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The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks officially revealed
When noone believed anymore that "it" could happend, it did: At the end of his keynote-speech at this year´s Game Developers Conference, Satoru Iwata announced The Legend of Zelda: Spirit Tracks for the Nintendo DS.
Taking a look at the released screenshots and the reveal-trailer, Spirit Tracks seems to be a direct sequel to Phantom Hourglass. The visuals are exactly the same, the controls are, too. In terms of story, the flood introduced in TWW seems to be gone. The biggest difference is Link´s transport vehicle: A train. Yeah, Link gets control over his own choochoo-train. Just like in PH, where you drew the path of your boat, you´re now drawing the way on the touchscreen and the train follows these instant-tracks. Not only is the game´s title referring to those train tracks, it´s also about the power Link has over some enemies: He can gain control of an enemy and then, again by drawing a line, have him going around as he wishes. He can even let one enemy fight for him against another one.
As great as a new Zelda always is, i´m not excited for now. That´s maybe because i absolutely didn´t enjoy Phantom Hourglass. And Spirit Tracks looks, if you´re honest, like a mission pack, rather than a new game. Controls are the same, visuals are the same, and gameplay in general appears to be the same. From what we can see, the dungeons start looking like copy and paste-works. And although the game takes place on land, there won´t be an overworld. You travel from point to point by train, that´s it.
Many people will love this game, but as a long time Zelda-fan i feel kinda sad. Once, Zelda was known for its risk-heavy experiments. Zelda 2 was nothing like Zelda 1. OoT took the big step into 3D. MM kind of went towards 4D. TWW chose a very risky visual style and changed the overworld design of 3D-Zeldas. PH showed that Zelda works on the NDS. But ST doesn´t look like it will be anything close to "risky". And it also doesn´t have the "epic, nostalgic" feel that TP offered. Instead of this game, i´d loved to see EAD go for a whole different gameplay-style…maybe showing that a real 3D-Zelda can work on NDS, too.
I´ll play the game, eventually, but my hype is as low as possible.
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Criticism = Fanboyism? The New Era of Discussing Video Games
Something´s wrong. And by something i mean the way people, be it gamers, gaming journalists or whomever is closely in touch with games, talk about games nowadays.
Instead of directly going into what i mean, i´d like to give a short impression of what gaming discussions were before. There was a time, call it the beginning, where critizism almost didn´t even exist. This time is completely individual, as it is the time when we were young. Playing games that you would never touch if you saw them in front of you now. That time was innocent, pure. You kept playing and playing, simply because it was awsome to play a thing called video game (or computer game, whatever).
Then comes the time of entering the freak-phase in our life time. We´re now carefully looking at what we´re about to buy. This is also when we found out about the internet and video game communities and such. Before that, print magazines were a major focus for us, too. Scores and numbers of stars now play a big role. Games that got less than 75% from our favorite print magazine aren´t even worthy to talk about. Great games got 85%, and the once a year blockbuster took 91% and everyone drooled in awe of that game. Playing bad games wasn´t a matter anymore, playing the best was.
And here we are now. Let´s call this the nerd-phase. Or, to be more precise, the super-wtf-isgoingon-idontknowbutilldoittoo-nerd-phase. At this time, scores became redundant again – for worse. Now, games that don´t achieve close to 100% scores are either average OR the magazines/websites that gave those below 10/10 scores are called incompetent. In the end, by now, this resulted in gaming reviews becoming completely unreliable (not that they ever were the alpha and omega, but now…). You don´t, if a game deserves the high score, if the journalists were paid by the publisher, OR if a low score simply resulted from bias against a system/franchise or from to few hype. But that is not all! Now is also the point in time where whoever criticises a hyped game, instantly, becomes a "troll". YOU DON´T TALK BAD ABOUT A HYPED GAME!!11! Oh well, that´s it now. When the so-called "backslash" before was considered a cool-down-phase, where the hype had ended and gamers realized the game´s shortcomings, now "backslash" is a term used by super-fanboys, who, by saying so, try to ridicule everyone who doesn´t COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY LOVE that certain game.
So these are the three phase of talking about video games in the context of history. Maybe you noticed that it is kind of a cycle, from not giving a **** about scores, to scores being everything, to scores being **** again. The only difference is that we started with a positive mindset, and now we´re (and with "we" i mean those who act like above) bitter. Is that "growing up"? I don´t think so. At least i don´t hope so. I never liked all the importance of scores, but remembering former times, i prefer talking about why a game got 79% over talking about "why a game didn´t get 100%, you douchebag troll!!!11!".
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Sony surpassed Nintendo…in Bizarro World
There are times when you just want to smash your head against a wall until you´re dead. Today is such a time. What´s most baffeling, though, is that users of a certain internet board are actually discussing the subject of matter. A no-name Sony-website released an article about how Sony has surpassed Nintendo as a game developer. But let´s get right into THE BULLSHIT:
Nintendo has been relying on their old franchises for years. Sony, on the other hand, is constantly coming up with new franchises for their Playstation platforms
The old super crap argument. Let´s put aside all the franchises that Nintendo created this gen alone: New IP doesn´t equal New game. Something especially Sony-fans seem to never ever get. You have, for example, Jak 2, Ratchet and Clank, and Sly the Racoon. Guess what, all of those play almost the same. Now, take the last two Mario-games. The difference is earth shattering. I can only repeat myself one more time, but: I want NEW GAMES. I don´t want old concepts with swapped setting palette.
Sony is better than Nintendo when working with smaller development studios. Their partnership with Media Molecule (LittleBigPlanet), helped create one of the best franchises in recent years for Sony. Oddly enough, Nintendo also had a shot with Media Molecule before Sony snatched them up.
How arrogant can you get? This is assuming that LBP IS a game that´s above anything else. And it´s not. Looking back at how unresponsive the controls of LBP were, it´s not surprising that Nintendo didn´t want to publish Media Mocules game. This is Nintendo, the company that had perfect 2D-platformer controls even back then in the first Mario-game for NES. As for the first sentence: It´s called money-hatting. Nintendo doesn´t do that and it´s the right way. Developers should develop for a system because they want to, not because they get the most money from another company.
So while Nintendo is stuck developing Nintendo Wii games that look the same as Nintendo Gamecube titles
Not true AND Game Cube-games look still awsome.
Leaving aside other atrocious bold statements in the above article, Nintendo is unsurpassed by anyone. There are fanboy on every system´s side, but only Sony-fans willingly hype games like Heavy Rain, that are hardly games anymore, but movies. By following the path towards movies, Sony will never surpass Nintendo, Blizzard or Valve. And Shadow of the Colossus sucks, that had to be said.
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It honestly feels far too soon to be typing the letters CES in sequence, but the show is not that far away anymore and there is some news worth sharing. Yesterday it was revealed that AMD's CEO, Dr. Lisa Su, will be the keynote speaker at CES. This has lead to rumours that during her speech she will reveal Navi, AMD's next generation GPU. This was later confirmed, so we will be seeing at least some information about AMD's 7nm GPU, with or without ray tracing, during her keynote and at the AMD booth. With NVIDIA's successful launch of some rather expensive GPUs, some of which are even available, we can hope that AMD's new GPUs give them a run for the money; in one way or another.
"The GPU outfit announced that its CEO, Dr Lisa Su, will deliver a keynote address at next year's CES and spill the beans on the new chips and GPUs. Yes, it's an announcement of an announcement."
It has not been a pretty year for AMD with overall sales of $942m representing 34.6% drop from this time last year and even the graphics portion seeing a 54.2% drop which resulted in loss of $147 million. In part this is because all PC component companies have been suffering recently; in part because of a lack of incentive to upgrade high end components and to a larger extent because the general public is not going to pick up a new machine just before the release of a new Windows version. Lisa Su did have some good news, sales of FX processors and A-series APU have been increasing and the second half of the year is historically better for sales. It was suggested to The Register that AMD is not currently planning on reducing their workforce even more at this time but the possibility of future cuts was not completely ruled out.
"AMD has confirmed it is slipping back into cost-cutting mode after its annus horribilis, caused by tanking demand for consumer PCs in a quarter described by CEO Lisa Su as the "revenue trough" for 2015."


