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Social Butterflies
by Brienne Walsh
© Billy Kidd
June 13, 2013 —
Unless you live in a time capsule, you know how crucial social media has become to building a business, especially if you're in a creative industry like photography. Not only do photographers need to produce quality images, they also need to have a strong presence on social media sites in order to find new clients and enhance their reputation. In today's world, you could be as talented as Steven Meisel, but if you don't have a Tumblr blog, then chances are no one under the age of 30 has heard of you.
Billy Kidd didn't start his career as a photographer; rather, he was a debt collector in Phoenix, Arizona. It took getting laid off from his job in 2007 to go back to school at Scottsdale Community College (he had dropped out after having his son, who's now 13), where he started taking some elective photography courses. "My professor introduced me to a photographer who needed an assistant," Kidd says. "I had a lot of experience with computers, because I was majoring in computer science, so he took me on."
Pretty soon, Kidd was taking images of his own. Within a few years, he had amassed a large enough body of work that he decided it was time to move to New York, where he was determined to get a job—any job—working for Irving Penn, who had been his long-time idol. "I arrived in September of 2009 prepared to do anything it would take to get in with him," Kidd says. "Then, in October of 2009, I read online that he had died. I was heartbroken."
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This invention relates to methods and apparatus for rendering graphics primitives to frame buffers in computer graphics systems. More specifically, this invention relates to methods and apparatus for generating arbitrarily shaped tiles in computer graphics systems that render graphics primitives to frame buffers and display devices in the computer graphics systems.
Computer graphics workstations can provide highly detailed graphics simulations for a variety of applications. Engineers and designers working in the computer aided design (CAD) and computer aided manufacturing (CAM) areas typically utilize graphics simulations for a variety of computational tasks. The computer graphics workstation industry has thus been driven to provide more powerful computer graphics workstations which can perform graphics simulations quickly and with increased detail.
Modern workstations having graphics capabilities generally utilize "window" systems to organize graphics manipulations. As the industry has been driven to provide faster and more detailed graphics capabilities, computer workstation engineers have tried to design high performance, multiple window systems which maintain a high degree of user interactivity with the graphics workstation.
A primary function of window systems in such graphics systems is to provide the user with simultaneous access to multiple processes on the workstation. Each of these processes provides an interface to the user through its own area onto the workstation display. The overall result for the user is an increase in productivity since the user can then manage more than one task at a time with multiple windows displaying multiple processes on the workstation.
In graphics systems, some scheme must be implemented to "render" or draw graphics primitives to the system's screen. "Graphics primitives" are a basic component of a graphics picture, such as a polygon or vector. All graphics pictures are formed with combinations of these graphics primitives. Many schemes may be utilized to perform graphics primitives rendering. One such scheme is the "spline tessellation" scheme utilized in the TURBO SRX graphics system provided by the Hewlett Packard Graphics Technology division, Fort Collins, Colo.
The graphics rendering procedure generally takes place within a piece of graphics rendering hardware called a "frame buffer." A frame buffer generally comprises a plurality of video random access memory (VRAM) computer chips which store information concerning pixel activation on the system's display screen corresponding to the particular graphics primitives which will be traced out on the screen. Generally, the frame buffer contains all of the pixel activation data, and stores this information until the graphics system is prepared to trace this information on the workstation's screen. The frame buffer is generally dynamic and is periodically refreshed until the information stored on it is written to the screen.
Thus, computer graphics systems convert image representations stored in the computer's memory to image representations which are easily understood by humans. The image representations are typically displayed on a cathode ray tube (CRT) device that is divided into arrays of pixel elements which can be stimulated to emit a range of colored light. The particular color of light that a pixel emits is called its "value." Display devices such as CRTs typically stimulate pixels sequentially in some regular order, such as left to right and top to bottom, and repeat the sequence 50 to 70 times a second to keep the screen refreshed. Thus, some mechanism is required to retain a pixel's value between the times that this value is used to stimulate the display. The frame buffer is typically used to provide this "refresh" function.
Frame buffers, or "display processors," for displaying data in windows on display screens in graphics rendering systems are known in the art. See U.S. Pat. No. 4,780,709, Randall. As taught in the Randall patent, a display processor divides a display screen such as a CRT into a plurality of horizontal strips, with each strip being further subdivided into a plurality of "tiles." Each tile represents a portion of a window to be displayed on the screen, and each tile is further defined by tile descriptors which include memory address locations of data to be displayed in that particular tile. See Randall, col. 2, lines 23-35. The tiles generally contain a plurality of pixels, although a tile can be as small as one pixel in width. Each viewing window may be arbitrarily shaped by combinations of different tiles which are rectangularly shaped See Randall, col. 1, lines 55-67.
Since frame buffers are usually implemented as arrays of VRAMs, they are "bit mapped" such that pixel locations on a display device are assigned x,y coordinates on the frame buffer. A single VRAM device rarely has enough storage location to completely store all the x,y coordinates corresponding to pixel locations for the entire image on a display device, and therefore multiple VRAMs are generally used. The particular mapping algorithm used is a function of various factors, such as what particular VRAMs are available, how quickly the VRAM can be accessed compared to how quickly pixels can be rendered, how much hardware it takes to support a particular mapping, and other factors.
