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Could Obama Sue Samsung Over a 'Selfie'?
This week, Red Sox slugger David Ortiz snapped a 'selfie' with Barack Obama with a Samsung Galaxy Note 3. When it was learned Ortiz has a deal with Samsung, it raised many questions about the new era of guerrilla advertising.
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I ... I ... here's a question for our social media saturated new world ... the skies ... this all started in twenty fourteen Academy Awards but it would get generous to help you but to stars including Brad Pitt and Julia Roberts the photo was taken to the Samsung to begin a marketing coup d'etat that were tweeted ... but what's that photo morphed into a promotion a whole series of complicating factors the roads ... for starters what if the stars in one to the park for promotional campaign ... that takes us to get the first ... the Boston Red Sox designated hitter David Ortiz the silky with President Obama during a World series celebration at the White House ... Ortiz that he did it take to oversee the three thousand followers ... and was then retreated over forty thousand times ... Ortiz took the photo to Samsung phone and word quickly spread that he has an endorsement deal with the company ... Ortiz says this LP was part of his deal and that he took the photo in a spontaneous moment ... but Samsung for their part made sure to hide in ... beach we did it on their five million dollar accounts ... the White House objected to the fact that the president was unknowingly part of a smartphone promotion ... and if you wanted you Obama could see Samsung because his image was used for commercial purposes without his permission ... but here's the bigger question ... as a Samsung spokesman ... says every Selby David Ortiz now takes potentially become a new kind of that because David Ortiz doesn't have to say he uses the phone or door says its capabilities all that matters is that people know his association with Samsung would exceed the Celtics ... so here's a hypothetical ... if he wanted to Cotto Policy Ortiz for taking the photo ... knowing that it has this in your emotional quality to it ... does Ortiz now obligated to be upfront about his Samsung deal every time he asks people to pose ... in the world of the new stealth marketing these are questions that don't have answers ... yet ...

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WASHINGTON — Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa delivered a high-profile speech in the nation's capital Monday in support of overhauling immigration laws but sidestepped questions about his future once his mayoral term ends.
"I'm focused on the job I've got and want to finish as strong as I can," he told a National Press Club audience. When asked whether he would serve in the Obama administration after his term ends June 30, he said, "When I'm asked, I'll answer the question.
"The sun may be setting on my administration, but I'm not riding off into the sunset just yet," Villaraigosa said. He is due to return to Washington at the end of the week for a news conference with other mayors calling for tougher gun laws.
On Monday, Villaraigosa called for comprehensive immigration legislation that includes a path to citizenship for the 11 million people who are in the United States unlawfully. Illegal immigrants would have to undergo background checks, show English language skills and American civics knowledge and pay back taxes before they could be processed for legal status under his proposal. The overhaul, he said, should include an effective employment verification system and "smart enforcement."


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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Friday, March 13, 2009
The Restless Illustrator: Bernard D'Andrea
A 1952 Bernard D'Andrea advertising illustration.
From the distance of half a century and after being exposed to a million stylistic variations, I'm not sure if you can see what a drastic departure this is for an illustrator like D'Andrea. The year is 1952 and he is riffing on elements of abstract expressionism in an ad appearing in the Saturday Evening Post! Its really kind of remarkable.
A 1956 story illustration by Bernard D'Andrea for the Saturday Evening Post. During the entire decade the Post rarely employed anything but this sort of literal realism. D'Andrea and the other Cooper artists appeared month to month throughout those years in the Post's pages. And the vast majority of advertising clients wanted nothing other than this same realistic style.
Cooper's other artists rarely diverged from their comfort zone, occasionally taking baby steps by employing a variation in technique, but otherwise sticking to their signature styles steeped in 1950's idealized realism. Bernard D'Andrea had no economic reason to do things any differently.
But he did.
A 1956 Cosmopolitan magazine illustration by Bernard D'Andrea.
Why would Bernard D'Andrea employ such a (for the 50's) radically different style when he had already invested a decade into establishing himself as a top-notch 'clinch artist' at the most high-profile illustration studio in the country?
I believe Bernard D'Andrea had a restless spirit.
I believe he was also a consummate professional. When the Post called with an assignment, he understood that they didn't want him to push the envelope. Here he is in 1959 delivering the same idealized realism as he did a decade earlier to the same conservative client.
Murray Tinkelman, when we spoke recently on the phone, called D'Andrea "a wonderful artist" and "the most gifted draftsman".
But Murray can also claim responsibility for having tempted Bernie D'Andrea to explore further by taking him to Reuben Tam's painting classes at the Brooklyn Museum. A Bernard D'Andrea illustration for Cosmo, 1962.
What exactly is the signature style of an artist? Is the process of developing your own look the only path to success? Is going down that path liberating... or limiting?
The answers to those questions are as subjective as art itself. The conclusion I hope you draw from this week's series is that there is no hard and fast answer. Each of us creates our own opportunities through our determination to succeed at what we love to do.
Exploring many options can be as rewarding and personal as focusing on one single 'look'.
* My Bernard D'Andrea Flickr set.
For those interested in further investigating the idea of 'signature style' vs adaptability...
* Jack Raglin has written an excellent post examining this topic in the context of Enoch Bolles' career.
* The llustrative Designer, Von Glitschka, participates in a podcast discussion and explains how stylistic diversity has been a key component of his successful career.
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IMO D'Andrea was one of the most under-rated... no, under-noticed illustrators of the 50's women's magazine illustrators. His traditional literal technique was as good as the best of them, and he had a wide range of experimental innovative approaches when allowed.ReplyDelete
I don't know what his peers thought of him, as either a skilled renderer or an innovator. But, I think he was one of the trail blazers that never quite got the credit he was due. He was like the quarterback that could throw as hard, as accurate and as far as any of the top quarterbacks, but perhaps got sacked a little more often and never went beyond the playoffs.
Many of the stories behind these long ago Illustrators will remain a mystery, but it's always fun to speculate.
Tom Watson
- Bandito7:44 AM
There's no doubt D'Andrea was a talent of the first order.Maybe his versatility worked against him and AD's didnt know which 'box' to put him in.All these samples show a tremendous sense of design and color.One of the best.ReplyDelete
I should emphasize that Bernie D'Andrea may not be as celebrated today as some of his peers, but he was hardly invisible during his heyday and his 'restless nature' has never worked against him. Walt Reed describes him as "always searching for new artistic horizons" and says that he has had "a long and successful career that has spanned the decades" and that he is "the recipient of many awards and distinctive honors for his work."ReplyDelete
Lynn Buckham, Stan Klimley, Kurt Ard, Bob Levering - these are just a few of the talented boy/girl artists who also worked at Cooper during those days. Sticking to one style, being compartmentalized didn't afford them any more opportunity than D'Andrea. Really, that was the point of this week's series and the false assumption that 'restless illustrators' will always have to fight.
Its true that ADs like to pigeon-hole illustrators but I think we do ourselves a disservice when we actively participate in that process. Some illustrators have chosen an alternative path and this week's series was intended to highlight a few successful examples of that alternative.
