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The first offer was ludicrous. Carmen Trutanich, the Los Angeles city attorney, had publicly vowed to get tough on the guys who hang giant, vinyl signs on the sides of buildings. Tempers were hot.
But two years in jail? For hanging some ads for Tropicana orange juice? Mark Denny couldn't believe it. He was convinced he'd been within his rights.
"I don't want to spend any time in jail," Denny says. "I have a family. I have a business. I have people I'm trying to employ."
The judge suggested that, if the charges could be proved, they might be worth a 30-day sentence — which, with early release, would come down to a long weekend.
Denny's attorneys thought even that was too much. This was, after all, a code violation — akin to building a fence a few feet too high or keeping chickens in your backyard. Supergraphics might be an eyesore, but the jails are crowded enough without putting guys like Denny behind bars.
But time failed to cool Trutanich's temper. When Denny's lawyers met with Jeffrey Isaacs, the deputy in charge of the criminal branch, Isaacs heard them out but said Trutanich would have to make the final call. And Trutanich was apparently in no mood to compromise.
"Mr. Trutanich was personally involved in these cases," Isaacs testified recently. "He felt jail time was appropriate."
And so the case, along with many others like it, is still dragging on.
"He's put me and my family through hell," Denny says. "It's all a political agenda. I happened to get tied into it, and I just can't get out."
Carmen Trutanich came into office vowing to "throw politics out the front door." But in almost three years as city attorney, he has repeatedly sought jail time for minor offenses that align with his political crusades. He's pursued sign installers like Mark Denny. He's tried to jail people who sell medical marijuana. He's gone after street artists and political demonstrators. At a time when most policymakers are trying to reduce the jail population, Trutanich's impulse is to lock 'em up.
Such high-profile crusades have become part of his sales pitch now that the 60-year-old Trutanich is running for district attorney. But the truth is that he has largely failed in his efforts to lock people up for these nuisance crimes — even as the manpower he's devoted to them has left fewer resources for more important cases. Records show, for example, that the City Attorney's Office under Trutanich has cut back on pursuing gang injunctions — a critical component of public safety — and has prosecuted far fewer gang cases than his predecessor.
Trutanich's critics point out that, while his office is limited to prosecuting misdemeanors, he's been obsessed with enhancing his powers. He launched a Bureau of Investigation to pursue his own cases, rather than wait for local law enforcement to bring him its handiwork. He tried to get the Legislature to give him control of a criminal grand jury. And, in a little-noticed move, he got state law rewritten to let his investigators eavesdrop electronically.
Now Trutanich is after even more power. If he becomes district attorney, he'll be the top prosecutor in Los Angeles — able to launch his own investigations, influence policy and punish people with long prison sentences.
It's an idea that makes a lot of folks nervous.
"It would be truly scary with him in charge of the DA's office," says one of Trutanich's subordinates, who asked not to be identified for fear of retribution. "This is an office that only does misdemeanors. You want him controlling death-penalty cases?"
When Trutanich was elected, in May 2009, the front-line deputies in the City Attorney's Office initially were relieved. Many felt that his predecessor, Rocky Delgadillo, was too much of a politician, and had turned the office into a vehicle for his own ambitions. Such wariness about politics runs deep in many veteran prosecutors; they know that public servants have the power to ruin people's lives.
"Unfortunately," says one deputy city attorney, "whenever you have an elected official for an office like criminal and civil enforcement, you never know if what the person is doing is in the interest of justice or in the interest of headlines."
Delgadillo's big issue was keeping children safe from gangs. Every time you turned around, he was reading to children in a classroom photo op. He had good reason to pose and posture: Facing a two-term limit, Delgadillo had his eyes on the state Attorney General's Office.
If anything, Trutanich's opponent for the open seat was thought to be worse than Delgadillo. Jack Weiss was a politician, an L.A. city councilman, and Trutanich hammered him for it.
A barrel-chested lawyer with a private practice in Long Beach, Trutanich had started out as a deputy district attorney, working in the environmental crimes unit before leaving the office to represent the sorts of polluters he had once prosecuted. He was a bit rough around the edges, and, at the time of the election, that seemed like a good thing. He was independent. Everywhere he went, he stressed, "I am not a politician."
To drive the point home, he signed a pledge to serve two full terms as city attorney. He vowed not to run for Congress or district attorney, and goaded Weiss to do the same. If he violated the pledge, he promised to give $100,000 to an after-school program and take out a full-page newspaper ad announcing "I AM A LIAR."
Soon after Trutanich was elected, he dove headfirst into the political arena. One of his first acts was to threaten criminal charges against sports and entertainment company AEG over the Michael Jackson funeral at Staples Center, a major player in downtown L.A. (Those threats went nowhere.) He inveighed against billboards and supergraphics. When Councilwoman Jan Perry raised objections to his crusade, he threatened to arrest her.
Less than two years into his term, Trutanich broke his pledge and started raising money to run for district attorney. Everything he had done as city attorney became potential campaign fodder — exactly what front-line deputies feared from the get-go. And, indeed, when Trutanich formally announced his candidacy for DA two weeks ago, he talked up his record as a tough prosecutor.
Trutanich turned down repeated requests from the Weekly over several weeks to be interviewed for this story, although his office did make attorneys available to discuss specific issues. (Last week, Trutanich finally offered to meet for an off-the-record chat, but the Weekly refused.)
He has made himself available to a few select outlets. In an interview on KPCC, he presented himself as the most qualified candidate in the race. "We forced the billboard companies to their knees," he bragged.
That kind of rhetoric turns off a lot of prosecutors in the District Attorney's Office, who worry that Trutanich will meddle with their cases for political reasons.
"We don't want to be thugs. We don't want to push people around," says one deputy DA. "We want to prosecute bad guys and we want to do it fairly. There's a feeling that Trutanich is the kind of guy who would use his position to abuse the power we have."
The tough-guy approach doesn't always work. Nowhere has Trutanich been more aggressive, or less effective, than in his fight against medical marijuana.
The medical marijuana community supported Trutanich's campaign, believing him to be more understanding of its cause than Jack Weiss.
But shortly after he was elected, Trutanich helped organize an ominous-sounding law enforcement training luncheon: "The Eradication of Medical Marijuana Dispensaries in the City of Los Angeles and Los Angeles County."
The problem for Trutanich was that the L.A. City Council — and the city as a whole — did not want to eradicate medical marijuana. They wanted to regulate it. (In 2010, 54 percent of Angelenos voted in favor of Proposition 19, the unsuccessful state measure that would have legalized marijuana.) So Trutanich's office drafted regulations that were virtually impossible to follow.
The city ordinance granted government access to patient medical records, without a warrant. It imposed burdensome requirements for record keeping and product testing. And it imposed criminal sanctions for anyone who failed to comply.
Dispensaries had no choice except to sue. But rather than wait to see what the courts thought of his ordinance, Trutanich started enforcing it, coordinating a series of raids on "noncompliant" dispensaries.
In July 2010, LAPD raided Liberty Bell Temple, a Rastafarian dispensary in Hollywood. Eight officers in helmets and bulletproof vests marched in, shotguns drawn. They arrested the owner, Ed Forchion, along with his girlfriend, and seized two pounds of marijuana and $7,000 in cash.
Trutanich's office charged Forchion with several misdemeanor violations of the new ordinance. According to Forchion's attorney, David Welch, the prosecutors first offered the maximum: six months in jail. The offer meant the prosecutors wanted a trial — and, to Welch, it was a clear sign of political motives.
"It was an attempt to scare other people into closing," Forchion says.
The same thing happened to Lev Goukassian, who operated Nirvana Pharmacy in Westwood. He was arrested, and the officers seized $3,000 in cash. When Goukassian went to court, the deputy city attorney offered him a plea deal: He, too, could do six months.
"Even the judge laughed at that," says Goukassian's attorney, Gregory Rubel. "The response from the [deputy] city attorney was, 'These are my marching orders. I don't agree with it. But this is what I've been told to do.' "
The marching orders changed, however, when Judge Anthony Mohr struck down major portions of the city's ordinance, including the parts that allowed for criminal penalties. In his December 2010 ruling, Mohr called Trutanich's raids "most troubling" because it was not clear that anyone had actually broken the law.