In high performance computer workstation systems, it is generally desirable to access as many pixels simultaneously as is practical. However, to access as many pixels simultaneously as possible implies that each VRAM cycle accesses all VRAMs. Furthermore, high-density VRAMs are generally much slower than the hardware that renders pixels. There is therefore a long-felt need in the art for computer graphics renderers and frame buffers which allow simultaneous access to as many pixels as are needed to render an image, thereby reducing the number of accesses required to the frame buffer to completely render the image and decreasing the time it takes to ultimately write a graphics primitive to the system's screen.
Typical CRT devices for use with graphics workstations are "raster scan" display devices. Typical raster scan display devices generate images comprising a multiplicity of parallel, non-overlapping bands of pixels comprising sets of parallel lines. An example of such a system is disclosed in U.S. Pat. No. 4,695,772, Lau et al. The raster scan device disclosed in the Lau et al. patent is organized as an array of tiles. See Lau et al, col. 2, line 36.
Raster scan devices generally utilize a multiplicity of beams for the red, green and blue (RGB) channels in the CRT. The multiplicity of beams generally write from the left side of the display CRT to the right side of the display CRT. For the purposes of dividing the CRT into tiles (a process called "tiling"), each tile is considered to comprise a height or resolution equal to the multiplicity of scan lines, with each tile being a particular number of pixels wide. The resulting graphics primitive image thus comprises a multiplicity of parallel, non-overlapping sets of parallel lines of pixels generated by a separate sweep of electron beams across the CRT screen. The tiles are generally rectangular, and thus organize the image into arrays having a plurality of rows by a set number of columnar tiles. See Lau et al., col. 4, lines 12-27.
Typically, rendering algorithms calculate consecutive pixel values for consecutive pixels with small changes in their x,y addresses from pixel to pixel. This means that there is a large degree of "coherency" in the pixel addresses. When arranging VRAMs for simultaneous pixel access, it is desirable that the pixels that are accessed are allowed to be highly coherent.
The VRAMs are arranged so that a rectangular region of the display that contains "tile-sized" pixels has one pixel accessed from each VRAM that comprises a bank. A "bank" is a slice of the depth required for each pixel, where the "depth" may be conveniently thought of as a VRAM width. The number of banks available to a pixel is thus equal to the depth of the tile divided by the VRAM width, and the "tile size" is defined as the number of VRAMs divided by the number of banks.
To illustrate this organization, consider a tile size of 16 with the VRAMs organized as a 4�4 array. Each VRAM may be denoted by a letter and thus, the letters A through P denote 16 particular VRAMs. In general, frame buffers are replicated in the horizontal and vertical directions and each VRAM contains multiple pixels with each instance of a VRAM denoting a unique pixel location. For a tile size of 16, 16 coherent pixels share a common VRAM address. Thus, a traditional method for physically addressing the VRAMs has evolved since, if all the VRAMs in the frame buffer are always given the same VRAM address, a rectangular group of pixels will be accessed with each VRAM cycle. This rectangular group of pixels is denoted a "tile" as previously discussed.
Prior rendering algorithms to generate pixel values sequentially generate all the pixels that make up a primitive, such as a polygon. Each primitive that comprises an image representation is used sequentially to generate pixel values. Therefore, a group of pixel values is generated which is stored in the frame buffer VRAMs. The x,y addresses of at least one of the pixels of a primitive is used to determine what row and column address should be applied to the VRAMs. Then, all the pixels in the appropriate VRAMs. However, not all pixels in the group are accessible with a first tile access, and therefore additional tiles must be accessed from the frame buffer in order for the system to write a primitive to a CRT.
The average number of pixels actually stored with each tile access is called the "tile hit rate." Since primitives are usually not rectangular, the tile hit rate can be rather low because each access to the frame buffer cannot hit every row and column address for each pixel outside of a rectangular region. There is therefore a long-felt need in the art to improve tile hit rates on frame buffer computer graphics systems. This long-felt need in the art has not heretofore been adequately met by any prior rendering algorithms or computer workstation frame buffers and renderers.
Methods of rendering graphics primitives to display devices in a computer graphics frame buffer system are provided in accordance with the present invention. The methods comprise the steps of providing an array of addressable video random access memory (VRAM) chips associated to perform the graphics frame buffer, addressing the VRAMs in the frame buffer with coordinate pixel locations on the display device corresponding to locations of the graphics primitives on the display device, and accessing the frame buffer with a graphics renderer according to arbitrarily-shaped tiles containing pixels such that the pixels within the tiles have potentially different VRAM addresses.
