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Posted 12 Oct 2013
After Week 5, Sheldon Richardson leads a deep class of good rookies
Updated: October 10, 2013, 12:29 PM ET
By Mel Kiper Jr. | ESPN Inside
I gave the Jets a good grade in my 2013 NFL draft grades, but I heard a lot of questions about their strategy. People asked about things such as why no quarterback was taken in Round 1, why there was no skill-position talent like WR Tavon Austin (who was drafted by the Rams), and why no new tight end was selected. My conclusion was, "I still think they deserve a pretty good grade for hitting a few big needs. Now, they need to be patient with QB Geno Smith."
And the Jets did hit big needs. But it turns out they couldn't afford to be patient with Smith. The good news is, he continues to rise in my Rookie Rankings, and an efficient 16-of-20, three-touchdown performance on "Monday Night Football' shows another stage in his progression.
But they still better be patient. A few reminders about how I approach on the rankings:
The rankings reflect play over the whole season, not just the previous Sunday.
Positional value matters, but overall performance and impact on the team matter more.
I'm asking: Would this player be a starter on most teams? (I think that hurts QBs some).
Total snap count matters. Great plays matter, but staying on the field is important.
With those rules in place, let's jump into the rankings after Week 5. There are 21 players listed in all.
1. Sheldon Richardson, DT, New York Jets
So far, the Jets lead all NFL teams in run defense, allowing just 3.0 yards per carry, and Richardson is one of the main reasons why. He's been consistently disruptive, showing tremendous quickness and athleticism, eliminating the chance for blockers to move him and then getting to the second level. I also like his versatility -- we've even seen him line up as a fullback on offense down near the goal line. So far, the first interior lineman taken in the draft has lived up to the billing. He also has 2.5 sacks.
2. Kiko Alonso, ILB, Buffalo
Love his production, fiery approach and the number of impact plays he's been able to make. For instance, Alonso is tied for the NFL lead in interceptions (four) but is also leading the Bills in tackles with 44 (he also has a sack). He's one of the best pure athletes (if not the best) of any inside linebacker in the NFL right now. The key with Alonso is that because of his versatility, he never has to come off the field.
3. Kenny Vaccaro, S, New Orleans
I'm giving him some bonus points, because while he's made his share of mistakes and taken some poor angles, he is staying on the field and has helped the Saints orchestrate one of the great defensive turnarounds we've seen in recent years (assuming they can keep this up). Vaccaro isn't asked to do much against the run but is instead playing a lot of deep patrol. Still, he's second on the team in tackles and has recorded a sack and an interception. While he was beaten deep late in the game on Sunday against Chicago, his overall performance through the first five games has been strong.
4. Ezekiel Ansah, DE, Detroit
He leads the Lions' defense with 3.5 sacks and is quickly becoming a fear factor-type player because the offensive always has to account for him. That said, his best work hasn't even been done as a pass-rusher -- he's been good against the run, too. His pass rush is inconsistent, but he just needs to learn. He's only going to get better with more experience; despite his age (24), he hasn't played much football yet.
5. Geno Smith, QB, New York Jets
He has had ups and down and has turned the ball over too much, but that's what you expect from a rookie. However, he's shown poise, has never lost his confidence, is gaining respect from his teammates, and has come through in the clutch, rallying the Jets with two late fourth-quarter drives to pull out victories against Tampa Bay and Atlanta. The Atlanta victory, in particular, was a signature win because his late play was just the icing on top of a performance with great statistical efficiency. And let's remember: He's operating without a top-flight supporting cast, yet has been able to show nice progress. He's mixed a good deep ball with savvy as a scrambler.
6. Giovani Bernard, RB, Cincinnati
He's been a key element in their big wins against Green Bay and New England, displaying the all-purpose talents that make him so valuable. When the Bengals drafted him, we knew a big reason why was because they wanted a back they could throw to. Bernard is currently leading the Bengals with a 4.6-yard average per carry, but he's also hauled in 14 receptions for a 9.2-yard average.
7. Barkevious Mingo, OLB, Cleveland
He didn't record a sack against Buffalo in his most recent game, but Mingo turned in a solid performance, and he is improving after missing much of the preseason. He recorded a sack in each of the three previous games, showcasing cat-like quickness and a sustained intensity level. Mingo is still more athlete than polished pass-rusher, but he could have a big second half of the season, because once he learns to counter more off his initial quickness, he's going to be really difficult to block.
8. Larry Warford, OG, Detroit
Although I didn't grade him out as high this past week against Green Bay as in the four previous games, Warford has done a very solid job overall for the Lions. He doesn't give up any inside pressure in the passing game, and he can get a push in the run game, with the power to move defenders. He'll get better, and he's off to a great start.
9. Star Lotulelei, DT, Carolina
He drops some just because he hasn't been on the field as much as some others, but he also got to sit a lot during a blowout win against the Giants, and Carolina has already had a bye. During the 150 snaps he's seen so far, Lotulelei has proven to be the block-occupying run-stopper he was drafted to be. Carolina is allowing just 3.6 yards per carry, a clear improvement from last season, and Lotulelei is a big reason why.
