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As a professional acoustical engineer, it pains me to see that snake oil salesmanship is now in full force with acoustical products. Those Acoustical System International "RESONATORS" are a joke. $10,000+ for a few panels with high Q resonances between 80-100 Hz (at least, according to the laughable "scientific study" I found on the web). I'm sure the ringing that the panels have at high frequencies further enhances their acoustical "benefits". I shouldn't even bother saying that $11k worth of cables in a "budget" display using $3k speakers is beyond ludicrous.
Avatar: Reference Audio on a Budget
"Reference Audio on a Budget" was the tagline for the exhibit from Darren and Bonnie Censullo's Avatar Acoustics of Fayetteville, GA. Most important, the room featured two world premieres. First was a product you're sure to hear more about, the Axis Voicebox S loudspeaker ($3000/pair). A 5 ohm, 83dB sensitive model with a frequency response of 45Hz20kHz ±3dB, this little baby was paired with Abbingdon Music Research's AMR AM 777 60Wpc hybrid integrated amplifier ($4500), AMR CD-777 player ($4500), Dr. Feickert Analogue Woodpecker turntable ($4995) with DFA 10.5 tonearm ($1000), AMR PH-77 phono preamp ($11,995, and soon to be reviewed by Michael Fremer)), and DFA premium tonearm cable ($600). Throw in $11,265 worth of cabling and power distribution from Acoustic System International and Avatar Acoustics, including the world premier of the Avatar Acoustics Mach 4 Power Distributor ($1800 with power cable), and $10,240 worth of Acoustic System International Resonators, and your hypothetical budget would top $50,000.
Happily, the system did live up to its claims of reference audio. In a small room, I was quite impressed with the marvelous size of images and compelling sense of acoustic space that this little set-up produced. In fact, I was so intrigued that I took a second listen at show's closing. That time, I played the CD layer of Revueltas' Sensemaya performed by Australia's Ebony Band on a fabulous Channel Classics hybrid SACD. The size and weight of images, as well as they placement at the rear of a huge soundstage, was mind boggling fabulous. How much the Acoustic Resonators played a part, I don't know. What is certain is that the Axis Voicebox S from Australia, with its 50mm true-ribbon tweeter and 5.5" woofer, looks and sounds like a winner.
John Atkinson adds that when he visited the room, Avatar's Daren Censullo (pictured) was playing the MA CD of Alternesia, composed and performed by Stereophile's self-described "Web Monkey" Jon Iverson. Wonderful synchronicity and equally wonderful sound.
Oh my god, I just found pictures of what these things actually are. It's 100x worse than I thought. 2"x2" wooden blocks with small metal "resonator horn" on them. Gee, only $2500 for six of them, huh?I should be stunned that any sane adult with more than two brain cells to rub together would think these actually do anything, but it's the audiophile world, so I'm not. Ok,I lied, I'm still stunned.The only actual "data" on these is in a "paper" that shows them reducing the decay time in a room significantly at 80 Hz. These things are completely invisible to any sound wave below 1000 Hz. Even though I already knew it before, this shows that the paper is a complete and malicious LIE. Stereophile should be ashamed even mentioning that these ridiculous tchotkes might be improving the sound.
Dear anonymous shamer,Have you listened? If you haven't, I don't think you're in the best position for trying to control what Stereophile reports on. Note that all your outrage is over a simple act of reporting. They were there. I said they were there.
The question is why aren't all of you "outraged"? Items like this should insult anyone's intelligence and are bad for the hobby. Room acoustics are finally getting the attention they deserve in audiophilia, so of course that brings the charlatans out of the wood workMy only comment on the reporting is that products like these aren't called out as the fraud jobs they are. I wish there was more J Gordon Holt attitude in Stereophile nowadays...
Tyler, I too am outraged that audiophile journalists abuse the notion of keeping an open mind to encouraging others to be open to what is basically fraud. The audiophile community needs to be open to input from reputable engineers and psychoacoustics experts, even if it ridicules fashionable accessories.
Tyler and FRARF, show coverage like this reportage, pure and simple. It is not the place for editorializing of the kind you are wishing for. For opinions, you need to read the paper magazine. (I assume that you are Stereophile readers?) See, for example, my thoughts from some years back at http://www.stereophile.com/asweseeit/787/ .
I'm glad to make the acquaintance of John's old editorial. Of course, what was $50 back then costs a lot more now. Both John and I have written at shows about our experiences with the Synergistic Research ART system. It purports to work similarly to the Acoustic Resonators. Although a full system is in the four figures, it costs a hell of a lot less that a full acoustic resonator system.
Visiting the Avatar room over the last weekend was a pleasure. The reproduction of music was most enjoyable. To top off the experience the representatives from Avatar (both adults and children) added to the experience. My friends who accompanied me share my comments.
Thank you for your replies. I respect the dilemma journalists find themselves in when reporting on things they can't know for sure. Any reasonable adult carries the burden of deciding what to buy or believe. This reason is stifled when journalists are predisposed to accept pseudoscience in the vain hope that it might some day be validated, if not by science then at least by aesthetic appeal. Worse yet is when audiophile publications provide endless coverage for these shams with nary a peep about the science of acoustics and how it directly contradicts the claims made by the marketing you pass on to your readers.Perusing your website incites an odd mixture of joy and intermittent disgust.