Additionally, systems for rendering graphics primitives are provided in accordance with this invention. The systems comprise means for displaying the graphics primitives, frame buffer means interfaced with the display means for addressing the primitive's locations on the display means according to a plurality of rows and columns, rendering means interfaced with the frame buffer means for generating groups of pixel values on a display means corresponding to the graphics primitives, and access means interfaced with the frame buffer means for accessing tiles on the frame buffer means wherein the tiles are dynamically modified by the access means to obtain a best fit of the groups of pixels to the graphics primitives.
FIG. 1 depicts a frame buffer comprised of a plurality of VRAMs wherein rectangularly shaped tiles are generated.
FIG. 2 depicts a frame buffer provided in accordance with the present invention wherein arbitrarily shaped, arbitrarily addressed tiles are generated.
FIG. 3 depicts a system for generating arbitrarily shaped, arbitrarily addressed tiles that are rendered to a graphics frame buffer and for imaging graphics primitives on a display device such as a CRT.
FIG. 4 is a flow chart illustrating a method for generating arbitrarily shaped, arbitrarily addressed tiles to a graphics frame buffer and displaying the arbitrarily shaped, arbitrarily addressed tiles corresponding to graphics primitives on a display device.
The above-mentioned long-felt needs are solved by methods and apparatus provided in accordance with the present invention which provides arbitrarily addressed and arbitrarily shaped tiles in computer graphics frame buffer oriented systems. All graphics subsystems can be considered to be tile organized. The main difference between the various different kinds of tile-organized graphics subsystems on the market today is the size of the tiles. For example, some graphics subsystems access single pixels which can be considered as 1�1�1 tiles. Others access tile sizes that are multiple pixels in the x,y (row and column) directions.
Typical raster scan displays are organized along scan lines wherein pixels in the display are activated according to bit-mapped or frame buffer coordinate pixel values. In this way, graphics primitives which potentially have random orientations and sizes are plotted on the raster display. A frame buffer is accessed by a scanning raster CRT according to a row address strobe (RAS) and a column address strobe (CAS).
To illustrate tile organization in a raster scan CRT and graphics frame buffer system, consider a standard 4 �4 tile organization with a RAS size of 128 w�32 h and 32 w �8 h columns shown in FIG. 1. Since each tile size is 4 �4, there are a total of 16 VRAMs in each of the blocks shown generally at 20. Each VRAM is assigned a letter, A through P, as shown in the center blocks which have been replicated four times. By individually addressing each of the VRAMs, there is no limitation on the orientation of the tile. Thus, any 4�4 area in the VRAM array is made up of all 16 RAMs such as the 4�4 tile shown at 30. Since in this array is made up of 128 K�8 parts each "pixel" is eight bits deep, and thus there is effectively byte addressability for the tile shown at 30.
The starting address of each scan line on the raster CRT is at the left side in FIG. 1. The upper left block corresponds to the upper left portion of the CRT device. Thus the first four scan lines start in column 0, row 0 shown generally at 40. Similarly, the second four scan lines start in column 32, row 0 shown at 50. The other sets of scan lines progress in a similar fashion and the cross between the row 0 and the row 1 in the horizontal direction (x) is just after column 31. The replication in the horizontal and vertical directions, x and y respectively, denote that each VRAM contains multiple pixels with each instance of a VRAM denoting a unique pixel location.
The dashed outlined regions of the frame buffer shown in FIG. 1 represent regions on the frame buffer where each pixel has the same VRAM address which is defined by a particular row and column number. Sixteen coherent pixels share a common VRAM address. The traditional method for physically addressing VRAMs in a frame buffer can then be illustrated with the frame buffer shown in FIG. 1 since all the VRAMs in the frame buffer are always given the same VRAM address. Therefore, a rectangular group of pixels will be accessed with each VRAM cycle.
Common rendering algorithms which generate pixel values and rectangular tiles usually sequentially generate all pixels that make up a primitive such as a polygon. Each primitive that composes the image representation is then used to sequentially generate pixel values. The pixel values are stored in the frame buffer VRAMs and the x,y address of at least one of the pixels is used to determine what row and column address should be applied to the VRAM. Then, all the pixels in the group so generated are stored in a rectangular tile of pixels. However, not all pixels in the tile will be accessible by the first rectangular tile access, so additional tiles must be accessed to complete the process of writing the graphics primitive to the CRT.
The average number of pixels actually stored in the tile is defined as the "tile hit rate." However, since primitives on the average are generally not rectangles and previous tiles in prior graphics frame buffer systems are rectangular, the tile hit rate can be rather low.
A low tile hit rate evinces an inefficient graphics frame buffer system which requires an increased number of frame buffer accesses to write the primitives to the screen. An increased number of frame buffer accesses further requires the computer graphics system to incur unacceptable computer overhead times.
In accordance with the present invention, the frame buffer is accessed in preferred embodiments according to non-rectangular tiles containing pixel values. The tile shapes are then dynamically modified to provide a "best fit" group of pixels generated by a graphics renderer to the graphics primitive. Although tiles provided in accordance with the present invention still represent some constant number of pixels that are accessed in parallel, in preferred embodiments the pixels within a tile are not restricted to having the same VRAM address. In still further preferred embodiments, a tile can be any group of pixels wherein each pixel comes from a unique VRAM. While the pixels are allowed to be coherent, they are not required to be coherent in accordance with the present invention.