10. Tyrann Mathieu, S, Arizona
He has a knack for impacting a game in a very positive way. His instincts are top-notch. Against Carolina on Sunday, he recorded five tackles (all solo) and also made his presence felt behind the line of scrimmage. He had a sack, a tackle for loss, and a pair of QB hits. He's stayed on the field regardless of down and distance, is second on the team in tackles, and can play either deep or close to the line. So far, the Honey Badger looks like a third-round steal.
11. DeAndre Hopkins, WR, Houston
Two weeks ago he was the top rookie here, but he's cooled off some the past two weeks, with just four total catches for 50 total yards. He'll need to find a way to create more space against good defenses, which is what he saw against Seattle and San Francisco. He has 22 catches and 293 yards so far, and has the skill level to become a Pro Bowl player.
12. Eric Reid, S, San Francisco
He dropped an easy interception against Houston but played very well overall. He's fourth on the team in tackles, has a pair of INTs, and is another young safety who doesn't come off the field. The 49ers moved up to draft him out of LSU, and they clearly had big plans for him when they did.
13. Alec Ogletree, OLB, St. Louis
I'd like to see more game-changing plays from a player with his talent and explosiveness, but you can't deny the fact that he's been around the ball. He's tied with James Laurinaitis for the team lead with 36 tackles (32 of Ogletree's have been solo tackles). The key for Ogletree is pursuit and fundamentals. He can overpursue and fail to get into good position for tackles, which is why he's missed more than a handful. But he'll get better.
14. Kenbrell Thompkins, WR, New England
He's had a few drops along the way, but the undrafted free-agent find out of Cincinnati is second on the team with 18 catches for a 15.2-yard average, and he leads the team with three TD receptions. I'm actually giving Thompkins a little more credit than his numbers might imply, based on his targets. Tom Brady has thrown to him 44 times, and the tape shows that Thompkins can create space to get those targets. He just needs to haul in a few more of them.
15. Terrance Williams, WR, Dallas
After a messy start to the season, he's been really coming on of late, and he could be a star of the not-too-distant future if he becomes a little more consistent. Over the past two games, he has 11 catches for 222 yards. Tony Romo is warming up to the rookie now that Williams has a better idea of where he's supposed to be on the field.
Next up
Andre Ellington, RB, Arizona -- Averaging 6.7 yards per carry, and is a factor in the passing game.
Travis Frederick, C, Dallas -- Has been strong after some early struggles. And he's healthy.
D.J. Fluker, RT, San Diego -- Has held up well as a pass-blocker, though his rep is as powerful run-blocker.
Robert Woods, WR, Buffalo -- Had chemistry with EJ Manuel. Will he get targets now that Manuel is injured?
John Jenkins, DT, New Orleans -- Overshadowed but effective on the revamped defense.
Kawann Short, DT, Carolina -- Needs more playing time, because he gets to the QB when he's on the field.
Jets' 'big Snacks' Making Big Impact
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QuoteFive years ago, Damon Harrison quit his job as an overnight stock boy at Wal-Mart and left his home in Lake Charles, La., for a college he knew nothing about.
Harrison didn't know William Penn University existed until a couple of days before his recruiting trip, when he searched the school on a computer. He thought he was visiting William & Mary. When the recruiter mentioned "William" in their conversation, he immediately assumed it was the school in Virginia.
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Jim Rogash/Getty ImagesDamon Harrison tackles the Patriots' Stevan Ridley back in Week 2.
No matter. Harrison wanted to play football, not stock shelves for $14 an hour, so he was all-in.
One of his former coaches at Northwest Mississippi Community College, Steve Miller, was the new defensive line coach at William Penn, and he needed players. Harrison met Miller and six other potential recruits at NMCC in Senatobia, Miss., and they crammed into a Jeep Cherokee for an eight-hour drive to Oskaloosa, Iowa, home of the William Penn Statesmen -- an NAIA school.
On the drive north, Harrison saw snow for the first time.
He laughed at the memory as he stood last week in the plush New York Jets locker room. He starts at nose tackle for the Jets, only one year after arriving as an undrafted free agent. "Big Snacks," the nickname he received as a rookie, is now a Big Deal.
"The whole journey in itself, it's a whole lot more than people know," said Harrison, who once served as the water boy on his middle school team because he wasn't good enough to play. "It's amazing, man. It's a blessing."
The Jets' area scouts spend the entire fall on the road, driving from school to school in search of talent. The typical scout is on the road for 150 days a year and will visit 42 to 44 schools, knowing ahead of time that at least 20 of those schools will produce no one good enough to hear their name called at Radio City Music Hall in April.
For every Michigan, there's a William Penn.
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"We're all hoping," Jeff Bauer said. "As an area scout, you know that on 50 percent of your stops, you won't see anyone that will be drafted. But you keep grinding, looking for that one guy."
Bauer is the Jets' director of college scouting, but he spent 11 years as their Midwest scout, covering Minnesota to Texas and Kansas to Indiana. At heart, he's an Iowa man. He lives in Ankeny, where he was born and raised, and he played football at Iowa State. He knows the state better than MapQuest.
Before the 2011 season, Bauer was assigned to write a report on a 6-foot-2, 347-pound defensive tackle named Damon Harrison, whose name appeared on the NFL scouting combine's list of prospects. At the time, Harrison was just one of 400 names on the list.
But you never know.
