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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — Since no one else wants to say it, I will.
It's time Kobe Bryant, time to call it a season and hunker down and get ready for the 2014-15 season.
I don't care that those words constitute blasphemy in the world of Kobe's followers. Sometimes, even for a great player like Kobe, someone else has to make that call. And someone in the Lakers' organization needs to make this one. Now that we know Kobe will miss another two to four weeks recovering from the fractured knee that has cost him the Lakers' last 20 games (news courtesy of our man Kevin Ding from Bleacher Report).
The Lakers' 4-16 record since the knee fracture was diagnosed is the most obvious nod to Kobe's greatness but also the most glaring exhibit as to why he needs to forgo the rest of this season. His absence has already buried a mediocre team that is not going to recover in time to make a serious playoff push.
The hole is already too deep.
Kobe pushing it to get back in time to finish out this season in uniform would be a useless exercise for a player who should not be subject to playing exhibition games during the regular season at this stage of his career. Kobe can't save the Lakers' season, coach Mike D'Antoni's job or anything else by coming back this season. In fact, I think it helps the Lakers' cause more if he stays off the court the rest of this season and focuses more on his recruiting effort for free agency. (Yeah, I know he said he's not going to recruit Carmelo Anthony or anyone else, but don't believe that hype!)
I don't want to see a Lakers team with Kobe and Steve Nash (who is reportedly close to making his long-awaited return to active rotation duty soon) struggling to find their footing knowing that the season ends for the Lakers on April 16 against the San Antonio Spurs.
It would be different if Kobe was younger, if he was still in the physical prime of his career like Russell Westbrook or Derrick Rose. Rushing back on young legs and resilient joints and bones is a completely different challenge than what Kobe is and will deal with in the future.
Let the rebuilding job begin in the Southland, with Kobe as chief recruiter. His legacy is safe. He can afford to have a six-game season given all that he's done in his career.
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I once happened upon my brothers attempting to fly an SUV off a cliff. This was years ago, when Grand Theft Auto III was still new, but it was already easy enough to search online for the cheat code to make cars fly. After about an hour of trying to glide across a river and into a football stadium, they finally cleared the edge of the wall, landed the car inside, and broke into proud laughter upon discovering the Easter egg inside: an image of fans spelling out the name of Liberty City's football team: "COCKS".
I often think back on this when I read various theories on why we find games "fun." Some of the most popular theories of engagement come down to offering an optimal level of challenge, establishing a pleasant "flow" state. Surely there was something like that going on here, but there was also so much more, from the thrill of intentionally messing with the laws of physics to the naughty humor in the final payoff.
Theories that account for a range of different types of players, meanwhile, have been useful in considering that games affect us on more levels than simply how challenging they are.
In the process of trying to simplify and codify how people think, however, these theories have trouble accounting for how a game can affect a person in different ways and in different contexts, or how to address appeals of games that don't fit quite as neatly into a carefully-structured model.
In this article, then, I offer five general categories of appeal (hence, "appeals") describing a host of different -- but not necessarily mutually exclusive -- ways that we engage with games.
This framework of appeals has been developed through research conducted between 2008 and 2011, including discourse analysis of online sources (e.g., collecting examples from public forum discussions and blog comments; see "'You are dead. Continue?'") and participant-observation ethnographic research (e.g., playing games with people in arcades; see "Arcadian Rhythms").
The appeals I'll offer aren't necessarily all "good" appeals -- this framework includes ways that games engage players that some designers have criticized as little more than manipulation -- but they may offer some broad ways to describe what makes games tick, and how to blend different kinds of appeals to encourage or even discourage different kinds of engagement.
Types of Players vs. Types of Appeals
I describe this theory quite purposely in terms of the characteristics of games and play instead of the characteristics of players themselves. Models of player personality and demographics are very attractive in their elegant simplicity, whether you're talking about the common-knowledge distinction between "casual" and "hardcore" or more scientific approaches drawing on social psychology. (See Bart Stewart's relatively recent Gamasutra feature for one such robust approach.)
Nevertheless, it may be more productive to describe engagement with games according to a variety of approaches to play itself, for at least three major reasons.
First, theories of "player types" often don't easily match up with empirical and anecdotal evidence of how people actually play games. We can display different "personalities" between different games, or even within a single game that offers a variety of different mechanics.
Take, for instance, the anecdote that began this article, in which my brothers continually flew a car off a cliff. What type of players are my brothers in this example -- say, in terms of Bartle's types?
Are they explorers, fiddling with the game systems and investigating its world? A large part of the reason they were attempting to get into that stadium was indeed that they wanted to know whether the game logic would allow them, and they wanted to discover whatever might be inside.
Are they achievers, looking to beat a rules-based challenge? It was a challenge of their own making, but they still had a distinct end condition, and even a sort of in-game reward in the Easter egg.
Are they socializers, playing side by side, telling a story together through their play? Certainly, playing cooperatively and sharing a laugh had something to do with the appeal.
Are they killers, going out of their way to subvert the rules of the game? They couldn't have played this way at all if it weren't for the fact that they entered a cheat code.
Does it change our answer if we find out that they also played the game separately from one another on other occasions, each following the rules and paying attention to the plot? Or does it change our answer if we find out that they approach other games completely differently -- say, eschewing any "cheating" or exploration in competitive sports games?
To be fair, Bartle originally suggested this typology not to describe all game players, but to describe MUD players. He even makes the point that three kinds of players aren't treating the MUD as a "game" at all, but as "pastime," "sport," and "entertainment," and acknowledges that "most players leaned at least a little to all four [types], but tended to have some particular overall preference."
The fact that game critics and designers have applied this typology more broadly may reflect an admirably progressive willingness to broaden our understanding of what a "game" can be, but it also extends this particular model well beyond the claims of the original 30-person study that brought it about.
My goal with this thought exercise, then, is to illustrate the problem with focusing on a small group of players or a single genre. Players exhibit different preferences and behaviors with different games or in different social contexts, which makes it problematic to claim that anything so fixed as personality or an inherent "type" is at the root of enjoyment. My brothers played the way they did not just because of who they were, but because of the context of the situation: Each was sharing the game with another player he knew very well, and they were playing a game whose design allowed them to play it in multiple ways.
This brings me to the second major issue with describing how we engage with games based on types of players instead of types of behaviors. By suggesting that we design games around categories of players, we run the risk of reifying our own top-down notions of what the player base is like.
This risk could be as innocuous as simply missing out on audiences that we didn't know existed -- a segment of players that requires more nuance to understand than "hardcore" or "casual," perhaps, or that can't be defined as any of killers, achievers, explorers, or socializers. More problematic, however, designing games with player typologies in mind opens the doorway to reinforce stereotypes of which games different people "should" be playing, and which play styles are more valid than others.
In his original article, Bartle didn't have much good to say about the "killers"; they were basically the Slytherin of player types, a category for those who don't play well with others. Bart Stewart's Unified Model goes some way toward legitimizing their activities as a valid play style that most games simply aren't designed to accommodate, but the fact remains that the original typology was constructed in such a way that essentially demonizes a segment of players. In the meantime, releases like Gears of War have demonstrated that there's a market for games that explicitly encourage "killer" play styles, such as by offering brutal and demoralizing ways to dispatch with opponents.
