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For today's definitive example of peak cognitive dissonance and self-delusion among those who determine the monetary fate of the world no less, look no further than the Dallas Fed's Dick Fisher, who just said the following according to Reuters:
Funny considering earlier, we got this from Goldman's Bill Dudley:
And that is why central planning always fails. Because a room of these terminally confused people sits down and determines the fate of the world based on their naive academic interpretation of what they perceive is reality.
I believe Central Bank intervention is not a drug or "hit" for an addict. Instead, it is a cancer that has spread throughout the financial system's psyche and which is killing the markets and Democratic capitalism.
Confused why every asset class is up again today (yes, even gold), despite the pundit interpretation by the media of the FOMC statement that the Fed has halted more easing? Simple - as we said yesterday, there is $3.6 trillion more in QE coming. But while we are too humble to take credit for moving something as idiotic as the market, the fact that just today, none other than Goldman Sachs' Jan Hatzius came out, roughly at the same time as its call to buy Russell 2000, and said that the Fed would announce THE NEW QETM, as soon as next month, and as late as June. Furthermore, as Goldman has previously explained, sterilization of QE makes absolutely no difference on risk asset behavior, and it is a certainty that the $500-$750 billion in new money (well on its way to fulfilling our expectation of a total $3.6 trillion in more easing to come), in the form of UST and MBS purchases, will blow out all assets across all classes, while impaling the dollar. Which in turn explains all of today's action - dollar down, everything else (including bonds, which Goldman said yesterday to sell which we correctly, at least for now, said was the bottom in rates) up. Finally, as we said, yesterday, "In conclusion we wish to say - thank you Chairman for the firesale in physical precious metals." Because when the market finally understands what is happening, despite all the relentless smoke and mirrors whose only goal is to avoid a surge in crude like a few weeks ago ahead of the presidential election, gold will be far, far higher. Yet for some truly high humor, here is the justification for why the Fed will need to do more QE, even though Goldman itself has been expounding on the improving economy: "The improvement might not last." In other words, unless the "economic improvement" is guaranteed in perpetuity, the Fed will always ease. Thank you central planning - because of you we no longer have to worry about either mean reversion or a business cycle.
A month ago Zero Hedge, based on some Goldman observations, asked a simple question: is Okun's law now terminally broken? Today, with about a one month delay, the mouthpiece of the New York Fed (which in itself is nothing but a Goldman den of central planners, and Bill Dudley and Jan Hatzius are drinking buddies), Jon Hilsenrath shows that this is just the issue bothering his FRBNY overseers. In an article in the WSJ he ruminates: "Something about the U.S. economy isn't adding up. At 8.3%, the unemployment rate has fallen 0.7 percentage point from a year earlier and is down 1.7 percentage points from a peak of 10% in October 2009. Many other measures of the job market are improving. Companies have expanded payrolls by more than 200,000 a month for the past three months, according to Labor Department data. And the number of people filing claims for government unemployment benefits has fallen. Yet the economy is barely growing. Many economists in the past few weeks have again reduced their estimates of growth. The economy by many estimates is on track to grow at an annual rate of less than 2% in the first three months of 2012. The economy expanded just 1.7% last year. And since the final months of 2009, when unemployment peaked, the economy has expanded at a pretty paltry 2.5% annual rate." Hilsenrath's rhetorical straw man: "How can an economy that is growing so slowly produce such big declines in unemployment?" The answer is simple Jon, and is another one we provided a month ago - basically the US is now effectively "printing" jobs by releasing more and more seasonally adjusted payrolls into the open, which however pay progressively less and less (see A "Quality Assessment" Of US Jobs Reveals The Ugliest Picture Yet). After all, what the media always forgets is that there is a quantity and quality component to jobs. The only one that matters in an election year, however, is the former. As for whether Okun's law is broken, we suggest that the New York Fed looks in the mirror on that one.
In the past, when discussing the goalseeking C-grade excel jockeys at the Congressional Budget Office (or CBO), we have not been technically full of reverence. After all when one uses a phrase such as this one: "What do the NAR, Consumer Confidence and CBO forecasts have in common? If you said, "they are all completely worthless" you are absolutely correct", it may be too late to worry about burned bridges. We do have our reasons: as we pointed out last year, following the whole US downgrade fiasco when the Treasury highlighted the CBO's sterling work in presenting a US future so bright, Timmy "TurboTax" G had to wear shades, we said "according to the same CBO back in 2001, net US indebtedness in 2011 would be negative $2.436 trillion, the ratio of debt held by the public to GDP would be 4.8%, total budget surplus would be $889 billion, and GDP would be $16.9 trillion." As we know now they were off only by a modest $17.5 trillion on that debt forecast. Yet we never attributed to malice and bias and outright corruption, what simple stupidity and gross incompetence could easily explain. Until today that is, when following a WSJ article, we are left wondering just how deep does the CBO stench truly go and whether its employees are far more corrupt than merely stupid?
As widely expected by Zero Hedge, barely a few months after the arrival of former Goldmanite Mario Draghi to head ECB, the ECB's balance sheet exploded by nearly $1 trillion. Naturally, such is the way of central banks infiltrated by tentacles of the squid: no surprises. Which brings us to the first Fed meeting of 2012 and its public manifestation: the FOMC's January 25 statement. As is well known, while the Goldman addition to the ECB is a recent development, its agent at the Fed, the head of the FRBNY Bill Dudley has been there for a quite a while - in fact ever since the tax-challenged Mike Judge character impersonator left to become Treasury Secretary. As was suggested on Zero Hedge, it was the meetings of Bill Dudley with Goldman's Jan Hatzius at the Pound and Pence, and of course elsewhere but these are the only public recorded ones, that have shaped monetary policy more than anything. In other words, if anyone can predict, not to say define, US monetary policy, it would be Jan Hatzius. Below are his just released "thoughts" on what to expect on Wednesday. What is odd is that whereas a month ago Goldman was convinced that an LSAP version of QE was imminent, now the firm has become substantially less optimistic. Is it time to manage down expectations? To wit: "Given the improvement in the economic indicators and the easing of financial conditions that has occurred in the meantime, we believe it is less central now. While Fed officials are certainly not targeting a tightening of conditions, we doubt that they will "bend over backwards" to deliver a dovish surprise relative to current market expectations." So just how much QE3 is priced in if Goldman is already doing disappointment damage control. Or did Goldman finally wise up and realize that the only effective Fed statement is the one that surprises. So if Goldman does not publicly expect QE3, and we do in fact get a notice thereof, it will have an immediate knee jerk reaction on risk, and of course, Gold. These and many more questions shall be answered at 12:30 pm on Wednesday.
