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The first weekend in December was full of events for me.
My friend Erin came to spend the weekend with us. Saturday, we went to see a movie, and Sunday, she threw me a baby sprinkle (like a shower but on a smaller scale for a second baby.) It even proved to be more eventful than that. Read on.
Saturday brought the end to my obsession: the "Twilight Saga's" final movie is done. "Breaking Dawn Part II" has been out since the week before Thanksgiving, but I just got to see it. It was bittersweet. While the movie was awesome, I was sad to see it come to an end.
Before I saw the movie, I was told there was a "twist." I successfully managed to dodge discovering that twist until seeing the movie. I won't share it with you because I don't want to ruin it for you, but I think it added to the movie and was a great asset. I was worried that it would affect whether or not I liked the movie. If anything, it made me like it more. It definitely made it a little more exciting and surprising.
After the movie, a terrifying thing happened to me and Erin as we left the movie theater. We were driving out of the cinemas, minding our own business, when all of a sudden there were flashing lights behind me. I turned to see not just one, but three police cars behind me.
What? I had just pulled out of the parking lot and didn't have enough time to have been speeding. So what did they want?
We came to find out that someone robbed the electronics store, and they thought it was us. Why, you might ask (I sure did.) The officer told me that my car (a silver Escape) fit the description and that it was two women who robbed the place. As I told the officer that we had just come from the movie (he wanted to see my ticket stub), we heard another officer come over his speaker. The car they were in search of was a green Metro or a silver Civic. And my Escape, a SUV, matched that? Really? Needless to say, we were let go with an apology. An apology, that was it. The officer is lucky he didn't send me into labor. He scared the crap out of me. I kept waiting for the contractions to start. Not cool, Mr. Officer, not cool at all.
Sunday brought the welcome party for my soon-to-be (still nameless) second baby boy. Most of my family and a few friends came to help me celebrate the coming birth of my littlest boy. Erin outdid herself and threw a wonderful, beautiful sprinkle for me and my bundle of joy. Little Man had fun, too. He won a special prize for being a big brother. I got lots and lots and lots of diapers, which is the one thing I needed and asked for. I don't have any of those left over from my eldest. That is one thing he used up, and then some.
The weekend brought an end to an "era" with the final "Twilight" movie, and the beginning of the welcome for my baby.
While I had to say goodbye and close the door on Edward Cullen (I will forever remain Team Edward (the winning team, by the way), my family and friends celebrated me and my unborn little boy due next year. And, I got to spend the weekend with an awesome friend.
What could be better than that?
(Letusick, a resident of Rayland, is a copy editor for the Herald-Star and The Weirton Daily Times.)


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At OHIO you were inspired by scholar-teachers, experienced the arts, pushed your limits, got involved and became the best version of you. ohiowomen, powered by Women in Philanthropy (WIP), celebrates everything that OHIO is, was, and will be to the women and men who pass through its gates. The program engages all OHIO women – alumnae, friends, students, faculty and staff – in the life of the University. Why? To help ensure OHIO's future for ALL students, alumni and friends.
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Out of the 11 applicants for the Gilman Award from Ohio University, seven of them recently learned that their dreams of studying abroad would be rewarded. These seven are a few out of 800 American undergraduate students from 356 colleges and universities across the U.S. selected to receive the prestigious Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, sponsored by the U.S. Department of State's Bureau of Educational and Cultural Affairs to study or intern abroad during the spring 2015 academic term. Read More
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Mechanical engineering students at the Russ College of Engineering and Technology demonstrated to the public this weekend how they create for good. As part of the culmination of the "Designing to Make Difference" senior capstone course, a record 14 teams displayed their designs in the Stocker Center lobby and the Academic & Research Center project hangar and gave research presentations on their work. The growing program, which has resulted in more than $100,000 in national awards in recent years, tasks students with addressing specific needs for real clients in the community. Read More

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The 7 Most Horrifying Moments from Children's Video Games
#3. Monster Party
Monster Party was another horror parody game about a boy named Mark and his gargoyle-griffin friend, Bert (shut up -- it's a traditional gargoyle name). Bert's home world is overrun with evil monsters, and because children with baseball bats are far better at fighting demons than, say, an entire race of vicious gargoyle-griffins, Bert needs Mark's help to defeat them. The levels are your standard video game pick and mix, including a sky castle, a sewer, a tower and a crystal cavern. But if you beat those levels, you see ...
The Horror:
... the level-transition screens featuring skeletons bathing in blood.
"Mmmm ... taste the liquid remnants of the child heroes who fell before you."
Which is ... a little unexpected, considering Nintendo's aforementioned content policies. But what really puts this on the "hamster in a microwave" level of disturbing is the ending of Monster Party. The king of the evil monsters is beaten, and Bert thanks Mark by giving him a box containing a beautiful princess. So, uh ... you just keep this girl in a box, Bert? OK, you're a gargoyle and we don't want to disrespect your culture. We shall accept your strange gift with humility and graciousness. Let's just open this sucker up and get this girl some air -- hey, look! The princess pops right out of there, unharmed.
And then her face rots away, the room fills with horrible monsters and the player gets a gruesome screen of Mark screaming while the flesh melts off of his body, like he'd just opened the Ark of the Covenant.
Again, that would be Mark the child.
This ending marked a lot of significant firsts in video game history: the first time a child felt betrayed via digital means, the first recorded instance of pixelated night terrors and the very first Nintendo-sponsored psychiatric visits -- truly, it was a groundbreaking moment in gaming.
#2. Lemmings
Lemmings did more to disparage the good name of Arctic rodent migration than Disney's White Wilderness, but video games didn't come much cuter. The original box art was a veritable Where's Waldo? page of adorable lemming antics.
Via Wikipedia
"No Fraggle Rock copyright infringement anywhere!"
That wasn't incongruous cover art: In the game, they were all bright colors and shenanigans, too:
Don't you just want to pinch their cheeks until the police show up and make you stop?
And sure, we guess there's something kind of dark in that half of the game is watching the little buggers get maimed, but they just pop into a spray of pixels when they die. You don't watch them get dragged into R'lyeh to have their souls flayed by Cthulhu or anyth-
The Horror:
... Oh.
This demonic hellhole is Tricky 14: MENACING!!, and is the only one of the game's 120 levels that look anything like this. The rest are fluffy clouds and waterfalls and forests, but for just one stage, your squeaky-voiced, bathrobe-clad man-rats trundle to their doom along a twisted mass of snake tentacles while blood drips down from above and gore-soaked skulls ooze from the ceiling.
On the plus side, you can only cry so much before you pass out from dehydration.
So what the jumping crap was that all about? Did somebody get so sick of programming cute deaths that they snapped and damned the Lemmings to rodent hell for the sin of mass suicide? It was actually recycled graphics from an earlier Amiga game, Menace, that the developers threw in there as kind of an inside joke for the fans. But unless you were intimately familiar with the entire Amiga catalog before firing up your cuddly rodent migration simulator, the casual player was just left to assume that they'd tripped over a root in Candyland and stumbled right into the Pain Dimension.
