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Just doesn't work... It's headache inducing and problematic with multiple viewers and viewing angles.
Don't expect it anytime soon in a practical and usable form.
3D circularly polarized projectors are probably the best usable tech as the glasses are cheap. However high refresh rate LCDs with active shutter glasses are probably the best tech for PCs.
don't you know why this is done? TV manufacturers are running out of ways for being able to insulate the price barrier.
This has nothing to do with 3d being good or bad, it has to do with how every manufacturer has an agreement on artificially insulating price with a new technology. Same was done with flat panel, then LCD, then high def, then hz wars(120! 240!).
All marginal technologies that should normal drive the price down. Instead they'll be able to have 52" TV's be in the many thousands of dollars amount for years to come due to raising it back up for 3d.
Think of it like apple's feature creep, it's the same idea and same reasons, to force price to an arbitrary amount before it eats into their margins.
Sure, but compare the price of Plasma displays now and when they were introduced, or even regular old LCD TVs... No one is putting a gun to your head and forcing you to buy a 3D TV, you can buy a 40-50" regular HD LCD TV for sub-$1000 these days.
Besides, I don't understand what your reply has to do with the actual technology behind 3D displays. I swear, almost every other post here on slashdot has become about how expensive something is or how it's not free or extremely cheap...
Oh wait, I must be new here or something.
His post explains why the manufacturers are trying so hard to fabricate demand for a feature nobody really wants using technology that isn't there yet.
TFA doesn't ask what the tech is, it asks if there's demand for it given that you have to re-buy everything and wear funky goggles to watch it.
I understand what his post is about, I was simply answering the problem stated in the article of no TVs being released that do not require glasses. His post is completely tangential to mine.
From TFS:
"We're yet to see any major brand at CES pushing a 3D TV that doesn't require them. In most cases these aren't the basic Ray Ban style you might have worn to watch Avatar. In many cases they'll actually require power. For example, Sony's 3D TVs use a "frame sequential"display method, which involves active-shutt
Movie theaters must move to 3-D! Television screens and sound systems are approaching the point where the theater experience has nothing to really offer the viewer. 3-D gives us a reason to go to the theater.
Totally anecdotal, but my wife actually went with me to see Avatar twice! We usually wait for movies to be released on DVD before we see it a second time if it was any good. We don't have 3-D so we must go to
if 3d is not complex, then why do you think it's somehow not going to raise the price of tv's enormously? or as the old concept goes "why does the red one cost more than the green one? it's the same thing."
Go look at a specific size and/or brand of TV for the last 30 years. Go watch how little has actually changed. like I said, small resolution leaps, and such. Meanwhile, the price has remained very consistent with inflation regardless of things being cheaper to produce. Oh you will notice one thing though.
30 years ago, you could hardly buy a television that wasn't a CRT, and if you wanted something over 30", you had to be very prepared to bust out your wallet. Today, a 30" LCD costs $750 (or whatever, I'm probably within $250, which is fine when you consider that the 30 year old television probably cost $2,500, and those numbers don't bother to account for inflation).
You are delusional.
Red and Green aren't the same, they are chemically different and the prices of the consumables can affect the cost of each color.
You're delusional if you think TVs haven't changed radically in the past 30 years...
30 years ago you were lucky to have a display capable of 640x480 which is
You are also highly delusional if you think price has remained consistent with inflation... I purchased my 30" 1920x1200 display for $350... In 1990 dollars that would be $215... You are insane if you think you could purchase a 2MP 30" Display for $215 in 1990.
30 years ago you were lucky to have a display capable of 640x480 which is
There are two ways to think about this. In 1980, most personal computers had very low resolutions. The Apple II, for instance, had a resolution of 280×192 in HiRes mode. The IBM PC came out later (and even then, its graphics capabilities were nothing to write home about).
But if you had a graphics workstation, dual 1280 x 1280 displays were available. [intergraph.com] Of course, such a system might have cost tens of thousands of dollars.
I think we see those companies and TVs all the time.. but they are called "no name brands" and other bad names. People like to buy brands they've heard of, even if the product isn't as good.
I think 3D will end up being an almost free feature you can use or ignore. And since having somewhat of a 3d revelation watching Avatar, I'm looking forward to it.
ps2 and ps3 are not similar at all. Look at PS3 at the different hard drive sizes and the actual cost of those hard drives, and then you are more accurate. You're overthinking.
Good point. It's like TV manufacturers are getting so good at driving the price down that their products are becoming actually cheap, so they have to find a way to bump the price back up. One of the things that I've noticed starting to creep in is Internet connections directly on your TV. I can see the value if your TV had built-in Netflix streaming, but I get the sense that they're moving more towards something like, "You'll be able to see eBay ads directly on your TV!"
I often look at this stuff and th
Think of it like apple's feature creep
You're weakening your point in writing this because it shows that you don't know very much about Apple products if you think they are known for feature creep. Case in point: the most recent version of OS X (snow leopard) removed a substantial number of additional features. Or do you not remember the touted 7Gb savings when upgrading? The most consequential being the ability to run on powerpc architectures. Secondly, they als
I don't understand.... Isn't that the whole point?
PHBs at Sony, Panasonic, Samsung, LG, and Toshiba
What do active glasses give you that polarity glasses wouldn't? Why go that road except to eek out a bit more cash from the consumer?
It's technically feasible to build a consumer television that alternates the left/right eye images, frame by frame, in sync with alternate blanking on glasses. All you need is a LCD with a good enough refresh rate and the right electronics.
To use polarising glasses requires a large exotic projector, the space to set it up (think 'theatre' not 'living room') and a massively expensive reflective screen (AFAIK, anyway). Thats why.
There are technologies that allow you to do polarized 3D from an LCD display such as that used in the iZ3D monitors.
There are technologies that allow you to do polarized 3D from an LCD display such as that used in the iZ3D monitors.
Now that is interesting, I didn't know that...
Just been looking at a description of the technology here: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/monitors/display/iz3d.html [xbitlabs.com]
The fact remains though that active glasses allow the use of a 'normal' LCD panel as a display though. Will one system win out, or will there remain a variety of technologies? Time will tell.
The other way to do polarization with LCD is Hyundai's way. They use filters per row so you get half vertical resolution 3D per eye, kind of like an interlaced TV signal.
This seems to have the potential to be a lot easier and cheaper manufacturing process. Not only that if you can get LCD panels (or indeed any flat panel display technology) that has twice 1080P resolution in one or both dimensions, there are suddenly very few draw backs as there is no flickering (like shutter glasses), no ghosting (like iZ3D) and no loss of resolution.
What about people with only one eye? The polarized glasses make it possible for those individuals to still view the movie, though in plain 2D.
I don't know much about the technology, but does the alternating eye thing have a distorted picture on the TV? If so then there are many people who won't be able to take part in the experience.
All this it to me is another way for cable companies to charge another 5 dollars a month for "premium" content, and then another 5 dollars a month for a special cable box to w
How do you polarize the image from a conventional LCD without significantly reducing contrast ratios and brightness during non 3D viewing?
For those who may not understand all LCD images are polarized. Try turning your head sideways with polarizing sunglasses on while looking at a conventional LCD display (from a gas pump to your radio to the TV).
LCDs are a polarized light technology.
Higher resolution. Unlike a projection system, on an LCD screen of a given resolution, when it's in 3D mode, you're going to get half your pixels going to one eye, half to the other. With active shutter glasses, each eye gets the full resolution (just at half the framerate, but if the content is 60hz, and the monitor is 120hz, it shouldn't be a problem).
Actually, I may be lying, it depends how the passive is implemented on the LCD monitor. Well... not lying, just wrong.
Polarity glasses only work if you have a polarized display. With an LCD or Plasma TV, there's no convenient way to flip the polarization 30 times a second or so. Instead, you need the active glasses which can block the correct eye in sync with the TV.
Active glasses could also work with a dvd player or game system without requiring support from the TV. I knew someone who had them for an Amiga 25 years ago.
No convenient way, apart from a second LCD panel.
Polarized glasses leak like hell unless you sit in exactly the right spot and look exactly the right direction - or at least they did last time I tried them.
The linear polarization systems did that. The circular ones don't.
Active glasses are old tech. I saw them demoed about 14 years ago - worked okay, a little distracting. But it wasn't at CES, it was Comdex. Well, okay, it was actually Adultdex, an "adult industry" tech/trade show that occurred at the Sahara during Comdex.
Pron really pushed the tech envelope back then....
They were usable with 3D video games like "Descent" with proper video card support back then too.
porn has neer pushed tech. Pornographers just grab any media type and put porn on it. People don't remember the failure, only success. SO in hindsight it appears as if they are a driving force in tech. They are not,and never have been.
Everymedia that has failed has ahd porn on it, every one that was a success , has porn on it.
