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Below is our infographic highlighting the most problematic aspects of TPP. Please spread the word about how this agreement will impact you and your country. Right-click and save the image for the PNG file, or you can download the PDF version below. Remix it, build upon it, and get the word out. Let's protect and defend the Internet from this secret trade deal.
The United States and ten governments from around the Pacific are meeting yet again to hash out the secret Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement (TPP) on May 15-24 in Lima, Peru. The TPP is one of the worst global threats to the Internet since ACTA. Since the negotiations have been secretive from the beginning, we mainly know what's in the current version of this trade agreement because of a leaked draft [PDF] from February 2011. Based upon that text, some other leaked notes, and the undemocratic nature of the entire process, we have every reason to be alarmed about the copyright enforcement provisions contained in this multinational trade deal.
The TPP is likely to export some of the worst features of U.S. copyright law to Pacific Rim countries: a broad ban on breaking digital locks on devices and creative works (even for legal purposes), a minimum copyright term of the lifetime of the creator plus seventy years (the current international norm is the lifetime plus fifty years), privatization of enforcement for copyright infringement, ruinous statutory damages with no proof of actual harm, and government seizures of computers and equipment involved in alleged infringement. Moreover, the TPP is worse than U.S. copyright rules: it does not export the many balances and exceptions that favor the public interest and act as safety valves in limiting rightsholders' protection. Adding insult to injury, the TPP's temporary copies provision will likely create chilling effects on how people and companies behave online and their basic ability to use and create on the Web.
The stated goal of the TPP is to unite the Pacific Rim countries by harmonizing tariffs and trade rules between them, but in reality, it's much more than that. The "intellectual property" chapter in this massive trade agreement will likely force changes to copyright and patent rules in each of the signatory countries. Accepting these new rules will not just re-write national laws, but will also restrict the possibility for countries to introduce more balanced copyright laws in the future. This strategy may end up harming other countries' more proportionate laws such as Chile, where a judicial order is required for ISPs to be held liable for copyright infringement and take down content. Such systems better protect users and intermediaries from disproportionate or censorship-driven takedowns. If the final TPP text forces countries to adopt a privatized notice and takedown regime, this could imply the end of the Chilean system. It would also undermine canada's notice and notice regime.
The content industry can and will continue to buy and lie to get their way to get laws that protects their interests, and what they want more than anything is for us to remain passively ignorant. They did it with SOPA, ACTA, and now it's TPP [ESP]. It's going to be a challenge to defeat these policies, but we can do it. The TPP is slated for conclusion this October, but our goal is to get the worst of these copyright provisions out of it. The way to fight back is to show that we will not put up with this: to demand an open transparent process that allows everyone, including experts from civil society members, to analyze, question, and probe any initiatives to regulate the Internet. The secrecy must be stopped once and for all.
Take this action and join over 26,000 people to send a message to your elected representatives. Let's call on Congress to demand for the immediate release of the text of the TPP, and make this process become democratic and transparent once and for all.
Below is our infographic highlighting the most problematic aspects of TPP. Please spread the word about how this agreement will impact you and your country. Right-click and save the image for the PNG file, or you can download the PDF version below. Remix it, build upon it, and get the word out. Let's protect and defend the Internet from this secret trade deal.
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@Gallups Mirror So it's not a matter of perception where I think it's a non-starter as a legal issue. As a practical reality it IS a non-starter.
Maybe so, but it's still an interesting topic.
My 'why' question for you remains. Why would you WANT to create perpetual copyright?
Jules Verne wrote 'Journey to the Center of the Earth' and '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea' in the mid-to-late-1800s. How do you figure his great-great-great-great grandchildren are entitled to benefit from their ancestor's talent and hard work? This would effectively eliminate the novel from the public domain in favor of establishing a copyright dynasty for novels that lasts forever.
By the same logic, why don't we just have inheritance laws that take everything when someone dies? If I create enough wealth to build a big house on the Hudson River, why should my great-grandchildren be able to live in it when it could be appropriated by the government and opened up to homeless people? I think most of us would find that distateful and overreaching by the government.
I don't know, but if there's a nonstarter here, it would have to be ending the ability to pass real property along to one's heirs and they to theirs.
Perhaps what's needed is a modified law in which after a period of time the copyright holder can no longer restrain others from using the work but can continue to profit from selling it. That way the artist is still passing his work and its benefits along to his heirs and the public gets to use copies of the work.
If I create enough wealth to build a big house on the Hudson River, why should my great-grandchildren be able to live in it when it could be appropriated by the government and opened up to homeless people? I think most of us would find that distateful and overreaching by the government.
The analogy doesn't really work for this example Unseen. Copyrights and patents are not physical property. They are rights that prevent others from duplicating or building on the work of others, not from seizing it.
Now you are totally mischaracterizing what copyrights and patents do. They don't prevent others from duplicating or buiding on my work, they prevent others from doing so without my permission. Is seeking permission such a bad thing, or is it simply good manners? I might go along with changing the law so that at some point I can't deny permission, but that they do need to pay a reasonable amount for doing so.
But your analogy would be closer if it went like this: Your great-great grandfather built a house on the Hudson. Thousands of others say wow great idea, let's build houses on the Hudson too. Your family waves a perpetual copyright at them down through the generations and says you CAN'T build on the Hudson river. Not forever and ever! It'll spoil my view! My property value will dive! It'll go from being the ONLY house to being one of a zillion houses on the Hudson! Think of my grandfather's hard work losing value like that!
Under no circumstances could anyone copyright or patent "a house on the Hudson," but I could protect the architectural design of my house. I understand this is possible now, but like a poem or song, the copyright only lasts so long. As I just said, I could live with a termination of my right to prevent people copying as long as I could continue to profit from my handiwork.
Perhaps you don't know what an analogy is. I wasn't making an analogy, l was making a comparison. Why is one treated one way and the other a different way.
I'm quite aware of and quite quite comfortable with "fair use" when it comes to artwork. But there is little application of fair use when it comes to controlling scientific and technical inventions.
Fair use would allow students, for example, to study and write about and use quotes from my book without having to pay for the right to do so. There is no parallel when it comes to a drug or a scientific advance, though, which is why it DOES make sense for those inventors to lose their control after some time. There is a good reason for taking that control away but no such reasoning for an artist losing control over his work's destiny.
An analogy may be a comparison, but not all comparisons are analogies.
I don't care if the kind of change to copyright I propose is on the table or not, nor if it would drastically change the notion of copyright.
I'm asking if such a change wouldn't be a good thing, and so far you haven't explained why allowing an artist to own and pass on as a piece of property his creative works (just as he could a house he built) would be a bad thing.
This is a massive pile of bullcrap.
That you don't care to follow the development in the TPP tells me that you are reading tabloids. Trade policy is boring, thus few headlines, but powerful, thus conspiracy theories. It's hardly done in secret, good newspapers report on it steadily.
That the US is pushing stricter IP laws, and especially enforcement, is hardly surprising. If you were really against IP rights you would make T|A wholly publicly run, at least make everybody here a moderator. That's not to say that the US IP laws are products of reason, but then again, what US made anything is?
Fast tracking a deal which is expected to grow total US GDP by 1-3% every year from interventionist congressmen is hardly surprising. It's easy to point out who the losers will be, the winners are yet to be decided.
Though your nationalist propaganda is cute and all, it's still nationalism and propaganda. And that's just not pretty.
Of course negotiations are secret, diplomacy is almost always done such. That's hardly a surprise and hardly a reason for conspiracy theories. International negotiations are difficult and secrecy is essential such that positions, strategies and stratagems are not divulged. However, there's always a running update on points of contention and agreements. There's lots written about the TPP in quality media, such as The Atlantic, Foreign Policy, Foreign Affairs, and National Interest. And lest I forget, in scholarly journals. By comparison, how many articles have you read about the secret Sino-Indian negotiations..?
The OP links to an extremely one-sided poster on IP, yet hardly relinquishes the IP for his own site. That's hubris. And while I do find many of the current IP laws onerous and out of date, they certainly are not just pushed by "evil corporations" and IP laws are required for a smoothly functioning economy. It's hardly surprising that the US wants stronger IP protection as this is completely disregarded in most of SE Asia and China, which makes the US economy lose billions every year and thereby robbing the US government of much required tax income.
The TPP is eagerly awaited by many countries. The Doha round of the WTO negotiations broke down many years ago, and the world in general needs more free trade, especially the struggling economies of the west.
I won't go into your quasi-conspiratorial rant about corporations, suffice to say that neither the EU nor the NAFTA has been the death knell to any kind of rights.
That's the thing about conspiracy theories and propaganda, it's a massive undertaking to disprove and just not worth the time and effort. And how would I go about disproving a value statement such as "The TPP is one of the worst global threats to the Internet since ACTA" in any event?
This is a massive pile of bullcrap.
Thanks for the warning, Arcus. I did find your post to be exactly that.
LOL. Oh, the hazards of vague referent pronouns!
