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A gothic fairy tale in the form of a theatrical-experience game. Doomed nobles seek redemption through True Love at a midnight ball.
Once upon a time...
This game tells the tale of six beautiful Ladies who came to the court of the Queen of Ice for a midnight ball, and there danced with seven noble Lords, all in pursuit of the True Love that could heal their hearts.
The conclusion of that tale is up to you.
The Dance and the Dawn is a theatrical experience for 15 players and an Orchestrator.
Special Project Update
Due to the astonishing rate of contribution, we are setting up an additional funding milestone:
- $4000 (200% of the initial goal) -- All backers will receive a Kickstarter-exclusive tabletop RPG adventure, compatible with Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition, set in the world of The Dance and the Dawn. The adventure will be written by Dev Purkayastha, who created the initial The Dance and the Dawn tabletop roleplaying game. See the update log for more details.
About the Medium
A theatrical experience -- also known as "interactive literature" or as "live-action roleplay" -- is essentially a play without a script or an audience. It is a chance to live out a story, guided by the game rules but ultimately directed only by one's own thoughts and actions.
About the Game
The players take on the roles of nobles in a gothic fairy-tale realm, convened for a great ritual dance, who have one night to find love and redemption. Six players become the Ladies of Ash, who have come to the midnight ball in hopes of healing their heartbreak; seven become the cold, proud Lords of Ice who are there waiting for them, and who struggle with tragedies of their own; and the other two become the Queen of Ice and the Duke of Ash, the enigmatic figures who have arranged the whole affair. The game is an event that lasts about four hours, which will be taken up with dancing and dueling and courtly intrigue...and, of course, with the eternal hope of romance and joy.
About the Contents
The Dance and the Dawn is a hefty product; we've made sure that it contains everything that you might need to run a satisfying and enchanting Midnight Ball. Game materials include:
- Two complete rulesheets -- one for the Ladies of Ash, one for the Lords of Ice.
- Fourteen extensive character sheets, detailing the history, personality, and special abilities of the nobles present at the midnight ball. (The Queen and the Duke share a character sheet.)
- An Orchestrator's Guide, explaining the hidden machinery of the game and providing tips for keeping it running smoothly.
- An additional play guide for the Queen and the Duke, expanding on their tasks as the ball's masters-of-ceremonies.
...it's a darned good value for $10.
What do I get for my money?
- $1: A PDF copy of an tabletop RPG adventure module, compatible with Dungeons & Dragons 4th Edition, set in the world of The Dance and the Dawn. The module will be composed by Dev Purkayastha, the author of the original Dance and the Dawn tabletop game. This prize is a bonus offering, available because the project successfully passed the 200% funding milestone. Many thanks!
- $10: A PDF copy of the game. This is, almost certainly, substantially less than it will cost at market value.
- $25: At this level you also get the exclusive Dreams of Ice and Ash supplement, which may not be available elsewhere. See the FAQ for more details.
- $50: The game requires props representing the favors of the six Ladies of Ash. Each backer at this level will be provided with a set of satin ribbon-rose brooches to serve that function. As a reward for helping us reach our 150% funding milestone, backers at this level and above will also receive an additional set of six ribbon-roses to serve as the favors of the Ladies included with the supplement.
- $75: The game requires a prop to represent the favor of the Queen of Ice. Furthermore, one of the characters -- the Prince of Ice -- has to be able to display to seven favors at once. Each backer at this level will be additionally provided with a crystal brooch for the Queen's favor, as well as a sash for the Prince so that he can gracefully display a whole bunch of brooches at once.
- $150: Each backer at this level will receive a custom character (either a Lady or a Lord), created in consultation with the game's author around his specifications, as well as a character of the other type to serve as the custom character's True Love. These additional characters will have complete character sheets and will be fully playable. They will be included in the Dreams of Ice and Ash supplement.
- $500: If you donate this much, the author will come out to you and run the game. You won't need to worry about Orchestration. Note that, in addition to the donation, this reward may require reimbursement of travel expenses (depending on where you are and other factors).
Where's the money going?
The Dance and the Dawn is a fully-written, fully-edited game; it's been run many times, on several continents, carried around the world by people who love it. But now we want to turn it into a product worthy of public consumption, and for that we need art and layout design and printing and distribution, and those things are expensive for a project of this size -- especially given that we're not willing to cut corners on quality.
It's worth noting that, while our $2000 project goal represents the amount we'll need to turn The Dance and the Dawn into a saleable item, money beyond that limit will not be wasted in terms of helping this project grow. It's possible to make the game look good with a relatively minimal amount of art, but the more pieces we can pay for, the lusher and more beautiful the end product will be. Money funneled into marketing and publicity power will help us get the game -- and the whole theatrical-experience medium -- to a wider audience. And there are more games coming down the pipeline...
What's the bigger picture?
Paracelsus Games was founded to promote and popularize interactive literature. Theatrical experience gaming is very much a niche phenomenon right now, but there are a lot of people out there looking for a fundamentally social form of structured entertainment, and it is our goal to introduce them to the medium that can provide exactly that. The Dance and the Dawn is our first product; its success will open a great many doors for future theatrical experiences. For those who want a sneak peek into the future, various games in development include:
- The Song and the Sunrise, a mechanical and spiritual successor to The Dance and the Dawn -- a wuxia-themed story of swords and sorrow in a China that never was
- The Soul of the World -- a tale of humans, given the power of gods by the strength of their desires, seeking to remake creation according to their own philosophies
- An as-yet-unnamed Miskatonic University Faculty Conference Game
And the waltz plays on, and on, and on...
Because we haven't yet determined in what physical format the game is going to be printed, and dealing with that may take a while; we don't want to make promises to backers that will result in long waits. Depending on how things go and how much backing we receive, we may end up distributing physical game copies to our backers as well.
"Dreams of Ice and Ash" is a PDF supplement to the base game; it is being created as a special promotion for Kickstarter. The future is always uncertain, but there are currently no plans to print or distribute these additional materials...so donating to this campaign at the $25 level or above may be the only way to get them.
The core of the supplement is a set of additional characters, created as rewards for backers who donate at the $150 level. There will also be an additional Orchestrator's guide discussing the use of these characters to expand your event or to replace characters from the base game. Given how many $150-level donations we have received, we will be able to provide an complete alternate roster for the game, allowing those who have already played to enjoy the midnight ball once more as primary characters.
