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Marcus Aurelius, in full Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus, original name (until 161 ce) Marcus Annius Verus, (born April 26, 121 ce, Rome [Italy]—died March 17, 180, Vindobona [Vienna, Austria] or Sirmium, Pannonia), Roman emperor (161–180 ce), best known for his Meditations on Stoic philosophy. Marcus Aurelius has symbolized for many generations in the West the Golden Age of the Roman Empire.
Youth and apprenticeship
When he was born, his paternal grandfather was already consul for the second time and prefect of Rome, which was the crown of prestige in a senatorial career; his father's sister was married to the man who was destined to become the next emperor and whom he himself would in due time succeed; and his maternal grandmother was heiress to one of the most massive of Roman fortunes. Marcus thus was related to several of the most prominent families of the new Roman establishment, which had consolidated its social and political power under the Flavian emperors (69–96), and, indeed, the ethos of that establishment is relevant to his own actions and attitudes. The governing class of the first age of the Roman Empire, the Julio-Claudian, had been little different from that of the late Republic: it was urban Roman (despising outsiders), extravagant, cynical, and amoral. The new establishment, however, was largely of municipal and provincial origin—as were its emperors—cultivating sobriety and good works and turning more and more to piety and religiosity.
The child Marcus was thus clearly destined for social distinction. How he came to the throne, however, remains a mystery. In 136 the emperor Hadrian (reigned 117–138) inexplicably announced as his eventual successor a certain Lucius Ceionius Commodus (henceforth L. Aelius Caesar), and in that same year young Marcus was engaged to Ceionia Fabia, the daughter of Commodus. Early in 138, however, Commodus died, and later, after the death of Hadrian, the engagement was annulled. Hadrian then adopted Titus Aurelius Antoninus (the husband of Marcus's aunt) to succeed him as the emperor Antoninus Pius (reigned 138–161), arranging that Antoninus should adopt as his sons two young men—one the son of Commodus and the other Marcus, whose name was then changed to Marcus Aelius Aurelius Verus. Marcus thus was marked out as a future joint emperor at the age of just under 17, though, as it turned out, he was not to succeed until his 40th year. It is sometimes assumed that in Hadrian's mind both Commodus and Antoninus Pius were merely to be "place warmers" for one or both of these youths.
The long years of Marcus's apprenticeship under Antoninus are illuminated by the correspondence between him and his teacher Fronto. Although the main society literary figure of the age, Fronto was a dreary pedant whose blood ran rhetoric, but he must have been less lifeless than he now appears, for there is genuine feeling and real communication in the letters between him and both of the young men. It was to the credit of Marcus, who was intelligent as well as hardworking and serious-minded, that he grew impatient with the unending regime of advanced exercises in Greek and Latin declamation and eagerly embraced the Diatribai (Discourses) of a religious former slave, Epictetus, an important moral philosopher of the Stoic school. Henceforth, it was in philosophy that Marcus was to find his chief intellectual interest as well as his spiritual nourishment.
Meanwhile, there was work enough to do at the side of the untiring Antoninus, with learning the business of government and assuming public roles. Marcus was consul in 140, 145, and 161. In 145 he married his cousin, the emperor's daughter Annia Galeria Faustina, and in 147 the imperium and tribunicia potestas, the main formal powers of emperorship, were conferred upon him; henceforth, he was a kind of junior coemperor, sharing the intimate counsels and crucial decisions of Antoninus. (His adoptive brother, nearly 10 years his junior, was brought into official prominence in due time.) On March 7, 161, at a time when the brothers were jointly consuls (for the third and the second time, respectively), their father died.
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The transition was smooth as far as Marcus was concerned; already possessing the essential constitutional powers, he stepped automatically into the role of full emperor (and his name henceforth was Imperator Caesar Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Augustus). At his own insistence, however, his adoptive brother was made coemperor with him (and bore henceforth the name Imperator Caesar Lucius Aurelius Verus Augustus). There is no evidence that Lucius Verus had much of a following, so a ruthless rival could have easily disposed of him, though to leave him in being as anything less than emperor might have created a focus for disaffection. It is most probable, however, that Marcus's conscience impelled him to carry out loyally what he believed to have been the plan by which alone he himself had eventually reached the purple. For the first time in history, the Roman Empire had two joint emperors of formally equal constitutional status and powers, but, although the achievement of Lucius Verus has suffered by comparison with the paragon Marcus, it seems probable that the serious work of government was done throughout by Marcus and was the more arduous in that it was done during most of his reign in the midst of fighting frontier wars and combating the effects of plague and demoralization.
For constructive statesmanship or the initiation of original trends in civil policy, Marcus had little time or energy to spare. The field most congenial to him seems to have been the law. Numerous measures were promulgated and judicial decisions made, clearing away harshnesses and anomalies in the civil law, improving in detail the lot of the less-favoured—slaves, widows, minors—and giving recognition to claims of blood relationship in the field of succession (see inheritance). Marcus's personal contribution, however, must not be overstated. The pattern of ameliorating legislation was inherited rather than novel, and the measures were refinements rather than radical changes in the structure of law or society; Marcus was not a great legislator, but he was a devoted practitioner of the role of ombudsman. Moreover, there was nothing specifically Stoic about this legal activity, and in one respect the age of Antoninus Pius and Marcus signalizes a retrogression in the relationship of law to society, for under them there either began or was made more explicit a distinction of classes in the criminal law—honestiores and humiliores—with two separate scales of punishments for crime, harsher and more degrading for the humiliores at every point.
Marcus's claim to statesmanship has come under critical attack in numerous other ways—for example, in the matter of Christian persecution. Although Marcus disliked the Christians, there was no systematic persecution of them during his reign. Their legal status remained as it had been under Trajan (reigned 98–117) and Hadrian: Christians were ipso facto punishable but not to be sought out. This incongruous position did little harm in times of general security and prosperity, but when either of these were threatened, the local population might denounce Christians, a governor might be forced to act, and the law, as the central authority saw it, must then run its course. The martyrdoms at Lyon in 177 were of this nature, and, though it appears that Christian blood flowed more profusely in the reign of Marcus the philosopher than it had before, he was not an initiator of persecution.
In 161 Syria was invaded by the Parthians, a major power to the east. The war that followed (162–166) was nominally under the command of Verus, though its successful conclusion, with the overrunning of Armenia and Mesopotamia, was the work of subordinate generals, notably Gaius Avidius Cassius. The returning armies brought back with them a plague, which raged throughout the empire for many years and—together with the German invasion—fostered a weakening of morale in minds accustomed to the stability and apparent immutability of Rome and its empire.
