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THESE WILDER YEARS: JAMES CAGNEY and BARBARA STANWYCK James Cagney and Barbara Stanwyck sign a black and white publicity photograph of a scene from These Wilder Years. Photograph signed: "Barbara Stanwyck" and "James Cagmey". B/w, 10x8.
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THESE WILDER YEARS: JAMES CAGNEY and BARBARA STANWYCK
James Cagney and Barbara Stanwyck sign a black and white publicity photograph of a scene from These Wilder Years.
Photograph signed: "Barbara Stanwyck" and "James Cagmey". B/w, 10x8. Still from the 1956 drama that also starred Walter Pidgeon. Cagney played the role as a father searching for the son he turned over to an orphanage 20 years before. Stanwyck played the role of the current orphanage director; Pidgeon was Cagney's attorney. Orphaned at four and a Ziegfeld chorus girl at 15, BARBARA STANWYCK (1907-1990) was a Broadway star by the late 1920s. Moving to Hollywood after 1930, she was often cast as a tough-minded working girl who rarely met a happy ending. Stanwyck received Oscar nominations for Stella Dallas (1937), Ball of Fire (1941), Double Indemnity (1944) and Sorry, Wrong Number (1948). She earned renewed popularity on television, especially as the star of the Western series The Big Valley (1965-1969) for which she won an Emmy. JAMES CAGNEY (1899-1986), who appeared in leading roles on Broadway from the mid-1920s, reached film stardom - and legendary tough guy status - with Public Enemy (1931). In addition to winning the Best Actor Academy Award for Yankee Doodle Dandy, he received two additional Oscar nominations in the category for Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) and Love Me Or Leave Me (1955). After years of health problems, Cagney made a successful film comeback in Ragtime (1981). Cagney received the American Film Institute's Life Achievement Award in 1974. Lightly creased. Lower right corner missing. Overall, fine condition.
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An incredible obit about the man who stopped the My Lai massacre. Madonna is awesome on Carpool Karaoke. And a bunch of crazy finishes highlight a wacky NFL Sunday
The real heroes of history aren't always the people we know about. I'm not saying famous heroes like George Washington, Dr. Jonas Salk and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. aren't worthy, of course they are.
I'm just saying that I had never heard of Larry Colburn until he died last Tuesday. Didn't know anything about his heroism and bravery, and his important role in American history.
Maybe you didn't either, so let me direct you to his wonderful obituary. Larry Colburn was an 18-year-old American soldier in Vietnam in 1968 when he was thrust into an impossible situation. He and two comrades were witness to the massacre of completely unarmed Vietnamese civilians by the U.S., and he and two other soldiers, including helicopter pilot Hugh Thompson Jr., swooped down to land the aircraft and confront the U.S. soldiers committing this atrocity.
From Sam Roberts' NYT obit: "Mr. Thompson was just beside himself," Mr. Colburn recalled in an interview in 2010 for the PBS program "The American Experience." "He got on the radio and just said, 'This isn't right, these are civilians, there's people killing civilians down here.' And that's when he decided to intervene. He said, 'We've got to do something about this, are you with me?' And we said, 'Yes.' "
Mr. Thompson confronted the officer in command of the rampaging platoon, Lt. William L. Calley, but was rebuffed. He then positioned the helicopter between the troops and the surviving villagers and faced off against another lieutenant. Mr. Thompson ordered Mr. Colburn to fire his M-60 machine gun at any soldiers who tried to inflict further harm.
"Y'all cover me!" Mr. Thompson was quoted as saying. "If these bastards open up on me or these people, you open up on them. Promise me!"
"You got it boss," Mr. Colburn replied. "Consider it done."
Mr. Thompson, Mr. Colburn and Glenn Andreotta, the copter's crew chief, found about 10 villagers cowering in a makeshift bomb shelter and coaxed them out, then had them flown to safety by two Huey gunships. They found an 8-year-old boy clinging to his mother's corpse in an irrigation ditch and plucked him by the back of his shirt and delivered him to a nun in a nearby hospital.
Crucially, they reported what they had witnessed to headquarters, which ordered a cease-fire. By then, as many as 500 villagers had been killed.
Just… wow. Think about an 18-year-old kid, in a foreign land, being ordered by his superior to fire on fellow American soldiers, and what kind of mental anguish that must've put him in. Even knowing he was stopping evil, Colburn must've been overwhelmed, then and in the years that followed, by what he did, pointing guns at his fellow Americans.
How many of us could've done that, to confront fellow U.S. soldiers?
I urge you to read the whole obit. We see so much fake courage in 2016, from politicians to crooked religious leaders to TV stars who become President. This, what Larry Colburn did, was real courage.
I wish his story would be told in every high school classroom in America today.
**Next up, another great carpool Karaoke episode from James Corden, that I finally got around to watching. Madonna, bless her heart, looks amazing here. I don't know how much work she's had done surgically or who her doctor is, but do you realize this woman is 58 years old?? Amazing.
** Finally today, we're coming down the stretch in the NFL regular season, and the season has certainly gotten better as its gone along.
The 1 p.m. game Sundays were almost all good and close (except for the poor Cleveland Browns, who are just pathetic).
Couple quick-hits from a damn exciting Week 15…
— Ladies and gentlemen, the Tennessee Titans! What a crazy way they won Sunday. Down 17-10 to the Chiefs with three minutes left, they scored to draw within 17-16. They then, mind-bogglingly to me, tried for a 2-point conversion to take the lead, and failed.
Then, Marcus Mariota, their rapidly-improving QB, drove them into field goal range in the final seconds, where kicker Ryan Succop nailed a 53-yard field goal, in the freezing cold of Arrowhead Stadium to win the game. Wow. Titans are 8-6.
— Now, the Eagles going for two in the final seconds, down 1 to the Ravens, to try to win DID make sense to me. You're Philly, you're 5-8, you've got no shot at the playoffs, what the hell. It didn't work, but I really like Carson Wentz's future.
— This Giants team is starting to look like the last two Super Bowl winners, am I right? That was a dominating defense that shut down Detroit Sunday.
— So this isn't NFL-related, but did you see this insane game-winning catch by Youngstown State's Kevin Rader to win a FCS semifinal Saturday night? Incredible.
— Oh yeah, the Jets played this weekend. They lost 34-13. Nothing to see here…
— Finally, reports are that Rex Ryan will be fired by the Bills after just two seasons. Color me shocked (not). I loved Rex when he came to the Jets, but it became pretty clear as the years went on that the man is just not a good head coach. I was stunned when the Bills hired him, and in two years he's shown he's still not a good head coach.
Rex Ryan: Great for a few laughs, but not too many wins.
Tagged Kevin Rader, Larry Colburn, Madonna carpool karaoke, Marcus Mariota, My Lai, Rex Ryan, Ryan Succop, Youngstown State
Good News Friday: A doctor in Nepal cures blind people with a $50 operation. A 94-year-old man plays ice hockey, really well. And the "Finding Dory" trailer looks fabulous
And a Happy Friday to you all; mine would be a lot happier if the Jets hadn't played so godawful last night, playing like dogs for a few quarters, making a furious comeback, getting in a position to steal a win, and then blowing it with horrific play-calling straight out of the Paul Hackett era. And then having to watch a celebratory Rex bleepin' Ryan curse up a blue streak in celebration was delightful. I hate the Jets, I really hate them.
OK, rant over. No time to feel glum; too much good stuff to share. First up, one of the reasons I love the New York Times' Nicholas Kristof so much is because he shows you how even a little bit of money, in the right place, can have a huge impact on lives.
Kristof this week brought us the story of a remarkable doctor in Nepal named Sanduk Ruit, who has, and this is not a typo, given blind people the power of sight 100,000 times.
That's right: The man has done more than 100,000 eye surgeries on blind people. That's believed to be the record for one single person.
In this story, Kristof goes to Nepal and watches Ruit perform cataract surgery, using a technique that is now being learned in the United States. The best part is that this surgery costs $25 per patient, and takes five minutes. Five minutes!
"If we can do it in Nepal," Ruit said, "we can do it anywhere."
Look at the face of that woman above, who's just been the power sight. of sight. That is as true and pure a look of joy as you will ever see.
**Next up today, a story I couldn't believe the first time I saw it, and still can't. This is from a few weeks back on "CBS Sunday Morning," and it's a Steve Hartman special if I ever saw one.