There will be further additional materials, although we haven't yet decided precisely what they'll be. Some of the options under consideration include:
* A detailed ending-narration guide for the Orchestrator, discussing every single possible couple
* Suggested songlists for dancing and dueling
* Rules and recipes for the Queen's Bartender, an optional minor support character -
Before it was a theatrical experience, The Dance and the Dawn was an experimental tabletop roleplaying game written by the brilliant Dev Purkayastha. It is totally great, and you should play it. A quick web search will bring you to the places where it can be bought for download.
Dev is involved with this project, and it is going forward with his permission.
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Deterritorializing Jewishness
The Tanak and other sources of Judaism reveal certain ideas concerning The Land that reflect, or are parallel to, primitive Semitic, other Near Eastern, and, indeed, widespread conceptions about the significance of their land to a particular people. Israel is represented as the centre of the Earth.…The religious man desires to live as near to this sacred space as possible and comes to regard it, the place of his abode, his own land, as the centre of the world.
There are two diametrically opposed moments in the Jewish discourse of the Land. On the one hand, it is crucial to recognize that the Jewish conception of the Land of Israel is absolutely and essentially similar and contiguous to the discourse of the Land of many (if not nearly all) "indigenous" peoples of the world. Somehow, the Jews have managed to retain a sense of being rooted somewhere in the world through twenty centuries of exile from that someplace, and organicist metaphors are not out of place in this discourse, for they are used within the tradition itself.
There is accordingly something profoundly disturbing about Jewish attachment to the Land being decried as regressive in the same discursive situations in which the attachment of Native Americans or Australians to their particular rocks, trees, and deserts is celebrated as an organic connection to the Earth which "we" have lost. Recently at a conference an aboriginal speaker from Australia began her lecture with greetings from her people to the indigenous people of the United States, of whom there were two representatives at the conference, whom she addressed by name. Much of her lecture consisted of a critique of the rootlessness of Europeans. I had a sense of being trapped in a double bind, for if the Jews are the indigenous people of the Land of Israel, as Zionism claims, then the Palestinians are indigenous nowhere, but if the Palestinians are the indigenous people of Palestine, then Jews are indigenous nowhere (J. Boyarin 1992b, 119; Rabi 1979). I have painfully renounced the possibility of realizing my very strong feeling of connection to the Land (or rather, deferred it to some Messianic redemption, when all will be clarified) in favor of what I take to be the only possible end to violence and movement toward justice. Am I now to be condemned as a person who has lost his roots? I think that the uncritical valorization of indigenousness (and particularly the confusion between political indigeneity and mystified autochthony) must come under critique, without wishing, however, to deny the rights of Native Americans, Australians, and Palestinians to their lands precisely on the basis of real and not mystified political claims.[35] Thus I find the arguments of some Palestinians that they are the direct descendants of the Jebusites and therefore exclusively entitled to the Land frightening in their implications, for the same reason that I find such claims frightening in the mouths of Jews. If Jews are to give up hegemony over the Land, this does not mean that the profundity of our attachment to that Land and the crucial cultural significance of a large grouping of Jews in one place, speaking, writing, and creating in Hebrew, can be denied; these also must have a political expression in the present. The cultural rights of a Jewish collective or collectives must be protected in any future Palestine as well.
The biblical story is not one of autochthony but one of always already coming from somewhere else. As Davies has so very well understood, the concept of a Divine Promise to give this land, which is the land of Others, to His People Israel is a marker and sign of a bad conscience at having deprived the others of their Land (Davies 1992, 11–12).[36] Thus, at the same time that one vitally important strain of expression within biblical religion promotes a sense of organicistic "natural" connectedness between this People and this Land, a settlement in the Land, in another sense or in a counter-strain, Israelite and Jewish religion is perpetually an unsettlement of the very notion of autochthony.
Traditional Jewish attachment to the Land, whether biblical or post-biblical, thus provides a self-critique as well as a critique of identities based on notions of autochthony. One Jewish narrative of the Land has the power of insisting on the powerful connection without myths of autochthony, while other narratives, including the Zionist one, have repressed memories of coming from somewhere else. These very repressions are complicitous with a set of mystifications within which nationalist ideologies subsist. We have two alternative modes in the Bible itself for the construction of Jewish identity, one based on genealogy and one on autochthony. Paul leveled his primary attack on the former, while I am suggesting that it is the latter that is primarily responsible for racist effects in Jewish cultures. As Harry Berger argues, "The alienation of social constructions of divinity and cosmos by conquest groups resembles the alienation of socially constructed kinship and status terms from domestic kin groups to corporate descent groups—in anthropological jargon, from the ego-centered kinship system of families to the more patently fictional ancestor-centered system of lineages" (Berger 1989, 121). Distinguishing between forms of "weak transcendence" and "strong transcendence," Berger argues that "family membership illustrates weak kinship; tribal membership, strong kinship" (121). Strong transcendence is that which is more aggressive, because it is more embattled and doing more ideological work in the service of, according to Berger, land control: "Status that depends on land is generally more precarious and alienable than status inscribed on the body; mobile subsistence economies tend to conceptualize status in terms of the signifying indices of the body—indices of gender, age, and kinship—rather than of more conspicuously artificial constructions, and are closer to the weak end of the weak-to-strong scale." Thus Berger, following Brueggemann, contrasts two covenants, one the Mosaic, which rejects "the imperial gods of a totalitarian and hierarchic social order," and one the Davidic, which enthrones precisely those gods as the one God. I could similarly contrast the two trajectories, the one toward autochthony and the one against it in the same way: the former promotes status that depends on land while the latter provides for status "in terms of the signifying indices of the body." The first would serve to support the rule of Israelite kings over territory, while the second would serve to oppose it:[37] "The dialectical struggle between antiroyalism and royalism persists throughout the course and formative career of the Old Testament as its structuring force. It sets the tent against the house, nomadism against agriculture, the wilderness against Canaan, wandering and exile against settlement, diaspora against the political integrity of a settled state" (123). My argument, then, is that a vision of Jewish history and identity that valorizes the second half of each of these binaries and sees the first as only a disease constitutes not a continuation of Jewish culture but its subversion.
