It was 10:30pm when the alarm rang. Through my open door to the balcony, for a moment I think I saw a number of seagulls squawking over a palm tree. An empty tray laid on the carpet. I gathered a few things I needed, and soon I was driving on Federal Highway. I was held a few times for installations; and then I stopped at different
spots. I even grabbed a drink at Frenchman's and had this conversation with some folks.
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November 29, 2011 at 11:45pm
Adrien Mattenet struggles until he takes the third game hitting an edge at 10-9, to finally impose a defeat of 3-1 over the Greek prodigy "Kalinikos Kreanga".1972, ITTF's #57. Kreanga was born in Bistriţa, Romania but naturalized Greek. He defected from Communist-ruled Romania at the age of 17, with his father, while he was participating in the ETTYC. in Luxembourg in 1989. He has been one of the best European players since 1990. And quite possibly, the best backhand that you will ever see.
November 29, 2011 at 11:50pm
Wednesday November the 30th 2011, at 11:30 PM ET. Marcos Freitas, Portugal's whip, once again!.
November 30, 2011 at 11:45pm
It didn't entertained us very long. There was a dinner downtown, so we made it as well. After dessert we moved to a large terrace where many people were standing, we greeted everybody and one could see a pond with candles and plastic flamingos. There was music, projections and a smooth murmur all over the place. They brought more champagne as we saw several acts; some were amusing but it was getting late. At this point we stepped away and still drove around for a while. There were many projects almost up and work in progress at every level, so we didn't have much mobility. We turned NE on a smaller bridge, but it didn't look quite like Canaletto's. Once past the bridge, we made it immediately to the Memorial turning abruptly to the right. Next thing I know, we are parking inside a huge Warehouse, as a rolling gate uncoils down behind us as all lights are off!.
December 1, 2011 at 11:30pm
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Marcos Freitas-Zhan Jian
November 30, 2011 at 11:30pm
A "Short Hitter" from Singapore, Zhan Jian, ITTF's #63, and ranked #34 in Asia. Takes the first game before Freitas shifts tactic to looping over half and three quarter of the table, and then drill very deep mostly on Zhan's body and backhand. Obliging him to get even closer than where he is dangerous, and where his short counter hitting turns slower. An excess of confidence drives Freitas to jeopardize a victory when he goes from having a match point at 3-1, to loose the fifth in the best of seven. The Portuguese pulls the match anyhow at 4-2.
November 30, 2011 at 11:30pm
Tonight Thursday December the 1st 2011. At 11:45 PM ET. The French Cadet, Simon Gauzy.
December 1, 2011 at 11:45am
Three flashlights blinked twice in the dark from different angles. We stepped out of the car and got through a small corridor, somebody dragged a sliding door into a pocket and then, the inner space opened wide in front of us. All merchandise was there hanging and stacked up almost to the ceiling. All lights were turned on, but we decided to leave only video and outlets powered. First I didn't know what to make out of all what I saw. There were sofas and lamps, cups and cutlery, sunglasses and caps. Then jewelry, ethnic clothing, towels and endless packed bookshelves with magazines, triptychs and subscription forms. Flashlights in hand, we spread in all directions moving toward the aisles. On some wall, some monochrome vinyl cutouts were falling off, digital renderings were piled on a desk with photographs next to pedestals carrying bones, bronzes, cardboard and ceramics. We saw fishtanks, military puzzles and all sort of Christmas gifts. Soon I heard a real laughter on the other side, followed by what seemed to be a series of penalties in a soccer match. There were paintings, large and small, abstract, figurative and photorealistic. Just as there were raffish prints and illustrations with plants, animals and maps. We saw some bulky sculptures, from the rusty to the slick and polychromatic, and from the hiper polished 90 degree minimalist to the dull science oriented anamorphic. I stopped at the booth A-10 for some minutes, and went quick through many titles. I folded a price list that fell into my pocket. Far through the hallway and beyond what looked as a restaurant, somebody started running some videos pretty loud and was drinking and smoking a cigar as he sat on a fluorescent rocking chair. Then somebody called me and lead me to where he said were the Moderns. Some paintings were on the floor leaning backwards to the wall. They were already inspecting the provenances and seals behind the canvases, stretchers and frames. We scrutinized thoroughly the signatures with a magnifier. Somebody took flash pictures and cut little sections from the edges at the back of the linens, placing them in separate pre-labeled bags for lab examination. When they asked me, I replied I didn't like any piece, and that in the current stance, they wouldn't buy any liberation. We left them all hanging in the wrong spot. I moved along a hall where I noticed a large sign on a wall that read "No Ethics", I rejoiced. Then I saw myself at the entrance of the Conversation Room. Exhausted, I walked straight to the stage and lied flat on the central table. I closed my eyes and for about five minutes, I dreamt.
