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TUSCALOOSA | County park and tourism officials are pushing a five-year, $15.3 million plan to improve park and recreation facilities across the county. But if the money is spent, will the investment be worthwhile? The Tuscaloosa County Park and Recreation Authority and the Tuscaloosa Tourism and Sports Commission say yes, and that's why they have teamed up to request money from the Tuscaloosa City Council and Tuscaloosa County Commission. According to officials, the facilities are needed to serve local residents who participate in sporting activities on aging or antiquated equipment and fields.
TUSCALOOSA | County park and tourism officials are pushing a five-year, $15.3 million plan to improve park and recreation facilities across the county.
But if the money is spent, will the investment be worthwhile?
The Tuscaloosa County Park and Recreation Authority and the Tuscaloosa Tourism and Sports Commission say yes, and that's why they have teamed up to request money from the Tuscaloosa City Council and Tuscaloosa County Commission.
According to officials, the facilities are needed to serve local residents who participate in sporting activities on aging or antiquated equipment and fields.
But the overall goal is to create upscale and attractive locations that will assist the tourism and sports commission in luring tournaments and other sporting events.
Don Staley, the commission's executive director for sports, has visited 17 cities and invested almost five years in researching this project.
The entire package will not be funded at once, but the City Council last week voted to spend up to $500,000 on a multipurpose facility at Munny Sokol Park that will help to secure a national archery tournament for at least three years.
Also, PARA officials want to proceed as soon as possible with converting the northern part of Sokol Park into a six-field soccer complex and creating a 13-field softball/baseball facility at Bowers Park.
The spending, according to PARA and the tourism and sports commission, will generate millions of dollars in new revenue for the area for years to come. The tourism and sports commission estimates that almost $30 million would have come from five sports tournaments that did not consider Tuscaloosa County because none of the county's facilities was adequate for the events' organizers.
Recruiting role
Much like the quality of facilities plays a role in recruiting new talent to college athletic programs, so, too, do they have an effect on bringing new events — and money — to an area.
According to data compiled by the tourism and sports commission, cities ranging from Virginia Beach, Va., to Baton Rouge, La., and including Oxford, Miss., Decatur, Auburn and Montgomery have all invested in upgrading their recreational facilities since 1999.
Because of these financial commitments, the tourism and sports commission said, these cities — including those with Southeastern Conference athletic programs — are bolstering their economies almost every weekend.
"It's beyond what the people said we needed to do to make it profitable for the city," said Kennith Blankenship, executive director of the Central Alabama Sports Commission in Montgomery, of the $13 million multipurpose facility opened about six months ago.
Blankenship said the interest in the facility has gone beyond anything he imagined. The facility can cater to a multitude of sports — volleyball, wrestling, basketball and others — on about 80,000 square feet of open floor space.
"It's designed to handle large, amateur events — it's not an arena," Blankenship said. "And every event we've had there has been new."
Of these events, 28 are what Blankenship described as "major." These included two volleyball tournaments, one with 96 teams and one with 50 teams, as well as a Junior League event with more than 200 exhibits.
Figures showing how much revenue each of these events brought to the Montgomery area were not available, but Blankenship said he's gathered the only numbers that he needs to know that the facility is paying off.
"We don't take every event and figure out what it meant to the city, but we know we're making an impact because of the large number of events we're having in the facility and the impact it's had on our hotels," Blankenship said. "The (Montgomery Convention and Visitors Bureau) tells us the hotel occupancy is up, and that's what we're depending on."
Oftentimes, those pushing for facilities that can lure new tourism dollars to an area are making the effort for local sports enthusiasts, too.
Rob Boyd, executive director of the Oxford (Miss.) Park Commission, said the $4.9 million, eight-field FNC Park was constructed with the goal of serving local Mississippians with new and quality sports facilities.
The ability to attract out-of-towners for stays of more than one night was just a bonus.
"We did not built FNC Park with the intent of bringing everyone to Oxford, Miss.," Boyd said. "We built it with the intent of serving ... Oxford and Lafayette County, first and foremost.
"But we knew we would have an opportunity to host events."
Boyd said there was no pressure from the Oxford-area chamber of commerce or local politicians to bring more events to the park, but that hasn't stopped FNC Park from playing host to several baseball and soccer tournaments since it opened in 2008.
And for the rest of 2013, Boyd said the park is expected to host another 12 to 15 tournaments or sporting events.
Its success has led to a partnership with the University of Mississippi for a $1.5 million expansion of the Oxford Park Commission's existing tennis facility, from eight courts to 20.
"When you look at it ... we can easily bring in from 60 to 85 teams on a weekend," Boyd said. "There's no doubt that it's made a difference locally. There's no doubt it's been a benefit."
Robyn L. Bridges, the vice-president and public relations director for the Auburn and Opelika Tourism Bureau, said similar things when recounting the success of the Auburn area's sports and recreational complexes.
While Tuscaloosa may be owning the state now in college football, Auburn is easily surpassing this area when it comes to amateur sports offerings.
For example, the Auburn Wire Road Soccer Complex, a $3.2 million facility completed in 2007, has 12 fields that can accommodate tournaments from across the country.
Tuscaloosa, right now, has one regulation-sized soccer field.
Auburn-Opelika also played host to the United States Specialty Sports Association's Super NIT last year, which required the use of every baseball facility in the county — including those at the university — plus some others across the county line, Bridges said.
This one event brought more than 6,800 participants and visitors for 72 individual youth baseball teams to the area for three days.
"We were almost completely sold out in our hotel rooms ... in our county," Bridges said.
The estimated economic impact for the area was $2.5 million.
According to the Tuscaloosa Tourism and Sports Commission, this was one of the several events it has bid on to bring to Tuscaloosa, but failed because of inadequate facilities and space.
Others included:
n A tournament for U.S. Lacrosse in 2010 that would have brought 126 teams to the area for six days.
n An Amateur Softball Association national championship tournament that would have brought 72 teams for six days.
n An Ultimate Frisbee regional tournament, which would have brought 64 teams for four days.
According to Tuscaloosa Tourism and Sports Commission data, these four events meant a total economic impact of $17.9 million on the cities that hosted them. The largest of those events was the lacrosse tournament, which brought an $8.35 million economic impact to Philadelphia.
