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I'm Jean-Christophe Naour, a french Interaction Designer based in Seoul, South-Korea. During the past years, I've been developing interaction concepts, interfaces, programs and motion design for mobile phones, mp3 players, Smart phones and tablets, television, Automotive AVN, installations, etc. My scope is continually expanding, in an effort to, ultimately, go beyond the screen. My curiosity and enthusiasm for new media encourages me everyday to push boundaries and discover new possibilities.
I'm currently working at Samsung Electronics Headquarters, where i'm thinking of the future of display and smart TVs.
2012/Today : Samsung Electronics (Korea)
Lead Senior Interaction Designer
2007/2012 : Innoiz Interactive (Korea)
Interaction Designer / UX Div. Team Leader
2006/2009 : Harigata (France / Korea)
Interaction Designer, Co-Founder
2005 : Cent Mètres de Hauteur (France)
Internship, In-house Designer
Samsung, LG Electronics, SK Telecom, KT, Pantech, Motorola, Nexon, NHN, KDDI, Hyundai, Audi, Orange Labs, Feiyue...
2002/2007 : L'école de design de Nantes Atlantique (France)
Masters Degree / Bac+5, Interaction design (with High Honors)
2005 : IDAS / Hongik University (Korea)
Digital Media Design / Exchange program
1999/2002 : Nantes University (France)
Mathematics & Computer Science
1999 : Baccalaureat (A Level) in Science & Technology (France)
On request or check my LinkedIn.
mail : email@example.com
- Published in "New Trends in GUI Design" ( SendPoints ) / link
- CES Innovation Awards for Samsung Lifestyle TV
— 2016
- iF Design Award for Samsung Radiant 360 Speaker
- CES Innovation Awards for Samsung Radiant 360 "R5" speaker
— 2015
- VHS. featured on Creators Project / link
- Published in "GUI Design" ( SendPoints ) / link
— 2014
- Published in "Pioneers - Layout Design" ( SendPoints ) / link
- IT Award for Poly™ ( Korea )
— 2013
- Kinect Graffiti™ featured in Page Magazine "1213", Report: Motion Tracking Systeme. ( Germany )
- Organic Structures exhibited at the BMW Welt Museum, "Urban art meets local heroes". ( Germany )
- Good Design Award for Poly™ ( Korea )
- Interview in "IdN v19n5: Interactive Design issue" / link
- Interview in "Designnet 06, Seoul based artist from abroad." ( Korea )
- Interview in "Computer Arts issue 170" ( Korea )
- FWA Award (Mobile App of The Day) for Poly™ / link
— 2011
- Kinect Graffiti™ featured at Intel Geek's So In night ( France )
- Poly™ featured on Gizmodo / link
- Poly™ featured on Wired / link
- Poly™ featured on Creators Project / link
- Poly™ featured on MoCoLoco / link
- Poly™ featured on Design Collector / link
- Poly™ featured on The Verge / link
- Interview in "Contagious issue 28", Upstarts / Future talent ( UK )
- Kinect Graffiti™ featured on Engadget / link
- Kinect Graffiti™ featured on TrendsHunter / link
- Kinect Graffiti™ featured on Core77 / link
- Kinect Graffiti™ featured on Creators Project / link
- Kinect Graffiti™ featured on Creative Applications / link
- Kinect Graffiti™ featured on Clear Magazine
- Lecture at Dalsma Conference (Digital Architecture and Large Scale Media Art) about Kinect Graffiti™ ( Korea )
- Interview & Showcase in "Webdesign Magazine issue 38", "Webdesign Special issue 8" ( France )
- Linked up by : Netdiver magazine, DesignCharts ( 6th place ), Irie ( Site of the day+Top10 ), AnotherBookmark, FormFiftyFive, DesignYouTrust, ...
- Featured at "Seoul Design Fair 2010" ( Korea )
- Digital Media Award 2010 for Lg SmartPad UX Design ( Korea )
- Published in "Asian Graphic Now" ( Taschen )
- Featured at the Corner Gallery for "FFKKKKK" Exhibition ( Korea )
- Featured at "Seoul Fashion Week F/W 2010" for Kim Young Joo ( Korea )
2009 : Lecture and showcase at "Seoul Design Olympiad 2009" ( Korea )
2009 : Featured at the design exhibition "Korea Digital WebArt Festa" ( Korea )
2008 : Featured at the fashion fair "Who's Next, Paris" for Feiyue Harigata Special Edition ( France )
2007 : Linked up by various design portals : NewWebpick magazine, Gouw, Spyline, Pixelmakers, Minethink, Zeroin, ...
2006 : Featured at the design exhibition "European Way of Life - Young Talent of Tomorow" ( France )
2005 : Second Prize in the internationnal Virtuality competition "Laval Virtual" ( France )
Desc / Confidential : Thinking of the future of Display, Smart TVs, and Audio products. Advanced design and development of new UX concepts, Interactions, Input devices, and prototypes.
Year / since 2012
Desc / VHS is an uninterrupted stream of YouTube(TM) videos, a visual overdose of creative and original content crossing all genres and times. It is for the late nights, for the parties, in the background at work. You can enjoy it on your Tablet, Laptop, and even your Smart TV.
Work / VHS. website http://www.jcnaour.com/vhs/ for iOS https://itunes.apple.com/ph/app/vhs./id1015962483?mt=8
Year / 2015
Watch Video / Poly™ _01
Desc / Poly™ is a creative application for iPad. Draw with points and turn your pictures into geometric array of colours. This project is inspired by the Triangulation invented by the mathematician Boris Delaunay in 1934. While the process behind is complicated, the result reduce an image to its essentials, creating the illusions of triangles, prisms and pyramids. Download : http://www.innoiz.com/apps/
Work / Concept, Design, Scripting (Flash/Air)
Credits / Innoiz, Poly™ Font by Park Heesung
Year / 2011
Watch Video / Pixl™ _01
Desc / Pixl™ is a creative application for iPhone and iPad. Explore pixels and colors behind photography. Create countless combinations of fantastic imagery with a simple touch. Download : http://www.innoiz.com/apps/
Work / Concept, Design, Scripting (Flash/Air)
Credits / Innoiz
Year / 2011
Desc / Confidential
Watch Video / Kinect Graffiti™ _01
Desc / Kinect Graffiti™ is a digital graffiti tool using "Microsoft Kinect" camera. Idea behind this project is to use the kinect to track the motion behind graffiti. Visualizing the body and drawing trough different angles in realtime, understanding surrounding space, pausing the time, etc... Download : http://www.innoiz.com/apps/
Work / Built in processing & openGL, SimpleOpenNI, openNI and primeSense libraries. Flickr set : http://www.flickr.com/photos/njc002/sets/72157626221800708/
Credits / Innoiz
Year / 2011
Desc / Interactive window display, LOTTE Dpt. Store, Busan. The store's display is reacting to people through several applications, trying to create memorable consumer experiences. The Built-in Camera transform each pedestrian moves into on-screen action with simple body movements.
Work / Concept, Scripting (Flash/Air)
Credits / Innoiz
Year / 2011
Desc / Cover design for the French Dj and Producer "Pierre De La Touche" (member of The Outrunners / the Freshmakers / Valerie Collective), http://www.myspace.com/pierredelatouche
Year / 2010
Watch Video / LG • Gesture Presentation at IFA Berlin _01
Desc / LG Home Appliance Company held a press conference to introduce its latest products to an audience of more than 150 journalists from around the world. This presentation was fully controlled by hand gestures. We built a frame made of IR sensors and arduino technology. With this system we have been able to detect gestures such as wiping, zooming , rotating, etc...
Work / Interaction design, R&D (Arduino, IR sensors), Scripting in AS3 & Processing (gestures recognition, sensors monitoring, etc..).
Credits / Innoiz
Year / 2010
Watch Video / Audi Center Commercial _01
Desc / TV Commercial film for a new High Tech Audi Center in Seoul (Korea).
Work / Matchmoving and animation.
Credits / Innoiz
Year / 2010
Desc / Confidential
Watch Video / Kim Young Joo Platinum • Seoul Fashion Week F/W 2010 _01
Watch Video / Kim Young Joo Platinum • Seoul Fashion Week F/W 2010 _02
Desc / 15 minute Live visuals for designer "Kim Young Joo" Winter collection 2010, for the Seoul Fashion Week F/W 2010. A work by "ffkkkkk" artists (David Hall, Sunghyun Cho, Boram Kim, Sohyun Jo, Jean-Christophe Naour, Minoo Lee, Jinwoo Chung)
Credits / Fkkkkk Artists
Year / 2010
Desc / "Unbalanced harmony". The purpose was to search intuitive and creative icon style with differenciated brand identity, to use in mobile web and various services... Design direction was focused on simple low-polygon blocks with detailed part, highlighting the targeted service. Also, each icon of this pack was a full 3d object model, editable, scalable, for any kind of output
Credits / Innoiz
Year / 2010
Watch Video / Levelo #2 • Augmented Reality _01
Desc / Augmented reality show for Levelo Shop #2 Openning (Mapo-Gu/Seoul).
Work / Concept, 3D, Scripting (AS3)
Credits / Innoiz
Year / 2010
Watch Video / Sky • Pandora _01
Desc / Full-touch phone dubbed as 'Pandora' because of its enhanced privacy function. The main feature of the phone is its private content management tool 'Jewelry Box', located underneath the LED display panel. Also this phone is using a "pre-rendered" Home Screen navigation : it is articulated around a tunnel concept that brings you 4 spaces where you can organize your widgets and icons.
Work / GUI, Motion design
Credits / Innoiz
Year / 2010
Desc / Real-time audio reactive visuals for a korean traditionnal music concert. A collaboration with Jinyoung Choi (Concept Tree).
Credits / Jinyoung Choi
Year / 2009
Desc / "Media+Wall" is an interactive installation offering an entry point to the digital world through another edge : a new experience into media and communication, turning your profile into a cloud of particles and pixels. (Art installation commisioned by Korea Digital Webart Festa)
Work / Concept, Design, Scripting (Processing)
Credits / Innoiz
Year / 2009
Watch Video / Sk Telecom • T-Style Brand Device Animation _01
Desc / Part of the Official SK New T-Style Branding (South Korea). Power ON/OFF animations included in mobiles phones released until now with SK Telecom. (Samsung Anycall, LG Cyon, Pantech Sky, etc...)
Work / Concept, Design, Motion
Credits / Innoiz
Year / 2009
Watch Video / KT • Ever _01
Desc / Full user interface concept presentation for Ever. A design and interactions based on cards.
Work / Motion design, Interaction design.
Credits / Innoiz
Year / 2008
Desc / A research for an incoming 3D UI/GUI for LG (known as LG Arena S-Class now). The objective was to propose new style, behavior and interaction concept based on the new hardware features. For reasons of confidentiality, here is just a short preview of one concept.
Work / Concept, GUI, Motion design, Interaction design.
Credits / Innoiz
Year / 2008
Desc / Confidential
Desc / A design collaboration with Adrien Nazez (Harigata) for customizing a Feiyue™ shoes ( http://www.feiyue-shoes.com )
Credits / Harigata
Year / 2008
Watch Video / Mathematical Abstraction _01
Desc / Data overflow (15 sec)
Visuals : 3D Studio Max + MAXScript.
Sound : generative modular interface done with Reaktor.
Year / 2007
Watch Video / Soulsquare • Live And Uncut Feat Pfel & Atom _01
Desc / Music Movieclip realized in collaboration with "The french flavor" (Samuel Juving,William Lebras).
Work / Concept, 2D/3D Design, Animation
Credits / The French Flavor
Year / 2007
Desc / Vinyl Design for the French Dj and Producer "Pierre De La Touche" (member of The Outrunners / the Freshmakers / Valerie Collective), http://www.myspace.com/pierredelatouche
Year / 2007
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Intelligent Decisions Partners with Unreal Government Network
July 29, 2013 (Ashburn, VA) – Intelligent Decisions (ID), Inc., a premier global IT systems integrator, today announced that it has partnered with Applied Research Associates (ARA) and Epic Games, Inc. as a new member in the Unreal Government Network (UGN).
Intelligent Decisions has licensed Epic Games' award-winning Unreal Engine 3 (UE3) from ARA to produce state of the art 3D training technology and simulation content in support of a contract with the U.S. Army Research, Development and Engineering Command (RDECOM). The contract focuses on improving the fidelity of autonomous avatars' behavior within the Dismounted Soldier Training System (DSTS) simulation with an aim to create a realistic training environment.
"Unreal Engine 3 will give ID's training scenario composers the ability to integrate an incoming fire haptic feedback system, full skeletal controls, and to customize terrain, weather, enemy forces, and other treacherous aspects of real life combat missions," said Clarence Pape, Vice President of Simulation and Training at Intelligent Decisions. "We selected the Unreal Government Network because it gives us access to a professional-grade ecosystem of resources that include full Unreal Engine source code access, technical support, training, and pre-existing simulation tools. These capabilities will enable us to provide a new level of content fidelity and production efficiency for our customers."
ID is a pioneer in the application of instrumented wearable device technology in the mission training and rehearsal world. They have developed DSTS as a fully immersive virtual simulation training and rehearsal system for U.S. soldiers. This cutting-edge system enables soldiers, leaders and units to train in a virtual training environment and is used by the U.S. Army's Program Executive Office for Simulation, Training and Instrumentation to increase the quality of instruction and combat preparedness. In 2012, DSTS was awarded the U.S. Army's Modeling and Simulation Award for Training.
Jerry Heneghan, Licensing Manager for the UGN added, "We are extremely proud to welcome the Intelligent Decisions team into the Unreal Government Network. ID consistently leads the simulation industry with its end-to-end customized virtual training programs and the adaptation of wearable device integration for training and mission rehearsal."
For more information on the current Dismounted Soldier Training System, please visit: http://www.intelligent.net/practice-areas/simulation-training?q=simulation-training/case-studies/soldier-training-system
About Unreal Engine
Developed by Epic Games, the award-winning Unreal Engine is known for its cutting-edge graphics, best-of-breed toolset, and scalability across major platforms. Operating on 10 platforms, including PC, consoles and mobile devices, Unreal Engine 3 is designed to accelerate developers' productivity for creating high quality games, applications, training simulations, 3D visualizations, digital films and animated entertainment. Powering hundreds of games and integrated with two-dozen leading middleware technologies, Unreal Engine 3 holds more than 20 technology awards, including seven Game Developer Front Line Awards and five Develop Industry Excellence Awards. The Unreal Engine also holds a seat in the Front Line Awards Hall of Fame. Epic recently revealed Unreal Engine 4, winner of multiple Best of E3 2012 awards, which offers unprecedented workflow improvements and graphical capabilities that provide unparalleled accessibility for developers building the next generation of games and applications. For additional information, please visit http://www.unrealengine.com.
About Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA)
Applied Research Associates, Inc. (ARA) is an international research and engineering company recognized for providing technically excellent solutions to complex and challenging problems in the physical sciences. Our mission is to provide in-depth and diversified research, engineering, and technical support services. We have a broad range of technical expertise in defense technologies, civil engineering, computer software and simulation, systems analysis, environmental technologies, and blast testing and measurement. We also provide sophisticated technical products for environmental site characterization, pavement evaluation, and specialized robotic vehicles. For additional information, please visit http://www.ara.com/.
Epic, Epic Games, Unreal, Unreal Engine, UE3 and UE4 are trademarks or registered trademarks of Epic Games, Inc. in the United States of America and elsewhere. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. All rights reserved.

