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Infernal Affairs II (US - DVD R1)
Gabe places this unnecessary prequel under arrest, but lets it go with a warning
Before the betrayal and undercover angst of Infernal Affairs comes Infernal Affairs II, the behind the scenes story of the rise of Boss Sam, and the moles Chan and Ming. In this tale Sam is a lower ranking Triad, but has already established Ming as a contact in the ranks of the police force. Inspector Wong, a friend of Sam's, has established his own mole in Sam's Ngai family in a young Detective Chan. The secrets and lies take their toll on the participants as the film moves towards its logical conclusion, the events of Infernal Affairs.
I've been outspoken in the past about my general dissatisfaction with Infernal Affairs. The truth is that I know it's a good movie, I just think it's blindly over-praised. I never thought it was all that original (I prefer the undercover cop antics of John Woo's Hard Boiled), the steel-blue photography and dependence on slo-mo left me a bit cold. And I hate the title, might as well call it FBI: Federal Bureau of Infestation. Okay, so not liking the title is a little trite. The point is that I'm not a 'hater' per se; I just wasn't as gripped as everyone else.
I'm typing this mere minutes after watching Martin Scorsese's American remake The Departed take the Best Director and Best Picture Oscars® (and I notice quite a few people, Scorsese and the script writer excluded, didn't quite have the class to give the original film any credit come speech time). I liked The Departed more than Infernal Affairs, but had the fact that it was a remake in the back of head the whole time. I do prefer Scorsese's character's getting a bit more of a back-story than there HK counterparts, and I think others, even fans of the original would agree with me. I suppose that's why I'm reviewing a prequel to Infernal Affairs, confusingly titled Infernal Affairs II.
How many really good prequels are there? Godfather II is the only one I can think of that's actually equal to or an improvement on the original film. I honestly like the Star Wars prequels, but they don't rival the originals. Temple of Doom is a mess. Red Dragon is as dry as white bread toast. Dumb and Dumberer? Exorcist: The Beginning? Let's face it; prequels are almost exclusively money grabs.
I'm pretty sure this is a money grab, and that the folks involved weren't really all that artistically compelled to tell and entirely enthralling back-story. The final film isn't very discernable from all the rip-offs and cash-ins that bled from Asia in the wake of Infernal Affairs popularity, but is very well made, very well acted, and has more Anthony Wong than the original. I'm always for more Anthony Wong. Really Scorsese, would it have killed you to hire him as the Chinese Triad contact in The Departed?
The problem with the film, besides the fact that I'm practically drowning in sleek Asian cop thrillers lately, is that it paints itself into more than a few corners. As a stand-alone film, Infernal Affairs II doesn't work, mostly because we're expected to know most of the characters. Truth be told, I had some problems remembering the smaller plot points of the original film, but if this film is cannon I have a few problems. I can't really go into it without spoiling things, but Chan (the character played by Tony Leung in the original film, Leonardo DiCaprio in the remake, and Shawn Yue in this film) really should hate Inspector Wong (Anthony Wong) with every fibre of his being, and he really should've been taken out of his mole position. I don't remember a whole lot of atonement on Wong's part in the original film.
The rise of Triad boss Sam is more interesting than the back story of our two undercover leads, and his friendship with Inspector Wong is actually pretty touching, but I can't help feel that the last minute insurance that Wong will be seeking him out in the next film (or in this case, previous film) is kind of tacked on. It's as if the filmmakers were so anchored by the lesser plot elements of the original film, and thusly unable to go the places their new story should've taken them (this is a problem with the Star Wars prequels as well).
The biggest problem a prequel faces, and one I think this prequel suffers from, is the lack of suspense that comes out of already knowing where the story ends. We already know who's going to die and who's going to live, and unless we watch the films out of numerical order there aren't any surprises to speak of, save the two painted corners I just mentioned. Sometimes this can be used to the filmmaker's advantage (I thought American Beauty handled it well), but here it's much more of a hindrance.
From an entirely trite and superficial standpoint, I don't understand why different actors were used in Andy Lau and Tony Leung's roles. It's not like the entire film takes place in that distant a past. I'm pretty sure that a little make-up would suffice. The replacement actors are good; don't get me wrong, it just strikes me as odd. Acting is solid all around, and is really the best reason to recommend the film.
Dragon Dynasty has a pretty good track record going for it right now in the video field, and the fact that this particular film is only four years old doesn't hurt. The muted colour pallet is well produced. Grain is minimal in most scenes, but like most movies ever put on digital versatile disc it suffers in low-lit scenes, and compression related noise is obvious throughout. The details aren't as sharp as I might've liked, but it's hard to tell whether this is due to the muted colour pallet (which has a lower overall contrast), or an error on the DVD producer's part.
Though not an overtly aggressive audio experience, the Dolby Digital 5.1 soundtrack is very spacious and subtle. The music is often overpowering, but this is in keeping with the film's melodramatic style. I actually quite enjoy the hipper-than-thou score, but more as stand alone music than a film score. Here everything is well represented, fidelity is accurate, bass is booming without bleeding, and dialogue is clear. You can also watch the film in dubbed English, but why would you want to?
I'm guessing that these special features have been culled from other DVD sources (a quick trip to the comparison site DVDBeaver.com says my hunch is justified), and with the exception of the audio commentary, are mostly of the advertising variety. The commentary track and deleted scenes are the only meat on these bones.
The commentary, in Cantonese with English subtitles is pretty dull, but has a lot of information for series fans. No one involved seems all that excited to be in the recording studio, but they get the job done. Listen to the track to be informed, not entertained. No, there is no Bey Logan on this commentary, despite the fact that he has a bit part in the film.
The deleted scenes are extraneous, in an already overlong film. I think my favourite features Chan playing basketball in prison. The scene is unnecessary, just as unnecessary as the prison scenes included in the film proper, but does build Chan's character as more likeable (and yes, I understand that these scenes represent Chan's acceptance of criminals as human beings thus making his later choices all the more difficult). The scenes are finished, but not anamorphic or presented in 5.1 sound.
The two making-of featurettes are EPK fluff, one featuring some very straight-faced people talking about how good the film is, and the other a brief amalgamation of behind-the-scenes rough footage. Anthony Wong gets a few more cool points for all but refusing to talk about the film, its plot specifically, and telling the audience to just pay to see it in theatres. The extras end with a series of trailers.
So then, I'm still not a fan, and though this is not a bad movie at all, probably even above average in even the most jaded company, I'm rating it as average. This is a solid DVD, but those with super-duper special edition imports may not want to bother. I'm aware that this series is very popular and has some very vehement fans, so I implore readers to explain to me what I'm missing either in e-mail form or as a comment below this review. Please, save the "IA ROCKZ AND U SUK!!11!" type comments, as I honestly want to hear well thought explanations. Perhaps I'm the victim of a cultural barrier or something. Anyway, I've got another one of these in the review pile, so now's the time to open my eyes.
Review by Gabriel Powers
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Disc Details
Release Date: 13th February 2007
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 2.35:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 5.1 Cantonese, Dolby Digital 2.0 English
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Extras: Filmmaker/Cast Commentary, Deleted scenes, The Making of Infernal Affairs 2, Confidential File, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Wai Keung Lau, Siu Fai Mak
Cast: Edison Chen, Shawn Yue, Anthony Wong Chau-Sang, Francis Ng, Eric Tsang
Length: 119 minutes
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Why hatred is not the answer!
Hate Lives On
Hate lies waiting hidden, deep swirls of black
And ugly thoughts buried but not quite gone
The stirrings ripple through the haze of anger
And distress. But surface thoughts give not a hint
Of churning rage and seething rage which will not still.
Forgiveness may dispel the deep disruptions of your hurt
But will it be enough to stop the war, and death of love
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Can no one cure your fractured soul ?
