his father comforted him, and his mother did likewise when his uncle Ron teased his cousin Rose about getting disinherited if she wasn't sorted into Gryffindor house, as did his aunt Hermione.
I pretty sure that last part is wrong. Hermione didn't tease them about not being in Gryffindor. If it is supposed to mean something else than I am interpreting, please change it so it is more clear to the readers. Thank You!!!!!
- I'm fairly certain, they meant that she was kindly about which house, b/c she scolded Ron for teasing, but the grammar was poor. --JKoch(Owl Me!) 00:25, July 29, 2010 (UTC)
I've seen pictures and video's that have been updated on google and The real James is actually funny in real life too. haha. anyways they got really good actors to be the kids of harry and ron and ginny (ect), all the kids look so much like their parents. They totally aged Malfoy too much, he looks 60 something lol. oh and for those of you up there that say that Albus wears glasses, you're all wrong because in the picture he wears no glasses and in the video's too
What do pictures about the movie matter? Harry has brown hair in the movies, should we change his hair colour on his wiki page to brown? He has blue eyes in the movies, should we also change his eye colour?
Ron has green eyes in the movies but blue eyes in the books; does that mean we should change the information on the wiki page, that goes by canon information or else movie information if not contradicted by book canon, to him having green eyes?
Whether Albus wears glasses in the books or does not wear glasses is irrelevent; it has never been mentioned in the books.... As such, we can change the information on his page to him not wearing glasses, since it does not contradict any book canon. AlastorMoody 06:04, July 19, 2011 (UTC)
just a random question...but...
I've been thinking that Al could be a Ravenclaw, but he could also be a Slytherin. Which do people think? Ravenclaw or Slytherin?
He Should Be In Gryffndor He Looks Like A Gryffndor And Hes So Cute I Just Love Him But Between Ravenclaw and Slytherin I Choose Slytherin
M.K. Longbow 13:17, June 14, 2011 (UTC)
Slytherin but i still want gryffindor
184.108.40.206 12:55, April 12, 2011 (UTC)
I hope he will be in Slytherin. Party because he has such a fear of being in Slytherin, and it would be interesting to see how he reacts to being put in there. Also, like his page says, his initials are the same as a certain kind of snake, asp, which could be some sort of foreshadowing as to what house he will be in. AlastorMoody 04:35, July 20, 2011 (UTC)
Can we really be certain of Albus' house? Just because his parents and brother were Sorted into Gryffindor, doesn't mean he will too. We don't really know a lot about his personality and traits so we can't be certain. Albus was scared that he would be Sorted into Slytherin and so when Harry told him that he can choose his house, I think he would have done exactly as Harry had and chosen Gryffindor. His family had all been Gryffindors and he would have felt most comfortable there with his brother. Family has nothing to do House determination. Parvarti and Padma Patil were sorted into Gryffindor and Ravenclaw respectively. :) Artemis Monroe 126.96.36.199 12:53, September 24, 2012 (UTC)
How about Hufflepuff? It'd be nice for two reasons: 1) It's never described entirely, the House, and 2) it'd be nice to go along with Jo adding a chapter describing the Hufflepuff common room in full to Pottermore for anyone sorted into the House —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 220.127.116.11 (talk • contribs).
The date Albus and James potter went to hogwarts would have been 2028 not 2017 because it's seventeen years on from 2011. —The preceding unsigned comment was added by 184.108.40.206 (talk • contribs).
- 2017 is correct, one starts attending Hogwarts at 11 years of age so if he was born in 2006 then he'd start at Hogwarts in 2017. Also, please always sign talk page entries using 4 tildes (~). -Shorty1982 20:10, August 25, 2011 (UTC)
- The seventh book does not take place in 2011, it takes place in 1998 (see the dates on James and Lily's tombstones for clarification). Therefore, 19 years after 1998 would be 2017. ChrisDen 22:18, August 25, 2011 (UTC)
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Hello i've been thinking about a new Profile Pic since it has been a long time that the old one took place so i have a suggestion :)
Does Albus, or any of his children for that matter, know that their father is a legend? The fact that they are confused about why people stare at him makes me think that they don't. But I would imagine that, like when Harry was younger, other wizards if not his own family would tell him at least the fairy tale version of it all.
StainlessX 00:47, December 8, 2011 (UTC)
Possible House?
I Dont know but look what i found on the internet !!!!! is it possibly that they doing another movie you know Harry potter epilogie part 2 or something????? —The preceding unsigned comment was added by Cassie122 (talk • contribs).
I think the tie of Albus Potter looks more like Hufflepuff than Gryffindor, black and yellow. O. k., this yellow looks more than gold but the other colour is black and not red. I've read that there are cut scenes from the last film and that there would be an extended version of the epilogue. Perhaps these photos are from that scene? Harry granger Talk contribs 19:51, December 14, 2011 (UTC)
- Those pictures are clearly photoshopped (not even that good ones, I might add) and, as such, are not valid canon sources. -- Seth Cooper owl post! 21:41, December 14, 2011 (UTC)
- I do not think they are photoshopped, and I do not think they are making another movie, I only think that he went to some sort of party and wore a Gryffindor tie. Ben Clarke was at the same thing and he wore a Slytherin tie. AlastorMoody 21:28, December 16, 2011 (UTC)
- The Rose one is photoshopped for sure. Look at the tie, it's not as blurry as the rest of the picture. It's also the old design of the uniform and I highly doubt they'd bring it back. Not to mention that J. K. Rowling wanted to make sure they could not make a Harry Potter-themed movie based on anything other than her books. I don't know if you added these comments before the release of the last movie, but I just wanted to clarify anyway. Chanpuruuu (talk) 21:24, February 16, 2014 (UTC)
NOT black hair
Where does a canon source state that he has black hair? Granted, I recall he is described as the one that looks the most like Harry but that does not mean they have the same hair colour. The only canon sourse on his hair I know about is the films - where he has brown hair. I'll hold on changing it in case someone can pop up with another canon source that contradicts the film though. Aryllia 03:57, February 29, 2012 (UTC)
- Added a {{Fact}} tag. I think that things like hair colour are not to be derived from actor appearances (though this appears to be inconsistent), so if we can't say for certain that his hair is black, it should probably go unstated. -- 1337star (Owl Post) 04:57, February 29, 2012 (UTC)
Hi! I don't know who wrote this bio but Albus is Harry's first child. James is Harry's godson, Tonks and Remus son. Thanks, XOXO. Tatiana.
