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Did The Spawns Get 10x Worse Since (1.5.514.1 Patch)?
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I normally play Team Defender, Ive played it for 15 pretiges now and the spawns have always been fast, but sinc ethe lastest patch the spawn system is braking the game. Ive spawned 2 feet infront of the flag guy in games just today, with 4 enemy players already ADS'd on me, and Ive seen it on the flip side with enemy players just getting screwed by the spawn system. In Team Defender its like there's only 1 or 2 places to spawn when teams get setup, and will basically force you to spawn here. I assume its as bad with other gametypes, but what do u guys think to the spawns since the latest patch?
ive noticed this in demolition i spawn right in front of people
Spawns are still bad.
Me and my friends stopped playing tonight because the spawns were soo bad, its was unplayable.
they did get worse. this update made the whole game worse
Yep, I noticed it too.....I spawned literally 2 feet from an enemy claymore on a set of stairs.....I died....I didn't have any sort of chance at running away....it was on that wall on Arkaden where the SAS spawn...
I've also ben spawn killed on Seatown in the back corner where Makarov's team spawns...
these were all HC TDM. these spawns are worse then Black Ops
Even bad on TDM. More than my share tonight, I spawned into to a grenade that was thrown by the guy that just killed me.
For me since the patch its been the worst ive seen it since release.I rage quit for the first time tonight and then 2 more times before i just gave up..What did they do?
Yes it really did get worse, I was playing ffa tonight and a person literally spawned right beside me after I killed him..It was pretty ****** up, I mean I won the match lol but spawns are crazy now here's proof in the link below...take a careful look at the name of the person I killed and person that spawned beside me..and that was a match with time stamp 3/13/2012 23:02 so it was no more than 3 or so hours ago EST time...maybe they should rethink the spawn update..and earlier playing team tac with some friends we were defending but spawning only at the edges of the map and most the time in our enemy spawn..how can we defend if we're a mile away..


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Package Management With Zypper
As I've mentioned before I'm an openSUSE user, and as long as they don't make the "U" lower case again, I'll probably stick with it. When it comes to package management, OpenSUSE and SUSE Linux Enterprice (and SuSE before them) are usually associated with YaST (and yes, I'm still waiting for them to upper case the "a"). YaST works well but it's a bit verbose for installing a single package, and of course that's just more fodder for the apt-getters with all their apt-get install this and their apt-get install thats. And you can't argue with them, but there are other options with openSUSE: yum and apt4rpm come to mind, but the preferred solution is zypper.
Zypper is a command line tool for package management, it's based on ZYpp, aka libzypp. The WikiPedia entry for Zypp says:
Unlike other common package managers, it provides a powerful satisfiability solver to compute package dependencies and a convenient package management API.
Since we don't want our heads to explode we'll just take it for granted that a powerful satisfiability solver is a good thing.
It turns out that YaST is also (now) based on ZYpp so you don't need to worry that you're missing out on something by using zypper.
Zypper is fairly straightforward to use. If you want to search for a package do zypper search STRING.... The STRING(s) can include * and ? wildcards and there are options for matching all or any of the strings and for full exact matches (the default is a partial match). If you want to search the package descriptions there's an option for that also. For example to search for packages with the word "mail" in the name or in the description do:
$ zypper search --search-descriptions mail
$ # --search-descriptions can be abbreviated as -d
Reading installed packages...
S | Name | Summary | Type
| Buddi | Buddi - Personal budget software ... | package
| CgEddie | A simple editor with syntax high ... | package
| FrostWire | Gnutella peer-to-peer (P2P) file ... | package
i | yast2-mail | YaST2 - Mail Configuration | package
| yast2-mail-plugins | YaST2-Users/Group Plugins for the ... | package
| yum-updatesd | YUM update notification daemon | package
When installing packages with zypper, as you'd expect/hope, zypper takes care of installing the package's dependencies:
$ zypper install Buddi
Reading installed packages...
The following NEW packages are going to be installed:
BrowserLauncher2 swingx Buddi jcommon jfreechart
Overall download size: 4.1 M. After the operation, additional 5.2 M will be used.
Continue? [YES/no]:
Some of the other interesting commands that zypper supports are:
- refresh - to refresh the package information from the repositories you have defined.
- addrepo - to add a new repository.
- remove - to remove a package.
- list-updates - to list the updates/patches that are available for the packages you have installed.
For a full list of the commands that zypper supports type zypper help and check the man page for more details.
One of Ubuntu's WOW factors seems to be apt-get dist-upgrade, i.e. the ability to upgrade to the next version of Ubuntu (and actually it's a feature of any debian based distro). This is another thing that the apt-getters puff up about, well enter zypper dist-upgrade or zypper dup. This allows you to upgrade from one version of openSUSE to the next. I have not used this feature yet, but posts on the openSUSE wiki seem to indicate that it works well.
So to all you apt-getters out there, all I can say is: zypp it.
Mitch Frazier is an Associate Editor for Linux Journal.