Years go by your hate lies buried deep and safe
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text: Pitot Tube Flow Sensor for Use in Black Smoker Chimneys SHARE THIS: January 1, 2001DOEI Project Funded: 2001Proposed ResearchWe propose to build a flow sensor capable of measuring velocity within black smoker chimneys that can be calibrated easily and used routinely from a submersible. Black smoker chimneys form at seafloor hydrothermal systems, and vent hot (~350?C), metal-rich, Mg- and SO4-poor fluids into the ocean at velocities of ~1 to 5 m/s. These seafloor hydrothermal systems support a complex ecosystem on and beneath the seafloor, and it has been suggested that these ecosystems may represent a model for the origin of life on Earth, and for exploration of life on other planets. Accurate measurement of the velocities within chimneys are needed 1) to quantify fluxes of heat and mass from the ocean crust and lithosphere to the oceans, 2) to examine how flow rates vary over time, and 3) to calculate the pressure within chimney structures. The latter can then be used to calculate the rates at which fluid flows across chimney walls and within the porous areas of vent structures where a diversity of microorganisms are known to reside. Over the past twenty years there have been numerous attempts at measuring the velocity within and at the exit of black smoker chimneys, but there is still no tried and true method for doing so. We propose to measure velocities within black smoker conduits using a pitot tube with a custom differential pressure sensor. A pitot tube consists of an inner tube open at the end, and an outer tube that is sealed at the end but contains several small holes. The velocity of flow within a pipe or conduit is determined by inserting the pitot tube and measuring the difference in pressure at the tip of the small tube from that within the outer tube. Based on past experience using other sensor probes, we do not anticipate serious problems with clogging or corrosion as long as the pitot tube can be inserted ~5 to 15 cm into the chimney conduit. We will make the actual pitot sensor using titanium tubes to withstand the high temperature low pH hydrothermal environment in the chimney. We will build a suitable differential pressure gauge with a flat field replaceable stainless diaphragm and a one sided capacity sensor that is pressure tolerant. A nearby electrode will sense the capacity change as the diaphragm flexes. Once the flow sensor is constructed, we will critically evaluate its performance under different conditions. Our goal is to build a version suitable for use with the submersible Alvin and to test it on an Atlantis cruise of opportunity. Eventually, we hope to refine the design so that the pitot tube and gauge can be left in place to get the time variability of the flow.


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- Lego: Rebuild it. First it was posted on various adblogs as if Saatchi & Saatchi, Guangzhou, China really had Lego approval on this image. But they didn't - and Lego was furious. The team that created it, Black Wu and Darren Cheung, crafted an apology letter in both English and Chinese stating that they were very sorry for causing the brand damage with their "naive and irresponsible behavior", before getting the sack from Saatchi China. Where they are now is anybodies guess.
- The Bic Wite Out ads. Yeah, there, I said the name. SO SUE ME! First we had these terrible Bic ads submitted by the creative team Miguel Angel Barahona and Gabriel Gomez at TBWA Chile. Then, Bic's US Headquarters tells us to take them down. When that didn't work, the agencies creative director begged us to remove the ads. OK, fine, so the images were removed. But that wasn't good enough, as BIC Headquarters in the United States were pissed and the agency risked a lot of business, so the CD asked me again to please remove the brand name. Everywhere. Not happy until I had whited out every single mention of BIC® even in the comments, which of course bought these ads more blog mentions elsewhere on the web not to mention pissed off adgrunts. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube folks.
- Ford Ka "cat decapitation" which went around the interwebs faster than a truck running on jet fuel. Since Ford Ka had killed a pigeon the previous year, everyone thought that this ad was simply part of the campaign, but as everyone including the agency insisted, it was only an internal joke that was never meant to be seen by the hoi polloi we call consumers.
- Truth In advertising - one of the first virals we've had on the site this film just keeps bouncing back, once a run around the web has died out and been forgotten, it simply starts again and makes another run two years later. Zooma films even sold a DVD with all the films in the series. At one point people tried to stop the spread of these films as this was around the SAG strike and none of the actors had been paid for web appearances. What makes it keep coming back is that some things in advertising never change, we all wish we could say what we really meant and if we did, it would be hilarious.
- PUMA "splooge" a.k.a blowjob ads. I was minding my own business posting flirt, squirt and sex sells in Badland just to compare two blowjob idea ads, then all hell broke loose. Way back before we realized the importance of watermarking exclusive stuff, the puma ads spread like a veneralial disease throughout the web, and soon Puma came a knocking on our door. Well, they didn't knock as much as call us and then send a C&D. It wasn't our first (our first came from Universal studios but that's another story), so we simply blurred out the trademark on the images and posted our reply in public. The Puma ads were in fact spec work done in a pitch by an agency I promised never to name (even if Peter Kim has), and the result of the web-fever was an actual rush to puma webstores, where these shoes weren't available at the time. In short, even outrageous advertising works. The creators are still working in advertising, coming up with nuttier things for braver clients.
- Sprite: Blowjob ad. The Huffington Post ('s anything that is popular on the web without checking what it really is) and other major news outlets in the states fell for this spec ad hook line and sinker. They honestly thought that it was a "Banned German Sprite" commercial, and what's worse they thought it was the interracial rather than the BJ that caused the ban. What the hell do Americans think about us over here in Europe, honestly? No, it was a joke, a spec job wanting to be "some kind of commentary on the overuse of sexuality in advertising" according to the creator Max "it was only meant to be seen by friends" Isaacson at Greencard Pictures. Greencard pictures did not endorse it, and naturally I got another phonecall from a nice lawyer as soon as the ad was up. Coca Cola really don't like when people mess with their trademarks.
- NutriGrain - I feel great. Who could forget Babies everywhere which practically the whole planet laughed at back in 2003. Turnpike films had scored a viral hit, that hit them hard, slowing down their server to a crawl, and once they were over that technical glitch they were served with C&D orders from all brands involved. "I feel Great" was never an ad for NutriGrain, Magic Beer was never approved by Budweiser and as funny as it was Save the Pinata was never a Nintendo ad. The films were picked down one by one from their website, the URL is now owned by a linkfarmer. Justin Reardon from Turnpike films did win young directors award in Cannes for "I feel great" that following summer and you can now find him at Anonymous content, still making us laugh.
- Volkswagens suicide bomber ad - he didn't feel great at all, he got in his car, went to blow up a café, but sadly he had chosen the "small but tough" vehicle to get him there and his plan failed. Lee&Dan may not have planned it, but the ad catapulted them to fame as well as got them in seriously hot water with VW who threatened to sue them, but settled for an apology. Around this point in time, adgrunts got ever more cynical and thought the whole VW-threat was part of the plan to make the viral even more so. Like Nutrigrain, this ad will never leave the web. And how did it work out for its creators? Very well, Lee&Dan have most recently shot some lovely looking Adidas commercials for 180.
- Spoof of Monster. com's Super Bowl spot "When I grow up" modified for the ad world, naturally meant that the ad world couldn't stop loving it - and so did everyone else who felt they were stuck in terrible jobs. Which is everybody - this is the ad that all office dwellers recognized and suddenly us adfolks had some sympathy from the punters who usually hate us. Yeay.
- Why yes, it's the DDB Brazil WWF poster ad that caused award shows to change the rules and ended up on Keith Olbermann's shitlist and was talked about so much we had to make recap post just trying to keep track of all the web mentions and twists in the story. Was it approved? Yes! Then no. Then Okay, maybe by someone in Brazil but they weren't really allowed to approve it. I guess we can count this approved-by-someone ad as pure spec work then, even if it did win a One Show award. I give you the commercial version of the WWF 9/11 ad.
And the number one viral spec ad in the past ten years . . . . .
We've talked about spec work a lot here on adland over the years, and the best discussion can be found in spec work going around the web as real ads where many adgrunts voice the pro and cons for showing off your spec work on the web, even if you're hijacking someone elses brand to do it. It's risky business, you might get fired, but then again you might get hired.
I'm sure that you, dear adgrunts have suggestions of ads that should be on this list, it's hard to whittle ten years down to ten points. Which ones deserve an honorable mention?


