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Honestly I wouldn't mind anybody getting traded as long as it's not Melo,Tyson, or Shump.
Tyson Chandler is only 30, but he also has 13 years of NBA mileage. Can he preform at the same level as a DPOY or NBA championship? Currently Chandler is an average NBA defender and average offensive player, great rebounder....but his defense has taken a decline. Do we keep him as he continue to decline or hope for him to incline his attributes? Or do we trade him after a failed season and get the most value for him?
Amare also 30 years old. We've seen his decline drastically but offensive he's back and is still a great player scoring the ball, everything else not so much. What team will be desperate to take Amare out of our hands?
Kurt Thomas, 65 years old...pretty sure he hangs it up soon. Same goes for Rasheed who can barely play 10 minutes, Camby who's pretty much on his last limb.
Prigioni is a young 35, he can stay for leadership and he plays good defense and can pass. He's shooting 41% from 3pt this year also.
James White has been useless.
Keep Copeland. He scores 6.5 points in 11 minutes. Defense isn't great, but he's good insurance and not a bad 15th player to have the squad.
Novak is 29, one dimensional...keep him but only give him 12-16 minutes a game, not over 21.
Felton, as average as it gets. Trade him ASAP before he declines and we lose value for him.
JR Smith...Melo...they're like peanut butter and jelly. They're always gonna be together, but I don't know what to do with them. I say keep them because they can score in bunches...but how successful can we be with these guys?
Shumpert stays...to those Shumpert haters, it took Rubio a while to recover from his injury, it's gonna take Shumpert time and as well Derrick Rose some time. Keep Shumpert.
Honestly I wouldn't mind anybody getting traded as long as it's not Melo,Tyson, or Shump.
I would move anything that needs to be moved to get a low post presence on the offensive end. Keep Melo & Tyson, get a Milsap/Pekovic type player, and go from there.
Folks were questioning what the hell I was talking about when I said the Knicks needed to do whatever it took to get Nikola here this past offseason, now we have a team that is Melo or bust. I spoke about it in another thread, but when you load the side with Melo when he has the ball, his options are drive baseline and have Tyson's man step forward and it's a 2-on-1 contest of the shot....drive middle, and the "stopper" that's positioned there for the drive doubles him about 13-15 feet from the rim...take a contested shot, or pass the ball to swing it around.
When the shots aren't falling, the team is getting destroyed. There's no contingency plan, or even just a secondary portion of the offensive system.
A true post player with the proper mentality, vision, and footwork, gives the team a better chance to have a sustainable offense. Think more of a Celtics(2007)/Spurs tempo and effectiveness, as opposed to a Cavs (2005-2009) team that couldn't get past the Celtics or Spurs...this Knicks team is built more similarly to them than anything else, and those teams did nothing but get eliminated in the semis or ECF, except the one time they got swept outta the Finals...
Guess if I was simple in the mind...everything would be fine.
never say never...but... ain't nobody taking amare..and his 45m contract for the next 2 yrs... novak...please... these are not jordan's bulls where everyone collapes on MJ and the 'pale-faces' get a wide open shot... novak, like kerr and paxton are 'useless' unless they are wide open... sheed,camby are toast (pass the jelly)... get into the playoff's (a given).. and hope evryone gets hot at once...
Why do you have a ? mark in the title. The team ain't winning a chip and they will have to rebuild.
We need an allstar pointguard if we want to win or at least go far i the playoffs..
Mmm or maybe Jennings, kyrie irving wjo are going to be freeagents
"I'm more concern how Melo is gonna play with Lin" Joe Budden
Why though? the contracts on this team are built for 2015 to be an automatic rebuild year.
Also On the low the knicks will likely be able to move Camby since his contract is only about 3 million dollars guaranteed over the 2 year period. Yet, he can be moved for a player averaging the MLE. add that to the rookie (who give the knicks credit they know how to draft roleplayers) I think the knicks are good 2 solid additions to the rotations away from being more stable. That's the issue age and the fact this team is playing way to many mismatches at SF is what is hurting the knicks now. Also I always look at tony allen for comparisons to shump. Shump won't likely be back to top speed until next season.
So while right now this team has too many specialist and aged players. A few all around good ones should be acquirable if they don't overreact and instead just to fall back and rebuild naturally. I honestly expect the knicks to pick up a vet min pg and acquire 2 sf in other ways.
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I think this year is a good start but next year is really do or die.
^Btw I agree with the All-Star point guard comment. He we had Brandon Jennings...UGH
Scoot Brooks isnt allstar coach and he went to finals with OKC and from 0-2 they won 4-2 thats something really.
its players and their mentality
Spurs have parker currently quiet MVP
Nuggets have Lawson
Wiz's have Wall
Knicks have for now no one strong Felton is just for P&R and no one is driving into paint Knicks allowing any PG to drive into paint and any strong Pg can score easly 15 pts in 1st q.
i am cutting STAT WHITE THOMAS and i dont know bout COPELAND we still dont know a lot bout him
Chandler should stay, he's a good bigman even tho his game is down this season. He just needs a good PG to initiate good PnR with him.
Shump, as Metro pointed out, needs time to fully recover from his injury before we let him go.
Melo, should stay, but if he can't take this team anywhere past 1st round this year as well, then I'm all for letting him go. We've built a team around him and given him more than enough chance to prove that he's superstar material. The thing is, he's love for iso-ball has cost our team's offense and stagnated ball movement. He's the league's greatest scorer but that doesn't equal the league's greatest offensive player or efficient player.
JR Smith, feels like a poor man's version of Melo. Smith loves to iso-ball and stops ball movement as well. He's a great scorer but not an efficient player at all. Smith can have moments of brilliant offensive power, but it's not going to get us anywhere if he doesn't pass.
Felton - Go. I honestly think Felton is only going to get worse from here on, we really should have kept the young PG whose name we can't say around here.
STAT - If he can pick up his defense and rebounding, I don't mind him having a non-elite level of offensive game because we already have a bigman who can finish under the paint. But his contract does cost too much and he's not a max-worthy player should we should let him go.
Novak - Keep but limit his minutes to maybe 10. We just need to use him when we desperately need our 3 pointers to go thru.
Prigioni - Go. I don't think he's that good even for a backup PG. Look at Clipper's backup PG..now that's a championship team's backup PG.
Favorite Team: Knicks
Favorite Player: D. Rose
Favorite Position: PG
lol'd at "pale faces"
Problem is our depth with our bigs, 2 down, Thomas not getting any burn. So Anthony has a mismatch at the 4? We're not winning with that mismatch. Sometimes you have to return to a more traditional lineup. Get KMart into the starting lineup if we need Amare's fire power off the bench. Sit Kidd, bring him off the bench, where he'll get to chew up backup point guards.
All the oportunity (from injuries) Woodson had to give our rookies Prig, White, and Copeland playingtime in a steady lineup to see if they can gell in the same lineup with teammates on both ends of the court so their performance evaluate whether they are keepers or not shows signs of a confuse coach.
Giving the three rookies spot minutes in so many different lineups, letting them start then DNP them afterward show a confuse coach.
Putting Camby in the starting-lineup with Tyson LOL, rather than let Camby & Stat come off the bench together as a frontcourt bigman tandem to backup our starters show a confuse coach.
Forcing a defensive-transition guard Shump to come back months early from an ACL injury to play against NBA starters in a Iso halfcourt setting shows a confuse coach.
Putting Felton, Shump, and Kidd in the starting-lineup shows a confuse coach.
Woodson confuse-coaching makes it hard to say who's a keeper, and who's not a keeper for next season.


