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NEW YORK (AP) -- Sony showed off what the PlayStation 4 can do, but not what it will look like.
The Japanese electronics giant talked about its upcoming game console for the first time and said it will go on sale this holiday season.
But Sony didn't reveal the device itself. Presenters played games that were projected on screens in a converted opera house, but the PlayStations themselves were hidden backstage throughout Wednesday evening's two-hour event.
"I don't know that the box is going to be something that's going to have a dramatic impact on people's feelings about the game. It will be a color and a size fairly comparable to previous consoles," said Jack Tretton, CEO of Sony Computer Entertainment of America, the U.S.-based arm of the PlayStation business.
"There's a big story to tell here, and it's going to take between now and the holiday season to get all the details out there," Tretton said in an interview.
Tretton said the price of the PS4 hasn't been decided yet, but hinted that it wouldn't be as high as the PlayStation 3 was initially. The PS3 debuted in 2006 with two models for $500 and $600. It now sells for about $300.
The PS4 will be jostling for attention this holiday season with Microsoft's successor to the Xbox. Details on that device are expected in June. Xbox 360 came out a year before PS3 and has been more popular, largely because of its robust online service, Xbox Live, which allows people to play games with others online. Having an event this early allows Sony to grab the spotlight for a few months, though the lack of an actual device was noted by many people on Twitter and elsewhere.
Sony did reveal that the insides of the PS4 will essentially be a "supercharged PC," much like an Xbox. That's a big departure from the old and idiosyncratic PlayStation design and should make it easier for developers to create games. Sony Corp. is using processing chips made by Advanced Micro Devices Inc.
"One of the big challenges we faced in the past was that we created great technology that we handed over to the development community, and they had to go through a learning curve before they could harness it. And when they did, we saw some phenomenal games," Tretton said. "We wanted to lower that barrier of entry and really give them the ability to create tremendous gaming experiences from Day One."
The adoption of PC chips also means that the new console won't be able to play games created for any of the three previous PlayStations, even though the PS4 will have a Blu-ray disc drive, just like the PS3. Instead, Sony said gamers will have to stream older games to the PS4 through the Internet.
Other new features revolve around social networking and remote access. With one button, you can broadcast video of your game play so friends can "look over your shoulder virtually," said David Perry, co-founder of the Sony-owned Internet game company Gaikai. With remote play, you can run a game on the PS4 to stream over the Internet to Sony's mobile gaming device, the PlayStation Vita, which debuted last year.
The goal is to make the PS4 so good at figuring out what games and other content you want that it can download it without being asked, so that it's available when you realize you do want it, Sony said.
"Our long-term vision is to reduce download times of digital titles to zero," said Mark Cerny, Sony's lead system architect on the PS4.
The PS4 is arriving amid declines in video game hardware, software and accessory sales. Research firm NPD Group said game sales fell 22 percent to $13.3 billion in 2012. With the launch of the PS4, Sony is looking to attract people who may have shifted their attention to games on Facebook, tablet computers and mobile phones.
Forrester analyst James McQuivey said Sony is missing the point by building what amounts to an upgraded PS3.
"Sony believes the future will be like the past and has built the game console to prove it," he said. "Tablets and smartphones now engage more people in more minutes of gaming than consoles will ever achieve."
Sony showed an updated controller that adds a touchpad and a "share" button. The controller also features a light bar, which means a new PlayStation camera can more easily track the device for motion control.
Dennis Fong, CEO of the gaming-centric social networking site Raptr, thinks Sony's focus on sharing with the PS4 will be good for both gamers and business.
"The ability to capture an image, video or instantly broadcast what's on players' screen to their friends is transformational for the new generation of consoles," said Fong. "Providing them with community tools to create videos and live broadcasts is a cool feature for gamers, and also great for business. User-generated content keeps players engaged with the game even while they aren't playing it and also attracts new users from the buzz generated around this content."
The bulk of Wednesday's event was devoted to demos of games for the PS4, including a realistic team racing simulator, "Drive Club," super-powered action sequel "Infamous: Second Son," artsy puzzler "The Witness" and several first-person shooter games, including "Killzone: Shadow Fall." Beyond games, the PS4 will let people create animation in 3-D using a Move motion controller — all in real time.
Last fall, Nintendo launched the next generation of gaming consoles with the Wii U, which comes with a tablet-like controller called the GamePad. The controller allows two people playing the same game to have different experiences depending on whether they use the GamePad or a traditional Wii remote, which itself was revolutionary when it came out because of its motion-control features.
Judging by Wednesday's event, Sony seeks to improve but not revolutionize game play. The games were updates to existing ones, with improved graphics.
"At the end of the day, this is a device by gamers for gamers," Tretton said. "The games that people go out and spend billions of dollars on are your traditional shooters."
Lang contributed from Los Angeles.


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When you think of Lent, what comes to mind?
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With this in mind, what follows is a Scripture-focused guide to praying during Lent. It is meant for personal reflection and prayer, and to accompany the public, communal and liturgical prayers of the Church, all of which are ultimately focused upon and find their deepest meaning in the Eucharist: "the source and summit of the Christian life" (CCC, No. 1324). Key themes and ideas from each week of Lent are given, drawn from the Mass readings, and a particular focus is given to the "Our Father," for it "'is truly the summary of the whole gospel,' the 'most perfect of prayers.' It is at the center of the Scriptures" (CCC, No. 2774). In addition, each section contains a prayer selected from Church tradition that can be prayed during that specific week.
