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Mark Webber's honest clarity has been missed from the Formula One paddock in 2014.
Amid the typical PR-speak, the Australian - having left Red Bull and the paddock for semi-retirement and Le Mans - was always relied upon for a blunt assessment.
On his former teammate Sebastian Vettel's troubled 2014 season, for instance, Webber told Austrian broadcaster Servus TV this week: "Vettel is having problems with the new rules.
"He has improved, but from the first race you could see he was making many mistakes," Webber added.
But Vettel himself, whilst not denying he made mistakes, thinks bad reliability has been the headline of his struggle in 2014.
At Spa, he even said it is "unfair" to directly compare him with Daniel Ricciardo this year, because the Australian has had a clear run with the sister RB10.
Now, Vettel tells German television RTL: "People see the raw result and have their opinion.
"But they don't always see what is really going on.
"We have had so many technical problems; burned up so many engines and wasted many components.
"Daniel has performed very strongly, there is no question," said the four-time world champion.
"But I think the races he won, we would have also been able to win if things had gone a bit differently."
For that reason, he said he is not beginning to question his own talent.
"It's not as if you forget how to drive over a winter and suddenly start doing everything wrong instead of everything right," said Vettel.
"The hunger is still there and I think we have a good chance to fight for the world championship if we position ourselves better."


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Each week intrepid reporter Rachel Grunwell will try out a new form of exercise to bring you the lowdown.
What is it? An informal street dance style that was born when the American GI's introduced Paris to the jitterbug in World War II. It has since changed into a French hybrid that's still loved in Paris.
What's needed? You need not bring a partner. Smart casual clothing that allows for movement (jeans are okay). Shoes that let you carry off a soft spin (not rubbery or sticky sorts, but heels work).
The experience: I want to be all girly-girl and wear a twirly-whirly skirt. Think of those 1950s poodle skirts in the flick Grease. Awesome.
I'm at the Victoria Avenue School hall in Remuera for this month's French jive class organised by dance teacher Angelique Meyer. You might remember her from when she started the Ceroc dance craze in Auckland. She sold that franchise, but missed teaching so she started up this gig.
It's not really a business venture. "I was just hankering to be creative again"," says Angelique. She also hopes the classes will help her to meet some neighbours "because it's hard to meet people in Remuera!"
Angelique reckons anyone can learn the French jive (she's even taught a man with a prosthetic leg).
I'm as nervous as heck because I've brought along two left-feet. Angelique tells me I'll be fine, and at least I'm not carrying some traumatic school-days dance experience. "The school social has a lot to answer for!" she reckons.
Anyhow, it takes a spoonful of courage to walk into this roomful of strangers, knowing that I'll be holding hands with all the blokes shortly. Not because I'm a tart, but because that's what you do. Everyone rotates partners every few minutes and learns a few more steps, and so on, until you end up dancing with everyone several times by the end of the hour.
There's about two dozen people here, spread out into five rows, blokes paired up with gals. The guys lead ("It's perhaps the last area of male domination left" I hear a woman joke).
Angelique demonstrates each new step, we all practice, and bit by bit, we learn all 25-moves. All while we're finding the beat to the likes of Nat King Cole, Roger Miller, Sammy Davis, Amy Winehouse and Michael Buble.
It's like rock 'n' roll, but not at the speed you might whip cream, so you can get your head around it.
The moves have names like the breakthru, hatchback and open-neck-break. But in plain-speak it's moves like holding hands with a partner, stepping away from them and then coming in together so we are side-by-side and hip-to-hip, with some spins thrown in and a handshake-hold.
By the end of the lesson, I've grasped the routine and swapped my two left feet for the "right" feet. I even get some fine-tuning from those with "fancy-feet" who advise "chin up" (ie, stop looking at your feet) and "have tension in your wrists" (ie, so they can steer me better into moves).
I'm pretty chuffed to be twirling about in time, it's delightful. And it's neat to meet some new folk too.
After the lesson, the hall fills with others who have come for general dancing and a cup of tea that's served in floral china cups along with lamingtons. Love that retro feel. What I also love is that any age is welcome.
I wish my Grandma Ann Haley lived closer so I could take her. I rave to her about the dance and she says it's what she and my granddad loved to do "in our day".
How much? $15 (cash)
Worth it? This gets you smiling and your cheeks red.
Try it: Next class: November 18, Epsom Normal Primary School, 41 The Drive, Epsom, 3pm, and from 4pm-6pm is general dancing/ practice/drinking tea/chatting. Check out frenchjivedance.co.nz.
Rating: 9.5/10

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Even without getting into America, 'Vette Yeah! patriotism, this yellow ZO6 powersliding out of the Station hairpin is all kinds of awesome.
It's no surprise that the V8 can spin the rear tires at will, but it's nice to see some public-roads hoonage where people expect it to happen, not around a car show.
Really, what we want to know is if this Monaco Corvette powerslide was cooler than Brazilian Dodge Viper burnout from a stop light.
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WASHINGTON (AP) — The U.S. economy delivered a solid month of job growth in March and signaled that stronger gains could lie ahead: More Americans without jobs are starting to look for one, and paychecks are growing.
Yet Friday's government report also showed how far the job market has to go: More than six years after the Great Recession began, private employment has only now regained its pre-recession level. Once you factor in population growth, hiring remains millions short of where it needs to be to reduce unemployment from a still-high 6.7 percent.
"We're seeing sustained improvement," said Scott Anderson, chief economist at Bank of the West. "But we're not really that much stronger than we were last year. And we need more improvement for a stronger economy to come into fruition."
U.S. employers added 192,000 jobs last month, just below February's 197,000, which was revised higher. March's figure nearly matched last year's average monthly gain, suggesting that the economy has fully recovered from severe winter weather that slowed hiring in December and January.
Most economists expect job gains to pick up a bit in coming months, to a pace of 225,000 or more. One reason: Americans have reduced their debts and benefited from rising home prices and higher stock markets. Better household finances should translate into more spending.
And a major drag on growth — federal spending cuts and tax increases — will fade this year, likely boosting the economy. Budget battles and government shutdowns that have eroded business and consumer confidence since the recession ended are unlikely this year.
"Enough repair has happened in damaged sectors and there's enough calm ... so we can have a real recovery," said Ethan Harris, global economist at Bank of America Merrill Lynch.
Greater business confidence has been good for companies such as Advanced Technology Services, a Peoria, Ill.-based firm that maintains machine tools, robotics, and computer systems for industrial companies such as Caterpillar, Honeywell and Honda.
The company has about 120 job openings for factory floor technicians, network engineers and information technology professionals. It has 2,700 employees in the United States and 300 more in Mexico and the United Kingdom.
Jeff Owens, president of ATS, said his clients appear more confident about economic growth and more willing to invest in machinery. He's seeing solid growth in the automotive, food processing and oil and gas drilling equipment industries.
"The economy is better than it was a year or two ago," Owens said. "We're seeing that people are more comfortable with executing their strategic plans."
The U.S. unemployment rate has been stuck at 6.7 percent since December, but that partly reflects a positive trend: More Americans, particularly younger people, are either working or looking for work.
So far this year, about 1.3 million people have started looking for jobs , and most have found them. Last year, by contrast, the number of people either working or looking for work had shrunk by roughly 500,000.
That's a welcome change from the pattern that had prevailed since the recession: The proportion of Americans working or looking for work fell to a 35-year low in December. Many of the unemployed had become discouraged and stopped hunting for jobs.
In addition, many younger people stayed in school to avoid the job market. And some older Americans likely retired earlier than they would have otherwise.
For most of the past four years, the number of Americans who found jobs barely kept up with population growth. Now it's growing slightly faster. As a result, the percentage of Americans age 16 or older who were working reached 58.9 percent in March — the highest point since 2009.
Another positive sign in the report: Americans worked more hours last month. The average work week rose to 34.5 hours last month, up from 34.3 in February.
More hiring plus a longer workweek means bigger paychecks for more Americans. That should help fuel more consumer spending and economic growth in the months ahead.
Still, for individual workers, average hourly pay slipped a penny to $24.30. Average hourly wages have risen 2.1 percent in the past year, faster than the 1.1 percent inflation rate. But in a healthy economy, hourly wages typically grow about 3.5 percent a year.
One thing holding back overall pay is the quality of jobs. Most of those added last month were in low-paying industries.
Temporary help agencies added 28,500 positions. Hotels and restaurants added 33,100, and retailers added 21,300.
