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The more that traces of American roots music are turned into prized relics, the more lifeless the music becomes. Only by acknowledging roots music's ephemeral and fragile qualities do its archival traces remain relevant and enlivening.
To commemorate a century of one of the world's most influential musics, filmmaker Martin Scorsese produced The Blues (2003), a seven-part PBS documentary series with a different director for each episode. Like Ken Burns's Jazz (2000), The Blues tied itself to numerous commercial products, including a book and a compact disc series. German director Wim Wenders handled the fourth episode, The Soul of a Man (2003), devoted to his three favorite blues artists: Blind Willie Johnson, Skip James, and J.B. Lenoir. Wenders' film, however, isn't so much about the lives and times of these bluesmen, as it is about their archival traces.
Interviewed for The Soul of a Man, blues aficionados Steve and Ronnog Seaberg talked about befriending and filming J.B. Lenoir in 1964. The Seabergs hoped Lenoir's exposure on Swedish TV would generate more European gigs but the quality of their recorded sound proved too poor to broadcast. The next year, they tried again. In The Soul of a Man, Ronnog Seaberg holds up the 1965 reel. "This is it," she says.
Ronnog Seaberg holds up the reel of J.B. Lenoir footage she and her husband shot in Chicago in 1965. The Soul of a Man, 2003.
In the documentary tradition, archival footage typically provides confirming evidence of spoken commentary, but in The Soul of a Man, the Seaberg footage exists as a rich, autonomous document telling its own story. Wenders interviewed Lenoir's surviving family members, admirers, and old associates but left this material out of his final edit. He "wasn't so much interested in making a film with talking heads and people who remembered J. B. . . . [but instead] wanted to have the music speak for itself."1 Wenders wanted the old footage to be "the backbone of the second half of [the] film," revealing more than any contemporary interview.2
Steve Seaberg, Ronnog Seaberg, and J.B. Lenoir in the 1965 footage. The Soul of a Man, 2003.
Documentary filmmakers have used reenactments since the genre's beginnings. In Nanook of the North (1922), Robert Flaherty had Nanook reenact hunts and domestic routines. 1940s era newsreels such as The March of Time (1935-1951) utilized reenactments, often with the original participants of events. Because film footage of roots music before the advent of television is scarce, many recent documentaries incorporate reenactments. The 2005 PBS documentary The Carter Family, for instance, reenacts early recording sessions.
|Reenactment of Blind Willie Johnson in The Soul of a Man, 2003.
What's different about Wenders' reenactments for The Soul of a Man is that they look like actual fragments of archival footage. Filmed with a hand-cranked, 1920s Debrie Parvo camera, these scenes, says Wenders, produce "a really beautiful and authentic effect and transports you right back in time—so successfully, in fact, that when we showed a first cut of the film, most of the people who saw it believed we had found all this original archived material and didn't really understand that we had produced it ourselves. [Scenes] . . . look as if they were filmed at the time."3
For the portion of The Soul of a Man dealing with Blind Willie Johnson and Skip James during the 1920s and 1930s, there existed no archival footage. Wenders decided to reenact key moments in these men's careers. Eschewing interviews with people who knew Johnson and James, Wenders mixes authentic, non-music archival clips alongside the reenactments, further blurring history and simulation.4
It's not that Wenders is passing off new material as vintage, he's seeking to transport the audience.5 His approach reveals more than a director's preference for primary sources, more than the creation of authentic-seeming material to get at a subject. The Soul of a Man is as much about the archival traces of Johnson, James, and Lenoir as it is about the creation of music in time and place, amid social pressures and situations of prejudice. Wenders claims that the music and the archival material should "speak for itself," but the film's primary concern is the very substance and availability of archival material, and how this material shapes the cinematic writing of history.
Focusing so intently on archival fragments, actual and simulated, Wenders fetishizes traces that threaten to supersede the people he is trying to represent. Instead of an intricate historical web, the film at times resembles a stockpile of relics.
|Scientists load the "golden record" onto the spacecraft. The Soul of a Man, 2003.
Pretending to be Blind Willie Johnson (1897-1945) speaking from beyond the grave, the voice of actor Laurence Fishburne begins The Soul of a Man. "Johnson" describes how one of "his" songs, "Dark Was the Night, Cold Was the Ground," was put on a record that went out with the Voyager space probe in 1977 on a mission to explore the outer reaches of the solar system and beyond. If ever intercepted by intelligent alien life, Voyager contains a "golden record" of sights and sounds (such as "Dark Was the Night") meant to show the diversity of culture on Earth. As "Johnson" discusses the Voyager disc, Wenders includes an archival clip of scientists loading the "golden record" onto the spacecraft and an animation of Voyager traveling through deep space. Wenders explains, "The fact that ['Johnson's'] voice was out there in space on Voyager . . . made him the perfect instrument to narrate our film. He had the necessary distance, so to speak; he had a beautiful 'objective' point of view."6
An animation of Voyager traveling through deep space. The Soul of a Man, 2003.
Throughout The Soul of a Man, Wenders' obsession with physical relics of blues history moves beyond what these traces offer when carefully and imaginatively considered: glimpses of the musicians and their complex cultural worlds, as well as ways in which recordings and archival material can reveal situated aspects of personality and social emotion.7
Roots music, both the new iterations produced today as well as earlier songs and styles that continue to circulate, is often placed at a "necessary distance" and in a bubble with little or no connection to the social world. Piqued and perplexed over the O Brother, Where Art Thou? (2000) phenomenon, Benjamin Filene argues that fans and writers are marginalizing roots music more than ever, even as they praise it for being quintessentially American. "What I think rankles me about the O Brother phenomenon," writes Filene, "is that even as the artists it features gain a degree of fame and fortune and a passel of awards, the revival in several key respects holds them and the music itself at a remove, depicting both as relics from another world and time. . . . At every turn, the appeal of this music today seems to be its isolation from contemporary reality."8
Wenders portrays Blind Willie Johnson as figure who lived in a realm beyond reach and is now sealed away in an otherworld. What could be more detached and isolated from the lived history of Jim Crow than the golden record aboard the Voyager? In the book accompanying The Blues series, Wenders writes of the blues as "still alive" and "still flourishing," yet in The Soul of a Man he doesn't locate new venues for the blues, or new and original song writing. Instead, he assembles an impressive array of established artists to perform old tunes by Johnson, James, and Lenoir.
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Could Wenders have learned something from a music video that debuted a few months before The Soul of a Man? Instead of featuring a new musician performing an old song, a venerable, dying musician — Johnny Cash — performed a relatively new song: Trent Reznor's "Hurt."
During the last ten years of his life, Cash teamed with producer Rick Rubin for a series of critically-acclaimed studio albums. Along with new compositions and classic country interpretations, Rubin encouraged Cash to take up songs by contemporary artists such as Beck, Soundgarden, U2, Depeche Mode, and Nine Inch Nails. Cash's final records demonstrate that he was not so much transforming popular songs into folk songs as making other peoples' material his own. Unlike the honorific blues covers in The Soul of a Man, the covers on the Cash/Rubin records are intensely personal reflections on faith, love, and mortality.
Music video director Mark Romanek had long pleaded with his friend Rick Rubin to be allowed to direct a video for one of Cash's new songs, but it was not until "Hurt" (2002) that he finally got his chance. Due to Cash's deteriorating health, Romanek had to film at the musician's home in Hendersonville, Tennessee, and at the nearby House of Cash museum. While more than half of the "Hurt" video features contemporary footage of Cash and wife June Carter, much is also made of archival material.