After reading Tyler's comments, it's obvious that (at least) one of three conditions is at play: 1. Tyler has a financial interest in a competing product to the Acoustic Systems Resonator's; 2. Tyler has never heard the Resonator's and simply doesn't know what he is talking about; or 3. Tyler hearing range is limited and thus he is unable to recognize the improvements made by the Resonator's.As someone who uses them and without any financial interest, I can attest to their effectiveness. I first listened to the Resonator's at CES a little over a year ago. Franck Tchang (who developed the resonators) gave a demonstration of them the last night of the show. Before the demonstration, I was very skeptical that these tiny cups could do anything – boy was I wrong! Apparently each of these Resonator's is made of different metals, and has a distinct affect upon how it changes sound. In my own listening room, I use a Basic and Silver. The Basic make the low end tighter and more pronounced, while the Silver substantially improves definition and clarity in the upper midrange. I have even experimented in moving the Silver up and down by as little as an inch, and the changes, while subtle, are discernable. I have done this both on my own and "blind" with someone else moving the Resonator so that I could remain objective. In fact, one evening I had removed the Silver Resonator altogether and was listening to a CD. My son (who is 18 years old and has exc
Since the last portion of my post was cut off, here's the rest: My son had walked into the listening room unaware that the Silver Resonator had been removed. Within just a few moments he commented (to the effect) "something doesn't sound right". I quickly replaced the Resonator and we both agreed that the system then sounded much better. The clarity of Allison Krauss' voice (the CD I had been listening to) was brought into focus. The only negative comment I have about the Resonators is the price – they are certainly not cheap. But then of course, they are way less expensive than replacing major components of a system, and the changes they make are just as dramatic. I have no doubt that eventually I will have a complete set of Resonators in my listening room. The Resonators are an outstanding product!


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Tyler Bates, the man behind the music for 300 and Watchmen is also the man behind the music for Army of Two: The 40th Day. See him talk about what he's done.
Perhaps it isn't all that interesting to some, but I'm always fascinated by the approach Hollywood and television composers take when developing music for video games. Tyler here packed the tracks he created full of sounds in order to make sure that every gameplay decision would be covered. It must have been a real challenge, but the man who scored The Day the Earth Stood Still and Rob Zombie's Halloween movies was more than up to the task.


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Feinstein (Again) Says Metadata Program 'Is Not Surveillance'
from the you're-only-embarrassing-yourself,-Dianne dept
Senator Dianne Feinstein's war of words in defense of the NSA's programs continues, despite both the political tide and public favor shifting in the other direction. According to Feinstein, everyone is still suffering from some sort of mass delusion when it comes to the Section 215 program.
"It's not a surveillance program, it's a data-collection program," she said while appearing on CNN's "State of the Union" on Sunday.Oh, but it's actually both. According to supporters of the NSA, metadata is just a bunch of anonymous numbers harvested in hopes of discovering needles. To those actually paying attention, metadata is a very efficient way to collect very personal information about someone. Just because it looks like data doesn't mean it's not surveillance. Let's not forget that metadata provides enough information to justify extrajudicial killings.
It's still surveillance. It just bears no resemblance to what spying used to mean. What the NSA has done is turn "surveillance" into something abstract, but equally invasive. It has eliminated the targeted nature of its classic definition and replaced it with servers full of data, all of it theoretically linked to another abstraction: "terrorism."
The headline says Feinstein "blasts" critics, but this sort of clueless pedantry doesn't actually "blast" anyone. Months after the defenders' assertions have been repeatedly dismantled (including two similar assertions by the senator), Feinstein's willingness to cling to a nostalgic view of surveillance could almost be termed "delightfully old school" -- if only she still didn't have at least one hand on the controls as the head of the Senate Intelligence Committee.
She also said she wasn't aware of another revelation released in conjunction with Glenn Greenwald's book on Snowden and the NSA.
In "No Place to Hide," released last week, Greenwald said the U.S. government places surveillance tools in technology equipment to be sold abroad, an accusation the U.S. government often lobs at the Chinese government.Well, I'm sure the NSA keeps secrets from even you, Dianne. And I'm sure the NSA is at least as surprised as you are that the information is now public. No one seems to be aware of some of the stuff that has been leaked, elements of which have escaped even the attention of those on the committees that have performed actual oversight, rather than just stood cheering on the sidelines.
That program "does not sound familiar," Feinstein said Sunday.
Ultimately, whether it doesn't fit into Feinstein's dewy-eyed surveillance ideal or if it has escaped (read: been withheld from) her attention, she's behind it. Because without all of this, we're doomed.
"I know they will come after us if they can, I see the intelligence," she said.If that's so, remind us again why all the surveillance and expansion of government powers is necessary. Because it doesn't seem to have improved anything.
"Terror is not down in the world, it is up."
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Thursday, February 20, 2014
Robert Parker on The Road to Shanghai
World-renowned wine critic Robert M. Parker Jr will kick off his "Grand World Tour", hosting a series of interactive wine events, in Beijing on Feb 26. He will then head to Shanghai on March 1 and 2 and Hong Kong from March 4 to 6. According to Parker, the events have been designed to engage wine lovers at multiple levels. --from a press release 2-12-2014
Good Evening, Ladies and Gentlemen. It's great to be here in Shanghai, or as they call it in Bordeaux, "Our 2013 Warehouse." My name is Robert Parker, and I've come to educate you about wine. I'm the most famous wine critic in the world. People say I am the most powerful tongue since Mao Tse. Tonight we're going to learn a little bit about wine, how to evaluate wine, and how to recognize fake wines. The Chinese market is full of fake Bordeaux, just like the wine world is full of fake experts. How can you tell the difference between genuine and fake? Easy. The smell. Have you even met James Suckling? Oh, but I kid…
Now, listen, everybody and his goddam assistant winemaker is making their way to China to try and get in good with you people. Man, there's a lot of you, and you know what those guys are seeing? Dollar bills. Moolah. Yen. They got a yen for your yen. They're dreaming of yenburgers and yengasms. They want yen lining in their designer pants pockets. They'll put their sticky fingers in your sticky buns. Translate that, weird guy making hand signals behind me. Don't I know you from the Mandela funeral service? They're all going to tell you their wines are the most prestigious, most desirable, most famous wines in the world. Don't believe them. It's my job to tell you what the most prestigious, desirable and famous wines are. Listen, I do it for white people, I can do it for you.