Steve found a 94-year-old hockey player named Mark Sertich, still playing while just six years short of a century. Mark plays all the time, has the coolest handlebar mustache this side of Rollie Fingers, and sounds like a wonderful guy.
This man plays ice hockey, full pads and all, 3-4 days per week. At 94! Sertich has been playing for 85 years. You know how many slapshots, bodychecks and goalie saves he's seen in his life? Me neither, but it's higher than I can count.
If this man doesn't inspire you to go run a lap or two, nothing will. What an awesome outlook on life.
**Finally today, "Finding Nemo" might be my favorite animated movie ever. "Shrek" is amazing, and so is "Up," but "Finding Nemo" gets me in the heart every single time I've seen it (and I've seen it at least a dozen times.)
For reasons I can't quite fathom, it's taken Pixar more than a decade to come up with a sequel to the fabulous flick. But finally at long last, "Finding Dory" is almost here.
It's out next summer, but the trailer was released Wednesday, and I couldn't stop smiling while watching it.
As a bonus, here's an Ellen DeGeneres clip (she's the voice of Dory, remember!) from this week that definitely qualifies as Good News. Ms. Beasley, I'm coming to New Orleans to eat at that truck…
Tagged Ellen DeGeneres, Finding Dory, Mark Sertich, Nicholas Kristof, Rex Ryan, Sanduk Ruit
My Jets return to Earth, and stink it up. Why a friend's kid's bat mitzvah made me feel really old. And the great Stevie Wonder does carpool karoake
(Maybe it's just because I live in New York City, but the above Photoshopped pic cracked me up something fierce. This past 72 hours in NYC has been all about the Mets and the pontiff, so combining the two was just hilarious. Well done, Internet people.)
Well that was pretty much what we expected.
If I told you a month ago the Philadelphia Eagles would come into the Meadowlands Sunday and wipe the floor with the Jets, you'd have agreed and not blinked an eye.
And that's exactly what happened (don't let the final score of 24-17 fool you, it wasn't close.) Except it did seem a surprise to many since my beloved Gang Green started 2-0, and the green and white team just up I-95 surprisingly started 0-2.
But you know, Sunday things returned to normal. Ryan Fitzpatrick threw the ball way too much since the Jets fell behind 24-0 before halftime, and when Ryan Fitzpatrick throws a lot, bad things happen, like three INT's (though two weren't his fault).
Philly scored a bunch of points off Jets mistakes, like Brandon Marshall trying the dumbest lateral in decades, the Jets tried to rally, but fell short.
Look, I wasn't getting crazy when the Jets were 2-0. But this was a very winnable game, and they blew it. Sigh. Glad I only watched highlights (see below for explanation).
More quick-hit thoughts on NFL week 3:
— The Oakland Raiders have two wins, the Baltimore Ravens have zero, after three weeks. Raise your hand if you saw that coming. Again, this is why you should NEVER gamble real money on the NFL. Because no one knows anything.
— Jacksonville vs. New England isn't fair, and will never be fair, really. Like varsity against JV.
–I think the Buffalo Bills might be a playoff team. That defense is scary-good. Then again, Rex is their coach, so who knows…
— I just watched highlights of the games Sunday, and I swear tackling is as bad as it's ever been. Does every defender have to go for a huge hit on every play?
— I think an Arizona vs. New England Super Bowl would be crazy high-scoring and all kinds of fun. The Cardinals (led by Carson Palmer, below) are just shellacking people right now. And Larry Fitzgerald, who I had on my fantasy team for years, thanks for coming back to life the one year I don't have you.
— Are we all supposed to cheer Adrian Peterson again now, as so many millions seem to be doing? And we forget about him beating his child with a tree branch? Just checking.
**Next up, Sunday I had one of those experiences where I really, really felt old. I turned 40 last month, and I rarely feel it. Except for Sunday.
In a fact that's still kinda unfathomable to me, my wife and I have friends who have a daughter old enough to be bat mitzvah'ed. These are people she went to college with, the same age as us, and somehow they have a 13-year-old kid.
Anyway, the bat mitzvah was Sunday, and I expected it to be a blast, not just because it was at the same synagogue where Shelley and I got married two years ago.
The food was fabulous, just as good as it was at our wedding, only this time I got to enjoy it without having to hug and kiss and greet 200 people.
But it was a party clearly designed for 13-year-olds. The music was unintelligible to me, it was incredibly loud, and there were hordes of hormonal teenagers swarming the place and bumping into everyone. Surprisingly to me, the DJ played all the same bar mitzvah games we played in 1988 (complete with glowing headbands and the classic "Coke and Pepsi" game).
I felt 100 years older than these kids. To them, I was just some old dude who was clearly friends with Sarah's parents, someone to be ignored or patronized.
We had a good time. I just felt really, really ancient. Thankfully, not too decrepit to enjoy the maple-drizzled sweet potato fries at the cocktail hour (best thing ever).
**Finally today, chalk this one up to Daddy Brain: I had this clip of the legendary Stevie Wonder appearing on James Corden's fantastic "Carpool Karaoke" segment on his show all ready to roll for Good News Friday last week. Then I forgot about it. (see above post about me getting old).
It's definitely worth your time, and almost guaranteed to give you a smile on this Monday.
Tagged Adrian Peterson, Carson Palmer, James Corden, Larry Fitzgerald, Pope Francis, Rex Ryan, Stevie Wonder
A few words about the departing Rex Ryan, who I loved then hated. Jib Jab brings the funny of 2014. And Dave Barry brilliantly dissects 2014.
On this morning after another miserable New York Jets season has ended, permit me a few words about the sure-to-be fired Rex Ryan, a coach unlike any I've ever seen stroll the sidelines for the Green and White.
Ah, Rex. You came in breathing fire back in 2009, talking about meeting the new President one day (as in, we'll win the Super Bowl and be invited to the White House) and charming the press. Then, incredibly, thanks to a series of lucky breaks and other teams losing, you led the Jets to the playoffs, before staging two fantastic wins to get to the AFC Championship game.
Then the next year, you did it again. The Jets whipped the Pats in the playoffs and came oh-so-close to beating the Steelers to go to the Super Bowl, and now the team I bleed for had made 2 straight title games and had a coach ready to become a legend.
Then … it all went to shit, pardon the expression. The quarterback regressed, the defense got old, the offensive line collapsed, the star receiver became an even bigger diva, and the coach, well, it turns out he was awesome at motivation, awesome at designing defensive schemes, and so awesome at anything else.
The man was a terrible, terrible game-coach. Truly awful. For six years Rex Ryan ran a disorganized sideline; no one wasted more timeouts, or was called for too many men on the field penalties, than the Jets.
And nobody talks about this, but Rex for most of his career as Jets coach had a major say in the draft, and he didn't excel at picking players, at all. He fell in love with Sanchez, who wasn't all that great, and 1st-round defensive picks like Kyle Wilson and Quinton Coples have been busts.
The man deserved to be fired two years ago, and wasn't because the owner loves him. He deserved to be fired last year, and wasn't. And he most certainly deserves to be fired this year, and finally, mercifully, will.
I have heard over the past few weeks many broadcasters and media members say Rex deserves to stay, he's a great coach, etc. And I wonder: Have these people been watching the Jets? Because if they were, they'd see a coach long past his expiration date.
I feel bad it didn't work out because I'm a fan and Rex is great fun in press conferences. But after those first two magical years, he's been awful. And he's stayed far too long.
Now, to paraphrase his greatest-ever quote, I'm going to go eat a goddamn snack.
**Next up, the good folks at Jib Jab have put together their as-usual awesome video parodying the year that was.
Here's 2014 in a two-minute nutshell; I laughed out loud at least twice.
**And finally, the legendary newspaper comedian Dave Barry has come out with his "review" of 2014, and it's the funniest thing I've read all year. A few excerpts of his brilliance in this piece:
— On a happier note, Colorado announces that it has already collected marijuana sales taxes totaling $2million, which the state plans to spend on "a subwoofer the size of Delaware."
— In an aviation miracle, a 15-year-old boy sneaks into the landing-gear compartment of a Hawaiian Airlines Boeing 767 and somehow survives a five-hour flight from San Jose to Maui. Hours later major U.S. airlines jointly announce that they are offering "an exciting new seating option for budget-minder flyers who enjoy fresh air."
