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The body of Ralph Der, a 59-year-old Prince George man who fell into Carp Lake two Sundays ago, has been recovered.
Der was found Wednesday with the help of a specialist in underwater recovery brought in from Idaho by his family, and equipped with advanced side sonar, North District RCMP Cst. Lesley Smith said Thursday after a search by the RCMP was called off last week.
Der was in a boat on the lake in the provincial park two hours north of Prince George, fishing with two friends when he jumped into the water to retrieve a hat.
However, he wasn't wearing a life jacket and by the time the boat, which was traveling at a slow, trolling speed, had been turned around to retrieve him, the man could not be found. After making several attempts to find him, the two companions returned to shore and called police.
Weather was excellent, alcohol didn't play a factor and no foul play is suspected, police said.
An RCMP dive team and sonar were brought in but rough weather and equipment trouble delayed a start of the search until Thursday.
A search of the area where the companions believed Der fell in was conducted but the crew was unable to find anything and a wider search of the lake, which covers 5,700 hectares, was ruled out.
The B.C. Coroner Service has taken over the investigation and released his name late Thursday afternoon.


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Today is Record Store Day, an event set up to shine a light on independent music stores. All of the independently owned record stores come together with artists to celebrate, with special vinyl and CD releases made exclusively for the day.
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The group ranged in age from 5 to 85, with some in attendance surviving cancer for over 40 years. They were all treated to a festive Hollywood themed atmosphere. Fancy clothes were worn, star-like photos were taken, and a dancing stage set the tone for the event, something that many were lined up to see.
"These people are extremely enthusiastic," Leslie Kohman, Medical Director of the Upstate Cancer Center says. "They come to the door an hour before it starts."
The enthusiasm comes from the perspective each survivor has gained since being diagnosed with the disease, and National Cancer Survivor's Day is just another reason for them to appreciate every moment of every day.
"It's been quite a journey," Sherry Falcone, a 44 year cancer survivor says. "It's given me a great lesson in life to appreciate all the little things, and I think it's helped me to make great decisions in my life."
In the 15 years that Upstate has sponsored the Survivor's Day here in Central New York, Falcone has been to 10 of the celebrations. Kohman says she hopes there will be more like Falcone, who will help events like this grow, and boost the survivor population as well.
"The treatments are getting better," Kohman says. "The death rates from cancer are falling, slowly, but they're falling. There will be more and more survivors as we go into the future and these people need to know a normal, thriving life is ahead of them."
While each of the survivors had their own support groups, many of those survivors spoke of the supporting they were doing themselves, for those currently battling cancer.
Rick Renaud, who was diagnosed with head and neck cancer two years ago, says shortly after he was diagnosed three of his friends were also diagnosed with the same cancer. A two year and three week survivor, Renaud now serves as an inspiration for his friends.
"I think I have helped a couple of them," he says. "They've had a lot of the same doctors, so they've been in just as good hands as I have been."
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The Charlotte Hounds on Saturday night came up short in their rematch with the Rochester Rattlers, falling 13-10 in front of 3,101 fans at American Legion Memorial Stadium in Charlotte, NC. The Hounds' effort was led by Ryan Young, who notched a personal and franchise-record seven goals, while also tallying one assist. The eight-point performance earned Young Player of the Game honors.
It was a back-and-forth affair from the start, as the first half alone saw five ties. The Rattlers took the early 1-0 lead, as Hounds goalie Adam Ghitelman stepped out of the cage to lay a check, causing the ball to bounce free to Jordan MacIntosh for an easy goal. But Young pulled momentum back in favor of the Hounds, scoring back-to-back goals, including one on the man-up, for a 2-1 lead with 4:39 remaining in the first. Less than two minutes later, Ned Crotty scored to tie the game at 2-2. The Rattlers won the ensuing faceoff, but Ryan Flanagan intercepted a pass which would set up an eventual goal for Matt Danowski and a 3-2 lead for the Hounds. That lead didn't last long, however, as Mike Leveille scored less than a minute later to close the quarter in a 3-3 tie.