I think I was the first one here to say "perpetual" wrt copyright, and I did not mean it literally. It just seems awfully long to me.
what is this planet comming to ? i dont like it when large majority of people are pushed about and bullied like this by the whims and wants of a small greedy fat(financially) minority


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Ed Dove asks the question, and he certainly has a point....
I wasn't the only one who listened on in bewilderment as Ghana took on Chile at the PPL Park in Philadelphia at the end of February. I feel for the poor commentator and I dread to imagine to the look on his face as his gentle producer approached him calmly afterwards to inform him that the young left sided Black Star was not, in fact, Asamoah Gyan, as the unfortunate fellow had insisted on calling him, but Kwadwo Asamoah, already approaching 50 caps, and a well established player in his own right.
The commentator had insisted on announcing 'Gyan' proudly and profoundly every time Asamoah touched the ball or found himself in space. You can just imagine the chap's reaction to being told he had misidentified the player for the entire match: 'Not Gyan? Not Asamoah Gyan? Then where was he?'
Yes, exactly! Where was Asamoah Gyan, where is he, and, more to the point, where exactly is he going?
Gyan is in danger; in danger of being one of those 'what ifs?' of the footballing tapestry, in danger of being remembered for being a quitter at the Stadium of Light, and for a career with the Ghana team peaking with three missed penalties, on three big nights. Gyan is in danger of destroying his legacy, and losing the chance to lead a truly exciting generation of Black Stars on towards future challenges.
I begin with the third of these aforementioned penalties; Bata, February 8th, an Afcon semi final against Zambia, a place in the Libreville final at stake.
Ghana were awarded a penalty in the first half. A penalty so early in the game, particularly early in a game only settled in the dying minutes, might not be the natural point to consider when analysing the game's outcome. Inevitably, however, it has been, and Gyan's miss – an indecisive shot struck not quite far enough from Kennedy Mweene - led directly to the striker calling time on his international career.
Following the miss, and the subsequent defeat, the Ghanaian people seemed to close in on the team. As has been the case in various African nations following tournament disappointments (see Nigeria 2010 among others) a spate of finger pointing, name calling and vowed retribution ensued. This year it was Ghana's turn, and a litany of complaints followed the team's exit; murmurs of black magic, an embattled Serbian coach unsure of his future, vitriolic public reaction, and then Gyan's retirement.
I imagine the history behind the latest miss wasn't lost on the majority of fans. Cast your minds back to South Africa, 2010, the dying embers of a quarter final, an African team, on African soil, the whiff of the semis thudding against the back of their nostrils, Uruguay on the ropes, Suarez in disgrace, and Gyan fluffed it…and fluffed it spectacularly, blazing the ball against the cross bar and up into the Sowetan sky.
I recall that miss as perhaps the stand out moment of the tournament. I enjoyed the match on a balmy evening in Kensington, yet cursed irreverently at Gyan's miss. At the time the narrative was of Gyan the courageous, Gyan the brave, Gyan who stepped up moments after to open scoring in the shootout. It certainly was brave, it certainly was bold, and Gyan deserves the sympathy, but I can't help think, as he reflects on his career many years from now, he will recall that miss, the ball sailing off, head in hands, and the collective groan of a continent, as a devastating moment of loss. Marcel Desailly, bursting blood vessels in a TV studio, would surely agree.
I believe that there is more to come from this Black Stars team. Whilst Mark Gleeson, among others, suggested they 'ran out of steam' during the Cup of Nations, I was impressed by their dominance in the earlier rounds of the tournament; particularly the dynamism of young Kwadwo Asamoah, the emergence of John Boye, and the defiance of Anthony Annan, playing on despite his mother's death.
It appeared to be in the final third that Ghana were unable to convince. Blogs such as ZonalMarking.net identified that whilst this was a team suited to the counter attack, they lacked the creativity and attacking verve to truly devastate inferior opposition, and to capitalise on the possession they were inevitably afforded in the continental arena. The premature retirement of Milan's Kevin-Prince Boateng, one of the first to console and encourage Gyan after his World Cup miss, has compounded this lack of cutting edge. It is an issue that will not be helped by Gyan's self-imposed international absence.
The third penalty miss I mentioned, and the first chronologically, came in the 2006 World Cup, and Ghana's group defeat of the Czech Republic. Here, the miss was inconsequential, with Gyan being one of two scorers to secure an historic 2-0 victory in the RheinEnergieStadion in Cologne. His goal in this game was also the fastest in the tournament, coming only 68 seconds into the contest.
I close with this memory because it was the tournament, and perhaps the match, which first brought this exciting, attacking player to the collective perception of the footballing fraternity. Despite having already enjoyed several years prior with Udinese, this was the summer when the name 'Asamoah Gyan' and his slightly incongruous number 3 shirt began to mean something to the casual fans from disparate football upbringings.
I, for one, was enchanted by the pleasure with which he approached the game, his tireless running, his inventive movement, and of course, his dancing celebration – one of the 'feel good' moments (excuse the cliché) of that World Cup. I was lucky enough to witness all of this first hand as I watched Sunderland/Tottenham at the Stadium of Light in February 2011.
Gyan's time at Sunderland, like his international career to date, started brightly, filled with promise, only to dissipate into bad feeling and disappointment. The player is currently on loan at Al Ain in the UAE. The facts still aren't completely clear regarding the move; a falling out with Steve Bruce perhaps, sadness at the departure of Darren Bent, an offer the club simply couldn't refuse? It may never be cleared up. There were rumours of Martin O'Neill wanting to bring Gyan back to the North East, and whilst I would enjoy seeing his strong attacking vitality and opportunistic finishing once more in the Premier League, it is leading the line for Ghana where I really want to see Baby Jet back.
This is a young Ghana team, but an immensely talented collection of players, plying their trade in leagues across the world, and for a number of Europe's top clubs. With the indefatigable Stephen Appiah seemingly fatigued for good, and with Michael Essien spending more time in the physio's room that out of it in West London, the team craves a figurehead, a unifying totem to lead them through World Cup Qualification and onto future glory. I hope that Asamoah Gyan can be that man, and can reinvigorate a legacy in grave danger of being lost.
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Bellerophon (/bəˈlɛrəfən/; Greek: Βελλεροφῶν) or Bellerophontes (Βελλεροφόντης) is a hero of Greek mythology. He was "the greatest hero and slayer of monsters, alongside Cadmus and Perseus, before the days of Heracles",[1] and his greatest feat was killing the Chimera, a monster that Homer depicted with a lion's head, a goat's body, and a serpent's tail: "her breath came out in terrible blasts of burning flame."[2] Bellerophon was born at Corinth and was the son of the mortal Eurynome by either her husband Glaucus, or Poseidon.
One possible etymology that has been suggested is: Βελλεροφόντης from βέλεμνον, βελόνη, βέλος ("projectile, dart, javelin, needle, arrow, bullet") and -φόντης ("slayer") from φονεύω ("to slay"). However, Geoffrey Kirk says that "Βελλεροφόντης means 'slayer of Belleros'".[3] Belleros could have been a Lycian, a local daimon or a Corinthian nobleman—Bellerophon's name "clearly invited all sorts of speculation".[3]
Bellerophon's myth
The Iliad vi.155–203 contains an embedded narrative told by Bellerophon's grandson Glaucus, named for his great-grandfather, which recounts Bellerophon's myth. Bellerophon's father was Glaucus,[4] who was the king of Corinth and the son of Sisyphus. Bellerophon's grandsons Sarpedon and the younger Glaucus fought in the Trojan War. In the Epitome of pseudo-Apollodorus, a genealogy is given for Chrysaor ("of the golden sword") that would make him a double of Bellerophon; he too is called the son of Glaucus the son of Sisyphus. Chrysaor has no myth save that of his birth: from the severed neck of Medusa, who was with child by Poseidon, he and Pegasus both sprang at the moment of her death. "From this moment we hear no more of Chrysaor, the rest of the tale concerning the stallion only...[who visits the spring of Pirene] perhaps also for his brother's sake, by whom in the end he let himself be caught, the immortal horse by his mortal brother."[5]
Bellerophon's brave journey began in the familiar way,[6] with an exile: he had murdered either his brother, whose name is usually given as Deliades, or killed a shadowy "enemy", a "Belleros"[7] (though the details are never directly told), and in expiation of his crime arrived as a suppliant to Proetus, king in Tiryns, one of the Mycenaean strongholds of the Argolid. Proetus, by virtue of his kingship, cleansed Bellerophon of his crime. The wife of the king, whether named Anteia[8] or Stheneboea,[9] took a fancy to him, but when he rejected her, she accused Bellerophon of attempting to ravish her.[10] Proetus dared not satisfy his anger by killing a guest, so he sent Bellerophon to King Iobates his father-in-law, in the plain of the River Xanthus in Lycia, bearing a sealed message in a folded tablet: "Pray remove the bearer from this world: he attempted to violate my wife, your daughter."[11] Before opening the tablets, Iobates feasted with Bellerophon for nine days. On reading the tablet's message Iobates too feared the wrath of the Erinyes if he murdered a guest; so he sent Bellerophon on a mission that he deemed impossible: to kill the Chimera, living in neighboring Caria. The Chimera was a fire-breathing monster whose make-up comprised the body of a goat, the head of a lion and the tail being a serpent. This monster had terrorized the nearby countryside.
