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Two days after Sony's E3 conference we met with Jim Ryan, CEO and president
of Sony Computer Entertainment Europe. How does he feel the gaming public
reacted to Sony's keynote? How does he think the Vita is faring? And why has Sony
fallen silent on the topic of 3D?
To find out, read on...
Q: Sony's slogan for E3 was "Never Stop Playing". Out of the three console
manufacturers, it seemed to me that Sony's conference had the purest focus on
games - certainly compared to what Microsoft decided to show. What do you make
of that divergence?
Jim Ryan: Well, I wasn't at the Microsoft Conference so it would be improper
for me to comment. I can only speak to what we said, and the messaging there,
which was very game-centric, was very carefully thought about, and really seeks
to convey the point that the PS3 in many ways is only just getting going. It's a big,
complicated, powerful machine. It's taken developers - our own developers, our
own studios - a little time to get to grips with it, but I think you saw the fruits of
that [at the keynote].
Some of that stuff was really exciting, I felt personally. I sat right at the back so I
could judge the mood of the room, and it was apparent to me that that mood was
largely shared. I think the true capabilities of the PS3 as a gaming platform are just
starting to become apparent to everyone.
Q: The contrast, as far as I'm concerned, is that Microsoft places a lot of
emphasis on wider console functionality. Obviously that's something that Sony has
done as well, but it felt that this year there was a much stronger focus on games.
Do you think there's a risk that console-makers occasionally focus too much on the
wider functions of consoles? For the hardcore, these are games machines first and
JR: I think I agree with you. I think first of all it's important to say that we
have a very comprehensive regimen of game services - I'd set them side-by-side
with anybody's, and feel pretty proud with the comparison. One of the points is
that E3 is a games industry event, and it seems to me to be fairly axiomatic that at
a games industry event you should talk about games! That's your audience. There's
plenty of time to dwell on the other stuff.
Q: The industry has changed a lot of over the past half-decade or so. You have
a lot of console-owners these days who only dabble with games who are probably
more interested in the other stuff...
JR: Yeah. There are many audiences at these things. Microsoft, Sony and
Nintendo are big corporate animals; it's fine for us to say we're talking to the
gamers, but the eyes of the world are upon us, and the eyes of our shareholders
are upon us! That clearly does have to inform who says what when. We're very
pleased to see that our stock went up and that some of the competitors declined!
We did something right, I think.
Q: You said earlier that the PS3 is just hitting its stride. Prior to this E3 a lot of
people were expecting next-gen showings, both from you and Microsoft. What does the next-gen mean to Sony, at this point?
JR: I think as we demonstrated on Monday, we're really just focusing on PS3
right now. We've got a target, which is a matter of public record, of 13 million units
to sell this fiscal year. It's pretty demanding, but given the software that was on
display we've got a pretty good crack at that. I'm given demanding, aggressive
numbers to meet, and that's what I'm focussed on right now. I think [SCE
Worldwide Studios president] Shuhei Yoshida's team has given me the tools to do
that. I'm going to go out there and nail it.
Q: In terms of the reaction to Sony's keynote... Do you think the games on
display have convinced people that the next gen isn't needed yet?
JR: We obviously didn't talk about any future activity, and I don't think we
needed to. As I say, we're just focused on PS3 and on absolutely nailing that, this
year and the year after that.
Q: We haven't talked about the Vita yet. From my perspective, the consensus
appears to be that it's a great machine that has met expectation, aside from the
fact that it doesn't have enough games. A lot of people have said that they would
have liked to have seen more Vita games in the keynote. Is that something Sony is
very aware of - that perception that there needs to be a wider software line-up?
JR: Well, I've heard the comment that we didn't talk to the Vita software
line-up enough on a number of occasions. There's only a finite amount of space at
these things, and as a platform holder you have multiple platforms - you just can't
do everything that you'd like to do. We see pretty clearly in the pipeline round
about 60 games coming this current year, so there's good breadth. There's
Assassin's Creed, Call of Duty, FIFA, LittleBigPlanet from our own studios. So we
look forward and see there's breadth and there's depth, and I think having those
four IPs on the platform in 2012 puts us in a pretty good place.