After the ruling, the City Attorney's Office offered a plea deal to Goukassian. If he pleaded guilty to disturbing the peace, he would serve no jail time and would not be fined. As long as he stayed out of trouble, his record would be wiped clean after a year. He even got his $3,000 back.
"Their case fell apart," Rubel says. "They made a big deal out of these cases and then ran away from them."
As for the case against Forchion, it lingered until last October, when a state appellate court struck down an ordinance in Long Beach that is similar to the one in Los Angeles. Trutanich's office decided it could no longer defend the law and dropped charges against Forchion and two other dispensaries. Trutanich's effort to put dispensary owners behind bars ended in complete failure.
"They just folded," Forchion says.
Trutanich has a slightly better record of fighting medical marijuana in civil court, if only because most dispensaries have simply closed when threatened with litigation. But in the only civil case yet to reach a jury, against Buds on Melrose, Trutanich lost. The dispensary is still open for business.
Trutanich now is trying to get the City Council to ban medical marijuana completely.
"He's smart enough to see it as a problem but not smart enough to regulate around it," says the Greater Los Angeles Collective Alliance's Sarah Armstrong.
For now, the legal environment around medical marijuana is messier than ever (see our Feb. 18 cover story, "L.A.'s Pot Prohibition Playbook," by Hillel Aron).
District Attorney Steve Cooley, who has had more luck than Trutanich prosecuting dispensaries under state law, continues to pursue criminal cases. Enforcement seems to be at the whim of individual City Council members and LAPD captains. Meanwhile, dispensaries open every week in defiance of the city's ordinance.
Trutanich has complained about the scores of suits that have been filed against the city, but marijuana activists blame Trutanich for failing to work with the industry. In the meantime, Trutanich's confrontational approach has eaten up resources that could have been spent on other things. Last year, Trutanich told the Sherman Oaks Patch that 20 deputy city attorneys are working on marijuana cases.
Even some within the office openly question whether that's a wise use of attorneys' time.
"Staffing has gotten very thin," says Phil Sugar, a veteran in the City Attorney's Office. "Putting marijuana at the top priority is probably not energy well spent."
Trutanich assigned as many as 18 lawyers — in both his criminal and civil divisions — to go after illegal billboards and supergraphics, which had sprouted up all over the city in the previous decade. The criminal attorneys were unusually aggressive. Instead of mailing notices, they sought arrest warrants. In one infamous case, they locked up a building owner, Kayvan Setareh, on $1 million bail.
"If they commit a violation of the law for a monetary motive, they should be subjected to jail time like everybody else," says Bill Carter, Trutanich's chief deputy. "The purpose of jail sentences is for deterrence."
But in court, the supergraphics industry has fought Trutanich to a standstill. The City Attorney's Office has filed 52 criminal cases against property owners, sign installers and billboard executives. To date, none of them has been sentenced to jail. Despite extraordinary efforts from Trutanich's office, only three people have pleaded guilty to sign-ordinance violations; all of them got probation. (Another five corporate entities also entered pleas.) Most of the cases — 38 — are still pending.
One of those is the case against Setareh, who had rented out the side of a building he owns in Hollywood to a supergraphics company, which hung a large advertisement for the movie How to Train Your Dragon. His attorney, Andrew Stein, says Setareh was unaware there was a problem until a team of officers stormed his home in the Pacific Palisades and hauled him off to jail — where he was held on $1 million bail.
In a statement, Trutanich warned, "The days of lax and inconsistent enforcement of billboard and outdoor advertising laws in this city are over."
It was great political theater. But as a legal matter, Trutanich had overstepped. There are only a few legal justifications for setting bail — for example, if a defendant is a flight risk. "Sending a message" isn't one of them.
Trutanich's legal argument rested entirely on the notion that the signs posed a threat to public safety: that they were fire hazards, and that they could fall to the ground and kill pedestrians. Never mind that the city had signed off on permits for supergraphics just like Setareh's at other locations, including Staples Center.
Stuck in jail, Setareh was in no position to argue. As a condition of his release, he agreed to have the sign taken down.
Several months later, other supergraphics defendants did argue the point, and won. After a seven-day bail hearing, Judge Greg Dohi refused to order that the signs be taken down and set bail at just $10,000.
"The bottom line is that the people have failed to show that the risks associated with flammability, fire spread and smoke rise to the level of imminent danger," Dohi ruled.
Setareh had spent three days in jail on a false premise.
"This case has left a terrible taste in my mouth about how justice is dispensed in that office," says Stein, Setareh's attorney. "It's political now." He calls Trutanich "a bully." Setareh's trial is set for next month, and he faces a fine at most, Stein says.
Trutanich has had victories. Thanks to an appellate ruling in the city's favor in 2010, most of the illegal signs have been taken down. And last year, CBS Outdoor agreed to a $4 million settlement in a supergraphics case. But he can just as easily overplay his hand.
Trutanich has been trying to extract millions of dollars in civil penalties from Mark Denny and his co-defendants, including Barry Rush, owner of Worldwide Mediacom. Last year, Denny's attorney made a settlement offer of about $40,000. Trutanich rejected it as far too low.
So instead, the defendants settled the case with Caltrans, which also has authority to pursue illegal billboards that crop up next to freeways. Under that agreement, the defendants paid $218,000 to the state.
Last month, a judge threw out the city's lawsuit, ruling that its claims had already been settled thanks to the state fine. Trutanich's office has vowed to appeal. But as it stands, the city seems likely to end up with nothing.
Rocky Delgadillo's signature issue was gang violence. When Trutanich took office, he looked for a way to make the issue his own. The result was a crackdown on graffiti, which nicely combined two of Trutanich's obsessions: counterculture and signage.
Where others saw a nuisance — or even an art form — Trutanich saw a threat to public safety. He added graffiti cases to the gang section's duties, putting experienced gang prosecutors on the trail of street artists.
The move coincided with growing appreciation for street art in the mainstream art world. Some street artists were giving up illegal graffiti in favor of gallery shows. A clash was inevitable, and it came last year, during "Art in the Streets," a landmark show at the Museum of Contemporary Art.
"I have no problem with legitimate art. ... I have a problem with graffiti," Trutanich said in a documentary about the show. "If somebody in that show has an outstanding warrant, chances are they won't finish the show."
As it happened, one of the artists did have an outstanding warrant. Revok, whose real name is Jason Williams, says he stopped doing illegal graffiti in L.A. several years ago, when he launched a professional art career. But he says the Sheriff's Department and Trutanich have continued to harass him anyway, looking for technical offenses to violate his probation and send him back to jail.
"He's not gonna allow any of us to have a legitimate career," Revok says.
He adds that the Sheriff's Department has followed him on Twitter, shown up to his art shows and raided his home several times. On one occasion, he was arrested for possession of graffiti tools, which counted as a probation violation even though, in his case, they're also tools of his trade. (While he was in custody, he says, investigators pressed him for information on other street artists — Roger Gastman and Shepard Fairey — who have successful legitimate careers.) When Revok failed to show up to court or pay restitution on the charge, a warrant was issued for his arrest.
About a week after the opening of "Art in the Streets," Revok was planning to leave Los Angeles to complete a commissioned work in Ireland. Sheriff's deputies arrested him at LAX, booking him on $320,000 bail.
He was sentenced to 180 days in jail. He ended up serving 45 days due to overcrowding.
"Every day you're in jail, your life in the real world is falling apart," Revok says. "It fucks your life up. I'm not gonna sit here and piss and moan and cry for doing time for a crime. But I didn't commit any crime."
He calls it "absolute harassment."
Revok has since moved to Detroit to avoid further run-ins.
"Revok is not a dangerous, violent felon. He's an artist," says Saber, a fellow graffiti artist. Saber believes he's putting himself in jeopardy by criticizing Trutanich. "This man specializes in intimidation, focuses on low-hanging fruit and has no problem using city funds to facilitate his personal vendettas."