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text: Sijun Forums :: View topic - dragon punk Log in to check your private messages Sijun Forums Forum Index >> Work in Progress View previous topic :: View next topic Author Topic : "dragon punk" danger-mousejunior memberMember #Joined: 03 Jan 2001Posts: 28Location: sweden Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2001 7:12 am Well, this is like my first time at recreating in photoshop (scanned and added colours and shades with the mouse) I would be happy with some tips or critiques This was a quickie to try out stuff on, as you can see my shading isint the greatest the anatomy isint right either. [This message has been edited by danger-mouse (edited January 04, 2001).] Back to top LightmemberMember #Joined: 01 Dec 2000Posts: 528Location: NC, USA Posted: Thu Jan 04, 2001 3:37 pm Good effort. The pictures looks really rough overall and the method of shading is not too consistent. It looks like either airbrush or burn dodge but its too rough. Also could use some more highlights. Back to top danger-mousejunior memberMember #Joined: 03 Jan 2001Posts: 28Location: sweden Posted: Fri Jan 05, 2001 1:29 am Oh! Thanks for the post! *happy* I used the dodge/burn tools with different highlights/midtones.. I got a quite huge problem learning how to do it But what do you mean? That i should use bigger brushed when i am shading the little bastard? Well thanks for the post man! Back to top FunfetusmemberMember #Joined: 26 Oct 1999Posts: 343Location: West Covina, CA Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2001 12:24 am Nice to see someone else likes to do punk rock pictures. :P I'll have to finish up my zombie punker chick one of these days, so I can show everyone. One thing that bothers me is how fat the mohawk is up at the top. No mohawk in the world looks like that. They actually tend to start out fat at the bottom, and taper toward flat at the top. I don't know if you actually care. Here are some "reference" pics, just in case. Unfortunately, they're mostly from the side, so I dunno what you can tell from them. http://funhousedigital.com/infected/pics/1118-03.jpg http://funhousedigital.com/infected/pics/1118-08.jpg http://funhosuedigital.com/infected/pics/1014-03.jpg <-- that one's me, btw. ------------------ Funfetus iCE VGA Division http://www.funhousedigital.com Back to top Capt.FlushGardenmemberMember #Joined: 12 Sep 2000Posts: 737Location: Seattle, WA Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2001 12:47 am Hey man! that dragon looks almoust like Denver the last dinosaur,....never seen ut? denver?...anyone? nah... foged abaod it! Back to top FunfetusmemberMember #Joined: 26 Oct 1999Posts: 343Location: West Covina, CA Posted: Sat Jan 06, 2001 2:33 am I remember Denver the Last Dinosaur. Hell, I even remember the theme song. ------------------ Funfetus iCE VGA Division http://www.funhousedigital.com Back to top Display posts from previous: All Posts1 Day7 Days2 Weeks1 Month3 Months6 Months1 Year Oldest FirstNewest First Sijun Forums Forum Index -> Work in Progress All times are GMT - 8 Hours Page 1 of 1 Jump to: Select a forum Digital Art----------------Digital Art DiscussionWork in ProgressGallery/Finished Work Miscellaneous----------------Random MusingsArchive : Sep99 - Dec00 You cannot post new topics in this forumYou cannot reply to topics in this forumYou cannot edit your posts in this forumYou cannot delete your posts in this forumYou cannot vote in polls in this forum Powered by phpBB © 2005 phpBB Group


