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Please read Mark 15:1-32
As we come to Mark 15 and the account of Jesus' death, we have to begin with politics; for humanly speaking, it is politics that send Jesus to the cross. If we are used to the relatively polite and well-ordered arrangements of the western world, the politics of first-century Palestine will be very unfamiliar. It is hard, for example, to imagine the key players from Judea lining up for a live election debate: Pontius Pilate the Roman governor sharing the platform with Caiaphas the high priest and some leader of the Zealot nationalist party, taking questions from a studio audience! Still, there are elements we might recognise. There are some unexpected cross-party alliances at work. When the pressure is on, just as in our own elections, people behave in unexpected ways!
We begin, then, with Jesus' appearance before Pilate in vv.1-15. It is early Friday morning (v.1). The Sanhedrin have reached their verdict; but they still have a problem. If there is to be an execution, the authority can come only from the Roman authority, personified in the prefect or governor, Pontius Pilate. They have to convince him to condemn Jesus to death. Because Pilate follows standard Roman practice of starting and finishing his working day very early, they need to catch him quickly. Pilate is not normally based here: his official residence is by the sea at Caesarea; and when he visits Jerusalem, as he will often have to do, he establishes a temporary headquarters here. The probable site is in Herod the Great's old palace on the western side of the city, rather than the Antonia fortress at the edge of the Temple
Pilate, we can assume, has now been briefed; hence v.2. Clearly, it is the Sanhedrin who have produced this accusation. It will do no good to tell Pilate that Jesus is a blasphemer; so they frame a different charge which he will have to investigate. 'King of the Jews' is a sort of translation of the word 'Messiah' for the benefit of Gentiles. The key word is 'king', because that is a political term which Pilate is forced to take seriously. This expression 'king of the Jews' now runs through the whole of the crucifixion narrative. Pilate interrogates Jesus with it; then he taunts the Jews with it; then he actually has it written on the cross (v.26); meanwhile in v.18 the soldiers use it in savage mockery. The Jews themselves would never choose this expression. If they wanted to use the term 'king' at all, they would say 'king of Israel' – as their leaders do in v.32.
Jesus' answer to Pilate in v.2 is difficult to translate exactly. We might express it 'Yes, that's one way of putting it'. In other words, Jesus clearly accepts the title 'king', but he hints that he's not what Pilate understands as a king. John's gospel gives us a long exchange between Jesus and Pilate on this point, where Jesus explains that his kingdom is not the sort that Pilate would recognise. Mark doesn't report that, but he does imply that Pilate is not quite satisfied with Jesus' first answer. But to all the accusations of the chief priests, Jesus, most unconventionally, has nothing to say at all (vv.3-5). A man on trial for his life will normally either try desperately to plead his innocence or else make a defiant speech, seizing his final moment in the spotlight. Jesus does neither; and at this point there is no doubt that Pilate would prefer to dismiss his case.
It now seems Pilate may get his chance to do so. There is an established custom of releasing a prisoner at Passover – now – and it's not long before someone attempts to invoke it (vv.6,8). Surely, Pilate thinks, the crowd will get me off the hook by asking me to release this Jesus. Pilate may be cynical; he may be weak; but he's not an idiot. It is not hard to work out that the Jewish leaders have a hidden agenda. Pilate can see that Jesus poses no danger to law and order; he can see that these chief priests simply want to dispose of him for reasons of their own (v.10). Pilate would really prefer not to oblige them; so he hopes the crowd will kindly help him out (v.9). Unfortunately for Pilate, the crowd don't want to play his game. They have another candidate in mind (v.7). Defining this Barabbas depends on your point of view. The word Mark uses in v.7, translated 'insurrectionists' in the NIV, appears nowhere else in the New Testament; but some would call Barabbas a terrorist, and others a freedom fighter. It's a political question. The big political issue of these days is not, How can we reduce our budget deficit?, or even, How should we deal with immigration? The big issue in Jerusalem is, How can our nation be truly free? What is the path to national salvation? Everyone has their own view on this question. The Pharisees say that the way to national salvation is to obey the Law of Moses in every tiny detail. The Sadducees say that the way to survive is to play the Romans' game, to collaborate with them; then at least we can keep the Temple and the sacrifices, and some of us can do quite well out of it. Out in the desert somewhere is another group called the Essenes, who don't appear in the New Testament itself; they say that all the others are corrupt and we need to start again and build a new nation. Then there are the Zealots, whose answer is armed violence against the Romans, a violent revolt to expel the oppressors from our land. That is what politics looks like in first century Israel. Jesus has not lined up with any of these groups – a political act in itself – but Barabbas is a Zealot. One of Jesus' disciples, Simon, is a Zealot too; it is quite possible that they know each other. It turns out that the crowd, stirred up by their religious leaders, much prefer Barabbas to Jesus (v.11). It is ironic that the chief priests, who are Sadducees and collaborators, and therefore detest the Zealots, should agitate to get Barabbas released. As so often in politics, the fear of losing produces some strange alliances!
Three times Pilate asks the crowd; three times they respond. Pilate doesn't help his own cause here: he cannot resist having a dig at the Jews by referring to Jesus as their 'king' (v.12). Of course they don't call him 'king of the Jews' – and saying so is not calculated to win them over. The crowd's response is unequivocal (v.13 and again in v.14b). They might, perhaps, have called for something less. There are less horrible methods of execution; but crucifying someone is the standard Roman way, especially out here in the provinces. And so, although to the end Pilate would prefer to set Jesus free, he adopts the line of least resistance and pacifies the crowd by decreeing the verdict of crucifixion (v.15). This hideous flogging – using a leather scourge embedded with pieces of metal or bone – could sometimes be imposed as a penalty by itself, but often it is used as a prelude to crucifixion, making the degrading humiliation even more severe. With no limit prescribed, contemporary history tells us it is quite common for men to collapse and die from the effects of the flogging alone, never even surviving to the cross. In Jesus' case, that doesn't happen; he survives the flogging and is still just able to walk.
So Mark presents the drama. We will examine it more closely by looking at some of the characters. , We have seen enough already of Pilate, with his abuse of power, weakness and lack of principle. First, then, we look at the crowd (vv.8-13). In ch 11 we read about the cheering crowds who joined Jesus on his triumphal entry into Jerusalem. Sometimes people will compare these two stories and remark on how fickle crowds can be; but these are different crowds. The crowd who followed him into Jerusalem were pilgrims coming up for the Passover; probably they aren't even staying in the city and they are most unlikely to be out on the streets at the crack of dawn. Most of this crowd have probably followed the Sanhedrin across the city; they will include the people who were taunting Peter as they waited for that first trial to conclude. Many of them probably work for the Jewish establishment. But whoever they are, they have their sympathies. They don't particularly like Pilate; and given the chance, they are quite happy to shout for Barabbas. They might not be Zealots themselves, but it is a rare chance to put one over on the Romans. As for Jesus – most of them have seen him, and everyone has a view on him; they have no special reason to wish him harm, but they have to listen to what their lords and masters tell them. In short, like most crowds, they are very easily won over. They don't have much to go on themselves, so they borrow someone else's point of view.
One of Mark's goals in this book is to bring everyone to a verdict about Jesus. He gives us the facts; he lets the evidence speak for itself; and he calls us to make our own decision about Jesus Christ. Everyone must reach their own verdict, just as Pilate did so unwillingly in this story; and just as the crowd did, for all the wrong reasons. Many today follow the example of the crowd and simply borrow a ready-made opinion from someone else, swayed by a sound-bite or inherited prejudice.
Secondly, look at Jesus. Mark, as we have noted several times, wants to show his readers how to prepare for suffering. He wants to warn them that if the Lord Jesus had to face injustice and hatred, the same would be true for them. He wants them to see how the Lord Jesus faced all that, so that when the time came for their own personal passion story, they would know how to stand firm. If we are Christians, we need to know that too. We have already seen what Jesus told his friends at Gethsemane: if you want to defeat temptation, watch and pray! But the challenges would not finish with that night. Remember what Jesus warned his disciples in 13:9. Until Christ returns, this is how it will always be. In many parts of the world Christians face just such treatment today. One day the same may happen to us: meanwhile, we have our own battles to fight; and we must learn to be on our guard, to watch and pray; and to follow the example of our Master. It is worth recalling what Jesus has already been through before he faces Pilate. In the course of a totally sleepless night, he has struggled with the horror of death and the dread of God's wrath as he's wrestled in solitary prayer; he has been betrayed by an ally and deserted by his friends; he has faced volleys of unjust accusations by people who hate him; and then he's been beaten up – all in the last twelve hours. In other words, before this story even begins, he has encountered more trauma and provocation than we ever will.
