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The best of one and the best of the other would make close to the perfect disc.
As the old Hollywood studio system began to take on water in the 1950s, actors increasingly turned to producing their own pictures and simply arranging distribution deals with the major studios. Burt Lancaster was one of the first to do so, releasing his efforts through United Artists. By the start of the '60s, the practice was fairly common. Gregory Peck was one who had embraced this new approach with his company called Melville Productions (presumably an allusion to his role in the 1956 film of Herman Melville's "Moby Dick"). Peck was interested in doing some sort of thriller and finally found what he was looking for in John D. MacDonald's "The Executioners." James Webb developed a script based on MacDonald's novel, and the title was supplied by Peck himself when, after scouring the map of the U.S. eastern seaboard for an apt-sounding location, he came across the Cape Fear River in North Carolina. Peck had already decided that he would play the film's protagonist — small town lawyer Sam Bowden — and Robert Mitchum was soon brought on board to play the heavy. Mitchum's own production company — Talbot Productions — would become a co-producer of Cape Fear (1962) along with Peck's Melville Productions. The resulting film was widely acclaimed as a classic tale of shock and suspense, with Mitchum particularly being singled out for his work as Max Cady — an ex-con single-mindedly focused on revenge.
Almost 30 years later, Robert De Niro's strong interest in the Max Cady character finally persuaded his frequent collaborator Martin Scorsese to take on the direction of a remake. Initially, the updated script by Wesley Strick had been crafted with Steven Spielberg in mind, for he had expressed some interest in the project. Once Spielberg dropped out, Scorsese was approached, but he was reluctant, for he could see little room to improve on the original with the script as then conceived. Once he was assured that he could make script changes, however, he accepted the job, believing that the story could be addressed in a somewhat different fashion while still maintaining the suspense elements that had been the original story's backbone. In the event, the 1991 version bears quite a close resemblance to the basics of the original version. The main difference is the exploration of the Bowden family, revealed to have deep divisions that would be stressed greatly by Max Cady's actions. Cape Fear (1991) proved to be quite a successful film, as remakes go. De Niro's work was seen by many critics as among his best portrayals and it brought him Academy Award and Golden Globe nominations as Best Actor.
Universal has now brought both versions of Cape Fear to DVD in separate special editions worthy of the films' reputations.
Sam Bowden is a successful lawyer who lives contentedly in a small town with his wife and teenage daughter. Then, Max Cady, an ex-con that Bowden had helped put in prison, receives his release and comes to the town. He proceeds to play a cat and mouse game of stalking Bowden and his family. Sam is legally powerless to do anything to stop Cady, despite the help of the local police chief and a private detective. Eventually, he pays to have several men beat Cady up in an attempt to make Cady leave town. This backfires and Sam finds himself possibly facing disbarment. Required to attend a hearing on the matter out of town, Sam uses the opportunity to set a trap for Cady. He arranges for his wife and daughter to spend time at a houseboat on the Cape Fear River, hoping that Cady will try for them. Meanwhile, Sam secrets himself in the swamp near the houseboat in hopes of catching Cady in the act and then dealing with him once and for all.
In the 1991 version, the final confrontation at the houseboat comes about as a result of the Bowden family trying to flee their small town after Cady has killed a private detective they had hired to guard their home. Cady manages to strap himself under their truck and thus follow the Bowdens to the houseboat where he attacks the family after first cutting the boat loose from its mooring.
The success of the 1962 version is entirely due to three things — an extraordinary performance by Robert Mitchum, the direction of J. Lee Thompson, and James Webb's script that builds the tension gradually but continuously and realistically to a final climactic confrontation. It is worth noting that the word "rape" is never used in the film, but that's what it's all about. Cady's intended revenge on Bowden is to rape both Sam's wife and their child and no one watching the film would have any doubt about that. The omission of the word is, of course, entirely due to censorship issues of the times, so that the filmmakers' intent had to be conveyed by the actors and the set-up of the film's various sequences. That's where Mitchum and Thompson came in.
Robert Mitchum was not far removed from his considerable success in 1960's Home from the Hill and The Sundowners when he got the offer of the Max Cady character. Mitchum had always had a commanding presence on the screen, needing minimal dialogue to create menace when needed. He could be frighteningly enigmatic too, simply by looking slightly sideways out of his hooded eyes while maintaining just the trace of a smile on his lips. Both of these traits are much in evidence in Cape Fear, particularly during the first half of the film when Cady is toying with Bowden and his family — suggesting much but never actually doing anything. To that point, the building tension is all in Bowden's mind as he imagines what Cady intends to do. Once the scene shifts to the Cape Fear River and we see Cady actually stalking the family, imagination becomes reality and Cady's ruthlessness is clear. His murder of a deputy assigned to help Sam is done without qualm and once he realizes that Sam is waiting for him in hiding, he stalks him unrelentingly. Mitchum is never less than completely believable throughout.
Director J. Lee Thompson came to Cape Fear by virtue of his work on The Guns Of Navarone. Gregory Peck had found that working with Thompson on that film was quite a pleasant experience, feeling that Thompson had an eye for action material as well as being able to deal well with actors. Accordingly, he offered the Cape Fear job to Thompson, after Thompson had had an opportunity to read the book on which it was based and had indicated an interest in being involved. Thompson had worked previously with Hitchcock and saw the new film as material that was quite Hitchcockian in tone, so he gave conscious consideration to how Hitchcock might have approached the various scenes to build suspense. Thus, it is not surprising that the completed film has a definite Hitchcock feel to it (aided too by a score by Bernard Herrmann, which also evokes thoughts of the Master's Vertigo). Thompson creates suspense and fear by focusing on the actors' physical and facial reactions to situations, by using light and shadow effectively, and by using the technique of first appearing to defuse a tense situation by providing an innocent explanation, only to suddenly turn up the screws by suddenly returning to the originally expected explanation. Thus, when Bowden's daughter believes she is being chased through her school by Cady, she manages to escape through a basement window just as we find out that her pursuer was only the school janitor. We sigh with relief only to be jolted when the escaping daughter runs from the school grounds directly into the arms of Cady, who has been waiting outside all along.
Gregory Peck is the star of the film, but his role as Sam Bowden is really a thankless one. Sam seems to be the perfect lawyer and apparently has the perfect family, so there's no opportunity for dramatic tension in those areas. All Peck can do is try to not let his part be overshadowed by the Cady character. He tries valiantly, but it's Mitchum you remember when the film is over.
When it came to doing the remake, trying to seek a better balance between the two principal characters was a key issue. The result was a Sam Bowden as portrayed by Nick Nolte, who turns out to be less than a paragon of a lawyer and also part of a family that is on the verge of splitting apart. Nolte's Bowden likes playing around with the office staff and has already had one affair in the past. His relationship with his wife Leigh (played by Jessica Lange) is tenuous, despite lengthy counseling. The two are constantly baiting each other and Bowden's relationship with his daughter Danielle (played by Juliette Lewis) is deteriorating as a consequence. Thus, Danielle becomes almost a willing target for Cady as she rebels against her father's attempts to protect her. Scorsese's handling of this whole relationship is assured and the three actors are quite believable, making this aspect of the remake a substantial improvement over the original.
Robert De Niro's Max Cady is a pretty frightening character, and there's a bit of both Travis Bickle (from Taxi Driver) and Jake La Motta (from Raging Bull) in Cady. The gradual build-up of the tension during the first half of the film is really effective as Cady toys with each of the Bowden family members. The only troubling sequence is Cady's attack on Sam Bowden's squash partner whom Cady picks up in a bar. The brutality of the attack — he actually takes a bite out of the woman's cheek — makes us wonder if we're not going to be in for another over-the-top violent portrayal from De Niro. Unfortunately, that proves to be the case, for as the film's climax at the boathouse plays out, Cady becomes a crazed maniac after he is burned by the ignited lighter fluid squirted over his face by Danielle — almost like a bizarre creature from the black lagoon. The set-up of this sequence is also one of the weakest aspects of the script. Does anyone really believe that Cady can strap himself to the driveshaft of the Bowdens' vehicle and hang on for the whole time it takes them to drive to the Cape Fear River? It's not realistic and it makes the climax seem artificially contrived. Then to have Cady go berserk is just too much.