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thank you everyone for not picking up Brewer so I can take Coquis' free gift.
i've got Harris on my radar too, thanks for pointing out to everyone who's available.
I had Zeller, he did just as bad as Chuckie Villanueva for me. of course,
as soon as I dropped him his production picked up. just like Antawn Jamison and Larry Sanders.
I've got the opposite effect of Multiple Scorgasms, he picks up players and they go off,
I drop players they go off.
you know what makes me sick? players who get negative fantasy points.


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The Fram Museum lecture series on Nansen's life and work
This year's number four Nansen lecture will take place on Wednesday the 23rd of November at six o'clock in the afternoon.
This time it is the young Brage Prize nominee and Nansen biographer Carl Emil Vogt who is given the floor. He will talk about the development of Nansen's humanism and anti-imperialism. Nansen was a true spokesman of the Inuit after his stay in Greenland in the years 1888-89. This will be treated. Vogt will also talk about how Nansen evolved to become an active humanist. You will get a brief overview of Nansen's three most important humanitarian commitments – for prisoners of war, for refugees and for the hunger-bitten. In addition, you will hear about some controversial aspects of his work for the poor and the hungry. The lecture will also touch Nansen's private life and his engagement in the political movement called the Fedrelandslaget. You may be surprised to hear some of the things about Nansen that Carl Emil Vogt is going to claim. The lecturer will sign his book during the event. The Fram Museum's book shop, which is probably the largest polar book shop in the world, will of course stay open after the event. Regular admission tickets: 60 NOK for adults, 25 for children, students and seniors.
The second lecture in the Fram Museum's lecture series on Fridtjof Nansen's life and work will be held at the Fram Museum on Tuesday 14 June at 18:30.
This time we present two lecturers. You will hear about Nansen's work for his doctorate in zoology and his days at the Bergen Museum. Furthermore, there will be a lecture on Nansen who, according to the speaker, should have received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1906.
Karen Helle: "Fridtjof Nansen, Bergen Museum og doktorgraden 1882-1888"
Ortwin Bock: "Fridtjof Nansen, Gustaf Retzius and the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine of 1906"
Karen Helle is professor emeritus at the Department of Biomedicine, University of Bergen, and is currently active writing on science emanating from the Bergen Museum in the 19th century. In 1987 she organized the Nansen Symposium on New Concepts in Neuroscience in Bergen as a centenary commemoration of Fridtjof Nansen's contribution to neurobiology. A faximile of Fridtjof Nansen's doctoral thesis from the Bergen Museum's Årbok in 1887 in its original form "The Structure and Combination of the Histological Elements of the Central Nervous System" was included in the symposium volume. Thereby, Fridtjof Nansen's impressive work and important and novel conclusions were secured a renewed circulation, of benefit for neuroscientists and biographers of today. Karen Helle will talk about Fridtjof Nansen's time in Bergen, culminating with his doctoral dissertation at the University in Oslo in 1888. Later in life Nansen repeatedly referred to his Bergen days as crucial for his personal development and preparation for his manifold endeavors later in life.
Ortwin Bock is a retired physician who lives in Cape Town, South Africa. He studied at Oxford University and obtained his doctorate at the end of 1962. His interest in the life and times of Fridtjof Nansen stems from reading Roland Huntford's Nansen while on a visit to Antarctica in March 2005.The Nobel Prize in Medicine of 1906 was awarded to Camillo Golgi and Santiago Ramón y Cajal for their contributions to the Neuron Theory (Doctrine). Based on the results of his research into the micro-anatomy of the central nervous system of primitive animals, as recorded in his doctoral thesis of 1887, Fridtjof Nansen would have been a contender for a share in the prize had he been nominated. But he was never nominated for the prize, not by the professors of the Oslo Medical Faculty, nor by the eminent neuroscientist Gustaf Retzius. This fact is surprising since Retzius, who had nominated both Golgi and Cajal either singly or together every year since 1901, was a friend of Nansen and familiar with his work as a neuroscientist.
Entrance fee: ordinary tickets (60 kr for adults/25 for children/25 for seniors)
The museum's bookstore is open after the lectures.
The first in the Fram Museum's lecture series on Fridtjof Nansen's life and work will be held at the Fram Museum on Monday 2 May at 18:00.
Roland Huntford: "A polymath against his will - Nansen and his legacy"
Nansen biographer Roland Huntford will talk about Nansen's life and the legacy of Nansen. The lecture will be held in English.Roland Huntford is a senior member of Wolfson College, University of Cambridge, and a former Allistair Horne Fellow at St. Antony's College, Oxford University, where he did research for his famous book published in 1997.
New lectures will take place every month in the period from now till June 2012.
Entrance fee: ordinary entrance tickets (60 kr for adults, 25 for children)
The author will sign his books, and the Fram Museum's book store will be open.
The bar will be open too.
More information about the author:
Roland Huntford (born 1927) is an author, principally of biographies of polar explorers. He lives in Cambridge, and was formerly Scandinavian correspondent of The Observer, also acting as their winter sports correspondent. He was the 1986-87 Alistair Horne Fellow at St Antony's College, Oxford.He has written biographies of Robert Falcon Scott, Ernest Shackleton and Nobel Peace Prize winner Fridtjof Nansen. Huntford's controversial The Last Place on Earth (originally titled Scott and Amundsen) had a tremendous impact on public interest in polar matters. Huntford put forth the point of view that Roald Amundsen's success in reaching the South Pole was abetted by much superior planning, whereas errors by Scott (notably including the reliance on man-hauling instead of sled dogs) ultimately resulted in the death of Scott and his companions.Huntford's non-polemical books include Sea of Darkness,The Sayings of Henrik Ibsen and Two Planks and a Passion: The dramatic history of skiing. His polemical The New Totalitarians is a critique of socialism in Sweden, written from the point of view of western political culture.
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"Something There Is That Doesn't Love A Wall." So says Robert Frost. So listen up my Elizabeth, you might be Cherokee, or could be Chocktaw or Chicasaw, but "let that frozen ground swell up under my wall, let it fling stones to the ground." I want a gap through which I can enter your world. So Elizabeth Duty, tell me the names of your mother and father, "spill the boulders into the sun", and I a good great-great-great granddaughter will be. That wall will become a path over which we both shall trod --- you leading the way, me placing stones where I shall follow.
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Thank you to Lisa at The Accidental Genealogist for the great Fearless Females prompts for the month of March. Prompt # 20 Is there a female ancestor who is your brick wall?
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Very creative! I love how you approached that prompt! I have really enjoyed reading your Fearless Female series of posts! Can't believe I am so behind in my blog reading - SO glad I got to catch up with yours first! Great start to my day! :)ReplyDelete
I have empathy with your yearnings. I have some that I will ask to just speak to me. Surprisingly, one finally did through a picture. Maybe your Elizabeth will find a way. I hope so.ReplyDelete
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That might reduce the amount of pseudoephedrine available to meth producers. It also would have unpleasant side-effects.
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So are the Robotech guys going to take Galvion or what
I... Wow. I got nothin'.
I've said this for a long time now, some people are happy if they got sh!t on a stick with a Robotech label on it.
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Posted 22 February 2012 - 07:13 PM
So are the Robotech guys going to take Galvion or what
I... Wow. I got nothin'.
Posted 22 February 2012 - 07:16 PM
Posted 22 February 2012 - 07:21 PM
sure .. to express how I feel about the things what are going on with RT and looking for an other point of view........ I'm no here to troll
so I ask again,.. so you are a troller in rtx.com?
tht's why i ask .... but I will leave it at that......... and yes I will go to others forums to see what will do Macross on the 30 aniversary...