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Mina Loy's posthumously published novel, Insel , narrates an interlude in the personal life of two artists, a poet and a painter, at a transitional moment in the context in which their art would have been produced and received.[1] The two artists kill time together—talking, strolling, sitting in cafés, telling stories to one another—in the Paris of the early 1930s, before their separate departures from the city and passage beyond the French borders and the frontiers of the book as well. Loy's eponymous artist-hero, the half-starved and hallucinated "Insel," derives closely from the German surrealist painter Richard Oelze. Oelze had come to Paris just before the Nazi seizure of power in Germany, and Loy had met him in her talent scouting for her son-in-law Julian Levy's New York art gallery. Insel's foil, the narrator, fellow artist, and purchasing agent, Mrs. Jones, bears a distinct likeness to Mina Loy herself.[2]
Loy's choice of an exiled German protagonist and the political
ferment in and around the surrealist movement in 1930s Paris might lead one to expect more explicit reflection in the novel of the period's social climate. Moreover, her turn at this time to a relatively straightforward prose fiction, a striking choice of genre given Loy's use of fractured lyric and manifesto-like forms in her early works, might suggest an attempt to represent her social context in more comprehensive and discursive fashion. Such expectations, however, are soon dashed by a reading of the novel. Loy, at first glance, appears to have little interest in the world outside the murky idealities and seedy realities of her artist protagonist. The inconsequential encounters of Insel and Mrs. Jones seem confined by the walls of their apartments and of the cards in which they pass the hours, while their "context" extends only as far as a narrow coterie of avant-garde artists, art collectors, and expatriate hangers-on. It would thus seem easy to characterize Loy's book as a historical curiosity at best, a tidbit for modernist anecdote hunters to set on their shelves below Hemingway's A Moveable Feast , somewhere among the memoirs of Jimmy the Barman, Kiki the model, and lack the publisher of banned books.
Viewed through the optic of late modernism that I have developed in this book, however, a different picture of Loy's novel and its relation to its historical and political context may emerge. The figure of the artist in her book constitutes the crucial locus in which this relation may be discerned, for in Insel the protagonist figure literally embodies the predicaments of the artist during this time. Insel's very body, both subject and object of his paintings, has been thoroughly penetrated by a technology of seeing and recording. As "fluoroscope," he sees through the bodies he turns to painting; yet what he "sees through" above all is his own disappearing presence as an artist. In rendering himself as the "fluoroscope" he has become, he at the same time exposes the remains of an avant-garde on the verge of disappearance: a few pale, floating organs rendered luminously visible by the very machinery that has dissolved their organic "context."
Insel should be considered Loy's singular attempt to employ in the 1930s context a particular literary genre, the artist-novel or Kün-stler(in)roman , and as her self-conscious exploration of the pressures that context puts on the typical figure of the artist within that generic tradition. The emergence of the Künstler(in)roman , which came into its own in the eighteenth century, presupposed two specific historical conditions, each of which faced a peculiar challenge in the 1930s. For the artist to become the specific objcct of novelistic depiction and nat-
ration, artwork and the producer of artworks had to appear distinct from other kinds of work and producers. Art, in short, needed a relative autonomy from other social spheres like the state or the immediate market, and artists—rather than, say, patrons or sponsors—had to be seen as the crucial, central factor in the production of art. Second, and moreover, art had to have achieved not only distinction but also privilege among other cultural practices that might supply a novelist with models for characters. Artist-novels presupposed a general mythology about the special status of artists and the making of art, cultural values that these novels in turn served to elaborate, reinforce, and extend.