Hi! I'm new to Linux (and
Hi! I'm new to Linux (and computers in general), but I'm determined to be a Linux Admin. I've only played with OSuSE and Mint. Regarding CLI manager, I find Zypper amazingly simple (I didn't know things could be that simple). I don't know which solves dependencies better, but the syntax of Zypper is really simple compared to Apt. Take a look:
to install: # zypper in ~
to remove: # zypper rm ~
to search: # zypper se ~
to get info about a package: # zypper if ~
to list available updates of packages: # zypper lu
to update all installed packages: # zypper up
to list repositories: # zypper lr
to refresh repos: # zypper ref
to add a repository: # zypper ar (http://~~~)
to remove the fourth repository from the list: # zypper rr 4 (or http://~~~)
And now that I've been playing with Mint, I'm confused with the apt syntax. Why should there be "apt-get install ~", when "apt-cache install ~" doesn't exist. Why not just "apt install ~"??
So, if it's so great...
So, if it's so great, how can I take it for a spin on Ubuntu? :)
Try this
apt-get install opensuse
If that doesn't work try different combinations of upper and lower case for "suse" in the package name.
Mitch Frazier is an Associate Editor for Linux Journal.
try zypper moo and you get a
zypper moo
and you get a porcupine :D
That's nice:
$ zypper moo \\\\\ \\\\\\\__o __\\\\\\\'/_
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"powerful satisfiability solver"
The "powerful satisfiability solver" is because ZYpp is based on this paper from the University of California, San Diego: http://cseweb.ucsd.edu/~lerner/papers/opium.pdf.
You can see in it that the dependency solver of ZYpp is *perfect* while APT makes errors.
Nice article
Very nice article. I'm an apt-getter but I loved the last line, " So to all you apt-getters out there, all I can say is: zypp it." :)
Thanks for this article. I first learned apt-get so that is what I'm most comfortable with and never really liked rpm. Zypper looks like it's pretty strait forward. Maybe it's time to give openSuse another try
It's not the same
The apt-get system has years of development. You can't compete with that.
I used ancient RH rpm, medium-ancient RH with up2date, yum enabled distros, etc. My laptop now runs openSUSE with yast and zypper (KDE fan here! Good job in 11.2!).
apt-get/dpkg/deb beats everything by miles. There's package/repository pinning, there's dist-upgrade, debconf with text and GUI frontends for package configuration... I can't even think of everything now.
You can install gnome-desktop with 1 command and remove it with all with 2 commands. And it's easy to use!
Don't get me wrong. I hope zypper gets there soon, but meanwhile it's better to wait, explain how to use and avoid comparing with the "Lion King" :-)
Maybe you should watch zypper closely. Start here:
Zypper is faster, smarter and much more capable than apt or aptitude. These is no doubt about that. Of course you can lock package, set priorities to repositories and dist-upgrade using zypper. And zypper can do this using CLI commands. using Apt you have to edit conf files to use this functions. This is not very usefull.
In addition, zypper SAT solver is much more powerfull, than obsolete solver used in APT. The main difference is, that if any dependency solution exist, zypper will find it. But there are many scenarios where APT fail, even if the solution is obvious.
Zypper has also ability to work with repositories. You can add, remove, enable or disable repositories withing simple CLI commands. You can set priorities, autorefresh etc... If you are using Apt, you stuck with manual conf file editation. Zypper also install patches and patterns and services. And on top of that, it uses less memory compared to its competitors:
So lets have a lokk at syntax now. Apt is a set of tools. You have to remeber all those different apt-get... , apt-cache..., apt-.... tools, which does not seem to be user-friendly design. "Apt install" or "apt search" would be much better syntax. Zypper is a single tool. You always start write "zypper" following a command. If you want to install package in Debian, you just write apt-get install. Zypper does the same using zypper install. But zypper also knows the short syntax using "zypper in". It is much more comfortable to write "zypper XX" where XX are two letters representting action. And watch the nice zypper output when listing packages or repositories. It is fantastic.
Apt and aptitude are great tools and became famous during past years. But zypper is better today, There is now doubt about that.
The Lion King is not a Real Animal
Zypper can install groups of packages also, they're called patterns:
zypper install --type pattern xfce Reading installed packages... The following NEW packages are going to be installed: xsane xfwm4 xfprint xfce4-volstatus xfce4-session xfce4-panel xfce4-mixer xfce4-desktop-branding-openSUSE xfce4-desktop xfce4-appfinder xfce-mcs-plugins xfce-mcs-manager xarchiver thunar-volman thunar orage notification-daemon-xfce mousepad libxfcegui4 libxfce4util libxfce4mcs gtk-xfce-engine fortune exo Terminal xfce4-icon-theme The following NEW patterns are going to be installed: yast2_install_wf yast2_basis xfce x11_yast x11_opt x11 sw_management fonts_opt fonts enhanced_base_opt enhanced_base base apparmor_opt apparmor Overall download size: 15.4 M. After the operation, additional 46.7 M will be used. Continue? [YES/no]:
So, let me say it one more time: zypp it.
Mitch Frazier is an Associate Editor for Linux Journal.
zypper then is much faster then YAST/YAST2
Hey guys,
I have been using "zypper" quite some time now. The most noticeable difference I found that (as with every comma nd line app),it(zypper) is much faster then his gui cousin.
