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|8th in NL
|11th in NL
|24th in NL
|March 28, 2015
|Texas Rangers released RHP Juan Carlos Oviedo.
|January 5, 2015
|Texas Rangers signed free agent RHP Juan Carlos Oviedo to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training.
|January 5, 2015
|RHP Juan Carlos Oviedo assigned to Round Rock Express.
|August 3, 2014
|Tampa Bay Rays released RHP Juan Carlos Oviedo.
|July 26, 2014
|Tampa Bay Rays designated RHP Juan Carlos Oviedo for assignment.
|April 21, 2014
|Tampa Bay Rays activated RHP Juan Carlos Oviedo from the 15-day disabled list.
|April 4, 2014
|Tampa Bay Rays sent RHP Juan Carlos Oviedo on a rehab assignment to Durham Bulls.
|March 30, 2014
|Tampa Bay Rays placed RHP Juan Carlos Oviedo on the 15-day disabled list. Right elbow.
|December 5, 2013
|Tampa Bay Rays signed free agent RHP Juan Carlos Oviedo.
|November 5, 2013
|RHP Juan Carlos Oviedo elected free agency.
|November 4, 2013
|Tampa Bay Rays activated RHP Juan Carlos Oviedo from the 60-day disabled list.
|March 31, 2013
|Tampa Bay Rays selected the contract of Juan Carlos Oviedo from Durham Bulls.
|March 31, 2013
|Tampa Bay Rays placed RHP Juan Carlos Oviedo on the 60-day disabled list. Recovering from September 2012 Tommy John surgery.
|January 22, 2013
|Tampa Bay Rays signed free agent RHP Juan Carlos Oviedo to a minor league contract and invited him to spring training.
|November 3, 2012
|RHP Juan Carlos Oviedo elected free agency.
|October 29, 2012
|Miami Marlins activated RHP Juan Carlos Oviedo from the 60-day disabled list.
|September 4, 2012
|Miami Marlins transferred RHP Juan Carlos Oviedo from the 15-day disabled list to the 60-day disabled list.
|July 23, 2012
|Miami Marlins placed RHP Juan Carlos Oviedo on the 15-day disabled list.
|July 14, 2012
|Jupiter Hammerheads sent RHP Juan Carlos Oviedo on a rehab assignment to New Orleans Zephyrs.
|July 9, 2012
|Juan Carlos Oviedo assigned to Jupiter Hammerheads.
|September 22, 2011
|Florida Marlins placed RHP Juan Carlos Oviedo on the restricted list.
|August 8, 2006
|RHP Juan Carlos Oviedo assigned to Omaha Royals.
|June 10, 2006
|RHP Juan Carlos Oviedo assigned to Omaha Royals.
|March 29, 2006
|RHP Juan Carlos Oviedo assigned to Wichita Wranglers.
|August 6, 2005
|RHP Juan Carlos Oviedo assigned to Wichita Wranglers.
Signed as a free agent on Feb 16, 2000. Formerly known as Leo Nuñez...the reliever logged 92 saves from 2009-11 as the Marlins closer (8th most in the majors in that span.2013
Spent the entire season on the disabled list as he recovered from Tommy John surgery performed in September 2012…came to spring training as a non-roster invite and was placed on 60-day DL prior to Opening Day... Following the season the Rays declined their 2014 club option and re-signed him shortly thereafter.2012 Was with the Marlins organization but missed the first three and a half months of the season dealing with visa issues and serving a suspension from MLB for age and identity fraud...began a rehab assignment on July 9, making 2 apps with Class-A Jupiter before suffering an elbow injury in his first and only rehab game with Triple-A New Orleans...he was placed on the DL with a sprained right elbow and underwent Tommy John surgery on Sep 6. 2011 Was second on Club in appearances, while his 36 saves were tied for 11th in Majors (tied for eighth in National League)...His 25 saves prior to All-Star break were tied for third-most in Club history with Bryan Harvey (1993), behind Armando Benitez (30-2004) and Antonio Alfonseca (28-2000)...Set a new Club record for most saves in May (11); also set new personal high for saves in a month...Tied Alfonseca (2000) for second-most saves in April in Clubstory, with eight. Benitez had 10 in 2004...Registered 10th season of 30-or-more saves in Club history; among eight pitchers who have accomplished feat, only he and Robb Nen (1996 & '97) have done so twice. 2010 In his second season with the Marlins, posted a 4-3 record and 30 saves (38 opportunities) with a 3.46 ERA in 68 games. He established a career-high in saves, tied his career-best in wins, appeared in the second-most games and tossed the second-most innings ... Became just the eighth closer (ninth time) in Franchise history to record 30-or-more saves in a single season. Armando Benitez holds the club record with 47 in 2004, and he is followed by Antonio Alfonseca (45 in 2000), Bryan Harvey (45 in 1993), Todd Jones (40 in 2005), Joe Borowski (36 in 2006), Robb Nen (35 in 1997 and '96) and Kevin Gregg (32 in 2007) ... Began the season by throwing 10.1 scoreless innings over his first 10 games, allowing just two hits in that time frame ... Allowed first run of the season on May 4 vs. San Francisco in a blown save opportunity. Allowed one run on one hit over his 1.0 inning of work ... Converted nine straight save opportunities from May 7 to June 13 ... Earned first win of the season on April 7 at New York. In his first save opportunity of the season, tossed a season-high 1.1 innings, allowing two of three inherited runners to score in the blown save opportunity ... Also earned wins on May 13 vs. New York, June 29 vs. New York and July 22 vs. Colorado ... His first loss of the year came on June 15 vs. Texas, as he allowed two runs on two hits with a walk over 1.0 inning. Recorded his second loss seven games later on July 2 at Atlanta, surrendering two runs, two hits and a walk without recording an out. His final loss came on August 29 at Atlanta when he surrendered a season-high three runs on two hits (both home runs) in just 0.2 inning ... His best month came in July when he posted a 1-1 record and 10 saves in 11 chances with a 2.31 ERA (11.2 IP/3 ER) over 13 games. Set the club record for saves in July, besting the previous mark set by Kevin Gregg in 2008 (9) ... Fared better on the road as he went 1-2 with 18 saves in 21 chances and a 2.93 ERA (27.2 IP/9 ER) over 30 games. At home, went 3-1 with 12 saves in 17 opportunities and a 3.86 ERA (37.1 IP/16 ER) in 38 games ... Notched his 30th save of the season on September 30 vs. PIttsburgh ... He retired 45 of 68 first batters faced (72.6%) and held left-handed hitters to a .214 average (28x131). 