Early in the song, Cash sings, "The needle tears a hole / The old familiar sting / Try to kill it all away / But I remember everything." Upon the last two words, the first archival clip is shown, an excerpt from the 1974 documentary Ridin' the Rails (in which Cash explored the history of US railroading through song and story). After a few seconds, Romanek cuts back to the contemporary Cash at a piano singing, "What have I become?" This prompts another archival clip: Cash walking along the Dead Sea shore (from his 1973 documentary The Gospel Road). Then back to Cash at the piano as he addresses "What have I become" to his "sweetest friend." Next, Romanek cuts to home movie clips of Cash walking through a field.
Images accompanying "What have I become, my sweetest friend?" Video for "Hurt," 2002.
Through cross-cutting, Romanek makes it seem as if the 2002 Cash is addressing the youthful, archived Cash. "What have I become?" is a painful acknowledgment of his body's deterioration. A sprightly and energetic Cash from the 1950s, 60s, and 70s is juxtaposed with a feeble and weakened Cash in 2002: "Everyone I know goes away in the end." The Cash archival traces become reminders of mortality. "What have I become, my sweetest friend?"
An anomaly on the music video landscape for its absence of frenetic spectacle, sexual tease, and unbounded youthfulness, the "Hurt" video was a critical sensation in 2003. In shocking fashion, an aged artist reflected upon fleeting life and the inevitability of death.
When Cash sings, "You could have it all / My empire of dirt," Romanek initiates a series of shots within the House of Cash. Flood damage had closed the museum several years earlier and the "Hurt" video finds the place in a state of dereliction. When Cash sings "dirt," Romanek cuts to a wide shot of the museum's former gift shop, devoid of people, but bearing visual traces of Cash — in posters, cardboard cutouts, and illustrations. One of his gold records sits on the floor, the glass in its frame shattered, debris strewn nearby. "It's all fleeting," Cash said in one of his last interviews. "As fame is fleeting, so are all the trappings of fame fleeting. The money, the clothes, the furniture."9
Still inside the House of Cash from "Hurt" video, 2002.
In Wenders' The Soul of a Man, archival traces — old records, reels, and photographs — exude a reliquary quality, immune to time and detached from place. In "Hurt," we learn how fragile and vulnerable are the traces. We are cautioned about becoming absorbed with the trappings. When the archival footage of Johnny Cash flashes by, it pays tribute to the man while reminding us of our own mortality. The endurance of human connections gives way to the unraveling of all ties that bind. Cash's acceptance of decay and death gives life and longevity to his music.
About the Author
Steve Bransford lives in Atlanta with his wife Amy and two-year-old son Miles. He recently completed his PhD in American Studies from Emory University and is currently serving as visiting assistant professor in the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts at Emory. Steve also works as a videographer for the forthcoming website "The Mother Nature Network."
- 1. Wenders, Wim. "The Soul of a Man," in Martin Scorsese Presents the Blues: A Musical Journey (New York: Amistad, 2003), 161.
- 2. Ibid.
- 3. Wenders, 159-160.
- 4. Despite the technical similarity between the authentic footage and the reenactments, it's obvious that the scenes featuring Johnson and James are staged. The camera setups are seamless, and it makes no sense that the musicians sing and play but are never heard speaking. While the clips are almost perfect technical simulations of archival footage, the narrative action and the editing of the clips reveal that they are obviously staged.
- 5. Some recent documentaries have caused controversy by passing off fake, manufactured archival footage as authentic material. It was revealed that the filmmakers for the 2004 Oscar-nominated documentary The Children's March had manufactured a large portion of archival footage, which caused the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to review the veracity of the film.
- 6. Wenders, 162.
- 7. The festishization of roots music traces hits its peak in the 2003 documentary Desperate Man Blues. As opposed to The Soul of a Man, which at least purports to be about musicians, Desperate Man Blues is about the adventures and tastes of a collector of roots music records. For a large chunk of the film, we simply watch this collector, Joe Bussard, as he listens to records in his basement. Director Edward Gillan includes one reenactment, not of an event in the life of a classic musician, but a reenactment of the time when Bussard discovered the rarest and most valuable record in his collection (a 78 of "Original Stack O' Lee Blues" by the Down Home Boys). Bussard believes that the real roots music stopped being produced in the early fifties, and so, all we're left with are the magical spinning discs and the nostalgic reminiscences of a collector's career.
- 8. Filene, Benjamin. "O Brother, What Next? Making Sense of the Folk Fad," Southern Cultures 10 (Summer 2004), 56-57.
- 9. D'Angelo, Joe. "Johnny Cash Says Unlike Most Videos, 'Hurt' Wasn't Too Painful." MTV.com. 26 August 2003. MTV. 10 January 2008.


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Childress is long gone now, but another former Eagles assistant -- new Vikings coach Leslie Frazier -- helped make those rumors a reality Wednesday, just in time for McNabb to help bridge the gap from Brett Favre to rookie Christian Ponder.
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McNabb gives the Vikings a veteran quarterback while they groom Ponder, who was drafted 12th overall out of Florida State in April, to be the team's long-term answer at the position. The original preference for Frazier and the Vikings was to have Ponder start Week 1 in San Diego, with a capable veteran backup there just in case.
But that was before the NFL lockout prevented players from working out with coaches all summer and put Ponder behind schedule in his development. That made it more important for the Vikings to add an accomplished, experienced quarterback they believe can win games with a roster full of veterans while Ponder gets up to speed.
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Even before the deal was completed, some Redskins players already were treating McNabb's departure as a foregone conclusion. The writing has been on the wall for some time in Washington, and news of the discussions with the Vikings only served to validate that feeling.
"You see a guy that's been a Pro Bowler six times," Redskins linebacker Lorenzo Alexander said. "He was going to come in and really help us win more games, but it didn't work out. Relationships broke down, and now he's not here, but you can't really focus on that. You've got to continue to move forward."
Childress coached McNabb in Philadelphia from 1999 to 2005 before leaving to become the coach in Minnesota. From the minute Childress arrived in the Twin Cities, it was assumed that McNabb would one day join him in purple.
But McNabb stayed put with the Eagles, and the Vikings coaxed Favre out of retirement -- twice. Favre led the Vikings to the NFC title game after the 2009 season, but he had a disastrous, injury- and scandal-plagued campaign in 2010 as Minnesota sunk to the bottom of the NFC North.
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The university also wanted to centralise IT to support efficient management. It's now achieved this with a virtualised server infrastructure based on Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter. This has helped staff manage all IT services from one place. The team avoids downtime through automated, proactive monitoring in Microsoft System Center and its ability to configure thresholds to meet university network demands.
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The move to virtualise infrastructure has mean that the university has managed to save £1 million in the first year of deployment. The virtualisation of the organisation's infrastructure has made on-going savings through improved control and has reduced its requirement for IT staff, saving the university one full-time staff member's salary a year. Power and cooling costs have also been cut because the university has reduced the number of physical servers it needs and has made a corresponding reduction in floor space requirements within the data centre.
Booth said that savings of £129,000 in licensing had been made, "plus we avoid costs for further investment and gain greater control with the Microsoft System Center tools in Windows Server 2008 R2 Datacenter," he added.
The university has reduced power and cooling costs by around £28,000 each year. This has mean that it has also cut carbon emissions by 20 per cent. Rogers said that had the university not managed to achieve this goal it would have received a hefty fine. "Virtualisation and centralised management is helping us to avoid these costs too," said Rogers.
