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Raging Bull (1980)
Raging Bull (1980) is an unrelenting, searing biopic and dramatic tragedy - based on the real-life story of an unlovable, stubborn middle-weight boxing champion as he struggles to be champion. His life passes through successive stages of punishment, compromise, and self-disintegration, due to numerous inner demons. The tale of Jake La Motta's downfall is a reversal of the sentimental, much-loved boxer/hero story in Rocky (1976). [Its tone resembled previous boxing genre films, including Golden Boy (1939), Body and Soul (1947), Champion (1949), and The Set-Up (1949).]
Paul 'Taxi Driver' Schrader and Mardik 'Mean Streets' Martin contributed the superb (and un-nominated) screenplay that was loosely based on Jake La Motta's book of the same name - it chronicled the boxer's own rise and tragic, self-destructive, violent fall. The 1940s boxing champion/bum blindly, obtusely, and stupidly inflicts wounds upon himself (mostly outside the ring in his personal and marital life with sibling rivalry, obsessive and irrational jealousy, and domestic abuse) while he also legally brutalizes opponents in the ring. The protagonist finds that his own meanness, brutishness, lack of humanity, inarticulate rage, and inner demons can best be expressed or exorcised inside the boxing ring. By the film's end, he has alienated himself from his wife and brother, and lost both his boxing title and freedom.
Scorsese's film was positioned in the middle of his Italian-American trilogy of films, between Mean Streets (1973) and GoodFellas (1990). True to life in the Italian ghetto, the film is naturalistically filled with elements of the first generation Italian-American subculture. It includes colloquial, blasphemous language (with a peppering of four letter words and cursing), and un-formed, non-sequitur thoughts.
The skillfully-made film was both praised and vilified at the time of its release, but has since been rated as one of the best films of its decade. Out of its eight Academy Awards nominations, Best Picture, Best Supporting Actor (Joe Pesci), Best Supporting Actress (Cathy Moriarty), Best Director (Martin Scorsese), Best Cinematography (Michael Chapman), and Best Sound, it only won two Oscars: Best Actor (De Niro), and Best Film Editing (Thelma Schoonmaker). The film lost both the Best Director and Best Picture awards to Robert Redford's Ordinary People (1980).
Director Martin Scorsese was convinced by actor Robert De Niro, with whom he had made Mean Streets (1973), Taxi Driver (1976), and New York, New York (1977), that the film had to be made, after he was given La Motta's biography by De Niro in 1974. The actor's own performance was the most overwhelming of his career - he completely immersed himself in the role by altering his physical appearance in an ultimate Method-acting performance. As a lean boxer, he rigorously trained with La Motta for the boxing sequences, and then bloated out with over fifty pounds more weight for the film's ending as a defeated has-been. The actor's award-winning performance required an incredible transformation of his character over a 23-year period (from 1941 to 1964), including La Motta's two marriages, boxing ring fights with the likes of Sugar Ray Robinson (to whom he lost the title), and his decline to a Miami, Florida nightclub owner and a sleazy, two-bit, lewd comedian in a New York nightclub.
In the film's brutal, no-holds-barred look at the gladiatorial sport of boxing in documentary-style, B/W newsreel footage, La Motta unsparingly engages other boxers in the ring in some of the most realistic, visceral, bloody, and brutal yet stylized boxing scenes ever filmed - with sweat and blood spraying out of the ring, devastating blows, and flashing - actually exploding - camera bulbs. The sounds of squashing melons and tomatoes were used for landed punches, along with animal growling and bird shrieks during various violent scenes. Dark Hershey's chocolate was used for blood. The size and shape of the ring was also modified and changed from small, to long and narrow, for varying effects.
Michael Chapman's stunning, crisp black-and-white cinematography (throughout the entire film except for the home video segments) and subjective camera used innovative techniques including slow-motion (varying camera speeds), 360 degree pans, and titled camera angles for various fight scenes. The lighting was deliberately made harsh and stark, to provide an expressionistic look and feel of the brutality inside the ring. Musical excerpts from three of Italian composer Pietro Mascagni's melancholic operas intensify the surrealistic images.The Story
[Although the eight fight scenes seem to occupy much of the film, their screen time totals only ten minutes, but they took about six weeks to film. Even more time was necessary to edit the dozens of shots that make up each match. The domestic fighting and other battles in La Motta's personal life compose the remainder of the film.]
Except for the bold red lettering for the title of the film, the rest of the film's credits are white, superimposed on a grainy, black-and white scene. Boxer Jake La Motta (Robert De Niro), with his face hidden in the monk-like hood of his leopard-skin robe, warms up alone in the ring by shadow-boxing into the smoky air. He gracefully dances or jogs up and down - in slow-motion - in the dreamy sequence to the melancholy, haunting soundtrack of the "Intermezzo" from Cavalleria Rusticana (an opera by Pietro Mascagni). [The film closes with the same piece.] It is a religious, almost spiritual environment in which he prepares for his ultimate battles - in the location of his only reality, the confined boundaries of the ring.
White letters on a black background, a title card reads: New York City 1964
The camera pans down a sign outside the Barbizon Plaza Theatre: "An Evening With Jake La Motta Tonight 8:30." In voice-over, Jake La Motta speaks, as the film cuts to La Motta, alone in his dressing room where he rehearses for his nightclub appearance reciting bits of Shakespearean tragedy, wearing a tuxedo and open shirt. His fantasy of disrobing in the ring presents the film's recurrent theme of sexual anxiety, fear, and confusion:
I remember those cheers
They still ring in my ears
And for years they'll remain in my thoughts
Cuz one night I took off my robe
And what'd I do
I forgot to wear shorts.
I recall every fall, every hook, every jab
The worst way a guy could get rid of his flab
As you know, my life was a jab...
Though I'd rather hear you cheer
When I delve into Shakespeare
"A Horse, a Horse, my Kingdom for a Horse,"
I haven't had a winner in six months (he lights his cigar)...
I know I'm no Olivier
But if he fought Sugar Ray
He would say
That the thing ain't the ring
It's the play.
So gimme a stage
Where this bull here can rage
And though I can fight
I'd much rather recite
That's entertainment!
That's entertainment.
The rest of the film is a flashback - a look back at the middle-aged man's life to try to understand why he is reciting lines in his dressing room. The final words of the monologue: "That's entertainment," are sharply juxtaposed with the next scene - a closeup of young boxer La Motta receiving several rapid punches to the jaw in a different performing art, the sport of boxing.
[There are eight boxing match scenes in the film.]
Superimposed title card: Jake La Motta 1941
(First Fight Scene)
According to the voice-over of the fight announcer, middle-weight boxer La Motta is still undefeated. A fierce, up-and-coming boxing contender, La Motta fights in 1941 in Cleveland against black boxer Jimmy Reeves (Floyd Anderson). The blows to the boxers' faces are magnified by numbing stereophonic sound and shot from their point-of-view - inside the ring. The impact of the punches, the glaring bright lights, and the pearls of sweat which are flung off by every blow are intensely real. La Motta, known as the "Bronx Bull," is told in his corner by his trainers and handlers between the ninth and tenth round that he is "outpointed" and to win the bout: "You're gonna have to knock him out." In the arena, a woman screams and a fight breaks out between a fan and a soldier.
