Using a compressor in a HT?
Anyone use one? My Pioneer DVD has the dynamic range compression option but it doesn't sound that good. Reason is that I have a small setup and constantly have to adjust the volume so I can hear the dialogue but not piss off the neighbors when the scenes get loud. I was thinking about sticking a compressor in there to even it up, as well as using it in home recording. I was thinking about getting this link (seems to be reviewed well for home recording) and is $89, and has auto attack/release and a peak limiter. But I'm not sure how you'd connect it to the reciever.
I know what you mean about bad sounding compression. Sometimes my input switcher gets its compressor turned on and it takes me a while of wondering what happened to the sound before I find the cause. And I find the compressors in my DVD players to be deficient as well.
That looks like a really nice unit. You know it's only 2-channel and uses 1/4" plugs, right? But if you're willing to play with it for a while to get the sound you want (and it looks like you could play for several days doing that) it appears to have all the flexibility you'd want or need.
You could connect it between the preamp and amplifier section of your receiver. If you have preamp-out, amp-in, that would be ideal. I assume the unit has a bypass for when you don't want limiting. Otherwise you could connect it to the tape monitor connections and then listen with the tape monitor switched in. Just turn off the tape monitor when you don't want limiting.
Recording from it would be a little trickier as you would probably need to record directly from its output. But are you sure you want to do compressing in your recording and not just play back through it? Or do you need limiting? What are you recording and onto what?
Thanks for that tip, I'll have to check my receiver this weekend for a pre-amp out.
For recording, mainly I'm looking for a limiter. Right now I'm recording through a Midiman Audio Buddy preamp into my PC (Audiophile 2496 soundcard). I was having some problems keeping the peaks under control (clipping) when recording with my friend last weekend. I probably wouldn't use an outboard compressor for mastering though, just for the sake of convenience (plug-ins instead).
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Tim Piazza died after a night of drinking in the now-shuttered Beta Theta Pi house.
Pennsylvania Attorney General Josh Shapiro said his office has completed a comprehensive review of Timothy Piazza's February 2017 death after a night of drinking at a Penn state fraternity house. Shapiro wants the most serious charges reinstated for some of the men allegedly involved.
Pennsylvania's attorney general wants a judge to reinstate involuntary manslaughter charges against five former Penn State fraternity members arrested in connection to a pledge's hazing-related death last year.
Attorney General Josh Shapiro said Tuesday that his office didn't agree with District Judge Allen Sinclair's decision to dismiss involuntary manslaughter charges against five former Beta Theta Pi fraternity members and demanded that a jury hear evidence and make that decision.
"That local magistrate should not have the final say," Shapiro said at a news conference Tuesday morning.
Shapiro's office is overseeing the prosecution of more than a dozen men accused of playing a role in Piazza's death. The 19-year-old sophomore died of severe head and abdominal injuries after falling several times during an evening of hazing and drinking at the now-shuttered Beta Theta Pi fraternity house.
"I am committed to holding all individuals responsible for any role they played in the hazing death of Tim Piazza," said Shapiro, who was joined by Piazza's parents at the news conference.
Last week, Shapiro's office appealed the ruling and is seeking to have the charges reinstated "so that a jury of 12 men and women from that community can make the ultimate determination about the defendants accountability."
Shapiro said he was confident that the evidence against the five members he says should be charged with involuntary manslaughter will support a conviction by a jury. Each of the five helped set up "The Gauntlet" of drinking, were aware of his fall and refused to seek medical attention in a timely manner, Shapiro said.
"They must be held accountable for their respective roles in planning that fateful night, in failing to render aid and for leaving Tim to die in their fraternity house," he said.
Prosecutors still are reviewing the cases of 15 other fraternity members charged in Piazza's death. Shapiro said his office will announce charges on Wednesday against 12 additional fraternity brothers. Those new charges stem from deleted security video that was later recovered by the FBI.
Piazza fell down the basement stairs, and spent the night on the fraternity house's first floor, mostly on a couch but he also is seen on video stumbling and falling several times.