As US markets remain in hibernation for a few more hours, Goldman picks out the five critical questions that need to be considered in the context of 2012's economic outlook. Jan Hatzius and his team ask and answer a veritable chart-fest of crucial items from whether US growth will pick up to above-trend (and remain 'decoupled' from Europe's downside drag), whether inflation will find its Goldilocks moment this year and if the US housing market will bottom in 2012 (this one is a stretch). Summarizing all of these in a final question, whether the Fed will ease further, the erudite economist continues to expect an expansion of LSAP (focused on Agency MBS) and an official re-adjustment to an inflation targeting environment. Their view remains that a nominal GDP target combined with more (larger) QE improves the chances of the Fed meeting its dual mandates (unemployment target?) over time but expectations for this radical shift remain predicated on considerably worse economic performance in the economy first (as they expect growth to disappoint). We feel the same way (worse is needed) and recall our recent (firstly here, then here and here) focus on the shift in the balance of power between the Fed and ECB balance sheets (forced Fed QE retaliation soon?).
Nobody could have seen this coming: "With most of the news on first-quarter growth now in, the GDP "bean count" looks even softer than it did a couple of weeks ago. The most recent disappointments have come on the export side—with trade now set to subtract significantly from growth in the quarter—and from inventories. Consequently, we are downgrading our real GDP growth estimate to 1¾% (annualized), from 2½% previously (and from 3½% not too long ago)." Some other things nobody will be able to predict: Hatzius dropping full year GDP from 4% to 2.25%; Goldman's downgrade of precious metals, Kostin's 2011 S&P 500 price target reduction by 20%, and Goldman getting its New York Fed branch to commence monetizing $1.5 trillion in debt some time in October.
Recently Jan Hatzius cut his Q1 GDP as was reported first on Zero Hedge, to 2.5%, even as the Goldman chief economist is still (we give it 2 weeks) keeping his FYE GDP outlook constant (who says bulge brackets don't believe in hockeysticks). Following the just released ugly trade data which as we suspected would lead to even more GDP downgrades, Dudley's successor is out with yet another warning that should come as manna from heaven to those who continue to believe in non-dilutable assets: "Through February, the trade data suggest a large drag on GDP growth in the first quarter and suggest downside risk to our 2.5% forecast." Gee whiz, Jan, if Q1 when the bulk of the tax stimulus is concentrated (which was the reason for Goldman's December bullish 180 on the economy) is unable to post an economic improvement, what is left for the rest of the year, when no more fiscal stimulus is projected, and when, gulp, QE3 is ending? We can't wait to hear your explanation for this.
Goldman's Jan Hatzius, who whether he likes it or not, is probably the biggest variable as to whether there will be a QE3 or not, as every other Wall Street "strategist" immediately parrots what Hatzius says will happen (in no small part due to Hatzius' close relationship with NY Fed's Bill Dudley) has just released a hypothetical Q&A session in which he provides what potential answers to questions during Bernanke's first ever scheduled press conference on April 26 of this year might look like. In order to keep the dodecatuple reverse psychology mystery to a maximum, Hatzius also provides what Goldman's answers would look like pari passu with those of the Fed (which is not all than ironic: after all the Fed gets its teleprompted lines straight from the corner offices at 200 West). So for all forensic linguist/economist/psychologists who are hoping to get an extra ounce of informational clarity on the future of monetization post June 30, here it is. Good luck.
During his presentation to the Senate yesterday (to be followed promptly by another presentation before Congress shortly), Bernanke discussed the impact of the $61 billion spending cut on GDP. In doing so he referenced a report published by Goldman strategists Jan Hatzius and Alec Phillips. He did so incorrectly. And the first thing Hatzius did this morning is to correct the Chairman: "Some have wondered—e.g. in the Q&A portion of Fed Chairman Bernanke's monetary policy testimony on Tuesday—how such seemingly small cuts could have such a noticeable impact. But it is important to remember that we are talking about a hit to the quarter-on-quarter annualized growth rate of spending here, not about a hit to the level of GDP. For illustration, it is useful to go through a simplified version of the calculation underlying our estimates for the House-passed spending cut." Hatzius clarifies further: "We estimate that the $25bn cut in our budget projections reduces growth in Q2 by around 1 percentage point (annualized); this effect is already incorporated in our forecast that real GDP will grow 4% (annualized). In addition, we estimated that the $61bn cut passed by the House would reduce growth in Q2 and Q3 by 1½-2 percentage point (annualized) in Q2 and Q3. (In other words, relative to the assumptions currently embedded in our forecast, the House-passed package would imply an additional ½-1 percentage point drag on growth in Q2 and an additional 1½-2 percentage point drag in Q3.) Spending would then be maintained at that lower level thereafter, and the effect on GDP growth would dissipate quickly in Q4 and would be essentially neutral by 2012 Q1." So perhaps the Chairman will keep this in mind as this report is surely reference once again today.
Jan Hatzius is the bellwether of the sellside economist crowd. When he was bearish (2009), most were bearish, when he turned bullish (early half of 2010), everyone else followed suit. Then he turned bearish again (early August 2010) and convinced his friend and former co-worker Bill Dudley to launch QE2. Then, in December, he turned very bullish again. And now we are here. We expect Hatzius to be fake bullish for another 3 months max, at which point he will have no choice than to start telegraphing to Jon Hilsenrath that it is time for QE3. In the meantime, for those who are not too familiar with his work, here is an extended interview with Bloomberg TV, in which the GS head economist talks about Goldman's call for 18% gain in stocks this year as well as trends in jobs, inflation and other data indicators.
Ever since his transition from a critical, respected and objective economist to the third coming of A Joseph Cohen, Goldman's Jan Hatzius has become an increasingly irrelevant second fiddle-cum-broken record, and as such his observations have merited less and less attention. His latest spin piece on why the centrally planned US economy will grow within the parameters of "perfection pricing" is merely more confirmation of this sad transition. To wit: "2012 is still a long way off, and the uncertainty surrounding any forecast is large. But if we are right, the implications of this forecast are reasonably benign for the US Treasury market and very benign for the equity market. Indeed, our strategists expect only a moderate increase in 10-year Treasury note yields to 3¾% at the end of 2011 and 4¼% at the end of 2012, as well as an increase in the S&P 500 index to 1500 by the end of 2011." In other words: the debt-fueled Frankenstein of a Goldilocks monster, currently rampaging around on government-funded steroids, is really completely under control. It appears that all the gloves have come off in this last attempt to reflate the global ponzi, and sadly credibility once relevant, is now completely out of the window.
Jan Hatzius, whose recent conversion to an economic bull forced all the Wall Street sell side lemmings to follow suit (just like they did in August when he downgraded the GDP only to start pushing Bill Dudley's buttons for QE2 and ultimately getting it), disclosed earlier that QE 2.1, or an extension to QE2's $600 billion (excluding the $300 billion from QE Lite), is all but certain. After all Jan's calls for QE Lite in January 2010 are precisely what happened. It was also Jan who first demanded QE2 in September, and got that too. Which means that as we expected, the total amount of debt to be monetized this year (between QE lite, QE2 and QE2.1) will be about $1.6 trillion, or more than the entire budget deficit. Now what bond investors are wondering is what happens when the Fed starts unwinding: by now everyone knows how POMO works - buying USTs in the open market. Well, at some point in the next 2 years the Fed, which by then will have about $4 trillion in Treasury securities (assuming all MBS have been prepaid) will have to start selling this paper. Couple that with the $1.5 trillion in debt issuance by the Treasury, and soon America will be faced with the brick wall of such a supply deluge in paper that there will be no way to sell it without hiking rates into double digit figures. This, much more than any unfounded speculation of capital flows from equities to bonds, is what is starting to awake the US bond vigilantes.