It's a manufacturing problem. In the theater, they use 2 projectors with polarization filters offset by 90 degrees. To do that with TV, they'd have to double the pixel density and the panel would have to be a mosaic of single pixel cells.
So instead, they use shutter glasses that need power and a synch signal from the display.
On the PC, all I need is the Nvidia glasses and a display that can do 120 Hz. I heard that with TVs, you can do the same thing. So, do we just need a TV that does 120 Hz, and let the receiver do the rest, or do we need a special TV?
DirecTV hasn't said what their 3D receiver will be yet.
Nvidia is adding support for 3D video/Blu-Ray for all of their GT200/300 video cards via drivers. Yes you do need a 120hz+ display, however a lot of TVs don't do true 120Hz but simply interpolate a 60Hz image twice every frame to achieve "120Hz."
When watching 3D movies, I tend to go cross-eyed and get a headache very quickly. I think it's because everything I'm seeing is on the same focal plane, but my eyes attempt to adjust for parallax based on different apparent distances of objects. I had to walk out of Avatar 3D after about 10 minutes, I just could not watch it like that. Does anyone else experience this?
I found, when watching Avatar, that it was important to look where the director wants you to look. Real cameras have real focal distances, so you can't look wherever you want and expect to be able to get everything in focus. Up was an easier viewing experience, but with a less extreme 3D effect.
The problem is the Camera systems being used work similar to the eye, they have to focus on a specific part of the image. When you try to look at an area that is out of focus, your eyes make a futile attempt to focus the image which ends in a headache and nausea.
Basically, focus on the part of the image that's in focus.
To be fair, this is the director's fault too -- the movie should not have your attention being drawn away from the focal point of the shot.
Bad focus pulls in cheap movies and TV shows cause me headaches too, because the wrong face is in focus during dialog, etc.
I'm in the same boat; 3D gives me splitting headaches almost instantly. It's bad to the point where I simply will not go to see a 3D movie, period. Have fun guys, tell me how it is when you get back.
I've been reading/hearing about all this interest in 3D everywhere and I realize that I'm just not going to go along with this particular tech. Apart from my issues with 3D, where did all this 3D-love come from all of a sudden? It seems this particular tech was relegated to IMAX nature movies at the local scienc
We just got two 3D monitors from Hyundai, one smaller one that goes in the production area, and a huge one to show to clients. The networks, especially the ones that generate a lot of their own content, are scrambling for 3D content... not necessarily because they want to push it, but because everyone is scared to be left behind.
The Hyundai monitors use passive glasses, and the image is quite good. I can see 3D, especially with passive glasses (where you can buy replacements or extras for reasonable prices), really taking off.
Who wants to wear an extra pair of glasses just to watch TV?
This whole 3D video thing smacks of a industry money grab disguised as a fad...
Exec: "Well everyone and their gramma has a 'flatscreen' jumbotron at home, what do we do now?"
R&D: "Gentlemen, we've reached the limits of this plane of entertainment, we must go to the next dimension"
*dramatic music*
Just wait, once 3D tv gets old, we will move on to 4D tv, which will be totally awesome!
Except it'd totally ruin the ending.
By 2025 it'll be Smell-O-Vision split-screen Cinerama IMAX with tingler support.
If non-killer robots haven't been perfected by then, midgets will tilt your couch with the on-screens action!
4D? As in, the images change not only with width, height and depth, but also with time? That's genius! Why hasn't anyone thought about this?!
Who wants to wear an extra pair of glasses just to watch TV?
It's difficult enough in the theatre. I have to wear glasses over my glasses. Keeping them comfortably balanced is an ordeal, and then there's the problem of reflections bouncing back and forth between the two shiny surfaces.
Makes me wish I wore contacts.
I just don't see the benefit in 3D TV. I know the technology is getting better, but the 3D in Avatar was just good enough to not be a distraction from the movie- it certainly didn't add anything to it, besides $5 for the ticket. The point is that for most of the movie, I did not perceive anything different than a normal movie, and those moments when I did were distracting and jarring. I have seen a couple imax movies in 3D and I think I tend to mentally flatten the images- except for the parts where the snake jumps out at you, which is just distracting and cheesy.
So, if I'm going to be mentally flattening the images anyway, why bother?
I have seen a couple imax movies in 3D and I think I tend to mentally flatten the images- except for the parts where the snake jumps out at you, which is just distracting and cheesy.
See I have had a similar experience when watching 3D movies, but I don't think it's because you're "mentally flattening" the image. It's because when you're looking at a 2D image, you're "mentally 3D-ifying" it. (I'm sure there's an actual term for this, but since I don't know one, I'm going to use "3D-ify".) For example, look around the room you're sitting it. Now cover 1 eye and look around the room again. Did you suddenly get the idea that you're looking at a flat world? No, because your brain uses
Then don't buy it.
I don't see the benefit in a big screen TV. I don't watch TV and don't watch too many movies. So I don't buy one. It's pretty simple.
You just explained why colour TV and colour movies are useless. Watch a black and white and within a couple minutes you'll forget you're watching black and white.
The short answer is "because we can". It won't be too long before 3D technology brings prices down so that it's as cheap as 2D is now. Just like when colour first came out, people were initially using it for whiz-bang "look what we can do" effect and it took a few years before it just became nothing special. So it will go with 3D.
I agree, 3D imagery in Avatar turned out to be primarily "blurry vision" with some parts that jump out at you. And the stuff that does jump out at you, isn't all that important. I'd rather see crisp clear video without the gimmicky distractions.
I suspect the movie & TV industry are attempting to find a way to provide unique content to keep people going to movie theaters instead of just watching it at home on TV. And the TV industry wants to find a way to beat out the downloaders with unique better qu
it certainly didn't add anything to it, besides $5 for the ticket.
I know the technology is getting better, but the 3D in Avatar was just good enough to not be a distraction from the movie- it certainly didn't add anything to it, besides $5 for the ticket.
Your tastes are not universal. Considerable experience has demonstrated that a commercially-significant number of people do find that 3D adds to the entertainment value of various forms of visual entertainment.
See, I think this is actually a sign that the 3d was done well.
I've seen movies where the 3d jumped out at me. Boing, giant monster in my face, sproing, 3d gizmos in the face, hey look at how many things we can jam in your face.
Avatar didn't do that. It wasn't a 3d tour de force, it was a movie that happened to be in 3d. Most of the time, you're right, I just didn't notice - and that was its strength. Instead of being a pile of 3d special effects, it was a movie that just happened to be deeper and realer due to the use of 3d.
It's like HDTV or, as some have mentioned, color. If you don't notice it, it's doing its job. Sometimes its job is just subtle.
This will remain a high-end niche product like Laserdisc. 3D simply won't become mainstream until they can pull it off without glasses. The only question, is that even possible?
DVD offered such a significant advance over VHS adopting it was a no-brainer. Same goes for HDTV over standard def. But 3D TV might also resemble BlueRay where there's just not enough market penetration. People aren't seeing a compelling argument for abandoning regular DVD's. BueRay still sells but is not market-dominant and I don't
This will remain a high-end niche product like Laserdisc. 3D simply won't become mainstream until they can pull it off without glasses. The only question, is that even possible?
Not until we figure out how to do holographics easily.
3D simply won't become mainstream until they can pull it off without glasses. The only question, is that even possible?
It certainly is, and Sharp even manufactured and sold a product that did it. A no-glasses 3D 17" LCD. It was radically expensive. The difficulty is the transition; most content isn't 3D. A 3D display is basically always a 3D display. It's not something that can be turned off. So the monitor has to include internal software and silicon to synthesize a compatible image out of 2D data.
We finally get a display technology with zero flicker, the LCD, and the 3D crowd has to put it back. Yuck.
You saw the preview for Piranhas 3D before the movie too?
I've used 3D shutter glasses for my PC that work with nVidia drivers/cards for well over a decade. Any 3D game can render this way... the tech works okay, but nowhere near as lovely or convenient as the Captain EO / Avatar method which uses polarized projection and unpowered polarized glasses... and 3D eyeglass-free monitors that use parallax have existed for about a decade as well now... None of the new TVs do this? You can add field-sequential, shutter-frame tech to your PC and a good CRT for under $50... for the last decade. Fun for immersion... a bit of an impediment for high accuracy things like sniping in a FPS though.
Mostly it is due to the glasses and the effect the glasses have on the wearer.
Having recently seen my first 3D movie at a theater last night, I can say that yes it does look incredible, but I have significant eye strain, that is still bothering me the next day.
Others I have talked to said they get headaches from the 3D glasses, others just hate having to wear them due to comfort, interfering with their normal glasses or not used to wearing glasses..
Sorry, no one I have talked to is willing to veg out for an hour or 2 in the evenings with 3D glasses on.
I am really not willing to do it for games either. I'd rather have a few hours gaming in 2D, than a short duration with headaches in 3D.