Referring to FIG. 2, a comparison of tile hit rate for arbitrarily shaped, arbitrarily addressed tiles provided in accordance with the present invention for a graphics primitive on a frame buffer graphics system is compared to the hit rate for rectangular tiles. The desired primitive to be rendered is shown in dashed lines at 60. Accesses with rectangular tiles shown in dashed lines generally at 70 require four frame buffer accesses with an average of 4.75 pixels per tile when the tiles are rectangularly shaped. With tiles provided in accordance with the present invention, shown in a bold line at 72 and 74, only two frame buffer accesses are required to form the same primitive with an average of 9.5 pixels per accessed tile.
Tile 72, while being rectangular, is arbitrarily aligned containing all of the VRAMs A-P. Tile 74 is both arbitrarily shaped and arbitrarily aligned containing all of the VRAMs A-P. Thus, arbitrarily shaped tiles increase the hit rate an average of 100% over fixed rectangularly shaped and rectangularly aligned tiles. This provides a significant decrease in the number of accesses required to the frame buffer in order to render the graphics primitive. Therefore arbitrarily shaped tiles provide the highly desired result of reducing frame buffer accesses, thereby reducing microprocessor overhead time and increasing the speed in which graphics primitives can be written to a CRT. Arbitrarily shaped and arbitrarily aligned tiles provided in accordance with the present invention solve a long-felt need in the art for graphics rendering systems which fully and efficiently utilize VRAM architecture in a frame buffer and greatly reduce the time necessary to write graphics primitives to a display device.
Systems provided in accordance with the present invention generate arbitrarily shaped and arbitrarily aligned tiles on graphics frame buffers and write these graphics primitives to display devices such as CRTs. Referring to FIG. 3, a frame buffer is shown generally at 80. The frame buffer is divided into groups of arbitrarily shaped subtiles shown generally at 90. In preferred embodiments, the subtiles are comprised of 1�4 pixel tiles 90 which are arbitrarily aligned. CRT device 100 is shown with a graphics primitive 110 written thereto. As an example of a typical graphics primitive, a four-sided trapezoidal figure comprises graphics primitive 110. Display devices such as CRT 100 typically stimulate pixels sequentially 50-70 times a second so that primitive 110 remains imaged on CRT 100.
The CRT generally comprises pixels having x and y coordinate values. The x and y coordinate values correspond to row and column values respectively on frame buffer 80. Rendering means 115 is interfaced with the frame buffer 80 through a data line which busses pixel value data from the rendering means to the frame buffer through column address line 125 and row address line 135.
In still further preferred embodiments, rendering means 115 is divided into a set of four separate subrendering machines, shown at 120, 130, 140 and 150 respectively. Column address line 125 containing a CAS signal and row address line 135 containing a RAS signal is interfaced with each of the subrenderers 120, 130, 140 and 150. In accordance with the present invention, four independent subrenderers each generate all the pixel values for primitive 110 having the same y address, modulo 4. This allows a tile to have more vertical height to better match the shape of primitive 110.
Each of the four independent subrendering machines 120 through 150 are assigned a different modulo 4 number and each machine generates all pixels for primitive 110 with a given y address before generating any pixels with other y addresses. In this fashion, a group of pixels with the same y address is defined as a "span" and the pixels in a span are generated sequentially with consecutive x addresses. Each of the four subrenderers creates a separate span and since the four separate subrenderers are only loosely coupled, a given machine may completely render all pixels for a primitive and then move on to the next primitive independent of the other machines.
Each of the subrenderers 120 through 150 provides the x and y address of the first pixel it generates in each span and the direction in x which it intends to generate subsequent span pixels. Therefore, four such span addresses, one from each of the subrenderers, are used to generate addresses for the frame buffer VRAMs. In still further preferred embodiments, the arbitrarily shaped tiles provided in accordance with the present invention comprises of four groups of pixels with each group being coherent, but the four groups being uncorrelated. The four groups of pixels are shown at 90 and generate the tile corresponding to primitive 110 on the CRT. Furthermore, the pixels within a group represent at most two VRAM column addresses.
Rendering means 115 is interfaced to access means 170 through a data line 160. Date line 160 busses data comprising multiplexed and refresh addresses shown generally at 162, as well as span addresses, shown generally at 164, to access means 170. The frame buffer 80 is interfaced to the access means 170 through CAS line 125 and RAS line 135. Column address line 125 outputs a CAS signal from access means 170 to frame buffer 80 signifying the column scan for the raster display, while row address line 135 outputs a RAS signal to the frame buffer 80 for row scanning.
Port 180 of frame buffer 80 accesses CRT 100 when a new primitive must be imaged on CRT 100. When a new primitive which has been rendered to the frame buffer is to be imaged on CRT 100, port 180 is enabled by the access means so that the tiles on frame buffer 80 representing pixels in the new primitive can be traced on the CRT 100.