Off topic:
"emerge" ,the gentoo package manager is the very best of all breed. Am I biased??? hope certainly not. :)
From the solver point of view, it is not he best:
install an older version
have you ever installed an specific version from one package in a repository?
yum install my-package-0.0.1-0
apt-get install my-package=0.0.1-0
zypp it ^^
zypper in -C (--capability)
zypper in -C (--capability) packagefoo=2.4.0rc3-0.pm.1
Like this?
just `zypper in
just `zypper in foo-2.4.0rc.pmwhatever`. No -C should be needed.
Repo Priorities
I love zypper as well. It seems to be almost, if not more, complete package manager than apt.
One very cool feature of zypper the ability to priorities your repos. Priorities allows you to install packages from a preferred repo, even though it is lower in version number. With the openSUSE Build Service, you can end up with a long list of repos. (I'm sure Ubuntu users have a similar issue with PPA's.) Priorities really help keeps things straight.
Funny, that sounds like apt
Funny, that sounds like apt pinning which has been around in Debian for about a decade.
The fact is that even if the underlying logic is better, which I do not admit, it takes a lot of effort to equal (nevermind surpass!) the deep feature set and utility of apt.
Afaik apt does not know pinning. Using zypper I can call "zypper al " (zypper adlock). How can I lock the package using apt? I'm afraid apt can't do that. You have to open text editor, and pin the package manually in some conf file. Am I right?
One of the biggest advantage of zypper is, that you can do everything using CLI commands.
Not true
Look here for example: http://wiki.ubuntuusers.de/APT-Pinning
And btw being able to use zypper on the cli is no advantage (to apt).
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I slightly hesitate giving this hotel 4 out of 5 but given the price and the helpfulness of the fron desk I am prepared to be generous. There is also free internet connection in the lobby. The downside is that unless you have a car, there is only two eating options - and one of these is the hotel shop... More
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I admit, I've never had the urge to set anything on fire so perhaps I just don't get it.
But the burning of couches, flipping of cars and other whatnot that went on Saturday night in Lexington, what was the point of that? Last time I checked, Kentucky won that game, so there was nothing for fans to be angry about. And the national title game isn't until Monday night, so there was no reason for such unbridled revelry. (Yes, I know Kentucky beat its in-state rival, but that's been happening on a pretty regular basis the last few years. Besides, if you're setting fire to couches for a game you were SUPPOSED to win, what's your plan for if the Wildcats beat Kansas for the title, burn down your house?)
You are Kentucky, not West Virginia. Act like you've been there before.
If Kentucky wins its eighth NCAA title then, yes, you're allowed to crack open an adult beverage or two and party in the streets. But leave the impromptu bonfires to the Boy Scouts. As Terrence Jones so correctly pointed out when he was asked about the pyrotechnic geniuses, "I don't want to go to that person's house. They don't have nowhere for me to sit."
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The Bombers clinched the title Wednesday night with a 14-2 blowout win over the Red Sox at Yankee Stadium.
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Dataminr in the News.
In the Wired World, Feeds Drive Trading
When the words "explosions" and "White House" popped up Tuesday on a verified Associated Press Twitter account, computers in the bare-bones offices of a New York City startup sprang into action...Dataminr, sent alerts to clients like hedge funds and government agencies about the apparent news. Shortly thereafter, the Dow Jones Industrial Average tumbled 145 points in seconds.
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Twitter Can Predict The Stock Market, If You're Reading The Right Tweets
With access to Twitter's Firehose, representing approximately 200 million users, Dataminr uses proprietary event-detection algorithms to deliver potentially market-moving information on Twitter to its clients; often this information is not yet in news. Examples of early events Dataminr provided clients include: an outbreak of norovirus aboard a Royal Caribbean cruise that caused the ship to return to port and an indication of the likely hack of the AP verified Twitter account, after one of its tweets falsely mentioned an explosion at the White House.
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Hoax tweet tests firms that filter social media for Wall Street
A tweet reporting explosions at the White House appeared on the Associated Press's official feed Tuesday afternoon, sparking a temporary sell-off that briefly wiped out about $140 billion in market value on the S&P 500....Within minutes, analytics firm Dataminr issued an alert saying the AP account was probably hacked, citing another tweet by a reporter in the White House basement...
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Should Bloomberg be afraid of Twitter?
Yesterday the Dow Jones Industrial Average dropped 146 points within seconds after a hacked AP account falsely claimed the White House was under attack. While the market recovered quickly after the hoax was exposed, it showed just how many Wall Street traders were now relying on Twitter for trading information. Dataminr says it was able to alert its clients to the hoax a full two minutes ahead of major news...
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Twitter, social media are fertile ground for stock hoaxes
Investors can minimize the risk of being conned by only trusting the Twitter accounts of established users and independently researching any tip or rumor...
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Twitter Was Watched for Security Threats During Obama's Inauguration
The Presidential Inauguration Committee worked with Twitter monitoring firm Dataminr to detect potential security threats during President Barack Obama's inauguration ceremony last week...
