Oh dang, who are these two????? Jocasta??? What?????
So Vault-tec was a thing a thousand years ago?
Woah, are these two Michelle's grandparents? Or some other type of ancestor?
It's implied (and confirmed by Ravi) that Jocasta is Michelle's ancestor, nothing yet about Wosret..
we know that Ravi was impressed that Michelle managed to keep the surname so it does seem to imply she ended up with Wosret. Or another wosret anyway.
It doesn't imply anything of the sort. It's not that she has the name Jocasta instead of Wosret. It's that she has the name Jocasta at all. Consider how many ancestors of yours were alive hundreds of years ago, and how many of them share your surname at all, let alone females (in a culture that traditionally only passed down the father's family name). Assuming no intermarriages between ancestors, if you look just five generations back you would have 32 ancestors in that generation, and odds are good only one of them would share your surname. If any, considering that family names can change over time.
Well, we can tell he's not as nice as Bestet.
As Ace said, Michelle is a Jocasta descendant. Not sure about any relation to Wosret, but we know that those two are plot important as they put together the plan to hide sphinxes.
In that page from Orientations, Michael said the name as though it was a family name.
Same as he did referring to his family, the Jocastas.
He didn't say the names as though the two families were already joined. So there should be another family of Sphinxes, somewhere.
I think these two randos are very important.
this is obviously the future. Michelle got old and made sphinx friends who call her by her last name.
A mane like that is brilliant, in Winter.
In the heat and humidity of Summer though, it rapidly becomes an utter nightmare. Trapping the summer heat on your head, and on humid days, your head and neck are bathed in perspiration.
So are these two way visions, where Jocosta is seeing what Michelle sees, while Michelle sees what she sees?
Unrelated: Wosret's midform is adorable. The Egyptian skin/fashion and lion appendages go well together.
… I'm not sure how I feel about someone predicting the future, it kinda cheapens the drama of stories in my oppinion.
Without knowing how far into the future Jocasta's Visions can see, there's no way to assess the useful timeliness of the Vision, for strategic planning. Also, there's no info, yet, on how accurate her Visions of events in the future are.
Well in context of the present most visions wouldn't make a whole lot of sense. You'd see images but not know what they mean, especially if they are many years down the road. Although this is a vision of the past, Jocasta's vision of the future mentioned the Dragons attacking and burning the medallion smithy's, and we still don't know why they did that, or why some creatures like Harpies don't have medallions. Jocasta, being a Grecian Sphinx, should have been in contact with Harpies who have Greek origins. Also, Grecian Sphinxes are associated with riddles.
Two pages back, page 22, in the first actual frame of the Vision, there is an Allelean Harpy among the Mythicals present, so it's not a case of 'should have been'. She was.
So it becomes a question of 'why not' in regards to the 4 Harpy species.
One possibility is that the Harpies Jocasta and Wosret were in contact with, were killed before Medallions could be developed.
Another is that Harpies were, for some reason, at odds with the Sphinxes, and being somehow enemies, were denied Medallions.
Another is that the Sphinxes were NOT the nice guys history has recorded them as being, and simply decided in capriciousness to not do Medallions for Harpies.
Right now, figuring out the why for which species got Medallions and others did not, is ALL open-ended guess work with no pointers as to what scenario is possibly more likely than any other.
If Michelle's visions are any indication they rarely seem to make any coherent sense. just images of the past or future all meshed into one big blob.
I could live with future visions if they were stylized to the point of being practically useless.
Many visions, most of them almost impossible to understand. They are sphinxes, after, and Greek sphinxes at least are associated with riddles, so it makes perfect sense to me that they never get the full picture.
Perhaps they asked riddles to see if anyone could give them the answers to their visions?
Speaking of the mothers of characters, it does make me wonder how Janice is coping.
It's the last page of Skin Deep, everyone.
And then he woke up and it was all a dream the end.
Who cares who they are, look at Jocasta's hair! Is it natural? Is it Maybelline?
I was confused for a second but you can see that Wosret is wearing a medallion. In the third panel you can see the string it's on under his collar. Still makes me wonder about Dragons and Harpies though. Jocasta must have known about the Harpies so why don't they have medallions?
I really hope the end game of this is Michelle learning how to make more medallions for people like Tony and Sam.
In Sam's case it would be a repair job.
He has a Medallion already, and that cannot be changed. It failed to transform him into full form. It form locked him so while his overall form looks human, he permanently has yellow harpy eyes and noticeably enlarged canines, and he cannot transform back to proper human form.
For other harpies it would be quite straight forwards, a new, created from scratch, Medallion.
In Anthony's case however, I don't know if he could have a Medallion. It was contact with a blank Nokk Medallion which triggered the spell break on him. Now how the impact of that Nokk Medallion spell might interact with the spell on a Medallion that Michelle might craft for harpies, is NOT predictable.
A point of correction: Sam doesn't come from a harpy family. He comes from a family of reverse gryphons.
I totally missed that error when I made the post.
We don't really know what is involved in actually making the medallions. We know the phoenix egg is required but beyond that it's a mystery.
My guess is that they were going to make medallions for the creatures that currently dont have any but were killed before they got that chance.
im joking but dang finally learning something bout the sphinxes i have been, so incredibly curious.
soon all shall be revealed.
as a side note i love the perpetual glowing eyes they're rocking. it's great.
Actually in Ye Olden Days "important" people didn't need last names to distinguish themselves from the "common" people.
And for those common people who actually made a name for themselves [heh heh] their name was appended with the town or village they originated from.
Ex. Leonardo da Vince is of course from that little Hamlet called Vince.
In Japan, nobody below samurai rank (the top 6%) was allowed to have a family name until 1870. (I'm sure there must have been nonce descriptives, even if actual bynames were forbidden.) Then, as part of the Meiji Reformation, everybody was required to have one; see above for the purpose. I haven't read anything that actually said so, but I'm sure that swarms of bureaucrats were sent out into the countryside to assign and record names. The vast majority of those peasant names were simple locatives like "Middle-village" (Nakamura) or "Mountain-base" (Yamamoto) or "Rocky-point" (Iwasaki) or "Rich-field" (Toyota).
It looks like maybe something wasn't totally wrong (but probably still a little wrong) with Michelle- the Sphinx seem to have white-glowing eyes a lot.


Diana Coles's The Clever Princess is a feminist fantasy which sheds light on the stereotyped gender roles found in almost all fairy tales. The most important object of the story is to create a new type of heroine completely different from the traditional kind who, like Cinderella and Snow White, merely waits for a man/prince to help them escape from the circumstance they are in. In this paper I discuss gender in old fairy tales, comparing them with The Clever Princess, and clarify how the feminist story criticizes the stereotype of the heroine and creates a new role model. I also discuss its raison d'6tre and problems in addition.