December 1, 2011 at 11:50pm
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Simon Gauzy vs Maharu Yoshimura
December 1, 2011 at 11:45pm
The Japanese Junior Maharu Yoshimura 1994, ITTF's #130. Follows the correct tactic to beat Simon Gauzy, by attacking first and gaining the front of the table. But fails inexplicably on other essentially easy shots. Gauzy does his regular game by lobbing, defending and counter hitting from mid and long distance, and by keeping his mobility and confidence intact.
December 1, 2011 at 11:45pm
Friday December the 2nd 2011. At 11:45 PM ET. Joao Monteiro from Portugal.
December 1, 2011 at 12:00am
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December 2, 2011 at 11:45pm
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Joao Monteiro-Kou Lei
December 2, 2011 at 11:45pm
Here we get to a colorful match (especially if you understand México well). Where as you see, sometimes luck makes the difference. The Chinese player naturalized Ukrainian; Kou Lei, 1987, ITTF's #143. Starts winning the first game by placing most shots directly on Monteiro's body; making him move aside in order to respond with his forehand, which is his main strength. But leaving uncovered a wide section on his left side (Monteiro is lefthanded) where he won't reach Kou Lei's well placed counters. Monteiro on his own, finds that he can surprise Kou Lei with a few unusually fast and deep services; and that by pressing on Kou Lei's backhand, it may turn easy to cross him on his right side. He gets a few good points with this "simple" move. Colocation by both players is a big factor in this match; which gets disputed until the end of the fifth game. Monteiro overcomes a match point with a service; ultimately obtaining the victory. Do not miss the tune they crank on minute 02:23.
December 3, 2011 at 11:45am
Today, Saturday December the 3rd 2011. At 2:30 PM ET. On our weekend schedule, we will have the French, Emmanuel Lebesson playing his third match. No Delay, Stay around!.
December 3, 2011 at 7:30am
We were talking at the entrance of a garden, and there was no blur, no illusion and no hardships. I thought we were friends. We had agreements and shared interest on several points. But minutes later, when I started my own game, you stood with disproportional difference of power, and introduced me to your own methods of defeat. So that, I couldn't ignore. "You made me feel absolutely uncompromised"; and that was the key to break through. So just when you thought I wouldn't persist, I leapt beyond the boundaries of permission, and brought you here, where questions bounce back and forth, but the answers run forever.
December 3, 2011 at 2:30pm
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Emmanuel Lebesson et Damien Eloi
December 3, 2011 at 2:30pm
There comes a time when you may have to face your own brother at the table, as we will have to see in future matches. That is why the "Meteoric Post-Human French", Demian Éloi 1969, currently ITTF's #76, faces his fellowman Emmanuel Lebesson here today. 19 years his elder, Éloi partnered in doubles with Legout and Gatien in multiple occasions, becoming a triple silver Olympic medallist. He remained for ten straight years in the top 30 of ITTF. Éloi has Lebesson running all over at times; back and forth and left and right. But lebbeson being younger, counter attacks radically, just when Eloi expects him to defend; and catches him out of position repeatedly. The match stays with Lebesson with a 3-0. at 11-6, 11-9, 11-9.
December 3, 2011 at 2:30pm
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December 3, 2011 at 11:45pm
December 4, 2011 at 11:45am
Sunday December the 4th 2011, at 2:30 PM ET. Our sixth player, the Portuguese Tiago Apolónia closes the third round.