As well as savings in IT, the university also has reduced costs in research. As an applied research institution, Coventry University often needs to set up and support short-term projects quickly. The virtualised infrastructure will help avoid unnecessary costs by making it easier to take advantage of managed cloud services where it can provision servers, applications, and capacity fast.
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The university has reduced power and cooling costs by around £28,000 and cut carbon emissions by 20 percent
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"It's very straight forward to configure our data to be replicated at another site that we are in control of. We currently use a managed storage service with our data carried off-site every day but we're now equipped to organise our own disaster recovery solution," said Rogers.
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There are many puzzle books where the aim is to solve tactical problems, and there are plenty of positional manuals where little-to-nothing is asked of the reader except to watch attentively. This book is thus an attempt to apply the puzzle book approach to an area that could use it, and as usual with Karsten Mueller's work, it hits the mark - he is an effective pedagogue.
The book has six regular chapters (with exercises), followed by twelve tests with eight questions apiece. Between the exercises and the tests, there are 127 positions to chew on, most of them substantial. There is plenty of instructional material in the chapters too, prior to the exercises, so Mueller & Markgraf aren't just throwing you into the water and seeing if you'll swim; they teach you first.
The chapter topics will be familiar to those who have steeped themselves in good books on positional chess and endgame works like Shereshevsky's classic Endgame Strategy. Chapter 1 is on that Nimzowitschian favorite, prophylaxis, which is one of Dvoretsky's favorite topics as well. Chapter 2 addresses the principle of two weaknesses, which is crucial especially when it comes to winning favorable endgames. Chapter 3 is a topic that doesn't get enough play, and that's "the right exchange". Chapter 4, Domination, covers a topic that's well known to endgame composers but is often ignored in "normal" chess literature, except in such stock cases as a bishop on d5 dominating a knight on d8 or a5. Chapter 5, Do Not Rush (usually I've seen the principle labeled "do not hurry"), is another bit of wisdom that most generally applies to the endgame, but can be used in any circumstance when the opponent has no (or no real) counterplay. Finally, chapter 6 is on converting an advantage, subdividing this into material and positional advantages.
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Enterprise security decision makers have long been more likely to be swayed by flashy new technologies than by the notion of comprehensive IT restructuring to protect data and other corporate assets, but the situation is evolving rapidly, according to experts participating in Forrester Research's ongoing Security Forum.
Kicking off in Atlanta on Sept. 5, the two-day event will bring together a number of influential IT security consultants and researchers along with a range of vendors and end-users to debate pressing issues impacting enterprise businesses today.
Whereas such technology meetings, including Forrester's inaugural 2006 security confab, have historically focused more on the acquisition of new technologies or the latest trends in malware, companies are finally beginning to spend less time on investigating individual attacks and defense mechanisms and more closely examining the idea of broad-ranging risk management, show organizers said.
"There isn't any hot new technology being pitched at us these days. The process is less about shiny widgets than it is about cohesive programs that combine security and risk management," said Laura Koetzle, the Forrester analyst charged with pulling the event together.
"For a long time, the power in the security industry has been in the hands of the technology providers," she said. "But as enterprise security programs are maturing, we're seeing a shift to more coherent strategies that emphasizes specific business needs."
Koetzle said that the annual conference will have its fair share of security research reports on emerging threats -- including the latest on messaging security trends from specialists with Postini -- but the analyst highlighted increasing sophistication of the planned discussions, which focus on how companies can work with their customers and business partners to take a more organic approach to security.
"Many people growing up in the security discipline have seen a lot over the last few years, and now they're focused on working with business partners both inside and outside of their firms to get a more holistic view of what they want to accomplish, versus blocking viruses and filtering," said Koetzle.
"Today, security folks are much less likely to be a guy in a black hat in charge of some esoteric technology whom you never see, it's more about people who coordinate management strategy for companies and ensure that they have the right skills and partners in place," she said.
The Forrester analyst contends that security professionals are also no longer forced to fight for attention among the ranks of IT with c-level corporate leaders having woken up to the fact that their companies' operations and reputations can be severely affected by data breaches and security gaffes.
Among the scheduled speakers at the show will be representatives from IT vendors including Dell, Texas Instruments, and VeriSign, but Forester has also corralled customers from the financial services and healthcare industries to share their latest experiences.
Along with a slew of Forrester's own experts, academic researchers from Johns Hopkins University and Purdue University are also slated to speak at the show.
Representing Johns Hopkins will be Dr. Aviel Rubin, director of the school's Information Security Institute and a well-known expert regarding e-voting technologies and many of the issues that loom with the continued adoption of the systems.
Rubin, who will also be representing his Baltimore-based consulting firm, Independent Security Evaluators, said that he will explain to show attendees how many existing IT products can still be broken by sophisticated hackers.
"It will always be a fact of life that things can be broken and not always by the good guys who will publicize it, so it's important that people examine the way they handle incidents, and it's always good to encourage people to share their stories," Rubin said.
However, the researcher said he will also focus on the process improvements that many companies have been able to appreciate as their security efforts have matured.
"With the experience they've accrued, some companies, including vendors, are doing a better job of handling vulnerabilities and reporting," he said. "However, it's still useful to look at how things can still be circumvented and look at the measures that are being put in place to stop that sort of activity."
Also presenting will be Brian Contos, chief security officer at security management specialists ArcSight and the author of the well-known insider threat tome Enemy at the Water Cooler.
Contos agreed that the political battles that IT security pros needed to fight just to get attention and budget from business leaders have waned over the last several years and said that companies are getting far more aggressive in how they police their users and networks.
However, that shift has also created new challenges, he said.
"People want to monitor almost everything, but by adding more events, they are moving from megabytes of result information to terabytes and also trying to meld IT security efforts with physical security, which will be a long process," Contos said. "The main question we're hearing has become how companies can deal with this flood of data and turn it into something valuable, that's the challenge that many of these enterprise customers face going forward."


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Filled with music, dance, literature, sculpture, painting and more, Art Beat has something for everyone. From presentations to performances to workshops, you'll find something fascinating to attend and, while you're enjoying, you'll be surprised at how much you learn.
For 27 years, Art Beat has exemplified Portland Community College's recognition of the integral role the arts play in education and community—and PCC's festival shows this through involving participants in performance, allowing people to interact directly with artists, inviting all to play, and passing on experience and ideas in the most joyful ways possible.
Join us! Bring your friends and family! All is free; all are welcome.
Featured Artist: Nicole Georges
PCC is proud to have graphic novelist, illustrator and educator Nicole J. Georges as our 2014 Art Beat Featured Artist. Georges writings include the zine Invincible Summer, started in 2000, and the graphic memoir Calling Dr. Laura. She is also the co-founder of the Portland Zine Symposium.
Founders' Week
The third annual PCC Founders' Week celebration, May 12-17, coincides with Art Beat—what a fantastic combination! Founders' Week offers faculty, staff and students at Portland Community College the opportunity to salute PCC's history and share their pride in the college and its accomplishments. While details are being finalized, you can expect a mix of athletic and academic activities – as well as some that are simply pure fun! – at each of the campuses.


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Vanity Fair has a big story on Microsoft this month written by investigative reporter Kurt Eichenwald. The full story isn't online yet, just a little promotional teaser.
Unlike much of the press Microsoft has been getting lately, this story doesn't look all that positive. The headline of the teaser is, "Microsoft's Downfall: Inside the Executive E-mails and Cannibalistic Culture That Felled a Tech Giant."