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This week I decided to write something for this website a little wider than just what was going on at United. Partly because there is only so many ways you can say United have lots of injuries, problems at the back or Rooney is a bit daft (I've certainly said the latter more than enough now). The other reason though is because a long standing issue in the game has heated up again this week and I felt it was worthy of a mention amongst all the match reviews and previews.
Football is seen as unfairly targeted by people for how it deals with racism. People saying that is unfairly targeted and that the game isn't racist at all because Black footballers or that people who attack the game for its failings in this area are being too "PC." As if we're in a post-racism world or more accurately if you were to hear what people were thinking you would hear "I don't care about racism, black people aren't good enough, stop talking about it."
One of those people is disappointingly Trevor Brooking, who apparently look through the magical looking glass and expects there to be 10-20 black managers operating in the Football League within a decade. Saying that he didn't why "three black coaches be in the final shortlist if they're the best" but going on to say that he wouldn't put someone in for the sake of it who wasn't ready.
Of course Trevor we're not asking for three candidates we're asking for one and for them just to have a chance. Not to be given the job on the spot, have the stadium named after them or have all the red Smarties removed from the bowl, just to be given a chance. To be given an opportunity to demonstrate their vision to take a football club forward off the pitch. That chance is not being given though. Paul Ince for instance should be a shoe in to be in contention for any job in the Football League after creditable work for Macclesfield and MK Dons and even managing for a time in the Premier League with Blackburn Rovers. Some may point to his sacking at Blackpool counting against him but considering the how the club is treated by its unsavoury owners, The Oyston family, it shouldn't be held against him.
However Ince is not in work and hasn't been since January and in his own words it isn't for the want of trying. Only two vacancies from 92 have black or ethnic minority managers at the helm: Keith Curle at Carlisle and Chris Powell at Huddersfield. Currently the likes of Leroy Rosenior, the excellent Chris Houghton and the aforementioned Paul Ince are out of work, not even in coaching roles. This is despite 25% of players in the football league being people of colour.
Intelligent men who have played at the top level such as Sol Campbell are leaving the game altogether once retiring. One would think with his experience, success and his intelligence, clubs would be scrambling over one another to bring him in on their coaching staff and right now he should be in possession of a UEFA pro-license with a view to managing a club. However that is not the case and indeed Campbell's previous accusations of the powers that be in the game being racist carry a lot of weight. Oliver Holt in an article slamming institutional racism in the game two years ago presented the example of former Arsenal player Paul Davis, another "thinking man's player" with winners medals like Campbell. He was offered nothing and doesn't even apply for jobs anymore. Scandalous when you consider chancers like Harry Redknapp continue to be offered top jobs despite having a prominent role in bringing Portsmouth football club to its knees and his tactical knowledge being limited to "run about abit."
Football is still racist, right up to the highest level. Greg Clarke the chairman of the Football League promised to bring up the Rooney rule at the Football League AGM, he did not. Brooking, a former FA bigwig himself, went onto say in his nonsensical ramblings that people of colour weren't putting themselves in the right positions for jobs and expected things to be handed to them. Richard Scudamore and Greg Dyke, arguably the two most powerful men in English football have been noticeably silent on the issue.
Remember it wasn't long ago that Rio Ferdinand was essentially forced into international retirement after his younger brother Anton had the nerve to allow himself to be racially abused by England's "Lionheart" John Terry. Terry, despite being caught red handed clearly belting out a very nasty racial slur to Ferdinand was given half the ban that Uruguayan cannibal Luis Suarez was given for the same offence on some nonsensical basis of context. Apparently the FA accepted Terry's explanation that he was in fact not being racist but laying out an innovative piece of live performance art to satirize the institutional racism still prevalent in British society. The difference between Terry and Suarez is that Terry is white and English and Suarez is not.
It's no wonder that many ethnic minority players in the words of Paul Davis, laugh in his face when he tries to get them to take their coaching badges "because they think it's futile." The stats back up that anecdote: 25% of players are people of colour, 18% of those taking coaching badges are people of colour and only two managers are from the same background.
That statistic shows there is no need for a debate about whether we need a Rooney rule, it needs to simply be implemented immediately. These are people who have to suffer indignities daily in and out of the game, they deserve the same chance as white people regardless of the passive and institutionalised racism of people like Trevor Brooking.
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The Mosque of Qani-Bay is a mosque in Cairo, Egypt. The complex is named after Qani-Bay al-Sayfi, nicknamed "al-Rammah", who was Grand Master of the Horse during the reign of Sultan al-Ghuri. It was built between AD 1503 and 1504 (AH 908) on a hill watching over the hippodrome and Mosque-Madrassa of Sultan Hassan. The site was chosen since the horse market and stables of the Citadel were originally located just off the square.

The complex has a main façade that takes maximum advantage of the view and at the same time exposes itself to the people below. The complex was restored first in 1895 and then again in the early 2000s.

The mosque features on the 200 Egyptian pound banknote.

See also
  Lists of mosques
  List of mosques in Africa
  List of mosques in Egypt

References

Archaeology of Egypt
Mosques in Cairo
Mamluk architecture in Egypt
Mosque buildings with domes
Mosques completed in the 1500s

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Tensile strength of zinc oxide films measured by a microbridge method
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Tension-dependent internal damping of a cable model
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Test and numerical analysis of the constitutive relation of a diatomaceous soft rock
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Testing a cultural tourism typology
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Testing and numerical simulation of triaxial and hollow cylinder tests on ko-consolidated marine soils (in Chinese)
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Tetraosmium carbonyl clusters containing μ-NH2amido ligands: Syntheses, crystal structures and reactivities
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The acquisition, retention and reversal of spatial learning in the morris water maze task following withdrawal from an escalating dosage schedule of amphetamine in wistar rats
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The application of soft-threshold de-noising in cable fault location
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The applications of hybrid simulator in transient stability assessment
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The assessment of ride comfort of moving road vehicles under crosswind
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The biosorption of lead ions onto Mucor rouxii
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The community-based classroom / community service initiative in geriatrics and pediatrics
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The Cross Section of Expected REIT Returns
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The design of a statistical algorithm for resolving structural ambiguity in "V NP1usde NP0"
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The detection of small simulated field defects using multifocal VEPs
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The development of advanced nursing practice in Hong Kong
Wong, K. Y., 2003.
The development of a MOA leakage current tester based on floating-point DSP
Li, F. & Cheung, C. N., 2003.
The development of economical housing in ChongQing
Pan, Y. H., Wong, K. W., Hui, C. M. & Howes, R., 2003.
The development of low volatile organic compound emission house-a case study
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The difficulties faced by informal caregivers of patients with terminal cancer in Hong Kong the available social support
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The diradical (CH3)2CHN and its isomeric molecule (CH3)2C=HN: Generation and characterization
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The direct photolysis and photocatalytic degradation of alachlor at different TiO2 and UV sources
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The dose and ratio effects of fe(ii) and h2o2in fenton's process on the removal of atrazine
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The durable press finishing of silk fabric by using 1,2,3,4-butanetetracarboxylic acid
Yang, Z. H. & Hu, J., 2003.
The dynamic team role behavior – the approaches of investigation
Leung, S. H. N., Chan, J. W. K. & Lee, W. B., 1 Jun 2003, In: Team Performance Management: An International Journal. 9, p. 84-90 7 p.
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The effectiveness of electro-acupuncture versus electrical heat acupuncture in the management of chronic low back pain
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The effect of age on ocular blood supply determined by pulsatile ocular blood flow and color Doppler ultrasonography
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The effect of applied stress on the accommodation energy and the solvi for the formation and dissolution of zirconium hydride
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The effect of combined pressure therapy and silicone gel on management of hypertrophic scar
Tsang, W. P. C., Lau, C. M. J. & Zheng, Y. P., 2003.
The effect of combined silicone gel and pressure therapy on postburn hypertrophic scar
Tsang, W. P. C., Li, J., Shou, Z. F. & Lau, C. M. J., 2003.
The effect of different arrangements of sewing yarns on preforms leakage
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The effect of excimer laser surface treatment on the pitting corrosion fatigue behaviour of aluminium alloy 7075
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The effect of inertial normal force on the rolling friction of a soft sphere on a hard plane
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The effect of perceptual texture features on color variation of texture image
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The effect of progressive muscle relaxation training on anxiety and quality of life after stoma surgery in colorectal cancer patients
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The effect of Qigong on general and psychosocial health of elderly with chronic physical illnesses: A randomized clinical trial
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The effect of Qigong on general and psychosocial health of elderly with chronic physical illnesses : a randomized clinical trial
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Q: Improve performance when using GoJS I have to deal with very big data sources lately and was wondering if there was a way to increase the performance of GoJS.
GoJS is very efficiently processing my data, and the TreeView I am trying to make is displayed shortly after the site is fully loaded. Unfortunately, when panning the view, the diagram somehow begins to lag a little.
I am now looking for a way to decrease that lag to a minimum.
I tried fiddling with the Layout options but it did not result in significant performance increase.
To the diagram, I have a diagram with "relatively" few nodes (498 to be precise), but my template is unfortunately rather complicated. It has a nested itemArray, which generates rows and columns inside that row. Another thing is that I use a slightly modified version of the "LayeredTreeView" model.
These nodes are in 388 invisible groups. Generating it without using layout things like crossing reduction only takes a moderate amount of time.
Also i have just discovered the performance site of the GoJS introduction. It has been mentioned there, that complex templates make GoJS slow. Could this here be the case?

