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In recent years, the popularity of the U.S. national soccer teams - both men and women - has surged. As television ratings from the World Cup suggest, the sport of football is continuing to make strides in the United States. In fact, three of the top-five rated games in U.S. history were from the 2010 World Cup.
But the World Cup has played well in the United States for a couple of decades. What happens in the four years between each tournament has been the problem. While there are more than enough fans to support a few channels dedicated to the sport - including FOX Soccer Channel and FOX Soccer Plus - many in America still perceive soccer is a 'niche' sport.
It is, however, a growing niche. Arsenal's American fan group - Arsenal America - is growing rapidly, with branches in 40 cities across the nation. And with thousands of members converging on their local pubs to watch every game, Arsenal has built a significant and very loyal following.
And so a true test of soccer's popularity in America would be how well a regular season match-up would rate with the U.S. audience. And more pointedly, seeing how sports fans in the U.S. would feel about watching 'foreign teams' that do not feature any of the U.S. national team's established stars.
Apparently they feel pretty good about it. That was the message revealed by the TV ratings for the replay of Sunday's North London derby on FOX. More than two million U.S. viewers tuned in to watch Arsenal in the North London derby last weekend. And more than 1.6 million of those watched the tape-delayed broadcast on FOX.
To put that in perspective, that's just 1,000 less than the total number of viewers who tuned in to watch the live broadcast the 2010 UEFA Champions League Final.
More good news for Arsenal? According to figures released by Nielsen Media Research, the replay of the North London derby outperformed the similarly delayed broadcast of Manchester United v Chelsea match on September 18.
Unfortunately, Sunday's game against Spurs did not have the result Arsenal supporters were hoping for. But it was a ratings victory nonetheless.Copyright 2017 The Arsenal Football Club plc. Permission to use quotations from this article is granted subject to appropriate credit being given to www.arsenal.com as the source


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Traditional Korean cuisine includes meat, rice, vegetables, tofu and the ubiquitous kimchi, cabbage pickled in garlic and chili peppers. Most meals are served with banchan, side dishes (like kimchi) that are as varied as they are numerous.
You can find background for this recipe in Korean Spring Picnic.
Snap off the woody ends of the asparagus. Cut the stalks on the diagonal into 1-1/2 inch lengths.
Heat the sesame oil in a medium skillet or wok. Add the asparagus and stir-fry over high heat for 1 minute. Add the soy sauce and broth, then cover and simmer on low until crisp-tender, about 6 minutes.
Place the asparagus on a platter. Reduce the sauce, then pour on top and cover with a sprinkling of toasted pine nuts.
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Formerly called Otter Creek Park, the grounds closed to the public two years ago. Many local residents used the Meade County park for a variety of activities such as mountain biking, fishing and hiking.
Officials will consider charging each visitor $3 a day or $30 a year. Children younger than 12 would get in free. Also proposed is a special activity permit fee of $7 a day or $70 annually. It would be good for mountain biking, using a shooting range and horseback riding.
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Discussion in 'January 2008' started by max, Jan 13, 2008.
At NewYork Jan 13 7PM tv: FSN Knicks are 9-26, Pistons are 28-9.
The Pistons will be playing their 4th game in 5 nights, all of them on the road, and the Knicks are...well...the Knicks. Will this game make the ugly win in Charlotte look like one of the greatest games in NBA history? Looks like it could be a rough night, regardless of the final result.
Lots depends on how bench performances. Not sure starters would have much interest in playing vs. Knicks, especially after the minutes they logged against Bobcats.
I hear New York has a nice State Fair..........Sorry.. If Flip is really upset about 29 3s, he could always send a message this game to those players. Start by Sitting Hamilton for the 1st period.......
Sit Rip/ CB and Dice/ Sheed after 6 minutes of the 1st quarter I would say Flip is already sort of sending a message to them but Sit Rip in the 1st quarter??? Flip Sr do not have the guts.
i have my rotation all set 4 tonight (well at least in my dreams)... ............MP F- PRINCE 22 F- MCDYESS 8 C- WALLACE 13....he aint gonna try tonight anyway G- BILLUPS 24 G- RIP 19 F- JOHNSON 28 F-HAYES 13...Nothing to prove F- MAX 15...nothing to prove F- HERRMANN 20 C- BREZIC 28 G- STUCKEY 32 G- AFFLALO 21 .....nuff said
It will be an ugly game for sheed & co. tonight. Hope they can get a win. Otherwise, it will be a long day at work.
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Three quarters of that was more than enough of me. That's the worst game they've played in years.
Blown out by the Knicks?! Guess they were more tired than I thought.
AJ was our 3rd leading scorer... That about sums it up.
tHE VISION came true.................. OLDSKOOLHQ FOR COACH!!!
TAKE THE PAIN!! TAKE THE PAIN!!.....( Tom Berenger-Platoon)
Maybe we'll get active at the trade deadline now. Something wasn't right, and I'm not buying fatigue.
Yup. Detroit media/columnists need to hit these boys hard.
I get the same feeling. This looked like a team that "quit" not a team that got outplayed. Our lack of a center is really starting to hurt us.
