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Man Versus Shadow of the Colossus, Part 5
Read Parts One, Two, Three and Four of Man Versus Shadow of the Colossus.
Colossus Fourteen (Thursday, 12/25)
Christmas morning. My back is sore from three straight nights on my Jennifer Convertibles pull-out. My dad fixes bacon and eggs for me. They're leaving this morning, making the five-hour drive upstate to my brother's house. I help them haul all their junk back down to their van -- the annual Reloading of the Van. Then they depart, honking as they drive in the direction of the Brooklyn-Queens Expressway. They honk again. Then the van disappears.
There used to be a good deli here. They made the best Cuban sandwich in all of Colossus Land. It's gone now. I hear they're putting in one of those KFC/Pizza Hut combination places now, which upsets me. How things change...
I feel, as I always do, like I've survived something, endured a Herculean trial of some sort. I'm supposed to join them the next day upstate to see my brother, his wife and my niece, but for now, I'm grateful for the quiet, grateful to have my apartment back. I've got three more Colossi to contend with, and if memory serves me, these final three are all stubborn bastards.
The fourteenth Colossus, unfortunately, is the most redundant Colossus in the game. He's basically Colossus No. 11 (aka the rock-bull) in a more open environment. And, unfortunately, he's more of an annoyance than anything. I scale a very tall pillar. He rams into the pillar. The pillar falls, creating a bridge/path to the next pillar that I must climb. He rams this one, too; the pillar falls, etc. This Colossus is the most rote Colossus in the game; this battle simply requires you to do all the right things at all the right times.
Once I reach the final pillar, rock-bull No. 2 topples it over, causing it to open a hole into another previously walled-off part of the level. I scale a nearby platform in this section, then pepper rock-bull No. 2 with arrows to get him nice and angry. He rams the platform's support, causing the entire thing to collapse on top of the dopey creature. The creature's soft spot is revealed. I quickly climb on top of him while he's still dazed. Stab, stab, stab, and it's so long, redundant Colossus.
Colossus Fifteen (Friday, 12/26)
I pack my PS2 into my overnight bag. For the second time in two weeks, I head to Penn Station. My goal is to beat 16 Colossi in 16 days, and in order to complete this plan, I'll need to bring my PS2 along with me.
Penn Station between Christmas and New Year's is a madhouse. I've seen animals running free in there (not wild; someone's beagle had gotten off its leash). I've seen homeless people sleeping in their own pee.
I board my train, and we begin to chug north. Five hours later, my parents pick me up at the Rome train station -- "Long time, no see," Dad says -- and they drive me over the snow-covered roads to my brother's house.
The weather is positively brutal. Blowing snow; sub-zero temperatures; limited visibility. The same weather that Buffalo gets always travels east, creating what's known as the snowbelt across New York State. My brother lives in the snowbelt. His house is huge and beautiful, with floor-to-ceiling windows that look out onto the river behind his house. Just before the sun goes down, I spot movement in the trees. "It's a deer," my brother says.
We stand at the window and watch it. Something is wrong with it. Its back leg is wounded. It's limping. The deer stumbles and falls face-first into the snow, before climbing back to its feet. "Maybe I should call Roger and have him come over and shoot it," my brother says.
My brother knows hunters. He himself has hunted on several occasions.
My mother balks. "Don't call Roger," she says. "Just leave it alone."
"It's not humane to leave it out there like that," my father says.
The four o'clock football game comes on. We all get distracted. As the light fades from the sky, I notice that my mother is still staring out the window, her arms folded.
After dinner, once everyone has gone to bed, I connect the PS2 to the living room television. The penultimate Colossus is a huge, lumbering beast who menaces me with a giant, crude club. While trying to stomp on me, the Colossus inadvertently steps on a nearby platform, conveniently elevating me to a height I need to reach the upper levels of the surrounding structure. He spots me on this higher level, hauls back his club, and takes a swing at me, inadvertently causing an avalanche of rocks that I can now climb to reach a still higher level. I climb two more sets of stairs, and suddenly, I'm high above the Colossus' head. I position myself in the center of a bridge that arcs over the entire area, and when the Colossus approaches, I make a leap onto his hairy shoulder, and grab hold with the R1 button.
The penultimate Colossus is one of the finest in the game. He lives in some old coliseum ruins, and, like the first Colossus, he carries a big club. (Jones actually did the Colossus-killing here).
He's unhappy to have me as a passenger, and as I climb to his head, he shakes his head furiously, hoping to get me off.
After a few stabs, the tattoo on the top of his head fades, yet only half of his health is gone. I realize there must be another unseen weak point somewhere on his body. After some experimentation, I locate it: It's on the inside of his right hand, on the palm.
I have no idea how I'm going to get at the weak point, until he swings wildly at me, misses, and his clenched fist sits for a brief moment. Here's my chance. I climb into the palm and go to work. Stab, stab, stab. His health is falling steadily. With one final stab, the game goes silent for a moment. The sad music kicks in. The Colossus topples.