I started my publication, The Wine Advocate, back before Bordeaux was important. Just to give you a little background on the history of Bordeaux, there was a Great Classification of Bordeaux Vineyards done in 1855. Then nothing much happened until I declared 1982 the greatest vintage ever. You know, really, you don't want to drink the wines from before that. They may have been good, but who was there to really notice? Sure, a bunch of British guys, but, well, these were primitive wine critics who were unable to use the 100 Point Scale. It's hard to believe, but most of the Bordeaux produced between 1855 and 1982 were never evaluated using the 100 Point Scale. So buying those wines would be like having sex with a porn star who hasn't recently had a blood test.. Think of the 100 Point Scale as your Guaranteed Condom of Wine Pleasure.
I can see that a few of you are unfamiliar with the 100 Point Scale. It's the accepted measure of wine's quality. It's an easy concept to grasp. Think of it terms of Human Rights. Now, we start at 50 Points. Those are points awarded for simply being human. The Rights part isn't something we take for granted. Add points for freedom of speech, for strict child labor laws, for freedom to worship any other wine critic or God, and so on. The highest points wins. So China would get 34 on the Human Rights 100 Point Scale whereas the United States gets a solid 93. OK, sure, we depend on your 34 for our iPhones and electronics and cheap clothes, but that's a different story.
Wine works about the same way. It gets 50 points for being wine. Well, it makes sense. When we taste wines for ratings, we don't spend much time with them. In a sense, we taste them halfway. So by starting at the halfway point, 50, we're making it fair. Then we add points for color and aroma and texture and intensity. Just random points, it's not really very precise. It's a little bit like judging at the Summer Olympics. That gymnast from the USA gets 9.9, while the gymnast from China gets 9.2. Why? Well, it's the same reason Cabernet Sauvignon can get a 99, but a damn Beaujolais is never going to go over 92. One is just naturally better than the other. So, great vintage in Bordeaux? 19 perfect scores. Great vintage in Chile? Yeah, right, Chile. So it's pretty simple.
Once you've grasped the idea of the 100 Point Scale, you're almost a wine connoisseur. In front of you are six wines. All of them have scores, but they aren't listed on your programs. Now, if you want to cheat, you can sign up for my eRobertParker website and look them up. I'd encourage you to do that. For only what it costs you to employ 300 young girls for piecemeal labor for an entire year, you can utilize my wine insight year round! That's a remarkable bargain. And, you'll also have exclusive access to the most interesting wine chat room on the Internet. See, there's one thing I learned from your government—control Internet access! You guys were so far ahead of us on that one.
Now let's taste the six wines. Start by sticking your nose in them. Put your nose in as deep as you can. Good! You're just like the guys on my chat room! Notice the color, take some notes on what aromas you're getting from the wine, now taste it. Hold it in your mouth for a while, let the wine bloom in your mouth, then spit it out. What did it taste like, how would you characterize the texture, how long was the finish? OK, now that you've asked yourself those questions, fuck it. Give it a number. That's what matters. The rest is just like the plot in a video game—window dressing. It's all about scoring.
How many said 92 for the first wine, raise your hands? Wow, a lot of hands. Looks like a North Korean rally. And you got it right. Can you tell me what grape it's made from? Of course not! And who cares? What is this, Chinese Jeopardy? Actually, I tricked you all a little bit. All six of the wines are 92 point wines! Yup. I know, amazing. 92 is a pretty rare number. I tell my contributors to think about a 92 point wine like you think about ballet—hell, you're just pretending to like it. See, every score has its own personality. You'll learn. Just taste these six wines. Yeah, I can see, most of you are pretending to like them. There you go. 92 points. I'm making it seem easy, but it's really not. Imagine having to taste 150 wines in one day, AND give them scores. It's not like these are imaginary numbers either. These are the real scores. See, really hard to do.
Now that you've learned how to taste wine, let's talk a little about how to spot a fake wine. You can't. Hard to spot a fake when you don't even know what a real one looks or tastes like. But it doesn't matter! Your Chinese friends don't know either. And, really, what matters about wine isn't its reputation, or its history, or its rarity. What matters is how much you paid for it. The same is true for subscriptions to wine publications. Or sex workers. If there's a difference.
Wine is about ceremony and privilege. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise. Don't believe idiotic statements like, "Just drink what you like." That's mealy-mouthed, Western society, democratic, Year of the Horseshit. The people who say that don't know anything about wine. They're just cheap bastards. Or worse—bloggers. Those morons.
I predict that one day, very soon, China will become the world's largest consumer of the world's greatest wines. Even if most of them are fake, so what? We're just paying you bastards back for all the fake Chanel we buy.
Thank you and good night.
10 comments:
- Quizicat said...
Psst...Its Yuan.
Year of the Horseshit. I like that.
- February 20, 2014 at 10:21 AM
- renzo said...
Hey Quizcat is likey a.k.a. Juan. As in you wan to not step on the yokes cause the eggs they break!
- February 20, 2014 at 10:33 AM
- Marcia Macomber said...