and according to his age the life stage, he falls under would be Middle Adulthood. He is a tall person. He is about 6'0 ft tall and by the way his face looks like, he does not look like if he was forty years of age. I say this because his physical features on his face do not look like a normal forty year old. He looks like if he was in his thirties. He always has a smile on his face and is always laughing. He is not skinny nor would be considered fat either. He is average weight for his height and of course also for his age. He is bald, not completely bald either, but he has very little hair but he covers it by wearing a hat. Well as mentioned he is my father. I have known him for 18 years now. The interview took place outside my house. It was a very cold breeze afternoon, but at times the sun would come out it was a nice day.
... family." This phrase is considered as a Generativity-versus-stagnation because he is a hard worker and wants the family to admire what he does so he can be their role model and to never give up.
Overall, he showed good knowledge to the particular stage he is in. He is in the Middle Adulthood stage. His response seemed typical to the Middle Adulthood stage. Why because in the Middle adulthood stage they already have a family and an establish work they have their own house and already know what they want to keep on achieving, and striving for themselves and for their family. He showed all the qualities a forty year old man should already have done and is doing at the moment. His responses were not a surprised because all what he said is true. Since he was a child, he was already working so he can know as being a man he needs to be a hard worker and a good role model.
Thinking Is Something Everyone Does It Better Than Others?


Phishing: You Know What It Is But Will You Know When It Happens To You? - EarthLink.
Phishing: You Know What It Is But Will You Know When It Happens To You?
No doubt, by now you have heard of phishing, the fraudulent practice of using emails, DMs or texts that end up taking you to a copycat websites pretending to be from a reputable company in order to get you to reveal personal information, such as account numbers, Social Security numbers, login IDs, passwords and credit card numbers. This information is valuable to criminals who use it to steal your money or your identity or both, as well as, to get access to your computer to launch a ransomware attack that can lock you out of your computer.
Listen, it's easy to make mistakes! The scammers have gotten very, very good at imitating the familiar logos and login pages of legitimate companies. The criminals will make it seem like they need your information quickly – your account will be frozen, you won't get a tax refund, your account will go into overdrawn status or a family member will be hurt or you could be arrested. Basically, they tell lies that panic you to get to you act quickly, without thinking, and give them information that they want.
This recently happened to me. An email from Amazon showed an order that looked unfamiliar. It was a really large purchase and I was naturally concerned. Without thinking, I clicked on the order number and within moments, a poker gaming software was loaded on my computer. Clearly, this was not really an email from Amazon. Later, when I lingered my mouse over the sender email address, I was able to see that the sender address was not valid. I should have done this BEFORE I clicked on the link. This time, I was able to quickly remove the invading software and do several security scans to ensure nothing was left behind. But it was a good reminder that's it's very, very easy to be tricked – especially when distracted by the demands of life off the screen!
Older people are natural targets of scam artists. The criminals assume that they will be easily confused and will act on emotion – especially when inquiries are related to the well-being of bank accounts and billing accounts. But scams are not limited to grandparents! Our youngest digital citizens, our children and grandchildren who spend a lot of time online are being marketed to by scammers who focus on their areas of interests, like gaming. Common scams ask young people to fill out a survey to gain gaming benefits or enter into an exchange of gaming loot. It's all fake but by clicking on links and providing personal information, young people are at risk too. Their gaming accounts can be stolen, along with the parent's credit cards associated with that account.
So while you may err and sometimes click on a link that you should not have – you need to be especially careful not to enter ANY personal information in response to an inquiry, unless you have firmly validated the authenticity of the sender.
Read more here: https://www.edts.com/edts-blog/15-examples-of-phishing-emails-from-2016-2017 and see examples of phishing scams that imitate companies that look very familiar to you, like Netflix, UPS, Wells Fargo, Bank of America, PayPal, Amazon and the IRS.
Talk to your children and grandchildren about phishing and scams. Remind them of the old adage, if it sounds too good to be true, it is!


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""" Defines the class _QuantTreeNode_, used to represent decision trees with automatic
 quantization bounds

  _QuantTreeNode_ is derived from _DecTree.DecTreeNode_

"""
from rdkit.ML.DecTree import DecTree, Tree
from rdkit.six import cmp

class QuantTreeNode(DecTree.DecTreeNode):
  """

  """

  def __init__(self, *args, **kwargs):
    DecTree.DecTreeNode.__init__(self, *args, **kwargs)
    self.qBounds = []
    self.nBounds = 0

  def ClassifyExample(self, example, appendExamples=0):
    """ Recursively classify an example by running it through the tree

      **Arguments**

        - example: the example to be classified

        - appendExamples: if this is nonzero then this node (and all children)
          will store the example

      **Returns**

        the classification of _example_

      **NOTE:**
        In the interest of speed, I don't use accessor functions
        here.  So if you subclass DecTreeNode for your own trees, you'll
        have to either include ClassifyExample or avoid changing the names
        of the instance variables this needs.