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Template:Article summary start Template:Article summary text Template:Article summary heading Template:Article summary wiki Template:Article summary end Benchmarking is the act of measuring performance and comparing the results to another system's results or a widely accepted standard through a unified procedure. This unified method of evaluating system performance can help answer questions such as:
- Is the system performing as it should?
- What driver version should be used to get optimal performance?
- Is the system capable of doing task x?
Many tools can be used to determine system performance, the following provides a list of tools available.
- 1 Stand alone tools
- 2 Software suites
- 3 See also
Stand alone tools
glxgears is a popular OpenGL test that renders a very simple OpenGL performance and outputs the frame rate. Though glxgears can be useful as a test of direct rendering capabilities of the graphics driver, it is an outdated tool that is not representative of the current state of GNU/Linux graphics and overall OpenGL possibilities. glxgears only tests a small segment of the OpenGL capabilities that might be used in a game. Performance increases noted in glxgears will not necessarily be realized in any given game. See here for more information.
glxgears can be installed via the mesa-demos and lib32-mesa-demos (for Multilib) packages.
A superpi package is available in the AUR: super_piAUR.
See also
interbench is an application designed to benchmark interactivity in Linux. It is designed to measure the effect of changes in Linux kernel design or system configuration changes such as CPU, I/O scheduler and filesystem changes and options.
interbench is available in the AUR: interbench.
See also
(n)(nu)ttcp measures point-to-point bandwidth over any network connection. The program must be provided on both nodes between which bandwidth is to be determined.
Various flavors of ttcp can be found in the AUR (see links below).
See also
iperf is an easy to use point-to-point bandwidth testing tool that can use either TCP or UDP. It has nicely formatted output and a parallel test mode.
iperf can be installed from the Official Repositories or a different version of iperf is available in the AUR: iperf3AUR.
The time command provides timing statistics about the command run by displaying the time that passed between invocation and termination. Time is available on most basic linux systems.
$ time tar -zxvf archive.tar.gz
Storage media can be benchmarked with Hdparm (hdparm).
See also
Unigine Engine
Unigine corp. has produced several modern OpenGL benchmarks based on their graphics engine with features such as:
- Per-pixel dynamic lighting
- Normal & parallax occlusion mapping
- 64-bit HDR rendering
- Volumetric fog and light
- Powerful particle systems: fire, smoke, explosions
- Extensible set of shaders (GLSL / HLSL)
- Post-processing: depth of field, refraction, glow, blurring, color correction and much more.
Unigine benchmarks have found recent usage by those looking to overclock their systems. Heaven especially has been used for initial stability testing of overclocks.
These benchmarks can be found in the AUR (see links below).
See also
- unigine-heavenAUR
- unigine-tropicsAUR
- unigine-sanctuaryAUR
- unigine-valleyAUR
Software suites
This C++ rewrite of the original Bonnie benchmarking suite is aimed at performing several tests of hard drive and filesystem performance.
bonnie++ is available in the Official Repositories. Template:Wikipedia
See also
IOzone is useful for performing a broad filesystem analysis of a vendor's computer platform. See this thread:
This program is available in the AUR: iozoneAUR.
See also
HardInfo can gather information about your system's hardware and operating system, perform benchmarks, and generate printable reports either in HTML or in plain text formats. HardInfo performs CPU and FPU benchmarks and has a very clean GTK-based interface.
This program is available in the AUR: hardinfo.
See also
Phoronix Test Suite
The Phoronix Test Suite is the most comprehensive testing and benchmarking platform available that provides an extensible framework for which new tests can be easily added. The software is designed to effectively carry out both qualitative and quantitative benchmarks in a clean, reproducible, and easy-to-use manner.
The Phoronix Test Suite is based upon the extensive testing and internal tools developed by Phoronix.com since 2004 along with support from leading tier-one computer hardware and software vendors. This software is open-source and licensed under the GNU GPLv3.
Originally developed for automated Linux testing, support to the Phoronix Test Suite has since been added for OpenSolaris, Apple Mac OS X, Microsoft Windows, and BSD operating systems. The Phoronix Test Suite consists of a lightweight processing core (pts-core) with each benchmark consisting of an XML-based profile and related resource scripts. The process from the benchmark installation, to the actual benchmarking, to the parsing of important hardware and software components is heavily automated and completely repeatable, asking users only for confirmation of actions.
The Phoronix Test Suite interfaces with OpenBenchmarking.org as a collaborative web platform for the centralized storage of test results, sharing of test profiles and results, advanced analytical features, and other functionality. Phoromatic is an enterprise component to orchestrate test execution across multiple systems with remote management capabilities.
This suite can be Installed with the package phoronix-test-suite, which is available in the Official Repositories. There is also a developmental version available in the AUR: phoronix-test-suite-develAUR.
PTS Desktop Live
As an alternative to the installation of the Phoronix Test Suite to the system, Phoronix also provides a Live-CD. This Live-CD offers all the features of the Phoronix Test Suite and includes the latest ATI and NVIDIA binary drivers. It will allow you to run 40+ benchmarks from a live environment without the need to store anything on your hard drive and includes a working GUI interface.


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Earlier this baseball season, Ole Miss tied a game on a dropped fly ball with two outs in the bottom of the ninth, which was a case of deja vu for Ole Miss fan Curtis Wilkie, who remembered the same thing happening in a game seven years earlier.
What helped him remember? He always keeps score at baseball games, whether it is the major leagues or Ole Miss, as he shows scorecards piled up in his office in Farley Hall on campus.
"I remember and other people there remembered a previous game, and I was pretty sure it was a Friday night game against Georgia, but I couldn't remember which year," Wilkie said. "I got the media guide and looked up previous series we played against Georgia and found it immediately. I remembered we won the game, so I was able to pull the scorebook for that year out and flip to it, and it was right there. It's fun to be able to do that."
Every fan that keeps a scorebook has a story.
Wilkie has been keeping score since he was 10, and by the time he was in the sixth or seventh grade he was the official scorekeeper for Summit High School in Summit, Miss.
"It's something not a lot of people do, but I have found it as a good way to keep up with the game," Wilkie said. "If I go to major league games, I will generally buy a scorecard and keep score. Since I was in high school, I don't think I have done it as systematically as I do now with the Ole Miss team. I keep score of every game I go to and I have my own scorebook that I make."
Another resident scorekeeper is Juanita Skinner, originally from Baldwyn, Miss., who now lives in Oxford. She went to Ole Miss in the late '50's and early '60's, and then started keeping score for the junior high baseball team when she was a teacher and counselor for 39-plus years at Colonial Junior High and Overton High School in Memphis.
"Up here, I was keeping it just on a plain piece of paper, and Coach Bianco's father, Ron, sat at the table and we all talked, and he said, 'You need a real scorebook,' " Skinner said. "He was the one that got me back keeping the score in an official scorebook about three years ago. I did it because I concentrated on the game. Not everybody is here for the ball game; a lot of people are here to socialize. As long as I'm keeping score, I'm concentrating on the ball game, and that's why I got started doing it."
Behind home plate, there is a scattering of fans keeping score. There's David Robinson, who's been an Ole Miss baseball season-ticket holder since Pat Harrison was coach in the late '90's.
Like so many others, it helps him stay focused on the game. When he sees the batter step to the plate, he know what they did in their previous at-bats, and he keeps a pitch count, so he can tell when the pitcher is going to start tiring out. However, he had a rather unique start to his scorekeeping.
"The honest truth is I wound up coaching my son's little league teams, and I would bring the book here and keep the book here to teach myself how to keep up with keeping a book for his game," Robinson said. "A college baseball game can last four hours, but if you're keeping a scorebook, it feels like it was only an hour and a half."
A couple of rows up from Robinson, behind home plate and right below the press box, you can find Shannon Lovejoy keeping score. Similar to Wilkie, she's been keeping a book since she was 9 when her father took her to a California Angels game and taught her how. Since then she has done it for every game she has gone to and has been coming to Ole Miss baseball games since the '80's.
"You can look at a complete scorecard and you can recreate the game," Lovejoy said. "That's pretty cool. I also watch the pitcher and keep the pitch count. I have people who text me all through the game to see what the pitch count is. The people who are season-ticket holders know I'm totally focused in on the game, so they don't engage me in a lot of conversation during a game."
And then there's Don Sheffield, who everyone calls "coach," who was a football manager at Ole Miss from 1958-62 before getting into coaching, which he did for about 10 years in northeast Mississippi.
He remembers being asked in the summer of 1963 to coach a community baseball team of pee-wees and junior players in Dorsey, Miss., where he grew up, and he coached them to a championship, after which he went back to school to finish up his degree in physical education, so he could teach and coach.
"All during the time I was coaching, you had your own scorebook for your team, so I got accustomed to keeping score," Sheffield said. "It keeps me into the game. If I'm sitting here watching the game and I get to talking to somebody I lose what's happening in the game, but if I'm keeping score, I'm mentally into the game and I know what's happening. Another reason for doing it is I have a small Ole Miss message board, and so, if I want to make a comment about the baseball game, I want accuracy in what I say about the game."
Whether it's keeping up with the game, remembering past games or settling arguments and debating points, every fan and every scorecard has a story. You just have to find them.


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Copa del Rey Wrap: Barcelona arrest slump
Barcelona have bounced back from consecutive defeats to cruise past third-tier club Cartagena 4-1 in the Copa del Rey.
Cartagena's fans erupted when they hit the front in the 16th minute as Barcelona head coach Gerardo Martino must have started to wonder whether his team was cursed.
But the visiting Catalans recovered at the Estadio Municipal Cartagonova to score twice in either half and win the first leg of the round-of-16 tie comfortably.
Barcelona entered Friday's clash having lost their previous two games in all competitions (2-1 to Ajax Amsterdam and 1-0 to Athletic Bilbao) and Martino picked a team with two of his previously injured defenders - Carles Puyol and Jordi Alba.
Cartagena striker Fernando took advantage of some rustiness and lack of understanding between Puyol and central defensive partner Marc Bartra just after the quarter-hour mark as he burst between them to collect a long pass and converting calmly past Jose Manuel Pinto.
The visitors were stunned but slowly started to work themselves back into the game and Pedro eventually equalised for the Catalans with a well-taken shot in the 36th minute.
Barcelona led at half-time after Cesc Fabregas volleyed Adriano's cross into the top corner just before the break, while they completed their victory late in the second half as Pedro and Jean-Marie Dongou scored in the final 15 minutes.
In Villarreal, the hosts needed a goal from Javier Aquino in second-half stoppage time to snatch a 2-2 draw against Elche.
Giovani dos Santos opened the scoring for the home team in the 23rd minute but Elche, who sit six spots and 11 points behind Villarreal in La Liga, took control of the game around the hour mark.
After a corner in the 61st minute, the visitors sent the ball back into Villarreal's penalty area and an unmarked Sergio Pelegrin headed home, while five minutes later, more lax marking from the hosts allowed Richmond Boakye to glance his header inside the near post to give Elche the lead.
But in the fourth minute of stoppage time, Aquino collected a loose ball on the edge of the box and fired it past Elche goalkeeper Tono to secure a draw for Villarreal.
In other round-of-16 first leg results, Sevilla survived a 52nd-minute red card to Coke to win 1-0 at Racing Santander, Real Valladolid and Rayo Vallecano played out a 0-0 stalemate, Real Sociedad were pegged back by third-tier Algeciras to draw, while Real Betis triumphed 2-1 over Lleida Esportiu, who had goalkeeper Pau Torres sent off in just the fifth minute.


