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Monday Magic
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Punctuate (Unhinged, 2004)
One interesting aspect of Magic is that the game's immense success has allowed it a great deal of freedom to do weird and interesting things. This is arguably less true now, at a moment when the game is experiencing record-breaking sales and popularity, than it was in the game's first decade. Magic is selling now better than it has ever sold, and if part of that comes from what feels - occasionally, to long-time players like myself - like an increasingly conservative bent in the game's R&D, well, one simply cannot argue with results. (Also, keep in mind that even if I keep my hand in, I'm far from the most enfranchised, or typical, player. My perception of a creeping sameness in the product over the last few years is solely my own dissatisfaction, no different from, say, what you might expect from any kind of pop culture franchise whose fanbase is old enough to measure its history in decades.)
Something Magic used to do that they haven't done in quite some time is go full-in for laughs. In 1998 and again in 2004 Wizards of the Coast released two wholly comedic sets - Unglued and Unhinged. These sets were printed with silver borders, which you can see above. Normal sets are printed with black borders. Early sets also came with white borders, for various reasons, which were eventually mooted once it was decided that black borders looked better. (There have also been, briefly, gold bordered cards, used I believe for non-tournament legal reprints of championship decks. Pokemon does something similar, but Magic's tournament product sold poorly and was discontinued.) People don't like buying cards they can't legally play, which has also been a problem with the silver bordered sets: for obvious reasons they aren't legal in normal tournament formats like Standard, Modern, or Legacy. They're a niche product, then, constructed for kitchen-table players. Now, if that sounds dismissive - it's not. "Kitchen-table" - or lunchroom table, or game-store casual, or whatever you want to call it - is by far the largest "format" in the game.
A "problem" Magic suffers that its cousins in the world of kitchentop RPGs do not have is the existence of the tournament scene. The world of ultra-competitive players and wannabe grinders can act like a vacuum, squeezing a lot of the air out of the discussion of the game - this despite the relatively small percentage of players who will ever achieve success on the tournament circuit. A lot of writing about Magic online takes it as a given that the main audience for Magic is people who fancy themselves buddings pros, and therefore examine every new development with a ruthlessness that, supposedly, speaks to their experience and expertise as competitive players. Players like that have no use for a silver border set like Unhinged. There are a lot more people who play the game infrequently and casually than seriously and competitively - as with any long-running game, I believe - but the people who play it intensely, frequently, and with possible professional aspirations set the tone for much of the discourse.
Still, the Un-sets sold well enough. The problem, according to Mark Rosewater - the man responsible for both Un-sets - wasn't popularity but overprinting. In the decade-plus since Unhinged the game has had a lot of success targeting niche products for audiences outside the normal crowd who buy each regular Standard-legal expansion. The success of alternate formats like Commander, and Wizards' success in selling speciality product directly to that audience, speaks to the company's ability to identify and target multiple demographic niches within the larger demographic of Magic players. Lots of people buy Magic cards. Enough so that there are products aimed specifically at high-ticket collectors who will pay for exclusive reprints, and products aimed at people who exclusively play the Commander format, and oddball releases for unique formats like Planechase, Archenemy, and Conspiracy. The conservatism that occasionally appears in regular Standard-legal expansions does not extend to alternate formats which Wizards of the Coast has invested heavily in supporting.
Rosewater, despite the game's current success, has been trying unsuccessfully to get another Un-set off the ground pretty much since the last once was printed. Even given his track record - and if you look at the history of the sets he has personally spearheaded, he is responsible for a huge part of the game's current prominence - he hasn't succeeded yet. Although I personally am not playing much Magic now - due a combination of time factors and the fact that the Windows emulator on my Mac laptop went on the fritz and I haven't had the wherewithal to devote the afternoon to fixing it* - a new Un-set might actually get me to go back to a gaming store, even if just for an afternoon. Stranger things have happened.
*Magic: The Gathering Online is still only available for Windows. The reason why this is so in the year 2016 is apparently due to bad decisions made when they first began coding the game a decade and a half ago. They have repeatedly maintained that it is basically impossible that the game could ever come to Mac. Which is . . . what it is. Nerds, being nerds, have written a lot about the problem, if you care to look for it.
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Friday, April 01, 2016
It's been a busy couple weeks here! Last week the AV Club posted my article about the Batman / Superman bromance, in recognition of a certain "motion picture" which dropped recently. Also, I wrote a piece on anti-Communist paranoia in early Marvel Comics for their "Cold War" theme week.
Also, of course, my weekly reviews of new comics continue apace. This week I looked at the actually quite good Batman #50, while last week I spent some time on the, er, not quite so good Beverly.
And on top of all that, we also inaugurated a new feature, certain to take its place among all the other infrequently recurring features on this blog - Midweek Mixes. Give it a look, why don't you?
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Wednesday, March 30, 2016
Midweek Mixes
On the Floor of the Boutique, Vol. 1
Mixed by Fatboy Slim
In the rush to write premature obituaries for the compact disc, more than a few important things carry the risk of being forgotten. Like any medium the CD has its share of weaknesses, but more than a few strengths as well. (This is opposed to the cassette, whose only real strengths at the time were its size, portability, and recordability, the first two eventually eclipsed by smaller and more portable formats with far greater fidelity, and the third finally superseded by the spread of CD burners at the tail end of the nineties.) The CD had the advantage over cassettes in terms of fidelity and longevity (tape fidelity decreased with every play), and over vinyl in terms of length, size, and again, longevity. The question of fidelity in regards to compact disc sound quality in relation to vinyl is complicated by a number of factors, some of which are simply too technical for all but the most committed audiophiles. But for many listeners, the "warmth" and "personality" (grating pops and clicks) they ascribe to vinyl is actually distortion based on old media and poor equipment. A new vinyl record pressed from analog master tapes is indeed excellent, but will degrade every time it is played and requires expensive equipment to be properly appreciated.