When the impressionistically-filmed fight resumes in the ring, La Motta half crouches in a closed-in position and "continues to bore in." He knocks Reeves down to the mat. Flashbulbs explode and clink and the crowd erupts. With a couple more "hard lefts," La Motta pummels him hard and knocks down his unprotected opponent a second time - and then again a third time in a comeback attempt in the final round. Blood oozes from the boxer's eye as the countdown reaches nine, but Reeves is "saved by the bell" at the end of the round.
As La Motta proudly strides around the ring with arms raised up, while his brother/manager Joey (Joe Pesci) bestows the victor's mantle on him - a leopard-skin robe, the ring announcer declares Reeves "the winner by unanimous decision." (The fight's outcome was fixed by the Mafia.) La Motta refuses to leave the ring and pandemonium reigns in the arena. An angry fracas breaks out in the crowd over La Motta's controversial first defeat - chairs are thrown and one female spectator is trampled. The rioting crowd violence is partially quelled when the organist begins playing: "The Star Spangled Banner."
Title card: THE BRONX New York City 1941
On the city street's sidewalk, Joey and Salvy (Frank Vincent), a small-time Mafia lieutenant, walk toward Jake's apartment while discussing the Reeves fight. Salvy claims that hard-headed Jake, a product of the Bronx slums, must cooperate and let mobster Tommy Como (Nicholas Colasanto - who also acted as Ernie 'Coach' Pantusso in the Cheers TV-sitcom series (1982-1985)) control his boxing career:
Salvy: That shit would've never happened if Tommy was over there takin' care of him. You know he's gotta be with Tommy to fight in New York to get a title shot. I mean, he's gonna wind up fuckin' punch-drunk, your brother.
Joey: I know.
Salvy: You know. You gotta make him understand that it's the best thing for everybody involved.
Joey: I said, I know.
Salvy: You know, but you gotta make him know. You gotta tell him and make him understand.
In the dining nook of his cramped New York apartment in the famous "steak" scene, a scene that demonstrates his hellish neighborhood life, a bruised-faced (still fresh from the Reeves fight) Jake in an undershirt eats and mulls over the disastrous fight with his first wife Irma (Lori Anne Flax): "They knew. They knew who was the boss. The judges didn't know. Who knows what happened with them? The people knew." In both his public life and private life, La Motta lives with violence and conflict. He bullies her about how she should cook his steak, carnivorously wanting it bloody and raw [the analogy to La Motta's own explosive, visceral, self-defeating life is clear]:
Don't overcook it. You overcook it, it's no good. It defeats its own purpose.
Tired of his bullying, she slaps the steak on his plate in front of him. The volatile-natured husband up-ends the table.
The camera cuts back to the end of Joey and Salvy's conversation in front of Jake's Bronx apartment. Joey agrees to talk to his brother about agreeing to an association with Tommy: "If he's in a good mood, I'll talk to him." As they part, Joey mouths the words and silently tells Salvy: "Go f--k yourself" - a phrase which incorporates sexual anger, affection, and repressed hostility into a typical working-class Italian 'goodbye.'
Inside, Joey walks in on the couple's heated argument. An offscreen, urban neighbor Larry complains about the noise of the domestic quarrel: "What's the matter with you up there, you animals?" Jake leans out the window and hollers back with another carnivorous threat - that he'll eat the neighbor's dog for lunch. After the hapless husband Jake calls for a truce with his wife, things calm down. Consumed with bitter anger, Jake complains to Joey about what's wrong - that he will never be "the best there is" because he has "girl's hands":
Jake: What's wrong with me? My hands.
Joey: Your hands? What about 'em?
Jake: I got these small hands. I got a little girl's hands.
Joey: I got 'em too. What's the difference?
Jake: You know what that means? No matter how big I get, no matter who I fight, no matter what I do, I ain't never gonna fight Joe Louis.
Joey: Yeah, that's right. He's a heavy-weight. You're a middle-weight. What of it?
Jake: I ain't ever gonna get a chance to fight the best there is. And you know somethin'. I'm better than him. I ain't never gonna get a chance. You're askin' what's wrong.
Joey: But you're crazy to even think about somethin' like that...
Lean and muscular, Jake challenges his brother to punch him in the face as hard as he can - to play out the ritual of the boxing ring in his own kitchen. When Joey resists, Jake taunts him and calls him a faggot: "Come on, don't be a little faggot. Come on. Hit me." Goaded relentlessly, Joey wraps a towel around his hand and slams his brother repeatedly in the face, but it isn't enough and sadistically intimates that Joey is homosexual: "You throw a punch like you take it up the ass. Come on. Harder." After his brutish brother takes many more "bangs" or hits in the perversely sexual scene, Joey is ordered to take off the towel. After being slapped back, Joey strikes Jake a few times with his bare fist, and the boxer's cuts start opening up, spattering his face with blood. Joey shouts in an exasperated voice after blood has been drawn:
What are you tryin' to prove?! What does it prove?
Non-verbally and slyly, Jake enigmatically grins back and tweaks Joey's cheek, communicating something about the nature of his relationship with his brother.
In Gleason's Boxing Club, Jake spars with Joey in the ring, making his brother his punching bag. Salvy and his friends Patsy (Frank Adonis) and Guido (Joseph Bono) watch Jake, who is irritated about their presence, beat up his brother. Almost inaudibly, one of them comments about the brothers: "They look like two fags up there." After the spectators rise to leave, Jake denounces go-between Joey for arranging to have them cooperate, become subservient to the mob, and split his fortune:
Joey: They only came up here because Tommy told 'em to come up and try to help us.
Jake Whatsa matter with you? Help who? Whatsa matter with you?...Help me by takin' my money? Is that what you're talkin' about - takin' my money? I'm here breakin' my ass, not them. Don't ever bring 'em up here again, ya hear me?
At the open-air city swimming pool, Jake buys a coke and then is lustfully attracted to a fifteen-year old, blonde "neighborhood girl" named Vickie (19 year old Cathy Moriarty) who hangs around with the neighborhood wiseguys - Salvy and the boys. Poolside in a white-striped, one-piece bathing suit, she is revealed to Jake's point-of-view when Joey's back, which fills the screen, moves out of the way. Obsessed with her, he incessantly grills his brother about the young teenager and the men surrounding her, intensely interested in her desirability: "Where's she from?","What's her last name?", "She knows them?", "She go with them?", and "I heard there was a girl that he (Salvy) went with that was a very beautiful young girl, blonde...that's not her?" Jake almost wishes to hear that Joey bedded down Vickie:
Joey: She ain't the kind of girl you just f--k and forget about, this girl.