text: Mark Hahn wrote: > in the cluster above, I choose a chassis (AIC) which has a large centrifugal > blower, rather than a bunch of 40mm axial/muffin fans. a much larger cluster > I'm working on now (768 nodes) has 14 40mm muffin fans in each node! while > I know I can rely on the vendor (HP) to replace failures promptly and without > complaint, there's an interesting side-effect: power dissipation. of 12 fans > pointing at the CPUs are actually paired inline, and each pair is rated to > dissipate up to 20W. so a node that idles at 210W and 265W under full load > can easily consume 340W if the fans are ramped up. ouch! Heh... Load up a Sun v20z with a CPU pounding calculation, and as the CPUs heat up, they wind the fans up. I had several parallel GAMESS runs going and it reminded me of a turbo pump winding up .... Its neat to probe the hardware status and see the fans wind up from 4-5000 RPM through 12kRPM ... -- Joseph Landman, Ph.D Founder and CEO Scalable Informatics LLC, email: landman at scalableinformatics.com web : http://www.scalableinformatics.com phone: +1 734 786 8423 fax : +1 734 786 8452 cell : +1 734 612 4615


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Family, friends and distraught community members spelled out the name "Antiq" with pieces of charcoal and lit them on fire on the sidewalk in front of the home of the 1-year-old boy who was fatally shot in the head as his parents pushed his stroller across a Brooklyn street Sunday.
Police said Antiq Hennis and his parents were crossing Livonia Avenue in Brownsville, on the way to the baby's grandmother's house, when he was hit in the left side of his face by gunfire at about 7:20 p.m.
He was taken to a hospital but did not survive his injuries. The boy's great-grandmother, Lenore Steele, called him "the sweetest baby."
"He was such a beautiful little baby, smiling and talking to everybody," said Steele.
Mayor Bloomberg called the child's death a tragedy for the entire city.
Four shots were fired, and one bullet struck little Antiq, according to officials. Police Commissioner Ray Kelly said it went through his head. Two bullets were found in the stroller, though it wasn't clear if one of them was the one that killed Antiq. Four shell casings were recovered.
Steele said her grandson fell on the stroller when the gunfire sounded and said, "Grandma, my baby got shot! My baby got shot, Grandma!"
Kelly said police are investigating if the shooting was gang-involved and have been trying to talk to the baby's father, Anthony Hennis, whom the police commissioner said has not been cooperating. Hennis has a long history of drug and weapons arrests, and investigators believe he was the intended target after a dispute he had with the shooter's brother.
Hennis wasn't hurt in the gunfire.
Kelly also said police have some solid leads in the investigation, and are canvassing surveillance video and a nearby playground in their search for evidence.
Witnesses described a chaotic scene when the boy was shot.
"It was like four shots, one after the next, bang, bang, bang, bang," said Orlando Joseph, who was nearby.
Cynthia Ballantyne added, "I got really scared and I panicked, so I turn back and everybody started running and people say 'it's a child, the child's in the stroller.'"
No arrests have been made. The boy's father and mother couldn't immediately be reached for comment.
Bloomberg said the toddler's murder highlights the need for more gun control.
"When background checks aren't conducted on gun sales, weapons flow to the illegal market and into the hands of people like last night's shooters," he said. "It happens over and over again."
Community leaders, family and advocates gathered Monday to call for the suspect -- or anyone who knows the suspect -- to come forward as the baby's mother, wiping away tears, thanked "everyone for their support."
"I'm asking the people in the community to turn that young man in," said John Rodriguez, president of the 75th precinct's community council. "That young man shot that 1-year-old. Turn him in, or turn yourself in, because you're a coward. We don't shoot babies in our community."
While killings hit a record low in the city last year and are on track to drop further this year, "we know that is cold comfort to any grieving parent or friends," Bloomberg said before the West Indian Day Parade Monday.
As of Aug. 25, killings and shootings were down about 26 percent compared to the same time last year, according to the mayor's office.
In the police precinct that includes Brownsville, there had been seven killings this year, half as many as during the same period in 2012.
--Ida Siegal contributed reporting


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Myrtle Beach, S.C. – In the opening round of the Coker College Spring Invitational Golf Tournament, it was St. Edward's University (293) that was able to weather the stiff winds at the Grande Dunes Golf Resort in Myrtle Beach, S.C. and take an 11 stroke lead over host Coker (304) and Dallas Baptist University (304) on the par 72 course.
Behind Coker and Dallas Baptist is UNC-Pembroke (306) in fourth place, followed by Anderson University (308) in fifth. Rounding out he field of nine are Post University (313), Newman University (315), Erskine College (318) and Tri-County Tech (334).
Individually, Adam Sheriff of Anderson leads the field with a three under 69, followed by Andrew Workman of St. Edwards with a two under 70 and Patrick Wilson of Erskine with a one under 71.
For Coker, freshman Diego Polo (Guatemala City, Guatemala) leads the way with a one over 73, while Georgetown, S.C. native Chris Marsh shot a three over 75. John LaDow (Pottstown, PA) fired a five over 77, followed by Jared Crane (Greenville, SC) with a79 and Patrick Kirby (Paris, Ontario) with an 80.
The second round of the Coker Invitational at the Grande Dunes Golf Resort will conclude on Tuesday, with an 8:00 a.m. shotgun start.


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Radiation Therapy - Associated Side Effects
Acute Effects
Acute radiation side effects occur in rapidly proliferating tissues within the irradiated field. The acute side effects seen with a full course of radiation therapy typically start during, or soon after, the course of therapy. Although acute effects may cause temporary discomfort, they are self-limiting with most resolving 3-4 weeks after therapy. Advances in radiation therapy technology, such as the 6 MV Varian EX linear accelerator and 120-leaf multi-leaf collimator (MLC) at Purdue, are able to decrease the severity, or even eliminate acute effects. Mucositis (inflammation of the mucous membranes) and desquamation (shedding of the outer skin layer) are common acute side effects of therapeutic radiation. Treatment options are available to help alleviate the temporary discomfort associated with these side effects. Your veterinarian will discuss potential side effects (and the course of their treatment) with you prior to treatment. These side effects may require home care of the patient for up to a few weeks after therapy.
Late Effects
Late effects occur in slowly or non-proliferating tissues within the irradiated field that occur months to years after radiation therapy. Late effects which could be progressive and irreversible, are the dose limiting complication of radiation therapy. Late effects are highly dependent on size of fractionation (larger dose per fraction = greater complications) and the volume of normal tissues irradiated. Fibrosis (formation of a scar), ulcers, hyperpigmentation (darkening of the skin), necrosis (tissue death most often related to decreased blood flow to that tissue), atrophy, cataract formation, and neuropathy (damage to nerves of the central nervous system) are common late side effects of radiation therapy. Late effects are rare. Access to advanced technologies such as IMRT has improved our ability to spare normal tissues and avoid late side effects.


