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List of Arsenal's possible opponents in Champions League last 16
by Randy O. on December 7, 2011 List of Arsenal's possible opponents in Champions League last 162011-12-07T19:10:49-05:00 - Arsenal
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The Italian side forced their way into the last 16 of the competition by particularly tormenting Manchester City. They were the only side in the group which Mancini's men failed to register a win against and finished runners-up to Bayern Munich with 11 points – as many as Arsenal gathered themselves to top their group of course.
Napoli's Champions League campaign so far has been led by the prolific Edinson Cavani who netted four goals – two of them against Man. City – in the group stage.
CSKA needed only two wins and two draws from six matches to progress to the knock-out stage after finishing in second place in Group B.
The Russian side had recorded indifferent results ahead of the final match of the group stage, and indeed, had it not been a dramatic 2-1 win at the San Siro over Inter Milan, it would have been underdogs Trabzonspor who qualified at their expense.
After securing arguably one of the biggest scalps in European football for sometime, Basel were rewarded with a place in the Champions League last 16 for only the second time in their history.
Optimism was at top gear once they began their campaign with a 2-1 win over Oţelul Galaţi at home, and when they followed up that result with a scintillating 3-3 draw at Old Trafford, Europe was starting to take note of the Swiss side.
Only group winners Benfica tasted victory over Basel in their solitary defeat in the group stage, and the Portuguese side's 2-2 draw at Manchester United gifted Basel a golden chance of qualifiying to the round of 16 as runners-up as long us they came up with an upset at home to United in the final group-stage match. And they did exactly that. A 2-1 win over the red devils ensured that Siwtzerland will be represented in Europe's elite club competition for the next phase at least.
Like Arsenal, Lyon came into this season's Champions League campaign looking to preserve a consistent record of making it out of the group stages season after season. But the French side nearly saw their reliable reputation in tatters as with a game left in the first round of the competition, Lyon were favourites to be eliminated at the expense of Ajax who were in a comfortable position to join group winners Real Madrid as Group D's survivors.
Barring the unlikely case of a heavy home defeat for Ajax against Real Madrid and a thrashing of Dinamo Zagreb on the final day, Lyon were to see an early exit from the Champions League. But they did exactly what was required to avoid that fate – even setting a new club record of their biggest ever win in the competition – as seven goals after going behind to Dinamo Zagreb clinched a 7-1 victory for them to take the unlikely route which was also decided by Madrid's 3-0 win in Amsterdam. Bafétimbi Gomis who scored four times in that thumping will be the biggest concern for Lyon's next opponents.
Despite beginning their campaign with a 2-0 defeat at Chelsea, Michael Ballack's Bayer Leverkusen were always odds-on to remain in the fight to progress from the group, largely due to lack of competition from bottom side Genk who paved the way for Chelsea, Valencia and Leverkusen to battle it out for the top two places.
Indeed, after beating Chelsea 2-1 at home, the German side were heading for top spot in the group until a 1-1 draw on the final matchday against Genk – coupled with a win over Valencia in favour of their London rivals – denied them from achieving that feat in Group E.
Zenit joined unlikely Group G top dogs APOEL in the last 16 of the Champions League courtesy of quite an ugly battle which saw them muster nine points from six games in the end.
Andrey Arshavin's former club began their campaign with a 2-1 defeat at APOEL, but that was followed up with vital home victories over Porto and Shakhtar Donetsk to keep their hopes very much alive in the competition. The Russian side still had to shoot a hero's scene on the final matchday as a 0-0 draw at Porto – full of last-ditch defending and rescues by the goalkeeper – saw them qualify as runners-up of the group at the expense of their frustrated Portuguese foes.
Pitting their wits against minows Plzeň and BATE, Milan were always favourites to survive Group H alongside Barcelona. And so they did. The Italian side's first fixture was a tough trip to their Spanish rivals, but Alexandre Pato's side were unfazed and a dramatic 2-2 draw at the Camp Nou made it clear that the Italian side could be legitimate contenders for Europe's biggest crown this season.
However, complacency caught up with Massimiliano Allegri's side after they secured a last 16 place with several games to spare. Indeed, AC Milan could only muster two points from their final three games – including a 2-2 draw which was gifted late on to Plzeň on the final matchday.
* Since Arsenal topped Group F, they can only be drawn against a side which finished second in their group. All the teams above were runners-up in their respective groups. No two teams from the same country can be drawn against each other until the quarter-final stage.
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Shahr - December 7th, 2011 at 7:42 PM
I am over the moon the red faced has been eliminated.I believe his secret burining ambition is to dominate in Europe.That he is the greatest football manager is in doubt but I think to carry his domination over to Europe is imho a bridge beyond him.
He has to be satsfied being lord of the epl.But cl? Not likely in the immediate future. If he is smart he should quit while at the top before being pushed out. Yeah I know prematur e calls of his demise have been repeately shown to be way off but with the billions of MC he is no more the sole buyer of top talent in the transfer market.
Waiya - December 8th, 2011 at 12:08 AM
Gunners should be given basel,csk or st peters.all luck arsenal.
Ojekoya Dolapo Williams - December 8th, 2011 at 1:10 AM
We fear no foe, we're ready for any team arsenal will get to the final
Phylgunner - December 8th, 2011 at 9:26 AM
that's it. nothing else
Gugamugbia Peter - December 8th, 2011 at 1:35 AM
Congratulation to wenger for leading his side to the last 16, he only need to add one or two players to fill the gap that will be left by the three African players
Alimala - December 8th, 2011 at 1:37 AM
We can bet them all listed club
Onojame Sylvanus - December 8th, 2011 at 1:53 AM
Arsenal really make me proud by wining a match at the time of need. Am confident that Arsenal can beat every other team in the World. Waiting for the draws. Gunners till infinity
john luke - December 8th, 2011 at 2:00 AM
i pray that arsenal should face basel.upgunners
Shahr - December 8th, 2011 at 2:05 AM
If you want to win the cl,you will have to beat the best.The best are Bayern,R madrid and barcelona.I believe the gunners are better sutied to facing the likes of any of the three tems and indeed any other team.
The reason for my confidence is the gk has improved considerably and likewise the defence.barca can't be winning all the time.So I say bring on messi and company.I wager he won't score four goals this time against the gunners.
stanley blackburn - December 8th, 2011 at 3:22 AM
wow,we made it afta series of shortcomins dis season……Manager arsene is a world class coach.Wenger has really shame his critics.i bet he keep van persie fit dis season to help our team hit massively in all competitions.Am confident wenger will bring new faces in january window transfer,but he shld make his buy secret like he did last transfer….cos oda clubs upset him by nabbin d talents he discovers any window transfer.Despite fergie dominatin in EPL,wenger is d best in england.No manager can be like him.Am proud to be an arsenal supporter ova d decades.pls wenger a trophy we need dis season to keep our stars mostly Robin van persie.congratulation to chelsea football team for qualification………Arsenal till ma lastday.
We can beat any team…….we aint afraid of any team,bring any team on ……..we are ready…….dis is our season to burst champayne…………..but i dnt want Manuel Almunia in goal post cos he aint succesful.he is labelled as a flop,he shld leave our team january window.I luv arsene wenger,gudluck to him dis season to shame his critics.gunners 4 life…….
We can beat any team…….we aint afraid of any one,bring any team on ……..we are ready…….dis is our season to burst champayne…………..but i dnt want Manuel Almunia in goal post cos he aint succesful.he is labelled as a flop,he shld leave our team january window.I luv arsene wenger,gudluck to him dis season to shame his critics.gunners 4 life…….
Chinedu uniport - December 8th, 2011 at 4:41 AM
With £ity & united out,we need 2 strenghten our squad & move on b/c they will now come bk & concentrate on d league.We may get 2 quarter-finals,but we can't risk losing our key players 2 injury wt no replacements & dropping points in the league.Point of correction,we are going for d league not 4th place.
Mammugunnerzaddict - December 8th, 2011 at 5:40 AM
We arsenal we not fearing any club in this world of Adam, bring any,wea r playing much better and with commitment when we are playing with big teams like Baca,madrid,Ac millan,Intermillan,Bayern Munchen…………..and what may be…………..WENGER AND ARSENAL U R THE REASON WHY AM LIVING………………
We arsenal, not fearing any club in this world of Adam, bring any,we r playing much better and with commitment when we are playing with big teams like Baca,madrid,Ac millan,Intermillan,Bayern Munchen…………..and what may be…………..WENGER AND ARSENAL U R THE REASON WHY AM LIVING………………CLASSIC CLUB……………
arsenekidz - December 9th, 2011 at 8:11 AM
The Arsenal has a history of doing well against Italian's club but Napoli looks dangerous among all the other prospects which Arsenal might face in the last 16. Anyway, to be a champion, we must have strong self belief and fear no one.. Go Gunners go..
Tombe - December 11th, 2011 at 11:37 AM
I wish barca face lyon
Barca will face lyon
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Q: How can I lazy initialize/fill an `Option` with a fallible initializer? Suppose I have a struct containing an Option<Resource>, where Resource is some type I need to work with that needs to allocate external resources (in the actual case, GPU memory) and so might fail. From within a method, I want to attempt the allocation if it hasn't been done already, but propagate or handle the error if it does fail.
If it weren't for the failure case, Option::get_or_insert_with would be perfect. As it is, the tidiest solution I have thought of involves an unwrap(), which is inelegant since it looks like a potential panic:
struct Container {
    resource: Option<Resource>,
    ...
}