Trutanich boasts of pursuing a "first-of-its-kind" injunction against the MTA tagging crew, which is most famous for a quarter-mile-long tag on the banks of the L.A. River. Modeled on gang injunctions, which are civil court orders aimed at keeping gang members from controlling particular neighborhoods, the MTA injunction seeks $4 million in restitution for cleanup costs.
Smear, an MTA crew member accused in the complaint, says he has given up vandalism in pursuit of a gallery career. But Trutanich's injunction seeks to make that impossible.
If a judge signs off on the injunction, it would bar Smear from selling photos of his work to collectors, on the grounds that his so-called criminal behavior gives him an unfair business advantage over other artists. The injunction also would prevent MTA members from meeting with each other or possessing spray cans.
The ACLU, which is fighting the injunction, calls it "unquestionably unconstitutional."
Many fear it will get worse if Trutanich becomes DA. Says Revok: "I really hope this bastard doesn't get elected."
Yet even as Trutanich has gone full-bore after street artists, he has eased off on actual street gangs.
In the last two and a half years of Delgadillo's administration, the city obtained 10 gang injunctions. During the first two and a half years of Trutanich's term, the city has obtained just four — two of them mostly completed on Delgadillo's watch.
"We're not doing as many gang injunctions as we used to," Carter, Trutanich's chief deputy, acknowledges. "When you have limited resources, you can't devote your prosecutors to writing injunctions."
The office also is prosecuting fewer gang members. Trutanich is running for DA on a promise that he will "never back off" on gang crime. But since he took office, gang convictions are down 31 percent.
A prosecutor can get away with a lot if he picks the right enemies. Trutanich has drafted off public anger against Wall Street in cases against Deutsche Bank, for failing to maintain foreclosed homes, and Northern Trust, for investing pension funds in risky securities.
Neither lawsuit has been tested in court. But he keeps framed news clippings about the Deutsche Bank case in his office lobby, and has already used the lawsuit in his campaign for DA. In a campaign video, Trutanich drives past blighted homes, and says, "We're going after these banks, to force them to become accountable for what they're doing in these neighborhoods."
But Trutanich also can pick the wrong enemies. His worst miscalculation was his fight against nonviolent political demonstrators. In the wake of several protests in 2010, Trutanich initially sought yearlong jail sentences against what he called "professional protesters" for failure to disperse. When the protesters fought back in the L.A. Times, Trutanich quickly reversed course. Most protesters were given deferred sentences.
When the Occupy L.A. movement seized control of the City Hall lawn last fall, Trutanich's initial response was more muted, at least in public. All he would say was that protesters should "follow the law."
After the camp was cleared, however, Trutanich threatened to sue Occupy L.A. to recover the city's costs. He also charged 50 demonstrators criminally and offered others lighter sentences if they agreed to sit through a class on the First Amendment.
"The goals of Trutanich have stayed the same," says Garrick Ruiz, a protestor charged by the city attorney in 2010, "which is to figure out how he can punish people as strongly as he can for any kind of political activity."
The powers of the city attorney are limited. But even before his election, Carmen Trutanich sought to expand those powers, with an eye toward higher-profile cases and investigations of his fellow politicians.
In 2005, he took a break from private practice to work as an adviser to Rocky Delgadillo. His main accomplishment was to create a proposal for a Bureau of Investigation within the City Attorney's Office.
The city attorney has investigators who perform tasks such as tracking down witnesses and serving subpoenas. But Trutanich wanted something more than that: an investigative agency that would pursue cases LAPD either couldn't or wouldn't.
In a document presented to the City Council in 2005, the City Attorney's Office argued, "The need is especially critical in the areas of elder abuse, fraud and corruption cases."
The idea went nowhere. But then, in 2009, Trutanich campaigned for the office on a promise to pursue corruption.
"We're going to prosecute misdemeanor ethics violations by politicians," Trutanich told the Sherman Oaks Homeowners Association, as journalist Ron Kaye reported on his blog. "We're going to change the way politics is played in the City of Los Angeles." (To date, Trutanich has not prosecuted an ethics case.)
Upon his election, Trutanich immediately revived the Bureau of Investigation. But he was never able to fund it fully, and it has done relatively little.
In 2010, he tried a different tack. He asked the Legislature to give him authority over a criminal grand jury. Under the proposal, Trutanich would be able to launch investigations and subpoena both records and witnesses — without getting a judge's blessing first. In essence, it would have allowed him to fish for information instead of waiting for instances of wrongdoing in which he had probable cause.
The effort failed. After it was widely interpreted as an attempt to pursue an investigation of Councilwoman Jan Perry and AEG, Trutanich agreed to delete "corruption" from the list of powers he could pursue, only to see the bill die anyway.
After that defeat, Trutanich came back the next year. He sponsored a bill that gave his investigators the power to wear wires and record phone conversations without the other party's knowledge.
City attorneys could already do that, so long as they first got permission from the district attorney. But Trutanich wanted to eliminate that check on his power. The bill, which garnered little attention, sailed through and was signed by Gov. Jerry Brown last October.
Assemblyman Warren Furutani, who carried the bill despite opposition from the American Civil Liberties Union, calls it "another tool in his toolbox."
For Ignacio Hernandez, a lobbyist for the California Attorneys for Criminal Justice, which opposed the bill, it was further evidence of the city attorney's "inferiority complex."
"They want to have as many powers and tools as DA's, even though they're not," Hernandez says.
The last city attorney in Los Angeles who didn't chase headlines was Jim Hahn. Before he was mayor, Hahn served 16 years as city attorney — something that, thanks to term limits, would be impossible today.
The deputies who are old enough to remember those days recall them fondly, especially in light of what came next.
"I believe the entire problem with the politicization of these offices is due to term limits," says Phil Sugar, the veteran deputy city attorney. "What's happened to our office is it's become a stepping stone."
Trutanich has occasionally tried to downplay his tough-guy image. In an interview with the Weekly last year, he maintained, "I'm not a thug."
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But another part of him seems to revel in that reputation. In his office, Trutanich keeps a wooden plaque that reads, "The strong do as they will, the weak do as they must."
The plaque used to hang in a gym in Harbor City where Trutanich worked out, says John Franklin, his communications director. When the gym closed, the owner gave it to him.
The line, from Thucydides, is an unusual one for an officer of the court to have on display. It refers to an argument the Athenians made before crushing the weaker city-state of Melos. The Melians pleaded for mercy and justice, but the Athenians responded, essentially, that justice had nothing to do with it: We will crush you because we can.
Most readers see this as a stomach-churning display of realpolitik, one that ultimately led to the Athenians' comeuppance. Trutanich takes it as an inspiration.


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Former Professors and Classmates Talk with Boston Globe About NBA Coach Brad Stevens '99
March 2, 2014
Friday's appearance by Brad Stevens, head coach of the NBA's Boston Celtics, at the MIT Sloan Sports Analytics Conference, "the top gathering of analytic-minded sports figures in the country," warrants a Boston Globe column in which Baxter Holmes calls upon several of the 1999 DePauw University graduates former professors and friends.
Known as a "numbers guy" among some observers for his ability to use analytics to better understand his players, opponents and the game itself, Stevens tells the newspaper, "I value the numbers, but I do think that culture is the most important thing."
Later in the piece, Holmes writes, "Gary Lemon, an economics professor at DePauw University, remembered that his former pupil excelled at data analysis and in finding correlations between variables that helped explain, for example, why the housing market fluctuated. 'Brad was always really good at that,' Lemon said. (at left: Stevens and Dr. Lemon as the coach delivered the April 13, 2010 Robert C. McDermond Lecture at DePauw)
"Josh Burch, a close friend and fellow DePauw economics student, said that he and Stevens worked on a senior year project that involved studying the stock market. Stevens excelled at that, too. 'He's able to wrap his head around numbers and understand theory and principles of why things move and behave the way they do,' Burch said. Said Matt Broughton, who shared classes with Stevens at DePauw: 'He always computes in his head pretty quickly. He's a pretty quick, clear thinker.' "
Mary Dixon, professor of economics at DePauw, simply states, "Brad is wicked smart."