It was only two days ago that Goldman upgraded its own bonus pool by saying the economy is now going nowhere but up, up, up. That lasted for 72 hours. Below is Hatzius' (first of many) mea culpa for finaly selling out: "A clearly disappointing report all around, with payrolls up much less than expected and the unemployment rate up. Although hours worked rose only 0.1% in November, this rough proxy for real GDP less productivity changes is tracking at roughly a 2½% annual rate. Flat wages coupled with the small increase in payrolls suggests very little wage and salary growth in November." We give the Goldman "strategist" 3 months before he starts beating the QE 3-666 drums again.
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EARLIEST DAYS; Takeoff! How the Wright Brothers Did What No One Else Could
By JOHN NOBLE WILFORD
Published: December 9, 2003
ONE hundred years ago, on Dec. 17, 1903, two brothers from Ohio took flight in a machine of their own creation. They were men of simple tastes and soaring ambition, skilled where it counted and resolute. Their machine was a fragile piece of minimalist engineering, an insubstantial butterfly compared with the eagles of technology that later took to the air.
Yet Wilbur and Orville Wright and their machine succeeded where others had failed. What did they do that had been overlooked by better-known and more experienced would-be inventors? It is one of the most arresting questions about the Wrights and the invention of the airplane.
The brothers themselves, whether out of modesty or an unreflective nature, seemed at a loss for an explanation. They emerged from obscurity and made history with, as historians of aviation carefully phrase it, the first power-driven heavier-than-air machine in which humans made free, controlled and sustained flight.
The age of flight had lifted off the ground. And the world -- at war or in peace, at work or on vacation -- was never the same again.
The Wrights chose for their flight tests the Outer Banks of North Carolina, beyond the iron rails of land transportation or the ships off the storm-tossed shore. The brothers were attracted to the treeless expanse of sand and the remoteness of the place, away from the prying eyes of the public and rivals.
There, near the fishing village of Kitty Hawk, they set up camp at Kill Devil Hills. On a blustery Thursday morning, Orville and then Wilbur, then Orville and Wilbur again, made four flights. Their two-winged craft took off from a 60-foot wooden launching rail, headed against a wind of more than 20 miles an hour. On the first test, Orville flew 120 feet in 12 seconds. The last and longest flight, by Wilbur, covered 852 feet in 59 seconds.
Around noon that day, one of the few witnesses, young Johnny Moore, raced down the beach shouting, ''They done it, they done it, damned if they ain't flew!''
Orville gave a more sober description two weeks later in a written statement.
''Each time the machine started from the level ground by its own power alone with no assistance from gravity, or any other source whatever,'' he said. ''After a run of about 40 feet along a monorail track, it rose from the track and under direction of the operator climbed upward on an inclined course till a height of 8 or 10 feet from the ground was reached. . . . The height chosen was scarcely sufficient for maneuvering in so gusty a wind and with no previous acquaintance with the conduct of the machine and its controlling mechanisms. Consequently the first flight was short.''
Even though a gust of wind badly damaged the craft after its last flight, the Wright brothers reckoned that the day had been a satisfying success. They had sought to establish that the machine ''possessed sufficient power to fly, sufficient strength to withstand the shocks of landings and sufficient capacity of control to make flight safe in boisterous winds, as well as in calm air.''
When their craft, which they called simply the Flyer, had met all these challenges, Orville wrote, ''We at once packed our goods and returned home, knowing that the age of the flying machine had come at last.''
Home for Wilbur and Orville Wright was Dayton. They were sons of a Protestant bishop and a mother, well educated for a woman of that time, whose mechanical aptitude found regular expression in the making of household appliances and children's toys. Neither brother finished high school, but they were well read, self-reliant and enterprising. They dabbled in printing and started a successful bicycle business.
The brothers, shy and unmarried, which they remained for life, were living at home with their widowed father and young sister when flight became their obsession. In the 1890's, they devoured every news report on the aeronautical experiments. The death in a glider accident of the German engineer Otto Lilienthal, the most influential of the early flight pioneers, seemed to be a turning point for the bicycle mechanics.
One evening in 1899, Wilbur wrote a letter on the pale blue stationery of the Wright Cycle Company to the Smithsonian Institution, requesting any papers it had on flight and a reading list of books on the subject. His observations, Wilbur explained, ''have only convinced me more firmly that human flight is possible and practicable.''
Wilbur received a helpful response, and the brothers were soon tinkering with kites and gliders in the back of their shop. But not much was heard from or about them until they were ready for the Flyer's tests at Kitty Hawk.
In their book, ''The Wright Brothers and the Invention of the Aerial Age,'' published this year by the National Geographic Society, two Smithsonian curators, Dr. Tom D. Crouch and Dr. Peter L. Jakab, sought to account for the Wrights' accomplishment. They shaped the question this way: How did these quintessential middle Americans, ''working essentially alone, with little formal scientific or technical training, solve a complex and demanding problem that had defied better-known experimenters for centuries?''
The brothers were gifted and committed, yes, but so were others who had tried and come up short. The decisive factor for the Wrights, the authors concluded, was their systematic approach to the problem of flight. The key to success was their ''inventive methodology.''
The best illustration of that is the original 1903 Flyer itself. The airplane that started it all resides at the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum in Washington, among other vehicles of aerospace achievement -- the Bell X-1 in which Chuck Yeager was the first to fly faster than the speed of sound, John Glenn's Friendship 7 capsule and the Apollo 11 spacecraft that took the first men to the Moon.
For the special centennial exhibition, the Flyer has been lowered from the high ceiling for closer examination at eye level. Dr. Jakab, a historian of technology and the author of two previous books on the Wrights, recently pointed out to a visitor the airplane's critical elements of innovation.
''The Wrights saw the airplane as a system,'' Dr. Jakab said. ''It was not one invention, but many, and they all had to work in concert.''
From the perceptive work of Sir George Cayley in the first half of the 19th century, the brothers identified and concentrated on three fundamental problems: lift, control and propulsion. Wings had already been studied extensively as the obvious lifting surfaces. Engines for propelling a craft through the air seemed to be at hand. So the Wrights focused at first on methods of balancing and controlling a craft in flight, which they felt had been neglected by previous experimenters.
Watching large birds in flight, Wilbur saw how they kept lateral balance by the movement of feathers on their wingtips. Then one day, while idly twisting the ends of a narrow cardboard box in opposite directions, he hit upon the idea for wing warping.
''That was one of the great breakthroughs the Wrights made,'' Dr. Jakab said.