impl Container {
    ...
    fn activate(&mut self) -> Result<(), Error> {
        if self.resource.is_none() {
            self.resource = Some(Resource::new()?);
        }
        let resource: &mut Resource = self.resource.as_mut().unwrap();
        // ... now do things with `resource` ...
        Ok(())
    }
    ...
}

Is there a way to initialize the Option with less fuss than this? To be clear, I'm not solely looking for avoiding unwrap(), but also overall readability. If an alternative is much more complex and indirect, I'd rather stick with this.

Complete example code (on Rust Playground):
#[derive(Debug)]
struct Resource {}
#[derive(Debug)]
struct Error;

impl Resource {
    fn new() -> Result<Self, Error> {
        Ok(Resource {})
    }

    fn write(&mut self) {}
}

#[derive(Debug)]
struct Container {
    resource: Option<Resource>,
}

impl Container {
    fn new() -> Self {
        Self { resource: None }
    }

    fn activate(&mut self) -> Result<(), Error> {
        if self.resource.is_none() {
            self.resource = Some(Resource::new()?);
        }
        self.resource.as_mut().unwrap().write();
        Ok(())
    }
}

fn main() {
    Container::new().activate();
}

A: Indeed, get_or_insert_with() but returning Result<&mut T, E> is what you could use to simplify your code. However, as you already discovered Option doesn't have a e.g. try_get_or_insert_with() method.
Other workarounds would be similarly verbose. However, you could use a match and get_or_insert(), to avoid the unwrap() like this:
fn activate(&mut self) -> Result<(), Error> {
    let res = match &mut self.resource {
        Some(res) => res,
        None => self.resource.get_or_insert(Resource::new()?),
    };
    res.write();

    Ok(())
}

If this is used frequently, then you could also define your own try_get_or_insert_with() trait method, and implement it for Option<T>.
trait TryGetOrInsert<T> {
    fn try_get_or_insert_with<E, F>(&mut self, f: F) -> Result<&mut T, E>
    where
        F: FnOnce() -> Result<T, E>;
}

impl<T> TryGetOrInsert<T> for Option<T> {
    fn try_get_or_insert_with<E, F>(&mut self, f: F) -> Result<&mut T, E>
    where
        F: FnOnce() -> Result<T, E>,
    {
        match self {
            Some(value) => Ok(value),
            None => Ok(self.get_or_insert(f()?)),
        }
    }
}

Then now you can simplify your activate() method, to the following:
fn activate(&mut self) -> Result<(), Error> {
    let res = self.resource.try_get_or_insert_with(|| Resource::new())?;
    res.write();

    Ok(())
}

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Jurij Matwiejewicz Michajłow (ros. Ю́рий Матве́евич Миха́йлов; ur. 25 lipca 1930 w Ulitinie, zm. 15 lipca 2008 w Twerze) – rosyjski łyżwiarz szybki reprezentujący ZSRR, złoty medalista olimpijski.

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Największy sukces w karierze Jurij Michajłow osiągnął w 1956 roku, kiedy podczas igrzysk olimpijskich w Cortina d'Ampezzo zdobył złoty medal na dystansie 1500 m. W zawodach tych ex aequo pierwsze miejsce zajął z nim jego rodak, Jewgienij Griszyn, a trzecie miejsce zajął Toivo Salonen z Finlandii. Na tych samych igrzyskach wystartował także w biegu na 500 m, ale nie ukończył rywalizacji. Nigdy nie zdobył medalu mistrzostw świata. Tylko raz wystąpił na imprezie tego cyklu, podczas wielobojowych mistrzostw świata w Oslo w 1956 roku był ósmy. W tym samym roku był też dziesiąty na mistrzostwach Europy w Helsinkach.

Dwa razy bił rekordy świata. Trenował także pięściarstwo.