In 167 or 168 Marcus and Verus together set out on a punitive expedition across the Danube, and behind their backs a horde of German tribes invaded Italy in massive strength and besieged Aquileia, on the crossroads at the head of the Adriatic. The military precariousness of the empire and the inflexibility of its financial structure in the face of emergencies now stood revealed; desperate measures were adopted to fill the depleted legions, and imperial property was auctioned to provide funds. Marcus and Verus fought the Germans off with success, but in 169 Verus died suddenly, and doubtless naturally, of a stroke. Three years of fighting were still needed, with Marcus in the thick of it, to restore the Danubian frontier, and three more years of campaigning in Bohemia were enough to bring the tribes beyond the Danube to peace, at least for a time.
The Meditations
A more intimate contact with the thoughts pursued by Marcus during the troubling involvements of his reign, though not what would have been historically most valuable, his day-to-day political thoughts, can be acquired by reading the Meditations. To what extent he intended them for eyes other than his own is uncertain; they are fragmentary notes, discursive and epigrammatic by turn, of his reflections in the midst of campaigning and administration. In a way, it seems, he wrote them to nerve himself for his daunting responsibilities. Strikingly, though they comprise the innermost thoughts of a Roman, the Meditations were written in Greek—to such an extent had the union of cultures become a reality. In many ages these thoughts have been admired; the modern age, however, is more likely to be struck by the pathology of them, their mixture of priggishness and hysteria. Marcus was forever proposing to himself unattainable goals of conduct, forever contemplating the triviality, brutishness, and transience of the physical world and of humanity in general and himself in particular; otherworldly, yet believing in no other world, he was therefore tied to duty and service with no hope, even of everlasting fame, to sustain him. Sickly all through his life and probably plagued with a chronic ulcer, he took daily doses of a drug; the suggestion has been made that the apocalyptic imagery of passages in the Meditations betrays the addict. More certain and more important is the point that Marcus's anxieties reflect, in an exaggerated manner, the ethos of his age.
The Meditations, the thoughts of a philosopher-king, have been considered by many generations one of the great books of all times. Although they were Marcus's own thoughts, they were not original. They are basically the moral tenets of Stoicism, learned from Epictetus: the cosmos is a unity governed by an intelligence, and the human soul is a part of that divine intelligence and can therefore stand, if naked and alone, at least pure and undefiled, amid chaos and futility. One or two of Marcus's ideas, perhaps more through lack of rigorous understanding than anything else, diverged from Stoic philosophy and approached that Platonism that was itself then turning into the Neoplatonism into which all pagan philosophies, except Epicureanism, were destined to merge. But he did not deviate so far as to accept the comfort of any kind of survival after death.
At the same time that Marcus was securing his trans-Danubian frontiers, Egypt, Spain, and Britain were troubled by rebellions or invasions. By 175, the general Avidius Cassius, who earlier had served under Verus, had virtually become a prefect of all of the eastern provinces, including control of the important province of Egypt. In that year, Avidius Cassius took the occasion of a rumour of Marcus's death to proclaim himself emperor. Marcus made peace in the north with those tribes not already subjugated and prepared to march against Avidius, but the rebel general was assassinated by his own soldiers. Marcus used the opportunity to make a tour of pacification and inspection in the East, visiting Antioch, Alexandria, and Athens—where, like Hadrian, he was initiated into the Eleusinian Mysteries (though that esoteric religious cult does not seem to have impinged at all upon his philosophical views). During the journey the empress Faustina, who had been with her husband in the Danubian wars as well, died. Great public honours were bestowed upon her in life and in death, and in his Meditations Marcus spoke of her with love and admiration. The ancient sources accuse her of infidelity and disloyalty (complicity, in fact, with Avidius Cassius), but the charges are implausible.
In 177 Marcus proclaimed his 16-year-old son, Commodus, joint emperor. Together they resumed the Danubian wars. Marcus was determined to pass from defense to offense and to an expansionist redrawing of Rome's northern boundaries. His determination seemed to be winning success when, in 180, he died at his military headquarters, having just had time to commend Commodus to the chief advisers of the regime.
Marcus's choice of his only surviving son as his successor has always been viewed as a tragic paradox. Commodus (reigned as sole emperor 180–192) turned out badly, though two things must be borne in mind: emperors are good and bad in the ancient sources according as they did or did not satisfy the senatorial governing class, and Commodus's rapid calling off of the northern campaigns may well have been wiser than his father's obsessive and costly expansionism. But those who criticize Marcus for ensuring the accession of Commodus are usually under the misapprehension that Marcus was reverting to crude dynasticism after a long and successful period of "philosophic" succession by the best available man. This is historically untenable. Marcus had no choice in the matter: if he had not made Commodus his successor, he would have had to order him to be put to death.
Marcus was a statesman, perhaps, but one of no great calibre; nor was he really a sage. In general, he is a historically overrated figure, presiding in a bewildered way over an empire beneath the gilt of which there already lay many a decaying patch. But his personal nobility and dedication survive the most remorseless scrutiny; he counted the cost obsessively, but he did not shrink from paying it.John Anthony Crook
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Imagine that you are the Crown Prince of Abu Dhabi traveling through the streets of Abu Dhabi with your entourage.
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I can't imagine anyone was shocked when sequels quickly followed 2003's successful Prince of Persia: The Sands of Time. The rate at which they popped up was surprising, though: Publisher/developer Ubisoft cranked out two sequels in two years, culminating in 2005's uninspired Prince of Persia: The Two Thrones. In that short span, the titular Prince went from a lovable hero to a dark, grizzled character who, despite some spry moves, felt like he needed a long, long vacation.
Enter 2008, when the franchise was re-envisioned again, in the experimental -- and somewhat confusingly titled -- Prince of Persia. While the cel-shaded visuals and one-on-one combat were bold steps in a new direction, the game also removed your ability to fail: You essentially could never die, thanks to a partner that conveniently undid all your fatal mistakes... and, along with them, almost all the requisite sense of accomplishment.
If the last PoP game was an experiment, then the upcoming Prince of Persia: The Forgotten Sands makes it feel like a failed one. Instead of continuing the story of the 2008 Prince, Forgotten Sands is an interquel that brings The Sands of Time's protagonist out of retirement. My fear, of course, is that Forgotten Sands will be little more than a return to the old formula -- another iteration that retreads the ideas introduced in Sands of Time, at the expense of its own unique vision. While it's still too early to answer one way or another, after checking out a short demo of the new-old Prince back in action, I'm not ready to count him out yet.