- James is not a godson. That's Teddy Lupin. ProfessorTofty (talk) 19:06, October 6, 2012 (UTC)
Family Info
We need to fix up Albus family info box. It said Dudley Dursley(second cousin) Dudley Dursley's children(third cousins). But Dudley is his first cousin once remove and Dudley's kids are his second cousins. They are also posted right next to the Black Family name on there. I tried awhile back to fix it, but I can't seem to be able to. As I never build an info box or did anything with it before. Can someone fix that please. Hopemon (talk) 16:18, October 16, 2012 (UTC)
- Done. Per the character infobox guidelines, I removed them completely. -- 1337star (Drop me a line!) 16:59, October 16, 2012 (UTC)
- Thanks, I did take another look to see if I can. I did found out how, but I didn't want to as I was worry if I make a mistake. Thank you. Hopemon (talk) 20:54, October 16, 2012 (UTC)
Albus Serverus Dumbledore/Harry?
You know that in the move where Harry is shown as a babay in his crib watching his parents get murdered? The actor that plays that baby later plays Albus Serverus Potter.
- This is not true. Baby Harry in the first movie, Philosopher's Stone, is played by the Saunders Triplets. Baby Harry in Deathly Hallows is played by Toby Papworth. Albus Severus Potter is played by Arthur Bowen. SeleneForbes (talk) 17:33, November 3, 2013 (UTC)
Movie vs. book quote
User:Hunnie Bunn has reverted this change, asserting that the quote at the top is a book quote. But I don't think it is. In the edition I have (Bloomsbury, first Children's Edition), the quote is: Albus Severus [no "Potter" here], you were named for [not "after"] two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was probably the bravest man I ever knew. Perhaps it's different in other editions?
Actually, this video shows that it isn't said like that in the movie either. The movie quote is: Albus Severus Potter, you were named after two headmasters of Hogwarts. One of them was a Slytherin and he was the bravest man I've ever known. So I'm changing it to the wording I've read in the book, the current one is a mix of book and movie wording. Luna Scamander (talk) 09:51, August 10, 2014 (UTC)
- I take full responsibility for my error; having the Bloomsbury Celebratory Edition, I can verify that I was incorrect in stating that the top quote was from the book and can confirm that the new quote is, as you say, the correct one from the novel. --Hunnie Bunn (talk) 13:41, August 10, 2014 (UTC)
/*Potter name*/
Maybe the various entries need to be updated to reflect the information in Pottermore concerning Linfred of Stinchcombe concerning the origin of the Potter name[1]. Either that or a see Linfred for the name origion to save cutting and pasting the exact same info on different pages. (Vaudree (talk) 20:07, October 26, 2015 (UTC))
Like Albus Severus's initials! (Vaudree (talk) 20:14, October 26, 2015 (UTC))


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Show choir encourages students to 'Shine On'
By Sara E. Martin, Army Flier Staff Writer
Army Flier
Fort Rucker, Alabama | February 28, 2013
Sparkling dresses and sharp suits impressed the children at Fort Rucker Elementary School Friday during the school's Time to Shine rally.
The Enterprise Encores performed their "Shine On" show during the rally to help get the kids fired up about taking their standardized tests that began Monday, according to Vicki Gilmer, FRES principal.
"The students always do a wonderful job on the Terra Nova standardized assessments and always perform above the national average. The past two years the students have surpassed their own achievements and the increases in the test scores have been phenomenal. That is why the Time to Shine rally was implemented last year. We want to continue to support our students and recognize their success," she said.
FRES students celebrated their hard work and reviewed their school wide goals.
"The students began the school year with a Mission Possible event. This event had students work through stations where they learned about the school-wide goals of writing across the curriculum and mathematical reasoning. The students also learned how to set goals and how to design a plan to meet those goals. They then selected individual goals for the year," said the principal.
The Time to Shine rally is a designated time to acknowledge the hard work the students have done and celebrate their successes so far. The highlight of the rally was the performance of the Encores' award-winning show.
"The event is more of a celebration than a stress reliever," said Gilmer. "We are celebrating all the good work they have done this year. Last week they took the assessments and they scored off the charts. We are going to shine through the testing next week."
The entire school participates and many children, like Nolan Bennett, said they hope the event continues each year.
"I know other grades, not just me, would really like to see [the Encores] again. So, if they could come back next year or at the end of this year that would be great," he said.
The choir's two wardrobe changes, sassy attitude and acrobatics kept the children engaged.
"I thought the singers were spectacular. They had great voices and great dance moves and great choreography! My favorite part was when the guys changed their outfits and did all their stunts, it was awesome," said Bennett, a sixth grader.
The rally concluded with the school performing its special musical number "Math, Math Baby" to entertain the show choir.
"We had a math goal this year, so we put a little rap number together to help get our math down," said Gilmer.
Justin O. Mitchell, deputy garrison commander, who attended the event, was seen tapping his foot along with the beat.
"It is a phenomenal event. It is an exciting opportunity for the singers and dancers to come and show what they can do. I hope it inspires the children to sing and dance or play music," he said.
The superintendent of Enterprise City Schools, Aaron Milner, was also in attendance and also hoped that the choir inspired the young, impressionable, children.
"Enterprise schools have always had a great relationship with Fort Rucker, so we are glad to be here. Liberal arts is one of the main things I am proudest about in our school system and for our Encores to home here today and for me to see so many faces inspired, just wow," he said.
"I can tell many of them want to be on that stage one day and we believe that there is more to an education than just the four core subjects; we want our children to be able to express themselves," he added.
Bennett is one of those children who hopes to be an Encore one day and said that they did inspire him.
"At one point, I will like to do that, too, because I like being in front of a crowd and performing," he said.
The sixth grader was just as enthusiastic about his academic curriculum and seemed to have no worries about the Terra Nova testing.
"I am not nervous about the tests next week. In fact, I am pretty confident because we all did [well] on the pre-tests and the teachers have taught all of us well," he said.


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Wimberly enters his senior season as one of ISU's most dynamic offensive players, leading the team in rushing (567) and yards per carry (4.0) in 2013 despite missing two games due to injuries. Wimberly also caught 18 passes for 211 yards and had two 100-yard rushing performances (Tulsa- 137 yards; Texas- 117 yards) while competing in 10 games last season.
A native of Snellville, Ga., Wimberly was named to a number of preseason All-Big 12 lists by national magazines. He was the Big 12 Co-Offensive Player of the Week after his performance vs. Tulsa.
