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So what does the Boise State college football program have to do with skepticism?
Allow me to tell you a story about a surreal moment I had while attending Dragon*Con this past weekend, and it will hopefully become clear. It requires some non-skeptical related background, so just bear with me.
The Boise State football team has garnered national attention in recent years for winning the 2007 and 2010 Fiesta Bowls, and for finishing four of the last five seasons ranked among the top ten teams in the national Bowl Championship Series (BCS) rankings.
Please click on this link and watch this 3-minute video of the highlights of the 2007 Fiesta Bowl. This game has been referred to by some as one of the greatest games in college football history. Even if you have absolutely no interest in college football, you can't help but appreciate the improbable series of atypical scoring events, capped by the most unlikely trick play, one which has never been seen before in a championship game by a national television audience.
To help complete the picture, think about it in this context. Here you have this relatively obscure and unknown football program in Boise State going up against one of the country's perennial powerhouse college sports programs in Oklahoma. David, meet Goliath. At stake was nothing less than the capstone of their 2006 "Cinderella Season" as the nation's only undefeated team. As the eyes of the college football universe (est. population: 45 million) fixed its gaze on this one game, it was abundantly clear that all of the pressure rested squarely on the shoulders of Boise State.
Immediately after the unorthodox touchdown pass by a non-quarterback (a rarity in own own right) with 6 seconds remaining in the game, Boise State head coach Chris Petersen could have called for an extra point to tie the game again. Nope. Instead, Coach Petersen and his staff called for a two point conversion. And not your typical two-point play, but the rather obscure and almost-never-used Statue of Liberty play. Any of us who were kids playing football in our backyards would horse around with this seemingly antiquated, outdated, long-since-attempted trick play. Trick plays in football are wonderful, practical exercises by which we can witness the power of deception in action, such as our good friend Richard Wiseman reminded us during his excellent presentation at TAM9.
But as far as the pure sport is concerned, this was a classic "do-or-die" moment. A national championship and undefeated season hung in the balance based on the outcome of this one, fragile call. Simply put, in the history of gutsy coaching decisions, this one tops the list.
(Still with me? I promise the skeptic angle is coming shortly. But a little more setup is required.)
I may not be the most experienced skeptic around, but I have been in the "industry" of promoting science-understanding and critical-thinking since 1996. Professional skepticism is a bubble. Over the last 15 years, our bubble has greatly expanded. In that time, I have seen our industry grow from being just one organization with a decent level of national recognition (CSICOP) blossom into a robust international movement with too many important people and organizations to list here. The surface of the skeptical bubble rubs up against another super-bubble; one of the biggest and most dynamic bubbles out there I like to call "the mainstream".
Anytime the bubbles of skepticism and mainstream touch there is a wonderful synergy at work. It is truly a symbiotic relationship: the mainstream gets a little inoculation against its omnipresent viruses (such as the paranormal or alternative medicine) and at the same time, the skeptical community receives recognition and acknowledgement inside the mainstream bubble (which, by nature, tends to have an overall aversion to skeptical practices and attitudes.)
As I mentioned before, I spent this past weekend at Dragon*Con in Atlanta, Georgia. You might think that I would be blogging about any of the number of happenings which occurred on the Skeptic or Science tracks at the convention. As interesting and fun as those moments were, the skeptic-related highlight of my entire weekend in Atlanta occurred outside of Dragon*Con.
This past Saturday night (actually it was Sunday morning around 1am) I was having a bite to eat at a local diner with Donna Mugavero (aka, Ms. Information from The Geologic Podcast). I must admit I did not care for the atmosphere of this diner. It was loud and crowded. There was awful karaoke blaring at about 100 decibels in the background (not a great place to rest my speaking voice after our live event just a few hours earlier) and the mostly-drunken crowd this place attracted brought the whole atmosphere to a level of weirdness to which I am not very unaccustomed. However, the food was good and there was nowhere else to have a meal at that hour.
When all of a sudden, in walk five gentlemen wearing the unmistakable blue and orange colors of Boise State. Sure enough, the writing on the shirts proclaimed their Boise State affiliation. You must appreciate the contrast at this moment: in this loud diner filled with a mix of drunken Dragoncon goers in full costumes along with the local elements adding their own levels of weirdness to the scene, those men wearing the Boise State shirts stood out like sore thumbs. They take a seat at a table just across from us.
I am not a college football enthusiast (my days of following sports waned in the late 1990's, another story for another time) but I still pay attention to the larger happening in sports. Boise State's rise to the top of the college football world is something even the most peripheral sports follower knows. A smile crosses my face as I explain to Donna the significance of Boise State football and the 2007 Fiesta Bowl. I could not contain my curiosity, so Donna and I went over to talk to the Boise State clad gentlemen.
I asked them if Boise State played Georgia earlier in the night, which was an easy way of introducing ourselves (the answer was a rather obvious "yes".) After I asked them if they won (which they did, a slightly less-safe conversation gamble on my part, but I figured a losing team might not be out celebrating at a diner at 1am) I asked them how they were affiliated with the team.
These were members of the coaching staff!
"This is so cool!" I thought to myself. Sure enough, I start to geek out with them on the 2007 Fiesta Bowl (something they probably have to deal with a regular basis with geeks like me talking about "The Game", but such is the price of living large in the mainstream.)
When that conversation ran its course, they asked us if we were in town for Dragon*Con (even though we were without costume, I'm sure our northern accents gave us away as non-Atlantians.) They asked us if we were attending or presenting, and I told them I was a presenter as part of a radio show they probably have never heard of called The Skeptics' Guide to the Universe. One of the coaches nods his head and says that he HAS heard of us. "You are the guys who do all that debunking and stuff", he said. The conversation turned from the Fiesta Bowl to skepticism, and seemed to pique the interest of the other coaches at the table. A conversation ensued about how skeptics evaluate the paranormal using science and logic. They all seemed rather interested, if not being overly polite about the conversation. They indulged us with their company until their food came to their table and we said goodnight.
Now that the first question is (finally) answered, the follow up question is begged …
Why is anyone on Boise State's football coaching staff aware of the SGU?
Surely the day-to-day life of a football coach is spent immersed in football, and little else. When the bar is set to that high of a level (especially in the competitive sports industry) and you spend your days and nights trying to obtain (or maintain) your position at being the best in the world at your career, when is there time to even know about skeptical podcasts or radio shows?
In my opinion, there is only one answer. The skeptical movement's efforts are working. We want shows like the SGU to be in the mind of a college football coach. We want blogs like Science Based Medicine to be read by politicians in Washington. We want organizations like The James Randi Educational Foundation to be uttered by actors in Hollywood. We want the names of people presenting at conferences such as TAM, NECSS, and Dragon*Con to be mentioned by local and national news media outlets.
Our collective hard work, perseverance, and focus are penetrating some of the most unlikely circles of life. I'd say it is no coincidence that the same qualities are ingrained in the minds and attitudes of the most successful college football programs in the nation. This one, thin crossroad between skepticism and big-time college football is one more thread of evidence showing the skeptical community's effectiveness.
NOTE: I feel bad that I cannot precisely remember the names of the coaches I met. However, several of them from the university's website look familiar. They include (as best as I can remember): head coach Chris Petersen, along with assistant coaches Pete Kwiatkowski, Brent Pease, Chris Strausser, and Bob Gregory. If I forgot someone or acknowledged someone incorrectly, please forgive me. After all, 1am in a crazy diner in Atlanta with the music blaring is a rather challenging environment for hearing names clearly.