Well what had happen was... The Pistons knew they were given a gift last night so they made sure that they didn't win tonight and save Zeke's job... 65 points is enough to gurantee that the other team will win. What happen to Tayshaun of the dead?> 0-10, no points, 3 boards and 0 assists. -23 in the +/- Here are the hard fact folks on the 30.7% shooting. Gay 0-10, Ripped 1-7, Stunkey 1-5 Allfull 1-6 Minxiel 1-3 Briczek 1-2 Fibbio 1-7 All Jayes 0-5 Player of the game AMir 3-3 who scored the last five and prevented the Pistons from setting a new franchise low in points As bad as the bench was they still scored 23 points in the garbage time 4th qtr which was better than what starters did in any of the previous qtrs... half of those were on free throws as at least they know how to go to the paint
I see it more as a lack of a slasher and/or proper play calling to get high percentage shots. When this team struggles, they ALWAYS rely on the outside shot. We just do not have a coach that understands when the team needs to quit with the jump shot BS and attack the rim.
We have a coach who admits he doesn't care where the points come from. The Pistons shoot jumpers when they're tired, or when the defense gets tight or when they're cold. Just goes to show you how little emphasis Flip actually puts on the guys to get points in the paint. We're dead last in the points in the paint this year - and last year too, iirc.
When you are averaging close to 100 points a game and shoot only 30% against the Knicks and miss the Pistons all time low for points in a game by one point, it has nothing to do with taking jump shots and Flipper's offense. They layed down on Flipper just like last night, but tonight was even more so. They don't want small ball.
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Bible College has officially chosen the Lions as its new athletics mascot. In celebration of the school's
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After watching that ridiculous debacle in Detroit yesterday, I was finally able to find out why the rule was in place preventing a review when a team is slapped with a penalty:
Two years ago, following an event during the Redskins vs Giants game, the replay rules were changed once again. The Redskins fumbled the ball, and it was recovered by the Giants. Being a controversial play, the Giants, of course, rushed to the line of scrimmage in hopes to get a play off before a challenge flag was thrown. Before they were able to make the snap, however, Redskins linebacker, London Fletcher, accidentally kicked the ball, and he was called for a delay of game.
However, by being called for a delay of game, the Redskins then had the opportunity to throw the infamous red flag. Obviously, the Giants coach was not happy with the Redskins being able to allegedly intentionally commit a penalty and be rewarded with the ability to now challenge the play.
As a result, the league changed the rule to where all changes of possessions and scoring plays would be under review with the exception of two conditions. The first is that if the team is penalized, they lose their rights to an official review. The other is that if a coach throws his challenge flag when an official review is mandated anyway.
As a result of yesterday's mess, the league is now considering changing the rule back to what it was before the Washington/Giants game.
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IMHO if a defensive penalty is committed, there should be some price to pay on these plays, but they should still review the play and get it right. If a coach throws the flag on a play that was going to be reviewed, so freakin what? That shouldn't be a penalty
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I remember that game. Flecther acted like he was talking to a teammate and wallked right into the ball. After this season the rule will change
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The thing that is stupid is that the intentional "penalty" in order to get a review aspect (i.e. Fletcher's move) should never be necessary on a play where the review is by rule, automatic. And since the penalty isn't necessary to get a review then it should not prevent a review.
In fact, I don't even think the rule as it is currently written has to be interpreted the way that it was. I have seen the text and it isn't cut-and-dried like they are claiming.
In my opinion there doesn't need to be any rule change, they just need to stop being asinine in their interpretation.
It is simple, an intentional penalty to prevent a snap to give time to check to see if you want to challenge (i.e. spot, incompletion, or other challengeable plays, etc) is a 15-yard penalty and no review. Any play where the review is automatic by rule means an automatic review, period. Even the 15-yard penalty part of throwing your red flag on a play that is already going to be reviewed is stupid, though I can maybe see where someone might try to get a free timeout (extra time to strategize) by throwing it after a clear turnover or something. But the inane can't-review-the-otherwise-automatically-reviewed-play aspect of the penalty just because you want to make sure it is reviewed is just proof positive they are overthinking the game; common sense would suffice here.
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Remember some of these guys are lawyers so they interpret rules like laws and their opinion about them.
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if there is a penalty and they lose their right to an automatic review they should still be able to use one of their challenges
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There's a huge difference between what Fletcher did and what Schwartz did. Schwartz's action didn't delay the game. It was an emotional response to a badly missed call, and could have easily been corrected by the simple statement of "as a scoring play, it's automatically reviewed, Coach. You don't need to challenge it and, by rule, you can't."
I don't even like the penalty for wrongly throwing the challenge flag. If it can't be challenged, have the coach pick the damn thing up. Big deal. If the coach delays the game (by arguing, being on the field, etc.), that's another story. But making a mistake over whether you can challenge a play isn't exactly something that harms the game or gives a real advantage. It happens frequently, in fact, as coaches try to challenge unreviewable "judgement calls"- and without any harm or benefit to either side. They just get told it isn't going to happen and to stuff the flag back into their sock or wherever they're going to keep it.