Capturing Pegasus
The Lycian seer Polyeidos told Bellerophon that he would have need of Pegasus. To obtain the services of the untamed winged horse, Polyeidos told Bellerophon to sleep in the temple of Athena. While Bellerophon slept, he dreamed that Athena set a golden bridle beside him, saying "Sleepest thou, prince of the house of Aiolos? Come, take this charm for the steed and show it to the Tamer thy father as thou makest sacrifice to him of a white bull."[12] It was there when he awoke. Bellerophon had to approach Pegasus while it drank from a well; Polyeidos told him which well—the never-failing Pirene on the citadel of Corinth, the city of Bellerophon's birth. Other accounts say that Athena brought Pegasus already tamed and bridled, or that Poseidon the horse-tamer, secretly the father of Bellerophon, brought Pegasus, as Pausanias understood.[13] Bellerophon mounted his steed and flew off to where the Chimera was said to dwell.
The slaying of the Chimera
When he arrived in Lycia, the Chimera was truly ferocious, and he could not harm the monster even while riding on Pegasus. He felt the heat of the breath the Chimera expelled, and was struck with an idea. He got a large block of lead and mounted it on his spear. Then he flew head-on towards the Chimera, holding out the spear as far as he could. Before he broke off his attack, he managed to lodge the block of lead inside the Chimera's throat. The beast's fire-breath melted the lead, and blocked its air passage.[14] The Chimera suffocated, and Bellerophon returned victorious to King Iobates.[15] Iobates, on Bellerophon's return, was unwilling to credit his story. A series of daunting further quests ensued: he was sent against the warlike Solymi and then against the Amazons who fought like men, whom Bellerophon vanquished by dropping boulders from his winged horse; when he was sent against a Carian pirate, Cheirmarrhus, an ambush failed, when Bellerophon killed all sent to assassinate him; the palace guards were sent against him, but Bellerophon called upon Poseidon, who flooded the plain of Xanthus behind Bellerophon as he approached. In defense the palace women sent him and the flood in retreat by rushing from the gates with their robes lifted high, offering themselves, to which the modest hero replied by withdrawing.[16] Iobates relented, produced the letter, and allowed Bellerophon to marry his daughter Philonoe, the younger sister of Anteia, and shared with him half his kingdom,[17] with fine vineyards and grain fields. The lady Philonoe bore him Isander,[18] Hippolochus and Laodamia, who lay with Zeus the Counselor and bore Sarpedon but was slain by Artemis.[19][20][21]
Flight to Olympus and fall
As Bellerophon's fame grew, so did his hubris. Bellerophon felt that because of his victory over the Chimera, and because he thought he was a god he deserved to fly to Mount Olympus, the realm of the gods. However, this presumption angered Zeus and he sent a gadfly to sting the horse, causing Bellerophon to fall all the way back to Earth. Pegasus completed the flight to Olympus where Zeus used him as a pack horse for his thunderbolts.[22] On the Plain of Aleion ("Wandering"), Bellerophon (who had fallen into a thorn bush) lived out his life in misery as a blinded crippled hermit, grieving and shunning the haunts of men until he died.[23] In Tlos, near Fethiye, in modern-day Turkey, ancient Lykia, there is a tomb with a carving of a man riding a winged horse. This is claimed locally to be the tomb of Bellerophon.
Euripides' Bellerophontes
Enough fragments of Euripides' lost tragedy Bellerophontes remain embedded as some thirty quotations in surviving texts to give scholars a basis for assessing its theme: the tragic outcome of his attempt to storm Olympus on Pegasus. An outspoken passage—in which Bellerophon seems to doubt the gods' existence from the contrast between the wicked and impious, who live lives of ease with the privations suffered by the good—is apparently the basis for Aristophanes' imputation of "atheism" to the tragic poet.[24]
Perseus on Pegasus
The replacement of Bellerophon by the more familiar culture hero Perseus was a development of Classical times that was standardized during the Middle Ages and has been adopted by the European poets of the Renaissance and later.[25]
In popular culture
- The first planet discovered orbiting a Sun-like star, 51 Pegasi b, has been unofficially nicknamed 'Bellerophon'.[26]
- Chimera, the 1972 National Book Award-winning novel by John Barth, includes a novella called Bellerophoniad that is a complex postmodern retelling and examination of the myth of Bellerophon.
- In The Concept of Anxiety, Søren Kierkegaard wrote that Bellerophon "sat calmly on his Pegasus in the service of the idea but fell when he wanted to misuse Pegasus by riding the horse to a rendezvous with a mortal woman."[27]
- The classical opera seria Il Bellerofonte of the Czech composer Josef Mysliveček, premiered in Naples, 1767; its libretto by Giuseppe Bonecchi focused on the passion of the queen Antea.
- The French composer Jean-Baptiste Lully wrote the opera Bellérophon which premiered in Paris in 1679.
- Bellerophon is a computer program used by geneticists and molecular biologists to detect invalid "chimera" genetic sequences.
- Bellerophon was also the name of four or more Royal Navy warships, the first of which fought many naval battles against Napoleon. HMS Bellerphon's keel was laid down in 1782, she was launched in 1792 and broken up in 1836. Napoleon surrendered and was taken aboard the Bellerophon after his defeat at Waterloo. Known as "Billy Ruffian" by the crew, the 74 gun warship fought at the Battle of the Nile (1798) and Battle of Trafalgar (1805). The second HMS Bellerophon was an early battleship, renamed Indus III in 1904 and used for training, then sold in 1922. The third HMS Bellerophon was the lead ship of a three-ship class, which were a follow up to HMS Dreadnought; she fought at the Battle of Jutland. For other ships of the same name, see HMS Bellerophon.
- The USS Bellerophon (ARL-31) was one of 41 Achelous-class landing craft repair ships built for the United States Navy during World War II. She was the only U.S. Naval vessel to bear the name.
- A large statue called Bellerophon Taming Pegasus graces the facade of the Columbia Law School in Manhattan.
- Bellerophon astride Pegasus, as the first airborne warrior, is the traditional symbol of British Airborne forces.
- Starships named Bellerophon have appeared in many TV shows, films, and books, such as:
- The 1956 movie, Forbidden Planet (in which the "Monster from the Id" unleashed by Dr. Morbius is a composite of different kinds of animals, like the Chimera)
- The Andromeda episode "The Lone and Level Sands"
- The Star Trek: Deep Space Nine episode "Inter Arma Enim Silent Leges"
- The Halo: Evolutions short story The Impossible Life and Possible Death of Preston J. Cole. Later renamed the Bellicose after it was captured by insurrectionists.
- Bellerophon was also the name of a character on the series Xena: Warrior Princess
- Was the name of a planet in the series Firefly.
- Bellerophon is used as a name for a cure to the fictional virus 'Chimera' in Mission Impossible II.
- The name of a long lost starship from Earth in the fifth episode of season 3 of Andromeda.
- Bellerophon is the name of a disaster zone-planet in the episode 'Milk Run' of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.
- Bellerophon is a Noble Phantasm of Rider in Fate/stay night that takes the form of the bridle used to tame Pegasus.
- Bellerophon(e) is the name of Dimitris Santziliotis, Athens music project
- Mythic Warriors is a television series with one episode on Bellerophon.
- ↑ Kerenyi 1959, p. 75.
- ↑ Iliad vi.155–203.
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 Kirk 1990, p. 178
- ↑ By some accounts, Bellerophon's father was really Poseidon. Kerenyi 1959 p 78 suggests that "sea-green" Glaucus is a double for Poseidon, god of the sea, who looms behind many of the elements in Bellerophon's myth, not least as the sire of Pegasus and of Chrysaor, but also as the protector of Bellerophon.
- ↑ Kerenyi 1959 p 80.
- ↑ See Joseph Campbell, The Hero with a Thousand Faces, chapter 1, "Separation".
- ↑ The suggestion, made by Kerenyi and others, makes the name "Bellerophontes" the "killer of Belleros", just as Hermes Argeiphontes is "Hermes the killer of Argus". Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers at line 47: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value)., makes a carefully argued case for Bellerophontes as the "bane-slayer" of the "bane to mankind" in Iliad II.329, derived from a rare Greek word έλλερον, explained by the grammarians as κακόν, "evil". This έλλερον is connected by Katz, J. (1998). "How to be a Dragon in Indo-European: Hittite illuyankas and its Linguistic and Cultural Congeners in Latin, Greek, and Germanic". In Jasanoff; Melchert; Oliver. Mír Curad. Studies in Honor of Calvert Watkins. Innsbruck. pp. 317–334. ISBN 3851246675.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles> with a Hesychius gloss ελυες "water animal", and an Indo-European word for "snake", or "dragon", cognate to English eel, also found in Hittite Illuyanka, which would make Bellerophon the dragon slayer of Indo-European myth, represented by Indra slaying Vrtra in Indo-Aryan, and by Thor slaying the Midgard Serpent in Germanic. Robert Graves in The Greek Myths rev. ed. 1960 suggested a translation "bearing darts".
