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Neumann KM D nx - 96 kHz - KM D nx - 96kHz - AES42 output stage, Nextel
The Neumann KM D NX 96 Digital Output Stage is intended for use with the Neumann KK series capsules. Together the output stage capsule combine to deliver professional results in any microphone capturing scenario. The output stage features high-quality digital conversion for pristine detail and minimal noise. Nextel Finish.
The KM D digital output stage converts the signal from the capsule directly into a digital signal. The result is an AES/EBU signal with 24 bits and a large dynamic range. The integrated digital signal processor (DSP) permits remote control of the microphones, including the digital gain, pre-attenuation (6 dB, 12 dB or 18 dB) and low-cut filter (0 Hz, 40 Hz, 80 Hz or 160 Hz). An integrated peak limiter and compressor/limiter with additional de-esser function prevents any overloading of the audio signal.
The dimensions (diameter 22 mm, length 93 mm) of the analog and digital output stages are identical. As a result, all accessories can be used in combination with both output stages.Upon request, a mechanical adapter can be supplied to adapt microphone capsules of the KM 100 system (AK series) to the KM A and KM D output stages.
The modular solution permits the microphone capsule to be separated from the output stage by a distance of up to 100 m. The LC 4 microphone cable with a length of 5 or 10 meters is available as a standard solution. Alternatively, capsule extensions of different lengths, swivel joints and stand mounts, etc., can be used for a flexible system setup.
The capsule heads KK 183, KK 184 or KK 185, together with the appropriate output stage, are also available as a set, in which case they are referred to as KM 183 A, KM 183 D, etc.
Neumann KM D NX-96 Features
- Miniature microphones with 8 exchangeable capsules, compatible with the analog miniature microphone system KM A
- Set includes windshield and clamp
- Extensive accessoriesTRUE NEUMANN SOUND: The legendary Neumann sound in the digital realm. Pure Neumann capsule sound.
- TRUE TO THE ORIGINAL: The satisfaction of recording the uncolored original, with no "bottlenecks" between the capsule and the recording system.
- TRUE CONVERSION: The guarantee of having one of the best A/D converters available.
- TRUE HANDLING SAFETY: Anti-clipping processing ensures handling safety, and reduces stress.
- TRUE TIME SAVINGS: Reduced time requirements and personnel costs, particularly due to faster post production processing.
- TRUE ECONOMY: Lower investment costs, since separate A/D converters and preamps are no longer needed. This also means space and weight savings (e.g. in the OB van).
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Manufacturer Neumann SKU SNEUKMDNX96KHZ Model 008583 GTIN 4006087085837 Single or Pair N/A


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Building a Just and Sustainable World March 2009
Food touches nearly every aspect of our lives. It connects us to friends, families, and strangers. It influences our own health and the vitality of our economy. During these lean times, it seems people are stepping up. School gardens are on the rise. Restaurants are partnering with local farms. Many people are planting vegetables for the first time.
In this newsletter, we offer a collection of classroom resources on the food, economy, and environment connection. These include stories and tools in the spring issue of YES! Magazine, such as The City That Ended Hunger and the Everybody Eats poster.
Everyone can make positive changes in their food choices—for their own health and for the health of our planet. So plant some seeds today, and share their bounty come summer.
Joe Gillespie from Crescent City, California, started his first school garden in 1993 with 50 raised beds. Today, he and his middle school students are growing vegetables year-round, monitoring wind turbines, and experiencing the incredible joy of connecting with each other and the land. Read Joe's story.
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For more inspiration on local food movements, 8 Ways to Join the Local Food Movement suggests actions—invite friends for a local-foods potluck, eat mostly plants, swap seeds—that you and your students can do on your own or together, starting today.
Meet Madhu Suri Prakash, who asks us to envision slow food school lunches, with the rasoi of her mother's village kitchen as a model.
Brazil's Belo Horizonte is The City That Ended Hunger—the government there believes that food is a right of citizenship.
Here's an array of colorful, practical, and compelling materials that you can use not only in your classroom but also in your professional and everyday life.
There's a difference between food that comes from an industrialized corporate farm and food that comes from a local farmer. Your students will learn how food choices affect health, environment, and economies through the National Farmers Union's stand-alone lesson plans (grades 1-12).
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Eating locally means eating seasonally. The National Resources Defense Council's "Eat Local" chart reveals what foods are in season, state by state, helping you plan for meals and lower your carbon footprint.
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"If someone asked you to paint a snowman, you would probably start with three white circles stacked one upon another. Then you would add black dots for eyes, an orange triangle for a nose, and a black dotted smile. But if Picasso painted a snowman…."
"If someone asked you to paint a snowman, you would probably start with three white circles stacked one upon another. Then you would add black dots for eyes, an orange triangle for a nose, and a black dotted smile. But if Picasso painted a snowman…."
From that simple premise flows this delightful, whimsical, educational picture book that shows how the artist's imagination can summon magic from a prosaic subject. Greg Newbold's chameleon-like artistry shows us Roy Lichtenstein's snow hero saving the day, Georgia O'Keefe's snowman blooming in the desert, Claude Monet's snowmen among haystacks, Grant Wood's American Gothic snowman, Jackson Pollock's snowman in ten thousand splats, Salvador Dali's snowmen dripping like melty cheese, and snowmen as they might have been rendered by J. M. W. Turner, Gustav Klimt, Paul Klee, Marc Chagall, Georges Seurat, Pablita Velarde, Piet Mondrian, Sonia Delaunay, Jacob Lawrence, and Vincent van Gogh. Our guide for this tour is a lively hamster who?also chameleon-like?sports a Dali mustache on one spread, a Van Gogh ear bandage on the next.
"What would your snowman look like?" the book asks, and then offers a page with a picture frame for a child to fill in. Backmatter thumbnail biographies of the artists complete this highly original tour of the creative imagination that will delight adults as well as children.
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"A range of art styles is explored in this picture book that invites readers to imagine how various artists would paint a snowman…The examples of the art mimic some of the artists' famous paintings but incorporate imagined snowmen into them. For example, Dali's "snowmen drip like melted cheese" in a double-page spread that emulates "The Persistence of Memory" with flattened, drooping snowmen rather than timepieces depicted on the surreal landscape…A closing spread with a blank easel nicely invites readers to copy it and make their own snowman painting. Endnotes provide further context about the artists…A playful introduction to various art movements…"
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About the Author
AMY NEWBOLD conceived this book while visiting the Musée Picasso in Paris. If she were to draw a snowman, she would probably start with three white circles stacked one upon another…or maybe just two.
Award-winning illustrator GREG NEWBOLD grew up drawing superheroes and Dr. Seuss characters on giant rolls of newsprint in his childhood basement. He once copied a Vincent van Gogh painting for his college art history class instead of writing a paper. Greg has created work for clients such as Kleenex, Fedex, Heinz, Smucker's, and American Express as well as illustrating a dozen books for children, including The Barnyard Night Before Christmas, The Touch of the Master's Hand, Winter Lullaby, and Spring Song. Greg lives in Salt Lake City with his wife, Amy.
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Jeanne and Peter Holliday transformed their simple Georgia cottage into an elegant antebellum home by the addition of this graceful sweeping staircase that leads into the garden and its formal geometry of the simple four-square plan. Decorative touches like the scrolled ironwork gates and the old metalwork arbor contrast the linear design of the garden with its straight brickwork paths converging on a central pool and fountain.
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Even though the garden plan is so simple, by introducing elaborate touches like this classic rotunda the design is kept lively and interesting. Boxwood edged borders around each bed heighten the formal plan.
Each column of the rotunda is supported by a plinth decorated in deep bas-relief; the stone benches below the dome give a place to display pots of exotic foliage plants as well as to sit and consider the garden from another angle: even the smallest garden needs its resting places.