An article on Sony and "betting it all" on 3D TVs [wsj.com] was published in the Wall Street Journal, yesterday. A pretty detailed article, imo.
Basically, that article pointed out the fatal flaw:
The challenge for Sony and the other electronics makers: persuading people to adopt 3-D so quickly after hundreds of millions of households just made the transition to high-definition video. Consumers will have to buy brand new televisions, which, according to some estimates, could cost between 10% and 20% more than the high-definition TVs currently on the market.
Not going to happen. People are going to resist this like mad. "New TV? I just bought a new HDTV, and now you want me to go buy a new one so soon which is more expensive? Yeah, go fuck yourselves."
Inflammatory rhetoric aside, what I found most interesting, though, is that CEO Stringer appears to be his push (at least in this arena) against the "Not invented here" bias that is apparently so prevalent at Sony. Most slashdotters will agree--we don't need more proprietary, incompatible Sony formats. Hopefully this attitude is promoted outside the 3D TV realm.
In response to concerns that there's very little consumer need/demand for 3D TV, many proponents try to draw parallels to HDTV's slow adoption: that we just need to shove it out into the marketplace in order to attract enough early content and viewers to create the critical mass necessary for widespread acceptance. But I think that's an unfair comparison. HDTV was an "easy sell" to consumers: big screens + sharp picture. The slow adaption was mostly due to provider, network, and regulatory BS. 3D TV pr
Every technology I've seen so far for 3D television/movie presentation has been teh suck. Why? Because I have one eye. Alas, I am not disabled enough to leverage the ADA, but I'm not the litigious sort anyway. But every technique so far devised to have each eye see something different when looking at one screen has screwed up the case where only one view gets used. I either see both views simultaneously, which is like double vision for "close" objects, or I see things the wrong color (for the old red/green
I don't see why you couldn't wear the polarized glasses and just see the movie as if it was a normal 2D projection.
I thought those powered blinky glasses were the ones that gave everyone headaches...
That's why it died for a few years, until display technology improved.
There's a reason why NVidia's new 3D Vision system requires a 120 Hz display - it isn't much different than the old shutter-based glasses for NV cards, BUT it's double the refresh rate.
The switch from black and white TV was an easy sell: color looks better.
The switch (in progress...) from SD to HD is an easy sell: bigger/sharper looks better.
But I have a hard time believing that everything could/should be in 3d. Action movies? Sure. Sports? Sure. But drama? Sitcoms? News?
What I notice 3d mostly being used for is "gimmick shots" in movies where some object deliberately leaps out at you. I've never seen a movie where 3d offered some consistent, ever-present visual benefit.
http://www.3dmovielist.com/3dhdtvs.html [3dmovielist.com]
The content of the programmes is what people watch - not the fuzziness of the picture, or the brilliance of the colours, nor whether the characters "leap out" of the screen (though how this would work on games shows and reality programmes I do not know). TV nowadays is constrained by budgets and timescales - there's a limited amount of advertising money available to turn into programming and a limited amount of time to spend making each show. These are what limits the qua
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Ben Bayly, head chef at Auckland's Grove restaurant, lines up with a VIP list of food stars from around the world for the Moet & Chandon Grand Vintage 2004 International Launch.
I am so fortunate. Moet & Chandon Champagne has chosen to fly me to France, to the home of Champagne in Epernay for the Moet & Chandon Grand Vintage 2004 International Launch. Wow. But, as I have learned being a chef, there is no such thing as a free lunch ...
Moet has given me the brief. Apparently, 12 Michelin-starred chefs from around the world have been selected to team up with 12 international sommeliers - each a former world champion in the world of wine. The teams will be the first in the world to taste the new released vintage Moet and must cook a dish to match with the Champagne. Small detail: there will actually be only 11 Michelin star chefs attending ... I will be the only one there without a star. No pressure.
We don't have Le Guide Michelin in New Zealand (Will we ever?, I wonder), but I, like many other Kiwi chefs, have always wondered how we would stack up against those famed restaurants that have passed the Guide's high and mighty standards. I guess this will be my best chance yet ...
After a long flight, I arrive in Paris on a cool, grey autumn morning and join the others on the trip to Epernay, three hours west.
The guest list is impressive: Heston Blumenthal from the Fat Duck; Clair Smyth (Gordon Ramsay's head chef); the theoretical physicist turned three-Michelin star chef, Mr Matsuo from Kashiwaya, near Osaka; Amaro Wojciech the first chef in Poland to gain a "star"; a two-star chef from Hamburg ... The list goes on and it's safe to say at this point, I'm growing more and more petrified by the minute.
"Hi I'm Ben Bayly from The Grove in New Zealand," I say as I size up the group and wonder which famous sommelier I will be paired with.
As these thoughts swirl around my head, it's a long bus trip through the beautiful French countryside to Epernay.
Moet & Chandon, the world's largest Champagne house, which also produces the prestige cuvee Dom Perignon, is steeped in history and beauty. The Champagne has been used celebrate everything from Napoleon's war victories to the coronation of kings and queens. It has a British royal warrant and in the past Moet had a close relationship with the Russian Tars and was a favourite of The Marquise de Pompadour, mistress of King Louis XIV.
As we enter the Chateau de Saran I feel like I am in a French museum and as I pass by the painted portraits of people who changed the world's history, I begin to understand the gravity of the situation. I don't think mindlessly quaffing bubbles this Christmas or at my next birthday party will ever be the same for me again.
We are taken down into the cellar and caves, which are vast to say the least, 40 metres underground and 27km of tunnels carved into chalk earth with 100 million bottles inside. The cellar staff zoom about in little golf carts down the tunnels; working like miners they have the labour-intensive and never-ending task of turning each bottle a fraction each day during the aging process. Not a place to get lost in.
Then we pass by a side cave housing hundreds of vintage nebuchadnezzars ( at 15litres, the largest champagne bottle). Maybe getting lost here with a few friends might be fun after all.
At the tasting cave we get down to the reason why we are all here: the 2004 Grand Vintage. Grand Vintages are only produced in remarkable harvest years and the "04" is only the 70th Grand Vintage since 1743, so it's a big moment. The champagne is disgorged (its crown cap removed) in dramatic style, and we are the first outsiders to taste it.
We taste the champagne before the dosage (small amount of sugar syrup) is added, so it's drier and easier to pick out the flavour profiles in the wine. My mind starts to engage. I think about ingredients, sweet seafood like scallops and scampi, citrus, maybe pink grapefruit then mint and coriander. I can hear my heart beat in my ears ... It's time to cook with the big boys.
Back in daylight, the historic reception area has been turned into a makeshift kitchen, where everyone has their own section. My eyes are squinting at all the ingredients laid out on the benches. It is a magical array of wonderful, fresh food.
We taste the Champagne again, this time with the dosage added, and set to task to create two different different dishes for seven people, to match with the 04 Grand Vintage.
I am paired up with Piero Sattanio, he is Italian and was the best sommelier in the world in 1973. So it's the oldest sommelier teamed up with the young chef with no star. Right then.
Piero doesn't speak a lot of English, I know only Italian swear words, but we both speak about the same amount of French. So it is a mishmash of languages that starts to come together as one, a bit like our dishes. Turns out Piero is a culinary guru, he puts on an apron and we bounce a few ideas off each other at the ingredient table, then I pull out my secret weapon, a huge New Zealand white truffle and see his eyes light up.
Back in our section Piero cuts brunoise of shallots in a blur, and we are off. We crank into the prep. Deglaze, poach, sear ... chefs run back to the table for last minute bits to finish their dishes. They said it wasn't a competition, but it so is. We are all too determined and competitive for it not to be.
Piero and I make a simple dish first, with poached rhubarb, seared hand-dived scallops, grapefruit and brown butter almonds.
Then for the second dish we break out the truffle, served with roasted langoustine, mushroom puree a sauce made with shallots and the champagne, some parmesan and thyme ... The smell of the truffle draws in the other chefs, as fat slices float down from my truffle slicer to finish the dish.
Both dishes look wicked and I'm proud of what we've created.
The standard is phenomenal, our dishes are distinctly lighter and fresher than many of the others. It is a nervous time being sized up by your heroes, but the feedback is great and looking around the room, New Zealand has represented well, with a little help from Italy.
Overall, for me, the standout dish came from my new Polish buddy Amaro Wojciech, who created a "scallop mojito", fresh, delicious and really cool. This guy is inspirational and a lot of fun.
Once the cooking is over, we all relax. This is time to swim, talk, then dine and drink well into the night with some of my absolute heroes.
What's cool is how humble everyone is: there's no bravado, everyone is so down to earth and despite how many collective stars there are in the room, everyone has time to chat and share war stories, business tips and promises of visits next time they're in town.
The next morning starts with a swim to clear the head.
