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Zacks Bull and Bear of the Day Highlights: Allstate, Adobe Systems, American Financial Group, Emc Insurance Group and Global Indemnity
Jan 04, 2013, 09:30 EST
CHICAGO, Jan. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Zacks Equity Research highlights Allstate (NYSE : ALL) as the Bull of the Day and Adobe Systems (Nasdaq : ADBE) as the Bear of the Day. In addition, Zacks Equity Research provides analysis on American Financial Group Inc. (NYSE : AFG), Emc Insurance Group Inc. (Nasdaq : EMCI) and Global Indemnity Plc Ireland (Nasdaq : GBLI).
Full analysis of all these stocks is available at http://at.zacks.com/?id=2678.
Here is a synopsis of all five stocks:
Allstate's (NYSE : ALL) third quarter earnings solidly beat the Zacks Consensus Estimate due to significant reduction in catastrophe losses and claims coupled with improved premiums, ROE and book value. An appreciated investment portfolio also boosted the operating cash flow and liquidity.
Agency expansions, ratings affirmation, dividend increment, product restructuring and acquisitions validate Allstate's long-term stability. Though the current volatile economy and catastrophe losses will continue to impact the results in the fourth quarter of 2012, continued synergies are expected from Allstate's industry-leading position, diversification and pricing discipline.
Our six-month target price of $48.00 per share equates to about 13.0x our earnings estimate for 2012. Combined with the $0.88 per share annual dividend, this target price implies an expected total return of 20.6% over that period, which is consistent with our Outperform recommendation.
Adobe Systems' (Nasdaq : ADBE) fourth quarter earnings exceeded the Zacks Consensus Estimate, but we feel the subscription service will hurt Adobe's revenue growth. Hence, we are downgrading our recommendation on Adobe shares from Neutral to Underperform.
Adobe lowered its fiscal 2013 guidance from $4.4 billion to $4.1 billion, considering the faster uptake the of Creative Cloud subscription model. We expect near-term revenue to remain under pressure.
The company's expected earnings growth rate over the next 5 years is well below the average for the industry. Hence the downgrade in recommendation. Our $34.00 target price, 26.0X 2014 EPS, reflects this view.
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American Financial: A Strong Buy
On January 2, Zacks Investment Research upgraded American Financial Group Inc. (NYSE : AFG) to a Zacks Rank #1 (Strong Buy).
Why the Upgrade?
American Financial has been witnessing rising earnings estimates on the back of a strong solid third-quarter performance and an enhanced guidance for 2012. Moreover, this property & casualty insurer delivered positive earnings surprises in all the 4 quarters with an average beat of 18.7%. The long-term expected earnings growth rate for this stock is 8%.
American Financial reported third-quarter results on October 29. Non-GAAP earnings per share came in at 82 cents, surpassing the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 39%. However, it lagged the year-ago number by 8.9%.
The upside was largely due to higher income in the Annuity and Supplemental Insurance Group.
Based on its progress and to accommodate the expected loss from Hurricane Sandy, the company revised its earnings per share projection for 2012 to $3.10–$3.30 from $3.10–$3.50.
Additionally, American Financial declared a special dividend of 25 cents per share, besides an 11.4% hike in its regular quarterly dividend.
The Zacks Consensus Estimate for 2012 is $2.66 per share as 3 of the 7 estimates were revised upward over the last 60 days. The current estimate is below the guidance range provided by American Financial. For 2013, one estimate moved higher over the same time frame, lifting the Zacks Consensus Estimate by 1.1% to $3.71 per share.
Other Stocks to Consider
The following property & casualty insurers with a favorable Zacks Rank are also performing well and are worth considering.
1) Emc Insurance Group Inc. (Nasdaq : EMCI) carries a Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy)
2) Global Indemnity Plc Ireland (Nasdaq : GBLI) holds a Zacks #1 Rank (Strong Buy)
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The 150th birthday of Confederation is now less than five years away. Beginning today, Postmedia News offers a special series on how the country should mark the occasion.
OTTAWA – Heritage Minister James Moore is preparing to launch a national brainstorming session on how Canada should celebrate its 150th birthday, Postmedia News has learned.
The cross-country series of public consultations will begin next month and continue until June, with people from every corner of Canada invited to pitch ideas about ways to mark the sesquicentennial of Confederation in 2017, expected to be the biggest outpouring of patriotic fervor since the nation's 100th anniversary in 1967.
That extended moment a half-century ago — memorably hailed as Canada's "last good year" in a book about 1967 by the late popular historian Pierre Berton — featured a grassroots upsurge of centenary celebrations, a major national building spree with centennial hockey rinks, public schools and cultural buildings rising everywhere, and a coincident Expo '67 world's fair that put Montreal at the centre of all the hoopla.
The federal heritage committee began hearings in the fall of 2011 to study the coming anniversary, now less than five years away. It invited history experts, civic leaders and representatives of ethno-cultural communities to share ideas about celebrating, commemorating and otherwise recognizing the 150-year milestone.
Moore, however, has controversially rejected a key committee recommendation to consider appointing an independent commission to organize the 2017 anniversary bash, saying instead that the Department of Canadian Heritage will oversee the planning and implementation of the country's sesquicentennial program.
In an interview with Postmedia News, Moore disclosed that his federal department is poised to begin public idea-generation meetings in regions across the country, and that the minister himself will kickstart the process.
"This is a large celebration, potentially and, certainly for the country, it's an important moment," Moore said. "That's why in January, we are going to begin going around the country and talking to Canadians themselves about how they would see this celebration unfolding."
He said he hoped the outreach effort would result in "drawing ideas from regions up into Ottawa, so that Ottawa makes sure that we understand the regions and get ideas from folks who otherwise may not have an engagement in this."
Moore said he expected the public consultations would "maybe stir up a little bit of creativity or thought from people who live in different parts of the country, who may not be thinking about 2017 or what it might (mean) for their region of the country."
The basis of 1967's centennial spectacle — and the coming 150th anniversary in 2017 — was the official birth of Canada on July 1, 1867, when the British North America Act uniting New Brunswick, Nova Scotia, Quebec and Ontario went into effect.
The union of the four British colonies represented the culmination of years of negotiations, major constitutional conferences at Charlottetown and Quebec City in 1864 and persistent fears — among several other factors — about Canada's possible annexation by the United States, a nation broken but mightily militarized by the end of the Civil War in 1865.
Led by Sir John A. Macdonald and several dozen other Fathers of Confederation, the newly formed Canada soon attracted additional provincial partners — Manitoba in 1870, British Columbia in 1871 and P.E.I. in 1873 — before Canada's acquisition of Britain's Arctic territories in 1880 and the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1885 transformed the country into a place stretching from sea to sea to sea.