Footage shows Piazza walking toward the basement stairs the next morning, and then through the basement toward a bar. He is later seen near the bar, with his head on the floor in between his arms.
About two hours later, he was found unconscious and carried upstairs. Video shows fraternity members standing around Piazza for more than 40 minutes before anyone calls for an ambulance.
Piazza later died at a hospital from severe head injuries that included a skull fracture and a shattered spleen that caused massive abdominal bleeding.
"When a parent sends their child off to college, they don't expect them to be found at the bottom of a basement – unconscious and fatally injured," Shapiro tweeted Tuesday. "Tim's death was a tragedy."


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Transportation Officials Debate Bus or Streetcar Service for Harbor Boulevard
by Thy Vo Jan 22, 2018 Updated Dec 8, 2020 Why you can trust Voice of OC
An Orange County Transit Authority headquarters in Orange. Credit: JEFF ANTENORE, Voice of OC Contributing Photographer
Increased bus service and new streetcar routes are on the table as Orange County Transportation Authority (OCTA) officials study options for one of the county's busiest bus corridors, Harbor Boulevard.
The $640,000 report, prepared by STV Inc. and four other subcontractors, has its limitations. It is assumed in the study that all of the project options would take place without widening Harbor Boulevard and the study does not look at impacts on existing traffic.
Darrell Johnson, the agency's CEO, said the ridership projections are not "investment-grade" studies.
"This is a conceptual level [analysis]," Johnson said.
The final draft of the Central Harbor Corridor study, as presented to OCTA board directors last week, compares twelve different options for bus and streetcar routes on or adjacent to Harbor Boulevard. Of those options, three streetcar routes and two bus rapid transit routes (a faster bus service where the bus travels in its own dedicated lane) were ranked in the top five.
Harbor Rapid Streetcar: with a total score of 74, this option received the highest rating in the Harbor study. This route is the only proposed streetcar option with a dedicated lane. This option ranked highest in terms of transit performance, connectivity and user experience.
Tied for second place is the Harbor Long Streetcar and Harbor Bus Rapid Transit with a score of 73 points. While the Harbor BRT option operates in its own lane, the Harbor Long Streetcar travels with traffic. The Harbor BRT ranks highest of all options for cost effectiveness.
Anaheim-Lemon Streetcar: this streetcar route, with a score of 68, would begin on Lemon Street near the Fullerton Transportation Center and continue onto Anaheim Boulevard. It shares a lane with traffic.
Anaheim-Lemon Bus Rapid Transit: this option follows the same route as the Anaheim-Lemon streetcar, but has a bus with its own dedicated lane.
Credit: Source: OCTA
After OCTA gathers feedback from the four cities along the corridor, the report will come back before the board for them to decide whether to select any of the proposed projects for further study.
Click here to view diagrams of each project alternative.
For the past two years, transportation officials have studied an eight-mile stretch of Harbor Boulevard from Fullerton on the north, through Anaheim and ending in Garden Grove. That corridor is home to the county's largest employer, Disneyland, and sees an average 12,800 bus boardings a day, 12 percent of the county's total.
Officials are projecting a growth in housing and hotel rooms along the corridor, with 4,551 planned housing units (mostly in Anaheim) and 5,378 new hotel rooms in Anaheim and Garden Grove.
With an expected increase in housing density along Harbor Boulevard, officials say there is a opportunity to grow transit use along Harbor. They also want to bolster regional transportation by connecting new projects on Harbor to the OC Streetcar, which is slated to begin construction later this year.
The OC Streetcar route begins at the Santa Ana Regional Transportation Center, travels through downtown Santa Ana and ends at Harbor Boulevard and Westminster Avenue in Garden Grove.
Bus rapid transit, which often is praised by transportation advocates as having the advantages of light rail without the costly infrastructure, received the highest score for cost effectiveness. Among the top five options, the Harbor Rapid Streetcar costs the most at an estimated $690 million in capital costs while Harbor Bus Rapid Transit costs $230 million.