Modernism, as I have suggested, reasserted and deepened the creative artist's claim to independence from the public's demands, while focusing value judgments about art self-reflexively on the intrinsic qualities of the artwork itself. This emphasis on the aesthetic realm was not so much a repression of ethical and political concerns, however, as a rethinking of them in artistic terms. By ignoring the public and concentrating on the artwork as the touchstone of value, the modernist artist might, they believed, ultimately serve posterity better. Joyce's Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man is, in this respect, an exemplary modernist Künstlerroman; the young artist-hero vows, somewhat ironically, to forge in the spiritual smithy of his art the uncreated conscience of the race. One of Mina Loy's notebook entries strikes a similar chord: "Modernism is a prophet crying in the wilderness that Humanity is wasting its time."[3]
By the late twenties, however, as I have shown, the prophetic role of the modernist artist had been severely challenged by the convergence of several major currents. Modernism itself had aged, and its claims to represent the future had often proven hollow. Its imperative to innovate threatened modernism's adherents with personal and artistic exhaustion, exemplified most poignantly, perhaps, by the suicides of Harry Crosby and Hart Crane. In 1951, in the third part of his autobiography, William Carlos Williams would look back at the truly-great and would-be-great figures of his past and offered a page-and-a-half catalog of deaths, disappearances, long silences, and compromised survivals. Ubi sunt? he asks elegiacally of his comrades in the revolution of the word. I quote only the last paragraph, which ends by mentioning Mina Loy:
Harold Loeb—where?—but back in Wall Street; Ford Madox Ford dead; Henry Miller married and living with his wife and children on a half-
mile-high mountain near Carmel, California, from which he seldom descends. Lola Ridge dead; Djuna Barnes living in poverty somewhere, not, at least writing; Bob Brown, having lost his money, surviving in Brazil; Carl Sandburg turned long since from the poem; Alfred Kreymborg a member of the Institute of Arts and Letters; Mina Loy, Eugene O'Neill—more or less silent.[4]
Contributing to the internal exhaustion of the movement was, of course, the pressure of the depression context and the decade-long geopolitical crisis that followed. Crucial in this process, above all for the American expatriates, were the economic hard times and ensuing currency fluctuations that made short shrift of the community and publication infrastructure of the post-World War I modernist scene. Opportunities to live cheaply in Europe, writing reviews or sponging off the better endowed, publishing in limited circulation journals and with shoestring presses, became ever fewer. When late in 1931 Beckett gave up his teaching post at Trinity and resolved to return to the literary life in Paris, he complained to Thomas MacGreevy of his unpropitious timing: "It's madness really to go away now with the exchange u.s.w but it really is now or never."[5] Henry Miller, who arrived in Paris in 1930, experienced the hardship of the new climate firsthand, both in his personal life and in his literary career. Tropic of Cancer suffered two years of delays after Jack Kahane's original acceptance of it for publication by the Obelisk Press in 1932. Eighteen months into the process, Kahane informed Miller that "as long as the world financial crisis lasted he could not publish any books" and that there was no public to buy them.[6] Only in September 1934 did the book appear, and only in 1936 was Kahane willing to take on another of Miller's several completed books, this time his collection of character sketches and New York memories, Black Spring . Mina Loy's artist-novel Insel , begun during this period when she herself had almost ceased writing poetry, registers and reflects on this changed situation for artists—this new context that shook the twin pillars of modernist faith, the autonomy and the privilege of art as such.
As a generic form, the artist-novel is sensitive to current social conceptions of artists and responds to the contexts in which the arts exist. Yet it goes beyond simply representing these conditions; it also represents the artist's struggle in coming to terms with or resisting the given situation. As Herbert Marcuse notes in his 1922 doctoral thesis on the German artist-novel, "It follows that . . . the cultural currents of the
moment exert the most powerful influence on the nature and form of the artist-novel, indeed, that in the absence of great creative personalities they precisely determine the manner and direction of the artist-novel."[7] Loy's Insel unfolds in such a situation, in which the heroic personalities of the previous decades—Picasso, Kandinsky, Stravinsky, Duchamp, Joyce—were already history, while the personalities who had succeeded them were not able to impose their individual stamp on the age.[8] Both Insel and Richard Oelze, his real-life model, were resolutely minor painters. Loy presents Insel, moreover, as talented but erratic, undisciplined, and unrealized. Her narrator tells Insel: "The artist's vindication does not lie in 'what happens to him' but in what shape he comes out" (31). All the more significant, then, are her continual references to his chaos and formlessness, his unproductivity and spiritual drift. At best, Insel is a cipher of the artist's loss of position and defined social Gestalt .
Loy's explicit analysis of the crisis does not go beyond judging Insel's insufficiency of genius and artistic will, and hence she never apparently faces head-on the objective conditions blocking the emergence of that leading personality she desires. Her artist-novel is a tale of two minor artists who fail to give form to themselves in a corpus of works. Insel and Mrs. Jones meet, not as promised, in a mutual converse of genius, but on grounds of their complementary failure. It is notable, in fact, that Loy staked her own artistic "figure" in these later years on her success in giving form to this artist-novel. In a letter, she writes, "I must finish my novel—it is very sad but if I don't finish it I shall be finished myself—how difficult all these years writing alone."[9]
This failure—the failure of the artists represented in Loy's novel and her failure to write the artist-novel that would genuinely come to terms with her situation—should not, however, be understood solely as a negative matter. For as historical testimony it has positive significance. It came not from a lack of genius, of which Loy had more than her share, but from historical pressures on the figure of the artist that had rendered untenable the modernist artist-novel, insofar as it offered a merely aesthetic resolution to the crisis of art. Such a solution had become realizable only at the cost of what Adorno called "extorted reconciliation," in the form of manifest nostalgia or self-delusion. Loy's artistic integrity led her to confront her own desire for a self-deluding solution and satirically to hollow out from within that false consolation held out by her artist-hero and the artist-novel that bore his name.