Carl E. Olson is the editor of Catholic World Report.
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Greg Smith is a fairly ordinary name — but it's now one that's all the talk of Wall Street after he quit his position at Goldman Sachs today in one of the most amazingly public ways:
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"How did we get here?" writes Smith, who the Timesidentifies as having been an executive director at Goldman Sachs and head of the firm's United States equity derivatives business in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. "The firm changed the way it thought about leadership. Leadership used to be about ideas, setting an example and doing the right thing. Today, if you make enough money for the firm (and are not currently an ax murderer) you will be promoted into a position of influence."
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"Greg Smith" is, not suprisingly, .
Now comes the inevitable blow back.
"A person familiar with the matter," which probably means someone at Goldman Sachs or who was with the firm recently, tells The Wall Street Journal's Deal Journal blog that "Mr. Smith's role [was] actually vice president, a relatively junior position held by thousands of Goldman employees around the world. And Mr. Smith [was] the only employee in the derivatives business that he head[ed], this person said."
The company also, as Jacob reported earlier, said Smith's views do not "reflect the way we run our business."
Goldman Sachs does have to worry about what Smith wrote, of course, as Time magazine's Wall Street & Markets blog says. After all, the firm has been accused by members of Congress of being "a greedy, rapacious Wall Street predator that puts its own interests ahead of its clients," and now Smith's charges "will only fan the flames of popular anger at Goldman" and might set off "a client exodus."
Smith also, for sure, has some questions to answer: Why quit now? He'd been with the firm 12 years; why did he stay?
Meanwhile, his flaming missive enters the hall of fame of "take this job and shove it" moments. And, he's inspired a growing number of "Why I Am Leaving" parodies today — perhaps most amusingly one from "Darth Vadar" at The Daily Mash about " Why I Am Leaving The Empire." ("Get the culture right again," he writes, "so people want to make millions of voices cry out in terror before being suddenly silenced.")
Update at 2:25 p.m. ET. Blankfein And Cohn Tell Employees It's "Unfortunate ... An Individual Opinion" Was Amplified.
Deal Journal, Reuters and some other news outlets have posted what they say is a letter sent to Goldman Sachs employees today by CEO Lloyd Blankfein and COO Gary Cohn. In it, they say:
"In a company of our size, it is not shocking that some people could feel disgruntled. But that does not and should not represent our firm of more than 30,000 people. Everyone is entitled to his or her opinion. But, it is unfortunate that an individual opinion about Goldman Sachs is amplified in a newspaper and speaks louder than the regular, detailed and intensive feedback you have provided the firm and independent, public surveys of workplace environments."
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The ESUG board is pleased to announce that the 25th ESUG conference/summer-school will be held in Maribor, Slovenia 4-8 September 2017; with Camp Smalltalk 3 September 2017. The conference is co-organised by University FERI https://feri.um.si/en/.
Maribor is the second-largest city in Slovenia with about 96,000 inhabitants. It is also the largest city of the traditional region of Lower Styria.
The conference is planned to be held at the University of Maribor: https://feri.um.si/en/
To find the building (and entrance), have a look at the google map links below/ PLEASE NOTE that pictures on google maps are old. See here for a picture of the building, and with entrances marked here. Entrance will also be appropriately marked.
A downloadable PDF is available here: http://www.esug.org/data/ESUG2017/ESUG2017-map.pdf
We have chosen some of them in the center of Maribor. They are all located close to the location of Conference (max 400 m by foot).
You will make your own reservations. When placing a reservation, you have to say that you are a participant of the Conference, ESUG 2017.
Taxi. We negotiated some reduction with the company named "Mikro taxi". Prices for taxi from different airports to Maribor are as following:
Currently there can go 4 people in the car but with arrangement with taxi company also bigger car can be requested. Contact for taxi: firstname.lastname@example.com
Airport. The closest Airports are:
At the airport you can use if you are enough to fill all the seats https://www.goopti.com/en/


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Lo Hai Qu has some thoughts about wine and wine critics, and how Millennials differ from us old fucks.
Establishment wine critics are dead to me. I spent last week sending condolence cards to the people they left behind. "Sorry, Mrs. Parker, for your loss. You must be devastated. As for me, I never read The Wine Advocate, so, on the 100 Point Scale, my sadness is a 78—unctuous, with overtones of Schadenfreude." "Dear Mrs. Laube, I can only imagine your grief. I'm sure Jim has gone on to a better place. I hear Hell is lovely this time of year. And there's all the Lodi Zin he can drink." "Dear Mrs. Heimoff, you must be Steve's Mom. All the best. Please tattoo 'I was wrong about Social Media' on Steve before they drop him in the dirt hole. It's comforting to know he's met his final terroir."
Me and my friends that like wine, we don't care what wine experts think about wine. Since when do you need more than five years to understand anything? Medical school is like only four years, right? And you let those people poke stuff into you. Bartending school is only a few months, and then they make hella good drinks. How long is beauty school? And those geniuses have scissors near your neck. So, my point is, once you've spent a few years liking wine, the first thing you learn is it's all a game. Everything you can learn from those old creeps you can learn from your friends on FaceBook, and the experts who write those cool wine blogs (not like the asswipe who writes this one) who have actually written about wine, ON THEIR OWN BLOG, for like years. Like I could see myself paying money for a subscription to Wine Spectator when I'm still living at home because the same generation you want me to listen to talk about wine is the generation who made this fucked-up world where I can't get a job that pays more than $12/hour. Yeah, that makes sense.