The pool is breathtaking, and sharing an early morning swim with Carol Bouquet, a former Bond girl and stunningly beautiful 50-something woman, is another experience I won't be forgetting soon.
It's not until the afternoon when I find myself back in Paris, that I finally take stock of the past 36 hours. I'm emotional. It's been a whirlwind trip and almost overwhelming.
When you're out of your comfort zone, switching back to reality can be tough, but though the last 36 hours genuinely felt like a dream, it's been an inspirational one.
It's true when you're the least experienced guy in the room you learn the most. I've just hung out with the best in the business, picked up some great ideas and been challenged to keep rising to their level.

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I believe you meant, "the majority of the population is too stupid to care what's going on".No, the majority of the population is too stupid to know what's best for them.
I believe that what's happening now is the result of someone reading 1984 and thinking "hmm, good idea!"
Instead of them treating Orwell's 1984 as a warning, they're treating it like a guidebook on how to run the Government. "Look, a HOWTO!"
Scary times indeed, where $9B goes "missing" in Iraq, after being hand-flown there (google it), and where 11 MILLION people marched on their state capitols to protest this conflict in Iraq (not a "War", since Congress has not declared war against Iraq), and Bush cal
"This Constitution, and the Laws of the United States which shall be made in Pursuance thereof; and all Treaties made, or which shall be made, under the Authority of the United States, shall be the supreme Law of the Land"
When two things that are said to be the supreme law of the land
Furthermore, IANAL, but constitutional law is of interest to me and I do have some basic k
Actually, that's quite wrong - there's lots of case law on the subject of treaties and executive agreements WRT the Constitution, and it's generally quite consistent. Start with Reid v. Covert, 354 US 1 (1957), and work your way backwards.
Yes, I'm not new here, but people need to RTFM, including the submitter. From the Ars article, just a little further than halfway down:
The goal of the treaty is not to let the Chinese crack down on dissidents living in America, however, and so countries may refuse to cooperate with requests that involve a "political offence" or if a country believes the request would "prejudice its soverignty, security, ordre public or other essential interests." The US Department of Justice has already announced [securityfocus.com] that "essential interests" would allow the US to refuse any request that would violate the Constitution.
But good point, thanks.
In other words you retain your right to free speech as long as the executive wants you to have it.
Treaties can be unconstitutional. The League of Nations [wikipedia.org], the precursor to the UN, was formed by the US, but Congress ruled that the US could not join it (some issue of constitutionality). Without the support of the US it didn't last long as I understand.
And the Wiki thing seems about right, except you can't remove contributed content without closing up the whole Wiki (just think how bad Wikipedia would look if you couldn't remove vandalized content).
They make liquid Spam now? No wonder it gets through the filters more easily. This could be useful, though. Whenever I try to make Spam Smoothies, I can't suck it through a straw and have to use a spoon.
Even worse, in the U.K. they could be extradited without the evidence even having to be disclosed to a judge or anyone else due to a treaty (supposedly to be only for terrorist cases but recently used on a fraud charge) with the U.S.A. which the U.K. has ratified but the U.S.A. has refused to. Now, that's scary!
Not for long, I think. In fact, the whole post-9/11 draconian government thing is rapidly dying in the UK, Tony Blair just doesn't realise it yet (or at least doesn't admit to realising it in public).
Yes, there was the recent case of three banking executives who were transferred to the US under dubious circumstances. However, that caused a huge political storm, because the "anti-terror" legislation was clearly being used for something that had nothing to do with safeguarding the land from terrorists. In this case, I suspect that either the US will ratify the treaty and agree the reverse as well very soon, or the UK government will be forced to pull out.
It's the same story elsewhere. Just this week, Walter Wolfgang, the long-standing Labour party member removed by heavies from last year's party conference for daring to heckle Jack Straw over the war on Iraq and then denied re-entry under anti-terror laws(!), was elected by the party membership to their national governing body. Not only does he get to speak at the next conference as a result, it seems he's guaranteed the chance to do so from the same platform as Blair et al.
ID cards and the National Identity Register... Ah, yes, New Labour's greatest threat. Except, of course, that even those people who would like to be involved with it as a lucrative business opportunity are openly questioning whether the government's scheme can even be implemented, never mind bring the claimed benefits. Both the significant opposition parties in England oppose the scheme. The Information Commissioner (our quasi-independent guardian of data protection and freedom of information issues) has issued some of his most damning comments ever on the subject, and ruled against the government several times on information disclosure issues. The timetables are obviously slipping badly, but no-one will admit how badly. The costs are huge, but no-one will disclose how huge. Sooner or later, the whole illusory stack of cards is going to collapse, and all Tony Blair's big "it's be a centrepiece in our next election manifesto" rhetoric is doing is digging his successor's grave early.
Likewise, a bill described as "Blair's (latest) enabling act" because of its attempt to reduce Parliament to pretty much a rubber stamp was quietly all but dropped a few weeks ago.
The government has been ruled against yet again in the past few days over the whole restraining order/detention without trial thing. This is one of those awkward issues: it's a good bet that a high proportion of the people subject to restraining orders really are nasty bits of work, but I think the principle of freedom from arbitrary detention transcends the importance of removing some liberties from a small number of individuals who may or may not pose some level of threat. It would be far better, if the government really has enough good intelligence to believe these people pose a current threat to our security, that the government should bring charges against them in a suitable court of law and make its case properly. In any case, one of the most senior judges in our land has now said outright that if the Home Secretary wants to impose this sort of thing, he's had ample time to consult Parliament since some of these suspects came to light, and therefore he can't just award himself new powers without scrutiny to do as he sees fit. (This on top of one of the most damning judgements in recent legal history from the High Court during the previous round of the case, which pulled few punches as far as telling the government it was way out of line.)
Personally, I increasingly think this is Gordon Brown setting Tony Blair up to take the fall for al
Sorry I don't understand how you came to your conclusion that gordon brown is setting up tony blair.
I thought the commonly held belief is that tony blair intends to hand gordon brown a poisoned chalice. If only Mr blair would just go, hand over the leadership to his successor (probably gordon brown) and give him a chance to repair some of the damage caused by Mr Blair and his policies and impliment a few of his own.
That's certainly a common belief in some quarters. However, I've noticed a distinct cha
No problem. Tony Blair admitted the other day that he gets one of his children to load his iPod for him. Would anyone like to take a guess about whether every single track was legitimately copied onto that machine?
Thats what monica said too...
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If he simply commited suicide it would be a tragedy and immune from scrutiny. I am not judging that he was going through some type of personal crisis just his reaction in gunning down an innocent person (whether the victim lives or not is immaterial).
IMO shakin has nothing to justify or apologize for.
I'm outraged.
But I'm not telling you what I'm outraged about.
I just want to join in the outrage.
Aaaaaand back to the Hamper
I blame Fireman Ed, or Sar. Maybe both?


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This was bought by my grandfather in the mid 60s. I didnt play with it much enjoyed looking at it as a reminder of my grandfather. It has been in the closet for a couple decades. I really wasn't able to get much history of this car. I would like any information on this toy to pass on to my grandson.


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yeh, i might go back to 03-04 for a while, im currently with arsenal in about 2028 i think after dominating with PSV and Sheffield Wednesday....
yeh, i might go back to 03-04 for a while, im currently with arsenal in about 2028 i think after dominating with PSV and Sheffield Wednesday....
Career cricket
311 wickets @16.54 and 3021 runs @ 34.56 from 176 games over 11 years H.S 178*
Member of the CW GreenCricket Web Career:(end of season 11) FC: 7404 runs @ 30.85 H.S 253* : One Day: 7331 runs @ 48.55 H.S 155*
Off season: FC 1209 @ 52.51 & One Day: 921 @ 92.10COD4: djs clanWorld Of Warcraft: just sensational
or i could start a new one is a ********* league or something, either way, im just really cut at the moment...
i know how you feel buddy i know how ya feel!
you will know how i feel when i chuck the biggest hissy fit seen in cricketweb history all because an over paid, under performing, pathetic excuse of a striker (THATS YOU GUNTHER VAN GORP) cant hit the back of the net and then has the hide to ask to move to a bigger club.'
ok i agree, i take this game way to personally, but its just me
mate we all do thats why its such a great game.
i wouldnt call it great, rather, **** ******* **** ******* of a ***** **** game...
ill still play it though
To update on Lincoln, I'm still 19th.
However, there are teams nearby, and I fancy my chances. I'm 2 points off safety, and am in good form. Sadly, my fellow relegation candidates are too. Will update soon.
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Out of relegation places for the first time this season - only by a few points, though.
I'm managing some Italian team in C1 A beginning with P... in a network game with a mate. On my own, it is just a lowly one season with Torquay (Division Three still) and Hereford (promotion to Division Three) or should I say League Two...
Completed the great escape with Lincoln on the last day, despite losing 7-2 to Derby, who came 3rd.