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8th Annual Brother's Truck Show - Sunshine and ChevroletsWritten by on December 22, 2006 The 8th Annual Brothers Truck Show and Shine
Brothers Truck Parts is a substantial cornerstone in the world of classic Chevy and GMC reproduction parts, and if you own a truck wearing either one of those badges, you most likely have some of their parts on it. Well, what better way for Brothers to promote their own business and bring their customers together to strut their stuff than the Brothers Show and Shine? It isn't exclusive to just their customers; they welcomed all Chevy and GMC trucks from '47-87 to Featherly Park in Anaheim, California, for this year's event, which happens to be in its eighth consecutive year.
The Show and Shine fell during the hottest July on California's record, and even though Featherly Park has a fair amount of trees, there was still a mad dash for the shady spots, which filled up quickly. A wide variety of General Motors' workhorses were on hand, covering quite a bit of the spectrum from stock originals, to restos, to in-progress cruisers, to full customs and 4x4s. If you were in the mood to shop (and who isn't when it comes to parts?), there was a handful of vendors in attendance to fill your bags, and, of course, Brothers had plenty of order forms and catalogs to peruse.
Winter is soon upon us, so sit back, relax, read on, and think warm thoughts of sunshine and Chevrolets. Check out Brothers Truck Parts at www.brotherstrucks.com for more info on parts and updates for the 2007 show.
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The '58-59 trucks seem to be gaining in numbers on the Tri-Fives, and Frank Sanchez was there to do his part with a clean '59 GMC Deluxe Cab Fleetside that's finished in a subtle yet classy Antique White.I couldn't quite make out Larry's last name, but it doesn't change the fact that his '53 Chevy Canopy Express is cool! This early sport utility truck was the only one of its kind at the show.This '52 didn't have a name on it, but one might assume it is a restored Forest Service truck, especially with its vintage fire extinguishers mounted to the bedsides and its roll-up canopy.Bruce Mitchell's '68 C-10 had people swarming the Prowler Orange paint all day long. We had to set up a blockade to get this picture! The smooth C-10 was detailed to the hilt and finished off with a black leather interior, and don't forget the super-low stance.If memory serves, Phil West's '64 Chevy had a 502- or 572-inch rat motor stuffed between its fenderwells. Either way, there's more than enough juice to spare when Phil puts the little red and white shortbed sideways.Mike Russ' '57 Chevy is a recent convert to the whole shiny paint thing. His big-window now sports a sinister gloss black coat in place of the carefree suede it used to wear. Primer or not, the whitewalls, steel wheels with spider caps, tuck 'n' roll, and Impala steering wheel still scream old school!With a scenic drive down the Cajon Pass from Victorville, CA, Harold and Alice Mantz cruised in with their restored '54 Chevy that made you wanna cry it was so nice. The 3100 has a side-mount spare, bias-ply blackwalls, and uncommon Mariner Blue paint.Donna Perkins and her '71 Chevy Stepside were enjoying the afternoon in the middle of the park amongst their peers. Donna's truck is a decent survivor after all these years, with its California "black plates" and original ochre and white paint. The chrome wheels add a little pizzazz to the shortbed.
Steve Retherford had one of the most accessorized trucks at the show. His '53 GMC was home to spotlights, fog lights, bumper guards, water bag, visor, traffic light viewer, wolf whistle, side-mount spare, and an optional TRICO windshield washer, all of which are period pieces, of course.The inline-six in Steve's Jimmy has a McGurk intake with two Zenith single-barrels with oil bath air cleaners, a Mallory Uni-Lite distributor, and Fenton cast-iron headers. Under the hood you can also see the vintage overflow tank, oil can, beehive oil filter, and what looks like a power windshield wiper motor to coincide with the washers.If for some reason you needed a break from looking at real trucks, you could stroll through the vendor area and check out shirts with trucks on 'em, or buy parts for your truck project back in the garage so you can bring it to the next Brothers show.Since we know there are many of you out there who like the larger set, here's Tom Campbell's '57 GMC NAPCO panel in brilliant Chrome Yellow with the original 270ci six. The NAPCO Owners Group Web site says Tom's '57 used to be a camera truck for the SoCal TV station KTTV channel 11. There were at least a half dozen NAPCOs in attendance.As fun as it is to see all the nice, finished trucks, it's good to see some in progress, beaters too, and that's not to say John Poeske's '57 GMC is a wreck, either! We'd say his big-window is about 90 percent done, and really only lacks a "proper" paint job...or not. Regardless, John drives his all over the South Bay with pride.Cheyenne Supers are hard to mess up-lower 'em, add wheels, polish everything else that GM provided, and voil! Guillermo Castaneda's two-tone dark green/green '72 still had the factory trim and a stock 350. It's no wonder these trucks have held their value all these years.Another six-banger! Aside from the radial tires, this '55 Chevy 3200-series was dead nuts on the restoration, and who can blame owner Steve Buczynski on his tire choice when you drive your truck as much as he does? We can't. Nice work, Steve.


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It has always been my contention that our punishment
of Japan and Germany after WWII was cultural as well as economic. If we set aside the Marshall Plan, and look at the cultures, there were poisons we deliberately cultivated and let out (the anime fixation on pederasty, the refinement of European terrorist cells) in order to refine our own practices.
The modern state of Israel has been the most successful long-term experiment: How to get a people with direct experience of genocide to found a nation supposedly designed to prevent a recurrence, to gradually adopt those atrocities as their necessary innovations?
And, in the embracing of nuclear weapons and implementation of the most martial advice its superpower patron could provide, become unrecognizable to those citizens who believed that the best way to survive the Nazis was in not becoming them?


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Montreal, QC (Sports Network) - Jakob Silfverberg and Marc Methot scored in a
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48 shots as the Ottawa Senators took a 4-2 decision over the Montreal
Canadiens in Game 1 of this Eastern Conference quarterfinal from Bell Centre.
Erik Karlsson and Guillaume Latendresse also lit the lamp, while Mika
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Rene Bourque and Brendan Gallagher scored 59 seconds apart in the second
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Hillman interview: Aviles to undergo Tommy John surgery
Homecoming for Buck
It has been said by manager Trey Hillman that catcher John Buck could be back much sooner then later. "He is doing very well down there in Omaha, catching nine innings without any difficulties, now we're looking for Buck to catch in back-to-back days," said Hillman. "By the end of the week or the early part of next, we should see John Buck back with the club, but we still have to wait and see." On another Royals catcher update, starting catcher Miguel Olivo was suspended for one game by Major League Baseball for what was deemed an animated argument with an umpire last Saturday in Pittsburgh. He will serve his suspension today against the Minnesota Twins.
