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SOURCE: VeriSign
July 13, 2012 16:05 ET
RESTON, VA--(Marketwire - Jul 13, 2012) - More than seven million domain names were added to the Internet in the first quarter of 2012, bringing the total number of registered domain names to more than 233 million worldwide across all domains, according to the latest Domain Name Industry Brief, published by VeriSign, Inc. (NASDAQ: VRSN), the trusted provider of Internet infrastructure services for the networked world.
The increase of 7.5 million domain names equates to a growth rate of 3.3 percent over the fourth quarter of 2011, and marks the fifth straight quarter with greater than two percent growth. Registrations have grown by more than 23 million, or 11 percent, since the first quarter of 2011.
In the first quarter of 2012, Verisign began tracking the ccTLDs launched by ICANN through the IDN ccTLD Fast Track Process, which enabled countries and territories that use languages based on scripts other than Latin to offer users domain names in non-Latin characters. This additional tracking resulted in an additional 808,967 ccTLD names being reported in the first quarter that were not previously reported in prior periods. For further information on the Domain Name Industry Brief methodology, please refer to page six of the report.
The .com and .net Top-Level Domains (TLDs) experienced aggregate growth in the first quarter, reaching a combined total of approximately 116.7 million active domain names in the adjusted zone for .com and .net. This represents a 2.5 percent increase in the base over the fourth quarter of 2011 and an 8.1 percent increase over the first quarter of 2011. Additionally, the .com registry grew to more than 100 million domain names during the quarter.
New .com and .net registrations totaled 8.9 million during the quarter. This is a 7.7 percent increase year-over-year in new registrations. The .com/.net renewal rate for the first quarter of 2012 was 73.9 percent, up from 73.5 percent for the fourth quarter of 2011.
Verisign's average daily Domain Name System (DNS) query load during the first quarter of 2012 was 66 billion, with a peak of 74 billion. Compared to the previous quarter, the daily average increased 4 percent and the peak decreased 37 percent.
IPv6 and Security
The latest issue of the Domain Name Industry Brief highlights key security issues that Internet stakeholders should consider in order to support a smooth transition to IPv6, and identifies steps that organizations should take to protect their systems.
The benefits of IPv6 have been well documented. As almost all available IPv4 addresses within the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) block have been depleted, and Regional Internet Registries (RIRs) will begin to exhaust their IPv4 address pools at varying rates in the near future, this should provide the impetus for widespread adoption of IPv6. Coupled with the continued deployment of DNS Security Extensions (DNSSEC), IPv6 should ultimately provide the stable and secure base for the next generation of Internet evolution.
Responsibility for making that happen lies among all Internet stakeholders. To support a smooth IPv6 transition, everyone from infrastructure operators and service providers to application developers and users will have to work together to support and develop IPv6 capabilities by debugging issues with new software and applications that are IPv6 only, and refining interworking and transitional co-existence with IPv4. But most importantly, Internet stakeholders should focus on security.
IPv6 presents an interesting security paradox. The capabilities IPv6 provides will enhance online security, but they may also present risks if not properly managed.
To ensure a smooth IPv6 transition and eliminate security pitfalls, there are several steps that organizations can take to protect their systems, including:
Verisign publishes the Domain Name Industry Brief to provide Internet users throughout the world with significant statistical and analytical research and data on the domain name industry and the Internet as a whole. Copies of the 2012 first quarter Domain Name Industry Brief, as well as previous reports, can be obtained at: www.verisigninc.com/DNIB.
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The following crimes are from the week of March 24 to March 30, 2013.
March 24. 7700 block Crittenden Street. Complainant states that offender came into store and took cough syrup and other miscellaneous items and was confronted by employee. Offender, black male 46 to 50 years old, dark complexion, salt and pepper hair and beard. He was wearing bluejeans and work boots. Male fled southbound towards Mermaid Lane into apartment area.
March 25. 8100 block Stenton Ave. Complainant states that someone stole two downspouts from side of building.
March 25. 100 block W. Willow Grove Ave. Someone stole a 14 foot trampoline which was recovered at Lincoln Drive and Springfield Ave.
March 27. Unit block W. Sunset Ave. Police were on patrol when they observed front door ajar and upon further investigation they found front door damaged which had been forced open. House interior was ransacked.
March 28. 7700 block Crittenden Street. Complainant states he withdrew money from bank and while still inside bank he set envelope on counter and became preoccupied with something else. When he went to get money it was missing.
March 30. 200 block W. Evergreen Ave. Complainant states that between 6:30 and 8:45 p.m., someone stole a Handicap Placard, #P82322K, from his unlocked vehicle.
Summary – Six crimes for week: one burglary, one retail theft, one theft from vehicle and three other thefts.
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If you have been the victim of a crime and would like information, service or support, call Northwest Victim Services, 6301 Germantown Ave., Second Floor, Suite One, 215-438-4410. The service is free.

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Baruch College Students Recognized As
Colin Powell Fellows
Pietro Barone '13 Alyssa Alicino '14
NEW YORK, NY- August 29, 2013 - Baruch College is proud to announce this year's Colin Powell Fellowship recipients. Each year the Colin Powell Fellowship provides two Baruch students a generous stipend to cover living and travel expenses while interning with the U.S. Department of State.
Internships with the State Department are generally unpaid, so the fellowship provides welcome financial support for Baruch students interested in learning more about careers in the Foreign Service.
Pietro Barone, from Brooklyn, graduated in May with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science and a minor in English, is a recipient of the Colin Powell Fellowship in International Diplomacy. While at the Department of State, he worked on President Obama's Young African Leaders Initiative. Pietro was also the recipient of the C.V. Starr Study Abroad Fellowship, which enabled him to study abroad in Italy at the American University of Rome during the fall 2011 semester. Starting this September, he will be pursuing a Master's degree in International Relations at the London School of Economics and Political Science.
Alyssa Alicino, from Queens, is a senior majoring in Public Affairs and minoring in Spanish and Interdisciplinary Studies. She is currently a press intern in the Public Diplomacy Section with the U.S. Embassy in Argentina, where she supports the Information Specialists with social media projects including drafting campaigns. During her internship at the U.S. Embassy in Argentina, Alyssa worked with Basketball Without Borders, a global outreach program run by the NBA. She also assisted in many of the events hosted by the Cultural Section of Public Diplomacy and attended the 4th of July Reception at the Ambassador's Residence. Alicino also attended classes in Spain and Guatemala. In addition, she taught English in Chile through Baruch's Work Abroad program.
The program is named after Former Secretary of State Colin Powell who is also a graduate of the City University of New York-City College. To learn more about the Colin Powell Fellowship Program, go here.
About Baruch College:
Baruch College is a senior college in the City University of New York (CUNY) with a total enrollment of more than 17,000 students, who represent 160 countries and speak more than 100 languages. Ranked among the top 15% of U.S. colleges and the No. 5 public regional university, Baruch College is regularly recognized as among the most ethnically diverse colleges in the country. As a public institution with a tradition of academic excellence, Baruch College offers accessibility and opportunity for students from every corner of New York City and from around the world. For more about Baruch College, go to http://www.baruch.cuny.edu/.
About the Colin Powell Fellowship Program:
Every year the prestigious Colin Powell Fellows Program funds two high-achieving Baruch juniors or seniors. Winners engage in eight-week internships working either for the State Department in Washington or a U.S. embassy, depending on where they are needed. The fellowships are funded by the Weissman Center for International Business.