Referring to FIG. 4, a flow chart of preferred embodiments of methods for imaging primitives on graphics display devices is illustrated. The process begins at step 190. It is desired at step 200 to access the frame buffer for pixels having the same y address, modulo 4, with four independent accesses. At step 210, each of the independent accesses is assigned a modulo 4 number. Preferably for each access, all pixels with a given y address for a particular primitive are generated, thereby forming a group of pixels which is defined as a span at step 220. There are thus four independent spans generated.
At step 230, four such spans are generated sequentially with consecutive x addresses. At step 240 it is generally desired to render the column and row addresses of a first pixel in each span, and the column direction in x for subsequent span pixels for all four accesses of the frame buffer VRAMs. At step 250, addresses are generated for the frame buffer from each of the span addresses so determined at step 220 through 240.
At step 260, it is desired to determine whether different y addresses for the primitive are needed. If different y addresses corresponding to columns do indeed exist for the primitive, the process begins again at step 200 and new span addresses and thus a tile for a new set of spans corresponding to different column addresses are calculated. If there are no more column or y addresses, then the primitive has been rendered to the frame buffer at step 270 and the CRT can subsequently either be refreshed with the primitive or initially plotted with the primitive. The process is then stopped at 280.
The four spans so generated for each column address modulo 4 create an arbitrarily shaped and arbitrarily addressed tile which increases the tile hit rate for frame buffer access at least 100% over a fixed rectangular shape and rectangularly aligned tile. This is accomplished by heating arbitrarily shaped arbitrarily aligned tiles which provide a "best fit" tile to graphics primitves on the system. This is a highly desirable result since the microprocessor time to image the primitives from tiles rendered to the frame buffer is greatly reduced and the speed in which primitives are written to the graphics system display device is substantially increased.
Thus, arbitrarily shaped, arbitrarily addressed tiles provided in accordance with the present invention which are dynamically modified to provide a best fit from the group of pixels generated by the renderer solve a long-felt need in the art for devices which rapidly and efficiently plot graphics images rendered on frame buffers to graphics display devices, such as CRTs. This need has not heretofore been fulfilled in the art by prior bit mapped, frame buffer systems.
There have thus been described methods and apparatus for producing arbitrarily shaped and arbitrarily addressed tiles in graphics frame buffer systems. While preferred embodiments have been disclosed and described, it will be recognized by those with skill in the art that modifications are within the true spirit and scope of the invention. The appended claims are intended to cover all such modifications.
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The Beach Boys' 'Surfin' USA' is heard in this episode.
The building used for the exterior of Joey Epic's office (it's a white building with rounded balconies on one end) is 101 Ocean, located at the end of Ocean Ave. in Santa Monica.
When Face and Hannibal start singing "Moon over Miami," they are standing in front of a sign announcing the opening of the "Sunset Bay Towers." The building was constructed in Long Beach, California, in 1984; it is now known as the Ocean Club.
The final battle with the bad guys was shot at Long Beach; the towers in the background (across the water) are camouflaged oil rigs on Island Grissom, named for astronaut Virgil Grissom, who died during a preflight test for the Apollo 1 mission on January 27, 1967, along with astronauts Edward White and Roger Chaffee.
While the story takes place in Miami, it was (of course) shot in and around Los Angeles, including Marina del Rey. The Marina Towers, located at 4640 Admiralty Way, are visible in the background while Joey Epic has his meeting at the (fictional) Farsider Inn.
Goof: The story is set in Miami; however, in one of the opening shots in the episode, there is a street sign for "Las Olas Blvd.," which is in Ft. Lauderdale, Florida, not Miami.
Murdock wears two T-shirts in this episode. The first says, "There's a creep in your future." The second says, "Minds are for people who think."
Joey: You, uh, you sign right there on, uh, on the dotted line. Here.
(Joey hands Hannibal the deed to the hotel, expecting a signature)
Hannibal: Right here, huh?
Joey: Yeah.
(Hannibal sets the deed on fire)
Joey: What are you doing? What are you doing?! What are you crazy? Are you crazy?!
Hannibal: I didn't like the terms.
Murdock: I should have the binocs. Faceman said I am the lifeguard.
B.A.: You're gonna be a package of cream cheese in a minute. I'm the lifeguard; you can't even swim!
Face: Ah, relax, B.A., relax. Dentists are our friends. If you're real good, he uh, might give you a sucker when he's done.
B.A.: A sucker is what I feel like for bein' here.
Murdock: Now, B.A., listen to your commanding officer. This is sunny Florida. It's the fun city. You know, fun, fun, fun, 'til her daddy takes the T-bird away.
Murdock quotes more lyrics here from the 1964 Beach Boys hit "Fun, Fun, Fun."
Hannibal and Face: (singing) Moon over Miami. Shine on my love tonight.