Higher-paying positions didn't fare as well. Manufacturers shed 1,000 jobs, the first such drop since July. And professional and technical services, which includes accountants, engineers and information technology workers, added just 10,400.
Freezing temperatures and heavy snowstorms this winter closed factories, slowed home sales and kept consumers away from shopping malls. As a result, many economists expect growth slowed to a 1.5 percent to 2 percent annual rate in the first three months of the year from 2.6 percent in the fourth quarter.
But steady hiring, greater business and consumer confidence and fewer government spending cuts should accelerate growth to about 3 percent for the rest of this year.
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Why are some people more religious than others? Answers to this question often focus on the role of culture or upbringing. Although these influences are important, new research suggests that whether we believe or not may also have to do with how much we rely on intuition versus analytic thinking. In 2011 researchers from Harvard University published a paper showing that people who have a tendency to rely on their intuition are more likely to believe in God. They also showed that encouraging people to think intuitively increased people's belief in God.
Building on these results in an article published in Science recently, Will Gervais and Ara Norenzayan of the University of British Columbia found that encouraging people to think analytically reduced their tendency to believe in God. Taken together, these findings suggest belief may stem at least in part from our thinking styles.
Gervais and Norenzayan's research is based on the idea that we possess two different ways of thinking that are related. Understanding these two ways, which are often referred to as system 1 and system 2, may be important for understanding our tendency toward having religious faith. System 1 thinking relies on shortcuts and rules of thumb, whereas system 2 relies on analytic thinking and tends to be slower and to require more effort. Solving logical and analytic problems may require that we override our system 1 thinking processes to engage system 2. Psychologists have developed a number of clever techniques that spur us to do this. Using some of these techniques, Gervais and Norenzayan examined whether engaging system 2 leads people away from believing in God and religion.
In one activity, Gervais and Norenzayan gave participants sets of five randomly arranged words (such as "high winds the flies plane") and asked them to drop one word and rearrange the others to construct a more meaningful sentence (such as "the plane flies high"). Those participants who unscrambled sentences that contained words related to analytical thinking (such as "reason" or "ponder") were less likely to express agreement with the statement that God exists. People's prior belief in whether God exists, as measured several weeks before the study took place, was found to be unrelated to the results.
In another experiment, the investigators used an even more subtle way of activating analytic thinking: by having participants fill out a survey measuring their religious beliefs that was printed either in a clear font or in one that was difficult to read. Prior research has shown that a difficult-to-read font promotes analytic thinking by forcing volunteers to slow down and deliberate more carefully about the meaning of what they are reading. The researchers found that participants who completed a survey that was printed in an unclear font expressed less belief as compared with those who filled out the same survey in the clear font.
These studies demonstrate yet another way in which our thinking tendencies, many of which may be innate, have contributed to religious faith. It may also help explain why the vast majority of Americans tend to believe in God. Because system 2 thinking requires effort, most of us tend to rely on our system 1 thinking processes whenever possible.


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1/4 cup sweet paprika
2 tablespoons ground thyme
2 teaspoons onion powder
1 teaspoon garlic powder
1 teaspoon salt
1/4 teaspoon ground red pepper
1/2 cup (1 stick) butter, melted
4 (10-ounce) tilapia fillets
4 Kaiser buns, split, buttered and toasted
Cilantro Lime Mayonnaise, recipe follows
Store-bought mango salsa
-In a shallow dish, combine first 6 ingredients.
-Pour melted butter into another shallow dish. Dip fish fillets in melted butter and coat with seasoning mixture.
-Heat a cast iron skillet over medium-high heat until hot. Cook prepared fish, in batches if necessary, 3 to 4 minutes per side, or until fish flakes easily with a fork.
-Spread Cilantro Lime Mayonnaise evenly over toasted buns. Place blackened fish on bottom half of bun, top with mango salsa, and cover with top half of bun.
Cilantro Lime Mayonnaise:
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February Artist of the Month: J. Timothy Quirk
Torrington >> The Register Citizen Artist of the Month for February is Torrington resident J. Timothy Quirk. Quirk is a cartoonist, with a daily strip in Nebraska and New York newspapers, and a panel cartoon for a weekly paper in Central New York. Quirk also has a blog, In Torrington Today, to which he posts one panel cartoons.
Quirk's work will be on display for the month of February in the Newsroom Cafe, 59 Field Street, which is open 7 a.m. to 7 p.m. Monday through Friday.
Quirk grew up with comic strips -- his father had an interest in comics and passed it on to him. One could say comics are a family affair, now that his children draw with him.
"I've always drawn comic strips, but it has only been the past few years that I've actively pursued it fully," Quirk said.
Quirk first started in cartoon drawing after creating some books for his daughter when teaching her how to read. The books had a dinosaur as a friend. Those books led to the creation of the "Jurascals" with the help of Quirk's friends, Dan and Tinsley Morrison. "Jurascals" is a cartoon about Jurassic dinosaurs and their adventures in the real world, published in the Auburn Citizen, the McCook Daily Gazette, and the Sidney Sun Telegraph.
After creating "Jurascals," Quirk became a member of Artwell Gallery in October 2010. His exposure at Artwell, he said, gave him the opportunity to show his work to a newspaper editor in central New York, which led to Quirk being hired to do a weekly cartoon called "Happy Central New York."
In April 2011, Quirk's comic strip "Jurascals" was picked up by another New York paper. In 2012, he approached a paper in Nebraska with "Jurascals," adding a Nebraskan twist and they picked it up.
"I will continue to hone the craft and present my work to more and more newspapers in more and more states. Perhaps one day I may create art for a Connecticut paper," Quirk explained.
Quirk's favorite aspect of being a cartoonist is the chance to spread smiles across the country.
"Every day I reach thousands of readers through their local newspapers comics page, and hopefully my happy artwork makes them smile. That is a gift," said Quirk.
The work on display at the Newsroom Cafe is mostly comic panels of a cartoon called In Torrington Today, which celebrates the region "through the eyes of a visitor." Quirk's comics are inspired by traveling and new experiences.
Because the work on display is based on Torrington, Quirk will be in the Newsroom Cafe Friday, Feb. 8 from 10 to 3 p.m. creating more art that will go right up on the wall, weather permitting. If the event needs to be cancelled, there will be a snowdate for later in the month.
The public is welcome to attend and create art with him.
Quirk has also created coloring pages for young artists. Crayons and coloring pages will be available for young artists who may take part in the activity with their parents supervision. Watercolor paper and watercolors will be available for adults.
"For this 'creating art' event, we can keep the event flexible and anyone can visit, make art with (me) and leave when they wish," Quirk explained. "When I see something new I want to preserve the experience not necessarily with a photo but with art."
Quirk said he chose to be the Artist of the Month because it allows him to expose his work to friends, neighbors and the general public.
Quirk will be hosting an exit reception on Friday March 1 from 5:30 to 7:30 p.m. The reception, at the Newsroom Cafe on 59 Field St., is open to the public. To find out more about In Torrington Today, visit http://intorringtontoday.blogspot.com or find it on Facebook by searching In Torrington Today.
If you are interested in taking part in the Register Citizen's Artist of the Month Program contact Jenny Golfin at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 860-489-3121, ext. 357.
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Last October, Fort Morgan Hampton Inn owner David Amin put a bug in city leaders' ears about the potential for a "slightly higher" lodging tax, which he told the Fort Morgan City Council he would support.
The council seemed interested in this possible revenue source and directed City Manager Jeff Wells to start looking into its feasibility.
Fast forward to now, and it's looking more and more likely that city voters will decide whether to add a small lodging tax in Fort Morgan, Wells told the council Tuesday night.
He briefly mentioned the progress on this issue during discussion about city revenue forecasts for 2015 budget planning, but it is something he likely will be talking about far more at future meetings.
"As directed by council, I've met with the chamber of commerce, Morgan County Economic Development Corp., the tourism panel, and I'm planning on meeting with the commissioners to discuss the city's intent to put it on the ballot," Wells told The Fort Morgan Times. "So far, all the groups I've seen have been supportive of the proposal."
The potential Fort Morgan lodging tax would be on hotel and motel stays in the city, Wells said.
It would not affect restaurants and food purchases the way that lodging taxes in other areas do, such as in Sterling. The council previously told Wells they did not want that to be part of it here.
That puts the bulk of the burden for paying the tax on visitors to the city who stay in hotels and motels, and then on the hotel and motel owners to collect it.
"I believe the unanimous support (so far) is because this is not a tax on the citizens who live in Fort Morgan," Wells said. "Instead, it's a tax on people visiting Fort Morgan."