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Computer-Controlled Light Tracker
Cheyenne Rahimi (Analy High School), and Akash Desai (Maria Carrillo High School), Mostafa Sadraii (SSU Junior), Steve Anderson (SSU Staff)
The Computer-Controlled Light Tracker project consisted of three distinct parts, mechanical design, electronic driver, and computer programming. This was a challenging project for two talented high school students, Cheyenne Rahimi and Akash Desai, who spent most of their summer of junior year working on the project. In addition to the faculty mentors, a junior SSU engineering student and the department technician provided support. The project started with several lecture sessions so the students gained some knowledge about electronics and different materials, in particular semiconducting materials. A small solar panel was used as the light collector and also sensor.
The mechanical structure consisted of a metal base which supported the panel attached to two rotational mechanisms utilizing stepper motors. The system is capable of azimuth as well as latitude rotation enabling it to track a moving source of light in three dimensions. The motor shafts were fitted with appropriately sized pulleys which were connected to pulleys fixed to the shafts with driving belts. The geared stepper motors were selected to provide a 1-2 rpm rotational speed for tracking the light at slow rates. A relay mechanism delivered power from a 1,200 mAhr Ni-MH battery, which is capable of providing power to the system for relatively long periods of time.
The voltage output of the solar panel was fed into a National Instruments DAQ card, which was read by LabVIEW after analog to digital signal conversion. A threshold voltage was chosen by the students to indicate the lower limit of light intensity. The team wrote a LabVIEW program that would start one of the motors once the voltage output of the solar panel dropped below the threshold level. The motor would turn in an arbitrary direction and would continue moving in that direction if the sensor sensed an increase in the light intensity. The motor would reverse its direction if the sensor sensed a drop in the light intensity. The motor would stop once it reaches an optimum position and the computer would send a trigger signal to the second motor to start its rotation. Similar to the first motor, the second motor would stop when it reaches its optimum position.
The system is programmed so the computer would continuously monitor the light level received by the sensor. The electronics behind the reversing mechanism of the motors was facilitated by several relays that acted as digital logic gates for delivering power to the motors to rotate in clockwise or counterclockwise directions as needed. The light tracker system was successfully demonstrated at the SHIP event in which the students described the project to the University and Sonoma County School District administrators, faculty, and staff. The students were also given an opportunity to present the project to the Board of Directors of Sonoma County Office of Education (SCOE) and were awarded a certificate of accomplishment by the Board. The students will also receive a stipend of $1,000 each for their successful summer internship efforts from SCOE. This project will be used for demonstration in the SSU electrical engineering courses and the goal is to involve the electrical engineering students to fine tune and improve the light tracker system at SSU.


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TMC wrote:I don't care about blocked shots. If he turns out to be a shot-blocking machine, all the better, but I just want him to rebound and score inside.
That's what the team needs from him, an inside presence to keep the opposing defense honest.
I know what you mean but with Foyle getting older and soon to get less minutes with the development of Biedrins and Taft, someone needs to block some shots. All the great teams have a good shot blocker and Diogu can be that player for the Warriors


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Fellow fashionista's of Middle Earth!
I just wanted to quickly let everybody know that there is now an official cosmetics section on the forums for us to visit, if ever we are struggling to hunt down a cosmetic piece we can ask for a little help.
I have felt stuck recently when seeing a screenshot of something I wanted and not knowing the piece, and felt all I would receive in general chat is a bunch of raised eyebrows if I asked. But this is also significant because it means everyone can share their outfits on the forums in a dedicated place where people can find them easily, outfitting for everyone!
All hail Sapience for this wonderful addition, and kudos for acknowledging lotro's superior cosmetics system. Thank you!
Cosmetics and Appearances
Share your style tips!
Zierwerk und Aussehen
Lasst alle wissen, wie Ihr Euch stylt!
Ornementations et apparences
Échangez vos conseils vestimentaires !
P.S. Blog it, tweet it, scream about it to your kinmates! 🙂


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Thursday, June 2, 2011
Lake Argo
The Quintessentially Questionable Query Experiment
Lake Argo
He watched the grey mist fall languidly off the glassflat surface of the cold, dark lake, its twisting vapors the only thing that moved in the silence. Morning stalked still and secret through the trees as dawn approached, nothing more than a subtle, desperate lightening of the far domed firmament.
Ancient. Timeless. Infinite.
The lingering dew awoke every sleeping odor held within an earthen mouth: dirt, worms, decay, fungi, wet leaves, pine, life. The world stirred.
A ripple on the water. A fluttering of leaves in the trees. The whistling warble of a nearby songbird. A gentle waft of warmer air against the skin.
He stood, stiller than a statue, his hand firm around his bow, his toes cold and stiff in the chilled leather of his boots. His breathing was slowed to a pace that rivaled hibernation, but his mind was sharp and focused. He drank the world in through his senses as he stood, and watched, and considered.
It had been a long night, spent in vigil, the threat of danger never far away. This was the frontier, and his people knew of the coming enemy. They were resigned against it.
His duty was to watch, and then to warn. Perhaps to fight one day, if, Mother of the Forest forbid, it came to that.
He shrugged, stretched his neck, and spat. His people were peaceful, but they would defend their land with determination. Damn the horde to the stony depths of the deep black wastes. They could choke, and writhe, and wither into nothing there for all the care he gave them.
Suddenly he heard a cry, a ghostly call so ethereal in the lifting fog of the charging morning that it begged the question: am I still within this life or have I crossed over into some Other World where time and matter are but rumors of their former selves.
And then he knew.
It was the lakebird of the boundary waters, heralding the breaking dawn with a call as clarion as the horn of a rider diving headlong into the great red battle at the end of history.
Yet, for him, it was but the beginning.
36 comments:
- Matthew MacNish said...
Thanks so much Bryan! There's nowhere I would rather display my short fiction than on your blog.
Unless someone wants to pay me for it.
- June 2, 2011 at 7:07 AM
- Jessica Bell said...
My breath has just stopped. This has to be the best short piece I've ever read of yours, Matt. I feel a heavy weight in my chest from the pleasure of it! It's a good thing. Don't worry :o) The weight is satisfaction.
And wow. Fave line: "where time and matter are but rumors of their former selves"
- June 2, 2011 at 7:20 AM
- Jeffrey Beesler said...
Matthew: Keep writing like that and you will surely find someone willing to pay you for your work! Outstanding stuff, man!
- June 2, 2011 at 7:28 AM
- Laura M. Campbell said...
Great piece! It immediately reminded me of the summers I spent in Maine on Lake Rangely. Granted, I never aimed an arrow at an enemy.
The beautiful description of the lake and scene had me whispering in my head, afraid to move in case I might make a sound and expose the man with the bow and arrow.
I could smell the wet earth and see the placid lake. Oh, I wish I was there right now! Sweater, hot tea and a good book. *sigh* Thanks for sharing!
- June 2, 2011 at 7:32 AM
- Stephanie M. Lorée said...
Some great imagery and use of alliteration here. I really loved, "whistling warble of a nearby songbird" and "great red battle at the end of history."
The play on colors and sensory information was beautiful. Nice work, Matt.
- June 2, 2011 at 8:10 AM
- Old Kitty said...
Aww very poetically and dramatically done!!! As smooth and luxurious and creamy like chocolate!!!
Yay! take care
- June 2, 2011 at 8:12 AM
- Alex J. Cavanaugh said...
You have a way with descriptions, Matthew!
- June 2, 2011 at 8:24 AM
- mmshaunakelley said...
Pretty phenomenal!
- June 2, 2011 at 8:59 AM
- K. M. Walton said...