I've heard the comment about the perception that there's not enough software,
but I've done all of PlayStation's platform launches - PS1, PS2, PS3 and PSP - and
the launch line-up of software for Vita was comfortably the best. The perception is
commonly held, and I understand it - but I'm not sure that I agree with it.
Q: You're entitled to have that opinion, I guess! Are you happy with the way the
Vita is progressing at the moment? If the games aren't a concern, what is the big
goal for Vita over, say, the next 12 months?
JR: We've just got to focus on building install base, and that's what we do.
We've been in the market three months now and we're perfectly comfortable with
the way the thing is doing. We run our lives on a five-to-ten horizon with these
things, and we're looking at our product strategy in those sorts of terms, looking at
content strategy in those sorts of terms, looking forward to Christmas 2012. I'm
pleased with the software line-up, and I think it's going to do very well.
Q: What's the key strategy for growing that install base?
JR: It's the same as it always is - just offer the consumer the best possible
content and the best possible value proposition, and market the platform in a lively
and professional manner.
Q: People singled out Call of Duty: Declassified as something they wanted to see
at the conference because there's a huge amount of expectation around it. Is that
going to be a key title for the Vita?
JR: I'm sure it will be. Obviously Activision are a superb publisher. They will
not bring anything to any platform that will not do their IP proud. The game is going
to be great, and it's going to sell lots and it will help our platform.
Q: For a while now we've been edging towards the idea of games as a service,
games where the experience is drawn out over the course of a year. Obviously, DLC is a big part of that. Looking at Beyond: Two Souls and The Last of Us, both of
those games look to be far more traditional, in the that they don't seem to fit that
"ongoing" mould - and that seems to be something that goes down very well with
gamers. Is that a topic that gets much discussion at Sony, in terms of choosing
what your exclusives will be?
JR: I think it's all about balance. Take something like LittleBigPlanet - I think
you'd struggle to find a better example of a game that has that ongoing
engagement, and obviously having the PlayStation Network allows for that to
happen. We've got that sort of stuff and I think we've proved ourselves perfectly
competent at it. And then something like Beyond, and prior to that, Heavy Rain -
they push the envelope just as much, in very different ways. I think it's part of the
platform-holder's responsibility to not just have a platform with loads of shooters on
it, but a little bit of everything. And that's what we try to do.
Q: I loved Heavy Rain, but it certainly felt like a risky game. Did it feel like that
at the time?
JR: I think the quality of the game was so apparent that we were always
confident, but when you do something that's so different there's always an element
of risk. You don't know how consumers are going to react in their hundreds of
thousands. You can do all the focus group stuff that you want to, but at the end
of the day you never really know until the game launches. So there was a little bit
of uncertainty, but we went to market very confident with that game. It was a
great title.
Q: So does that instil confidence in how Beyond: Two Souls might do?
JR: We never get into a state of complacency, not least because the
platform is two or three years older now, and maybe has a slightly different
demographic. But obviously having the developer have a great success under his
belt in a similar sort of space, it does build confidence. I can honestly say that.
Q: I wanted to ask you about 3D, because 3D seemed to be one of the great
touchstones of Sony's offerings last year, and then this year it's quite notably
absent. What's the feeling about 3D - was it something that people weren't ready
JR: It's still very much part of the platform offering, it's just that, you know
- we spoke about two years ago, we spoke about it last year. I don't think we
want to get to the stage where every time you go to a Sony press conference you
have put you specs on and see something in 3D. It's kind of moved: Two years ago
it was something new and a bit different, it was proper to talk about it. Like I say,
it's more part of the core gaming proposition; I wouldn't say we take it for granted,
because we don't. But I think we have newer and more interesting things to talk
about this year, and I think it was write to do that.