A: Complicated templates take longer to build than simple ones, so the loading time will take longer when the nodes are complex and detailed.
However, once all of the Nodes and Links have been created and initialized in the Diagram, scrolling (a.k.a panning) should be pretty fast.
Virtualization decreases load time because there should be very few nodes and links to create and show initially.  However virtualization does slow down scrolling and zooming because nodes and links have to be created as the viewport changes.  And as that Performance page suggests, implementing virtualization requires a lot more programming work.  And it might not even be feasible or faster, depending on the circumstances.

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House made tamales filled with rajas and cheese.
Crispy oysters with Tabasco aioli salsa fresca.
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Adobo marinated bone-in pork chop in our new rotisserie. Served with carrots, potatoes, zucchini and a side of salsa macha.
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Chris Johnson Is No One's Fantasy
The Tennessee Titans' Chris Johnson has been known for years as the running back who routinely breaks out 50-yard touchdown runs.
But this year, Johnson has yet to hit the 50-yard mark—on all his carries combined.
In fact, the same guy who rushed for 2,006 yards three seasons ago has struggled to get past the line of scrimmage. He has 45 yards...


The events for Saxon capiltulation (in ROP/Events/RoP Saxony Capitulation) has this. I read it as allowing the Austrians a chance to save the Saxons if they make a real military commitment towards Pirna. But as written the key evaluation is only comparing Saxon to Saxon.


Check out some options how sng files might be converted to mla format.
Search for sng to mla converter or software able to handle these file types.
It appears that both .sng and .mla files are used in a program called WorshipCenter Pro and both seems to be used as documents. This means that it potentially possible to resave or convert sng to mla or vice versa, but only using the original program.
An mla file extension is related to the WorshipCenter Pro and used for its document files.


The next three weekends bloom with spring festivals sure to draw LGBT crowds. This weekend pick from Dogwood Festival in Piedmont Park, a full day of LGBT writers organized by the Atlanta Queer Literary Festival, or Sandy Springs Artsaplooza, organized by the gay-led Atlanta Foundation for Public Spaces.
Next weekend, stay home for Atlanta's most eclectic neighborhood festival, or hit the road to North Georgia for Women's Musicfest or to Unadilla, Ga., for Bearapalooza. Then pack your suitcase again May 3-5 for Gay Days at Tybee Island, a chance to experience an LGBT beach weekend at the vacation haven near Savannah.


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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding stone crushing units affecting health in District Nagaur, Rajasthan, 10/04/2019

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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding handling of fly ash at two thermal power plants at Jhajjar, Haryana, 01/07/2019

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Vedprakash Vs State of Haryana dated 01/07/2019 regarding handling of the accumulated fly ash at the units of M/s NTPC Aravali Power Co. (P) Ltd.
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As smoke billows from city fields, govt. misses the fire
Stubble burning, which can lead to heart attacks and respiratory diseases, is practised in many areas of Delhi. Farmers said they were forced to burn the leftover stalk of harvested crops as there
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Association of maternal folate intake during pregnancy with infant asthma risk

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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding pollution in and around railway godown, Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh, 27/05/2019

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Shivansh Pandey Vs State of Uttar Pradesh dated 27/05/2019 regarding pollution in and around railway godown, Faizabad, Uttar Pradesh in the course
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Despite having a Comprehensive Action Plan for Delhi-NCR, many measures still remain on paper Air pollution level in the city nosedived last week and stayed in the 'very poor' category for two days
Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding stone crushing units affecting health, District Nagaur, Rajasthan, 15/05/2019

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Ganpat Ram Mirdha Vs State of Rajasthan & Others dated 15/05/2019 regarding the health effects of air pollution caused by stone crushing units
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Order of the National Green Tribunal regarding air pollution caused by stone crushing units, Nagaur District, Rajasthan, 26/04/2019

Order of the National Green Tribunal in the matter of Ganpat Ram Mirdha Vs State of Rajasthan dated 26/04/2019 regarding health effects due to stone crushing units in the villages of Koliya, Naka ke