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 Profil na stronie Schaats Statistieken.nl

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Radzieccy łyżwiarze szybcy
Radzieccy medaliści olimpijscy
Radzieccy bokserzy
Medaliści Zimowych Igrzysk Olimpijskich 1956
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Eish , the xenophobia here is raw ,direct and strong .Please ask Malaysia and Indonesia who have had Chinese presence far longer how they've built tolerance and one nationhood.
Zambians are slowly waking up to reality ……..when enough is really enough all hell will break loose!
@Mzambia wa Zamani. It is not xenophobia. The woman is just complaining about a foreigner who shot a lady. She is complaining to authorities to deal with the case promptly. Her complaint is what what every indigenous citizen does in every country when a foreigner commits such a violent crime. Its not xenophobic.
We've been telling you about these Chinese & over-borrowing from as far back as 2012. PF has been running a Govt on perpetual borrowing. KK borrowed $6 billion & built companies. PF has borrowed $15 Billion & built expensive sub-standard roads which will be pot-holed in 3 years time.
Today the pain of hunger has opened your eyes.
Dununa Reverse & that dandy-crazy song which had pain-killing effects on your pain has worn out. It's time to face the music, it's now payback time.
But now Chinese are bringing these goods in container loads.
The local contractors who were screaming chikonko-mwikate at us in 2016 are now broke as all the contracts are being awarded to Chinese firms.
And ZP has stated that it was accident…these are wasted Lungu years…he is in NY dancing at the moment as that's all he knows!!
Zambia is the only F00Lish country which gives gun licenses to foreigners.
They've even start giving NRCs & Zambian passports to chinese, Somalis, Lebanese, senegalese, malawians, congolese.
@Ndobo, kikikiki you know us well kaaa. Yes we don't like nonsense.
You should attend one of Kalaba's meetings, so hilarious, true Patrotic People!!
A cry of a woman is a cry of a nation. Please take this seriously!
Lungu says it's ok as long as he and his cronies are getting kickbacks from allowing Chinese to exploit this nation. Lungu will run to.swaziland once this country is fully under control of.china. you think he cares ?
my dear Swaziland is not heaven, whoever has stolen public funds will account for it. we will follow them, we will catch them and we will bring them back to Zambia. Don't worry, they will run but they will fail to hide.
You voted TWICE for the Visionless one.
For a change you can eat the P.F Chitenge material, while you enjoy THE SMART ZAMBIAN ENTERPRISE!!
Ndanji so tell the people to stop complaining…ala….
They voted, rigged, intimidated opponents for the visionless one.
They shut down newspapers, TV & radio stations for the vision-less widow swindler.
Today they want to cry foul.
The problem is not the Chinese, it's us the Zambians.
Where they come from it's very very hard to get a firearm, but here in Zambia due to corruption and muzungu sorry muchoncholi anikonde attitude we have really made it very easy for them.
A China man comes just today tomorrow he applies for a firearm license they issue it to him fast, the third day he goes and buys a firearm. Anyone who's used a firearm knows it's not a toy. I understand what people can do for a quick buck but it shouldn't come at a cost of being sellouts.
The same happens in our homes/fields we sometimes resort to burning them in entirety because one of us was foolish enough to let the pests/parasites/snakes think they are king.
Once again I don't support/advocate/tolerate for hate of any kind, but if it will take xenophobia and racism to fix things then I will pick them any day than silly tolerance and forgiveness that can make my children not to love and want to sacrifice for their country as much their father (me) has.
My grandfather spent 2 years in Fort Jameson prison fighting for our independence and sovereignty. It would be an insult to lose it all either to ourselves or just about any body.
Ask any kaponya on streets, the worst crime a Zambian can commit today in Zambia is to rob or harm a Chinese, these are direct orders from lungu and kapoyongo….whilst they do as they pleas , they are the paymaster generals of PF ..
Awe kwena mayo ukolanda ifisinka ifyatundumana inga insofu isunsumene… I suspect the politicians will only complain about the use of social media… maweee!
They know that because that's where the peasants come to and become Project Managers for all these GRZ projects ….which Lazy Lungu is asking for 20% local contribution. The country is in such a mess that he sees going to UN at the top of the list. The Chinese already own the markets PF burned down …so be prepared to see more of them like in that picture.
Sweeping generalisation is a logical fallacy for good reason: there are good and bad in every population.


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Shahier Razik (* 18. November 1977 in Kairo, Ägypten) ist ein ehemaliger kanadischer Squashspieler.

Karriere
Shahier Razik begann seine professionelle Karriere in der Saison 1995 und gewann 23 Turniere auf der PSA World Tour. Seine höchste Platzierung in der Weltrangliste erreichte er mit Rang 20 im Juni 2008. Bei den Panamerikanischen Spielen gewann er zwischen 1999 und 2011 insgesamt vier Medaillen. 2003 gewann er in Santo Domingo sowohl im Einzel als auch mit der Mannschaft die Goldmedaille. Im Einzelfinale besiegte er dabei seinen Landsmann Graham Ryding. In Rio de Janeiro 2007 und Guadalajara 2011 errang er mit der Mannschaft jeweils die Silbermedaille. Mit der kanadischen Nationalmannschaft nahm er 1999, 2001, 2003, 2005, 2007, 2009 und 2011 an Weltmeisterschaften teil. Siebenmal wurde Razik kanadischer Meister.

Erfolge
 Vize-Panamerikameister mit der Mannschaft: 2014
 Gewonnene PSA-Titel: 23
 Panamerikanische Spiele: 2 × Gold (Einzel und Mannschaft 2003), 2 × Silber (Mannschaft 2007 und 2011)
 Kanadischer Meister: 7 Titel (2006, 2007, 2009–2012, 2014)

Weblinks
 Spielerprofil bei psaworldtour.com (englisch)

