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Army Spc. Michael Cook loves flying drones. Even after amassing more than 600 hours of flight time piloting an RQ-7 Shadow for 12 hours a day from a remote outpost in eastern Afghanistan in 2011, the first thing he did after getting home was try to figure out how to build his own.
"They're just so much fun who wouldn't want to have their own drone?" Cook says. It didn't take him long to find a thriving online community of amateur builders who couldn't agree more.
"I was shocked to find all these civilians who were building all these amazing UAVs," he says. "It's insane that I could be downrange flying an aircraft that does all this amazing stuff and get home and, if I wanted, build a UAV that could do exactly the same thing. It's awesome."
Now in the Individual Ready Reserve, Cook has built several unmanned aerial vehicles and has taken his love to the next level with a job working for the University of Alaska's growing UAV program.
"We are entering the Drone Age," declares Chris Anderson, editor in chief of Wired magazine until late last year and now a leader in what he believes will be no less of a revolution than those ushered in by the home computer and Internet.
Already, garage-turned-hangarbay tinkerers are flying thousands of drones, many of which rival or even exceed the capability of military-grade UAVs. Except, of course, when it comes to "blowing stuff up," Anderson notes.
And while until relatively recently these autonomous aerial escapades largely have been the work of uber-geeks, just about anyone now can field a drone.
Whether you build one yourself or buy any one of a growing fleet of off-the-shelf models, it's the dawn of a new era of personally owned UAVs.
Back to the future
To understand the future of drones, you need to look at the history of computers, Anderson argues. Indeed, decades before computers became "personal," they were the domain of the military and top scientists.
"We're talking about three technologies computing, then the Internet and now drones that came from the military and big top-down companies and were taken over by amateurs and a bottom-up entrepreneurial spirit that ultimately defined the future of those industries," Anderson says. "We forget that computers were a military technology. We forget that the Internet was a military technology, and if we do our job right, one day people will forget that drones were once a military technology."
Already, drones are being adopted by law enforcement agencies as inexpensive eye-in-the-sky alternatives to manned aircraft. That's left many with an Orwellian-case of the creeps, not to mention serious concerns about privacy.
But as drones become more common, Anderson claims it soon will be hard to imagine life without our own fleets of flying bots.
Umm … why?
So besides the inherent cool factor, why in the world would you want your own drone?
Good question, Anderson says. In fact, it's the same question people asked, not so long ago, about the computer. And the answer is coming from the same kinds of do-it-yourselfers who took computers out of big government labs and put them into homes, laps and hands.
"Like the Homebrew Computing Club which led to the Apple II, which led to the Macintosh, which led to the personal computer revolution we don't know what all this is for," Anderson says. "We don't know what the killer app is going to be."
But he knows it will be big. "Many applications that no one has even thought of yet will emerge out of all this entrepreneurial energy."
For now, Emery Chandler Jr. just knows they're fun. He started flying remote-controlled model airplanes in high school. More recently, the 19-year-old son of an east Texas rancher has been building his own UAVs while waiting to ship out for Air Force basic training in mid-February.
"The fun is in the building. I feel like Dr. Frankenstein, building his creation. When it comes to life, it's very rewarding. Once you figure it all out and it's up there flying, it really is a thrill," Chandler says.
He has been experimenting with foam electric planes built by Dynam and modified to paradrop Pringles cans.
He's also working on a low-budget design made of foam board and tape. After installing a simple battery-operated engine, basic remote control parts and servos, and the UAV autopilot "brains," he estimates his total cost at around $205. After basic training, he wants to build a balloon-borne mothership for a fleet of microcopters.
"Anyone can jump into this," he says. "All you really need is a basic understanding of computers and the ability to fly RC aircraft."
It's even easier if you don't want to build your own.
"We're reaching the tipping point where really anyone can do this," says Kyle Allred, an Army veteran who now works as a support specialist with Quadrocopter. The Montana-based company sells ready-to-fly drones and advanced RC aircraft mostly to professional photographers and filmmakers but is expanding to cater to hobbyists and "prosumer" enthusiasts.
"It's getting easier and easier. Even two years ago, it was hard to do any of this without getting completely geeked out, but now you can be up and flying in a weekend."
Weekend warrior
Anderson got his own start in personal UAVs during a weekend project gone bad with his kids in 2007. His lofty plan was to build a Lego Mindstorm kit, the toy company's first foray into robotics, and then tackle an RC plane Wired had sent him to review.
The Lego bots were too boring, his kids quickly pronounced, and the plane was too complicated. During a run to blow off steam, he says, he got to thinking about a mashup of the projects. Within a few weeks, he'd hacked the two technologies enough to know that he was onto something.
Since then, he has launched two startups that grew out of that effort: DIY Drones, an online hub for hobbyists and amateur builders, and its commercial counterpart, 3D Robotics, which serves as the community's general store with its own line of autopilots and other gear.
For those familiar with, say, a battlefield drone such as the RQ-11 Raven, Anderson says, "we're already well past the Raven's capability on the hobby side. Ours can be completely autonomous, including takeoff and landings, scripted missions, artificial intelligence, autonomous camera control, follow-me functions.
"In terms of features, the hobbyists are well past the pros at this point. Where they differ is cost, by orders of magnitude. Ours cost about $500 that's about 1 percent of the cost of a Raven."
Growing fleets
Aside from the defense and big aerospace companies that build UAVs for the military and other government agencies, Anderson says about a dozen manufacturers now cater to hobbyists and the fledgling civilian market.
His company has sold more than 30,000 autopilots alone. Given backups and replacements, he estimates that 10,000 ArduPilot-guided planes and copters are in the air. "That's larger than the size of the military UAV fleet," about 7,500 aircraft.
And at the moment, the company's growth is doubling annually.
It's no surprise that in November, Anderson left Wired and turned his part-time projects into a full-time passion, already drawing $5 million from investors eager to get in on the action.
It's easy to get a glimpse of where this is heading. Just do a quick search on YouTube to see the stunning HD footage and pictures captured by amateur drones everywhere from ski slopes to farm fields.
"Take one of these things, pop a GoPro camera on it, and you've got mind-blowing footage. It will make you very popular," Anderson says.
"You can imagine uses with a follow-me sticker on your kid's soccer ball and his matches being filmed like an NFL game. That hasn't happened yet, but only because we haven't gotten the follow-me stickers small enough yet to put on a soccer ball and robust enough to be kicked by a child. But that's coming."
One dad in rural Vermont recently built his own drone to follow his grade-school son 400 yards from his house to the school bus stop. Using one of 3D Robotics' autopilots connected to a quadcopter, Paul Wallich designed his prototype to follow a beacon in his kid's backpack.
A smartphone strapped to the bottom sends real-time imagery to his computer via a standard video chat app. When his son gets on the bus, the drone returns to base. It was just for fun, wrote Wallich for Inside Technology's IEEE Spectrum, where he's a contributing editor, but he's already considering upgrades to his homebrew drone.
Smartphones with wings
"There are two things I know for sure," Anderson says. "Drones are basically smartphones with wings, so like smartphones, these things are going to get smaller, cheaper, faster, better. The second thing is that commercial use is coming."
The Federal Aviation Administration restricts drones mostly to hobbyists but will open commercial use starting in 2015.
"A lot of people are interested in security applications," Anderson says. "Personally, I'm really interested in areas like agriculture, where you can use drones to do aerial surveys of crops on a daily basis. That's something farmers are dying for but don't have affordable access."
While some developers even have experimented with fast-food delivery using UAVs, don't expect a taco-copter or burger-bomber anytime soon.
"It's good fun and an interesting thought experiment, but it's the last thing that's going to be legal because that would tend to be in built-up urban areas around lots of people, and that's the last place you want drones."
