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Manhattan Project: Special Edition (US - DVD R1)
Gabe reviews a movie no major studio would dare make in the post 9/11 era...
Paul (Christopher Collett) is an overly intelligent sixteen-year-old with a mean case of boredom who discovers that his mother's boyfriend, Dr. Mathewson (John Lithgow), is refining super-plutonium (that glows like Herbert West's re-agent) undercover, right in their neighbourhood. Intent on getting as much attention as possible, Paul steals some plutonium with the help of his girlfriend (Cynthia Nixon) and constructs his own atomic bomb. By the time Dr. Mathewson and his colleagues discover the plutonium is missing and inform the government, the device is built. Way to go Paul.
I'm not sure what 1980s social phenomenon led to so very many movies about kids acting all independent and sticking it to grown-ups. Most of these films are dated as Aquanet waves and parachute pants, but a few of them drip through the cracks and can rightfully be called 'modern classics'. The Manhattan Project is no E.T.. It isn't even a War Games, but it is harmlessly entertaining.
Writer/director Marshall Brickman won the Oscar in '77 for co-writing Annie Hall with Woody Allen. Although the film's plot and character motivations are suspect, the dialogue is awesome. The words that come out of these actor's mouths are golden, and quotable. The actors speaking these golden and quotable lines are pretty good to boot. Nothing sinks a comedy-tinged thriller like bad actors. Established thespians like John Lithgow and John Mahoney should be expected to deliver, but the kids, even the non-leads, are charming, witty, and realistic given the circumstance.
The film is never believable, on any level (the Cold War era military is so utterly inept it's mind-blowing), but it's entertaining, at least for its first hour. When Paul and his girlfriend Jenny run away with the bomb in hand the film loses all suspended disbelief credit. Actually arming the damn thing makes him more than worthy of a head shot, but the good performances help maintain a smidgen of sympathy.
And that's the difference between this and so many other films of the 'smart, independent kid' sub-genre—Paul is a dick. He doesn't accidentally make an atom bomb. He isn't trying to make a snow cone machine or a puppy cloner. He isn't forced or tricked into it by a race of evil aliens. Worst of all he doesn't do it in some kind of misguided attempt at good; he does it because it sounds like fun. It sounds like fun to make something that could destroy his entire city and cause thousands of people in surrounding cities to die slowly of radiation poisoning. All of his other character development backs up my evil monster theory.
The Manhattan Project is well made even when it's not so well or sympathetically written. The suspenseful scenes are expertly crafted and genuinely nerve-wracking. On the commentary track, Brickman talks about the film as an experiment. He talks about the need to challenge himself with the film. Considering these intensions I give the film a little more credit, because I respect experimentation.
The Manhattan Project is 1.85:1 and anamorphically enhanced. The colours on this disc are pretty impressive, and considering it's a reasonably colourful film we could do a lot worse. Contrast is nice and black levels are deep. Details vary throughout, but are reasonable considering the film's age. I don't image the film looking much better, but there is quite a bit of grain, and I noticed some chunky bits of artefact here and there.
No 5.1 overhaul for this one, but The Manhattan Project isn't a particularly aggressive feature, so a remix is pretty unnecessary (with a few exceptions). Dolby Digital 2.0 Surround will have to keep the fans happy. The surround channels are barren, but I noticed a few stereo effects here and there. Dialogue is pretty crisp, but a little on the quiet side. Music and sound effects are a bit thin, mostly suffering from a lack of LFE enhancement.
This isn't the most special 'Special Edition' I've seen in the past year, but it tries. Things get off to a very lacklustre start with an audio commentary featuring the director (not the cast as the box art claims). The DVD producers continuously prod him for information, but the dude's a dead fish. I squelched my critiquing duties and turned the track off. The silent commentary is supported by an equally lacklustre fact track. I adore fact tracks, but this one is so random and thin overall I was disappointed. The best fact I got was the fact that Brickman recorded the original bluegrass song that became 'Duelling Banjos' when it was used in John Boorman's Deliverance.
The disc also sports two featurettes. The first covers the general making of the film. The second is a shorter behind the scenes look at how the prop of the homemade atomic bomb was created. There isn't much here that isn't covered in the bland commentary and fact track, but it's a much quicker way to get the information. Short but entertaining. The disc closes out with a trailer.
Not the best or worst of its kind, The Manhattan Project managed to overcome some plot issues with great acting and dialogue. The characters and suspense work, the thrust of the story does not. I'm sure most '80s fans will have already seen it; those who haven't might want to give it a rent. The disc is pretty good, but not great.
Review by Gabriel Powers
Jonny "Me You" Senior Member Join Date: March 2004 Location: Canada Posts: 2,863
Good review gabe. I remember seeing this for the first time on TV a year or so ago. I laughed so hard I fell off my couch, but for some reason I kept watching. Hmmmmmm..
Who knew it was so easy to build an atomic bomb and all you needed to handle plutonium was mr clean dish washing gloves?
Who knew it was so easy to build an atomic bomb and all you needed to handle plutonium was mr clean dish washing gloves?
Chaos Engine Member Join Date: April 2006 Location: Anguilla Posts: 625
Last & only thing I saw Chris Collet in was 'Prayer Of The Rollerboyz' with the Haim, ahh, good times.
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No John Lithgow commentary? I was going to pick this up but listing a cast track on the disc but not providing one is a deal breaker.
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do they list it? That's weird. I didn't listen to every single word of it, but I listened to most of it and it was just the director and a host...guy, and it was dull, dull, dull. If Lithgow was on there, it must've been only for a few seconds, and that seems unlikely.
Thembones Member Join Date: November 2005 Location: United States Posts: 287
Good review of what was definitely a genre of films following in the wake of War Games which if I'm not mistaken was the first "Hackers" type movie. This cinematic farce just was terrible and you've hit every bad point this movie could ever have hit upon. I must say though, John Lithgow does make the best of just about every role he's ever played and even in this debacle he really got into the role and played it well.
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we can say dick now on this website. sweet
b*****d and scrotum sucker can't be too far away
b*****d and scrotum sucker can't be too far away
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Although I'm a couple of years late in joining the conversation...
The kid never armed the bomb, since you said he would be "worthy of a head shot" if he had. It was neutron flux from the plutonium that caused the circuit to malfunction and why it later couldn't just be shut back off.
The kid never armed the bomb, since you said he would be "worthy of a head shot" if he had. It was neutron flux from the plutonium that caused the circuit to malfunction and why it later couldn't just be shut back off.
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Disc Details
Release Date: 19th June 2007
Discs: 1
Disc Type: Single side, dual layer
RCE: No
Video: NTSC
Aspect: 1.85:1
Anamorphic: Yes
Colour: Yes
Audio: Dolby Digital 2.0 English
Subtitles: English, Spanish
Extras: Director Commentary, Fact Track, Featurette, Trailers
Easter Egg: No
Feature Details
Director: Marshall Brickman
Cast: Christopher Collet, Paul Austin, John Lithgow, Sully Boyar, Dan Butler, Timothy Carhart
Genre: Comedy and Thriller
Length: 118 minutes
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Western's proximity to Manhattan leads to dream internship opportunity
for student with political aspirations
Corey Paris has a goal. He wants one day to become president. Not president of the Western Connecticut State University Student Government Association — that's something he's already accomplished — but president of the United States of America.
Paris is the kind of individual who seems destined for leadership. He was active in student government and Air Force ROTC in his Nevada high school; he became involved in the student senate at Johnson County Community College (JCCC) in Overland Park, Kan., where he was elected SGA president. Paris also became the state's youngest elected official at 19, when he was voted in as a Precinct Committee member, which is equivalent to a New England city councilman.
After two years of study at JCCC, Paris naturally headed to Washington, D.C., for an internship at People for the American Way, a liberal progressive advocacy group that focuses on "making the promise of America real for every American: Equality. Freedom of speech. Freedom of religion. The right to seek justice in a court of law. The right to cast a vote that counts."
While taking a break to visit friends in Stamford, Paris stopped by the WCSU campus to take a look.
"People were friendly and smiling," he says. "They stopped to chat. I could feel the close-knit atmosphere. I looked at Western's programs and how close it was to a major city, and yet it was much cheaper than the University of Kansas, where I had been considering finishing my degree."
That proximity to a major city worked to Paris' advantage last semester, when he was able to secure an internship at the Clinton Global Initiative. Established in 2005 by President Bill Clinton as an off-shoot of the Clinton Foundation, the CGI serves to "convene global leaders to create and implement innovative solutions to the world's most pressing challenges."
As an intern at CGI, Paris worked with Clinton's Office of Partnerships to identify key organizations to fund projects aimed at addressing issues like women's rights, access to education and health care, and the elimination of poverty. He interacted directly with the former president, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, first daughter Chelsea Clinton Mezvinsky, world leaders, corporate executives and more than a few celebrities at CGI's Manhattan offices.