Bernie D'Andrea is still with us by the way. I hope to spend a week on his career some time soon! :^)
I'm propose that a possible clue as to why illustrators at this period explored contemporary style approaches may be linked to what was happening in the gallery business at the time, in addition to demands from the market itself. His attending Tam's painting classes and incorporating abstract expressionist styling in his backgrounds may have been an attempt to absorb some of that contemporary feel in his work. Any style that becomes fashionable will filter through other mediums as a result of its popularity. It might have been more of a requirement for the job than a personal choice. Artists like D'Andrea had the artistic muscle to make the most of it.ReplyDelete
That's an interesting thought, db... you're probably correct. I'm sure there were a lot of factors involved. But one underlying aspect that might be a bit ... uncomfortable for some people is that I don't believe all artists are capable of flexibility and adaptation. That sort of brings us full circle back to the Blue Book posts. Those older artists would have really struggled to adapt to the prevailing style of the 50's - the Al Parker big head, flat graphic thing that all the Cooper artists ran with.ReplyDelete
That situation arises decade after decade... hot trend-setting artists burn brightly and influence a generation of their peers... then one day their best clients seem to have stopped calling. D'Andrea began experimenting long before he had to... the Cooper style was working extremely well for him. SEP and other big mags were steady clients, and many of his peers made little effort to push their boundaries. I don't know why he chose to experiment with other styles, but Murray Tinkleman told me he initially blew off the fine art gallery painting stuff saying, "This is a buncha crap!"... then, Murray laughed, he snuck back and began taking classes!
dbclemons brings up some interesting points. I think gallery painting did cross pollinate with illustration more than we might realize. Robert Weaver, John Asaro, Daniel Schwartz, Harvey Schmidt are just a few that were influence by the 50's Expressionists. In reading up on Morton Roberts and Burt Silverman, they were fine artists at heart, but struggled with the idea they were also illustrators.ReplyDelete
In art school during the late 50's particularly, the fine arts and illustration departments inter-mingled both in overlapping classes and as friends. We all took life drawing and painting together, and you virtually couldn't tell the difference as to which was an illustration major and which was a fine art major. In those fundamental classes, we were all being given the same theories and influences to learn by.
We were encouraged to use the theory of pure abstraction and apply it when composing and designing our illustrations. Bob Peak is a good example of that blend.
The late 50's and through the 60's was a time for the illustrator to find methods of creating illustrations that would not compete with photograph, which had become quite sophisticated. Even interior decorating used variations on simple abstract shapes such as circles, squares and triangles, as well as bright color combinations. All these rapid aesthetic transitions were symbolizing the "signs of the times".
Tom Watson
Wonderful post. I had seen his work but the work and the man were never crystalized and brought togetherin my mind until now . Thank yOu.ReplyDelete
As an illustrator of 20 + years I understand fully the restless spirit. And it is wonderful when an AD and artist can convince the client to try something new. Some make gradual changes like Rockwell with great success.
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The technical mastery in the images which are more typical for the time is really impressive. They have a certain charm to them.ReplyDelete
The flat style, however, blows me away.
I actually think D'Andrea has a fairly strong individual style. I really love the more experimental stuff.
- Anonymous11:17 PM
I love the illustrations of Mr. D'Andrea, especially the one for a story in the October 1978 (Ladies Home) JOURNAL on page 123. The daughter and her mom are so cute. Can you tell me where he got the inspiration for drawing those two people?ReplyDelete


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Jumpin' Jason Sterling is pretty happy to be SOL these days. No, it's
not what you think. SOL stands for "Son of Link" because Sterling (real
name Jason Robertson) is the youngest son of veteran Canadian babyface
Dewey Robertson, who transformed himself mid-career into the
green-painted, bushy-haired Missing Link.
Sterling, who now lives in Squamish, British Columbia and wrestles
part-time for B.C.'s All-Star Pro Wrestling, recently revived
his father's old gimmick for a couple of matches and is hoping it will
catch on again. He said he uses the acronym SOL in wry acknowledgement
of the rocky road his career has followed. "It's kind of like - before I
got to B.C. I was SOL, it went along with the way my life had gone."
Sterling's career began in Texas in the mid-1980s, where he was living
with his parents. He and his older brother Mark called themselves the
Sterling Brothers and worked as a tag team for Wild West Wrestling, an
independent promotion founded in 1987 by legendary Texas booker Ken
Mantell. While both brothers inherited the wrestling talent of their
famous father, they weren't making a lot of money for their efforts, and
Mark grew disillusioned very quickly and left Texas. Jason stayed on and
continued wrestling solo.
Mantell merged Wild West with World Class Championship Wrestling in late
1987, becoming a part owner along with Kerry and Kevin Von Erich.
Sterling recalls, "Things were looking great when Ken Mantell merged
back in with World Class. I was getting tons of work, I was doing great
on his TV show, I was thinking 'wow, things are finally going to
happen.'" Sterling got an angle against Eric Embry in the early part of
1988, where he was offered $100 for every minute he stayed in the ring
with Embry. He jokes "We always said Eric Embry was sleeping with the rats at the Sportatorium. He had no place to live but he was part booker
for World Class, so he used to sleep inside the Sportatorium."
The rats were no joke, however. "I remember one of my first nights going
out into the ring, I'm in the hallway and I look over and watch this
huge rat -- I'm talking a huge rat, you would have thought it was a cat --
climbing up the two-by-fours about 16 feet up this wall. You wouldn't
believe it."
Sterling considers the1988 David and Mike Von Erich Memorial Parade of
Champions the highlight of his career. "It was held at Arlington
Stadium, where the Cowboys played, I think there were probably about
6,000 people there and me and my father opened up the show as a tag
team against Angel of Death and Vince Apollo, and we got put over."
Sterling wrestled again that night in an 18-Man Texas Tornado match,
which took place in a three-story cage with a fireman's pole up the
middle specially built for the event. Sterling, Steve Casey, and John
Tatum eventually triumphed over heavyweight opposition like the Angel of
Death, Mike George, Terry Gordy, Michael Hayes, Iceman King Parsons, Buddy Roberts, Shaun Simpson, and Jack Victory among others. "That was my biggest payoff for one night of wrestling. I think I made $1,200 that night."
However, things were about to go downhill very quickly in the months
following that triumph. Ken Mantell had the financial rug pulled out
from under him when Jerry Jarrett bought World Class from the Von Erichs
and merged it into the USWA. Afterwards Mantell quietly left the
wrestling business for good after one more attempt at promoting in
Most of the Texas wrestlers were blindsided by the rapidity of the
territory's decline after the buyout, including himself, says Sterling
"I didn't think it would spiral downward so quickly. Not just for me and
my father, but for guys like the Freebirds, and a lot of great workers
that were relying on that company so much. I can't imagine how Ken felt
with all those wrestlers he had on his shoulders, how hard he was
working for them trying to build a good company and give them a good
living. It was tough to see so many nice people take it so hard. The
John Tatums, the Jack Victorys, some of the greatest workers in our
business that never got a chance to really get out there and make big
money. It changed so fast it's still somewhat of a blur. I just thank
God I came out of there unscathed."
Some of the Wild West wrestlers had been going up to Kansas City for
matches, so Jason and both his parents -- his mother, Gail, played the
Missing Link's valet Sheena -- went there in search of work. It was a
traumatic return for them all, because Kansas City had been the last
place Dewey Robertson had wrestled before adopting the Link gimmick and
they had left then because the money was so poor. Five years later the
situation had not improved. "There was hardly any work left there. They
would do the odd show with Kerry Von Erich in the main event in front of
300 people -- and that was at Memorial Arena that could hold about 7,500
people. I remember my dad packing up and driving 600 miles to towns and
making no money."