December 4, 2011 at 11:53am
Chairman Mao enjoyed playing the British invention and past time, introducing it in China in 1951. Where it quickly became the National Sport. However some believe that it is mostly statistics that make the Chinese the best players in the world. Since 1959, Chinese players began taking most World-Championship cups to Peking. Today they have gained so much attention that big numbers of international players spend entire seasons training in China. But in 1961 at the World Championship in Stockholm, also known as the Swaythling Cup, the Chinese didn't come. Allowing the Japanese to win the Championship. While political analysts questioned their reasons, and speculated on how serious China's factional turmoil was, the 600 players from 47 countries who met in Sweden, concluded that the Chinese players, being ineligible to compete in the Olympics, didn't have the need to compete in Stockholm either. Because their international federation was the largest and most inclusive sports organization in the world. More than 100 nations belonged to it, which included the two Vietnams, the two Koreas and the two Germanys. But the 6 million Chinese players, were always above everyone else. Every two years, when the World Championship are held, after a few days the Chinese dispatch everyone back home. But what exactly kept the Chinese from playing in Stockholm in 1961?. As it happened the entire Chinese team had been incarcerated after the Chairman's will, for being secret members of a counterrevolutionary anti-Mao group known as the Black Band; which included their then champion, Chuang Tse-tung (Zhuang Zedong); who was also an honorary member of Peking's parliament. After a public apology on the press, only Chuang was released by declaring he owed his success to the study of Mao Tse-tung's philosophy.
December 4, 2011 at 2:30pm
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Tiago Apolonia Wang Xi
December 4, 2011 at 2:30pm
We spoke in an earlier match between Panagiotis and Lebesson, on the odds of playing a defensive opponent, commonly called a "chopper". Here we get to another example where the Chinese "Chopper", Wang Xi, currently unrated by ITTF, concedes Apolónia a difficult victory in a fifth game. So I will explain some more on why is this?. What happens is that the Chopper, by having two very different rubbers on every side of the blade, drives you to mistake how to respond at every effect he generates. Just as he prompts you not to keep a pre-determined distance from the table. So in order to get the point you have to be able to read every shot he will respond. All shots coming from his backhand will turn to you in the opposite spin that you initially placed. And the spin he generates is only the reverse result of your own. He can not generate spin with his backhand, so if your shot has no spin, he can only push a no spin return and as a block if your shot is fast. But on his forehand he can chop, block and spin with as much depth, spin and speed as he wants. So this diversity often will turn against you if you are unable to make him repeat the same stroke over and over until you can get away with a winner. All shots coming from his backhand, can not be slammed flat, because his ball comes strongly revolutionized by your own spin but in the opposite direction, and you would end up leaving most shots on the net. Your best chances remain within applying top spin to all shots coming from his backhand, because now you also have to reverse what he has returned. Another option might be to avoid his backhand at all costs, but then you will have to play against an offensive player, which may even be harder, given that the real offensive weapon is most of the times a forehand.
December 4, 2011 at 2:35pm
Tuesday December the 6th 2011, at 11:45 PM ET. Adrien Mattenet opens the fourth round.
December 5, 2011 at 2:30pm
I worked for hours on my desk but the idea wasn't complete. To some extent disappointed I walked into a cafe, and as soon as I entered I saw you standing in line. I stepped right by your side and paid close attention to your request. Then you sat in the mezzanine reading a rolled magazine. I sat exactly behind you and just above your shoulder I was able to read: In societies where modern conditions of production prevail, all of life presents itself as an immense accumulation of spectacles. Everything that was directly lived has moved away into a representation.
December 6, 2011 at 11:45pm
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Adrien Mattenet-Stefan Fegerl
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Adrien Mattenet-Stefan Fegerl
December 6, 2011 at 11:45pm
The match shows how spectacular the European game can be. Every point starts short, mostly with "pendulum" services; which is when the ball is struck between the arm that holds the paddle and the body of the server, turning into a short sided inner spin that almost defies any chance to pass over the net, becoming very hard to respond. But then a number of attacks unfold fearlessly making both players display all capabilities. Where they go from defending, blocking and lobbing, to counter attacking, looping, drilling and even taking the front of the table in the same point. The offensive long distance game predominates as a conclusion of most debates. They get to contend for a fifth game that goes relatively easy for Mattenet, who puts so much work in every shot. I see outstanding shots by both players in minutes; 00:35, 02:20, 03:09 and 03:40. The Austrian Stefan Fegerl, ITTF's #118 and #5 ranked in Austria, doesn't have the luck that he would require to pull an upset over Mattenet in the fifth, who is also a higher ranked player. We have seen in a number of matches that at the end the players submit their rackets to the referee as we see in the last seconds of this match. This is because these rackets will be tested for speed boosters in a V.O.C. (volatile organic compounds) detecting machine. Because boosters are no longer legal since 2008.