92 for the blog post! Needed that pick-me-up. I'd swear this Thursday is hump day...
- February 20, 2014 at 10:35 AM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Ron My Love,
This has to be one of my favorites in a long time. It's that kind of post that I get caught reading by the laughing out loud, (that's LOLing for the kids out there) and looking mildly retarded while staring at my screen. Just brilliant Love. Oh and by the way, I've been told that Moa Tse ain't got nothing on my powerful tongue....see what I did there, made a flirty but sexual innuendo. I love you!!
- February 20, 2014 at 10:46 AM
- Thomas said...
Not one elipsis...in the whole...thing...amazing.
"Start by sticking your nose in them. Put your nose in as deep as you can. Good! You're just like the guys on my chat room!"
That one leapt out at me (and no, Google, leapt is not incorrect).
- February 20, 2014 at 10:57 AM
- The Sommeliere said...
Ron, hilarious! This one got me:
"It's hard to believe, but most of the Bordeaux produced between 1855 and 1982 were never evaluated using the 100 Point Scale. So buying those wines would be like having sex with a porn star who hasn't recently had a blood test.. Think of the 100 Point Scale as your Guaranteed Condom of Wine Pleasure."
- February 20, 2014 at 11:20 AM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Hey Common Taters,
For this piece, I initially envisioned a sort of Bob Hope monologue--which is why the first paragraph reads that way. I quickly abandoned that, and just began imagining what it might be like for Parker to speak to a crowd of folks in Shanghai, and maybe having a bit of a buzz and being a bit undiplomatic.
No ellipses, Thomas, because it's a speech, not Parker writing. Believe me, I thought of that, but felt the ellipses would be distracting.
The other point I was trying to make is how much the wine world is dying to get into the Chinese market, while the Chinese, with their government's criminal human rights record, are simply dying. Sales trump conscience every time.
- February 20, 2014 at 11:32 AM
- Samantha Dugan said...
Dude, You keep calling me a tater, especially a common one, I just might never fondle your tots...
- February 20, 2014 at 2:04 PM
- Thomas said...
Sam's just a masher.
- February 20, 2014 at 6:01 PM
- Ron Washam, HMW said...
Yes, but she's fingerlingin' good.
- February 20, 2014 at 6:20 PM


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Cambridge, Mass. – The Harvard men's soccer team held its annual banquet at the Weld Boathouse Saturday, as the squad announced the recipients of its four major awards for the 2011 season.
With varsity and junior varsity players as well as player families and members of the administration in attendance, Carl Junot, the Virginia B. and James O. Welch Jr. '52 Head Coach for Harvard Men's Soccer, announced the recipients of the Crimson's four major awards.
The Hamilton Fish 1910 Award is given out annually to the most
improved player on the men's soccer team. This
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of the Crimson contests this season. Friedman led the Crimson
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The Seamus Malin '62 Award is given out every year to the player who has, through love of the game and commitment to University, demonstrated the values shown by Malin in his long and continuing association with the University and the game. The recipient awarded this honor was senior defensemen Baba Omosegbon. The Indianapolis native saw action in 14 contests this season, starting seven and had a total of nine shots last fall, while being a leader of the Crimson defense.
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a senior who, like Williams, displays exceptional athletic skill,
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Mo. House Hearing on Voter ID Changed After Outcry
JEFFERSON CITY - The leader of a Missouri House committee says she'll reschedule a 6:45 a.m. hearing on voter ID legislation after opponents of the measure complained.
Next Tuesday's hearing on a bill requiring voters to show photo identification at the polls would have started 15 minutes before the Capitol's front doors are usually unlocked.
House Elections Committee chairwoman Sue Entlicher (ENT'-lih-kur) had scheduled the 6:45 a.m. hearing. The Bolivar (BAH'-luh-vur) Republican said she was just trying to allow enough time for people to testify on the measure before the House goes into session at 10 a.m.
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The Netherlands goes to space with DELTA Mission
ESA astronaut André Kuipers' flight to the International Space Station (ISS) at the end of April has been named the 'DELTA Mission'. DELTA stands for Dutch Expedition for Life Science, Technology and Atmospheric Research.
This name gives an impression of the broad-based scientific programme that Kuipers is going to perform on board the International Space Station.
Delta in the Netherlands
DELTA also makes reference to the Dutch Delta Works, which protect the land from the ravages of the North Sea during storms, and thus to the inventiveness of the Netherlands. Of course, DELTA also refers to the river delta that has shaped the Netherlands and endows it with an important position in international shipping.
The mission logo
The mission's logo, designed by Crasborn Grafisch Ontwerpers bno of Valkenburg-aan-de-Geul, shows a red, white and blue globe to indicate the colours of the Dutch flag. On the right, there are three stars in the form of the Greek capital letter Delta. These refer to the cooperation between the Netherlands, the European Space Agency and Russia. Finally, the name of the mission is in the centre and is executed in the fashion of 'De Stijl', the art movement of Piet Mondriaan and others.
The entire design evokes associations with space travel and with its imagery it conveys what the Dutch Soyuz mission is all about: science and innovation.


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Friday, March 25, 2011
Mumview: The Eagle
Brief overview
Rosemary Sutcliffe's The Eagle of the Ninth on the big screen. In 120 AD, the Ninth Cohort of the Roman legion disappears, totem eagle and all, in northern Britain. Twenty years later Marcus Flavius Aquila (Channing Tatum), son of the Ninth's lost and disgraced leader, returns to Britain to redeem his family's honour, accompanied only by Esca (Jamie Bell), British slave, son of a Brigantic chief and not entirely happy about being duty bound to serve a man whose nation killed his family and stole their lands. Sword fights ensue.