The brothers tested the concept with kites and gliders. When the flexible wing tips on one side were angled upward while the tips on the other side were angled downward, this created a higher angle of attack on one side and thus greater lift on that side. Earlier inventors had tried such controls simply by having the pilot shift his body weight. With wing warping, a pilot could pull wires to maintain the craft's equilibrium or bank into a left or right turn, known as roll control. Today, this is accomplished with ailerons, which are control flaps on the trailing edges of the wings, Dr. Jakab noted, but the concept originated with the Wrights and was a central feature in their patent for the airplane.
Similarly, the brothers integrated into their design the controls for movement in the other two axes, vertical and longitudinal. In a 1901 glider, they added a horizontal rudder, or elevator, in front to control fore and aft balance -- pitch control. The next year, they added a tail rudder for turning right or left -- yaw control.
In ''Taking Flight,'' published this year by Oxford University Press, Dr. Richard P. Hallion, a founding curator of the Air and Space Museum, wrote, ''In their single-minded emphasis upon mastering three dimensional movement, the Wrights clearly differed from all their predecessors.''
For their wings, the Wrights benefited from Lilienthal's aerodynamic data, but tested models of various wing shapes in wind tunnels to improve their design. For propulsion, they relied on an ordinary 4-cylinder, 12-horsepower gasoline engine modified with an aluminum crankcase to save weight. The engine drove two propellers, another critical innovation.
After much thinking and testing, the Wrights conceived of the propeller as a rotary wing. A marine propeller displaces water to push a ship along. If its curved surfaces were redesigned, they realized, an aircraft propeller created not the displacement of air but the air flow for thrust. Wilbur and Orville made three trips to Kitty Hawk from 1900 through 1902 to test their concepts with gliders. Confident that they had solved all the design problems, the brothers spent the spring of 1903 constructing the airframe for their first powered craft.
The simple ash-and-spruce frame was reinforced with bracing wire. The two wings spanned more than 40 feet and drooped 10 inches at the tips. The weight was 750 pounds, including the pilot, who stretched prone at the center of the lower wing, within reach of the cables and a lever for controlling pitch, yaw and roll.
By then the brothers were sure of success. To a friend Orville wrote, ''Isn't it astonishing that all these secrets have been preserved for so many years just so we could discover them!!''
Others, if they had given much thought to the Wrights, would probably not have shared their optimism. Samuel Pierpont Langley, who had spent 17 years studying and testing the principles of flight with money from the War Department, suffered two highly publicized ignominious failures in the fall of 1903. On its own first test, Dec. 14, the Wright Flyer nosed up sharply at takeoff, stalled and crashed.
The four brief flights three days later elevated Wilbur and Orville to the pantheon of inventors, though not at once. News of the achievement trickled out, usually in vague and misinformed bits. The Wrights issued few details. Even in their own hometown, a skeptical reporter declined to write anything about the flights. Over the years, an apocryphal account of the incident was always good for a laugh. Told of the achievement, an editor of a Dayton newspaper supposedly retorted, ''Man will never fly, and if he does, he won't be from Dayton.''
Their original Flyer never took to the air again after its single day of triumph. It had served its purpose as a proof-of-concept vehicle, and the Wrights moved on to larger, more durable craft.
Not until 1908 did the Wrights begin to receive their due. In public demonstrations that year, Wilbur's test flight in France won over doubters, and Orville's in Virginia brought an Army contract.
Wilbur Wright died of typhoid fever on May 30, 1912, at 45. His younger brother died on Jan. 30, 1948, at 76.
But the brothers are survived by more than a museum artifact. They set the standard for the problem-solving methodology of modern aeronautics. As he turned away from the Flyer, Dr. Jakab said he imagined that, even after a century of flight in air and space, the Wrights would find some of the fundamental things familiar.
''If they walked into a modern laboratory,'' he said, ''they would be able to recognize as their own the approach to aeronautical research as it's conducted today.''
Photos: NOW AND THEN -- The Wright Flyer on display at the Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum, above; and the Wrights, Wilbur, far left, and Orville, in France in 1909. (Photo by Marty Katz for The New York Times); (Photo by Associated Press); (Photo by ''The World in the Air, the Story of Flying in Pictures,'' by Francis Trevelyan Miller, published by G. P. Putnam's Sons); (Photo by Associated Press); (Photo by Associated Press); (Photo by Nassau County Museum Collection)(pg. G4); HE'S UP -- Orville Wright in flight on that historic day. (Photo by The New York Times Photo Archive); (Mika Görndahl/The New York Times)(pg. G1) Chart: ''100 Years Ago, The Way It Worked'' The Wright brothers tackled the mystery of flight with a systematic approach. They broke the problem down into three elements; lift, thrust and control. And they were the first to provide separate controls for pitch, roll and yaw. In addition to their technical achievements, the brothers' piloting skills set them apart. PROPELLOR -- Carved out of pieces of spruce glued together. THRUST -- The brothers treated the propeller like a rotary wing that pushes air backward, thus pushing the aircraft forward. RUDDER -- Wood frame covered with muslin. LIFT -- Wings had curved airfoil, similar to birds, to create lift necessary for flight. CONTROL PITCH was controlled by a movable elevator in front of the plane. Twin rudders provided YAW control. Warping the wingtips increased lift on one side and decreased it on the other for ROLL control. EVOLUTION: The 1903 plane was back-heavy, making it unstable in pitch, a fault that was corrected in later models by moving the elevator further out and adding weight to the front. Ultimately the elevator was moved to the rear. ENGINE A water-cooled, four-cylinder 12-16 horsepower engine. PILOT Prone position to reduce drag. Lies off-center to balance engine. WINGS Muslin fabric is attached to the wooden frame in diagonal strips to provide cross-bracing. (Sources by Fred. E. C. Culick, California Institute of Technology: Dr. Peter L. Jakab and Dr. Tom D. Crouch, National Air and Space Museum; Rick Young) (pg. G1) Chart: ''Pioneers'' The first monoplane is widely attributed to Louis Blériot, in 1907. 1906 -- FIRST TO FLY? In Bagatelle, France, the Brazilian aviator Alberto Santos-Dumont climbs into the 14-bis, an oddlooking craft with a tail in the front and box kites for wings. He flies 200 feet. Amid skepticism about the Wright brothers' claims, Europe hails him as the first selfpowered heavierthan- air aviator. 1908 -- PRIZE FLIGHT Glenn H. Curtiss's Drome No. 3 (nicknamed June Bug) wins Scientific American magazine's prize for the first straight 1,000- meter flight. Backed by Alexander Graham Bell, Curtiss goes on to revolutionize engine design and develop the first reasonably priced plane ($5,000). 1911 -- NEW YORK TO CALIFORNIA Calbraith P. Rodgers, in a Wright biplane dubbed the Vin Fiz after its soft-drink sponsor, makes it to Long Beach, Calif., after 19 crashes and one broken leg. 1924 -- AROUND THE WORLD Four Douglas World Cruisers of the United States Army Air Service leave Seattle on April 6. After one crash and one forced landing (but no fatalities), two planes make the long way back on Sept. 28. Nine years later, Wiley Post flies solo around the world in just under eight days. 1926 -- BYRD OF THE ARCTICS Lt. Cmdr. Richard E. Byrd and the pilot Floyd Bennett use a sun compass to guide their Fokker Trimotor over the top of the world. Three years later, Byrd drops the Stars and Stripes weighted down by a stone from Bennett's grave (he died of pneumonia the year before) over the South Pole. 1927 -- LINDY DOES IT Veteran fliers say flying solo across the Atlantic is impossible, and a $25,000 prize has stood unclaimed since 1919. When Charles Lindbergh lands in Paris after his 33 1/2-hour flight, it is as if he had conquered the world. 1937 -- LOST BUT NOT FORGOTTEN Amelia Earhart, the most famous woman pilot, disappears with her navigator while trying to fly around the world, creating aviation's greatest mystery. Earhart's career includes a number of milestones, among them the first cross-country solo flight by a woman, in 1932. (pg. G4)

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Vice Chancellor, Graduate Studies; Dean of the Graduate Division, UCLA
President, Jack and Jill of America – Mercer County
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I personaly like the 3rd one but what do u guys think?
