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Profits From Casino Help an Indian Tribe Reclaim Its History
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Professor McBride, who is not an Indian, had no such hopes rooted in his background when he set out in 1983 to study the Pequots' native grounds. ''I didn't think much would be here,'' he said recently. ''Most of the archeological record has been destroyed.''
Laurence M. Hauptman, a history professor at the State University College at New Paltz, N.Y., and a co-author of ''The Pequots in Southern New England: The Fall and Rise of An American Indian Nation,'' explained why. ''Village sites are hard to find because most are now other towns, like New London,'' he said. ''We Europeans didn't discover the geopolitical or economic importance of certain sites.''
While the Pequots once presided over a 250-square-mile territory, Mr. McBride's most important finds are taking place on the 214 acres that, saved from encroachment, eventually were established as a reservation.
Many finds have simply emerged accidentally. Early this year, for example, the contractor for a parking garage wanted to move some soil on a small south-facing slope nearby. ''He cut in, and we saw some of this,'' Mr. McBride said, pointing to thin, dark stains that look like chocolate frosting in a sandy-colored layer cake.
These blotches teem with the residue of a 10,000-year-old civilization: pit houses, probably made of wood pieces and beams, maybe covered with hide or sod, for perhaps 5 to 15 people.
Since winter, graduate and undergraduate archeology students from the University of Connecticut and other colleges have been digging, separating soil samples into plastic bags, sifting some to find artifacts and storing others.
The alternating layers of dark and light suggest that a family returned to this site each winter to enjoy its southern exposure but left for a less tethered life for the rest of the year.
Two Black Lines Add Up to a Fort
''The fort is the coolest thing we've found,'' Mr. McBride said. Although nothing but tiny fragments has been uncovered, he gets little argument from other experts.
''To find something like this fort, from this time period, is unique,'' Dr. Hauptman said. ''Here, in Esopus country,'' he added, naming a Delaware Indian tribe, ''we know there was an Indian fort, and we've never found it. Archeologists have been looking for it for a century.''
As Mr. McBride tells the story, discovery of the Pequot fort was serendipitous. Stopping his red Toyota Land Cruiser on a bumpy dirt road leading to it, he said the modern Pequots planned a maintenance building on the site.
Because the Pequots send in the archeologists whenever they plan to build, Professor McBride and his staff members explored. With some core drilling, they found some stone tools, English flint and other ''bits and pieces that told us there was a historic site here,'' he said. That was in 1986, and it was enough to stop the construction.
More intense work followed in the early 1990's. The crews found artifacts from the 1780's: some brass, some beads. ''We thought it was a 1780's farmhouse,'' Mr. McBride said. ''But slowly it began to dawn on us that we might have found something from the 1670's. We found Pequot pottery that doesn't date after 1680,'' judging by its style. They have also tested their findings with radioactive carbon dating.
Then came the revelation. The archeologists had found one long black stain of material and another long black line perpendicular to it. ''It came to me on Block Island,'' where he had gone for some respite, Mr. McBride said. ''I woke up at 3 A.M. and said, 'God, it's a fort.' I called back and said: 'Connect the dots. Extend the two lines and dig and see if you get a corner.''
His colleagues did.
Eventually, diggers discovered a square fort, with bastions at the corners. The design demonstrates that the Pequots, who sided with the English in King Philip's War, an Indian uprising to turn back the Puritans that engulfed New England in the 1670's, learned from them. Records show that a previous Pequot fort, from 1637, was circular, not square, and lacked bastions. A forge, meanwhile, demonstrates that the natives used European technology in gun smithing.
Inside the fort is a village of 8 to 10 houses, yielding a trove of fragments from iron kettles, pothooks, pottery pots with Pequot marks, pipes stamped with English makers' marks, wampum, musket balls, gun flints, arrow points, spear points and decorative objects.
''We also found two garbage dumps,'' Mr. McBride said, ''one in which everyone threw everything and one in a wigwam with incredible food remains.'' These included indications of nuts, corn, beans, squash, peach pits, pig, deer, raccoon, duck, turkey, geese, and fish from both the coast and local ponds.
Clearly, the Pequots interacted with the English colonists in many ways at least as early as the 1670's. Sites where wampum was manufactured and stored suggests, too, that they ''were probably getting rich, though not rich in the European sense,'' said Professor Bragdon of William and Mary.
Sifting through all the information, Mr. McBride can surmise much else about Pequot life. The presence of more than one fire in a household, for example, suggests that extended families lived together, possibly siblings as well as grandparents, parents and children.
The food wastes tell a tale that differs from colonial records, which are heavy on the improvements Europeans brought to Indian meals. The Pequots apparently did eat domesticated animals like pigs, but they also continued to fish, hunt and gather food from nature.
''When you look at all the food remains, you'll find, with a few exceptions, an overwhelming native eating pattern,'' Mr. McBride said. The Pequots also continued to cook outdoors in pits.
The existence of the Pequot fort itself provides another example of divergence from accepted wisdom. ''History says they were not well-organized, but this shows they were well-organized, with an organization that allowed them to maintain their own practices and take advantage of the fur trade,'' Professor Bragdon said.
''What Kevin has,'' she added, ''documents their active participation in the fur trade and shows that they were real players in the economy, not pawns of the Europeans.''
Professor McBride sums up what he has learned so far this way: ''We are finding European cultural influences, but also native culture underlying it.'' Instead of assimilating, the Pequots made some strategic retreats.
To Ms. Bell, remembering her grandmother's tales, the discoveries ring true. ''I am glad we started this,'' she said. ''We don't need an archeological site to learn a lot of this; my grandmother still cooked outside, and I have a fire pit, too. But other people do. Outside people have to have proof to change the history books.''
Photo: Archeologists digging for artifacts at the remains of a fort built in the 1670's on the Mashantucket Pequot reservation in Connecticut. The Pequots sided with the English in other tribes' war against the Puritans. (Ruby Washington/The New York Times)(pg. B4)


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The Sports Network, the premiere national FCS news outlet, has labeled Saturday's Sam Houston versus Eastern Washington showdown as the 2013 FCS non-conference "Game of the Year."
The Eagles won the 2010 FCS national championship. The Bearkats have been FCS national finalists each of the past two years. In Cheney, Wash. last December, Sam Houston defeated EWU 45-42 to advance to the national championship game. The two teams combined for 1,007 total offense yards and 87 points in their semifinal match-up. The pair both rank among the top five FCS programs in the country with Eastern Washington at No. 2 and SHSU at No. 4.
Sam Houston and Eastern Washington are meeting in a regular season football game for the first time. Their two previous contests came in unforgettable FCS playoff thrillers, both in Cheney. In the 2004 quarterfinals, Sam Houston came from 20 points behind in the final 14 minutes to win 35-34.
With no time outs and 43 seconds to play, quarterback Dustin Long engineered an eight-play, 75-yard drive to score the game-tying touchdown. Long hit Jason Mathenia for a 7-yard TD with no time left on the clock. Lance Garner kicked the game-winning extra point.
Long passed for 478 yards and three TDs. Mathenia caught a school record 13 passes for 226 yards.
Last year's semifinal meeting of the Kats and the Eagles was equally fantastic. Sam Houston jumped out to a 35-0 halftime lead, then had to hold off a determined Eastern Washington offense that bounced back for 42 second half points.
Dax Swanson's 14th school record career interception stopped a late drive. Timothy Flanders, who rushed for 231 yards, picked up a first down on third-and-three at the EWU 21 to allow the Kats to run out the clock.
The Kats own a 17-game home winning streak at Bowers Stadium, the longest in school history and, currently, in FCS. The streak started with a win over Texas State after losing to McNeese in 2010.
Saturday is the 27th time Sam Houston and its opponent both have come into the contest FCS nationally ranked. The Bearkats are 15-11 overall and 9-1 at Bowers in those games. The loss was to McNeese in 1991 by a 20-19 margin. Overall, SHSU owns seven wins over Top 5 FCS ranked foes. Five of those victories came at Bowers including a win over No. 1 Montana by an unranked Bearkat team in 2004. The Kats cracked the polls the next week at No. 24 and ended the year No. 3 in the final rankings.