The marble fountain is decorated with a pattern echoing the shapes of lotus flowers and leaves. As the central feature of the parterre it is extravagantly planted with golden yellow mums and myriad coleus, zinnias, and ornamental pepper plants.
Vintage terra-cotta urns are large enough to contain a huge selection of tropical foliage plants. A banana plant is the focal plant around which upright growing yellow-leaved coleus, purple-leaved ornamental peppers and several sorts of variegated caladiums cluster. These are underplanted with trailing plumbago and tradescantia with narrow plum-colored leaves to make a full and extravagant display with hardly a flower in sight.
Gardens in shady places tend to be predominantly green, since so many foliage plants perform best in low light. Hostas, ferns, and the like need cheering up, and coleus (genus name Solenostemon) are here to do just that, which is why they are lately so much in vogue among garden designers and anyone who appreciates exotic variegated foliage.
In hot climates, coleus can be grown as permanent shrubby perennials, but once you move out to Zones 9–7, the top-growth may well be nipped back by frosts, but will reshoot from the roots. Everywhere else coleus are annuals to be replanted every year. And that gives plenty of opportunity to try all the many, seemingly hundreds of hybrids. In the Holliday garden, coleus are used as filler plants among the caladiums, mums and other long-season plants that fill the parterre and cluster around the foot of the sweeping staircase.
Coleus can be grown in sunny spots, but then the foliage never develops the rich burgundy, purple, amber, gold, chartreuse, pink—the color range is wide and wonderful, so plant them full or dappled shade. When plants are young the growing tips of each branch should be regularly pinched out to encourage a full, bushy shape. The flower stems can be extremely tall and so it can be tempting to leave them, but they should be removed to keep the plant growing, to keep it nicely compact and maintain leaf quality.
Coleus will do well in the borders if the soil is well-drained but moist, but also make great container plants, especially with large-leaf exotics like colocasia, alocasia, bananas and so on. But be sure to keep them well watered. There are varieties that grow into tidy little hummocks, and others that will grow up to three feet. Some have leaves that are frilled around the edges, or deeply dentate, while others are nearly round or perfectly oval. And the variegation comes in blotches, stripes, speckles, or as contrasting edging or feathered along the midrib of each leaf. The temptation is to make a garden display of only coleus…now that's an intriguing idea.


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Fully Automated Inspection for Surgical Implants
Cognex Corporation Posted 04/18/2008
100% inspection and identification is essential for most products. Low-volume production often goes hand-in-hand with high costs, particularly if the variety of products concerned is also extensive. DePuy Spine (a Johnson and Johnson company based in Switzerland) is a good example of this producing small implants such as screws for spinal surgery.
Previously this kind of operation had been done manually but with regulations growing ever stricter, it became clear that only vision technology could provide the kind of solution necessary. Flexible part automation using a desktop robot and a Cognex vision system developed by Compar that integrates the power of Cognex PC vision solutions proved more suitable and economic than fully-automated in-line inspection.
The Right Vision Platform
Cognex partner integrator Compar developed the flexible and scalable vision solution based on Cognex PC vision.
Each implant is placed in the cell of a blister pack. Each batch is identifiable by a code and certain nests may be empty. The products are inspected in their individual nests by being passed through a desktop vision system. The autonomous inspection system (AIS) consists of a 2-axis desktop robot and a PC-based vision system using the Cognex Vision Library as a platform. The camera is mounted on the desktop robot's y-axis, while the blister packs are moved along under the camera in the x-direction. Several inspections can be conducted for each nest. To simplify the entry of data per batch the system is equipped with a barcode scanner. The inspected data are compared against the set values and permissible tolerances. If a faulty product is detected, an alarm is triggered and quality assurance personnel remove the product for manual inspection. An added advantage of the system is that it ensures full 21 CFR part 11 compliance by tracking the results for each batch and integrating them for future reference. With the automation of the inspection process using vision, DePuy can be sure that the results being stored for each batch are reliable.
Major Advantages
- Integration of vision in a mechanical environment allowing inspection of the whole batch in one
- allows complete inspection that all is conforming coming out of production
- 100% inspection and quality control of medical implants before they are shipped around the world
- full traceability ensuring compliance
- manual process made more efficient
- camera need not be exactly positioned and the results are still reliable
A Scalable Vision Solution from Compar and Cognex
Future plans for expansion of the application may include surface inspection, print layout inspection, soldering point inspection, or code reading. The solution proposed here is easily adaptable for many other types of inspection and identification applications.
Johann Faneca, production manager at DePuy Spine had this to say, ''We are very pleased with the vision installation – thanks to the automated solution from Cognex and Compar we estimate a saving in time alone of over CHF 100,000 for the first year which will be an excellent return on our investment.''
About Cognex
Cognex Corporation designs, develops, manufactures, and markets machine vision sensors and systems, or devices that can ''see.'' Cognex vision sensors are used in factories around the world to automate the manufacture of a wide range of items and to assure their quality. Cognex is the world's leader in the machine vision industry, having shipped more than 400,000 machine vision systems, representing over $2 billion in cumulative revenue, since the company's founding in 1981. In addition to its corporate headquarters in Natick, Massachusetts, Cognex also has regional offices and distributors located throughout North America, Japan, Europe, Asia, and Latin America.
For additional information, please contact:
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Teaching, General Teaching Projects in Costa Rica by Alice Robinson
Arriving in the dark
As I searched the arrivals crowd for the Projects Abroad staff member, shifting my enormous rucksack awkwardly on my back after a 17 hour journey, the first thing I noticed was the heat; for the first time in my life I actually wanted to open a car window in early January!
It was lovely to meet another volunteer as soon as I arrived at my host family; I was welcomed with huge smiles and a huge plate of rice and beans – a dish deliciously comforting at first, but which I soon discovered was the norm every day, three times a day.
The sun sets early each day in Costa Rica (around 6pm!) so thankfully, after exchanging Spanish pleasantries with my host mum, Nancy, I could sleep off my jet lag.
My first weekend
I think the complete amazingness of the whole experience first hit me when I found myself, on my first weekend in Heredia with seven other lovely volunteers travelling on a sunshine-bathed bus back from swimming in some beautiful, gigantic waterfalls in the middle of a forest. The 'pura vida' attitude of the 'ticos' (Costa Ricans) quickly caught on and I could feel myself relaxing more and more as time went on.
Meeting the children
Asociación Obras del Espíritu Santo (AOES ) was immediately somewhere I knew I'd enjoy working; the kids could not have been more friendly and I loved being with all of them.
I went to Costa Rica partly to improve my Spanish and working in AOES certainly helped with this; neither the children nor the 'profesoras' spoke a word of English. Sometimes I even had to translate between the children and the frequent visitors from American and Canadian schools. It didn't take long for my friend Caro and I to realise that all they really wanted to know was people's relationship statuses!
Whilst playing, singing and skipping with the kids was constant fun, the teaching itself was slightly trickier. With no schedule and different children each day, the main way we got through to them was endless repetition, running-around-the-classroom-style games and songs. The cup song from 'Pitch Perfect', Titanic and 'Let It Go' from 'Frozen' were constant favourites for the whole four months I was there.
My fellow volunteers
I never thought when I came to Costa Rica that I'd meet such a variety of people from such a variety of places. Whilst when I arrived there were only around 15 volunteers staying in Heredia, by late February/early March, our numbers had swelled to something like 50; we completely filled the restaurant at one of our social events.
One of my favourite memories is meeting up at our favourite restaurant/café almost every evening for 'batidos' (smoothies), chatting, arguing and much laughing. We played five-a-side football together, watched the Champions League, went paintballing, to karaoke, to the cinema, shopping, bowling and of course, dancing.
Weekends Away
One particular way we all got to know each other was the weekends away. Costa Rica has a plethora of places of amazing natural beauty; even the sweltering five hour bus journeys without air conditioning seemed worth it when one looked at the white sands, the shining blue sea and the hundreds and hundreds of palm trees. I will never forget horse riding in Montezuma; galloping across the absolutely empty beaches with sparkling blue as far as the eye could see on one side, and jungle on the other, the sun beating down on my back.
