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List Recap : 1 2 3 4 5 6 78 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 Hwarang: The Beginning Title: 화랑 : 더 비기닝 / Hwarang: The Beginning Chinese Title: 花郎 Also known as: Flowering Knights / The Beautiful Knights / Flower Knights: The Beginning / Hwarang: The Poet Warrior Youth Genre: Historical, Romance …Read More »
Hwarang: The Beginning Episode 5 Recap
We've finally gotten to the part of the show I've most been looking forward to — the budding friendships between the boys. It's early days yet, but you can see by the way that they fight together that eventually, they'll be working together instead of against each other. They have a long (long, long) way to go before they're true friends, but the seeds are there, and the little glimpses we're already getting are well worth the wait.
Sun-woo comes out of unconsciousness to find himself tied up and hanging from the ceiling of an old building. He remembers Ah Ro's kidnapping, confronting Scarface (whose name is actually DOO-WOO) and his minions, and grabbing the dagger held to his throat and daring Doo-woo to kill him. One of the minions had knocked him unconscious, and he'd been left here.
He suddenly thinks of Ah Ro and looks around, but instead he finds Sammaekjong hanging next to him. Sammaekjong wakes in a panic and flails wildly, and Sun-woo dryly tells him to calm down before he makes his headache worse. Too late.
Sammaekjong scoffs when Sun-woo asks why he was following him, and points out that they're wearing the same outfit (the Hwarang uniform). He says that he knows Sun-woo was following Ah Ro, and warns him to watch out for his status, what with him hanging out with a "half-breed" like her. He pokes a little more, saying that Ah Ro must be something for Sun-woo to chase after her, and now, it's on.
Sun-woo manages to land a kick, and the boys end up swinging and batting at each other as best they can while tied up in midair. Sun-woo even gets in a good bite to Sammaekjong's shoulder. HAHA, I could watch this all day.
Meanwhile, the rest of the Hwarang line up in the palace courtyard, ready to be officially appointed by the queen regent. Su-ho and Ban-ryu's factions can't help but argue even here, but Ban-ryu knows that his father as well as his adoptive father Minister Park are both watching, and warns the others to shut up.
Queen Regent Jiso arrives and looks out over her new Hwarang with triumph. She shoots a look at Minister Park that reminds him that the officials' sons lives are hers now, and he thinks that she'd better not let down her guard, or he'll find Sammaekjong and steal his throne.
The queen regent notices that her ace card against Ahn Ji-gong, Sun-woo, hasn't arrived yet. At the same time, Hwa-gong sees that the spot reserved for "Kim Ji-dwi," the name he knows Sammaekjong by, is also empty.
The boys have stopped fighting, but only because their ropes have gotten so entangled that they can't reach each other anymore. Sun-woo says that Ah Ro is his sister, wondering why Sammaekjong even cares, but Sammaekjong says they can discuss it further once they get free. Funnily enough, Sammaekjong seems much more inclined to work with him upon hearing that Ah Ro is his sister and not his lover.
They work together to untangle their ropes, and look around the building. They realize it's a slaughterhouse, judging by the sharp implements and bloody meat everywhere.
Doo-woo and his minions are nearby, planning what to do with Sun-woo and Sammaekjong. Doo-woo argues for not killing Sun-woo, since Minister Park has offered a bounty for him, but he doesn't care if they dispatch Sammaekjong and Ah Ro.
The Hwarang boys get antsy when the ceremony doesn't begin, and Yeo-wool, the notorious pretty boy, muses that it's a test. Only Su-ho doesn't seem to care as he takes the chance to look his fill at the beautiful queen regent.
Sun-woo and Sammaekjong hear footsteps, and a mountain of a man enters the slaughterhouse carrying a massive ax. The giant stops to paint his face with blood, then inexplicably licks what looks like a raw leg of lamb, which is both gross and alarming.
Sammaekjong politely asks the giant not to do what he's thinking of doing, but the giant picks up his ax and approaches. Sammaekjong avoids the first few swings, then Sun-woo yells at him to kick, so Sammaekjong kicks the giant's ax-hand, hard.
The ax flies into the air, and Sun-woo catches it with the hand he's just freed from his bonds. Sun-woo cuts himself down and lands in an ungraceful heap, and the giant picks him up and flings him across the room. The giant pulls out a couple of small knives, and Sun-woo smacks one of the hanging slabs of meat into his face. This is awesome.
Sun-woo gets in a few good jabs to the giant, but his punches do absolutely nothing. Even a mighty kick to the giant's chest just ends up with Sun-woo on the floor again.
Doo-woo goes to see Ah Ro, who's blindfolded and gagged in a nearby building. He tells her in an ominous voice that he'll take care of her since "that Dog-Bird" likes her, all the while running the point of his knife along her face.
Sun-woo is badly losing his fight with the giant, and he picks up the nearest thing he can find to wield as a weapon, which turns out to be the leg of lamb. He whacks it right into the giant's family jewels, and follows it up with a leg-of-lamb-smack to the face, knocking the giant out cold.
Sun-woo bandages his hand, seeming to have no intention of cutting down Sammaekjong as long as the suspended man keeps barking orders at him. When it looks like Sun-woo might actually leave him there, Sammaekjong asks humbly, "Save me," and Sun-woo turns back.
Eventually, the queen regent can't delay any further and orders the ceremony to begin. She hands Hwa-gong a ceremonial sword, and they each note that they seem to be missing their "card" (they each agreed to give the other one choice they wouldn't challenge — the queen's is Sun-woo, Hwa-gong's is Sammaekjong).
Doo-woo and his minions enter the slaughterhouse to find the place seemingly empty. Sun-woo and Sammaekjong burst out of hiding at the same time, taking the bandits by surprise and knocking them out one by one, even employing some pretty impressive teamwork.
They make their way to Ah Ro's building, and when Sammaekjong tries to take off her blindfold, she head-butts him in the face. Sun-woo softly tells her that he's here, and she stops struggling to let him remove her blindfold and gag.
The moment she sees his face, Ah Ro bursts into tears and throws herself into his arms. She sobs that she thought he was dead, and he looks a little gobsmacked that the thought of him dying upset her this much. Sammaekjong rolls his eyes at the tender reunion, noting how Sun-woo awkwardly strokes Ah Ro's hair before telling them that they have to go.
And not a moment too soon, because the bandits are on their way. Ah Ro's arms are still tied, so Sun-woo slings her over his shoulder. Sammaekjong tells Sun-woo to run for it, and he'll hang back and stall the bandits.
Sun-woo carries Ah Ro to a safe area and unties her, then starts to head back to help Sammaekjong. Ah Ro stops him, so he tells her he'll be back before the count of two hundred, and she tells him he has till she counts to one hundred and fifty to come back safely.
He arrives back at the hideout just as Sammaekjong is growing overwhelmed, and their excellent spontaneous teamwork evens the odds a bit. They even use some of the same moves they used during the ballgame, but eventually the bandits get the upper hand due to sheer numbers.
Just when it looks like all is lost, arrows start to thunk into the bandits one by one. Doo-woo barely manages to see the hidden archer hiding in a nearby building—it's Sun-woo's adoptive father from the village! He creates enough of a diversion to allow the boys to escape, and even gets Doo-woo in the shoulder with an arrow.
The new Hwarang accept their new swords one at a time, while those aware that there are two men missing begin to fidget. By the time there are only two swords left, the queen regent has decided that Sun-woo must have run away, and she stands to conclude the ceremony. But just as she begins, the courtyard door opens to admit Sun-woo and Sammaekjong.