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Eric Stackpole wants every tech geek with a passion for ocean science to have inexpensive, open source hardware to conduct research. The solution that he and a team of fellow enthusiasts has developed is OpenROV—a kit of parts that easily assembles into an underwater robot. With a little help from startup funds on Kickstarter, we could soon see OpenROV scooting along, while submerged 20 meters below the surface, conducting experiments on ocean temperature flux while its creator mans the controls from a laptop above.
Scanning through Stackpole's blog posts on the development of the OpenROV (ROV meaning Remote Operating Vehicle), it is clear that not only is he an extremely talented engineer, but that he has a true passion for collaborative work through the sharing of open information. He has posted progress note and ideas open for comment, as well as made available all of the build plans and software for creating your own OpenROV.
In exchange for giving for making all of the plans open source, the OpenROV team is asking for feedback. Forums are set up to discuss improvements, such as how as mechanism could be added to the bot to take water samples.
If you don't have laser cutting equipment handy for creating the acrylic housing parts (designs for which are downloadable from OpenROV.com, you can pledge on Kickstarter to receive a ready-to-go assembled robot. Stackpole is looking for many people to build, use, and weigh in on how to make it better. When their Kickstarter paged reached its $22k goal in a matter of hours, it was obvious that the OpenROV team was onto a winning idea.
In kit form, OpenROV is a series of laser cut acrylic parts, connection hardware, an on-board computer, wiring, motors, an LED light, a movable webcam, and tubes that hold the 8 C-batteries needed to power the bot. When assembled, the submarine robot measures about the size of a shoebox.
The kit was designed with sustainability in mind. Laser cut parts have no metal dye tooling that is needed for injection-molded plastic. It also means that it is as easy and cost effective to make only one kit or to make one hundred. All of the other parts are stock parts bought from available an electronic supply website. With no overhead and no inventory, the OpenROV follows the model of some of our other favorite tech product kits designed by the Maker community.
OpenROV is a really exciting proposition for research in sustainability topics such as climate change or harvesting power from sea current. By making a tool that is inexpensive and has no manufacturing investment costs, this could open doors for significantly increase initiatives by scientists or even colleges students.
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tomatillos look like green tomatoes, they aren't. They actually related to cape gooseberries.
Mexican Bolillo bread rolls.
All you need is a pound of tomatillos (about 4), one jalapeno halved (I de-seeded it), two garlic cloves, salt & pepper and some vegetable (I used olive oil), fresh cilantro (optional) and a lime. Season the veggies, drizzled with oil and toss and roast at 375F for about 20 minutes.


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Free Press Managing Editor Bryan C. Hanks dishes on Manti Te'o, Lance Armstrong, David Anderson and B.J. Davis.
As my good friend Richard Clark would say, it�s been a �hot minute� since I�ve put together a column for your perusal, dear reader, so please forgive me as I catch up on a few subjects and news-makers �
MANTI TE�O AND HIS FAKE GIRLFRIEND: Everyone and his brother has an opinion on this bizarre situation, but I can sum it up thusly � if his �girlfriend� who he loved so much was actually dying, why didn�t he go to see her?
My gut is that he was initially taken in by �Catfishers� (Google this and you�ll understand), but why did he continue to lie about it over and over?
The sad thing about this situation is that it�ll blow over in a few weeks, especially if Te�o becomes a star in the NFL. We�re an extremely forgiving society, especially to folks who are sincerely contrite.
LANCE ARMSTRONG IS A LIAR: As for this disgraced, performance-enhancing druggie, forgiveness may come � but may we never forget.
As I mentioned on our award-winning Free Press Radio Show (go to Kinston.com and listen to this week�s edition!), there was no bigger Armstrong defender than I. I wore a yellow Livestrong bracelet for years, defended him with every breath while respecting and admiring a man who beat cancer and inspired millions.
But his dozens (if not hundreds) of claims of being clean were lies. I turned 44 years old last weekend and the one thing I�ve discovered about myself is that I�m too trustworthy � but it�s because of liars like Lance Armstrong, Mark McGuire, Bill Clinton and Milli Vanilli who�ve sucked me in with their deceit.
DAVID ANDERSON IS GOING TO BE MISSED: Award-winning columnist Jon Dawson has written about him and we granted him his own going-away column on Wednesday, but this much is true � it�s impossible to quantify what David Anderson meant to the Kinston Daily Free Press.
He joined us midway through 2007, a year before I became the managing editor of this publication and you�ll never know how many times I depended on his expertise and kindness. Not only was he an outstanding and multiple award-winning writer for The Free Press, he was also a dear friend to many of us.
The highest praise I can give him is this: never did he turn down an assignment, no matter how much work was loaded up on him. And never � not once � did he complain about work. The man did his job and did it in an honorable and respectable way.
GET WELL SOON, B.J. DAVIS: One of the most ardent supporters of my blog (bhanks.encblogs.com) and South Lenoir High School athletics, B.J. Davis, has been hospitalized for the past week at Lenoir Memorial Hospital. Quite simply, B.J. is one of the proverbial �good guys� in our area with a beautiful and supportive wife (Tammy) and All-American son (Brett).
Please join me in praying for B.J. and his family as they go through a tough time right now. Get well soon, my friend.
Bryan Hanks is the managing editor of The Free Press and his column typically appears in this space every Sunday. You can reach him at 252-559-1074 or at firstname.lastname@example.com. Follow him on Twitter at BCHanks and check out his blog at bhanks.encblogs.com.


text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - PS 5.5 quickie question Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Digital Art Discussion View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "PS 5.5 quickie question" opticillusionmemberMember #Joined: 22 Sep 2000Posts: 255 Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2001 12:45 am At home, I hit save for web, and no colors are off. At work, on a Mac (if that matters), I save for web, put the gif or jpeg in a web page...and colors don't match (with the background for example that was color picked from the image itself even). I've noticed, the colors get changed even in the preview mode (in both original and optimizied views). I'm using the same set-up as home, Selective pallete or whatever...stuff like that. So, is it the mac, the prefs...? Plus, using the color picker on a saved gif or jpeg gives a slightly different color..pf! nuff explainin...anybody know an answer or help on this? ~thanks Back to top FrostmemberMember #Joined: 12 Jan 2000Posts: 2662Location: Montréal, Canada Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2001 7:06 am That's been discussed here somewhere months ago... perhaps up to 6 months ago... hmm, here... don't know if it helps; http://www.sijun.com/dhabih/ubb/Forum2/HTML/002599.html Back to top opticillusionmemberMember #Joined: 22 Sep 2000Posts: 255 Posted: Wed Jan 10, 2001 11:08 am Thanks Frost for searching on that. They're talking about the same thing...but no real answer there. The site they were making had a background of a red that got messed up through my problem, and they accepted it. I'm having trouble cause I have a background of white, a cell background which is blue...and I use the eyedropper to use that blue to make a graphic that has white text within a blue box for example. I save for web and instantly the blues are off, (when putting the graphic on the blue) and you see the difference. (All I can think of are preferences, which I've checked...and perhaps just a bug in 5.5? But, it doesn't happen at home...? I dunno... Thanks tho for the help frost Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Digital Art Discussion All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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Daily Roundup: Blake Shelton, Jennifer Nettles + More
Blake Shelton made a stunning admission today — although if you've been watching 'The Voice,' it may not be that stunning. It looks like he's not the only country superstar to be coaching contestants on reality television, either. Find out which show Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles is joining this summer in the Taste of Country Daily Roundup.
Also included among the country music headlines is a story on how you can own a famous piece of country music jewelry and one dishing when Scotty McCreery will next be on television. Find a few from around the web as well, like who — or what — Guns N' Roses guitarist Slash admits to kissing.
Today on Taste of Country:
Blake Shelton Admits He Has a 'Man Crush' on Fellow 'The Voice' Judge Adam Levine
Sugarland's Jennifer Nettles Joins Kelly Clarkson, Lionel Richie as Stars of New Reality Series 'Duets'
Remember When Julianne Hough Was in a 'Harry Potter' Movie?