The NFL has been mind-numbingly stupid about replay from their adoption of it, imo. Every play should be reviewable, and they should get rid of the challenges. Have a senior, experienced official in the booth with a radio connection to the head referee, and the booth can radio down if a call is wrong. If it's not a turnover, scoring, or a potential scoring play and it takes longer than the play clock to make a decision: oh well. The call stands as is. On critical plays, like the above, the replay official can pause the game.
There was a blown call early in the year with Gronkowski. He'd caught a touchdown, but was ruled out of bounds. I don't remember why New England didn't challenge, but they didn't, and because the ruling on the field was that it wasn't a scoring play, there was no automatic review. Under the current rules, the infamous Calvin Johnson "catch through the play" call wouldn't have been reviewed even though that was among the plays which sparked its adoption.


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I know I've came across 130 pound shepherds that were too strong for me, 6ft and 220 pounds, there will be a dog too big and aggressive for just hands on.
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|I've always been able to break up dog fights with my bare hands. While controlling my leashed GSD and Sibe, I had to fight off a large aggressive off leash pit bull on the streets of Portland, OR, within a few feet from one of the busiest streets. I think I posted that story on here years ago. I was at a dog park with Beowulf, my wolfdog, and had to defend him from 3 attacking Rottweilers and an aggressive Siberian Husky who came into the park with 2 of the 3 Rotties. When the adrenaline is flowing and my behaving dogs are under attack, I instantly go into "I will die defending my dogs" mode. I've never needed to use my gun or any spray. Maybe I've been lucky, or maybe I just have some sort of special skill when it comes to my dogs. There are many other stories where a 1 on 1 fight/attack broke out, and I was able to keep or get that dog away from mine. My 60 lb Paw Paw attacked a Mastiff (silly Paw Paw, what was he thinking?) his third time at the dog park, after he was attacked the first 2 times he went, and I had to break that up with my hands. The Mastiff bit me and drew blood, but it wasn't bad, and my Paw Paw started it. That was Paw Paw's last time to the dog park. Haha! I actually think I've posted about all of these experiences on here after they happened. We've been attacked so many times, I can't even keep count. Most of them happened while we were on a leashed walk in a neighborhood or park, and someone's unleashed, out of control, sometimes aggressive dog ran up on us.
I'm going to say, as a concealed carrier, if I was a dog park kind of guy, I wouldn't dream of going there without a powerful gel based pepper spray, you have to think of worse case scenarios when you think of self-defense. (Or dog defense).
Scenario- someone brings their pit, and their germanshep. (Not uncommon, most have 2 dogs). Typical owner is talking to the other typical owners ignoring their dogs.
Random dog owner 2 shows up with their chow. And chow starts "playing" with your dog. Pit and the GSD interpret the chows growling/barking play style for aggression and the powder keg has been lit,
Now how do you stop this? A stick? Your going to stop 3 big dogs from fighting with a stick? Even pepper spray at that point is sketchy, you'll have to hit every dog including your own.
The point of this rant is to make you think, what am I going to do when it's a truly aggressive dog? Let my dog get attacked? Or be prepared to save my dog, regardless of if I have to spray it to stop it.
I've been on walks where I've had to draw on a dog.
And I've been to dog parks(before I knew better) where I've sprayed dogs, you have to be ready.
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What about a collapsible walking stick? that in mind. ) so I am getting a walking stick, USUALLY one good whap to the top of the head and the dog will back down, also WAY less chance of your own dog getting sprayed by accident as well (or yourself!)!
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What about a collapsible walking stick? They are pretty cheap on Amazon. I am getting one, as where I live people think dogs need to be "wild" and have freedom - well yes they do need freedom to run, but ONLY if they are under control. If your dog isn't it should be on leash, however, that seems to be too hard for most people to understand.
After myself and my Two Shepherds were cornered against a fence by an attacking dog (with me barely holding my two back as now they had gone into defense and had every right to be IMO, but I was doing my best NOT to have a dog fight as the owner was 800 yards away hiding behind a shed still trying to call her dogs, then telling me they weren't coming so I was on my own!!! I really do not want my dogs to hurt another dog even if it is warranted. If it happens and I did everything I could then I will be ok with it, but for the other dog to suffer because of an idiot owner is not fair, so I always try to keep that in mind. ) so I am getting a walking stick, USUALLY one good whap to the top of the head and the dog will back down, also WAY less chance of your own dog getting sprayed by accident as well (or yourself!)!
We have two spray containers of the citronella type. Never had to use them. Amazon had some decent reviews.
After much reading however nothing seemed effective against pitbulls except this wedge to put down their throats - very scary.
I hope this was just a random chase and that you can go back to enjoying your bike rides.
|Even though we have concealed carry now, I think pepperspray is still illegal in crook county IL. I have some and id use it if needed, but I understand that ill be going to court if I do. I have 10 round mags for my guns too- stupid county.
|Can you find places to bike that are away from people, cars, and dogs? We have been lucky enough to find a nearby park or cemetery that welcomed behaving dogs and responsible dog owners. I take mine bikejoring daily and rarely have any problems. I used to have similar problems in areas like neighborhoods with dogs that would run up on us off leash. My dogs have been attacked multiple times, and each time I was able to defend my dogs and beat off the attacking dogs. The problem with the sprays from what I've read is that sometimes the spray will get into your eyes or your own dog's eyes, depending on the wind direction and speed. I wouldn't use a spray, but I also now have plenty of experience breaking up dog fights with my bare hands. No fun ever! Ha. Good luck.