Beautiful and crisp imagery, Matthew. Nicely done.
Some day someone will pay you for it. No doubt.
- June 2, 2011 at 9:22 AM
- Cynthia Lee said...
I like it very much. Good job.
- June 2, 2011 at 9:24 AM
- Susan Kaye Quinn said...
So evocative! Beautiful, Matt. :)
- June 2, 2011 at 9:42 AM
- Ishta Mercurio said...
"...a call as clarion as the horn of a rider diving headlong into the great red battle at the end of history."
I love this.
Wonderful imagery, Matt. Well done!
- June 2, 2011 at 9:48 AM
- Michael G-G said...
Nice job, Matt. If we're doing favorite lines, mine was "morning stalked still and secret through the trees..."
And "Mother of the Forest forbid" is a splendid oath. In fact, I intend to use it today.
- June 2, 2011 at 10:57 AM
- Matthew MacNish said...
Feel free, thanks Mike!
- June 2, 2011 at 11:02 AM
- Anita said...
Favorite line: Ancient. Timeless. Infinite.
I like the way this line broke things up, while still contributing to the color of the piece.
Thanks for sharing this side of you!
- June 2, 2011 at 11:09 AM
- Munk said...
Layers. Excellent job MM.
- June 2, 2011 at 11:27 AM
- Bethany Elizabeth said...
Oh wow, Matt! This is SO cool, the tension was incredible, I couldn't stop reading, I felt my heartbeat slow down almost like it was saying, "quiet, we have to be quiet." Which is weird, but also awesome. Super beautiful and tense. :)
By the way, how do you increase tension through description? You do it so well - normally description is something I skim, but this was fantastic.
- June 2, 2011 at 1:45 PM
- mshatch said...
very evoc! I could see, hear, even smell the place! Nicely done.
- June 2, 2011 at 1:47 PM
- Suzie F. said...
Well done, Matt. You drew me right in.
Thank you for sharing your writing with us.
- June 2, 2011 at 1:53 PM
- Matthew MacNish said...
Bethany, I could talk about that probably FOREVER, and I'm really no expert. Bryan, I'm seeing maybe a blog post or a forum thread?
I will say this: What I do, and this differs in different types of fiction, b/c what you can get away with in FF is not equal to what you can get away with in a novel, is this: focus on a minute detail, describe it through a microscope, whether that microscope magnifies sound, sight, touch, smell, whatever. This will slow the reader down as they picture this detail, and they will (hopefully) pause as they read, which will slow the narrative.
Then you switch to something else, dialog, action, SOMETHING that moves the story forward. You can go back and forward several times, or repeat either element as I did here, but it's this switching of gears that I believe "increases tension" as you put it so well.
- June 2, 2011 at 2:02 PM
- Jessica Bell said...
I hope you don't mind me butting in here, Matt! I just want to point out to Bethany that it's likely she gets bored with description that is primarily about what one can SEE. If we use ALL of the senses, and I mean the 6th sense, too, then descriptions will come alive as they should. And Matt, you do this very well.
- June 2, 2011 at 2:06 PM
- Matthew MacNish said...
Butt in any time, Jess! You're one of the best at this, so your advice is sage, and appreciated. And you're absolutely right, there are way more than 5 senses, but even writing about 3 of them is more than you usually "see."
- June 2, 2011 at 2:15 PM
- Jessica Bell said...
Absolutely! :o)
- June 2, 2011 at 2:16 PM
- Michael Offutt said...
Your writing is exquisite.
- June 2, 2011 at 3:15 PM
- Sara McClung ♥ said...
You had me at "Morning stalked still and secret through the trees as dawn approached." Seriously. Matt, I love how vivid your descriptions are. You totally threw me into the scene, and I was disappointed when it ended! (Because I wanted to KEEP READING.)
- June 2, 2011 at 3:45 PM
- Bryan Russell (Ink) said...
I'll second what Matt and Jess said about description, and add two things.
1) Mood. Pretty descriptive prose for the sake of being pretty doesn't get you anywhere. Description that controls mood and sets a scene, however, does get you somewhere. It builds a sort of charge or tension that is released in the following action.
2) Relevance. A lot of writers use empty description and empty details. They write about what's there simply because it's there. But why is it being selected? Details that are relevant to the story and the character are meaningful and create tension. Matt, above, sets the scene of this world, but it's not empty, as the land is just what the character is willing to defend. The description sets up the conflict with the invaders. And then the description of the call he hears is important, not because it's beautifully described, but because it means something to the character.
I think a lot of story description is boring because it's random. It doesn't serve a purpose outside basic visualization. Pull that description into the thematic depths of the story, however, and you have something more profound.
- June 2, 2011 at 4:40 PM
- Matthew MacNish said...
I told you guys Bryan was the man. I consider him a dear friend, and a writing mentor, even if he's younger than me.
If you like my stuff, please take the time to check his archives, using the World in Miniature label, there are some truly amazing pieces of short fiction on this blog, and I'm honored that three of them are mine.
Wait. It is three, right, B?
- June 2, 2011 at 6:27 PM
- Sarah said...
Wow, Matt. This is the first chance I've had to read your writing, and I'm really impressed. You have a gift for description and made every word count. Fantastic.
- June 2, 2011 at 8:02 PM
- Beverly Diehl said...
Let me make everyone hate me now. I liked this very much, but the first line: "the grey mist fall languidly off the glassflat surface" - mist rises from the surface of a lake, it doesn't fall. It made me mentally trip, a little, though when I went back and reread, I could get past it. Very sensual piece, lovely textures and scents and feelings, down to the feet inside the leather boots.
- June 2, 2011 at 8:06 PM
- Matthew MacNish said...
Hah! You have every right to speak up, Beverly, and thanks for doing so. Bryan actually gave me the same note when he helped me with edits.
I kept it that way on purpose (fall ... off, instead of rise ... from) because it is supposed to be a subtle hint that this is not our world (not necessarily literally upside down, though). Also, the mention of a scientific concept like matter, when the rest is kind of a fantasy setting.
But thanks so much for speaking up! As writers we're all in this together, and honesty is always best. Also subjectivity is a given, and I would always prefer intelligent debate to pandering.
So no one is allowed to hate you.
- June 2, 2011 at 9:05 PM
- storyqueen said...
Very sensory.
And I can pay you one of the highest compliments I know: I would read more.
- June 3, 2011 at 12:33 AM
- Steve C said...
I'm coming in late to the discussion, but that just gives me even more notes to take.
Very well done, Natty Bumpoo. Makes me want to get up early and hit the nearest lake.
- June 3, 2011 at 12:58 AM
- Michelle Merrill said...
Wow! I gotta say I love the ending. It makes me want to read on since it's just the beginning. Great job at using the senses and making me feel like I was really there :)
- June 3, 2011 at 2:17 AM
- LTM said...
Me Likey! Very descriptive and beautiful. Is this one of our warrior monks mentally preparing for battle? ;o)
- June 3, 2011 at 8:20 AM
- D.G. Hudson said...
Congratulations Matt! Your descriptions defy the imagination. I see you have a love of eloquent writing, as does Bryan. Enjoyed reading Lake Argo very much.
Thanks, Bryan for hosting such a great feature as your 'flash fiction stage' on your blog.
- June 4, 2011 at 3:41 PM
- Slamdunk said...
Descriptive but not wordy.
I enjoyed this Matt, and best wishes with your entries.