2009 In his ninth professional season, went 4-6 with a 4.06 ERA and 26 saves (33 opportunities) in team-leading 75 games with the Marlins. Ranked 12th in the National League in saves, while his 75 appearances were tied for 11th. Shared the NL lead in home runs allowed by a reliever with Kevin Gregg (13)...He earned his first career save May 30 at New York. Had six previous save opportunities in his career...From June 29 to August 10, converted 10 straight saves, going 1-1 with a 3.71 ERA (17.0 IP/7 ER) in 17 games during that stretch...With his save on September 9 at New York, became the 10th pitcher in club history to record 20+ saves in a single season, and eighth in the last nine years...Tossed a season-high 2.0 innings on May 6 vs. Atlanta. Equaled the mark on July 17 vs. Philadelphia...Struck out a season-best three batters on July 17 vs. Philadelphia...Tossed 11.2 scoreless innings from April 28 to game one on May 20, going 0-1 while surrendering just four hits in that span...In 33 games with a save opportunity, was 1-3 with a 4.66 ERA (29.0 IP/15 ER). In 42 games where there was no save opportunity, went 3-3 with a 3.63 ERA (39.2 IP/16 ER)...Posted wins on April 17 at WSH, April 19 at WSH, July 28 vs. ATL and September 1 vs. ATL. Suffered losses May 20 vs. ARI (GM2), May 23 against TB, June 11 vs. STL, August 1 vs. CHC, September 6 at WSH and September 25 vs. NYM...Allowed only seven of 24 inherited runners to score (29.2%) and retired 48 of 75 first batters faced (64.0%). 2008 Began 2008 making his first career Opening Day roster with Kansas City, setting career-bests in ERA (2.98), wins (4) and appearances (45)...Did not surrender an earned run over 18 appearances during the day, spanning 18.2 innings...was one of three pitchers in the Majors to not allow an earned run in at least 18 day appearances, joining Joe Beimel (LAD) and Scott Downs (TOR)...Earned first win of the season on Opening Day at Detroit, tossing 2.0 scoreless innings in a 5-4, 11-inning affair...Started season by tossing 9.0 consecutive scoreless innings over eight appearances, allowing only three hits with 10 strikeouts...Was scored upon just one time in his first 20 appearances (20.0 IP), allowing three runs in 1.0 inning on April 25 vs. TOR...Placed on 15-day DL with a strained lat muscle on May 29 (retro to May 28), missing 46 games before being reinstated on July 21...After returning from the DL, went 1-0 with a 6.23 ERA over his next 11 outings...Over his final 13 appearances, posted a 1.88 ERA (14.1 IP/3 ER)...allowed only runs in that span in a 0.1 inning stint on Sept. 10 at MIN. 2007 Had an up and down 2007, but finished the year on a high note pitching well out of the Royals bullpen...Has all 5 of his career wins at home (5-1 overall, 2-1 in 2007), but is 0-5 (0-3 in 2007) on the road...Opened the season on the 15-day D.L. with a fractured right wrist suffered during a game in spring training...transferred to the 60-day D.L. on April 4...Began a rehab assignment with Wichita (AA) on May 29...was later recalled from his rehab assignment and optioned to Wichita on June 10...Made starts at both Wichita and Omaha (AAA) for the first time in his professional career since 2004...Recalled from Omaha for a spot start on July 17 and received a no decision, tossing 4 innings, allowing just 1 run in a Royals 9-3 win at Boston...optioned to Omaha the next day...Recalled on July 29 and won his fi rst game as a starter that day, posting 6 shutout innings on 3 hits in a 10-0 home win over Texas...Made 6 starts for KC, recording a 2-2 record and a 3.99 ERA (29.1 IP, 33 H, 13 ER)...the Royals were 4-2 in those games, including winning the first 4...Tossed a career-high 6.1 innings in a loss to Detroit on Aug. 30...also allowed a career-high 12 hits and struck out a career-best 6 Tigers...Was optioned to Omaha in a paper move on Aug. 31 and recalled on Sept. 4...spent the remainder of the season in the KC bullpen, going 0-2 with a 3.48 ERA in 6 outings...Pitched 4 scoreless innings, allowing just 1 hit while striking out 5, on the final day of the season on Sept. 30 vs. playoff-bound Cleveland...Opponents were 0-for-13 against him with runners in scoring position and 2 outs...Did not issue a walk over his final 7 appearances (1 start), covering 16.1 innings...struck out 18 over that same span. 2006 Compiled a 4.73 ERA in 7 games for Kansas City in 3 different stints with the Royals...allowed 15 hits and 7 earned runs in 13.1 innings...Did not allow any of the 5 runners he inherited for KC to score, but allowed 3 of 7 1st batters faced to reach base...KC was 1-6 in games he pitched...Opened the season with Wichita (AA) where he was 1-2 with 3 saves and a 4.29 ERA (21.0 IP, 18 H, 10 ER) in 15 games...was recalled from Wichita on May 24...struck out 2 batters while allowing 1 run in 2.1 innings at Detroit on May 24 before being optioned to Omaha on May 25...Recalled from Omaha (AAA) on June 4 but did not appear in a game...optioned back to Omaha on June 10...Recalled from Omaha on July 25 and pitched in 6 games (11.0 IP, 14 H, 6 ER)... was returned to Omaha on Aug. 9. 2005 Saw his 1st season at the Major League level, going 3-2 with a 7.55 ERA (53.2 IP, 45 ER) in 41 games of work...Started the season at High Desert (A) where he compiled a 9.00 ERA (13.0 IP, 13 ER) in 8 games before being promoted to Wichita...Had his contract purchased on May 9 from Wichita (AA)...was 1-0 with a 1.80 ERA in 3 games with Wichita (5.0 IP, 3 H, 1 ER)...had a 5-to-1 strikeout to walk ratio (20 SO, 4 BB) prior to his call-up...Made his M.L. debut May 9 at Toronto, striking out 2 batters in 1.0 scoreless inning...became the 13th-youngest pitcher (21 years, 272 days) to make his debut with the Royals...Teamed with Ambiorix Burgos (63.1) and Andrew Sisco (75.1) to become the first rookie trio in Major League history to toss at least 50.0 innings without making a start...Was 3-0 with a 3.10 ERA (29.0 IP, 25 H, 10 ER) in 20 games at Kauffman Stadium...struggled on the road, posting a 0-2 record and a 12.77 ERA (24.2 IP, 48 H, 35 ER)...Earned his 1st M.L. victory May 19 vs. Baltimore, tossing 2.2 scoreless innings in the Royals 7-4 win...Struggled from May 28-June 28, allowing 20 earned runs in 14.0 innings (12.86 ERA) in 13 appearances after allowing just 2 runs in 9.2 innings during his 1st 6 M.L. appearances...Earned his 2nd Major League win July 9 vs. Minnesota...it was the bullpen's 1st win since June 16...Optioned to Wichita on Aug. 6 and recalled on Sept. 1. 2004 Played the entire season at Hickory (A), compiling a 10-4 record and a 3.13 ERA in 27 games (20 starts)...His ERA was good for 3rd-best in the Pirates minor league system...Finished tied for 5th in the South Atlantic League with 140 strikeouts and tied for 2nd with 3 complete games...Recorded his 1st career save on May 19 vs. Delmarva...tossed 4.0 scoreless innings allowing just 2 hits and 1 walk and striking out 8. 2000 Nunez was originally signed by Pittsburgh as a non-drafted free agent on Feb. 16, 2000.