The story says that former employees blame Steve Ballmer, and to a lesser extent, Bill Gates, for Microsoft losing to Apple and Google.
Here's one big internal problem with Microsoft, according to Vanity Fair:
Eichenwald's conversations reveal that a management system known as "stack ranking"—a program that forces every unit to declare a certain percentage of employees as top performers, good performers, average, and poor—effectively crippled Microsoft's ability to innovate. "Every current and former Microsoft employee I interviewed—every one—cited stack ranking as the most destructive process inside of Microsoft, something that drove out untold numbers of employees," Eichenwald writes. "If you were on a team of 10 people, you walked in the first day knowing that, no matter how good everyone was, 2 people were going to get a great review, 7 were going to get mediocre reviews, and 1 was going to get a terrible review," says a former software developer. "It leads to employees focusing on competing with each other rather than competing with other companies."
Beyond that, Eichenwald blames the usual stuff. He says that Windows was the most important thing at Microsoft, and the company wouldn't bend for new products:
According to Eichenwald, Microsoft had a prototype e-reader ready to go in 1998, but when the technology group presented it to Bill Gates he promptly gave it a thumbs-down, saying it wasn't right for Microsoft. "He didn't like the user interface, because it didn't look like Windows," a programmer involved in the project recalls.
A former official in Microsoft's Office division tells Eichenwald that the death of the e-reader effort was not simply the consequence of a desire for immediate profits. The real problem for his colleagues was the touch screen: "Office is designed to inputting with a keyboard, not a stylus or a finger," the official says. "There were all kinds of personal prejudices at work." According to Microsoft executives, the company's loyalty to Windows and Office repeatedly kept them from jumping on emerging technologies. "Windows was the god—everything had to work with Windows," Stone tells Eichenwald. "Ideas about mobile computing with a user experience that was cleaner than with a P.C. were deemed unimportant by a few powerful people in that division, and they managed to kill the effort."
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A Green and Fair Recovery
One year has passed since the Obama administration enacted the $787 billion American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA), the largest boon to public spending and the safety net since the New Deal. Last week, President Obama linked economic recovery to investments in clean energy and green job creation in his State of the Union address.
More than $200 billion of the stimulus package was earmarked for projects that would either directly or indirectly create green jobs. The second round of reporting by ARRA recipients was made public on recovery.gov last Saturday. But, since equity is not a criterion either for who gets the money or for how recipients report their usage of the funds, we don't know whether the stimulus has benefited those hardest hit by the Great Recession: people of color and single mothers.
Across all green sectors, most jobs are held by white men. Blacks and Latinos are employed in less than 30 percent of green occupations. Gender disparities are even more stark: white women are employed in only 5.7 percent of energy sector jobs, black women in 1.5 percent, and Latina and Asian women at less than 1 percent. Recovery funds shouldn't be used to preserve the status quo, but to create genuine opportunities for people of color and women in the green economy.
This extends to green business ownership: firms owned by people of color have been shut out of loans established by the Recovery Act. New America Media reported that over 91 percent of small business loans went to white-owned companies. Only 3 percent went to Asian- and Latino-owned businesses, while black-owned firms received only 1.5 percent of the recovery loans. Without standards based in equity, the racial disparities in green business ownership are reinforced.
Equity in Action
Equity will also be important in future legislation, such as the climate bill. A coalition of civil rights and environmental organizations led by Green For All secured the eleventh-hour addition of two major provisions (local access to green jobs and nearly $1 billion for green jobs training) to the House version of the American Clean Energy and Security Act (ACES). They are working to maintain these provisions in the Senate bill to be debated this year. Such provisions represent an important step toward ensuring equity in the green economy.
Trade Your Job :: The apprenticeship model gets new life as people who've been left out of the job market train to meet the growing demand for green-collar workers.
Examples of green equity success stories are emerging: In Los Angeles, a local chapter of the Apollo Alliance, convened by the community organization Strategic Concepts in Organizing and Policy Education (SCOPE), won the passage of a green retrofit ordinance for municipal buildings. It will create high quality jobs for communities of color struggling with the economic crisis. Navajo youth successfully lobbied their tribal council to enact green jobs legislation last summer, which will create job opportunities for Navajo youth and promote locally owned green businesses. And, in New York, grassroots and policy advocates pushed the city to create new rapid transit bus lines to serve low-income communities of color.
The most successful green jobs programs have been designed to benefit women and people of color, and have included clear measurements of success. Without data collection on these indicators to establish a baseline and to measure progress over time, women and people of color will be left out. Specific measures of equity include, but are not limited to, green jobs that provide at least a living wage and a clear pathway for professional development, elimination of employment barriers to people of color (such as those with prior convictions), and qualitative improvements to community and workplace health, safety and environment.
Existing legal provisions must also be incorporated into new green jobs programs and ordinances. Such laws will protect the rights of women and communities of color as they enter the green economy. These include equal opportunity laws, affirmative action provisions, local hiring and training ordinances, wage and hour standards, and safety and health standards.
If equity factors prominently into the equation, an expanded green economy has tremendous potential to positively transform our communities, sustain the environment, and lift the quality of all our lives. But this won't happen by chance. We must work to ensure that equity—gender, racial and economic equity—is central to green principles and practice. Federal government programs are crucial for funding green equity initiatives, but ultimately the power to advance equity in the green economy lies in local communities.


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Shakedown cruise for a pair of traditional hot rods
The road to Bonneville is a well-worn path fueled by passion and desire. For over 60 years hot rodders have been making the trek to the Salt Flats not only to race, but to experience the ultimate drive to the Promised Land in their own hot rods. Depending where you start from, it's a trip that's not for the faint at heart, as it can be grueling in many respects for both drivers and machines.
Ken Schmidt and Keith Cornell of the Rolling Bones Hot Rod Shop in Greenfield Center, New York, know firsthand what it takes to make the sojourn from New York to Bonneville and back on a yearly basis to race their own personal cars. Their road trips, which have become legendary, have attracted followers worldwide and even led independent filmmaker Brian Darwas to create a documentary about the experience. They ride hard doing 500-600 miles a day, while pushing speed limits and the durability of vintage parts through whatever elements they encounter. If something breaks, it gets fixed along the roadside, in parking lots of abandoned gas stations, or wherever need be.
Now imagine taking two freshly completed hot rods and embarking on an initial shakedown on one of these road trips right out of the gate. Dick DeLuna of Woodside, California, and Jorge Zaragoza of El Paso, Texas, recently did just that, but their epic journey actually started years ago on one of their visits to experience Garage Night, in the dead of winter, at the Rolling Bones shop. Walking through the doors where the Book of Gow comes to life, the pair immediately experienced everything their schoolteachers had warned them about regarding the evils of hot rodding. Laid out before them were both completed and in-the-works hot rods, each embodying a truly dramatic post-war style. After studying the cars and speaking with Ken and Keith at length, both Dick and Jorge made the decision to get started on two very unique builds; one from Henry's original production line and the other from newly struck steel.
DeLuna's '34 Ford five-Window Highboy Coupe
For Dick, growing up in Salinas, California, it was easy to see a path unfolding when he started working and racing at the Salinas Dragstrip in the early '50s. Subsequent years were dedicated to a tour in the military and the Peace Corps as well as starting a family and business. It wasn't till the '80s that his automotive calling came full circle when he began vintage racing at some of the world's finest courses, including Tour Auto in France, Tour de Espana, and Goodwood. Add in competing regularly in the La Carrera Panamericana alongside great friend Dennis Varni in a '55 Lincoln Capri and it's easy to see his dedication to the hobby.
