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Conceding that de gustibus non est disputandum, I am still puzzled by my own limitations. I enjoy many different kinds of music from around the world, but I have never been able to get over my initial impression that Greek liturgical music is heavy, tuneless and mournful. There is nothing ethnic in the picture, since I cherish Greek bouzouki music. Also, I realize my Western bias is hyperactive--I love most Russian liturgical music. In particular, I love the 17th century Russian liturgical music--that's how biased I am. Still, does anyone know what it is that I don't like about Greek liturgical music? Sometimes I do not like hearing new music until I know what effect the composer was aiming at and how he thought to succeed. Many thanks in advance, Dan
In what context have you heard Byzantine music? In my opinion, it has to be prayed to be understood.
I think you can say ~ In the Name of the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit and post with charitable and prayerful intentions.
In what context have you heard Byzantine music? In my opinion, it has to be prayed to be understood. Even the best choirs in the world can't do it justice when you're just listening to a recording at home.
Similarly, my experience in Coptic churches as a non-Copt is that, once I've learned how to sing something, it's easy to join in prayerfully.
When we lived in Singapore, the only church on the island was Syrian Orthodox. The parishioners were dark-skinned Indians from the southern tip of India. They were the happiest people in Singapore; maybe the only happy people.
On one Sunday they did services in English, which used a lot of Western hymn-tunes (I think the Cherubic hymn was sung to the tune of How Great Thou Art, but it has been a while).
On the next they used Malayalam with unadulterated melodies. When I heard them sing in Malayalam, I felt as if I were going to be swept away in a flood of beauty. I wonder where their music came from. I never heard anything like it.
My limited exposure to Coptic music was not as stunning, but it was still very positive, and with the trilingual service books, very singable. (I had at one time learned the Coptic alphabet and had mastered a little of the grammar, so that was fun, too.)
When we lived in Singapore, the only church on the island was Syrian Orthodox. The parishioners were dark-skinned Indians from the southern tip of India. They were the happiest people in Singapore; maybe the only happy people.
Quote from: DanM on July 16, 2013, 01:43:10 PMMy limited exposure to Coptic music was not as stunning, but it was still very positive, and with the trilingual service books, very singable. (I had at one time learned the Coptic alphabet and had mastered a little of the grammar, so that was fun, too.)Yeah, our music is better. Sorry Copts!
You're lucky in USA you can choose jurisdiction with its chant tradition.
Upon becoming Orthodox, I really didn't find anything appealing about Byzantine Chant. I, like you, felt it was mournful, and was just odd, and almost awful to my ears.What changed me, was actually going to Greece, and experiencing that chant in church, during Holy Week and with the faithful actually belting forth the chant along with the cantors. As well as finally learning enough of the alphabet and language that I can figure out what they are saying, and what the hymns are in comparison to ours.One of my favorite Byzantine hymns, is far more famous amongst Americans in it's Russian form. That is, "O Lord Save Thy People", or "Spasi Gospodi, iyudi tvoya", or "Soson Kyrie, ton laon sou". Once I heard that hymn in Greece, being boldly chanted by the cantors, priests & people, I was taken by it. Same for the rest of Byzantine chant.I initially fell in love with Russian renditions of Holy Week hymns. Yet, once I heard them in Byzantine Chant, in the whole setting of a traditional, Greek church, I feel head-over-heels in love with them. Kassiani's Hymn, the Lamentation service (especially the 3 stasis), the Bridegroom hymns, They have stripped me of my garments, Today he is hung etc...I've also fallen in love with other hymns rendered in Byzantine Chant like It is Truly Meet, To Thee, the Champion Leader, the Cherubic Hymn, God is With Us, Lord I have Cried, The Polyelos (Psalm 135) etc...Along with all of this, sadly, I have felt that I've kind of lost my original love of later Russian Chant, while also gaining great appreciation for Gregorian & Old Roman Chant, Georgian Chant and older Russian Chants like Znamenny.I'll post some examples here of great Byzantine Chant.God is With Us (Isaiah)/Snami Bog/Meth'imon O TheosByzantine Chant: http://youtu.be/qBx-ludNrsMSlavic Chant: http://youtu.be/B7xrgNDYla8Lord I have Cried (Psalm 140)/Kyrie Ekekraksa Pros Se/Byzantine Chant: http://youtu.be/Op4AuR7yoNMGeorgian Chant: http://youtu.be/IZUMyKPFnrgRussian Chant: http://youtu.be/99EWY6dd8vcIt is Truly Meet/Dostoino Est/Axion EstinByzantine Chant: http://youtu.be/_KwFM7GuIkwRussian Chant: http://youtu.be/BsL0zfMI03gBulgarian Chant: http://youtu.be/vusaINLkb4UAs performed by Divna: http://youtu.be/pDwKIq9Gy3s(does anyone have a rendition of this hymn in Church Slavonic, but in Byzantine Chant? I've heard it once and thought it was amazing, but can't find audio.)To Thee, The Champion Leader/Vzbrannoy voyevode/Ti Ypermaxo StratigoByzantine Chant: http://youtu.be/bfhYMmx-ySQRussian Chant: http://youtu.be/IEarrkDS880By Boston Byzantine Choir: http://youtu.be/QrMExgRWkBYO Give Thanks Unto the Lord...For His Mercy Endures Forever... (Psalm 135, Polyelos)/Eksolomogisthe Tou KyriouByzantine Chant: http://youtu.be/oPmrdmcTzooSerbian Chant: http://youtu.be/_MkA1UeHi_4In English: http://youtu.be/Fp8Y1SIfJg4Again in English, by St. Vladimir's: http://youtu.be/coQw0qM5CxsO Lord, Save Thy People/Spasi Gospodi, ijudi tvoja/Soson Kyrie ton laon souByzantine Chant: http://youtu.be/i8psJVQ1If4Russian Chant: http://youtu.be/ZR5O5-OxIYEGeorgian Chant: http://youtu.be/VrLMGIJsDNUIt is extremely impressive to hear an entire parish singing this in Byzantine Chant. But it was made most famous outside Orthodoxy through it's use in the 1812 Overture (beginning and end): http://youtu.be/VbxgYlcNxE8Bless the Lord O My Soul/First Antiphon (Psalm 102)Byzantine Chant: http://youtu.be/ICdPr4K7VAoRussian Chant: http://youtu.be/GSd2uyZyNNQUnfortunately, this isn't heard much in Greece outside of Mt. Athos because most in the Byzantine Tradition have replaced the traditional Psalms as the first three antiphons with other psalm verses alternated with petitions to Christ & the Theotokos.They Have Stripped Me/Eksedysan me ta imatia mouByzantine Chant: http://youtu.be/kjOSgHB838AEnglish: http://youtu.be/njiNcDSj-RQHoly Friday Lamentations - 1st Stasis (In the tomb they laid thee)/I Zoe en tafoByzantine Chant: http://youtu.be/sqqBvEEGWQ4Romanian Chant: http://youtu.be/V6s5Jo3Je5QArabic Chant: http://youtu.be/ZOYqctNjSPEIn English: http://youtu.be/yeP70fSe3Io
I guess I cannot help, in terms of Western music, prefer sacred polyphony, especially the English stuff, but really any of it. I do quite like the English choirs and music though. But I also like some later stuff like the classical and baroque. I really like Mozart's Requiem Mass, for example. I could never really get into Gregorian chant though, although I like some of it better than other stuff. In terms of East, I have not had enough experience since I am just moving that way to really say. I do appreciate it though and even though I love the organ do not like the idea of it in the East. I think it is out of place there.
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I've been doing a bit of research on the Charles Chauncy / Jonathan Edwards exchange over the revivals. Each figure represents the Old Light / New Light cause respectively. I am particularly interested in Chauncy's rhetoric. The bulk of the exchange took place during the 1730s and 1740s. Interestingly, when Chauncy criticized the revivals, he sought to link the revivals to the heretical movements of the century prior – focusing specifically on Anne Hutchinson. Chauncy argues that there are incredible similarities to the 17th century enthusiast groups and those popping up in the 18th century revivals. Subtly, Chauncy links himself to the forefathers who fought for the faith and defeated the heretics, and linked his opponents to those heretics.
