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We're only a week into the month of October and out of the gate we already have an Academy Award frontrunner. Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity first picked up incredible buzz when it hit the festival circuit in late August and early September, screening at the Venice, Telluride and Toronto Film Festivals, but now that the film has landed in theaters it has earned three more feathers in its cap: near universal critical praise, very strong audience reception, and shattered box office records. The hard work by the filmmakers and stars behind the film is paying off, but it was a long and challenging process to get the movie made.
The main attraction of Gravity is certainly the absolutely stunning visual effects work, which many critics have judged groundbreaking, particularly mixed with the director's signature unbroken, flowing cinematography. But it was finding the balance between these two important factors that Cuaron believes was one of the biggest challenges in making the movie. Speaking during a press conference held in Beverly Hills, California a couple weeks ago, Cuaron explained that from the get go the production had to completely change its thinking about movement due to the fact that the story is set in space where the titular force is completely absent.
"Our brain thinks from the standpoint of gravity, of horizon and weight," the filmmaker told the crowd of reporters. "It was a whole learning curve because it's completely counterintuitive, and we started choreographing with pre-vis, meaning animations. The problem is that people that animators, they learn how to draw based upon horizon and weight. It was a big, big learning curve with experts coming to explain the physics and what would happen. You would tell who was the new animator in the room because it was a guy who was completely stressed out and wanted to quit."
Not just a taxing process for the visual effects artists, making Gravity was also arduous for star Sandra Bullock (and no, we don't mean the fact that she goes without make-up in the movie). In order to play Dr. Ryan Stone, a scientist who is sent into orbit to help repair a malfunctioning satellite, the Academy Award winning actress said that taking on the role meant needing to retrain her entire body from the neck down so that it would look as though it were reacting within a weightless environment.
"Everything that your body reacts to with a push or a pull on the ground is completely different than it is in zero g," Bullock said. "So to make that second nature just took training and then weeks of repetition and then syncing it with Alfonso's camera and the mechanics and mathematics of it all and then separating that from your head where you had to connect with the emotion and tell the emotional story."
In order to get the shots and positions needed, it took more than a few pieces of special equipment on the set of the production, which Bullock ultimately found a way to be comfortable with. "There were various contraptions that existed on the soundstage which that, when I first saw them, you just made them your friend as quickly and as physically as you could because if you didn't, they were so confusing and complex."
As many incredible technological and visual achievements the film features, however, Cuaron doesn't want people to solely focus on them. Instead, all of those leaps forward were made because they were what the story needed in order to be told visually. Asked about balancing the sound, visual design and atmosphere, the director said that it was when all three came together to help convey the emotional journey that it was most important.
"I think that each one of those tools on their own, they are meaningless," the director said. "They can be cool, but they don't convey the emotions you want… From the moment that we finished the first draft, pretty much nothing changed in terms of each one of the moments and the set pieces. What changed quite a lot was with the involvement of Sandra and George [Clooney] because suddenly it was the clarity of this emotional journey and how we were going to convey those emotions."
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But at the heart of the concept and the business of KidZania is corporate consumerism, re-staged for children whose parents pay for them to act the role of the mature consumer and employee. The rights to brand and help create activities at each franchise are sold off to real corporations, while KidZania's own marketing emphasizes the arguable educational benefits of the park.
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LONDON – Dozens of soccer players have signed a statement protesting the decision to stage the European under-21 championship in Israel next year following the country's recent military offensive in the Gaza Strip.
Chelsea's Eden Hazard, Arsenal's Abou Diaby and Paris Saint-Germain's Jeremy Menez were among the 62 players who claim that Israel hosting the tournament will be "seen as a reward for actions that are contrary to sporting values."
"We, as European football players, express our solidarity with the people of Gaza who are living under siege and denied basic human dignity and freedom," the players said in the statement, which was also published on the website of former Tottenham and Sevilla striker Frederic Kanoute.
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An igloo is basically a dome of ice cubes and snow. Inuits use snow to make their homes because the air pockets in the snow act like isolation. The snow used for the igloos has to have structural strength to be able to be cut without breaking and then be easily stacked. The ice cubes are cut by a hand made knife. The Inuits often take one block of snow out of the igloos structure to form a window. Some Inuits even make a hole through the ice inside of the dome to be able to ice fish inside their homes. An Inuit men can build an igloo in about one hour.
To prevent cold air from coming inside the igloo, a tunnel is dug in the snow and a door is put at the end of the tunnel to not let the cold air penetrate the igloo. The entrance (tunnel) acts like a trap to cold air so it doesn't go inside the Inuit's dwelling. Out side an igloo temperatures varie at about -45c. and inside of an igloo the temperature varie between about -7c. to about 16c. when the only source of heat is body heat. When the Inuits build their igloos the sleeping areas are always higher then the other areas. That is because heat goes upwards and coldness stays towards the ground. When there is a source of heat inside the igloo the walls tend to melt and then refreeze to make a layer of ice on the walls and then reinforce the structure of the igloo. That said not all Inuits live and build igloos only the Inuits of Canada central Arctic and Greenland live and build igloos.
There are mainly three different types of igloos that Inuits build. The smallest of the three is used for hunting trips of only one or two nights. These igloos are often built on open sea ice.
The other igloo considered "medium" is semi-permanent for a medium sized family. It is usually a one roomed igloo for only one or two families, sometimes many of these are made in one area to form an Inuit village.
The largest of the three igloos is 50% for living and the other 50% is used for special occasions. These igloos can have up to 5 rooms and have up to 20 people living inside of it. A large igloo might consist of plenty of small igloos connected together. These large igloos were used to hold committee fest and dances and other occasions.
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Kamara completes Canaries move
Norwich have confirmed the loan signing of Sporting Kansas City's Kei Kamara after the Sierra Leone forward was granted a visa.
The 28-year old's move from Major League Soccer to Carrow Road until May 6 was announced last week, subject to receiving immigration clearance, which has now been granted, the Canaries have announced.
The club wrote on Twitter: "@norwichcityfc are pleased to confirm forward @keikamara has been granted a visa to join us on loan from Sporting Kansas City."
A statement on the club's official website added: "City are pleased to confirm forward Kei Kamara has been granted a visa to come and play for Norwich City on loan from Sporting Kansas City until May 6.
"The 28-year-old Sierra Leone international will fly into the UK to join his new Canary team-mates over the next 24 hours and will be available for selection for Saturday's Barclays Premier League clash against Fulham at Carrow Road."
The deal for Kamara was agreed last Wednesday, ahead of the 1-1 draw with Tottenham, and Luciano Becchio followed from Leeds 24 hours later on transfer deadline day.
Kamara wrote on Twitter: "Happy to say I have picked up my passport/visa & getting on a flight tonite to England."
