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Webroot, a leader in delivering Internet security as a service, will be announcing the findings of a new remote access security report and showcasing its cloud security intelligence solutions at InfoSecurity Europe 2013 from April 23 through 25, 2013 at booth #D60 in Earls Court London. The study, which surveyed Web security decision-makers in the United Kingdom and United States, found that mobile workforces expose corporate networks to high rates of malware threats, including phishing attacks, spyware, keyloggers and hacked passwords.
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Inspired by conversations on the Food52 Hotline, we're sharing tips and tricks that make navigating all of our kitchens easier and more fun.
Today: Chef Nick Anderer of Maialino in New York City tells us how to pick the right sauce for our pasta -- and shares a classic recipe.
A guest at Maialino once asked me, "Why are you doing cacio e pepe with tonnarelli -- a fresh pasta? Clearly it should be done with dry spaghetti." I quickly explained that tonnarelli a cacio e pepe was the version I fell in love with in Rome. Period. But surely cacio e pepe has been done successfully with spaghetti -- and many home cooks, both Italian and American, probably know it better in this form due to the availability of dry pasta.
The question -- and my answer -- nagged me for days. What is the right way? What is the traditional way? I am fanatical about sourcing old Italian methods and recipes, not because I think there's only one right way, but because I am compelled to respect the culinary tradition and the country which is responsible for creating my favorite type of food on the planet. The conclusion I came to -- after some more reading, a few inquisitive emails to the motherland, and some serious self-deliberation -- was that there is simply too much mystery surrounding the tradition of sauce and shape pairings. There could never be one right answer -- and in most cases, traditional sauce and shape pairings occur more out of necessity than science or logic.
While no one can be the definitive authority on what sauce goes with what shape and how to properly combine them, I can explain what has worked for me in my kitchen and share a little bit of my experience with marrying pasta and sauce.
Here are four basic categories which help me dissect the vast pasta world -- and the sauces to pair with them.
Fresh Pasta (Pasta all'Uovo)
Firstly, there is "fresh" pasta all'uovo, which is generally made with soft wheat (white all-purpose flour) and eggs. The famous types of these pastas -- tagliatelle, pappardelle, fettuccine, lasagne, garganelli -- are never intended to be served al dente, but should instead be tender, smooth and velvety to the touch and to the tooth. Classic pairings often include sauces with dairy or butter, partly because many of these shapes originate in areas of northern Italy, Tuscany and Emilia-Romagna, where cattle are more prevalent. Meat-based sauces and truffles often find their way onto these pastas for the same geographical reasons, and also because truffles taste so friggin' good with butter and cheese.
Dried Pasta
Secondly, there is "dry" pasta acqua e farina -- boxed grocery store pasta -- most commonly made with durum wheat (semolina) and water. Although often misconceived as a product of lesser culinary worth than "fresh" pasta because of its humble ingredients, the best versions of many dry pastas -- spaghetti, bucatini, linguine, rigatoni, bombolotti -- ironically require more technical nuance to produce (bronze dye extraction, controlled dehydration, etc.) and, in my opinion, more savvy to cook. Tomato sauce, capers, olives, anchovies, garlic, and oil are all common companions for many of these shapes, particularly the longer varieties. The shorter versions of these pastas, especially the ring-shaped ones, lend themselves well to sauces with beans, peas or small vegetables, which find cozy little hiding places.
Stuffed Pastas
Thirdly, there are "stuffed" pastas, aka ravioli -- agnolotti, mezzalune, tortellini, tortelli -- which generally utilize a "fresh" dough as the casing for some sort of filling (commonly a cheese or a cooked puree of meat/vegetables or some combination thereof). Although it's also possible to find them boxed in the refrigerated section of grocery stores, let's just pretend for the moment that those don't exist. So far as sauce is concerned, the most traditional way of dressing a raviolo is usually the simplest way -- that is to say with as little as possible. Never would you find a sauce made from the contents of its filling, and although tortellini in brodo float in a broth made from the meat which fills them, you would never finds a meat-filled raviolo dressed in a meat sauce. More often than not, ravioli are dressed simply with butter, or brown butter, perhaps with a few leaves of frizzled sage and a squeeze of lemon.
Doughy Pasta
Lastly, there are the "doughy" pastas (a very technical term), which in my world consists of the many shapes -- some with egg, some without -- that are generally handmade, bite-sized, chewy nubs: gnocchi, cavatelli, orecchiette, trofie. Although it's not a hard and fast rule, these hearty shapes stand up to more aggressive saucing, astringent pestos, bitter greens, sausage and game meats. Yet even with these seasonings, restraint is essential in dressing the noodle. With the painstaking effort that goes into handcrafting these shapes, one wants to be careful that they remain the star of the show.
More: See the recipe for Grandma DiLaura's Italian Ricotta Gnocchi
Making many of these pastas can be tricky, but can be mastered over time with repetition and learned muscle memory. Cooking great pasta is, in my mind, the more difficult task to master and requires a level of extreme fanaticism. Obsessing over perfect ingredients is a good way to kick-start this addiction.
The Best Way to Cook and Sauce Dried Pasta
For the purposes of this dialogue, I will expound my love for dry pasta. Of course we need to find the right noodle first. Bottom line: find a pasta with a rough exterior first. Rough means releasable starch and starch equals proper saucing. The next step is testing the pasta with no sauce, simply boiled. Does it break? Does it cook unevenly? Does it go from al dente to mush too quickly?
So you've found the right pasta -- let's skip ahead to the sauce or condimento, which is a much more appropriate word. The first and best pasta cooking lesson I ever received was that all noodles should be dressed like a salad. The noodles are the greens and the sauce is merely a dressing, or a condiment, for the noodle. Spaghetti Agl'Olio is perhaps the best illustrations of this lesson and, when done right, one of the purest expressions of a pasta cook's ability to marry pasta and sauce. We lovingly refer to it as "the mother sauce" at Maialino, and every cook must master it if he or she is to succeed.
Here's how to make it. Pick your favorite dry spaghetti and cook until al dente in abundantly salted water. Remove it and transfer immediately to a skillet with coarsely chopped parsley, one or two cracked calabrese peperoncini and some thinly sliced garlic, all lightly frizzled in lush, grassy olive oil. Be sure to drag enough pasta water into the pan, both to arrest the sizzling condimenti and to engulf the noodles in enough rapidly simmering broth to perform the magical double duty: (1) extracting starch from the noodles into the sauce and (2) coaxing the flavor of the chili and garlic into the pasta.The pasta water must also be measured (only done accurately by eye and by instinct) so as to not allow the pasta to overcook in the pan, but also so that it can spend enough time in the pan to release its starch -- roughly 45 seconds to a minute. You must be very intimate with your cooking vessels to make this calculation.