Q: Apologies for being blunt, but a lot of people would argue that 3D gaming has
broadly failed to capture the imagination of gamers. Would you disagree with that?
JR: If you look at something like Uncharted 3... I don't know if you ever
played that in 3D, but it was absolutely fantastic. There are games where 3D
makes great sense, like Uncharted 3, and there are games where it simply isn't
relevant. There's obviously a gating factor of the install base in televisions. You can
do whatever you like on the development side, but if the televisions aren't there it
becomes rather moot. I think for those who want it, it's there, and it's right that
we offer it.
Q: So do you think it's something that will get better traction over the next,
say, five or six years?
JR: I think it's inevitable, because the technology on the TV-set side will
evolve, the install base will grow, and that will only help.
Q: Moving on to PSN. The digital download space feels like a growth area for
Sony, particularly with things like the Pub Fund initiative. Microsoft did such a good
job of popularising Summer of Arcade, but now it seems like the PSN is stepping up.
Is that one of the areas where you're especially keen to compete with Microsoft?
JR: I wouldn't say that we look at them and say, "Ooh, we need to match
what they're doing!", whether it's on the technical side or the revenue side. But
we're definitely getting more confident with our network offering, we're getting
more experienced with it. We see opportunities with things like PlayStation Plus to
really offer more value to our consumers, and we're going to do that. As you heard
on Monday, we're going to be a lot more aggressive with PlayStation Plus, and I
think that's something that should be very exciting for our consumers. It's just
another dimension, another way in which we can communicate with our consumers,
offer them more. And we're steadily using it more, getting more comfortable with it
and getting better at it.
Q: What are the key challenges to getting better with it, in more precise terms?
JR: Well, there are a number of dimensions to that. As time passes the
features and functionality improve. Firmware upgrades allow us to steadily... it's
slow but steady [progress]. If you look at the PSN now and the PSN we launched
the PS3 with, they're scarcely recognisable. So that's a big piece of it. I think our
understanding of the way our consumers use the network, want to interact with us
through the network, that understanding has improved a lot. And I think the way
we market and communicate what is on the PSN is significantly improved. And
finally, obviously the software offering is vastly enhanced.
Q: On a similar note, what is the biggest lesson Sony has learned from this
console generation, and how is that going to impact on what the company does in
the short term future, say five years down the line?
JR: It's hard to pick any one thing, but I think our appreciation of the way
that consumers want to be connected has really grown a lot. The ecosystem that
we now have, with multiple platforms - PS2, PSP to a lesser extent, PS3,
PlayStation Vita, PSN, and now PlayStation Mobile - we sort of look at the world
around us and see this desire for connectedness. Having these multiple platforms
with the Network that binds them together, I think we're starting to realise the
power we have at our disposal, and we're getting to the stage where we unleash
that in a serious manner.
Q: "Unleashing the power". That's a fairly colourful image, but what have you
learned in terms of how best to do that? It's great that we can play games on all
these formats, but you can overstretch.
JR: You can, and it's important that we don't lose focus, but I don't think
we're doing that. Again, it goes back to the point of the presentation - it was
games, games, games. I didn't see any sign there of an organisation that was
overstretching or losing focus.
ADDENDUM: This article originally quoted Jim Ryan as saying SCEE was targeting "30 million [PlayStation 3] units to sell this fiscal year". However, SCEE has since informed VideoGamer that this figure should have read 13m. VideoGamer would like to apologise to both SCEE and Jim Ryan for this error.


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The AP, a not-for-profit news cooperative, said the top priority for the agency will be to ensure that news providers are paid for content appearing on websites, phones, tablet computers and other devices. Potential customers include larger websites that run or excerpt content from those news providers without paying for it, AP CEO Tom Curley said in an interview Thursday. He said the agency doesn't plan to target smaller blogs.
