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A Snapshot At The President
[This is the kind of waggish editorial O. Henry was writing in 1894 for the readers of The
Rolling Stone. The reader will do well to remember that the paper was for local
consumption and that the allusions are to a very special place and time.]
(It will be remembered that about a month ago there were special rates offered to the
public for a round trip to the City of Washington. The price of the ticket being
exceedingly low, we secured a loan of twenty dollars from a public-spirited citizen of
Austin, by mortgaging our press and cow, with the additional security of our brother's
name and a slight draught on Major Hutchinson for $4,000.
We purchased a round trip ticket, two loaves of Vienna bread, and quite a large piece of
cheese, which we handed to a member of our reportorial staff, with instructions to go to
Washington, interview President Cleveland, and get a scoop, if possible, on all other
Texas papers.
Our reporter came in yesterday morning, via the Manor dirt road, with a large piece of
folded cotton bagging tied under each foot.
It seems that he lost his ticket in Washington, and having divided the Vienna bread and
cheese with some disappointed office seekers who were coming home by the same route,
he arrived home hungry, desiring food, and with quite an appetite.
Although somewhat late, we give his description of his interview with President
I am chief reporter on the staff of The Rolling Stone.
About a month ago the managing editor came into the room where we were both sitting
engaged in conversation and said:
"Oh, by the way, go to Washington and interview President Cleveland."
"All right," said I. "Take care of yourself."
Five minutes later I was seated in a palatial drawing-room car bounding up and down
quite a good deal on the elastic plush-covered seat.
I shall not linger upon the incidents of the journey. I was given carte blanche to provide
myself with every comfort, and to spare no expense that I could meet. For the regalement
of my inside the preparations had been lavish. Both Vienna and Germany had been called
upon to furnish dainty viands suitable to my palate.


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her) and the Galaef. No matter what they found, now, there was enough, without a doubt, to keep the
archaeologists and archaehistorians busy for years.
At that moment a red light began flashing over the distant doorway. A sign suddenly appeared on a large
readout screen in bright red letters—an awkward contrast in the blue room.
Ben knew what it said without reading it. "Sixty seconds to the end of hyperspace," he muttered to himself.
He had seen the sign many times in the past.
Mentally he began preparing himself for the feeling of nausea, which accompanied moving into or out of
hyperspace. It wasn't a pleasant feeling, but at least he wasn't among the many who had to take tranquilizers to
keep from going into convulsions.
The sign flashed again, "fifty seconds to the end of hyperspace."
Most psychiatrists agreed that part of it was a subconscious fear that caused the convulsions. The other part
was the momentary effect of weight loss on the fluid in the inner ear. The equilibrium didn't know which way
was up or down.
"Forty seconds to the end of hyperspace."
But the subconscious fear had to do with the number of ships which collided with another ship or with an
object in the path of the ship coming out of hyperspace. If another ship were in the outspace at the position that
they were coming out of hyperspace, if the pilot's sensitivity acuteness were dulled for some reason, if he was
not quick enough on the hyperspace switch, then the fatal explosion would occur killing everybody on board
both ships, no exceptions.
"Thirty seconds to the end of hyperspace."
It was for this reason that young adults from around the empire were carefully computer chosen to become
pilots. There is a certain quality of sensitivity needed to be a good pilot.
"Twenty seconds to the end of hyperspace."
If a pilot, using sound systems and direality screens, could detect that other ship, or any object in space, then
he would be able to switch back into hyperspace without a mishap.
"Ten seconds to the end of hyperspace."
Ben slipped a little white disnausia pill out of a pocket in his body suit. He put it in his mouth and took a big
slug of his drink.
The ship left hyperspace.
The feeling was upon him, like falling through space, spinning, reeling, turning. His stomach was floating.
He wanted to gag, but couldn't.
A moment later it was over.
For passengers like Ben the feeling of nausea lasted only a few moments, but for the chronics it could last up
to several hours.
He shifted his body in the chair finding a more comfortable position. He closed his eyes and let the music
seep through the little bit of remaining nausea.
He wondered what Lyil was doing. She was probably at her desk working, getting ready for more Thorne
interviews, which had become an inordinate amount lately. There were so many people from various planets
coming to see Thorne, it was as if he were having a convention of Thorne supporters. Both Mandril and Lyil
had expressed their concern, not only did it increase their workload considerably; it made them think that
Thorne was up to something. Keeping it a mystery he never told anyone why all these people were showing up.
And then there was the house in the Outer City occupied by people pretending to be Tarmorians, which had
been linked to Thorne.
If it weren’t for all the failsafe systems guarding the Galaef to keep him from being dethroned, Ben would
have believed that Thorne was going to attempt to take over the Galactic Federation. But that was unthinkable.
Over the last one hundred thousand years voice recognition had been perfected, making it impossible for
someone to duplicate another person’s voice, not even with a recording device. Among other failsafe systems,
if someone were to take over as the ruler they would have to convince the computer that they were the Galaef
and then . . . No, that wouldn’t work either. It was simply impossible.
Ben started thinking about Lyil again. When this expedition was finished, . . .
"Professor Hillar?"
Ben opened his eyes and looked up. He saw a beautiful brunette standing over him. She had the largest
breasts on a slim, hard body that he had ever seen. He also noted the lieutenant's stripes on her sleeve.
"Yes?" he asked.

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Credit Suisse to buy back $4.4 billion of securities

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 (Reuters) - Credit Suisse (CSGN.VX) said on Monday it planned to buy back up to 4 billion Swiss francs ($4.4 billion) in outstanding securities in a bid to comply with the new Swiss and Basel III global capital adequacy rules.

The tender was for public Tier 1 and Tier 2 instruments, Credit Suisse said.

"Credit Suisse continues to take a proactive approach to satisfy the new capital requirements, aimed at transitioning its capital structure well in advance of the required implementation dates," Chief Financial Officer David Mathers said in a statement.

As part of the Swiss government's tough new capital rules, flagship banks UBS (UBSN.VX) and Credit Suisse, whose balance sheets are several times the size of the Swiss economy, have begun to issue loss-absorbing forms of capital, including contingent convertible bonds, or CoCos, which turn into shares if the issuer hits trouble.

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Ty Citerman – Bop Kabbalah (Tzadik Records) ***½

By Chris Haines

This has been released as part of the Radical Jewish Culture Series on Tzadik Records.  The music incorporates elements of klezmer, nigunim, jazz & rock styles played by a guitar lead quartet.  Containing composed and improvisational structures the music at times is flavoured by the klezmer and nigunim sounding melodies.  Nigunim are a type of melody found in Jewish religious vocal music that are generally improvised.

The album starts off sounding like a chamber-rock group with the likes of Univers Zero springing to mind.  At times this type of style is returned to but for the most part the music is quite varied throughout the album, whilst retaining a sense of continuity.  There is some good interplay between the instrumentation, especially during the more improvised moments, that makes for interesting listening with the various instruments being deployed to their strengths, which enhances the various moods of the music at any one time.