Surprisingly, options for Classic Arcade Gaming in Miami, Florida are pretty limited. I found myself in town for a couple of days back in November 2018 after visiting the Free Play Florida event, and was taken aback by Google's distinct lack of suggestions for places to check out, given the size and cultural significance of the city itself.
Aside from a couple of 'barcade' type arcades that didn't look terribly inspiring, one place did jump out – Arcade Odyssey. Located in the south of the city, this arcade has been around for a few years now. I realised that I had actually popped in for a few minutes on my way to the airport during a trip a couple of years back; but I have to admit it didn't leave a huge impression on me. A friend told me that things had changed significantly since my visit, following an expansion into the property next door, so I was keen to make a return to check out how things were shaping up.
First impressions are everything, and walking through the doors, you are hit with a cacophony of noise and lights. There's no doubting where you are. The arcade itself is broken down into three distinct areas – modern machines, pinball and of course, the classics. Elsewhere out back is a full Lan Center PC setup where regular gaming tournaments take place. There's also a smattering of modern consoles, running the latest games.
One of the things that makes Arcade Odyssey stand out from the crowd is its pricing. Amazingly, it still operates a token system. There are no cover charges or entrance fees. Walk up to one of the three change machines and you'll find that a single dollar buys you 3 tokens, while spending $10 or $20 earns you bonus tokens on top. Most machines are priced at 1 or 2 tokens per play, with just a few larger or new games costing 3 or 4 tokens. This model adds to the authenticity of the place compared to the usual 'fee at the door' model found at most classic arcades these days.
The PCs and consoles found in the arcade can be rented by the hour or for a full day.
There's a good mix of newer arcade cabinets, including several iterations of House of the Dead. Also, I need that carpet in my games room!
Time Crisis 3 and perhaps the most impressive of the new stuff, a six player X-Men upright!
The Act is essentially an interactive movie, utilising hand drawn cartoon scenes created by former Disney artists. It really is a thing of beauty. It has had a troubled history in terms of release but is a true piece of arcade history and I'd urge you to play it – it is no longer available for play on any other platform, not even MAME. It was removed from the Apple store over a year ago and does not exist on any other platform anywhere else – this is it! Read more about The Act here.
Another rare one here. Sega's SegaSonic The Hedgehog. This title uses trackballs to control the characters. I suspect you'll not find another in any Western arcade. Read more here.
Stern's excellent table, Guardians of the Galaxy, alongside Spiderman and GhostBusters. No complaints here from me!
One of the rarer titles on display during my visit was this Midway Wacko. Released in 1983, it features a bizarre control panel set at an angle, with joystick and trackball controls. Great to see one in the flesh!
Another rare one here. Atari's Millipede cocktail!
Walking around, it doesn't take a genius to realise that the machines reflect the thought and passion that's gone into creating a space that players want to visit. But that's only part of the story. As a modern arcade, Arcade Odyssey has the ability to get customers back time and again. Using its extensive inventory of boards, you're unlikely to see the same suite of titles from month to month. With space for almost 200 cabinets, the arcade can regularly serve up games that you wouldn't usually come across. And everything runs on original hardware – in itself, this is quite something.
All these cabinets are 100% working and form part of the rotation policy that the arcade has in place. Note the Tunnel Hunt and Star Rider in the background there. Can you spot the Computer Space?
Finding an old school arcade that still delivers such an authentic 'pay per play' experience is hard in itself, and this one is the furthest south in mainland USA.
This truly is America's 'last arcade'.
Be sure to check out 'The Urn'. This is mounted up on the wall in the corner of the rear of Arcade odyssey, and houses all of the tokens that turn up in the cash boxes from other arcades! This is done out of respect and as a memento for all the arcades that have come and gone before Arcade Odyssey.
Rick's long-term plan for the arcade is to expand to house a dedicated video game museum, allowing the public to see and get hands-on with the collection he's amassed over the years. Until then, there's plenty to see and do at Arcade Odyssey. I cannot recommend this place highly enough. The thought and passion that's goes into this place is unlike any other arcade I've visited. Everything is very well laid out, the atmosphere and vibe is great, and more importantly, you'll discover a ton of rarities as you walk around. I can't wait for my next visit.
Your roving reporter and Arcade Odyssey's Rick Medina – thanks for your hospitality Rick!
This place is an easy 10/10 – make sure you check out Arcade Odyssey if you find yourself in Miami. More information, including opening times, and a list of current playable titles can be found here.
Those are some great photos of a great arcade. The place looks really clean.
Fantastic place. Highly recommended. Rick, great to meet you this winter. See you again in August. Please keep The Act on the floor!
Great article, curious though have you been to or heard of galloping ghost just outside of Chicago? Current game count is about 690 games and growing, with an additional location opening solely for pinballs.
You should check out Glitch Bar 905 NE 5th Ave. Fort Lauderdale, FL 33304. It's a "barcade" with original classic arcade machines from the 80's & 90's, (Billy Mitchell scored 1,000,000 points on their Donkey Kong machine twice) plus skee ball, a couple of pinball machines, and a room with 3 different consoles. All the games are free, (except for pinball) no cover, free parking, & an amazing drink menu. They also have DJs 3 nights a week.
Good call. I'm going to check that out when I'm back in Miami in August.
Awesome, and a blue Computer Space? Don't get many of those to the pound!
What a great arcade. Nice write up Tony and some great photos. I always like the behind the scenes stuff, the most revealing.
I also like the token system, and the way it is used to monitor the amount of play each game has, and in turn tailor the floor space to the paying customer.


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The Role of Visual Analysis in the Regulation of Electronic Order Book Markets
Mark E. Paddrik
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Andrew E. Todd
() (University of Virginia)
Peter A. Beling
William T. Scherer
Mark Endel Paddrik
Electronic markets and automated trading have resulted in a drastic increase in the quantity and complexity of regulatory data. Reconstructing the limit order book and analyzing order flow is an emerging challenge for financial regulators. New order types, intra-market behavior and other exchange functionality further complicate the task of understanding market behavior at multiple levels. Data visualizations have proven to be a fundamental tool for building intuition and enabling exploratory data analysis in many fields. In this paper, we propose the incorporation of visualizations in the workflow of multiple financial regulatory roles, including market surveillance, enforcement, and supporting academic research.
Mark E. Paddrik & Richard Haynes & Andrew E. Todd & Peter A. Beling & William T. Scherer, 2014. "The Role of Visual Analysis in the Regulation of Electronic Order Book Markets," Staff Discussion Papers 14-02, Office of Financial Research, US Department of the Treasury.
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The nation is a buzz about Super Bowl Sunday on February 7. Parties are planned and beer is a brewing. It's the second food-consuming day next to Thanksgiving.
The first Super Bowl was played in 1967. Both tickets and commercials have gotten outrageously more expensive, with ticket costs increasing from $12 to more than $10,000 and the price of commercials rising from $42,000 to $5 million. Instead of university bands, the half time show now features top shelf entertainers performing in elaborate costumes with wardrobe malfunctions on impressive stages.
Kitchen towels can be a major source of cross-contamination. To eliminate bacteria, kitchen towels should be washed frequently in the hot cycle of the washing machine. Paper towels should never be reused, since they are designed for single use. Multiple kitchen towels should be kept handy for use when the current one becomes dirty.
Before and after preparing, handling, or eating food, always wash your hands with warm water and soap for 20 seconds. Use clean plates, dishes, and utensils to serve food, and keep surfaces clean.
Make sure raw meat and poultry do not come into contact with other food. Use separate plates and utensils for these items, and never place cooked food back on the same plate that previously held raw food.
Always use a food thermometer when cooking meat and poultry products. The thermometer should be placed in the thickest part of the food and read after the manufacturer designated time.
Cook raw beef, pork, lamb and veal steaks, chops, and roasts to 145 °F. For safety and quality, allow meat to rest for at least three minutes before carving or consuming. Cook raw ground beef, pork, lamb, and veal to 160 °F. Cook raw poultry to 165 °F.
Keep hot foods hot and cold foods cold. Hot foods must have a heat source, and cold foods should be kept on ice to remain at a safe temperature and out of the Danger Zone. The Danger Zone is the temperature range between 40 °F and 140 °F where bacteria multiply rapidly.
Leftover foods should be refrigerated promptly and not be kept at room temperature for more than two hours. Perishable foods left out longer than two hours should be discarded.