The Harbor Rapid Streetcar, meanwhile, has the highest estimated weekday boardings at 15,200, compared with 14,700 for the Harbor Long Streetcar and 14,600 for Harbor Bus Rapid Transit. The Anaheim-Lemon Streetcar would see an estimated 11,300 boardings and the Anaheim-Lemon BRT would see 12,000 boardings, according to the estimates.
Anaheim Mayor Tom Tait, who has consistently opposed streetcar projects citing their relatively high cost compared to bus service, questioned the evaluation metrics used in the report. He pointed to the large difference in scores between the top-ranked streetcar and the lowest ranking option, enhanced bus.
"When you look at travel speeds, enhanced bus goes at 16.4 mph and the streetcar goes at 14.2," Tait said. "Enhanced bus is much faster."
Enhanced bus is the option with the fewest features, making it the cheapest to implement. It's similar to regular bus service except for features like priority at intersections and the option to pay fares before boarding the bus.
"I don't understand why the bus would rate so low. I think the analysis is flawed," Tait said.
Tait also questioned why the Harbor study includes analysis of streetcars when most of the corridor runs through the city of Anaheim.
"I can't imagine a scenario, why we'd waste time and money going forward when you have a major city saying we don't want a streetcar. There's going to be a congestion issue," said Tait. "We want something that will make it better, not worse."
The Anaheim City Council, at one point, was a strong advocate for a $300 million streetcar project that would have connected the city's transit hub to its resort district.
When political winds shifted last year, the current council, led by Tait, voted to oppose the development of any kind of streetcar down Harbor Boulevard. OCTA also voted to stop any work on the project.
Johnson said that OCTA staff has not, at this time, singled out any of the twelve options. Instead, they are waiting to hear feedback from Fullerton, Garden Grove, Anaheim and Santa Ana.
Responding to Tait's comment that the streetcar would increase traffic, Johnson noted the bus alternatives face similar obstacles. Both the rapid streetcar and bus rapid transit alternatives, for example, would require closing a lane to traffic.
"There's really a one-point difference between bus rapid transit and streetcar," Johnson said.
OCTA director and county supervisor Shawn Nelson told Tait the Harbor study was in part a response to the controversy surrounding the Anaheim streetcar proposal.
"The reason we're having this discussion is exactly because we realize local politics can really do harm to some of these local transit projects," said Nelson. "This is just a study. I don't know what's going to happen with Anaheim politics but part of that gets diluted when you have a regional board."
Santa Ana Mayor Miguel Pulido, who has been a proponent of streetcar projects in the past, suggested Anaheim residents may not share the city council's opposition to streetcars.
"I think in Santa Ana and Garden Grove and Anaheim and elsewhere…we have to continue to see where the residents are at," Pulido said.
In an online poll by OCTA, which surveyed 413 people, respondents rated a streetcar 7.07 out of a top score of 10, followed by 6.6 for bus rapid transit and 6.1 for a limited stop bus.
Most respondents — 64 percent — said they worked near Harbor Boulevard, while 54 percent said they go dining along the corridor and 38 percent said they go shopping along Harbor.
Other stakeholders interviewed by OCTA said they generally support transit investment along Harbor, but need more information before stating any preferences.
Contact Thy Vo at tvo@voiceofoc.org or follow her on Twitter @thyanhvo.
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Undermanned SBCC Men's Basketball loses in fierce game
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Zeke McMurtry (No. 23) charges past a Cuesta defender, Joshua Wilson-Murry late in the second half of the game on Feb. 16, 2019, at City College in Santa Barbara, Calif. The Vaqueros lost the game 76-57.
Neil Erickson, Sports Editor
The City College Men's Basketball team lost 76-57 to Cuesta College Saturday with a major disadvantage of only one bench player—but they didn't go down without a fight.
This was the team's twelfth consecutive loss. They are now 3-22 and have won a combined nine games in the last three seasons.
The team had just one bench player compared to Cuesta's nine because of an ACL tear earlier this week and another player now in concussion protocol.
The first half of the game was competitive and close. The Vaqueros had enough energy and speed to keep the game a battle.
Zeke McMurtry lead the team with 18 points, on 9-22 shooting from the field.