Jake: Joey, how many times I gotta tell ya? Why're you always cursin' when I'm talkin' to you? Don't do it around me. Do it around your friends...
Joey: She's a, the kind of girl you bang and forget about - she's not like that. You gotta spend time with her, get involved, you know...
Jake: Did you bang her?
Joey: No.
Jake: Tell me the truth.
Joey: I just told you the truth. I tell you the truth the first time. You don't have to ask me again. I never do that. I always tell you the truth. If I did it, you would know. I took her out a couple of times.
Jake: You went with her and you didn't try to f--k her?
Learning that Joey only took her out a few times, Jake turns his attention toward Salvy and his friends. He jealously watches them and mutters that they must be trying to impress her - his erotic object of desire. His passionate feelings for her quickly turn violent toward her male admirers. Jake remarks that "tough guys" aren't so tough without their guns:
Friends. They're in a huddle. Big business meeting. By the pool, they sit around and talk. Big deals. They make sure she can hear. Big Man. Get the f--k outta here. Big shot. Get 'em all in a back room, smack 'em around, no more big shot, without his gun. They're tough guys. They're all tough guys.
During his meditative reverie, Vickie sensually gets up and moves to the edge of the pool, sits down with her feet in the water, and turns her face toward the sun. Joey reminds Jake that he's married: "What are ya thinkin' about? Ya keep lookin'. Where the f--k you going? You're dead! You're married! You're a married man, it's all over. Leave the young girls for me." The scene ends with a slow-motion shot of Vickie's legs - her objectified body parts idly swish up and down in the pool water, as Jake mutters again: "Big shot."
After primping together before a mirror in Jake's apartment before going out on the town on a Saturday night (August 6th), Jake and Joey leave - ostensibly for "business." Irma protests, intimates that they're homosexual, and screams: "I'm not gonna be here when you get back, you f--kin' bunch of guineas, you're always hangin' out together. Why don't you f--kin' stop? You're not goin' on business. You're gonna suck each other off, right? Suck 'em, suck 'em baby." When they reach the street, she yells more invectives out the window, jealously incensed at the sexual dimensions of their relationship: "You f--kin' queer. Faggot. Go stick it up..."
At the Annual Summer Dance sponsored by St. Clare's Church, held at Chester Palace, the two La Mottas (hypocritically without their spouses) enter the main ballroom and sit at a table in the back with Beansy. Jake is intent on looking for Vickie. A Catholic priest is asked to bless the table. In successively-closer views, Jake spots Vickie across the room at a table with a group of women. When the group begins leaving, with Salvy escorting Vickie, Jake follows them downstairs through the crowd and sees the sultry blonde driven off in a shiny black convertible.
Alongside the city swimming pool the next day, Jake sits in his own shiny convertible as Joey, talking to Vickie through the pool's chain-link fence, asks whether she'd like to meet his brother ("Jack.") [The scene on either side of the fence reflects the relationships between the characters - the brother's bond also creates a barrier between Vickie and Jake.]
Joey: Vickie, this is my brother Jake. He's gonna be the next champ.
Vickie: Hi.
Jake: How ya doin'? Nice to meet ya.
He touches her fingers through the metal fence. [The dividing wire between them foreshadows that she will be his 'kept' woman, or that he will ultimately end up in prison.] She compliments him on his car: "Nice car."
Jake: Where are ya from?
Vickie: Around here.
Jake: You wanna go for a ride?
Vickie: All right...
In a camera angle shot through the car's windshield of the moving convertible, Vickie moves over and sits closer to Jake. At a miniature golf course, Jake instructs Vickie on how to play the game and putt on one of the holes where the object is to hit the golf ball under the course obstacle - a miniature church. Symbolically, they are both dressed in white. When she putts the ball, it vanishes and they both crouch and look in vain for the ball under the church:
Vickie: What does that mean?
Jake: It means the game is over.
[Their closing words in the scene foreshadow their marriage, their failed relationship, and their inability beyond a cursory look to focus more deeply upon their underlying problems.]
In the next scene, Jake takes Vickie to his father's apartment where no-one is home. At his invitation, Vickie moves from opposite him at the kitchen table to the center chair, closer to him: "You're so far away, like on the other side of the room." She is even encouraged to sit on his lap. His success at boxing has brought financial rewards:
Jake: I bought it for my father. I bought the building.
Vickie: Oh yeah? From fightin'?
Jake: Yeah. What else?
In the apartment's dining room, where two religious Madonna paintings hang on the wall, Jake points out the bird's cage as they pass through:
That's a bird. It was a bird, 's dead now.
Back in the bedroom, they sit on the edge of the bed. After he briefly rests his arm around her waist, she rises and walks over to the bedroom's chiffonier to look at a cameo photograph that sits atop the dresser, with rosary beads dangling down over it. Jake and Joey are playfully pictured with their fists raised against each other, mimicking the traditional boxer's stance:
That's me and my brother, foolin' around.
The oval photograph that dominates the middle of the frame comes between them. [It is symbolic of how the relationship of the two brothers (who fight and play at boxing) will interrupt their emotional relationship]:
You know how beautiful you are? Anybody ever tell you how beautiful? Yeah, (they) tell you all the time.
He kisses her gently on the cheek and lips and tenderly strokes her neck. As he takes her toward the bed for love-making, the camera remains fixed on the photograph.
The following scenes alternate between boxing matches in the ring and love-making in the bedroom - between warring and peace-making.


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Neil Crawford
Fair Exchange - Poem by Neil Crawford
Diocletian ran the known world
from his cabbage patch in Split.
Officially retired, he would sit
in that garden, dispensing advice.
Generals, Consuls, Courtiers
would seek him out to pick his brains.
All he asked in return, the ex-Emperor,
was that they each admire a cabbage.
Under his broad brimmed hat
he would spin the visual echo,
the tiny, emerald world, before their
glazing eyes he would turn it back and forth.
Eliciting praise for every rib and contour,
every shade of earthy green.
It wasn't too much to ask as he sheltered
from the Dalmatian heat.
An old, cunning man, who knew
how to run a world, promoted,
as he saw it, to growing cabbages
from seed.
Suitably directed, the 'powerful'
would return to Rome,
to carry on the machinations of
said crumbling Empire.
And all they had to do
was to admire a humble vegetable
Did any understand what Diocletian
was really telling them? .
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Sex Crime Recidivism: Evaluation of a Sexual Offender Treatment Program
Schweitzer, Robert & Dwyer, Jonathan (2003) Sex Crime Recidivism: Evaluation of a Sexual Offender Treatment Program. Journal of Interpersonal Violence, 18(11), pp. 1292-1310.