The Bearkats stand 11-8 against teams currently in the Big Sky Conference. Sam Houston is 7-2 in games against the Big Sky in Huntsville at Bowers Stadium. SHSU owns a five-game winning streak against the Big Sky with NCAA playoff wins over Montana State and Montana in 2011 and Cal Poly, Montana State and Eastern Washington in 2012.
The Bearkats stand No. 4 in both the current 2013 Sports Network and NCAA Coaches polls. Sam Houston has finished each of the past two seasons No. 2 in the final rankings in both polls. The Bearkats have been ranked among the FCS top 25 for 28 consecutive weeks. The team debuted in the national poll Sept. 9, 2011. During an 11-0 regular season in 2011, the Kats rose to No. 1 at the end of the regular season. SHSU has ranked among the FCS top 10 for 24 consecutive polls.
Sam Houston is seeking to become only the fifth team in Southland Conference history to earn league championships three years in a row. Lamar (1964-65-66), Arkansas State (1968-69-70), Louisiana Tech (1971-72-73-74) and McNeese (2001-02-03) are the only teams to pull off the feat in the Southland's 50 years of football. SHSU won in 2011 title with a 7-0 record and in 2012 with a 6-1 slate. The Bearkats have five Southland titles overall in their 26 years in the legue. SHSU also won championships in 1991, 2001 and 2004.
Sam Houston State is one of only eight football programs to appear in consecutive NCAA Division I Football Championship Games. The list of seven other universities reaching the finals in back-to-back seasons during the tournament's 34-year history includes Eastern Kentucky, Georgia Southern, Youngstown State, Marshall, Montana, Appalachian State and North Dakota State.
Walter Payton Award candidate Timothy Flanders earned leagueoffensive honors after scoring three touchdowns and rushing for 170 yards against Texas A&M. Flanders' total was the most by any player against the Aggies in 42 games (since Colt McCoy of Texas in 2009). Linebacker Tanner Brock received the league's weekly defensive honor after leading the team in tackles and posting two sacks in the victory over Texas Southern.
All-America running back, Walter Payton Award candidate and two-time Southland "Player of the Year" Timothy Flanders holds 31 Sam Houston school records and eight Southland Conference marks. The Midwest City, Okla., product stands as the all-time leading rusher for both the Southland Conference and Sam Houston State. He has rushed 820 times for 4,720 yards and 59 touchdowns. He will add a ninth Southland mark on his third carry against EWU Saturday, passing Claude Mathis of Southwest Texas for most career rushing attempts (822 in 1994-97).
Flanders also owns the league's career marks for rushing TDs (59), total touchdowns (63) and points (378). He stands as the FCS active career rushing leader and is 280 yards away from becoming the 22nd FCS back to total 5,000 career yards on the ground. His 59 rushing TDs rank 14th in the all-time FCS record book. The running back has posted 28 100-yard rushing performances during his Sam Houston career.
An amazing apspect of Flanders' career marks is the large amount of games where he has given way to his backups with the contest's outcome already in hand. Flanders has not had a carry in the final quarter in 14 of the Kats' last 33 games. In his three-year career, he has sat for a total of 24 quarters, the equivalent of six games.
When Flanders has played in the fourth quarter of close games, he has been very effective. His impressive final period performances in victories include 9-for-67 at New Mexico, 10-for-60 vs. Stony Brook and 9-for-82 in the semifinals with Montana in 2011. In the 2012 semis at Eastern Washington, Flanders was 10-for-69 in the fourth.
Brian Bell is Sam Houston's all-time winningest quarterback, leading SHSU to 32 victories in 42 starts since 2010. The senior from China Spring is the program's all-time leader in passing and total offense with 6,798 yards in the air and 7,791 yards rushing and passing combined. Bell's 62 career touchdown passes also is an SHSU school mark.
Bell is three yards away from becoming only the second quarterback in school history to gain 1,000 career yards rushing. The first was David Kubiak (1,528 in 1967-70). Bell will be the 32nd member of the SHSU 1,000-yard rushing club. Bell is 202 yards away from becoming the 12th quarterback in Southland Conference history to throw for 7,000 or more career yards.
Richard Sincere set two career milestones last Saturday vs. UIW and is within striking distance of another. The senior wide receiver, who runs the "Wild Bearkat" and returns kicks for SHSU, is yards the eighth Sam Houston player to roll up 3,000 or more all-purpose yards. His combined career total for rushing, receiving and returns is 3,072.
The Galveston Ball product is one of only two Bearkats to gain more than 1,000 yards in a career both rushing and receiving. He has totaled 1,958 rushing yards and 1,002 receiving. Tony January gained 2,376 yards rushing and 1,328 yards receiving in 1978-82. The Galveston Ball product is 42 yards away from becoming the 10th Bearkat back to rush for 2,000 or more yards. His current rushing total is 1,958 yards.
Torrance Williams became the 22nd member of the 1,000-yard career receiving club at Sam Houston Saturday. His four-year total now stands at 71 catches for 1,029 yards and 10 touchdowns. The speedy Waco Connally product has totaled 1,791 all-purpose yards in his career. Williams leads the Southland Conference in punt returns and ranks fourth in pass receiving. He has returned 10 punts for 209 yards with a long return of 50 yards. Williams has 15 catches for 286 yards and five touchdowns this year.
Wide receiver Chance Nelson became a deep threat for the Kats as a freshman in 2012 after transferring from Texas A&M. He caught 35 passes for 671 yards and nine TDs last year including a 70-yard strike against Southeastern Louisiana and a 61-yard TD at Texas Southern. This season Nelson has caught six passes for 99 yards, an average of 16.5 yards per reception. He has scored one touchdown.
The biggest offensive question mark coming into the 2013 season was in the offensive line where sophomore Donald Jackson III and senior Matt Boyles were the only returning veterans with starting experience. The young line has surrendered only one sack (a two-yard loss against A&M) in four games and paving the way for an offense that is averaging 467.0 yards per contest.
Sam Houston's defense has ranked as one of the best in FCS the past two years, leading the nation in rushing defense in 2011 and ranking 16th nationally in turnover margin last year. But the Bearkats had to replace six All-Southland performers including the league's Defensive Player of the Year Darnell Taylor. The defense has responded to the challenge, producing eight turnovers in four games (five interceptions and three fumble recoveries).
Cornerback Bookie Sneed snapped a Sam Houston record that had stood since 1968 with his 92-yard interception return for a touchdown in the second quarter of the 2012 SFA victory. Paul Wenzel returned an interception 90 yards against Sul Ross for the Kat mark that stood for 44 years. Sneed picked off four interceptions last year and eight in his career. He is tied for eighth in career interceptions at SHSU.
Seniors Eric Fieilo and Tanner Brock lead the team in tackles. Fieilo has 28 stops including two for losses. He picked off a Johnny Manziel pass for an interception in the A&M game. Brock, a transfer from TCU, has 25 stops this year including two sacks against Texas Southern.
Andrew Weaver was selected to the Associated Press FCS All-America third team in 2012. He was an All-Southland second team honoree as well. Weaver had two sacks at Montana State and one in the NCAA title game. In 2011, he returned an interception for 23 yards in the SFA win. This season the transfer from Texas A&M leads the Bearkats with four sacks.
Tickets for Saturday's SHSU-EWU showdown are available now online at www.gobearkats.com or at the SHSU athletic ticket office. The ticket office is located in the Ron Mafrige Field House at Bowers Stadium. Ticket office hours are 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday through Friday. The ticket office telephone is (936) 294-1729.
The West Side Bowers Stadium ticket office will open at 10 a.m. on game day Saturday. Bearkat Alley tailgate begins at 12 noon and gates open at 12:30 p.m.


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Poetry in Motion. I love these two and I love klimt.
Surreal... The colours are spot on but the feeling of closeness, like what you are supposed to feel in LCL/during instrumentality, comes right out of the image. I love it so much!
The warm color scheme is already lovely but even more so I really love how surreal this feels. Bravo.