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When students are knee high in books and exams, legislative issues may not be top of mind. But when physical therapy (PT) students were encouraged by faculty to take a hard look at laws that could affect their careers, they visited U.S. Rep. Tsongas to advocate for their profession.
"I was impressed by the patience and thoughtfulness Congresswomen Tsongas showed when answering our questions," says physical therapy student Kristine Little. "I felt like she understood the importance of physical therapists and the role we play in healthcare to keep people healthy."
If Congress doesn't take action by Dec. 31, Medicare patients who need rehabilitation from disabilities, car accidents, hip injuries, stroke and other ailments will be limited to roughly two months of treatments at an outpatient therapy clinic. Any patients that exceed the cap, whether they are healed or not, would have to stop therapy or pay for services out of pocket.
Tsongas supports a law that repeals the cap on outpatient physical therapy, speech-language pathology and occupational therapy services.
"I appreciated hearing from students who will become the leaders in the physical therapy field and I believe we must do more to increase awareness and understanding of physical therapy's role in the nation's health care system," says Tsongas. "The continuity of care provided by physical therapists is a necessary step in recovery. Therapy caps place a burden on the people that require these services, and can lead to higher health care costs down the road."
The students learned how to advocate for the patients they will help heal and the future of their profession.
"This experience gave me and my classmates a real-world preview into the type of issues we will be facing when we graduate," says Little. "I think it was important for us to share with Congresswoman Tsongas how the bill would affect us. I learned that it was important to share our views personally because now she's not doing something for a bunch of strangers, but for a great group of students who came to see her, and were interested in what she had to say and took time to thank her for her efforts."

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TOKYO (AP) — Japanese parliamentary elections have been tentatively set for Dec. 16, media reports said Thursday after Prime Minister Yoshihiko Noda pledged to dissolve the parliament by Friday if the opposition agreed to key reforms.
Noda's pledge, made during a heated parliamentary exchange with Liberal Democratic Party chief Shinzo Abe on Wednesday, drew protests from some lawmakers within his own party who are not keen to face a vote at a time when the economy is ailing and public approval ratings for Noda's Cabinet have fallen below 20 percent.
At least two members of the Democratic Party of Japan announced they would quit the party following the decision to dissolve the lower house, which would bring on elections.
Japanese media said Thursday that party leaders had tentatively chosen Dec. 16 as the date for the elections. The Cabinet office said the date could not be officially set or confirmed until after Noda dissolves parliament.
Under the Japanese constitution, general elections must be held within 40 days after that point.
The pledge to call elections highlights the gridlock that has paralyzed Japanese politics for years, hindering progress to revitalize an economy on the brink of recession and revamp government finances to cope with a fast-aging population.
An election would also be a distraction at a time of acute antagonisms with China over a territorial dispute that have hurt Japanese exports to one of its biggest markets.
In recent days, Noda has said he would push for Japan to negotiate various free-trade arrangements that many in Japan see as vital for reviving its stagnant economy. However, like other recent leaders, he appears to have run out of time: Japan has seen six prime ministers in the past six years.
"There's a real failure of leadership. That's in part because Japan's expectations for leadership are unrealistic. But also because the quality of leadership in Japan is really low," said Koichi Nakano, a professor of political science at Sophia University.
The LDP has been pushing Noda to make good on a promise to call elections soon, but he has said lawmakers must first carry out reforms needed to make the vote constitutional. Those reforms would include shrinking the size of the lower house of parliament.
Noda said the legislature would also have to approve an urgently needed deficit financing bill.
"We have to achieve that (parliamentary shrinkage) as soon as possible. We must make a decision and set a deadline. I can dissolve parliament on Nov. 16. Let's do it," Noda said during a one-on-one debate with Abe in the Diet, or parliament.
Abe said, "It's a promise, a promise, right? So, you're sure. You are sure, right? If you dissolve the parliament on the 16th, we'll let the people decide. We'll let the people decide which of us is better suited to get the country out of deflation and get the economic recovery back on track," Abe retorted.
"I look forward to meeting you at the election battle," he added.
Speaking after the session, Abe said his party had agreed to the promises he made. Chief Cabinet Secretary Osamu Fujimura likewise confirmed that Noda's comments were a pledge to dissolve parliament.
The LDP has been leading in public opinion polls and is eager to hold elections and challenge the hold on power by Noda's ruling Democratic Party of Japan. But the polls also show about half of the public are undecided or supporting other parties.
The two sides agreed earlier in the week on pushing ahead with the legislation authorizing the issuance of deficit bonds worth 38 trillion yen ($475 billion) to help cover the national budget. The government otherwise would have run short of funding by the end of the month.
The financing bill is expected to pass the lower house of parliament on Thursday and gain approval by the upper house next week, along with a decision on eliminating five single-seat constituencies in the lower house.
Other electoral reforms, on reducing a larger number of lower house seats, would wait until the next session of parliament.
"People are disaffected with the two largest parties," said Sophia's Nakano. "The LDP is not responding to the popular mood; the DPJ let people down. There are a number of voters who really don't have much preference on where to go."
Associated Press writers Mari Yamaguchi and Malcolm Foster contributed to this report.


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Minnesota Leaders To Discuss Special Session Prospects
ST. PAUL (AP) - After negotiating by letters and press releases, Minnesota's top state officials will get in the same room to discuss a possible September special session.
Gov. Mark Dayton said Wednesday that he plans to meet on Friday with the Democratic and Republican leaders from the House and Senate. They are trying to work out ground rules for a session focused primarily on storm disaster relief.
They generally agree that Minnesota legislators should approve a $4.5 million state match for federal disaster aid affecting 18 counties - including Stearns and Benton - hit by strong June storms. But the parties are in dispute over whether two recently approved taxes should be revisited.