A popular jazz song, "Moon over Miami" was written in 1935 by Joe Burke and Edgar Leslie and recorded by several artists the following year. It was also the inspiration for a 1941 movie musical starring Don Ameche and Betty Grable, and a short-lived TV series in 1993.
Murdock: Boy, I sure wish we had Superman. Even Jimmy Olsen.
In the fictional world of Superman, Jimmy Olsen was a cub reporter and photographer for The Daily Planet.
Murdock: (singing) Well, she's got her daddy's car and she's cruising to the hamburger stand, now ....
Murdock is singing the 1964 Beach Boys hit "Fun, Fun, Fun," though he has modified the lyrics slightly; the original lyrics were "Well, she got her daddy's car and she cruised through the hamburger stand, now."
Murdock: (singing) East Coast girls are neat; I really like those styles they wear. Those Southern girls and the way they kiss, they keep their boyfriends warm at night. I wish they all could be California -- I wish they all could be California -- I wish they all could be California girls.
Murdock is singing the 1965 Beach Boys hit "California Girls" -- though he mangles the verse quite a bit.
Murdock: (singing) If everybody had an ocean across the U.S.A., then everybody'd be surfin' like Californ-i-a. You'd see them wearing their baggies, Huarache sandals, too. A bushy, bushy, blond hairdo ....
Murdock is singing the 1963 hit "Surfin' USA." The original song, as sung by the Beach Boys, accompanies the opening shots of this episode.
Murdock: (singing) Goin' to Surf City, just to have some fun.
Murdock and Face: (singing) We're goin' to Surf City, where it's two to one. Two girls for every guy.
Murdock and Face are singing the 1963 Jan and Dean hit "Surf City," which was written by Beach Boy Brian Wilson. However, Face and Murdock don't quite get the lyrics right; it's "gonna have some fun" and "two girls for every boy."
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Flyers Toppled By The Blues John Vanbiesbrouck Was Victimized By Goals That Imply The Team Needs Help In The Net For The Playoffs.
March 1, 2000
By Tim Panaccio, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
If there remains any debate over how far goalie John Vanbiesbrouck's game has fallen and why rookie Brian Boucher has become the starter, it may have been settled last night at the Kiel Center. Vanbiesbrouck fought the puck from tough angles the entire game, while giving up three hideous goals that proved fatal as the Flyers' six-game unbeaten streak ended with a 3-2 loss to the Blues. What made the loss tough to swallow was how competitive the Flyers battled without five veterans, including Eric Lindros and Keith Primeau.
Flyers Make Goalie Battle No Contest John Vanbiesbrouck Got The Better Of Curtis Joseph. The Flyer Stopped All 23 Shots.
December 13, 1998
By Tim Panaccio, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
The best thing that could have happened to John Vanbiesbrouck last night at Maple Leaf Gardens would have been to outshine Curtis Joseph, the force behind the Toronto Maple Leafs' resurgence this season. And that's exactly what happened as the Flyers goalie outplayed Joseph and earned a 3-0 shutout with a 23-save performance. "I felt comfortable," said Vanbiesbrouck, who has two shutouts this season. "Sometimes you have to go through rough times to see stuff that gets swept under the rug. I had to come to grips with some things.
Flyers' Shock At Loss Extends To The Goalie John Vanbiesbrouck Had A Bad Game And Was Yanked. ``there Is No Excuse,'' He Said Later.
February 12, 1999
By Tim Panaccio, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
The dressing room was quiet, no rock music blaring, after the Flyers' 5-4 loss to the Mighty Ducks of Anaheim early yesterday morning. It had been so long between setbacks, the Flyers had forgotten what it felt like to lose. They had not lost a hockey game since Jan. 16 against Toronto, and this was only their second defeat in 25 games. It was only the second time this season that goalie John Vanbiesbrouck had been pulled. Flyers coach Roger Neilson yanked him early in the third period after two soft goals.
Flyers Win Big, Stay On A Roll Five Different Players Scored In The Romp. And John Vanbiesbrouck Was Sharp Again.
January 8, 1999
By Tim Panaccio, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
It's amazing how, if things are going right for a hockey club, pucks just can't help but go into the net every night. Right now, pucks are flying into the net like bats into a belfry for the Flyers, who sucked the life out of the Islanders in a 5-0 victory last night at the First Union Center. The win ran the Flyers' unbeaten streak to 12 games (7-0-5). Eric Lindros, back after missing two games with a concussion, pulled within three goals of teammate John LeClair with his 20th.
Feisty Flyers Settle For Tie With Florida It Was A Slugfest. And A Game The Flyers Should Have Won. But John Vanbiesbrouck Was Stopping Their Shots, And They Lost An Opportunity To Go Over .500.
March 3, 1995
By Gary Miles, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
The Flyers fired everything but a bazooka at Florida Panthers goaltender John Vanbiesbrouck last night. Slapshots. Wrist shots. Thirty-seven shots in all. Afterward, the equipment guys were hunting around for a howitzer. They want to be prepared for next time. Despite facing just 17 shots themselves, the Flyers managed only a 2-2 tie at the Spectrum. Stifle those boos, however. Blame this tie on the goaltender they call the "Beezer. " "Not every night you face John Vanbiesbrouck," said a relieved Eric Lindros, who beat the Beezer at 5 minutes, 29 seconds of the third period to account for the tying goal.