Tourism's impact
"Tourism is huge," said Susan West, CEO of the Tuscaloosa Tourism and Sports Commission. "It's the fourth- or fifth-largest industry, when you look at the number of people it employs and the amount of dollars that are spent.
"Our community is sorely lacking in facilities and what is offered."
West said that the total investment won't be recovered within a year, but over time she expects the local tax dollars to be returned multiple times.
And she's hopeful that the County Commission will pledge to fund the plan not only for the tourism opportunities, but also for the benefit of local athletes, and she plans to make this request Wednesday during the commission's regular meeting.
"As large as sports tourism is, TTSC is going to do what it can to make sure that money is made back," West said, "But this is a community issue. We're behind on these (facilities).
"We can bring things that will help pay for it, but ultimately these facilities are for our children so they don't have to pay to travel and train to learn how to compete."
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On November 18, 2013 at the Lucille Lortel Theatre in the West Village, Revelation Readings, in conjunction with Red Bull Theater and the Romanticist Research Group of New York University, presented the first staged reading of Percy Shelley's Prometheus Unbound since 1998. The performance was followed by an informal Q&A with the director, Craig Baldwin, Red Bull artistic director Jesse Berger, Randie Sessler and Omar F. Miranda from the NYU Department of English, and several exhausted cast members who generously remained after the show to discuss the project with the audience. A sold-out crowd of approximately three hundred—apparently comprising both Shelley enthusiasts and theater fans—enjoyed a lively and nuanced performance that was especially impressive given that the cast had only a single rehearsal that same afternoon.
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Twenty states and Washington, D.C., have legalized the medicinal use of marijuana, and two states (Colorado and Washington) have legalized the substance for recreational use.
So what's the next logical step? Smoking pot in public?
Perhaps that's pushing the envelope too far too fast, but some marijuana smokers have found a clever way to sidestep that "inconvenience": the electronic cigarette.
Battery-operated e-cigarettes — which are not federally regulated — have picked up steam (no pun intended) in recent years as a less harmful option for cigarette smokers. The devices are expected to gross up to $1.7 billion in sales in 2013, and it's possible that the sale of e-cigs will surpass the sale of traditional cigarettes by 2047.
So it's not surprising that some pot smokers are getting a little creative with the portable gadget. It emits an odorless vapor, after all, and — when used for its intended purpose — vaporizes liquid nicotine, not tobacco leaves. When used for marijuana, smokers must use cannabis in wax or liquid form, not flower form. And when someone is "vaping" in public, it's impossible to tell what substance he or she is imbibing.
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In fact, Eileen is confident that the overall trend of pot smokers using these convenient gizmos will not burn out any time soon. "It's growing very rapidly, and there are so many other pens that are coming out, too. I kind of think that it's going to be the future of smoking," she said.
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"I met this dude through OKCupid … and we met for a date in Venice [Calif.] along the beach. After about an hour or two, he stood outside the bar and literally smoked a real cigarette, and then he came back in and pulled out his e-cigarette," Salerno said. "He didn't blatantly say, 'Oh, this is pot.' Just context clues: We were talking about medical marijuana and vapor stores and different vaporizers. Then, he said to me, 'Well, I don't want you to think I'm a pothead … I just like to smoke when I'm doing mundane things.'" While he tried to backtrack, it's needless to say that it was a first and last date for the two, Salerno said.
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In the first article in this three-part series on Windows Phone 8 app development, I explained how to prepare Visual Studio 2012 with the needed updates to develop apps for Windows Phone 8. In this article, I explain how to develop an app that takes advantage of one of new features related to the speech APIs for Windows Phone 8: Voice Commands.
The Evolution of Voice Commands and the Global Speech Experience
Windows Phone 7.x allowed users to press and hold the hardware Start button to launch the speech dialog known as the Global Speech Experience (GSE). The user could open Store apps, make phone calls, generate and execute Bing search queries, and send text messages with voice commands.
Windows Phone 8 goes a step further and allows app developers to register voice commands that the user can invoke from the GSE. Thus, you can preemptively take advantage of voice commands to allow users to perform actions with your app by speaking to the phone. In fact, Windows Phone 8 enables app developers to extend more built-in experiences than Windows Phone 7.x. Voice commands are extensibility points that Windows Phone 8 allows for the Speech built-in experience. New extensibility points exist for the following built-in experiences (that weren't possible with Windows Phone 7.x):
- Camera: Lenses.
- Lock screen: Background photo, Detailed status, and Quick status.
- Maps: Navigation.
- People: Custom contact stores.
- Photo viewer: Edit photos.
- Speech: Voice commands.
- Wallet: Wallet items.
These extensibility points were possible with Windows Phone 7.x and are still available with Windows Phone 8:
- Music & Videos: New list, Now playing tile, and History list.
- Photos: App pivot
- Photo viewer: Share and apps
- Search: Search quick cards
In this article, I'll focus on voice commands, but you should consider the aforementioned list when you design your apps. Extensibility points are very important when creating apps that comply with the Windows Phone 8 UX.
The easiest way to understand the GSE is by using it in a Windows Phone 8 device or in the emulator. If you haven't played with the new GSE yet, it is easy to learn its ins and outs by creating a new app that targets Windows Phone 8 and configuring the emulator. In Visual Studio 2012, follow these steps to create a new Windows Phone 8 app based on the simplest App template:
- Select File | New | Project… The New Project dialog box will appear.
- Select Templates | Visual C# | Windows Phone in the left pane. The templates list will display eleven templates for the selected target.
- Select Windows Phone App (Figure 1). The template generates a single-page project for a Windows Phone app with a XAML-based UI and navigation features. In this example, I want to explain how the app can take advantage of the new extensibility points for Speech, and this template provides me with a very simple app that I can easily customize.
Figure 1: Creating a new Windows Phone app based on the simplest XAML-based UI template.
- Enter the desired name in the Name textbox. I'll use "Recipes" because my sample app will receive voice commands related to cooking recipes.
- Click OK and the New Windows Phone Application dialog box will display a dropdown list with the different Windows Phone OS versions that you can choose as the target for your new app. In this case, I want to take full advantage of all the new speech-related features available in Windows Phone 8, so I select Windows Phone OS 8.0 in the dropdown list (see Figure 2).
