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Building Code Rules & Installation Specifications for Guardrail Cables: Wire Rope Railings
Guide to cable railings or wire rope guardrails:
This article describes and includes illustrations of cable or wire rope railings or guardrails used along decks, balconies, walkways and stairways. We include definitions of guardrail, a handrailing or stairway handrail, and other terms that assist in understanding the building code, construction, and safety requirements that wire cable type railings must meet.
We describe the key installation features necessary for cable railings and we explain both the 4-inch sphere rule problem faced by cable railings and the ladder-effect or climbability problem that these systems must also address. Installing a cable railing according to the manufacturer's specifications for spacing, tension, support, and other parameters (described here) improve the safety of cable railings.
Where the presence of children argues against any sort of horizontally-run guard railing member, cable railing manufacturers can provide vertical cable railing designs.
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While cable "railings" are permitted under some building codes and by local building Inspectors we find that people speak a bit loosely about the definition of "railing" - and "cable railing".
It is important to be clear in our terminology as building codes specify different requirements for handrailings than for guardrailings in terms of construction, height, and graspability. [48][49][50][51][52]
Properly, questions about cable railings or wire rope rails are asking about a guard rail, a type of safety "fencing" or "railing" used along the outer side of balconies and stairways, not a "hand railing". Below in this article we discuss the installation and safety of cable-type guardrailings.
Our photo at left illustrates a home-made (and unsafe) cable guardrailing around the top of a stairwell opening in a New York home inspected by the author. The cables were visibly slack, incomplete, and the entire assembly so wobbly that it would easily collapse if leaned-on or stumbled-against.
At Guardrails on Balconies & Landings we provide details about all types of guard railings.
A handrail is a horizontal or sloping rail intended to be grasped by a person's hand for support when using a stairway and importantly, instinctively grasped in an attempt to arrest a fall.
Our photo (left) illustrates use of a wire cable "hand railing" along steps ascending the Pyramid of the Sun outside Mexico City.
Watch out: A wire rope or wire cable in the typical dimensions used at railings (1/8-inch to 3/8-inch in diameter) is not a graspable handrailing by any of the building code standards because of its small diameter.
1003.3.3.11.3 Handrail grasp ability. Handrails with a circular cross section shall have an outside diameter of at least 1.25 inches (32 mm) and not greater than 2 inches (51 mm) or shall provide equivalent grasp ability. If the handrail is not circular, it shall have a perimeter dimension of at least 4 inches (102 mm) and not greater than 6.25 inches (159 mm) with a maximum cross-section dimension of 2.25 inches (57 mm). Edges shall have a minimum radius of 0.125 inch (3.2 mm). - 2000 BOCA, ICBO, SBCCI
See HANDRAILS & HANDRAILINGS for details about hand railing building codes, construction, inspection, & safety concerns.
If you take a look at cable "railing" specifications provided by a company that sells components for cable railing construction [such as Atlantis Rail, Keuka Studios, or Wagner Companies, three suppliers of cable railing systems, you'll see that the "railing" is really a guardrail comprised of stainless steel horizontal cables of diameters of 1/8", 5/32", 3/16", and 1/4" depending on the application.
Horizontal cables are stretched tight, 3" o.c. to form a barrier and are supported by a combination of structural posts and intermediate posts spaced 42" o.c. to 48" o.c. depending on the manufacturer's recommendations.
At left a wire guardrail installed at a private residence in Tivoli, NY uses individual cable tensioning devices at each end of a three-sided cable railing. Each of these little cable guardrail tensioners is secured to the wooden post with three wood screws. I'm uncertain just how much rail tension can be achieved without pulling the tensioning device right off of the post to which it was attached.
The International Residential Code (IRC) requires a minimum 36-inch-high guardrail for all decks, balconies, or screened enclosures more than 30 inches off the ground. [48][49][50][51][52]
The guardrail top height is in most jurisdictions 36" high (or more) in residential applications and 42" high in commercial installations. Along a stairway the railing height is governed by different rules because of the need to grasp the railing during use of the stairs.
Handrails are required on all stairs more than four risers in height. Handrails cannot be less than 30 inches nor more than 42 inches above the nosing of the treads
For child safety, the balusters or other decorative infill must be spaced less than 4 inches apart (a 4-inch-diameter ball should not pass between the balusters). [48][49][50][51][52]
At above left is an unsafe guardrailing in New York City. In comparison, the guardrailing shown at above right happens to be on a Seattle ferry and resists even active jumping climbing children. The mesh guardrail infill is small enough that little toes and shoes don't easily climb the rail.
Companies selling cable guardrailings point out that building codes (IBC and IRC) specify that the opening between vertical balusters or between horizontal railings (if the local code official will permit them) must be close enough together that a 4-inch sphere won't pass between them. [45][46][47]
Watch out: For horizontal guardrailing in-fill cables we point out that if the cable can be stretched or is not properly tensioned, the guardrail system may fail this 4-inch sphere test.
Also the largest opening between the bottom-most horizontal cable or guardrail member and an individual stair tread should not pass a 6-inch sphere.
Our photo at above left shows an attractive railing with horizontal cables intended to permit a nice view of the Brooklyn NY skyline. We also demonstrate how easily the cables can be separated as well as how attractive this guard railing is to children.
To have a chance of meeting the 4" sphere rule (maximum sphere passage <= 4 3/8") the cables must be installed with adequate tension and rigidity to prevent deflection by climbing or playing children or other forces that might be anticipated.
If the cable spacing is more than 3" o.c.) or the cable horizontal span is too great, if the intermediate posts spaced too far apart (more than 42" of horizontal distance o.c.), or if the cables are not adequately tensioned, the system may fail this safety test. Using a heavier gauge cable (3/16" diameter instead of the minimum 1/8" diameter) can also add rigidity.
The supporting structural posts and intermediate bracing also need to be strong enough to handle the forces created by properly tensioned horizontal cables. Wagner points out that
An incredible amount of tension is generated on an end post when you have ten or more lines, each tensioned at 400 lbs. over a height of 36" to 42". Often designers and fabricators inexperienced in cable railings will not recognize the amount of the tension applied to the posts.
The end result all too often is end posts which will bend considerably as the cables are being tensioned…or with a railing where the cables cannot be properly tensioned without an unacceptable amount of post deflection. The posts to which hardware is mounted must be constructed so that they will not deflect perceptively as the cables are tensioned. [46]
And where we have seen cable "guardrailings" installed, indeed a graspable and solid top rail was always provided. The top rail also provides a rigid horizontal support that prevents the whole system from collapsing as vertical posts would bend inwards as the horizontal cables are tightened.
Also, regular inspection of the tension and security of the cables is something I'd recommend, particularly in public areas where the system may be subjected to climbers and pushers.
At left we illustrate that these horizontal cables were very resistant to opening, and considerable force was required to cause enough deflection to pass a 4-inch sphere. Notice that a heavier gauge cable diameter was used (3/8"), adding to the cable rail's rigidity.
But below we illustrate another (residential) cable or wire guardrailing system that was easily deflected and opened and whose tensioners appear to be of limited ability.
Atlantis points out that using a cable tensioner such as their RailEasy™ device permits on-site cable cutting to proper length and adjustment to proper tension without risking slack sagging cables due to mis-cuts or mis-measurement. The company also describes the proper order of tightening the tension on the horizontal cables, starting at the center cable and then alternating above and below that point as each cable is tensioned. [45]
Just below I illustrate how easily some cable guardrail wires can be deflected with a bit of foot or hand pressure. My opinion is that even tightening these cables to a specified tension cannot predict how wide an opening might occur when children climb on the cables unless the tension specification also includes factors for both vertical post spacing intervals and the total length of wires or unsupported wires that are used in the cable guardrail. The cable tensioners illustrated earlier in this article were part of this deflected, cable guardrail.