Throughout his life, the Lord Jesus has obeyed the will of God actively. He has spoken, taught, healed, worked; now we find his obedience taking a different form. It is striking just how little Jesus now says or does. In fact, all the way through from his arrest to his death, Mark records only three times when Jesus speaks at all. Assaulted, he does not protest. Accused, he does not defend himself. He simply follows the path laid out for him. He makes no attempt to avoid the cross. He treads the path of a humble servant all the way to that dreadful death. How can he do that? Simply, he did what Peter and friends did not do. He watched and prayed. The victory was won at Gethsemane in solitary prayer among the trees. How do we stand firm when we are accused or persecuted? We watch and pray – ahead of time.
Thirdly, let's look at Barabbas (vv.6-7,15). All the gospel writers mention Barabbas, but while Mark's account of Jesus and Pilate is barely half the length of what we find in the other three gospels, he tells us more about Barabbas than any of them do. Mark clearly wants us to think about this man. What does he want us to see? Whatever his precise motives, Barabbas is a murderer. In one of the frequent failed uprisings of those days, he has killed people – perhaps he even managed to kill a Roman soldier, or maybe it was just some Jewish collaborator. He is a big sinner; a certainty for crucifixion, he fully deserves what he is going to get. By rights, it should be Barabbas carrying his cross out to Golgotha with the other criminals, that spring Friday morning. But instead, the soldier who comes and takes him from his cell this morning does not drag him outside the city walls to the place of execution. Instead, he leads him to the gates of the fortress, pushes him outside and turns his back, Go on – you're free! And that is what the cross of Jesus does. The cross substitutes an innocent victim for a guilty criminal, so that the guilty criminal walks free. Barabbas is you and me – the offenders, the criminals, the guilty ones: released from our cell, taken out into the light, and set free. Like us, Barabbas deserves his sentence. Like us, Barabbas contributes nothing to his freedom except for his sin. As with us, the action takes place somewhere else while he reaps the benefit – just outside the city, where the innocent victim is nailed to the cross and takes the wrath of God on himself; and meanwhile we walk free.
There is, however, another character in this story. God the Father is unseen, but he is here. None of these events happens by accident or by merely human decision. How could Jesus make that detailed prediction in 10:33-34? He knew it all in advance, because he knew the plan. Jesus knows who is in charge – the unseen hand of God the Father is behind all these events. Why does Jesus not die under flogging, as so many others did? It is because God has decreed that he shall die on the cross. Prophecy said he must be lifted up, not die on the floor. Prophecy said he must be hung on a tree; so he dies on a wooden cross – because it is in God's plan. Again, why are so many people implicated in the story of Jesus' death? There's a word which recurs time and again in this story – the Greek word paradidomi, which is sometimes translated 'betray', sometimes 'hand over' and sometimes 'turn over', but is really all the same word. Judas hands over Jesus to the chief priests. The chief priests hand him over to Pilate (v.1). Pilate hands him over to the soldiers to mock and crucify him (v.15). With every handing over, the guilt is spread around. So Judas is to blame; the chief priests are to blame; the crowd is to blame; Pilate is to blame; the soldiers are to blame; and we, each and every sinner, are to blame. God wants it made unmistakably clear that we are all to blame – and it is Jesus who can release us all.
History marches on. Governments rise and fall; wars are won and lost. But whatever historic moments this world may have seen, Christians know there was one supreme moment in time, a day when the earth witnessed its greatest drama of victory and defeat, one moment above all when history was made. In vv.16-32 we come at last to that moment. Christians know that there has never been a moment like this. When Jesus Christ went to the cross, that over-used expression was literally true: the world would never be the same again.
As we look closely at this account of the cross, we notice at once how little Mark tells us about the physical ordeal that Jesus has to undergo. In this whole episode, Mark uses only a single word in v.15 to describe the flogging and two words in v.24 to tell us they crucify him. We have to ask, Why does Mark, this most gritty and hard-edged of all the gospels, say little or nothing about the whips and the nails, the lacerations and the wounds, the long slow torture of death by crucifixion? There are two reasons. One is that most of his first readers in Rome already know the dreadful details. It is recognised as the extreme punishment, understood to be so unspeakably awful that the great Cicero, a century earlier, said that 'even the mere word, cross, must remain far not only from the lips of the citizens of Rome, but also from their thoughts, their eyes, their ears'. But on the other hand, crucifixion is also quite common, particularly in times of turbulence and upheaval. The Roman authorities see it as quite normal to crucify many hundreds after rebellions, to deter people from ever again daring to oppose their rule. That will certainly happen forty years later, when the Jews rebel against Rome and the Temple is destroyed.
The second reason is more important. Mark does not dwell on the physical horrors of the cross because he knows they are not the most important part of the picture. Although it is what we would naturally dwell on, there is something even greater and more significant going on. So while he does not forget or ignore the physical dimension, and throughout the story he gives us reminders of that aspect of Jesus' suffering, his focus is elsewhere. Mark's focus, this day of days, is on the meaning of the cross.
We begin in v.16, still at the scene of Pilate's temporary headquarters in Jerusalem. These soldiers – the Greek word speira indicates several hundred men – have come up with Pilate from his official base in Caesarea, probably local Gentile recruits who have no more love for the Jews than Pilate himself. Jesus is now entrusted to their tender care and they see this as a bit of light relief from the routine of garrison life. They now indulge themselves in abusing him (vv.17-20). Why not – he's as good as dead now. They've heard this prisoner is claiming to be king of the Jews, presumably one of those irritating rebels they keep having to hunt down. So they find a purple robe to wrap round him – it may be no more than someone's old cloak or blanket, but the point is that purple is the colour of empire – and from thorn twigs they create a wreath to crown him with. The crown of thorns is not intended as an instrument of torture, although it will certainly hurt him. It is a parody of the common portrayal of emperors, wearing what are known as radiate crowns with rays of light shining out from their heads to lend them the appearance of gods. They give him a staff as a sceptre but they use it to strike him as they spit on him. They kneel before him in pretended homage. It's a scene of grotesque abuse from beginning to end. This is what we do with 'kings'!
But soon it is time to go. They take Jesus outside the city to the place of execution. Following common practice, he has to carry his own cross, or at least, the cross-beam – it's part of the humiliation – through the streets for everyone to see and take note. But weakened by the flogging he simply cannot do it (v.21). Mark tells this as if at least one of the family is known to his first readers in Rome. None of the other gospels mentions Alexander and Rufus; but Paul mentions a Rufus in Romans 16:13 and it could be the same man. Mark would be saying, You know Rufus – well this is how his dad first met Jesus!
Now Jesus arrives at the place known as Golgotha, the place of the skull, which suggests the appearance of a bare, rounded hillock. His walk to the cross is just a few hundred yards. He is now offered an anaesthetic drink – not by the Romans, who have no interest in mitigating the ordeal, but probably, according to tradition, by women from Jerusalem as an act of mercy. We can only imagine what it must have taken for Jesus to refuse the offer. He is determined to endure everything in full and without aid. Finally, around the middle of Friday morning, he is nailed to the cross and hung up to die
Mark completes the crucifixion scene by telling us that the charge against Jesus is inscribed above his head – 'King of the Jews'. The custom is for the charge to be written on a wooden board and paraded to the place of execution along with the criminal, before being fixed there for all to see. Jesus' cross is one of three that are hoisted up that morning. On either side there is a criminal, an outlaw (Greek lestes, which is probably best translated by a word like 'bandit'), like Barabbas who should by rights have occupied the third. Again there is an echo of Scripture, this time Isaiah 53:12, another passage which calls up the theme of innocent suffering, foretelling the Servant who suffers in the deliberate purposes of God. (By the way, some manuscripts of Mark include that verse from Isaiah at this point; the quotation was then labelled as v.28 of this chapter.)
So Jesus hangs dying on the cross, in the company of rebels and surrounded by torrents of abuse, even from the two criminals. Luke's account implies that one of them changes his mind (Luke 23:40-43); but in Mark's stark account we read only of how the Lord Jesus is isolated and abused even in his dying hours. As we read vv.16-32, the spotlight falls most strongly on the words that are said – not by Jesus, for in Mark's account here he utters not a word – but by his enemies, one group after another: soldiers, passers-by, Jewish leaders, fellow-victims. Here is the really remarkable thing – all that they say is true. Even the lies are true! Jesus goes to his death as the target of volley after volley of hateful insults, yet they are taunts that are ironically accurate. It's with the words of three true taunts that Mark points us to Jesus' true identity and mission.