At the exact point when all the cooking is reaching its climax, you abruptly cut off the heat so that only one healthy ounce of starchy sauce remains in the pan -- just enough to receive the final application of more fresh olive oil, more fresh parsley, and Parmesan. Now slide the smothered noodles onto a hot plate, yes, a very hot plate, and force yourself to dive in immediately, and with fervor, so that your last bite is nearly as hot as the first. This is pasta at its very best: a simple condimento of carefully sourced ingredients, lovingly prepared with purpose, served and eaten with a sense of urgency.
What are your favorite ways to sauce pasta? Let us know in the comments!
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Father's Day is a great time to recognize all of the wonderful things dads have done for their children this year. There are many ways to show appreciation, like planning a special event, finding that perfect gift, or doing something nice to help him out. Here are some ideas that are fun for Dad and friendly for the environment.
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CARSON, Calif. – The LA Galaxy announced today that the club will play Newcastle United Jets FC of the Hyundai A-League in an international friendly on Saturday, November 27 at EnergyAustralia Stadium in Newcastle, Australia. Local broadcast information and a complete schedule of events for this game will be announced at a future date.
"We are very excited to be returning to Australia, the site of one of our most memorable postseason matches, to play a friendly against Newcastle United Jets FC," LA Galaxy President of Business Operations Tom Payne said. "Newcastle are a club with a long tradition of success in the Hyundai A-League and are making great strides at strengthening their ties to the local community. We believe that this match will help the Jets further those ties while also providing all of their fans in the Hunter Region with memories that will last a lifetime."
This will be the first-ever game between the Galaxy and Jets, who play their home games at EnergyAustralia Stadium, a 26,000 seat venue that opened in 1970. One of the A-League's original clubs, Newcastle began play during the 2005-06 season and qualified for the Finals series, the A-League's equivalent of the MLS Cup Playoffs, in each of their first three seasons. That run culminated with the club defeating their rival Central Coast Mariners 1-0 in the 2008 Grand Final, giving the club their first-ever championship.
The Jets returned to the Finals series last year, reaching the semifinals before being eliminated by the Wellington Phoenix. This season, the club sits in 10th place in the A-League with a 1-3-5 record for eight points through their first nine games of the season. Under the leadership of manager Branko Culina, the Jets have allowed the least goals in the league this season, conceding just six through their first nine games. Captained by former England international forward Michael Bridges, the club has been led this season by goalkeeper Ben Kennedy and former Australian international defender Ljubo Miličević. The club also features forward Sasho Petrovski, who is one of the leading goalscorers in the history of the A-League.
This will be the Galaxy's third trip to Oceania in the last four years, having played once in Australia and twice in New Zealand. In November 2007, the club lost 5-3 to Sydney FC in front 80,295 fans at Telstra Stadium in Sydney, Australia. A few days later, the Galaxy defeated Hyundai A-League side Wellington Phoenix 4-1 at Westpac Stadium in front of a then-record crowd of 31,853, which was the biggest ever to see a soccer game in New Zealand. In 2008, the Galaxy returned to New Zealand, travelling this time to Auckland, where they defeated a team of Oceania All-Stars 3-0 at Mt. Smart Stadium.
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I had to get a passport photo this weekend. When I was handed the processed picture, I couldn't believe it was me, it was the worst picture I have ever taken. For the record, I take great driver's license and passport photos, I have just been lucky - until now. Fortunately the girl doing the picture grabbed it from me and said "We can't have this, this is awful." At least she realized it wasn't a true likeness of me. Imagine my surprise then when after having me pose a second time she handed me back what looked like the exact same picture and exclaimed that it was much better. I asked her how it was better and she replied that the shine was gone. So I have a horrible picture to submit for my passport, and what's worse is that apparently it looks like me. I struggled with beauty like most girls do all through my high school and early adulthood. I wanted to be as attractive as I could and would examine all photos of myself looking for flaws; I seldom focused on the good things. I think to some extent we grow out of that as adults and I know breast cancer made me much kinder on myself. So, I'm a little disappointed that the picture affected me the way it did. Especially when I showed it to Sister, whom I was visiting in Toronto and all she said was you look a little sad. So now it seems everyone sees me as I look in the picture.
Breast cancer really is a cruel teacher. It teaches us that we are vulnerable, it teaches us that we need to rely on others, it shows us that we are not always in charge of our lives, and it reminds us that life is fragile. On the other side of the battle, we have learned how strong we are and we are presented with our own will to live and flourish. We also come away from the battle reminded of how valuable we are to ourselves and convinced that we are worth fighting for - all this despite not living up to our own standards of beauty.
Aside from this one little setback, I really have become less critical of myself and more appreciative of all that I am. In fact, I have even come up with my own definition of beauty:
What is beauty, but a joy of the heart, a delight of the soul, a soar of the spirit heavenward.
After all, it's our response to what we see that makes something beautiful. That's why beauty is so subjective. Since breast cancer, I always respond to myself with true joy in who I am. I guess that makes me beautiful.


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Land rights campaign goes global
TORONTO -- The drumming, dancing, train blockades and candlelight vigils popping up in cities across Canada in recent weeks under the banner of "Idle No More," have spurred an Aboriginal rights movement that has shown unusual staying power with a worldwide following through social media.
Galvanized by an aboriginal chief on a liquids-only hunger strike, the protests about legal changes to environmental laws and land rights have shaken the political scene, and on Friday led Prime Minister Stephen Harper to announce he would meet with a delegation of chiefs on Jan. 11.
At issue are wide-ranging amendments in a budget bill, C-45, that affect Canada's Indian Act and environmental laws. Critics say these changes undermine treaties more than a century old by altering the approval process for leasing Aboriginal lands to outsiders and by removing environmental safeguards for rivers and lakes in Aboriginal territories.
In a larger sense, they reopen issues fraught with constitutional implications -- the relationship between the federal government and the million-plus strong community of Aboriginals.
The latest standoff began in November with a teach-in in Saskatchewan under the slogan "Idle No More," about Bill C-45. It picked up steam on Dec. 11 when Theresa Spence, 49-year-old chief of the 1,800-strong community of Attawapiskat in northern Ontario, began fasting to press her demand for a meeting with Harper.
Camped on an island in the Ottawa River, at a point where it passes the parliament in the federal capital, Spence has become a magnet for opposition politicians calling on the Conservative prime minister to meet the chief.
Spence was thrust into a media spotlight in 2011 when she declared a state of emergency in Attawapiskat. She highlighted conditions such as housing.
that often amounted to no more than dilapidated shacks and tents without running water.
A U.N. investigator, James Anaya, arrived and issued a report expressing "deep concern" that despite Canada's fine human rights record, "Aboriginal communities face vastly higher poverty rates, and poorer health, education (and) employment rates as compared to non-Aboriginal people."