There were various issues floating around these dicussions, such as the role and prominence of women (Anne Hutchinson became a key example for him), as well as, more interestingly, that both had a tendency to level-out society. Chauncy was worried that this levelling would undo the social hierarchy that was so entrenched as the proper ordering of culture. In short, Chauncy argument is what we might anachronistically call an argument against a position as "un-American." Alan Heimart notes Chauncy's rhetoric and even claims that Chauncy was ultimately concerned with communism! Heimart notes, "By 1774 all Liberals, Chauncy among them, were once again warning that enthusiasm, whether religious or political, endangered the very basis of American happiness" (Heimart, Religion and the American Mind, 250-251.). Whereas Ben Franklin lauded the revivals because of their social effect, Chauncy denounces them for the same reason. The levelling effect of the revivals worried Chauncy, and the rise of popular and anti-clerical religion was, no doubt, the fruit of a movement that eventually came to define America rather than undo it.

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Tibetan protester sets himself on fire in Nepal's capital in protest against China
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KATMANDU, Nepal – A Tibetan protester doused himself with gasoline and set himself on fire in Nepal's capital Wednesday, the latest self-immolation to protest Chinese rule in Tibet.
Eyewitnesses said a man dressed as a monk entered a cafe in Katmandu's Boudhanath district — home to many Buddhist temples and monasteries — and asked to use the bathroom. After spending some time there, he went onto the street and lit himself on fire. He ran a few steps, covered in flames and chanting slogans against China, before collapsing.
Police official Keshav Adhikari said police and locals were able to put out the flames and rush the man to a hospital, where he was critical condition. He said the man has yet to be identified but he appeared to be about 21 years old.
Nearly 100 Tibetan monks, nuns and lay people have set themselves on fire in various countries, mostly in ethnic Tibetan areas inside China, since 2009. The protesters are calling for Beijing to allow greater religious freedom and the return from exile of their spiritual leader, the Dalai Lama, who lives in India.
Thousands of Tibetan exiles live in Nepal and occasionally protest against China. The Nepalese government has banned such demonstrations, saying it cannot allow any activities against friendly nations to take place in Nepal.
Nepal also allows Tibetans to pass through Nepal, traveling from their homeland to Dharmasala, India, where the Dalai Lama lives and Tibetans have set up a government in exile.
Communist troops occupied the Himalayan region in 1951. Beijing says it has been part of China for centuries, but Tibetans say it was independent for much of that time. The Dalai Lama fled the region in 1959 as Chinese troops crushed protests against communist rule.
Prasant Tamang, a waiter at the Golden Eye Cafe, said he found a gasoline bottle, a jacket and a bag in the cafe's bathroom. Tamang said the man appeared normal and calm.
"He looked like the hundreds of Tibetans who came to Boudhanath today and I did not suspect he was going to set himself on fire," Tamang said.
Wednesday marks the third and one of the most important days of the Losar festival, which is celebrated by the Tibetan community. Many Tibetans in Nepal visit Boudhanath for the event.
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A Seafoam Green Ruby Slip (and matching panties)
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The Ruby Slip is a free pdf pattern and comprehensive set of tutorials over at Pattern Scissors Cloth, and as soon as I saw it, I knew it was just the most perfect pattern ever for me and I had to sew it ASAP!
I used some pale green silk from my stash and bought some matching green and brick-red lace and I'm just SO pleased with the end result here! The tutorials online are really like mini sewing lessons and I'd say this is definitely do-able for beginners even though it involves lace and bias silk. The end result is just like very expensive, high-end lingerie!
See way more photos and learn my tips about lace placement over at FehrTrade.com!
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Jan 16, 2012, 06.16 AMby smallone
This is on my todo…seeing yours moves up up the list, just beautiful!! I follow Sherry's blog obsessively. I think her tutorials are some of the best out there by far.
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Jan 16, 2012, 08.55 AMby squirrellypoo
Oh I agree – her tuturials for this were just amazingly helpful! Lace and bias silk are usually very tricky indeed but she's made them totally doable for beginners here!
Jan 13, 2012, 09.47 PMby schnui
This slip is so lovely and thank-you for sharing the free pattern. I will definitely give this a go.
Jan 13, 2012, 07.06 PMby aluckmann
I watched as this sew along progressed and I have to say that I love your finished slip. The pale green silk is gorgeous and you paired it perfectly with that lace.
Jan 13, 2012, 06.58 PMby Andrea Delesdernier
Nice! I need a slip. Downloading pattern now. Thanks.
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Star Trek: The Video Game's Launch Trailer Shows Some Hardcore Gorn
Star Trek: The Video Game's launch trailer has gone live, hopefully getting fans pumped up and ready to play through the prequel to Star Trek: Into Darkness.
The launch trailer might as well be a theatrical trailer, given that the stars of the film reprise their roles and the game can be considered Star Trek 1.5 in J.J. Abrams' saga.
Snippets of the story are presented, informing fans that they'll be heading to a space station on which some surviving Vulcan have been messing around with some McGuffin called the Helios Machine. This device is meant to help them create New Vulcan, but it tears open a rip in space instead, letting the lizard-like Gorn come through to wreak havoc.
Watch the trailer below and let us know if it gets you hyped to play the game and then watch the movie. Star Trek: The Video Game is now available on PC, PlayStation 3, and Xbox 360, so run out and grab it, Trekkies!


text: The first annual Electronic Security Expo got off to a rousing start yesterday, as the NBFAA and CSAA have collaborated on a first-rate event in a first-rate (if underappreciated) city. First, the gory stuff. I, and my fellow editors Martha and Leischen, participated in the Tennessee BFAA-sponsored skeet shooting event yesterday, and it was (get ready for it) a blast! Having never shot a shotgun before, I have to say my performance of nailing 28 out of 50 clay pigeons is quite impressive, but I was also impressed with the way Kerry Egan, of Security Partners, handled a gun - her Pennsylvania roots clearly came to the front as she blasted orange discs out of the sky - and the way Dave Koenig, of Capital Fire, was the only other of our group of five to stick out the shooting to the bitter end. Our guide Eddie was right: Never leave shells in the box. Unfortunately, all that shooting left a mark (avert your eyes if pale white skin is abhorrent to you): You should see the damage done to Leischen's shoulder, though. I'm guessing she won't post photos, but will at least post video of her shooting on her blog. The shooting done, everyone headed over to the Country Music Hall of Fame for a reception that would honor the Sara Jackson and Morris Weinstock award winners. It was somewhat ironic that Frank Burke, of USA Alarm Systems, was cajoling us into attending on the bus ride back from the skeet shooting, telling us what high and illustrious awards they were, only to find him stepping up to receive the Jackson award with tear-filled eyes. He was also talking about how great it was to work with his sons, and then there they were to surprise him upon receiving the glass trophy. Great moment for him. Note also that Burke won the CAA's George Weinstock award in 2006. He's piling up the hardware. Also a nice moment for Scott Colby, president of the Louisiana BFAA, who took home the Weinstock award. Unfortunately, his wife is ill and wasn't able to be with him, but you could tell he was extremely moved by the award. The one thing I can unequivocally say for this industry is that it's a tight-knit one. In some ways, it can seem like a throwback to the 1950s, with so much grey-haired, white-male involvement, but you can't deny that people make you feel welcome here and know how to put on a great party. In the Hall of Fame, with the busts of Johnny Cash and Hank Williams and Dolly Parton surrounding us, there was a palpable feeling of good will and friendship that went beyond a business association. I think that's the kind of emotion that doesn't come through during an ISC West or ASIS show and what makes this new ESX event so important.


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Peavy wins in return, De Aza and Rios spark slumping offense as White Sox beat Mets 6-3
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NEW YORK – Jake Peavy pitched three-hit ball in his return from a balky back, Alejandro De Aza had a leadoff homer and the Chicago White Sox beat the New York Mets 6-3 on Wednesday night to split their two-game interleague series.
Alex Rios homered among his three hits and knocked in two runs for the White Sox. Conor Gillaspie blooped a two-run double off Jeremy Hefner (0-4) as Chicago's struggling hitters finally found a few holes.
Rios also had an RBI double and Paul Konerko a run-scoring single to help the last-place White Sox take the finale of a 4-4 road trip.
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Linux is one of the most secure and stable operating systems around, and yet, its user base hasn't really grown as everyone expected it to. There are many reasons for this, and we won't go into those right now. However, if you, like any other Linux user, are disappointed by the current market share stats, we can tell you some simple tips that will help you convince your Windows or Mac-crazy friends into using Linux.
Now, many Linux users have already tried to coax their friends and family members to try out this popular and newbie-friendly distro called Ubuntu. A select few have succeeded and many have failed. So here, we will give you some important tips to help you spread the word about Linux without sounding like that arrogant nerd who has nothing but contempt for Windows or Mac.