Paris was able to take advantage of the internship through Western's co-op program. The university's proximity to New York City enabled the political science major to drive from his Brookfield home to the Brewster, N.Y., train station to take the commuter rail into New York. It was the opportunity of a lifetime for the student who graduated from high school in Las Vegas, attended community college in Kansas and "took a risk" by coming to Connecticut to complete his bachelor's degree.
The value of taking risks is something Paris learned to appreciate during his time working alongside the former president, who told Paris, "I've learned that in any major decision regarding your life, you should always take a risk. If you take a risk, it will lead you somewhere you would not have thought possible to have gone before."
Paris says that deciding to study at Western was a risk that is paying off.
"Like former President Clinton, I had a hard life growing up," Paris says. "My parents were divorced and the relationships are difficult. I became very close to my grandmothers, who instilled in me a faith in people, a faith in God and the understanding that there are other people who are worse off than me and I can be their voice. Bill Clinton defied the odds in every situation, just as I have by putting myself through college as a financially independent student. Western has been a cradle of opportunity for me and it proves that anything is possible when you take a risk with your life."
Turning adversity into an opportunity seems to come naturally for the 22-year-old Paris, who has much in common with the 42nd president. Paris was born in Little Rock, Ark., during Clinton's term as governor. While at Georgetown University, Clinton was a student leader; his future wife, Hillary Rodham, was an SGA president at Wellesley. Paris says his desire to work with nonprofit organizations and charities and his aspiration to public service are also common themes he shares with the president.
"After I'm a former president someday, I'll want a foundation, too," Paris says confidently. "Politics, people and policy — the things I love in life — they were all there in Bill Clinton's office. I aspire to that wonderful example of helping others."

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December 20, 2012
by Kevin Pelton
Looking only at the month of December shows the Denver Nuggets bouncing back, the Brooklyn Nets and Philadelphia 76ers sinking and a stunning top team in the East.
December 18, 2012
When it comes to hitting the glass, are some positions more important than others? Here's what this year's numbers indicate.
December 14, 2012
Our look at this year's rookie class wraps up with the handful of second-round picks playing regular minutes so far, including defensive standout Draymond Green.
December 13, 2012
Our look at how this year's rookies have performed thus far continues with the remainder of the first round.
December 12, 2012
A month and a half into the season, a first check of how this year's rookies are performing in three parts. We start today with the lottery picks.
December 11, 2012
After considering the active players most likely to join Kobe Bryant and the four other players with 30,000 career points last week, now it's time to consider the cautionary examples of players who once were likely to score 30,000 but never got there.
December 10, 2012
Despite a strong effort Sunday night, the frontcourt duo of Jordan Hill and Dwight Howard doesn't appear to be the answer for the struggling Lakers because opponents have torched it in transition.
December 6, 2012
On Wednesday, Kobe Bryant made history as the fifth member of the NBA's 30,000-point club. An analysis of active players' chances of getting there suggests the group is in for expansion in the next decade or two.
December 4, 2012
Turning the exercise of plotting NBA teams by Offensive and Defensive Rating into a monthly exercise, we find that there is much more spread in the league on offense than defense so far.
December 3, 2012
A few weeks ago, the 2010-11 Heat was a trendy comparison for this year's Lakers. That talk has cooled despite the teams' similar records and a common factor the Lakers hope will prove telling.
November 30, 2012
Looking to improve a weak spot at point guard and help their young options develop, the Dallas Mavericks signed Derek Fisher as a free agent Thursday. Don't expect the aging Fisher to make much of a difference.
November 29, 2012
With Jason Kidd sidelined by back spasms, the Knicks' offense sputtered in a loss Monday in Brooklyn. The numbers show that Kidd's teammates have played much better with him on the floor all season.
November 28, 2012
Taking a look back at the results of last year's players who improved or declined the most shines some light on the usefulness of in-season projections at the extremes.
November 27, 2012
In the completion of a two-part series, a look at the players who have seen their projection drop the most based on performance to date. Depending on perspective, these players have either been big disappointments or are most likely to play better the rest of the season.
November 26, 2012
A look at the 10 players who have improved their preseason SCHOENE projections the most with their performance during the first month of the 2012-13 campaign.
November 21, 2012
On Tuesday, Jack Taylor made headlines by scoring 138 points for D-III Grinnell. While the Pioneers' uber-fast pace requires us to take some of the air out of Taylor's gaudy numbers, they remain impressive in context.
The Pac-12 hasn't done as well so far as hoped at putting last season's debacle in the rear-view mirror, but a recovery on Tuesday shows the conference is still much better than a year ago.
November 20, 2012
Grantland's Jonathan Abrams did a great job of tracing Zach Randolph's path to maturity off the court. On it, Randolph has gone from promising young reserve to overpaid starter to All-Star in unpredictable fashion.
November 19, 2012
The Minnesota Timberwolves, already playing without three key players for extended periods, suffered another injury loss when the Oregonian reported Sunday that Brandon Roy will undergo arthroscopic knee surgery.
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With the Knicks off to the best start in the NBA, a look back at past 6-0 starts offers perspective on just how high expectations should get in Gotham.


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I don't understand your problem. Your question would suggest that 18s is the highest expressing gene in a cell? You certainly could have a target sequence with a higher cT value than an 18s target (assuming you load the same amount of mRNA for both)
But doesn't rRNA make up >80% of the RNA in cells? Since 18s is a rRNA, I thought that it would have a very high expression. Could the Alu sequences have higher expression than the rRNA? Does the 293t cell line contain less rRNA than other cells?
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Other thing may be, if your Cts are really low (< 15), that 18S is so abundant it inhibits the reaction. If you dilute your sample like 500 - 1000x you may get Ct values in the safer range.
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Monday, 24 January 2011
A very nice surprise from BBC WDYTYA magazine
BBC Who Do You Think You Are magazine is one I only get to see on trips to the UK so it was a complete and utter surprise to have the blog recognized. Thank you BBC WDYTYA.
I'm getting an increasing number of tips from readers which helps me provide you better coverage. Please keep them coming
Audrey's blog posting notes that Chris Paton's blog Scottish GENES ' is selected as the Professional's Choice. Chris' blog is one I rarely miss and borrow from occasionally; the same with Audrey's.
This gives me a chance to remind those with Scottish interests that Chris will be lecturing for OGS Toronto Branch on 18 June 2011. There's more information at www.torontofamilyhistory.org/Scottish2011.html
Wouldn't it be nice to get Audrey here before too long!
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Congratulations JOHN ...for those of us with British roots, your blog is a necessary starting point every morning. You have kept us informed of new web sites, databases, developments in the family history and genealogical communities and where would we be without your opinion on matters affecting what we do! You call this "a very nice surprise" ... I say, "recognition well deserved"!
- 24 January, 2011 10:27
In this post John states "
BBC Who Do You Think You Are magazine is one I only get to see on trips to the UK". If John or anyone else in the Ottawa area wants to see (somewhat out-of-date) issues of this magazine, I suggest that they try Britton's in the Glebe or in Westboro. Today at the Westboro store I bought one of the three copies of the Christmas edition that were on the shelf.
- 24 January, 2011 19:04
- Marian Press said...
Congratulations, John. Well deserved.
- 26 January, 2011 16:03
- Chris Paton said...
Congratulations John - and looking forward to Toronto!
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GMC R-4 Bulldozer Review
What does every construction site you've ever been to have in common? I wouldn't know, because I've never been to a construction site, but I'd imagine they all have bulldozers, as well as scrap metal, nails, and other big elements of construction. I know what you're thinking – what on Earth does a bulldozer have to do with computers? Well, according to GMC, the two have everything in common. I just recently looked at GMC's X-7 X-Station, and it performed surprisingly well, despite the odd features. GMC's R-4 Bulldozer looks to be another case with extraordinarily odd features. I'm very curious as to how this case will compare to the X-Station, as well as the rest of the competition. With a name like Bulldozer, it better at least pose a threat to, if not flatten, the competition.
So how will the R-4 Bulldozer perform, and what does it look like? Designing a case after a bulldozer seems a little ridiculous to me, but the looks of the case will tell the tale. I guess I'll just have to put this baby through the tests, and see what it can do.
Closer Look:
The R-4 Bulldozer didn't come in any special construction-type packaging, but rather just your typical box. Both the front and back of the box are almost identical. The only difference is that one end shows the optical drive open, while the other shows it closed. We also get a close look at the case. In my opinion, it looks like it's made of plastic, but this is just the picture on the box, so we'll have to find out. Also on the front and back of the box is the usual plethora of logos, tag lines, and minor specification details.