Even more problematic than missing out on audiences, however, is to unintentionally exclude audiences by assuming that certain games are only for certain "types" of players. This risk is probably less in overt categorizations than in implicit or easily inferred connections, like the common assumption that women are more likely to be "casual" gamers, and less interested in games like fast-paced, first person shooters.
To be fair, some studies have indeed observed different preferences between different demographics, and some have even attempted to explain such differences -- say, in terms of innate, cognitive differences between men and women (e.g., see John Sherry's "Flow and Media Enjoyment" [pdf link]). Again, however, it's important to consider the huge role that context can play in terms of what people will feel comfortable engaging in -- or, to put it another way, what they'll even bother to try.
Consider a study by Diane Carr, for instance, which found that when girls were given the chance to regularly play whatever games they wanted in a comfortable, non-judgmental atmosphere, expectations from both stereotypes and other empirical evidence practically disappeared. Yes, men might have a slight neuropsychological edge at navigating a 3D maze in a first person shooter, but that's probably not what's keeping more women from playing. The fact that a game is popularly considered more "meant for" some audiences than others is worth considering as a factor in who chooses to play, rather than who would be capable of enjoying it.
From the standpoint of simply designing more engaging games, however, the greatest reason I see for thinking in terms of "game appeals" is that it's a lot easier to contemplate how to blend different appeals than different personalities. Through design, we can make room for a number of different ways to enjoy a game, or we can purposefully pare down the number of appeals a game offers so that they don't conflict with one another in unintentional ways. Before I offer some more specific examples of how to think about this, however, I'd like to suggest what I see as some useful categories to think about appeals.
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Peanut butter bread
Lately I've been on a bit of a PB+J kick, and was wondering what it might be like to make a peanut butter bread. Here was my attempt. The peanut butter was 20% of the dough by weight of flour. Also I added some honey. The recipe was an easy one. In grams:
White flour: 576
Water: 371
Peanut Butter: 118
Honey: 29
Sourdough Starter: 26 (125% hydration starter).
Salt: 9
1) Mix dough and chill for a long time.
2) Warm up to ambient temp. Shape, proof, and bake.
Here's how it came out. The smell and taste is great. It tastes very peanut-buttery. It screams for a jelly spread though. The crumb is very creamy in texture. I initially thought I might have underbaked it, but it registered 200F internally. It is the peanut butter that makes it so creamy. I think it will be best toasted with jelly. Speaking of jelly, the next time around, I will add some of that too, and try to make a full PB+J bread. Maybe with chunky peanut butter. Hehe. :)
Here are the pics. Looks pretty average, and it split a little on the top, but oh well, just an experiment.
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Michelle Moore admits to being the girl with thick glasses who checked out a large stack of library books every two weeks.
"There was never a time I wasn't interested in reading novels and short stories," she said. "The real push came when I discovered that literature was just one aspect of culture, and that the fun part was learning and studying about the way texts are products of, contribute to, and speak back at the cultures in which they appear."
Moore earned her bachelor's degree at Dickinson College and both her master's and Ph.D. at the State University of New York at Binghamton. She previously taught as a teaching assistant, instructor and adjunct faculty member at SUNY at Binghamton and as an instructor at Broome Community College in New York.
Her interests include gender, gothic, horror and representations of violence. Moore has written numerous articles, papers and chapters on these topics and names trans-Atlantic modernism as her major specialty.
"The modernism period, which began in the 1880s, reflects the artistic response to the massive cultural, social and technological changes taking place in the world," she explained. "I look at French, German, British and U.S. modernism, among others, and how it's all interconnected with each other through film, literature and history."
For the 2010-2011 academic year, Moore was named Outstanding Overall Faculty Member at COD. She strongly believes in a Liberal Arts education and hopes her students get more from her classes than relating education with job ambition.
"Students think this connection must be understood and tangible at this very early stage in their lives," she said. "But education is more than that. It's about learning how to learn and developing a critical sense, so they can have well-reasoned ideas and opinions instead of having to defer to a manipulative outside authority.
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Clay Fitness & Nutrition LLC http://www.clayfitness.net is current site
Clay F&N offers personal training, small group training, targeted group exercise classes, nutrition education, nutrition counseling, and meal planning for individuals who are serious about goal oriented fitness and health. Men and women, adults and teens, serious athletes and people wishing to lose some weight, have the attention of dedicated, motivated, and passionate coaches and instructors.
The studio is located in a great historic neighborhood called Belmont (in Charlottesville, VA near University of Virginia) that is undergoing a gentrification now. The studio is designed to be an uplifting, well designed airy space that will inspire fun and inspiration.
At Clay Fitness & Nutrition (LLC) clients are inspired to integrate exercise and proper nutrition into their life. Not a traditional gym, clients actually want to come to class and training sessions and set goals around better nutrition. Classes and training sessions are cutting edge, fun, creative, and fun. Nutrition counseling is not based on one way of thinking of any diet gimmicks. Meal planning and life style changes are approached with care paid to nutritional demands, pre-existing conditions, life style limitations and schedules.
hip, urban folks who are progressive and have some disposable income and a commitment to their fitness & wellness.
Predominantly women and men between 30- and 55 living in and around Charlottesville, Va (near the University of Virginia). These people can be people who are serious athletes, people who just want to lose a couple of pounds, or people who are just tired of their uninspired experiences at traditional gyms. Classes and training will be offered from 5:30am until 8pm.
UVA students are a secondary market, but they are transient and don't last as long in terms of their existence in the community. Discounts are given to students.
Another market I seek to target are the people who live in the immediate Belmont neighborhood. I am offering a long term promotion called "Be Lean, Be Green". It gives anyone who walks or rides their bike to the studio a 5% discount on ANY service. I want the people of Belmont to feel like the new business moving into the neighborhood will bring something other than more traffic, people, and parking problems and noise. I want to honor the people in the immediate area with the discount and encourage those who can to avoid using gas powered vehicles to get to the studio.
a logo that is hip, urban and artsy. i like brown and green in the logo colors if possible. the idea of clay in the business name is that clay, like the body, is malleable and changeable. i seem to trend to liking casual fonts and letters in lower case.
i had thought about having some kind of font that had the words clay looking kind of wavy or flexible looking. i also thought about having some kind of scale or balance between the words fitness & nutrition. i don't want any bodies in the logo because i think that is cheezy. please don't use barbells.
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I'm here as an attendee of the American Association of Justice (AAJ) annual convention, which is being held at the Chicago Hilton. The AAJ has been going for over 65 years, and previously known as the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA). Its purpose is to support plaintiff lawyers of all guises, making for (as its website puts it) "a collective voice of the trial bar on Capitol Hill and in courthouses across the nation".
The AAJ's annual conference is attended by trial lawyers of every hue. There are seminars for trucking litigation lawyers, for those specialising in chiropractic malpractice litigation, birth trauma litigation and various kinds of pharmaceutical litigation. There all manner of other lectures and talks, all of which enable the open exchange of information and cutting edge know-how. I felt it was important to get a sense of how American lawyers deal with the kinds of issue that Spencers Solicitors handle, and so booked myself in for the four day conference.