Not so for the humble CD. I can go to my closet and pull out a twenty-year old CD and it will sound the same - just as good or bad as its mastering - as the day I bought it, even if I've played it every day in the intervening time. I don't need a particularly elborate piece of equipment to enjoy the sound. I don't own an expensive stereo, which surprises some people. I listen to music on my computer or in the car, or on headphones. Contrary to what someone like Neil Young would have you believe, humans do not possess super ears. There are only so many frequencies we can hear, and any attempt to increase fidelity beyond these frequencies is quixotic, unless your goal is to play Steely Dan for your dog.
The story goes (possibly apocryphal, but it's too good to let go) that the reason why early CDs were 74 minutes long was so that one disc could hold the entirety of Beethoven's 9th. The length was soon expanded to 80 minutes when engineers figured out there was another six minutes to be had on the disc's surface. What is important here is that I think - and perhaps this is just me - 80 minutes is probably the upper limit for most peoples' attention span when it comes to sitting down and listening to any single piece of music. Maybe it's because we've been conditioned by the length of the CD to think so, but 80 minutes is a long time. Long enough for a medium-length car ride. Long enough for most symphonies. Anything longer and you need an intermission.
Mix CDs popped up in the mid-90s as a response to the growing popularity of electronic music, and particularly the rise of celebrity DJ culture. Any faceless producer could compile an anthology, but only a DJ could make a mix. It's an odd phenomenon, on its face: you're buying a CD by an artist composed primarily of other peoples' songs. You're making an investment in the curatorial instincts of a disc jockey. Maybe it was a live recording of a night out, complete with flubbed transitions and crowd noises, maybe it was a studio creation precisely constructed on Pro Tools. Maybe, like Kiss Alive, it was a clever amalgam of both approaches. While a few pioneering electronic acts had always performed live, for most DJs and producers the DJ mix was the closest they could get to an actual live album, a relatively easy revenue stream rock and pop acts had been exploiting since 1963 when James Brown dropped Live at the Apollo. (The Orb's double album Live 93 was an early outlier, as a "live" album by an electronic act, something many at the time mistakenly believed to be a contradiction in terms. The Orb, being the Orb, had some fun with the idea.)
1998 was a good year for Fatboy Slim. You've Come A Long Way, Baby was the kind of pop crossover album American record companies had found somewhat elusive in the midst of the "electronica" push of 1997, which yielded only two real superstar releases (The Prodigy's Fat of the Land and Madonna's Ray of Light), alongside a number of respectable-if-not-blockbuster imports like the Chemical Brothers and Daft Punk. Much of America was perfectly comfortable accepting house and techno as the new default soundtrack for video games and movie trailers, but for most artists that did not translate into sales. Fatboy Slim was the nom de guerre of former Housemartins bassist Norman Cook, who had made a career for himself in the early part of the 90s as a remixer and house music producer using a number of aliases such as Pizzaman and the Mighty Dub Cats. On paper, Fatboy Slim was just another in a long line of disguises for Cook, one concocted for the specific purpose of producing music in the style of the newly ascendant "big beat" genre, a stupid name that was essentially invented to describe the peculiar hybrid of acid house and hip-hop pioneered by the Chemical Brothers on their 1995 album Exit Planet Dusk. (Fatboy Slim's first album was called, appropriately, Better Living Through Chemistry.) The Chems' sound was expansive, stylistically catholic, and defined by a potential for pop crossover.
The "problem" for Cook, if it can be called that, is that Fatboy Slim soon became a lot more famous than any of his other aliases. Fatboy Slim was in reality an modest and slightly goofy guy who was far more comfortable hiding behind the decks in a DJ both than on center stage. "Fatboy Slim" didn't exist, and this tension was obvious from the fact that Cook continued to produce remixes and occasionally perform under his real name at the peak of Fatboy Slim's popularity. There was, to be fair, no indication that You've Come A Long Way, Baby would be as popular as it became, but for a while there it was simply ubiquitous. You couldn't throw a stone in a movie theater in 1999 without hitting a movie that either used a Fatboy Slim song in the trailer or prominently on their soundtrack. "The Rockafeller Skank" was a weird anthem for a dance craze that never existed, but for a solid year the song was everywhere. You probably still remember the hook.
But before You've Come A Long Way, Baby, Cook dropped On the Floor of the Boutique. The Big Beat Boutique was the house club for Brighton-based Skint records, Fatboy Slim's label. The On the Floor of the Boutique series tapped out after two more entries, one by big-beat also-rans the Lo-Fidelity All-Stars and a third by label head Damian Harris under the name Midfield General. Both are good - I listen to the second disc a lot more than I've ever actually listened to the Lo-Fidelity All-Stars' actual albums, for instance - but the first release is the best.