Squashspieler (Kanada)
Panamerikaspielesieger (Squash)
Kanadischer Meister (Squash)
Teilnehmer an den Panamerikanischen Spielen (Kanada)
Teilnehmer an den Commonwealth Games (Kanada)
Geboren 1977
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UK '80s Prog & the Mellotron
In a manner of speaking, it could be said that progressive rock never really went away in the UK, even during the 'punk years'. Debate still rages in certain quarters over whether or not punk was really a media invention; there was definitely a grassroots movement of people who'd had enough of soulless arena gigs and untouchable bands, for whom the relatively polite, if energetic R&B of pub rock just wasn't enough. It's certainly true that as soon as the music press picked up on it, anything old hat was out. Over 22? Forget it. Year Zero had arrived.
This state of affairs, while (arguably) healthy, did young progressive bands no favours whatsoever. The so-called 'dinosaurs' were completely untouched by the sea change, but younger or smaller bands went to the wall. Farewell Gryphon, Druid and Greenslade, not to mention Curved Air and Van der Graaf (by this time no longer Generator). Almost the only smaller home-grown act to survive the purge was The Enid, who fought through on sheer bloody-mindedness and actually seemed to thrive on adversity. The only other club-level act to make it through was Steve Hackett, after his departure from Genesis in 1978. Saying that, he had an instant fan-base from his alma mater, although this is not to belittle his achievements.
Dark days for the Mellotron, too. The only 'punk' act to treat it with anything other than utter scorn was America's Dickies, who were really just a bunch of old progheads having a laugh anyway. 200 m.p.h. versions of Nights in White Satin et al, anyone? The Enid used one on their first album, 1976's In the Region of the Summer Stars and Steve Hackett put one on a couple of tracks of his first post-Genesis effort, 1978's Please Don't Touch, before going into Mellotron overdrive on his next couple of releases. The only other obvious British band to fly the Mellotronic flag was England, whose sublime Garden Shed was released in late '77 by Arista, who didn't appear to have noticed that punk had happened. A full-on symphonic prog album released a good two years too late to make any serious impact, Garden Shed remains a lost classic. Vinyl copies are hard to find, but a recent CD reissue can still be tracked down. In 1996, a CD of demos appeared entitled 'The Last of the Jubblies'; although less essential than its illustrious forebear, it's still worth getting hold of.
About the only confirmed sightings of the Mellotron in those gloomy days were, oddly enough, not actually progressive bands at all. Magnum, from Birmingham, had been around since the mid-'70s, releasing a cover of Sweets for my Sweet, of all things, on CBS in 1974. They suffered the usual punk-related problems, but by '78 had got themselves signed to Jet and released their first album, Kingdom of Madness. Their sound can best be described as a UK take on US pomp, a la Styx, Starcastle etc.; not exactly prog, but a mixture of progressive rock, hard rock and AOR. Quite a few Mellotronic moments on the album, though it's rather more apparent on '79's follow-up, Magnum II.
Magnum weren't afraid to use their M400 on stage, either. 1980's live EP, followed by what looks like a rather hastily shoved out live album of the rest of the tracks from their set, Marauder (cheap sleeve or what?!) feature the Mellotron in places, although they seemed to restrict its use to occasional bursts, rather than the more 'progressive' blanket coverage. They carried on using it live for the next few years, although its chief use seemed to be on the first few bars of Changes, from Magnum II - an awful lot of trouble for a few seconds of music! Their Mellotron can also be heard on a couple of retrospective releases, Vintage Magnum, a collection of b-sides and Archive Magnum, basically a bunch of outtakes, most of which, sadly, sound like it. There's also a live album from their '82 tour, Invasion, which looks like another opportunistic release by the company who owned the tapes. Apparently, guitarist/main man Tony Clarkin still has the band's Mellotron in his Midlands studio, although it doesn't appear to be used on his own work.
The other major Mellotron users from this era were a hard rock band from Mansfield, Limelight. A slightly Rush-like three-piece, their guitarist Glenn Scrimshaw played an M400 on stage and it's featured on their eponymous 1981 album, particularly on the proggy Man of Colours, which invariably brought the house down live. There doesn't seem to be any official UK release of the album at the moment, but surely someone must reissue it soon? While they're at it, maybe the tracks for their unfinished second album could be tacked on the end? Just hoping...
As early as 1978, the first stirrings of a 'new wave' of progressive bands could be felt, mainly in the home counties (prog's 'heartland'). Early incarnations of both IQ and Twelfth Night started this year and in Twelfth Night's case, recording commenced within a year. By 1980 their keyboard rig had expanded to include a Mellotron, although it has to be said that they never exactly made the fullest use of the instrument. You can hear it on Afghan Red and Abacus from their officially untitled Twelfth Night (a.k.a. 'The Electra Tape') cassette-only release, which is still awaiting a CD reissue (hint, hint). Also a brief burst of choir on Fur Helene from '81's Live at the Target, one of the albums that kicked the movement off properly. It seems that the band ditched their Mellotron around this time and moved across to a far more contemporary synth-based sound, which, in all fairness, sounded great. Maybe they were just never destined to become one of the Great Mellotron Bands...
Nor were Marillion. Forming around 1979 in Aylesbury as Silmarillion (after Tolkien) they used a Mellotron in their early days. Over-used, in fact. They were known for plastering huge slabs of Mellotron strings and choir all over everything in their live set, which actually became a little wearing after a while. Either way, for whatever reason, they'd rid themselves of the machine by early 1982, using an original Emulator for a rather inferior choir sound on their first album. Their Mellotron can be heard on the much-circulated bootleg of an early rehearsal tape, usually titled Forgotten Songs (very droll), though it didn't seem to make their first demo.
North of the border, however, something was stirring... Pallas formed in Aberdeen, about as far from the London-based scene as possible, in 1975, calling themselves Rainbow. Ritchie Blackmore's new band put paid to that one, but the band soldiered on, playing a few of their own songs among a set of covers. By 1977, 'the summer of hate' (or whatever), they were defiantly ignoring the media, playing a set including Led Zep's Rock'n'Roll and ELP's arrangement of Copland's Fanfare for the Common Man. They released a self-funded EP, the cunningly-titled The Pallas EP in '78, on which they appeared to have taken a little notice of current goings-on by including four short-ish fairly succinct songs, barely nodding in the direction of progressive rock.
Sometime between then and 1981 Pallas acquired a Novatron M400 and began making good use of their new acquisition. They appeared in an early edition of 'Kerrang!'s 'Armed and Ready' section, with a moody picture a million miles from the rather suspect-looking metal bands that usually inhabited those pages. They cited influences such as Genesis, Rush and surprisingly, Alice Cooper, although their slightly sub-Gabriel theatrics also echoed Alice, as did the main riff to Flashpoint, a track on their independently-released hour-long live cassette from '81, Arrive Alive. This contained just six songs, chock full of Mellotron; the original running order has never been adequately reissued, although all six tracks have been made available between the 1984 vinyl edition and the 1998 CD. Some listeners complain about the vocals, or the somewhat 'rough' sound of the album, but it has bags of energy and an excellent 'live' feel to the whole thing. No overdubs here, matey...
The tape opens with a muted hum and a muttered 'good evening', before bursting into 5 to 4 with ripping Mellotron strings, 12-string and Taurus pedals. Keyboardist Ronnie Brown knew how to get the best from his gear and manages several stunning moments throughout the album, especially during closing track, The Ripper. This contains what may be one of the great Mellotron Moments, with a superbly gothic descending run on the strings. Heart Attack is also recommended and Queen of the Deep has some highly evocative choir parts, making great use of the pitch control. The tape does have the odd 'I wish they hadn't done that' moment, particularly on the mostly excellent Crown of Thorns, where they manage to rip Genesis off both lyrically and musically, not to mention singer Euan Lowson's old man mask he wore for The Ripper. Hmmm. Wonder where that one came from? OK, so they weren't 100% original, but it's a great album. The two tracks left off the CD are both available in later studio form, but completists should pick up a copy of the LP too.