One company that is using his drones, however, is experimenting with FedEx-style delivery systems, particularly for rural areas and underdeveloped countries.
"There are some things I can't talk about yet, because we have commercial partners that are working on it, that are going to be mind-blowing."
He hints, though, at the possibilities of drones moving from, say, filming entertainment to becoming part of the show.
"We already have swarming capacity, the ability to fly multiple drones simultaneously," Anderson says. Researchers at the University of Pennsylvania, for example, recently posted jaw-dropping video with swarms of 20 microquadcopters each about the size of an outstretched hand flying in intricate formations, Anderson says.
"So you could imagine 300 drones in the air at once, with each one acting as a kind of pixel in a 3-D floating screen."
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Staff at an emergency food service in west Cumbrians say they expect to see a "huge rise" in demand from the area's most desperately poor people.
The prediction has come as chiefs at the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority were accused of not doing enough to bring the potential economic benefits of Sellafield to local communities, including some which are among the most deprived in the country.
In the last two months of 2012, North Lakes Foodbank helped feed 759 people and it now hands out around 1.5 tons of food to impoverished locals every month.
The group said that it has been given "generous" help by both Sellafield and its parent body Nuclear Management Partners.
But staff at the Foodbank expect the demand for their services to continue to grow, particularly as the effects of a tougher benefits regime begin to kick in.
Jessica Hendry, who co-ordinates the church initiated community project, said: "We are meeting demand at the moment, but when the welfare system changes come in I think demand will begin to rise hugely. I imagine we'll be helping 300 people a month.
"We see people of all different ages. We've seen families who may not have eaten for four days.
"It may be somebody who has come out of hospital who gets out to find that they haven't got a house. We try to sign-post them to people who can offer them the help they need and they're usually incredibly grateful."
There are ample statistics available that show Copeland – despite its population of comparatively well-paid Sellafield workers – continues to have pockets of extreme poverty.
In Sandwith ward, in the Whitehaven area, for example, one recent report said that 49 per cent of the children were living in poverty. Nearly 15 per cent of families in the ward have an annual income of less than £10,000, and life expectancy is 65.5 years.
But the area's Copeland councillor Peter Stephenson was sanguine about the area's economic plight.
He said: "You don't actually see it when you live here; it's something you live with.
"There have been a lot of improvements over the last seven years. Fred Story is building new houses and Holme Group have built new bungalows. Prior to that, we were dying a slow death.
"Ideally, I'd like to see more investment in to all our communities, not just Sandwith. Everybody should benefit from Sellafield.
"I'm not saying that we don't get anything but as far as I'm concerned Sandwith doesn't get anything out of it."
Age UK's west Cumbria office also sees evidence of poverty among pensioners, with some choosing between eating and heating.
Christina Timney, the charity's helpline co-ordinator in the area, said workers had seen a 50 per cent increase in calls for help with the rising costs of winter fuel.
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Eddy, Have you ever asked yourself what the council tax payers, of this country are actually paying for and the national insurance tax payers, and food tax, and tax on every item we buy in the shops, as consumers? We pay for everythingnd subsidised nuclear energy, even the natural gas tax payers paid for the infrastructure and subsidied the gas companies, who make billions in profits from ectracting natural resources every day . The very wealthy pay as little as possible for all the benefits, that they receive from the tax payers. they even benefit from the consumers including those who dare to ask for financial support from a government that also benefits greatly from the poor.
Eddy, foodbanks are manned by volunteers. The food in the banks is donated by the public. The Govt. dont fund foodbanks and if this Govt had to fund so much as a bar of chocolate to a starving man you can bet your bottom dollar they'd be looking at ways to shut all foodbanks down.
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How to record a Cinematic Timelapse
Hello! A couple of weeks ago I published a video, featuring an interesting timelapse recording method (Cinematic Timelapse video). I got a lot of tutorial requests on this method in forums, email, blendernation... and I wanted to make the tutorial before, but I've been moving to Valencia (Spain) and I've been veeery busy, but as promised, here it is!!
Some people asked for the glowing vertices and selections stuff. But that's made with a filter on the editing software, so I haven't go on that theme on the tutorial. Also, I'm sure it can be done with some tweaking on the Blender's Compositor :)
You can download Hypercam (The screen capturing software) from HERE.
I hope you like it, and soon we can see a lot of timelapses cooler than the one I made :)
See you!
Well, you need to select a codec that works for you and adjust the parameters to increase quality... I can't tell you, because even I don't know wich one I used xD Also, the codecs you have available depends on the software that you've installed on your computer... but well, just try different configurations till you get the right one :)
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hello olivar
regarding to the editing software. I think you have make to do glow effect with after effects or premiere ?
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What kind of computer do you have to keep up with all this heavy software?
Hi, blendman. First I press R to rotate, then I write down -360 and press enter. After this I press i in the keyboard to store a rotation key. nottice that I already had a keyframe in the frame 0 for the empty original position, so we create a transition :)
Hola, Blendman. En español pues :)
Verás: necesitas establecer una clave en el fotograma cero antes de rotar. Luego te vas a otro fotograma, rotas y pones otra clave. Así tienes dos claves con rotaciones diferentes, y eso es lo que crea la animación.
Time-lapse is just a technique in which you show a video faster than it happened actually. This is very useful for showing the process of creation of anything, but of course, you can make a shortmovie using time-lapse techniques :)
I recommend you to check timescapes to get an idea :) https://vimeo.com/33110953


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Thanksgiving on the Jersey Shore would have been a tough holiday this year for many families even without superstorm Sandy.
Before the storm, The FoodBank of Monmouth and Ocean Counties fed one in 10 residents of both counties combined, about 127,000 people, routinely throughout the year.
Since the storm, that figure has doubled, officials for the food bank said Tuesday.
The aftermath of Sandy has resulted in a demand not just by people who for financial reasons cannot afford a hot meal this Thanksgiving, but by others displaced by the hurricane that robbed many of them of their homes and other possessions, said Carlos Rodriguez, executive director of the food bank.
The Neptune-based organization has had its work made more difficult by the fact that many soup kitchens and food pantries that were affiliated with the food bank were completely destroyed in the storm, Rodriguez said.
Nevertheless, their work goes on. This holiday, the food bank expects to distribute about 12,000 turkeys for Thanksgiving, he said.
For people looking for a place to have Thanksgiving on Thursday, here is a partial list of places offering free dinner to the public.
If you are planning a Thanksgiving dinner for those affected by Sandy, please send the time, date, location, other details and contact information in an email to email@example.com. Also please note if you are looking for volunteers and any contact information for that.
- While the oceanfront Langosta Lounge remains closed for repairs because of damage from superstorm Sandy, restaurateur Marilyn Schlossbach has relocated the free, annual Thanksgiving Community Dinner served at Langosta for the past four years to the First United Methodist Church of Asbury Park, 906 Grand Ave. The dinner will start at 11 a.m. Thanksgiving Day.
Pat Sherman of Asbury Park is coordinating volunteers. Schlossbach is accepting donations of turkeys, hams, desserts, vegetables, jackets, gloves, scarves, toiletries and nonperishable items at the Dauphin Grille, 1401 Ocean Ave.
- A free Thanksgiving meal will be served from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Salvation Army on Asbury Avenue on Thanksgiving Day. Giamanos Ristorante, 301 Main St., Bradley Beach is hosting the event. The restaurant owners, employees and volunteers will set up, prepare and serve the meal, which will feature turkey with all the trimmings. It is open to the public; reservations are not needed.
- Church of Epiphany, 615 Thiele Road, will provide Thanksgiving dinners at noon Thursday. Deliveries provided upon request. For more information, call 732-458-0220.