Does it work the way it should?
There are two basic ways to make a movie with ancient Romans in it. One is to take the grand myth and use it to tell stories that reflect contemporary ideas of heroism without much regard to cultural differences; the other is to take an interest in the Romans as a people with their own eccentric ethos and film them as foreigners. The latter, combined with plenty of sex and violence, made the HBO-BBC series Rome a fun watch, but The Eagle decides to take the former route: this is a story of derring-do in a setting that allows for big misty vistas and people talking about honour with a straight face.
Derring-do is fine, but you need to care about the characters and action, and The Eagle is rather thin on characterisation. Bell has a strong screen presence and can turn a tense silence or a meaningful glance with the best of them, but the script gives very little room for his character to develop. His set-up gives him potentially complex motivations, and there are moments when we're probably supposed to wonder whether he's doing something for real or faking it, but there just isn't the story space to let it breathe, which is rather a waste of a good actor.
Meanwhile, Tatum is ... well, he's okay, I guess, but he's actually difficult to review because his performance was so bland that it's hard to think of anything clever to say about it. Competent but unmemorable is about all there is to it, and this is a problem, because with the character of Esca so poorly fleshed by the script, and the bulk of the action revolving around those two characters wandering from incident to incident in a landscape full of generic people that they either have brief information exchanges with or stick swords into, we're left with a film that seems to find its natural space in the empty skies and unpeopled hills of Scotland, eventless and blank. As a film of adventure, honour and all those things that need cinematic excitement to make them work, there just isn't much there: it's two men doing stuff, but without enough plot, characterisation or chemistry between the two leads to give us much to get worked up about. I'm writing this review a few hours after seeing it, and already the two hours' worth of film has condensed to about half an hour's worth of things actually happening in my memory.
Which leaves us with what the film thinks it's trying to say - and it's here that this review moves beyond mild disconnection to genuine annoyance, because this is one of those films that has delusions of balance.
The casting gives us Americans as Romans and Brits as Britons. Well and good; the Romans were European so there would be a certain logic in giving them European accents, but America is the closest the contemporary world has to the Roman Empire, so there's a certain fit there. It may be that this casting was only done because when making films for an American audience, Hollywood tends to assume that only Americans are real people the viewers can be expected to care about ... but it creates an odd situation.
The Romans have invaded this country, taken land, put down uprisings with brutality, concerned with their honour and pride but not at all with the mysterious savages who occupy it. Sound familiar?
This could work, and for the first part of the film it looks as if it might. Esca points out that Rome hasn't exactly been good news for the people of Britain; there are hints that Marcus may have to learn that invading other people's countries isn't the best way to make friends and influence people. Yet the promise of complexity is never fulfilled: instead, we return to good old Roman values, the anti-Roman Britons obligingly show themselves to be subhuman barbarians with a last-minute atrocity, and it's all hooray for Roman courage and any Britons good enough to honour it. Those Arabs - oops, excuse me, Britons - are just weird people you don't have to care about unless they're pro-Amer - oops, sympathetic to Rome, or at least our favourite Romans. Ave atque vale to balance, now let's all salute.
So really, this film can fuck right off.
Ready for this?
The Eagle of the Ninth is not one of the Sutcliffe books I managed to finish in childhood (Warrior Scarlet is the one I remember best), but I do remember her interest in creating or inventing period detail, her willingness to be bleak and dramatic at once. This is a disappointing film for Sutcliffe readers. But it's a disappointing film for fans of Gladiator too: the plot is less lumpy, but the action far less exciting - and it certainly lacks the gleeful cynicism of Rome. Or, indeed, the classic grandeur of Spartacus. There have been good films set in the Roman Empire, but they need some kind of coherence, and The Eagle, while visually handsome, is just too short on detail to measure up. Roman films need a sense of richness, and The Eagle, while taking plenty of time to tell its story, has too little to say.
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The auditorium was fairly empty, and a biggish proportion of my time was taken up with a cheering game of Catch the Muslin, so things were peaceful.
Having a baby now old enough to think 'Why is that man hitting that other man?', I decided to play Censoring Mother and screen my child's eyes from the violent scenes. This called to my attention the fact that there were really quite a lot of violent scenes - but the thing was, they were all basically the same scene.
Kevin MacDonald's direction isn't gratuitously bloody. Rather than graphic detail, his fight scenes depend on speed and sound: boney crunches and fast-swinging frames that convey the disorientation and confusion of battle. It's a discreet way of doing it, especially considering how very often things end in a scrap, but with fight after fight done in the same glancing way, the action becomes repetitive rather than dramatic. It may indeed be hard to keep track of a battle when you're in it, but it becomes doubtful film-making after a while. Ancient Rome was not a squeamish culture, and most successful screen portrayals of it tend to embrace the hearty, heartless pleasure we imagine the average Roman took in seeing the blood splash. The Eagle is no gladiator display, though: it feels like a film that doesn't like all this violence it's gotten stuck having to show. It likes the lovely Scottish glens and trickling streams and rainy air; it likes the huddled physicality of warriors under canvas; it likes the moments of peace and community - the tasteful stuff. The result is that visually it's more on the horrors-of-war side, a film whose images tend to sympathise with the idea that having one's country invaded is a sad thing. The film's triumphal conclusion sits very oddly with its melancholic visuals.
The mothers and children in the audience all had an affectionate and playful morning. Up on the screen, though, the most dramatic war was between the direction and the script, and within the script itself as it swung from ambiguity to chest-thumping. I fear the audience was the casualty.
