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Thanks for the great explanation. I still have 2 questions: 1. From the tomcat documentation I read this useSendFile is default to true and it is defined under nio. Does this support what you wrote about "ARP native" connector? 2. As I mentioned before, I am defining the static context under Engine->Host->Context: <Context docBase="../../work/bundles" path="/bundles" This does not correspond to a specific connector, so I don't understand how it has to do with the useSendFile which is defined on a specific connector. It might be that I don't understand some basic things about the tomcat. Or maybe I am not defining the static retrieve correctly in server.xml. Any thoughts on that? Thanks, Michal -----Original Message----- From: André Warnier [mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] Sent: ג 28 יוני 2011 14:33 To: Tomcat Users List Subject: Re: fail to download large static files in tomcat Michal Singer wrote: > The useSendfile relates to connectors, the configuration I understand is needed is in under Engine > Host > Context (<Context docBase="../../work/bundles" path="/bundles") > > Can you explain how the " useSendfile" relates to static files? > Is the configuration I am using correct? Or is there another way to configure the use of static files? Hi. Let me explain, in not too technical or precise terms, what the useSendFile means. Normally, to copy a filesystem file to the servlet response filehandle, you would a) open the file, using some read buffer size b) start a loop reading a chunk of the file, and writing that chunk to the response filehandle, and then loop and do it again until you reach the EOF on the input file. c) close the input file And you would do all that using Java I/O code, so that it is portable across OS'es. Modern OS'es have a "sendfile" function, built in the OS itself. Basically, it is a very optimised piece of code, by which an application (like a Java JVM) can tell the OS : here is the path to a file on the filesystem, and here is a "filehandle" to which this file should be copied. The OS sendfile function then arranges everything to do this as efficiently as possible under that particular OS and filesystem, and for Java it is one function call instead of a Java I/O loop. By setting the "useSendFile" attribute to true, you basically allow Tomcat to use the builtin sendfile of the OS to send the servlet response (instead of a Java I/O loop like the above). It only works if the input is a static file on the filesystem, but for such files it is probably at least 50% more efficient than the corresponding Java loop. It is bound to the Connector, because the Connector is the object which "holds" the filehandle to the client TCP socket, where the response must ultimately be sent. Another thing : the sendfile option will probable only work with the "APR native" connector. So check your Tomcat startup messages to verify that this is what you are using. And yet another thing : all this will make it more efficient for the server CPU and disks, to send back a static file. But it has no impact on the available bandwidth of your server-to-client link, or on the client itself. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: email@example.com For additional commands, e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
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Ecclestone Trial Key Witness Questioned by U.K. Tax AuthorityKarin Matussek
Gerhard Gribkowsky, the key witness in the bribery trial against Bernie Ecclestone, was questioned several weeks ago by the U.K. tax authority over a family trust set up by the Formula One's billionaire chief executive officer.
The former banker told a German court today that British authorities questioned him about Ecclestone's role at the fund, Bambino Holdings Ltd. Ecclestone is standing trial in Munich on charges he bribed Gribkowsky, an ex-manager at Bayerische Landesbank, with $44 million to steer the 2005 sale of a Formula One stake.
"I told them what I told this court: I didn't have any inside knowledge on Bambino but I used the issue at the time to put pressure on Ecclestone to make him settle litigation over Formula One," Gribkowsky said.
At the start of his trial in April, Ecclestone told the court he established a company in the late 1990s before he underwent heart surgery. He put assets, including a stake in Formula One, into it so that his former wife and his daughters wouldn't have to pay inheritance tax in case he didn't survive. His ex-wife later decided to move the assets to the Bambino trust, which he had no control over, he said.
Gribkowsky threatened to provide tax authorities with material that showed that he was actually overseeing Bambino, the F-1 chief said. At the time, Ecclestone was facing a multi-year review that could have resulted in tax payments of as much as 2 billion pounds ($3.4 billion) that could have destroyed his life achievements, the 83-year-old said. To avoid that, he paid the $44 million to Gribkowsky, the F-1 head told the court.
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"We're having a chat with" the U.K. Revenue and Customs department, Ecclestone said in February. "They're looking at things, they're doing their job." He declined to give any further information about the discussions.
Ecclestone has owned or managed Formula One since 1995, becoming a billionaire by selling off stakes to groups including CVC Capital Partners Ltd.


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The decline in the real estate and mortgage markets in 2007 has much to teach investors. Real estate has taken a bit hit after rallying for years. Banks that are active in the mortgage markets have also suffered substantial declines in their stock prices due to what is now perceived as indiscriminate lending practices. Major REIT indices are down 20% for the year and a range of bank stocks have double-digit declines. Many investors have lost a lot of money (at least on paper) from their holdings in even blue-chip banks like Citigroup (NYSE:C) and Bank of America (NYSE:BAC). The question that most investors really need to understand is whether this mortgage and real estate meltdown was unpredictable (a lightning bolt from the blue) or whether there were ways to anticipate and manage the probability of such an event.
The Economist has suggested that the scale of declines in the real estate and mortgage markets in 2007 was essentially a 'black swan event':
Although many anticipated a fall in American house prices for 2007, for example, few expected the scale of the ramifications for financial markets, as a whole system of structured finance appeared to unravel and the banking system was plunged into crisis.