Like any mixtape, different mix CDs are designed for different purposes. Some are more intimate affairs, some educational. On the Floor of the Boutique represents, with eighteen years' hindsight, a kind of historical artifact - anyone wanting to understand the "big-beat" sound outside the context of Chemical Brothers albums could do a lot worse. Skint mainstays like Cut La Roc and the unjustly forgotten Hardknox show up, alongside a pair of Fatboy Slim tracks (the excellent "Michael Jackson" and, of course, "The Rockafeller Skank" at the disc's climax). But there's also a bit of history, beginning with Michael Viner's Incredible Bongo Band's "Apache," one of the most frequently sampled songs in the history of hip-hop, similarly important to the industrial and hip-house sounds that converged in "big beat." The Jungle Brothers show up with a remix of their 1988 track "Because I Got It Like That," a welcome inclusion that also highlights the debt owed by contemporaneous British electronic music to late 80s and early 90s hip-hop, particularly Public Enemy and the Native Tongues groups.
More importantly, though, it's just a good mix. Listening to it again in preparation for this I was reminded again of just why I played the album so many times back in the day. Although it wasn't released in the United States until 1999, I ordered it from the UK soon after its release, as one of my first orders from Amazon.com. (I don't think it was my first order, but it's impossible to know since I can't see any records of Amazon purchases before 2007.) Like most good dance music, it's a great CD for driving.
A good DJ functions not just as a curator but as a master of ceremonies as well. Even if you're just sitting at home listening to the disc on your computer, it's designed to approximate the experience of enjoying a crowded night out on the dancefloor. I've never enjoyed dancing even though I love dance music - weird, I know - but I have seen Cook DJ once, at the height of his popularity in 1999. He knows how a night at the club should operate. Not every track can be a climactic banger. You build to multiple peaks over the course of a set. "Michael Jackson" comes in at about a third of the way through the disc, and serves as the disc first climax before dropping down into a more reserved mode with DJ Tonka's "Phun-Ky." There's another climax about twenty minutes later with the transition of Aldo Bender's "Acid Enlightenment" into Hardknox's brutal "Psychopath," before falling down again in anticipation of building into the one-two climax of Cut La Roc's "Post Punk Progression" segueing into "The Rockafeller Skank." More than just a live memento or a compilation of good tracks, this is textbook example of how a good DJ maintains the ebb-and-flow of a live dancefloor in real time.
With CDs on the outs and many music consumers either regressing into vinyl fetishism or wholly embracing digital (hope your music doesn't disappear when the cloud drifts away!), the poor mix CD has become something of an afterthought. Just like the album itself, people still make them and people still buy them. But the format is a poor fit for the digital age, where segued tracks in a single mix can't be easily extracted or incorporated into shuffle settings. Listening to a DJ mix requires patience, the conscious decision to sit down and listen to one thing for over an hour. Sometimes, though, it's worth the effort.
Availability: Even though I paid like $20 for an import back in the day you can probably find this for under $5 if you have a decent used CD store near you.
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Wednesday, March 16, 2016
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Monday Magic
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Holy Strength (Eighth Edition, 2003)
Meat and potatoes. It's hard to think of a simpler Magic card than Holy Strength here. It was published in the first Magic set - 1993's "Alpha" - and remained a staple of the game's "core sets" for almost twenty years. It was never really a "good" card, per se, although there are definitely certain circumstances when you would want to play it. But it was a familiar sight for multiple generations of players, enough so that it - like many other underpowered staples from the game's early days - was nevertheless a welcome presence.
The concept behind Holy Strength is not just simple, but rudimentary in such a way that it serves as a useful teaching tool. Holy Strength is an Enchantment - that is, a card you can cast that becomes a static ability, one that stays on the board and continues to be in effect unless and until another effect removes or alters it. In this case, Holy Strength provides a small boost to one of your creatures: a +1/+2 boost, to be precise, meaning one additional point added to their strength (the amount of damage they can dish out) and another two points added to toughness (the amount of damage they can survive). Say, for instance, you have one creature on the board - let's go with another relatively weak but sentimentally favored Core Set staple, the immortal Grizzly Bears:
So if you cast your Holy Strength on your Grizzly Bears, your Bears go from a respectable, if not particularly exceptional, 2/2 to a 3/4. That's nothing to sneeze at. Under certain circumstances, as I said, this is a perfectly respectable play. For instance, if you're playing Limited, where your card pool is, um, Limited, and you have to construct a deck out of a random pool of cards, there are times when you'll need that stalwart Grizzly Bear to fill the mana curve on your Green / White Selesnya deck.
But more often than not, if you're playing Constructed - any format Constructed - you will have access to better cards than Grizzly Bears and Holy Strength. Maybe even a card like . . . Anurid Brushhopper.
There is nothing really exceptional about Anurid Brushhopper. It's got a weird ability that you can't imagine using unless you built an entire deck around taking advantage of it - either a deck that needed you to discard a bunch of cards, or needed lots of blinking creatures, preferably both. But what makes it useful for this exercise is its stats - it's a 3/4 for CMC 3, or to be more precisely, for one green, one white, and one generic mana. That's the exact same price you'd pay for a Grizzly Bear with a Holy Strength attached, only on one card instead of two. It's more powerful because it's strictly better - essentially, one card that can do the job of two. If you had a choice between playing one Anurid Brushhopper or a Grizzly Bear with a Holy Strength, you'd be a fool to pick the latter unless there were other circumstances at play.