There is one match from that time in Kansas City that stands out,
though. "My best experience out of Kansas City was I got to wrestle at
Leavenworth Prison. It was pretty exciting, let me tell you. I had to
wrestle Eddie Gilbert's father, Tommy, and at Leavenworth Prison all the
inmates loved the heels, not the babyfaces and this was kind of
upsetting to me. I was supposed to win the match but we changed it so
Tommy could go over and win, just for that crowd. We're going into our
finish, and the crowd was going nuts for him. I looked around and you
wouldn't believe some of the inmates there. There was a big black man in
the third row with nobody sitting in the seats around him there and I
remember him tapping a chair and saying 'you can sit right here,
Frustrated at being forced to lose the match, Sterling decided to show
the inmates just what he thought of their attitude. "After the match was
over, I turned around and pulled my pants down to my knees and did a
couple of circles, mooned everybody in that place. I pulled my pants up,
jumped over the top rope and gave them a big 'whooo!' and walked out of
there." In the back he was confronted by a furious Bob Geigel, the
Kansas City promoter. "Geigel said to me 'Who the hell do you think you
are? Do you know where we are? Jesus, what are you trying to do, start a
riot here?'" The prison had a female warden who had been watching the
match and Sterling was sent to her office to apologize. "When I got
there, a guy who reminded me of Lou Gossett Jr. in An Officer and a
Gentleman was waiting. He said 'She's gone right now, but if I were you,
I'd never do that again if you're in a prison.'"
The period following that last stint in Kansas City was a difficult one
for the family. Both Jason and his parents were financially destitute,
and ended up staying at Gene Anderson's house in Charlotte, North
Carolina for several months as they tried to get enough money together
to return home to Canada. They got back to Hamilton several days before
Christmas of 1988 with $26 to their names and had to start their lives
all over again.
After a few years back in Canada, Sterling married and had two children
and decided to open a wrestling training school. He spent most of his
savings building a wrestling ring in his parents' backyard on the Beach
Strip in Hamilton. "It was in the backyard because I didn't have any
kind of money for a building anywhere, and we were right off of Lake
Ontario, you could be in the ring and look at the lake, it was
beautiful." His wife left him not long after that. "She didn't want to
have much to do with wrestling, she knew what kind of
a life it could be."
Sterling persevered with his wrestling school, but after about a month
realized it was getting too cold to wrestle outside and he didn't have
the money to lease an indoor space. He put an ad in the paper for
students and the first person to show up for an interview was a quiet
guy from Peterborough named Sean Morley. "I was about to give it up, I
didn't know what to do. I had no money and this Sean Morley gave me
$3,500 dollars cash right away. It was enough to get me into a
1,200-square-foot building."
Morley went on to become the WWE's Val Venis. There was little evidence of the character in him at the beginning, says Sterling. "He was so shy, compared to the person that he is now. Shy, and skinny, but quite the
athlete. He was smart, he was tough, he knew a little bit about the
business, but he was just not the kind of guy that could go up there
with a towel wrapped around his waist going 'Hello, ladies!' Now I talk
to him on the phone and he's so flamboyant and the business is so in his
Sterling figures he had about 30 students in total, though Sean Morley
was the pride of the class. "He was a guy that, after the class was
over, would say 'Hey Jason -- you want to go back in the ring with me?'
And I'd go back in for a couple more hours and do everything, drills and
holds and things, over and over. I'd be exhausted and he'd still be
ready to go."
After a couple of years Sterling was doing well enough to move to a
bigger building and buy camera equipment to tape cable TV shows for
broadcast every other Friday. Then one day Sterling got a call from the
Hamilton fraud squad. It turned out his business partner, who was the
son of a fraud officer, was using the wrestling school to launder money
to the tune of $50,000. The police seized all the business assets bought
with that money, including the video cameras.
While that was going on there was a lot of conflict in Sterling's
personal life as well. His parents were splitting up and his ex-wife was
planning to move to the West Coast with their two daughters, so he
closed the school and sold the wrestling ring to Val Venis, intending to
move out west himself eventually. Val got Jason his first booking as Son
of Link in Puerto Rico, where he hoped to earn enough money to start a
new life in B.C. It didn't quite work out as planned. "So I got to
Puerto Rico, the rings were hard, I had no money, they weren't paying me
any money. I was there four weeks and they owed me about $2,300. A good
friend of ours, Bruiser Brody, got stabbed with a knife right in the
dressing room in front of everybody and here I am in Puerto Rico, this
guy's not paying me, he's telling me to do these crazy finishes that
were 10 minutes long and he didn't want me to miss one bit of the
finish. That showed me right there how promoters can treat you."
The difficult conditions began taking a physical toll. "I was starving,
barely working out, I had a slight depression, I wasn't sleeping well, I
was on the muscle relaxants -- you were only supposed to use a couple a
day and I was on about 15 a day. This was how I found out Eddie Gilbert
had died when he was in Puerto Rico. I was sleeping on a couch in
90-degree weather at night with no air conditioning, and that's when I
told myself, 'You know what? This isn't going to work.'" He finally
called his mother, who was now living in Florida, and she sent him money
to get home.
Sterling left Puerto Rico and flew out to British Columbia for good with
$40 in his pocket. The night he arrived he met a teenager on the Squamish bus
who worked for a local drywaller, got the man's phone number and called
him right away. "He asked me if I had work boots, and I said 'Yeah,' and
he said 'I'll pick you up in the morning.' I've been working for him
ever since."
Sterling sounds quite content with the way his life has turned out. He's
remarried, has lots of contact with his two daughters, and still gets to
wrestle on occasion. "I wrestled the Honky Tonk Man last year in my home town here, which was pretty amazing for a town of 8,000 people. We brought him here for a big comeback show."
There are no plans to take Son of Link on the road anytime soon,
however. "I'm just trying to get on TV, that's the important part for
what I want in the future. I want to open up a gymnasium, I want to have
another wrestling school, and if I could get my face on the TV that
would help it out that much more. People are saying they could get me
booked in Oregon, but I'm not traveling down there for peanuts. I've
done all that before. If I'm going anywhere it'll be Vince McMahon, or
I'll go back and drywall. I'm not going to spend a year on the road away
from my family and not be able to send money home. When you're in the
business a long time, family is probably the most important thing when
all is said and done."
Meredith Renwick is a Toronto-based freelance writer. You can email her through SLAM! Wrestling's co-producer, Greg Oliver.


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People often say that Ring of Honor features the highest quality wrestling of any American promotion.
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I'm being a bit feceitious when I write that, but the fact is that Ring of Honor's long-standing reputation as "the work rate promotion" fails to acknowledge everything that the company brings to the table. Yes, you are almost always guaranteed at least a couple of matches in the four-star range when you watch a major ROH show. But ROH is about so much more than that.
After a tough few months during which ROH tried to find its footing in the wake of losing Nigel McGuinness and Bryan Danielson at the same time, the Philadelphia-based promotion is once again banging on all cylinders, and reminding mainstream wrestling fans how refreshing it can be to have an alternative to TNA and WWE.