- ↑ In Iliad vi.
- ↑ Euripides' tragedies Stheneboia and Bellerophontes are lost.
- ↑ This mytheme is most familiar in the narrative of Joseph and Potiphar's wife. Robert Graves also notes the parallel in the Egyptian Tale of Two Brothers and in the desire of Athamas' wife for Phrixus (Graves 1960, 70.2, 75.1).
- ↑ The tablets "on which he had traced a number of devices with a deadly meaning" constitute the only apparent reference to writing in the Iliad. Such a letter is termed a "bellerophontic" letter; one such figures in a subplot of Shakespeare's Hamlet, bringing offstage death to Rosencrantz and Guildenstern. Such a letter figures in the earlier story of Sargon of Akkad.
- ↑ Kerenyi 1959, quoting Apollodorus Mythographus, 2.7.4.
- ↑ Description of Greece1.4.6.
- ↑ Some of the red-figure pottery painters show Bellerophon wielding Poseidon's trident instead (Kerenyi 1959).
- ↑ Hesiod, Theogony 319ff; Bibliotheke, ii.3.2; Pindar, Olympian Odes, xiii.63ff; Pausanias, ii.4.1; Hyginus, Fabulae, 157; John Tzetzes, On Lycophron.
- ↑ Robert Graves, 75.d; Plutarch, On the Virtues of Women.
- ↑ The inheritance of kingship through the king's daughter, with many heroic instances, was discussed by Lua error in Module:Citation/CS1/Identifiers at line 47: attempt to index field 'wikibase' (a nil value).; compare Orion and Merope.
- ↑ Isander was struck down by Ares in battle with the Solymi (Iliad xvi.
- ↑ Homer, Iliad, 6. 197–205
- ↑ Oxford Classical Mythology Online. "Chapter 25: Myths of Local Heroes and Heroines". Classical Mythology, Seventh Edition. Oxford University Press USA. Retrieved April 26, 2010.<templatestyles src="Module:Citation/CS1/styles.css"></templatestyles>
- ↑ Diodorus Siculus, refers to her as Deidamia and makes her wife of Evander, son of Sarpedon the elder and by her father of Sarpedon the younger. Library of History, 5. 79. 3
- ↑ Parallels are in the myths of Icarus and Phaeton.
- ↑ Pindar, Olympian Odes, xiii.87–90, and Isthmian Odes, vii.44; Bibliotheke ii.3.2; Homer, Iliad vi.155–203 and xvi.328; Ovid, Metamorphoses ix.646.
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Further reading
- Graves, Robert, 1960. The Greek Myths, revised edition (Harmondsworth: Penguin)
- Homer, Iliad, book vi.155–203
- Kerenyi, Karl, 1959. The Heroes of the Greeks (London: Thames and Hudson)
- Kirk, G. S., 1990. The Iliad: A Commentary Volume II: books 5-8. (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press)
External links
- Media related to Bellerophon at Wikimedia Commons
- Images of Bellerophon in the Warburg Institute Iconographic Database
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Karuizawa whiskies are rarely boring. This is one of the most interesting and courageous distilleries in Japan. Sometimes, you might add "uncompromising" to that description. I notice, looking down my sidebar, that I have not, until now, gone overboard in my ratings of Karuizawa`s products. Funny that, because I always look forward to pouring their whiskies. Perhaps I am just very boring in my whisky tastes?
Anyway, I loved this one (Number One Drinks Co. Bottling, Karuizawa Distillery, Cask 3330, Distilled 1992, Bottled 2007). A sample was sent to me a while back by the Number One Drinks Company but I held onto my notes because I was afraid of the post getting swamped by the flood of Yamazaki reviews that I have been publishing. So, without further ado:
Smell: At first,there are strong earthy and plastic notes. Sweeter tones emerged: nipped candle smoke, butterscotch hard sweets, honey in warm water. Taste: A big blast, very reminiscent of Karuizawa Single Cask 1986, which is also distributed by the Number One Drinks Co. Again, I was left reeling with the aggressive attack: like chewing green twigs. But this one seemed to be much more under control than its older sibling. There was a passing suggestion of rubber and petrol station forecourt but, when the sweetness came, It tasted of delicious dark chocolate and sweet cigarettes. I don't smoke but it was very moreish. At the end, a saline theme developed. Predictably, it stood up well to a fair dash of water - fizzy, dark chocolate tastes came early - but personally, despite its strength, I would take this one with barely a drop . This is the first Karuizawa I have really enthused over. It will not be the last.
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BALTIMORE, 05-13-13– Kentucky Derby winner Orb arrived at Pimlico Race Course Monday, stepping off the van that transported him from Belmont Park shortly after 3 p.m. to continue his preparation for Saturday's 138th running of the Preakness Stakes (G1).
Stuart Janney III and Phipps Stable's homebred 3-year-old colt hungrily grazed on grass for 40 minutes before being bedded down in Stall 40, the stall annually reserved for the Kentucky Derby (G1) winner.
Trainer Shug McGaughey arrived at Pimlico approximately an hour after the van and was pleased with his colt's condition, as well as honored that his Derby winner was occupying the same stall that housed so many thoroughbred greats through the years.
"You can't believe how proud I am," the Hall of Fame trainer said while addressing the media. "I'm thrilled to be standing here right now. I couldn't be a happier guy. I'm excited to be here today."
Orb won his fifth straight race at Churchill Downs on May 4 while providing his trainer with his first Kentucky Derby success in a very distinguished career. McGaughey, who will be seeking his first Preakness victory with Orb, hasn't competed in the Preakness since 1989, when Kentucky Derby runner-up Easy Goer lost the Middle Jewel of the Triple Crown to Kentucky Derby winner Sunday Silence by a nose.
"Obviously, I'm here with the Derby winner, so I'm probably a lot more at ease than when I came in that time," said McGaughey, who saddled Easy Goer for a victory over Sunday Silence in the Belmont Stakes (G1). "We're excited where we are. We're glad to be here."
Orb was the second Preakness hopeful to arrive at Pimlico, joining Santa Anita Derby (G1) winner Goldencents, the 17th-place Derby finisher who shipped in early last week.
"When I came in '89, we came in here on Tuesday. This year, I made up my mind I wanted to work him a day out from there and get him down here to try to get him used to his surroundings," McGaughey said. "I want to school him in the paddock and not do too much at one time, so I figured we'd get him in here today."
Orb will likely be heavily favored in the Preakness.
"Not that I'm not going to be watching the other horses – watching their workouts, how they do, and how they ship in here – but my main concern is Orb and trying to get him from Monday afternoon to Saturday afternoon the best way that I possibly can," McGaughey said.
Before stepping onto the Pimlico-bound van, Orb was sent to the track at Belmont for a final workout for the Preakness. The son of Malibu Moon, who breezed a half-mile under exercise rider Jenn Patterson, was timed in 47.18, the fifth-fastest of 96 recorded at the distance Monday morning.
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"We have played them well. We need to continue to play well," A's manager Bob Melvin said. "You can't just throw your glove out there and think you're going to win. They've been swinging the bat a lot better, and they've made some personnel moves. They look to be a better team right now."
Toeing the rubber for the A's in Friday's series opener is Tommy Milone, who ended a personal five-game losing streak his last time out. The left-hander held Kansas City to only one run over six innings on Saturday. In fact, twice during his skid Milone was charged with a loss despite allowing zero earned runs.
"Losing five in a row is never a good thing, whether you pitch well or not," Milone said. "You want to win as a team. Losing is not fun."
Houston's starters are 0-6 with a 12.36 ERA against the A's this season, and that includes two starts that never made it through the first inning. Veteran lefty Erik Bedard will try to put an end to that disturbing trend. Bedard has allowed two runs or less in each of his last three starts but only has three no-decisions to show for it. He has not been able to pitch very deep into games, although Saturday at Pittsburgh he did last a season-high six innings.
The Astros are coming off a series win over Kansas City to start their eight- game homestand. On Wednesday, J.D. Martinez hit a two-run homer in the first inning to lead the way in a 3-1 victory. Starter Jordan Lyles tossed six innings of one-run ball.
Oakland had its five-game winning streak snapped in Wednesday's 3-1 loss at Texas. The offense had trouble solving Rangers' 30-year-old rookie Ross Wolf, as they managed only four hits for the game. Starter Jarrod Parker gave up three runs in the first inning but did not allow a run after that.
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Filling ATO and RO reservoir while using Genesis
Hello, how do people deal with the issue of filling the ATO reservoir using Genesis ROCV and also filling the RO tank to make salt water later from one RO/DI system?
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i not sure if i get your question. but what i understand is you want to know how to fill ATO bin and Saltwater bin using this system.
here is what i do.
i have 2 x 55 gal barrels, 1 for rodi and 2nd for saltmix
1st barrel also is my ATO, when my saltmix barrel is near out i move whatever water is in the 1st bin and let ROCV come on and make fresh water.
here i have 2 choices, 1 either i can let is make whole 55 gal and shut off and then i can move some of the water from there to saltmix bin or 2nd choice is which i do, i keep an eye on the 1st bin and keep moving water over to 2nd as its being made freshly and thus my 2nd bin is full while 1st is still being filled and then it shuts off on its own due to ROCV sensors.
