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On the hugely popular FX drama series Justified, actor Timothy Olyphant plays U.S. Marshal Raylan Givens, a modern-day 19th century style lawman who faces off against the criminal organizations in Harlan County, Kentucky. Having just kicked off its second season, things are sure to quickly heat up between Raylan, his nemesis Boyd Crowder (Walton Goggins), his ex-wife Winona (Natalie Zea) and the Bennett family, headed by Mags (Margo Martindale), who are looking to fill the void left by the removal of the Crowder family's criminal grip on the town.
During a recent conference call to promote the return of the series, Timothy Olyphant talked about the appeal of the show, the challenges of playing Raylan Givens, the strength of the writing, his duties as a producer this season, and the fact that he knew right away how special the role was. Check out what he had to say after the jump:
Question: What have you learned about Raylan, from filming Season 2?
TIMOTHY OLYPHANT: Well, he's not any taller than he used to be. I'm not sure. You know, I'm terrible at that. I've got to be honest with you, I'm just trying to figure out what to do next. But, he seems like he's got a lot problems, as usual.
What keeps challenging you about playing this character?
OLYPHANT: The character is just a joy to play. It's more just about the beast of television production and just trying to keep your head above water and stay in front of it, and just remember how much fun it is.
Why do you think people keep tuning in to watch Justified?
OLYPHANT: Well, if they are like me, they think it's really good. I'm proud of the show. I think it's good story telling. It starts, first and foremost, with Elmore [Leonard], and I'm a big fan of his. I think Graham [Yost] and the rest of the writers have just really sunk their teeth into it and done a wonderful job. It's good stuff, and it's hard to find good stuff.
Are there actors from westerns or cop shows that influenced your take on Raylan?
OLYPHANT: No. I really didn't look past the books. After that, I tend to draw inspiration from whatever just floats my boat, for the moment. But, I really spend a lot of time with the source material and I read those books constantly, and spent time with Elmore [Leonard]. And then, I had conversations with Graham [Yost]. And, there were some conversations with U.S. Marshals.
Have you gotten any chance to go to Kentucky and associate with life down there?
OLYPHANT: We are currently filming a great deal of the show out in Santa Clarita. In the summertime, you just head straight towards the sun and, just before you catch on fire, there it is. Our producers and locations managers are doing a hell of a job. They've got their work cut out for them. I haven't actually visited that part of the country. I spent time with people and talked to a lot of people. Over the break, our writers all went down there as a group. A lot of characters that you'll see this season are based on people they've met. I'm thrilled that it feels like we're capturing it because, Lord knows, we're giving it the old college try.
Now that you're a producer this season, what made you want to get involved on that level? How much are you involved, behind the scenes?
OLYPHANT: Last year, I just pretended to be a producer and I rather enjoyed it, so I thought I might as well get the credit. It's really one of the great joys of the job, and one of the real challenges of the whole thing.
How does it feel to get to play a modern-day cowboy every week? Does it feel like you're living out childhood games of cowboys and Indians?
OLYPHANT: I can't take full credit for it. I'm really just saying the words and trying to bring it to life. It's all cowboys and Indians, when it comes down to it. It's child's play, and I get a great deal of fulfillment out it. It just so happens, every now and then, that you put on an actual cowboy hat and it brings it all home. It's always fun to play cops and robbers and, in this case, it's more like cops and hillbillies. It's a blast. It's a kick to be able to play what they call a drama, but day in and day out, I think we're making a comedy. It's a lot of fun.
Raylan can be compared to a modern-day John Wayne or Clint Eastwood, who is rough around the edges and smooth with the ladies, and who has his own set of right and wrong. Have you ever thought about it like that?
OLYPHANT: Not until just now. You know, when I read the books, that was in the ballpark of what I was thinking. The books are great. The character is iconic.
This show is presenting a world that is really terrifying. How do you balance presenting something that we don't want to see, in a way that makes it compelling, so that we really want to see it?
OLYPHANT: You know, it's scary out there, and our job is to try to make that entertaining. That's more or less the deal that we all signed up for. Life moves pretty fast and it's pretty scary, but at the end of the day, the show's about a guy who's trying to do the right thing and get through the day with some sense of his reality intact. I think there's a certain comfort in that.
How do you enjoy the opportunity to build a character over time in television versus building a character for a film?