Figure 2: The new Windows Phone Application dialog box allows you to select the target Windows Phone OS version for the new project. When you select Windows Phone OS 8.0, it won't be possible to execute the app on previous Windows Phone OS versions.
- Click OK and the IDE will create a new solution with a Windows Phone app.
If you take a look at the references included in the new project, you will notice that there are just two items (see Figure 3):
- .NET for Windows Phone
- Windows Phone
Figure 3: The XAML preview of the default page for the Windows Phone app (left) and the project structure (right).
You will also notice there are two well-known members for XAML-based UI apps: App.xaml and MainPage.xaml. MainPage.xaml is the only page that the selected template generates for this app and it is the default navigation page in the app manifest. To use voice commands, you must activate the following capabilities in the app manifest file:
You will find a WMAppManifest.xml file within the Properties folder for the Windows Phone app project (Recipes). If you double-click on WMAppManifest.xml, Visual Studio will display the Windows Phone app manifest designer and allow you to change the values for many properties for your app. Click on the Capabilities tab and make sure that the aforementioned capabilities are activated (Figure 4).
Figure 4: The Windows Phone App Manifest Designer displaying the capabilities that the Recipes app requires. Windows Phone 8 apps require you to specify all the capabilities that the app requires in order to run without problems in the device.
Now, select the desired emulator from the Debug Target dropdown list (Figure 5) and Visual Studio 2012 will build the Recipes app, launch the emulator, transfer, and run the app (Figure 6).
Figure 5: Selecting the WGA 512MB emulator as the debug target in order to test the GSE in the emulator.
Figure 6: The emulator executing the Recipes app that displays the contents of MainPage.xaml.
Once the app has been executed in the emulator, you can activate the GSE if you have a microphone. Press and hold the hardware Start button in the emulator or press F2. The first time you do this, the "What can I say?" helper page will appear displaying many examples of the available voice commands and asking you whether you want to send Microsoft the words you speak in order to improve the speech recognition service (Figure 7).
Figure 7: The first time the "What can I say?" helper page appears in the emulator with the question about sharing information with Microsoft.
Once you accept or decline the offer, the GSE dialog will appear and will display a random example of an available voice command below the "Listening…" title (Figure 8).
Figure 8: The GSE dialog listening to your voice commands.
If you tap on the help button (the question mark icon located on the upper-right corner), the "What can I say?" helper page will appear again displaying some examples of common voice commands in the "common" pivot (see Figure 9).
Figure 9: The "What can I say?" helper page displaying the "common" pivot.
Tap "speak" and say "Open Calendar." The GSE will recognize the voice command "Open" and the app name "Calendar." Windows Phone will display the app icon, its name, and feedback from the voice command. In this case, the feedback is just "Starting…" and you will hear the phone's voice saying "Starting Calendar" (see Figure 10).
Figure 10: Windows Phone starting the Calendar via the "Open Calendar" voice command.
The GSE will know when a request has been completed, and at that point, it will try to match the verbal request with a valid voice command for the phone and the installed apps that registered voice commands. If GSE doesn't find a match, it will provide feedback. For example, if you say "Open Unknownapp," Windows Phone will understand the "Open" voice command, but it won't find an installed app with the name "Unknownapp" and will notify the user. If the GSE doesn't find a match and doesn't understand any valid command, it performs a Bing search on the phrase with the results of the voice recognition.
Registering Voice Command Definitions
You can also use GSE to provide voice commands for your app. For example, I want the Recipes app to allow users to activate the app and navigate to the page that allows them to create a new recipe with a voice command. In addition, I want the user to know the voice commands available for the Recipes app, so I want to provide valuable information on the "Apps" pivot of the "What can I say?" helper page.
The first step is to create a Voice Command Definition file, known as VCD file, for the Windows Phone App project. The VCD file uses an XML schema to describe the voice commands that an app accepts for one or more specific languages, the feedback provided to the user when the GSE recognizes the command, and the page to which the app must navigate when the command is recognized.


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Union Leader: Rep. Kuster warns Nashua tower's closing could hurt economy
NASHUA - Second District Congresswoman Ann Kuster, D-NH, joined Nashua Municipal Airport officials and Nashua Mayor Donnalee Lozeau at a joint press conference Wednesday to discuss the imminent closure of the airport's control tower due to federal sequestration cuts.
Joined by Nashua Airport Manager Royce Rankin and several business owners based out of the airport, Kuster and Lozeau both voiced concerns that the tower's closure could hurt airport safety and the local economy.
Lozeau said that everyone would work together, from local officials to members of Congress, to figure out ways to keep the tower open past Sunday.
Kuster said that work has to be done to make sure everyone understands how valuable a controlled airport is to Nashua and the region.
"We identified the problem, now we have to take course of action to keep tower open," Rankin said.
Many of the business owners in attendance at the press conference voiced concern at landing multi-million dollar aircraft at an uncontrolled airport. Rankin added that there are only a few days left to figure out how to keep the tower open, or the seven air traffic controllers who work there will lose their jobs.
Airport Authority Board of Commissioner Chair Donald Davidson was not present at the press conference, but said afterward that the Lozeau and the entire New Hampshire delegation to Washington D.C. have been helpful in trying to keep the tower open.
However, Davidson has said in the past that keeping the tower open using city funding isn't realistic.
Along with exploring the possibility of suing the Federal Aviation Administration to keep the airport open, Rankin said airport officials are exploring ways to fund the control tower without federal money.
Rankin also discussed a conference call held by FAA officials earlier this week for airports that will lose control towers. While some airport officials had said they hope the conference call would include news of a reprieve, Rankin said the call did not include any good news, only information that airport officials already knew.
With over 300 participants from airports across the country taking part in the call, Rankin said FAA officials did not answer any questions directed to them by Nashua Airport officials before the call ended.


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A lot of you have asked me to explain passive voice and how to avoid it.
Did Strunk & White Get Passive Voice Wrong?