With the decision made to build a downright evil '34 Ford five-window coupe, a search led Ken and Keith to a fully restored, yet unassembled, bone stocker residing in the basement of a home in nearby Lee Center, New York. The restoration, which had been in the works for 37 years, was about as pristine as you could imagine. Well, there's nothing like the scent of a grinder and TIG welder to convert a vintage Ford to the dark side, so once a deal was made, the project was trailered back to the Bone's shop to get sorted. To lay the groundwork for the coupe, a call was placed to American Stamping Corporation for a set of fresh '34 Ford die-stamped steel framerails.
Wanting to give the car an aggressive ground-hugging stance, the team reworked the 'rails with a number of surgical alterations, starting with stretching the wheelbase to 114 inches. From there the 'rails were bobbed and pinched up front with a narrowed Model A front crossmember installed along with kicking and stepping the 'rails ahead of the firewall and eliminating the lower frame points. A custom-fabbed center crossmember was then added along with a Model A rear crossmember, which was lifted 3 inches to drop the stance height. The rear framerails were then C'd and bobbed, followed by the chassis being boxed for durability. In keeping with a post-war theme, it was important to design a suspension system that would stay true to the build. In back, a Rodsville quick-change centersection filled with 3.64:1 gears and matched to '40 Ford axles assembled by Hot Rod Works was suspended in place with a combination of Rolling Bones ladder bars, inboard mounted Houdialle shocks, and a Model T rear spring to soften the bumps.
To bring an aggressive attitude to the front, a drilled '48 Ford axle was deftly matched to '39 Ford spindles and anchored in place by '32 Ford split 'bones. Evening out harsh roads, Rolling Bones–designed friction shocks matched to a Posies leaf spring gets the job done. When everything has to stop, a '40 Ford master pushes fluid through steel lines to '40 Ford binders anchored at each corner while navigation goes through a Schroeder steering box. Planting the chassis on the pavement a pair of '40 Ford 16×4 steelies wrapped in 5.00×16 Coker Classics up front and '48 Ford truck 16×5 steelies out back capped with 7.50×16 Coker Classics complete the look, crowned by a set of vintage aftermarket replacement deluxe caps.
Knowing the coupe needed plenty of dependable power for the long haul, a call was placed to Rolling Bones master engine builder Jim Fleming of Washingtonville, New York, to whip up a stout Ford Flathead fit for the task. Starting with a '49 Ford 8BA block, Fleming massaged it to 284 ci and loaded it with a 4-inch stroked Scat crank linked to Scat H-rods topped with Ross forged slugs, and an Isky stick. A set of Navarro heads matched to an Offenhauser two-pot intake crowned with a pair of Stromberg 97-series carbs spark to life thanks to a Vertex magneto while spent gases are dumped through Rolling Bones-fabbed headers. Linked to a Chevy S-10 five-speed trans the oats move rearward through a custom driveshaft.
To give the body a timeless look, combining equal amounts of speed and style, the team first hammered its lid 6 inches up front and 5-1/2 inches in the rear while also laying back the windshield. A Walden Speed Shop roof insert was laid in place followed by the cowl being laid down, frame covers and rear roll pan being fabbed, as well as the tail being tucked and rear wheel radius being massaged. The crowning touch is a heavily reworked ultrarare Canadian Cockshutt tractor grille accented by a custom hood and hood sides.
With the metalwork completed, the body and chassis were blocked to perfection, coated in a custom-blended PPG Salinas Special red vibe, and then treated to just enough rubbed-through patina. Sealing the deal, pinstriping legend Larry Hook of Cumberland, Rhode Island, laid his brushes across the surface, bringing everything to life. When it came to the interior less is always more, especially with an all-business hot rod like this.
For comfort, bomber seats by Frank Wallic were covered in vintage brown leather by Dore Dipasquale of Gloversville, New York, while textured rubber covers the floor. A modified '34 Ford dash filled with a '29 Pierce Arrow insert and gauges help monitor the vitals while a '48 Kurtis-Kraft midget steering wheel plots the course with gear changes through a Rolling Bones shifter topped with a rare Knights of Columbus shift knob that belonged to Dick's dad. With the coupe now showing over 3,500 miles on the odometer, Dick's reliving his early days in Salinas with the car he always wished he'd had back in the day.
Zaragoza's '32 Ford Three-Window Highboy Coupe
Falling under the hot rod spell happened for Jorge when he was 12 years old while hanging around the local magazine stand scouring publications to dig all the latest soup-jobs. His first attempt to purchase a '33 Ford at age 17 was foiled by his dad when the family mechanic warned it wouldn't be reliable since it was comprised of too many different car parts. He later purchased a '69 Firebird, which he heavily drag raced for a number of years till he married and started a family. It wasn't till the early '80s that his ability to get back into the hobby first led him to start collecting rare Pontiac T/As and other muscle cars.
Images of Tom McMullen's iconic '32 Ford highboy roadster on the cover of the April '63 issue of Hot Rod still burned in the back of his mind however. He set out to locate the car for his collection and with the help of Roy Brizio he was able to purchase it along with the Jack Calori's '36 Ford coupe, both of which Roy Brizio Street Rods restored to perfection. There was always an attraction though to the rawness of post-war–styled hot rods with a well-aged look and a story to tell that still captivated him.
Once the decision was made to build a hammered Deuce, the team at Rolling Bones got busy laying out a rock-solid spine to act as a base. Starting with an original '32 Ford frame, its wheelbase was first stretched to 109-1/2 inches, followed by the front and rear framehorns being bobbed. Model A front and rear crossmembers were then added along with the front framerails being pinched, rear 'rails being C-notched, and the frame being fully boxed for added strength. To keep it traditional, a Rodsville quick-change rearend with '40 Ford axles packed with 3.64:1 cogs by the Hot Rod Works was hung in place with Rolling Bones ladder bars while bumps get scattered through inboard-mounted Houdaille shocks and a Model T rear spring. Meanwhile up front a '32 Ford axle was drilled and laid in place with '39 Ford spindles, and split '32 Ford 'bones. To soak up the bumps, inboard-mounted friction shocks and a Posies leaf spring even it all out while a Schroeder steering box keeps everything on course. When the party needs to come to a halt, a '40 Ford master relays fluid to '40 Ford brakes at each corner. A set of original Ford 16-inch big 'n' littles set the stance, wrapped in Coker/Excelsior rubber with caps and rings for a bit of dazzle.
Nothing says go like a supercharged Flathead packed with all the right goods, so Jorge had Jim Fleming assemble a bullet-proof V-8 to handle the long haul. The '49 Ford 8BA block was tweaked to 284 ci and packed with a 4-inch stroked Scat crank, Scat H-rods, Ross forged pistons, and an Isky cam. Sealing the deal, a pair of Navarro heads matched with an original S.Co.T. supercharger suck air through a pair of Stromberg 97s, brought to life by a Vertex magneto. A pair of Rolling Bones headers dumps spent gases through straight pipes while a Chevy S-10 five-speed pushes the power through a custom driveshaft.
One call to Brookville Roadster secured a freshly struck steel '32 Ford three-window coupe body, which the Rolling Bones team wasted no time cutting up. To give it plenty of attitude, its lid was chopped 5 inches in front and 4-1/2 inches in back while also leaning back the windshield. The voodoo continued with a 2-inch stretched Rootlieb hood, rear roll pan, and removable Walden Speed Shop roof insert all vented by Louvers Unlimited.