Sorry Mike
On a more somber note, one week from now, Royals shortstop Mike Aviles will undergo Tommy John surgery to repair a torn ligament in his right elbow. "Typically 9-12 months is the recovery time for an injury like this, we are going to be very cautious with Mike, and make sure we do this the right way," said Hillman.


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Strategic Patience upsets the 1-to-5 favorite Champali Lace in Friday's feature race
STRATEGIC PATIENCE SURPRISES CHAMPALI LACEAUBURN, Wash. (Aug. 3, 2012) – Strategic Patience wore down heavily favored Champali Lace in the final strides for a neck victory Friday in the $11,650 feature race for fillies and mares at Emerald Downs.
Perfectly ridden by Debbie Hoonan, Strategic Patience ran six furlongs in 1:09.89 and paid $17, $3 and $2.20. The winner is a 7-year-old Washington-bred mare owned, bred and trained by Don Munger, the 88-year-old World War II veteran from Enumclaw, Wash.
Champali Lace, the 1-to-5 betting favorite ridden by Leonel Camacho-Flores, held second place and paid $2.10 and $2.10. The 5-year-old mare was bidding for a fourth straight win and ran gallantly in defeat, leading to deep stretch before finally yielding to Strategic Patience.
White River, ridden by Jose Zunino, chased Champali Lace from second place throughout, but settled for third and paid $3. Drawing Breath and Cotillion Belle completed the order of finish.
Hoonan now has 391 wins at Emerald Downs and is only four behind Jennifer Whitaker, the track's all-time leading female jockey with 395 wins. She said Strategic Patience is a personal favorite.
"Whenever she runs, she always gives a hundred percent," Hoonan said. "I love riding her."
The victory snapped a nine-race losing streak for Strategic Patience that dated to July 4, 2010, however she ran well in several losses including two seconds and three thirds. In her two most recent races she finished fourth and third to Champali Lace.
NOTES: A pair of mares—6-year-old Seattle Game ($3) and 5-year-old Akina ($3.40)—scored victories in races four and seven and became the third and fourth horses with four wins at the meet. They joined Go With Gusto and Zippin E in the four wins category, and with 54-of-81 days complete it's time to begin contemplating 2012 yearly honors. A Washington-bred owned by R.E.V. Racing and trained by Frank Lucarelli, Seattle Game ran 6-½ furlongs in 1:15.97 and held off 2011 Top Claimer Touch of Elegance for the victory. A Florida-bred owned by Michael Pattison, Dean Essex and Vikki Trenkenschuh and trained by Charles Essex, Akina ran one mile in 1:38.01 and including two wins at Portland Meadows is six-for-nine this year…Seattle Game, however, was claimed for $5,000 by owner Bill Bomar and will now be trained by Vince Gibson…In race five, Lady Dakota ($9.20) led gate-to-wire and female jockeys rode the top three finishers: Kubinova, Lady Dakota; Jennifer Whitaker, Just Have'n Fun, and Hoonan, Sweet Saga…Kubinova recorded her third straight two-win day, and with 56 wins in 54 days is on pace to easily break Cassie Papineau's single-season apprentice mark of 70 wins set in 2009…Leslie Mawing was aboard Seattle Game and pulled within two wins of 2,000 for his career. He rides in seven races Saturday including Seventyprcentcocoa in the $17,950 feature race for fillies and mares…Frank Lucarelli led the trainers with two wins and stretched his lead to 34-30 over Tim McCanna in the trainers' standings…First post Saturday is 2 p.m.


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A million little shining stars had just aligned
And I would've been so happy
[Pre hook]
Christmas lights glisten
I've got my eye on the door
Just waiting for you to walk in
But the time is ticking
People ask me how I've been
As I comb back through my memory
How you said you'd be here
You said you'd be here
And it was like slow motion
Standing there in my party dress
In red lipstick
With no one to impress
And they're all laughing
As I'm looking around the room
But there's one thing missing
And that was the moment I knew
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And the hours pass by
Now I just wanna be alone
But your close friends always seem to know
When there's something really wrong
So they follow me down the hall
And there in the bathroom
I try not to fall apart
And the sinking feeling starts
As I say hopelessly
"He said he'd be here"
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What do you say
When tears are streaming down your face
In front of everyone you know?
And what do you do when the one
Who means the most to you
Is the one who didn't show?
You should've been here
And I would've been so happy
You call me later
And say, "I'm sorry, I didn't make it"
And I say, "I'm sorry too"
And that was the moment I knew
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February 2014
Hoop Band
The UMass Hoop Band are the students that keep the music going at all home Men's and Women's Basketball games. Hoop Band, or "Pep Band," is a one-credit class that meets once per week, on Mondays from 4:40pm to 6:10pm. Students begin rehearsing at the end of the fall semester, as the basketball season kicks off before winter break. The UMass Hoop Band is composed of approximately 107 students, playing a variety of instruments, including: percussion, trumpet, trombone, mellophone, tuba, saxophone, flute, and clarinet. At least thirty students perform at each game, along with two twirlers.


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Killer...I love that idea
Killer...I love that idea
What a great present. It looks great.
Congrats on your ten years together.
Nice gift! We have our tenth this month too the 19th. I wish I had something like that to give.....now I got some thinking to do though before its here!! lol
I hunt because......
Too cool!
Looking good so far IKC. Congrats on your guys 10th. We just hit our 6th Sept 16.


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Ivan Albright Portrait of Marie Walsh
Sharpe, 1921
Oil on canvas, h. 25″ x w. 17″
Photograph by W. L. Bowers
© Marie Walsh Sharpe Foundation
About Marie Walsh Sharpe
The Marie Walsh Sharpe Art Foundation was established in June, 1984, by Marie Walsh Sharpe, the culmination of her long-held dream of providing assistance to the very gifted in the visual arts. Mrs. Sharpe charged the Foundation with providing supplemental instruction to art students, through workshops and seminars, beyond that offered in the secondary schools. She also directed the Foundation to offer assistance to gifted individual artists.


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WELLSBURG - Bradley Wilcox and Dante Rosso both picked up individual victories as Brooke down Wheeling Central.
Wilcox won the 50 free and 100 fly, while Rosso took the 200 Im and 500 free.
Brooke 103, Wheeling Central 60, St. John 5
WELLSBURG - Brooke received contributions from a number of athletes as it topped Wheeling Central at St. John.
Sara Riggs, Emiley Czesztilcki, Hannah Cebula, Jennifer Brezny and Jessie Wayne were among the winners for the Bruins.
Jocie Humpe and Shelby Grendel were victorious for the Maroon Knights.


