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A new year, and with it, a little later than planned, comes the first local scene report and gig guide for Nottingham and the East Midlands from DiS' man in the city for 2012...
Let me just start by wishing you all a Happy New Year. And what an introduction we have in store for 2012 already. It may only be February but already there's a plethora of new releases to tell you about. If 2011 was the year where the rest of the UK finally started to believe Nottingham had more to offer than Robin Hood and two ailing football teams, the first few months of 2012 are where many of those prospects reach fruition, more of which later.
On top of that, we're also pleased to bring you the first few festival announcements for next summer starting with Splendour. The one-day event held in the city's Woollaton Park is scheduled to return on Saturday 21st July. After last year's sold out event featuring the likes of Blondie, Feeder and The Scissor Sisters, organisers DHP have confirmed Dizzee Rascal will headline 2012's main stage. Also definitely on the bill are Razorlight, Katy B and The Levellers with many more acts to be added in the coming weeks.
Perhaps more "DiS-friendly" is the newly launched No Direction Home Festival. Brought to you by the same people behind End Of The Road, it's set to take place in the grounds of Welbeck Abbey, Sherwood Forest between 8th and 10th June. Confirmations so far include Gruff Rhys, Slow Club, Spectrals, Richard Hawley and The Low Anthem, while weekend tickets for the event priced £105 for adults including camping can be purchased here.
Crossing the border into Derbyshire last week also saw the first announcements for Indietracks. The outdoor stage is to be curated by Slumberland Records, the New York label of former Black Tambourine man Mike Schulman. Also on the bill are Bart Cummings who feature fellow ex-Black Tambouriner Pam Berry among their numbers. Bearing in mind the aforementioned have just reformed and are set to play their first shows in twenty years this April, the rumour mill will be in overdrive between now and 6th July when Indietracks opens its doors. Other confirmations include DiS faves Veronica Falls, Allo Darlin', The June Brides and Tender Trap, tickets available here.
First up this month is 'Two Devils', the new single from hotly-tipped five-piece Dog Is Dead. Again produced by David Kosten and featuring a remix of the title track by former tour buddies Bombay Bicycle Club, 'Two Devils' is released on Monday 5th March through Atlantic Records. It also coincides with their biggest headline tour to date, taking in a whopping 26 shows from now until the middle of next month.
Teenage sensation Jake Bugg has been making a name for himself in recent months. Having signed to Mercury Records last year, his captivating live performances while holding a residency at the city's Glee Club venue and recent television debut on BBC2's 'The Culture Show' have only served to highlight what a precocious young talent he is. Here's a video he made at the end of 2011 for 'Trouble Town', which is available as a free download from his Facebook page.
Long time favourites of Drowned In Nottingham and creators of one of 2011's most understated records In The Depths Hhymn return next month with a new double A-side single. 'Not Before I Go' & 'Land Of Souls' are both taken from said album, and coincide with a short tour the band currently find themselves in the middle of finishing at Nottingham's legendary Boat Club on 2nd March alongside Cold Pumas and Hookworms. Watch the video to 'Not Before I Go' below:-
Another notable release this month would be 'Film Noir Scandal' from dramatic punk pop trio In Isolation. Released on Saturday 25th February, the single is available here, and in our humble opinion is well worth the measly £3.50 asking price.
Quirky electro poppers Yunioshi release their new EP this week (Monday 20th February). Reykjavik features five songs in total and costs just £4 direct from the band. Of course those already aware of the trio's eccentric charm will have been at their launch party on Saturday night. For those that missed it, here's the excellent 'Worms' from the EP.
From the same management stable as Yunioshi come The Barnum Meserve, a Nottingham-based three-piece who specialise in "Dark and theatrical piano ballads with screaming powerful vocals." For further proof, check out the title track from their Broken Window EP which also hits the shops on Monday.
Wistful indie poppers Red Shoe Diaries release their latest EP the following week (Monday 27th). 'Ice And Snow' features three songs in total and was recorded with the genius that is Andy Wright of Swimming and We Show Up On Radar fame no less.
Initially released amidst the Christmas rush of 2011, we must mention the third EP from psychedelic noise lords The Cult Of Dom Keller. Simply entitled EP3, it's an astounding sonic assault that wouldn't sound out of place in Pete Kember or Jason Pierce's collective back catalogues, whilst doffing its cap to Dave Brock and the assorted members of Hawkwind in the process.
TCODK guitarist Ryan Delgaudio has also been busy with his solo project Cathode Ray Eyes. Mini-album There Are Sounds In Your Head That Need To Get Out came out last month and for just four pounds its six slices of lo-fi, countrified garage blues can be all yours.
Prolific one-man satirist Sleaford Mods brings out his latest collection of observational world weary ditties on 1st March. Entitled Wank (we kid you not), it's available from his Bandcamp page and is definitely worth a listen or two.
Crossing the A52's great divide into Derby, Rugosa Nevada release their new single 'Verona' on Monday 17th March. You can download the song for free from the band's Facebook page, and listen to it below if you so wish.
Finally it seems appropriate to mention two of the city's elder statesmen, new wave garage punks The X-Rays and experimental art rockers Escapologists. The original line-up of the former are back together for the first time in several years, and have been busy recording new material with local producer Mark Spivey and Spiritualized guitarist Tony "Doggen" Foster, the intention being to release a couple of seven-inch singles later in the year. While Escapologists never officially split up, they haven't recorded together for some time either but have an album ready to go in the none too distant future. Here's 'Conscience Or Regret' from the record, which I'm sure you'll agree, serves as a mouthwatering introduction for the long player itself.
Four more to watch out for...
Regular readers of this column and DiS in general will know how much we love Spotlight Kid. This week sees them head out on their first UK tour of 2012, and they've recorded a cover of Simple Minds classic single from 1985 '(Don't You) Forget About Me' to coincide. Here are those tour dates in full followed by their awesome new video.
21 Feb Leeds Empire
22 Feb Glasgow King Tuts
24 Feb Sheffield Frog & Parrot
25 Feb Preston Mad Ferret
28 Feb Leicester The Musician
29 Feb Birmingham O2 Academy 3
01 Mar Doncaster Leopard
02 Mar Brighton Sticky Mikes Frog Bar
03 Mar Bristol Louisiana
06 Mar Liverpool The Shipping Forecast
07 Mar London Macbeth
Also creating quite a stir at the minute are Nottingham based four-piece Childhood, a band who kind of remind us why we fell in love with music in the first place. Mixing the deft songwriting of early Creation artists like Pete Astor and Gregory Webster with mid-period Sarah bands like The Orchids or Brighter, expect the queue of A&R men to have quadrupled at their shows by the time you read this.