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Generally I recommend simply placing a tee on the RODI output line and running one branch to the mixing bin, and one to the top off bin, with a 1/4-turn valve on each branch. Where the branches terminate in the mixing bin and top off bin, I place mechanical float valves; not only are they a great failsafe device, they also make it easy to affix the RO tubing to the bins.
Under normal circumstances, I close the valve to the mixing bin and open the valve to the top off bin. Then, when I need to fill the mixing bin, I simply close the valve to the top off bin and open the valve to the mixing bin. Then I set the Auxiliary Mode on the STORM™ to "ON." The RODI unit produce water until the mixing bin is full, at which time the mechanical float valve will close, causing the water pressure in the RODI unit to increase until the RODI unit's automatic shut off valve stops the flow of water through the unit. Then, the next time I walk by and see that the mixing bin is full, I change the STORM™ Auxiliary Mode back to "ROCv™," close the 1/4-turn valve on the mixing bin, and open the valve on the top off bin.
It sounds way more complex than it really is; it's really straightforward after you do it once or twice. There's really no need to "over engineer" it, because it's just so simple and easy to do.
I hope this helps!
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I was planning on using a Spectrapure 100 GPD UHE RO/DI which comes with low and high float valves for filling RO container. Not sure where to place ROCV and how the two can work together to fill ATO and RO container. Thanks
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Hi luiscarr,
I've been pondering this and just posted a response to your other thread.
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Hey there. I've got Renew and Storm, but haven't set up yet since my build got majorly sidetracked. (almost done fixing the crappy mfg job Coast to Coast did and ready to move tank to its stand.....) I did, though, set up the fresh water supply system and the saltwater mixing system, and will try to describe here (after 1 a.m. ........) my setup is similar to bnumair's, but a little more robust.
I, too, have SP UHE systm (albeit 200 gpd). (ABSOLUTELY LOVE IT and highly recommend it!!!) The SP feeds into a pair of 55-gallon Brut containers that are linked together, so I will have about 100 gallons of fresh when RO system shuts off.
As noted above, the UHE system uses a pair of float switches, one low and one high, to control the system. When supply of water gets low, the low switch will cause the system to turn on; when the Brutes are filled, the high switch causes it to turn off. The UHE system is set up with a constant-on supply of water, tapped into side of fresh water supply to my utility sink. So when the system turns on, a solenoid valve opens to permit water supply to the RO system, and the booster pump kicks on; vice versa when it turns off. (If you toggle electrical power to the sytem -- mine is plugged into an outlet with a switch, so easy enough to throw switch back and forth -- it will kick on even if the system has not been drained to the low level switch yet, so it's easy to keep a large supply of fresh water with just a quick off/on of the switch when I go into the fish room.)
So now the question is what I do with the fresh water. I run a conduit along the floor from the bottom of the two brutes over to my saltwater mixing station, and I Tee off at the end of the conduit. One branch from the tee leads to pump controlled by the storm, to pump fresh water into the system, and the other branch from the tee leads to a pump I use to supply fresh water into the saltwater mixing station. So with this arrangement, I don't even need the ROCv; toggling power to the RO system will kick it on easily enough (and float switch will shut it off), or the low switch on the RO system will kick it on if for some reason I don't go into the fish room for a few days to do so.
Re the mixing station, I have two 55-gallon drums here, too! This way, one is "live" and being used to supply saltwater to the Renew system, while the other one is on standby with saltwater being brewed. The pump I mention above to fill with fresh water is between the two drums, and there is a two-way valve I use to control where the fresh water is ported. Additionally, I set up a "circuit" of valves and pumps between the bins. One pump receives water from bottom of bins and pumps it back into the top, to circulate water through bin to keep saltwater getting brewed stirred well, the other pump receives water from bottom of bins and is used to pump water up to the Renew metering bucket. Overflow from metering bucket comes back down to bin, but is ported to the "live" or "online" bin (instead of the brewing bin) via another two-way valve. By throwing four different valve levers, I will cause saltwater to circulate out of bottom and back into top of one bin, while saltwater will flow out of bottom and be delivered to pump to Renew metering bucket from the other bin (and overflow will go back to that bin); reversing the four levers will reverse the roles of the two bins.
As I write this, I realize it's probably pretty hard to follow. So I will definitely take and post some pix when I get home from in-laws! I think it's actually a pretty clever setup!
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Ok, further to my preceding post, here is how I have things set up. The first three sketches are as per the description above. The fourth one shows how I have arranged a float switch in each of the saltwater supply bins (purchased an extra and some cord extender) to shut off the Renew system if the "live" or "online" system runs out of saltwater.
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Last week I had the pleasure to be a part of IIUG 2012 conference in (almost) sunny San Diego. The wonderful organizers of the conference did it again! In fact they outdid themselves in several ways. With a sold out hotel, a record number of sessions, and an increased number of users as well as total attendees, it was a great atmosphere. You can read more about the conference in the current edition of IIUG Insider newsletter (Issue #142).
The conference organizers once again welcomed IBM to invite and host faculty members from the regional universities on April 24th, the second day of the conference. We had two faculty members from two universities at the conference: California State University at Long Beach, and University of Redlands. In addition, we had a representative who is also an Informix user from The University of Iowa. The faculty members were given a one day pass to the conference which included an invitation to Tuesday's keynote, conference sessions, demos, and a round table discussion with the IBM Informix and the IIUG leaders. At the round table, the attendees learnt about the latest Informix technologies, the role of Informix in the database market, and its role in the IBM Smarter Planet initiative.
This year another great thing happened on the academic front. For the first time, the IIUG Directors Award was bestowed upon a faculty member. Dr. Mirta Baranovic from the University of Zagreb, who has been teaching Informix to her students since the 1980s, won the IIUG Directors Award for 2012. You can read more about her passion and contributions to the Informix community here.
All the faculty members that attended the conference and the round table session found it very valuable and are looking forward to collaborating with IBM this Summer/Fall. A big thanks to everyone at IBM and IIUG who made this event a grand success!!
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Ben Howell is thankful for every bruise. He is grateful for every thudding tackle that has taken him to the turf in practice. He is appreciative for the jersey that got shredded in a game last weekend.
Most of all, Howell is thankful for football. The University of Alabama's walk-on running back from Gordo didn't have any options to continue playing after his high school career until he got the offer to walk on at Alabama without a scholarship. He knew he was signing up to be a practice player — in truth, a live practice dummy — for one of the nation's top defenses to tee off on, to help them prepare for games on Saturday.
TUSCALOOSA | Ben Howell is thankful for every bruise. He is grateful for every thudding tackle that has taken him to the turf in practice. He is appreciative for the jersey that got shredded in a game last weekend.
Most of all, Howell is thankful for football. The University of Alabama's walk-on running back from Gordo didn't have any options to continue playing after his high school career until he got the offer to walk on at Alabama without a scholarship. He knew he was signing up to be a practice player — in truth, a live practice dummy — for one of the nation's top defenses to tee off on, to help them prepare for games on Saturday.
For four years, the 5-foot-9, 200-pound senior has gladly suffered for the privilege of wearing the crimson jersey. This season, he dressed out for every game and has even been able to get on the field in six contests, rushing 15 times for 47 yards.
When he gives thanks today, it will be for family and support from his hometown and for having the chance to play at Alabama.
"Football is definitely on the list," Howell said. "I'm thankful for the opportunity Coach (Nick) Saban and the other coaches have given me to come here and be on the team for four years and contribute. I'm thankful for the opportunity God gave me to come here."
Howell's teammates, too, are grateful that he's part of the team.
"Ben Howell is probably one of my favorite players I've ever been able to play with," safety Vinnie Sunseri said.
"He might not be the most athletic person, but I mean he gives his all, 110 percent of the time no matter what it is. A lot of the guys get mad at him because he's always going so hard even when we're doing walk-through and stuff, but that's just the kind of person he is. Him being able to go out and play is just awesome."
Said defensive lineman Damion Square, "The man has been giving us a look (on the scout team) for the past four years and I'm glad they're giving him an opportunity to showcase his talent out on the field for all that he does for us every week. Ben is a great player with a great heart and knows what he's doing and knows the game of football really well."
Howell caught some breaks that allowed him to play at Alabama. His mother, Jackie, works for UA as an office manager at Alabama Public Radio, which qualifies him for a big discount on his tuition, and he also earned academic scholarship help. His father, Richard, and grandfather, Jack, own a beef and poultry farm, so the family has been able to help out with rent and other costs. He also has the support of his sister Sara, a fellow Gordo High graduate who is a freshman at Alabama.