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Saint Sisinnius of Rome
- Sysinnius
Deacon in Rome. With his priest Saint Saturninus, he was sentenced to hard labor for his faith. Martyr.
- c.309
- buried in the cemetery of Saint Thraso on the Salarian Way of Rome, Italy
- relics enshrined in the Basilica of Saint Sebastian in Rome
- Book of Saints, by the Monks of Ramsgate
- Catholic Online
- Heiligen 3s
- Den katolske kirke
- Our Sunday Visitor's Encyclopedia of Saints
- "Saint Sisinnius of Rome". CatholicSaints.Info. 29 November 2012. Web. 25 May 2016. <>


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Peak season means adjustment for PierPASS in LA/Long Beach
August 26, 2010
Stakeholders representing importers, exporters, motor carriers, ports, and marine terminal operators (MTOs) reconvened at an industry working group meeting, co-chaired by PierPASS and Ability-TriModal, to continue discussions on potential solutions to limit congestion outside the marine terminal gates at the ports of Los Angeles and Long Beach. As reported in LM, the first working group meeting took place July 29.
An important consensus from all stakeholders in the working group was recognition of the industry need for five OffPeak shifts, as well as adding back the noon hour relief and early start of night shifts. By September 8, 11 of 13 marine terminals at the San Pedro Bay ports will have reinstated a fifth OffPeak gate shift in response to a substantial swell in cargo volume. An updated OffPeak schedule is available on the PierPASS website (http://www.pierpass.org).
"All of the stakeholders are working toward the same goal – cutting down truck congestion at the ports and improving efficiency. We're encouraged by the thoughtful discussions and commitment from all members of the working group to improve efficiency," said Bruce Wargo, co-chair of the working group and president of PierPASS, the non-profit formed by the West Coast MTO Agreement (WCMTOA) in 2005 to address marine terminal issues such as congestion, security and air quality.
When cargo volumes plunged in 2008 and 2009, terminal operators suffered deep losses and were forced to reduce costs by cutting one OffPeak shift and other types of service. Now that cargo volumes are picking up again, the MTOs are reinstating services to address congestion, such as increasing labor levels by 37 percent since January 2010.
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text: Reid Hoffman: The network philosopher Magazine features 01 March 12 by David Rowan This article was taken from the April 2012 issue of Wired magazine. Be the first to read Wired's articles in print before they're posted online, and get your hands on loads of additional content by subscribing online.He may be the billionaire cofounder of LinkedIn, an early investor in Friendster and Flickr, a board member of Zynga, Airbnb and Mozilla, and the man Sean Parker approached back in 2004 to invest in a promising new startup called thefacebook.com. He may also be the digital world's best-connected networker, the man his VC colleague Aneel Bhusri calls "the Kevin Bacon of Silicon Valley", who each day receives 500 emails and 40 business pitches. But all Reid Hoffman ever wanted to be was a philosopher."My original plan was to become an academic," the 44-year-old LinkedIn executive chairman and Greylock Partners investor reflects over lunch one crisp November afternoon in a riverside Cambridge hotel. "I won a Marshall scholarship to read philosophy at Oxford, and what I most wanted to do was strengthen public intellectual culture -- I'd write books and essays to help us figure out who we wanted to be." Within months of starting his course, however, Hoffman concluded that "spending one to two decades answering a professional philosophical question" might not impact sufficiently on the world. "I realised that academia wasn't the right platform -- it didn't have enough scale," he says. "So I decided I would be a software entrepreneur."The switch has suited Hoffman just fine. LinkedIn, the professional business network which launched in 2003, went public last May at a $4.3 billion (£2.76bn) valuation, and within hours the share price had more than doubled from $45 to $94.25 -- with Hoffman and his wife, Michelle Yee, owning 21.4 per cent of the company. Before that, he founded Socialnet.com, one of the earliest social networks; was executive vice-president of PayPal when bought by eBay for $1.5 billion in 2002; and then declined Parker's offer to lead Facebook's first funding round ("the most expensive decision of my life"). Still, after he suggested instead that PayPal cofounder Peter Thiel lead the $500,000 round, he made a five-figure investment of his own ("I don't comment on my percentage ownership"). He was also in the first round of investments in Zynga, Digg, Shopkick, Friendster, Six Apart and Kongregate; put the first Silicon Valley money into Flickr and Last.fm; and also bought into Groupon -- an unusually consistent track record in a sector littered with failures. "When presented with an investment that I think will change the world in a really good way, if I can do it, I'll do it," he says.Hoffman is in Cambridge today to further that mission, co-chairing a packed four-day programme called Silicon Valley Comes to the UK which temporarily imports talents such as Google's Megan Smith and Thomas Ryan of Threadless to inspire students and inform politicians. He has just completed a session on gamification: LinkedIn's "profile completeness" bar, he reveals, took an hour of coding but spurred a 20 per cent jump in profile length. His next session will elaborate on why he sees data as Web 3.0 -- and why every business needs a "big data strategy". In another panel, he'll explain why the potential of mobile may take three years to be realised, and why "biology as code" will spur extraordinary innovations. "The future," he says, "is sooner and stranger than you think."It's a rare break from his intense West Coast schedule, normally split between LinkedIn's offices in Mountain View, California, and Greylock's in Menlo Park. That is, when he's not advising nonprofits such as Endeavor, Kiva and Questbridge; exploring further investments in "marketplaces, networks or platforms", most recently in education startup Edmodo; advising entrepreneurs such as Groupon's Andrew Mason; and, at long last, publishing his own 245-page philosophical treatise.The book, published in February, is called The Start-up of You, and its overarching message is that "every individual is a small business". Cowritten with Ben Casnocha, it urges readers in their careers to "craft iterative, flexible plans… be in permanent beta… build a network of relationships… budget time for randomness". It cites as case studies the rise of Netflix and the fall of Detroit, the pivots of Flickr and Intel, and the contrivance of George Clooney's acting career, with a reading list that includes Nassim Taleb, Joshua Cooper Ramo and Steven Johnson. The insights shared, naturally enough, rely heavily on stories from Hoffman's professional and social network -- as well as his own extraordinarily focused technology career.His goal, he explains over lunch, is to encourage all of us to "think about our lives as entrepreneurs, using this playbook as a way five years from now to be in more control of my life, create more value in myself and the world around me, by proactively investing in growing my capabilities and adding more to society. People sometimes think it's morally wrong to talk about investing in themselves," he says, animated and engaged. "Absolutely wrong. In a flatter world with more competition, how do you succeed? How do you invest in yourself and gain those skills? You can't do it accidentally."It