Magic is a numbers game. The decisions you make while building your deck all contribute to, hopefully, creating some kind of numerical advantage. If you've only got sixty cards in your deck (the minimum for Constructed, which for reasons of maximum efficiency its usually not a good idea to go over), every card has to pull its weight. Every card has contribute to your advantage - and if one of those cards is devoted to giving a small buff to another card, well, that's a very inefficient use of that precious slot. This is why Auras in general - not just Holy Strength, but most Enchantment cards dedicated to boosting creatures - can be a dicey proposition. One card that can't even function unless you have a creature on which to put it is an inefficient use of a card slot, unless the effect granted by the Aura is sufficiently powerful to overcome that weakness. Holy Strength isn't very strong, and even though it's cheap at just one white mana, it's just not worth it in most instances.
But it is cheap, and it is simple, which make it a great card for illustrating certain facets of the game - such as the usefulness (or lack thereof) of Auras, and the importance of card advantage. And if you're playing Limited, and need a cheap white spell to fix your curve - well, there you go. You probably have ten copies of the card stuffed in a shoebox somewhere. Even if you've never played Magic, you've probably got a few copies stuffed in the insulation of your house.
The other interesting thing about Holy Strength is that it's one of a matched pair with another card from the game's earliest days . . . UNholy Strength.
In terms of gameplay, Unholy Strength is slightly better than Holy Strength, inasmuch as black is the color much more likely to play cheap and aggressive creatures that could benefit from the kind of early-game boost a cheap Aura like this can provide. But that's not why it's interesting. Can you guess why this card, of all the 295 cards that made up the first Magic set, caused a bit of a ruckus? In 1993? It may not have inspired a Tom Hanks-starring made-for-TV movie about the hazards of fantasy gaming, but Magic did it's part to upset conservative parents across the Bible Belt, too. (For more information on this topic, check out this longer piece by Magic's own Mark Rosewater.)
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Tuesday, March 08, 2016
Hip to be Square
Paul Ryan was one of the squarest artists to ever work at Marvel. Nothing about his art was particularly flashy or stylish. At the time of his greatest successes, he definitely felt out of step with his surroundings. But in hindsight he was a remarkably - almost supernaturally - solid draftsmen and storyteller. His figures had weight. His action sequences flowed logically. His women were sexy and his tough guys were surly. He never missed a deadline.
He knew how to draw and he did it well. He was a consummate pro who could make even the most absurd ideas plausible - stuff that gets snickered at now, like Sue Storm's Malice-inspired cut-out costume, or the Thing walking around with a face full of scars (after a nasty fight with Wolverine) for almost three years - he made it work. He was comfortable settling into long runs working with the likes of Mark Gruenwald and Tom DeFalco, fellow craftsmen who put a lot of effort into making consistently readable, quality books, month-in and month-out. He was a pro, and in the end what more could any of us ask for?
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Monday, February 29, 2016
Monday Magic
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Dwarven Ruins (Fallen Empires, 1994)
Ah, Fallen Empires. Memories!
It really is amazing, in hindsight, that Magic survived as long as it did, because the first few years of the game were defined by a series of garbage decisions on every level - business, creative, gameplay - any one of which would have derailed anything less than a bonafide phenomenon. Fallen Empires was a bad set in many ways but it wasn't bad enough to kill the game. By 1995 they couldn't have killed Magic if they wanted to - and they sure seemed to be trying.
Magic's success during this initial period is also significant because of the game's positive impact on the comics industry. The game first premiered in 1993, during the beginning of the end of the early 1990s boom-and-bust. Right about the time - late Summer of that year, actually - when stores across the country were beginning to realize just how badly they had been screwed by a perfect storm of bad market conditions, this weird little trading card game (there had never been such a thing before, so people didn't even know how to categorize it) with spotty regional distribution started to seep into stores. The first Magic sets were printed in laughably small numbers. No one, least of all the people who made the game, expected what they got: a phenomenon that would in short order create an entirely new category of games. Comic book stores sitting on hundreds of unsold copies of Turok #1 and Adventures of Superman #500 desperately needed something to keep the doors open, and the fact that people were actually buying Magic cards in large amounts - when they could be found at all - was more than enough reason for these stores to embrace the new product. Hundreds of stores across the country closed in this period, but many of the ones whose doors remained opened survived because they started selling Magic cards.
The first few Magic sets were all underprinted. Even after Wizards of the Coast had begun to realize the scale of their success, they still couldn't quite figure out how much product was enough to satisfy demand. From Wikipedia:
Because previous sets were underprinted, often making them unavailable very quickly after they went on sale, more Fallen Empires cards were printed than any previous set. Wizards of the Coast announced the print run of Fallen Empires to be 350-375 million cards compared to 75 million for its predecessor The Dark. Booster packs were thus available until 1998 despite the fact that Wizards stopped shipping cards in January 1995.So how many Magic cards was enough? Somewhere between 75 million and 350-375 million.
This is why, when I first got into the game in 1995, Fallen Empires was everywhere. Along with Homelands and Chronicles, Fallen Empires was ubiquitous, overprinted, and soon discounted heavily by retailers who were trying to make up for lost time by loading up on as many Magic cards as the market could bear. The problem was that, like most of the other early expansion sets, Fallen Empires was weak. Not as weak as Homelands, mind you (still considered by universal consensus to be the worst Magic set ever printed), but weak enough that sales suffered.