Water Works
Environmental puzzles that rely on reaction time have always played a big part in the series, and Forgotten Sands puts the Prince through his paces. The traditional column climbing, wall-running, and pole-swinging activities appear frequently in the demo, but Forgotten Sands gives the Prince new powers that seem to dramatically change the way you explore environments. The Prince now enjoys the ability to interact with elements, with water being a particularly important tool. Using the Prince's powers to solidify and liquify water on a whim, you must utilize both states in order to reach otherwise unavailable areas.
For instance, you might swing on a pole, only to quickly solidify a waterfall (it only stays solid for a short period of time) and use it as a wall to leap from. Such situations become more complex when the game forces you to rapidly change water from liquid to solid in order to conquer environmental puzzles. For example, you might jump through one waterfall only to solidify both that waterfall and the next one; then you can rapidly "wall jump" between each one to reach higher ground. Granted, the way that water is used while solid is immediately familiar -- wide waterfalls take the place of walls, while slimmer bodies often turn into columns -- but the twitch factor it adds could bring new challenges to proven gameplay.


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UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. — Which 'bots are in, and which are out?
That's the question the special-effects gurus at Universal Studios and Industrial Light and Magic, as well as "Transformers" director Michael Bay, first asked themselves five years ago when they started developing a $100 million theme park attraction based on the popular franchise. Much like the robots themselves, the answer changed shape.
"We knew we had to have Optimus Prime, Bumblebee and Megatron," said Universal Studios producer Chick Russell. "Beyond those characters, we didn't want it to feel like everyone else was just making a cameo. We wanted each character to feel like they were contributing to the attraction. It's four minutes. You don't have a lot of time to introduce characters."
When designers originally envisioned "Transformers: The Ride — 3D," which debuts Friday at Universal Studios Hollywood and opened in December at Universal Studios Singapore, their first inclination was to build life-size versions of the famous 'bots, but Russell said they quickly learned that even the most sophisticated animatronics wouldn't do the trick.
"We realized early in the process that we couldn't get them to do the things we wanted them to do fast or realistic enough to match the excitement of the Bay films," said Russell. "We instead decided to go with a multimedia approach and match 3-D footage with intricate set work, so it doesn't feel like you're just going from screen to screen to screen."
The attraction puts riders inside a 12-person vehicle designed to look like a nimble new Transformer named Evac, who goes on a breakneck chase from the headquarters of the top-secret NEST agency through city streets, across rooftops and even inside an office building on the hunt for a missing shard of the AllSpark, the powerful Transformers artifact.
The action is digitally projected on 14 screens among real-world sets that the ride vehicles move into and past, mixing computer-generated fantasy with reality. For example, at the beginning of the ride inside a military facility, the front half of a parked truck is real, while the other half of the vehicle that the Transformers fight atop is on screen.
Jeff White, the visual effects supervisor from Industrial Light and Magic who worked on both the films and the attraction, said designers created the footage in 4K resolution, which has quadruple the number of pixels found on most screens, and used photographs of the actual Chicago cityscape to craft the virtual urban terrain where the robots battle.
One of the attraction's most spectacular effects is the least explosive. At one point, during a calm moment in the villainous Decepticons' assault on the heroic Autobots, hulking Autobot leader Optimus Prime (voiced by Peter Cullen in both the films and the attraction) kneels down to address the riders, coming closer to the audience than ever before.
"Originally, that was going to be a physical build, but we couldn't quite work out the animation with something practical," said White. "That whole scene was changed over to a screen, and what was great about that is more so than ever before in any of the movies, people can feel what it's like for Optimus Prime to come right up and talk to them."
White said the designers pushed Optimus' face as closely as possible into riders' perspectives without the robot general's noggin appearing blurry or distorted. The effect meant that ILM had to create more 3-D animations and textures for Optimus' mechanized eyes, mouth and other facial features than what's usually required in the "Transformers" films.
The ride's footage was crafted by ILM at the same time they did effects for the "Transformers" sequels "Revenge of the Fallen" and "Dark of the Moon," which allowed the designers to include new additions like Bumblebee's gun-toting hybrid mode and hulking baddie Devastator, who sucks up everything in his path in Egypt at the end of "Revenge of the Fallen."
While the Singapore and Hollywood versions of the ride are nearly identical, the one inside a two-story building on the Hollywood back lot of Universal Studios, owned by Comcast Corp., uses Dolby 3D, the newest version of 3-D projection. Russell said there are no plans — for now — to bring the ride to other theme parks.
Ultimately, "Transformers" mastermind Bay and the ride's designers are featuring 13 different characters from the "Transformers" movies in the ride, as well as new 'bot Evac and human General Morshower, who pops up in videos broadcast in the ride's waiting area. (And, of course, there are Evac action figures for sale in the gift shop outside the attraction.)
Bay is set to helm a fourth "Transformers" film, which Paramount Pictures announced earlier this year would be released in 2014. White said there wasn't any discussion about the Transformers' next movie adventure when creating the ride. He noted the ILM designers set out to create an attraction that could "withstand the test of time" outside of the films.
"Typically, we make a movie, and then it disappears from the public consciousness," said White. "Here is something that people could perhaps go and experience for 10, 20 or 30 years, so we really tried to make sure that it was its own encapsulated story but also that the visuals were of a high enough level that it wouldn't show its age in 10 years."


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Blink have added director, photographer, and visual artist Tash Tung to their burgeoning roster.
Talented editor Gaia Borretti has bolstered the team at The Assembly Rooms.
Pulse Films have signed director Finn McGough for worldwide representation.
The three directors selected by Homespun Yarns to turn their pitches into films have been announced.
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NHL Game Night 3/21: Thrashers at Lightning
The Lightning pull out a critical win in the Tavares/Hedman sweepstakes.
Karri Ramo allowed 3 goals on 36 shots before allowing 1 of 2 shooters to convert for the shootout loss. Since the Lightning's drubbing against Carolina, Ramo has rebounded (perhaps a bad choice of words in Karri's case) to go 2-0-3. He's got a nice .919 save percentage over that span, too, by my count. Rebound control remains an issue, but he's making the first saves, which is critical. He could save the Lightning a small fortune by proving he can be Smitty's backup with continued good performances down the stretch.
First Period
06:12 ATL Kozlov (22), (Enstrom, Armstrong)
17:49 ATL White (20), (Kozlov, Kovalchuk)(PP)
Second Period
03:50 TB Stamkos (17), (Krajicek, St. Louis)
05:12 TB Stamkos (18), (Lashoff, Lecavalier)(PP)
12:52 ATL Kovalchuk (37), (White, Enstrom)(PP)
15:36 TB Prospal (18), (Krajicek)
Third Period
ATL- Kozlov
The Lightning managed to crawl back into this game after laying down in the First Period the same way they laid down in the Third Period against the Caps. They're fortunate the Thrashers stink in that regard and let them get back to even.