It's nice to see the remake acknowledge the original by including cameos from several of the actors in it. Gregory Peck has a brief appearance as a lawyer acting for Cady after he's been beaten up, and the presiding judge at that hearing is Martin Balsam, who was the police chief in the original. Robert Mitchum has a small part as the police chief in the remake.
Universal's work on the DVDs for each film is highly commendable. The 1962 original is packaged as a single-disc special edition, while the 1991 remake is given a full-blown two-disc collector's edition. Both versions are presented in anamorphic widescreen utilizing the original aspect ratios — 1.85:1 for the original and 2.35:1 for the remake. The original looks very good. The black and white picture is clean and quite clear, and although a few nicks and speckles are present, their impact is negligible. Blacks are deep, whites are bright, and shadow detail is excellent. The look of the remake is even better. The image appears virtually pristine. Colour fidelity is excellent and even difficult colour situations are completely free of any blooming. Edge enhancement appears to be non-existent.
The original version is presented in Dolby Digital 2.0 mono. The audio is in good shape — free of any age-related defects — and is fairly rich given the limitations of the mix. Bernard Herrmann's wonderful score is nicely conveyed. English, Spanish, and French subtitles are included. The remake has the advantage of a Dolby Digital 5.1 mix, which obviously provides a much more enveloping experience. The surrounds appear to be used less than one might have expected, however, being mainly restricted to more subtle ambient effects. Alfred Newman's updated arrangement of Herrmann's original score sounds lush, but somehow, the original's comparative lack of dynamic range fits the grimness of the subject matter better. The remake also has a DTS 5.1 mix available. Dolby Digital Surround tracks in French and Spanish are included as are English subtitles.
For both versions, Universal has commissioned making-of documentaries by the prolific Laurent Bouzereau. The one for the original is almost 30 minutes long and relies mainly on new interviews with Gregory Peck and J. Lee Thompson. Despite the fact that so many of the other principals are no longer with us, Peck and Thompson are able to cover most of the various aspects of the production in sufficient depth to give us a pretty good understanding of the film's background and actual production issues. The documentary for the remake is a really comprehensive effort — some 80 minutes in length. It also relies heavily on new interviews to provide information, with all the principal filmmakers participated including Scorsese, Nolte, and De Niro. Pre-production planning, all aspects of production, and post-production issues are all covered in detail. It's especially interesting to hear Scorsese's remarks on how he came to be involved in what would be his first 2.35:1 film. For a fan of the film, this documentary is a thorough, entertaining resource.
While the documentaries are the main supplements on each DVD, each comes with a number of additional items. The original includes a short section of production stills and poster artwork, the original theatrical trailer (plus a promo for a horror compilation called Boogeymen), some production notes, and brief biographies/selected filmographies of the cast and director. DVD-ROM features as advertised on the box are simply links to Universal properties and hardly worth mentioning.
The additional supplements for the remake are substantial. On the first disc there is a THX Optimizer with provides a useful procedure for calibrating your set for ideal audio and video, though it's no substitute for "Video Essentials." This is followed by a script-to-screen comparison that allows one to view the completed film in parallel with the shooting script — a substantial and highly interesting supplement that Universal has previously included on a couple of its DVD releases to good effect. On the second disc, after the documentary, there is a nine-minute set of deleted scenes. There are eight in all, presented with dialogue intact, but no background sounds or music. They provide some additional insight into either the Bowden family relationships or the Bowden/Cady cat and mouse game, but none are that compelling that you wish they had been included in the final film. Following this are behind-the-scenes looks at the shooting of the Fourth of July parade and of the houseboat, only about two minutes each, but quite interesting. There are photograph montages of the transformation of the Cady character, of the various cast members, and of Scorsese directing the film, totaling nine minutes in all. Following these are examples of matte paintings used in the film, the theatrical trailer, cast and filmmakers biographies/filmographies, and a 12-minute sequence of opening credits for Vertigo, Psycho, Spartacus, and Casino as designed by the late Saul Bass (who also did Cape Fear).
I see that I've pretty well already covered my concerns with the two films. Basically, if the Leave It to Beaver family of the original could be replaced by at least a hint of the more dramatically interesting family relationship of the remake, that would be about the only way you could improve the original version.
I could complain about a lack of director commentary on either film, but it would be quibbling to some extent. Both directors did participate in the making-of documentaries. A commentary would have been more beneficial for the original, given that the remake's making-of documentary is so thorough.
We have two fine films in the original and remake versions of Cape Fear. The original is the better film overall. Being forced to imply much of its terror by the censorship rules of the time, its suspense is cleverly and logically built to a satisfying conclusion. Robert Mitchum's Max Cady is a masterpiece of first implied and then revealed brutality. The remake adds a satisfying dimension to the story through its depiction of the Bowden family tensions, but the film is ultimately let down by Robert De Niro's overdone depiction of a Cady who becomes a virtual movie monster by the end and by its unrealistic method of bringing the main characters together at the houseboat. Both films benefit from Universal's careful attention to detail in their DVD releases.


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Using Primitive Restart for 3D Performance
As mentioned in the introduction, the examples in this article utilize an OpenGL extension called "primitive restart" to minimize communications across the PCIe bus and speed rendering. Simply, primitive restart allows the programmer to specify a data value that is interpreted by the OpenGL state machine as token indicating the current graphics primitive has completed. The next data item is assumed to be at the start of the next graphics primitive. Valid graphics primitives include TRIANGLE_STRIP, TRIANGLE_FAN, and others.
The following illustrates this process. Assume the variable
qIndices contains the indexes of data points that are to be used in drawing a triangle strip:
unsigned int qIndicies[] = { 0, 1, 2, 3, 65535, 2, 3, 4, 5};
The call to
glDrawElements shown below will draw seven triangles. Note:
size is the number elements in
glDrawElements(GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, size, GL_UNSIGNED_INT, qIndices);
The following code snippet calls
glPrimitiveRestartIndexNV to specify that the value 65535 (passed via
RestartIndex) is the primitive restart token. The routine
glEnableClientState is then called to tell the OpenGL state machine to start using primitive restart:
glPrimitiveRestartIndexNV(RestartIndex); glEnableClientState(GL_PRIMITIVE_RESTART_NV);
Now a single call to
glDrawElements using
qIndicies will draw four triangles because the value 65535 tells OpenGL to act as if two separate
glDrawElements calls were made.
glDrawElements(GL_TRIANGLE_STRIP, size, GL_UNSIGNED_INT, qIndices);
The advantages of the primitive restart approach are many-fold as:
- All control tokens and data for viewing can be generated and kept on the GPU.
- Variable numbers of items can be specified between the primitive restart tokens. This allows irregular grids and surfaces to drawn as arbitrary numbers of line segments, triangle strips, triangle fans, etc, can be specified depending on the drawing mode passed to
- Rendering performance can be optimized by arranging the indices to achieve the highest reuse of the data cache in the texture units.
- Higher quality images can be created by alternating the direction of tessellation as noted in the primitive restart specification and illustrated in Figures 6 and 7.
More information on various OpenGL optimizations including multiDraw (an alternative OpenGL method to draw multiple items with one call) can be found here on the OpenGl website. In particular, the primitive restart specification notes that multiDraw "still remain[s] more expensive than one would like".
A rough performance comparison using example code from this article on Linux demonstrates the speed of primitive restart compared to other techniques. Source code for the examples in this article that can utilize different OpenGL rendering techniques (selectable using preprocessor
#define statements) can be found here on the GPUcomputing.net website. For clarity, the
#ifdef preprocessor statements were not included in the source code provided in this example. Of course, performance results can vary depending on the machine and GPU combination as well as driver version and settings. In addition, no attempt was made to fully optimize any of the drawing methods; see Table 1.