Flyers Rout Predators; Unbeaten Streak At 14 They Came Up With Four Power-play Goals. John Vanbiesbrouck Got His Second Straight Shutout.
January 12, 1999
By Tim Panaccio, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Eight-nothing. The Flyers hadn't done that since New Year's Eve a year ago in Vancouver. That was a veteran Canucks club with Mark Messier. Last night's 8-0 casualty was the expansion Nashville Predators with Cliff Ronning. "We were victims of our destiny," said Predators coach Barry Trotz. "Right off the start, they get a power play and we continue to take power plays. " Along the way, the Flyers scored a season-high four power-play goals, three in one period, which helped them extend their unbeaten string to 14 games (9-0-5)
Little Joy For Flyers' Hextall In New Role As Backup Playing Behind John Vanbiesbrouck Was His Decision. But The Move Has Been Hard For The Career Starter.
October 24, 1998
By Tim Panaccio, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
They are rarely at their lockers simultaneously. Yesterday, John Vanbiesbrouck was long into his dry-land training by the time Ron Hextall waddled off the ice and into the dressing room. Hextall sat at his locker as he had done countless times after practice in Voorhees. The only difference now is that instead of being the first goalie off the ice, Hextall is the last. For the first time in his 13 NHL seasons, the 34-year-old Hextall is a backup goalie, a role he agreed to so he could remain a Flyer when general manager Bob Clarke signed free agent Vanbiesbrouck to a two-year, $10.75 million contract.
Soderstrom's Teammates Must Have His Leadership Florida Goalie John Vanbiesbrouck Has Shown How It's Done. Tonight, The Two Teams Meet.
March 24, 1994
By Gary Miles, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
To get the idea, all Tommy Soderstrom has to do tonight is look down to the other end of the rink. Florida goaltender John Vanbiesbrouck will be standing there. Vanbiesbrouck is stopping the puck with MVP frequency these days and leading the Panthers - an expansion team! - in their spectacular drive to the Eastern Conference playoffs. "Lead" is the key word here. And that is what Soderstrom must do for the Flyers if they have any chance of catching the team Bobby Clarke built with upstarts, rejects and nobody-loves-me guys.
Flyers Hit Only A Wall In 5-3 Loss To Panthers John Vanbiesbrouck Excelled In Goal. Philadelphia Fell Further Back In The Playoff Race.
March 21, 1994
By Gary Miles, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
Florida Panthers goaltender John Vanbiesbrouck was the brick wall and the Flyers were the eggs last night at the Miami Arena. Splat. The Flyers fired, zipped, whacked and smacked 48 shots at Vanbiesbrouck. All but three of them bounced right back into their faces, however, and the Panthers - not the Flyers - earned two big points with a 5-3 victory. Those two points gave the Panthers 73 in the race for the final Eastern Conference playoff berth. They also put Florida four points ahead of the Flyers, who are stuck on 69 with just 12 games left.
Flyers Take Season Opener John Vanbiesbrouck Didn't Allow A Puck Past Him. And Alexandre Daigle Scored The Game's Only Goal.
October 10, 1998
By Tim Panaccio, INQUIRER STAFF WRITER
It was the kind of nail-biting shutout that a year ago the Flyers would not have been able to win. At some point, there would have been the inevitable, deflating goal that led to a tie or loss. Those, however, are the kinds of goals John Vanbiesbrouck has avoided giving up during his 16 NHL seasons. And last night, the Beezer's pads and stick, aided by Alexandre Daigle's lone goal, were all the Flyers needed to shut out the Rangers, 1-0, in their season opener at Madison Square Garden.
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October 4, 2013
By Sam Carchidi, Inquirer Staff Writer
Outside, the unseasonably hot weather Wednesday made it feel like May, the time of the year when NHL teams are deep into the Stanley Cup playoffs. Inside, in the Flyers' season opener at the energized Wells Fargo Center, the home team was trying to start the long journey back to those playoffs. Things didn't begin on the right skate. Dave Bolland scored a pair of third-period goals as the Toronto Maple Leafs, ignited by goalie Jonathan Bernier's penalty-shot save late in the second period, gained a 3-1 comeback victory.
Bryzgalov has big contract, but no net worth
June 21, 2013
By Rich Hofmann, Daily News Columnist
FORGET THE MONEY. That is the imperative here, as we begin another conversation about Ilya Bryzgalov. It is easy enough for all of us to say, seeing as how it isn't our half-a-hundred million, but it is the only way to make the correct decision here. The Flyers signed him for the big deal, and he still has 7 years and about $34 million left to run, and that is a number that cannot easily be ignored. Yet it must be. If you want to say that the Flyers have botched this goalie thing for 15 years, you will get no arguments here.