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Gel based pepper spray is the only way to go if your going to use it, more of silly string less of cooking spray. Don't get anything they sell at a pet store, go for a sporting good store.
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I get so many people telling me how hard they find it to "just concentrate" on their direct family lines back that it has set me thinking. In the "old days" when letters had to be written and weeks would go by before you got a reply, genealogy was taken at a leisurely pace. You really had enough difficulty finding your direct line of ancestors without worrying too much about those aunts, uncles and cousins who left the parish to find their fortune elsewhere.
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Because last week Apple introduced a new quad-core server and published two SPECjbb2005 results which were far far behind the leaders in this benchmark.(1)
I would have talked about the 40,000 songs instead.
(1)Apple SPECjbb2005 result of 47,195 bops, 23,598 bops/JVM on the Xserve1 configured with 4 cores, 2 Intel Xeon x5160 3.0 GHz chips, 2 cores/chip, 16 GB memory running Sun Java on Mac OS X Server 10.5.1. Apple SPECjbb2005 result of 103,886 bops, 25,972 bops/JVM on the Xserve2 configured with 8 cores, 2 Intel Xeon E5472 3.0 GHz chips, 2 cores/chip, 16 GB memory running Sun Java on Mac OS X Server 10.5.1. vs. Dell SPECjbb2005 result of 303,130 bops, 75,783 bops/JVM on the Dell PowerEdge 2900 with two Intel Xeon processor X5460 3.16 GHz processors (8 cores, 4 cores/chip, 1333 MHz Front Side Bus, 16 GB memory) running BEA JRockit 5.0 P27.4.0 on Microsoft Windows Server 2003 Enterprise x64 Edition + SP1 vs. the top 8-core SPECjbb2005 result on the IBM System p 570 (4 POWER6 4.7 GHz chips, 2 cores/chip) result of 346,742 bops, 86,686 bops/JVM vs. IBM System x3650 (4 cores, 2 Xeon 3.0 GHz 5160 chips, 2 cores/chip, 8 GB memory) SPECjbb2005 result of 114,941 bops, 114,941 bops/JVM.
Source: www.spec.org; Results as of 1/16/08.
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Something missing from all the models above is geography. There is no concept of distance; each town interacts with all the others on the same basis. On a real landscape, nearby towns are surely coupled more tightly than distant ones. A strong hint of spatial organization in the distribution of town sizes comes from the dramatic nighttime photographs of the Earth's surface made by the Defense Meteorological Satellite Program. The instrument that records these images is a sensitive photodetector meant to measure cloud cover by moonlight, but it can also record city lights. A study of the photographs done by Paul Sutton of the University of California, Santa Barbara and three colleagues failed to establish a precise calibration of pixel brightness to population density, but distinguishing large and small towns is easy.
In a satellite image of the upper Midwest and Great Plains, it's obvious that the scattering of towns and cities is anything but random. In some areas, strings of towns seem to radiate from major population centers. Elsewhere the pattern reflects the rectilinear network of roads, which in turn derives from the early surveys of the territory based on uniform square townships six miles on a side. Of course the lattice of towns is nowhere perfect, but there's enough regularity that it leaps to the eye.
There is more to the spatial distribution of towns than just the latticelike arrangement of sites. Each category of settlement—the hamlets, the villages, the towns, the cities, the conurbations—appears to have its own characteristic scale of distance. Progressing from smaller to larger settlements, the spacing increases. At the same time the lattice structure becomes less regular.
There's an easy hypothesis to account for the general features of this pattern, assuming that the siting of towns and cities is determined mainly by their role as service centers for a dispersed population. People want someplace nearby where they can mail a letter or pick up a quart of milk, but they are willing to travel farther for less-frequent errands, such as shopping for clothing, and they'll go farther still to buy a new car or see an art exhibit. Thus each category of settlement competes mainly with others of similar size, and the interstices between major centers can be filled in by smaller towns. Ecologists have observed a similar pattern in the distribution of desert plants, where the largest shrubs maintain a fixed distance from one another, determined by the size of the catchment basin needed to sustain their growth; smaller plants can survive in the open areas between the bigger bushes.
This biological analogy suggests one way to model the spatial distribution of towns: Let people be sprinkled over the landscape like rainfall and drain into the nearest basin; then each basin's radius of attraction grows along with its population. Another approach takes its inspiration from physics rather than biology. The geographic distribution of towns looks a little like the arrangement of atoms or molecules in a mildly disordered material, such as a glass. This observation suggests the metaphor of a repulsive potential between towns, as if there were springs holding them apart. From any starting configuration we can then allow the network of springs to relax to a state of lower total energy.
Yet there's something odd about this idea. In a model of a solid, the network of springs relaxes by adjusting the positions of the atoms. Towns and cities, however, seldom get up and move. Even if, say, Austin and Rochester, Minnesota, would both be better off if they were a few miles farther apart, there's no convenient way to slide them across the landscape. Instead, the towns stay put, and all adjustments have to be made by having people migrate from place to place.