Other tensioning troubles occur: seeking very high tension in an effort to prevent spreading of the cables by children who may then might pass through the guardrail can bend posts or dislodge them unless the posts are of sufficient strength.
Our concern with any horizontally-run guardrail structure is that it is climbable, and also that often we find the cables are loose enough that a child can easily slip between the cables - an installation or maintenance error, not a conceptual error.
In our cable guardrail at above left the tension on the guardrail cables was pretty high but a child standing on the cable can often increase the opening size to more than 4-inches. For researchers who argue that the "ladder effect" is not a useful construct and that children are not attracted to climbable structures, take another look at this photograph.
At above right where in the distance is a nice view of Seattle's Lake Washington, the horizontal guardrailing members are constructed of metal pipe and do not stretch or deflect, but they are more than 4" apart and as they are horizontal, a child could easily climb the guardrailing at this Seattle.
The stretch and opening of horizontal guard cables can be minimized by placing intermittent posts at suitable intervals between the supporting posts. Atlantis suggests no horizontal space between posts should be 4 feet on center - a spacing that I usually see has been violated by the installer.
Above left we can see by casual observation (sagging and wide-open wire cables) that this cable type stair guard does not protect children using the stairs. This installation is in a coffee shop in Colonia Sur in Queretaro, Mexico. At above right is a closely-spaced, highly-tensioned guard rail and stair guard at the FDR estate in Hyde Park, New York.
At least some of the cable railing suppliers offer vertical cable railings for installations where a horizontal railing is not approved or not suitable.
In our OPINION, a vertical cable guardrail adequately addresses the climbability question (the ladder effect) and if properly tensioned, might pass the opening spacing requirements.
The Atlantis company's opinion is that because of their small diameter and lack of rigidity, horizontal cables are thin and not easy to climb. [46] Indeed in our photo where kids were tugging on the horizontal cables installed in a cable railing in New York City, the cables appeared rigid enough that there was not much visible deflection.
Our field experience is that children enjoy climbing horizontal cables and other horizontally run guardrailings. Perhaps due to playground practice, it's apparent that kids have little difficulty ascending the cables. OPINION: We do not recommend any type of horizontal guardrail intermediate members that can be climbed in locations where children may be present.
Stairway handrail & stair balusters & guard details are in this sketch.
Balusters (vertical posts comprising the barrier in guards and railings)
Hand-railing heights are given:
Sketch above was provided courtesy of Carson Dunlop Associates and is used with permission.
15 August 2015 Barbara said:
Are there any data or feedback on security issues for children with cable railing (deck and staircase)? I am concerned that they might want to climb on the horizontal cables, but not sure if it is a serious issue.
Horizontal cables or any horizontal member in a guardrail are a child hazard as children can and are tempted to climb such a guardrail - a hazard often described as the ladder effect.
The ladder effect hazard at guardrails and stair guards remains a common opinion among safety experts (cited below) and some code officials and home inspectors, regardless of whether or not the railing was approved by local code officials. In our opinion, the aesthetic desire for cable railings and the marketing objectives of vendors may be a factor in the removal of the ladder effect hazard from some building code restrictions on guardrail design and there may be both inadequate fall and injury reporting data as well as conflicting interests between safety and and industry vendors.
For example, Hedge (2007) completed a under the auspices of the National Association of Home Builders' Research Center (NAHBRC) and funded by and prepared for the National Ornamental and Miscellaneous Metals Association (NOMMA), an industrial association that includes vendors of cable railing systems that did not find data which supported the need for additional code language.
Readers concerned only with code violation and "legality" of cable guardrailings should check with their local building code enforcement official. Readers concerned with child safety should also review the safety articles cited below. Istre (2003) makes clear that guardrail openings spaced or capable of being spaced more than 4 inches apart are a significant fall and injury hazard for children.
Typically there are other hazards such as the ability of the cables to be stretched or moves such that the 4-inch safety opening size can be increased so that a child could also pass through the guard. For this reason some builders and code enforcement officials specify a 3 1/4" spacing between horizontal cables rather than the 4-inch rule of thumb used for solid balusters. Other sources we found (Ellis 2011) suggest that cable manufacturers suggest a 3-inch spacing.
Exceptions to the spacing rules given above:
Triangular openings formed by the riser, tread and bottom rail of a guard at the open side of a stairway should be such that a sphere 6 inches (152 mm) cannot pass through.
Openings for required guards on the sides of stair treads shall not allow a sphere 4 3/8 inches (107mm) to pass through.
Exceptions: 21" sphere for elevated walk for electrical, mechanical and plumbing systems and Group I-3, F, H, or S occupancies, balusters, horizontal intermediate rails or other construction.
Note: the deck building citations below are generally quiet or have little to say about child hazards, climbability, and building code compliance for cable railing systems but they do offer good construction practices and discuss cable tension, spacing, post security and strength and similar cable railing design considerations.
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The stainless steel cables are used in commercial, what's the IBC on cables in guards? - Scott Emerson 8/18/12
Thanks for the question, Scott. We do find both horizontal and vertical cable guardrailings installed in commercial locations such as the shopping center shown in photos earlier on this page, but ultimately the approval is up to local code enforcement officials. As for specific code requirements, the railings have to pass the same height, strength, spacing, and graspability rules as other types of railings. Please take a look at the article above and also see references [48][49][50][51][52] and let me know if questions remain.
(May 18, 2014) bill blackburn said:
I find nowhere on the internet a specific reference to the code requirement for a rigid top rail in a cable guardrail system. Can the top rail be cable? (assuming a substantial anchor post and adequate cable tension) I am referring to an elevated deck, not stairs.
The top rail and entire assembly requirements are generally specified as strength and height and spacing requirements.
See GUARDRAIL & HANDRAIL STRENGTH for examples of the requirement for a top railing along a glass guardrail. Similar restrictions would pertain to a cable type guardrail system.
(May 20, 2015) Anonymous said:
does stainless cable hardware have to be placed on each baluster? How many feet of stainless cable between tighteners to create maximum tension?
Anon I cannot answer your tension question about an unknown design, but in general the object would be to support the cable at intervals and tighten it sufficiently that it will meet the guidelines for baluster spacing, head traps, etc. The specifics for your guardrail would have to consider the cable diameter and support spacing intervals as well as area where it's to be used. Note that the article above includes other warnings.
Anon: cable guardrails that are run horizontally extend between posts, not balusters. The post spacing is not specified but rather the post spacing plus cable railing tension should be close enough and tight enough to prevent deflection that exceeds the typical baluster 4-inch spacing guideline; nevertheless, because the horizontal cables are climbable the design is still hazardous for children.
(June 20, 2015) bibi said:
are cable railing system for front porch legal in new jersey (residential)?
(Aug 5, 2015) Fran said:
Can these cables be applied for OSHA guardrailing?
There is not an explicit discussion of cable railings and guardrails in the OSHA language, as you'll see in the citation below.
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OSHA estimates that there are 24,882 injuries and as many as 36 fatalities per year due to falls from stairways and ladders used in construction. Nearly half of these injuries are serious enough to require time off the job--11,570 lost workday injuries and 13,312 non-lost workday injuries occur annually due to falls from stairways and ladders used in construction. These data demonstrate that work on and around ladders and stairways is hazardous. More importantly, they show that compliance with OSHA's requirements for the safe use of ladders and stairways could have prevented many of these injuries. -osha.gov/doc/outreachtraining/htmlfiles/stairlad.html


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Ron Hextall recently sat down for an in-depth interview with philadelphiaflyers.com to discuss his playing days, his present position with the Flyers and what he sees in the future for hockey.