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Solar Halo February 19 11:45 am
The day before E day (eclipse), I was outside and happened to notice a huge Solar halo starting to form, got my camera and headed just outside of town to capture the above halo, within 30 minutes it had formed a complete circle around the sun and had developed some beautiful colors. Just as fast as it had formed it disappeared as the Cirrus clouds broke apart, and it was no more, you can see it posted at Sky and Telescope website as well as one of my other halos. Solar halos are the result of the Sunlight being reflected and refracted off ice crystals high in the Cirrus clouds, wispy clouds located above 23,000 feet.
I just had to post one more image of the Total Lunar eclipse. I didn't post this image initially because it looked gray and colorless except for some blues , which I thought was just wrong, very little reds, I actually thought, great I broke my camera because of the cold weather and the taking it in and out of the house and the fact it was actually starting to make strange noises, but upon further investigation I found out the blue/ greens are a result of the Sunlight passing through the ozone layer which scatters or blocks the reds of the Sun's light, making the light getting through to the Lunar surface bluer. There was only a couple out of the many shots I took that had this much blue in it, makes for a very cool and different eclipse. I did have to put it through Photo shop curves and brightness and contrasted it to bring the browns and blues out more.
Mercury, Venus, Jupiter February 23, 2008
There is another conjunction happening right now, Mercury and Venus are getting very close together and will be their closest February 27th. Look to the South East just before the Sun rises to see Mercury and Venus close together and Jupiter further South. I took the above image of the trio this morning around 7:14 am cst.
Don't know if you have seen this video on You Tube, it is supposed to be the actual shooting down of the US Spy Satellite, pretty cool video.


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Australia Hosted Melges 24 World Championship 2014 Website Launched
14 July 2013
For the first time in the history of the International Melges 24, the pinnacle of the class' calendar is heading to the Southern Hemisphere.
Victoria's seaside city of Geelong will host the Melges 24 World Championship 2014 when a first-class fleet of up to 45 high performance sportsboats will set Corio Bay ablaze from January 29 to February 2, 2014.
Prior to the 2014 world title a strong Australian contingent will head to San Francisco in September for this year's world championship, to try and wrest the trophy down under and then mount a defence to keep the silverware safely locked up in the Asia Pacific region.
Since the launch of the Melges 24 in 1993 there has never been an Asia Pacific Melges 24 World Championship or an Australian team listed on the honour board. Australia's strongest link to the upper echelon of world title results came in 2005 when Aussie James Spithill led a USA Melges 24 team to victory in Florida. Spithill went on to become the youngest skipper to ever win an America's Cup, again sailing for the Americans.
Visit the Official World Championship Website, just launched this week.
Shortly the Notice of Race will be released and online entries open via the event website. Class history, the list of past champions, details of Geelong and Victoria as a travel destination for families and friends joining competitors and detailed entrant information will also feature on the official world championship website.
The Melges 24 World Championship 2014 will be organised in late January to early February 2014 by Royal Geelong Yacht Club and New Tack Consulting in association with the Australian Melges 24 Class and the International Melges 24 Class Association.
Immediately following Geelong's Festival of Sails, one of Australia's premiere yachting regattas which will run from 23- 27 January and incorporate the Melges 24 Pre-Worlds, RGYC will switch to one-design mode to provide race management support for the smaller but more international sportsboat fleet boasting sailing's crème de la crème.
Principal Race Officer will be Hank Stuart, the International Melges 24 Class Championship Coordinator, who will be working closely with the local RGYC team.
Recognising the vast distance Northern Hemisphere crews will have to travel, an international competitor assistance package is being offered. The first 10 international competitors to enter online will qualify for a $1,000 cash back to put towards shipping and travel costs.
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This issues special section delves into issues in information architecture and usability (IA/UX), ranging from the theoretical and conceptual to the practical. Authors explore the fundamental nature of information and evolving designs to support its complexity and translating patterns in semantic space to the screen and interface. The value of metaphors is shown for demonstrating information architecture to clients, while visual images can help illustrate the process. Last, an interview with Eric Reiss reveals the noted IA practitioners thoughts on explaining usability to clients and his new publication.
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Andrea Resmini in IA in the Age of Complexity takes us beyond the traditional web space as single artifact and directs our attention to the nature of information mobile, bleeding into physical space. He reminds us that our job now is handling complexity and our call is to answer this need.
Similarly, Martyn Dade-Robertson, in The Architecture of Information, encourages us to look at the work we do identifying patterns in semantic space, thinking coherently about the differences in screen space and attending to the movement within interaction space.
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Carrie Hane Dennison provides us with A Metaphor for Content Strategy a strategy for explaining to clients and others how we need to attend to both building and furnishing a house.
Metaphors can support learning; so can visuals. If you are visually inclined (or perhaps want to become more so), you can view the sketchnotes developed by Veronica Erb and provided in her visual article How to Start Sketchnoting.
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Enjoy the issue and feel free to send me your comments. You can reach me at thom<at>thomhaller.com
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Articles in this Issue
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Information Architecture in the Age of Complexity
The Architecture of Information
Optimizing Websites in the Post Panda World
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A Conversation with Eric Reiss, Author of Usable Usability: Simple Steps for Making Stuff Better
Sustainability: Scholarly Repository as an Enterprise
Spelunking in the Archives: Or How I Learned to Love the Art of the Unexpected
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I hope I don't get fired by Tim, Adam and Berselius for writing a post that is only loosely tied to sports, but after reading a couple threads on the fantastic The Book Blog over the last week, I'm going to do it. The first thread I'm not going to bother looking for as it was mostly about fast food. The most recent thread though, that's what I want to talk about. It's about the dilly-dallyers in restaurants and how those establishments deal with those people.
First of all, I worked in the food industry for a long time. I graduated from Scottsdale Culinary Institute in 1998 and worked in several higher end restaurants around the country after that. I owned a restaurant that failed. I was part-owner of another and have since sold. The types of restaurants I was affiliated with served high quality food. It came with significantly higher priced items on the menu.
Tom Tango is saying that he shouldn't be run out of a restaurant if he's dilly-dallying. I had initially started to repond in the comments there on two different occasions, but my comment became long and not as organized as I would like. I organized my thoughts a little more and decided to write it here.
The restaurant that Tango is speaking of is TGIF. He bought a dinner for $10 and some drinks and was told to leave after he hadn't been a paying customer for awhile. The commenters were quick to compare how restaurants in Europe respond to this (they don't bring your check until you ask for it), but this misses the point. I'm also afraid that Tango doesn't recognize the service he is paying for at a place like TGIF (insert Applebee's, Denny's, or whatever other chain restaurant you want here).
Those places are profitable becasue of the turnover. They get you in and get you out. The fact the server is there so quickly after you get your menus and that your food comes almost instantly after you order is evidence of this. They want you to eat and leave. It's not because they just want your money. It's because in order to offer that same food at the affordable price it is, they have to do so much volume.
Think about McDonald's for a moment. If there was no drive through and people took 2 hours to eat inside, what is McDonald's going to do? They will either close or raise the prices at which point nobody could justify spending that kind of money for that kind of food. Then they'd close.
It's the same thing at TGIF. They can offer the food they do at the affordable prices because they're going to seat that very table 5 to 8 times in one night. Maybe even more than that if they get them in and out as fast as they'd like. That's how they offer those dinners at $10.