With the body worked till it was razor-sharp, it was then doused in PPG black lacquer and rubbed out with an aged patina, giving it a 50-year-old luster. The crowning touch came from the brushes of well-known artist Jeff Norwell who laid out graphics cool enough to make the Gods of Speed proud. Inside the coupe, it's no-nonsense with a simple blanket interior accented by a custom dash filled with vintage Stewart-Warner dials, while a "weathered" '40 Ford steering wheel dictates the course. For Jorge, the Deuce fulfills a lifelong dream to have experienced hot rodding in its purest form, just like it was in the post-war era. These vintage Fords will continue to put down the miles, Rolling Bones-style, with plenty of raw power, no creature comforts, and only what you need in the trunk while heading to the salt, and to us that's plain wicked!


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Friday, March 29, 2013
Not a handspun Friday
I just had fun watching Chinese crackers unfold in hot oil! (Yeah, I know, I'm easily entertained.)
My son brought home a box of these crackers, which look like colored glass before you throw them into hot oil. He got them from friends, and I'm grateful for this new experience.
So here's a before picture:
And here's the after picture:
I will try one for sure! :o)
By the way, if you celebrate Easter, or even if you don't, I wish you all a wonderful weekend!
6 comments:
- Rhonda said...
Wow, look at those colours. Is it wrong that I see yarn dyeing?
- March 29, 2013 6:34 p.m.
Can you tell us what they are called and where they might be available? I have a great shopping area here in Victoria's Chinatown.
- March 30, 2013 4:27 p.m.
- 2paw said...
I love prawn crackers, but have never seen them in so many colours!! I hope you have had a lovely Easter, ours is just about over. No chocolate for The Labradors though!!
- March 31, 2013 7:05 a.m.
- Sharon V said...
I've tried these crackers and the didn't have much flavor, so what did you do to make them more flavorful? They sure are pretty though.
- March 31, 2013 10:50 a.m.
- Barbara from Nova Scotia said...
Pretty crackers! Almost a shame to cook them. :)
- March 31, 2013 7:37 p.m.
- monica said...
What did you think of them? When we order fried chicken in Chinese restaurants they add these as a sort of decoration. As kids we always fought to eat them but as an adult all I can taste is salt. :)
- April 01, 2013 3:56 p.m.


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County reluctant to provide gravel
Carlton County commissioner Marv Bodie made a motion which was successful to table consideration of a city of Moose Lake request to provide a gravel source for 700 yards of pit run for site work of a pavilion next to the Farmers' Market and hockey arena. "We could be on the hook for a lot of other requests down the line if we go for this one," Bodie commented.
The pavilion has been planned for some time. The flash flood of 2012 postponed work. No slab is being installed in the open structure.
The board accepted and ordered the work to proceed for repair and maintenance on the Soo Line trestles in Moose Lake over CSAH 61 and the Moose Horn River. Carlton County received bonding dollars from the 2010 Legislature for the project funneled through the Department of Natural Resources (DNR). The bonding dollars are a 50-50 match up to $55,000. The Carlton County bridge inspector has noted that the repairs to the approaches and abutments need to be made to ensure the safety of the trestles and underpassing traffic.
The guidelines for operating a community economic development authority requires a public hearing every five years to encourage public input as the county moves to continue another five years of operation of the authority. No one attended the public hearing. The Carlton County Economic Development Authority (EDA) continues with a new director to be chosen in the near future.
The Carlton School District operates a message board in the city of Carlton at the junction of Highways 210 and 45. While it is owned and operated by the school district, it is used to advertise and announce school and community events. Cost for the replacement of the message board is $4,000 which is a demonstration unit from Lakehead Sign Company of Cloquet — $540 additional is needed for labor installation. The Carlton County Board of Commissioners approved $1,000 of EDA money for the project.
Western Lake Superior Sanitation District (WLSSD) has notified the county of an increase in fees charged effective July 1. The increase is based on the Consumer Price Index and will increase by 2.33 percent of the new gate fees at the transfer station.
The Carlton County Land Department has a seed orchard in the Gilogly Road vicinity of Twin Lakes Township. Earlier funding had established a stand of native hemlock and native red pine trees — $25,000 has been granted to fence the orchard. At one time they were prominent in the county. One of the few places now in our area where you can experience native hemlock trees is in Jay Cooke State Park. Another $32,000 has been awarded by the DNR as a Legacy grant for a cooperative brushing project with Fond du Lac Tribe and St. Louis County on the Stoney Brook Brushland Complex north of Cloquet.
The board approved the exchange of easements with Jerry Tollefson in Section 22 of Kalevala Township north of the Konsti Road and south of the old Edwin Oja property. The exchange of easements provides both the county and Tollefson access to "landlocked" properties. Minnesota statute provides such agreements when it is deemed to the advantage of the public interest. This now provides access to manage county tax-forfeit lands for timber use.
Enbridge Pipeline gave notice that they will not build a totally new line to pump heavy crude oil to Superior, Wisconsin. Pumping stations along the present line will be upgraded and modernized. The capacity of the line will increase from 570,000 barrels per day to 800,000 barrels a day.
The results of the June 6 timber auction saw prices paid by local loggers in line with Land Department expectations. All sales were sold close to their appraised price.


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I posted one of the layouts last weekend with my sketch, but I did two other layouts AND two cards with this line. Wanna see? Okay, twist my arm.
You might need your sunglasses for this first one...seriously.
Yep, it's pretty bright. But I guess that's kinda the point. And apparently, I'm on a "sun" kick lately, because this next one has a sun on it, too. Hmmm...
For the card, I used my Slice to cut the flower shapes. The middle one is a rub-on, topped with a Hero Arts sentiment stamp.
And then I created this card for the Clip It Up blog. In addition to the Lucy Bird paper, it has scraps from two other Imaginisce lines, Perfectly Posh and Sweet Cheri, which gives it a totally different look!
If you haven't checked out my Clip It Up project for this week, hop on over and take a look. It includes instructions for the button heart, along with another button idea!
Thanks for stopping by!


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I get the following error at early boot stage:
ipconfig: eth0: SIOCGIFINDEX: No such device
ipconfig: no devices to configure
/scripts/init-premount/dropbear: .: line 32: can't open /tmp/net-eth0.conf
I have uninstalled/purged dropbear, but I still get the error. As I had the complete tar.bz backup of my system taken soon after the installation, when I restored it, the error didn't show up. But when the system got a kernel update, again the same problem occurred. I am using Ubuntu 10.04 desktop edition on Asus Eeepc 1005px (Atom N450).
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There were no scripts in the
/scripts/init-premount/ directory.
There was a dropbear directory in the
/initramfs-tools/etc/ directory. I removed it and did:
sudo update-initramfs -u But again that dropbear directory appeared.


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WILSON, N.C. – The No. 2 Georgia College & State University golf team shot its best round of the three Wednesday at the NCAA South/Southeast Super Regional, but the 288 wasn't enough, as the Bobcats finished 12th, ending their season at Wilson Country Club. Georgia College finished 15 strokes out of fifth, with the top-five squads moving on the NCAA Finals.
The Bobcats shot an opening round 292, adding a 294 Tuesday and today's 288 for plus-22 on the par-71, 6,839-yard course. Georgia College tied for 12th with No. 20 Barton College.
Junior Matthew Yonz (Waycross, Ga.) had a career-best opening round 69, but did that one better today, carding seven birdies en route to a 68. His three-round total was an even-par 213, jumping from 44th to finish 14th today.