The newspaper reports, "Stevens made the Dean's List at DePauw and was a Management Fellow in its honors economics program. He earned an internship at Eli Lilly, a global pharmaceutical giant based in Indianapolis that hired him upon graduating. There, Stevens's analytical mind helped him shine."
You'll find the complete story at the Globe's website.
The 36-year-old Stevens led Butler University to a 166-49 record, including a 12-5 record in the NCAA Men's Basketball Championship and two consecutive trips to the national championship game (in 2010 and 2011). His 166 wins are the most for any NCAA Division I basketball coach over the first six years to start a career. He was named the head coach of the Boston Celtics in July, becoming the youngest current head coach in the NBA.
My experience at DePauw was about as beneficial as any experience I've had," Brad Stevens told ESPN.com recently. In December, the Boston Globe noted, "Actually, one of the biggest influences in how Stevens leads was a course he took during his sophomore year at DePauw."
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friends for play only with them. I have tried online games and even if mame is not studied for online games the playability is not bad, but all depends from your/opponent connection.
Do you have any fond memories of any arcade games? Perhaps you can remember wasting away time when you were younger by blasting a few space invaders, or any of the other hundreds of games that would be found in Arcades up and down the country. If by any chance you do have an urge to play an old arcade machine, chances are you can do this now, just by owning a PC (or other supported platform), this piece of software and some ROM images for the games you wish to play (which can be downloaded from many sites). What is MAME? ============ MAME, is an emulator that emulates many different arcade machines, hence the name which stands for Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator. A brief history of MAME ================== The following text is quoted from the MAME Support document that is included with the emulator: 1997.02.05 - In the beginning there was Mame, the DOS text based program authored by Italian programmer Nicola Salmoria in 1996 and released on Feb. 05 ~Quote ends~ MAME as you can see has been in development for years upon years. This development was not inspired by an urge of to commit piracy to avoid having to pay to play the games. Instead it was started as a project to archive and keep playable games that have long since become extinct from Arcades. The same basic premise is around today, no currently viable Arcade Machine (i.e. one that is still amassing money) will be emulated until that status changes. As luck would have it though, the ones that fit into that criteria are the games that would be incredibly difficult to emulate, or ones that require specialized hardware peripherals in order to play. How has MAME evolved? =================== From humble beginnings where it emulated perhaps a few hundred games, the latest release emulates over 3,200 games (most of them perfectly). The first release of MAME, was *Disk Operating System on
ly. This made it appear user un-friendly to someone who was unfamiliar with DOS. This review will be centering on the MAME32 version of MAME. This is basically identical in most aspects to the DOS version, but is ever so slightly slower. However nowadays the speed cost is not worth considering as a disadvantage. Computers are much faster now, and as such are more than capable of running MAME with an easy to use front end. MAME32 ======= This is the Windows user-friendly version of MAME. It runs over 3200 games, ranging from 1975 up to and including the year 2000. MAME is constantly evolving though, with new updates a regular occurrence. As of this review it is on version 0.59. Just how well does it play games then? ============================ Of course this all depends on which game you play, however the vast majority of games have near 100% perfect emulation. Some games don't have sound, some will have graphical glitches ? but for the most part you won't experience these problems. Examples of some games it can play, and the diversity between each game: Space Invaders (Do I need to say more? 1978 shooting game) Star Wars original (Vector graphics shoot-em-up Star Wars game from 1983) Ghosts 'N' Goblins (Popular game made by Capcom in 1985) Street Fighter 2 (Fighting game made by Capcom in 1991) Wrestlefest (A wrestling game that I am sure will be familiar to many; 1991) The Simpsons (Scrolling beat-em-up game based on everyones favourite family; 1991) Metal Slug3 (Platform, shooting action. Very funny, and well worth playing; 2000) Features of MAME32 ================ MAME32, has a user friendly frontend allowing for a large amount of configuration. Here I list some of those features: Filters ~~~~~ The games list which is present in MAME runs at over 3200 games. Findi
ng the game you want in this list even though it is sorted alphabetically can still be quite a task. Filters can be used to narrow down your search they include, year, manufacturer and whether you have the game currently available for use. There is also a filter for Originals ~~~~~~~ This can be used to narrow down the search substantially. This is because some games have many different variants, be they slightly revised versions, foreign versions, or user hacked versions. Sometimes these hacks etc can make it tougher for you to find the game you actually want to run. This filter will ensure that only the originals are shown. Perhaps the best example I can think of, in which a game was hacked was for Street Fighter 2. If you are a gamer and are familiar with this Arcade machine, you may have seen several different versions of it floating around in Arcades. Some of the variants are official ones, but others are hacked versions that include amongst other things the ability to change the character you are using mid-game, this was a random change though! Screenshot support ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ If you so desired you could download pictures of every single game present in MAME (or create your own). These can then be displayed every time you highlight the games name in the MAME browser. This is a pretty superficial option, but is nice to have all the same. It can also be handy if you have a complete set of ROMS, so you can browse through the games and pick one if you like the look of it from the picture. There are that many games, you can't have possibly heard of, or seen them all before. Save States ~~~~~~~~~~~ Simply press the designated button usually F5 and you can save at any point during a game. F9 (by default) will then load that state in, this enables you to play the game in short stretches. This makes it an ideal stress buster :-) Hi-Score saving ~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~ To give those older games even more purpose you can save your High Score in many of the games. This is good to: a) Challenge yourself b) Show off c) Challenge your friends Other options ========== There are many other options in MAME, options such as ability to change display settings, sound quality settings, and input support. These options can be configured on a per game basis, or by on a universal basis. You can also if you so wished record AVI files of yourself playing the games, this is more of a novelty though rather than anything genuinely useful. Still it's a nice option to have! Another option that is available in game, is the ability to change various settings that were present on the Arcade machine. By pressing tab you get a menu up, it's all self explanatory - the best option being Dip Switches. Simply select this and you adjust the difficulty, amount of lives, amount of continues etc for the game. Summary ======= As I hope this review has conveyed, this emulator has compatibility with a lot of games. I could have gone into a lot more detail, but that is not what this review has been about. There is a comprehensive instruction manual that can be downloaded with MAME, as well as an FAQ that goes into more depth about it. If you have a desire to play old Arcade games, then MAME is for you. Recommended for children! ========================= MAME is also something that would be good to get if you have children, who constantly want a new game to play. There are sure to be many games that they will like, and thus could end up saving you a substantial amount of money :-) However it is advisable not to let Children on the Internet to search for Rom files. This is because some sites try to lure you to porn sites by including keywords like MAME, and Roms in the search criteria. System specif
ications needed ============================ This all depends on the game to be played, however for the most part a P2-300 with 64mb of ram will be more than enough. Certain games require better specifications, though the majority will work fine on a low specification. This emulator is also available for other systems such as the Apple Mac, as well as other Operating Systems. Availability of ROMS (these are the game files you need) ========================================= This is a slight grey area, technically these files are illegal. However many of the Arcade machine makers don't seem to mind as the machines themselves are no longer profitable. For this reason I am unable to give out locations for Rom files in this review. ~~ If there is anything else you wish to know then please let me know in the comments section, where I will be happy to help out. Availability of the Emulator + other files you may need ======================================== This emulator can be downloaded from many sites, the sites I would recommend are: Emulator + other files (Such as sampled sounds needed for a few games such as Donkey Kong and Space Invaders) http://www.mame.net http://www.mame.dk Emulator sites http://www.arcadeathome.com http://www.retrogames.com Jargon buster ========== DOS ~~~ DOS is an operating system that runs purely from a command line. For example to run the program from a dos prompt would have involved typing lines such as: Mame32.exe dkong -r 1024x768x32 -refresh 85 ?effect That would have been the command to run the game Donkey Kong at the resolution of 1024x768x32 bit colour with a refresh rate of 85. As you can no doubt appreciate, the Windows version makes all of this a lot easier for beginners.