Alberta and Saskatchewan became provinces in 1905. Newfoundland's controversial decision to join Canada in 1949 completed Confederation, although the creation of Nunavut in 1999 and a multitude of other treaty agreements and land-claim deals with Canada's Aboriginal Peoples have continued to reshape the nation that was formally set in motion in 1867.
"There are all kinds of different ways in which to talk about Canada's history, whether it's personal, regional, cultural, linguistic or geographic," said Moore. "This is all part of the rich diversity of Canada's history. We all have different stories to tell one to another."
He acknowledged that "much of our political and economic history as a country has been, unfortunately, defined by cleavages — East-West, North-South, aboriginal-non-(aboriginal), anglophone-francophone, Protestant-Catholic, city-versus-rural Canadians.
"These are divisions that, as a country, we have always had as part of our struggle, in order to overcome and work our way through in order to stay united and move forward," Moore added.
"I think Canada is a remarkable success story given all the stresses and strains that a country as large and diverse as ours has seen over the past 145 years."


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Category: Fantasy / Action
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I liked this movie, but at the same time I was seriously hoping for more. After watching it I realize it had a lot of potential. That being said, if I didn't know about the characters or events before hand, I wouldn't have had a fucking clue as to what was going on. They try to introduce a bunch of characters all at once and try to make a nominal note to the original story and instead
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Anyone who is American or keeps up with current events has heard of Benghazi and knows most of the details since it was flooded in the news for 2 weeks and is a favorite topic of Republicans.
The general story follows the downfall of Libya leading up to the incident at Benghazi where a group of muslims killed an American diplomat and several soldiers. This is a
IMDB: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2381991/
Category: Fantasy / Action
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This is the sequel to the original huntsman movie -- which was just a modernized Snow White. There isn't a whole lot that's related to the first one with the exception of the huntsman and a couple of other old objects/characters. It's worth watching even if it takes awhile to understand what the new story has to do with the old one.
The focus is on Freya who has an affinity
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Category: Fantasy
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This is basically a live action remake of the classic fairytale. It doesn't really deviate that much from the original story. You can actually watch this with your kids or younger relatives and actually have an idea of what's going on. This is refreshing given that many of the old fairytales have been "reinvented" to the point where they're barely recognizable. Ex: Maleficient being
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Rating: 8 / 10
This movie was pretty damn good. It's basically a sci-fi flick about a self adapting/learning AI in robot form. The movie right off the bat starts off with robots leaping off helicopters to shoot black people in a drug deal bust.
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Behind a five-goal second quarter, Towson men's lacrosse (3-4) powered through to defeat Navy (3-4), 8-7, on Tuesday evening at Navy-Marine Corps Stadium.
Towson got off to a slow start, allowing Navy to take a 3-0 lead. Senior Andrew Wascavage made six stand-up saves that frame for Towson. Sophomore Cory Dobyns broke the ice for the Tigers at 10:38 in the second, scoring off a Rob Zoppo pass. His goal kicked off a scoring run where Towson posted five of the next seven goals to finish the half tied at five. Junior Thomas DeNapoli, Zoppo, and Hodgson each tallied an unassisted goal from about 12 yards out over a span of 1:33 to knot the score at 4-4 with 3:38 left in the half. Dobyns and Zoppo paired up again just before the half to tie the game again, 5-5, with 16 seconds showing on the clock.
Dobyns and junior Andrew Hodgson each had a pair of goals for Towson. Navy's Bryce Dabbs led the Mids with two goals. Wascavage made 14 saves in net for the Tigers, while Nolan Hickey stopped seven shots for Navy. The win marked the first time Towson has defeated the Naval Academy in Annapolis.
"Against a great team like Navy, you're obviously fortunate to come away with a win," said head coach Shawn Nadelen. "It was a big win for our guys, rebounding from a tough overtime loss to Marist. It gives us confidence and really shows the coaching staff what we can do."
Navy scored two quick, tough goals to start the second half and go up 7-5 with 7:17 remaining in the third quarter. Junior Andrew Hodgson posted his first man-up goal since his freshman year at 4:10 off an assist from Dobyns (7-6).The Tigers evened it at 7-7 on junior Devin Grimaldi's second career goal assisted by senior Neil Hutchinson and took their first lead of the game on an unassisted tally, and eventual game winner, from sophomore Greg Cuccinello at 10:28 in the fourth quarter.
Next up, Towson travels to No. 17 Duke on Saturday, March 16 for a 1 p.m. contest with the Blue Devils.
NOTES: Towson fared well from 10-15 yards out, scoring four goals from that distance … junior Devin Grimaldi scored his second career goal … junior Andrew Hodgson scored his first man-up goal since 2011 … the win marked the first time Towson has beaten Navy in Annapolis … Towson was not called for any penalties and went 1-3 on EMO.
Towson 8, Navy 7
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GOALS: TOW – Dobyns 2, Hodgson 2, Cuccinello, DeNapoli, Grimaldi, Zoppo; NAVY – Dabbs 2, Voumard, Jones, Durkin, Heneveld, Hull. ASSISTS: TOW – Zoppo 2, Bolewicki, Dobyns, Hutchinson; NAVY – Voumard, Hull, Jones. SAVES: TOW – Wascavage (14, 60:00, 7 goals allowed); NAVY – Hickey (7, 60:00, 8 goals allowed). SHOTS: TOW – 28; NAVY – 35. GROUND BALLS: TOW – 29; NAVY – 30. FACE-OFFS: TOW – 7-19; NAVY – 12-19. CLEARS: TOW – 20-25; NAVY – 17-20. EMO: TOW – 1-3; NAVY – 0-0. ATTENDANCE: 824


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There's not a lot new to be said about the leak of documents from the Heartland Institute, revealing that the Institute was channeling funds from far-right billionaires and corporations to a large number of self-described sceptics, notably including our own Bob Carter, who's apparently on a monthly retainer, despite his prior claims of independence. Carter is of course, linked to the IPA, which has a long history of rejecting science for cash, most notably in its decades of work (still continuing) for the tobacco industry.
A few points might be worth restating, though:
* As regards the way in which the documents came into the public domain (still unclear, but Heartland alleges they were tricked into emailing them to the wrong person), Heartland and most of their supporters have shown themselves, unsurprisingly, to be stinking hypocrites. Heartland was among the leaders in publicizing and promoting the use of misleading excerpts from private emails in what they and others called "Climategate". Now they scream about "stolen" documents, backed up by lots of the usual suspects. There's an amusing response, with which I agree entirely, from some of the scientists victimised by Heartland and its criminal allies in the past.