WRT network, me and Jamee tried it recently, but it said can't find server all the time - any ideas?
haha! I'm 2/2 from finals. But about 2/10 in the quarters!! I think I'v drawn Lazio about 8 times in the Quarter Finals . The two times I got through I didn't play lazioOriginally Posted by broncoman
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Blacks ftw
How come you've been in 4 finals, but only got through 2 quarter finals?
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The Football Association has confirmed it has opened an investigation into an incident at the end of the Manchester derby when an object was thrown from the crowd and hit United's Rio Ferdinand.
Ferdinand appeared to be hit by a coin as he celebrated his side's third goal in their 3-2 victory at the Etihad Stadium. The defender sustained a cut just above the eye in the incident, which is now being investigated by Greater Manchester Police and the FA.
An FA statement read: "The FA is investigating the incident in which an object was thrown from the crowd and hit Rio Ferdinand following Manchester United's third goal against Manchester City on Sunday. The FA will liaise with Greater Manchester Police and await the reports of both our crowd control advisor who was present at the game and the match referee."
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Ian Irving of Old Stone Highway discovered his 1982 Mercedes Benz missing from his driveway on the afternoon of Dec. 15. He had left the keys in the car, he told police, who searched and found the vehicle parked on Accabonac Road, keys still inside.
East Hampton Village
A metal hand truck was left in the middle of Gay Lane in front of the post office one afternoon last week. There were no identifying marks. Police took it to the lost-and-found at headquarters.
A box containing $187.50 worth of Hanukkah presents was stolen on the evening of Dec. 15 from a car parked in front of John Papas restaurant in the Reutershan lot. The vehicle may have been left unlocked, Lisa Rattray told police. Eight days later, two days before Christmas, John Papas came in to open the restaurant and discovered that the two small Christmas trees on ether side of the front door had been stolen.
A woman returning to her locker on Dec. 17 after a workout at the Y.M.C.A. East Hampton RECenter found her black fleece jacket missing, with her car keys in it. She suggested to police that someone might have taken it by accident, and left her contact information at the front desk.
The lobby of the post office served as a bedroom for a homeless man in the early hours of Dec. 19. Police advised the man that he could not sleep there, and he left.
On Saturday afternoon, three days before Christmas, a black dog and a white dog were seen running together down Pantigo Road. An officer went to investigate, but the dogs were nowhere to be found.
Northwest Woods
A flat-screen television set went missing from a Semaphore Road house at some point during the past month. George Michail returned home on Dec. 18 after being away for a month to find the TV gone. He told police the house had been burglarized once before. The detective squad is investigating.
A Marion Lane man, Carlos Burns, woke up Sunday morning to discover that the signpost bearing his name by his driveway had been ripped out of the ground and tossed into a neighbor's yard. Mr. Burns told police that Marion Lane has recently been a frequent target of petty vandalism.
Natalya Dyakovskaya returned to her Glade Road residence on Dec. 18 after being away for two weeks to find that someone had been staying in the house. An oven burner had been left on, and a laptop and two routers were missing from the living room. A bottle of Absolut vodka was gone as well, from the freezer.


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Police Beat - June 3, 2013
- Written by from City of Woodinville Police Reports
In what is no doubt a manifestation of enthusiasm for the new Sofia Coppola movie, local thieves have shown themselves ready to step their game up in the cool department last week. In one incident, a man entered a Woodinville store to ask about a specific brand of sunglasses; this particular article was soon discovered to be missing once the curious man left the store. Another retailer was divested of an iPad by a clever lady while store employees assisted other customers. Slackers, however, demonstrated no need for bling as shown by two hooligans who made off with a hacky sack from yet another store; the low-fi duo fled on skateboards. "Dude," quoth Johnny Utah.
Alcohol figured large in two recent incidents. One took place at a Woodinville watering hole, where an "intoxicated patron" engaged in conflict and attempted to leave the scene, but not before striking another vehicle in the parking lot. The miscreant was located and processed for suspicion of DUI. Elsewhere in time and place, an intoxicated woman brandished a weapon after getting into a fight; brave onlookers disarmed her before police arrived. She was transported to the Graybar Hotel, a well-known bed and breakfast famed for its Spartan accommodations.


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The league Monday announced the dates and starting times of the Raiders four exhibition games this summer. Here is the game-by-game breakdown:
The Raiders play the Dallas Cowboys on the road Aug. 12 at 6 p.m.
The Raiders play the Chicago Bears on the road Aug. 21 at 5:30 p.m.
The Raiders host the 49ers on Aug. 28 at 6 p.m.
The Raiders host the Seattle Seahawks on Sept. 2 at 7 p.m.
The Raiders first roster cutdown to 75 players comes Aug. 31, between their final two exhibition games. The second and final mandatory roster cutdown to 53 players takes place Sept. 4.
Oakland's first regular-season game is Sept. 12 against the Tennessee Titans in Nashville.


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By T.R. Sullivan /01/04/13 6:25 PM ET
ARLINGTON -- Rangers president Nolan Ryan confirmed the club's interest in free-agent slugger Lance Berkman on Friday.
"We've talked to him," Ryan said. "We're waiting to hear back from him to see what his level of interest is and if he is going to play again next year."
The Rangers like Berkman because he is a proven switch-hitting power hitter who could fill a need at designated hitter and in the middle of their order. He can also play first base and one of the corner outfield spots, but would most likely get the majority of his at-bats at DH. The Rangers have been looking for a DH after trading Michael Young to the Phillies and losing out on Josh Hamilton.
"From a DH standpoint, we feel like he would fit the bill," Ryan said.
Berkman, who turns 37 in February, played in just 32 games this past season for the Cardinals while dealing with a knee injury that required surgery. He hit .259 with two home runs and seven RBIs in 97 plate appearances. He played a full season for the Cardinals in 2011 and hit .301 with 31 home runs, 94 RBIs, a .412 on-base percentage and a .547 slugging percentage.
"The key with him is if he's going to stay injury-free or not," Ryan said. "But the fact that we're wanting him to play [DH] lessens the chances of him getting injured."
Berkman told the St. Louis Post-Dispatch that the Rangers might have a "geographic advantage" for his services, but he is still looking for opportunity and compensation if he decides to play in 2013.
"In a way, they have to buy me out of retirement, and I know that sounds crass -- I wish it didn't -- but it's a big commitment, it can put a strain on the family," Berkman told the Post-Dispatch on Thursday. "If I'm going to play, I'm going to give my heart and soul to the team. But if the carrot's not big enough, the mule isn't going to want to go."
Signing Berkman might be the final move for the Rangers this offseason. They addressed their catching situation by signing free agent A.J. Pierzynski to go with Geovany Soto, and they reinforced their bullpen by acquiring Joakim Soria, Jason Frasor and Josh Lindblom.
The Rangers have looked into adding starting pitching, but Ryan isn't optimistic the club will add a front-line starter before Spring Training. Kyle Lohse is the best free agent pitcher remaining on the market, but Ryan admitted the 16-game winner from last season is seeking more money than the Rangers are comfortable with.
"You always need starting pitching, but I just think there is not that much out there," Ryan said. "Am I optimistic about acquiring a starting pitcher prior to Spring Training? Probably not."
Right now Martin Perez is the Rangers' fifth starter in a rotation that also includes Matt Harrison, Yu Darvish, Derek Holland and Alexi Ogando. The Rangers are also considering the possibility of moving left-handed reliever Robbie Ross to the rotation although that would likely require adding somebody to replace him in the bullpen.
"If you went to Spring Training with another left-handed reliever, it would give him the opportunity to accumulate some innings as a starter," Ryan said. "Then you could see how we feel about it."


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Apple made its first official appearance at the Black Hat security conference in Las Vegas Thursday, with Senior Security Product Manager Window Snyder and other members of Apple's security team watching the historic event unfold from their front row seats.
Hewing closely to the contents of an Apple iOS security document published in May, Dallas De Atley, manager of the platform security team at Apple, outlined key security technologies in iOS, including Secure Boot Chain and System Software Personalization. De Atley also explained how Apple's security philosophy is seen in code signing, sandboxing and data protection features in iOS.
"Security is architected -- you have to build it in from the beginning. You can't sprinkle it in after when you are done," DeAtley told a packed room of roughly 400 Black Hat attendees.
Apple's Secure Boot Chain uses the boot ROM built into the A5 processor to kick off a series of cryptographically signed components that ultimately lead to the verifying and running of the iOS kernel. A failure in any of these steps stops the boot process and takes the user to the system restore page on iTunes.
[Related: Analysis: Why Apple's Participation At Black Hat Is A Big Deal]
Apple's System Software Personalization technology defends against so-called downgrade attacks, in which a previous version of firmware is exploited at runtime, enabling attackers to gain control over an iOS device.