And while the city would not expect to bring in lots of revenue from a small city lodging tax, it would be another source for funds that could go to the community development and economic development projects that otherwise compete for budget space.
That was one of the ideas the council said they wanted as the purpose for such a lodging tax: specifically dedicating the money raised to economic and community development.
Some of the potential projects already listed as possibilities for that money are the hiring a market research firm to do metrics studies about the city to determine what types of economic development to target, beautifying the major entrances and exits into the city, creating a visitor center by Interstate 76.
"The idea is this money would be used to promote Fort Morgan and the community with revenue from people who come here to enjoy our community," Wells said.
He compared that idea to the city sales tax having a certain percentage dedicated to capital improvement projects.
There is still a lot of work to do to get such a lodging tax question on the November ballot, but that is one of the projects city staff are tackling.
Questions remain about how big of a tax the city would seek and how it would affect stays of varying lengths, such as long-term ones, but the election deadlines are still a ways away.
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* World Bank says China economic slowdown may worsen
* Turkey retaliates again after mortar fire from Syria
* Coming up: API oil data 4:30 p.m. EDT Wednesday
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By Robert Gibbons
NEW YORK, Oct 8 (Reuters) - Oil prices eased on Monday onconcerns that slower economic growth in China and the debtcrisis in Europe will curb demand for petroleum, while thepotential for Middle East turmoil to disrupt supplies limitedlosses.
Crude futures encountered pressure when the World Bank cutits economic growth forecasts for East Asia and the Pacificregion and said there was a risk the slowdown in China, theglobal No. 2 oil consumer, could be deeper and more prolongedthan expected by many analysts.
China's economic growth and demand for petroleum have beenkey supports for oil prices since global energy demand was hitby recession after the financial crisis in 2008.
Worries about Spain and Europe's debt crisis continued evenas euro zone officials gathered in Luxembourg to launch theregion's bailout fund. The euro retreated from a two-week peakagainst the dollar and yen.
The concerns about Asia weighed on global and U.S. equities.
More exchanges of fire between Turkey and Syria on Mondayand better-than-expected German export data helped limit oilmarket losses, analysts and brokers said.
"The situation between Turkey and Syria and some Germanexport data, that was unexpectedly supportive, helped pullprices off lows hit because of concerns about China's slowingand Europe's debt crisis," said Phil Flynn, analyst at PriceFutures Group in Chicago.
Brent November crude slipped 24 cents to $111.78 abarrel by 1:43 a.m. EDT (1743 GMT), recovering after falling toa session low of $110.54. Monday's $112.24 peak briefly putprices above the 200-day moving average of $112.15, a technicallevel closely monitored by chart-watching traders.
U.S. November crude was down 47 cents at $89.41 abarrel, having slipped as low as $88.21. U.S. crude needs asettlement in the black to put prices back above its 100-daymoving average of $89.88, which also was Friday's settlement.
Brent's premium to U.S. crude neared $23 abarrel intraday on Monday. Middle East conflicts and delays inthe October loading of North Sea Forties cargoes have helpedpush Brent's premium to its highest since October 2011.
Total crude trading volume was light, with Brent turnover 29percent below its 30-day average and U.S. dealings 51 percentbelow their 30-day average.
U.S. RBOB gasoline fell more than 1 percent, while U.S.heating oil, the benchmark distillate futures contract, easedless than half a percent.
Monday's Columbus Day holiday for U.S. federal workers willdelay weekly oil inventory reports this week. The AmericanPetroleum Institute will release its data at 4:30 p.m. EDT (2030GMT) on Wednesday, while U.S. Energy Information Administrationdata will arrive at 11 a.m. EDT on Thursday.
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Turkish President Abdullah Gul said on Monday the"worst-case scenarios" were now playing out in Syria. Gul saidTurkey would to do everything necessary to protect itself, whileits army fired back for a sixth day after a shell fired fromSyria flew over the border.
Syrian forces advanced into the rebel-held Khalidiyadistrict in the central city of Homs for the first time inmonths, rebels in the neighborhood said. Forces fighting rebelsseeking to topple President Bashar al-Assad have been bombarding12 districts of the besieged Homs for four days.
"The ongoing shelling of Turkey by Syria is also fuellingconcerns about the conflict in Syria spreading to theneighboring country," said Carsten Fritsch, oil analyst atCommerzbank in Frankfurt.
"If this were to happen, oil production in the North of Iraqwould be at risk, since the oil is transported to the West viapipelines through Turkey," he said.
Iran's dispute with Israel and the West over Tehran'snuclear program also continues to limit oil price losses.
Iran on Monday derided Israel's air defenses as feeble,citing a drone incursion into Israeli airspace, but Tehran didnot say it had sent the aircraft shot down by the Israelis atthe weekend.
Iran also accused Israel and others of masterminding what itsaid was a cyber attack on communication networks on Iranianoffshore oil and gas platforms in the past few weeks.
(Additional reporting by Alice Baghdjian and ChristopherJohnson in London and Florence Tan and Manolo Serapio Jr inSingapore; Editing by Bob Burgdorfer)
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Dynamic beat 'em up action is reborn once more with Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3. Blending an intricate fighting system with an open 3D environment, DBZ Budokai Tenkaichi 3 brings the thrills and excitement of the animated series to life through vivid worlds and epic battles that take place in the air and sea as well as on the ground.
With over 160 characters, destructible environments and ten game modes including Dragon History and Duel, Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 offers the ultimate DBZ fighting experience.
Enter the Dragon
Anyone unfamiliar with the Dragon Ball Z phenomenon may well wonder what the blue blazes is going on when they witness any of the anime, manga or games. With spectacularly explosive super powers, bizarre looking characters and battles which literally last for days, there's no doubting it's a little different from the norm. However, there's a reason why this seemingly crazy franchise is so well liked - and Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 demonstrates that with suitably dazzling aplomb.
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The Dragon Ball Z universe can appear slightly intimidating to newcomers because of its rather rich and complex history, and that's probably not helped by Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 boasting over 160 characters to sink your teeth into, with a mass of move sets, costume variations and other little differences to mimic their animated counterparts.
Overwhelming? Thankfully, no. The Spike developed fighting game is fully aware of its complexities and offers assistance with a huge character reference database which introduces you to the seemingly endless cast, complete with interesting information, pictures and audio files to get you up to speed.
Complementing that is an excellent tutorial mode that guides you through every necessary nuance of the game as well as giving you the opportunity to practice specific moves, techniques and combos. By the time you've gone through its comprehensive supervision you should be more than ready to slip into the beat 'em up's warm battle gloves. If you're already combat hardened from its prequels then you'll be happy to know there's a Disc Fusion option which lets Budokai Tenkaichi 1 and Budokai Tenkaichi 2 unlock new gameplay modes if you insert the discs while playing Budokai Tenkaichi 3.
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As with its predecessors, Tenkaichi 3 has several aims in mind: to keep fans of the series happy, replicate the impressively dynamic fights of its source material and - most importantly - to be a great game. It succeeds on all counts. There are few examples within games where the sheer over the top madness of a typical fight seen in Japanese anime is effectively replicated, but here the nuances of the cartoon and the superhero style genre are captured perfectly.
Battles occur in a full 3D environment, where flying at subsonic speeds and swiftly running across large landscapes are commonplace. Giant energy beams are often the weapon of choice, leaving equally giant craters in the ground and scorch marks on their target. Fists fly at such pace they're merely a blur. Combatants hit each other so hard they fly across the screen from the force, snapping trees, collapsing mountains and destroying nearby structures and vehicles in the process. You've not seen hyper-kinetic fighting until you've seen this.
If you think such apparent excess would create chaos, you're right - but it's brilliantly animated and utterly playable chaos. Everything is structured around a deep and intuitive fighting system that keeps proceedings within your control. The free roaming nature of the arenas works well with an intelligent lock-on system and focused camera. The combination means fights are easy to follow without losing any of the intensity that makes them almost as much fun to watch as they are to play. Even when the screen splits for its superb two-player mode the action never lets up in its speed or playability.
There are a lot of techniques to master in Tenkaichi 3 if you wish to get the most from it. But the rewards are massive for learning its quirks... which sums up the game perfectly: it welcomes curiosity and rewards persistence.
You may not know the wealth of characters but there's so many you're bound to find one you'll like. You may not be familiar with the storylines, but the Dragon History mode allows you to recreate and interact with some of the show's past episodes - a great way to involve you directly in its mythos. Even the loading screens are mini-games designed to be friendly diversions and keep you entertained between bouts. It's an extremely accommodating title.