Bauer got in his car in September 2011 and drove to Oskaloosa, a city of 11,500 in the middle of the state. It was only the second time he had visited William Penn.
Harrison tried out for his middle school football team. He got cut.
He tried out the following year. He got cut again.
He wanted to stay involved, so he accepted a position as a water boy. That lasted only a couple of weeks because he got tired of being ridiculed by his friends.
"Being told you're not good enough that many times ... all your friends are playing. My brother played football in high school -- yeah, it was discouraging," Harrison said.
So he stuck with basketball, his first love, becoming a highly skilled, 205-pound point guard. Football seemed over for him, but a series of random events led him back.
In his junior year, Harrison came down awkwardly with a rebound and his knee swelled. He'll never forget the date -- Nov. 29 -- because it was his birthday. It was a torn meniscus, which required surgery -- the first of four operations, two on each knee.
During his convalescence, Harrison ballooned to 255 pounds. There aren't too many 6-foot-2 power forwards, so he decided to give football one more chance. This time, he made the team, but he wasn't happy on the bench. He was on the verge of quitting when the offensive lineman ahead of him suffered an injury. Just like that, the water boy was starting.
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Jim Rogash/Getty ImagesHarrison consoles quarterback Geno Smith after the team's loss to the Pats.
His high school career consisted of seven games, but Harrison wanted to play in college and earn a degree. No one recruited him, so he decided to do his own recruiting. He went to the computer in the school library -- his family didn't own one -- and he fired off e-mails to dozens of college coaches.
Only two replied, and one was Miller, an assistant at NMCC. He studied Harrison's basketball tapes and saw a freakish athlete, so he offered him a spot on the team as a left tackle.
Harrison's joy was short-lived because, by the time he arrived in Senatobia, he had lost his spot to a transfer from the University of Miami. He was victimized by the politics of college sports. He also discovered that, with only one year of experience, he was far behind the others in terms of fundamentals. He was gray-shirted, meaning he had to pay his own way.
"He was very unhappy," said Miller, who had accepted a position at Arkansas State before the season.
Unwanted by NMCC, Harrison went home to Lake Charles and started stocking shelves, thinking his football career was finished before it really started. He had only one thing working for him: his relationship with Miller. That, as it turned out, changed everything.
When Miller landed the job at William Penn, he invited Harrison to visit the school. So Harrison bought a ticket on a Greyhound bus and rode to Senatobia, where he met Miller and six others for the long drive to Oskaloosa.
Miller estimated the average size of each player was 6-foot-4, 250 pounds, making the car a can of sardines on four wheels. It was so jammed with bodies and luggage that it took 20 minutes to reload the Cherokee after a rest stop.
"There was no room for a bag of peanuts," Miller said.
Harrison was only 250 pounds when he arrived at William Penn, where he made sure to capitalize on the school's meal plan. Based on Miller's observation, Harrison didn't get enough to eat at home, where his mother worked two jobs to support the family. At college, he was a fixture in the dining hall, sometimes sitting for an hour per meal.
He ate his way to 360 pounds, yet managed to maintain his small-man athleticism. It was on display during one memorable day in the gymnasium.
Iowa defensive lineman Adrian Clayborn, who would become a first-round pick of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in 2011, created a stir on campus when he showed up and wowed onlookers with a dunking exhibition. People urged Harrison to give it a try. He grabbed a ball, and the former point guard one-upped Clayborn with a one-handed, 360-degree dunk.
"It was 360 degrees at 360 pounds," Miller said. "The whole gym went crazy."
Despite Harrison's weight fluctuations, due in part to the multiple knee surgeries, Harrison dominated on the NAIA level. Division I schools tried to steal him away, but he remained true to William Penn. By his senior year, pro scouts started showing up on campus.
A Bucs scout was the first to arrive. After watching Harrison's tape, the scout told Miller, "Coach, this is very rare."
When Bauer arrived at William Penn on behalf of the Jets, he watched tape of Harrison's junior year and the first couple of games of his senior season. He sat with Harrison for an hour, a get-acquainted chat. That's one of the advantages of scouting at a small school -- a scout can spend quality time with the players.
Bauer learned Harrison's story -- about his late start in football, about his wasted year at community college, about his strong desire to provide for his family and about his history of knee injuries. The knee problems, Bauer concluded, contributed to Harrison's conditioning issues. This wasn't a lazy athlete, as some scouts assumed.
"You just knew this kid had what it took," Bauer said. "He dominated at that level -- not all the time like you want to see, but he got better and better."
Bauer, with cross-checking from fellow area scout Matt Bazirgan, wrote a glowing report of Harrison, giving him a seventh-round grade. He was a "sticker" player on the Jets' 2012 draft board.
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Former Jets general manager Mike Tannenbaum established a practice in which each area scout was allowed to identify one priority free agent by placing a sticker of himself -- a mug shot of the scout -- next to the player's name on the board.
Bauer picked Harrison.
The sticker guy stuck, the only undrafted free agent to make last year's team out of training camp. He didn't play much, only a handful of plays in five games, but he'll never forget his NFL debut. It was "Monday Night Football" against the Houston Texans, and he was so awed by the moment that he was oblivious to conversations around him.
"Mo (Wilkerson) and Mike DeVito were trying to talk to me," Harrison said, "but I didn't hear anything."