Norwich boss Chris Hughton was enthusiastic about Kamara, and speaking after the Spurs draw, Hughton said: "I think he'll give us another dimension in the forward area. He's a player that's done very, very well in the MLS over the last few seasons, scored a lot of goals, a lot of assists.
"From what I've seen of him, we're not just taking an average player from that division. We're taking a player from that division that has excelled in recent seasons.
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Irish history is rich, complicated and dramatic. While the Jewish population is not large, never more then 6,000, influential figures, such Chaim Herzog, the sixth president of Israel, were born in Ireland, and have made an impact in international as well as Irish politics.
The earliest reference to a Jewish presence was in 1079, when scholars believe merchants arrived for a short visit. However, the first Irish Jewish politician was William Annyas, elected mayor of Youghal, County Cork in 1555. The tradition continued, albeit a few hundred years later, when Gerald Goldberg became lord mayor of Cork in 1977.
Not to be outdone, Dublin also boasts two Jewish mayors, a father and son, Robert Briscoe, twice lord mayor of Dublin (1956- 1957 and 1961-1962) and his son Ben Briscoe in 1988.
Dublin, home of the writer James Joyce, is charming and a manageable city to navigate. Many locations Joyce writes about in Ulysses, which his famous Jewish character Leopold Bloom frequents, such as the restaurant/bar Davy Byrnes, on Grafton Street, are still open for business and marked with metal plaques.
Trinity College also has a Jewish connection. The Weingreen Museum, donated by Prof. Jack and Bertha Weingreen, who taught Hebrew at the university, consists mainly of pottery and other artifacts from the ancient Near East. The collection encompasses the entire Mediterranean world from North Africa to Mesopotamia and from the ninth millennium BCE to the Crusades and is open to the public by appointment.
Ireland also boasts a Jewish Museum. Once a synagogue, it was established in 1984. It was opened by Chaim Herzog, whose father, Isaac, was the first chief rabbi of Ireland. The ceremony was held in 1985 during his state visit. The museum is filled with photos, paintings and Judaica and it chronicles the last 150 years of Irish Jewish communities and their contributions to the country.
I wandered over to the Dublin Hebrew Congregation. Call it dumb luck or good travel karma, I arrived just as Saturday morning services were ending, and stopped to chat with Stuart Rosenblatt, the preeminent scholar of Irish Jewish genealogy who created an enormous database of more than 42,000 Irish Jews, their family histories and their global connections dating back to 1664.
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The 3rd Episode of the current season of WDYTA in the UK, featuring Dervla Kirwan, included an interesting substory regarding the Dublin Jewish Community. It included a sequence in the Jewish Museum there.ReplyDelete
Sadly, BBC UK broadcasts are not generally accessible outside of the UK at present. A taster at: http://www.bbcwhodoyouthinkyouaremagazine.com/episode/dervla-kirwan
Do read more about the Jews of Ireland, read the book: Shalom Ireland: A Social History of Jews in Modern Ireland by Ray Rivlin. It can be purchased at the Dublin Jewish MuseumReplyDelete
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China's central bank decided to allow the country's currency to trade in a wider band against the US dollar starting today. The PBOC's move was greeted with positive comments by IMF head Christine Lagarde, as well as by US Treasury officials; however they also noted that China must still make further efforts to allow the yuan to appreciate and thus further reduce global trade imbalances.
Some observers have construed the permission to expand the trading range of the Chinese currency as a sign that the country's leadership believes that the economy can indeed pull off a soft-landing. Others see the gesture as merely another one of China's familiar and strategically-timed concessions that normally occur prior to important international summits.
Gold prices lost nearly $17 on Friday and they basically erased Thursday's Fed-oriented, optimism-based move. The yellow metal finished the week at $1,658.50 the ounce. Silver lost nearly 90 cents on Friday it closed at $ 31.50 per ounce, at an important support shelf. On Sunday evening, spot gold bullion commenced trading overseas with a loss of $8 per ounce while silver declined 20 cents. The US dollar advanced 0.11% to rise to 80.14 on the trade-weighted index.
As Reuters puts it, "heady [gold] forecasts of $2,000 per an ounce are receding fast as the [US] economy stabilises." The news agency's most recent price poll shows only one forecaster in 33 still expecting gold to average the $2K level this year. Previously, 5 out of 45 price prognosticators had projected such a price average for the yellow metal in 2012.
The median Reuters' poll gold number came in at $1,750.00 the ounce for the year and at $1,700 for Q2. Speaking of things "heady" and of things "receding fast," at least one $2K gold predictor lost more than just a bet on the call that gold would be trading at that magic number this very morning. Such is the risk of playing Nostradamus with the market…
Meanwhile, the Wall Street Journal's Liam Pleven reports that gold's twelve-year rally is "under threat" as since "late February, hedge funds, pension funds and other money managers have slashed by 39% their futures-market wagers that gold will rise. In the same period, they increased by 87% their bets that prices will fall." One of the money managers which have cut their gold positions (while at the same time not declaring gold as being in a 'bubble') is Schroders Private Banking. The institution did not declare gold to be in a bubble, and it did opt to maintain a portion of its clients' monies in bullion, even as others offer differing takes on gold's worth and on that of mining shares by contrast.
Schroders got started in 1800 and became known for its private banking activities in the 1960s. Today, the firm manages nearly a third of a trillion dollars on behalf of institutional and well-to-do retail investors the world over. The private bank noted that it would be virtually impossible for UK inflation to average five times what it is today in order for gold to show a buying power that it exhibited over the 300 years from 1630 to 1930. The head of Schroders' asset allocation team, Robert Farago, remarked that gold's relative pricing power recently hit a record high above 500 (when computed on against a base of 100 in 1930) and that the achievement suggest that "gold is expensive and that it is therefore likely to fall in price."
The Journal's Mr. Pleven ascribes some of the diminished shine of gold to the aforementioned [by Reuters] economic stabilization but to other factors as well. Among such agents of sentiment change are India, whose gold imports face serious headwinds by a government that is apparently fed up with its swelling current account deficit, and even the hitherto thought to be gold-supportive central bank sector.
The WSJ article quotes the research firm GFMS as cautioning in its report issued last week, that, as regards the CBs, it is "improbable [that] they will top their 2011 purchases by much if at all, and, as such, the vast bulk of fresh bullion demand will have to come from investors." GFMS noted last week that such demand by investors must top $10 to $12 billion each month, or, about 2,450 tonnes per year, in order for the yellow metal to be able to just tread water at, or near, current price levels. If in fact such large-scale demand by retail investors were to materialize, one Seeking Alpha contributor cautions that perhaps those who would participate should take a look at at least two incorrect reasons for investing in the metal; inflation-hedging and safe-haven-seeking.