Show, don't tell
Yes, this is the first and the most important thing you need to do if you have to convince a Windows or a Mac user into using Linux. Ubuntu, Linux Mint and many other distros look extremely beautiful, and honestly, the latest version of Ubuntu (Ubuntu 11.10) looks just as good as a Mac. But hey, if you're just going to just tell that to them do you think they'll believe you? Even if they do believe you, they'll still have no idea what Ubuntu or whatever you're talking about looks like. My suggestion is, you take your own Linux laptop, hand it over to them and let them play around with it. If you're on Ubuntu I'd recommend opening a new Guest session and handing over the laptop to them. That way, they'll have a better idea as to how beautiful even an uncustomized desktop looks like. If, at all, it is impossible to show the desktop to your friend, send him or her a YouTube video of the desktop.
The Show Don't Tell policy also applies to feature comparisons. Let's say you want to outline the salient features of Linux. Instead of giving a huge lecture about how virus-free, how fragmentation-free, how fast the desktop is, just show it to them. Take their Windows/Mac laptop and put it beside your own desktop. Start a timer and show your friend how fast it boots. I hate to repeat, but just show it, don't talk about it.
Stop telling them Windows is bad, they already know it
For a Linux user trying to convince a Windows user into the light side, there's always the Windows-bashing that comes in handy. At least that's what many Linux users think. Windows-bashing is great, everyone curses that dreaded operating system, but there's no point telling a Windows user about it. I'm pretty sure he or she already knows about it. There must at least be a thousand Windows users cursing Microsoft even as you're reading this article. But no way are they going to switch to something different.
In short, don't tell them that Windows is bad, don't even talk about Windows. Just keep telling them: "Hey, I have this amazing desktop on my computer, you gotta try it out". Hand over the laptop to them and let them do the Windows-bashing. When I converted my friend into a Linux user, all I did was showed him my laptop. I never mentioned a word about Windows or Mac. The moment he saw it, he started ranting about Windows like a pissed-off sports fan.
If they get stuck
Rather than helping them, show them how to get help and support on Linux. Don't let them rely on you to fix every problem on their desktop. Just give them a short tour of Ubuntu forums, IRC, and manuals and let them figure out for themselves.
Don't emphasize on the "free" part
Don't, and I say it again; don't ever start your pitch with the "free" part. In fact, it would be better if you drop the whole thing out of the conversation. Sometimes, they're so impressed by Linux that they eventually end up asking you about its cost. Just look at them casually and say "it's free" and wait for their reaction.
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John Mayer Drinks Jen's Water
The couple that drinks water together, stays together!
John Mayer chats with photographers after leaving his downtown apartment on the way to play a show on Long Island, New York on Wednesday.
John was carrying a bottle of Smartwater, the brand promoted by girlfriend Jennifer Aniston.
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What to Wear at a Wedding: What Does Black Tie Attire Mean?
The wedding invitation says "black tie attire" — what's acceptable and what's not?
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Sometimes deciphering wedding invitations can be tricky: White tie? Black tie? We straighten it out for a bride-to-be and her mother; read on...
A Hudson Valley bride asks: "I know it's usually the bride that's stressed out with details, but in this case, it's my mother who is causing the stress! I'm having a formal wedding, which is why we included 'black tie attire' on the invitation. Some of my friends are wearing long gowns and others are wearing fancy cocktail dresses; I made the mistake of mentioning this to my mother, who insists that I call my friends back to tell them that 'black tie attire' means they have to wear floor-length gowns. I think mom is wrong. Am I right?"
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MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. - With numerous outstanding performances, MIT men's swimming and diving capped the 2008-09 season with its highest finish at the NCAA Championships in 27 years. The men finished ninth overall in the team standings, while the women's team also closed out the year with a pair of solid swims.
The Engineers enjoyed their second-best finish ever at the national meet, and their highest finish since taking seventh in 1982. Kenyon scored 604 points en route to its 30th consecutive NCAA title.
Rookie Tim Stumbaugh authored the evening's biggest highlight as he set new Institute and conference records in the 200 back en route to All-American honors. Stumbaugh split a sensational 1:50.09 while finishing sixth in the championship final.
The Engineers received another record-breaking effort in the 100 free as junior Luke Cummings eclipsed teammate Laurent Charpentier's recent standard with a swim of 44.89 during prelims. Cummings split 44.97 at night to finish third in the consolation final. Charpentier missed finals in the 100 after swimming 45.56.
Amy Jacobi closed out her sophomore season with a time of 53.23 in the 100 free. She missed finals, as did senior Nicole O'Keeffe, although O'Keeffe delivered a personal record with a terrific swim of 17:33.07 in the mile. Sophomore Michael Dobson swam the mile for the men's unit, finishing in 16:05.83 during trials.
After ripping off a marvelous swim in the 100 breast the evening before, Rastislav Racz was unable to equal the magic in the 200. Swimming a season-best 2:03.35 in prelims, Racz split 2:03.44 at night to close seventh overall in the consolation final.
MIT capped its season with an amazing effort in the 400 free relay. Once again smashing school and league records, the unit of Jeff Zhou, Cummings, Peter Wellings, and Charpentier swam to a time of 3:01.89. Finishing third in the consolation final, Zhou ignited the relay with a lead-off leg of 47.07. Wellings split 45.56, while Cummings (44.45) and Charpentier (44.71) were both under the 45-second mark as the Cardinal and Gray improved the existing Institute record by two seconds after breaking the previous mark by two seconds at the 2009 NEWMAC Championships.


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NEW HAVEN, Conn. -- The Cleary Cup, the trophy handed out to ECAC Hockey's Regular Season Champion, sits in the athletic department and is far from easy viewing for the 2008-09 Yale men's hockey team (20-7-2). The No. 10 Bulldogs held it on Feb. 27 when they beat Cornell to clinch the title, but the cup was quickly set aside for a more significant focus - an ECAC Tournament title, something no Yale team has won. The first step in that quest is this weekend's best-of-three quarterfinal series with Brown (5-21-5), which begins Friday, March 13, at 7 p.m. All (Sunday if needed) games from Ingalls Rink can be seen live at 7 p.m. on B2 Networks and heard on WYBC (AM-1340) and wybc.com. Click here for the pay-per-view showing: Watch Live on B2 Networks
Tickets for the series are available on yalebulldogs.com or by calling Yale's ticket office at (203) 432.1400. Reserved seats are $12, general admission/standing room only seats are $10 ($6 youth) and Yale students with valid IDs are free at the door.
Yale, picked seventh in both ECAC pre-season polls, has won its first ECAC Hockey regular season title since 1997-98. The Elis had their first playoff bye since 2002-03 (3rd place). This is just the third time Yale has earned an automatic quarterfinal spot; the first came in 1997-98.
Yale fell one game shy of the 2008 conference semifinals with a game three quarterfinal loss at Princeton. The Blue, which has played 60 ECAC tournament games since 1967, has gone 14-41-5 overall. The Bulldogs, who have won six of their last 12 playoff games, last won a series when they swept RPI in the first round at home last March. It was Yale's first home playoff wins since 2003 and the first home playoff series victory since 1998.
The Blue has won seven straight against Brown since the Bears won a 3-2 OT game on Dec. 9, 2006, at Providence. Yale is 82-67-8 against Brown since the first game in 1897-98. Yale and Brown have six ECAC playoff meetings, and the Bears have a 3-2-1 edge. The games have been evenly split between New Haven and Providence, and Yale is 1-2 at Ingalls. The last meeting was the 2003 quarterfinals when Brown won two of three behind the current New York Islander goalie Yann Danis.
Yale, with a combined 13-6 edge in goals, took the non-league, season-opener 6-3 at Meehan Auditorium, shutout the Bears 3-0 at Ingalls and then squeezed past Brown 4-3 at Providence. Sean Backman (4 goals) had two-goal outings in the first and third games, while Mark Arcobello (2-3-5) also had strong showings against Brown goalie Dan Rosen (123/136), who had 49 saves in the last meeting and has all the net action vs. Yale this season. Six different Bears have put the puck past Yale's Alec Richards, who stopped 61 of 67 shots and played all three games. Dan Rosen (123/136), who had 49 saves in the last meeting, has all the net action vs. Yale this season.