My brother's house is quiet and dark around me. Wind presses against the windows, howling in the eaves. I think of the limping deer, still out there in the darkness.
Colossus Sixteen (Saturday, 12/27; Sunday 12/28; Monday 12/29)
We exchange gifts and eat a ham together. Later in the afternoon, my parents take me back to the Rome train station. The train roars into the station, engine roaring, bells clanging, snow blowing everywhere, the weight of it causing my shins to shiver. For a brief moment I study the train, looking for a hairy patch, wondering if there's a place I latch on.
This one is beautiful. And it's harmless. But you have to kill it anyway.
Back in New York, it's Judgment Day: I've arrived at the 16th and final Colossus. The first problem I have is finding the damn thing. I spend 45 minutes galloping in the wrong direction, walking along mountainsides, hoping a hole will magically open up somewhere.
Finally, I figure out where I need to go. I cross a bridge, and as I do, Agro slips, falls, and plummets hundreds of feet to the water below.
My eyes are hot with tears. The sadness is too much. I don't understand why I feel this way. Agro is gone. After dutifully taking me to all the locations I asked him to take me, after coming when I whistled for him for the past 16 days, Agro is gone.
I feel a chill of loneliness now. I'm on the far side of a vast expanse. The bridge behind me is out. I can only go forward now. As the man/boy peers over the edge into the canyon that Agro has disappeared into, his ragged cape flapping, I realize that I'm completely alone now.
I locate the Colossus. He's a monolithic thing that appears to be some sort of evil giant bell made of cast iron. He's got horns on his head. And, as soon as he detects my presence, he shoots at me, quickly depleting my health.
I'm dead. Despair is setting in.
I try again. I make my way across a field, using the surrounding barriers as cover. I locate an opening in the ground, and follow the underground passageway. When I surface, I'm remarkably closer to the Colossus. I follow another series of barriers, careful to dodge his volleys. I navigate another underground passageway. And when I surface this time, I'm directly underneath him.
I begin to climb.
I find a vulnerable spot on his back and stab it. He reaches behind for the spot, and when he does, I leap into his hand. Once in his hand, I climb his forearm. I find a second vulnerable spot at the elbow. I'm trying to reach it, but suddenly my grip meter is depleted. I'm falling. I'm back on the ground again.
I climb again, trying to keep my spirits up. But I fall again at the same exact place. I fall a third time. A fourth time. A fifth time. A voice in my head says, "See? This is why you quit playing this game four years ago. This last Colossus is too damn hard."
I decide to take a break. My plan is to leave the PS2 powered up so that I can take random cracks at this Colossus whenever I feel like it throughout the day, but as I'm shutting down the TV, I'm not thinking, and I shut down the PS2 involuntarily.
My screams, I'm told, were heard as far away as Staten Island.
That's it. I quit. I stop for the day.
I'm so angry, I can't even go back to the game the next day. I begin to regret this whole endeavor. What an idiot I am for even thinking this was a good idea.
The following morning, I fix coffee and decide to at least get the man/boy through the gauntlet portion of the battle at the beginning. I do so. And once I do, with a little momentum behind me, I begin to climb.
I reach the elbow this time. I stab the second weak point. The Colossus' right hand swings over towards me now, and when it does, I climb aboard. I stab the hand, and when the Colossus brings the hand to his face to inspect it, I whip out my bow and fire an arrow into his left shoulder, which is conveniently covered with hair/fur. When he feels pain in this shoulder, he reaches for the shoulder with his right hand. I leap onto the hair/fur, and begin to climb towards his head.
My heart is going now. This is it. At least, I hope this is it.
The blue tattoo on his head is glowing light bright, blue neon. I go to work on it, picking my moments, resting when I need to rest and stabbing when I need to stab.
Suddenly, it's over. It's over. Instead of toppling, this Colossus sort of collapses in on itself, piece by piece. There's nothing remotely sad about this final Colossus.
I've finished a battle that's I've been wanting to finish for nearly four years now.
I've done it. It's over.
The ending does much in the way of tying up all the game's loose ends. A crew of horsemen from the man/boy's village arrives at the temple. They admonish him for stealing the butter knife/sword from the village, and for violating the shrine. They try to kill him. But suddenly, the man/boy is old. His hair is a purplish gray now. His face is wrinkled. One of the men stabs him. The man/boy doesn't die. He pulls the sword out of himself, then somehow transforms into the huge shadowy creature named Dormin. (Dormin, if I'm understanding this correctly, was an evil spirit who was previously split into 16 pieces -- the sixteen Colossi -- and locked away in this tomb.)
But the man/boy has united the 16 pieces again. He himself is transformed into Dormin. Suddenly, I'm Dormin, and Dormin is impossible to control. The villagers escape and seal him inside the tomb. Dormin is sucked into a hole in the floor. Then, the princess/dead girl comes back to life. And Agro returns. He survived, but he now has a noticeable limp. The princess and Agro find a little baby. (Don't worry; I'm lost too.) And the three of them wind up in an area that looks like something from Ico. Roll credits.