Indeed, ROH's athletes have put on several stellar performances in recent months. At April's "Big Bang" Internet pay-per-view alone, two matches – The Briscoe Brothers vs. The Kings of Wrestling and the triple threat match featuring Tyler Black, Austin Aries and Roderick Strong – were both early Match of the Year candidates.
But that show also featured another one of ROH's best traits, and one that is too often taken for granted – its ability to tell stories.
Consider this: It was nearly four months after Kevin Steen betrayed his longtime partner El Generico before the two had any kind of physical contact at all. When they finally did at the Big Bang, where Generico teamed with Colt Cabana against Steen and Steve Corino, the atompshere was intense to say the least.
But even in that match, the physicality between Steen and Generico was reserved for when it made the most impact. Now, heading into this weekend's ROH event in Chicago, the "Come-As-You-Are Streetfight" between these same two teams is a legitimate main event.
Now that's the kind of disciplined wrestling storytelling you don't see much these days. If it were TNA, we could expect Generico and Steen to split, wrestle each other, get back together again, and split again within two hours. WWE is better disciplined in its storylines, but even it tends to rush through key angles in feuds that could be spread out over several months.
The same kind of patient, intricate booking has been on display in the ongoing saga between Roderick Strong and ROH heavyweight champion Tyler Black. As a friend of Black, Strong agreed to be his hand-picked ringside judge when Black beat Aries for the title back in February. But he did so on one condition – that Black would give Strong a title shot.
Strong got that title shot at the Big Bang, but Jim Cornette threw a monkey wrench into things when he added Aries to the mix. Strong was infuriated at the decision, and further disheartened when he was the first one eliminated during that match.
ROH announced last week that Strong would finally get his one-on-one title shot against Black at an upcoming New York event in May. A match that could have conceivably been put together at any time in the last five months now feels like a uniquely big deal. And Strong, who has spent much of his seven-year ROH career in the mid-card, is now a true main-event star.
Again, wrestling storytelling at its finest.
There have been numerous other examples in recent months: the ROH TV title tournament culminating with partners Eddie Edwards and Davey Richards competing in the finals; estranged former tag team partners Chris Hero and Claudio Castignoli reuniting to challenge for and win the tag team championship; aging veteran Jerry Lynn coming out of semi-retirement to seek vengeance against the man who nearly ended his career, Kenny King.
It's a disservice to ROH to only praise its wrestlers' ability to put on great matches. Their ability - and those of ROH bookers – to tell great stories is every bit as important.
-Al Castle
Pro Wrestling Illustrated Senior Writer
Wednesday, April 21, 2010
ROH is much more than just the "wrestling" promotion
4 comments:
I only wish we had ROH here in Australia
- April 21, 2010 at 10:33 PM
I only wish we had ROH here in Australia
- April 21, 2010 at 10:33 PM
- Burning Spirit said...
Great article. I couldn't agree more. You hit the nail on the head. Disciplined storytelling has such a better pay-off in the end rather then shock value angles and giving away "dream matches" without any build whatsoever.
- April 22, 2010 at 12:27 PM
ROH has put on the best wrestling shows I have seen over the past 5 years. This includes shows I have seen live of WWE and TNA. The production values are not as good, of course, but in terms of in ring wrestling, ROH is superior.
- April 22, 2010 at 2:26 PM
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NEW YORK -- Ernie Boch was at the Automotive News Marketing Seminar looking more like a rock star than a big-time car dealer.
Of course, he IS a kind of rock star up in the Boston area. And he really has a rock band. But Boch, 54, used to dress up like a rocker to play occasional gigs with his group. Now he sports long hair and jeans all the time, not the pin-striped look he once pulled off so nicely.
He's looking casual these days because he is no longer running his collection of stores. He has turned over day-to-day operation of the dealership group his grandfather started in the 1940s to a management firm.
"I wanted to devote myself entirely to Subaru," he says.
Boch is Subaru's distributor in New England, one of only four private new-vehicle distributors in the United States -- two for Subaru and the two Toyota giants, Southeast and Gulf States. In auto distribution channels, they are known as "The Big Four."
Of course, Subaru has been on fire the past few years, and Boch is a big beneficiary. His father picked up the distributorship in 1971, when Ernie was 13. He remembers Ernie Sr. bringing a Subaru car home one night as he researched the deal.
"It's front-wheel drive!" he exclaimed to his son. "The cart is pulling the horse instead of pushing it."
Does Boch miss running his dealerships on a daily basis?
"I'm not going back," he said. "I couldn't dress like this."
His Honda dealership in Norwood, Mass., had become the top seller in the country a few years ago, a matter of unspeakable pride to Boch. He even flew to California to taunt his rival, Dave Conant of Norm Reeves Honda Superstore.
But the Boch dealership has since slipped back behind Conant's store in Cerritos, Calif.
Does the Honda store miss Ernie's hypercompetitiveness?
Perhaps. When a big picture of Conant appeared recently in Automotive News, Boch says he tore it out, drew a bull's-eye on it and gave it to his Honda managers in Norwood.
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Tom Connor used to do business with a handshake and a gentleman's agreement. The president of the 10-man, Nashville, Tenn.-based McCullough Electric specializes in the installation and maintenance of printing press equipment, and most of his work comes from repeat customers whom he trusts, so putting things in writing was never a priority. Although good for building relationships, that neighborly work practice could have cost him more than 15% of his firm's average yearly revenue when a general contractor for whom he'd been working in the Winter of 2002 went out of business and stiffed him on nearly four months' worth of work. "It got pretty thin there when we weren't receiving any payments at all," Connor says.
With such a small outfit, Connor didn't have a lot of weight to throw around to try to get what was owed to him. Pulling off the job wouldn't have helped him get paid any sooner, and contacting the general contractor to demand payment was difficult because the firm was based in Germany. "I'd try to catch them in the morning in the few hours that they were there, and there'd be nobody there who could speak English," he says.
Despite that seemingly impossible task, though, he still had one weapon at his disposal: a lien. Even the smallest contractor is entitled to the same protections under each state's lien laws, and oftentimes that recourse is a company's only option when trying to secure payment.
Although it can be helpful, a lien isn't without its limitations. The same construction law attorneys who hail liens as the saving grace of subcontractors who have trouble getting paid are also quick to point out that those rights aren't ironclad. Exerting a lien doesn't guarantee payment, the requirements for filing one vary greatly from state to state and can be tricky to navigate, and even if they're successful, it can still take years to get paid. Even the most clear-cut cases can be undermined by missed deadlines and incomplete paperwork. "It's not a magic bullet," says Chris Dunn, a construction law attorney with the Nashville-based Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis firm and the attorney who advised Connor on his lien case. "But someone who's knowledgeable about their lien rights is inevitably going to get paid before someone who isn't."
That's why Dunn and Frank Riggs, a partner in the construction law department of the Smith, Currie & Hancock law firm in Atlanta, say it's imperative that subcontractors know the specifics of their state's lien law before they find themselves in a nonpayment situation. "There are a lot of contractors who assume they only need to understand the lien law when they have a problem," Riggs says. "But if you wait until you have a problem to try to understand what your rights are, it might be too late."