In one of the defining phrases of 2007, the author and investor Nassim Taleb has called these occurrences "black swans"—unexpected events that have enormous consequences. These are, by definition, very hard to forecast.
Nassim Taleb defines 'black swan events' in the following way:
A black swan is an outlier, an event that lies beyond the realm of normal expectations. Most people expect all swans to be white because that's what their experience tells them; a black swan is by definition a surprise.
If the sub-prime / real estate meltdown was truly a 'black swan' event, the probability of it occurring should be estimated to be essentially zero or (at least) vanishingly small by portfolio management tools. There is a very important question here. Did good statistical models assign a non-trivial probability to the scale of losses that we have seen in financial stocks and real estate prior to the event? If the answer is no, then perhaps this 'event' in 2007 is an example of one of Mr. Taleb's unpredictable surprises. On the other hand, if good statistical models assigned significant odds to such a decline, there is an entirely different lesson to be drawn. If this scale of decline was predicted at some reasonable probability, who knew and how did they know?
One of the core related themes of Mr. Taleb's work is that the standards of mathematical finance are too simplistic to capture the risks of extreme events. In fact, he is highly dismissive of quantitative finance as a whole:
Quantitative economics, particularly finance, has not been a particularly introspective or empirical science….Financial economists built "portfolio theory" that is based on our ability to measure the financial risks. They used the Bell-Shaped (and similar) distribution which proliferated in academia and yielded a handful of Nobel medals…Everything reposes on probabilities being stationary, i.e. not changing after your observe them, assuming what you observed was true. They were all convinced of measuring risks as someone would measure the temperature. It led to series of fiascos, including the blowup of a fund called Long-term Capital Management, co-founded by two Nobel economists. Yet it has not been discredited — they still say "we have nothing better" and teach it in Business Schools. This is what I call the problem of gambling with the wrong dice. Here you have someone who is extremely sophisticated at computing the probabilities on the dice, but guess what? They have no clue what dice they are using and no mental courage to say "I don't know".
Was the sub-prime meltdown a 'black swan' event that the quantitative models suggested was impossible? Was everyone playing with 'the wrong dice' as Mr. Taleb suggests? I think not—at least based on the evidence before us today. The portfolio theory that Mr. Taleb is so dismissive of is widely in use in banks and on trading floors across the globe. I have worked on these types of models for a decade or so and I think that Mr. Taleb is throwing the baby out with the bath water in his sweeping critique (as above). This is not to deny that the probabilities of some extreme events are essentially totally unknown, but rather that there is a lot of middle ground in which portfolio theory can yield very useful insight into how to invest and manage risk.
Let us begin with a brief discussion of how portfolio theory can be used to estimate the probabilities of events when it is used properly.
The core precept in portfolio theory is that risk and return are coupled. Over long periods of time, asset classes which are more volatile should generate higher average return---and they do. At any given time in a widely traded (i.e. liquid) market for a security, there is a price at which you can buy or sell that security. The price of a security reflects the markets' consensus opinion of the value of the discounted future earnings generated by the company or asset represented by the security. Of course, nobody knows the future earnings from a company or the future value of an asset with a high degree of certainty, so the price moves around as new information becomes available. There are speculative runs (up and down) in which investors become too enthusiastic or pessimistic about a given asset class, etc. Larger swings in price over time suggest that there is more uncertainty as to the future earnings (and vice versa). While investors converge to a price that represents the expected future earnings in the market for a stock, investors also converge to estimates of future volatility in the options markets. Good portfolio models combine market information on risk and return with long-term capital markets data. For the vast majority of investors, it is useful to be able to understand the broad features of risk in a portfolio. Good portfolio models cannot properly estimate the 1-in-10,000 events, but they can estimate risk reasonably well—enough to demonstrate to an investor or portfolio manager whether his or her portfolio is too risky or too conservative.
A good portfolio model is tested to see whether its forecasts of expected return and volatility are borne out in the market. There are a range of standards for stress testing these models. It is certainly true that portfolio models cannot estimate the probability of massive dislocations like 9/11 or the collapse of Enron. On this Mr. Taleb and I agree. On the other hand, there is quite a spectrum of extreme events that good portfolio models can capture---and the current realty/sub-prime meltdown falls into this category, based on available evidence to date. I performed an analysis in which I used our portfolio management software, Quantext Portfolio Planner [QPP], to project the future returns for two financial stocks, Citigroup and Bank of America, and two REIT ETFs (iShares Cohen & Steers Realty (NYSEARCA:ICF) and SPDR DJ Wilshire REIT (NYSEARCA:RWR)). While every portfolio model is somewhat different, QPP's results are broadly consistent with those used in the industry.
I used three years of trailing data through the end of 2006 to drive the model (my standard) and all default settings in QPP. The projections show what a user would have seen—and a number did—at the end of 2006.
The table below shows the percentiles for projected annual return for Citigroup (C) at the end of 2006. At the very bottom of this table, you can see what has actually occurred for 2007 (note this is through Dec 28). Citigroup has dropped 45% in 2007. The projected returns for C suggest that this loss was on the order of 2.5% probability. Things in this probability range (i.e. 1-in-40) are certainly not implausible. One-in-forty events (2.5%) are not like shark bites or getting hit by lightning.