Steven Stamkos continues his steady march to 20 goals as he racked up his 17th and 18th tonight. Keep shooting, young man. It's hard to believe he only had 6 goals at the end of the month of January. In his last 16 games, Stamkos has 11 goals and 16 points. That pro-rates to a 56 goal, 82 point campaign over 82 games. That's not to say he'll stay this hot for a full year next season. But, to me, with an entire offseason to train and build his body and the work ethic he's already displayed, I would not be shocked at all to see him pot 40 goals and 80-90 points next year. I think the league was lulled into a false sense of security about Stamkos when he didn't come out of the hockey womb a preformed point-a-game player and when Barry Melrose decided to chuck #91 under the bus after he was fired. Hopefully Stamkos' amazing late season productivity continues to fly under the radar and sets him up to storm the league early next season. I suspect I'll almost feel pity for teams who have to choose between dying by Stammer or Vincent Lecavalier's hand next year with the two playing on opposite scoring lines. Almost.
Have the Lightning actually won a game in the third jerseys, by the way? If someone knows the team's record with them on, by all means post it. I suspect it's almost terrible enough to warrant burning the new threads.
Matt Smaby was +1 with 1 shot, 2 hits, and 3 blocked shots in 24:37. This was a good rebound game after going -4 against Washington.
David Koci had 2 penalty minutes, 1 shot, 1 hit, and 1 blocked shot in 6:45.
Paul Szczechura was -1 with 1 shot in 12:41.
Martins Karsums had 2 shots, 2 hits, and 1 blocked shot in 13:19. He was better tonight.
Richard Petiot was -1 with 6 penalty minutes, 1 shot, 4 hits, and 1 blocked shot in 23:11. He was awful in the first period as Atlanta took advantage of his slow feet. To his credit, he got it back together in the final 40 minutes. I like him as a #8 or #9 d-man who can come up from Norfolk if there's an injury.
Matt Lashoff had 1 assist and 2 penalty minutes and was -1 with 2 shots and 1 blocked shot in 28:18, which led the team in ice time. 3 games in a Lightning jersey: 3 power play assists. You can't complain about that kind of production. He deals a good pass for a one-timer, which can get a defenseman paid on a power play that features shooters like Stamkos, Lecavalier, and Martin St. Louis. His skating allows him to potentially eat big minutes like he did tonight, too. Darren Eliot claimed tonight that his skating had somehow been "exposed." It's a shame that someone swapped out his Thrashers flavored Kool-Aid for bad moonshine. Here's to hoping his eyesight returns to him soon.
10 more games to go. We'll see if Blair Jones and/or Justin Keller get late season recalls. I would advise it with these two players having their contracts up this offseason.
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Doug Brien quietly seethed last year as the perception of his ability by New Yorkers became eminently clear.
Brien, the Jets' kicker in his second season here, was like an all-around receiver who was irritated at being labeled a "possession" receiver, capable of only the short and intermediate route but incapable of getting deep for the big play.
"No one really said it to me last year, but you kind of got the feeling of, 'Oh, he's an inside-the-50 guy,' and that really annoyed me," Brien said. "If you look at the numbers in my career, that's not who I've been."
Indeed, prior to going 0-4 from 50 yards and longer last season with the Jets, Brien was a respectable 14-of-22 from long distance (64 percent) in his career. His previous two attempts before joining the Jets were blocked while he was with the Saints, making him 0-for-his-last-6 from 50 and out before last week.
In Sunday's tight 17-6 win over the Dolphins in Miami, Brien went a long way toward changing his image as a 40-to-49 kind of kicker when he pounded a 53-yarder to the back of the netting beyond the goal posts to give the Jets key points before the end of the first half.
"It kind of opened a new dimension for me here," Brien said of that FG.
"What that kick did for him, it put him in a different light to the players – not to me, but to the players," Herman Edwards said. "He did it in a game where all points were critical. His history says he hasn't kicked a bunch of them over 50. So you sit there and you go, 'That's his history.' Why is that? Well, you've got to look at the circumstances.
"You wonder until they do it. Chad Pennington story. He's the quarterback, OK, that's great. Go win a game. All right, he won one. He won two. He won three. Won the division. Pretty good. You've got to do it. When you do it, people go, "Hey, he did it."
Brien said he feels like long-distance FGs are "a dimension where I can help the team."
"Now, I feel like that door, that window of opportunity is back open again," Brien said, referring to proving himself with that 53-yarder Sunday.
Jet CB Derrick Strait (sprained foot) is listed as questionable and unlikely to play tomorrow against Buffalo. He'll be replaced at the nickel back by veteran Terrell Buckley.
C Kevin Mawae will decide for sure on game day whether he'll snap righty or lefty. LG Pete Kendall will play despite a sprained right wrist, which won't enable him to snap if called upon.
Tough couple of weeks for LT Jason Fabini, who's been ill this week but is expected to play.


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College baseball team (19-12, 10-5 PBC) used great pitching and timely hitting to down North Georgia (15-15, 5-11 PBC) 3-1 Saturday at John Kurtz Field.
The game went scoreless to the bottom of the sixth inning, as GC's Darin Wiltgen (Reno, Nev.) battled the Saints' Jacob Beauchamp pitch-for-pitch.
After an error and a Tanner Funk (Kearney, Mo.) single with an advance on a throw to third put runners on second and third with no outs, North Georgia brought the infield in to try and cut off the go-ahead run. After consecutive groundouts, it looked like the Saints might get out of the jam.
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LaMothe got the three outs to close the ninth, picking up his seventh save after GC added an eighth-inning insurance run on a Cody Maas (Alpharetta, Ga.) sacrifice fly.
Wiltgen (5-1) went 7 1/3 innings, allowing a single run with five strikeouts. Beauchamp (3-1) allowed just one earned run in the losing effort.
Funk was the lone multi-hit performer, going 2-for-4 with a pair of runs scored. The Saints' designated hitter Travis Naraine finished 3-for-4 with a double, the game's lone extra-base hit.
GC increases its lead on the Peach Belt Conference (PBC) West Division, improving to 10-5, ahead of the University of Montevallo by three games in the loss column. North Georgia is positioned fourth with their 5-11 mark.
The Bobcats and Saints finish the three-game set with a doubleheader tomorrow, April 1 at 1 p.m.
