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Ranking the Top 10 Contenders for World Cup Glory in 2014
By George Cushnie ,
Will Spain win their fourth straight tournament in Brazil?
We're just under 18 months away from world football's next major tournament.
The 2014 World Cup kicks off next June when Brazil hosts the biggest football extravaganza on the planet.
Spain have dominated international football for the last four or five years now and by the time they get to Brazil, they'll be looking to win their fourth straight international tournament.
The current Spanish side have been untouchable in recent years and they'll want to continue their dominance in 2014.
As usual, there will be a whole raft of other contenders looking to be crowned the best international side in the world.
The most likely winners will either come from Europe or South America because, as yet, no African or Asian team have won football's biggest prize.
Although we're still over a year away from the tournament, let's have a bit of fun and count down the top 10 contenders for glory in 2014.
The rankings will go in order from 10 to 1, based on the strength of their squad and their previous form in World Cup tournaments.
Let's get to it!
Can Cristiano Ronaldo inspire Portugal to World Cup glory?
According to the latest FIFA rankings, Portugal are the seventh best side in the world right now and with players like Cristiano Ronaldo, Nani and Joao Moutinho in their squad, it's easy to see why.
Despite all of the flair players at their disposal, the Portuguese have never really delivered on the big stage at the World Cup.
Their best performance remains their third-placed finish at the 1966 World Cup.
Since then, they've only played in a further four World Cup tournaments: 1986, 2002, 2006 and 2010.
On paper, Portugal have all the tools to beat any team in the world.
The problem is that history shows they rarely deliver, especially when they really need to.
Don't get me wrong, they'll still be a dangerous side at next year's World Cup, but they're more outsiders than favourites.
Radamel Falcao will be a key man for Colombia at World Cup 2014
As things stand right now, Colombia are in a decent position to qualify for their first World Cup since 1998.
It's amazing to think that it's been so long since we've seen the Colombians grace the biggest stage in football.
Their record at previous World Cups isn't particularly good.
On the four previous occasions that they've qualified for the tournament, their best finish was when they made the second round in 1990.
For a country that's produced great footballers like Alfredo di Stefano and Faustino Asprilla, as well as amazing characters like Rene Higuita and Carlos Valderrama, it seems strange that they have such a poor record at big tournaments.
The current squad is full of players who are performing for some of Europe's biggest clubs.
Of course, Radamel Falcao's exploits for Porto and Atletico Madrid in recent seasons make him the stand-out of the group, but he won't have to do it all on his own.
In defence, Mario Yepes and Cristian Zapata are a part of the AC Milan side and Juan Zuniga is in sensational form as part of the Napoli side that's challenging for the Serie A title this season.
In midfield, Juan Cuadrado is coming along nicely at Fiorentina and up front, Porto's Jackson Martinez is an extremely talented forward, who is capable of causing problems for any defence.
Much like Portugal, Colombia's past form at these tournaments leads you to think that they'd provide a stiff test for the stronger teams in the tournament, but there's little chance of them winning it.
Belgium's Marouane Fellaini can dominate in Brazil
Some of you will probably think I'm crazy for including Belgium in this list of contenders, but why shouldn't they be considered?
Yes, they're not a traditionally strong side at international level, but the current squad is full of top-class players, playing at the highest level on a consistent basis.
They're strong in every area of the pitch.
It's a toss-up between Sunderland's Simon Mignolet and Atletico Madrid's on-loan Chelsea keeper Thibaut Courtois for the number one jersey.
In defence, the likes of Daniel Van Buyten, Jan Vertonghen, Thomas Vermaelen and Vincent Kompany have all been playing at the highest level in Europe for the last few years.
Their midfield has the likes of Moussa Dembele and Marouane Fellaini, who have been two of the stand-out performers in the English Premier League over the last 12 months.
Axel Witsel and Steven Defour continue to impress at Zenit St Petersburg and Porto respectively, and up front, there's a plethora of talent including Eden Hazard, Kevin Mirallas, Kevin De Bruyne and Romelu Lukaku.
Yes these players are unproven in big tournaments at international level, but their squad is incredibly strong.