- Free Thanksgiving dinner at the Eatontown Community Center, 72 Broad St., from 2 to 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day. For more information call 732-556-8246
- Windansea Restaurant will be hosting a free Thanksgiving dinner for Highlands residents with the help of an anonymous donor, and the OLPH food pantry from noon to 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day. Reservations can be made by calling Lisa at 732-693-9746. Seating times are noon, 12:30 p.m., 1:30 p.m., 2 p.m., 3 p.m., 3:30 p.m. and 4:30p.m.
- Island Heights United Methodist Church is hosting a free Thanksgiving dinner from noon to 6 p.m. on Thursday. Individuals, families, and local and out-of-state emergency responders are invited to attend one of three seatings: at noon, 2 p.m. or 4 p.m. Reservations are required. To make a reservation, call the church office at 732-929-0444 to request your preferred time. Island Heights United Methodist Church is located at 111 Ocean Ave.
- The Jackson Italian American Club, located in Romeos Plaza, 10 South New Prospects Ave., will be hosting a free Thanksgiving Dinner for those needing a warm meal in a friendly atmosphere from 1 to 5 p.m. on Thanksgiving Day.
- Lacey United Methodist Church, 203 Lacey Road in Forked River will serve Thanksgiving meals at 1 p.m. Thursday. Call 609-693-5222 the day before.
The Community Center, 203 Center St., will serve Thanksgiving meals noon to 2 p.m. Thursday. For more information, call 908-278-4654.
- Operation Jersey Strong, a nonprofit formed following superstorm Sandy to assist displaced residents, will host a Thanksgiving lunch for up to 150 people who lost homes from 11:30 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. at The Woodlake Country Club, 25 New Hampshire Ave, Lakewood. A gourmet traditional Thanksgiving meal and entertainment for children will be offered. Anyone wishing to attend should register by calling 732-228-8282.
- Macedonia Baptist Church, 143 John St., will provide Thanksgiving meals from 11:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. Thursday. Volunteers needed. Deliveries provided upon request. For more information, call 732-363-9804.
- The Long Branch Elks will be hosting a free Thanksgiving dinner for anyone who wants a warm meal with friendly faces. Noon to 3 p.m. Thursday. 150 Garfield Ave.
As part of continuing efforts to support communities affected by superstorm Sandy, Lowes will provide more than 22,000 free grab-and-go, heat-and-serve Thanksgiving meals for residents of the communities hardest hit by the storm.
Lowes will provide Boston Market family-style meals. Each meal includes fresh roasted turkey or ham, mashed potatoes with gravy, sweet corn and rolls. The fully cooked dinners will be distributed at 35 Lowes stores in New York and New Jersey on a first-come, first-served basis beginning 11 a.m. today until supplies run out.
Each store location will have approximately 500 meals to provide the local community. In addition, all Lowes employees in these stores will receive a meal as a thank you for their dedication before, during and after the storm. More than $1 million worth of food will be distributed during todays events.
In addition, Table Talk Pies of Worcester, Mass., donated more than 43,000 pies to be included in the meals.
- Working in conjunction with the Samaritan Center of Manalapan, Hartigans Grille will be providing Thanksgiving dinner for individuals and families in need of assistance in the Manalapan/Englishtown area. The event will take place Thursday. There will be two seatings, the first at 4:30 p.m. and the second at 6:30 p.m. Dinner will feature a home-cooked Thanksgiving menu using fresh ingredients. Make your reservation by calling 732-851-7500.
- Manasquan United Methodist Church, on the corner of South and Church streets, will serve a free Thanksgiving meal from 2 to 4 p.m. Thursday.
- Manasquan Elks Lodge 2534, 17 Stockton Lake Blvd. just off of Route 71, 2 to 6 p.m. Thursday.
- Edgars Pub, 153 Sea Girt Ave. at 4:30 p.m. Call 732-449-4114 for reservation.
- Thanksgiving meal at St Pauls United Methodist Church, 80 Embury Ave., on Thanksgiving Day. Call 732-775-1125, ext. 110, to make a reservation.
- Not so traditional meal tonight at the Point Pleasant Beach Elks Lodge, 820 Arnold Ave., at 5 p.m. All are welcome for a free meal provided by local restaurants, including Surf Taco, Spanos, Martells Tiki Bar, 709, The Spot, and more.
- Volunteers at Point Pleasant Presbyterian Church at Bay and Forman avenues will provide hot meals for those impacted by superstorm Sandy through Monday. Meals will be served in the Christian Education Building from 2 to 6 p.m.
The effort is in conjunction with St. Gregorys, an ecumenical food pantry located at St. Marys-by-the-Sea Episcopal Church, where more than 5,000 hot meals had been served before the move to the Presbyterian church.
- St. Gregorys at 820 Arnold Ave. will serve Thanksgiving meals at 1 p.m. For more information, call 732-892-8105.
St. Gregorys Pantry also announced that beginning Monday, the Pantry will resume its normal hours, Monday-to-Friday from 10 a.m. to noon, for the distribution of non-perishable food and household items.
- A family in Princeton Junction with two kids with type 1 diabetes are looking to invite a family hit by Sandy with kids that have type 1 diabetes to a Thanksgiving dinner. If you know of anyone, please feel free to have them call Ed at 609-542-0202.
- First Presbyterian Church, 255 Harding Road, will be holding a noon to 3 p.m. sit-down and take-out/delivery service to areas that need it on Thanksgiving Day.
- The First Presbyterian Church of Rumson, 4 East River Road, will be hosting a Thanksgiving dinner to anyone affected by the recent Sandy storm. The dinner will be served at 2:00pm in the church hall. All are welcome to attend. If you are interested please call 732-842-0429.
- Seabreeze Deli & Catering is offering a free Thanksgiving meal to all who can attend on Thanksgiving Day from noon to 4 p.m. at 111 Route 71 in Spring Lake Heights.
- Ocean County College will host a Thanksgiving dinner at 1 p.m. Thursday. Dinner prepared by Jason Russo, executive chef at Ramada Inn, Toms River. Reservations are required. Make reservations by calling the Student Life Office at 732-255-0348.
- The Toms River Elks Lodge 1875 will offer free dinners on Thanksgiving Day at the lodge, located on the corners of Washington Street and Clifton Avenue. Dinners will be available to hurricane victims, emergency responders, senior citizens, people with disabilities and members of the community who would like to enjoy a friendly atmosphere with plenty of turkey and trimmings.
The dinners will be served at noon, 1 p.m., 2 p.m. and 3 p.m.
Anyone who would like to attend should call the lodge secretary, Eileen Coyne, at 732-341-2480, ext. 203.
- The Salvation Army/Hearty Helpings, 1738 Route 37 West, will provide Thanksgiving meals at 5 p.m. sharp today.


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"God dag, d'ä jag!" [Good day, it is I!] began Eino Rautavaara, launching into the prologue in I pagliacci, and soon the passionate music and exciting action captivated the capacity crowd, who sympathised with the fate of an artist as Väinö Sola sang "Skratta Pajazzo! Åt din krossade lycka." [Laugh, O clown, at your crushed love!] and gasped as he killed Agnes Poschner's character at the end. The evening featured everything that would continue to be played night after night on the opera stage: love, jealousy, death, human destinies and grand emotions.
After the interval, Oskar Merikanto raised his baton again, and Aino Ackté took to the stage, every inch the diva. She acted with expansive gestures and great passion, and her voice, which had filled large metropolitan opera houses, was stunning in the tiny Alexander Theatre. The date was 2 October 1911, and this was the first performance ever staged by the Domestic Opera, featuring I pagliacci in Swedish and La Navarraise by Massenet in Finnish; the fledgling opera company was reaching out to all segments of Helsinki society.