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Copyright Maximalism: Turning Satirical Works Into Ridiculous Reality
from the the-copyright-industries-hope-to-be-'satire-free'-by-2015 deptLast week, we discussed Microsoft's patent filing on a content distribution system that counted heads and charged license fees accordingly. Utilizing the Kinect or some other unnamed technology, Microsoft had the beginnings of the copyright industries' wildest dreams: an opportunity to treat the public's living rooms like theaters and collect "admission" from every viewer.
Rick Falkvinge has amusingly pointed out that "prior art" exists for this "Content Distribution Regulator" -- in the form of a satirical piece published at BBspot (and covered here years ago, noting that it "hit too close to home") five years before Microsoft's filing.
Six years ago, a satire site wrote a story about how the copyright industry wanted more money if you invited friends to watch a movie in your living room. This notion has now been patented in new technology: automated headcounts coming to a living room near you, to enable new forms of restrictions. Apparently, the copyright industry takes six years to catch up with the very worst satire of it.The satirical piece Falkvinge quotes deals with the MPAA trying to push through a bill that would allow it to take control of people's living rooms and treat them like theaters.
The MPAA is lobbying congress to push through a new bill that would make unauthorized home theaters illegal. The group feels that all theaters should be sanctioned, whether they be commercial settings or at home.This paragraph in particular is eerily prescient:
The bill would require that any hardware manufactured in the future contain technology that tells the MPAA directly of what is being shown and specific details on the audience. The data would be gathered using various motion sensors and biometric technology.Sounds exactly like Microsoft's idea, doesn't it? In fact, it sounds close enough that you could argue that it should invalidate the patent in question. Either way, there's no way the MPAA isn't hoping this comes to fruition. Sure, money can be made by producing new movies but it's so much simpler to charge people over and over for the same item. Various format changes over the years have resulted in some double- and triple-dipping. Digital distribution, combined with Microsoft's consumer-unfriendly device, takes rentals into "real money" territory and very possibly will take digital purchases in that direction as well. Here's a quote from the satire that may as well be real:
"Just because you buy a DVD to watch at home doesn't give you the right to invite friends over to watch it too. That's a violation of copyright and denies us the revenue that would be generated from DVD sales to your friends," said Glickman. "Ideally we expect each viewer to have their own copy of the DVD, but we realize that isn't always feasible. The registration fee is a fair compromise."We've heard wording like this before, where industry heads claim some irrationally high license fee is a "fair compromise." It's viewed as fair by licensing agencies because if they were able, they would have charged much, much more.
Falkvinge points out that those satirizing these industries may just be unwitting futurists:
So be careful when you write satire about the madness and delusions of the copyright industry (and that certainly isn't hard – more often than not, ordinary journalism will do fine). Either tread very carefully, or start a little stopwatch the next time you publish satire about what that parasitic, shameless industry will think of next.This is a fact. The content industries' love of licenses (and the ability to charge multiple times for the same content) has made it into an easy punchline. Beyond the satire Falkvinge quoted are other examples demonstrating that your average citizen already recognizes the colossal overreach of these industries and the absurdity of the licenses connected to each form of artistic expression they cover.
Earlier this year, sportswriter Mike Tanier used public performance licensing (namely, the violation of these licenses) as the lynchpin for his plan to rid the NFL of replacement referees.
If the crowd at an NFL game sings "Hey Jude," television networks will be stuck broadcasting "Hey Jude" without the rights-holders permission. The sound editors are pretty good at obscuring the B.S. chant, but that only takes a little bit of white noise. Try editing away one of the most recognizable melodies in the world on live television. The broadcast will sound like it is coming from Venus. But if the NFL doesn't drown out the singing, someone big and powerful is going to show up at league headquarters in a suing mood.When you've got sportswriters using aggressive licensing issues as a punchline, you know the it's reached critical mass. Not only is a sportswriter skewering performance rights organizations, the NFL's copyright paranoia, the Beatles' fierce grasp on its catalog and the overreaction of all these entities to "unlicensed" use, he also laying it out there confidently, expecting his audience to recognize the ridiculousness of it all without needing to resort to pages of footnotes and links to relevant legal information. It's obvious to everybody but the licensing agencies how utterly preposterous this all is.
Need another example of this common knowledge? Just recently, a piece at famous humor site McSweeney's recasted Gil Scott-Heron's famous phrase, explaining exactly why "the revolution will not be televised." Here's a few choice quotes from a much longer piece (all of it worth reading):
The revolution will not be televised due to our blackout policy. Because the revolution is taking place in your market, you will be unable to watch the revolution. Instead of the revolution, the classic Billy Bob Thornton/John Cusack film, Pushing Tin, will be televised.With digital distribution, each iteration is subject to its own limitations and restrictions, just the way the content industries prefer it. As the shift continues in this direction, I would expect the major players to continue their march into brave new licensing schemes far surpassing satirists' most fevered dreams. They control the licenses they've "sold" their customers and have shown they have absolutely no qualms about abusing consumers in order to squeeze a few more dollars out of the content. Microsoft's filing turns what was originally a series of punchlines into a very plausible glimpse of the future.
The revolution will not be televised, but it will be available for streaming on Hulu.com seven days after the revolution takes place.
The revolution will not be televised because of a dispute between the revolution and DIRECTV. If you'd like to see the revolution, please call DIRECTV and demand that they put the revolution back on the air.
The revolution will not be televised, but if you have a cable subscription, you can log in to WatchRevolutions.com and use their authenticator to watch the revolution. Just provide your username and password, and you will have access to the revolution live, plus alternate angles, commentary, and the ability to share your login with up two more IP addresses.
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Chuck Bresnahan is in his second stint as the Raiders defensive coordinator. The Raiders made it to the Super Bowl with Bresnahan as their defensive coordinator in 2002.
On Friday night, Bresnahan spoke with the media for the second time since he was hired by the Raiders to replace John Marshall.
Here is the entire transcript:
This preseason, how do you evaluate it?
Progress, but slow. We're taking the strides , the things you saw in the preseason were very vanilla and not a lot of playing time for the 1's obviously. We've gotten the practice time and we're excited to get out there and show what we've got in Denver.
Looking forward to playing all your starters?
That's just preseason. Again, this preseason was unique because we're all doing it right from the get-go in training camp. It's the first chance we had with the players. But we're excited. We've made progress and we're right on track with where we need to be.
Did you change terminology too much, negating fact that you had 10 starters back?
There's a lot of carryover. That's something you have to do when you come in, you have to really watch that – especially when you don't have an offseason. You try to keep things … There's going to be new terminology and there's going to be some new wrinkles, but again that's part of the game. No matter what you do. Every year you change up and you try to improve your defense, so whether it's the same coordinator or a new coordinator, we keep taking those strides forward. Like I said, I am excited to see where we're at on Monday night.