    """
    if appendExamples:
      self.examples.append(example)
    if self.terminalNode:
      return self.label
    else:
      val = example[self.label]
      if not hasattr(self, 'nBounds'):
        self.nBounds = len(self.qBounds)
      if self.nBounds:
        for i, bound in enumerate(self.qBounds):
          if val < bound:
            val = i
            break
        else:
          val = i + 1
      else:
        val = int(val)
      return self.children[val].ClassifyExample(example, appendExamples=appendExamples)

  def SetQuantBounds(self, qBounds):
    self.qBounds = qBounds[:]
    self.nBounds = len(self.qBounds)

  def GetQuantBounds(self):
    return self.qBounds

  def __cmp__(self, other):
    return (self < other) * -1 or (other < self) * 1

  def __lt__(self, other):
    if str(type(self)) < str(type(other)):
      return True
    if self.qBounds < other.qBounds:
      return True
    if Tree.TreeNode.__lt__(self, other):
      return True
    return False

  def __eq__(self, other):
    return not self < other and not other < self

  def __str__(self):
    """ returns a string representation of the tree

      **Note**

        this works recursively

    """
    here = '%s%s %s\n' % ('  ' * self.level, self.name, str(self.qBounds))
    for child in self.children:
      here = here + str(child)
    return here

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I missed it. Its got the players shook up though.
ABATTBQ87
line drive into the crowd and it seems to have hit a kid
Almora ripped a foul right over the cubs dugout. Everyone started pointing and gesturing for help immediately.
Time to take the netting down the lines like they do in Boston?
God, please let that child be OK.
EastCoastAgNc
CFTXAG10
Twitter (which I don't do but Mathguy Jr does) is reporting it hit a young girl and a parent ran her up the aisle.
T&P
Diyala Nick
Joined: Mar 1, 2005
Edit: what I should have said was prayers for that kid.
Zero reason for that. Get some netting.
I will say, however, that kids should not sit down the lines. Just too much risk.
Thought that was out. Dang
Schwarber has had a nightmare series in LF.
Harry Dunne
In reply to willjohnathan • 8:08p, 5/29/19
willjohnathan said:
If Ausmus had a decent oWAR, then that stat does not deduct as much from grounding into a double play as I do in my head.
Now that is funny.
Obviously it does not, due to Ausmus and also due to the fact that Yuli would have had a -1M oWar last year.
agdaddy04
Man that's one reason I wouldn't sit down the line with kids. I've seen plenty of adults not pay attention. Man that would be terrible.
Bonfired
Jesus...horrible.
Big Al 1992
That was sickening. Prayers the little one is ok.
BurnHard Longer
Please let that child be okay, what a nightmare. Ball had to be moving 110 off the bat
Dis they actually show the fan getting hit? I thought they avoided that kind d of thing
In reply to third coast.. • 8:11p, 5/29/19
third coast.. said:
Ugh. Please no 4 letter acronym here
In reply to titanmaster_race • 8:12p, 5/29/19
They didnt show it. The fans immediately started calling for help
Please get a base hit here
There was no replay and I'm afraid to back it up.
No they didn't show it but I don't think I've ever seen a reaction like that from a batter. Then they showed Bregman..
Players reaction said it all.
We might need to start pinch running for Bregman and Brantley whenever they reach base. Can't be too careful these days.
Yea I was video chatting with my daughter and wife and didnt know what was going on. So terrible.
The reaction of the fans in the crowd was instant as well
In reply to Junkhead • 8:14p, 5/29/19
Wow, that's so sad
You could have bowled the next pitch up and Almora would have swung. He was clearly distraught and wanted to go to the duggout.
In reply to agdaddy04 • 8:15p, 5/29/19
agdaddy04 said:
Yeah, he was really shaken up. The next pitch wasn't close and he swung at it almost like "I just want to go sit and collect myself."
Hopefully she was just knocked out and not something more serious. I know that sounds terrible but you know what I mean.
gambochaman
If you bring a kid to that part of the ball park, you have to be paying full atention 100% of the time
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SBI Round 1 pt 2: Scott vs Friedkin
May 29, 2015 ShaunnArticles , Uncategorized
If you haven't read the first part of this article, you should. It's right here.
I've sufficiently recovered from Kevin Smith braining John Carpenter last week, that I can bring you the second opening round match-up.
Get it? Pucky Charms? 'Cause hock- you know what? I'm still not totally over it.
Later in the series, I hope to share a projection done by author and scientist Ryan Norris of how bad we can expect Kevin Smith to end up (it's astounding, really,) should he continue on this trajectory. Unfortunately, this isn't a speculative tournament, and we just have to come to grips with him beating JC.
I'm sorry.
A quick refresher on the scoring and guidelines:
The scoring is as follows: each feature's Rotten Tomatoes (RT) score is added to its Flixster/RT Community (FLX) score. The two are then averaged to create the cumulative score.
(ex: Clerks: RT-88 FLX-89/2=88.5 cume)
I used the RT scores because it's already an aggregate of the majority of available critics' reviews for a movie. The way they arrive at fresh or rotten can be kinda stupid, but at least there's a statistically significant amount of reviews per movie. Usually. I chose the Flixster reviews rather than the IMDb ratings because they tend to be less obviously insane. The IMDb reviews are a special kind of wacky.
The cumulative scores of the first half of the director's career are all added together, then divided by the number of movies in the first half.
The cumulative scores of the second half are also added together, but, because I think output is a tremendously underrated factor in how an artist is judged; the director receives two extra points per film after their tenth movie to add to the second half score, before it's divided by the number of films.
(ex: Director A made twenty movies. For this example, let's say that each film scored a ten. So: the first half would be 10×10 = 100/10 which would be a first half score of 10. The second half scoring would be (10×10) + 20 = 120/10, for a second half score of 12.)
We then find the percentage change between the first half and the second, to arrive at the SBI (sick boy index) number. The greater value wins, so -2 beats -4, 6 beats 2, etc.
The Brackets as they Stand
The Combatants
William Friedkin: Born in August, 1935. Academy Award winner for Best Director and Best Picture, both for The French Connection, 1971. Nominated for Best Director for The Exorcist, 1973 . Most recent feature: Killer Joe , 2011. You may not have seen, but totally should: Sorcerer, 1977 (contains no Sorcery.)
Ridley Scott: Born in November, 1937. Academy Award Winner for Best Picture, Gladiator, 2000. Nominated for Best Director for Thelma and Louise, 1991; Gladiator, 2000; and Black Hawk Down, 2001. Directed Alien, 1979; and Blade Runner, 1982. You know who the fuck Ridley Scott is. Most recent feature: Exodus: Gods and Kings, You may not have seen, but totally should: Matchstick Men, 2003 (Contains Sam Rockwell.)
Scoring Notes:
Scott- The review scores for both Alien and Blade Runner are for the theatrical cuts. Director's, Final, Ultimate, Mega, Tremendous, and Apple Cinnamon cuts are disqualified.
Friedkin- Good Times, The Night they Raided Minsky's, and The Brink's Job have all been omitted from his SBI number, due to lack of sufficient review data.
Ready? Let's do it.
Ridley Scott 1977-2014
The Duelists 87
Alien 95.5
Blade Runner 91
Legend 62
Someone to Watch Over Me 59.5
Black Rain 53.5
Thelma and Louise 82.5
1492: Conquest of Paradise 45
White Squall 63.5
G.I. Jane 54
Gladiator 81.5
First Half Score: 775/11= 70.5
Hannibal 51
Black Hawk Down 82
Matchstick Men 78
Kingdom of Heaven 55.5
A Good Year 45
American Gangster 83.5
Body of Lies 58
Robin Hood 50.5
Prometheus 71
The Counselor 28.5
Exodus: Gods and Kings 32
Second Half Score (635+22)/11= 59.7
Ridley Scott's SBI: -15.3% Scott comes in with the best SBI of the three directors so far. He also has the lowest first half total of the three, and has a lower second half than Smith. The Counselor has the lowest cumulative score of any movie so far, beating Cop Out and The Ward.
Biggest Surprise: Just the totality of the data. Seriously, go back and compare it to Carpenter and Smith. It's unbelievable how all over the shop Scott's career is.
Bonus Big Surprise: That many people liked Prometheus? The photography looks nice, and Fassbender's great; but that movie's a pile of shit. For reals.
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The Boys in the Band 91
The French Connection 92.5
The Exorcist 87
Sorcerer 81.5
Cruising 49.5
Deal of the Century 14.5
To Live and Die in L.A. 85.5
First Half Score: 552.5/8= 69.0
The Guardian 22.5
Blue Chips 44.5
Jade 21
Twelve Angry Men 94
Rules of Engagement 45.5
The Hunted 38
Bug 47.5
Killer Joe 69.5
Second Half Score (382.5+12)/8= 49.3
William Friedkin's SBI: -28.6% Friedkin has the second worst SBI so far, and the worst first half score. A first half, don't forget. that has The French Connection and The Goddamned Exorcist. But, it also has Deal of the Century, which takes the crown for worst reviewed movie so far.
Biggest Surprise: Just how rough his second half is. If you take Twelve Angry Men away, (which we could, since it's technically a TV movie) he's looking at a second half score of 42.9 with an SBI of -37.8.
The Verdict: Scott doubles up Friedkin and cruises to the next round. Despite both of these directors making some the greatest films of all time, their massive inconsistency pulls them both down. In comparison; neither Smith nor Carpenter has a first half movie with a score of less than 64, while Scott has five in his first half and Friedkin has two.
Scott moves on, but there are no winners here.
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Lone Star Analysis, a Dallas-based specialist in leading-edge predictive and prescriptive analytics solutions, today announced its partnership with Wipro Limited, a leading global information technology, consulting and business process services company.
Lone Star provides data analysis software and services which enables users to make quicker and more effective decisions based on accessible data. This partnership allows Lone Star's analytics services to enhance Wipro's larger integrated industrial internet of things (IIoT) platform by predicting future outcomes in real-time and turning that knowledge into action. The insights can be applied across virtually any industry and can be easily enabled anywhere, including the "edge," for efficient and accurate predictive and prescriptive recommendations. Lone Star's solutions enable true cause and effect understanding of the input data and are customised to suit individual needs.
The relationship was driven forward because of the complementary nature of the companies. Lone Star is laser focused on delivering transparent intelligence solutions anywhere in the network while Wipro is committed to delivering end-to-end platforms and engineering support for the partnership.
Wipro is a supplier of multiple end-to-end integrated platforms and is looking for the best possible solutions within their systems. Lone Star's products are a natural fit as they provide a reliable way to crunch data and supply users with easy-to-understand insights that tangibly affect business results and deliver dependable and quick return on investment. Wipro is currently integrating AnalyticsOS into its IIoT architecture in preparation for broader utilisation. Both the companies are also building solutions that will expand over time, owing to customer demand, to address key industrial challenges.