Brown, which finished 12th in the ECAC, pulled off one of the top feats in conference playoff history last weekend by sweeping Harvard at Boston with a pair of shutouts. Freshman Mike Clemente (2.63, .962) not only led the Bears to consecutive wins for the first time this year, he blanked (1-0, 2-0) a perennial league quarterfinalist that rarely loses home playoff contests by stopping all 86 shots. Sophomore Harry Zolnierczyk (first career goal) scored the winner on Friday early in the third, while senior Eric Slais (5-6-11) and junior Erin Volpatti (6-7-13) netted the clinchers on Saturday.
Here's how the Elis stack up against the rest of the nation/ECAC heading into the weekend:
Scoring: 10th/1st (3.34)... Defense: 11th/3rd (2.31)... PIM: 13th/3rd (18.7)... PP: 20th/4th (17.6)... PK: 5th/1st (88.4).
Yale moved up one place to No. 10 in this week's USCHO.com/CBS College Sports Poll. The Elis have been listed in this poll for all but one week of the last two months. Yale is 10th in in new USA Today/US Hockey Magazine Poll.
Yale, currently ninth in the USCHO.com Pairwise Rankings, got as high as seventh during the last week of the regular season.
Yale senior Alec Richards (Robbinsdale, Minn.) made the roster for the 2009 NCAA Frozen Four Skills Competition that will take place on April 10 at Washington, D.C. Richards, one of two goalies on the East squad, will compete (unless Yale is playing) against the West the day between the Frozen Four semifinals and championship game at the Verizon Center. Richards, who ranks second at Yale with 35 career wins, is fifth with 2,219 career saves while owning the single-season mark with 885 in 2005-06. Richards, 12th in Division I with a 2.12 goals against average (GAA), was named insidehockey.com National Goalie of the Week as well as ECAC Hockey Goalie of the Week on Feb. 2. The Yale netminder is the second Bulldog men's player to be selected for the skills event. Will Engasser '08, the captain of the 2007-08 Elis, competed at the 2008 Frozen Four in Denver. Richards, a second-team All-Ivy pick this year, owns a 2.73 career GAA with a .908 save percentage and earned wins in four conference playoff games, including the five-overtime game at Union in 2006.
4 consecutive ECAC sweeps (Yale record, ended Feb. 20/21)
5 shorthanded goals by Broc Little (Yale season record, most in Division I this winter)
5 game win streak at home (ended March 1 vs. Colgate)
6 straight sellouts at Ingalls Rink
6 game unbeaten streak at home (ended March 1)
6 game-winning goals for junior Mark Arcobello (2nd in nation)
8 wins over ranked teams (Yale record)
8 game win streak (ended at Quinnipiac, Feb. 20, most since 13-game streak in 1946-47)
9 wins against Ivy squads (Yale record, 9-1 record takes 2008-09 title)
9 game road win streak (ended at Quinnipiac on Feb. 20 with 3-3 tie)
10 game overall unbeaten streak (ended at Princeton on Feb. 21)
15 conference wins (most since 1997-98 Elis had 17)
20 overall wins (most since 1997-98 team had 23)
52 career goals by Sean Backman (No. 10 on Yale career list)
Brian O'Neill had two goals and Mark Arcobello had a goal and three assists as the Bulldogs beat No. 10 Cornell 4-2 before a sellout crowd to clinch the title on Feb. 27. All four goals came from the Arcobello, O'Neill, Sean Backman line. They found the net of Big Red goalie Ben Scrivens (25 saves), who entered the night with the nation's top save percentage. Alec Richards stopped 29 of 31 shots and kept Cornell off the board for eight of 10 man advantages. Peter Bogdanich's shot from the left circle caught the net 1:19 into overtime on March 1 to give Colgate a 3-2 OT win. The Raiders erased a pair of one-goal deficits in the third period to send the game into the extra session. The Bulldogs, who got goals from Backman and Kevin Limbert, outshot Colgate 28-23, while Charles Long made 26 saves. Alec Richards stopped 20 shots.
Junior D Tom Dignard (Reading, Mass.), who suffered a season-ending injury in the Jan. 31 Quinnipiac game, was named honorable mention All-Ivy League on March 5. He is one of the ECAC's top all-around blueliners. Dignard (21 GP, 5-12-17) owns the fourth-best (.81) points-per-game average among conference defensemen and is 11th in Division I.
The Bulldogs have killed off 88.4 percent of opponent man-advantages. No Yale opponent has tallied more than two power-play goals this season, while four have hit the net twice.
The Blue has outshot all but five (Quinnipiac, Minnesota State, Union, Princeton, Cornell) opponents this year and averages 36 shots on target while giving up 27. The Bulldogs outshot Cornell/Colgate 82-36 on Jan. 23-24, while the largest one-game disparity was 35 (50-15 vs. Harvard). Yale has won four of the five games (only loss to Princeton) when being outshot.
Brian O'Neill (Yardley, Pa.), 18th among Division I freshmen (3rd in ECAC) with .79 points per game, earned conference rookie of the week honors for the second time this winter after scoring twice against the Big Red and adding an assist against the Raiders on Feb. 27/March 1. He has a team rookie-high 11 goals and 22 points. O'Neill, Arcobello and junior Sean Backman form a line that was responsible for all four tallies against Cornell.
Sophomore F Broc Little (Rindge, NH) leads the nation with five shorthanded goals, one more than Matt Fairchild of Air Force. That breaks the single-season Yale record held by Andy Weidenbach in 2004-05. It also ties him with Weidenbach for the career mark of five. Little (13-15-28) had six goals over four games this year. Little was named ECAC Offensive Player of the Week after netting three goals and five points on Dec. 5 and 6 against RPI and Union.
The Elis have now scored eight shorthanded goals this year while allowing three. Broc Little (UAH, RPI, UNO, MSU, CLARK) has five while Denny Kearney (Union), who assisted on five SHGs, Tom Dignard (Colgate) and Sean Backman (Cornell) each have one.
Sean Backman (Cos Cob, Conn.), who leads the Blue with 16 goals, ranks 12th in the nation and third in the league with .59 goals per game. He is one of 16 Division I players picked as semi-finalists for the Walter Brown Award, presented annually to the best American-born college hockey player in New England. Backman (16-12-28), who has five multiple-goal outings, was 2007 co-ECAC Hockey Rookie of the Year and a third-team all-league pick in 2008 (18-9-27). Backman, named first-team All-Ivy last week, has been team MVP the last two years. His 52 career goals are No. 10 on the Yale career list. The last Bulldog to reach that mark was Jeff Hamilton '01, who finished with a school-record 173 points, while his 80 goals were second.
Two other Bulldogs have plenty of experience in the Yale goal. Sophomore Ryan Rondeau (Carvel, Alb.) was in goal for wins over No. 17 Minnesota State (30 saves), No. 11 Air Force (29) and No. 3 Cornell (17). Rondeau is 4-1 with a 2.27 GAA and a .901 SP while having 30 perecent of Yale's net action. Junior Billy Blase (Santa Monica, Calif.) had a Yale season-high 32 saves in a win at Harvard on Jan. 10 and stopped 26 more in the 2-2 draw with SLU on Jan. 17. He has a 2.71 GAA with a .911 SP.
The Yale juniors lead the team with 37 goals, but the sophomores are close behind at 30. The newcomers have chipped in 21 while the small senior class has nine.
Yale senior captain Matt Nelson (Westwood, Mass.) works as hard as any Bulldog on and off the ice. He is a relentless forechecker with 3-3-6 this winter who can transform a turnover into a shot at the net as quick as anyone on the team. Nelson (in photo), who has a 3.25 GPA in economics and has a job lined up with Royal Bank of Scotland next year, banged home the game-winner on Feb. 7 against Dartmouth and had Yale's first goal at Quinnipiac on Feb. 20.
Arcobello, the season's last ECAC Hockey Player of the Week, had the game-winning goal and three assists in Yale's 4-2 win over Cornell at home on Feb. 27. He added an assist two days later in a 3-2 OT loss to Colgate. Arcobello, second in Division I with six game-winners, leads the team with 32 points and is second with 15 goals. He was named first-team All-Ivy last week.
Keith Allain '80, in his third year as the Malcolm G. Chace Head Coach of Hockey, is 7-1 vs. Brown but has never faced them in the playoffs. Allain, 3-4 overall in the post season, has increased Yale's win total in each of his three seasons, and has helped the Elis enjoy one of their best ever this winter after being picked seventh in both pre-season polls. He is a former Yale goalie who worked as a Bulldog assistant before coaching in Sweden (6 years) and in the NHL (17 years). Roger Grillo is in his 12th year as head coach of Brown.