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Good News Friday: 2 short videos to make you feel good about marriage. And the paraplegic surfer: a tale of courage and will
Man, good news breaking out all over the place this week. Thursday an actual real, live, immigration reform bill was passed in the Senate, and my Brooklyn Nets made an outstanding (albeit one-sided) trade to get future Hall of Famers Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett from the Celtics).
Happy Friday. Since marriage, and who's allowed to get married (now everyone can, says the Supremes) has been so much in the news this week, wanted to start off today with a story and a clip both highlighting the awesomeness of love.
First, meet 81-year-old Cynthia Riggs, a mystery writer who lives on Martha's Vineyard. Sixty years ago she had a friendship with a man she worked with in San Diego, and after losing touch for six decades, well, he found her in an unusual way. Enjoy this short piece from the always-excellent "CBS Sunday Morning." So sweet…
**Next, a compilation of stories from one of one of my favorite movies of all-time (Top 10, no doubt, in my book), with some brilliant and hilarious tales of love (sadly, these are not real people, just actors, but the stories they're telling are allegedly real).
"Nine extra floors…" so good.
**Finally, on a non-marriage front, check out this incredible story of an Australian surfer named Pascale Honore who, despite being a paraplegic, has still managed to find a unique way to keep her love of surfing alive.
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Supreme Court defends sanctity of marriage for all. And a streak ends shockingly for Federer on crazy day at Wimbledon.
On the very last day of its year, the Supreme Court did a hell of a thing on Wednesday:
It acknowledged what those of us in the 21st century have known forever: That the act of marriage requires only two people who are in love and are committed to each other.
That's it. That's all marriage is. But for so long, and through so many long fights, same-sex couples have been forced to swallow the idea that they were unworthy of being married, that it was only reserved for "those people," of opposite genders.
What the Court did Wednesday, in striking down the odious Defense of Marriage Act (and let that please remain a stain on Bill Clinton's reputation as President; it makes me sick when Dems in revisionist history terms recall the "liberal" side of Bubba) and turning back a challenge to the legal overturning of California's Prop 8, is simply and clearly say that the federal government deciding who gets to marry whom is not kosher.
I know the fight isn't over; there are still 37 states that don't allow gay marriage. But Wednesday was another huge, more than symbolic brick crashing down from a wall of intolerance that has stood for far too long.
Bravo to the Supreme Court.
*While the Supreme Court was making history, my man-crush Roger Federer was making history of his own, in a bad way.
For the first time in nine years our man Rog was knocked out of a Grand Slam tournament before the quarterfinals, an astonishing streak of consistency (36 straight tournaments he made the final 8; that's mind-bogglingly good). In keeping with the bizarreness of the first week of Wimbledon, Fed lost to someone named Sergiy Stakhovsky, a player ranked out of the Top 100 (and the first time Roger has lost to someone that low since 2005).
Wednesday was maybe the wackiest day ever at Wimbledon; besides Federer, Maria Sharapova, Victoria Azarenka, and Jo-Willie Tsonga all either lost or had to pull out with injury.
What does this mean? It means Andy Murray will never have a better chance to win Wimbledon.
It also means that without Federer and Nadal, Wimbledon got a little less compelling.
Tagged DOMA, Roger Federer, Sergei Stakhovsky, Supreme Court
12-year-old girl kicked off football team for ridiculous reason. An alarm clock that will cost you money, literally. And the CBC wraps up the hockey season beautifully
I try not to let myself get outraged by news stories in late June. I mean, it's the summer, school's out (no more subbing for me for a while!), and there's rarely reason to get all hot and bothered.
Then I read about the story of 12-year-old Madison Baxter, an aspiring young football player at Strong Mountain Christian Academy outside of Atlanta, Ga. Madison was recently kicked off her football team, but not because the boys were too big for her and she was getting hurt, and not because she couldn't keep up with them, skill-wise.
Why was Madison kicked off the team and not allowed to try out in 7th grade?
Because her male teammates are beginning to have "impure thoughts" about her, Strong Rock Christian Academy school administrator Patrick Stuart told Baxter's mother.
"In the meeting with the CEO of the school [Patrick Stuart], I was told that the reasons behind it were one, that the boys were going to start lusting after her and have impure thoughts about her and that the locker-room talk was not appropriate for a female to hear even though she had a separate locker room from the boys," Baxter's mother, Cassy Blythe, told Atlanta's WXIA-TV.
I mean, really? That's a reason to discriminate, because the pre-teen boys are having feelings for her?
Just awful. It sure as hell isn't Baxter's fault that she's a girl, and the idea that administrators cave to this kind of ridiculousness, and find another way to exclude girls from football, is just so, so wrong.
**And now, a product for people like me that are downright impossible to drag from bed when the alarm goes off.
When all else fails, a man in Seattle named Rich Olson has invented an alarm clock that will literally cost you money if you roll over and go back to sleep.
Here's how it works: You put some money, maybe a dollar bill, let's say, into your alarm clock the night before. Then, when you wake up the next morning, if you refuse to turn off the alarm within a few minutes, it begins shredding your money.
Now… I have a lot of problems with this device; first of all, who the hell is going to remember to put money in their alarm clock? And second, if you do remember, are you really going to put $20 in? Imagine doing that and then sleeping in. Then you're late and poorer.
Still, God bless Mr. Olson for trying to fix this age-old problem. Me, I'd rather sleep and be late (although my favorite alarm clock ever was one my aunt got me as a kid; it was a baseball alarm clock and to turn it off, you threw it against the wall across the room. Man, did I have fun with that thing.)
**Finally, for loyal reader Mark M. and the other hockey fans like me who are in mourning now that the Stanley Cup playoffs are over, here's the CBC with yet another awesome playoff montage.
Best sport there is, played by the toughest athletes anywhere. Can't wait till next season.
Tagged alarm clock, CBC, Madison Baxter, Rich Olson
A bewildering season finale of "Mad Men." Rafa Nadal, shocked at Wimbledon again. And a Wallenda does the impossible
Big congratulations to the Chicago Blackhawks and their fans for winning their second Stanley Cup in the last four years, in stunning fashion Monday night. Down 2-1 to the Bruins with 1:30 to go in the third period, Chicago scored twice in the last 1:19 to win. Amazing stuff. This photo just about sums up what it means to win the Cup, don't you think?
"Mad Men" is a show that alternately delights, frustrates and angers me. It's brilliant and wonderful and annoying and just a hell of a lot of fun to watch, especially this season, when it seemed like Matthew Weiner finally let some characters change and learn from past behavior.
Sunday night's season finale (SPOILER ALERT! IF YOU HAVEN'T SEEN IT YET, SKIP DOWN TO THE RAFAEL NADAL TENNIS PHOTO.) was very surprising, but still frustrating.
Don Draper, still as loathsome as ever, appears to have made a major breakthrough. He quit drinking cold turkey, actually did something selfless by letting Ted go to California to save his marriage (instead of Don going there to save his marriage), and actually owned up to who he really is in a huge pitch meeting with Hershey, and with his kids. Of course, he ended up getting "fired" by his partners, so maybe lying was the better way to go.