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The Cold War produced a lot of great films, or at least a lot of enjoyable ones. It also produced some godawful dreck, though even some of that dreck was at least entertaining. Cold War paranoia films took on many forms. In the 1950s, there were a lot of those "realistic" atomic war movies that consisted mainly of a group of people sitting around in a bar discussing matters until an atom bomb fell and blew everyone up. The more creative films let giant red ants or some such creature stand in for the commies. Some of the more outlandish entries even had secret plots by the Chinese to tunnel under the Pacific Ocean and pop out in California ready for an invasion. During the 1960s, the Cold War sci-fi film gave way to straight-up espionage thrillers inspired by the success of the James Bond films that always involved the Reds trying to steal some terrible device we never should have invented in the first place. Luckily, there's always a square-jawed G-Man on the case, ready to dish out some beat-downs and bed some Eastern Bloc babes. The best Cold War films of the 1960s were most definitely coming from Italy, Spain, and Germany. The Eurospy film was born, and it was probably one of the greatest achievements of the Cold War era.
When the 1980s came, Ronald Reagan rekindled the Cold War with a fire in his eye he'd not had since the days he was gleefully ratting out his co-stars in Hollywood and accusing them of being Commies during the Senate Un-American Activities Committee. Reagan made the escalation of the Cold War the primary focus of his eight-year administration, allowing education to falter and the economy to languish in disrepair. On the one hand, his crackpot brinksmanship seemed like it just might be the end of us all. On the other hand, he did bankrupt the Soviet Union and cause the downfall of European communism, thus ending the Cold War it seemed he was so likely to heat up. History is funny like that. In the midst of the rhetorical sparring between Reagan and his Russian counterparts, Cold War paranoia films enjoyed renewed popularity. This time we were often blowing up the whole world then driving around in dune buggies after the dust settled.
Although post-apocalypse films were the most noticeable and flamboyant, more than a few cloak and dagger thrillers slinked onto the screen as well. Unfortunately, a lot of those were geared toward kids and always featured a plucky young protagonist furiously pedaling his BMX bike away from pursuing Russian agents. I may be a lot of things, but a fan of insipid kiddy action films is not one of them. Even when I was a young tot, if I was watching an action film, I wanted blood and explosions, and if possible, ninjas and boobs. It was generally unlikely that I would get my requirements fulfilled by a movie starring Corey Haim or Henry Thomas riding their bikes to freedom. Luckily, a few films emerged that satisfied my appetite for movies far more adult than I probably should have been watching. I remember very vividly the night I first got to watch James Glickenhaus' The Soldier. My friend Dan (then known as Danny) had this older brother named Dave who liked to do typical big brother stuff like hide out in the woods and howl like a werewolf (or a regular wolf, I suppose) to get us scared. It rarely worked, and it was odd that he'd go to such extreme and goofy measures to spook us since we were far more afraid of him simply delivering a good-natured pounding to us.
When he wasn't teaching us important things like how to endure an Indian burn or a red belly, he was a pretty cool older brother (or maybe it just seemed that way since I could always go home; Dan had to stay there and pray for the day his brother would have to go back to college). He was the one who let us hang out and watch The Soldier. While I remember the whole night with rather bizarre clarity, about the only thing I could remember from the movie itself was a scene where some guy sneaks into an apartment and tries to strangle some other guy with a wire. The other guy blocks it with his arm, but the wire still cuts through his sweater and causes a decent amount of blood to flow. I have no idea why that scene is the one I remember, but there ya go.
Since everyone my age builds their live around reclaiming their childhood and indulging themselves by purchasing every toy they were never able to get when they were ten, I figured it might be a good idea to track down a copy of The Soldier and give it another go-round. I mean, I remember that it was bloody and full of spies. That's enough to warrant at least one more look. Not too long ago, I would have gone into this film with some degree of trepidation. Would it still seem as cool to me now as it did nineteen years ago? However, after watching countless films from my youth that I should have grown out of, I discovered that my tastes have, for better or worse, changed very little since then. I still like the most godawful juvenile crap, and that part of the brain that makes you outgrow cheap barbarian movies and corny sci-fi remains as undeveloped as the part that should have me buying a house and starting a family instead of worrying about completing my Michael Caine spy thriller collection and tracking down a Fidel Castro action figure. So given my short-comings when it comes to taste, I abandoned any misgivings a sane person may have harbored and dove headlong into the heart of this Cold War actioner. I wasn't really disappointed either, but I rarely am. I mean, if Space Hunter and Death Stalker aren't going to disappoint me, a film has to really be bad for me to regret wasting my time with it.
The Soldier stars Ken Wahl – fresh off his turn in 1981's Fort Apache, The Bronx (but better known here for his role in The Taking of Beverly Hills) — as The Soldier, a CIA operative who is so tip top secret that only the director of the CIA (and maybe the President) knows he even exists. As you expect from such a movie, The Soldier is the guy you call when all other options fail, when the task at hand is impossible, so on and so forth. Maybe if they trained all their operatives this well, we wouldn't need those "final option" guys, because the first option guys could actually get the job done. Maybe if the CIA stopped relying on twelve-year-old kids on bikes to outwit Russian spies, there'd be less need for The Soldier.
When we first meet The Soldier, he's blowing away some terrorists in super slow-motion with ultra-wet bloody squibs. All while Tangerine Dream drones on in the background. So far, so good except for the fact that you can clearly see the squibs detonating and emitting a little puff of fire. Maybe they're using some of those explosive-tip bullets. Of course, this scene has nothing at all to do with anything else in the movie. It just shows us that The Soldier is a bad-ass, and the movie has really over-filled its squibs – something of which I always approve. The actual plot kicks in when three terrorists – yep, three – hijack a shipment of weapons-grade plutonium that is being shipped on the back of an open-bed truck in a container clearly identifying it as weapons-grade plutonium, and with only one car (an Oldsmobile) to guard it. Oh, and a Southern cop somewhere else up in the hills. Now, I'll be the first to admit that I've never transported weapons-grade plutonium anywhere, as far as you know. Consumer grade for the kitchen, sure, but never weapons-grade. Nor have I ever been in the military in a position to be privy to the particulars of transporting such a cargo. Still, even with my ignorance fully fessed up to, I'm pretty sure they don't do it in a clearly-marked open-bed truck with only two guys in an Olds to guard it. Surely they'd do something like hide it amid a convoy of heavily armed Piggly Wiggly trucks full of well-trained soldiers. And surely they wouldn't stop for anything, even a topless woman hitchhiking or a broken down car. But the terrorists in The Soldier don't even need the topless hitchhiker, because this truck will stop for dang near anybody.
When you only have a couple slow-witted guys guarding the deadliest substance on the planet, it's no surprise that it only takes three terrorists to steal it. When the single cop finally shows up for support, he draws his gun and does the whole, "Freeze right there, mister!" routine. Now just as I've never been in the military, I've also never been a cop, but I'm pretty sure that even in today's skittish anti-cop atmosphere it's considered A-OK to come in with guns a-blazin' when you're approaching a group of men who you know gunned down two US soldiers, blew up a car, and are currently crawling around on top of the truck you know contains plutonium. No need to be diplomatic about things. Maurizio Merli would have immediately started kicking in teeth and bashing people's heads with the hood of a car. Hell, he'd let you have it with both barrels blazing just for flipping off an old lady. Of course, I suppose I could be wrong. If anyone in the military would like to confirm that James Glickenhaus is correct, and we truck around nuclear weapons with an escort of two Plymouths (one of which disappears), then I'll apologize, revise this review, and promptly move somewhere with a little more security when it comes to transporting the stuff that can blow up entire cities.
Now that they have the plutonium, the terrorists whip up an atom bomb and plant it somewhere in Saudi Arabia, demanding that Israel withdraw from the occupied West Bank. If Israel refuses, the terrorists will set off the bomb, thus contaminating over 50% of the world's oil supply and thrusting civilization into a state of panic and anarchy. Israel refuses, which frankly seems sort of prickish. I mean, I know you're all proud of holding onto a useless hunk of desert and all instead of just giving it to the people who live there, but this is the whole world we're talking about. Couldn't they just take it back later on? What's so great about the West Bank anyway? Not wanting to see the world cast into chaos, the United States begins military preparations to force Israel out of the West Bank. Given our current relations with Israel in which we let them do pretty much anything no matter how adversely it affects us, this may seem sort of odd. Keep in mind, however, that the US and Israel were not always buddy-buddy. When Israel was carved out of the Middle East by European countries, it was populated almost entirely by refugees from Eastern Bloc nations. In other words, Communist nations. The US was supremely suspicious of Israel, which at the time seemed much closer to a Socialist nation than a democratic one. Anyway, what did we care? It was a problem for Europe and the Middle East to work out amongst themselves. It wasn't until it dawned on the United States that Israel had a lot of strategic value as a base and as a place to test new weapons that we figured it might be worth buddying up with them. So now we have the mess we have today. If only we had a man like . . . The Soldier!
Not wanting to see the world torn asunder, nor wanting to see the US go to war with Israel, the CIA sends The Soldier in to do what he must do, however it must be done. Of course, if he gets caught, the US government will deny his existence, et cetera. You'd think after about the nine hundredth time someone heard that speech, they could just skip it. This isn't his first mission. He knows the "deny any knowledge of you and your actions" spiel. If they just gave it to them the day they graduated from "super duper spy training" school and added, "And this applies to everything you do from here on out, starting . . .now!" they'd save everyone a lot of time. Meanwhile, over in Israel, a hot female Mossad agent is torturing Iceman. Seriously. Not Val Kilmer Iceman. I mean Iceman Iceman. Sure, it's just a ruse to get someone to talk, but doesn't anyone notice that the guy pretending to get tortured has simian-like features and a forehead that slopes like a Neanderthal in order to hide the blood packets the Mossad installed in it to make his interrogation and execution seem realistic? Palestinians may not be up on all the latest techniques from Stan Winston, but I think even the untrained eye can spot a guy with three inches of latex protruding from his forehead and making him look like some of your more involved Star Trek: The Next Generation aliens. About the only reason this sequence even exists is to introduce the chick, and the only reason she exists is so she can sleep with The Soldier later on for no real reason.
While The Soldier prepares for his mission by playing Konami light gun games, the terrorists pass the day eavesdropping on the CIA. After building a bomb out of a light bulb, the terrorist infiltrates CIA headquarters and plants the dastardly device in the office of the head of the CIA. Let me do this one more time: I've never been a member of the CIA, but I have been by their office in DC for a tour once a long time ago. I seem to remember them having security. You know, being the CIA and all. Yet this guy gets past all their security simply by throwing on a granny dress and a gray wig and pretending to be the cleaning woman. Wouldn't security recognize the fact that she has man scruff and a wig that isn't on properly? And wouldn't they know who was and was not supposed to be cleaning the director's office? Surely even the CIA wouldn't fall for the old "the regular cleaning lady is sick, so I'm taking her place" bit. Actually, given what we've learned in recent months about how the CIA and FBI operate, I guess they could possibly fall for a trick involving a European terrorist masquerading as the lady from Mama's Family.
Something I've always wondered is how terrorists always manage to get a job as part of the cleaning or maintenance crew at wherever they need to plant stuff for later on. Take Shiri, for instance. It's one of my favorite action films, but how the heck did all the terrorists get jobs at the stadium they'd be attacking later on? Did they have a contingency plan in place just in case they were told that the stadium wasn't hiring anyone? Why are there always just enough employment opportunities for the terrorists to sneak in however many people they need to do the job? Similarly, even if the guy from The Soldier had been masquerading as a cleaning lady long enough to bug the office, how did he get the job to begin with? I assume the CIA screens everyone heavily, even their janitorial staff. Didn't they catch that this cleaning lady was actually a man who, until a few months ago, had been living in Poland or East Germany or something? It seems that no matter how screwed up the CIA may be, they'd at least catch that one.
So what I'm learning here is that The Soldier is slightly less believable and more bone-headed than even the most outlandish Eurospy films. I mean, I'm willing to accept a few plot contrivances to help move things along, but this movie is really pushing things. Luckily, it's countering the colossally inept plotting with a lot of slow-motion shooting and blood-spurting bullet wounds. Just don't mistake this for anything even remotely resembling intelligent regardless of how much the dreary Tangerine Dream music may make it sound like an arthouse experiment.
The Soldier eventually goes to meet up with Klaus Kinski at some ski resort for no real reason, at least not one I remember them telling us. If The Soldier had watched any movies before taking this assignment, he'd know that you can never trust Klaus Kinski. He'll always betray you or crawl through the ductwork to watch you undress. Maybe The Soldier figured the guy did give the world Nastasia Kinski, so he'd give him the benefit of the doubt. How a guy as creepy looking as Klaus contributed to making Nastasia is as great a mystery as how a greasy little guy with a crappy haircut like Dario Argento could have had anything to do with the production of Asia Argento. Anyway, The Soldier and Klaus meet at a ski resort for no other reason than it's a convenient place to have the ski chase and shoot-out that's become required for all spy films since James Bond first popularized them. Seriously, how many spy films have ski chases and shoot-outs? Bond seems to have had one in almost every movie since On Her Majesty's Secret Service. Heck, even next generation spy movies like XXX knew enough to have a ski chase. But at least they make some perfunctory attempt to justify it in the story. Here, they just go to the ski resort for no reason. And then Klaus Kinski immediately betrays The Soldier, whom he seemed to have been friends with up to about this point.
So they have a big ski chase, which is admittedly pretty cool. The Soldier even does a 720 while firing an Uzi. Unlike the real world, where this would be an incredibly idiotic thing to do that would result in you hitting no one while everyone was free to take potshots at you, in the world of poorly-conceived Cold War action films, you can do the same stunt in slow motion, allowing you to nail half a dozen fast-moving gunmen on skis while at the same time being able to completely dodge all their attempts to shoot you. Eventually, The Soldier is able to punch one of the gunmen, which causes him to confess the entire plot to The Soldier, revealing that it's not terrorists at all who are behind the atom bomb threat. It's the Russians!
Now wait just a minute here.
The Russians? Okay, I know it's the Cold War, and the Russians are responsible for everything bad that happens, even the decline in ratings for Battle of the Network Stars, but come on! The Russians need oil, too. I know they have some of their own, but surely even Russia can't benefit from casting the bulk of the world into a state of anarchy. I mean, it is going to affect them as well, like having unruly Eurotrash neighbors who smoke hasch and blast dull trance albums all night. This is silly even for Cold War Russians. And why are they putting on this whole stupid show with making Israel vacate the West Bank? Why do they give a rat's ass? Are they pissed because so many Jews left Russia and moved to Israel? If Israel had agreed to pull out of the West Bank, would the Russians just go, "Well, we didn't expect that. Guess we better go turn off that bomb like we promised." What's with the dog and pony show? Why don't they just set the bomb off and be done with things? I've seen better plans hatched by the kids down the street who were trying to take over the Little Rascals fort, and all those plans involved dressing up like pirates and flinging Limburger cheese at each other.
In order to alert the CIA to the fact that it's those dirty, no-good Commie pinkos behind the plot, The Soldier must break into a military base to use the phone. Why? Who knows. You'd think after all this time he'd have a better way to contact the one guy who knows who he is. For some reason, the head of the CIA is sitting in the dark in his office, and only turns on the lamp with the exploding bulb when it's convenient to the plot. Now The Soldier is on his own, with no allies save for the crack team he assembles to help him pull off a scheme even stupider than the one dreamed up by the Russians. The first guy he recruits is "the black guy." Since this movie was made before Ernie Hudson was a big star, the black guy is played Steve James, who played "the black guy" in every movie requiring a black guy before Ernie Hudson became the official black guy of Hollywood. Anyone who is a fan of crappy action films recognizes James, who's probably best-known for his role as "Kungfu Joe" in I'm Gonna Get You, Sucka! or for carrying a load named Michael Dudikoff through some American Ninja films. James was almost always relegated to playing sidekick to some lead-footed white hero, which was ironic since James was a better fighter and actor than pretty much everyone to whom he was forced to play second fiddle. He was definitely one of the great fixtures of action cinema until his untimely death from pancreatic cancer in 1993.
He'd already worked with James Glickenhaus in 1980 on the "'Nam vet gets revenge" flick The Exterminator. In The Soldier, he's the guy who sneaks in and does that attempted wire assassination to Ken Wahl I mentioned at the beginning of this article. Of course, after some fighting, they just laugh and embrace, glossing over the fact that had The Soldier not reacted in time he would have been decapitated. And even though he did react in time, he still has an inch-deep gash in his forearm. Do people, even highly trained people, really do this "trying to kill my buddy as a good joke" thing? Rough housing is fine and all, but most people draw the line at attempted murder, even if it's all in good fun. It's like Kato constantly attacking Inspector Clouseau. Most people would just sneak up and give their buddy a wet willie or something, not try to slice their limbs off.
The Soldier assembles the exact same crack team that is assembled for every movie of this nature. There's the black guy, the drunk, the chick, and the guy who doesn't want to be there. Together, they hatch a scheme in which the rest of the team will commandeer a nuclear missile silo while The Soldier drives around Berlin in a Porsche for no discernable reason. The job of the guys in the silo is to threaten to nuke Moscow unless they drop this whole scheme with irradiating the Saudi oil fields. To show they mean business, The Soldier will drive fast and jump a sports car over the Berlin Wall. That's their plan? First of all, taking over the missile silo is ridiculously easy. It must have been on the same base that ships nuclear materials in open-bed trucks with no armed escort. Or it's the same base that can be infiltrated by a precocious bike-riding pre-teen who made his own clearance cards. Seriously, even though it's adults doing the espionagin', their plans are even more ridiculous than what any spy-thwarting youngster would have devised. I mean, we don't want to lose the oil, so instead we'll start World War III and destroy the whole world? At least the Russian plan could have resulted in Russia itself surviving and being a society where everyone wears burlap sacks and hoes the fields all day. I mean, they were pretty much there already. But The Soldier's plan makes even the oil field scheme seem like a good idea. This is the kind of crap that probably sparked the events we saw in Red Dawn. I always wondered why the Russians would launch an unprovoked attack on the United States, and why they'd have a bunch of sun-loving tropical island boys from Cuba invade a small town in Colorado. Now we know they were pissed about the stupid crap The Soldier was trying to pull. The Cubans probably just wanted to see snow and shoot at C. Thomas Howell. Who doesn't want to shoot at C. Thomas Howell?
Talk about a lunkheaded movie. When a stupid action film aspires to be nothing more than a stupid action film, it's usually not bad. You know what you're getting, after all. What's far more entertaining, however, is when an action film tries hard to be smart and the effort just makes it ten times stupider than it would have been without the delusions of intelligence. Chimps could hatch better plots than Glickenhaus has concocted for this mess. Nothing makes any sense even by Cold War standards when lots of things countries did seemed to make no sense. Even Ronald Reagan, who damn sure had some fruitcake ideas, would have dismissed these schemes as a bunch of junk. Why would the Russians want to catapult the whole world into a state of total chaos? Oh sure, because they're evil. Even Tom Clancy wouldn't devise a plot that inane. And what about The Soldier's plan to prevent it from happening? Why did he have to have his guys break in and take over the missile silo? All he does is meet up with The Russians in East Berlin and say, "We're going to blow up Moscow if you blow up the oil," and they take him at his word. They are terrified by the revelation that The Soldier now has a missile pointing at Moscow. Was it somehow a shock to the Soviets that we had missiles pointing at them all ready to go? Who did they think we were pointing them at? His whole plan is the brinksmanship equivalent of spending a million dollars to catch a guy who stole ten dollars. Rather than breathing a sigh of relief that the crisis has been averted, you just sort of sit there and go, "That's it? Really? Man, I'm glad the Cold War's over."
The film isn't helped by the plodding Tangerine Dream score, which seems totally out of place in an action film. Moody synthesized new age music hardly communicates a sense of urgency, so even at the points where the film is well-paced and action-packed, it seems slow-moving and dull. Sometimes a score that seems contradictory to the onscreen action can end up working quite well. This is not one of those times. And speaking of dull, it seems like Steve James is the only one doing any acting. The concept of having more than one facial expression or tone of voice seems lost on Wahl, who glides through his performance as The Soldier with somnambulistic dreariness. Was he even aware of the fact that he was making a movie? Klaus Kinski is fine, as he always is, but he's only in the movie for a tiny bit, long enough to justify listing him on the movie poster to snare any of the types of people who might be snared by Klaus Kinski's name on the marquee. Everyone else turns in performances that could be called "below average" had Ken Wahl not set the bar so low. Compared to him, the other actors seem as low-key as Cesar Romero playing The Joker. Not that the script gives them much to work with.
With so many things going against this film, it's no surprise that I thoroughly enjoyed it. It's a miserable failure as an intelligent espionage thriller, but as a crappy action film it succeeds marvelously. There's a lot of shooting, and when people get shot the blood really gushes. Ken Wahl (or his stunt double) gets to have a ski hill shoot out. He also gets to jump an expensive sports car over the Berlin Wall — score one for capitalism, baby! A lot of things blow up, and there's one of those scenes where a fight breaks out in a cowboy bar and the band just keeps on playing as if it's nothing out of the ordinary (I think that joke was old even in 1982). Although I feel there's too much poorly used slow-motion (made worse by Tangerine Dream's meandering synth score), at least there's a lot of action, and some of it is even fairly exciting.
Despite making a number of action-oriented films, Glickenhaus just never got the hang of it. For his next movie, 1985's The Protector, even Jackie Chan couldn't help Glickenhaus figure out how to stage a compelling action set piece. That The Soldier has any action at all worth watching is a bit of a miracle, but it's a welcome surprise. The ski chase is good, as are a number of bloody shootouts and car chases, though you'll be left wondering what sort of lame Porsche is unable to outrun an Army jeep. The horrendously thought-out plot only adds to the charm. At least they tried to make something smart. They simply didn't succeed. But they did make something that is more entertaining than it is disappointing. Better spy films have come and gone, but The Soldier has enough gratuitous violence and bad writing to keep it on the list of fond memories I've been able to relive. If you want your thrills delivered with brains and wit, you'd best look elsewhere. If you want them delivered with bloody squibs and asinine writing, then The Soldier just might be the man for the job.