But, no. Sure, be a Robotech fan, if you want. I know that any post I make on RTX is crushing another Robotech fan's illusions. Can you say the same...?
Posted 22 February 2012 - 07:26 PM
well leave 7 out of that mix
Posted 22 February 2012 - 07:37 PM
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Posted 22 February 2012 - 08:40 PM
Every franchise has its good parts and bad parts. I'm always amazed at seeing people declare they like ALL of Macross, or ALL of Gundam etc...
For me its just inconceivable.
The big problem, of course, is that a lot of the RT fans don't come all the way... They come here because they got banned from RT.com, "and hey...Macross is kinda like Robotech's shittier younger brother, so why the hell not?"
Posted 22 February 2012 - 08:51 PM
deal with it
Posted 22 February 2012 - 09:14 PM
Memo put the videos up, all of them are in this link
Posted 22 February 2012 - 10:03 PM
I have a feeling that in about 48 hours, the crowds will disperse. Nothing to really see here, except a few laughs.
Posted 22 February 2012 - 10:20 PM
Posted 22 February 2012 - 10:38 PM
@ Darkwater post# 1376 :
What you quote is interesting and to be honest nothing new. It was an accepted pratice back then (even without considering re-editing 3 unrelated series into one) to basically invent the story on the spot. Japanese script or no japanese script. And it sure wasn't limited only to the US.
Italy at the end of the seventies imported so much anime, 20 years worth of japanese anime and most of it was adapted lets say loosely. Not by editing out panty shots or blood but by simply inventing lines which were not there in the original. It happened for Goldrake (Grendizer), it happened more or less for all of Go Nagai's superobots shows (Mazinger Z, The great Mazinger, Jeeg, Grendizer), it happened for Capitain Harlock 1978 and 1984, it happened for Lady Oscar etc... The dub of Gundam was invented on the spot. So you see respect for japanese anime wasn't there either in Italy, in France or the US. Of course it didn't help that the japanese didn't care to give well written scripts from which to make a correct adaption. So they are to blame as well although at a lesser degree.
It is only in the last 15 years that correctly adapting japanese anime has become the norm at least in Italy. The one thing that hasn't changed is the japanese giving out substandard scripts from which to adapt. Thats one of the reasons why to correctly adapt a japanese anime you always always have to base your work on what's said in the anime and less to what's written on the scipt. Take for intance the term Universal Century in Gundam. UC is never ever pronounced in Gundam. In fact UC was being used by Bandai for its Gundam model line and later was retconned to mean Universal Century. But in the anime the characters never speak of the UC. They use Uchuu Seiki which translates to something along the lines of Space Era.
So the correct philological translation is Space Era and not Universal Century. Now look at how the american version has been translated, they use Universal Century and it is wrong. The Italian version uses the correct term Space Era. Therfore I wouldn't put a lot of importance on the scripts, what is important is what is said in the anime. That has to be the primary source for adpatation and translation to a foreign language.
Edited by Renato, 22 February 2012 - 10:40 PM.
Posted 22 February 2012 - 11:05 PM
"Uchuu" can be translated as both "space" and "universe", "seiki" literally does mean "century" (as in Chou jikuu seiki Orguss -- Super Dimension Century Orguss); "era", on the other hand, would be "jidai". Thus, I would say Universal Century is accurate enough, and by no means "wrong".
As for your other examples, I still think that the translation in European and Latin American broadcasts are much closer to the source material than adaptations tailored for the US market. In particular Tokyo Movie Shinsha productions, of which you mention "Lady Oscar" (The Rose of Versailles), are very much protected from befalling the same fate as Macross and Gatchaman because the parent company retains virtually all IP control, so as far as I know, TMS only allow minor changes as necessities for localization. The other examples you cited I cannot speak for with the same confidence, but from what I have seen are basically along the same lines.
Posted 22 February 2012 - 11:26 PM
Yes the term uchuu has different meanings but in the context of the show "space" is the correct choice because the term uchuu seiki refers to a calendar system. And if you think about how the japanese specify the years you will see that in the context of the show Space Era is actually the more correct term.
Its the same problem that arises when the zeon characters speak of the white base. They use the term mokuba. It has different meanings but in the english version of Gundam it was translated to trojan horse whereas in the Italian version it was translated to wooden horse (rocking horse). And rocking horse is more accurate, just look at the shape of the white base. The shape doesn't evoke the greek horse of mythology but it evokes a much more realistic rocking horse.
Posted 22 February 2012 - 11:37 PM
No. Mostly, I just try to be educational.
so you are a troller in rtx.com? I got to ask
Posted 23 February 2012 - 02:19 AM
Posted 23 February 2012 - 02:41 AM
Seriously, for RT fans who ventured into this thread ..... did they expect MWers would welcome 'em with flowers peace crap thingies? Supposedly they should've been flayed & burned alive at the stakes ....
I mean, this thread & its various incarnations had successfully converted a many RT fans into Macross bosoms (Lyn Minmay, Misa Hayase, Myung Fang Lone, Sharon Apple, Shery Nome, Sara Nome, Millia Fallyna, Ishtar, Silvie Gena, Klan Klan .... Basara Nekki) ... with Yoshinol-induced acid trip.
Owh, enough rambling. This thread has gone too amusing. Never thought even a hardcore McKinniyist (thought that particular sect of RT fandom went extinct a long time ago) would come by to defend RT novelisation vs the animated material on MW, of all places.
Gimme some popcorn!
Edited by Cobra__, 23 February 2012 - 02:42 AM.
Posted 23 February 2012 - 04:00 AM
Never thought even a hardcore McKinniyist (thought that particular sect of RT fandom went extinct a long time ago) would come by to defend RT novelisation vs the animated material on MW, of all places. Gimme some popcorn!
Posted 23 February 2012 - 04:25 AM
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Posted 23 February 2012 - 08:15 AM
Addressing similarities between the two scripts, and there being almost exact dialogue in some places, are too close to make an argument that they didn't use the original script as reference. While I think Greg Snegoff is a good guy, it doesn't seem like he's totally forthcoming about that story. When he says that the scripts were horrible, I think he was talking about direct translation, and probably from a non-reputable source. It's completely ignorant, to assume that Carl, Greg, and the other writers wrote the entire thing with no reference material. It just didn't happen. There's too many direct similarities that one wouldn't necessarily come to figure out just by visually watching the Japanese version. If you think all those are just coincidences, then there's no point in arguing with delusional fans.
What strikes the whole thing odd, is that it's even an issue. They did use the Japanese script, who cares? Carl and Greg seem to inflate the story quite a bit there, but it's not making them any more credible, or talented as writers. And just because someone says that it's how the story goes, if you're going to believe that, over common sense, then there's really no point in arguing with someone who lives in fantasy land.
Posted 23 February 2012 - 10:14 AM
It's just stupid to assume that Carl and Greg wrote an
One thing this recent topic did was make me watch SDF:M again. Off the top of my head one line in particular that comes to mind is when Hikaru is asking Roy about Misa when he first arrives on board the Macross. In the original Hikaru says, "Who's the old lady?" in RT he says "Who's the old sourpuss?"
This is one of many I noticed last night through 13 episodes.
Edited by Jasonc, 23 February 2012 - 02:22 PM.
Posted 23 February 2012 - 11:43 AM
It's just stupid to assume that Carl and Greg wrote an
entire script without the Japanese version, then got it later,
only to redo it with corrections and similar references.
Edited by Darkwater, 23 February 2012 - 11:44 AM.