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How Twitter Is Being Mined to Predict Market-Moving Events
Dataminr, a New York City-based social media analytics company, just raised $13 million in series B round fundraising this September, adding to the $3.5 million in venture funds it already has. The company's favorable access to Twitter's "full firehose" of ceaselessly flowing data and its unique approach to data analysis and prediction has attracted funds...
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Fast Company: Dataminr Hooks Financial Firms On Speed
The social media analytics company identifies trends and anomalies in real time across Twitter to create actionable signals for financial firms and governmental organizations. Examples of early awareness include a fire at a Chevron oil refinery in California that lead to a spike in gasoline prices and delivery of the news of Osama Bin Laden's death prior to major sources.
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Twitter Miner Dataminr Raises $13 Million
Dataminr, which turns Tweets into high-frequency trading news and has been tagged as one of the Twitter CEO's favorite startups, has just raised $13 million from institutional and private investors, the company announced.
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Dataminr grabs $13M for Twitter-powered sensor network
Dataminr, a New York City startup, introduced a Twitter-powered sensor network in April that allowed its financial and government clients to use Dataminr as an early warning system for news and trends. Now, the company has raised $13 million in Series B financing to build out its service and go after new clients...
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After getting access to the Twitter firehose,
social media data startup Dataminr lands $13m
Real-time social media data firm Dataminr today announced that it has raised $13 million in Series B funding....
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Dataminr Chosen by Twitter as a
Certified Analytics Product
Meanwhile, there is a thriving ecosystem of Twitter developers building products and services that address these needs and help businesses grow. To make it easier for businesses to find the right tools, we're launching the Twitter Certified Products Program. Certified Products represent some of the best offerings in these three categories...
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Dataminr is an analytics company that draws trends from social networks for various business clients, and today it revealed a partnership with Twitter that grants it access to over 340 million tweets a day - data points that will be used to create what the company calls "one of the earliest warning systems for breaking news and emerging events." The company claimed last year that the technology had relayed news of Osama Bin Laden's death to its clients before the story had been reported by major media outlets. The use of Twitter for breaking news in recent years has grown both for firsthand users of the service and even for general audiences through broadcast outlets like CNN - and Dataminr joins other companies already using big data from from Twitter.
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Dataminr gains access to full Twitter Firehose, turns tweets into 'actionable signals'
Dataminr, a New York social media data analytics startup, this morning announced a partnership with information deliver and social network company Twitter, giving it access to the latter's full Firehose.
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Dataminr builds a Twitter-powered early warning system
Dataminr, a New York-based start-up that has been quietly building a global sensor network powered by Twitter, is introducing its technology to the public Monday, showing how its real-time engine can act as an early warning system for enterprise and government customers. Dataminr has signed a partnership with Twitter to access its firehose and is analyzing it in dozens of ways, helping surface breaking news, critical information or highlighting trends from emerging events.
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Bin Laden death-detecting analytics service signs partnership with Twitter
The company, Dataminr, described its technology at the Twitter Devnest conference last May, shortly after its service used Twitter data to report bin Laden's death to its clients before the story hit major media outlets. Today, Dataminr is announcing a partnership with Twitter allowing it greater access to tweets and their metadata, and is expanding availability of the service.
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Dataminr Pioneers New Social Media Signals for Enterprise Clients, Announces Partnership With Twitter
"At any given moment, there are millions of voices on Twitter telling us what's happening in the world," said Satya Patel, Twitter Vice President of Product. "We're excited to have Dataminr apply its technical prowess to help enterprise clients identify events that are the most relevant to them."
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Now Trending: Turning Tweets Into Trades
"At any given moment, there are millions of voices on Twitter telling us what's happening in the world," said Satya Patel, Twitter Vice President of Product. "We're excited to have Dataminr apply its technical prowess to help enterprise clients identify events that are the most relevant to them."
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How To Succeed In The New New Twitter App Ecosystem? Focus On Analytics And Enterprise
Sarver replied that analytics and entreprise were two arenas where developers should focus, "We're bullish on analytics." He referred to the analytics and enterprise curation space as hot, and brought up the recent acquisition of Radian 6 by Salesforce by $300 million. He also referred a to company called Dataminr as an example of an "ideal" Twitter app...
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Twitters Favorite Ecosystem Start Up
When asked about Twitter ecosystem opportunities at a recent press event, CEO Dick Costolo brought up DataMinr, a New York-based data analysis provider for hedge funds...
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The code others posted could very well work, but I asked for explanations and nobody came back
Anyways, if you havent already, please have a look at the GMK file I posted a link to. It can help make more sense of the problem which seems relatively minor =\ but please dont hesitate to ask me questions related to my post, I am more than happy to try and explain the best I can.
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Damien Hirst, Philip (The Twelve Disciples), 1994; steel, glass, formaldehyde solution, and bulls head; 18 1/8 x 36 x 18 1/8 in. (46.04 x 91.44 x 46.04 cm); Gift of Vicki and Kent Logan; © Damien Hirst and Science Ltd. All rights reserved / DACS, London / ARS, NY; photo: Stephen White.