Last but not least, before we bid you farewell for this installment, here's a video from the recent collaboration between hotly-tipped singer/songwriters Nina Smith and Rob Green. Entitled 'Bad News' and recorded earlier this year, it quite evidently showcases two exceptional talents we'd expect you to be hearing much more about as 2012 gathers pace.
20th February - Marc Reeves + Alexa Hawksworth + Will Jeffery - The Maze
21st February - Ghostpoet - Rescue Rooms
22nd February - Field Music - Bodega Social
23rd February - The Kabeedies + Captain Dangerous - Rescue Rooms
24th February - Frontiers + The Amber Herd + Lois - Chameleon
24th February - Django Django - Bodega Social
27th February - We Are Augustines - Rescue Rooms
28th February - SBTRKT + Disclosure - Rock City
1st March - The Cast Of Cheers + Theme Park + Alright The Captain - Bodega Social
2nd March - Old Basford + Boots Booklovers + Liberation Pact + Ulysses Storm - The Maze
2nd March - Shrag + Tunabunny + Horowitz - Chameleon
2nd March - Cold Pumas + Hhymn + Hookworms - The Boat Club
5th March - Monument Valley + Blind Caves - Rescue Rooms
6th March - The Stranglers + The Popes - Rock City
7th March - Cave Painting - Bodega Social
8th March - Thomas Truax - Rescue Rooms
8th March - The Maccabees - Rock City
10th March - The Megaphonic Thrift + Swimming - The Boat Club
12th March - Baby Godzilla + Alright The Captain + Cut Yourself In Half - Rescue Rooms
15th March - Swound! - Rock City
16th March - Spiritualized - Rescue Rooms
20th March - White Hills + Cantaloupe - Bodega Social
21st March - Pop Will Eat Itself - Rescue Rooms
21st March - The Milk + The Vertigos - Bodega Social
22nd March - The Amber Herd + Strings Of Seville - The Maze
22nd March - Ceremony - Rock City
23rd March - Ronika - Bodega Social
27th March - Slowcoaches + Guilty Parents + Dolfinz - Chameleon
27th March - InMe + Lost Alone - Rock City
30th March - Those Darlins - Bodega Social
6th April - Flipper - Rescue Rooms
9th April - Angels & Airwaves - Rock City
12th April - Cher Lloyd
14th April - Meshuggah - Rock City
If anyone has any Nottingham based bands, gigs, releases, links, events or clubnights to add they feel have been unjustly overlooked please do so in the comments section below.


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For the Kent family of Amherst, N.H., getting dressed for the holidays often means lacing up hiking boots or buckling a helmet. For the last 11 years, they have made a tradition of spending many Thanksgivings, Christmases and Easters at a national park doing something active.
Many Americans find holiday breaks an ideal time to pursue fitness-oriented activities, from holiday-themed races to just exercising together.
�More communities are offering family-oriented events. It just creates another opportunity to create lasting memories,� said Cheryl Richardson, senior director of programs for the American Alliance for Health, Physical Education, Recreation and Dance in Reston, Va.
The Kents� children � Tanner, 18, and Peyton, 16 � have explored caves in Carlsbad Caverns National Park in New Mexico, hiked glaciers in Wrangell-St. Elias National Park in Alaska and rock-climbed in Yosemite National Park in California.
�People associate holidays with a sit-down meal like Easter ham or Thanksgiving turkey,� said their mom, Lisa Kent. �We were replacing it with hiking or an outdoor adventure.�
Myrna Ryti and her family still enjoy a Thanksgiving meal but they do it after running or walking in the Huffing for Stuffing Thanksgiving Day Run held in Bozeman, Mont.
�It makes for a wonderful way for a family to start the day,� said Ryti, who runs the 5-kilometer race with her daughter and son-in-law. Other members of the family, including her 4-year-old grandson, Cooper Bourret, walk the course.
�The first year, he rode in his jogging stroller,� she said. �He loves it.�
His mother, Kalli Ryti, loves that it�s an opportunity to stress the importance of exercise. �It sets a great example,� she said. �Throughout the year, we go and practice. He likes to put on his number and we run around the block.�
The event, which serves as a fundraiser for the local food bank, has a real community feel to it, Myrna Ryti said. �It attracts lots and lots of folks. It shows where you�re putting your priorities.�
Running a 5K also can make you feel less guilty about eating sweet potato pie, said Christy Rezabek, who runs the Turkey Trot race with her husband, Doug, every year in Huntsville, Ala.
�We get up and run. We know we�re going to be eating bunches of junk food,� she said.
She and her family were preparing for the St. Jude Research Hospital�s annual marathon, in Memphis on Dec. 1. The race, which attracts some runners in Christmas-themed clothing, is normally scheduled between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
Doug Rezabek plans to run the full marathon, his wife the half marathon and their three children the 5K. And they�re motivated by more than fitness: Christy Rezabek�s daughter, Lakelee Leach, 8, has been treated for cancer at the hospital.
�St. Jude�s does so much,� Christy said. �We wanted to give back.�
They have enjoyed training together, she said, part of their efforts to be active as a family.
�We�re not the (parents) that sit on the sidelines and watch,� she said. �When they go ice skating or play baseball, we go ice skating or play baseball.�
Teaching children the value of physical health is also important to Robert Tuchman, a father of two in New York City. His family�s traditions include a trip to a fitness fair at The JCC in Manhattan on New Year�s Day. The event is sponsored by The JCC�s Marti M. Meyerson Center for Health and Wellness.
�Most gyms are closed on New Year�s Day,� said JCC spokeswoman Erica Werber. �We�re open. We want to be there for the community.�
Many families are grateful for opportunities to exercise together at the holidays, said Jerry Bocci, whose family has organized a New Year�s Eve run in Belle Isle Park in Detroit since 1970. Families come out in all kinds of weather to participate in the 5K or children�s run.
�The kids have a good time in the sometimes snow, sometimes sleet,� he said. �When you look out over the crowd, there are a lot of smiles.�

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Project Overview
Attracting and providing services for the 'millennial' generation is necessary for the health and future of ALA Chapters and ALA. The project will develop, execute, and compile results of a survey of member and non-member 'millennial' librarians and library workers to ascertain why they join or have not joined local or national professional associations, and what services and opportunities do, or would, attract them to become members of either local, national or both. The information compiled by the survey will provide valuable information for ALA Chapters and ALA in their strategic planning of services and recruitment and retention of the 'millennial' generation.