The following is the second of a two-part interview:
Question: Did you model yourself after anyone?
Hextall:"No. My dad (Bryan) played, so I had some guys who I watched. Guys like Jimmy Rutherford, Les Binkley, Tony Esposito, Eddie Giacomin. I'm showing my age now. I kind of took a little bit here and a little bit there, but I really did not model myself after any one former goaltender."
Question: You followed your father's footsteps all the way to the NHL, yet he was a center. What gives?
Hextall: "I'm not sure. My mother tells me that when I was two years old and I would throw a sock up the stairs and wait for it to come down and make the 'big save.' I can't say where that came from. I started playing organized hockey when I was eight years old and my dad made me play forward. He told me to learn how to skate first and then if I still wanted to go in the net, then I could become a goaltender. I kind of fought him on that issue, but he won out. A couple of months into that season I saw our coach driving into the rink parking lot and his son wasn't there and he happened to be our goalie. I figured this is my chance. Sure enough, the kid was sick and I played goal that day and from then on, you couldn't get me out of the net."
Question: It is not quite like a sock bouncing down the steps, but what is it like when you get hit with a puck?
Hextall: "I did not mind it so much in a game because that was the object. But sometimes in practice, you get in those cold rinks and get smacked with a puck and it did not feel real good. It is part of the job."
Question: You were obviously pretty well protected with your gear, but did pucks ever sneak through all that armor?
Hextall:"Oh, yes. I remember the pucks that would strike my neck and collarbone. The elbow area was also bad. Back in the late 1980s and the early 1990s, the equipment was not quite as good as it is now. I had a tendency to let my equipment get really worn down and I'd still be wearing it. It got soft. There is a certain amount of distaste but, as a goalie, there is good pain and bad pain. It's hard to explain. When you get hit with a puck, that was good pain. When the puck went by you and into the net, that was bad pain."
Question: How crazy were the goalies of old who didn't even wear masks?
Hextall: "There is no question that they were a little crazy. I'm not sure what they were thinking. If you look back at the old films and the way they played, the goalies pulled their heads away from the puck. They play a smarter game than guys do now. With the obvious lack of equipment they had back then, they pulled their face away and they slid a lot. But, to answer the question, they were crazy for sure."
Question: Describe the perfect goaltender.
Hextall:"The perfect goaltender would be big and extremely mobile on his feet. He would have good hockey sense, which means he could read the play. He would be able to anticipate very well. He would be very competitive, but have a lot of poise.
Question: Who is the best in the game today?
Hextall: "I would have to say Martin Brodeur of the New Jersey Devils. "
Question: OK, back to the perfect goaltender. Give me a present day goaltender that is best representative in the following criteria.
Question: Size?
Hextall: "The Florida Panthers Roberto Luongo. At 6'3"and 205 pounds, he is an ideal size for a goalie."
Question: Reflexes/Quickness?
Hextall: "Miika Kiprusoff of the Calgary Flames."
Question: Smartness?
Hextall:"Martin Brodeur."
Question: Heart?
Hextall: Robert Esche of the Flyers.
Question: Puck-handling?
Hextall:"Martin Brodeur."
Question: Vision?
Hextall:"Martin Brodeur."
Question: Feet?
Hextall:"Miika Kiprusoff."
Question: Confidence?
Hextall: Brodeur and Eddie Belfour of the Toronto Maple Leafs.
Question: How does Robert Esche rank?
Hextall:"Robert has come a long way in a couple of years. He has an awful lot of talent and he's in the process of developing into one of the better goaltenders in the league. He's got a lot of ability and his maturity is starting to shine through. We expect him to be one of the top goalies in the near future."
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Tip: Make sure there are no clumps in your mixture. Clumps can result in wart like protrusions on your bath fizzy. Not attractive.
FOUR: Spritz with witch hazel until the mixture seems like it is staying together when you squeeze a handful in the palm of your hands (about 5 or 6 spritzes). Is it saying together? Then you're ready for the mold.
FIVE: Fill each half of the mondo mold and pack the mixture as tight as you can. Then sprinkle on a little extra and place the second half of the mold on top. Squeeze the two halves together as hard as you can. If they are not packed hard enough, they could crack when drying. Trust me, it's very disappointing.
Tips: Have you ever had your bath bombs crack? I'm raising my hand. Most cracking is caused by too much or too little moisture so try to find that happy medium, where it sticks together nicely in the palm of your hand. Check out my Bath Bomb Cupcake tutorial to see an example of a too dry and a just right mixture. Other times, cracking can mean that the bath bomb wasn't packed tightly enough so use those muscles and pack it as tight as you can! Or try adding clays to your bath fizzy to improve the structural integrity of your bath fizzy and make it stronger.


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The Spaniard, defending his Copa Claro title, had to fight from a set down against the former world number three but came through the test to make it two wins from two since getting his clay court season up and running in Argentina.
Having despatched wild card Agustin Velotti in the first round, Ferrer turned his attentions to Nalbandian, who had reached the final on the red dirt in Sao Paulo earlier this month.
Nalbandian posed an altogether different threat to Velotti though, and the Argentine proved it early on in an excellent first set during which he won 81 per cent of his first service points and broke Ferrer's serve twice.
Ferrer is not ranked fourth in the world at the moment for nothing though, and in typical fashion the top seed dug in and fought back to take the second set, bringing up two break points and crucially taking one of them.
Having levelled the match, the final set became a formality for Ferrer, who raced through it without loss of a single game to set up a last-eight meeting with Fabio Fognini, who beat local player Marco Trungelliti.
"David (Nalbandian) is a player who dominates from the start," Ferrer said. "I knew to beat him it would have to be a long match _ beating him physically."
Earlier in the day, second seed and last year's losing finalist Nicolas Almagro also moved into the quarter-finals with a 7-6(5) 6-2 win over Andrey Kuznetsov of Russia.
Almagro, bidding to reach the final in Argentina's capital for a third time, was not at his best and had to save seven break points on his way to wrapping up the win in an hour and 23 minutes.
"It was not a very good match for me," Almagro said. "The important thing is being in the quarter-finals again."
The world number 11 now faces qualifier Federico Delbonis, who defeated Albert Montanes 6-1 6-4.
Stanislas Wawrinka, the next highest seed behind Ferrer and Almagro, matched his rivals with a 6-1 6-4 win over Daniel Gimeno-Traver of Spain.
The Swiss now meets another Spaniard Albert Ramos, who booked his place in the quarters with a 6-3 7-6(3) win over Leonardo Mayer of Argentina.
Juan Martin Del Potro came from a set down to book his place in the Marseille Open third round with a 3-6 7-6(4) 7-5 win against Michael Llodra.
Cheered on by a home crowd, Llodra took the opening set against the second-seeded Del Potro, and was tantalisingly close to victory when the second went to a tie break.
But the big-serving Argentine held his nerve, before wrapping up a tight final set 7-5.
Gilles Simon gave the French fans something to cheer when he dispatched Spain's Roberto Bautista 6-3 6-1.
In Memphis, top-seeded Marin Cilic saved three match points to narrowly avoid becoming the latest upset at the US tournament.
Cilic avoided the same fate that befell second seed Milos Raonic on Wednesday despite trailing 6-4 and 7-6 in the third set tiebreak against Igor Sijsling, who double faulted on his third match point to allow Cilic to steal the tie-break 9-7 and set up a quarter-final against Japan's Kei Nishikori. World number 22 Nishikori beat Donald Young of the US 6-3 6-3.