Eli Young Band vs. Pat Green – Texas Red Dirt Rumble
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COSAM alumnus awarded Gates Cambridge Scholarship
Paul Bergen, a 2012 graduate of COSAM, was awarded a Gates Cambridge Scholarship, a full-cost award for full-time graduate study and research at the University of Cambridge.
Bergen will pursue a doctorate in pathology at Cambridge with a focus on how Salmonella infects the host intestinal cell and overcomes the host immune response to cause disease.
"It is a tremendous honor to be selected as a Gates Cambridge Scholar," said Bergen. "I hope my research will eventually improve the lives of those afflicted by this common bacterial pathogen."
"I am grateful for the outstanding preparation I received at Auburn. Without the work from all the members of my practice interview committee and the tireless efforts of my faculty letter writers - Anthony Moss, Mark Liles, and Paul Harris - I would not have been given this great opportunity."
Bergen graduated from Auburn with a 3.97 GPA and earned degrees in microbiology and German. He is currently a Fulbright Scholar at the Technical University in Munich, Germany, where he is continuing research that he began in the Department of Biological Sciences.
"Paul was a stellar student in both the College of Sciences and Mathematics and the College of Liberal Arts," said Charles Savrda, former interim dean of COSAM. "It is no surprise that he has garnered this additional honor. All of us at Auburn are extremely proud of Paul and anticipate he will do great things at Cambridge and beyond."
Auburn had two 2013 finalists among the nearly 1,000 applicants for the scholarship and was one of only four public universities with that distinction. Bergen is one of 40 scholars to receive the award.
"Despite his many scholarly and academic accomplishments, what makes Paul such a special person is his willingness to take intellectual risks and truly embrace an interdisciplinary approach to learning," said Paul Harris, associate director for national prestigious scholarships at Auburn. "Paul has a range of interests and activities which go well beyond the study of life sciences and microbiology to a passionate interest in German language, culture, and history. He will thrive at Cambridge."
The scholarship program is funded by Bill and Melinda Gates through the Gates Cambridge Trust. Gates Cambridge Scholarships are awarded to college students and recent graduates based on four criteria: intellectual ability; leadership capacity; a desire to use their knowledge to contribute to society throughout the world by providing service to their communities and applying their talents and knowledge to improve the lives of others; and demonstrating a good fit between the applicants' abilities and aspirations to the graduate program. (Written by Mike Clardy.)


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Jon Lauck. American Agriculture and the Problem of Monopoly: The Political Economy of Grain Belt Farming, 1953-1980. Lincoln and London: University of Nebraska Press, 2000. xiv + 259pp. $45.00 (cloth), ISBN 978-0-8032-2932-7.
Reviewed by R. Douglas Hurt (Department of History, Iowa State University)
Published on H-Ohio (December, 2000)
Agribusiness and Monopoly in Midwestern Agriculture
Agribusiness and Monopoly in Midwestern Agriculture
Farm men and women have been concerned about monopolies in agriculture since the late nineteenth century. The Grange, Farmers' Alliance, and People's Party particularly challenged the problems created by concentration of capital in industries that affected farmers and the dangers that monopoly posed for the Republic. Although the Democratic and Republican parties, agricultural organizations, and political alliances, known as the Farm Block, attempted to curb the influence of monopolies in agriculture during the early twentieth century, corporate mergers and changes in transportation, marketing and finance as well as government policy often fostered the growth of monopolies after World War II. Few Historians, however, have studied the effects of monopolies on the American farmer, particularly in relation to marketing during the late twentieth century.
John Lauck, a professionally trained historian and current law school student, helps fill this scholarly gap in business and rural history by analyzing the nature of agricultural monopolies in Kansas, Nebraska, North and South Dakota, Minnesota, Iowa, Missouri and Wisconsin. These states constitute the grain belt and produce most of the nation's wheat, corn, soybeans, hogs, and cattle. In general, Lauck emphasizes the attempts of the federal government to deal with surplus production and high price supports from the Eisenhower Administration to the election of Ronald Reagan to the presidency in 1980, the latter of which signaled the beginning of a concerted effort to terminate many farm programs that dated from the New Deal. Much of his story involves the efforts of food processors, meat packers, and export firms to control prices through market control as well as production via vertical integration. At the same time, Lauck emphasizes the work of the National Farmers Organization to counter corporate power by controlling the marketing process for specific agricultural commodities. Lauck also offers an important perspective on the formulation of agricultural policy by showing that antitrust policy since the 1970s has favored corporate mergers relating to agriculture because economists and government officials often consider such actions an efficient use of resources.
Lauck provides an excellent survey of the aggregate concentration of the food processing and meat packing industries to show the advantages of scale based on technology, transportation, and reduced labor costs. He also notes that agribusiness firms have not reaped great profits from the international marketing of grain as most farmers believe and that farmer cooperatives often function as cartels in attempts to control marketing at home and abroad. Lauck is at his best when he discusses agricultural cooperatives in the context of tax-free organizations that compete with agribusiness for the supply and marketing of needed goods and commodities. Many of these cooperatives, such as Farmland Industries, are as diversified as other agribusiness firms, with refineries, feed and lumber mills, fertilizer plants, and canneries, among other enterprises. As a result, the growing economic power of farmer cooperatives has prompted charges that these businesses are trusts and should be subject to anti-monopoly laws. Other observers, however, considered farmer cooperatives an alternative for marketing and a way to fight agribusiness on its own terms. Lauck is weakest, however, when he perpetuates the idea that farm men and women enjoy superior lives to urbanites. Farm men and women have championed this myth for years. If farm life is morally superior, no farmer has yet called for the mass exodus of city people to the countryside so that they can begin farming and live the good life. They, of course, want the countryside for themselves, while often relying on government programs and off-the farm employment for survival. Lauck is on firmer ground when he suggests that stronger antitrust laws and court actions are needed to prevent greater consolidation of economic power among a few agribusiness.
Overall, Lauck has provided a good survey of the problems of monopoly in American agriculture during the late twentieth century, although the chapters do not always link and usually stand alone. This lack of unity stems, in part, from the publication of a considerable portion of this book as journal articles. Still, in terms of content Lauck's assessment of the power of agribusiness and farmers cooperatives is knowledgeable, fair, and balanced. Although he clearly supports the efforts of farmers cooperatives to compete with the agribusiness conglomerates, he is quick to note problems among farmers and their organizations. As a result, agricultural, rural, and business historians will find this book informative and useful for gaining a better understanding of the business side of agriculture.
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By Matt Spetalnick
MENTOR, Ohio (Reuters) - President Barack Obama touted his administration's auto industry bailout in the U.S. industrial heartland on Saturday as he launched a final hectic weekend of campaigning in states critical to winning next week's closely fought election.
With just three days left before voters go to the polls, Obama used yet another stop in Ohio, a state that relies heavily on the auto industry, to hammer at Republican challenger Mitt Romney's earlier opposition to the government-orchestrated rescue.
"Look, I understand that Governor Romney's having a hard time here in Ohio because he was against saving the auto industry," he said.
On his final sprint to the finish line, the president kept up his attack on Romney while making his case for a second term.
"Governor Romney, he's a very talented salesman - in this campaign, he has tried to repackage the same policies that didn't work and offer them up as change," the president told cheering supporters in a crowded high school gymnasium. It was his second visit in two days to a state that has become the most heavily contested spot on the electoral map.
"Ohio, we know what change looks like and what he's offering ain't it," he said.
Before heading out of Washington on his latest tour of the Midwest, Obama showed he was keeping a wary eye on the storm-struck Northeast, where millions remained without power and tempers frayed at a lack of fuel. Superstorm Sandy devastated many Atlantic coastline communities in New Jersey and low-lying areas around New York City.
He held a round of talks with his storm-response team and top officials from the affected states and renewed his call for the federal government to cut through red tape to expedite help to stricken areas.
"This continues to be my number-one priority," he said. "There's nothing more important than us getting this right."