It was a long way from William Penn, where the average home crowd was about 800.
This season, the former water boy, capitalizing on an injury to Kenrick Ellis, has claimed the starting nose-tackle job. From the outside, Harrison might be seen as the outcast on a defensive line that includes three first-round picks -- Wilkerson, Quinton Coples and Sheldon Richardson -- but his value transcends his football pedigree.
In Sunday's win over the Buffalo Bills, Harrison was on the field for four of the Jets' eight sacks, setting up Richardson's sack by bulldozing center Eric Wood -- the same Wood who recently signed a four-year, $25 million contract extension. After the game, Richardson gave Harrison a shout-out on Twitter.
"I always knew he was special," said Miller, his old college coach, "but I didn't realize he was NFL special."
Meanwhile, somewhere on the road, Bauer is smiling.
"It makes you proud," he said. "I love Damon as a person. He's one of those kids you want to cheer for. We spend a lot of time on the road. To see it pay off, yeah, it's fun."
Because you never know.
Josh Gordon Available?
Posted 23 Sep 2013Browns | Willing to trade two WRs
Sun, 22 Sep 2013 08:04:32 -0700
The Cleveland Browns are fielding offers for WRs Josh Gordon and Greg Little and are open to the possibility of trading them.
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Holmes, Hill, Gordon... Geno would have some nice weapons. Gordon looks like hes worth a second round pick. He does have some off the field issues but gordon said publicly that he believes he'd be suspended for an entire season if he got in trouble again. If he's saying that out loud and in public, he may know its time to sack up and be responsible. I doubt this team goes after him, but for a 2nd rounder, it's a fair price for a potential stud.(2nd rounder is my opinion on what the browns may be looking for in return).
Also some SPECULATION that the patriots could be the team that made an offer to the browns.
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Three Points To Prove: Jordan's '92 Finals Opener, 20 Years Later
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Today marks the 20th anniversary of Game One of the 1992 NBA Finals, the indelible game that showcased Jordan at his brazen and coolly electrifying best. MJ drilled six consecutive three-point baskets in a 9:22 span of the first half which ended with the MVP having scored 35 mind-boggling points. When taken at face value, the game, a match-up between the Chicago Bulls and Portland Trailblazers, was incredible enough as it were. But when context is added to the discussion, it immediately becomes clear that Jordan authored a singularly historic moment in the annals of basketball history that proved definitively his unassailability as a basketball mind-game master.
Going into the ballyhooed series, the media relentlessly played up the aerial match-up between MJ and his Western conference counterpart, Portland's Clyde Drexler. During the 1991-92 NBA regular season, Drexler's brilliance led some in the media to label him as the possible league MVP. He certainly enjoyed a spectacular season as he averaged 25.0 points per game along with 6.6 rpg and 6.7 apg. He was a high-scoring, high-flying shooting guard with highlight reel ability and outstanding defensive prowess. Because all of these attributes defined Chicago's Jordan as well, the match-up was seen as an eye-popping showdown between the two best all-around players in the game.
It had become a popular opinion in some NBA circles to label Drexler as "the best player outside of Chicago." There was also the famous opinion that Jordan was better at everything than Drexler, except three point shooting. For the hyper-competitive Jordan, this was seen as a subtle indictment of his perimeter shooting ability. Statistical evidence proved that neither player was a great three-point shooter; Drexler shot about 34% from the arc that season and Jordan stood at a meager 27%. Perception may have been inspired by the huge difference in makes that Drexler had over Jordan. The Portland star made 87 more threes than MJ that season, largely because he shot 4.4 per game to Jordan's 1.3.
"[Drexler's] a better three-point shooter than I choose to be," said a calculating and quietly seething Jordan, prior to the series opener. Since the Bulls were the defending NBA champions, and the prohibitive favorites to repeat in this series (after a dominant 67-15 season), and Jordan was the recently crowned league MVP for the second consecutive season, Chicago and its megastar were loaded with swagger and devoid of humility.
Anyone that knew what Jordan's offense game entailed immediately noticed that the man was clearly on a mission as the first quarter of Game One got underway. He uncharacteristically spotted up behind the three-point line as either Scottie Pippen or John Paxson brought the ball upcourt. He fired off two attempts from long range in the first few minutes and missed them both. Portland though, ran up a 15-5 lead and seemed poised to extend it further.
Until Jordan laid down his rules.
Soon, MJ's masterful offense was firing on all cylinders. Pull up mid-range j's and post up fadeaways were all falling for the 6-time NBA scoring champion when he suddenly rose up from the arc and nailed his first trey in three attempts. This was at a point in his career where he was still young, energetic and athletic enough to physically overpower other teams and bend them to his will psychologically. As Jordan's offense went into overdrive, so did the Bulls' trademark suffocating defense. Soon, the Blazers had lost all poise and focus and ended the first half staring at a 15-point deficit. Jordan had rang up a transcendent half, nailing 14 of his 21 attempts for his silky smooth 35 points. The second half was a mere formality, but featured two jaw dropping plays from the legendary MJ. He mostly dished off to teammates in that half and wound up with a 39 point, 11 assist slice of excellence to add to his overflowing basketball resume. The Bulls won in a rout, 122-89 and Drexler never looked as inferior to MJ as he did on this night. He wound up with a pedestrian 16 points on 5 of 14 shooting.