OLYPHANT: In a film, you more or less know the beginning, middle and end, and you might have some wiggle room in there. But, this really is a journey and I've been very fortunate to be allowed in on a part of that process. That is one of the real challenges for me, that I've really enjoyed. I don't think of it as building a character. I just think of it as telling a story, and I don't know how it's going to end. That's the fun of it. At the end of the day, the same things apply. I'm still trying figure out what is going on, from scene to scene, and basic rules still apply. The tremendous upside here is that it's such a great character, and it's really tough to get your hands on a great character.
What sort of impact will the relationship between Raylan and Mags Bennett have on Season 2, and how has it been to work with Margo Martindale?
OLYPHANT: The whole bunch of them are just fantastic – both the characters and the actors playing the Bennetts. Margo's just the real deal. I don't know what else is on TV, but I'm pretty sure that's something special. It's a pleasure to work with her and Jeremy [Davies], and all those guys. They're just great, and I thought we were onto something special. The inspiration for the character came from Elmore [Leonard]. He had a character in one of his books that was a man, and Graham [Yost] wanted to make the character a woman. Margo is just such a fantastic choice. As far as the families and the history, that's something that Graham and I were both really interested in exploring this year, in that Hatfield-McCoy kind of culture and styles. It's been really nice, throughout the season, to keep deepening that history and peeling back the layers. You find out more and more as we go. As the story goes, we come back around and get a little deeper. The world we created this year is just really rich.
How is the Raylan/Boyd relationship changing in Season 2, and what has it been like to work with Walton Goggins this season?
OLYPHANT: Walt's fantastic. Anytime he's on the call sheet, I know it's going to be an easy day for me because I just sit back and let him do all the work. When you've got someone who's going to take things moment to moment and keep you on your toes, it reminds me of my acting teachers saying, "Just work off the other person." When you've got someone like Walt, it makes that real easy to do it. As far as his character goes, it's really great. We had a lot of fun with him this year. As Elmore [Leonard] has said, he's one of these guys where I don't believe a word that comes out of his mouth, but I can't stop listening to him. He just seems like he could be whoever and whatever he needs to be, given the situation. We really had a lot of fun watching him start out lost in the woods, and then regain his footing and find his way, and come back to life. He's in a completely more dangerous and compelling way this year than last year.
How do you think Raylan sees Boyd?
OLYPHANT: I honestly don't think he sees him as a friend, in terms of their relationship. All we've told you, according to my scripts, is that they have a history. There's an understanding between them, but beyond that, I think that's it. Their worlds collide. Given what he does, and given what my character does, they're going to keep running into each other.
How is the dynamic between Raylan and his ex-wife Winona (Natalie Zea) changing this season?
OLYPHANT: Natalie is fantastic. The same things I said about working with Walt Goggins, I'd say about working with her. They're just great, as is Nick Searcy. He's just a pro, but he's not as good-looking as she is, so I'm less interested in that storyline. Graham [Yost] is the one who started the idea of these two getting back together. It was a broken relationship, but there was still some sexual tension. After we shot the stuff, it just seemed like there was a lot more going on there. It was a lot more interesting. So, when Graham and I got together, before we went back to work, that was a relationship that we were both really interested in exploring. I said to Graham, "If one of my buddies comes over to the house and tells me he's fucking his ex-wife, we might not talk about anything else for the rest of the evening. I'm curious. I want to know how that works. And, if he tells me he's in love with her, then I'm really interested." We had a lot of fun with that relationship this year. I think it's really one of the more interesting things we've done.
What are some of the moments that have made you stop and think, "This is great television"?
OLYPHANT: I'm not a huge fan of every episode, but there's not an episode that goes by without me finding something where I'm like, "That's just good drama. It's good storytelling." The examples are countless. This season, where do I start? From an acting standpoint, it's fun to be in a scene where me asking Mags, "How's business?," is both conversational small talk, and yet feels so loaded. That's part of the brilliance of Elmore Leonard, and it's very difficult to replicate, week after week. I think our writers just do a fantastic job. Those moments are a blast. I could just go on forever. Honestly, the job is just a joy, day in and day out. I've never left that set and not thought to myself, "That was great. That was just a great scene. It was a great moment. It was a great performance." Not mine, but I'm just talking about the ones around me. I put in long hours on this puppy, but at the end of the day, you just always walk away going, "God, you know, there's something to be proud of. It was pretty cool."