Projected percentiles for Citigroup (C) at the end of 2006 and actual 2007 return
Without trying to get down to some estimate of whether the losses at Citi are a 1-in-50 even or a 1-in-30 event, I think that it is clear that this scale of loss is certainly not a 'black swan' kind of event. The whole idea of the 'black swan' is an event that is considered impossible or for which the probability is so small as to be ignorable. If 1-in-40 swans at your local park are black, you would not consider them to be incredibly rare. The 45% drop in Citi over 2007 may have been enormously surprising to many investors, but this does not mean that such an event was beyond a good portfolio model. There is a deep idea here: the market's risk-return data for C carried with it the knowledge that such a drop was possible at a small but meaningful level. This is not to say that pure historical data provided this estimate, but rather than historical data combined with robust portfolio simulation tools showed that this level of drop was possible at a not-trivial level.
Bank of America (BAC) showed a considerably smaller loss of -19% for 2007, and QPP's projections using data from the end of 2006 suggested that this level of loss would occur at the 10th percentile (a 10% chance of at least this level of loss)---see table below.
Projected percentiles for Bank of America (BAC) and actual 2007 return
The REIT market has also had a rough year in 2007, with 20% declines for the broad indices. The two tables below show the same QPP projections for ICF and RWR, two major REIT ETF's, using data available through the end of 2006:
Projected percentiles for RWR and actual 2007 return
Projected percentiles for ICF and actual 2007 return
Both ICF and RWR suffered about 20% declines in 2007, and QPP projected that these losses would occur at between the 5th and 10th percentiles. Things that occur at between 1-in-10 (10th percentile) and 1-in-20 (5th percentile) are far from 'black swan' events, if we use the definition that a black swan event is beyond the realm of normal expectations.
Now, let's pull things together. It is true that there are events that are simply beyond our capacity to calculate the odds---9/11 being an example. There are plenty of them in history. One response to such outliers in the investing world is to simply discount portfolio analysis---and this is what Mr. Taleb would suggest. If he is correct that portfolio theory is based on completely ill-founded models, then it is irrational for investors to try to compute risk or to try to discriminate between risky investments. If our capital markets are predicated on investors using their knowledge to establish a balance between risk and return, but our estimates of risk are without value, then the entire edifice is a pure random process. That is an extreme supposition, indeed.
On the other hand, there is an enormous amount of evidence that investors are consistently more highly rewarded for taking on riskier assets over less risky assets (in a statistical sense). While we cannot quantitatively estimate the odds of a 9/11-like event, portfolio theory actually provides an enormous amount of useful insight when used properly. Using data available at the end of 2006, QPP projected outcomes for financial stocks (like C and BAC) and REIT indices (like ICF and RWR) in which the events that occurred in 2007 were estimated to occur with non-vanishing probability. If I am looking at a stock with a 1-in-20 chances of losing 36% in the next year (as C was projected to do), I would be very careful about how I would include it in my portfolio. I would combine C with other assets that are not highly correlated to it, in order to manage the risks of a major decline as we have experienced this year. I own BAC—and its decline has not caused me any lost sleep. I have other things in my portfolio that have done disproportionately well even as BAC has done very poorly---and this was by design.
Now, I assume that Mr. Taleb would say that the 45% decline in C or the 20% declines in ICF and RWR are not 'black swan' events, precisely because a standard portfolio model like QPP calculated that they could occur at non-vanishing probability. The ability to estimate the relative risk in investments is very useful to investors, but Mr. Taleb completely dismisses portfolio theory as worthless and its practitioners as intellectually lazy. This argument is ultimately a philosophical debate rather than a practical one. Mr. Taleb is saying, in effect, that he would rather have no model at all rather than attempt to use an imperfect model. At its core, this is a circular argument. If a portfolio model estimates that something is possible, the event is (by Mr. Taleb's definition) not a 'black swan.' If portfolio theory estimates that the odds of something happening are vanishingly small, and it occurs, it is (by definition) a 'black swan' and represents a failure of portfolio theory. How can portfolio theory ever be validated under this sort of scoring?
While the models are far from perfect, and our ability to compute the odds of extremely improbable events is almost nil, the use of portfolio analysis to capture the broad features of the risk in a portfolio is extremely valuable. While The Economist article cited earlier suggests that the scale of the sub-prime mortgage meltdown in 2007 was something of a 'black swan,' our results show that an investor or portfolio manager with a good portfolio tool could see that declines that we have experienced this year in real estate and financial stocks were well within the range of the possible.