So, any good?
Too bad. Because I did read The Eagle of the Ninth when I was young, and it sounds like we've got a totally different story here. (Yeah, I know, Hollywood changes things, who'd have thought it? Just don't ever, ever take the kid to Disney's Hunchback of Notre Dame.)
Anyway, I remember the book as being all about both sides finding out that the other one is human. Especially the Roman Marcus, in his eventual genuine friendship with Esca, and also in his relationship and eventual marriage with a British woman, a princess? priestess? (details are vague all these years later) of the tribe which had defeated his father's legion and was in turn defeated by the might of Rome. I gather that the movie left her out entirely.
So yeah, the book wasn't so much about heroic battles, as about finding some kind of common ground after the battles have been lost or won. It was about one of the many points in the long history of Britain, where the invader begins to become the native. There were, IIRC, several sequels in which Marcus and the lady's (can't remember her name) descendants appear as British-Romans and eventually just British. If the Romans are like the Americans, maybe it's in a Robert Frost kind of way:
The land was ours before we were the land's.
She was our land more than a hundred years
Before we were her people...
But we were [Rome's], still colonials...
And now I want to go read the book again, and see if I'm remembering it rightly. But it sounds like I'm not missing anything by skipping this movie.
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It was about one of the many points in the long history of Britain, where the invader begins to become the native.
Well, it's definitely not that story! It's more 'both sides come to see the other is human by agreeing to do what the dominant culture wants.' Y'know, that old heartwarming tale...
It's interesting to compare with Neil Marshall's Centurion. Which I quite liked because it didn't try to have it both ways. It's a Marshall film so it's going to be popcorn cinema and done well there's nothing wrong with that.
And so because Centurion was just interested in little more than varying degrees of badasses hancking at each other with swords, and coming down pretty strongly on the side of the natives it didn't leave a bad taste in my mouth. No guff about knowing your betters. Just that invasion sucks, war sucks, and hell hath no fury like a painted Pict woman crossed.
I like Bell quite a bit, it's a shame to see him treading water in stuff like this.
It's more 'both sides come to see the other is human by agreeing to do what the dominant culture wants.'
Since I haven't quoted Ogden Nash at you in a while:
Oh, I'll be friends if you'll be friends,
The foreigner tells the native,
And we'll work together for our common ends
Like a preposition and a dative.
If our common ends seem mostly mine,
Why not, you ignorant foreigner?
And the native replies contrariwise;
And hence, my dears, the coroner.
Bah, indeed.
//It was about one of the many points in the long history of Britain, where the invader begins to become the native.//
That theme comes up in another Sutcliffe novel that I read and loved: Knight's Fee, which has an author's note about the ease of communication between Norman and Saxon characters in the story.
Kit: Warrior Scarlet? I went through a phase of being positively obsessed with Warrior Scarlet when I was a teenager. One of the cultures in the stuck-in-worldbuilding novel still shows very strong echoes of Drem's.
The Eagle of the Ninth is indeed the first in a series of four books, the last of which, Sword at Sunset, is an absolutely excellent retelling of the Arthur myth. I see Arthur as Artos the Bear now.
Warrior Scarlett was beautiful, but I think the Sutcliffe book which made the most impression on me was The Mark of the Horse Lord. The motif of the king who dies for his people, common in Sutcliffe, is at its most explicit there.
I've not read Knight's Fee. In fact, I'd not heard of it before. Must look it up.
At one time, Rosemary Sutcliffe was my favourite author.
Mine too. And I don't remember Knight's Fee either!
I'll probably still watch The Eagle, because I loved the book and will be forever curious if I don't. I wish whoever owns the rights would release the 1970s miniseries.
The Mark of the Horse Lord is my favorite of her books too, but Knight's Fee is close. Both have tragic events but both are about a real kind of honor -- not macho showing-off but integrity and loyalty. I dragged my husband to see the movie, which we both thought was only OK at best, but then he wanted to read the book ... and I was delighted when he came back with, "If only the movie had been a tenth as good as the book, how great it would have been!"Post a Comment
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- "What's the matter with this city? They're always towing people's shit!"
- ―Carl Johnson
Impounded was a cut mission in Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas, which was deleted before the game's release. The mission would have taken place after the High Stakes, Low Rider mission, where CJ gets a phone call from Cesar, then Kendl suggested that he would invite CJ over to get to know him better.
According to the phone call prior to the mission, Kendl requested that Cesar and Carl "hang out". The player is then directed to find a low-rider and bring it to Cesar's house. In the cutscene, Carl and Cesar socialize while Cesar gets his tools ready to tune up Carl's low-rider. Kendl then shows up and the three of them talk, until Cesar suggests that he fix his car. The three then realize that the car has vanished, and the player is directed to steal the car back from the Police Impound at Pershing Square.
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In order to complete the mission the player must:
- Get in Cesar's car.
- Get to the impound and retrieve your car.
- This is the Los Santos police precinct. Also home to the city's impounded vehicles. An entrance at the side of the precinct leads to its secure underground car park. The garage at the rear is where yours and other impounded vehicles are held. Impounded vehicles are found down here, but it's a hive of cop activity.
- Get your car and take it back to Cesar's place.
- The cops are on to you. Lose the heat! You can use the Pay 'n' Spray near Willowfield.
- Enter the Pay 'n' Spray.
- Get back to Cesar's place and avoid any more police attention.
This is the unused script from the mission:
(CJ gets phone call)
Carl Johnson: "Now who's the loser?"
Cesar Vialpando: "Eehh, I guess I am, holmes."