Deadwood, and your work on that show, started the whole western coming back again, and now there's Justified, as well as True Grit. What do you think it is that keeps westerns cool?
OLYPHANT: First of all, I just showed up to work on Deadwood. That was David Milch's baby. That's a genius at work, just turning a genre on its head, and it was really something special to be a part of. I read this fantastic interview with Walter Mosley, in the L.A. Times, where he talked about our show. He said that westerns were made during a time where people really believed in America, and that Americans believed in something very clear about good versus evil. And, as that got a little more foggy, the westerns went away. And, he was really curious about this guy, Raylan Givens, who appears to be born maybe 100 years too late, and stuck in a modern world, asking those questions again.
Do you think that Raylan Givens will become one of those iconic TV characters?
OLYPHANT: I really appreciate that. That's very generous of you. I knew when I read the thing that I had to close the deal before somebody else got a whiff of this thing. I trust that I know a good part when I see one and usually, when I see one, I have to wait for seven people to pass, in order for me to get it. I knew it was a good part. I knew it was good writing. I knew that Elmore [Leonard], when done right, is just something that I love. Beyond that, when I run into people on the street, they have been very generous and complimentary. It's nice. You're out there telling stories and you're hoping to find an audience, and it's very appreciated.
Every character that you play, whether in this show or in films, just seems completely unique and different. Is that because of your choices as an actor, or is it the quality of scripts that you get offered?
OLYPHANT: I don't know. I've been really lucky, especially the last two years. I've been working for a long time and I've just really been allowed to work, with very little of the baggage and the pressures that can come with my job. Year after year, for quite some time now, I've just been allowed to keep doing it and just get better. When you do it for 10 or 12, or however many years I've been doing it, if you're not good by now, then I think that's going to be about it. I've really realized how much I enjoy the job and, at this point in my life, I show up to work with a real interest and a real commitment and a level of confidence. I'm not looking for answers when I show up to the set. I'm just asking the questions, over and over. I think I've been given some great material. In the last couple years, I did a small movie called High Life that went to the Berlin Film Festival, I did A Perfect Getaway, I did The Crazies, and there's this TV work that I've been able to do, like with those guys in Damages. They've just been really great roles, and I've been able to have a meaningful dialogue and collaboration with the filmmakers on each one of those projects. Each time, it's led to work that I'm really pleased with and proud of.


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Barbara Richardi of Easton reacted to the decision by Connecticut's Thompson Speedway officials to dump the Modified Lites due to the fact that only seven cars turned out for a recent event to be held there two weeks ago.
Barbara Richardi of Easton reacted to the decision by Connecticut's Thompson Speedway officials to dump the Modified Lites due to the fact that only seven cars turned out for a recent event to be held there two weeks ago.
"I think that they should have let them run at the end of the field of the Sk Modifieds," she said. "Now my son Dave's only alternatives are to race his Modified Lite at Waterford Speedbowl in Cconnecticut or at Monadnock Speedway in Winchester, N.H.
"Another possibility is to sell the Modified Lite race car to someone who wants to race at Waterford or Monadnock. Also we still have Dave's Pro 4 Modified race car which we just sent out to have the motor rebuilt."
From the sound of things, Dave Richardi might be able to continue racing this season after all, and the family will have some decisions to make. In the meantime, this year brother Rob will be focusing on the Valenti Modified Racing Series, which saw action last Thursday night at Thompson Speedway.
Reunion in Norwood: The much-anticipated 10th Annual Norwood Arena/New England Dragway Reunions are set for Sunday at Bezema Motors on Route 1 in Norwood. There will be numerous race cars of all types present as well as their drivers that participated in exciting action every Saturday night at the famed quarter-mile oval. Much to the disappointment of many, it was shuttered by its short-sighted owners and promoters back in 1972.
Among the featured race cars this year will be vintage dragsters driven by Tom Dunn of Wrentham and the King and Marshall car that was a always a threat in it's day. Canton's Al Segrini, who won more than just a few prestigious NHRA Nationals during his career, will also pay a visit. There will also be other drag machines along with a number of roundy-round stock cars including Modifieds, Midgets, Super-Modifieds and Pro 4 Modifieds.