Tumultuous applause, curtain calls, flowers, wreaths; soon, cab drivers were ferrying the formally dressed patrons from the Alexander Theatre towards the city centre. The clatter of horses' hooves on the cobblestones of Bulevardi punctuated excited discussion: would this enterprise be more successful than the Finnish Opera founded by Kaarlo Bergbom, which had survived for only a few years four decades earlier? Would the energy of Aino Ackté and the business acumen of Edvard Fazer be sufficient to keep the eagerly expected opera company up and running? At least there was now much more of an audience base, since Helsinki was no longer a small provincial town but a city of 140,000 residents, the vibrant capital of the Grand Duchy. Finland was evolving into a modern industrial society, with goods being exported to St Petersburg by train and to central Europe by steamship; trains and phone lines connecting even remote parts of the country with Helsinki; and automobiles, electric lights and moving pictures already becoming part of urban life. Finland was part of Russia, but there was an earnest desire to demonstrate to the world that Finland was a nation unto herself, with a special culture all her own. Finnish literature, painting, theatre and music were enjoying an unprecedented boom, and now the Finns – the singing people of the Kalevala that had produced Sibelius – had an opera house of their own.
The first performances were sold-out triumphs, but towards the spring there were empty seats in the auditorium. The money was running out, and tempers ran high. Aino Ackté erupted in a tantrum while directing a production of Les contes d'Hoffman, giving the soloists such a tongue-lashing that not even the highly expressive vocabulary of abuse in the Finnish language was enough: she invented a new word, hirvistyttävä [a rough equivalent would be 'terrifusing'], which she subsequently often used. She stormed out of the opera she had herself helped found and complained in the press: "The Domestic Opera has been stolen from me!", to which cooler heads responded that something you do not own cannot actually be stolen from you. The Domestic Opera and Finland's greatest opera star thus parted ways acrimoniously, and Edvard Fazer went on to lead the company on his own for a quarter of a century.
The World War broke out in 1914, prices went up and money became scarce, but the arts institution that had renamed itself the Finnish Opera was still standing. Finland was not directly involved in the fighting, but the bloody Civil War of 1918 following independence from Russia in 1917 interrupted the operations of the Opera too for some time.
Independence was a boon for the Finnish Opera. A lot of property was left behind in Finland by departing Russians, and the tiny gem of a building known as the Alexander Theatre was taken over by the Finnish government. It was turned over to the Opera as a temporary measure until an Opera House could be built – which, it was feared, could take as much as ten years. The Alexander Theatre was solemnly inaugurated as the theatre of the Finnish Opera in January 1919 and was immediately discovered to be too small, even if the auditorium seated 760 after renovation. Although the stage and the orchestra pit were tiny, even grand spectacles such as Aida were staged and performed with much gusto. New Finnish operas were also included in the repertoire.
Edvard Fazer was interested in dance. He had been bringing Russian ballet stars to central Europe even before the famous tours of Diaghilev. Fazer decided to set up a ballet company in Finland and invited George Gé from St Petersburg to become ballet master, at the same time selecting Swan Lake as the first work to be produced. Gé, who had never actually formally trained as a dancer, was hard pressed as the Prince to keep up with Mary Paischeff, who had studied in St Petersburg. The Ballet followed the strong Russian ballet tradition; after all, Helsinki had a substantial population of Russian expatriates who had fled the revolution, including dancers. After Swan Lake in 1922, the repertoire included such classics as Sleeping Beauty, Nutcracker and Giselle.
Meanwhile, the Opera was performing Il barbiere di Siviglia, La bohème, Tosca, Tannhäuser, Eugene Onegin, The Magic Flute, Il trovatore and even Tristan und Isolde, though there was as yet no Finnish tenor who could cope with it. It became established practice to perform operas in Finnish, but visiting artists of course sang in any language they wished, so audiences were treated at times to anything up to three different languages in one performance. The guest artists included Finnish celebrities such as Maikki Järnefelt, Hanna Granfelt and Pia Ravenna, and also international big names beginning with Eugenio Giraldoni and John Forssell.
True to its name, the Finnish Opera had a special interest in Finnish works. Their reception by the public at large was lukewarm until the advent of a masterpiece whose championing of freedom fit the mental landscape of the fledgling republic to perfection. Pohjalaisia [The Ostrobothnians] by Leevi Madetoja was hailed as a national opera, and to this day it is the most frequently performed Finnish opera of all time.
Finland prospered, but the Opera was not seeing any of the money. Ticket revenue was not enough to cover costs, even though salaries were so low that the dancers were obliged to take second jobs to survive. In May 1925, the company was on the brink of bankruptcy, and after one final performance of Pohjalaisia, with Liisa bringing tears to every eye with "ei mun silmäni enää oo kirkkahat" [my eyes are bright no longer], the lights went out and the doors closed. No one knew if they would ever be opened again.
The singers tried to make money by giving recitals and touring, and some tried to go into business, but what they really wanted was to be on stage. Emil Forsström, chairman of the board, bit the bullet and talked to ministers and civil servants at exhaustive length until a decree was enacted allowing lottery tickets to be sold for the benefit of the Opera. As the money started to come in, the Opera was reopened in 1926, and ever since then national lottery funds have been contributing to keeping the Opera going.
By now, Helsinki was growing into a modern metropolis, with neon lights, fast cars, and tango and jazz playing in restaurants constrained by Prohibition. Opera was very much in tune with the times. Ernst Krenek's controversial jazz opera Jonny spielt auf was performed in blackface, a real car was put on stage in the operetta Dollar Princess, the startlingly modern Jenůfa was staged, and a brilliant production of Turandot by Puccini was mounted only a few years after its world premiere.
There was now a competent body of singers in Finland, but when Oskar Merikanto retired from conducting, headhunting had to extend to Germany: Merikanto's successor was the experienced and talented Franz Mikorey. There were also foreign directors, the most brilliant of whom was Louis Laber. He created the best productions thus far seen at the Finnish Opera but was denied a residence permit, leading him to commit suicide at Christmas 1929. Fortunately, Finland's most accomplished opera conductor, Armas Järnefelt, returned from his post in Stockholm and began to conduct and direct the great Wagner operas, completely ignoring how small the stage was. During his tenure, even the gigantic Ring was shoehorned into the Alexander Theatre, and a tradition of performing Parsifal at Easter was introduced. The pace was hectic: the company was tiny but mounted up to nine new productions per year, including Puccini, Verdi, Tchaikovsky and Strauss.
In the early 1930s, the Great Depression touched Finland, and audience numbers dwindled alarmingly. Patrons were lured back with operetta productions whose bubbly music, brilliant scenery and flashy dancing provided an escape from the realities of everyday life. Producing operettas was expensive, however, and Armas Järnefelt wished to stop doing them altogether. He would have shut down the Ballet too if he had had his way. In protest, leading dancers Lucia Nifontova and Arvo Martikainen together with ballet master George Gé decided to emigrate. At what was to be their farewell performance in 1935, the audience noisily showed its support for them, and ultimately the management had to back down: operetta stayed, and so did the Ballet.
Finland has never had a shortage of low male voices, but tenors to match the vocal quality of baritones Oiva Soini and Teddy Björkman were hard to find. The fortunate discovery of Alfons Almi in the early 1930s led to this untutored natural talent being thrown in at the deep end: Carmen, Aida, Il trovatore and Tosca. Almi eventually became Finland's first Tristan, and when Jorma Huttunen graduated from high baritone to tenor, there were enough resources for an all-Finnish cast. Foreign guest artists included really big names such as bass Feodor Chaliapin and the diminutive tenor Josef Schmidt.