— In government news, the troubled Secret Service once again comes under withering criticism when an intruder is able to jump the White House fence, enter the White House through the front door, overpower a Secret Service agent, run through the Central Hall, enter the East Room, deliver a nationwide radio address and appoint four federal judges before being overpowered. In a congressional hearing probing the incident, the Secret Service director promises to improve White House security but suggests that in the meantime the First Family should "consider adopting a larger dog."
Dave Barry's the best.
Tagged Dave Barry, Jib Jab, Kyle Wilson, Mark Sanchez, Quinton Coples, Rex Ryan
The best and funniest newspaper corrections of the year. Stephen Colbert goes out with a bang. And Rex Ryan loses one more soul-crusher to Belichick
It is of course the time of year when we are all inundated with lists, best-ofs, and other reminders that the 12 months we just lived are about to end, and a new year will start.
But if you read this column regularly you know that only one year-end list really matters to me, and really makes me happy: Craig Silverman of the Poynter Institute's "Regret the Error" column, rounding up the best, worst and most hilarious newspaper or magazine corrections of the year.
I cringe when I read some of these, because as a longtime journalist I can see exactly how some of them could've happened (hey, at my first job in Wilmington, N.C. I once ran a photo with an obit of a guy he died. Except it was the wrong picture; dude whose mug we ran was very much alive, and called the next day to express his displeasure about being prematurely killed. Hey, no one's perfect!)
Anyway, these are always great and worth your time. Some of my favorites from this year's collection (the whole column can be read here):
From the Washington Post: An earlier version of this story erroneously said that Joaquín Guzmán was found in bed with his secretary. He was found with his wife. This version has been corrected.
From Slate: This post originally quoted photographer Tom Sanders as saying it takes him five years to get on the dance floor. It takes him five beers.
From The Dartmouth: A front-page editorial published Oct. 17 calling for the abolition of the Greek system at Dartmouth stated that in the late 1980s, Alpha Delta fraternity pledges were forced to perform oral sex on an ejaculating dildo. The editorial should have stated that some pledges were required to simulate oral sex on an inanimate object, which the house's advisor now says may have been a banana.
Glad they got that cleared up.
**Next up, the great Stephen Colbert ended his groundbreaking "Colbert Report" last Thursday night, and it was beautiful. For the final segment, he gathered a whole bunch of famous people in his studio, including Jeff Bridges, Barry Manilow, Katie Couric, Bryan Cranston and Willie Nelson, for a rousing chorus of "We'll Meet Again." Seriously, he had every famous person alive (EW.com has the full list of everyone on stage here; it's dizzying.)
I thought this was great. Colbert takes over for Letterman next spring, and we all know he'll do a great job, but the "Report" brought the funny each and every night.
It'll be missed.
**Finally today, some thoughts from the gridiron, as the NFL season winds down and we get set for what looks like it'll be a wide, wide-open playoffs:
— So because I'm a masochist, I watched most of the Jets-Patriots game, even though I knew exactly how it would end. It's like a movie you've seen 50 times so you know the ending, but you just can't stop watching, anyway.
Jets defense played great, confusing Tom Brady. Jets offense played well between the 20's, only to completely stall inside the red zone. And just when the game's close, just when Gang Green might pull it out, Brady embarks on a clock-killing drive that ends the game.
Happens so damn often. At least the Jets made 'em sweat a little, and didn't worsen their draft position. But I hate, hate, hate losing to Belichick and Brady. 17-16 was the final, so damn close.
— Who's excited for that divisional showdown with a playoff spot on the line next week, the 6-8-1 Carolina Panthers vs. the 6-9 Atlanta Falcons! Anyone? Anyone? What a joke that one of those losing teams will get to host a playoff game.
— Couple games to get legit excited about next week: Bengals-Steelers for all the marbles in the AFC North, and Lions at Packers for all the marbles in the NFC North. Nothing better than football in Green Bay in late December.
— Mark Sanchez, you made me all nostalgic Saturday night. Throwing a couple of key interceptions, helping cost your team a playoff berth… man, it's like it's 2011 all over again. (Wipes tears away with Kleenex.)
— Arizona, you ain't going nowhere with Ryan Lindley. Watched some of that game Sunday night and I'm sorry, there's a reason he's third-string.
— Finally, the Buffalo Bills. Oh, the Buffalo Bills. Huge win last week, giving their fans hope for the playoffs. Then Sunday, they lose to … the awful Oakland Raiders? Really Buffalo? Been 15 years now since they made the playoffs. Those fans deserve better.
Tagged Craig Silverman, Regret The Error, Rex Ryan, Stephen Colbert, The Colbert Report, Tom Brady
Foxwoods Casino both a relic from the past and wave of the future. A wild final NFL Sunday, with the Jets showing life. And meet 3-year-old Trick Shot Titus
When I was a little kid, my grandparents indoctrinated me into the love of casinos.
I know, I know, you're ready to question their sanity. But trust me, it was all fun and games. My mother's parents used to take me to Atlantic City once a year or so, let me run wild in the arcade and in the bowling alley (Showboat Hotel had great lanes, I bowled my first over-200 game there!), and then I'd stand behind the velvet ropes in the smoke-filled casino and watch my grandparents gamble.
I was seduced by the sights, the sounds, all of it. Since then, I try to get myself to a casino whenever I can, which in recent years has not been that often.
But the wife and I went to Foxwoods in Connecticut for a few days over Christmas, and it was a hell of a lot of fun, and not just because we won quite a bit more money than we lost (always a good thing).
Some thoughts on a few days on an Indian reservation-turned gambling mecca:
–First thing I noticed: All the people smoking indoors. I've gotten so used to being in smoke-free environments the last few years that it was almost shocking to have to breathe in the fumes. Nasty.
— Because I'm me and this is what I do, I tried to schmooze with the blackjack dealers between hands. Some, like Al and Barbara, were friendly and told me about their careers, how long they've been there, etc. Others refused to make eye contact, which of course led them to dealing me bad cards (kidding. It just seemed I did better with the nicer dealers.
— Not to say I'm superstitious or anything, but after a particularly good run at the tables, the dealer, Al, went to go work at another table. So I picked up my chips and followed him there.
— One or two stupid players can throw off a whole game. I knew this, and tried to steer clear of people who had no clue what they're doing. One woman tried to hit on 17, the dealer checked with her to make sure she really wanted to do it, she nodded, and of course she busted.
— Finally, one fabulous and terrible thing about Foxwoods, where a bunch of hotels and restaurants are connected through indoor walkways: I didn't breathe fresh outside air for two days. And I was fine with that.
**Next up, here's a 3-year-old making ridiculous trick shots on the basketball court (well, into a basketball hoop, anyway).
This video has to be fake, right? But it looks pretty real to me… Can the kid suit up for my Nets right now, please?
**Finally, the NFL regular season ended Sunday, and I'll be damned if my New York Jets didn't leave me feeling good going into the offseason.
Led by Geno Smith, who suddenly looks like he may have a future as a Jets QB, the Gang Green knocked the Miami Dolphins out of a possible playoff spot with a 20-7 win.
Then, owner Woody Johnson announced the Rex Ryan, despite three straight non-playoff seasons, was going to be kept as head coach.
I'm on record here and anywhere else someone has asked me as saying that Rex ought to be fired; he's a great guy and a terrific motivator but just not a good head coach. The Jets take way too many penalties, they make head-scratching coaching decisions all the time, and Rex's record of picking players has been spotty at best. I just don't think the Jets are winning anything with him in charge.
But hey, maybe they get some decent wide receivers, a couple more tight ends, some better offensive linemen, and go to the playoffs next year. Crazier things have happened.
Other quickie-NFL thoughts:
— I think you have to feel good for the San Diego Chargers fans, who have had so many things go against them and so much bad luck over the past 15 years, but finally caught a few breaks and made the playoffs with a crazy 27-24 OT win over Kansas City. The Chiefs played their backups, the Chargers still tried to give it away, got a very fortunate call in overtime, and managed to win and make the playoffs. And you know what? They've got a shot at Cincy next week.
— Peyton Manning: 5,477 yards, 55 touchdowns this year. Yeah, he never should've come back from that neck injury. Amazing human being he is.
— Packers couldn't have written the script any better. Aaron Rodgers comes back from injury and throws a fourth down, last-minute touchdown pass to beat their hated rival, the Bears? Just amazing.
— I have absolutely no clue what the Cleveland Browns are doing. Firing their coach after 1 season? Crazy.
— Really like the first-round playoff matchups: Cincy-San Diego could be fun, Packers-Niners will be exciting, Kansas City-Indy, should be competitive, and New Orleans/Philly ought to be high-scoring and wild.