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The governor returned Monday from a 12-day trip aimed at promoting job growth in Arkansas and exports to China.
Beebe, during his Wednesday press conference, would not name the 11 companies he met with, but mentioned the types of jobs the companies would bring to Arkansas. He said one company is timber-related and interested in southern Arkansas. The other is retail-related and looking at the northwest corner of the state.
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"If it were easy, everyone would be doing it" – that old saying is relevant for so many things. And when I read the Financial Reporting Council Lab's newest insight report on clear and concise reporting, it was one of the first thoughts to spring to mind.
But the report also made me wonder: whose fault is it that everyone is not doing it yet? Is it the standard setters for having too many rules? The regulators for requiring the rules to be followed even when they aren't material or relevant? The auditor for having a checklist mentality? Companies for being too verbose? Or even the users of accounts, for not being clear about what they want companies to disclose?
The new insights in Towards Clear and Concise Reporting released in August followed the Lab's detailed July report Accounting policies and integration of related financial information. Both are shooting at the same target. Some of the suggestions are pretty straightforward – writing financial reports in plain language, for starters. Others are more technical and require a great deal more scrutiny and experimentation. I'm thinking of things like which accounting policies are significant and therefore which must be disclosed.
But these accounting policies have a single raison d'être – meeting the needs of investors. Clearly, the users of a company's accounts need to be able to understand why management accounted for a transaction or an item the way they did. But although we got to this place for a number of good reasons, many of them related to financial crises and bubbles, we're in a place where there's a critical mass of investors demanding change.
For many of the reporting 'conundrums' at the moment, such as how to order the notes to the financial statements, there's a solution. It might not be simple, and it might involve a little experimentation, but I think that most investors would understand that companies might need to test a few approaches to get to the right place. According to the Lab's reports, investors mainly want you to tell them what you're doing and why you're doing it. The Lab's work with investors – and ours too – shows that investors are particularly keen on having unusual things explained to them, whether that's by reconciling it to another amount, putting it in a table or building a narrative around a particular choice. From an investor's perspective, I guess it's a little bit like maths homework – you might not get the answer spot on first time, but you'll get marks for showing how you got there.
When you try to lump all of the problems together in a list, they seem to naturally fall under two main headings: attributes and quality. For example, you should disclose an accounting policy if it has the following attributes: it is material, there is a policy choice under IFRS or there is a need for management to apply significant levels of judgement or estimation. As for quality, policies should be written in plain language and judgements should be described clearly, along with their rationale – whether we're talking about the application of an existing policy or the impact of new IFRS requirements.
As for the FRC's piece on being clear and concise, there are many good tips in there, and they all are common sense. Yes, it's a good idea to think about taking out standing information and putting it on the company website if you can. No, don't put in the life stories of your directors. Yes, sit down and think about what your users' needs actually are – would they benefit from a standalone strategic report within or outside the annual report? No, don't put old, now irrelevant, information in there just because it was in there the year before.
The Lab's reports show that different investors want different things. Retail investors, for example, do want a full list of all the accounting policies used, but institutional investors don't. So for a company with significant institutional shareholders, that would be a prime example of a place where a company could put all of those policies on its website or in an appendix – where they can be easily updated – and draw attention to only the significant ones, or departures from the norm, in their annual report. But above all, companies need to take care to meet the information needs of their particular shareholders and analysts.
Many companies are perfectly aware that a lot of this advice is possible to put into practice. They just don't do it. Maybe they're scared of regulators – and in some cases, rightly so – especially since movements like integrated reporting are asking for more forward-looking information that is difficult to get assured. Taking caution can be wise. But these are also companies that pay their executives a fair whack on the basis that if they don't there'll be a brain drain. So many large companies clearly have the knowledge, talent and leadership to innovate around these problems. There isn't an iron curtain between companies and regulators – they can talk, experiment and ultimately change practice. They have in the past.
In both of its reports, the Lab is for all intents and purposes asking companies to read their old report and then sit down with a blank sheet of paper. That's a good bit of advice, but I'd add to that the idea that we all have to take responsibility, and do it now.
The time has come to stop discussing and debating whose problem it is and actually start identifying – and addressing – the individual, company-specific problems with reporting. And now may be the best time to do it – as companies go through systems changes to report information about revenue, hedging, impairment, fair value, subsidiaries and so on, they can use this as an opportunity to make an investment in really improving the overall quality of their disclosures, rather than thinking of it as yet another cost to be incurred in preparing them.
Occasionally some bright spark will say that reporting doesn't influence behaviour. But as a colleague pointed out to me, there is tangible evidence that trust is the lifeblood of the modern economy, and tangible evidence that good reporting builds trust. And if we can't all do the sums on that, then it's time to quit!


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|October 24, 2009, 10:13 PM
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Savage Model 110 in 300 savage
I've been doing a little research on my rifle as I have been contemplating selling it and getting a more popular and easy to find caliber. The problem is, I am coming up a little short on information. It is a Savage model 110 chambered in 300 savage. I've had the gun about 10 years, and it was used when I got it. From my research on the internet, I am finding that the model 110 was not chambered in 300 savage, except for a limited run anniversary edition in 2008. Savage's own website says that this limited run is the first time that the model 110 has been offered in 300 savage. But my rifle is at least 10 years old, and clearly says Savage Model 110 300 Savage. Am I missing something, or are there other guns like mine out there? I didn't find any information about it, nor did I find any examples of my rifle on Gunbroker. So, I guess I am asking if any of you are familiar with my rifle?
|October 24, 2009, 11:33 PM
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I'm just throwing this out there. If you want a cheaper caliber to shoot/keep rounds for, you may want to look at doing a barrel swap. There are how tos out there, and it'll be easier to buy a barrel from ER shaw than to try and sell a rifle chambered for a caliber no one wants at a decent price to buy another rifle. It's not a solution for some people, but I'm throwing a little bit of an "outside the box" thinking in there.
|October 25, 2009, 07:18 AM
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5whiskey, in the search of a more common chambering than the .300 Savage, Kendrickson has come across a sort of mystery concerning his rifle brand, model, year produced and chambering. That is his point of discussion, not what to get to replace it. I don't think you bothered to read the entire post.
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|October 25, 2009, 07:21 AM
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Maybe the original owner did rebarrel it. In any case, .300 Savage is a great round for hunting PA. True, you're getting 100-200 fps less than a .308, but that won't mean much at 200 yards. I would bet you will find a buyer for the rifle, especially someone that loads his own. Is your only problem finding ammo?
|October 25, 2009, 07:38 AM
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|October 25, 2009, 08:56 AM
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It was my understanding that Savage released a very limited number of 110s chambered in .300 Savage around 1998-1999, or the 100th anniversary of the Savage 99.
You should try contacting Savage.
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I would certainly contact Savage. Give them the serial number and they'll be able to tell you a lot more about the rifle, year, etc.
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|October 25, 2009, 12:38 PM
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Thanks for the info! It is possible that it was made in 1998 or so as Mike has suggested. I got it around that time, but it was very slightly used, and I don't know how old it was when I acquired it. I do not think it was re-barrelled as it was nearly brand new when I got it, but I could be wrong. I think I will contact Savage to find out some more information.