Erin Dorney (erindorney - AIM): Poster creation & promotion
Morgan Montgomery (mmmontgo - AIM): Researcher
Karen Keys (HoodAndHat - AIM): Wiki Updates
Amalia Monroe (amonroe1005 - Meebo): Nudge & researcher
John Chrastka: ALA Staff Liaison
Michael Dowling: ALA Staff Liaison
Candice Oliver: Mentor
Preliminary Timeline
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- 20: Survey draft sent to John's membership people for feedback
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- 1: Survey sent out to participants
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I have problem and I need advice from ppl who have experience.
Im with armenian guy, he's older than me 11 years, he lives in Poland 5 years now. In june he needs to back to his country.
We met more than 6 months ago and we are couple 6 months. I just felt in love with this amazing man. We got engagement and we were planing wedding in next 2 or 3 months...
Everythin was great till he had his own flat but after he moved to his sister house and everything started changing...
We just fight and fight and everyday almost I cry. It's horrible!
Whatever his sister says he does, he cannt live without this family, they are the most important in the world and me his future wife ????whatever I say he just forgetsor doesnt follow at all.... only when we fight he takes things serious...I just dont understand why....
I heard lot of bad things about armenian but I wish hear something good, are there any mixed couples , happy wifes who can share with me how to solve problems?but im not saying about armenian girls just about armenian-different nationality relationships.
becausue I have heard armenian girls opinions...and Im not armenian. Im polish girl, here everything is different and I didnt grow up in armenian culture.
The man that I love I cant leave....even though we got many problems.
Last time he said he won't help me in house even if i have kids and many stuffs t odo because this is girls job, only when we are alone I can ask him for help. When he invite friends I need to serve for them and do not ask him even to bring tea from the kitchen.
Here in Poland in relationships we share everything , we help each others, share not only love but everydays life. Polish girls are so independent and energetic always have something to say but we also love so much and take care of our men with all love we have.
I unerstand he is not polish and he will never be and I know I have to go for compromises. But I think he want me to became exactly like armenian girl and this is immposible for me. Something what is normal and obvious for armenina for me it can me strange and unnormal.
We both have to make some changes in us.
But I will never understand why his family is more important and I heard it always be...Is it right?
Please I need opisions, advice, some tips how to understand this man....
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Right now is the perfect time to tour the waterfalls of Western North Carolina. This summer's wet weather has cleared so we're having sunny warm days and cool nights, yet the water levels are still high enough to give us a great show cascading over the rocks. And everything is lush and green! Labor Day is over so the crowds have thinned as well. DuPont State Forest, usually very popular, was not very busy at all the other day and offers the most spectacular waterfalls just a short hike from the parking areas. Scenes from The Hunger Games were filmed here and several of the waterfalls were featured in the movie The Last of the Mohicans. You'll see what attracts film-makers to this beautiful place!
The park has made several improvements this year. The High Falls Access Area is now home to the new Aleen Steinberg Visitors Center and new restroom facilities. A pretty new Pedestrian Bridge spanning the Little River now leads from the expanded Hooker Falls Parking area to the Hooker Falls and Triple Falls trails.
Main access is at the High Falls Access Area but if you park at the Hooker Falls lot you can take an easy hike that includes three waterfalls, Hooker Falls, Triple Falls and High Falls. Hooker Falls is only 15 feet high but pretty and is a short walk from the parking area.
Returning to the pedestrian bridge you can then hike about a half mile to Triple Falls for much more spectacular views. There are some great vantage points from the trail and from the picnic area above but you can also walk down the steps to the base of the middle falls. I think I counted 111 steps but it's well worth it and the folks at Western Piedmont Community College, who build the steps along with DuPont Staff, mercifully built in benches along the way to rest on your way back up!
The trail continues to High Falls which is 150 feet high and almost as wide. This section of the trail is fairly level and it surprised me to see how calm the Little River is between these two large waterfalls. By the time you can hear the falls you're almost there. There are good views from the trail and beyond the overlook is a set of stairs and an uphill path to another picnic shelter with views.
If you have more energy than we did that day, or if you access High Falls from the High Falls Access area and it's new trail connector you can continue to the covered bridge above High Falls with a view of the water spilling over the falls. At the other side of the bridge is the way to Grassy Creek Falls via Buck Forest Road and the Lake Imaging trail. Lake Denise is beyond that with crystal clear waters and swimming allowed.
We didn't make it to Bridal Veil Falls but it's one of the few waterfalls that you can walk underneath and view from behind the water! The Last of the Mohicans showed the falls from this perspective. Bridal Veil Falls is the first of the waterfalls on the Little River.
The DuPont State Forest is a short drive from Asheville occupying over 10,000 gorgeous acres between Brevard and Hendersonville. For more information go to their website http://www.dupontforest.com. Don't miss information on the Tour De Falls coming up October 12th and 13th.
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(Reuters) – U.S. health insurers including Humana Inc said on Monday that the government's proposed cuts to privately run Medicare programs appear to represent a funding decline of around 4 percent, less than the possible cuts of 7 percent or deeper that analysts had been expecting.
Shares of most insurers rose on Monday, with Humana leading the pack, up 9.2 percent at $112.29 on the New York Stock Exchange in early afternoon. Shares of UnitedHealth Group Inc were up 2.8 percent at $75.91 and Aetna Inc was up 2.6 percent at $72.24.
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services late on Friday released its proposal for 2015 Medicare Advantage funding. The 148-page document includes details that the companies use to calculate the government funding for the program and to set next year's premiums.
Analysts and some companies said on Friday their first look indicated that the cuts would be worse than the 7 percent expected by the industry, and would require deeper reductions in benefits for the program's elderly beneficiaries. Shares of insurers fell in after-hours trading on Friday.
Republican lawmakers said the proposed funding was too low and would hurt the elderly and disabled, adding to the party's criticism of President Barack Obama's healthcare reformlaw. The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires some cuts in Medicare funding and also introduces new taxes and fees.
More than 15 million of nearly 50 million Americans eligible for Medicare are enrolled in Medicare Advantage plans, which are managed by private insurers.
Insurer shares were higher on Monday as the view changed to a less-worse outcome, according to CRT Capital's Sheryl Skolnick. Insurers will likely lobby for less of a cut, but even if they fail to get it, she said, it's not the disaster people thought it could be.
Humana said in a regulatory filing on Monday that its analysis showed the proposed funding included cuts of about 3.5 percent to 4 percent. It had told investors earlier this month that it was anticipating a cut of 6 percent to 7 percent.