I bought a lot of packs of Fallen Empires, though, for the simple reason that it was there. Stores still couldn't keep the core set (Fourth Edition, by then) in stock, but if you had money left over from comics burning a hole in your pocket and wanted to buy Magic cards, well, there were always packs of Fallen Empires on hand. It may not have been Mr. Right, but it was Mr. Right Now, if you know what I mean. When they pop up, it's worth pointing out that you can still to this day get a sealed box of Fallen Empires for around the price of a box of whatever the new product is.
Amazingly, all these weak, underperforming sets did little to lessen the insatiable desire for new Magic product. By 1995 there were other Collectible Card Games on the market, but Magic was still the one to beat. Ice Age was well-received and sold well, even if it was followed in short order by the aforementioned Homelands. As chaotic as the first three years of Magic production was, the market for the game only continued to grow, and those retailers who had embraced the game as a lifeline during a down period for the comic book industry. To this day it's rare to find a comic book store that doesn't at least carry new Magic product, even if they don't go so far as to support tournaments. (The fact that a pack of Magic cards has usually been around the price of a new comic probably helps.)
Anyway, Fallen Empires. It was a weak set in terms of gameplay but as far as flavor went it was actually pretty cool. There was a quite elaborate story behind the set, featuring a war among various factions on the Dominarian continent Sarpadia (I talked a little bit about Dominaria last week). The dwarves were fighting orcs and goblins, which is usually what dwarves do. Interestingly, despite their status as an evergreen fantasy race, dwarves have been largely absent from Magic for many years. Apparently there were various parties in Magic R&D who just didn't like dwarves, which seems weird considering that they're making a card game called Magic: The Gathering.
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Good news at Solarcentury and SolarAidMay 11, 2016
When the innovation team at Solarcentury told me they were shooting for a high-aesthetic solar product that could be integrated into a roof for the same price as modules bolted onto a roof, I didn't think they could do it. Yesterday we launched the world-first outcome of their passionate work, Sunstation, at the Tate Modern. And my misplaced pessimism stands as an example of the mass underestimation of solar that hindsight is revealing in many places around the world these days.
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I'm not in Minnesota (Austin, TX), my disc was disintegrating and really had to be removed, and the components (two rods, four screws, four "blockers," a cage, and a growth enhancing product similar to Medtronics's Infuse) were produced by a company named Stryker, not Medtronics. I had my surgery in October 2008.
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Perhaps bypassing the midfield altogether and playing hoof ball to a monstrous pairing of Eric Hassli and Harris is the short-term plan when both are fit.
The coach himself admits the number one priority now after the team approaches a season-opening clean sheet record is to get that offense clicking.
"Continuing to create chances and take chances, and scoring goals – it's the most important part of the game if you're doing everything else right," Rennie said. "We have to keep doing the other things right, but we have to take our chances when they come along."
Some suggest the stale offense is down to the injuries of Hassli, Camilo, Darren Mattocks and Etienne Barbara, but it really won't matter who's up front if they don't get the ball.


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The Windflower Resorts and Spa, Mysore
- Free breakfast, free WiFi, and free parking
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- 39 guestrooms
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- Mysore Zoo (2.3 mi / 3.7 km)
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Guests can indulge in a pampering treatment at the resort's full-service spa, Emerge Spa. Services include massages, facials, and body treatments. A variety of treatment therapies are provided, including Ayurvedic and hydrotherapy.
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Described by Verbinksi as "'Don Quixote' told from Sancho Panza's point of view," the film was to star Armie Hammer as the titular western hero with Johnny Depp as his
August 12, 2011
Described by Verbinksi as "'Don Quixote' told from Sancho Panza's point of view," the film was to star Armie Hammer as the titular western hero with Johnny Depp as his
The Social Network co-star Armie Hammer is the frontrunner to take on the title role in Walt Disney Pictures' The Lone Ranger , reports Variety . He would star opposite Johnny Depp, who has been attached to play sidekick Tonto.
To be produced by Jerry Bruckheimer and directed by Gore Verbinski, the big screen adaptation was written by Justin Haythe.
Depp will next film Dark Shadows for Warner Bros. Hammer recently… Continue reading Armie Hammer the Frontrunner for The Lone Ranger
TheWrap is reporting that Ryan Gosling is in talks to star in the title role of Walt Disney Pictures' The Lone Ranger opposite Johnny Depp's Tonto.
The site says that the talks are "early, and Gosling's schedule might not permit him to take the role." Gore Verbinski ( Rango , the first three "Pirates of the Caribbean" films) will direct the film for producer Jerry Bruckheimer.
Gosling is scheduled to shoot… Continue reading Ryan Gosling in Talks for The Lone Ranger ?
Johny Depp apparently wants Brad Pitt for the lead role in 'The Lone Ranger' remake. Depp picked Pitt's name in the mix to play the lead role in the movie's remake, in which Depp will play the role of Tonto. 'Pirates of the Caribbean' director Gore Verbinski signed on as the director for the Disney […] Continue reading Johny Depp 'wants Brad Pitt for 'The Lone Ranger' remake'
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Franklin College set two major single-game team records in its rout of women's basketball host St. Mary-of-the-Woods College on Wednesday night.
The Grizzlies breezed to a 122-68 victory on the Pomeroys' home court to improve to 4-1.
Franklin broke its previous team points mark of 109 scored against Asbury during the 1994-95 season. The Grizzlies also collected a whopping 79 rebounds, exceeding the school's previous best total of 64 set by Franklin against IU-Southeast in 1986-87.
