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Holocaust Denial on Trial, Trial Judgment: Electronic Edition, by Charles GrayTable of Contents
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The Defendants' case
5.40The principal account of Kristallnacht by Irving is to be found at pp273-7 of his biography Goebbels but other references are to be found at pp196, 281 and 612-4. There are also accounts of the events of Kristallnacht in Hitler's War and in other articles published by Irving. All these accounts were subjected to detailed and severe criticism by Evans and by Longerich.
5.41The first and main point on which the Defendants' experts take issue with Irving's account is his claim that the nationwide pogrom was conceived and initiated by Goebbels and that Hitler did not approve or even know about the pogrom until it was well under way and, when informed, was livid and tried to stop it. In order to make this claim, the Defendants allege that Irving has resorted to systematic distortion and suppression of data.
5.42According to Goebbels's diaryThis passage is rendered as follows by Mr Irving at pp273-4 of Goebbels:
"Big demonstrations against the Jews in Kassell and Dessau, synagogues set on fire and businesses demolished ...I go to the party reception in the Old Town Hall. Colossal activity. I brief the Fuhrer. He orders: let the demonstrations go on. Withdraw the police. The Jews must for once feel the people's fury. That is right".
"..[Goebbels and Hitler].. learned that the police were intervening against anti-Jewish demonstrators in Munich. Hitler remarked that the police should not crack down too harshly under the circumstances. 'Colossal activity', the Goebbels diary entry reports, then claims: 'I brief the Fuhrer on the affair. He decides: allow the demonstrations to continue. Hold back the police. The Jews must be given a taste of the public anger for a change'.
5.43Evans claims that the cumulative effect of the mistranslations and omissions in Irving's account give the false impression that Hitler merely ordered the police not to intervene against some unspecified anti-Jewish demonstrators in Munich, when in truth he had given positive orders that the demonstrations should continue not just in Munich but also elsewhere. These orders had been given by Hitler after he had been briefed by Goebbels about the burning of synagogues and demolition of businesses in Kassell and Magdeburg-Anhalt. Evans alleged that Irving has mistranslated zuruckziehen as meaning 'hold back' when it actually means 'withdraw'. What Hitler had actually wanted was that the police should be removed from the scenes of violence altogether. The reason, according to Goebbels's diary, was that the Jews might feel the people's fury (not, as Irving translates the German, be 'given a taste of the public anger').
5.44Evans criticises as being contrary to the evidence Irving's suggestion that it was not until after Hitler had left the Old Town Hall that Goebbels learned of widespread anti-Jewish violence and decided off his own bat to unleash the pogrom. This suggestion distances Hitler from responsibility for the violence which occurred later that night and the following day. The Defendants contend that, in making that suggestion, Irving ignores or suppresses the evidence that it was Hitler who authorised the continuation of the widespread violence of which he had been informed by Goebbels before he (Hitler) left the Old Town Hall.
5.45Longerich expressed the view that the course of the pogrom clearly demonstrates Hitler's personal initiative. Goebbels's diary entry for 9 November, already quoted, refers to big demonstrations against the Jews in Kassell and Magdeburg, which had in any case been reported in the Nazi press that morning. So the suggestion that Hitler did not know about them when he left the Old Town Hall is unsustainable, as is the further suggestion that Goebbels first learned of the scale of the violence them after Hitler had departed.
5.46At pp 275 and 281 of Goebbels, Irving refers to "Goebbels's sole personal guilt" and to his "folly" respectively. In the following passages Irving claims that Hitler, Himmler and Heydrich were all opposed to the pogrom. Another person presented by Irving as an opponent of the burning of synagogues and violence towards the Jews is the SA leader Victor Lutze. Irving also claims that SA Gruppenfuhrer Fust (wrongly called Lust by Irving) explicitly ordered that no synagogues were to be burned. These claims buttress the contention advanced by Irving that Goebbels was solely responsible for the orgy of violence which marked Kristallnacht.
5.47Evans dismissed these claims as being the product of a manipulation of the evidence by Irving. According to Evans, the evidence tends to suggest that the SA group leaders generally played an active role in starting the violence. Evans argues that Juttner, who was the source for Irving's claim that Lutze opposed the pogrom, is wholly unreliable: he was himself a senior SA leader and his role in the events of that evening make it very improbable that he disapproved the violence. As for Irving's claim that Fust took action to prevent the burning of synagogues, Evans concluded that it was simply invented by Irving.
5.48On this aspect of Kristallnacht, Evans was also critical of the omission of any reference in Irving's account of the night's events to the report of the internal enquiry subsequently held by the Nazi Party in February 1939. According to that report, Goebbels in his speech at the Old Town Hall told party members that Hitler, having been briefed by him about the burning of Jewish shops and synagogues, had decided that in so far as they occurred spontaneously they were not to be stopped. Evans pointed out that it would have been foolhardy in the extreme for Goebbels to have lied to old party comrades in the context of the party enquiry about what Hitler had said and decided about the anti-Jewish demonstrations.
5.49The Defendants further contend that Irving's account of events during the night of 9/10 November seriously distorts the role played by Hitler. In the first place the Defendants criticise Irving for his omission to refer to a telegram sent from Berlin at 23.55 on 9 November by Muller, head of the Security Police, to officers warning them of the forthcoming outbreak of anti-Jewish demonstrations and ordering that they were not to be interrupted. The Defendants contend that this is an important document which reflects precisely what Hitler had ordered earlier that evening. They argue that it is obvious that Muller (who was answerable to Heydrich, who in turn was answerable through Himmler to Hitler) was acting on instructions from the highest level. Yet no mention of Muller's telegram is made in the text of Irving's writing about Kristallnacht.