Dragon Ball Z Budokai Tenkaichi 3 is a delight in every way. Its thoughtful design and attractive presentation are enough to solve the tricky problem of appealing to old and new alike, while its instantly playable and multifaceted gameplay makes it one of the most addictive beat 'em ups available. Polished and potentially inexhaustible in its scope, this is fantastic fighting worthy of anyone's collection.
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Every five years, our friends over at the U.S. Department of Agriculture and Department of Health and Human Services bring together a committee of top nutrition and health experts to review new research findings about food and health.
The result is a state-of-the-science Dietary Guidelines for Americans (DGA) to help us eat right for wellness, to help us reach a healthy weight, and to help prevent disease.
The most recent set of guidelines were just released, and they're full of exciting new findings we'll all be hearing a lot more about in the upcoming months.
March happens to be National Nutrition Month, so each week I'll feature news you can use from the new Dietary Guidelines along with smart ways to go from expert recommendations to everyday healthy habits.
For a sneak peak at what's to come, here are some of the more surprising and new recommendations in the 2010 edition….


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Upgrading A Fedora Kernel on Arm Systems
Normally you just use yum to install the latest Fedora release kernel. However, occasionally you may need to build and install a custom kernel to test out new functionality.
To update your ARM system with a newly built kernel so that it is available for use from uboot.
This HowTo is based upon experience updating trimslice hardware. However, the general principles should apply for other arm systems.
Building the kernel from source
Obtain a src tarball for the build then follow the instructions in the README.
# cd linux-xxxxx # or wherever you uinpacked the kernel to # make mrproper # cp/path/to/provided/config ./config # make oldconfig # make -j 6
of course, you may need to apply a few patches before you actually perform the make steps.
n.b the example above assumes you have a config file supplied with the kernel to configure the kernel settings. If you don't have a pre-defined config then you can execute command 'make config' to interactively select from a vast array of config options or you can run 'make arm_defconfig' to generate an arm default config.
Also, it is probably quicker to cross-compile from, say, x86 if you have the relevant tool chain available. Of course, after building you will need to make the src tree available on the trimslice to install.
Installing the kernel
As root in the src tree top-level dir:
# make modules_install install
This should put the vmlinux and initramfs images into /boot or /boot/uboot or wherever your boot scripts and images are located. The destination may vary depending on how your system is configured. The target dir for the install should be the one defined by the setting for UBOOT_DIR in /etc/sysconfig/uboot)
Generating the uImage and uInitrd Images Needed By UBoot
Next you need to generate the uInitrd (uboot initial ram disk) and uImage (uboot image) files in your boot directory. You can substitute more suitable suffixes than armv7hl-tegra if you ar eon a different architecture.
# cd /boot # or whatever UBOOT_DIR is # export VERSION=3.4.0-rc4 # or whatever the kernel version is # mkimage -A arm -O linux -T kernel -C none -a 0x00008000 -e 0x00008000 -n $VERSION -d ./vmlinuz-$VERSION uImage-$VERSION-armv7hl-tegra # mkimage -A arm -O linux -T ramdisk -C none -n $VERSION -d ./initramfs-$VERSION.img uInitrd-$VERSION-armv7hl-tegra
Going Live
You might want to save a cop of your rootfs at this point, just in case.
You can now copy the files uImage-$VERSION-armv7hl-tegra and uInitrd-$VERSION-armv7hl-tegra over the current ones referenced from boot.scr so they are used for booting (in my case it loads files uImage and uInitrd). Or alternatively rebuild boot.scr to point at the new files.
The 3.4.0 kernel shown here is a lot bigger than the one I was using previously. If that is true for you this might mean that you need to change the load addresses used in your boot.cmd to load the uInitrd file at a higher initial address. Rebuild boot.scr using this command:
# mkimage -A arm -O linux -T script -C none -a 0 -e 0 -n "Trim Slice F17 boot script" -d boot.cmd boot.scr
Currently my boot.cmd contains the following
setenv bootargs mem=384M@0M mem=512M@512M nvmem=128M@384M vmalloc=248M video=tegrafb console=ttyS0,115200n8 rw root=/dev/sdb1 nohdparm rootwait earlyprintk rd_NO_PLYMOUTH ext2load usb 0:1 4080000 /boot/uImage ext2load usb 0:1 4480000 /boot/uInitrd bootm 4080000 4480000
Will Cohen and Jon Masters recommended replacing 4480000 with 8400000. All you need to do is make sure that the uImage file extent does not overlap the uInitrd file extent
setenv bootargs mem=384M@0M mem=512M@512M nvmem=128M@384M vmalloc=248M video=tegrafb console=ttyS0,115200n8 rw root=/dev/sdb1 nohdparm rootwait earlyprintk rd_NO_PLYMOUTH ext2load usb 0:1 4080000 /boot/uImage ext2load usb 0:1 8400000 /boot/uInitrd bootm 4080000 8400000
n.b. don't forget to set the correct device in boot.cmd -- usb 0:1 identifies my USB stick but you may need to specify a memory card or local disk and so the device may be different. Check UBOOT_DEVICE in /etc/sysconfig/uboot which ought to match the value in boot.cmd/boot.scr
OK, now reboot and enjoy, fingers crossed!


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US Midwestern Regional Cuisine
An American Food Atlas, Part V: The Midwest
In part five of our regional American food tour, we're touching down on the rolling hills and Great Lakes of the Midwest to investigate what makes this area so delicious. With a friendly handshake, the Midwest has welcomed immigrants from all over the world and assimilated their food into a distinct, hearty cuisine. Bring a healthy appetite, because the Midwest aims to fill your stomach and heart with its honest, comforting, and very filling dishes. Keep reading for an introduction to eating in America's heartland.
Food Without Borders
The Midwest was known for creative food concoctions long before the fusion craze of the last decade. In Cincinnati, spaghetti snuggles under chili, beans, chopped onions, and cheese. Whether you're from Detroit or from Flint, Michiganders agree that the best way to eat a Coney Island hot dog is topped with chili, diced onions, and a few stripes of mustard. In Detroit, you're also likely to find a uniquely Chinese-American dish, warr shu gai: fried boneless chicken topped with a savory gravy and sliced almonds. And thanks to an ethnically diverse population, Midwestern cities are just as famous for pierogi, schnitzel, pizza, and saganaki as they are for their Juicy Lucys and corn dogs.
State Fair Fare
Nothing embodies Midwestern sensibilities quite like the state fair, and the treats residing at these summertime celebrations set the bar for the rest of the country. The largest state fair in the region belongs to Minnesota, and here you'll find over 300 vendors dishing out everything from classics like funnel cake and corn dogs to Midwestern favorites like deep-fried cheese curds and frozen custard to exotic delights like lamb fries (fried lamb testicles) and spiced camel meat sliders.
Windy City Cuisine
The site of one of the most spectacular World Expos in history, Chicago sweeps visitors off their feet with its gusty temperament and world-class cuisine. Unique to this city are fully loaded Chicago-style hot dogs on poppy seed buns, deep dish and stuffed pizza, the plantain-sandwiched jibarito, baked Chicken Vesuvio, the Maxwell Street Polish, and juicy and spicy Italian beef sandwiches. Lest you think that the Windy City can only stir up stick-to-your-ribs food, note that it's also home to three-Michelin-starred Alinea from famed molecular gastronomy guru Grant Achatz, among many other top-tier chefs and eateries.


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Sara Kate Gillingham-Ryan's Squash Ribbon Puff Pastry Tart
Puff pastry is one of those ingredients that's truly a lifesaver when it comes to entertaining. Keeping a box of this flakey, buttery frozen pastry on hand opens up a world of incredibly easy and elegant little bites.
Sara Kate Gillingham-Ryan, author of Good Food to Share knows exactly how to use puff pastry to create a perfect cocktail hour snack, this lovely Squash Ribbon Puff Pastry Tart. Simply spread with a creamy herbed mascarpone and layered with thinly sliced squash, this little tart baked up in about 15 minutes and can be cut into snack-sized wedges, served hot or at room temperature. But the real beauty of this recipe is its wonderful versatility; you can swap out any seasonal vegetables you'd like for the squash and match your cheeses and herbs accordingly. We're dreaming up our own versions with red onions and gorgonzola or potatoes with fontina.
As always with our Cook the Book feature, we have five (5) copies of Serious Eats to give away this week.