As for why I was looking for a different rifle: The main reason is simply finding ammo (and finding ammo that is not ridiculously high priced). The rifle itself is very nice, and I have no problem with the round. I just wanted something more commonly available.
|October 25, 2009, 03:26 PM
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Unfortunately, you are right about the ammo. Lot's of Savage 99s at our camp, and even in western PA, .300 Savage is getting hard to find. I'm reloading for my brother and another guy. Good luck this season. I'd talk you into reloading, but that would be off topic.
|October 25, 2009, 04:03 PM
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find out before you go tearing it apart, or selling it for a low price. if you like the rifle, and want to keep it, but dont like the caliber, being a savage, and a long action, you have tons of options if you want to rebarrel it yourself. YES, I SAID DO IT YOURSELF i know thats not your origonal intent, but you can pretty much choose any caliber you want. you can stick to calibers with the same .473" case head, or you can purchase a magnum sized bolt head and use a .532-.534" case head cartridge. you can go from .243 win to 30-06 to 7 mm rem mag, and so on. skys the limit.
to rebarrel, all you need a savage barrel nut wrench, and a set of go, no go gauges in the caliber you want. pre threaded/chambered barrel availible for the savage 110, witch are pretty much offered at any reputible barrel maker. a vise helps as well, but it can be done without. if you want to know how to do it, get back to me and i can walk you through it. its really simple. email or IM through this site is fine. brian.
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|October 29, 2009, 09:15 AM
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I just sent you a private message with some information I found on the Savage 110G model, made in the late 1980s early 1990s. One of the chamberings for two years was the .300 Savage.
Listed for two years and then withdrawn, apparently because the stock wasn't up to the recoil of the caliber....
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|October 29, 2009, 08:58 PM
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There are definitely others out there. When I was stationed in AK I saw a few for sale if I recall correctly. 300 Savage is a fine round - great for the serious shooter who doesn't need ultra-magnum-whiz-bang
|October 30, 2009, 07:27 PM
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Well, I haven't called Savage yet as I have just been too busy at work...I do still plan on calling them to find the date of manufacture. I've decided I will probably keep this gun. If I were to sell it, then I would have to replace it before this deer season starts (and I would need to fund ALL of the next rifle with the proceeds of this one), and I am picky in what I would want for a replacement. I like everything about my gun except the expensive ammo, but I do not shoot it that much anyway. It's in near new condition, and has both the scope and the iron sights, which I prefer. I had no idea that so many of the newer inexpensive rifles did not have iron sights. I guess I have never really shopped for a rifle before (my dad gave me this rifle), so I was really surprised that so many people do without the iron sights. I would think you would at least want them as a back-up to the scope. There are enough 300 Savage rifles out there that I believe the ammo will be available for some time. So, I would still sell it if there was someone who wanted it badly enough to fund my next rifle, but since that is unlikely, I will plan on keeping it and using it this deer season. I have taken one deer with it a number of years ago....maybe I can do so again this year!
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I would definetly keep it. For one, it was a gift from your dad. So it has some sentimental value and It kind of unusual. You don't see many savage 110 300 savages laying around. It's a hunting rifle, so it's not one your going to be shooting boxes and boxes of ammo a year most likely.
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Fig.7 Paradigm Active/20, 1/3-octave, spatially averaged response in JA's listening room.
In the time domain, the step response on the tweeter axis (fig.8) reveals that the speaker is not time-coherent, as expected from the flat baffle, but with units connected in the same positive acoustic polarity. Other than some ridges of ultrasonic resonant energy from the tweeter, the associated cumulative spectral-decay plot (fig.9) is superbly clean. The slight treble graininess I noted in my auditioning must originate somewhere else, perhaps in the amplifier.
Fig.8 Paradigm Active/20, step response on tweeter axis at 50" (5ms time window, 30kHz bandwidth).
Fig.9 Paradigm Active/20, cumulative spectral-decay plot at 50" (0.15ms risetime).
Finally, attaching a simple plastic-tape accelerometer to the cabinet sidewall and calculating a waterfall plot from its output (fig.10) revealed a small amount of panel resonant behavior, with one mode present just above 200Hz and another at 400Hz. The levels are low, however, and I noticed no congestion in this region.
Fig.10 Paradigm Active/20, cumulative spectral-decay plot of accelerometer output fastened to cabinet sidewall (line-level MLS driving voltage to speaker 410mV, speaker level control set to "0").
Summing up, this is superb measured performance for an affordable speaker. There is obviously some superb speaker-engineering talent in residence at Paradigm.—John Atkinson


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- Coach : Rick Ellis
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- Number of bouts : 28
- Family Background: His younger brother David is also member of the NZ Boxing Team.
Despite having only competed in 28 elite bouts, Nyika has established himself as New Zealand's number one Welterweight. The fast fighter benefits from excellent footwork, and likes to move around the ring to frustrate his opponents. Educated in Law, both Joshua and his brother David won gold at the OCBC Oceania Confederation Boxing Championships, and the intelligent Rick Ellis trained fighter has prepared intensely for Doha.
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- 2015 – OCBC Oceania Confederation Boxing Championships (Canberra, AUS) 1st place – 69KG Won against Nathan Webber (AUS) 3:0 in the final
- 2015 – AUS-NZL Dual Match (Rotorua, NZL) – 69KG Won against Fano Kori (AUS) 3:0
- 2014 – New Zealand National Championships 1st place – 69KG Won against Aryk Whalley (NZL) 2:0 in the final
- 2014 – New Zealand North Island Golden Gloves Tournament (Taupo, NZL) 2nd place – 69KG Lost to Leroy Hindley (NZL) 2:1 in the final; Won against Ikani Falekaono (TGA) 3:0 in the semi-final
- 2014 – New Zealand Super City Tournament 2nd place – 75KG Lost to Daniel Parkin (NZL) 3:0 in the final
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Good food is a major part of any sports game day! Whether you're watching the game at home or tailgating, you need something delicious to snack on! But the best game day food isn't just delicious, it's also easy to make! To give you some ideas of what appetizers you could make for the next big game, check out these 20 Creative and Easy To Make Game Day Appetizer Ideas! If you're part of a game day gathering, but aren't really that into sports, having a good game day appetizer (or several appetizers!) is even more important! Tasty snacks and… [Read More]
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They Take Our Jobs! and 20 Other Myths About Immigration
Drawing on immigration history and left-wing economic analysis, historian and immigrants' rights activist Chomsky (Profits of Extermination ) aims to debunk the assumptions informing the current immigration debate in this well-researched if stiffly written account. She offers straightforward arguments against anti-immigrant perceptions such as the one in the book's title: the "number of jobs is not finite, it is elastic," Chomsky asserts, pointing out that in the "postindustrial economy," many manufacturing jobs have been replaced by low-paying service jobs. In response to the accusation that "immigrants don't pay taxes," Chomsky notes that textile jobs that were once a part of the "formal sector" are now informal (i.e., they do not offer benefits or collect taxes)—for which she blames the employers. As for immigrants' alleged reluctance to learn English, the author observes that as one generation becomes fluent, new Spanish speakers arrive; she defends non-English speakers by citing the waiting lists for ESL classes and explaining that immigrants with a history as a conquered people (e.g. Mexicans) more stubbornly retain their heritage. Though Chomsky presents an agile blend of the history of race and immigration in the U.S. with current events, the book's format of offering liberal polemics to anti-immigrant questions forces her into a defensive, didactic tone. (July)
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Inside Chris Taylor's fight to save Gas Powered Games
I came across this little article on vg247. The article goes in depth about Chris Talyor and Gas Powered Games. Its an interesting read.