Also included on the agenda will be a show for Classic cars, whose owners will vie for one of 12 awards to be given for Classics, Hot Rods, Customs and Muscle Cars. Dash plaques will be given to the first 110 entries.
There promises to be a 1960's-era Dodge Coronet pace car at the event which was in the Norwood Arena Speedway livery currently owned by hometown Classic car buff Brendan King. He and Jerry Kelliher, a Norwood pillar in the town's government, will discuss their latest documentary movie about how Norwood Arena had impacted racing action at both the Daytona International and Talledega Super speedways. The movie is scheduled to premier on Sept. 20 at the renovated Norwood Theater.
Newton native Pete Hamilton had scored wins at those two famous tracks after serving his apprenticeship at the Norwood oval. Hamilton went on to win the 1970 Daytona 500 and was in attendance at the reunion last year.
Don Thomas, the Norwood Arena webmaster, will put on his usual show for attendees. Legendary Modified driver Leo Cleary of Hanover will be present along with a large contingent of drivers from the era so fans will be more than welcome to get their pictures, programs and other memorobilia signed. Attendees are urged to bring those and their scrap books. There will be collectible vendors as well.
A light lunch will be served courtesy of the Bezema family by Boston's Baddest Burgers It all gets underway at 10 a.m. and will continue to 3 p.m.
The schedule: Tonight, Seekonk Speedway will offer four divisions of stock car action at 6 with extra distance for Sport Trucks. ... This afternoon and tonight local flat track motorcycle riders will be in action at the Wachusetts Valley Riders Club in Winchendon. ... Also tonight at 6 Waterford Speebowl in Connecticut will add Pro 4 Modifieds to its NASCAR program. ... On Sunday, the Capeway Rovers in Middleboro will offer MotoX action as does the track in Central Village, Conn. ... There's ET Drag racing action all day today and Sunday at New England Dragway in Epping, N.H., starting at 8 AM each day.


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The new government's top spokesman refused to say clearly whether the new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, would uphold the 1993 apology for sexual slavery during World War II, known as the Kono Statement.
A top official hinted Thursday that Japan's newly installed conservative government may seek to revise a two-decade-old official apology to women forced into sexual slavery during World War II, a move that would most likely outrage South Korea and possibly other former victims of Japanese militarism.
Speaking a day after the new cabinet was named, the chief cabinet secretary, Yoshihide Suga, who serves as the government's top spokesman, refused to say clearly whether the new prime minister, Shinzo Abe, would uphold the 1993 apology, known as the Kono Statement.
However, he told a press conference that it would be "desirable for experts and historians to study" the statement, which acknowledged the Imperial Army's involvement in forcing thousands of Asian and Dutch women to provide sex for Japanese soldiers.
Mr. Suga seemed to keep his comments intentionally vague, adding only that the matter "should not be made into a political or diplomatic issue." He also said the Abe government would uphold a broader 1995 apology to all victims of Japan's early 20th-century colonialism and aggression.
Still, any move to revise the sex slaves apology would likely prove inflammatory in South Korea, a former Japanese colony where the issue remains highly emotional. On Thursday, the South Korean Foreign Ministry responded to Mr. Suga's comments by calling on Japan not to forget its militaristic past.
The Kono Statement has long been a sore point for Japanese rightists, who deny that the women had been coerced or that the military had a hand in forcing them to become what many Japanese euphemistically call comfort women. These critics include Mr. Abe, an outspoken nationalist who has repeatedly called for revising the statement.
However, the issue does not resonate with most of Japan's confrontation-adverse public. During this month's national parliamentary elections, which swept his Liberal Democrats back into power, Mr. Abe avoided talking about the comfort women apparently so as not to be seen as too far to the right of mainstream voters.
His position has also caused concern in Washington, where the U.S. government has urged Japan and South Korea, its two closest Asian allies, to increase cooperation against security threats, including a nuclear-armed North Korea.
In the summer, the South Korean president at the time, Lee Myung- bak, visited a group of disputed islands claimed by both his nation and Japan in an apparent display of displeasure over Japan's refusal to pay official compensation to South Korea's few hundred surviving former comfort women, now in their 80s.