The queen regent's face goes pale as she sees her son, the king of Silla, marching in to accept his position in the Hwarang. She can't say a word or she'll expose his true identity, and he knows it.
He steps forward to receive his Hwarang sword under the name Ji-dwi (and we'll be calling him this from now on, since it's his new assumed identity). Just for a moment he meets his mother's eyes, determined to do this despite her agenda to keep him hidden.
Sun-woo steps up next to accept his Hwarang sword. His thoughts are full of his friend Mak Mun, the real Sun-woo, and he wonders if he can really live his friend's life. He takes the sword and his voice rings with strength: "Hwarang, Sun-woo! I'll accept the name of Hwarang!"
The queen regent collects her wits and makes the announcement that with the Hwarang, she intends to make Silla the strongest of the three kingdoms. The new Hwarang swear loyalty to the kingdom and the king (which Ji-dwi recites with a marked sneer in his voice), and the crowd goes wild.
As soon as he can, Ji-gong asks Sun-woo about this Doo-woo person that confined him. Sun-woo tells him that Doo-woo used to collect taxes in his old village, which is how they know each other. He says they don't have a great relationship, but he doesn't know why Doo-woo came after him this time.
He expresses regret that Ah Ro was put in danger because of him, and Ji-gong's voice goes hard as he warns Sun-woo that if it happens again, he won't forgive him. He continues that they can't go back from here, so whatever Sun-woo does now will also affect Ji-gong.
Later that night, Sun-woo sighs over the rips and stains in his Hwarang uniform. Ah Ro walks in on him shirtless and nearly has kittens at the sight of his bare chest, and no matter how hard she tries, she can't spit out the word "oraboni" (older brother).
She spots his clothes and, grateful for something to talk about, offers to repair them for him. Sun-woo pretends not to notice her fidgeting, but after she leaves, he smiles to himself. His thoughts of Ah Ro won't let him sleep, so he creeps out of bed to peek at her as she sews his uniform.
As she works, Ah Ro lectures herself on her inability to call Sun-woo "oraboni," and Sun-woo grins at her sadness that she has to call him that at all. He grows mesmerized watching her sewing his uniform, and when she nearly spots him he flings himself inside like a giant dork. HAHA.
Later, Sun-woo pretends to be asleep when Ah Ro comes into his room. She takes his injured hand, the one he used to grab Doo-woo's knife, and unwraps it as she says she has something to tell him while he's sleeping. She finally calls him "Oraboni," and thanks him for saving her life.
Ah Ro continues that she's always believed she was on her own — but for the first time, she's met someone she wants to rely on. She's says she's happy to have him as a brother, but that her new feelings are scary, and she wonders if she can do this.
She finishes cleaning and bandaging Sun-woo's hand, and softly tells him not to get hurt again. Sun-woo drops his act and grabs her by the wrist. He says in a low voice that he's also scared that he won't be able to protect her. He says it's the first time anyone has depended on him, but he asks her to anyway, because she's not alone anymore.
Queen Regent Jiso is in a fury, and orders her bodyguard Hyun Chu to get the king out of the country immediately. Hyun Chu says that it's better that he's here, since there's no safe place for him in the capital. But nobody would ever imagine the king himself would be in the Hwarang.
Ah Ro hovers outside Sun-woo's bedroom door the next morning, deliberately making noise to wake him. He startles her by sitting down next to her and pointing out her awkward behavior. Sun-woo seems to enjoy making Ah Ro even more flustered, as he keeps touching her and leaning in close, acting all innocent.
Doo-woo and his number one minion report back to Minister Park, who's interested to learn that Ahn Ji-gong's supposed son is really an orphan boy from the low-born village. He finds it fascinating that the queen regent formed the Hwarang so quickly after the king came to the city. He thinks that Sun-woo must have seen the king's face, which is why the queen regent made him Hwarang.
Sun-woo dresses in his uniform, but has some trouble figuring out the belt. Ah Ro steps in to help, and Sun-woo pretends to be annoyed, but he can't stop from smiling whenever she's not looking. He mock-complains that the belt is messed up from her terrible sewing, but she just snaps back that she was pretty good at sewing him up. Point to Ah Ro.
She steps back to check Sun-woo, and gets flustered again at the fine figure he cuts in his uniform. He teases that she knew from the beginning that he was handsome, and he clearly enjoys repeating her drunken words back to her and making her frown. Aaand point to Sun-woo.
She tells him that she's going to watch the Hwarang procession on the way to the barracks, and tells him to wave if he sees her. Sun-woo says he won't, grouching that having a sister is annoying, hee.
All the ladies turn out to see the Hwarang procession and swoon over the pretty men. The boys notice the ladies too, and even Ban-ryu seems to lock eyes for a second with one beautiful girl — Ah Ro's friend Soo-yeon, who also happens to be his archenemy Su-ho's sister. Uh oh.
As they walk, Hwa-gong's assistant asks if he's not worried to put all these hot-headed young men in the same place. He warns Hwa-gong that he's here to evaluate things, and if anything goes wrong he'll recommend the queen regent disband the Hwarang.
Minister Park and Ho Gong, Ban-ryu's biological father, sit in Joo-ki's teahouse to watch the young men who weren't chosen for the Hwarang because they didn't have the necessary pedigree. Minister Park figures that these are the young men who will be most against the queen regent now, and plans to "buy them." They're amused by one furious boy in particular, Kang Sung, the same guy who beat up Mak Mun in the club.
Ji-dwi's bodyguard Pa Oh is posing as a street vendor, and he's surprised to see Ji-dwi out of uniform and skipping the procession. He assumes that Ji-dwi changed his mind about being in the Hwarang, but Ji-dwi corrects him and says that he's going later.
Despite his grumpy claims, Sun-woo scans the crowd for Ah Ro during the procession. He doesn't see his adoptive father, Woo-reuk, watching him from under a straw hat, and he completely misses Ah Ro when she finally pushes through the crowd.
Someone barrels through the crowd, and Ah Ro accidentally rips his sleeve trying not to fall. It's Kang Sung, Ban-ryu's angry friend, and he screams at Ah Ro for ruining his expensive clothing. He refuses her offer to repair them and raises his hand to strike her, but he suddenly recognizes her as the storyteller, and his tune immediately changes.
He makes assumptions based on the racy nature of her stories, and offers to forget the whole thing if Ah Ro spends some time alone with him. Gross. He drags her off as Ah Ro loudly objects.
Suddenly, Kang Sung is smacked in the face by a bag of coins. A second one hits him, and Ji-dwi shows himself, explaining that the first bag is to pay for Ah Ro, and the second is an apology for hitting him in the face with the first bag. HA. Kang Sung lurches at Ji-dwi, but a sharp jab in the solar plexus by Pa Oh has him thinking twice. He picks up the coin bags and leaves, and Ji-dwi moves towards Ah Ro.
She apologizes for not being able to pay him back, but he's more interested in her debt to him for saving her life earlier. He takes a paintbrush and draws a half-moon on her forearm, explaining that it's a long-lasting paint that will serve as a bond of debt — when she repays him, he'll erase it.
Hwa-gong leads the new Hwarang into their new barracks, and their first challenge is to drink several cups of alcohol in quick succession. The boys choke their way to hilarious drunkenness, all except Ji-dwi, who looks perfectly sober after all the drinking. Poor Sun-woo looks sick as a dog, unused to much drinking at all.