By 1982, IQ, originally from Southampton, were starting to pick up a following. Their low-budget album-length demo, Seven Stories Into Eight contained some great material, but the recording quality is, sadly, rock bottom. A 1998 CD re-recording of the whole tape includes a tarted-up version of the original on a second disc, but it's never going to sound brilliant... still worth hearing, however. By the following year IQ had picked up an M400 and gigged it up and down the country. Keyboardist Martin Orford loved the choir sound and obviously had a soft spot for the flutes, but never really liked the strings. He once memorably described them as 'sounding like someone sawing wood', which makes you wonder what exactly was wrong with his tapes. Years later he lent it to superb London-based oddballs Cardiacs, whose mainman Tim Smith has commented that 'the strings didn't really sound like Mellotron strings. They didn't have that edge'. Nevertheless, Martin used the sound occasionally, notably on Awake and Nervous from their first album proper, 1983's Tales from the Lush Attic. The other Mellotronic highlights on the album are the two 'epics', The Last Human Gateway and The Enemy Smacks; both tracks feature unusual Mellotron flute passages and some rather more standard choir. IQ may not have had Marillion's major label budget, but they walked all over them compositionally (hate mail to the usual address) and are still releasing albums of some merit, unlike many of their contemporaries.
Pallas took three years from Arrive Alive before their first 'proper' album. They signed to EMI Harvest and at one point were quite seriously proposing releasing a full-blown 'concept' album of their 'Atlantis' material, possibly as a double, some of which was in their 1981 set. Several pieces have survived only on bootleg; not even the band have copies and it's a crying shame it wasn't recorded properly at the time. Of course, EMI nixed the whole idea and in the end, only two of the relevant pieces made the album, The Sentinel, in 1984. Another two parts of the story got onto b-sides, but even with a re-jigged track order on the CD version the original concept has been heavily diluted. A new double live CD contains their reworking of these four pieces into one 25-minute track, though sadly without any Mellotron. After a change in the vocalist department (why did almost all the main bands in the scene change singer?) they released the Knightmoves EP, now included as part of the Knightmoves to Wedge CD (reissued as The Wedge), which included what many regard as their greatest moment, Sanctuary, featuring Mellotron choir heavily in the closing section.
In retrospect (isn't hindsight wonderful?), Pallas' chief problem was sticking too closely to the '70s template of Genesis, Yes et al. Marillion moved into different areas, taking their fanbase with them, although many die-hard proggers were appalled by 1985's Misplaced Childhood with its AOR-isms and radio-friendly singles. Pallas rather belatedly attempted to move in a similar direction on '86's The Wedge, but try as they might, they could never sound commercial enough to break through. They carried on using their Novatron on stage until 1988, when they effectively retired from live performance for the better part of a decade. Their Mellotron can also be heard on a couple more cassette-only releases, Live in Southampton 1986 and Sketches, a rather odds'n'sods tape of demos for their next album, live stuff and anything else that was lying around.
Back to 1985; IQ followed up Lush Attic with the considerably higher-budget The Wake, a real tour de force. Apart from a short burst of 'strings' on The Thousand Days, the only Mellotron to be heard is slabs of choir across several other tracks, notably the title track and the superb Widow's Peak. There's more Mellotron to be heard on the (originally) unsanctioned live album Living Proof, now available on the band's own GEP label and the official bootleg Nine in a Pond is Here (don't ask). Sides 1-3 of this are available on an official CD, but the quite frankly bizarre side 4 languishes in the 'where are they now?' file. Shame. IQ decided to take the 'Marillion route' for their '87 release, Nomzamo (their first for a major), which features some Mellotron action, but by '89's Are You Sitting Comfortably? (their last for a major) it had completely disappeared, although its IQ days weren't over yet... Sadly, Martin had stopped gigging the machine by 1987. The story goes, he'd discovered a roadie bumping it down a flight of steps on his own after a gig (!) and decided that 'enough was enough'. Affordable samplers were coming in by this point, so he sampled the choir, working on the theory that it was the only 'essential' from the machine.
Pallas and IQ were the most high-profile names using Mellotrons in the scene, but one other name springs to mind from the era; Steve Leigh of Tamarisk had an EMI 400, heard to good effect on their Lost Properties demo. Rumours abound of the 'imminent' release of a Tamarisk CD, but nothing's actually appeared as yet. It's rumoured that Quasar used a Mellotron early on, too, but there doesn't seem to be any audio evidence to back this up.
By 1986, the scene had become thoroughly dissipated, with all the main names either splitting up or becoming unfeasibly mainstream and a dwindling audience for the smaller outfits. By the end of the decade there were only a tiny handful of lesser names still on the circuit and it took until the early '90s for even a small upsurge in interest. Mellotrons were not only considered fairly old hat by this time, but the supply of affordable working machines had pretty much run out. Martin Orford carried on using his on record until 1993's Ever, but it hadn't seen any live action for some years. Samples of the choir sound were evident on their 1997 double concept album, Subterranea, but the real thing wasn't to be heard again on an IQ album. Except, of course, archive releases...
1991's J'ai Pollette d'Arnu (apparently it's completely meaningless...) featured a mixture of live and studio tracks, including both sides of a 1986 single, re-recordings of Seven Stories tracks It All Stops Here and Intelligence Quotient. These featured new singer Paul Menel, but are possibly sonically the best of several recordings of the songs. 1984 b-side Dans le Parc du Chateau Noir (schoolboy French, anyone?) also featured, but has since turned up on the band's own CD reissue of The Wake. In 1999, a further retrospective slipped out, The Lost Attic, consisting of odds'n'sods from right across the band's history, including their classic BBC 'Friday Rock Show' session from 1984, which provide the bulk of the album's Mellotronic moments. Now, by my reckoning, there must still be tracks in the vaults; several fan club singles remain unavailable and many date from the band's Mellotron years. How about it, chaps? Any chance of ever hearing The Big Balls of Bert Christ on CD?
As a postscript, Arena appeared in the mid-'90s, featuring Pendragon's keyboardist Clive Nolan and (very) ex-Marillion sticksman Mick Pointer. They used Pallas' M400 on their first album, Songs From the Lions Cage (sic) and not just for the by now ubiquitous Mellotron choir'. Nolan eventually bought Martin Orford's old machine, making Arena the Mellotronic link between the '80s' two premier exponents of the instrument. Although the band don't gig it, at least it's getting used. So, whither Twelfth Night's old machine?
As a postscript, there were a couple of other non-'progressive' UK Mellotron users in that most blighted of decades. XTC and Talk Talk both evolved into extremely interesting outfits after their first few albums - some would claim that XTC were always excellent. They apparently bought their machine from 'a bloke in Wales' and although they used it on Mummer and The Big Express in the early '80s, their major Mellotron work was their late-'60s psych spoof side-project, the Dukes of Stratosphear. Their 1985 mini-album 25 O'Clock was such a success that they managed a full-length outing in '87, Psonic Psunspot. Their pastiches are utterly brilliant - a 'must' for anyone into that era and they obviously had great fun dressing up in period costume... Both releases were combined onto a single CD, Chips From the Chocolate Fireball. XTC used tape-replay a couple more times; 1986's Skylarking was recorded at Todd Rundgren's studio in upstate New York and features Dave Gregory playing Chamberlin on one track and as late as 1998, their 'comeback' album, Apple Venus Vol.1 features some particularly effective Mellotron on a couple of tracks. Talk Talk shifted from chart-pop to a quite unique, sparse sound in the space of about two albums; the latter of these, 1986's The Colour of Spring, features Mellotron on a couple of tracks. Although they moved further into the 'ambient soundscape' field (for want of anything better to call it), they didn't use Mellotron again.
The Enid
In the Region of the Summer Stars; 1976
Garden Shed; 1977
The Last of the Jubblies; 1996, recorded 1976-77
Kingdom of Madness; 1978
Magnum II; 1979
Magnum Live (EP); 1980
Marauder; 1980
Invasion; 1986, recorded 1982
Vintage Magnum; 1986, recorded 1977-83
Archive Magnum; 1993, recorded 1974-82
Metal Man (7"); 1980
Limelight; 1980
Twelfth Night (a.k.a. 'The Electra Tape'); 1980 cassette
Live at the Target; 1981
Arrive Alive; 1981 cassette/1983 LP/1998 CD. Cassette tracks spread over LP/CD
The Sentinel; 1984
Eyes in the Night EP; 1984
Shock Treatment EP; 1984
The Knightmoves EP; 1985
The Wedge/Knightmoves to Wedge; 1986
Throwing Stones at the Wind EP; 1986
Live in Southampton; 1986 cassette
Sketches; 1990 (?) cassette
Mythopoeia; 2002
Tales from the Lush Attic; 1983
The Wake; 1985
Living Proof; 1986
Nine in a Pond is Here; 1986
Nomzamo; 1987
J'ai Pollette d'Arnu [compilation]; 1991
The Lost Attic [compilation]; 1999
Lost Properties; 1983 cassette
Market Square Heroes; 1982 EP
Songs From the Lions Cage; 1995
Pride; 1996
The Visitor; 1998
Immortal?; 2000
A Little Man and a House and the Whole World Window; 1988
Mummer; 1983
The Big Express; 1984
Skylarking; 1986 [Chamberlin]
Apple Venus Volume 1; 1999
as The Dukes of Stratosphear
25 O'Clock (mini album); 1985
Psonic Psunspot; 1987
Chips From the Chocolate Fireball; 1987? [compilation]
The Colour of Spring; 1986
There are also multiple bootleg tapes of Pallas and IQ featuring Mellotron.