The first of these taunts is 'King of the Jews', which as we have seen is a 'translation' of the Jewish idea of Messiah or Christ into terms that Pilate could understand. In v.32 that both expressions, Christ and King of Israel, are used in the same breath: they mean much the same. Now see how it is used as a taunt against Jesus, beginning with vv.17-20a. The soldiers have done Jesus up as a king; acclaiming him as 'king of the Jews' is the whole point of their game. To them it can mean only that he has set himself up in defiance of their emperor – that he has dared to challenge the might of imperial Rome. How pitiful an idea that is, now, as they look on this bloodied, gasping, half-collapsing figure who is entirely at their mercy. 'King of the Jews'! We find the words again in v.26, this time in the notice pinned above Jesus' head. This time the taunt comes from Pilate, directed not just at Jesus but at the entire despised Jewish nation, his message being 'see what will happen if any of you dares to rebel'. We hear it again in v.32a from the chief priests and scribes, two of the groups involved in Jesus' trial who have now come out to gloat at their success.
'King of the Jews' from the soldiers; from Pilate; from the Jewish leaders. None of them is serious: none of them believes it is true. A king should lead an army; a Messiah should reign in triumph. But ironically, it is true! King of the Jews is just what he is. After the long centuries of waiting, after all the prophets have said about him, after four hundred years of silence when God seemed to be doing nothing, Messiah is here, their promised Christ has arrived; astonishingly, their King is reigning from the cross – reigning with a crown of thorns on his head. There is something significant about those thorns – for how and when did thorns come into the world? Remember what the Lord said to Adam, that day of the first sin in the Garden of Eden (Gen 3:17b-18). Ever since, thorns have been part of our lives. Thorns are a sign of the curse. They take us back to the Fall, back to our sin. Now as Jesus hangs on the cross that morning, he wears the thorns – he wears the curse for us. He carries the curse that affects the whole of humanity, descended from Adam and poisoned by sin; he takes it to the cross and deals with the curse for us; for people of every nation and language, not just for the Jews. He wins a kingdom from all of mankind, no longer from Israel alone. King of the Jews – King of us all – it is true!
The second taunt is heard in vv.29-31: 'He saved others, but he can't save himself'. Jesus has been crucified in a public place, deliberately so, for crucifixion was always intended to frighten and cow the local populace. Many of the passers-by, clearly, are hostile. They have accepted the line that Jesus is an enemy of the people, a threat to the peace. The chief priests and teachers of the law, meanwhile, have long hated him. They have longed for this day. They chortle to one another, He saved others – that's intended as a reference to Jesus' healing ministry, which no-one could dispute – but he can't save himself. If the first taunt was sarcastic, this one is absolutely straight. In their eyes, Jesus is helpless, of course he is; and his very helplessness is the final proof that he is a fraud. His claims are empty; and now they have proved it by getting him nailed to that cross, pinned to a wooden frame – what clearer picture of powerlessness could there be? But again, their taunt is true. Jesus cannot save himself. It was not possible for Jesus to save himself if he was to achieve his mission. Yes, he had the power to come down from the cross; the nails could not have held him back; but then he would not have done what he came to do. The truth of what he has come for is explained by Jesus' own words in 10:45. Jesus has to give his life – so he must stay on the cross until his life has departed. Jesus came to lay down his life for others, to save others; and not just to heal their bodies but to save them completely, from the hell he is even now experiencing. As Jesus hears the words flung at him, he knows what he is doing; and he knows that beyond their understanding, their words are true. He saved others, but he could not save himself.
For the third taunt, look again at vv.29-30: 'Destroy the Temple and rebuild it in three days': on the face of it, a strange thing for anyone to say. It came up at his trial before the Sanhedrin in 14:57-58. That claim is now recycled by onlookers at the cross who have heard it passed on. Now in fact, this we know this is not what Jesus originally said. We know from John 2:19-21 that Jesus was not talking about destroying the great edifice of the Temple; he was saying, If you destroy this 'temple', my body, I will raise it up again in three days. Again, on the lips of his abusers, this taunt is a reminder of his weakness. 'You're going to tear down the Temple, are you? I'm sorry, when was that going to start? It still looked pretty solid when I went past this morning!' It is just one more insult to throw; but in reality, it is true! They are destroying the temple of his body – life is ebbing away with every tortured breath – but that was not the end of the story! The cross is not the end of the story! Without knowing it, those onlookers are reminding the Lord Jesus of the resurrection that is coming soon. I wonder if in some unexpected and certainly unintentional way, this final taunt even brings him comfort. What their words really mean is that on the third day, he will be raised to life again! The taunting accusers will not have the last word, because beyond the cross is the empty tomb. The body destroyed will be raised again. This is not a day of defeat, whatever it might look like. This is victory.
Years before, at the start of his earthly ministry, Jesus was baptised (1:9-11). It was a baptism of repentance, but Jesus had no need to repent, not one single sin to turn away from; yet he was baptised with sinners as one of us. Now at the close of his ministry, Jesus is executed: a criminal's execution, though Jesus has never committed a single crime. Yet he is crucified with sinners, numbered with the transgressors, dying our death, bearing our sin, wearing our curse. This is the true King of the Jews – the true King of all, who is reigning now, not from the cross but from his heavenly throne, the Lord of history who will return in glory as high as his humiliation was deep. This is the Christ, who could not save himself, because his mission was to lay down his own life to save us. And this is he who will be raised again, the temple destroyed but rebuilt in three days, for the cross is not the end.
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After the game, an emphatic fist pump, Warriors point guard Stephen Curry — as he does after he hits a 3-pointer — patted his heart twice and pointed to the heavens. The record was his.
He knocked down his second 3-pointer of the night at the 6:49 mark of the second quarter. That put him at 270 3-pointers for 2012-13, the most ever in a season. The previous mark was 269, set by then-Seattle guard Ray Allen in 2005-06.
CURRY: "I was nervous, to be honest with you. I had butterflies. It was like the elephant in the room. That first shot I took was a heat check, just to see what was going on tonight. After that, it was trying not to press, just let it come. But it was hard to keep it out of my head. It was a big relief when that last one went in."


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Put to the sequel litmus test, queasily spectacular Vengeance would only rate a footnote without a strong original to exploit - or a protracted telephone-terrorist subplot to steal from Dirty Harry 1. [19May1995 Pg.01.D]
In Die Hard With a Vengeance, McTiernan stages individual sequences with great finesse (there's a terrific bit with Willis and five thugs in an elevator), yet they don't add up to a taut, dread-ridden whole.
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All the explosions and fights are filmed with consummate skill, and are thrilling in their own right. But that's where it stops. The pacing is erratic and the level of tension ebbs and flows.
Die Hard With a Vengeance is basically a wind-up action toy, cleverly made, and delivered with high energy. It delivers just what it advertises, with a vengeance.
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Less hand-to-hand combat, but still a very violent sequel.
What Parents Need to Know
Parents need to know that Die Hard with a Vengeance includes constant violent episodes and a series of threats of violence. (This installment in the Die Hard franchise does, however, have less hand-to-hand combat and individual violence. Instead, it includes larger explosions that target an increased number of innocent citizens.) Both good guys and bad guys use vulgar language and physical violence to get their points across. McClane drives recklessly when in pursuit of the villains. Parents may seriously want to consider the effects of watching this film in post-9/11 America. The bad guys blow up city blocks, plant bombs in parks, and target the subway system. It may be a little too close to real life for comfort. In addition, as with all of the Die Hard films, the protagonist John seeks justice through his own means (and contrary to rules of law).
Messages: "Good" and "bad" are clearly distinguished but violence is used to solve all problems. It presents a very complex image of government, police, and civilians (traitors, incompetents, and vigilantes).
Role models: The film includes individuals who risk their lives for those of strangers and more problematic characters who live to risk others' lives. As in all of the Die Hard films, the police appear wholly inept. The villains appear as stereotypical evil Germans. McClane actually seems to put fewer innocent people in jeopardy in this version. This movie is the first in the series to include a woman in an active role (aside from Molly McClane). She is, though, a ruthless killer.
Violence: Exploding city block, lots of gunplay, knife fight, throat slitting, physical violence by a gang of African American men, chain fight, explosion of a NYC subway system, bank robbery, lots of blood, near drowning, bomb planted in a school.
Sex: Brief moments of rough foreplay between two of the villains.
Language: Racial slurs, constant use of "f--k," plus frequent swearing by both good guys and bad guys that includes "s--t," "pr--k," "ass," "Goddamn" and more.
Consumerism: Not applicable
Drinking, drugs and smoking: John is hung over when the film starts.
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Backstage at the Emmys last year, reporters were squirming — and not just because of the ill-fitting rental tuxes and too-tight gowns. As "Modern Family" rolled to its third straight Emmy win for comedy series (after earlier pulling in prizes for supporting actor and actress and directing), the usual air of ennui seeped into the press room. Bring us fresh faces! Bring us the excitement of the new! And, while you're at it, three more servings of that delicious chocolate mousse! (There's a reason thoses tuxes pinch at the waistband.)