Both sides of the box are exactly the same. They both use an orange color scheme that appears to be more construction like, thematically. This is also the area where the manufacturer will mark some of the basic specifications of the case. You Trekkies out there may love this – under the color category, GMC arranged the colors so that they spelled out "BORG". The top and bottom of the case are again the same, and both have the colors arranged in the same order.
Opening the box revealed a very odd and very cool way of packaging. Instead of the usual styrofoam, the R-4 Bulldozer was wrapped in a sturdy bubble wrap material. The huge air pockets kept the Bulldozer safe through its travels, and I received it unscathed.
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Saturday, August 04, 2007
"This Much Daily Hysteria"
- Ervin Santana turned into a AAAA pitcher at exactly the wrong time. He's now down in AAA working out his problems, but his inconsistency with Salt Lake isn't making him look like he'll be with the team barring a September callup.
- Bartolo Colon gave his last full measure. He's almost certainly done for the year and possibly his career, making the Angels' rotation is suspect in two places.
- Dubious use of Casey Kotchman. Mike Scioscia's unwillingness to bring in Casey Kotchman against lefties definitely burned him last night. Kotch is hitting .304/.377/.391 against lefties this year, making the platoon with Robb Quinlan (.259/.304/.400) of dubious value.
It occurred to me that maybe Scioscia is platooning him of late because he doesn't need to face lefties; after all, Kotch still came back from a concussion only a month or so ago. That's not a particularly compelling argument, though, despite the fact that Kotch has been hitting .230/.269/.330 in 100 AB since then. Here's a brief summary of how he's done against pitchers of both hands and all the hits he's had since returning from the DL:
It took Kotchman just under a week to get his first hit after coming back, a homer off Baltimore starter Jeremy Guthrie. But Scioscia didn't give him that many opportunities to see lefties early on, his first coming against Jamie Walker on June 29. He didn't get his first hit against a lefty until July 13 on a hit against Texas reliever Ron Mahay, a walkoff single that plated Gary Matthews from third.
2007-06-25: kca vs ana R John Thomson Ground Out R John Thomson Ground Out R John Thomson Fly Out R Octavio Dotel Ground Out 2007-06-26: kca vs ana R Gil Meche Strikeout R Gil Meche Ground Out R Gil Meche Ground Out R Joel Peralta Line Out 2007-06-27: kca vs ana R David Riske Pop Out 2007-06-29: ana @ bal R Steve Trachsel Ground Out R Rob Bell Fly Out R Rob Bell Line Out L Jamie Walker Ground Out R Chris Ray Fly Out 2007-06-30: ana @ bal L Brian Burres Ground Out L Brian Burres Ground Out L Brian Burres Fly Out R Paul Shuey Strikeout 2007-07-01: ana @ bal R Jeremy Guthrie Line Out R Jeremy Guthrie hr R Jeremy Guthrie Strikeout 2007-07-03: ana @ tex R Kevin Millwood 1b R Kevin Millwood Line Out R Kevin Millwood Ground Out R Frank Francisco Pop Out 2007-07-04: ana @ tex R Jamey Wright Strikeout R Jamey Wright Ground Out L C.J. Wilson Ground Out 2007-07-05: ana @ tex R Robinson Tejeda Strikeout R Robinson Tejeda Ground Out R Robinson Tejeda bb L Ron Mahay Ground Out 2007-07-06: ana @ nya R Scott Proctor Strikeout 2007-07-07: ana @ nya R Roger Clemens Ground Out R Roger Clemens Ground Out R Roger Clemens Strikeout R Mariano Rivera Bunt Ground Out R Luis Vizcaino 1b 2007-07-08: ana @ nya R Chien-Ming Wang Strikeout R Chien-Ming Wang Ground Out R Chien-Ming Wang Fly Out L Ron Villone Fly Out 2007-07-13: tex vs ana R Kevin Millwood Ground Out R Kevin Millwood Ground Out R Kevin Millwood Ground Out L Ron Mahay 1b 2007-07-14: tex vs ana R Kameron Loe Strikeout R Kameron Loe 1b R Willie Eyre Pop Out L C.J. Wilson Ground Out 2007-07-15: tex vs ana R Brandon McCarthy Strikeout R Brandon McCarthy 1b R Brandon McCarthy Ground Out L Ron Mahay bb L C.J. Wilson Line Out 2007-07-17: ana @ tba R James Shields bb R James Shields 1b R James Shields Ground Out 2007-07-19: ana @ tba R Andy Sonnanstine 2b R Andy Sonnanstine Ground Out R Andy Sonnanstine Fly Out R Brian Stokes Ground Out 2007-07-20: ana @ min R Carlos Silva Ground Out R Carlos Silva Ground Out R Carlos Silva Fly Out L Dennys Reyes bb 2007-07-21: ana @ min R Boof Bonser Ground Out R Boof Bonser Ground Out R Boof Bonser Ground Out R Joe Nathan Pop Out 2007-07-22: ana @ min R Matt Garza bb R Matt Garza Ground Out R Matt Garza 1b L Dennys Reyes Fly Out R Ramon Ortiz 2b 2007-07-23: oak vs ana R Chad Gaudin Strikeout R Chad Gaudin Fly Out R Kiko Calero Ground Out R Huston Street 1b 2007-07-24: oak vs ana R Santiago Casilla 1b 2007-07-25: oak vs ana R Joe Blanton Ground Out R Joe Blanton 2b R Joe Blanton 1b R Andrew Brown Strikeout L Joe Kennedy 1b 2007-07-27: det vs ana R Chad Durbin 2b 2007-07-28: det vs ana R Jason Grilli 2b L Tim Byrdak Bunt Ground Out 2007-07-29: det vs ana R Jeremy Bonderman Fly Out R Jeremy Bonderman Ground Out R Chad Durbin Ground Out L Macay McBride 1b L Bobby Seay 2b 2007-07-30: ana @ sea R Miguel Batista Ground Out R Miguel Batista Ground Out R Miguel Batista Fly Out R J.J. Putz Fly Out 2007-07-31: ana @ sea R Jeff Weaver bb R Jeff Weaver Ground Out L Ryan Rowland-Smith Pop Out L Ryan Rowland-Smith 1b R Mark Lowe Pop Out 2007-08-01: ana @ sea R Felix Hernandez Ground Out R Felix Hernandez Fly Out R Felix Hernandez Strikeout R J.J. Putz 1b L George Sherrill Bunt Ground Out 2007-08-02: ana @ oak R Chad Gaudin Ground Out R Chad Gaudin 1b R Chad Gaudin Ground Out L Joe Kennedy 2b vs LHP: 19 AB, 6 H, 0.316/0.381/0.421 vs RHP: 86 AB, 17 H, 0.198/0.233/0.291
Kotchman's line against righties during this time mostly reflects his recovery from the concussion, so it's not especially interesting. But he's getting hits off of guys who have done at least decent jobs against lefties, in particular, Joe Kennedy, who's devolved into a LOOGY type; left-handed batters are hitting a scant .203 against him this year, as is Ron Mahay (.250 BAA). The point is that while Scioscia may have had a reason to leave Kotchman out against tough lefties in the past, that time looks like it's over with.
- The usual problems with the bullpen. Scot Shields implosion yesterday merely highlighted the gradual erosion of the Angels' bullpen. Shields is a career 0-7 with a 5.59 ERA at Oakland, but here's the worse news: 0-3 and 15.12 ERA at Fenway.
- Losing a crucial road series to the team's closest rival. The Angels had an opportunity to put the Mariners away with this last road series, and blew it.
- It only gets harder from here. Losing that series looks more critical with each game they lose to the likes of the sub-.500 Athletics, because the Angels' strength of schedule against the rest of the way is tougher (.509) than the Mariners' (.502). A lot of that is due to the fact that the Angels have two sets to go before they're done with the Red Sox, including one on the road later this month. The Sox have just owned the Angels lately, and with the Halos' pitching badly depleted (great time to lose your command, Santana), well, the results are likely to be ugly.
Update: Adjusted Kotchman's at-bat list to make it chronological by game to emphasize when he appeared rather than who he appeared against.
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I'll remind you that Vlad just hit four HRs in two days, and we've finally replaced crap on a stick with at least one back-of-the-rotation pitcher that can win games, and a fifth no worse than the dark magic that preceded him.
I bet if we just lost the game outright you wouldn't be ascending into these Bjork-like hysterics. Look, it was a disappointing loss, but only because of the surprise of Vlad's second longball. I'm a diabetic too. I know how these moods go. Can I suggest some lean red meat and spinach?
Totally true. Meanwhile, defying your predictable pessimism, Santana was sent down, and Saunders has been great, meaning we are now better as a result.