For me the album really comes to life on the track Talmudic Breakbeat, which has a latin-type feel to the piece and real energy.  The trumpet plays a melody line that could easily have been taken from a British sitcom from the Seventies (that’s meant as a good thing!) and a handclapping rhythm that doesn’t sound too dissimilar from Steve Reich’s Clapping Music.  This is followed by a completely contrasting piece, Exchanging Pleasantries with a Wall, where Ty Citerman, gradually builds gentle layers of repeated notes through delay and changes the complete feel of the album thus far.

There is a real sense of creativity within the music and the musicianship is unquestionable.  ‘Bop Kabbalah’ is a good listen and one that piques an interest to return to it for repeated encounters.

Personnel: Ty Citerman (guitar), Ken Thomson (bass clarinet), Adam D Gold (drums) & Ben Holmes (trumpet).


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Preparing for Christmas
Second Sunday of Advent (December 4, 2011).

December 4, 2011
Second Sunday of Advent
Father Frank Formolo, LC

Mark 1: 1-8
The beginning of the gospel of Jesus Christ the Son of God. As it is written in Isaiah the prophet: Behold, I am sending my messenger ahead of you; he will prepare your way. A voice of one crying out in the desert: “Prepare the way of the Lord, make straight his paths.” John the Baptist appeared in the desert proclaiming a baptism of repentance for the forgiveness of sins. People of the whole Judean countryside and all the inhabitants of Jerusalem were going out to him and were being baptized by him in the Jordan River as they acknowledged their sins. John was clothed in camel’s hair, with a leather belt around his waist. He fed on locusts and wild honey. And this is what he proclaimed: “One mightier than I is coming after me. I am not worthy to stoop and loosen the thongs of his sandals. I have baptized you with water; he will baptize you with the Holy Spirit.”

Introductory Prayer: Lord, you have given me a new day. You have given me a new opportunity to prepare myself for your coming. I believe that you will be with me as I continue my preparation for your coming. My heart is too often divided and pulled in many directions, but I wish to set my heart totally on you so that I may love you above all else. Here I am, Lord, to know you and love you more.

Petition: Lord, help me to embrace the proper means to prepare myself for your birth.

1. John’s Preparation: John the Baptist ate locusts and wild honey. He wore a camel’s skin and lived in the desert. In this manner he prepared himself for Christ’s coming. He had removed himself from the world and all its temptations. He had forfeited his home, family, friends, money, food—anything that would take him from fulfilling his call to prepare the way of the Lord. Compared with John, how deep is my commitment? What price am I prepared to pay to be his messenger?

2. John’s Preaching: John invites sinners to repentance. Thousands flock to hear him. His words move the people to listen. Probably more so does his example: the people see him living in the desert without the comforts of the world. By his actions they see he is truly a prophet. He has come before them so he can rightly call them to conversion. His life has strength and meaning that is not found in others. If we could be authentic and lead by our example, how many more people would be moved to follow Christ!

3. John’s Repentance: Those who recognize their sins go to John to be baptized. For John, baptism is a symbol of repentance: the people recognize their sins and ask God for forgiveness. John knows that he cannot forgive sins, but he realizes that it is important for everyone to take the step of being sorry and asking God to forgive them. John tells us clearly that it is Jesus Christ, the Lamb of God, who will forgive sins. He doesn’t try to obtain forgiveness in another way. He doesn’t try to circumvent God’s plan. God has given us the sacrament of confession for the forgiveness of our sins. How often do I take advantage of it? Am I faithful to frequent confession, or perhaps do I look elsewhere for the grace that only comes from confession?

Conversation with Christ: Lord, often I fall into the ways of the world, letting myself get caught up in its comforts and vanities. Teach me that only one thing matters: you and the life you promised us. Help me to use this Advent to prepare for your coming by detaching myself from the ways of the world and by being an example of Christian living for those whom I encounter. Help me to be always faithful to my frequent confession.

Resolution: Today I will make a sacrifice, foregoing a comfort or something I really like, and offer it up to God in reparation for sins––especially my own.

50 posted on 12/04/2011 6:39:05 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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Advent is Not Christmas

December 4th, 2011 by Food For Thought

First Reading: Isaiah 40:1-5, 9-11
Psalm: Psalm 85:9-14
Second Reading: 2 Peter 3:8-14
Gospel: Mark 1:1-8

Advent is not Christmas. It is a season uniquely its own, very much like Lent. Each day of Advent has its own proper Mass, pertinent readings, antiphons, and responses. It is four weeks of celebration and preparation – weeks that focus on the past, the present, and the future: Christ has come, Christ is here, and Christ will come again. It is a glorious crescendo increasing in power and intensity until it climaxes on a midnight outshone only by an Easter Sunday.

On the other hand, for most of us, Advent is “no big deal.” And how could it be otherwise? How can you make a big deal out of Advent, when you have a full-time job, a family to feed, your favorite ball games and tele-novela to watch? How can you concentrate on Christ, when every commercial seduces you with gifts that seem far more necessary for human living – from reducing pills, breast enhancement pills, and the latest fads through TV and internet, to fruitcakes, ham, and castañas, to Asti and Chivas Regal. Time enough to celebrate Christ only, when Midnight Mass comes around.

So, how can we break through these barriers? – in a practical way, a layperson’s way? I suggest for this Sunday, let Mary be your Advent Guide. Perhaps three sentences from Scripture from St. Luke’s Gospel might bring fresh meaning to your Advent without much pain and paranoia.

First, a sentence in Luke – after the shepherds have hurried to the stable to pay homage to the Savior “Mary kept all these things, pondering them in her heart.” As previously, the angel in Nazareth, so here before the shepherds in Bethlehem, Mary was puzzled. She had to ask herself what all this, what each incident might mean: conceiving a child without the benefit of a human father, giving birth to the Son of the Most High in a manger, later fleeing like a refugee to Egypt, watching helplessly as her Son moved firmly toward the death he predicted. She had to wrestle with all these happenings.

And so for you and me, my first Advent suggestion: Take 15 minutes out of each day to ponder, to reflect, to puzzle over, to wrestle with what the Lord has told you about His Son-made-man, a reverent pondering each day over the overwhelming affirmation in John: “God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, that whoever believes in him should have eternal life”; pondering over a Son of God, who chose to take our human flesh, become what we are, experience our fragile human existence, die our death.

What does it mean to you and me? What child is this? In your day to day living, is Jesus Christ real to you as your ninong and ninang, as Michael Jordan, Shaq O’Neil, Gloria Macapagal, George Bush, Osama Bin Ladin, the Abu Sayyaf, as the man or woman you love? Let the image of Jesus, Son of God in swaddling clothes; trigger your thinking – about him, about you, about the other people touching your life or those whose life you touch.

And at some point stop thinking! Just gaze and contemplate. Have a long loving look at Jesus. Don’t analyze. Just feel the scene. Picture yourself kneeling at Bethlehem’s crib, become a child again, touch little toes as real as any infant’s, let naked reason disappear, let Christ simply be! Just look … and love.