Of course, this being the Emmys, the song remains the same. Once nominated, always nominated, until your show leaves the air or your third stint in rehab forces an unplanned hiatus. But there was the sense last year that a certain "Modern Family" fatigue was setting in. If both Barack Obama and Mitt Romney claim you as their favorite, you've probably dulled the edges sufficiently to lose the title of television's best comedy. (And it has. "Louie," "Veep," the excellent final season of "30 Rock" and, having had an early look, the upcoming return of "Arrested Development" all turned in better years.)
Not that any of this will keep Emmy voters from checking off a particular box out of habit. (How else do you explain the Jon Cryer win last year?) But there does come a time when the possibility of the new enters balloters' minds. (Just ask Matthew Weiner, whose "Mad Men" lost drama series — and 16 other Emmy categories last September.) That's how it goes sometimes: One minute you're on top of the world, the next minute some secretary's running you over with a lawn mower.
A few thoughts as we head into the nomination season.
Recognize the season, not the life span
Live by this and not only do you eliminate the robotic rewarding of shows past their primes, but you can also reconsider a program like "30 Rock," which turned in as perfect a series finale season as we've ever seen. Had enough of "Mad Men's" musings about how one can never escape the past and truly change? Check out "Justified's" outstanding fourth season, which explores the same themes with twice the energy and entertainment value. The show's effortless charm tends to mask its ambitions, but they're right there — all in the service of a great yarn.
Cancel Memorial Day weekend plans
Don't think that you can forsake the DVR just because it's mid-May. Sundance Channel's haunting character study "Rectify," which premiered last month, might be the year's best new series. Netflix's "Arrested Development" revival will drop 15 episodes on May 26, the same day Steven Soderbergh's Liberace biopic, "Behind the Candelabra," airs. Forget the barbecues. You're staying indoors Memorial Day weekend.
Enough waiting: Show them the love
Nick Offerman, "Parks and Recreation." Thanks to the "Modern Family" blockade in the supporting comedy actor category, Offerman's never made it in. This is a shame. Even when Offerman's bacon-loving, government-hating government worker has just a couple of scenes in a particular "Parks and Recreation" episode, he creates a few delightful moments of comic brilliance. (Making Leslie's wedding ring by using a light fixture, blow torch and waffle iron ranked as a personal favorite.)
Andrew Lincoln, "The Walking Dead." Survivalist leader. Loving father. Zombie fighter. And this season, he finally cracked and, whew, did you feel the grief and fatigue pouring out of him.
Kerry Washington, "Scandal." She may well have surpassed Claire Danes this year as Queen of Political Soaps. Hand her the crown.
Adam Driver, "Girls." Shirtless, sprinting prince or mentally unhinged rapist? Lena Dunham can't decide, maybe because Driver is so convincing playing both sides of this lost young man.
Enough already: Show them the door
Glenn Close, "Damages." We know it's the show's last season. And, for the few still watching, it was a fine send-off. But Close has already won twice and for better, meatier story lines.
Michael C. Hall, "Dexter." Five nominations in a row. We were on board for the first four, but the show ran out of ideas last season. This year it ran out of ambition.
At least one of the men from "Modern Family." Room must be made in the supporting comedy category for a member or two of the "Arrested Development" cast. And Nick Offerman. (See above.) Eric Stonestreet won his second Emmy last year, and as much as we enjoy his Cameron, voters should go in a different direction.
Jon Hamm, "Mad Men." If only because we have the feeling that he's getting tired of sitting in the audience looking happy for other people.
• At least one Netflix series wins a nomination. (We'd err on the side of "Arrested Development.")
• Voters will again shut out the broadcast networks from the drama series lineup.
• A show or an actor, one you hold near to your heart (and who may love bacon as much as life itself) will be passed over.
• You will pour yourself a drink (something brown, since clear liquor is for rich women on diets) and get over it before the sun rises.
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NEW YORK – Disappointing earnings from a range of companies gave major indexes their third loss this week.
The stock prices of Morgan Stanley, UnitedHealth Group and others sank after they turned in weaker quarterly results. Morgan Stanley reported overall earnings slipped 12 percent from a year earlier. UnitedHealth's first-quarter earnings sank 14 percent.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 81 points to close at 14,537, a loss of 0.6 percent.
The Standard & Poor's 500 index fell 10 points to 1,541, a decline of 0.7 percent.
The Nasdaq composite was down 38 points to end at 3,166, or 1.2 percent. Another loss in Apple, the Nasdaq's biggest component, pushed the index lower.
More stocks fell than rose on the New York Stock Exchange. Volume was higher than average at 3.9 billion shares.


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Hartsville, S.C. - The Coker Cobras Baseball Team scored runs in seven out of nine innings on their way to a 14-9 defeat of the St. Augustine College Falcons in a non-conference baseball match-up on Tuesday afternoon. The win improves the Cobras to 6-6 on the year.
Coker held a commanding 8-1 lead through five innings, but the Falcons posted four runs in the sixth to cut the lead to just three runs. The Cobras answered with four runs of their own on a pair of RBI triples from Kyle Walker (Centrailia, IL) and BK Harfst (Arvada, CO), an RBI double from Trey Lynch (Florence, SC) and an RBI single Karl Ankersen (Mt. Pleasant, SC), giving Coker a 12-5 lead. St. Augustine and Coker traded runs in the seventh and the Falcons plated three runs in the eighth, while the Cobras scored just one.
Justin Collier (Laurens, SC) (1-0) earned the win for Coker, allowing just one run on two hits in five innings of work.
Daniel Moore took the loss for St. Augustine, allowing seven runs on eight hits in four innings of work.
Leading the Cobras at the plate was Harfst, going 4-for-5 with two triples, a double, five RBIs and a run scored, while Walker was 3-for-4 with a pair of triples, two RBIs and two runs scored. Nate Donovan (Matthews, NC) was 3-for-6 with two doubles, two RBIs and a run scored, and Ankersen finished the day 2-for-4 with an RBI, two runs scored, and three stolen bases.
For the Falcons, Moore was 2-for-4 with a double and three RBIs, while Rashad Ingram was 2-for-3 with a double, an RBI And three runs scored. Clyde Fuller came off the bench to go 2-for-2 with two RBIs and two runs scored for St. Augustine.
The Cobras return to the diamond on Wednesday, as they travel to Augusta, GA, to face the Augusta State Jaguars at 2:00 p.m.


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Melbourne: Brief biographies of the women's finalists at the 2013 Australian Open on Saturday (prefix denotes seeding):
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Victoria Azarenka (Belarus)
Age: 23
Seeded: One
Grand Slam titles: 1 (Australian Open 2012)
The previously hot-headed Belarusian has spent a year at world number one after capturing her maiden major title at Melbourne Park last year, but a loss to Li in Saturday's final would see her lose the top ranking to American great Serena Williams.
Left home in Minsk at the age of 14 to train in Arizona. A tall, powerful right-hander, she became the first female grand slam finalist from Belarus since Natasha Zvereva reached the final at Roland Garros in 1988.
Azarenka had been an inconsistent performer at grand slam level until 2011 when she made the French Open quarter-finals and semi-finals at Wimbledon, losing to eventual champion Petra Kvitova.
Following her Melbourne Park breakthrough in 2012, Azarenka was dumped from the fourth round at the French Open, but made the semi-finals at Wimbledon and the final at the U.S. Open, where she was beaten by Serena Williams.
She also won mixed doubles gold and a singles bronze at the London Olympics.
Path to the final:
1st round - beat Monica Niculescu (Romania) 6-1 6-4
2nd round - beat Eleni Daniilidou (Greece) 6-1 6-0
3rd round - beat Jamie Hampton (U.S.) 6-4 4-6 6-2
4th round - Elena Vesnina (Russia) 6-1 6-1
QF - beat Svetlana Kuznetsova (Russia) 7-5 6-1
SF - beat 29-Sloane Stephens (U.S.) 6-1 6-4
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Li Na (China)
Age: 30
Seeded: Six
Grand Slam titles: 1 (French Open 2011)
Li Na has continued her love affair with the year's first grand slam, where she has made at least the semi-finals in three of the past four years.
Her match against Azarenka will be her second final at Melbourne Park after losing the 2011 title to Belgium's Kim Clijsters.
Like many elite Chinese athletes, Li was hand-picked to train with the country's Soviet-style sports system from a young age, but was initially identified as a badminton player before being moved into tennis.
Li spent much of her career clashing with China's tennis administration over pay, training and national duty, and gave up the game for a period to study media at university.
She returned to the tour in 2004 to capture the first WTA title for China in Guangzhou, and became the first Chinese to reach a grand slam quarter-final at Wimbledon in 2006.
Li struggled with injuries during 2007-08, and missed out on a bronze medal at the Beijing Olympics, but began to play her best tennis from 2009 after being permitted to manage her own career and training with a handful of other top women players in a landmark decision by China's tennis association.