Pete Campbell, my favorite character to hate on the show, is also in bad shape, and he brought it all on himself too. (His "Not great, Bob!" in the elevator killed me with laughter).
I feel badly. for Peggy, once again loved and left by men she adored. I thought the finale gave us some sweet moments with Joan and Roger, who just seem destined to end up together, don't they?
And Sally Draper, God bless her, continues to be awesome as a rebellious teen. Is there any doubt she'll be selling drugs at her boarding school and listening to the Grateful Dead by next season?
Overall I thought this season was one of the best the show has had; they allowed the "real" 1960s to happen to these characters, and the writing was fantastic.
"Mad Men" has only one year left. I hope next year is just as good as this one.
And I hope Pete Campbell is never, ever happy.
**Last year was shocking.
This year, maybe even more so.
For the second year in a row, Rafael Nadal is going home from Wimbledon before the grass has even started to get chewed up.
I wouldn't have believed it unless I saw it myself, but the great Spaniard spit the bit at Wimbledon again Monday, losing in the first round to a Belgian named Steve Darcis (I follow tennis very closely and even I've never heard of this dude).
Maybe it was a case of Nadal's knees hurting again, with him playing too much tennis this year. Or maybe Darcis just caught fire and played the most beautiful tennis he's ever played for about two hours.
Whatever it was, Wimbledon just got a whole lot easier for Andy Murray and Roger Federer, who could've had to play Nadal before the final (And say this for Federer, as tennis writer Greg Couch did on Twitter: He doesn't lose to journeymen like Darcis at Slams. Not ever.).
Now it looks like we might get a Federer-Murray semi, which would be delicious.
As for Nadal, I really hope he's not hurt again. The sport is so much better with him in it.
**Finally, hope you all saw the insane stunt Nik Wallenda pulled Sunday night on the Discovery Channel, as he wire-walked 1,400 feet across the Grand Canyon, while 1,500 feet off the ground (that's higher than the Empire State Building, FYI).
I watched it Monday after I knew he had made it safely, and I still had my heart in my throat as he walked. I enjoyed the calming commentary from Wallenda's father, the incredible aerial views from the helicopter above, and the sheer chutzpah and courage it takes to do something like this.
But Nik Wallenda is nuts. And the Discovery Channel is even crazier for televising this. If he had fallen and died, on live television? A tragedy of the highest order.
He made it, so everyone breathed a sigh of relief. But what a crazy, insanely risky thing for Wallenda to put his family through every time he does something like this.
Tagged "Mad Men" Pete Campbell, Andy Murray, Grand Canyon, Hershey, Nik Wallenda, Rafael Nadal, Roger Federer, Skywire, Steve Darcis
Barack Obama, sinking lower and lower with Syria/NSA decisions. Trampoline cliff diving? Sure. Will the Cup be awarded tonight?
I know I have only myself to blame for getting my hopes up. That in his second term Barack Obama would be a better, more decisive, more "2008" Obama than we saw in his first term.
But boy oh boy, have I been wildly disappointed. Over the last couple of weeks two major news items have shown that for many reasons Obama is failing miserably at being the kind of President millions of us hoped for.
First, the NSA data collection debacle. Oh, I know the NSA isn't really listening to our phone calls and hearing about Aunt Ida's trip to the Grand Canyon (random tangent: did you see that Wallenda dude walk across the Canyon on a wire last night on Discovery Channel? Insanely cool) or your hatred of your boss at work.
And I know there are legit national security grounds for data-mining some of our calls.
But this whole operation is wildly invasive and totally over the top; it reeks of what George W. Bush did during his term, and we liberals have been invoking that comparison way too often lately.
As the excellent Glenn Greenwald has been writing, prosecuting NSA leaker Edward Snowden for espionage, for God's sakes, is ridiculous and wrong. As Greenwald points out, the Obama administration has doubled the number of espionage prosecutions in the entire history of the U.S., in just the last 4 1/2 years.
Then, Syria. Another American president, getting us deeper and deeper into a war with no end in sight, and helping arm a group of rebels who look just as dangerous and menacing as the Syrian army they're fighting.
Obama swore up and down not to get the U.S. involved in "wars of choice." Well, Syria is a war of choice, and like his choices on so many other issues, Obama has now made the wrong one.
Just so disappointing.
**And now, add this one to the list of sports I will never in a million years try. I present to you, trampoline cliff diving. These people are nuts…
**Finally today, it's a big night in the world of sports because the most awesome trophy in sports may be awarded tonight.
Through five games, the Stanley Cup Finals have been nothing short of spectacular. The Bruins and Blackhawks have played hard-hitting, compelling, intense hockey for five games, and I expect nothing less tonight when the Blackhawks try to finish the B's off.
Saturday's Game 5 was the nastiest of the series; the Bruins are awfully lucky Johnny Boychuk (and if that isn't a great hockey name, I don't know what is) didn't get suspended for his vicious hit on Chicago captain Jonathan Toews the other night, though the B's are likely without their best player, Patrice Bergeron, as well.
I'm rooting for Chicago in this series but honestly, I'm hoping it goes seven games. The hockey has been too good for it to end tonight.
And yes, I've found another excuse to run the photo (above) of me hanging with Lord Stanley, in 2005. Truly one of the Top 5 moments of my journalism career!
Tagged Edward Snowden, Johnny Boychuk, Jonathan Toews, NSA, Stanley Cup
Good News Friday: Jerry Seinfeld, still really funny. NYC'ers show their creative and lazy side. And the most awesome sign-language interpreter ever
Jerry Seinfeld has been funny forever, back when my family and I would go to Westbury Music Fair on Long Island and watch him perform in front of a few thousand people and wonder, "Why isn't this guy more famous? He's terrific!"
Of course, he kind of got a little famous from this TV show he did.
Anyway, what I admire about Seinfeld these days is he's a man who has all the money and career success you could want, yet he's still out there doing stand-up, coming up with funny new material. He's just a guy who still loves telling jokes, even when he doesn't need to. He risks NOT being funny and tarnishing his rep, but he doesn't care.
He was on Jimmy Fallon the other night and killed, as usual. His bit about golf was hilarious, especially to a golf-hater like myself.
**Next up, I tip my cap to the ingenuity of my fellow New Yorkers, which sort of counts as good news since I love it when citizens get around what the government wants.
What am I talking about? All over New York the last few weeks CitiBikes have popped up. This is the brainchild of our mayor forever Mike Bloomberg and Citibank, and basically it's a bike-sharing service all over the city where people can swipe their debit card at any of 600 stations in the five boroughs, borrow a bike to get somewhere, then return it to another station.
Pretty simple, but my fellow Manhattanites have come up with a twist on this idea: Instead of going to a health club and paying hundreds of bucks a month to ride a stationary bike, they are going to the bike rental stations, leaving the bikes locked, and then riding them in place for a half hour for free.
Only catch? You can only ride the bikes backwards while they're locked in place.
Still, it's a hell of a workout.
**Finally today, something totally out of left field that made me smile (hat tip to my friend and fellow Blue Hen Rachel C. for pointing me to this). Check out this woman at the bottom right of the screen, a sign-language interpreter named Holly is totally translating the, um, un-clean lyrics of Wu-Tang Clan at a recent music festival.
Holly is totally into it!
Tagged Blue Hens, CitiBike, Jerry Seinfeld, sign-language interpreter, Wu Tang Clan
James Gandolfini, gone too soon. CNN, sinking lower and lower. And Donnie Baseball, back in the Bronx