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Evaluations of programs for sex offenders report mixed results, are costly and require validation. This study examines recidivism following a sexual offender treatment program in an Australian male offender population over an average at-risk period of five years and one month in the community. The group format cognitive behavioural program was offered to a subgroup of adult male prisoners. Subsequent re-offence types and rates for program completers, dropouts and controls were compared. No statistically significant recidivism reduction was observed following participation in this Sexual Offender Treatment Program, whereas recidivism appears to be related to a history of violent or sexual offences. The initial promise of sexual offender treatment programs must be further examined by individual and meta-analytic studies. Limited follow-up, missing data and fidelity of the program may have contributed to the null result. Monitoring treatment programs to ensure inclusion of proven interventions may enhance future program effectiveness.
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The Future of Books
The Future of Books
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Access to information is constantly changing, and the popularity of e-books and online material is on the rise. Will the printed word become obsolete? What advances are being made in the world of e-readers, and what are e-reader manufacturers doing to assuage user concerns? How do authors feel about these changes? Are they concerned about a decrease in profits or excited about being able to reach out to the larger reader pool that digital content provides them? Learn about how new innovations will affect us both socially and economically and learn how industry insiders are keeping up with the changes.
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M.Patmos's spring / summer 2013 collection was unveiled at New York fashion week (NYFW) and Fashionising.com was there to capture each look.
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Sep 22 2009, 02:47 AM
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So the ICC 50-over ODI championships starts tomorrow (Tuesday) with a Saf vs SL game. This is one of those tournaments that the ICC cram in between a T/20 world cup, and ODI world cup, and ongoing test championships; all of which is intermingled with an IPL tournament and a champion of champions "club" T/20 tournament. Methinks that the world is becoming over-cricketed, and its becoming a money game and a player burn-out debacle. On top of this, the ICC is promoting more and more countries to cram into the already overcrowded "international" scene.
Nevertheless, the eyes of the world is on South Africa and it's two high altitude venues (Wanderers in Johannesburg, and Centurion about 25Kms away). At least the players wont have to travel around the country for each match - they can stay in the same hotel for the whole duration of the tournament. Some countries came around early to play a few warm-up games. I think only England and Aus have not tasted the conditions this time.
South Africa, probably the only side which as not played for a few months, beat WI; NZ creamed India, and SL easily beat Pakistan.
Whose playing? Saf, Aus, Ind, SL, Eng, NZ, WI, Pak. only.
The favourite? Saf - but Saf has been favourite before and the only ICC trophy it's picked up was a previous ICC championship about 11 years ago (when it was not favourite).
Watch this space.
Sep 22 2009, 09:00 AM
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These knockout tourneys can often see some rather surprising results. You'd think Saffer at home would have to be a good thing but tournament favouritism has often been the death blow for a team. Australia have looked good over the last few weeks but no doubt they would have to be getting tired after a few months in England as seen by their last match against the World XI.
Sri Lanka could well be a bit of a surprise packet.
Yeah you're dead on when you say we are now getting over-cricketed. (IMG:style_emoticons/default/wacko.gif)
Sep 22 2009, 02:12 PM
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Yeah! You're right. The South African World cup and the first T/20 WC were prime examples. Saf was knocked out on both. Didn't make the semis on the ODI WC and knocked out in the semis in the T/20 at home.
Sep 26 2009, 10:08 PM
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What's wrong with our one day outfit? They were struggling at 7 - 171 off 39 overs against a second string WI, not that the first team is much better. It took some big hitting by Johnson and Lee to get us to 275. Paine appears to be a pain, in spite of his recent 100 - too slow. Hopes is a useful cricketer, but hardly inspiring. He reminds me of Ian "the Freak" Harvey, except that Hopes is a better batsman. He seems to be a mandatory selection. Cameron White must bat top four or five if he's in the team at all and told to go after the bowling. I don't think he knows his place, or that the selectors have explained it to him.
We have the wrong personnel and strategy. Teams have to aim at 300+. Anything less doesn't cut the mustard on a regular basis. The selectors need to look at the other players in domestic cricket to find some better options. And where's Michael Clarke? Resting, I suppose. Fair dinkum, I wish our selectors and management would get their s..t together so that we become a formidable unit again.
Sep 27 2009, 06:47 AM
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Apparently the Pup has a sore back after the "long" flight from England.
Paine....I like the kid.....has a lot of energy and the makings of a very fine keeper. As for Cameron White, I'd rather see him open the innings.
Oct 6 2009, 06:50 AM
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A good win for the Aussies in the trophy final. Looks like Bubblewrap is starting to live up to expectations nowadays.
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Those of us who came of age as the game industry was being born, we know how to forgive a lot. We're the generation who convinced ourselves that Dragon's Lair was a cartoon you could play, that vector graphics were the future, and that those crappy snack bar pizzas were totally worth eating. But even our hive mind knew there were still sins beyond the pale. Inside, we're taking a look at six old-school videogame situations you didn't want to be trapped in. Here's a taste:
6: The Bomber In Atari's Combat
There were only two situations when you played the bomber. One, because you were tricked and had never played an an Atari before, and two, when Mom and Dad got tired of your younger sibling crying and hinted that maybe you should let the poor kid win once in a while if you wanted to keep your game. Yes, it was possible to win against those three fighter jets if you got the timing just right, but the feeling is just eerie, like you've broken some universal law, and there's never the rush of victory that comes with tank vs tank or head-to-head biplanes. Even still, you have to give Atari credit for trying to invent something that nobody's ever tried since: reverse God mode.
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5: Second Player Superman, 1988
After the rather meh Atari game (which you can probably play right here) fans were extremely excited about their chance to see high-res Arcade Superman in all his glory. And if you were first to the machine, terrific! You got to fight bad guys all Double Dragon style! There was even a level where you could fly!
But if you were the second guy? You got conned into a palette swap so lame not even the Killer List Of Video Games bothered to save a copy. Even if he played exactly the same, nobody wanted to be some Superbozo in a red costume and grey cape. It was cooler to just put your quarter up and wait for the real McCoy.
4: Player Two in Fire Truck
If you haven't heard of this one, there's a reason. Fire Truck was a rare and unique game where you and a friend had to drive a fire truck in cooperation. Player One sat down and handled all the important stuff. Player Two acted like a brontosaurus brain and tried to keep the rear of the truck stable. Most of the time it looked like this:
Of course, the game just REEKED of hippie educational team building, so it usually sat empty and alone. But when two kids did take the chance, Fire Truck quickly turned into a game called "How Did Player Two Make Us Crash This Time?" which turned out to be nowhere near as fun as just walking over and playing Defender instead.
3: The First Player To Lose In Four-Player Warlords
It's one thing to die in, say, Joust, where a clear winner and loser is expected. But as one of the very first four person games, Warlords offered a different sort of option: playing for the middle. Warlords, like life, offered you the chance to make a respectable showing. If you came in second or third, hey, great! You're not the best, but not the worst either! Walk kinda tall!
But for the player who lost first, things were very different. The first loser only had three options, either sit at that cocktail cabinet and watch your friends battle on while knowing you'd never be in their league, walk off to another game and look like a crybaby, or stay in your seat and try to psyche out the guy who beat you so he dies next. In this way, Warlords pre-discovered what was to become a major part of today's videogame experience: the power of IRL griefing.