WATKINS GLEN, NY – Platinum selling recording artist and American Idol winner David Cook will perform the National Anthem and give the command to start engines for the NASCAR Nationwide Series Zippo 200 at Watkins Glen International, Saturday, August 11.
Cook rose to fame after winning the seventh season of American Idol in 2008. Since then, Cook has sold over one million records, tallied two platinum singles and produced two top-20 hits. Cook's first single, "Light On," sold over one hundred thousand digital downloads in its first week, topping out at 17th on the Billboard Top 100 chart.
As Grand Marshal for the NASCAR Nationwide Series Zippo 200, Cook will deliver the most famous words in motorsports – the traditional call for drivers to start their engines. Additionally, Cook will perform the American National Anthem during the pre-race ceremony.
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Final solar wing deployment test for Sentinel-2A
by European Space Agency
Combining high-resolution and novel multispectral capabilities, a swath width of 290 km and frequent revisit times, the new Sentinel-2 mission offers views of Earth's changing lands in unprecedented detail. Credit: ESA/ATG medialab
Once in space, Sentinel-2A will open its solar wing to generate the power it needs to carry out the task of monitoring Earth's vegetation. Engineers have recently made sure this move is well rehearsed before the satellite is packed up and shipped to the launch site.
This final deployment test marks the end of a six-month programme at IABG in Germany to make sure the satellite can withstand the shocks and vibrations during liftoff and that it is fit for a long working life in the harsh environment of space.
Offering 'colour vision' for the European Commission's environmental monitoring Copernicus programme, Sentinel-2A combines high-resolution and novel multispectral capabilities – a first for ESA.
With a 290 km-wide coverage path and frequent revisits, Sentinel-2 will deliver views of Earth's vegetation and changing lands in unprecedented detail and accuracy.
The mission will provide information for numerous applications such as for agricultural practices and to help manage food security. Its data will be used to determine various plant indices such as leaf area index and chlorophyll content, which are important help predict crop yield.
As well as monitoring plant growth, Sentinel-2 can be used to map changes in land cover and to monitor the world's forests. It will also provide information on pollution in lakes and coastal waters. Images of floods, volcanic eruptions and landslides contribute to disaster mapping and help humanitarian relief efforts.
This time-lapse video shows engineers at IABG in Germany testing the deployment of Sentinel-2A's solar wing. This is one of the last tests before the satellite is packed up and shipped to Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana for launch, planned for June 2015. Offering 'colour vision' for Europe's environmental monitoring Copernicus programme, the Sentinel-2 mission combines high-resolution and novel multispectral capabilities – a first for ESA. With a 290 km-wide coverage path and frequent revisits, Sentinel-2 will deliver views of Earth's changing lands in unprecedented detail and accuracy. Information from this latest mission will help to improve agricultural practices, monitor the world's forest, detect pollution in lakes and coastal waters, contribute to disaster mapping and much more. Credit: ESA
All this requires cutting-edge satellite technology.
ESA's Sentinel-2A System, Engineering and Operations Manager, Omar Sy, said, "Over six years in the making, Sentinel-2A carries the most advanced satellite imager of its kind.
"Now that all the components that make up this 1140 kg satellite have been fully verified, we can look forward to the very last steps towards launch."
The sequence to test the deployment of the solar wing test, which took just less than a minute, involved commands by the onboard software – precisely as will happen in space.
However, since the effects of gravity in the cleanroom are somewhat different to space, a rig was set up and carefully aligned to support the wing, which when fully deployed measures over four metres.
The final solar wing deployment test marks the end of a six-month programme at IABG in Germany to make sure the satellite can withstand the shocks and vibrations during liftoff and that it is fit for a long working life in the harsh environment of space. The next step is to pack up the satellite in its container and ship it to Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana for launch, which is scheduled for 12 June 2015. Credit: ESA/M. Pedoussaut
As another step on the road to launch, the team at ESA's European Space Operations Centre in Germany are getting ready to operate Sentinel-2A in orbit and completing final tests on the ground segment.
This latest Copernicus satellite is now being carefully packed away in a special container that will keep it safe during its journey to the launch site in French Guiana. The satellite will have one final test, a 'leak test', in the container to ensure the propulsion system is tight.
Bound for Europe's Spaceport in French Guiana, Sentinel-2A will leave Munich aboard an Antonov cargo plane on 20 April.
Once unloaded and unpacked, it will spend the following weeks being prepared for liftoff on a Vega rocket on 11 June at 22:52 (local time), 12 June at 03:52 (CEST).
Sentinel-2A arrives in French Guiana for 12 June launch
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Henry Ford sets a new speed record for automobiles with an impressive 91.37 mph.
Cy Young throws the first perfect game.
A big year for St. Louis, which includes both the World's Fair and the Olympics.
The debut of the ice cream cone.
Theodore Roosevelt is elected President.
The Great Baltimore fire destroys more than 1500 buildings covering 140 acres of land.
Roosevelt sends the Marines to Tangiers.
Pope Pius X bans low-cut dresses in the presence of churchmen.
Japan and Russia declare war.
A massive fire in Toronto destroys over 100 buildings.
The first underground subway opens in Manhattan.
The Boston Herald refers to the NY Highlanders as the "Yankees" for the first time. This will become their name in 1913.
The tragic fire aboard the General Slocum Steamship in the East River claims over one thousand lives.
Longacre Square is renamed Times Square and the first New Year's Eve celebration takes place.
A woman is arrested on Fifth Avenue for smoking a cigarette in a car.
As I read about each of these events, my next novel of historical fiction began to emerge. Minetta Lane takes you back to this special year—look or it in January 2018!