Finally, I have to include a note about Strunk & White's treatment of passive voice. In their classic book, The Elements of Style, three of their four examples of passive voice aren't actually passive voice sentences. I've included two links below that explain the problems, but if you rely on The Elements of Style, as so many people do, be aware that this is a problem with that book.
50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice (The Chronicle of Higher Education)
English Passive Voice (Wikipedia)
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Web Bonus: Watson & Crick
Watson and Crick's famous paper about the discovery of the structure of DNA, written in 1953, contains both active and passive sentences;
We wish to suggest a structure for the salt of deoxyribose nucleic acid (D.N.A.). (active)
We have made the usual chemical assumptions, namely, that each chain consists of phosphate diester groups joining beta-D-deoxyribofuranose residues with 3',5' linkages. (active)
If it is assumed that the bases only occur in the structure in the most plausible tautomeric forms (that is, with the keto rather than the enol configurations) it is found that only specific pairs of bases can bond together. (passive)
It has been found experimentally that the ratio of the amounts of adenine to thymine, and the ratio of guanine to cytosine, are always very close to unity for deoxyribose nucleic acid. (passive)
1. "Writing in the Sciences," The Writing Center, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, http://www.unc.edu/depts/wcweb/handouts/sciences.html (accessed July 23, 2010)
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Just about a year ago, I was visiting friends and family in Tempe, Ariz., taking in the initial hours of 2012. The sun warmly enveloped us, and enthusiasm for the coming year was a chief player in the tone of our conversations.
As I type in chilly Mancos, longing for the warmth of that desert chat, Im grateful for the enthusiasm retained during these last 11½ months.
Im grateful for (and not limited to): Crews who worked the Weber, Goblin, Little Sand and other wildfires; emergency first responders, police and fire departments that not only worked these events but also every other night of the year, too; for Manna Soup Kitchen, Bridge Emergency Shelter, Graces Kitchen, Volunteers of America and others in service to individuals and families in need; crisis intervention teams in Durango, Cortez, Pagosa and Ignacio and for all CIT trainers; a special thanks to Mercy Regional Medical Center for saving a friends life and delivering a nephew into the world; our local United Way; our two local health departments; the people trained in mental-health first aid; for Mantherapy.org; and last, but not least and not really last Im grateful for the people who made it possible to open Axis Health Systems Cortez Integrated Healthcare facility.
While granted, this last declaration might sound a bit like home-team cheerleading the true experience of patient care within this new facility impresses me. Seeing our team of behavioral-health and primary-care providers working together is darn exciting. As a person who is guardian of a family member disabled by mental illness, I believe an integrated approach to health care is a game-changer in every sense of the term. I loudly applaud our getting under way in Cortez.
I also learned this year that when Cortez (Hernan) arrived in the new world from Spain, the first order of business for he and his crew was to burn their boats. As Axis Health System ventures into this new reality of health care we understand that there is no going back. Our boats are ashes on the beach.
Further, contemplating 2012 as 52 single weeks makes it seem like some pretty big things have happened in a relatively short amount of time. There were plenty of challenges. However, Id say there were even more examples of our communitys resiliency.
As the odometer of time stands poised to roll over once again, Im looking forward to sitting in the desert and greeting a new year. If past performance is indeed a predictor of future results for our community, Id say were a good bet.
From what Ive seen, I think we have a functional understanding that close geographical proximity to others in and of itself does not make community.
If youre looking to get involved, I highly recommend it. Theres a lot of meaningful difference being made in this community every day. If youre involved, thanks very much for all you do.
Mark White is director of quality for Axis Health System. Reach him at email@example.com or 335-2217.


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Hurricane season will hit the Atlantic coastal region shortly. It's always a scary time of year for the residents there. Obviously, those who live with hurricane risk as a matter of routine need to be concerned with maintaining their property carefully and obtaining the appropriate insurance.
However, when people calculate their risk of hurricane damage and make decisions about hurricane insurance, they consistently misread their prior experience and make poor choices. This conclusion comes from a paper by Wharton professor Robert Meyer that reports on a research simulation in which participants were instructed that they were owners of properties in a hurricane-prone coastal area and were given monetary incentives to make smart choices about when and whether to buy insurance against hurricane losses, and about how much insurance to buy.
Over the course of the study (three simulated hurricane "seasons") participants would periodically watch a map that showed whether a hurricane was building as well as its strength and course. Until virtually the last second before the storm was shown to reach landfall, the participants could purchase partial insurance ($100 per 10% of protection, up to 50% total) or full coverage ($2,500) on the $50,000 home they were said to own. Participants were advised how much damage each storm was likely to cause and, afterward, the financial consequences of their choices. They had an unlimited budget to buy insurance.
The focus of the research was to determine whether there are "inherent limits to our ability to learn from experience about the value of protection against low-probability, high-consequence, events." Sadly, we don't deal with this type of risk management very well. Our experience helps us somewhat, at least temporarily, but we typically misread that experience.
The bottom line is that participants seriously under-protected their homes. The first year, they sustained losses almost three times higher than if they had bought protection most effectively and rationally. A small portion of these losses were the result of over-insuring. But the key problem was a consistent failure to buy protection or enough protection even when serious and imminent risk was obvious. Moreover, most people reduced the amount of protection they bought whenever they endured no damage in the previous round, even if that lack of damage was specifically the result of having bought insurance.
Experience helped a little. Participants got better at the game as season one progressed, but they slipped back into old habits when season two began. By season three, these simulated homeowners were still suffering about twice as much damage as they should have. As Meyer's paper reports, these research results are consistent with patterns seen in actual practice. For example, the year after Hurricane Katrina there was a 53% increase in new flood-insurance policies issued nationally. But within two years, cancellations had brought the coverage levels back down to pre-Katrina levels.
These findings should give us all pause. They have significant implications for insurance of various types—whether hurricane insurance, other hazard insurance, life insurance or even portfolio insurance (either via the purchase of options or by "taking risk off the table"). These findings may also offer some insight into the "annuity puzzle" (economists have long been baffled that people buy guaranteed income annuities far less often than reason suggests they should).
We don't do a very good job dealing with low-probability, high-impact events, whether hurricanes, early death, sequence risk or market bubbles. We are consistently overconfident and, due to the bias blind spot, think these inherent problems may exist generally, but don't pertain to us.