City College looked fearsome on defense in the first half, but Cuesta's Jorge Bueno kept them in the game by knocking down tough fadeaway threes and contested mid-range jumpers.
Bueno tallied 18 points on 7-12 shooting from the field.
There were multiple lead changes in the first half, with both teams struggling to come out on top.
At the end of the first half it was only a one point game, with City College trailing 31-32, but the second half couldn't come fast enough for them as they were already out of gas with 15 minutes left in the game.
Cuesta increased their lead by 8 points and head coach Morris Hodges was forced to call a timeout.
After this, Cuesta's lead ballooned to 20 points with seven minutes remaining, and the Vaqueros were trapped in a hole.
The team was gassed, and because of that, emotions erupted. City College players Jashon Lee and Zeke McMurtry got into a verbal scuffle, but it was quickly distinguished by the coaches.
"No question there was a depth factor," Hodges said about the loss. "The problem is we've had four season ending injuries."
With only nine players to start the season, four injuries have totaled the team leaving them struggling to win a single game.
"Losing Drake was a huge factor," Hodges said about guard Drake Sueda who has been sidelined for the season. "He was our starting point guard who was our best player at getting to the line."
"It all comes down to competitiveness," Vaquero forward Taylor Burns said after acknowledging the lack of depth. "If we had moved the ball more in the second half we could've kept the game close."
The Vaqueros play their last home game of the season against Allan Hancock 5 p.m. Tuesday Feb. 19 at City College.
Their last game of the season follows at 3 p.m. Saturday Feb. 22 at Oxnard.


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2015 iHeartRadio Music Awards Full Winners List
Oscar and Grammy award winning actor and musician Jamie Foxx hosted the iHeartRadio Music Awards, held Sunday March 29,2015 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles.
Iggy Azalea and Sam Smith were tied for the most nominations of the evening. Luke Bryan, Ariana Grande and Taylor Swift are also up for Artist of the Year, with Grande and Swift hot on Azalea and Smith's heels, with four nominations each.
Justin Timberlake received the most prestigious award of the evening, the 2015 iHeartRadio Innovator Award, which will honor the musician's contributions to the entertainment world and music industry.
Azalea and Smith performed, in addition to Rihanna, Madonna, Jason Aldean, Meghan Trainor, Jason Derulo, Jennifer Hudson, Kelly Clarkson, Snoop Dogg, Charlie Wilson, Nate Ruess, Alesso and Florida Georgia Line along with appearances from Taylor Swift, among others.
Innovator Award:
*WINNER Justin Timberlake
Song of the Year:
"All About That Bass" – Meghan Trainor
"All of Me" – John Legend
"Happy" – Pharrell Williams
*WINNER "Shake It Off" – Taylor Swift
"Stay With Me" – Sam Smith
Alternative Rock Song of the Year:
"Come With Me Now" – KONGOS
"Do I Wanna Know?" – Arctic Monkeys
"Fever" – The Black Keys
"Something From Nothing" – Foo Fighters
*WINNER "Take Me to Church" – Hozier
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"Blame" – Calvin Harris featuring John Newman
"La La La" – Naughty Boy featuring Sam Smith
*WINNER "Summer" – Calvin Harris
"Waves" – Mr. Probz
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*WINNER "Bang Bang" – Jessie J + Ariana Grande + Nicki Minaj
"Dark Horse" – Katy Perry featuring Juicy J
"Fancy" – Iggy Azalea featuring Charli XCX
"Problem" – Ariana Grande featuring Iggy Azalea
"Talk Dirty" – Jason Derulo featuring 2 Chainz
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Arianators – Ariana Grande
Bey Hive – Beyoncé
Team Breezy – Chris Brown
Sheerios – Ed Sheeran
Church Choir – Eric Church
Directioners – One Direction
Selenators – Selena Gomez
Mendes Army – Shawn Mendes
Swifties – Taylor Swift
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*WINNER "Burnin' It Down" – Jason Aldean
"Dirt" – Florida Georgia Line
"Give Me Back My Hometown" – Eric Church
"Play It Again" – Luke Bryan
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*WINNER "Don't Tell 'Em" – Jeremih featuring YG
"Drunk in Love" – Beyoncé featuring Jay Z
"Flawless" – Beyoncé
"Loyal" – Chris Brown featuring Lil Wayne and Tyga
"New Flame" – Chris Brown featuring Usher and Rick Ross
Best Lyrics:
*WINNER "Blank Space" – Taylor Swift
"Counting Stars" – OneRepublic
"Habits (Stay High)" – Tove Lo
"Thinking Out Loud" – Ed Sheeran
Artist of the Year:
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Film Highlights the Plight of Chinese Web Junkies
by Xian Chiang-Waren
Published October 22, 2014 at 10:00 a.m.