Here's how it works: When a user installs or upgrades iOS, the device connects to Apple's servers and sends it a list of cryptographic measurements for the components included in the update. If that checks out, Apple adds a unique identifier, known as an ECID, and signs it, personalizing the update to the device and allowing its installation to proceed.
"This gives us flexibility," De Atley said. It means if we discover a flaw in the boot loader or kernel, we can effectively disable those flaws and not affect the entire user population."
About 80 percent of Apple customers are running the latest version of iOS, and this high rate is due to Apple's simplification of its update process, De Atley said. "We wanted to make it as easy as possible for customers to take advantage of the software updates that Apple puts out for fixes and security issues," he said.
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MILLERSVILLE, Md. (AP) — Anne Arundel County Police are charging one of their own officers with allegedly helping drug dealers attempt to evade police.
Police say 36-year-old Cpl. Rick Alexander was arrested Friday. He is charged with obstruction and hindering a police officer, conspiracy to distribute marijuana, conspiracy to distribute cocaine and misconduct.
Police say Alexander tipped off a group of suspects that a search warrant was going to be executed at their home on Thursday night. Investigators say they confirmed the allegation against Alexander Friday based on phone records and conversations.
During the search, a small quantity of suspected drugs was recovered by police. Detectives later were directed to another location where they found nearly 83 grams of suspected marijuana, valued at about $829.
Alexander was a 14-year member of the department.
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I have a possibility in mind...
Does it smell?
Does it burn (might be sooty)?
Is it light in weight for its size (does it float on water)?
Haven't tried burning it as it seems delicate and I don't want to lose the glass like crystal inside it doesn't smell it doesn't float in water but it is lighter than it looks. To touch it feels coral like and turned on its broken edge you can see layers of the white shell like layer and opal crystals as if it was crushed.
Not ambergris, then.
I don't know what to suggest, other than bringing or sending it in to the Angela Marmont Centre (email them first).
Have you an email? I have more photos of the object from different angles.
Please post them here, so we can all see.
Just a thought but it has similar qualities to Crinoid or even Siphusauctum, I believe it is part of the calyx and stem. The stem is hollow and you can also see that there was a hollow void where the digestive tract would be, what are your thoughts?
That's an interesting link; well done for finding it and for your pursuit of the truth.
Seeing your extra photo, I see what you mean about a goblet shaped calyx. Your specimen appears, however, to be thin-walled - so it is not a crinoid. It is also considerably larger and also certainly much more recent than the Burgess Shale organisms. Tunicates are rarely preserved as fossils, and in those cases they are completely flattened (like the Siphusauctum from the Burgess Shale) - not somewhat squashed like yours.
One or two things (eg. surface texture) make me think it could be man-made.
Overall, I'm still struggling....
I really think it needs to be taken/sent to the Angela Marmont Centre (as above) - for somebody to look at the surface, structure and perhaps chemical composition closely.


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The web-page is fairly intuitive but more direction and labeling would help ease set-up and configuration.
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Secretariat has nothing to do with the sport's core constituency. Yet, the industry from top to bottom – from racecourse operators to readers who write comments to HorseRaceInsider.com – believe everything revolves around how much the bettors wager. Despite occasional exceptions, the majority of horse racing has concentrated on the now, not the future.
Understandably, as providers of the revenue that covers the costs and produces the (rare) profits, horseplayers are considered the most valuable customers. Why, then, the enthusiasm for a movie that's been made for somebody else? The people that are going to see Secretariat are families, horse-lovers, history buffs and romantics – hardly the profile of those with a Jones for a parlay. If they went to the track, they wouldn't bet. "Oh, Happy Day?"
This assessment appears brutally harsh, of course. But there's plenty of evidence around that supports the conclusion that horse racing cares more about increasing the revenue produced by its base than on building for the future. It's been years since the sport advertised. When the NTRA chose Lori Petty to be the face of the game, it was sabotaged. When the Breeders' Cup threw a party at which geezers couldn't hear above the din of Maroon 5, traditionalists cringed…well, in any case, they exited the Palladium.
No, the screenplay of Secretariat was written by Ozzie Nelson; the sport's operating manual by Jean-Paul Sartre. One promotes squeaky-clean fiction; the other, existential behavior. Is Secretariat the horse racing its operatives want? Apparently. Is Secretariat the horse racing the public wants? Let's hope so.
Horse racing will disappear if it's not introduced in a favorable way to people unfamiliar with what the sport offers. In this regard, the best thing about Secretariat is that it's an advertisement. Few horse racing people and businesses spend money on long term investments that don't produce instant results. Everyone jumps on the bandwagon when someone else writes a book or makes a film that advances the industry. This sycophantic tendency, at the very least, proves that hope still exists for the game.
"If I owned a racetrack, I would weigh marketing communications according to the estimated lifetime value of the customer," advised Don Brashears, the co-managing partner of a Chicago-based ad agency named Tom, Dick & Harry. "Because the frequent, high-value customers are likely easier and less costly to reach, you could allocate an equal or greater amount of the budget to attracting new customers," he suggested.
Brand strategist Bob Killian, whose white papers on killianbranding.com are used by graduate schools of business as part of their marketing curricula, agreed with Brashears that it's unwise to ignore prospects. Killian said, "The bulk of the branding effort and budgets should be directed at the bullseye targets. However, racetracks that ignore other audiences are at peril." The life of a good brand, after all, continues on long after its customers have passed.
Generally, businesses use advertising to intrigue people to try their products. They turn to television, radio, print and Internet media to create an image, explain features and pitch benefits, develop curiosity, exaggerate and showcase brands in front of customers who are prone to buy products of similar description or purpose. A promotional strategy, on the other hand, is implemented when trying to extract greater response from the people who have already discovered your products or to reward faithful users. A reliance on promotions in lieu of advertising has affected the current size of horse racing's customer base.
"Unless you go to the track or experiences the sport in some other way, how are you going to know that you'll like it?" asked Steve Krawczyk, a consultant who believes that Secretariat is painting horse racing with positive imagery. "There's a lot of human interest in the sport – the agony, the ecstasy, the expense – but you've got to expose people to that," he said. "Getting the general population interested in horse racing increases your odds of getting people to come out to the track and increases your odds of making them bettors," he added.
"Businesses that keep going to the same customers will slowly die," Krawczyk warned, as if his conclusion should be obvious to everyone. Sooner or later, a competitor comes along and steals a few customers away. People die or they disappear, or they're kidnapped by some other brand-owner. In the case of horse racing, let there be no mistake about who is needed most in the fold now. It's not the guy betting daily who will be there no matter what, but the person who has yet to discover what horse racing offers him.
The most significant effect that the movie Secretariat can have would be to rally the horse racing community to believe in the reasons that brought them to the sport in the first place. Once the community has its optimism back, it can begin the process of selling the sport to people who haven't tried it. For the time being, no person that claims Secretariat is good for the sport can ever again say that people who don't bet aren't worth going after.
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By Billy Graham • December 2, 2011 • Topics: Christmas, Depression
Yes, Christmas should be a time of celebration — the celebration of the coming of God's Son into the world for our salvation. If the angels of heaven celebrated His coming, shouldn't we celebrate it also?
In fact, during this Christmas season, let the angel's words to the shepherds on that first Christmas night ring in your heart and mind every day. Do you remember them? "But the angel said to them, 'Do not be afraid. I bring you good news of great joy…. Today in the town of David a Savior has been born to you; he is Christ the Lord'" (Luke 2:10-11). Yes, Christmas is a time to celebrate!
How can you keep from getting bogged down? First, take time every day for you and your family to reflect on Jesus Christ and His love for you. He came as a baby — but grew up to become God's appointed sacrifice for our sins by His death on the cross. And because He rose from the dead we can have hope — hope right now, and hope for eternity. Thank God every day for the greatest gift of all — the gift of His Son.
Then plan ahead. Make a list of all the things you need to do, and decide when you'll do them. Cut out things you really don't need to do — but add some things you should do to keep your focus on Christ, such as a musical program or special service at your church.
I find it helps to start early- very early. I give some people candles each year, so I buy them at the after Christmas sales. I begin other shopping in the summer at art fairs and/or travel destinations. You can get some unique, meaningful gifts. When they get bored in the summer, children like to wrap them. If you can, cook/ bake early and freeze. Encourage children to make a decoration or gift in the summer, and you do it too! This helps reflect on Christmas thru the year, as well as at Christmas time.


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Economy at heart of fall race for Ohio governor
- Written by JULIE CARR SMYTH, AP Statehouse Correspondent
COLUMBUS, Ohio (AP) — Republican Gov. John Kasich (KAY'-sik) and Democratic rival Ed FitzGerald will focus this fall on Ohio's economic position and how that has hit or benefited workers and businesses in the state.