"Brown will be a formidable opponent coming off an impressive sweep of Harvard on the road. They are physical, fast, have good goaltending and a solid power play (3 vs. Yale this year). We will have to be on top of or game to be successful."
Yale has wins over eight teams that were listed in the USCHO.com Top 20 Poll at the time: Cornell (3, 10), Princeton (9), Air Force (11), Clarkson (15), Dartmouth (15 & 19) and Minnesota State (17). The one loss was to Nebraska-Omaha (16).
The other best-of-three quarterfinal matchups this weekend are Union (8) at Princeton (3), Quinnipiac (7) at St. Lawrence (4) and Rensselaer (11) at Cornell (2).
Yale is 5-0 when Sean Backman scores two goals and 4-0 when Backman and Mark Arcobello score goals in the same game... The Bulldogs are 5-6-1 when they don't score a PPG... Yale has just three PPG over the last seven games... Arcobello's 25 faceoffs won against Brown in the 3-0 win are a season-high.
Here are the 16 former Bulldogs in the pro ranks this winter [Player (Team), Position, League]: Brennan Turner '09 (Gwinnett), D, ECHL; David Meckler '09 (Manchester), F, AHL; Jean-Francois Boucher `08 (Ingolstadt ERC), F, Germany; Robert Page '08 (Trenton), D, ECHL; Blair Yaworski '08 (Syracuse), F, AHL; Bill LeClerc `07 (Mississippi), D, ECHL; Matt Cohen `07 (Trenton), D, ECHL; Brad Mills '07 (Lowell), F, AHL; Chris Brooks `06 (Mississippi), D, ECHL; Joe Zappala `06 (Reading), F, ECHL; Chris Higgins '05 (Montreal), F, NHL; Joe Callahan `05 (Islanders), D, NHL; Stacey Bauman '03 (Oklahoma City), D, CHL; Jeff Hamilton '01 (Toronto), F, NHL; Ray Giroux `98 (St. Petersburg SKA), D, Russia; Alex Westlund '98 (Linz EHC), G, Austria.
There are three former Yale players skating in the National Hockey League. Chris Higgins '05 is in his fifth season with the Montreal Canadiens and has 265 NHL games under his belt. Higgins has 80 goals, 64 assists and 144 points, including 8-8-16 in 40 GP this season. Jeff Hamilton '01, who had 16-37-53 in the AHL this year, played his first game for the Washington Capitals last week, while Joe Callahan '05 (16, 0-2-2) has been up twice with the New York Islanders this winter.
Yale and Fairfield are co-hosting the first-ever NCAA Hockey Regional Tournament in the Nutmeg State on March 27-28 at the Arena at Harbor Yard in Bridgeport. There are four regional events that weekend with the winners headed to Washington, D.C., for the 2009 Frozen Four. Yale hosted the 2004 NCAA Women's Frozen Four at the Dunkin Donuts Center in Providence, R.I., but has never hosted a men's NCAA hockey event. More than 4,000 tickets have already been sold. The only appearance for Yale at an NCAA Regional was in 1998 at Ann Arbor, Mich., against Ohio State.
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From the Techdirt post Josef Anvil's Favorite Techdirt Posts Of The Week:… So where does all of this lead? To Glyn Moody's article about the "We, the Web Kids" manifesto, my FAVORITE post of the week and possibly my favorite post EVER on Techdirt. This one article encapsulates almost everything that is discussed in this forum. Whether the debate is about SOPA/PIPA/ACTA/TPP or TSA or RIAA/MPAA or WIPO or Google or Facebook, we have to accept the fact that we are all far more connected than ever before, some of us are even hyperconnected, and it has changed us. We no longer just accept the opinions of "authority," we want FACTS, we want data, we want the truth (or close as possible). This article details a fundamental shift in the way people THINK, and it's not just the "web kids." Personally, I didn't grow up with the web, but I'm certainly not so blind as to miss how integrated into my life it is. Before the web, I didn't talk to people all over the world on a daily basis, now I do. How I consume media is completely different, as I get to choose what, when, how, and why. In other words, the way things are done has CHANGED because of the internet.This manifesto is a wake up call to politicians and corporations around the world. Your citizens and consumers have changed. They are becoming or have become a part of the digital era. They Skype, Tweet, FB, and IM their ideas, opinions, and comments without giving much thought about the process. They Google everything, they shop on their phones, they record video and post it before the "real news" can, they text while in meetings, they create with Gimp and NVU, they work with OpenOffice, and they consume media thru Netflix, HULU, Spotify, Grooveshark, HuffPo, and YouTube. They want to throw away physical storage and move stuff into the "cloud," if you let them. They don't want to hear that consumers shouldn't dictate the market, because they know how to write reviews and share information. They don't want to hear about laws being bought, and are willing to speak out and challenge the "old ways."(read the rest here.)
I found this: http://www.sitasingstheblues.com/While reading this: http://mimiandeunice.com/Mimi and Eunice is hilarious, so I figured I'd download the "Sita Sings the Blues" movie. (Still downloading -- very much looking forward to it, and too impatient to wait, watch, then post! )But, check this from the site:You don't need my permission to copy, share, publish, archive, show, sell, broadcast, or remix Sita Sings the Blues. Conventional wisdom urges me to demand payment for every use of the film, but then how would people without money get to see it? How widely would the film be disseminated if it were limited by permission and fees? Control offers a false sense of security. The only real security I have is trusting you, trusting culture, and trusting freedom.You can read more at both those sites. If you're mildly interested in copyright and all that wonderfulness, check it out. -Renegade (July 02, 2011, 07:40 AM)
You don't need my permission to copy, share, publish, archive, show, sell, broadcast, or remix Sita Sings the Blues. Conventional wisdom urges me to demand payment for every use of the film, but then how would people without money get to see it? How widely would the film be disseminated if it were limited by permission and fees? Control offers a false sense of security. The only real security I have is trusting you, trusting culture, and trusting freedom.
...that makes me wonder if that Internet censorship is not just a single narrow aspect of a much larger overall strategy of state censorship in the US, driven presumably by commercial interests rather than by genuine state security interests.-IainB (March 01, 2012, 05:37 PM)
Coincidentally, this interesting post from The Centre for the Study of Innovative Freedom:Copyright is Unconstitutional: Update-IainB (March 07, 2012, 05:43 AM)
As a former tabletop gamer, I keep wanting to come up with an anti-copyright method ruthlessly abusing the "letter" of the corrupt laws and hopefully an equally ticked off judge will approve it. Something like "If a creative work is copyrighted the moment it comes into being in fixed form, then my web surfing history exists as my click before it becomes your tracking cookie, so therefore you owe me royalties of $150,000 per tracking cookie that you set." Same idea, "My name was assigned by my parent at birth, so they're the copyright holders, (and gave it to me), so you can't sell my personal info either."-TaoPhoenix (March 07, 2012, 07:02 PM)
Reporters Without Borders lists the enemies of the internetThese countries are the most oppressive onlineBy Dave NealMon Mar 12 2012, 16:42JOURNALIST GROUP Reporters Without Borders has published its list of the countries with the worst attitudes towards the internet and online censorship.A couple of new countries have joined the list for this year, so if there is a dinner for the worst nations, then whoever organises that needs to add Bahrain and Belarus to a seating arrangement that already includes Burma, China, Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkmenistan, Uzbekistan and Vietnam.These countries have "enemy of the internet" status, while some other less obvious destinations, including France and Australia, can be found lurking just below them in the "under surveillance" category because of their attitudes toward web filtering and blocking.All of the countries have placed a boot on internet freedom, according to the report, and Bahrain, which is fresh to its lofty "enemy" status, won its high ranking for its "effective news blackout based on a remarkable array of repressive measures".Bahrain harasses bloggers and detains them for dissension, it added, while Belarus has shut off the internet during protests and blocks a long list of web sites from its users.The United Kingdom also makes an appearance, and the report's authors are concerned about the reaction to the riots of this year and any likely technical changes as a result."The United Kingdom, whose Digital Rights Bill aimed at protecting copyright has been singled out by U.N. Commissioner La Rue, went through a difficult period during the riots last August," it says."In a worrying development, the Canadian company Research In Motion, manufacturers of the Blackberry, made the personal details of some users available to the police without a prior court order."Surveillance is stronger than ever before, goes deeper and is more effective, says the report, and there are few countries where it does not raise its head.Where there is oppression, there is also activism, says the report, and hacktivist groups like Anonymous are said to be helping out activists in countries when and where assistance is needed."In order to combat increasingly competent censors, self-styled 'hacktivists' have been giving technical assistance to vulnerable netizens to help them share information in the face of pervasive censorship," it adds."Last year also saw the development of tools to bypass censorship and blocking of Web access, such as 'Internet in a suitcase' and FreedomBox. Cyber freedom activists are working flat-out to respond to increasingly effective censorship tools."µ
Google is increasingly...-Renegade (March 13, 2012, 07:33 AM)
Secretary Clinton Announces State Department Use of ChromeLooks like quite an impressive "Win" for Google here.The post avoids the usual cliché of "excited", but unfortunately replaced it with another adjective - "enthusiastic". This is presumably a mistake - should have been "enthused", the back formation from the noun "enthusiasm".We're enthusiastic to be leading the charge to bring an enhanced web browsing experience to State employees executing the critical U.S. diplomatic mission around the world!-IainB (March 03, 2012, 01:41 AM)
We're enthusiastic to be leading the charge to bring an enhanced web browsing experience to State employees executing the critical U.S. diplomatic mission around the world!