Bartolo Colon gave his last full measure.
And now we're better because he's gone.
making the platoon with Robb Quinlan (.259/.304/.400) of dubious value.
Only if A) you believe Casey's 50 PAs this year against lefties is more indicative than Robb's 400+ for his career, B) are content to have a 1Bman on a powerless team with a .087 ISO while a .141 ISO sits, and C) think bench players should rot.
The usual problems with the bullpen
Scot Shields pitching bad is the "usual problems with the bullpen"? That's literally insane.
Rob, you don't take *any* positive Angels news seriously. Which makes it hard to take your analysis seriously, except as entertainment. Let's hear more about how Vladdy's "just old," and Napoli can't hit major league pitching, and Lackey's hurt, and Jered's just like Jeff, and Shields is terrible, and Saunders has an awful FB/GB ratio in AAA, and god knows what else.
I'll repeat it again -- any time you want to lay down cold hard cash, Angels vs. Mariners, 2007, I'll happily back up a truck to my bank account.
1. "Vlad wasn't right" last Sunday - and now?
2. Shields was nails for 2-3 months - then a bad outing, which basically was a bit of a freak as it was with two out and a Quinlan flub was a chief contributor.
3. "And 2 dubious starters?" - haven't the Angel won something like 16 of 21 when Mighty Joe Young started? Is he one of dubious starters?
4. and no matter what, Santana's back up Aug 31st.
i appreciate your critical analytical even skeptical look - but today's "Daily hysteria" tag is appropriately titled.
as for me, the club's in first and still the best of the division and one of the top 4 in the league - i'm pretty sure i'm be at the Big A in mid October, along with Ervin, Vlad's 30+-hr season, and Shields with a sub 3.00 ERA.
As to the bullpen, by the way: the Angels have the 9th worst bullpen ERA in the league... Shields has generally done his job, but his reliability is suspect -- or did you miss his 3.00 ERA?
Christ, Matt, they're not even beating the sub-.500 teams.
Nice try. Really. But I've never said anything particularly positive about Moseley. It's that just about *any* lump of flesh will be better than what Colon pitched like after April.
Vlad's slumps keep getting longer as he ages -- is this some kind of a surprise?
I'll be happy to see your supporting data. Meanwhile, Vladdy's OPS+ -- just after this terrible "slump" you refer to -- is 158, which would be the third-best of his career and best since 2002. Old old old!
But were there ever any indications that Kotchman couldn't hit lefties in the minors? I don't think so, or if there were, I don't recall reading them... are you arguing that his recent hot streak against lefties (actually better than his numbers against righties for reasons discussed above) is an illusion? If so, why (aside from the sample size issue)?
Your game of move-the-goalposts and same-to-you-but-more-of-it really is charming. However.
Quinlan mashes lefties for his career much better than we have any expectation that Kotchman will at this stage of his career. If I was Scioscia, I'd let Casey hit against everyone when he's smokin' hot, then platoon with Q when he cools off, and find spots for Q against lefties elsewhere.
As for Shields' "suspect" reliability, I'm pretty confident 90% of baseball would love to exchange the "reliability" of their set-up man for Shields'. A 3.00 ERA -- which, of course, he has after the worst game of his season -- is not bad at all.
Christ, Matt, they're not even beating the sub-.500 teams.
Baseball is a game of failure. We have the second-best record in baseball, four good starters, and Napoli & Kendrick coming back.
It must hurt when you get called on your doublethink.
And I'm more than happy to admit when I'm wrong, instead of forever changing the subject then whining about being called names. When the point of the discussion is truth, then truth can never hurt.
I'm not going to call you names, Rob, but that's a tad opportunistic, given Shields had an ERA of 2.24 coming into yesterday's game. No thinking man is going to assess Shields' reliability on his ERA, so give your (brighter than average) loyal audience here the benefit of honest argumentation, lest this become some teen scream pissing coliseum a la the MLB forums. Any metric that can swing 33% in the course of a single appearance ain't terribly descriptive.
Scot Shields ranks first in the AL in holds, and he's on pace for the most in any season for him thusfar. His WHIP and BAA are below career norms, and in 50 appearances this season, he's not given up ERs in 42 of them.
While reading us the obituaries, at least throw in the headlines as well. Gracias.
Implying that Kotchman can't hit lefties, for one.
1) You say that the Quinlan platoon is of "dubious value" because of this year's sample size of their performance against lefties.
2) I point out that this can only be "dubious" if you value Casey's 50 PAs this year over Robb's 400+ over his career -- which have produced a .310/.352/.510 line -- and then point out that even within your favorable-to-Casey sample size, Quinlan has much more isolated power, a commodity this team needs in spades.
3) You ask me whether I am "arguing" that Kotchman's "recent hot streak against lefties" is "an illusion," and "if so, why (aside from the sample size issue)?"
4) I decline your efforts to move the goalposts -- i.e., changing the parameters of what we were talking about -- and instead reinforce my point, which is "Quinlan mashes lefties for his career much better than we have any expectation that Kotchman will at this stage of his career."
5) You accuse me, falsely, and as your only evidence of my purported "double-think," of "Implying that Kotchman can't hit lefties."
Seriously, Rob, read that chronology slowly, then ask yourself why the very same people who enjoy your website are genuinely puzzled by your behavior.
See how easy it is to make an utterly valid point without making shit up about people and acting like an ass?
Honestly, what I suspect happens is that the Angels take some middle ground, giving Kotch more chances against lefties, but continuing to leave Quinlan in for most circumstances. They very well might let him go at the end of the season depending on what Kotchman shows himself capable of doing, unless they're still thinking about using McPherson at third base. The Angels have better, younger options in the outfield, and they're probably thinking about Aybar as the team's backup to Izturis in the infield though his bat leaves a lot to be desired, no matter the handedness of the pitcher.
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Nobody needs a tablet, but many people still want a tablet. This is still the core differentiator between a 'real' computer and a tablet. At least in The Netherlands, you can't function in society without a desktop or laptop connected to the internet, so people need a computer. A tablet, though? Hence, the most common thing people have told me when they played with my iPad 2 is this: I'd love to have a tablet, but not for hundreds of euros. Enter Google's Nexus 7, the first 'cheap' tablet that doesn't just validate Android as a tablet platform, but also gives the iPad a run for its money.
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Cm10 includes the default 'browser' but I have to say that I've only used chrome since I got it.
I wanted to stick with a pure nexus build but that only lasted a couple of weeks. The preview builds of cm on nexus hardware are instantly stable.
I use Ampache owncloud and minidlna so I actually probably only needed 8gb.
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By: Dr Lynda Kelly, Category: Museullaneous, Date: 13 May 2011
Students we consulted in 2010 during the development of the Birds of Paradise exhibition came to see the finished product for themselves today. What did they think?
In August 2010 twenty students attended a Kids' College to seek feedback about their interest in birds of paradise, how they felt about text and labels in exhibitions generally and what they would like to see and do in the Birds of Paradise exhibition specifically. You can read all about that day here and more about Kids' Colleges here.
Today, those same twenty students returned to visit the exhibition for the first time and give us their feedback. We were very excited to see them again, yet rather nervous as we wanted them to like what we'd done.
Once the students arrived and were welcomed and introduced to staff, they were let free to visit the exhibition before retreating to a separate room to discuss what excited them, what surprised them and what they would tell others. We also asked them to consider the main theme of the exhibition We are more alike than you think. They also had the opportunity to quiz Museum staff who had worked on the exhibition, before leaving us with their final message. Here's a little of what they had to say.
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- Good
- ETH Zurich drop down bar on each page
- i like this very much, especially how it scrolls automatically to the corresponding section on the page -Sh
- we could also have "Go to Top of page" links on long pages
- ETHZ banner on each page leads to homepage
- Vistor count at the bottom of the page
- Nice meet the team page
- ETH Zurich drop down bar on each page
- Not so good
- First page too dense
- Agreed, provide a little information and then link to a more heavy page - St
- Intro good - What the project was, What they had achieved, What it could achieve in the future (applications) -Sh
- No navigation/signposting though -St
- Does link to detailed wiki, but all the way down the bottom - St
- Very good explanation of project and reasons for it right up the top - St
- Nice brief description of the different components (with links to pages with details including results) -Sh
- Do we want to introduce the components on the front page?
- icons again!!
- colour scheme? - blueish maybe.. blood is red that is fair enough
- i like the animated gif ... moving stuff is appealing to the eye... easy to do ...