Adapted from Good Food to Share by Sara Kate Gillingham-Ryan. Copyright © 2011. Published by Weldon Owen. Available wherever books are sold. All Rights Reserved
- Yield:serves 6 to 8
- Active time: 30 minutes
- Total time:45 minutes
- 1/2 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
- 1/4 cup mascarpone cheese
- 1 large egg
- 2 tablespoons heavy cream
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped fresh mint
- 1 teaspoon finely chopped fresh thyme
- Sea salt and freshly ground pepper
- All-purpose flour for dusting
- 1 sheet puff pastry, about 1/2 pound, thawed according to package directions if frozen
- 1 large zucchini and 1 large yellow crookneck squash, trimmed and very thinly sliced lengthwise with a mandoline or vegetable peeler
- 1 teaspoon olive oil
Preheat the oven to 375°F . Line a baking sheet with parchment paper.
In a bowl, combine 1/4 cup of the Parmesan, the mascarpone, egg, cream, mint, thyme, and a little salt and pepper and stir until well mixed. Set aside.
On a lightly floured work surface, roll out the puff pastry into a 9-by-13-inch rectangle about 1/8 inch thick. Transfer the pastry to the prepared baking sheet. Using the tip of a sharp knife, score a border about 3/4 inch in from the edge all the way around the pastry sheet, piercing only the top few layers. Spread the cheese mixture evenly over the pastry inside the border, then arrange the squash slices diagonally across the tart. Brush the squash slices and the pastry edges with the olive oil.
Bake the tart for 15 minutes, then sprinkle with the remaining 1/4 cup (1 oz/30 g) Parmesan. Continue to bake until the cheese is melted and the pastry is golden, about 15 minutes longer. Let cool on the pan on a wire rack for 5 minutes. Cut into pieces and serve warm.
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Just as children must be taught to tie their shoes, read and write, solve math problems, and understand science concepts and events in history, so must they be guided in developing the qualities of character that are valued by their families and by the communities in which they live. It is only through guidance and modeling by caring adults that children learn to be honest and thoughtful, to stand up for their principles, to care about others, to act responsibly and to make sound moral choices.
This booklet provides information about the values and skills that make up character and good citizenship and what you can do to help your child develop strong character. It suggests activities that you and your school-aged children can do to put those values to work in your daily lives and tips for working with teachers and schools to ensure that you act together to promote the basic values that you want your child to learn and use. Finally, the booklet provides an extensive list of books and other resources with character-related themes that you can read and discuss with your child to encourage character and citizenship development.
Be assured that the qualities of character discussed in this booklet are universally recognized by people of many religions and cultures, and the information contained in the booklet can be used by parents from many different backgrounds and with different beliefs.


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For quite some time, I thought the variance between models of Sega Genesis/Megadrive were as simple as "model 1, model 2" et cetera. I was vaguely aware that the sound chip changed from model to model, but simply thought it "got worse" over time. The answer is far more complex than that, as you can read in this extensive investigation of the subject on Sega-16's forums.
The number of changes Sega made from model to model, down to the circuitry, is pretty indicative of why Sega would later lose the war against companies with more consistent messages and systems. The conclusion is that you want a "high definition graphics" genesis if you care about sound, and if you'd like the game to boot straight away, skipping the "under license from Sega" screen, you'll want the one with this FCID.


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LONDON — The British government has told civil servants: Go forth and tweet.
The government published guidelines Tuesday for its departments on using the microblogging service Twitter.
In contrast to Twitter's limit of 140 characters per message, the document runs 20 pages, or more than 5,000 words.
It tells civil servants their tweets should be "human and credible" and written in "informal spoken English."
It advises government departments to produce between two and 10 tweets a day, with a gap of at least 30 minutes between each "to avoid flooding our followers' Twitter streams."
The advice says Twitter can be used for everything from announcements to insights from ministers, and in a crisis could be a "primary channel" for communicating with the electorate.
The document warns against using Twitter simply to convey campaign messages, but notes that "while tweets may occasionally be 'fun,'" they should be in line with government objectives.
It also says departments should not follow any Twitter users who are not following them, as this could be interpreted as "Big Brother" behavior.
The guidelines are the British government's latest attempt to embrace the Internet and social media — efforts that have been both praised and mocked.
Stolid, unglamorous Prime Minister Gordon Brown was memorably called "an analog politician in a digital age" by the leader of the opposition. A YouTube appearance in April amid a scandal over lawmakers' expenses backfired when Brown seemed to be stiff, insincere and smiling inappropriately.
The Twitter document said the government must "accept that there will be some criticism" of its efforts.
Twitter, launched in 2006, first gained popularity as a way for fans to follow the thoughts and activities of celebrities like Oprah Winfrey (2 million followers) and Ashton Kutcher (3 million). It has also proved a powerful tool for mobilizing causes and protest movements, in post-election demonstrations from Iran to Moldova, where activists used Twitter to rally support after cell phone networks went down.
Governments around the world are also starting to use it to keep voters and constituents informed, with Britain and the United States among the most active. President Barack Obama's political Twitter stream — with more than 1.8 million followers and run out of the Democratic National Committee — has recently encouraged people to tweet their members of Congress about his proposed health care overhaul, and provides links to the president's news conferences.
The White House, meanwhile, has more than 800,000 followers to promote official government news, such as photographs of the first family's recent trip to Russia, Italy and Ghana. A handful of aides keep the account updated. Only a few are allowed access to Twitter on their government computers because U.S. law requires aides preserve every presidential record — including tweets.
In Britain, the prime minister's office, the Foreign Office and some individual lawmakers already use Twitter to broadcast their activities online. Prime Minister Gordon Brown's 10 Downing St. office has more than 1 million Twitter followers, who receive tidbits — written by a Downing Street staffer — such as "PM has just traveled from London to Cardiff by train."
Other governments have more modest Twitter presences. In Denmark, where there are no government Twitter guidelines, Prime Minister Lars Loekke Rasmussen has just under 3,500 followers for his sporadically updated Twitter feed. Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper has 16,700, a similar number to Norwegian Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu has just under 2,000 followers for his Hebrew-langauge feed.
Several Swedish opposition politicians have caught the Twitter bug, though the government is so far immune.
Neither French president Nicolas Sarkozy nor Italian Prime Minister Silvio Berlusconi appears to have a Twitter presence. German Chancellor Angela Merkel does not tweet, either.
Spain's government launched a Twitter account last week; it has just over 2,000 followers.
Politicians also must beware the pitfalls of Twitter-impersonators. When Michael Jackson died last month, several British newspapers republished a tweet seemingly from British Foreign Secretary David Miliband: "Never has one soared so high and yet dived so low. RIP Michael." It was fake.
Tom Watson, a Labour party lawmaker who is one of the House of Commons' most active bloggers, said Twitter could be a valuable tool for Britain's Labour government.
But he said the guidelines showed how levels of familiarity with the Internet varied widely in the government's Whitehall offices.
"There are some very bright, digitally enabled civil servants who unfortunately have to write these documents for their bosses, the mandarins, who still get their secretaries to print off their e-mails so they can read them," Watson told the BBC.
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Air quality being monitored closely in DM metro
Air quality is being closely monitored in Des Moines after a warehouse fire pushed a massive smoke plume over the city Thursday night.
Crews were called to an old recycling facility at 1422 Scott Ave. about 5:50 p.m. Thursday.
The fire burned a large amount of debris inside the building. The thick black smoke poured out of all the openings in the large metal building and created a large cloud that could be seen miles away.
Air quality experts are monitoring conditions Friday.
"Concentrations measured are high enough to be a concern for sensitive populations such as. the young, elderly and those with health issues like asthma. We are continuing to monitor the area," said Polk County Air Pollution Engineer Jeremy Becker on Friday morning.
Polk County Health Department Director Rick Kozin advises people and businesses in the immediate area of the fire to take precautions: Avoid prolonged exposure to the smoke, avoid strenuous activity, stay indoors and use the air conditioning with furnace filter to help filter the air.
Schools and childcare centers are also advised to hold indoor recess periods Friday.
The Fire:
Firefighters said the building was home to a demolition recycling business that abandoned the building years ago. Unfortunately, it was left full of old home building materials. According to neighbors who have peeked inside, all those flammable items literally fill the entire building.
In all six fire engines, five ladder trucks and five medic squads responded to the scene. Altoona, Ankeny, Norwalk, Pleasant Hill and West Des Moines also assisted in firefighting operations or in covering Des Moines fire stations normal emergency calls.