The company said the funding calculation includes a positive effect of 3.25 percent from an increasing number of younger, healthier baby boomers in the mix of Medicare recipients.
Humana also said that its analysis excluded risk assessments that it planned to protest and which could potentially result in additional significant funding declines. The government is expected to release final Medicare payment rates on April 7.
An executive at another Medicare Advantage provider said on Monday that his company was also interpreting the proposal as a cut of about 4 percent. When the document was released on Friday, the company initially viewed the cut as 8 to 10 percent, but after further analysis over the weekend it found that the proposal actually included an unexpected increase in payments related to the baby boom population. The executive requested anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the matter.
A spokeswoman for Aetna said her company was still evaluating the rate notice, but that it believed any cuts on top of last year's 6 percent would disrupt the Medicare Advantage program and be harmful to seniors.
One analyst, Ana Gupte of Leerink Partners, said she believes the proposal represents a proposed cut of up to 7 percent but that industry lobbying will reduce the cut to 3.5 to 4 percent in the final rule.
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At the stroke of midnight on December 10, 1993, an executive at id Software uploaded a file to an FTP site on the University of Washington's network. The filename was doom1_0.zip. Thus did one of the great revolutions in the world of gaming begin—not with a spectacular launch party and a multimillion-dollar ad campaign, but with a 2MB file transfer.
From there, gamers picked up the ball; they downloaded the shareware file and immediately uploaded it to other FTP sites and local bulletin board systems. Download by download, Doom started to make its way around the world. It would become nothing short of a cultural phenomenon, popularizing the first-person shooter genre of games and shifting the predominant aesthetic of games from "Saturday morning cartoon" to "Saturday night horror double feature."
Id's previous games like Commander Keen and Wolfenstein 3-D were technological marvels that were starting to make personal computers a viable alternative to game consoles for fast-paced action games. At the heart of these innovative games was the technology created by id's programming genius and co-founder John Carmack, who in the years since Doom's release has continued to create increasingly stunning graphic engines for id's games. On November 22 of this year, Carmack left id to become CTO of Oculus VR, a company developing a head-mounted gaming virtual reality display.
To commemorate the 20th anniversary of his most momentous game release, WIRED spoke with Carmack about the creation of Doom, the game development world in 1993, and his thoughts on the future of the series. (Carmack's responses have been edited for space and clarity.)
WIRED: Doom basically created a genre. There's a chart that tracks the use of the phrase "Doom clone" to describe games in a first-person environment, and then eventually it became the genericized "first-person shooter." It's interesting that shooting and first-person view became linked so quickly.
John Carmack: That definition of the genre, about what people expect in it, is something that—far more than rendering technologies, or character descriptions or anything like that—defining and laying out the boundaries of the genre is something that sticks with us. I think that first-person shooter is a stable genre that's going to be here forever, just like there are going to be driving games forever. There's something just intrinsically rewarding about turning around a corner and shooting at something.
Now, it is interesting that there was a cycle where FPSes seemed to be in a little bit of a wane. And I thought there was a rational reason why in many cases for gaming third-person would become the dominant genre, because third-person lets you use all the tools of the film director—there's a large body of knowledge for what you do with control of camera to influence people. I had kind of resigned myself to the fact that that likely would be the more dominant form, and it's still using 3-D rendering, it's the same engine technology, but rather than direct control of the camera, it's indirect. And I have to say I was pleasantly heartened when the Call of Duty wave came over in more recent years and really took first-person back to the top of the heap in prominence.
WIRED: The early history of id Software seems to be a pattern of developing some cool new technological trick and then developing the game around that. Would you say that was the case for Doom?
Carmack: It's true that the technology led a lot of the things that happened there, even if you go back before that to the 2-D sidescroller games and Wolfenstein. But especially in the early days of 3-D, where we went from Wolfenstein to Shadowcaster and then Doom, it really was figuring out what was barely possible and then seeing what kind of game you could do around it.
Historically, 3-D graphics were being done at the time for simulation-type games, for flight simulators and things like that. So the decision to do three-dimensional graphics but with texture mapping and make it an action game influenced a lot of how the technology was made.
It was never a matter of just building a technology in a blank room and saying, well, now, what games will we do with this? It was always driven by, well, we would like to make a game like this and this would be really cool, let's see what technology we can do that's in this quadrant of game development space, and then figure out what game we can make with what we actually wind up with.
WIRED: Can you describe the main differences between Wolfenstein 3-D and Doom from a technological standpoint?
Carmack: There were some intermediate steps that I did for a technology engine that I did for Origin at the time that added lighting and floors and ceilings—it was still tile-based, but the graphics side of things that people look at, the core things where it had lighting, where you could have flashing darkened areas, was no longer tile-based. Even some of the other sophisticated games that had floors and ceilings and lighting, they were still tile-based games while Doom could be built out of these sort of arbitrary line drawings that got a lot of creative potential. I also made it more dynamic, where you could have the changing lights, the rising floors and ceilings.
That was a decade-long fight inside id, about how open we should be.But so many other things don't stand out so much because they weren't graphics-related. Obviously the multiplayer was a huge aspect of it, where you had deathmatch for the first time, and cooperative play, just being able to play with your friends. But one of the other things that was not quite so obvious were the very explicit steps I took to make the game moddable. We saw with Wolfenstein people basically figuring everything out for themselves, and making map packs and overwriting sprites and things, and that was all not intended by us. That was an emergent property of the game.
But with that behind us, I knew that that was a really important thing, and with Doom I took very specific technological steps with the .WAD files and the ways that allowed people to override almost everything. I didn't get everything right on there; there were a few things that still didn't quite work as well as they should have for modifiability, and didn't have scripting like we brought in later with Quake, but that was one of the things that was one of the really major contributors.
WIRED: So you were behind modding from the beginning. Was there any pushback within id at that point, from other designers thinking that if you let people make their own levels, they wouldn't buy yours?
Carmack: That was a decade-long fight inside id, really, about how open we should be with the technology and with the modifiability. The two things people were concerned about were, as you say: won't people be able to make levels and sell them in competition to us? And there were certainly some specific cases, like the whole D-Zone game that came out with the package of a million or whatever different levels somebody could find scraped off the BBSes and put out there. And it's arguable they may have made more money on that than we did on our early Doom retail deals, because at that point we were pretty naive. We did not have good publishing deals. We made a lot of money off of it, but it was far from an optimal business and publishing arrangement, the way it was pushed out.