Emulation is huge in PC gaming - How else can you play all those classics of yesteryear? MAME (short for Multi Arcade Machine Emulator) is about the only way to play almost all the arcade classics from when you were young, without trying to buy the original arcade machines themselves. Whilst all the ROM's state that to legally play any of the games you must own an original copy of the ROM for the arcade machine. However, this is merely a formality, and is widely ignored by most MAME users. In addition to all of the old arcade games, MAME also supports emulations of a wide range of home console systems - too many to list from memory. Generally, the actual emulator is quite forgiving, although it is a lot easier to find inaccurate replicated ROM's on the web, and as a result find games that do not run like the original arcade games. In terms of the games available, finding ROM's requires a little hunting around, but once you find a good resource, you'll be set. All you need to do then is to prepare to lose a lot of sleep - trust me, you will.
MAME is the Ultimate games emulator for the PC and other platforms. It allows you to play all the old arcade machines that you can fondly remember playing at those salty seaside resorts and many many more, using ROMS which contain all the game information from the arcade boards so that the games are more or less identical to their arcade counterparts. The great thing about MAME is that it's updated all the time and many programmers are writing bootleg versions to support more games and options, which eventually find their way on to the official version. I first came across MAME about 6 years ago, when it was only supported in DOS and had about 400 odd games to play, ranging from the great Donkey Kong and Space Invaders to such classics as Tetris. Nowadays, it supports many more games, thousands in fact, plus alternative versions and US/Japanese games. You can still play all the 70's and 80's classics but there have been some stunning additions like X-Men and The Simpsons and it just continues to grow at an extraordinary rate as the programmers find more and more ways of emulating new games. The other great thing about the emulator is that besides the multi-platform ability, it can be played on older spec PCs. This means that if you still have that old 486 or early pentium, you can play all the older games with no noticable slow-down, but as the spec of your PC goes up, you have a wider choice of fabulous games to try out. MAME really is a great piece of software and it's free to download and use. Downloading arcade machine roms that you don't own is dubious on the legal front, but the choice is there and there are many sites offering the whole mame arcade collection (which would take months to download on a standard 56l internet connection!) Try it out and visit your past today!
Not just retro, but authentically retro... Most of us have probably wanted to play all those old games, the FOUNDING games, at one point or another. We hear of how important Space Invaders, Asteroids and Pac-Man were to videogaming, and we try to find them. Some adults might even be old enough to remember playing them in the arcade twenty years ago. No doubt most of you have played copies and clones that only hold your interest for five minutes. MAME is the real thing. It is a way to play the genuine arcade games on your PC, and most of the classics are supported. There are many versions of MAME and DOS is supported well. However, I think most people will want to use MAME32 for Windows. The program is fairly small and efficient, considering how much it does. There are no ROMs supplied with the MAME download, because it is technically illegal to own ROMS. You can download all the supported ROMS on a "sister" website, www.mame.dk. The latest version of MAME supports over 4000 ROMS, though a lot of these are clones and variations of games, so perhaps the list is more like 2500. All the old classics and important games are supported, and for some reason they are much more enjoyable when you know they are the GENUINE versions. You might think Space Invaders gets boring after five minutes... extend that to thirty or forty minutes when you play the real version here. You might find yourself playing all the old games like Asteroids and Frogger for a lot longer than you thought possible. It's still just a diversion for a few hours, but that's great value when it's free. Most people think MAME is only for these very old games, but it also supports a lot of arcade games from the 80's and early 90's. Games like Out Run, Golden Axe, Strider and The Simpsons make you feel like you're standing in an early 90's arcade. Be warned though, the newer the game, the more RAM and processing power you need.
An older PC can't handle them. MAME32 does lots of cool things. You can record avi files of your games during play, you can re-assign all the buttons, you can play around with the graphics, and you can take snapshots. The interface takes a while to get used to because of the way it sorts all your ROMS into lists. Conveniently, MAME uses the ROMs zip files, so you don't even need to unzip them. Dooyoo opinions are supposed to balance positive and negative points, but I'm sorry, MAME is almost impossible to fault. If you have a fairly good PC and an urge to re-live the glory days of gaming, MAME is excellent.
I am not going to go on and on about how fantastic Mame is, that has been stated very well many times already and frankly if you are not convinced now you never will be. NOW JUST CONSIDER THIS AS PERVERSE LOGIC..... Like many other people I own hundreds if not thousands of pounds worth of games software with many of the latest titles in my posession, yet since discovering Mame I have temporarily lost interest in all of these and instead I choose to spend hour upon hour playing Moon Cresta (an early eighties space shoot em up)It's sad I know but there it is. You see that is what Mame is all about it allows saddo twenty and thirty somethings like me to get all nostalgic about how gaming used to be when we were kids spending hours feeding 10p's into arcade machines. For me just the sound of Moon Cresta brings all the memories flooding back of when I used to be respected by my peers not because of me but because of the high scores I could get playing this particular game (I only wish I was that good now). We all have certain songs that take us back to a particular time or holiday or remind us of a certain girlfriend/boyfriend, well mame is the gaming equivalent of that. So all I would add is, if you are the right age to remember playing such games then Mame is a must, forget Lara Croft (well for now anyway)and get on Space Invaders, Pac Man and Defender that's where it's all happening.
MAME (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is a project that has been running since 1997. Basically, it emulates practically all the arcade machines you can remember from when you were a kid. If you're old like me, and spent any time at all in the arcades, this will suit you down to the ground! In fact, the only game it doesn't seem to emulate from that era (i.e. early/mid 1980's) is Dragons' Lair; any other arcade machine you can think of is probably catered for! Depending on what platform you want to run it on (there are DOS, Windows, Amiga, Mac and Linux ports to the best of my knowledge) you can download it from a number of sources (www.classicgaming.com for the Windows version, and www.mame.net for the DOS version) and it's currently standing at version 0.36 for both DOS and Windows versions. If you like you can run the 0.37 BETA, but they don't recommend it. For the purposes of this opinion, I shall be referring to the 0.36 Windows version. It's a 2.7Mb download, which isn't bad given how powerful the program is, and the ROM files come zipped and range from 30k to 1Mb plus (the older games like Asteroids, Pac Man etc. are the smallest, but the more recent games are bigger), but these are available from separate web sites which can be found by searching in a web search engine. **Note** There is a legal position with the ROMS where you need to own originals in order to be able to use the zipped ones with MAME legally. This means if you own something like the Namco arcade collection for the Playstation, then legally you can use the zipped ROMS with MAME, although it's a bit of a grey area. When I first saw how small the ROMs were I was very surprised, in the later versions, you don't need to unzip the ROMS to use them, you just drop them into the ROM folder, and run MAME. With earlier versions however, you had to unzip them, but even then they were ridiculously small. So, after a painless installation (simply a matter of unzipping the file to your required directory), and making sure the ROMS are in the correct place, it's just a matter of starting up MAME, and selecting a game from the list of ROMs (filters are available to make filing your ROMs easier) then settle back, "insert coins" via a few key presses, then be amazed at the accuracy of your favourite arcade games appearing on your very own home computer.
MAME (the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is a program which allows people to play old arcade classics on a PC. All the old classics are emulated, such as 'The Main Event', 'Street Fighter II', 'Robocop', 'Track and Field'. Games from as far back as 1979, and also as recent as 1998. Obviosly there are legal implications for this software. Technically, most of the games are still covered by copyright, and hence shouldn't be played unless you own an original arcade board. However, in reality most of these games are so old that this copyright issue is really only relevant for the newest of the games. Oh, the nostalgia!!! I've wasted countless hours playing the old classic I remember from my younger days. All the games emulated in MAME can be downloaded from the web (if you know where to look!) MAME is a great piece of software. Technically brilliant, it plays most games perfectly, and with MAME32 (which runs under windows) is easy to get up and running in no time. Try it, and watch the spare hours of your days vanish!
MAME32 is a arcade emulator which can be used on my computer. Mame32 is a Windows based emulator. It was to be the best arcade emulator you can have. The games that are available are endless, around 4000 which include Simpsons (4 player), Pacman, Space Invaders, Asteroids, Break-Out and tons of other cool classics. If you can remember playing Space Invaders and Pacman this emulator is for. Although some of the game don't work but the majority do. The Roms vary in size from a few kb for Pacman and Space Invaders and a few mb's for Simpsons but it is definately worth the download as I spend a few days to complete this game. The emulator is very easy to use and the sound quality is amazing. There is Joystick compatibility with this windows based emulator as some don't offer this facility to the gamer. This emulator really gives you the real arcade experience and it's all free. Remember how much you would of lost if they were the real machines!!! Tons I recommend wwww.emusanet.com as they have aroung 2500 MAME Rom titles to choose from and www.emuunlim.com for the emulator to play the games on. It is not ilegal to download the games but you should only keep the ROMS on your computer for 24 hours unless you own the orginal cartridge but I don't think anybody cares. So what you waiting for!!! Download it now!!!