Today, through social media, Idle No More has gathered followers from Norway and the U.S. to Guatemala and New Zealand.
Jeff Denis of MacMaster University in Hamilton, Ontario, who has studied Aboriginal issues, likens the rise of Idle No More's profile to the Occupy and Arab Spring movements. "Idle No More and Occupy are similar in that they are both diffuse, grassroots movements with no central organizing structure. Like Occupy, Idle No More has taken on a life of its own and it's difficult to keep track of all the events," he said.
Mark Blevis, a media analyst and consultant, monitored social media from Dec. 23 to Dec. 29 and found Idle No More mentioned 12,258 times on Facebook, 1,165 times on news websites, in 977 videos on YouTube, 745 blog posts and 144,215 tweets.
Keith Beardsley, a former Harper aide, wrote in the National Post: "Canadians normally tune out from political issues during the Christmas holiday season, yet Spence kept Aboriginal issues front and center and she managed to do it peacefully, garnering positive press coverage from coast to coast. That is a singular achievement few First Nations leaders have been able to achieve."
Central to the Aboriginals' cause is poverty and inadequate housing. They say these issues make a mockery of the "balance" they were led to expect in return for ceding their lands to the Canadian government. The government agreed to allocate specific land reserves to Aboriginals, which they would have total control over, and to provide them with cash, farming assistance, schools and other needs.
Government officials and conservative activists say that's what the changes in the land laws aim to help redress.
Tom Flanagan, a professor of political science at the University of Calgary and a campaign manager for conservative parties, has said past land leasing has created jobs and generated revenue for Aboriginal needs, and that the latest amendments to the law will ease the process.
Jan O'Driscoll, spokeswoman for John Duncan, the minister for Aboriginal affairs, said, "In fact, it was First Nations themselves who asked for these changes ... to improve the economies and self-sufficiency of their communities."
She said the new law alters the approval process for leasing -- not selling -- land, and transactions would have to be approved by the community in question.
Another spokesman for Duncan, Jason MacDonald, said that in the six years Harper has been in power the government has built 30 new schools and 10,000 new homes on reserves, investing money in safe drinking water systems and settling more than 80 outstanding land claims.
"While we are making progress, we too are impatient to see more change that will benefit First Nation communities," he said.
As for Spence, she said she was "overjoyed" that Harper agreed to a meeting. "I will be there with my chiefs. We'll see what the results are," she said. "There are a lot of issues we will discuss."


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A wild whirlwind of a mess, without any coherence, without even a guiding principle.
A wild whirlwind of a mess, without any coherence, without even a guiding principle.
This film tells us that the gulf between what we want to know and what we can know may never be illuminated.
Roger Ebert on James Ivory's "Howards End".
"The Ballad of Narayama" is a Japanese film of great beauty and elegant artifice, telling a story of startling cruelty. What a space it opens…
An article about today's noon premiere of a new movie about architect Benjamin Marshall at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
An article about the screening of Horace Jenkins' "Cane River" on Friday, November 1st, at the Academy Film Archive in Los Angeles.
Scout Tafoya's series on underrated films heads into the 2020s with a Tony Scott classic.
Scout Tafoya's video essay series about maligned masterpieces celebrates Steven Soderbergh's Solaris.
Far Flung Correspondent Seongyong Cho pens a letter to Roger about Michael Apted's 63 Up.
An FFC on Gavin Hood's Official Secrets.
A review of FOX's 9-1-1: Lone Star, starring Rob Lowe and Liv Tyler.
A personal report from the 2020 CCA Awards.
Brad Anderson ("Session 9," "The Machinist," "Transsiberian") is a capable genre craftsman with a good eye for shadowy atmosphere. In addition to directing features, Anderson has built a rock-solid side career as a prolific TV director. Even Anderson's lesser films — like "Vanishing on 7th Street," a sort of watered-down John Carpenter movie — have been surefooted. That, unfortunately, can't be said about his latest movie, "The Call," a sputtering, so-so B thriller with a neat hook but very little personality.
Halle Berry stars as an operator at a 911 call center in Los Angeles. Dressed in a poodle wig and polo shirt, Berry spends most of the movie seated behind a desk. Her world — "the Hive," as her co-workers call it — is compact and work-centric. Even her boyfriend, a handsome LAPD officer (Morris Chestnut), is a colleague. A framed photo glimpsed briefly in her apartment suggests that she comes from a police family.
"The Call" opens with a bird's eye view of the city and a montage of operators answering 911 calls — some frivolous, some serious. Then the movie — which, if nothing else, is briskly-paced — gets right to setting up the plot. Berry answers a home invasion call from a teenage girl and makes a minor but critical mistake which leads to the girl's kidnapping. The next day, her body is found in a shallow grave.
Berry's colleagues don't fault her for the misstep, but she nonetheless resigns from answering calls to focus on training new operators. Six months later, she's leading a group of trainees through their first tour of the Hive when a call comes in from a teenage girl (Abigail Breslin) who has been abducted and locked in the trunk of a car. The operator who answers doesn't know how to handle the call and veteran Berry reluctantly takes over.
Breslin explains that she's been nabbed from a mall parking lot by an unknown man, and that the trunk she's in contains a shovel — suggesting that her abductor intends to kill and bury her. Of course, it doesn't take a genius to figure out that the man who has kidnapped Breslin is the same one who abducted and killed the teenage girl six months earlier.
Played by a twitchy, hammy Michael Eklund, he's a stock weirdo serial-killer type. He likes cheesy music (when Breslin wakes up in his trunk, he's blasting Taco's "Puttin' on the Ritz"). He's panicky and easily spooked. For a guy who has a whole underground bunker devoted to torturing blonde teenagers, he seems very poorly prepared.
At the center of "The Call"'s premise is the mobile phone Breslin is calling from. It's one of those cheap, pay-as-you-go disposables, which means that the call center can't trace it. Also, the car is in motion; neither Breslin nor Berry can pinpoint her location. Technical impossibility aside (disposable cellphones are traceable), it makes for a cool cat-and-mouse premise: Breslin and Berry must conspire to outwit the serial killer without knowing exactly where he is or where he's headed.
All it would take to pull off this conceit is a little filmmaking imagination and a firm grip on form. Unfortunately, "The Call" has neither. Much of the movie is bland-looking and flat. The endless shots circling Berry at her desk as she yells and cries into a headset grow monotonous. The premise may suggest claustrophobia — Berry stuck at her desk, Breslin stuck in the trunk — but "The Call" is too spatially wonky to be tense.