Here's one where Google HAS restricted a video that is nothing more than a ridiculous parody of the TSA:http://www.youtube.c...ch%3Fv%3DMFEBsNdiYbMHover your mouse over that link to check it. Now, here's the "real" URL. Click it and watch it change:http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=MFEBsNdiYbM-Renegade (March 13, 2012, 07:33 AM)
Here's one where Google HAS restricted a video that is nothing more than a ridiculous parody of the TSA:http://www.youtube.c...ch%3Fv%3DMFEBsNdiYbMHover your mouse over that link to check it. Now, here's the "real" URL. Click it and watch it change:http://www.youtube.c.../watch?v=MFEBsNdiYbM-Renegade (March 13, 2012, 07:33 AM)I think it may be a stretch to say that this is part of some larger policy to restrict anti-government posts - all that's happening here is that YouTube/Google are making you sign in and verify/claim that you're over 18 to view it. While there's nothing pornographic in the video, I think it's within reason for YouTube/Google to claim it may have material inappropriate for children. One could maybe view this as censorship, but I don't think there's reason to claim that it's politically motivated.And the "changing URL" is just a redirect if you aren't logged in/'age verified'. The same way I'd be redirected to a login page here if I tried to reply in the forum without being logged in.-mwb1100 (March 14, 2012, 10:38 AM)
Came across this interesting post on what apparently looked like Google censorship of legitimate political opinion/speech - dated June 2004:Google's Gag Order: An Internet Giant Threatens Free Speech-IainB (May 13, 2012, 01:58 AM)
July 4, 2012 - By Chris HoffmanWe've been hearing a lot about website-blocking recently, particularly with anti-piracy organizations forcing Internet service providers to block access to The Pirate Bay in the UK and elsewhere. However, when UK Internet service provider BT blocked The Pirate Bay, the block was only in effect for a few minutes before The Pirate Bay bypassed it.How exactly do supposedly blocked websites like The Pirate Bay remain accessible to so many people, in spite of all the efforts to block them? The answer lies in the way the Internet works.How Websites Are BlockedWhen you load a website – say, by going to thepiratebay.org – your computer contacts its domain name system (DNS) server and locates the numerical IP address associated with that website. The DNS server responds with the website's IP address and your computer contacts the IP address. Domain names like thepiratebay.org and makeuseof.com are human-readable shortcuts that DNS servers translate to numerical IP addresses.Blocking can cut off access at the DNS level or block access to the website's IP address itself. Your Internet service provider runs your default DNS servers, so it can modify them and point thepiratebay.org or another domain name to a "Blocked" page.There are several ways around this – you can switch your DNS server to an alternative DNS server that isn't run by your Internet service provider (ISP), such as Google DNS or OpenDNS. You could also visit the website's IP address directly – for example, 220.127.116.11 is one of The Pirate Bay's IP addresses, so you can access The Pirate Bay by plugging this number into your web browser's address bar.Blocking can also cut off access at the server level. To prevent people from using the above methods to get around the blocks, ISPs can block access to specific IP addresses, preventing their users from communicating with the IP addresses entirely.How Websites Bypass BlocksIf only DNS blocking is occurring, websites can tell their users to switch DNS servers or access specific IP addresses directly. Even if specific IP addresses have been blocked, a website can quickly add a new IP address that point to the website.For example, after The Pirate Bay's IP addresses were blocked, The Pirate Bay immediately added several new IP addresses that pointed to their website. While users could no longer access thepiratebay.org or 22.214.171.124, The Pirate Bay was now also available at 18.104.22.168.A Pirate Bay representative told Torrent Freak that "they can continue adding new addresses for years to come." It's like whack-a-mole – when an ISP blocks an address, a new one immediately springs up.Legal System SlownessCompounding the problem for those who would block websites is the way the legal system works. The blockers often require court orders to block specific domains and IP addresses. Some of these court orders may allow the blockers – anti-piracy groups in the case of The Pirate Bay – to add new IP addresses to the block on short notice, while some do not. As some ISPs in the Netherlands responded when Dutch anti-piracy group BREIN told them to block The Pirate Bay's new IP addresses – "we will do not comply without a court order".Even if all court orders allowed anti-piracy groups to block new IP addresses without going through the legal system again, court orders would have to be obtained in a variety of countries against a large amount of ISPs. On the other hand, The Pirate Bay can add a new IP address accessible to the entire world and circumvent the block in a few seconds.Other Ways to Bypass BlocksThe Pirate Bay doesn't even need to bypass the blocks itself. Pirate Bay users have a variety of ways to bypass the block, including accessing The Pirate Bay through proxies or virtual private networks (VPNs), which "tunnel" the traffic to another ISP. From The Pirate Bay's perspective, the user is accessing their website from another country without website blocking. The tunnel then passes the traffic in encrypted form back to the user – as the traffic is encrypted and the user isn't communicating directly with The Pirate Bay, their ISP has no way of blocking this traffic.In fact, The Pirate Party UK hosts a proxy that UK residents can use to access The Pirate Bay on ISPs where it's been blocked. Tor, designed for accessing websites anonymously and circumventing government censorship of the web, can also be used.The Streisand EffectWord spreads about new ISP addresses and other ways to bypass blocks extremely quickly. When a website as big as The Pirate Bay is blocked, news stories spring up and alert users to the block and ways of getting around it. The block may actually increase traffic going to the blocked website as a result of the increased media attention and exposure.This phenomena is known as the Streisand effect — named after Barbara Streisand, who, in 2003, attempted to remove photos of her house from the Internet. In response, news coverage about the incident resulted in a larger number of people seeing the photos. Similarly, people reading news stories about blocks of a website like The Pirate Bay may wonder what all the fuss is about and check the website out for themselves. 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IGN: "Few action games are as fast, rewarding, and exciting as the insane and imperfect Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance."
I was expecting a 9 from IGN. Oh well 8.5 is very good for a spin-off. Getting the game regardless of the score. They did a very good job!
8.5 = trash
My life is over!
* Goes to preorder
Just shows that a dumbed down hack and slash can get better scores than a technically brilliant hack and slash.
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GRAVEYARD SHIFT — Eddie Mac gets No. 322, Friday night's fun, and 870 other words
Someday, Ed McCarthy will take a moment during his retirement to think about Friday's historic win.
Well, at least we think McCarthy will retire some day. The venerable West Haven head coach is still storming the sidelines for the 43rd year, guiding and cajoling another group of Blue Devils.
McCarthy earned his 322nd win last night, smashing Hamden, 49-7.
"I will reflect back when it is all over and really be proud of what was accomplished," McCarthy told Mike Madera of the New Haven Register after the game. "I look back to all the coaches that were before us and what they did. It is really something I will be proud of.
"I have had great players and tremendous assistant coaches. And I have been able to have good health. Some others were in the prime of coaching and had to give it up. I have been fortunate."
McCarthy has a record of 322-112-9. He coached St. Joseph to three state titles and West Haven to four.
McCarthy passed former Ledyard coach Bill Mignault for the record.
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How the Top 10 in The Day's coaches' poll fared:
No. 1 Ansonia 62, Wolcott 27
Arkeel Newsome ran 34 times for 321 yards and scored five times. It was his third straight 300-yard game, tying a state record. Kountry Kyle Brennan of the Waterbury Republican-American reporting.