Critics of our industry (often with good reason) frequently remind consumers that financial products are typically "sold" rather than "bought" and implore them not to fall into that trap. The concept here is that financial products are "sold"—pushed upon a consuming public that doesn't understand them, want them or need them. Instead, the alleged basis for their continued vibrancy and ongoing sales is that advisors get paid big bucks to sell them.
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What is "good for you" and things that have enduring and intrinsic value are sometimes a tough sell. But they are still good and good for you. On the other hand, we often crave what's bad for us. Parents have a tough time selling healthy food to their kids (and a tough time following their own advice). Local symphonies are struggling to stay afloat while Justin Beiber could support several many times over. And porn is a multi-billion dollar business. Sometimes the stuff we want would be better avoided and the really good stuff (like appropriate hurricane insurance) needs to be sold.
This doesn't mean, of course, that businesses should not listen to their customers or that advisors should not listen to their clients. In the financial world, not listening to clients is a huge problem. Too much financial "advice" is about pitching what the salesman wants to sell rather than listening for and to a client's dreams, aspirations, goals, circumstances and problems and then going about creating a way to get where they want and need to go. Sometimes that advice won't be what the client wants to hear. Sometimes it will include an approach that the client had never considered. Sometimes it will need to be sold.
I was recently talking with an advisor about a client couple's retirement planning in light of a recent inheritance. The wife had squandered a fortune many years ago and didn't want to make the same mistake twice. But she and her husband were looking to live a lifestyle in excess of their means by tapping the bequest right away as well as going forward and the husband was looking to retire very early too.
The advisor could have offered a portfolio "solution" that would have given these clients what they said they wanted. Since the immediate spending goal expressed was not wildly above their joint income level, that solution might even have succeeded. It surely would have been an easy sale.
But it wasn't the right advice. The right advice was suggesting they temper their spending, live within their means, save more and not retire too early. Since the right advice was not what the clients wanted, it needed to be sold.
Ultimately, a financial advisor's job is to provide clients what they need—not just what they want. There are plenty of "advisors" who will give their clients what they want. Sometimes doing what's best for them—providing them with what they truly need—takes a great sales job. And that's not a bad thing at all.
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This book describes all Doepfer A-100 modules that were available at the moment of publication in detail. A lot of unusual patches are presented as well.Detailsformer retail price €27.94 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Audio Damage - Boomtschak
Boomtschak - one of the most powerful entirely analog drum voices in Eurorack. As sound sources it uses an oscillator with waveshaper, a filtered noise or the mix of both. Not less than three flexible envelope generators are included, for pitch bending and the amplifiers. The resonant multi-mode filter can be fed with external audio signals instead the noise generator. The module's frequency range is huge, thus allowing for using it as a synthesizer voice.Detailsformer retail price €478.15 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Audio Damage - Dimensions
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The module's DSP works with proper 24Bit and 48kHz and also the mechanical quality is rock-solid.former retail price €276.47 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Audio Damage - DubJr Mk2
Dub Junior's Mk2 version also is based in the delay algorithms used in the Audio Damage Plug In Dubstation and the old DubJr module but it has been clearly enhanced and improved regarding as well the features as the mechanical quality. It is a delay module with clock synchronization and tap-tempo, 24Bit/48kHz quality, two modes, two timpbres and external feedback loop. A worthy successor to the best-selling, venerable DubJr.Detailsformer retail price €276.47 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Audio Damage - Proton
Although the Proton makes for a pretty nice delay its main focus of attention is a type of physical modeling called Karplus-Strong synthesis. It creates percussive sounds which resemple a plucked nylon strong but Proton is able to twist them in a strong way by filtering and by adding noise impulses.Detailsformer retail price €335.29 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Audio Damage - Shapes
Besides true stereo wave shaping the digital Shapes module offers the possiblity to scan one of 16 interpolated wavetables using audio and CV inputs. To do this you can induct any input signal, from a sine oscillator to an entire stereo sum, whereupon the grade of erosion or destruction rises with the complexity of the audio material.Detailsformer retail price €276.47 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Elektron Analog Four
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The name already indicates it: the Analog Four by Elekron continas four independent monophonic synthesizers in one unit. Besides the entirely analog voice circuitry with two oscillators and two filters per synth and plenty of modulation possibilities the Analog Four has FX and also a step sequencer that can output CV/gate signals as well.Detailsformer retail price €1,041.18 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Erica Synths - Acidbox
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Fonitronik Attenuverting Mixer
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JoMoX MBrane11 Percussion Synth
JoMoX M Brane11 Analog Membrane Modeling Percussion Synthesizer. This synth relies on two so-called analog T-bridge Oscillators to generate sound. These oscillators work in a way similar to a band pass filter close to self-resonance. When coupled, the behaviour of both oscillators is not unklike the behaviour of two drumskins influencing each other. With its interesting concept, the Jomox MBrane is definitely worth exploring. It is of special interest for users who like to experiment and whish to expand their percussive horizon. The MBrane is fully controllable per MIDI and all changes can be saved.Detailsformer retail price €217.65 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
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Mungo Enterprises - w0 Arbitrary Oscillator
Digital oscillator with a huge frequency range and the possibility to read your own waveforms in .wav format from a SD card in addition to the internal wave forms. Ultra-stable tracking due to it's digital core make it perfect for FM sounds. Phase and symmetry of the waveforms can be voltage controlled.Detailsformer retail price €503.36 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
Mungo Enterprises - Zoom module
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Plankton Electronics - The Jellyfish desktop
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Spare potentiometer for the cutoff parameter of the Vermona Action Filter .
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WMD - Variac (Colour CV)
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WMD uHC Audio Expansion
Expansion module for the WMD Micro Hadron Collider filter. It extends the filter by additional audio inputs and individual outputs for the different filter types.Detailsformer retail price €54.62 (VAT excl.) No longer available!
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Sit in the back row of an elementary school classroom, and the teacher's voice may fade out easily.
Students who have learning disabilities, hearing impairments, attention issues or are learning English as a second language are particularly prone to daydreaming when it's hard to hear. To keep students focused, Foothill Elementary this year installed amplification systems in its kindergarten, first-grade and second-grade classrooms.