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Curley said several websites already have been approached about licensing deals, but he declined to identify them.
"There has been some good give and take," he said. "Do I think everyone will respond that way? Of course not. But people haven't had this opportunity until now. They haven't been able to go to one place and get (content). This is why we think this is a game changer."
Curley said similar licensing rights agencies have brought in annual revenue ranging from $40 million to $1 billion. If the new agency is as successful, it would help media companies offset a decline in their traditional sources of revenue as other options on the Internet lure away their audience and advertisers. Newspapers have been particularly hard hit. Ad revenue has fallen 40 percent to 50 percent at some publishers during the past four years.
The downturn has also affected the AP, which gets about one-fifth of its revenue from newspapers. The AP's revenue declined in each of the past two years, marking the first consecutive drop since the Great Depression. Curley expects revenue to rise this year.
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A bill in the New Hampshire House of Representatives would categorize the mere display of a firearm as a criminal use of deadly force. Rather than make us safer, this change would endanger law-abiding Granite Staters.
Current law states that "the act of producing or displaying a weapon shall constitute non-deadly force." The law was changed to prevent more people from going to prison for defending themselves against perceived threats by simply showing that they are armed. The case that sparked the law was the famous story of Ward Bird, the Moultonborough farmer who was convicted in 2009 of criminal threatening for waving a handgun when a trespasser refused to leave his property.
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Hedge funds cut bets on a gold rally by the most since February after the Federal Reserve laid out plans for reducing stimulus and this year's drop in the value of exchange-traded funds (ETFs) extended to $55 billion.
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Among the gush of commentary after Steve Jobs' death, two things stood out. One, his insight that you can't create great products or services using focus groups — that customers don't know what they want until they see it. Second, his relentless focus on quality: "Be a yardstick of quality," he said. "Some people aren't used to an environment where excellence is expected."
Defining exactly what amounts to expecting excellence, of course, is the trick.
One of the things I reread at least once a year is an article that appeared more than 20 years ago in the Harvard Business Review. The authors, Genichi Taguchi and Don Clausing, wrote about manufacturing processes and how to build "robust" products — goods that perform reliably in a range of conditions.
In the article, Taguchi and Clausing relate an anecdote about Mazda and Ford (which has owned a major share of the Japanese automaker for years). In the 1980s, Ford asked Mazda to build transmissions for a car Ford was selling in the U.S. Mazda, in Japan, used the same specifications for the transmission parts as Ford, which continued to build the transmissions at one of its U.S. plants.
Over time, however, the Ford-built transmissions generated a lot more complaints from customers and much higher warranty costs.
To find out why, Ford took apart several transmissions it had made along with several that Mazda had made. Specifications for parts typically allow for slight imperfections; drive shafts that are supposed to be 10 centimeters in diameter aren't considered defective if they come in either slightly too large or too small by some specified amount — a 9.998-centimeter drive shaft, for example, isn't considered "out of spec."
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The lesson: Ford managers looked at individual parts in a pass-fail way in terms of whether they met the specs. "Mazda managers," the authors wrote, "worked on the assumption that robustness begins from meeting exact targets consistently — not from always staying within tolerances."
The dangers of viewing quality in terms of acceptable tolerances, the authors wrote, is that managers "grow accustomed to thinking about product quality in terms of acceptable deviation from targets — instead of the consistent effort to hit them." The warranty costs and customer dissatisfaction were, of course, much more costly to Ford than whatever it would have cost at the factory to meet the targets exactly.
It has always seemed to me that the Taguchi-Clausing article offered lessons for many endeavors, not just manufacturing. In my work, for example, I've become more conscious, as I edit or write, to try to find exactly the right word, the right sentence, to communicate most effectively. When I find imprecise word usage and sketchy syntax scattered throughout a publication, my estimation of its quality falls, however good it may otherwise be.