We know some of those things sold really large numbers. So there was definitely an element of bitterness inside some corners of the company about that. I don't think that they ever took anything from us; it's not like we had a competing package. So that's one of our fundamental arguments about, well, if somebody's making money that maybe could have been yours, but if you didn't do it—are you mad at them, or is it no skin off your back?
But then the other side of it was the technological evolution question, where people said, aren't we giving away some of our secrets? When we released our source code to the builder and those different aspects. And certainly tons of people learned from that, and did go on to build things, and you know, there's an argument to be made that the company could have perhaps held onto a lead and an edge in the market better without doing that. But I think we came out net positive.
I was really happy a decade later when Kevin Cloud, one of my partners, said that I had been right to be pushing for doing that. Because he had been looking at it not so much from the community and technological openness standpoint, but as a business risk. Coolly looked back at over the years, I think we benefited more than it might have hurt us. But in truth, I was just doing that at the time because it was something that felt really right to me.
I still remember, at the time I was commenting about how I remembered being a teenager sector-editing Ultima II on my Apple II, to go ahead and hack things in to turn trees into chests or modify my gold or whatever, and I loved that. The ability to go several steps further and release actual source code, make it easy to modify things, to let future generations get what I wished I had had a decade earlier—I think that's been a really good thing. To this day I run into people all the time that say, whether it was Doom, or maybe even more so Quake later on, that that openness and that ability to get into the guts of things was what got them into the industry or into technology. A lot of people who are really significant people in significant places still have good things to say about that.
WIRED: Can you name anybody specifically?
Carmack: [laughs] There's something that just came up a week ago that would be lovely for this story but it's actually somebody that I can't mention. There's a couple of things about that that are Oculus-related. It's funny, I almost sort of dodged this whole 20th anniversary of Doom thing because I've been heads-down working on stuff, I really don't think much about this prior stuff. And it's sort of a dangerous time for me right now, because I have all this stuff that's secret, related to Oculus, and there's this risk that somebody just gets me blabbing about things, and something will slip out that's not supposed to.
WIRED: We talked about Doom being shareware. Did you have a sense that that model was going to be coming to an end?
Carmack: I don't know if it was coming to an end so much as it was probably not optimal for a product that could generate that much attention. We knew that with Doom we were at a point that very few games had ever been before, where it was getting mainstream attention and it was something that really didn't need to be sold, so much, because it almost sold at a glance. People looked at that and it was something they'd never seen before, and they put hands on it and very quickly, it didn't take much to make a sale for Doom.
Shareware had been great for things that people really weren't sure about. It was essentially a demo, it was a try before you buy sort of thing, and it was couched in the terms of, one of them's free and you can buy more, but it was essentially a very prolonged demo—one-third of a game was the demo. And that was Scott Miller and Apogee's innovation over the classic shareware model where you give them everything and they pay you if they feel like it. Which has never been terribly successful for games. To turn it into "give them one-third of it and they pay you for the rest of the trilogy," a lot of that was sort of made-up words to cover what was essentially a demo arrangement.
And it worked, obviously, very well for our team. For Wolfenstein and for Doom itself. But it probably wasn't optimal once you've already got that foothold there. It's pretty clear to me that we had crummy publishing relationships at that time. If we had been in an even better position, I'm sure it would have been a couple times larger.
WIRED: When people think of you specifically, they think of someone creating all of the technology for the games and handing it off to designers – whether this is fair or unfair. What kind of a hand did you have in the gameplay design of Doom?
I think at one point, I said it was fun offending the easily offended.Carmack: The gameplay, in terms of how weapons work, how world interactive items work, all of that, how the AI works, that was all still largely my code at that time. You can trace the lineage of it back to Wolfenstein 3D, which was based on this 2-D game that I had written called Catacombs, which became Catacombs 3D. Those were things that I had written from scratch. But the personality of the game, in terms of dialing in exactly how much damage things do, tuning it, changing speed, [Doom co-creator John] Romero had a big part doing that. A lot of his fingerprints were on the core tuning elements of it. But I wrote the core feedback loop about what happens there. I was not the one making the decisions of "this should do 4 instead of 5" and "this should be worth 20 instead of 10." The designers were there.
On the thematic side of things, I pushed certainly for the demonic aspect of it. That's still something that I feel good about, looking back: In later games and later times, when games get attacked with some of the moral ambiguity or actual negativity about what you're doing, I always felt good about the decision that in Doom, you're fighting demons. There's no gray area here, it is black and white, you're the good guys, they're the bad guys and everything that you're doing to them is fully deserved.
There was the little bit of undercurrent, especially when I was younger and I was a bit more aggressive. I think at one point, I said it was fun offending the easily offended. Poking at the fundamentalists was at least a sub-current of picking the demons, and the pentagrams, and the goat's heads and all the things in there. So I was certainly supportive in pushing that but obviously all the actual instantiations of them were done by the artists, Kevin and Adrian.
WIRED: Were you, then, surprised when it became as controversial as it did?
Carmack: Not really. I think that it was interesting being the poster child for Congress for a decade; to get up and wave a game around, it was always Mortal Kombat and Doom until Grand Theft Auto came around and made us look pretty tame in comparison for moral outrage purposes. I understand why people do that, I understand why it happens. They're looking for a scapegoat or even a potential cause. It seems to me just part of human nature that somebody is going to take the brunt of that. And in the end it doesn't really hurt. It's not like there were federal laws that came out that banned any of that. It had little actual impact on us. In many ways, it's the theater of politics.
WIRED: I remember having to wait for our family to get a 386 so we could play Doom, and Wolfenstein was the game we had been excited to play when we upgraded to a 286 years prior. Were you worried about people being able to handle these games? Because a lot of PCs in homes couldn't handle the games.
Carmack: Wolfenstein was a 286 game that used extended memory, the old EMS/XMS different ways that we were extending past there. And one of the important decisions for Doom was, could we make it a 386-only game? And it was probably the first significant game title to use a 386 DOS extender and be written in 32-bit protected mode. That was something where I could have written the same thing still within the context of 286, and maybe a 286 person could have played it in a small window chugging along at 10 frames per second.
But that decision said, we think that it's worth the transition over here, where the people with the better systems will get a noticeably better experience at the expense of cutting off some of the people on the low end. And this is something that to this day I still struggle a little bit with, leaving the low-ends behind. But we had just come off of some decisions in the prior games, where we made a CGA graphics version of Commander Keen: Aliens Ate My Babysitter. It was a reasonable chunk of work, it was much worse with only four colors, and it hardly got played at all.