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And this isn't meant as any disrespect to Martha Plimpton who is doing good work and has a new Fox TV show with Cloris Leachman premiering after Glee in September called Raising Hope and has been nominated for 3 Tony Awards and deserves to be recognised in her own right for her accomplishments but it's just that, well, if you loved River Phoenix, you can't help but think of him when you see her.
Earlier this year I tagged along with Laura and Lorella for Remember Me and a good laugh and there was Martha in the opening scene and I thought to myself, holy sh-t, River would have been 40. Then I watched her again in How to Make it in America and I could hear the 15 year old me wondering why he wasn't with someone prettier (don't lie, you did too), and it was only after he died, reading about his memorial, and her comments after, that I appreciated who she would have been for him, and why he loved her so much.
Martha tried desperately to get River to stop using. And she was one of the few after his death to speak up against the enablers, to rage against the fact that his passing was so heartbreakingly unnecessary, to stop glamourising his story. There was a really great article published by Esquire afterwards with access to his mother, his friends, Samantha Mathis, and Martha Plimpton offering some insight about his life and the end, quoting colleagues, castmates, and lovers on how River lived and died.
I was in university when the magazine came out just shy of six months after. I read the piece over and over again. And at that age, when something like that goes down, you romanticise a lot, and much of what's there doesn't really get absorbed. When my parents moved I found that issue again and re-read it with different perspective. I think Martha was so brave for saying what she did and when she did so soon after he was gone.
"(River is) already being made into a martyr. He's become a metaphor for a fallen angel, a messiah. He wasn't. He was just a boy, a very good-hearted boy who was very f-cked-up and had no idea how to implement his good intentions. I don't want to be comforted by his death. I think it's right that I'm angry about it, angry at the people who helped him stay sick, and angry at River."
All her comments are so candid throughout the article, she is real and grounded and likeable and you will root for her. It's a hard link to find but a River Phoenix fansite has reproduced the piece. Click here to read. But beware of how much time you'll lose. Because every time I get lost in River googling, all of a sudden it's hours later. Sometimes I still can't believe it.
As for Martha, she was at the Fox All Star Party last night in Santa Monica celebrating her new show Raising Hope premiering September 21. She plays mom to a teen who comes home one day with a baby by his serial killer ex girlfriend.
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This article or section contains lore taken from Warcraft III: Reign of Chaos, Warcraft III: The Frozen Throne, the manuals, and official bonus maps.
Chaos Wells are corrupted fountains that were created when the Burning Legion went to Kalimdor after destroying Lordaeron, Mannoroth and Tichondrius went to a glade in Ashenvale to consider using the Orcs to defeat Cenarius. Mannoroth proceeded to spill his burning blood into the Fountain of Life, corrupting it, causing anyone who drinks of it to be infused with the Blood of Mannoroth. When Cenarius attacked the Orcs, Grom Hellscream took a detachment to explore the forest. They found the Chaos Well and drank it, reinstating the blood pact between them and Mannoroth. The Orcs proceeded to use their new found power to kill Cenarius and the Night Elves.
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Although much of Ashenvale isn't very open and isn't similar compared to the WC3 version/maps of Ashenvale, the Chaos Well is no where to be found. A few theories could be the chaos well depleted itself and crumbled, or the local Satyrs and Demons could somehow be related.
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Title: TAIWAN: FINDINGS OF A CONGRESSIONAL STAFF RESEARCH TRIP, DECEMBER 2000
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The property out Old Lynchburg Road known for the Polo Field and the artists' enclave known as Biscuit Run Studios is about to assume a new persona: the 1,000 acres of near-town real estate that could change the face of southern Charlottesville.
Fifty years ago, I. J. Breeden bought two pieces of land stretching between Old Lynchburg Road and Route 20: Biscuit Run and Forest Lodge. It was always his intention to develop the property, and Elizabeth Breeden knew that when she moved to Biscuit Run 30 years ago with her husband, sculptor David Breeden, I. J.'s son. "That was the deal when we got it," she says.
"We tried to develop it," says Elizabeth, a founder of ArtInPlace. "I can't tell you how many plans are in the closet."
The big problem: the property's rural RA zoning.
In the intervening years, two things changed: Charlottesville grew to the south, and I. J. Breeden died.
"To settle my father's estate, it has to be sold," says David Breeden. Now, he and Elizabeth have succeeded in getting half the parcel into the southern "urban ring" zoned residential R-1, opening the door to development.