More broadly, many of the problems and issues I see playing out around the state seem often to result from a tolerance for second rate — a shoulder shrug that a particular status quo is "good enough" for Florida. So the state's universities are mediocre? Well, at least they're cheap.
More and more, however, I think Florida is raising its expectations, in ways large and small. Jeb Bush effectively jolted the state's K-12 education system by expecting more from schools that made excuses for failing to teach children from challenging backgrounds. Another example, this one local: George Mikitarian, president and CEO of Parrish Medical Center, a 210-bed community hospital in Titusville, once told me that when he took over and began to raise expectations about standards of care, a doctor took him aside and essentially advised him not to aim so high, with the excuse that "we're just a community hospital."
Mikitarian has built Parrish into a gem of a facility that ranks among the top 10% in the country in quality of care across a range of medical disciplines. In large measure, he did it by insisting that his community hospital — it hasn't accepted tax money for more than 16 years, by the way — could — and should — expect excellence.
The best communities and businesses always do. I'll give Jobs the last word: "We don't get a chance to do that many things, and every one should be really excellent. Because this is our life. ... And we've all chosen to do this with our lives. So it better be damn good. It better be worth it."
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Kelsie Forbush
posted on Tuesday, August 19, 2008 - 1:01 pm
I am running a CFA in Mplus with complex survey data. The weight variable that I am using is missing for some participants, because the study used a two-phase sampling approach in which only a subsample of cases progressed from Part 1 to Part 2. When I run the data in Mplus, I receive the following: *** ERROR
Weight variable has missing value at observation 4651.
I would like to run this model without turning on LISTWISE, because otherwise there is an extreme amount of missing data.
I would appreciate any advice.
Thank you.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, August 20, 2008 - 9:36 am
You will have to eliminate those observations without weights.
Matthew Diemer
posted on Monday, March 01, 2010 - 7:07 am
I have this same problem, with a longitudinal dataset (Times 1,2,3). I would use a longitudinal weight that spans from time 1 - time 3.
I agree that eliminating observations without a weight value would address this problem, but I'm concerned that doing so might reduce covariance coverage & the amount of usable data.
I am analyzing a subpopulation and so planned to run analyses under FIML conditions to make use of datapoints from Time 1 for participants who may not be sampled at Time 3, for example. (These participants may've left the sample due to death, non-response, etc. from time 1 to time 3).
My concern is that if I eliminate observations without weights, I will also eliminate usable data from times 1 and 2, for example.
Is there another work-around for cases without a weight value that doesn't entail losing information in this way?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, March 01, 2010 - 9:18 am
Not that I know of.
Matthew Diemer
posted on Thursday, March 04, 2010 - 10:45 am
Thanks, Linda. Just to provide closure to the story, in case others run into this same problem:
We tried running the model with and without the weight variable. (There is no clustering or stratification in this data set).
When we deleted cases with a missing value for the weight, our model won't converge in M+. We're not sure if this due to a reduction in sample size or some problem introduced by the weight itself. It may also be because we are analyzing a subpopulation.
When we run the model without the weight, everything works (relatively) OK and fits relatively well.
However, not using the weight entails that our sample would a) not be adjusted for attrition, non-response and differential probability of selection b) and would no longer be nationally representative. We are going to use a more conservative significance criterion (.01) because we are not using the weight & have to live with these limitations.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Thursday, March 04, 2010 - 10:57 am
The non-convergence most likely comes about because the data differ and the model has problems with one data set and not the other. I know no way around the missing value for weight.
William Murrah
posted on Saturday, May 15, 2010 - 10:46 am
I just updated to Mplus6. I have a dataset of 16,500 subjects. I ran regression analyses using sample weights and MLR in Mplus5.2 and the output reported the number of observations as my dataset sample size. The same models in version 6 seem to be dropping cases that do not have data for the dependent variable. Now my number of observations is smaller (I assume reflecting the attrition in this longitudinal dataset). I also get the following warnings:
Data set contains cases with missing on x-variables. These cases were not included in the analysis.