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Book DescriptionHow do boys see themselves? Their peers? The adult world? What are their aspirations, their fears? How do they feel about their own masculinity? About style, 'race', homophobia? About football? This book examines aspects of 'young masculinities' that have become central to contemporary social thought, paying attention to psychological issues as well as to social policy concerns. Centring on a study involving in-depth exploration, through individual and group intererviews, the authors bring to light the way boys in the early years of secondary schooling conceptualise and articulate their experiences of themselves, their peers and the adult world. The book includes discussion of boys' aspirations and anxieties, their feelings of pride and loss. As such, it offers an unusually detailed set of insights into the experiential world inhabited by these boys - how they see themselves, how girls see them, what they wish for and fear, where they feel their 'masculinity' to be advantageous and where it inhibits other potential experiences. In describing this material, the authors explore questions such as the place of violence in young people's lives, the functions of 'hardness', of homophobia and football, boys' underachievement in school, and the pervasive racialisation of masculine identity construction. Young Masculinities will be invaluable to researchers in psychology, sociology, gender and youth studies, as well as to those devising social policy on boys and young men. STEPHEN FROSH is Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London, and previously Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Vice Dean in the Child and Family Department at the Tavistock Clinic, London. He is the author of numerous academic papers and several books, including For and Against Psychoanalysis, Sexual Difference: Masculinity and Psychoanalysis, Identity Crisis: Modernity, Psychoanalysis and the Self and The Politics of Psychoanalysis. He is joint author, with Danya Glaser, of Child Sexual Abuse and co-editor with Anthony Elliott of Psychoanalysis in Context. ANN PHOENIX is Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Open University. Her books include Standpoints and Differences (with Karen Henwood and Chris Griffin), Crossfires: Nationalism, Racism and Gender in Europe (with Helma Lutz and Nira Yuval-Davies), and Black, White or Mixed Race? (with Barbara Tizard). ROB PATTMAN is Lecturer in Sociology at the University of Botswana. He has taught sociology in sixth form colleges and institutions of higher education in Britain and southern Africa, and published articles on whiteness, gender identities, sex and AIDS education and social theory.
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Book DetailsISBN: 9780333779231
(215mm x 138mm x 17mm)
Pages: 304
Imprint: Palgrave Macmillan
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan
Publish Date: 31-Oct-2001
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
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Books By Author Stephen Frosh
Psychosocial Imaginaries, Hardback (September 2015)
Psychosocial studies challenges the traditions of psychology and sociology from a genuinely transdisciplinary perspective. The book reflects this agenda in its varied theoretical and empirical strands, producing a newly contextualised and restless body of understanding of how 'psychic' and 'social' processes intertwine.
Hauntings: Psychoanalysis and Ghostly Transmissions, Hardback (January 2013)
This book explores how the present is troubled by the past and the future. It uses the idea of haunting to explore how identities, beliefs, intimacies and hatreds are transmitted across generations and between people and how these things structure psychosocial and psychopolitical life.
Brief Introduction to Psychoanalytic Theory, Hardback (May 2012)
How is psychoanalytic theory relevant in the modern age? How does it inform and interact with culture? From Freud to Lacan, this insightful text clearly explores key psychoanalytic writers, core ideas, and their development. A vibrant text mapping the relevance of psychoanalysis across social sciences, humanities and the arts.
Social Research After the Cultural Turn, Hardback (January 2012)» View all books by Stephen Frosh
This collection explores the contested meanings and diverse practices of social research in the context of contemporary theoretical debates in cultural and social theory, addressing fundamental questions facing those working in the social and human sciences today.
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STEPHEN FROSH is Professor of Psychology at Birkbeck College, University of London and Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Vice Dean at the Tavistock Clinic, London. His books include For and Against Psychoanalysis, Sexual Identity, Identity Crisis, Child Sexual Abuse with Danya Glaser, Psychoanalysis in Contexts (ed) and a second edition of The Politics of Psychoanalysis. ANN PHOENIX is Senior Lecturer in Psychology, Open University. Her books include Standpoints and Differences with Karen Henwood and Chris Griffin, Crossfires: Nationalism, Racism and Gender in Europe with Helma Lutz and Nira Yuval-Davies and Black, White or Mixed Race? with Barbara Tizard. ROB PATTMAN is Lecturer in Sociology, University of Botswana.
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Guardian offshores Snowden reporting due to pressure in U.K.
Working with National Security Agency leaker Edward Snowden apparently landed the Guardian daily newspaper in trouble with the U.K. authorities. Editor Alan Rusbridger revealed in a column that senior officials in the British government contacted him to demand that he hand over documents Snowden had passed to the newspaper. After he refused, according to Rusbridger, the contacts indicated that they would take legal action to recover the files. He also said government security experts had destroyed several hard drives belonging to the Guardian, in an attempt to eliminate sensitive information. Rusbridger said none of this would affect the newspaper's continued reporting on U.S. electronic spying. "We will continue to do patient, painstaking reporting on the Snowden documents, we just won't do it in London," Rusbridger wrote. Indeed, the technological revolution that has made it possible to spy on people thousands of miles away has also made it all but impossible to destroy or suppress information. Governments must take the bitter with the sweet.
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Recruitment group Robert Half found that 65 percent of U.K. financial services companies have increased base salaries by an average of 20 percent for senior employees who may be affected by the European Union-wide bonus cap. The EU regulation, likely to come into force next year, would limit bonuses to twice the annual salary of bankers who make more than $667,000 a year. The bonus cap is intended to quell public indignation with bankers' fat bonuses, but will also weaken the link between performance and pay in the industry. So as not to risk losing top talent to other sectors, banks are raising salaries and offering more expensive perks to compensate stars for their lost bonuses. The fact that they are already doing this is a good reason to reconsider the bonus cap before it is introduced.
French government holds futurological seminar .