So, you ask, when I want to learn about wine, or when I want advice on what wines I should buy, where do I go for that advice? I don't go to those crusty old turds who write for established wine magazines. My friends and me, we don't care about points. We don't know what points mean. Points aren't a conversation. Like Twitter, that's a conversation! LOL, IMHO, MILF. #WINECRITICCORPSE. See? So if I want to know what to buy, I go on FaceBook, because the combined opinions of 40 people with an average of two years of wine experience is 80 years of wine experience! Who the hell has 80 years of wine experience? The Queen of fucking England, Elton John? And it's 80 years of wine experience for free. This is the key word for Millennials, you dying old wine critics, "Free." We like free. It's why we invented the Internet, so we could get free stuff 24 hours a day—music, movies, pornography—which you idiots always paid for! We're the smartest generation ever. So we expect free wine advice, too. And if you won't give it to us, we'll just make it up. It's worked for Truth on the Internet, why won't it work for wine?
Maybe the confusion, to be serious for a moment, comes from the definition of "wine expert." In the old days, people had to spend years and years studying wine, taste thousands of wines every year to fine tune their palate, taste the "great wines" as often as possible in order to understand how high the bar is set, travel to wine regions and taste rigorously, keep notebooks filled with tasting notes, and read extensively on the subject from books written by acknowledged and respected wine writers. Eventually, you'd be thought of as a "wine expert." That is so last century. I'm only 28, and I know like at least 50 wine experts! Not one is over 35! How do I know they're wine experts? They have a blog. They not only wait tables, do the schedules and lock the doors of the restaurant at night, they're the Sommelier! They go to wine tastings at the local wine shop and taste every single wine every time and THEY DON'T NEED TO SPIT! Some have tasted more than a hundred wines under $25. These people know wine. Plus, they're not old and their advice is free. Why wouldn't I listen to them?
Don't feel picked on, Old, Dead Wine Critics. We just prefer the voice of the crowd to give us what we need rather than the solitary voice of a professional critic, whether it's movies, restaurants, wine or opinions. We like to share all those things with our friends, it's just more fun and if one of us looks stupid, we all look stupid! Why in the world would I listen to a wine critic who costs money when I can go to CellarTracker and read what forty strangers have to say about a wine? This is how you learn! It's just like in school when you passed a test because you copied the answers of the stranger sitting next to you! Hell, he has to be smarter than you are, he wrote down an answer! Same thing with CellarTracker. This is time-proven wisdom.
Millennials, we are so done with so-called wine "gatekeepers." Why? Mostly because we don't even know where the gate is. But, also, we have each other. And, as I've shown, we're the smartest generation ever. We'll never get tired of FaceBook or Twitter. We'll never stop Yelping. We love Yelp! Where else can you go to find out what people with no class think about stuff they don't know anything about? Except FOX News? Wine criticism is changing because we want to be the wine critics! And when that happens, when the old fucks writing today are finally done, retired or dead, then everyone will be a wine expert because they know their own taste—like you can be your own doctor because you know your own body. It's the same thing! Believe me, Millennials are every bit as good at writing impenetrably and meaninglessly about wine and wine criticism as any other generation. If anything, we're even better.


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Now, this is not a project for the perfectionist because vinyl really doesn't like going around curves nicely. Add in the vertical lines on the pumpkin and it gets really hard. So, if you like things to be absolutely perfect, do not do this project - you will drive yourself crazy!
I used images from the new Cricut Seasonal Cartridge Chic & Scary (retails around $24.99). These were easy to cut out using the blade at 3, pressure and speed also at 3. Because there were only a few areas that needed to have the vinyl removed (eyes on the owl, bits on the witch), it took no time to get the vinyl ready to adhere.
Now, to adhere it. I used the Provocraft transfer tape to lift the vinyl off its backing and from there carefully manuevered the images onto the flattest sides of the pumpkins that I could find. For the owl, I ended up taking the transfer tape off, once I had most of the owl down since it was easier to lay him down and smooth the vinyl out as I went.
The cat was super tricky. Putting large vinyl images onto a rounded surface is tricky and the vinyl won't smooth down quite like you would like it. I considered not showing you guys this pumpkin, but figured, if you were going to try it yourself, you might as well know what the results could be.
Finally, I promised my taco bean soup recipe! I got this from a Weight Watchers meeting and 1 cup = 2 points (old system of points). It is delicious!
Taco Bean Soup:
1 lb. ground beef or turkey, browned
1 cup onion
2 cans Rotel tomatoes
1 can diced tomatoes
2 cans black beans (or red beans, whatever you like)
1 can Mexicorn
1-2 cups of water (or more, if you prefer)
1 package of taco seasoning
1 package of Hidden Valley ranch dressing mix (powder form)
Put together in large soup pot. Bring to boil. Lower heat and simmer for 15 minutes. Enjoy!
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The government is warning consumers to inspect Fisher-Price Newborn Rock 'N Play Sleepers due to risk of exposure to mold for infants who use them.