* There is no such thing as an honest climate sceptic. Those who reject mainstream science are either conscious frauds or gullible believers. I can confidently predict that of the thousands of "sceptics" who made great play of the CRU email hack, no more than a handful will change their views, either on the substantive issue or on the credibility of people like Carter and institutions like Heartland, over this. Those who aren't, like Carter, on the payroll are credulous dupes. While many low-information "sceptics" have simply been misled by reading the wrong material on the Internet, or trusting the wrong sources, the great majority of active opponents of climate science are complicit in their own deception, preferring to believe obvious lies because it suits their cultural and political prejudices.
* It may be worth restating the absurdity of the claim that genuine scientists (unlike Carter) are motivated by money. Leaving aside the absurdity of the suggestion that the scientists make their career choice because they were after a highly-paid job, there's the fact that mainstream climate science has the overwhelming endorsement of scientists in all fields. It's certainly true that the global warming problem has meant more funding for climate science, but there's only so much in the budget, and much of this money has come at the expense of other fields which are no longer given priority status.


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Sometimes a real-life story reads very much like fiction, and I think Seven Letters from Paris: a Memoir by Samantha Verant is a perfect example of a modern day fairy tale come true. The author shares her personal story of how a bundle of seven romantic love letters from her past lead her to pick herself up when her life was at its lowest and reach for the happiness she deserves. She tells it all - the good, the bad and the ugly - with just the right amount of humor mixed in.
Art, in expression and appreciation, can heal. That's the theme and thesis of the exhibit, Art, Healing and Well-Being, at the Fond du Lac Public Library's Langdon Divers Gallery February 4 to March 4.
If money worries are giving you a headache, maybe it's time for some preventative medicine. At 6 p.m. Tuesday, March 24, Family Living Educator Michelle Tidemann will present Where Does the Money Go? at the Fond du Lac Public Library. The program is free; no registration required.
Years ago, attorney Terry Gaffney came across souvenir guide books from the late 1890s and early 1900s that promoted Fond du Lac to visitors and conventioneers. Both books included pages of photos of "representative" homes, featuring the abodes of the city's most-comfortable citizens.
Intrigued, Gaffney tracked down the houses. Some were in disrepair and some beautifully restored.
The Crafternoon program at the Fond du Lac Public Library will offer Beginning Crochet 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Saturday, February 21.
What better way to warm things up? Fond du Lac Public Library's BookCellar is offering a hot deal: romance paperbacks just three for $1 February 7, 9, 14 and 16.
Check out these programs for teens and tweens at the Fond du Lac Public Library in February. Teen programs are for teens in grades six through 12; tween programs for ages 9 through 13.
The Library currently has a display of books for people who are fans of Downton Abbey, and I am one of them so I found the book Below Stairs by Margaret Powell to be fascinating. Powell was born in 1907 and had to start work when she was 13 years old. The book was originally published in 1968 but was reissued. The book jacket of the reissued edition says "the classic kitchen maid's memoir that inspired Upstairs, Downstairs and Downton Abbey" and that sums up the book.
For many years, the Fond du Lac Public Library has been one of the only places in the area where the public can pick up free tax-preparation forms. However, the Internal Revenue Service recently informed the library that it would not provide printed copies of instruction booklets, citing budget cuts. Forms will be available – they likely will start arriving at the library in late January – but not instruction booklets for federal taxes.


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Today we are running some benchmarks on Kingston's HyperX10th Anniversary Edition memory kit, which comes with a stylish new heatspreader to celebrate Kingston's ten
years of offering high-performance HyperX memory products. This series features a sleek silver heatspreader and its low profile fits under large CPU coolers. It is also Intel XMP Ready memory, meaning that it can easily run at higher performing frequencies, timings and voltage, by simply enabling Intel's Extreme Memory Profile.
The HyperX 10th Anniversary
Edition memory delivers frequencies up to 2400MHz and
high capacities of up to 32GB. Today we will test the KHX18C9X3K2/8X, which is a kit of two 512M x 64-bit
(4GB) DDR3-1866 CL9 SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM), 2Rx8
memory modules, based on sixteen 256M x 8-bit FBGA
components per module. Each
module kit has been tested to run at DDR3-1866 at a low
latency timing of 9-11-9 at 1.65V. The SPDs are programmed
to JEDEC standard latency DDR3-1333 timing of 9-9-9 at 1.5V.
Each 240-pin DIMM uses gold contact fingers.
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The retail package for the Kingston KHX18C9X3K2/8X kit (4x2GB) will cost you about €60. As a note, the series' speed ranges from 1600MHz to 2400MHz, but only the 4x4GB (16GB - KHX21C11X3K4/16X ) kit will reach the maximum supported 2400 MHz. So make sure to check Kingston's web site before buying any of the HyperX 10th Anniversary
Edition memory parts.
Below you see the plastic packaging of the 8GB DDR3 kit we received.
As you can see below, the HyperX Anniversary Edition memory kit has a low profile silver heatspreader which looks cool and stylish but also easily fits under your large coolers of your PC system.


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Periodically, e-mails from Bodog.com pop in my inbox.
The most recent one had Super Bowl odds for next year, and the numbers might surprise you. The Eagles are 18 to 1. That puts them tied for ninth overall in terms of favorites and fifth in the NFC.
Only the Saints (9 to 1), Cowboys (11 to 1), Packers (14 to 1) and Vikings (14 to 1) have better odds among NFC teams.
The AFC teams ranked ahead of them are the Colts (8 to 1), Chargers (10 to 1), Patriots (10 to 1) and Jets (12 to 1).
When the Eagles traded Donovan McNabb to the Redskins, there was a lot of talk about whether they were a better team than the Birds. Vegas certainly doesn't think so. Washington is 28 to 1, last among NFC East teams. The Giants, meanwhile, are 25 to 1.
Meanwhile, ESPN.com's Chad Millman reported on Twitter that the Hilton Las Vegas has released Week 1 odds. The Eagles are 1.5-point favorites over the Packers.
And one other link to pass along.