The saddest part is when he mentions they get no money off of any previous games they made. They didn't meet contract obligations so all money goes to the publishers.
I definitely feel for the guy I've had businesses fail in the past. It's bad putting yourself in a bad financial situation but when you put others there as well, it's crushing.
Problem is I didn't care for any of his other games and haven't seen anything in wild man that interests me.
I can't put any money behind something I have zero interest in. If they somehow make a crazy come back and are close at the end I would help out and buy a copy and just give it to a friend or something.
I feel the same but I haven't enjoyed any of his games since Supreme Commander. Part of the article tries to make you feel bad because we the fans supposedly abandoned him.
Wildman just doesn't do anything for me. It doesn't catch my interest. If it was Kings ans Castles yes but that game needs more than 1 million to make.
Wildman looks interesting in that it's a "prehistoric" theme, something that really hasnt been done right. Paraworld was kinda cool, but it wasnt caveman
Reading up on the whole GPG saga - I didnt know that Age of Empires Online was halted, but I could have told you back when it came out that it was insanely risky to go like they did. Micro-transactioned, pay-per-civilization (without even a full roster of civs) it went against what the Age of.. games always were. Competitive, historical rts games loaded w/ a ton of content for your bucks. Lots of civs, lots of strategies, lots of cool stuff.
Like most I played AoE online a bit, I actually liked the cartoony look and the back to basics gameplay. Then they held me back and pressed me for money, then I went and played something else. Actually i think it was Age of Mythology, a game I still love and play to this day. RTS gameplay is not MMO play, you cannot ration it out in like they can get away w/ in mmos. I'm not surprised at all.
Wildman was even more risky - prehistoric theme, claiming it was action rpg while talking all about RTS. There's no arpg there, it's simply an RTS w/ a hero, that's nothing new. Stank of MOBA style gameplay, while insisting on "singleplayer first"? It just looks like a bunch of conflicting information. While i like the theme, i have to admit it looked pretty… meh.
I think the last article I read was dead-on when it said that people would have supported something from GPG's lineage of games - another Supcom, or DS, or someting of that nature would have possibly worked. People want more of the same w/ some new stuff. Nostalgia sells on kickstarter. I had no problem at all throwing money at a Dungeon Keeper clone, Ive been dying to play a new DK for a decade. Even Grimoire, sure I'll give the nostaligic dungeon crawler of a madman a shot. But a Prehistoric moba-looking thing..
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From skating across a glistening stage in Sochi to "Dancing with the Stars," Olympic gold medalists MERYL DAVIS & CHARLIE WHITE make their debut on Ellen! Meryl and Charlie recently won the first-ever gold medal in ice dancing at the 2014 Winter Olympics, and they just can't keep their happy feet from moving. They will compete separately this go around, dancing on the new season of the competition series. Will their solo game be anything like their partnership? They'll share their secrets with Ellen!
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Co-Operative Wireless Intrusion Detection System Using MIBS From SNMP
In emerging technology of Internet, security issues are becoming more challenging. In case of wired LAN it is somewhat in control, but in case of wireless networks due to exponential growth in attacks, it has made difficult to detect such security loopholes. Wireless network security is being addressed using firewalls, encryption techniques and wired IDS (Intrusion Detection System) methods. But the approaches which were used in wired network were not successful in producing effective results for wireless networks. It is so because of features of wireless network such as open medium, dynamic changing topology, cooperative algorithms, lack of centralized monitoring and management point, and lack of a clear line of defense etc.


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As Susan Loper arrived to teach her first Pilates session of the day, a grainy video captured her white SUV at Gleneagles Country Club in Plano at 5:59 a.m. April 19, 2011.
Seven minutes later, the SUV drove away.
Prosecutors in the capital murder trial of Terrance Black say that video shown to jurors Monday offers a timeline for Loper's disappearance. The 40-year-old single mother was found bludgeoned to death in a field along the Dallas North Tollway in Frisco the following day.
Black, 50, is accused of beating and strangling Loper. If convicted, he would be sentenced to life in prison without the possibility of parole.
On the first day of trial Monday, prosecutors walked jurors through the couple's relationship and the initial investigation when Loper was first discovered missing.
The two had dated for about three years before breaking up in 2009. But Black "was fixated on her," prosecutor John Schomburger said. The night before Loper disappeared, Black told an old girlfriend he was broken-hearted about Loper.
Schomburger told jurors that Black took a Ruger 9 mm gun that he purchased in 2010 with cash and tried to shoot Loper. Schomburger speculated the gun wasn't working — police found three hollow-point bullets at the studio ejected from a gun.
There were signs of a struggle, and police found blood.
Schomburger said evidence would show Black's DNA was in her car, and a clump of Loper's hair was found in his Cadillac Escalade.
Black was arrested days later after he jumped off a cliff in the Grand Canyon in Arizona while trying to flee from park rangers.
Defense attorney Jim Burnham told jurors that police had tunnel vision and didn't look at any other potential suspects. Black went to the Grand Canyon to commit suicide, Burnham said, pointing to two suicide notes found.
"Attempted suicide is not proof you committed murder," Burnham said, calling this case a rush to judgment.
Burnham said Loper had broken up with her latest boyfriend, Jayson Hayes, a few weeks before her death. His fingerprints were found on a partition that had been tipped over at the country club. And Hayes' DNA was found in Loper's car. Hayes was also the one telling police that Black was the killer.
"They have more scientific evidence against Jayson Hayes than they do against Terrance Black," Burnham said.
At a hearing late Monday outside the jury's presence, defense attorneys sought approval to allow evidence at the trial about Hayes' alleged history of violence and controlling behavior toward two ex-wives and others. When his relationships with women go sour, he gets violent, defense attorney Pam Lakatos said.
But prosecutor Justin Johnson said there was no connection between Hayes' history and Loper.
Judge John Roach Jr. ruled that while scientific evidence would be allowed, Hayes' alleged bad acts would not be allowed without more evidence.
Co-workers and clients testified that Loper had a morning routine and was good about communicating with clients about schedule changes. So when Terry Kennedy arrived at the country club just after 6:15 a.m., she thought it was odd that Loper wasn't there.
When two clients arrived for their 10 a.m. appointment, they saw her studio in disarray and called the club manager. He called police.
Plano police Officer Joel Scott responded to a burglary call at the club about 11 a.m. When he saw the mess, "I had a very bad feeling," he told jurors.
The studio quickly became a crime scene. Two spots of blood were found outside the back door, where Loper's purse had been found by a housekeeper earlier that morning. One blood stain was found in front of the building, he testified. Loper's vehicle was found late that night in an apartment complex parking lot in Plano.
Scott testified that he went looking for Loper's body the following day based on the Dallas North Tollway records for Loper's vehicle and a piece of grain caught in the doorway.
Scott testified that he followed vehicle tracks, spotted a woman's unclothed body in the field and called for backup.
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That Chinese leader's maiden visit to peninsula as president is to South sends Pyongyang signal
Xi Jinping will break a long-held tradition tomorrow by visiting Seoul instead of Pyongyang during his first trip to the Korean peninsula as Chinese president, signifying the growing importance of Seoul to China's diplomacy.
Observers said the two-day trip was expected to send out a strong message to North Korea to refrain from provocation, even though officials stressed that the visit was not targeted at any third country.
China and South Korea will sign 12 cooperation agreements covering various areas, including trade and environmental protection, following talks between Xi and his South Korean counterpart, Park Geun-hye.