You look at some surveys and it's like, oh my gosh, there's this immense part of the market that has these lower-end cards, but when we looked at people that were actually playing the games, it wasn't significant. We made the decision on Wolfenstein that we weren't going to support EGA graphics, it was going to be all 256 color graphics. That was stressful. And with Doom it was, well, it's going to be 386 required. With Quake it was floating point required, which was probably the more problematic of the steps that we made. Then we made Quake 3 GPU required.
Even to this day, I struggle a little bit with that; there's so much you can still do on the previous console generation. The 360 and PS3 are far from tapped out in terms of what a developer could do with them, but the whole world's gonna move over towards next-gen and high-end PCs and all these other things. Part of me still frets a little bit about that, where just as you fully understand a previous generation, you have to put it away to kind of surf forward on the tidal wave of technology that's always moving. That's something that we've struggled with in every generation. And now I at least know enough to recognize that some of my internal feelings or fondness for technology that I understand or have done various things with usually has to be put aside. Because data has shown over the decades that that's usually not as important as you think it is.
Although I keep making new arguments where now we can say that we're past the knee of the cost-benefit curve in terms of what we get with graphics, and people are saying that with the next-gen consoles, that okay, they look better but they don't look nearly as much better as the previous generation. So does that mean people will stay happier with the current things? And I could make that argument with a straight face and play for it, but it's probably going to be wrong.
They knew all the tricks that I was pulling.WIRED: When you did upgrade your computer to be able to play Wolfenstein or Doom, you were getting something that seemed almost magical, like it was somehow more powerful than your computer could really handle. Because neither of those games were 3-D games, right? They were faking people into thinking they were playing in 3-D worlds but it was really clever design on your part to do that.
Carmack: Yeah, like when you take a spiral staircase going up halfway around something and you don't realize that they stopped after a 90-degree turn because it can't go all the way around on top of you. And you forgive that you can't look up and down. Those days when you were really making those fundamental systems tradeoffs, where you say, if we give up this, then it gives us that—we don't have that so much in games today because you can do a pretty damn good job at just about anything you want to throw at a game today. And we have the hardware acceleration that automates but also channels what you choose to do. Because if you don't choose to do what the hardware is happy with, you've got this order of magnitude penalty that's almost impossible to overcome.
In many ways, that was the most exciting age of the decision-making process, where you're deciding what you choose to undertake based on it. Because once GPUs took over, it took away a lot of the freedom. There's still an infinitude of things you can do there, but the tasks you choose to undertake are a little bit more constrained. Because there's one obviously correct way of engaging the hardware. Back in those days, up through Quake, we had people pursuing voxel engines, things that would render with all sorts of crazy deformed sprites, quad-deformed line of constancy rendering versus all the different things that we did, and it was interesting to look at how varied things were there, versus today where everything's just vertex or fragment shaders.
In the early day, there existed systems on the high end that did exactly what everybody always wanted, where you had your image generators from Evans and Sutherland and Silicon Graphics that did things right. We would have loved to be able to have things like that, and program towards them and build things on it, but it just wasn't possible and it wouldn't have been possible for another five, six years or something before GPUs could get there. And GPUs might never have gotten there in the same way if we didn't have these earlier steps.
But it was interesting where there was some pushback from—you had some of the people in the simulation business that would look at and almost be insulted by things like Doom. Because they could see that it clearly wasn't doing everything right. There was no filtering on the pixels, the colors were banding. And they could tell you couldn't roll your head, and you can't do all these different things. People were a little bit put out about it because they knew all the tricks that I was pulling.
That's one of the most important decisions: You can sacrifice something to make a net value improvement. We can make something that would not be possible any other way, and add in value for millions and millions of people here by sacrificing some degree of rightness. Putting away something that's great to have, but deciding that it's not as important as what we can get if we are willing to do without it.
WIRED: When you're talking about what it was like, your recall doesn't seem like it's at all tinged with nostalgia.
Carmack: I've said before that I'm a remarkably unsentimental person. I really don't spend much time thinking about it; only in times like this, when anniversaries and things come around. The only sort of non-prompted time when I was sort of going over this was a few years back when I did the iOS version of Doom Classic, when I said, okay, I'm going to give myself six weeks or something and I'm going to go crank this out. And that was actually a lot of fun and brought back a lot of memories where I'm just going through my old code, looking through all this stuff, playing through the game, beta testing it myself, thinking that yeah, this actually still holds up pretty good after all these years.
Id's mantra was, 'It'll be done when it's done.' I recant from that. I no longer think that is the appropriate way to build games.And I spruced it up with the nice filtering and the 32-bit color and all that running on iOS, and I look at that and I think, this is what people in their minds remember Doom to be like. Not if you actually fire up DOSBox and run the 320 by 240 resolution game, with the bathroom-tile-sized pixels and ugly color banding. But when you play it on something like one of the modern OpenGL versions or on iOS, you can say, yeah, I remember that imp, I remember this hallway, I remember pumping the shotgun here—this was how the game was and it was pretty cool. Not realizing that it's using like an order of magnitude more graphics processing power now.
WIRED: Doom is famous for having been ported to every possible platform, almost. Do you want to port Doom to Oculus?
Carmack: I am greatly proud of the fact that Doom is one of those things where everything that has a 32-bit processor has had Doom run on it, and I think that's been one of the great aspects of having it be open source, having everything out there means that people have maintained that and kept it up to date. And I got to have one of those convincing arguments when I did go do the iOS version: Rather than starting with our old code that had been released 15 years ago at that time, I went to one of the maintained open-source versions and they cleaned it up, fixed the bugs that I had left in there, and I was able to start with that, update all the iOS stuff, and release all of my changes back as open source. It was really great.
As far as Oculus specifically: If I had free time, which I absolutely do not, I wish that I could bring the Doom 3 stuff over. Sometime, years from now, all of the gory details of everything from the last year and a half or so will come out, but now is not the time to be talking about all of it. But I did feel really bad about the fact that I had pseudo-promised Doom 3 for the Rift when I was first talking about it, and now the fact that it didn't get released, I felt personally uncomfortable with how that turned out. I wish I could be doing that, but I do not have the time now. I'm busy working on a bunch of exciting things that I can't talk about and wish I could.
WIRED: Another question you probably can't say much about but that everyone reading an article about Doom will want to hear—what's up with Doom 4?
Carmack: That's something I can't really go into much in detail. It's been hard—one of the things that was a little bit surprising that you might not think so from the outside, but deciding exactly what the essence of Doom is, with this 20-year history, is a heck of a lot harder than you might think. You get multiple Doom fans that have different views of what the core essence of it is, and there's been a design challenge through all of it.