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A: If the third party page targets a specific frame (including _top and _blank) then there is nothing you can do to override that.
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You should think big when preparing chicken stock. Plan to make a big pot of stock so you can freeze and store it. Homemade chicken stock makes a great base for casseroles, soups, stews, and many other wonderful dishes. After the liquid has cooled you can store it in heavy-duty freezer bags.
Cook your veggies in chicken broth! This helps to prevent vegetables from sticking on the pan. In addition, chicken broth improves the vegetables' flavor. Chicken broth is dirt cheap, and can be bought at any supermarket.
Food is something that everything needs to survive, so it has a special place in our culture. Impress all of the people who matter in your life by implementing the tips you learned here.


Cincinnati Premium Outlets is set to welcome a major tech retailer into the fold.
AT&T, the world's second-largest wireless service provider, will expand its local presence by launching its newest location at the Monroe-based shopping destination, which boasts a roster of more than 100 retailers.
The newest AT&T store will be one of Cincinnati Premium Outlets' first retailers tied solely to the technology sector, according to Mary Ann Mattscheck, the outlet mall's general manager.
Such stores are known for providing consumers entertainment products and services, ranging from cell phones and tablets, to unlimited data plans and high-speed internet.
The opening further enhances the center's diverse portfolio of brands and product offerings, affording the community a one-stop-shop for the latest in cutting-edge, smart devices technology, Mattscheck said.
The new AT&T will open in February in suite 931 near Columbia Factory Store.


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It's the time of year when we all begin to fire up the boilers once more and in a poorly insulated home, a quarter of that heat can be lost through the roof. Not only does this mean you are losing heat, but also your hard earned cash! With a few simple steps you can insulate areas of your home effectively and make huge savings on your energy bills.
Firstly, stop energy loss around your doors by fitting draught excluders. They are very easy to apply and can make a real difference on internal as well as external doors.
Make sure the windows are well insulated by checking for cracks and crevices around the window frames. Use a sealant to fill any holes or cracks – choose a sealant that comes in a tube form and cut the nozzle at an angle to help ensure a smooth application. If you don't already have it, consider double glazing as it could save you money in the long run.
If you have any gaps between the skirting board and floor, perhaps between floorboards too, use a silicone sealant to fill them. Alternatively, fit some floor insulation beneath the boards and use a rug to block little draughts.
Insulating the attic or loft can have a huge impact on your energy bills. It is one of the most efficient energy saving options, cheap and a simple DIY job. Loft roll or slab insulation is typically installed in an attic. Loft roll is usually less expensive to install than slab insulation and provides better coverage. Before insulating, seal any air leaks and make any necessary roof repairs to make sure your hard work pays off!
If you have a 'cold wall' in your home (usually a concrete or stone wall with poor or no insulation), you can build a simple dry wall using plasterboard and add some insulation between the two.
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In developing countries, governments promote computer literacy primarily to address systemic requirements like skilled workers for various economic sectors and improved labor productivity in both government and private institutions. This skewed development, which fails to address the digital divide in a meaningful way, tends to perpetuate the very gap governments allegedly seek to bridge. It also creates unhealthy dependence of developing countries on suppliers of information infrastructures.
While the digital divide has indubitably emerged as a serious form of social inequality in many societies and there have been varied and creative responses to it, in the developing countries, responses from governments have been generally tied to meeting structural imperatives. Resources both from local and foreign donors and creditors have been massively directed at acquiring computers and IT infrastructures as well as at promoting computer literacy at various levels of education both formal and informal. This development comes as a kind of catch-up effort on the part of developing countries; otherwise, they are presumably doomed to the vicious cycle of poverty and under-development. For instance, the UNESCO once estimated that for the Philippines to be globally competitive, at least 65% of its citizens must be computer-literate.
Such an otherwise well-meaning injunction on a developing country may, however, do more harm than good if it does not come with culturally and socially-sensitive measures. By far, computer literacy in developing countries is often associated with government target quotas in producing or retooling workers for various economic sectors, improved productivity in manufacturing sub-assemblies and labor sub-contracting. While these can be legitimate goals of governments, projects in computer literacy also need to mitigate the social imports that the whole "computer culture" brings: labor and market efficiency, means-end connectivity, mass productivity--values and assumptions that are not necessarily shared in project sites. It doesn't come surprising, indeed, that computer literacy has remained an alien and alienating experience for masses of people in developing countries. Largely the resulting experience has so far been dependence on suppliers of computers and IT infrastructures. Software and hardware dominance comes from developed countries whose leaders only recently pledged to help poorer nations (a charming thought indeed if only it doesn't perpetuate the cycle of dependence the actions of these rich countries have so far created). Contents flowing on Internet infrastructures continue to be dominated by media conglomerates that tend portray computers and technologies in overly-glorified ways, thus, increasing frustration when such technology "come down" to developing countries.
4. more emphasis on creative ways of sustaining existing communicative practices of individuals, families, and communities; less on fancy "high tech" media delivery which is, more often than not, unaffordable to most people in developing countries.
Nonetheless, as far as "solutions" go in real life, they cannot be static or permanent. A "community-based" computer literacy program, if true to its name, shouldn't be deciding what people must do to make themselves literate. It's going to be their choice, to begin with.