Also high on the agenda will be security in East Asia, including the denuclearisation of the Korean peninsula and the resolution of conflicts through peaceful dialogue, said Deputy Foreign Minister Liu Zhenmin yesterday.
The two sides would also discuss their wartime history, and the recent attempts by Japan to play down its atrocities during the second world war, Liu said.
"But there will not be any measures targeting Japan during the trip," he said.
China has been regarded as Pyongyang's staunchest ally. China supported North Korea in the 1950-53 Korean war, and the two nations signed a friendship treaty in 1961, under which China pledged to give assistance to Pyongyang against outside attack. Beijing only established diplomatic ties with Seoul in 1992.
Xi's predecessors Hu Jintao and Jiang Zemin visited the North before the South during their trips to the Korean peninsula.
"The message is that if North Korea continues to keep Beijing at a distance and not work harder to make China happy, then China will tilt towards South Korea," said John Delury, an assistant professor of Chinese studies at Seoul's Yonsei University.
Kim Chul-woo, a senior research fellow at the Korea Institute for Defence Analyses, said the trip would probably upset North Korean leader Kim Jong-un.
There have been no top-level visits since Kim came to power in 2012. Beijing has been asked repeatedly to put pressure on Pyongyang following its third nuclear test last year.
Provocation from Pyongyang could lead to the United States strengthening its regional presence, which has dismayed Beijing, according to observers.
"Usually China will consider how Pyongyang feels when dealing with Seoul, but the impact of Pyongyang on the China-South Korea relationship is diminishing," said Deng Yuwen, a former deputy editor at the Study Times, a newspaper affiliated with the Central Party School.
"Kim made no compromise on his nuclear ambitions. If Xi visits Pyongyang, it will send a wrong signal that such ambitions are approved [of]," he said.
Liu said that in addition to Pyongyang, the role of the US in regional security would be discussed. "We hope the US can help push for mutual trust among countries in the region," he said, referring to calls for Seoul to join the US missile defence system. "We don't want to see a tense situation and an arms race in the region."
Delury from Yonsei University said Beijing was expected to discourage Seoul from joining the US missile defence system, and step up joint maritime rescue operations with Seoul.
"It complicates the US strategy of using alliances to project a sort of united front against China," he said.
Xi will attend a business forum on Friday. The two nations will push for negotiations on a free trade agreement.
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Dame Helen picks up Glamour gong
Dame Helen Mirren has added yet another gong to her bulging trophy cabinet.
Naomi Campbell, Emma Willis, and Davina McCall were among the winners at the glittering Glamour Women Of The Year awards.
Oscar winning star Dame Helen was presented with a Glamour Icon award by Canadian actor Ryan Reynolds, her co-star in forthcoming film The Woman In Gold.
Supermodel and The Face star Naomi was named best TV Personality, and was given her trophy by Radio 1 breakfast show DJ Nick Grimshaw.
The Voice and Big Brother host Emma won best Presenter, and I Knew You Were Trouble singer Taylor Swift, who accepted her gong in a video message, International Solo Artist.
Nicole Kidman, whose new film Grace Of Monaco was panned by critics, won the Outstanding Contribution award - but was not at the London ceremony.
Carrie Fisher, who is reprising her role as Princess Leia in the Star Wars sequel, was also at the London bash, to present the Writer award to Bridget Jones author Helen Fielding.
Davina was named Glamour Hero for her gruelling, charity 500-mile cycle, swim and running journey from Edinburgh to London and was presented with the gong by Love Actually filmmaker and Comic Relief co-founder Richard Curtis.
US actress Taylor Schilling, best known for her role in US prison-based series Orange Is The New Black, won the Editor's Special Award.
Chart stars Little Mix won best Band, and Doctor Who star Jenna Coleman was presented with the award for best UK TV actress by her former sci-fi co-star Matt Smith.
Billie Piper, another ex-Doctor Who star, won the Theatre Actress trophy, The Hunger Games star Sam Claflin won Man Of The Year, Paloma Faith was named UK Solo Artist and model and presenter Alexa Chung scooped the Entrepreneur gong.
Other celebrities attending included Strictly Come Dancing presenter Claudia Winkleman, who is replacing Sir Bruce Forsyth as the main co-host of the show, The Voice coach Ricky Wilson, sports presenter Clare Balding, former X Factor judge Sharon Osbourne, Gogglebox couple Dom and Steph Parker and Hollywood star Samuel L Jackson.
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TV Personality: Naomi Campbell
Presenter: Emma Willis
Sportswoman: Christine Ohuruogu
Comedy Actress: Sarah Hyland
Columnist: Jane Moore
International Solo Artist: Taylor Swift
Filmmaker: Lake Bell
Radio Personality: Fearne Cotton
Next Breakthrough: Lily James
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Band: Little Mix
UK TV Actress: Jenna Coleman
Writer: Helen Fielding
Theatre Actress: Billie Piper
Outstanding Contribution: Nicole Kidman
International TV Actress: Emily VanCamp
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2012 stats: 5-7, 3.91 ERA, 96 Ks, 32 walks in 103 2/3 innings
Garza was shut down just before the July 31 trade deadline in 2012 and before that, he was one of the most coveted names on the trade market. The Rangers were one of the teams reportedly interested in Garza back then, but they obviously opted for his Chicago Cubs, much cheaper, teammate Ryan Dempster.
Garza has one year left on his deal and would be free after the upcoming season, so the fit probably isn't ideal for the Rangers, who won't part with Mike Olt for one year of Garza. If the Rangers could swing a deal that didn't involve Olt, it might be worth looking into, but the Cubs would probably require Olt be included.
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Finnish-American soprano Maria Mannisto has an extensive performing history as an opera singer, concert soloist, pianist, and organist. She received her M.M. in voice performance from the University of Washington, studying under renowned soprano Jane Eaglen. Her "lovely and pure soprano", impeccable pitch, and skill at learning difficult works have made Maria a sought-after performer of new music in the Seattle area. She recently performed Wayne Horvitz's song cycle Smokestack Arias at ACT Theatre to great critical acclaim. In the last year, Mannisto has performed as soloist in contemporary works by Steve Reich (Proverb), David Lang (The Little Match Girl Passion), George Crumb (Night Music I and Madrigals), Arnold Schoenberg (Pierrot lunaire), and Luciano Berio (Circles). Other recent engagements include soloist in The Nutcracker with the Pacific Northwest Ballet, the title role in Garrett Fisher's Kocho, solo recitals in Palo Alto and Vancouver, B.C., and Ellen in Lakme. In 2007, Mannisto was awarded the Finlandia Foundation Performer of the Year, which provided her the opportunity to perform recitals around the United States, Canada, and Finland. She was a finalist in the 2010 Kangasniemi Song Competition in Kangasniemi, Finland. She is the primary organist at the Finnish Lutheran Church, and also directs the Finnish Choral Society and Swedish Womens' Chorus.