Here is an algorithm (one of many possibilities) for constructing such a model. At each step, choose two towns at random with uniform probability. Calculate the repulsive interaction between each of these towns and all the other towns in the sample, using some sort of potential in which the repulsion increases with population and diminishes with distance. The sum of all these interactions can be interpreted as an energy. Now move a person from one town to the other in whichever direction lowers the overall energy. Then start over by choosing two new cities.
The details of the inter-town potential are where the model gets messy. An obvious starting point is "antigravity": The force between two towns is directly proportional to the product of their populations and inversely proportional to the square of their distance. (It is antigravity because the force is repulsive rather than attractive.) Unfortunately, letting the system evolve under such a potential does not yield a realistic geography. The problem is that large cities not only repel one another but also strongly suppress the population of nearby smaller towns and villages, creating a vacant buffer zone that has no counterpart in the real world. A straightforward correction is to include another factor in the inter-town potential, namely the ratio of the smaller to the larger population. If this ratio is 1 (that is, the two towns have equal populations), then the repulsion will take its full strength. As the ratio approaches 0 (for the case of a one-stop-sign hamlet and a metropolis), the two places become almost oblivious of each other's presence.
The device of scaling the repulsive force according to the ratio of populations has a curious mathematical consequence. The force becomes proportional to pq x p/q (where p and q are the two populations, and p q). This expression immediately simplifies to p2; that is, the larger population drops out of the calculation altogether, and the force between the towns depends only on the smaller population. Viewed in terms of a physical force law, this irrelevance of the larger population seems strange; it's certainly nothing like gravity. But it makes sense if we return to the original motivations for the model. We assumed that a hamlet can survive if and only if it is the closest place to buy milk or mail letters for everyone within a certain radius. Beyond that distance, it doesn't matter whether the next-nearest town is another tiny village or the city of Chicago.
A model constructed on these principles can be made to yield landscapes that visually have many of the same properties as real town-and-city distributions. A convenient starting configuration is a rectilinear grid of town sites, "jiggled" slightly to break the symmetries, with all the sites assigned the same starting population. Of course the towns never move; only their populations change as people transfer from site to site to reduce the energy of the system. After running the simulation for a few thousand steps per site, migration has altered the populations in such as way that villages, towns and cities are all distributed at the appropriate length scale. The smallest places are densely packed, whereas larger ones keep a greater distance between them.
It should be pointed out that this model is susceptible to the same demographic black-hole problem seen in the random-walk models. The lowest-energy state of the system is the configuration that packs everyone into a single city, since that eliminates all forces between towns. But the relaxation algorithm described above is unlikely ever to find this solution; it is a "greedy" algorithm that almost always becomes trapped in a metastable state. Here is a case where a "better" algorithm—one that converges to the true optimum—would not necessarily improve the model.
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NAME : Hiroki Moriya
NATIONALITY : Japanese
RACKET : T-Fight 305
STRING : Razor Code / X-one
How did you get your start in tennis? Are you a part of a tennis-playing family?
I started playing because my parents were, and still are social players. My sister is currently a tennis coach after having played Japanese college level until recently. When I was very young (before I was six years old), I used to tag along with them during the weekends. Then when I started to hit the ball properly I had a strong urge to beat my older sister!
Who were your tennis idols growing up?
I used to watch two players. I followed Lleyton Hewitt during my elementary school days because he is not a big built player, which is similar to me, and because of his fighting spirit. I also liked to watch Novak Djokovic for his aggressive playing style.
How does having a countryman like Kei Nishikori, being on the cusp of the Top 10, provide inspiration for other Japanese players like yourself?
As a fellow Japanese player, having Kei at the top of men's tennis makes us incredibly motivated to try and catch up with him. It provides us huge inspiration. If he can do it, so can the other Japanese players!
How meaningful was it to win the Japanese National Championships in 2011?
As a Japanese player, to step onto the podium at the National Championships is always a big goal in our tennis careers. I was very happy to have won the title. I hope that I can use this as a stepping stone to go to the next step and to perform well on the ATP World Tour.
Have you had the opportunity to train at the recently developed National Tennis Centre in Tokyo? What are the facilities like there?
Yes, as I am part of the national team, I am lucky enough to use the National Centre as my training base. The tennis courts are only a small part of a big complex. Athletes from all Olympic Sports use the facilities as the complex is part of the Japan Olympic Committee's training centre.
In addition to the courts, there is a large, well equipped gym, a swimming pool for rehab/ training and a hotel for athletes to stay in. It is a super place to stay and train during the weeks in between tournaments and when you are undergoing rehab during injuries.
Last year you qualified for the US Open, your first Grand Slam main draw. Can you describe your emotions during your first-round match and what have you taken away from that experience?
Competing in the main draw at a Grand Slam is something which you aim for as a tennis player. I was very happy to have come through three matches and to qualify for the main draw. During my first-round match, I got quite nervous and couldn't unleash my maximum potential. I felt very disappointed after the match to have lost, but after thinking back, I found a new personal goal and challenge: to play Grand Slam events constantly.
A month later, you won your first ATP World Tour match, in Bangkok. Which area of your game do you feel you need to improve to return to that stage and progress even further?