Wednesday December the 7th 2011, at 11:45 PM ET. Marcos Freitas.
Wednesday December the 7th 2011, at 11:45 PM ET. Marcos Freitas.
December 6, 2011 at 11:50pm
We were just about to launch our satellite, reaching for the right coordinates along with the location of the satellite’s orbital path, and beyond the thickest part of the atmosphere. So fuel consumption was no longer a concern. The rocket control mechanism used the inertial guidance system to calculate necessary adjustments to the rocket's nozzle to tilt to the course described in the flight plan. In this case, the flight plan called for the rocket to head east because Earth rotates to the east, giving the launch vehicle a free boost, which depends on the rotational velocity of Earth at the launch location. The boost is better towards the equator, where the distance around Earth is greatest and so rotation was fastest. Between the static waves on my radio, for a moment I was able to hear: “The spectacle is not a collection of images, but a social relation among people, mediated by images".
December 7, 2011 at 11:50pm
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Marcos Freitas vs El-Sayed Lashin
December 7, 2011 at 11:45pm
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Marcos Freitas vs El-Sayed Lashin
December 7, 2011 at 11:45pm
Unlike the Military rulers that control the process of writing a constitution, and maintain authority over the interim government to check the power of Islamists who have taken a commanding lead in parliamentary elections; the Portuguese Marcos Freitas, makes a difference in the final score by adjusting his strategy after he looses the first game. Just as he drives better when he counters at the front, pressing on El-Sayed's backhand and making him commit several mistakes. And on his own, the Egyptian El-Sayed Lashin, currently unrated by ITTF; achieves great points and manages to make Freitas recede, but can't overpower his forehand, missing the opportunity to pass him cross court when he has him cornered defending. El-Sayed, 1980. Is ranked #2 in Egypt and has been three times winner of the African Cup.
Thursday December the 8th 2011, at 11:45 PM ET. The French Cadet Simon Gauzy, still alive!.
Thursday December the 8th 2011, at 11:45 PM ET. The French Cadet Simon Gauzy, still alive!.
December 7, 2011 at 11:45pm
We were into the office an hour before they arrived. By the time they finally made it, we were already recording inside every closet. We heard and saw as they pulled out the chairs, and both sat at her desk. While I watched and listened, I saw anxiety on the face of the visitor, just as I saw a momentary suspension of his objectivity. I knew she could use some leverage from this man who seemed as her brother, and was in one respect. And it wasn't as if he was talking with a stranger, which she was. It was as if he needed her to understand. Their conversation ended, and the man walked away. He didn't carry a notebook, neither a computer, but hidden intentions. I could be wrong, but I think she stayed silent, feeling fine by becoming a consort of the crusade. Then she opened a drawer pulling out a Japanese folder with a header that had written on top: "Boredom is always counter-revolutionary. Always".
December 8, 2011 at 11:45pm
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Simon Gauzy vs Filip Cipin
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Simon Gauzy vs Filip Cipin
December 8, 2011 at 11:45pm
Another great match with the Cadets, that after certain struggle falls again on Simon Gauzy's sack. And just as he did in his last match versus Yoshimura, Gauzy is more confident and better placed, and his mobility and "All Around" strategy remains consistent until the end. Gauzy looses the first game just to come back and get ahead in the third with a 2-1, and then looses the fourth and starts loosing the fifth, to finally get away with a relatively easy 11-4 in the fifth. Great and explosive match anyway by the Croatian Filip Cipin, ITTF's #528, who in a general view, just can't overpower Gauzy's defense.
Friday December the 9th 2011. At 11:45PM ET, Joao Monteiro from Portugal.
December 8, 2011 at 11:45pm
Ernesto Ramirez Kennen Sie? Die Sodbrennen der Demerung!
December 9, 2011 at 9:12am
Ernesto Ramirez Wenn du hast eines der starkes Sodbrenennen
December 9, 2011 at 9:13am
Ernesto Ramirez Im Himmel und Hell!
December 9, 2011 at 9:23am
Ernesto Ramirez Ich hatte ihn im dort gesehen?
December 9, 2011 at 9:23am
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Icebreaking tug Arctic Explorer
Friday December the 9th 2011. At 11:45PM ET, Joao Monteiro from Portugal.