Tango also brought up some math about him returning and it was a justification. It was well done and it's the reason I go to that blog in the first place. But, a TGIF manager sees thousands of customers each week. He can't possibly be thinking to himself, "OK, this guy paid this much, sat around this long, the result is he's paying as much as someone who doesn't dilly dally." Can't be done. Not in the short amount of time a manager or other employee has to figure this out. He's not going to break out a calculator and he or she is probably unlikely to be able to figure it out without doing so. However, if you really do go to the same restaurant once a week, they aren't going to tell you leave shortly after you're done. If you sit there for 4 to 6 hours they might, but certainly not if you're just wanting to stay there for another 30 minutes.
The service that people pay for at those restaurants are numerous. It's all built into the cost of the food and we know they sell $10 dinners. As a result, we know that all of their services are done with as little money spent doing them. This is true across the board. Everything in those restaurants is made in a way that they can serve that kind of a meal for that cost. They spend as little money on food, preparations, cleanliness, servers, bar-staff, carpet, wood floors, decor and even the toilets themselves are cheap. They use cheap cleaning supplies. Their tables and chairs are cheap. The paint is cheap. The woodwork is cheap. Their bar stools are cheap. The bar itself is cheap. Everything.
To show this, I searched TGIF bar on google images and this was the first one I found.
That's like a freaking circus. Seriously, I think I've seen circuses with less color. That is an awful bar. Everything in it is the lowest quality imaginable. That looks like something made with colored legos and I'm guessing it doesn't look much better in person. Compare that one to this one.
Notice the quality difference between the two photos above. If you've been to the place where the bottom picture was taken, you'll feel like you're slumming it if you go into the place where the first picture was taken. In every single way. There is nothing superior in quality in that TGIF image than the lower one. The design in one has a color for everyone. The design in the second one is elegant and beautiful. Notice the cheap separation between bar and tables at TGIF. Not so cheap in the other. Quite expensive actually. The top place spared cost everywhere possible while the second one spared none. Down to every little detail, the bar in the second picture out-spent the first one. There are many, many bars in fine restaurants that are much more extravagant than that one. I showed that one for its simplicity.
Take a look at the food from the same restaurants.
What the fuck? I can actually count the visible pieces of parsley (I doubt they'd use basil, too expensive). There's one way over to the left, another two at the bottom, two on the chunk of food and then a larger chunk on top of another. Speaking of chunk of food, what the hell is that? It's a 100% guarantee that it came frozen, breaded and ready to be dropped into a fryer. No clue what it is though. I could take the very same stuff on that plate and make it look it somewhat edible. Compare that to this image.
That's just a soup, but notice the attention to detail that lacks in the first one. When this soup was arranged, it was done so with with pride. Somebody wanted to serve something that someone else would fall in love with when they first saw it. The garnish makes it appear as though it's flowing around the bowl. The towers are wrapped in in some sort of green, but still standing. I suggest you try to do that at home. You'll get frustrated and quit.
The difference between these restaurants is ridiculous. In one of them you'll be asked to leave once you stop being a paying customer. In the other that won't happen. You're paying for something entirely different if you go to a place like that.
Instead of paying for the minimal amount of detail to everything possible like at TGIF, these places pay an enormous amount of detail to every single thing they do. You are paying for that attention. You are paying for the atmosphere. You're paying to seated comfortably and taken well care of. You're paying so you can dilly dally if you want.
When I started thinking more about this, the more I realized that a TGIF (and all the others) are really nothing but a replacement level restaurant. A replacement level player in sports provide the minimum amount of production for the minimum salary. When a player gets injured and you call a guy up from AAA, you're not expecting much or any positive production from the player. If he was capable of that, he'd probably have already been up on the team. That's not always true of course, but in general it is. The Cubs had two pitchers go on the DL yesterday and the typical replacement level pitchers have replaced them in the rotation until they are healthy.
In sports, we compare players to that replacement level because that is the player that would replace them. Replacment level is worse than average. If you look at the talent curve in baseball or any sport, you'll see there aren't all that many players who are average or better.
This concept can be used in a variety of ways. I'm not sure a replacement level restaurant really exists, but when you think about what you expect from a replacement level athlete and what goes into creating a TGIF, you can't help but see how damn similar the two are. To be honest, my expectations are very similar too. I wouldn't expect much if I went to TGIF, but I'd have very high expectations in the other place.
TGIF provides the minimum amount of comfort and quality. In return, you pay little money for that food and all the services that come with it. It's not good service. It's not good food either. It's an acceptable place to eat for many reasons. Traveling is one. They're often located so close to hotels and people are less familiar with the area and tend to prefer a meal they're familiar with. TGIF offers a wide variety of food. Ever sat around on a Saturday knowing your hungry, but don't know what you want to eat? TGIF is great for that. I think they plan to have every cuisine represented on their menu in the near future. It seems like they already do. Don't want to get dressed up? Or even cleaned up? TGIF is there.
However, if you do know what kind of food you want, there are many places that serve that same food at a much higher quality. Some of those places aren't even more expensive than TGIF. If you are familiar with the city you are in, you surely know of several restaurants that serve superior food. Many of them sell their food at the same cost too. If you do want to get cleaned up after working in the yard or even dressed up, there are much better places to relax and have a nice dinner than the circus that TGIF is.
TGIF is a replacement level restaurant because there are a number of reasons why you may choose to eat there, but few of them will ever have to do with the quality of their food, service and hospitality. As a replacement level restaurant, TGIF has to be more strict with their customers. They can't take the time to figure out who spent what and how often they spent it. They're too busy for that. They have a one size fits all rule book. Those rules include that all people inside the establishment must be a paying customer. If at some point you are no longer payiing customer, they should kick you out. There are likely several other people waiting in line anyway and nothing is more frustrating to someone in line than seeing someone sitting around not eating or drinking. I'll guarantee more people have left those lines because of that than people who have not returned becasue they were asked to leave when they were no longer a paying customer. I'll also guarantee far more people have left the line to eat elsewhere than the people who won't return. For those who do not return, it just means that one of those who left for another restaurant will remain in the line.
If TGIF is a replacement level restaurant you may be wondering what McDonalds is. Mcdonald's is Koyie Hill or Jeff Samardzija. TGIF is Darwin Barney. The other restaurant is this one.


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I have found that there is strong documentation of projects and the search feature is quite easy to use.
Access to the Digital Library is found through a link on the left hand side, and that is also where the search feature is located. Clicking on the search feature and typing in housing gets me to projects in Africa and Iran, places that are less well documented in this School's collection.
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UNC: #1 With a BulletPosted by rtmsf on June 16th, 2008
With the announcement that the Carolina threesome of Tywon Lawson, Wayne Ellington and Danny Green are all returning to Chapel Hill next season, we can already hear the incoherent rantings of one Richard Vitale bouncing around in our heads.
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- Let me tell you something… I wasn't supposed to say this, but let me tell you a little secret, Mike… Roy Williams told me this morning that he thinks this North Carolina team could be his best team yet! He thinks that their inside-outside play with Lawson and Hansbrough, Wayne Ellington on the wing, super sixth man Danny Green off the bench and the arrival of diaper dandies Ed Davis and Tyler Zeller, this team could be SPECIAL. Ohhh… what a wealth of talent Roy Williams has at his disposal!
- In all my years of doing games for ESPN, I have never seen as much talent on one team as I see out here right now! This North Carolina team could be one of the best teams EVER, Mike. EVER. And we know what kind of talent has walked around this campus before us – the Jordans, the Vince Carters, the James Worthys… ohhhhhhhhhhhh…
- Let me tell you something Dan… This North Carolina team has a chance… now, I'm only saying a chance, but Roy Williams' team has a shot to go undefeated and become the first team since The General did it at Indiana back in 1976 to cut the nets down without a blemish on their record. This team is that good!