Dayton and Democrats want to get rid of an accidental tax on farm equipment repair. Republicans say a sales tax on warehousing services should go, too.


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Pad Thai is one of my favorite go-to dishes when ordering Asian take-out. I taste tested this dish all over town and back again and there is only one place that makes it the way I
like love it. It happens to be the place I first fell in love with Pad Thai. It didn't matter that the ingredients were a total mystery to me… Aside from the obvious. Despite my love I have never been the least bit tempted to make it for myself until I saw Bobby Flay go head to head in a Pad Thai Challenge on his Showdown series. It was then that the Pad Thai mystery was solved and I learned exactly what went into making traditional Pad Thai. And enough useful tips that I felt confident enough to tackle it at home.
My Pad Thai recipe is made with flat rice noodles, bean sprouts, garlic, red chile, egg, shrimp and a special sauce. That's the secret. The secret to making a really good Pad Thai. It's in the sauce. Rather than adding the sauce ingredients separately to the wok the sauce should be made first. Made and tweaked until it's just the way you like it. I want the sour flavor of the tamarind to dominate the sauce. The very same flavor that caused me to fall in love. Not too sweet and not too salty.
My recipe as listed tastes and looks exactly like the take-out I buy. It didn't take much work for me to figure out the recipe. Just a little adjusting of my initial sauce and using those 'obvious' ingredients I mentioned earlier. I hope you love it as much as I do.
Easy Shrimp Pad Thai
(adapted from Food Network and Chez Pim)
Pad Thai Sauce
1 cup frozen Tamarind Pulp, thawed, unsweetened (found in the Spanish frozen section of your market)
2 tablespoons Thai Fish Sauce*
1/3 cup Palm or Brown Sugar
In a small sauce pan combine and simmer all ingredients over low heat for five minutes. Remove a spoonful, cool and taste. Too salty or sweet? Add more tamarind. Not salty enough? Add more fish sauce – a little bit at a time. Too sour? Add more sugar – a little at a time. Heat through again.
*If you don't like fish sauce omit and add salt – start with a 1/4 teaspoon and season to taste.
To make 2 servings of Pad Thai:
4 cloves garlic, minced
1-2 dried red chiles, crumbled without seeds or stems (found in the Mexican spice section of your market)
4 ounces Rice Noodles, soaked in hot tap water for a half hour (can also use Fettuccine pasta)
1 and 1/2 cups Bean Sprouts
1/2 cup water, you don't need to use it all
Pad Thai Sauce
2 eggs
1/2 pound Shrimp, medium or large, cleaned and tails removed
4 tablespoons Peanuts, chopped
2 tablespoons Garlic Chives or Green Onions, snipped with a kitchen scissor
Lime wedges, for serving
1. Assemble all your ingredients because the recipe moves fast, including 2 large spoons or spatulas for stirring.
2. Heat the oil in the wok or a large, heavy bottomed skillet over medium high heat. Add the garlic and chiles stirring, add the rice noodles and bean sprouts, stirring to separate the noodles, add a little bit of water if they stick together. Add 3 or 4 ladles (soup ladle) of sauce. Continue stirring until noodles looks soft and bean sprouts are wilted.
3. Move the noodles up the sides of the wok and add more oil if needed to cook the eggs. Crack them into the center and in the eggs. Push the noodles over top of the eggs and allow to cook for a minute, then stir the eggs and noodles together. Push the noodles to the sides of the wok, if using a skillet remove to a plate or bowl and set aside.
4. Add more oil if needed to cook shrimp, add shrimp and stir with 3 or 4 more ladles of sauce. Continue stirring until shrimp just start to curl and turn white. Add noodles back in and stir until everything is well combined, adding more sauce if needed.
5. Serve immediately with peanuts, garlic chives and lime wedges.
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Nintendo has so many iconic franchises, it's ridiculous. Out of the big three companies, only Nintendo has unique franchises that are hitting their 25th anniversary. The Ratchet and Clanks, Jak and Daxters, and Sly Coopers of the PS2 era were phenomenal while they lasted, but eventually waned in popularity or just ceased being made altogether. Somehow, Mario, Link, and even Fox McCloud with his rather small staple of games have managed to stay relevant to gamers and maintain enormous fanbases. For a game series to survive decades, it has to evolve with the times, right?
The thing is those games do experiment to some degree. The overall formula is the same but here's where I see the differences;
Where in Majora's Mask were you sailing across a gigantic ocean map? Where in Mario Galaxy were you cleaning the world and using a water powered jetpack? One could also argue that the Metroid Prime trilogy was to Super Metroid what Super Mario 64 did after Super Mario World.
I never really thought it was that difficult to see. These franchises do new things with old formulas and present them in newer ways, often complimenting the older gameplay style and making them work in more modern times.
It is sort of like how people continue to enjoy 2D games despite us being a decade into the 21st century; there are some things that just work and don't require an exponential amount of change. Forcing change for the sake of it will only hinder that franchise's evolution. I cite Sonic, Spyro and just about any modern sequel to a Rare game since the Xbox era as examples.
its always important to innovate at least try some will win some will loose. Look at metroid , metroid prime hugely innovated and was succesful. Metroid other M innovated and failed.
Yes, because even if the idea doesn't work in the game it was intended to, it's now out there as a known idea for other people to tinker with and include in their game.
What might not work for one game, might be perfect for another.
I have a ton of respect for those willing to try and be creative.
No, they should just do the same thing for the next 100 years.
All I have to say is Mario 3 is nothing like Galaxy which is nothing like Mario 64. They always change the style. Look at Mario like an actor who starred in many movies. Nobody complains saying sean connery movies are all the same


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I really hope that Valhallen reads this, but Im sure theres other flash specialists out there too .....
Just to save anyone time: if you don't program in flash or aren't interested in it you may as well move on to a more interesting thread for you ....
Im building a website in flash and Im doing it so all images are loaded directly from their file folders as they're needed rather than enlarging the file size of the site by importing images and texts directly into the flash document.