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Do you think MWO could become an MMORPG?
Posted 14 March 2012 - 01:16 PM
Posted 14 March 2012 - 01:21 PM
Posted 14 March 2012 - 01:29 PM
But I agree, probably too much to even think about now when the game is not even here yet. I will watch what I put in my smoothies a little more carefully before I drink them!
Posted 14 March 2012 - 01:38 PM
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Posted 14 March 2012 - 01:47 PM
Edited by Bluey, 14 March 2012 - 01:51 PM.
Posted 14 March 2012 - 02:03 PM
i hate mmos with a passion and that would ruin this game fo-evah
Posted 14 March 2012 - 02:08 PM
Posted 14 March 2012 - 02:23 PM
this portion of the "potentual" MMORG would essentually be the vehicle (mech) combat section. the thing is that a battletech RPG would be best IMO be built upon something like the ATOW RPG the problem with the ATOW is that it is a NON LEVEL based RPG which would completely confuse traditional RPG players.
what I mean by a non level based RPG is that you do not do the equivalant of go kill 47 mooks and poof you are level 2 and now the lvl 1 stuff can't really hurt you any more. In the ATOW model you get your xp for doing whatever and add it to your "xp pool" when you have enough xp accumulated you can raise a skill or a stat or similar but a 10,000 xp charactor will not automatically have more HP than a 5000 xp charactor fresh out of charactor creation (plus there is the whole issue that some charactor concepts will end up having more xp in their charactor build) ie the "hotshot a mechwarrior that just finished training and education at ~21 and is on their first "tour of duty" is going to have a lot fewer xp than the 45 year old "grizzled Veteran"
with that in mind I really WOULD like to see a well done battletech RPG or MMORG but this isn't it, or at least it won't be it until a lot more "meta" game is added
Posted 14 March 2012 - 02:23 PM
Cochise, on 14 March 2012 - 01:29 PM, said:
But I agree, probably too much to even think about now when the game is not even here yet. I will watch what I put in my smoothies a little more carefully before I drink them!
Dust is single platform, it will fail. FPS players will not stay interested in it long enough for it to make a true effect on the Eve Universe, and PL will still **** all over everyone else.
Edited by Ashiin, 14 March 2012 - 02:26 PM.
Posted 14 March 2012 - 02:26 PM
Posted 14 March 2012 - 02:26 PM
I just don't know if you guys have played a text based adventure before! Try Zork!
Posted 14 March 2012 - 02:34 PM
Posted 14 March 2012 - 02:37 PM
A lot of people will say "change nothing" but there's a reason we haven't had a proper Mechwarrior game for around a decade. How do we make something so intense and deep accessible to the new guys?
Posted 14 March 2012 - 02:54 PM
"We're about to start, Stagger... where are you?"
"Be right there... I'm mining a Ferro-Fibrous node!"
Posted 14 March 2012 - 02:54 PM
Posted 14 March 2012 - 02:58 PM
Now that aside I can see this game getting a PvE element somewhat similar to say a chained 'story' mission where your on patrol, your patrol runs into another mechwarrior that wants to defect then from there it starts a chain reaction where your pulled into a 'stop the enemy from doing [insert plot dynamic here] and your the ones that take the charge to stop it. Example being your on patrol, you encounter defector they tell you of a 'mega weapon' secret installation almost complete- you go on chained missions from 'breaching' the permiter- advancing and destorying base defenders- then finally a showdown with the 'mega weapon' itself. Generic and seen a hundred times previously but you get the idea.
I think a light RPG element would be allowing a 'non linear' character progression- you can take attributes from various skill trees, you can build personal toughness so when another player targets the cockpit you can 'hang tough' and stay in the fight longer and take less damage, you can invest into piloting skill where you gain a passive move/turn speed buff on top of the mechs basic performance. Lets say something like LoL's mastery tree- you can assign a certain amount of skill points to put into various skill trees and you can even take away and reallocate these skill points whenever saving them to various 'profile pages' so you can change them if you pilot different mechs. No matter what you think, or your personal feelings more games are getting RPG-like systems.