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November 8, 2010 – Huntington Beach, CA – DC is kicking off the Winter 2011 season with the much-anticipated DC Ride Along Tour TWO. The tour begins this Saturday, November 13th when the DC Snow team hits Timberline Mountain in Portland, OR for the first stop. Stay tuned to DC's Facebook page (http://www.facebook.com/DC.Shoes) for official updates and photos from the tour.
"The response from last years Ride Along Tour was tremendous," said Jason Smith, DC's Snow Marketing Director. "We're really looking forward to getting back on the mountain, interacting with the local snowboarders, and hanging out at local shops."
The Ride Along Tour TWO will have the DC Snow team visiting mountains across North America and Canada throughout November and December. Riders including Devun Walsh, Torstein Horgmo, Iikka Backstrom, Lauri Heiskari, Aaron Biittner, Travis Rice, Kimmy Fasani, Raewyn Reid, and Andrew Geeves will be doing on mountain demos and visiting local shops to get people excited to shred this upcoming season.
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Radix sorting algorithms do not compare elements of the array to each other and thus are not bound by O(nlogn) performance limit of comparison-based sorting algorithms. In fact, they have O(kn) linear performance. Radix Sort processes array elements one digit at a time, starting ether from the most significant digit (MSD) or the least significant digit (LSD). For example, to sort the following array of 2-digit numbers:
One way to implement Radix Sort is to take the input array and look at the highest digit of each element. Create a bin (a separate array) for 0's, a bin for 1's, a bin for 2's,…, a bin for 9's. Put all array elements into the bin where the most-significant-digit matches the bin number. Then continue doing this recursively for each bin, based on the next digit. Once all numbers are split into separate bins based on all of their digits, collect them starting with the smallest most significant digit and smallest next digit and so on; for example, collect all digits in the 00 bin, then 01 bin, then 02 bin, …, 09 bin, 10 bin, 11 bin and so on until 99 bin. The result is a sorted array.
One weakness of Radix sort algorithms is the requirement of extra storage (for bins) besides the input array; that is, not being in-place. For instance, Intel's Integrated Performance Primitives (IPP) library implements a Radix-sort algorithm with the function call prototype of:
IppStatus ippsSortRadixAscend_32u_I(Ipp32u* pSrcDst, Ipp32u* pTmp, Ipp32s len);
The temporary vector pTmp is required by the algorithm, with size equal to that of the source vector [1]. Note, that the array is labeled pSrcDst, indicating that the array serves as both the source and the destination for the sorting operation. Intel's IPP library also implements a non-Radix sort with the function call prototype of:
IppStatus ippsSortAscend_32s_I(Ipp32s* pSrcDst, int len);
which requires no additional storage -- that is, it is in-place.
The radix does not have to be decimal, but can be any integer. For example, decimal-Radix is base-10 (with values 0 through 9), hex-radix is base-16 (values 0 through 15), octal-radix is base-8 (values 0 through 7), and binary-radix is base-2 (values 0 and 1).
Decimal-Radix is familiar for humans, but binary-radix (base-2) is the smallest useful radix. With binary-radix there are only two possible bins: 0's bin and 1's bin. For example, the array is scanned from the beginning to the end while looking at the most-significant-digit, which is the most-significant-bit (MSB) for a binary-radix. If the MSB is a zero, then the array element goes into 0's bin, or if the MSB is a 1, then the array element goes into 1's bin.
After splitting the original array into these two bins, the number of elements in 0's bin plus the number of elements in 1's bin add up to the number of elements in the original array. The 0's bin can now be split into 0's bin and 1's bin, using the next bit as the sorting decision. The same is done with the 1's bin. This process continues recursively until all bits have been exhausted. Figure 1 illustrates this procedure.
For instance, if the array elements are 32-bit, then 32 passes over each array element will be performed, sorting it into 0's and 1's bin for each of the 32-bits. Thus, Binary-Radix Sort is O(kn), where k is the number of bits in each array element and n is the number of array elements. In other words, each array element will be processed 32 times, once for each of its bits.
In-place is a useful property for a sorting algorithm, where the input array is processed without requiring additional memory, and serves as the output array. If an algorithm is in-place, then it can process larger arrays than an algorithm that is not in-place. This difference was illustrated above with Intel's IPP functions for Radix Sort, which requires additional memory of equal size to the original array and is not in-place. However, the IPP non-Radix Sort requires no additional memory and is in-place.
Binary Radix-Sort can be made in-place by the following method. Instead of allocating additional memory for 0's bin and 1's bin, the original array can be used to store elements of both bins. The 0's bin is grown from the beginning of the array, and the 1's bin is grown from the end of the array. When the binning process is done, these two bins will meet somewhere within the array, and will not overlap.
In the next iteration of the algorithm, the bins are created based on the next most-significant-bit, where the 0's bin from the first iteration is split into two bins: 0's bin and 1's bin. The same is done for the 1's bin from the first iteration. This process continues recursively until all bits of the elements have been processed.
The first iteration of this algorithm, which sorts based on the most-significant-bit (MSB), is demonstrated below. The pointer on the left keeps track of 0's bin current location. The pointer on the right keeps track of 1's bin current location.
Note that all array elements with MSB of zero are moved to the left side of the array, and the elements with MSB of one are moved to the right side of the array. The array is not completely sorted yet. The algorithm calls itself recursively with the 0's bin (the left side of the array), and the 1's bin (the right side of the array), and sort both based on the next bit. Then the algorithm calls itself recursively one more time to sort based on the last bit.
Listing 1 shows an implementation for in-place Binary-Radix Sort algorithm.