The administration on Friday sought to ease the fuel crunch in the Northeast, saying it would provide diesel from national heating oil reserves, and also allowing foreign tankers in the Gulf of Mexico to bring fuel to the region.
But in the final push for votes in Tuesday's election, the economy, the public's overarching concern, remained the centerpiece of the campaign. Obama reminded his audience of how deep an economic hole the country had to climb out of.
"Remember, in 2008, we were in the middle of two wars and the worst economic crisis since the Great Depression," Obama said. "We've made real progress these past four years."
Obama, whose federal rescue of the auto industry has been popular in a state where one in eight jobs is auto industry-related, renewed his condemnation of Romney's recent statement that Chrysler planned to move Jeep production to China.
Chrysler has refuted that, noting it was adding workers to build more Jeeps in Ohio, and the two campaigns have aired advertisements over the issue. Obama has accused Romney, who opposed a government auto bailout, of trying to scare workers in a desperate last-ditch effort to score points in Ohio.
Saturday's whirlwind tour was taking Obama to four states in little more than 12 hours - Ohio, Wisconsin, Iowa and Virginia.
(Reporting By Matt Spetalnick; Additional reporting and writing by Mark Felsenthal; Editing by Jackie Frank)


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TWIN FALLS, Idaho (AP) — Greek yogurt company Chobani says it is increasing production at its Twin Falls plant and adding production of a new "light" yogurt called Simply 100.
Chobani officials tell The Times-News (http://bit.ly/INH7vm ) the $450 million plant is running at optimal production capability for the first time since it opened a year ago. When the plant opened, it made about 100,000 cases of yogurt per week running three or four production lines. It is now running 12 production lines and producing up to a million cases of yogurt a week.
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Madison County High School is already undergoing a massive upgrade of its campus. Now, it will also be the site of a regional ag-industry college.
The Madison County School System has been awarded a $3.65 million grant for a Regional Advanced Agriculture-Industry College and Career Academy.
The academy will include new classrooms and facilities at the high school — in addition to new facilities currently under construction. No completion date for the ag-industry academy construction has been set. The current renovations are scheduled for completion in the fall of 2014.
Madison County School Superintendent Dr. Allen McCannon said the new academy will help students develop job-ready skills. For instance, students could learn welding in an ag mechanics taught by an Athens Technical College instructor on the MCHS campus. Or, students may develop culinary arts skills from Athens Tech teachers in Danielsville.
"We're trying to provide a big toolkit for the kids," said McCannon.
When completed, the new academy at the high school will be a partnership between the Madison County School System, the Clarke County School System, the Elbert County School System and Athens Technical College.
"As Lt. Governor, I am committed to providing every student in Georgia access to a college and career academy. Their proven success at providing our children the relevant, job-related skills they need is more important than ever in these tough economic times," said Lt. Governor Casey Cagle. "I applaud the Madison County School System, the Clarke County School System, the Elbert County School System, Athens Technical College, and the many community partners that came together to provide this important tool to ensure our students are prepared to enter the 21st century workforce."
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Bacterial Utilization of Organic Carbon Produced by Arctic Copepods
Krista Longnecker, Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry
Carin Ashjian, Biology
Arctic Research Initiative
2011 Funded Project
Recent changes in the spatial extent of Arctic sea ice are dramatic. However, the consequences of these changes on biological and chemical processes in the Arctic are not clear. Model results project increases in Arctic phytoplankton that result in an increase in zooplankton biomass. However, we know very little about the bacterial response to these ecosystem changes. Even the question of whether bacteria will convert more or less organic carbon into carbon dioxide is unknown. Zooplankton are one source of organic matter that can be converted by bacteria to carbon dioxide and/or bacterial biomass. This project seeks to determine if organic matter produced by zooplankton, specifically by copepods, will be converted to carbon dioxide by the in situ bacterial community and to quantify the amount of carbon dioxide produced. Any increase in carbon dioxide production by bacteria will decrease the amount of carbon dioxide that can be absorbed by the Arctic Ocean. Since the Arctic is a global sink for carbon, future changes in the ability of the Arctic to absorb carbon has important ramifications for the global carbon cycle. This project is a new and interdisciplinary collaboration between Longnecker and Ashjian. Results from the project will be used as preliminary data for a proposal to be submitted to NSF in 2012.


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I think some topics really should always be avoided. There are some that are so cliche and overused. That's not to say that someone can't write a really interesting, attention-grabbing PS using a topic that's been beaten to death. It's just really rare. I mean, honestly, every other thread on this board alone is "I'm a URM, should I write about that?" "I'm an immigrant, should I write about that?" "I work in a law firm, should I write about that?" "I faced <fill in hardship>, should I write about that?" If just reading a 1-2 paragraph description of a topic bores the hell out of me, then what do you think adcoms think when they're sitting down to read their 200th essay on "why I want to save the world"? I'm sure some of the posters on this board can take any topic and turn it into an amazing, gripping story (and some people here, when posting an idea for a "played out" topic actually manage to present an interesting spin on it). But from my experience in the world, 95% of people can't do that.
I am just having a hard time b/c I am NOT a URM. I don't have a hard luck story or an unusual background. I am just a normal white girl. I have had some cool, unique experiences but according to books like "How to get into the top law schools," all my experiences are no good to write about. So I think I am just going to write about me and why I decided to apply to law school. I think I am a pretty interesting person in and of myself and if they don't think so, screw them.
i feeel that same way as you. so i decided to write about my passion for film. it isnt a gripping story, but it explains the biggest interest in my life, giving adcomms a little something about myself. they can see that i took a lot of film classes, but i want them to see how much more film is to me than that. sounds dumb, but it is better than making up some crap about how mommy didnt love me. It's so funny you say that b/c I have been thinking about writing about my passion for college football. I know it may sound trivial but it is something I really enjoy and care about. And one of the reasons I am going to law school is b/c I want to find that passion in an occupation, like I have found in in a hobby. It has also been a contant in my life, since I moved A LOT. It also kind of effects WHERE I want to go to school b/c I love th college town vibe, especially during football season, especially in the south. But I am afraid they will not think I am taking this seriously or that I am not a serious student, though my #s reflect otherwise. But I HAVE read that ADCOMS want to feel like they really got to know the student as a person from their statements, like a written interview. I feel like a statement like that would really allow me to express true self (cheesy I know.)


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The Getty Center and The Getty Villa
Festival events will take place at a wide variety of venues throughout Southern California from April 15 to June 30, 2010. For a schedule of related events at all venues, visit the festival Web site at www.RingFestivalLA.com.
Marquis Seminar
Wagner's Mythology: Roots and Inspiration
The Getty Villa
Date: Saturday, June 19, 2010
Time: 9:00 a.m.–4:30 p.m.
Location: Getty Villa, Auditorium
Admission: $95; $75 students. A ticket is required.
The seminar at the Getty Villa features a day of lectures with a special presentation by LA Opera maestro James Conlon, tours of the Museum's antiquities collection, and a musical performance. A ticket is required; open to 200 participants.
Coffee and Registration 9:00–9:30 a.m.
Welcome 9:30–9:40 a.m. Barry Sanders, Ring Festival LA leader and LA Opera board member Rainer Mack, manager of education, the J. Paul Getty Museum
Morning Sessions: "Introduction: Romantic Roots" 9:40–10:00 a.m. Peter Tokofsky, specialist in German folklore and education specialist, the J. Paul Getty Museum
"Aeschylus and Wagner" 10:00–10:45 a.m. Mary Louise Hart, associate curator of antiquities, the J. Paul Getty Museum
Break 10:45–11:00 a.m.
"Im Legendenton: On Wagner's Sonic Mythography" 11:00–11:45 a.m. Mitchell Morris, professor of musicology, University of California, Los Angeles
Question-and-Answer Session 11:45 a.m.–noon
Lunch and Tours: Group I Noon–12:45 p.m.—Tours of galleries 12:45–1:30 p.m.—Lunch
Group II Noon–12:45 p.m.—Lunch 12:45–1:30 p.m.—Tours of galleries
Afternoon Sessions: Conversation with James Conlon, Richard Seaver Music Director of LA Opera 1:30–2:15 p.m.