What, however, of the fact that Berger has also implicated "ancestor-centered systems of lineages" as ideological mystifications in the service of state-power of conquest groups—seeming to agree with Paul that claims of status according to the flesh are retrograde—, while I have held such an organization up as the alternative and counter to statism? Empirically, tribal organization with its concomitant myths of the eponymous ancestor, e.g., Abraham, is nearly emblematic of nomadic peoples, not of states. Berger's own discourse, moreover, is inconsistent here, for only a page later, he refers to the pre-monarchic period of Israel ("roughly 1250 to 1000 B.C. ") as a social experiment in "the rejection of strong transcendence in favor of a less coercive and somewhat weaker alternative, the tribal system that cuts across both local allegiances and stratificational discontinuities" (123). Thus Berger puts tribalism first on the side of "strong transcendence" and then on the side of "weak." Against Berger's first claim on this point and in favor of his second, I would argue that talk of the eponymous ancestors, of the Patriarchs, is conspicuously less prominent in the "Davidic" texts of the settlement than in the "Mosaic" texts of the wandering. As Berger himself writes, "[David] tried to displace the loyalties and solidarity of kinship ties from clans and tribes to the national dynasty" (124). I would suggest that descent from a common ancestor is rather an extension of family kinship and not its antithesis and thus on the side of wilderness and not on the side of Canaan. Even the myth of descent from common ancestry belongs rather to the semantic field of status through the body and not to the semantic field of status through land. Diaspora, in historical Judaism, can be interpreted then as the analog in a later set of material conditions of nomadism in the earlier, and thus as a continuation of the "sociological experiment" which the Davidic monarchy symbolically overturns.[38] With the "invention" of Diaspora, the "radical experiment of Moses" was advanced. The forms of identification typical of nomads, those marks of status in the body, remained, then, crucial to this formation. Race is here on the side of the radicals; space, on the other hand, belongs to the despots. Paul has, on my view, like many of his followers even of good will, misread the promises and possibilities of the Jewish discourse of deterritorialized, genealogical identity. But then, in my view, so has Zionism.
One modernist story of Israel—the Israeli Declaration of Independence—begins with an imaginary autochthony: "In the Land of Israel this people came into existence," and ends with the triumphant return of the People to their natural Land, making them re-autochthonized, "like all of the nations." Israeli state-power, deprived of the option of self-legitimation through appeal to divine king, discovered autochthony as a powerful replacement.[39] An alternative story of Israel begins with a people forever unconnected with a particular land, a people that calls into question the idea that a people must have a land in order to be a people:
For this reading, the stories of Israel's conquest of the Land, whether under Abraham, Joshua or even more prominently, David, are always stories that are more compromised with a sense of failure of mission than they are imbued with the accomplishment of mission, and the internal critique within the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) itself, the dissident voice which is nearly always present, does not let us forget this either. Davies also brings into absolutely clear focus a prophetic discourse of preference for "Exile" over rootedness in the Land (together with a persistent hope of eschatological restoration), a prophetic discourse which has been, of course, totally occluded in modern Zionist ideological representations of the Bible and of Jewish history but was pivotal in the rabbinic ideology (15–19). Ultimately, I would argue, then, that Israel is indeed a product of European colonialism and cultural imperialism but in a sense that the other nation-states of the postcolonial world are as well. The ultimate product of western imperialism is the extension of the very system of nation-states over the entire world, and it is this that must be resisted. As Balibar has put it:The Land of Israel was not the birthplace of the Jewish people, which did not emerge there (as most peoples have on their own soil). On the contrary it had to enter its own Land from without; there is a sense in which Israel was born in exile. Abraham had to leave his own land to go to the Promised Land: the father of Jewry was deterritorialized. (Davies 1992, 63)[40]
The Rabbis produced their cultural formation within conditions of Diaspora—that is, in a situation within which Jews did not hold power over others—, and I would argue that their particular discourse of ethnocentricity is ethically appropriate only when the cultural identity is that of a minority, embattled or, at any rate, non-hegemonic. The point is not that the Land was devalued by the Rabbis but that they renounced it until the final Redemption, because in an unredeemed world, temporal dominion and ethnic particularity are, as I have argued in the last section, impossibly compromised. I think that Davies phrases the position just right when he says, "It was its ability to detach its loyalty from 'place,' while nonetheless retaining 'place' in its memory, that enabled Pharisaism to transcend the loss of its Land" (1992, 69).[41] My only addition would be to argue that this displacement of loyalty from place to memory of place was a necessary one, not only to transcend the loss of the Land but to enable the loss of the Land. It was political possession of the Land which most threatened the possibility of continued Jewish cultural practice and difference. Given the choice between an ethnocentricity which would not seek domination over others or a seeking of political domination that would necessarily have led either to a dilution of distinctiveness, tribal warfare, or fascism, the Rabbis de facto chose the former. Secular Zionism has unsuccessfully sought the first choice, dilution of distinctiveness; religious Zionism has unfortunately (but almost inevitably) led to the second and third choices.[42] Either way, Zionism leads to the ruination of rabbinic Judaism, founded on intense, concrete "tribal" intimacy, and it is no wonder that until World War II Zionism was a secular movement claiming very few adherents among religious Jews, who saw it as a human arrogation of a work that only God should or could perform. This is, moreover, the basis for the anti-Zionist ideology of such groups as Natorei Karta until this day.[43] It was the renunciation of sovereignty over the Land that allowed Jewish memory to persist.There is indeed an institution which the world bourgeoisie shares and which tends to confer concrete existence upon it, above and beyond its internal conflicts (even when these take the violent form of military conflicts) and particularly above and beyond the quite different conditions of its hegemony over the dominated populations! That institution is the system of states itself, the vitality of which has become particularly evident since, in the wake of revolutions and counter-revolutions, colonizations and decolonizations, the form of the nation-state has been formally extended to the whole of humanity. (Balibar and Wallerstein 1991, 5; cf. Basil Davidson 1992)
The dialectic between Paul and the Rabbis can be recuperated for cultural critique. When Christianity is the hegemonic power in Europe and the United States, then the resistance of Jews to being universalized can be a critical force and model for the resistance of all peoples to being Europeanized out of particular bodily existence. When, however, an ethnocentric Judaism becomes a temporal, hegemonic political force, it becomes absolutely, vitally necessary to accept Paul's critical challenge—although not his universalizing, disembodying solution—and develop an equally passionate concern for all human beings. We, including religious Jews—perhaps especially religious Jews—must take the theological dimension of Paul's challenge seriously. How could the God of all the world have such a disproportionate care and concern for only a small part of His world?! And yet, obviously, I cannot even conceive of accepting Paul's solution of dissolving into a universal human essence, even one that would not be Christian but truly humanist and universal, even if such an entity could really exist.[44] If, on the one hand, rabbinic Judaism seems to imply that Israel is the true humanity, a potentially vicious doctrine of separation and hierarchy, Paul argues that humanity is the true Israel, an equally vicious doctrine of coerced sameness and exclusion.