Dan Steinberg at WashingtonPost.com writes that one of the strongest impressions he took away form attending the Redskins' draft party last weekend is that the city has McNabb fever:
Even while Colt Brennan's No. 5 jerseys went on sale for 11 bucks in the bargain aisle, there were No. 5 burgundy and gold McNabb jerseys on all sorts of torsos: black and white, male and female, young and old, long-haired and short, skinny and fatty. This, bear in mind, is mere weeks after his arrival. Imagine what the crowd will look like in September, after several more months of birthday presents, shopping sprees, and realizations that many of your most popular Skins jerseys (Campbell, Smoot, Randle El, Griffin, Samuels) are no longer operational. You have to figure McNabb will have the top-selling Skins jersey next season, finally displacing Chris Cooley from that spot. He might have been a hated rival in the very recent past, but he's already on his way to becoming the face of the franchise, at least judging by these backs.
Steinberg has quite a montage of Redskins fans in McNabb jerseys.
Earlier, I posted a roundup of Eagles draft grades.
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Heather Wilkinson Rojo of Nutfield Genealogy tells about finding an amusement park ride patent by her great-great-grandfather. How fun!
Jen Baldwin of Ancestral Breezes shares the details of her day with a professional headstone preservationist in The Cemetery Santa.
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GeneaJourneys brings us Wanted: Dead or Alive ~ Southern California Slave Descendants.
Lorine McGinnis Schulze of The Olive Tree Genealogy posts Did you miss National Archives Virtual Genealogy Fair?
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James Tanner of Genealogy's Star shares Posting old photos online -- what do we need to know?
Beth Parnicza of Mysteries and Conundrums writes about a hidden piece of history at Fredericksburg Battlefield Visitor Center.
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The UNC Library News and Events tells us "A Century of North Carolina City Directories Now Online".
Iowa unit's flag returns to Arkanas' capital to mark Civil War capture.
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Interesting article - "What if your father was one of the most hated men in history?" Thomas Harding tells of interview with daughter of Rudolph Hoss. Hoss designed and built Hitler's Auschwitz.
Maryland State Archives shared a great overview on YouTube.
Dear Myrtle hosts a show each Monday. Unfortunately. I am working when the show runs. Fortunately, they are archived over on YouTube. Thanks, Myrt!
Must read! September issue of Irish Lives Remembered (free) online magazine.
Book review - Sherrey Meyer of Found Between the Cover - "Coming of Age in the South in 1963 | Whistling Past the Graveyard by Susan Crandall".
October 22, 2013 PBS will begin a new series called The African Americans; Many Rivers to Cross with Henry Louis Gates Jr.
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The FY 2003 Small Business Administration (SBA) Loss Report provides information to management on the Agency's loss experience for its various loan programs. The Loss Report focuses on the actual losses as a percentage of disbursements made to date on SBA loan programs. The report allows the user, at a glance, to review historical and current year data for each of the Agency's primary lending programs. The report combines the results of loans made since FY 1992 that are subject to the requirements of Federal Credit Reform accounting (credit reform loans) with the results of loans made prior to FY 1992 (pre-credit reform loans) that are not subject to this accounting requirement.
The concept of charge-off deserves some explanation. The SBA has extensive debt servicing and collection procedures using all reasonable efforts to assure maximum recovery of loans prior to charge-off. These procedures include the use of modern collection methods and the acquisition and sale of collateral through liquidation processes. Only after the Agency has exhausted these collection methods does SBA classify a loan as charged-off. For guaranty loans, the loan must first be purchased from the participating lender before this classification can be made. Also, charge-off does not preclude the Agency from further collection remedies if it is determined that these efforts would result in additional collections to the Agency. It should be noted that charged-off loan amounts are principal only, and do not include accrued interest.
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In May 2013, former Guatemalan dictator Efraín Ríos Montt was convicted of genocide and war crimes. The trial represented the first time anywhere in the world that a former head of state has been tried in a national court for genocide. The three judges who delivered the globally significant verdict will discuss the Guatemalan justice system, the structure of the courts, and their involvement in judging crimes against humanity.
Yassmin Barrios, Patricia Bustamante, and Pablo Xitumul are the Guatemalan judges who presided during the Ríos Montt trial. Together they compose the Trial Court 'A' of the Guatemalan High Impact courts, an innovation intended to provide extra resources and security to those involved in high-profile or dangerous cases involving the military, drug traffickers, corrupt officials, or other powerful actors. They have been threatened and harassed for their work, but have continued to preside over human-rights related cases.
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Archive for August, 2011
Are Kickstarter and IndieGogo ruining webseries?
I can feel all independent webseries creators slowly notching their arrows in my direction. How could Kickstarter/IndieGogo possibly be bad for webseries? It's often the only way webseries can get funded!
Well, yes. That's true. Often it is. And I have nothing against either operation. I use them both and have supported friends stageplays, records, films and webseries. In fact, I have sat on a panel with Kickstarter's kickstarter, Yancey Strickland, and found him a great guy with a lot of great motivations and a really fantastic success story. He and his colleagues are doing wonderful, altruistic work for many, many people. Much better work than me, in fact, so I should probably just shut my damn mouth, right?
But what I'm most interested in is quality of web video. Let's try that filter out.
It used to be (in the aulden dayes of 2008 and before!) that if you wanted to make a webseries, you either had to find some sponsor willing to pay for it (in which case, most of the time, it turned out crappy), or you did it yourself on credit cards (in which case, most of the time, it turned out cheap). Today, everyone can get their shit together, put together a pitch, and send it out to 100+ friends.
Everyone can do this. That is the benefit, and that is the problem.
ISSUE 1: Kickstarter pretty much funds everything. Because it's social. If you are reasonably popular, you sell your pitch reasonably well, and your friends are not all reasonably homeless, you can count on milking 10 or 25 bucks from them each to do pretty much whatever you want. Extend that to your colleagues, your Facebook friends, the people on Twitter, and probably a couple of older and wealthier relatives, and you can pretty easily get your $5,000.
But just because your friends are willing to support you doesn't make it good. (In fact, experience has taught me that sometimes folks are willing to fund projects just to get their creators to shut up about it already). The money is now available – for everybody. Which means people who were too timid to spend money, too afraid of taking a risk, or too unsure of the quality of their ideas are now jumping in. Because what's to lose? It's not my money, and it's not real money. Right?
I don't mean to be aggressive or Randian on anybody here. But I do think that if you have a good idea, you know you have a good idea, and you do whatever it takes to make it. If it crashes and burns along the way, congratulations: you've failed, the most important step in success. If it doesn't crash and burn, then congratulations: you've just taken one massive, exciting step towards your next failure.
With crowd-sourced funding of yet-to-be-produced projects, there is little natural weeding of poor ideas. It used to be a little easier to separate the wheat from the chaff, webseries-wise, in that there was just so little of either. Now there's a lot of both. The meritocrats believe that good content will naturally rise to the top. I don't believe that anymore. I believe that a glut of chaff will continue to hide most of it, and we keep shoveling in that chaff.