- Ohhhhh… all the Tylers! Hansbrough, Lawson and Zeller – the three Ts on their way to another ACC championship and the Final Four, baby!!!
- Look at this place; LOOK at this place! The Carolina fans are going wacky cheering for their Tar Heels, the #1 team in America, baby! They love their Tar Heels!!!
Prepare yourselves. ESPN will put UNC on the tube for approximately 98% of their games next year, and Dickie V. will call approximately 98% of those. (ed. note – he will likely miss the annual clash between UNC and Pembroke St.) We must ready ourselves for the hyperbole and the incessant gushing, because there is nobody on the 2008-09 horizon who can pretend to match up with the Heels on paper.
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Looking at the final AP Top 25 poll (pre-NCAA Tourney), who else could rise up to challenge the Heels next year? The two finalists, Memphis (CDR and Rose) and Kansas (Arthur, Chalmers, Rush), have completely imploded with defections. Ben Howland's UCLA squad has a sick incoming class, but the losses of Russell Westbrook, Luc Richard Mbah a Moute and especially Kevin Love will be difficult to replace (even with Darren Collison returning). Tennessee, Louisville, UConn, Davidson, Purdue and Gonzaga should all be pretty good, but none of them should even be mentioned in the same breath with Carolina in returning talent and experience. UNC should be the #1 team in everyone's preseason poll, and probably the unanimous choice in the AP poll. We're not 100% sure of this, but we don't think a team has ever been a unanimous preseason #1 in the history of the AP poll (in 2003-04, UConn got all but three #1 votes, and the 1993-94 UNC squad got all but four). That should change next season unless Hansbrough and company break their necks in one of those frat house pool dives they enjoy.


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Wholesale shipments of all RVs were reported at 19,100 units in the Recreation Vehicle Industry Association's (RVIA) October 2011 survey of manufacturers, ahead of last month by 12.4% and 15.1% ahead of this same month last year. Gains were recorded in both conventional and fifth-wheels with other categories even with or slightly less than the totals reported for those categories in October 2010.
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Thursday, May 6, 2010
A Great Hero
Boy, do I love heroes. Especially the dark and brooding ones. But whether moody, cold, or boy next door, heroes should have one thing in common.
They're NEVER perfect.
A good hero needs some flaws. Not necessarily anything truly evil and not something annoying. But something to make them real. Something to make their sacrifice/choice/good deed truly heroic.
Being a hero shouldn't be easy. It should come with a price.
I wrote earlier about the movie 3:10 to Yuma. The villain helped the hero out by getting on the train to go to jail, but it wasn't a heroic move. At first glance, or if you'd missed some dialogue, you might think so. But the villain, good old Ben Wade, (yes, the mark of a great character is that days later I still remember his name) is not a hero for a reason. He'd already admitted to escaping from that particular jail before. Twice.
So his actions, while making him likeable, did not make him heroic. There was no real cost.
Dan (the hero), on the other hand, is giving up everything. For what? His honor? The respect of his boy? Justice? What creates a truly compelling hero are his choices throughout the story. When things get tough, when he's torn between his weaknesses, his needs, and what he knows is right, he chooses the good way.
Makes me think of Jeremiah 6:16
". . . ask where the good way is and walk in it, and you will find rest for your souls."
Want an incredible hero? Flaw him, hurt him, and then have him choose the right way.
How do you write an awesome hero? Who is your real-life hero? Your favorite fictional hero?
25 comments:
- Diane said...
Daniel Day-Lewis portrayed a hero pretty well in Last of the Mohicians. Great analysis of what makes a hero "work."
- May 6, 2010 at 7:25 AM
- Jessica Nelson said...
Eeeek!!! Diane, that is absolutely my favorite movie in the world, and yes, I TOTALLY LOVE him in that movie. ;-)
- May 6, 2010 at 7:51 AM
- Irritable Mother said...
Ooo! I'm not perfect. I have flaws!
Does that mean I can be a hero, too?
- May 6, 2010 at 7:57 AM
- Jaime said...
Who doesn't LOVE a good hero. Yummy. Like coffee laced with chocolate and a hint of amaretto. Okay. I'm drooling. My real-life hero is my Grandpa who fought all years in WWII and was the Spiritual Patriarch of our family.
How do I WRITE an awesome hero? I'm still trying to figure that out lol
Great post, Jess! (going to conf in Sept????)
- May 6, 2010 at 9:18 AM
- Julie Jarnagin said...
My husband is my real-life hero. He's a wonderful daddy and husband.
- May 6, 2010 at 9:24 AM
- Erica Vetsch said...
Real life hero...my husband.
Favorite fictional hero...Alexander Kinloch from Dick Francis's novel To The Hilt.
- May 6, 2010 at 10:20 AM
- Jessie Oliveros said...
I've been thinking the same thing about my heroes lately...one in particular...he is just too good and witty and clever. He needs to be brought down.
- May 6, 2010 at 10:38 AM
- Jessica Nelson said...
Jessie, LOL! Bring him down. :)
Erica, that's so sweet about your hubby. I've never read the book you mention, but I think you've talked about it before?
Julie, your husband too? Wow! I'm impressed with all the super-hubbies out there. *grin*
- May 6, 2010 at 11:22 AM
- Jessica Nelson said...
Karen, I bet there are tons of ladies out there who think of you as a heroine!
Hahaaa, Jaime, you're makinig me drool.
I wish I was going in Sept. *sigh* If you want, you can pray my husband sells a million-dollar house, and then I could go. LOL
- May 6, 2010 at 11:24 AM
- Patti said...
I loved that movie, what a great example. I love a good hero, but they can't be too awesome. It seems we always have to balance things as writers. The pacing needs to be fast, but not too fast. The characters need to have flaws, but not too many.
- May 6, 2010 at 11:27 AM
- Katie Ganshert said...
Favorite fictional hero is Marcus Valerian, who is most definitely flawed.
Oh, and Edward Cullen. Yep. I like me some Edward. :)
- May 6, 2010 at 1:36 PM
- Jeanette Levellie said...
No one who reads this blog will know this movie, I'll bet a Hershey bar, but I love the old classic, "A Tale of Two Cities."
The guy who gives his life at the guillotine in place of a convicted man whom he resembles, is my kind of hero. Especially considering that he does it so the lady he loves can marry the convict, after she rejected the hero. Wow.
- May 6, 2010 at 4:36 PM
- Jeanette Levellie said...
Okay. I asked my DH, who is my real life hero, about the above person. The character is Sidney Carton; the actor who plays him is Ronald Coleman.
- May 6, 2010 at 4:49 PM
- Jeanette Levellie said...
See why my DH is my hero? He knows everything. Not really. I'm just saying that cuz it's his BD today. Okay, I'll go now and quit hogging all the comment coupons.
- May 6, 2010 at 4:50 PM
- Angie Muresan said...
Just as long as they're charmingly flawed.
- May 6, 2010 at 6:01 PM
- Talli Roland said...
Great question! I think they do need to have flaws that we can all relate to - but they overcome them to triumph in the end!
- May 7, 2010 at 5:56 AM
- Jessica Nelson said...
Jeanette, you're too funny! I actually watched that movie at school in eighth grade and yes, his sacrifice was amazing. A beautiful love story. ;-)
Angie, lol, charming is, imo, debatable. *grin*
Relatability...good point Talli. That's the point of flaws in our characters, right?
- May 7, 2010 at 6:51 AM
- Linda Kage said...
I'm definitely going to have to check this movie out. Sounds interesting.