Somewhere in this dialectic a synthesis must be found, one that will allow for stubborn hanging on to ethnic, cultural specificity but in a context of deeply felt and enacted human solidarity. For that synthesis, Diaspora provides the model, and only in conditions of Diaspora can such a resolution even be attempted. Within the conditions of Diaspora, many Jews discovered that their well-being was absolutely dependent on principles of respect for difference, indeed "that no one is free until all are free." Complete devotion to the maintenance of Jewish culture and the historical memory were not inconsistent with devotion to radical causes of human liberation; there were Yiddish-speaking and Judeo-Arabic-speaking groups of marxists and anarchists, and a fair number of such Jews even retained a commitment to historical Jewish religious practice. The "chosenness" of the Jews becomes, when seen in this light, not a warrant for racism but precisely an antidote to racism. This is a Judaism which mobilizes the critical forces within the Bible and the Jewish tradition rather than mobilizing the repressive and racist forces that also subsist there.
The alternative story I would tell of Jewish history has three stages. In the first stage, we find a people—call it a tribe—not very different in certain respects from peoples in similar material conditions all over the world, a people like most others that regards itself as special among humanity, indeed as The People, and its land as preeminently wonderful among lands, indeed as The Land. This is, of course, an oversimplification, because this "tribe" never quite dwelled alone and never regarded itself as autochthonous in its Land. In the second stage, this form of life increasingly becomes untenable, morally and politically, because the "tribe" no longer dwells alone, as it were. This is, roughly speaking, the Hellenistic period, culminating in the crises of the first century, of which I have read Paul as an integral part. Various solutions to this problem were eventually adopted. Pauline Christianity is one; so, perhaps, is the retreat to Qumran, while the Pharisaic Rabbis "invented" Diaspora, even in the Land, as the solution to this cultural dilemma.
The rabbinic answer to Paul's challenge was, therefore, to renounce any possibility of dominion over Others by being perpetually out of power:
As before, my impulse is only to slightly change the nuance of Davies's marvelously precise reading. The renunciation of temporal power (not merely "recognition of powerlessness") was to my mind precisely the most powerful mode of preservation of difference and, therefore, the most effective kind of resistance. The story of Rabbi Yohanan ben Zakkai being spirited out of besieged Jerusalem to set up the Academy at Yavneh rather than staying and fighting for Jewish sovereignty is emblematic of this stance. The Natorei Karta, to this day, refuse to visit the Western Wall, the holiest place in Judaism, without PLO "visas," because it was taken by violence. And, I would argue: This response has much to teach us.[45] I want to propose a privileging of Diaspora, a dissociation of ethnicities and political hegemonies, as the only social structure which even begins to make possible a maintenance of cultural identity in a world grown thoroughly and inextricably interdependent. Indeed, I would suggest that Diaspora, and not monotheism, may be the important contribution that Judaism has to make to the world, although I would not deny the positive role that monotheism has played in making Diaspora possible. The very current example of eastern Europe should provide much food for thought, where the lesson of Diaspora, namely, that peoples and lands are not naturally and organically connected, were it taken to heart, could prevent much bloodshed. Diaspora can teach us that it is possible for a people to maintain its distinctive culture, its difference, without controlling land, a fortiori without controlling other people or developing a need to dispossess them of their lands. Thus the response of rabbinic Judaism to the challenge of universalism, which Paul, among others, raised against what was becoming in the end of the millennium and the beginning of the next, an increasingly inappropriate doctrine of specialness in an already interdependent world, may provide some, by no means all, of the pieces to the solution to the puzzle of how humanity can survive now as another millennium draws to its close with no Messiah yet on the horizon. I would argue, therefore, that only a precise reversal of the synthesis of domination and racism could provide any answer to the question of how humanity might continue to survive. Renunciation of sovereignty, autochthony, indigeneity (as embodied politically in the notion of self-determination), on the one hand, combined with a fierce tenacity in holding onto cultural identity, on the other, might yet have something to offer. For we live in a world in which the combination of these two kills thousands daily, yet where the renunciation of difference seems both an impoverishment of human life and an inevitable harbinger of oppression.Just as with seeing the return in terms of the restoration of political rights, seeing it in terms of redemption has certain consequences. If the return were an act of divine intervention, it could not be engineered or forced by political or any other human means: to do so would be impious. That coming was best served by waiting in obedience for it: men of violence would not avail to bring it in. The rabbinic aloofness to messianic claimants sprang not only from the history of disillusionment with such, but from this underlying, deeply ingrained attitude. It can be claimed that under the main rabbinic tradition Judaism condemned itself to powerlessness. But recognition of powerlessness (rather than a frustrating, futile, and tragic resistance) was effective in preserving Judaism in a very hostile Christendom, and therefore had its own brand of "power." (Davies 1992, 82)


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(UPDATE) Teen arrested for stealing rifles from FBI vehicle
A 16-year-old boy was arrested on Friday on charges he stole two high-powered rifles from an unmarked FBI vehicle, police said.
Danish artist Thomas Dambo recovers his stolen pink pony
In an attempt to impress his future girlfriend, Danish artist Thomas Dambo built a 5-meter tall pink pony out of scrap wood. He slept inside the life-size My Little Pony every night and after a long campaign, she joined him.
24 Eagles jerseys stolen from Lehigh County Cracker Barrel
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A woman involved a domestic dispute walked away from investigating officers, hopped in a police car and drove away.
Pit bulls stolen in Southwest Philly home invasion
A homeowner was pistol-whipped and his pit bulls stolen during a home invasion in Southwest Philly this morning.
Wonder Bear found: Ocean City, NJ, mascot suit pulled from trash
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'74 Cup champions ring stolen from original Flyer's daughter
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No injuries in Northeast Philadelphia home invasion
No one was injured in a home invasion-style burglary in Northeast Philadelphia early Wednesday.


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Any stream for Benfica vs. V. Setúbal at Saturday 19:15?
Thank you.
Any stream for Benfica vs. V. Setúbal at Saturday 19:15?
Thank you.
Thank you but I can only see it if i have some money on bwin.com.
Won't you give me another stream?
Channel 6 should have it, see channel below BWIN ;)
Thanks you again. You were fast.
I have tried to open it on Tvants but it didn't get connected.
okay did you check the channels tab --> does it buffer? Otherwise there might be other links tonight, wait untill 19:15 and I will help you further.
Yes. It show "buffering" but than it doesn't go on.