i think they all look sick but i personally love special blend so the last one is my pick plus it has the best waterproof/breathability
special blend, by miles.
i'm not going to look, but going by brands, bonfire or special blend
special blend is a great brand. I personally prefer BonFire because of all the snaps and zippered compartments. I stay dry and comfortable all the way down the mountain and especially on the frigid lift
Learn to layer. Im guessing it would be mid weight due to the picture of the insie, which is usually good as its normally fine to wear as just a jacket but rarely gets too hot like a heavy weight or puffer jacket would. Buy it. also have you seen the tan threepeat?
I just got the forum giard today. I love it. Cant wait to get it out in the park
the only thing is: the only ones left are in L, and im just wondering if its going to b too big. i like baggy jackets, but if they are like too huge its just ugly. im about 174cm high(5.7 ft?) and have like a skinny/fit body shape. what size have u got and how high are u, and how does it fit? just wanna make sure im not wasting my cash :)
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Lenovo Pioneers "Interpersonal Computing" with Company's First Table PC
Lenovo today announced the IdeaCentre Horizon Table PC, the company's first "interpersonal PC," a multi-user, multi-touch, multi-mode device for the home that allows users to turn their personal computing experience into a shared computing experience.
As a Table PC, Horizon can lie flat on any surface, lets two or more people use the screen at the same time, supports interactive physical gaming accessories and is designed for touch screen game-play among several players. Horizon takes advantage of Windows 8 touch functionality to bring customized games from Electronic Arts and Ubisoft to life in a way players have never seen before. Horizon can also easily transform into a 27-inch high-performance desktop to handle whatever productivity tasks users need to do.
At the 2013 International Consumer Electronics Show this week, Lenovo also today demonstrated a large 39-inch wide-screen Table PC, code-named "Gamma." While still an early concept, Gamma illustrates the outstanding multi-user entertainment experiences such a large screen can provide and is indicative of Lenovo's future direction in Table PC computing.
"We've seen technology shifts across the four screens, from the desktop to the laptop, tablet and smartphone, and yet, while people have more computing power than ever before, there is still room for technologies like Horizon that bring people together. Horizon makes personal computing interpersonal computing with shared, collaborative experiences among several people," said Peter Hortensius, president, Product Group, Lenovo. "Now many people can enjoy different photos, music and video on the same screen, and they can play games with our special accessories that blend physical and digital interaction. Horizon reflects our commitment to delivering the innovative products that define the PC Plus era."
A Table PC for the Home
Horizon unleashes the power of Windows 8 and brings multi-player games to life with its gigantic screen, dynamic graphics and 10-finger touch. It comes with a special set of accessories including an e-dice and four joysticks and strikers to offer a completely new digital gaming experience that combines the physical gaming accessory with the on-screen action. For the player, the action is part physical, part digital - an activity that Lenovo refers to as "phygital."
The Horizon Table PC includes Lenovo App Shop, a dedicated apps store powered by Intel AppUp giving users access to 5,000+ multi-user entertainment apps. Horizon also comes with exclusive access or package of pre-loaded gaming and educational apps from industry leading vendors including Electronic Arts, FableVision, Open Labs, Ubisoft, FilmOn TV and hundreds of top games and apps from BlueStacks so players of all ages can:
- Become a real estate tycoon in a modern take on the classic MONOPOLY
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- Enjoy painting and coloring in the Paint, Color Corner app or play contest games in Lenovo Best Guess
With Horizon's smart hinge system, users can easily lay it flat and in so doing, the Lenovo Aura multi-user, multi-touch interface (UI) will automatically activate. This simple UI lets families play, learn or enjoy multimedia content together on one screen. Aura also serves as a great way to launch pre-loaded gaming and educational apps or download new ones from the online app store.
In addition, Horizon performs beautifully as a family's main all-in-one desktop for work and play. Its impressive large backlit screen can be seen from virtually any angle and its NVIDIA GeForce graphics make content look gorgeous with smooth and seamless video playback, eye-popping graphics and heart-pounding Dolby Home Theatre v4 audio. To support such a command performance, Horizon is powered by Intel Core i7 processors.
As an option, Horizon offers a moveable and space-saving Horizon Multimode Table. This adjustable table allows users to change the angle and height position of the Table PC, from lying flat to a straight-up, 'wall-like mount' at 90 degrees. Lenovo offers an array of protection services for the Horizon Table PC, including In-Home Warranty upgrades for service at the owner's home or business and up to three years of warranty coverage. Additionally, Lenovo Premium Support's expert technicians are available when needed with convenient over the phone or remote session support from the comfort of home.
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Sure, there is racial diversity, but pretty much everyone who goes here comes from a similar socioeconomic position. Santa Clara is a very common safety school for the students of elite bay area prep schools, if that provides any context.
There are many students from outside the country along with people from throughout the states. There is strong ethnic diversity and sexual orientation, but mainly higher economic status and christian or jesuit students.
As a black student the school is obviously lacking in terms of ethnic diversity, but there are clubs to get involved in to bring the different cultures together.
Diversity is something that SCU always strives for to represent it, but in reality it is a pretty solidly white school. Yes there are lots of people from diverse backgrounds but ethnically speaking it is mostly caucasians.
There are more caucasians on campus. However there is some diversity. My roommate is from Canada and I have someone from China. The people I have met are from the bay area and hispanic like myself. In a class setting the majority would be caucasian, a few asians or hispanic students.
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While Santa Clara seems to have a pretty homogenous student population, (most students tend to be white, Catholic, and from the upper-middle class), there is still a sizable minority of students with different ethnic, religious, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Most students are very accepting and supportive of diversity on campus and freely hang out with students of backgrounds different from their own.
While Santa Clara is religiously affiliated, it's run by the Jesuits, who are often considered the "hippies" of the Catholic church. As the Jesuit order emphasizes compassion and acceptance, the SCU religious community works hard to promote interfaith dialogue and inclusion of religious and sexual minorities.