Thrillers don't make themselves; it's a genre where an absence of style is synonymous with an absence of entertainment. Anderson tries to spice things up with some flashy flourishes — freeze-frames, for example — but these do nothing except to suggest a filmmaker overcomplicating a simple problem. In many ways, "The Call" resembles Joel Schumacher's "Phone Booth" (2002) — another movie with a strong, simple premise ruined by execution (interestingly, Schumacher was originally slated to direct "The Call"). However, "Phone Booth" was at least campy enough to be fun. The best "The Call" can manage is Eklund's bug-eyed performance — a piece of acting that's less calculating psychopath and more freaked-out acid causality.
Oddly, as the screenplay — by Richard D'Ovidio, whose last credit was for the Steven Seagal/DMX vehicle "Exit Wounds" (2001) — gets dumber, the movie gets better, or at least more confident. The final act of "The Call" finds the movie betraying its premise by having Berry venture out of the Hive to find Eklund's hideout and rescue Breslin. At this point, "The Call" devolves into a grindhouse-style rape-revenge movie.
The conclusion is silly and morally questionable, even by exploitation movie standards. It does, however, allow Anderson to do what he's good at: orchestrating dark, claustrophobic horror. For its final fifteen or so minutes, "The Call" rises above hackwork. Unfortunately, it doesn't rise very far.
The 2020 Oscar nominations.
A review of Netflix's Dracula, from the creators of Sherlock.
A review of the new Netflix crime docuseries about former New England Patriot Aaron Hernandez.
A collection of the reviews given our highest possible grade in 2019.


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Qatar's RasGas venture is studying quadrupling production capacity to 20 million tones a year (t/y) to meet demand in Eruope and Asia, the energy minister said Tuesday.
"Talks are underway with European and Asian firm for LNG deliveries from RasGas," Abdullah bin Hamad al-Attiya told an annual Middle East gas conference.
"That led the company to start a study to build new liquified gas trains ... to reach a capacity of 20 million tones a year between 2004 and 2007," he said.
RasGas, whose main customer has been Korea Gas Corporation (Kogas), announced in April that its second LNG train had gone into production doubling capacity to five million t/y.
Qatar's second LNG venture is jointly owned by the state-controlled Qatar General Petroleum Corporation which holds 63 percent and Mobil with 25 percent, while the rest is in the hands of Korean and Japanese companies.
The minister also said a study was underway to lift capacity at Qatargas to nine million t/y "to strengthen the company's competitive capacity on world markets."
The comments came after Qatargas vice-president Faisal Al-Suwaidi told this week's Middle East Economic Digest the firm was to go ahead with raising production to 9.2 million tones by 2004 at the Ras Laffan liquefaction plant through an estimated 250 million dollars debottlenecking project. Qatargas operates three LNG trains with a current capacity of six million t/y.
"We know that we can produce 7.7 million t/y without any new investment and following a study last month ... we see that 9.2 million t/y can be achieved with minimal investment," he added.
Qatargas is a joint venture between QGPC with 65 percent, France's Total (10 percent), Mobil of the United States (10 percent), and Japanese firms Mitsui and Marubeni, each with 7.5 percent.
A country of just 522,000 people, four-fifths of whom are expatriates, the emirate sits on top of the world's third largest gas reserves after Russia and Iran.
Qatar's huge offshore North Field contains proven non-associated reserves of more than 10 trillion cubic metres (350 trillion cubic feet). – (AFP)
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Posted by Jody Sherman on 2008-03-13
I've known Eric since 1997 and have been involved in several deals with him -- as an advisor, an investor, a consultant, and an employee of companies in which he is invested.
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Don't get me wrong, I don't mean to imply that Eric will continue to back a losing play, but before it is determined that the "patient is actually terminal", Eric will work tirelessly with management, investors, and the board to make sure that everything that can be done, will be done.
Eric is a loyal investor and friend and you will never be sorry if you make the decision to have him involved in your company or personally. You will get immense value out of every interaction.
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BryanH needed a new web page design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 27 designs submitted by 13 freelance designers.
The design is for an online poker magazine/blog (and logo) that I am creating for a wordpress site and needs a professional, clean and attractive look. The site needs to have a homepage and a design for the article/blog pages. You can see the current site at MacPokerOnline.com.
Mac Poker Online
Your Online Guide To Mac + Poker
Desired Color Scheme:
Green, Black, Red, White with a white content area
Desired Style:
Online Magazine Style
Accepted File Formats:
Standard Web Formats (.jpg, .gif or .png); Layered Formats (.psd or .tiff)
We are looking for a poker/magazine style design for MacPokerOnline.com, with a mix between the typical poker magazine site like CardPlayer.com or BluffMagazine.com and the look of non poker magazine style sites like entertainment.yahoo.com or EOnline.com. The site needs to have a 3 column homepage, and a 2 column article page (with sidebars on the right hand side) (no wider than 980px). Site will be centered.
The color scheme is open for suggestion, but I prefer something with green, black, maybe some red and also white. The design should have a white body area. To get an idea for the green you can check out another one of our sites at USPokerSearch.com.
The header should be able to accommodate a 468x60 ad in the right side, and homepage and sidebars should also accommodate typical ad sizes for monetization.
Homepage should have plenty of areas for (images, icons for each section, a spot for video, etc) to appeal to the mainstream crowd. Even though parts of the site will be a news/review/blog, I want the homepage to appear as a website. I would like the homepage to contain a featured story with picture and then below it an excerpt from the story. Maybe a tabbed section like Yahoo's homepage. I'd also like to have an area in the sidebar for Youtube Video, 300x250 ad section and maybe the top 10 Online Poker Rooms (See PokerListings.com and ShadowFeet.com for an idea). We'd also like to incorporate a section of the homepage for Recent News, Top 10 Online Poker Rooms and another section for Top Poker Bonuses.
Actual Site you will be designing for - http://www.macpokeronline.com
Sites to use as inspiration:
http://www.shadowfeet.com (This is a good idea of a similar layout we would like)
Note: We are looking for a completely original design. These examples are only that...examples. Any questions??? Ask away!


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Tom Warner documents the powerful beauty of lightning with an array of optical and electromagnetic sensors. He often uses a Vision Research 'Phantom' high-speed camera.
Warner is a Ph.D student at the South Dakota School of Mines and Technology, in Rapid City. He studies atmospheric sciences with a specialty in lightning research. "Lightning is one of nature's most spectacular phenomena," says Warner. "I want to understand how lightning behaves."
"Since 2007, I have used high-speed video cameras capable of recording lightning at up to 54,000 images per second. These cameras enable us to see lightning like never before, as we can clearly see lightning propagate downward from the clouds or upward from tall objects.
The camera continuously records in a looping memory buffer. "When I see a flash take place, I trigger the camera at the end of the flash and it saves the previous 2.5 seconds of video prior to the trigger."
He then saves the video into the camera's memory. It is then transferred to a computer hard drive to analyze later.