What's the biggest challenge Denver presents?
We're going to say it every week: the first thing we have to do is stop the run. We have to be physical, and that's what we're trying to do. We're trying to get out there and set the tone for the game on defense, and the primary thing is to shut the run game down and force the game to be one-dimensional. When you do that, you have the opportunity to do some special things.
First team did that pretty well, didn't they?
Yeah, for the most part. We had a couple of little things we had to get ironed out, but they did a good job against the run. And now we've got to tie it all together an dplay 60 minutes of good football, with 11 guys playing the same defense. And no weak links. And some special things will happen.
What did DeMarcus Van Dyke learn in the preseason? Was it good to go against Larry Fitzgerald, etc.?
It's excellent, especially when you don't have an offseason. It's getting thrown to wolves a little bit but … DVD has a tremendous amount of confidence in himself. Again, he's made strides the entire preseason. And when you look at some of the catches made on him, he couldn't be in better position. Now he's just got to make a play on the ball and he'll be fine. But he's got a lot of confidence.
How much will it help to get Chris Johnson back?
You can never underestimate the importance of a veteran corner that has a lot of experience. And he brings an attitude to the field as well. We're excited as heck to get him back.
In the brief time he played this preseason, it seemed as if Rolando McClain was a little more active than he was last season?
Yes, Rolando is going to be the heartbeat of our defense. We have a lot of veterans, but he is the guys that is going to be our signal-caller. He's in the middle taking control and he's excited to get going, and I am excited to see him play Monday night.
What were your impressions watching McClain's rookie season on videotape
There is always going to be room for improvement, but I saw an incredibly talented young man that the sky if the limit as far as his future goes. The way he attacks the work week, in the meeting room, on the practice field, taking it even to the preseason games in the time that he played, and even off the field – I think he is a professional and I am excited to see the progress he makes in Year 2.
Do you expect Michael Huff to play a lot of nickel corner?
He'll play in the slot, he'll play our nickel corner, but again we have some things we'll do. He has had a very productive preseason for the limited amount of time that he's done.
What did you want to see out of Quentin Groves, who played more than any other starter in the preseason?
Well, he's in a situation where he needs to gain experience at the linebacker position, so we played him in both base and the nickel. And it was really, really beneficial for him, because he got a lot of experience, lots of playing times, saw a lot of things he may not have seen yet in the limited experience he had last year.
It appears as if the defense is healthy right now?
No doubt. And you guys know how I am too. We're going to play with who's out there, and if someone does get nicked or banged up, then the next guy has to come in and pull his weight.
How does Trevor Scott look since his return from a knee injury?
Trevor has come back strong. He's had a tremendous rehab, a very good offseason not being here, and he's come back in tremendous shape. I am excited to see him fit in the mix as well.
Is there still another level for defensive end Matt Shaughnessy to attain?
Everybody's got another level. It's all up to the time and effort you put into it, and he's a professional and works at his trade on the field and off the field. He puts in extra study so I am excited again – it sound repetitive – to see him and where he progresses.
Is Trevor Scott strictly a defensive end?
That's something we won't discuss outside the locker room, but you know that he gives you versatility. He's comfortable where he's at right now.
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John Jacobs Track & Field Complex
The University of Oklahoma Athletics Department completed a $3.5 million�renovation of the John Jacobs Track and Field Complex in the spring of 2004. The project included a 25,000 square-foot building connecting the Mosier Indoor Practice Facility with the Everest Training Center. This new building includes track and field locker�rooms, a sports medicine room and a video teaching room.
In 2006, an area of the Mosier Indoor Facility was renovated for a weightlifting room to be used exclusively by OU's track and field athletes.
Additionally, the John Jacobs Track was altered and resurfaced to create European Oval turns for a faster track and nine 48-inch lanes of embedded urethane surface. Other improvements included upgrades�of field event areas, placing them directionally north/south and east/west to create the best wind conditions.
Included in the redesign of the field event areas was the addition of walkways that allow spectators to get closer to the action of all field events.
New spectator seating for 2,000 fans, new restrooms, concessions, a permanent scoreboard, sound system and the installation of championship lighting were also added to the facility.
Other additions to the complex included a sports medicine and hydrotherapy area, men's and women's locker rooms, men's and women's coaches' locker rooms and a team meeting room.
The entire complex is one of the largest, and newest, in the nation devoted specifically to cross country/track and field teams.
The 2004 upgrade marked the third major renovation of John Jacobs Field since it was originally built in the 1950s. In the late 1970s, the oval was reconfigured to change to metric measurements.
Following the 1988 outdoor season, the OU Athletics Department, in partnership with Oklahoma Centennial Sports, the local organizing committee for the 1989 U.S. Olympic Festival, began a $700,000 renovation to the facility. The facility served as the host of the Olympic Festival before hosting the 1990 and 1992 Big Eight Outdoor Track and Field Championships.
The outdoor track facility was designed by longtime Sooner track and field coach John Jacobs in the 1950s. Jacobs served as OU's track and field coach from 1922 to 1958, then continued to serve as associate head coach until his retirement in 1968. He was named to the Helms Foundation Track and Field Hall of Fame in 1957.
A proposal to name the facility after him was originally made in 1957, and in May 1962, the OU Board of Regents officially named the facility John Jacobs Field.


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One of the most unique singer/songwriters in American indie music, with an unforgettable adenoidal vocal delivery that makes him sound like a low-level wise guy in one of those old Warner Bros. gangster films of the '30s, and a lyrical obsession with the themes of pulp crime novels and film noir, Stan Ridgway is a true original. To most people, Ridgway is best known as the singer of his early new wave band Wall of Voodoo's 1983 hit "Mexican Radio." However, he parted ways with the band soon after and embarked on a distinctive solo career, issuing a handful of highly regarded albums and often collaborating with his wife, singer/songwriter Pietra Wexstun. Over the years, Ridgway has created an impressive, if at times somewhat inscrutable and increasingly bleak, body of work.
Born with the euphonious name of Stanard Q. Ridgway in the desert town of Barstow, California, on April 5, 1954, and raised in Los Angeles, Ridgway claims to have been a budding ventriloquist who spent his first night in jail at the age of 12 for stealing street signs. Ridgway also had a childhood fascination with folk music, pestering his parents until they bought him a banjo at the age of 14. Ridgway's love of folk music, though it may seem odd considering his later career directions, shows on his occasional covers of artists like Johnny Cash and Tennessee Ernie Ford, but other artists ranging from Kurt Weill to Peter Gabriel-era Genesis were also big influences on the budding composer.