Goddammit FUNi I want my DVD of 3.33 already...
Goddammit FUNi I want my DVD of 3.33 already...
Nice ass, Kaworu!
love this!
incredible and unbelivably great! this is such an masterpiece IMO <3 love it
Stop torturing my heart with all this kawoshin you keep drawing... ;_;
This would be an awesome desktop.
this is odly interesting
ughngnhgfff <3
Great colors!
i especially love the rendering on shinji's face and the color choices on the suits. it's gorgeous
I love the colors ^_^ So warm.
very good. disappointing movie though
I second that print notion! Love these two and its like they were made to be in your style!
Kaworu's chin bothers me a little, it looks a little too big/long, but the colours and shading totally overthrow that o_o It's stunning! Love the use of shapes in this, nice one
oh god... GORGEOUS!! I have to get a print of this!


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A charge of -3.09 μC is fixed at the center of a compass.Two additional charges are fixed on the circle of the compass(radius = 0.0791 m). The charges on the circle are -5.47 μC atthe position due north and +6.62 μC at the position due east.What is (a) the magnitude and (b)direction of the net electrostatic force acting on the charge atthe center? Specify the direction as an angle relative to dueeast.
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The Computation
by John Donne
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Brain Snacks: Tasty Tidbits of Knowledge
The real John Donne was just as love-struck as the speaker of this poem. Donne married his wife Anne More secretly and against the wishes of her father, and he was thrown into jail for it. (Source)
Donne participated in the expeditions of Sir Walter Raleigh, the famous explorer who helped colonize Virginia. (Source)
The famous British historian Simon Schama recently produced a documentary on John Donne. We just wanted an excuse to quote the following excerpt from a review: "Schama was totally crushing on Donne. He would, it was clear within minutes, have done Donne." (Source)


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The House That Ruth Built: A New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the Redemption of 1923by Robert Weintraub
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Before the 27 World Series titles--before Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Derek Jeter-the Yankees were New York's shadow franchise. They hadn't won a championship, and they didn't even have their own field, renting the Polo Grounds from their/i>
The untold story of Babe Ruth's Yankees, John McGraw's Giants, and the extraordinary baseball season of 1923
Before the 27 World Series titles--before Joe DiMaggio, Mickey Mantle, and Derek Jeter-the Yankees were New York's shadow franchise. They hadn't won a championship, and they didn't even have their own field, renting the Polo Grounds from their cross-town rivals the New York Giants. In 1921 and 1922, they lost to the Giants when it mattered most: in October.
But in 1923, the Yankees played their first season on their own field, the newly-built, state of the art baseball palace in the Bronx called "the Yankee Stadium." The stadium was a gamble, erected in relative outerborough obscurity, and Babe Ruth was coming off the most disappointing season of his career, a season that saw his struggles on and off the field threaten his standing as a bona fide superstar.
It only took Ruth two at-bats to signal a new era. He stepped up to the plate in the 1923 season opener and cracked a home run to deep right field, the first homer in his park, and a sign of what lay ahead. It was the initial blow in a season that saw the new stadium christened "The House That Ruth Built," signaled the triumph of the power game, and established the Yankees as New York's-and the sport's-team to beat.
From that first home run of 1923 to the storybook World Series matchup that pitted the Yankees against their nemesis from across the Harlem River-one so acrimonious that John McGraw forced his Giants to get to the Bronx in uniform rather than suit up at the Stadium-Robert Weintraub vividly illuminates the singular year that built a classic stadium, catalyzed a franchise, cemented Ruth's legend, and forever changed the sport of baseball.
Editorial Reviews
The whole baseball year of 1923 is the frame for Weintraub's elegantly constructed narrative...There is no nickname ever used for a player that Weintraub overlooks nor any colorful phrase now common in baseball that he doesn't cite...a treasure for the fan who cannot get enough.Booklist
Weintraub is a very lively writer: he makes it all fresh and newly intriguing, adding in a whiff of Damon Runyon's saltiness and introducing readers to some of the idioms of the era. Bracing and fun for all baseball buffs, whether or not fans of today's Bombers.Library Journal
Just when you thought there were no great seasons left uncovered -- or anything new left to say about Babe Ruth -- here comes The House that Ruth Built. Robert Weintraub has resurrected the 1923 season and showed us how it changed baseball that season and every season that has followed it. A perfect match of the team, the year, and the writer.Allen Barra, author of Yogi Berra and The Last Coach
Weintraub nicely infuses modern references...into his 1920s descriptions. The book is comprehensive, and Weintraub details everything from the construction of the stadium and the careers of Ruth and McGraw to a detailed season overview and deconstruction of the 1923 World Series.Publisher's Weekly
Product Details
- 9780316086080
- Publisher:
- Little, Brown and Company
- Publication date:
- 04/02/2013
- Pages:
- 433
- Sales rank:
- 548,168
- Product dimensions:
- 5.40(w) x 8.20(h) x 1.50(d)
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The House That Ruth BuiltA New Stadium, the First Yankees Championship, and the Redemption of 1923
By Weintraub, Robert
Little, Brown and CompanyCopyright © 2011 Weintraub, Robert
All right reserved.
EARLY ON THE morning of Tuesday, December 26, 1922, a plain truck with DAILY BROTHERS stenciled on the side pulled up to a vast work site at 161st and River Avenue in the South Bronx. A man stepped out into the frosty air. He worked for a subcontractor of White Construction Company, the firm building the giant new Yankee Stadium. And the project was behind schedule.
The subcontractor's job that chilly morning was to reopen a pit to expose a water main for inspection by the city. It was a typically frustrating delay in what was proving to be a winter of discontent for the builders. Visible breath spewed from the workman's mouth as he huffed away, digging out the water main. He worked quickly, keen to escape the bitter cold and icy wind. He finished with his labor and was about to leave when he surreptitiously tossed something into the pit, hiding it under some loose dirt. The next day, the city inspector okayed the main, and the pit was closed, sealing the item inside.
What, exactly, the man threw into the open pit that would soon be filled by the most famous sporting ground in the country isn't known. But, as noted in Harry Swanson's informative work Ruthless Baseball, the worker did write, in the margins of records he submitted to White Construction, that he had buried something in order to bring luck to the Yankees. He didn't elucidate on what it was. A horseshoe? A religious amulet? A Baby Ruth candy bar?
Whatever it was, it worked.
A few years before the anonymous worker dropped his totem into the pit, baseball had undergone a tectonic shift. The time before Babe Ruth became a New York Yankee in 1920 is known in retrospect as the dead-ball era. Practitioners and press at the time called the prevalent style Scientific Baseball. Runs came at a premium, earned with difficulty through cunning, aggression, and patience. They weren't so much scored as crafted. The sacrifice hit, the stolen base, and the hit-and-run play were the pillars on which the game rested. So too the spitball, taking the extra base, and sliding with spikes raised. It was the baseball equivalent of the trench warfare going on in France. Nothing came easily.
Then along came the Babe. Ruth's power at the plate combined with new rules that emphasized offense. After the Black Sox Scandal of 1919, which left eight Chicago White Sox players suspended permanently from baseball for conspiring to fix the World Series, the sport moved quickly to offset the bad press by enacting fundamental changes, with an eye toward attracting fans with a punchier, gaudier show. New, more tightly wound baseballs were produced. Smudged, dirty balls were tossed out immediately in favor of whiter balls that were easier for the hitter to see. Trick pitches that required foreign substances, like the spitball, the emery ball, and the mud ball, were banned. Fans were no longer required to throw balls back from the stands to be reused.
Taken cumulatively, the effect was explosive. As with the introduction of the forward pass in football or the twenty-four-second shot clock in basketball, baseball's changes altered the game utterly. In 1918, the eight American League teams combined to hit ninety-eight home runs. Two seasons later, in 1920, Ruth alone hit fifty-four, more than all but one other major-league team. Ruth hit fifty-nine home runs in 1921, a display heretofore incomprehensible. But by now the long ball wasn't solely a Ruthian phenomenon—seven other teams hit more than the Babe, and while no single player approached Ruth, five hit more than twenty. In 1922 the league topped one thousand combined homers for the first time. "The home run fever is in the air," wrote prominent baseball chronicler F. C. Lane. "It is infectious." With one big wallop, sluggers like Ruth could plate enough runs to win a game in a single blow.