Warner explains what's in each of these six videos, and how he made them.
Near Devil's Tower, Wyoming
The video shows a downward-propagating negatively charged, stepped leader. The lightning branches out in many different directions, causing one leader to make a connection with the ground, creating a bright return stroke.
The lightning was filmed at 7,200 images per second (139 microseconds per image). The downward leaders are traveling at a couple of hundred kilometers per second. The bright return stroke travels upward at around half the speed of light, and is too fast to capture in more than one image.
Bear Butte, South Dakota
The video shows multiple, negative stepped leaders. The leaders travel in many different directions and periodically pause and redevelop. Eventually a negative stepped leader travels downward and reaches the ground, creating a return stroke.
Filmed at 7,200 images per second (139 microseconds per image).
Above the Clouds
This lightning, a negative stepped leader, was filmed from an airplane. A stepped leader forms a connection making a return stroke with a rapid re-brightening of the channel. A second brightening is caused by a fast, downward dart-leader. It travels down the same channel and causes a second return stroke. When seen in real time, it looks like flickering.
Filmed at 1,000 images per second (1 millisecond per image).
From the Clouds
Video shows a positive leader of lightning from a cloud. There is a return stroke after the lightning hits the ground. The positive leader is very dim and highly branched at first. A strobe effect appears along the dim branch channels. These are recoil leaders and actually travel back towards the clouds along the channel branches. This is a unique feature of positive-leader development — not seen optically, Warner notes, until the advent of high-speed cameras.
Filmed at 7,200 images per second.
Negative Lightning Hits Tower
This is a unique recording of a downward, negative stepped leader that makes a connection with a tower. As the negative stepped leader gets closer to the tower, a positive leader forms from the tower tip and moves upward. This upward leader connects with the downward leader and a return stroke occurs. Five more dart leader-return strokes follow.
Filmed at 7,200 images per second.
TV Tower Initiates Lightning Strike
This video shows a positively charged upward-propagating leader. It forms from the tip of a TV tower, then branches up to the cloud above. Some of the dim branches exhibit bright recoil leaders. The shape of the tower enhances its electric field, which in essence, initiates the lightning.
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Gravitational Collapse of Rectangular Granular PilesM.H. Babaei[1], T. Dabros[2], S.B. Savage[3]
[1]Ocean, Coastal, and River Engineering, National Research Council of Canada, Ottawa, ON, Canada
[2]Natural Resources Canada, CanmetENERGY, Devon, AB, Canada
[3]Department of Civil Engineering & Applied Mechanics, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada
In this study, the dam-break type two-dimensional gravitational collapse of rectangular granular piles in air was numerically studied. The frictional behavior of the material was based on the von-Mises model with the Mohr-Coulomb yield surface leading to pressure and strain-rate-dependence of shear viscosity. The governing equations of the problem were solved using the COMSOL two-phase flow CFD Module with the level-set method used for accurate tracking of interfaces. This model successfully captured the stable heaps formed at the end of the collapse. The evolutions of shape and velocity field for collapsing piles of two different initial pile orientations (aspect ratios) were investigated. The comparison of the final shapes of the collapsed piles was in accordance with the experimental measurements available in the literature.


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Laurent Rivard and the Crimson have won four of five home games this season (Greg Carroccio).
The Particulars
The Harvard men's basketball returns from an 11-day break to host Holy Cross Saturday afternoon at 2 p.m. at Lavietes Pavilion.
Game Coverage
Harvard video and audio will be available with a subscription to GoCrimson.com. Charlie Hobbs and Brecka Fetzer will be behind the mic.
Live statistics will also be available for the game at GoCrimson.com.
Series History Against Holy Cross
The Crimson and Crusaders have met 64 times with Holy Cross owning a 40-24 advantage in the series, which began in 1900-01. Harvard has taken the last four games between the schools, including a 73-64 win in Worcester, Mass., Nov. 15 of last year.
Harvard's Last Time Out
Siyani Chambers tied his career-high with 21 points, sinking seven baskets, including three 3-pointers, while Christian Webster also knocked down three treys and finished with 13 points, as the Crimson defeated Boston University, 65-64, Dec. 11. Wesley Saunders, who has reached double figures in scoring in all nine games this year, tallied 16 points against the Terriers. Harvard shot 0-of-8 from beyond the arc in the first half,but went 7-of-9 (.778) from long distance in the second half to overcome a seven-point deficit, 32-25, at the break. The Crimson improved to 4-1 at home this season with the win over BU.
Holy Cross's Last Time Out
Dave Dudzinski scored a career-high 31 points, while Justin Burrell added 15 points, helping the Crusaders knock off San Francisco, 73-63, Dec. 18. Holy Cross grabbed 41 rebounds and held USF to 0-of-11 shooting in the second half from beyond the arc.
Harvard/Amaker Against Holy Cross
The Crimson is 4-1 against Holy Cross under head coach Tommy Amaker. Harvard has taken the last four games against the Crusaders since 2008.
Harvard Against The Patriot League
Harvard is 60-104 all-time against current members of the Patriot League. Holy Cross is the only Patriot League opponent the Crimson is slated to play this season.
Last-Second Hero
With four seconds remaining, Siyani Chambers nailed the game-winning bucket, lifting Harvard to a 65-64 win over Boston University at Lavietes Pavilion Dec. 11.
Since missing a foul shot early in the game at Massachusetts Nov. 13, Siyani Chambers has made 32 in a row at the charity stripe over the course of seven contests. He is shooting 94.4 percent from the line (34-of-36) for the season, which is tied for 14th in the nation.
As a freshman in 2009-10, Laurent Rivard drained 30 consecutive foul shots between Nov. 28, 2010 and Jan. 15, 2011, a span of 11 games.
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Siyani Chambers
Ivy League Rookie of the Week (Dec. 3, Dec. 17)
Wesley Saunders
Ivy League Player of the Week (Dec. 3, Dec. 10)
Kings of Massachusetts's Courts
From Dec. 10, 2008 through Nov. 13, 2012, the Crimson owned a 15-game winning streak against schools from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, which began after falling to Northeastern in overtime, 76-71 in 2008. UMass snapped the streak by downing Harvard, 67-64, Nov. 13 of this year. The Crimson is 3-1 against Massachusetts teams this season with wins over MIT, BC and BU and is 18-1 over its last 19 games against teams from the Commonwealth.
From Downtown
As a team, Harvard is shooting 40.9 percent from 3-point range (56-of-137), which leads the Ivy League and ranks eighth in the nation.
All-Around Player
Wesley Saunders ranks in the top 10 in the Ivy League in five statistical categories. Saunders is second in scoring (15.9 ppg), fifth in minutes (34.3 per game), fifth in steals (1.8 spg), sixth in assists (3.6 apg) and seventh in field goal percentage (.505).