The conductor at this time was the hugely capable Leo Funtek, who spoke Finnish with a thick accent and gave everyone a hard time, regular soloists and guest stars alike. When Chaliapin failed to appear on stage, sending word that he needed a doctor, Funtek fumed: "He need a goddamn walking stick, that's what he need." Armas Järnefelt was more subtle, advising less fortunate singers: "You know, this bit sounds much better with the right notes." Ballet master Alexander Saxelin, on the other hand, snapped at a dancer who complained of being given too insignificant a part: "Oh, you think you a diva, well, you a long way from being a diva, you know."
The depression began to lift towards the end of the 1930s. People had money to go to the opera again, and now the Opera again dared introduce Finnish operas into the repertoire. Aarre Merikanto's Juha was deemed too difficult, but the modern colourist operas of Väinö Raitio were staged. Juha too eventually made the stage, but in a setting by Leevi Madetoja instead.
It was time for the old guard to stand down. Armas Järnefelt resigned in 1936, and two years later Edvard Fazer retired at the ripe old age of 77. Aino Ackté, reconciled since the last break-up, still had a lot of energy left, and in 1938 she took up leadership of the Opera. She toured Europe looking for new singers and wanted to change everything. She picked up the pace at the Opera and improved the Ballet by coaxing Nifontova and Martikainen to return; but on the other hand, she managed to alienate the directors and singers by intervening in absolutely everything. Only one year later she was let go, as the money was running out, and was replaced by Oiva Soini. His first act in office was to replace the seats in the Opera House, now that it seemed that these temporary premises were to be occupied for some time yet.
Everything seemed to be fine, Finland was prospering, and the Olympic Games were scheduled to take place in Helsinki in 1940. But there were dark clouds on the horizon that soon resolved themselves into bombers. The Soviet Union attacked Finland in 1939, and the Opera House sustained its share of damage in air raids. Singers and dancers were sent to the front, and performances were discontinued. The Winter War ended in March 1940, and Finland was obliged to cede Karelia to the Soviet Union. When the Continuation War began in 1941 to regain the ceded territory, the men of the Opera were again enlisted, causing gaps in the programme.
The Ballet was saved by Les sylphides, which only has one male role, and Arvo Martikainen was home on leave every now and again. Tenor singer Alfons Almi spent much of the war in the artillery, but occasionally took aim at a high C in 'Di quella pira' in Il trovatore while on leave. The few guest artists that came to Helsinki mainly came from Germany, although in 1942 Anna Mutanen had the splendid opportunity of languishing as Mimì in La bohème in the arms of none other than Jussi Björling.
At times, the Opera itself went to the front lines, performing Carmen and Countess Mariza on outdoor stages in the wilds of Karelia. A symphony orchestra was assembled from front-line soldiers, the stage was framed by anti-aircraft guns and camouflage netting, and thousands of soldiers experienced the tragic tale of Don José and Carmen for the first time in their lives. When Aino Elenius declared to Alfons Almi in the final scene "I don't love you!", an old soldier in the front row grunted "I'll be damned!" Why, indeed, would not a brave master sergeant be good enough for a cigarette factory girl? Singers and dancers also pulled their weight on entertainment tours, and the Ballet probably never had a keener audience than the young soldiers who had spent months living in a men-only environment.
In February 1944, Helsinki air defences were efficient enough to prevent the Opera House from suffering the fate of its counterparts in Vienna or Dresden. Finland only lost one limb in the war, so to speak, and that autumn the Opera too was able to return to peacetime status.
The people were hungry for entertainment, and the Opera obliged with The Merry Widow and The Bat. Everything was in short supply: sets were made of cardboard and armour of paper string, and the fabrics bought by Aino Ackté before the war were recycled several times. A restoration of Russian opera to favour began with Boris Godunov, and a new Finnish opera composer, Tauno Pylkkänen, entered the scene with Mare ja hänen poikansa (Mare and her son, 1945). New foreign works were performed too: Benjamin Britten's Peter Grimes was performed in 1949, only a few years after its premiere.
In 1947, the Ballet went to Stockholm to perform Swan Lake, demonstrating that Finland was alive and well. This message was communicated to the whole world in 1952, as aeroplanes and ships brought tourists to the Olympic Games in Helsinki while the train carrying the last of the war reparations to the Soviet Union crossed the eastern border. The same year saw the premiere of Pessi ja Illusia (Pessi and Illusia), the most popular Finnish ballet of all time, performed on the annual summer tour of the Opera and Ballet. The tours were organised by Alfons Almi, who had graduated from singer to financial manager when Sulo Räikkönen became director of the Opera in 1952. Foreign tours also continued with visits to Iceland and Leningrad, as it then was.
The year 1956 brought great changes. There was a general strike in Finland, Urho Kekkonen was elected President [and would remain in office for 25 years], and the Finnish Opera was converted into a foundation and renamed the Finnish National Opera. A new generation began to emerge, and by the late 1950s the FNO had an ensemble of near-legendary proportions: tenors Veikko Tyrväinen and Pekka Nuotio, baritone Usko Viitanen, soprano Anita Välkki and many others.
George Gé returned as ballet master. New ideas for dance were found at opera and ballet festivals each spring where East and West met. There was some amazement internationally at photos of dancers from the Bolshoi Theatre and the American Ballet Theatre pleasantly enjoying dinner together, even though this was at the height of the Cold War.
An orchestra of our own, at last
Alfons Almi became director of the Opera at the beginning of the 1960s and proceeded to hold the post for a considerable time. Tauno Pylkkänen, who by now was hailed as a 'Nordic Puccini', was appointed artistic director. The operating circumstances of the FNO improved with the construction of an annexe next to the Opera House, but dancers still banged their heads on the low ceiling of the rehearsal hall, and musicians were obliged to bend down in the corridors to get to the extremely small orchestra pit. Not nearly everyone had a dressing room of their own, and in the small staff canteen in the cellar the air was thick with smoke. Then again, the entire company was like one big family, and there was lots of laughter in the corridors to balance the cavalcade of love, hate and death on stage.
Though the premises were not getting any larger, major productions such as Die Meistersinger von Nürnberg, Der Rosenkavalier and Lohengrin were staged, and the repertoire included 20th-century operas such as Pelléas et Mélisande, Katya Kabanova and Albert Herring. Operetta began to recede into the past, being replaced by musicals such as Show Boat and West Side Story. The Ballet evolved some choreographers of its own, the most productive and significant of whom was Elsa Sylvestersson.
Money was always hard to come by, and the opera director was constantly signing promissory notes and sometimes even mortgaged his home in order to pay salaries. There was no scope for making cuts, as salaries were already so low that employees had difficulty supporting their families. What was worse, the FNO still did not have an orchestra of its own. The Helsinki Philharmonic, doubling as the opera orchestra, did its best, but there was simply not enough rehearsal time to go around. Two obstacles stood in the way of acquiring an orchestra: no money and no musicians. But once Alfons Almi had spent enough years wrestling with the Ministry of Education, the money finally came through, and when auditions were held in 1963, it was found that there were many young and talented musicians in Finland. Now, finally, the FNO had an orchestra of its own, led by two accomplished conductors: the gentlemanly Jussi Jalas and the Vienna-trained Ulf Söderblom.
Finland attained middle age and celebrated her 50th anniversary with an operatic setting of Väinö Linna's seminal novel Tuntematon sotilas (The Unknown Soldier) by Pylkkänen. When Merikanto's Juha finally made it to the stage in the same year, things began to look good for Finnish opera.
Big men entered the stage: first Martti Talvela, then Matti Salminen and Jaakko Ryhänen.