French President Francois Hollande and Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault convened cabinet ministers for a seminar to discuss policy goals for the next 10 years. Each government member had to submit an essay for discussion, stating what his or her ministry would like to achieve by 2025. Some of the essays, which started leaking out last week, bordered on science fiction: They spoke of full employment and a 118 mile-per-gallon French car. The political opposition and France's business lobby, Medef, ridiculed the exercise but Hollande was undeterred. "For a year, they told me I had no policy and now they tell me I have to deal with everyday matters," he said at the seminar. Hollande is right to start talking about his long-term ambitions. France recorded stronger than expected economic growth in the first half of 2013, and it is sound politics for the socialist government to stress this is no accident but of the result of a strategic vision.
Investment funds shift focus to European real estate .
Blackstone has quietly launched a new European real estate fund, targeting $5 billion in investment. It will be the third biggest such vehicle, among 112 similar funds seeking a total $46 billion to invest, according to the London-based research firm Prequin. This is only half the amount being raised by funds targeting North American properties. Still, investment in European real estate is picking up and sensing the upward price trend, sellers are putting more properties on the market. For large funds, this is the time to jump into the game: European recovery is not yet certain, but gloom and doom scenarios such as the collapse of the euro have faded.
Germany recognizes Bitcoin as money .
The German finance ministry has formally recognized the electronic currency Bitcoin as a "unit of account" that can be used for private transactions, opening the way to taxation of Bitcoin deals. So far, Germany is only targeting Bitcoin speculators. The e-currency's exchange rate is extremely volatile, and people making money on rate fluctuations are not paying any capital gains tax. All that remains is for the German authorities to figure out how to levy the tax: Bitcoin wallets are anonymous. It is, however, only a matter of time before that problem is solved in one way or another. More and more countries will crack down on e-currencies, seeking to regulate them as they do fiat money. The alternative financial universe on the Internet is headed for a crash.
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Note: Sunday, July 30th, Next-Gen broke the story saying that the ESA (Entertainment Software Association) was going to make a major announcement about E3 (Electronic Entertainment Expo) including the fact that major vendors had pulled out, among other unsubstantiated rumors. This created much debate from blog to forum across the Internet.
Since then, a press release by the ESA, and an interview of Doug Lowenstein in the Wall Street Journal has cleared up many questions (while creating many more questions, of course). However, this was mostly written before those events, and left as originally written, with the exception of what is now fact.
E3 is the yearly media circus set in May where the gaming industry shows off everything that is new in the world of gaming. Though the event has been press/industry only, it was not impossible to get through the gate. Next year's E3 will be by invitation only.
Though not all questions have answers, the show that is E3 will never be the same again.
E3 will be downsized from the L.A. Convention Center and an attendance of around 60,000 (in 2006) to a set of hotel rooms in L.A. with a target head count of around 5,000.
That is a big change, but much of the future of E3 remains to be seen — even after today's events.
I am not sure what to think about the small show in a hotel. I am going to wait for more news from the ESA. Is the "new" E3 a way to salvage a show after big names (Sony, Nintendo, Microsoft, EA) pulled out? And is Lowenstein spinning this "evolution" of E3 on us? I have no idea. But I want more solid answers first, before I form a hair-brained idea.
The following is the original editorial.
Joystiq, Kotaku, and even Blogcritics thought it was necessary to report on the rumors that E3 was cancelled.
I have never understood the usefulness of reporting rumors as news, in the gaming space or otherwise. It is a fundamental flaw with all journalism and no one can be blamed, because everyone does it.
Sure, rumors have their place, but there are times when they seem way out of line. This was one of those times. Everyone was reporting how the sky was falling on the gaming industry.
All the while, I didn't jump the gun, and predicted a smaller show. And that seems like what is happening. I am getting sick and f-ing tired of all these gloom-and-doom reports (rumors). Frankly, blogs piss me off when it comes to this shit (see white PSP advert incident).
My comment on the BC article still stands, however:
This was not smart on the ESA's part at all. If they are going to discuss downsizing, relocation, restructuring, whatever of E3, they should just say it in a press release on Monday, and not let all these rumors fly for 24 hrs. Really dumb move.
Although the ESA calls this an "evolution" of the show, I am sure many gamers will be crying foul. The fact is, we don't know exactly what E3 2007 will be yet — that remains to be seen. So lets just wait until we hear more info from the ESA. Who knows, it might get more accomplished with less fluff than ever before.
GameSpot is now reporting that E3 will be moved to July. This is a great idea. It is the slowest part of the year for the industry, and would allow developers more time to work on games (instead of rushing them).
According to GameSpot, Lowenstein has revealed to the Wall Street Journal that E3 will be known as the "E3 Media Festival." It has also come to light that the show will not be held in the L.A. Convention Center, but in a number of hotels, with around 5,000 people.
I am not sure what these changes are going to do to the industry, nor am I sure I have an opinion on such a smaller show just yet. This is such a shock to the system.
The press release holds much close to the vest, saying that "additional details about the new E3Expo event will be forthcoming in the next few months." So lets just wait and see what the ESA tells us. For now, all we know is that E3 "is evolving into a more intimate event focused on targeted, personalized meetings and activities."
I see this as only a good thing. Many people have predicted that E3 was getting too big for its own good. The show does not serve the purpose it once did, because the industry is not as small as it was when E3 started.
Less glitz and more focus on the games is just fine with me. Gears of War was not shown on the show floor this year, and I think they accomplished what they wanted to. Smaller developers could actually have a win-win with this new format, as they would not be drowned out as easily as before.