5.50Evans canvassed the question whether Hitler was consulted before the telegram from Muller was dispatched. He pointed to evidence, consisting in the testimony at Nuremberg of one SS officer (Schallermeier) and the witness statement of another (Wolff) and confirmed by a contemporaneous report to the Foreign Office, which suggests that it is very likely that Hitler and Himmler met before Muller sent the telegram. Himmler and Hitler were seen together in conversation earlier that evening before the dinner at the Old Town Hall. If Hitler and Himmler did meet, argued Evans, it is inconceivable that Muller's telegram would have been sent out in those terms without Hitler's approval. According to Evans, it is therefore to be inferred that, far from ordering that action against Jews be halted, Hitler in truth ordered it to continue. The evidence relied on by Evans in support of this inference is ignored or dismissed by Irving, unwarrantably so in the opinion of Evans.
5.51Criticism of Irving was made by the Defendants for his omission to make reference to an instruction issued by the leader of SA group Nordsee, Bohmcker, which alluded to the wish of Hitler that the police should not interfere with the anti-Jewish demonstrations. The reason why Irving omits this message, suggested the Defendants, is that it runs counter to his thesis that Hitler was throughout concerned to protect the Jews.
5.52At pp276-7 of Goebbels Irving writes that, when Hitler learned of the pogrom at about 1am on 10m November, he was "livid with rage" and snapped to Goebbels by telephone to find out what was going on. Hitler is said to have made a "terrible scene with Goebbels" who did not anticipate Hitler's "fury". Hitler's alleged reaction supports the thesis advanced by Irving that Hitler did not instigate the violence of that night.
5.53In this portrayal of Hitler's reaction, Evans accused Mr Irving of further invention, manipulation and suppression. Irving's account of the events of the night of 9/10 November, including in particular his account of Hitler's reaction when apprised of the violence, depends heavily on the interviews which he conducted long after the war with Hitler's adjutants, that is, officers closely attached to Hitler. Evans claimed that Irving adopted a deplorably uncritical attitude towards the adjutants' version of events. Not only were they trying to call to mind events which took place long ago, they were also highly likely to slant their accounts in favour of Hitler. Another reason for scepticism about their accounts is their wish to exculpate themselves. Moreover, argued Evans, it is essential for an objective historian to weigh the testimony of such witnesses against the totality of the available evidence in order to test its reliability. The contemporaneous documents created during the night of violence are likely to prove a far more reliable guide than the self-serving and untested accounts of Hitler's staff. Irving, he contended, failed lamentably to weigh that evidence in the balance.
5.54The principal source for the claim that Hitler was observed by Eberstein, Chief of Police in Munich, to be "livid with rage" is said by Irving to be Hitler's chief former personal adjutant, Wilhelm Bruckner. Irving obtained Bruckner's papers from his son and donated them to the Institute of History in Munich to which Irving no longer has access. He was therefore unable to produce documentary verification of Bruckner's account. He was able to produce a Deckblatt (cover sheet) which includes a summary of the contents of the relevant file in Munich but that does not indicate the presence in the file of any Kristallnacht material. Evans's assistant searched the relevant file in Munich but was unable to find any document there which related to Kristallnacht. So the evidential position is unsatisfactory. Another reason put forward by Evans for doubting Irving's account is that contemporaneous documents establish that later that night at 2.10am Eberstein telephoned to the Gestapo in various towns repeating the order that police were not to interfere with actions against Jews. Eberstein would have done no such thing, argued Evans, if indeed he had seen Hitler livid with rage about the actions against the Jews. Irving makes no mention of Eberstein's instruction in his book about Hitler.
5.55Be that as it may, Bruckner was a close associate of Hitler, so that, according to Evans his evidence needs to be treated with caution. In any case, according to a second-hand summary made by a German historian of a statement made by Bruckner, he was able to say no more than that Eberstein "probably" went to see Hitler. In his evidence at Nuremberg, Eberstein did not mention having had this meeting with Hitler. So, according to Evans, the evidence for Hitler's reaction having been one of anger is very thin and difficult to reconcile with other events that evening. The violence continued virtually unabated throughout the night; this is unlikely to have occurred if indeed Hitler had at any stage wanted to bring it to a halt.
5.56Another witness relied on by Irving for Hitler's reaction to the mayhem which broke out is Julius Schaub, a long-standing Nazi party member and senior SS officer (who after the war described Hitler as a peace-loving man). In his papers Schaub claimed that Goebbels "ordained Kristallnacht Sunday (sic)" and that Hitler was furious when he learned of the outrages. Evans argued that Schaub too was close to Hitler and his evidence on that account should be treated with scepticism. Schaub's evidence, like that of the other witnesses relied on by Irving, is impossible to reconcile with Hitler's attitude towards the violence in the early evening of 9 November or with the orders (to which I shall shortly come) which went out in the early hours of 10 November permitting the excesses to continue.
5.57The third witness relied on by Irving for Hitler's reaction on hearing of the anti-Jewish outrages is von Below, who was a Colonel in the Luftwaffe. Irving interviewed him some thirty years after the event. He was present in the hotel where Hitler was based at the time. He claimed to recall that Hitler's reaction, when hearing of the violence from von Eberstein, was to ask what was going on. He said that Hitler became angry and demanded that order in Munich be restored at once. Evans noted that in his memoirs (as opposed to his interview by Irving) von Below made clear that he was not present when, on learning of the pogrom, Hitler spoke to Goebbels by phone and so could not have overheard any part of their conversation. Evans argued that Irving's note of his interview with von Below makes clear that, contrary to Irving's claim in Goebbels, Hitler asked Eberstein (not Goebbels) to find out what was going on. There is no evidence, said Evans, for Irving's claim that Hitler "snapped" orders at Goebbels. Evans regarded von Below as a variable witness whose account of Kristallnacht is wholly unreliable.
5.58Another source for Irving's contention that Hitler condemned the pogrom is Hederich, a longstanding senior Nazi. Evans criticised Irving for his reliance on him. Hederich based his assessment of Hitler's attitude towards the violence upon his impression of a speech which he claimed Hitler made at the Old Town Hall before Goebbels spoke. But the evidence is clear, according to Evans, that Hitler made no speech at the Old Town Hall that evening.