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The Global South-South Development Expo (GSSD Expo) is the only Expo solely from the South and for the South. It showcases successful Southern-grown development solutions (SDSs) addressing the need to meet the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs)
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The first follow-up activity under the "Capacity Development in Management of South-South and Triangular Cooperation Project", facilitated by the Brazil Cooperation Agency (ABC) in the Ministry of Ex...more
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Government Ministers, Business Leaders and Experts Will Spotlight Southern-Grown Solutions and Cooperation Opportunities Toward Attaining the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development  ...more
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Dawn on Jerusalem
First light is showing at the East. The sky turns blue, and the light of the streets, orange, is mixing with it to create this beautiful lighting of the holly city.
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Despite $135 Million Roster, No Joy in Metsville
Anyone who has ventured into New York's other new ballpark knows that the Mets aren't particularly good this year. And considering how much the organization spent to put this team together, one has to wonder if they're one amazin' waste of money.
The Mets paid $135 million to assemble this roster, second only to their Bronx rivals in payroll for 2009. While an oversized budget ($201.4 million) has helped the Yankees to the best record in baseball, the Mets are in fourth place in their own division.
Sure, the slump could be attributed to injuries among the team's high-paid stars: Carlos Beltran ($19 million), Carlos Delgado ($12 million), Billy Wagner ($10 million), Jose Reyes ($6 million) and J.J. Putz ($6 million). But the rest of the Mets aren't really earning their keep, either.
The Mets retained Oliver Perez with a three-year, $36 million contract last winter. He has rewarded them with a 6.38 ERA and 49 walks in 55 innings on the mound. Brian Schneider was paid $4.9 million to hit .197 and lose playing time behind the plate to an unheralded rookie. Even productive players, such as David Wright and Johan Santana, have not lived up to their prior greatness.
With a projected finish of just 76 wins, the Mets will end the year having spent $1.78 million per win.
Only the 2008 Seattle Mariners—in an insufferable season that saw their GM and manager fired—had a lower return on their payroll investment.
—Dave Cameron
Bankrolling a Bust
Here are some top-spending teams in which the payroll failed to translate into a winning season on the field.
|Seattle Mariners 2008
|$118 million
|$1.93 million
|New York Mets 2009*
|$135 million
|$1.78 million
|New York Mets 2003
|$117 million
|$1.77 million
|Chicago White Sox 2007
|$109 million
|$1.51 million
|Texas Rangers 2002
|$106 million
|$1.46 million
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Don't miss our annual Ultimate Linux Box article forthcoming in the November issue. This year's LJ ULB gets an upgrade from single to multiple processors by including AMD's new Athlon MP processor. See www.amd.com/products/cpg/server/athlon/partners/partners.html for a few places where you can get yours.
On July 9, 2001, Ximian did the unprecedented: they embraced and extended the Microsoft "innovation" called .NET. Titled the Mono Project, they called it "a community initiative to develop an open source, Linux-based version of the Microsoft .NET development platform". In a number of interviews, Ximian CTO Miguel de Icaza was remarkably flattering to .NET. To The Register he said, ".NET solves a number of problems we've been trying to solve in GNOME. Instead of wasting our time trying to create a new standard, we're embracing .NET and extending it for our own purposes." To Linux Journal he said, "We saw in .NET a mechanism that would allow programmers to become more efficient. You have garbage collection. You have thread-based libraries. You can use any programming language—and none of the class libraries have dependencies on Windows. There is a lot of device and platform independence."
On Slashdot and Linux Today the responses ranged from "Way to go" to "Dare we ask it? Has de Icaza been seduced by the dark side?"
In fact, the effort has a lot more scope in ambition than in actual size. While .NET is a vast development framework, de Icaza tells us:
We're mostly looking at just what Microsoft calls the Framework SDK. This basically consists of three pieces. The first is a virtual machine—they call it a virtual execution system—which is basically a runtime. So far we have implemented one-third of our C# compiler; we've started work on a runtime engine, a just-in-time compiler for Linux; and we've also started work on class libraries to run our compiler inside of Linux. It's not a complete project yet and won't be for another six months. Then we hope to have by the end of the year something that can run the compiler—a system which is self-hosting, so we can compile the compiler itself on Linux. It's a huge project. That's why it has to be an open-source project. We can't do all the work alone.
Craig Burton, an analyst with Burtonian.com (who joined in during the same Linux Journal interview) says, "It won't be easy, especially since Microsoft won't even be done with the .NET framework before the end of the year. Microsoft hasn't even explained .NET to itself. A lot could change before the end of the year."
De Icaza responds, "Microsoft right now has .NET at a point it calls 'API stable'. We're working from (what they) submitted to the European Commission." Instead his main concern, shared with many who remarked on the announcement in public forums, is with licensing. De Icaza thinks Microsoft's public concerns about the GPL are a smokescreen for its perception of Linux as a direct competitor for its service business. Regardless of Microsoft's motives, any attempts to embrace and extend .NET are likely to be a source of legal concern to the company.
Meanwhile the idea in the medium-long run, de Icaza said, is to let developers create .NET applications and run them on any Mono-supported platform, including Linux, UNIX, and of course, Windows. That's the goal he and Ximian will be working toward with the Mono Project.
On Slashdot "polar bear" writes:
It's a long shot. But if IBM, Sun, HP and the rest got behind a true open standard Web services framework, Microsoft wouldn't be able to deny its competitors an equal playing field—which is exactly what it wants to do with .NET—they want to deploy pieces of .NET to other OSes to lure people in to using it, but the choice bits will only work with Windows. An open .NET would allow everyone to have an equal footing. Sure, Microsoft could still play ball, but they'd lose some of their bully power.
In the days that followed the announcement, however, another potential strategy emerged, suggested first by Burton—who employed exactly the same strategy when he was fighting Microsoft, successfully, at Novell in the 1980s—then picked up by others. That strategy is "redirection". By contrast, Burton calls Ximian's strategy "cloning". He writes, "The cloning method simply means that you rewrite all of the code that Microsoft has developed and run it on a different platform." Redirection, he continues, is a way to "redirect" or "hijack" the Microsoft-generated object data flow to servers that are not controlled by Microsoft. The same strategy could apply to data streams of all kinds, including instant messaging (IM). XML streams of AOL and Microsoft Messenger client code could be redirected into Jabber's IM server, for example.
In the long run, Burton believes, ".NET (all of it) and HailStorm are going to be redirected technologies. If I were Ximian—or any other open-source vendor for that matter—I would be busy building redirection-based code, not clone-based code."
And thanks to the nature of open source, the bazaar will decide.
—Doc Searls
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"For the improvement of social and living conditions in the United States"
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The Russell Sage Foundation is the principal American foundation devoted exclusively to research in the social sciences. Located in New York City, it is a research center, a funding source for studies by scholars at other academic and research institutions, and an active member of the nation's social science community. The foundation also publishes, under its own imprint, the books that derive from the work of its grantees and visiting scholars.