#1. EarthBound
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EarthBound was a quirky SNES RPG based on the childhood of Shigesato Itoi, who apparently wrote the entire game as an incredibly roundabout way to report psychological child abuse. But let's disregard the greater implications, and just go with the game as it's presented: EarthBound is a very colorful adventure that stars a group of young friends battling trash-can monsters with baseball bats. What more could a child ask for?
Ness knows some bitches who are about to pay for their insolence.
The Horror:
Now, we've talked about the game's nightmare of a final boss before, but we really should have seen that stuff coming earlier. In a previous section, Ness, Paula and Jeff find themselves in the resort town of Summers, where a New Age woman gives Ness some "magic cake." Like all magical pastries, eating it causes Ness to envision a far-off land where the young, unfortunately named Prince Poo is completing his training in the mystic art of Mu. His last trial is to climb a mountain, meditate for a bit, ignore all distractions and temptations, then get his spiritual anus ripped apart by the ghosts of his ancestors:
Piece by piece, the ancient ghosts dismantle Poo's body. All throughout the systemic maiming, the spirits ask Poo if he accepts the loss of his appendages and senses -- bluntly stating things like "I am going to break your legs. You will lose the use of them." But here's the twisted part: This is not just a cut scene. If players want to finish the game, they have to keep agreeing to let ghosts mutilate them virtually. They have to select each answer to the spirit's questions manually, and every answer has to be "Yes, please continue mauling me, ghost."
"Also, I may or may not fart into your open mouth."
For how primitive the technology was at the time, the game handled the maiming scenes with terrifying efficiency. When the ghost cuts your ears off, all sound in the game abruptly cuts out. When it gouges out your eyes, the screen goes black. It was a simple trick, but not one that we as young gamers were ever prepared for: It really drove home what amputation and mutilation felt like ... to a bunch of children way too young to even spell either of those words.
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Is Kolmogorov-Smirnov test self-sufficient to prove normal distribution of a time series? And then test efficiency of a market?
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so yes but also warns that a large number of data points might be required. Why don't you apply the Jarque-Bera test?
I think I've a simpler example to show that a normal distribution does not imply market efficiency:
Suppose security 1 prices are given by the GBM $X(t)$ and the prices of security 2 $X(t-1)$. Then returns are normally distributed but predictable.
I think that knowing that price of every asset is a random walk is not enough to say that the market is efficient. What if prices of asset y and asset z follow the same price as x plus some noise. If x is a random walk, then y and z are also random walks; however, it would be possible to exploit their relationship via pairs trading; hence, markets are not efficient. In my example x could price of oil and y and z could be two oil companies prices of who's shares are closely related to the price of oil.
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no. this test as same as any else can't say for 100% that distribution is normal. and how do you want to use it to test market efficiency? you didn't mention. basically to test market efficiency the CAPM or APT model is used. you can find here more info about it. in short it must holds that higher return correspond to higher $\beta$


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Training zones are most accurately categorized when in correlation to measurable baseline markers in relationship to physiological responses. Since different responses occur at different workloads, establishing and using measured training zones ensures specific fitness adaptations can occur. In the activity of cycling, the power meter is the most accurate way to quantify intensity.
Now, with the use of power meter technology on the Spinner® Blade ION, Spinpower™ Zones based on watts (power), can be precisely determined. Establishing Spinpower™ Zones begins by knowing the rider's baseline 'work rate' fitness marker, referred to as their Personal Spinning® Threshold (PST).
Threshold! The word often followed by debates and a variety of descriptions. Since PST is dynamic and one of the strongest trainable markers of fitness and performance, a thorough understanding of what threshold means and how it is determined is essential. First, understand that thresholds are activity specific. In the activity of cycling, testing the actual performance of the cyclist (field test) establishes baseline markers and training zones on their bicycle, outdoors. Outdoor freewheel cycling data does not reflect the function on an indoor fixed-gear flywheel system, and vice versa. Thus, it is most appropriate to utilize indoor tests on the specific exercise equipment, for fitness goals. On an indoor cycle, it is most accurate to focus on the lab where ramp protocols are performed on cycle ergometers, in conjunction with gas and lactate analysis.
In the controlled environment of a metabolic lab, the tester finds the highest workload associated with producing a given effect or response. While there are many different thresholds, and their definitions quite technical, very simply stated work threshold is the highest work rate not associated with a rise in the cycle ergometer. Aerobic threshold represents the highest sustained workload at which aerobic energy pathways begin to produce an effect of aerobic conditioning. Anaerobic threshold is the intensity eliciting a response of an increase in anaerobic metabolism. Ventilatory threshold elicits a response of hyperventilation with respect to oxygen uptake. Lactate threshold is the highest sustained workload that produces a result of an increase in blood lactate concentration. While each threshold is different, in every case the proven graded exercise test (ramp) protocol is used. The ramp protocol progressively increases sustained workloads, associating the measured work rate at the appropriate threshold markers. While accurately recorded as watts at a given threshold (lactate, ventilatory, anaerobic, etc), once outside of the lab, it commonly just termed threshold power.
The Spinpower™ program is performed in the controlled Spinning® studio environment. The goal is to improve wellness, fitness and performance of all populations, in a Spinpower™ class, on a Spinner®. Since the main purpose of a ramp test is to establish a baseline range of exercise intensities that are appropriate to the exerciser in a practical manner, it works well in the Spinpower™ program. To ensure accuracy outside of the lab environment, a simple, yet repeatable ramp protocol is necessary. The Personal Spinning Threshold Test (PST Test), achieves all goals.
PST represents the personal exercise baseline intensity appropriate to the individual, not that of anyone else.
The PST test is performed in the controlled environment of the Spinning® studio, on a Spinner® Blade ION, in the activity of Spinning®.
The PST test finds the highest workload (power) associated with causing an effect to sustaining the activity of Spinning®, noting the highest work rate (threshold power) not
associated with a rise in the 'cycle ergometer'.
The ramp test is science-proven to be reliable and repeatable, and has an easy learning curve.
The highest sustainable work rate is achieved at a sub-max effort. Therefore, nearly all populations, regardless of their goals, can and should perform the test.
The result is the maximal efficient effort, or the PST baseline fitness marker. Once determined, Spinpower™ Zone are established. Training below PST reflects aerobic conditioning. Training above PST represents anaerobic training. Training around PST gives threshold-boosting benefits.
Similar to testing in a lab, the PST Test follows a graded ramp process, progressively increasing effort at ramped stages. The rider maintains position and cadence, while increasing resistance at each new stage. Workload is validated with the corresponding wattage measurement, while monitoring efficiency in heart rate and perceived exertion. The rider continues the progression to find the point at which the workload results in a loss to maintain constant steady pedaling and riding technique. Simply stated, the rider's baseline work threshold is the highest work rate (power) not associated with a rise in the cycle
ergometer function, or the final stage sustained.
The instructor or rider can manually record the results or utilize compatible ANT+ devices to save and record the results in software. This will keep track of their personal baseline fitness marker. As fitness increases, PST increases as well, so it is important to retest at least quarterly. Not only does this track progression, but this
also adjusts Spinpower™ Zones around newly established PST, to ensure one is training at the current exercise intensities appropriate to their fitness level. This will eliminate the plateau effect!