The narrative, of course, is confusing and unsatisfying. But I don't care. What stays with me from those 18 days, and what appealed to me long before I'd even played the game (way back in 2003, when I initially heard about it), is the simplicity of the premise.
It's so pure. It's so uncluttered. It doesn't try to be anything more than it is. It's both epic and humble. And it's that purity, that simplicity, that gives Shadow of the Colossus its gravity; it's that purity and simplicity that allows it -- like the best art -- to become a metaphor that feels simultaneously like it's everyone's story and your story at the same time. It is at once impersonal and personal. And that makes Shadow of the Colossus -- an absolute must-own, must-have, must-play -- the very rarest of videogames.


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Hey! I'm Valerie, and I'm not embarrassed to say that I spend a majority of my free time watching hair tutorials. But like a lot of people who watch these videos, I feel like I never get the style exactly right, it falls out within minutes, I can't do it all together, or it's just too time consuming to feasibly do for everyday wear. So I decided to start a blog where I would try out different hair styles I find online (and show you some I already know and love) and see how do- able they really are. I hope to give some advice and let you all know how to best complete a hairstyle with minimal frustration because, trust me, I've been there. (:
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There is one thing I put into all my descriptions which I find extremely important and which can never be displayed properly by the game itself: the voice. (I've had only one character in my whole WoW time whose voice was actually that much like the in game voice that I didn't need this.)
It's the first thing you notice when someone starts speaking, and it has a huge influence on the impression you get about that someone.
A description should only contain what deviates from the in game appearance or can't be displayed by it, and is important for an adequate first impression. Trust me, you don't need to tell me that your blond elf is blond. No, I don't care what scars you have between your buttocks because unless we meet in bed, my character wouldn't know right away.
This is what I get for pressing submit too soon. Here some example flags of mine, from the mundane to the more 'out there':
"A tall, calm man in his middle ages. His tone of voice is smooth and self-secure."
"Very pale, skinny and on the short side, this young man is in a perpetual good mood, most often shown by a small grin. His voice is energetic and lively, but sometimes, he seems a bit short of breath, or look unfocused or tired."
"A tall, severe looking, very flat-chested woman appearing to be in her early 30s. Her voice is hard and rather deep."
"A young man in his 20s, very muscled, especially for a Blood Elf and a caster. When not fully covered by clothing and in darker surroundings, faintly glowing lines are visible across his body. His voice sounds hard and authoritative."


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We also have a variety of game mounts on display.
Fred T. Huntington Biography +/-
RCBS, Inc. was founded by Fred Huntington in 1943 in Oroville, California and later became one of the world's largest manufacturers of reloading equipment. The name RCBS is derived from the name of the dies the company was founded to produce: "Rock Chuck Bullet Swage."
As few good varmint bullets were produced prior to the early 1940's Huntington decided to make his own and designed dies to swage .22 rimfire cartridge cases to form jackets for those bullets.
Below is a reprint of chapter thirteen in Sam Fadala's book, "Great Shooters of the World".
Fred Huntington couldn't remember when his interest in firearms began. "I have always loved guns and gun collecting," he said when asked about his early shooting career. Huntington is the champion of reloading. He made his mark in the industry when he designed and constructed a better reloading press. Fred concocted numerous other innovations that promoted the art of handloading ammunition. But Fred Huntington was not always involved in providing reliable reloading tools. He spent more than half his life in another trade.
Fred Huntington's father, also named Fred, was born in Bloomington, Illinois. He was a salesman who moved west in 1906way west, all the way to Oroville in northern California, with Mrs. Huntington, who was born about 100 miles from St. Louis, Missouri. In Oroville, the elder Huntington opened a laundry and dry-cleaning plant. He was no laundryman, but he took possession of the plant in lieu of a $5000 loan. It seemed the only way to collect on the debt. Huntington Sr. learned the business and turned the establishment into a thriving operation.
Young Fred, born 20 days before Christmas in 1912, enjoyed his early years in Oroville. Although his father preferred fishing over huntingand although "He was usually too busy with the laundry to take me shooting," Fred Junior found the opportunity to push hundreds of bullets downbore. Shooting was his passion. When Fred finished high school, he attended laundry and dry-cleaning school for one year and went straight into his father's business. Fred liked Oroville and planned to live his life there. The most direct route to success and to remaining in the California town was to continue with the laundry business. And that's what our reloading captain didfor quite some time.
Fred recalls beginning with serious shooting in 1937. His endearment to firearms, reloading and hunting was a continuous involvement. Fred Huntington Jr. was pulled like metal fragments to a magnet by "the back room," where his deepest interest restedthe nucleus of a tool-and-die empire was maturing. Fortune sometimes wears a crooked smile. Fred Huntington had a terrible time getting all of the ammunition he wanted in the early 1940s. Had this dearth of ammunition not prevailed, our man may never have embarked on a new career. At this juncture, in 1941, Fred came across a book written by W. F. Vickery, a well-known gunsmith of the era. The book, Advanced Gunsmithing, changed Fred's life. Between its covers was an explanation of how to make both a press and dies for the creation of 22-caliber bullets. In the rear of the laundry was an old Seneca Falls lathe. Fred Huntington went to work with the lathe, and when he was finished, he was in the bullet-making business. He contacted W. F. Vickery, who took an interest in Fred, shipping him a set of Vickery-made 22- bullet dies so that the young man could compare them with his own creations. From a study of the Vickery dies, Huntington knew he was on the right track. He was happier in the work of making bullets than he had ever been in getting clothes clean.