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Bang!: The Complete History of the Universe (Hardback)Chris Lintott
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Bang! Space, time, matter...the Universe was born 13.7 billion years ago. Infinitely small at first, it expanded more rapidly than anyone can contemplate. Brian May, Patrick Moore and Chris Lintott explain how all this came about, from the moment when time and space came into existence, to the formation of the first stars, galaxies and planets, and to the evolution of human beings able to contemplate our own origins and ultimate destiny. Then on towards that destiny in the infinite future, long after the Earth has been consumed by the Red Giant Sun. The story is told in clear, straight forward terms, in the strict order in which the events happened, and uses no mathematics. "Bang!" is an amazing story and this newly revised text brings it "Bang!" up to date. Is it fiction? The authors hope not, since it is based upon lifetimes work by great scientists such as Albert Einstein, Stephen Hawking and hundreds of other brilliant minds. Enjoy, and let your imagination run riot.
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Kokua Hospitality To Continue Managing Hyatt Place Waikiki Beach Hotel
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HONOLULU—Host Hotels & Resorts Inc. has engaged Kokua Hospitality LLC to continue its management of the highly successful Hyatt Place Waikiki Beach hotel after purchasing the property from Chartres Lodging Group LLC.
The Hyatt Place Waikiki Beach has been and will continue to be managed by Kokua Hospitality LLC, the management arm of Chartres Lodging Group. The original purchase of the hotel took place on December 21, 2010 by Chartres Lodging Group LLC and Morgan Stanley Real Estate Fund VII Global. The hotel then made its debut as a member of the Hyatt family on December 8, 2011, after an extensive renovation and re-positioning.
The 426-room Hyatt Place Waikiki Beach is located just steps from the beach and near Diamond Head at 175 Paoakalani Avenue in Waikiki. The hotel, just nine miles from Honolulu International Airport, offers all-inclusive packages for meetings and events, from unique food and beverage options to cutting-edge A/V equipment. Hyatt Place Waikiki Beach also offers an array of dining options for guests, complimentary freshly prepared breakfast foods, a gallery menu and bakery cafe offering Starbucks. Waikiki is located on the south shore of Honolulu.
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We stayed for four nights during our visit to Disneyland. It was very convenient, about a 10 minute walk to the entrance.
We were a family of five kids and four adults. The two rooms we reserved was perfect. Each room had two queen beds and a step down suite with a convertible queen size sofa. The room also had two LCD flat screen TV's.
Breakfast is also included. The first morning I was very disappointed in the breakfast, it was inedible. The following three mornings were much better.
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- The Desert Palms Hotel and Suites is located in the heart of the Anaheim Resort. It is right on the corner of business and pleasure; located next door to the Disneyland Resort and across the street from the Anaheim Convention Center. Along with our spacious rooms and suites we offer Free Breakfast, Free Parking, and a Free Hot Breakfast Buffet. All rooms and suites come equipped with a microwave, mini-fridge and coffee maker. You are sure to find the perfect place for your family vacation at the Desert Palms Hotel. Our room offering start with the Deluxe Room, which offers 2 queen beds and continues with a number of different suites. Our Borrego Suites offers a sunken living room with sofa sleeper for up to 6 people. Our Yuha Kids Suite offers a bunk bed for the kids! Our Sahara Condo Suite offers a full kitchen, perfect for longer stays. Our largest room, the Kalahari Family Suite sleeps up to 8 people with 2 private bedrooms and 2 bathrooms. There is something for everyone at the Desert Palms Hotel. Kids will have a blast at our arcade corner and even have their own special check in at our Kids Registration. In the lobby they can start the scavenger hunt to find our hidden Mickey and Minnie and receive a prize! Our lobby also features a photo kiosk, perfect for taking that family photo and uploading it straight to Facebook or Twitter. Choose the Desert Palms Hotel for your next Anaheim Vacation and Experience the Oasis. ... more less
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What's up with everyone saying this game is easy?
I recently started playing this game on the normal difficulty for my first time ever. I figured this game was easier then DMC4 so I decided to give it a shot since everyone said it was an easy 1000:gsicon:
However it turned out to be quite challenging... I only got one silver statue on a level and the rest were stone. Additionally I must have died >50 times in the short time I played. I don't get it. I feel like I'm doing everything right. I tried not to use a massive amount of items, I mixed up combos, and I attempted to get most dodges. I just don't see how I'm going to do this on hard or the hardest difficulty... Is there something else? IS there a cheep trick people use or something? Are there walk-throughs people use to make fights easier. Please help!
Don´t worry about the harder difficulties, you will be able to collect tons of items along the way that will make it much easier for you! :)
Check out the collectibles guide to see where/how you can get those. I´m mainly referring to the ´broken moon pearls´ (increase your magic gauge) and the ´bloody witch hearts´ (increase your vitality bar). Make sure that you have collected as many as possible before you advance to hard mode. That also means that you need to complete as many Alfheim challenges as you can (check out the guide for the locations), since you get either a moon pearl or a witch heart as a reward for completing them. These challenges are also a great way to train yourself, improve your skills. The Alfheims are only availabe in normal mode and harder, I strongly recommend to do them on normal since that will be easier. Buy all the remaining hearts/pearls at the Gates of Hell. There are also accessories that you can buy from Rodin. Take a look at what they do and use them to your advantage! :D
You will also unlock new weapons during the game, more powerful weapons. ;)
Keep playing, you will get better at it. Don´t worry. :)
There is the ´flute glitch´ that could help, but if I were you I wouldn´t use it too much since these items are not available in the Alfheim challenges!
Just learn witch time and the game basically plays itself. I rented the game and got all the achievement in 7 days! it was an adrenaline rush!! all the combos and just doing a speed run was so much fun, tip for playing on climax i don't waste your lollipops ! save them
Sword and Witch-time = Untouchable on first two playthroughs.
Even infinite climax wasn't that bad, it just required patience since witch time is gone. This was one of the most unique and fun experiences in early 2010.
I have this game in the drawer (still sealed), but not played it yet! I assume from what has been said above, that you can build your character and items/upgrades carry over from 1 playthrough to the next??
it does get hard at some parts of the game, i died a few times in the game mostly in the Route 666 scene but that was on Super Easy/Easy mode, i want to see if it does get even harder in the other modes
This game gets hard but that's because the combos are no where near as fluid as the ones of dmc.
I would say though anyone who speaks the game of being easy used the flute glitch . Its by far not easy at all.
You probably heard it was an 1000 because of the Rocket Kick glitch, which makes getting your combo meter in each verse ridiculously easy. The game itself takes some getting used to (mastering witch time and discovering the Alfheim Portals), but if you like/love DMC then this game is definitely for you. Remember, some achievements are supposed to be challenging!
This game is pretty easy. Just a few tips:
1) Start on easy or very easy. This way you can unlock all your moves and some nice accessories. But the best thing is: you unlock the immortal marionette accessorie.
2) Start a game on normal and buy/equip the imortal marionette.
3) Just start tapping the b and y button and jump around a bit. Normal mode completed.
4) Start a game on hard mode and repeat step 2 and 3. Collect some health potions for the final boss in the epilogue.
5) I havent started the hardest mode, but i suppose it should be a bit more challenging. If its too hard; replay some missions on (very) easy to earn halos and buy more health potions. O yea; you can get a bigger health bar by finding items ingame or buying it in shop.