What I'v done is created a Movie Clip Loader, Listener and Load Variables on frame 1 of an actions layer in a master document. Like this:
Everything here works fine ...Code://---------------<MCL>-----------------\\ var ffMCL:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader(); var ffListener:Object = new Object(); ffMCL.addListener(ffListener); //-----------------<LoadVars>-----------------\\ var ffLV:LoadVars = new LoadVars(); ffLV.onLoad = function (success) { if (success) { _level5.loadedInfo.htmlText = ffLV.info; } else { _level5.loadedInfo.text = "There has been an error loading the requested information. Please contact the Webmaster and report your error."; } }
On frame 10 of the same layer theres this (for now):
In a seperate Flash Document, created to hold a slide show, I have made a Movie Clip box to display the loaded images, 2 dynamic text fields, and 2 buttons ( previous and next)Code:stop(); ffMCL.loadClip("slideShw.swf", 5);
And again on frame 1 of an actions layer of this same document there is the following code:
I haven't coded for the previous button yet, but we can imagine it'll look very similar to the above code for the next button ....Code:var slideInfoLV:LoadVars = new LoadVars(); slideInfoLV.load("vars/slide_info.txt"); var curFrameNum:Number = 0; function loadFrame() { _level0.ffMCL.loadClip("images/jpegs/Picture" + curFrameNum + ".jpg", this.imagesMC); } loadFrame(); // ---------------<next slide button>------------------\\ this.nextSlideBtn.onRelease = function() { if (curFrameNum < Number(slideInfoLV.totalFrames) - 1){ curFrameNum++; } else { curFrameNum = 0; } loadFrame(); }
And to check this we would simply run the master.swf file. Everything here works well except for one minor (or not so minor) oddity that doesn't seem to be in any reference or troubleshooting manual.
When one views the slideShw.swf file they simply see the Movie Clip that is meant to load the images (blank, as it should be) and some static text, and everything is where it should be.
But when we go to the master.swf doc. and run it, we see the images (as we should) but the Movie Clip box that loads these is horribly mis-placed far low and far to the right (so the buttons are actually overlapping about midway through the images).
The master and slideShw documents are exactly the same size and its not in the alignment of anything I may have done (or not done), I think Iv narrowed it down to this line of code:
Its a basically simple line, using simple concatation and relative URL's.Code:_level0.ffMCL.loadClip("images/jpegs/Picture" + curFrameNum + ".jpg", this.imagesMC);
I blame this line of code because if I comment it out, everything is aligned/placed correctly once again - I just, obviously, don't get my images loaded.
I can't figure it out, and Iv never seen anything like it before, it just seems so f***ing simplistically silly its maddening.
Before anyone replies to this I should say a few things about the nature of the site - its a commercial site, which is why Im being so cautious and meticulous about file sizes and simplicity & efficiency regarding future editing of the information, ALL images and texts are loaded, as they are needed from external files, based on external .css's.
And yes, I could rearrange the placement of things on the slideshw.fla document so everthing is properly aligned and placed when the master.swf is run, but then both the .fla and .swf of the slideshw.* are all messy looking and there lacks a professional looking layout on the backups, everything should be able to run properly as is, Im missing something and its something, I'm sure, very minuscule.
Any help is greatly appreciated, and I certainly hope Valhallens see's this (He's the one that got me interested in Flash initially).
I'll pre-thank all respondents now.


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Black root rot disease is a menace to strawberry growers. Plants with this soilborne disease often are short lived and produce few berries. For commercial operations, fumigating the soil with methyl bromide has been a widely used option to combat this disease. However, since this pesticide is being phased out of operation, growers are scrambling for alternatives. For small-scale and organic strawberry growers, one option is growing strawberry plants in compost-filled "socks."
USDA researchers in Maryland grew strawberries in the traditional matted row system and also in 8- to 24-inch-diameter mesh tube socks filled with compost. These socks are made from material commonly used for erosion control on banks and slopes. They were laid on top of the soil. The sock-grown strawberries not only had less black root rot disease, their yields were 16 to 32 percent higher than the control strawberry patch. Researchers believe the compost-filled socks provided a protective layer between the disease-laden topsoil and the strawberry plant roots. On a scale of 1 to 5 -- with 5 being totally free of root rot -- all but one of the strawberry varieties grown in the socks was rated a 4 or a 5.
For more information on this new research, go to: USDA Agricultural Research Service.


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Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve
What does a secret $16 Trillion bailout look like?
Like most Americans who work for a living*, I was outraged by the TARP bailouts that totaled over $700 Billion.
I was offended on principle, of course…any amount of public (borrowed) money going to bail out privately-owned companies is wrong. But the amount–so large that no normal person can get their brain around it–was offensive, too.
The bailouts spawned protests and Tea Party events across the country, and probably helped fuel the electoral bloodbath of 2010.
But here's the jaw-dropper, which has received next to no media coverage. Between December, 2007 and June, 2010, the Federal Reserve (which is not federal, nor is it a reserve) secretly bailed out politically-connected U.S. banks and corporations, AND foreign banks and governments, to the tune of $16 Trillion in U.S. taxpayer money.
Now, if you can't imagine $700 Billion, there's no way you can picture what $16,000,000,000,000.00 looks like, or what kind of value that represents.
I just found a video that puts these dollar figures into context, using a penny to represent $100,000,000 (one hundred million dollars). Disclaimer–it's a pitch for a Republican congressional candidate in Texas, so please don't be offended by that mention at the end of the video.
It's just sickening…sickening is the only word I can come up with.
If you don't know what the Federal Reserve is, or how it determines the value of the money you work hard for, I would highly suggest that you pick up a copy of The Creature from Jekyll Island to learn how the Federal Reserve came into existence and how it impacts your everyday life.
UPDATE: Here's some sourcing for the $16 Trillion figure:
The New American: Another Secret Federal Reserve Bailout, $7.7 Trillion This Time
The Federal Reserve Bank committed some $7.77 trillion in funds to major Wall Street banks during the height of the 2008 financial crisis, according to a report published by Bloomberg News November 28 through a Freedom of Information Act request.
It's unclear from the methodology explained by Bloomberg's analysis of some 29,000 Federal Reserve documents released how much overlap there is with the Government Accountability Office audit published last July that counted some $16 trillion in Federal Reserve loans to major Wall Street banks. Bloomberg's explanation of its methodology does indicate at least some overlap.
Throughout the financial crisis, Congress remained blissfully unaware that trillions of dollars were being committed by the Fed with the implicit guarantee of the U.S. taxpayer. "We were aware emergency efforts were going on," Massachusetts Democrat Barney Frank told Bloomberg, but "we didn't know the specifics." Frank, who announced his retirement November 28 after the Massachusetts state legislature gerrymandered him out of his district, served as Chairman of the House Financial Services Committee at the time the bailouts began. That committee is charged with oversight of the Federal Reserve and the banking industry.