She advanced to a second grand slam quarter-final at the 2009 U.S. Open, and a maiden major semi-final at the 2010 Australian Open, which made her the first Chinese player to crack the top 10.
The late-blooming Li captured the 2011 French Open title at the age of 29, where she defeated Francesca Schiavone to become the first Asian to win a grand slam singles title. That gave her a career-high ranking of four, equal to the record for an Asian player held by Japan's Kimiko Date-Krumm.
Li spent the next year and a half in the grand slam wildnerness, until her revival at Melbourne Park this week under new coach Carlos Rodriguez, who guided Belgian Justine Henin to seven grand slam titles.
Path to the final:
1st round - beat Sesil Karatantcheva (Kazhakstan) 6-1 6-3
2nd round - beat Olga Govortsova (russia) 6-2 7-5
3rd round - beat 27-Sorana Cirstea (Romania) 6-4 6-1
4th round - beat 18-Julia Goerges (Germany) 7-6 6-1
QF - beat 4-Agnieszka Radwanska (Poland) 7-5 6-3
SF - beat 2-Maria Sharapova (Russia) 6-2 6-2 (Compiled by Greg Stutchbury/Ian Ransom; Editing by Amlan Chakraborty)


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|2012-09-08, 21:36
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That one guy
Join Date: Nov 2011
That is a problem. Though the theory is that there is no heat and just pure energized sub-atomic particles are released in a controlled rate where said particles are then drained of their energy when they reach their designated sources. Or the particles themselves are fired...
When the energy can't be converted is when a crap load of heat is produced. But that's a problem which was solved since R:Genesis.
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Titans Test Team Pilot
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Location: The Elysium
|2012-09-08, 21:45
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Senior Member
Join Date: Aug 2011
As for what'll happen when the Silverback gets out of it's "Beta Phase", read Chapter 7.
|2012-09-08, 21:53
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I am no one
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Inside your head
@ Eras
Handwave, handwave.
Though, theoretically its possible, if very complex sequence and impossible with normal physic. (note: izuru might not even think about it, it's OUR job)
The sequence is like this
1. Bullet is fired
2. Bullet converted and returned as data and energy (quantization)
3. The resulting energy is insufficient because they will never return with 100% efficiency (=conservation of energy is obeyed)
4. Hence I.S. use their own power to cover the missing amount of energy required for conversion.
5. Repeat infinitum
Simply put, I.S. has limitless source of energy and material, just not infinite endurance because it produce finite amount of energy per unit of time to construct said materials. They need more than 24 hours to rebuild severely damaged armor, after all.
|2012-09-08, 22:06
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I am no one
Join Date: Apr 2010
Location: Inside your head
There's a reason Age is skeptic about man-woman conflict.
The cost efficiency of I.S. are so high that fighting them with conventional weapon is not worth the money and casualties, even assuming it's possible -and easy- with the evolution of military tactic and hardware improvement.
Yeah, I hate how cheap it is.
|2012-09-08, 22:10
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Join Date: Feb 2008
Location: The Elysium
Re-write plan:
Tsurugi having this kind of fighting style:
Thinking of a way to have her make up to Inami's efforts by saving him from a bunch of drones when he's heavily injured to do the work.
|2012-09-08, 22:15
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Nah, just bad characterization (not like I can do better but still) and spotlight placement. Where else Tactical WMD attack overshadowed by harem antic?
Everyone in the main cast is obviously scream MAIN CHARACTERS: SUPPOSEDLY UNIQUE
|2012-09-08, 23:26
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They always mirror the advancement of real life fighting equipment, particularly armored vehicle and aircraft. Combined force of specialized unit is better than a whole corps of general purpose unit as modern warfare put it. (no, not Call of Duty)
OTOH, Mass produced mecha always aim for general purpose, because they're inspired by mooks. Main characters got specialization for uniqueness reason (and causing me grief when I try to design fanon machines)
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That one guy
Join Date: Nov 2011
The idea was that R:Evolution's equipment of 6 dagger bits aren't really going to cut it for heavy duty fighting, so a special "gladiator" set of equipment is used for it.
The original equipment of 6 dagger bits is actually part of a high speed space type capable of even atmospheric escape on its own.
The gladiator type is kind of heavy 1v1 but in actuality its a very balanced set of equipment that can answer most combat requirements(think Destiny Gundam)
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Union Pacific Railroad plans to enhance Colorado's transportation infrastructure by investing $7.5 million in the rail line that runs between the Colorado/Kansas border and Deer Trail.
The project is in progress and is scheduled to be completed by the end of December.
UPs work includes replacing rail in various locations on the mainline, renewing the surfaces at 22 grade crossings and replacing five switches.
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Lutherans elect a woman as a leader, following Episcopalians: Where are the Catholic women in leadership?
The Evangelical Lutheran Church in America, the largest U.S. Lutheran body, yesterday elected Elizabeth Eaton [1] as the denomination's presiding bishop; Eaton joins Katharine Jefferts-Schori [2], who was elected presiding bishop of the Episcopal Church in 2006, as top church leader among mainline churches. Though both women are trailblazers in their own churches, other Protestant bodies have long ago elected women in top leadership positions, such as the Rev. Dr. Sharon Watkins [3], president of the Christian Church (Disciples of Christ).
Christian women of all denominations have something to celebrate when the last bit of the glass ceiling is cracked in their own churches. Unfortunately for Catholic women, little has moved in introducing women to the highest level of church governance, save for the few female diocesan chancellors. Roman Catholic canon law ties governance to ordination; hence, as long as ordination remains closed to women--and Pope Francis recently reiterated John Paul II's definitive teaching [4] closing ordination to women--women will be shut out of church governance.
Or then again, maybe not: Many of the obstacles to women in governance are canonical; in other words, canon law could be changed to permit a woman to serve, for example, as head of a Vatican office. With many women serving churches as pastoral leaders and an ever-dwindling number of priests, perhaps canon law could be altered to allow a women to serve with the title pastor in a parish--though that would require rending the connection between parish leadership and leadership in the eucharist.
Or, perhaps, as Phyllis Zagano has been arguing for years, the church could again open the door to women in the diaconate--for which there is ample evidence in the history of the church. But until one or both of those happens, Catholics who wish to see greater leadership roles for women in Catholicism will have to be content with applauding their advance in other churches while wishing from something more from their own.


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By Sheng Lee (@shengdanger)
Winter break is over and the spring semester is in full bloom. For many students, their winter break was spent in another country where they participated in research and various learning experiences.
The University of Wisconsin Oshkosh offers three types of study abroad experiences: faculty-led programs, direct enroll programs and student exchange programs. To learn more about study abroad programs at UW Oshkosh, visit the Office of International Education, or attend the study abroad fair on Thursday, Feb. 9, in Reeve Memorial Union from 10 a.m.-2 p.m.
As stated under UWO's Office of International Education website, study abroad is a transformative experience which leads to personal growth. It allows for active engagement in pursuit of knowledge and skills while offering options for advancing unique and diverse personal and career goals.
According to the Collegiate Employment Research Institute at Michigan State University, you will gain 12 career essentials by choosing a study abroad experience:
1.) Developing professional competencies
2.) Communicating effectively
3.) Solving problems
4.) Balancing work and life
5.) Embracing change
6.) Working effectively in a team
7.) Working in a diverse environment
8.) Managing time and priorities
9.) Navigating across boundaries
10.) Acquiring knowledge
11.) Thinking critically
12.) Performing with integrity
Not only will these skills help you develop personally, these are skills employers value from employees who have studied or interned abroad:
- Interacting with people who hold different interests, values, perspectives
- Understanding cultural differences in the workplace
- Adapting to situations of change
- Gaining new knowledge from experiences
- Ability to work independently
- Undertaking tasks that are unfamiliar
- Applying information in a new or broader contexts
- Identifying new problem/alternatives solutions
- Working effectively with co-workers
Want to learn more about what life is like in a foreign country? Check out The BIG Guide to Living and Working Overseas.
(Source: Gardner, Gross, and Steglitz 2008, Unpacking your study abroad experience: critical reflection for workplace competencies. CERI Research Brief 1-2008. Collegiate employment research institute, East Lansing, MI: Michigan State University)


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Per the NEHGS's The Weekly Genealogist, with a link to the Open Culture website that featured the good news about the free maps online:
The NYPL announces the release with the explanation below:
The Lionel Pincus & Princess Firyal Map Division is very proud to announce the release of more than 20,000 cartographic works as high resolution downloads. We believe these maps have no known US copyright restrictions... .