It is important to stress that these frame rates include the time required to re-compute the 3D position and color for every vertex and color in the image. This represents a worst case frame rate scenario that demonstrates the power and speed possible with hybrid CUDA/OpenGL applications. Real applications will undoubtedly deliver much higher performance by recalculating all the data only when necessary.

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The Old Salt Road runs for approximately 100 km from the 1,000-year-old salt town of Lüneberg, the picturesque shipping town of Lauenburg an der Elbe and Mölln, the town of the folkloric hero Till Eulenspiegel, to the Hanseatic town of Lübeck, gateway to the Baltic Sea. Although now nothing more than an everyday item, mineral salt was hugely important – and expensive – in the Middle Ages, earning itself the nickname "white gold".
The salt trade in the Middle Ages was closely intertwined with power and wealth and in fact 1,000 years ago, salt was as significant to the economy as natural oil and gas are today. Whilst today oil and gas pipelines traverse the whole of Europe, in the past it was the salt routes that were the lifelines of the economy. This is what prompted tradesmen from Lübeck to transport salt from Lüneburg, the most important salt deposit in Northern Europe, to Lübeck along the Old Salt Road.
The old "white gold" trade route
The Old Salt Route was one of the most significant and most frequently used trade routes in the Middle Ages and lead from the Hanseatic town of Lüneberg, which was the source of the salt, to the Hanseatic town of Lübeck. Here salt was used to preserve the catch brought in by herring vessels and was shipped on to the Baltic States and Scandinavia. It took more than 20 days for a wagon to make the journey from Lüneburg to Lauenburg and the crossing of the Elbe-Lübeck Canal to reach Lübeck.
A route with tales to tell
The wealth of these towns was built on transporting and trading salt or collecting duties from the tradesmen that passed through. Laws were also put in place to prohibit these tradesmen and waggoners from travelling around the city to avoid the duties, and those found guilty of breaking this law could expect their goods to be confiscated. This law ensured the collection of duties and also an income for the city's innkeepers and craftsmen.
Discover the Lüneburg Heath
The route is bounded by idyllic, colourful countryside full of lakes, forests and the scenic Lüneburg Heath Nature Park with its 2,000-strong herd of Heidschnucke sheep and lambs. The route leads to romantic towns, old cities with splendid town halls and ornate bourgeois houses, old redbrick houses, windmills and watermills, megalithic tombs, fieldstone churches, the graves of the skippers who transported salt along the Stecknitz river (Stecknitzfahrer) and many other interesting historic sites that stand as silent witnesses to the salt trade's glorious past.
Length: 100 km
Theme: culture, history, salt, nature
Aumühlen-Friedrichsruh: the Sachsenwald Forest, butterfly garden, Bismarck Museum
Lauenburg: museums, nature park, kettle lock
Lübeck: UNESCO World Heritage Site, old quarter, museums
Lüneburg: old quarter, town hall, saline
Mölln: Till Eulenspiegel, town hall, museums
Ratzeburg: cathedral, enclave city, museums
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|Aronian and Carlsen Race in London
|By GM Ian Rogers
|March 22, 2013
With the Candidates tournament in London less than half over, the contest to find Anand's next world title challenger seems to have already been whittled down to one of two players – Magnus Carlsen or Levon Aronian, the world one and two for most of the past 15 months.
After six of fourteen rounds, Carlsen and Aronian are a point and a half clear of their nearest rivals, former World Champion Vladimir Kramnik and his Russian compatriot Peter Svidler.
As Aronian was at pains to point out, such a lead can be wiped out in a moment but both Carlsen and Aronian look in great shape, each winning games with their own disparate styles.
While the 22-year-old Norwegian has steadily outplayed his opponents, making strong Grandmasters like Grischuk and Svidler appear to be weak players, Armenian hero Aronian, 30, picked up his wins with wonderful tricks and traps.
Readers of my previous report from the Candidates venue, the Institute of Engineering and Technology in the centre of London, will have already seen Aronian's magnificent trick against Gelfand in round 3 – 26.Bh6+!!
Aronian's trap against a short of time Teimour Radjabov in round six was less spectacular but equally traumatic for the victim...
London Candidates 2013
White: T.Radjabov
Black: L.Aronian
Aronian has just reluctantly played 52...Qb4-a4, running himself down from 17 minutes to three in the process.
Radjabov had 1 minute 44 seconds left to reach move 60 and he used only 8 seconds before playing
53.Nxe5?? Qxe4+
Suddenly Radjabov realised the horrible truth – after 54.Kf1 Aronian can do the impossible and play 54...Qxe5! because 55.Bh6+ Kf6! saves the queen and wins the game. "I forgot about Kf6," admitted Radjabov. "I just thought that ...Qxe5 never works. After 53.Qe2 followed by 54.Rc1, White was fine."
54.Nf3 Nf4+ 0–1
Radjabov lost on time but after 55.Kg3 Bxc5! his position is hopeless in any case.
"Only through luck did I manage to break Teimour's resistance," admitted Aronian. But, contrary to a common misconception, luck is all you need.
Of course if you try to trick Carlsen, you can be sure that the Norwegian will not only see your trick, he will raise you one.
London Candidates 2013
White: P.Svidler
Black: M.Carlsen
Position after Black's 32nd move
Here Svidler could keep his position afloat with 33.Re8 – although with more time and a good position, Carlsen would be strongly tipped to win anyway.
However Svidler, who before this game was sitting just half a point behind the Norwegian, decided to try his luck with
Now White has two mating threats – the obvious one with 34.Qf5+ and the sneaky one with 34.Rh8+! Kxh8 35.Qxh6+!. Svidler thought that the reply 33...Qe6 was forced, but instead came...
Turning the tables. Now 34.Rh8+ Kxh8 35.Qxh6+ Qh7! is not mate – in fact it is nothing for White.
34.Rb2 Rd5! 35.Re2 Qb1+ 36.Kh2 f6! 0–1
Both Aronian and Carlsen had to survive near-death experiences in the fifth round, with the Norwegian favourite surviving a difficult endgame against tail-ender Vassily Ivanchuk and Aronian close to lost for most of his epic six hour battle against Kramnik. (Kramnik used the word "miracle" 15 times in the post-game press conference to describe Aronian's save.)
London Candidates 2013
White: V.Kramnik
Black: L.Aronian
Position after White's 67th move
Despite the 'wrong' h pawn, Black has to play with enormous precision to hold this endgame.
67...Kg3! 68.Bc4
Against the more obvious 68.g6 Kramnik though that both 68...Bf8 and 68...Bf6 would hold the game but Aronian showed him that only 68...Bf8! holds and Kramnik's proposed defence 68...Bf6? 69.Bc4! Bb2 would lose to 70.Kg5 Bc1+ 71.Kf5 Bh6 72.h5 Kh4 73.Be2! Bg7 74.Bd1!! when Black is in zugzwang.
Once again heading for the key f8-h6 diagonal.
69.Be2 Bg7 70.Bc4 Bf8 71.g6 Kf4 72.Ba2 Bg7 Draw Agreed
Carlsen's fifth round escape was almost equally impressive.
London Candidates 2013
White: V.Ivanchuk
Black: M.Carlsen
Position after White's 45th move
Carlsen had knocked back a draw on move 31 - "an unprofessional decision" he said and one regretted only two moves later. By now Carlsen has escaped into a complicated knight endgame but despite his outside passed pawn, Black appears to be in big trouble, e.g. 45...Ke6 46.Ne3 Kf7 47.Kh6 Kg8 48.Nc4 and White will start pushing his pawns, or 45...a5 46.Kh6 and White's g-pawn is too fast.