A powerful tool… The cynic might say that lien laws are written in such a strict and complicated way to intentionally trip-up the subcontractor who dares file one. But Dunn says they're written that way because they give the claimant (i.e. the subcontractor) a powerful remedy that can produce dramatic effects. In many states, a successful lien claim gives the claimant an interest in the owner's property and the right to have it sold to satisfy the debt. "This type of relief is really extraordinary, especially when you consider that a subcontractor claimant might not have a contract with the owner," he says. "And that's why you find the rules to be so stringent."
Rarely does a lien claim make it that far, because oftentimes even the threat of one is enough to get the attention of other parties that have an interest in the property, namely the owner's lender. If and when a lien is filed with the county, it creates an encumbrance against the property, which could prevent the owner or lender from later selling it ("Terms of Entitlement" below). And the last thing a lender wants is for someone else to have a stake in its investment. "The principle value of the lien for subcontractors is that it oftentimes causes problems for the owner's lender," Riggs says. "So it gets someone's attention."
In short, it gives the subcontractor leverage it might not normally enjoy. Consider any new large construction project. Chances are the owner will have to take out a sizeable loan from the bank, so if it fails to pay for work on the project and the subcontractors file liens against the property, the bank will no doubt sit up and take notice. "That bank is liable to say, 'We don't like the fact that ACME Electric now has an interest in our property and might be able to force a judge to sell it, so get this resolved,'" Dunn says.
…If you play by the rules. Of course, that's all dependant upon a properly filed claim — a task that's not always easy to complete. For starters, it may be necessary to take steps at the beginning of a project — before there's even any indication that payment issues could arise — to preserve lien rights in the event that a claim becomes necessary down the road. "If you wait too long and try to recapture those rights at the end of the project, it could be too late," Dunn says. "So getting the right information and getting it early is crucial."
In states like Michigan and Oregon, a subcontractor must make itself known to the owner by sending a notice that it's involved in the project and that work has begun. Failure to do so can cause the contractor to forfeit its rights to a lien later on. These so-called "front-end loaded" states put the burden on the contractor to take steps to let the owner know they're there so the owner can ensure that they get paid. "Owners want to know who all of the subcontractors are so they don't come crawling out of the woodwork at the end of the project," Riggs says. "He doesn't want to pay the general contractor and then find out that the general contractor hasn't paid a sub."
While some states require the necessary paperwork to be filed before construction begins, every state imposes deadlines for claims to be filed after construction ends — but they can range from 75 days after completion to a "reasonable amount of time."
Both situations illustrate one of the most important points for a contractor to understand: lien laws vary greatly from one state to the next. The first thing construction attorneys — including Riggs and Dunn — say when asked a specific question about liens is, "It depends on the state." Even if you're familiar with the requirements in your state, that doesn't mean you're prepared for work in a neighboring state. Because so many contractors perform work in multiple states, Riggs stresses the importance of learning where the differences lie. "Contractors can get themselves into trouble when they wander from state to state without first trying to identify what the new state's lien law is," he says. "So when you're going to a new jurisdiction, it's almost mandatory that you contact someone who understands the lien law there and say, 'What do I need to know?'"
That typically means consulting your attorney. And although small contractors may not always have the money to retain a lawyer, Dunn says they can still benefit from having one help them structure their contracts to prevent problems if they're one day faced with a nonpayment situation. A good contract can't ensure that a contractor will get paid, but if it includes well-defined terms, it can make it easier to secure payment if a dispute arises. "There are some lien laws that may require you to give a certain notice within a certain number of days of project completion," he says. "But if you didn't define 'project completion' well in your contract, it makes it more difficult to execute a lien."
An attorney is always a good person to start with when looking for information on jurisdictional differences in the law, but contractors have other options at their disposal as well, among them the American Subcontractors Association (ASA). Brian Cubbage, ASA's construction law and contracts counsel, says the association was established for that very purpose. "What issue do all specialty contractors have in common?" he asks. "They all have difficulty getting paid. The ASA pretty much exists for payment issues."
Aside from advising its members on their rights and helping them draft liens, ASA is involved in cases that could have a bearing on the future of lien legislation. In fact, it just recently filed a "friend of the court" brief in a Rhode Island appeals case in which a trial court found liens unconstitutional under the due process clause of the U.S. Constitution. "That's something that could affect all subcontractors despite the fact that lien laws are different all across the country," Cubbage says. "When you consider the effect of the Federal Constitution, that's something that affects everybody nationally."
Sweet relief. Despite having a good relationship with the owner of the printing press, Tom Connor had to file a lien against its property to help get his money. The owner was then able to use the lien as leverage against the German contractor, who eventually paid Connor. He estimates he was able to recover about 95% of what he was owed, but after paying off the loan he'd needed to stay open in the meantime, he only broke even on the job.
Although it was a cause of constant stress at the time, the situation made him realize it was time to tighten up his business practices. Even though contract terms didn't become an issue, he's done away with his policy of closing a deal with a handshake. And it provided him with a reminder of just how important it can be to know what your rights are. "Another one of the German subcontractors lost hundreds of thousands of dollars on the job just because they didn't know what to do," he says. "They didn't know how to protect their rights."
Sidebar: Terms of Entitlement
Lawyers have a language all their own. Anyone who's ever read the fine print in a contract or studied a court brief knows it can be difficult to follow along unless you've passed the bar exam. There's no substitute for an attorney when trying to translate the law, but it can't hurt to know the following terms that pop up often in lien law cases. (Source: Law.com)
encumbrance — n. a general term for any claim or lien on a parcel of real property. These include deeds of trust, recorded abstracts of judgement, unpaid real property taxes, tax liens, and mechanic's liens. While the owner has title, any encumbrance is usually on record and must be paid for at some point.
improvement — n. any permanent structure or real property, or any work on the property that increases its value.
interest — n. any and all partial or total right to property or for the use of property, including an easement to pass over a neighboring parcel of land, a possibility of acquiring title upon the happening of some event, or outright title.
perfect — v. to complete; to take all required steps to achieve a result, such as obtaining a lien or other security by legal action or completing and filing all documents to present a case.
privity — n. contact, connection, or mutual interest between parties. The term is particularly important in the law of contracts, which requires that there be "privity" if one party to a contract can enforce the contract by a lawsuit against the other party.
Sidebar: Taking the Lien Law to Court
The case of Gem Plumbing v. Rossi doesn't involve any electrical contractors, but it could affect them just the same. Last year the Rhode Island-based plumber filed a lawsuit to enforce a lien against the owners of a commercial office building in Smithfield, R.I., for $35,000 in unpaid labor and materials. After paying off the debt, the owners, Robert and Linda Rossi, were successful in arguing to the court that the state's lien law was unconstitutional because it compromised and interfered with property interests without adequate procedural safeguards and didn't provide a timely means for removing the lien. The plumber is appealing the decision to the state's Supreme Court, and Brian Cubbage and the ASA are looking on with interest.
The brief filed by ASA in March urges the state Supreme Court to overturn the lower court's ruling based on the fact that the owners were aware of the law when they signed the construction contract with Gem. "It's the same as when you take your stuff down to a storage locker," Cubbage says. "You can claim later that you didn't know that the owner could take your stuff and sell it to pay for the storage costs if you didn't pay any bills for a year, but nobody's going to feel sorry for you."
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Harris homers Bandys into second round
Bandys and Wilkes Central shared two things on Wednesday — team colors and a softball field.