Playing at a Class 3A high school less than a half-hour drive from the UA campus, Howell didn't get a look from the Crimson Tide during the recruiting process. So he made them look, sending highlight tapes that garnered him an invitation to a camp, where coaches liked his attitude and effort. After UA's loss to Utah to end the 2008 season, he got the call from Joe Pendry, then UA's offensive line coach, with an invitation to join as a walk-on.
"I always loved Alabama," Howell said. "My mom was a big Alabama fan. My dad was actually an Auburn fan until I got to college and came here. I always loved playing football. I actually loved playing baseball in high school, too, but it just didn't look like it was going to work out. I was better at football and I've always been a real physical guy, just like hitting people and stuff like that."
From the start, Howell's job was more to be hit than to hit. He worked against UA's first-team and second-team defenders in practice, and was there to help make them better.
"It was really just overwhelming," Howell said. "It took a little while to get used to it, for sure.
"There definitely have been times where I've been just, man, is this worth it? Especially my freshman year, knowing I wasn't going to get to play any."
So why did he stay?
"The wins, that we were a good team made it a lot easier," he said. "And, also, I felt like God gave me this opportunity to do more than just play football. To help others, show others the right path, stuff like that, remembering that and that I'm here to help the team as a whole and not just for myself, that helped me stay on track."
Howell has been hit by All-Americans like Courtney Upshaw and Dont'a Hightower, Terrence Cody and Javier Arenas. He will tell you, honestly, that he has lost more practice-field battles than he has won.
"One hit, my freshman year, Dont'a Hightower – he probably doesn't even remember – he came through the middle and I was supposed to block him and he just plowed through me," Howell said. "At that time I probably weighted 185 pounds. He killed me.
"Running into Cody was like a brick wall, he was just huge. Javy Arenas could hit really good, too. He would pop you. I've had to block Upshaw a few times. Not fun. It gets brutal out there sometimes."
Every once in a while, Howell has come out on top in practice. He savors those moments.
"I've had some good plays," he said. "One time my freshman year, Javy came to tackle me and I think he thought he was going to kill me. I just kind of side-stepped and kept going. I felt like I was a champ."
Sunseri has seen Howell battle bigger, stronger, faster players in practice. He likens him to Rudy Ruettiger, a former Notre Dame walk-on who had his career chronicled in film.
"Coach calls me 'Rudy,' but he's actually the real Rudy," Sunseri said. "He gives it all, all the time."
Howell played in one game as a sophomore, running five times for 11 yards against Georgia State, but didn't get a single carry as a junior. He began to face reality.
"I'd always dreamed of being the main running back," he said. "Probably around my junior year, it just looked like that's not going to happen. I just thought I've gone this far, I need to finish. That's one of the main things in this program is finish. It's really going to help me if I keep with it."
Howell will leave Alabama with at least two national championship rings, for the 2009 and 2011 seasons, and could earn another if UA wins out the rest of the way.
This season has provided reward for all his hard work, all the bumps and bruises and long days at practice.
Last weekend, he even got a souvenir. His jersey got ripped at the end of Alabama's victory over Western Carolina and his name tag nearly came off. Teammate Carson Tinker, UA's long snapper and himself a former walk-on, pulled it off after the game and handed it to Howell.
"I put that in my pocket," Howell said. "I asked the managers first, and they said it's no big deal."
Running out onto the field at Bryant-Denny Stadium this weekend will be a big deal. It will be Howell's last home game.
"It's my last game and it's actually the first time I've got to dress against Auburn," he said. "That will be really cool.
"Sometimes I take it for granted, but afterwards I have to look at it and (realize) that's something a lot of people wish they could do. It will be really special."
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Cleveland's most interesting cut Saturday came at the kicker position. Deciding between veteran Shayne Graham and rookie Brandon Bogotay, the Browns chose ... neither.
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Both specialists were part of a 13-player, late-afternoon housecleaning that brought the Browns to 53 players ahead of the NFL's 6 p.m. ET deadline, the team announced.
Graham's release was the bigger surprise of the two, but neither he nor Bogotay instilled much confidence during the offseason process. While Graham, 35, was 3-for-3 booting field goals in the preseason, he lacks long-distance accuracy. Bogotay, who CBS Sports reports might be headed to injured reserve, wasn't going to make the greater Cleveland area forget about Phil Dawson.
Browns coach Rob Chudzinski weighed in on the uninspiring results:
Chud on K: "We weren't completely satisfied. We haven't closed the door on kickers we had. There's number of vets out there."â Marla Ridenour (@MRidenourABJ) August 31, 2013
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Leicester City playmaker Andy King had a stellar campaign in the Championship last season and is considered as one of the best midfielders outside the Premier League.
King is a goal-scoring midfielder, and is a regular in the Wales setup following his rise to prominence.
King scored seven goals in Championship last season, and is considered as a modern day playmaker.
The Chelsea academy product is an opportunistic player and is a regular scorer from midfield. His goal scoring can be attributed to his ability to be in the right place at the right time.
His overall game play has developed over the season which has turned him into a complete midfielder.
King has won the League 1 title with the foxes, and was selected as the clubs Player of the Year twice in succession. He had also made it to Championship PFA Team of the Year.
He's been with Leicester City since 2006, and has scored 50 goals in his 240 appearances with the club. In 2010-11 season, the midfielder topped the Championship sides goal-scoring charts with 16 goals. King's knack of scoring crucial goals makes him prominent among his counterparts.
Even though injury sidelined him in 2012, he came back strongly and now deserves his shot at the big time.
Premier League clubs should take a chance on Leicester's star as he possesses all the ingredients to succeed in England's top division.
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THERE'S a moment early in the series premiere of ''Entourage,'' the new HBO comedy, which is likely to cause some cringing among certain young Hollywood stars and the posses who trail them. Vincent Chase, a vapid but great-looking star on the rise, played by Adrian Grenier, is being pestered by his best-buddy-slash-aspiring-manager Eric (Kevin Connolly) to read a script for a movie pitched as '' 'Die Hard' at Disneyworld.''
Vince can't understand why. He never finished the script for his last film. ''I didn't even know who the killer was till I saw the thing,'' he laughs.
''There's nothing in the show that's not something that one of us has experienced,'' said Doug Ellin, the show's creator. ''Mark was very clear that we don't want to make a fake version of this. He wanted it to be real.''
The Mark of which he speaks is the actor Mark Wahlberg, who not only serves as an executive producer of the show, but the model for Vince -- and through some combination of these two roles, as Hollywood's latest tattler-sociologist. In the first two episodes alone, the show takes swipes at sycophantic agents, promiscuous groupies, pseudo-virginal pop stars, dimwitted star siblings and, of course, immature, insecure, unprepared movie stars.
But it's the funny, painful exploration of the phenomenon known as the entourage that sets the show apart from other industry satires. Like the fictional Vince and the real Mr. Wahlberg, many young stars surround themselves with a ring of friends who travel with them, hang out with them, often live with them. Everyone gets something from the arrangement: the new star gets the comfort of people who have known him for more than five minutes, and the friends get the fun of his reflected glow. But it's also a profoundly awkward, inherently inequitable relationship: dependent on their old friend's fame, money and connections, the buddies end up essentially working for the star, often in petty capacities, and inevitably getting on his nerves. But they go along with it, for such are the rewards of reflected celebrity. On ''Entourage,'' that dynamic is played out for full humiliation: most of Vince's friends are practically manservants, doing his driving and cooking; one is reduced to telling a girl: ''Come on, make out with me. I'll show you where Vince eats breakfast.'' (It works.)Continue reading the main story
Mark Wahlberg based the story on his own experience as a young star, when he routinely partied until dawn, romanced untold numbers of starlets, tussled with rival entourages (including Madonna's) and built a tight inner circle made up of other Boston natives and an assortment of oddballs he collected along the way. For these friends, having their most parasitic moments replayed for a national audience can't be all that comfortable, but when Mr. Wahlberg championed the project, they went along with it, for such are the rewards of reflected celebrity: several of them are credited as producers or consultants.
THE biggest question about ''Entourage'' may be why Mr. Wahlberg, a firmly established star with both box office and critical hits to his name, would decide to expose the often embarrassing circumstances of his own social life to millions of HBO subscribers. It's as if Tom Cruise were starring in a fable about Hollywood secrecy, or Jennifer Aniston and Brad Pitt were writing a script about high-profile coupledom. After all, almost no one in Hollywood knows more about entourages than Mr. Wahlberg. He has headed his own posse for the better part of the last 15 years, as he transitioned from being the bad-side-of-Boston rapper Marky Mark to the respected, bankable star of movies like ''Boogie Nights,'' ''Three Kings'' and ''Planet of the Apes.'' Through it all, Mr. Wahlberg, 33, has prided himself on his eclectic mix of hangers-on.
As he explained in a recent interview in his suite in the Trump International Hotel and Towers in Manhattan, Mr. Wahlberg sees these companions as useful, even necessary. ''My thing was always that having the people I have around keeps me grounded,'' he said. ''If you're an actor and you're working on films on a pretty regular basis, you're going to have people around you constantly anyways, so why not make it people that you like, that you're comfortable with? It just always made more sense to me. If you're going to have a driver, why not have someone you know and that you like?''