"There's no more back of the room," said Scott Schwartz, a speech language pathologist at Foothill. "It's not only about hearing, it's about attention and behavior."
Schwartz researched the system and successfully applied for a $4,000 grant through the Century Link Teachers and Technology Program. After learning more about the systems, the school's Parent Teacher Organization agreed to raise the rest of the money. Because the school's classrooms are old and required some retrofitting, the systems cost about $1,000 per classroom.
Starting last year, Lafayette Elementary began fundraising with a goal of installing amplification systems in all its classrooms. So far, the school has added the systems to more than half its classrooms. Money has come through a grant from Walmart, donations from local businesses and money raised by the Parent Teacher Association.
"It is something we really feel is an important addition to classroom success," said Elaine Krassowski, a speech language pathologist at Lafayette Elementary.
Several other Boulder Valley schools also use the system in classes with hearing impaired children.
While gadgets like e-readers and iPads are getting the most attention, Schwartz said, research on their effect on student achievement is scarce — while research shows classroom amplification systems do improve achievement. As an added benefit, the systems also reduce voice stress and fatigue for teachers, cited as a common problem by speech pathologists.
"It's the biggest bang for your buck for technology," Schwartz said.
He said the company that installed the infrared systems measured the sound level in an empty room at 50 decibels — conversation level — thanks to a noisy heating system.
To use the system, teachers wear a lightweight , wireless microphone shaped like a necklace. There's a mute button for one-on-one or small group work. Teachers also control the volume, with the goal of making it loud enough for just a little extra oomph.
At Foothill, teacher response has been overwhelmingly positive. Teachers said the systems have reduced the need to repeat directions, get kids moving faster during transition times and improved attention levels.
"I love it," said first-grade teacher Erin Eissinger. "It really does help command their attention. They seem to be clearer on directions. The kids ask for it if I don't put it on."
Teachers said they also let the students use the microphones if they're reading out loud, helping other students pay attention and hear the often soft voices of new or nervous readers.
"First-graders love to share their work," said teacher Jeanne Naber. "Now, we can actually hear them."


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Freeway Series Finale, What a Game It Very Nearly Was + My Thoughts on Umpire Calls
It was a glorious game, Sunday's Freeway Series meeting between the Angels and the Dodgers at Dodger Stadium. Jered Weaver vs. Clayton Kershaw. The Dodgers' pregame show announcers joked that, with those two greats on the mound, it was a bad day to be a batter. And they knew what they were talking about. Both Weaver and Kershaw had a shutout going until the 7th inning.
Every now and then one would allow a runner on base, occasionally two. But it never got any farther than that. For six innings. Say all you want about lack of run support, and if you've been reading this blog, you know I've said plenty, but this was not a case of the batters not getting it done at the plate. This was a case of two aces baffling each other's lineups with a good, old fashioned pitchers' duel and it was fantastic. Beautiful. Frustrating. Nail biting. Cheering. Stomping. Yelling. Faan-tastic. The kind of game where I had to tip my hat to Kershaw as much as I was tipping it to Weaver. And I wished that Seth and I had bought last minutes tickets and gone running off to Chavez Ravine instead of responsibly watching the game at home for free, just so I could be there in person to soak in every nuance.
Even after both lineups finally briefly broke through the gems to knock in a run a piece in the 7th and the Angels ended the duel by pinch hitting for Weaver in the 8th, it was a great game. It was a great game, that is, right up until the call when Dee Gordon stole second. That's right I said second. Long before the play at the plate that everyone is talking about, Gordon touched second base, overslid the bag, Erick Aybar clearly blocked him from returning and applied a tag. But Gordon was called safe. He shouldn't even have been in a position to head home on the later sacrifice fly. But he was. And he did. Because that's how you play the game. And then, he was out again at the plate.
I have watched the replay more than 20 times on my DVR. Peter Bourjos' throw could not have been more perfect. Jeff Mathis blocked the plate, wrestled Gordon practically into a bear hug, sweeping arms and legs away from the plate before Gordon could get so much as a finger in, and brushed Gordon's back with the glove holding the ball. Mathis then triumphantly held up the ball for the umpire to see, allowing Gordon to break free finally and slap the plate. Three outs. Ball game. Angels win, right? Except not…now I'm not saying the umpire outright lost the game for us. At that point the Angels needed to buck up, get the third out (for the third time) and force the Dodgers into extra innings. And they didn't do that. But the double bad calls really killed the greatness of this particular game. Who knows how it would have really ended if Gordon had been called out at second? Would Jordan Walden have continued his recovery or would the Dodgers have continued their rally? I don't know. But whatever the outcome, I would have preferred that game to the one we all got. And considering the amazing pitchers' duel and the quality of the first eight and a half innings, that is a very sad thing to have to say.
It's baseball. Bad calls happen. They happen all the time. In huge egregious ways, like Armando Galarraga's perfect game that wasn't and any number of post season heartbreakers I could site. And in hundreds of smaller ways every week that may only matter to a particular batter or position player. By the end of the season, the bad calls usually even out. Heck, the Angels owe one of their wins against the Blue Jays in this season's first home series to a truly terrible runner's interference call that made the Blue Jays' go ahead run null and void.
So where exactly am I going with this? In all honesty, I don't know. I don't want the game to change. I don't want every umpire's call second guessed and argued…on the field that is. We fans should continue to exercise our traditional right to beat every dead horse of a call into dust if it pleases us to do so. I don't want to lose the pacing of the game or the spontaneity. I don't want a cookie cutter feel to a trip to the ballpark. I don't want umpires turning to computers to make every call, or even many calls. I don't want baseball teams developing strategies around how to use a set number of umpire challenges in ways that go well beyond the goal of simply redressing a wrong. I don't like the idea of increased instant replay eroding decision making.