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Adam Bamford knows that a picture is worth far more than a thousand words. A visual storyteller, he transforms complex concepts into engaging images that make what was previously incomprehensible seem suddenly clear. It's a skill that makes him exceedingly effective as he serves as a strategist and tactician who drives results.
Adam cut his teeth on project delivery as co-owner and manager of a residential land development company in Arizona, which was followed by a leap to Portland in roles delivering work at major footwear/apparel, architectural design, and internet services companies. A director and a key member of the Propeller leadership team, Adam has an MBA from Thunderbird School of Global Management and a bachelor's degree in classical guitar performance from Wheaton College – a degree he earned just five years after picking up the guitar for the first time. A father of three, Adam is committed to fitting music-making into the margins of his busy life.


In 1999, the Floyd County Alumni Chapter established The Purpose Road Scholarship, which is awarded to an incoming Alice Lloyd College freshman from Floyd County on an annual basis. The purpose of this scholarship is to assist the recipient with educational expenses not covered by financial aid during his/her first year of college.
In 2006, The Purpose Road Scholarship was renamed to honor the memory of Sarah Music Laven, a beloved teacher and founding member of the Floyd County Alumni Chapter, who was instrumental in establishing this scholarship.
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The management of Ibadan Electricity Distribution Company (IBEDC) has denied responsibility for the poor power supply to areas within its coverage area.
Mrs Angela Olanrewaju, Head, IBEDC Media Communications, said power transmitted is the quantum of energy allocated to it by the TCN. A case of not being able to give what you don't have.
Adding to this, the deputy Managing Director, Mr John Ayodele, said it was unfair for the TCN, the middleman in the value chain, to blame the man at the end of the chain. Especially as it, the TCN, has not been distributing power to where it is needed and when.
"We will continue to improve and upgrade our infrastructure for power supply delivery to all our esteemed customers in the face of all the obstacles in the sector," Ayodele said.


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Home News Government Town to Acquire Land Where Remains Were Discovered in Shinnecock Hills
Town to Acquire Land Where Remains Were Discovered in Shinnecock Hills
The area of Southampton Town where skeletal remains were found on Monday, August 13, on a wooded lot. Image via Google Maps
The Town of Southampton announced Tuesday night it has agreed to purchase the property on Hawthorne Road where remains were found on what is believed to be an ancient burial ground for the Shinnecock Nation. The owners of the property, KB Southampton LLC, have agreed to sell the property to the town for $450,000.
A public hearing on the purchase, which the town hopes to complete through its Community Preservation Fund, will be held October 9 at 1 p.m. at Southampton Town Hall.
"I want to thank the owners of the property and the contractor for doing the right thing and stopping work upon discovery," Supervisor Jay Schneiderman said at the town board meeting on Tuesday.
The remains were found during excavation of the construction site on August 13 and the property owners immediately stopped work. The remains are being examined by the Suffolk County Medical Examiner's office and could take some time before it is determined whether they are from the Shinnecock Nation. An archeological study may also be required of the property to determine whether there are other remains at that location.
The findings may also prompt formal procedures when ancient remains are found at construction sites in the future, according to town officials.
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Clean Kills and Other Trophies' is written in the vein of classics such as 'The Fugitive' and 'Michael Clayton.' The story centers on Ellison Beck, who while young, did time for embezzlement. Once the conviction was overturned and he was cleared, he became an attorney known for his unassailable ethics.
When a mysterious man breaks into his office, embezzles all of his firm's assets and then murders his firm's Partner, the cops think that Ellison's their man. Arrested again, he finds himself in the same scenario, only this time with rejected clients and crooked jail guards who want him dead. However, on his way to an Arraignment, a freak multi-car accident gives Ellison the opportunity to escape and launch his own investigation to clear his name.
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I am a Sr. Java Developer here at Brace. My responsibilities include supporting, optimizing, and implementing new features for our server-side applications. These applications interact with the front-end and have a direct impact on our users' experience.
Tell me about your career before joining Brace and how you ended up here.
Before joining Brace, I worked as a consultant for a while in Fintech. I came to Brace looking for a change from the consulting world. As a consultant, I found myself less invested in the products I was building. Oftentimes, the opportunity to innovate just wasn't there. I was sold on the idea that Brace had a greater focus on product-driven development and that my role would be contributing to the success of a great product and user experience.
What is an exciting project you have been working on recently? What is your proudest professional accomplishment at Brace?
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Eloghosa Osunde is a profound writer and photographer whose work documents and explores grief, trauma, loss and love in human relationships.
Osunde's most striking work is definitely her 2016 photo series, Obalende: The King Pursued Us Here – a six-part series that focuses on internal displacement using digitally manipulated photographs.
Osunde isn't just a gifted photographer, she is also an exceptional writer. In 2015, she took part in one of the most sought-after literary workshops in Africa: The Farafina Trust Creative Writing Workshop.
Following the workshop, her selection of vignettes, Shapes, was selected and edited by none other than Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie.
"Eloghosa Osunde writes beautifully. She is brave and unafraid to embrace sentiment. I loved the delicate sensibility of her work, her honest and subtle poetry of protest."
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import java.util.Map;
import java.util.Set;
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import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.TableName;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.classification.InterfaceAudience;
import org.apache.hadoop.hbase.util.Bytes;