By time the 1992 finals ended 11 days later in a 4-2 series victory and a 2nd straight Bulls championship, MJ had proven without any doubt the level of superiority he possessed over Clyde the Glide. He would later reveal that he wanted people to understand the difference between him and Drexler and he felt that he accomplished it in that series. "Coming into this series, I thought [Jordan] had 2,000 moves," said Drexler. "I was wrong. He has 3,000."
For Jordan, his transcendence was never questioned again.
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So there's a monster in the closet? Under the bed? No big deal… at least for the kids in French photographer/digital retoucher Laure Fauvel's series 'Terreurs.' The children in her images are fighting back, and they're armed. [Read more...]
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Shaun Kardinal has been creating digital collages using found images from friends' Facebook and Instagram feeds… specifically nabbing the birds that frequent their skies. His series Flying Formation is a collection of improbable (or impossible?) formations of birds in curving spirals, perfectly straight lines and sky filling flocks. His unconventional exhibition took the form of posting the images on Instagram over the course of two hours during Seattle's First Thursday Art Walk. [Read more...]
Stop Waiting in Line, Have an Avatar Do It For You
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How Rad Were Old Game Graphics? The Real World Contrasted With Their Gaming Counterparts
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To see how 'real' each of those games really was, Brother Brain (aka NYC artist John McGregor) has done movie/game mashups, showing us an animated look at how the old games measured up to reality… or at least a promotional picture. [Read more...]
We Talk to Nick Pedersen About Ultima, His Fantastically Detailed Vision of the Future
Nick Pedersen has a vision of the future, and he's revealing it to us through vast landscapes of a world after the "peak" of human civilization. His stunningly detailed works see humans in a not so distant time, surrounded by the ruins of society as we know it.
Here is a world filled with nuclear power plants long dormant; the rusting hulks of cruise ships that no longer sail; and even the remnant scribbles of street art no longer speaking. It's not all bleak however – because despite the cold, nature has come back with abundance. [Read more...]
You Won't Be Able to Look Away: This Walking Sculpture Cycles Through Mesmerizing Forms
Get ready to be hypnotized. This new animation from Universal Everything sees a stocky white figure loping before a white background… don't let the stark beginning fool you though – your eyes will soon be glued to the slow-motion action that unfolds on the screen. [Read more...]
Geometric Robot Drawings: Beautiful Precision from Matt W. Moore
Matt W. Moore is drawing outside the box, challenging our definition of art with his Numerically Controlled Series of "drawings." Here he collaborates with engineer Aaron Panone to harness the power of a 3-axis CNC machine to draw his geometrically stunning works. The machine, retrofitted with a special fixture, holds a Sharpie permanent marker and mimics the pressure of a hand while drawing. Is it art? Is it design? While the definition of this work is unclear, the result is beautiful precision. [Read more...]
Santa Claus Invades 24 Classic Paintings
That jolly old elf Santa Claus is up to some art history shattering shenanigans this christmas. With some assistance from his little helper, photographer Ed Wheeler, Santa has found himself riding Napoleon's horse across the alps, crossing the Delaware river, decorating one of Mondrian's paintings with a wreath and even becoming God. [Read more...]
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It's a mashup of classical artwork and the digital age in Paul Vera-Broadbent's fascinating reworking of history. He's taken the works of past masters and redone them as faceted modern day tributes that look like they could have popped out of a video game. It's a fitting piece of work for the artist: Vera-Broadbent has worked at designing video games since age 17, now has 25 titles under his belt, and a number of BAFTA nominations! [Read more...]


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The Politics and Economics of Closure
Toontown is shutting its doors. (Thanks Pidge Fielder for the tip.) When gamer properties close down, the gamers rant and, understanding that no one will actually listen, move on. Toontown is a Disney property, however, filled with ordinary people. They've started numerous petitions at Change.org, a place dedicated to windmill tilting."Disney! We insist that you ignore your bottom line and do what we want instead! Or else, or else..." Or else what? You'll throw away your Mouse ears? You'll stop going to horrible movies like Planes? You'll refuse to go to theme parks that charge a million dollars for the experience of standing in two-hour lines while eating food that would kill a buffalo?
One of the petitions is targeted appropriately. It asks Jesse Schell, a developer of the world, to take it over.
If I were Jesse, I'd consider buying the property and creating a new format for the industry: The Community MMOG. Make it a corporation and sell all the shares to users. Like the Green Bay Packers. Set up by-laws to regulate affairs among shareholders. Have an annual meeting to appoint a board of managers. Running a community MMOG would be a natural stepping stone for young people who want to build their own.
It would be good for the world if old virtual worlds were sold to their users in this fashion. And if it doesn't happen, I will refuse to purchase any Jesse Schell branded merchandise, INCLUDING the bobble head, the mud flaps, and the his-and-hers towels. Who's with me?
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I think the last few years have put the lie to the old chestnut about MMOs never really dying. We've seen plenty of games that have went away, and for the most part the universe hasn't fallen apart.
The important thing for the players is the community more than the game. (For future developers, it'd be nice to have access to the game to understand it in its historical context, of course.) But, the community can move to another form, such as a forum.