Later that evening, after playing card games, dancing and meeting all sorts of new people, we built a bonfire on the beach and told stories whilst lying around and looking at the stars.
Another highlight was the catamaran trip I and three friends went on in Manuel Antonio (the most popular national park in the country). With food, two jacuzzis, two slides, scuba diving, dolphins and one of the most gorgeous sunsets I've ever seen in my life, could it really get any better?
Even though I am possibly the biggest wimp in the world, superman zip-lining in the Monteverde cloud forest between two mountains was absolutely unbelievable; I truly felt like I was flying. In fact, I think I became a lot braver whilst I was away; even almost flying off a water slide in the middle of the jungle!
The greatest surprise of my travels was the sheer natural beauty of Nicaragua. Whilst Costa Rica is pretty touristy, Nicaragua is much less commercial. I and the other English volunteer were lucky enough to find paradise; the Laguna de Apoyo. A volcano there imploded in on itself, creating a huge crater which then filled with water to make a lake with apparently the warmest, cleanest water in the whole of Central America.
Honestly I cannot overstate how beautiful and relaxing this place was; I could have stayed there for a week. I especially remember kayaking out to the middle of the lagoon, surrounded by green hills, diving into the warm water and then talking and sharing secrets until the sun went down and we paddled back to the fairy lights and hammocks of the beach bar.
Saying 'Ciao' to the Tico 'Pura Vida' Lifestyle
Four months flew by and in no time at all I had to say goodbye to everyone; to my host family, the Projects Abroad staff who'd helped me with everything, to the kids and, saddest of all, to the other volunteers.
On my last day at school I brought in lollipops and cakes for all the children and they presented me with a card signed by all of them and wrote goodbye messages on the whiteboards. It was terribly sad to know I might not ever see them again in person, but I'll keep hoping! They've demanded postcards from England, so I'll be getting down to write them as soon as possible.
As my two best friends and I were all leaving around the same time, we held a huge goodbye party in our house (thanks to our very kind host mum) for all our volunteer friends. After attending so many goodbye events for others over our time there, it was hard to believe that the next day I would be the one back on a plane.
I honestly couldn't have asked for a better send-off; we had a BBQ, played twister, ate cake, thought back nostalgically on all the memories we'd made and photos we'd taken, went out dancing one more time and sang all the way home in the taxi. I almost cried when I was driven away to the airport!
The whole experience was even better than I expected it to be; every single day was exciting in some way, and it was lovely to have the other volunteers so nearby. I can't wait to meet up with them again, and I hope to one day return to Costa Rica and do all the things I couldn't quite fit in last time!
Alice Robinson
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Ukraine says hundreds of armed militants have crossed border from Russia
The Ukrainian army said Tuesday that it had evicted armed separatists from the international airport in Donetsk after a 24-hour gun battle, but the government in Kiev warned of a new threat as truckloads of armed Russian volunteers reportedly crossed the border.
Donetsk Mayor Oleksandr Lukyanchenko said 48 people were killed, including two civilians, in the fighting at Sergei Prokofiev International Airport.
The pro-Russian rebels said they had suffered more than 50 fatalities, many of them the result of an army attack on a truck evacuating wounded. A government spokesman said the incident was under investigation.
Shots still were being fired near the airport Tuesday afternoon, and it wasn't clear when the facility would reopen. If the Ukraine military has cleared the facility of insurgents, it would mark a rare and swift success for a force that repeatedly has failed to dislodge separatists from city halls and police stations in eastern Ukraine.
The unity of Ukraine is riding on how the government handles the separatist uprising in the east, the latest installment of which began at 3 a.m. Monday, just hours after the conclusion of national elections that installed candy billionaire Petro Poroshenko as president. Dozens of armed insurgents of the self-styled Donetsk People's Republic stormed the airport terminal, closed it to passenger traffic and then sent in a truckload of reinforcements.
The military waited 10 hours to respond, then flew combat jets over the scene before mounting a helicopter assault and air attacks against the insurgents.
No details of the raids have been released, including government casualties, but according to an initial account only one government soldier was wounded. Also unknown is the fate and whereabouts of the 200 or more insurgents who took part in the assault.
U.S. Ambassador Geoffrey Pyatt said Tuesday that the militants who took part in the attack on the airport had came across the border from Russia.
Donetsk was tense Tuesday, and most residents heeded Lukyanchenko's warning to stay indoors. Many residents expected further clashes, particularly if the military decides to attack the Donetsk regional administration building, which the Donetsk People's Republic now occupies and uses as its headquarters.
"We have posed another ultimatum to them, and if they do not surrender, we will strike them with special weapons," Vladislav Seleznev, a government spokesman, told reporters in Kiev. He didn't say whether the army had acquired precision-guided munitions or some other weapons system.
Equally ominous was the possibility that more armed volunteers will head to this city of 1 million for the showdown. Just hours after a Monday appeal for help to Russian President Vladimir Putin by Dennis Pushlin, the self-appointed chairman of the "Supreme Soviet" of the Donetsk People's Republic, armed Russian volunteers were reported to have crossed into Ukraine.
In the Luhansk region, whose People's Republic is linked to the Donetsk People's Republic through a union called Novorossiya, Ukrainian border guards intercepted several carloads of militants who attempted to cross illegally from Russia with a stash of assault rifles, rocket-propelled grenades and explosives. One gunmen was captured but several escaped, the state border service said.
At another location, an enormous number of armed militants appear to have crossed in early Tuesday. The Ukraine Foreign Ministry said it was protesting Russia's failure to take action against 40 truckloads of militants who entered near Astakhovo, also in the Luhansk region.
"There are grounds to believe that Russian terrorists are being sent onto Ukrainian territory, organized and financed under the direct control of the Kremlin and Russian special services," the ministry said.
"In fact, we are dealing with undisguised aggression against Ukraine from Russia, the Russian export of terrorism on the territory of our country," the ministry said, asking the international community to take "immediate and decisive action" to stop Russian "aggression."
McClatchy independently confirmed that a large number of militants had crossed into Ukraine from Russia. A Ukrainian official who closely follows issues along the border said hundreds of Russian volunteers had entered Ukraine. The official could not be quoted by name because he is not authorized to speak to the media.
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Music To Mellow You Out!
Well I have to say it is more than that. The revolution of music started longer than any of can remember. We all have a favorite singer. Rock and Roll, Country, Classical, Jazz, Rhythm and Blues, when we hear our song it either mellows us or it excites us. You want to know why don't you? Well it has to do with the tone, the (frequency range). The year 1955 is the year that The International Standardization Organization made 440 Hz a tuning standard for music pitch. Before that it was 432Hz.
As your question why the change to a higher frequency? I will leave it at this, watch the videos, I think we all are smart enough to understand what has happened and how we can somehow get a bit of our life back. Also check out the last link, it really explains what happened and how it happened. Would it be nice to change the world, by the way we hear it.
Bob Marley
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I Know plenty has been posted over the net regarding this but I'm at a loss. I've just finished building JohnK's nobleman layout [ awesome pedal thanks JohnK ] from tagboard effects but I get an annoying pop when switching it on and off. I've tried the 1m pulldown on input and output , no change. I've tried the grounded input switch wiring , nothing . I've also disconnected the Led , still pops. So , at the moment I have grounded input and Jack Ormans delayed Led start [ 2 resistors and capacitor ] wired and it still pops. So , a few more attempts , I replaced the switch just to eliminate that , no luck. Measured the V at the circuit output at the switch and found 4.2v . So I thought it must be a leaky output capacitor so , I changed it 2x and it still pops !!!!! Do I need to swap out all caps until it stops or is there something else ???
This is the schematic i used and I swapped out 2x the 3u3 output cap.I also read it could come from a reversed capacitor but I've checked polarity and all are ok.