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Have Faith: Society Will Survive What Trump Hath Wrought
The sexual allegations are serious, but Trump is a joke and a fraud.
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I finally went to bed on Tuesday night because I couldn't stay up late enough to see if CNN had found a busload of Carmelite nuns who revealed that Donald Trump had groped them all in a slot parlor in Laughlin, Nevada. Every time I got up from the work I was doing, and I passed the television set, there was another woman telling the same story about a grotesque encounter with the stubby fingers of the Republican party's nominee for president. They were trampling out the vintage where the Gropes of Wrath were stored, over and over again.
We will survive this. Honest to god, we will. To borrow a phrase from an earlier American winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, we not only will survive, we will endure. And, Lord save us, we are going to have a lot to endure over the next 28 days or so. I can't even pretend there will be an end to what we are going to learn about the depredations, physical and otherwise, of the Republican party's nominee for president.
Update: Trump Surrogates Are Still Melting Down
After the election, there's the Trump University fraud trial—Hi, Judge Curiel! Que pasa?—and the rape trial. These are only some of the things we will have to endure, as President Hillary Rodham Clinton labors to build an administration in a political culture gone mad. We also will have to endure a whole lot of Republican denial, as the party is caught halfway through its own passion play between being Pilate on the balcony and being Peter around the fire. We will have to endure yet more of Paul Ryan's threadbare conscience, begging for spare change in the pages of Tiger Beat On The Potomac.
But Ryan also had tough words for Trump. The speaker said that the media was set on driving a wedge between Trump the congressional wing of the party, but that Trump — whom Ryan described as lacking political discipline — had failed to understand that dynamic.
Oh, shut up. Your nominee for president thinks you're a mewling weenie from a congressional district in Hicksville, USA. That's not the media's fault.
We are going to have to endure another month of the hapless Trump surrogate brigade immolating itself on CNN. Last night, Peter Beinart, whom I've always regarded as a complete sobersides, just about did a spit-take when Katrina Pierson departed once again into the echoing canyons of her mind. Just watch. It's awesome.
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The accusations are more than serious. The accusations are deadly. But the campaign, the Republican campaign for president, is now long sunk past serious and has descended into low, baggy-pants comedy. The candidate should be mocked. His party should be mocked. His supporters should be mocked. (Please, God, no more learned thumbsucking pieces about the economic insecurity that drives people to spend 20 bucks for a Hillary Sucks But Not Like Monica T-shirt that they can wear to their kid's christening.) The only thing the Republican presidential campaign is good for any more is a laugh. The only thing the Republican presidential candidate is good for is a cell.
What comes next is the only real question. It is now assumed that disillusioned Trumpaloompas will go on some sort of rampage on Election Day and thereafter. But the real peril to the country lies in the possibility that, in the scramble to distance themselves from the stench of its 2016 nominee, the Republican Party will decide that the easiest way to reorganize itself would be to plot the destruction of yet another Clinton presidency. I certainly don't believe that the party will gather itself and abandon the essential political forces and ideas that worked for four decades to make the Trump campaign inevitable. I think that would shatter the party's fragile little mind.
The hunt for the Hildebeast is the fast, easy way to get The Base back howling in harmony and to raise money for the 2018 midterms, which will be here before we know it, God help us all.
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More and more people are becoming comfortable shopping online — that much is hard to deny. Just look at Amazon. Its retail sales are set to reach $258 billion in the U.S. in 2018, working out to nearly 50% of all online sales and about 5% of all retail sales. Part of the success Amazon has experienced can be attributed to how easy it is to buy on the platform. The e-commerce retailer offers competitive prices, free shipping (in two days with Prime), and a one-stop-shopping experience. There's not much you can't find on its site, which is probably why 44% of consumers start with Amazon when shopping online.
This change from brick-and-mortar purchasing to online shopping has led many brands — brands that sell through retail locations — to take a more straightforward approach and sell to consumers online. Retail e-commerce brought in more than $2.3 trillion in 2017. That's an increase of 24.8% from the previous year. What's more, $1.4 trillion was the result of m-commerce, or mobile sales. With so many new opportunities to reach consumers (not to mention track their behaviour and measure product performance), it's no wonder we're now seeing an increase in the launch of niche brands online.
While many e-commerce companies limit themselves to digital advertising, you can still benefit from offline media channels such as TV or radio. Large online retailers and direct-to-consumer brands spend over half of their media budgets on TV, radio, and out-of-home, based on the latest numbers from Kantar Media.
For example, a meal kit company that we worked with believed its digital media efforts were driving most conversions, but insights from our cross-channel attribution platform showed that TV campaigns were more responsible for conversions than online ones. The same company also discovered that its target audience still listens to the radio while driving, so it allocated more money to radio advertising.
For many small e-commerce companies, advertising on offline channels can, admittedly, seem risky. They might think there's not enough visibility and tracking because they're used to digital, where they can track user-level data all the way through to the conversion event.
As e-commerce companies grow, many start with offline tactics like direct-response TV advertising. They usually leverage remnant, low-cost TV inventory and measure the performance of TV investments using the increase in response over the baseline. We have seen great success in e-commerce companies leveraging TV to increase awareness, consideration, and sales while making their digital investments more effective. With the increase of brand exposure, consumers are more likely to interact with online ads and take the necessary steps towards conversion.
As the customer journey increases in complexity and buying habits continue to evolve, it's important for e-commerce companies not to limit advertisements to online channels. This raises two questions: What is the right balance between online and offline media spend on your next e-commerce campaign, and how can you accurately track the customer's journey to allocate the budget?
To answer those questions, you'll need to have a holistic view of not only your customer journey, but also the adstock effects that both digital and offline media have on conversions over time. Getting this holistic view relies on advanced attribution models that take into account the full consumer journey and the synergy between offline and online media channels.
Let's say a customer was watching TV and saw a Nike ad. She then did some research on her phone before going to her laptop to search for the best price to purchase. This was her customer journey. There's a tendency to attribute the end of a buyer's journey as the reason for conversion — in this example, you might be tempted to attribute the conversion to the search ad. But that's just telling us the moment of acquisition.
The challenge is tracking TV like online media. There's a gap in understanding the effectiveness of television. Consumers can take weeks to convert. During that time, they could bounce from landing page to product page to even a third-party affiliate site. So crediting one channel, tactic, or campaign to that conversion might be erroneous. Instead, a multitouch attribution approach helps you understand every single touch point on that path to purchase so you can appropriately "give credit" to the campaigns that contributed to that purchase.
Finding the right balance between offline and online efforts is different for every business based on its objectives, specific strategies, and marketing context. It's important to remember that offline media still has a role to play, even when brands strictly live in the digital space. You never know what is going to prompt a potential customer to take action — she might hear a radio ad that inspires her to search for your product, see a social media ad that plants an idea in her head, and then visit your website after seeing a TV ad that explains how your product works.
No matter how comfortable people get with shopping online, e-commerce brands need to explore all their options when it comes to marketing. Offline channels can level the playing field for smaller brands. Just remember to always start with consumers, follow their journey, and look at how offline and online channels work together to turn them into loyal customers.
Brian Baumgart is a serial entrepreneur and angel investor with over 19 years of experience in advertising technology. He is currently the co-founder and CEO of Conversion Logic, a platform that provides marketers with the most accurate and advanced cross-channel analytics powered by award-winning machine learning and AI capabilities. Prior to Conversion Logic, he co-founded and served as the CEO of Gradient X, a leading DSP for programmatic mobile advertising, which was acquired by Singtel (Singapore Telecom) in 2013. Prior to Gradient X, Brian was an angel investor and previously president and chief strategy officer at Adconion, helping the company raise $100 million in funding and expand to 26 offices in 18 countries with more than 700 employees. Adconion Direct was acquired for over $235 million by Singtel. Brian is passionate about technology and is also an angel investor in nine different companies.