December 8, 2011 at 11:45pm
Ernesto Ramirez Kennen Sie? Die Sodbrennen der Demerung!
December 9, 2011 at 9:12am
Ernesto Ramirez Wenn du hast eines der starkes Sodbrenennen
December 9, 2011 at 9:13am
Ernesto Ramirez Im Himmel und Hell!
December 9, 2011 at 9:23am
Ernesto Ramirez Ich hatte ihn im dort gesehen?
December 9, 2011 at 9:23am
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Icebreaking tug Arctic Explorer
December 9, 2011 at 10:00pm
After our tug was delivered to us in Karlsborg, we advanced breaking ice for several hours, eventually reaching a point away from the ice where we couldn't see much through the fog, besides, it was getting dark. Ahead of us we could hear the sound of our boat bouncing back to us, but since we could not see anything, we decided to throw the anchors at that spot. Me and another member of the crew stepped out of the cabin just to discover that it was freezing cold outside at 15° Fahrenheit. We took the zodiac CZ7, and navigated slowly through the fog for another five minutes. All of a sudden a humongous iceberg starkly appeared in front of us, just when a snowstorm started to break loose. We reached the fast moving iceberg as we could, and pulled the zodiac out of the water anchoring it steadily on a frozen ford. Soon we started climbing a pretty steep glacier. As soon as we were 80' up from the water, we saw their tents steaming in front of us. We even could hear what seemed like an argument about Hegel. We saw their Auverland A4 AVL parked to the right of their camp with the open hood and tools all around it. And on the other side, some 300 hundred feet from where we stood, there were three vehicles parked in line one after the other. First there was a BTR-60 Bronnetransporter, followed by two amphibious; a Rheinmetall Condor 4x4, and an ERC-90 F4 Sagaie 2. We took our foldaway sledges, and subrepticiously went straight to the BTR, sliding underneath exactly below the head of the transmission. I pulled out a 1/4" hex key and removed the sheet metal cover leading to the combustion manifold attached to the side. With a 5/16 wrench we separated the air, water and gas hoses, taking the entire manifold with us; and with a splice crimper we cut the bronze fittings and couplings placing them on my vest's pocket as well. We also reached for the back trigger's whip and cut it off. I replaced the sheet metal cover striping the threads of all the hex bolts. Then we slid under the two Amphibious, and applied the same operation. However we could, we flipped on our chests and turned around on our tracks on the crispy snow lowering a 24" wide fiberglass brush rigged at the back of our sledges, that partially erased our tracks as we reached for the border of the fiord again. We even had a sip of Cognac from our stainless flasks. Just before before we started descending through the glacier once more to our zodiac, we noticed a ranting coming from their tents and somebody was saying: “In a world that has really been turned on its head, truth is a moment of falsehood".
December 9, 2011 at 11:45pm
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Joao Monteiro-Dimitrij Ovtcharov
December 9, 2011 at 11:45pm
Joao Monteiro plays here one of those matches for the records of history. Upsetting the great German player Dimitri Ovtcharov, ITTF's #10, with a 4-1. Monteiro sticks thoroughly to a previously studied strategy that even when it fails in the first game, works very well after he grabs the second. An strategy which partially consists of short volleys to the center that Ovtcharov can't attack and keep low. Allowing Monteiro to blast deeper shots on Ovtcharov's body and backhand. Making him recede and then off timing him with slower loops that as Ovtcharov reaches, return as blasting winners down the line and to the deep corners on left and right of the table. See the shots Monteiro does on minutes 00:38, failing a service right after!, and also on 02:14, where he drives winners aside from the net. Ovtcharov's forehand oriented grip, turns into a problem when the service comes short at his body and on his backhand. That is why Monteiro's services come at times very short, preventing Ovtcharov to start an attack and elevating his response. Then just as Ovtcharov expects a short service that he struggles to return low and short, Monteiro out of the blue, throws deep and fast services that Ovtcharov is not expecting elevating again his return high enough to be blasted once more by Monteiro's forehand. Monteiro's defense is tight at most times, responding also in secure counter hits placed away from Ovtacharov's reach. But his forehand loop is the real scape when the rallies are still undefined and nobody is able to start an attack. A great victory for Monteiro and not a great performance by Ovtcharov this time, whom anyway has a pending final at another PDF.