Please help!!!!!! going nuts


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Market Commentary - 9.9.13
Despite the strong returns of U.S. equity markets, it has been a different story for emerging markets. The MSCI Emerging Market Index, a proxy for emerging market equity returns, has fallen 9.94% so far this year through the end of August. In contrast, the S&P 500, a proxy for U.S. equity markets, has risen 16.15% in the same time period. Emerging markets are generally countries that are experiencing rapid growth and industrialization, but which have yet to prove sustainability of this prosperity. Characteristics of emerging markets generally include a growing middle class population, rising domestic consumption, lower consumer and federal indebtedness than developed countries, above average GDP growth, a focus on infrastructure development, and increasing business productivity and globalization. TA number of factors have recently contributed to the loss of investor confidence in emerging markets as a whole. Economic hardship has given way to social unrest in several important regions such as Brazil, and media coverage of these events have exacerbated investor concern regarding these issues. Such press has drawn greater attention to the risks and growing pains associated with investing in emerging markets. Despite these recent concerns, we still believe the potential for growth and profit remains intact for these regions. Why Have These Concerns Emerged Now? Recently, concerns over the ramifications of U.S. monetary policy, the economic shift in China and its impact on global commodities and currencies, and deteriorating growth prospects throughout the region have spooked investors into exiting these markets in droves. However, unlike the developed world, which comprises markets that are more mature by economic and capital markets standards, emerging markets vary greatly in their stages of development. This disparity makes it imprudent to paint the entire region with a broad brush and creates significant opportunity for the discerning investor. An intended consequence of the Fed's quantitative easing policies has resulted in U.S. dollars flooding into various bond markets, especially those in the emerging markets. Following news that the Fed may be reversing its stance, these flows began to reverse out of both bonds and currencies. This, along with China's decreased growth projections, has raised investors' concerns of another 1997 Asian Financial Crisis. However, emerging markets have changed greatly in the past 16 years. Relative to the past, they have better capital structures, improved balance sheets, and greater infrastructure. The deficits in trade and sovereign balance sheets which gave way to the 1997 crisis are no longer prevalent among emerging markets. Central banks around the world have exerted their influence and used their policy flexibility to better manage growth and maneuver through macroeconomic headwinds such as the debt crisis in Europe and slowing growth in China. Today, many emerging countries maintain stronger balance sheets than countries in the developed world, reporting lower federal and consumer indebtedness than developed markets. As such, we believe such parallels are not accurate and concerns are overblown. Growth over the next decade is not expected to keep up with the breakneck pace we have seen in the past decade, but again, the entire region should not be viewed as a collective in this respect. There will continue to be great opportunities for investors to find growth for as long as these markets continue to develop, and we see recent market volatility as an opportunity for better managers to differentiate themselves from the pack. Despite These Concerns, We Still Like Emerging Markets There are four primary reasons that we continue to favor an allocation to emerging markets. A burgeoning middle class, governmental reform, globalization, and greater liquidity still form the foundation for protracted growth over the medium and longer terms that dwarfs the prospects found amongst economies in today's developed world. Emerging markets are home to almost 20% of Fortune 500 companies, 30% of the world's billionaires, and 15 of the world's largest cities. These markets account for over 80% of the worldwide growth in energy consumption over the last 10 years and are home to a disproportionate percentage of the world's population relative to energy consumption, exports and wealth. As these emerging market economies develop, energy consumption, exports and market cap will increase, providing many opportunities to profit from these foreseeable trends. Based on these reasons, we continue to favor an allocation to emerging markets in a diversified portfolio.
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Monday, March 15, 2010
Past winners Leor Pantilat and Joell Vaught repeat at 2010 Way Too Cool
SacBee story and Leor's account to get a full picture of this great race in the mud. Or you can read the account from the man-sized banana at the Hwy 49 crossing. Congrats everyone!
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There was definitely some mud out there! I posted some pics from the hwy 49 aid station. http://dailyadventuresgretch.blogspot.com/2010/03/cool-pictures.htmlReplyDelete
How did I miss the banana man???
Geoff Ross' accountReplyDelete
great insight into where his head was after the race and how surprised he was to have "50k speed"
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Sinn Fein are now Ireland's second most popular party – as support for the Fine Gael-Labor Party coalition collapses.
An Irish Times opinion poll shows a major drop in support for the government in wake of the recent household charge furore.
The first poll, taken during the storm over water meters this week, has support for the Enda Kenny led government down by 14 per cent.
The Coalition now enjoys just 23 per cent support from the electorate while Fine Gael are down three per cent to 33 per cent and Labor are down six to 13 per cent.
Fianna Fail are also down, dropping one per cent to just 14 per cent support.
The big winners are Sinn Fein with Gerry Adams' party now the second most popular outfit in the state, up six per cent to 21 per cent support.
Independents, up four to 19 points, have also gained from the recent government efforts to increase indirect taxation via water charges and household levies.
The paper reports that the core vote for the parties compared with the last Irish Times poll was: Fine Gael, 25 per cent (down four points); Labour, 10 per cent (down five points); Fianna Fáil, 11 per cent (down one point); Sinn Féin, 15 per cent (up two points); Green Party, 1 per cent (no change); Independents/Others, 13 per cent (up two points); and undecided voters, 25 per cent (up six points).
The new government rating is far lower than anything achieved by the Fianna Fáil-led governments during Bertie Ahern's tenure from 1997 until 2008 while only the performance of the Brian Cowen government from November 2008 until February 2011 was worse.
Enda Kenny's support has dropped by ten points to 42 per cent with Labor's Eamon Gilmore down 14 points to 27 per cent, the lowest he has achieved as party leader.
A second Irish Times'Ipsos MRBI poll shows that 39 per cent of the Irish electorate are still undecided as to how they will vote in the European Fiscal Treaty referendum on May 31.
Just 30 per cent of voters said they will vote yes while 23 per cent said they will vote no with eight per cent stating they will abstain.


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This just a short update on what is going on with my health and things.
The good news is that I am feeling a bit better on an everyday basis. The really bad, painful infection I had has finally (mostly) cleared up, so I'm not reliant on heavy duty painkillers anymore. The bad news is that, my actual health condition is a bit worse than the infection. Which means that I'm going to have to start a course of radiation therapy again. But not to worry anyone too much…since I am now getting regular checkups (unlike the last time when you know, I stupidly tried to tough it out until I was almost bleeding to death(!!)) I am not going to have to get surgery or things like that. I guess I will have to face the ongoing fatigue issues, but well…I what to expect, and have strategies to deal with it.
In the meantime, if you want to see short posts from me and you are on Facebook, please consider Liking my Facebook JustBento/JustHungry page, which has been growing steadily since early this year (when I finally started paying attention to it. ^^;) I am continuing to translate a few Cookpad recipes every day (previously) - if you want to find ones I've done, look for 'translated by makikowi' at the bottom of the recipes. I also have a new series in store for JustHungry starting next week, which I hope you'll enjoy. And for you bento fans, yes JustBento is coming back in full force soon - it's not dead by any means! You may see some other writing for me somewhere very soon too. ^_^ Stay tuned!
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How about OS-specific "tools"? Say, DeRez under Mac OS X for resource fork meta data? --JohnJ 08:00, 4 September 2008 (UTC)
Perhaps a few introductory words as to what kind of file analysis is intended would be helpful. I was looking for a mention of the http://www.fileadvisor.bit9.com service, and could not decide if it was suitable for this page, or if it should go somewhere else. It's a collection of file hashes, very useful for deciding if a file is reasonably well known by its file hash.Athulin 02:41, 29 October 2007 (PDT)


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Instagram allows nearly anyone with a smartphone to create stunning branded content and engage with fans on their mobile devices. The network also just happens to have more than 80 million registered users which produce over 5 million photos per day, making it the ultimate haven for brands to connect customers via mobile devices.