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FAYETTEVILLE, AR -- Fayetteville Athletic Club (FAC) faces a foreclosure lawsuit claiming the club is in default on debt totaling more than $10 million, according to the Northwest Arkansas Times.
The lawsuit was filed last Wednesday by SM-WLJ Asset Owner LLC, a Delaware-based limited liability company, the newspaper reported. SM-WLJ purchased the debt from the Federal Deposit Insurance Corp. (FDIC) after federal regulators closed ANB Financial in May, according to the complaint.
On June 29, 2005, FAC executed a $9.5 million loan with ANB. The club went on to borrow $320,000 from ANB on July 21, 2006, and $194,000 on Dec. 3, 2007, the newspaper reported. The debt was transferred on Dec. 29 to SM-WLJ, which later demanded payment in full on the debt totaling $10.6 million to be paid within 10 days.
FAC owners Robert and Katherine Shoulders are named in the lawsuit because they personally guaranteed the debt. Robert Shoulders told the newspaper that his club has been working with the FDIC to resolve the matter since ANB closed. Shoulders added that the FDIC rejected an offer from the club's bank to buy the debt and that SM-WLJ also rejected an offer to receive $1.5 million in less than 90 days.
"They have not asked us for a payment," Shoulders told the newspaper. "We intend to fight this and maintain FAC as a great asset to the community. We are going to do whatever it takes to protect the club and its members. We are not throwing in the towel. The club is not in jeopardy of closing."
FAC is a 120,000-square-foot multipurpose facility that includes amenities such as a day spa, child care services, an indoor track and more than 100 pieces of cardio equipment.