Fifteen minutes a day – on the event that changed history forever, the puzzle of puzzles. Let your beeper, your cell phones, your CD sit in silence; let your stereo and karaoke wait. For 15 minutes let the rest of the world go by; let the rest of the world make sense – in Christ.

Second, a sentence in Luke after the angel departed: “In those days Mary arose and went with haste into the hill country, to a city of Judah, and she entered the house of Zechariah and greeted Elizabeth.” The point is: What did this teen-age Jewish girl do when the angel left her – left her with God’s Son in her body? She did not sit down to plan what hospital to book to deliver her baby, or who should be her doctor, or how to notify her friends and relatives, what kind of party to have.

The Gospel tells us that Mary heard from Gabriel that her cousin, Elizabeth was six months pregnant. And Elizabeth was old, and “advanced in years.” What did Mary do? She went “with haste” to visit Elizabeth, walked briskly to a town in the hill country of Judea, walked perhaps 67 miles. Not to spread her own good news, not to compare child with Elizabeth, not to rave over “my son, the Messiah.” She went simply to help – for three full months, till Elizabeth’s child was born.

As soon as Mary greeted her kinswoman, the Gospel tells us – little John the Baptist “leaped in [Elizabeth's] womb…” leaped for joy, leaped at the coming of Christ, sensed miraculously the presence of God’s Son in Mary’s womb.

And so for you and me – Contemplation is good – focusing mind and heart on a Christ who walks the earth no longer. But Advent with Mary calls contemplation to action – focusing mind and heart on a Christ, who is still moving from Bethlehem to Calvary. Not far from you is a brother, a sister, akin to you in the bone of humanity and the blood of Christ, someone, who needs you, someone who hurts, someone, who finds it difficult or impossible to enjoy life, because “life is cruel.”

A short story writer, who died of lupus at 39 years, once wrote these words from her own incurable cross: “You will have found Christ when you are concerned with other people’s sufferings and not your own.” Do that, be that, come with your Christ, with your cross, to someone too poor, too naked, too sad, too crippled to joy in Christmas, and the miracle of Mary’s visitation will be repeated as it has been through the ages. The person you touch in love will leap for joy from the barren womb of sorrow. A 15- minute contemplation… hasten to some hill Calvary… what is left? Only the rest of your life.

The third Advent text about Mary stems from the public life of Jesus. “A woman in the crowd raised her voice and said to him, `Blessed is the womb that bore you, and the breasts that you fed on.’ But he said, `Blessed rather are those who listen to the word of God and keep it!’”

Jesus was not denying that Mary was blessed in her bearing of him. Of course, she was. What the woman cried from the crowd was true – but only part of the picture. St. Augustine expressed it powerfully, “Mary was more blessed because she laid hold of faith in Christ than she conceived the flesh of Christ, Her motherly relationship to him would have been of no use to Mary had she not carried Christ in her heart more happily even than she bore him in her body. She “conceived Christ in her mind before she conceived him in her womb.” “It was by faith she gave birth, it was by faith she conceived him.”

In Luke’s story, Mary is indeed to be praised – simply because she gave birth to Jesus, but because she too listened to God’s word, believed it, acted on it – from the glad tidings brought by Gabriel in Nazareth to the days in Jerusalem after Jesus’ ascension, when the apostles “with one accord devoted themselves to prayer, together with the women and Mary the mother of Jesus…” That is why we see Mary most profoundly when we see her as the first Christian disciple, the model and pattern of Christian discipleship. She listened to what God was asking, and she said yes – not only to the bliss of Bethlehem, but also to the sword that pierced her heart on Calvary.

And so for you and me, Advent, the “coming” of Christ, is not simply a season, four weeks out of your year. From contemplation to action – You must face up to a fact at once frightening and encouraging: God is constantly speaking to you. Not too often through angel, more often through human events. Not only through the Ten Commandments etched in stone, but in a law of justice and love written into your flesh and spirit. Not only through a document from Rome, but in the sad starved eyes of children of the victims of calamities and wars that meet your eyes on the TV screen. Not only through the “word of the Lord” from the lectern, but in the grim silence of the homeless huddled in the kareton on the sidewalks. Not only through a pastoral letter on peace, but in the undeclared wars that divide the rich and the poor, male and female, ordained and lay, the powerful and the powerless. Tune in to the God within you and the world around you. Ponder – puzzle over, what you hear. At some point say yes, even if what you hear is not all clear. Then, with the profound faith of a perplexed Mary, act…do something…carry Christ somewhere, to someone.

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About Molokai - Everything you ever wanted to know about Molokai. Several spectacular photo tours, Kalaupapa and Father Damien information, events, activities, FAQs, maps and local insights.  A great resource.

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Brothers Nick and Anthony Frisina are the partners of Frisina Lawyers.

Previously known as Frisina & Associates, Frisina Lawyers was started by Nick Frisina in 1980.  Anthony joined the firm in 1985.  In 2007, Nick’s daughter Angela also joined the firm as a solicitor, continuing the tradition of Frisina Lawyers as a family practice.

Over time, Frisina Lawyers has become a specialist law practice.