Brands are busying figuring out the best ways to use Instagram in the marketing efforts. So far, there is no single best approach for brands to take on Instagram, which is what makes it appeal to PR pros with fun and creative sides. Josh Riedel, Instagram's manager of community and partnerships, told Mashable that brands should "just get started and don't be afraid to share photos and see what your followers say about them."
For those looking to take their Instagram efforts to the next level, hosting an Instagram contest around a specific hashtag is a quick, easy way to generate and share visual content with existing fans and attract new ones.
Here's three tips based on some successful Instagram brand's contests:
Offer Prizes: Refinery29, a fashion, beauty and shopping Web site has hosted several contests on Instagram. For Summer 2012, Refinery29 partnered with Smashbox cosmetics to ask fashion and music fans to capture their favorite concert moment and tag it with #festivalsmashbox on Instagram. The winner gets a $5,000 VIP package for a trip to a 2013 music festival and a suite of Smashbox products.
Pull in Multimedia: General Electric doesn't exactly come to mind as a sexy and creative brand to follow on Instagram, but GE held an Instagram contest and nearly 4,000 Instagram photos were submitted with the designated hashtag #GEInspiredMe and then posted to Facebook, where fans voted for the finalists. The winner was shipped to Wales to photograph a GE aviation facility. YouTube and Facebook—as well as a GE Pinterest board that showcased all the submitted #GEInspiredME photos—helped extend the contest's reach.
Eliminate Entry Barriers: Red Bull capitalized on something near and dear to most everyone's hearts: Summer. Its #summeriscoming contest ran the length of the summer, and on each Monday Red Bull chose a new theme for fans to use in their photos. Red Bull didn't ask users to photograph its products, they simply asked for each photo to be tagged with that week's theme (#summerishere, for example) and @Redbull. The accounts with the most submitted photos then had the best chance of winning each week.
[Editors note: Love New York City? Enter PR News' own Instagram contest, which shines the spotlight on New York City and offers a $25 Starbucks gift card for the most original photo. Be sure to tag your photos with #PRmeasure and @PRnews to enter.]
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"Angels in the Outfield" – A Report by Brian Jud
Last night, Chris, a good friend of mine with whom I frequently reference the 1994 Disney baseball movie "Angels in the Outfield," suggested that I should blog about it, to which I raised the stakes and said I could do a whole film analysis on it. Well, a day later, that's just what I've done.
Chris made a really good point: "There really might be something there as a blog post. Why do we watch the shit out of a movie like that when we're 10, and how/why are we still quoting it at 25?"
That really got me thinking: Why do people our age keep harping on things from our childhood? I think things from our childhood reminds of us where we've been, where we are, and where we can go.
Just take this movie: We like to be reminded of our childhood, especially considering our present where we are starting to settle into being "real adults," part of the workforce, and having to do the same things every day for years to come. Frankly, it's a transition that kind of sucks. So why not use childhood nostalgia as the spoonful of sugar that helps the medicine go down? As far as the future, with these kinds of things, we're always thinking "where are they now?" With a movie like "Angels in the Outfield," we know where several of these actors are now: big stars. Guys like Danny Glover, Christopher Lloyd, and Tony Danza were already established stars, but they've since been joined by Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Matthew McConaughey, and Adrien Brody. I think we like to watch old movies we watched as kids to remind ourselves that we might still "make it."
Anyway, here's my analysis of the movie watching it today. This is going to be really long, so I apologize in advance. But not really.
A full, real-time, stream-of-consciousness commentary on 1994's "Angels in the Outfield"
- Opening credits: I once heard the theme of this movie being played at a David Copperfield show in Las Vegas when he was making a car disappear.
- Roger and JP are best friends whose parents are maybe friends in heaven. And they think foster homes are named after a kid named Foster. It could('ve) happened!
- The Angels are on a 14-game losing streak? Holy shit…I hate to spoil the movie this early, but how in the ever-loving fuck did this team get good?
- Joseph Gordon-Levitt's (JGL, playing Roger) deadbeat dad is here to kill Roger's mood by telling him he likes losers. Also he's played by Dermot Mulroney (or is it Dylan McDermott?).
- Mulroney actually does a pretty good job acting here. His character sucks. Can't even man up to tell Roger he's releasing him from his custody.
- Here's the setup: Mulroney cracks that they'll be a family again "when the Angels win the pennant." Note: it's established they're on 14-game losing streak, in last place.
- No wonder the Angels are in last place, this pitcher Gates has horrible mechanics.
- Roger and JP are watching from a nearby tree overlooking the field. They're later told they "better have tickets for that tree." That's bullshit. What's that cop gonna do, climb it himself and kick them out? He's a fatass.
- First glimpse of future star (and previously in "Dazed and Confused") Matthew McConaughey. ("Hey man, I keep getting older, but those foster kids stay the same age." – what his "Dazed and Confused" character would say, probably, because he was a goddamn creep.)
- Glover and said Gates start an internal fight. Ranch Wilder is loving the schadenfreude.
- Adrien Brody, pre "The Pianist," shows up. His character is probably as good a hitter as the actual pianist would be, even in old age by the 1990's.
- "They got the wrong kind of salami!" – Triscuit Messmer, alleged MLB baseball player who is far too out of shape to play, even as a catcher. He can't be very agile behind the plate.
- Mapel's rap about the team always losing is not taken well by Knox. "SAVE IT MAPO!"
- Class clown, "jackass," and "pitcher" Whitt Bass (played by ubiquitous character actor Neal McDonough) gets clocked with a baseball bat. He's been in several movies here and there. I can never not think of this movie whenever I see him.
- "Fundamentals? In the middle of the season?" – the old, probably down-on-his-luck journeyman…Yeah, fundamentals…have you guys even watched yourselves play?
- Knox and Wilder get in a fight. Two assholes don't make a right.
- Here's Miguel the third resident of Maggie Nelson's foster home who lives with Roger and JP, and who has the record for mustache earliest in life. He also has the record for biggest asshole earliest in life. And fucking ROGER gets yelled at for saying "Shut up!"
- Maggie doesn't use cat brain to cook. Social Services would be relieved.
- JP actually is pretty annoying with a boatload of questions as they're all trying to go to sleep. I'll give Miguel that. Meanwhile, Roger prays that the Angels win the pennant so he and his dad can be a family again. In all honesty, some pretty solid acting from JGL. He's always had the chops. (Also, "Amen…A-women, too" is a pretty good line).
- It comes out: Ranch Wilder spiked Knox sliding into home and ruined his career. Speaking of Ranch, he's got a weird career. Good player to a subpar manager to a very stereotypical play-by-play guy.
- Knox and Mel Clark (Tony Danza) have a history together when Clark played for Knox in Cincinnati. He blew out his arm and took too many pain pills, allegedly "shoved down my [Mel's] throat." Mel also has a huge coughing fit as he verbally fights back. You have to wonder if that foreshadows something later in the movie.
- "Drop dead, I got sunscreen in my eye!" – Glover to Brody, after Brody thinks he sees Knox crying and gives a wistful, romantic monologue of the joys of suiting up for a baseball game on a beautiful summer day.
- "Whitt Bass takes the mound with his trademark slide!" The announcers have seen him "lick dirt, eat bugs, and floss his catcher's teeth in the dugout." Yet he's still only 2-11. I wonder how the fuck he has 2 wins. He just gave up a scorcher on his first pitch of the game. Bass set three times, which I'm sure would be a balk.
- FIRST POST-ROGER-PRAYER ANGEL SIGHTING: Angels who look like they're in an '80s metal band fly in to hoist up McConaughey a long ways to catch a ball. "Those guys in sparkly pajamas!" – Roger. The resident tight-ass and possible serial rapist who is fat and likely unemployed, which is the only reason he would be attending these games, is not impressed.