However Carlsen found the only way to save the game – the aggressive king.
45...Ke4! 46.Ne3
After the game Ivanchuk proposed 46.Ne7 as an improvement but after Carlsen showed him the wonderful defence 46.Ne7 a5 47.Kh6 a4 48.Nc6 a3 49.Nb4 Kf5 50.f4 Nd6! 51.Kxh7 Ne4!, he conceded that perhaps there was no win for White.
46...Nd6! 47.Kh6 Nf7+ 48.Kxh7 Nxg5+
Now a draw could happily be agreed but Ivanchuk plays on until the bitter end.
49.Kg6 Nh3 50.Nd1 Kf3 51.Kf5 Nxf2 52.Nxf2 Kxg3 53.Nd1 a5 54.Ke4 a4 55.Kd4 a3 56.Nc3 a2 57.Nxa2 Draw
For chess fans a two-horse race between Carlsen and Aronian for the right to play Anand should be a delight.
The two have roughly similar runs home in the remaining eight rounds, with the exception that Carlsen will have White against Aronian in their individual round 8 game.
Incredibly, one pundit has already given the tournament to Carlsen. Having watched Carlsen outsprint Aronian this year in Wijk aan Zee, and seen Carlsen's amazing ability to lift for the final rounds of a tournament in multiple tournaments in recent years, it is easy to see why the Norwegian might (still) be favorite. However Aronian seems to have the sharp eye (and the luck) reminiscent of Mikhail Tal's rise and rise, so writing him off seems foolhardy.
Carlsen, never one to get ahead of himself expressed satisfaction with his form, the Ivanchuk game apart, and said simply "I am where I need to be."
Whoever wins, a huge winning score may be necessary – just the sort of race to the finish that chess fans love to see.
Yet it must be admitted that for the world at large, the Candidates tournament has been a low key affair. London is a city of eight million yet the paying spectators numbers seem stuck at around 100 each day while local media coverage has been decidedly mixed.
After a flurry on the first two days, the press centre has been sparsely populated, with almost as many commentators (for ICC, Playchess and various Russian web sites) as journalists. (Sadly, this writer has now joined the exodus.)
However the viewing figures for the live internet coverage of the games – which includes streaming video, audio commentary and all press conferences – tell a far more promising story.
At the start of the first round, 50,000 internet spectators tried to log on to the tournament web site almost simultaneously, causing the World Chess Federation FIDE's servers to overload and crash. Once up and running again the broadcast's viewing numbers have increased strongly day by day, with 250,000+ individual viewers from almost 200 countries checking in to date.
London Candidates 2013
Scores after 6 of 14 rounds:
=1.Carlsen(Nor), Aronian(Arm) 4.5;
=3.Kramnik(Rus), Svidler(Rus) 3;
=5.Radjabov(Aze), Grischuk(Rus) 2.5;
=7.Gelfand(Isr), Ivanchuk(Ukr) 2.
All games begin at 10am EST
Round 7 Saturday 23/03/2013
Round 8 Sunday 24/03/2013
Round 9 Monday 25/03/2013
Round 10 Wednesday 27/03/2013
Round 11 Thursday 28/03/2013
Round 12 Friday 29/03/2013
Round 13 Sunday 31/03/2013
Round 14 Monday 01/04/2013
Where to Watch the Games, Video and Commentary
Games may be watched using multiple platforms via http://london2013.fide.com/
while live video streaming of the games and the official commentary can be found on


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Bill Lear '14
Major: History
Hometown: Moline, Illinois
Future Plans: Work as a museum curator
Bill Lear has many titles. During the week he's the curator of the Illinois State Military Museum in Springfield, at night he's a graduate student studying public history at the University of Illinois Springfield, and one weekend a month he's a citizen soldier in the Illinois National Guard. As a member of the Illinois National Guard who was deployed to Afghanistan in 2008 and 2009, he knows how important it is to preserve the history of those who have served our country.
Leadership is lived at UIS. Every day.
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Judge rules officers justified in not reading Ben Sebena his rights immediately
Doctor says there's not enough evidence for insanity defense
A Milwaukee County judge said police who investigated an officer's shooting were justified in not immediately reading Miranda rights to the officer's husband because he didn't become a suspect until later.
The ruling came Friday afternoon during the final pre-trial hearing for 30-year-old Benjamin G. Sebena. He's charged with first-degree intentional homicide in the death of Jennifer Sebena, who would have turned 31 Friday.
Defense attorney Michael Steinle wanted his client's statements to Wauwatosa police tossed out because detectives didn't read him his rights during their initial six hours of questioning.
Judge David Borowski said the questioning was broad enough that it didn't rise to the level of an interrogation.
Steinle also acknowledged that a second psychiatrist who examined his client concluded there's not enough evidence to support his current insanity plea.
Sebena's trial is scheduled to start July 8.


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Volcanic by Stella and Pieros Pieris
Stella and Pieros Pieris Demonstrates The Volcanic Residence
Stella And Pieros Pieris, the maker of the award winning work Residence by Stella And Pieros Pieris demonstrates, The holiday retreat is located northeast of Santorin in an area characterised by the active underwater volcano.The design tries to capture the history and the strong elements of natural decomposition of the landscape by the thick layers of volcanic lava and the intensity of the strong winds and to redefine the characteristics of the traditional architecture through a modern vocabulary. The facade of the building gives the impression of an eroded shell whereas the irregular shape of the building is a result of the narrow shape of the plot and the intent to allow views to the sea from all room.
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Almost as ubiquitous as honey cake is the Jewish apple cake. It is hard to imagine a Rosh Hashanah table without one luscious apple cake nestled among the other delicious desserts. Since we dip apples in honey for a sweet new year, we feel compelled to discover variations on the theme – and of course sample every possible apple-filled treat! I personally love the traditional apple cake (you know the one I mean with the crunch on top, the kind the some people bake in a sheet pan and call a kugel in order to justify eating it on Shabbos!), especially when presented in a tube pan with a golden ring of apples around the top. Yum!!! But everyone has there own preferences. So here is my favorite recipe (thank you Debby Segura!) as well as a few other possibilities. Send us yours – we'd love to post it!
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Apple Cake with Caramel Glaze
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Lower-Back Pain
For centuries, yoga gurus have said this ancient mind-body practice can do more than just keep you fit and flexible. In fact, they believe that regularly twisting your body like a pretzel on a sticky mat will yield incredible health benefits — staving off insomnia, extra pounds, even heart disease. Skeptical? We were too, at first, so we did some digging to see if we could track down legitimate research to back up these bold claims. Here's what we found:
Lower-Back Pain
Yoga increases the range of motion in your hips, which can reduce lower-back pain, says Loren M. Fishman, MD, coauthor of Relief is in the Stretch: End Low Back Pain Through Yoga (W.W. Norton & Company, 2005). In fact, a small study of older women (ages 44 to 62), presented at the American College of Sports Medicine's annual meeting last year, suggests that yoga increases lower-back flexibility and diminishes pain. A word of caution: People suffering from persistent lower-back pain need a professional diagnosis before embracing yoga, because both backbends and forward bends can exacerbate some back conditions.
Pose Rx: Pigeon
Begin in downward-facing dog, extend right leg behind you, then bend the knee and draw it toward your forehead. Place right knee on floor behind right wrist and right foot behind left wrist; extend the left leg behind you on the floor. Inhale and sit up tall. Exhale and bend forward, extend arms, and rest forehead on the floor. Hold for two minutes; switch sides.
Heart Health
Practicing yoga for an hour and a half three times a week can make your heart healthier in just six weeks, says recent research from the Yale University School of Medicine. The 33 men and women who did just that lowered their blood pressure and improved their blood vessels' ability to expand and contract by 17 percent. "How well the blood vessels dilate is a good indication of how healthy the heart is," says Satish Sivasankaran, MD, author of the study. Researchers speculate that the improvement is due to the stress-reducing benefits of yoga.