On view from December 8, 2012 through June 02, 2013, Don't Be Shy, Don't Hold Back: The Logan Collection at
celebrates the 15th anniversary of a gift of contemporary art from renowned collectors Vicki and Kent Logan that took SFMOMA's collection in bold new directions. Showcasing nearly 40 major works from the 1960s to the 2000s, the presentation spotlights iconic artists like Marlene Dumas, Philip Guston, Damien Hirst, Jeff Koons, Gerhard Richter, Andy Warhol, and Zhang Xiaogang. The exhibition is organized by Gary Garrels, Elise S. Haas Senior Curator of Painting and Sculpture at SFMOMA.
In 1997, the Logans made a gift to SFMOMA of more than 250 contemporary works, at the time one of the largest numbers of works to be given to the museum by a single donor. Additional gifts followed, with 330 total works gifted to the museum by the Logans over the years, significantly strengthening and broadening the museum's collection.
The exhibition is organized thematically to highlight key areas of impact on SFMOMA's collection: iconic artists and the foundation of the collection; artists working in New York in the 1980s; and late-20th century art that is distinctively international in perspective focusing especially on the "Young British Artists" and Chinese and Japanese artists.
"Works from the Logan collection have been included in innumerable presentations of SFMOMA's collection in its galleries, allowing the museum a stronger and more complex consideration of both modern and contemporary art than would otherwise have been possible," said Garrels. "This exhibition celebrates the transformation of the museum's collection through the Logans gift."
The foundations of the Logan collection gift included pieces by some of the most important artists of our timeChuck Close, Philip Guston, Anselm Kiefer, Bruce Nauman, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, and Andy Warholadding depth to the museum's holdings of these key artists. But the Logans were also strong advocates for young, emerging artists, and the collection includes works by many artists who were expanding and pushing the boundaries of contemporary art. Works by Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francesco Clemente, John Currin, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Cady Noland, and Jeff Koons, among others, significantly broadened the museum's holdings of artists working in New York in the 1980s. The Logan gift also transformed the museum's representation of artists working internationally from the 1980s forward, with pieces by the "Young British Artists" such as Damien Hirst and Tracy Emin; European artists such as Marlene Dumas; and Chinese and Japanese artists such as Takashi Murakami and Zhang Xiaogang. Before the Logan gift, these artists were either completely absent from the museum's collection or represented by a single work, and many of those artists are now recognized as among the most important artists of this new generation.
In addition to the works on view in the galleries, a commission for the museum's atrium by Gu Wenda, which first premiered in the SFMOMA exhibition Inside Out: New Chinese Art in 1997, will be reinstalled for the first time since that exhibition. The piece, entitled united nations--babel of the millennium, is a large-scale installation of rectangular panels made from hair, glue, and rope that incorporates invented scripts from many different languages.
Vicki and Kent Logan began to actively collect contemporary art in 1993. From the outset, they formed the collection with the idea that it would be given to a public institution where the works could provide a forum for critical appraisal and discourse. They developed several defined themes and directions in their collecting: they were guided by an overarching belief that art is a mirror of culture and society, and they sought out art that would raise important and provocative issues. Their goal was to assemble a collection of art that is vigorous and vital, by artists whose integrity and intensity have brought a new vision to bear on assumptions about both art and culture.
Artists in the Exhibition
Jean-Michel Basquiat, Francesco Clemente, Chuck Close, John Currin, Marlene Dumas, Tracey Emin, Fang Lijun, Gilbert & George, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Philip Guston, Richard Hamilton, Damien Hirst, Anselm Kiefer, Jeff Koons, Glenn Ligon, Liu Wei, Takashi Murakami, Bruce Nauman, Cady Noland, Gerhard Richter, Ed Ruscha, Jenny Saville, Thomas Schütte, Yinka Shonibare, Mark Tansey, Fred Tomaselli, Andy Warhol, Gu Wenda, Christopher Wool, Zeng Fanzhi, Zhang Xiaogang
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FormerBondFan wrote:Kristatos wrote:Jackson has a bigger fanbase than Johnny Cash, but i'd still be surprised if it made more than $250m worldwide in today's dollars.
Jackson is bigger than anything in this world IMO.
carl stromberg wrote:I think his fans would spend their cash on memorabilia. A biopic may upset some of his fans.
Jackson too fast for his father's belt: brother
(AFP) – 1 day ago
LONDON — Pop legend Michael Jackson used to escape beatings from his father when he was a child by swiftly dodging and weaving his way to safety, according to his brother Tito Jackson.
Tito said the future King of Pop's footwork was so fast and so good that his belt-wielding father Joe Jackson was often reduced to laughter in efforts to catch him.
"Most of the time Michael was so quick my father couldn't hit him," Tito said in an interview with London's Daily Mirror newspaper.
"He'd swing the belt and Michael would be over there, he'd swing again and Michael would be over here."
"My father used to just stop and laugh because he couldn't hit him."
"Michael would just dance around him. My father would get tired and give up," he added.
Jackson died on June 25 aged 50 after suffering an apparent cardiac arrest at his home in Los Angeles, although investigators have been scrutinising the possible role of drugs in his death.