// Copyright(c), Victor J. Duvanenko, 2009 // In-place Binary Radix Sort implementations. #ifndef _InPlaceBinaryRadixSort1_h #define _InPlaceBinaryRadixSort1_h // Swap that does not check for self-assignment. template< class _Type > inline void _swap( _Type& a, _Type& b ) { _Type tmp = a; a = b; b = tmp; } template< class _Type > inline void _binaryRadixSort_initialUnsigned( _Type* a, long first, long last, _Type bitMask ) { // Split the provided array range into 0's and 1's bins long _zerosEndPlusOne = first; // index is one beyond the last 0's bin long _onesEndMinusOne = last; // index is one before the first 1's bin for ( ; _zerosEndPlusOne <= _onesEndMinusOne; ) { if ( 0 == ( bitMask & a[ _zerosEndPlusOne ] )) // 0's bin { // this element belongs in the 0's bin // it stays at its current location and the 0's bin size is increased _zerosEndPlusOne++; } else { // 1's bin _swap( a[ _zerosEndPlusOne ], a[ _onesEndMinusOne ] ); // move this element to 1's bin _onesEndMinusOne--; // increase the 1's bin size } } // At this point the provided array portion has been split into 0's bin and 1's bin // Recursively call to sort this 0's bin and this 1's bin using the next bit lower bitMask >>= 1; if ( bitMask != 0 ) // end recursion when all the bits have been processes { if ( first < ( _zerosEndPlusOne - 1 )) _binaryRadixSort_initialUnsigned( a, first, _zerosEndPlusOne - 1, bitMask ); if (( _onesEndMinusOne + 1 ) < last ) _binaryRadixSort_initialUnsigned( a, _onesEndMinusOne + 1, last, bitMask ); } } inline void binaryRadixSortInPlace_initialUnsigned( unsigned long* a, unsigned long a_size ) { if ( a_size < 2 ) return; unsigned long bitMask = 0x80000000; _binaryRadixSort_initialUnsigned( a, 0, a_size - 1, bitMask ); } endif // _InPlaceBinaryRadixSort_h
The outermost routine binaryRadixSortInPlace_initialUnsigned() sets the initial bit-mask to select the most significant bit and calls a template function _binaryRadixSort_initialUnsigned(). This core function splits the provided array range, between first and last elements, into 0's bin and 1's bin, in-place. Then it shifts the bit-mask to the right to select the next bit down, and calls itself recursively twice: once for the 0's bin, and the second time for the 1's bin. During the splitting process the algorithm uses the _swap() generic function template to move the element to 1's bin.
Table 1 shows performance benchmarks of in-place Binary-Radix Sort, STL sort, and Intel's IPP Radix-sort functions for an array of random unsigned 32-bit elements. Intel IPP library also has a non-Radix sort function, which handles a variety of input data types, but not 32-bit unsigned integers [1].
These measurements and the ratios computed from them show that Binary-Radix Sort approaches STL sort in performance for random input data sets. Intel's IPP Radix Sort outperformed Binary-Radix Sort by about 4-6X, for 32-bit unsigned numbers.


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Five people were killed Saturday morning in a two-vehicle head-on crash about 33 miles north of Thermopolis on WYO 120 in Hot Springs County.
The Wyoming Highway Patrol reports that shortly after 10:00 a.m., a vehicle carrying four people crossed the center line and collided head-on with a motor home pulling a passenger car. Five people were in the motor home.
Three people in the vehicle and a three-year-old in the motor home were killed. The driver of the motor home was airlifted from the scene to a Billings, Montana, hospital. Three others in the motor home, were taken by ambulance to a hospital. A passenger in the vehicle was also rushed to a hospital in Cody, where they were pronounced dead.
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TAMPA, Fla. – Arizona Sen. John McCain expressed concern Sunday that further weather-related cancellations of the Republican National Convention here could deprive the GOP of an opportunity to make its case to voters.
Speaking Sunday on "Meet the Press," the 2008 Republican presidential nominee said that the decision by convention organizers to effectively cancel Monday's session due to the effects of the impending Hurricane Isaac wouldn't have much harm on Republicans.
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Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz. attends a news conference about the Convention of the Rights of Persons with Disabilities, Thursday, July 12, 2012, on Capitol Hill.
"It's Wednesday, Thursday night that are the big moments," he said. "It's not that we don't want that first night, but I don't think it will be harmful if we lose the first night."
But, the veteran senator added: "It could be harmful if we lose more than that."
Recommended: Hurricane impending, Republicans cancel first day of convention
Republicans announced on Saturday that they had decided to delay the beginning of the convention until Tuesday; the impending storm threatens logistics and safety problems that made it unfeasible to convene for Monday's activities.
But convention organizers haven't yet released the revised schedule, and haven't officially foreclosed the possibility of further weather-related changes to the schedule bleeding into Tuesday.
Related: GOP elders describe high stakes for Romney in Tampa
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For reasons that may become clear soon, it's been a busy time around here and this site has suffered. But sometimes life just gets in the way of blogging.
Onward to Dalmore.
Back in, oh, December, I received a package with various samples of Jura and Dalmore for review purposes. Dalmore's a Highland malt, and the house style seems to be a well-balanced whisky, with very little smoke. This style allows other flavors to come to the fore. I think the Dalmore range in general would be a great choice as an introductory scotch, especially for people who really enjoy bourbon. I had several bottlings of Dalmore to review, and although I didn't find them to range in flavor as widely as the Jura bottlings I tasted earlier, they did show a subtle variance in flavor and aroma from bottling to bottling. Here are the styles I tasted:
- Dalmore 12
- Dalmore 15
- Dalmore 18
- Dalmore Gran Reserva
- Dalmore 1263 King Alexander III
Dalmore 12
40% abv.
Color: Amber-gold.
Nose: Malt, toffee, honey, caramel, mild smoke, vanilla, coffee.
Tasting notes: Floral, mildly heathery. Hint of seaweed. Orange and a bit of chocolate. Walnut and pecan on finish.
Dalmore 15
40% abv.
Color: Bronze.
Nose: Very similar to that of the 12.
Tasting notes: Less hot at the front of the palate than the 12. Notes of chocolate, hazelnut biscotti, and white pepper. Orange zest and winter spice. A little winy, probably attributable to the sherry casks it's aged in.
Dalmore 18
43% abv.
Color: Bronze
Nose: Again, similar to the 12 and 15, but a little woodier.
Tasting notes: Almond, iodine, oak, chocolate, and orange zest. Wine is more pronounced than in 15.
Dalmore Gran Reserva
40% abv.
No age statement, but said to be bottled from whiskies aged 10 – 15 years.
Nose: Honey, flint, pecan, peach, chocolate, coffee. As it opens, it becomes perhaps the most chocolaty of these, at least on the nose.
Color: Bronze.
Tasting notes: Stone fruit, pecans, orange zest, chocolate, subtle peat (very subtle). Creamy.
1263 King Alexander III
40% abv.
No age statement.
Nose: Malt, orange, honey, chocolate.
Color: Bronze. (I'm not sure color adds anything to these reviews.)
Tasting notes: Only mildly winy, which surprises me. This whisky is aged in a bajillion (okay, only six) different types of casks: wine, Madeira, Sherry, Marsala, bourbon, and port. The effect is notable but subtle in ways the 18 isn't. Winter spice, orange zest, berry, hint of oak.


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I love this fella. I can hardly believe that he is now nine years old! And like many nine year olds, he loves Legos. Not a day goes by that I don't find at least one stray Lego brick somewhere in our house. As a matter of fact, I can see one right now on the kitchen counter. When I asked what theme he wanted for his birthday, I was not surprised to find that he want a Lego theme. So, like so many others, I started pinning ideas.
I found this banner idea here. I downloaded a Lego font, then colored around each letter with a yellow marker and then cut around the yellow to give the letters the yellow border. I then pasted them on red cardstock and threaded them onto black ribbon.