The experience has been illuminating and when time allows I may write in more detail about it. For now, though, I will observe that two truisms seem to apply to the legal world on both sides of the atlantic.
Firstly, claimant lawyers are engaged in an adversarial battle with insurers. The latter subject to a minority exceptions seem to seek to minimise their liability at every stage, rather than remembering that without the people who take out their policies they wouldn't be in business. If only, as I have often argued in this blog, there could be a more constructive dialogue between insurers and claimant lawyers - if only a more holistic approach could be taken to the question of a victim's right to compensation - much time, cost and anxiety would be saved.
Secondly, claimant lawyers here and in America seem to be up against a legislative drive to reduce or cap the costs they can recover. While there may be merit in this in some ways, it cannot be right if the effect is to jeopardise a victim's ability to secure compensation to which he or she is rightfully entitled.
A final, more tangential observation is that it's true: American lawyers really are more theatrical than their British counterparts. They certainly don't lack for confidence and character. Last night, for example, my daughter Esme (who is accompanying me on the trip) booked us into Buddy Guy's Legends club. This is one of the most famous blues clubs in the world, and we had a fantastic evening watching brilliant musicians like Eric 'Guitar' Davis and Corey Dennison. As the evening wended on I found myself talking to a chap at our table. He was confident and charismatic - and turned out to be an appeal judge from North Carolina.
Somehow, one doesn't seem to meet Court of Appeal judges in Ronnie Scott's club in the heart of the West End. That's not to say they don't like jazz - in fact, I suspect quite a few of them do - but it is to say that they'd be hesitant about striking up a conversation with a complete stranger. Not so in America, and tonight Esme is taking me to another blues club. I'll be surprised if any lawyers who happen to be there are backward about coming forward.


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KANSAS CITY -- Enjoy magic? Wave a wand and watch baseballs disappear before your very eyes.
That's sort of what the Chicago White Sox did as they pulled a 2-0 victory out of a hat over the Royals on Tuesday night while 13,060 fans took in the show at Kauffman Stadium. Left-hander John Danks mystified the Kansas City batters -- again, improving to 6-0 against them in his career.View Full Game Coverage
KANSAS CITY -- Enjoy magic? Wave a wand and watch baseballs disappear before your very eyes.
That's sort of what the Chicago White Sox did as they pulled a 2-0 victory out of a hat over the Royals on Tuesday night while 13,060 fans took in the show at Kauffman Stadium. Left-hander John Danks mystified the Kansas City batters -- again, improving to 6-0 against them in his career.View Full Game Coverage
The loss, the Royals' sixth in their last eight games, cost them a chance to gain on the first-place Detroit Tigers, who lost to the Minnesota Twins.
As for the disappearing baseballs ...
This developed with Royals pitcher Ervin Santana as the reluctant center of attention. The ironic thing is that Santana's nickname is "Magic," but he took the brunt of these tricks.
In the first inning, Santana threw a 1-1 pitch and Gordon Beckham made the ball disappear somewhere over the left-field fence. Into the bullpen? Apparently not, because the Royals relief pitchers sat there motionless as if they had not seen a thing as dreadful as a White Sox home run.
"It ticks us off," said closer Greg Holland, one of the stolid sitters. "It's kind of a competitive thing."
Nevertheless, it was a home run. But that's an old disappearing ball trick.
Next came something very new -- never seen before, ladies and gentlemen, in the history of Kauffman Stadium!
In the second inning, Paul Konerko doubled down the left-field line and went to third on Avisail Garcia's single. Then, oops, a Santana pitch to Conor Gillaspie went off catcher Salvador Perez's glove and bounced to the backstop. And disappeared. Poof! Gone! Vanished! The mystified Perez motioned helplessly to show plate umpire Ron Kulpa there was no ball in sight.
"I was looking at Salvy, who was looking at me, and I was like, 'Where's the ball?'" Santana said. "And he was like, 'I don't know.' So it was hard."
Often when a pitch goes to the nearby backstop, it bounces back toward the catcher while the pitcher comes in to cover the plate.
"That's what I was waiting for but l-u-c-k-y me," Santana said sarcastically.
Too bad. Konerko trotted home to score on what was ruled a passed ball. What happened to that ball? Video replay showed it hopped over a revolving advertising sign in the board directly behind home plate and dropped inside, out of sight.
"It was weird, I didn't know where the ball had gone," Perez said.
When Perez looked, all he saw was an ad display touting, of all things, Kauffman Stadium's 40th anniversary. Well, this had to be a first for those 40 years.
Official ruling: Both runners get one base. You could look it up in Rule 7.05 (h) which provides an automatic one base if a pitch goes "over or through a field fence or backstop." No mention of an advertising board, but that, obviously, is part of the backstop.
Right fielder Justin Maxwell added to this unreality show when, after catching Gillaspie's fly ball, he threw home even though there was no runner at third.
"When the ball got lodged, Konerko wasn't even coming home," manager Ned Yost said. "The runner on first ran to third so [Maxwell] looked up and saw the guy on third base and thought that it was a two-base awardment because the ball got lodged. So when he went back to his position, in his mind, the guy was on third base the whole time."
Fortunately for the Royals, the faux pas didn't help the White Sox.
Anyway, it was 2-0, in favor of the now-you-see-it, now-you-don't White Sox.
Meanwhile, Danks didn't look like a guy who hadn't won in his last eight starts and was 2-10 for the season. He did, however, look like a guy who had a 5-0 career record and a 2.74 ERA in 12 starts against the Royals. He shut them out on seven hits through eight innings.
Eric Hosmer and Chris Getz each had two hits off Danks.
A couple of baserunning glitches, both involving Getz after each of his two hits, helped Danks. In the third inning, Getz took off from first base as Jamey Carroll hit a liner to center, thinking it would drop for a hit. But it was caught and Getz was doubled up easily at first.
"That wasn't a hit-and-run," Getz said. "He had two strikes and I had a good jump, so I just booked. That's one of those you're gambling, just trying to get something going."
In the eighth, Getz again led off with a single but was almost immediately picked off first base by Danks. This time the hit-and-run was on with Carroll at bat.
"He put a good move on me," Getz said. "We had something going there and, yeah, he caught me flat-footed. It's not any more complicated than that."
One last chance came as Billy Butler opened the Royals' ninth with a single against closer Addison Reed. Pinch-runner Jarrod Dyson stole second, but Reed got three quick outs for his 32nd save.
So the Royals' post-All-Star surge had stalled again.
"We certainly haven't cashed in or anything like that," Getz said. "We're grinding away. We're going to give it our all until mathematically we may or may not be out of it. "
The last-place White Sox, who have won four in a row and 10 of their last 15, were just happy to see those baseballs disappear.
"We're just trying to win games. If we have to do the hidden-ball trick to win, we'll take it," Beckham said. "We haven't really had a lot of bounces go our way this year, so it's nice to have that. I don't even know where it went. Still missing."


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ORWELL — Two thousand five hundred turkeys gobble as they mill about in one of Stonewood Farm's eight massive turkey barns. Up in front is a pen of huge critters that will each yield a 50-pound bird, once roasted. Imagine that on your Thanksgiving table (and the oven that could hold it!).