When I was first told about M.A.M.E. - Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator a couple of years ago, like most people I did not really understand. I heard people rattle off names of arcade games from my childhood - Galaxian, Galaga, Moon Patrol, Donkey Kong, Pac Mac, Defender you name it. All the games which entranced me as a young lad. Games which I would religiously pump my weekly pocket money (allowance) into and never regret it for a single moment. As a kid I lived and breathed arcade games and that made me little different from many other young boys growing up in the early 1980's. When I say that I "Didn't understand", I mean that when people would say "Mame actually lets you play all those games on your very own computer at home!", I instantly thought we were talking about arcade conversions. Arcade conversions had regularly been disappointing shadows of their coin-op parents. Of course, when it was explained to me that Mame actually allows you to run the original rom-sets from real arcade machines on your home computer - essentially giving me all the arcade games from my childhood - the ACTUAL games, I understood and became excited! Mame is the result of years of work and is continually being updated. The present build supports 2411 arcade games (some are variants of the same game, so it probably works out to be closer to 1500 unique games. The program itself contains no games. The original ROMS must be downloaded from the Internet before you are able to use the emulator to run them on your computer. One of the better sites where Mame (which is a free download), other emulators and the required ROMS (Many of which are files smaller than 10K) may be downloaded is http://www.emux.com/ It should be remembered that most ROMs are copyrighted and downloading them carries similar restrictions as the downloading of MP3's with Napster. Many argue that Emulators such as Mame and ROM websites are doing a val
uable job ensuring that these classics - the fore-fathers of computer games as we know them, are preserved for all-time rather than being destroyed and lost forever. Of course, the corporate giants who created these discarded games up to 20 years ago do not quite see the altruism involved. Mame allows for the supported arcade games to be run smoothly on a modest system, but a Pentium II is preferable to ensure no slow-downs during some of the more demanding games. (Remember that Emulation costs a lot of resources, even if the games do not). The emulator is highly configurable, allowing you to select your control input device and various sound and graphical settings for running the game. Once you have the game up and running, you have access to a simulated layout of the particular games "Dip-switches", which allow you to toggle elements within the games themselves, such as difficulty, number of lives and anything the original machine cabinet could perform. (Unless we are talking about a game like Afterburner *grin*) The Windows version of Mame (there is also a DOS version, as well as versions for other computer formats) is slick and simple to use, looking almost like a pseudo Windows Explorer, with neat folders in which the ROMS of both available un unavailable (ones you have not downloaded yet) are sorted. Games are initiated with a quick click and away you go! At this stage, Mame mostly emulates arcade games from the years before 1990, but with every new build more and more recent games are appearing, with titles such as The Simpsons and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles both being fully emulated. A few games do not quite work properly, Gauntlet for example seems to run just fine for a while, but crashes completely around the 20th level. With each release of Mame the emulation of some of the more unstable games is perfected, so there is always something to look forward to. I am part of the school of thought that believes tha
t Mame and the emulation scene is providing a valuable archival service to ensure that relics of the past remain available for future generations of gamers. There is nothing quite like early games, which made up for what they lacked in whiz-bang graphics and sound with sheer playability and ingenuity. These jewels from the past should never be lost and with Mame, your personal arcade of nostalgia is only a short download away!
Am I wrong top say most classic games should be available to download and play for free on MAME etc? Am I underestimating what the original game (not the idea or licence) is worth to the author early in the new millennium? Here's where I start to argue against everything I've said above though - because I do respect the author's copyright. I've been both author of copyrighted games and music in the past. I've allowed free distribution of some of both - but not all. It's all about realising a product has come to the end of it's feasible earning potential. Afterall you are not actually releasing copyright, just allowing it to be distributed non-commercially. In the unlikely event that someone approaches you to re-use the idea or game itself, then you are still in a position to benefit to the full.
Mame is an emulator for old arcade games. This means that you can play exact copies of the games you used to play in arcades when you were young, but for free and on your PC. To do this you need to download files called ROM`s, which are just copies of the original microchips found in the arcade games. MAME allows you to play well over 2000 different games in the latest versions, and all run very well on any reasonably specified PC. Don`t bother wasting your time if you`re still running an old 486, but almost any pentium or better PC will run most of these games like a dream. One advantage MAME has over many other emulators isthe small files that most games come in. Because a lot of the games are very old (going all the way back to Space invader and before) they can take as little as a couple of kilobytes to download - this would take seconds over a normal modem connection. The actual emulator is a different matter, it is a few megs to download but well worth the 10-15 minutes this will take. There are some games that aren`t quite this small (the largest I`ve found so far was 13 megs, which would take almost an hour to download over an average modem), but they are well worth the download. Because MAME is so popular there are sites all over the web with games on offer, making it relatively easy to get a full set of games if you are willing to put the effort in. The whole MAME project has gone from just beign a way to play old games to a way to find out almost anything about old games. You can get screenshots for each game, pictures of the cabinets the games used to come in, even scans of the fliers used to advertise the original arcade cabinets. Even if you don`t want every game it runs, I`m sure you can think of some old arcade games that you would love to play again. I know that my friends and I have had great fun with this, coming home from the pub and sitting in front of the PC for hours playing old games we used to
play when we were little kids. And if you are too young to remember the games frm the first time round - thats no excuse. This is your chance to learn about how the videogames industry started, and where games like Quake 3 and Tomb Raider came from.
This is one of those pieces of software that you cannot do without if you are past 25, but what is it. MAME is the Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator and is one of a number of pieces of FREE software that you can use to play REAL arcade games. Yes not the poor implementations that appear on the Sinclair Spectrum, but copies of the ROMS from real arcade machines. Ah you may have notice I used the words "Sinclair Spectrum" as these are not your latest games, but those from way back when a good game would fit into 64K and have excellent playability. Think of Space Invaders, Battle-zone and my all time favourite Gauntlet. Now technically you must own a ROM before you can download the game, but in real life most of the manufacturers of the original games don't mind. The MAME program and the games or ROMS will be found on completely separate web sites and you must never mix them, as copyright lawyers will start to get in touch with you. I have downloaded all my favourites and have more fun with these than most modern games. If you are interested I got MAME from http://www.classicgaming.com/mame32/index.htm and the games from http://www.emux.com/. EMUX is one of the major sites for all emulation ROMS so if you want a game they will probably have it.
Oh think back and remember how you felt playing all of those long forgotten arcade games. Remember the feeling of dropping the 10p pieces and starting up another round of bionic commando!?! (Loved that game more than any other!) You cna bring all of those old feelings back by leaving the door to the loo open so that sort of odd smell can waft into the computer room after a few hours of not flushing. Fire up a fully stacked copy of mame and start dropping 10p pieces onto your desk. The experience from the emulator is completely amazing. It's like you've got that old arcade sitting on your desk. The games look as crisp as they did the day they were launched. You'll probably not respect the amazing GFX or sounds any more but you'll remember how you felt and no doubt will end the experience by going back to your parents house expecting them to bitch about you wasting cash at those 'damned arcades' again. Loved the old games? Love this!
If you want to play old arcade games on your computer then Mame (Multiple Arcade Machine Emulator) is what you need. Mame is an emulator that will allow you to play games which were originally either on old arcade machines, or on the neo-geo games console. The latest version of Mame can run over 1000 games. Obviously, you have to supply the ROM's - image of the game data. But these are not hard to find on the internet, though you should read the usual legal disclaimers. The program is not particularly user-friendly, it has no easy to use front-end, you run it and load a game via the command line. Though, there are front-ends available as add-on's. The official home of Mame is www.mame.net


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All the icons for the threads are either orange or grey with a padlock; except for the threads I have replied to which are an envelope with a green and white arrow.