The Consumer Product Safety Commission said Tuesday that its warning applies to 800,000 infant recliner seats, called sleepers, that were sold at stores nationwide and online since September 2009, with prices ranging between $50 and $85. The seats, designed for babies up to 25 pounds, feature a soft plastic seat held in a tubular metal rocking frame. The product has a removable fabric cover.
Mold can develop between the removable seat cushion and the hard plastic frame if the sleeper remains wet or is infrequently cleaned, the agency said. Mold is associated with respiratory illnesses and other infections, the warning said. Fisher-Price has received 600 reports of mold and 16 infants have been treated for respiratory issues, coughs and hives after they were in the Fisher-Price sleepers.
The agency said consumers should check for dark brown, gray or black spots that can indicate the presence of mold under the removable seat cushion. If mold is found, they are advised to immediately stop using the product and to contact Fisher-Price for cleaning instructions or further assistance.
Units currently in retail stores are not affected by the warning, but mold growth can occur after use of the infant sleepers.
For information: Call Fisher-Price at 800-432-5437 Monday through Friday from 9 a.m. to 6 p.m. EST, or visit the company's website at http://www.service.mattel.com .


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A small collection of letters and memorabilia relating to Sir John Bland-Sutton (1855-1936), eminent anatomist and pathologist at the Middlesex Hospital and Medical School. Includes a small amount of material relating to his close friend, Rudyard Kipling.
Bland-Sutton, John, Sir


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Continuing of the National Ocean Sciences Bowl (NOSB) Competitions
The National Ocean Sciences Bowl (NOSB) is a nationally recognized high school academic competition that provides a forum for talented students to excel in science, mathematics and technology and introduces team members, their teacher/coaches, schools and communities to ocean sciences as an interdisciplinary field of study and a possible future career path. Established by the Consortium for Oceanographic Research and Education in 1998 (the Year of the Ocean), the program operates within a supportive learning community framework that involves the ocean research community in pre-college education and stimulates broad interest in and excitement about science and the oceans. The basic model for NOSB is that of a two-tiered timed competition in which pairs of four-student teams answer multiple-choice, short-answer and critical thinking questions within multiple categories related to the oceans. Each fall, over 400 participating high schools prepare their teams for 25 regional ocean sciences bowl competitions held across the United States in February and early March. Winners of these Regional Bowls advance to the national finals in late April. The current structure layers a rich array of year-round academic elements onto the basic competition framework and offers a range of program enhancements including summer internships and scholarships for NOSB alumni and opportunities for teacher professional development. Four regional bowls currently receive additional funding to expand recruitment efforts and provide mentoring and field trip experiences for students from racial, ethnic and economic groups underrepresented in the ocean sciences. CORE proposes to continue to administer and manage the National Ocean Sciences Bowl for the next five years (April 2007-March 2012). Funds are requested to add two new sites and expand the diversity initiative. To improve the credentials of the nation's teachers and informal educators, the proposal seeks funding for coach and regional coordinator professional development including a focus on the fundamental principles and concepts of ocean literacy recently developed by the ocean education community. An additional new element is a longitudinal study of educational and career paths that will assess the role that the program plays in encouraging talented students to enter the pipeline into ocean science careers and STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics) professions. By supporting and promoting the program's unique educational and experiential opportunities, all NOSB partners and sponsors contribute to helping our nation better prepare K-12 students in science and technology and identify and cultivate future scientists and technical experts.


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CANBERRA, Australia — As police investigate the two pilots of a Malaysian passenger jet that disappeared more than a week ago, they must consider the possibility — however remote and improbable — that one of them committed suicide, and mass murder in the process.
While such incidents have happened before, the topic remains almost taboo, with investigators and officials reluctant to conclude that a pilot intentionally crashed a plane in order to commit suicide even when the evidence appears compelling.
A dozen years ago, U.S. investigators filed a final report into the 1999 crash of EgyptAir Flight 990, which plunged into the Atlantic Ocean near the Massachusetts island of Nantucket, killing all 217 aboard. They concluded that when co-pilot Gameel El-Batouty found himself alone on the flight deck, he switched off the auto-pilot, pointed the plane downward, and calmly repeated the phrase "I rely on God" over and over, 11 times in total.
Yet while the National Transportation Safety Board concluded that the co-pilot's actions caused the crash, they didn't use the word "suicide" in the main findings of their 160-page report, instead saying the reason for his actions "was not determined." Egyptian officials, meanwhile, rejected the notion of suicide altogether, insisting instead there was some mechanical reason for the crash.
There was also disagreement over the cause of the crash of SilkAir Flight 185, which plunged into a river in 1997 during a flight from Jakarta, Indonesia, to Singapore, killing all 104 passengers and crew. A U.S. investigation found that the Boeing 737 had been deliberately crashed, but an Indonesian investigation was inconclusive.
Mozambique officials have been investigating a crash that killed 33 people in November. They say preliminary investigations indicate that the pilot of the Mozambican Airline plane bound for Angola intentionally brought it down, and they're continuing to look into his possible motives.
A 2014 study by the Federal Aviation Administration indicates that in the U.S. at least, flying remains a remarkably safe mode of transport and pilot suicide is a rare occurrence.