In 1970, Alfons Almi moved sideways to the leadership of the Opera House Foundation and began a 20-year battle for a new Opera House. Juhani Raiskinen succeeded him as director of the FNO in 1973 and kicked things into a new gear. This was a time of great political activism, and theatres were carrying banners with the rest of them. Why should the FNO not be equally in touch with the times and socially aware? Courtly elegance from two centuries ago was suddenly joined by the earthy tones of rugged contemporary opera featuring ordinary and not so ordinary Finns as their leading characters. Director Sakari Puurunen introduced a style of realistic music theatre, and the number of premieres per year dropped to four.
A new Finnish opera was premiered almost every year. The real breakthrough year for Finnish opera was 1975, with the premieres within a few months of each other of Ratsumies (The Horseman) by Aulis Sallinen and Viimeiset kiusaukset (The Last Temptations) by Joonas Kokkonen. With the premiere of Punainen viiva (The Red Line) in 1978, it was suddenly discovered that opera had become an art form accessible to everyone.
Would the very Finnish story of an opera such as Viimeiset kiusaukset touch people abroad? "Well, people die in Switzerland too," observed Joonas Kokkonen, and soon Paavo Ruotsalainen, the great lay preacher, was on his deathbed in Zurich, London and finally New York. The depiction of impoverished backwoods people in Punainen viiva, with Jorma Hynninen giving a powerful performance in the leading role, captivated audiences at the Metropolitan, while in Moscow some left during the interval. But on the whole, Finnish opera was praised so lavishly abroad that it finally hit home that Finland was an opera country and as such had to have a real Opera House.
The Finnish National Ballet also toured widely and acquired worldwide fame. In 1959, the FNB toured all over North America, giving no fewer than 63 performances to piano accompaniment. The South American tour of 1968 was even longer, with the FNB travelling triumphantly all over the continent for two and a half months. This remains the longest tour in the history of the FNO, and a remarkable one too, as in Buenos Aires two Romeos suddenly appeared on stage, the dancers being unable to agree on the casting. Cutbacks were made in the 1970s as financial difficulties emerged, and extensive touring became a thing of the past. New stars appeared on the dancing firmament as Ulrika Hallberg and Jorma Uotinen began their careers.
The plans for a new Opera House progressed slowly but surely. Ilkka Kuusisto and Jorma Hynninen took up leadership of the FNO in 1984 and began to prepare for the move to the new Opera House. Some large-scale productions were experimentally created outside the old Opera House. Classics were again introduced into the repertoire, as with the production of La traviata directed by Giancarlo del Monaco, but Nixon in China by John Adams also proved to be a big success. Finnish composer Einojuhani Rautavaara created a fine sequence of operas: Thomas, Vincent and Auringon talo (The House of the Sun). Doris Laine was appointed director of the FNB, and exports of Finnish dance began again. The FNB toured Germany, Denmark, Switzerland, Luxembourg, East Berlin, Edinburgh and China, and spent five weeks touring the USA.
In 1987, the long-awaited moment came with the breaking of ground at the site of the new Opera House in Helsinki. This happened in the midst of an economic boom, but only a few years later Finland was plunged into the deepest recession in its history. The FNO thanked its lucky stars that construction of the Opera House had actually begun, since otherwise the project might have been pushed back by decades.
The work was inevitably delayed by a lack of money, but the great white building inexorably rose on the shore of Töölönlahti bay, and Alfons Almi lived long enough to see the grand dream come true at the topping-out ceremony. The great bass singer Martti Talvela accepted the post of director of the FNO, following his success in making the Savonlinna Opera Festival an event of international repute, but his dramatic and untimely death led to the appointment instead of Walton Grönroos. Following the grandiose opening of the new Opera House in 1993, large-scale opera productions finally got under way. The first complete Finnish production of the Ring was begun, directed by Götz Friedrich.
Headlines were made again when Walton Grönroos abruptly left for Sweden in the middle of his tenure; and it was from Sweden that Juhani Raiskinen, of the quick wit and outspoken manner, returned once more to lead the FNO in 1997. Ulf Söderblom retired, and Okko Kamu became Chief Conductor.
New audiences were found as the FNO began to produce music theatre for children in daycare and schoolchildren. For once, the singers were able to receive direct feedback. "You wuss!" said one young viewer to a tenor who began to sing an aria instead of rescuing the princess from the dragon as he should have. Outreach work was begun in cooperation with schools. By the time of the 100th anniversary of the FNO, tens of thousands of schoolchildren around Finland had had personal contact with staging an opera production.
The principal Finnish composers featured in this decade were Aulis Sallinen and Erik Bergman. Sallinen's Kullervo had been given its premiere in Los Angeles before the inauguration of the new Opera House, and the first world premiere of the new millennium was his King Lear. Bergman's Det sjungande trädet (The Singing Tree) was taken by the FNO to Berlin on its major tour in 1999.
The FNB, meanwhile, was being led in his own inimitable way by Jorma Uotinen, who took the company on tour to Beijing, Rome, Amsterdam, Vienna and St Petersburg. One of the high points during this time was the visit paid by Sylvie Guillem as choreographer and soloist in Giselle, and the FNB subsequently also gave seven performances of Giselle at the Théâtre du Châtelet in Paris to capacity crowds.
In a changing world, opera remains constant
Juhani Raiskinen, who was well liked as director, finished his contract, and a new leadership was brought in from abroad: General Director Erkki Korhonen from Switzerland and Ballet Director Dinna Bjørn from Denmark. Korhonen's high-profile directorship aimed at taking the FNO to the international top league. Big-name directors starting with Dario Fo were invited to direct impressive productions such as Der Rosenkavalier, Parsifal and Il viaggio a Reims.
Brilliant performances by Soile Isokoski, Matti Salminen, Jorma Hynninen, Juha Uusitalo, Jorma Silvasti, Lilli Paasikivi, Monica Groop and many others demonstrated that the legacy of Aino Ackté and Edvard Fazer was in safe hands. And when Karita Mattila made a guest appearance in Katya Kabanova and Tosca, tickets sold out almost instantly.
The tradition of new Finnish opera was continued once again by Einojuhani Rautavaara, whose impressive Rasputin was taken to St Petersburg in a guest performance. The operas L'amour de loin and Adriana mater by Kaija Saariaho, in productions directed by Peter Sellars, were overwhelming experiences, and foreign critics wondered at how Finns manage to fill the house night after night even for modern opera.
Leif Segerstam had been appointed Chief Conductor, but he backed out, and after years of searching Mikko Franck was appointed to replace him. Korhonen did not manage to finish his tenure without the by now familiar controversies; there was a reorganisation, and Päivi Kärkkäinen was appointed the new General Director, with Mikko Franck being renamed Artistic Director of the Opera. A new Artistic Director of the Ballet was also found: Kenneth Greve, a Dane determined to blow fresh air into the FNB. Päivi Kärkkäinen promised that a close eye would be kept on the finances, and Mikko Franck promised Verdi, French opera and 20th-century opera. The first century of the FNO came to a close with an intoxicating production of Die tote Stadt.
Over the past 100 years, a lowly agricultural borderland of the Russian Empire has evolved into a prosperous high-tech pioneer, and a penniless bunch of opera enthusiasts has grown up into a large, well-established cultural institution. The FNO has lived through the huge upheavals of Finnish history, making viewers laugh and cry in turn regardless of whether the country was in the maelstrom of the Civil War, in the depths of the depression, amidst the ruins of war, grappling with food shortages or beset by major changes in society. It all comes back to what Väinö Sola sang a century ago: "Laugh, O clown, at your broken love."
Juhani Koivisto


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Miguel Cabrera is still leading the American League in average and RBIs, but his power has been severely diminished by his injuries. (Robin Buckson / Detroit News)
Sports has a long and hallowed history of surprises:
Joe Namath over the Colts in Super Bowl III.