Breeden refuses to offer a number that he thinks the 1,000 acres are worth. "We're looking for a price that's reasonable for the development of it," he says.
"Without doing any research at all, I'd guess between $15 and $30 million," says Hasbrouck Realty president Lane Bonner of the Breeden property.
Up on Route 29 north, a 200-plus acre parcel is listed for $50 million, and another 150 acres has a $42-million price tag.
"The north side is worth a lot more than the south side of town," explains Bonner. Even so, he scoffs at such asking prices. "You can ask what you want," says Bonner, "but that's way too much."
Enter John Weber with Weber Associates in Manassas. He's handling the Biscuit Run sale, and he also declines to speculate how much the land might bring.
"You think you know the answer to that," says Weber, "but the marketplace is always the best way to dictate how land use will occur."
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And bidders must pony up a nonrefundable $500 fee– "to keep people from wasting time," says David Breeden. "We'll consider the bids, they'll give us a resume, and we'll have a consultant tell us which one is most likely," he says.
Elizabeth Breeden pulls out an aerial view of the property. The Polo Field's 150 acres, owned by the UVA Alumni Association, are not included in the sale, nor are David and Elizabeth's 50 acres surrounding their rambling Biscuit Run house and studio.
If recent developments are any indication, Albemarle County will likely require a connector road between Old Lynchburg and Route 20. And with "neighborhood model" the county's current mantra, plans could include some commercial to balance the residential.
"It's a big project with far-reaching implications, from schools to transportation," says Benton Downer, president of the Charlottesville Albemarle Area Realtors.
David and Elizabeth Breeden wonder how their totally private views will change, but without too much dismay. "We know Albemarle County takes years to give approvals," Elizabeth points out. "A thousand acres will take 20 years to develop."
And no matter what happens, the Wednesday dinners for which the couple is famous will continue, assures David Breeden.
"Everybody's invited to Wednesday dinner. Put that in the paper."
Elizabeth and David Breeden's Biscuit Run Studio is in the middle of 1,000 acres about to go out for bid. David would like to see DMB manager/Albemarle real estate magnate Coran Capshaw buy the property and make a sculpture garden part of the project. PHOTO BY LAUREN BROOKS
The Breeden property, which stretches from Old Lynchburg Road to Route 20, is probably the last parcel of this size close to town to come on the market.


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The men's team final is even more unpredictable than the women's final. After a tight finish in qualification, several teams have a chance for medals.
China and Japan should fight it out for the gold, with the U.S. and Great Britain battling for the bronze. But the three-up, three-count format could spell much different results if any teams allow serious mistakes.
Predicting team results based on qualification scores is dicey and brings up the same rankings as preliminaries. Many teams are using gymnasts based on their scoring potential rather than simply by first-round results. In several cases, gymnasts who brought their team's fourth or fifth-best score on an event in preliminaries will get a new chance tonight to show what they can do.
World and Olympic champion China is the only team with anything much to lose in Rotterdam, and a silver medal will bring much criticism back home of the team's selection.
Using qualification scores and submitted lineups, let's a take a look at the eight teams in this evening's final:
The Chinese won qualification, but by a much smaller margin than in recent years. The team left home some huge scorers, notably reigning world champions Zhang Hongtao (pommel horse), Wang Guanyin (parallel bars) and Zou Kai (high bar). The biggest question is if the Chinese made the right decision in replacing Zou, the 2008 Olympic floor exercise and high bar champion, with newcomer Zhang Chenglong. Zhang Chenglong had the high score of qualification on high bar, but was unspectacular on floor exercise.
The Chinese can fall off parallel bars and still outscore the field on the event in team finals, but pommel horse is another question. Without Zhang Hongtao, the team will rely on Teng Haibin, the 2004 Olympic champion on pommel horse, but he failed to make the final in Rotterdam.
Olympic champion Cheng Yibing and world champion Yan Mingyong were 1-2 on still rings in qualification, and should bring the team huge scores in the third rotation.
The Japanese have the world's best gymnast in Kohei Uchimura, and could win their first world team title since 1978. The team could have beaten China in preliminaries if not for a few mistakes. If Japan puts up 18 hit routines Thursday, the gold could be theirs.