Posted 23 February 2012 - 11:57 AM
Posted 23 February 2012 - 11:58 AM
It's all ass backward, and makes absolutely no sense. Common sense
can go a long way.
Posted 23 February 2012 - 02:24 PM
Posted 23 February 2012 - 04:19 PM
I'm pretty sure Greg Snegoff retells stories Carl told him of his time in Japan making Sentinels and the Japanese staff who were impressed with Robotech were Kenji Yoshida and/or Ippei Kuri. I can't provide a source because I don't remember, but there it is. "The Japanese" are the people Carl told them about when he got back from Japan, Tatsunoko's owners.
edit: I just remembered. It was in Los Angeles, not Japan. In Comics Interview #23 page 22 (1985):
SHEL: Have any of the original Japanese writers or artists viewed your version and commented upon it?
CARL: Recently, Kenji Yoshida, one of the principal owners of Tatsunoko Studios and one of the producers for the three series that turned into ROBOTECH, was in Los Angeles, viewed what we were doing, and was amazed. For one thing, the Japanese do not have synch. Which means that they never have their actors speak in synch with the mouth movements of the animation.
SHEL: That doesn't bother them?
CARL: They don't care. They are more interested in telling the story. Immediately, Kenji Yoshida realized that the thing was in synch - he flipped that it was in synch. We have enhanced their sound-effects nearly 2000% - we have 20 times the sound effects that they have done.
I can make a scan later if you need it.
Posted 23 February 2012 - 05:39 PM
If you're not interested in Robotech ( or in bashing HG) then why do you post in this thread ?
Seriously as trolls go it seems MWers are second to none.
I was a long time fan of Macross years before Robotech (anime or novels) was even on radar.
I like the novels over the anime. Is that a crime ? It still is Robotech although another variant if you think about it.
In the end you don't need popcorn, you need to go back to that troll cavern you came out of.
Posted 23 February 2012 - 05:44 PM
Posted 23 February 2012 - 06:07 PM
I think you're being too over-dramatic about witch hunting ......
Posted 23 February 2012 - 09:14 PM
Owww ... do you need to burst that bubble ......
Posted 23 February 2012 - 09:15 PM
Posted 23 February 2012 - 10:10 PM
For somebody who is new to MW, accusing other longtime MWer as a troll speaks volumes, ain't it?
I was too. In fact I was a long time fan of SDFM in mid 1980s, an RT fan in 1990s & avid collector of RT novelizations & admittedly was a staunch McKinniyist before turning into a Purist a long time ago.
Now I'm more of Macross fan, with fond nostalgic memories of RT. Should we really comparing credentials here?
Like it all you want, but McKinniyist breed died a long time ago, I was one of McKinniyists crowd engaged in various debates & flame wars that raged in late 1990s & early 2000s .... but we lose that war when HG choose the Purist route. When novelisation got the shove as secondary material in Yune's RT-verse, sanctioned by HG, the novels just became a nostalgic piece of RT history. No more, no less.
You said you prefer the novelisation, but most of the elements like thinking caps, the Shapings, and God forbid .. the Sentinels / End of The Circle simply not supported by the animation. Not to say even the old novel timeline is non-canon thanks to reboot timeline in canonical Yune's RT-verse sanctioned by HG.
As for popcorn thingies, now this thread survived as a constant amusement to MWers. Most of the old RT vs Macross legal wranglings had been talked to death. Then it became the sob stories for RT fans who find themselves booted from RT.com. Then the usual RT & Yune bashing. Ohhh, yes, most also come here to get news firsthand regarding RT instead of RT.com.
You want to share what is so great in appreciating RT novelisation, then RT.com or RTX.com is the place to be .... not MW. Especially this thread. Here MWers tend have annual RT witch hunting open season. A couple of years back, surviving RT fans that ever stumble to this thread and survived the lynching & public executions would consider it is as their baptism of fire .... but before long, they would swore allegiance to Macross after realising the RT cake has gone stale for far too long.
Edited by Cobra__, 23 February 2012 - 10:13 PM.
Posted 24 February 2012 - 05:13 AM
I mean, this thread & its various incarnations had successfully converted a many RT fans into Macross bosoms (Lyn Minmay, Misa Hayase, Myung Fang Lone, Sharon Apple, Shery Nome, Sara Nome, Millia Fallyna, Ishtar, Silvie Gena, Klan Klan .... Basara Nekki) ... with Yoshinol-induced acid trip.
Posted 24 February 2012 - 07:58 AM
Agreed...but Sheryl Nome's? SIGN ME UP!
I'd rather not be welcomed into Basara or Myung's bosoms, just FYI.
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Happy New Year Rantics!
The Tom Helmer of FSN Rocky Mountain interview/Rantic get together is back on. It will be held at Champps at 8325 Park Meadows Center Drive in Littleton at 5-6pm on Saturday January 8th.
It's on the weekend this time and the weather will be decent so hopefully those of you who couldn't make it before will be able to attend.
Remember folks this is all non-formal. Tom's interview might take ten minutes and the rest of the time you can ask Tom questions, have a drink, eat some dinner if you want (I am), or just hang out and drink a hot chocolate.
Krista and I will be there, I really hope to see you there.
Rockies News
I gotta say I'm glad the Rockies were able to sign Carlos Gonzalez. I know it's a lot of money, but seven years for 80 million is a bargain for Cargo. I figure Cargo took this deal is because he's happy here and he's extremely well liked by the Rockies fans.
A total win/win situation for the Rockies.
From everything I've witnessed this season Cargo is well on his way to becoming a superstar and it's nice to know he'll call Colorado home for the next seven years.
So we've got Cargo and Tulo to build a team around. That my friends is a great start :)
I also read that former Rockie Brad Hawpe is soon to be a Padre.
That ought to make Queen Geri happy as she'll at least get to see him several times a season.
I'm "D" The Rockpile Ranter and it's gonna be a good year.
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Hey D,
Count me in for Saturday. Should be a blast.
I'm totally stoked about Cargo especially with locking up Tulo. What a 1, 2 punch that is🙂
Brad to the Padres huh? That will be weird seeing him when they come to town.
Looking forward to seeing you Saturday.
R-Luv-I'm glad you will be there Saturday. Looks like there should be a bunch of us…Gonna be fun, I can't wait…D
Cargo and Tulo is indeed a heck of start to build a team around. The Rockies were really smart to lock in long contracts in these cases.
– Kristen
What a great time this was tonite! Tom was gracious and did a great interview with both Don and a coupla questions from Alannah X. His wife was a sweetie, too!
Good to see da Rantics en masse and what a great location to "hang out."
Can't wait to see the next Rant post about this event!


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Today, for the first time in five years, Congress designated land to be protected as wilderness. The House of Representatives approved the Sleeping Bear Dunes National Lakeshore Conservation and Recreation Act (S.
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WATERLOO Jennifer Esmail, an assistant professor in the Department of English and Film Studies at Wilfrid Laurier University, has been awarded one of the most prestigious academic awards in Canada: the 2012 John Charles Polanyi Prize for Literature. The prize, awarded annually to outstanding researchers in five different fields, has a value of $20,000.
It is very fitting that the Polanyi Prize has chosen Dr. Jennifer Esmail as one of this year's recipients, said Deborah MacLatchy, vice-president: academic and provost. An emerging scholar in critical Victorian Literature, this high-level acknowledgment recognizes her excellent scholarship and potential to be a leader in the field in years to come.