"From floor to ceiling, there was nothing but debris, boards and just everything," said Jan Groves, who lives across the street.
A total of six firefighters suffered minor injuries, officials said.
Crews also had a hard time getting enough water in the area southeast of downtown.
"Water pressure is low in this area. We're trying to fight fire with resources we have, have requested mutual aid from surrounding departments to help us put this fire out," said Capt. Steve Brown.
The Investigation:
Fire officials will be looking for a cause, but already believe the fire to be suspicious.
"There's no power, no utilities to this building, so I would say it's suspicious," said Brown.
Thick black smoke caused traffic problems on nearby Southeast 14th Street, but traffic has resumed in the area.
As of early Friday morning, crews had knocked the flames down and were continuing to douse some hot spots on the property. Crews said the fire could smolder for days.


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Café Tacuba (stylized Café Tacvba) is a band from Ciudad Satélite, Mexico. The group gained popularity in the early 1990s. They were founded in 1989, before they had the current lineup of Rubén Isaac Albarrán Ortega (lead vocals, rhythm guitar), Emmanuel "Meme" del Real Díaz (keyboards, piano, programming, rhythm guitar, melodica, vocals), José Alfredo "Joselo" Rangel Arroyo (lead guitar, vocals), and Enrique "Quique" Rangel Arroyo: (bass guitar, electric upright bass, vocals), their friend Roberto Silva played the keyboards for a short period of time. Mexican folk music player Alejandro Flores is considered the 5th tacubo, as he has played the violin in almost every Café Tacvba concert since 1994. Since the Cuatro Caminos World Tour, Luis "El Children" Ledezma has played the drums in every concert but is not considered an official member of the band.
Previously known as "Alicia ya no vive aquí" (a tribute to Martin Scorsese's Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore), the band took its final name from a coffee shop (el Café de Tacuba) located in downtown Mexico City. The cafe, which opened in 1912 and had its heyday in the 1940s and 1950s, was representative of the Pachuco scene at the time, something the band would later acknowledge as an influence. The Café de Tacuba is still in operation as a coffee shop and restaurant on Tacuba Street, in Mexico City's Historic Center. The band changed its name to Café Tacvba (changing the u for a v) in order to avoid legal issues with the coffee shop.
Singer Rubén Albarran and guitarist José Alfredo Rangel met while studying graphic design at Metropolitan Autonomous University in Mexico City. Rangel's brother, Enrique, completed the band's lineup in 1989. The group began playing music in the garage of a house in their neighborhood, Satélite, an upper-middle-class suburban area in the Naucalpan municipality, in the northern region of the Mexico City metropolitan area. Café Tacvba was principally influenced by alternative rock bands of the 1980s such as The Cure, The Clash, The Smiths, and Violent Femmes. Despite their English-language influences, the band members wanted to represent their native culture, so they incorporated Mexican influences into their music. The group began singing primarily in Spanish and changed their name to Café Tacvba.
Café Tacvba went from being a garage band to a concert act in 1989, when they joined the scene surrounding El Hijo del Cuervo, a cultural club in Coyoacán featuring writers and musicians. As they performed in various venues around Mexico City, they were discovered by Argentinian music producer Gustavo Santaolalla, who at the time was producing albums for leading bands of the burgeoning Rock en Español movement of the time. Santaolalla arranged a contract for the band with Warner Music Latina (WEA), with plans to produce its debut album himself. Café Tacvba in turn proceeded to record their first song for commercial release, "Tamales de Iguanita," which WEA released as part of a Christmas-themed rock en español compilation, Diciembre 25, in 1990.
The group's debut album, Café Tacvba, was released in 1992 and was extremely popular in Mexico. The group experimented with many different musical styles, from punk and ska, to electronica and hip hop, to regional Mexican varieties such norteño, bolero, and ranchera. However, the band was taken aback by the stark difference between the sound on the album and group's "rawer" live sound, likening the recording to "a pasteurized version of ourselves". Café Tacuva released five singles from the album – "Maria," "Rarotonga", "Las Persianas", "La Chica Banda" and "Las Batallas" – with a music video filmed for each, with the exception of the latter. "María", directed by Gustavo Garzón, was nominated for Video of the Year at the Lo Nuestro Awards of 1993.
Two years later, the band released a follow-up album, Re, in 1994. The singles "La Ingrata," "Las Flores," and "El Ciclón" were also commercially successful. On the album, collaborators included Luis Conte and Alejandra Flores, while unconventional rock instrumentation such as jarana, guitarrón, melodeon, and drum machines were employed. The album's mixture of genres such as alternative rock, punk, and metal with traditional Latin American styles helped the group develop a dedicated cult following. During the promotion of the album, the band's attendance at the 1995 New Music Seminar in New York helped garner some media attention in the United States.
In 1996, Café Tacvba released Avalancha de Éxitos, meaning "Avalanche of Hits", a covers album in which the band performed songs by other Spanish-speaking artists. The tracks were recorded while the band was in the studio working on Re and grew tired of recording new material. Avalancha de Éxitos marked Café Tacvba's first appearance on Billboard's album charts (number 12 on the Latin Pop chart, 28 on Top Latin Albums), and the band commenced an international tour to promote the album. In 1996, the band also contributed to the AIDS benefit album Silencio=Muerte: Red Hot + Latin produced by the Red Hot Organization performing along with David Byrne. The music video for the single "Como Te Extraño" was nominated for a Lo Nuestro Award.
In the wake of the group's international tour, Café Tacvba withdrew from music for a while. When they returned to work, they gathered in their own studio and spent roughly a half-year working on experimental music that encompassed ambient electronica and musique concrète, as well as collaborative work with the Kronos Quartet, an American string quartet. Santaolalla liked the resulting music and deemed it ready for release. WEA, however, did not like the idea releasing an entirely instrumental album of experimental music, after the group had gained success with their more accessible style of music. In the end, WEA and Café Tacvba reached a compromise: if the band would record a second album of more conventional material, the label would release both as a double-disc package and sell it for the cost of a standard single-disc album.
As promised, the group returned to the studio to record an album of previously written material, and released Revés/Yo Soy in 1999. The album was a double-disc set, featuring both the band's instrumental music and the newly recorded album. The album is notable for its unconventional packaging style, designed by vocalist Rubén Isaac Albarrán. In addition, the album titles Revés (which translates to "reverse") and Yo Soy (a palindrome), exemplify the band's eccentricity. The album also featured two popular singles, "La Locomotora" and "La Muerte Chiquita." The album won a Latin Grammy for Best Rock Album.
After Revés/Yo Soy, the group would not release another album for four years. In the meantime, Café Tacvba contributed recordings to various projects such as the Amores Perros (2000) and Y Tu Mamá También (2002) soundtracks as well as the tribute album El Mas Grande Homenaje a Los Tigres del Norte (2001), which included a cover of "Futurismo y Tradición." In addition, guitarists Emmanuel del Real Díaz and Joselo Rangel produced a couple songs for Julieta Venegas: "Me Van a Matar" and "Disco Eterno". Rangel also began work on a solo album, Oso, in 2003, which was produced by Albarrán.
While Café Tacvba pursued these various projects, they were looking for a new recording contract; the WEA relationship had come to an end after a trio of compilations released in 2001: Tiempo transcurrido: The Best of Café Tacvba; a videos collection of the same name; and Lo Esencial de Café Tacvba, a triple-disc package containing the band's first three albums. Maverick Records, Madonna's label, reportedly attempted to sign Café Tacvba during this time; however, the band decided ultimately to sign with MCA Records in 2002.
When Café Tacvba began work on Cuatro Caminos, the band took a different approach than in the past. They decided to work with a live drummer, and recruited Victor Indrizzo and Joey Waronker. Secondly, they wanted to work with a couple choice producers besides Santaolalla and Kerpel; they recruited Dave Friedman and Andrew Weiss. Released in June 2003, Cuatro Caminos was met with commercial and critical success. The album won a Grammys for Best Latin Rock/Alternative Album as well as two Latin Grammys for Best Alternative Album and Best Rock Song ("Eres").
The group toured extensively after the release of Cuatro Caminos, and released a live album of a performance in front of 20,000 people in Mexico City at El Palacio de los Deportes in October 2004. The album was called Un Viaje, and was a double-disc set. After the release of the album, the group took a three-year break from releasing music.