Courtesy of VTIFF
Web Junkie
A teenage boy sits on a dormitory mattress in a dim room on the outskirts of Beijing, his body shaking with uncontrollable sobs. "What did you do?" a man asks him. "I used the internet," the boy replies.
That's a scene from Web Junkie, a 2013 documentary film that takes viewers inside Daxing Boot Camp, a rehabilitation facility that treats teenagers for internet and gaming addictions. It's one of more than 400 such boot camps reported to exist in China, which became the first country in the world to declare internet addiction a clinical disorder in 2008.
"My dad brought me here to see the doctor," the boy on the mattress continues. "But he locked me in here instead. They tied my hands."
Life at boot camp is no walk in the park. The camera follows a group of boys through exhausting calisthenic routines and therapy sessions. They appear to be routinely medicated with pills that the camp's staff refuse to identify to them. Many tell the cameras that their parents drugged them with sleeping pills and brought them to the facility against their will.
The absence of screen time, too, clearly causes the boys significant existential distress: Tantrums and sobbing are depicted as routine occurrences. These are kids who, by their parents' accounts and their own admission, habitually stayed up all night playing games, sometimes wearing diapers so they wouldn't need to leave their seats. They express their preference for virtual reality over the real world. "Everyone in the real world is fake," one boy tells the cameras, echoing the sentiments of 15-year-olds everywhere.
Web Junkie premiered at the 2014 Sundance Film Festival; in the coming weeks, it will screen twice in Burlington, hosted by the Vermont International Film Foundation. The first screening, at the Vermont Tech Jam on Friday, October 24, will be followed by a panel discussion with local game designer Marguerite Dibble and Champlain College mental health counselors Skip Harris and Lukas Lewis. The second screening, which takes place on Saturday, November 1, during VTIFF, is accompanied by a panel with psychology professors Kimberly Quinn Smith of Champlain College and David Landers of Saint Michael's College. Those panelists will contextualize the issues the film raises and facilitate a discussion that brings them closer to home.
And that's needed. While Web Junkie raises thought-provoking questions about how screens change our relationships with one another and the world, it indisputably paints an extreme picture. The directors make little effort to place the experience at Daxing in a wider context. The boot camp's treatment practices, for example, seem unlikely to be tolerated by the Western counterparts of the middle-class Chinese parents shown in the film. The distress on those parents' faces is evident — and particularly unsettling when one considers China's mandatory one-child rule.
Internet dependence is not classed as a clinical addiction in the United States as it is in China. In the 2013 revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders — the official reference for psychiatric illnesses — internet addiction is relegated to the appendix as an area requiring further study. In practice, that means a psychiatrist can't diagnose and treat a patient for the problem, even if that patient is up all night in diapers playing World of Warcraft.
Nonetheless, says Lewis, behavioral issues arising from excessive game time are common here, too — perhaps particularly in the student demographic that he and Harris work with at Champlain. The issue received an international spotlight last week when a patient in an alcohol rehabilitation facility was treated for symptoms of withdrawal from his Google Glass.
"I haven't seen the film, but with students I've worked with before in the past who we've identified as playing video games too much or using the internet too much, I try to determine what it is in the internet or games that's reinforcing the habit," Lewis explains.
"For some students, it's a way of escape; for some students, it provides them with an opportunity to have a level of mastery," he continues. "There's a reward if there's reinforcement, like gambling. It's also a means of social connection."