The Lady Trojans, however, owned the lead.
Scarlett Harris hit a two-run homer in the bottom of the first inning, and the Lady Trojans (20-5) scored three runs in the bottom of the sixth, to advance to the second round playoffs.
Harris' two-run shot came from the third position in the line-up, which is a significant difference from her typical fifth spot in the batting order.
"When I was hitting fifth, I was leading off a lot," Harris said. "I didn't get as many at-bats. Being in the three hole, I knew I had to prepare myself, get people moved around on the bases and do my job."
While Bandys got off to a great start, they struggled to get runners to score. Five runners were left in scoring position at second base during the game.
"We've struggled all year with situational hitting," said Bandys' coach Mike Carpenter. "Early in the year, we did a very good job of hitting the right pitch to the right place. The last two or three weeks, we haven't done a very good job. We've concentrated in practice on doing that. We've been working on some things that will hopefully help us in the playoffs to produce more runs."
As the Lady Trojans struggled to drive in runs, the Eagles (9-10) struggled to hit the ball. They had three hits and one walk in the game off of pitcher Taylor Sigmon.
The Eagles' strongest inning came in the top of the second, when they loaded the bases. However, Bandys' pitcher Taylor Sigmon struck out two batters in a row to get out of the inning unscathed.
Bandys added to its lead in the bottom of the sixth inning, as a bloop single from Kelsey Clark plated Kayln Chapman.
Two errors on Wilkes Central allowed Brittni Pemleton and Clark to score in the inning, as the Lady Trojans extended their lead for good.
Next up for Bandys is a match up with Owen on the road.
The Lady Warhorses (24-2) defeated fellow-CVAC member Bunker Hill on Wednesday.
"We don't know about Owen," coach Carpenter said. "We don't have any information on them. We will have to come to practice Thursday with the attitude to work on our weaknesses. The things we did wrong today, we have to correct. Until we get a scouting report, we have to prepare ourselves."


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Sharks bite roughly 70 people each year worldwide, with perhaps 6-10 fatalities, according to data compiled in the International Shark Attack File (ISAF). Although shark bites get a lot of attention, this is far less than the number of people injured each year by elephants, bees, crocodiles, lightning or many other natural dangers. On the other side of the ledger, we kill somewhere between 20-100 million sharks every year through fishing activities.
Of the more than 500 or so shark species, about 80% grow to less than 1.6 m and are unable to hurt people or rarely encounter people. Only 32 species have been documented in biting humans, and an additional 36 species are considered potentially dangerous.
Almost any shark 1.8 m or longer is a potential danger, but three species have been identified repeatedly in fatal bites: great whites, tigers, and bull sharks. All three are found worldwide, reach large sizes and eat large prey such as marine mammals or sea turtles. More bites on swimmers, free divers, scuba divers, surfers and boats have been reported for the great white shark than for any other species. However, some 80% of all shark bites probably occur in the tropics and subtropics, where other shark species dominate and great white sharks are relatively rare.
An estimated 50-80% of all life on earth is found under the ocean surface and the oceans contain 99% of the living space on the planet. Less than 10% of that space has been explored by humans. 85% of the area and 90% of the volume constitute the dark, cold environment we call the deep sea. The average depth of the ocean is 3,795 m. The average height of the land is 840 m.
"Currently, scientists have named and successfully classified around 1.5 million species. It is estimated that there are as little as 2 million to as many as 50 million more species that have not yet been found and/or have been incorrectly classified." - SOURCE
According to World Register of Marine Species (WoRMS) there are currently at least 226,408 named marine species (9/24/2014).
So, there are at least 226,408 marine species but there are most likely at least 750,000 marine species (50% of 1.5 million species) and possibly as many as 25 million marine species (50% of 50 million species).
The oceans cover 71% (and rising) of the Earth's surface and contain 97% of the Earth's water. Less than 1% is fresh water, and 2-3% is contained in glaciers and ice caps (and is decreasing).
90% of all volcanic activity occurs in the oceans.
The speed of sound in water is 1,435 m/sec - nearly five times faster than the speed of sound in air.
The highest tides in the world are at the Bay of Fundy, which separates New Brunswick from Nova Scotia. At some times of the year the difference between high and low tide is 16.3 m, taller than a three-story building.
Earth's longest mountain range is the Mid-Ocean Ridge more than 50,000 km in length, which winds around the globe from the Arctic Ocean to the Atlantic, skirting Africa, Asia and Australia, and crossing the Pacific to the west coast of North America. It is four times longer than the Andes, Rockies, and Himalayas combined.
The pressure at the deepest point in the ocean is more than 11,318 tons/sq m, or the equivalent of one person trying to support 50 jumbo jets.
The top ten feet of the ocean holds as much heat as the entire atmosphere.
The lowest known point on Earth, called the Challenger Deep, is 11,034 m deep, in the Marianas Trench in the western Pacific. To get an idea of how deep that is, if you could take Mt. Everest and place it at the bottom of the trench there would still be over a mile of ocean above it. The Dead Sea is the Earth's lowest land point with an elevation of 396 m below sea level.
Undersea earthquakes, volcanoes and landslides can cause tsunamis (Japanese word meaning "harbor wave"), or seismic sea waves. The largest recorded tsunami measured 60 m above sea level caused by an 8.9 magnitude earthquake in the gulf of Alaska in 1899 traveling at hundreds of km/hr.
The average depth of the Atlantic Ocean, with its adjacent seas, is 3,332 m; without them it is 3,926 m. The greatest depth, 8,381 m, is in the Puerto Rico Trench.
The Pacific Ocean, the world's largest water body, occupies a third of the Earth's surface. The Pacific contains about 25,000 islands (more than the total number in the rest of the world's oceans combined), almost all of which are found south of the equator. The Pacific covers an area of 179.7 million sq km.
The Kuroshio Current, off the shores of Japan, is the largest current. It can travel between 40-121 km/day at 1.6-4.8 kph, and extends some 1,006 m deep. The Gulf Stream is close to this current's speed. The Gulf Stream is a well known current of warm water in the Atlantic Ocean. At a speed of 97 km/day, the Gulf Stream moves a 100 times as much water as all the rivers on earth and flows at a rate 300 times faster than the Amazon, which is the world's largest river.
A given area in an ocean upwelling zone or deep estuary is as productive as the same area in rain forests, most crops and intensive agriculture. They all produce between 150-500 grams of Carbon per square meter per year.
The sea level has risen with an average of 10-25 cm over the past 100 years and scientists expect this rate to increase. Sea levels will continue rising even if the climate has stabilized, because the ocean reacts slowly to changes. 10,000 years ago the ocean level was about 110 m lower than it is now. If all the world's ice melted, the oceans would rise 66 m.
The density of sea water becomes more dense as it becomes colder, right down to its freezing point of -1.9°C unlike fresh water which is most dense at 4°C, well above its freezing point of 0°C. The average temperature of all ocean water is about 3.5°C.
Antarctica has as much ice as the Atlantic Ocean has water.
The Arctic produces 10,000-50,000 icebergs annually. The amount produced in the Antarctic regions is inestimable. Icebergs normally have a four-year life-span; they begin entering shipping lanes after about three years.