5.59At p276 of Goebbels Irving gives the following account of the message sent shortly after 1am by Heydrich (Head of German Security Police):According to Evans this is a blatant manipulation of the historical record. Heydrich's telex sent to police chiefs and security service officers at 1.20 am on 10 November, which emanated from Himmler, instructed them that the demonstrations against the Jews expected during that night were " not to be obstructed" subject to the following restrictions:Evans maintained that the meaning is clear: apart from those specific, narrow circumstances, the police were ordered not to intervene. The Defendants contend that Heydrich's order confirms and repeats the instruction of Himmler (which Irving accepts would have originated from Hitler) that the demonstrations were not to be interrupted. The restrictions only applied in identified and limited circumstances (eg where there was risk of damage to non-Jewish property). So it is alleged that Heydrich's telex ordered the exact opposite of what Irving claimed in Goebbels.
"What of Himmler and Hitler? Both were totally unaware of what Goebbels had done until the synagogue next to Munich's Four Seasons Hotel set on fire around 1am. Heydrich, Himmler's national chief of police, was relaxing down in the hotel bar; he hurried up to Himmler's room, then telexed instructions to all police authorities to restore law and order, protect Jews and Jewish property and halt any ongoing incidents".
"a) only such measures may be taken as do not involve any endangering of German life or property (eg synagogue fires only if there is no danger of the fire spreading to surrounding buildings),
b) the shops and dwellings of Jews may only be destroyed not looted. The police are instructed to supervise the implementation of this order and to arrest looters.
c) care is to be taken that non-Jewish shops in shopping streets are unconditionally secured against damage,
d) foreign nationals may not be assaulted, even if they are Jews".
5.60Evans advanced a similar criticism of Irving's treatment at p277 of Goebbels of a telex sent at 2.56am from the office of Rudolf Hess. Irving writes thatIn fact, according to Evans, the order read:It is common ground that the message is referring to an order from Hitler ("the very highest level"). That order, according to Evans, had the limited effect of preventing fire-raising in Jewish shops and the like ('Geschaften oder dergleichen') and was not aimed at preventing attacks on Jews and their property generally. The concern for shops arose, said Evans, because they were in most cases owned by Germans. The order did not purport to proscribe attacks on Jewish homes or on synagogues. It referred only to arson and not to other forms of violence. Its tenor is consistent with the telegrams sent out by Muller and by Heydrich earlier that evening. There is, asserted Evans, no warrant for the claim which was made by Irving in an article published in 1983 that this order shows that Hitler ordered "the outrage" to stop forthwith. If he had so ordered, why, asked Evans, did the violence continue. Far from ordering the outrage to cease, Hitler was by necessary inference authorising the continuation of most of the lawlessness.
"Hess's staff began cabling, telephoning and radioing instructions to Gauleiters and police authorities around the nation to halt the madness".
"On express orders from the very highest level, acts of arson against Jewish shops and the like are under no circumstances and under no conditions whatsoever to take place".
5.61Evans alleged that Irving is guilty of further manipulation of evidence in relation to the account given by Hitler's adjutant, Wiedemann, which Irving uses to support his thesis that Hitler ordered Goebbels to stop the attacks when he heard about them. In Goebbels Irving writes:Evans claimed that there are good reasons to doubt the reliability of Wiedemann and that in any event Irving has distorted or at least exaggerated his evidence. What in fact Wiedemann wrote was that "it is reliably reported that" Goebbels had been seen making these telephone calls. There was therefore no justification for Irving's claim that Wiedemann "saw" Goebbels making these calls. It was mere hearsay. In any event, said Evans, the picture conveyed by Irving is wholly inconsistent with other evidence of what Goebbels was doing that night.
"Fritz Wiedemann, another of Hitler's adjutants, saw Goebbels spending much of that night, 9th/10th, telephoning ... to halt the most violent excesses".
5.62Irving is further criticised by the Defendants for ignoring evidence, which according to Evans is inherently more reliable, namely the evidence contained in the report of the Supreme Party Tribunal report of 13 February 1939. That report includes a finding that when, at about 2am on 10 November, Goebbels was informed of the first death of the Jew in the progrom, he reacted by saying it would be the first of many. This reaction accords, say the Defendants, with the diary entry made by Goebbels that morning rejoicing in the violence ("Bravo!").
5.63Lastly in relation to the events of Kristallnacht, Irving at p281 of Goebbels quotes from the diary of a diplomat named van Hassell recording the reaction of Rudolf Hess to the violent actions directed at the Jews. It reads:In Goebbels Irving refers only to Hess's view that Goebbels was the originator of Kristallnacht. Whilst no objection was taken by him to the use of that part of the quotation, Evans did criticise Irving' for his failure to refer to what Evans regarded as the far more significant aspect of Hess's account, namely that Hitler had ignored his plea to halt the progrom. That omission amounts, according to Evans, to a blatant misrepresentation of the diary entry. Evans also criticised Irving for his failure to mention the immediately following passage from the same diary which recounts a conversation Hassell had with the Prussian Finance Minister, Popitz, who is recorded as having said that Goering considered Hitler responsible for the events of Kristallnacht.
"[Hess] had left [the Bruckmanns] in no doubt that he completely disapproved the action against the Jews; he had also reported his views in an energetic manner to the Fuhrer and begged him to drop the matter, but unfortunately completely in vain. Hess pointed to Goebbels as the actual 'originator' ".
5.64Evans concluded that Irving's claim that during the night of 9/10 November Hitler did everything he could to prevent violence towards the Jews and their property is based upon a tissue of inventions, manipulations, suppressions and omissions.
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OLYMPIC VALLEY, Calif. - A successful BASE jump off the 730-foot-high Foresthill Bridge near Auburn landed a local man in jail last week after he was spotted by a police helicopter, law enforcement officials said.
Officials with the Placer County Sheriff's Office arrested Aaron Joseph McGovern, 39, of Olympic Valley, when a PCSO helicopter spotted McGovern leaping off the bridge on Dec. 7 at around 8 p.m.
PCSO Public Information Officer Dena Erwin said the department's Falcon 30 helicopter crew was searching for a suicidal female jumper who'd been reported by multiple callers. Instead of finding the woman, officers found McGovern.
"Officers witnessed him jump and followed him down to the bottom," said Erwin.