Lewis cautions that such behavior may not be an addiction in itself, but the symptom of other disorders. "We have to sort out whether the internet or video game is the real problem or a symptom of another problem," he explains. "A lot of times, it's a way of coping with another primary issue."
As a counselor — not a psychiatrist who can diagnose — Lewis says he and Harris "look at it on a case-by-case basis, dependent on [the student's] diagnosis."
Dibble, a 24-year-old Champlain College graduate who owns Burlington-based gaming company GameTheory, suggests that industry practices can foster addictive behavior by monetizing it.
"We work and trade in the psychology that makes games that people want to interact with in ways that could be seen as addictive," she says. After reflecting on those implications, Dibble adds, she switched her own business model to one of consulting.
The rise of mobile apps in particular, Dibble observes, changed the game — so to speak — a few years ago. Before, the industry standard was to have users pay a flat rate for a game. Now developers make free games (because no one wants to pay for a mobile app) and embed psychological incentives to pay up within the game itself.
"I don't think that games in particular are malicious in any sense," Dibble says. "I would really encourage people to see [extreme behavior] as a result, not the cause, think about why that's happening, and try to come at it from a place of understanding and camaraderie rather than attack."
Web Junkie screens at the Vermont Tech Jam on Friday October 24, 3 p.m., at Memorial Auditorium in Burlington. Free. It also plays at the Vermont International Film Festival on Saturday, November 1, 3 p.m., at Main Street Landing Black Box Theater in Burlington. $5-10.
The original print version of this article was headlined "Vermont International Film Festival Screening Highlights Internet Addiction"
VTIFF Reports Success
by Ethan de Seife November 10, 2014
VTIFF Announces Vermont Filmmakers' Showcase Awards
by Ethan de Seife October 25, 2014
Tech Issue: Vermont's Scene Bigger Than Big Blue
by Cathy Resmer October 22, 2014
A Recovery Center in Johnson Is Helping Reinvigorate the Town
Some Vermonters Are Living and Working Better Thanks to New High-Speed Internet
Meat Loaf and His Doppelgänger Return in Allan Nicholls' Lost Movie 'Dead Ringer'
Vermont International Film Festival Screens Long-Shelved Gems and Pandemic-Paused Releases
Meth Use Is Growing Around Burlington — and Could Portend More Problems for Vermont
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Q: Elevator probability problem An elevator in a building starts with five passengers and stops at seven floors. If each passenger is equally likely to get off on any floor and all the passengers leave independently  of each other, what is the probability that no two passengers will get off at the same floor?

A: Hint: There are $7^5$ ways for the passengers to leave the elevator, but only $7\cdot6\cdot5\cdot4\cdot3$ avoid two passenges getting off at the same floor.

A: We can rephrase the question as how many ways can a single passenger choose a floor to get off the elevator?  There are five passengers and seven floors.  First passenger has seven floors to choose from, second passenger has six floors to choose from, etc.
Now of course the probability is the answer to the above question over total number of ways five passengers can choose seven floors.

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While the Greek economy remains too weak to meet the goals laid down in the current bailout package, a highly critical report by the IMF ( leaked to the Wall Street Journal ) concludes that the fund and its troika ...
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Global Banking,
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England v France: Can new generation revive flat-lining France rugby?
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Amid the tickertape, avenue parades and dabbing presidents of the soccer group's World Cup buy final summer season, one other 2nd of candy French carrying success became a microscopic misplaced.
It came a month earlier than in front of 18,000 Tricolore-waving supporters in Beziers.
Louis Carbonel, the new-confronted France flit-half, became lining up a conversion.
It seems that mounted in concentration on the reduction of the ball and the duty in hand, he feinted to originate up his plug-up.
The opposition, fooled by his stammer, prematurely started their designate from below the posts.
As they realised the deception, Carbonel grinned broadly, pointed a finger at them and pulled a face of mock surprise. He then duly caught his kick square between the uprights.
It became the ideal twist of the knife in France's 33-25 victory over celebrated enemy England in the ideal of the World Beneath-20 Championships.