Once they're all good and wasted, Hwa-gong calls them forward to choose their room plates. Ban-ryu, Su-ho, Ji-dwi, and Sun-woo all pull the same black room plate, making them roommates. Hwa-gong tells the boys that there are no more rules for today — they can steal each other's room plates, or even roommates, however they like.
In private, his assistant complains that getting the boys drunk and setting them loose on each other is a terrible idea. He wonders how they can teach the boys lofty ideals now, and Hwa-gong just laughs and tells his assistant to just teach the boys the consequences of their actions.
Sun-woo is found out by several boys who were at the club fight and know he's low-born, and they proceed to beat him soundly and kick him into a ditch. But just when they think they've gotten the best of him, Sun-woo comes up, completely sober now, and returns the beating easily.
Out in the courtyard, Ban-ryu and Su-ho have realized they're sharing a room, and are trying to steal the black room plates from each other. It's kind of adorable how indignant they are, yet they can't manage to even lay a finger on each other for all the drunken swaying. These two are going to be so cute once they're besties.
Hwa-gong's assistant won't let the subject drop, and Hwa-gong asks if he's worried about the boys, or about what to report to the queen regent. He thinks it doesn't matter if the boys kill each other now, because they'll only kill each other later. Hwa-gong reveals his true plan — to let the boys interact, shape, and reshape each other, so that they can take them and form something new.
Ji-dwi tries to ignore Sun-woo as he sits in pain, but he stops to ask what happened anyway. Sun-woo clutches his sore ribs, and Ji-dwi sees the dragon-head bracelet he's still wearing as he asks if it's true that Sun-woo is the queen regent's chosen Hwarang. Sun-woo just asks if Ji-dwi has ever carried anyone before.
Ji-dwi says that will never happen, warning Sun-woo not to even think of it. Cut to: Ji-dwi piggybacking an unconscious Sun-woo into the dorms, HA.
Ji-dwi finds the black-plate room, which is already occupied by Su-ho and Ban-ryu, both sleeping. A third young man sits near one bed — it's Yeo-wool, the highest-ranked Hwarang in the group. Yeo-wool looks at Ji-dwi with hooded eyes, and asks dryly if his shocked expression is because he's never seen a beautiful man before.
Ji-dwi dumps Sun-woo on the unoccupied bed, and Yeo-wool swipes his black plate. He counts up the boys in the room, and figures that these are the five who will be sharing living quarters. He looks amused and says, "This is going to be fun, don't you think?"
Aww, I think I'm going to like Yeo-wool. There's something removed about him, as if he's above all this petty social bickering, but he doesn't seem jaded. It's more like he wields enough power on his own that he can afford to ignore it and just coast along doing whatever he wants. I'm fascinated by his character more than the other Hwarang boys, and curious to see how he'll fit into the friendship that will form.
I think I've figured out why Ji-dwi isn't going to get the girl, and it's really no wonder. I doubt, living in exile, that he's had much experience with women. His approach to Ah Ro seems to be pretty assertive, almost aggressive, which is definitely not going to work with a strong-willed girl like her. He's forceful with her, not necessarily in a bad way, but in a way that raises her hackles and makes her push back, creating distance between them instead of the closeness he clearly wants.
On the other hand, it's understandable that Ah Ro is having confusing feelings for Sun-woo, because while he's calling himself her brother, he's acting like a guy who loves her. He's gentle and thoughtful, slowing down and meeting her on her emotional level at every turn. I liked their little scene when she admitted it's the first time she wanted to rely on someone, and he confessed to being scared he can't protect her. It was a pretty big moment for Sun-woo, to be open enough that he admitted to being afraid and willing to ask her to lean on him, since the one time he was in a position to protect someone, they died. But mostly I just love the way he always thinks of Ah Ro first — a good example being when the boys rescued Ah Ro from the bandits. Ji-dwi just started manhandling her, trying to untie her, but without speaking to her first. Of course she thought he was a bandit there to hurt her! But Sun-woo slowed down, spoke softly, told her they were there to help, and she calmed right down. He thinks of her needs first, which is really nice to see.
It's interesting to watch, because the characters of Sun-woo and Ji-dwi seem to be switched from the usual dramaland lead and second lead mold. So often the lead is the one that's aggressive and pushy with the woman. He's arrogant and prickly, but she sees through all that to the marshmallow inside. But in this case, it's Ji-dwi who's those things, and Ah Ro isn't having any of it. Meanwhile, Sun-woo is doing all the usual second-lead things like taking care of the girl, being sweet to her, and casting longing looks in her direction — only for once, it's totally working. I'm on board to see more of this.
Speaking of Sun-woo, his crush on Ah Ro is so cute, I can't even. He's definitely aware of his feelings, and even looks like he's enjoying them, though when she finally called him "oraboni," it seemed to have sunk in for the first time that he's in no position to truly court her. And it's more than obvious that Ah Ro feels the same attraction, so I do hope she learns that he's not her real brother soon. I still don't find it completely icky, because to Ah Ro this is a guy she just met, plus he's gorgeous, so it's natural for her to find him attractive when she didn't grow up attaching any familial associations to him. I can understand finding a new person handsome, even if you think he's related, for a short time. But eventually (if you're truly related) you have to move past that, and that time is swiftly approaching for Ah Ro. If she keeps being attracted to Sun-woo past the initial "just met this person" time frame, then it will get weird. It's a delicate timing issue, so here's hoping that Ah Ro learns the truth soon.


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Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment killed three birds with one stone on Monday: naming Dion Phaneuf captain and reaching once again for its fans' pockets by unveiling a new jersey for the diehards and launching a new dining establishment for swells on the west side of the Air Canada Centre - right across from Real Sports Apparel. One MLSE executive looked at all the gleaming metal in the bar and remarked the revenue generated might be akin to a 10-per-cent increase in attendance. He was smiling, as well he should: Happy hour never stops when you're MLSE unless it comes to winning titles.
This - all this stuff, the new captain and new bar and 9,000-square feet of accompanying retail space - was not all about marketing, I was assured by Richard Peddie, the president and chief executive officer of Maple Leaf Sports and Entertainment. "But," Peddie noted, "marketing is not foreign to Brian Burke. He was the president of the Vancouver Canucks, and had marketing reporting to him."
This was a seminal moment for Burke, the Toronto Maple Leafs general manager, and head coach Ron Wilson and their tag-team battle against "blue and white disease."
So what if Phaneuf's first official act as captain was to read a dry, robotic prepared statement instead of dropping some inspiring, off the cuff bon mots? You ached for "Remember the Titans!" and instead received "Remember the teleprompter!"
Marketing? Of course this was all about marketing. The faithful would have gobbled up their blue-and-white goodies without new jerseys or a new captain. But Burke needed to do something concrete to show fans things really have changed in his two years.
"We've waited long enough for a captain," said Wilson, who admitted he'd tested Phaneuf's loyalty in his own way in their 26 games together.
Peddie, of course, is the focal point of the fans' anger at the manner in which both the Maple Leafs and the NBA's Raptors punch well below their weight. Blue-and-white disease refers specifically to what Burke saw as a sense of entitlement that existed in the dressing room when he took over, but Peddie didn't seem surprised when I suggested he is the person whose face most often pops up in fans' minds whenever the phrase is used. Has he ever felt like telling Burke to, you know, stifle it?