The study found that during the 10 years ending in 2012, just eight of 2,758 fatal aviation accidents in the U.S. were caused by pilot suicide, a rate of 0.3 percent. The report found that all eight suicides were men, with four of them testing positive for alcohol and two for antidepressants.
The cases ranged from a pilot celebrating his 21st birthday who realized a woman didn't want a relationship with him, to a 69-year-old pilot with a history of drinking and threatening suicide by plane. Seven of the cases involved the death of only the pilot; in the eighth case, a passenger also died.
"Aircraft-assisted suicides are tragic, intentional events that are hard to predict and difficult to prevent," the FAA's report found, adding that such suicides "are most likely under-reported and under-recognized."
In at least one case, a major international airline allowed a pilot who had expressed suicidal thoughts to continue flying. He flew nearly three more years, without incident, before he resigned in 1982 with severe obsessive-compulsive disorder, anxiety and depression.
The Sydney Morning Herald newspaper reported that the Workers Compensation Commission heard that the Qantas pilot struggled several times to resist an overwhelming urge to switch off the plane's engines. Once during a flight to Singapore, the pilot's hand moved "involuntarily" toward the start levers and he was forced to "immobilize his left arm in order not to act on the compulsion."
"He left the flight deck and, once he felt calm enough, returned to his seat," the newspaper reported.
After telling his colleagues of his urges, the newspaper said, the pilot was examined by several doctors and ultimately declared fit to fly.
Malaysia's government said police on Saturday searched the homes of both the pilot and the co-pilot of the missing Malaysia Airlines jet. It said police were examining an elaborate flight simulator taken from the home of 53-year-old pilot Zaharie Ahmad Shah.
Police also are investigating engineers who may have had contact with the plane before it took off.
Mike Glynn, a committee member of the Australian and International Pilots Association, said a pilot rather than a hijacker is more likely to be able to switch off the communications equipment, adding that he thinks suicide was to blame in the EgyptAir and SilkAir crashes.
"The last thing that I, as a pilot, want is suspicion to fall on the crew, but it's happened twice before," Glynn said.
Still, there is no explanation why the pilot of the missing Malaysia Airlines plane would spirit the jet away to an unknown location and not crash it soon after taking off if he had wanted to commit suicide.
Perry reported from Wellington, New Zealand.


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- Bonomi MSS
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1) Bonomi drawings and paintings: 52 handmade 'portfolios' containing pencil and pastel drawings, watercolours, tracings and commercial prints, almost certainly arranged by Bonomi, some later rearrangement was done by Bonomi's descendants [Bonomi MSS 1-52].
2) Typescript of diary: carbon-copy(?) typescript of extracts from Joseph Bonomi's diary, entries for periods in Egypt dating between 25th March 1829 to 26th May 1834 [Bonomi MSS 53].
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The war-on-terror movie beat the Civil War movie at the 78th New York Film Critics Circle Awards on Monday. And in the earliest of a few dozen year-end announcements from critics' groups, some other late-year favorites — Argo, Les Misérables, Life of Pi, The Master, Silver Linings Playbook — got lost in the war cloud of enthusiasm for the top two finishers.
Zero Dark Thirty, the scrupulous docudrama about one CIA analyst's search for Osama bin Laden, was named Best Film by this venerable group of 33 reviewers (including me) for Gotham-based newspapers, magazines and websites. The NYFCC also cited ZDT's Kathryn Bigelow as Best Director and Grieg Fraser for Best Cinematography. Lincoln, which dramatizes the push to pass anti-slavery legislation in the last months of the War Between the States, won awards for Best Actor (Daniel Day-Lewis as Abraham Lincoln), Supporting Actress (Sally Field as Mary Todd Lincoln) and Screenplay (by playwright Tony Kushner).
(MORE: TIME's Review of Zero Dark Thirty)
Those two films won half of the dozen categories that the NYFCC voted on. Rachel Weisz was named Best Actress as the doomed adulteress in Terence Davies' The Deep Blue Sea. Matthew McConaughey was chosen as Best Supporting Actor — a kind of Independent Spirit blessing on the Hollywood star — for Magic Mike and Bernie. (Killer Joe, in which McConaughey did the best work of his career, was not cited because his role is a lead.) Michael Haneke's Amour won Best Foreign Language Film, Tim Burton's Frankenweenie took the Best Animated Feature award, and Ken Burns' The Central Park Five was the favored Non-Fiction Feature. The prize for Best First Feature, which now can go to a novice film director in any category, was given to David France's ACT UP documentary How to Survive a Plague, which displaced Benh Zeitlin's front-running Beasts of the Southern Wild — exactly the kind of imaginative, calling-card debut the award was designed to honor.
(MORE: TIME's Review of The Deep Blue Sea)
Outsiders may imagine that these conclaves are marked by contentious, principled debates like the ones Tommy Lee Jones' character led over the 13th Amendment. Actually, they're more like after-school detention for overage misbehavers. On Monday, trapped in an airless Lincoln Center bunker suitable for waterboarding, the members spent five hours scribbling names and film titles on scraps of paper and listening as Time Out New York's Joshua Rothkopf, our placid, efficient chairman, read out each ballot. Then we waited while the votes were tabulated. Twelve times.