Number of cases with missing on x-variables: 6067
Data set contains cases with missing on all variables except
x-variables. These cases were not included in the analysis.
Number of cases with missing on all variables except x-variables: 5
could you clarify exactly what has changed in version 6? Thanks.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Saturday, May 15, 2010 - 11:14 am
In Version 5.21 the patterns of missing data included auxiliary variables. In Version 6, the patterns depend on only analysis variables. If this is not your case, please send the two outputs and your license number to
nina chien
posted on Monday, August 23, 2010 - 8:47 am
I also updated to Mplus 6 (like William above). Whereas in Mplus 5 all cases were utilized, now I am receiving the following warning messsages:
Data set contains cases with missing on x-variables.
These cases were not included in the analysis.
Number of cases with missing on x-variables: 5
Data set contains cases with missing on all variables except
x-variables. These cases were not included in the analysis.
Number of cases with missing on all variables except x-variables: 16
Accordingly, whereas my number of observations using Mplus 5 was 100, my number of observations using Mplus 6 is only 79.
1) Are either Mplus 5 or Mplus 6 results more "correct?"
2) *IF* Mplus 6 results are more correct, does that mean I have to report an N of only 79 (instead of the previous 100?) Of course, we would much prefer reporting 100. Also, we are worried that we wouldn't be able to put in as many parameters with 79 as we would with 100.
Thank you for your help!
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, August 23, 2010 - 9:01 am
In Version 6 for models with all continuous variables using maximum likelihood estimation, we started estimating the model conditioned on x to be in line with the rest of the Mplus program. To obtain Version 5 results, mention the variances of the covariates in the MODEL command. With no missing data, the Version 5 and 6 results are identical.
Lucy Markson
posted on Friday, March 28, 2014 - 9:18 am
I have read people's posts about missing data on replicate weights above from 2008 and 2010 and the responses saying there is no solution to this problem.
I am having this problem now and thought it worth checking whether there is now a solution (apart from deleting cases with missing replicate weights)?
Specifically the problem is this:
I am trying to apply a basic weight and 33 replicate weights for a longitudinal data set. Some values in the replicate weights are missing when participants were missing from the data collection wave. I have told Mplus that missing data are -99 but when I run the analysis the error message says:
Weight variable has missing value at observation 3.
Many thanks
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Friday, March 28, 2014 - 11:21 am
Weight variables may not have missing values. This has not changed.
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Sunday, March 22, 2009
Arrogance @ 40, Carolina Theater, Durham NC 3/21/09
Don Dixon's been a fixture and a mentor in my life since I was a kid. His band with Robert Kirkland, Arrogance, is one of the most revered institutions in North Carolina rock history, tearing it up since 1969 when I first saw them shaking the stage at Ardmore Methodist Church coffeehouse.
When he asked me and Chris to be a part of Arrogance's fortieth anniversary show, it was flattering and humbling. When he asked if I'd play organ on their debut single "Black Death", possibly the heaviest record to come out of Winston-Salem, it blew my mind.
This would be the first time that the original Arrogance band would have taken the stage together since 1971. Lead guitarist Michael Greer and primal drummer Jim (formerly Jimmy) Glasgow practiced with Dixon and Kirkland, and everyone was buzzed about how great it sounded.
I realized that I'd never met Glasgow, as improbable as that seemed, so Greer was eager to fix that. Jim and I and Smart Wife (we got a sitter !) chatted under the familiar scrawl of Will Rigby, emblazoned on the wall when he'd played there with Steve Earle some years before.
Other celebrants included Debra Demilo from the Fabulous Knobs, Parthenon Huxley, Mitch Easter and Shalini Chatterjee, all of whom were on the side of the stage when Greer and Glasgow joined Dixon and Kirkland.
In the finest tradition of dB's equipment failure, I couldn't get the organ audible so I plugged into Rod's Fender amp so the song could start. And I gamely played along, although I have absolutely no idea whether I was audible or playing the right notes.