/**
 * A configuration for the replication peer cluster.
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public class ReplicationPeerConfig {

  private String clusterKey;
  private String replicationEndpointImpl;
  private final Map<byte[], byte[]> peerData;
  private final Map<String, String> configuration;
  private Map<TableName, ? extends Collection<String>> tableCFsMap = null;
  private Set<String> namespaces = null;
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  public String getClusterKey() {
    return clusterKey;
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  public String getReplicationEndpointImpl() {
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  public Map<byte[], byte[]> getPeerData() {
    return peerData;
  }

  public Map<String, String> getConfiguration() {
    return configuration;
  }

  public Map<TableName, List<String>> getTableCFsMap() {
    return (Map<TableName, List<String>>) tableCFsMap;
  }

  public ReplicationPeerConfig setTableCFsMap(Map<TableName,
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    this.tableCFsMap = tableCFsMap;
    return this;
  }

  public Set<String> getNamespaces() {
    return this.namespaces;
  }

  public ReplicationPeerConfig setNamespaces(Set<String> namespaces) {
    this.namespaces = namespaces;
    return this;
  }

  public long getBandwidth() {
    return this.bandwidth;
  }

  public ReplicationPeerConfig setBandwidth(long bandwidth) {
    this.bandwidth = bandwidth;
    return this;
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    StringBuilder builder = new StringBuilder("clusterKey=").append(clusterKey).append(",");
    builder.append("replicationEndpointImpl=").append(replicationEndpointImpl).append(",");
    if (namespaces != null) {
      builder.append("namespaces=").append(namespaces.toString()).append(",");
    }
    if (tableCFsMap != null) {
      builder.append("tableCFs=").append(tableCFsMap.toString()).append(",");
    }
    builder.append("bandwidth=").append(bandwidth);
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I Am a Haunted House: Guest post by Sarah Chavez
No live organism can continue for long to exist sanely under conditions of absolute reality.
― Shirley Jackson, The Haunting of Hill House
For centuries women's identities have been intricately tied to The House, and the act of homemaking – managing and creating the world within and around the home itself. Our spirits anchored to these structures of domesticity, like ghosts for all eternity.
Francesca Woodman, Providence, Rhode Island from Space2, 1976
The House serves as a symbolic and literal space of confinement, of societal expectations, like a tightly laced corset, molding us into unnatural shapes, restricting our breath, until all we want to do is scream. But, we can't because that would be...unladylike.
We are all haunted houses, carrying the weight of ideals, and expectations, coupled with the past, present, and future.
I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.
Horror, particularly the books and stories of Shirley Jackson, validated my experience of the world and of others. The monsters are next door, they are sleeping next to us, and sometimes...they are inside us.
The monsters are here.
Through Jackson's writing and the genre of horror in film and literature, I learned who I could be, outside of The House. Horror stories were the only acceptable space where women could scream, roar, rage, and resist.
Stories of werewolves were all that addressed the confusing experience of puberty with its hair growth, painful shape-shifting, and growing into something altogether...monstrous, yet powerful. Like Merricat Blackwood in Jackson's We Have Always Lived in the Castle, I too thought that I could have been born a werewolf.
I met Merricat when I was nine, when I came across a book cover in the library that featured a young girl with long, dark hair like mine. She was looking out of a broken window with a black cat at her side. I also had a black cat named Cornelius at the time.
Prior to this I had been fortunate enough to live those short nine years in the same place with a loving, attentive family. I found myself plucked from this life and everything I knew, without warning, to live among violent, abusive strangers. Desperate to have some control over my existence and some small bit of hope to keep me going through the days, I developed OCD. Like Jackson's Merricat, I wove magic and spells made of numbers and daily rituals to protect myself. In Merricat, I met someone as odd as myself, just when I needed it most. I no longer felt quite as helpless or alone.
It was then that I learned the world is full of people and adults who would rather look away or play the voyeur when monstrous things occur.
Like the girl in almost every horror film, who vehemently insists that something is not right. In fact, something is very wrong, (Don't you see? Didn't you hear?). My experiences, and those of countless other women, are too often disbelieved, dismissed, and disregarded, sometimes until it is too late.
That is, unless you can manage to save yourself, because no one is coming to save you. Because of horror, I not only realized this, but saved myself, becoming my own Final Girl. The Final Girl trope (and much of horror), is not without its problems - still told primarily through the male gaze, the good, beautiful and virtuous survive – but, it provided me with the tools I needed to escape. To survive. To live.
To act is to engage in the reality of horror - to look away, you can forget it ever happened. You can reason it away.
Horror forces a mirror up to us and makes us confront things in ourselves and in our society that make us deeply uncomfortable and vulnerable. Those of us that enjoy the genre are often made to feel ashamed, or even less intelligent than our peers. To indulge openly in "taboo" subjects like sex, violence, death, and fear, is deviant. Horror reaches for ways to confront and discuss the things we refuse to - gun violence, rage, racism, police violence, grief and loss, or gender violence.
Our relationship with horror is much like play for the young child, whose work is often playing house. Through playing "house" young children come to understand how to navigate the world and their place within it. For us, horror can do the same. How can we face our fears? How do we escape? What choices do we have? How do we learn to truly live?
Horror has been my advisor, therapist, and healer – things I was never going to get from the mainstream offerings I was expected to enjoy like rom coms and The Babysitter's Club.
To learn what we fear is to learn who we are. Horror defies our boundaries and illuminates our souls.
― Guillermo del Toro, Haunted Castles, Dark Mirrors
Today, horror and the benefits it offers us are more relevant and needed than ever. For now though, The House will continue to breed restless spirits who give birth to angry, sometimes vengeful ghosts.
Some of us may struggle to break free, to move on, but The House does not let us. So we cry, and moan, and the walls creak with our rage. Haunting. Haunted.
Shirley Jackson's rendering of the exterior of Hill House, from the Collections of the Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, via writershouses.com.
Sarah Chavez is the executive director of The Order of the Good Death, co-host of the new podcast Death in the Afternoon, and co-founder of Death & the Maiden. In addition to working as a museum curator she writes and speaks about a variety of subjects including the relationship between food and death, Mexican-American death history, and decolonizing death rituals. You can follow her on Twitter.


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Thank you, Tyrathia! And my family will surely thank you tonight! Hell, I may force random strangers on the road to eat some. Woooooooooo, sugar rush!
Man, if this isn't the funnest time of the year, I don't know what is.
I'll post more when I'm coherent, which may be August.
Well, a few little typos and bugs aside, the opening of Winthoren Manor went well. Thus endeth Team Wedding's HWN releases! I'm glad we have a place for our more goth-y couples to get hitched now. Team Wedding has had some amazingly talented people come through our doors, and this just proves it. I'm lucky to know these people.