Rich Hofmann: Another bad-luck puck for Flyers
May 10, 2012
By Rich Hofmann, Daily News Columnist
AND SO, THIS is how it ends, one of those only-in-Philadelphia nights. It is a story that we pass down through the hockey generations, like baldness. The Flyers lost a playoff series to the New Jersey Devils and this will be the enduring symbol from the final game: Flyers goaltender Ilya Bryzgalov, trying to shoot a puck away from the front of his net, away to safety, instead seeing the puck picked out of the air by Devils forward David Clarkson and ricocheting behind him and into the goal.
Sam Donnellon: Can Flyers say ... Michael Leighton?
April 19, 2012
CALLING . . . Michael Leighton. Maybe you missed it amid all the suspensions and buffoonery of the last few days, but the near-hero of the Flyers' 2010 Stanley Cup run cleared waivers this week and is available, if needed. And, well . . . What the hell are we waiting for? His team playing at home and on the verge of a sweep, Ilya Bryzgalov was lifted just 23 minutes and 7 seconds into Wednesday night's eye-shielding, 10-3 loss to the Penguins at the Wells Fargo Center.
Bryz loses streak but Flyers beat Islanders to stay 'on right path'
March 16, 2012
By FRANK SERAVALLI, Daily News Staff Writer
UNIONDALE, N.Y. - Ilya Bryzgalov may not view the universe the same as everyone else, but he is a realist. He knew his gleaming shutout streak would come to an end at some point. Like hitting in baseball, goaltending is - after all - usually nothing more than a thankless exercise in futility. "If you thought they weren't going to score another goal on me," Bryzgalov said, "you were mistaken. " Last night, Bryzgalov's flawless run in the Flyers' net finally came to a close.
Bryzgalov sets Flyers shutout mark in win over Islanders
March 15, 2012
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The Secret History of the Mongol Queens: How the Daughters of Genghis Khan Rescued His Empireby Jack Weatherford
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The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the largest empire the world has ever known. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section from The Secret History of the Mongols, leaving a single tantalizing quote from Genghis Khan: "Let us reward our female offspring." Only this hint of a father's legacy for his/i>
The Mongol queens of the thirteenth century ruled the largest empire the world has ever known. Yet sometime near the end of the century, censors cut a section from The Secret History of the Mongols, leaving a single tantalizing quote from Genghis Khan: "Let us reward our female offspring." Only this hint of a father's legacy for his daughters remained of a much larger story.
The queens of the Silk Route turned their father's conquests into the world's first truly international empire, fostering trade, education, and religion throughout their territories and creating an economic system that stretched from the Pacific to the Mediterranean. Outlandish stories of these powerful queens trickled out of the Empire, shocking the citizens of Europe and and the Islamic world.
After Genghis Khan's death in 1227, conflicts erupted between his daughters and his daughters-in-law; what began as a war between powerful women soon became a war against women in power as brother turned against sister, son against mother. At the end of this epic struggle, the dynasty of the Mongol queens had seemingly been extinguished forever, as even their names were erased from the historical record..
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At the conclusion of his magnificently researched and ground-breaking narrative, Weatherford notes that, despite their mystery and the efforts to erase them from our collective memory, the deeds of these Mongol queens inspired great artists from Chaucer and Milton to Goethe and Puccini, and so their stories live on today. With The Secret History of the Mongol Queens, Jack Weatherford restores the queens' missing chapter to the annals of history.
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I stumbled upon this gem at my library and pounced immediately! Having read Weatherford's treatment of Ghengis Khan's life I was very interested in the "rest of the story." This text focuses on the structures Khan put in place during his lifetime for governing the vast empire, and specifically addresses the balance he sought in all things political. The duties and responsibilities heaped on the young daughters of the Khan were staggering, and Weatherford's prose carefully explains just how staggering it all was. Discussion of the power struggles for control of the Silk Road are very informative without being dull and stilted, and the stories of the various daughters and grandaughters are woven into the history effortlessly. History is the story of individual people, and Weatherford's books artfully show the people who made this ancient empire what it was. After reading these two volumes I understand a great deal more about the histories of the many nations that were a part of Ghengis Khan's vast empire. The little bits and pieces I knew from school have come together in new and interesting ways! If you have any interest at all in world history, this book should be on your summer reading list!
I was immediately pulled into the world of the Mongols with Weatherford's writing. He effortlessly weaves in the impact that female individuals had on his expanding empire and the power that they possessed was shocking for this time period. Weatherford's historical account of the empire and the family captured my attention, and I couldn't put it down! This is a must-read for anyone with an interest in historical nonfiction.
Really enjoyed this read. Good continuity throughout.
The book states the nation was built in 1206,but then says after it was built the sent a raiding party in 1205 to china. How is that possible?
Ghenis Khan is a intresting man but the daughters behind him are intresting and how the mistresses are Quite unique. It is a must read if you are looking for any good historical fiction book. I loved it and i hope you do too.
I have not read as yet but definitely will. I read everything on the Khan group and am very eager to read about the role of women.


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