Attending to our Scrooge & Marley duties for longer than it would take to sit through a double feature of the big winners (or Les Misérables and Django Unchained), some members turned addled or puckish. One ballot for Best Director listed "Spielberg, Soderbergh, Peter Berg" — the directors of Lincoln, Magic Mike and Battleship. Another voter, meaning to honor Zero Dark Thirty, instead listed the 1979 football movie North Dallas Forty.
(MORE: TIME's Review of Lincoln)
We are sworn, under penalty of gelding, not to reveal the runners-up for fear of encouraging movie publicists and other riffraff. But I will say that in four of the categories, the process went to a fourth ballot, wherein members are obliged to vote for three of the five finalists and surprises abound. That's how Weisz, a dark horse among such Oscar-touted golden girls as Jessica Chastain and Jennifer Lawrence, advanced to take Best Actress; how Field overtook the likes of Anne Hathaway, Amy Adams and Judi Dench; and how The Central Park Five, a sympathetic study of young black males unjustly convicted of killing a white woman, triumphed in the Non-Fiction Feature slot over the pop docs Searching for Sugarman and The Queen of Versailles.
(MORE: The Oscar Push for Silver Linings Playbook)
But enough inside sabermetrics. You want to know how the New York citations will tilt the coming Academy Awards campaign. At least the professional Oscar touters do. Some even predict the NYFCC prizes. The industry swamis at Gold Derby went 1 for 6 in the major categories: they got Day-Lewis right but chose Lawrence for Best Actress and Paul Thomas Anderson's The Master for Best Film, Director, Screenplay and Supporting Actor (Philip Seymour Hoffman).
(MORE: TIME's Review of The Master)
And when the awards were announced, some bloggers got huffy. "Many of their other choices raised eyebrows among cinephiles across the globe," wrote Gregory Elwood on Kris Tapley's site In Contention, who apparently took an instant, worldwide eyebrow poll before writing his piece. "Is throwing McConaughey's charismatic work a bone worth dismissing Hoffman's cinematic achievement?" he demanded; and on Weisz, "Is her turn in the league of Emmanuelle Riva's work in Amour or Marion Cotillard's in Rust and Bone?," adding unnecessarily, "We think not."
(MORE: TIME's Review of Magic Mike)
Members of the group might be flattered or amused by the notice outsiders take of us. And because the NYFCC is the first major organization to announce its awards in the three-month Oscar season, some readers will make inferences and objections. But our job is not to set the morning line for the Academy Awards Sports Book. It's to collate 33 opinions about 12 aspects of the year's movies into an intelligible compromise. If Weisz's performance in a little-seen film receives more attention because of her win, that's fine. If Argo retains its predominance over Zero Dark Thirty as the Oscar voters' CIA-hero choice, that's O.K. too. The Academy picks its winners; we choose ours.
Except for How to Survive a Plague over Beasts of the Southern Wild as Best First Feature. That's just ridiculous.


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Sprinkler Valves Buried in Dirt
by mrfixit (Feb 18th 2024, 10:47am)
I'm the new tech writer at Sprinkler Warehouse and have been asked to act as a moderator for this forum.
From what I've read so far this forum is already running at a fairly high level. It stays pretty well into the friendly and professional attitude that we hope to maintain. It doesn't look like I'll have all that much to do.
I want to thank everyone for all of their contributions and efforts. There is an amazing amount of info here.
Two things I would like to mention.
First, I am writing a number of articles for our BLOG . I do NOT consider myself an expert on anything. Please let me know if you see a mistake or have something I should add. Feel free to suggest new subjects.
Second, if you have any changes you would like made to this forum please let me know. I'm open to all ideas. And before you ask, we just made external links operable if placed by a registered member.
Finally, for those who might wonder, I am a licensed irrigator in the state of Texas.
Didn't want you to think they just grabbed the first person with nothing to do for this forum.
Glad you are here. Let me know if I can help.
I am New Here, where do I start?
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Repair or replace Rainbird Controller rc 1260Bi
by mrfixit (May 18th 2024, 10:41am)
A controller can make your life easier...but only if it's easy to operate and performs as promised. There are numerous choices. Look here to help narrow down your decision. (Residential vs Commercial, Indoor vs Outdoor, # of Zones, Flexibility, Brand).
by mrfixit (Aug 27th 2023, 11:36pm)
Need help deciding if a remote control for your sprinkler system is worth the investment? Start pumps, valves and sprinklers without going back to the controller. Weather sensors (rain shutoff, freeze shutoff, and wind-Rain-Freeze sensors). Lets talk!
by Central Irrigation (Aug 21st 2014, 1:01pm)
There are 5 types of backflow prevention assemblies (Air Gap, AVB, PVB, DC, and RP; but, these are not all equally acceptable as protection against all types of hazards. Look here for help in choosing the correct device to protect your drinking water.
by mrfixit (Dec 7th 2023, 3:40pm)
Control valves divide your system into sections or zones and are controlled by the controller. Look here for help determining which ones you need? What size should you use? Which ones are recommended for dirty water? Do you need flow control or not?
by wyocowboy (Aug 10th 2013, 10:25am)
Fertigation is the process of delivering small amounts of fertilizer through the sprinkler system each time the system is operated. Installing and operating these kits are very easy. Look here to discuss ease of use and benefits.