"I didn't mind it at all," Peddie said. "I'm not in the dressing room. I don't know about blue-and-white disease."
The event did not start out providentially: As the assembled walked in to the bar, most of the TVs were showing a sports item detailing the travails of Raptors malcontent Hedo Turkoglu. Yikes! The channel was quickly changed, and Peddie made clear that the Leafs expect to make the playoffs next season.
"Brian said last year he felt we were capable of doing it, but this season? We expect it," Peddie said. "The tearing down is done. Now we're building up with youth and adding some players in free agency this summer."
Some of the 199 high-definition televisions peered down at George Armstrong. So did the 39-foot high-def screen. In an upper deck, one of the features of a new, 900-capacity Real Sports Bar & Grill at Maple Leaf Square, season-ticket holders and corporate partners stared back.
"Joe," the last Toronto Maple Leafs captain to hoist a Stanley Cup said to emcee and the voice of the team Joe Bowen, "I feel about as comfortable here as you would be playing hockey with me right now."
Armstrong said that when he was named captain of the Maple Leafs it was a little different. "As I recall, when I became captain it was a little bit different," Armstrong told the audience. "I went in to play our first game and saw the 'C' was on the sweater and that was it."
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Favoritism in asymmetric contests: Head starts and handicaps
I examine a contest with identity-dependent rules in which contestants are privately informed and ex ante heterogeneous. A contestant may suffer from a handicap or benefit from a head start. The former reduces the contestant's score by a fixed percentage; the latter is an additive bonus. Although total effort increases if the weak contestant is favored with a head start, the optimal use of handicaps is not as clear-cut. Depending on the nature of the asymmetry, it may or may not be optimal to handicap the strong contestant. Moreover, it is generally optimal to combine the two instruments. For instance, when contestants are sufficiently heterogeneous the weak contestant should be given both a head start and a handicap. It may also be possible to induce higher effort and at the same time make both contestants better off ex ante.
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Apple releases iOS 5.1.1
The latest delta update to iOS 5 has been release and is available to download now for iPhone, iPad and iPod touch. iOS 5.1.1 doesn't bring any interesting or unique new features. Instead, it just has a handful of bug fixes.
- Improves the reliability of using HDR for photos taken using the Lock Screen shortcut.
- Gets rid of bugs that were causing problems for iPads switching between 2G and 3G networks.
- Fixes bug that affected AirPlay video playback.
- Reliability improved for Safari bookmarks syncing.
- Issue fixed whereby "unable to purchase" would show up on screen after a successful purchase.
To download the update over a wireless network go to settings>general>software update and follow the instructions.


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Beth C.wrote a review of Castelli Palmares Women's Knickers on September 15, 2012
Not impressed
The size small was extremely tight, but the length was right on. I am 5'3" and 125lbs. I only tried them on with underwear on, but you could see the underwear through the knickers. I was concerned it would not be long before they were worn to the point that I was showing the infamous crack during a ride.
The chamois is wide, thick and dense in the rear, but less so in the front. I ride about 5 days a week, a 1-3 hours each day and for me the chamois felt more like a diaper, much too thick.
Long story short, I'm not hard to please, but I had to send these back. They just did not fit well and given the chamois, I didn't think a size larger would help.


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DAVIE, Fla. - Police are searching for a man who tried luring three girls into his sport utility vehicle as they walked to school.
The incident happened early Wednesday across the street from Nova Middle School at Northwest 39th Street in Davie.
The man driving a dark-colored SUV, believed to be a Suzuki XL7, approached the girls and spoke to them, police say.
Surveillance images show the man pull into, then out of the parking lot of the Lil Rascals Academy.
The man is described as mid 20s with bushy eyebrows, spiked hair, and a scruffy mustache. He was last seen wearing black polo shirt with a name embroidered on it, and black pants.
Anyone with information is asked to call police at 954-693-8200.
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2 Sisters' results boosted by Sainsbury deal
Overall, the firm reported total sales up by 13.4% to £2.34bn, and underlying earnings up by almost 12% to £190.3M.
Ranjit Boparan, the firm's ceo, said the group was on track to reach a £3bn sales target by 2015 but remained challenged by rising raw material prices.
Significant increases in feed prices
The group reported further significant increases in feed prices over recent months, which will result in further inflation in poultry and other protein markets.
"We continue to work closely with our customers on recovery of these higher feed prices, as this is essential to secure the viability and supply of the poultry farming and processing capability in the UK," said the firm in a statement.
But it expected continuing short-term margin pressure in its poultry sector caused by the lag between commodity price increases and recovery.
Boparan said: "While we have made a solid start to our new financial year, looking ahead, we remain cautious in a difficult economic environment. Trading conditions are very challenging with high food commodity inflation, further recent significant increases in feed prices and cash-conscious consumers.
"Despite these pressures, we will continue to work with our customers to deliver quality and value to consumers, invest in our brands, in innovation and our people, and drive efficiency over the course of the year."


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Aqua Dots toy recalled nearly 3 weeks ago advertised in Target circular
TRENTON, N.J. (AP) -- The popular but dangerous toy Aqua Dots was recalled but the fliers advertising it apparently were not. In its Black Friday circular, Minneapolis-based retailer Target boasted a $13 price tag for Aqua Dots, the popular toy beads yanked from U.S. store shelves nearly three weeks ago because they are coated in a chemical that can turn into the "date-rape" drug when swallowed.
A Toys "R' Us flier distributed in some Sunday newspapers contains an ad for Aqua Dots, advertising the Aqua Dots Super Studio for $19.99 -- a $5 savings.
Target spokeswoman Brie Heath said Sunday that the Black Friday circular "was so far into production that we couldn't impact it when we heard about the recall." She said the circular was distributed to customers in the 47 states where Target has stores.
Target took steps to notify its customers, Heath said, by running an advertisement in the front section of newspapers in most major markets stating that due to the recall, Aqua Dots were no longer available.
Heath said Target posted signs in its stores and removed Aqua Dots from the circular's online companion.
"We had a couple of guest inquiries, but I think most understood the product has been recalled," Heath said. "I don't think it caused any huge concern."
Wayne, N.J.-based Toys "R' Us Inc., had a similar situation.
"These circulars were printed and in distribution before the recall," spokeswoman Kathleen Waugh said Sunday. "Absolutely, Aqua Dots are not available or for sale."
Though anticipated to be among the holiday's biggest-selling toys, Aqua Dots were recalled in the United States on Nov. 7 after tests showed they are coated with an industrial chemical that, when ingested, metabolizes into the "date-rape" drug gamma hydroxy butyrate.
The bead-like toy could cause breathing problems, loss of consciousness, seizures, drowsiness, coma and death if ingested. Nine children in the United States and three children in Australia have become sick.
Aqua Dots was heavily advertised in holiday fliers because of the toy's popularity, said Waugh. The Toys "R' Us circular distributed Sunday advertised the beads with a photo on page 2 under the heading "Girls Gift Sale."
Waugh said ads for the dangerous toy could continue to show up in newspapers for another week or two because the circulars are printed and distributed far in advance.


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La posizionalità come presupposto della relazionalità; e viceversa
Both relational and positional goods are based upon an idea of joint consumption - thought with opposite signs. In both cases, agents are not self-regarded, but their consumption choices are other-regarded. Moreover, relational good lies on identity of its consumers. It implies a certain degree of positionality within the consumption of relational goods. Analogously, except for two-agent context, each positional good has a relational component. What emerges is a complex structure of economic outcomes based on both relational and positional motives.