Going beyond this as in a full blown MMOG (or MMORPG) it would be fitting to say you can belong to any of the great houses, or clans, or become full Mercanary. Now this is where figuring out some wierd stuff comes into play. . . since Mechs are machines and do not get 'tougher' by levelling up and gaining a larger hit poitn pool this game would be severely gear/tech reliant in which you have your standard armor giving a base HP of x1 and Ferro-Fibrous providing 1.2 times the armor value by volume/weight/thickness. If your anywhere near familiar with the standard battletech mech creation rules this makes perfect sense. Other type of parts include actuators/servo motors that help move the mech faster so that you can aim/move faster than standard parts, maybe even a integrated combat analysis system that allows you to see 'weak points' in an enemy and you can shoot at them for more damage. In all honesly you can keep a mechwarrior MMOG entirely 'in the cockpit' and still have a seperate PvP with a 'structured' ladder (i.e. no player skills, no modified mechs, open build pvp, etc.)
All in all I don't know if the Mechwarrior title is popular enough for a full blown MMOG where creating various planets and areas to explore is viable (time development costs of course) but I would like to see a well done mech game with combat. But having a 'loungue' where your avatar/mech pilot can chll out with clan mates or other players and have a small social area isn't a bad idea imho.
Posted 14 March 2012 - 02:58 PM
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Aegis Kleais™, on 14 March 2012 - 02:55 PM, said:
It may be the self-diagnosed ADHD in me, but I can't stand long narratives or backstory or history lessons, even when it comes to the Mechs I love so much. It just seems like trips down memory lane that are unnecessary to the current situation. We have a guy at work who is ALWAYS reminiscing and aside from it making him seem very old, I think forcing any type of history on a new player can be seen as daunting and may actually detract from their interest in the title.
I guess some people just love MW for the sake of customizing Mechs and taking them in to do battle against one another.
I agree with this too- but forcing a player to sit through it and optionally diving into the rich story are two different things- I'm sure you'd like to skip all the bull (fast menu selections, esc to skip cut scenes) but for a player that wants to know I think it'd be a nice touch
Posted 14 March 2012 - 03:03 PM
devilkit, on 14 March 2012 - 03:00 PM, said:
I agree with this too- but forcing a player to sit through it and optionally diving into the rich story are two different things- I'm sure you'd like to skip all the bull (fast menu selections, esc to skip cut scenes) but for a player that wants to know I think it'd be a nice touch
True enough. If done just right, the player could be introduced into the history of the game. As they begin to see players from the Draconis Combine, FRR, etc., they may begin to want to know more about them, though sadly, even if the game provided a repository of lore, the way present-day players act, even while under the banner of those houses, won't fall in line with the past. This is, of course, where people who enjoy roleplaying get their kicks.
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MARIETTA, Ga. -- The Show's time finally arrived at 18u WWBA National Championship. After being a fixture in the playoffs in the past, the San Diego Show finally got over the hump to win their first WWBA National Championship by knocking off the East Cobb Yankees
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The lives of the quiet peacemakers of Wilmington College represent a powerful example of resistance to war, and their work challenges the notion that violence can ever by justified.
"Step by Step, Rust in Pece: The Quiet Peacemakers of Wilmington College, 1940-1976" is a meticulously researched, beautifully crafted, and brilliantly argued tribute to Wilmington College's peace activist tradition. Sharon Drees' piece adds new depth and breadth to how we conceptualize peace activists and that tradition in American history. She has helped us all re-remember why this college, its history and its activists are deserving of our collective respect. --- Nikki M. Taylor, PHD
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XFastest.com posted today a ton of ASUS P6T Deluxe motherboard press event shots and detailed product pictures. All the valuable information about the motherboard can be seen in the pictures. Only four pics will be posted here, the rest of them can be viewed at our collegues at VR-Zone. Source: XFastest
I know this is a bit stupid of me, but I'm waiting for a manufacturer to release a black and red motherboard. Plus, doing so I'll also be saving myself some headaches if I go straight ahead adopting a new infant.
Looks really similar to my P5Q deluxe. Was excited about nehalem, then they said that CPU and mem voltages would be sync'd. :shadedshu
+1 on that, that's ****ing bullshit if you ask me. I will be surprised if there isn't at least one manufacturer that tries to find a work-around for that and let you un-sync them. I can't imagine it would be too difficult, just would probably need a lot of BIOS updates.