As officers followed McGovern's descent via their search beam into the nearby American River Canyon, Erwin said McGovern bolted down a trail in hopes of evading the police spotlight.
Erwin said he eventually arrived at his vehicle situated off the Old Auburn-Foresthill Road, then doubled back down the trail and hid his parachute in a thickly vegetated area.
Relocating to another bushy area nearby, Erwin said McGovern spent the next 15 minutes attempting to hide from officers as the Falcon 30 crew trained their spotlight on his location and made continued requests to coax him out.
McGovern was eventually arrested on suspicion of two misdemeanor charges - resisting arrest and illegal recreational activity in a state park.
"We took him into custody without incident and he spent the night in jail," Erwin said.
Calls to McGovern were not immediately returned.
The leap off the bridge - the fourth highest in the United States - was the third time a BASE jumper has been caught either in the act or on the ground over the past three months, according to a story in the Auburn Journal. The others occurred in September and October.
BASE stands for "buildings, antennae, spans and earth" - the usual jumping off points for low-altitude parachute leaps.
In the most recent incident before Wednesday's, 34-year-old Nicholas Frey, also of Olympic Valley, was arrested after being rescued by the Falcon 30 crew after jumping and being suspended 30 feet in the air when his parachute snagged on a tree limb, according to the Auburn Journal story.


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I read the letter from Nick De Fiori concerning his opinion about the Truckee leash laws. Yet another example of urban thinking.
Urbanites move to this town for its rural characteristics while wanting their city laws in which they are familiar. This town has already reviewed and confirmed policy to conform to town desires. Please don't move to a town only to bring inapplicable urban laws with you. Enjoy the freedoms that you moved here for.
Most places in Truckee are low traffic areas where owners are fully aware of traffic, other home owners and the demeanor of their pets. A dog under the full voice control of the owner is a non event.
Mr. De Fiori's opinion that he recommends only leash control is another example of over-regulation. While dogs roaming at large are a violation, dogs walked under voice command are not a problem.
His suggestion of a lawsuit is another example of why we live here in the mountains. Let's not find solutions where there are no problems.
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Strong IP Encourages Innovation
Strong IP Encourages Innovation
04.29.13 | By Mark Grayson
"A strong intellectual property rights system encourages investment by millions of people in the United States and abroad to engage in ongoing innovation. This is critical for future economic growth in the United States and elsewhere. America's founding fathers considered this to be so important that they included the legal basis for our national patent and copyright system in the U.S. Constitution," writes Robert Hormats - Under Secretary of State for Economic Growth, Energy, and the Environment in a commentary in the Huffington Post.
We could not agree more. Under Secretary Hormats highlights the ways in which IP benefits people all over the world and why it is important for governments to do their best to protect all forms of intellectual property. World Intellectual Property Day was a great day to bring this topic to everyone. The ongoing Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations can provide a foundation for strong intellectual property covering a large part of world trade.
However, as Mr. Hormats also notes, "Many governments, however, still turn a blind eye to trade secret theft, counterfeiting, and piracy. Some governments also believe in 'innovation nationalism' which discriminates against innovators abroad. In the long-term, intellectual property theft or nationalistic innovation restrictions -- that often appear to be attractive options in the short run -- benefit no one." In the past year, India's deteriorating IP environment has come to typify the weak enforcement and discriminatory industrial policies Mr. Hormats describes.
Other barriers to patentability and an unwillingness to enforce against IP infringement have hurt international companies across a range of innovative industries, including biopharmaceuticals, telecommunications, and energy while propping up Indian industries, whose profits increasingly come from international markets including the U.S.
At the same time, Canadian policies and judicial opinions have harmed international innovators to the benefit of domestic industries across a similarly diverse range of sectors. Canadian regulators have, for example, created a discriminatory right of appeal regime under which Canadian medicine manufacturers challenging the validity of a medicine patent may appeal an adverse decision while innovative international biopharmaceutical companies cannot.
The current Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations can provide a foundation for strong intellectual property covering a large part of world trade, and a remedy for ongoing industrial policies that deter innovation and ultimately harm patients and consumers worldwide. We can only believe that countries such as India and Canada will recognize that strong IP is in the interest of their people.
And we hope that Mr. Hormats's words are heeded as all countries need a strong intellectual property system to foster economic development and growth.


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It is widely expected that the Prime Minister is going to start calling for a more moral form of capitalism. I have a simple test of whether a politician is trying to debate, or avoid, tough policy questions – I ask myself whether anybody would agree with the opposite of what the politician is calling for.
During the 1997 election campaign, for example, the Labour Party called for an 'integrated transport system'. Clearly nobody wanted the opposite – a dis-integrated transport system. What the Labour Party actually wanted was a state-planned transport system because they did not believe that the market would bring about a more integrated system. But it was not convenient for Labour to talk about specifics.
So, who is for a more immoral form of capitalism? Since no party would make that its campaign slogan, the harder question is what detailed policies does David Cameron want to put behind his empty slogan? Does he believe that morality within the market system can be improved by state regulation? Does he simply want people to look at their own consciences and freely choose a better way of life? Or does he, like some other politicians who call for a more moral capitalism, want a market system that punishes people who are reckless with and lose large amounts of other people's money? These are the substantive policy issues on which the Prime Minister needs to reveal his position.
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When snake had to awkwardly clip through a cooked snake's polygon model to fake the act of biting it, he didn't bitch.
Solidus thinks he can change his name and disappear, but I'm onto him.
That was him forcing his way through perceived reality as he survived the madness of the jungle
was referring to Bloo's post but fuck it, works for Rev's too
And they took my skateboard, dude! That was the worst of all!
You have a problems with skater? I will Tony Hawk your shit, f4gg0t
I could have brought down the entire La Li Lu Le Lo with one well played game of Horse.
oh yeah? i have skater comics
he was basically Jesus
dude's board was like Cap's shield, and he was a priest of the streets
off topic but i just made you an better people through the mere mention of his name
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=( I'm guessing there's no hope of a patch coming...