December 9, 2011 at 11:45:pm
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December 10, 2011 at 8:00pm
Saturday December the 10th 2011. At 11:45 PM ET. Emmanuel Lebesson.
December 10, 2011 at 8:00pm
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December 10, 2011 at 9:30pm
“Cyclical time already dominates the experience of nomadic populations because they find the same conditions repeated at every moment of their journey: Hegel notes that “the wandering of nomads is only formal because it is limited to uniform spaces.” The society which, by fixing itself in place locally, gives space a content by arranging individualized places, thus finds itself enclosed inside this localization. The temporal return to similar places now becomes the pure return of time in the same place, the repetition of a series of gestures. The transition from pastoral nomadism to sedentary agriculture is the end of the lazy liberty without content, the beginning of labor. The agrarian mode of production in general, dominated by the rhythm of the seasons, is the basis for fully constituted cyclical time. Eternity is internal to it; it is the return of the same here on earth. Myth is the unitary construction of the thought which guarantees the entire cosmic order
surrounding the order which this society has in fact already realized within its frontiers".
December 10, 2011 at 11:45pm
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KISHIKAWA-LEBESSON
December 10, 2011 at 11:45pm
Unfortunately Emmanuel Lebesson looses his fourth match versus the Japanese Seiya Kishikawa, 岸川聖也 1987, ITTF's #16. Because Kishikawa's collocation, counter hits and especially short game is just further ahead of most players in the international circuit, and insists correctly on the weaknesses that Lebesson may have. With his short volleys and side spin, Kishikawa makes Lebesson do large and complex adjustments, placing him in awkward positions. Whereas Kishikawa's timing and strokes remain simple, short, not extraordinarily fast and unaffected. Lebesson almost gets into the match in the third game; but Kishikawa overcomes a set point with a net just to get away with it right afterwards with a 15-13. So it is a 4-0 favouring Kishikawa, who will be facing some other of our five remaining players in the near future. Here you have it John Fukuda, light a candle!.
December 10, 2011 at 11:45pm
Sunday December the 11th 2011. At 11:45 PM ET. Tiago Apolónia from Portugal closes the fourth round.
December 11, 2011 at 11:45pm
"Revolution is not 'showing' life to people, but bringing them to life. A revolutionary organization must remember that its aim is not getting it's adherents to listen to convincing talks by expert leaders, but getting them to speak for themselves, in order to achieve, or at least strive toward, an equal degree of participation. The cinematic spectacle is one of the forms of pseudo-communication (developed, in lieu of other possibilities, by the present class technology) in which this aim is radically unfeasible. In appearance a film-club discussion is an attempt at dialogue, at social encounter, at a time when individuals are increasingly isolated by the urban environment. But it is in fact the negation of such dialogue since the people have not come together to decide on anything".
December 11, 2011 at 11:45pm
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Janos Jakab vs Tiago Apolonia
December 11, 2011 at 11:45pm
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Janos Jakab vs Tiago Apolonia
December 11, 2011 at 11:45pm
This is a match with two relatively similar players, that decide to try different approaches to play one another. So as "All Arounders", the Hungarian Janos Jakab, ITTF's #106, and #1 ranked in Hungary, gets closer to the table than what he has done against Apolónia in other occasions, almost getting better results. Displaying fierce attacks on Apolónias backhand and then striking at the bounce to his right side as he has him in his left corner defending in the back. The tactic works pretty much in many points. But Apolónia, seemingly unstressed, displays one of his assets, which is his backhand long distance lobb and low block, preferring to reposition himself and gain time by turning to loop with his forehand on Jakab's body and backhand, until he can get the spiniest possible arches that will give him the time to step in and counter hit away from Jakab's reach. Apolónia also resolves some points by drilling countless times, making Jakab recede, and then approaching the table to grab the point by collocation. Regularly, as Jakab struggles to attack Apolónia's services, Apolónia snaps Jakab's crosscourt, or let the services drop below the surface of the table to return loops that Jakab fails to attack punctually, placing his returns out. The victory gets decided until the fifth game, finally tilting towards Apolónia with a 3-2. There is a rule, that when a match is tied up, in the last game the players must switch sides as either one reaches the fifth point; which is something we have seen several times.
Here we finish with the second part of our tournament, and will move into our third and last section, GLADYS TROCONIS. Beginning at further announcement this week. Thanks for watching!.
December 11, 2011 at 11:45pm