Maybe at worst have ratios like you do for mem speed, but if AMD can have unlinked cpu/ram voltages why cant intel? I like having my ram stock and CPU OC'd. Like I have now, If you want a massive OC on your CPU your gonna need high end RAM, thats not on.
I assume the 100% (insert Chinese characters here)... is 100% solid cpacitors. Nice to see an IDE plug - or is that a floppy connector? The side oriented Sata plugs suck, except for helping hide the cables.
Yes. NB cooling is gimmicky, though the CPU VRM area needs it. Nehalem chips are hungry. SB needs it asusual, but on close inspection of the P6T, you'll notice the heatsink over NB isn't an elaborate affair like maybe Maximus Extreme, etc. However, don't fall for "X58 chipset cooling with ZOMG water blocks" the NB isn't the memory controller anymore, you won't be touching its voltage controls.
Yeah there is. Look at the very last picture in the thread. But really. SAS? I guess it's good because then this can be a workstation board as well. This thing is going to be like $500. Just watch. Ridiculous.
SLI support for this X58 board may still be pending certification. I'd start getting concerned if it ships without SLI certification and not before.
What's wrong with floppy and IDE connectors? Big deal if they're legacy components. It's nice to have the option. I've had to use them in the past to resurrect a clients hard drive. And I think SAS is a fantastic addition. It's a $750+ option on Mac Pro's (of course those PCI controllers have their own processor) but the performance difference is amazing. I guess those folks who purchased WD Raptors and the new VelociRaptors would be interested in the next step in performance to SAS.
I'm all for having a floppy connector. Very helpful for flashing etc.. when there are problems flashing by other means.
Come on, what enthusiast doesn't want to run a couple of Cheetah 15K.6 in RAID 0 for OS and Games? I know i do! And now i don't need to but a expensive WS board for it or MSI K9A2 Platinum with its stupid SB 600 PS. Velociraptor maybe *almost* as fast but not if you do like do really heavy multitasking
And with that, I think they won't show anything until the Big Bang... I think after that we will show more on the X58... I know the Big Bang II is driver software and what not, but one big thing after another you know.. But, my thoughts on it.
I still didn't think it made much difference since the memory controller is in the cpu Very good points there. I wasn't thinking about the VRM area, which I would agree definitely does need it.
Word up, bro! RAIDing 2 SAS drives would be insane, hopefully the board supports RAID for these babies.


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If there was ever a Woody Allen Smart-Arse One-Liner Award for cricket journalists, my vote would go unblinkingly to Martin "Scoop" Johnson, now concocting sly side-splitters for the Sunday Times, following sterling stand-up stints for the Leicester Mercury, The Independent and the Daily Telegraph. The fearless prediction that nothing could stop England winning the 1986-87 Ashes bar an inability to bat, bowl or field may be his best-remembered crack, but the vast majority tickled funny bones without the aid of overly creative exaggeration.
It helped, admittedly, that he came to the fore at the back end of the eighties, just as the national team were exploring unplumbed depths. Fired by the backstories of Botham, Gatting, Gooch and Gower, the off-field histrionics maintained such a pitch of intensity - thanks to the tabloid circulation wars as much as on-field ineptitude - we might as well have been tuning into a soap - Tailenders, or Beefy Street. Grist for Scoop's prolific mill was never in short supply.
He was at his graphic best on Sunday. "Fifty-over cricket is like some ageing Hollywood actress, forever trying to revive interest with regular nips, tucks and injections of Botox. It works for a while but eventually the skin reverts from baby's bottom to dried-up riverbed and off you go again to the plastic surgeon."
Being more prone to likening the current game to the music business, where the product once spun at 33, 45 or 78 revolutions per minute, I can't help but wonder whether the collapse last week of HMV, the venerable high-street record shop, emphasising the plight of an industry seemingly in terminal decline, is a foretaste of cricket's destiny.
Ever since the oil crisis of the early 1970s compelled record labels to redouble their efforts to find new clothes for the old ceremony, we've seen no end of fresh tailor-made suits: cassettes, eight-track cartridges, mini-discs, laser discs all flared and floundered, ultimately leaving compact discs as the only game in town. Having increasingly overcharged for vinyl, CBS, EMI, Warner and his equally greedy brothers had scaled such heights of fearless hubris that they hiked prices even higher for CDs; the cost was free downloading, a development that hit nobody harder than the musicians for whose sweat and creativity a generation has patently decided it has no compunction to pay.