Receive extensive education on thresholds, the Personal Spinning Threshold, and taking/administering the PST Test during the Spinpower™ Instructor Training and Program. To register for the gold standard in power-based training or to find a Spinning® studio offering
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He Gave Me My Life
Kevin Ireland donated the bone marrow that physicians at Norris Cotton Cancer Center's Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program infused into Jerry's blood to help force his leukemia into remission. Two years after the successful transplantation and 12 years following his diagnosis, Jerry is a happy, active grandfather of seven who lives in Claremont, NH.
It was a remarkable journey and partnership for both men. Jerry's father died of leukemia, and Jerry worried that he too might not live to see the important events in his grandchildren's lives. Kevin, a young father, was persuaded to become a bone marrow donor by his college lacrosse coach, but it wasn't until seven years later that he was matched with Jerry. "I have two brothers and they didn't even come close to matching me, but Kevin was a perfect match," comments Jerry, a trace of wonder still in his voice. Kevin still takes pride in being a donor. "Besides marrying my wife, this is the best thing I ever did in my life," he says. Norris Cotton Cancer Center's Blood and Marrow Transplantation Program has information for potential donors about the process and how to sign up for a donor registry. Interested donors can also contact the National Marrow Donor Program at www.marrow.org.
Jerry and Kevin have spoken a few times on the phone, and they were both interviewed by phone by WTPL radio host Jack Heath on his program "New Hampshire Today." Soon the patient and the donor will meet face to face for the first time—as rivals. Jerry, as a New Hampshire resident, roots for the Boston Red Sox. Kevin lives in Connecticut and is a Yankee fan. Heath—who as a boy lost his own father to leukemia—and the Red Sox are arranging for Jerry and Kevin to meet at Fenway Park before a future Red Sox-Yankees game. "I guess I've got Yankee blood in me now," laughs Jerry, "but I'm still for the Red Sox."
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While cleaning up some homework questions, I came across the cs193p tag. It seems to be related to an iOS programming course offered at Stanford University. The videos and course materials seem to be available online, causing students to use the tag to identify their programming efforts related to this class. Currently 81 questions have the tag.
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The 10 Most Insane "Sports" in the World
#5. Jai-Alai
Where: The Basque region of Spain and France.
What is it?
A game played in an open-walled arena where a rock-hard ball is hurled against the wall at speeds in excess of 180 miles an hour. Jai-Alai is a game the Basque call 'the fastest sport on Earth' because they apparently have never heard of Formula One.
The game is played like squash, but a version of squash that could only have been dreamt up by sun-damaged Spaniards. Players sling the ball at a wall using a specially designed wicker cesta basket with a curved glove attached, approximately 25-inches long. On the rebound, a player from the opposing team catches the ball in his scooped racquet before flinging it back at the wall.
If the ball is dropped, missed or flung out of bounds, or if a player drops his bat and squeals in terror when the ball flashes past his head, then a point is conceded.
The first recorded history of Jai-Alai was the building of an indoor arena in 1798 in Spain, and the game spread to Spain' Central-American and Caribbean colonies throughout the 1800s. It was briefly popular in some parts of the USA in the '70s, but it' popularity has waned as athletes found other activities more rewarding than trying to dodge a ball moving fast enough to castrate them on impact.
Interesting fact:
A Jai-Alai ball (called a Pelota) can only be used for about 15 minutes before the repeated impacts have torn the skin off it.
#4. Chess Boxing
Where: Finland.
What is it?
Pretty much what the name implies. It' a hybrid sport combining chess and boxing, one that the organizers claim is the ultimate test of brains and brawn. Competitors play a round of chess and then box the living crap out of each other.
The game is split into 11 four-minute alternating rounds of chess and boxing, starting and ending with the chess. At the end of the chess round, the board is removed from the boxing ring and the competitors then beat the piss out of each other for a further four minutes. Then the board is replaced and the thinking caps come back out. Winning comes either from a checkmate or a knockout.
You immediately see the flaw in the rules: A good boxer can simply sleepwalk through the opening chess round, then beat his opponent unconscious once the boxing starts. In other words, it's possible to win without knowing anything at all about chess.
The game in it's current format came from the mind of Serbian cartoonist Enki Bilal, who penned a graphic novel featuring the game in 1992, but purists argue that the game was originally conceived in the 1991 Finnish film Uuno Turhapuro, herra Helsingin herra, in which a man makes chess moves over a hands-free telephone headset while simultaneously beating the shit out of another man. This makes one wonder why they don't do actual chess boxing that way, but who are we to tell them how to do their jobs.
Interesting fact:
Chess boxing was the inspiration for The Wu-Tang Clan song "Da Mystery of Chessboxin'" from their debut album, a fact made very evident by the lyric "Steamrollin niggaz like a 18-wheeler/with the drunk driver drivin, there's no survivin'."
#3. World Mountain Bike Bog Snorkelling Championships
Where: A putrid bog in Wales.
What is it?
A bizarre aquatic race whereby someone in full wetsuit and snorkel pedals an expensive mountain bike into a filthy bog just outside the small Welsh town of Llanwrtyd Wells (pronounced like the sound of a slop bucket hitting the floor) for reasons science isn't fully equipped to explain.
Entrants are timed as they cycle two lengths of the Waen Rhydd bog, which is 6-feet deep and 45-feet long, on a bicycle with a frame filled with lead. Toppling off your bike isn't penalized, and neither is vomiting from the fetid stench.
The sport draws competitors to Llanwrytd Wells from all over the world, but we think that may be because the Welsh citizenry mistakenly think every traveler with a chesty cough is asking directions to the town.
The sport began in 2000 and was developed from the similar, non-bike-related Bog Snorkelling Championships. Both were the brainchild of a local pub landlord, who dreamt it up after drinking a lot of booze.
Interesting fact:
As well as hosting the Annual Bog Snorkelling Championships and the Mountain Bike Bog Snorkelling Championships, there is also a Triathlon Bog Snorkelling Championships, the latest in the town's attempt to milk the bog snorkelling thing for all it' worth.
#2. Kabaddi
Where: India/Bangladesh.
What is it?
An Indian team game, Kabaddi calls itself a cross between tag and wrestling. Some wrestling fans will call this false advertising, because it doesn't feature anyone receiving the People's Elbow nor do female teams compete in a bra and panties match. Though it does feature lots of sweating men in underwear, so there are some similarities.
Two teams of 12 (seven playing, five in reserve) face each other on a court just over half the size of a basketball court. One team sends a raider into the opponents territory, who must not draw breath whilst he is there (laws dictate the raider must constantly chant 'Kabaddi,' thus eliminating any "hey, I saw you breathe!", "No, my mouth is closed!", "You breathed through your nose, I saw you!" arguments).
The raider' job is to 'tag' his opponents and get out without being caught. Tagged opponents are out, but if the raider is wrestled to the ground until he draws breath, then he is out the game. Traditional garb for teams is socks and boxer shorts, or sometimes briefs.
No one quite knows when Kabaddi started, though Indians claim they have concrete evidence the game was played 4,000 years ago, presumably in the form of primitive drawings of men chasing each other in their underpants.