— And finally, the Dallas Cowboys. Kyle Orton plays a great game at QB, they've got a chance to win it at the end, and he throws a pick. Oh, those Cowboys, they always find a way to entertain.
Tagged Foxwoods Casino, Geno Smith, Rex Ryan, Trick Shot Titus
The Jets perform a Christmas miracle (a win!). Great moments in history performed in LEGO. And an awesome wedding proposal idea.
Two of my good friends are die-hard Jets masochists (I mean fans) like me, and back in August I asked them both how many games the Jets would win in 2013. I thought 3, maybe 4, if everything goes great, they win five.
Both David and Mark, though, were strangely optimistic. Each said they expected 7 or 8 wins. They said this with a straight face, thought at that point after what they predicted you probably had enough evidence to check them into the loony bin.
But in either a sign that the NFL is really crummy this year, the Jets have been incredibly lucky, or Rex Ryan is a much better coach than I think he is, these horrendous, no-talent Jets won their seventh game of the season Sunday.
And shockingly, they looked pretty good doing it. Geno Smith was solid, actually improving for the first time in two months (hey, he's only thrown 1 INT in the last two weeks!), the defense was good, and the receivers made a few plays.
And now, suddenly, it looks like Rex Ryan may keep his job as coach. I still think he should go, for his disastrous job coaching the team the last two years, and this one, and that as much as I love him as a fun guy, he's just not a good head coach. His team is still way too undisciplined, takes way too many penalties, and he's just not that good a judge of talent (Bart Scott, and Vlad Ducasse, anyone?)
Still, the Jets winning was one of only 11 bizarre things that happened in the NFL Sunday. A few that caught my eye..
— As Tommy Tomlinson astutely Tweeted on Sunday night, "does the NFL have to have an NFC North?" A pathetic display by the Bears Sunday night. Equally woeful effort by the Lions. And the Packers somehow gave up 38 to a bad Steelers team Lambeau. Wow.
— Gotta love the Miami Dolphins, in total control of their own playoff destiny, getting shut out by the Buffalo Bills. Made my day even sweeter.
— Peyton Manning. I mean, what's left to say about him at this point? (I highly, highly recommend Lee Jenkins' profile of Manning in the SI Sportsman of the Year issue, by the way. He takes a fascinating angle on the story (interviewing all the kids named Peyton in Tennessee) and then gets fabulous details about Manning's kindness toward all). Peyton broke Drew Brees' single-season TD record on Sunday, as the Broncos thrashed Houston, pulling away in the second half. What an incredible athlete, one of the top 5 QB's of all time.
**Next up, I thought this was all kinds of awesome. I've written before in this space about my love of LEGOs, and the geniuses who have put together these "sports moments re-created in LEGO" over the years.
Well now the good people at Mentalfloss.com have compiled some of the best ones ever, including some new ones I'd never seen. The one above might be my favorite, as it's Andy Murray winning Wimbledon in 2013 and becoming the first British man to do it in 77 years.
But all of these great, especially the Chris Webber calling timeout thing from the 1993 NCAA Final.
Truly, nothing isn't made better when it's done in LEGO, am I right?
**Finally, I thought I'd seen and heard it all when it came to creative marriage proposals, but a computer programming whiz inventing an online game for his fiance to play, and then get to the end and have the proposal be PART of the game?
Yeah, that's a new one on me. But 24-year-old Oregonian Robert Fink did just that to pop the question to his girlfriend Angel White, and you can see the awesome video of Fink's handiwork below.
Very, very cool.
Tagged Andy Murray, Angel White, Geno Smith, Peyton manning, Rex Ryan, Robert Fink
Matt Harvey interviews Mets fans about Matt Harvey. What famous web pages used to look like. And playing Strat-O-Matic with Rex Ryan
The Major League Baseball All-Star Game is being played today at Citi Field here in New York, and man have the New York media been beating the drum for this thing.
For an event that's pretty meaningless, it sure has gotten a lot of attention. Hey, it's good that there's some excitement going on at the ballpark there; when the Mets play it's usually not that exciting.
But you probably have heard of their new phenom pitcher, Matt Harvey. On Monday, Jimmy Fallon thought it would be funny to send young Mr. Harvey out on the streets of New York to interview Mets fans about … Matt Harvey.
It's hilarious; my favorite is the guy who says "my wife likes your butt." Although the guy at 1:59 is pretty great too.
**Next up, I'm a sucker for those old "look what the Internet looked like in the olden days" stories.
Well a friend pointed me to this gem; it's a look at what major companies' web pages looked like in their first incarnation.
I remember the Yahoo! page talked about here, and this Amazon.com page looks vaguely familiar, too.
Web design sure has come a long, long way.
**Finally, a very cool little story from the New York Times' Ben Shpigel today. I know from experience as a sportswriter that when you're covering a team, and it's the offseason, you look for any "different" angle you can find, and do your best to pull it off.
It's hard, but Shpigel does this brilliantly. He found out that Jets coach Rex Ryan used to be a huge fan of Strat-O-Matic baseball (you remember, the dice game where you make players do things based on your roll?), and Shpigel was a big fan, too. (Me? I used to spend hours playing Micro League Baseball, the very early Apple II computer baseball game).
So he convinced Ryan to sit down and play a game of Strat-O-Matic with him last week.
Really fun, really well-written story, and it shows a side of Ryan we rarely see.
Tagged Amazon.com, Ben Shpigel, Jimmy Fallon, Matt Harvey, Rex Ryan
I start my new career as a teacher (finally). The Jets mercifully pull Sanchez, and win. And the best photos of the year
Posted on December 3, 2012 | 1 comment
Big day for me today.
My professional teaching career will finally begin.
Got a phone call Sunday night from the New York City Dept. of Education automated substitute teacher line, asking me if I wanted to work on Monday.
The call surprised me for several reasons, mostly because after just finally getting registered and approved last week, I was told I wouldn't even be in the system for another week or so.
But hey, after three months of waiting to be allowed to sub, I'm not complaining.
And so off I'll go, to a school I won't name in a borough I won't name, to sub in a grade I won't name (hey, not about to get myself in trouble by talking in too much detail about my new gig yet).
Should be an interesting and challenging life as a sub. At the very least, I'm sure it'll give me good stories to tell all of you.
I just hope kids don't still throw erasers at subs; I can't duck as well as I used to.
**My jaw dropped toward the table at my favorite local sports bar at about 3 p.m. Sunday, when something I'd been hoping and praying for finally happened:
Rex Ryan, after months of stubbornly refusing to bench the woefully performing Mark Sanchez, actually pulled the plug and took out the man we all know isn't the answer at quarterback.
And while we expected Tim Tebow to one day get a chance this season, it was third-stringer Greg McElroy, who may turn out to be the best quarterback on the roster, who got in the game.
I was thrilled. As were the fans at MetLife Stadium, and I'm sure, the Jets players. McElroy wasn't sensational in the win, but against the beyond-putrid Arizona Cardinals (Ryan Lindley might be the worst NFL starting QB I've ever seen, though to be fair, he's Arizona's third-stringer, too), being efficient and OK was enough.
McElroy led the Jets to the 7-6 win, and we fans got to smile. Rex, sweetheart, bubeleh, please leave McElroy in next week. Give the kid a chance; it's not like the Jets are making the playoffs anyway.
And besides, now that the win screwed up the Jets' chances of a Top 5 draft pick, might as well try to win a few games.
Some other NFL thoughts from a pretty darn exciting Sunday:
— I think it's crazy the NFL went ahead with the Kansas City Chiefs game a day after one of their players, Jovan Belcher, murdered his girlfriend and then shot himself in front of the Chiefs' head coach and general manager. There's no way that the team or coach could've been emotionally prepared to play a game after something like that. The Chiefs did play, and won, in a very surreal game at Arrowhead Stadium (thankfully, the Chiefs offered no such "moment of silence" for the murderer.)
I'll be very curious to see if any brain damage or head injury issues result from his autopsy; sadly it's always possible now, with history shown that brain injuries can cause violent acts.
— In less-important football news, gotta be impressed again by Andrew Luck. Down 12 in the fourth quarter, he rallied the Colts to beat Detroit on the last play of the game. Man, Colts fans are gonna be spoiled; Peyton Manning, then Luck playing QB for them.