6) I understand there are some glitches that can help you out as well.
I found this game really hard aswell, gave up on it after finishin it once.
the game is not easy at all, try the people who said that is cause they complete the game and thats all but get all the achievements its hard a least for a regular player.
but is worthy so u can see bayoneta a lot uhhh so sexy XD
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pQ2p5JQjxosWow, alot of different responses here!
Well, I like the game, to be honest, I LOVE THE GAME, it's nothing like DMC, it's f'n better! I always thought that DMC was made by the Japanese FOR THE JAPANESE! And Bayo was made so that we in the west could enjoy something similar!
First and foremost, X Y X will be your bread and butter! practice this in your sleep, the great thing is you can even charge each attack, hold X hold Y hold X
Another thing, KILGORE GLITCH people! heeeellllooooo?
First, Kilgore must be on the feet in one set and Durga on the feet in the other, it doesn't matter what you have in your hands, I recommend, Durga on hands AND feet for set one, and Durga for hands and KILGORE for feet in set two!
Now let the magic begin!
What you do is, you start witht the Durga/Durga (LIGHTNING recommended) set and you go P P P P K
once you hit the K(ick) button, you should see Bayo raising her leg (going for the kick) THIS IS WHEN YOU SWITCH TO THE OTHER SET BY PRESSING LT!
And since I'm a n00b on this site and don't know how to post a the video in my post, I'ma have to do it like this:
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And oh! STAY AWAY FROM IMMORTAL MARIONETTE, it's sucks, and it's a waste of halos! You're better off spamming X Y X, Scarburough (the sword, sorry for misspelling) and Durga works awsome!
I finished it on hard in 2 weekends by using the Immortal Marionette. It wasnt much of a challenge, but i was only playing this game for achievements anywayz...
Its a cool game though. Maybe if i had more time for this game i would play it more often.
It's those Alfheim portals that I am finding to be such a pain!
I'm currently playing through on my hard difficulty and so far so good, but some of those portals I cannot seem to complete....
Gonna try those again after beating hard difficulty.
The game has hard bits and easy bits like everything else.
Of course, using the plaza telephones to get the tough stuff like the beam sword and that uber-accessory (I forget names) doesn't hurt either... especially for achievement purposes.
My trophy case only has a complete line for V.Easy mode. The rest are piecemeal at best because I preferred to take them on while flailing wicked weaves all over the damned place with every attack.
I'm also wondering if that accessory which activates witch-time when you get hit will work on Infinite Climax... afterall, it seems to work in other situations where I shouldn't be able to do witch-time (did strike me as odd).
Guess I COULD find out... but I have to find the last of those damned chests first... -_-;
The Bracelet will work in infinite climax, but only for a fraction of a second it seems. Make it easy on yourself and use the pillow talk cheat code, infinite climax will be a breeze.
I found most of the game to be a matter of preparedness. The more I learned the different combos, weapons, and timing the easier everything became. Some alfheims were impossible, until I'd find the one thing I needed to do (i.e. holding attack buttons down longer on limited kicks and punches levels.)
For the first 2/3 of the game on normal it was quite easy, but the last third was extremely hard, so I had to go grind on lower levels to get more abilities to finish the game on normal. This is one of the few games that I have had difficulties finishing on normal, so in my mind this isn't your typical "easy game".
Yeah wait til you get to Climax difficulty, and Witch Time goes out the window. :] It took me FOREVER to get past the first "flashback" battle with Jeanne on Infinite Climax as on top of not having witch time I didn't have my acquired weapons. x____x The final battle with her was super hard as well. She made the final boss look like a joke.
I think some people are liars. I'm having a pretty rough time on normal so far (still trying to get used to witch time and such) and I have 1000 in DMC4. The combos don't seem to flow as well and I personally think the gameplay is a little too complex (i.e. too many different combos to even begin trying to memorize.) The game is fun, don't get me wrong, but this game is providing a decent challenge for me.
You'll find this game becomes a lot easier later on. Trust me.
I died a lot on my normal play-through, but the following one on Hard I completed it with only a single death on Route 666... thanks to a damn ledge. ∞ climax is a bit rougher thanks to removing witchtime, but with it you have incentive to use the Evil Harvest Rosary which will still disrupt enemies and let you knock in a combo on them with a proper dodge. After playing through on normal and hard, this should be enough for a quick finish.
However, it gets even easier. There's two other accessories which play the game for you if you're still finding it difficult.
Immortal Marionette is just as sad. Game plays for you. Sure, it dings your points, but if you're just after the easy 1000GS, it's still available.
Stuff like the portals may still be a bit of a challenge, but what kinds of Angels spawn will differ based on your difficulty setting. It's a rough game to perfect, but it's an easy game to get 1000GS in. Remove the above accessories and it most likely wouldn't be in the easy 1000 list. Still in the quick 1000 though.
The only hard difficulty is Non-Stop Ifinite climax difficulty since you have no witch time at all. Unless you got an accessory that gives you witch time when you are hit. It only last for 1-2 seconds max and that's it other than that its DMC gameplay. Use dodge offset with wicked weave attacks an it should be a breeze. The only hard one I had trouble with was 3 consecutive counter attacks with moon of kahla
infinite climax was fun! If a bit anoying, key is to getting the accessories later on in your hard playthrough that enable witchtime when dodging. easy peasy
Well the people saying its easy are mostly considering achievement wise, wich i guess if you are willing to put many hours into it, then its probably not that hard.
Personally i think the game is very forgivable in parts when others are dumb. I mean... often i get caugh by a platform breaking or last second quick time event and die.. but there is always a checkpoint very close... Does it annoys me to die in such a dumb way? Absolutely. But i can restart very close...
Other time its when i end up a battle, i am very low on health only to see a Boss battle happening right after... I start the battle with no health... thats kinda dumb, especially since the game is greedy on life items. BUT if i die, i can always restart the battle with full health(i play on normal, first playtrough) so now i usually just kill myself right awa to not waste time...
I would say this game is a big bag of mix for me. I am not that fond into the beat em all of that style, the ones where you more or less loose tracks of your character in all those lights and flashes on screen(i swear sometimes i wonder where my character is) and most of the time i end up just using witch time with button mashing to advance... I prefer beat em all in a more realistic way.
Then i will say i don't give a rat ass about documents i find in the game.. in fact i started reading them at first, then i mostly just checked them up a bit skipping some stuff, then eventually i stoped checking them all together.
But the main story and cinematics interest me tough. I also really like the main character ways of acting and dialogues.
So more or less im going into the game slowly, and i know once i completed it i will probably not reply it, even if its the kind of game where you can keep everything and replay levels and get money to buy more and more stuff... somewhat i dunno... don't see myself replaying it many times...
Its fun, its good, its just not that special, and not my usual type of gameplay...
Yes i bough it because the girl on the cover was hot... and i head it was a beat em all... thats it.. so i didn't had that much info on it. I paid 15$ anyway, not like it costed a fortune...
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