Born in New York City, Paul Taub has been a resident of Seattle and a Cornish faculty member since 1979. He holds a B.A. from Rutgers University and an M.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts, and has studied with some of the world's greatest flutists including Michel Debost, Samuel Baron, Marcel Moyse, and Robert Aitken. As a founding member and Executive Director of the Seattle Chamber Players, Taub has played an active role in the Seattle contemporary music scene and has performed and recorded American and world premieres by internationally known composers such as Robert Aitken, John Cage, George Crumb, Janice Giteck, Sofia Gubaidulina, Wayne Horvitz, Ned Rorem, Toru Takemitsu, Reza Vali, and Peteris Vasks among others. As a soloist, he has appeared with the Northwest Chamber Orchestra, the Olympia Chamber Orchestra, Philharmonia Northwest, the Everett Symphony, the Young Composers Collective, and the Esoterics. Taub has also worked extensively to promote Soviet/Russian composers in America and American composers in the former Soviet Union. His Soviet repertoire has been featured on National Public Radio's Performance Today, at the Goodwill Arts Festival, and in a solo recital at the Leningrad Musical Spring International Festival. He has also performed four times in Russia with the Seattle Chamber Players and twice at the Warsaw Autumn Festival in Poland, as well as in Costa Rica, Denmark, Estonia, Italy, Lithuania, and Ukraine. Taub's program of international solo flute music has been presented at numerous festivals and universities throughout the U.S., Canada, and France. His recital of ten commissioned works has been performed in Seattlewhere he gave the first flute recital in the new Benaroya Halland in New York City. A CD of these works entitled Oo-Ee is available on Periplum Records. Taub has also been a featured performer at National Flute Association conventions in Los Angeles (1992), Atlanta (1999), Las Vegas (2003) and New York (2009).
Laura DeLuca, clarinet, has been a member of the Seattle Symphony since 1986, and a co-founding member of Seattle Chamber Players since 1989. A versatile musician and collaborator, her true passion is playing chamber music of all styles and genres from classical to klezmer. Performances with the Seattle Chamber Players have taken her to festivals in China, Costa Rica, Russia, Italy, Denmark, Estonia and Poland. Additional engagements include performances and recordings with Music of Remembrance, Icicle Creek Music Festival, Town Hall Series, Richmond Music Festival and her latest endeavor, Trio Tara, a trio comprising clarinet, viola and piano. As a soloist, she has appeared with the Seattle Symphony, Seattle Youth Orchestra, Rainier and Cascade Symphony orchestras. DeLuca has performed on dozens of recordings including more than 100 commercial recordings with the Seattle Symphony as well as commissioned works by Jake Heggie, Paul Schoenfield and Lori Laitman. She has been featured on many movie soundtracks, including the solo clarinet work on the Academy Award-winning documentaries The Long Way Home and Into the Arms of Strangers: Stories of the Kindertransport. DeLuca received her formal training at Northwestern University where she studied with the celebrated clarinetist Robert Marcellus. She has pursued a lifelong interest in the connection of body, mind and spirit and how that informs a performing musician. This has inspired her to study yoga, gyrotonics, continuum movement, meditation and Quigong, and she continues to weave those disciplines into her daily life.
Mikhail Shmidt, violin, was born in Moscow, Russia. He began his musical education at the age of five, and at fourteen became the winner of the International Chamber Music Competition "Concertino Prague." He graduated cum laude from Gnessin Institute of Music in 1987. His major teachers were Halida Akhtiamova and Valentin Berlinsky of the celebrated Borodin Quartet. While still at college, Shmidt participated in the highly successful Gnessin String Quartet, winner of several national competitions. He also played in the State Symphony Orchestra and Moscow Radio String Quartet and was concertmaster of the "Camerata Boccherini" Baroque Orchestra. One of the highlights of Shmidt's Russian career was collaborating with Alfred Schnittke, one of the greatest composers of our time. Since immigrating to the United States in 1989, Shmidt has established himself as a leading chamber musician. He was a founding member of the Bridge Ensemble, which recorded and toured successfully in the United States and Europe. As a guest violinist of the Moscow Piano Quartet, he tours Europe annually, and his "remarkable musicianship" was hailed by Lisbon newspaper Tempo. Among the highlights of Shmidt's chamber music activities are his collaborations with such diverse and distinguished composers and musicians as Steve Reich, John Zorn, Bill Frisell, Wayne Horvitz, Giya Kancheli, Paul Schoenfield, Dmitri Sitkovetsky, Vadim Repin, and many others. Shmidt has recorded on Melodia, Delos, ECM, Tzadik, Six Degrees, and Innova labels.
David Sabee began cello studies began at age seventeen with Johan Lingeman, former solo cellist of the Concertgebouw Orkest, and continued with Paul Olefsky, a dynamic pupil of Feuerman, Piatigorsky and Casals. After three years as principal cellist of the Austin Symphony, Sabee moved to New York to join the cello studio of Harvey Shapiro. While in New York, he joined the American Composers Orchestra under Dennis Russell Davies, performing world premieres of works by composers ranging from Ralph Shapey and David Del Tredici to Laurie Anderson and Keith Jarrett. A founding member of the Naumburg finalist Tafelmusik, which juxtaposed contemporary and early music, he worked with such composers as Lukas Foss, Frederic Rzewski, Charles Wuorinen, Meyer Kupferman and Elliot Carter (coaching his Sonata 1953). Appointed by Lukas Foss to the Milwaukee Symphony, he performed with them in many of the major European concert halls, including the Concertgebouw, Barbican, Gasteig, Bruckner Halle and Vienna's Grosser Musikvereinsaal. A member of the Seattle Symphony since 1986, he also serves as principal conductor of the Northwest Sinfonia, working with film composers including BT, Bruce Broughton, Carter Burwell, Elia Cmiral, Jeff Danna, John Debney, Michael Giacchino, Harry Gregson-Williams, Paul Haslinger, Steve Jablonsky, Michael Kaman, Rolfe Kent, John Murphy, David Newman, John Ottman, Basil Poledouris, Trevor Rabin, Ed Shearmur, Brian Tyler, Alex Wurman, Chris Young and Aaron Zigman on the soundtrack recording sessions of hundreds of motion pictures. He collaborated with composer Gustavo Santaolalla and director Ang Lee on the score to Brokeback Mountain, winner of the Golden Lion (Venice Film Festival), several Golden Globes, and three Oscars including Best Director and Best Original Score. Sabee has been called "confident and colorful" by The New Yorker, while La Nacion, in San Jose, Costa Rica, characterized his Rachmaninov Cello Sonata performance with pianist Yakov Kasman as "infused with insight and passion."
Committed to both contemporary and standard repertoire, Cristina Valdes is known for presenting innovative concerts with repertoire ranging from Bach to Xenakis. She has performed across four continents and in a multitude of venues including Lincoln Center, Carnegie Recital Hall, Nordstrom Hall, and the Kennedy Center. An avid chamber musician, Valdes has toured extensively with the Bang On a Can "All Stars" and has performed with the Seattle Chamber Players, the Mabou Mines Theater Company, the Parsons Dance Company, Antares, and Trio V. Her festival appearances include the Singapore Arts Festival, Brisbane Arts Festival, Foro Internacional de Musica Nueva in Mexico City, New Music in Miami Festival, Festival of Arts and Ideas, and the Festival of Contemporary Music in El Salvador among others. She has also performed with the Johns Hopkins Symphony Orchestra, the Binghamton Philharmonic, and the Stony Brook Symphony Orchestra. Valdes can be heard on several recordings on the Newport Classics, Albany, and Innova labels. She holds degrees from the New England Conservatory and SUNY at Stony Brook, and is the recipient of an Arts International Grant, the Thayer Award for the Arts, and an Yvar Mikhashoff Trust for New Music grant.