A little over a week before Thanksgiving, Orwell's Stonewood Farm is going full speed, close to 12 hours a day, seven days a week to process the 22,000 birds raised for this year's Turkey Day.
VERMONT — One of our native wildlife species historically played an important role on Thanksgiving Day. North America's native wild turkeys were the ancestors of the Thanksgiving turkey on our dinner table.
Originally found only in the wild, turkeys now exist as meat-producing domesticated derivatives — the broad breasted white, broad breasted bronze, white Holland, bourbon red and a host of other breeds — all of them descended from our native wild turkey.
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• It remains a better question to ask how have the New England Patriots managed to have winning seasons every year since 2004, not why have they not won another Super Bowl. The Patriots have been the best team overall in the NFL in that time frame despite being upset in two Super Bowls.
MIDDLEBURY — Addison County's 23 towns bore the brunt of a Thanksgiving Eve snowstorm that blanketed Vermont and much of the Northeast on the busiest travel day of the year.
Forecasters from the National Weather Service office in South Burlington said Addison County got more snow than any other county in Vermont, ranging from 8 inches in Vergennes to 16.5 inches in Orwell.
"That was the jackpot area," said NWS meteorologist Andrew Loconto. "There was a pretty good snowband which dropped some good amounts across the county."
It is generally accepted that the first Thanksgiving was celebrated in 1621 by the Plymouth Colony Pilgrims. We know they invited the local Wampanoag to join them. And we also know that turkey was on the menu. What is less known is that a couple of modern Thanksgiving traditions are actually rooted in that long-ago meal.
Vermont's cold, snowy January days. Vermont's warm summer evenings.
Vermont's warm winter afternoons. Vermont's cool summer evenings.
Big Thanksgiving meals with relatives (especially the pies). Leftovers (especially the pies). The lunch about nine days after Thanksgiving when I don't have to eat the leftovers again.
ADDISON COUNTY — Helping Overcome Poverty's Effects (HOPE) will give out Thanksgiving meal provisions this month to around 400 Addison County low-income families who might otherwise not enjoy a feast on turkey day.
Jeanne Montross, executive director of HOPE, said this week her organization is still accepting donations of such products as small turkeys, fresh apples, stuffing and instant mashed potatoes for the Thanksgiving food boxes it will hand out.
North America is a land where, as Jackson Browne says on his new album, "Even in the richer neighborhoods, people don't know when they've got it good. They've got the envy, and they've got it bad."
Which is one more reason it's a good thing that in Canada and the United States, we set aside one holiday weekend a year to count our blessings.
Editor's note: Matt Dickerson, who usually writes a column for our sports pages, takes a little different tack this week as Thanksgiving nears.
Readers beware. This is not an outdoor column. It isn't about fishing or hunting, at least not directly.
In a gesture to small businesses owners and the shop local movement, the Saturday after Thanksgiving has been declared Small Business Saturday. It should be Friday and Sunday as well.
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The English tongue has never been accused of being deficient in its collection of synonyms and near synonyms. It often appears that the language decided (if languages can decide things, which they cannot) that if it was good to have one word for a thing then having a half dozen must be better. And so we find ourselves with a large number of words having to do with describing winter. If you are tired of describing things as wintry, you can instead say that they are hiemal, hibernal, winterish, or brumal.
"In the far North, it hibernates several months; on the Canadian border, this hiemal slumber lasts only for some weeks, with more or less frequent emergences during intervals of moderation…" Ernest Ingersoll - The Skunk, Calmly Considered, in Wild Neighbors, 1897


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OAKLAND — Even though Oscar Grant III's family knew it was coming, the sound of former BART police Officer Johannes Mehserle's gun firing made them jump in their courtroom seats Monday and sparked tears as they watched two videos of Grant being killed.
The videos were the most riveting pieces of evidence presented Monday during the first day of a likely two-week-long preliminary hearing for Mehserle, who is charged with murdering Grant at the Fruitvale BART station Jan. 1.
Both videos captured the sound of Mehserle's gun firing; one shows the 27-year-old officer leaning over a prone Grant while pointing an object at Grant's back.
The women who recorded the videos, Karina Vargas and Margarita Carazo, both said they thought the gunshot was the sound of a Taser, and did not know until the next day they had video of a man being killed by a police officer.
They began to record, both said, because they believed BART officers were acting too aggressively toward Grant and his friends, all of whom were pulled from a train at the Fruitvale station.
Grant never resisted arrest nor did he appear to act aggressively toward police, Vargas and Carazo testified.
Instead, the two women said, it was at least one BART officer, Anthony Pirone, who was the aggressor, yelling at passengers and throwing people against walls. In one video, Pirone was shown charging toward Grant, while Grant sat on the floor with his back against a wall.
Even though the BART train was filled to capacity with New Year's Eve revelers yelling and shouting, both women said the situation appeared to be under control until at least one BART officer, who appears to be Pirone, began acting aggressively toward Grant and his friends.
Pirone, the women said, charged at Grant, demanding the supermarket clerk get off the BART train. He then pushed the 22-year-old face first into a wall, the women testified.
"I heard an officer directing Oscar Grant and his friends to get (off the train). He was yelling at them, 'Get the (expletive) off the car. Get the (expletive) off the car,'"‰" Vargas said. "He was yelling at them; it was obvious he was angry."
Carazo said she began to record the events when she saw an officer grab Grant by the shoulders and throw him from the train.
"I thought it was wrong what the officer was doing. Oscar wasn't doing anything wrong; he wasn't fighting back or anything," Carazo said. "He didn't do anything, he was just standing there."
Eventually, both women testified and the videos showed BART police officers had Grant and his friends sit on the platform with their backs against a wall.
But as the officers surrounded Grant and his friends, other passengers began shouting at the police, the videos showed. The shouts became louder and more frequent after the videos show officers pushing on Grant and his friends.
Under questioning from Mehserle's attorney Michael Rains, Vargas admitted it felt like a riot could break out at any time.
"It definitely looked like at any point, they would start throwing things or even rioting," Vargas said of the crowd. "They were real angry."
It was at this point that Carazo's video shows Pirone and Mehserle standing over Grant with Mehserle using his right arm to search his own belt area. Moments later, a bang is heard followed by Mehserle looking "dumbfounded," Vargas said.
"I don't understand it to this day. "… It looked to me like (Grant) was cooperating," Vargas said. "It didn't appear to me that he was resisting arrest at all."
Vargas said she did not record the shooting because her attention was focused on another man standing next to her who had been tackled by a BART officer. While she taped officers struggling with that man, the gunshot was heard.
Meanwhile, Carazo filmed the entire shooting but didn't know she taped a killing until two days later.
"I didn't know what a gun or Taser sounds like," she said. "I thought it was a Taser."
The women were testifying in a courtroom that was guarded by at least eight sheriff's deputies as protesters outside chanted: "We are all Oscar Grant."
As the protesters chanted outside, the atmosphere inside the courtroom remained calm and orderly.
In addition to the two women, deputy district attorney David Stein also called to the stand a doctor who performed Grant's autopsy.
Stein must prove to Alameda County Superior Court Judge C. Don Clay that he has enough evidence in the case to bring Mehserle before a jury on charges of murder.