I think one thing that makes virtual worlds so interesting is having a bold idea and direction. I'm pretty sure Jesse Schell has enough stuff to keep him busy that he doesn't need to go salvage an old game from the scrap heap. Without his (or some other central developer vision), would the game be the same? I don't think so.
This might seem strange or even sacrilegious coming from me, but perhaps the best thing for the community is to let the game go gracefully into oblivion rather than having the corpse forcefully reanimated by committee.
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Even failed states have relics of times when they weren't failed states. What sort of relics do failed MMOs give their citizens?
Game closure puts to the test a lot of the assumptions we had about this genre in the early 2000s. Are these worlds institutions that can be compared with their analogous counterparts in reality? Or are they just powerful illusions--like casinos without the promise of a payout--that bear only a surface resemblance to their real world counterparts?
I'm reminded here of Hannah Arendt's table in "The Human Condition." A table relates a bunch of people who would have no relation to one another, if the table wasn't there. But when you remove the table, the people present around it have no structure that holds them together.
This is even worse when we see the game as the "table" holding MMO communities together. In MMOS, Bill and Mary aren't the beings that matter. Gruunak the Ork (played by Bill) and Ezelda the Elf (played by Mary) are the beings that matter, and the game gives the relationship form and context. When it goes, the relationship the two players goes as well, unless buttressed by a real relationship, external to the game, that can function independently.
But I'm skeptical that these games promote such connections regularly. Putting aside the occasional feel-good story about players marrying outside the game, I'm more inclined to believe that the communities that are built there share more in common with the communities of regulars at the casino or the crack house. It's all well and good when it's there, but when it gets taken away, people go through a reality check about the nature of the thing that they wasted their time playing, and now no longer have.
Because that's when it all becomes a waste, doesn't it? Becoming a hardcore raider only makes sense if there's a long and bright future made easier by the effort made today. But if there is no bright future, if the game has no future because of a shutdown, all that time given over to productive activities becomes wasted time.
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Chief among your more anxiety-producing kinds of literature is the genre of books geared towards expectant mothers. Examples of the genre offer every bit of advice imaginable — much of it contradictory — and condemn a laundry list of relatively common behaviors. At Salon, our own Lydia Kiesling recounts her own dive into the pregnancy-lit waters. This might also be a good time to read fellow staff writer Edan Lepucki on the perils of reading while expecting.
And for me, his take on Noah as a vegan environmentalist, irksome to the most literal- and bloody-minded Christianists, worked. His goofy effects, irksome to some of the heathen viewers, worked. Me, I would have welcomed more, more disco Instagram colors, more stop-motion nature footage, more animals. I love a good farrago, and Darren Aronofsky never phones his in.
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"In America it is the privilege of the white man to rollick, even if he is a poor Jew born into moderate squalor. The black man, in this novel at any rate, can only be fucked around; his hope, in this novel, is to discover his own way of doing things." On Ralph Ellison's Invisible Man.
This week, our own Lydia Kiesling took part in The Morning News Tournament of Books, where she adjudicated a showdown between Scott McClanahan's Hill William and Ruth Ozeki's A Tale for the Time Being. Who went on to the next round: the trans-Pacific odyssey, or the tale of West Virginia? (You could also read our own Edan Lepucki's Tournament contribution from last year, or else read our own Nick Moran's Year in Reading piece on Scott McClanahan.)
High genre is fiction that allows you to investigate an individual text, because it is full of its own traits and merits, whether in its characterizations, its plot, or its prose. Regular genre, I suppose, is something you can only talk about as a family — tracing the themes shared collectively among its members. High genre will always be vulnerable to the taint of its lower peers, because it shares the equipment, the same beats. This is why people are drawn to True Detective, and yet can accept assertions that it is just another dead naked lady show. I mentioned the praxis of electronic dance music. Detractors would have it that this music is derivative noise, the artless patching together of beats at just the right frequency to make the ladies tear off their cardigans in the middle of the dance hall. These are the same kinds of things that people say about genre novels. But DJs (like medieval Islamic poets, in fact), demonstrate their mastery through use of the material of their peers and predecessors. You don't always need to reinvent the wheel. You just need to be really good at spinning it.
Stephen King's next book is a thriller set in a Midwestern town suffering from unemployment. Before this sounds a little too close to home, the synopsis reveals it's about a retired cop trying to stop a mass murderer. Mr. Mercedes will be out June 3rd. Pair with: Our own Lydia Kiesling's essay on her love of King novels.
As young and extremely carefree 20-somethings who spent their weeknights drinking $5 pitchers of Busch at the now-defunct Jack's Club, we conceived of Family Dinner as a pseudo-ironic mimicry of the middle class practice with which we had all grown up. But seven years later, we are still at it. The group has grown from four people to 16. We have a calendar and a Google group, and we get together around 49 Wednesdays out of the year, rotating between approximately seven dwellings. One person cooks, everyone else brings beer or sometimes wine. We even have a family name: We're the Boehners, and we love each other.
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I wonder how bad Holinka feels having to dodge the Mage questions and stick to GC's obviously biased easily proven false reasoning.
"These people, Adam, they're like ghosts. Always in the shadows. Always hiding behind lies and proxy soldiers. I need you to find them. They cannot stop us. They cannot stop the future".