Giles Clarke has described the piratical online streaming of televised matches as the foremost threat facing cricket; as over the top as such an assertion seems, he might be right in a strictly fiscal sense. Bracketing such practices with free downloads does not seem unduly excessive; it's the price you pay for selling your soul to broadcasters.
Changing rules almost as often as Kate Moss trades outfits, the ODI reminds me of those vain efforts to delay vinyl's decline: picture discs, colour discs, maxi-discs, double-packs, ten-inchers and 12-inchers. None, ultimately, could stem the desire for greater compactness and ease of use. If T20 is cricket's answer to the CD, then the ODI is the cassette: a splendid idea at the time but, what with the endless potential for de-spooling, the sluggish, imprecise rewind, and that tiresome need to turn the confounded thing over, too damned fiddly.
For all that coming to terms with the new regulations is proving daunting for the players, never mind viewers, the latest tweaks, on the face of it, have already had a demonstrable impact. In a development to which many purists are doubtless composing hymns of gratitude, revised fielding restrictions, double the bouncers and one fewer Powerplay seem to have accelerated the general swing towards the pie-chuckers.
Since coming into force in October, in the 17 ODIs (up to Monday) where weather conditions have permitted at least 40 overs in the first innings, there were just three such totals in excess of 250, while five failed to reach 200, including Australia's 74 against Sri Lanka - their lowest-ever tally batting first. Only twice in the previous 11 ODIs had a first innings in a weather-resistant game between the eight senior nations not attained 200, and just 11 times since August 2011. It remains to be seen whether history ascribes this shift to the teething problems that accompany any period of adjustment, a longer-lasting pattern, or the end of the beginning of the end.
While this more level playing field is to be heartily welcomed, it hasn't half made for some excruciating watching (notwithstanding the fervent protests of the Channel 9 commentary team), especially for the travelling Poms, who have dutifully endured the sight of Ian Bell honing his impression of Hanif Mohammad, having spent much of 2012 impersonating Virender Sehwag.
And just as vinyl, to general astonishment, is enjoying a minor renaissance (there were vastly more platters in the racks on my last trip to HMV in Leicester Square than cassettes, of which there were precisely none), what we have witnessed over the past three months has hinted at a return to the old 40-over John Player Sunday League - wary wicket-hoarding starts, late mini-surges, and piffling-to-middling scores. Not one of the stage's most inspired revivals.
If T20 is cricket's answer to the CD, then the ODI is the cassette: a splendid idea at the time but, what with the endless potential for de-spooling, the sluggish, imprecise rewind, and that tiresome need to turn the confounded thing over, too damned fiddly | |||
There are, as ever, two ways of looking at all this. If the measure of an enterprise is the degree to which those who run it resist the urge to tinker for tinkering's sake, cricket is in a sorrier state than tennis, golf and all the f**tballing variations put together - which is pretty unsurprising, given that no major professional sport demands so much of spectators' patience and hence lacks so much confidence in its present, much less its future.
On the other hand, receptiveness to change, where need and practicable enhancements are identified, can be seen as strength. Rigidity was the watchword until the final third of the 20th century but the pendulum has swung ever more violently ever since. Balance remains elusive. The Olympic Factor may hasten a greater stability.
Someday soon, given the potential funding windfalls for the ICC Associates in particular, it is quite possible that cricket will finally return to the five-ring circus (it goes without saying that it deserves membership of that exclusive club a darned sight more than golf, that most selfish of outdoor games, which recently accepted an invitation). For it to be included in, say, the 2024 Games, a commitment would have to be made at least four years earlier. In other words, if participation in the Games is regarded, as it should be, as a key investment in that uncertain tomorrow, a tool with which to raise the game's profile and profitability outside the Full Member nations, crunch time is approaching.
Will the 2015 World Cup be the last to be conducted over 50 overs? If nothing else, it has been sorely tempting to wish as much ever since the ICC decided, in its decidedly finite wisdom, to slash the number of participants in the game's premier event from 14 back to a measly, elitist ten. What other sport actively seeks to shrink its major occasions? The forthcoming baseball World Classic will feature 16 teams; 24 will compete for next year's basketball World Cup, 32 for its FIFA counterpart, 20 for the 2015 rugby World Cup.