Interesting fact:
In 1975, a renowned Kabaddi player toured Japan to introduce the sport, and the Japanese, having decided the sport is just ridiculous enough for their culture, have been playing ever since.
#1. Royal Shrovetide Football
Where: The small village of Ashbourne, England.
What is it?
Two soccer matches are held every year at the beginning of Lent in Ashbourne, with teams consisting of almost every single man, woman and child in the village--and some tourists--all playing at the same time.
Like all the best sports, Royal Shrovetide Football doesn't concern itself with rules â€" indeed, the only official regulation seems to be "no murder." The game begins at 2 p.m., when a local dignitary tosses a ball into a swirling mass of hundreds of terrifyingly large men and screaming women and children. The mobs then try and move the ball toward their goal areas. Essentially, it' a rolling, 8-hour fist fight between the Up'Ards and Down'Ards (people born north or south of the town river).
The 'pitch' is the entire town and the goal posts are the sites of old mills, three miles apart and a goal is scored by someone banging the ball against a post three times. Though called football, the ball can be kicked or thrown, and possession can, and does, change hands by the virtue of simple, honest violence.
Because a fire destroyed the records in the 1890s, no one knows when the sport began, though some insist it was played as early as the 1300s, and that in the original games the ball was a severed head, tossed to the baying crowd following a public execution.
Interesting fact:
Men from the Ashbourne Regiment played the game in the trenches of World War I until other regiments complained that the violence was too unsettling.
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This weekend September 2 - 4, 2011
Some of the artists that will be there: Chris August, Building 429, Britt Nicole, Sanctus Real, Tenth Avenue North, Jeremy Camp and more.
Someone save Bambi's mom! Worst kid films. TODAY
The real reason he won't talk? Most guys think discussing problems is a waste of time. Shine from YAHOO!
What To Do If You Don't Like Your Child's Teacher. Shine from YAHOO!
San Francisco Giants Fellowship Night Saturday, 9/3 vs. ARI 6:05pm
Special guest interview with Plumb.
Story behind the name Plumb
God's love for us
Story behind "God Shaped Hole"
Story behind "Drifting"
Her song debut of "Drifting" video if you missed it.
How To Help: Hurricane Irene Recovery
Grammar fail on Old Navy's college t-shirts. Uh oh. Shine from YAHOO!
Irene gone? New Jersey still flooding, evacuating. MSNBC
Keeping an eye on Katia, and other storms. K-LOVE News Page
Paper eyelashes: Cool or creepy? TODAY
'Blind' man to sail around the world alone. CNN
Interview with Dwight Bain
Counting non-crisis as a blessing
The broken trust between people and media
Full interview here.
Natural Disaster Recovery Guide. By Dwaight Bain
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Join us in praying for our troops.
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Careers that let you make a difference. Shine from YAHOO!
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20 Sep 2012 10:15 AM #1
Dynamic Proxy URLs
With a REST proxy, rather than only allowing us to append a respective model ID, I would have expected to be able to define multiple variables in the URL. This is also sometimes necessary for standard AJAX URLs. I created a proxy override that uses a template to generate the URL. I'm using a standard Ext.Template, because it seemed an Ext.XTemplate seemed like overkill; although, the code could easily be modified to accomodate that.
I'm posting the snippet here for anyone interested in doing the same thing. Any ideas for improvement are more than welcome.
Ext.define('MyNamespace.data.proxy.Ajax', { override: 'Ext.data.proxy.Ajax', buildUrl: function(request){ //Create a template with the URL and replace the variables var url = this.getUrl(request), urlTemplate = new Ext.Template(url), params = request.getParams(), newUrl = urlTemplate.apply(params); //Remove variables embedded into URL Ext.Object.each(params, function(key, value){ var regex = new RegExp('{'+key+'.*?}'); if(regex.test(url)){ delete params[key]; } }); request.setUrl(newUrl); this.callParent([request]); } });
Now you could have a url like "/service/model/{id}/update"; and call store.getProxy().setExtraParam('id', 1);
Additionally, you could do something like "/service/model/{id}/{method}" and call store.getProxy().setExtraParams({id: 1, method: 'update'});
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It was a quick ad-hoc example, but you're right. We are using the request methods in our web service. To use a better example, we frequently have issues with URLs like /customer/{ID}/orders, because the "CustomerOrders" store uses the "OrderDetail" model, so using the "append ID" option doesn't work, because we don't want the order ID in the URL. We were reworking some URLs to be more like /customer/orders/{CUSTID}, but this proved to not be an intuitive URL is some cases. Additionally, some of our URLs are moving targets while the service is in development, and I'd much rather maintain the URL on the store config, rather than multiple places throughout that app that are utilizing the store.
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for some "weird" reason all my german and cypriot players now need work permit in the GREEK league!!!!
for some "weird" reason all my german and cypriot players now need work permit in the GREEK league!!!!
Yeah it's an issue we're aware of and we're looking into it. Thanks.
Sir I still didn't get an answer.
When I'm looking at my squad, on the left side there is a button where you can choose different views. I like to have a "selection info" view, but after a continue or two the view always switches to "general info". I think this has been happening for the past few FM's, and with this new patch it's more often than ever.
Can Montreal be added to the MLS manually with the Editor? if so, what are some things I should change?
This isn't about 12.2 but i do not know where to bring this up so am posting here.
Is SI able to do something to allow first time spanish B division players to understand their promotion rules better?
I was left in utter confusion on weather i was promoted or what is the complicated system like when i played real oviedo. Now another player playing real oviedo, faced the same.
I checked past threads and there was one with similar sentiment.
So i bought the game for fun... With the last patch (12.1.1) the fun was over. The game
makes me crazy. Now even more since the 12.2 patch arrived. I want to play FM for fun, and
not to be a shrink, which tells the player what they wanna hear to win a game.
I dont wanna play a tactic which tricks me into winning a game, a just wanna play MY tactic.
On the last patch Gomez (Fc Bayern) scored overal 46 scores, now 20. I`m lossing metches
with teams that IRL are no problem for a side like FC Bayern. So keep the patches coming... Keep
losing players/fans of the game... ;,(
I must apologise if this is a stupid question but i would really be grateful for a response.
If i have started a game and have Steam running will the update automatically update my saved game or will it only come into play when i start a brand new game?
did you ever test this before releasing it? seriously...i mean it took me only 2 minutes with the update to get horribly stuck in...i mean you cant miss the thing that you test it in the greek league and half the squad is fgn...its pretty much obvious..that is unless of course you didnt ever test it in all the leagues...or at least to the point where official matches begin.
i can understand that when patching something, things can go wrong but this isnt an obscure glitch in some remote part of the game you dont easily access, or a specific glitch in some specific instance...its immediately obvious when you enter the team info page..
in the end, what bugs me isnt that omething went wrong, it is that you didnt take the time to properly test before releasing...it feels like we in these leagues are second class clients for your company and this is the fact that is annoying.
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I've noticed alot of bugs in this new patch.
Top players list for countries is empty.