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Someone rolls a melee, then is suprised that most range classes do very well against, them. If you are going to Pvp why roll a melee?
More Mage Bias. Mortal Strike was a core warrior ability, 50% healing debuff giving us utility that made us wanted in PvP over classes lacking it, and we had it for 6 years, yet did we get to keep having that added utility in the face of supposed pvp imbalance, NO.Core mage abilities make mages do well in PVP, abilities that you cant take away.
There are plenty of examples of one time core class abilities being heavily nerfed or outright removed due to balance. Mages should not be treated any differently.
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Seeing lots of mage questions in the twitch chat for the Holinka/GC interview on right now. Doubt they answer any. http://www.twitch.tv/gamebreakertv
Now Gamebreaker is deleting any balance questions from chat. Another worthless interview. Its like watching MSNBC ask obama questions.
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If anything the Spell Reflect nerf was a core ability that Blizzard nerfed without any reason at all. No statements, just nerfed because apparently it was the solution to fix warrior damage in S9.
It's about time mages got nerfed. Having ridiculous burst, CC, and survivability cannot slide. In the past mages have always had the very good CC and survivability, but their burst wasn't as high as it is now. Something has to change if anything it should be their burst toned down, counterspell blanket silence removed, deep freeze slight cooldown increase and turned into a missile, and Blink not breaking stuns. Mages shouldn't have an answer to every problem.
And the "you have to play it to understand argument" was retarded 8 years ago and still retarded now. The game is not that complicated and simply playing against and with a class for many hundreds of hours will give you all the insight into it you need to understand why being able to 100-0 someone every 30s while having a 15s CD that prevents you from dying to your own bullshit is wrong.


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Beware of Dads Who Name Their Sons after Themselves?
Guest blogger Elizabeth Kuster: The viral video "David After Dentist" made me totally cringe, because it involved a dad, David DeVore, YouTubing his then-7-year-old son when the poor kid was high as a kite after dental surgery. (Yeah, it's kinda funny watching someone who's high totally freak out -- unless they're 7!) The vid made me feel so yucky, in fact, that I boycotted the (inevitable) follow-up, "David After Dentist 2" -- which included "never-before-seen footage" of little David's pre- and post-dentist nightmare. Thanks, but no.
Then I noticed something. Little David is actually David, Jr. His camera-happy dad? David, Sr. And I wondered: Could there be a connection between Big David naming his firstborn son after himself, and the fact that he'd felt fine about putting the hapless kid on the Web for all to see? (The video has gotten almost 58 million hits so far -- and counting.) Hmm ....
I called momlogic friend Dr. Michelle Golland to get her opinion. "The video is wrong on every level," she says. "For the father to videotape a child who's in a regressed state and on medication is a weird intrusion and an invasion of privacy. And to put it on YouTube -- that's as bad as any reality-TV parent."
Amen, sister. But was naming his son after himself a red flag that David, Sr. was a big
asshole egotist? "Well, that practice is common in many cultures -- Ireland, England," Dr. Golland points out. "Family legacies have been passed down via namesakes; one way families establish a sense of permanence is by naming firstborn males after their fathers. So for some -- especially in Europe -- it's tradition.
"That said, these are modern times, and this is America," she continues. "There could be a degree of narcissism involved. I mean, what mother have you ever, ever heard of who has ever named her firstborn after herself? Can you think of any? I can't, because it never happens. If it did, what an uproar we would hear!"
I informed Dr. Golland that David, Sr. had turned "David After Dentist" into a brand; that he'd copyrighted some of the things little David said while he was hopped up on goofballs and then put the "famous quotable lines" (as the website calls them) on T-shirts -- which sell for $20 a pop. The DAD website (yep, that's what it's called ! It's all about Dad!) also sports a large banner that proclaims, "We've turned our 15 minutes of fame into a family business!" (a business, by the way, that's brought in a sweet six figures so far). When the follow-up video was released, the blog trumpeted it like this: "...Viewers will not only relive the humor of the original video but will laugh all over again as they share in David's experience and hear him say new catchy phrases like 'I don't know what I'm doing' and 'Boo-Hoo!'" (What, no $1.29 iTunes podcast of the poor kid screaming? Well, maybe that's still to come.)
"The fact that David, Sr. has copyrighted some things little David said while he was under the anesthesia -- that he's making money off his child's frailties -- that's a scary thing," says Dr. Golland. "It does indicate that the child is just an extension of him, that little David isn't even his own entity, his own being. Narcissistic parents never give their kid any sense of individuality or sense of self. What David, Sr. did implies that the child has no feelings, no right of consent. The father had no compassion for what his child was going through. It's exploiting a child at his most vulnerable, when he has no say in the matter. Maybe little David feels terribly ashamed of the video being out there and everyone laughing. He may even be laughing along with his dad, just to go along with it. But laughing is not an indication that a child isn't in pain."
Per the experts, narcissistic parents "demand certain behavior from their children because they see the children as extensions of themselves, and need the children to represent them in the world in ways that meet the parents' emotional needs." In 2003, researchers Sandy Hotchkiss and James F. Masterson identified what they called "the seven deadly sins of narcissism." Do any of them apply to David DeVore, Sr.?
Let's see ....
- Arrogance: A narcissist who is feeling deflated may re-inflate by diminishing, debasing or degrading somebody else. (CHECK!)