Esmails expertise is Victorian literature, with research interests in deaf and disability studies, animal studies, and the history of media and technology. Her book, Reading Victorian Deafness: Signs and Sounds in Victorian Literature and Culture, is scheduled for publication by Ohio University Press in spring 2013. Her book examines Victorian understandings of deafness and sign language, including the influential Oralist movement that forced deaf people to speak and lipread in English instead of sign.
The Polanyi Prize will help fund Esmails new research project, titled Minding Victorian Animals: Science, Sympathy and the Human-Animal Boundary in Victorian Literature and Culture. After Charles Darwin published On the Origin of Species in 1859, evolutionary theory caused a shift in how Victorians perceived animal-human relations. Scientists and novelists alike strove to understand what distinguished humans from other animals, with attention given to how and what animals think.
I am so pleased to have my research recognized by a major research award that values a humanistic inquiry into todays pressing issues, said Esmail. She argues that Victorian efforts to define humanity and animality continue to inform current theories and practices, and are especially important in todays environment- and ecology-minded society. There were extraordinary ideological and ethical implications at stake in granting significance to the minds of animals, and these effects still resonate in a vast swathe of our current preoccupations with neo-colonialism, human genetic screening, euthanasia, genetic modification and cloning, factory farming, animal testing and environmental sustainability.
The Department of English and Film Studies is gratified to know the excellence of new faculty members like Jennifer, who is being recognized in a tough competition outside Laurier, said Ute Lischke, chair of Lauriers Department of English and Film Studies. Congratulations to a very bright young researcher.
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In honour of the achievement of John Charles Polanyi, recipient of the 1986 Nobel Prize in Chemistry, the Government of Ontario established a fund to provide up to five prizes annually to outstanding researchers in the early stages of their career who are continuing to post-doctoral studies or have recently started a faculty appointment at an Ontario university. The prizes are available in the areas of Literature, Chemistry, Physiology, Medicine and Economic Science.
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Multimedia » Brochures
Attributes of Vishnu and BuddhaThis illustrated brochure provides an overview of some of the physical attributes of the gods Vishnu and Buddha found in Hindu sculpture.
Proof: The Rise of Printmaking in Southern CaliforniaThis brochure for the 2011/12 exhibition "Proof" provides a glossary of some of the technical terminology used to describe the printmaking process.
Attributes of Shiva Nataraja and GaneshThis illustrated brochure provides an overview of some of the physical attributes of the gods Shiva and Ganesh found in Hindu sculpture.
Surface Truths: Abstract Painting in the SixtiesThis brochure for the 2011 exhibition "Surface Truths" gives a brief description of some of the artistic styles featured in the exhibition.
Gaze: Portraiture After IngresThis brochure for the 2009/2010 exhibition "Gaze" provides an overview of why portraiture, so seemingly laden with restrictions and expectations, appealed to some of the greatest avant-garde painters in the history of art.
Ingres's Comtesse d'Haussonville at the Norton Simon MuseumThe exhibition brochure provides an introduction to Ingres's breathtaking portrait, Comtesse d''Haussonville, which was on loan from The Frick Collection in 2009 in an art exchange program established with the Norton Simon foundations.
Matisse's AmoursThis brochure includes the English translations of Pierre de Ronsard's poems that Matisse used for his book Florilège des Amours de Ronsard. The brochure was created for the 2009 exhibition Matisse's Amours: Illustrations of Pierre de Ronsard's Love Poems.
The Art of WarThis educational placard printed in 2008 examines the significant role posters played in conveying the government's messages of conservation, economic sacrifice, production, and patriotism to the American people.
The Art of NegotiationProduced in 2007 to commemorate the centennial of Norton Simon's birth, this brochure highlights some of Mr. Simon's most memorable art acquisitions.
Temple Wall with Scenes of Krishna's LifePublished in 2007 to coincide with the Temple Wall's installation in the exhibition Tales of the Blue Lord, this brochure gives a detailed overview of this magnificent piece.
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On this day (Jan. 14) in 1784, the Continental Congress, meeting in Philadelphia, ratified the Treaty of Paris of 1783, which formally brought to a happy conclusion, especially for the war-weary, debt-ridden American patriots, the lengthy eight-year Revolutionary War against Great Britain.
The Continental Congress, in September 1779, had appointed John Adams as its sole negotiator. However, in 1781, partly in deference to French Foreign Minister Comte de Vergennes's dislike of the argumentative Adams, Congress added the names of Benjamin Franklin, John Jay, Thomas Jefferson and Henry Laurens to the peace-negotiating team. However, only three members of the American delegation actually took part in the sometimes dilatory negotiations that led to the final peace treaty.
Because of the illness and subsequent death of his wife, Martha, in September 1782, Jefferson did not participate in the negotiations. Henry Laurens was captured by the British while traveling to France and was imprisoned in the Tower of London for 15 months. Happily, the South Carolinian was freed in time to reach Paris to sign the Preliminary Treaty in November 1782.
Each of the three participating American diplomats (Adams, Franklin and Jay) made positive contributions to what finally became the Definitive Treaty. The wily Dr. Franklin's main contribution was to act as a mediator between the irascible Adams, the dour Jay, and the British negotiators, Richard Oswald and Henry Strachey, and then to convince the French Foreign Minister (Comte de Vergennes) that he should support the treaty even though France played no role in its drafting.
The Treaty of Alliance of 1778 with France had mandated joint Franco-American negotiations with the British: a provision that the Americans obviously violated in negotiating without French input.
Adams' main contribution was his insistence that Americans retain their accustomed fishing "rights" in the north Atlantic and Jay's main positive contribution was his insistence to exclude France from the peace negotiations.
In the treaty, Britain first and foremost formally recognized U.S. independence. The other major terms of the treaty included a clause stating that all debts owed citizens of both countries were to be honored; a clause pledging Congress "to earnestly recommend" to the states a full restoration of the rights and properties of loyalists; a clause granting Americans the "right" to fish in their accustomed areas off Nova Scotia and Newfoundland; a clause granting generous boundaries, which made the new American republic one of the largest countries in the Atlantic World; and, finally, a clause that specified that all hostilities were to cease, and that all British land and sea forces were to be evacuated "with all convenient speed."
Adams, Franklin and Jay had negotiated a highly favorable peace treaty – a treaty that confirmed American independence and gave birth to the American republic.
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It was standing-room only at a heated Hawaii Kai meeting Thursday night about possible retail development on preservation land.
Its owner, Kamehameha Schools, along with Foodland, pitched their development plans to hundreds of Hawaii Kai residents at the town hall-style meeting at Kamiloiki Elementary School.
The 4 and 1/2 acres of land is across Kalanianaole Highway from Maunalua Bay Beach Park, adjacent to the Hawaii Kai Dog Park.
"Grassy area, definitely good, keep the area cool. A lot of concrete would definitely warm up the place a bit," said Hawaii Kai resident Catherine Wenzl.
There are conflicting opinion polls on the development. Some surveys done by Rep. Gene Ward show overwhelming opposition, while a Kamehameha Schools poll reveals strong support.
Hawaii Kai resident Carolynn Griffith said, "I think we need another shopping center out here. I think we need Foodland out here. I think we need something so that if there is an emergency, we have things available to us."
Lawmakers organized the meeting to hear what the people have to say and to clear the air.
"Right now there's the white crane there that people think Kamehameha Schools is already started building the shopping mall there. In fact, it's for the dredging and for the Hawaii Kai marina," said Rep. Gene Ward.
Foodland Vice Chairman Roger Wall said, "Following the Koko Marina store closure, we were asked by several community members to contact Kamehameha Schools because owned parcels of land throughout Hawaii Kai that offered potential for us. The Kuapa site that we've really focused in we think is the most viable. It's central, it's conveniently located close to the core of Hawaii Kai residents and to us, it's the only site that makes sense."