I request a report card for a player and when it comes in, i go to the report and it tells me to request a report
The latest thing to happen is a player is making noises about joining a bigger club, i click the button to talk to him and it takes me to the information tab with the private chat option greyed out and I just noticed that he's learning a PPM that I never asked him to and there is no record of it in the conversation history.
My youth coaches are getting poached without me noticing far too often, either cut down on the recommended news subscriptions or make it easier to see when a news item is specifically about your club.
This is a new save on 12.2
JiggyDempsey, you can resolve the scouting issue temporarily by deleting as many old scout reports as you can* and turn off roaming assignments (for now, as they are collecting too many results). This'll allow new reports to compile properly. As I say, this is a temporary solution and we'll update you again as soon as we have more news.
* to delete scout reports:
- Go to Player Search and clear all the filters, so that the maximum possible amout of players appears on the list.
- Sort them the scout report stars
- Click on the first of the list (or the first from which you want to delete the reports); scroll down do the last of those to be deleted. Hold Shift and select the last player (you'll have a very large selection of players).
- Then right click -> Scouting -> Delete reports
Could you report the other issues you've encountered in our bugs forum please? They'll be investigated as well, thanks.
The game is to hard now. I think...
I'm going to delete the reports that are over 150 days old. I've 12 scouts and actually a considerable investment for the club. I dont want to be micromanaging where they go to but would adding filters to what they should be looking for reduce the actual of reports compiled during a season?
When can we expect an announcement because of fixes?
Yeah first of all I want to say that you guys are doing a great job the way you are giving support @ these forums. But I am also wondering if there is any indication when there will be a fix for these problems, because I wanted to start a new game with 12.2 and I am actually putting it on hold at the moment. :P Do we need to think in Days, Weeks or.. Months? Or is it just better to just start playing again?
Thanks again and good luck fixing these (small) problems :P
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As always they'll announce anything when they're in a position to, they won't announce when they expect to make an announcement, so, annoying though it is we just have to remain patient.
Is it possible to roll-back to the previous update till the fix is released?
Possibly already covered and not a game-breaker but when I click the "View previous meetings" button in the fixtures screen it takes me back to my squad page. I have tested this with save mde before 12.2.0 which works and 12.2.0, which doesn't.
and of course 'match preparation' doesnt work...its grey and stuck to very low and attacking....
nope...it was working fine before....but thats not the problem...we need a fix with the foreign players asap! we cant play any games anymore, players are unhappy and want to leave the club....
No moan or groan from me. I just want to check (have read most the thread) that the game is totally plyable? The only main issues are scout report and the Greek leagues if continuing a save.
Just wanted to check before starting a new game this evening.
Thanks in advance.
No problem here either and the changes have all been good.
thanks SI.
Dear Neil Brock of SI,
can you please answer to my (not only mine) question?
Is for you the problem of Balotelli/Man. City a bug that you want to fix or you not consider it as a bug?
I only want to know before starting a new game. I try to fix it by myself trough the editor (more PA, more Home reputation and so on...) but when I begin a new game Mario is always in the reserve team with loan and transfer status.
Can you please give me/us an answer?
Thank you so much
Harry Bunn shouldn't be there technically (for the reasons Brock mentions), but I believe the game is including him due to the home-grown rules at the moment - he's occupying the squad space Nedum Onohua used to take.
I have just started a new game with the new patch 12.2 and im using my iMac to play it on. Since i've started a new game it has had a error message shut the whole game down 3 times now. Is their a problem with the new patch??
EDIT: In fact, it looks as if its being looked at already: http://community.sigames.com/showthr...=1#post7642825
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Is there still a problem with clubs playing almost comPlete youth sides in national cup cOmpetitions. This one of the things that really concerns me before I start my game. Has it been addressed? Is it linked to reputation and therefore we can manually fix it, thanks
why has every cup draw been away for me?
every league cup game - away from home, now at semis and start at home
FA cup 3rd round - away from home.
tedius and irritating, and will not change
Find an actual problem to moan about, there are enough of them. Hardly tedious or irritating. If after 5 seasons you've never had a cup draw at home, you might have a point. Until then..........
anyone else getting ALOT of injuries?
Im getting at least one injury per a game.
Nope, 10 games in & I have 3 players injured, 2 muscle tears & 1 sprained ankle.
is anything going to be done about the non-eu players in greek league? there's been a whole week now and only indefinite responses from si.
i think that some thousands of players-clients deserve a solution or at least a definite answer, i know that many like me have stalled playing just because they do not want to lose their saved games. as far as i've seen here this problem and the scout reports problem, which does not make the game unplayable, are the main problems that have been caused by the latest patch, but nothing has been done so far, so at last pls be so kind and responsible as to give us an answer...
They have answered, it's being investigated and once a decision has been made on whether/when it gets a fix we'll be told, also if they do decide on a hotfix it still has to be tested and proved before they can categorically state it's going to happen.
Not ideal I know but that's the way it has to be.
Can someone please let me know as you progress in your saves, what are the effects these Turkish/Bulgarian/Greek bugs have. Not to sure whether to start a new save or not.
The EU player issue is not present in new games, it only affects 12.1.1 saves being updated to 12.2.
As for the Turkey issue it just means that managing in Turkey & being successful will have less of a positive effect on a managers rep.
Update has now been released addressing issues which have been raised post 12.2.0 - http://community.sigames.com/showthr...ate-*RELEASED*
Neil, apart from 'As always this update is save game compatible, however for some fixes (such as the Turkish Premier League fix) youll have to start a new game for this to take effect. Likewise the two data changes (Nottm Forest Chairman and Sam Hutchinson) will also need you to start a new game these changes have been added to the 12.2.0 database. There is no new database option when starting a new game.' these three fixes for every other fix to be applied I do not have to start a new game?
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Ta mate. I began new save yesterday and set up everything with my micro-management style, so can't be arsed to do that again!
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Also, is their any way to fully stop steam downloading and using new updates? No offense to SI, but I was happy with this game when I got it, & I've noticed a couple of game ruining bugs (not just the scouting one in this one) once the patches started rolling in. I just wish I could go back to a patchless version of the game without losing my current save. In previous years I haven't bothered with patches until I've seen them pass a few weeks of people using them, and if there's no serious problems & if they have something in the 'updates' list that'll benefit me - I've downloaded the patch myself.
Every time I follow the steps I've found on Google to stop auto updates through Steam... out of nowhere I've noticed a patch has been downloaded, check Steams settings where the settings reset itself. Ridiculous.
I seem to have noticed that Wales population is 109k, when in life its 3million, surely this will affect the quality of regens and the amount produced etc, and I have also noticed that I seem to be getting loads of red cards as well as goals that are ruled out for being offside. I have been using the same tactics all year and only know im starting to notice this, but it may be because im playing in the french league for the first time.
Not major for me anyway but Erik Huseklepp should of been included for Birmingham. He is still at Portsmouth.
Hi SI guys, the new patch still does not fix the fact that I cant scout any players at all. after selecting get report card, nothing happens.