Pianist Oksana Ezhokina is a native of Ryazan, Russia. The winner of piano competitions in Russia and the United States, Ezhokina has given numerous chamber and solo performances in both countries. Her collaborations have included concerts with such ensembles as the Seattle Chamber Players, Klimt Piano Trio and the Contemporary Chamber Players. A dedicated performer of works by contemporary composers, she has premiered music by Laura Kaminsky and Paul Dresher, among others. Ezhokina was awarded a Doctor of Musical Arts in piano performance from the State University of New York at Stony Brook. She also holds an Artist Diploma from the Ryazan School of Music in Russia, a Master of Music in piano from Northern Illinois University and a Bachelor of Music from Walla Walla College. Her principal teachers were Christina Dahl, Donald Walker, Leonard Richter and Eleanor Oragyoff. She has coached chamber music with pianists Gilbert Kalish and Seymour Lipkin as well as members of the Juilliard, Emerson, Orion and Vermeer String Quartets. Ezhokina is Resident Pianist and Co-Artistic Director at the Icicle Creek Music Center, where she teaches piano.
Brent Hages, oboe, earned his Bachelor of Music in Oboe Performance at Oberlin College Conservatory of Music where he studied under James B. Caldwell. He pursued graduate work at Temple University where he studied oboe and English horn with Louis Rosenblatt of the Philadelphia Orchestra. Hages also studied privately with Alfred Genovese, solo oboist with the Metropolitan Opera, Cleveland Orchestra, and Boston Symphony, as well as noted oboists John de Lancie, Elden Gatwood, Stevens Hewett, Wayne Rapier, and Laila Storch. Hages has performed with the Northwest Sinfonia Studio Recording Orchestra, the Pacific Northwest Ballet orchestra, the Bellevue Philharmonic, the Northwest Symphonietta, and at the Suncadia Resort Chamber Music Festival. A scholar of the oboe as well as a performer, Hages is currently conducting research on his late mentor James B. Caldwell, as well as the English oboists Janet Craxton and Joy Boughton, and the American oboist and instrument maker William Lym.
Seth Krimsky joined the Seattle Symphony in 1986, and was subsequently appointed principal bassoon in 1990. He has appeared as principal bassoonist with the Mostly Mozart Orchestra of Lincoln Center and the Waterloo Festival Orchestra, and as a soloist with orchestra and as a recitalist in Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo, Capetown, and Seattle. He is also an active chamber music performer and has performed on many occasions with the Seattle Chamber Players. Krimsky received his Bachelor of Music degree from the University of Southern California, where he studied with Norman Herzberg. He also completed postgraduate studies under Michael O'Donovan, with a special emphasis in baroque performance. During his time in Los Angeles, Krimsky was an active session player and freelance musician. He also performed with the Santa Monica Symphony, Long Beach Symphony, Pasadena Symphony, Pacific Symphony, Glendale Symphony, Pasadena Chamber Orchestra, Los Angeles Chamber Orchestra, and the Los Angeles Philharmonic. Krimsky has also participated in a number of summer festivals including the Ojai Festival, the Academy of the West, and the Tanglewood Festival.
Mark Robbins is associate principal French horn with the Seattle Symphony Orchestra, and also performs as principal horn with the Seattle Opera, including performing the horn calls for Wagner's Ring Cycle. When the Ring Cycle is not being performed in Seattle, he spends his summers in upstate New York with the Chautauqua Symphony Orchestra. He has been a featured soloist with the Seattle Symphony and other orchestras on a number of occasions. Also a frequent performer of chamber music, he has performed with the Seattle Chamber Players and is a member of the Amacord Wind Quintet. Formerly, he was a member of the Miami, Florida Philharmonic Orchestra, and has performed at the Spoleto, Tanglewood, and Olympic Music festivals. He is also the horn coach for the Seattle Youth Symphony Orchestra. He received his Bachelor of Music degree in performance from Temple University where he studied with Kendall Betts.
While still early in her career, violist Mara Gearman is already an accomplished player with extensive experience in both orchestral and chamber music settings. She regularly performs with the chamber groups American String Project and Seattle Chamber Players, and has collaborated with such prestigious performers as Ani Kavafian, Peter Wiley, Vladimir Feltsman, and Dale Clevenger, the legendary principal horn of the Chicago Symphony Orchestra. She is also a founding member of the Barston String Quartet as well as Trio Tara with pianist Oksana Ezhokina and Laurie DeLuca, clarinet. Gearman has held or been awarded a number of orchestral appointments, including principal viola (at age twenty) under maestro Rossen Milanov, and principal viola at the Kansas City Symphony and at the Oregon Symphony under music director James DePriest. Currently she is the second desk violist for the Seattle Symphony Orchestra under maestro Gerard Schwarz. As a solo performer Gearman has won solo awards at the Primrose and Tertis International Viola Competitions, performing viola solos ranging from American composers Alan Shulman and Derek Bermel to Hungarian composer Miklos Rozca. A graduate of the Curtis Institute of Music, her primary teachers included Roberto Diaz, Pinchas Zukerman, and Karen Tuttle, as well as additional study in Canada, Germany, Holland, and Switzerland with Nobuko Imai, Barbara Westphal, and Gerard Causse.
Joe Kaufman has played the double bass since age twelve, but it wasn't until college that he began formal instruction on the instrument. Early guidance on the bass came from his father, an avid jazz guitarist, who introduced him to the music of many great jazz bassists. In college, Kaufman studied with David Yavornitzky, Principal Bass of the Utah Symphony, and later Jeff Bradetich at the University of North Texas. While still a student, Kaufman played part-time with the Fort Worth Symphony and Dallas Opera. After graduating from college, Kaufman joined the New World Symphony under the direction of maestro Michael Tilson Thomas. In 2004 Kaufman moved to Seattle to join the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra. In 2005 he joined the Seattle Symphony, and in 2008 he was appointed Assistant Principal Bass. Kaufman has served as Principal Bass of the Colorado Music Festival and for the Verbier Chamber Orchestra, and as Assistant Principal of the Sun Valley Summer Symphony. Chamber music collaborations have included projects with James Buswell, Joshua Bell, and the renowned Dutch pianist and conductor Reinbert De Leeuw. Besides his interests in orchestral music and contemporary chamber music, Kaufman can also be heard as the bassist with Seattle singer-songwriter Bill Patton and the Credentials.
Matthew Kocmieroski is principal percussionist with the Pacific Northwest Ballet Orchestra. He regularly performs with the Seattle Symphony and Seattle Opera and is on the faculty of the Cornish College of the Arts. He is also currently the President of the International Guild of Symphony, Opera and Ballet Musicians. In the field of chamber music he served for ten years as artistic director and percussionist of the New Performance Group, and was a founding member of Taneko, and currently, Pacific Rims Percussion Quartet. In the Northwest he regularly performs with the Seattle Chamber Players, and has appeared at the Seattle Chamber Music Society Festivals, the Icicle Creek Music Festival, the Marrowstone Music Festival, the Methow Music Festival, the Orcas Island Chamber Music Festival, the Seattle International Chamber Music Festival and the Bellingham Festival of Music. Internationally he has appeared at the Bergen, Moscow Autumn, Moscow Cold Alternativa, St. Petersburg's Sound Waves, Kiev MusicFest and Warsaw Autumn festivals. One of his greatest satisfactions is his work with numerous composers on their music and the emergence of a number of new works and recordings from these collaborations. He may be heard on many recordings of solo, chamber, and orchestral music as well as a wide variety of both major and independent motion picture, television, and video game soundtracks.