I learnt that working on specific areas of your game technically is only a small part of becoming a top player. I felt that to compete week-in, week-out at this level, I need to be more confident, to believe in myself and to be tough mentally.
What are your goals and expectations for the end of 2013?
I still have a handful of tournaments on my schedule until the end of the year. I hope that by the end of the year, I will improve my ranking so that I can enter the Australian Open as a main draw player.
En la vida
Give us a glimpse into your life outside of tennis. What do you do to relax? What are your hobbies?
During my days off, I often go to Tokyo or Yokohama with my friends. I have started to follow baseball recently, with a liking for the Tokyo Giants team. So I often watch these games, both at the stadium when I'm in Tokyo and on TV. I also like listening to Western (American/British) music so hopefully it will help me improve my English!
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I had read several reviews on early GNOME3, as well as comments from an assortment of sources. As is so often the case, negative comments usually resonate louder and I must admit I approached GNOME3 with a generous dose of skepticism. I wanted to be fair, though, so I didn't give it a try until I knew it was mature enough. My review is based on the recently released Fedora 15 Beta, which already includes GNOME3 final.
In my opinion, Fedora 15 LoveLock is probably the most exciting release to come out of the Fedora camp in years. While some of the previous releases excelled in certain aspects (such as features aimed at developers), they fell short in other areas as or more important, such as providing a polished end user experience. Things are not silk smooth yet, but I have definitely seen an improvement, plus there is a host of exciting new features coming as part of this release.
I will dedicate an article to review Fedora 15 final when it goes live, but let me just say that my first impressions were quite positive. Power management is superb (hard to tell which component is responsible for that, though, the Kernel, Fedora, GNOME3 or all of them combined) and the Beta feels like a final version already, solid as a rock. Tell that to Ubuntu 11.04 Beta!
Before getting to the GNOME Shell desktop, we get the login screen with an up to date (sort of, as it is very very similar to Classic GNOME 2.x) GDM theme. That GDM theme already hints at the predominant colors in GNOME Shell: blue and black. I couldn't help finding a funny similarity with the original KDE 4.0 colors (blue and the shiny black Oxygen theme they used back then)... Coincidence?
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Having used GNOME 2.x for a long time, the first thing that came to mind when I started using GNOME Shell was lack of freedom. If you are used to your good old GNOME tricks, have customized the heck out of fonts, icons, themes, controls and Compiz effects... Well, all of that is pretty much gone now. You can still create your custom keyboard shortcuts, but customization is certainly limited.
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The GNOME Shell desktop is an extremely clean one. There is nothing on it (whatever you save on the desktop folder does not actually show) and the only visible thing is the top panel. Its name is the only thing that is similar to our beloved GNOME 2.x panel, though, for it does not support right-clicks, no add/remove icons, no launchers, no transparency... There is an Activities button on the left, the clock in the middle and a notification area on the right, no more, no less.
Clicking on the Activities button is the only action that seems to bring some joy, as we start to see something happening. There is a favorites menu on the left, a virtual desktop bar on the right and a couple buttons on the main screen: Windows and Applications. The former is the default, but it is a bit confusing as chances are, you will have no open applications the first time you get to it, so it apparently does nothing. When you do have applications open, though, they will all appear there with an animation reminescent to good old Compiz. The latter is, in my opinion, the most beautiful screen in GNOME Shell, displaying the full list of applications with big and beautiful buttons and a slightly transparent background, making it look as if icons were actually floating on top of the desktop.
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I must admit it, after a short time using GNOME Shell I felt lost and frustrated. The environment felt even more limited than other proprietary options out there. Undoubtedly there were many improvements, from the greatly enhanced looks (it looks muuuuuch better than anything GNOME 2.x) to a smart design and well implemented ideas... But the lack of options was killing me!
First off, let me be honest here: A lot of that frustration came from my own ignorance. Many things were different in GNOME 3 and GNOME Shell, so trying my trusty GNOME 2.x tricks did not get me very far. My own arrogant "experienced user" pride got me stuck trying to find things on my own, and when one is trying to open a new lock with an old key, chances are it will not work. I finally took the time to research a little bit (it doesn't take long, don't worry) and found my way through pretty quickly. On that note, the official GNOME SHELL CHEAT SHEET is a valuable asset. I personally believe it should be part of the Help documentation included in GNOME Shell, perhaps even made available on the desktop by default.
Anyways, once I made GNOME Shell a bit of my own environment, I started to feel a lot more comfortable. I had to learn a few of its quirky features, such as having to press
Alt to get the Power Off option to show on the menu, a few system keyboard shortcuts available, etc., but the interesting bit is that once I got rid of those few "blocks" that bugged me about GNOME Shell and actually sat down to truly work with it, I quickly came to appreciate it.
As far as lack of customization goes, luckily there is GNOME TWEAK TOOL (available from the Fedora repositories), a great little application that brings back A LOT of that missing flexibility. Fonts can be changed, and so can icon themes and other elements. What's even more important, the community is quickly raising up to the challenge and releasing some very impressive stuff. A good example is the work that DevianArt Artist half-left is doing, releasing some of the most visually awesome GNOME Shell Themes I have seen to date. You can find and download those themes from HERE (instructions included on each theme's own page).