is a message straight out of the LinkedIn marketing pitch -- indeed, the hardback cover uses the site's familiar blue and white logo. "Reid in some ways is a perfect embodiment of LinkedIn," says Peter Thiel, who met him at Stanford University in 1987 when Hoffman was studying symbolic systems. "One of the conversations I remember having with him was what is the meaning of life. His answer was it has something to do with the people you spend your life with and the connections you make. That ethos has very much informed Reid's thinking -- that there are questions about how to connect people, how to create new types of community that are at the core of what you need to do to make the world a better place. Reid thought through the social networking part of the internet revolution earlier and more methodically than anyone else."Thiel describes LinkedIn as the stealth social network of the Web 2.0 era. "It's not been as spectacular as Facebook, nor quite as overnight as Groupon or Zynga or Twitter, and it's the least glamorous of the five big new internet companies of the last decade. But it has the clearest core value of helping people connect with people, mainly to get jobs. It's probably in some sense the most underrated because of that."LinkedIn -- where Hoffman lists himself as an "entrepreneur/product strategist/investor" -- may lack some other networks' sex appeal or user engagement (TechCrunch once called it "the boring social network that won't find you a date but may land you a job"). However, being unsexy isn't the same as being unpopular: it now has more than 135 million members, according to Hoffman -- "and we're growing at over two members per second".Hoffman arrives for breakfast at the Four Seasons, Palo Alto, in the same green Acura he bought when PayPal sold ten years ago. Thiel at the time bought a Ferrari. "There's a Warren Buffett-like element, whereby Reid is very good at making money and investing, but is strangely indifferent to spending it," Thiel says. "He lives in an average four-bedroom house in Palo Alto. It's an upper-middle-class life."Hoffman -- dressed noticeably casually for the hotel's Quattro Restaurant, in Levi's jeans and a black T-shirt "bought by Michelle" -- admits cheerily that he is finally thinking about upgrading his ride to an Audi S7, though he won't have time to test-drive it first. "The S7 would be the most extravagant purchase I've made for myself," he reflects. "I bought a prepayment card for Flexjets in case I need to fly at short notice, but I didn't buy a plane."Extravagance fails Hoffman's intrinsic-value test. "When we were going public, I sold a tiny amount of [LinkedIn] stock, and the Wall Street Journal reported that Hoffman's buying a second yacht," he says rolling his eyes. "My response was, where's my first?"What makes the meaning of life is people, so you try to be good to people immediately around you and in your broader community. So a lot of my projects are about how I can affect the world in the hundreds of millions. I only spend money when it helps one of these vectors." His only acknowledged weaknesses: fine dining, and electronic devices. "I'll buy a piece of computer equipment in a heartbeat," he grins. "I also have five mobile phones."So it's not money that's driving his big ambitions for LinkedIn. "My belief and goal is that every professional in the world should be on a service liked LinkedIn," he says over breakfast. "Because all of the attributes that apply to a business now apply to an individual, like business intelligence. If you can get better at your job, you should be an active member of LinkedIn, because LinkedIn should be connecting you to the information, insights and people to be more effective." The only threat to the site's continued growth would be a failure to innovate: a "fumble" that allows a better adapted upstart to swoop in, as he remembers Facebook doing to Friendster. "For example, Google's concern is not that Facebook can simply just build a better search engine -- it's that the social graph, and all that private information, are two essential elements for the next generation of search engines that Google won't have access to."Ownership of that private information, he accepts, is a key question facing social networks. "We take a co-owned perspective," he says. "We try as much as we can to give you the authentic individual choice of what you want to do. So we allow people to download their entire list of connections into a CSV file -- but we don't allow a third-party service to scrape it on your behalf."Why, then, doesn't he use his position to encourage Facebook to allow users similar control? "I've never really talked to them about this," he says after a moment. "So I can't really speculate on what their real views are -- generally speaking, Zuck [Mark Zuckerberg] tends to think the whole world is better when it's more transparent. I don't know, I'll ask him and find out the intellectual substance."Still… as a philosopher, does he see any ethical concerns in a private company controlling access to users' digital histories? "Well, I think it's not unethical if the designer of these systems is trying to design something that they think is for the better society. Zuck is actually on a mission: it's not just, I want to own it to be a monopolist -- he has a vision for a better society. The question is, why is this configuration of ownership important for that? I'll ask him. He's trying to move to a space that is enhancing the social sharing of information and making sure people's level of knowledge and connectivity with each other is massively increased. If you don't want to participate, then don't sign up." Besides, good behaviour is governed by commercial realities. "If you do anything that is substantially evil, Google would love to say, hey everyone, we're much better, come over here. And once you're very large, governments can always turn and regulate too. I would be flabbergasted if Facebook were ever to say, you can't have access to your pictures unless you pay us. The outcry would be so substantial that there would be House and Senate inquiries the next day." He messages himself as a reminder to speak to Zuckerberg about ownership of user data. "I know Zuck," he says, "and I know he's trustworthy and has no nefarious intent."Has he himself used Google Plus? "I'm on it, I've played with it, but I'm not really that active with it," he says. "I think there's a lot of credit to Google for realising that social is very important." Cautiously, he adds: "One concern most of the folks in the Valley have about Google Plus is over how much they build social into search. It should be a platform as opposed to a tied proposition. On the other hand, for Google Plus to really get some steam it has to be substantially unique from Facebook. I'm personally not of the strong belief that Circles is that. It's interesting, it's an innovation, but for a feature to be substantially differentiated, it has to be something that 30 to 60 per cent of the user base would use actively. I don't think Circles is that. The dynamics around social, I don't think they have the full tool set yet."His own dealings with Zuckerberg go back to 2004. "I'd tracked the launch of Facebook as an interesting thing, and if Zuckerberg had been in Silicon Valley [rather than Boston] I'd have gone to find him. I had in the interim been building a relationship with Sean Parker. Sean moved out of Plaxo, called me and said, 'I've got this really hot company, it's Facebook. They've moved out here and we're looking to put together an angel round -- would you be interested in leading it?'"Hoffman then made that expensive decision to decline, concerned with potential conflicts of interest. "None of us knew how big Facebook would get, but LinkedIn cared about college too. So I set up a meeting with Peter, Zuck, Sean, Matt Cohler and me at Peter's office in San Francisco. Zuck was very quiet. But we didn't just talk about Facebook: we also talked about this other peer-to-peer file-sharing thing he had called Wirehog. 