— How in the world did the Ravens let Charlie Batch, Charlie freaking Batch, beat 'em 23-20? Why do I have a feeling these two teams will meet again this year in the playoffs?
**Finally today, I love great photo montages, and the Reuters news agency has put together its best photographs of 2012. The one above looked cool to me because it's pure joy in the middle of a crowd, but there are so many other incredible images in this gallery (especially No. 14 and No. 18), it's well worth your time to check out.
Tagged Andrew Luck, Greg McElroy, Jovan Belcher, Mark Sanchez, Reuters, Rex Ryan
Gail Collins' new book explains how Texas took over America. The Jets are an utter disgrace. And kids eating ice cream for the first time: priceless
Posted on October 1, 2012 | 2 comments
"Homeland" is back! I am very happy. I will be doing weekly recaps and thoughts on each episode, but will save those until Tuesday, since I know not all of you can stay up late Sunday night to watch it when it airs live on Showtime at 10. So glad the best show on TV is back. And the first episode was awesome.
It's not enough that so many of us just shake our head at the craziness that is Texas. We really should look at how destructive and dangerously trend-setting it is for America.
From health care and social services (worst in the nation) to polluting the air (also near the bottom) to being the biggest textbook publisher in America, thereby setting the agenda for what kids around the U.S. are learning, Texas has an outsized effect on the U.S. (Plus, they've sicced both George W. Bush and Rick Perry on us, which is a plague all it's own).
Gail Collins of the N.Y. Times, a really smart op-ed writer, has decided to examine Texas and figure out why the hell it's always puffing itself up when there are so, so many things wrong with it in her newest book, "As Texas Goes."
I just read it last week and really enjoyed it as a book, but it scared the hell out of me.
Besides Texas' rightward slant on everything, it was depressing to see how much it has held down its own citizens, actively stolen business from other states, and slanted our nation's textbooks.
I don't want to give away all the fun stuff in the book (and it is a really fun read, Collins is really witty), but it's truly staggering to think that this state sets much of the Republican agenda, and sometimes the nation's.
Check out more about the book here; I definitely recommend it.
**Here's something I know I wish I could've had recorded in my own life: Little kids eating ice cream for the first time, and how deliriously happy it makes them. This should make you smile on a Monday, and make you hungry for some Ben & Jerry's… (my favorite is the kid at :31)
**Finally, football. Here were some phrases thrown around via text among my Jets support group/posse that I communicate with every Sunday in the fall:
1. Disgraceful
2. Pathetic.
3. Kotite-level incompetence (I was particularly proud of that one).
As bad as I expected the Jets to do against maybe the NFC's best team Sunday, they played worse in getting shut out by the Niners, 34-0. The less I say, the better.
Except two things: 1, This coach and GM ought to be embarrassed by the level of talent on this team right now, and 2, They had better draft or sign a quarterback for next season. Because Mark Sanchez will never become a successful QB in this league. He's getting worse every week.
Some other quick-hit thoughts from Week 4:
— A friend who shall remain nameless texted when the Bills were up 21-7, saying the Patriots were done, headed to 1-3, not that good, etc. I told him it was way too early to say that.
Um, yeah, the Pats won 52-28. Scary how good that offense can be.
— Fantastic endings to the Carolina-Atlanta and Washington-Tampa games. Matt Ryan led his team from his own 1 into field goal range to keep the Falcons unbeaten, and RGIII beat Tampa on the last drive when Billy (Shank) Cundiff finally made a field goal after missing three others.
— The real refs were back! And yeah, they made some bad calls, but SO much better than those imposters.
— How good are the Texans? So pleased the Jets get them next week. That'll be fun.
— Peyton Manning, that's more like it. You helped me to a (likely) fantasy win this week.
— The Chargers are going to fall apart like they usually do, right? Because they look damn good right now.
— Finally, the Giants just can't seem to beat the Eagles. Stupid penalty at the end by Ramses Barden, but you know, the guy has hardly played. I was still hoping Tynes made that kick at the end to punish Andy Reid (and all other coaches) for that split-second timeout they always call right before a game-deciding kick.
Such a stupid rule that you can do that.
Tagged As Texas Goes, Billy Cundiff, Gail Collins, Mark Sanchez, Matt Ryan, Peyton manning, Rex Ryan, RGIII, Tim Tebow

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A malicious application that can steal cash via phones running Google's Android operating system has been found circulating in the wild.
The program poses as a media player but once installed starts sending premium rate text messages.
The service being sent messages is operated by the malicious app's creator, who scoops up the fees.
Discovered by Kaspersky Labs, it is believed to be the first booby-trapped application for Android.
In a security advisory Kaspersky said that the fake media player was most prevalent among Russian Android users. The risk to Android owners worldwide is believed to be low.
In its advisory it said that the huge growth in the number of Android applications was likely to make the phones tempting targets for criminals.
"We can expect to see a corresponding rise in the amount of malware targeting that platform," said Denis Maslennikov, mobile research group manager at the firm.
Simeon Coney, spokesman for mobile security firm AdaptiveMobile said booby-trapped applications that run up big bills via premium rate numbers were very common on other platforms such as Symbian.
Symbian is the most popular smartphone operating system, commonly used on handsets built by Nokia and Sony Ericsson.
"There are a significant number of Java based mobile viruses that do exactly the same malicious activity of sending out premium rate (i.e. reverse charge) SMS," he said.
Like other mobile application stores, Google has a system in place that can revoke malicious applications and stop them running on handsets.
"Our application permissions model protects against this type of threat," said a spokesperson for Google.
"When installing an application, users see a screen that explains clearly what information and system resources the application has permission to access, such as a user's phone number or sending an SMS.
"Users must explicitly approve this access in order to continue with the installation, and they may uninstall applications at any time.
The spokesperson said the firm advises users to "only install apps they trust".
"In particular, users should exercise caution when installing applications outside of Android Market."


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Team Looks For First Win at Home Allentown, PA: The Lehigh Valley Steelhawks (0-5) welcome the Columbus Lions (3-1) to the 'Hawks Nest in the second matchup between these teams. The game will be Sunday night, May 20th with a 6:00pm kickoff. The game will be viewable locally on Service Electric Cable TV. Lehigh Valley took another loss last week but made some steady improvements under new Head Coach Danton Barto. The defense only gave up 26 points and created four turnovers, tallying their first three interceptions of the year. The offense was able to move the ball but struggled in the red zone. Getting on the board early against a team that hasn't allowed a first quarter point all season will be pivotal in giving the Steelhawks and their young Quarterbacks confidence. Pass protection also needs to be better, as the Lions recorded six sacks in the team's first matchup. Columbus is coming off a close, one-point victory over Carolina in which QB Mason Espinosa threw for seven touchdowns and 276 yards. WR Jarmon Fortson (9 catches, 73 yds) was on the receiving end of four of those scoring passes. A lot has changed in the Steelhawks personnel since these teams faced off in their season openers. With new players heading into the game, a new game plan, and Steelhawks Nation behind them, Lehigh Valley looks to perform better than they did in their first meeting. Johnnie Lustig's Frankfurters Keys to the Game for the Steelhawks: Convert in the red-zone
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The Hanging Garden
White, Patrick, 1912-1990.
Book - 2013 | 1st U.S. ed.
Sydney, Australia, 1942. Two children, on the cusp of adolescence, have been spirited away from the war in Europe and given shelter in a house on Neutral Bay, taken in by the charity of an old widow who wants little to do with them. The boy has escaped the Blitz. The girl lost her father in a Greek prison. Left to their own devices, the children forge a friendship of startling honesty, forming a bond of uncommon complexity which they sense will shape their destinies for years to come.
Publisher: New York : Picador, 2013, c2012.
Edition: 1st U.S. ed.
Branch Call Number: WHITE
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If you're around my age, prepare to feel ambivalent about a remake of a property from your childhood! Waterman Entertainment has acquired the rights to The Brave Little Toaster with plans to turn it into a (gulp) CGI/live-action hybrid feature. The original 1987 cartoon follows a toaster, a lamp, an electric blanket, a radio, and a vacuum cleaner on a quest to find their original owner. It was the most beautiful and terrifying piece of work that 5-year-old Brendan watched a hundred times. I don't mind that producer Steve Waterman is dusting off the story for a new take, but his most recent credits are comprised of the Alvin and the Chipmunks trilogy, so my expectations are low.
Hit the jump for the Brave Little Toaster trailer and details on another adaptation, Born Free.