And the crowds followed. The style of play embraced by the likes of McGraw, Ty Cobb, Honus Wagner, and the other big stars of Scientific Baseball had excited few but the most hard-core fans. And after World War I and its trench-warfare horrors that included modern "advances" such as the machine gun and mustard gas, the very concept of "science" had taken on a negative connotation.
And, of course, the fans dug the long ball. In 1919 the Giants easily outdrew the Yankees at the park they shared, the Polo Grounds. But once Ruth arrived in New York in 1920, the crowds streamed through the turnstiles when the Yankees were in town, eager to witness the slugging sensation in person. The Yanks drew nearly 1.3 million fans in 1920, about 350,000 more than the Giants. In 1921 and 1922, the Yankees easily topped one million fans, while the Giants were drawing 973,477 and 945,809, respectively. The Babe was "as much a tourist attraction in New York City as the Statue of Liberty, Grant's Tomb, and the Fulton Fish Market," wrote baseball historian Lee Allen. "The sightseeing Pilgrims who daily flock into Manhattan are as anxious to rest eyes on him as they are to see the Woolworth Building," the Times noted.
This was an intolerable situation for the prideful Mr. John McGraw, who not only managed the Giants but held an ownership stake. Sometime late in September 1920, McGraw and Charles Stoneham huddled in the owner's suite at the Polo Grounds. It was at this meeting that the two men decided to evict their uppity tenants. One of them said, "The Yankees will have to build a park in Queens or some other out-of-the-way place. Let them go away and wither on the vine." Most sources agree that McGraw is the one who said it, and it does sound like the crusty John J. But there is no definitive proof that it wasn't Stoneham.
Having a home to call their own was always the agenda of the co-owners of the Yankees. As soon as the pair bought the club in 1915, they tried to buy the Polo Grounds in order to raze it and build a monster, 100,000-seat stadium at the site. The plan was scotched. Nevertheless, the dream lived on, and the eviction notice was the prod to fulfill it.
Due to Prohibition, it was a difficult time for Ruppert—one of the biggest beer makers in the country, the purveyor of the popular Knickerbocker Beer and other fine concoctions—to plow enormous funds into any project. The temperance codes ate steadily at Ruppert's core business. The idea of a Yankee Stadium, a House That Beer Built, filled with fans drinking Jacob Ruppert Brewery products, had long been the colonel's fondest wish. Now he had the means and the impetus to actually build his dream palace—and no one could buy his beer. It was a maddening turn of events.
To his credit, Ruppert refused to let Prohibition alter his stadium dreams. He decided the long-term profits from building a successful new ballpark would outweigh immediate losses caused by construction costs. At the same time he fought against Prohibition as fiercely as anyone in the country. He wanted beer, at least, to be kept legal; if liquor had to be sacrificed, so be it. Real beer, that is—the new laws did allow beer to be sold, but at such a weak alcoholic content that it scarcely resembled what Ruppert considered a worthy product. In 1921 he sued the U.S. government in order to raise the alcoholic minimum in the near beer and was unsuccessful. In 1922 he made waves accusing federal agents of accepting bribes to allow several of his rivals to sell real beer. For the length of Prohibition, he lobbied intensely to be able to sell a decent bottle of brew—and by all accounts obeyed the letter of the law. Meanwhile, the brewery switched gears to crank out syrup, soda bottles, and various other sundries in order to stay afloat during the length of the Volstead Act.
While Ruppert fought the Man, he and Huston scoured the boroughs for an ideal spot to build their dream home. One site north of the Polo Grounds at 225th Street in Inwood was "in the family," having been purchased by previous Yankees owner Frank Farrell as a possible future home for the franchise. The land could be bought from Farrell—who was in ill health and in need of money—easily enough. But Ruppert thought the area too far a journey from the moneyed fan base on Wall Street and in midtown.
The owners looked at Queens next, surveying a site under the Queensboro Bridge (at 59th Street). This too was found wanting, leaving the borough baseball-free until the Metropolitans came to town in 1962. A downtown spot on disused Pennsylvania Railroad tracks was perfect—indeed, it would be discussed as a possible location for arena construction for decades to come. But before plans to build there got under way, the War Department nixed them. The site was to be used for antiaircraft emplacements to defend the city against the hard-to-figure possibility of aerial bombardment (the War Department was a bit dark about just who was threatening the United States by air in the early 1920s). Huston, a veteran of two wars and a man of influence in military affairs, burned up the telegraph lines lobbying his numerous military contacts in Washington, but he couldn't sway the generals. Downtown was out.
The closest the colonels came to building in Manhattan was at Amsterdam Avenue, between 136th and 138th (near the current location of P.S. 325 and its playground), on a lot owned by the Hebrew Orphan Asylum. The orphanage was a century-old home that held nearly two thousand Jewish children in a massive self-sufficient building. But it was steadily losing ground to orphanages that housed kids in small, rural cottages rather than urban monoliths. Selling the lot to the Yankees would enable the orphanage to regroup for the foreseeable future and build more up-to-date homes.
A contract was drawn up to secure the site. But the execs at the orphanage wanted to build on land in the North Bronx and couldn't get plans in order soon enough to guarantee a sale date to the colonels, who were eager to proceed. So the deal fell through, and Cap and Jake kept looking.
Time was running out on Huston and Ruppert. They needed to get the construction process started, or they'd be forced to beg the Giants to allow them to rent the Polo Grounds for another year—at no doubt usurious rates. Despair began to set in after the Hebrew Orphan Asylum deal fell through—Huston admitted to the American that he was "frustrated." Then, from out of the blue, their perserverance paid off. A large lumberyard in the South Bronx, almost directly across the water from the Polo Grounds, became available. Ruppert and Huston couldn't believe their luck. The land was an ideal spot to build a grand palace, right under the nose of John McGraw. McGraw scoffed at the project. "They are going up to Goatville," he snapped. "And before long they will be lost sight of. A New York team should be based on Manhattan Island."
Excerpted from The House That Ruth Built by Weintraub, Robert Copyright © 2011 by Weintraub, Robert. Excerpted by permission.
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Meet the Author
Robert Weintraub is a frequent contributor to The New York Times sports pages. He is a sports columnist for Slate, and his writing has also aired on ESPN, ABC Sports, CBS Sports, and dozens of other outlets. His second book is The Victory Season, about baseball in 1946 and the end of World War II. He lives in Decatur, Georgia.
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I'm one of those rare baseball fans that neither loves nor hates the Yankees, but I loved "The House That Ruth Built." While Yankee's fans will certainly find the construction of the Yankee Stadium, the first Yankee's championship, and Babe Ruth's redemption engrossing, there is so much more to this story then the Yankees. In the opening chapter, as the great Giant's manager John McGraw walks from the Polo Grounds to take on his old tenants in the new Yankee Stadium for the first game of the 1923 World Series, author Robert Weintraub's meticulous attention to detail transports you back to the roaring '20's -- you are walking with McGraw. In a rare double-play moment, Weintraub uses your personal trek with McGraw to adeptly set the stage for the story that is to come: McGraw vs. Ruth, Polo Grounds vs. The Yankee Stadium, Giants vs. Yankees, Temperance vs. Drink, and Ruth's Ultimate Redemption. Weintraub's wit, wisdom and love of his subject matter are evident throughout the book creating a thoroughly enjoyable and lively read. Weintraub has written a fascinating baseball book that is about much more than just baseball. It's a story of larger than life characters living in a larger than life era and taking place in a larger than life venue -- the first true cathedral of sports, "The Yankee Stadium." I recommend Weintraub's work for baseball fans and non-baseball fans alike. Weintraub's in-depth research and superior writing skills are on full display, but it is his wry sense of humor that truly separates him from the sports writing pack. I can't wait to see who or what Weintraub selects for his next book!