"Music That Inspired Wagner's Mythology" 2:30–3:45 p.m. Introduction by Stacy C. Brightman, director of education and community programs, LA Opera; with performances by Erika Wueschner (soprano), Robert MacNeil (tenor), and Catherine Miller (piano)
Special Tours
Antiquity and Wagner's Ring Cycle
The Getty Villa
Date: Wednesday, May 19, 2010, and Sunday, May 23, 2010
Time: 2:30–4:00 p.m.
Location: Getty Villa, Museum galleries
Admission: Free; a ticket is required.
Gallery Course
Mythology: Classic and Contemporary
The Getty Center
Date: Saturday, May 1, 2010
Time: 10:30 a.m.–2:30 p.m.
Location: Getty Center, Research Institute Lecture Hall and Museum galleries
Admission: $20; a ticket is required.
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Again he has fabulous TT's ...he thinks at $24,000 it will be a hard sell!!!! At $100K...it's just what? and of course, his mention of teh continuum, in a fleeting glance, "interesting" said nothing. Maybe his overpriced $24K unit sounded like his OK priced TT? at $100K, or did he find he didn't hear any differences, and started to weep over his just cleaned LP's.............And if he takes up the request by Randi, he could pay off the "in hock" for that $100K TT...which he described as going into in a previous edition.
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Exactly, did you read Nov issue yet? MF 2 reviews of 2 more expensive TT's. 1/3 price of his even more absurd Cont...., but still absurd. those $2,000 VPI are mere Best Buy TT's it looks like now. Of course he doesn't mention if or did he use the exact same cartridges and stuff in comparing these 3 TT's. Again, if he did a real test, as Gordon holt says is now abandoned,(blind testing) thus making all this useless tests, and merely writings of what he seen visually and thus his perceptions of personal assumptions. If you are seeing what you are listening to, then it affects the outcome, one may strike you visually something seems better...thus it changes your entire audible perception. If these pricey products vary and differe so much in sound, they are really crap!!! they all claim musical hi fidelity, they can't possibly be that different . But in order to SELL stuff, writers need to make it seem like they are all so unique, they ain't. Only the price only the way the advertising dept wants you to perceive it. The founder of StereoPhile says, all these tests are invalid. If not blind tests, they are just personal perceptions, ain't they. If you see what is playing, it's not teh sound that is the only influence. Thus it's not a true test of the sound, but what it visually does to you, personal preferences. Soem guitar amps have pilot lites that are too brite, it make sme think the soudn is too brite.....so easily influenced...and dark colored TT, has a darker sound, a RED one is BRIGHT. a yellow one, is way to brite sounding. How come MF didn't put his TT setup movie on VHS TAPE, it's more analoge than DVD..analog is better ain't it. higher resolution according to some nudnicks. But how come DVD is, higher rez, an dlooks better? Same with audio ain't it. The electronics doesn't know if it's video or audio signals, it's just electrons and magnetism, and pits and other stuff. What does it mean when the TT comparison was "interesting"? Vauge vauge vauge, did they all sound alike, and now MF is pissed, he wasted money on the $100K spinning platter?
If you are seeing what you are listening to ...
If you are actually seeing what you are listening to you either have a way better system than I do or a better street connection. I know it's not the former.
... now MF is pissed, he wasted money on the $100K spinning platter?
He told you that? That isn't what I read.
More of "teh" same indeed, more of the same from you that is!
Your rant seem more a recounting of common themes you hold dear to heart than a rational criticism of the Fremer review. Included in those common themes we have:
1) Irrational attacks on Fremer.
2) Rejection, as
Teh "world" of analog...just think if teh industry kept on this OBSOLETE path. Hmmmm, how do you carry that 27 pound cell phone? HDTV? Nah, DuMont live!!! CD/DVD/SACD...we don't need no stinkin' nosie free, clean consumer recording playback medium. Let's keep kleaning LP's. Snap crackle pop. Analog is a dead product, that just doesn't know when to close the lid on the coffin. If it takes $24,000 $100,000 TT or even a $3500 TT combo , to sound decent, when most $200 SACD/CD players do it probably better, and easier, you know it's OBSOLETE. It's like Henry Ford not wanting to stop making the Model "T". Or phone equipment mfgs keep producing rotary dial phones. Or GM still trying to sell FINS on it's cars. Digital tv took off with flat panel sets, cus it's better, still want teh FCC to not get rid of teh analog broadcast in a few years, still have that B&W Motorola Quasar set, before Matsushita bought the brand...oh yeah, analog is so much better. Maybe CB radio is better than cell phones? It's actually entertaining to watch. SACD/DSD smokes anything a spining platter can offer, for much less $$$$, and ease of use. Premeir reviewer of analog, he says to DEMAGNETIZE PLASTIC!!!!! And he hears the change!!!! Keep thinking about that.
Oh right, another item for the list...
- Complete dismissal of LP replay.
... and we need reminding of that and all the other things you feel so passionately about via a steady stream of sophomoric rants exactly why?... for goodness sake Man grow up!
That I understand!
Sophmoric is one level above Freshmantic? If audio stayed analog....it would be baaaaaaaaad. Let's stay with incandescent lighting too, it's been around over 100 years too. I like CFL and LED myself, but it might be just too updated for some that can't let go of obsolete crap. If vacuum tubes where still the mainstay of electronic ckts, man, would this world really suck and be boring. Rabbit ears, now those where the days of fine tv viewing, let's go down to teh hardware store and test the tubes, my GE tv don't work...1961....let's not go back. The LP is so obsolete, it doesn't sound better than digital. It's limited capacity, limited life, since it wears each time ya play it, it is obsolete. Hanging onto it, gives some a job, for a while, but they really should be getting trained in more up to date technology. Ain't never listened to an LP that was better than an SACD, DSD/SACD smokes anything from a LP, on any TT you could create. Now let's get up and flip that LP, the 21 minutes are over...snap crackle pop, damn warps, I need a Furutech de warping griddle, waffle maker, do i de magnetize before or after I de warp? DSD/SACD Delivers, while vinyl is like thinking a bottle of wine is worth $5,000 cus' it's old.
Huh?! How do you come up with this crap?
It's called "proof by assertion," Jan.
Carl is essentially saying, "You can take my word for it if you don't believe me," albeit at greater length and frequency.
Geez, you could follow that post? Or did you just guess that's what he was trying to say?
I don't own a turntable & have no plans to buy one.
However, there must be a market for them(and other expensive products)otherwise manufacturers wouldn't make them!
If you don't like the reviews, don't read them!!!
P.S.- Stephen, I really would like a spell checker here as I'm not too bright!
Does this thread have something to do with changing teh English language???
All over this forum I see "teh" as if it's used on purpose. Am I missing something?
I think the "teh" is all in his mind to be such a constant misspelling.
Am I the only one who noticed that Mr. Fremer has gotten so good that he can now review a turntable with an unfamiliar arm and just home right in on the innate sound of the table, bypassing the arm completely?
Check his review of the Merrill-Scillia Research MS21 and look for the part that says, "I will not be discussing the tonearm"....[even though it was the only one I used with this table and I have not previously reviewed it.]
Come on, amigos, a guy who can run into a new table with an unfamiliar arm and then write a review of just the table is not your average average guy - he's special.
At least with the other turntable review in the new issue, he acknowledged the possibility of an arm/table combination affecting the sound.
I wonder, how long until he can review turntables with no arm at all?
(Sorry to end up in the "DUP-region," but someone does seem to review in ways that mere mortals cannot.)
The man is truly beyond mortal abiltys. Superman is jealous!!!!!Next he will review a AC cord, without the speakers, the amp or even the thing it's hooked up to, meaning anything, he will do a Carnak the Magnificent on it, hold it to his forehead, and he will hear Ed McManhon laugh of course, he is good, remember. And he will declare it to be one of the finast line cords he has heard in years. Of course he will realize he is holding the vacuum cleaner cord by mistake, and declare, it doesn't matter the cord under review, or attempted review is so good, it even makes cords around it sound better, even if hooked to something else. MF world also has 23 hours of daylight.