- Christopher Lloyd appears as the boss angel, named "Al" based on an American League umpire's hat, which by the way, nobody noticed it fly off the umpire's head and float in the outfield bleachers? The umpire was LOOKING RIGHT AT IT! Also, what would Al be named if this happened once they discontinued the practice of separate umpires for the AL and the NL? Would his name be "MLB logo?"
- Is anybody supervising these kids? Said tight-ass and could-be serial rapist could just kidnap these kids and nobody would know.
- ANGEL SIGHTING: Now an angel is helping fat catcher Triscuit Messmer bat, who with the added assistance hits a walk-off home run, shattering the bat and literally tearing the cover off the ball.
- (Side note: in this fictional version of the American League, there's an awful lot of action on first pitches. Movie Billy Beane and Peter Brand of "Moneyball" would not have signed any of these guys.)
- JP wins a contest to get a picture taken with George Knox. Cosmic, man.
- Usher: "I can see you kid don't know baseball, that's Mel Clark!" <Roger spouts off knowledge of Mel Clark> ("Suck on that, old fart," he's probably saying to himself)
- JP: "You used to be Mel Clark?" Mel Clark: "Yeah, I used to be." (Not shown: In a sudden bout of depression, Mel Clark gets skunk-drunk and ends up crying in the injury rehab whirlpool all night. "I USED TO BE MEL CLARK!", he laments, his tears mixing with cascades of Jack Daniels as he slowly submerges into unconsciousness.)
- Roger takes JP's place in the picture, and spills the "angels are helping you win" beans. He is insistent, over Knox's objections that "YOU GOT US A PSYCHO KID!" ("Looks like a prison photo." – David, the manger's assistant)
- Asked about his miraculous catch, McConaughey felt as if somebody had him by the arms. Guess he hasn't laid off all the pot from "Dazed and Confused."
- Meanwhile, Messmer attributes added power from the chili dogs he had before the game. "That third one tasted kind of funny." I bet it would've sucked to be the home plate umpire for this game.
- The next day, Knox delivers the photos of Roger and him himself, thinking there's some credibility to Roger's story. ("Looks like a prison photo." – JP)
- JP doesn't like strangers. Neither does Knox: he doesn't even like his friends. What a jackass. But regardless, Knox invites Roger and JP to go to the next game and sit next to the dugout. But not Maggie. She doesn't GO to baseball games. She'll be SURE to tell you that herself. Bitch.
- David the assistant gets a whole ton of snacks for the kids. His reward? JP getting mustard on his linen suit, and then Coke, because JP misheard David say that club soda helps with stains. Whatever, David has a stick up his butt anyway.
- Al shows up in a spilled Coke cup. What exactly did that look like to the people in the row behind? Soda spilled into the shape of Doc Brown? He exits via a soap bubble when JP pops it.
- Knox accuses Roger directly of "spiritually hallucinating," which good thing the kid doesn't know what that means, because that's kind of cruel to say to a child. They develop a signal for when Roger sees angels: Roger will flap his imaginary wings. He also advises Knox not to swear so much. It's a wonder they would show up to any baseball game under that condition. As another condition, Roger has Knox ban the team from cursing: "That eliminates all speech from most of the team." – star slugger Ray Mitchell, sporting a sweat-soaked Jheri curl that Lionel Richie would be most proud of.
- Aaaaaaaand David sits the nachos he just brought back. "Nacho Butt," as JP will later call him.
- By the way: Bass is pitching today's game too. He just started yesterday. What the fuck?
- ANGEL SIGHTING: Roger sees an angel massaging the utility man Danny Hemmerling, Brody's character. He was shown taking practice swings before the game which looked god-awful. I don't care how good you are at defense: if you swing like that, you're not advancing past Babe Ruth League. And Roger insists Knox pinch-hit Hemmerling for Mitchell, the team's best hitter. Angels or not, that is really freaking stupid.
- "Hemmerling for Mitchell? GO BACK TO CINCINNATI!" – resident tight-ass, possible serial rapist (heretofore known as PSR). Gotta give this creep his due: that's fucking dumb. Mitchell has probably a 3-in-10 chance of succeeding here, so even with a guarantee that Hemmerling would get a hit, you have to like Mitchell's odds regardless.
- ANGEL SIGHTING: An angel slows down the 0-2 pitch to a flailing Hemmerling to about 5 miles per hour, allowing him to hit an incredibly weak chopper towards the pitcher's mound. But the angels are not done: Al himself picks up the ball and starts rolling, hacky-sacking, and tossing it around to prevent the A's from fielding it. But even assuming God is on the Angels' side, would even He induce 6 men to accidentally beat the crap out of each other over a baseball game? Hell, he even caused a nut-shot! No god I would ever believe in would do such a thing. But alas, Hemmerling eventually comes around to score, and the umpires are dumbfounded by the baseball's seemingly supernatural powers. There were 19+ errors on the play…yikes. (Not shown: every A's infielder is demoted to AAA after the game.)
- Roger and JP now have pseudo-season tickets. Knox, in gratitude, will drive them home, but finds out at the last possible second that JP doesn't ride in cars because of a traumatic experience with his now-dead mother. Kind of sad, but at the same time, Roger should've mentioned that earlier. Knox drives them home in the team bus looking like a total yahoo.
- The boys arrive home to find out Miguel has been placed with a family, which crushes JP, who never realized how much of a shit Miguel was to him. With Miguel's absence, Roger takes on the job of being super-annoyed by JP's constant talking at bedtime.
- Today, the "red-hot Detroit Tigers," the Angels' "long-time nemesis," are in town.
- ANGEL SIGHTING: Roger spots an angel massaging the shoulders of some guy in uniform who used to be Mel Clark. With Roger's feedback, Knox is persuaded to start him over scheduled starter Dan Prince. Clark goes from perpetually being on the DL to suddenly being "the boss" (rimshot). God, Mel's warmups look terrible. Danza has awful mechanics, himself. Ranch reminds the radio audience that Mel hasn't started a game since the 1980's. I kind of wonder how he's been sticking around major league ballclubs for so many years while being literally physically unable to pitch.
- (Side note: this act of JGL giving Tony Danza another shot would reoccur in real life, when JGL cast Danza as his father in his directorial debut, "Don Jon.")
- ANGEL SIGHTING: An angel transfers his holy power into Mel's first pitch, an unlikely high-90s fastball, and proceeds to help Mel Clark pitch a "miracle shutout." This makes Ranch very suspicious, which in the 2000s would easily result in PED accusations. I wonder if Jose Canseco ever had any dirt on Tony Danza…
- (Side note: Mel Clark looks a lot like a local Philadelphia garbageman with a strong leg…wonder if Mel can help him get a shot at the NFL someday.)
- As a reward to the boys for their good luck, Knox gives them "anything they want," which ends up in a pickup baseball game led by Knox involving a lot of neighborhood kids. Knox calls on a young Marvin Vincent Archer to pinch-hit, and he ends up with a fluke single that goes through the pitcher Knox's legs. Up comes the neighborhood fat kid, a "Babe Ruth" lookalike (which is ostensibly a fat joke). Baby Ruth crushes the ball, after which Knox tells young Marvin to "run home," which Marvin takes literally. Instead of running after him to explain his mistake and bring him back to the game, however, Roger and George just laugh at him and let him run away. Assholes.
- Bass is pitching AGAIN? Whatever happened to Gates? Did he get cut? Do the Angels even have any other pitchers?
- Angel helps McConaughey run down a fly ball to the warning track.
- Al intervenes in an argument between Knox and an umpire, helping Knox articulately commend the umpire's call.
- Al bends the foul pole to give the Angels a home run (nobody noticed the pole move?)
- Angel spanks Messmer from behind while running from first on a routine base hit, and compels him to make the turn and go for third. Angel pushes Messmer down from behind into a 30-foot slide into third. That the angel helped Messmer, the Stay Puft Marshallow Man, make it from first to third on a single might be the most unbelievable part of the movie. Messmer celebrates with his now-trademark gorilla-like chest-beating.