Joe, a steelworker in the industrial city of Gary, Indiana, reared his nine children into musical sensations starting from the Jackson 5 to the phenomenal careers of Michael and younger sister Janet Jackson.
Michael Jackson later said that his father would beat him when he missed a note and emotionally humiliate him, contributing to the future star's psychological fragility but also planting in him the will to succeed.
Tito said he held no ill feelings towards his father about the way he was raised, saying he was a "disciplining type of father".
"From those of us not raised in our generation they might not understand it. You got a big ass punishment or you got spanked for it. That's the way it was."
A Michael Jackson Movie Steps Closer to Materialization
July 20, 2009 07:09:14 GMT
Sony Pictures and 20th Century Fox have come out as the front-runners in a Hollywood auction of film and home video distribution rights to Michael Jackson's rehearsal footage.
A recent update for the planned feature film for Michael Jackson's rehearsal footage has been brought forward by The New York Times. According to the publication, the proposed film project is rapidly moving forward into becoming a reality since Sony Pictures and 20th Century Fox, as of Saturday, July 18, have emerged as the leading contenders in the bidding war for the filming rights.
The rights to the project have been battled over by major studios like Viacom's Paramount/MTV, NBC Universal, Sony Music and Sony Pictures, and News Corp's 20th Century Fox/Fox Broadcasting Co. ever since AEG Live, the concert promoter behind Michael's canceled O2 concert, offered the late King of Pop's rehearsal material. Other sources indicated that Sony would likely win the bidding, partly because Sony Music has rights to Michael's music.
Nikki Finke of Deadline Hollywood Daily reported that the bidding for the movies rights was begun at a staggering $50 million, while the TV special rights at $10 million. Inside sources, in addition, claimed that the deals under discussion include revenue-sharing agreements and distribution fees for the movie studios. Still, outcome of the auction is expected to come out as soon as this week.
None of the reported Hollywood studios gave comments on this report. Michael Roth, a spokesman for AEG, also remained coy when asked about the matter. "We have not made any decisions on what we are going to do with the video," he stated.
Weeks following Michael Jackson's sudden death, AEG Live has considered to turn the legendary singer's rehearsal footage for his "This is It" concert into a feature film. The material, owned by the concert promoter, was said to contain over 100 hours of Michael rehearsing his back catalog for the tour scheduled to play at the O2 Arena, London, later in the year.
It also included the King of Pop performing his hits "Thriller" and "Beat It" in addition to production meetings and auditions. Some of the rehearsal footage was shot in high definition. At the time, AEG's president and CEO Randy Phillips revealed that they are waiting for Jackson's estate to be settled before proceeding with their plan.
Chief of Staff, 007's gone round the bend. Says someone's been trying to feed him a poisoned banana. Fellow's lost his nerve. Been in the hospital too long. Better call him home.
Michael Jackson's dad says burial set for August 29: report
Reuters, Aug 17, 2009 3:00 pm PDT
Michael Jackson's father has said the "King of Pop" will be buried at a Los Angeles cemetery on August 29, which would have been his 51st birthday, a newspaper reported on Monday.
Joe Jackson told the New York Daily News that the plan was finalized in recent days.
Media reports last week said Jackson, who died June 25 of cardiac arrest, was buried in a private ceremony in early August. But those reports were based on unnamed sources and never confirmed by Jackson family representatives.
A Jackson family spokesman was not immediately available Monday to comment on the Daily News story, nor was a spokesman at Los Angeles' Forest Lawn cemetery, where Joe Jackson said his son would be buried.
A public memorial for the singer was held in July, but there was never an official confirmation that the "Thriller" singer was buried after the event.
The reason behind Jackson's cardiac arrest remains a mystery. The Los Angeles County Coroner's office has completed its autopsy report but its findings remain sealed until police conclude their investigation.
Los Angeles police are looking into the role prescription drugs may have played in Jackson's death and the actions of doctors who were treating him in the weeks before he died.
(Reporting by Alex Dobuzinskis: Editing by Bob Tourtellotte and Phil Stewart)
Chief of Staff, 007's gone round the bend. Says someone's been trying to feed him a poisoned banana. Fellow's lost his nerve. Been in the hospital too long. Better call him home.
FormerBondFan wrote:Do you own any MJ's CDs, Doc? I own 5 of them.
Chief of Staff, 007's gone round the bend. Says someone's been trying to feed him a poisoned banana. Fellow's lost his nerve. Been in the hospital too long. Better call him home.
Dr. No wrote:FormerBondFan wrote:Do you own any MJ's CDs, Doc? I own 5 of them.
I just own1 . Not a big fan of his later stuff, but it wasn't bad either just not as good as what got him started
Final farewell as Michael Jackson laid to rest
Posted: 03 September 2009 1007 hrs
LOS ANGELES : Family and friends of Michael Jackson will bid a final farewell to the tragic King of Pop here Thursday as the singer is laid to rest in a private ceremony at a star-studded Los Angeles cemetery.
More than two months after Jackson's sudden death from a drug overdose on June 25, mourners will gather for a sunset service in a mausoleum at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park - a cemetery that is home to a galaxy of celebrity graves.