While the senior group is in freefall, winning factual three of their final 12 matches, it seems the youth are better than all compatible.
Closing summer season became the foremost time France had reached the ideal, never thoughts lifted the trophy, in the match's 11-twelve months historical previous.
Centre Romain Ntamack and prop Demba Bamba, 19 and 20 respectively, dangle already graduated to the senior aspect. Ntamack started final weekend's defeat by Wales. Bamba is in the XV to salvage on England this Sunday.
Jordan Joseph and Cameron Woki – onerous-carrying reduction-row products of Parisian aspect RC Massy – and the prankish Carbonel can also no longer be some distance in the reduction of.
Worship France's soccer world champions, the victorious below-20s aspect drew on the nation's multi-cultural heritage.
Could well per chance also they, esteem their soccer counterparts, be a skills to pull France reduction to the tip of the world recreation?
Broken-down France flit-half Thomas Castaignede received the foremost of his 54 Take a look at caps as a 20-twelve months-celebrated.
"It's terribly thrilling," he told BBC Sport.
"Each person is mad because we'd like to rebuild, French rugby is in the worst situation for the time being and these younger gamers can train a fresh philosophy to the recreation.
"Some gamers are coming from varied social stages and that's right for us, because these guys know onerous work.
But we now had been here earlier than.
"I reduction in thoughts in November 2001, I went down to Toulouse, to interview Freddie Michalak, Clement Poitrenaud and Nicolas Jeanjean," says Gavin Mortimer, who played semi-professionally in France earlier than swapping the dressing room for the click box.
"He had the total skills, but did now not dangle the utility or the temperament. It became faintly embarrassing when he went to Toulon, alongside Jonny Wilkinson, in 2012.
"The 2 are roughly the identical age and had been when in contrast in the previous, but must you checked out what they'd completed it became chalk and cheese.
It's tough to content the legend.
The World Beneath-20 Championships replaced a identical below-21 event.
A France group containing Lionel Beauxis, Maxime Medard, Damien Chouly and Maxime Mermoz lifted that crown in 2006, but did now not contain the identical influence at senior stage.
In 2012, an 18-twelve months-celebrated Gael Fickou marked his Heineken Cup debut with a wonderfully impudent wrestle Leicester. He became hailed as a future global celebrity. He can also but be, but to this point that plight has eluded him.
Yacouba Camara made his world debut as a unheard of-hyped 21-twelve months-celebrated in February 2016, but Sunday shall be fully his 11th Take a look at originate up.
One more flanker, Sekou Macalou, tore apart the All Blacks defence in a midweek 2nd-string pleasant in 2017, but disappeared from world seek quickly after.
France has given youth its head. Of the 12 youngsters to dangle looked in the Six Nations, half had been French. They've been much less desirous to give it time and provides a enhance to even supposing.
"The leaders haven't genuinely been there. It's a mountainous step for the younger gamers they customarily are gradually a microscopic misplaced," said Castaignede.
If France are instant on management on the pitch, on the touchline there has been a carousel of mediocrity. Jacques Brunel is the fourth national group coach in decrease than eight years.
"There is a particular conservatism in French rugby; they are the fully Six Nations group never to appoint a foreigner as a head coach and it presentations. They've appointed this succession of celebrated males frankly," adds Mortimer.
"France did effectively in the newbie skills because it became newbie. Serge Blanco can also get away with smoking 40 a day, but rugby is now fought in the gym and in the gamers' diets and the French dangle no longer been in a situation to adapt.
The insular outlook and financial muscle of top French aspects has no longer helped the priority.
High 14 teams, lavishly bankrolled, dangle lengthy prioritised domestic rivalries above European, never thoughts world, honours.
Young French gamers are in overall mountainous fish in limited ponds with stout wallets. The motivation to converse themselves on the world scene can also no longer be as obvious as for his or her counterparts in varied places.
There is hope, even supposing, that the coming skills can be varied. Now not on legend of any innately superior skills, but on legend of extra commended conditions.