- May 7, 2010 at 9:09 AM
- Karen Lange said...
Thanks for sharing this, even if it is a repeat. I hadn't read it before, so it's all new to me:)
Blessings for the weekend,
- May 7, 2010 at 9:51 AM
- Angela said...
Heroes are heroic because they see their flaws, not their strengths, and simply do the best they can. Great post!
- May 7, 2010 at 11:06 AM
- T. Anne said...
Jesus is my real life hero. He's very uncomplicated in a complicated sort of way ;)
- May 7, 2010 at 11:12 AM
- Nancy said...
When you mentioned hero, I immediately thought of Sydney Carton in A Tale Of Two Cities. So I'm going with Jeanette here. Didn't see the movie, read the book. I seem to remember he was sort of lazy, but what an ending.
I also like Sam in The Lord of the Rings. He has tons of flaws, yet he persevered and became a hero, a quiet one.
Great post.
- May 7, 2010 at 1:37 PM
- patti said...
I LOVE flawed characters that still have a great passion for something or someone (like Scarlett O'Hara for her land) and are altered tremendously by the end of the book, film, etc.
- May 7, 2010 at 5:10 PM
- Tabitha Bird said...
Lovely post. Heros? Hmmm... my husband is one of my heros. And God. He is my biggest hero :)
- May 7, 2010 at 8:15 PM
What a great post! You know how much a sucker I am for the flawed hero. Heh. I also like a flawed heroine. It just makes them more real, relatable, and sympathetic as characters.
How do I write a flawed hero? Well, I give him something painful in his past that has led to some weakness in his present which he'll have to overcome for the heroine in some way.
Who's my real life hero? My sweet hubbie-pie.
Fave fictional hero? I would have to say Mr. Rochester in Jane Eyre. He is SO flawed and wounded, yet his love for Jane so heart-wrenchingly desparate, he lies to her about something monumental from his past then ends up losing her for his efforts. He practically wastes away while pining for her until she finally comes back, at last making him whole. Sigh...
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CFP decides it's time to recycle himself, when a mailbox recognizes him.
The mailbox nudges a nearby telephone pole: 'Hey! Doesn't that guy match the description of that missing Fuzz character??
Telephone pole: 'Yeah, that's the way Tia's phone described him to me.'
The telephone pole sends a message to Tia's house: 'We've spotted the Curly Fuzz Poodle, corner of 57th and 3rd, heading northeast, looking mighty ragged.'
Tia's phone, wall socket, vestibule and tights wait around the corner for the Curly Fuzz Poodle to approach.
The tights jump on CFP and engulph him, tying himself up tight at the top. The tights walk home to Tia's with CFP inside, and everyone is happy.
CFP gets fixed up
The socket observes CFP's condition. 'We can't take him back like this. We gotta fix him up!'
A drawer in the vestibule opens and a needle and thread hop out. They begin to stitch up CFP's holes.
The phone pulls his string to try and make him talk. We hear a rusty, garbled groan. 'He's all rusted up inside!'
A toothbrush volunteers to help. He sticks his brush into CFP's ring hole and scrapes the rust off his talking mechanism.
CFP is sparkling and clean.
The objects take him to Roxy's and shove him back in Roxy's room through the window.
Mom and Dad argue
Back on Roxy's bed, CFP just begins to settle in when he overhears an argument outside Roxy's room.
Dad is accusing Mom of throwing out the Fuzz Poodle and Mom is flatly denying it.
Dad: 'I can't believe you threw out that poodle! Roxy hasn't been the same since! How could you?'
Mom: 'I'm telling you I never threw it out. You convinced me not to! I have no idea what happened to it.'
The Curly Fuzz Poodle gets an idea. He writes another note to Roxy.
Roxy comes home
She is completely depressed. She hurls her books on the bed and throws herself down for a good sob right smack on top of CFP. She starts crying but we see her back quivering from the agitation of the CFP as he is trying to wriggle out.
A little paw comes out under her belly pulling a talking string.
Roxy hears the string retracting as she has heard so many times before and stops crying.
She smiles as she realizes…she arches her back enough to look under her belly and we hear "Get off."
She grabs the Fuzz Poodle and gives him a giant hug. She sees the note.
'Dear Roxy, Your mom never threw me out, I threw myself out. She suggested getting rid of me, and I thought the end was near, so I took care of it myself. Your mom isn't to blame. She even found me and fixed me up nice for you. So even though she thinks I'm a filthy, repulsive, immature pile of sawdust, she's letting you have me anyways. That's how much she loves you.P.S. Please pull my string.'
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|2012-10-26, 05:35
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People's lives are being pigeonholed because of this system.
|2012-10-26, 06:09
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That is clever using weather reports to be analogous to people's mental state.
I guess Akane is the ray of sunshine, then.
|2012-10-26, 06:43
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Bullied workers were reassigned when their psycho-pass started to reach the limit. The reason Kanehara stayed longer than any other was because his hue never crossed that limit. In the eyes of the manager, he seemed to respond better to the bullying than other people and was therefore a valuable asset. There was simply no need to remove him since he was seemingly handling his "job" well.
The system as it was described in the episode is far more efficient than what you're proposing. They only have to reassign the bullied person every year or so, only one person gets hurt in the process and no personnel is lost. It's pretty simple and straightforward. However, what you're suggesting is more complicated to put in place and resulted in the deaths of 3 workers and the loss of another one. I seriously doubt these are acceptable losses for the factory. Not to mention, the manager is most likely going to get into trouble since this incident happened under his watch. The ministry won't let that slide. In the end, the murders did not benefit anybody.
I thought the victim's CC was given when the gun switched to lethal mode but after checking again, that wasn't the case. I suppose it could have been over 265, and therefore there are no inconsistencies. I'll give them the benefit of the doubt for now.
As for your example... it just proves the capitalist system is as flawed if not more than the Sybil system. If it were perfect, these areas wouldn't even exist in the first place.
|2012-10-26, 06:54
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|2012-10-26, 07:03
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another difference between the culprit this episode and the one in ep1 is that the guy in ep1 resists even after being tranquilised. I would assume that they would still going for the paralyser first, and only go for the destructive mode if proven ineffective and requires urgent action.
|2012-10-26, 07:04
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In the first episode, we see a rape victim get further victimized by the system. In this third episode, we see the victim of extreme bullying, who has basically snapped for that reason. And he too was thoroughly victimized by the system.
The murderer in this episode isn't the problem, he's merely a symptom of it.
The problem is the occupational system itself, in which you have all of these people who are working here (likely because the Sibyl System gave them no other options, or only this option and even worse ones), and they're cut off from any conventional method of entertaining themselves, so they turn to bullying for amusement. The system itself created these powderkeg conditions, and so the system itself has created this problem.
Honestly, I don't know how Gen could possibly make this system look any worse than what he has, short of having it be cartoonishly dystopian (I'm thinking of the last few episodes of No. 6 here). Putting aside the obvious, let's look at the subtler condemnations of it.
We have the opening scene where Mr. Cool Dude Shinya gets a minute or two of looking impeccably cool and manly. We're clearly meant to like this guy. And this same guy makes an unambiguously critical remark about the Sibyl System (and it was delivered so perfectly too!).
Meanwhile, I don't think we're meant to like Ginoza. I think he's meant to come across as something of an uncaring control freak. And guess who's the primary defender of the Sibyl System in our main cast?
Then there's Akane. Akane might not be questioning the Sibyl System yet, but she sure as heck is questioning a lot of the outcomes of it. A few more episodes like the last three, and Akane may well start questioning and doubting the system itself.