Pose Rx: Legs-up-the-wall
Sit with right hip against a wall. Lie back and turn to swing legs up the wall. Allow your chest to gently stretch, increasing the flow of oxygen to your heart. Extend your legs toward the ceiling, keeping them slightly separated. Hold for five minutes, breathing deeply.
Weight Control
Researchers can't say exactly why, but two recent studies show that yoga helps with weight loss and maintenance. After surveying more than 15,000 adults, researchers at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle found that those who didn't practice yoga gained about 18.5 pounds more over a 10-year period than those who practiced for at least four years. A second study from the Preventive Medicine Research Institute in Sausalito, California, found that people who practiced yoga and meditation regularly, exercised, and watched their diet lost more weight than those who exercised and ate a healthy diet but skipped yoga.
Pose Rx: Seated spinal twist
Sit on floor with legs extended. Bend right knee, stepping right foot on floor next to left hip. Bend left knee, bringing left foot near butt. Place hands on floor behind you. Sit tall and extend left arm in front of you at shoulder height. Turn torso to right, resting left elbow on the outside of your right knee. Breathe deeply for one minute, twisting deeper on each exhale. Repeat on opposite side. Twisting can aid digestion by helping the absorption of nutrients and the elimination of waste.
Yoga can calm the whirling of the mind, which is helpful for insomniacs, who often have elevated levels of mental and emotional arousal, says Sat Bir Singh Khalsa, PhD, an instructor in medicine, division of Sleep Medicine, Harvard Medical School. He recently published a study which found that a half hour to 45 minutes of daily yoga practice — emphasizing meditation and breathing — helped chronic insomniacs sleep through the night. On average, the subjects increased their overall sleep time by 12 percent.
Pose Rx: Goddess pose
Sit on the floor with soles of feet pressed together, knees out to the sides. Place two pillows on the floor at the base of your spine and lie back. If your knees don't touch the floor, prop them up with pillows. Close your eyes and rest palms on your belly. Focus on the rise and fall of your breath for five minutes; this stimulates the vagus nerve, calming the nervous system.
Anxiety and Depression
Yogic breathing techniques are powerful tools for alleviating serious anxiety and depression and neutralizing the negative effects of stress, says recent research in the Journal of Alternative and Complementary Medicine. That's because yogic breathing can lower the heart rate and calm the nervous system, says Patricia L. Gerbarg, MD, an assistant professor of clinical psychiatry at New York Medical College in Valhalla, New York, and one of the study's authors.
Pose Rx: Headstand against the wall
Come onto your knees facing a wall, interlace your fingers, and place the knuckles against the base. Place your forearms on floor, elbows shoulder-width apart. Rest crown of head between wrists, tuck toes, and lift hips toward ceiling. Place one foot at a time against the wall and keep thighs together, breathing evenly. Hold for a few minutes, then draw knees toward chest and lower feet. Breathing deeply in this pose increases blood flow to the brain and stimulates the pituitary gland, which can relieve mild depression.
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I recently made the move of switching my usernames on various websites to be my real name. Previously, many websites I went on used the name "Zagorath", or some form of it, like LOTRzagorath which I used on YouTube. Most notably, I linked my YouTube with my Google+ so that it is now using my real name for comments and uploads, and I changed from @zagorath to @jimcullenaus on Twitter.
But why would I go to the effort of making the change, potentially losing recognition among the few people that have come to know me (a few smaller YouTubers, particularly, on whose videos I regularly comment), and gaining a longer Twitter name?
For me, the main reason is simply consistency. I have a Google+ account tied to my real name, and I wanted the benefits of linking my YouTube account to that. In addition, I liked the idea that people could see my real name on both, so it was immediately clear that they were the same person. This second reason is also part of the benefit of changing Twitter along with them. Previously many of my accounts online could be split into two categories: those where I used my real name, and those where I used the handle Zagorath (or some variation thereof). Facebook, email, and Google accounts were probably the only ones that fall into the former category, while most others used Zagorath. However, even for this latter group, it has always been easy to find out my real name because in many cases that same account had my real name entered into another field. The best example of this is my Twitter account, where my real name has always been visible along with the handle.
Other than that, I believe that by using my real name people will be able to trust in what I have to say. By knowing this is a real person attaching their real name to what they do, I believe people will be less inclined to subconsciously discount or devalue what I have to say because of my anonymity.
Over time, I'll see about changing over what I haven't already changed (this blog, for example—Wordpress does not allow you to change your username, although you can change the URL), but for the moment I've made the changes on the majority of the accounts that I use regularly that I would wish to change
After I had drafted most of this post, I realised that this was something journalist and advocate of openness Jeff Jarvis (who I know from the This Week in Google podcast he co-hosts weekly on the TWiT Network) probably had something to say about, so I did a quick search and it turns out he's done a post with the exact same title. His post is a far better one at actually describing the general benefits of being public and open. It's a brilliant read, based on a chapter from his book "Public Parts" which—from what little I've read about it—looks like a really enlightening book. That post brings up some great benefits to publicness in a more general sense, and talks about being public not necessarily (or, not only) with your name, but with sharing information and knowledge in a public and open way. It's a sentiment I can definitely agree with.
I definitely see the advantage of anonymity. It can allow people to express unpopular viewpoints without fear of potential retribution—social, political, or otherwise—but for me personally I think the benefits of publicness outweigh the negatives.


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Berkeley Actor returns in Marin Theatre Co. "TOPDOG/UNDERDOG"
Biko Eisen-Martin (on right in photo) is a Bay Area native who has returned to co-star in Marin Theatre Company's "TOPDOG/UNDERDOG" by Suzan-Lori Parks directed by Timothy Douglas.
He will reprise the role of Booth, the younger brother and hustler, who tries to draw older brother Lincoln back into his scams. Lincoln has gone straight and has a steady job as a black Abraham Lincoln impersonator.
Eisen-Martin taught history at Berkeley High. As a youth, Eisen-Martin attended the prestigious Branson School in Ross, arising before dawn to catch the bus from San Francisco. He was a member of "Youth Speaks," Bay Area's first spoken word artists and educators.
Eisen-Martin received his MFA from the National Theatre Center in April, earned his Actors' Equity card at the Denver Theatre Center, and is represented by the Hardin/Curtis agency.
He auditioned for the role while in town; he had played the role in a conservatory production at the Denver's National Theatre Center.
Here is the phone interview I had last week with the 28 year old actor:
You play Booth, the younger brother, the hustler. Did you ever hustle?
No (he laughs).
Have you thought about running a 3-card Monte to prepare for the role?
No, I'm not that much of a method actor (more laughter).
How are you preparing for the role?
Script analysis, trying to get the language right and in my body… with close attention to the punctuation….there is something bubbling…like when the scansion is off or over punctuated in Shakespeare.
Who plays your older brother Lincoln?
Bowman Wright. He recently got his MFA down at UC San Diego, and he's Equity, also.
How are you working on this together?
Sending it at each other….kind of a call and response. We're trying to get in synch in support and familiarity more than in physical traits like walking or talking.
Do you have brothers?
Yes, a big brother.
How do you see the character of Lincoln (your brother)?
As a street god…a legend…a father figure.
How do you see Lincoln (the President)?
I don't think the play is about Abraham Lincoln, so that hasn't changed in the process of the show. I know how my character feels about him, and you can come to the play to find out how. I know how I feel about him, and…well, that's irrelevant to my performance.
Have things changed for African-Americans since Suzan-Lori Parks wrote this almost a decade ago?
This play is not just about African-Americans …it's about brothers who are poor which transcends race.
But to answer your question, there are negatives and positive: Katrina exposed a lot of the actions of what the government will do. Young brothers get killed at an alarming rate. A black person is killed by law enforcement every 36 hours. Rising price of higher education is limiting Black communities.