No. It's due to hardware limitations. The PS2's Emotion Engine and its eDRAM were capable of generating an incredible amount of particle effects at once--rain, fire, snow, or in this instance, hundreds of bugs. Sometimes the bugs show up, and sometimes they don't. On backwards-compatible PS3s that have the EE chip, the bugs will always show up.
When you're around large amounts of particle effects in MGS3, the framerate drops dramatically because of these hardware limitations (which is probably why they originally kept the game at 30fps). It's also a problem in Zone of the Enders HD, another game with heavy particle effects. Kojima has a reputation of taking whatever hardware's he on at the time and pushing it to the max. On the one hand, it's respectable that he's uncompromising in his vision. On the other hand, his games of the last decade tend to suffer because of it. Then when his games are ported onto different systems, they have trouble keeping up with the PS2's unique architecture, despite it being outdated technology.
Fucking graphics whore
I hope you're all watching this.
Ground Zeroes + Phantom Pain = MGS 5
looks so goood
It looks amazing.
I've never been more pleased to see a man flopping abut on the floor. I cannot wait for this.
Edit: Has Hayter been replaced?
Been waiting for this since they announced it, now I can't get on the stream.
Could the voice just be a placeholder?
Also, someone uploaded the first part of the footage in beautiful sd.


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Like the Mayans, comedian and author John Hodgman thought the world was going to end on Dec. 21, 2012. Dubbed "Ragnarok," the end of the world was the subject of Hodgman's most recent book of fake trivia, "That Is All," and his show of the same name, which he performed twice at The Bell House in Brooklyn on that very night.
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Search for peace at Crosby
Study finds fighting big problem at high school
A fight broke out, and it escalated. When peace was restored, six girls were suspended. Four were arrested by police and charged with disorderly conduct; two were also charged with assault. Two girls went to the nurse with facial bruises. A teacher trying to stop the fight ended up on the floor with a slightly injured knee, according to a school official.
Fights can happen at any school, but at Crosby there are indications that they have been unusually common.
Fighting was identified as a big concern by state consultants who spent two days probing Crosby in February.
Crosby, along with Walsh Elementary, is among a handful of low-performing schools being considered for the state's new "Commissioner's Network." This reform promises up to $1 million to fund turnaround efforts at troubled schools. Each candidate school undergoes an audit.
"Almost everyone interviewed talked about student fighting as a serious issue," notes the state report. Students, some teachers and union representatives report that teachers are fearful of breaking up fights among students and that multiple teachers have been injured this year.
The report found that fighting is particularly bad among freshman. Interviewees told state consultants rules are enforced inconsistently; some blamed a new district discipline policy that is not universally understood.
"Some teachers feel like they are expected to handle highly disruptive, disrespectful and potentially dangerous behaviors in the classroom without assistance," reads the audit.
CROSBY HAS BEEN a far rougher place this year than Waterbury's three other public high schools, according to records.
Crosby, with roughly 1,400 students, logged 15 fights through early April. Additionally, there were four assaults and five threats against staff, according to district tallies.
By comparison, Kennedy High School logged four fights, one threat to a student, one threat to a staff member, and seven assaults on students. Wilby High School records show only two fights, one threat to staff and one assault on a student.
School Chief Operating Officer and Chief of Staff Paul Guidone couldn't offer an explanation for the vastly different experiences.
Crosby had eight teachers injured breaking up fights in the first four months of this school year, according to district officials. The other high schools had no fight-related staff injuries for the same period. Only one of the injured Crosby teachers collected workers' compensation, totaling $1,517.
Crosby administrators, teachers and students interviewed by The Sunday Republican had varied perspectives on the problem.
Most students reported fights as common, although they didn't perceive much impact on classroom instruction. Faculty generally considered the volume of fights as not extraordinary, or at least not very disruptive to teaching.
Interim Principal Antonio Musto said Crosby had a rough start to the year, with many fights in September and October. But the number has tapered off, Musto said. He doesn't believe Crosby has a bigger problem than other urban high schools, and he doesn't believe it impacts the classroom.
"Where this impression comes from is beyond my comprehension," Musto said of the audit finding. "They did have a little rash of fights earlier in the year, which you could almost say is a fluke or a random event when they happen in clusters like that."
Musto arrived at Crosby in early January to replace Principal Louis Padua, who is taking charge of the city's new technical high school. Since Musto's arrival, there have been seven fights and one assault, the district reports.
At Crosby, staff members and some students agreed with Musto that fighting seemed concentrated in the first couple of months and among the freshman.
Algebra teacher Ellen Perugini, standing monitoring duty in a busy hallway, said fighting has decreased "quite a bit" since Musto's arrival. She felt the spurt of violence had been dealt with, and thought reformers should concentrate on instruction and curriculum.
Computer teacher Wanda Casey, whose classroom is tucked into a corner of the sprawling school, said she has only seen one fight this year. She sees student apathy as a much bigger problem.
Spanish teacher Rebecca Pellot was tackling apathy not far away.
"The problem is, at the first sign of a challenge you try to quit," Pellot told a boy in her classroom. "You have to power through it. You have to take another step up, and another step up, and another step up."
Pellot believes fighting is confined mostly to a small group of repeat offenders. Even parents are at a loss to control some of these students, she said. Students suspended for fighting suffer, but Pellot doesn't see an impact on others in her room.
Sophomore Natasha Arrufatt, interviewed separately, made the same point.
"Nobody gets hurt but the fighters," Arrufatt said.
Guidone believes fighting concerns were overstated in the audit. He hasn't performed an in-depth analysis, but he sees the daily reports. He hasn't sensed any big increase in serious incidents, at least not at the high schools.
Fighting is a long-standing concern, even though not quite as dramatic as portrayed in the state report, Guidone said.
Efforts are underway to improve school climate, and officials promise more.
This month, Guidone added an extra hall monitor to every city middle and high school.
Guidone also said a new night high school program for students with attendance, emotional and behavioral challenges is expected to help. It launches Monday, with room for up to 180 students.
Guidone says the night school is aimed at graduating students who are struggling in traditional high schools and will serve the dual purpose of siphoning off some of the more disruptive students.