The Croat's recovery ensured he did not become the second seeded player in the men's draw to lose on Thursday after fourth seed Sam Querrey lost momentum in the second set of his match and was beaten 3-6 6-4 7-5 by Australia's Marinko Matosevic.
Buenos Aires Open results:
Round 2
3-Stanislas Wawrinka (Switzerland) beat Daniel Gimeno-Traver (Spain) 6-1 6-4
1-David Ferrer (Spain) beat David Nalbandian (Argentina) 2-6 6-4 6-0
8-Albert Ramos (Spain) beat Leonardo Mayer (Argentina) 6-3 7-6(3)
Tommy Robredo (Spain) beat Diego Schwartzman (Argentina) 6-3 6-1
6-Fabio Fognini (Italy) beat Marco Trungelliti (Argentina) 7-5 6-2
2-Nicolas Almagro (Spain) beat Andrey Kuznetsov (Russia) 7-6(5) 6-2
Federico Delbonis (Argentina) beat Albert Montanes (Spain) 6-1 6-4
Julian Reister (Germany) beat Aljaz Bedene (Slovenia) 6-1 1-6 6-2
Marseille Open results:
Round 2
7-Jerzy Janowicz (Poland) beat Julien Benneteau (France) 7-6(0) 6-3
2-Juan Martin Del Potro (Argentina) beat Michael Llodra (France) 3-6 7-6(4) 7-5
6-Gilles Simon (France) beat Roberto Bautista (Spain) 6-3 6-1
Dmitry Tursunov (Russia) beat 4-Janko Tipsarevic (Serbia) 7-6(4) 6-2
Memphis International results:
Round 2
Feliciano Lopez (Spain) beat 6-Tommy Haas (Germany) WO
Jack Sock (U.S.) beat James Blake (U.S.) 7-5 6-4
Marinko Matosevic (Australia) beat 4-Sam Querrey (U.S.) 3-6 6-4 7-5
5-Kei Nishikori (Japan) beat Donald Young (U.S.) 6-3 6-3
1-Marin Cilic (Croatia) beat Igor Sijsling (Netherlands) 7-6(2) 3-6 7-6(7)
7-Alexandr Dolgopolov (Ukraine) beat Rhyne Williams (U.S.) 6-4 4-6 6-4
Denis Istomin (Uzbekistan) beat Lleyton Hewitt (Australia) 6-1 6-2
Michael Russell (U.S.) beat Lukasz Kubot (Poland) 6-2 6-4
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Don't Ruin a Good Year With Holiday Overspending
What's the worst financial mistake people tend to make around the holidays–and how could they avoid making it?
GREG MCBRIDE: The holidays are not an unplanned expense. We've known they're coming all year long, and they come every year at the same time. Falling back on the excuse of poor planning and the overspending that results, only works once. Beyond that point, it is time to learn from previous missteps, by planning and saving up for holiday expenditures so they don't wreck what otherwise might have been a year of financial progress.
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LAKE FOREST -- At a studio tucked away in a nondescript Orange County office park, Amazon.com is hoping to remake the video-game business.
Over the past year, two dozen or so developers at Amazon Game Studios raced to create "Sev Zero," a video game that's not so much a blockbuster as it is a window into Amazon's gaming ambition.
"Sev Zero" doesn't have mind-melting graphics or a riveting storyline that keeps gamers itching for the next battle. Instead, it's a somewhat familiar game, in which gamers battle aliens to protect Earth's power grid. The weapons include shotguns and rifles, and players can unlock upgrades as they progress through the game. The menacing aliens are never too clever.
"Sev Zero" is a fine diversion but not likely to displace "Halo," "Call of Duty" or the current favorite, "Titanfall," in hard-core gamers' hearts.
But it would be wrong to write off Amazon's game business as merely another feature it packed into its new Fire TV streaming-media device, launched last month. That would underestimate Amazon's ambition and misread the potential threat to as much as $1 billion of the company's annual revenue.
The online retail giant has been beefing up its game-development staff and acquiring game studios as one risk looms: It needs a strategy to replace its sales of shiny $60 video-game disks when the vast majority of those games are eventually downloaded or streamed.
To understand Amazon's strategy, it's important to consider digital-media history. Amazon was late to the digital-music transformation a decade ago, when Apple's iPod and iTunes shifted music sales from physical compact discs to digital downloads. CD sales plummeted and many millions of dollars in revenue evaporated from Amazon, among the largest purveyors of those disks. It eventually developed its own digital-music business, but it's been playing catchup ever since.
That was a wake-up call for Amazon. Its executives could see the same shift from physical sales to digital downloads coming for books and DVDs. So rather than allow another company to snatch those sales away, Amazon realized it needed to cannibalize its own business.
That led to the development of Amazon's Kindle electronic reader, a move that helped make Amazon the top seller of digital books. And it's driving Amazon's push into the digital delivery of movies and television programs with its Amazon Prime Instant Video service, which is duking it out with Netflix.
There's little doubt that the lion's share of video games, even the graphics-laden blockbusters that sell for $60 a disk, will one day be available via download or stream. Current limitations in bandwidth mean that day is still years away. But just as surely as music, books and movies can be delivered digitally, so eventually will games.
"That's become a matter of truth," said Mike Frazzini, the vice president who runs Amazon's game business, noting that there already are plenty of popular PC games, such as "League of Legends" and "World of Tanks," that are downloadable.
And for Amazon, that truth comes with some potential risks. Amazon generates about $1 billion in annual sales of physical video games from its website, said Robert W. Baird & Co. analyst Colin Sebastian. It's among the top video-game retailers, trailing only GameStop, Walmart and a handful of big-box stores. As the game market evolves to digital delivery, Amazon needs to put itself in a position to retain game sales that would otherwise disappear.
"It's absolutely critical that they stay relevant when it comes to digital distribution," Sebastian said. "For Amazon, they obviously need to be there."
While Amazon has little history in gaming, it brings plenty of other assets to the business. It clearly knows how to sell content digitally, having done so with the Amazon Appstore for Android devices. Its Amazon Web Services, which rents infrastructure computer services to other companies over the Internet, could one day render complex graphics on its servers and stream games online.
What's more, Amazon has plenty of money to invest and a history of taking long-term approaches to make new markets pan out.
Amazon's first serious step into game development came in 2008, when it bought Reflexive Entertainment, a Lake Forest studio that made casual games for PCs and the Xbox 360. In 2012, developers released "Air Patriots," a mobile game for the Kindle as well as Apple's iPhones and iPads and some Android devices.
In March 2013, the game studio got word that Amazon was going to launch a TV set-top box in a year, and the company wanted a marquee game that could debut at the same time. The task, though, wasn't to just build a fun game. Developers at the studio had to create a title that could showcase the capabilities of Amazon's new streaming-media device.
A small team of four developers and designers cobbled together a prototype that would become "Sev Zero." To move quickly, they reused assets created from other games. In the earliest prototype, the hero was a stock ninja character and the baddies, evil aliens in the final version, were ogres. Within three weeks they created a simple maze where the ninjas could teleport in and battle the ogres.
While the developers at the studio are proud of the game, they also recognize it's not a big-budget title in which they could address every last detail gamers might want. In the race to get the game done in time for the Fire TV launch, they weren't able to develop the sort of detailed backstory many gamers crave.
"In our schedule, we had to go light on story," said Brian Fisher, a programmer who worked on the game.
The Fire TV device, too, has mixed reviews, and early reception of its gaming platform has been lackluster.
"In its current form, I don't see it as much of a competitor," said David Cole, a longtime game-industry analyst at DFC Intelligence.