Thank you SI for the fixes. I knew you could fix these big issues if you wanted to and you guys did! You are great for not letting us FM fans down! Thank you
Yeah doesn't work for me, every time I set it to 'Offline Mode' at some point without asking it seems to go back to online and get updates. It's my only gripe with being forced to use Steam. As someone else has just said, obviously doesn't stop piracy - just means the people who pirate the copy get a better long term game than the ones who pay.
Thanks for the answer Milnerpoint.
There is a way of turning off automatic updates and setting it to offline - I believe some people have encountered the problem you're having if you just go offline. Apologies if this is not the case.
To turn off automatic updates:
-Go into Steam and right-click on FM12 in your Library
-Select Properties
-Under 'Updates' select 'Do Not Automatically Update This Game'
Thanks for this update SI, is it correct to assume the scouting fix will also bring scouting costs back under control - were the two issues linked?
Unfortunately, this means that if you had a player who was too good for a Senior Contract (but on one nonetheless) in a game from before the last patch then he will now ask for a DP contract and you will lose him if you can't give him what he demands. This is kind of an oversight, but on the other hand, that player shouldn't be on as little money as he is in the first place, so he should ask for more now.
Someone can explain me the difference on the President's Forest? I'm in the 2nd season and he has left. With the new patch does not come out?
There is still an issue with bonus points for Europa League...
Thanks SI for fixing the Turkish league problem. Steam has finished updating and when i try to start a new game it is still just offering me the 12.2.0 update database not 2.1. Is it a problem?
*Official* 12.2.1 Update i only got 12.2.0 why
Forst of all, sorry for my english.
I would like to know if 12.2.1 is the last patch that will be released by SI.
SI will release more patch's with database changes or only patch's of bug fix?
I want to start a long save, but i want to do it with the last patch with database changes.
Thank you.
Does this hotfix fix the Spanish fixtures and table bug?
I was told to post it in the League Specific Issues thread but I've had no reply in 2 days so I'm probably guessing it hasn't.
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This grays out all the German/Dutch players again right? Looks like I'll have to start a new save.
What the heck? Another patch? Now I have to start a new save? Thanks a lot
Will there by any more patches released? Or is that all for FM12
There are currently no plans for any further updates.


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7 Life Altering Decisions Made For You (Before Your Birth)
You know that the people who raised you have played a huge part in shaping who you are, especially if you're unfortunate enough to be Chinese. What you may not realize is that this process began before you were born, and in some cases, before your parents even met each other. This is just another care package of horrors mailed directly to your brain from the scientific community.
#7. The Month She Gives Birth to You Determines How Good You Will Be at Sports
If 80s movies have taught us anything, it's that being a high school sports star requires only beefcake, a cheerleader girlfriend and a complete lack of basic human empathy. In reality, it takes a lot of hard work, but you still need to have the right birthday.
Researchers from The University of Queensland analyzed the birthdays of Australian soccer players and discovered that the month in which you are born plays a huge role in your athletic success. They found that there were 33 percent more professional soccer players than expected born in the month of January and 25 percent fewer born in December.
When his birth date kept him out of the professional leagues, he went with the next best thing.
The Australian school year starts in January (because their seasons are upside-down), so kids born in that month are almost a full year older than the December-born kids who join a team in the same year of high school. Because kids grow like crazy, the ones who are just a little older tend to crush their slightly younger opposition. It's enough of an effect that, by the end of schooling, graduating sports stars are toned, athletic, January-born supersoldiers, while their December-born classmates are broken shells of human beings who turn to accounting or Internet comedy writing.
Someone has to keep Wild Turkey in business.
The bad luck doesn't end there for those born on the wrong side of summer. A recent Michigan State University study shows that the youngest kids in a class are 60 percent more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD than their older peers. It's not due to brain injuries suffered by being held head-first in a toilet bowl by older jocks -- quite simply, the youngest kids are less mature than their older classmates, and some pediatricians make the mistake of diagnosing kids based on their grade at school rather than their age.
The effect is most noticeable in kindergarten. Kids born at the end of September, after the enrollment cutoff, wind up in classes with kids born at the beginning of September of the following year. So when playtime rolls around and Johnny picks up See Spot Run while Timmy just messes around with the hamburger phone, the teacher assumes that Johnny is a prodigy and that there's something wrong with Timmy's brain.
Teachers -- making the world a worse place one shattered dream at a time.
#6. If Your Mother Eats Black Licorice, It Can Lower Your IQ
Knowing your mother's favorite candy is extremely useful coming up to Mother's Day. Unfortunately, if you happen to know that the answer is "licorice," we're sorry to inform you that you are utterly doomed. Your mother's favorite candy may have lowered your intelligence and could have even given you a behavioral disorder.
On the plus side, it tastes like death!
A study on a bunch of 8-year-olds in Finland, where licorice is basically one of the food groups, found that the children whose mothers had consumed more than 100 grams of pure licorice during pregnancy performed worse than their peers on a variety of cognitive functions, including vocabulary, memory and spatial awareness. They were also more likely to be diagnosed with ADHD.
But hey, at least they didn't have to eat any.
The culprit appears to be a component in the candy called glycyrrhizin, which, in addition to harboring a severe vowel deficiency, may impair the placenta and allow more stress hormones to pass from the mother to the fetus. This kind of makes the baby stressed by proxy, so the fetus starts producing a hormone called cortisol to deal with it.
This leads to the children having levels of cortisol up to one-third higher than their peers have. Cortisol increases your tolerance of stress, so it's beneficial if you want to be, say, a brain surgeon or a professional lion castrator. Unfortunately, too much of it is also linked to diabetes, obesity, high blood pressure and all sorts of brain problems. Finally, we have somebody else to blame for our failing education system: the Finns.
Next on Cracked: Why British people are responsible for our high teen suicide rate.
#5. Her Stress During Pregnancy Can Change Your Behavior
Anyone who has taken a long family road trip knows that our parents' stress is highly contagious, but you may not realize that it's also made you frail and stupid. Scientists have now discovered that stress during pregnancy is connected to allergies, autism, slow development and learning difficulties in infants.
WARNING: Contents under pressure. Do not agitate.
Your mom doesn't have to be an air traffic controller or in charge of de-escalating a nuclear standoff. It turns out that common relationship problems and financial issues somehow boost the level of antibodies associated with asthma and allergies in an unborn baby. These are the antibodies that overreact like fans at an ICP concert if you make contact with dust, pollen or dogs. If you have too many, you have to live in a plastic bubble in order to breathe.
This story gets much worse if the stress your mother dealt with was associated with home renovation. Like, lying awake at night agonizing over whether to paint the baby's room pink or blue. It turns out that chemicals released during stress form a horrible, horrible cocktail if they're combined with certain chemicals in glues, paints and plastics. For example, if you're a guy and your mother got too stressed-out while inhaling paint fumes, your balls may never drop. And that's just one of the many awful and emasculating conditions you may have to deal with.
Rest assured, though, she only stressed because she loved you. And if she'd known all this back then, being stressed would have only made her more stressed. Depending on your perspective, scientific enlightenment has either doomed the next generation or made them way more likely to be born with a contact high.