When you watch some anime and you look at the cover, the synopsis and think, "Well, this looks promising. I wanna try this one". All of that is just the first impression at the beginning of the episode. The rest of all is just boredom that you have to push yourself. Consider that to immediately drop the anime. Well, in a nutshell, "Trickster" falls into the category. It's an anime I've put this in my ash and start to watch it when I last saw and found it dusty.
This is not an action with psychological, thriller, or shounen but this is nothing more than an anime. It fails in terms of storytelling and enjoyment. It's just a bunch of teenage kids playing as a spy like spy kids. Nothing else to compare to some of your favorite.
The story consists of three phases: the pledge, the turn, and the prestige. But, nothing without a goal for the prestige. This is not Christopher Nolan's stuff or anything that relates to him. The narrative style is pretty similar to that but fails at the prestige. First of all, the story focuses more on Yoshio Kobayashi, someone without identity, a past, a friend. He has mysterious powers when approaching something or touching someone, they will hurt. The story will walk, walk, and walk away until it meets with one of the supporting character, Kensuke Hanasaki. He is a member of Kogorou Akechi's detective club.
When they both meets, Hanasaki promised that one day, he would kill Kobayashi just as Kobayashi wanted to eagerly in demand but eager to die. The beginning seemed like a filler from a collection of detective stories that trying to complete the mission given by their client. To the turn, we came by the antagonist called "the twenty faces" whom, for no apparent reason, want to play with Akechi. It's not plot holes because the story runs continuously. It will explain the backstory of each character.
The prestige fails miserably when the story wants to build its tension. They provide a bit of suspense and twist at the climax too. But, we never know what happens next. Spoiler alert, is Nakamura captured or not? Did Akechi and the twenty faces die or just disappear? Why doesn't anyone care about them when before the climax, it just focuses more on these two characters? No one knows because this makes everything in torn. There would never be the prestige and conclusion.
Nothing I could just say with the art. It doesn't look unique or nothing. However, it's also an irony when two big studios that created "Sweetness & Lightning" and "D.Gray-man" have no intention of working on this one. There is no intention at all to put a lot of effort or feeling to do this thing. Could not they make an anime like that or are they just being driven to do it? There's nothing more I can say for the art, visuals, and animation because there was nothing.
For the soundtrack, I'm going to give a little great shoutout on this because GACKT exists in this anime. "Kimi dake no Boku de Iru kara" and "Tsumi no Keishou: Original Sin" aren't too memorable but is quite catchy rock songs. "Unmei Dilemma" and "1HOPE SNIPER" by Azusa Tadokoro are either same. GACKT also fills the voice of the twenty faces. It's put a great expectation but not too memorable, along with other voice actors. Daisuke Ono as Kogorou Akechi looks promising. But, he doesn't show too much like the characters he's filled in. Azusa Tadokoro also, in addition to singing the opening and ending songs, she also fills the voice of Nao Nakamura.
The characters are just beyond too far when it comes to development. Everything is just as good as on the introduction at the beginning, the pledge. Kobayashi, Hanasaki, Akechi, the twenty faces, Inoue, all look reliable at the beginning. However, this show always deviates from the main story. You can say that the beginning of the story focuses on the relationship between Kobayashi and Hanasaki. Well, the main focus often runs and moves from one character to another.
At the turn, the story focuses more on Akechi, the twenty faces, and their backstory. Until later, the author drops the not-too-shocking twist. The development characters are the worst of all. You can see when watching this anime until the end. The characters are always out of characters and it has bad scripts. As in the relationship between Kobayashi and Hanasaki are forgotten in the middle of the story. they both promise a thing. It's just beyond my expectation where I'm more expecting something like "Beyond the Boundary". It has the same premise about two main characters continuously but the anime can still be seen from the other side. It's not like this anime forgot everything.
The pace is bad. It means it's so hard to keep it up with the story, the characters, and everything. To be honest, the first impression is just promising at the pledge to the turn phase where everything slowly begins to disappear. It loses the sensation of being able to overcome your anxiety. Nothing interest in the conversation, the characters always disregard their roles and two big studios that failed to attract any attention. My rant is not enough to put away this thing. But, I just feel pity for them and me. I mean, I didn't really feel like that.
"Trickster" is a great anime at the beginning but it fails miserably in the middle and the end. It's weird with this review because I used three stages from Christopher Nolan's "The Prestige". But, it looks like it does and this anime fails to tell the way it does. The plot twist is sassy, the characters are always out of character and lost their role. Two big studios that make a mediocre animation, have a bad pace. The characters development is so bad. There's nothing more I can say about this but it's not as bad compared to "In Another World With My Smartphone". Both of them has the same level of what something bad always worse.