But kids are making positive contributions, showing up to school facing some of the worst circumstances. Just like Lincoln shows up every day at work.
"TOPDOG/UNDERDOG" is a family story. Rich brothers have crazy/competitive/loving relationships, too. The specificity of the demographic makes it a good story, but it's still universal.
But, like I said, the point of this show is not to educate you about black people….
Who are your theatrical influences and teachers?
Two men, mainly.
L. Peter Callender--I took his class at Cal Shakes and he directed me in PATRICIDE REVISITED at the SF Theatre Festival in 2009.
And my mentor SF Poetry Grand Slam Winner Marc Bamuthi Joseph who is now the director of performing arts at Yerba Buena Center for the Arts.
Do you still teach?
I still do workshops on spoken word poetry…I still try to rap (he laughs). Still perform in high schools sometimes…but it doesn't pay the bills.
Do you come from a bi-racial background?
How is that relevant? I am, but type-casting is difficult, once you get pigeon-holed.
There are so many actors who don't get shots. I'm trying to stretch the limits, but race and casting are still an issue.
Who is directing it and what can you tell us about the direction?
Timothy Douglas. He's a perfect blend of natural, less intellectual, and one of the smartest directors I've had in the way he breaks down moments for us while keeping us in the moment.
What's in your future professionally?
More auditions. Waiting to be called.
"TOPDOG/UNDERDOG" is celebrating the 10th Anniversary of its Pulitzer Prize for Drama win, and the first and only for an African American woman. The play was seen in the Bay Area in 2003 when the Broadway production toured through San Francisco. Marin Theatre Company is producing the first local professional production of the play.
"TOPDOG/UNDERDOG" plays at the Marin Theatre Company in Mill Valley through October 21st.
For more info & tickets, go to http://marintheatre.org/


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After two semesters of that, everyone in class had learned an important lesson: Anyone who uses the phrase "Paradigm Shift" is full of horse crap.
Thanks to Secret Agent Man, this horse crap was brought to my attention again.
Coincidently, Mike has explained why SAM was so excited about Kuhn:
One thing I've noticed about some of the 'legit' questioners is that there's often an air of breathless excitement because they have 'discovered' a 'new theory' that challenges 'existing dogma', or some such thing. I blame some of this on Thomas Kuhn's The Structure of Scientific Revolutions.Ooooooh I get it now. Ive encountered this before with an Islamic Creationist. I had no idea what this argument was called, but I called it "The Magic Maybe Machine" defense. It goes like this:
100 years ago, 'viruses' were impossible! But now that we have microscopes and all this new technology not available 100 years ago, we know viruses are real!BLECH! Yes, one day we might invent a Magic Maybe Machine that can detect a 'Designer.' But that has absolutely no impact on the validity of Creationists claims today, and the fact Creationist Claims contradict todays 'paradigm.' You dont get to shift paradigms without evidence. You dont get to throw on the cloak of Galileo (EVERYONE THOUGHT HE WAS WROOOOONG!) unless you have the evidence. If you require a Magic Maybe Machine to collect this evidence, I think youre jumping the gun just a *little* bit.
100 years ago, planets around other starts was impossible! But now we have telescopes and all this new technology not available 100 years ago, we know these other planets exist!
How do YOU know in 100 years we wont invent some technology that can detect a designer! Creationists have good ideas, theyre just waiting for the right paradigm!


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Amherst College (that majestic flag high on a hill.)
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Of course the Feds are not subject to state law. But only the Federal Government can send our troops to war.
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Subject: Half Staff Notification for Friday, July 31, 2009
Good Afternoon Everyone,
Governor Patrick is ordering the American and Commonwealth Flags lowered to half-staff on Friday, July 31st from sunrise until sunset for Corporal Nicholas Xiarhos who was killed in action.
Pursuant to gubernatorial protocol which states,
"The U.S. flag shall be flown at half-staff at all state buildings from sunrise until sunset on the day of interment of any soldier from Massachusetts who is killed in action in a war zone while on active duty,"
Please be advised that Governor Patrick has ordered that the United States flag and the Commonwealth flag be lowered to half-staff at all state buildings from sunrise until sunset on Friday, July 31, 2009, in honor of Corporal Nicholas Xiarhos of Yarmouth Port, Massachusetts who was killed in action in Afghanistan on July 23, 2009.
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The Landscapes Art Exhibition Now Online and Ready to View
Light Space & Time Online Art Gallery is pleased to announce that its March 2012 art exhibition is now posted on their website and is ready to view online. The basis and theme for this month's art exhibition was "Landscapes" and artists where asked to interpret and depict the natural world, outdoor scenery, geographical environments' and any related landscape subjects.
An art competition was held in February 2012 which determined and judged the art for this exhibition. The gallery received submissions from 14 different countries from around the world and they also received entries from 33 different states. Overall, there were 808 entries from 209 different artists that were judged for this art competition. Due to the volume of entries, the gallery decided to create 2 media categories and make awards for each, along with an Overall Category which was selected from the 2 media categories.
Congratulations to the artists who have been designated as this month's category winners, along with the winning Special Recognition artists. The gallery commends all of the winning artists for their artistic skill and their creativity, as this online art exhibition is indicative of their creativity.
To proceed to the gallery's "Landscapes" online juried art exhibition go to this link: http://www.lightspacetime.com/landscapes-art-exhibition-march-2012/
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Video of the final finisher at the 2012 Hawaii Ironman World Championship:
77 year old Harriet Anderson from San Carlos, California was the 1,886th athlete to cross the finish line at the 2012 Ironman World Championship on Saturday, October 13th under the 17 hour deadline. And she did it with 41 seconds (officially) to spare.
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If anyone read the review of Irving Kristol's posthumous collection of essays The Neoconservative Persuasion, they may have also noticed the strict line that neoconservatism draws between the dynamics of the material world and the "moral" and "religious" considerations. It never occurred to me before, but it seems like a great number of the larger ideological debates of the modern era can be drawn along these lines. To quote from the review, most of Kristol's essays
add up to an extended tirade against American liberalism, which I think should figure as still another of neoconservatism's principles — the largest and most energetic principle of all, judging by the evidence here. The tirade rested on two main inspirations, neither of which can be dismissed out of hand. Kristol repeatedly argued that American liberalism, in its domestic programs, has relied on a parched and narrow vision of human nature, which attributes too much importance to material conditions and not enough to moral and religious considerations.
Such dogmatism and rabid anti-materialist sentiments (in both the capitalist and the philosophical senses of the word), of course, are the cornerstones of modern American religion, and the dogmatism, at least, carries over to the American right. It's not outlandish that American religion and conservatism make for such wonderful bedfellows.
The main sticking point for me, the one thing I cannot get past, is this reactionary attempt to deny what is so obviously true about the world: things change quickly and dogmatic rules prove to be inadequate to them as soon as they're printed or typed. What's so bad about admitting this fact and trying to deal with it rather than taking the conservative path by closing one's eyes, plugging one's ears, and yelling as loudly as possible. Wanting to believe something doesn't make it true, and attempting to strong-arm materialist (or realist) considerations in the name of morals, dogmas, and static, proscriptive ideals won't make it go away.
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Last month, Nashville, Tennessee-based emcee/producer JellyRoll recently released his latest mixtape, Whiskey, Weed & Waffle House. The Lil Wyte affiliate used the logo of the popular fast-food franchise of the same name on his cover art, inserts and marketing for the project, which is currently available for stream and download at LiveMixtapes.com, presented by Dirty Glove Bastard. JellyRoll also manufactured physical copies of the CD.
HipHopDX exclusively learned this week that the Gwinnett County, Georgia-based Waffle House and their legal representation of the Kilpatrick Townend firm have taken umbrage with JellyRoll and his mis-use of their brand. The rapper was cease-and-desisted this week from using the Waffle House trademark on his mixtape.