There for the time being are quotas, punishable by system deductions, for dwelling-grown gamers in top-flight squads and the prospect of a condominium World Cup in 2023 is focusing minds on opening up the pathway from age-grade aspects to the national group.
Rory Teague, the Englishman who coached Bordeaux till November, is sceptical whether or no longer intentions shall be backed up by action.
"There is this kind of reluctance to adapt. Accepting that substitute is serious freaks them out," he told the Events this week.
But the talk is gathering stagger.
In the wake of the outlet weekend crumple in opposition to Wales, France's legendary inclined flanker Olivier Magne told Midi Olympique that Brunel must contain condominium for younger gamers.
"We dangle a skills that has basked fully in defeat, we just isn't any longer going to buy something with it," he said.
Pierre Mignoni, a 41-twelve months-celebrated inclined France scrum-half who played alongside Magne and now coaches Lyon, seems space to salvage designate after Japan 2019.
"He is among the few French coaches who understands that France want to contemplate outdoor for ideas and philosophies and turn out to be unheard of extra Anglo-Saxon in their design," said Mortimer.
"I deem he can be in a situation to contain them mentally as effectively as design about what being a world is all about.
Patiently handled and given the suitable prerequisites, the 2018 sever can be reasonably the classic. But the French dangle viewed identical doable fracture masses of events earlier than.


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Redknapp has done a wonderful job for Spurs, says prodigal Keane
Published: 6:15 PM May 29, 2009 Updated: 1:26 PM October 14, 2020
ROBBIE Keane this week pronounced himself satisfied with the progress Tottenham have made since his return from an unhappy spell at Liverpool. The Spurs and Ireland captain, scorer of the Lilywhites goal in Sunday s 3-1 Premier League defeat at Anfield,
ROBBIE Keane this week pronounced himself satisfied with the progress Tottenham have made since his return from an unhappy spell at Liverpool.
The Spurs and Ireland captain, scorer of the Lilywhites' goal in Sunday's 3-1 Premier League defeat at Anfield, is delighted with the club's performance in the second half of the season.
"I think we have to be happy overall with the way we have finished the season, considering we were hovering close to the bottom of the table when I came here," said Keane, who rejoined the club in the January transfer window.
"I'm not for one second suggesting that the recovery has been down to me because the manager has done a fantastic job since coming here."
Indeed, Tottenham, who spent most the season battling against relegation, went into Sunday's game knowing that three points could see them claim the final Europa League spot if Fulham lost to Everton. In the end Harry Redknapp's men had to be content with eighth spot in the table.
"To think we only had two points from eight games and people were talking about us being possibly relegated, and then finishing eighth," added Keane.
"We saw some big clubs relegated over the weekend, so we have to be pleased with the way we performed in the second half of the season."
Keane goes straight back into action tomorrow night with the Republic of Ireland, who take on Nigeria in a friendly at Craven Cottage. The striker then heads to Bulgaria with the Republic for a vital World Cup qualifier in Sofia on Wednesday.
Keane's likely strike partner at the Lane next season Jermain Defoe is also hoping for an extended season after being recalled to the England fold.
Defoe, who was sidelined for several weeks with a foot injury, will be fresh for England's two World Cup qualifiers against Kazakhstan and Andorra next month. He has not featured for his country since starting in a 2-1 win in Germany last November.
"It seems like a lifetime since I was last involved because I have been injured," said Defoe.


The SMM Home & School Association is the Catholic School version of the more common PTA/PTO. Through our fundraisers, we raise money to help provide extras for the school and students.
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The funds we raise support financial, social, and enrichment programs that benefitour students, faculty, and school. Some examples include: Catholic Schools Week Activities (COSI on Wheels, workshops), teachers' luncheons, end-of-year cookout and other treats, purchase of periodicals (Weekly Reader, National Geographic), and subsidizing the creation and maintenance of the school webpage.
Becoming an active Home and School member is easy! Simply attend our meetings and volunteer for any of our sponsored events. If you cannot make it to our meetings, there are still many opportunities to become involved! Whether your schedule allows youto volunteer on a routine or periodic basis, there's always a way for you to make a difference!
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