- Also shown: the Angels are now being hailed as "Best in league?" by a weekly baseball publication, and Bass tries to steal a Mel Clark-autographed ball from Roger.)
- Angel grabs Detroit's pitcher's arm in mid-windup, causing him to spin around like a top and violently deliver the ball into his own dugout. Again, not sure why God is trying to harm innocent people just because of a little boy's idealistic and miscommunicated wish.
- (Side note: We're starting to see some plays where angels are not involved, which makes you wonder: have they even needed angels with them the whole time? I wonder if that theme will ever show up again…)
- PSR yells at everybody to "GET OUT OF THE WAY!" and subsequently takes a home-run ball in the mouth. Good. The fucker deserves it.
- Messmer knocks down the runner trying to bowl him over during a play at the plate. Fair, except then Messmer inexplicably (and right in front of the umpire) hits the runner on the head as he's getting up. Bad form.
- Angels turn a nice double play. Angels then turn a triple play at Yankee Stadium, during which the ball gets stuck in the second baseman's glove, who throws the whole glove to first. We've since seen this in real life, actually. Not impressed anymore.
- Angels finish 160 games tied for the division lead, and evidently hold the tiebreaker against the defending champion White Sox, who they "ironically" play. Dude, it's not that ironic. I don't think it means what you think it means.
- Possible goof: Maggie hangs up from a call with Roger's social worker on the home's new Angels helmet phone, but not 1 second after she misses the hook, the evil "off-the-hook" warning blares. Anyway, turns out Roger's custody hearing got rescheduled to this afternoon, and he has to miss the game. He's pissed, but he has no idea what's about to happen to him.
- JP sternly reminds Knox that lying about Roger being sick to get him out of the hearing is bad, to which Knox retorts "Well Maggie's not in a pennant race."
- ANGEL SIGHTING: False alarm. JP's been looking at Ray Mitchell towelling his head through binoculars.
- Meanwhile, Roger arrives to court, where he waits a long time. Unbeknownst to him, Dylan McDermott or Dermot Mulroney has just turned over custody of Roger to the state. He doesn't have the heart to tell Roger what happened, even after Roger gloats about the Angels being in first place. Once again, honestly, good acting by JGL, crying in despair. Roger on the car ride home: "Yeah, giving someone away is a great way to show 'em you care."
- Meanwhile, not so good acting by Milton Davis Jr.: JP's post-loss bawling makes him look like he was sprayed in the face with a hose.
- And in swoops that jackass Wilder to check in with JP about what he overheard regarding angels helping the team win. JP inadvertently gets him with a good crack about his "big chin." ("Everybody's a critic." – Ranch).
- Despite the angels assumedly guaranteeing victory, Knox still forgoes all film analysis in advance of the possible division-clinching game tomorrow. An incredibly humane gesture to be sure, as he spends the evening making meatloaf with Roger and JP to make them feel better. But still, come on dude. You're paid to manage.
- (Side note: JP and Roger claim they've never heard of lasagna….seriously??????)
- Roger doesn't believe in God or in angels anymore. Knox shows some humanity, putting his arm around him in comfort. (I also noticed Knox's breath show up: are nights in Anaheim cold in September?)
- JP, the little shit who broke his word not to tell anybody about the angels and got the whole story leaked to the press, has now caused the Angels' owner (a cowboy man who uses cowboy terms like "hogwash" and "you've got enough manure on your boots," and an obvious stand-in for real-life former Angels owner and actual fictional cowboy Gene Autry…I'm confused too) to force George Knox to either renounce the angels publicly or be fired. That's why you keep secrets, JP.
- Roger, JP, and Maggie arrive late to the press conference where Knox will renounce the angels, which causes George to change his mind and start professing his belief in angels. (He says he'll "shoot from the hip," which prompts a "you're kidding me" look from the owner…when I was a little kid, I honestly thought the owner gave this look because George used a cowboy term like he did all the time.) Knox starts going off about how they're playing spiritually…it's a wonder the owner didn't stop him mid-sentence Steinbrenner-style. Maggie steps in to make a good point about the already-strong presence of Christianity in sports, which, yeah, actually that makes some sense. Mel Clark prompts the entire team to declare they won't play for anybody but George; even Whitt Bass in his fucking Bozo the Clown suit. It works, and Knox's job is saved.
- (Side question: Would this ever work in real life? Just imagine: Tony LaRussa's metalhead wife admits to seeing the ghost of Dimebag Darrell, and that her husband takes advice based on what Dimebag suggests the team do in certain situations. LaRussa himself admits at a press conference, yes, I take advice from my wife who sees the ghost of Dimebag Darrell. Lucky for him, Albert Pujols stands up and says "I may disagree with his archaic, barbaric, primal political views, and I really fucking hate metal, but I won't play for anyone but Tony LaRussa." Exactly.)
- Later that night, Clark goes down 2-0 in the top of the first. But Ray Mitchell ties the game with a big home run in the 6th, which is fine except MITCHELL MISSES THE PLATE WHEN HE COMES HOME. It's clear as day and nobody notices! The White Sox should appeal and step on home before the next play, and they have the lead again. McConaughey makes another nice diving play.
- Towards the end of the game, Al appears and tells Roger that no angels are coming. ("Championships have to be won on their own." – Al). Let's break that down, shall we? "Championships" have to be won on their own. Today counts as a championship, as a win would give the Angels the division title. But that doesn't disqualify angels from intervening in the playoffs, right? In 1994, the Angels would've assumedly made the best-of-7 ALCS to play whoever won in the AL East. So technically, so long as the Angels didn't have 3 wins in the series, angels could intervene, right? Given that, say the Angels went up 3-0 with the help of real angels. Since only one team has ever come back from being down 3-0 in a postseason series (need I remind you who that was?), wouldn't that mean that real angels helped the baseball Angels win the AL pennant from a statistical standpoint? That's something that's always bugged me about this rule. What do you think of THAT, Al?
- But it turns out Al wasn't there to help the team after all: he's actually there to check on Mel, who's "going to be one of us" in 6 months. WHAT. THE. FUCK? Okay, Al cites that Mel has "smoked for years, always a mistake." Makes sense, smokers often get lung cancer and die prematurely. But let's break this down too. Roger noted early in the movie that Mel pitched multiple shutouts in a row for Cincinnati in 1986. So if Mel was in his prime them, he'd probably have been somewhere around age 30-33, best guess. 1986 was 8 years prior to this movie, which would put Mel somewhere around age 38-41 at the time of the movie. Just how many cigarettes did Mel smoke in his mere 38-41 years of existence? Everybody's bodies react differently, but I have to think he must have started smoking at least a pack a day starting at age 10 to die of lung cancer by age 41. But okay, maybe he's had heart issues or other serious medical problems. Don't you think team doctors might have noticed any serious health issues in a guy perpetually on the DL who is prone to severe tobacco-related coughing fits? Anyway, the shit keeps piling up on Roger. (Side note: pure speculation: they might have been setting Danza up to be the next "Al" in a California Angels-related "Angels in the Outfield" sequel. Instead we got "Angels in the End Zone" with that annoying little whiny bastard from "7th Heaven." Never thought I'd say this, but if they couldn't have done it with Danza, they shouldn't have done it at all.) (Another side note: I had the screen paused on this picture while I wrote this Mel Clark death paragraph…the look on Al's face suggests that he doesn't even believe the shit he's spewing to Roger.)
- Anyway, the game continues, and Mel is showing "definite signs of fatigue." Formerly passed-over starter Dan Prince has been warming in the bullpen for what seems like hours now. Thankfully for the Angels, an inning-ending double play is induced in the top of the 8th, and the Angels take the lead in the bottom of the 8th on a daring suicide squeeze. Messmer's belly meanwhile, pops out to first, showing what's closer to his true form than being anything close to a good hitter.