No. 2 New Canaan 43, Staples 7
Nick Cascione ran for 148 yards and two touchdowns and threw for another as the Rams continued its path of rage. Mary Albl of JRC Amalgamated, Jon Chik of Hearst Inc., Tom Evans of the Norwalk Hour, and Dave Ruden of his eponymous website reporting.
No. 3 St. Joseph plays at winless Trinity Catholic today, 2:30 p.m.
No. 4 Middletown 47, Maloney 16
Dario Highsmith ran six times for 111 yards and two touchdowns and completed 8 of 10 passes for 176 yards and a touchdown. Toby Carmody of the Meriden Record-Journal, and Derek Turner of JRC Amalgamated reporting.
No. 5 Newtown 47, Weston 13
Drew Tarantino threw for five touchdowns. Andy Hutchinson of the Newtown Bee reporting.
No. 6 West Haven 49, Hamden 7
Ervin Philips ran 11 times for 117 yards and three touchdowns — all in the first half. Mike Madera of JRC Amalgamated reporting.
No. 7 Glastonbury 41, Manchester 0
Jalen Ollie was 16 of 25 for 327 yards and five touchdowns as the Tomahawks clinched their sixth consecutive CCC D-I East title. Yes, they won a division title on Oct. 25. That's what happens when you have a league with 32 teams and six divisions. CONDENSE TO THREE. You can find a blurb at the Hartford Courant HERE.
No. 8 Farmington 35, Bristol Central 0
Ivan Guadalupe ran for two touchdowns and caught two touchdowns. The Hartford Courant has a blurb HERE.
No. 9 Hand 44, Shelton 41
Tyler Phan kicked a game-winning 29-yard field goal with 24 seconds left. The game featured 12 touchdowns, seven lead changes, and some of the lights going out. David Borges of JRC Amalgamated, and Doug Bonjour of Hearst Inc. reporting.
No. 10 Platt plays at Weaver today, 1 p.m.
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Some other noteworthy games:
Valley/Old Lyme 51, Morgan 6
The WARRIORCATS' defense held Jake Ward to 90 yards on 28 carries. Ward averaged 242 yards with 20 touchdowns in the Huskies' first five games. Tom Yantz of the Hartford Courant, Pooch Diggity Dogg of JRC Amalgamated, and some dude from TEAM DAY reporting.
Bristol Eastern 30, Windsor 28
Jeremy Meccariello kicked a game-winning field goal with three seconds left for the Lancers (6-1). Kevin D. Roberts of the Bristol Press reporting.
Norwalk 44, Bridgeport Central 42
Ricky Mejia ran for a game-winning 3-yard touchdown with 19 seconds left for the Bears. BC's Mykel Morris threw for five touchdowns and scored on a 55-yard punt return and 60-yard run. Bob Birge of the Norwalk Hour reporting.
Trumbull 32, Wilton 28
Thomas Hayduk caught a deflection for a game-winning 7-yard touchdown with 30.5 seconds remaining. The Eagles (6-1) rallied from a nine-point deficit with 2:31 left in the game. Nick Roberts completed 30 of 45 passes for 516 yards and four touchdowns for Trumbull. Roberts' passing yardage would rank eighth all-time in a game according to the Connecticut High School State Record Book. Wilton's Brett Phillips ran for 312 yards and two touchdowns and threw for two more. Ryan Lacey of Hearst Inc., and John Nash of the Norwalk Hour reporting.
Bunnell 40, New Milford 35
Devante Teel caught a game-ending 5-yard touchdown from Nolan Aurelia to give the Bulldogs the win. Hearst Inc. had a blurb HERE.
Lyman Hall 22, East Haven 14
Kyle Smith threw two touchdowns as Lyman snapped its 16-game losing streak. Bryant Carpenter of the Meriden Record-Journal reporting.
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Immaculate sent a press release to the Danbury News-Times on Friday stating that the program will play two sub-varsity games the rest of the season.
The Mustangs had announced earlier in the week that it was forfeiting its game to Stratford due to low numbers and injuries.
"Our limited roster has been hampered by injuries," the press release stated. "Currently, we do not project that this situation would change significantly in the future weeks."
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Thrilling Finishes and 'Boys, Have at it' Highlight Top Races of 2010
Thanks to NASCAR's no-holds-barred approach to racing and adjustments to the new Sprint Cup car, the 2010 season produced some of the most exciting racing fans have seen in years.
There was plenty of bumping and banging – on and off the track – along with thrilling finishes, controversy, surprising winners and the closest points race in Chase history.
The only thing that didn't change was the champion.
Here's a look at the top 10 races of the season:
1. Daytona 500
NASCAR's biggest race had everything. Thrilling racing, a fantastic finish, controversy, emotion, a surprising winner and even a bit of irony.
Jamie McMurray won a two-lap shootout, beating Kevin Harvick and Greg Biffle after a second green-white-checkered restart, and then holding off a charging Dale Earnhardt Jr. in a mad dash to the checkered flag.
The emotional victory came in McMurray's first race after being released from Roush Fenway Racing and reuniting with team owner Chip Ganassi at Earnhardt Ganassi Racing.
The ever-emotional McMurray opened the floodgates in victory lane and throughout his postrace celebration.
"Oh, I'm going to cry," McMurray said as he started to talk in victory lane. "This is unreal. … It's unbelievable. I can't really put it into words the way it feels. … It's like a dream come true."
The race was one of the most competitive in Daytona 500 history with 52 lead changes and 21 different leaders, but it took more than six hours to complete because of two red flags to fix a mammoth pot hole in Turn 2.
2. AAA 500, Texas Motor Speedway
This was like a wild-west shootout, with two gunslingers fighting it out for the victory and two more just plain fighting.
There were angry outbursts, desperate measures and even some ugly words and an obscene gesture.
Locked in a tight Chase battle with four-time champion Jimmie Johnson, Denny Hamlin needed to win. And he did, beating Matt Kenseth to the checkered flag in a thrilling three-lap dash to take the points lead with just two races remaining.
But even that was a bit anticlimactic after all the other drama.
Jeff Gordon and Jeff Burton, two of the sport's most mild-mannered drivers, got into a scuffle in Turn 2 after Burton accidentally wrecked Gordon under caution. A furious Gordon shoved Burton in the chest and took a swing at him before being held back by NASCAR officials.
"He deserved a lot more than that, I can tell you that," Gordon said. "Sometimes I can't hold my emotions back and believe it or not I was holding them back right there."
Kyle Busch couldn't hold his tongue or his fingers. After being nabbed for speeding on pit road, Busch ripped NASCAR officials over his radio and then gave one of them a double-fisted one-finger salute on pit road, drawing another two-lap penalty.
But wait, there was more.
After two slow pit stops, Johnson crew chief Chad Knaus benched his whole pit crew, replacing it with Gordon's crew in the middle of the race.
The unusual move sparked a war of words between the Johnson and Hamlin teams, with Hamlin crew chief Mike Ford saying his team made Johnson's crew "panic."
"I think our race team is better than their race team," he declared after the race.
3. Toyota/Save Mart 350, Infineon Raceway
Jimmie Johnson scored the first road-course victory of his career, but he wasn't the big story.
Marcos Ambrose and Jeff Gordon were.
Ambrose led 35 laps and was in position to win his first Sprint Cup race when he shut off his engine to save fuel under caution and stalled his car, costing him the lead and track position.
The gaffe handed the lead back to Johnson and opened the door for his first road-course win.
"It was definitely a gift kind of handed to us," Johnson said.
Gordon got no gifts, but made more than a few enemies after wrecking several drivers in the rough-and-tumble race. Among the victims were Martin Truex Jr., Elliott Sadler and Juan Pablo Montoya.
"We got taken out by [Jeff] Gordon," Sadler said. "He was just kind of knocking everything out of his way."
"It's all right. We'll get him," Truex vowed.
4.Goody's 500, Martinsville Speedway
This was what green-white-checkered finishes were made for.
After dominating most of the race, Denny Hamlin gave up the lead when he pitted under caution with just seven laps remaining in regulation.
Restarting seventh, Hamlin was muscling his way through the field when got a big break when a caution flag flew on lap 499, paving the way for him to bump and bang his way to a dramatic victory.
There was plenty of pushing and shoving in the final laps as Matt Kenseth bumped Jeff Gordon out of the lead, and then Gordon retaliated, knocking Kenseth into the wall. Hamlin then moved Ryan Newman out of his way as he took the lead for his third win at Martinsville.
5. Lenox Tools 301, New Hampshire Motor Speedway
This was a classic case of tit for tat, or one good nudge deserves another.