"It's definitely not a strip mall," Kamehameha Schools Area Development Director Susan Todani said. "But we're really thinking about a gathering place that's so much more than just retail. We're thinking about combining community amenities, such as a waterfront-recreational path and pedestrian and bike ways and playgrounds. Incorporating the dog park, that's a really important feature to this community."
Both Foodland and Kamehameha Schools say this is far from a done deal and want to hear more from the community. They say if development were to proceed, it would take at least four years to complete.
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Third candidate joins Vt adjutant general raceThe Associated Press | February 06,2013MONTPELIER Another candidate has joined the race to become the next adjutant general of the Vermont National Guard.
Retired Col. Michael J. Bullock, of Hinesburg, says he has the right background for what the job demands.
Bullock said he is a retired Special Forces, Airborne, Ranger and Basic Mountaineering Infantry officer who currently serves as a civilian senior training adviser.
He volunteered to come out of retirement in 2010 to deploy to Afghanistan, the Burlington Free Press reported. Because of that deployment, he said, he knows the challenges the Guard faces.
I know what changes need and should be made to help them, he said. I know the programs designed to assist them and how those programs can improve. I want to be their voice in Vermont and in Washington.
His announcement comes a week after former Army Guard Brig. Gen. Jonathan Farnham withdrew from the race. Bullock joins Air Guard Brig. Gen. Steven Cray, of Essex Junction, and Col. Darryl Ducharme on the ballot.
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On some level, we all know that almost everything we see at the movies is bullshit, from the amount of bullets a person can take without dying to what the job of pizza delivery boy actually entails. Except documentaries. Documentaries are where we turn off the snark and open our minds to learn about distant lands, alarming realities, and how much McDonald's a dude can eat.
However, it turns out that some of the most acclaimed documentaries ever are about as real as Borat.
6Super Size Me -- Nobody Can Replicate the Results
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The Film:
This is the movie that made you swear you'd never set food in a McDonald's again (until the next time you drove by one). For 30 days, Morgan Spurlock decided he would only eat food sold by McDonald's. He had to eat everything on the menu at least once, had to have three meals a day, and would only Supersize when offered. He documented the bizarre and terrifying changes his body went through while eating what according to science is not actual food.
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Medical experts confirmed that his thong remained just as douchey.
In one scene, this nice doctor tells Spurlock he's been eating an average of 5,000 calories a day, even though he only Supersized 9 in 30 meals. At the end of the documentary, Spurlock had not only gained a bunch of weight and seen his cholesterol go through the roof (as you'd expect), but also had severe liver damage, as well as mood swings and depression.
The Fallacy:
Here's the thing: No one has been able to replicate Spurlock's results, and even basic math disputes the claim that his McDiet consisted of 5,000 calories a day.
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And apparently gave him a big ol' case of mean-muggin'.
As Tom Naughton points out in his documentary, Fat Head, there's simply no way Spurlock could have been eating that much food if he was sticking to his own rules. A large Big Mac meal clocks in at "just" 1,450 calories, and it's by far one of the fattiest items on the menu. This means that even Supersizing lunch and dinner every day and adding dessert falls well short of the 5,000 calories a day Spurlock's nutritionist claims he was consuming. In an effort to find out just exactly what the hell, Naughton attempted to contact Spurlock to obtain his food log, but Spurlock (who makes a huge deal in his documentary about McDonald's never calling him back) never called him back.
Meanwhile, researchers from the Making Sure Movies Aren't Stupid department of Sweden's University of Linkoping tried to replicate Spurlock's experiment by tasking healthy college students with the challenge of eating 6,000 calories of fast food per day, inadvertently also answering the question "What's the easiest way to get guinea pigs ever?" At the end of the 30 days, the students had none of the liver or cholesterol troubles Spurlock reported. According to the guy in charge of the experiment (aka an actual scientist, not the guy who created MTV's I Bet You Will), the students' metabolism was able to adapt to the extra amount of food they were eating. They did feel more tired, but none of them experienced the mood swings and depression Spurlock claimed to have endured.
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Probably due to the fact that they were eating for the first time in weeks.
So either Spurlock slightly exaggerated his results, or he had an amphetamine addiction he left on the cutting room floor.
5Waiting for "Superman" -- Charter Schools Kind of Suck, Too
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The Film:
Waiting for "Superman" is one of those documentaries that made everyone who watched it instantly call their friends and tell them they had to drop everything they're doing and see it right away. Even President Obama declared himself a huge fan.
According to this award-winning film, only 20 to 35 percent of eighth graders in the U.S. read at grade level, an alarming statistic that explains so much of the Internet. It follows a number of families as they try to get into charter schools, which offer a free alternative to the crushing bureaucracy that is killing our public education system. Tragically, not all of the families get in, damning those kids to schools where they'll hopefully at least be taught how to tell when their pimp is cutting their crack with too much baking soda.
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"Wait, are you sure this is crack? It looks like antibiotics."
The Fallacy:
Waiting for "Superman" was all about improving the country's education, but it's so poorly researched and one-sided that it might actually be making things worse.
Let's start with that "only 20 to 35 percent can read well" statistic: The real number is closer to about 75 percent. Also, you might remember a throwaway line about how only 1 in 5 charter schools performs better than public schools -- yeah, that's sort of a big deal, movie. Thirty-seven percent of charters actually perform worse.
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Unfortunately the director went to a charter school, so math isn't his greatest strength.
The film focuses on the charters that perform better, of course, but at least one of those is achieving its results through fishy means. One of the administrators of a school shown in the film, the Harlem Children's Zone, expelled an entire class of children that he feared would throw off his glowing performance statistics. It turns out that when teacher pay and/or school funding is tied to student performance, a model that the film advocates, it opens the door for all kinds of shady shit, including flat-out expelling low-performing students the day before the test to boost their numbers.
In the movie, not getting into a charter school is the worst thing that can happen to a poor family, but studies have shown that school choice itself matters little to a student's success -- shockingly, it's more about how seriously the students themselves and their families take their education. And that ghetto public school might not actually be so bad: According to administrators from Woodside High School, which the film claims only sends a third of its students to college and only graduates 62 percent of them, the film excluded students who go to out-of-state colleges in their statistics, and their graduation rate is more like 92 percent. Shit, being left behind is starting to sound awesome.
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"Yep, you've graduated! Now please get out of our school."


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Googling Cronyism
An impartial rule of law is one of the pillars of a free society, so the curious resolution of the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) probe into alleged anti-competitive practice by Google should be cause for concern even for those of us who are skeptical of antitrust law.
The FTC investigated Google for nearly two years and concluded that it had engaged in abusive practices. The result? A letter from Google saying they won't do it again. No lawsuit. No binding consent decree. This from an administration that is otherwise extremely hostile to business, hyper-regulatory, and extremely aggressive in antitrust actions that don't involve Google. It's a disturbing triumph of Washington influence peddling, lobbying, and campaign politics. In a word: cronyism.
Whether we like it or not, the antitrust laws are on the books. The FTC found that Google improperly prevented its customers (advertisers – when you use the Google search engine, you aren't the customer; you're the product) from managing and analyzing campaigns across other platforms. The FTC also found that Google improperly scraped content like restaurant reviews from other websites without providing any mechanism for those sites to opt out.
Three FTC members, Republican Tom Rosch and Democrats Julie Brill and Chairman Jon Leibowitz all claim they favored moving forward with either a lawsuit or a binding consent decree. So it's a mystery that the result instead was simply a letter from Google making voluntary commitments to curb these practices. As the American Consumer Institute quipped: "Letting Google off with a letter promising not to do it again is like believing Lindsey Lohan will stay out of trouble this time."