Five Grizzlies scored points in double digits, led by sophomore Nichole Thompson, a Greenwood Community High School graduate, who tallied a game-high 19.
Senior Jess Prewett scored 16 points, junior Krista Schott followed with 14, senior Lindsay Rich had 12, and sophomore Brittany Elliott added 10 for Franklin, which shot 48 percent from the field.
St. Mary-of-the-Woods (0-6), which committed 35 turnovers, was paced by seniors Whitney Allen and Center Grove graduate Brittney Shaner, who scored 19 and 17 points, respectively.
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FPGA 'Adaptive' Debugging - what it is:
When you use ARM DS-5 Altera Edition with Altera Cyclone V SoC devices, the debugger understands your programmable FPGA logic design. Does something not work? Do you need the hardware to run faster? Simply recompile the FPGA portion of the design (or nicely ask your hardware designer to re-code and recompile), and the debugger automatically *adapts* and enables you to interact with the new 'hardware'. Pretty powerful stuff.
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Update on Mujeres Las Estrellas GroupA year ago, the trust bank Mujeres Las Estrellas (Women Stars), requested its first loan through KIVA, which was successfully funded. Now we are happy to report that the group finished paying back the loan a few days ago. The women are grateful and satisfied with the progress, because their small businesses have either grown a little or have maintained the same level. Currently the 8 women of this trust bank are starting another loan cycle and they are asking again for funds through KIVA.
Just as a reminder, these ladies are from a rural area in Guatemala full of agriculture fields, including the sweet crop of strawberries. In their last loan cycle we told the story of Rosa, who is doing great and is still part of the group. Now we want to share the story of Marta who is 34 years old and currently playing the role of secretary of the trust bank.
Marta is married and has 2 children aged 8 and 5 years old. She and her family are farmers and they are dedicated to the cultivation of strawberries, starting about 7 years ago. However, they could not grow as much as they wanted, because they needed financial capital. That is when Marta decided to join Friendship Bridge with the intention of finding working capital. She was accepted into the Microcredit Plus program from Friendship Bridge, which includes a loan and training. Now Marta is starting her third loan cycle. The amount requested will help her to buy foliar fertilizer and organic fertilizer for her crops, so they can continue with production. Marta's family cultivates 4 acres of land and has potential clients to whom they deliver between 25 and 35 boxes of strawberries. This allows the working capital to move more easily affording the family a consistent income.
In addition to the cultivation of strawberries, Marta also plants corn, beans, and squash. These products are used for both the family's own consumption and for sale. This means that Marta has the ability to repay the loan each month.
Both Marta and the other women of the group, receive training on business administration, money management, women's health, children's rights, and health, among other issues that are part of the benefit of Friendship Bridge's micro-credit and education program that serves to increase the knowledge of these women.
Previous Loan DetailsEight enthusiastic and empowered women make up the Trust Bank, Mujeres Las Estrellas (The Stars Women). They run businesses that revolve around agriculture and textiles in the lush village of San Jose Chirijuyu, Chimaltenango. This is a rural area in Guatemala full of agriculture fields, includi... More from Mujeres Las Estrellas Group's previous loan »
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About Friendship BridgeThis loan is administered by Friendship Bridge (FB), a nonprofit, nongovernmental organization that empowers thousands of impoverished Guatemalan women through its Microcredit Plus program. The program combines small loans averaging US$350 for four-to-twelve month loan terms with non-formal, participatory education.
As FB clients, women start, expand, or diversify their businesses and learn practical lessons on topics including business, health, and self-esteem. FB's clients borrow as a group, forming Trust Banks (groups of 7-25 women who serve as co-guarantors of the loan and act as a self-regulating support network).
Concurrent and Successive Loans
Our Field Partners often work with borrowers over a series of loans as the borrowers build credit, take out bigger loans, and expand their businesses. In order to make it easier for our Field Partners to post loans for borrowers who have been listed on Kiva before, we allow them to post successive and concurrent loans for their Kiva borrowers. This means that our Field Partners are able to post a borrower's second, third, etc., loan on Kiva without having to re-enter all of the borrower's information.
This borrower has been listed on Kiva before, so you'll see an updated loan description, as well as excerpts of the original descriptions from earlier loans. Most borrowers take out loans consecutively, meaning that they receive a second loan after having repaid the first. However, sometimes our Field Partners give out concurrent loans, allowing borrowers to take out one primary loan and a secondary "add-on" loan along with it. These "add-on" loans are typically smaller than the borrower's primary loan and serve a different purpose. Because Field Partners can now post loans as successive and concurrent loans, you will be able to track borrower progress over time and see the various ways a borrower is working with our Field Partners through funds from Kiva's lenders.
This is a Group Loan
In a group loan, each member of the group receives an individual loan but is part of a larger group of individuals. The group is there to provide support to the members and to provide a system of peer pressure, but groups may or may not be formally bound by a group guarantee. In cases where there is a group guarantee, members of the group are responsible for paying back the loans of their fellow group members in the case of delinquency or default.
Kiva's Field Partners typically feature one borrower from a group. The loan description, sector, and other attributes for a group loan profile are determined by the featured borrower's loan. The other members of the group are not required to use their loans for the same purpose.