The Bloomberg report noted that top Wall Street banks** benefited most from the deal. "The big six — JPMorgan, Bank of America, Citigroup, Wells Fargo & Co., Goldman Sachs Group Inc., and Morgan Stanley — took 63 percent of the Fed's emergency-loan money as measured by peak daily borrowing," the San Francisco Chronicle observed November 29 of the Bloomberg data.
*except those who belong to government employee unions, many of whom don't actually work for a living
**AKA Mittens Romneycare's chief source of campaign cash


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Arizona's clean-election law is pruned, but not uprooted
In the late 1980s and early '90s, a string of political scandals left Arizona voters incensed. Ultra-conservative Gov. Evan Mecham was impeached in 1988 for misusing campaign contributions. The next year, both Arizona U.S. senators, Dennis DeConcini, D, and John McCain, R, were accused of corruption for meddling in an investigation of Lincoln Savings and Loan, a bank chaired by major campaign donor Charles Keating. The bank's collapse in '89 cost the federal government $3 billion. The Senate Ethics Committee found that DeConcini acted improperly and McCain showed "poor judgment."
Then, in early 1991, hidden cameras caught state legislators stuffing cash into gym bags, after promising a man posing as a Las Vegas mobster to vote to legalize gambling in Arizona. The year-and-a-half investigation found politicians, lobbyists and others accepting bribes, laundering money and filing false campaign financial statements. Dubbed "AzScam," the scandal resulted in 17 indictments.
In 1998, a still-angry electorate passed the Clean Elections Act, a ballot measure designed to level the playing field for candidates of relatively modest means running against those bankrolled by powerful donors or their own personal fortunes. Qualifying candidates finance their campaigns with public funding, freeing them of the need to court big contributors.
"Voters wanted to get special interests out of politics," says Ruth Jones, an Arizona State University political science professor.
It was a pioneering effort to temper the power of money in elections, preceding even the 2002 federal campaign finance reform fashioned by McCain and Sen. Russ Feingold, D-Wis. Candidates opting to use public financing promise to limit personal spending to $500, participate in at least one public debate and return unspent money to the state. To qualify for the funds -- raised by a surcharge on civil and criminal fines -- and prove they are viable and well-organized, candidates collect $5 contributions from voters in their district. Those running for the state Legislature need at least 220 contributions. Though participants agree to overall spending limits, if a privately backed opponent spends over a set threshold, the publicly funded contender gets dollar-for- dollar matching funds up to a point.
At least, that's how it used to work. In Arizona and around the nation, campaign finance laws have a curious way of wilting or being uprooted over time. Laws passed in Portland, Ore., and Massachusetts, for instance, were eventually repealed. And now, clean-elections laws at both the federal and state level face an increasingly hostile U.S. Supreme Court, which has asserted that money in politics is equivalent to free speech.
In 2006, the Supreme Court, under conservative Chief Justice John Roberts, deemed Vermont's clean-elections law, which boasted the lowest campaign-contribution limits in the country, unconstitutional. In 2008, it struck down the so-called "millionaire's amendment" in McCain-Feingold, which kept wealthy candidates from drowning out competing voices by allowing their opponents to accept higher contributions from individual donors. Two years later, the High Court ruled in the highly publicized Citizens United case that, so long as they don't directly coordinate with a particular campaign, anonymous donors can spend as much as they like on politicking, through "SuperPACs" or political action committees -- a total reversal of McCain-Feingold. And last summer, split 5-4 along partisan lines, the Court decided that Arizona's use of public funds to match high spending by privately financed campaigns was unconstitutional.
Those matching funds were instrumental in keeping races between publicly and privately funded candidates competitive by allowing the former to respond quickly to expensive last-minute attacks, even if they'd exhausted their initial public grant. Two-thirds of those running for office in Arizona used public funding during the 2006 and 2008 elections. In 2010, with matching funds on hold pending litigation, half of the candidates participated. This year, it's expected to be lower still.
"Our thinking is that with the elimination of matching funds, the (public financing) system will wither away," says Marcus Osborn, a lobbyist for the Goldwater Institute and the Arizona Chamber of Commerce, two of the groups that sued over the Arizona law. That's fine with Osborn, who says it was too easy for radical candidates to qualify for public financing, causing "election distortion."
Some others agree that Arizona's clean-elections laws helped bring a more diverse -- and sometimes more radical -- Legislature into power by encouraging candidates who would have been unable to run otherwise. But it also forced candidates to interact more with their constituents to get those $5 contributions. "You get to see people up close, people get to see you up close, you get to know their concerns and issues up close," says former Tucson Mayor Thomas Volgy, a University of Arizona political science professor. "That (relationship) is not something that gets created in a TV studio."
Clean-elections fans should, perhaps, be grateful Arizona's program still exists at all. In early April, a repeal looked set to go to voters in November. The bill, introduced by Sen. John McComish, R-Phoenix, was marketed as "no taxpayer money for politicians." (Actually, the program makes money and returns its surplus to the state -- a total of $64 million so far.) Clean Elections Commission Executive Director Todd Lang says he's confident the public would have voted to keep the program. But, after negotiating, the two groups announced a compromise: One source of income, an option for taxpayers to divert $5 toward the program, will be removed and the program's educational activities will be limited. A full repeal won't appear on the ballot.
The commission has been simultaneously stoic and sanguine. "The program would work more efficiently if we still had matching funds," says Lang, who thinks it can fashion a new system providing some public matching funds that will hold up in court.
No one knows what the full effect of losing the millionaire's amendment, matching-funds provisions and donation limits to SuperPACs will be, at either the state or federal level. "We may have to wade through an election cycle or two and see what happens," says Jones, a former clean elections commissioner. "If, as the opponents of Citizens United suggest, it gets really wild, then the people might come back with some reform movement." Winds that blow from one direction can, in time, blow from another.


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Seven new All-Stars and still no Yasiel Puig.
But if you're a Los Angeles Dodger fan, that's probably a good thing.
The rookie sensation from the Dodgers was left out again after a string of substitutes were added to the National League roster Sunday. But this time, fans were not responsible. Instead, it sounds as though Puig's ailing hip settled baseball's big debate.
"If a guy is hurt, it doesn't make sense for him to go," Dodgers manager Don Mattingly said.
Puig may not be headed to Citi Field, but plenty of Pirates are.
Pittsburgh reliever Mark Melancon was picked as a replacement for the NL squad, giving the Pirates five All-Stars for the first time since 1972. That year Roberto Clemente, Willie Stargell, Steve Blass, Al Oliver and Manny Sanguillen represented the defending World Series champions at the National League's 4-3, 10-inning win in Atlanta.
Now, the Steel City has a fab five once again. Seeking to end a record streak of 20 consecutive losing seasons, the Pirates are 56-37 at the All-Star break and contending for the NL Central lead.