I will be waiting for other links.
Thanks again.
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it does buffer in TVAnts? Then click Open when the channel buffered above 35% , what does it say then? Make sure to use Mediaplayer 10 and allow > 50 connections; http://www.myp2p.eu/software.php?part=software (General tip)
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unfortunay "Channel" links are all half dead :P (only buffering)
channel 3 and 6 are fine here, both should reach 60 - 70% ... mms link is full already I see :o
I guess it will improve for you...
Can you link me channel 3?
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How that roof gets paid for, however, remains up in the air. Diaz, who is also chairman of the county's sports commission, said the Dolphins have not yet asked the county for public funding to make renovations on their 25-year-old stadium.
When asked if Diaz — who the Dolphins would likely need as an ally should they make a play for tax dollars — would support public financing, he said: "We have to look at all the variables involved. What would the citizens get for this? That's a question a lot of people, including myself, have put up."
Still, Diaz said that if renovations are not made — including the rain-blocking canopy, improved seating, high-definition lighting and a scoreboard upgrade — South Florida risks missing out on the blue-ribbon sporting events this area has hosted for decades.
"It makes a big difference economically," Diaz said of coveted games like the Super Bowl. "The problem is, how do you express that to the people out there that are still trying to get a job, still trying to get their life together? That's the key point here."
Speaking of the facility, the Dolphins ignited a comedic firestorm on Twitter when the field sprinklers went off during the third quarter, causing a short delay in the action.
Afterwards, the organization said the accidental watering was a result of a computer malfunction. The system thought it was Saturday, not game day.
"You know what? In all my years of football, that's a first one," Reggie Bush said. "It kind of reminded me of the old 18th hole trick where you send a rookie out there at 9 p.m. and the sprinklers come on."
A check for a record $2.2 million from the Dolphins Cycling Challenge was presented to the Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center before kickoff.
More than 2,000 cyclists rode more than 90,000 miles in the third installment of the annual event that took place Nov. 3-4.
"As someone who grew up in South Florida, being an active participant in the community and enhancing that community has been very important to me," Dolphins owner Stephen Ross said.
• Dolphins inactives: Pat Devlin, Lamar Miller, Josh Kaddu, Will Yeatman, Ryan Durand, Michael Egnew and Kyle Miller.
• Anthony Fasano (hip) and Austin Spitler (ankle) played despite being listed as questionable on the team's final injury report.
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• Dan Carpenter, on hitting a game-winning kick after missing one earlier in the year: "I wouldn't call it redemption. It's just a win for our team. It's a big one."
• The Dolphins are 12-1 since 1997 in games against West Coast teams in Miami.
• Charles Clay set career-highs in catches (six) and receiving yards (84).
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Olsen's presentation will address the role of city sprawl in drastically increasing the urban forest at the expense of the natural forest. The talk will provide a historical perspective on planting the urban forest, a discussion on the rise and fall of particular forest species, and on why some native tree species are not planted in the urban forest. Olsen will also explore the urban forest's impact on native trees, highlighting current research at the U.S. National Arboretum with regards to the effects of breeding and selecting native tree species.
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I've never used 11-Keto-Test, but I'm pleased to hear you guys are considering introducing another PH (at least, that's what I'm assuming you guys have in mind? LOL). Isn't it usually regarded as a leaning agent? If so... I can just imagine the joy and results of a cycle consisting of Alpha Mass, Alpha Bulk, an AI (to reduce estrogen conversion from AB), 5-Alpha, and the 11-Keto product. My gosh -- that would be incredible..
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JPMorgan and Wells Fargo Beat the Street
Sterne Agee senior research analyst Todd Hagerman weighs in on JPMorgan and Wells Fargo earnings.
Apr 13, 2012
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It's our view well JPMorgan and -- Wells Fargo also are weighing on the markets today despite the fact Franklin at both banks reported first quarter earnings that beat the street Tottenham and covers the financial sector he's a senior research analyst its journey case.
All right so.
Overall how to fill up the numbers -- all this morning from both from JPMorgan and Wells Fargo was anything in either report that really kind of shocked he would act.
Yeah what we saw today from both companies quite frankly is -- the ongoing sore spot as -- through both the consumer banking units as well as mortgage in particular.
We saw from JPMorgan.
A real large charge as it relates to ongoing.
Litigation costs related to mortgage.
Both you that both companies reporting.
Down earnings in their consumer banking units.
Both companies reporting elevated costs as -- expenses.
Associated to their their mortgage banking unit.
We'll get a bit of the surprise with with the optimism that kind of infiltrated some of the stocks with the big run to this point.
And you know the stocks with a big expectation.
Very ripe for pullback today.
Okay Simpson not surprise probably that the pullback at the same time plus rolled out on JPMorgan here for just a second is Jamie Dimon and all of this -- -- come out.
You mentioned litigation issues that's gonna give -- problem moving forward.
Cover JPMorgan.
Are you concerned at all about investor lawsuits against him in particular because remember.
You know Bank of America not cannot earlier is that we're gonna fight says it's going to be fine and it wasn't fine for shareholders innovative did at the bottom line -- -- -- bank does not have.
Management has.
Pretty regularly talked about the fact that these mortgage related costs would come down over time.
And more specifically.
-- the litigation related costs that -- so.
Exceptionally high and twenty -- -- -- and the expectations where they -- gonna come down.
We had an about face today with JPMorgan.
With the really outsized charge.
Even post the -- settlement which really took people by surprise.
I think you know the point at the end of the day is we're not out of the did the mortgage mess yet.
Both companies showing the fact that.
Related costs and expenses remain high.
They talked about the fact that they will remain high for the foreseeable future.
And that's certainly kind of cuts in the some of the optimism that many folks have -- -- -- -- the housing job creation so forth.
OK you've got -- -- on JPMorgan let's move over to Wells Fargo different story in particular it is about the mortgage business that.
Wells Fargo looking -- the numbers here for the first quarter I mean this is -- the fourth largest bank in the country but at the same time.
I mean mortgage income was ups are -- -- a positive turn around here do you think on the mortgage side of the business for Wells Fargo.
Wells Fargo reported a very robust numbers relates to mortgage banking.
Not necessarily.
A a big surprise to the marketplace.
I think you know it as we take a look.
Drill down through the numbers on mortgage banking was certainly.
Exceptional for the company.
He saw some soft spots within the numbers.
Notably you know you're spreading and come as -- referenced before the consumer banking unit the elevated costs as it relates to mortgage.