Stein is expected to take about two weeks working to prove he has enough evidence after which Clay will decide if the case should go forward.
Before testimony began Monday, Clay denied a request by Rains to remove District Attorney Tom Orloff's office from the case.
Rains claimed Orloff violated his client's rights because he ordered two Oakland police officers to try to interview Mehserle after he was arrested even though Orloff knew Mehserle had an attorney.
Clay said Orloff's actions did not prove a bias nor did it meet the requirements necessary for him to be taken off the case.


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text: On Mon, 18 Nov 2002, Bob Drzyzgula wrote: > Does anyone (Donald?) know much more, or can anyone > say anymore, about what is discussed in the AMD > press release found here: > > http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/VirtualPressRoom/0,,51_104_543~62590,00.html This is describing a demo that combines Lane15 Infiniband, AMD Opterons and the Scyld Beowulf system. > But is there any work on x86-64 implementations > of scientific libraries, e.g. BLAS? I don't know what will be announced, but there is obviously a bunch of work in this area. > What is the sense of list members as to when x86-64 will be a viable > platform for scientific computing? The systems are usable today, with most support and applications running in 32 bit. Our 28Cz-5 release, first showing this evening, and the 28Dz-5 Demo Zero Install Cluster, introduced Tuesday, are 32 bit releases that have Opteron tweaks and testing. The x86-64 release date has not yet been decided. I'm not certain if we will be running a 32 or 64 bit kernel on Opterons at SC2002, but the applications we are running on the systems are all still in 32 bit mode. That will change when the SC2002 pressure is removed. > In particular, is it > likely to be practical anytime soon ("soon" meaning in > the next year or so, and subject to AMD actually releasing > the stuff when they are currently saying they will) to > use Opteron for processes requiring > 4GB of memory? The system software is almost ready > Also, I guess that I'd be interested in hearing from sites > that are today clustering various other 64-bit architectures > to run such processes -- what are you running, how well > does it work, did it cost you less than what Cornell's > Windows cluster cost Microsoft, Intel and Dell, etc... We've had an Alpha AXP distribution out for ages, but... -- Donald Becker becker at scyld.com Scyld Computing Corporation http://www.scyld.com 410 Severn Ave. Suite 210 Scyld Beowulf cluster system Annapolis MD 21403 410-990-9993


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In the interview, Houston reveals that the church she sings at in the film has the same name as the church she grew up in and would be laid to rest in later on — the New Hope Baptist Church. Houston even revealed her Christian faith was so strong that she requested that no one curse around her — even in popular music. "I was like, 'Are they saying what I think they're saying?'" Houston said, joined by costar Jordin Sparks. "Too much cursing up in here!" She said she behaved that way with daughter Bobbi Kristina as well. "I don't let my own daughter listen to that."
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text: On 28 Oct 2004 at 12:06, Roland Krause wrote: > does anybody here have positive or negative experiences with using the > Intel EMT-64 Fortran compiler on AMD Opteron systems? It works fine, as long as you do not use Prescott new instructions (which are in any event of less importance on Opterons - they are not as decode-crippled as P4s are), I've built a few moderately complex quantum chemistry codes with EM64 ifort, and they run OK on Opterons. > I am at this point not so much interested in speed issues but more > stability and correctness especially with respect to OpenMP. Or in > other words: Is it worth trying yet? I can't comment on OpenMP, but for serial code it is a nice, fast and reasonably stable compiler. Not as stable or as fast as Pathscale's, but far superior to PGI's. As usual, YMMV - and probably will. Serguei


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text: On Tue, 6 Aug 2002, Paul Redfern wrote: > FYI . > > Cornell Joins Forces with Dell, Intel, and Microsoft to Expand Usage of > High Performance Cluster Computing in the Corporate Data Center > > Aug. 5, 2002 - Cornell Theory Center (CTC) today announced an agreement > with Dell, Intel, and Microsoft to develop and deliver CTC > High-Performance Solutions, a suite of industry standards-based > high-performance computing (HPC) solutions and services for business, > government and academic clients. The agreement provides $60 million > worth of resources over the next four years to aid in solutions > development. Microsoft discovers the beowulf concept? Again? $60 million worth of "resources" -- would that be $30 million worth of hardware and $30 million dollars worth of full retail Microsoft software (which costs them nothing but media to provide)? Let's see, 425 new Dell servers at an absolutely insane highball price of $5K each is all of $2.5M, adding $5K in infrastructure costs including gold-plated networking -- hard for me to see more than $5 million in hardware, $10 million if they completely replace the other 425 "servers" (with enough slop in my estimates to likely build a building just to house all this). So how about $10M in hardware and infrastructure, $10M in salaries (that's enough salary money for at least 10 full professors and their students for four years even at Cornell:-) and $40M in MS software? Enquiring minds like to know... Hmmm, Win2K server licenses for (say) 1000 seats -- ooo, that's a lot of money. Compilers and programming tools are expensive. No compute node is complete without Office;-). And so forth. Now the interesting question is -- who in their right mind would ever buy into this? A linux cluster can be installed completely over the network from PXE boots in an unbelievably short period of time, and its software maintenance is completely automatable. A single person can run a cluster with hundreds of nodes, and we can build a cluster with hundreds of nodes for around $2500/node INCLUDING the cost of building server-level infrastructure (AC and power). Software costs scale perfectly (ranging from marginal costs of perhaps 3-5 minutes of human time per node per month after configuring the cluster servers and installing the first node, all opportunity cost and $0-100 per node for software per se, depending on what you choose to install and how many nodes you've got). All the source is open, so one can FIX the numerous problems encountered trying to write and implement HPC parallel code running over a network. Or at least understand them and work around them. Then there is security. WinXX security is legendary. Really. Finally, there are all the lovely aspects of Microsoft's rumored future pricing models. Not only will one have to buy the original software, but (whether you like it or not, or need to or not) one will have to repurchase it all over again, year after year, and the joy of being locked in by the outrageous DMCA for anything "interesting" that you ever develop that uses proprietary libraries or tools to implement. Not to mention the personal satisfaction that comes from helping perpetuate the largest and most ruthless monopoly that the world has ever seen, which quite literally reduces your personal freedom as it manipulates the political process to protect its "right" to squash competition and have the use of Microsoft products mandated by law. I'm not impressed. I can hardly blame Cornell for taking the money -- even an inflated $60M undoubtedly makes them a lot of money, and starving professors do have to eat (I'm being serious here, not facetious -- I'm a starving professor myself:-). Still, give me TWENTY million dollars and I will install a cluster with many times the capacity implied here and run it four years and do all sorts of cool research and development, especially if I get actual cash and not the preconfigured servers that Intel/Dell tends to give away in these projects, which have heavily inflated price tags and heavily deflated price/performance. Oh, and this includes spending $1M or two building or remodelintg a facility for the cluster. rgb > > CTC High-Performance Solutions will be based on Dell PowerEdge servers; > IntelR XeonT and ItaniumR family processors and tools; and running > Microsoft Server software. This combination is designed to provide > customers with the performance and availability once only achieved by > proprietary supercomputers at a fraction of the price. CTC will double > the size of its existing 425-server Dell, Intel and Windows-based HPC > clusters as a result