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  • Dear Nick, Tony & Team, Your professionalism is outstanding, and your achievement is overwhelming. I will not hesitate to recommend you in the future. Many many thanks.
    — J.M
  • To all the Frisina staff, Nick in particular, Thank you for all your hard work and effort you have put into my case. Thanks again.
  • I really appreciate all the work, time and effort you put towards my case.
  • Thank you very much for your support and help over the last 3 and a bit years. It has been greatly appreciated. Thank you also for the long hours and hard work.
  • Dear Anthony, I am extremely grateful for all you and your staff have done for me. I find it difficult to put into words what you achieved for me through such a long and difficult time. Although I have won in a financial sense my ongoing personal battles continue and I know will continue until my time is up. To you personally Anthony I have a high regard and respect for you, ordinarily for others this does not come easily from me. You listened to my personal grief on many occasions and gave me advice, this helped immensely. Your staff and you have always treated me with dignity and respect whether it be phones calls or meetings at your office. I received your letter yesterday and I certainly will provide your details to anyone I know or hear in need of legal assistance. Again Anthony my heartfelt thank you for all you have done for me.
  • I cannot express enough in words my thanks for your great help and patience during my claim which was of great help to me and much appreciated. Once again thank you.
  • To Dear Nick, Thank you for everything that you have done for me, for your professionalism and for your care at all times. My family and I can never thank you enough.
  • Dearest Nick and the entire Frisina Team, In all sincerity I could not have gone through some moments and was even at times questioning whether I could continue the whole arduous process. Yes I could not have gone through it all, were it not for the loving kindness and sincere compassion shown to me by everybody in the team. Thank you all so very much.
  • To Nick, On behalf of myself and my family I thank you very much from the bottom of my heart for all the hard work that you put into the case. The outcome proved the amount of work that was put into it. It was a pleasure meeting you and dealing with you, which was made easy for me because you are such a wonderful, compassionate person. Your understanding nature was also a big support throughout the whole process. Again I thank you very much for everything, and wish you all the best. I would also like to thank your staff who were so helpful, compassionate and understanding throughout the whole time with all my phone calls. A big thank you to all
  • To Nick, Thank you for your time and effort! You work has been greatly appreciated.
  • Thank you so much for your hard work and support throughout the whole case. The outcome is definitely life changing and you helped us through that. We are very thankful
  • Dear Nick, A special thank you to you and your team on obtaining a positive result on my claims case. It has been a long hard journey for me and without your efforts, hard work and persistence I could not have achieved such a successful outcome. Also thank you for the excellent service you provided. I wish you every success in the future and have no hesitation in recommending Frisina Lawyers to others who may need assistance in legal matters.
  • To Nick, Angela and staff, Thank you for all the work you did and the prompt way you handled my case. I hope to be able to use your services in the near future.
  • Dear Tony, Once again thank you for your endeavours. The result was beyond my wildest dreams. It will change our lifestyle dramatically. For the first time in a decade we will be debt free. Thanks. You were always so professional. We never felt rushed in your company. You were always so pleasant and patient.
  • To Nick Frisina and staff, Thank you for looking after me.
  • Dear Nick, Thank you so much for all the hard work and effort you have put into our son’s case. You thoughtfulness and understanding from day one has made this claim a lot easier for all our family, especially our son.
  • Nick, I just wanted to say thank you for the wonderful service you provided to our daughter recently in relation to her motor accident personal injury claim. We were very impressed not only with your expertise in the area, but also with your thoroughness, efficiency, promptness and the communication and people skills with which you kept our daughter fully up to date with what was happening, and with the excellent advice you provided all along the way. For those things, and for the warmth and empathy you showed to her, we are grateful. Among the many practitioners I have come across over the years, you provide a rare level of service. Once again, thank you.
  • To Anthony, In relation to your letter advising that the insurance company had approved for my husband to be fitted with hearing aids, paid for by the workers compensation insurer. Since your letter, my husband has been fitted with his hearing aids of very high quality and very comfortable to wear. He wears them all the time and they are very hard to see when is wearing them. We would like to thank you for taking on his case and getting such a great result for him. We are very impressed with your handling of the case and how prompt you were communicating with Phil when necessary. I appreciate what you did for him as now he can hear me and that makes life just great.
  • Dear Anthony, Just to say thank you to you and members of your team, at Frisina Lawyers, in relation to the settlement of my claim…with a happy result! The service provided was excellent.
  • Dear Anthony and Staff, On behalf of our family, we would like to sincerely thank you for your time, effort and dedication regarding my case. Many thanks.
  • Hello Nick, I would just like to express to you both my wife and myself are very appreciative of all that you have done on behalf of our son over these past 3 years or so.
  • Thank you for the great service and friendliness you have given me.
  • Dear Nick, Tony, Angela and staff, We both have been through so much in so many different ways and survived. Thank you all. God bless.
  • Dear Nick, Thankyou for everything and for all your kindness, patience and understanding and professional brilliance.
    — G+J
  • To Dear Angela, Thank you for your work for us, done in such a professional and pleasant manner.
  • Dear Angela, Just a quick note of appreciation for the excellent work you did for me regarding my compensation claim. It was made to seem so effortless. I realise you were working furiously, but you made it so easy with those little arrows and the phone calls. I’m not very conversant with this type of thing, but with your expert guidance, I was able to understand everything. Thank you for successfully claiming my lump sum payment. To some, it may not seem a lot of money. To me, it is a lot of money
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Myxomatosis #7: Brought to You By the Letter A

Over the last month or so, the John Peel Centre for Creative Arts, has been building The Space, a website in which you can peruse the great DJ’s office, including Peel Sessions, photos, video/tv, radio shows, a blog, and last, but certainly not least, his record collection. This last feature is only putting up the first 100 of each alphabetic filing letter (fair enough since Peel had 29 000 records), and it has so far reached the letter “E.” You get to see the records as they are on the shelve, but when you roll your mouse over each one, you get a thumbnail image of the album cover, the artist, the title, and the code that Peel assigned it. When you click on an album, you can view the album’s paratextual materials alongside Peel’s typewritten index card with the track listing, an idiosyncratic, redundant gesture of collection that seems to express a special sort of possession as collector and curator. In addition to the various social media widgets, you have the opportunity to listen to the album via Spotify. It’s a fascinating project if only to demonstrate the issues around collection and taste. As John Peel is considered one of the most trusted tastemakers in the world, his honesty and authenticity show up in his collection, including some unexpected records that others may not see as worth owning, and perhaps he didn’t see them as terribly tasteful either, but couldn’t part with certain records for other reasons. Of course, records, or any other collected object, can mean more than their actual content. It begs the question of why we collect anything.

I think I collect because it gives me both a sense of identity and a sense of community with fellow collectors. And as much as I wouldn’t like to admit it, it gives me a sense of control. I don’t know whether to be disturbed or proud that my office space is growing to look more like Peel’s. At a paltry 361 vinyl records, including singles, I’m still a long way off. I can understand the impulse to catalogue, and there’s a certain satisfaction of mastery over the objects you’ve specially selected. I’ve never done a count on how many MP3s I own, nor have I had the time and patience to count my CDs (or even to rip them all to a hard drive), so I don’t really have a handle on the entirety of my music collection. As a person who came of age as a music fan before the widespread access to MP3s and before the resurgence of vinyl, I may have roughly 1000 CDs. I often wonder if I feel more ownership over my physical, tangible pieces of music, and what that means. It could mean that I’ll always be a bit of an old-fashioned digital immigrant, too overwhelmed by the multiplicity of the immaterial and in need of a grounding in concrete objects. It could also mean that that the digital, in its inherent shareability and lack of monetary value, works against fetishism in productive, non-capitalistic ways, and thus defies a sense of private ownership. There’s a part of me that wants to be free of so many objects and to become an easily mobile, digital subject living in the cyberspace clouds; however, there’s another part of me that wants tangibility and the aesthetic experience it brings. I’m sure some of my anxiety over temporality plays into my feelings about collecting as well.

In the spirit of the John Peel project, I’ve decided to make a mix out of a good portion of the artists filed under “A” on both my record and CD shelves, and in my hard drive. Here’s to you, Mr. Peel.

Download Myxomatosis #7 here.

(A) – The Associates

Jealous Guy – Art Brut

Little Boy Blue – Artery

Whip in My Valise – Adam and the Ants

Terminal Escape – Alcian Blue

Unfall – Abwärts

Iris was a Pupil – Autechre

The Look of Love – ABC

Here I Stand and Face the Rain – a-ha

Becoming the Wraith – autoKratz

Lose It – Austra

A Bang in the Void – Apparat

Sadness Licks the Sun – Anika

Mother’s Day Part I – AFS

Hypnotized – Aberfeldy

These Things Happen – Action Painting!