(At least until we have better filtering, which will be the subject of several future entries).
ISSUE 2: These sites are unwittingly setting the standard rate of production for webseries. It seems to be, most people are asking for $5K to $10K for a 6-to-10-episode season. With most webisodes clocking in at 3 minutes these days, let's do some terrible math and estimate that we are producing our webseries for a rate of about $300-$500 per produced minute.
Now, I'm all for low-budget video. I haven't really done anything but. My highest budget for an actual webseries (excluding commercial projects) was a half million; yet, that was for about five and a half hours of broadcast-quality content (roughly 3 feature films). I love low-budget, and nothing makes me more angry than "directors" who think they can't shoot a single frame without a crane, gib arm and pyrotechnics.
Except for being undervalued. That makes me madder. And I'm starting to get afraid here. Because we were producing The Burg for $100 a produced minute, and no one got paid. We shot 60 pages in 3 days for All's Faire. But that's supposed to not be the case anymore, in 2011. This is supposed to be becoming an industry. Kickstarter/Indiegogo is setting a potentially dangerous precedent here: 1, you have to have money, but 2, it should only be a little money. If this is defining what webseries are and which ones get made, then should we be concerned about the motivation for more professionals to really get into the business (and thus, real audiences)?
Now before anyone accuses me of being mean, elitist, needlessly antagonistic, or just a douche, I want to make it clear: I am indeed doing the online equivalent of throwing a bunch of darts into the air at the holiday party, and hoping they don't hit me. Everybody loves Kickstarter and Indiegogo, and they're making a lot of great stuff happen. I'm just asking questions.
Nor do I have alternatives to suggest. Although I do have interest in a different kind of crowd-sourced model: the audience-supported one. By which I mean, the actual audience that you know you actually have, because you made the first season on your own and built it up. Anyone But Me is the constantly cited example of this, but they're not the only ones. Reason I like this is it combines the feel-good-social-video model (which we all love to embrace in theory) with the hardcore-objectivist-meritocracy model (that's what actual business runs on). I, personally, think that's a more viable longterm trend for web video.
Disagreements? Darts? Throw 'em my way.
Size Really Does Matter
The numbers for online video consumption in the U.S. came out from comScore (basically, the internet-video version of Nielsen, but site-specific). I found out about it through Marc Hustvedt's great online video resource, tubefilter.tv.
Two key takeaways:
– 6.3 BILLION viewing sessions. Everybody is watching internet video, and watching more and more of it.
– The average video duration is 5.4 minutes. It's been climbing steadily from December 2007.
Think about that second stat for a second. If you're coming from TV land, 5.4 minutes doesn't sound like much screentime. But if you're coming from web video land, this is huge.
When my partners and I started The Burg way back in 2006, comScore wasn't even around, but online 'common sense' was. This common sense told us, nay, SCREAMED at us, that a minute and a half was an ideal video length, and anything longer than 3 minutes was suicide. This frightened us, as a typical episode of The Burg was anywhere from 14 to 22 minutes long. So, we played it safe. We began to create shorts of anywhere from 30 seconds to 5 minutes (yes, even our shorts were longer than most people's 'longs'.) We interspersed our normal eps with our shorts. We fully anticipated looking at our viewcount and having much less views for our longer eps.
The exact opposite happened. Our views actually went down every time we posted a short. Why? We don't know exactly. But after talking to fans, we have a pretty good idea: they were outside the chronology of the story. They were little jokes, standalone scenes, things that didn't fit in the tightly plotted and structured episodes of The Burg. And so, people didn't care as much. I knew right then that we had something good. People were hooked on the structure and the story and didn't mind the length.
Ever since then, I've rigidly maintained that length should not be the top deciding factor when you're creating your content. I've been mocked for this, as there are many creators who believe otherwise. In the early days, there were a lot of 90-second episodic thrillers. For me, even when well produced, the story jolted and jittered, because 90 seconds of a thriller is enough to get you to a cliffhanger, but usually seems to stop short of great character development. When working with other online portals, I've had to cut 5 minute shorts to under 3 minutes, and in the process, lost some of the best moments because they just didn't fit. (This is not to say you can't make a great episode in 90 seconds – of course you can. I just think you shouldn't have to.)
I get why this happens in TV. You have a fixed inventory of time. 22 minutes for your sitcom once commercials are factored in. It becomes a surgical process (and to a degree, it should with all content). But on the internet, there is no such restriction. Yet content creators and programmers decided to all limit themselves to one anyway. It seems cynical, arbitrary, and a big underestimation of viewers' tastes.
Well, it seems that common sense was wrong in this case. People are now, officially, measurably, watching longer and longer video. And 5.4 minutes is the average. Meaning, many people are consuming video that's much, much longer.
As Hustvedt states, "If the same trajectory were to be taken forward a few years, which is probably a conservative estimate given the current market, we'd expect to see average online video duration at 10.4 minutes by 2014."
Which means, by my shoddy estimate, people are going to be ready for The Burg by… let's see… May 2017. Hm. Oh well. Better 11 years early than too late.


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No. 2 Maryland Blanks No. 7 American, 3-0
Oct. 20, 2010
Courtesy of Maryland Athletics
COLLEGE PARK, Md. - The Maryland field hockey team (15-1, 4-0 ACC), ranked No. 2 in the latest Kookaburra / NFHCA Division I National Coaches Poll, blanked No. 7 American (13-3, 3-0 Patriot League) 3-0 Wednesday night in a local rivalry game in College Park. Maryland's defense led the team to its seventh straight win and its 10th over a ranked opponent this season.
The Terps held the Eagles to five shots total and just one in the first half, while the Terrapins took 18 on the night. Maryland also dominated the penalty corner advantage, 11-3.
"Tonight, the women were so focused on the game plan. This was definitely a team effort," head coach Missy Meharg said. "American is such a well-coached team. [Head coach] Steve Jennings is probably one of the best tactical and technical coaches in the NCAA."
The Terrapins ended the Eagles' 13-game win streak that included a 3-2 at No. 5 Princeton. So far this season, American had not been held scoreless and had not allowed an opponent more than two goals.
Senior Katie O'Donnell scored twice in the game, notching the first and third goals. In the ninth minute, freshman Jill Witmer found her near the far corner post for the score. The Terrapins took a 1-0 lead into the break.
In the 51st minute, junior Jemma Buckley scored on the Terps' ninth penalty corner of the night. O'Donnell and sophomore Harriet Tibble set up the play.