So what do I actually want? I wanted this particular great game and so many others to remain great games. Angels win or lose, I wanted this game to proceed to its natural conclusion. And, yet, I realize that just saying I want umpires to make better calls is childish. They are only human, they have always been human, and rather than showing any increase in umpire errors, I believe that advancements in camera and television technology allow us even more opportunities to "appreciate" just how human and fallible they have always been. So, do I want MLB to increase the use of instant replay in regular season games? I don't want to want it. And I don't want it…yet. But year by year each game changing bad call chips away at the steadfastness of my resolve a little more…
And now I am off the ballgame again. Angels vs. the Nationals. I'm sure I'll post pictures later this week. The way things worked out between the games Seth and I always try to get tickets for (the freeway Series at both stadiums, 4th of July…), games we just sort of wound up with tickets for (this evening), and our upcoming Bay Area Baseball Extravaganza, our end of June and first half of July is practically an embarrassment of baseball game riches…and yet I wonder how many of them, indeed if any of them, will be as good as this game almost was.


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Sunday, July 5, 2009
New York - where Khan is King!
While on Irrfan, I remember him coming home to meet me with a dvd of his film 'The Warrior'. He was an unknown actor at the time, and I had seen him in a small budget hindi movie (forget the name) in which his performance had greatly impressed me. I had mentioned as much in a column, and he had called to thank me for recognising his effort. Over tea at the dining table, we had discussed movies - and our respective spouses - both Bongs!! That was years ago. Today, Irrfan is a star with several prestigious international projects. Like Om Puri, Anupam Kher and now Anil Kapoor, Irrfan will continue to get steady work overseas. These guys are professionals minus starry airs and silly egoes. They choose their projects well, make serious money, and move on. 'New York' is Irrfan's film all the way. And with its success two more Khans join the club of Bollywood superstars - take a bow, you guys - Kabir and Irrfan.
Aditya Chopra's taaras as producer are definitely changing. First 'New York', and now a charming film starring his lady love Rani Mukherjee ( playing a Sikh cricketer, turban- beard et al, believe it or not). Going by the teaser trailer, this one looks a winner, too. If only Shahid Kapoor would change his floppy hair!! Rani appears in terrific form and is looking barfi-sweet. Can't wait !
It's been a great homecoming . I had three books waiting for me. One is from a BLOGDOST! Onyeka Nwelue's 'Abyssinian Boy' looks promising. I was so touched by the message. It reads : " Shobhaaji, your bravery transcends continents. I'm writing to you with love from Nigeria, West Africa, Africa, The World." Onyeka has been described by 'The Guardian' as a ''teenager with a steaming pen."
Margaret Mascarenhas is a friend who lives in Goa. This is her second book ( I loved 'Skin', her first). She is an American citizen of Goan origin who grew up in Venezuela. Her new book, " The Disappearance of Irene Dos Santos'' starts with a quotation: " It is better to die on your feet than to live on your knees." That sums up Margaret. She too has written a really affectionate message to me. It reads : " For Shobhaa, who has so often pulled me from the brink of becoming boringly earnest." Excuse me, while I weep.....
The third book is from Sai Paranjpye ( love this woman!). 'Rigmarole' is a set of three satirical plays set in contemporary India. She descibes them as " feel good plays."
I shall take all three books with me to Poland next week.
That is my way of letting you guys know I'll be on the move - yes, again!
I know, I know.... but hold the scolding. It's all for a good cause. More on that later.
29 comments:
- Roshni said...
Thanks for the review on New York.....Katrina is looking good in the trailers.....Off course your visit is for a good cause Mam but what about us? We surely will miss your blogs....
- July 5, 2009 at 5:19 PM
- ZB said...
ha!, you are at it again.
"Who but Khan would have thought of John Abraham for that role AND extracted such a convincing performance out of the guy one associates with a tree stump?Katrina Kaif actually EMOTES in the movie - this is a miracle.***- hahaha, you almost spoke for my heart...
and thanks for info on Trrfan- he is my bestest favorite all time hindi actor.dying to see more of him...
this is your best post in a long time...satire at its best..Thanks:))
- July 5, 2009 at 5:19 PM
- Readers Dais said...
Thanks for the review & irfan definitely is a popular actor even in kerala where good actors are always appreciated.
- July 5, 2009 at 6:21 PM
- Unknown said...
Your review is heartening. By the way have you seen Hulla, a middleclass adventure? It is brilliant.
Rakhi's swayamvar though lowbrow, entertains well. I think there will be some betting and high melodrama.
- July 5, 2009 at 7:05 PM
- Pooja Rathore said...
Dear SD,
Irrfan Khan is a fantastic actor .. i like him ,wil watch New YOrk.
- July 5, 2009 at 8:22 PM
- The Panorama said...
Now I can't wait to see the film:)
- July 5, 2009 at 8:36 PM
- Vee said...
What's wrong with you and TOI. Raving so much about this movie? I won't run it down for no reasons but I won't make it 'the next best thing'. The movie did had the script that could have done wonders but the screenplay is the spoilsport. It is shoddy and uncluttered to say the least.
These 3 (John, Kat n Neil) have been given role of their lives 'at this moment' but at the end of it you do not feel for any of them. Kat cannot emote. Please do not turn blind eye. Neil after a superb 'Johnny Gadda' is nothing to talk of in 'ADZ' and now 'NY'. Neil's speech is not clear. He fumbles at most of the words and cannot speak good Hindi like Katrina. Katrinz for that matter never spoke good, but Neil?
John to an extent is better actor of three but he too failed to cash on this opportunity. Irrfan's act reminds of Slumdog Millionaire n A Mighty Heart. Of his calibre, doing repetitive stuff...
- July 5, 2009 at 8:39 PM
- Zeba said...
Loved the part about John, Katrina and Neil!!
Will try watching the movie as soon as possible.
And the books look promising as well.
- July 5, 2009 at 8:49 PM
- The Unsure Ascetic said...
Hello Mam,
Do you need an administrative assistant? I would like to do all the travelling that you do. I can also make good Kaddi patta flavoured chai. Please let me know. Thank you.
- July 6, 2009 at 4:53 AM
- Gajendra said...
shobhaa...yeh 'bong' kya hota hain....
- July 6, 2009 at 11:05 AM
- Harish said...
i loved new york... everything in that movie was a class, but the ending which was too too bollywoodish. Kabir Khan has done a screw up in the end that doesnt create the "vaapas dekhein?" effect. Sadly unscrewing is not that easy.