Air pollution is responsible for 33% of the toxic contaminants that end up in oceans and coastal waters. About 44% of the toxic contaminants come from runoff via rivers and streams.
Each year, three times as much rubbish is dumped into the world's oceans as the weight of fish caught.
Oil is one of the ocean's "greatest" resources. Nearly one-third of the world's oil comes from offshore fields in our oceans. Areas most popular for oil drilling are the Arabian Gulf, the North Sea and the Gulf of Mexico.
Refined oil is also responsible for polluting the ocean. More oil reaches the oceans each year as a result of leaking automobiles and other non-point sources than the oil spilled in Prince William Sound by the Exxon Valdez or even in the Gulf of Mexico during the Deepwater Horizon/BP oil spill.
The record for the deepest free dive is held by Jacques Mayol. He dove to an astounding depth of 86 m without any breathing equipment.
A mouthful of seawater may contain millions of bacterial cells, hundreds of thousands of phytoplankton and tens of thousands of zooplankton.
The Great Barrier Reef, measuring 2,300 km in length covering an area more extensive than Britain, is the largest living structure on Earth and can be seen from space. Its reefs are made up of 400 species of coral, supporting well over 2,000 different fish, 4,000 species of mollusc and countless other invertebrates. It should really be named 'Great Barrier of Reefs', as it is not one long solid structure but made up of nearly 3,000 individual reefs and 1,000 islands. Other huge barrier reefs include the barrier reefs of New Caledonia, the Mesoamerican (Belize) barrier reef, and the large barrier reefs of Fiji. The largest coral atoll complexes occur in the Maldive-Lakshadweep ecoregion of the central Indian Ocean and in Micronesia.
Fish supply the greatest percentage of the world's protein consumed by humans and most of the world's major fisheries are being fished at levels above their maximum sustainable yield; some regions are severely overfished.
More than 90% of the trade between countries is carried by ships and about half the communications between nations use underwater cables.
Swordfish and marlin are the fastest fish in the ocean reaching speeds up to 121 kph in quick bursts; bluefin tuna (Thunnus thynnus) may reach sustained speeds up to 90 kph.
Blue whales are the largest animals on our planet ever (exceeding the size of the greatest known dinosaurs) and have hearts the size of small cars.
Oarfish (Regalecus glesne), are the longest bony fish in the world. They have a snakelike body sporting a magnificent red fin and can grow up to 17 m in length! They have a distinctive horselike face and blue gills, and are thought to account for many sea-serpent sightings.
Many fish can change sex during the course of their lives. Others, especially rare deep-sea fish, have both male and female sex organs.
One study of a deep-sea community revealed 898 species from more than 100 families and a dozen phyla in an area about half the size of a tennis court. More than half of these were new to science.
Life began in the ocean 3.1 billion to 3.4 billion years ago. Land dwellers appeared approximately 400 million years ago, relatively recently in geologic time.
Because the architecture and chemistry of coral is so similar to human bone, coral has been used to replace bone grafts in helping human bone to heal quickly and cleanly.
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This is happy news, though someone needs to tell the salmon it's the wrong size for the creek:
First Chinook salmon reported in Codornices Creek
Codornices Creek is a little creek, mainly year-round, that flows off the Berkeley Hills and through the Hills' populated alluvial fan to the east shore of San Francisco Bay. It's pretty much the same as any of thousands of small creeks in Urban California, except for one thing: it's in Berkeley, and so there have been people working to restore it for a generation.
Chinooks are more usually associated with large main-stem rivers like the Sacramento: little coastal streams like Codornices Creek are more suited to smaller coho salmon, and steelhead for that matter, which have in fact been seen in the creek for some time, though apparently not in a self-sustaining spawning population.
Then again, the fish set the rules, not us, and the Codornices Chinook's more likely destination in the Sacramento-San Joaquin watershed has been, as the fisheries biologists would put it in technical terms, massively fucked. This chinook was probably born in a hatchery instead of a leafy rill with a nice cobble bottom; all but one of the Sacramento and San Joaquin's major tributaries have been plugged with giant concrete dams, cutting off access to something like 99.9999996 percent of the watershed's spawning habitat. Agricultural runoff of pesticide-laden silt and silt-laden pesticide fills the water along the way to the dams.
But at least it's a small, one-fish vote of confidence in the good work my former neighbors have done trying to keep Codornices Creek alive, and until we can engineer precisely targeted earthquakes at the bases of the big dams, that'll have to do.
(Special homechild points if you heard this post's title in Mel Blanc's voice.)


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StuartDow necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 51 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
Stuart Dow -- with more details to be decided! (See below.)
I recently stepped down as founding head of a private high school, and am about to start my own company that provides classes, coaching & consulting for teens & adults. As Head of School, I intentionally defied convention. For example, we had truly unique opening ceremonies & programs with great music & irreverant humor that high school students (and their parents) abolutetly loved. In fact, folks used to refer to it as "The Dow Difference." The result was an incredibly successful school, measured in terms of student performance, enrollment growth & dollars raised. Hopefully, my next venture will be similar . . .
Pretty broad, but I'd say parents & professionals with substantial finanical means . . . Non-profits, as well as small businesses . . .
Looking for Impact.
But needs to be clean & cool.
My house is furnished with mid-century modern furniture, if that helps.
My web site, which is about to launch, is tones of grey & tan; so a splash of color would be great -- but my preferred palate would be blues or greens, or something of the sort -- just no pastels. :)
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Wednesday, September 07, 2005
The Maya Calendar
For a more sinister look at the Mayan Calendar, check out Mayan Doomsday Prophecy. The Mayan Calendar ends on Dec. 21st, 2012 and many believe the world will end on that day. If so, I plan on blogging through the apocalypse! I am a bit skeptical...
From the site:
The Maya Calendar was the center of Maya life and their greatest cultural achievement. The Maya Calendar's ancestral knowledge guided the Maya's existence from the moment of their birth and there was little that escaped its influence. The Maya Calendar made by the Maya World Studies Center in Merida, Yucatan, Mexico follows a centuries old tradition.
This Maya Calendar website is developing with the intent of providing a complete view of Maya culture; being that the Maya world was centered on the calendar, this name is more than appropriate for the Maya World Studies Center website.
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- SQPY23 said...
I've always been skeptical of this date and its notoriety, for one because it's so ballyhooed by the new agers - who are not the most critical thinking of folks; and for two because Mayan mythology and astronomical calculations are so incredibly rich and complex that glib interpretations strike me as, well, glib.
I recall some years back a reasonably scholarly article clarifying the issue, but I don't remember where I read it, and now I can't find it on the web. Anyway, here's was wikipedia has to say:
"The turn of the great cycle is conjectured to have been of great significance to the Maya, but does not necessarily mark the end of the world. According to the Popol Vuh, a sacred book of the Maya, they were living in the fourth world. The Popol Vuh describes the first three worlds that the gods failed in making and the creation of the successful fourth world where men were placed. The Maya believed that the fourth world would end in catastrophe and the fifth and final world would be created that would signal the end of mankind.