Again, I think Gen is tipping his hat in a big way here. He's restraining the crime-fighting scenarios just enough to keep them somewhat plausible and realistic, but there's no question in my mind that we're meant to be disturbed by what we're seeing. I mean, "rape victim" and "bully victim" are two of the oldest and most powerful "shock and disturb the audience" tricks in the book. And Gen has already used them both in only three episodes!
At a meta-level, the direction this anime is taking towards the Sibyl System couldn't be more clear.
Now, I don't necessarily think we're supposed to see it as entirely bad. But the narrative is clearly aiming towards the system being, at least, in severe need of serious reform.
|2012-10-26, 08:17
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Also, if a system was wrong at least once, it is not 100% right. It's very foolish for a society to pledge blind faith in the judgment of a system that is not completely perfect.
|2012-10-26, 08:20
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Shinya is not meant to be 'good' here, he is shown as a biased and broken individual. The whole end of the episodes, the last five minutes, are all about how he purposefully engineer a situation where he can use violence.
He is not 'Cool guy Shinya', he is someone who needs his high and made sure that the murderer was caught in such a way that he could have his fun.
If there is a 'Cool Guy', it possibly the older Enforcer. My guess is, he is en ex-detective.
As for Ginoza, he is obviously meant to be someone who was like Akane (though probably not as mentally gifted and sturdy) but was burned very badly by trusting the enforcers.
|2012-10-26, 08:25
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And there is no way to know if the system is 100% correct in this case. It's judging a person's psychological profile before the act was committed that is what it means to be a latent criminal.
|2012-10-26, 09:17
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What I think we're seeing here is Gen espousing theories on several fronts, one of which is the matter of what makes a detective. I think his case – which I agree with – is that you can't be a good detective if you don't have a healthy dose of latent criminal intent buried inside you. That a detective needs to understand the criminal mind in order to defeat it is hardly a new idea (that's a trend so far in P-P) but the Sybil scenario is a clever way of illustrating it.
What Sybil has produced (seemingly) is a generation of law enforcement that's incapable of enforcing the law because they're unable to think outside the narrow boxes Sybil has assigned them to. That the enforcers can do so is hardly surprising given their backgrounds, but the detectives like Ginoza need to maintain the façade that they're the ones pulling the strings, when in fact they're simply the ones holding the leash. In the case of Akane perhaps she's the rare exception, because her Sybil scores didn't pigeon-hole her into being a detective – in fact, they said she was basically suited to anything she wanted to do. Or perhaps suited to nothing – which in Sybil's eyes makes her a bad detective, but in practical terms possibly a very good one. Time will tell.
|2012-10-26, 09:24
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Episode 3 was good.
I wonder if Episode 4 will be the "due diligence" episode like how episode 2 it for episode 1.
I'm really liking how they're giving us information about the world system and how it works while giving us an actual story to watch at the same time. Really building up the world nicely episode by episode.
I love Akane's hair style.
|2012-10-26, 09:41
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The anime is presenting us with plenty of good reasons to think that the system is deeply flawed and needs to be fixed (if not removed).
Hell, at this point, I'm not even sure if the Sibyl System is causing less crime on the whole. In a world without a Sibyl System, would the murderer of this episode ever have become a murderer? It was clearly the institutionally-affirmed bullying that caused him to snap and want to kill people.
I any event, the information isn't the problem, no. But yes, the system itself is causing problems. The system itself needs to at least be reformed, and I wouldn't be surprised if Gen even goes so far as to eventually have Akane overturn the entire system.
Is he a somewhat "broken" individual with serious psychological issues? Sure, of course he is. Like Batman is - You know, the Batman that virtually everybody loves.
People tend to like "dark", "gritty", and "intense" characters like Shinya. Gen, of all people, is keenly aware of that.
I'm not saying that Shinya is going to get a shallow treatment, and nor will he be portrayed as always being in the right. Of course he won't. But there's no doubt whatsoever in my mind that he's carefully crafted to be a likeable, kickass protagonist that the viewer is meant to sympathize with. So Shinya clearly not being keen on the Sybil System is telling, imo.
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|2012-10-26, 09:45
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Our Capitalism System: Where only a handful of people are allowed to hold the majority of the wealth.
Our Judicial System: Where individuals are still convicted on little evidence and popular opinion at the time.
Our Correctional System: Which isn't even use to correct anymore just lock'em up and toss away the key.
No system is 100% without flaws yet people swear by them solely on the fact that they work...most of the time.
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|2012-10-26, 10:28
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The Enforcers are guilty of a high Crime Coefficient, not just a murky colored Psycho-Pass.
|2012-10-26, 10:35
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I like the ambiguities here: they caught the murderer, but wrecked the plant. Akane got a lot more than she bargained for. Ginoza made some sense, which the outcome somewhat validates (while contradicting it at the same time, since they did in fact catch the guy) but he was made to seem as if he was tipping over into a bit of madness himself, almost frothing at the mouth at anything that did not stick to normal procedure.
I'm hoping we go further in the next episode, to see the fallout, and what happens next. The supervisor is only one level. His superiors probably knew something, too, at least about the bullying. And I think even two murders should have set off alarm bells all the way up the chain into the ministry that owns the plant.
|2012-10-26, 10:48
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I actually agree with Dark Wing about Shinya. I don't think he is a bad person. In fact from the little I have seen he comes off as kind, but I do believe in his case the reading that he is a latent criminal is correct. I think he is easily swayed towards violence and perhaps breaking the law if it meets his goal.
I am not as sure about the other enforcers though. Although what Guardian Eno said about them being good at their job because of that criminal mind set makes perfect sense.
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I had the same issues with my SlingShot pigtails as well. That was one of the complains that I have with my quiver, the pigtails looks weak. You can easily make your own pigtails if you want to be sure, grab some lines at West Marine and fashion them on your own. That's what I did. The ones that I made looks like they will last longer. Or, order a new set at the SlingShot website.
When I had my turbo diesels last year they came with so many extra pigtails i was set for a lifetime.
Answer to your concern, as well as anyone who has the concern of worn gear, it's a real simple answer-replace it. The only reason to ride it is because you are waiting to receive your new one. Dave will hook you up, local shops have these things. Its $5 worth of parts that can save a nightmare. One really nice thing about slingshot is they treat you like your at the olive garden-like family
No... The pigtails started out frayed...Since then they have gotten a little worse, but not that much different from when they were new. I haven't even had the kite for a year. Plus I have had some bad luck with this kite... The center strut blew after only 1 month of use, and it blew in mid air (and not over inflated)... It seemed like forever to get it back.. About 3 - 4 weeks...
I really like the kite, but am nervous about buying more sizes because of my experiences....
I was kind of hoping to hear something like... "ya there was a batch of pigtails that went out that seemed to fray easily blah blah blah.. "
"You dumbass pigtails only last 3 months.. you have to replace them every 3 months... "
of course I can make new ones or order new ones. I was just wanted to get the rep.s take on this.
The pigtails aren't frayed. I have a 7 Link that has the same "problem", except it's not a problem. If you look really closely at them you will see that the "fraying" is actually a result of the way that SS fuses the pigtail ends back into the pigtail material. Some of the material ends up fuzzing out a bit, but there's no weakness there at all -- pretty much the opposite.
Don't sweat it.
However, if you start to see this same fuzz developing on your chickenloop, replace it immediately. The CL can go from just slightly frayed to broken in just a few tacks on a windy day, and I'm speaking from experience...
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