Junior Billy Shida (Berkeley Lakes, Ga.) was just one-over with a 72 today, his best round of the three. His total was a plus-seven 229, good for 49th. He had a pair of birdies in his first nine, coming on the 14th and 15th.
Two over par with a 73 was junior Joe Young (Cochran, Ga.) matching yesterday's score. He had a rough beginning to action today, over par in three of his first four holes. Young righted the ship, including five birdies to finish 72nd at 11-over.
Senior Niclas Johansson (Skanor, Sweden) was 52nd after carding a four-over 75 today, with just one birdie, coming on the par-five 14th. Senior Francisco Bide (Buenos Aires, Argentina) was 78th, carding a 76 today.
No. 3 Barry University won the tournament with a seven-under 845. The Bucs beat No. 9 Lynn University by just one stroke. The three other teams in the top-five were No. 4 Florida Southern College (+2), No. 12 Nova Southeastern University (+6) and Queens University (N.C.) (+7).
Ben Lasso of Queens took individual medalist honors, carding a 67 today and finishing eight-under par. He beat a trio of golfers by three strokes.
The tournament ends the 2009-10 season for the Bobcats, one featuring three tournament wins, including the 2010 Peach Belt Conference (PBC) Championships. Bide was chosen PBC Player of the Year, with Johansson, Young and Shida also taking all-conference honors.
The GCSU Department of Athletics, winners of the 2008-09 PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Georgia College prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the Bobcats' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.Twitter.com username GCSUSID for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCSUBobcats to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GCSU Athletics Hall of Fame.


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The game starts in [[Vaniville Town]]. A scene is shown that a {{p|Fletchling}} flies upstairs towards the players room, flies first around and then pecks the player which he or she wakes up. The player then stands up and leaves his room, which the player's mother walks towards him first wishing the player good morning and asks the player have slept well of all the moving. She then notices that the player is still in his or her pyjama's which she tells her to change. The player walks upstairs to change him or herself and if that's done, the player walks downstairs, which his or her mother tells her to greet the neighbours. Once outside, the player will meet [[Serena (game)|Serena]] (if the player chooses a boy) or [[Calem]] (if the player chooses a girl) and [[Shauna]]. They are telling the player that they will have a Pokémon after a request from a [[Pokémon Professor]], and tells the player to meet them in [[Aquacorde Town]] which they are heading there.
The player then goes off to Aquacorde Town where he or she sees Calem/Serena, Shauna, [[Tierno]], and [[Trevor]]. Serena/Calem introduces Tierno and Trevor to the player which Tierno wants to have a strong bond with the group by giving nicknames. They come up with a few suggestions but it is the player choice what he or she likes and also can pick one of his or her own. After that, the player can pick one of the three starter Pokémon: {{p|Chespin}} a {{t|grass}}-type Pokémon, {{p|Fennekin}} a {{t|fire}}-type Pokémon, or [[Froakie]] a {{t|Water}}-type Pokémon. Trevor then gives the player a [[PokéDex]], and Tierno gives a letter to the player from [[Professor Sycamore]] that he or she must give it to his or her mother. Trevor and Tierno then leaves the group, which Calem/Serena tells the player to bring the letter to his or her mother. Once setting off back to Vaniville Town, Shauna appears and will having a [[Pokémon Battle]] with the player. After the battle Shauna will heal the player's Pokémon. After that the player brought the letter to his or her mother and obtains a [[Town Map]] from her, the player heads towards [[Santalune Forest]] after that the player gets a tutorial from Calem/Serena on how to capture a Pokémon.
The journey begins in obtaining all the eight [[Gym Badges]] from eight different [[Gym Leaders]] in their respective cities. Managing to get all the eight Gym Badges, the player can challenge the [[Pokémon League]], but things are not getting smoothly as it seems. During the player's journey, he will encounter [[Team Flare]], who's purpose is to make a better world even if it destroys the world. The player will meet [[Lysandre]], later discovering that he is the leader of Team Flare, which he uses the ancient machine which was created 3,000 years ago by the [[AZ|king of the Kalos region]] to make it a better world, which also costs the erasing of Pokémon from the world. After defeating Team Flare, Lysandre is still launching the machine which attempts to force immortality on the player and their friends{{sup/6|X}}/destroy everyone in the building{{sup/6|Y}}. After that, the player continues their journey.
After defeating the Pokémon League, a few days later, crowds of people gathered in [[Lumiose City]] to celebrate the five defenders of the Kalos region and to cheer for its new Champion which is the player. Walking on stage, Professor Sycamore is surprised that there are many peoples there cheering for the group's achievements. Professor Sycamore gives them the '''Honor of Kalos''' medal for their bravery for battling Team Flare. Professor Sycamore then tells the group that he is proud of them all and thanks them. AZ then appears and asks the player to fight him. After the battle, he thanks the player and tells him that he feels free, then suddenly a {{p|Floette}} then comes out of the sky, which he is happy to see him. After Professor Sycamore's explanation on Pokémon, the game ends and the credits roll.
Revision as of 19:24, 16 May 2014
- Pokémon X redirects here. For other uses, see Pokémon X (disambiguation).
Pokémon X (Japanese: ポケットモンスターX Pocket Monsters X) and Pokémon Y (Japanese: ポケットモンスターY Pocket Monsters Y) are the primary paired versions of Generation VI. The games are available on the Nintendo 3DS. The games take place in the new Kalos region.
Both games were revealed during a worldwide announcement by Satoru Iwata through Nintendo Direct at 8 pm JST, on January 8, 2013. The paired versions were released worldwide (except for select countries) on October 12, 2013 and are available for both retail sale and download.[6] All copies of the game are playable in all seven of the languages that the Pokémon games are released in: Japanese, English, German, Spanish, French, Italian, and Korean.
- 1 Plot
- 2 Blurb
- 3 Features
- 3.1 3D compatible gameplay
- 3.2 Renames
- 3.3 Transportation
- 3.4 Player Search System
- 3.5 Pokémon-Amie
- 3.6 Sky Battles
- 3.7 Horde Encounters
- 3.8 Super Training
- 3.9 New type
- 3.10 Trainer customization
- 3.11 Gyms
- 3.12 Elite Four and Champion
- 3.13 Pokémon
- 4 Music
- 5 Staff
- 6 Beta elements
- 7 Gallery
- 8 Trivia
- 9 See also
- 10 External links
- 11 References
|Spoiler warning: this article may contain major plot or ending details.
The next evolution in Pokémon!
New Pokémon! Explosive 3D battles! Exciting New Features!
3D compatible gameplay
Unlike previous games in the main series, Pokémon X and Y feature a three dimensional style of gameplay, and 3D modeled characters and creatures are used, rather than sprites like has always been done in the main series. In addition, the games still feature 2D elements of gameplay. The battle system is aesthetically overhauled, featuring more lively reactions to the attacks, such as when a Pokémon is being hit.
- Main article: List of modified moves → Name changes
In non-Japanese languages, many move and item names are now spelled or formatted differently. For example, ThunderShock is now formatted as Thunder Shock and Faint Attack is now spelled Feint Attack.
Players can now walk on an 8 directional grid, allowing diagonal movement, as opposed to the four way grid in previous games.
The player now has the ability to rollerskate, at least under certain conditions, and can also free roam on no grid. This also works with the bike. The player can use the roller skates and can grind to overcome obstacles. Skiddo, Mamoswine, and Rhyhorn can be ridden in certain locations and allow the player to interact with the environment, by destroying rocks and crossing broken paths. Gogoat can also be ridden, although only around Lumiose City in a set path.