Life Classes/Life Model – The Auteurs

Cerberus – Amon Düül II

The Big Bamboozle – Barry Adamson

Educated Hand – Archivist

Motown Answer – Arab Strap

Acro(Nym) – Allegories

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Redefining Our Terms: The John Peel Lecture

Pete Townshend - Peel Lecture

At the recent 2011 Radio Academy Radio Festival, Pete Townshend delivered the inaugural John Peel lecture, which was broadcast by BBC 6Music. It was entitled “Can John Peelism survive the Internet?” and it can be read at the Guardian and heard on the BBC iPlayer. In their introduction to the lecture, hosts Stuart Maconie and Mark Radcliffe, describe Peel as a “maverick” and a “pioneer.” I feel like Townshend only addresses how we can follow in Peel’s trailblazing footsteps for part of the lecture. Perhaps the confusion comes from the fact Townshend’s lecture seems to have two different strands of argumentation: (1) we need to find a way to help the music industry survive the Internet and its digital components, and (2) John Peelism, which Townshend defines as careful, considered listening and promotion of music, is essential for new, perhaps unpolished, music to thrive.

After opening his lecture without a real commitment as to whether the Internet is or is not threatening John Peelism, and without a clear thesis, Pete Townshend criticizes Apple’s iTunes, the iconic music e-retailer that has been arguably the most successful at selling music in the digital age. He argues that, while iTunes supplies artists with distribution and royalty payments, it doesn’t fulfill the other purposes that record labels traditionally did, including:

1. editorial guidance
2. financial support
3. creative nurture
4. manufacturing
5. publishing
6. marketing

He explores the ways in which iTunes could provide the services of one through six. However, his revised business model for iTunes still just looks a lot like the old record label days, except this model would become a monopoly if iTunes remained as powerful as it is now.

Now I don’t particularly want to defend or attack iTunes. Apple found a way to do what Amazon has also done: immediately providing everything all at once, easily searchable and easily obtainable. Like Amazon, iTunes has been very successful. It is this ease that seems to irk Townshend, and it crops again in the context of “sharing” music. He states: “The word ‘sharing’ surely means giving away something you have earned, or made, or paid for?…It would be better if these ‘sharers’ had to set aside time to listen, and to work at listening, and thereby do honour to the creative work of musicians even if their final judgement was that the music they heard was not for them – not worth stealing, not worth sharing.”

I agree with Townshend in as much as I, too, am quite tired of people not taking time to listen, or even to think or reflect on anything they obtain from the Internet. I’ve been guilty of the digital music gluttony of the last decade, storing up more music than I could ever feasibly listen to; I’ve had to curb this tendency for my own sanity. This sick feeling of what Nicholas Carr terms “the shallows” is what keeps me writing longer, in-depth reviews and features on blogs. Merely uploading tracks or supplying links to the things you like isn’t engaging with anything. A thumbs-up stamp of approval is frankly a lazy way of expressing yourself.

But like Townshend, I’m veering into the idea of John Peelism rather than sticking to the first premise. Instead of revamping the music industry model to fit within new media, I think the real issue is a need to reexamine the entire discourse of the music business (indeed, some are questioning the validity of capitalism itself).

Pete Townshend had his heyday during the decades in which music as an industry was in its ascendance. Many people, Townshend included, cannot get their heads around a new system because they are still thinking through the media they grew up with: a world shaped by literacy and print, which can be extrapolated into the industrial model of mass production lines of uniform products. There was a pre-print era in which artists didn’t even assign their names to their work; artists were merely tradespeople, not the romantic, individualistic genius concept that permeates our Westernized culture today. The market value of art is often a troubling notion, and this contentious idea is why outsider art, or art brut, is so intriguing; it’s literally art for art’s sake, usually completely outside of the capitalist market logic. This outsider attitude begs the question: should music be an “industry” at all?

I don’t think music and business are harmonious concepts — either you favour art for art’s sake, or you view art as a consumer product, which must be subject to the same capitalist system as the rest of business ventures. To me, you are lucky if your uncompromised art becomes a hit of mass appeal. If you want music to be an industry, you need to accept that you are at the mercy of the mass market. If you want music to be an art, you need to accept that you may not make a living from it. At the end of his lecture, Townshend points to the fact that there is also always the publically funded model to consider, but, at present, I think that it only stretches so far and is only supported in limited contexts. We also need to bear in mind that much of the music we think of as “legendary” and “well-known” now wasn’t necessarily successful or known to a large audience when it was actually created. We have to realize that even now the music we love and think is worthy of wide recognition is not undoubtedly being received as such; the target market of mp3 blogs and 6Music are not the mainstream public.

Now, to address Townshend’s second strand of the survival of John Peelism…

If anyone is embodying the spirit of Peel these days, it’s the bloggers. The Internet and mp3s have allowed all of us to have a shot at being Peel. The problem we run up against, though, is the fact culture, and perhaps the way time itself is experienced, has accelerated, paving the way for phenomena like Simon Reynolds’s “retromania” and the common complaint of “information overload.” The processes of organizing, curating, and filtering have become increasingly important, and there was a time when radio DJs fulfilled the role of curator and filter. I think that role is now filled by blog, podcast, and news feeds, in addition to blog aggregators and online recommendation systems.

John Peel has become a rightfully beloved relic of a different media landscape. He is as romantic a figure as music journalists like Lester Bangs and Nick Kent, or broadcaster-cum-record-label-creator, Tony Wilson. Within the last couple of decades, broadcast has become narrowcast. We can’t go back. We also can’t blame the Internet for restrictive playlists — the radio industry has always had the power to limit what was broadcasted. John Peel was notable because he was the exception to the rule of playlists. In fact, the Internet has opened up restrictions on playlists by allowing a choice of independent podcasts and online-only radio stations, which can allow pockets of freedom from heavy rotation.

In terms of the monetary value of music, I don’t think there’s an easy answer. At least not yet. The viability of music as art or business really comes down to the fans regardless of the Internet, or whatever the next big media shift will be. Or perhaps whatever the next big economic system shift will be. However, the question of whether John Peelism will survive the Internet is a different one, and it depends on how you define John Peelism. If you define it as keeping curiosity about new music alive, and promoting the music you love and listening to it with attentiveness and critical faculties, I think there will always be music fans who feel the need for John Peelism, but they may change the terms and methods over time. We have to be mindful that we don’t just follow, but become pioneers and mavericks, exploring new and different ways of discovering and engaging with music. I’m not sure if John Peel himself would want John Peelism to survive the Internet.

Teenage Kicks – The Undertones

An Old Cricketer (For John Peel) – Shirley Lee

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Unisports: 2010 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series, NHK Trophy

Discussion in 'TV ALERTS' started by cphillips, Oct 21, 2010.