Hire reps and warranties costs those things again kind of caught in two.
Be the real strength -- as a relates to mortgage banking and Wells Fargo so and again -- expectations are very high.
All right cut you don't go to got a lot more earnings they got dragged you would -- -- particular though about Citi you know speaking about mortgages.
Citi as had a lot of issues has been management issues a lot of questions about management -- in the leadership that city -- -- you have about the stock and -- you wellness stocks.
What is it that you're saying is Citi that may be some are not right now.
Well I think you know for Citigroup in particular.
What really catches my attention is the fact that this company has now been profitable for the better part of the last couple years.
They really have the lowest our balance sheet mortgage related exposure well to their peers where that Bank of America.
Or Wells Fargo and quite frankly.
You know the the they continue to grow tangible book value at a pretty healthy pace the wall we're really discounting the earnings from the company.
You know you look at the end of the day you look at the valuation and it's a very compelling story very compelling investor right now in our opinion.
All right Todd -- Sterne Agee senior.
Research analysts it's going to be well Anderson I think that's it Belize and the other rest of the banks come out what their numbers dot.
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Meridian-I understand evolution quite well - that was not my post citing we are monkey men.
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Phopojijo- trolls upset people - sorry if you are upset - I have broken no rules here.
Palandri- I would encourage that as well, I would also encourage reading the history of religions, the history of deities, Darwinism,The God Delusion,
and take note that 99% of published scientists are atheist. Also take note that of the 4 richest men in the world one is religious and does not believe in social causes but the three that are atheist do- just an interesting fact for those who believe there would be no social help if churches were to stop giving aid -
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Memberjb hey i love theory 11 and i would buy 50 dollars or more of stuff but my mom will not let me and i want to know if they will be available afterwards please say yes so i can get my hands on this deck i have 15 dollars ready for one deck and shipping if they will be available for windows so will they
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The $50.00 mark needed to be hit prior to the shipping cost and final total. For example: I purchased 3 items:
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Memberpf... i just made my purchase at 56$ without shippin and 82$+shipping ....I DIDNT SEE ANYTHING SAYING ABOUT WM ....BUT I WISH I HAD IT IN MY BOX WHEN IT WILL COME HOME! .. THANKS A LOT ! KISSES!
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Well I won't be able to get over 50$ in this order, just because I simply can't find enough merch that I need for that much BUUUUT I will be ordering a copy of Andy's effect come tomorrow morning. You sold me on that one.
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MemberLimited editions?
+1 For this. I mean, really, what is the point of rare editions? Let me know if I got this right - if one would like to increase profit with special edition cards, he/she would set a higher price for these cards, e.g. White Monarchs, at let's say $15-20 or give them for free with purchases over $50 (which is completely fair and legit). But, if these cards cost the same as all the other cards, then, what is the profit there? Someone would sell them on eBay for a much higher price, but where is your profit there?
Just imagine Apple selling white edition of iPhone in limited quantities. It would cost the same as the black one, but it would be rare. Silly, isn't it? Everybody wants to have the white iPhone, so they enable anyone to have it. I believe it's the same with these cards (not just White Monarchs, but all the other limited editions, like B/W Centurions and others...). These cards look great (a true piece of beauty, really) and many people would like to have them. Why making it such a big deal to get one of these? I understand that there are certain strategies of marketing and selling, but I really can't get my head around this one.
If someone could please clarify this one for me, I would mostly appreciate it. Thanks.
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Take for example one that I will eventually get my hands on, the 1st edition Black Ghost deck from ellusionist. Cheapest I found it on Ebay was $120 in a buy it now auction. There were a few being bid on for less, but still, not cheap. That is just because of how rare they are (only 5,000 ever made if I remember right).
I am a card collector first, and so this was perfect for me, and even though I work nights and am always asleep that early in the morning, I got up right at the start of the promotion, had my cart prepared the night before, and got my order in time for both the deck and uncut sheets. Granted still waiting for the damn order to ship xD


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NVIDIA, the leader in visual computing technologies, today introduced its new family of GeForce GTX 200 graphics processors (GPUs) — which includes the GeForce GTX 280 and GeForce GTX 260 GPUs — taking graphics beyond gaming and gaming beyond anything that's ever been possible before on a consumer computing platform. "The advances NVIDIA continues to make in visual computing are simply incredible, and we are excited to be one of the first companies in the world to offer the technology in the new Exhilaration Edition of the award-winning HP Blackbird 002," said Rahul Sood, chief technology officer, HP Voodoo Business Unit. "Exceptional graphics quality and performance is important to our customers, and now the GeForce GTX 200 GPUs are bringing something else into the mix. By using the GPU to enhance everyday applications such as video encoding and manipulating photos, HP Blackbird 002 is one of the most cutting-edge PC platforms ever designed." Graphics Beyond Gaming One of the most powerful processors in the PC is the GPU. Rendering 3D images in real-time is just about the most mathematically intensive task your PC will ever undertake, but it's not the only one. As PC applications become increasingly visual, many ordinary tasks will benefit from the graphics horsepower provided by the GPU, including encoding and playing high-definition videos, editing photos, getting driving directions off the Internet, or simply running a new operating system like Windows Vista. "Millions of users around the world know how time consuming it is to convert their home videos for use on video sharing sites such as YouTube or for downloading to popular media players such as the iPod," said Sam Blackman, CEO of Elemental Technologies. "Elemental has developed the BadaBOOM Media Converter, a consumer video application scheduled for release in August. By taking advantage of the massively parallel, general-purpose computing architecture of a GeForce GPU, we are able to transcode high-quality video 18 times faster than with CPU-only implementations. This unprecedented performance scaling is the reason why we have made sure that our RapiHDTM Video Platform takes advantage of NVIDIA GPUs." By recognizing that the value of a GPU transcends gaming, an increasing number of applications are also being written that use the GPU for straight, non-graphical computational tasks. For example, Stanford University's distributed computing computational program Folding@Home, combines the computing horsepower of millions of consumer GPUs to simulate protein folding to help find cures