"It's a great honor for our organization and shows how far we have come in the last few years," general manager Neal Huntington said.
Once viewed by the Yankees as Mariano Rivera's possible successor, Melancon was traded by New York, Houston and Boston in a span of 2½ years. Now he joins third baseman Pedro Alvarez, center fielder Andrew McCutchen and closer Jason Grilli on the NL roster.
Pirates pitcher Jeff Locke, Washington Nationals right-hander Jordan Zimmermann and Braves first baseman Freddie Freeman, all on the original NL All-Star squad, are hurt and will miss Tuesday night's game at Citi Field.
"It's pretty cool to be considered among the upper echelon of Major League Baseball players," Melancon said. "It's really humbling. It's something you always hope will happen at some point in your career and I'm really excited about it."
He learned of his addition late Saturday afternoon.
"My first thought was, how I am going to get so many people to New York — which is a pretty busy city, to say the least — on such short notice?" Melancon said.
Pirates traveling secretary Greg Johnson helped with the arrangements to transport a dozen people in Melancon's group.
NL manager Bruce Bochy also selected Sergio Romo, his San Francisco Giants closer, as a replacement pick along with Atlanta catcher Brian McCann. St. Louis closer Edward Mujica was chosen to fill in for teammate Adam Wainwright, who started Sunday night.
Under baseball's labor contract, pitchers who start on the Sunday before the All-Star game may opt not to participate.
Despite four changes to the NL team, only one position player pulled out Sunday and Puig was not picked as the replacement. Though he's spent just six weeks in the majors, Puig has been so successful and exciting that some clamored for his inclusion, sparking a heated debate about whether that would be fair.
Puig was beaten out by Freeman last week in fan balloting online for the NL's final spot, and the Cuban outfielder didn't start for the second straight day Sunday because of a sore left hip, though he singled as a pinch hitter in the fifth inning. He came out after four innings Friday and didn't play Saturday.
After the Dodgers lost to Colorado 3-1 in their first-half finale, Puig was told Freeman had been removed from the NL roster.
"I just found out, but I'm not going either," Puig said through a translator.
Baltimore pitcher Chris Tillman, Kansas City closer Greg Holland and Oakland closer Grant Balfour were chosen by AL manager Jim Leyland of Detroit to replace Tigers ace Justin Verlander, Seattle's Hisashi Iwakuma and Oakland's Bartolo Colon, who all started Sunday. Verlander was the AL starter and loser in last year's All-Star game at Kansas City.
"It's a great honor now that it happened," Balfour said. "It was up in the air and it's nice to know it is official. I can go and have fun and do my thing."
Holland joined outfielder Alex Gordon and catcher Salvador Perez to give Kansas City three All-Stars for the first time since George Brett, Mark Gubicza and Kurt Stillwell in 1988. Holland received the notification Sunday in Cleveland and traveled with Gordon and Perez to New York instead of returning to Kansas City with the rest of the team.
He wasn't sure he was properly packed for the All-Star festivities
"I've got a lot of golf shirts," Holland said. "I don't know if that will pass. We'll see what happens."
Mujica's addition gave the Cardinals six All-Stars, tying Detroit for most in the majors.
Romo joined Giants teammates Buster Posey, Madison Bumgarner and Marco Scutaro to give the struggling World Series champs four representatives.
"I've never really seen myself as an All-Star. I've never really said it's one of my goals to make an All-Star team, but now that it's happening, I'm very proud. I mean, I'm an All-Star. Cool," Romo said. "To be honest, I still feel like I weaseled my way into the big leagues."
Based on reporting by The Associated Press.
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Before every concert, Carlos Santana prepares a song list that is
distributed to each member of the band. That list is a reflection of
various elements and one of the most important of these is whim. Yes,
sometimes Carlos decides to play a particular song simply because he's
in that kind of mood, or, not unusually, because someone during the day
has suggested or asked for it.
To be sure, there are other considerations. As one might expect, there
are certain must-play songs-e.g. Black Magic Woman/Gypsy Queen", "Oye
Como Va","Smooth", and "Maria Maria"et al-whose absence might well
provoke a minor revolt at the very least from hardcore Santana fans.
And then there are some songs that are just beginning to develop and
whose potential excites both Carlos and the band.
Not to be forgotten is the fact that chief chef Santana often
likes to have a surprise on the evening menu just to keep the band, and
himself, from getting too complacent or predictable.
So far the present Live Your Light Tour has found Santana
revisiting past tour favorites such as "Sacalo"[which features a sax
solo from Salvador Santana band saxophonist Jose"Crunchy"Espinosa],
"Brotherhood" a staple of the1980s and 1990s, and "Everybody's
Everything" now including fiery solo outings from rhythm guitarist
Tommy Anthony.
"Curacion" has proved to be a crowd favorite and a nice
change-of-pace from some of the more outgoing numbers. "Umi Says" has
been combined with "Sunshine Day" to provide feature spots for
vocalists Tony Lindsay and Andy Vargas-both of whom recently celebrated
birthdays on consecutive days, incidentally.
Undoubtedly the song that has provoked the most questions has been
"Marco Polo", a Japanese folklike instrumental that Carlos has taken a
powerful liking to. Much like some past duo pieces -e.g. "Goodness and
Mercy", "Blues For Salvador", and "Wings of Grace"-, "Marco Polo" is a
center-stage tour de force for Carlos Santana and keyboardist Chester
Thompson with the rest of the band joining in as the musical magic
And just when you thought you knew everything there was to know about
Santana, Carlos introduces a new kind of country & western, reggae,
and church song, "Peace, Light, Love, Joy", with Tommy Anthony taking
the lead vocal. Santana and country & western? Go figure, but then
go listen. If you're anything like the thousands who've heard it since
its initial outing in Texas, you'll like it.
In a few hours the band will take the stage in Chula Vista, Ca. [just
outside of San Diego]. Who knows what's on tonight's song list? Maybe
like last night, Carlos will surprise the band by going into a
song-i.e. "Europa"-that isn't even on the song list.
Stay tuned.
Hal Miller
San Diego
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Mars Express skims past Phobos
ESA has close encounter with Red Planet 'rubble pile'
The European Space Agency's Mars Express yesterday skimmed past Martian moon Phobos at a distance of just 67km - the closest any manmade object has ever approached the "enigmatic" body.
The flyby was designed to capture the "most exquisite data yet about the gravitational field of Phobos" by detecting the "subtle variations" in radio waves beamed from Earth to Mars Express and bounced back to ground-based receivers.