Eight minutes later, O'Donnell drove past two Eagles defenders up the field. She scored the Terrapins' third and final goal with a hard backhand shot from the near side of the circle.
Redshirt junior Melissa Vassalotti started in goal and had three saves in the game. American goalkeeper Hannah Weitzman had six saves.
Maryland will play host to No. 1 North Carolina Saturday afternoon at 1 p.m. The game will be broadcast live on WMUCSports.com and Gametracker live stats will also be available.


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Our Bio-Anthropology Lab houses a skeletal collection, while the Archaeology Lab features several different types of artifacts. The Historical Archaeology Lab is analysis based and mainly used by graduate students working on their theses. The Applied Anthropology Laboratories hold literature and artifacts that have been recognized by people from near and far.
As a Ball State student, you can also take advantage of the resources in Bracken Library, which has access to about 2.3 million books, periodicals, microforms, audiovisual materials, software, government publication maps, musical scores, archival records, and other information sources. Bracken Library houses the cutting-edge Helen B. and Martin D. Schwartz Special Collections and Digital Complex, which includes a digital newsstand, enabled to receive television broadcasts from around the world, including networks from Saudi Arabia, China, India, and Korea.
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The Best American Fantasy series has undergone a series of important changes, starting with the publisher. Underland Press has acquired the Best American Fantasy series, and will publish the third volume, "Real Unreal," in January of 2010. BAF4, tentatively titled "Imaginary Borders," will appear in March 2011. BAF3 contains work by, among others, Stephen King, Lisa Goldstein, Peter S. Beagle, and John Kessel, as chosen by guest editor Kevin Brockmeier with assistance from series editor Matthew Cheney. The cover of BAF3 was designed by John Coulthart.
The guest editors for volumes 4 through 6 will be: Minister Faust, Junot Diaz, and Catherynne M. Valente. Each of these critically acclaimed writers will bring excellence and expertise to the position. BAF4 will include work published in 2010, as the series skips a year to accommodate the time needed for the change in publisher and general reorganization.
"Victoria Blake at Underland has worked hard to create the perfect home for this unique series," BAF co-founder Jeff VanderMeer said, "and the guest editors we've put in place reflect an exciting diversity of opinions about and approaches to fiction. Each will bring their own spin to the volume they edit, and that's going to be great in terms of keeping the series vital and relevant."
Starting with BAF4, the series will consider stories published in English in Latin American publications, as well as translations of Latin American writers into English in North American publications. In short, any story published in English in a Latin American or North American publication or website, and written by a Latin American or North American resident, is eligible for inclusion in BAF. (As and when possible, and keeping in mind constraints such as expense and a need for additional personnel, the Best American Fantasy series eventually hopes to consider material published in Spanish and Portuguese.)
A series of staffing changes have also occurred. Matthew Cheney, who has done wonderful work on the first three volumes, will be stepping down as series editor due to other demands on his time. Ann and Jeff VanderMeer will perform the role of series editor going forward, while Cheney remains in an advisory position. Former first readers Clayton Kroh and Tessa Kum will serve as assistant editors for BAF beginning with volume 4. Fábio Fernandes and Larry Nolen have been added in an editorial capacity, especially as regards the Latin American publishing community. Further staff additions will occur over the next year as necessary.
Guidelines for BAF4 will be made available by January of 2010. Any publications sent to Matthew Cheney will be forwarded to the VanderMeers. Publications should not be sent to the guest editors at this time. Please address queries to POB 4248, Tallahassee, FL 32315. The BAF website will be updated with all of this information shortly.
Guidelines for BAF4 will be made available by January of 2010. Any publications sent to Matthew Cheney will be forwarded to the VanderMeers. Publications should not be sent to the guest editors at this time. Please address queries to firstname.lastname@example.com or POB 4248, Tallahassee, FL 32315. The BAF website will be updated with all of this information shortly. Bookmark http://www.bestamericanfantasy.com and http://www.bestamericanfantasy.blogspot.com for future updates.
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Subject 13 Kickstarter Campaign Enters Final Week - August 1, 2014
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Subject 13 will have a gripping storyline that plunges you into a thrilling mystery. It will take steady nerves, strong logic, and creative thinking to escape the terrifying circumstances that imprison you.
Few details concerning Subject 13's story/plot have been revealed, but this is how the game starts...
"Your name is Franklin Fargo. You're a former physics professor. You live a lonely and quiet life after the death of your fiance. Day after day, it's the same routine, filled with bitter memories of the life you lost. But when you wake up today, it's different. You have a headache, feel dizzy, and have trouble opening your eyes. You quickly glance around you and you start to panic. You're locked into a room that's so small that it's barely big enough to keep from suffocating. You take a deep breath, remembering what happened the day before. You were on the couch after eating your TV dinner. You were about to go to sleep. Then a blinding light burst forth throughout the whole room. You cried out in shock. This is the last thing that you remember."
Paul Cuisset is a true adventure game pioneer. He was creative director of Delphine Software and is the developer of the rotoscoped adventure Flashback (the best-selling French video game of all time) and Future Wars. It's now 22 years later, and Paul still loves spending his nights coding.
With the support of Microïds (the Syberia saga) Paul has created the concept and gameplay for Subject 13. If you like what you see, please consider supporting the game on Kickstarter. The campaign will run until August 8, 2014.
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Schaumburg teacher is Daily Herald Cook of the Year
Fan favorite Louann Zundel of Des Plaines wins runner-up
When Carpentersville resident and Schaumburg High School teacher Michael Pennisi was announced as the winner of the Daily Herald's second annual Cook of the Year contest Thursday night, 300 pairs of eyes rapidly searched the ballroom of the Hyatt Regency Woodfield in Schaumburg for the man of the hour.
After a moment, he ran up from a crowd at the side of the room, waving his arms and hugging the already named runner-up Louann Zundel of Des Plaines.
"I'm kind of just stunned right now!" was Pennisi's first reaction. "This is way cool!"
Pennisi was in competition for his new title and $3,000 worth of prizes for 10 weeks. But it was through his spur-of-the-moment preparation of a dish that had to incorporate salmon, Greek yogurt, pomegranates and Brussels sprouts that he beat fellow semifinalists Zundel, Terri Edmunds of Naperville and Chuck Federici of Hanover Park.
Pennisi's winning dish consisted of sauteed salmon with spicy sweet potatoes and "Brussels slaw." But he experienced a moment of trepidation when the secret ingredients were revealed to the four competitors just minutes before the start of the event.