THE PLEASANT SURPRISES: Looks
The default GNOME Shell look is already quite a step forward when compared with classic GNOME 2.x. Everything looks polished and carefully put together and even if you don't like it from a subjective point of view, it is undeniable that GNOME Shell looks... Well, expensive. The panel, the notification area drop-down menus, the logout, shutdown and other dialogs... everything conveys an elegant and consistent vibe here.
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There is room for improvement, of course. I can't say I am a fan of the default Adwaita theme and fonts, and while icons look better than ever before on a default GNOME desktop, there are better options out there.
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Fortunately, even if customization is cumbersome at this stage, one can make GNOME Shell look truly awesome. In my case, I downloaded the Smooth Inset theme by half-left, Droid fonts and my beloved Faenza icon set. Combined with a new, better-fitting wallpaper, things improved considerably.
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Sexy, huh?
THE PLEASANT SURPRISES: Features
From the moment I started thinking about this review, I thought it wouldn't be fair unless I actually gave GNOME Shell an honest try, so I have been using it almost exclusively for the last week or so. Through these past few days, I have come to appreciate its features, sometimes small details that truly make a difference.
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GNOME 3 and GNOME Shell sport some exciting new features, most of which have been designed to "not get in the way and let users do their thing without distractions". One of the areas in which this is more evident is the great integration of social and communication tools inside the desktop. Notifications are a great example of such integration, and those from Empathy and Evolution are particularly impressive.
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Users only need to open Empathy and have it running in the background to see instant messages show up perfectly integrated with the desktop. Not only that, users can very easily reply straight from that same notification spot, there is no need to bring up Empathy at all. The same kind of notifications appear when Evolution is open and email messages are received.
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The desktop calendar also integrates perfectly with Evolution, showing current and short-term appointments straight from the desktop... Even meeting alarms show up perfectly integrated as system notifications... Killer feature!
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Another great feature I love, which again is cleverly integrated in the desktop, is the expanded search feature. In my experience with other distros or even other OS, this feature (if available) requires users to open the main menu, then either expand the search menu item or click on the search field to start searching. As far as I am concerned, that usually means that I end up ignoring the search feature, regardless of how cool it actually is. I just forget it's there when it's more than a click away!
GNOME Shell requires just one click (technically, not even one), so I have found myself using it quite a bit. All it takes is one click on the mouse on the Activities menu, typing on a single key (Windows key, although
Alt+F1 can be used as well), or a mouse gesture to the top left corner to get the search enabled. In other words, one simple gesture or click and there you go, search is enabled, you can start to type. After a couple tries, it becomes second nature and a very convenient way to look for and start applications. That said, the search feature is not limited to applications installed; users may also click on the Wikipedia or Google links at the bottom to extend their search to those popular sites.
Another thing about GNOME Shell that is innovative, certainly different from what we were used to, is the use of virtual desktops. In Classic GNOME 2.x, the amount of virtual desktops was fixed, usually 2 or 4 by default, depending on the distro builder. There are obvious issues in providing a fixed number of desktops: They can be too few or too many. In addition, this awesome feature was not obvious unless one knew about it. I have seen many people with a Windows background who didn't even imagine virtual desktops existed, sit in front of a Linux desktop and it didn't occur to them that they had a better way to organize their open applications than what they had been using for ages. In fact, even after showing them, some wouldn't really "get it".
GNOME Shell introduces the interesting idea of Dinamic Virtual Desktops. The concept is simple: No matter what you do or how many desktops you are using, the system will automatically create an extra empty one for you. Likewise, and sticking to what I just mentioned, the system will remove those desktops which are no longer in use. Some people (myself included initially) will see this and, in burning frustration, immediately go "WHERE IS MY COMPIZ CUBE!!!!!" That point of view is a bit narrow minded, I think. Yes, the cube and other desktop effects were great to watch and made the desktop a bit of a "game" in itself, but they also added a potential point of failure and a source of frustration for many users who could not get them to work, as well as lots of inconsistency and a very hard to support environment.
Along those lines, I asked some people who had never seen a Linux desktop before to sit down and play with GNOME Shell. One amazing thing was that not only all users actually noticed there was a bar on the right of the Activities screen (it raised interest and questions), but some of them actually understood the concept of virtual desktops on their own and were off and using them after a few clicks. I believe that is quite an achievement that the GNOME Shell designers and developers should take credit for.
GNOME Shell introduced other features that have raised a fair amount of controversy, the lack of a minimize window button being one of the ones that has made most noise. Strictly speaking, minimizing is possible, as there is an option to do it through a custom defined keyboard shortcut, but a hack is already available to re-enable the minimize button. In any case, I wanted to give a chance to the GNOME designers and embrace GNOME Shell design for what it is, in this case getting the most out of virtual desktops instead of trying to minimize applications... And you know what? It works. It only takes a while to get used to, so there is no need to troll or waste time discussing minute stuff like this, specially when it mostly has to do with a personal preference. Once again, keeping an open mind is important.