After qualifying for six consecutive World Cup tournaments between 1982 and 2002, including a fourth-place finish in 1986, the Belgians haven't qualified for the last couple of events.
If anyone goes in to the 2014 World Cup underestimating the Belgians, who look almost certain to qualify at this point, then they'll be in for a rude awakening.
Can Steven Gerrard lead England to glory at his last World Cup?
For a country that has produced so many talented individual players, it's a mystery why England have achieved nothing on the international stage since winning the World Cup in 1966, except for a fourth-place finish in 1990.
Prepare yourselves for a sharp dose of reality here, because it's time to share my opinion with you.
As someone who lives in the UK, I see the media circus that surrounds the English national team before every national tournament.
This is just my opinion, but it seems like the English national media, whether it be newspaper, radio or TV pundits, have this over-inflated sense of entitlement when it comes to their national football team.
It's as if the media expect England to win every match, regardless of who they play against.
The fact is that, apart from the one occasion I mentioned earlier, the English national team have achieved nothing on the international stage for over 45 years.
Generations have come and gone, and they've had to live with the unrealistic expectations placed on their players by the English media.
Don't get me wrong.
There's nothing wrong with believing in your national team, but the English media in particular should be a little more realistic about what England can achieve as a footballing nation.
This is an ageing squad and it might very well be the last time that the likes of Steven Gerrard, Frank Lampard, Ashley Cole and Michael Carrick play at a World Cup.
England have a squad full of talented young players and they'll be difficult to beat, but they'll come up short again in the knockout stages.
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Ah, the Italians.
They might be a national team that pride themselves on being defensively strong, but they shouldn't be underestimated.
There's a lot to be said for having a strong, disciplined defensive unit.
It might not be pretty to watch at times, but it's damn effective, as we saw when Italy won the World Cup in Germany back in 2006.
The Italians have won the World Cup four times since 1934 and they're usually a safe bet to get to the latter stages.
Although they went out with a whimper in the last World Cup (in 2010), in six of the last nine tournaments, Italy have reached at least the last 16.
That's an amazing record.
It would be fair to say that their squad isn't as strong as it was 10-15 years ago, but Italy still have some excellent players at their disposal.
Andrea Pirlo, Daniele De Rossi, Alberto Gilardino, Stephan Al Shaarawy and the enigmatic Mario Balotelli are all potential match-winners, so the Italians will be confident of having a good run in 2014.
And rightly so.
They were hugely impressive at last year's Euro 2012 tournament and Cesare Prandelli's side have every reason to be optimistic about their chances in Brazil.
Italy should easily qualify for the quarter-finals, and if the tournament was being played in Europe, they'd have more of a chance, but, in my opinion, they'll come up against stronger teams at next year's World Cup.
Will Louis van Gaal be able to deliver success for the Dutch?
One of the surprising things that we saw last summer at Euro 2012 were the dismal Dutch displays.
Before the tournament started, many fans, journalists and media pundits speculated that the Dutch would push the Spaniards all the way.
The truth was very different.
Holland were dumped out of the tournament with just two meagre goals to their credit and no points.
Since then, Louis van Gaal has taken over from Bert van Marwijk and the elder statesman seems to have unified the Dutch camp.
It goes without saying that they have one of the strongest squads in the game today, with world-class talents like Robin van Persie, Wesley Sneijder, Rafael van der Vaart and Arjen Robben at their disposal.
For too long now, the Dutch have been the nearly men of World Cup football.
They've been on the losing end of three finals so far – in 1974, 1978 and 2010.
The Dutch fans, players and staff must be sick of getting so close, only to have the chance of success ripped away from them.
If this list was written immediately after Euro 2012, the Dutch wouldn't have even been under consideration.
However, the start they've made under the guidance of Louis van Gaal leads me to believe that, once again, Holland will be there or thereabouts during the latter stages of the tournament.
Will 2014 be the year when Messi lifts the World Cup aloft?
By the time the Argentineans kick off in Brazil, it will be 28 years since they were last crowned World Cup champions.
At that time, Diego Maradona inspired his country to victory and this time around, it might be another little magician who leads his country to the top prize in world football.
He'll have a tough job on his hands to wrestle it away from some of his Barcelona team-mates.