of this agreement. With the standards-based > technologies in CTC's clusters, it can provide users with documented > high performance, reliability and security while functioning at > significantly reduced total cost of ownership when compared to the > proprietary supercomputer CTC previously used. > > HPC clustering has been successfully used in university and research > environments for years to solve complex problems, but also has many > practical applications for business such as scalable online transaction > processing with Web clients, decision support systems, engineering > design and analysis, bioinformatics and more. CTC High-Performance > Solutions will apply its Windows HPC expertise to accelerate the > deployment and scale out of Windows-based IT infrastructure in the > private sector. > > CTC High-Performance Solutions will develop robust Windows HPC solution > stacks for broad industry deployment, and will include HPC services such > as UNIX to Windows code porting, optimization, and porting to parallel > environments; systems planning and integration; systems and applications > training and testing; benchmarking. CTC will also offer high-performance > Web services based on Microsoft's .NET software and SQL Server. CTC's > TechExchange Consortium will provide members with more immediate access > to IT technologies and will help drive the evolution of Windows HPC. > > In addition, CTC will establish a technology showcase for > proof-of-concept applications for HPCC in the financial district of New > York City. This facility will be linked to related activities in CTC's > Ithaca, N.Y., laboratories and will serve as the setting for customers > to pilot projects. > > "Establishment of CTC High-Performance Solutions comes at a time when > all sectors of the economy face increasing competition, pressure on > margins, and the need to demonstrate strong and quick returns on > investment," said Thomas F. Coleman, CTC director and Cornell computer > scientist. "With our expanded relationships and combined strengths, we > can show companies, government agencies, and academic institutions how > to expand their technical computing environment, while reducing their > overall IT budget. They can take their existing expensive, proprietary > systems, which are often islands of performance requiring extra systems > staff, and replace them with a more flexible, scale-out clustered > environment that is expandable and that fits in the overall > Windows-based office environment." > > "Cornell Theory Center is playing an important leadership role in > Windows Server-based high-performance computing," said Brian Valentine, > Microsoft Senior Vice President, Windows Division. "They were first to > move completely to Windows for HPC. They have shown that it works in the > most demanding settings. And they will be instrumental in moving HPC out > of the research environment and into the mainstream industry. As we work > together with CTC, Dell, and Intel, the efforts coming out of this > agreement will very clearly show Windows brings the highest value to > high-performance computing applications and companies' business systems > on an industry standards-based IT platform." > > "The flexibility, performance and cost-effectiveness of Dell PowerEdge > servers with Intel technology is becoming more and more attractive to > customers in research-intensive industries outside of the university, > due in part to initiatives like CTC's Windows program," said Russ Holt, > vice president of Dell's Enterprise Systems Group. "Through Dell's own > HPCC program, we continue to see customers replacing legacy, proprietary > systems with Intel-based HPC clusters." > > "Intel continues to invest in HPC to propel the industry forward and > drive innovation using Intel's volume economics model - delivering > absolute performance, price/performance, flexibility and choice to > enable supercomputing for the masses," said Mike Fister, senior vice > president and general manager, Intel Enterprise Platforms Group. "Using > the industry-leading floating point performance of the Intel Itanium 2 > processor and the world-class price/performance of the Intel Xeon > processor, CTC High-Performance Solutions will help accelerate the > migration of leading-edge computational research into the corporate data > center of the future." > > "This tremendous investment by Dell, Intel and Microsoft in the Cornell > Theory Center is a true vote of confidence in the intellectual power of > one of our State's finest academic institutions," said Governor Pataki. > "Industry, university and government collaboration is critical to > economic success in our State and throughout the nation, especially in > the fast-paced world of information technology. This project is a prime > example of how expertise at New York State's top-flight universities can > help industry solve complex problems that will benefit all sectors, > public and private." > > For more information about CTC High-Performance Solutions, visit > http://www.ctc-hpc.com. > > About the Cornell Theory Center > CTC is a high-performance computing and interdisciplinary research > center located on the Ithaca campus of Cornell University. CTC currently > operates a Dell/Intel/Windows cluster complex consisting of more than > 900 processors. Scientific and engineering projects supported by CTC > represent a vast variety of disciplines, including bioinformatics, > behavioral and social sciences, computer science, engineering, > geosciences, mathematics, physical sciences, and business. > > About CTC Systems > CTC's Systems are configured into general purpose, strategic > application, and dedicated clusters. Among the dedicated research > clusters housed at CTC are a 64-node system devoted to computational > materials, 64 nodes for computational biology solutions, 32 nodes to > support the USDA-ARS Center for Agricultural Bioinformatics, and 32 > nodes dedicated to social and economic research. CTC also provides a > novel Windows/Dell/Intel 3D, stereo immersive CAVE environment for > scientific visualization. > > Note: Intel, Itanium and Xeon are trademarks or registered trademarks of > Intel Corporation or its subsidiaries in the United States and other > countries. Dell and PowerEdge are trademarks or registered trademarks of > Dell Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Microsoft, > Windows, SQL Server, and .NET are trademarks or registered trademarks of > Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries. Other names > and brands may be claimed as the property of others. > > Paul Redfern > > red at tc.cornell.edu > > > > Robert G. 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Hartsville, S.C. – The Coker Lady Cobras volleyball team was unable to pick up a win in their 2009 Homecoming match on Friday night, as they fell to the Fayetteville State Broncos 3-1. Coker jumped out to an early 1-0 lead with a 25-19 win in the first set, but the Broncos stormed back to take the next three sets in straight sets, 25-19, 25-23, and 25-14.The loss drops the Lady Cobras to 1-17 on the season, while Fayetteville State improves to 10-7 overall.
Leading the Lady Cobras were Kristin Teets (Columbia, S.C.) and Lisa Ross (Bowling Green, Ky.) with 10 kills each, while Ross also had 10 digs. Paige Murray (Kitty Hawk, N.C.) had nine kills and 16 digs. Brittany Bass (Bethune, S.C.) and Abby Frame (Sylvania, Ohio) had 15 and 13 assists respectively.
For the Broncos, Chekimbrell Jefferson had 16 kills, with Samantha Meeks had 11 kills and Ifeyinwa Nwokolo had 10 kills. Achari Mainor had 41 assists and Cailee Huffman had 15 digs.
Coker returns to the court on Monday, when they travel to Raleigh, N.C. to play St. Augustine's College for a 6:00 p.m. match.


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Another highlight of Reverend Wright's talk at the National Press Club today occurred when Wright discussed Obama's announcement of his presidential candidacy:
MS. LEINWAND: Senator Obama has been in your congregation for 20 years. Yet you were not invited to his announcement of his presidential candidacy in Illinois. And in the most recent presidential debate in Pennsylvania, he said he had denounced you.
Are you disappointed that Senator Obama has chosen to walk away from you?
REV. WRIGHT: Whoever wrote that question doesn't read or watch the news. He did not denounce me. He distanced himself from some of my remarks, like most of you, never having heard the sermon, all right?
What was the rest of your question? I got confused in that the person who wrote it hadn't —
MS. LEINWAND: Were you disappointed that he distanced himself?
REV. WRIGHT: He didn't distance himself. He had to distance himself, because he's a politician, from what the media was saying I had said, which was anti-American.