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So London wakes up this weekend to Mayor Johnson, year zero of the Age of Boris. Should we all be delighted, as so many of our fellow-citizens clearly hope? Terrified, as some residents of G2 are, cowering in their attics, awaiting the knock at the door? Should we laugh at the prospect of enjoyable chaos, mitigated by the knowledge that Labour's blueprint for London mayor was a Lilliputian model in which the mayor is roped down?
Perhaps we should fantasise about running hot and cold peasant girls at every bus stop, free champage (Bullingdon label) on the tube and in all 4x4 SUVs, all Londoners entitled to appear on Have I Got News For You at least once? Or should we get serious, as Mayor Johnson will have to from here on? His success or failure between now and the next general election is too important to Brand Cameron to be left to chance, let alone to the new mayor.
So Boris will have well-vetted advisers and officials to buttress his erratic talents and keep him under tight control. His policy differences with Ken Livingstone were, mostly, fewer than voters might have expected. Both men borrowed each other's ideas. After months of debate what most Londoners know most clearly is that their new mayor wants to get rid of unpopular bendy buses and restore the much-loved Routemaster (junked by Livingstone). They also know he hasn't a clue how to do it - and probably won't.
What worries them? Crime and the fear of crime in their neighbourhoods. A shortage of affordable housing, rented or for buying, for young people and key workers in public services, teachers and nurses. He wants to build 50,000, re-deploy 80,000 empty ones. A cleaner environment (10,000 more trees and less graffiti) and better transport flows, public and private. Better opportunities for youngsters, to encourage them to stay off the streets, out of gangs and focused on education - far too many young Londoners lack the skills or marketability to get their share of the capital's prosperity. A stronger sense of fairness and opportunity - schools, jobs, healthcare - in a very rich city where there are too many poor people.
Most of these issues are outside the mayor's remit or only tangentially within it. First and foremost, he must speak for the capital in London and to the wider world. Livingstone was a very recognisable London type, loved and hated. Johnson is a more exotic creature - a "love him or hate him, Marmite politician" - but with considerable potential, as yesterday's turnout showed. It's about leadership. An elusive talent, as Gordon Brown has discovered.
In policy terms Boris Johnson has promised to reform the congestion charge (no £25 charge for Chelsea tractors) but to retain concessionary travel passes for old and young (though some advisers would like to curb this popular perk); he supports Ken Livingstone's low-emission zone and wants to protect the parks from some of the people who voted for him; he wants affordable "family-sized" homes. Whereas the outgoing mayor backed the push for community policing - in collaboration with the Met's Sir Ian Blair - Boris would deploy extra officers in different ways, on trains and buses for instance.
Some would be armed with mobile scanners to check more easily for hidden weapons in public. Buses would be equipped with CCTV cameras. "Political correctness" in the Met would be rooted out - whatever that means; it has hardly been a bastion of multiculturalism; far from it until recent progress at making it look more like the city it polices.
Mayor Boris wants a no-strike deal with the powerful RMT union, which he says "holds the tube to ransom", though badly managed investment and poor signalling are far more disruptive of daily journeys. As a biker he wants to encourage more cycling. He wants to fine utilities that fail to meet their timetable for digging up roads.
It is not hard to be sceptical about the feasibility of some such campaign talk or to wonder how Mayor Johnson can reconcile contradictory commitments - not least the expectations he has generated in the resentful suburbs that it is their turn to be the mayor's priority. Tories have played the suburban card for a century, against evidence that London works better when it has strong central direction. That is one reason why it was unhappy between Ken's abolition as Mr GLC in 1986 and his reinvention as elected mayor in 2000.
One problem raised by the New Local Government Network last month was that the 25-strong London assembly is too weak to control the mayor, its weapons of scrutiny and accountability not suited to effective day-to-day restraint. Mayor Johnson will have his honeymoon, but for the People's Boris this is his first really grown-up job. It is a risk for him, a risk for London. One way or another he is likely to surprise us all.


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Japanese brand UNDERCOVER presents an outstanding outerwear piece from its current Spring/Summer 2013 collection. Crafted from a lightweight and breathable cotton fabric, the military-inspired coat boasts a number of pockets throughout, including six snap button pockets in the front and two waist pockets, and an additional sleeve pocket. Further features include a snap button collar, drawstring adjustable hood, and the infamous "middle finger" embroidered on the chest.
You can get the coat now over at HAVEN.


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Governor Andrew Cuomo today unveiled a statewide alert system that will help find vulnerable adults who become lost.
The "Missing Adult Alert" system is similar to the AMBER Alert program. It helps get word out quicker to communities when a mentally-impaired New Yorker goes missing.
Cuomo says according to the Alzheimer's Association, more than 60-percent of Alzheimer sufferers will wander and 50-percent are at risk of serious harm, or even death, if not located within 24 hours.
Just last week, a man from Gates in Monroe County went missing when he attended church in Niagara Falls. The man was later found near Syracuse. He was diagnosed with early-onset dementia.
You can sign up to receive "Missing Adult Alerts" on the NY-ALERT system, by clicking here.


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First Look: n-Tegrity Pro secure USB thumb drive appliance
What it is:
USB stick with fingerprint
authentication, AES or Blowfish file encryption, secure partition and platform
for hosting and launching applications. Plug this little baby in and launch apps, store files, send emails, and
sign documents all without leaving a trace on the host computer. Capacity
ranges from 256K to 4 Gigs.
n-Tegrity Pro
n-Trance Security Ltd
How it does it:
n-Tegrity Pro combines a
proprietary biometric authentication application (all properly documented and
publicly discussed in academic papers, of course), file encryption (using your
choice of AES, Blowfish or other popular encryption options), and a logical
partition for secure file storage.
The product is shipping is
currently sold through a few channels in Europe and on Amazon.
Starts at $45, up to $200.
I tested the Pro version with 1 Gig of memory selling for about $90.
Early Review:
I opened the box and
installed it in seconds. Within five or
six minutes I was a power user (after I figured out that I have to swipe my
finger three times to enroll instead of just one). The software running on my device is n-Pass
Pro 126.96.36.1996. I inserted it in a USB
port of my old IBM ThinkPad T42 running Windows XP (updated) and was pleased at
how quickly the n-Tegrity Pro was detected. After registering two fingers using
the biometric reader, a navigation window offered me options to launch the
embedded applications like Skype or Miranda instant messaging. I selected Internet Explorer and surfed away,
hardly detecting any latency given the fact that the app and its caches were
being completely housed on the stick. At
one point, mid operation, I ripped the stick out to see what would crash. Nothing did. The n-Tegrity Pro icon in the system tray simply disappeared. When I
reinserted the device in the USB port I counted to ten and was presented with
the fingerprint authentication request, slid my left thumb across the reader
and was instantly back in action. Encrypting was just as easy. I dragged a file into the reader and right
clicked. I found the functions of this
powerful device and its elegant software to be intuitive and supremely
useful. The device has an integrated
cover and comes with a lanyard – an important protection for me because I lose
Other capabilities listed
on the website are
- n-Pass Pro – biometrically
enabled VPN and RDC connection
- n-Crypt –shell-integrated
biometrically-enabled cryptographic application for files and folders
- Encrypted Virtual Disks
- FIPS 140-2 Level 1
compliant RNG
- Selectable cryptographic
algorithms from the list of 7 most powerful (such as RSA-2048 key pair, AES-256, etc)
I mentioned IE, Miranda and
Skype, but there are many apps you could launch from the flash disk. A list of
compliant applications is available HERE.