The team will rest Uchimura and his sore shoulder on still rings, even though he outscored replacement Kazuhito Tanaka in preliminaries, 15.400-15.000. Uchimura was fantastic in qualification, but obviously the Japanese coaches don't want to overextend him in team finals.
Japan is the world's most artistic team as a whole, but its atttention to detail is not properly awarded. On high bar in particular, the Code of Points seems not to allow the Japanese to score as well as they should. The fact that Uchimura's near-perfect sets are consistently outscored on high bar by routines that are quite simply execution train wrecks is something that needs to be addressed by the FIG Men's Technical Committee and its president, Adrian Stoica of Romania.
United States
The United States boast two-time Olympic medalist Jonathan Horton, who always puts up his best in the team final. Horton will do five events for the U.S., while his former Oklahoma teammate Chris Brooks will do four.
The team also has high bar finalist Danell Leyva and floor exercise finalist Steven Legendre. Legendre can bring the team a big score on floor exercise, where he has the highest Difficulty score in Rotterdam, and on vault, where he has the team's only 7.0 vault.
Pommel horse is still the Americans' Achilles heel. Without Tim McNeill and 2006 world bronze medalist Sasha Artemev, the U.S. was only 13th on pommel horse in qualification.
Great Britain
A best-ever fourth in qualification, Great Britain has absolutely nothing to lose in its first world team final. The team can make up big ground on the U.S. on pommel horse, where Olympic bronze medalist Louis Smith anchors.
The team lost 2009 world all-around silver medalist Daniel Keatings to a torn ACL this spring, but the rest of the team brought consistent scores in qualification.
Except for Smith's sometimes ragged form on pommel horse, the British has some of the best execution in the world. Dan Purvis excels on floor exercise in particular.
Germany, third in 2007, lost national champion Marcel Nguyen last month to a broken leg, and world and European champion Fabian Hambüchen has a sore Achilles.
But the 6-3-3 format could favor a team like Germany if it makes the most of its 18 routines. The exciting Phillip Boy, second only to Uchimura in qualification, will compete all six events tonight.
Half of Russian's team is 19 or younger, a deliberate move by the coaching staff to give experience to its future stars. Russia is rebuilding its team after several weak years, and its goal is getting back on the podium in 2012.
Russia left home big scorers on pommel horse and still rings in favor of newcomers like David Belyavsky, 18, who will do five events in finals.
Korea's gymnasts in Rotterdam are still building international reputations. The team has only two event finalists in Yoo Won Chul (still rings) and Yang Hak Seon (vault).
The team was surprisingly only 12th on parallel bars, one of its traditional strengths, in qualification. The Koreans will need a better effort in finals to move past Russia.
Already without Yann Cucherat, the French team suffered a major loss when Olympic all-around bronze medalist Benoit Caranobe tore his Achilles on floor exercise in qualification.
France could have taken advantage of a new rule that allows teams to use alternates in team finals to replace injured gymnasts, but the French did not enter any alternates in Rotterdam. It seemed to be an oversight by the French team, who left still rings specialist Samir Ait Said at home.
Nevertheless the French were pleased to make it to the finals, and can still put up some good scores from finalists Thomas Bouhail (floor exercise and vault) and Cyril Tommassone (pommel horse).
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It's critical to differentiate between operational recovery and disaster recovery because the tools and techniques used in each situation can differ significantly. Many IT systems are designed with high availability in mind, using technologies like N+1 power supplies, redundant connectivity and clustering to reduce the likelihood of an operational outage. But there are some additional steps you can take to prepare for an operational outage.
One of the most effective is to create frequent disk-based snapshots of the running environment. Many operational outages are related to data loss or corruption, which wouldn't be prevented by a high-availability system architecture. By using disk snapshots, you can quickly revert to a previous version of the system state. Continuous data protection technology is a newer method for dealing with operational outages, allowing for a much more fine-grained selection of the recovery point.
When enough systems are affected by an outage, it may be time to declare a disaster. We've recently seen a number of full-scale disasters caused by weather, power failures and terrorism. In these cases, the affected companies determined that it would take too long to attempt to recover the systems in place, so they began recovery operations at remote locations. Remoteness provides the greatest challenge for disaster recovery: How can a company ensure that a complete copy of its critical data will be available for recovery given the high cost of wide-area network bandwidth? This is the key technical challenge addressed by most disaster recovery products from replication to wide-area file services.