Carl Johnson: "Ooh shit, Cesar, sorry man. I thought you was Kendl. We got this thing going since we were kids."
Cesar Vialpando: "That's OK, ese. You drove good today."
Carl Johnson: "Yeah, thanks."
Cesar Vialpando: "Anyway, I call to invite you over. Your sister say we should hang out, get to know each other."
Carl Johnson: "Eerr, OK, what you got planned?"
Cesar Vialpando: "You wanna see my garage? I got some beer."
Carl Johnson: "Yeah, OK."
Cesar Vialpando: "Bring a nice car, holmes, I'll tune it up for you."
Carl Johnson: "For sure. I'll see you later."
(End of phone call)
(Mission intro)
Carl Johnson: "Que pasa, Cesar!"
Cesar Vialpando: "Hey, Holmes! There's some beers up on the bench right there. Just got to finish up under the hood, eh."
Carl Johnson: "So, eerr, how are you and my sister doing?"
Kendl Johnson: "Just fine, CJ. So, how are you and, eerrm - Who are you seeing at the moment?"
Carl Johnson: "You know me, I ain't found the right girl yet."
Kendl Johnson: "You ain't never going to find the right girl coz you treat them all like shit."
Cesar Vialpando: "Easy, angel, man don't find love, love finds man, eh carnal."
Kendl Johnson: "Yeah, I guess it does..."
Cesar Vialpando: "So, CJ, let's see your wheels."
Carl Johnson: "They ain't nothing special, just, you know..."
Cesar Vialpando: "Let Cesar work his magic, I'll make it special." (Goes to car but car is gone) "Hey where is it?"
Carl Johnson: "What the fuck?
Cesar Vialpando: "Hey I thought you said your ride was here."
Carl Johnson: Oh shit, it's been towed! Damn! What's the matter with this city? They're always towing people's shit!
Cesar Vialpando: "Fuck holmes!"
Carl Johnson: I didn't even hear them! Did you hear them? Damn! What are they, the secret car-towing service? Fuck! Damn!"
Cesar Vialpando: "Don't worry, holmes. We can get it back. I know where the impound is. It's cool. Be back in a bit, baby..."
(On the way to impound)
Cesar Vialpando: "The Los Santos police precinct is in Pershing Square in Commerce."
Carl Johnson: "Yeah, I know Pershing Square."
Cesar Vialpando: "There's an entrance to the left that leads to the underground carpark."
Cesar Vialpando: "At the back is a garage that holds the impounded vehicles."
Carl Johnson: "Ah man, this is gonna be crawling with cops!"
Cesar Vialpando: "Yeah I know, but if your prize car is missing when you come back to it,"
Cesar Vialpando: "It's probably been towed."
(When arriving at the Impound)
Cesar Vialpando: "This is it, CJ!"
Carl Johnson: "A'right man, thanks, I guess I can take it from here."
(Inside the impound)
Cop: "Hey, this is police property!"
(At Cesar's place)
Cesar Vialpando: "Hey, CJ, watch this - nitro!"
Carl Johnson: "Alright!"
- This mission is playable through the modification Things to do in San Andreas by DeeZire. This mission is only an interpretation by the author and may not have played out as it does in the mod.
- The song that plays at the beginning of the mission is "La Raza" by Kid Frost. It is featured in the in-game radio station Radio Los Santos.
- This mission was meant to introduce the Impound Garage. Since the mission had been cut in the final version, the feature isn't mentioned anymore, but still exists and can be accessed normally.


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I find this a really interesting decision. I was engaging this week with a marketing professional for a training company, who had promoted training programs both public and in-house. They have found the in-house programs to be far more effective in dealing with actual issues of the organization for two reasons. Firstly at a public course, there is not the same freedom to share deeply on often sensitive matters – both because you do not know and are not known by the group. Secondly there are often confidentiality and reputational risks associated with sharing information beyond the safe boundaries.
A serendipitous confluence of opinion. I am tending now towards this view too.
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This first one was the lily image chosen by her mommy, who won the recent giveaway that was hosted by So Easy Being Green (This sweet blog mom of two beautiful little girls has lots of amazing product giveaways, so I was tickled pink to be a part of one of them) . Thank you Monica for your interest and for entering into the giveaway.
This shows it in black and white and also after the color was added. The one is color was from a photo, so the lighting may be a little dark.
This one was drawn for another little cutie bear...whose nursery has stars included.
Also shown in black and white and then after color was added. Thank you so much for thinking of this one for your little girl's room.
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David Sirota visits the atomic sites of the American Southwest for an inside look at a booming—and potentially radioactive—new travel industry
Author David Sirota Photography Bryon Darby
On a swath of sun-baked Arizona desert on the southern edge of Tucson, a diverse group of curious Cold War obsessives—myself included—is suffering a 105-degree Monday morning as we queue up to board a bus that will take us back in time.
Among the scrum are a camera-wielding British couple dressed like they're on safari, a group of Russians sporting thick coffeehouse beards, a pair of Korean War vets wearing matching American Legion caps and me. I've made the trek to the American Southwest's "Nuclear Trail" out of a sense of nostalgia for the uneasy times of my childhood.
As the bus takes us to the Davis-Monthan Air Force Base, which holds some of the most powerful weaponry in human history, we are required to show identification and to sign a form acknowledging that we may undergo additional security screening. I'm standing behind a beefy, heavily belt-buckled man in his 60s from Buffalo, New York. He was a U.S. Air Force pilot stationed in West Berlin from 1969 to '71, so it's more than appropriate to call him a Cold War veteran. As he leans on his cane, he reminisces about his tour of duty with our guide, Bob Ratledge, himself a 74-year-old former Air Force pilot.