What an incredible hockey game Wednesday night. 6-5, Blackhawks over Bruins in OT, in a game with more twists and turns than Space Mountain. The last 2 nights of sports is why we watch. So good…
"The Sopranos" was a television show that was like an epic movie in a lot of ways; every week there was so much drama and plot twists and brilliant acting that you were sometimes exhausted on Sunday nights, from all the concentration required and subtext searching.
At the center of it all was a heavyset character actor who was pretty unknown to most of the world before 2000. But James Gandolfini quickly became a huge star, and man, could he act.
Tony Soprano commanded every single scene he was in. You couldn't take your eyes off him, particularly when he sat smoldering at some perceived (or real) slight.
Gandolfini was good in other roles, too; he was a brilliant villian in a small role in "True Romance," and I really liked him in an HBO movie a few years ago.
But just like Carroll O'Connor will always be Archie Bunker and Sherman Helmsley will always be George Jefferson, Gandolfini will always be Tony, philandering husband of Carmela, and father to screwed-up kids Meadow and A.J. You rooted for him against your will, because you knew he wasn't someone worth emulating. But still, you ended up rooting for him/.
The news Wednesday that Gandolfini had died at 51 just seemed so wrong. From all accounts his death came out of nowhere; he wasn't sick or anything.
Rest in peace, James.
For a terrific piece about Gandolfini, check out TV critic Alan Sepinwall's wonderful tribute here.
**I really don't like making fun of CNN so often, since I used to really love the channel.
But when they do stuff like this (above), how can I NOT make fun of them?
Somewhere, Bernard Shaw is violently shaking in anger.
**Had a very fun Wednesday afternoon; went to Yankee Stadium with my father-in-law to see, for the first time in 32 years, Yankees-Dodgers in the Bronx.
And oh yeah, my childhood hero was managing the visiting team in the other dugout.
It was beyond strange for me seeing Donald Arthur Mattingly of Evansville, Ind. wearing the iconic blue and white of the Dodgers. I know he's been manager there for three years and hasn't played for the Yankees since 1995, but to be in Yankee Stadium and see my idol on the other side… just really surreal.
Happily, everything worked out well. Donnie Baseball got a big ovation from the crowd when he came out with the lineup card before the game, and the Yanks did the right thing by showing a video tribute to Mattingly's career during the game.
After both, Mattingly tipped his cap and waved to the fans.
It's hard for Yankees fans under 25 to appreciate this, but for Bombers fans like me who grew up in the 1980s and early 1990s, Mattingly was all we had. The team was horrendous, and there was little hope for the future.
But we had sweet-swinging No. 23, and he was a reason to watch.
So glad to see him back at the Stadium. I'd rather see him managing the Yankeees, but hey, I'll take what I can get.
Tagged Blackhawks-Bruins, CNN, Don Mattingly, James Gandolfini, Tony Soprano
LeBron and the Heat survive in an NBA classic. A Spanish town figures out the public dog-poop problem. And introducing Rib Stain camo gear
What. A. Game.
I'm not a fan of either the Miami Heat or San Antonio Spurs. I used to have a man-crush on LeBron but now I just admire his incredible talent, and I've always appreciated the lunch-pail work ethic and greatness of Tim Duncan.
But really, it didn't matter much to me who won Tuesday night's epic Game 6 of the NBA Finals.
And still, I was on the edge of my seat, screaming and pulling my (limited) hair out with every twist and turn.
That was a phenomenal NBA Finals game Tuesday night. I have no idea how the hell the Heat pulled out a 103-100 overtime win, when it looked for so long like the Spurs were headed to yet another NBA title.
LeBron, after being mortal all night, tosses his headband aside in the 4th quarter and became superhuman again. Duncan, great all night, could do nothing in the 4th quarter and overtime.
And poor Chris Bosh, who gets way too much blame when the Heat lose, came up with a couple of huge blocked shots in the final minute of OT.
Couple other thoughts:
— How good is Tony Parker? Imagine what would've been if the Spurs had traded him for Jason Kidd back in 2003, like they almost did. Would they have more titles, or fewer?
— The officiating was, predictably, awful, though I think the basketball might be the hardest sport to officiate. The Spurs' Manu Ginobili absolutely got fouled at the end of overtime on his drive to the hoop, but he traveled also, so I guess it's a wash. So many missed calls in this game.
— Mike Breen and Jeff Van Gundy are really an outstanding announcing team. I'd listen to them call anything.
— I haven't seen much of this series, having been on the honeymoon, but it sounds like last night was the first "great" game of the Finals. I have no idea what'll happen in Game 7, but I'm not betting against Tim Duncan. I say Spurs win by 3, even after that crushing loss last night.
**Time for our regular installment of "There's no possible way this product could be real, except it is."
Do you have a problem getting stains on your shirts while eating ribs? Well worry no more, my friend (By the way, this would've been a perfect Father's Day gift for my dad if I knew about it before Sunday.)
**Finally today, I love what the Spanish town of Brunete is doing about a problem we all encounter every day: dog poop on the streets.
When Brunete police officers catch a dog-owner allowing the feces to stay on the sidewalk and forcing the rest of us to avoid stepping in it, they've come up with a novel solution:
They're mailing the poop back to the owners.
How are they doing this? Get the full details here, but basically it involves spying and some good ole' fashioned detective work.
I love it. Would love to see the careless owners' faces when their "package" arrives in the mail.
Then again, I do feel pretty badly for the postal workers who have to deliver it.
Tagged LeBron James, Miami Heat, Tim Duncan
June 17 and the anniversary of the O.J. chase. More Hawaii thoughts. And Miss Utah, oh, Miss Utah.
There are some anniversaries that are indelible in your mind: Your wedding anniversary, the day JFK got assassinated, etc.
But Monday, June 17 was an anniversary of another kind: The day reality TV got born.
Because on June 17, 1994, O.J. Simpson and his best buddy A.C. Cowlings took America on a freeway chase that 95 million people watched. (A tip of the cap to my friend Lisa, who reminded me that June 17 is also the great Barry Manilow's birthday. From all your Fanilows, Barry, you are still the man.)
Like most of you who were alive then, I remember exactly where I was that day. I was still euphoric over the Rangers having won the Stanley Cup three days earlier, and I was hope from college for the summer and watching the Rangers' Stanley Cup parade that day.
Later that night my Dad and I planned to watch the Knicks-Rockets NBA Finals Game 5 together, when early in the game all hell broke loose.
Suddenly Tom Brokaw was breaking in saying O.J. was on the 5 Freeway in California, with 100 police cars after him, with a gun to his head after allegedly killing his ex-wife and lover a few days earlier.
It was incredible. The chase went on and on, and you were afraid to look away from the TV. The newscasters had no idea what was going on, NBC split the screen for a while between the chase and the game, and all I wanted to do was watch that lone car going down the highway.
Of course we know what happened; O.J. eventually got out of the car, went on the trial of the century, and was somehow found not guilty.
But really, that was the day reality TV was born. Everybody was glued to their sets, pre-Internet, waiting to see if one of the most famous football players ever who may have been a murderer, was going to surrender or kill himself.
It doesn't get much more real than that.
The fantastic ESPN documentary "June 17, 1994" (check out the trailer above) has great footage of that day; the whole movie is on YouTube here, I highly recommend checking it out.
Anyway, hope everyone had a great "OJ chase" anniversary.