Edit: That means I have read the post?
I am getting confused now as there are at least two different orange icons with different padlocks.
Green Circle with an Arrow means you are subscribed to that thread (and will receive notifications via My Sitepoint or Email).
As for the padlocks, those are to indicate a closed/locked thread (meaning it isn't open for discussion anymore).
This is what I have on the general discussion section:
So virtualy every thread is locked!
Hmm.. I definitely don't see that. Interesting... I obviously still have the old icons. @HAWK ; Seems there is an issue with the new icons.
Looks OK to me now.
Jude updated the icons yesterday with new ones to fit our theme, but it looks as if he's missed some (ie there isn't a new icon for a thread with a new reply). I've just flicked him an email.
Yes there must be something still missing as I am getting a grey icon with a padlock on some threads still.
why i don't have these icones?
Because they have been updated. Nobody has those icons anymore.
Because the icons have since been updated. You can find the current icons at the foot of any forum index page.


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In the world of exterior car care, glazes tend to be lumped into the polishes categories and in some cases waxes - neither is really correct. In fact, a glaze is often considered "optional" during paintwork procedures, but can be the difference between a wet looking shine and a dullish shine. So where do glazes fall? Directly after polishing, Read More
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text: I saw the movie first and I thought it was brilliance, before the TV series came out. When SG-1 started I loved it too but I wasn't able to watch it religiously so I missed a bunch of episodes which turned out to be kinda important. (e.g. "Who the eff is Jolinar? And who the eff is Cassandra?") I've tried not to miss an episode since season 4 of SG-1, though. Just because I like Star Trek doesn't mean it has to be the only science fiction show I ever watch or like. I'm a Trekkie and a Gater, a Niner and a Lurker, a Dwarfer and a Whovian and a Browncoat. And many others besides.


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Welcome to The Tandy Institute for Archaeology
Established in 1983, the Tandy Institute has served as an umbrella institute for various centers, museums, and academic programs that contribute to archaeology and archaeological research on the campus of Southwestern Seminary.
The Institute represents a Southern Baptist effort to establish a scholarly presence, and impact the discipline of biblical archaeology through a well funded archaeology research and training program. The Tandy will train a new generation of biblical archaeologists and inspire biblical scholars to engage in current research in the discipline of archaeology.
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Kurama said that bijuu's power is calculated by the number of tails. But shukaku and gyukii as well as others dont agree!
But look here~! Just a half part of kyuubis chakra was able to hold his agaings atleast 4 fully transformed bujuus! THats not joke! The kyuubi wasnt even fully transformed and was able to create bijuu dama as much size as created by 4 bujuu! and naruto hasnt even done full transformation and it was just minutes after he transformed!
What do you say! Is it just that kishi wanted to show off kuramas power or that kurama's power*both yin and yang* is really atleast 5 times greater than other bijuu or even gyuki!
I understand juubi but kyuubi! 1/9th of juubi!
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Arsenal end trophy drought with FA Cup win
Arsenal ended its nine-year trophy drought on Saturday, coming from two goals...
All five Wolverines starters scored in double- figures, with Trey Burke and Tim Hardaway Jr. leading the way as No. 2 Michigan cruised past Northwestern, 94-66, to open up Big Ten conference play.
Burke tallied a game-high 23 points to go along with five assists and four
steals, while Hardaway Jr. notched 21 points and four assists for Michigan
(14-0, 1-0 Big Ten), which shot a strong 13-of-22 from beyond the arc, with
Burke and Hardaway Jr. each burying four.
In continuing their best start since the 1985-86 campaign, the Wolverines
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Study Confirms Common Shoeing Interval Benefits Horses
The traditional four- to six-week interval aligns perfectly with what's going on physiologically in the horse's hoof.
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Is My Horse Neurologic or Lame?
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Study Confirms Common Shoeing Interval Benefits Horses
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May 16, 2017
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April 22, 2017
Researchers say inertial measurement units could aid in more accurate veterinary diagnoses and performance evaluations.... Read More
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Arena Surface Impacts Fetlock Kinematics in Extended Trot
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Rangers Draft pick may need surgery
Right-hander Scheppers has on-going issue with shoulder
By Jonathan Mayo / MLB.com
The Texas Rangers decided to take the chance when Scheppers was still on the board at No. 44 in the supplemental first round. The pure stuff -- namely, the upper-90s fastball and the power curve -- was just too tantalizing to pass up at that point in the Draft, even while knowing there was the possibility of an on-going issue with the shoulder. They had glowing reports on Scheppers' performances while pitching for the independent league St. Paul Saints this spring and had him checked out before the Draft by their medical staff.
Not every team saw it the same way, and two teams that passed on Scheppers believe that he has a 50-percent tear of his labrum based on updated medical reports. Those two team doctors believe his shoulder will eventually require surgery. The Rangers, aware of a possible problem, don't feel the injury is quite that severe, though general manager Jon Daniels declined to go too far in talking in detail about the big right-hander.
"I'd prefer not to discuss specifics of Tanner's medical situation for two reasons: One, he's not our player until he's signed; and two, I'm uncomfortable doing so in general," Daniels said. "The best I can put it is this: He was examined by [team physician] Dr. [Keith] Meister before the Draft. He was cleared to be selected, with the understanding that there may be a heightened level of risk vs. other pitchers of a similar age and experience level. We took him with eyes wide open and hope to sign him this summer."
The Rangers took Scheppers with the pick they received as compensation for losing free agent Milton Bradley during the offseason, but like every team, they've known all about the talented right-hander since last year's Draft. Questions about Scheppers' shoulder began then, when he was a junior at Fresno State. After a dominant season that moved him high up on draft boards, he was diagnosed with a stress fracture in his right shoulder, effectively ending his college career and moving him out of the first round.
The Pirates took a chance and selected him in the second round of the 2008 Draft, No. 48 overall. The two sides could not come to terms, though, and the Pirates received a compensation pick while Scheppers opted to go the indy route to prepare to re-enter the Draft in 2009.
Right from the outset, scouts reported a better body, a better delivery and even better stuff than what intrigued scouts a year ago. He was throwing in the upper-90s with a power curve and a free-and-easy delivery. His name once again was moving up draft boards and was figuring into most conversations about the Top 10 picks.
Questions about the shoulder remained, perhaps because he never had surgery to correct the problem last year. His agents, the Legacy Group, had him examined by Angels team surgeon Dr. Lewis Yocum, who reportedly sent a letter to teams saying Scheppers was healthy. That didn't completely alleviate concerns, so Scheppers agreed to meet with some teams, including the Rangers, to be examined by their own doctors. Calls to Scheppers' agent, Greg Genske, were not returned.
Dr. Yocum's evaluation of Scheppers, which contained information about a tear, was made available to all 30 teams, with most receiving it. Several teams followed up with a call to Yocum to discuss his findings. It was then up to each team to interpret the evaluation, with each team likely seeing the potential risk differently. The Rangers clearly felt comfortable enough to select Scheppers. Others concluded the injury was too severe and decided to pass.
The Rangers have until Aug. 17 to work out a deal for Scheppers, their second selection in this year's Draft. They took Texas high school lefty Matt Purke with their first pick, No. 14 overall.
Jonathan Mayo is a reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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text: How come nobody teaches this shot? With enough practice, it's maybe not as difficult as some might think. I know the Williams sisters used to hit swinging volleys. Does anyone else at the top levels hit them? It does take more time and limits reach, but the ball accelerates and with topspin will fall into the court and give opponents little time to react as well. I hit a slice forehand volley but an aggressive swinging 2hander when I have time to. Do others with 2hand backhands do the same?


text: I'm asking this mainly of fans who are too young to have watched TOS during its initial run. The Next Generation premiered when I was six and it quickly became my favorite show. I stuck with the 80s/90s series through to the end of Voyager, and watched Enterprise sporadically. It was not until I was an adult that I watched the Original Series all the way through, and it took me a long time to learn to appreciate it. (Blasphemy, I know.) If it were not for TNG, I doubt I ever would have given any time to TOS at all, much less grew to love it. Anybody else feel the same way?