In 2007 Café Tacvba returned with a new studio album, Sino. The album has been compared to classic rock groups such as The Who and the Beach Boys, a departure from their previous techno and funk-influenced sound. The band also performed on the main stage at Lollapalooza that summer. On September 10, 2008, Café Tacvba became the leading nominee at the Latin Grammy Awards of 2008 with a total of six nominations: Album of the Year and Alternative Music Album, for Sino. The lead single "Volver a Comenzar" was shortlisted for Record of the Year and Best Alternative Song, the second single "Esta Vez" received nominations for Best Rock Song and Song of the Year. The band took the record for most Latin Grammys won in one night. The inclusion of the song "Volver a Comenzar" in LittleBigPlanet projected the band internationally.
In 2008, the band collaborated with Puerto Rican duo Calle 13 on the song "No Hay Nadie Como Tú". The song peaked at number 23 on the Billboard Hot Latin Songs and number 15 on the Billboard Latin Rhythm Airplay.
Formerly graphic design students, Rubén, Joselo and Quique design their own album covers.
Emmanuel stated in March 2012 that a new album was planned for release before the end of 2012. El objeto antes llamado disco was released on October 22, 2012. The album was recorded in front of live audiences in Mexico, Argentina, Chile, and the United States. The first single was "De este lado del camino".
Vocalist and guitar player. Previously, until 2001, he played in an alternative band called Villa Jardín. In 2006 he announced his solo debut, Bienvenido al sueño (Welcome to the Dream), it consists of electronic instruments with Buddhist influences and Prehispanic Mexican which he describes as "música protónica por no limitarlo o estereotiparlo" (protonic music so as not to limit or stereotype it).
He is also known as "Juan", "Pinche Juan" (Fucking John), "Cosme", "Masiosare", "Anónimo" (Anonymous), "Nrü" (pronunciation given as "Dshiu" in Spanish; perhaps intended to be [dʒy]), "Amparo Tonto Medardo In Lak'ech" or "At Medardo ILK", "G3", "Gallo Gasss" (Gasss Rooster), "Élfego Buendía", "Rita Cantalagua", "Sizu Yantra", "Ixaya Mazatzin Tleyótl", "Ixxi Xoo" and now "Cone Cahuitl". He lived the first four years of his life in Monterrey. Studied at UAM (Universidad Autónoma Metropolitana) where he received a bachelor's degree in Design and Graphic Communication. Ruben, or however he is now known has always pushed gender norms through provocative lyrics, and the occasional skirt worn on stage at concerts.
In the shows prior to the release of their first album, people would yell"¡Pinche Juan!" ("Fucking Juan!") (the name of one of the band's first underground hits) to Rubén, so he kept the name for the release of the first album. Two years later he got bored and changed it to "Cosme" for the release of "Re". Since then, he has changed his name for every album and world tour.
In 2010, while on break from Café Tacvba, Rubén Albarrán formed a side project called HopPo! In the Dakota language, "Hoppo" means "Lets Go!" Albarrán briefly toured during the fall of 2010 in South and North America with HopPo!
Hoppo's self-titled debut album consists of Latin American folk cover songs, and no original material. This particular type of folk music, also known as Nueva Canción, was originally written in the 1960s and 1970s during a social movement of protest and anti-establishment sentiment by South American singer-songwriters and social activists. The album contains three songs written by Violeta Parra, including "Gracias a la Vida".
Emmanuel "Meme" del Real has been in the band from the moment they took the name Café Tacvba. Since the beginning he has been in charge of the keyboards, acoustic guitar, piano, music programming, vocals, melodeon, and melodica.
For a long time he only sang backup, but since the release of Re in 1992, he began singing lead on songs like El Borrego (The Lamb) or Pez (Fish), he also began playing the guitar more than before.
On the covers album Avalancha de Éxitos he plays guitar on No Controles (Don't Control). Since then he's also been known to play the jarana. Del Real has written some of the band's biggest hits such as La Ingrata (The Ingrate), Las Flores (The Flowers), Aviéntame (Throw Me) and Eres (You Are).
He is known in the Mexican electronica scene as "DJ Angustias"; is part of the Noiselab collective; and released a solo album in late 2005. Del Real has also produced songs for many Mexican artists like Julieta Venegas, Natalia Lafourcade, Ely Guerra, and Liquits, among others.
José "Joselo" Alfredo Rangel, spent the first 9 years of his life in Minatitlán, Veracruz, until his family moved to Mexico DF where he studied industrial design in the UAM. During his youth he had various hobbies like comic books and design even though he decided music was his major passion. While in college he met a person with a peculiar voice and extravagant ideas: Albarrán. They became best friends and with his brother, Enrique "Quique" Rangel and they formed a band called Alicia Ya No Vive Aquí.
Later on he started working on a new project called "Cafe Tacuba" with Ruben Albarran on the vocals, Enrique "Quique" Rangel on the bass (contrabajo) and Roberto Silva on the keyborads. Emmanuel del Real took the place of Roberto when he left before the band became famous.
Enrique "Quique" Rangel Arroyo was a designer whose interest in music was influenced by his brother Joselo. He was introduced to Albarrán by Joselo and together, along with Beto Silva, formed "Cafe Tacuba". He abandoned his career as a designer when he brought the band De Real in the late 80s and they changed their name to Café Tacvba.
He designs album art for other bands and, like De Real, composes melodies for other groups. He is also a member of a side project called Los Odio.
Folk musician Alejandro Flores plays violin and is considered the fifth Tacubo. He has played with the band since 1994. He has also participated on two LPs by San Pascualito Rey.
Also known as "El Children", Ledezma is the band's live drummer but is not considered an official band member.
Their musical style covers a wide variety of genres, though it is most commonly labeled as Latin Alternative/Rock en Español. Their music has been heavily influenced by Mexico's indigenous population and folk music traditions, but also by punk and electronic music and other bands on the Mexico City scene. Perhaps the most distinctive feature of their music is Albarrán's nasal voice, which, combined with his impressive lung capacity (as demonstrated on "La Ingrata", a homage of norteño music), makes for a very distinctive sound. They sing entirely in Spanish but have a significant Anglophone following regardless.
The song "Chilanga Banda" has a hip-hop beat under a stream of Mexico City slang originally written by Jaime López, "María" is a 'bolero' ballad about a ghost, "El Fin de la Infancia" a brass-heavy 'banda ranchera' sound that reflects the influence of 'banda sinaloense', "Desperté" has a tango-driven melody while "El Borrego" mocks speed metal.
Every studio album released by the band so far has been produced by Gustavo Santaolalla except for Cuatro Caminos which was produced by Santaloalla, Dave Fridmann (The Flaming Lips, Weezer) and Andrew Weiss (Ween). Cuatro Caminos was featured on several Top Albums of 2003 charts, including Rolling Stone, New York Times, Blender Magazine and won the 2004 Grammy Award for Best Latin Rock/Alternative Album.
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A showbiz memoir masquerading as a sociological treatise, "Not So Quiet on the Set" makes much of Robert Relyea's alliance with Steve McQueen. Too much, in fact. Relyea's five-year partnership with McQueen may have been his closest brush with celebrity, but it was far from his first or last interaction with a larger-than-life showbiz character. Their partnership, which frames the book, seems almost anti-climatic after all the amusing anecdotes that come between. Too bad Relyea and his co-author son Craig, didn't trust his tales to stand on their own.
Relyea started his 55 year showbiz career as a second assistant to the director in 1955, when his Uncle Harve pulled some strings to get him into the union. He lucked his way onto a one-day "Oklahoma!" reshoot before landing gigs on Vincente Minnelli's "Kismet" and "The Teahouse of August Moon" with Marlon Brando and "Jailhouse Rock" with a young Elvis Presley.
Fired after mouthing off to an MGM exec, he was quickly hired by John Wayne to assist on "The Alamo," Wayne's directorial debut, soon segueing to "The Magnificent Seven," "West Side Story" and "The Great Escape," among other pics.
Relyea casually dishes about on-set dalliances and "boys will be boys" hijinks on location, with son Craig interjecting occasional asides about the impact his father's absences had on his parent's marriage and his childhood.
It's a compelling look at moviemaking as the studio system unraveled: Cinephileswill surely relish the stories about June Allyson's on-set antics, so at odds with her wholesome image, and quiver nervously while reading about shooting "House of Numbers" at San Quentin. Relyea paints an especially chaotic picture of "The Great Escape" production, what with Charles Bronson's affair with co-star David McCallum's wife, Jill Ireland (whom Bronson subsequently married); McQueen's refusal to show up onset until his part was rewritten; assorted boozing; and his own misadventures flying an authentic Nazi plane in the movie.