2: A Person Playing Chiller After 1986
When it first showed up in 1986, Chiller was the must-play game of the year. There was violence, and nudity, and adults were super worried about it, and so every kid HAD to try it out. Lines were long, and as you can see from this maybe nsfw video walkthrough, the game really did deliver on scandal. Playing Chiller those first few months wasn't about having fun, it was just about being able to say you'd done it.
But the actual gameplay? Just in case you can't watch that video, Chiller basically gives you two options. You can shoot naked people to death, or you can shoot torture devices the naked people are trapped inside, force them to scream in pain, and THEN you can shoot them to death. And after the shock wears off, there's not really much gameplay left. The dog in Duck Hunt has left us more of a legacy than anything in Chiller. By 1987, this shooting game was either completely gone or stuffed in the dark back corner to be played by some creepy dude who looked like Silent Bob. Much like a certain zombie game, if the character sprites were different, nobody ever would have bothered to play it in the first place.
1: Anyone Near Jr. Pac-Man Ever
How is it possible that a Pac-Man game is less fun than the one where you shoot torture victims? If you can ask that question, you've never played Jr. Pac-Man. The joy of discovering the level stretches past the screen is immediately crushed by how unplayably difficult the whole thing is. Here, take a look at this guy's game.
He plays it like a master, but look how much work it takes even a pro. He's got to herd up all the ghosts like sheep before he can do anything, and almost two minutes in he's still only cleared out this tiny little space in front of the starting point. By 4:44 he actually has to speed up the video, and even faster, there's still almost SIX MINUTES before he's done with level one! Compare that to this video of the original game's first level that's only 2:42 minutes long, and also includes level two, the first intermission, and the introduction screen before you put in a quarter. Supposedly Jr. Pac-Man ends at the 146th screen, but the idea that someone would endure so much misery just to find closure is so mind-boggling that it's easier to just assume it an unsourced urban legend.
Basically, all Jr. Pac-Man was good for is making you want to find the original Pac-Man and play that instead. If you ever get to play it this sad, sad insult to the franchise, you'll understand why this game is rarely seen, rarely praised, and helped Midway lose the Pac-Man license. And we'd rather drop quarters into Red Superman all day long then spend one more here.
We know we missed something, so help us out. What video game situation would you want nothing to do with? Tell us in the comments! Just don't say Tempest or we'll fight you.
Seems like a lot of these revolve around being player 2, so you have to add being Luigi in the original Super Mario Bros. Player 1 can pause player 2's game anytime they want. Then they do it while you jump over a gap and you fall to your death, while player 1 happily takes their turn.
In the Atari 2600 version of Warlords, defeated players (human or computer-controlled ones) still had their shields move around as a "ghost," and the ball would bend as it moved through. It provided a second path for the diagonal players to hit each other, if the eliminated players cooperated (or if they were computer controlled to begin with).
And, man, I had forgotten about Fire Truck. That sucked.
iamruling2 wrote:Tempest.
you're dead at recess
"Fire Truck". Wow, I'd managed to suppress that traumatic memory.
Although, now that I think on it, probably the only really good co-op quarter eater I can think of was "Rip-Off".
Tempest. Showdown at the bike racks after school. Suckers.
F that! I loved Jr. Pac! But, I completely agree on the four-player Warlords. After the first player was killed, we'd spend the rest of the game laughing and making fun of that person.
OMGOMGOMGPONIESOMG I loved Chiller. It made me laugh. Prolly still would. There were, like, drips and chunks.
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Apple's must-have accessories for China's fashionable yuppies
By Ben Blanchard
BEIJING (Reuters) - So strong is the appeal of the Apple brand in China, some Chinese are willing to sell a kidney to pay for its gadgets.
Apple Inc's iPads, iPhones and iMacs have been a smash hit in China, especially with the affluent, and upwardly mobile, middle classes and fashion-conscious urban youth who are snapping up the slinky, easy-to-use goods with gusto.
The apparently insatiable appetite for Apple goods in the world's second largest economy is good news for the Cupertino, California-based firm, which reported forecast-smashing results this week, helped by massive growth in Asia, and China in particular.
It's also created a sizable market for knock-offs in the world's prime manufacturer of imitation goods, where pirates set up a fake Apple Store in the southwestern city of Kunming that is so good that even the employees believe it's the real deal.
"Apple is a very well-known brand in China, and that's reason enough for some people to buy," said Xu Ziqing, a 23-year-old Beijing hotel receptionist.
"Chinese people these days care very much about brands. They might not know whether the product is truly good or bad, but if it's a good brand, they will want it."
Desperation to get hold of Apple computers can lead to extreme behavior.
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For many, the obvious choice would be Archie Griffin, a former associate athletic director now the head of the OSU alumni association.
But Griffin told Bucknuts.com, "No, I'm not interested. I'm happy doing what I'm doing, serving the alumni of Ohio State."
Other choices could be:
* Paul Krebs -- Krebs is also a former OSU associate AD, now serving as the athletic director at Bowling Green.
* Jim Smith -- Smith is also a former OSU associate AD, now serving as the head of marketing for the NFL's Atlanta Falcons.
* Jim Tressel -- OSU's head football coach served in the dual role of head coach and AD at Youngstown State. But the demands of doing both of those jobs at Ohio State could be too much.
* Jeremy Foley -- Florida's athletic director has some Ohio ties.
* Joe Castiglione -- Oklahoma's athletic director has Ohio ties.
* Rex Kern -- Hero as the quarterback of OSU's 1968 national championship football team, Kern has been a successful businessman in the private sector. He was mentioned for the job when Geiger was hired in 1994.
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Casey Graham (The Change Group) and I were speaking with our pal from Australia, Will Henderson, about our crusades and we came under fire from paperwads, pencils, and decorative items thrown by chief suspect Troy Gramling.
You can watch the video at Will's website HERE. I tried to stay on task, but it was DIFFICULT!


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** Shares of Indian Oil Corp fall as much as 3.93 pct to 378.05 rupees, their lowest since 31 March
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Supercharging 350
Would like some information on supercharging 350. I am doing a complete tear down and rebuild of 70 Nova. Starting with 350 block which i plan on stroking. What crank, cam, pistons would be recommended. Also, blower used?
You have tapped into a superb resource for answering your questions, and I say that as one in exactly your position a few years back. There are several "regulars" on this website with expertise in complete blower setups. First, I recommend that you purchase and read "Street Supercharging" which is a superb, entry level, text on the basics to consider. I have been involved with hot rods for 50 years and, had I earlier understood how simple and reliably blowers can be run in street/strip applications, would have started to run them 40 years ago. Second, you will need to make threshold decisions about the combination you desire. Strictly street, with occasional boost, will indicate one setup; street/strip, with some WOT passes, will advise another. I first ran a Weiand/B&M 142/144 blower, with a single Edelbrock 800 cfm Thunder AVS on a 350 with 9:1 compression, and AFR heads, on my street/strip 3200 pound Model A sedan. This combination ran a best of 11.37 and 117 on the drag strip in a car that also easily could run to the supermarket, ice cream shop, or microbrewery without a problem. After losing the earlier A in a fire, I chose to run harder and, still using the 350 that was in the car which burned up, switched to a Weiand 250 (basically a GMC 4:71) with two boost referenced Holley 600 cfm carbs, and expect to run low 11's, and possible high 10's, on the strip, while continuing, with static compression of 7:5 - 1 in my 355, to grocery shop, run for coffee, etc.