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Ford, Jessica and Bree arrive at Llanfair after trick-or-treating. Bree asks Jessica to go to Aunt Natalie's party. While Viki talks to Jessica about Natalie, Clint shuns Ford, who tries making conversation. The men start arguing until Ford warns that he's not going anywhere. Clint better get used to it or prepare for another heart-attack. He sees Viki and Jessica listening in and agrees to tolerate Ford. They shake hands. Bree leans on the desk. The letter from Kim to Clint falls into her Halloween bag. Bree heads out with Jessica and Ford. Viki's happy by Clint's change of heart. They look at Viki's old wedding dress Tina left behind and remember their special day. Later, Clint can't find the letter that was addressed to him.
At the Buchanan Mansion, Rex asks Cutter and Kim's friend, who are in disguise, "Who's hiding under those masks?" Roxy tugs on Rex's sleeve, who invites them inside. Nearby, Natalie warns Aubrey to keep her claws out of Rex. Across the room, Tina looks at Gigi's photo on the mantle and says, "The dead girl." Cord hushes her, saying she's Rex's deceased fiancée. Tina explains how she came to Llanfair and insists on telling Rex that she's alive! Tina rushes to Rex, and explains she has something to say, but hears Rex is going to be Brody's best man. Tina warns that Cord's going to stand up for Brody. Roxy tells Tina to shut it, and the women argue. Privately, Kim's friend admits to Cutter she got the feeling, when seeing Rex, that he was important. While Cutter goes to get them drinks, she sees a Halloween card, opens it and hears Gigi's message to Shane. "That's my mom," Shane says, joining her. When Shane introduces himself, and asks for her name, she rushes off. Cutter tries going after her, but Aubrey has a hold of a piece of his mummy costume. It begins unraveling around his chest. "Wait," Aubrey snaps. "I know those nipples!" She counts his abs and only knows one man with seven of them. She runs after Cutter. Rex joins Shane and asks who he was talking to. Shane didn't get a chance to find out. Rex rushes after Aubrey. Natalie and Brody find Ford, Jessica and Bree at the door. While the adults have a civil conversation, Bree finds the letter in her bag and thinks someone's tricking her. On their way out, Bree throws the letter on the ground.
Cutter finds Kim's friend in the stables. She feels horrible for Shane. Cutter puts her mask back on. Aubrey appears, sees Cutter and vows to make him and his friend pay. Rex appears and wonders if Cutter brought his friend to try to convince him that she's Gigi. He orders her to take the mask off. Cutter stops Rex from pulling it off and rushes out with Kim's friend. Later, Tina and Cord enter alone. He wonders if she's using Natalie and Brody's wedding to get them back together. Tina kisses Cord. He pulls back and says, "This is trouble." She convinces him otherwise. They kiss again.
Back in the mansion, Rex makes a toast to Natalie and Brody then stares at Gigi's photo. Outside, Cutter finds the letter Bree dropped. He grabs Kim's friend and runs off. Rex appears and finds her mask.
Ford brings Bree and Jessica home. She thanks him for going to Natalie's party with her but doesn't know what she's going to do about Liam's DNA test.
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I'm at work, where I have a P4 winXP machine.
I bought 5 surplus P4 machines with 512mb ram and 40gb HDDs for my community center's library. They have *CRT* monitors. Beat that!
My gaming setup used to be two computers (pentium4 and a q9450) both hooked up to dual-input FW9012 and P260 trinitron CRTs. That was two computers both running at 3500x1200 and putting a combined weight of about 300lbs on my desk.
We almost didn't need to heat the apartment in winter.
Until very recently I had a number of dell P3 ~900MHz desktops that ran quite happily. I still have one, currently running debian and acting as my fileserver. Been running for ~4 years with no issues. Shortly to be replaced with a VM running on a dedicated VM host.
AthlonXP (of the slower kind - 1700+ / 1.46 GHz) is fine too...as long as one chooses properly written software and keeps the machine clean; having few times more RAM and faster HDD than was common back then also helps greatly. I rarely see a typical, home machine which is more snappy, even though they have few times more processing power - but are almost universally held down by bloat, until quite recently by small RAM and, still, by slow HDDs in case of ever more popular laptops.
Too bad the test didn't in
> I'm at work, where I have a P4 winXP machine.
Well, there is no need to be ashamed of the P4 part...
My sister still used the original 386 running Windows 3.1 that I set up for her many years ago. I have thrown out countless computers since then that would blow that system out of the water, but she has no interest in upgrading it.
She just runs a few games and Word 6. I really have no argument to use to convince her to upgrade, because it still does what she wants. There isn't anything that she can't do now. (Obviously she doesn't access the Internet)
(Obviously she doesn't access the Internet)
Reading that made my arms itch like a junkie without a fix.
From the article:
For about the same price as the Core i3-530, the Athlon II X4 635 offers four cores that perform better in applications that rely heavily on multiple threads, such as video encoding, 3D rendering, and Folding@Home. In other uses, such as video games and image processing, these two CPUs perform almost identically. The Athlon II X4 635 leads slightly in overall performance and, as we established on the previous page, in terms of performance value. If that's all you care about when choosing a processor, then your decision has been made.
How can game engines not take advantage of multiple cores? I had no idea this was the case, and find it very surprising given that the PS3 has 7 cores to work with. Are games so lazily programmed that they don't take advantage of that either?
advantages of multiple cores are not so evident when dealing with real-time physics/rendering/etc.
If all your processes must communicate with each other constantly, you lose the benefits of having each process processed by a different core.
I work on flight simulators and we DEPEND on multiple core processors to get everything done at once. What used to take multiple racks of computers can now be done on a single computer with dual quad-core CPUs.
You think IPC is slow on a single machine? Try using reflective memory across multiple computers. Of course we have to handle a bit more than your typical video game since we have to handle hundreds of buttons and switches from multiple crew member stations, night vision, FLIR and day TV cameras, as well as out the window displays.
That's hardly insightful being completely wrong. Physics is one of those tasks that lends itself very well to multi-threading actually.
Its just a completely different way of designing software. Its very hard to find good programmers. Its even harder to find good programmers who are skilled in threaded software design. Just guess how hard it is to find the ones who can debug it
If all your processes must communicate with each other constantly, you lose the benefits of having each process processed by a different core.
This statement is just flat wrong, and hardly insightful. The only time this condition is true is if you are dealing with processors *completely isolated* from each other's memory resources. To my knowledge, there is no such beast (cluster or multi-core system) and hasn't been since the days before MPI and OpenMP (or their predecessors) existed. The only bottlenecks in the above quoted situation are latency and bandwidth so that each process CAN communicate simultaneously with any other process, running
Are games so lazily programmed that they don't take advantage of that either?
Obviously it's not exactly easy to make programs that can run either on multiple cpu's or a single one just as well.
Actually, you just make a multi-threaded program and then set specified threads affinity to available CPUs or run them all on one if only one is available. No real difference here. Setting a thread affinity is one library call. Examining the number of cores and rudimentary thread distribution algorithm would be maybe 200 lines of code.
Obviously, it's very difficult to distribute the load *equally* between cores. You can split AI thread from, physics, data preloaders, networking, input handling, audio, CPU-s
Yeah, you're right, it's all really about having multiple threads in your soft. All these deadlocks, stravations and races blahs are just there to frighten kiddies!
Shouldn't load balancing be the operating systems job?
How can game engines not take advantage of multiple cores? I had no idea this was the case, and find it very surprising given that the PS3 has 7 cores to work with. Are games so lazily programmed that they don't take advantage of that either?
this was the case a couple of years ago, nowadays all major games(dragon age, mass effect 2, battlefield bad company 2, etc..) uses my dual core at 100%
the frostbite engine(used in bfbc2 and bf1943) is even designed to use up to 16 threads http://repi.blogspot.com/2009/11/parallel-futures-of-game-engine.html [blogspot.com]
nowadays all major games(dragon age, mass effect 2, battlefield bad company 2, etc..) uses my dual core at 100%
ORLY? 100%, you say? Presumably the games are running SETI@home or similar to eat up cycles while waiting for the GPU or the other core to finish. That's very kind of them.
Speaking as a PS3 dev, the SPUs are very different to program for than a normal multi-core cpu (and you only get to use five and a half of them anyway, not 7).
On the flip side, everything based on UE3 (which is most big cpu-hungry multi-platform titles these days) is multithreaded to two or three significant threads: Game, rendering, and possibly physics (depending on physics engine used). None of them are SPU threads (though they may use the SPUs for some tasks), so PS3 performance isn't generally as good as the 360's, but in most games it's a non-issue as both platforms go over the 30 fps cap.
On PC, most UE3 games will run best on two cores, with anything above that being unnecessary.
Are games so lazily programmed that they don't take advantage of that either?
Some games now are multi-threaded.