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Man, I've got really high hopes for this. Looks like it could be pretty good. I'll be taking my dad for Father's Day.
NoChops wrote:OMG!! Is the story of the Son of Jerrell?!?!?!?!
seen it umpteen times... bugger off Hollywood.
BASF wrote:Until they make a movie with either Darkseid or Doomsday, none of them are worth watching.
JSeahawks wrote: I'll be taking my dad for Father's Day.
Ballz wrote:BASF wrote:Until they make a movie with either Darkseid or Doomsday, none of them are worth watching.
Braniac or Bizarro could be interesting also.
JSeahawks wrote:Shoved down your throat? I don't think anybody is forcing you to go see it.
MontanaHawk05 wrote:Enjoy it while it lasts. The only thing beyond that is the churning of the board game movies.
RolandDeschain wrote:I hear you there, J. As a reader of actual novels that span many hundreds of pages, I honestly find it a bit offensive that comic book nerds get so uppity about crap like this based on a 30-year history of 500 comic books that have enough combined dialogue in them to read in an hour.
Nitpicking movies based on comic books is ridiculous to me. There was never substantive extended dialogue for detail in the first place, and comic books inherently have tons of room for interpretation because of that.
Flame away...
RolandDeschain wrote:Fistbump, Pehawk. I completely agree. People put too damned much merit into originality. Something doesn't have to be original to be good. If someone takes movie X that was good, but not great, in its original release and remakes it and now everyone gives it a 9/10, who CARES if it's not original?
It's also hypocrisy, and here's how: All of you people whining about the lack of originality in film have no problem with it in music. I can guarantee you there isn't a person on this forum that does not have at least ONE instance of a song that they like a cover version of better than the original version.
Why do you give music a pass for this and have NO PROBLEMS with popular songs being covered by 5-10 different bands over the decades, yet remaking a superhero movie or whatever is something to whine about Hollywood over?
I don't see you whining about Johnny Cash covering "Hurt" by NIN, or "Mad World" by Gary Jules, used to such great effect in the film Donnie Darko, or Jimi Hendrix's cover of All Along the Watchtower.
There are countless examples of covers that are as good as, or better than, their originals. Yet, some people have a major problem with Hollywood doing the same thing. Hypocrisy, I say.
JSeahawks wrote:Saw it tonight and I thought it was great. Lived up to my expectations. I just wish they focused a bit more on the romance and added a few upbeat musical and dance numbers.
pehawk wrote:JSeahawks wrote:Saw it tonight and I thought it was great. Lived up to my expectations. I just wish they focused a bit more on the romance and added a few upbeat musical and dance numbers.
Fixed it for you.
Yeah, I'm still thinking about it a bit tonight. It surpassed my expectations, for sure
Seahawk Sailor wrote:Saw this last night. Two things. First, a gaping plot hole kind of ruined it for me. I ain't gonna spoil it, but let's just say the whole second half of the movie could have been completely cut based on a logical decision in the best interests of the decision maker. Second, they destroyed more of NYC/Metropolis (whatever) than Iron Man and Avengers put together. To top that, Hollywood will have to create two gigantic colossi that duke it out all across America, stomping on every city large enough to have public transportation. My second favorite part was the first 20 minutes, up until they sent Zod's crew up to exile in those space penis-craft. My first favorite part was the Carl's Jr. commercials on TV.
Other than that, it was a decent popcorn flick.
CANHawk wrote:I LOL'd so fricken loud when I saw the penis-crafts lift off. They shoot the bad guys off to space in penis shaped space ships and make them fly through a giant space vagina. WHAT... THE... Funkmaster Flex was THAT all about? I think I was the only person in the theater who saw it cuz people were looking at me like I was nuts.


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Services are set for Friday in Milford, Conn., for the Mamaroneck teenager who died Sunday after a freak snowmobile accident in New Hampshire.
Over the weekend , Wired2fish reported that 15-year-old Arthur Pierre Remy of Mamaroneck was one of three fishermen that died during the Meredith Rotary Club Ice Fishing Derby on Lake Winnipesaukee when their snowmobiles broke through the surface.
Arthur Remy's body was recovered Sunday from his beloved Lake Winnipesaukee, N.H.
He was the eldest child of Arnaud and Trina Riso Remy.
According to news reports, Remy was fishing with his 48-year-old father - on two separate snowmobiles - when both machines fell through the ice. Arnaud Remy was rescued on Sunday morning while the search continued for his son, who was ultimately found in the lake more than 70-feet deep.
Born in London, England on May 27, 2001, Arthur was a sophomore at the French-American School of New York where he also was a leader on FASNY's junior varsity soccer and basketball teams.
Always active in recreational sports, Arthur played soccer with the Larchmont Lions since age 6, as well as football, baseball and lacrosse.
A New Englander at heart, Arthur's greatest passion was the outdoors: fishing, hunting, archery, sailing and countless water sports. Arthur was a budding entrepreneur with his Hook-in-a-Box business, which allowed him to share his expertise of various baits and lures with fellow fishermen.
Recently, Arthur launched a community service project to teach underprivileged children about the great outdoors. Arthur had an amazing, open spirit and a zest for life. With a twinkle in his blue eyes and an easy grin, he brightened any room the moment he stepped in.
Arthur loved spending summers with his family in France, as well as with cousins and friends at Lake Winni. He was outnumbered in a family with many little girls, but he loved his role as big brother and always helped the little ones.
A steadfast fan of the Boston Red Sox and New England Patriots, Arthur was a good sportsman who happily endured a lot of 'heat' from friends in New York. Arthur made friends easily wherever he went, and was loved by classmates, teammates, teachers and coaches.
He was sincere, selfless and joyful, and left a lasting impression on whoever crossed his path. "What a great kid…"
In addition to his loving parents, Arthur leaves two sisters, Alice and Juliette Remy; paternal grandparents, Pierre Remy and Liliane Mollier; maternal grandparents, Thomas and Diane Riso; aunts and uncles, Amiee Riso, Amanda and Eric O'Brien, and Nathalie and Emmanuel Berthier; cousins, Madison, Emma, Teagan and Anna O'Brien, as well as Pauline and Quentin Remy. Arthur was predeceased by his paternal grandmother, Chamberlaine Remy.A
Mass of Christian Burial is on Friday, Feb. 17 at 1:30 p.m. at Saint Mary Church, 70 Gulf St, in Milford, Conn.
Burial will follow at Saint Mary Cemetery, Buckingham Avenue, Milford, Conn.
Friends and family may call on Thursday, Feb. 16, 2017 from 4 p.m. to 8 p.m. at the Cody-White Funeral Home, 107 Broad St. in Milford.
In lieu of flowers, a trust has been set up in Arthur's memory. Contributions may be made by check to the Arthur Remy Memorial Project. Checks should be dated April 1, 2017, and sent to The Arthur Remy Memorial Project, 26 Garden Road, Harrison, N.Y. 10528.
To leave online condolences, go to the funeral home website at www.codywhitefuneralservice.com .
Two other snowmobilers reportedly died on the New Hampshire lake over the weekend, including a man celebrating his 62nd birthday. Several others suffered injuries and required treatment at a local hospital.
"Lake Winnipesaukee can be extremely unpredictable as far as ice depths," says Moultonborough Police Col. Kevin Jordan of New Hampshire Fish and Game told radio station WMUR . "We've always had this real concern that we'd have a day like today, and it's just horrible."
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AUGUSTA — More than half of the jobs currently open in Maine pay less than the $15.40 an hour a single adult needs to meet basic expenses such as food, housing and utilities, according to a report released by the Maine People's Alliance on Tuesday.
And, for every job opportunity that pays in that range, there are 11 Mainers competing for that job, the report said.
The report from the alliance, a liberal political advocacy and research organization, prompted calls by lawmakers from both parties for state policies to expand opportunities.
Rep. Erin Herbig, D-Belfast, who took part in the news conference at which the report was released, said the findings speak to the need for investments to create jobs that provide a real future. "We need to make sure our state assistance programs create pathways to prosperity and that we don't allow the current recession to damage the future of our state," she said.
Sen. John Patrick, D-Rumford, who also was part of the presentation, said lawmakers know they must do something to move Maine from "the bottom of the pack."
"We rank dead last in the country for personal income growth," Patrick said. "While in this day and age of post-recession, folks sure are thankful when they have a job, but we need to do more, we need to do better so that Mainers can provide for their families."
The Legislature's Joint Select Committee on Maine's Workforce and Economic Future has spent the past four weeks looking at ways to renew partnerships between state government, business, education and workers.
During the recession, Maine saw the largest increase of any state in the nation of residents taking on multiple jobs in order to make ends meet, according to the federal Bureau of Labor.
House Republican Leader Ken Fredette of Newport released a statement saying that Republicans and Democrats must work together to turn around a trend that has gone on for decades.
"First, we must make Maine a competitive place to attract new, high-paying jobs with lower energy costs, a better-trained workforce, and simpler regulations," Fredette said in the statement. "Second, we must help Mainers keep more money in their pockets with the jobs they have. That means lower health insurance costs, lower taxes, smaller utility bills, and more."
In Maine, the minimum wage is $7.50 an hour, or $15,600 a year. Maine's minimum wage is higher than the federal minimum wage of $7.25.
President Obama has proposed raising the federal minimum wage to $9 a hour, but that would still be below the amount seen as a "living wage" of $15.40 an hour for a single adult to cover housing, food, transportation and health care, the Maine People's Alliance report said.
A family of four, with both adults working, needs to make a combined $38.46 an hour to support basic needs, the report says. That equates to a gross annual income, with both adults' salaries combined, of roughly $80,000 a year.
The livable wage cited in the report is based on expenses for food, housing and utilities, transportation, household and personal expenses, child care, state and federal taxes and savings of 10 percent of income.
The wage cited in the report is higher than Maine's median income for a four-person family — $71,237 a year, according to the U.S. Census — and far above the federal poverty rate for a family of four — $23,550.
"The idea of a livable wage is somewhat subjective," said Charles Colgan, professor of public policy and management at the University of Southern Maine's Muskie School of Public Service. "There are as many different takes on what equals a living wage as there are on what the poverty level is. There's no one answer."
Regardless of how it's measured, workers who took part in the presentation said they are struggling to make a living.
"It used to be said that if you worked hard, you could pull yourself up and back from the brink," said Patty Kidder of Sanford, who works as a massage therapist and tax preparer while her husband returns to school after being laid off from his job as a computer technician. "These days, working a full-time job isn't enough to support your family. All it takes is one thing to go wrong, like a sudden and unexpected injury or unemployment, to push you back under."
According to the report, a family with a single parent and two children needs a living wage of $22.56 to cover basic expenses. The challenge is that the single parent competes with 39 other people for a job opening at that level, it says.
Marie Pineo of Bangor, who has two teenage boys, currently works part-time due to a debilitating heart disease. She made $7,000 last year.
"I am always looking for a job, but there are other people looking, too," Pineo said. "To find a permanent job that suits the requirements of my disability is impossible. The lack of a living wage keeps me poor. Just to survive, I often have to use revolving credit cards to pay basic bills, food pantries to make food stretch, and cut out much-needed medication."
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First to open 13 years in a row
Wrightwood, CA – October 28, 2009: Mountain High Resort in Wrightwood will open tomorrow, October 29th, making this the 13th year in a row they have been the first resort to open in Southern California with top to bottom riding. This also marks the resort's earliest opening ever on machine made snow.
Says Karl Kapuscinski, "This has the feel of a great season. With our early opening, El Nino looming, and the economy recovering, we feel very positive about the upcoming winter."
IMPORTANT!!! Thursday will be open to season pass holders only. For avid skiers and snowboarders looking for a recession-proof deal, Mountain High's $299 Anytime Season Pass is a great way to save money. Regularly $599, this pass is good any day or night during the season, including holidays, and pays for itself in just five visits. Guests can get more information along with snow reports, live cams and text alerts at mthigh.com.
Beginning Friday, early season prices will be $25 for children ages 7 to 12, $30 for Night tickets from 5pm to 10pm, $35 for a 4-Hour ticket, and $40 for an 8-Hour ticket. Prices are subject to change without notice.
Operating hours will be 9am to 5pm on Thursday, 8:30am to 10pm on Friday, 8am to 10pm on Saturday, and 8am to 4pm on Sunday.
Up to two lifts will be available accessing four trails which consist of predominately beginner to intermediate terrain. Six to ten terrain features will also be on the mountain including several of Mountain High's brand new jibs.
A full line of rental and retail products will be available along with repair services and food & beverage. The Winter Sports School is not yet offering lessons but will begin as soon as the necessary beginner terrain comes on line.
Cold temperatures and aggressive snowmaking are what lead to this early opening and Mountain High will continue to make snow whenever possible, even during the day, so guests are advised to dress warmly.
Mountain High is Southern California's closest winter resort located just an hour and a half from Los Angeles and Orange County. The area consists of three separate mountains (Mountain High East, West, and North), and offers a wide variety of lifts and trails, the world class Faultline Terrain Park, an outstanding Winter Sports School, and the region's largest tubing area. Snowmaking covers more than 80% of the slopes delivering consistent snow conditions from November through April. Mountain High is traditionally the first resort in Southern California to open each season and the only local area with night skiing seven nights-a-week. Get more at mthigh.com.