for diseases such as Alzheimer's or Parkinson's. With the computing processing power of the GeForce GTX family, applications such as Folding@Home and others can run upwards of 140 times faster on an NVIDIA general-purpose parallel processor than on some of today's traditional CPUs. "GeForce GPUs will soon deliver the biggest boost in processing power we've seen in the history of Folding@Home," said Vijay Pande, Associate Professor of Chemistry, Stanford University. "The GeForce GTX 280 GPU runs Folding@Home 45 times faster than the latest 3GHz Core2 Quad CPU. If just one percent of the world's GeForce 8- and 9-Series GPUs ran Folding@Home, we would have 70 petaflops of processing power to help find cures for disease. That's 10 times more processing power than the world's top 100 supercomputers combined." Gaming That's Beyond The CUDA general-purpose parallel processing mode will usher in a new generation of ultra realistic games. Developers can use the supercomputing power of the "CUDA Computing" mode to simulate realistic, physically accurate effects then render beautiful images using the "GeForce GPU" mode. NVIDIA GPUs are also the only ones to support PhysX technology, the world's most pervasive physics engine that is already delivering dynamic 3D realism to more than 140 games across multiple platforms, and is being used by more than 25,000 developers worldwide. With PhysX, developers can incorporate effects such as rigid body dynamics, collision detection, and cloth simulation that dramatically change the way the games are played and how the on-screen stories unfold, and then accelerate those effects using the processing power of the GPU. "I haven't been this excited about a new gaming technology in years," said Chris Taylor, CEO and founder of Gas Powered Games. "We're focusing all of our physics efforts on PhysX, and it already delivers the kinds of advanced effects in Space Siege that takes the whole experience to the next level. And in the near-future, you're going to see real-time, Hollywood cinematic-level environmental effects on GPUs like the GeForce GTX 280. We're talking about some wicked-cool technology here!" Additional features of the GeForce GTX 280 and GeForce GTX 260 GPUs include: 2nd Generation NVIDIA Unified Architecture: Delivers 50% more gaming performance over the Company's previous NVIDIA GeForce 8800 Ultra GPU through 240 enhanced processor cores that provide incredible shading horsepower at resolutions as high as 2560 x 1600. 3-way NVIDIA SLI Technology: Industry leading 3-way NVIDIA SLI technology offers amazing performance scaling by implementing 3-way alternate frame rendering (AFR) for the world's fastest gaming solution under Windows Vista. NVIDIA PureVideo HD Technology: The combination of HD video decode acceleration and post-processing delivers unprecedented picture clarity, smooth video, accurate color, and precise image scaling for movies and video. NVIDIA CUDA Technology: With the power of NVIDIA CUDA technology and the new CUDA runtime for Windows Vista, programmers can now offload the most intensive processing tasks from the CPU to the NVIDIA GPUs, putting the power of up to 240 multi-threaded processor cores to work. Graphics cards featuring GeForce GTX 280 GPUs will be available starting tomorrow from global leading add-in card manufacturers, such as: ASUS, BFG, Emtek, EVGA, Gainward, Galaxy, Gigabyte, Innovision, Leadtek, MSI, Palit, PC Partner/Zotac, PNY, Point of View, Unika, Unitek, and XFX. Graphics cards featuring GeForce GTX 260 GPUs will be available starting on Thursday, June 26, 2008. Suggested retail pricing for the GeForce GTX 280 and GeForce GTX 260 GPUs are $649 and $399, respectively. 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I think I will patiently wait for the die shrunk updated versions to come out in a year, and stick with my 9800GTX for now, probably adding a second 9800GTX at some point when the price is right.
The 260 card is not that bad on price... the 280 is just another 8800ultra-priced "masterpiece." If the 260 goes down to $300, it would be very reasonable.
If the 260 goes down to $300 it'll be a no-brainer steal. The problem right now is that the 280 is completely not worth it, but the Ultra wasn't either.
http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforc...0-review-test/ http://www.extremetech.com/article2/...2320089,00.asp http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=577 http://techreport.com/articles.x/14934 http://anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3334 http://www.hexus.net/content/item.php?item=13736 http://www.neoseeker.com/Articles/Ha...eviews/gtx280/ http://www.overclock3d.net/reviews.p..._msi_n280gtx/1 http://enthusiast.hardocp.com/articl...50aHVzaWFzdA== http://www.hothardware.com/Articles/..._260_Unleashed http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...-280,1953.html http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum...ed-review.html http://www.hardwarezone.com/articles...?cid=3&id=2593 http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.ph...d=179&Itemid=1 I wouldn't read them all at once
Here´s some: guru3d: http://www.guru3d.com/article/geforce-gtx-280-review-test/ Anandtech: http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3334&p=1
yup seems like the gtx280 would have been one hell of a card if it didn't follow the 9800gx2. and being that the gx2 outperforms it in several areas, it seems liek the gtx280 isn't going to be the card of the century. we'll have to see how the revision does. as wil a smaller die it will probabaly clock better and clock speeds seems to be the card's issue at this point (shaders especially)
i'll wait for next gen as well... compare the 8800GT (G92) to an 8800GTX 768. 1/3 the price, 90% the speed (more if OC'd) less power, less heat, better media decoding. something similar will happen again... also right now i just cant afford one
OcUK are dirty scam merchants when it comes to new releases, they've got their cards priced £70 more than other places, for what? That, plus their stupid policy of 'no competitor prices', they must think that some people think OcUK is the only online store in existence. Ebuyer FTW though, they're generally the best priced place around, so I shop there most of the time unless I find it cheaper elsewhere. Saying that, I've found things cheaper elsewhere, got into contact with ebuyer about it, and they lowered the price ! Quality service. It was a wacom USB Graphics tablet btw, it was listed at £85, but I rang up and they lowered it to £55.
I agree with you Ebuyer is the best Uk online store much much cheaper than others! I remember when I bought my bfg gtx8800 it was £543inc vat on overlockersUk but I got it for £436 on Ebuyer £107 different proper scam!!!!!!
GX2s as it's a plural I'm with you on this though, can't see many people buying one of these, maybe the local fanboys will buy them *cough*waxy*cough* but most people in their right minds, or with more sense than money, will keep away from them.
Don't get me wrong, I wouldn't turn one down if it were offered to me (are you listening Palit Guy? lol), but I definitely wouldn't spend that amount of money on one. nVidia must be out of their minds to think that's an acceptable price in today's market.
Actually I found this price for the GTX260 very nice under $300 http://pcvonline.com/productDetails.aspx?id=7247
that's a HUGE difference in price between 2 cards that arent a whole lot different. ...and i thought the GTX280 was supposed to drop to $499-$550 range? LIES
It's gonna have to if the HD4xx0 series cards can really compete. That triple sli bridge with all black cards and motherboard looks pretty badass....
Somehow I think that site will never actually sell a GTX260 at $230. Just seems highly unrealistic when you've still got 9800GTXes going for that much.