  1. cphillips

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    Universal Sports will air weekend coverage of the NHK Trophy, the first event in the ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating Series, direct from Japan. Universal Sports commentary team consists of NBC Olympic commentator Andrea Joyce on play-by-play, Olympic gold medalist Tara Lipinski as the ladies analyst, Olympic silver medalist Peter Carruthers as the mens analyst and Olympic silver medalist Tanith Belbin as the ice dance analyst. NBC will air their coverage of the NHK Trophy on October 30 from 4-6pm ET. UniversalSports.com and Icenetwork.com will combine to deliver an unprecedented depth of online video coverage of the entire 2010 ISU Grand Prix of Figure Skating, with 90+ hours of LIVE streaming -- every session of every event -- plus on-demand replays, highlights, interviews and analysis. For more information check out: http://www.universalsports.com/figure-skating/index.html

    Fri., October 22: Pairs Short & Short Dance  6-7:30 PM; Ladies Short  10:30-11:30 PM
    Sat., October 23: Pairs Free  3- 4:00 PM; Mens Short Program & Free Dance  5-7:00 PM
    Sun., October 24: Mens Free  6-7:00 PM

    Highlighted athletes competing include: Daisuke Takahashi (JPN), 2010 men's world champion; Mao Asada (JPN), 2010 women's world champion; Rachael Flatt (USA), U.S. womens champion and Olympian; Jeremy Abbott (USA), U.S. mens champion and Olympian; Pang Qing/ Tong Jian (CHN), 2010 pairs' world champions; and Meryl Davis/Charlie White (USA), 2010 Olympic silver medalists.
  2. shuilee

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    Why isn't there coverage of Ladies long??
  3. moebius

    moebius Well-Known Member

    I think NBC will air that next Sunday-10/31
  4. Frau Muller

    Frau Muller #1 Dick Button Fan

    Now that the Ladies finals have taken place and most of us have seen the results on YouTube or elsewhere, one has to LAUGH at NBC. Why the long wait for what essentially will be a sleeper of a show? THREE fantastic finals (Men, Dance Pairs) shown soon after the live event on UnivSports TV, yet all of the secrecy for what turned out to be the 'zzzz event' of NHK.
  5. Jenna

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    They should broadcast the men. The free skate was a fantastic event. 4 quads! :cheer2:
  6. LadyNit

    LadyNit moving right along

    Hey cphillips, thanks for posting schedules.

    Please tell the website powers-that-be to add a time schedule for subscription broadcasts. I bought the GP Series and couldn't find any info about when the next NHK event would be live...except to see "Available soon" on a crawler, or "Available at 8pm" on the crawler. How am I supposed to plan ahead so I can watch what I paid for in real time? :mad:
  7. Allskate

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    :lol: Yeah, but the networks always think that Americans care only about the women and the American women in particular. And, of course, they'll talk about how great Rachael is and will be able to go on and on about what happened to Mao.

    But, it's a shame so many people are going to miss what probably will turn out to have been one of the best men's competitions this season.
  8. HisWeirness

    HisWeirness TAT-wannabe

    LadyNit, I'm not sure if this helps but Universal Sports has posted a "viewers guide" listing the live web stream times as well as the TV schedule for each GP event:

    For example, here's NHK:

    GP Series Viewers Guide

    The Universal Sports live web streaming start time should be identical to the icenetwork start times.

    After watching gym worlds this weekend, I agree that the Universal Sports online streaming video portal could do a better job of making the schedules easier to view.
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  9. RD

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    I think some people here are forgetting about the people at large, who probably make up a majority of the TV audience anyway. The die-hards would have already seen it, of course, but the casual fans may not.

    Plus, only NHK and SC are being shown a week later. Since China is being skipped, starting with SA the coverage will switch to LIVE/same weekend, like it was last year.
  10. RD

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    Doesn't NBC usually dedicate the first hour of coverage to the Men's FS and the second to the Ladies' FS?
  11. LadyNit

    LadyNit moving right along

    Thank you SO MUCH, HisWeirness! xoxoxoxoxo

    THIS is perfect. But I remain disturbed that I couldn't find it on my own. C'mon UniSports web team...make this critical piece of information easy to find. We need it.


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Review: Overclocked Edition

Recently announced Gainward GTX 470 Good Edition card comes with nonreference cooling but reference clocks, so it was only a matter of time when Gainward will launch an overclocked card as well. Today we have a card based on the GTX 470 Good’s design, but it’s dubbed more familiarly – Gainward GTX 470 Golden Sample.

Compared to the reference GTX 470, Gainward’s GTX 470 Golden Sample comes with a redesigned PCB which should provide better overclocking potential as well as better thermals.

Gainward’s GTX 470 Golden Sample comes preoverclocked – GPU runs at 650MHz, and the memory at 850MHz (reference card runs at 607MHz GPU and 837MHz memory). Apart from nonreference, dual-fan cooling, Golden sample comes with a nice set of video outs; the I/O panel features two dual-link DVIs, HDMI and DisplayPort.

The GTX 470 is based on a scaled down version of the GF100 chip, with two disabled SMs and with 448 stream processors in total. It sits in Nvidia’s GTX 400 DX 11 graphics card series and they’re aimed at AMD’s HD 5800 offer.

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Pretty great SNL this week, everybody! Granted it didn't hurt having some guy named Zach Galifianakis making the yuk yuks and the hahas, but definitely one of the better episodes of the season. And considering we all love yuk yuks and we all love Zach, let's take a gander at some of the highlights from this week's episode.

First up. Zach's opening monologue. Classic Zach. Always dressing like Annie. Always killing it.

Yes! Comedians hosting a comedy show! Loving it.

Moving along, on to the digital short. Perhaps the funniest sketch of the night, it followed probably the best formula there is: putting Zach Galifianakis in a room with children. Gold.

So this one's not too Galifianakis-centric. But funny sketches are funny sketches, so here's a funny sketch.

I'd just like to take a sec to point out that there was a joke in there regarding the shared human experience of walking in on your wife literally eating shit. Well done. Now if you'll excuse me, I've got tickets to White Bernie Mac to purchase.

One of the noticeable things about this week's episode was the consistency throughout. By nature of being a live sketch show that gets written and produced in the span of a week, you're going to have your ups and downs. I'm okay with that. It's kind of the contract Lorne Michaels had us all sign in 1975. Anyway, just getting that out there. Good week, everybody who works on Saturday Night Live. We appreciate what you're doing.

Oh, and for good measure, here's Zach getting his hair cut like Mr. T. No context necessary.

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They are the top candidates when it comes to making computers and smartphones more powerful and above all more energy efficient: resistive memory cells. New findings by Jülich researchers could help to establish these nanoelectronic components as data storage units over the next few years. In the more distant future, they may even serve as artificial synapses modelled on biological neurons.

Jülich's first supercomputer constructed in the 1980s had a storage capacity of 16 megabytes. Today’s USB memory sticks have many times this capacity and they also fit into your pocket.

We have become accustomed to the fact that more and more information can be stored on increasingly smaller spaces. However, it cannot be taken for granted that this will go on forever: the miniaturization of existing data storage technologies may be approaching its natural limits. Moreover, none of the available data storage technologies is an all-rounder: ideally, they should work at breakneck speed but be energy-efficient at the same time, they should archive data permanently, and, in addition, they should be inexpensive. Information stored on the DRAM module of a computer’s working memory, for example, will disappear when the power is turned off. Hard drives and flash devices don’t have this problem, but they are comparatively slow.