JellyRoll supplied HipHopDX with some of the documents, which were in part, shown on Instagram:
The last time Waffle House sued somebody in the Hip Hop community, it was rapper-turned-rocker Kid Rock. The onetime Jive Records emcee was forced to pay $40,000 in 2010 for allegedly starting a 2007 brawl in one of W.H.'s Atlanta, Georgia restaurants.
Last month, Tobacco giant Philip Morris C&D'd Stones Throw Records for replicating their Marlboro cigarette packaging.
(April 4)
UPDATE: Following the cease-and-desist from Waffle House, JellyRoll has re-released his mixtape. Now called, Whiskey, Weed & Women, the artwork (pictured) no longer features the logo or trademark of the popular diner. The new work also features several additional tracks.
Additionally, JellyRoll released the following statement, noting his surprise and disappointment in Waffle House's legal action:
"When I first got the Cease and Desist letter I thought somebody was pulling my chain. I thought, 'Surely I'm not known enough for Waffle House to give a shit about me using their name.' I forwarded the email over to my attorney, and he told he told me it was the real deal! I was like, 'Hell no!!! I know Waffle House ain't acting like this, after all the all star breakfast meals that I've devoured over the years!'
I just honestly can't believe that such a corporate giant would be bothered by me, in essence, promoting them. Let's be real here, the Waffle House after 8:00pm looks like a bottom-of-the-barrel BYOB bar.
Obviously the only response I can have toward Waffle House is comply. Still kinda pisses me off though… the mixtape was free… no harm was done. For Waffle House to be upset and say it was 'Defamation of Character' is like… are you fucking serious? This is the mecca of toothless waitresses and tattooed cooks. I've never walked in a Waffle House sober in my life, and I doubt you can find many people who have.
Now my job is to re-release Whiskey Weed & 'Women' with a few new tricks and some funny skits!!! And of course my album the Big Sal Story is in stores now via Select-O-Hits. We are about to shoot the video for 'What They Waiting On,' and I am also touring right now throughout the South. Thanks to everyone who is supporting me through this madness!"
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does anyone know where i can find it...
its a picture of him and it looks kinda like the one where his eyes are ripped out and it says "im fine without you" but its not that one... its just a picture of his his head and upper torso and it looks like he is staring into the sun.
please help if you know anything.
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Wednesday, September 04, 2013
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Wrestling takes a stance. Will IOC follow?
By AP's Jim Litke
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[September 04, 2013]
(AP) -- Magic Johnson took a stance to save Olympic wrestling. So did Mickey Mouse.
Rulon Gardner took his on the Great Wall of China. The less famous hunkered down in front of the Taj Mahal, the Eiffel Tower and mosques in Iran, on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange and even in the shadow of Touchdown Jesus. If the swells who run the International Olympic Committee have lingering doubts about the lengths people would go to save the sport, well, let
'em check out how many brides and grooms around the world posed for "ready, set, wrestle" snapshots -- view them at (hashtag)TakeAStance -- just moments before exchanging vows.
When the IOC served notice last February that it was prepared to toss wrestling out of the Olympic rings by the 2020 Games, rather than its clout-heavy competitors, modern pentathlon and field hockey, the uproar was swift and loud. Wrestling had more fans, more viewers, more member nations and millions more participants around the globe, if only because you don't need a javelin or a horse to compete.
But the IOC did the sport a favor.
Wrestling resembled your cranky, know-it-all uncle who always shows up late at the family dinner -- bloated, bombastic and still determined to live off a glorious past. The purest of sports had grown flabby, piling on layers of rules and a convoluted scoring system that made it hard to follow. Yet those at the top of the international federation -- known by the acronym FILA -- shrugged off every warning or proposal for even modest changes, certain they knew what was best.
Seven months later, those men are gone, replaced by a leadership group that is smart, inclusive and willing to listen. The rules and scoring system have been overhauled, and Gardner's rallying cry from February -- "If we don't fight, we're going to die" -- has been heard and heeded in the farthest-flung corners of the globe.
The IOC votes Sunday among wrestling, squash and a combined bid from baseball-softball to determine which sport gets the final spot in 2020, and it isn't expected to be close. Most observers believe the IOC has already been pinned.
It's not hard to understand the timeless appeal of wrestling, but what the IOC is looking for nearly three millennia after the original Olympics is what they got in the closing days of last summer's London Games. That's when a smart, cocky bundle of U.S. energy named Jordan Burroughs faced Iran's Sadegh Saeed Goudarzi in the middleweight freestyle gold medal final.
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The atmosphere inside the ExCel Center was electric, with chants from the fans of two of the sport's traditional powers being traded like punches. With the clock running down in each of the first two rounds, Burroughs coolly executed a double-leg takedown of Goudarzi to lock up the match and make a third period immaterial.
Afterward, Burroughs waltzed into the interview room and handled a reporter mining the geopolitical angle with the same elan he'd displayed on the mat just moments earlier.
"Did it make any difference that you were wrestling an Iranian?" he was asked.
"If the Queen of England stepped out onto the mat," Burroughs replied mischievously, "I'd probably double-leg her."
Burroughs will almost certainly be back for Rio in 2016, having so far rebuffed the blandishments and better paydays in mixed martial arts and ultimate fighting that have siphoned off so many of his successful predecessors. The UFC circuit boasts that nearly 70 percent of its fighters wrestled in high school and college, including stars Randy Couture, Chuck Liddell and Tito Ortiz, and more than a few of them joined the (hashtag)TakeAStance campaign as it rolled out.
Unlike those competitions, though, wrestling still looks like your father's sport. What's different, in addition to the compressed Olympic version now on offer -- two rounds instead of three; more incentives in the new scoring system for wrestlers to take chances -- is that it could become your mother's sport, too.
In addition to adding women and former athletes to the federation's leadership, FILA is proposing two more weight classes for women, taking one each from men's freestyle and Greco-Roman.
"We have done everything possible in this time frame," said FILA president Nenad Lalovic, who took over from the imperious Raphael Martinetti just days after the IOC's action in February. "We were limited by the time between, (but we did) everything possible, and implemented it."
If the IOC needs more proof, here's a suggestion: Check out the photo op from New York City in mid-May, when the wrestling communities from the United States, Russia and Iran united in a combined appeal to save the sport. There's likely not another cause on the planet at the moment that could do that.
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It seems that lately, we are hearing more incidents about not being able to retrieve data from portable hard drives. The problems encountered included inability to mount, dead power supply and seek errors (with clicking sounds). It doesn't seem to be limited to just one manufacturer. Maybe there happens to be a bad batch of parts or a bad lot of raw drives. The price of drives have come down dramatically and the capacity have at least doubled while the overall size has shrunk. One has to wonder if manufacturers are pushing physical limits or are we seeing a quality issue? Perhaps the floods in Thailand which has affected manufacturing of key parts might have some effect.
As professionals utilizing many musicians and countless hours of work, should we trust storing valuable assets we created to a drive costing less than $200? Drives will fail eventually. If we were smart, we would not skimp and back things up on several different drives or different types of media. There are now solid state drives on the market costing around four times the cost of a regular hard drive. The issue with these drives are the write speed and the number of times you can write. The pros are that playback is fast and if they are used as WOTRM (Write Once or Twice, Read Many) drives, they might serve as another option for safeties. At least, the probability of having physical issues with the drive, especially if you are clumsy, might be somewhat reduced.
Whatever you decide, we are urging you to pay more attention to how you back up and store your precious data.
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This Monday, October 15th from 7:00 pm to 9:30 pm, there will be a series of talks in NYC:
Engineering graduate numbers have been flat for decades despite the rapid growth of technology from the iPad to Space Exploration. Just 11% of engineers are women, up to 50% of engineering students drop out due to problems in rudimentary classes like calculus, and 88% of US engineering companies have great difficulty in hiring engineers.
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The Vanishing Point investigation was originally published by The Vancouver Sun in December 2009, for the first time revealing the full story behind the Highway of Tears victims and raising questions about other similar unsolved cases in B.C. and Alberta.