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Success!! The loan was 100% repaid
- Repayment Term
- 14 months (Additional Information)
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- Oct 10, 2013
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Rock, Paper, Scissors: A new Chenal experience | Arts & Culture
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LITTLE ROCK, Ark. -- Celebrating 30 years in business, Marshall Clements is opening the doors on our latest project; a new design resource located at the Promenade at Chenal- 17711 Chenal Parkway, Suite D101.
We have traveled the world searching in strange markets, alley ways, homes and auctions to bring to Little Rock and surrounding region special one-of-a-kind pieces that you will absolutely love! At rock paper scissors there will be many reproduced antiques, 150 year-old relics and items from China to original designs and art, found objects along with many new product lines from around the world. As with our own legacy... each piece both new and old has a story.
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3.5 mile commute on roads with no streetlamps. Will one light be enough or will I need 2? Are there better options?
3.5 mile commute on roads with no streetlamps. Will one light be enough or will I need 2? Are there better options?
I'd recommend 2 (one on bars and one on helmet). A while ago I was riding in dense fog and had to turn my helmet light off since it was just bouncing off the fog and making things worse...I found the single Fenix on the bars to be sufficient but I slowed down a bit since not having a helmet light would make it more difficult for other road users crossing my path from side streets/driveways to see me. Now when it's foggy before I leave work I just remove the helmet light and mount it on the bars so I have 2 bar mounted lights, and still proceed with caution knowing it's more difficult for others to see me.
Lower/bar mounted light is nice because it works more like a low beam or fog light for foggy conditions, and it also casts longer perceived shadows on objects in your path, making them easier to see.
Helmet/head mounted light is nice because the light is always pointing where you're looking. The side spill from my helmet light illuminates my computer and gear indicators, which comes in handy. The main beam can be directed through turns so I can see objects not illuminated by the bar mounted light, and can also be directed at other road users that are about to become a danger to me in order to get their attention.
Using bar mounted and helmet mounted light lets you have the advantages of both types of lighting, and also allows you to have a backup (if one dies you can still get home with the other one).
A cyclist is a cyclist's worst enemy.
Also looking at the niterider MiNewt would it serve me better?
Personally, I use both with one steady and one on flash mode. Also, I augment them with another Fenix-like light on my helmet when really dark.
Don't forget a rear blinker like a Superflash. Or 2, even one on your helmet back. +1 on a ANSI class2 safety vest and reflector tape all over the bike if you are a belt & suspender type.
I saw someone question the safety of having a helmet mounted light recently. Didn't think much about it until I crashed and broke my helmet last week. Now I really wonder how/if having a helmet mounted light compromises safety. Anyone come across any info that might shed light (so to speak) on this issue?
I only have one L2dQ5 and it is mounted on my handlebars, not on my helmet.
www.4sevens.com the price for the L2D Premium Q5 actually drops to $57.50 if you apply the commonly used CPF discount code (I'm pretty sure the discount code is CPF8) and save 8 percent on price. Actually, that 8 percent will apply to your total order, so if you order lockblocks or batteries or anything else, the discount applies to those items as well. No sales tax, free shipping (although sales tax probably applies if you're in the same state).
Purchased. Now to go to rei to have them add my recipt and get a blinky.
I know there have been quite a few questions on commuting lights (must be the dwindling sunlight) but what would be better 2 fenix l2d's or 1 mte ssc p7 from deal extreme? Also which has better throw? The pluses about the fenix light arethat it is such high quality light and that it takes AA's. The mte ssc p7 would be cheaper but even with its user rated 400 lumens it is pretty bright. I am not a particularly fast biker but hills happen in the dark too. I would like to be able to see in front of me comfortably at 20mph.
What kind of shipping time does 4sevens normally have. I am cancelling my order through LA Police Gear and ordered through 4sevens. It has been over three weeks since I ordered from LA Police Gear, twice they told me it had shipped only to notify me later it was on back order. You were dead on about the Thomas distributing shipment. Received it this morning only 4 days after I placed my order.
Had I known about the free shipping and the discount before I ordered, I would have ordered from them to begin with.
Thanks for the information about the disount and the free shipping.
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alot? a lot.
Sometimes that combination of throw and spill can be achieved by combining different lights (for instance, one flashlight with more spill on the handlebar, one with ore throw on the helmet). I've also seen cases where a rider uses identical flashlights on a handlebar but uses diffuser film on one to produce more spill from that light while leaving the other as it is for throw.
One of the problems for most of us here who are researching flashlight use for bikes is that we don't get to experiment with lots of different lights before making the commitment to buy one kind or another. Our decisions are usually based on feedback from other folks who own one particular type and happen to like what they're using. (And many of us have slightly different needs for spill and throw depending on where and how we ride.)
Couple these things with the rapidly evolving LED/flashlight technology and it's about has hard as keeping up with the latest and greatest digital camera (in other words, what's best today might be be supplanted by some other better choice six months from now). It's not that what we buy today will be obsolete soon (because it will still be quite usable), but something that provides more throw, better spill, longer run times, etc., will surface and become the better choice of the day (for the price). At the same time, if we want to ride tonight...we have to buy today. Get caught in playing the waiting game for the next best technology and we get stuck in an unending loop and never buy. But making the decision on what to buy today is the tough part.
Further complicating this are the ever-expanding numbers of knock-off choices available via places like DealExtreme...some of which are good and some of which look good but have questionable build, performance, longevity, and manufacturer backing (over the long haul). Some of these are good lights, while some look good on paper (specification-wise) and look good in photos but don't always perform up to the level of appearances.