Google got off the hook by reportedly spending over $25 million on lobbying, retaining no less than 12 separate lobbying firms. It also no doubt helped that Google personnel helped build and execute the Obama reelection campaign's vaunted data operation, and Google CEO Eric Schmidt was a high-level adviser to the campaign. Jim Messina, Obama's campaign manager, said: "For three hours we sat in a conference room, and he just gave me advice about all the mistakes he'd made, about purchasing supply chains, about HR, about the blocking and tackling of growing fast and making sure you have organizational objectives."
Google also hired Republican consultants like Patrick Ruffini to build support on the right, and found it from conservative heavyweights like the Heritage Foundation and Judge Robert Bork. But Google remains an overwhelmingly left-wing company dedicated to promoting big government in all areas that don't involve regulating Google.
Google and its allies have for years argued in favor of sweeping government regulation of the physical networks that comprise the Internet called "net neutrality." They have insisted that a free-market, unregulated Internet will result in Internet service providers blocking web sites, disrupting services, and otherwise wreaking havoc, ignoring the obvious effectiveness of competition to discipline such abuses. They've told us that only benevolent government regulators can protect us from these imagined ills. They don't mention that "net neutrality" would guarantee Google no-cost access to broadband networks that cost billions of dollars to deploy, forcing the full cost to be borne by consumers.
The Federal Communications Commission delivered the Google-favored "net neutrality" regulations in late 2010 but they are likely to be struck down in court. Which could result in the issue shifting to the FTC.
Although many conservatives are cheering the regulatory restraint embodied in the FTC's voluntary enforcement agreement with Google, I'm not no sure. A government that enforces laws lightly or not at all on its friends while pursuing a stifling regulatory agenda against others (see, for example, the spiking of the AT&T/T-Mobile merger on antitrust grounds) is not something to celebrate. A company that aggressively promotes big government politicians and heavy-handed regulation of others is no friend of the free market. I don't like antitrust laws, but this non-enforcement looks more like old-fashioned cronyism than a genuine move in a free-market direction.
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SOUTHFIELD, Mich., Dec. 13, 2011 – Associate Professor CJ Chung of Lawrence Technological University knows from personal experience how dangerous it can be to fall and not be able to get assistance. Last year he suffered a painful fall when he was recovering from a bone infection that had greatly reduced his ability to walk.
Chung teaches computer science at Lawrence Tech, and now he is working with graduate students on a fall detection and notification system that connects vision sensors with a computer.
The new system will be publically demonstrated on Thursday, Dec. 15, from 12:30-2 p.m. during the opening of a new robotics lab of the Autonomous Robotics Institute for Students and Educators (ARISE). It is located in room M137 on the lower level of the Buell Management Building at Lawrence Tech.
In 2010, Chung lost the ability to walk and even stand up when he was hospitalized for two months with osteomyelitis, a bone infection. While learning how to use a walker and crutches, he fell and could not get up on his own. The fall delayed his recovery.
Chung is back on his feet again and walking normally, but he still remembers the feeling of helplessness when he couldn't notify anyone. "It took only a few milliseconds for me to lose control of my body in my weakened state, and suddenly I was totally helpless," Chung recalled. "I realized the importance of being able to let someone know right away."
There are commercial fall detection and notifying devices that use accelerometers, which measure change of motion velocity. These detection devices must be carried by patients, there seems to be a high false alarm rate, and the service can cost $30 a month or more, according to Chung.
He believes a better complementary solution is to mount vision sensors in the home or care facilities that can monitor people. He started and is leading a research project with Christopher Kawatsu and Jiaxing Li, two computer science graduate students in his class, Intelligent Systems.
Using Microsoft Kinect vision sensors that cost between $99 and $150, the students have implemented software that can detect a fall. This system can also distinguish between falling and voluntarily lying down. The system can send a text message or a photo to a care provider and in the future may have the capability to send video.
Chung has demonstrated the system at Henry Ford Hospital in West Bloomfield where he hopes field testing will be conducted.
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"sell their milk at a price to Tesco at a price lower than their cost of production"
are they mad? why do they do it then? Maybe they should try Waitrose or the Co-op.
"at least 4 local butchers who are far cheaper than the local supermarkets"
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One local butchers is - but it's all cheap (and imported!) meat - nothing more than a glorified meat supermarker really (and I think it's closing soon as I saw the building up for sale recently.......) The other one is much more expensive, even getting just what I need it's out of my price braccket,
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Mine is hit and miss. Have you tried the butchers counters in the supermarket? Tesco often have some good deals on in that bit and it seems better quality.
nagynolonger Thu 10-Mar-11 10:19:06
I would say it costs more from a local butcher. But mine does do good freezer pack at a reasonable price. Also you can buy exactly what you want as others have said. Things like sausage and bacon are much better than supermarket ones.
Overall, if farmers can't make a living, they should do something else instead. As I said in post #1 " I am as fully committed to buying British beef as they are to buying British tractors, trucks, combines, 4x4s and cars".
The milk price is well known and some HAVE to sell below cost price. Otherwise do they pour it down the drain? Dairy farms are closing at a good rate, you have to be a certain size to get the economies of scale to survive and we are importing milk, so many are taking the option you so eloquently describe. Farmers have their contract and prices changed at 3 days notice by the supermarkets without negotiation.
JohnM - when you begin to stop pontificating about what farmers should and shouldn't buy (after all its a free market ain't it?) can you let me know about all the UK stuff you obviously so religiously buy. There is nothing wrong with British machinery but what is wrong with British beef.


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Phinally – Let's Play Ball!
Spring training exhibition games have finally started! In fact, I am listening to the Phillies face the Pirates in Bradenton at this very moment. I'm a pretty visual person, so I always have a hard time following games on the radio. I'm anticipating the first TV broadcast of the spring – for you Phillies fans out there, that will be this Saturday at 1:05 pm, when the Phillies will face Tampa Bay in Clearwater.
Currently, it's scoreless in the top of the second inning, and Matt Capps has just walked three straight Phillies. Dang! Bruntlett just grounded into a double-play to end the threat. Oh well. I'd better concentrate on typing.
Just for a visual, here's a couple of photos of McKechnie Field in Bradenton, where the Phillies are playing today:
Answers to yesterday's quiz:
Hope you all had fun with yesterday's movie-themed quiz. Congrats to the Rays Renegade, who answered seven of nine correctly! By the way, if you haven't checked out Tom's profile of the Renegade in his Timeout At The Plate series over at Rocky Mountain Way, what are you waiting for? It's great!
Here, then, are the answers, with a little extra info for those of you, like me, who love to fill your heads with knowledge:
1. The Rookie is based on the true story of Jim Morris, who is portrayed by Dennis Quaid in the movie. Morris pitched for the Tampa Bay Devil Rays in 1999 and 2000, appearing in 21 games with a 4.80 ERA.
2. The character of Jimmy Dugan is loosely based on real-life Hall-of-Famer Jimmie Foxx. After a 20-year career that saw him elected to the Hall of Fame in 1951, he spent one season (1952) managing the Fort Wayne Daisies in the AAGPBL.
3. Burrell, Glanville, and Lieberthal all have cameos in Summer Catch, starring Freddie Prinz, Jr. and Jessica Biel.
4. The only non-Red Sox item in Ben's apartment in Fever Pitch is Yankee toilet paper.
5. In Rookie Of The Year, Barry Bonds is also joined by Bobby Bonilla and Pedro Guerrero as stikeout victims of 12-year-old Henry.