At the same time, Mr. Wahlberg is well aware of how some entourages work, mining stardom for treats they could never afford on their own. ''You have the yes men and you have the no men,'' Mr. Wahlberg said, mentioning guys who would praise his talent and then in the next breath demand, ''Buy this Maybach,'' a top of the line luxury car, or, ''How come we don't have the new Rolls?''
The characters on the show are based directly on real-life cronies of Mr. Wahlberg's. Turtle, the rotund, crassly funny, baseball-cap wearing driver (played by Jerry Ferrara) is based on a struggling rapper named Donkey who performs under the name Murder One. The character of Johnny Drama (played by Kevin Dillon, brother of the former teen idol Matt), is Vince's half-brother, his cook and an also-ran actor. He is modeled in large part on John Alves (whose nickname is the same as Mr. Dillon's character's), a bodybuilding security guard-slash-spiritual guide who was tapped by Mr. Wahlberg's brother, Donnie, to keep his kid brother out of trouble. (At 16, Mr. Wahlberg was convicted of assault and served 50 days in a state penitentiary.) It was Mr. Alves, who had done a couple of episodes of obscure television shows, whom Mr. Wahlberg credits with getting him into acting. In the show, Johnny Drama is nakedly, pathetically jealous of Vince's effortless success.
''I'm a lot like this guy, I've had an up and down career,'' said Mr. Dillon, 38. ''And I've definitely crashed on Matt's couch a number of times, and he's picked up a lot of checks.''
The character of Eric, the sensible one who acts as a go-between with the star's agent, is largely based on Steve Levinson, Mr. Wahlberg's actual manager and another of the show's executive producers, and Eric Weinstein, a middle-aged Bronx native, who first met the star on the set of ''The Basketball Diaries'' in the mid 1990's, when Mr. Wahlberg was new to Hollywood and searching for confidantes. On the show, the character of Eric is the smart, sensible friend and the only vaguely moral presence. He regularly clashes with Vince's agent, Ari Jacobs, played by Jeremy Piven.
Unlike the members of the entourage, Ari is a seasoned Hollywood professional, whose relationship with Vince involves a comparatively simple kind of mutual exploitation. He is also the most brutal -- and brutally funny -- character on the show, a screaming, bullying, womanizing 10-percenter. Mr. Wahlberg says the character is also a loving -- yes, loving -- tribute to Ari Emanuel, Mr. Wahlberg's famously brash agent at the Endeavor Agency. (Mr. Emanuel says that he is ''amused'' by the portrayal.) In yet another insider twist, Mr. Emanuel used to represent Mr. Piven, who says the character is also a more general take on the kind of ''high-strung, fast-talking, $40 million-before-you're-40 guy'' common in Hollywood. ''I've had people come up and say, 'Oh my god, you totally got him -- how did you do that?' and they're talking about someone I never heard of,'' Mr. Piven said.
He added that he thought that the show's realism came from Mr. Wahlberg's experiences as a flavor-of-the-month star who managed to parlay early attention into a durable career. ''It's true that old saying: you write what you know,'' he said. ''And if anyone's been in the belly of the beast, it's Mark Wahlberg.''
THE real reason Mr. Wahlberg has chosen to expose and lampoon his entourage may rest in the logic of the entourage itself. In a bizarre extension of the usual posse dynamic, the show is providing jobs, and even a bit of exposure, for these longtime friends and hangers-on. In fact, the original idea for the series came from Mr. Weinstein, who started to film a documentary about the odd assortment of characters who still surround Mr. Wahlberg. The star liked the idea, but preferred to turn his posse into a fictional group, in order to more brutally satirize himself, his friends and the industry that made him a star.
Mr. Weinstein, who had never developed a television show, was more than happy to offer up his sometimes-humiliating experiences for the delectation of HBO viewers. In yet another example of an opportunity available only through Mr. Wahlberg, Mr. Weinstein received an associate producer credit on the show, while Mr. Alves (the real Johnny Drama) is billed as a consultant. But even more than the credential, these posse members -- who for years have held Mr. Wahlberg's doors and fetched his drycleaning -- are finally having a moment in the spotlight, even if it's coming at their own expense.
Mr. Weinstein, 49, says he has no problem with viewers laughing at the entourage -- ''The show shows how close we all are,'' he says -- and feels proud of the work he does for his boss. ''It's neverending,'' he said. ''I do construction, I'm the estate manager, travel agent, I read scripts. It's a team effort.''
Mr. Wahlberg says his entourage, and the industry, are looking forward to the show. ''Some people are a little nervous, and they should be, because we're not going to pull any punches,'' he said. ''If you get it and you want to be in on it, cool. If not, you're probably going to be on the butt end of a couple of jokes.''
As tough as ''Entourage'' is so far, both Mr. Wahlberg and Mr. Ellin say things are just going to get more cringe-inducing. ''We've definitely held back,'' Mr. Ellin said. ''We will get more outrageous.''
And Mr. Wahlberg promises to continue mining his life, in real time, for material. As an example, he mentioned that his mother -- who was at the previous evening's starry New York premiere for the show -- might have a cameo as Vince's mother in an upcoming episode. The idea is for her to ride in a car with the pot-smoking entourage members and, as a result, end up with a contact high. How, pray tell, did this idea come to him? ''Well,'' said Mr. Wahlberg with a sheepish grin. ''She was in the car with us last night.''Continue reading the main story


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Progress ~ Star Ocean: Blue Sphere Star Ocean: Blue Sphere
# Posted on June 4th, 2018 11:27 AM by Gideon ZhiToday I´m going to discuss the progress Blue Sphere has had over the last several years. The initial translation completed in 2012, though the writing is pretty rough and it´ll need to be edited. It´s also kind of glitchy, and there´s lots of interface work to be done. But I picked up some Z80 and GBC architecture last fall rather than wait for someone else to help out with it (I´ve had abortive promises on the technical work from at least three different directions) and managed to convert the main dialog font into 4x8 in the same manner as the Pokemon Trading Card Game. Work continues! I´ve updated the game´s project page with nine new screenshots indicative of the technical changes that have been done.
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Release ~ SRW Gaiden v1.01 Super Robot Wars Gaiden
# Posted on May 29th, 2018 12:28 PM by Gideon ZhiIt´s been brought to my attention that the base ROM for the Super Robot Wars Gaiden translation was an overdump. Today I´m releasing v1.01, which uses the No-Intro ROM as a base. Fun fact: when the SRW Gaiden project started, the overdump was the only copy of the game available; No-Intro didn´t exist! The update also adds in the usual AGTP logo intro, and fixes a small handful of typos. There will likely be another patch at some point down the line to further fix any typos that may crop up, but beyond that there shouldn´t be anything of significance that would detract from anyone´s enjoyment. Play and have fun!
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Major Release ~ Super Robot Wars Gaiden: The Elemental Lords Super Robot Wars Gaiden
# Posted on May 22nd, 2018 06:51 AM by Gideon ZhiToday AGTP releases a complete translation for Super Robot Wars Gaiden: The Elemental Lords. This title details the very beginning of the saga surrounding Banpresto´s first original Super Robot War character, and includes aboslutely no licensed units: the story and characters are all entirely original. The art style additionally is non-SD and the game includes several additional tactical elements not present in other SRW titles. It is, in fact, as ideal entrypoint as possible for anyone not familiar with the series.
The translation is complete and without any known issues. Enjoy!
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Announcement ~ Announcing Hero Chronicle Hero Chronicle
# Posted on May 10th, 2018 06:28 PM by Gideon ZhiToday I´m announcing a translation project for Hero Chronicle: Project Olympus. This is a crossover RPG from Winkysoft and Banpresto, who you´ll know from Super Robot Wars. In fact, Masaki Andoh and Shu Shirakawa make appearances as playable characters, and this features the very first appearance of Gilliam Jaeger, a character who will go on to appear in several Super Robot Wars titles. The title screen music from this game actually became Gilliam´s SRW theme starting with the PS2 Super Robot Wars Original Generations titles.
I picked up Hero Chronicle for a number of reasons. First, I wanted to dabble with creating a fully-proportional menu font out of a tiled font, a skill which will serve me well in other projects like Madara 2. Second, Gilliam´s appearance gives this game historical importance amongst Banpresto´s crossover titles. I actually began work on this during the Great Battle endeavor back in January. The script was once again translated by TheMajinZenki, though once again it needs a good edit. And ,as state,d the menus are going to be extremely challenging, but the experience will be a good one and it´s already given me some thoughts on how better to handle the other SNES SRW titles´ menu problems. It´s going to be a bit of a slog to get the rest of the technical work done but I´ve got a good feeling about it.
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Progress ~ Chaos World Redux Chaos World
# Posted on April 30th, 2018 11:45 AM by Gideon ZhiChaos World was one of the very first RPGs I worked on, and as a result the current patch isn´t quite up to standard; I had to cut down a *lot* of the text in order to fit the game script back in, and I never released it with a v1.0 status. Today I´m announcing that I still have Xeur´s original script before all the paring-down; with the help of TheMajinZenki I´ve mapped it to a new proper script dump and am preparing it for reinsertion. No new screenshots yet as it hasn´t gotten that far, but this is something I´m legitimately excited about and wanted to share the progress that has been made.