The worst aspect of the continuing pace of game development that we fell into was the longer and longer times between releases. If I could go back in time and change one thing along the trajectory of id Software, it would be, do more things more often. And that was id's mantra for so long: "It'll be done when it's done." And I recant from that. I no longer think that is the appropriate way to build games. I mean, time matters, and as years go by—if it's done when it's done and you're talking a month or two, fine. But if it's a year or two, you need to be making a different game.


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(CBS News) George Zimmerman's attorney said the Zimmerman family must apologize for not being straightforward with the judge about the funds raised online for George Zimmerman's defense - a situation which led the judge to revoke the neighborhood watch volunteer's bond and order him back to jail.
Last Friday Judge Kenneth Lester revoked Zimmerman's bond. The judge believed the man charged in the Trayvon Martin shooting, and his wife, had misled him by asking for a low bond - never mentioning their online defense fund had raised $135,000.
"He can't sit back and obtain the benefit of a lower bond or circumstances based upon those material falsehoods," Lester said.
On Sunday afternoon Zimmerman was escorted in handcuffs back into Seminole County's jail in Sanford. Described as "quiet and cooperative," he was booked and processed, and held on a no-bond basis, reports Mark Strassmann.
'It's a credibility question with Mr. Zimmerman," said Zimmerman's lawyer, Mark O'Mara. "and now that credibility has been attacked or tarnished. And now he's going to have to rehabilitate it. And that's up to him."
Zimmerman will live alone for the foreseeable future in a 67-square-foot cell, separated from the jail's general population for his own safety.
O'Mara denied that there was tension between himself and his client, but admitted Monday on "CBS This Morning" that "certainly there was some frustration with realizing that what was, I truly believe, an oversight, or at least a mistake that they made, has now truly come to bear on Mr. Zimmerman directly with his incarceration."
He told Charlie Rose that he believes the Zimmermans had made a mistake.
"I think it was out of fear, and maybe some frustration with having their lives turned completely upside-down and not having a good level of trust with anyone that they were dealing with. But I think they realize it was a mistake. They look forward to the opportunity to clearing that up with Judge Lester," O'Mara said.
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When asked to explain further the Zimmermans' reasoning, O'Mara replied, "I truly want that explanation to go directly to the person who deserves it, Judge Lester. But not to sound coy, my understanding is that the family had been put upon with things - thrown out of their house, their jobs, schools, other family members in hiding. For whatever reason they felt the need to protect some of that money for a very uncertain future.
"I think now they realize that they should have simply trusted Judge Lester and the process to work with them fairly, even if they had not been treated fairly in the past. And I think they'll clear that up with Judge Lester.
"I think the Zimmerman family needs to apologize to the court for having not given him full information," O'Mara added. "I'm going to ask the court to rely on the fact that Mr. Zimmerman has, but for this event, treated the court fairly, treated the system fairly, he surrendered himself now twice, he's of course voluntarily given the police department all of the statements that they've wanted, he's involved in whatever testing the state has wanted or the defense has wanted. I think he's doing everything he should do.
"I think they were just acting out of fear and frustration, but they don't have that luxury," he said.
Rose asked O'Mara if he believed the judge had done the right thing by ordering Zimmerman back into jail.
"Judge Lester gave us all a very strong signal that he and he alone will run the courtroom and that everyone is going to tell the truth," O'Mara said. "I'm certain that not only the Zimmerman family but all other witnesses who come before Judge Lester had better tell the truth and nothing but the truth if they're going to be treated fairly."
The judge also ordered the release of state evidence that had been kept from the public because of sensitivity concerns.
The material could include Zimmerman's original interviews to Sanford police about shooting Trayvon Martin, jailhouse phone records, and transcripts of conversations between Zimmerman and his wife, Shellie.
Prosecutors claim the couple talked in coded language about transferring money from their online defense fund, and convinced Judge Lester that the Zimmermans had lied to him.


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It's not every day that a single concert features jazz, choral music, symphonic arrangements, steel drum compositions, opera and songs from U2 and Queen. Then again, the University of Houston's "Collage" is not your everyday concert.
Each fall, "Collage" previews upcoming performances at UH's Moores School of Music and allows audiences to sample its wide range of faculty and student talents. With more than 300 musicians participating in this concert, it is one of the most anticipated events of the season.
"Collage" begins at 7:30 p.m., Sept. 8 in UH's Moores Opera House. This concert is free, and tickets can be reserved by calling the Moores ticket office a 713-743-3313.
"This annual concert is very special," said Buck Ross, director of Moores Opera Center and the concert's coordinator. "During no other performance can audiences really experience the breadth of talent at the Moores School of Music. It certainly has something for everyone and provides an excellent opportunity to sample different styles of music. It's fast-paced, fun and an unforgettable experience."
Some of the concert's highlights include a performance of U2's "MLK" by the Moores Concert Chorale featuring student soloist Aaron Casey and a medley of songs by legendary rock band Queen by the Moores School Symphony Orchestra conducted by Franz Krager.
Other performers will include soloists from the Moores Opera Center, the Moores Jazz Ensemble, the UH Steel Drum Band and the Spirit of Houston Cougar Marching Band.
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"Three [Colombian] teens who were on a 69-name hit list posted on Facebook have been killed in the past 10 days in a southwestern Colombian town, officials say. Police say they do not know who posted the list or why the names are on it. […]
Authorities also are offering a reward of 5 million pesos for information on the killings."
The Hit List:
Posted August 17, the hit list contained the names of 69-name targets in addition to the three who have been killed giving them a "3 day period to leave the town of Puerto Asis or be executed", said Volmar Perez Ortiz, a federal official whose title is defender of the public.
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#1 CIA thwarts new al-Qaida underwear bomb plot05-08-2012, 01:57 PM
WASHINGTON (AP) At the FBIs explosives lab in Virginia, experts are picking apart a sophisticated new al-Qaida bomb to figure out whether it could have slipped past airport security and taken down a commercial airplane, U.S. officials said.
The unexploded bomb represents an intelligence prize, the result of a covert CIA operation in Yemen that thwarted a suicide mission around the anniversary of the killing of Osama bin Laden, officials said. The device did not contain metal, meaning it probably could have passed through an airport metal detector. But it was not clear whether new body scanners used in many airports would have detected it.