In short, welcome to choosing a blower ! It's a great ride ?
keep the compression low 8.1 or less ( I have had very good luck with the kb hypers key is to pay attention to the ring gap they specify) cast crank will work steel is better ofcourse .wide lobecenter camshaft stock rods and good bolts . The blower is actually easier on parts than a high compression engine runs alot better and are basically trouble free . I would recommend the edelbrocks .as stated above grab the book it is good reading,they will recommend the same carbs. have enough radiator to keep it cool and keep timing around 30* and run good gas . if your spending the money go with the 6-71! No reason to stroke the 350 it will run plenty good . in my pics the altered is basically the same engine I described with 7 lbs boost a best of 9.09@151mph ofcourse this is a light car.The henryJ ran a best of 10.32 @ 11lbs with a an old dyers v6-71 both on gas had afb's on the henry and edelbrocks on the altered . I did run 110 gas and timing @35* which is to much for the street in my opinion.
1932Bantam was on my short list of experts whose advice you should seek. I add to that list Camaroman7d, ericnova72, cobalt327, carsaavycook, bentwings, dukeofbluz, and, uniquely helpful to myself, F-Bird88. Based on their input, particularly F-Bird88, we were able to solve a recurring problem with backfires through the blower and carbs upon starting. Once we locked the ignition timing at 34 degrees BTDC at idle, the backfires through the blower ceased. Particularly for street-strip use, use of the MSD 6 BTM is worth considering since it allows one to adjust boost and timing depending upon the circumstances presented, i.e., heading down the freeway to grandmas Friday evening or WOT at the dragstrip on Saturday. Also on the topic of carbs, I hoped to run a large single four on my Weiand 250 (which, for swept volume, resembles a GMC 4:71). Numerous runs, however, on an engine dyno showed that with a single carb, the direction of fuel low in the long and low Weiand 250 blower case starved cylinders 1 and 2, causing them to run extraordinarily hot, triggering backfires. Once we switched to two fours, the fuel flow evened out, and the front two cylinders were no longer running excessively lean. Finally, and I would be interested in hearing from others who have used this setup, the variable flow Predators are said to be terrific for blower setups, given their variable venturis. I do not, however, have first hand experience. Anybody out there run Predators on their blowers ?
You should be able to run around 34 degrees, and as said earlier, a BTM is worth the small cost. Also considser a methanol injection system, probably the best insurance you can get. I ran both on an 8-71 383, the one time I went without I detonated the motor severely.
471 hit on exactly why I like to run 2x4 rather than a single 4. They even out the fuel distribution. You can't really over carb a blower motor. More carb just sharpens the throttle response and makes the throttle more critical on the street. I think you will find the motor will nose over around 4500-5000 rpm with a single. It's about the difference between a chirp in high gear vs smoking and fishtailing. haha
As far as blowers go I like the 6-71 for all out tough looking either polished or unpolished in my case ...for a reason.
Manifold ref is a must as far as I'm concerned. I also like vac advance for better gas mileage.
F-bird also hits on another good point. A 355 is easier to get the compression in the right range than a 383. 70 or 76 cc heads and a small dish piston will work every time. You can pack a lot of boost in a 355 and make a lot of power without hurting it. Do use alum heads They seem to be far less prone to detonation.
One other thing is you have to have large exhaust. I modify block huggers for 3 inch collector but it can be done on any other header too. I'd use the largest tube size you can find. Also have the headers Jet Hot coated or other heavy duty coating. They get really really hot very very quickly believe me. 3 inch pipes all the way back.
Don't forget the cooling system. Aluminum radiator, full fan shroud and good high power electric fan with relay for the power control.
Almost forgot, you will need a 3000 or so converter and 3.5 0 or so gears depending on tires...big wide one. haha
As you can see running a blower so you really can have reliable fun is much more than just sticking it on and hoping for the best.
You hit the best forum on the web for blowers. We run what we say not BS and second and third hand guestimates.
Com on and join up.
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Help With underweight rescue..
We just rescued a 2 year old female and she is freaking awesome... But with all the reading I've been doing I'm guessing she's underweight.. I weighed her today and she's 55lbs..I have always feed my dogs nutro so I got some for her.. She is eating, but she doesn't seem to be eating a lot...
Should I just keep doing what I'm doing.? Can I add to her diet.?
Here she is..
it is hard to say if she's underweight or just thin or lanky
need to see more pics and what does the vet say?
some gsds arent bit appetites
from the photo above she is bright and alert and happy so i would not be concerned about her weight
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Friday, October 11, 2013 at 9:00 PM (PDT)
Few voices are as instantly recognizable as that of Australian born songstress, Emma Hewitt.
Hewitt's haunting melodies, yearning lyrics and distinctive style have earned her a legion of passionate fans around the world as she continues to write and release music with some of the world's most respected names in electronic dance music.
The journey began back in the Australian town of Geelong, Victoria where Emma would perform acoustically around the region through her teenage years. "Music was a form of escape for me and not something I ever consciously set out to follow as a career path. I was always inspired to ask questions; of myself as well as others and I guess over time those questions just sort of grew wings and turned into songs".
Those songs led to an early record deal with Sony Music for her project 'Missing Hours'. The relationship was brief, but provided Emma with an invaluable insight into the music industry setting the stage for things to come. "I was never very comfortable that first time around – I felt as though I was trying to figure out what I wanted to say and who I wanted to be with a lot of different people watching on through a microscope. The over analyzing didn't make sense to me as I just wanted to write songs that might mean something to people – and all of a sudden these things I'd never really considered like marketing strategies and budgets became more important to the people around me. I was out walking with my brother one day and I had this epiphany and just said, 'screw it' – I want to burn this all down and dream it back to life the way I had imagined it. I wanted to give the songs the respect I felt they deserved".
And dream it back to life she did. Emma's very first EDM collaboration with UK heavyweight Chris Lake yielded the worldwide smash 'Carry Me Away' knocking Britney Spears out of the #1 position on the U.S Billboard Chart (Hot Dance Airplay) going on to spend over 50 weeks in the Top 100.
From there, Emma teamed up with German icons Cosmic Gate for the classic anthem 'Not Enough Time' and Dutch superstar DJ Dash Berlin for the mega hit, 'Waiting'. 'Waiting' firmly cemented Emma Hewitt's reputation as a serious international talent earning Hewitt many accolades including a #1 on the Global Trance Charts, #2 on the illustrious A State Of Trance Annual Countdown and an International Dance Music Award (Best Euro/HiNRG Track) at the 2010 Winter Music Conference in Miami.