- Bad boundaries: Narcissists do not recognize that they have boundaries and that others are separate .... Others either exist to meet their needs or may as well not exist at all. Those who provide narcissistic supply to the narcissist will be treated as if they are part of the narcissist and be expected to live up to those expectations. (CHECK!)
- Exploitation: This can take many forms, but always involves the exploitation of others without regard for their feelings or interests. Often the other is in a subservient position where resistance would be difficult or even impossible. (CHECK!)
According to CNN.com, David, Sr. got his son's permission before posting the video. "As much as he can understand, we've included him in the decision process," he said. Interesting wording there -- and it begs some other questions: 1) Just how much can a kid David's age (he's 9 now) understand the long-term fallout of starring in a viral video? And 2) What about the side effects of being praised (BIG TIME!) for being hilarious while on drugs? (FYI, the dental surgeon had given little David ketamine -- a.k.a. "Special K," a powerful hallucinogen which is often used for recreational purposes.)
The latter factoid makes me think about another famous Junior: Robert Downey. His dad, Robert Downey, Sr., is an actor/writer/director whose biggest claim to Hollywood fame is fathering his famous son -- and we all know what a hellish road the younger Downey has traveled. (A clip from the "Iron Man 2" trailer -- the movie opens on May 4th -- notes that Robert Downey, Jr.'s character "displays textbook narcisissim." Coincidence?)
I'll end with a bit of advice from Dr. Golland for little David's mom, Tessie DeVore. "I'm not sure of her role," says Dr. Golland, "but my advice to her is: Protect your child more. Don't let your child be exploited on the Internet." Couldn't have said it better myself.
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"Arrogance: A narcissist who is feeling deflated may re-inflate by diminishing, debasing or degrading somebody else." see Elizabeth Kuster and Dr. Michelle Golland.
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BorisVBlade - on 20 Jan 2012
The Imperial College Exploration Society is pleased to invite you to a lecture given by the "mountaineer's mountaineer". Mick Fowler will talk about a lifetime of exploratory climbing in locations ranging from the white cliffs of Dover, to sea stacks off the coast of Scotland to the Himalaya.
Venue: Physics Lecture Theatre 1, Blackett Laboratory, Imperial College, Prince Consort Road, South Kensington, London, SW7
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southern sam - on 29 Jan 2012
Will tickets ordered online be posted out or collected on the door? Just curious as I had to pay an exter fiver postage on my ticket.
In reply to southern sam: Hi Sam. Please bring a printout of the order confirmation with you. That will gain you entry, we will also reimburse the Ł5 that you paid for postage, as it was a mistake in the system. Thanks for highlighting this.
In reply to BorisVBlade: There are still plenty of seats available, so payment can be made on the door without prior researvation.
jwonder - on 31 Jan 2012
I was just wondering exactly when the lecture starts. Here and a few other places it says 7pm, but on the shop page where I bought my ticket it says 6.30.
In reply to jwonder: Hi Jim, the doors will open at 6.30 and the lecture will start at 7.00.
mkmike - on 31 Jan 2012
In reply to BorisVBlade:
Any of these lectures happen in the Milton Keynes area.? I cant get to london for 7 from here after work.
In reply to mkmike: I am afraid not, sorry. We're a society at Imperial College so we host all of the talks on Campus. There might be other talks which are located closer to Milton Keynes, but I don't know of any specific ones. Some good talks are organised by the RGS in South Kensington and they might start later, it's worth checking their website.
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It is budget season once again. This week, City Council will be meeting with City staff to review budget proposals for the upcoming year. Each department gathered information, crunched numbers and put together what they have determined is the necessary funding to run their departments over the next year. On Wednesday, April 23rd, the department heads will present this information to Council for review and consideration for approval. Council will revise departmental requests as necessary, adjust and balance projected costs vs. anticipated needs, and allocate any uncommitted funds.
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Nardin Park United Methodist Church will debut a specially commissioned piece of choral music April 28, to honor longtime organist and music director Melvin Rookus.
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Rookus is completing his 35th year with the church. During his tenure, the church has established a graded choir program that includes handbell and liturgical dance groups, established a music series that has offered 388 concert programs to the public representing distinguished artists from Europe, the United States, and Michigan.
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Eric McGowen, who was convicted of the rape of an 11-year-old Cleveland, Texas girl, was arrested Tuesday morning, according to the Gulf Coast Violent Offenders Task Force.
Before his arrest, McGowen slipped out of a Liberty County courthouse on the first day of his gang rape trial.
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The officers learned he was at an apartment on Greens Parkway. Upon arrival at the apartment, the moved in quickly to capture and arrest him.
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Iranian President-elect Hassan Rouhani might assume more direct control than his predecessor over nuclear negotiations, placing the one-time envoy again at the center of an international standoff on Iran's atomic activities, an insider with ties to the incoming leader said in comments quoted by al-Monitor on Tuesday.
Years of multilateral discussions have failed to assuage Western fears that Iran's ostensibly peaceful atomic program is serving as cover for pursuit of a nuclear-weapon capability. No solution to the dispute has emerged from numerous meetings between the Middle Eastern nation and six negotiating countries: China, France, Germany, Russia, the United Kingdom and the United States.
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