- Animation of the "Clock" in action for our front page? (Like in the presentation?) - St
- nice sort of layout on the front page
Cambridge 2006
- icon layout ... easy information to grasp .. i like| needs better icons though
- Again, too dense to read all at once. - St
Imperial 2006
- interesting process flow chart on front page
- very very good at colums
Imperial 2007 really good tabs on the top of the page
- separate wet lab/dry lab sections -Sh
- nice and simple front page ... i like this simplicity, but with icons :)
- Seconded. This is about what we want for a front page (except prettier). - St
- columned layout
- animation of the project ... grab these of the presentations...
- Animations good for explaining a lot of information in an easy to understand manner. - St
- visitor numbers and locations ... down the bottom
- very simple banner ... they then put out flyers and stuff... i think it'd hilarious if we marketed this as a swiss clock/watch alternative and gave out a brochure ... :p
- Looks like a business website on the general appearance, but animation of explaination is good. - Di
- Border around front page?
- Public page - www.brownigem.com -
- They had a video that got onto the OWW and synbio front page last year - do we want to do this ?
- Good layout
- Links to tools (plasmid mappers, blast2seq etc...) frequently used stuff
- Detailed protocols of experiments to date--good -Sh
- but probably better to link it to a separate page of protocols like Peking's (to avoid redundancy)
- a just for fun section ... we need to have more fun as a team... i say fridays at AO - (Animal Orchestra) or the pub
Imperial 2007
- breaking news section just make it red ;)
Brown 2006
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- team photo somewhere on both
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- border design?
- presentation section ... devoted purely to stuff to do with the presentation (berkeley 06)
- calagary 06 nicely design banners/logo? (ie. not done in paint) - we all have friends that could whip something together thats fairly spiffy ;)
- indiviuals photos in the team profiles ... standardise the profiles
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On Saturday night, Ultimate Fighting Championship returns to Montreal with UFC 154 at Bell Centre, where in the main event, Montreal superstar and welterweight champion Georges St-Pierre meets interim champion Carlos Condit in the main event. St-Pierre recently went 1-on-1 with Postmedia News MMA reporter Dave Deibert, discussing Movember, crying during movies and the supermodel that distracted him in the middle of a fight ...
POSTMEDIA: This month has been dubbed Movember, with men all over sporting moustaches as a cancer fundraiser. On a scale of 1 to UFC Hall-of-Famer Dan Severn or Tom Selleck, what kind of moustache can you grow?
ST-PIERRE: I'm not a hairy guy so it's very hard for me to have a moustache. I would never be able to be like Dan Severn, unfortunately.
POSTMEDIA: Name the last TV show or movie to make you cry.
ST-PIERRE: The last one is called La Guerre des Tuques (a 1984 movie whose title translates in English to The Dog Who Stopped the War). It's a kid's movie and I was a kid when I saw it. I remember I was so shy. At the end, the doggie dies. I was so shy, I was crying and I tried to hide it. I didn't want my sister to see it and then tell everyone at school and all my friends. I was hiding it. But they saw me. I cry one tear and everybody knew it ((laughs).
POSTMEDIA: You're stranded on a desert island. What DVD, CD and book do you bring?
ST-PIERRE: One DVD? I would take maybe a movie with Arnold Schwarzenegger. One book? Maybe The Art of War or something like that. A CD? Some hip-hop.
POSTMEDIA: Who's the most famous person in your cellphone that you could call up right now?
ST-PIERRE: Jean-Claude Van Damme, maybe.
POSTMEDIA: Have you seen The Expendables 2?
ST-PIERRE: Of course.
POSTMEDIA: Have you ever been in the cage and your mind just wanders off?
ST-PIERRE: One time I was fighting against BJ Penn. I had his back against the fence. I'm not kidding you, for a few seconds I look and I was staring at a beautiful woman in the audience. It was … uh … (snaps fingers) Cindy Crawford. I stared at her. I'm thinking, 'My God, she's so beautiful. And she's looking at me.' And just next to her, I see her husband looking at me, and I'm like, 'Oh my God. I can't look at her. Her husband's looking at me.' Now I'm thinking, 'Of course, they're looking at me. I'm doing the show right now and I'm in the middle of the fight.' So I'm like, 'Go back to your focus.' ((laughs)
Sometimes when you fight, people don't understand, you have to fight to really understand it, time comes slow. All these thoughts come in your mind but in maybe one second, but all these thoughts cross your mind in that one second. Then you go back to normal speed. It's kind of weird. In Rocky, he has the slowdown — baaang, when he gets punched. This thing really happened. In a fight, the way it is, it's very special. When you're in a very stressful moment, like a surviving mode, stuff like that happens. It's crazy. People don't really believe it but it's actually true. You can ask any other fighter. It does happen.
POSTMEDIA: Your name is always brought up in dream-fight scenarios, like BJ Penn, Nick Diaz or Anderson Silva. What would be your own personal dream fight?
ST-PIERRE: I would have liked to fight Jean-Claude Van Damme in Bloodsport ((laughs). That would have been my dream fight, in an MMA cage.
POSTMEDIA: What's a talent you secretly wish you had?
ST-PIERRE: I would like to be able to bluff better. I'm a terrible bluffer.
POSTMEDIA: Like in life or cards?
ST-PIERRE: In life and everything. I try sometime. Someone asks me something: 'How do I look?' I say, 'Oh, you look very nice.' But I have a hard time lying. They see me and my eyes. This causes me a lot of trouble (laughs).


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In her bestselling 1962 book "Sex and the Single Girl," Helen Gurley Brown dared to tell American women that they inherited their "proclivity" for sex, that it "isn't some random piece of mischief you dreamed up because you're a bad, wicked girl."
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Brown, whose name became synonymous with the magazine she ran for more than three decades, died Monday at a hospital in New York, according to an announcement fromHearst Corp.She was 90.
Helen Gurley Brown: The obituary of longtime Cosmopolitan editor Helen Gurley Brown in the Aug. 14 Section A referred to Betty Friedan's groundbreaking 1963 book as "The Feminist Mystique." The title is "The Feminine Mystique."
Brown's ideas about femininity were scandalous at a time when marriage and motherhood were considered the pinnacle of a woman's life and sex was viewed as immoral unless it was within the confines of marriage.
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But others, such as Barbara Ehrenreich, Elizabeth Hess and Gloria Jacobs, writing in "Re-Making Love: The Feminization of Sex" (1986), consider Brown the "first spokeswoman for the [feminist] revolution."
Comparing "Sex and the Single Girl" to Betty Friedan's groundbreaking "The Feminist Mystique" published a year later, the authors said that "Brown's was in many ways the more radical": "It was 'Sex and the Single Girl' that disposed of what Friedan called the feminist mystique in a few brief, confident sentences: 'You may marry or you may not.... In today's world, that is no longer the big question for women.'"
Brown wanted credit for her pioneering sensibility: "One part of your life is sex and men, and another part of your life is work and achieving," she told The Times in 1997. "And where I sometimes get into trouble is saying your work is just as important as your love life. But no feminist — not Gloria Steinem, not Betty Friedan — ever inculcated me with that idea. I came up with that by myself, and it's on every page of Cosmo. I think some women who are homemakers who don't have professional jobs might feel that's a little unfair, and I would have to plead guilty to that."
Though it's become fashionable to blame the feminist movement for misleading women about the difficulties of combining motherhood and work outside the home, it was Brown who coined the expression "having it all." The phrase was the title of a bestseller she wrote in 1982.
Years later, she claimed she had never said it would be easy.
"I don't think I sold a bill of goods," said Brown, who never had children. "You can have it all. And it's a hell of a lot of work. And it causes considerable stress. I never, so to speak, had it all. But I had my all, which is what I wanted: work and love."
"Sex and the Single Girl" led to a syndicated newspaper column, a movie of the same name and, in 1965, to Brown's role as editor of Cosmopolitan. Overnight, it seemed, the unmarried woman went from an object of pity to being seen as sophisticated, hip, smart, sexy and desirable. In other words, a "Cosmo Girl."
Cosmopolitan's cover photograph of the glamorized, well-endowed Cosmo Girl took her place in American culture. And the cover lines written exclusively by Brown's husband became legendary: "How to Turn Him On While You Take It Off," "The Pill That Makes Women More Responsive" and "I Was a Passed Around Girl."
Brown, incidentally, never apologized for calling her readers "girls," saying she was addressing the "girlish" side of them that sometimes wanted to be a sex or love object.
"Cosmo" was beloved by great swaths of young women who soon learned to say aloud the word "orgasm" and, even more shocking, pronounce their right to have one.
Brown remained at the helm of Cosmopolitan for 32 years, and would not have left in 1997 had she not been forced out. By then, Cosmo was selling 2.5 million copies a month — much of it at the newsstand — and collecting about $160 million a year in revenues. After leaving the editor's post, Brown oversaw the international editions of Cosmopolitan for many years.