A year later, Fred's die-building prowess had expanded not only in units produced, but also in quality through experimentation. Huntington was working on a set of bullet-forming dies that would function with the original Pacific press made in San Francisco. When he had completed his work, he brought the resulting product to Frank Stratinsky, who was then the chief tool-and-die man for Pacific. Stratinsky played a major role in the Huntington saga by introducing the young inventor to Captain Grosvenor Wotkyns. Wotkyns' name is today linked with the development of the 22 Hornet, among other shooting accomplishments. Wotkyns engendered an immediate appreciation for the Huntington die. He wanted a set. He also wanted to buy a set for a shooting friend. Huntington complied. He made the two sets of dies and delivered them to San Francisco. A truly good product will, in part, promote itself. Soon, Huntington was driving to San Francisco on a regular basis delivering his wares. Now his dies needed a name. Wotkyns said why not call them the "Rock Chuck Bullet Swages?" After all, Fred's dies were for the 22-caliber bullet that was used mainly in the varmint rifle. The name, albeit unwieldy, stuck. Fred decided to reduce the title to its initials, RCBS. If you haven't heard of RCBS, you don't reload.
Papa Huntington was a reasonable man who wanted his boy to be content. But, after all, Fred was supposed to be in the laundry business, not the tool-and-die trade. The young man spent much of his workday in the back room of the plant, grinding away on one piece of metal or another. Furthermore, the back door was almost as busy as the front door, with shooting enthusiasts coming and going. After trying to convince his son to continue with the laundry plant, Mr. Huntington decided it would be good if Fred moved his enterprise to a new location.
So in 1948, Fred had his own shop. It was very smallonly 20 feet by 20 feet in dimension, but in it wondrous things were happening. In my opinion, there's not a great businessman who hasn't an affinity for attracting intelligent people to help promote his ideas. Fred Huntington gathered such men around him: Jack Ellis and Al Swift, to name two. These fine technicians helped Fred with his die work, as the shop expanded to offer gunsmithing. Although neither man remained with the Huntington operation, both contributed to the Huntington story. Frank Stratinsky wrote his chapter in the
Huntington biography as well. With Jack Ellis doing firearm repairs and working on special die-making problems, and Al Swift machining dies, Huntington's shop flourished. Next Stratinsky came on board, making a full line of reloading dies. Huntington had already earned a patent for his bullet-forming die invention of 1940. He soon received a second patent. Working with Swift, Huntington designed a new press. Initially called the New Leverage System Model A RCBS Reloading Press, it would change all major machines in the future. Fred stated recently, "Quite a few of the reloading firms at the time badmouthed the Leverage System, but when the patent ran out, I had two firms paying me royalty and two or three more jumped on the bandwagon, copying what I had invented and furthered." The most popular reloading press design of the hour stems from the Huntington style, which speaks for Fred's tremendous impact on reloading. Jack Ellis wanted to return to San Francisco, which he eventually did. Standing by to take his place was Don Tucker. "Don told me that he could learn how to grind a reamer in a month if Jack Ellis would teach him. I had reservations, but I gave him a chance. He did it. His reamers were excellent," praised Huntington.
At about the same time, Huntington inherited another man in the shop. If it was unlikely that Don Tucker could grind a beautiful reamer in only 30 days of training, what were the odds of this new worker learning the tool-and-die trade? After all, Bill Keyes came out of the lumber business, where he had worked for a sawmill. But Bill wanted to do the work, and although he had never touched a lathe in his life, he took to it like a bear to honey. Fred has said more than once that in his opinion Bill Keyes is one of the finest special die makers of all time. The RCBS operation was on a roll. The popularfamous would not be too strong a term"Reloader's Special" came to life. Anyone doubting Fred Huntington's impact on the world of shooting need only remind himself that thousands of prospective reloading fans moved from the shadows of, "I would sure like to handload," to the sunshine of, "I'm reloading my own ammo," on an RCBS "Reloader's Special" kit. There was no doubtRCBS was for real. The Rock Chucker Press, along with the "Reloader's Special" added to the fame of the company. Here was innovative, high-quality reloading machinery built by people who loved what they were doing.