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I decided to use them as cupcake toppers. I think they are so cute!
Now, for a dose of reality. I was so excited when I found this cake idea on Pinterest. Click on the link for the full effect. Now, here is my version of said cake. People, it was hard. I don't know if I just become incompetent when icing is set in front of me or what, but my cake did not turn out like the photo in that link. But, you know what? I asked Larkin to come look at it and he was so excited. He told me it was awesome. And that is good enough for me.
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Mourinho: Reds are title contenders
Chelsea manager Jose Mourinho believes Liverpool are genuine contenders to lift their first championship in 24 years - and not just because of Luis Suarez.
The Uruguay striker has netted 19 goals in 13 Barclays Premier League appearances this season after serving a 10-match suspension for biting Chelsea defender Branislav Ivanovic in April.
After three wins in the opening five games, Suarez's return has helped the Reds, last champions in 1989/90, into the top four.
"He didn't start the season, with suspension, and after that the numbers are fantastic," Mourinho said.
"When he came back, it was a big plus. But let's be fair: Liverpool did very well without him when he was suspended."
Not playing in European competition this term means Liverpool, under Brendan Rodgers, have a sole focus, while Chelsea, Manchester United, Manchester City and Arsenal are still in the Champions League.
Mourinho, who employed Rodgers at Chelsea, said: "I think they can (win the Premier League), because they are good, because Brendan is good, because they have time to prepare the team tactically, because they are not involved in the heat of the knock-out situation in the Champions League or even Europa League.
"These (Chelsea) players are going to play 60 matches. Liverpool will play 40 matches. It's a big difference.
"Quality, plus ambition, plus this advantage, so yes (they are contenders)."
With Liverpool, who finished seventh last term, among the contenders, Mourinho recognises achieving Chelsea's first goal is a stiff challenge.
"This year the pressure will be not just to win the title, but also to get top four (and Champions League qualification)," Mourinho added.
"Man City are the big, big, big favourites. Liverpool are on holidays one season: one week to prepare a match, play the match, one more week to prepare the next match. This is an advantage, an unbelievable advantage.
"And Man United, in spite of being a few points behind, are the reality of the last years.
"Arsenal are like us. For many years they've not been at the top of the league. Chelsea won the league a few years' ago, but in the last two leagues were 25 and 14 points off the leaders.
"For us and for Arsenal we have to try and do the best we can. We'll do our job, we'll try to finish top four. And if we manage to be in the top four, let's see what we can do (in terms of the title)."
Chelsea will be tested on Sunday by a Liverpool side beaten by Manchester City on Thursday.
Suarez sunk his teeth into Ivanovic in the most recent meeting between the teams, and with the on-field incident going unpunished, Suarez netted an equaliser seven minutes into stoppage time to earn Liverpool a draw.
Ivanovic has moved on and Mourinho was not prepared to be drawn into the controversy.
Mourinho added: "Iva is a big guy. He's not a Mickey Mouse player who complains at little things. This was a big thing, but Iva thinks it's something from the past. Everyone moves on."
It was put to Mourinho that having a striker like Suarez would be the difference for Chelsea, whose front three of Fernando Torres, Samuel Eto'o and Demba Ba have scored five times between them in the Premier League this season.
"That's what it is," Mourinho said.
Mourinho's meetings with Liverpool bring recollections of intense rivalry in cup competitions both domestically and Europe, where Luis Garcia's 'ghost' goal was the most controversial of all the major incidents.
With Rodgers, one of Mourinho's "best friends in the game", now in charge, the personal nature of the rivalry may have lessened.
Mourinho said: "He's doing fantastically. But he's training every week in a calm way. Every day. Maybe twice a day.
"He needs to work well, because you can work a lot and work bad, but he has a big advantage compared to other teams.
"Not to be involved in European competition gives them a big advantage: not in terms of resting, in terms of working. They can work."


text: One way to control how the nodes are being allocated is to simply use brute force. :-) One user gave me the tip that you can specify exactly what nodes to use with something like the following: #PBS -l nodes=node001+node002+node003+node004 Which would allocate one processor on each of the nodes named "node001", "node002", "node003" and "node004" in this example. Seems like this should work well if you have the cluster all to yourself for testing purposes. Alternatively, you could do something like: #PBS -l nodes=node001:ppn=2+node002:ppn=2+node003:ppn=2+node004:ppn=2 And then only launch a single process on each node if you wanted to grab both of the cpu's on each machine so they won't be allocated to another job during your test run. But then it would be up to you to fake out your program if it happens to just swallow the PBS_NODEFILE (or whatever its called) to figure out where it wants to run. Hope this helps - John PS: The server attribute node_pack may also be of interest, though somewhat less direct. I prefer the direct approach. On Wed, 17 Nov 2004, Antonio Parodi wrote: > Good morning, > I am using a cluster with the following charactestics: > > BEOWULF > MPI OSCAR 3.0 > RED HAT 9 > 11 NODES: 1 NODE PRINCIPAL > 10 SUBNODES: EACH SUBNODE HAS 2 PROCESSOR P4 XEON 2.8 GIGA > NO IPERTRADING > 2 giga RAM DUAL CHANNEL > EACH SUBNODE HAS 200 GIGA: EIDE 7200, 8 MEGA BUFFER > > I want to use this cluster to test the scalability of a numerical code > using 1, 2, 4, 8 processors. For example I would like to test the code > with 4 processors but I am not able to force it to use 4 subnodes > (that is one processor for each subnode) instead of 2 subnodes (2 > processor for each subnode) as the cluster does. In this way the > cluster creates local conflict and memory sharing problems in each > subnode, decreasing the code performances > This is surprising for me since I use the following script to run the > simulations in which the line 3 prescribes the use of a processor for > each subnode if it possible > > #!/bin/csh > #PBS -m e > #PBS -l nodes=4:ppn=1 > #PBS -l walltime=9999:00:00 > #PBS -M user at domain > #PBS -j oe > #PBS -o rb.out > #PBS -N rb > #PBS > limit coredumpsize 0 > set NN = `cat $PBS_NODEFILE | wc -l` > echo "NN = "$NN > #cd $PBS_O_WORKDIR > cd /home/antonio/test_paper_numerico/RB1E5 > pwd > cat $PBS_NODEFILE > newlist > date > time mpirun -machinefile newlist -np $NN rb > nav2.log > date > > I hope that someone can helps me > Ciao > Antonio > >


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Baylor QB Petty, Texas DE Jeffcoat AP Big 12 players of year
Bryce Petty had to wait behind a Heisman Trophy winner and then another record-setting quarterback for his turn at Baylor.
In the moments after the No. 6 Bears won their first Big 12 championship and a Fiesta Bowl berth with a decisive victory over Texas, the tears started flowing for the fourth-year junior.