The service will be in stark contrast to the lavish public memorial held at Los Angeles's Staples Center in July, which was attended by 20,000 fans and beamed live around the world to an estimated audience of 1 billion.
Police in the Los Angeles suburb of Glendale on Wednesday urged Jackson devotees to stay away from the funeral, warning that the neighbourhood surrounding the cemetery's entrance would be on lockdown.
"A special request would be to encourage fans to stay at home," a statement said. "The closure of the streets for the day will not afford anyone the opportunity to get anywhere near the gates."
Police helicopters and search dogs would patrol the 300-acre (120-hectare) cemetery, on the lookout for any fans trying to sneak into the service, which is due to take place at 7:00 pm (0200 GMT Friday).
Jackson will be interred inside Forest Lawn's Great Mausoleum, an elaborate neo-classical building inspired by Genoa's famous Campo Santo.
Jackson's gold-plated casket will be placed in a private section of the crypt that is also home to the final resting places of famous names from Hollywood's golden age such as Clark Gable, Jean Harlow and Carole Lombard.
Other entertainment icons buried at Forest Lawn include Humphrey Bogart, Lon Chaney, Nat King Cole, Walt Disney, Errol Flynn and Jimmy Stewart.
Although open to the public, the funeral home is renowned for its strict privacy, and unlike many other Hollywood cemeteries does not provide maps.
"The Great Mausoleum where he is going is like the Holy Grail of grave hunters," Scott Michaels, who runs a sightseeing tour specialising in the macabre side of Hollywood, told The Los Angeles Times.
"There are cameras all throughout it, and if you are just wandering about, they will find you and kick you out."
One of Jackson's brothers, Marlon, meanwhile revealed in an interview with a British newspaper that the singer's children - Prince Michael, 12, Paris, 11 and Prince Michael II, 7 - would leave notes in their father's coffin.
Jackson said messages reading "Daddy we love you, we miss you," would be placed in the casket alongside the singer's trademark single white glove.
On Wednesday a Los Angeles judge supported a request from Jackson's mother, Katherine, that the cost of the service should be paid for by her son's estate.
A lawyer for the two entertainment industry figures who control Jackson's fortune said the costs of the service would be steep.
"The expenses will be extraordinary, but Michael Jackson was extraordinary," Jeryll Cohen said, without specifying the anticipated bill.
Los Angeles coroners said last week Jackson's death was being treated as homicide and revealed the star had six drugs in his body when he died, including propofol, a powerful anesthetic.
Propofol is used to induce unconsciousness in patients undergoing major surgery in hospital. Medical professionals say it should never be used by private individuals at home.
The coroner's announcement fuelled speculation that authorities may charge Jackson's personal physician, Conrad Murray, in connection with the death. Cardiologist Murray was the last person to see Jackson alive.
Jackson, one of the most influential figures in pop music history whose four-decade career included the highest-selling album of all-time, "Thriller," had been preparing for a July concert comeback at the time of his death.
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From Times Online
September 3, 2009
Three months after his death, Los Angeles prepares to put Michael Jackson to rest
More than three months after he was killed by a lethal cocktail of anasthetic and sedatives, Michael Jackson was tonight due to be laid to rest in the Forest Lawn Memorial Park in Los Angeles.
The private service for family and friends only, with press coverage limited to one pool photographer and one TV camera, was expected to begin at 7pm local time (3am BST).
By this afternoon, police had set up a perimeter outside the cemetery, and the Federal Aviation Authority had restricted all flights within a three-mile radius.
Although the cost of the service has been redacted in court documents, a lawyer representing the administrators of Jackson's estate has called it "extraordinary".
Nevertheless, the estate was this week given permission by a judge to cover the burial expenses - including the purchase of 12 burial spaces, instead of one - but only after proving that it could afford them.
"Mrs [Katherine] Jackson and her family wish to honor her son by a funeral that seeks to offer solace to his multitude of fans and by which the family also may be comforted," wrote Burt Levitch, a Jackson family lawyer, in documents submitted to the court.
It is thought that the biggest expense is the fee charged by Forest Lawn for Mr Jackson to be interred within its 300-acre, lavishly landscaped and decorated grounds.
Designed in the early 1900s as an antidote to "unsightly, depressing" traditional graveyards, Forest Lawn's theme park approach to death was infamously satirised by the British writer Evelyn Waugh in his 1948 novel The Loved One.
Mr Jackson, whose death at the age of 50 has now been officially ruled a homicide with his former doctor expected to be charged with manslaughter, will be laid to rest in the cemetery's Great Mausoleum, alongside such Hollywood icons as Clark Gable, Jean Harlow, and WC Fields.
The singer's remains will be stored in crypt in the Holly Terrace section of the mausoleum, surrounded by newly installed statues and stained glass windows.
With Mr Jackson's burial site likely to become a major draw for tourists, negotiations over where he should be laid to rest caused some friction within the singer's family.
Mr Jackson's brother, Jermaine Jackson, lobbied for the singer's body to be buried in a Graceland-style museum at his former Californian ranch, Neverland. But those who live near Neverland objected - the property is located in rustic 'wine country', north of Santa Barbara - and the singer's 79-year-old mother decided on Forest Lawn instead.