The House That Ruth Built is a non-fiction historical account of Babe Ruth's rise to fame and the Yankees stake in baseball history. In the early 1920's the Giants were the team to beat, John McGraw knew the game and helped shaped baseball as we know it today. He was the owner/operator of the NY Giants and landlord to the Yankees, via the Polo Grounds, in which many of their first games were played. John McGraw did not like Babe Ruth and often called him names and tormented him. The Babe was having a rough time, his fans were turning on him and his game was slacking. He decided to take a break from the game to refocus himself, and though by this time, he was already a superstar, his legend had yet to be born. The book is chock full of true life stories and accounts on the glory of the game, the Yankees rise to fame, Babe Ruth's rise to glory and John McGraw's infamous hatred to all things Yankee. McGraw did everything he could to stall or stop the construction of the Yankee Stadium, nestled a short way across the river, sitting like a giant with the Polo Grounds in shadow. The inevitable was about to occur and the control McGraw curried was about to run thin. I am not a huge baseball fan but I thoroughly enjoyed this book. I loved all the historical references and the facts and figures that go with the territory. I loved Robert Weintraub's casual and friendly writing style, I could almost envision myself in the crowds of the people on opening day of the new Yankee stadium. He was able to write it in such a way that you could smell the hot dogs and the popcorn and feel the excitement of the 1923 World Series game. I enjoyed all the attention to detail that the author was easily able to describe, from the cut blade of the grass to the dimensions of the stadium, nothing is left out and the research involved must have been insurmountable. What you get in the end is a well-documented piece of literature that is a must read for any baseball fan, but especially those who are fans of two of the countries most rivaled teams, the Yankees and the Giants. It can be a bit of a dry read in places, especially when they're talking about individual stats of players, but the antics of "The Bambino" as well as, other known greats such as Lou Gehrig, Casey Stengel, Carl Mays etc. etc. We see a side of Babe Ruth that many are not aware of, as well we are shown his less controlled self also, leaving Babe exposed and human. We are escapulated by anecdotes that help to deliver a finely expressed love of baseball from the viewpoints of both the Giants and the Yankees, and how they became the epitome of all things American.
The story of the 1923 season is expertly told by Mr. Weintraub. The author brings us back to 1923 and introduces all the major players as well as the relevant issues of the era. His righting style makes for an easy read. Any fan of baseball history, especially the Yankees, will love this book. Well done!


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South Korea Halts Visits to North Except to Gaeseong Factories
South Korea temporarily banned its citizens from visiting North Korea, except for a jointly-run industrial park in Gaeseong, after the death of the communist state's leader Kim Jong Il.
All planned visits including conferences on inter-Korean historic sites and humanitarian aid-related trips have been put on hold temporarily, Yoo Sun, an official at the Unification Ministry in Seoul, said by phone.
"We are not sure of when the visits will be allowed again," Yoo said.
A total of 940 South Koreans are still working at the industrial complex, which is located about 10 miles (16 kilometers) inside North Korea, according to the Unification Ministry.
Shares of South Korean companies with links or operations at Gaeseong were mixed in trading today. Good People Co., an underwear maker, fell 3.2 percent to 1,790 won while Romanson Co., a watch maker declined 1.5 percent to 2,560 won.
Namkwang Engineering & Construction Co., which builds dams, tunnels and airports, jumped 5.7 percent to 1,025 won after a 5.8 percent decline.
Kim died of a heart attack Dec. 17, the official Korean Central News Agency said yesterday.


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Men's Soccer Hosts Annual Season-Ending Banquet
Members of the 2015 graduating class were honored and the team's annual award winners were announced.
Men's Soccer Ranked No. 3 In Final NSCAA Poll
The Friars received one first-place vote.
Mac Steeves Named 2014 NCAA College Cup Most Valuable Offensive Player
Steeves was also named to the 2014 NCAA College Cup All-Tournament team.
Men's Soccer Edged 3-2 In Double Overtime By UCLA In The 2014 NCAA College Cup Semifinal
Mac Steeves scored both Friar goals.
Men's Soccer To Play UCLA In NCAA College Cup Semifinal
The Friars will play UCLA at 7:30 p.m. in Cary, N.C. on Friday, Dec. 12.
2014: Started all 23 games that he played for the Friars … Registered four points with four assists on the season … Helped the Friars record eight shutouts on the season … All of his assists came in NCAA Tournament play, including assists on each Providence goal scored in the 2014 College Cup Semifinal game against UCLA (Dec. 12) … Awarded the team's David Kreinsen Unsung Hero Award.
2013: Started 19 of the 22 games he played in ... Registered one point with an assist.
2012: One of just two Friars to start all 16 matches ... Tied for second on the team with two assists ... Notched his first career assist by setting up the game-winning goal in overtime at Bryant in the first round of the Ocean State Classic (8/31) ... Recorded his other assist in PC's come-from behind win over Pittsburgh (10/13) ... Finished the season with eight shots.
2011: Played in all 20 matches including 16 starts as a freshman ... Recorded three assists, including one in BIG EAST wins against Seton Hall (10/15) and West Virginia (10/21).
BEFORE PROVIDENCE: Earned four letters in soccer, three in indoor track and three in outdoor track at Lexington High School ... Was captain of the soccer team during his senior year at Lexington and played in every game in his four years ... Totaled 20 goals and 22 assists in his final two years ... Named Middlesex League All-Star for 2008-09 and league MVP in 2010 ... Helped his team to three Middlesex League titles and one Massachusetts Division I North championship ... Selected to the Massachusetts All-State Team in 2009-10 ... Was on the 2010 All New England Team ... Played club soccer for FC Greater Boston Bolts from 2004-11.
PERSONAL: Son of John and Linda Ballenthin ... Has two older brothers, Willi and Robby ... Willi was a track & field athlete at Columbia, while Robby competes for the track & field team at Bentley ... Favorite athlete is Gerrard Pique ... Finance major.
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Taken January 29 this year. How things have changed! I hope this will cool some of you suffering in this awful heat! NEX 7, lens Vivitar 90mm, f2.5 Macro, (Bokina)
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by gadiper88, in forum Photo Critique Forum, Jul 23, 2016 at 7:01 PM
Just messing around. Never thought to put this lens on even though I've had it for years. It did OK, in fact I like it quite a bit. Time to fool around with some adapted lenses I think.
Summer Deck by David, on Flickr
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by ChiDN, in forum Lens-Specific Photo Archive, Jul 23, 2016 at 6:23 PM
I used to own this lens in Minolta mount but sold it when moving to Fuji because it had no aperture ring. I've often wished for it back and finally decided to buy a used one in Nikon flavour along with a cheap adapter. I pottered around the garden with it today and discovered the focus ring is a bit stiff and high geared. This combined with a tiny bit of slack in the adapter mount makes manual focus less easy than I remember it being. Maybe my copy is not a great one...? Still, I'm glad to have re-acquired it. Does it qualify me for membership of the adapted lens club?
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by J J, in forum Adapted Lens Forum, Jul 23, 2016 at 5:25 PM
So I dropped my X-T1 and 16-55 yesterday straight onto tarmac ( ) It fell a couple feet max and the lens hood has two specific scuff marks, imprinted with the red of the ground it landed on, plus one scuff on the body. No other marks though and glass seems good so I think the lens hood took the initial brunt.
I carried on using it after and it seemed perfectly ok but is there anything I should watch out for?
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by SussexSBP, in forum X-T2, X-T1 & X-T10, Jul 23, 2016 at 4:29 PM
X-Pro2 plus 35mm f2 lens
Misty Middleham by Stephen Lee, on Flickr
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by StephenL, in forum Lens-Specific Photo Archive, Jul 23, 2016 at 2:17 PM
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by buck777, in forum Lens-Specific Photo Archive, Jul 23, 2016 at 2:03 PM
Interesting to note that Amazon Italy and Amazon Germany are offering the X-T2 for pre-order but Amazon UK, Spain and France have not done so yet.
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by rafikiphoto, in forum Fujifilm X News & Rumors, Jul 23, 2016 at 1:38 PM
I apologize for posting what gas more than likely been gone over in many posts.
simple question is the auto focus on the xpro 2 that much better? That would be good news to me if it was.