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On October 17, 1900, (Arthur) Yvor Winters was born in Chicago, Illinois. While studying at the University of Chicago he was diagnosed with tuberculosis and decided to relocate to Santa Fe, New Mexico, for the sake of his health. His early poems, published in 1921 and 1922, were all written at a tuberculosis sanitarium. In 1923 and 1924, Winters taught at the grade school and high school in the coal-mining camp towns of Madrid and Cerillo, New Mexico. He enrolled at the University of Colorado in 1925, and there he earned his bachelor's and master's degrees. In 1926, he married the poet and novelist Janet Lewis. He spent two years teaching at the University of Idaho in Moscow before entering Stanford University as a graduate student, receiving his PhD in 1934. From 1928 until his death, he was a member of the Stanford English department.
His books of poetry include The Early Poems of Yvor Winters, 1920-1928 (Swallow Press, 1966); Collected Poems (1952; revised edition, 1960), winner of the Bollingen Prize; To the Holy Spirit (1947); Poems (1940); Before Disaster (1934); The Proof (1930); and The Immobile Wind (1921). Winters was also a prolific and controversial critic who believed that a work of art should be "an act of moral judgement" and attacked such literary icons as T. S. Eliot and Henry James. The chair of the Stanford English department notoriously denounced Winters as a "disgrace to the department." In Defense of Reason (1947), Winters's major critical work, is a collection of three earlier studiesPrimitivism and Decadence (1937), Maule's Curse (1938), and The Anatomy of Nonsense (1943).
Winters's honors include a National Institute of Arts and Letters award as well as grants from The Guggenheim Foundation and The National Endowment for the Arts. He died on January 25, 1968 in Palo Alto, California.
A Selected Bibliography
The Immobile Wind (1921)
The Proof (1930)
Before Disaster (1934)
Poems (1940)
To the Holy Spirit (1947)
Collected Poems (1952)
Collected Poems (revised edition) (1960)
The Early Poems of Yvor Winters, 1920-1928 (1966)
In Defense of Reason (1947)
The Function of Criticism: Problems and Exercises (1957)
On Modern Poets: Stevens, Eliot, Ransom, Crane, Hopkins, Frost (1959)
Forms of Discovery (1967)


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text: The US skipper, pictured above with European counterpart Jose Maria Olazabal, is hoping the home crowd advantage will give his team the edge [EPA]US captain Davis Love III has struggled for years to come up with a way of getting a real 'home field advantage' over Europe at this week's Ryder Cup and he hopes a freewheeling, birdie-laden shootout is his team's best shot at the trophy. The battleground for the biennial golfing showdown will be the stately Medinah Country Club on the outskirts of Chicago and that choice alone suggests the United States will have an edge. Tiger Woods has won twice at Medinah, lifting the PGA Championship in 1999 and 2006, while many of his Ryder Cup team mates grew up learning the game on similar tree-lined layouts. But American-style courses and their slick greens are no longer a mystery to European visitors, who have been bagging more PGA Tour wins over the years. Spaniard Sergio Garcia has twice finished runner-up at Medinah while Northern Ireland's Rory McIlroy does not need a windswept links course to find success, the world number one winning four titles on American soil this year including his second major at the PGA Championship.US strengths Love, however, believes he can get an advantage from Medinah by playing to US strengths. "I struggled for two years to kind of come up with a way, how do you get an advantage," Love told reporters shortly after he arrived at Medinah on Monday with his European counterpart Jose Maria Olazabal. "We're a long-hitting, freewheeling, fun-to-watch team. We have 24 of the best players in the world. They are all pretty good at adapting to conditions. "One thing I've never liked is rough and I've been lucky enough to have a little bit of an influence on two golf tournaments, our McGladrey Classic and this Ryder Cup, and neither one of them had a lot of rough."I just don't like rough." Love said the Medinah set-up would also play to a pro-American crowd, giving the galleries plenty to get excited about once competition begins on Friday with the opening foursomes. "I think the fans want to see a little excitement. They want to see birdies," said Love. "Even holes tied at birdies are more fun than six-footers tying for par. "We want to let these unbelievable athletes freewheel it a little bit and play. Medinah is such a big, long golf course, and with the weather turning bad on us, I don't think we wanted a lot of rough. "It's still going to be tough. It's a tough golf course but without the deep rough, saves us the chip outs and the grinding it out style of golf " - Davis Love III, USA Captain "It's still going to be tough. It's a tough golf course but without the deep rough, saves us the chip outs and the grinding it out style of golf."Challenging course Medinah No. 3 Course is a challenging tree-lined layout designed by Tom Bendelow and opened for play in 1928. Changed beyond all recognition after several revamps, it became the longest course to stage a major when the PGA Championship was played there for a second time in 2006. A 7,401-yard layout when Woods won the 1999 PGA Championship, it was stretched to 7,561 for the 2006 edition, also won by Woods. In a restoration project which began in 2002, course architect Rees Jones removed 300 trees, added new tees or enlarged existing ones, rebuilt some of the greens and redesigned several greenside bunkers. "The greens, I had four guys out there today, and they reported back that the greens are just absolutely perfect," said Love. "There's not a lot of rough, which the members like, and hopefully everybody else likes it. "The fairways have made an incredible transformation in the last six weeks. "It's amazing, I've been here two weeks ago, a week ago, and was out on the golf course playing yesterday, and literally, every day, every day it just gets better and better. It's amazing, and on TV, it's just going to be so gorgeous." SOURCE: Reuters Sport Golf US & Canada United States


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