This data will prove useful in determining the exact nature of Phobos, thought to be a second-generation "rubble pile" which "coalesced in orbit after Mars formed, rather than forming concurrently out of the same birth cloud as the Red Planet".
Previous observations have shown that Phobos isn't dense enough to be a solid ball of rock, and must therefore must be comprised of around 25-30 per cent voids between its component "blocks".
The bad news for Phobos is that it will one day be once more reduced to rubble as it inexorably spirals down towards Mars.
Mars Express has previously captured some nice snaps of the moon with its High Resolution Stereo Camera (see pic), and future close encounters will further image the surface in high resolution.
The ESA has further details on its latest peer at Phobos here and more on Mars Express here. ®


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Woman finds roommate shot to death at South Sac home
Victim was in her 50s
Woman finds roommate shot to death at South Sac home
Victim was in her 50s
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (KCRA) —
A woman called authorities after finding her roommate shot to death inside their home on Tuesday, according to the Sacramento County Sheriff's Department.
The victim, a woman in her 50s, had suffered several gunshot wounds to her upper body, said deputies, who found her in a bedroom.
Officials were called to the home, in the 5900 block of Mascot Avenue, just before 4 p.m.
Homicide detectives are investigating the South Sacramento slaying.
Deputies held the woman's roommate for questioning, but she is not considered a suspect at this time, the release says.
Officials didn't release any details on who is responsible for the shooting.
Anyone with information is asked to call 916-874-5115.


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Moore announces upcoming office hours
Residents can meet with state Rep. Tim Moore to talk about state government concerns or problems during office hours scheduled in February and March.
"People are welcome to call me any time to talk or set up an appointment," said Moore, R-Farwell. "Office hours provide an added chance for me to meet with residents or for them to just stop in to say hello."
Scheduled office hours include:
Monday, Feb. 23
Gladwin Community Arena - 402 James Robertson Drive in Gladwin, at 9 a.m.;
Friday, Feb. 27
Pere Marquette District Library - 185 E. Fourth St. in Clare, at 10 a.m.;
Friday, March 6
Pinconning Branch Library - 218 Kaiser St. in Pinconning, at 9 a.m.; and
Monday, March 9
Dunleavy's Eatery & Pub - 110 S. Huron Road in AuGres, at 1 p.m.
People unable to attend office hours are encouraged to contact Moore by addressing letters to the State Capitol, Lansing, MI 48909-7514; calling his toll-free Lansing office number at 866-MOORE-97; sending faxes to 517-373-7195; e-mailing to email@example.com, or visiting his online office Web site at www.gophouse.com/moore.htm.
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Richard Knight mixes 'industrial grunge' with dazzling catwalk shows
After missing last year's event, lighting designer Richard Knight returned to the Wella International Trend Vision Award 2010 (ITVA), held this year at Paris's Halle Freyssinet, to make his contribution to a dazzling spectacular.
Drawing on around 80 GLP impression (impression 90 and impression 120 RZ zoom) LED moving heads, the lighting designer, who specialises in theatrical and corporate events such as this, had a mission-critical role for the fixtures in each location.
Zone 2 became the location for the morning and afternoon catwalk shows and Zone 1 was used for the evening gala dinner and award presentations. These two areas were linked by a central 'hub', in the form of a 'live' TV studio, where interviews took place throughout the day, as well as four 'trend zone' exhibition spaces.
Working alongside event production company, Jack Morton Worldwide's production manager, Glenn Bolton, and producers, Georgia Lavis and Charlotte Duffin, Knight was able to enhance the qualities of the environment while at the same time providing a focus for the entertainment, including the introduction of the four new trends for the coming year.
"The client chose this 20th Century masterpiece of industrial architecture, so we in turn chose to allow the venue to dictate certain decisions. Martin [Sutherland, set designer] created a layout that minimised sightline issues caused by the supporting columns, and made best use of the available space.
"We also made the decision to keep the areas we created within the venue relatively open, allowing me to highlight the venue's natural 'Industrial Grunge' architecture and let the structure of the venue shine through." This in turn created an interesting juxtaposition between the 'plain ugliness' of the venue against some stunningly beautiful hair models, said Knight.
To achieve this, 24 impressions were attached to the pre-existing concrete lintels — edging the Catwalk area in Zone 2 — and a further eight 120 RZ Zooms (with 10°-26° beam) on a FoH truss.
"Using the side-mounted impressions I could illuminate the columns and also cover the ceiling arches with the same fixtures. If I wanted to bling up the TV studio, I just had to point the FoH truss units the other way — back behind the control platform. I could also use the same fixtures to back-light the audience — so in effect they had three jobs."
In the TV Studio area Knight also provided an additional 12 impressions to deal with a transitional 'dead zone' between Zone 2 and Zone 1 — which had to be left clear for emergency vehicle access — and a further 12 GLPs in various locations, including four on a pantograph.
Lighting the morning show presented the main challenge when Wella presented their ideas for the future. "It has a very strong theatrical element with live show director, Kim Gavin's dancers interpreting each of the four trends, backed with some stunning screen visuals from Knifedge Ltd. Those introductions were then followed by hair models for each trend coming down the catwalk with further interpretations by four major hair salons. From a lighting perspective the trick was to link the screens and choreography in a cohesive piece." This was followed by the more scientific element of a white light catwalk, enabling everyone to see the hair and models.
The afternoon was equally visually arresting as each country sent down a hair stylist from the salon which won their national competition, with the corresponding hair models competing against each other.
In the evening the 2,000 industry professionals arrived back for the gala dinner and competition awards. The stage was adorned with a further four GLP impressions on each of four vertical legs, with another eight for backlighting. The awards presentations were accompanied by performances by The Noisettes, Soul Symphony, aerial artists, roller-bladers and street dance troupe Diversity.
Once again the LED lights more than punched their weight, and the lighting designer was highly impressed. "Now that GLP has the Zoom everything becomes so easy. The impressions were completely rock solid — they have a small footprint and at just 7.5kg that helped get around the venue's weight loading limitations. There are no dimmers involved and you don't have to think about them — in effect they serve the purpose of a modern parcan.
"In fact throughout the event we must have used around 1000 lights, including 80 Impressions, and I don't think a single fixture failed all day, which is also a fantastic reflection on my ace lighting team."
Handling the programming for the morning and afternoon shows was Phil Cole while Seb Williams programmed the evening performance. Responsible for production LX was James Tomlinson and all the lighting and rigging equipment — including the GrandMA control desks — was supplied by RS Rock-Service from Germany, supervised by Peter Oberhofer.
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