I'm talking about the current holder of the Ballon D'Or: Lionel Messi.
When you watch Messi play football, it's frightening.
He ghosts past players with ease.
His touch and close control of the ball is unbelievable.
He can score all kinds of goals and when he kicks the ball, it's as if he just eases it to his team-mate, or in the direction he wants the ball to go.
Messi makes the game of football look deceptively easy and we all know that it isn't.
If Argentina are to end their World Cup drought, then others like Angel di Maria, Sergio Aguero and Ezequiel Lavezzi need to make the same kind of contribution that Messi undoubtedly will, both in terms of endeavour and goal-scoring.
After winning the tournament in 1986, Argentina have only gone further than the quarter-final stage once, and that was in 1990.
Since then, they've failed to get past the last eight in three of the last five World Cup events.
For a country that seems to produce an almost endless conveyor belt of talent, that's not good enough.
Argentina's success, or failure, depends on whether the players believe they're good enough to win the tournament.
Individually, they're good enough and on paper, you'd choose them above most other teams, but for some reason, it just doesn't seem to click at World Cup tournaments for the Argentineans.
They should at least reach the semi-finals and they'll want to give a good account of themselves, especially since the tournament is being held in Brazil!
All eyes will be on Neymar - can he deliver on the big stage?
Scraping on to the podium ahead of their South American rivals are the Brazilian team.
Make no mistake about it.
Brazil are no longer the force that they once were.
In fact, this Brazilian squad are only ranked 18th in the current FIFA standings.
Yes, the likes of Julio Cesar, Dani Alves, Thiago Silva and Ronaldinho are still involved, but they're not the influence they once were and the fact is that some of the other South American sides, like Colombia, have overtaken the Brazilians.
Don't get me wrong.
They have fantastically gifted players like Lucas Moura, Leandro Damiao, Oscar and Ramires, and Neymar is a superstar waiting to happen, but there's a distinct lack of a leader within the squad.
Someone who's likely to lead by example.
There's no obvious candidate for that role.
Although they're going through somewhat of a slump, especially in terms of their FIFA ranking (which I talked about before), Brazil's record in World Cup tournaments is particularly good.
They are the only country to have won the World Cup five times.
Every time that the World Cup has been held in South America since 1950, Brazil have reached, at least, the quarter-final stage.
The fact that they are the hosts of the tournament should stand them in good stead as well.
Let me explain.
In three of the last four World Cup tournaments, the host nation has qualified for at least the semi-finals.
France did it in 1998 (and went on to win the tournament), South Korea did it in 2002 and Germany did it in 2006.
While they might not have the intimidating presence that they once had, Brazil will still be one of the toughest sides to beat in the competition.
Lukas Podolski has already won 106 caps for Germany at the age of 27
We're down to the final two and just falling at the final hurdle are the Germans.
It would be easy to throw in some of the usual German stereotypes about efficiency, but all that needs to be said is that they are an excellent team with some fantastic footballers.
When you look at the nucleus of the German squad, most of their key players are in their mid to late 20s, but they're all hugely experienced internationals.
For example, Lukas Podolski is just 27 years old and he's already won 106 caps.
There are very few players in the squad over the age of 30, so their squad is reaching its peak at the moment.
They're defensively strong and going forward, they're capable of cutting teams apart with ease.
It's just unlucky that this German squad is playing in the same era as one of the greatest national sides ever—Spain.
The Germans' World Cup record is absolutely frightening.
They haven't failed to reach the latter stages of a World Cup tournament since 1938.
Yes. You did just read that.
1938 was the last time Germany failed to reach the latter stages of a World Cup and you'd get long odds on them failing to qualify for the knockout round in Brazil next June.
In my opinion, there's only one better team in the world than Germany at the moment and if Joachim Low and his players are to taste World Cup glory, they'll need to beat the final team on this list.
Will the Spanish retain their World Cup crown in 2014?
If the current Spain squad are able to win the World Cup in roughly 18 months time, they'll become one of the most dominant football teams in history.
They're on a massive roll at the moment, which isn't showing any signs of stopping any time soon.
In the last four years or so, Spain have won Euro 2008, the World Cup in 2010 and Euro 2012 last summer.