Player Search System
- Main article: Player Search System
The Player Search System (PSS) is a multiplayer feature that allows people to connect, battle, and trade with other players through the internet. It uses the bottom screen and allows the player to search for other people playing both globally and locally.
- Main article: Pokémon-Amie
Pokémon-Amie is a new feature that allows the player to develop stronger bonds with their Pokémon. It uses the touch screen to allow players to pet, feed, and play with Pokémon currently on their team. Players may interact with their Pokémon by petting or feeding them via the touchscreen or mimicking their movements using the camera.
Sky Battles
- Main article: Sky Battle
Sky Battles are battles which are restricted to Flying Pokémon, although some Pokémon with Levitate can enter. These airborne battles take place against Trainers standing far away, such as on cliffs.
Horde Encounters
- Main article: Horde Encounter
It is now possible to encounter several wild Pokémon at once. Up to five wild Pokémon will battle against one of the player's Pokémon. These battles offer a lot of experience. Some attacks, such as Rock Slide, are shown to hit all five of the opposing Pokémon. However, after the player's turn, their Pokémon must withstand attacks from all five of the opposing Pokémon.
Super Training
- Main article: Super Training
Super Training is a new method of quickly and easily increasing a Pokémon's EVs.
New type
- Main article: Fairy (type)
One new type has been introduced, the Fairy type. This type was added to balance the Dragon type, which was previously only weak to itself and Ice. Fairy-type attacks are strong against Dragon, Fighting, and Dark types and resisted by Fire, Poison, and Steel types; Fairy-type Pokémon are weak to Poison- and Steel-type attacks, resist Fighting-, Bug-, and Dark-type attacks, and are immune to Dragon-type attacks.
Trainer customization
- Main article: Trainer customization
The player will now be able to change their appearance in-game, allowing them to customize their characters by changing their hair color and clothing.
X and Y feature Gyms just as every other main series title. In Kalos, the Gym Leaders are Viola (Bug), Grant (Rock), Korrina (Fighting), Ramos (Grass), Clemont (Electric), Valerie (Fairy), Olympia (Psychic), and Wulfric (Ice).
Elite Four and Champion
Just as in Unova, the Elite Four can be battled in any order. After battling all four, a path to the Champion is unlocked. The Elite Four members are Wikstrom (Steel), Malva (Fire), Drasna (Dragon), and Siebold (Water). After beating all four Elite Four members, the player will face the Champion, Diantha, who uses a variety of types along with a Gardevoir which can Mega Evolve using the Mega Stone.
70 new Pokémon were introduced for X and Y, bringing the known total from 649 to 719.
The first Pokémon to be revealed were Chespin, Fennekin, Froakie, Xerneas, and Yveltal on January 8, 2013.
Mega Evolution
- Main article: Mega Evolution
A unique state, Mega Evolution, was introduced in Pokémon X and Y. Mega Evolution is a temporary in-battle transformation that results in an overall increase in stats, sometimes also changing a Pokémon's Ability and types. Not all Pokémon can Mega Evolve. A Pokémon can only Mega Evolve if it is holding a Mega Stone in battle and its Trainer has a Key Stone.
Version-exclusive Pokémon
This list of version-exclusive Pokémon applies to the main game. Some of the Pokémon listed can be found in the Friend Safari regardless of version.
- Main article: Pokémon X & Pokémon Y: Super Music Collection
The soundtrack contains most of the background music and effect music from the games. The music is composed by Shota Kageyama (Sound Director of Pokémon X & Y), Hitomi Satō, Minako Adachi, and Junichi Masuda. Pokémon X & Pokémon Y are the first main series titles since Pokémon Gold and Silver that Gō Ichinose did not work on as a composer, since he shifted to a side project of Game Freak's during the development of Pokémon X & Y.
- Main article: Staff of Pokémon X and Y
Beta elements
- Main article: Pokémon X and Y beta
- These are the first core series games that do not have Version (or its equivalent in that language) in their Western language names.
- These are the first core series games to be released on the same date worldwide.
See also
External links
- ↑ Japanese Pokémon X and Y minisite (Japanese)
- ↑ Pokémon.com (US)
- ↑ Nintendo Australia
- ↑ Pokémon.com (UK)
- ↑ Korean Pokémon X and Y minisite (Korean)
- ↑ 『ポケットモンスター X・Y』ニンテンドー3DSで2013年10月、世界同時発売【画像追加】 (Japanese)
|This game-related article is part of Project Games, a Bulbapedia project that aims to write comprehensive articles on the Pokémon games.


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Viking Modular busts SAS SSD price premium
Seeing artificial premium over SATA SSDs
Comment Viking Modular wants to sell a heck of a lot more SAS interface solid state drives (SSD) by cutting what it says is the artificially high price premium they enjoy over SATA SSDs.
The company, a division of Sanmina-SCI, announced a pair of SAS interface solid state drives (SSDs) a week or so ago and the performance numbers have just come through enabling us to make comparisons with other products.
The 2.5-inch Element SAS products come in either fast single-level cell (SLC) form, with up to 200GB capacity, or slower and cheaper multi-level cell (MLC) form, rising to 400GB capacity, and have a dual-port, 6Gbit/s SAS II interface. The SLC Element I/O numbers for 4Kb blocks are almost 30,000 IOPS for both sustained reads and writes, meaning no read-write asymmetry. The sustained read and write bandwidth is 250MB/sec with large data blocks.
How does this compare to other enterprise 2.5-inch SSD products?
Micron's Real SSD P300, an SLC product with a 6Gbit/s SATA interface, does 44,000 random 4Kb block reads and 16,000 writes, showing peak and not sustained performance, and a strongly skewed result in favour of reads. The sustained performance is also skewed; 360MB/sec read and 275MB/sec write, both topping Viking Modular.
Pliant's Lightning LB 150S SLC product, with a 3Gbit/s SAS interface, does 120,000 plus sustained read IOPS, 420MB/sec sustained reads and 220MB/sec sustained writes, again showing read/write asymmetry. The MLC Lightning LB200M numbers are a lot less impressive, with 8,000 IOPS on a 70/30 read/write mix.
Direct comparison isn't possible here as Viking hasn't supplied MLC-based numbers.
Seagate's Pulsar is a 3Gbit/s SATA interface drive with 30,000 and 25,000 peak read and write IOPS, a 240MB/sec peak read rate but 220MB/sec sustained read bandwidth. The equivalent write bandwidth is 220MB/sec peak and a lower 100MB/sec sustained. The Viking product is much better, probably due to better controller technology.
The Micron product looks as if it could out-perform Viking Modular's Element SAS SSD, but Viking may well have a pricing edge.
Its marketing VP, Adrian Proctor, is pushing the price button hard, saying: "While the SATA SSD market is overwhelmed with choices and increasingly attractive price points, the SAS SSD space has relatively few competitors delivering products with great performance but with price premiums that drive prospective customers back to the SATA interface. Whereas a SATA SSD with enterprise-class performance may be $4-$12 per GB, we are seeing the SAS or FC (Fibre CHannel) SSDs in the $20-$35+ per GB. "
"This premium is artificial and not conducive for driving adoption. Put simply, we know we can increase the adoption rate of SAS SSDs in the enterprise storage markets by offering a high-performance SAS SSD at small price premium over a SATA SSD." His company is selling to OEMs and hasn't supplied any specific pricing examples to back this claim up. ®