During Mr Jackson's life, Neverland became synonymous with the child abuse allegations which dogged the singer's career, and it is thought his mother came to the conclusion that her son wouldn't have wanted to be laid to rest there.
In addition, Forest Lawn is only a 20-minute drive from Mrs Jackson's home in Encino, a wealthy part of the San Fernando Valley. She lives there with Mr Jackson's three children, Prince, Paris, and Blanket, after a custody arrangement was reached in July with their biological mother, Debbie Rowe.
The cost of security for Mr Jackson's funeral is expected to be $150,000 at the most, with the Glendale police department providing everything from sniffer dogs to air support. A spokesman said that the burial would not divert resources away from the wildfires still burning in the northern canyon suburbs of Los Angeles.
Mr Jackson's burial comes a month after his public memorial concert in downtown Los Angeles.
But it will not end the controversy over how he died. Ever since Mr Jackson's death was ruled a homicide - after his brain was temporarily removed from his body for testing - there have been rumours that the singer's former doctor, Conrad Murray, is facing imminent arrest. Dr Murray had been giving Mr Jackson a hospital-grade liquid anesthetic to help him sleep at night.
Dr Murray, who was paid $150,000 a month to treat Mr Jackson ahead of his comeback tour at London's O2 arena, was also giving the singer's sedatives. The doctor's lawyer has said that his client did not give Mr Jackson anything that "should have" killed him.
Key dates after Michael Jackson's death
Agence France-Presse
September 3, 2009 4:02 PM
LOS ANGELES - Key dates following the sudden death of pop star Michael Jackson, who was to be buried later Thursday:
— June 25: Michael Jackson dies at age 50 in his Los Angeles home of an apparent cardiac arrest.
— June 26: The Los Angeles coroner says after an initial autopsy that there was "no indication . . . of foul play" in Jackson's death. A final ruling is deferred pending toxicology tests.
— June 27: Jackson's family says it wants a second autopsy. The doctor who was at Jackson's home on June 25, Conrad Murray, says he is not a suspect in the death.
— June 29: A Los Angeles court names Jackson's mother, Katherine Jackson, 79, temporary guardian of his three children, Prince Michael, 12, Paris, 11 and Prince Michael II, 7, as well as of his estate, which includes his Neverland ranch and rights to songs by The Beatles.
— June 30: A former nurse who cared for Jackson says the pop star pleaded with her to provide him with a powerful anesthetic in the last months of his life to help him sleep.
— July 4: Reports surface saying investigators had found the powerful sedative propofol at Jackson's home.
— July 7: Jackson is honored by a televised, star-studded memorial celebration in Los Angeles watched by millions around the world.
— July 12: Jackson's sister La Toya alleges, in interviews with British newspapers, her brother was "murdered" by a "bad circle" of hangers-on.
— July 22: Federal agents search Murray's offices in Houston, Texas, as his lawyers say police are treating the star's death as possible manslaughter.
— July 28: Police raid Murray's Las Vegas home.
— August 3: A Los Angeles judge names Katherine as permanent guardian of the star's three children following an agreement granting visitation rights to his ex-wife Debbie Rowe for Prince Michael and Paris.
— August 10: The Los Angeles County coroner's office says it has completed the autopsy, but will not release the results until police complete their investigation.
— August 24: Court documents are unsealed revealing Murray told investigators two days after Jackson's death that he had been giving him nightly propofol injections for six weeks to treat chronic insomnia.
— August 28: Coroners rule Jackson's death a homicide, saying "acute intoxication" from propofol was the primary cause of death but that his body also contained five other powerful prescription drugs.
— August 29: Fans around the world mark what would have been Jackson's 51st birthday.
— September 3: Jackson is to be buried in a sunset service in a mausoleum at the Forest Lawn Memorial Park.
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Turin, parade of Alpini Corps 2011
The last day of the event in Turin was held the big parade where marched over 90,000 Alpini.
The parade lasted ten hours, and the event was felt even more this year because we celebrate the 150th anniversary of the unification of Italy, and Turin was the first capital of Italy.
The people stand hours under the sun on a beautiful spring day to see them marching, applauding.
The banners you can see in the photos highlighted very well the spirit of the Alpini Corps, such as the absolute dedication to the people and to maintain a united Nation fighting division and selfishness.
The passage of "black feathers" in the center of the city was unforgettable.
The Taurinense brigade (means brigade from Turin) of Alpini Corps in 2003 was the first one to arrive, with 400 men, in Kabul with the task of protecting the access routes to the airport in the city.
From 2003 to April 4, 2011 the Alpini were constantly engaged in humanitarian missions in Afghanistan where they have been appreciated by all, achieving good results helping to protect the civilian population of that country.
They re-built schools, squares, delivered food and medicine, restore 15 km of irrigation canals and wells to make available drinking water to villages.
In the districts of Bakwa, Gulistan and Purchaman was rebuilt a girls' school, a paved square and a bazaar, restored mosque and a medical clinic, and made wells for water.
Tears and applause where all over among people when the speaker read the names of the 22 alpine dead in missions.
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