- Mel gives up a leadoff single in the 9th, and McConaughey's hat flies off running for it. I think that's about the 5th time his hat has flown off. I wonder if "Diva" McConaughey had written into his contract that his entire face had to be shown hat-less at least 5 times or something.
- Uh-oh, Mel started coughing again after that single. He's able to field the sac bunt cleanly and get the out at first, but there's a guy on second with one out. Despite a nice play, the shortstop Garcia can't make an out at first. Next pitch, another batter smokes one off Clark (see what I did there?), but it's caught on a highlight reel play by McConaughey (whose hat fell off AGAIN) in which he leaps over his left fielder who was also running for it. Clark then loads the bases with a first-pitch HBP. Seriously, how many things happen on the first pitch in this movie? Up comes Kit "Hit or Die" Kesey, the RBI leader with a penchant for chewing tobacco (wonder how many months he has left).
- (Side note: with the scar on his face, Kesey looks like if Liev Schreiber played John Connor in that 10-second long shot at the beginning of "Terminator 2.")
- (Side note: some pretty good dedication to established character traits here, as Bass is shown playing with a toy truck in the dugout during the 9th inning of this game.)
- Wally (the forced-by-Ranch-to-be-silent radio co-host) notes that after two pitches to Kesey, Clark is at 156 pitches. Are you serious? How in the hell is he still in this game? Forget believing in him or not, that's irresponsible on Knox's part. Imagine Knox's guilt of overworking him only months before he dies! After two hard-hit close calls, including a shot foul down the third base line and a near-home run foul in left field, Mel has Kesey in a full count. Knox contemplates taking him out now, which wait, what? In the middle of a full count? You left him in to this point, why take him out now? Anyway, Roger convinces him to "make him believe" and gets the whole stadium to do the angel wing signal to do so, including the now on-board David the assistant and our old friend PSR. And in a bit of clever foreshadowing, the owner shuts his radio off on Ranch. Mel subsequently induces a liner right back to the mound, which he bobbles and miraculously ends up catching. Wally declares that the Angels have won the pennant, which would mean they won the American League, but I don't remember the ALCS ever starting. I thought this was still the regular season. That doesn't make sense.
- The owner fires Ranch, which is actually kind of bullshit because he's only being fired for criticizing George Knox, which frankly, he deserved for leaving in Clark for 160 pitches. But regardless, Wally gets in a "less is more" crack at Ranch, who used that line against Wally all movie long. It is good to see that asshole Ranch and his asshole chin are both out of a job.
- Knox drops the kids at Maggie's, and drops the bombshell that he's decided to adopt both Roger and JP. (Side note: when I was little, I imagined 5 years down the road: Papa Knox: "Roger, I know you helped us win the AL pennant 5 years ago, but you're still grounded…how many times do I have to tell you to take the garbage out every Wednesday evening?") All three then see Al through the living room window, and the movie ends with Al, sponsored by the NSA, reminding us that "[they're] always watching," followed by a bunch of stars playing baseball because sure, why not.
Thank God for a happy ending for everybody!
Except for Mel. He's still going to die in 6 months.


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Not elementary any more
No one is immune to the allure of that cruel and merciless mistress: time.
She saps strength and suppleness from athletic bodies, defies every cream to wither beauty and dulls the sharpest intellects.
Mr Holmes imagines the twilight years of one of literature's icons, who is facing the grim reality of dementia with what remains of his once-glorious wit, aided by doses of a rare restorative plant from Japan called Prickly Ash.
This Sherlock, portrayed with dignity and steely resolve by Sir Ian McKellen, is no longer the aloof master of deduction who traversed the pages of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's imagination.
Instead, he tends bees on the Sussex coast, haunted by the one case he failed to solve – if only he could recall the facts.
Bill Condon's slow-burning drama tests our little grey cells with a perplexing subplot: The Curious Case Of The Thrice Oscar-Nominated Actress And The Wayward Accent.
Laura Linney is one of the finest performers of her generation, but here she is undone by a vocal delivery that roams wildly between the West Country, Ireland and America.
Her valiant struggles are an unnecessary distraction.
The year is 1947 and Sherlock Holmes (McKellen), now 93, is a shadow of the brilliant logician, who once held court at 221b Baker Street flanked by Dr Watson (Colin Starkey) and Mrs Hudson (Sarah Crowden).
The ageing sleuth has retired to Cuckmere Haven, where he fusses over his hives, struggles to piece together fractured memories, and infuriates his widowed housekeeper, Mrs Munro (Linney).
Her spirited son Roger (Milo Parker) is fascinated by Sherlock and the boy shows a natural aptitude with the bees.
"Exceptional children are often the product of unremarkable parents," Holmes coldly observes, wounding Mrs Munro.
The lad inspires Sherlock to delve into the fog of the past to recall his only unsolved case – a missing person enquiry in 1919 involving a distraught husband, Thomas Kelmot (Patrick Kennedy), and his beautiful wife Ann (Hattie Morahan).
As Sherlock's addled mind drifts between that ill-fated pre-war investigation and the present, the old man edges ever closer to an inglorious end.
Mr Holmes is distinguished by McKellen's measured central performance and the strong support from rising star Parker.
The script slowly unravels the myth of the literary sleuth, including one bittersweet scene of the ageing Sherlock watching a film in which Basil Rathbone portrays him with unnatural gusto.
Plotting is pedestrian – there are no twists or big reveals – allowing us plenty of time to marvel at the picturesque locations, including one breath-taking shot of the White Cliffs of Dover.
We'll meet Holmes again, in many different guises, but few will be as heartbreakingly frail or haunting as this.
Ian McKellen, Milo Parker, Laura Linney, Hattie Morahan, Patrick Kennedy, Hiroyuki Sanada, Frances de la Tour
Star rating: 6.5/10


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Working with your teammate, create a "Ball Bridge" using just rope. Communicate and work together to balance and roll the ball between the ropes. Advance to walking and hitting the target. Set includes 4 10-foot rope bridges, 4 plastic balls, 4 target rings, an instruction activity guide and storage bag. 2-8 players.
Made of nylon fabric with foam padding inside these colorful blindfolds are great for any team building or trust activity! Measuring 6"W x 3"H and featuring two 8"L elastic headbands with hook and loop closure make these blindfolds versatile to fit most kids and adults. Set of 6.
A super fun cooperative learning game for 2-4 players! The object is to toss your red bug using the small parachute up in the air and either catch it yourself or have another team catch it. Set includes two 3' diameter nylon parachutes, 2 red bean bags, instruction sheet, and nylon storage bag. Ages 5+
Teamwork is a must for this fun activity! Participants must work together to move the included ball down the parachute chain and back without dropping it on the ground. Included in this set are six 13.5" diameter parachute bands (each with 4 straps), 6 multi-color bean bags, drawstring bag, and one inflatable ball with nylon cover.
Heavy-duty cotton canvas sacks have a a flat bottom and super-stitched seams for durability. Also features a 'Kangaroo' pocket for essential game storage and long, reinforced handles. Set of 4.
The wildly entertaining cooperative learning game for 4-8 players! The object is to get the colored balls into their correspondingly colored hole. The more balls on the sheet the harder it is and the more cooperation it takes. Set includes the Crazy Pool 8' x 6' nylon sheet, 6 colored balls, one black ball, instructions and a nylon storage bag. Ages 5+
This track and field baton set includes 6 plastic batons in assorted colors. 11"L.
The Bolder Challenge is a wildly entertaining game for up to 8 players! Run fast to gather bean bags each worth a different amount of points: 5, 10, or 15. The farther you run the more the bean bag is worth. But wait! You only have a limited amount of time to gather your bean bags! Which first? Strategy and teamwork are needed to win! Includes 14 bean bags (7 red/7 green), 4 rope markers, timer, activity guide, and storage bag. 2-8 players.
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