It has been a long time since I have seen The Brave Little Toaster, but watching that trailer stirred up the feelings deep within me. I don't know that I have seen any kids' movie since that achieves quite the same tone, but Paranorman is a pretty good comparison.
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Reviving Parmegiani's "Stries" (1980)
Translation of Historic Analogue Works Into the Digital Domain
by Sebastian Berweck
Analysis of the Electronics and Technical Requirements
Unbeknownst to most, Bernard Parmegiani (1927–2013), the grand old man of French electroacoustic music, wrote more music for performers than Violostries (1964), for violin and tape. While Exercisme I (1986) can be found on the L'œuvre musicale en 12 CD box set, the epic 50-minute Stries (1980) has so far only partially been released on LP and has, until recently, not been played live for 30 years. Both these pieces were written for the three synthesizer players of the Paris-based electroacoustic trio TM+, Yann Geslin, Laurent Cuniot and Denis Dufour, founded at the INA/GRM.
Figure 1. A typical production session at INA/GRM. From right to left: a patched synthesizer, a list with annotations (on the music stand), patch sheets, the score with annotations, the 8-track recordings from the original recording session (large monitor) and a spreadsheet documenting the changes in the patch (laptop). [Click image to enlarge]
Over the span of the ensemble's lifetime, TM+ used a range of different instruments — analogue synthesizers in the late 1970s and early digital synthesizers in the mid-1980s — and amassed a repertoire of about 40 compositions written especially for them. Other groups of that time who employed the same concept of live played electronics include, for example, the Ensemble d'Instruments Electroniques de l'Itinéraire (which included Tristan Murail and Claude Pavy), the Oeldorf Gruppe (with Peter Eötvös, Mesías Maiguashca and featuring Emmanuel Nunes), or the Canadian group CECG/GEC (Kevin Austin, Jean-François Denis and others). It is of note that most of the compositions written for or performed by these groups are not in the active repertoire of today.
Stries is a composition for tape and three synthesizers and the score makes numerous references to the instruments used by TM+ at that time: a Yamaha CS-40M (Geslin), a Synthi AKS (Cuniot) and a Roland System 100M Set D combined with the keyboard of the Roland System 100 (Dufour).
Figure 2. A page of the score for Bernard Parmegiani's Stries with annotations by one of the players. [Click image to enlarge]
Fortunately, Yann Geslin, of the INA/GRM, took it upon himself to be some kind of archivist for the scores, and indeed the original score by Bernard Parmegiani, as well as for those of the instrumentalists that could be found. Also available in the GRM's archives was the original analogue reel-to-reel tape for the piece, as well as the analogue 8-track recordings from the recording session. Armed with this material, the electronic music trio consisting of Colette Broeckaert, Martin Lorenz and Sebastian Berweck, together with Yann Geslin started to recreate the piece with the aim of bringing the piece back to the stage as well as producing generic scores that could help get the piece into the repertoire of many instrumentalists.
While the score by Parmegiani already had references to the instrument's specifics, it was actually the annotations (Fig. 2) and patch diagrammes (Fig. 3) found in the performers' scores that provided information on how to programme and play the patches.
Figure 3. A patch diagramme for the Roland System 100/100M combi used in Bernard Parmegiani's Stries, taped onto Denis Dufour's performance score for the piece. [Click image to enlarge]
Although manuals for all the equipment required for this project can be found on the Internet, it is nevertheless necessary to recreate these patches on the original instruments, since no manual can completely convey the actual workings of the machines. Most manuals lack (to some degree) specific yet essential technical information (e.g., uni- or bipolarity of oscillator modulation inputs), but more importantly do not offer sufficient indications about the specific resulting sound of the instruments. The Roland's 24 dB low-pass filter, for example, sounds much more like an 18 dB filter, and the actual effect of the high-pass filter on the actual sound has to be heard in order to be recreated.
Figure 4. Signal flow for a patch used in Bernard Parmegiani's Stries. [Click image to enlarge]
In the end, the instruments have to actually be understood in a much broader sense than reading a manual can convey. It was therefore necessary to get original models of the three synthesizers in a working state, which, considering their "vintage" status and the price tag associated with such a status, was not an easy endeavour. For example, in the first meeting the musicians had at the GRM, the Synthi AKS power cable was missing, the Yamaha CS-40M would not turn on and the Roland's keyboard was absent. However, once the synthesizers were working it was possible to analyze the patches (Fig. 3) and carefully measure out all the frequencies, which on these old machines had to be done by ear. A seemingly complicated patch sheet for the Roland System-100M/System-100 combination often turned out being rather simple signal flows (Fig. 4), much simpler than, for example, many of today's Max patches.
Analyzing the initial patch does not give much information though on how the patch is being played. Notes in the score such as these that can be seen in Figure 5 must be analyzed and put into perspective. In the end, large spreadsheets had to be built in which every change of every parameter that is played in the course of the piece was documented (Fig. 6).
Figure 5. Instrument-specific notes in the score for Bernard Parmegiani's Stries. [Click image to enlarge]
Figure 6. Documenting parameter changes. [Click image to enlarge]
As straightforward as this might look, it takes a lot of time to really understand the inner workings and peculiarities of each of the instruments in order to be able to recreate the sounds. Additionally, decisions had to be made about whether the limitations of the instruments were to be considered as "part" of the composition: was this a conscious decision made by the composer, or rather an unintentional and perhaps (at the time) unavoidable factor in composing for such instruments? An interesting example would be the ring modulator of the Synthi AKS, well known for its introduction of many additional sidebands (a.k.a. "leaking"): nowadays it is a question of interpretation whether the peculiar tonal character of the Synthi AKS' ring modulator is actually pleasing or the undesired side effect of an unsatisfactory technical design. 1[1. It is interesting to note that Yann Geslin, one of the original players, liked the cleaner digital variant of the ring modulator much more, whereas the trio from Berlin preferred the sound of the Synthi AKS. However, since Bernard Parmegiani cannot give the "last word" on the matter, it will remain a topic of interpretation. A similar question arises with Tristan Murail's two pieces for two Yamaha DX7 synthesizers, Vision de la cité interdite and Atlantys: Is a cleaner 16-bit version that lacks the hiss of the first generation of the DX7 preferable to a "retro" 12-bit version conveying the sound of the time?]
Fig. 7. A so-called "dope sheet" for the Synthi AKS. [Click image to enlarge]
An even more obvious example showing such problems of interpretation is found in the rather crude way patches had to be "documented" using patch sheets (sometimes called dope sheets). In a hand-drawn annotation, a mark indicating, for example, 7.6 on Oscillator 2 (which goes from "0" to "10") could result in anything between, for example, 124 and 169 Hz (Fig. 7). A similarly crude indication for the filter could result in a setting around 650 Hz when what was actually meant was an exact relationship of 1:4 between oscillator and filter, and thereby an emphasis of the oscillator's fourth partial.
After analyzing the patches, they were recreated using a Clavia Nord G2 synthesizer, a virtual analogue modular synthesizer environment that is well suited to rapid prototyping (Fig. 8). The process of recreating the patches on another system also helped to clarify the structure of the patches and check on some of the minor things that could easily be overlooked, like the polarity of LFO modulations or peculiarities in the original synthesizer's LFO waveforms. The recreation of the patches thus serves as a necessary proofing tool.
Figure 8. Recreation of the second patch for Player 1 (Roland) for Bernard Parmegiani's Stries on a Clavia Nord G2 synthesizer. [Click image to enlarge]
To our delight, most of the patches were able to be seamlessly translated into the new environment and sound "the same" as the original. The discrepancies we experienced are perhaps not so significant if we consider the idea that we were indeed using two different instruments and that the same violin piece played by the same musician on different instruments would never sound identical either. In the end, most of the sounds of the two completely different synthesizers were found to be so close to each other that without any alteration, the direct "translation" of the patches would be coloured much more by the choice of loudspeakers, interfaces and the differing acoustics of different concert halls than by the different instruments themselves. 2[2. On another note, it must be mentioned that the original instruments would sound different not only due to variations in the single modules but also simply because of the different revisions of the instruments (e.g., Arp Odyssey rev. 1–3), not to mention the state of their maintenance and the climate in the room — in the end, the situation is strikingly comparable to that of acoustic instruments such as violins or pianos.] Of the 40 patches recreated, only two sounded notably different and had to be recreated using different modules, and this could still have been due to insufficient analysis of the original instruments and their workings. In the end, one of the most important results of this endeavour is probably the conclusion that analyzing the signal flow of an older analogue machine and directly recreating the patches on a digital synthesizer conveys convincing results, and is more than just a possibility.