When Kurt Busch bumped Jimmie Johnson out of the way to take the lead with less than 10 laps remaining, Johnson wasted no time getting even, chasing down Busch and returning the favor to win the race.
"I have to say, I was a little shocked," Johnson said of the bump from Busch.
"I hate that he felt that I wasn't going to wreck him because that was my goal was to wreck him. I knew what my thought process was, 'Wreck his ass.'"
Busch chalked it up to just hard racing.
"I thought it was a great short-track battle," he said.
6. Amp Energy 500, Talladega Superspeedway
This one ended with Clint Bowyer doing celebratory burnout on the frontstretch – before he even knew if he had won the race.
Bowyer won a photo finish over teammate Kevin Harvick in a race that ended with AJ Allmendinger's car flipping and crashing down the frontstretch.
Harvick nudged just ahead of Bowyer when they took the white flag, but Bowyer had pulled ahead by inches when NASCAR waved the yellow flag for Allmendinger's crash, ending the race.
The win was a bit of redemption for Bowyer and his Richard Childress Racing team, which was penalized 150 points for an illegal car after Bowyer won the first Chase race at New Hampshire.
It took NASCAR several minutes to review video and determine the winner. Bowyer, though, wasted no time celebrating his second victory in the Chase, doing burnouts while Harvick sat quietly in his car.
"Hell yeah," Bowyer said of the celebration afterward. "Claim that baby before somebody else does."
7. Aaron's 499, Talladega Superspeedway
This one couldn't have been any closer, or wilder.
Harvick avenged his loss in the Daytona 500 by inching past McMurray coming to the checkered flag to win by 0.011 of a second.
And it took a few extra laps and some wild racing to get to that point. The race featured 88 lead changes among 29 drivers, both series records.
And it took three green-white-checkered restarts to settle it after three multicar wrecks in the final nine laps. It was the first time NASCAR had used three additional restarts after implementing the rule in February.
8. Ford 400, Homestead-Miami Speedway
The season finale might not have been the most thrilling race of the season, but it had the most drama.
With three drivers within 46 points of the lead going into the final Chase race, it was expected to be a dramatic conclusion to the closest championship race in Chase history.
And when points leader Denny Hamlin wrecked on lap 24, opening the door for Johnson and Harvick, it set up a nail-biting finish.
As Hamlin tried desperately to get back into the race, Johnson and Harvick both charged to the front. They wound up finishing second and third, respectively, with Johnson winning his fifth consecutive Sprint Cup championship by 39 points over Hamlin and 41 over Harvick.
Oh yeah, Carl Edwards won the race, scoring his second consecutive victory at the end of the season.
9. Subway Fresh Fit 600, Phoenix International Raceway
When Ryan Newman snaps a winless streak, he snaps it in dramatic fashion.
Newman used a gutsy two-tire pit stop to climb into contention and charged past Jeff Gordon, who spun his tires on the green-white-checkered restart, for the win.
It was Newman's first victory in 78 races, or since winning the 2008 Daytona 500, which snapped another long, winless steak. It was also his first win for Stewart-Haas Racing.
"It was a long time coming for me," Newman said.
10. Brickyard 500, Indianapolis Motor Speedway
To some, McMurray's thrilling upset in the Daytona 500 might have seemed like a fluke. But he validated it in a big way by winning NASCAR's second-biggest race.
McMurray helped team owner Chip Ganassi make history when he outran Harvick over the final 10 laps to win the Brickyard 400 at Indy.
McMurray became just the third driver to win the Daytona 500 and Brickyard 400 in the same year, but it was Ganassi who made the biggest mark – he became the first team owner to win the Daytona 500, Indy 500 and Brickyard 400 all in the same year.


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by Punchy » Fri Nov 20, 2009 4:16 amPunisher #11 - 'Frankencastle' - Remender, Moore and Brown
Story - Ever since Garth Ennis revitalised and reinvented The Punisher as an adults-only crime comic, it's been a challenge for other writers to make the character fit into the Marvel Universe, he just seems too serious, too deadly to go up against guys in Spandex. Rick Remender has made a game go at putting Frank in situations that Ennis would never do, taking on Norman Osborn, fighting The Sentry, The Hood, having his family resurrected and then Frank kill them, and then finally, having Daken decapitate him.
Yeah, that's right, decapitate, Frank Castle is now dead, he's joined the choir invisible, he has ceased to be, he is an ex-Punisher. But of course, it's not the end. We pick up almost immediately after The List special, as HAMMER agents hunt down his dismembered body bits, but then... Man-Thing shows up. And it just gets crazier from there. Frank is taken by Man-Thing to the Legion Of Monsters, including such Marvel mainstays as Morbius The Living Vampire, Werewolf-By-Night, Moleman's Moloids and the Living Mummy. Seeing these characters in Punisher... it's not something you'd expect. And then seeing Frank patched together as a Frankenstein is even weirder. I think you can safely say this isn't retreading an old story, Remender is truly breaking new ground now.
But this isn't just for laughs, the Legion Of Monsters have a reason for getting Frank back, they are being hunted by a group of gloriously over the top Japanese Monster-Hunters who spout glorious non-sequiturs about killing all monsters. They have been hunted down, and they need a military strategist like Frank to lead them and help them. It's an interesting new villain for Frank to face, and it's actually a pretty solid explanation for why all this madness is happening. I do worry a bit that Remender has dropped all of his continuing subplots such as The Hood's machinations or Frank's new 'Microchip' Henry, for this new direction, but Henry does make an appearance here, and I hope Remender manages weave the new world of Frank with the old one.
So Punisher purists may balk at such a different type of story, it's reminiscent of the Angel Punisher or other such bollocks, but I say that this is different, and it's being done with it's tongue firmly in cheek. I would say that as long as there is a quality MAX book like Jason Aaron's which launched last week, the 616 Punisher should be allowed to go as crazy as it likes, otherwise what we'd get is sub-MAX stories without any of the violence or language, PG-13 Punisher has to go for broke, and this is it, it's a great ride, and for once, the Punisher in the Marvel Universe is totally unpredictable. All it took was his death to make things interesting.
Art - I think Tony Moore is part of what makes this concept work, his art really pops here, and it sells the madness and insanity, as well as the personal moments. Seeing an artist like Moore draw the Man-Thing is awe-inspiring, as is seeing his take on the various Kirby Monsters that are dotted around. Moore knows horror comics, as we've seen on the first arc of Walking Dead or his recent 3-issues of Ghost Rider, and there are some scenes here, such as when a HAMMER agent knows fear and burns at the touch of the Man-Thing. Moore even manages to make Frankencastle look not totally ridiculous. This book is a lot of fun, but it wouldn't be half as much fun without Tony Moore.
Best Line - 'Slay all Monsters. Make the Earth clean. Complete our reputations' I love Engrish.
by guitarsmashley » Fri Nov 20, 2009 10:34 amthis just in, Punchy takes himself way too seriously.
by Punchy » Fri Nov 20, 2009 11:30 am
What brought this on?
by mrorangesoda » Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:48 pmCan't wait to check out the trade. Tony Moore is awesome. Marvel should get him to draw minis and one shots for them.
by GLX » Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:53 pm
Especially when it comes to sex, amirite?
by GLX » Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:54 pm
by GLX » Fri Nov 20, 2009 12:56 pmhttp://www.comicbookresources.com/?page ... e&id=23775
by Starlord » Fri Nov 20, 2009 2:09 pm
I know. I love Tony but it didn't impress me here. First time too.
by Mr_Batman » Fri Nov 20, 2009 2:49 pmReview tomorrow
by guitarsmashley » Fri Nov 20, 2009 3:22 pm
your review. this comic was pure insanity fun and your review is just a stuffed shirt.
by Punchy » Fri Nov 20, 2009 3:35 pm
I gave it a good review! I said it was a lot of fun! What more could I do?
by ****** » Fri Nov 20, 2009 3:46 pm
I believe what Yoni is trying to say is that you should say 'fuck' more often in your reviews.
by Punchy » Fri Nov 20, 2009 4:56 pm
I swear in some of my reviews, just not this one. I did write this at 8.30 in the morning though, so maybe I was just too tired to not be a stuffed shirt.
by Daringd » Fri Nov 20, 2009 8:06 pmpassing on this week, next week however, i'm all over it
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I'm a physics major in college, so while I do acknowledge the existence of the paranormal, I also look at it with a scientist's skepticism. I feel people jump to paranormal conclusions WAY too often, and there is normally a logical explanation.
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