The device is an upgrade of the underwear bomb that failed to detonate aboard a jetliner over Detroit on Christmas 2009. This new bomb was also designed to be used in a passengers underwear, but this time al-Qaida developed a more refined detonation system, U.S. officials said.President Barack Obama had been monitoring the operation since last month, the White House said Monday evening. White House spokeswoman Caitlin Hayden said the president was assured the device posed no threat to the public.
The president thanks all intelligence and counterterrorism professionals involved for their outstanding work and for serving with the extraordinary skill and commitment that their enormous responsibilities demand, Hayden said.
The operation unfolded even as the White House and Homeland Security Department assured the public that they knew of no al-Qaida plots against the U.S. around the May 2 anniversary of bin Ladens death in a raid by Navy SEALs on his compound in Abbottabad, Pakistan.
On May 1, the Homeland Security Department said, We have no indication of any specific, credible threats or plots against the U.S. tied to the one-year anniversary of bin Ladens death.
The AP learned about the thwarted plot last week but agreed to White House and CIA requests not to publish it immediately because the sensitive intelligence operation was still under way. Once officials said those concerns were allayed, the AP decided to disclose the plot Monday despite requests from the Obama administration to wait for an official announcement Tuesday.Good men sleep peaceably in their beds at night because
rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Real superheroes don't wear capes. They wear dog tags.
I'm just surprised that al Queda seems to be trying to perfect the underwear bomb after the first total failure. They really aren't all that creative or adaptive.
Do they really think TSA won't go there? Because I've seen lots of videos of out of control TSA agents, and I really don't think they have any problems checking out people's underwear.
05-08-2012, 02:41 PM--Odysseus
Sic Hacer Pace, Para Bellum.
Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the people!
Bunch of panty wastes going off half cocked!
Revelation 15:1
And I saw another sign in heaven, great and marvellous, seven angels having the seven last plagues; for in them is filled up the wrath of God.
05-08-2012, 05:22 PM--Odysseus
Sic Hacer Pace, Para Bellum.
Before you can do things for people, you must be the kind of man who can get things done. But to get things done, you must love the doing, not the people!
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Great job CIA.
They don't get enough credit for their successes.
wonder if anyone told Obozo yet???Increase the peace
Would-be Al Qaeda bomber was CIA informant, officials say
WASHINGTON The would-be bomber in the airline plot was actually working as a U.S. intelligence informant, but the CIA had Al Qaeda fooled from the start.
Fox News has learned that a government source familiar with intelligence confirmed that an international sting operation infiltrated the Al Qaeda cell. The informant was apparently one and the same as the bomber got the device out.
Last month, U.S. intelligence learned that Al Qaeda's Yemen branch hoped to launch a spectacular attack using a new, nearly undetectable bomb aboard an airliner bound for America, officials say.
But the man the terrorists were counting on to carry out the attack was actually working for the CIA and Saudi intelligence, U.S. and Yemeni officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday.
The dramatic sting operation thwarted the attack before it had a chance to succeed.Good men sleep peaceably in their beds at night because
rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.
Real superheroes don't wear capes. They wear dog tags.
05-09-2012, 12:45 PMGun Control: The theory that a woman found dead in an alley, raped and strangled with her panty hose, is somehow morally superior to a woman explaining to police how her attacker got that fatal bullet wound - Unknown
The problem is Empty People, Not Loaded Guns - Linda Schrock Taylor
Lay off the CIA. Is an "independent" agency set up to help and work with the government in power, to protect this country at the behest of the President. Their operations are designed to be covert and I detest it when they are accidently or purposely, exposed to the public.
These agents take their lives in their hands on a daily basis in order to do their highly risky jobs. Could you possibly imagine how much "intelligence" and guts it took to infiltrate Al Qaida in the first place, and then get out alive after?
All of the above ... I must admit, written by an advocate of author Vince Flynn's unflinching "Mitch Rapp" character! ...
Never-the-less, I did mean every word of what I wrote.
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On March 13th the Stubai Jam is the official kick-off for the Spring Sessions. The Slopestyle Contest on the Stubai Glacier will again create furore and is the ideal start into the most beautiful time of the year: At the MOREBOARDS Stubai Zoo you can shred hell for leather until the end of May.
Finally it is spring again! Sun, firn and pleasant temperatures – what more could one desire? There is plenty of snow on the Stubai Glacier, but the power of the sun already shows its impact: You can learn new tricks on soft landings, get the shape of your goggle smoothly burnt into your face and your T-Shirt flaps in the warm wind. Springtime is just around the corner and so is the beginning of the snowpark season on the Stubai Glacier. Until the end of May the MOREBOARDS Stubai Zoo not only offers three kickers in line, but also countless jib obstacles. Everything is ready for a good session with your best friends and much action in the snowpark. The snow conditions on the Stubai Glacier are ideal until June – and it´s only 45 minutes from Innsbruck!
The Stubai Jam as the third stopp of the Quiksilver Wir Schanzen will take place on March 13th 2010. Despite the snowfalls of the past weeks spring fever settles amongst the riders. Fun at riding is definitely the focus of this contest and at the afterparty in the evening at the Blue Chip in Innsbruck the Swiss Clastsound will put the heat on everybody.
In cooperation with MOREBOARDS you can check out next season´s snowboards of Lib Tech, Gnu and Roxy on the March 21st on the Stubai Glacier. The material test is free of charge and a good possibility to get a first overview of the latest hardware trends.
From April 9th to 10th the Shred Sessions will stop over at the MOREBOARDS Stubai Zoo. Under the patronage of Nicola Thost all interested Snowboarders are invited to join this Coaching Camp. The participants will be divided into small groups to be able to learn new tricks and spend a great time with and under the guidance of skilled riders such as Quiksilver Pro Felix Georgii. You can get two nights accommodation, lift ticket, lunch package, coaching as well as a photo- and videosession for EUR 159.00.
There is no spring without an extensive Barbecue! Therefore steaks, sausages and other delicacies will wait on the Barbecue for you – two days through on April 24th and 25th. Cool sound at the parkbase and goodie-for-trick sessions will complete the relaxed days at the Zoo.
At the Snowbroader Video Weekend from May 08th to 09th a snowboard movie will be produced. All interested riders meet on Saturday morning to film their own "parts" in the movie together with the snowbroader.eu crew.
Here is an overview of all the events:
- 13.03.2010 Stubai Jam – Tourstopp of the Quiksilver Wir Schanzen
- 21.03.2010 Snowboard Testival – Snowboard Hardware Test
- 09.-11.04.2010 Shred Sessions – Coaching Camp
- 24.-25.04.2010 Barbecue MOREBOARDS Stubai Zoo
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