**unrelated tidbit** I was shocked – shocked, I tell you! – to see the actor who plays Henry, Thomas Ian Nicholas, all grown up into horny teenage Kevin in American Pie.
6. Bennie "The Jet" Rodriguez dreams about Babe Ruth in The Sandlot.
7. Archibald "Moonlight" Graham appeared in one game for the New York Giants on June 29, 1905. He had entered the game as a defensive substitution, and was on deck when the game ended, so he never got to bat.
8. Former White Sox outfielder Ken Berry was a technical adviser for the movie Eight Men Out, about the 1919 "Black Sox" scandal.
9. A photo of Thurman Munson, along with a headline about his death in a plane crash, can be seen in Annie Savoy's shrine during the end credits of Bull Durham.
**extra tidbit** Thanks to Mets Main Man for pointing out to me that there was a real Bull Durham. He played for several different teams from 1904-1909, compiling a 5.28 ERA in 9 games.
(McKechnie Field photos mine)
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The Red Sox beat B.C. today and Tonight – 7:05 I get to see a Red Sox game live on NESN-HD! Life is very good!
That was a really cool quiz that you gave us yesterday! I've only listened to a few games on the radio– I'm a visual person myself as well. The last game I listened to on the radio was Manny's last game as a Red Sox. I remember it perfectly, it was so depressing. John Lackey carried a no hitter into the ninth– the Red Sox were dead that night.
Julia – I have to wait until Saturday to watch the Phils in HD glory – looking forward to it! Hope the Sox did well.
Elizabeth – I try so hard to visualize the game when it's on the radio, it's dangerous for me to drive! I've almost gone off the road during particularly exciting moments!
Interesting answers to the questions, Sue. I don't know how in the world I didn't remember the Munson reference in Bull Durham. What kind of a Yankee fan am I, anyway?
Sue it was pretty exciting today hearing some familiar names and thinking about all the great things going on in the game! I'm glad you liked the Timeout with Rays Renegade. He's a standup guy and awesome baseball fan! I have yet to do a Philly fan so I'll have to keep you in mind : )
I am definitely a visual person too, it's like being at an auction and you're like, "wait… what happened?" At least that's how it is with me. But I think we're all glad spring training is here!!!
Mna, I totally missed the quiz! My internet connection in this hotel is like touch and go…I've been posting each day and then getting off this damn computer before it crashes! Seems to be working today…fingers crossed! Anyhow, nice job on the quiz!
It's a good thing I pointed that out. It made the quiz ten times better. I get my own tag too? I feel so special.🙂
I LOVE THE ROOKIE!!!! But I totally forgot Jimmy's last name🙂 I love listening to the game on the radio, probably because that's the way I've always had to do it. Whenever I get to watch a game on TV, I feel like I'm missing something (the radio broadcast).
Jane – we all know by now that you are a true fan!
Tom – thanks for doing the Timeout series; they are really interesting!
Emily – so glad I am not the only one with this visual problem!
Jenn – hotel connections are so unpredictable! Hope you are having great weather down there!
Mets Main Man – enjoy being special! I aim to make everyone happy!
Kaybee – yes, "The Rookie" is truly an inspirational story. You know, I've heard of people who will watch on TV with the sound off and listen to the radio broadcast – I guess it depends which announcers you prefer.


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John le Carré's second novel, A Murder of Quality, offers an exquisite, satirical look at an elite private school as it chronicles the early development of George Smiley.
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"Short break from le Carre's brilliant spy œuvre"
Not le Carré's finest, but that is like saying here a minor Faulkner, a good-effort Chandler or even a throwaway Conrad. 'A Murder of Quality' finds George Smiley out of his element (although to be fair, Smily IS defined by always being just a little out of his element). Instead of in an espionage thriller, he is dropped by le Carré into a boys school murder.
It is as if, with his second novel, le Carré is wondering whether spy fiction or detective fiction should be his future calling. It does make me briefly pause and imagine how the arc of his career might have turned out if le Carré had pursued crime instead of espionage writing.
If you are new to le Carré, don't start with this one. If you love le Carré this will be a short and interesting break from his brilliant espionage œuvre.
"very good murder mystery"
Smiley is still "retired" apparently from secret service after Call for the Dead but this is a very good murder mystery that stands on it's own. Le Carre is a fine author thus far and I know #3 In from the Cold is genius and one of my favorite novels and so I am on my way to #4 in this series and plan to go on with more Smileys and more JLC in general.
"Well-crafted Murder Mystery with Quirky Humor"
Lean. Logical. Engrossing.
The down-to-earth humaness of all the characters coupled with the well-polished and logical plot.
I love a good book...
"A wonderful Who-Done-It."
George Smiley is a delicious character which captures my attention. It sort of feels a little like Columbo, but the books take me into the past as well. I enjoyed this story which proves that anyone can lie...and they often do.
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The story was not as interesting some of the authors other works. This narator however was great!
I was born near Chicago, and moved to Texas 22 years ago. I taught high-school English for probably too many years. Love a good mystery.
"Quality Mystery"
This is one of the best mysteries I have read. The writing is excellent and the characters are different. The clues are clear but not obvious.
Had to read in one sitting to discover the murderer.
This is the first time so I cant compare , but I thought he did a good job.
It is a film.
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The Koss Corp., the Milwaukee-based maker of high-fidelity sterophones, announced Wednesday that it has entered into a partnership with U.S. Olympic skier Julia Mancuso.
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Walker's Point buildings sold, to be redeveloped
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Date: Friday, December 14, 2012
Time: 7:00 pm - 8:00 pm
Performers: California String Quartet
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Rejoice in the holidays and enjoy an evening of strings in the galleries with the California String Quartet. The ensemble returns to perform two pieces from the 18th and 19th centuries—Haydn's String Quartet, op. 76, no. 4, and Mendelssohn's String Quartet, op. 44, no. 1—celebrating life, beauty and the sounds of the season.
Presented in the Museum's 20th-century gallery.
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text: Governor allocates more than $200 million from federal Education Jobs Fund Governor Deval Patrick has allocated more than $200 million from the federal Education Jobs Fund to local school districts across the Commonwealth. The additional funding will support an estimated 2,000 teaching positions and, according to the Patrick administration, will bring state support for public schools to its highest level in history. "This is great news for the students and educators in our public schools," MTA President Paul Toner said after the funding announcement was made on August 25 in New Bedford. "This funding will allow districts to rehire teachers and other staff who were given pink slips last spring. It will also help keep talented educators in their classrooms during the upcoming school year." On August 10, President Barack Obama signed legislation containing $26 billion in emergency funds to help states cope with the great recession and stave off massive educator layoffs across the nation. In the weeks prior to its passage, MTA members, joining their NEA colleagues from across the country, sent almost 19,000 e-mails and made numerous phone calls in support of the legislation. In the end, all 10 members of the Massachusetts U.S. House delegation and Senator John Kerry voted in favor of the bill. Senator Scott Brown voted against the legislation. "While this funding is greatly appreciated and will make a difference for our students and our schools, it does not resolve the need for more resources for our public schools and colleges," Toner cautioned. The MTA is continuing to lobby for additional funds for the state's public colleges and universities. As part of this effort, the MTA is asking members to urge the governor to put the remaining funds from the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act, estimated at about $60 million, as well as anticipated dollars from the federal Medicaid assistance program, toward the state's higher education budget. To learn more about the announcement by the governor and see how much money the administration has allocated for local school districts, please click here. To urge the governor to use federal funds for our state's public colleges and universities, click here.