"Words really couldn't describe the way that I felt, and the way this team has felt," Petty said. "I kind of just started crying uncontrollably, and I don't really do that much. But it's just been a process and it's the fact that when you put your trust in God and he's faithful, things work out. … I have waited a long time for this."
Petty, who has thrown for 3,844 yards with 30 touchdowns and only two interceptions in his first season starting after waiting behind Robert Griffin III and Nick Florence, was named Monday as the AP Big 12 offensive player of the year.
The private school in the Big 12, the world's largest Baptist university, had never even had a winning season in the league before coach Art Briles arrived six years ago. The Bears' last outright league title before Saturday had been in the Southwest Conference in 1980.
Joining Petty on the first-team offense are two teammates who were also unanimous picks at their positions — Antwan Goodley, the Big 12 leader with 109.9 yards receiving per game, and Cyril Richardson, the 6-foot-5, 340-pound guard likely to be a top NFL draft pick in April. Big 12 rushing leader Lache Seastrunk was also a first-team pick for the Bears.
"He's sat behind some great quarterbacks, he's learned a lot," Goodley said of Petty. "It's showing on the field. He's a great leader."
Jackson Jeffcoat, who has a Big 12-leading 12 sacks and whose 75 tackles are the most by a Texas defensive end in 19 seasons, was picked as the Big 12 defensive player in the balloting by 20 media members who cover the league on a regular basis.
Jeffcoat got 11 of 20 votes for top defensive player. TCU defensive back Jason Verrett, the only other unanimous first-team pick on defense, and Oklahoma State defensive back Justin Gilbert each got three votes.
Petty, who also ran for 11 touchdowns for a Baylor team that has scored 53 points a game, got 18 of 20 votes for top offensive player. The other two went to Texas Tech's Jace Amaro, the unanimous choice for tight end after leading the league with 8.2 catches per game and ranking third with 103.3 yards per game.
With Amaro and offensive lineman Le'Raven Clark, the Red Raiders are the only team other than Baylor with multiple first-team picks among the starting 11 on offense.
Baylor, which will play UCF in the Fiesta Bowl on Jan. 1, had a league-high six players who were first-team picks, including the offensive quartet. The Bears' other first-team picks are linebacker Eddie Lackey and punter Spencer Roth.
Seastrunk, the former Oregon transfer, was the league's top offensive newcomer last year and now the first Baylor running back with two 1,000-yard seasons. Even after getting hurt early in the Oklahoma game and missing two games after that, Seastrunk has 1,060 yards rushing (106 per game) with 11 touchdowns.
Kansas State receiver Tyler Lockett, who has 71 catches for 1,146 yards and eight TDs while averaging 25.5 yards on kickoff returns, was selected a first-team pick as a receiver and all-purpose player.
Richardson and Oklahoma senior center Gabe Ikard are first-team picks on offense for the second year in a row.
Verrett, Oklahoma defensive back Aaron Colvin and Kansas State defensive back Ty Zimmerman are first-team repeaters on defense.
Oklahoma State had a league-high three first-team picks on defense with defensive lineman Calvin Barnett, linebacker Caleb Lavey and Gilbert.
The Big 12 offensive newcomer of the year is West Virginia senior running back Charles Sims, who transferred to the Mountaineers for his final year of eligibility after graduating in May from Houston. The second-team pick at running back ran for 1,095 yards and 11 TDs with three more scores while tying for the team lead with 45 catches.
Oklahoma freshman linebacker Dominique Alexander, who has 75 tackles, was picked the top defensive newcomer. He had 19 tackles in his first career start against Texas.
The AP will name its Big 12 coach of the year Tuesday.
2013 AP All-Big 12 Team
The 2013 Associated Press All-Big 12 team, as selected by a panel of 20 sports writers who regularly cover the league for newspapers throughout the league's five states. Players at all positions are listed alphabetically with name, school, height, weight, class and hometown. "U-" denotes unanimous selections.
Gabe Ikard, Oklahoma, 6-3, 298, Sr., Oklahoma City
Offensive line:
Le'Raven Clark, Texas Tech, 6-5, 320, Rockdale, Texas
Parker Graham, Oklahoma St., 6-7, 315, Sr., Webb City, Mo.
Trey Hopkins, Texas, 6-4, 300, Sr., Galena Park, Texas
u-Cyril Richardson, Baylor, 6-5, 340, Sr., Fort Worth, Texas
Tight end:
u-Jace Amaro, Texas Tech, 6-5, 260, Jr., San Antonio, Texas
u-Antwan Goodley, Baylor, 5-10, 225, Jr., Midland, Texas
Tyler Lockett, Kansas St., 5-11, 175, Jr., Tulsa, Okla.
Running backs:
Lache Seastrunk, Baylor, 5-10, 210, Jr., Temple, Texas
James Sims, Kansas, 6-0, 200, Sr., Irving, Texas
u-Bryce Petty, Baylor, 6-3, 230, Jr., Midlothian, Texas
Tyler Lockett, Kansas St., 5-11, 175, Jr., Tulsa, Okla.
Anthony Fera, Texas, 6-2, 208, Sr., Cypress, Texas
B.J. Finney, Kansas St., 6-4, 303, Jr., Andale, Kan.
Offensive line:
Spencer Drango, Baylor, 6-5, 315, So., Cedar Park, Texas
Donald Hawkins, Texas, 6-5, 310, Sr., Tunica, Miss.
Cornelius Lucas, Kansas St., 6-9, 328, Sr., New Orleans
Quinton Spain, West Virginia, 6-5, 335, Jr., Petersburg, Va.
Tight end:
E.J. Bibbs, Iowa St., 6-3, 250, Jr., Chicago
Mike Davis, Texas, 6-2, 195, Sr., Dallas
Tevin Reese, Baylor, 5-10, 170, Sr., Temple, Texas
Eric Ward, Texas Tech, 6-0, 205, Sr., Wichita Falls, Texas
Running back:
Charles Sims, West Virginia, 6-0, 213, Sr., Houston
Clint Chelf, Oklahoma St., 6-1, 210, Sr., Enid, Okla.
Charles Sims, West Virginia, 6-0, 213, Sr., Houston
Mike Hunnicutt, Oklahoma, 6-1, 176, Jr., Richardson, Texas
Defensive line:
Calvin Barnett, Oklahoma St., 6-2, 300, Sr., Tulsa, Okla.
u-Jackson Jeffcoat, Texas, 6-5, 250, Sr., Plano, Texas
Ryan Mueller, Kansas St., 6-2, 245, Jr., Leawood, Kan.
Cedric Reed, Texas, 6-6, 258, Jr., Cleveland, Texas
Jeremiah George, Iowa St., 5-11, 219, Sr., Clearwater, Fla.