The problem from perspective of game software is that it has to be near real-time. Synchronizing multiple threads in the time available to render a single frame (e.g. at 25fps that 40ms, or at 40fps - 25ms) is a very tricky task. It is more rewarding to invest into optimizing single-threaded engine, while optimizing multi-threaded variant is quite risky, often with bugs showing up only after the game reaches wide masses.
P.S. Same applied btw to video playback softwar
How can game engines not take advantage of multiple cores?
Several reasons.
I'd also question how much is really gained by multithreading here. Gaming is not easily broken down into independent problems- AI, rendering, physics all touch the same data structures. My guess is that multi-threading does some speedup, but not a huge amount due to waiting for data locks. The real advantage of multiple cores is being able to run a browser on a 2nd monitor (or alt tab to it) so you can do more than just game on the thing.
As somebody working in the gaming industry, let me correct you on each of your points.
1) A great many game-related problems can be parallelized quite well. It differs by genre, but most games today could easily split graphics, audio, input processing, game logic and AI into separate threads. Some gaming engines have started to do this. AI is one area that really benefits from multiple threads of execution, so that we can simulate several different outcomes at a time.
2) This was true in the 1970s. We've come a long way since then. From compiler-assisted technology like OpenMP to a variety of higher-level approaches and techniques, multithreaded programming doesn't have to be difficult. Even just making your data immutable, like functional programmers have been trying to teach us for decades, removes many of the IPC woes you mention.
3) This isn't a problem at all. Aside from netbooks, most consumer laptops and virtually all consumer desktops sold since 2006 have had at least two cores. Intel's Core i7 has been out for over a year now, and has seen very good adoption rates. The average number of virtual CPUs (ie. physical, cores or threads) on the average gaming PC today is roughly 2.7. Besides, games shouldn't care how many CPUs are present. They adapt to the available resources. If you have one CPU, we do everything on it. If you have 8, we'll distribute the load appropriately.
4) Where did you hear this from? Again, this was true in 2003, but things have changed a lot since then. Virtually every engine written since then, by a half-decent team, has included mulitprocessor support.
As noted, the PS3 is more of a single core PPC processor plus 6 SSE-on-steroids units. Whilst it's true that parallelism needs to be incorporated into the engine design, the tasks you'd farm out to the SPE's or whatever they're called are very different from what you'd ask core3 to do on your x86 processor.
The CPU in the 360, however, is a genuine triple-core PPC processor.
Note: This is only my opinion. I have no evidence to back this up.
For the same reason why every channel on TV isn't in HD yet...developers are waiting for the public to catch up with the industry. While most PC games still aren't built from the ground up for multiple cores, they are taking increasing advantage of them. As single core CPUs are phased out (which, except for mobile and extremely-low-budget set ups, they have been), newer games are more and more optimized for it. It's only a matter of time
Writing multi-threaded code is hard. Writing high performance, non-buggy multi-threaded code is very hard. Of the order of a magnitude harder.
In addition some things are easily parallelised, eg web servers. They have multiple users and each page that is hit represents a single isolated request, so even just one user accessing a site is easily parallelised.
With games you have one user and things need to happen in a sequence. You code to handle the physics of a bullet trajectory must syncronise with the code
Primarily because parallel programming(taking advantage of multiple cores) is substantially more complex and difficult than the more traditional single core variety. It's not a matter of just flipping a switch.
Add to that the fact that multicore systems have only really become common over the last few years and most game engines in current games were begun well before this was the case. At that time dedicating serious resources to multicore was probably considered a waste.
I would guess a fairly big factor is because generally the game logic which runs of the processor doesn't degrade well. With graphics you can lower resolutions, change texture sizes and add additional lighting effects which are optional so the game just looks a bit worse but plays the same. Trying to do the same with game logic is much harder, maybe some adaptive AI could be made to play better on faster hardware plus some extra graphical effects probably need some extra processor time but these changes w
Left 4 Dead and Team Fortress 2 both have options to use multiple cores. I believe that, when enabled, the other cores to "physics processing." My understanding is that "physics processing" is geek-speak for "making the bodies of your slain foes collapse into realistic piles of death as they hit the ground."
http://techreport.com/articles.x/18448/18 [techreport.com] is the page with the conclusion
works great. +1 internets for you sir.
mods, do your job. thanks.
Thank you for that link. All I wanted was "the answer", 17 pages of verbiage just to get a 1 paragraph conclusion was just too much
The conclusion I made is that liberal arts majors have no business trying to convey technical information. (Jump to the conclusions page to verify that the author was a liberal arts major.)
especially for gfx cards (the discrepancies between performance and price are enormous) and hard disks (3D, with price, speed and size)
I've been using a Pentium 4 3.0GHz-powered box as a MythTV frontend/backend [gossamer-threads.com] for more than four years. It often records four high-definition over-the-air or FireWire MPEG-2 streams while playing back another.
For the first three years I used an Nvidia video card with Xv output to play the recordings at very good quality with 50-70% CPU usage. A year ago I moved to VDPAU [mythtv.org], which gives me even better playback with under 5% CPU usage, and will do the same with h.264 recordings (generated by the Hauppauge HD-PVR [mythtv.org], for example). Thanks to VDPAU, there's every possibility I'll be able to use the Pentium 4 box for another four years.
I've been using a Pentium 4 3.0GHz-powered box as a MythTV frontend/backend for more than four years.
Yeechang fails to mention that is roughly the sweet spot for a mythtv frontend. I have plenty of experience trying to get slower boxes to do myth, which can be done at some difficulty. One GHz Via C7 or whatever its called, with a semi-supported openchrome driver, now that was a challenge, but it eventually worked.
A P4 roughly 3 Gigs with about a gig of ram is enough that its no effort to set up at all. Just set up a plain old linux box and it'll work even with the plain jane VESA driver. Now you can do
Yeechang fails to mention that [a P4 3GHz] is roughly the sweet spot for a mythtv frontend.
Yes, it was indeed the sweet spot when I bought it more than four years ago. I certainly wouldn't buy a new P4 today, even if it were possible. I'd get an ION-based Aspire Revo for $200-300; that's clearly today's sweet spot.
My larger point stands; most people wouldn't expect that a box that was state of the art five years ago would still be adequate for recording and playing 1080i and even 1080p high-definition video
With 100 watts of power consumption at ~10 cents a kilowatt hour you would be spending about $88 a year to run your backend 24x7. That doesn't count the extra draw for air conditioning in summer months (the benefit in winter is pretty minor). Different costs per kwh or power consumption scale accordingly. Hopefully your P4 is a northwood and not a prescott! At some point the reduction in power costs will justify a switch to something like the Revo. My total power costs are about $0.30c a kwh (don't get me started!) so I could pay for the switch in a year.
There is a great product called the "Kill-a-watt" that will measure the power consumption of a device simply by plugging it in through the kill-a-watt box. My Q6600 rig draws 120-140 watts for a good fraction of the day as measured by my kill-a-watt. It's a non-trivial cost and a 45nm chip might pay for itself in a year and a half.
You can spend more money on an even faster system for myth. But its just money down the drain, unless you're doing something totally exotic with high def, or trying to do more than five things at once like Yeechang, or attempting to do dual simultaneous displays, or trying to run a backend on the frontend machine, etc.
Pretty much true. I have a frontend-only host that does fine with MythTV high-def (1080i OTA). Where it falls hard is playing flash. YouTube HD stuff is passable, but Hulu is an exercise in
I have the same idea. The slowest CPU on the market is way fast enough for almost anything, unless you have very specific needs. The CPU speed issue is solved and done with. I lost interest some 10 years ago, and started to get more interested in what we are actually doing with it: the software that runs on it, and user interfaces.
You mean all recent ix86 style CPU's.
There's an easy way to thwart that advertising blackmail for users of Firefox: the AutoPager extension. Antipagination would probably still work for older versions of Firefox.
Isn't this what the article summary gets at ? I couldn't find anywhere in the conclusion how the P4 actually compares to present day processors.
I'm not about to read through 17 pages of all of that just to open my eyes.
Oh, and for CPU comparisons, I usually use:
http://www.cpubenchmark.net/cpu_list.php [cpubenchmark.net]
It's quite reliable for my choices. I just need everything to boil down to a number these days. Too much choice out there. Was simpler when you could just look at Ghz and know which is better. Now a P7700 and T8600 (examples I just made up..) could be at the same clock speed, be called Core 2 Duo and have totally different performance numbers. Confusing!
All these multicores barely give any real advantage to a regular gamer/desktop user at the moment.
One very significant advantage they provide to people like me is driving a game on my main display while playing back a video on my secondary monitor.
Dragon Age + Aqua Teen Hunger Force = Made of win
You do realize that overclocking Northwood core CPUs is a bad idea, right?