"The real purpose is to serve the (enrolled) students," Guidone said. "I would hope it would have the secondary effect."
Since December, top district leaders have also tried to introduce a new class of discipline staff into middle and high schools. That effort has been blocked repeatedly due to disagreements over cost and potential conflicts with union contracts. Guidone said officials are still trying to craft an acceptable proposal.
Aresta L. Johnson, one of four new district Instructional Leadership Directors, has Crosby on her list of schools to oversee and mentor. She said fighting has not been raised as an acute concern with her. Still, staff are planning improvements to overall school climate, she said.
Johnson expects to see a revamped program for positive behavior reinforcement, and perhaps even a community service alternative to suspension. A plan being considered to rework the school day with fewer class periods might also help, because students will spend less time in hallways between classes.
MAYOR NEIL M. O'LEARY said he has heard about the Crosby report and has asked the schools to add two additional hall monitors, paying them as permanent substitutes. Two retired police detectives do this at Kennedy and have made an impact, he said.
Waiting for a ride after football practice on a recent afternoon, sophomore Desmond Hall said he sees fights about twice a week, usually among freshmen.
"Mostly it's a maturity thing," Hall said. "Fights are generally among people who don't care about education."
What percentage would that be?
"A lot," answered Oscar Medina, a friend standing beside Hall. "So many you can't even name it."
Crosby freshman Aleeah Betancourt said she has seen or heard of a fight "every week" since transferring from Bridgeport schools in late February. Still, Crosby is much better than her old school, which endured lockdowns almost daily, Betancourt said.
Does fighting interfere with class work?
Two boys came howling up the stairs as Betancourt spoke, playfully pushing and cursing.
"The fact they do that, does," Betancourt said. "It keeps the teacher from teaching."
Board of Education President Charles Stango, a retired teacher, said he hasn't seen fighting getting in the way of teaching in his many visits to school buildings. Nonetheless, he expects school officials to make a fresh push to improve school climate.
"When you walk from one place to the next, everything is great," Stango said. "I see kids in there listening and teachers are at the podium and it's good. When you have 18,000 kids, it's going to be an issue. It's not an issue all day. It's an issue time to time."
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awtby teacher wrote on Apr 27, 2013 10:11 PM:
awtby teacher wrote on Apr 27, 2013 10:18 PM:
what a shock wrote on Apr 27, 2013 11:01 PM:
someone wrote on Apr 28, 2013 12:10 AM:
idiot kids learn to be idiots from their idiot parents who are out at the club WITH THEM every friday getting into fights. "
rayinnc wrote on Apr 28, 2013 6:41 AM:
I can almost guarantee you that most of these fights are "facebooked" and are discussed days or weeks prior to the incident(s).
What to do.... kick them out of school and require persistent offenders parents/guardians to enroll them in anger management programs, before they are allowed back into mainstream school. These kids are requiring too much attention that is being taken from students that behave and want to learn. Stop playing with these kids, get tough..... BTW, do you think maybe some of this maybe related to gang disputes.......Sorry, didn't mean to say the "G" word.. "
annoyed wrote on Apr 28, 2013 8:11 AM:
I c it too wrote on Apr 28, 2013 8:21 AM:
Wallace M.S.. These so called students are allowed to roam the hall because they can't handle the class.
The principal needs to learn to discipline these students and back the teachers. Students use four letters words at the staff with no response. When did this become acceptable? I blame parents, and administrators, kids need rules....
In the real world they will be lost and
arrested with this behavior. "
Bob Nield wrote on Apr 28, 2013 8:41 AM:
School shouldn't hurt kids. That one does. "
yikes wrote on Apr 28, 2013 9:05 AM:
especially from "someone": the behavior is learned from their parents.
I really think they need school for the students who want to learn and some other placement for the others until they are ready to learn.
What's worse than a trouble-maker walking the halls?
Answer: The trouble-maker being sent back to YOUR class. "
Paul DAngelo wrote on Apr 28, 2013 9:52 AM:
Bob wrote on Apr 28, 2013 10:39 AM:
stopbushnow wrote on Apr 28, 2013 12:11 PM:
It's true academically where students are passed without mastery of the previous grade's skills.
Behaviorally, too many students would be sent home if high standards were in place.
"It's a numbers game."
Must be a common refrain in those schools. "
stanley wrote on Apr 28, 2013 12:21 PM:
JOE wrote on Apr 28, 2013 1:02 PM:
Norma wrote on Apr 28, 2013 5:40 PM:
It is the result of the politically correct BHO administration.
The educational system in this country is obsolete, outmoded,
inaccurate and ineffective. Teach them a trade rather. For 30% of the students many of the subjects are boring.
Wake up America !! " "
someone wrote on Apr 28, 2013 6:11 PM:
im the first guy to blame the school but there is nothing the school can do about that.
what i have found is that fear is one of the best motivators ever. fear of god, fear of mom or dad, fear of the principal, fear of their teachers. fear of jail.
there is no longer fear of ANY of these things. they dont believe in god, they hang out with mommy and dont know daddy and the principal and teacher have been neutered by our over ambitious group of lawyers and politicians. "
wtby teacher wrote on Apr 28, 2013 6:18 PM:
@ Norma - "Teach them a trade". Really? What trade do you know of that doesn't require basic reading and math skills? It's not that the "30% of students" are "bored": they are overwhelmed because the content is so far over their head. These students will work in fast food restaurants, factories, and unskilled blue collar jobs, if they WORK at all!
I would fight to make sure that the academically hard working (but below average ) student gets the chance to be taught a trade before a deviant thug gets a chance. "
JOE wrote on Apr 28, 2013 6:49 PM:
conservative1 wrote on Apr 28, 2013 7:45 PM:
I will say this again for the 100th time. If you love your children and are willing to be involved, put them in a parochial school. The Mayor is smart enough to. "
Paul DAngelo wrote on Apr 28, 2013 7:47 PM:
I never said the answers are easy but I would start with enforcement of the policies that are already in place. "
stopbushnow wrote on Apr 28, 2013 9:23 PM:
"My only point was when a student is violating the district policy on behavior they need to be dealt with in a manner that is in line with the boards policy."