The GNOME Shell and the changes it brings with it concentrate so much attention that it is easy to lose track of things and not even realise GNOME 3 and all the latest stuff from the GNOME camp are there too! I haven't looked into all applications in detail, but I have noticed some nice improvements in some of them, specially the Evolution email client, which is much simpler to configure now, faster and less resource hungry. I was very pleased with its supperb support for Gmail messages, contacts, calendar and tasks. Empathy also felt better this time, more solid and mature. Totem, Rhythmbox, Shotwell, The GNOME Dictionary and others also bring new features and/or enhancements. In fact, all those features and improvement will become more and more a reason to migrate to GNOME 3 as development on 2.x eventually comes to an end.
The latest GNOME release is loyal to its motto, providing users with a practical interface that offers very little resistance to user productivity. The learning curve is minimal, thanks to a very intuitive desktop design and all features and applications feel like they are there for a reason. Customization in many aspects has been cut, sometimes quite drastically, but users get a much more solid desktop that is fully usable out of the box. Yes, many of the bells and wistles that a fancy GNOME 2.x Compiz setup could carry are pretty much gone now, but if hardware support is there, users will get quite an impressive set of them that are reliable and consistent, no effort implied, no frustrations attached.
Long story short, the GNOME developers aimed at providing more of a finished product, a more balanced mix that is not as extremely featureful as older versions, but that a offers a reasonable amount of eye candy within the realm of a fully functional and reliable desktop. As much as I miss some of those neat compiz effects, I think it is a reasonable decision and the right call to make. It is also a bold move, one that will surely generate rejection from experienced users initially, but it will probably get a more positive response from new comers in turn.
I have read lots of comments about GNOME 3, GNOME Shell and the radical change they bring with them being similar to what happened when KDE 4.0 was released. I have now tried both and I completely disagree with that comparison.
Let's rewind around 3 years back to the first release of the KDE 4 series. Those who experienced the transition from KDE 3 or those who simply tried KDE for the first time back then will probably agree with me that it was Alpha software at best, more of a proof of concept than an actual release (Even Aaron Seigo himself agrees!). The software was unstable, inconsistent, slow, buggy and resource hungry. Even worse, it took about two years (KDE 4.4.x series) to get it to a state most users considered stable. Even to this day KDE still suffers from some basic functionality limitations, lack of consistency and an interface that is anything but logical and intuitive at times. Heck, it took 3 years and KDE 4.6 series to get Kwin effects to a usable level!
In other words, KDE 3.x users were asked to upgrade to software that was a departure from what they knew and loved, but most importantly, not comparable in many ways with what they were already using. Therefore, it was a no brainer for many of them to stay away from it. New comers, on the other hand, found software that was not ready, even if it looked nice. The end result? KDE went through hell to regain the status they had before they made the move to KDE 4, losing plenty of users in the process.
GNOME 3, on the other hand, is quite a departure from previous versions in the way it works, but I would say it is 85-90% there in terms of consistency, stability and ease of use. Sure, many experienced users will probably stick with what they use now, but not necessarily because GNOME 3 offers lower quality. New users will get a pretty polished product out of the box, completely functional and ready to go, which they can embrace from the first minute.
As I am typing these lines on my Fedora 15 Beta installation, I see the frantic pace of development GNOME 3 is under. I get lots of updates on a daily basis, but in 8-9 days of intense use, I have only seen one crash (On GNOME Dictionary, caused when I closed the application in the middle of a search, which by the way, I have not been able to reproduce). In other words, I believe GNOME 3 will reach acceptable maturity within 3-6 months after its release. Quite impressive, I might add.
Please, don't get me wrong, GNOME Shell is certainly far from being perfect. While I agree that limiting features is probably the safest way to provide a consistent first release, I hope that some of the functionality that's been removed will eventually make it back in future releases. I consider GNOME 3 is on the right path, offering an intuitive interface that requires little or no training to get the basics moving, but I believe it is unacceptable that something as basic as changing fonts, themes or icon sets, which even proprietary OS support, is not available.
The System Settings tool is literally being updated on a daily basis, so I am not entirely sure what it will eventually be able to do, but it is still missing some important features at this stage. Aside from the already mentioned tool to easily customize icons, themes, fonts, etc. (Gnome Tweak Tool is not there yet, but even if it was, it is not "officially" part of GNOME 3), I see the need for more flexible power management, for example. I believe power schemes are a must today, and they are nowhere to be found. Some other annoying little things include the inability to maximize the System Settings screen (What tha...?), the fact that it completely ignores the default icon theme, to name just a couple.
All in all, after using GNOME Shell almost exclusively for several days, I have to say I consider it a big success. It is certainly not perfect, there are plenty of things that can be improved, but the foundation is much more solid than I anticipated or even hoped for. I can only encourage current GNOME 2.x users to keep an open mind and embrace this new release. After all, the more support it gets, the sooner it will improve and mature, and that's best for everyone. Unfortunately, the Ubuntu move to Unity will certainly have an impact on the number of users testing and using GNOME 3, but I believe it has got a bright future ahead nevertheless.
I would recommend giving GNOME 3 and GNOME Shell a fair try, using them intensively for a few days. Get past those initial adjustment struggles and I am confident GNOME Shell will surprise you.
NOTE: The transition from Ubuntu or Ubuntu derivatives to Fedora may be a bit of a concern, so I will put together an article with some recommendations to hopefully help those of you with issues to "land" safely.