Ridgway formed Wall of Voodoo with guitarist Marc Moreland, bassist Bruce Moreland, keyboardist Chas T. Gray, and drummer Joe Nanini during the 1977 punk explosion; interestingly, however, the group originally formed not as a punk band but as a composers' collective that hoped to write and perform music for low-budget films. Nonetheless, the group was eventually swept up into the local post-punk new wave scene, where its combination of Ennio Morricone, Lefty Frizzell, and crime novelist Jim Thompson was loved and hated with equal passion. Following a brittle, art rock-ish self-titled EP (with a brilliant synth rock cover of Cash's "Ring of Fire" that brought the group much notoriety) in 1980, the band released two albums, 1981's Dark Continent and 1982's Call of the West, an excellent concept album about the lives of the disenfranchised in their native California. Lyrically dense, almost novelistic songs like "Factory," "Lost Weekend," and the title track revealed Ridgway to be among the most gifted lyricists of the day, while the inescapable hit "Mexican Radio" was huge on MTV and the suddenly new wave-friendly Top 40 airwaves. However, at that career peak, the band split in two backstage after a disastrous appearance at the 1983 U.S. Festival, with Ridgway and Nanini departing.
Ridgway immediately reappeared in the fall of 1983 with "Don't Box Me In," a nervous-sounding collaboration with Stewart Copeland of the Police from the film Rumble Fish. However, it wasn't until early 1986 that Ridgway's first solo album, The Big Heat, finally appeared. The lyrics of songs like "Pick It Up and Put It in Your Pocket" and "Drive She Said" are even more elliptically novelistic, like Donald Barthelme stories set to music. The seven-minute closer, a story song called "Camouflage," was a surprise Top Five hit in the U.K. Ridgway continued his slow but steady work habits after The Big Heat's release, waiting over three years before releasing the even darker-hued follow-up, Mosquitos.
Surprisingly, Ridgway's third album, Partyball, was out less than two years later; if anything even bleaker lyrically than any of Ridgway's previous efforts ("Jack Talked Like a Man on Fire" is his creepiest character study yet), Partyball is leavened by five brief instrumentals showing that his fascination with movie music has continued. In fact, Ridgway's first film score, for the low-budget indie Future Kick, was also released in 1991. (Ridgway's other film scores have included Melting Pot, Speedway Junky, Desperate But Not Serious, Error in Judgment, and The Keening; the Australia-only release Film Songs collects six of Ridgway's pieces of film music.) Ridgway left IRS Records after Partyball's release, and the label responded with the 1992 compilation Songs That Made This Country Great, which also includes Wall of Voodoo material. Ridgway self-released a companion video volume, Showbusiness Is My Life: The Video Collection 1977-1982 (titled after Ridgway's usual on-stage farewell during his Wall of Voodoo days), in 1995.
Through the latter half of the '90s, Ridgway also collaborated with his wife, musician and songwriter Pietra Wexstun, and ex-Rain Parade drummer Ivan Knight as the noise rock experimentalists Drywall. A fourth solo album, 1996's Black Diamond, was a surprising detour into cocktail-style jazz reminiscent of Henry Mancini's '50s and '60s film scores. Even more unexpectedly, Ridgway's next album was 1998's The Way I Feel Today, a completely straight collection of 19 pop standards from the '30s and '40s with full orchestral backing. Released in 1999, Anatomy, with a cover illustration recalling the famous Saul Bass poster for the film Anatomy of a Murder, doesn't sound much like Duke Ellington's score for that film, though similar themes of justice and dishonor percolate through Ridgway's always impressive lyrics.
Over the next several years, Ridgway and Wexstun continued their fruitful partnership, composing music to accompany an exhibition of surrealist painter Mark Ryden's work, released in 2004 as Blood. Also that year, Ridgway delivered the studio album Snakebite: Blacktop Ballads & Fugitive Songs. The introspective Neon Mirage arrived in 2010, followed by Mr. Trouble in 2012. In 2017, he and Wexstun collaborated on Priestess of the Promised Land, a concept album inspired by the life of infamous 1920s and 1930s Pentecostal evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson. ~ Stewart Mason
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Tom Piazza will be featured speaker at this Tuesday's 1718
February 6, 2009
Tom Piazza, visiting faculty member in the Department of English in the College of Humanities and Natural Sciences at Loyola University New Orleans, and author of "Why New Orleans Matters" and "City of Refuge," will be the featured speaker at 1718, a student-run literary reading series, this Tuesday, Feb. 10, at 7 p.m. at the Columns Hotel, 3811 St. Charles Avenue.
The three-year-old reading series is directed by students from Loyola University, Tulane University and the University of New Orleans, and is a one-of-a-kind collaboration between these students, according to Mark Yakich, Loyola's faculty adviser for the program. The name 1718 was chosen in honor of the year New Orleans was founded.
Each 1718 reading event features one established poet or writer reading selections followed by several student writers. Past guests include Christine Wiltz, Poppy Z. Brite, Bev Marshall, John Biguenet and Andrei Codrescu.
Piazza's "Why New Orleans Matters" won the 2006 Humanities Book of the Year Award from the Louisiana Endowment for the Humanities. His most recent book, "City of Refuge," is the 2008 reading selection for One Book, One New Orleans, a community-wide literacy project of the Young Leadership Council.
For more information, visit the 1718 website at http://seventeeneighteen.com/.
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DOVER — Local high school tournaments are in full swing. Below is a list of local teams and their playoff schedule for the next week.
In Division II boys hockey, No. 7 Oyster River (9-5-5) play at No. 2 Spaulding (15-2-1) Saturday, 7 p.m., at the Rochester Arena.
Two other local D-II teams will also play on Saturday. No. 5 Dover (11-6-1) will play at either 4 or 6 p.m. against No. 4 Bow (11-3-4) at the Douglas Everett Arena in Concord, while No. 6 Kingswood (11-7-0) will meet No. 3 Bedford (13-3-2) at Saint Anselm College at 11:30 a.m.
In D-I boys hockey, No. 4 St. Thomas Aquinas (12-5-1) will host No. 5 Trinity (11-5-2) at 2 p.m. on Saturday at the Dover Arena.
In D-III boys hockey, No. 8 Portsmouth travels to No. 1 Berlin Saturday at 4 p.m.
In D-I girls hockey, No. 3 Oyster River (13-4-1) will host rival St. Thomas/Dover, seeded No. 6, Friday at 6:30 p.m. at Jackson's Landing.
In D-III boys basketball action, No. 7 Somersworth (13-5) will welcome No. 10 Prospect Mountain (11-7) tonight at 7 p.m. in the second round. No. 16 Farmington plays at No. 1 Berlin at the same time.