#4. Mom's Diet Determines What You'll Like to Eat
When you're a kid, half of the appeal of adulthood is the freedom of deciding what you want to eat, without Mom's meddling. We here at Cracked enjoy an ice cream sandwich for breakfast every single morning. The bad news is, scientists have discovered that even if you live thousands of miles away from your mother, she's still controlling your diet from the past.
Also, she's still pissed that you didn't go to med school.
A mother's choice of comfort food during pregnancy has a profound impact on what her children spend the rest of their lives eating, or in some cases, stuffing their fat, greasy-jowled faces with. Scientists have discovered that the flavors in a pregnant mother's diet actually affect the structure of a fetus's brain.
To test their hypothesis, researchers plied some pregnant mothers with carrot juice, carrots long having been recognized as baby kryptonite. Astonishingly, the babies whose moms drank the carrot juice showed a preference for carrot-flavored cereal, rather than just smearing it all over themselves and throwing it onto the walls. It's kind of terrifying to think that those cheeseburgers you ate while pregnant may have doomed your child to a life of good old American obesity.
If only she'd chosen a healthier addiction. Like nicotine.
The implications go well beyond simply determining your dietary preferences. Researchers have found that alcohol exposure during fetal development may be linked directly to teenage binge drinking. Although the research to prove this connection has been performed only on rats, because trying to turn babies into alcoholics by getting their pregnant moms smashed is seen to have undesirable ethical ramifications, even in the name of science.


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I have no errors show up in either the compilation or the hosted mode process, but the JS that GWT creates contain errors that disallow the proper rendering of the website. How can this happen? Is this a problem with the compiler?
FireBug is giving me nothing, no errors at all.
But I don't know where to go from here or what more information to give you all, since I can't effectively debug JS like this. More fundamentally, I just don't understand why GWT is giving me JS that doesn't work.
EDIT: I didn't really know what Pretty and Detailed meant until now. Thanks for pointing me to this. What I get now is http://i.imgur.com/qUyNb.png.
I'm not sure where to go from here.
EDIT 2: Here is the final image I will post (I promise!): http://i.imgur.com/ZVQVW.png. This is the pretty output. The error reads: "Uncaught com.google.gwt.core.client.JavaScriptException (TypeError): Cannot call method 'isString' of null (anonymous function)."


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Crosby-Wilby The Sequel
When they toss it up tonight at the Crosby Palace for the second meeting of the season between the city's two Top 10 teams, as many as 2,000 fans are expected to attend. If you can't make it, how can you enjoy it? As it happens, there are many ways to experience the city showdown:
The Hoop Zone
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Week of 9/28
Posted 29 September 2010 - 03:49 AM
Posted 29 September 2010 - 09:16 AM
P.S.: Garcia was replaced by Adrian D-W is Luce on Wed evening
Posted 01 October 2010 - 01:24 PM
Posted 01 October 2010 - 02:11 PM
I hope Savannah Lowery is okay. She took a nasty spill at the beginning of the 2nd Campaign in Stars & Stripes, barely marked the final few phrases before she could exit, and didn't return for the remainder of the 2nd Campaign. After exchanging some panicked glances, the corps handled it as well as could be expected. Someone else stood in for her for the coda/5th Campaign.
Posted 02 October 2010 - 07:35 AM
I found the Magic Flute too cutesie, and too long, although Andrew Veyette and Megan Fairchild both danced well. I don't know about anyone else, and the NYT review didn't mention it, but I thought the "yellowface" depiction of the judge's assistant a truly offensive caricature. Yuck.
Stars and Stripes, as mentioned, was a little discomfiting after Savannah Lowery's nasty spill. I certainly hope she is ok. It was weird to hear the "trumpet solo" and not have a soloist on stage. I thought Savannah was very professional getting off the stage in as dignified a way as possible, and the corps bravely soldiered on. By the end, they had subbed in Gwyneth Muller, even though she hadn't had time to put on the white ballet shoes/socks. I thought Sara Mearns a much improved Liberty Bell -- she was more in control of the allegro bits, and her chaine turns are unparalleled for speed. The pdd was very smooth. I am torn about going to see Bouder as Liberty Bell this afternoon, because that's the only ballet I'd like to see out of the three (I'm not sitting through the Magic Flute again).
Last night, Abbi Stafford debuted in the 1st violin role in Barocco (repeated this afternoon). She did all the steps but this was the first time I'd watched that gorgeous Adagio and felt completely unmoved. Right now, she can't bring the necessary magic to the role. When Wendy Whelan does it you want to cry. When Abbi was doing it I found myself watching the corps instead. I'm a little disappointed. Oh, and things weren't helped by a terrible performance from the orchestra and the solo violins. Speaking of the orchestra, has anyone else found Faycal Karoui racing through everything? He conducted a whirlwind Serenade on Thursday and I think it was way too fast for the dancers.
I always enjoy Chaconne, which was on the program last night. I miss Philip Neal, though -- Wendy and Sebastian Marcovici haven't quite got the pdd's down, and dare I say it, I think Wendy might be slipping a bit in her technique in the solo variations. She had some trouble with the turns. Erica Pereira has also seemed a little off lately -- I thought her First Campaign not as good as it usually is on Thursday, and last night she and Adam Hendrickson had trouble with a part in Chaconne they've done many times before.
Posted 02 October 2010 - 05:03 PM
On to the ballet. I should say that I got "day of" discount tickets at the Atruim.
Concerto Barocco - I've always liked Abi Stafford in this ballet (did she used to do the other violin?) I though she started out shaky by was fine. Ellen Bar, whose dancing I'm not very familiar with, had a nice attack to her movement. During corps sections I found my eye drawn to Lauren King once again. She bring a radiance to every thing she does and fills each moment. My favorite corps dancer of all time (well she and Gina Pazcoguin).
Magic Flute - I was pleasantly surprised. I found it most enjoyable, of course enhanced by the cries "Oh no" that I mentioned above. Tiler Peck - wonderful technically, musical, good characterization a pleasure all around. De Luz was also terrific. I'd love to see those 2 do Theme and Variations. Maybe they've done it already, but I haven't seen either in that ballet. The whole cast was enjoyable in the ballet. Re the children on stage. I'm always impressed with how these kids know how to be on stage. The entrances in which each little girl gave her hand to her partner was lovely.
Stars & Stripes - Well -- Ashley. Coming onstage bursting with energy and joy. It doesn't get better. Her variations were super fast, clear, charming, amazing ... Andrew Veyette had a lot of good moments, but he didn't sail through it technically and seemed to lose steam along the way. Erica Pereira still looks like the best student in the class, to me. Nice pirouettes, but something is not yet there IMO. Gwyneth Muller replaced Savannah Lowery (a shame that Lowery is injured - this part has her name on it). Muller doesn't have much of a jump and was not very
impressive. Daniel Ubricht never disappoints. Great movement quality, beautiful double tours, he can get to a position just a hair before anyone else and freeze that moment in time for you. He'd be great for the lead, but given the nature of the partnering in the pas de deux there is no woman short enough for him to do it with.
I don't mean to sound nit-picky. I apologize if I do. This was a fun afternoon at the ballet that left me smiling on the way home.