How about the soon to be released X-T2 and opinions.
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by Alfonse Pagano, in forum X-Pro1 and X-Pro2, Jul 23, 2016 at 12:49 PM
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by skidzam, in forum Portraits, People, & Pets, Jul 23, 2016 at 12:40 PM
A beautiful seascape at night testing a Tamron 17-50 with a XE1:
Falling night... by Joao Martins, no Flickr
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by toy77, in forum Landscape, Jul 23, 2016 at 12:34 PM
I've had this lens in my hands for a fair few months now but for one reason or another (mainly loss of motivation/mojo whatever you want to call it) I have not given it or my photography a run out for a while. I had forgotten how quickly you can get rusty but here are a few just to stretch it's legs, as it were.
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by JulesH, in forum Adapted Lens Forum, Jul 23, 2016 at 11:18 AM
What is the most efficient way to deblur a picture using Photoshop CS6? Can anyone recommend the whole technique?
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by sumon18, in forum Fuji X Post Processing, Jul 23, 2016 at 10:36 AM
Just learning this camera. So far so good.
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by snpr9696, in forum Portraits, People, & Pets, Jul 23, 2016 at 6:17 AM
Since the rumor mill is very insistent that a medium format Fuji is on the way, I was just sitting here pondering how amusing it might be to put adapted lenses on that.
I'm not even thinking about adapted medium format lenses. That's too easy. I'm thinking about 35mm SLR lenses. So, the image circle is too small for the sensor -- but we know how to deal with that, right? Somebody could make a tele-converter to expand that image circle for full coverage. Or more interesting, just use it as-is with all the vignetting -- and then you can crop down however you wish. You could crop to a square image and use that lens in a way that was never possible on a SLR before
OK, this is probably ridiculous simply from an economic standpoint, because who is going to spend all that money on a MF body and then put old 135 format lenses on it? Doesn't make sense... But that probably won't stop someone from doing it. And it's fun to contemplate the possibilities, anyhow.
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by Tony Belding, in forum Adapted Lens Forum, Jul 23, 2016 at 2:25 AM
Hi, this is about my ongoing search for a good, usable full frame standard zoom to put on my Sony A7R. I'm posting here, because the results are even more applicable to crop sensors, where the corner issues won't apply.
I spent a long time fiddling with the Canon FD 35-105mm fixed aperture f3.5 - well regarded as one of the sharpest zooms out there. Its weakness is, in my copy, poor wide open performance at 35mm, and a persistent de-centring that leads to some softness in a patch at the left edge of the picture at the wider end. However, as a 50-150mm equivalent f3.5, it is exceptionally sharp and contrasty. But, for all my fiddling, adjusting infinity focus, etc, I couldn't make the de-centring go away, so that spoils it for me for full frame.
Next up I got a Tamron SP 35-80mm f2.8-3.8 with true macro ability at the tele end. This lens is just amazing for corner to corner resolution. Its weakness is a slight loss of contrast wide open, but other than that, it does pretty much everything I want in a standard zoom - great close-up performance, good contrast and sharpness when closed down one stop. It's also much smaller and lighter than the Canon. Both these lenses can be got for around $100 or so.
Here are a few preliminary results - all these pix are crisp at 100%, but I hope these small jpgs will give at least some idea. So far, this is the best standard zoom I've tried on full frame, easily trouncing the Sony/Zeiss 24-70 f4 except in the central region of the image. The fourth image is sharper than an almost identical frame taken on the Canon FD 50mm f3.5 macro at f5.6
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by pfogle, in forum Adapted Lens Forum, Jul 23, 2016 at 1:59 AM
Hi all.
My name is Matt and I've been shooting on Nikon since the 70's, switched to the 5dmkii when it came out with HD video recording.
Co-wrote a book on shooting video on your DSLR:
From Still to Motion: A photographer's guide to creating video with your DSLR (Voices That Matter): James Ball, Robbie Carman, Matt Gottshalk: 9780321702111: Amazon.com: Books
Spoke at NAB and various other venues like documentary sessions on shooting video on your dslr as well.
Ran my own film/video production firm for over 20 years:
Returned to Nikon when the D810 came out because the menus and everything else made sense to me.
Really enjoyed the images I got out of it:
But like a lot of you, I got tired of dragging the "boat anchor" around.
So i bought the Xpro 2, 16mm prime, 32mm prime, 56mm prime, and 18-135mm zoom and have been enjoying them so far.
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by MattG, in forum Member Introductions, Jul 23, 2016 at 12:30 AM
Hello all. Trying to get full size images to transfer and made the setting change in menu however it says file not found when I go to transfer. Any suggestions.
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by snpr9696, in forum Troubleshooting, Jul 22, 2016 at 10:44 PM
The night before it snowed down to 1700 meters ... in July ... holy moly
by Bruno, on Flickr
by Bruno, on Flickr
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by airbow, in forum Lens-Specific Photo Archive, Jul 22, 2016 at 10:35 PM
Hello all,
My question is pretty simple, but I haven't been able to find a very clear-cut answer.
Is there a difference, either measurable or noticeable in real-world use, between the AF on the X-T1 and X-E2s? My understanding is that they have the same AF hardware (phase detection pixels in the center, contrast detection elsewhere) on the sensor, so any difference in handling would be due to firmware or AF algorithm.
Can anyone confirm or share their experiences? Esp. Regarding the XF 50-140.
I'm preparing to choose between the two cameras as a replacement for my battered and aging X-E1, and this is the only point where I don't feel sufficiently informed about the differences.
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by Fujica, in forum General X Camera Forum, Jul 22, 2016 at 9:57 PM
X-Pro2 with raw compression is adding RAF files to DNG import.
I'm using Lightroom 2015.6 Camera Raw 9.6. With camera sn: 61A06322.
After import of raf files. I find some extra raf files (Show in Explorer) among the converted dng files. No problem with X-Pro2 uncompressed files.
I have eliminated:
Memory cards - brand; size; speed.
Other cameras - X-T1; X-Pro1;Nikon D800
Import from iPad/ Lightroom Mobile.
Other camera setting - card slot (RAW/JPG); Sequential, etc.; Image Size; Image Quality and others.
I discovered this when I remove folders in Lightroom they where still in Explore. Because the raf were still in the folder.
So, if you are using "Lossless Compressed" and converting dng in Lightroom, check your Explorer folder and tell us if you have the same problem.
Thank you all,
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by klinkgj, in forum X-Pro1 and X-Pro2, Jul 22, 2016 at 9:44 PM
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by Gilles, in forum X-E1, X-E2, and X-E2S, Jul 22, 2016 at 9:32 PM
Hi, I am new to this. I currently have an X-T1 and would like to know if there's any kind of adapter to use Sigma lenses. Thank you all !
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by DanielNguyen21, in forum Member Introductions, Jul 22, 2016 at 8:18 PM
I want to report my successful attempt to tether a X-T1 to my Mac with Lightroom. I don't own a T1 (my ax is an E2) but I occasionally have assignments that require tethering. On those occasions I use my Nikon D300 (or for one client rent a D7100 to get 24 MP). So tethering is a key determinant in purchasing a T2.
The good news. T1 tethering in Lightroom works just like any other camera, exactly what I wanted. Bad news was the struggle to get there. Here is my experience:
Software: Confusion abounds. There is a new plug-in, Version 1.2. Apparently it is "free" if you have already paid for HS-V5 for PC. $29 if you want it new for PC or Mac. Unfortunately various Fuji pages have various instructions. For example, you need to purchase Lightroom 5 or 6, which I think could worry those who have Lightroom CC. One page says the T1 needs to be upgraded to version 4.30 or newer, and elsewhere, 3.11 or newer. If you finally click the right link on a Fuji page, you will go to the Adobe Add-ons store, and if you click the blue $29 you can purchase it, but….