Toro Rotary Spray Nozzle pressure too low
by mrfixit (May 14th 2024, 1:03pm)
What kind of sprinklers should you use, pop-up sprays or rotors? It depends on what's being watered. There are 3 basic sprinkler types: gear driven/impact single stream rotary sprays, fixed pattern sprays, and bubblers. Is it better to use a certin brand?
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5 Types of Pumps: Displacement Pumps, Centrifugal Pumps, Submersible Pumps, Floating Pumps, and Turbines & Jet Pumps This forum covers: Types of Pumps, Pressure vs. Flow, Selecting a Pump, Pump Hydraulics, Booster Pumps, Buying a Pump, Pump Curves, and Pump Controls
Going from 3/4-inch PVC pipe threads to 1/2-inch poly
by mrfixit (Aug 20th 2023, 4:38pm)
We answer questions and have discussions here about all the other stuff such as fittings, the best way to connect a sprinkler tothe pipe, wire selection, the best tools for the job, and anything else that falls into the misc category.
Toro Precision Spray Nozzles vs RainBird HE-VAN Nozzles...and general sprinkler selection help
by EdLaFave (Sep 16th 2014, 11:01am)
This Brand or That Brand....Is one better than the other? Want to know which brand the professionals are using for your application? Comments or experiences with a particular Brand product are Welcome.
1/2" water line using 3/4" sprinkler heads?
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A Hose end product is anything that attaches to the end of a hose and is used to water the landscape or garden. Look here to have your questions answered: Do traveling sprinklers really follow the path of the hose? Do motion activated sprinklers work?
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So, we start with snot. (Which just reminds me of Chiffon margarine ads from my American childhood: When you think it's butter, but it's not, it's Chiffon! That jingle writer did not have a good ear for potential mondegreens. We eight-year-olds thought it was hilarious.) Bits of fairly dry nasal mucus (you know what I mean) are colloquially called bogies (or bogeys) in BrE and boogers in AmE. The first vowel in the AmE version is generally pronounced like the oo in book. This is also the vowel that is found in the usual AmE pronunciation of the originally-AmE word boogie ('to [disco] dance'), though many BrE speakers pronounce it with a long /u/ sound, so that the first syllable is like the sound that a cartoon ghost would make (Boo!). In fact, the OED has only the boo! pronunciation, while the American Heritage has both, with the book-vowel one listed first. The long /u/ is also used for both oos in the usual BrE pronunciation of (orig. AmE) boogie-woogie, while AmE uses the book vowel for both.
It was only when I looked up bog(e)y in the OED that I discovered that one of the golf senses for bogey, 'a score of one stroke above par for a hole' (OED), is (or possibly was) AmE. The first (BrE) definition in the OED, 'The number of strokes a good player may be reckoned to need for the course or for a hole', seems to me to mean 'par'. I don't know a lot about golf (and I count myself lucky for that), but I only knew the AmE meaning. (American golfers, do you know the more 'par-like' meaning?) For the verb bogey ('to complete (a hole) in one stroke over par'), the OED lists this as 'orig. U.S.' It's a bit hard to believe that the verb has come over here, but not the noun. UK golfers, what's your experience?
(Apparently bogey is also Australian slang for a bath, and bogie is a Northern English--particularly Newcastle--dialectal word for 'A kind of cart with low wheels and long shafts'. But now I'm just getting distracted by the OED.)
And then there's the bogeyman. American Heritage lists four alternative spellings for this: bogeyman, boogeyman, boogyman, boogieman. OED has only bogyman (listed under bog(e)y) plus an example with the e: Bogey man. The capital B in some examples reflects bog(e)y's origin as a 'quasi-proper name' (OED) for the Devil. The AmE variations in spelling reflect the fact that it has many pronunciations in the US (probably regional in nature). In the order the AHD presents them, they are:
- with the book vowel: bʊg'ē-măn'
- with the long /o/, as in the golfing term bogey
- with the long /u/, as in boo! or BrE boogie
I have a tangentially related (because there's an oo involved) anecdote from this week. Our house-guest was an American linguist who lives in Japan. Predictably, there were BrE/AmE conversations, particularly about water. But the best part (for me, at least) was when she noted that the café called Moorish Brighton wasn't particularly 'Moorish'. I'd claimed before we went there that it was Moroccan, but we found that it had all sorts of Mediterranean foods. It was only when she pronounced the café's name that I reali{s/z}ed it was a pun. I'd been pronouncing the oo with a /u/-ish vowel (which is typical in BrE or AmE) and just not getting the joke. She pronounced it with an /o/-like vowel (which the OED lists as a BrE alternative, oh well). Eureka! Moorish Brighton is (BrE) moreish!


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Likely going to end up as further ammunition used by opponents of violent video games, a man in Colorado thought it would be a brilliant idea to threaten death over the lack of the new Call of Duty game at his local retailer.
After 31-year-old Loromin Sar was informed that his local Best Buy in Aurora, Colorado ran out of copies of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, his first thought was to inform store employees that he would be back to blow up the store with some sort of explosive device. He also informed several Best Buy employees that he would return as they got off work in order to shoot them. Sar had preordered the game earlier in the day and was expecting to pick up a copy at the midnight release of Activision's eighth installment of the Call of Duty franchise. He became irate at the customer service desk before launching into his promises of murder.