As mentioned earlier, it really is a numbers game. Were board policy to be strictly enforced, the number of children disciplined would be intolerable. Was there not a suggestion of racial bias in the enforcement of the dress code policy recently?
For those who could not read the entire article. A night alternative high school is coming that is supposed to be used for the unruly during the daytime classes.
I have no idea what THE solution is, but don't we all hope and pray that the talented and hardworking are able to find their way through the school system? Maybe this alternative night school thing will be a really good idea. (God help the staff that has to teach /watch them.) "
anotherteach wrote on Apr 28, 2013 10:46 PM:
wtbywtchdog wrote on Apr 28, 2013 10:55 PM:
I have a simple answer hold people and students accountable and use the rules that are in place to establish control.
One more note, when I worked at the prisons video cameras were used during mass movements to help monitor what stationary cameras may not see. "
conservative1 wrote on Apr 29, 2013 8:04 AM:
The theory that every child can me saved doesn't work, never has , never will. "
conservative1 wrote on Apr 29, 2013 8:06 AM:
Sigh wrote on Apr 29, 2013 9:10 AM:
someone wrote on Apr 29, 2013 10:23 AM:
you want to act like an animal we will treat you like an animal.
i can guarantee you that kids would fear that.
and as i said before FEAR is the best motivator and the missing motivator. "
Steve wrote on Apr 29, 2013 11:50 AM:
al.cap wrote on Apr 29, 2013 2:49 PM:
conservative1 wrote on Apr 29, 2013 11:14 PM:
That's how it was when I went to school. Now if you separate kids by learning ability, you'll have baby's mama cursing at the principal and mayor.
I said it before separate the whole school system by ability and merit. The hard working smart kids go to this school. The ones not excelling but trying go to this school. The mentally challenged go to this school. the punks go to that school. Those not achieving a B in every subject CANT play sports. Habitual tardy, no sports.
Then at least the city will produce some really talented kids. Can we try to smarten up the kids rather than dumb them down? It's the socialist experiment. If they make everyone poor we are all equal, rather than making us all wealthy. "
Steve wrote on Apr 30, 2013 11:37 AM:
I don't want to separate anyone actually. I just want to IDENTIFY non-performing students by using the only thing that counts: Their own records.
Students who have not performed in the Middle Schools have consistently demonstrated that there is no magic genie that will suddenly appear to help them get through high school.
300 kids determining the future of 1200 others because of a). Bad Behavior, b). Poor Attendance, c). Inadequate Test Scores. d). Desire to exist all day on a cell phone connection. And, e). Any and all combinations of the above is criminal and does not do justice to serve the needs of the truly AMAZING 1200 kids who have to put up with their nonsense every day.
Don't separate....HOLD ACCOUNTABLE. "
Crosby student wrote on Apr 30, 2013 1:49 PM:
Crosby Junior wrote on Apr 30, 2013 6:15 PM:
All this article says is "Crosby has a problem with fighting." But no one took the time to single out those who've fought and those who watch or are not involved. Compare the two and you will see those who fight DO live in terrible areas where it's second-nature to confront one another. Those that fight DO have lower GPA's than those who resist the urge to outlash. And here's the biggest edition... Those that fight are mostly females and have just entered this high school. Last year, we couldn't have totaled more than six fights (excluding confrontations and give or take, I don't have numbers in front of me.) These freshman this year are brolic for the most part and they have been the ones fighting. I don't mean to point the finger but the truth hurts. I have yet to see seniors fight and I have seen one fight between junior girls. One this year, one the year prior. Everything else, I do believe, is by the freshman class (remember, I don't have numbers in front of me, this is just going by my memory). Is it fair to hold the school accountable for every fight when these short-tempered and simple minded kids outlash without thinking of the consequence(s)? In a McDonalds, in a park, in the streets or in a school. Regardless of the situation, these kids will brawl. Yes, I do agree the schools can take some blame, but not all. Or even most. If a child wants to learn, he or she will learn regardless or his or her circumstances or obstacles. If a student wishes to fight or confront another student, it's going to happen. They don't think before they act.
All I can suggest is that there should be a mandatory class for all which would entitle them to spend an entire marking period, if not longer, on working on self-esteem, thinking before they act, anger management and a few other main causes of fights and confrontations. We have a drug class. But if people are so concerned about us fighting and confronting one another, why not have an anger management/self-esteem class? If the state cared as much about this as much as they do possession and/or use of illegal substances, this class would have been implemented. Let's tone the heat down and try some real solutions before we release all this negative information. At least, with the implementation of this class, the state and schools can say that they have attempted to effectively tackle the fighting situation at Crosby High School.
The whole situation is like this. If a dog were to step onto another dog's territory and one dog were to attack the other, do you blame the owner of the dogs?
In other words, if a student were to aggrivate another student to the extent that one would retaliate, do you blame the teachers who's only job is to educate the students?
~Isiah "
conservative1 wrote on Apr 30, 2013 7:18 PM:
people aren't dogs though some are animals.
I can recall only 1 pushing incident during all 5 of my children's high school years. Granted it was a private school void of troubled inner city brats.
Don't you think your school would be better off if these habitual trouble makers were expelled for good? Leaving only those that WANT to learn? Wouldn't that be nice? "
todd wrote on May 1, 2013 7:45 AM:
Isiah doesn't think it's all that bad.
But what does he know, right?
We know better.
We went to school with no fighting (or barely any fighting at all apparently).
Kids have been fighting each other for a long time.
That's what "Romeo and Juliet" is about. "
conservative1 wrote on May 1, 2013 10:18 AM:
I went to school during the race riots of the 60's. There were fights everyday, black against white. Cars being set on fire. Those days are supposed to be behind us now.
These kids are being raised (used loosely) by parents that don't know what parenting is. They are the future inmates in our prisons. The future murderers, drug dealers, addicts and hookers. If you don't want your children rubbing elbows with these future losers, put them in a private or parochial school.