Even though I have the newest CC, it didn't automatically load as promised. The next day I clicked on the back up link for a direct download of the app to install manually. It was .zxp file. I should have Googled what a .zxp was; would have saved me some time. However after clicking on it several times and trying other tricks I went to Adobe help desk chat. That was a satisfactory experience, though time consuming, as the agent clicked around on my screen for a while. I don't think he/she was sure what the problem was either. Finally gave me a .zxp EXTRACTOR to unzip the file. Duh! After that it popped right in.
The rest was EASY! With the help of Tempe Camera (which loaned me a T1) and TetherTools who loaned me the proper cord, I was able to demonstrate tethering at a local ASMP meeting. The only slowdown was that, following the advice of another poster here, to "follow instructions exactly," I tried to "Select PD SHOOT AUTO for USB MODE." I guess those instructions came from the same page which said I need the 3.11 firmware, because the newest menu has something like "Save PC DATA" (can't tell you for sure as I no longer have the camera to look on the menu; it's toward the bottom of the set-up menu). Then you get some similar options.
So the process could have been easier. But DAMN, it works. I see a T2 in my future.
NOTES: Tethertools.com is a great resource. Go to their site, click "Search by Camera," then "Software Finder" select the Fuji T1 and your OS, and keep clicking and you will get (unfortunately) to a Fuji page. This page says it's Version 1.1.0. (why am I not surprised?) even though it has the publication date of June 2016. Now, look in the box that says PRECAUTION (where else would you look?), and at the bottom you'll find links for PC and Mac software. THIS takes you to the purchase page.
(I do know many of you will be disappointed that other software, esp. Capture One, isn't tethering T1 yet, and that no other Fuji X cameras (including T10) will tether. But at least this is a start. Tether Tools would be a good resource to check for future updates.)
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by lbrown44, in forum X-T2, X-T1 & X-T10, Jul 22, 2016 at 8:13 PM
Hello All,
before I bring my lens in for repair I thought I would run it by this forum.
My 60 mm 2.4 works fine on full auto, fine on shutter priority, but will not work on full manual.
When I turn aperture ring nothing happens, well actually is seems to be staying in shutter priority mode.
Whats up? Am I forgetting something here?
I also have two bodies and the lens reacts the same on both, so its not the body
Anyway firmware is up to date 3.10 for the lens and 3.61 on the body.
Thanks very much
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by Alfonse Pagano, in forum Fuji X-Mount Lens Forum, Jul 22, 2016 at 7:29 PM
I have a new 400mm lens and don't have a UV filter for it yet. I like them mostly just for protective purposes. I don't want to go the cheapest route but don't want to break the bank. What is a good brand to look at? B+W seem to have a wide range, as does Tiffen. Just not sure what exactly to look for.
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by jimmy92186, in forum Lens and Accessory Reviews, Jul 22, 2016 at 6:22 PM
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by jdenlinger, in forum X100, X100S, X100T, and X70, Jul 22, 2016 at 5:38 PM
Jaffa Road is a main thoroughfare through the heart of Jerusalem. More here.
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by fiddlergene, in forum B&W, Jul 22, 2016 at 4:51 PM
Is anyone aware of a programme apart from Lightroom that allows you to apply the film simulation modes to a RAF file. I remember in the old days you could do this in Hyper Utility
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by Bond6, in forum Fuji X Post Processing, Jul 22, 2016 at 4:21 PM
Much of the traffic here on Leica lenses and Fuji X cameras seems to come from a few years back when the XF line-up was limited and Fuji was the new kid on the block. I am curious whether the broader lens line up of Fuji XF lenses has impacted those using Leica lenses on their Fuji's. I'm focusing on Leica - but broaden it to any lens maker - to ask whether use of adapted lenses is being done here to utilize existing owned stock, or whether folks are actually going out and acquiring lenses to adapt as a preference - whether to fill a gap in Fuji's line, to use in place of Fuji's line up, or as part of cross-pollination - using a set of lenses for more than one camera system.
Since for my part, I sold off everything to go into Fuji, for me the venture has been to fill in a gap in the prime line-up. Zooms are okay, but also take more room in a carry bag than a couple of primes (not always). So I'm curious especially whether this whole adapted lens bit is a fading reality or not. Thoughts?
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by roscoetuff, in forum Adapted Lens Forum, Jul 22, 2016 at 4:07 PM
My hotel earlier this week - still messing with the X100!!
160719 Chateau Impney sm by Mr Perceptive X100, on Flickr
oh and that's 0.5 sec hand held!!!
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by Mr Perceptive, in forum Street-City-Architecture, Jul 22, 2016 at 3:54 PM
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by StephenL, in forum Lens-Specific Photo Archive, Jul 22, 2016 at 3:13 PM
Camera RAW v9.6.1 released on 19 July officially supports the XT-2.
Lightroom Journal | Tips and advice straight from the Lightroom team.
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by Richard_R, in forum Fuji X Post Processing, Jul 22, 2016 at 1:58 PM
Hello all
I'm about to acquire a 14mm after gradually working my way through as many of the less expensive Fuji lenses as possible !
It will be the main lens that I will use for landscapes and architecture but I will obviously need other focal lengths. I also have a 16-50 ii and a 50-230.
I can't decide whether to keep these 2 or sell the 16-50 and get the 27mm - has anyone had a similar set up ? Would I get much improvement in quality with the 27 over the 16-50 ?
Thanks in advance
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by justa1972, in forum Fuji X-Mount Lens Forum, Jul 22, 2016 at 1:40 PM
I just received the lens and it seems that the aperture ring will do 1/2 stop increments between f/2 to f/16, but from f/16 to f/22 it would do only one full stop (no f/19).
Is this normal?
Thanks in advance!
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by AlphaCygni, in forum Fuji X-Mount Lens Forum, Jul 22, 2016 at 11:49 AM
as title, I would really, REALLY love a Fuji compact 24-70 f2 equivalent in micro 4/3 sensor size, or f2.8 in apsc? Would be all i need for travel really. Any takers?
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by Rooster, in forum Fujifilm X News & Rumors, Jul 22, 2016 at 10:45 AM
Sunshine Sorrow by Dalibor Tomic, on Flickr
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by Dalibor Tomic, in forum Portraits, People, & Pets, Jul 22, 2016 at 9:51 AM
Hello, All. My name is Miles, and after being a long time Canon user I recently switched over to the X-Pro2. I'm here to gain some knowledge from experienced users. Thanks.
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by Miles Vulpes, in forum Member Introductions, Jul 22, 2016 at 8:21 AM
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by Nick Pitsas, in forum Street-City-Architecture, Jul 22, 2016 at 8:10 AM
Doing a small refresh of the one and only Fuji lens I own at the moment, the 16/1.4. Sometimes I find it heavy, other times it makes me feel like Ansel Adams. Keeping this one for sure with ''warts and all''.....
Images from France/Provence/Vaucluse, on the plateau Valensole which still has the lavender fields in full swing (end of July).
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by Rooster, in forum Fuji X-Mount Lens Forum, Jul 22, 2016 at 7:28 AM


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I tried to sync my contacts in my phone (Android 4.0.3), and as a result all my contacts in my phone were changed to the old contacts I had in my google accont on the web. For example. if I had changed a phone number to a new one in my cellular phone before the sync, it changed back to the old number that was on the web. Can I restore the up-to-date numbers that I lost? What could have gone wrong?
I remember having gone through the same problem years back (on a froyo device). Not sure what caused it, but I fixed it as follows:
After doing this two way sync worked perfectly for me. I can not guarantee that this will work for you, but it may be worth a try. Also, make very sure that the export in (1) is complete (check the contents of the file) - also, export to various file formats for safety.
Unfortunately, the changes you made on the phone will have been overwritten and I do not know of a way to revert that. In the future, if the problem persists, you can disable the sync and do it manually using files - it sucks, but at least you won't lose information.


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|KG, Pierce get to heart of the matter
|03.12.10 at 11:41 pm ET
The two players Doc Rivers pointed to as the keys to the playoff fortunes of the Celtics were all business on Friday.
And it started hours before they dismantled the Indiana Pacers, 122-103, at TD Garden.