The last creation ended on a long count of 188.8.131.52.0. Another 188.8.131.52.0 will occur on December 21, 2012, and it has been discussed in many New Age articles and books that this will be the end of this creation or something else entirely. However, the Maya abbreviated their long counts to just the last five vigisimal places. There were an infinitely larger number of units that were usually not shown. When the larger units were shown (notably on a monument from Coba), it is expressed as 126.96.36.199.184.108.40.206.0.0.0, where the larger units are obviously supposed to be 13s in all larger places. In this creation we are only approaching 0.0.0.0.0.0.13.0.0.0.0, and the larger places are no where near the 13s that would match the end of the last creation.
This is confirmed by a date from Palenque, which projects forward in time to 184.108.40.206.0.0, which would be in 4772. The Classic Period Maya obviously did not believe that the end of this age would occur in 2012. There will be a Baktun ending in 2012, a significant event being the end of a 400 year period, but not the end of the age."
- Jayusmc1986 said...
Although I am an independent Baptist I find the Mayan Calendar very interesting. Many may argue, that like Nostradamus, the predictions are vague and could be applied to many times and events if the right spin is applied. However, I find it very peculiar that in a Katune about 2012 (the end of time for them) that the author says that for (not verbatim) "half will be blessed and half will be cursed and the judgement of God will follow" (i'm not sure exactly the quote please find it for me). Now if you examine revelation by John then you know that he predicts 7 years of prosperity and 7 years of destruction and death before the judgement of God. The first thing I thought of when I read the Katune was not half of the population... but half of the time. If anyone would like to enlighten me further or discuss this topic add me at www.myspace.com/jaycoleman86 or email me at firstname.lastname@example.com thank you
- AMG said...
I like many others find the end date, or end period of the mayan calendar fascinating. Given the emperical evidence of conditions on this planet now and in the immediate future, one truly does not have to be a rocket scientist to see major change on the horizon. There are over 6 billion people on the earth and they all want the same things out of life. Maybe the changes to come will be a birth process..very messy...but truly profound for mankind.
- alushe said...
Its amazing how ancient civilizations, had the creativity to develop custom numerical systems, that aproximated complex natural systems, with an accuracy that was surpassed only in the last centuries by our occidental culture
For example the predictive maya table of Solar and Lunar Eclipses (http://tzolkinhaab.googlepages.com/Tabla_Eclipses _Mayas.pdf) that its totally integrated with his numerical astronomical time system...
Even more wonderfull, its the simplicity how were defined the time units from the visible planets trought (in equivalent modern concepts) sampling from a (clock signal) basic serie derived of the combination of two counting numeric systems (base 13 and base 20)
From the pdf, it looks like the theory i first saw in a book called "Los libros del tiempo" (buyed in the Monte Albán, Oaxaca bookstore) wich proposes that the mesoamerican calendar was based in numerical relations, derived from the observation of the visible planets and through the analisis of their astronomic periods
The mayas to designate a day used 20 names, counted with a numeric system base 13 (from 1 to 13), grouped in 5 days "weeks", and 20 days "months", to form 260 unique combinations like designations for days (number:name) in a repetitive calendar we call "tzolkin" divided in 65 days "seasons" (of course i am making a simil, werent called like that) Examples of the names are: Imix, Ik, Akbal, Kan, Chicchan, Cimi, Manik, Lamat, Muluc, Oc, Chuen, Eb, Ben, Ix, Men, Cib, Caban, Etznab, Cauac, Ahau. An example of a tzolkin date could be "1 Imix"
The list of names had intercalated orientation (orient, nort, ponient, sout) so every "week" (5 days) started and ended with the same orientation... and every of the 260 designations of days informs elapsed days and orientation. They also divided the calendar in periods of 52 days (unique combinations of 13 numbers with 4 orientations)
This system its then based on the relation of two sets: the base 13 numbers and the 20 names. The consecutive asociation was done trought simple counting, making pairs... there were not needed any operations with positional notation.
All this counts (asociations) are cyclic... repetitive, but not identical because every repetition starts at a diferent point in the cycle. I think of them, like time units (for example [day:orientation] to name a "week") The name of the repetition its given by is starting day (for example "week" 1-nort) The relation of two sets with a difference in cardinality of 1 its very common in the maya "time units" (for example 5 days:4 orientations) and its called "movement efect" because the maya didnt have a word for "time", to talk about the elapsing of time they used words related to movement
The maya also used a calendar of 365 days we call haab (divided in 73 "weeks" of 5 days or 18 "months" of 20 days plus 1 week... of bad luck) The haab is an alternate form of the tzolkin that relates (trought consecutive asociation) the number of day (from 0 to 19) and name of the month. Examples of the names of the month are: Pop, Uo, Zip, Zotz, Tzec, Xul, Yaxkin, Mol, Chen, Yax, Zac, Ceb, Mac, Kankin, Muan... An example of a haab date could be "4 Ahau - 18 Pop". Therefore, the day 0 Pop was the maya new year, and the haab date (for example "1 Imix - 0 Pop") designed the name of the year. The tzolkin-haab dates gave the mayas 94,900 unique combinations (of 260 tzolkin dates with 365 days of haab months) to name his days.
Here comes the really interesting part... To measure longer periods of time, the maya keeped lists of dates "sampled" from the tzolkin-haab succession of days at some fixed interval. Doing a mathematical analysis of the numeric properties of this calendaric system, was found that some astronomical intervals produced lists of "sampled" dates sorted (as a whole or in part) in ascending, descending order or with a fixed marker. The astronomical intervals where aproximated because the mayas used only whole numbers.
For example here are some lists of "sampled" dates at fixed intervals (using for simplicity 1Imix-0Pop as origin, not the historical 4Ahau-8Cumhu)
365 days : 1Imix-0Pop, 2Cimi-0Pop, 3Chuen-0Pop, 4Cib-0Pop, 5Imix-0Pop, 6Cimi-0Pop, 7Chuen-0Pop, 8Cib-0Pop...
Here, obviously se fixed marker its the "0 Pop" or new year day
584 days : 13Chicchan, 12Muluc, 11Ben, 10Caban, 9Imix, 8Chicchan, 7Muluc, 6Ben, 5Caban, 4Imix, 3Chichan...
Aproximated Venus sinodic revolution
116 days : 13Caban, 12Ben, 11Muluc, 10Chicchan, 9Imix, 8Caban, 7Ben, 6Muluc, 5Chicchan, 4Imix, 3Caban...
Aproximated Mercury sinodic revolution
378 days : 2Cauac, 3Caban, 4Men, 5Ben, 6Chuen, 7Muluc, 8Manik, 9Chicchan, 10Akbal, 11Imix, 12Cauac...
Aproximated Saturn orbital sinodic period
780 days : 1Imix-10Zip, 1Imix-0Xul, 1Imix-10Mol, 1Imix-0Zac, 1Imix-10Mac, 1Imix-0Pax...
Aproximated maximun Mars oposition to Sun
399 days : 10Ahau, 6Cahuac, 2Etznab, 11Caban, 7Cib, 3Men, 12Ix, 8Ben, 4Eb, 13Chuen, 9Oc, 5Muluc...
Aproximated maximun Jupiter oposition to Sun (this succession its ordered in the names)
The mayas used what now we call "astronomical" days (that start/end on midday) in order to keep all the astronomic observations of one night on the same date. Divided the sky in sections, and for the record of some visible planet, used like reference point the presence of close deep space objects and changed sections and objects over time.
There is much more to this theory.... but i am late already, and dont have more time to write about it.


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