The competition:
USB sticks combining secure
file storage are a dime a dozen these days. Well, maybe $500 a dozen, but you get the idea. The n-Trance solution combines applications,
secure files, password storage, and so many other uses neatly contained in a
form factor with its own secure biometric authentication and encryption engine.
Not much to gripe about at
this point. It does what it claims. The Quick Start Guide is not written as
clearly as it could be. And I look
forward to support of Linux and Mac.
How to Buy:
Europeans can go to their
local UniEuro Market in Italy, Netherlands, Hungary and Russia where you'll likely find the
products displayed next to new computers.
Everyone else can go to
Score 4.5 out of 5. Very cool device that is
inexpensive enough to replace if you lose it and powerful enough to use every
This site makes online gambling, er, I mean, currency trading, loads of fun
etoro.com A brand new FOREX (foreign exchange) currency trading site. Puts the fun of online poker into currency trading. Developed and run by folks I know who have deep roots in technology. You'll look and this site and say, "why the heck not?"
DreamerGear: Yoggie Pico Rectifies Previous Peccadillos in a Tight Little Package
DreamerGear Evaluation: Yoggie Pico Pro v. 5.1.0
I have purchased six, count 'em, 6, Bluetooth headsets. Why? I bust them or lose them. But I keep buying them because while I have
one, it is so darned useful. Little,
functional, très cool – I gotta have it. I feel the same way about my Yoggie Pico Pro™.
I would have published this review the day
the product was released… I had received
one of the first ones that day and installed it before lunchtime. I even showed it off at a conference where I
was speaking, and showed how so much security could fit so neatly in my jacket pocket
when I packed up and headed to the airport. But by the time I got off the plane the little Yoggie was no where to be
found. Just 36 short hours of Yoggie
enjoyment. Ugh.
Name and Version of
Product Yoggie Pico Pro™ 5.1.0
Manufacturer and
Website Yoggie Security Systems http://www.yoggie.com/
Type of Product Endpoint Security – Security Appliance
Uses Protecting laptops and PCs
What We Loved Offloading security to a tiny USB appliance
What We Didn't Frightfully easy to lose
Price $199.
Quick Replacement
So I got a new one. And love it. Functionally it is a
lot like my first Yoggie, the Gatekeeper Pro™ which I evaluated earlier this
year. It combines firewall, VPN, intrusion
detection, intrusion prevention, anti-virus, anti-spam, a web and FTP proxy,
and protections against other baddies like spyware, phishing and Trojan
horses. All this packed in a device
about the size of a standard thumb drive.
The Yoggie products are a step up from ZoneAlarm by Check
Point or Norton Internet Security from Symantec in security, but a set down in
convenience. ZoneAlarm and Norton are
software based solutions running on the computer all the time. You can't misplace software – but it also
takes up resources on your computer and potentially drags down performance.
Fast & Secure
Network throughput with the Pico rivals the Gatekeeper with
exceptional throughput and no detectable slowdown in network response
times. In fact, with the Yoggie handling
email and web scanning, Internet response times actually increased.
I complained in my review of the Gatekeeper Pro that it should
be a PC card instead of a USB device. The Pico is a prodigious step toward the smaller and more "integrated"
form factor, but it is still a bit too fat. I can't fit another memory stick in the USB port next to it. A future version really ought to be a PC card
that stays with the PC. I'd also like to see the price for consumers closer to
…went to a garden party, and much to my surprise, there was a — brand new best practices tool for network architecture
The folks at Lisle Technology Partners have done it again. Building on seven years of success as a software development shop, the brilliant designers have finally launched their much anticipated new product AthenaVerify. The launch happened this week at a lovely reception at the chic Peninsula Hotel in Chicago.
You know when you build any network that your network engineers are reasonably competent, doing their best to follow network design best practices, and ensuring that there are no gaping holes. Right? Well, even the best designed architectures fall from grace in time — business units need a port opened temporarily, which is later forgotten — a new web server pops up — a wireless access point sneaks in under a desk — a firewall is configured with an exposed connection — countless little infractions that can lead to major headaches.
AthenaVerify will assess your network architecture compared against best practices.
But here's the really cool part. The product does not scan your network. It doesn't work like other assessment tools banging on every port and straining your network under its load. It works completely offline. Simply feed it the config files of your network devices, like routers and firewalls, and it will use a mathematical analysis to find every weakness. The detailed, full color reports then show an executive summary and detailed explanation of the best practice and the gap to close.
A monthly low-impact assessment like this will ensure that your network is always working efficiently and securely.
Lisle Technology Partners is well-heeled and funding the launch of the product mostly by itself. I believe it will be successful mainly for two reasons: First, since the company is not taking loads and loads of venture capital money, it can afford to sell the product at a price attractive to small, mid-sized and large organizations. In other words, it has a much larger potential customer base than Skybox Security, Red Seal, and the like.
The second reason I believe AthenaVerify will rock networks around the world is that it evaluates networks against best practices. Its competitors search for hackers and other vulnerabilities. That attitude makes the solution really sexy for network administrators – but those folks don't have the budgets for big-ticket solutions. AthenaVerify on the other had, measures a network's compliance to PCI, Sarbanes-Oxley, and HIPAA regulations as well as general best practices for efficiency and security. It is a much more attractive message for CIOs and business unit managers.
A priest, a rabbi, and a security director walk into a bar…
Now for something completely different. Two folks with a deep roots in security and technology launched this fun site. ComicWonder.com is the *first* forum dedicated to the art of joke-telling. There are lots of text jokes sites out there,
yes. But until today, no one offered a
forum for you to actually tell a joke! So, check out the site, listen to some jokes, and then send the link to your
funniest friends.
The Milwaukee Business Journal wrote a great article about
the site.
Guy Kawasaki, famous Mac Evangelist and founder of Truemors,
had to say about the site: "It's actually very fun. More than I thought it
would be. I'll truemor it." Check
out www.truemors.com and press the UP arrow. The Truemor reads: "Here's a new site where joke tellers record,
upload and compete. Something nice and light to start the weekend!"
Great work Kelly and Marcus!
First Look: IdentityTruth.com
What is it: A Web site service that
provides early warning detection to let you know if your identity has been
How does it do it:
According to the site, Identity Truth monitors many sources beyond simply
credit monitoring. They monitor public records plus public information floating
on the Internet. They claim to be able to do this without asking for your
social security number.
Status: Currently in beta.
Cost: The beta is free, with a limited invitation. $9.95 for a one-time search.
$9.99 per month for an ongoing service.
Early Review: IdentityTruth
first collects a bit of information about me, then plugs that data into a
powerful Web crawler-based Internet intelligence engine provided by
Cyveillance. The back end Cyveillance engine is impressive in many ways, especially
the fact that it can find things that not even Google can get its tentacles on,
like emails and chat room discussions—a popular forum where private rooms trade
credit card information.
I launched the service with
my cell phone as my primary number. Within minutes I began receiving text
messages to my phone and email detailing all the personal information that Identity
Truth found floating around "out there" about me. For example, it found every
place I'd lived since college, all my past phone numbers, and a few other
choice tidbits. The service determined that information from the Internet,
combined with information from my credit report (which it deduced somehow)
indicated a high likelihood that I was already a victim of cell phone fraud –
someone getting a cell phone in my name. I looked into it and found that all
the numbers were mine. But still – impressive.