Shortly after the threats were made, Best Buy employees called the police to the store's location and Sar's Infinity sport-utility vehicle was pulled over by police near the store. Sar received a summons for misdemeanor disorderly conduct for his actions at Best Buy. Aurora police detective Bob Friel threw some wit in the official police statement which read "Investigating officers issued a criminal summons to a man who threatened to carry out his own version of Modern Warfare at the electronics store. Fortunately, this situation did not end in violence." According to police, Sar doesn't have a record for previous crimes, but has several traffic violations.
While Sar was only concerned about a single copy of Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, authorities in France are dealing with two separate robberies in which thousands of copies of the game were stolen valued at over one million dollars. The thieves in the first robbery used knives and tear gas to remove the driver of the delivery van and take control of the truck. The second robbery involved three masked men, one of which was wielding a loaded handgun.


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One of England's biggest soccer stars is going to face criminal charges for allegedly aiming a racial slur at an opponent.
The Crown Prosecution Service announced today that John Terry, who plays for Chelsea in the English Premier League and is captain of England's national team, is being accused of using "threatening, abusive or insulting words or behaviour, or disorderly behaviour within the hearing or sight of a person likely to be caused harassment, alarm or distress which was racially aggravated" during a Premier League match on Oct. 23 against the Queens Park Rangers club.
The alleged slur, which Terry denies making, was supposedly directed toward Anton Ferdinand, who is black.
According to the BBC, the charge against Terry carries a maximum penalty of a fine totaling about $4,000.
This is the second action taken this week against an international soccer star accused of racially abusing an opponent. Luis Suarez from Uruguay, who plays for Liverpool in the English Premier League, faces an eight-game ban and a nearly $63,000 fine from England's Football Association for things he allegedly said to Manchester United opponent Patrice Evra during a match on Oct. 15. The Liverpool club has accused the Football Association of judging Suarez before hearing any evidence.
According to The Guardian, Suarez has only admitted to calling Evra "a negro."
The Football Association has not weighed in on the alleged incident involving Terry, though it is making "enquiries into this matter." It did fine the Chelsea team about $31,000 for another incident during that match when some of the club's players surrounded a "match official" to complain about one player's dismissal.
For those who don't follow the English Premier League, imagine if a star quarterback in the NFL was facing criminal charges for supposedly having hurled a racial slur at an opponent during a game.
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Correlating Genes and Languages
The project aimed at examining the putative correlations between certain genetic features and linguistic markers in various regions of the world, contact situations, and on different scales (dialects vs. languages).
Intuitively, one might assume a correlation between genes and languages because both are passed on from parents to children. When populations disperse their genes and languages tend to become dissimilar. However, after divergence, groups can still be in intensive linguistic or genetic contact, thus becoming similar again. While horizontal transfer of genes is not found in humans, it is actually very common in languages. In these cases, the genetic evidence tells another story than the linguistic evidence. Also migration patterns and residence patterns of females and males vary as well as their social history. This may lead to different patterns in the paternal vs. maternal line.
On the other hand, linguistic features could be non-informative about biological relationships because of a more rapid rate of change and parallel or reverse changes.
Y-chromosomal data and mitochondrial data were used as well as structural and lexical linguistic data to examine correlations between them at a global scale, in smaller geographic areas, and within particular language families.


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The first image from Tom Cruise's upcoming film, All You Need is Kill, was just released and while the image is not enlightening re: plot (it's just a shot of Cruise in a futuristic mech suit running away from fire), there was a brief plot description included. Based on the Japanese graphic novel of the same name, All You Need is Kill is about a soldier who relives his last suicide mission over and over until he's able to defeat an alien army. It sounds similar to Duncan Jones' Source Code, or, as Lainey put it, "that train movie with Jake G". In the Daily Mail's write-up on the movie, they note that Kill will be released next year.
One problem: All You Need is Kill isn't due until 2014. Oblivion, a different sci-fi action film set in the future about Cruise battling aliens, is set for April 2013. Tom Cruise's movies are completely interchangeable.
How long can Cruise keep this up? His upcoming slate includes these alien movies, this December's Jack Reacher, a Van Helsing project, Mission: Impossible 5 and the idea of Top Gun 2 (in the wake of Tony Scott's death, it's indefinitely on hold). That's straight action movies for the next 3-5 years, at least. Cruise is fifty. How long is it plausible for him to keep selling us that he is ONE MAN, OUT TO SAVE THE WORLD? I would argue he's already hit the threshold of believability, but Mission: Impossible – Ghost Protocol was a big success and there is a lot of money sunk into Tom Cruise: Action Hero. Still, I don't care how good of shape you're in or how well you've maintained—at some point, it just starts looking silly. Given Cruise's Disgusting Torso of Doom I would say we've already reached that point.
This flurry of activity is based on the success of MI:4, but we don't actually know if people are still that into Tom Cruise, Action Hero, or if they just enjoyed a decent Mission: Impossible movie. Rock of Ages didn't exactly overwhelm over the summer, which would suggest that Cruise only has real value within a specific demographic (the I want to see a "stoic man saves the world" demographic). Jack Reacher will go a long way to indicating audiences' interest in Cruise outside a pre-existing franchise, but I wonder if between the spectacle of Cruise's personal life and the increasing improbability of him as an action star, if the interchangeable alien movies won't end up being interchangeable bombs.