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For every thing right that Pop Culture Shock did with Chun-Li there's one aspect that only stopped bothering me recently. It's the eyes! But before those specifics, we should probably take a look at the rest of the figure, which fits in easily with a couple of other fighting game collectibles I reviewed in the past.
Chun-Li goes toe-to-toe with M. Bison (Street Fighter) and Morrigan (Darkstalkers). The scale and proportions are spot on. Were they not, this would have been a massive oversight by Pop Culture Shock. After all, the characters in question pull from Capcom fighting games (and were sculpted by Jerry Macaluso) so it makes sense that they could be lined up on a shelf -- admittedly, a big shelf -- and not appear out of step. If you're a big collector Capcom and/or Street Fighter items this is a definite bonus, but it's also the reason I pray that they never attempt a Rufus figure.
On a macro level, Chun-Li's all good! The details are important though, especially when Chun-Li costs $314.99US.
Assembly of the figure is as simple as attaching the hands (with the magic of magnets) and inserting the foot peg into the base. I'll put "simple" in quotes because though the hands were a simple matter but I had to use a slim exacto knife to shave off a small piece of something that was lodged in the hole in the base. Without this minor repair, there was no way to insert the square metal peg into hole. Even then, I felt like I was forcing the peg into place. It makes me apprehensive for the day when I have to re-box Chun-Li and I have pull the figure free. Will it just snap off at the knee? I certainly hope not!
The sculpting details on the boots, and the figure as a whole, is great. Coupled with a great paint job, some of the components look pretty darn awesome. What isn't "faked" are the leggings, outfit, and ox horns.
(There. Now you can tell people you learned something today.)
Her blue QipaoChun-Li's style is anything but traditional. Her own particular clothing style has been popular since Street Fighter II was released in 1991. It's not just the thighs, though I'm sure that's part of it.
Classified as a mixed media collectible, Chun-Li features real cloth stockings and (original blue) outfit, along with the ox horn covers. Stitching is good where is needs to be, especially the stockings, which are most obviously exposed. The detail work on the shiny satin outfit is great. No loose threads and the colours and designs are perfect translations of the source material. (And the official colours of the The Armchair Empire to boot!)
Is it just me or has someone else thought
that a company specializing in replacement
parts for these high-end collectibles might
be a good idea?
Now we arrive at the face and the eyes that actually seem fish-like, almost dead, rather than human. I've scoured the depths of the Internet trying to locate the source images for the facial details. Some of the official (and not so official pictures) come pretty close but none of them really match the version of Chun-Li's eyes that Pop Culture Shock puts forward.
Here's a sampling of subject sources I could find, noting that some of what's out there came after the figure was originally released:
As well, the mouth also seems a little too glossy and presents a sense of "allure" rather than a fierce battle face, which I would expect from the overall pose which implies she's about unleash her Hyakuretsu Kyaku lightning kick.
A high-end collectible like Chun-Li is squarely aimed at the hardcore crowd, which is the same group of people that won't be disappointed with the purchase. There were some minor details about the figure, like the base hole not being smooth enough to just slide in the supporting peg (likely specific to the review unit) and I still don't know what impact a dead magnet might have -- M. Bison and Morrigan also feature magnets to some degree -- and a face that grew on me after a while but the overall attention to detail, sculpting and painting mean that fans get a great display piece.
And if you want to keep her boxed up, that's an option, too. As typical of the company, the box is bright and full of color and provides ample evidence of the figure inside. Some people like doing that. I used to be one of them but no longer!
|M. Bison and Chun-Li comparison shot. Chun-Li (18") is only slightly shorter than Bison (19").
It's also worth noting that the base is numbered and the figure comes with a Certificate of
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Friday, November 02, 2007
Book review: Christine Kringle
I officially began the holiday season by reading Lynn Brittney's Christine Kringle. I always wondered how Santa Claus delivered all those presents in one night. (Please, no killjoys leaving comments for this post saying Santa Claus is a myth. Who else gave me all those Barbies when I was a little girl? :D) I have been enlightened. Each country has its own Gift Bringer/s! There's Pere Noel and Tante Arie for France, Grandfather Frost and Babushka for Russia, Santa Claus for the Philippines, Babbo Natale and La Befana for Italy, and so on and so forth. In Christine Kringle, all the Gift Bringers of the world are part of one family - The Yule Dynasty. And each Gift Bringer is responsible for delivering holiday gifts to the children in his or her country. Kriss Kringle has a problem though. He has no male heir. But he has a very likeable fourteen-year-old daughter: Christine. Will the Yule clan allow Christine Kringle to be the United States' Gift Bringer when Pa Kringle retires 100 years from now?
The Yule Dynasty has an even bigger problem this year though. The Town Council of Plinkbury in England has formally BANNED Christmas. Nick, the son of the United Kingdom's Father Christmas, has come up with a secret plan that will save Christmas in Plinkbury and convince the dynasty to allow Christine to become the United States' Gift Bringer. Christine and Nick head to Plinkbury with their friend Little K, the son of Japan's Santa Kurohsu, who is on a mission to promote his Living Lights invention - fantastic Christmas lights that need no electricity because they run on reindeer DNA. To help the three teenagers are Nick's mother Zazu - a beautiful, glamorous, and kind "tall elf," and Nick's uncle Egan - a handsome and clever "tall elf" businessman.
I enjoyed reading Christine Kringle because it stirred up Christmas memories (making presents, decorating the tree as a family, visiting relatives, opening gifts on Christmas morning!) and it stirred up excitement for Christmas this year. (I can't wait!!! I'm so excited about seeing all the lights up in Metro Manila, drinking Starbucks' toffee nut latte, listening to Christmas music, shopping for presents in Greenhills, getting dressed up and attending parties, and eating Christmassy goodies like gingerbread, mince pies, and chocolate. :D) Christine Kringle is a story full of good cheer, interesting tidbits about how Christmas is celebrated around the world, and Christmas spirit. If you are looking for a way to kick off the season, I suggest reading Christine Kringle with your family. :) It's a fun Christmas adventure - complete with interesting shopkeepers, mulled wine, a Christmas bazaar, Christmas nuts like myself, and a female Scrooge! It's the first book in a proposed series and I'm curious about the future adventures of Christine and her friends. I can see Christine Kringle being turned into a feel-good family movie. :) Also check out www.christinekringle.com. Don't forget to play the addicting Ferrari Game on the site. Through the site you can also ask Christine Kringle questions and email Santa. Hmmm, what should I ask for this year??? I've been nice...
6 comments:
- Natalie said...
Merry Christmas Tarie!
- Tarie said...
Merry Christmas, Natalie! Hehehe.
- Wonder Hobbit said...
Hi! How are you?
- Tarie said...
Hey there, Nice. :) I'm fine. We should grab a bite to eat together or some coffee soon!
- Kerrie said...
Awesome review! This sounds like a laugh-out-loud fun book.
Please don't throw any sugarplums at me, we do tell our children that Santa is a Christmas myth but we certainly do enjoy him as such!
I'm going to reserve the book at the library then we'll tuck around the fireplace with our hot cocoa and have a wonderful storytime.
Erm, well, maybe we'll have the cocoa in the kitchen to preserve the carpet near the fireplace, but we'll still have a wonderful storytime! ;-)
- Tarie said...
*throws sugarplums at Kerrie* :D
By the way - Disclaimer: Christine Kringle doesn't touch on the religious/spiritual side of Christmas.


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