Comparison with Analogue Modules
Having recreated the patches on a digital synthesizer, we wanted to find out if they would sound indeed better, or at least noticeably preferable, on analogue synthesizers. One of the difficulties here is the fact that it takes a lot of hardware to actually be able to recreate the sound of three different historic synthesizers on more recent instruments. For example, the contemporary variants of non-modular analogue synthesizers by Dave Smith Instruments don't feature all the modules necessary to recreate the Roland System-100M/System-100 combination with its three low-pass filters or the Yamaha CS-40M combined five oscillators. Or they don't feature as flexible routing possibilities as the Synthi AKS. The only possibility to recreate these patches without the original synthesizers in the analogue realm would require a massive modular setup with dozens of modules. However, we recreated some of the simpler patches using a mix of components, notably two DSI Evolvers, a Pittsburgh Foundation 3 modular setup and an array of several other analogue modules, namely the Frequency Central System X Envelope, Manhattan Analog Discrete SVVCF, and Endorphin.es Furthrrrr Generator and Terminal. The sonic differences between the different modules did not create qualitative differences that could easily be deemed "better" or "worse" but are simply "different" from machine to machine.
As a matter of fact, the whole process can, again, very well be compared to the selection of grand pianos available in large concert halls. A pianist will choose one instrument over another based on the compositions that are going to be played on the programme as well as on personal preferences such as touch, tone colour and general acquaintance with the instruments. In the end it would boil down to personal preference and two different pianists are quite likely to choose different instruments for the performance of the same works.
Returning to the example of two violins, however, a Stradivari must be played differently than a Guarneri; attempting to get the typical Stradivari sound out of a Guarneri can only result in a poor imitation of a Stradivari, without bringing out the qualities of a Guarneri. Similarly, the simple recreation of a patch on another instrument can at best be equal to the sound of the original, but will most likely be of a lesser quality. It is therefore necessary to apply a strategy that does not just try to mimic the signal flow of the original patch but indeed takes into consideration the strengths and weaknesses of the new instrument and attempts to recreate the sound as it was intended. The end result will be an interpretation of the patch sheet — similar to the interpretation of a musical score.
Considering the external factors of any concert situation — mainly the acoustics of the concert hall, the colouring of the tone by different loudspeakers and a performer's ability to adapt to these circumstances by changing their playing style — the tonal differences of the sound modules themselves proved to be of lesser importance than more mundane considerations such as portability, reliability, replaceability and programmability, not to mention the ability to store and recall patches with just the push of a button.
From the standpoint of an interpreter who wants to play a variety of compositions originally played on a whole array of vintage synthesizers, the digital domain offers many conveniences without lessening the tonal qualities in the interpretation of historical works 3[3. An in-depth discussion by Rob Hordijk on the tonal differences between many digital instruments and analogue machines can be found in his 25 July 2005 post on electro-music.com, "Spectrum Tilting." Ironically, the same overload of high frequencies can be found in digital recreations of digital synths as well, for example in the otherwise very close-sounding software synthesizer Dexed, modelled after the Yamaha DX7.]. It must, however, be conceded that using vintage gear would seem to have, for some, a bigger "sex appeal" than current machinery. The question of whether this is a valid point of discussion in relation to musical performance we will leave to other authors to discuss.
Generating Generic Scores
As for the recreation of Parmegiani, the material is now in such a state that it should be possible for other interpreters to take on the piece without the extremely time-consuming challenge of having to analyze the original instruments and patches. The new edition of the performance instructions and materials now consists of:
Signal flow;
Description of patch, signal flow chart and playing styles;
Translation of comments in the score from French to English, as well as from the instrument-specific domain into the generic domain (e.g., from "LFO = 3" to "LFO = 3.24 Hz");
Sound examples.
As with the above example of recreating the patches in order to check the accuracy of the analysis of the signal path, it was again necessary to have the signal flow charts proofread by another person trying to recreate the patches. Again, a choice must be made as to what information must be conveyed and what should be left to interpretation. An overly bloated patch diagramme giving the most precise directions like accelerating an LFO from 1.23 Hz to 5.57 Hz in 3.5 seconds will not result in a musical application of said LFO but in a performer looking at a screen to check the accuracy of numbers instead of "playing" the LFO. 5[5. The same would happen with the instruction to "Change MIDI CC 7 (volume) from 60 to 84" instead of using known musical parameters like "crescendo mp to mf".]
A complete documentation of the patch in Figure 4 would require the following information to make it feasible for any performer to prepare and perform the work:
General indications;
Reference to the patch in the score and in the material;
A general description of the signal flow;
The modules required to recreate the patch;
A listing of the parameters that are being played (this is necessary to programme the controllers to play the patch);
Translation of the notes in the score.
An example of complete documentation of patch 2 for Player 1 in Bernard Parmegiani's Stries is found in the next section.
Example of Proper Technical Documentation
Player 1 (In Score Indicated as SR, Synthétiseur Roland)
Indications in Hertz (Hz) always refer to a basic setting of MIDI Note 69 (concert pitch A4 = 440 Hz) for oscillators and filters which employ keyboard tracking. A specification of "99 Hz Sine Oscillator" therefore means that the oscillator will have a pitch of 99 Hz when triggered by MIDI Note 69.
Keyboard pitch tracking is 100% unless noted otherwise.
Due to the nature of the analogue instruments used, all indications are only approximate. Initial settings for most modules are provided, however, it is not possible to simply punch in the data and have everything work. Some things, for example the amount of FM from one oscillator to another, will have to be set by ear, which is why references to the sounds of the original vinyl release are given.
Original score for Stries (1980, unpublished) by Bernard Parmegiani.
Score for Stries annotated by Denis Dufour.
Another annotated score with the indication "Stries (80)" in the top left corner of page 1 of part 3 (Stries).
An 8-track recording of the original release.
2. Strio — Patch 1 (0:00)
The original patch 1A/1B is used in the second section, Strio. Note that 1B is the same as 1A but has already preparations for 3. Stries, the third and final section in Stries.
Description of the Patch
The right channel of the original tape is split into three signal paths:
The tape is ring-modulated with a sine wave. The signal goes then into an ADSR envelope; the envelope is gated by the keyboard.
50% of the original tape signal goes into the above described envelope.
The tape signal also goes directly into a 24 dB low-pass filter (NB: it sounds more like 18 dB to me [Berweck]), which is mixed with the above post-envelope signal right before the output. The low-pass filter is completely closed at the beginning of the piece.
Modules Required
Oscillator: Sine
2 Mixers
24 dB Low-pass filter (with resonance?)
Parameters Played
Frequency of sine wave oscillator manually and via keyboard tracking (100%)
Frequency of low-pass filter
Gate of the envelope with the keyboard
Mix of signal paths 1 and 2
Mix of signal paths 1/2 and 3
Overall volume
Performance and Further Remarks
The following timing indications (translated from the French original) have been made in comparison with the original recording by TM+.
0:00 — Opening and closing of the low-pass filter and change of volume / Filtrage bande direct [dur. ca. 0:18].
1:00 — A larger crescendo marks the entrance of Player 3 / SY: Yann [1:06 in the recording].
2:40 — Adding attacks of ring-modulated tape with the keyboard / (Encrustations) de la modulation [2:49 in the recording].
[3:22 — A change of timbre is triggered by a change in timbre on the tape].
4:00 — Longer sounds of ring-modulated tape [4:09 in the recording].
[From 4:09 and especially from 4:29 on the original recording there are prominent attacks of ring-modulated tape.]
5:10 — Less and less of the original tape, only low frequencies / De moins en moins de "direct" (Laisser seulement les graves).
6:15 — Glissando is generated by lowering the frequency of the sine oscillator, "like slow breathing" / (Comme une respiration lente) [in the recording only from 6:43, probably refers to 6:39 marking].
With the new material created by Colette Broeckaert, Martin Lorenz, Sebastian Berweck and Yann Geslin, this major composition has been brought back to the stage with great success after lying dormant for 30 years. Considering the amount of works only the above-cited ensembles produced in the 1980s, we can surmise that there is still a large body of electroacoustic compositions waiting to be produced again.