The United States over Russia in a 1980 hockey game that jolted the earth�s axis.
Villanova over Georgetown for the 1985 NCAA basketball title.
The Tigers are looking at roughly the same degree of difficulty against the A�s as quickly as Detroit stops dawdling and sews up its Central Division title.
That is how deeply the odds of a Tigers world championship, or even their opening-series playoff survival, have been lengthened by a groin injury to supreme lineup commander, Miguel Cabrera.
The Tigers always can pull an upset sports happily invites from a supposed weaker team. But the extent to which the Tigers have been all but kneecapped by Cabrera�s groin injury is profound.
And from all available medical evidence and reports, Cabrera�s malady is not about to heal until the offseason provides extended time for a disabling injury to mend.
Cabrera�s sore groin has triggered a chain-reaction that threatens manager Jim Leyland�s club each and every time Cabrera hobbles to the field.
Offensively, the most intimidating batter in baseball has become a singles hitter. He has two extra-base hits � a home run and a double � since Aug. 26. When healthy, a home run and a double were often on the game-day scorecard during Cabrera�s first two-bats.
The groin injury has robbed Cabrera of his power, particularly on inside pitches, where his need to twist and to torque are clearly compromised by an abdomen that cannot cooperate.
It leaves Cabrera to swat singles. Lots of singles. Which brings about the next problem in this sequence of negative energy.
He cannot run.
Cabrera can, at best, trot to first base. He cannot accelerate once he is on base and is obliged to take off when ensuing hitters stroke the ball, either for a hit, or whatever.
Where the Catch-22 becomes most cruel is that running aggravates the groin irritation. Cabrera was aboard three times in last Saturday night�s victory over the White Sox, after three of his vintage September singles. By the end of the game was in such pain he could not play the next day.
Singles hitter
Absent the brand of fence-busting power he brings to Detroit�s lineup, the slow-footed Tigers are caught with an offense that stagnates, too often living on station-to-station hits, even as Prince Fielder, Victor Martinez, Omar Infante, etc., all enjoy terrific finishes to the 2013 regular season.
They had 10 hits in Monday�s night�s cringe-worthy 4-3 loss to the Twins. They had 11 hits in last Sunday�s loss to the White Sox but again, scored only three runs.
They had scored three or fewer runs in four of their last 10 games, including Tuesday night�s 4-2 victory over the Twins. In three more of those games they scored four and five runs � not the run-production you expect from a team with the league�s highest average (.285).
But, ironically, that average confirms the absolute necessity for a healthy Cabrera and for the extra-base thunder he uniquely provides � or, more accurately, provided � with his league-leading average (.350), on-base percentage (.446) and, most vitally, slugging percentage (.646). Perversely, an injured Cabrera shows just how valuable Cabrera is, and was, as voters prepare to submit their 2013 ballots for American League MVP.
One month ago today, Cabrera was about to hit his 42nd home run and knock in his 127th and 128th runs. The next day, against, Oakland, he hit his 43rd homer and bagged his 129th and 130th RBIs.
Thirty days later he has 44 home runs and 137 RBIs. One home run, seven RBIs, spanning 30 days, with no realistic prospect that anything will, or can, change. And all because of a complicated injury that allows him to play � an ailment that won�t significantly benefit from him not playing � and yet halves his extraordinary skills
Beginning the day after Cabrera hit his Aug. 26 home run, the Tigers have rolled up a 15-12 record, including Tuesday night�s victory. Not bad, but not the brand of baseball the Tigers, with their sturdy starting pitching and helpful surrounding hitters, would otherwise expect to play against mostly weak teams.
The missing piece, of course, is a hitter whose bat can literally destroy opposing pitchers and strategies. He is there, but he isn�t. His hand-eye coordination is sublime, as always, but rather than those doubles up the gap or against the fence, and in place of those home runs that would soar majestically into space, he rips singles up the middle or to right field.
He cannot pull the ball or unleash that Greek god-like swing that so often demolished the scoreboard and Tigers opponents.
No margin for error
If it were a matter, only, of offense, the Tigers could still expect to out-pitch a playoff rival when October�s postseason theater begins.
But, ah, Cabrera�s constrained ways stress another soft-spot that becomes more vulnerable when Detroit�s offense suffers: the bullpen.
There is too little margin for error, as Monday�s game confirmed.
With only a three-run lead, Justin Verlander had to leave a game in which he had struck out 12 in six innings. He and the Tigers might have expected Jose Veras and Joaquin Benoit to wrap up an evening�s work against a less-than-daunting Twins lineup.
But when Veras had a rough eighth, and Benoit couldn�t get away with a high fastball to Brian Dozier during his overtime stint (he came on in relief of Veras in the eighth) in the ninth, the Tigers saw that three puny runs weren�t enough to win a game they had no business losing.
This is the team they will take against the hot and powerful A�s when the Division Series begins Oct. 4. This is the team, with a crippled superstar, that is expected to match up against baseball�s best clubs at a time when playoff baseball makes no accommodations for a weakened lineup.
It leaves Detroit�s baseball community to think about sports and its propensity for upsets. It will require an upset for the Tigers to have any kind of shelf life during October. And that could happen, even before a much stronger Tigers team begins to take shape ahead of 2014.
But for now, the Tigers and their playoff hopes are symbolized by the heartbreaking scene of a man unable to run, jogging along a basepath, doing his best to leg out a single that weeks ago would have been a home run.


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In honour of the 21 famous hairpins of Alpe d'Huez, Rapha is counting down to the holiday with a multiple-choice question every day for 21 days, beginning on midnight UTC/GMT, Sunday 4th December and ending on Saturday the 24th.
Every day a new question will appear on the Alpe d'Quiz competition page on Facebook, relating to riders who have had their names immortalised on each bend of Alpe d'Huez.
Rapha will reward one Alpinist every day with a surprise prize from our Autumn/Winter collection.
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The more days you enter, the more chances you have to win. And if you share the competition with a friend, you'll receive an extra entry for each friend that enters, too.
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Pope Francis traveled to Uganda's holiest shrine on Saturday on the second leg of his first African tour.
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Heavily armed police tried to storm a suburban Paris apartment where the suspected mastermind of last week's attacks was believed to be holed up, police said.
A moment of silence was observed throughout France on Monday, and people from countries around the world set up memorials in honour of the victims of Friday's attacks in Paris.
Parisians gather in a show of solidarity to honour the victims of last week's terror attacks.
More than 100 people were killed during a hostage-taking at the Bataclan concert hall in Paris on Friday night in a series of coordinated terrorist attacks around the city.
Student activists were met by riot police and water cannons outside the APEC summit in Manila, Philippines, as leaders from 21 countries and self-governing territories gathered to discuss trade, business and economic issues.
Five luxurious lavatories were selected in the annual best restroom competition hosted by Cintas Canada.
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Across the country, Canadians gathered to remember those who served our country in solemn ceremonies on Remembrance Day.
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British and Hollywood royalty were both walking the red carpet on Monday for the world premiere of "Spectre", the latest adventure for Daniel Craig's 007 in the James Bond film franchise.
Acclaimed Harlem rapper A$AP Rocky was joined by Danny Brown and Tyler The Creator at Rogers Arena.
Some of country music's biggest stars were at the Bridgestone Arena in Nashville to celebrate the 49th annual CMA Awards.
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TIFF fans who rubbed shoulders with the stars show off the selfies they snapped at the 2015 edition of the famous film festival.
The 40th annual Toronto International Film Festival comes to a close, with the People's Choice award going to the film 'Room' by Lenny Abrahamson.
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Some of music's biggest stars hit the red carpet in Los Angeles for the 2015 MTV Video Music Awards.