Eddie Lackey, Baylor, 6-0, 220, Sr., Murrieta, Calif.
Caleb Lavey, Oklahoma St., 6-3, 235, Sr., Celina, Texas
Will Smith, Texas Tech, 6-3, 220, Sr., Riverside, Calif.
Defensive back:
Aaron Colvin, Oklahoma, 6-0, 192, Sr., Tulsa, Okla.
Justin Gilbert, Oklahoma St., 6-0, 200, Sr., Huntsville, Texas
u-Jason Verrett, TCU, 5-10, 176, Sr., Fairfield, Calif.
Ty Zimmerman, Kansas St., 6-1, 204, Sr., Junction City, Kan.
Spencer Roth, Baylor, 6-4, 225, Jr., Knoxville, Tenn.
Defensive line:
Will Clarke, West Virginia, 6-7, 273, Sr., Pittsburgh
Kerry Hyder, Texas Tech, 6-2, 280, Sr., Austin, Texas
Chris McAllister, Baylor, 6-3, 255, Sr., Converse, Texas
Charles Tapper, Oklahoma, 6-4, 261, So., Baltimore
Bryce Hager, Baylor, 6-2, 235, Jr., Austin, Texas
Ben Heeney, Kansas, 6-0, 230, Jr., Hutchinson, Kan.
Shaun Lewis, Oklahoma St., 5-11, 225, Sr., Missouri City, Texas
Blake Slaughter, Kansas St., 5-10, 227, Missouri City, Texas
Defensive back:
Sam Carter, TCU, 6-1, 215, Jr., Alief, Texas
Ahmad Dixon, Baylor, 6-0, 205, Sr., Waco, Texas
Chris Hackett, TCU, 6-2, 195, So., Tyler, Texas
Daytawion Lowe, Oklahoma St., 5-11, 205, Sr., Midwest City, Okla.
Nick O'Toole, West Virginia, 6-5, 220, So., Corona, Calif.
Ryan Aber, The Oklahoman
Tommy Birch, Des Moines Register
Jimmy Burch, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Chuck Carlton, Dallas Morning News
Mike Finger, San Antonio Express-News
Tim Griffin, San Antonio Express-News/Houston Chronicle
Kevin Haskin, Topeka Capital-Journal
John E. Hoover, Tulsa World
Tom Keegan, Lawrence Journal-World
Blair Kerkhoff, Kansas City Star
Gina Mizell, The Oklahoman
Randy Peterson, Des Moines Register
Randy Riggs, Austin American-Statesman
Kellis Robinett, Wichita Eagle
Drew Rubenstein, The Dominion Post
John Shinn, Norman Transcript
Stefan Stevenson, Fort Worth Star-Telegram
Mitch Vingle, Charleston Gazette
John Werner, Waco Tribune-Herald
Don Williams, Lubbock Avalanche-Journal


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February 22, 2011 Ephemera Society
P.O. Box 477
West Sand Lake NY 12196
Phone: 518-674-2979
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Presentations and Subjects:
Ephemera in general;
Many postal history subjects;
Many transportation subjects;
Thoreau's Ephemeral Manuscripts;
The Trans-Atlantic Telegraph Cable;
Ephemera and Our Concept of the American West.
Biographical Information:
Harris: Ph.D. in theoretical physics; DeBlois: M.A. in Education. Together: proprietors of business aGatherin' engaged in appraising, buying, selling, researching, interpreting, and writing about original source materials in history primarily in the fields of transportation and communication; editors of the Postal History Journal; Museum Advisory Council of the Smithsonian National Postal Museum.
President Georgia Barnhill of the Ephemera Society; President Wade Saadi of the American Philatelic Society.
Speaking Engagements:
- 2001 "Henry David Thoreau & The Dispersion of Seeds," The Ephemera Society of America annual convention, Greenwich CT
- 2004 "The Wiener Rohrpost" at conference "Les Reseaux Postaux en Europe du XVIII au XXI Siècle" at Institut d'Histoire Moderne et Contemporaine in Paris
- 2004 "Early Network Theory & Practice in US Postal Routes" at Business History Conference (BHC) Le Creusot, France
- October 2004 "The Robert Starobin Papers and Student Dissent in the 1960s" at conference "America in the 1960s" Cooperstown Graduate Program
- 2005 "Geographic Integration of Industry on the Wynants Kill, 1816-1911" at BHC Minneapolis
- 2006 "Business in Secret: 1950s Atomic Energy Policy" at BHC Toronto
- 2006 panel on Official Register data for the Blount Symposium on Postal History
- 2007 panel on the Intellectual Capital of Ephemera for the American Library Association, RBMS Baltimore
- 2007 "1845 Cultural Nexus" for the Symposium on Postal History, Bellefonte PA
- 2008 "Cultural Networks" for conference on Intergenerational Finance, Esalen Institute, Big Sur CA
- 2008 "Morse Code V for Victory: Morale through the Mail in WWII" for Blount Symposium on Postal History
- 2009 "Sunday Mail Controversy, Postal Reform & Mail Transportation" for Symposium on Postal History, Bellefonte PA
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Ireland will seek a 10 billion euro precautionary credit line to insulate it against possible market shocks when its bailout expires at the end of this year, Finance Minister Michael Noonan said.
For the first time putting a figure on the post-rescue backstop that Dublin has widely been expected to seek, Noonan told the Irish Independent he was hopeful a deal could be struck with no new conditions attached.
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If the rest of its 85 billion euro international bailout program goes according to plan, Ireland will in a few months become the first euro zone country to exit an aid scheme.
That would provide a much-needed success story for the troika of lenders - the European Commission, European Central Bank and International Monetary Fund - which has tied aid to Ireland and four other euro zone states to tough austerity programs.
Dublin's euro zone partners would have to sign off on any precautionary credit, which Noonan told the newspaper would only be drawn on if needed and would act as reassurance for markets that its position was solid.
Ireland's borrowing costs have fallen steadily since peaking in 2011 and it returned to longer-term financial markets by raising 5 billion euros in a ten-year bond sale in March, suggesting it is almost ready to wean itself off emergency aid.
"If we had a credit line equivalent to a full year's deficit, in other words about 10 billion euros, then if something happens ... we have a year's funding of the deficit to allow the thing to work through," Noonan said in comments confirmed on Friday by the finance ministry.
Any precautionary credit line would come from the European Stability Mechanism, the euro zone's permanent bailout fund, and the chair of the bloc's finance ministers, Jeroen Dijsselbloem, said this week that Ireland would get euro zone support in exiting the bailout. He gave no details.
The finance ministry of the region's economic powerhouse Germany said on Friday nothing had been decided yet on Ireland. "So far, there have been no discussions... about Minister Noonan's proposals and there is still some time to go until the end of the program," it said.