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Your optometry practice can figure out areas for improvement, develop campaigns to rise above competitors, and figure out its overall value to patients with the help of tools like a SWOT analysis.
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Starting off with the positive, what does your practice do well? If you ever ask patients to fill out a satisfaction survey, you could pull their answers into this section. Maybe you've been complimented on your excellent customer service, competitive pricing, and ideal location. Your strengths could lie in your updated technology and medical equipment, experienced staff members, or connections and referrals with other eyecare professionals.
Whatever your combination of strengths, you're forming the story of your practice by focusing on what makes patients choose your practice over others.
Although it can be hard to hear, it's usually a good idea to ask everyone in your staff what they think are your practice's current weaknesses. You want to cover any blind spots when it comes to making improvements. Practices could suffer from outdated equipment, inefficient workflows, a lack of communication with patients, or stagnant dispensary sales. Make sure to categorize your weaknesses based on priority, frequency, and area of business so that they're easier to tackle.
Think about a realistic future you see for your practice. Maybe you have the opportunity to move to a bigger, more central location? Maybe your practice could expand its clientele by offering a new range of frames or bringing on a new OD. The possibilities are endless, but this section should only include avenues that are possible within the near future at your current profit margins and growth rate. Most of the time, updating your practice management technology can make opportunities a reality for your eyecare practice. It might be helpful to your entire staff to list the materials and budget needed to meet these opportunities.
Usually, threats involve other nearby eyecare practices, online retailers, and other competitors. However, threats could also be specific to your location, such as hurricanes if you're on a floodplain, increasing rent prices, and changing patient bases. You'll have to anticipate more than just traditional, local threats in order to prepare your practice for the worst and hope for the best.
We hope we've got you thinking about the future of eyecare and your practice. Be sure to share your SWOT analyses with your team so you are all on the same page about where your practice stands and where it can go.
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Wisconsin-based artist Richard Taylor is a sculptor, and also a painter. He describes his work as a distillation of life experiences, often seen through the influences of music and poetry with the cadences, rhythms, and syncopations resonating within and informing the spirits of his pieces.
Much of Taylor's work happens in series, allowing him to pursue various ideas from multiple angles as he creates a group of work that explores several variations on a single theme. His three-dimensional forms built in steel or aluminum act as canvases for a variety of paint applications, either in large sections of bold, solid colors, or in layer after layer of different colors carefully applied and sometimes stripped away to either conceal or reveal what is underneath.
My work is a distillation of life experiences, often seen through the influences of music and poetry. I allow the cadences, rhythms, and syncopations of the musical and the poetic to resonate within and inform the spirits of my pieces.
Certain works are between painting and sculpture. The painted wall sculptures and painted standing sculptures fall into this category. Time plays a very essential part in these works as they are not so much about the details of the past as they are about the essence of remaining memories.
The painted wall sculptures address remnants of my emotions connected with specific places in the past: The memory of sitting in a station wagon back seat as a child, witnessing the light falling on a clapboard building in the south; the heat of the desert air as I passed through it to buy bread at a desert bakery.
Painted standing sculptures recall those people in my life who have shaped my character and sculpted my being through their actions, examples, and spirits. They are my sentinels; my guideposts in my walk through life.