Any time my personal information is out
there and potential usable in a fraudulent way, Identity Truth calculates the
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Extension has been teaching leadership to kids through 4-H for decades. In the 1980s and '90s, Extension saw that Minnesota communities needed more informed adult leaders. Believing that anyone who cares about a community issue can learn to lead, Extension recruited local leaders to attend programs such as Family Community Leadership, Supporting Community Diversity, Building Common Ground and Northwest Emerging Leadership. In two decades, 700 Emerging Leadership and U-Lead program graduates have boosted their skills in leadership, citizen involvement and the legislative process. Today, many of those participants are senators, legislators, mayors or board presidents. Extension educators now teach more than 25 different leadership programs every year.
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WASHINGTON, Oct. 11 (UPI) -- The manager of an antarctic research station who had a stroke says she's trapped at the facility, and authorities say it's too risky to send a plane for her.
Renee-Nicole Douceur, the manager of the Amundsen-Scott research station at the South Pole, suffered a stroke in August that has left her with impaired vision, ABC News reported Monday.
Raytheon Polar Services, which operates the station for the National Science Foundation, says it is too dark, cold and dangerous to send a plane for her, although they would try to get a flight into the station next week.
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Where can i get architectural raw files to work on?
Also what is the difference between retouching models and retouching architecture?
Is there any special conventions used that arent done on models?
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not raw but deviantart.com has alot of architectural images. you can also get 10 free downloads from http://www.photoxpress.com/ if you follow their directions. use http://www.everystockphoto.com/ for more.
and btw asking the difference between retouching a human and a building is just funny
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I think there are more similarities than differences, as both has to be cleaned up, unwanted objects removed and surfaces looking their best ( shining, evenly textured etc ).
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A policeman has been shot in a gun and grenade attack in central Athens carried out by at least two gunmen.
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The Wall Street Journal has a blog following some out-of-work MBAs. A piece of advice I noticed right away and agree with is that the seeker needs to take time for other parts of their life (exercise, etc.) because looking for work is not a full-time job (at least not the all-encompassing full-time job that many are accustomed to). The job search leads to interviews and it sure is good to go into those with some balance and perspective (and without the bleary eyes that come from staring at your computer all day long).
Anyway, saw some really good stuff here for folks in transition and for the rest of us. I really would have liked to have seen more writers from outside the financial services sector (heck, there are even some non-MBA job seekers that should have a voice but that is a topic for another blog). But still, worth a read.


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Roger Angell, The New Yorker's celebrated baseball writer, has a new compilation out titled "Game Time", which contains many new pieces along with some previously published ones as well. BP correspondent Alex Belth caught up with Angell last weekend and talked about growing up a New York Giants baseball fan, the present-day Yankees, plus other topics New York baseball-focused and otherwise.
Baseball Prospectus: How did you get your start as a baseball fan, and as a writer?
Roger Angell: I got my start as a fan in the most traditional way possible: My father was a big baseball fan. My father had grown up in Cleveland, and when I was a kid, we would be going to Giants games here in New York, and Yankees games. As I've written, I think it still works with kids under 10 that their first big obsession is with baseball. They become aware of this gigantic lore. Some of the first players that I saw were people like Babe Ruth, and Carl Hubbell and Lou Gehrig, and I remember when Joe DiMaggio first arrived in my teens. So it goes back a ways.
BP: Where did you grow up?
Angell: I grew up close to where I live now. I grew up on 93rd Street, and on the way to school, my school bus which went up 5th Avenue when 5th Avenue went both ways, sometimes in the morning I would meet Col. (Jacob) Ruppert on his way to his brewery on the east side. He owned the Yankees. By that time I was 10 years old, so I would have a mitt, and I would give the mitt a whack and look at him, and expect him to stop and say: 'Young man, here's my card, take this up to the Stadium for a tryout.' It never happened. My father was a real fan, and he told me what to watch for. He had grown up in Cleveland in the Cy Young, days, and uh, his heart was broken for the rest of his life (laughs).
BP: So did you grow up as a Giants fan or a Yankees fan?
Angell: Both. I think I was more of a Yankee fan at first, but the Yankees were winning so often…that I discovered along the way that I was more a Giants fan than a Yankees fan.
BP: (Did you pull for the Giants) strictly because they were the underdog?
Angell: Cause they were the underdog, sure. And naturally you attach yourself to the underdog. But I think I enjoyed the Polo Grounds more than Yankee Stadium because it was such an eccentric and interesting park.
BP: Were most of the Giants fans of an older generation, because they were the dominant New York team before the Yankees?
Angell: Yeah, it's true. But I think if it had been some other city like Pittsburgh, I would have been a Pirates fan. It was just local. I was not a Dodgers fan, because the Dodgers always meant trouble for the Giants. I didn't actually go to a game at Ebbets Field until I was almost grown up.
BP: When did you want to become a writer?
Angell: My parents were divorced and I was living with my father during the weekdays. My mother was an editor at The New Yorker, was one of the first editors of the New Yorker. So it was sort of a family business. And she was married to E.B. White. So there was a writer close at hand. I think the aspirations came naturally.
BP: Did your mother write herself?
Angell: No, she was a famous fiction editor and early art editor. Famous figure in the family of The New Yorker, Katherine White. She was head of the fiction department, so I wound up in the fiction department myself many years later. But I remember watching E.B. White write, and I was a great admirer of his stuff because it looked so effortless and at the same time I could see how much effort had gone into it. He used to write the Comment Page, in the first page of the New Yorker. Every week. And that day, up in their place in Maine, he would close himself in his office and he would come out for lunch, and not say anything, and then you'd hear the sounds of sporadic typing in there, and then he'd mail it off and the end of the day and say it wasn't good enough. He was always saying that writing is hard, which is true.
BP: So writing was the family business.
Angell: The New Yorker was the family business. There was endless talk about The New Yorker all the time. Harold Ross, and all these people. I knew these people when I was young. Sure, it was an everyday sort of thing. My father was a lawyer, and I saw a lot of him, but he never begrudged me going into writing; in fact he encouraged me. So it was a natural sort of thing, and I grew up thinking I was going to do something in publishing. I had no idea I'd end up at The New Yorker, and I had no idea that I'd end up writing about baseball.
BP: When did you arrive at The New Yorker?
Angell: Well, I graduated from college, went overseas in the Pacific and became the managing editor of a G.I. weekly out there. Air Force. A magazine called "Brief." I had amazing preparation for what I would do later on. After the war, by this time I had begun to publish in The New Yorker, when I was quite young, publishing fiction. I wrote an article about a bomber mission in the Pacific. I didn't want to go to work for The New Yorker because it was the family business and you know you want to do things on your own. I went to work for a magazine called "Holiday," a new monthly started up after the war by Curtis Publishing. It was a famous travel magazine; it was a wonderful magazine that produced great writers, and artists and photographers from around the world. And I had a lot of fun doing that. I went to The New Yorker in the fall of '55. My parents were living in Maine. E.B. White was writing other stuff and my mother had retired by this time. It was a natural thing for me to do since I was a writer and editor and contributor to The New Yorker.
BP: When did you first write about baseball?