ReRAM: New kind of data storage

For these reasons, researchers in science and industry worldwide are working on a new type of data storage referred to as ReRAM (resistive random access memory).

"In principle, ReRAMs should be able to store data on an even smaller space than flash memories, for example, and they should also be able to do so with far less power," says Prof. Rainer Waser, director at the Peter Grünberg Institute, Forschungszentrum Jülich, and researcher and professor at RWTH Aachen University. He and his colleagues cooperate closely with companies such as Intel and Samsung Electronics and are considered pioneers in the area of resistive switching elements.

Resistive memory cells store the two basic elements of all computer languages – "zero" and "one" – in a way that is fundamentally different to hard drives or flash devices. In a hard drive, information is stored on the magnetic layer of a rotating disk, while flash devices store bits in the form of electric charges on a special transistor. A resistive memory cell, in contrast, saves a bit by using its electrical resistance, which can be switched between high and low values, – and the memory cell retains its state even when the external voltage is switched off.

Using ions instead of electrons

The resistive memory cells currently being produced and studied in laboratories all over the world have an edge length shorter than 30 nanometres, i.e. 0.00003 mm, or even smaller.

A common configuration of these cells consists of three thin layers of materials with different functions. The material in the middle, the electrolyte, is like the filling between two slices of bread in a sandwich. One of these "slices" is an active electrode made of metal, for example copper, and the other is a ounter electrode made from a chemically inert material such as platinum (see graphic). When a voltage is applied, positively charged copper ions are released from the active electrode and migrate to the counter electrode, where they gain electrons and form elementary copper atoms once again. The atoms form a narrow pathway through the electrolyte – experts refer to this as a filament. Once the filament has formed and an electrically conductive contact has been established between the two electrodes, the resistance of the entire cell is low and it is in the ON state. This corresponds to the "one" in computer language. The cell remains in this state until an appropriately high voltage of reverse polarity is applied. This causes the filament to dissolve and the cell resistance increases to a high value. The cell is now in the OFF or "zero" state.

Unlike conventional technologies, this way of storing information is based on ions. Ions are primarily responsible for forming and dissolving the filament, the switching processes, and therefore for information storage. This gives the technology a significant advantage over flash memory devices that store electrons, since the latter can easily find a way to break free, causing the information to be lost. Ions are easier to manage in comparison to electrons and they are therefore more suitable for reliable information storage.

In the past, scientists described resistive memory cells using "memristor" theory (memristor is a portmanteau word from memory and resistor). According to this theory, resistive memory cells are passive components just like capacitors, coils, and resistors, all of which neither amplify a signal nor have a control function. An important characteristic of passive components is that no current flows through them unless a voltage is applied. Conversely, no voltage can be measured without current flowing.

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Research from Jülich, however, theoretically deduced that this is intrinsically different in resistive cells. The cells produce a voltage like a tiny battery. The scientists want to use this discovery of a battery voltage in ReRAMs to optimize the reading out of information from these cells.

Experts previously assumed that electric current is needed to determine whether resistive cells are in the ON or OFF state. However, this current could potentially alter the state of sensitive cells. The battery voltage, in contrast, can be measured without current in a nondestructive process. The researchers have already filed patent applications for the relevant methods. “Furthermore, the existence of a battery voltage must also be taken into consideration when connecting resistive memory cells or developing reliable ReRAMs,” says Dr. Ilia Valov, an electrochemist in Waser’s research group.

Integration of ReRAMs into existing semiconductor technology

Other scientists working with Rainer Waser in the Jülich Aachen Research Alliance are already building larger units from resistive memory cells and using computers to simulate the integration of ReRAMs into existing semiconductor technology. Panasonic has begun integrating ReRAMs into their microcontrollers. Despite this, Valov’s colleague Prof. Regina Dittmann is also convinced that further basic research into resistive memory cells is necessary to improve characteristics such as the durability and switching speed of ReRAMs. "Industry is continuously confronted with challenges in this respect that can only be overcome by improving our understanding of the basic principles,2 says Dittmann.

The scientists now have access to a new laboratory at Jülich’s Peter Grünberg Institute – the Oxide Cluster – for their fundamental experiments. The facility allows scientists to produce layers of materials and resistive memory cells and to use the latest methods in microscopy and spectroscopy, for example to observe the atoms and electrons during switching processes and therefore "at work" without the materials leaving the ultrahigh vacuum. This is important because contact with air would influence the processes that occur at the surface of these materials.

Parallels to synapses in the human brain

In principle, resistive memory cells do not just switch between two resistance values but rather between several. In other words, they can also assume intermediate states between "zero" and "one". This provides a good basis for creating computer systems capable of learning according to the model of synapses the interfaces between cells in the biological nervous system.

"There are also a number of parallels between how biological synapses and resistive components function," says Dr. Susanne Hoffmann-Eifert from Waser’s research group. For example, the functioning of both synapses and resistive cells is based on the movement of ions. Another similarity is that a connection between human neurons becomes stronger and more efficient the more frequently and intensively it is used.

"The more current that is transmitted through the conductive filaments in resistive memory cells, the stronger they become," says Hoffmann-Eifert. One day, this effect could help us to create computers capable of deviating from their programs independently if a connection is unexpectedly intensively used.

How resistive memory cells work

How resistive memory cells workFrom left: In the OFF state (first image), a resistive memory cell has a high electrical resistance. When a voltage (second image) is applied, positively charged ions (grey) are released by the copper electrode and migrate to the platinum electrode, where they gain electrons and form atoms again (green). An electrically conductive filament (third image) is created between the two electrodes. The cell therefore has a low resistance (ON state). When a sufficiently strong voltage with reverse polarity is applied (fourth image), the filament dissolves.
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Metal Gear Solid 3 holds a special place in my heart. I first played it when it was called Snake Eater and found it rather frustrating, but upon trying out its special edition, Metal Gear Solid: Subsistence I was hooked. Slithering around in the forest, tranquilizing patrolling guards in the back of the head, and hunting animals to keep my ruggedly sexy avatar alive was as addictive and varied an adventure as I've played. Experimenting with different strategies gave it lots of depth to the point that I ended up playing it five times in a row consecutively. There aren't many games I can say that about.

 Porting it to the 3DS seems like a sensible move. If James Cameron's Avatar has taught us anything, it's that fauna looks particularly engrossing in the third dimension. An extra screen to place the more cumbersome HUD elements is also a tasteful way to let the art direction really pop. And like many DS games, having the map and menus on the bottom screen reduces cumbersome pausing and switching.

More exciting, the 3DS's camera feature will allow players to snap a picture of the terrain and convert it to their very own camo. Unfortunately, this feature wasn't implemented in the demo.

It all sounds good on paper, but the reality is less than ideal. Simply put, the controls need some work. In the original game Snake couldn't move and shoot simultaneously. Players held down a trigger to go into first-person mode, and used the left analogue stick to aim from there. Since the 3DS only has one analogue stick, this should have been a simple conversion. Instead, Snake can now move and shoot at the same time ala MGS4, only there's no analogue stick, so aiming by using the face buttons as a d-pad never feels quite natural. Sure you're more agile, but it feels loose and awkward compared to Subsistence's slow, methodical tactical espionage action.