You think I shouldn't of bought one man! lol... I'm sorry, but I love my Gx2, and so far so good! But, I can't wait to really see the reviews come from the people here on TPU! I love the review we had, but I want to see what people on here think before I ever jump to conclusions...


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haha the little one's expression's priceless great job Moni, really looking forward to the finished thing. Are you going to polypaint them? hope so
haha the little one's expression's priceless great job Moni, really looking forward to the finished thing. Are you going to polypaint them? hope so
Ha, cool !!
pitchepuck: I assume this means you like it. Thanks a lot!
undoz: Hey Anrei! Thank you very much!
fracture: Thanks a lot!
Intervain: Thank you very much, Magda! Hehe, I enjoy it immensly when people are laughing about my work (provided I posted something funny hahaha).
Yeah, I`m going to polypaint them. We don`t have to, but I think the Zebragon needs its Z-tripes. And other than that, I need to practice polypainting.
sgrell: Thank you very much!
I`ve started modeling another creature yesterday. Sometimes I need a fresh eye... and that works best if I start something new.
That`s why I don`t have new zebragon+cowmelion images today.
I`ll post a new (I think the final) update of them at the weekend.
yay.what a great idea and what a damn kool sculpt. the result will look great when it's finished. it's so funny zebragon and cowmelion. hahahaha.
i hopüe to see an update tonight. can't wait to see it polypainted.
greets.keep it up girl
Al.Tintop: Hey Timo, thank you very much! I hope I can post the final image tonight. Friends came around on friday.. and also on saturday and we watched DVDs the whole night.. that`s why I had no time for Zbrush.
2:30 in the morning... congratulations for this final post! I´m not ready yet. I love the expressions in this faces. the colors are great too! I write very slow... and now I stop... great!
Ha how awesome!
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Great job moni - they look so funny
i love their expressions
This is pure gold. Hilarious stuff, man. Really great designs. The sculpt actually turned out BETTER than the drawing, which is rare.
Love the style! Great work!
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Wow Moni, you really nailed it!
Great feel and design, I love the Zebragon
hahaha........Very Nice...
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I wasn't expecting much from the Hifiman Express HM-101; it's just a $39 outboard USB digital-to-analog converter and headphone amplifier. Well, this tiny USB-powered (it doesn't need batteries or an AC power supply) device definitely pumped up the sound of my Audio Technica ATH-M50 headphones! They sounded significantly better with the Express than they did plugged directly into my Mac Mini's headphone jack. Sure, the Mac's sound is perfectly acceptable--until you compare it to something better.
The Express is a lot better.
Before we go any further, the Express isn't just for headphones, it also has a line-out 3.5mm jack you can run to a set of desktop-powered speakers, like myAudioengine 2s. DAC resolution isn't specified, but it's probably 16-bit/48-kHz.
Switching over from the computer's headphone jack to the Express, the first thing I noticed was that the Express could play a lot louder. That's great, but when playing drummer Ginger Baker's "Going Back Home" CD at equal volume levels from the computer and the Express, the Express unleashed more of the drummer's hard-hitting dynamics. The computer squashed his sound, especially Baker's mighty bass drum. Wow, the little thing delivers. If anything, the Express errs on the side of too much bass fullness, which isn't such a bad thing.… Read more


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Throwing It all Away
It seems unthinkable that Brendan Shanahan would throw away the approval ratings he earned with the Raffi Torres decision on Saturday.
But apparently that's what the Shaky Sheriff has in mind.
After banning Torres for 25 games early in the day on Saturday, Shanahan was, just hours later, presented with another potential disciplinary decision regarding a high hit by Ottawa's Chris Neil on Brian Boyle of the New York Rangers.
No penalty was called on the play. Boyle was cutting from right to left high in the Ottawa zone when a backchecking Neil swooped in and caught Boyle with a crushing hit that a year ago, before changes in the NHL rulebook, would have been legal.
It was from the blindside, as Boyle didn't see the Neil train coming. The impact point was Neil's shoulder to Boyle's head, although Neil didn't leave his feet and kept his elbows down. The hit was also not late, although Boyle didn't have the puck.
Boyle was stunned, got to his feet, finished the game but now may have a concussion that will keep him out of Game 6 on Monday.
The hit was not comparable in any way, really, to Torres' dirty hit on Marian Hossa of the Chicago Blackhawks. But it did have one element the Torres hit did not, and that's the suggestion of premeditation.
In fact, the reaction of many initially was that Boyle was again getting his just desserts for mussing the hair of Ottawa star blueliner Erik Karlsson in Game 1 of the series. In Game 2, Boyle was attacked by Senators goon Matt Carkner early in the first period, with Carkner - abandoning the always mysterious "code" - continuing to rain punches on Boyle even though the Ranger forward didn't fight back and even after he had been knocked to the ice.
So was Saturday night's hit more retribution on Boyle?
Regardless, New York's Carl Hagelin was suspended in Game 2 for three games for a head shot on Daniel Alfredsson of the Senators, who has not yet returned to the series.
It seems unthinkable, given all the circumstances, that Shanahan would now, after laying down the law so heavily on Torres, permit Neil to walk away unpunished for his head shot on Boyle, a hit that certainly appeared to break Rule 48. Consistency is what hockey fans seem to want, and there can be no consistency when one player - a multiple offender - is getting 25 games for a head shot while another gets nothing for a head shot of his own. Yes, Neil would at least in theory be a first time offender; then again, so was Hagelin.
Any reasonable person would suggest Neil should at least get one game; reports that Boyle's head was not the principle point of contact are laughable.
Neil, however, seems to lead a charmed life on these matters. He walked when he walloped Chris Drury with a dirty head shot, and the law never seems to catch up with him.
Early reports are he'll get off on the Boyle hit as well, probably escaping even without the Shea Weber ($2,500) slap on the wrist treatment. Assuming that's the case, Shanahan's best work will have been undone in 24 hours.
Twenty-five games to no games in one day. Hard to believe. Hagelin, meanwhile, is now the beast that needs to be caged, Neil just a good old Canadian boy playing the game hard and Boyle needs to keep his head up.
"Not sure how we teach our players to look at the net, shoot the puck and then check out the danger at 45, 90 and 180 degrees in one motion," said one disgusted former NHLer this morning. "We cannot just say the game is hard and concussions happen. It's not right."
Such a shame. Briefly, it sure seemed like Shanahan was up to the task. One thing's for certain; if Torres chooses to appeal, his case just got a little stronger as darts-at-a-board NHL justice strikes again.