Fire TV doesn't have the graphics horsepower to rival the more expensive consoles made by Sony and Microsoft that appeal to hard-core gamers. At the same time, Cole isn't certain that casual gamers are all that interested in spending money on a Fire TV to get the quick gaming fix they can find on smartphones or tablets.
Amazon seems to be targeting a Goldilocks gamer -- not too hard-core, but not too casual. "They are going after the middle group, and that's really tough to do," Cole said.
Of course, Fire TV is only Amazon's first stab at a streaming-media and gaming device. Game consoles such as Microsoft's $499 Xbox One and Sony's $399 PlayStation 4 typically stay on the market for five years or longer before new models emerge. But Amazon's $99 Fire TV will likely get a refresh in a year or two.
There's no game for the Fire TV that rivals the best-selling games on either the Xbox or PlayStation, and there's little likelihood of one anytime soon.
For now, Amazon wants to show what's possible on its device. It wants gamers and game developers to see what it has created with "Sev Zero" and imagine what could be next.


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It suspects that the problem is worst in commercial buildings, where non-compliance could be running at over 80%. Complaints have been made to the European Commission.
According to an impact assessment published earlier this month by CLG, the EU could request the European Court to impose a daily penalty or a lump sum.
The impact assessment, signed off by minister Andrew Stunell, says: "If the EU Commission were to take further action resulting in successful infraction proceedings, it could request the European Court to impose a daily penalty or a lump sum.
"There is a formula for working out the final sanctions that could be imposed on a Member State and although the Department for Communities and Local Government has not done detailed calculations, for the UK we estimate this would amount to approximately £10m in the case of the lump sum.
"There is also a formula for working out the daily penalty amount, based upon the following variables: the seriousness of the infringement, its duration and the need to ensure that the sanction itself is a deterrent to further infringements.
"It is not possible, however, to state what the daily penalty amount is likely to be. It will be for the EU Commission to advance the case for a daily penalty and an amount based upon the seriousness and duration of the breach."
The document urges action, saying: "There is a risk if we do not take action that we could face further complaints being made to the European Commission which could result in infraction proceedings. At present we lack a strong evidence base which could prevent us from providing a robust response to the European Commission."
Action could include publicity campaigns to raise awareness, or amending the Regulations to make compliance and enforcement easier.
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Weekly Wallpaper: Remembering September 11
As a remembrance to those lives lost in the September 11 attacks, 10 years ago I put together a group of wallpapers of places and events that have taken place since the attacks to honor those who are no longer with us. Here's a guide to change your wallpaper in Windows and Mac. 8th Anniversary Tower Lights…Continue Reading


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Video: First Look of 'Eppadi Manasukkul Vandhai'
Music is by A J Daniel, a former associate of Harris Jayaraj.
Remember director PV Prasad, who made a memorable debut with 'Kadhalil Vizhundhen', a Nakul-Sunaina starrer which hit the news columns for two main reasons One is thanks to 'Nakka Mukka...', a song which made waves all over India and the other is because 'Kadhalil Vizhundhen' was the very first release of Sun Pictures, the film production and distribution arm of Sun Group.
And now, Prasad is back with a film titled 'Eppadi Manasukkul Vandhai', which has Vishwa, Irfan and Miss India 2008 Tanvi Vyas in lead roles. Music is by A J Daniel, a former associate of Harris Jayaraj.


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I am all over metallics like a particularly persistant rash at the moment, and I can't pass an Essence stand without eyeing – and usually purchasing – a few bits and bobs.
That's good news because Essence is so pocket-friendly, but bad news because I encounter a minimum of three different Essence stands a week just doing the regular messages shopping.
Well, in a happy collision of bling and budget-tastic, Essence have released a shiny new line of liquid metal eyeshadows that are seriously ab fab. I've been trialling shade 02, So Hot, which is a molten silver that I've been pairing with a gunmetal Lancôme shadow for an on-trend shot of brightness at the inner corners of the eyes. Team with a peach or apricot blusher like NARS Orgasm for an "effortless" fresh-faced look that's very SS10.
Metal Glam dries quickly to a super high-shine finish that doesn't smudge or shed its metallic load all over your cheekbones. Use just a little for a hint of shimmer, or layer it on for a more intense opaque true silver gleam. Either way, it's well worth the typically weeny €2.49 price tag!


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JAN 10, 2013 - San Francisco Chronicle
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'Girls' and 'Enlightened' reviews: Daring, doubt
Lena Dunham and Laura Dern might be the most courageous women on TV, and not just because the characters they play on their respective HBO comedies are brave enough to make fools of themselves with such determination.
Dern is the star and co-creator with Mike White of "Enlightened," while Dunham is the star and creator of "Girls," both of which make early second-season returns to HBO on Sunday, thanks to the cancellation of David Milch's "Luck," which left a hole in HBO's winter schedule.
Hannah endures one low- or non-paying job after
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Parental excuses
As I recently read "Parents, sheriff square off over MIP bust," I am reminded that the issue of parent-condoned drinking in Eagle County continues to be an issue. While some parents may truly have been in the dark as to the presence of alcohol at this annual event, I am inclined to believe that many knew exactly what was going on and that a few may have even been involved in the procurement of "enough booze to stock a liquor store."
Many excuses in support of this behavior are typically given by parents in these situations, but the fact remains that the activity is illegal and presents numerous risks — including alcohol poisoning, injury or death resulting from drinking and driving and impaired decision-making abilities that can lead to physical violence and sexual assault.
As a board member of the Eagle River Youth Coalition for the past 10 years, I've had the opportunity to learn about the many consequences of underage drinking, both through trainings I've attended, as well as from the results compiled from the biannual Healthy Kids Colorado Survey administered by the coalition.
That survey asks local middle and high school students several questions covering a broad range of risk-based behaviors, including underage drinking. We have recently made available a survey for parents of adolescents that seeks to understand parents' perceptions and behaviors with regard to underage drinking, as we believe this is clearly an important community issue that needs to be addressed.
Survey links for both English and Spanish speakers can be found on the home page of Youth Coalition's website at www.eagleyouth.org (along the right hand side). The results from this anonymous survey will be incorporated into the findings from our next Healthy Kids Colorado Survey to be conducted this coming November.
Regardless of your position on this topic, I would encourage any parents of adolescent children to take five minutes to complete the survey so that your opinion may be counted.
James Wilkins
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An early Portuguese graduate of Princeton Seminary, Emanuel Nathaniel Pires was born on October 19, 1838, on the Island of Madeira. Pires came to America when he was eleven years old, after his family was driven from Madeira because of religious persecution. He joined the Portuguese Church of Jacksonville, Illinois, at age eighteen and began his studies at a preparatory school in Jacksonville. Pires later graduated from Hanover College in 1863 and immediately entered Princeton Seminary. Shortly after graduating from PTS, he was licensed by the Presbytery of Sangamon and ordained as an evangelist. He subsequently traveled to Brazil, where he worked as a missionary until 1869. He was one of the first Protestant missionaries in São Paolo, Brazil, spreading the message of the gospel there.
When Pires returned to Jacksonville, he became the pastor of the Portuguese Church of Jacksonville for the next three years. He later served three other Portuguese churches in Illinois. In 1890, while on leave of absence as the supply pastor for the Second Portuguese Church of Springfield, Illinois, Pires founded churches for the Portuguese living on the Hawaiian Islands. In the second half of the nineteenth century, large groups of Portuguese immigrants, attempting to escape the desperate economic situation in Portugal, had arrived to work on the sugar plantations in Hawaii. Many of these Portuguese immigrants were from Pire's native Madeira and possibly the Azores. As the Portuguese community there grew, it strengthened the church in Hawaii and introduced many of its traditions (including the ukulele) to local island culture. As a Portuguese Mission developed on the islands, the Hawaii Evangelical Association sought religious leaders for the Mission among the Protestant Portuguese communities in central Illinois. Pires, along with several laypersons from his church, traveled to Honolulu, where they established the first Protestant Portuguese Mission of the Pacific. Pires remained with the group for several months, as the Mission started, before he returned to his church in Jacksonville. Pires died of pneumonia in 1896 in Jacksonville, after thirty years of faithful service to the global Portuguese-speaking church.