Fred's father could see the future now. In 1952 he told his son that should the handloading enterprise fade out, he, Mr. Huntington, would help Fred establish a dry-cleaning business. The senior Huntington was in the process of selling the laundry at that time. But Fred was finished with laundry. He was a businessman in his own right. And his business was reloading, not redoing collars. Furthermore, he would make the greatest impact on handloading that the general public of shooters had ever seen. Fred's story is one of continual success. He never backtracked. He suffered no major setbacks. His is not a tale of toil and failure, followed by glory. It was simply one success after another. How successful? Not everyone drives a Rolls Royce. Fred does. His second love, following shooting/hunting, is the automobile, and resting behind his reloading tool plant are about 50 collector's cars. The last time I counted my vintage Mercedes autos, I came up with exactly-zero. Fred's not sure how many he has.
Fred's small shop could not accommodate the great demand for his products. He had to impound his own garage for more shop space. That move helped for only a short while. In 1954, Fred built a larger shop, 30 by 60 feet, right next to the old one. Since he owned the adjacent land anyway, he figured he might as well use it. "This plant, I felt, would serve our needs for many years,' he predicted. But it didn't. While Huntington's RCBS company needed a larger facility within two years, Fred waited until 1958 to build his full-scale RCBS operation. The new establishment began as a 7500-square-foot factory, soon expanding to 50,000 square feet.
In 1976, Fred sold the RCBS interest to Omark Industries. "I had hired 250 people by then," Huntington said. "From about 1965 to 1976, my company had the largest payroll in Butte County." Today,
Fred's two sons, both of whom have deserved reputations as sterling as their father's, have followed him in the reloading business. Fred Huntington Jr. supervises production in the RCBS plant, while
Charles "Buzz" Huntington serves as general manager for Huntington Die Specialties.
In the time frame from the late 1 940s to the present, Huntington proliferated many innovations in reloading tools. He isn't finished yet. His new Huntington Compac Press is witness to the man's continued interest in the reloading game. This is a compact, portable reloader's press "designed for the back packer, benchrest shooter and those that require a small portable tool."
"Everyone should be taught to hunt and shoot," Fred contends. He believes that shooting is a skill-sport that builds character, and that hunting lends tremendous self-confidence and self-esteem. Fred ought to know. He has been a hunter all of his life. Varmint hunting undoubtedly helped to further Huntington's interest in the bullet-making business when he was a young man. Hunting also made a traveler of Fred. He would eagerly drive hundreds of miles for a rock-chuck or prairie dog shoot. He hunted for many years with the great gunsmith, Vickery, looking for rockchucks in the Boise, Idaho, area. He happily drove all the way from California to Wyoming for prairie dogs. "I started prairie dog hunting in the early 1950s with Bill Matheney of Recluse, Wyoming," said Huntington. "I also hunted deer and antelope with him. I took several nice hunts with Jack O'Connor, including a great trip Into Moose Creek Lodge, and then to the Yukon In 1956 for 30 days with Jack." These two trips were the subjects of Outdoor Life articles penned by O'Connor (see separate chapter). Fred hunted with Warren Page as well, with Pete Brown and other firearms authors, too. His hunting adventures led Fred to many other parts of the worldto Iran and Africa, too. Although he has never claimed to be a "mountain man," Fred Huntington has always stayed on the trail until the last rays sunset visually announced that the hunt over. Today, the Huntington game collection consists of almost 100 trophy big-game specimens that are honored in the Oroville store.
My guess is that Fred Huntington would have been a starburst success had he remained in the laundry and dry-cleaning business. He's the kind of guy who probably would have come up with a way to bleach raspberry stains out of white shirts. Fred is inventive, energetic and willing to take a chance. He would have made it in any business because of his talent and tenacity. He could have been a success had he opened an ice cube factory in tile Arctic Circle. His abilities all furthered his efforts. The ability to design ingenious tools, the ability to organize people, a knowledge of the manufacturing process, and the art of selling combined to make Fred Huntington the leader of the reloading industry. People like the Huntington product, and Huntington, the man. "I made not only customers for our products but many friends!" Fred reflected one day.
When this author was in South Africa, an enthusiastic big game hunter and shooter by the name of Elroy French showed me his reloading room. Myriad well-located tools and components graced the inner sanctum of his handloading chambers. Two presses occupied proud positions, well-fastened to a rigid handmade bench. I was not surprised to see the brand name showing on these tools. The name read RCBS. "Know what RCBS means?" I asked the owner of the room. He said he did. It meant some of the best reloading equipment you could buy, anywhere. "No. It means Rock Chuck Bullet Swages," I was going to say, just to show how erudite we American handloaders were. But before the words left my lips, I canceled them. "That's right," I said. "It means some of the best reloading equipment anywhere." Many thousands of shooters are happy because Fred Huntington decided to court his true love from a youthful dream to a lifelong reality. His industry and genius have provided high-quality reloading tools at affordable prices, promoting not only a lot more shooting, but also more accurate shooting for marksmen all over the globe.
Great shooters of the world by Sam Fadala
South Hackensack, NJ : Stoeger Publishing Company, c1990.