There's recovery, and then there's recovery
When problems progress far enough that we declare a disaster rather than just an operational problem, we have to consider what we're recovering. This is what often trips up IT folks: True disaster recovery should include much more than simply data recovery. In fact, true disaster recovery must include resumption of all business activities, including personnel and facilities, as well as technologies like storage, servers, applications and communications.
But in IT infrastructure, we can only concern ourselves with the technical elements of the disaster plan. As long as we communicate with the rest of the business that other areas aren't included, we can focus on doing our part. Even when restricted to applications and system infrastructure, we can quickly see that disaster recovery extends further than the traditional storage realm. Whole applications must be considered, which can include multiple elements on many different systems. And we must understand the requirements of the systems' users, something IT is often ill-prepared to do.
It can be helpful to consider business expectations when thinking about recovery requirements. Operational recovery will often require shorter recovery times or involve less data loss than a true disaster. Of course, people tend to be understanding when a large-scale disaster hits a company. Frequent operational outages will need to be addressed much more quickly and data loss contained, or the end users of the services will quickly lose faith in our abilities to protect their data. But since a site-wide disaster is rarer, it may be acceptable to bring only a subset of applications online or to work with less data than usual.
Another factor is the time required to actually recover data and restart systems. Even with a crate of backup tapes and sufficient bare systems, as would be provided at a contract disaster recovery site, recovery can take a surprisingly long time. Assume it will take up to 10 times as long to restore data from tape as it took to write it to the tape. This may seem excessive, but my own experience in disaster recovery tests has shown that tape-based data recovery is finicky to the extent that it can become nightmarish. Identifying tapes, locating the correct equipment, loading cartridges, indexing data and restoring can lead to numerous restarts, especially when an unfamiliar location is used.
When preparing a true disaster recovery plan, we must be pragmatic about the prospects of a disaster happening as well as our real capabilities. If only a few applications can be restored in less than four hours, a few more in less than a day and most others taking a week or more, the applications must be clearly classified so that those with the shortest term requirements can be dealt with first.
Payroll is a good example of an application that might be somewhat tolerant in the event of a real disaster. Most payroll companies will, on request, duplicate the previous period's payments to ensure that employees get paid despite the IT disaster. Also, many payroll processors keep the data at their end, so a reinstall of the application is all that's needed to update records.
In fact, most companies have very few applications that truly demand recovery in less than a few hours in the event of a site-wide disaster. Point-of-sale, flight operations, fund trading and similar time-sensitive systems will probably need this type of reliability, but many can be protected in more creative ways, such as by using a wide-area database cluster as a recovery solution for critical systems. If these ultra-critical applications can be removed from the disaster recovery solution, there may not be as much to protect as first thought.
Recovered--now what?
You've recovered from a disaster, but now what? How long will you continue to operate out of your disaster site? What kinds of operations will be required there? And how will you get back up and running in your main site? These questions can prove to be especially thorny.
One of the key systems often left out of a disaster recovery plan is the backup server. But the inability to protect data could be a serious omission, especially in regulated businesses. Make sure you have a plan in place to get backups going again after a few days, with appropriate tests to make sure the backups will function properly and contain a useful data set.
You may also find that you begin to outgrow your disaster site fairly quickly, especially when you consider the various concessions made to get things up and running quickly. If you intend to host your VMware images on fewer physical systems, make do without dual Fibre Channel (FC) SAN paths or use SATA disks instead of FC at your disaster site, you're likely to hit a performance wall. Consider how long your business could tolerate limited functionality and performance, and what might happen as demand grows and you need more storage.
The only real solution is to get running normally as quickly as possible. But many disaster recovery products, especially storage replication technologies, lack the ability to "fail back" after a disaster-induced "failover," so check with your vendors to ensure that their products handle disaster fail back satisfactorily. And, of course, you must have somewhere to fail back to, whether you return to normal operations at the original location or a new one.
Disaster recovery is complex. It's essential to recognize your real capabilities, but it's also important to extract honesty from the rest of the business. When will we consider a mere failure to have escalated to the level of a real disaster? And what diminished expectations would accompany an honest site-wide disaster as opposed to a simple operational failure? By answering these questions, your plan will progress more rapidly than it would by concentrating on technical solutions alone.