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TV news reporter Mario Diaz had an opportunity to get kissed by singer Erykah Badu but he rejected her advance.
Diaz, a news anchor for New York's PIX 11, was on air delivering a report about Shia LeBouf's arrest, when Badu appeared behind him and started making faces at the camera. She then tried to kiss him, but Diaz pushed her back and continued with the report.
When asked about the incident on Twitter, Badu initially denied that it was her, but eventually she confessed and apologized to Diaz, who took it in jest. He also mentioned that his wife and two-year-old son were on the scene.


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The new seasons will start soon in the different European leagues and today we take a quick look at who are the players to follow in the upcoming BEKO BBL season in Germany.
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5 players to follow in the BEKO BBL 2015/16
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Tags: Isaiah Hartenstein·Ismet Akpinar·Joschka Ferner·Mahir Agva·Niklas Geske·Paul Zipser
Adin Vrabac growing into a new role in Trier
December 23rd, 2014 · No Comments
It was a quite surprising move when it has been announced that one of the best prospects from Bosnia would move to Germany. In fact, the 1994 born Adin Vrabac decided to leave OKK Spars to play for TBB Trier last summer and signed a four years contract with the German Bundesliga team. Let's see […]
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Players to follow in the Euroleague 2014/15 (Pt.1)
October 13th, 2014 · No Comments
The Euroleague starts this week so it is time to take a look at who are the players to follow this season. We start today with our list of players that are still undrafted in no particular order.
Tags: Cedi Osman·Furkan Korkmaz·Lovro Mazalin·Marko Arapovic·Tomas Dimsa
Who shined next to Nurkic in the U20B Final?
August 6th, 2014 · No Comments
We followed the Final of the U20 European Championship of Division B between Bosnia-Herzegovina and Belgium recently. Here are a few notes on the main prospects of both teams including Adin Vrabac, Manu Lecomte and others.
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Notes from the U20 European Championship 2014
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The U20 European Championship in Crete is over. Thanks to the availability of Live Streams, it was possible to follow several games from the event. However, I could only sneak in some moments so that I can not come up with full scouting reports. So here are a few notes that I put down while […]
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NBA Draft 2014: Ioannis Papapetrou
June 21st, 2014 · 2 Comments
Today, we cover the situation of the Greek forward Ioannis Papaetrou. He is one of the younger automatically eligible players because he left the NCAA after only one season. See below to learn if he is a potential NBA Draft pick in 2014.
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Adidas Eurocamp 2014: Early Entry Candidates
June 12th, 2014 · No Comments
In our review of the Adidas Eurocamp, we will take first of all a look to the players that had declared early for the NBA Draft 2014. Most of these players have withdrawn their name from the pool in between though. The reports below can not be considered as full scouting reports but give an […]
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Notes on the Nike Hoop Summit 2014
April 17th, 2014 · No Comments
The 2014 edition of the Nike Hoop Summit has been played last weekend in Portland. This year, there have only been 5 European players present in the event and they could not really put their mark on the game like in previous years. Nevertheless, he are some quick notes on these five players.
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Why Kenneth Ogbe will shine for Utah in the future
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The German guard Kenneth Ogbe finished his Freshman year this spring at the University of Utah. After having played several seasons for Urspring Academy in Germany, he decided to follow his brother Dennis, who recently graduated with excellent academic results at Tennessee Tech, and committed to play for the Utes. We talked with Jim Gwilliam, […]
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Jusuf Nurkic Scouting Report Mind Map
March 30th, 2014 · 2 Comments
After having tested the Mind Map format for a Scouting Report a year ago for Alex Abrines, I prepared now an even more detailed Mind Map for the Bosnian big man prospect Jusuf Nurkic.
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Andersen's Fairy Tales
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Andersen's Fairy Tales Love Quotes
How we cite our quotes: (Tale Title.Paragraph)
Quote #1
Cupid is a rascal! Don't ever have anything to do with him! Imagine, he once shot your poor old grandmother, right through the heart; it's so long ago that it no longer hurts, but she hasn't forgotten it. (The Naughty Boy.16)
Oh, that Cupid, always going around and shooting people with his arrows in order to make them fall in love. That doesn't make falling in love sound very appealing, does it? Maybe if you could choose whom you fall in love with, and make sure that they love you back, it wouldn't be so bad. But love doesn't work like that, at least not as far as we can tell.
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Day by day the prince grew fonder and fonder of her; but he loved her as he would have loved a good child, and had no thought of making her his queen. (The Little Mermaid.85)
We like to call this getting friend-zoned! The tragedy here is that the little mermaid loves the prince with all her heart, but she can't express her love for him, since she gave up her voice in the bargain with the sea witch (we guess she never learned to write, since what could you write with under the sea?). Platonic love isn't a bad thing, but since her life's on the line, we can see why the little mermaid is pretty bummed about the whole thing.
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Her delicate hands picked the horrible nettles, and it felt as if her hands were burning and big blisters rose on her arms and hands. But she did not mind the pain if she could save her brothers. (The Wild Swans.53)
Elisa will go to any lengths to save her brothers from the curse that turned them into swans, and that includes weaving nettles into shirts for them. If you've never accidentally run into some nettles, be thankful—those suckers sure sting! The fact that Elisa works with nettles day in and day out really says something about how much she loves her brothers.


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Japan's Ryu Goto floors the fans with breakneck Paganini and thrilling Tchaikovsky
Incredible Japanese violin talent Ryu Goto took centre stage at the Thai Cultural Centre on July 31 as part of the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra's ongoing Great Artists of the World series.
Following in the illustrious footsteps of elder half-sister Midori - who was featured in the same series in 2004 - Goto is likewise a bona fide child prodigy who matured into an adult artist, having impressed and worked alongside many of today's leading classical-music lights.
Now 24, Goto treated the audience to a fine reading of Tchaikovsky's evergreen concerto - performing with passion, technical exuberance and humour - on his 1715 Ex-Pierre Rode/Duke of Cambridge Stradivarius.
For the most part, Goto's interpretation of the concerto followed the inherited performing tradition. Certain conventions regarding portimenti, bel canto style and rubato are forever ingrained in a work so established and universal, but Goto rose to the primary challenge of presenting this music afresh.
The outer movements displayed dazzling technique and impeccable musicality, accompanied with precision by Iwamura, immediately attentive to Goto's often-rapid fluctuations in tempo and mood. Entries and section transitions are hard to control in this concerto, but Iwamura couldn't have been clearer.
The orchestra responded accordingly. Throughout there was tight interaction with the soloist, an essential element of any successful performance.
The central Canzonetta movement featured highly intimate and delicate duet work between soloist and individual woodwind players, not least with regards to intonation. This aspect was well honed all evening, but this movement in particular revealed good orchestral balance and tuning.
Goto's encore was a jaw-dropping rendering of Paganini's Opus 38 variations, Nel cor piu non mi sento.
Often respected rather more for its groundbreaking technical bravura than musical content per se, it is nevertheless true that when a stellar Paganini specialist is on form, this fantastical, indulgent sub-genre of Romantic music makes sparks fly in the concert hall.