Aiming is now handled primarily in third-person unless you've gone prone in tall grass. This makes shooting less precise and if there's an option to go into first-person, I certainly couldn't find it. Other control quirks include not being able to switch between a knife and a gun without holding the touch screen button for what felt like a full second.

It does look gorgeous in 3D, but the complex scenery is sensitive to movement. More than most 3DS games, it felt like the illusion was shattered when your eyes got even the slightest bit off center. That being said, it did look brilliant when properly aligned.

It's possible that the final game will fix the control issues or add the option to play with Subsistence's one stick "stand still and shoot" setup, but based on my brief hands-on this is hardly the ideal way to play it.

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Lake Lanier Fishing Report: Anglers adjusting to cold weather

POSTED: January 2, 2014 6:39 p.m.

2014 has arrived and lake water temperatures have started to fall into the upper 40s to right around 50 degrees, and should continue to cool down even more with the cold forecast for next week.

Lake Lanier’s water level is less than a foot above full at 1,071.89 feet, which is .89 above a full pool.

The CORPs is pulling a lot of water through the dam.

The lake is clear on main lake and in the mouths of the creeks. The backs of the creeks and rivers are stained, while the Chattahoochee River is clear to slightly stained below Buford Dam.

Check generation schedules before heading out to the river by calling 770-945-1466.

Bass anglers have noticed a pretty significant change over the past week as many of the bass have started to move out towards their more traditional winter locations.

This migration should continue with the crazy cold weather predictions for the upcoming week.

There are still bass in shallow waters and some are out very deep, but a lot of the bass are located in what I refer to as the “tweens”, or in between shallow and deep water.

The ditches or secondary creek channels have been holding a lot fish in 20 to 40 feet of water. Use your electronics and look for bait balls at these same depths, as that will be where the majority of your fish will congregate.

I have been using my Humminbird’s Side Imaging to locate both the ditches and cover along with the balls of bait that bass are feeding on.

Side Imaging has given anglers the ability to see not only detailed bottom contours and brush piles and other cover, but also the bait balls and fish are not just directly under your boat.

Back before this amazing technology was introduced, we would have to run back-and-forth over an area to determine where the key areas were located.

If you were off over a few feet to the left or right, you could miss important details that could make the difference from loading the boat and not catching any bass.

This along with optional GPS technology, like Lake Master or Navioncs charting, has given anglers the ability to see many secrets that were previously unavailable in earlier years.

I talk about the technologies because they really come into play during cold and hot months, when the best fishing occurs off shore.

As the weather gets cold, bass will move out into 40 to as much as 60 or more feet of water. I have caught bass 70 feet deep on Lake Lanier and, believe it or not as deep, as 100 feet on Lake Keowee, although those depths are pretty extreme.

When water temperatures drop into the 40’s look for Lake Lanier’s spotted bass to set up on the timberlines and deed ditches in 45 to 55 feet of water.

Vertical, video game fishing with electronics is a main stay for winter fishing. Jigs, drop shots or jigging spoons are all great choices for picking of fish that you find grouped up on your graph.

Using your GPS becomes critical for staying over the groups of fish, but even an old school marker buoy with plenty of line can help anglers to their position above these grouped up schools of fish.

Vertical fishing is not for everyone, so fishing the ditches can be a great way to catch bass too. Locate deeper banks and look for the ditches on the bank where water washed down through the woods.

Refer to your lake GPS to keep your boat centered in the ditch and cast Fish Head Spins, Deep Diving Crank Baits like a SPRO Little John DD, Jigs or even Texas or Carolina rigged plastic worms and work these baits down the ditches.

Try to keep in contact with the bottom and concentrate on ditches that have rock, brush or docks.

Also find the ones that intersect with creek channels and you may locate some huge schools at the ditch and creek intersections. Ditch fishing can also be great for anglers fishing from shore.

Striper fishing has been very good in the fall and winter of 2013 and fishing in 2014 is starting out very well too.

Colder weather could affect this action, though.

Pulling flat lines and planner boards rigged with trout or herring on a Gamakatsu Octopus or Circle Hook has been a consistent method for catching stripers, both back in the shallow pockets and creeks and also out toward the deeper creek mouths and main lake pockets that are holding bait.

It is not hard to find the best areas as the birds continue to give away the best locations.
All species of fish eating birds will show anglers the best areas, and even the types of forage the fish in these areas are eating.

Kingfishers are chatty small shad eaters that look like blue jays.

These noisy birds tend to fly alone and dive as they pick off small shad in the pockets. Blue Herons are the long stork like birds that stalk the banks, and they will eat shad, bream and even bass when the opportunity presents its self. These long, tall slender birds look like prehistoric pterodactyls when seen in flight.

Loons look almost like a Canadian goose with the black and white colors reversed, and these are one of the main birds to look for when targeting stripers. They will eat shad or bluebacks and when they are in the area you can tell the stripers are very close by.

Then there are the old reliable sea gulls.

Gulls can spot baitfish, stripers or feeding loons from great distances and they are one of the best birds to follow. When you see gull laying still on the water that doesn’t mean much, but when they are circling and diving that is the time to pay attention.

Flat and down lined bluebacks are working well this week.

Trolling an umbrella rig with smaller 1/4 to 1/2 ounce SPRO Buck Tails with a Fluke or Cane Thumper are a good bet in areas that are holding balls of shad or herring.

These same buck tails and trailers cast on a medium heavy spinning outfit cast to swirling fish is a great way to enjoy catching stripers.

Fly fishing offers one of the most exciting and challenging ways to target stripers on Lake Lanier. Cast small shad imitators like Clowser Minnows or small Streamers to fish schooling on the surface.

Crappie fishing is a little tough but die-hard perch jerkers that know where the deep brush and proper locations are can still catch some quality fish.

It does take some knowledge and quality electronics are a must but the crappie are grouped up in tight schools in brush from 15 to 30 feet of water. Small jigs or down lined minnows placed directly in the right spot will elicit some good catches right now.

Trout: Trout fishing is just OK on the Chattahoochee River but better in the year round mountain rivers and streams.

There are some fat rainbow and brown trout feeding up in the streams and rapids that will strike live bait (where permitted by law), or wet flies and small shad shaped crank baits. Rains that muddy the waters will slow trout fishing but trout are mostly not affected by cold weather. In fact, trout can be caught very well in the coldest winter months.

Bank Fishing: Bank anglers can take advantage of the ditch bite for both bass and stripers and even crappie in some instances.

When walking though parks find the areas where ditches run down the hills into the water and set out your lines in these areas.

You can use live bait, or better yet make a long cast with a Jig or Fish Head Spin, and work it slowly back up hill through these ditches. If you feel a strike then set the hook.

Eric Aldrich is an outdoor writer, marketing specialist and bass angler. Reports are based on personal experience and permission from a close network of friends. I would love to hear from our readers so please email me at or visit my website at

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