He said I didn't offer any words of hope. How would he know? He never heard the rest of the sermon. You never heard it.
I offered words of hope. I offered reconciliation. I offered restoration in that sermon. But nobody heard the sermon. They just heard this little soundbite of a sermon.
That was not the whole question. There was something else, in the first part of the question, that I wanted to address.
MS. LEINWAND: You weren't invited.
REV. WRIGHT: Oh, all right.
I was not invited, because that was a political event. Let me say again, I'm his pastor.
At a political event, who started it off? Senator Dick Durbin. I started it off downstairs with him, his wife and children in prayer. That's what pastors do.
So I started it off in prayer. When he went out into the public, that wasn't about prayer; that wasn't about pastor-member. Pastor- member took place downstairs. What took place upstairs was political.
So that's how I feel about that. He did, as I said, what politicians do. This was a political event. He wasn't announcing, "I'm saved, sanctified and filled with the Holy Ghost." He was announcing, "I'm running for president of the United States."
Reverend Wright introduces an intriguing "upstairs downstairs" element to his relationship with Obama. And in this respect he shows himself to be a somewhat more reliable guide to Obama than such left-wing pundits as Garry Wills ("Jeremiah Wright was Obama's John Brown…").


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Today's paper is the culmination of months of planning and hard work to go live on a new printing press. In challenging economic times this was not an easy decision to make, but one that had to be made to drastically improve the quality of the products we produce.
This is a man-bites-dog kind of story because the decision to invest in print media contradicts current industry trends as many in our business are increasingly focused on websites and digital media. We're focused on digital media and see that as a significant part of our company's future growth, but we also believe in the future of print, especially for papers focused on local markets that have a strong sense of community.
This multi-million dollar press investment and commitment to the printed word as the primary source of news and advertising information is about as strong a statement as we can make to say that we not only plan on surviving during a time when many in our business are abandoning print and moving online, but we actually expect to accelerate our mission of building community and improving the quality of life in the markets we serve through higher quality news and advertising products than we have ever been able to deliver.
With the new press, the page size will be reduced by an inch in width and one and a quarter inch in depth. Although the pages will be smaller the actual font size of the letters will remain the same. This reduction in page size will reduce the Journal's newsprint expense, allowing us to remain one of the lowest priced daily newspapers among papers of comparable size, and this new technology will allow all pages to be printed in sharp, vibrant color if so desired, benefiting our readers and advertisers. Not only will the quality of our customers' advertisements dramatically improve, the new press will allow us to better showcase our excellent photography and graphics. The press will also reduce printing waste allowing us to be more environmentally friendly.
The new press will produce all of Journal Inc.'s publications that include the Daily Journal, the Mississippi Business Journal, seven community newspapers in Northeast Mississippi – Monroe Journal, Itawamba County Times, Pontotoc Progress, Chickasaw Journal, Southern Sentinel, News Exchange (in Union County), and Southern Advocate, and seven community papers in the suburban Memphis area – Bartlett Express, Millington Star, Collierville Independent, Oakland News, Shelby Sun Times, Shoppers News, and the Bluejacket. The new press also adds the capacity to serve as the anchor for a newly established regional printing business for publications interested in improving their print quality, reducing their costs and avoiding future capital investments.
No doubt this will surprise many in our industry. However, as long as we remain relevant to our readers and provide the quality, breadth and depth of local news content and local advertising reach that is not provided by others, we believe the odds are stacked in our favor over the long-term.
Even with all of the automation this press has, there are no plans for a reduction in personnel. In fact, the expectation is that more personnel and possibly another shift will need to be added in the near future to keep up with the growing commercial printing demand.
As with any new equipment startup of this magnitude, there will be surprises and unexpected problems. Be patient with us as we work through these because the quality of the products we produce and deliver will only improve as we gain more confidence and experience with our new press.
Clay Foster is chairman and CEO of Journal Inc. Contact him at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Feb. 12, 2006
BOSTON, Mass. - The women's track team traveled across the river last Friday for the Valentine's Meet at Boston University.
Freshman Elizabeth Finn and Adrienne Bolger were MIT's top finishers. Finn completed the 5000 meter run in 17:56.43. Her time was a new freshman record for MIT and was good for 24th place in the 41 harrier field. The only better mark was achieved by varsity record holder Martha Buckley ('04).
In the 1000 meter run, Bolger made her way into 20th place and set a new MIT record with a time of 3:04.87. There were 56 runners in the race.
Sophomore Leanne Veldhuis set two personal bests in the 200 meter dash (27.58) and the 400 meter dash (60.73). Her time in the 400 was the second best in Tech history.
Two other marks also changed the complexion of MIT's top five all-time list. Junior Rachel Niehuus turned in a time of 1:22.50 (third) in the 500 meter dash and earned 26th place of 40 competitors. Freshman Jennifer Doyle took over the fifth spot on MIT's 3000 meter run all-time list with a time of 10:34.50.
MIT will travel to Northampton, Mass. on Saturday, February 18 for the New England Division III Championships.


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Captain's Report
Mission Statement
Typically go-fast boats are made to do exactly that… Go fast. The recipe is a simple one, take a long, narrow hull, add massive engines with straight pipes, move levers forward as desired. Everything else is typically inconsequential, especially the fit and finish of the interior.Formula decided to take a different route. Rather than make its performance boats the fastest on the planet, they chose to make them go fast enough while providing the luxury, upscale features, and fit and finish that they are so well known for. The result is the FAS³Tech line. While these boats may not crack 100 mph barrier, for most of us 80 mph will do just fine while it happens in one of the best looking boats in class on the planet.
Distinguishing Features
Imron Graphics.
Imron is a relatively expensive paint and the process to apply it can be difficult and time-consuming. But in the end, the looks are stunning and that's why Formula goes to the trouble of using it. But it doesn't just use it to change the color of the hull, they use Imron for the graphics.
Adjustable Foot Rests.
While the high-performance McLeod bucket seats do not have a fore and aft adjustment, the foot rests do. In this manner a captain of any height will find comfort while operating the 353.
This 353 FAS³Tech is styled much like a missile. She has a narrow 8'3" (2.51 m) beam that seems to emphasize her length even more. Attention to cockpit and interior styling detail is exactly what we've come to expect from the design team at Formula. A hot boat should have bold interior trim and colors and the 353 has them -- but they are tasteful. That is to say, painted on flames, neon colors and rhinestone trim will not be found here.
The Formula Recipe
The Formula brand was born back in the heady early days of the sport of offshore powerboat racing with pioneers like Don Aronow and Jim Wynn, beating the hell out of their kidneys racing from Miami to Nassau. The Porter family, which has owned Formula for decades and built it into a world-class brand, is no stranger to racing. Company president Scott Porter is a former offshore World Champion and for years Formulas were campaigned on racing circuits all over the world. Today, because of the world economic situation Formula is taking a more subdued approach to racing, but its commitment to building high-quality, plush, high-performance boats is unabated.
New Hull
The new FAS³Tech line is denoted by its new hull design that incorporates three separate running surfaces produced by two steps built into the hull. The "steps" actually serve to force air under the hull and thereby reduce surface friction for an even faster ride than a boat with a smooth deep-V. Some builders put in one step, but Formula puts in two.