The cases date back to the murder of Gloria Levina Moody in 1969 and end with the murder of a 14-year-old Prince George high school student in 2006. The youngest victim to meet violence along the province's highway was 12.
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Hall and Culbert joined forces for the Vancouver Sun's investigative series on the missing and murdered women along the highways of B.C. and Alberta. Culbert travelled to northern B.C. in 2009 with photographer Ian Smith for the series.


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Ascent of Mount Ashland on 2008-06-13
Dennis Poulin
Friday, June 13, 2008
Ascent Type:
Successful Summit Attained
Mount Ashland
7532 ft / 2295 m
Ascent Trip Report
Mt Ashland is an easy drive up to within 500 ft of the highpoint and is a great place to take the family for a picnic. I've done that, I've hiked up from the ski lodge a few times, and this day I wanted to hike up from Lithia Park in the town of Ashland. There is an annual race called the Mt Ashland Hillclimb Run which challenges participants to run from Lithia Park to the summit of Mt Ashland. They have buses available to bring you back to the park so you don't have to run back down the mountain. My goal was to hike to the top and then back down to the park.
I picked a day in mid-June to do my hike so that I wouldn't have to contend with skiers and the race is usually held in August. I knew this was going to be a long day so I started early and got to the park at first light. Not surprisingly, there was no problem finding a parking space. I parked across the creek from the kids play area, made sure I had my pack full of food and 5 liters of water, and started my hike on the trail through the park. Lithia Park is one of the most beautiful urban parks in the country and the hiking is on a nice wide trail along Ashland Creek and under a canopy of large trees. The trail meanders south through the park for about ¾ of a mile along the creek before the park ends and the trail climbs up to Glenview Drive.
I went north on Glenview Drive for a couple hundred yards where Ashland Loop Road comes in from the right. This is a sharp right turn that is like a switchback heading you back in a southerly direction. This is a residential area and the road turns east, goes by a couple homes, and then enters an intersection with another road. Stay right and the road bends to the right and then starts going south again. You can't get lost here unless you go up someone's drive way or you go downhill back into town. I went uphill and followed the road that was now dirt. This road is gated to block vehicles from driving up, but it is open to hikers, runners, and bicyclists.
This was a good start and I followed the road up. At 2.5 miles I passed the parking area for the White Rabbit Trailhead and continued up the road. At 4.5 miles I was at elevation 3,450 ft and crossed Lamb Saddle. Continuing up the road I arrived at Four Corners 6 miles into my hike and elevation 4,381. I wasn't half way yet, but I took a break, ate, and hydrated well. There were a couple of cars parked here, but no activity. I continued straight past another gate uphill. The scenery was nice on this hike and I could see glimpses of Mt Ashland far ahead and other times it was nice to just hike through the forest. I saw a couple of runners on some of the side trails as I hiked, otherwise I was alone.
At 10 miles and elevation 5,500 ft I reached Bull Gap and took another break. This is a major intersection that can be driven to also. I passed through the intersection and then took kind of a right turn up a well used trail. I heard some commotion ahead of me and looked up to see bicyclists coming quickly toward me on the trail. I stepped off the trail and allowed a whole group of them to pass. This is an old roadbed, so it was plenty wide for me to get out of their way. I think this was a guided group who were heading down to Ashland. Sounds like fun to hire a guide to take you to the ski lodge at Mt Ashland and then bike down to the park. It reminded me of the bike tours on Haleakala on Maui. I kept climbing and had to step aside to allow two more groups to pass. These trails and roads are used for mountain bike racing during the summer also.
At 12.6 miles and 6,600 ft I reached the ski lodge and took a final break before hiking up to the summit. I hiked up to the left of the ski runs on the east ridge of Mt Ashland. It was nice hiking off trail and when I got to about 7,400 ft I had to climb over some large rocks before crossing over to the summit next to the Doppler Radar dome. Wow! I made it up, now can I walk all the way back down? Now I know why the Mt Ashland Hillclimb runners take the bus down. I ate more and hydrated a lot. No sense carrying all this water all the way back to the truck.
Going down from the summit, I just bailed off the north side and descended what was left of the snow on the ski runs. The snow was soft and easy going downhill. Unfortunately it ended all too soon as I was still a couple hundred feet above the ski lodge. Once I got to the ski lodge, I was grateful to be out of the direct sun and could use the shade of the trees. I had to step aside for more bicyclists on the way down to Bull Gap. Lower, I caught up with a man and his two young daughters biking along the roads. They made frequent stops and we kept passing one another. It was nice to see this young family enjoying the outdoors.
I just retraced my steps back to Lithia Park and then enjoyed the park. The park was now full with many barbecues going and families enjoying the afternoon. I saw a couple guys in Ashland Creek kayaking down the small rapids. Finally, the children's play area came into view and I was back at my truck 11 hours and 20 minutes after I started. 26.6 miles and 5,600 ft of elevation gain were my totals. I had about ½ pint of water left in my camelback when I reached my truck. Time for PIZZA!!
Summary Total Data
Total Elevation Gain:
5700 ft / 1737 m
Total Elevation Loss:
5700 ft / 1737 m
Round-Trip Distance:
26.8 mi / 43.1 km
Route Conditions:
Road Hike, Maintained Trail, Unmaintained Trail, Open Country, Snow on Ground
Ascent Statistics
Gain on way in:
5700 ft / 1737 m
13.4 mi / 21.6 km
Lithia Park
Start Trailhead:
1832 ft / 558 m
Descent Statistics
Loss on way out:
5700 ft / 1737 m
13.4 mi / 21.6 km
End Trailhead:
1832 ft / 558 m
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Learn the Ins and Outs of Premiere Pro CC: Premium Beat Shares 10 Time Saving Tips
Get ready – the next generation of video production software is almost here. Later this month all you video pros will be able to get your hands on Premiere Pro CC. But why wait until then to learn the ins and outs? The Beat blog (@premiumbeat) shares tips that will save you time and get you up to speed quickly with the changes and new features in Premiere Pro CC.
Note: the tips and images below were taken directly from The Beat blog.
Assembly Workspace
Premiere Pro CC adds the new Assembly Workspace. This is a workspace layout that has a large Project area with the Program & Source Monitors sharing space. This is a handy workspace if you like to use Premiere Pro's Hover Scrub, then set In & Out and use shortcuts to quickly Insert or Overwrite edit.
As the name suggests, this workspace is designed for quickly creating a rough cut in Premiere Pro.
Improved Multicam
In Premiere Pro CC you can mix different media, frame rate and sample rates. You have the new option of "sync to audio" which is handy if you have audio from a separate audio recorder that you want to sync to video clips.
Add Edit & Duplicate Frames
You can access settings for "Show Through Edits" & "Show Duplicate Frame Markers" from the Timeline Display Settings in the Sequence.
Now you can choose to see through edits and duplicate frames when you have used part of a clip
Write Keyframes in Audio Clip Mixer
Premiere Pro CC adds a Clip Audio Mixer to make working with clip audio easier. They also add the ability to record audio keyframes by selecting the "write keyframes" button. Click the button and then move the Fader to record keyframes while the clip is playing. There is a Preference for thinning out keyframes so you can then modify them as needed.
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Inaugural Pledge to the Citizens of Natchez
July 1, 2016 marks the beginning of a new Natchez. Transparency, inclusion, and accountability will be the hallmarks of our new administration.
We will not be divided by race, but instead we will be united by our commitment to what is best for all of Natchez. We will partner with the most capable and qualified people to attract business and grow this city.
Together we will build a vital, productive, and beautiful Natchez with a diversified economy, quality education, and choice recreation. We will build a city in which our children can find good jobs as adults and raise their own families. We will build a city that all of us will be proud to call home.
Thank you for entrusting me with the future of our beloved city. Please join me on this journey.
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