Freshman At The Point
Siyani Chambers is averaging 5.1 assists per game, which leads the conference, and has only turned the ball over 27 times this season for a 1.7 assist-to-turnover ratio, good for sixth in the Ivy League. Chambers had a career-best eight assists against Vermont Nov. 27. Chambers paces the Ivy League in foul shooting (34-of-36, .944), which also places him tied for ninth nationally. The freshman point guard is fourth in the Ancient Eight in 3-point shooting (.485, 14-of-31).
Chambers ranks second on the Crimson with 11.5 points per game and has reached double figures in five of the last seven contests.
Seeing Lots Of Time
Siyani Chambers is averaging 37.0 minutes per game during his rookie season, which is third in the conference and tied for 21st most in the nation.
Drawing Contact From Beyond The Arc
In the second half at Boston College Dec. 4, Laurent Rivard was fouled shooting a 3-pointer and drained all three ensuing foul shots.
During his career, Rivard has been fouled 17 times while taking a 3-pointer. He has hit five of them for an and-one and has shot three free throws on 12 occasions. Against George Washington on Jan. 14, 2012, Rivard drew contact three times while attempting a shot from beyond the arc.
Long-Range Shooting
Led by Laurent Rivard (4-9), the Crimson drained 56.3 percent (9-16) of its 3-point attempts against Vermont Nov. 27.
Rivard has taken 53 of Harvard's 137 3-point attempts this season, or 38.7 percent. Rivard is making 41.5 percent of his shots from beyond the arc (22-53), while the Crimson is shooting 40.9 percent as a team (56-137). Siyani Chambers leads the team with a 48.4 percent clip from long distance (15-31).
3-Point Streak
Since the game at Princeton Feb. 24, 2012, Laurent Rivard has made at least one 3-pointer in 13 straight games. As a freshman, Rivard connected on at least one 3-pointer in 15 straight games from Nov. 17, 2010 until Jan. 8, 2011.
The Crimson program record for consecutive games with a 3-point field goal is 29, held by Jim Goffredo '07.
Lavietes Is The Place To Be
The Crimson is 32-2 (.941) at Lavietes Pavilion since Feb. 19, 2010.
Harvard enjoyed a 28-game home win streak, a program record, between Feb. 19, 2010 and Feb. 24, 2012. The streak was the second longest in the country during that stretch, and Harvard finished 11-1 at home last season after going 14-0 at Lavietes Pavilion the year before. The Crimson is 4-1 at home this season, with the only loss coming to Vermont Nov. 27.
Harvard Against the BCS
Harvard owns a 9-11 record against BCS conferences under Tommy Amaker. The Crimson has defeated Boston College five times and has also topped Michigan, Colorado, Utah and Florida State during Amaker's tenure. The Crimson also defeated at least one BCS team in each of the last six seasons.
The Crimson will face one more BCS team this season: California. Harvard beat Boston College for the fifth straight year, 79-63, Dec. 4, but fell on the road at Connecticut, 57-49, Dec. 7.
Heating Up
Wesley Saunders has scored in double figures in each of Harvard's first nine games this season. He tallied a career-high 21 points against Vermont Nov. 27 and paces the Crimson with 15.9 points per game, good for second in the Ivy League.
Harvard Sweeps Weekly Awards Dec. 3
Wesley Saunders was tabbed the Ivy League Player of the Week, and Siyani Chambers was named Ivy Rookie of the Week Dec. 3, as Harvard swept the conference awards for the week.
Saunders followed by winning the Ivy Player of the Week award again Dec. 10, while Saunders was also named the Ivy's top rookie Dec. 17.
'D' At Lavietes
Harvard is only allowing 62.4 points per game at home this season, compared to 65.5 points per contest in road games.
Wesley Saunders hit 13-of-18 foul shots against Fordham Dec. 1. His 13 foul shots marked the most since Kyle Casey sank 13 from the charity stripe (13-16) at Santa Clara Jan. 4, 2010. Saunders' 18 attempts were the most since Brian Cusworth '07 went 10-of-19 at Dartmouth Jan. 6, 2007.
Halftime Report
Going back to the 2004-05 season, Harvard is 105-22 (.827) when leading at halftime and 27-75 (.264) when trailing at the break. Since 2010-11, the Crimson is 42-7 when leading at the half (.857) and is 4-0 when owning an advantage at the midway point of games this year.
Conference Watch
The Crimson will face opponents from at least 11 conferences in 2012-13. Harvard has wins over five conferences this season: ACC, Atlantic-10, America East, MAAC and NEWMAC. The Crimson established a new program record by earning wins over schools from 11 conferences last year.
Winning Tradition
Last year's senior class of Oliver McNally '12, Andrew Van Nest '12 and Keith Wright '12 won 84 games (84-34, .712) during their careers, a program record. Current senior Christian Webster has helped Harvard win 75 games throughout this career (75-24, .758).
On The Big Screen
The Crimson will play at least 14 games on national or regional television this season, which will establish a new program record. Four of those TV games will be played at Lavietes Pavilion, also a program record.
Harvard was 6-4 on TV last year and is 1-4 on television this season. The Crimson has nine TV games remaining against California Dec. 29 (Pac-12 Networks), Saint Mary's Dec. 31 (ESPN2), Memphis Jan. 19 (FSN), Dartmouth Jan. 26 (NBC Sports), Princeton Feb. 16 (NBC Sports), Yale Feb. 23 (CBS Sports), Princeton March 1 (ESPNU), Penn March 2 (NBC Sports) and Cornell March 9 (NBC Sports).
Consistent Lineup
Siyani Chambers and Wesley Saunders have started all nine games this season. Laurent Rivard has started eight games, while Kenyatta Smith and Steve Moundou-Missi have made five starts apiece.
Dunk Tally - 2012-13
Jonah Travis 7
Wesley Saunders 5
Steve Moundou-Missi 4
Agunwa Okolie 4
Kenyatta Smith 3
Michael Hall 1
Throwing It Down
Harvard had a season-high six dunks in the 79-45 win over Manhattan Nov. 16.
Milestone Watch
Christian Webster surpassed the 800-point mark against Vermont Nov. 27, 2012, and now has 841 points in his career. He dished out his 100th assist at Connecticut Dec. 8, 2011, and grabbed his 200th rebound at Fordham Jan. 3, 2012. Webster also hit the 100th 3-pointer of his career in the championship game of the Battle 4 Atlantis against Central Florida Nov. 26, 2011. Webster (134) is sixth in program history in career 3-pointers. Webster is also third in Harvard history in free-throw shooting (.863, 189 of 219).