Angell: In '62. I had written some sports pieces, I had written a piece about the New York Rangers. I was a hockey fan; I was a sports fan. I did a couple of other things. And I had written a baseball piece for "Holiday," sort of a generic baseball piece. I said if you want I could go down to spring training. I certainly did not have it in mind to write a lot about baseball. The thing was, (my editor) didn't want sentimental writing about sports and he didn't want tough guy writing about sports, which were the choices back then. You were either weepy, or you were tough. The first year I went to spring training I found the newborn Mets in St. Petersburg. This is 40 years ago. I didn't think of myself as a sports writer so I didn't dare go in the clubhouse or sit in the press box. I sat with the fans. And I realized that the stuff that's ignored and never gets reported on is the fans. Nobody ever wrote about the fans. So I wrote about the fans, and I've continued to do so. I've continued to write in a form that allows me to write in the first person. And that allows me to say I am a fan of this team, or react to things as a fan as well as a baseball writer that now knows something about the game.
The Mets were just a great fan story when they arrived. They played in the Polo Grounds and they were one of the worst and most entertaining teams that ever played. And that was a terrific story. And New York was used to the Yankees, winning all the time. Somebody said they had become like General Motors. And here was a team that was just terrible, but large numbers of people turned out to cheer them on, and if they won a game there was wild excitement. So I wrote that. They were something like anti-matter to the New York Yankees. I remember sitting there at the Polo Grounds, and there was a guy sitting near me in the stands blowing this mournful horn. TWUUUHH-TRUUUHP. And I wrote that there is more Met than Yankee in all of us, because losing is much more common than winning. When I heard that horn blowing I realized that horn was blowing for me. In some way, I began to settle into the kind of writing that I would do later on. They call me a "baseball essayist," or a "baseball poet laureate," and I hate that. I'm not trying to write baseball essays, and I'm certainly not trying to be poetic. I try to avoid it. I've been able to find myself and baseball a natural fit, and everybody wants to write about himself. That's why we do it (laughs).
BP: When were you aware that this was going to be something you were going to be doing regularly?
Angell: I think what happened was, I went to the World Series every year, again keeping my distance. But what happened in the 60s was that there were three great World Series and pennant races in a row. In '67, there was a four-way race in the American League between the White Sox, Twins, Tigers and the Red Sox. The White Sox went out first, and the Tigers were in it until the last day. The Sox had won and I was in the Red Sox clubhouse when news came that the Tigers had lost, and the Red Sox were in.
BP: The Impossible Dream Team.
Angell: Yeah, there was a great World Series that fall. Carl Yastrzemski was an extraordinary player, carried that team all the way through September. The Red Sox lost of course. And the next year was the Tigers and the Cardinals, and Bob Gibson struck out 17 batters in the first game. Something that never had happened before. And the year after that was the sudden arrival of the Mets: The biggest upset in modern times. These were three great late seasons and post seasons in a row, and by that time I was there writing about this first-hand. I was involved in some way. I felt involved. I learned how to attach myself to teams and I learned how to ask the right questions. It was a lot of fun. And the readers liked it so I went on doing it.
BP: When did you start approaching the locker room and the press box?
Angell: I did that in the sixties. I began to sit in the press box. I remember following the Red Sox around and sitting in the Press Box at Fenway Park, Tiger Stadium. A lot of writers were very good to me, and Cliff Keane one of the old Red Sox writers, famous guy for needling people, would make fun of me for taking so many notes. I'd fill up my notebooks, because I knew I was going to be writing much later, and I didn't know what would be useful at that time. So I would take notes and take notes. Keane would say to me, "How many pages today Rog, 20, 30?" I remember Keane trying to be cynical about Yastrzemski because Yastrzemski was such a great star. There was a game in Tiger Stadium where the Sox were behind a couple of runs, and Yaz came up and he said: 'OK Yaz, prove you're the MVP: Hit a home run.' And he hit a home run (laughs).
BP: What was it like in the locker room during that period?
Angell: Well, it wasn't nearly as crowded as it is now. The masses of TV people weren't there. You didn't have every local television channel in the land trying to represent something in the clubhouse. I think players were a little more accessible. And they were different, they were different. The great example that comes to mind right away is [Bob] Gibson after that 17-strikeout performance. He stood in front of his locker; writers were four and five deep at this point. And all of us had our pencils poised. This was in '68, and racially things were very uptight still. Someone said to Gibson: 'Were you surprised at what you did today?' Gibson looked at him and said: 'I'm never surprised by anything I do.' You could see this going through the writers like: 'What did he say? What did he say?' I hung around, after the crowds had left, and I was talking with Gibson a little bit, and I said: 'Are you always this competitive?' He said: 'Oh, I think so. I got a three-year old daughter, and I've played about 500 games of tic-tac-toe with her and she hasn't beat me yet.' And he meant it. He meant it.
BP: What were your impressions of the Cardinals in the 1960s?
Angell: You have to remember that when Gibson joined the Cardinals, he had played with the Globetrotters, as a second team. Many people forget this. But they played in the South and the black players would have to stay with black families when they went down there. Gibson hated this. Those were tough times.
BB: What was Bill White like in those days?
Angell: I didn't get to know him until later. He was a roommate of Gibby's at one point. He reminded me that when he changed clubs–he went over to the Phillies, I think the first at-bat he had against Gibson, Gibson hit him. He said: 'We're no longer roommates.' And of course that has really changed. This business of knockdown pitches and fighting for the inside part of the play has gone by, and if anybody gets hit now they look deeply insulted. It's too bad, because I really love the inside pitch, and the struggles of the batters to establish themselves.
BP: Those Cardinals were known for being a very racially integrated team. Did you get that impression from them?
Angell: Yeah, I think so, but the team I remember for that was the '79 Pirates. The greatest racial mix that there has ever been. Just unbelievable combinations of people. Suave, inner-city African Americans, and white guys from the South. Phil Garner was the son of a minister from the South. And of course Willie Stargell. You had South Americans, Latinos. The clubhouse was a mass of ethnic energy. All kinds of music going on. At one point I thought they were going to start sacrificing chickens. And rock music. That was the "We Are Family" thing. And everything revolved around Stargell, who was the guy that held it together. And they were so excited by themselves. It was just terrific.
BP: One thing I noticed in your feature about Gibson was that his reputation had diminished when the piece was published in the early '80s. These days Koufax and Gibson are clearly remembered as the outstanding pitchers of the 1960s, while Juan Marichal's reputation has suffered in comparison.
Angell: Well, Marichal was the one whose reputation has faded, you're right. And if you asked players from that era, 'who was the best pitcher?' they always mention Koufax, they always mention Gibson, and they all say the one everyone overlooks is Marichal, who was so tough because he had all those different pitches coming from so many different directions. He really knew how to pitch. Had a very wide range of skills.
Alex Belth is the author of Bronx Banter, a web site devoted to New York
City baseball. Before focusing on baseball full-time, Alex worked in the
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SMEs' Access to Innovation Finance. An Analysis of Public Funds in Piedmont
Using data on public funds in Piedmont, the article argues that SMEs' access to innovation finance is influenced by firm-level determinants, as well as by framework conditions. Use of a Heckman two-step procedure shows that internal determinants are more relevant than external ones represented by relationships with local academia, industry, and governance domains. Legal status and sector, in particular, prove to perform a major role in determining both the likelihood of fund access and the intensity of fund transfers. Revenue too is important, though with a negative effect, while size has a positive impact on fund access alone.
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