European Commission spokesman Olivier Bailly said on Thursday it was very likely finance ministers and the Commission would discuss the best option for Ireland in the autumn.
Reuters reported last month that Ireland was seeking a precautionary credit line, with any conditions focused solely on its still-troubled banks.
The government has said it is also planning to submit proposals to its European partners later this year that would mean additional ESM funds used to help reduce the debt burden from bailing out its banks.
IMF chief Christine Lagarde said in Dublin in March that the fund would look at all options available to help Ireland emerge from the bailout.
An IMF official in Dublin declined to comment on Friday.
(Additional reporting by Annika Breidthardt in Berlin and Jan Strupczewski and Robin Emmott in Brussels; Editing by John Stonestreet)


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Hollywood doesn't make very many films about itself, let alone paeans to its ancient history. So how can we explain two such titles opening simultaneously — on the very same day — last month? I swore I wouldn't use the hack phrase "love letter to the cinema," even though it's exactly appropriate for both Martin Scorsese's wonderful "Hugo" (reviewed here last week) and Michel Hazanavicius's even more wonderful "The Artist."
So how about "fan letter to film"? "Bouquet for the big screen"? "Mash note to the movies"? Whatever.
Both releases deal with filmmakers who are stranded in the wake of industry upheavals, left behind after the parade's gone by. In "Hugo," it's the real French pioneer Georges Melies, who during cinema's first decade saw possibilities in film that others couldn't have conceived of, only to be left behind when the new narrative techniques of D.W. Griffith and others became the ruling aesthetic. In "The Artist," it's the fictional George Valentin (Jean Dujardin), a star who looks like the young Fredric March and acts like Douglas Fairbanks, and who — unlike the real Fairbanks — refuses to accept the arrival of talkies. (Admission: Counting "The Artist" as a "Hollywood" — or even American — film may be a stretch. Its minimal dialogue is in English, and it was shot here, with a largely American cast, but it's technically a French production, whose writer/director and two stars are all French.)
Commercial movies barely acknowledge their history, perhaps fearing (correctly?) that modern audiences — viewing silent films, and even early talkies, through irony-clad eyes — will appreciate them only as camp. The most recent major film to deal with the silent years was "Chaplin" (1992), but even that was centrally about the man, not the medium.
The last big flurry of movies about the era was in the mid-'70s: "Inserts" (1974), "The Wild Party" (1975), "Nickelodeon" (1976) and, of course, Mel Brooks' "Silent Movie" (1976). Roughly 20 years earlier came "Sunset Boulevard" (1950) and "Singin' in the Rain" (1952), both about the painful transition from silents to talkies. And another 20 years before that — during, and in the wake of, that transition — were "Show People" (1928), "What Price Hollywood?" (1932) and the latter's kind-of-remake, "A Star Is Born" (1937). (Curiously, all three of these periods had versions of "A Star Is Born"; but the last two don't really figure in this argument, since they were contemporary updates.)
It would be simple to say it's just a cyclical thing, coming around every 20 years or so, but that strikes me as too easy; and, besides, it would have suggested a period of similar activity in the '90s. I think there's something more meaningful going on, though it may also sound simplistic.
These flurries all came in the aftermath of huge technological and/or business upheavals for the industry. The first, of course, was the coming of sound. The second was not only the arrival of free entertainment on television, but also the Paramount decree, which forced the studios to divest themselves of their theater chains. The third was the "death" of old Hollywood and of the studio system; and the anxiety caused by the success of "Easy Rider" (1969) and the birth of the "new" Hollywood.
And now industry rules and assumptions are being upended by the greatest business challenge since the Paramount decree — the digital revolution and its innumerable possibilities. The panic over digital piracy is only part of the story. There's also the constantly growing and mutating bundle of new distribution channels. Cable and home video have been joined by Video on Demand and online streaming and smartphone networks. Maybe, at some point down the road, space-saving USB drives will replace clunky optical discs. It's enough to make aging studio execs' heads spin … and ache … and even roll.
The world they know is disappearing as surely as Melies' magic cinema a century ago and the special beauty of silent movies a few decades later. What better time to look back to a comforting past? The guardians of today's Hollywood had better learn to appreciate the rusting scrap heap of cinema's past; they'll be joining it soon enough.
ANDY KLEIN is the film critic for Marquee. He can also be heard on "FilmWeek" on KPCC-FM (89.3).


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text: Tom Elken wrote: > >> -----Original Message----- >> From: beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org >> [mailto:beowulf-bounces at beowulf.org] On Behalf Of Ellis Wilson >> >> I'll likely try MKL soon for the Intel processors I'm >> interested in. > > Good idea. > > You might also want to try "Goto BLAS" (Google that to find the free > download site). It can be compiled for a different architecture a lot > quicker than ATLAS, and provides very good performance for both Intel > and AMD architectures. > > As you may have already found, once you are using a good BLAS library > with HPL, various compilers or compiler options won't make much > difference in performance. > > -Tom > > Hey Tom, Thanks for your suggestions, I had already begun testing Goto BLAS when I got your email, and it has been thus far the most beneficial one to my particular application residing on a CD-ROM. MKL proved to be far too heavyweight (and I try to avoid closed source as often as possible). The only difficulties have come with the compilation of Goto BLAS (or anything, for that matter) on a static system such as a LiveCD. As I do not include in my LiveCD (in order to keep its total size and initrd loaded size down as low as possible) the portage tree, nothing can be emerged. This has required me to pursue a number of solutions, the first being to copy the full version of it directly into the tmpfs from a usb pen, uncompress it, chroot into that environment, compile on the architecture desired, exit the chroot, recompress, and put it back on the usb for later burning. Obviously, this requires a ton of work, so I came up with an easier fix that has interesting repercussions I'd like to hear from this list on: An NFS directory is mounted onto my system, which I chroot into, compile Goto-BLAS or ATLAS upon, and exit the chroot. Since the directory remains on my development system (which does use a harddrive) I have no issues with running out of RAM, moving this there or the other place, etc. However, upon compiling Goto-BLAS on an older P4 without HT and with 256MB RAM, it reported warnings due to "clock-skew" I've never seen previously. Is this due to the NFS mount? And if so, will it hurt my optimization of Goto BLAS or ATLAS? I still achieved 4GFlops on the P4 I had used that methodology upon, which was way above my previous findings using the reference library (obviously), but I still have my concerns that better optimization might occur with local compilation. Anyone think thats true/false? Thanks, Ellis ____________________________________________________________________________________ You rock. That's why Blockbuster's offering you one month of Blockbuster Total Access, No Cost. http://tc.deals.yahoo.com/tc/blockbuster/text5.com