By the time Relyea and McQueen landed their six picture deal at Warners in 1966, the biz has already changed considerably. And unbeknownst to them, Jack Warner was about to sell his stake in the studio; he exited weeks after greenlighting "Bullitt."
Relyea and McQueen quickly butted heads with their new studio bosses, who expected to play a much morehands-on role in the filmmaking process. The pair eventually parted ways during the troubled production of "Le Mans," McQueen's pet racing project; they never reconciled.
With that breakup, Relyea brings the tome to a close. He doesn't delve into his post-McQueen career, which included producing duties on "The Last Action Hero" and culminated in his 1997 promotion to prexy of worldwide production at MGM/United Artists, the very studio he started at all those years earlier. An epilogue briefly addresses some of the changes in the biz since he started out, but doesn't really advance his thinly developed premise about moviemaking in Hollywood's macho era.
Indeed, Relyea's own stories from that era belie the tome's subtitle: Thesps cussed, fooled around and told ribald stories, but they also pouted and schemed, screaming bloody murder when they thought their lives were in danger. Helmers sometimes threw hissy fits.
Relyea's final words about his last meeting with McQueen could serve as an epitaph for this book: "No clever twist," he wrote. "That's the thing about Hollywood — the script is never perfect."
Robert Relyea will appear 7 p.m.-9 p.m., Sept. 10, at Book Soup in West Hollywood, Calif.


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Cloth has selected 11 textile designs from the archive of the renowned French artist Raoul Dufy who was active from 1905 until his death in 1953. A range of designs of big, bold floral to small geometric patterns in bright, fresh colours.
Known for his oil and watercolours, as well as decorated ceramics, illustrated books, and a huge painted mural of 'Electricity' for the 1937 Paris International Exhibition.
Born at Le Havre in Normandy, awarded a scholarship in 1900 and went to Paris where he studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts. Influenced by the impressionist movement and fauve style of Matisse and began to work in richer vivacious colours. A contemporary of Picasso & Braque's, Raoul Dufy set up in 1911 a small factory to design and print fabrics for the couturier Poiret and the textile company Bianchini-Férier in Lyon.


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Paul Vieregge, the Monterey Jazz Festival Stage Manager Emeritus, passed away on March 30, 2009 after a battle with cancer. The Paul Vieregge Production Internship consists of a position and stipend given to a deserving student who will assist the staff of Monterey Jazz Festival during the summer months and through the Festival. Encapsulating the spirit of mentorship and on-the-job education, the Paul Vieregge Production Intern will be educated -- in real-time -- in the needs, process, and technical aspects of live music presentation and behind-the-scenes action on some of the most legendary stages in the jazz world.
"Paul Vieregge was the heart and soul of the Monterey Jazz Festival," says Tim Jackson, Artistic Director. "His ability to 'set the stage' for the artist to have a meaningful relationship with our audience is one of the main reasons that Monterey has become legendary as one of the world's great jazz happenings. We will continue to keep the artistic vision of Paul Vieregge alive as a cornerstone of our organizational philosophy."
Mr. Vieregge was born in Vallejo, California in 1922, and graduated from the College of the Pacific in Stockton in 1950 after serving in the Navy during World War II. He became involved behind-the-scenes and with the technical side of college theater productions, and after graduation, he worked at NBC's KRON-TV in San Francisco before moving to ABC's KGO-TV, where he handled stage design, lighting, and management for the locally-produced shows. It was at KGO in 1952 where he met Jimmy Lyons, the future founder and General Manager of the Monterey Jazz Festival, who had a live TV program that introduced the then-fledgling audiences of television to jazz musicians through performance and interviews. Already living in Big Sur, when Lyons and co-founder, San Francisco Chronicle jazz critic Ralph Gleason staged the first Festival in 1958, Vieregge was recruited to do the stage lighting. Almost immediately, Vieregge replaced the Stage Manager, coordinating and executing the technical aspects of the Arena Stage. He remained in that position for the next 35 years, until he retired in 1992.
Vieregge continued to attend the festival and offered his guidance and knowledge to the younger staff and crew. Mr. Vieregge also founded and acted as General Manger of the annual Big Sur Jazz Festival in 1995, presenting a three-day festival in the mold of the Monterey Jazz Festival each year during the spring, until he retired in 1999 at age 76. When he passed away in March of 2009, Paul Vieregge had been involved with Monterey Jazz Festival for 51 years. The backstage production area and access road beside the Arena was named Paul Vieregge Way in his honor.
Paul Vieregge Production Internship Recipients
2019: Carly Sabicer, USC Thornton School of Music
2018: Adam Band, University of the Pacific
2017: Connor Godfrey, Berklee College of Music
2016: Ben Bransford and Eric Dubbury, USC Thornton School of Music
2015: Trevor McCracken, USC Thornton School of Music
2014: Jane Davidson, USC Thornton School of Music
2013: Blade Thornton, USC Thornton School of Music
2012: Alyssa Siegel, USC Thornton School of Music
2011: Sue Buzzard, Berklee College of Music
2010: Kalie Martin, Berklee College of Music
2009: Andrew Devine, Berklee College of Music
2008: Paris Strother, Berklee College of Music
2007: Natalia Bernal, Berklee College of Music
2006: Josh Inouye, Berklee College of Music
2005: Samantha Laird, Berklee College of Music
2004: Samantha Laird, Berklee College of Music


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As if on cue, Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke signaled he would take further action to keep interest rates low the day a new study on "financial repression" predicted the tactic. Financial repression, by which governments channel money to themselves, is not going away any time soon.
In a speech on Tuesday, Bernanke buoyed markets with his call for "continued accommodative policies," which is Fed-speak for another round of monetary easing.
The same day, Jacob Funk Kirkegaard and Carmen Reinhart published a paper looking at what they called financial repression in historical context. The term, coined by the Stanford economist Ronald McKinnon in 1973, has gained new popularity in the current economic crisis through research by Carmen Reinhart, cited often by the Pimco bond manager Bill Gross. Reinhart is co-author with Ken Rogoff of the 2009 bestseller This Time is Different: Eight Centuries of Financial Folly.
The paper by Kirkegaard and Reinhart, both fellows at the Peterson Institute for International Economics, says there are five ways nations have adopted to deal with debt. These include economic growth, austerity, default, "surprise" inflation and financial repression combined with inflation. The authors say that default and surprise inflation are undertaken in "truly desparate economic conditions" and that with austerity, as shown in Europe right now, "falling growth tends to offset much of the progress."
Consequently, financial repression, which "allows governments to 'capture' and 'under-pay' domestic savers" is back in favor. The tactic, combined with steady inflation, works to cut debt through low nominal rates that reduces debt-servicing costs, negative real interest rates that erode the nation's debt-to-GDP ratio and effectively act as a tax on savers.
In that regard, the authors show that the negative real rate savers get in the U.K., U.S., Germany and Canada has climbed so far up the yield curve as to now encompass 10-year bonds. In the U.S., for example, the real (i.e., after-inflation) return on 2-year bonds is -2.5%; on 5-year bonds it is -1.8%; and on 10-year bonds it is -0.6%. Two-year bondholders in the U.K. are getting a -3.1% real interest rate.
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The Army is preparing to leave Bundaberg later this week.
Army engineers are building a temporary bridge to the city's north, and have been sending teams to outlying communities, such as Winfield and Baffle Creek.
The contingent will farewell residents with a charity cricket match and community event today.
The commander of the emergency support force, Major Patrick O'Neill, says their work to repair major infrastructure is almost done.
"Once that bridge has been built, that's our last major task that we'll be conducting in the Bundaberg area," he said.
"What we'd like to do is get the community together, get all the people that we've been working with together, to build a bit of community spirit.
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Meanwhile Queensland Water Minister Mark McArdle says it is unlikely dams on the Burnett River contributed to flood damage in Bundaberg.
Mr McArdle says the Paradise Dam level peaked almost 10 metres above its capacity, with water flowing over the spillway.
His department will review how dams coped with the record rainfall and river levels.
But the Minister says he doubts the dam made the flood worse.
"It may well be that when we do assess Paradise Dam and other dams in the Sunwater network we'll find ways to have them better serve the community," he said.
"But to my understanding there was nothing in the way the dam was operated to add to the flood."
Mr McArdle says building or raising dams will not guarantee major cities and towns will be safe from future floods.
He says Paradise Dam was not built to reduce flooding, and may not have helped if it was.
"It is simply impossible in my opinion to flood-proof Queensland," he said.
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