They have been known to suffer from random heat death, even with water cooling. They also tend to have computational errors and actually suffer worse performance when overclocked. This last bit is very batch dependent though - it really depends on where the chip was manufactured. The heat issue is still valid for every Northwood. There's a good reason most OEMs blocked overclocking in BIOS for their Northwood equipped systems.
Did anyone else notice how the Q9550 and Q9650 are absent from this article?
Probably the last thing Intel wants is these previous generation (and attractively priced) chips appearing in the "overall performance per dollar" chart on "Page 17 - The value proposition". Instead, we get a graph where only the i5 and i7 chips appear to perform well beyond any of the older options, but it's a carefully crafted illusion because the faster (and attractively priced) versions of those older chips weren't tested.
Haven't read TFA but probably better, this dual core crap is slow as hell.
The article makes a strong case for the i3-530 and the i5-750, but unlike the comparable AMD processors, they have no support for ECC.
If you're using a computer just for game playing and email, that's fine. On the other hand, if you are doing anything which requires reliability — both in terms of machine stability and the consistency of results and data — ECC is a must. The premium that Intel charge for what should be a standard feature prices them out of the value computing market.
If you're using a computer just for game playing and email, that's fine. On the other hand, if you are doing anything which requires reliability -- both in terms of machine stability and the consistency of results and data -- ECC is a must. The premium that Intel charge for what should be a standard feature prices them out of the value computing market.
Yep. Basically if you want to do anything reliable and minimize cost, you need AMD. You also have to take care to get the right motherboard - I've only disc
You wouldn't happen to know the sorts or reductions in errors running registered memory brings (compared to just ECC)? If you must run registered as well, it's a comparison between Opterons and Xeons.
My understanding is that registered memory is less about error correction and more about being able to plug in way too many DIMMs per memory channel, so you don't want it unless you need ridiculous amount of memory.
If you are concerned about data integrity you might also want to look at an operating system that has ZFS - which means OpenSolaris or FreeBSD, and running mirrored or RAIDZ.
Or use Btrfs; ZFS isn't the only option with integrity checks.
"Or use Btrfs; ZFS isn't the only option with integrity checks."
Oh yeah, because nothing screams "reliable" like filesystem that is still in beta.
"AMD processors, they have no support for ECC."
Interesting. I'm an EE, but not a microprocessor architecture guy. Is this ECC for on-board cache memory where the processor is implementing an encoding mechanism between the processor and onboard cache read/write? Does it do something similar between onboard cache and DRAM or external cache, or would that be something implemented at the OS level? I'm guessing that the SER for built in cache has to be ridiculously low (a few per year?). If you can say, wha
The ECC support involves the motherboard RAM itself - each DIMM has extra chips to carry the error-correcting information. It's mainly used in servers that run 24x7. Single-bit errors are automatically corrected, and, if they occur, multiple-bit errors are at least detected. The point is of course to keep the server from crashing, or worse, silently corrupting data.
Up until about the mid-1990s, most PCs had parity memory, which provides error detection but not correction. But, in the rush to make things che
To be precise, multi-bit errors are *usually* detected. Any ECC scheme will accept faults that happen to convert stored data from one valid pattern (called a codeword in the literature) and another. They just trade off the likelihood of correctable, detectable-but-not-correctable and undetected faults (according to some model of what causes faults) versus the space and time overhead. The fault origin models are pretty good at matching what most servers see, and the standard ECC schemes are enormously val
I have a X31 (see http://www.thinkwiki.org/wiki/Category:X31 [thinkwiki.org] ) and I am thinking about upgrading to a X100e, X200, X201/X210 -- but I am not sure how my trusty X31 compares to current low-end hardware.
Hard requirements:
* At _least_ 3-4 hours of run time with normal workload (KDE4, konsole, half a dozen ssh sessions, no flash)
* TrackPoint - I hate touchpads
* sturdy - those things are there to be used, not pampered. I don't abuse them needlessly, but I will not go out of my way to make sure the purty purty th
I'm still using a HP zd7000, a P4 laptop from several years ago as my main PC. The battery has long since died, but it's still perfect for general use with the docking station.
I've considered plunking down $300 for a modern laptop, but it never seemed to be an issue. This laptop is still "good enough".
Is this little jewel on page 14:
Still, although PC hardware gets faster over time, software often gets slower. If you go look at our review from back in the day, the Pentium 4 670 rendered this same scene in 309 seconds using a single thread. Now it's taken over 600 seconds to do it with POV-Ray 3.7. Just to make sure we didn't have a configuration problem, I installed an old version of POV-Ray 3.6.1 64-bit from March, 2005 on our LGA775 test system. Lo and behold, the P4 670 completed the render in about the same time we'd measured way back when.
This to me is the most telling thing in the review. The bloat that has crept into the software made the same cpu take twice as long to render the same scene. This is why we have machines now that make the machines we used 10 years ago look stupid by the numbers, while they don't really offer that much of an improvement in experience due to the incredible amounts of software bloat eating all the extra resources available. This one little paragraph should make the people involved with POVray bow their heads in shame.
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SEATTLE – A storm bearing down on the Pacific Northwest has taken the life of an elk hunter on the Oregon Coast and hit the region with mudslides, high winds and mountain snow.
Chief Perry Sherbaugh of Nehalem Bay Fire and Rescue in Oregon says a fir tree crashed on the hunter's tent Monday, killing him instantly. Wind gusts of more than 70 mph have been reported along the coast.
Meanwhile, a mudslide carried a tree into a Washington State Patrol trooper's car and another vehicle, causing both to start burning.
The trooper, who crawled out of his car and escaped uninjured, was able to free the driver of the other car. She was left with a sore neck.
The National Weather Service says more Pacific storms that started rolling across the region over the weekend are expected through Thanksgiving week.


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In memoriam: Wolf Koenig (1927-2014)News
Filmmaker, producer, cinematographer, animator, and overall cinema pioneer Wolf Koenig passed away on June 26, 2014 at the age of 86. During a prolific career at the NFB, Koenig's films were lauded for their sophisticated style and what was often a subtle irony in their observation of human behaviour and modern society.
Koenig spent 47 years at the NFB, working on a variety of landmark projects, including Norman McLaren's Oscar®-winning Neighbours, on which Koenig was cameraman. Koenig designed the animation for Colin Low's The Romance of Transportation in Canada (1953), winning an award at Cannes. He was also the cinematographer for Corral (1954), Low's first documentary. The style of this film, with its poetic approach and absence of commentary, was a first in a Canadian documentary production.
Neighbours, Norman McLaren, provided by the National Film Board of Canada
Corral, Colin Low, provided by the National Film Board of Canada
Koenig was an influential member of the NFB's Studio B, which sought to interrogate conventional mid-20th-century filmmaking techniques and experiment with the aesthetic aspects of cinema. Along with other Studio B creators Roman Kroitor, Terence Macartney-Filgate, and Tom Daly, Koenig was responsible for a number of key works in the history of documentary film. He co-directed such classics as Glenn Gould – On & Off the Record, a candid portrait of the celebrated eponymous pianist, and Lonely Boy, a short documentary about pop star Paul Anka at the height of his fame.
Glenn Gould – On the Record, Wolf Koenig & Roman Kroitor, provided by the National Film Board of Canada
Lonely Boy, Wolf Koenig & Roman Kroitor, provided by the National Film Board of Canada
Koenig was also active in and praised for his advancement of the field of animation. The techniques he used in Universe (1960) influenced Stanley Kubrick's 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968), as Kubrick himself admitted. Koenig served as executive producer of the NFB's animation studio from 1962 to 1967 and again from 1972 to1975.
Universe, Roman Kroitor & Colin Low, provided by the National Film Board of Canada
Near the end of his illustrious career, Koenig worked as a producer on documentaries and animated films (The Great Toy Robbery, What on Earth), and perhaps most notably on Alanis Obomsawin's powerful and acclaimed account of the Oka crisis, Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance. Koenig retired from the NFB in 1995. He has cemented a place in Canadian cinema history as one of the founders and innovators of film in this country.
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance, Alanis Obomsawin, provided by the National Film Board of Canada
If you'd like to hear from the man himself about his techniques and philosophies of filmmaking, check out this extensive interview.
Wolf was the son of the late Nathan Koenig and the late Ethel Handel Koenig. He will be remembered with much love and admiration by his brother Joseph (the late Miep de Zwarte), sister Rachel (Achille Byck), nieces Anne (Chris Peacock), Nina (Erik Eryavec), Debbie, Judy (Eric Mlyn), Sarah, and Susan (Stéphane Roy), grandniece Leah Mlyn, grandnephews Adam and Daniel Eryavec, Jonathan and Jeffrey Peacock, Noah Mlyn, Benjamin and Jacob Byck, Jeremy and Jonah Roy, second cousin Evelyne Haendel, goddaughter Amy Arioli, and friends.


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