Kasich already launched a series of biographical TV ads emphasizing his blue-collar roots along the Ohio River — albeit on the Pennsylvania side — and his belief that economic prosperity should be shared.
The 45-year-old FitzGerald, of Lakewood, is the Cuyahoga County executive, a former FBI agent, prosecutor and mayor. He criticizes the economic comeback celebrated by Kasich as disproportionately benefiting the wealthy.
The 61-year-old Kasich, a former congressman and Lehman Brothers managing director, responds directly to the issue in his ads. He says power and wealth don't prevent a person from working to help the less fortunate.


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Monday, April 10, 2006
Was Jerry Right?
Reading these stories, basically anyone who's not a Giants fan thinks Bonds is a cheater who should be kicked out of the league, or at least have his records minimized or taken away. But the Giants fans all defend Bonds, with the most harsh comments being something along the lines of "He wasn't the only cheater." Certainly these Giants fans know that Bonds is likely a huge cheater whose stats are inflated by steroids. But because he's their guy - and won them so many games - they choose to ignore, or look past it.
We see this all the time in college football. Tosu has another player get a DUI and we're all over it. The Buckeye fans are full of rationalization and "What about Chris Webber?" comments. Tosu fans still cheer for Troy Smith even though he took money from a booster. But if he was the Michigan QB - and beating Tosu and getting to a BCS game - wouldn't the Wolverine fans be right behind him, saying how it's great that Carr gave him a second chance? Was Jerry Seinfeld right - do we just cheer for clothes regardless of the facts and what we know is right?
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- Willy Wonka said...
More Bonds panty-knotting. This argument is tired.
If you wanna pick on Bonds, you're headed down a slippery slope. Start taking away division and world championships, too.
- April 10, 2006 10:33 AM
- Benny Friedman said...
HornsFan, the point of this post wasn't to pick on or defend Bonds, but rather to point out that where you stand on the argument usually depends on whether you're a Giants fan or not. And how immature that is.
- April 10, 2006 10:55 AM
- The King said...
I think we can all agree on one thing, and that is the question that is on the mind of every sports fan in America:
- April 10, 2006 12:54 PM
"Kramer only cares about Canadian football."
You got to love that!
- April 10, 2006 3:54 PM
- nico said...
Personally, I get really pissed when guys on my teams do dumb crap. I don't try to play down or minimize their bad decisions.
Last year, Alabama's backup QB John Parker Wilson was arrested for a DUI as a 20 year old.
The underage drinking thing doesn't bother me as that is something 99% of people do in this country, the DUI, however, is a completely different animal. I was quite upset he only got a two game suspension...first offender or not.
Maybe I'm just more fired up by the fact that I've known people killed by drunk drivers, but DUI isn't an offense to take lightly.
- April 10, 2006 7:42 PM
- Jeremie said...
Ask BPD what happens if an Army officer gets a DUI...
- April 10, 2006 7:46 PM
- Yost said...
Couldn't agree w/ you more. Minor in possession is typical college. DUI is something that can get folks killed.
- April 10, 2006 8:46 PM
- BaggyPantsDevil said...
I heard this in church once and it's definitely applicable, "Our sins look worse on other people." It's very easy to get subjective when looking at crimes committed by a rival's athletes and crimes committed by your team's athletes.
On another note, I think at least some of the appeal of collegiate athletics comes from the desire to root for a little more than just the clothes. I know my own drifting away from professional sports was due in part to teams moving from city to city and players and coaches changing teams yearly. I could never really make that jump from admiring an athlete one year to despising him the next simply because a team traded him.
There's a continuity to college football that's comforting. For the most part, Michigan athletes will always be Michigan athletes. There's little risk of cheering for Charles Woodson as he plays a major role in Michigan's undefeated season only to see him suiting up in scarlet and grey the next season.
Imagine the dilemma of Dallas Cowboy fans; the most physically gifted—and hate-able—player for their bitter rivals, the Philadelphia Eagles, is now on their team. How can they rationalize cheering for him now? Do they still think he's a selfish, me-first, locker room plague? And what about longtime fans of the Washington Redskins once they were bought by the loathsome Dan Snyder?
College football has a deeper tradition and the personalities of the athletes are generally subordinate to the characteristics of each school's program. The universities will never move and—since athletes basically choose which schools they attend—there's even a chance that some athletes are actually seeking to emulate their predecessors and continue certain traditions. We may at times bemoan the long, conservative shadow cast by Bo Schembechler on Michigan football, but at least we know what we're getting.
It's also good to know that whenever Michigan scores a touchdown, it'll be celebrated by the band playing "The Victors" and we won't have to be subjected to the stadium public address system blaring "Who Let the Dogs Out?" or whatever lame song is the fad that particular year. Since professional franchises change and evolve at a much more rapid rate, a fan of a particular style of play or coaching philosophy may finding himself stuck with a team that represents everything he hates within a few years.
Unfortunately, college football is not completely immune from this. It's got to be confusing for Florida fans to see Steve Spurrier—the man pretty much responsible for Florida football—now coaching against them at South Carolina. And, an Alamo Bowl victory notwithstanding, these have got to be bewildering days for the generations of Nebraska fans raised on power running who now have to watch their team scamper around in the West Coast Offense.
And if one is going to simply root for the clothes, they don't get any better than the Michigan football team's.
- April 11, 2006 2:03 PM
This topic is fairly intriguing, but I think you are looking at this the wrong way. People that are rabid fans of one team are usually willing to rationalize any questional behavior from the members of that team. For example, I'm a rabid Hawkeye fan and I don't think the recent cell phone incident was that big of deal. However, I'm a casual fan of the rest of College football, and there are definantly programs that I would cheer for against other programs because of those same questional behaviors that were brought up earlier. I generally respect West Virginia and cheer for their them because they appear to have a clean program. By the same token, I would cheer for just about any team that is playing an out of conference game against an SEC team because almost all of the SEC schools have consistant off the field problems.
So am I cheering for laundry? Yes and no.
- April 11, 2006 5:00 PM


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#1 York: For conservatives, the question: Who is John Roberts?07-02-2012, 11:31 PM
In the wake of Chief Justice John Roberts' stunning about-face in the Obamacare case, conservatives who follow judicial issues are asking themselves: Did we ever really know Roberts? Did we get him wrong?
Those nagging questions have led Republicans to think back to Roberts' rise through the Washington legal world from White House lawyer to the nation's highest court.
Roberts had solid Republican credentials. He served in both the Reagan White House counsel's office and, later, in the Justice Department under President George H.W. Bush.
In January 1992 Bush nominated Roberts to a place -- Clarence Thomas' old seat -- on the U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia. Many observers thought one conservative would be replacing another.
Certainly the Democrats who controlled the Senate saw it that way. Spotting Roberts as a future Republican star, they resolved to kill the nomination. And with the 1992 election approaching, they saw no reason to confirm a final-year Bush appointee when they could instead stall and see if a Democrat won the White House. Once Bill Clinton was elected, Roberts' court hopes were dead.
But Roberts was just 37 years old. He could wait -- which he did, through eight years of the Clinton administration.
In May 2001, President George W. Bush renominated Roberts for the D.C. Circuit Court. Again, he faced determined Democratic opposition, and his nomination went nowhere.
By the time Republicans won control of the Senate, in November 2002, Roberts had waited a decade for a seat on the appeals court. In the ugly atmosphere of the war over judges, Roberts became the poster boy for Republican anger at the Democratic blockade of Bush judicial nominees.
In us-versus-them politics, Roberts became "our guy" for Republicans. Determining his credentials as a philosophical conservative became less important than simply winning the confirmation fight for the GOP team.
In addition, Republican senators loved Roberts as a nominee because he was easy to defend. He didn't have any past scandals, and, since he had never been a judge, didn't have any quirky rulings to explain.
As a matter of fact, besides his glittering academic credentials and impressive resume, there wasn't a lot to say about Roberts. "He wasn't one of those who wrote op-eds and law review articles, and he didn't give speeches on issues," says one former Senate Republican aide involved in Roberts' appeals court confirmation. "He flew under the radar," says another former GOP aide who was also involved.
Still, with connections to Reagan, both Bushes and lots of Republicans, there seemed little reason to doubt Roberts' conservative bona fides. With Republicans in control of the Senate, he was confirmed to the circuit court in May 2003.
Yet two years later, when Bush nominated Roberts to the Supreme Court, little things -- or maybe not so little things -- popped up to make conservatives uneasy.
In the confirmation process, it emerged that Roberts, as a private attorney, had done pro bono work for Lambda Legal, the gay advocacy group that was fighting what became a key homosexual rights case, Romer v. Evans.
Roberts also troubled some conservatives by the positions he argued on behalf of plaintiffs in the giant antitrust case against Microsoft.
And while it was at first reported that Roberts had been a member of the Federalist Society -- standard procedure for conservative lawyers -- it turned out he had never, in fact, joined the group.