A string of #1 Beatport releases followed throughout a particularly fertile period in 2010 and with a wealth on new material, a new record label in Armada Music and a desire to push the creative envelope, Hewitt undertook the extraordinary measure of producing her debut artist release as a double album project. "My only real goal with the album was to be faithful to the songs regardless of style or genre – I guess with the double sided concept, I just wanted to give as much music as I could back to whoever wanted or needed to hear it. I also wanted this album to show some of the different sides to my personality".
Produced by Lee Groves (Goldfrapp, Marilyn Manson, Depeche Mode), 'Burn The Sky Down' was an instant favorite with fans around the world debuting in the Top 10 on the ITunes dance charts in seven different countries fusing electronic beats with ambient soundscapes, and live instrumentation with Hewitt's inimitable vocal style at the fore.
The remix album features some of the world's most respected remix artists including Armin van Buuren, Grammy nominated Morgan Page and Cosmic Gate amongst many others.
An extensive touring schedule throughout 2012 has included sold out solo performances right across the globe in over 25 countries as well as appearances on the major EDM festival circuit around the world where Hewitt is often known to leave the stage, microphone in hand, to join the revelers in the arena below.
"The energy and generosity of spirit of the people I meet everywhere I perform is what inspires me to make music and through the music, we share a bond even if we may never have met. As long as there is a single person who may find something they are looking for or a feeling they need in my music, I will continue to write for that person".
A world away from the humble beginnings of her coastal hometown in Australia, Hewitt's enthusiasm and relationship with her audience is something to behold and as she takes the stage, one line echoes out perfect summing up the Emma Hewitt journey so far;
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Clutch Disengagement Problems
So I tried NASIOC and the forums seem dead over there, so hopefully you guys may have an answer...
Installed a south bend clutch stage 4 endurance (kevlar) with a clutchmaster flywheel the other day and I'm having problems with clutch disengagement. The clutch is perfect when in gear, grabs nice and drives fine, but it seems I'm missing just a tiny bit of travel where I can't get into gear when the car is stopped and I'm in neutral. Car shifts fine through all gears when the car is off. It can be a bit notchy between 1st and 2nd and randomly some of the other gears because of the disengagement problem, but nothing as bad as when stopped as it's almost impossible to get into gear. Reverse always grinds...anyhow you get the point, full disengagement problems.
Pulled boot and checked proper function between the TOB/fork and pressure plate. Looks fine and it clearly is working because I can drive the car and shift. Synchros seem to be fine as downshifting is super smooth.
Hydraulic system. Re-bled slave and it has full range of travel. Fork travels almost enough to release the little tension spring attached to it.
Fork has a little bit of play in it (technically throw out bearing does, but that's just how all pull type clutches are as it pulls out a little bit then pulls on the fingers of the pressure plate).
I'm stumped. Have you guys upgraded your hydraulic systems for higher clamp load pressure plates? This one I believe is around 2700-2800 lbs. I have an ACT in here before and it was fine, so it's not like I went from OEM to super high PP.
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Have you adjusted the clutch pedal?
That is a serious f-ing clutch man, sorry. You're out of my area
Did you replace slave/throw out bearing when you installed new clutch?
What gears are you running?
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Little Question Please Help : )
I recently purchased a 2' 2 light fluorescent fixture and I was wondering if I could make a power cable that I can plug into a wall by connecting a replacement power cable to the two wires coming out of the balast. Thanks
you can buy whips that have a plug on one end and open wires on the other.
Where can I buy that? I only have a lowes, walmart, and radioshack around here. Also, how would I put it together, regular twist wire connectors?
You can get them at lowes. What you want is called a power cord. It will have a nema 5-15 male plug on the end and black, white and green wires that can be connected to the ballast wires with wire nuts. You will also need a clamp for the cord to secure it to the light fixture knockout hole. Do a search at lowes.com. It should show a picture of one.
thanks a bunch, i already went to the store today and got a 14 ga extension cord and took off the female end and then stripped the wires to attatch to the ballast wires, only problem is that the middle wire is green and the other two arent colored : (
also where do i put the ground screw????
Take a tester and make sure that the green wire shows condunity to the round prong (or pin shape) of the cord cap that is by itself at the bottom. The ground pin should be the green wire and connect to a ground screw on the light fixture.
The two blade prongs are hot and neutral. If you look at the face of a recepticle the hot is the smaller one. Hold your cord cap up and visualize which prong on your cord cap that would be and ring it out to the other end and hook it up to the black from the ballast.
I have a green screw and a ring that goes with it but where do i put it on the light fixture???
See the answer I gave to your other post!
I did not realize this thread had wandered into the grounding question.
JW is right. There was no reason to start the other thread.
In any case I see both questions have been answered.
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Online Class Writing Assignment for Tuesday, 12 November
ALL classes: ETHN 11, ETHN 114, ETHN 119
Professor Sobredo is on personal leave to attend the funeral of Grandmaster Tony Somera. Somera was the grandmaster of Bahala Na Filipino Martial Arts, a lifetime member of the Filipino American National Historical Society and a trustee of the Little Manila Foundation.
Sobredo and Grandmaster Somera
have worked on several projects together: editing Sgt. Leo Giron's
autobiography (Giron Escrima: Memories
of a Bladed Warrior (Los Angeles: Empire Books, 2006)) that
narrates Giron's life as a commando for the US Army
in World War II, assisting in the PBS-TV production of An Untold Triumph: The Story of the 1st & 2nd
Filipino Infantry Regiment and
several community photography exhibits and presentations on Filipino American
martial arts. Somera was much beloved by the Filipino
American community and highly respected as a martial artist (he was inducted
into the Martial Arts Hall of Fame).
Somera was also a close friend and associate of Dan Inosanto, who is one of the world's most renowned martial artists and Bruce Lee's training partner—Inosanto has appeared in several major Hollywood films.
Somera spent his life serving the Filipino American community by keeping alive Filipino martial arts and honoring the legacy of his Filipino elders and the memory of the Filipino American community ("Little Manila") in Stockton.
There is an extent to which Filipino martial arts is one of the most popular fighting arts seen on screen but is mostly unknown to the audience. For example, it was featured prominently in Hollywood films such as The Hunted, Bourne Identity and especially in The Book of Eli; however, unless you watched the DVD commentaries, you would never know that the system used were Filipino martial arts.
In honor of Grandmaster Somera and
for his contributions to the Filipino American community, please watch this
lecture on Sgt. Leon Giron, a World War II commando
for the Filipino Regiment in the US Army and founder of the Bahala
Na Filipino Martial arts organization in the United States: Prof. Sobredo's lecture at San Francisco Asian Art Museum: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5d0dCw2fh28
Here is a tribute to Grandmaster Somera written by Guru Harley Elmore, a certified JKD and Filipino martial arts instructor: http://www.warriorswaytx.com/
ASSIGNMENT: write
a 300-word essay on someone who has made an important impact on your life and on
your community. What does this person share (in terms of their personal qualities)
with the special qualities of Tony Somera?