I dunno...sorry for rambling (I'm having a difficult time pulling my thoughts together on this at the moment).
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You'll find that 4sevens is a great seller. For those who aren't aware, 4sevens is the CPF user name for the owner of the business, and he has a small group of people working for/with him. So, you can sort of think of 4sevens as a person, a business, and a group of people. They're big on customer service and sell good quality products (and always seem to be branching out in the products they make available). Ever since I was referred to them back as Fenix-Store.com (by our own Zero_Enigma), I've been a happy customer (even if a bit lighter in the wallet).
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Sounds good,
I did find it a little difficult to navigate his site. I had to type in L2D Q5 in the search site to find the light I wanted.
The black background (while looking cool) is a little hard to read especially with the small text. I also think that he should put the free shipping on the site (maybe I missed it) but if so it should be more prominent. (that is the thing that suckered me into LA Police gear)
I did place my order so hopefully I will receive it by the end of next week. I also hope I do not have any problems getting a refund from the other site. I e-mailed my cancellation notice (we'll see)
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alot? a lot.
I think you did a pretty good job........
I prefer to think of the shipping as included in the price, not free! Thank your friends at CandlePowerForums for the CPF8 discount.
But let me run this by you and maybe you will need to re-evaluate whether or not that amount was added to your actual paid total.
In looking over my invoices and order updates, I think they have notified me of postage amounts after I've paid for items, but have not actually charged me those amounts. For instance, my last order from them was via PayPal and I paid the exact amount of the order on the day I placed the order. When the order shipped, I was given a second notice (an Order Update) that showed the postage amount. But...I was not actually charged that postage amount, because I had already paid via PayPal.
So...are you sure that you were actually invoiced for an additional $2.03 or were they just notifying that the postage was $2.03? Take a close look at the e-mail with that in mind . . . and did they really charge you or were they just tracking and notifying you of postage amounts?
Hope that makes sense, but do check it out and let us know.
OK, I had to double check for myself on the 4sevens shipping policy.
I think I was right in my last post that shipping charges not passed on the the customer, but the customer does seem to get a notification of what shipping costs actually were. I'm assuming that's some kind of automated notification.
They even handle local state assessed taxes for you (if you reside in the same state) as included in the listed price, which is nearly unheard of.
Here's the information on their shipping policy:
4sevens.com Shipping Info
You are correct, I checked my bank account and no money was taken from it. I just assumed that since they sent me the notice I would be charged for it.
I want to make a public apology to 4sevens, as it was my fault for not reading their shipping policy.
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alot? a lot.
After you pointed it out, I had to puzzle through it for a bit to figure it out myself. As a notification item, it's one of those things that could easily cause confusion.
But I'm pretty sure the 4sevens folks are watching this thread, and on your next purchase you will be heavily taxed and over-postaged.
umm, so are 2 fenix lights sufficient for commuting?
For some, yes, two Fenix lights (assuming something in the range of an L2D) would be sufficient. For others, no. I think it depends on where and when you ride (terrain, topography), what kind of bike you ride (relatively fast, relatively slow), and what kind of light (if any) you're accustomed to.
Someone commuting on more of a fast road bike in hilly or mountainous areas will need to see a lot farther because of potential speeds than someone like me who lives in a flat area and rides a mountain bike and generally doesn't get going all that fast. For me, two would be plenty at most times (one one handlebar, one on helmet) -- maybe not "satisfying," perhaps, but plenty to see by. But I really like to use two on the handlebar and one on the helmet, and that produces a comfortable amount of light for me for most of my riding. Others would laugh at such a puny amount of light (again, depending on what they're used to).
For someone who has never ridden with a light, or ridden only with a cheaper/poorer light, a single Fenix or two of them will seem to produce a substantial amount of light to ride by. But, that's a relative thing. For that same person, throw another light on and hey! The extra light is great. Why go back to one when I can have three? Or use something more powerful, then try to go back to a single to dual Fenix setup and your perspective might have changed.
So...yes. Two Fenixes are sufficient for commuting. For some people, in some riding situations. But not all of them in all situations by any means. That's my take, in any case...for the time being.


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With the Kentucky Derby out of the way, we turn our attention toward the Preakness and Belmont Stakes. Get the 2016 dates for those horse races right here.
American Pharoah won the 147th Belmont Stakes in one of the 10 best times recorded in the history of the race. Read on for more race information and fallout here.
Here is how to watch the 2015 Belmont Stakes online and on your tablet or mobile device.
Here is the list of all 146 winners of the Belmont Stakes including best times and performances.
Here are the time, channel, updated betting odds and Heavy's prediction for the 147th running of the Belmont Stakes.
American Pharaoh is a big favorite to win the Belmont Stakes & Triple Crown, but there are still ways to make money on the race. See the odds and props here.
CNBC's "Secret Lives of the Super Rich: The Triple Crown" follows American Pharoah and the family-run Zayat Stables through this year's Triple Crown season.
The 147th running of the Belmont Stakes is this Saturday. Find out which horses in the eight-horse field are dark horses and which are solid long shots.
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Here are the 2015 starting post-positions for each of the eight horses that are running in this Saturday's 147th running of the Belmont Stakes
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Classic 80's New Wave album from a seminal band. Favorite Tracks: "Fascination Street", "Lullaby", "Pictures of You"
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