Helen Gurley Brown was born Feb. 18, 1922, the daughter of schoolteachers in Green Forest, Ark. After her father's death in an elevator accident when she was 10, Helen moved with her mother and her sister, Mary, to Los Angeles. Shortly thereafter, Mary contracted polio, and it fell to Helen to do much of the caretaking.
But Brown always had ambition.
"I never liked the looks of the life that was programmed for me — ordinary, hillbilly and poor," Brown wrote of her early life. She described herself as a teenager this way: "Flat-chested, pale, acne-skinned, terrified." She was determined not to stay a "mouseburger," what she called women who are "not prepossessing, not pretty, don't have a particularly high IQ, a decent education, good family background or other noticeable assets."
Brown attended what is now Texas Woman's University and Woodbury, a business college then located in Los Angeles. Next came a series of 17 secretarial jobs.
She always loved writing, and became known as someone who could dash off an entertaining letter. One that she wrote to one of her bosses, Don Belding of the Foote, Cone & Belding advertising agency, led Belding's wife to say that Brown "writes nicely — why don't you let her write copy?" Brown later was one of the winners of Glamour magazine's "Ten Girls With Taste" contest, which led to an opportunity to write for her employer.
Brown met her husband at the place that she recommended all single women look for a mate: on the job. After they married, he encouraged her to write about her experiences as a single woman, having noticed that she had a lively style of telling these stories in letters to her friends.
"Let the 'secure' married girls eschew shortening their skirts ... and wear their classic cashmeres and tweeds until everybody could throw up," Brown wrote in typical prose in "Sex and the Single Girl." "You be the girl other girls look at to see what America has copied from Paris."
Brown endeared herself to her readers by telling them that she was hardly the kind of woman at whom a man would look longingly across the room. She had learned — and she thought every woman could learn — how to flatter a man and how to make the best use of her sex appeal.
She advised women who were offended by the idea of out-of-wedlock sex to "skip the whole book!" (She wrote and talked in italics and exclamation points.) She was, she said, talking to women who knew "instinctively" that "a girl with a 'natural' predilection toward sex is sexy."
These same women, she said, also understood that sex was power. Married women might owe their husbands sexual favors, but single women could wield sex to get what they wanted!
(Which, ironically, to Brown often meant the retro goal of getting the man to marry her.)
She also proposed a daring idea: Keep sex in your life, and if that means sometimes sleeping with a married man, well, so be it. Just don't let him break your heart, she said.
At Cosmopolitan, where Brown's husband had been a top editor in the late 1940s and early '50s, she quickly came up with the winning formula: a beautiful woman on the cover and a mix of sex advice and articles about men, work and female health on the inside. Cosmo was, more than one person has noted, a sort of female version of Playboy.
"Both of them were about not the exotic girl, the quote unquote 'bad girl,' but the girl next door or the average middle-class woman," feminist scholar Paula Kamen, author of "Her Way" (2002), said. "It was OK for her to be sexual and not be seen as a bad, immoral person."
Like Playboy, Cosmopolitan's cover featured an airbrushed version of womanhood — not the all-but-naked Playmate but certainly one who flaunted substantial cleavage. Brown chose photographer Francesco Scavullo to take these photographs, which he did for more than three decades.
"I knew women wanted to look at bosom as much as men did, to see how they compared," Brown told The Times in 2004, commenting on her partnership with Scavullo at the time of his death. She said Scavullo and his stylist "used bobby socks, breast tape, baseballs, whatever they had to" to make the women look busty.
Brown also helped usher in the era of self-help, offering ways for women to improve their ability to overcome their jealousy, shyness or insecurity.
"We've done jealousy once a year, repackaged, for 25 years," Brown told the New York Times in 1990, on the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the magazine's revamp. "We do rage, envy, sloth, possessiveness — all the deadly sins that Pandora released."
She was familiar with envy; petite and always perfectly dressed, Brown insisted that she was an object of dislike because of her size. "People hate me … really despise me because I am little," she said.
Of course, the mainstay of Cosmo was how to look good, whether that took a new dress, a diet or cosmetic surgery. (Brown herself admitted to adjustments to her eyes, nose and breasts.)
Brown's husband died in 2010. She had no immediate survivors.
The debate over whether Brown empowered women to take charge of their lives or self-helped them into good old-fashioned servility is likely to go on.
Ms. magazine editor Gloria Steinem told the Washington Post in 1982 that she appreciated Brown as a pioneer who acknowledged women as sexual beings. "But she's fooling herself if she thinks her message is a feminist one," Steinem went on to say. "She's telling women that if they look good, smell good, wear the right perfume and underwear, wonderful things will happen to them."
Friedan, who initially called Cosmopolitan "quite obscene and quite horrible," later conceded that Brown was a "very smart and gutsy lady" whose role in the women's movement had been important.
As for Brown, she always had viewed herself as a feminist. "I was there saying, 'You're your own person, go out there and be somebody. You don't have to get your identity from being somebody's appendage.' "
Luther is a former Times staff writer.
Times staff writers Dennis McLellan and Robin Abcarian contributed to this report.


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Did The FCC 'Rebroadcast Or Retransmit An Account' Of MLB Game On Twitter?
from the bogus-copyright-claims dept
I'm reminded about all of this because, as a part of the silly retransmission fight between Fox and Cablevision, where some viewers were blocked from seeing some of the MLB postseason games airing on Fox, apparently the FCC decided to make something of a statement on the issue by tweeting an ongoing account of one of the blacked out games, along with a link to its own consumer alert about the retransmission fight. Here's an example tweet from the FCC's official Twitter account:
Matt Cain relieved after 7 strong, 2 H, 0 ER. Giants scored on two singles, throwing error. SF up 3-0 top 9Of course, this has some questioning whether or not the FCC just did a rebroadcast or retransmission of an account of the game without (one assumes) express written consent of Major League Baseball. Of course, MLB's random attempts to enforce its bogus claims of ownership on data have all failed, and I'm sure it knows better than to take on the FCC in a losing cause, but it does a nice job of highlighting just how ridiculous the "warning" is from the MLB, and makes you wonder why the FTC doesn't crack down on what appears to be copyfraud.


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Mayo accepts city firefighting job, starts work Monday
New London — Calling it a "major victory," the state and local chapters of the NAACP hailed the hiring of firefighter Alfred Mayo on Thursday, saying "the healing process must begin."
Mayo, who attended the evening press conference, said he was excited to start his career with the department. He will begin work on Monday "with the great firefighters of New London," he said.
In December, Mayo, the first black firefighter hired by the city since 1978, was fired by the city three days before his state fire academy graduation. State NAACP President Scot X. Esdaile said by offering Mayo his job back, the city had righted a wrong — a wrong that Esdaile said should have never have happened.
"This could have been dealt with in a more efficient and professional manner," Esdaile said.
Regardless, Esdaile said, Mayo is a "freedom fighter," akin to Jackie Robinson or Martin Luther King Jr., who were willing to stand up and fight for what was right.
"It's not a black or white issue, it's a right or wrong issue," Esdaile said.
Earlier Thursday, Mayor Daryl Justin Finizio told reporters that the firing of Mayo last year was not personal and confirmed the city offered Mayo his job back Wednesday.
Finizio said that "unconditional" reinstatement means there are "no stipulations added" and "no special conditions" attached to the offer. Though the city is in a budget crisis, Finizio said Mayo's back pay has been budgeted as part of the current year's budget. Attorney's fees, which Finizio said are not significant, will come out of a budget line in next year's budget that pays for small claims.
Finizio said the city budget crisis will affect the fire department, but hopefully not in the form of layoffs. If there are layoffs in the fire department, Finizio said, Mayo could be let go because of a contract-related "last one in, first one out" seniority policy.
"We're doing all we can to avoid layoffs in that department," Finizio said.
Finizio said it was only "fair" to pay Mayo as if he hadn't been fired because his firing was based on "tainted information" from the fire academy. An April 23 report on the academy faults the school for multiple procedural failures, inappropriate communications and possibly untrue allegations of recruit misconduct.
State Rep. Ernest Hewett, D-New London, who has championed Mayo's cause, in February called for the investigation into the academy.
Mayo was the only black recruit in last year's "Class 48" at the fire training school.
To encourage diversity in the city fire department, Finizio said he hoped to switch to an open application process rather than the current certified process, which he said limits the pool of applicants.
Rocco Basilica, fire department union president, welcomed the news that Mayo had been hired.
"We need able firefighters, and he'll have a fair chance just like every other person that walks in the door," Basilica said. "What's important to me is that they're filling the vacant spots. Staffing is our most important thing, it protects the public and the firefighters. The more staffing we have, the safer we are."