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Chengiopanax sciadophylloides is a flowering tree in the family Araliaceae native to Japan. Previously included in the genus Eleutherococcus, it is distinguished from other members of that genus by not having spines or prickles and ITS sequence data confirmed the separation.
Chengiopanax sciadophylloides has been found to be a specific hyperaccumulator of manganese even in soils not contaminated with excessive amounts of manganese. In wild plants concentrations of up to 23 grams of manganese per kilogram of dried leaf have been analyzed. After the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster in March 2011 it was found that Chengiopanax sciadophylloides accumulated the radioactive isotope 137Cs to concentrations above the human consumption guideline of 100 becquerels per kilogram of fresh weight even as far away as Nagano and Iwate Prefectures. Analysis of leaves taken from Chengiopanax sciadophylloides in August and October 2013 from a forest 37 kilometres northwest of the Fukushima Dai-ichi Nuclear Power Plant found a mean concentration of 28,100 becquerels per kilogram of dry weight, over 3 times those of other trees. They also accumulated the non-radioactive 133Cs more than other trees.
Known as koshiabura (コシアブラ), gonzetsu and gonzetsunoki in Japanese cuisine, it is foraged in the wild in Spring for the young leaves as sansai ("mountain vegetables"). Called the "queen of sansai". Often used in tempura but popular in a range of dishes. The highest grade of buds is as small as a calligraphy brush and so named fude ha ("leaf of brush").
A decoction of the roots is used to treat stomach ailments. A tea of the root bark was used to treat rheumatism in Niigata Prefecture and a tea from the leaves as an energising tonic.
A lacquer-like coating material called kinshitsu (金漆) used to be made from the sap. The polyacetylenes in the plant sap were polymerised by sunlight to produce the hard resin varnish. Two other members of the Araliaceae, Dendropanax trifidus and Gamblea innovans, may also have been sources for this lacquer in Japan. The lacquer was used to prevent corrosion of suits of armour and helmets, with related species providing a similar lacquer used in China during the T'ang dynasty and in Korea.
The wood is used for general construction and for chopsticks. The wood is regarded as auspicious and is valued in the Sasano-Bori doll carving tradition in Yonezawa (along with the wood of the Pagoda Tree) for its strength and flexibility.
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For 21 years, Joyce Ivins got paid to spend time with Christina McFarren.
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"Chris still calls me everyday," said Ivins, 76. "We've even gone out to eat a couple of times. She's quite a gal."
Health problems limit Ivins' mobility, so she doesn't get out much. McFarren's phone calls brighten her day.
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Some claim that Donald Trump is completely unprepared for the rigours of the US presidency, but that's way off the mark. However maverick his politics, Trump nailed at least one vital presidential skill over a quarter of a century ago — how to do a really world-class motorcade. I know this because I was in it.
One scorching hot day in April 1990, I stepped out of a private jet with him on to the baking tarmac inIndianapolis and joined the future billionaire presidential hopeful in a fleet of vehicles that began speeding along the highway, flanked by cop cars.
Everything was awesome. The suburbs tracked by, the sirens wailed, the lights flashed. It felt great to be this important.
There was one niggling concern: where was the procession actually going ? This was before Google Maps, obviously. It was before proper mobiles. The motorcade had to grind to a halt on a hot street corner while one of the party rummaged around in a scruffy plastic bag, searched through scraps of paper for a scribbled number, and then headed to a pay phone. Two women wandered over.
'Who's in the limo ?' they asked.
I was working for an American weekly at the time, having recently graduated from Columbia Journalism School, and I had somehow stumbled into a much bigger story than a cub reporter like me deserved. I was determined not to miss any opportunity for reflected glory.
'Donald Trump,' I announced with a carefully calibrated mix of pride and nonchalance.
They both smiled sarcastically, then walked away.
My fleeting immersion in the hyperreal, adrenalised Trump bubble had begun a week earlier at the Taj Mahal. Not, of course, the smallish Taj in Agra visited by Princess Diana. No, I'm talking about the brand-new 'Eighth Wonder of the World', a 1,250-room hotel casino in Atlantic City, New Jersey which Donald Trump was unveiling for the first time to the world's media.
The Taj signalled a major, bond-backed expansion of Trump's property empire, which already included his 'tower' on Fifth Avenue (he had a triplex at the top), various other Manhattan buildings, and two othercasinos on the windswept Atlantic City boardwalk. Building successfully on the East Coast had meant navigating city bureaucracies and construction unions and high-powered debt funding. This was a high water mark in Trump's legend-building, confirmation of his status as New York's premier property tycoon.
The Taj Mahal had extraordinary interiors, featuring nine two-ton stone elephants and (it was claimed) $14 million worth of Austrian chandeliers. The doormen wore purple robes with feathered turbans, and there were belly dancers at work in the lobby. A prestigious opening was in store. I was given a tour of the finest suite; it was Aladdin meets Donatella Versace's underwear drawer. Launching all this required not just fanfare and news cameras, but also bona fide royalty.
Enter the King of Pop.
Michael Jackson in 1990 was at the very pinnacle of his fame. This was before his story turned sour. Whether he was paid to come or turned up for free, I didn't discover, but his unannounced appearance caused a whirling sandstorm at the Taj Mahal. If Queen Cleopatra herself had risen from the dead and checked in using a solid gold Amex card there could have been no more excitement in reception than that which greeted Jacko's arrival.
Only one man could control the situation: stepforward The Donald.
Taking Michael by the arm, Trump steered him through the pandemonium on the ground floor. A comprehensive tour took in reception, a crowded escalator (I've no idea where it went), the football-field-sizedgaming floor and the 24-hour slots. The TV news guys rolled along euphorically to document the chaos, not quite believing their luck. At one point, if memory serves, we took refuge in a Chinese restaurant.
Trump staged an extravagant launch presentation which foreshadowed the circus-like atmosphere of his 2016 presidential rallies. He knew where to put the spotlight. He didn't need a PR team — if I met one that day, I don't remember it. He was a one-man PR team.
Michael Jackson retired to his suite. I later heard a rumour that he'd been spotted disguised as an old woman, playing the slots with a plastic bucket full of quarters. Meanwhile, Trump got on energetically with the marketing — an Olympics of superlatives with only one contestant. Biggest, greatest, most expensive, finest, pure class, high-rollers, helicopters and gold. And that was just his hair.
On the second day, Trump invited me to an 'exclusive' bondholders' party at 'Trump's Castle' — a less glitzy casino a block or two away. Trump conducted the meeting of these investors like a maestro. His bombastic symphony of success was already fully composed — to be performed later on ever-bigger stages, beginning with The Apprentice and culminating in the 2016 Republican convention. As the party got under way, I circulated as a de facto Princess Diana expert, which was the main function of all English people in suburban America at that time. At least I had some role in the drama.
The next morning in my room at the Taj, my hotel phone rang.
If an important part of the president's job is soaking up attention, of being the focus point in America's moronic inferno (as Martin Amis put it), then Trump's had plenty of practice.
We were travelling on a private jet — a prototypical Hair Force One, though to be fair it wasn't Trump's — and I was seated across from the two headliners at a table for four. A nervous flier, I wondered whether being on a jet with Donald Trump and Michael Jackson made a crash more or less statistically probable. Would the pilots be dazzled by the celebrity wattage? Headlines flashed into my thoughts: 'Jacko and Trump in Private Jet Horror'.
Michael was a nervous presence, taller than you'd think, with a finely shaped nose and visible make-up. If he had scars, you couldn't see them. He spoke very little and in that weird, high-pitched whisper which would not have felt out of place in a Star Trek movie. I couldn't make out what he was saying and thought it would be impertinent to ask him to repeat himself. So I nodded along, grinning enthusiastically. I'd be surprised if Trump could make head or tail of it either, but he was polite and good-humoured about it. All casino owners have a good poker face.
Michael pulled out a copy of the National Enquirer, then as now the gold standard when it came toscandalous celebrity tittle-tattle. The Enquirer's front-page headline was often about Jackson. But this time it was some nonsense about Donald Trump.
At this point I remembered my course in photo-journalism. A picture of Michael Jackson reading the National Enquirer, with a cover story about Donald Trump, who happened to be sitting next to him on a private jet, would have been a media studies classic. I had a camera on the table, but for some reason I couldn't bring myself to pick it up. Like Madame Bovary, I wanted to feel like one of the aristocrats at the ball, rather than a peasant with his nose pressed up against the glass. Or maybe it was just cowardice. These celebrity demi-gods are capricious. Access so casually granted can just as casually be withdrawn.
After landing in Indianapolis — our motorcade rebooted — we finally discovered where it was we were supposed to be going. As it turned out, the reason we were there was that Michael Jackson wanted to visit a sick child and his minder knew where he lived. I stayed by the car. The engagement over, we careered back to the airport, back up into the sky and back to New Jersey. And as the sun set on our fun day out, Trump wrote a polite thank-you note to the guy who had loaned Jacko the jet — Akio Morita, co-founder of Sony. (Yes, Trump writes thank-you notes, at least to fellow business swashbucklers.) Trump and I then settled into the back seat of another limo for a ride back to New York.
This was the opportunity I'd been waiting for. I was an Oxford PPE graduate with an hour of one-to-one time with The Donald. It was time to give the future presidential candidate a real grilling.
Except I didn't. It was all banter. Trump liked colourful stories. He made funny conversation. He didn't seem to me unbalanced or ranting. With hindsight, he was more like a politician-in-waiting, 25 years before his big political moment. He had the limo, the suit, the fully strategised hair, the pink tie, the iron self-belief, the visionary outlook, the presidential self-confidence — all theattributes he has today. But as yet, no articulated policy positions.
Now, like most people, I look on in utter bemusement when he airs his big ideas: the Mexican wall, the travel ban on Muslims, the protectionist trade policy, the aversion to gun control, the angry invective about more or less everything. None of his reactionary attitude was in evidence when I met him a quarter of a century ago.
Maybe Trump the man is more liberal and normal than the podium-chewing zealot currently showing on TV. Or maybe Trump really is a volatile, hard-right isolationist. The Trump of 2016 is certainly of a piece with the confident carnival master I shared a limo with in 1990, and his spotlight-hogging nowadays fits with his magnetic persona then. But the politics? There was not a hint of them.
Either way, he does at least know something about how to be presidential — he knows how to rock a motorcade. He knows how to create a good narrative. And he knows how to exploit charisma — whether that of a megastar like Michael Jackson, or his own.
Whatever you think of Donald Trump, he's a thriller.


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