After reviewing the vacuum cleaner's power cord, he will claim that the vacuum cleaner sounded more concise with greater bass extension. The vacuum cleaner had a lower noise floor with this new power cord, with blacker blacks and less hiss.
He will also go on to state that he prefers the older, analog vacuum cleaners vs. the new digital cleaners, because the digital vacuum suction pulse of 44.1 hz isn't fast enough to get all the dirt.
Upon testing the vacuum cleaner, JA will discover that the vacuum cleaner's plug wasn't polarized properly. MF will claim that after hearing the vacuum cleaner again, with proper polarization, that he liked it even more because there was more "there, there". So... there.
This is what I read: Michael Fremer's positive comments about the physical properties/improvements of the Tri-Planar tonearm were merely observations and did not constitute a "review" or endorsement of its individual sonic character. The turntable was then reviewed as a unit with that arm. The review was well written and conveyed enough essential information, filtered through years of Fremer's experience, to inform the readers and impart a sense of understanding.
Are the previous posters vying to fill a void left by the striking screenwriter's guild? If so, they may not want to team up with someone so contemptuously hateful of the language and the due consideration necessary to communicate effectively. But given the lack of anything worth saying, I guess language and context don't mean shit anyway.
Newsflash: After conducting a tactical assault on Michael Fremmer of Stereophile, Dup gathered his minions in an ad hoc battle formation to lead an all out assault on the English language. Having taken advantage of the screen writer's guild strike, the English language found itself lacking a sufficiently skilled force to defend itself. The English language was overrun by poor spelling, grammar and punctuation. Yet it was the typos flanking from the side that dealt a final blow.
Having been blind sided by the fall of the English language, Michael Fremmer found himself speechless. In his final suicidal rush, he flung his remaining superlatives and cash at a poorly spoken, out of phase turntable. As MF's lifeless career hit the blood soaked, improperly spelled battlefield, Fremmer whispered "rosebud" before disappearing into the oblivion alongside the likes Corey Greenberg and Chip Stern.
Exatcly, as long as sit's more there, then before, when it was merely sorta there. I bet he won't like the new high efficiency furnaces either, since they are into digital controls of the stuff. anything more efficient, will of course not be as good as teh old analog versions of it. Just because, because it gives him a job, to be teh anti digital. Analog displays are of course better, that's why in 2009 they are banished ..FCC says, neit, no more, going digital. Does his old analog cell phone also soudn better than teh newer digital systems, that give ya less RF at your brain, and has better clairty, better range, analog is obsolete, it is inefficient. Even lighting controls, ballasts are DIGITAL, or at least hi freq, cus they work better, run cooler, last longer. DuMont tv's are no more. The LP is a dead fish, it does not sound better than DSD, it is just more work, so of course he is gonna say it's better. Is he a martyr? If it's more difficult, it must be better? When he goes deaf and needs a hearing aid, and it's DIGITAL, so it can be made tiny, will he demand an old analog model? Maybe he will join JGH and be angry at the world, it's all digital and more efficient. Even the Lapinski DIGITAL amp beat the PAss analog preference test in pro audio review, more power, less heat, better more efficient. The reviewer took a Pass on Pass, and the Pass costs much more. How does he hear what he claims to hear, it is mind boggling, it is in another world maybe he needs to expalin in a article, just how he manages to do it. It would actually be interesting, how he tests this stuff, and draws teh conslcusions he does. Cus it baffles me. And yet with super hearing he couldn't hear that the $45K 3 piece combo from Darzander Zender was mis wired during mfg...$45K and they ain't stamping them out like hundreds a day, you'd think they would pay more attention to making it. Measurements matter, measurements prove things, over personal preferences and imaginary artifacts of the day. No DBT with the CONtinuum vs. the almost bargain priced in comparison, to find hey, these things sound alike...hmmmm, no wait, I heard something...oh wait, it was my cat walking near me....never mind
You get em , Dup.
Dup + MF bashing = one of my favorite combos
DUP, did you even read Alex O's post?
Now, don't get excited. A simple "yes" or "no" will do.
For the millionth time, DUP, Van Alstine electronics do not validate your tin ear and bad grammar. This is average budget stuff. I have heard his best. Cambridge, Creek, Music Hall, and NAD beat the crap out of the junk you pimp, at 1/2 - 1/3 the price, in terms of neutrality and soundstaging.
No wonder you can't tell a zip cord from a Tara Labs -- your cheesy electronics aren't letting anything downstream.
Sorry. It's a slow night in Euroland -- the dollar is weak and gold is strong, but what else is new? So, I thought I'd just trade a few insults with my favorite woody.
Buddha makes a serious point, about the arm-turntable combo, but I suspect it's a matter of style and garbled communications from Mike's end. I have enough confidence in Mike's analog recommendations to at least go listen for myself.
DUP, there is nothing you could recommend that would get me off the crapper, much less out the front door. Got that? Anything you tout is a mandate for avoidance. Your posts have done more to banish Van Alstine and Legacy (undeservedly so, in terms of the latter, but, again, one must consider the source...) from the merest pretensions to respectability than any bad review could ever do.
Do the digital. Leave analog to those of us who enjoy music.
Korg it!!! At 2X DSD SACD rate, takes analog where it belongs, into the closet with teh Edison wind up players. AND, checkout teh low price for such sonic masterpieces. analog is a mere distorted, mushed up, highly seasoned, highly muddied version of teh original tapes. Only DSD brings the original recordings to teh consumer. An LP is not gonna get you teh original sound of teh recordings. LP with it's limited dynamics, high distortions, AND everytime you play it, you are taking off signal wearing it out. In the 21st century, things have improved ya know. Do you think drum brakes from teh 1962 Plymouth are better than the current ABS/ESP discs...ABA is teh result of digital technology, control systems, AND they are now only a few hundred dollars to add into any car. Plymouth Valiants where analog brakes, nice poor quality brakes. Let's see a side by side comparison of the new Korg DSD recorder to some $100K TT spinning platter, you gots to be kidding, teh Korg is less than $2K, with no wear each time ya play it. Even Lee Iococa proclaimed when someone asked about his old Mustangs, that he created, he said, buy a new one, the old ones are unsafe, poor performers, the new ones are much better. Just like spinning plastics, versus new DSD digital. Unless of course if that distorted, mushed over, poorly defined sound, it what you consider, the sound of teh original recordings. cus I have 3 versions of teh same stuff teh DSD/SACD smokes teh LP, smokes teh early CD version of teh exact same recordings. The DSD/SACD is what was on the original 40+ year old tapes. Unless you have a 30IPS tape machine, with the studio tapes, you ain't hearing it, off an LP, no matter what the spinning platter costs. Accept it, digital DSD IS the best way to get the original to your home. Like a guitar amplifier, that is made to distort, the LP is distorting the original recordings, not reproducing them.
Bacj to teh original question......YES.
merely "observations"....well so are reviews, ya take what it gives ya. The guy designing it and making it, is testing and redoing, all reviewers are mere observers.
thank you. For it is indeed - crap. Dup's behaviour is primarily offensive in nature. Unless something suits the way he wants to see the world and/or understands it..he attacks it in some fashion.
Apparently..he understands very little. For he attacks all the time.
The primarly consideration for good moderating, in a forum that has a point of controversy,as this space does, ie Objectivism and subjectivism..is to remove, with instant and extreme prejudice..any posts that rant in a way that is extreme.
Also, to remove posters who violate that premise of 'human, thinking people, who have a capacity to see all sides of an argument in an agreeable and open minded fashion'. To remove them, without warning, and with prejudice. Even to the point of banning their IP's when they attempt to 'come back' in disguise.
The net is rife with them, and this forum will garner no large user base that reflects the buyers of the magazine...until such a point is enacted. Basically it should be (for reasons of overall sanity) a largely DBT (Double Blind test) free zone.