Available through Amazon.com
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Eric Goldman reports that Google has won the Maughan v. Google case where Mark Maughan filed a suit against Google for the content displayed in the snippets area under a search results listing in Google.com. A search on Mark Maughan Accountancy currently shows the number one listing from www.dca.ca.gov/cba/discipline/ma-me.htm. The snippet looks like:
The complaint was that a search like the above and other variations of it "generates a list of websites 'suggesting' he was disciplined by the California Board of Accountancy for 'gross negligence' and accepting a contingent fee for the preparation of tax returns, which he says are 'veritable scarlet letters in the accounting world'."
Google won the case, and was also rewarded $23,000 in attorneys' fees and costs.
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Many people are still on the fence about location-based services, which enable people to check in to venues such as restaurants, shops and sports stadiums and share their location with friends on social networks. According to a Comscore study from March, 17.6% of smartphone users checked in to services such as Foursquare, Facebook Places and Gowalla. eMarketer recently published results of a study that found that people under 35 are becoming more willing to share their location in exchange for value.
While the numbers for location-based services appear to be growing, the technology really hasn't lived up to its potential yet, since there's often no real reason for checking in; checking in to share a location with friends probably isn't enough for most people. However, I still think there's a ton of potential here, especially for the sports industry. Teams can tap into the fact that fans come to stadiums and arenas for hours at a time and often like showing off their fandom. They can reward fans and incentivize them to check in by offering real and virtual benefits. Sponsors can be integrated into these types of programs, so it's a win for everyone. For more information on the sports industry and location-based services, check out this great white paper from Tariq Ahmad.
Back in February, I wrote about Valuevine, a location-based analytics platform. Neil Crist, Valuevine's CEO, kindly provided me with access to their platform so I could see what it had to offer. I thought it'd be fun to do a quick run-down of the top MLB stadiums, ranked by the number of check ins at each of them. In this case, check ins include data from Foursquare, Facebook Places and Gowalla.
See below for the top 10 MLB stadiums with the most check ins and click this link to see a Google Doc with the full results.
- AT&T Park – 284,854
- Dodger Stadium – 233,008
- Wrigley Field – 201,277
- Yankee Stadium – 196,799
- Target Field – 105,736
- Busch Stadium – 96,989
- Coors Field – 89,113
- Citi Field – 86,373
- Safeco Field – 81,670
- Petco Park – 71,186
One thing that obviously stands out about the stadiums with the most check ins is that they're all in very large cities. The top two stadiums are in California, which has a reputation for being home to many technologists and early adopters. One thing that stands out to me is that Yankee Stadium has over two times as many check ins as Citi Field. Any Yankees or Mets fans care to comment on this discrepancy?
It's getting late so I'll let you think about other insights to pull out of this data. Is there anything that surprised you about this data? What do you think about the future of location-based services and sports?


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Hopper Haven & Littlefoot Sanctuary is having its' Open Day on Sunday 16th September 12 - 4pm .
There will be stalls, kids games, face painting, and fun for everyone, plus you'll get to see all the lovely rabbits and piggies looking for a new home.
Your support would be much appreciated as all the money raised from the day will go towards the running cost of the rescue/sanctuary, which at the moment has in excess of 200 rabbits and piggies.
The rescue is at 557 Evesham Road, Crabbs Cross, Redditch, Worcs B97 5JP, and if you have any queries please click on the rescue link below for how to contact the centre, or feel free to PM me.
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- Libbey Koppinger
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- United States
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Is multi-tasking a myth? Can we, should we, do many things at once?
Do people really have more ability to do more things at once due to technological advancement? Or are we just accomplishing a longer list of mediocrity?
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Dylan FDec 16 2011: Interesting post.
My stance:
Multitasking is a myth in the sense that our conscious attention can only focus on one thing at a time. (I don't believe the common notion of the word multitasking involves things like walking and talking simultaneously so I will stick to tasks requiring concentration for my definition.) I think we can train our minds to be great at the appearance of multitasking (quickly shifting from task to task almost seamlessly, without much delay or interference from the previous task). But recent research shows that much time is lost switching from task to task (i.e. checking emails and studying) despite how good we may think we are at it.
But I believe it's an important topic because it is a prevalent habit that leads to procrastination and wasted time; something I am definitely trying to be mindful of in this information age we find ourselves in.
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Savour and the likes are the kind of events that excite me to the extent that others start to find my behaviour embarrassing.
In a mixed state of euphoria and frustration caused by - not in this order - free champagne, constraints of time (we only have 4.5 hours to try everything!), clashing schedules of cooking demos and limited stomach capacity, I see myself roam around hysterically in an effort to taste every single product and dish of interest. All of them.
At the festival some of Singapore's and the world's leading French, Finnish, Italian, Chinese, Vietnamese, Mexican restaurants presented signature dishes at outdoor stalls near the Singapore Eye (a great effort by itself on an exceptionally hot and sunny day!). My personal favourites included a wonderfully refreshing combination of cool cod and warm barley coated in a beautiful green herb sauce, and Vietnamese steamed rolls filled with pork and accompanied with spicy and crunchy beansprouts. I used a smart trick to confuse people and uploaded a different photo representing a langoustine.