As far as the re-creation of instrument-dependent electroacoustic compositions goes, the amount of time that went into Parmegiani's Stries, not to mention similar efforts in the recent editions of Luigi Nono's Das atmende Klarsein and Altra voce by Luciano Berio, is exceptional and it is unlikely that this amount of effort will be made to resurrect the majority of extant pieces. It can therefore not be stressed enough that the most time-consuming process lies in the analysis of the patches and the score and not so much with the re-creation of the technology. The problems inherent in the re-creation of electroacoustic music are thus much less a problem of archiving, as is commonly argued, but much more a problem of generic notation, which has thus far proven to be improperly and insufficiently employed.
With over 220 premieres to his name, Sebastian Berweck is one of the most sought after pianists for experimental contemporary music. He is known for his energetic interpretations of unusual repertoire in- and outside the piano as well as working with electronics. Berweck holds a PhD from the University of Huddersfield, is a member of stock11.de, a conglomerate of composers, performers and improvisers of contemporary music, and lives in Berlin.
http://www.sebastianberweck.de
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text:
Margaret Sanger, "Birth Control," Jul 1916.
Source: " The Melting PotJuly 1916, pp. 5-6 Margaret Sanger Microfilm, Collected Documents Series C16:90."
By MARGARET H. SANGER 163 Lexington Avenue, New York City
We in the United States are entering upon a fight for moral liberty, much as our parents entered the fight for political and religious liberty in the past.
Freedom in political, religious and moral thought are absolutely essential to the progress of every civilized country. We have fought for freedom for the first and second, but the third has been slumbering and we have not awakened it. Now we find our moral censors forbidding any discussions of the subject of small families for the working woman.
We are allowed to discuss matters like "preparedness," submarines, liquid fire and life destroying gasses, but are forbidden to break the conventional silence of how to prevent bringing children into the world we cannot feed, clothe and care for.
Our statesmen, clergymen, medical men (and militants, of course), have a wide license to demand that women supply the race with more babies, and try to frighten us about race suicide unless they do so. All of these are either themselves interested parties or under the influence of interested parties who profit by the big battalions of working women's babies. Take the clergy, (Catholics especially). They are the beneficiaries of the church that has made breeding its main source of revenue. They preach from a "sacred book" to "multiply and replenish the earth," knowing that large families among working people tend to preserve their influence and authority. They tell us that every baby is a new soul presented to God, and for his glory and honor women must produce as many souls as possible.
Just as the Church has the market on souls, so has the medical profession the vested interest in bodies. Birth is a direct and indirect source of revenue, through maternity fees, abortions, infantile diseases, and finally death bed attendance.
The politician is usually a representative of the great trusts whose demand for more babies is made for an economic purpose. He desires to provide abundant labor for the employing classes and thus keep down wages, and also to swell the ranks for military duty. He wants "hands" to compete in the labor market, or soldiers in the fighting line. These are what "more babies" mean to him and the priests.
Is a creature owned by the big moneyed interests which depends for their profits upon cheap labor to be our instructor in the matter of birth?
With all these powerful forces against us, is it any wonder that we have given more time to discuss the making of warships and other instruments for murder than to the saving of infant lives and the control of their creation?
We find the real reason that 300,000 babies died last year in the United States was that their fathers could not make enough to keep them alive. The more mothers must work in factories and sweat shops, the larger the number of deaths among their babies. To the father who makes $25.00 a week the death rate of infants is less than 84 per 1000. If he makes less than $10.00 a week, they die at the rate of over 256 per 1000. Every 300,000 babies that die from poverty and neglect has 600,000 parents who remain in ignorance of the means to prevent 300,000 more babies from coming into the world the next year to die of poverty and neglect.
Every woman who tries to exist on her husband's wage of $10.00 or $12.00 a week knows she cannot decently care for a large family. She does not want more than two or three children and is made to become a child bearing machine because of her ignorance of how to prevent it. She dreads the coming of another baby and lives in constant terror of unwanted pregnancies. The husband on the other hand is also unable to cope with the burden of a large family. It is this which keeps him compelled to accept any wage. It is the cries of the little ones which compel him to be the last one out on strike and the first one back. It makes it impossible for him to save a cent for a "rainy day" or for sickness, which in turn compels him to remain in one place, while his brother with one or two children can seek better conditions elsewhere.
Everything is against the working man with a large family. Factories and mills are hungry for his children. Juvenile Courts and dens of prostitution, jails or the trenches of war are waiting for his growing sons and daughters. The facts are that the working class produce too many children, too many for their own personal comfort, too many for the health and development of the mothers, too many for he good of their class. It is they themselves who are the sinners, in thus making worse their own wretched conditions by perpetuating poverty for generations to come. We have the statistics regarding unemployment, emigration, maternal and infantile mortality, and they all prove that there are too many babies born form the working class parents.
All down the ages the working people have produced themselves too rapidly for their economic welfare. The history of labor has been of an ever unsuccessful attempt of the man to make his labor power bring enough to supply his unlimited offspring with the necessities of life. It has ever been a losing battle. The argument is so simple that I can never see how anyone can oppose it. Give a man a wage of $12.00 a week; is it not better to support upon it a family of four than a family of eight? When he attempts to support eight upon this wage it means abject poverty, distress, charity, loss of independence and humiliation. It all seems so simple, and yet millions, through their own ignorance, are incapable of bettering their conditions in this way.
When a man applies for a position in any given trade or occupation do you find the man with ten children receiving a higher wage for the same work than the man with two children? Assuredly not.
Wage slavery, even in its worse aspect, is largely the consequence of the careless breeding of wage slaves, and it will continue so long as wage slaves continue to reproduce new beings necessarily condemned to lives of poverty and ignorance. Such offspring are bound to be the victims of priestcraft and cunning politicians.
And the woman! She has spent her whole adult life in bringing children into the world, not because of her desire for them, but because of her ignorance of how to prevent it. Many of these do so because they do not know that conception can be avoided, or knowing it fear the miserable threats of priests and preachers.
The laws have been made strong and barbarous in their cruelty for violating this particular section. Unjust laws keep women in bondage, and men in slavery. Shall we who love mankind be content to obey them? I for one shall never lend myself to a wrong which I condemn. Has the United States only prisons and jails for us who dare speak and act for liberty? One thing is certain; knowledge to control birth is the most important immediate step the working class must take to reach the goal of its emancipation.
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Here stood the St. Victor Chapel, which according to legend was built in the Fourth Century by Bishop Maternus, thus also called St. Maternus, mentioned in the 12th century as a chapel of the cathedral, 1497 reconstruction and re-consecration with the Patrozinium St. Matthias, 1802 abolition of the cathedral, closing and sale of the chapel.
der Legende nach im 4. Jahrhundert von Bischof Maternus erbaut, daher auch St. Maternus genannt, urkundlich erwähnt im 12. Jahrhundert als Kapelle des Domstifts, 1497 Umbau und Neuweihe mit dem Patrozinium St. Matthias, 1802 Aufhebung des Domstifts, Schließung und Verkauf der Kapelle.
Wertvolle Ausstattungsstücke (Teile eines Gemäldezyklus von Bartholomäus Bruyn) im Wallraf-Richartz Museum Köln.
Noteworthy decorations included portions of a multi-part painting by Bartholmaeus Bruyn, which are now in the Wallraf-Richartz Museum Cologne.
Erected by Förderverein Romanische Kirchen Kolne. e.V.
The marker is visible here to the right of the open doorway.
50° 56.538′ N, 6° 57.359′ E. Marker is in Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia, in Köln. Marker is on Marzellenstrasse, on the right when traveling north. Touch for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: Marzellenstrasse 12, Cologne, North Rhine-Westphalia 50667, Germany. Touch for directions.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within walking distance of this marker. Seitenportal des römischen Nordtores/ Side Portal of North Roman Gate (about 90 meters away, measured in a direct line); Georg Simon Ohm (about 90 meters away); Dr. Friedrich Joseph Haass (about 120 meters away); Matthias Joseph Scheeben (about 120 meters away); Dominican Monastery Site and Albertus Magnus (about 120 meters away); Friedrich von Spee S.J. (about 150 meters away); Brauhaus Früh am Dom / The 'Frueh at the Cathedral' Brewery (approx. 0.3 kilometers away); Teilstück des Römischen Abwasserkanals / Section of Roman Sewage System (approx. 0.4 kilometers away). Touch for a list and map of all markers in Cologne.
More. Search the internet for Kapelle St. Victor / St. Victor Chapel.
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