Resisted so persistently as a long-term strategy, the obvious benefits of less-is-more bear constant repetition. Just as riding three horses with one backside is scarcely the most logical of pursuits, packaging a sport into three categories, however distinctive, does not immediately strike one as the key to a workable manifesto. In terms of the Future Tours Programme, leaner should assuredly be fitter, for the sake of the players as much as for public appetites. In terms of development and expansion, enlarging the World Twenty20 field to 16 was progressive, however much of a sop it was to that World Cup winnowing; extending that to 20 while making the youngest format the lone showpiece would do even more to encourage the have-not-very-muches on whose enthusiasm the game must learn to set even greater store.
How much would the midmarket model be missed? Once the initial pangs of loss have worn off, not, one suspects, terribly much. In fact, the national boards appear to agree. As the T20 circuit ballooned last year, so the number of ODIs scheduled shrank to 95 from 147 the year before - a recession closer to 40% than 30%. True, 2011 was a World Cup year, but no attempt was made to bridge the gap. Nor can I recall many ESPNcricinfo readers launching impassioned petitions to reverse the tide. To suggest that the tens of thousands who flocked to Rajkot, Ranchi or Kochi this month would not have done likewise had the contests spanned 20 overs per combatant would be naïve in the extreme. Hell, attendances would probably have been even weightier.
Cricket should not, dare not, ignore the downfall of HMV, still less that of those plucky independent music retailers who once provided a less corporate, more intimate and hence pleasurable consumer experience before being rendered more or less extinct by a combination of internet, iPod and corporate greed. To heed and benefit from those lessons, the game needs to do more than merely resist avarice's eternal allure. It must take more pragmatic stock of what it puts on the shelves.
Rob Steen is a sportswriter and senior lecturer in sports journalism at the University of Brighton
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Eleven years after his unexpected Test debut, Parthiv Patel is a senior pro, and looking for consistency in his bid for a top-level comeback. By Kanishkaa Balachandran
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Andy Zaltzman explains how the game can help guide us through the important moments in life
Unfair to blame coaching staff
Ian Bell: Andy Flower has created an excellent environment and any criticism of him and the set-up is missing the mark. It's the players who have failed
England need to embrace being dull
Dave Hawksworth: When they were successful, they were called conservative and boring. That's better than losing, isn't it?
Rohit struggles with the Steyn Test
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Till 1992 there was no thought about South Africa playing in the World Cup, but Mandela's words changed that immediately. Such was the power of Mandela
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India's bowlers struggle to adapt
If India can change their bowling philosophy during a watertight tour and deliver the results, it will be an incredible achievement. Otherwise we will be back to expecting the batsmen to clean up
Mitchell Johnson may not be a gigantic, horned, fire-breathing dragon with seven heads - but he could not have done much more damage if he were
After Darren Bravo's superb effort in Dunedin, a look at some other famous match-saving innings in Tests
India's bowlers struggle to adapt (81)
If India can change their bowling philosophy during a watertight tour and deliver the results, it will be an incredible achievement. Otherwise we will be back to expecting the batsmen to clean up
Raise courage and commitment, England (75)
The ability to respond to challenges that are beyond the daily call is diminished by overkill, but that is precisely the task ahead of Cook and Co
Rohit struggles with the Steyn Test (65)
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They will be part of the Amber Sleep Out on November 7, helping to raise awareness of homelessness among young people - as well as funds to support the work of the Amber Foundation.
James Laverick, director of operations at the Bristol Marriott City Centre, said: "Amber brings homeless young people back into employment and we hope to raise £1,000 for its work.
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Ngugi wa Thiong'o's drama explores the issues germane to the transition within Kenya from a colony to an independent nation. Often unabashedly didactic in his plays, Ngugi probes the challenges that young black intellectuals must overcome if they are to alleviate conflicts of tribe, race, and religion that threaten the unity of nationalism. Although his early plays of the 1960's usually revolve around the qualities of leadership, they also initiate themes concerning the tension between traditional, rural life and modern, urban life; the role of African women in developing a strong nationalism; and resistance to the continuation of colonial practices that perpetuate exploitation in the new country. As these themes evolve in the plays of the next decade, Ngugi's drama becomes even more decidedly didactic, using an idealized history of Mau Mau, straightforward calls to action, and realistic portrayals of the exploited that are interspersed with pageantry to evoke the grandeur of African culture and the tragedy of colonial history. From his earliest play The Black Hermit to his volatile I Will Marry When I Want, Ngugi gradually shifts his attention from the confusion of a central character beset by conflicts among his loyalties, to the community's determination to achieve a democratic voice in the political and economic development of the nation.
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