Laurent Rivard scored his 700th point against Vermont Nov. 27, 2012, and now has 731 points. He also has 201 rebounds, having grabbed his 200th against Boston University Dec. 11, 2012, in his career and 149 3-pointers. He needs 18 3-pointers to tie Mike Gilmore '96 for fourth in program history (167). Rivard ranks third in the Harvard record books with a career .405 3-point shooting percentage.


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BEIJING (Reuters) - China's Commerce Ministry issued preliminary anti-dumping duties on imports of U.S. and South Korean solar-grade polysilicon on Thursday, but made no decision on tariffs on European Union exports of the raw material used to make solar panels.
Beijing's move, a widely expected hit on U.S. and South Korean producers, coincides with difficult talks between the EU and China to defuse a conflict over alleged dumping of Chinese solar panels in Europe.
That spat, according to EU officials, pushed Beijing to threaten duties on European wine exports and risks sparking a trade war in other goods, including steel.
"Though the investigation into ... imported EU solar-grade polysilicon is still pending, the cause-and-effect relationship between the dumping of products from the United States and South Korea and harm to China's domestic industry cannot be denied," the Commerce Ministry said in a statement on its website.
In Washington, the United States said it was "very disappointed" with the Chinese action because it also was in talks with Beijing on solar trade issues, including both solar panels and polysilicon.
"We are dismayed that China would take this step in the midst of those conversations," a spokeswoman for the U.S. Trade Representative said, adding the United States would closely examine China's anti-dumping order to see if it violates World Trade Organization rules.
Last October, the United States leveled steep duties on Chinese-made solar products, a move Beijing warned would provoke greater trade frictions in the new energy sector.
The European Commission, the EU's executive body, has also accused China of dumping billions of euros of solar panels in Europe below production costs.
In early June, it imposed punitive tariffs at 11.8 percent for two months, instead of an earlier plan for an immediate levy averaging 47 percent, leaving a window for Brussels and Beijing to negotiate.
The same month, U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman told U.S. lawmakers the United States has had initial discussions with both the EU and China about a possible "global" agreement to resolve the solar energy trade disputes.
The German Economy Ministry this month said Beijing would levy no duties on EU polysilicon following work to reduce trade tensions over EU tariffs on Chinese solar exports.
Thursday's decision slapped hefty duties of 53.3 to 57 percent on U.S. polysilicon and duties on South Korean exports ranging from 2.4 percent to 48.7 percent.
U.S. subsidiaries of Renewable Energy Corp ASA were among those hardest hit.
Importers are required to pay preliminary duties in deposits starting from July 24, the ministry said.
Western solar firms have been facing off with their Chinese counterparts for years, alleging they receive government support and low interest rates to offer modules at cheaper prices.
The Commerce Ministry had merged its anti-dumping and anti-subsidy investigations into the three markets last fall, but some experts have said that the desire to reach a negotiated solution to the China-EU spat had delayed a decision on polysilicon duties.
Thursday's ruling made no determination on anti-subsidy duties.
Some Chinese panel makers like Yingli Green have warned against the duties because they would raise production costs.
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Pictured: Danny Moskovits connected for a home run in game two against the Bears.
PROVIDENCE, R.I – Harvard banged out 25 hits on Sunday as the Crimson swept an Ivy League doubleheader at Brown by scores of 6-3 and 12-7.
In the first game, Brown (8-21, 6-6 Ivy) scored a pair of fourth inning runs behind RBI singles from Mike DiBiase and Josh Feit. Harvard (6-27, 3-9 Ivy), which had been held hitless through the first four innings, tied the game in the top of the fifth.
Marcus Way led off the inning with a long home run to center field, his sixth of the season. Tyler Albright singled with one out and Danny Moskovits followed with a single of his own. Jack Colton plated Albright with a single. With runners in scoring position and one out, Cole Arledge hit a ball to shortstop and the Crimson had a run cut down at the plate on a contact play.
The Crimson scored four times in the seventh with a leadoff walk to Jake McGuiggan followed by four consecutive hits by the bottom of the Crimson order. Moskovits drove home two runs with a double to the gap in left, J.T. Tomes drove home a run with an opposite field hit and Jeff Reynolds had an RBI single up the middle.
Brown was able to scratch for a two-out run in the bottom of the inning as a two-out walk was followed by an RBI double from John Sheriden but Brent Suter (2-3) closed the door by striking out the final batter to put the finishing touches on a complete game, seven-strikeout effort.
Albright, Colton and Moskovits all had two hits as the Crimson struck for nine hits in the final three innings.
Harvard picked up where it left off in the nightcap, scoring four times in the first inning. A pair of bases loaded walks provided some of the damage while Colton plated two more runs with a two-out single up the middle.
Brown scored on an error in the bottom of the inning but Harvard got the run back in the second as Way doubled home Reynolds (double) with two outs. Moskovits kept a hot bat when, in the third, he launched a long homer high over the left field fence and Dillon O'Neill collected an RBI single to give the Crimson a 7-1 lead.
Brown scored two runs in both the third and fourth innings against another RBI from Way as the Crimson took am 8-5 lead into the fifth. In that inning, O'Neill came through with another two-out hit to score Albright (single) and Moskovits (walk). Albright plated another run with a sacrifice fly in the sixth for an 11-5 lead before Brown got back in the game thanks to a two-run homer from DiBiase.
Reynolds upped the Harvard lead in the ninth as yet another two-out hit, this one a double, scored Colton who had singled earlier.
Colton had three hits in the nightcap, as did O'Neill and Reynolds while O'Hara and Way each had two hits. The Crimson out-hit Brown by a count of 16-13. Ben Sestanovich earned the win on the mound, going the last 5.1 innings of the game and scattering six hits.
Harvard will play on Tuesday afternoon in a home twinbill against Bryant starting at 2 p.m. The games were scheduled just this past Friday in a tune-up for the annual Beanpot first round on Wednesday when the Crimson will face Massachusetts in a 6:30 p.m. game at Lowell's LeLacheur Park.


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Bungie's 'Destiny' exclusive to Xbox, launching in 2013, original Activision contract shows
In 2010, Halo developer Bungie signed a deal with Activision--an exclusive t10-year partnership "to bring Bungie's next big action game universe to market." Little has surfaced about the new project since.
As a consequence of Activision's ongoing litigation with former Modern Warfare developers at Infinity Ward, details of the publisher's agreement with Bungie have surfaced. While specifics could have changed since the contract was signed in 2010, the original contract lays out a plan for four sci-fi "action shooter" games from Bungie, codenamed "Destiny," released every other year, beginning in late 2013.
The LA Times got their hands on the full 27-page document. According to the original contract, the first "Destiny" game would be exclusive to Xbox consoles, the 360 and its successor. "Later games" would then be multiplatform as per the original announcement, coming to the next Xbox and PlayStation consoles, as well as PC.