I have no problem with DBT testing, per se, but I have a problem with folks who, due to their obvious behaviour..have no freaking clue how to do such testing and have no idea how to hear these nuances and differences. Or how to conduct a proper DBT test that leaves these nuances within the context of the test, so the test remains valid.
It's like trying to explain the multiplication tables to a shithawk. All it can do is scream at you, no matter what you do.
Anyone who argues that a given isolation device, or cable, or whatever the case may be..in a DEROGATORY and CONFRONTATIONAL MANNER......MUST be removed (after ONE warning) from the rolls of forum members immediately.
And, maybe, just maybe, a year from now..this forum will be a hopping and happening place.
Right now, it merely serves a place for 'mouth breather' objectivists to run rampant and attack people for understanding something that they don't..or they refuse to attack with logic or reason..and respond with childish rants and anger, instead.
The situation is complex, to say the least. And, like in Solomon's temple, the blade must be drawn, and the child must be cut in half in some manner.
I would venture that to save the child (Stereophile readership, overall)..that the Objectivists that exist without reason, the ones who post with vitrol..MUST be banned with extreme prejudice.
End of story.
And the beginning of a working Stereophile Forum.
That's Scaaaaaaaaaarey. I'm done, you got me spooked. Do small animals run away from you too? WOW. you win, I'm outa here.
But do try and hear real hi fi, get some DSD SACD discs, and try a KORG or Tascam RV-1000.....DSD, it's even for scaaaaaarey people.
As an objective subjectivist, I think we need both flavors and both sides expressing their ideas in order to decrease the width of then chasm between the two camps.
I believe listening is actually a potentially objective thing, so I land with the subjectivists on the importance of using one's ears as a guide.
On the other hand, I think we need to explore the notion of "repeatability" for subjective claims. I think of this as a fun sub-subject in the hobby. This kind of discussion makes me think more about my listening and how I hear things, which makes the hobby ever more enjoyable.
All in all, it's just light fun disagreement that takes place between audio friends, so I hope we never evolve into an either/or site.
As to DUP, think of him as an idiot savant, light on the savant, who likes to rattle teacups with his system and call it "lifelike."
After you learn the five things he is able to post, you can just skim a thread for the posts between when DUP is busy replying to himself.
One good general rule about DUP...
Dat's a gud von.............but in your heart you know I'm right. No magic wires, no magic plugs, no magic bi furcated connector matters, or has any sound on hi fi. It's all just good electrical DESIGN, acoustics, in speakers, speakers also are electrical in their action. When you remove teh nonsense hi fi, is fun, but when it gets bogged down in crap, like magic blocks, magic insulations, it's really baaaaaad. Henry Kloss, Dave Hafler, Avery Fischer, etc all did real design work, with some tinkering, how come they never sold magic dots, even VPI ventured into nonsense with their magic block of crap...really sad. It's scaaaaaaarey out there, with what some people will accept. What will an audiophile not beleive. Now let's ban any thoughts of non conformity, with teh beleiving crowd. Let's chant, magic magic magic magic, not desing, not science, not acoustics, . That will be $3,990. For this weeks special CD player, with Zanderized ckts. Listen to any good sounding screws? Clamps, the next frontier of insanity, how they soudn different right?
I think there are two issues at hand here:
1. Whether hifi is about the euphonics, ie the joy of sound or if it's about accurate reproduction. A case can be made for either school of thought. For example: what good is accuracy if you are not involved emotionally with the music? Conversely, how do you define fidelity and how do judge equipment if all you're doing is asking for colorations? Then one man's euphony is another's distorted horror.
2. Snake oil - Various manufacturers are offering accessories that they claim raise the level of playback. These involve power cables, interconnects, vibropods, etc. None of these accessories are cheap and the seemingly wilder the claims, the more expensive an accessory becomes. Somehow, it's impossible to make a good interconnect for $10, they have to cost hundreds, thousands and even hundreds of thousands. This is where DUP comes in. If you carefully read his posts, his main objection is with the overpriced equipment and accessories that make very wild, unsubstantiated claims and those who defend these claims without any sort of scientific proof. This is the area where most of his rants are concentrated. He makes very valid points in this regard and if you can get past his presentation, you will see intelligent ideas being discussed.
With regards to banning, and aggressive moderation of the forums, we've traveled this road before. I don't think we need to travel it again. There is room for all opinions and we are big boys and girls and I think we can handle DUP's rants and raves. There's no need to run to mommy.
I ran to mommy, that man scaaaaared me, with his observations, and ideas. Wonder if small animals run from him, and the women in his life wear burkas? That's a scaaaaaarey dude. Now, NO TALKING!!!! SIT UP!!!! Or was that the former USSR audio club president? Mommy please this man scared me......bwaaaaaaaaaabwaaaahhh. Hey, tell that kid to shut up, he is disturbing the forum. You tell me what is more disturbing?
you are far more offensive than dup. You have no right to call for a ban and censorship.
Your recommendations and your posts do far more damage .
But since I am not an arrogant prognosticator like you I wouldn't call for you to be banned.
I would, however, be glad to recommend a place where you can put your overinflated head.
I think you may have missed the point. Which isn't unusual, in that they say that only about 9-12% of what one means is actually understood in a face-to-face conversation.
The vast majority of users who MIGHT venture into this forum..and discuss..what they love, and it is AUDIO re-created in their homes...by EQUIPMENT...they would likely take one offensive jab from the likes of DUP..and then..never post again.
As an example, someone I know, personally, in fact..made a relatively innocent inquiry in the 'high end' area of the AVSForum. Andy asked if folks had much experience with the Nordost Cable Burner.
He was slammed by the 'objectivist' camp so much..for even CONSIDERING that a cable burner was a valid thing to buy or use...that he never even posted a single follow up to his intital inquiry.
A-Holes can't simply leave others alone, is the point. The so-called objectivists, in a startlingly high number of instances, are merely prejudice and bias in disguise, with no attempt of any kind to work at finding their own solutions to the puzzles presented..other than viciously deriding those who feel otherwise. Ie, no balance in their psychology.
Such behaviour does not serve this Forum's intentions very well, I'd wager. Thus the obvious point: Do what needs be done.
To clarify-
The vast majority of audiophiles are gentle souls who have no time in their lives for uselessly confrontational and repetitively psychotic bullshit that the people who contribute the most vitrol on this forum, or other forums, exude, in virtually every post.
Gentle Audiophiles, these music lovers, the folks the forum is >>REALLY<< trying to reach, they will never post here, or come here, if they are constantly attacked. Or, if attacked - even once. Hell..they won't ever come here, at all.
Get it?
The final point is that Folks like DUP, in terms of nature and style of posting, under any method of analysis, are fundamentally destructive to the nature and reason behind the Stereophile Forum itself.
Another way to see it:
DUP is standing outside of a High-End audio shop. He is there every day.
He waits for folks to walk by, talking to them as the walk away, or following them in and talking to them while they are in the store. Or he attempts to talk to the employees, owners and any Reps that might visit. Trying to tell them that all they do --is wrong.
How long would it be before the business owners call the police on him and have an injunction slapped on him, or attempt to have him committed for his obviously bent behaviour? How long before they call the police on him??
Less than a week, for sure. More like 2 hours or less.
I'm not on that forum, don't blame me. Cable burners, yupper, another high end marvel. Right up there with those mapingo blocks, and Ayre wood blocks, and whatever other blocks ya gots. I used to have those kids blocks with the alphabet on em.... Ever see the high end block head? Let's talk about EQUIPMENT, not nonsense. Have you had any experience with the new DXD I see in a Pyramix article, do you know what it is? Is it like Super Audio CD squared or sumptin'?
No, kbk , I did understand your post. Your elementary thought process is simply not that hard to follow.
I am a subjectivist as well but I don't like censorship.
The only "vicious" attack here is your call for banning someone who doesn't share your view.
Get over it, ignore his posts.


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