Posted 03 October 2010 - 06:34 PM
I attended both the afternoon and evening performance on Saturday. I thought the Magic Flute was charming. Tiler Peck and J. DeLuz were wonderful. Bouder was outstanding in S&S. Veyette did a good job, but I often think that his dancing sometimes looks very effortful when he is attempting to perform virtuoso roles that are slightly beyond his technical reach. Muller danced her 2nd campaign role very small. Abi was fine in CB. She still needs time to grow into the role, though. I can't understand why they just debuted T. Reichlin in the role last season, but didn't give her the role again this season. I also would have been interested to see Lydia Wellington, who did the role about a year ago. Oh well. Who knows how casting works over at NYCB.
J. Stafford did very well in his debut in Serenade. Ringer's performance as the Waltz Girl always is full of drama and depth. She was wonderful, as was Bouder as the Russian Girl. Bouder dances the role with such amplitude. Krohn was cast as the Dark Angel. I skipped Interplay. The final ballet on the program was B-S Quartet. Somogyi made her sole appearance for the season in the first movement, and was partnered by Marcovici. Reichlin replaced Lowery in the secondary role. That was luxury casting.Marcovici had problems with his jumps. They were sloppy and poorly executed. In the second movement, Hyltin and J. Angle were wonderful. Janie replaced Megan Fairchild in the third movement, partnered by Veyette. Her dancing looked a bit tentative. Kowrowski and Askegard looked like they were having the time of their lives in the exuberant Rondo.
Posted 03 October 2010 - 07:22 PM
Don't apologize, vipa! Criticism mixed with praise and praise mixed with criticism enlivens a review and helps us picture the ballet as if we were there. Thank you. I'm smiling now too.
I don't mean to sound nit-picky. I apologize if I do. This was a fun afternoon at the ballet that left me smiling on the way home.
Posted 04 October 2010 - 08:38 AM
Posted 06 October 2010 - 05:33 PM
NYCB has again changed the program for Tues. In place of Grazioso they will perform Tchai pdd and Stravinsky Violin Concerto. Casts of those are TBA.
I was there Tuesday, and in the program it looked like Tchai pdd and Stravinsky Violin Concerto were replacing Barber Violin Concerto. I guess there were many stages of plan changes. A few words about the program.
Again I say that Chaconne is a great role for Maria Kowroski and again I say that Lauren King is outstanding as a corps member (she did the lead in the Pas de Cinq) I wonder if she'll ever be promoted. Maybe the co. needs her as the go to corps/demi soloist person, but I think she deserves a promotion and the opportunities it would give her.
Tchai ppd - wonderful with Tiler Peck and Joaquin De Luz. He combines elegance with bravura. She phrased things in wonderful ways that brought a freshness to the piece, and showed her virtuosity. There was a partnering moment in which her epaulement looked like it came out of the Alina Cojocaru play book (a good thing).
Stravinsky Violin Concerto - Love this piece so much. I haven't seen a lot of Krohn and enjoyed her very much in this. She has an intelligent intensity. I'd like to see more of her
Glass Pieces - I've seen this piece several times before. It is a piece that IMO has tremendous impact the first time you see it, with diminishing returns there after (I have to admit that I think this of a few Robbins ballets). I probably wouldn't have stayed for this but I was with 2 young women in their 20's. One had never been to the ballet and the other just a few times, and I thought they'd enjoy this piece. They loved it. They enjoyed each ballet but this piece was their favorite.
One last thing - One of the young women I was with so thrilled by the evening she was giddy. She is from a small town. She was never in a theater of that magnitude, never seen ballet or much live performance at all. She was saving her ticket as a keepsake. On top of it all she had been admiring the photos of the dancers in subways and on bus stops. My 2 conclusions from this are 1. The ads are being noticed by potential new audience members. 2. I take for granted, way too much, the things I regularly experience living in NYC
Posted 07 October 2010 - 05:04 AM
Tiler Peck's approach to Tchaii pdd is considerably more graceful and lyrical than Bouder's. I felt Bouder was more exciting and thrilling because Bouder is so aggressive in her attack. Virtuosity comes easily to DeLuz, and Tues. night was no exception.
Posted 07 October 2010 - 11:23 AM
I liked Krohn and Amasar more than I thought I would in Violin Concerto. The corps was also excellent (esp the men). The only downside to the casting was Ask la Cour. I just don't think he's right for the role, and he's not that strong technically, either. Sterling and Robert Fairchild made a much better pair.
The corps was also great in Glass Pieces -- special mention to Devin Alberda in the last movement -- he was wonderful and really stood out in the crowd. There were some debuts in the opening movement in the soloist roles. I really liked Adrian Danchig-Waring, who even managed to look good in that neon green/yellow outfit. Ellen Bar fell but got right back up (ever since Savannah Lowery fell in S&S and didn't return I get all nervous when someone falls). Wendy was great in the slow movement, very fluid -- minimal partnering with Marcovici, too, which made me glad after witnessing their very rough Chaconne together. Great program overall! I'm not sorry we didn't get a Martins ballet in the middle.
Posted 09 October 2010 - 04:51 PM
Posted 10 October 2010 - 08:01 AM
Ashley Bouder said on FB that she was doing Stars & Stripes on Sunday with Charles A. Does anyone know if she is also doing Tarentella?
I like Mearns in most everything she does, but S&S is one of her less stellar roles, in my opinion. Having Bouder in S&S today would be a great way to end the season.
Posted 10 October 2010 - 09:06 AM
Ashley Bouder said on FB that she was doing Stars & Stripes on Sunday with Charles A. Does anyone know if she is also doing Tarentella?
I like Mearns in most everything she does, but S&S is one of her less stellar roles, in my opinion. Having Bouder in S&S today would be a great way to end the season.
When asked on that question on FB Bouder said Peck was doing Tarentella
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I quite frequently find that after an interruption I need to gather my thoughts and refocus on the task I was performing when I was interrupted. The time seems to vary depending on the complexity of the task and how long I've been interrupted for, and sometimes even how worthwhile I perceived the interruption to be.
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I never liked durex because I always thought they were a bit snug, but maybe that's just me.
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I'm doing a research about the Great Compromise and how it originated from the Virginia and the New Jersey Plan. Has there been any analysis on which side got the better part of the compromise. (The larger states or the smaller states).
It probably will surprise few people to see me say that rather a lot of the US history taught to US students in grade school is false.
However, what may come as a surprise to some here is that the story about The Great Compromise being a battle between small states and large states may actually be one of those things.
However, this isn't hard at all to check on. Due to all the letters delegates sent home during deliberations, there's plenty of information on all the deliberations of the Constitutional Convention. Max Farrand was even nice enough to compile a lot of it into one document for us.
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In fact Pennsylvania, voting with the "small states", was second only to Virginia in size.
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Now you may be asking, "OK, so perhaps it wasn't about big vs. small, but still what was the effect on representation of small states vs. large ones?
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When voting for President, you could argue that a Floridian's Presidential vote is worth only half of what a Montanan's is. However, that ignores the fact that Florida is a huge electoral prize evenly divided between the two parties, while Montana is only worth 3 votes, and is dominated by one party. Thus politicians give the big state of Florida way more attention both during and between elections than they give little Montana.


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