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And on September 1, the Phillies finally did something exciting.
Cole Hamels, Jake Diekman, Ken Giles and Jonathan Papelbon pitched the first combined no-hitter in Phillies history today. I'm not sure whether to be excited or mad that five months of terrible baseball caused me to miss this gem in favor of throwing a tennis ball and reading about #TheFappening on the beach.
Hamels was effectively wild, striking out seven and walking five, and Diekman, Giles and Papelbon were lights-out. Malvern Prep grad(!) Phil Gosselin made the final out.
Looks like T-Mac is going to have to get his fellow broadcasters Dunkin Donuts every morning:
In a 24-hour period, the Phillies have traded John Mayberry Jr. and pitched a no-hitter, and Jennifer Lawrence's nudes were leaked all over the webs. The fall season is off to a strong start.
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This Calls for a Celebration
I'd say that the Blue Jays stringing together two consecutive wins calls for a celebration. Sociable!
Starting off the month of August with two straight wins is a great way to help forget how abysmal July was for the Blue Jays. An 8-16 record with nine one-run losses wrapped up what was far and above the worst month of the season for the team. Now with just two months left to go, the Jays are in the home stretch of the 2009 campaign and the immediate goal for them is to break even with a .500 record.
Another great sign of things to come is the anticipation of Shaun Marcum to return to the starting rotation. Although the rookies have done a great job at holding down the fort this season, the Blue Jays need some experienced pitchers like Marcum and Roy Halladay to establish some sort of normality and dependability to what has seemed like a revolving door of starting pitchers.
The prospect of having Travis Snider back in a Blue Jays uniform is another boost to the team that the Blue Jays are really looking forward to. His Pacific Coast League player of the week award should send off alarms that it's time to send him up from Las Vegas. In his last ten games with the Las Vegas 51's, Snider has collected 16 RBI's to go along with 4 home runs.
So even though they might have a 51-54 record right now, there is still a lot to look forward to with the Blue Jays in the final two months of the season. And if all else fails, there's always alcohol. Sociable!
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Music Meets Moonlight at Wente's Summer Concerts
on July 19th, 2013Print This Post
It's concert season again at Wente Vineyards, where the 27th annual summer series of exciting alfresco shows is now under way.
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Acclaimed Chef Jennifer Puccio
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Have Quail, Will Travel
by Anneli Rufus
Jennifer Puccio, executive chef/partner of San Francisco's Marlowe and Park Tavern restaurants, was recently the guest chef at La Toque restaurant in The Westin Verasa. La Toque's world-famous chef Ken Frank kept to the sidelines as Puccio prepared a gala feast which was part of the Somm Sisters Soirée, an International Women's Day celebration organized by the hotel and Women of the Vine, a Napa-based winery selling only the products of female vintners.
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SF Chefs Kickoff Party Provides Sumptuous Sneak Peek at Summer Event Lineup
on June 27th, 2013Print This Post
For a week during the peak of every summer, SF Chefs lets Northern California's top chefs work their magic for food lovers from all over the world at a series of classes, cooking demonstrations, special meals, blind tastings, competitions, panel discussions, gala parties and other wildly popular events throughout San Francisco. Although the much-awaited festival is still a month away, the SF Chefs kickoff party thrown on June 25th on the 36th floor of the Grand Hyatt San Francisco provided a sneak peek at what we can expect to see (and eat and drink) once the official fun begins on July 28.
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Rising Star Chefs Announced in San Francisco
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Fish-sauce-glazed Berkshire pork belly with roasted kumquats and kimchi. Verbena-and-chamomile-poached sea bream collar with pear and celery. These are dishes to show off with.
But showing off was the raison d'être of StarChefs.com's 2013 San Francisco Bay Area Rising Stars Awards ceremony and gala, held June 13 at San Francisco's AT&T Park.
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Loews Regency San Francisco – Hotel Feature
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Located in the heart of San Francisco's bustling financial district, this posh property is more than just a high-end business hotel. Occupying the top eleven floors of the city's third-tallest building, the Loews Regency San Francisco provides incomparable sweeping views that stretch from the Golden Gate Bridge to the Bay Bridge. The hotel caters to a sophisticated traveler clientele, whether it's those who like to call it home while on business, or visitors who prefer a luxurious and comfortable resting place while touring "The City by the Bay."
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Wente Vineyards Celebrates National Chardonnay Day
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May 23 is National Chardonnay Day, which the folks at Livermore's Wente Vineyards celebrated with a televised live toast and gala dinner whose four courses — created by executive chef of catering Jeff Farlow— were paired with four Wente Chardonnays. And where better to mark this occasion with what promises to become an annual affair than this panoramic property a stone's throw from San Francisco which is credited with introducing Chardonnay to the USA?
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Poggio's Negroni Hour Offers Bittersweet Pleasures
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Happy hour just got happier at Poggio. The Sausalito trattoria has launched its new Negroni Hour — serving six different types of Negroni for just $5 each at its bar every Monday through Friday from 4 p.m. to 6 p.m.
"Poggio's Negroni Hour was inspired by owner Larry Mindel's many trips to Italy and his favorite bar, Harry's Bar, which makes a mean Negroni," explains the restaurant's managing director Amy Svendberg.