In girls Division II basketball, three local teams will play Friday at 7 p.m. in the quarterfinals. No. 8 Coe-Brown plays at No. 1 Lebanon, No. 12 St. Thomas visits No. 4 Milford, and No. 2 Portsmouth hosts No. 10 Merrimack Valley.
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There's a certain sense of pride you should have if your boss has assigned a server-in-training to you. It means that you're doing your job well and are capable of showing someone else the ropes. So take a moment to congratulate yourself: you are a great server!
But what happens when you're unsure of how exactly to train someone? You may have been doing the job for so long that you know everything as if second nature, so teaching someone else without forgetting something can be a little nerve wracking. Some restaurants have a strict training policy, but others kind of just throw you into it, so be prepared no matter which category your job falls into.
Of course, there are a few things to keep in mind when training: does the person you're training have experience…or not? At first, I would suggest treating each new employee as if they're learning for the first time and work from there. The more experience you see, the less you'll be teaching about how to be an actual server and the more you'll be teaching about the working system of your particular restaurant.
Either way, here are a few 8 tips on how to train a new waiter/waitress. If you're a server-in-training and need a few tips, you may want to read our article titled 9 Tips for a Waiter/Waitress In Training
TIP #1: Get organized
There are so many things that need to be taught that some of us don't even know where to begin. If you have enough notice from your boss on when the first day of training is, take some time before then to make a list of everything that needs to be shown to the newcomer. What's the first thing you want to show them? What are the most important things that the trainee should memorize? What do they need to learn first in order to learn the way the restaurant is run?
Here's an example of a list of priorities, starting with the first day of training:
- Menu Knowledge
- Wine List Knowledge (if applicable)
- Floor Plan Knowledge (table numbers, bar area, sections, etc.)
- Tour of the restaurant (so the trainee knows where everything is: bathrooms, stock rooms, fridges, stations, etc)
- How to clock in and clock out
- Cleaning tasks and side works
- Tables (presentation, cleaning, preparations, etc)
- The "running" system of the restaurants (how to run drinks from the bar, salads, soups, hot food, etc)
- How to greet customers
- How to take orders
- How to ring up the orders (POS System)
- Any steps of service (check backs, recooks, how to handle any complaints, etc)
- Serving coffee and dessert
- Presenting the check
- Closing duties
- Closing cleaning tasks and restocking
- Sales report at the end of the shift
- Rules of the restaurant
Make sure you follow a certain schedule so that they training makes sense. You don't want to start showing them how to take orders if they haven't even begun to memorize the menu (although, in my opinion, the trainee should have at least 85% of the menu memorized by their first day of training. Tip of the Day: Learn Your Menu.) Following your list of priorities will help you make sure you didn't skip a step.
TIP #2: Shadowing
A very important step. Have your trainee "shadow" your every move. Before they even take an order, have them watch every step you take. Tell them to note how you speak with the customers, your tone of voice, your facial features, your posture, etc. Every little thing is important and if your restaurant has a way of presenting specials, up-selling promotions, or even describing the catch of the day make sure that your trainee knows the proper way to do these things. Consistency is very important in the restaurant business.
Also, when it comes time to picking up the speed and running drinks and food, it's important that your trainee recognizes the pace of your particular restaurant and learns how to keep up with it. At a quickly paced restaurant, the last thing you want is for your trainee to get stuck in 2nd gear when they should be shifting it up a few notches. Tell them to keep up with you and that you want then 2 steps behind at all times.
TIP #3: Answer their questions
No matter how naive the question may seem, just answer it in a polite way. It may seem like common sense to you, but remember that every restaurant is different and they just want to know how things run at their new place of work. The more questions they ask, the better. Take note, however, if they are asking the same questions over and over. They are there to learn and soak up as much knowledge as they can, but if they can't retain any of the things you are teaching them, it may be a red flag.
TIP #4 : Ask questions
This is the best way for new servers to learn, especially when it comes to learning the menu. Ask them to describe certain dishes for you. If they stumble or come out with a wishy-washy description, show them the correct way of describing the restaurants meals and tell them to practice. Ask them to name all the beers the restaurant offers on tap. They may respond, for example, like this "Uh…Heineken…um, Guinness…." so be prepared to show off a little and show them how you list off all the beers. Asking questions before customers get a chance to ask them is the best way for them to prepared when it comes time for them to take orders. Feel free to ask questions out of the blue and don't be afraid to put them on the spot. During a rush, they'll need to be prepared so catch them off guard so when the time comes they aren't flailing for answers.
TIP #5: Role play
Pretend you are a customer and go through a dry run of taking a table's order. Have them come up to you (pretending to be a customer) and act out a service. If you think it's silly…well it is a little. But it's the best way for you to get an idea of how they will be once faced with real customers. Remember, they will be practicing on your tables, so you want them to make as little mistakes as possible. A dry run will help you to correct any bad habits, mistakes, and allow you to make suggestions. Also, it will give the trainee a chance to get out their nerves before heading over to their first table.
TIP #6: Shadow them
Once the training has been done and you are ready to see them in action, let them take the reigns for a while. Inform them that they will be handling everything from A to Z and you'll be following them to make sure that they are serving the guests properly. Be ready to jump in when they aren't sure and take mental notes on anything that they are doing that doesn't meet your restaurant's standards. At the end of the day, go over what they need to work on, point out any strong points or things that they did perfectly, and ask if they have any questions or comments about how they believe their service was.
TIP #7: Give them space
If your trainee is catching on quickly and is starting to really get a feel for the job, give them a bit of space. Back off and let them take the wheel for a bit. See how they do on their own. Let them make a few minor mistakes so that they will learn (while making sure it doesn't affect your customer's dining experience of course). Make a few comments here and there such as "Hurry it up a bit" or "You forgot to order their drinks" and ask a few questions to help guide them such as "What are you forgetting on that table?" or "What's your priority right now?". But other than that, pretend that they are working alone. It's the best way for you to see if they are capable of handling the job and the best way for them to get a real sense of what is expected of them.
TIP #8: Teach them how to Spoil Their Customers
Every restaurant has a different way of spoiling their customers. Whether it be offering a drink on the house for a regular customer or going above and beyond the steps of service, there are always ways that you can teach someone how the restaurants customers prefer to be served. Your trainee may have worked at a previous restaurant that wasn't as keen about giving good service as you, so make sure they live up to the standards of the restaurant.
Now you're all set for the basics of training a new waiter/waitress. Of course, there are so many other little details, but this will help give you an overview of what to do and tricks on how to get the best out of your trainee.
Good luck!
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