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MIDTOWN GETS SCHOOL OF ROCK ... Palo Alto resident Hansel Lynn is bringing a new music school to the Midtown neighborhood of Palo Alto. School of Rock, a national franchise, is scheduled to open in mid-January at 2645 Middlefield Road, in the former space of Best Video. The school teaches young musicians to perform like rock stars. School of Rock was made famous in 2003 when Jack Black played a substitute music teacher in the movie of the same name. The film "was loosely based on the school and Jack Black's character was loosely based on the creator of School of Rock, Paul Green," Lynn said. An amateur musician and former singer for a cover band, Lynn was employed in the high-tech industry. "I wasn't looking for a business, but I saw an ad for School of Rock and I made the decision last year to open it," he said. He liked the live-performance aspect. "Although we are a music school, we get the kids up on stage. They will be performing in live venues," he said. Lynn has three young children who he says are not yet musically inclined. "But they will be," he said.
MALL LOSES TWO LONGTIME TENANTS ... Talbots is leaving the Stanford Shopping Center. The women's clothing store has slashed prices on all inventory, including store fixtures and furniture, in an effort to clear out and close the mall store. There is no date yet when it will shut its bright red doors, but a store employee said, "We'll stay open until everything is gone, even though they keep bringing in additional merchandise." Talbots at Stanford is one of the more than 100 stores nationwide to close through fiscal year 2013 as part of a chain cost-reduction program, according to a statement made by Talbots COO Michael Scarpa. Stanford Shopping Center has also lost Haagen-Dazs. The ice cream store is completely dark, although tables are still bolted down and chairs still surround the shop. A peek inside reveals everything is still set up for business. No word yet on a new retailer for that spot.
MORE GONERS ... Papa Murphy's a "take 'n' bake" pizza place in Palo Alto's Midtown neighborhood, is gone. The business closed last month at 2730 Middlefield Road, leaving a small sign in the window advising customers that the restaurant chose not to renew its lease. Also departed is Natalie's Salon, the corner nail spa at 539 Alma St. in Palo Alto. It closed its doors for good on Oct. 29. Its sister store in San Mateo has also closed.
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NEW YORK, July 8 (UPI) -- New York City's "Naked Cowboy" has threatened a lawsuit against the up-and-coming "Naked Indian" over turf in Times Square.
The Cowboy, Robert Burck, who has been playing guitar and singing in his underwear and cowboy hat in Times Square for years, now has a rival in the Indian, Adam Davis, the New York Daily News reported Saturday.
Burck, who said there are no ill feelings between him and Davis, has nonetheless threatened to sue Davis if he refuses to join Burck's company, Naked Cowboy Enterprises, a franchise that features Naked Cowgirls and other entertainers.
"I've been here ... 365 days, every day for 13 years and change," Burck said. "He's only been here 16 days and missed two already."
Davis, who dons underwear and a headdress, said there is room in the busy tourist area for more gimmicks.
"No one was doing an Indian," said the aspiring actor. "[The Cowboy and I] have a word-of-mouth contract. This country was built on handshakes and word-of-mouth agreements. I don't lose, I always win."
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As a 77-year-old citizen, I would like to take this opportunity to ask a question or two. First of all, Obama says repeatedly that the GOP cannot hold the Federal Government hostage as it should be; however, how does Obama hold the government hostage with his socialistic ideals and mandate "Obanna Care," just one example.
Next question, would be why our senators and representatives cannot address the problem of our Nation with the good of our Nation at the forefront of what is good for our Nation rather than for the good of very few. It seems to me, if Congress would go to work in the morning, work diligently for 10 to 12 hours a day, as most citizens of our great nation do, the problems of waste and foolish spending might be solved in a few short years and we could overcome this with a government of the people, by the people and for the people as it was intended by our Forefathers and I might add, it might work very well!
If this government shutdown will affect the economy the way the media says, then our government is in too big a business and needs to leave this to free enterprise.
Paul Henderson
How many know what rabies is?
Having recieved a dog bite (or attack) on 9-15-13, I had to become more aware of rabies. I asked everyone I talked to if they knew what it was, what to watch for, how the dogs die that are bitten by a rabid animal. No one knew. Those people were deputies and employees of a pharmacy and friends.
Rabies is passed by the bite of a rabid animal to a dog or cat to a human, with no incubation period on the dog and four to eight days on a person if the bite is above the waist. The dog or cat must be quarantened for 10 days to see if it dies; if so, the person must take some painfu shots that cost $20,000.
What kills animals bitten by a rabid animal; a virus through the saliva attacks the nervous system causing paralysis and spams of hte throut so the animal cannot eat or drink. The animal is so thirsty that the sigh of food or water makes it foam at the mouth and it dies soon after. Hydrophobia the the name of it.
Pets need to be vaccinated yearly and kept confined in pens on the owners property so rabid aimals can't get to them and so the pets don't bother neighbors.
The owners of a biting dog is responsible for putting up the animal to watch it. The owner of the dog that bit me would not agree to that for a few days until a deputy insited on it.
So I have had a rough week wondering what would happen. If the dog is rabid and dies; the shots must start rimmediately to prevent death. This is a terminal disease.
Janice King
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Every person is a master or architect of their own life. That's why we have public education in America. The taxpayers provide an opportunity for each individual child to become a productive citizen. Everyone has a philosophy which drives their life. Statements by various leaders which philosophically declare positions on matters which matter. Some examples are:
n Harry Truman — The buck stops here. That is a significant position when a person states they are responsible. How do current administrative officials of government rank today? (Eric Holder — gun running; President Obama — Benghazi; Hillary Clinton — Benghazi; Lois Lerner — IRS; Susan Ride — Benghazi, etc.)
n President Obama — He said to Joe the Plumber, we need to share the wealth. Sharing the wealth by government is a socialistic idea where someone else should provide for my wants or needs.
n President John F. Kennedy — Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country. How do 47 million workers provide 47 million non-workers food stamps, as recipients, plus 9 million SSI disability recipients checks paid by the government. This takes more than 1/2 of their checks in some form of taxes for these entitlements.
n Margaret Thatcher — Socialism is fine until you run out of other people's money.
n Abraham Lincoln — reportedly said, you cannot provide for others what they should provide for themselves.
Currently America has a tax and spend government which controls by regulating industry to business operations. (coal-powered plants, nuclear energy, fossil fuels, banking, housing, automobile industry, etc.) by contrast, favorable pronouncements for Solyndra or clean energy, the focus of a socialist philosophy is to promote class or wealth differences as a basis to share the wealth. The American dream promotes as a basis to pursue your goals or dreams as Don Tyson, Sam Walton, or Wayne Smith Trucking have done. They had visions or dreams which they have achieved. Don Tyson stated in my presence, about 50 years ago, that chicken would become the number one meat in America. I personally thought he was an idiot for that statement, but evidently he knew how to accomplish his dream. When as many takers are enjoying the free entitlements (food stamps at workers or earners expense, unemployment at workers expense, rental assistance at workers expense, SSI disability checks at workers expense, and the list of potential free rides at workers expense will cover a full page and a half of listings of free rides that takers or loafers enjoy. This permits a taker to rise up by 10 a.m., have a cigarette, and watch tv to plan their day. They seem to have time for a beer as they watch their big-screen tv and check their message on their cell phone, and in some instances, check their computer as they plan their day. It sure is nice to have someone else provide for my needs, as I lost sight somewhere for my responsibilities as a person. It is my perception that liberal focused Democrats want a society where social justice philosophies will guide government entitlements. That means half of America has some claim of injustice where the others owe me and will pay me. The philosophy or ideology of the individual guides their behavior. Therefore, when you are a victim (social justice agenda) someone owes you! In that setting, socialism has arrived.
In closing, what did Martin Luther King Jr. say...People should be judged by the content of their character.
What kind of personality does somone have who feels that someone else should provide for them, or that I am not responsible for my needs. Only a dependent child has that status, while a few others are legitimate dependents of society. In my lifetime, the status of children has changed from being a part of family, in a productive role, to a less functional role of responsiblilities.
John Montgomery