"I had issues," Pennisi said, proudly holding the giant silver spoon with a blue ribbon on the handle that distinguished him as the winner. "My wife doesn't like fish. I don't cook it very often. And I don't like Brussels sprouts."
But he was familiar enough with the ingredients, and the winning idea came to him within minutes.
"I took the first thing that came into my head and ran with it," Pennisi explained.
He teaches physics at Schaumburg High School, but said very few of his students were aware of his involvement in the competition.
Now, however, he expects to get requests to bake things from both students and fellow faculty.
Pennisi's awards include a state-of-the art dishwasher, George Foreman Grill, spices, meals at both the College of Lake County and Harper College's student-run eateries and the chance to be a guest instructor at Harper College.
Among the five judges for the event was last year's winner, Penny Kazmier of South Barrington, who said many more opportunities probably await Pennisi than just the prizes he took home.
Over the last year, she has become a food columnist for the Daily Herald and has been invited to many events, including a massive houseware show at McCormick Place.
"That was like being a kid in the candy store for me," Kazmier said.
When she arrived for Thursday's event, Kazmier briefly met with each semifinalist and gave them all some friendly advice.
"I told them, 'Don't be nervous, just cook something you'd like to eat,'" she said.
The judging criteria allowed up to 10 points each for use of ingredients, creativity and appearance and 20 points for taste.
"Of course, it's got to taste good," Daily Herald Food Editor Deborah Pankey said.
While the competitors spent exactly one hour preparing their dishes, the crowd was entertained by a variety of food and dishes from many event sponsors while a succession of professional chefs narrated quick cooking demonstrations from the stage in the center of the ballroom.
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PARIS—Behind Tuesday's loosening of a 40-year-old pact that tied together Nestlé SA and L'Oréal SA are large trunks of cash looking to be put to use.
In the first step of a long-anticipated corporate decoupling, French cosmetics company L'Oréal said it would buy 8% of its own shares held by Switzerland's Nestlé, paying cash for more than half of the stake, which is valued at €6.5 billion ($8.87 billion). L'Oréal said it would cancel the shares it is buying from Nestlé, theoretically lifting the intrinsic value of its stock....


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Microsoft has released 13 bulletins, covering 26 vulnerabilities, as part of a bumper Patch Tuesday.
All supported versions of Windows will need patching, though Vista and Win 7 (three critical updates) are less exposed than XP and Windows 2000 shops (five critical fixes).
Three of the bulletins are particularly severe and require immediate attention. One of these critical updates (MS10-006) addresses two vulnerabilities in the SMB networking service protocol that might easily lend itself to drive-by attacks on unpatched systems.
A separate vulnerability (MS10-007) in Windows Shell handler poses a similar code injection risk, but this problem is restricted to older versions of Windows (XP, Win 2K, Win 2003 Servers).
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Jason Miller, data and security team leader at patch specialist Shavlik, commented: "The size of this release is not uncommon. Historically, Microsoft has had a light January followed by a large February. This month's patches address 26 vulnerabilities. There have been no reports of active attacks against these vulnerabilities. One of these vulnerabilities has been publicly disclosed."
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Eleven of the 13 bulletins released on Tuesday cover flaws in windows while the remaining two cover "important" fixes affecting older (pre 2007) versions of Office, as explained in Microsoft's summary here. An overview from the SANS Institute's Internet Storm Centre (ISC) disagrees with Redmond's security gnomes on the severity of the Office bugs, categorising both as critical. ®


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at Club Live & Loud in Sofia, Bulgaria
8 Pozitano str., 1000 Sofia, Bulgaria
on September 23, 2017
The cult Swedish doom band Count Raven are coming for Doom Over Sofia 2017!
DOOM OVER SOFIA 2017 will be held on September 23rd (Saturday) at Club Live & Loud in Sofia, Bulgaria.
Count Raven will be the headliner of the second edition of the festival, which took place for the first time last year and gave stage to Mourning Beloveth (Ireland), Novembre (Italy), Isole (Sweden), Ereb Altor (Sweden), Shores Of Null (Italy), Upyr (Bulgaria).
Several times Count Raven's members have been disbanded and then re-assembled – the last time the band got together was in 2009, and after a pause, the band revived their activity last year. Bulgaria is among the many countries where the band received an instant call for a concert that was warmly welcomed by the trio.
So, we will be writing history in Sofia this fall with one of the most notable doom bands, not only in Sweden, but worldwide as well. Fans and experts arrange Count Raven's vinyls next to those of Black Sabbath, Saint Vitus and Candlemass. World Doom History has not been written since yesterday. Formed in the late 1980s, Count Raven convincingly passed the test of time that while rallying ruthlessly on the calendar, further strengthened the band's position as a cult; legendary on the doom stage; a name that will remain forever.
The band's setlist for the show in Sofia will be long and it will include many of their classics.
To date Count Raven are: Dan "Fodde" Fondelius – vocals (1992-1998, 2003-present); Guitars and keyboards (1989-1998, 2003-present), Jens Bock – drums (2006-2009, 2011 till now) and Samuel Cornelsen - bass (2016 till now).
Obsidian Sea already have 8 years' of history in doom music. Besides the numerous concerts in the Bulgaria, the band has also played in Greece and Serbia, and has released two albums. The first one – Between Two Deserts released via the Russian Solitude Productions. And the second and last album for now – Dreams, Illusions, Obsessions. It attracted the attention of the US label Nuclear War Now! who re-issued the album as an LP last year.
Grimegod is the third band at DOOM OVER SOFIA 2017. Recognized as the first-ever doom band of Romania, Grimegod have been faithful to their roots for 26 years and they have been on the dark path of doom ever since. About two weeks ago, the band played at the popular Rockstadt Extreme Fest festival and showed it was in good shape and kept the spirit despite the heavy loss of a friend, Gabriel Mafa - Negru, with whom some of Grimegod members played in Negura Bunget, and who left us on March 21 this year ... Time does not heal. We all miss Gabrial Mafa - Negru and we can not ignore his memory by mentioning his name here... Now Grimegod returns to Sofia after presenting their music live to Bulgarian audience for the first time in 2015, at Negura Bunget's show in Bulgaria, when the two bands traveled together on a tour with over 50 dates around Europe. It was in 2017 that Grimegod celebrated 20 years since the release of the epic album "Dreamside of Me" (1997, Bestial Records). To celebrate the jubilee, the band are working on a series of shows, and the one in Bulgaria will be one of the special shows.
Tibor Kati - vocals and guitars at Grimegod says: "We are very happy to play in Bulgaria again and we can not wait to return."