New information brought to light
Finizio said the city relied heavily on information received from the state fire academy instructor, who repeatedly told New London Fire Chief Ronald Samul that Mayo had a bad attitude and was not performing well. Finizio said such correspondence about a recruit from an academy instructor is rare, which he said spoke to its seriousness.
But the investigation into the academy — completed by the office of Reuben F. Bradford, the commissioner of the Department of Emergency Services and Public Protection, which oversees the fire academy — brought new information to light, Finizio said.
On Thursday, Bradford himself sent a letter to Finizio, writing that he was pleased to hear the city had offered Mayo his job back.
In the letter, Bradford invited Mayo to complete the three days of training he missed in December. The current academy class will complete that training on May 18, 21 and 22, so it provides some "synchronicity in the timing of this," Bradford wrote.
"Assuming this takes place, I would leave it to Mr. Mayo's choice whether to receive his diploma together with this year's graduating class or to receive it individually in my office," Bradford wrote in his letter, which also was sent to Samul and Mayo's attorney, Gary Cicchiello.
When he heard on Wednesday that Mayo had been offered his job back, Hewett said he had to sit down, he was so overwhelmed.
"It's a good thing we kept pushing this issue to make sure the truth comes out," he said.
Hewett said he met briefly with Finizio Thursday morning and told him the hiring was a "good move." Hewett said Mayo was "railroaded from day one."
On Thursday, Hewett said the ordeal could have been avoided. In any case, he said, changes need to occur at the state fire academy and in how a city communicates with a recruit attending the academy, located in Windsor Locks.
"I want people to know: It never was about the city's firemen, they had nothing to do it," Hewett said. "It had to do with a system that allowed recruits at the academy to be ostracized."
Hewett said his own "next move" will be to take a tour of the academy.
"I want to see what's really going on up there," he said.
New London NAACP chapter President Donald Wilson said of the news Thursday: "If you take the time, the truth will outshine everything else."
"I'm happy they decided to take him back before it went on to a lawsuit and everything else," Wilson said. "This was the right thing to do. It was wrong to fire him in the first place, so this makes it right."
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Big waves, big scores and big upsets abound on Day 8 of the Oakley Pro Bali.
The much anticipated swell brought barrels in the morning and airs in the afternoon.
"Fantastic surf school"
Fantastic surf school with very experienced and skilled teachers – and at the same time they motivate you to give your best in and out of the water! Will definitely come back ❤
– amv1000
TripAdvisor – July 2017
"Great instructors and great fun"
We had one lesson in the morning and one in the afternoon, and had a lot more progress than expected. Great instructors and great fun
– Roy K
TripAdvisor – June 2017
"Best Surfing Day!"
From the waves to the people, LX Surf Camp was amazing! I have had surf lessons previously but none compared to how Pedro taught and worked with each student individually. The lessons were tailored to the individual's level whether that be a complete beginner of someone who is looking to improve. The atmosphere was so lovely and it was an all around pleasant place. I look forward to returning in the future!
– Alessandra G
TripAdvisor – June 2017
"Surf's Up!"
We booked a two hour private surf lesson for a group of 8 ladies – all who had never surfed before, as part of a hen celebration.
The whole team at LX Surf Camp were absolutely brilliant and made it so much fun for us.
Cannot recommend them enough!
– Caroline Gessa
TripAdvisor – June 2016
We took 4 surflessons at this place. We we had a great time, Mario was our surf instructor, he was really nice, patient and spoke excellent English. We really would recommend this surfschool to anyone who wants to learn how to surf or to get better at it! Afterwards we were so excited about surfing that we are going to continue it at our homecountry, so maybe we will return one day!Thanks a lot guys! We wish you all the best!
– Thijs & Eliëtte
TripAdvisor – June 2016
"Hen party"
So relaxed and great fun,everyone enjoyed the surf but more important they enjoyed the friendly instructor who made the lesson feel like a pro.
– Maggie
TripAdvisor – May 2016
Hi Pedro,just wanted to thank you again for the wonderfully service and great care that you took with us at the weekend. It was so relaxing and was very impressed. Thanks again marguerite
– Marguerite Thompson
May 13, 2016
I had an awesome time and experience with Lisbon surf camp. Helena is sweet and really took care of me when I arrived to make sure I was welcomed and comfortable. Pedro is a really cool guy with a great camp, saw him surf on a paddle board he's so good . Luis and Mario were my instructors and I learned so much that I'm forever addicted. The instructors were great! The hospitality and atmosphere was even better! Very comfortable stay. Best part was being away from all the Craziness in Lisbon, this is a place to really experience Portugal and relax. When in Portugal this surf camp is a must do!
– Rico Dane
5star Facebook Review
April 29, 2016
Lena, Pedro, Filipe, and all the people I met here,
I had an amazing stay, with amazing food, and most important, amazing suit!
I experienced the true spirit of surfing thanks to you guys, and you will see me again for sure!
I also will never forget my first dawn patrol at 6 AM in Praia de Carcavelos!
Much love,
– Bastien from France (AKA the French asian guy with a pink hat)
June 1st, 2014
Back for the 8th time – that must be the record
I love this place, and as always I've had a great stay. Will miss a lot!!
– Tina Ballerina
June 03, 2014
Dear Pedro,
Thank you for the great time at your Surfcamp!
I enjoyed the Stay @ the house, the first time surfing, hanging out at the beach and around and your delicious cooking very much.
Appreciate your hospitality, surf training and insights to the surfers lifestyle!
Hope this will not have been the last time I visit 😉
Don't worry – be ha(i)ppy, DANKESCHÖN & Auf Wiedersehen!
PS: Big Thanks also to Lena, Filipe and the dogs
– Alex (aka the german perfectionist)
June 6, 2014
Great time, great trip, amazing people! It was one of my best trips around the world. Pedro was so f…great man. Vasco i love malakas!!! See you soon for sure, i can tell you that.
– Don, from Greece
Recuerdos desde la España, el viaje bien, largo pero de nuevo estamos en casa, gracias otra vez por todo. Jose y Patri.
– José Ángel Rodríguez Polo
The ultimate Lisbon surf experience, and no trip to this coast is complete without it."
I really enjoyed the classes. After overcoming my initial uncertainty of the waves and falling hundreds of times, I managed to ride my first wave based on feedback and encouragement from my fantastic instructor Kiko who made the experience totally fun. His enthusiasm was infectious and really pushed me to dig for more whilst being patient, friendly and really funny with it!
You will LOVE surfing if you go to Lisbon Surf Camp and you will be made to feel right at home with the kind and warm hospitality of Pedro, the camp owner who co-ordinates everything according to your needs. He has a wealth of knowledge of the local area and cultural delights of Portugal and will show you a thoroughly good time.
I promise you will not be disappointed here!
– Rebecca Graves, UK, 2011
Pedro, I want to thank you and your guys for the awesome time surfing with you.
Carry on with your passion and we will see soon again!
– Aloha, Tommaso Cappello, Italy, April 2012
Just got back from a week at the surfcamp. Pedro's an amazing host and the surf lessons were superb. Got to sample loads of different breaks in the local area. Warm welcome to all people on the camp, Germans, Brits, Spanish and the Danes! Thanks Pedro.
– Tom (London), 23 Sep 2011, 09:22
It is a cool little cosy Hostel a little bit outside of Cascais centre! The owner is a fun Person and really cool! Breakfast was also good! We liked it so much we had to extend our stay for another night! It is really clean! Very small Hostel you are a guest at a real Portuguese home! Enjoy your stay and take some good surf lessons there! We'll come back FOR SURE.
– Carolin Schieker, 2010.08.14, Germany
Has been fantastic, Pedro made me feel at home, he took us to the best spots for the best waves, no matter the distance. Also showed us the best places of Lisbon. The house is so nice, very familiar and very good food, even had barbaques in the garden drinking the best beer. Thanks a lot Pedro!!!
– Albert Oliana, España, 03 Oct 2009
Hey there, missing the waves already…thank you Pedro for the great teaching at Lisbon Surfcamp! Have a nice Winter with good waves
– Sandra, Austria, 27 Sep 2009
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Wednesday, April 23, 2008
If It's Over, Then...
I don't buy into the notion that Clinton should have won, because the state played to her demographic. If you look at the exit polls, you will find, that with the exception of African Americans, her demographics consist of the Democratic base, the crucial segments that will make or break an election campaign. Strange to say that carrying the rank and file of the party is inconsequential, that she "should" win those votes. People assumed Clinton would win Pennsylvania, based on previous results, which really means Obama has trouble with core Democrats. People keep fluffing off these victories, but they consistently show strength for Clinton, in states which are central to any potential victory in the fall. Have we reached the point where Obama can't win, unless he has over-representation of African Americans in a state?