Inside the festival buildings, local and international food producers showcased their finest products, some of them being truly original or at minimum flavoursome such as lemon flavoured avocado oil, Provence-style dip made of anchovies or another with lobster, mayo and chili (not sure if the latter is really French, but anyway).
Needless to say, I ended up a little disappointed when roughly 7 minutes after being kicked out from the festival area I proceeded to inhale some otherwise not too bad dim sums at the nearby foodcourt - they tasted very, very bland.


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Welcome to Supportive Yoga
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- Show you how to make the yoga practice work for you, with the body you have now, and do amazing things on the mat.
- Let you know that yoga is for anybody who is willing to give it a try – yes even you!
- Teach you how to modify any asana for your body.
- Help you build strength, endurance, flexibility and confidence that you can take off the mat and into the world.
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Supportive Yoga Pose of the Month: September 2014Happy September everyone! I can't believe the summer is slipping away. The city was so empty in August but it's pretty clear that everyone is back now! After an incredibly amazing and busy August (I taught so many classes!!), this month will be a bit...
A Tale of Two Arm Balances
Hi everyone! Before we get down to business here I wanted express my profound respect for and gratitude to the late BKS Iyengar, who left his body a few days ago. Without his insight and wisdom, I literally could not be doing what I am doing. Among his many contributions to modern yoga, Mr. Iyengar pioneered the use of yoga props, making this practice accessible to so many. Though I wasn't able to study with him directly, many of my teachers did and his teachings have strongly influenced my life and work.
This practice still surprises me
I'm sitting here in a cafe in between my two public yoga classes today thinking about how my yoga practice is constantly shifting and changing. And why that's a good thing. For the one thing, I suspect that's at least partially why I've been able to stick with yoga for what seems to be forever (but really is about 12 years or so). Practicing yoga can really be a long term relationship – with ups and downs. The advantage, of course, is that no matter how much you neglect yoga, it'll be there for you when you are ready to pick it up again.
Supportive Yoga Pose of the Month: August 2014
The Supportive Yoga pose of the month is all about balance – it's…tree pose (vrksasana)!! This is one of the most common standing balance poses (I considered including it in my e-book, "The Supportive Yoga Guide to Finding a Yoga Class that is Right for You and Feeling Confident and Comfortable in Any Yoga Class", which you should totally grab by signing up for my mailing list by the way, if you haven't already) and you see it in classes a lot – especially basics classes. This is also a pose that everyone tries to force – you should really see the looks I get from people trying to hold this balance. If humans could shoot lasers out of their eyes, I'd have been dead long ago!
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Monday, Sept. 18, 1961: Vikings shock Halas, BearsPosted on April 24th, 2006 – 6:45 PM
By Ben Welter
Future Hall of Famer Fran Tarkenton hurled one during the Vikings' first training camp in Bemidji in July 1961. The "Tarkenton" written on the tape on his helmet confirmed his rookie status. (Minneapolis Tribune photo by John Croft)
In 1961, the Minnesota Vikings drafted University of Georgia quarterback Fran Tarkenton in the third round. A few months later, the rookie led the expansion team to a 37-13 victory over heavily favored Chicago in the first NFL game played at Metropolitan Stadium in Bloomington.
The Tribune's game story detailed Tarkenton's exceptional afternoon in relief of veteran George Shaw: 17 of 23 for 250 yards, four TD passes, one rushing touchdown, no interceptions. Two minutes into the second quarter, future offensive-coordinator-turned-whipping-boy Bob Schnelker scored Minnesota's first touchdown on a 14-yard pass from Tarkenton. The defense, led by Jim Marshall and Rip Hawkins, "hit savagely up front" and kept the pressure on the Bears all afternoon.
Aside from the disappointing attendance (32,236), the franchise was off to a great start. But reality soon set in for the team laden with rookies and veteran castoffs. The Vikings lost their next seven games and finished 3-11.
Here's an interesting sidebar published the morning after the big victory over Chicago. Note how classy the Bears were in defeat. No whining, no complaining — just matter-of-fact observations and praise for their opponents.
'Never Seen Anything Like It'
By DWAYNE NETLAND
Minneapolis Tribune Staff Writer
George Halas slowly rubbed a vein-line right hand through wisps of white hair and shook his head in utter disbelief.
"I've never seen anything like it," confessed the owner-coach of the Chicago Bears, who had just absorbed a 37-13 National Football league loss from Minnesota's Vikings.
|Papa Bear could hardly believe his eyes. (Minneapolis Tribune photo by John Croft)
"Give the Vikings credit for capitalizing on our mistakes," Halas said. "But I have never seen so many things go wrong for a football team as they did for us today.
"I've been with the Bears for 42 years. In all that time I have never seen a center pass sail 10 feet over a punter's head in a league game. I saw it today.
"The pass interference call [on J.C. Caroline] right away started us off on the wrong foot. We never did get going. The entire first period was a comedy of Chicago Bear errors."