Im so happy that you too found John's acting mast-mast... :) My friends feel you are too "closed" and your opinions you form once are forever. I will now show him this blogpost of yours. :)
:-) i love sai paranjpe and you mean so much to us BlogDosts De. I feel a void when you aint around. I dont have a desire to meet you... as i see you in what images you form with what you type. I just have to log on to this space whenever I get into gloomy looms. "Sharing is Caring" and just by the way you share, you inspire people to be what they are, and speak what they feel. :-). I love You De. Unconditionally and totally. I dont know if you are even aware of the difference you are making to so many lives, by just being yourself. :)
- July 6, 2009 at 11:49 AM
- Sun said...
I'm very surprised you think New York is such a class act. I thought it was rather mediocre.
John Abraham still came across as a tree stump. He didn't look convincing at all in the guantanamo situation. After 6 months of hell, he comes out looking very well-fed, with just a wee bit of dark circles under his eyes!
I thought Katrina was the surprise package though - she was reasonably convincing in the role.
Khuda Kay Liye, which touched upon the same issue, was/is a much, much superior product.
Kabir Khan's direction is restrained and I like that. But the movie was just about mediocre.
- July 6, 2009 at 1:17 PM
- ekta khetan said...
The books sounds interesting but the movie was a rather cliché. I saw the second half of it last Sunday and didn't liked it much. Yup I agree that kat did a good job.
Irfan khan got boringly repetitive with his cop-probing, cold looks and drop dead act.
@ Gajendra
Bong is a short cut for Bengali.
- July 6, 2009 at 2:35 PM
- चंद्रमौलेश्वर प्रसाद said...
Happy reading! BON VOYAGE:)
- July 6, 2009 at 3:19 PM
- Unknown said...
Somehow, Anil Kapoor does not seem to be in the same league as Om Puri, Anupam Kher and Irrfan Khan in the acting department, at least to me, although he will probably continue to get to work on overseas projects like the other three.
- July 6, 2009 at 3:36 PM
- Isabella said...
Katrina was so brilliant.
She is beautiful as well as talented.
She was the best highlight of the movie.
Katrina is Goddess.
I loved the movie.
- July 6, 2009 at 4:10 PM
- Praseena said...
wow!! you blog!! ofcourse, you blog. why didn't i think about that before.
- July 6, 2009 at 5:34 PM
- Balvinder Balli said...
So Bombay's rains have graduated from cats and dogs to horses, camels and elephants. That's why the water logging there is much more frequent now. What next? Dinosaures i suppose.
Will certainly watch the movie.
- July 6, 2009 at 5:53 PM
- Another Kiran In NYC said...
Irfan Khan is HOT. Ouch.... that hot! He is. He is thinking man/woman hot, which is almost as much appreciated as John Abrahams hot derriere, or SRK's androgynous hotness.
You are right about that group of actors making serious money and moving right on. The fact that they can actually move on in the public conciousness in many chameleon ways makes them great actors. Anil Kapoor is on the learning curve there, but he definately is on the curve now. This is the way acting jobs are meant to be. Its not branding, its acting.
- July 6, 2009 at 6:07 PM
- krish said...
hi ..
New york is a good watch......and finally kats did act ..........sat the rains poured and u wud agree it was a normal rainy day for mubai...but am sure u saw the condition of the roads , traffic , trasnport......no lessons lrnt frm the deluge in the past.....bless our sould..
- July 6, 2009 at 7:32 PM
- ekta khetan said...
Yup, Khuda ke liye was a class movie…Must watch.
Naseeruddin shah has stolen thunder from everyone or anyone is such acts. Absolute wonderful.
@ siddhusaheb
I completely agree with you on Anil Kapoor. He was a mass hero and with due respect to his acting, he is still leagues behind these 3
- July 6, 2009 at 10:36 PM
- Pranav said...
you've got to be kidding me...I saw NY yesterday...and it was horrible, to say the least. Even Irrfan Khan seemed to be a little embarrassed in the movie.
If you want to read a great review of the movie, Indian Express does it the best and Baradwaj Rangan is the one who'll give you the best review: http://www.desipundit.com/baradwajrangan/2009/06/27/review-new-york/
- July 7, 2009 at 10:20 AM
- Peter Williams Amalraj said...
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- July 7, 2009 at 4:02 PM
- Peter Williams Amalraj said...
I don't quite understand... Most of them here at my workplace don't like this movie.. May be with John, Katrina and Neil around they expected some glitz and glamour.. In fact some folks out here were telling me that they liked the first half of the movie better than the second half.. Unfortunately it was the second half which most impressive according to me.. Also the 'Cinema Plus' review(The Hindu)by Sudish Kamath was quite very bad about the movie.. I donno why people aren't ready to accept this movie.. I guess it's the star cast which bothers them a lot.. Come on guys.. This is one healthy cinema we should be encouraging.. I thoroughly enjoyed this movie.. U can find my review in http://peterwilliamsamalraj.blogspot.com/2009/06/newyork-movie-review.html
- July 7, 2009 at 4:04 PM
- Unknown said...
Welcome back! Hope you had a great time abroad. It's great to read my favorite blogger, who joined the bandwagon so late and has 1030 admirers while I have only 21.
Anyway, all in good stead!
- July 7, 2009 at 4:20 PM
- Untouched !! said...
hey..i didnt find movie dat intresting..for me it was 3 hr detention..nice content but story was not properly organized..
- July 8, 2009 at 11:01 AM
- Aditya Mani Jha said...
It seems we have a common "Blogdost" in Onyeka :) I'm looking forward to reading "The Abyssinian Boy" too...
I found Katrina Kaif's performance mediocre at best.. although Irrfan managed to make the film watchable...
- July 11, 2009 at 12:15 AM
- Rahul said...
U liked NEW YORK!!!!!??????
My god that movie was a trash right out of the trash can....
To start with Neil goes to some boston university and then the first scence shows he own taxi??? may god....
Next is FBI is far too interested in keeping watch over a guy only because they have hunch that few felons of past were going to strike terror in new york...????? BEfore the last scene John had no other crime record except he was in detention for some time)
Man the whole film with that stupid script could have been shot in some studio....: why even go to new york....
- July 13, 2009 at 3:40 PM
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