"They fired at us just to let us know they were there, and we shot back for the same reason," says the guy from Buffalo, recalling his time flying American spies over the Berlin Wall. "Of course, we always had the nuclear stuff in the back of our minds," he adds with a chuckle.
That "nuclear stuff" is why many of us are here. The Pima Air & Space Museum and its tour through the nearby Air Force base are part of the growing Atomic Tourism industry, which—thanks to the more than 20 years that have passed since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the subsequent declassification of inactive nuclear weapons—is booming. Add to that a sense that we're finally at a safe distance from the uneasy peace that the U.S. shared with the Soviets, and sites like Nevada's National Atomic Testing Museum and New Mexico's National Museum of Nuclear Science & History have in recent years reported 12 to 20 percent bumps in weekend attendance. Pima itself sees 150,000 visitors a year. Meanwhile, websites like Atomic Traveler are attracting tens of thousands of hits a month and, just two years ago, Bloomsbury USA published a critical nonfiction hit titled, A Nuclear Family Vacation.
As the bus makes its way to Pima, Ratledge addresses the tour with a microphone. Burly and avuncular with gold-rimmed aviator sunglasses, he resembles Ernest Borgnine circa the mid-'80s TV adventure drama "Airwolf"—an appropriate reference considering we're in close proximity to much of the world's military airpower. To the west is the Arizona Air National Guard, to the south of that is the defense contractor Raytheon Missile Systems, and we're currently coming up on the checkpoint for Davis-Monthan—home of the Aerospace Maintenance and Regeneration Group (AMARG), where martial aircraft are either refurbished or left idle in a place locals call "the Boneyard."
"Tucson was selected for AMARG and lots of other aviation-related activity because there's very little rain and humidity and so there's less erosion of the equipment," Ratledge says in his North Carolina twang, quickly dismissing conspiracy theories that the Southwest's connection to the military has to do with aliens landing at Roswell. "There's also the caliche clay in the soil, which means the heavy aircraft don't end up sinking into the ground."
Once through the checkpoint, the bus rolls onto 2,600 acres of scrub brush lined with some 4,000 planes. Against these hulking fuselages covered with heat-resistant polymer, the majestic Rincon mountain range in the distance suddenly looks tiny.
"Over here is a full mile of C-130s," Ratledge says, pointing to a long row of transport planes. "And over there is the F-111, which President Reagan used to bomb Ghadafi in Libya." This last bit spurs a 50-something behind me to pull his iPhone out of his floral shirt's breast pocket and snap a picture.
"Remember where we were when we heard that news?" he whispers to his wife. "Crazy that it was that long ago." Rumbling past the pointy-nosed F-14s and F-15s, a beefy 50-something in an Army T-shirt eagerly asks Ratledge whether "these are the ones that can carry nukes?" Yes, our guide says somberly, these "can carry both conventional and atomic weapons," his answer prompting a multilingual murmur of excitement through the cabin.
Notably, Ratledge couches his description of all the firepower not in belligerent language, but in a more measured story of potential wars successfully deterred. Once off the base and back on civilian land, I ask him about that, wondering what visitors are supposed to take away from seeing all this lethal power up close.
"Look, people get excited by the power of these planes and weapons, and it's true, they can kill lots of people," he says with a knowing sigh. "But there's another side that we should all remember—their potential power kept us out of World War III. I think visitors here get to see that. They recognize that if we hadn't had this power, who knows what would have happened?"
Thankfully, direct combat with the Soviets played itself out more in the 1980s pop cultural arena than on the battlefield. Following the incredibly intense hockey game between the U.S. and the Soviets
at the 1980 Winter Olympics, Rocky Balboa squared off against Ivan Drago in Rocky IV and, in the WWF, Hulk Hogan regularly took Nikolai Volkoff to the mat. And let's not forget the television movie "The Day After," which 30 years ago scared up some of the biggest Nielsen ratings in TV history. The Pima Air & Space Museum is certainly aware of the pop cultural context. Indeed, in its hangars, every plane that has appeared in a blockbuster film is displayed next to its corresponding movie poster.
"We want to give visitors a frame of reference they can relate to," says Mary Emich, Pima's director of visitor services. "There's no better way to do that than through Hollywood." On my own self-guided tour of the museum's nearly 200,000 square feet, I come across a nuclear-capable F-14 Tomcat with its attendant poster of Top Gun, a UH-1 helicopter next to a poster of Apocalypse Now, and two 11-foot-high nuclear missile casings accompanying a shrine to the film Dr. Strangelove.
Strangelove, of course, was a reaction to the duck-and-cover hysteria that predictably followed 1963's Cuban Missile Crisis. It was, in part, Hollywood's way of satirizing such a potentially catastrophic non-event. The military had a much less cheeky reaction—one buried next to a lonely road 30 miles south of here, just before you hit the Mexican border.
Cuban MC was October 1962, not 1963….
David, you may have missed the contemporary nuclear connection to another of the aircraft in the Davis-Monthan boneyard: the A-10. The "Warthog" is the warplane responsible for firing an estimated 400 tons of depleted uranium during combat in Iraq, 1991 and 2003-4. Plus another 30 tons in the Balkans in '95, leaving a legacy of radioactive pollution that's still killing kids in Iraq. A-10 training is still among the main missions at D-M, but many A-10s are also in the boneyard. See http://bandepleteduranium.org/ for more info.
Enjoyed the article and photography. Small correction: The Cuban Missile crisis took place in 1962, not 1963.


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