It began with a team meeting in which Doc Rivers spoke and then asked for any and all feedback from everyone in the room.
"We really had a heart-to-heart this morning. To tell you the truth it really left a bad taste in our mouth the way we played last game," Paul Pierce said of Wednesday's 111-91 stinker to Memphis. "Nobody wants to be booed at home by their home crowd seeing everybody leave early. That really sat with me that night to be honest. I think it sat with everybody. Today we just came in, talked to each other, we just played like a team that was on a mission tonight and hopefully it can carry over for the rest of the season.'
Kevin Garnett said Friday's team chat was productive on many different levels.
"Just open dialogue this morning. Doc did the majority of the talking but he opened up the floor to everybody to give their two cents and we just spoke freely. It was the first time in a while that we've done that, we usually talk among ourselves and try to figure things out amongst the team without coaches or any other staff members. But today it included coaches and players, and just had open dialogue, it wasn't anything negative, just general conversation about defensive schemes and things we can get better at."
Rivers said before Friday's game that the team did some old-fashioned film watching, reviewing whole parts of Wednesday's horror show to let it sink in and let players understand the big picture of intensity and energy. Both were in high supply in Friday's bounce-back laugher.
"We watched a little game film which is always good, that way as a whole we can sit there and critique each other," Garnett said. "I think the best thing about this team since I've been here is that we've all been able to talk to one another and critique each other and be positive and get results out of it. It wasn't just about the talking, I think what we talked about we actually did tonight. I think we played with 200 percent more energy tonight than obviously the other night.
"And to concur with what Paul said, you never want to be in a situation where you're getting booed at home, home is supposed to be where you lay your head at and where you're most comfortable at. We had to re-establish that here. I thought tonight, the results of us playing hard came out, obviously we hit some shots tonight. We watched the film from the Memphis game and what it came down to, pretty much our defensive energy was there, we just didn't make any shots, and for that it's almost like we weren't doing anything on offense. It was determined by our energy on defense, and that can't happen.'
|Third quarter wrap: Celtics vs. Pacers
|03.12.10 at 9:27 pm ET
There was no let up in the Celtics in the third quarter on this night. The Celtics led 67-47 at the break and expanded their lead to as many as 25 in the third quarter, taking a 98-78 lead into the final 12 minutes.
Paul Pierce had another seven points in the quarter and leads the Celtics with 20 while Rajon Rondo has 16 points and 11 assists. Former Georgetown star Roy Hibbert is marking his alma mater's 23-point thrashing of Marquette in the Big East Tournament with a big night. He has 20 points on 8-of-11 shooting from the field to lead Indiana.
The entire second unit, which began the Celtics' roll on this night late in the first quarter, finished out the third with Michael Finley, Glen Davis, Rasheed Wallace, Marquis Daniels and Nate Robinson looking like a smooth functioning unit.
This is the type of rest Doc Rivers would like to give his starters. Up 20 points and cruising late in the second half.
|Second quarter wrap: Celtics vs. Pacers
|03.12.10 at 8:47 pm ET
So, this is why the Celtics traded for Nate Robinson.
He was Vinny Johnson, Vinny DelNegro and Vinny from New York all in one action-packed second quarter. Robinson, playing his most dominant minutes since being acquired from the Knicks at the trading deadline, filled it up in the second quarter with nine of his 12 points as the Celtics outscored Indiana by 14 to take a 67-47 halftime lead. Their 38 points were the most in the second quarter this season.
Robinson drilled all three of his 3-point attempts and has four for the game. Paul Pierce leads the Celtics with 13 on 5-of-7 shooting and Rajon Rondo has 10. No wonder, the fans gave the C's a standing ovation as they headed to the locker room. No boos tonight.
The other notable result of the quarter featured one of the better performances by the second unit in recent memory. The Celtics led 24-23 when the second unit came on late in the first quarter. They left the starters with a 45-32 advantage.
|Celtics trying to get in shape
|03.12.10 at 8:14 pm ET
Doc Rivers admitted before Friday's game that he may have given his team too much of a break this season from practice and is thinking of increasing the frequency and intensity of practice as the season winds down.
"I would say I have probably balanced on the wrong side in some ways," Rivers said. "Obviously, the rest was important but I do think we have to practice more and get more conditioning in. This late in the year, you rarely hear that but I think we're one of the teams that have to actually do it."
|Doc on Pierce, KG: C's need them at 'their peak'
|03.12.10 at 8:13 pm ET
Celtics coach Doc Rivers said he is thinking of sitting Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett, having them miss games and practice more to help them find their rhythm and conditioning as the playoffs approach.
"If that means working more in practice and missing games, then that's what we have to do," Rivers said. "Let's just be honest, if they're not at their peak, it's going to be very tough for us to do anything. We have to have them playing at their peak."
Pierce has been recovering from an injured left foot, while Garnett has continued to deal with his injured right knee. Yet both players indicated a strong desire following Friday's game to continue playing and not occasionally sit out games along the lines of what Rivers suggested.
'I'm not really feeling that idea, but hey, this is the 'Doc Rivers Show' and we are just guests on it," Garnett said. "So whatever he feels is best, you know Paul and I, I think I speak for both of us we don't really feel that."
|Hollins: C's still 'one of top 3 in East'
|03.11.10 at 1:16 am ET
Coming into Wednesday's game, Memphis coach Lionel Hollins wasn't about to let his suffer the same fate as the Washington Wizards on Sunday night.
After his team blew a 13-point lead in the final six minutes, only to lose to Boston, 86-83, Wizards coach Flip Saunders said his team relieved itself collectively down its leg.
Hollins knew with his young, energetic team well rested in Boston while the Celtics were battling Milwaukee half a continent away 24 hours earlier, his team would have a decided advantage and likely jump out to a quick, big lead.
Hollins was prophetic. The Grizzlies raced out to a 27-12 lead after one and 55-33 at halftime.
And when the Celtics rallied to get within 12 in the third quarter he reminded his team what was at stake during a succession of timeouts.
'I was telling them to keep being aggressive," Hollins said. "I watched the Washington Wizards come in here the other noght and literally beat the Celtics up for three and half quarters and then quit playing and the Celtics came back and won the game.
"I told them whatever happens, whatever run, we'll call timeout and try to stem the run but when we go back out there we're gonna be aggressive. We kept throwing the ball up the court and attacking the. We had two or three quick 1-2 passes then a layup after they scored which kind of took the start to them and also took the crowd out of the game.'
While a respectable 34-31, the Grizzlies are still on the outside looking in, trying to catch Portland for the eighth and final playoff spot in the Western Conference.
"It's a big win, and we're happy with the win, but we know we caught the Celtics on a down night," Hollins said. "They played back to back, had to travel home, had a tough game [Tuesday] night in Milwaukee. They're still, in my mind, one of the top three teams in the East and they're going to show that as they go forward into the playoffs. But we're just happy to get a win and we're excited to have 34 wins and be three games over .500.
'We talked about making some noise, we beat a lot of good teams during the course of this season and this the first big road win though against one of the top teams in the league and we caught a break so that helped us but we'll take it. That's the way the NBA is and that just takes us further and closer to our goal.'
|Third quarter wrap: Celtics vs. Grizzlies
|03.10.10 at 9:28 pm ET
The best thing the Celtics can say about the third quarter is they scored 30 points after scoring just 33 the previous 24 minutes. The problem is they're not stopping Memphis, who maintained their comfortable lead at 82-63 heading into the fourth.
The highlight of the quarter was an alley-oop dunk by Kevin Garnett from Rajon Rondo with just under three minutes remaining that cut the Memphis lead to 14, at 71-57.
Earlier in the quarter, the Celtics went on a 9-0 run to cut the Memphis lead from 21 to 12 but the Celtics could get no closer.
The Celtics are still getting hammered on the glass (40-23) while shooting only marginally better in the third quarter, raising their percentage to 42 for the game.
Rondo had seven points in the quarter and leads the Green with 16. A pair of former UConn Huskies are making their presence known. Rudy Gay has a game-high 17 after three and Marcus Williams hit a key 3-pointer and leads the Grizzlies bench with 10.
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