Strength Requires Weight
So now we have the stepped hull and the horses doing their job, but we're slowing the boat down a bit because it's relatively heavy… 9,500 lbs. (4,309 kgs.), which is 1,000 – 1,500 lbs. heavier than most, but not all, of the other high-performance boats. So what makes the 353 so heavy and why does Formula do this? The weight comes from the construction methods, added materials, and to a lesser extent, the amenities. Rather than use a traditional stringer system, Formula utilizes a separately made fiberglass grid system that gets chemically bonded to the bilge. Because the boat will be hitting square ones at 80 mph or more, the hull laminate is sold fiberglass and tough. The result is a heavier boat, but a stronger and beefier one, and that means a more solid riding boat as well as a safer one. It also means that the 353 might be slower than some go-fast boats that are lighter.
Speed Requires Strength
We can't stress enough the importance of having a strong hull when operating at these high speeds. At 85 mph, waves are not soft, rather they are more like concrete without the rebar. That is why the shape of the hull, the deadrise and the strength of the boat are all so important. Picture a car going over speed bumps every 15 feet while traveling at 70 mph and one will get an idea of the punishment a boat like this has to endure.
And Then, The Amenities
Let's not forget that the 353 FAS³Tech is still a Formula. It didn't just make an empty cabin in the hopes of keeping it light. The 353 FAS³Tech has a plush cabin flush with perks. Starting at the bow with an Ultraleather double bow berth, then an Ultraleather wrap-around lounge seat that can convert to another double berth with filler cushions, a removable Corian cocktail table, an entertainment center with polished stainless steel sink and Corian countertop, a dual-voltage refrigerator and a private head compartment.
Sitting at the helm, with the 353's long and narrow foredeck, makes one feel like they're sitting at the controls of a missile. But it is a comfortable missile. Dual wrap-around McLeod electrically adjusted seats are built for sustained high-speed operation. These McLeod seats have been developed over years of offshore racing use. And both the driver and observer get an electrically adjustable McLeod footrest. Any height captain will feel right at home on the 353 FAS³Tech.
So if getting there ahead of the rest of the pack and arriving in first class style are part of the float plan, then the Formula 353 FAS³Tech might be just the boat to fill the need. She is definitely not for everyone -- and that's a big part of her appeal.
Test Result Highlights
- Top speed for the Formula 353 FASTech (2014-) is 85.2 mph (137.1 kph), burning 88.0 gallons per hour (gph) or 333.08 liters per hour (lph).
- Best cruise for the Formula 353 FASTech (2014-) is 46.2 mph (74.4 kph), and the boat gets 1.71 miles per gallon (mpg) or 0.73 kilometers per liter (kpl), giving the boat a cruising range of 229 miles (368.54 kilometers).
- Tested power is 2 x 570-hp Ilmor MV8.
Standard and Optional Features
Marine Electronics
|VHF Radio
|Air Cond./Heat
|Battery Charger/Converter
|CD Stereo
|Head: Fixed
|Shore Power
|Trim Tabs
Exterior Features
|Carpet: Cockpit
|Outlet: 12-Volt Acc
|Swim Ladder
|Swim Platform
|Wet bar
|Bimini Top
|Cockpit Cover
Full Warranty Information on this brand coming soon!
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A new version of SuperKosherCrazyCareers is available! (v1.3)
SuperKosherCrazyCareers is a GreaseMonkey script that enables you to sort the jobs that our dear friend Herschel Jewstein offers us, so that you can easily pick the ones that pays most! You can also filter out the forums that you have already pwned, so that you can continue to grow your streak…
I'll leave you to it! -> http://userscripts.org/scripts/show/41621
Cheers, Wrong.
19/02/2009 – v1.3 – Updated to adapt to a code change from ForumWarz
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02/02/2009 – v1.0 – First version uploaded to userscripts.orgWrong edited this message on 02/19/2009 3:23PM
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I just installed this. VERY nice. Good job, Wrong!MC Banhammer edited this message on 02/02/2009 11:34AM
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Good job, wonderful script.
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I've never used Greasemonkey before, though I have it installed. How do I enable the script?Shii edited this message on 02/02/2009 11:42AM
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Wrong Posted:
Excellent. Can't wait 'til CZ gets a chance to examine this script, and the extra navigation tabs script, then port them into the source.
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...although you may want to change the default page that the script runs on, out of box it points at http://www.forumwarz.com/job_board*, but should point at http://forumwarz.com/job_board.
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Thanks y'all…
Dead Celebrity Seance Droid Mk-10 Posted:
This was done on purpose, as I've ended on http://www.forumwarz.com/job_board# but I'll take it out on the next version…
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This is very nice. Thanks for doing this!
How can we thank you for this?Log in to see images!
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Honestly, both would be fine. And anyone running greasemonkey should know how to take care of this to begin with for themselves.
E: make dead celeb happy by listing http://forumwarz.com/job_board* and everyone else happy by also listing the www address.DOPE-HARDCORE-0 edited this message on 02/02/2009 12:52PM
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And this prompted me to load up the other Greasemonkey for the tabs.
I should have done that a long time ago.
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Edit: Ignore double post… how the hell did that happen?Acid Flux edited this message on 02/02/2009 12:54PM
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Shii Posted:
If you are running Firefox:
Start Firefox, and enable Greasemonkey. You can find this in the Tools menu, in the Greasemonkey sub-menu.
It's also the little monkey face icon in the lower right of firefox – you can right-click on it and make sure "Enabled" has a check mark by it, and click on "Enabled" if it doesn't. The monkey face should be brown instead of grey.
If you don't have the menu option or the monkey face, (re)install the latest version of Greasemonkey, the OP linked to it. Enable Greasemonkey.
Then click the link to the script in the OP, and there is a nice clickable "Install" link to the right of "SuperKosherCrazyCareers".
You can remove outdated scripts with "Manage User Scripts" in the Greasemonkey menu.
If for some reason you are running Greasemonkey in Internet Explorer (lord help you), see here: http://www.gm4ie.com/
BTW, great script, Wrong! Makes it much easier to see the various options for each forum rather than scrolling all over the place.
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Thanks glowspawn for your install tutorial…
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Awesome work, thanks!
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Awesome job, Wrong.
Welcome to the Greasemonkey Page! http://forumwarz.com/spoilers/wiki/GreasemonkeyFran edited this message on 02/03/2009 6:40AM
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Fran Posted:
Thanks Fran for including me in the wiki (I didn't even know that that page existed)
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Excellent work.
I wonder if it would be possible to sort by 2 keys rather than the current 1? e.g. click Reward, then Description, and it keeps the best paying jobs which don't have a time limit right at the top.
I'm also wondering if the table sorting here could be applied to other pages e.g. the klan domination page…
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One thing to note: The sort algorithm on the Flezz field doesn't seem to work quite right, probably due to alpha sorting. On one list I see it sorted this way:
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Nevermind. It decided to stark working.
(Also, why are posts specific to the alt you were logged in as at the time…? I guess it's nice if you're trying to be stealthy and such, but still kinda annoying that I can't at least, like, edit posts by my alts :/)Lesthys edited this message on 02/03/2009 1:51PM
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