The football that Spain play is a joy to watch.
It's easy on the eye, it's enjoyable and most of all, they've got success by playing the game in the right manner.
The list of champions in their squad almost rolls off your tongue.
Xavi, Iniesta, Pique, Ramos, Fabregas, Villa, Cazorla and Silva are astonishing players who, for the last few years, have stood head and shoulders above every other national team in the world.
You hear their names so often that you feel as if you actually know them!
Recent success aside, the record of the Spanish national side in World Cups isn't particularly good.
Before winning the World Cup in 2010, they'd made the latter stages on a regular basis without ever being a major threat.
That's the past though.
In recent years, Spain have become so accustomed to winning major tournaments that it will take a very special performance, and team, to stop them from winning the World Cup in Brazil in just under 18 months' time.


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Movie review: Tyler Perry's "Temptation"
By Jen Chaney
Saturday, March 30, 2013
The title of this movie invites such an obvious snarky comment that it's difficult to resist just saying it, right now, at the very beginning of this review.
Lead us not into "Tyler Perry's Temptation."
No, no, I must resist. I must. First of all, every critic in America will undoubtedly fall back on that New Testament riff when they rip into Perry's latest hackneyed melodrama, which was not screened in advance for press. The last thing I want to do on Easter weekend is commit the sin of making a bad Biblical pun, especially when Perry has already committed so many cinematic sins in this intelligence-insulting film.
Arguably, the biggest one of all: casting Kim Kardashian in a supporting role.
Wait, Kim Kardashian is in this? And she's trying to act?
Yes, America, she is! And even though this isn't the first time that's happened -- she's previously played pretend people on TV and in occasional movies, in addition to the actual fake person (herself) she plays on "Keeping Up With the Kardashians" -- she appears to have zero experience uttering dialogue for the purposes of storytelling. She's just dreadful.
Then again, even people who have previously demonstrated some acting skill -- like Jurnee Smollett-Bell, who exuded both femininity and tomboy-spunk as Jess on NBC's "Friday Night Lights," and Vanessa Williams -- seem completely at sea here, dragged down by a lazy script and excruciatingly slow pacing.
In "Temptation," we meet Judith (Smollett-Bell) and Brice (Lance Gross), childhood sweethearts who grew up in the South, married young and moved to Washington. The only reason we know they're in the District, by the way, is due to the overused, interstitial aerial shots of the Capitol and the Kennedy Center. Otherwise, the setting feels about as D.C. as Buford, Wyoming.
Brice becomes a pharmacist, Judith starts working for a matchmaker (Williams, who incomprehensibly speaks with a French accent solely to serve a lame punch line that doesn't land until the movie's final half-hour) while dreaming of starting a marriage counseling practice, and together they settle into a nuptial funk that's increasingly weighing on Judith. Meanwhile, there's an ultra-smooth social media mogul named Harley (Robbie Jones, essentially playing an African American, sexually aggressive version of Mark Zuckerberg) who's working on a business-related project with Judith and blatantly attempting to seduce her.
Look, we know what's going to happen. The movie's called "Temptation," okay? Yet we still have to sit through more than an hour of flirty glances and repetitive conversations between Judith and Harley until anything vaguely adulterous occurs. Brandy Norwood plays one of Brice's co-workers, but we don't fully understand why her character even exists until the wackadoodle, 11th-hour plot twist finally rears its head in traditional Tyler Perry-movie fashion.
Still, nothing is as exhausting as listening to Kardashian's nasal whining. As one of Judith's colleagues, she's a glamourpuss who makes vapid comment ("A degree on the wall without labels on your back means nothing") after exceedingly rude comment ("When people look at you, it reflects badly on me") until you can't help but wonder ("Is your fashion icon a Delta stewardess?") why Judith ever has conversations with this woman ("Oh. My. God. You're wearing flats??") in the first place.
It's interesting that the movie highlights all the things that can go wrong when a person becomes too wrapped up in status, flashy symbols of wealth and sexual heat. In a sense, "Tyler Perry's Temptation" is ultimately a cautionary tale about turning into Kim Kardashian.
And on that score at least, this movie gets an amen.