**OK, since I couldn't get my Hawaii honeymoon all out of my system in one day, I have a few more thoughts to share from my just-completed trip.
— Definitely the most fun/scariest thing we did was ziplining through a rainforest on Kauai. I had ziplined (zipped?) before, but my wife hadn't. It was thrilling and terrifying all at once; the best of the 3 ziplines we did was 1,800 feet long, where you traveled 65 miles per hour across the line for about 80 seconds. Me, who's scared of heights, thought it was great as long as I didn't look down.
The feeling of flying through the air is really, really cool.
— Other favorite activity we did was a night manta ray snorkel, where we saw these huge manta rays swim right up to us. (here's a manta ray). They're totally harmless but it was still squeal-provoking.
— Interacting with so many tour guide employees in Hawaii, I noticed they must possess a ton of patience to deal with the public every day. I asked one guy named Noel what the dumbest question he ever got from a customer was.
"Probably the lady who, when we went to a shrimp farm, asked if shrimp grow on trees or on bushes," Noel said. (His reply: "They grow on trees, because we all know crabs grow on bushes." Took me a few seconds to get that joke.)
— A fun game on your honeymoon: Count how many times the hotel staff calls you by your name. If I heard "Mr. Lewis" one more time I thought I would scream. Good thing I'm not a teacher or anything where I hear my name a lot.
— Finally, luaus. They're just weird. I liked the dancing and the fire-eating and all that, but I had no idea what was going on on stage most of the time. Still, the food was great.
**Finally today, it's been a while since we've seen a clip of a truly clueless beauty pageant contestant. We all remember Miss South Carolina and her lack of even basic speaking skills.
Well, now we have a new entrant into the club, Miss Utah, Merissa Powell. She was asked at the Miss USA pageant over the weekend what I thought to be a pretty straightforward question about women in the workplace, and Miss Utah, well, you need to watch to truly appreciate its wretchedness.
And you know, I saw a lot of people defending her on the Web today, saying "oh, she's a beauty pageant contestant, what do you expect?" and "she was nervous, etc."
But I'm sorry, just because you're beautiful doesn't mean you aren't allowed to know stuff, or have opinions on something like women in the workplace.
Just makes me sad how empty-headed some people are.
Tagged A.C. Cowlings, Barry Manilow, Hawaii, June 17 1994, Merissa Powell, Miss Utah, OJ Simpson
A Hawaiian vacation to remember: Tales from two weeks in paradise
Hello loyal readers, your humble blogger has returned tanned, rested, and filled with guava juice and mahi mahi, two of the wonderful delights I enjoyed while on my two-week honeymoon spread over three Hawaiian Islands.
And let me tell you, it was real hard getting back on that plane to come home. Does anyone ever really want to leave Hawaii?
So much to blog about concerning the best trip of my life, and the birthplace of our current President (who I'm pretty angry with right now, but that's for another day's blog).
The food, the setting, the hotels, the excursions we signed up for… everything was just fantastic. I've heard my whole life from people who've been there how awesome Hawaii was, and still … they didn't do it justice.
Because you don't have time to read a 2,000 word blog post today (hey, it's Monday, even I'm getting back to work) I'm breaking up my thoughts from the honeymoon trip into two parts; Part 2 will be tomorrow and will have other non-Hawaii stuff in it, too.
OK, here goes my ramblings on the best trip ever…
— First of all, the sunsets. Just beyond gorgeous (my bride took the one above), and that's coming from a sunset freak with high standards. A few nights were too cloudy and other times we were busy doing other activities during the sunset, but the ones we saw were spectacular.
— Second, the hotels were magnificent. Our first two stops were in Maui and then on the Big Island, near Kona, and the hotels there were terrific. Great service, wonderful pools and beaches, absolutely no complaints.
But then we went to our "splurge" hotel on Kauai, the St. Regis in Princeville, and they made the other two hotels look like La Quinta's on the side of the highway.
This is the view from the 9th floor lobby, and it get better from there. The finest hotel I've ever stayed in, and frankly I never wanted to leave even to go do fun stuff. If you ever go to Kauai, it's worth it to stay there.
— One of the many, many differences between Hawaii and every other state I've visited: You never see one out-of-state license plate. I looked and looked but came up with nothing. Kind of a hard state to drive to, apparently.
— One of the strangest things I've ever seen on the side of a road: On the Big Island of Hawaii, teenagers and others write graffiti in rocks on the side of the road, where there's literally nothing else. I thought it was pretty cool.
— Shelley and I of course met a ton of other honeymooners on our trip, but surprisingly very few New Yorkers. We laughed quite a bit at others' reactions to meeting us, including a few people from St. Louis who said after a few minutes of chatting, "You know, I've always heard NY'ers are mean, but you guys are really nice!"
— Probably my favorite trip we took was in Maui, when we went on a snorkel cruise that took us to the seriously isolated island of Lanai.
You may have heard that Larry Ellison, the Oracle billionaire, just bought the island for like $700 million. There are very few people and even fewer things to do on Lanai, so you can imagine our tour guide's excitement when she raved about Larry putting in a new bowling alley, swimming pool and movie theatre. Man, was she excited.
— I think the general attitude of Hawaiians was summed up by an Avis rental car agent I overheard in Kona, telling a customer she'd be OK leaving her bags outside for a few moments while checking in at the counter.
"Lady," he said, "you're in Kona, not Los Angeles. The bags will be fine."
— Some of my new favorite things after the last two weeks: Guava juice (who knew?), Hawaiian shirts, pineapple ginger ale, and the word "mahalo" for "thank you."
— The "traffic" reports on Hawaii radio stations killed me. They said things like "there's a slowdown on Kihuo Highway, a few stalled cars on (fill in other name), and that's about it." In New York, traffic reports go on for five minutes.
— Finally today, while walking through the town of Pa'ua on Maui, I saw a street musician playing Pat Benetar's "Heartbreaker" on a ukulele. An inspired choice, I thought, so I gave her a buck. Hey, 80s music is 80s music.
More thoughts coming tomorrow, including how I ziplined across an 1,800 foot wire at 65 miles per hour and lived to tell about it.
Tagged Hawaii, Kauai, volcano


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Masters alumni Lauren Currie and Snook co-founder Sarah Drummond tipped as rising stars of Scottish Business, Lauren and Sarah Drummond both contribute to research and teaching in Design for Services at the University of Dundee.
Lauren Currie and Sarah Drummond, co-founders, Snook.
Currie and Drummond are on a mission to improve how services are designed and delivered in Scotland and set up Snook to achieve that in 2009. Both have a background in design – Drummond has a masters in design innovation and Currie has a masters in design with distinction – and have applied their skills to make changes to both public and private sector organisations. They now have a team of fourteen and a portfolio of projects designing solutions to challenges faced by groups from police forces to social workers. An example of their work was a project for the national accreditation and awarding body the Scottish Qualifications Authority where they redesigned the process to improve the quality of the experience for clients applying for approval to offer SQA qualifications. Their other customers include the British Council, The Scottish Government, National Health Service Scotland, Stirling Council, and STV Group. They want to play a pivotal role in creating a Scotland that is full of people who are inspired, engaged and able to use design and digital to solve problems that matter to them.


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