'I've got these two things,' he said. I said, 'You should focus on the Facebook thing. This could potentially go somewhere.'"Hoffman split his co-investment with long-term friend Mark Pincus, later founder of Zynga. "It was substantially under $100,000 each. I sold a little earlier [last] year, 30 per cent of my position on the secondary market as I didn't want to sell any LinkedIn stock." Thiel's $500,000 convertible loan bought him 10.2 per cent of the company, since diluted.Does Hoffman now kick himself about passing up the opportunity? "Not really," he says. "The only thing I kick myself for is, it would be more fun to be on the board working with [Mark Zuckerberg]."And after Facebook's IPO? "There's a lot of growth prospect in the company -- China, additional services that would add revenue. My sense is they'll supplant [Google's] Orkut in Brazil. Mark learns really fast. One of the conversations we have is, should we keep Facebook as it is, or should we modify it thinking about the China strategy. If we're blocked and we're not playing, are we doing less good than if we modify it? The position that I advocated was modifying it, as long as it's still in the vector of the mission." In a brutally competitive industry, Reid Hoffman's name triggers unusually warm tributes from a stellar list of associates and friends. "I haven't met a single person in more than 20 years in Silicon Valley who's more generous with their contacts or time, who's more willing to listen and learn and brainstorm, or who genuinely wants everyone he meets to become as good an entrepreneur as they can possibly be," John Lilly, Mozilla's former CEO and now a Greylock partner, said when introducing him at an Innovation Catalyst Award ceremony in December. Long-time friend Joi Ito, now running MIT's Media Lab, says of Hoffman: "He looks at the world as a huge game where he's trying to optimise for the common good. I don't know many businessmen with his level of social thinking." And Elon Musk, a former PayPal colleague and now CEO of Tesla Motors and SpaceX, sees him as driven simply to "create something truly useful to fellow human beings". Read page 2 123 Read on one page Latest on wired.co.uk


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The very white poetry of 'Mad Men'
A few weeks ago, I attended a "Mad Men" viewing party hosted by my good friend, the brilliant Time Out New York film critic Keith Uhlich.
Keith quoted a writer who summarized "Mad Men" as "'Roots' for white people," which prompted me, a black man, to ask everyone in the room my own questions: What was Superfly for white people? What was the Caucasian The Color Purple? Shaft?
Keith was quick on his feet: "The remake of Shaft was Shaft for white people," he said.
I'm not sure "Mad Men" is just "for white people," but it hasn't meant anything to me. The party, in fact, represented the first time I watched a complete "Mad Men" episode, despite all I've heard about the show from my critic friends. (I was able to discern major plot twists based on the shrieks, gasps, belly laughs and applause from Keith and the gang.)
For a black person like me, born and raised in what television would call "the ghetto," it isn't about good or bad. It's about comfort zones. In early childhood, television taught me to see "white" as simply the default for "human." Mister Rogers wasn't a "white man," but just a friendly neighbor with some weird friends. Ralph Kramden's delusional dreams and schemes had no color.
It was like Kevin Lee, an Asian-American film critic and "Mad Men" expert who attended Keith's party, put it: "The genius of 'whiteness' is that its ethnic blankness allows viewers of most any background to project themselves onto it, provided there's some attractive quality they find in it."
But while that was true for me in the context of the TV programming I grew up with, I was acutely aware of "whiteness" elsewhere, and the cultural differences it implied.
White kids were bused into my special "Creative Education" elementary school in Mount Vernon, N.Y. until city officials decided to move its finest institution to the white north side of town, and suddenly we black kids were the ones being bused to another planet. A teacher's redheaded daughter would sing "Tomorrow" from the musical Annie over the P.A. system. The other black kids and I would stare up at the loudspeaker like deer. Were we supposed to put our hands over our hearts?
Still, as I got older, I read books by white authors, enjoyed classic movies with all-white casts, contemplated overwhelmingly "white" art in museums, all with great appreciation and understanding, but those works which seemed cultivated expressly "for white people," communicating on frequencies out of my "black" range (even when they featured black people), tended to fill me with uncomprehending dread. That's right, I'm talking about "Silver Spoons." And L'Avventura.
I don't think I was ever as clueless as the black kid I happened to be standing alongside in an electronics store circa 1985, staring at a display TV showing the hit comedy "Cheers." "This shit is for white people," he groused. "What in the hell they laughing about?" He was wrong. "Cheers" is for everybody. As is "Seinfeld" and "Monty Python's Flying Circus," and "The Simpsons." They're just smart, and incidentally populated with white folks. (Conversely "The Cosby Show" and "Frank's Place" were rare examples of "black" network TV shows that really belonged to everyone.)
"Little House on the Prairie," "The Waltons," and "The Brady Bunch" were not white shows. They were epic stories about families trying to make it in America, and they invited in anybody who happened to be watching, no matter how exclusive the cast coloring. Until real-world racism from beat cops and teachers and merchants told me different, I had thought I was a Walton.
Another kind of "for white people" work is much easier to grasp. It conveys up front the notion that white people are a breed apart, morally, spiritually, intellectually. Birth of a Nation, Gone with the Wind, and The Searchers, yeah, sure, but also the first scene of the first episode of HBO's "The Wire," a moment that seemed so condescending to me that I could go no further with the series that virtually every white writer I know loves to pieces.
The opening of the series is a murder-scene conversation between a young hood-rat witness and a sage, world-weary white detective about the death of a lowlife named Snotboogie:
MCNULTY watches as the body, now bagged, is hauled into the back of the MORGUE WAGON.
MCNULTY: I got to ask you. If every time Snotboogie would grab the money and run away, why'd you even let him in the game?
WITNESS: What?
MCNULTY: If Snotboogie always stole the money, why'd you let him play?
WITNESS: You got to. This America, man.
The WITNESS looks away, oblivious to the poetry of it. MCNULTY turns around, takes in the scope of the tragedy that is Baltimore.
Yes, of course, the Witness wouldn't grasp the poetry of his own words. Of course, this is McNulty's moment to sigh deeply at the "tragedy that is Baltimore." This America, man.
"Mad Men" doesn't condescend in that way, but I still find it hard to relate to. Money and status seem to be on the line in nearly every encounter. That's why one character, a formerly slim, icy and glamorous blond who has become plump and was rechristened by "Mad Men" fans on the internet as Fat Betty, is a tragicomic figure in this show's universe.