This was a movie with a very apparent message. I loved that the characters were young and addressed real life situations. It shows that not just the 'apparent' result can happen, but it can have a rippling effect in other lives and and other tragic events.
This is a film that finally takes on the role of showing that temptation is also something that females endure in the work place just like males. This is a pretty good film that keeps you talking to the screen and asking the question "are you serious?" All in all this film shows the relevance of a good solid relationship. I recommend it
I appreciated an opportunity to watch a movie without loads of unnecessary profanity and explicit sex scenes. It displayed a wide range of emotions, and reality. It definitely dispels the myth of the grass being greener. Of course in real life, it's hard to imagine that one wrong decision can completely alter the course of a person's life. However, when you look at other fiction or real life examples like "Fatal Attraction" and "Snapped", it doesn't seem too farfetched. This movie gives a real face to sin, where, and how far it can take a person. Someone once said, "Sin will take you places you never thought you would go, and keeps you longer than you ever planned to stay." Unfortunatel
I loved Temptation! It held my interest from start to finish. Young women (which I am not) should see this movie. It teaches many, many life lessons. My two girlfriends (my age) who went with me, loved the movie, too.


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NEW ORLEANS (AP) -- Top overall draft choice Anthony Davis has been scratched from New Orleans' lineup against New York on Tuesday night because of a flare-up of his left ankle injury that first occurred Friday night.
Team officials call Davis' injury a "stress reaction," which is an area of bone tenderness which, if exacerbated, can develop into a fracture.
Davis is officially listed as day-to-day. Davis has not yet been ruled out of Wednesday night's game at Indiana and team officials say he will travel with the club.
Davis initially hurt his ankle during the Hornets' loss to Oklahoma City, but played through it and continued to practice.
The club did not rule him out of the game against the Knicks until shortly before tipoff.
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French Polynesia off the beaten track
If anyone is intereseted in a travel experience in French Polynesia off the beaten track, there was a recent article in the NY Times about the Tuamotos "The Fragile Paradise That Tahiti Used to Be".
The article mentions a resort that is frequently offered at auction on Luxury Link: Manihi Pearl Beach Resort.
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Cruisinred: Thank you VERY much. This has always been my concern about French Polynesia. I have tried to contact travel agents who would offer something different. My fear was to be in a "resort" environment. It seemed like a difficult task. Thanks for sharing this article and allowing me to realize there really is a French Polynesia outside of the resorts.
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I share your concerns about Tahiti being a spoiled paradise. I would hate to travel half way around the world just to be disappointed. I've read 2 travelogue type books recently that were less than impressed....
I would love to visit, however, as my parents lived in French Polynesia back in the early 1970's (pre me). I loved looking at their pictures of the islands. But I think that in order to get a taste of what they experienced 30+ years ago, I would need to get off the beaten track.
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Hi cruisinred,
Thanks for the link to the NY Times article. We have just opened up to the public a very private island http://www.yourdreamisland.com
In the middle of the South Pacific Ocean, in the Atoll of Rangiroa, Tahiti, there is a tropical island waiting to be discovered by you. It is a uniquely special place. Unspoiled by tourism, it is one of the few exquisite beauties left, and one that you and your guests can call your very own. Its name is Motu Tetaraire. Manava!
Motu Tetaraire is an island paradise so untouched by civilization that it beckons back to another time; where the marvels of nature still exist granting its few lucky visitors a view of the true wonder of Tahiti. Here is an underwater realm that begins where the most beautiful beaches end. A place surrounded by turquoise waters enveloping you in absolute silence, except for the faint sound of your beating heart.