Suffice it to say that Goto hardly missed a left-hand-pizzicato, a lightning-speed artificial-harmonic run, or anything else for that matter, in this staggering tour de force. There were perhaps rather more notes in the encore, which lasted a whole 11 minutes, than the featured concerto itself.
After the intermission Maestro Iwamura returned to deliver a freshly insightful and masterfully paced account of Tchaikovsky's penultimate symphony.
Along with such other eternally iconic and endlessly played symphonies as Mozart's 40th or Beethoven's Fifth, Tchaikovsky's Fifth continues to present a particular challenge to conductors and orchestras alike the world over vis-a-vis engaging interpretation, but this performance displayed real intensity and conviction from the orchestra.
Strings, woodwind, brass and percussion had obviously been well rehearsed and they performed with relish, often shining, with notable individual contributions.
The hushed opening Andante, so vital for setting this symphony on the right track, showcased the two clarinets playing in perfect unison, totally in control in their lower register. The transition into the subsequent Allegro con anima is always a test of quiet string ensemble, and this settled quickly to pave the way for the main body of this movement, played here with a searing intensity.
Forever one of the ultimate orchestral warhorses, the second movement's sublime opening French horn solo is always a moment of eager anticipation. Meeting an ultimate test of concert-hall nerve and technical control, principal horn Krit Vikornvongvanich deserves special mention, dispatching this solo flawlessly and with a warm, well-focused timbre. Andante cantabile is marked here, but also significantly the subtle indication con alcuna licenza - "with some freedom".
After Iwamura had established the initial hushed string-section intensity, the delicate rubato employed for the famous solo was judicious. The epic passionate climbs and climaxes which characterise the movement unfolded to reach feverish emotional heights, the audience moved enough here to applaud this movement separately - not usual concert etiquette, but seeming on this occasion appropriate.
The Florentine melody which opens the Valse was coaxed wistfully by the violins. This movement relates closely to Tchaikovsky's wonderful ballets, not least the sparkling filigree 16th-note interplay between woodwind and strings. Iwamura held a tight rhythmic reign, steering the musicians cleverly through virtuosic passages notoriously vulnerable to rushing and instability. Pleasingly, here the structure was clear, taut, and controlled.
The finale followed attacca, the jubilant Andante maestoso always a sublime transformation of the first movement's brooding minor-mode clarinet theme. From the ensuing Allegro Vivace, the orchestra was worked hard by frenetically fast tempos, culminating in the final Presto gallop and denouement, bringing to a triumphant conclusion an extremely good evening indeed for the BSO.
A small but noticeable number of patrons had evidently attended only to hear Ryu Goto, or perhaps had to leave early for travel reasons, and didn't return for the symphony. They missed out on an extremely accomplished rendition of this often hackneyed orchestral Titan, but the still near capacity and warmly appreciative audience applauded enthusiastically, with many also cheering in standing ovation as the BSO was brought to its feet.
The concert was the first in the 2012 Great Artists of the World Series, and part of the celebrations for Her Majesty the Queen's birthday. It was organised by the Ministry of Culture and the Department of Cultural Promotions, in association with the Bangkok Symphony Orchestra Foundation.
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When black theologians focused on nontraditional and extra-Christian sources, white theologians had an excuse to ignore them. Not anymore.
A Theology of Race and Christian Hybridity
In Redeeming Mulatto, Brian Bantum
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Last Tuesday night, I went down to Chicago's Grant Park to witness
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Two years ago, blogger Christian Lander struck satiric gold by chronicling the interests and motivations of white people.
Lander's valuable insight was that as members of a privileged majority
group, we tend to think of ourselves as simply part of the overall
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Philippians 3:4b–14
Texts about "striving" make me itch. They bring to mind our
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Theology and the Origins of Race
In modern imperialism, race, colonization and Christianity have historically been so intrinsically embedded with one another that the connections between them have seemed natural, and Christian theologians have participated in the geographical and geopolitical construction of this imperialism. Willie James Jennings's book is a genealogy of their participation.
Seven years in the writing, this is a significant and comprehensive history of African Americans and their quest for recognition in the Episcopal Church. It completes a trilogy that began with George Freeman Bragg's History of the Afro-American Group (1922) and continued with Harold Lewis's Yet with a Steady Beat (1996).
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Sammy Hagar is 60 years old. If you know anything about rock stars, you know once they hit a certain age, the voice is long gone (See: David Lee Roth, Brian Johnson, Robert Plant, Bret Michaels, Vince Neil. Notable exceptions: Bruce Springsteen and Steven Tyler). When the concert started I was a little worried this was the case. He came out to "I Can't Drive 55" and early on let the crowd do most of the singing. But by the time he finished that song and belted his way into "Only One Way to Rock" you knew Sammy could still bring it and proved he could still hit the high notes later in the show.
Since I started listening to music I have loved Van Halen. When they broke up in 1985 I was devastated. When Hagar came on board, I was outraged. I tried to hate everything they did with him until one day, like Will Ferrell in "Talladega Nights" admitting Cal's 'Magic Man' nickname actually was a pretty cool, I had to admit they were pretty damn good. After "For Unlawful Carnal Knowledge" I wasn't sure which Van Halen era was better. I tell you this because Michael Anthony is now with Hagar. Anthony was the bassist for Van Halen and the backbone of the band's sound with his harmony on vocals. I've never seen Van Halen in concert and was excited to see half of it, but Anthony never appeared. That was a big disappointment, but I soon got over it... right about the moment Sammy launched into "Top of the World" and then went into "Dreams" and "Best of Both Worlds." He transcended his entire career with a couple songs from his Montrose days including "Rock Candy" and "Bad Motor Scooter" and finished the show with "Mas Tequila."
What a show. The bassist Mona Gnader wasn't the best but the guitarist Vic Johnson was pretty good. My buddy Ryan, who has seen VH in concert, quickly alerted me "He's no Eddie Van Halen." Nevertheless, with a cool Cabo Wabo set, three rafters full of fans on stage and a pre-performance video, it had all the feel of a beach front concert in Mexico. All I kept thinking was, "Man, would I like to party with this guy!"
Sammy may be 60, but he's still rockin' and I hope the Common Ground peeps were listening when he told the crowd he's ready to come back to this show every year.


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History for Hire In Industry Lawsuits
By PATRICIA COHEN
Published: June 14, 2003
A scientist financed by, say, the tobacco industry, is expected to declare whose wallet is behind his research. But what about a historian?
The question may seem odd, but it has suddenly become more urgent as medical historians are becoming witnesses in some of the country's most important -- and expensive -- lawsuits.
This practice is causing a fierce debate among historians over the ethics of testifying for industries accused of endangering the public's health. At the normally sedate annual meeting of the American Association of the History of Medicine last month, one panel erupted in angry recriminations over the paint industry's role in the lead poisoning of children, the subject of lawsuits around the country in which historians work as consultants on both sides.
''The historical profession has really not been prepared for this,'' said Robert N. Proctor, a professor of the history of science at the University of Pennsylvania, who in 1999 became the first historian to testify against the tobacco industry. ''We don't have disclosure rules for publications, we haven't had discussions about the ethics of whether to testify or not to testify.''
Passions cover the spectrum, from historians who say consulting is a private matter to those who insist it inevitably taints objectivity. Other objections are purely political: historians shouldn't represent ''bad guys,'' like tobacco or toxic polluters.
Aware of the growing hoopla, the medical journal Lancet has invited Mr. Proctor to write a ''comment'' about the debate. In his manuscript, he writes: ''Historians who render expert advice to the industry are playing a dangerous game. The industry does not ask us to lie, but they do ask us to research only those topics that will help them in their defense.''