But it hardly mattered; I was transfixed, watching Greer, one of Winston-Salem's legendary lead guitarists, running up and down the neck, making the best guitar faces ever. I looked over at Jim Glasgow, now bald like me and Dixon, wailing away on the drums like no time had passed at all since I'd seen them. Dixon was big and threatening sounding on the voice and Robert Kirkland sewed it all together with his guitar. It was a definite time warp for me and for a few of us who grew up watching, listening to and loving Arrogance as kids.
I left the band onstage and they lit into "Race With the Devil" by Gun, a cover they'd popularized in Winston-Salem and one of the earliest recordings Arrogance did at Crescent City Sound Studio in Greensboro. They tagged it with a bit of "N.I.B." by Black Sabbath; this was significant as Arrogance got ahold of the first Sabbath album at least six months before it was released in the US, and they'd learned it front to back and played it to the adoring crowds, many of whom undoubtedly thought they were hearing original songs by the local band!
We had to leave after the first set concluded with the original band; the rest of the evening, people joined the more enduring, less heavy and better known version of Arrogance in their celebration. (After Greer and Glasgow left the band, Marty Stout joined on keys, followed by Scott Davison on drums and Rod Abernethy on guitar--this version of the band made a few albums and became far better known in the Chapel Hill area. In fact, they had Rittenhouse Square open for them in 1971 or 1972 at a gig at the Fire Station, one of R2's few out of town gigs.)
But I can only say that sharing the stage with the original Arrogance is the single most exciting musical event I've gotten to participate in this year. I hope it's not the last time those four guys play together, and it sounded so good and so right, I don't think it will be.
4 comments:
- Larry said...
Thanks Peter. It was quite a wonderful show. Sorry you missed out on the 2nd set and all the encore covers. The entire evening really had that Last Waltz Fillmore vibe going.
- March 24, 2009 at 10:02 AM
- carlean said...
It was quite an evening! Thank you for adding to how special it was. . and you are by FAR the best editor in the house!
- March 26, 2009 at 6:10 PM
- MikeD said...
this brings back some memories. I saw Arrogance at the Attic in Greenville NC a bunch of times in the late 70s. And then when the REM connection happened, it all came together. THE formative period in my music listening life
- June 13, 2009 at 8:59 AM
- Stacey said...
It was a GREAT show. It was the first time that I had seen Arrogance in YEARS. Having a bunch of the old Triangle and Triad performers with them made the evening that much more special. The last tune with just about everybody on stage was "DA BOMB"
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What was amazing about the hearing Monday was the prosecution's admission that it didn't have enough evidence to convict these men. As attorney Daro Inouye said of Jalil Muntaqim, who pled no contest to the prosecution's charge of conspiracy, his client picked up a loaded grenade to save his brothers, his friends, his fellow defendants, and he didn't plead guilty. That language did not pass his lips.


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In a game where the Denver offense would stall, spit, and sputter, the Denver defense performed in playoff fashion, and ensured that the Broncos winning streak continued.
It wasn't the prettiest win by the Manning-led Broncos. An early interception--returned for a touchdown--would give the Chargers their first points of the game, and their only points of the first half. The Broncos possessed the ball on offense ten times in the first half, but only managed 17 points. Besides the interception, the Broncos also had a fumble (in field goal range), a missed 55 yard field goal, and four punts.
Still, the Broncos had a 17-7 half-time lead, thanks to the relentless efforts of the defense. On the nine San Diego offensive possessions of the first half, the Broncos defense forced eight punts and an interception. The Chargers failed to convert every third down of the half.
Unfortunately, the Broncos offense would continue its hit-or-miss behavior in the second half. Fortunately, the consistent defense would continue to keep the heat on Rivers and Co.