The direction and music seemed designed to convey that nothing is sadder than being overweight and shoved to the margins of the rat race. Betty is living through the aftermath of a divorce and a cancer scare, sure, but the fact that she can't suffer these misfortunes in style, like Jackie O strutting down Madison Avenue, compounds the tragedy. It made me think of John Cassavetes' brutal kiss-off to middle-aged Gena Rowlands in Opening Night: "You're not a woman to me anymore." Fat Betty is the flipside of chubby, lonely but bubbly Queen Latifah staring down the abyss in the comedy Last Holiday.
In the abstract, the show's emphasis on ruin, alienation and social faux pas ought to speak to me as a fragile human being living in a fast-moving, competitive society. That the characters have something to lose and something to gain from scene to scene satisfies the most basic dramatic necessity.
But it's what Don and his people have to lose that ultimately renders it esoteric. The ultimate nightmare for these folks is to lose the lifestyle that government and industry have sold to them since the end of World War II, as the (White) American Dream, the one that Don sells for a living. Their greatest unspoken fear is to go to the dogs, the dogs being, well, the redlined, depressed neighborhoods where I come from.
"Whiteness" has always been a socio-economic matter. In a "Mad Men" essay entitled "The Sad Clown Dress," Deborah Lipp describes a moment where Betty Draper suffers a humiliating night of faux pas and discovering that her cheating, secretive husband is not exactly the princely hero he projects: "The surface of perfection is gone. She's exposed and looks broken. But underneath is a new found conviction about herself. Finally, she faces Don without makeup, without a hairdo, without even a color. The white robe accentuates the starkness of this moment. Now it is Don who's afraid of losing everything. And it's his expression of fear that brings her back. The next day, the house is filled with warm, renewing light. Betty is back to being an immaculate housewife, as if nothing happened. But a TV commercial brings it all back. It has all crumbled. Her perfect home, her handsome husband, they are empty surfaces that have all been sold to her. Betty is no longer buying."
It would be interesting to see what Quentin Tarantino, a product of multi-ethnic working class neighborhoods in L.A., would do behind the camera on a "Mad Men" episode. His punk history lesson Inglourious Basterds revels in "mistakes" (starting with the title) and the perseverance of life's D-students in a world of letter-perfect sociopaths-in-power. What mischief, what banana peels would Q.T. set in Don Draper's path?
What approach would we see from filmmaker Robert Downey, Sr., who actually worked in the real-life New York ad agency milieu in the 1960s, funneling these experiences into the anarchic Putney Swope (1969)? In Swope, militant blacks take over a swank agency, a one-joke premise crawling with cobwebs by now, sure, but one which still packs a punch in the stubbornly segregated Bloomberg-era Manhattan.
"Mad Men," which so far has given a few lines to a black maid, a black girlfriend and, in the latest season, a black secretary, actually does resonate in that way: In any of the "good jobs" I held in Manhattan across 20 years, I was either the sole black person or one of two black people in the office. A smattering of Asians or Hispanics completed the rainbow.
But that may also be the reason I had such a hard time finding black professionals to talk to who watch "Mad Men."
One black computer programmer who requested anonymity was candid about why he doesn't: "'Mad Men' isn't for me…. I don't know any black people who watch the show. I know they're out there, but I've never met any of them."
The programmer was quick to add that it's not because of the low melanin content, but because it's too familiar.
"It's not necessary for me to need a black or minority character to enjoy a movie or show, but 'Mad Men' is just so appropriately shiny and false," he said. "It reminded me a lot of dealing with the sales people I've dealt with over the years as a software developer. I've worked in offices for 25 years now, and I've been the only Negro in my different office departments more years than I'll admit. It's that way right now, in fact.
"Programmers don't come in our shade unless they're from India. Until the 2000's, I didn't see many minorities of any stripe in high positions at places I worked. So for me, I've spent my entire career watching white office folks bicker, fight, backstab, love, hate, succeed and fail, all the while doing little to involve somebody like me. So why the fuck would I want to watch this on TV?"
In an email exchange after we saw each other at the critic-party, Kevin Lee said he identified with the show, which read to him as a corporate-America survival guide.


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I have no issues with the mafia players but I'm tired of pre-mafia, mafia, post-mafia and mafia lounge threads on the main board. Is it that hard to get them their own forum? We do it for rivals, why not this?
Once again, don't bag on me mafia people, just tired of seeing the same threads week in and week out.
Yes, I do not play or even know what it is. Also, I know it's been discussed before but seems to be getting more and more.
Let the rips begin!
*Rest in peace corn dog chick and #Hoiball
Even though I play... I agree
I guess all threads show up on my site anyway; I don't isolate to one forum or another. No skin off my nose either way.
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It's in the gaming forum. It already has its own board? Unless there's some "main board" feature that I didn't know about. Not trolling. =)
Originally Posted by CMC
last year proves anyone can play in the Big Ten West and win games. But if you want to play real football we are the midwest option in the Big 12.
Originally Posted by ChrisMWilliams
--- The new forums will have a version of CyBookie!
Originally Posted by klamath632
It's in the gaming forum. It already has its own board?
Yep. The only thing to change is making individual subforums opt-in/out similar to politics. Sounds like a PIA to me but it would be cool if it happened so I could opt out of a few sports subforums that don't interest me.
Agreed! While we're at it, can we also get a separate forum for all the betting?
Originally Posted by cyclonestate
Agreed! While we're at it, can we also get a separate forum for all the betting?
You mean the Betting Board:
Betting Board - CycloneFanatic
Just like the Gaming & Groups forum it already exists. It all comes down to if it is possible to opt-in/out of individual forums to keep them from showing on the "main board". Don't know if it's possible with the forum software.
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I've never undestood why people squabble and complain about this. I usually just click on the individual forums instead of looking at the main forum page and it doesnt bother me. Just my thoughts.
Originally Posted by Cybyassociation
I've never undestood why people squabble and complain about this. I usually just click on the individual forums instead of looking at the main forum page and it doesnt bother me. Just my thoughts.
This is Cyclone Fanatic, there is no room for logic here sir!
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While we're at it, can we get a new subforum for each individual who creates a thread? Some people make silly threads that I don't care to read and I'd like the ability to opt out of them. Once I see a new thread, I have to click on it, even though I know I have no interest in it. Seeing all that bold text makes me antsy.
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An Electrostrictive Disc
Application ID: 12703
This tutorial shows how you can use the Electromechanics interface in COMSOL's MEMS Module to model Electrostriction. Electrostrictive materials (e.g. PMN-PT) exhibit nonlinear strain as a function of electric field.
This 2D axisymmetry model uses a parametric sweep of voltage to exhibit the nonlinear mechanical response to a linear variation in the electrical input. Note that the electrostrictive strain is unidirectional and is independent of the direction of the electric field.