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Ok guys, the showing at AWA was a COMPLETE SUCCESS!
Everything went off nearly without a hitch and the audience was wonderful since they applauded and clapped for every single video even with the little time between for applause. The audience stayed for the credits and began clapping to the song. Then Wonka and DannyWilson lit their lighters up high, encouraging everyone to light up their cell phones and raise them up high like a rock concert or something. But yeah, it was too fucking incredible and you had to be there to truly experience it.
Congrats to everyone who got their videos finished and shown! Especially Hitori and Zarxrax who got the biggest applauses!
Obviously since I'm the first one to get back from the coordinators, I will be posting my tracks first...
Track 21 - Devil's Mask (Ninja Gaiden/Rurouni Kenshin)
Track 29 - Terra in Black (Final Fantasy 6/Cowboy Bebop
Track 99 - Credits
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I have been drinking bourbon for about 40 years. Got turned on to it in the 60's when I was going through flight school in Pensacola.
I keep several of bottles open and don't think the super premiums are $30 dollars a bottle better than WT101. What I do miss is that ol' SW Rebel Yell. Even when I was 23 years old I knew that was some very good shit. So did Keith Richards, my hero.
Anyway, to get to my point. Regardless of price, my favorite is WT101 which I can buy for 14 bucks (750ml) every 3 weeks on sale at Rite Aid. I would gladly pay at least $20 for it, and will probably have to when I move to Colorado next year.
But here is my thing, and I feel like a bastard at a family picnic. When it comes to a 90 proof pour, I like George Dickel. I drink my whiskey over the rocks. I like Manhattans but I use MM for that, still over the rocks. Cocktail hour doesn't last long enough drinking "up". What do you all think of George Dickel #12? Thanks, Ricardo


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Some breast cancers need the hormones estrogen or progesterone to grow. These cancers are called hormone-sensitive or hormone-dependent cancers. For breast cancers that are estrogen-receptor-positive (ER+), progesterone-receptor-positive (PR+), or both (ER+/PR+), hormone therapy may be used to slow or stop cancer growth.
Hormone therapy works by blocking the ovaries from making estrogen, blocking enzymes that are needed when the body makes estrogen, or by blocking estrogen's effects on cancer cell growth. It includes:
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Sv8 Frontend.. Mpcgain..
Sv8 Frontend.. Mpcgain..
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Using the compile from the 64bit thread below, the 32bit link. I have been using mpc since it was born. Wish to keep using it, and looked into the latest, thinking sv8 may be the way to go. Have waited till something close to final was released. Decoder and encoder work with Speeks Batch frontend by renaming the coder files. The new mpcgain is new to me, and doing command line I can't tell if it is working or not, no message one way or the other. Have 160gig of Flac files to transcode, not looking forward to spending that kind of time in a friggin Dos box to do mpcgain on the resulting files. The old replaygain seems to work, with one error, it's not sure of the file type. Would rather use the new software in the package if possible. Any help with something in the way of a frontend, or any other solution for that matter would be much appreciated. I loved the performance of mpc when it came out as opposed to mp3, and still do. Not a threat by any means, but if high bitrate mp3 with whatever regain it uses are much simpler to use, that may be where I will have to go, just for the sake of a GUI. That said, I don't care for mp3, always have been a lover of "underdog" software, even though it took three hours just to find the latest 32bit working version in a 64bit thread. (Even run underdog hardware, love AMD.) Sorry, not a programmer, don't compile myself, need a tutorial or something on that one. Any help with this, again, thanks. Gotta get these transcoded so the flac can be backed up and tucked away.
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Wow, has been awhile, just checked, been a member here since may of 02! Mpc all the way since here!!
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well if you are waiting for SV8 to finalize you need not wait long.
also, all of the SV8 tools are working great and i wouldn't recommend using any SV7 tools anymore.
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SV8 is final - announcement
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Dear Bob,
I want my son to get some coins each month, but where can he hide them in an apartment that is not in a safe or lock box that someone can pick up and carry away? What is a good way to store them?
Dear JZ,
First of all, tell no one that you have gold on the premises. That goes for friends and relatives. Any slip of the tongue can alert a thief to your valuables who would be more diligent in a search than would a burglar who picked your home at random.
After that, there are some simple tricks you can use depending upon the way your apartment is constructed. If there are voids in closets (ceilings or walls) you can buy a small—preferably fireproof—safe and secure it in the void. Be sure the void is covered in such a way that it doesn't look different from its surroundings. If you have large baseboards you can remove one section and cut a small hole in the drywall and place your gold behind the baseboard, securing the baseboard with just a couple of nails for easy removal. You can purchase a package of frozen vegetables or fruit or a container of ice cream, remove the contents and put your coins in the container and the container in the freezer. Most burglars won't look there. You can also place a few coins at a time in envelopes and tape them inside your cabinets to the underside of the countertop. If you use a little bit of imagination you can thwart most common thieves.
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- Restart your phone, check the WiFi connection icon on the phone screen, and move closer to a WiFi access point to get a better signal.
- Make sure that your phone is not in Battery saver mode (Settings > battery saver), or connect a charger.
- Disable Bluetooth connectivity in your phone while being connected to WiFi (Settings > Bluetooth). Bluetooth and WiFi operate on the same frequency range and may interfere with each other.
- If you cannot connect to a network that you have connected to before, try deleting the network from your phone. (To do this, in Settings > WiFi > manage (advanced), under Known networks, tap and hold the network name, then tap Delete.) Deleting the network will delete the associated settings on your phone. After that, tap the WiFi network in the list of networks, then try to connect again.
- If there is no SIM card in your phone, try inserting SIM and check that you are not in flight mode. If there is no SIM card in the phone, some of the country specific WiFi features may not be available when your phone does not know its location.
- Check if you can connect with your phone to another WiFi network (for example using the internet sharing feature of another phone).
- Use your mobile data, check if there is new software available for your phone: Tap Settings > phone update.
If you are having trouble connecting to your home WiFi network
- Restart your router (some routers should be switched off for 2 minutes periodically to allow for background updates).
- Check that your password in a secure network of your phone is properly configured and that your phone's security settings match with the settings of your home WiFi network. If you keep getting an Incorrect password error, log in to your wireless router, and change the operating mode 802.11b/g/n to 802.11g only, and then restart/reset the router, and try to create a connection again.
- Check that your WiFi network is not configured to filter the access based on the device MAC address. If using MAC based filtering, the MAC address of your mobile device must be added in the filter list. You can find your phone MAC address in Settings > about > more information.
- Disable other active network services such as video streaming and online games.
- Check on your router's support page that it has the latest firmware installed.
If you are having trouble connecting to a public WiFi hotspot
- Check if any authentication is needed to a public WiFi hotspot. Even though the WiFi network were open, you may still need to authenticate with a username and password on your phone browser before you can access the internet. You may also need to re-authenticate after the authentication timeout expires. Disconnect and reconnect to the WiFi network in Settings > WiFi if you do not get the authentication prompt.
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Indonesian politician and Sufi cleric who became the archipelago's first freely elected president in Oct. 1999, suspended Gen. Wiranto from the Indonesian cabinet in Feb., because the powerful military leader was placed under investigation for war crimes during the crisis in East Timor. Wahid faces an uphill battle in leading Indonesia, which has been torn apart by religious and ethnic violence, particularly in the provinces of Aceh, Irian Jaya, and the Molucca Islands.
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I did consider trying that out, though.
I suppose a direct image link (and quote) to the sources in my previous comment minus the extra commentary would have been better warranted. I'll try to take care to do just that from now on in this situation unless the offense (which here is "not bothering to read") is particularly egregious.
Nip it in the bud, so to speak, Really "egregious" -- love it!