Roberts and his supporters -- among them Steve Schmidt, the operative chosen by the Bush White House to shepherd Roberts' nomination through the Senate before later going on to run John McCain's presidential campaign -- argued that Roberts was simply working as a lawyer, representing his clients as best he could, and his work didn't say anything about his judicial philosophy.
But that judicial philosophy wasn't really clear. "His ideological opinions he certainly kept to himself," says one of those former Senate aides. "He was a blank slate because he had represented so many different sides," says the other.
The public debate over Roberts echoed those private doubts. As Roberts sought confirmation, conservative commentators as varied as Charles Krauthammer and Ann Coulter called him a "tabula rasa."
In the end, Roberts just didn't give Democrats much of a target. He was confirmed, 78-22, in September 2005. Among those 22 Democrats who voted against Roberts were then-Sens. Barack Obama and Joe Biden.
Now Roberts has given Obama the biggest court victory of his presidency. But to uphold Obamacare, the chief justice had to execute logical twists and turns that left conservatives wondering what they really knew about him all along.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.
One of the most worthless pieces of trash to ever fill a suit, if he comes here I'll ban him!Woe to those who call evil good, and good evil;
Who substitute darkness for light and light for darkness;
Who substitute bitter for sweet and sweet for bitter!
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FORT MEADE, Md. — An Army private suspected of sending reams of classified documents to the secret-sharing WikiLeaks website was illegally punished at a Marine Corps brig and should get 112 days cut from any prison sentence he receives if convicted, a military judge ruled Tuesday.
Army Colonel Denise Lind ruled during a pretrial hearing that authorities went too far in their strict confinement of Private Bradley Manning for nine months in a Marine Corps brig in Quantico, Va., in 2010 and 2011. Manning was confined to a windowless cell 23 hours a day, sometimes with no clothing. Brig officials said it was to keep him from hurting himself or others.
Lind said Manning's confinement was ''more rigorous than necessary.'' She added that the conditions ''became excessive in relation to legitimate government interests.''
Manning faces 22 charges, including aiding the enemy, which carries a maximum sentence of life behind bars. His trial begins March 6.
The 25-year-old intelligence analyst had sought to have the charges thrown out, arguing the conditions were egregious. Military prosecutors had recommended a seven-day sentence reduction, conceding Manning was improperly kept for that length of time on highly restrictive suicide watch, contrary to a psychiatrist's recommendation.
Lind rejected a defense contention that brig commanders were influenced by higher-ranking Marine Corps officials at Quantico or the Pentagon.
Manning showed no reaction as Lind read her decision. He fidgeted when the judge took the bench to announce her ruling, sometimes tapping his chin or mouth with a pen and frequently glancing at his lawyer's notepad, but those movements tapered off during the hour and 45 minutes it took the judge to read the lengthy opinion.
Mike McKee, one of about a dozen Manning supporters in the courtroom, said he was disappointed. He called the ruling ''very conservative,'' although he said he did not expect the charges to be thrown out.
''I don't find it a victory,'' McKee said. ''Credit like that becomes much less valuable if the sentence turns out to be 80 years.''
Jeff Paterson of the Bradley Manning Support Network, which is funding Manning's defense, said the sentencing credit ''doesn't come close to compensating Bradley'' for his harsh treatment.
''The ruling is not strong enough to give the military pause before mistreating the next American soldier awaiting trial,'' Paterson wrote in an e-mail.
Lind ruled on the first day of a scheduled four-day hearing at Fort Meade, near Baltimore.
The hearing is partly to determine whether Manning's motivation matters. Prosecutors want the judge to bar the defense from producing evidence at trial regarding his motive for allegedly leaking hundreds of thousands of secret war logs and diplomatic cables. They say motive is irrelevant to whether he leaked intelligence, knowing it would be seen by Al Qaeda.
Manning allegedly told an online confidant-turned-informant that he leaked the material because ''I want people to see the truth'' and ''information should be free.''
Defense lawyer David Coombs said Tuesday that barring such evidence would cripple the defense's ability to argue that Manning leaked only information that he believed could not hurt the United States or help a foreign nation.
Manning has offered to take responsibility for the leaks in a pending plea offer but he still could face trial on charges such as aiding the enemy.
The Crescent, Okla., native is accused of leaking classified Iraq and Afghanistan war logs and more than 250,000 diplomatic cables while working as an intelligence analyst in Baghdad in 2009 and 2010.
He is also charged with leaking 2007 video of a US helicopter crew gunning down 11 men, including a Reuters news photographer and his driver. The Pentagon concluded the troops acted appropriately, having mistaken the camera equipment for weapons.


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WHITE PLAINS — A West Point cadet was arrested on campus Thursday and charged with distributing child pornography via email.
Papers filed in federal court allege the cadet, Ricky Patrick Hester, sent videos up to 15 minutes long showing young boys engaged in explicit sexual activity.
Hester, 23, of Granger, Ind., faces federal charges of distributing and possessing child pornography. If convicted on the distribution charge, he would face five to 20 years in prison.
The U.S. attorney for the Southern District, Preet Bharara, said child pornography "victimizes the most vulnerable members of our society." The complaint alleges that Hester admitted sending child porn videos when Homeland Security Investigations agents questioned him in his West Point dorm room Wednesday.
He appeared in federal court in White Plains on Thursday and was released after posting a $50,000 bond co-signed by his mother, the U.S. Attorney's Office said. No plea was entered.
Hester's lawyer, federal public defender Jason Ser, declined comment. A West Point spokesman said the military academy would issue a statement Friday.
According to the complaint, the investigation began in June with federal prosecutors in Idaho trying to track down an email account that had been used to express interest in child pornography.
A search warrant served on Yahoo! eventually led to an account used by Hester, and another led to the discovery of pornographic videos in emails on that account, the complaint said. Agents also found an email that said, "I am in to 4-10 year olds hardcore with sound," according to the complaint.
Hester is a first class, or senior, cadet. He is due back in court on Jan. 15.
WHITE PLAINS — A West Point cadet was arrested on campus Thursday and charged with distributing child pornography via email.


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Parts List
A) 2 ½" Corner Post-2
B) 1 5/8" Brace Posts-2
C) 2ft. Corner Post Extension-1 **
D) 1 5/8" Brace Cup -2
E) 2 ½" Brace Band -2
F) 2 ½" Post Cap -1
G) 5/16" x 2" Carriage Bolt, Nut & Washer -2
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H) Self-tapping Screws -2 **
** Only Included In 7.5/8ft System
Step 1:
Using a post hole digger create a hole about 36" deep. You may adjust the depth of the hole as necessary to allow for the corner post to set out of hole to match fence height. Place the corner post (part A) in the hole, making sure it is straight. We recommend filling the whole with quick drying concrete, if the fence is a permanent fixture. You may also fill with dirt and tamp it down.
If using 7.5 or 8 foot fencing there is a 2 foot extension piece you must install on top of your corner post to make up for the height loss in installation. Secure the extension with the 2 self-tapping screws (Part H) included in your kit.
Step 2:
A brace post (part B) is used to further secure your corner system. First you need to place the brace band (part E) and cup (part D) over the 2' corner post extension (part C). Measure and mark 12" from the top of the end post. Slip the brace band over the post and onto the 12" mark. Placing the cup into the band position the cup so that the brace post will be just inside the fence line. Using the nuts, bolts and washers provided to hold the brace band and cup in position. (Do not fully tighten) After you have installed the first brace cup install the second directly on top at a 90 degree angle to the first brace cup.
Step 3:
After your brace cups are installed you will want to determine where to dig your holes to secure your brace posts. Place your brace post (part B) in the cup at a 45 degree angle to the corner post and just inside the fence line. At the point where the post meets the ground you will want to dig a hole approx. 1 foot deep. You can either cement the post in place or you can use a dead man.
Step 4:
A dead man is a brace put into the ground to hold the brace post in position. You can use a cinderblock or a large sturdy piece of wood. Once you have put the dead man into proper position fill the hole back up with dirt and tamp it down. Repeat the process on the other side of the post. To finish end system tighten the bolts and place the post cap on top of the end post.


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Why do mosquitoes bite some people much more than others? This is merely annoying to those of us living in the West, but to people living in places like Africa, where malaria is rampant, it can mean the difference between life and death. Now scientists have discovered why mosquitoes like some of us much more than others. All humans produce smells which attract these insects, but people who don't get bitten as often produce another smell which masks these scents. If bugs like you, how can you avoid getting bitten? Hang around someone whom the bugs DON'T like to bite.
BBC news reports that researchers want to reporduce this masking smell, because it could be tthe world's most effective mosquito repellant. Scientists have discovered that when herds of cattle contain a large numbers of cows that produce these masking smells, fewer mosquitoes bother the entire herd, even if some of the cows that DO NOT produce this substance.