After a successful onside kick to start the second half, the Chargers put themselves in position to get back in the game, but the defense held them to three-and-out. Unfortunately, the punt put the Broncos on their own two-yard-line and the Chargers defense would sack Manning for a safety, pulling them to within eight points. But the Denver defense made sure that it ended right there.
While the Chargers would score two more touchdowns in the half--one of them during garbage time near the end of the game--the defense would force three turnovers, courtesy of two fumbles and an interception. The Broncos offense would score on two of these opportunities, while the third turnover ended the game.
After disposing of the Chargers for the second time, the Broncos extended their streak to 5 games, giving the team a comfortable 3 game lead over the second place AFC West team, along with the head-to-head tiebreaker. With only six games left to the season, it's pretty difficult to see how the Broncos won't win the division for the second year in a row.
But it wouldn't have happened if the defense hadn't saved the day.
The good stuff:
*Peyton Manning - yeah, I know he's been listed nearly every week, but he keeps earning it. After the tipped pass that resulted in a pick-six in the first quarter, Manning threw for three touchdowns. Isn't it refreshing to know that the Broncos have a quarterback who can overcome mistakes when they happen?
Today's game is the fifth straight where the Broncos scored 30 points or more--all of them wins. His three touchdowns brings his career total to 423, moving him ahead of Dan Marino for second place all-time, and behind Brett Favre's 508.
*Defense - Once again, the whole defense delivered. As a team, they produced four sacks, three fumbles, two interceptions, and a blocked punt. They kept the Chargers from converting a third down until near the end of the third period--going 0-for-11 until then--and allowed only three out of sixteen for the game. If you'll remember, the Broncos weren't playing that well in this vital area prior to the bye week. They held the Chargers to 53 net yards rushing, and 224 net yards passing.
*Running game - Until he got hurt, McGahee had regained some of his form, going 55 yards on seven carries (7.85 ypc). With the help of the backups, the team managed 133 net rushing yards. As a unit, the Broncos running game 5.3 average on 25 carries.
Brandon Stokley/Jacob Tamme/Joel Dreessen - Manning spread the ball around--throwing to nine different receivers--but these three accounted for about half of the team's passing production. Each had four receptions--they totalled 136 yards out of Manning's 270--and Stokley caught one for a touchdown. While not the "big names" we see on other teams for players at their positions, they played as good as anyone in the league.
The not-so-good stuff:
*Turnovers - One interception and two fumbles. Manning's interception went for a pick six and a fumble by Lance Ball was recovered by the Chargers. The other fumble was courtesy of Trindon Holliday--not the first of the season for him, but when you consider he only had three punt returns in the game, that's one fumble too many.
The team continues to defy the odds, but they simply must find a way to bring an end to this problem before the playoffs, or they could be one-and-done.
Matt Prater - I won't go too hard on him--it was a 55 yard attempt afterall. But it was a miss, so let's hope he got it out of his system with this one.
Red Zone Efficiency - Only went 1-for-4 today. Considering that one of those opportunities was a first-and-goal to go after a Woodyard interception, the offense was less than stellar in this vital catagory.
Pass protection - I already mentioned this above, but Manning was under way-to-much pressure today. The team surrendered three sacks, including one for a safety. Manning may be close to 100% in his recovery, but too many games like this is not a good thing.
Offensive player-of-the-game: Peyton Manning - Going in to today's game, the Broncos were 2nd in scoring (30.1), 3rd in yards (394.2), and 5th in passing yards (288.9). His three touchdowns in this game is the sixth time he managed that feat this season. The Broncos are 5-1 in those games.
Defensive player-of-the-game: Von Miller - He had three sacks in today's game, the fourth multi-sack game of the season. Two of his sacks resulted in fumbles. He now has an NFL-leading 13 sacks for the season.
Honorable mention: Elvis Dumerville and Wesley Woodyard - Doom wasn't even a sure thing for today's game, but he got a sack and a forced fumble today--a great effort. Woodyard's interception is his third of the season and the Broncos converted it to points.


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