Harry's Bar is in Florence. Legend has it that the Negroni was invented at yet another Florence bar, Caffe Casoni, in 1919, when a local nobleman — Count Camillo Negroni — asked the bartender to fancy up the count's usual Americano by replacing its seltzer water with gin. And the rest is gin-, vermouth-, and Campari-flavored history, give or take a few variations.
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Mother's Day Brunch at San Francisco Restaurants
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Bay Area Restaurants Offer Mimosas, Prime Rib, Sashimi and More
There are a lot of places in the Bay Area to make Mom's day even more special. Allow GAYOT to be your guide this Mother's Day.
Chaya Brasserie in San Francisco will offer a three-course chef's menu with bottomless mimosas and Champagne. Options include smoked trout, rainbow sashimi, buttermilk-fried organic chicken breast, soy-marinated flatiron steak, five-spice duck-confit hash, Japanese cheesecake, coconut-kale sorbet and more.
The lofty-ceilinged, Belle Èpoque-outfitted Grand Cafe in San Francisco's Hotel Monaco will serve a Mother's Day brunch buffet featuring an omelet station, a seafood station, a pastry station and more.
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"Terracotta Warriors" Package at Mandarin Oriental, San Francisco – Travel Special
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You don't need a time machine to travel back to ancient China with Mandarin Oriental, San Francisco's "Terracotta Warriors" package. In celebration of the opening of China's Terracotta Warriors: The First Emperor's Legacy, the hotel is offering accommodations for one night, an exhibit keepsake and two VIP admission tickets to the Asian Art Museum. The exhibit features 120 objects from the tomb complex of China's first emperor Qin Shihuang (259-210BC), including eight life-size terracotta warriors and two horses.
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La Mar Cebichería Peruana Expands Its Brunch Menu
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Celebrating Peru's Rich Culinary Heritage
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Peruvian cuisine is gaining ground in North America, and not a moment too soon. We saw this coming — with pisco cocktails in hand — and aquí está. It is truly vivid fare — and one of its prime purveyors is La Mar Cebichería Peruana. The San Francisco restaurant has expanded its brunch menu this month, debuting a range of new entrées that merge cutting-edge creativity with a rich, diverse culinary heritage.
Peruvian food has ancient roots, augmented by indigenous traditions, European cuisine — French-style bakeries are ubiquitous in Lima — and local produce such as plantains, Lima beans, huge-kerneled corn and local peppers including the earthy yellow aji amarillo, assertive red rocoto and fruity orange aji panca. Sauces made from these peppers and from the leafy green huacatay herb are more popular in Peru than ketchup and mustard.
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The conspiracy thriller stars award-winner, Tatiana Maslany, who returns to her unprecedented lead role as multiple clones. The critically-acclaimed, action-packed series that sparked an inspired fan base named Clone Club, unveiled new and more treacherous enemies in season two. But it was the finale that shocked viewers when it introduced a male line of clones, raising more complex questions that left viewers on the edge of their seats.
Maslany played five recurring characters throughout season two including British street-wise chameleon Sarah, suburban soccer-mom Alison, cosmic-thinking scientist Cosima, Ukrainian wildcard Helena and ruthless pro-clone Rachel. In addition, she raised the bar by taking on the roles of Transgender clone, Tony, and sick and dying clone, Jennifer.
Season three plunges the clone sisterhood into unexpected territory with the realization that they're not alone. Just when they thought they knew their enemies and allies, season three reveals our clones are more vulnerable than ever before. Highly trained, identical male-soldiers raise more questions than answers. Who are these new clones? Who created them? And more importantly, why do they exist? Sarah, Cosima, Alison and Helena are stronger together than they are apart, but this season will put that bond to the test. Will they forge towards their truth, or fall at the feet of those who seek to control them?
Returning in a lead role is Ari Millen, who plays the newly discovered male clones - Mark, the Prolethean cult follower and Rudy, a prisoner of war. Also back this season is Jordan Gavaris as Sarah's fiery foster brother Felix, Dylan Bruce as Paul, an army officer working for secret forces in the clone world, Maria Doyle Kennedy as Sarah and Felix's duplicitous foster mother Mrs. S, Evelyne Brochu as Dyad Scientist and Cosima's lover Delphine, Kevin Hanchard as Art, a detective caught in the clone trap, Michiel Huisman as Cal, father to Sarah's daughter Kira (Skyler Wexler) and Zoe De Grand Maison as Gracie, a Prolethean escapee.
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There were a surprising number of books this year that were looked forward to, but turned out to be below par in one way or another. This can possibly be attributed to increased quality output from new and rising authors. It is also sometimes a sign of burn-out, particularly in well-established authors. Of course, sometimes burn-out is just what an author needs to get revitalized and churn out more excellent works.
Without further ado, the year's biggest reading disappointments:
1. The Dark Tower VII: Stephen King caps his seven-volume, generation-spanning opus with a work that relies too much on deus ex machina as a plot device, besides turning the final conflict at the Tower into a slinging match. At the same time, this work brought tears to the reader's eye a few times. The concepts of the multi-verse and the wheel of Ka are fully fleshed out, and some notable characters introduced. Possibly over-inflated expectations and a sense of reading meta-fiction deflated this book.