But John C. Burnham, a historian at Ohio State University who has served as a consultant for a number of companies, including tobacco, asbestos, lead and soda, scoffs at colleagues who claim the moral high ground against industry consultants. In lead paint cases, for example, Mr. Burnham declares ''everyone has a financial interest'': the lead paint manufacturers, the landlords and municipalities who don't want to pay for a cleanup, and the lawyers who stand to earn high fees.
''This would mean you couldn't testify for anyone in the lead cases, because everyone is contaminated at this point,'' Mr. Burnham said. Historians can maintain their integrity no matter whose side they're on, he maintained, adding, ''Even large corporations are entitled to justice.''
It was Mr. Burnham's paper that created such a stir at the conference. Although his research was not financed by any industry money, his paper concluded that the absence of lead poisoning cases in the first half of the century suggests neglectful landlords were more to blame than paint manufacturers. As more and more scholars have been pulled into lawsuits, concerns about the consulting historian surfaced.
And in the relatively small world of medical historians, the squabble has often turned personal. Mr. Proctor criticizes the association's president, Dr. Kenneth M. Ludmerer, a physician and historian in the department of medicine at Washington University, with particular sharpness in his essay for receiving more than $550,000 from the tobacco industry and presenting ''misleading accounts of tobacco and health history.''
(The American Prospect magazine, in a 2000 article, identified Dr. Ludmerer as well as the popular historian Stephen E. Ambrose and Theodore Marmor, a social scientist at Yale University, as high-paid consultants for the tobacco industry.)
Dr. Ludmerer, who has served as an expert in a number of lawsuits, says there can be an honest difference of interpretation. He stands by the quality of his own research, saying that he worked 15 years ago for tobacco and that ''I gave the standard account of how we came to know cigarette smoking causes lung cancer.'' He added that as a historian he felt an obligation to lay out the truth: ''I feel strongly that any kind of scholarly testimony should be exemplary work, systematic, comprehensive, rigorous.''
Historians, of course, have long been asked to serve as expert witnesses or consultants in practically every kind of case: abortion, Indian rights, voting rights, immigration and Holocaust assets. Legal cases ''are a growing part of our business,'' said Brian W. Martin, the vice president for litigation research at Historical Associates Inc., a private company in Washington that provides historical research. The focus of this latest controversy, though, tends to be the recent wave of environmental and public health cases -- tobacco, lead paint, superfund cleanup sites.
Using his own experience as an expert witness on behalf of pregnant women who were seeking compensation after being fed radioactive iron without their consent in the late 1940's, David J. Rothman, the director of the Center for the Study of Science and Medicine at the Columbia College of Physicians and Surgeons, concludes: ''To enter the courtroom is to do many things, but it is not to do history.''


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A genuine smile distributes the cosmic current, Prana to every body cell.The happy man is less subject to disease, for happiness actually attracts into the body a greater supply of the Universal life energy.
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not_blonde_really not_blonde_really Feb 19, 2013 00:33 Flag
Change to layout? 20130218@11:46
Although it's annoying that you can't see on the 'summary' page who made the last post - I won't remember what day/time I read a reply or how many there were, but I'll probably remember if I've read someone's opinion.Sort: Newest | Oldest | Most Replied Expand all replies
'They' seem to have gone all social meeedja. The summary link to Yahoo's Spurs page seems slightly broken as well, as the 'latest' posts aren't showing.
Maybe posts haven't gone missing, just that they're not showing everywhere?
I'm not sure about the 'only show the first part of the name' bit either (I assume at some stage we'll get multiple 'Bert's).
What the heck though. It seems to be working relatively ok at the moment.
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...Just posts from the 16th. The Spurs summary page shows posts from SB in reply to Rambro and the Bentley post. I don't see them here - anyone else see them?


text: 'A spectre is haunting the world. The spectre is capitalism,' sums up the ominous red LED ticker display outside a New York building somewhere in the middle of David Cronenberg's new film Cosmopolis.To be fair to the Canadian filmmaker, he didn't change anything when he adapted American Don DeLillo's novel of the same title just in time for the 65th Cannes Film Festival. "You don't change the lyrics of Bob Dylan when you sing one of his songs," says Cronenberg.


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SANTEE It's time again for the Santee Santas Foundation's signature effort, the annual holiday children's toy and food program. Santee Santas has been helping underprivileged families in Santee and nearby areas for 58 years, and again needs the public's assistance.
In 2011, the nonprofit group served 246 families, including more than 400 children.
This year the group is focusing on helping nearly 300 families in the East County. Its senior outreach program ensures that the elderly in the city who either live alone or in senior care facilities are not forgotten over the holidays.
Until Dec. 15, Santee Santas is accepting canned food and unwrapped toy donations at participating local businesses. A list of the businesses participating in this year's holiday drive can be found by going to santeesantas.org/resources/Donation-Locations-2012b.pdf
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Waste Management at 1001 W. Bradley Ave., in El Cajon, is one of the nearly 50 designated donation drop off sites.
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Hi Maurice, et al.,
The recent increase in traffic relates to the release of a massive
bunch of emailed replies from the moderation queue. The current volume
is the typical volume we've had for years—IxDA has always been an extremely high traffic list.
Also, it has never previously operated with an opt-in model where you only received threads you participated in (I'm not sure there is any mailing list in existence which behaves this way) but actually this is a new feature of the new website that we designed precisely due to the high traffic nature of IxDA Discussion. If you are not subscribed to Discussion, but you're browsing the website and you want to participate in a thread, you can subscribe to that individual thread through the big button in the upper right. Additionally, whenever you start a new thread you can subscribe to it at the time of posting your message. These features may be options that folks want to consider. To use the forum in this manner, deactivate your main list subscription and then while browsing through the website, opt-in to an interesting thread.
On the cool-concept feature request list, we envision someday being able to provide a "first post only" subscription that would be augmented by an EMAIL-based opt in behavior. This is really the ultimate for a high-traffic list, because you'd see all the threads start up and then you'd choose to receive comments only for those that seem like they will develop into something interesting. As always, we welcome volunteers or donations to make this vision a reality. This website was always conceived as a platform for future extensions to better support our community of practice.
Thanks Liz.I've said for years, "A good website is always under construction."Just curious.Are there any plans for talent postings? I mean for people available for contracts, freelance, conferences, presentations, reports, etc... Thanks,Maurice
I'm with Maurice on this having just signed up - I am getting emails from discussions I haven't even opened or discovered. Linkedin has discussion threads from groups that you need to subscribe to in order to see/receive all postings. 40-80 emails a day is a bit much no matter what the value.
socialamigoOn Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 11:24 AM, Maurice Carty <email@example.com> wrote:
Thanks Liz.
I've said for years, "A good website is always under construction."
Just curious.
Are there any plans for talent postings? I mean for people available for contracts, freelance, conferences, presentations, reports, etc...
And the daily digest continues to be completely unusable. I've actually disabled all emails from IXDA and set a reminder to check back in a month to see if some of these bugs have been fixed. It's easier just to come to the site and scan the Discussion section occasionally.


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On Monday, Dr. Cleveland Enmon, 32, will see a jury pool of 92 file into a San Joaquin County Superior Courtroom. After 12 are seated, attorneys could make their opening statements as soon as Tuesday.
He is charged with a felony grand theft on the allegation he stole 61-year-old Jerry Kubena's watch in the St. Joseph's Medical Center emergency room on June 1. Kubena, a retired Manteca police officer under Enmon's treatment, died of a heart attack.
Enmon maintains he didn't steal the Rolex, while nurses working alongside him that day have testified to the contrary. A judge said he expects the trial to conclude by March 25.
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