In addition to these four games, Bungie's agreement with Activision also covers four downloadable expansion packs, codenamed "Comet." These will also release every other year, beginning 2014. If Bungie is still adhering to their original agreement with Activision, that means we will be seeing content coming out of the studio on an annual basis starting next year--until the year 2020, only a few years before drones screw everything up.


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Everyone knows films about games are pretty terrible, but today a spark of hope has been ignited with the news that Valve is eyeing up Hollywood… while new Hitman news points to the most horrific film creation since Uwe Boll tried to film himself making a game. Holding back tears of joy and vomiting convulsions simultaneously, Daily Reaction's Seb and Dan try to facepalm and high five, but get confused and end up slapping each other.
Seb: My brain is hurting from the conflicting emotions – Valve has revealed their film plans, while Fox has announced that they are squatting over the Hitman brand, preparing to spread their cheeks. We're at a crossroads, before us we can see the promise of quality films about our favorite brands, but looming all the more prominently is a reminder of how Hollywood has no idea what they're doing.
I'll start with Valve so that I don't get too angry too early. During a presentation with JJ Abrams at the 2013 DICE Summit, Gabe Newell casually mentioned that the pair were discussing making Portal and Half-Life movies. Abrams then told Polygon that "it's as real as anything in Hollywood ever gets… which is that we are really talking to Valve, we are going to be bringing on a writer, we have a lot of very interesting ideas."
This is incredibly exciting, not only because Portal and Half-Life have awesome stories that deserve to be shared, but because Valve wants to be very hands-on with the making of the films. They don't want to just give Abrams the film IP rights and be surprised when he comes back in 3 years with a film called Portal to My Heart, starring Channing Tatum perpetually huffing for no real reason. With lots of lens flares.
Ideally, it means that Valve are going to be closely involved in every aspect, ensuring that Portal is very Portal-ly and Half-Life is very Half-Life-y. But the big problem there is that Valve are already slower than a PS3 install when it comes to game development – add in the fact that this'll be a new industry they haven't worked in, that there'll be other stakeholders and investors and that Abrams will want a say… dear god, this is going to take a long time. I can't help but be worried about a film where the actor is suddenly several years older in the next scene, simply because filming took so goddamn long.
Meanwhile, the new Hitman 'reboot' is chugging along merrily, refusing to pull the breaks, despite the abundance of poor souls lying on the track screaming for mercy. Although, you might not immediately realize that it's a reboot, because the film is going to be written by the same guy as the last Hitman movie, the genius behind other classics like G.I. Joe: The Rise of Cobra and X-Men Origins: Wolverine starring Ryan Reynolds with his mouth glued together butchering Deadpool. It gets worse.
This Hitman won't star Timothy Olyphant (who admitted he only did the first one to pay for his house after Deadwood was suddenly cancelled). No, it'll star Paul Walker. Paul Walker. Paul Walker as Agent 47. That's Paul Walker. The guy that's not Vin Diesel from The Fast and the Furious and absolutely nothing else. I'm sure his baby-blue eyes will appeal to some, but he looks like he couldn't hurt a fly if it killed his mother and ate his cookie. It gets worse.
The director, Aleksander Bach, has never made a feature film before, this is his first. To his credit, though, he has done some ads, such as this one about men around the world orgasming and then rubbing white cream on their face to look rejuvenated – "What men want" apparently.
The depressing thing about all this is that we all know that out of today's news only one film is actually going to be made, and they probably won't even bother shaving Paul Walker's head.
Looking at all of the details surrounding a movie like Hitman, it sparks the question, 'why would they reboot it?' Well, to answer it simply, money. The original film had a budget of a whopping $24 million, which is along the same lines of other quality movies like Piranha 3D, but still a decent amount for films that do not require as many special effects. Still, Hitman was able to pull in almost a $100 million worldwide since its release, which goes to show that with a relatively smaller budget, studios are able to get an easy return on their investment with little to no risk. Something that really shows the limited appreciation for the games industry ability to produce quality products that could be used in any meaningful way (i.e.Resident Evil).
Sadly, the biggest issue that surrounds the conversion of an interactive based medium, like video games, to a passive one, like film, is the relationship we have with the cast members. During the event at DICE, Gabe Newell and J.J. Abrams talked about the need for dialog between characters to drive the plot and give it meaning, but also discuss the passivity of the protagonist (you) standing by watching people interact, instead of being a participant. Meaning that there is a cast of members playing roles in the games we play, and that we rely on them to push the plot in ways we simply cannot, with our given level of control. Although, in movies, we do not normally take on any roll in the film, we simply watch in a passive mode – a mode that allows us to dissociate ourselves from the situation, and simply care about the actors.
This ability to interact has become increasingly improved with dialog trees, and branching storylines, but is the simple ability to interact preventing us from completely attaching to a storyline? This is the big question that surrounds video games to movie conversions, as we bring ourselves into a story, we bring more than our decisions, we bring own our biases and relationships into the fray. When cast as a character who is supposed to be interacting with their mother or father, there is a bit of attachment, given the standard understanding of family roles, but they will never be your parent. Whereas, in a film, that character's parent as far as you know, really is their parent. This relationship between how far we can dissociate ourselves from who we are and what we bring really is the problem between film and games.
Movies like Hitman usually work better for writers to work off of, because it can move away from the drama of relationships, and focus on the action aspects. Whether or not this is the standard, or an explanation of why we are seeing a ton of shit movie rip-offs, will require a ton more research, but to understand the real problems behind transferring between one medium or another can help us at least get it, whether we like it or not.
P.S. The Hitman reboot will probably suck.
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Dance the Night Away at the 27th Annual Viennese Ball
WHAT: The University of Rochester's 27th annual Viennese Ball, hosted by UR Ballroom, is the social dance event of the year.
TIME, DATE, PLACE: 8 p.m. to midnight on Saturday, Oct. 20, in the May Room, located on the 4th floor of Wilson Commons, on the University of Rochester's River Campus.
ABOUT: Students, faculty, and community members join together in "Old Vienna" to put their waltz skills on display and don snazzy formal attire or period costumes. A formal "Simply Italian" dinner in The Meliora will be held at 6 p.m. prior to the event. At 7 p.m., a complementary crash course in Viennese Waltz will be held in the May Room. The ball will commence at 8 p.m., with refreshments and live music available, allowing guests to dance the night away.
TICKETS: Tickets, which can be purchased at the Common Market in Wilson Commons, are $15 for University of Rochester undergraduate students, $17 for University faculty, staff, and graduate students, and $20 for the general public. Tickets for the "Simply Italian" dinner are $23 and include free admission to the ball. Tickets purchased at the door are $20, cash only.
FOR MORE INFORMATION: Call the Common Connection at 585.275.5911.
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