Here's my deal with the race, numbers aside. Since Super Tuesday, Clinton has won three crucial primaries, despite being outspent and facing long odds. There is tremendous pressure to get behind a nominee and prepare for the fall election. Despite that environment, Clinton continues to thrive, there is no sense that people are rallying behind Obama, at least not the voters anyways. What is happening now, is in some respects more important that what happened two months ago. Voters know more, further information is available, events have occurred, the questions are clearer. If you are standing here today, and the goal is beating McCain, what is more important Iowa or Pennsylvania, South Carolina or Ohio?
Why can't Obama close the deal? Why is that the voters, with full knowledge of the circumstance (a majority last night thought Obama would be the nominee) still vote for Clinton? Clinton didn't just squeak by last night, she won by a healthy margin, and she won despite having "no chance". That fact to me is remarkable, spin aside, quite telling. The Obama camp argument that Pennsylvania is "her" state, is really an admission that the majority of traditional Democratic voters tend to favor Clinton. In primaries, in states that Democrats need to carry, Clinton seems to have an advantage. That is okay with everyone, that isn't indicative of some underlying problem?
My counter to "it's over" has always been "just win baby". If Obama is the presumptive nominee, if Clinton is finished, then it should translate in the voter booth. The simple fact of the matter, Obama hasn't closed the deal, Clinton continues to do what she needs to, in order to survive. Yes, Clinton still trails in delegates, and she probably can't catch him, but that reality should make her victories less likely, that math should work against her in the NOW. Why it doesn't manifest itself with voters, why she continues to march forward, why Obama still struggles with core constituents, those are important questions moving forward.
14 comments:
- Scott Tribe said...
It doesnt matter how you win the presidency or what states you win the Presidency as long as you win the electoral college Steve.
Fact is, I've seen polls that say PA would still vote for Obama if he won, regardless of their vote last night, and I also see states like Colorado and Iowa and other midwestern states (Montana even!!) that would vote for Obama that wouldn't for Hillary.
That's just more Hillary surrogate spin nonsense about winning "big states". The "insult 40 states" strategy as Kos calls it.
- 11:35 AM, April 23, 2008
- Blues Clair said...
Here's my deal with the race, numbers aside. Since Super Tuesday, Clinton has won three crucial primaries, despite being outspent and facing long odds.
What are the long odds that Clinton faced? Was it the 20 plus percent lead in Pennsylvania she held only a month ago? I think her Ohio lead was similar. Also, this is not an original thought but i might as well say it. Obama may have the money but Clinton has the machine. Otherwise I agree with what your saying. Obama hasn't been able to finish Clinton off and his 'bitter/guns/religion' remark was a terrible mistake and cost him dearly.
- 11:38 AM, April 23, 2008
- Steve V said...
You need to stop using kos as a reference, the guy has had it in for Hillary since 2003.
- 11:41 AM, April 23, 2008
- Anonymous said...
"Have we reached the point where Obama can't win, unless he has over-representation of African Americans in a state?"
I can point out Washington state, Kansas, and Iowa. The question should be why Hillary did not paid too much attention to caucuses?
"what is more important Iowa or Pennsylvania, South Carolina or Ohio?"
Watch Scott talk about Obama's crossover appeal. This needs to be countered with how Obama did in bellweather states that are leaning towards the Dems. Also note that a progressive like McCain do much better there among Reagan Democrats.
I blogged about how Hillary won by becoming the left wing version of Duncan Hunter. This loss represents a slap in the face to Michael Moore, MoveOn.org, Markos, Bill Richardson, Sam Nunn etc. They could have confined her into the dustbin of Democratic party also-rans. Not yet. Like Stephen Douglas, Hillary is still running hard. Supported by Democratic rank and file members who are clinging to their guns, AFL-CIO membership, and crucifixes, they gave Hillary a win in Penn big time.
- 11:47 AM, April 23, 2008
- Steve V said...
I'm not sure about the "machine" part, because that tends to be most evident in a caucus environment, where in fact Obama has excelled.
Just as an aside, if we had Michigan and Florida in the equation, based on the demographics, Hillary may very well be ahead now in the popular vote. Not using the sham results we have now, but if you extrapolated what would happen, based on the trends from other states.
That tends to counter the kos, "the people have spoken" argument. DKos is an extension of the Obama campaign, it's not really a good source for fair analysis.
- 12:07 PM, April 23, 2008
- Blues Clair said...
Your Michigan and Florida points are taken and i'm sure the remaining super delagates will keep that in mind. As i'm sure they are going to keep in mind Hillarys unfavorable approval ratings amongst voters in which she is the clear front runner. Kos? I don't read that blog often and i'm well aware of who's supporting who amongst the media.
- 12:57 PM, April 23, 2008
- Steve V said...
Yes, those unfavorables should be a concern, no question. Another factor, nobody motivates the Republcian base like a Clinton, which is particularly relevant this season, given McCain's less than enthusiastic support amongst some of the Republicans core groups.
- 1:04 PM, April 23, 2008
- Anonymous said...
hussein outspent her, 3 to 1...get 93% of the black votes, and he still looses,....
can he win in november, not a chance in hell... thats the point here, nominate a black man, loose the presidency, get rid of the black man, win the white house...simple as that...
- 1:32 PM, April 23, 2008
- Anonymous said...
Actually in states where there is a high percentage of African Americans ie Mississippi, Alabama, Louisiana, Georgia he has less chance than Hillary.
IN these states the black voters are overwhelmingly democrat hence the term "overrepresentation"
ie the population fo a state might be 20% black but in the dem primary it's 30%.
In Nov however the % black vote will be the 20%. There isno over representation in Nov.
Add to that the fact that in states with higher black populations the whites are much more likely to vote agaisnt him. Clinton carried about 70% of the white vote in these states and that's democrats.
Unfortunately, for Obama the black poulation is concentrated in blue states or red states and really they don't make much of a difference in Nov as they tend to vote dem anyways.
He can get 90% of the black vote in Alabama and Mississippi. it won't make a difference.
Most of the swing states are white working class or hispanic.
New Mexico
Maybe Wisconsin, Missouri and Minnesota are better for Obama than Clinton but all the others are better for her adn carry way more electoral college votes, and Dems know that.
There really arent that many states in play.
Virginia, neither Obama nor CLinton stand a chance against McCain. New Hampshire either will carry.
The math looks bad for Obama in Nov and the dems if he's it.
- 1:40 PM, April 23, 2008
- Anonymous said...
Obama has trouble with the white working class and hispanics.
If McCain does better with those two groups than Obama, and I think there is a great deal of evidence to show that, the republicans win.
By the way these are the same two groups that have given the white house to the Republicans for the past 8 years.
Hillary does very well with these two groups.
- 1:43 PM, April 23, 2008
- Anonymous said...
"Another factor, nobody motivates the Republcian base like a Clinton,"
Watch Steve support McCain around November. He addresses real issues in the rust belt states like climate change unlike the Dems who are clinging to the past.
- 4:31 PM, April 23, 2008
- Steve V said...
- 4:34 PM, April 23, 2008
- Anonymous said...
Steve V, I'm referring to you.
You have spent the last few posts arguing that Hillary is still alive and has everything to play for. Then you present an argument in which Hillary is so polarizing that the GOP would rally against her, giving McCain the victory.
Are you suggesting that Obama is the better candidate in beating McCain?
- 4:41 PM, April 23, 2008
- Steve V said...
I have no preference here, which is why I'm presenting both arguments. If I seem to be leaning Clinton, it's only because I've never bought into the "it's over" meme, because if it is, then Obama should be winning.
As to who could beat McCain, to be truthful both of them have their problems. Hillary has high negatives, and Obama, it seems to me, can be painted as a left liberal pretty easily. I call it a draw overall.
- 6:18 PM, April 23, 2008


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I decided to look at the frequency distribution of values you get by using analogRead() on a floating (unconnected) analog pin.
But what if you build your seed from the LSBs of 32 consecutive reads?
Feed the data through this...http://www.fourmilab.ch/random/
Results99.5% of the 1 million values were distributed between just 38 values out of 1024 possible values. Hmmm.... does not seem to be a wide "seed" range by any means Comments / Thoughts welcome.
I did extensive research on this and essentially debunked this claim made by Arduino.
I did a Chi-squared test on about 7k data points and it passed with flying color using the revised myanalogRead() provided in that thread. The distribution is also quite uniform.
Depending on what the analog pin receives the result will be more or less random.
Thus, the lsb approach. It actually doesn't rely on the randomness of a signal on the adc pin, but the randomness of the last digit returned by the adc process. You can tie the pin to a known voltage (Vcc or ground), yet the adc's lsb is unstable.
It actually doesn't rely on the randomness of a signal on the adc pin...
the inherent issue with the analogRead() call, well documented in a separate thread.


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