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Progress ~ Yu Yu Haksuho Tokubetsu-Hen Yu Yu Hakusho: Tokubetsu-hen
# Posted on April 23rd, 2018 12:01 PM by Gideon ZhiToday I´m providing a progress report for Yu Yu Hakusho: Tokubetsu-hen. The main script is translated and inserted, but there´s a lot of fiddly technical bits left. I´ve been slowly re-drawing the menu graphics (the text on the menu items is actually painted on; it´s not on a different layer so when it´s removed, whatever was supposed to have been underneath it needs to be filled in by hand) and working on the menus. The tournament mode has a few problems and the attract mode still needs to be done, but the project is in fairly good shape. I´ve replaced the screenshots on the project´s page to reflect the work that´s been done. No ETA though; other things are taking priority.
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Progress ~ Monstania Redux Monstania
# Posted on April 16th, 2018 11:59 AM by Gideon ZhiMonstania was the very first translation patch of meaningful size that I released, and it is correspondingly more than a little creaky in a lot of ways. To that end I´ve spent some time reworking it. I´d like to be able to have user-entered 8-character names and it still has the weird soft-lock semi-hang bug that the original version has, but I´ve gotten the script completely retranslated (thanks again to TheMajinZenki, who did JoJo, SRW2, Magical Drop 2, and Masoukishin.) I´m attaching a couple of sample snapshots of current work to this news post, but as they don´t reflect the currently available patch I´m not going to add them to the project page. As with Lady Stalker, the Monstania redux´s future could go a number of ways; I´m not going to say much more here about it, other than that it´s amazing how simple this game is to work on now that I´ve got nearly 20 years of experience under my belt!
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Progress ~ Magical Drop 2 Commercially Available Magical Drop 2
# Posted on April 9th, 2018 11:33 AM by Gideon ZhiToday I´m going to be talking a bit about Magical Drop 2. The translation is complete and the game is now fully playable in English, end to end! But I´m not releasing it just yet, primarily because it is currently available for purchase - yes, with the English translation applied - as part of the Data East Classics Collection from Retro-bit. That´s right: we´ve been licensed! I´ve ticked the progress counter on the project page up to 99 (it doesn´t go any higher for projects without downloads) and updated the screenshots to showcase current work. From here I need to ask for some patience while I figure out where Magical Drop 2´s future lies.
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Progress ~ Laplace´s Demon in Beta Testing Laplace´s Demon
# Posted on April 5th, 2018 12:48 PM by Gideon ZhiLaplace´s Demon is a very strongly thematic game. Most years since its original release I´d think to myself, ´I should make sure to get this done for Halloween´ or ´Wouldn´t it be funny to release this on Valentine´s Day´ or something along those lines. The problem was that the thought would occur way too close to the holiday in question, and there was never enough time to fully fix the game in time. Then the holiday would pass, and Laplace would once again cease to be a priority.
I´m no longer aiming for a holiday-themed release for this. It´s been in playtesting for a while, and a second round is scheduled to start as soon as Masoukishin is done, but there are enough bugs in the original game that it can be kind of hard to tell if an issue is something caused by the translation or if it´s something that was always there. In the interests of personal sanity I´m not aiming to fix anything present in the original game, though the new version of the translation does look much nicer than the version I released back in the day. To that end I´ve completely replaced the screenshot slideshow on the project page with 15 fresh snaps showing the current state of the translation. I don´t think this one is very far off, though as usual I´m not going to commit to any given release date.
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Miscellaneous ~ Site Updates, Discord, Etc# Posted on April 4th, 2018 04:20 PM by Gideon ZhiHi everyone,
There´s an awful lot to talk about, an awful lot that´s happened in the last few years that the site has been silent. Some of that´s personal and isn´t really appropriate for this feed, but there´s a ton of news on a bunch of different projects that needs to get shared, and a number of pages on the site are a little creaky with age as well. So for the next little while I´ll be posting updates on Mondays and on Thursdays with project news, with site infrastructure updates as they occur.
For today, you´ll note that I´ve removed the "wanted" link from the hotbar; the information in it was old and misleading, it was an extremely manual process to keep it up to date, and in general it is no longer needed. I´ve replaced it with an invite link to the Aeon Genesis discord. The rules are basically the same as the forum rules.
Of particular note is that several years ago I set up a task and bug tracker, and I´ve grown to greatly appreciate tickets in the system for keeping track of what needs to be done on a given project. The task lists aren´t exhaustive (in particular, one game only has two tasks: "translate the script" and "insert the script") but more get added as projects mature. Additionally, any updates to tickets on public projects are echoed to a channel on the discord. Consider the site to be big-picture news, while the ticket feed is much more fine-grain. You won´t see individual bug fix updates on the website, but if you´re interested in following the day-to-day, the discord is the way to go.
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CHAPEL HILL, N.C. (AP) -- Gio Bernard outrushed the entire Virginia Tech team on a single carry -- twice. He had a career day against a traditionally tough Hokies defense that doesn't allow many of those.
Yes, this was quite a statement -- not just for himself, but for the future of his North Carolina team.
Bernard rushed for a personal-best 262 yards with a key long touchdown to lead the Tar Heels past slumping Virginia Tech 48-34 on Saturday.
"People are probably going to say that they're having an off year, but it doesn't matter," Bernard said. "We just wanted to show everybody what we could do, and we knew what we could do."
Sean Tapley returned a kickoff 94 yards for a touchdown and added a 19-yard scoring catch from Bryn Renner for the Tar Heels (4-2, 1-1 Atlantic Coast Conference), who won their third straight, rolled up 533 total yards and claimed their first home victory over the Hokies (3-3, 1-1) since 1938.
"It's still early in the year, but ... this was a great measuring stick for us," North Carolina coach Larry Fedora said. "This was Virginia Tech. They dominated the Coastal Division, and we needed to go out there and play a complete game against them."
A.J. Blue had touchdown runs of 1 and 13 yards, and Renner finished 17 of 30 for 194 yards with a touchdown pass and a 4-yard scoring run.
Virginia Tech's Logan Thomas was 26 of 49 for 354 yards with a 13-yard touchdown run and two long touchdown passes, and Demitri Knowles took a kickoff 93 yards for a TD for the young Hokies, who are off to their worst start since opening 2-3-1 in 1992.
"I don't think it's time for excuses," coach Frank Beamer said. "I think it's time for results."
Bernard surpassed his previous best of 165 yards set last year against Duke, and nobody has rushed for more yards against a Virginia Tech team.
"That doesn't happen against Virginia Tech very much," Beamer said.
Bernard also became the Tar Heels' first 200-yard rusher since Ronnie McGill rolled up 244 against Wake Forest in 2003.
Virginia Tech finished with just 40 yards rushing. Bernard had two rushes that each surpassed that -- a 51-yarder that pushed him past the 200-yard mark and a 62-yard touchdown on a fourth-and-1 on the first play of the second quarter that put the Tar Heels ahead to stay.
"He's standing there, and I said, `Look, you've got to get six inches here,'" Fedora said. "And he was like, `Well, I'll get more than that.'"
North Carolina began to pull away midway through the third quarter, going ahead 35-20 on the Renner-to-Tapley touchdown pass before Knowles took the ensuing kickoff back for a touchdown.
Virginia Tech went for two, trying to make it a one-score game, but Thomas' pass over the middle didn't have a chance, and the Tar Heels scored the next two times they touched the ball.
Casey Barth kicked field goals of 44 and 40 yards for North Carolina. Its 48 points were the most scored in the series by either team, and the Tar Heels gained at least 500 total yards for the third time under their new coach.
"I came to Virginia Tech because we're known to play great defense," defensive end James Gayle said. "I feel like today we let the team down."
Thomas threw an early 49-yard touchdown pass to Marcus Davis and added a 66-yarder to Corey Fuller with 8:55 left for the Hokies, who lost for just the sixth time in 33 ACC road games.
The Tar Heels entered outscoring their previous three opponents at Kenan Stadium by a combined 155-6 and hadn't allowed a touchdown at home all season. Thomas didn't need much time to end that streak, bursting through on a 13-yard keeper to make it 7-0 barely 2 minutes in.
Tapley then tied it -- and started the Tar Heels' scoring binge -- by taking the ensuing kickoff back for a touchdown. That was the first kick return for a score against Tech since 1993, the longest streak in the country.
"Sometimes in life you kind of need a little jump -- a little jumper cable, I guess you could say," Bernard said, "and for the most part, Tap was that jumper cable."


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Jon Geezy - Hustle 24/7 [Unsigned Hype]
L reports "Jon Geezy is back with a new video entitled, Hustle 24/7 which was directed by James Wade. You may remember Jon Geezy from his Money Aint A Thang video where he and Parlare (Dem Franchize Boyz) burned $100,000 Cash Money for Christmas. Look for a cameo from Parlae also in this video."
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