Agnes Vein will also play at Doom Over Sofia. The band is from Greece, it was founded in 2001 and the musicians in its composition are active participants in the extreme scene of Greece with various projects. The trio has five editions in different formats, as well as many concerts, at one of which it was nominated as a potential actor of Doom Over Sofia. There seems to be a truth in the phrase, "If you really want something, it will happen." You need to work on it, but it's worth it.
Agnes Vein's music captivates easily. Imperceptibly, it is monotonously dragging us into the weightlessness on the cold asphalt, taking us briefly out of the mood of daily survival.
The style of the trio from Thessaloniki can be defined as blackened doom/death metal – of the painful Triptykon type - cold and unceremoniously demonstrating the supremacy of art over man. An art that surpasses man with its immortality; supremacy, before which the individual melts in his perishability...
Stay tuned for further information about the festival, the parties related to the event and everything else.
Doom or be doomed!
Presale tickets for the festival are priced at 39 BGN. On the day of the event, if there are any tickets left, they will be available only at the door at the price of 45 BGN.
Doors open at 18:30
Show starts at 19:30
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We also invite you to the official after-party with the legends Count Raven, as well as the nice company of the other bands that will play Doom Over Sofia. The musicians will gladly share a drink with fans and friends and will not refuse pictures and autographs to anyone. The party will be at the The Black Lodge Bar (34, Alexander Stamboliyski Boulevard), a few hundred meters from the club where the concert will take place. The afterparty will start half an hour after the end of the concert, there will be no entrance fee and the music background will be a special thematic selection prepared by the boys at Obsidian Sea.
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AUGUSTA, Ga. – Tiger Woods, the person, is a work in progress.
Tiger Woods, the golfer, is the same as ever.
Maybe better.
Coming back from a five-month layoff, his marriage and reputation shattered by revelations of serial infidelity, the world's greatest golfer stepped up to the first tee at Augusta National and picked up where he left off.
He hit a booming shot down the right side of the fairway – 'One of the best drives I've ever seen him hit,' swing coach Hank Haney said – and it seemed as if Woods had never been away.
By the third hole of the Masters, he had a birdie on his card.
Five holes later, he calmly rolled in an eagle and broke out that patented fist pump for the first time.
Then at No. 9 came one of those signature Tiger shots, a wicked 5-iron hooked around the pine trees, a line drive that skidded to a stop just above the hole to set up an improbable birdie. He sidestepped out into the fairway to see where it landed, then strolled up to the green and knocked in a 15-foot putt.
'I got into the flow of the round early,' Woods said. 'Got into the rhythm of just playing, making shots, thinking my way around the golf course.'
He made it sound so easy.
'I was just pretty calm all day,' Woods said. 'I felt this is what I can do. This is what I know I can do. Just go out there and just play. I expected to go out here and shoot something under par.'
That he did, probably exceeding even his own high expectations.
Woods made another eagle at the 15th – the first time he's ever had two of those in a single round at Augusta – and finished up with a 4-under 68, the lowest opening score he's ever posted at the Masters and two strokes behind the surprising leader, 50-year-old Fred Couples.
Woods pledged to control his emotions on the course, yet there was little change. He twirled his club after a good drive, slammed it after a few bad ones. He pumped his fist when the putts fell, sunk to his knees when they failed to drop – including a birdie attempt on the 16th that slowed his climb up the leaderboard.
As always, he complained about not making enough putts.
'Otherwise, it could have been a very special round,' Woods said.
After heavy overnight showers, the second round began Friday on a cool, sunny morning with temperatures expected to rise into the lower 70s – a forecast that's expected to hold through the weekend.
Woods, playing again with K.J. Choi and Matt Kuchar, was scheduled to tee off at 10:35 a.m.
Couples, who played a practice round with Woods on Monday, sauntered along in tennis shoes and no socks and shot a 66. It was his best score ever at the Masters and made him the oldest player to be the outright leader after the opening round.
'I never really thought about what I was shooting,' said Couples, who already has won three times this year on the Champions Tour. 'It was a fun day for me. I still think I can play, and if I putt well I've got to be some kind of factor in my mind.'
Tom Watson, at 60 the oldest player in this Masters and who came within a whisker of winning last year's British Open, had a bogey-free round of 67. That left him tied with Lee Westwood, Phil Mickelson, PGA champion Y.E. Yang and Choi.
'My goals were to play better than I've played in the last five or six years, and I achieved that – for the first round,' said Watson, whose magical run at Turnberry ended when he missed an eight-foot putt on the last hole of regulation and then lost a playoff. 'I'm playing pretty well. I've said I have to play better than 90 percent to be successful on this golf course.'
Still, this day was always going to be about Woods.
He had not hit a competitive shot in 144 days, since winning the Australian Masters on Nov. 15 for his 82nd victory around the world. A four-time Masters champion, he has never come to Augusta National with so much uncertainty – about his game, and mostly how fans would respond to a player whose impeccable image had been shattered by tawdry tabloid tales of sex.
The patrons were on their best behavior, as expected at the most polite tournament in golf. Augusta National can't control the perimeter of the course, however, and a couple of planes toted banners that poked fun at Woods – one for his pledge to get back to Buddhism ('Bootyism,' the banner said), another mocking claims he needed therapy as a sex addict.
On the ground, the gallery was mostly positive, with a few exceptions.
'He doesn't have the right character and integrity to represent golf,' Larry Isenhour said. 'That's why I came out early this morning to applaud Jack Nicklaus.'
Nicklaus, the six-time Masters champion, joined Arnold Palmer as an honorary starter. The two longtime rivals hit the ceremonial tee shots to open the Masters, and chairman Billy Payne said, 'The 2010 Masters is now officially begun. Have fun.'
They did.
Clouds moved in quickly and kept the sun from baking out the greens, and some of the hole locations allowed for birdies. The low scores weren't a surprise, only the names next to them.
Couples and Watson were the biggest surprises, of course, but Mickelson came to the Masters without having finished in the top five all year. He looked as comfortable as ever, particularly on the back nine with an eagle-birdie-birdie stretch that briefly put him atop the leaderboard at 67.
'I do love this place,' Lefty said. 'I don't have to be perfect. I can miss a shot and still recover. It relaxes me when I go down Magnolia Lane.'
Westwood, Europe's top player, had only broken 70 twice in his Masters career until running off seven birdies for a 67.
They'll all have to contend with Woods, it seems.
He'll be looking to set up a weekend no one could have envisioned, the kind that ends early Sunday evening with Woods, perhaps, slipping on a green jacket for the fifth time.
'Why play if you don't think you're going to win,' he said.