I feel sorry for those in these prison training schools that want to learn. The BOE and city and letting them down and should be held accountable. "
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If you look closely on the right side of the bezel you will see a satellite icon. The digital display is GPS enabled. Note how large the display characters are. Most important, the handlebars do not impede the view of the display.
It is hard to know where to start so let's start from the driver's point of view. When I took my seat and grabbed the handlebars, the first thing I noticed was the large multifunction display. Being an information hungry rider, I was happy to see such a big display. Better yet, it will provide 23 different items of information including tachometer, speed, compass, clock, oil pressure, and my favorite -- real time fuel flow. And since the GTI SE 130 is GPS enabled, your speed over the bottom is much more accurate than the traditional spinner speedo.
Here is a view from the front of the IBR lever on the port handlebar. This electromechanical lever operates the Integrated Brake and Reverse system as well as acting as your shifter between forward, neutral and reverse. No need to remove your hands from the handlebar to get into reverse.
One of the features I like best on the new Sea-Doo GTI SE 130 is the IBR, or as Sea-Doo calls it, Intelligent Brake and Reverse and they are the only manufacturer offering this feature. But, my favorite function is not the brake; it's the ability to change between forward, reverse and natural with the left hand lever and not having to remove your right hand from the handlebar.
This angle of the port grip shows the start/stop button as well as the sport and eco mode selector buttons. The IBR lever is forward of the grip.
Ergonomic Controls
The handgrip is molded to the shape of a closed hand which makes for a comfortable ride. The mode selector can be operated with your thumb without the need to release your grip.
On the starboard handlebar is your squeeze throttle, as well as having the control buttons for your mode select and your VTS, or Variable Trim System, which enables you to control the angle of the jet pump. By adjusting the angle of the jet pump you can raise or lower the bow angle when riding. The handgrips are at a natural angle and have a comfortable feel.
The GTI SE 130 is fly-by-wire. Called ITC, Integrated Throttle Control to the Sea-Doo team. Meaning that the throttle controls and the reverse bucket are all computer controlled. This is how Sea-Doo integrates the Eco mode which is a setting that adapts engine output to our specific driving conditions. In this mode the computer sets the optimal power setting and speed for the best fuel economy. The brake and reverse is also controlled by the computer. Every time you start you will be in neutral, which in our opinion is as it should be.
The ride plate, which is under the jet pump and always in the water, acts as the radiator for the closed cooling system.
In the Belly of the Beast
The GTI SE 130 is powered by a 1494 cc naturally-aspirated Rotax 4-TEC engine which is fed by a 15.9 gallon fuel tank and will run on regular 87 octane unleaded gasoline. This engine has a closed-loop cooling system which is great for people using their machine in saltwater. With no place to mount a radiator, Sea-Doo looked to the running surface, the ride plate to be specific. The coolant is sent to the ride plate which exchanges the heat with the sea water. It is an old concept used on workboats and large yachts for years, and I think this adaptation on the Sea-Doo is both clever and practical. This engine is connected via direct drive to the jet pump assembly which houses a four-blade, stainless steel impeller with an 11/18 pitch.
From this angle you can see how the underside of the hull swoops back from the bow with a slight concave shape once you get past the mid-section moving aft. Note the way the design team uses lines to add striking visuals to the overall look of the machine.
Construction Details
From bow to stern the hull has a slight concave design at the keel. The hull is made utilizing the LFI (Long Fiber injection) process which is comprised of a polyurethane and fiberglass composite material. This material and process allow the hulls to be manufactured to very high tolerances and with finer detail. There are double chines that fade into flat strakes in the last few feet moving aft. The overall length of the GTI SE is 132.6" with a beam of 48.5" and a height of 44". The total dry weight is 745 lb. making the wet vehicles weight just a hair over 800 lb.
Every way you look at the GTI SE 130 seems to be pleasing. The design and shape of the handlebar cover blends into the console which blends into the low profile seat. The seat core is manufactured from open cell polyurethane for durability and comfort and the seat covering is manufactured out of a UV resistant vinyl.
Star Wars Styling
Sea-Doo has always been on the cutting edge of PWC styling, and the GT SE 130 reminds me of a fighter right out of a George Lucas' movie. In fact the angular body styling began on Italian sports cars and it has been spread from there to everything from yachts to electric toasters. It is edgy, aggressive-looking, and there is nothing dowdy-looking about it. The GTI SE 130 simply looks fast even at rest.
From front to back, there is a combination of angles and lines that make it look like a world-beater from any direction. I have always been a fan of the way the Sea-Doo team uses cutouts and shadows as part of the design to make their PWCs look faster, but they are practical as well. The seating is a low-profile design with an aft wrap around rider grab handle. I should also note that all visible metal parts have been chromed. We're told that all colored surfaces that are not a part of the hull are made with a special, high-quality gel-coat.
At the top of the picture you can see the tow point. The black protrusion on the centerline is Sea-Doo's clever dock line tender. This spring-loaded device allows you to pull a line out both port and starboard to tie-up the machine. When you are ready to leave, just untie the line and it snaps back automatically. How cool is that?
Stern Platform
Designed as a three person PWC, the low sides on the aft seat portion make it ideal for an aft facing observer. There is also a tow point located under the aft handhold, in addition to the automatic line tender mentioned above. When towing with the spotter facing aft and the wake dude coming aboard, you need all the room you can get.
If you have seen our tests of Sea-Doo PWCs over the years you will know that they all come with the Learning Key. This is an electronic key that allows you to operate in different power settings. Set it a lower power mode for a newer rider or for your kids. This device also acts as digital security keys to lock the machine.
Options For Your Customization
Last but not least is a final distinguishing feature of Sea-Doo PWCs -- the options. I like the ability for new PWC owners to able to fit-out their machine for their specific intended purpose. The GTI SE 130 has a long list of options which start out with a 3 position retractable tow pylon, and includes electronic options like depth finder, cruise control and, believe it or not, a removable wakeboard rack.
That is my look at the new GTI SE 130 from Sea-Doo. Although I did not cover all the items and features, I feel these are the important ones to focus on when comparing PWCs.
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