PAPER DUE: in beginning of class: Thurs. 14 Nov. 2013, typed, single-spaced, use proper source citation format, minimum of 300 words. *Do a word-count and write the number of words.
See you in class on Thursday (14 November).
Dr. Sobredo


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We've covered the apps, the camera, the interface - but neglected whether the HTC Titan can actually make phone calls well. It can. The maximum call volume is very good, and voices sound clear and robust. It's not brittle or reedy as you'll hear in some other smartphones.
There's also active noise cancellation - although this benefits the person you're calling rather than yourself. A pinhole microphone sits up on the top of the Titan, monitoring ambient noise. The phone then fiddles with the sound reaped from the main mic - the one that listens to you yammering on - and removes this ambient noise from it, by applying an inverse wave. It'll come in handy if you're talking to someone outside on a windy day, or by a motorway.
We've criticised the HTC Titan several times for being so big, but surprisingly the main cause of this size, the screen, doesn't kill battery life. The phone uses a 1600mAh battery that will last a good day and a half off a full charge, with frequent email checks, a bit of game-playing and a few sessions with a handful of choice apps. Yes, you'll have to charge it every day to be sure - unless you're a very casual smartphone user - but it betters many Android smartphones.
An inevitable comparison with Android phones is one of the HTC Titan's big issues. Similarly-priced phones like the Samsung Galaxy SII and Motorola Atrix offer either a faster processor or higher-resolution screen. High pixel density screens are all the rage at the moment, and the 4.7-incher of the Titan only emphasises how "not high" its pixel density is. But, just as the 1.5GHz processor makes light work of Windows Phone 7.5, the interface still looks fab on the sub-200dpi 800x480 screen. Unless you make these things issues for the sake of the specs, they won't become problems.
However, after living with the Titan for a while now, we can't get over that it still feels a bit too big. It's not a fault of the design as such - it's about as small as you can reasonably expect a 4.7in phone to be - but we'd advise you to stop and think rather than barrelling in, wallet open, under the assumption that bigger is better.
At £499, or free on a £30 or so contract, it's a top-end phone, so there's plenty of worthy competition. And unless you're particularly keen on its high-spec camera, the last generation of Windows Phone handsets are Mango compatible, run like a dream and are available for £100 less. The most important development in Windows Phone handsets is the software, not the leaps this second-wave device makes in specification.
The HTC Titan reminds us of quite how enjoyable Windows Phone is to use. It's quick, intuitive and stylish. However, this phone also makes us realise quite how silly the trend for ever-expanding smartphone screens is. This is undoubtedly a great phone, but for most people it'll be just that bit too big.
Have giant-sized hands? There's very little not to like about this phone. Its screen and processor can't match the specs of top-end rivals like the iPhone 4S and Samsung Galaxy Prime, but when running Windows Phone, these things just don't matter. It looks and feels great throughout.
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I expect MS to give financial incentives to app developers to create cross platform apps. That should open app stores to real competition and grow the WP userbase
@Dave Gilbert: The two reasons you've given against choosing this handset - the OS and the utilitarian design - are exactly the two I'd look for when buying a phone. The sheer clarity and cohesiveness of WP7 are qualities that even iOS can't manage let alone the afterthought that is Android. The application market is constantly growing and with quality submissions. I have an Android tablet (Nook Colour) and visiting the app store feels similar to shopping in a pound shop - mountains of tat hiding the odd gem.
Point taken, but it was not the OS itself I have an issue with, more the lack of support given by developers, a similar problem facing the Android tablet market. I think that WP7 is indeed a powerful OS, but like MeeGo could disappear due to lack of support, which would be sad as diversity if always good.
By the way, I completely agree regarding the Android app store, it's like shopping in the discount bin of a bargain basement shop.
The support while no where near the level of even Android is gradually growing. I was pleasantly surprised to find 'International Snooker' a wonderfully realistic game and a personal favourite of mine having already been ported from over from iOS and Android. You have to remember that Microsoft has a lot riding on WP7 and few would bet against it pulling it off. Meego sadly took too long to enter the market and lacks the devotion from it's parents Nokia and Intel to really make even a late effort. All being said who really what the future really holds.
The Apps are just too expensive to consider buying a windows phone. Don't care why, it just makes WP7 a big no no.
I disagree about the screen size issue, I think these powerful smartphones are content driven and anything under 4 inches is just underselling the entire point of owning one. However the phones themselves could use a bezel trim, with that accomplished I think we could see significantly smaller phones with large screens.
Case in point: the Galaxy Nexus. It is about the same size as the SGSII but has a screen with a .35 inches larger diagonal. If WP7 and iOS ditched hardware controls like Meego and ICS then this would be possible. Only a thin strip would be needed for the earpiece, sensors and camera. On my SGS the top and bottom of the bezel are almost 15mm when they could be as small as 4-5mm, perhaps even smaller if Samsung could make the branding smaller.
The huge screen seems like a waste of space, literally. It is just a regular 3.7" screen stretched out to 4.7". Had they instead kept the same pixel density and added more pixels, that would have been a benefit. But to simply make a 3.7" screen take up more space, why? When I could achieve the exact same benefit simply by holding a 3.7" screen a bit closer to my face?
We don't want 'bigger' screens for the extra space they take up, we actually want more screen.
Andrew (The reviewer), you say the multi-tasking is a bit meh as the app is restarted when you tap on it again. Well it also did this on the iPhone when it was first introduced. Apps have to be modified to work properly with multi-tasking just like the iPhone.
They'll get lots of cross platforms apps as soon as they let people develop in C++
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May 16th, Sunday, Free car show, Denver.....
I got this from COSR.com
Tropical Smoothie Cafe and Demon Tuning are hosting a Car Show as part of Tropical Smoothie Cafe's grand opening on Sunday May 16th. Registration is free, show begins at 11 AM and will continue until 4 PM.
There will be great food giveaways and discounts, drawings for gift certicates at Demon Tuning & Tropical Smoothie Cafe.
Car Show Details
-Where: Tropical Smoothie Cafe - 20269 E. Smoky Hill Road Centennial, CO 80015
Map Here
-When: Sunday May 16th 11AM till 4PM
- Free Registration begins at 11am and will run until 4pm. Winners will be announced at 4pm.
- There will be four trophy prize classes:
Import, Domestic, Spectator Favorite, and Overall.
- Judges will be voting on the Import, Domestic, and Overall categories based on look & modifications to the car and how clean everything was done. Judges will be looking for cars that not only have the nice paint job but power under the hood as well.
- Spectator Favorite will be your opportunity to pick your favaorite ride. The winner for this class will be determined on most votes as picked by you
Hope to see you there!!
-Mike "
i'm pretty sure this one is in the Aurora area, i think.
Let's get some local Foci there!
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