2. Ken Follett's Whiteout: Possibly one of the worst novels of the year, this book would likely be rejected by Harlequin Romance were it submitted them. Unsure whether it wants to be a romance or a techno-thriller, it fails at both. The science is weak, and the romantic scenes insipid. The predictable plot could have been written by a grade school student and the product placement is nauseating. A poor delivery by the author of masterful works like "The Pillars Of The Earth" and "The Eye Of The Needle".
3. Days Of Infamy: Harry Turtledove slips with what is likely the first in a new series in his reinterpretation of Japanese-American military relations circa 1941. This could be because he was focused on his other series in progress, Settling Accounts. This book, however, had more than the usual flaws, While most characters are still cut from cardboard, except perhaps Jiro, the Japanese fisherman, the serious flaw in this book is the lack of detail on reactions in Japan and the US to a Japanese invasion of Hawaii. There is also no backstory to the invasion itself.
4. On Paradise Drive: David Brooks' disquisition on exurbia is more about why materialism works and how it fulfils the American soul than about the dark core within the American dream – debts, disaffections et al. He discredits American, and thereby modern values through painting them as unimportant distractions in the larger perspective of Home Depot happiness. He describes shopping as the creative impulse of the American consumer, rather than the pretentious wish-fulfilment it is for most. He calls this an 'impulse to Utopia', ignoring the pathological aspects of materalism as a source of joy. Excuse me while I get myself a latte and hop over to Ethan Allen for a look-see at their new catalog.
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Veteran Slovak helmer Juraj Jakubisko lets his imagination run wild in "Bathory," an unwieldy gothic fairy tale that tries to demystify the titular Hungarian countess famous for bathing in virgins' blood. Director's first English-language pic stars Anna Friel as the woman with the strange hygiene habits, but the British thesp is frequently eclipsed by Jakubisko's sheer visual magic. Campy asides, nudity and plentiful foreign accents will make this a hard sell as a straightforward Anglophone epic. Beyond Central Europe, exposure will be limited to festivals and the tube."The fewer the facts, the more plentiful the legend," says the narrator, wise monk Petr (Bolek Polivka). It's a suitably ironic intro to a revisionist apologia for a misunderstood Renaissance woman, and it's also in keeping with the helmer's ongoing exploration of the area between reality and fantasy. Divided into three parts of about 45 minutes each (perfect for a miniseries), the pic aims to restore some dignity to the woman dubbed history's most prolific murderess. In the first part, set in the late 16th century, countess Erzsebet Bathory (Friel) romances girl-shy Italian painter Caravaggio (Hans Matheson), even though she's married to the powerful Ferenc Nadasy (Vincent Regan). Part two, set in the early 17th century, focuses on the relationship between the still young-looking countess and mysterious healer Darvulia (Deana Jakubiskova, the helmer's wife and one of pic's producers) as regional tensions mount after the Turks are finally defeated. A conspiracy to remove Bathory from power after she becomes a widow wraps things up in part three, with Palatine Thurzo (Karel Roden) leading the charge. One of the most expensive Central European productions ever, pic is baroque by any standard, though the title role is severely underwritten: The negation of Bathory's claim to fame is a nice angle, but can't substitute for proper character development. In his eagerness to show how Bathory was pushed around by forces beyond her, Jakubisko loses sight of the countess herself. Friel's performance doesn't help. She looks fab in the dazzling period garb and hair, but fails to make the audience care about her fate. Other actors fare better in smaller roles, though even they occasionally take a backseat to the visual delights and gothic gore (severed heads, burnt witches, frozen babies). Battle scenes are spectacularly staged, but their direct connection to Friel's character is only slight. Laid-back attitude toward nudity and some over-the-top comic relief (mostly involving Petr, a cross between Sean Connery's monk in "The Name of the Rose" and James Bond's Q) are both typically Central Euro. Add in some campy dialogue ("I can't seem to capture the curves of your body," purrs Caravaggio to the countess) and a mixed bag of accents, and pic becomes more of a cinematic curiosity than true blockbuster material, despite its scale. Tech credits are generally superb, except the unmemorable score.
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A Bontonfilm (in Czech Republic/Slovakia)/Budapest Film (in Hungary) release of a Jakubisko Film (Czech Republic)/Jakubisko Film Slovakia (Slovakia)/Film & Music Entertainment (U.K.)/Eurofilm Studio (Hungary) production, in association with Ceska Televise. (International sales: Sola Media, Stuttgart.) Produced by Deana Jakubiskova, Mike Downey, Thom Mount. Directed by Juraj Jakubisko. Screenplay, Jakubisko, John Paul Chapple.
Camera (color, widescreen), F.A. Brabec, Jan Duris; editor, Christopher Blunden, Patrick Pass; music, Simon Boswell, Jan Jirasek, Martin Maok Tesak; production designers, Karel Vacek, Jan Zazvorka; costume designer, Jaroslava Pecharova; sound (Dolby), Simon Gershon. Reviewed at Karlovy Vary Film Festival (Tribute to Juraj Jakubisko), July 6, 2008. Running time: 135 MIN.
Anna Friel, Karel Roden, Vincent Regan, Hans Matheson, Deana Jakubiskova, Bolek Polivka, Antony Byrne. (English dialogue)