Then Halas stopped a moment, as if reminiscing through his own youth. "But how about those Vikings!" he said in obvious admiration. "They went out there with a purpose today. I can only imagine how Van Brocklin feels."
"The moment the final gun had sounded, Halas shook off his gloom and raced over to shake [Norm] Van Brocklin's hand. "This is a big day for you," he boomed. "A big, big day. You'll never forget it."
Once over the shock of what happened to them, the Bears were able to offer an account of their dissection:
Rick Casares [fullback]: "I was scared to death before the game, feeling something like this could happen. The Vikings threw a bold challenge right at us in the first quarter, and we failed to meet it."
Dave Whitsell, defensive back: "On the long pass play on which Jerry Reichow scored, he bent in and then out. I had him covered, but then I lost the ball in the sun. He made a great catch."
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General Motors Co. will begin paying back $6.7 billion in U.S. government loans by the end of 2009 and could pay off that full amount by 2011, four years ahead of schedule, according to a person familiar with the matter.
The government debt represents about 13 percent of the $52 billion that U.S. taxpayers have invested in General Motors, the majority of which was exchanged for a 61 percent ownership stake in the company.
GM will announce the repayment plan Monday when it releases its preliminary third-quarter earnings results, the person said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The person was not authorized to speak publicly about the plan ahead of the announcement.
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My queston is: who in the hell is buying all these GM vehicles to even allow them the luxury of paying anything back based on their losses to date.
Something stinks in accounting hell to me!
"The automaker will draw on about $13 billion that remains deposited in escrow by the government to help make the payments." extract from article
Are they stating that GM will withdraw $13 billion from an escrow account; ie., monies which represent the original government loan tendered from the government; now GM paying us back with our money…?! / : |
Remember the old ad expression…"where's the beef?"
How about in GM's case…"where's the profits?" / : |
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In writing the documentation, I discovered not only bugs related to exampleIndices, but also inconsistency in its use: do all views have it or can it be empty? I sometimes assumed the former and sometimes the latter. The former requires maintaining the vector when it is not needed (we need it only in views that do not contain all examples from the referenced table and it is needed only for meta values). The latter requires checking whether the table is empty at every access of meta attributes, copying of examples and so forth.
ExampleIndices seem like the major source of future bugs and maintenance problems, and it blows up the code needed to manipulate the examples.
To get rid of them, we would need to reimplement meta attributes. At the same time, it would make sense to separate the concept of a weight and meta attribute. This is also inspired by Anze's suggestions that example tables should have some "default" weights.
Weight is currently a meta attribute referenced by its id. This is annoying since it requires passing the id as an additional argument to practically everything. Besides, meta values are inefficient (see below).
The two advantages of current implementation are that # example can have multiple weights (probably used only in classification and regression trees) # they can be moved to ordinary attributes and back (has anybody ever used this?!)
Weights in Orange 3.0 could be stored as vector<double> TExampleTable::weights - each element of this vector would correspond to an example. If this vector is empty, examples have no weights; if it is not empty, its size would be guaranteed to match the number of examples to avoid having to check this (there would be no default weight of 1 for examples with higher indices). This would still require manipulating weights in parallel with pointers to examples, but doesn't seem like such a headache like exampleIndices.
If examples are weighted, any method that can consider weights will consider them - without having to be told so.
Instead of multiple weights, we would use multiple tables that reference the old one and modify the weights. Classification trees already make reference tables, so the only known use of multiple weights is practically already covered. When constructing a reference table, the weights would be copied but not updated - the weights in the original and the reference data can change independently.
This would change the way the weights are accessed: instead of TExample::getmeta/setmeta that we used in Orange <3, we will have getweight/setweight without arguments. If examples have no weights, getweight returns 1.
We would also have a method TExampleTable::setweights for assigning weights to all examples. The argument would be any iterable, so we could also use it to assign a numpy vector.
Another option would seem to be to allow the table to dedicate a special column to weights to avoid maintaining a separate vector of weigths. This wouldn't work since it would be impossible to add weights after the table is constructed and, more important, to have references with different weights.
Meta attributes
To get rid of exampleIndices (and also metaRoots and metaPools) each example would have a column in data that would contain the index into metaPool.
There would be only one, global meta pool. It would no longer be a vector but a just chunk of memory that is resized when it runs out of space (in what respect is this better than vector<TMetaValue>???). That is, we will have TMetaValue *metaPool_. The value from the meta column in data is used as index, metaPool[i].
This would also simplify the implementation of TMetaValue: we can define operator TMetaValue::new that allocates the memory in the pool. TMetaValue::delete would also remove the remainder of the list; removing a single value would have another operator since it requires a pointer/reference to the pointer.
If TExampleTable references data in numpy, if will be allowed to have meta values only if it contains a dedicated column for indices into meta pool. The index of this column would have to be passed to the constructor and would be initialized to 0. Any subsequent changes would crash Orange.
Numpy arrays will seldom have meta attributes anyway, so this is not a major complication.
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Either the domain conversion should copy the weight or this should be done when examples are taken to/from the table. TExample probably needs a field double weight.


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