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"It's not every day when the French, the Germans, Muslims, Communists, Nazis, Arabs, Socialists, and the United Nations agree on things, so when they do, it's obvious that they must be correct." | Persistent rhetoric coming from concerned progressive critics worldwide has finally convinced Israeli officials that the state of Israel has no moral right to exist. "That's it," Prime Minister Ariel Sharon explained at a press conference. "We are dismantling the Nation of Israel. I'm leaving for Poland next week." "My cabinet and I had long discussions about world troubles, and we concluded that our critics are right - all the troubles can be traced back to us. So, in order to resolve these issues, we felt it would be best to extend our withdrawal beyond Gaza to include the West Bank and Israel proper," Sharon said. "The Gaza pullout was only a test, and the ensuing waves of peace and brotherhood it had triggered in Palestine and beyond, encouraged us to disband altogether. Without us here, people of the world will finally be able, once again, to live in permanent harmony and understanding - just like they all did before Israel's founding nearly sixty years ago." |
Similarly, the new Iranian President, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, has kicked off a popular "Iran-loves-Jews" campaign that will include a sensitive re-writing of the laws to accommodate religions other than Islam. He explained, "With the Zionist entity out of the way, the Iranian government will tone down its violent and threatening rhetoric, dismantle its nuclear program, and stop funding Hezbollah and other terrorist groups. As a matter of fact, I might even resign my position and award the presidency to someone else. Do you think Schwarzenegger is available?" A spokesperson for Hezbollah stated that Iran's proposal wouldn't matter. "We don't need the funding because we no longer have any reason to exist. We disposed of our weapons, and will now re-focus on opening a chain of pizzerias. You just can't get decent pizza around here, and we're going to change that." He was joined by a former high-ranking member of Hamas: "Yeah, we also pretty much accomplished what we wanted. We'll get together for reunions now and then, but otherwise, we'll just settle down into normal lifestyles. You know... mortgage, house, bowling, PTA meetings..." Al Qaeda has also released a statement that read: "As the entire world knows, the Zionist presence in our Holy Palestine has been the only reason for our existence. This is why we attacked the World Trade Center and why we murdered Americans in Iraq. It's why we bombed Paris, London, and Bali, why we exploded buildings in Saudi Arabia, and why we enabled murders and terrorist activities in Thailand, Kashmir, Russia, Morocco, Nigeria, India, and the Philippines. But now, with Palestine returned to our brothers, all operations will cease. This is effective immediately and is irrevocable. We will now form The International Peace Corps and of course pay reparations to the non-Israelis who we murdered." In the new country of Palestine, there are already signs of promise. President Abu Mazen elaborated, "We're adopting the American Constitution as our legal model. We believe that our future is in limited government; free markets, rule of law, respect for contracts and individual rights. And by attracting foreign investment, our highly educated and motivated workforce will soon become the most affluent in the region. In our own country, we will bring to fruition all the programs that we started in refugee camps, such as our breakthroughs in medicine, education, applied and theoretical sciences, nanotechnology, and space exploration." When asked why these breakthroughs were not previously revealed, he replied, "Yassir always wanted an open and liberal society that encouraged free thought, free expression, and academic exploration, but it was impossible with the Zionist enemy next door. But now, our pent-up contributions in science and the humanities will finally be released. With this release of pressure, our accomplishments will explode faster than our martyrs used to!" But most significantly, the end of Israel will have a large impact on United States policy. In an earlier press conference, President Bush had these words: "As we all know, the only reason for our toppling of Saddam Hussein was to obey my superiors, the well-funded Zionist lobby, without understanding why. However, as Israel no longer exists, we will immediately withdraw all American troops from Iraq, suspend their new constitution, and halt all construction of schools and hospitals. But most importantly, we will be returning Saddam Hussein to his presidency, and pay him FEMA reparations for the Israeli-ordered murder of his sons. "Furthermore, I want to extend an invitation to my colleague and close personal friend, Jacques Chirac, to rebuild French nuclear reactors in Iraq. Saddam Hussein needs nuclear weapons, and this time, the Israelis will not be around to destroy them. "To our friend Saddam Hussein, America says, 'Can you forgive us?' Israel lied, we lied, I lied, and everyone died. We know that it was because of Israel that you praised the September 11th attacks, and that you sheltered terrorists, and that you (rightfully) wanted nuclear weapons, and that you gassed the Kurds, and buried thousands in mass graves. Certainly, any dictator who blatantly expresses delight at watching Americans die, has a track record of invading other countries, uses chemical weapons, and actively seeks nuclear weapons could never in any way be even a remote threat to the United States. And now, with Israel out of the way, we are proud to welcome President Saddam Hussein back into our family of nations." One particular family of nations is very concerned, "With Israel gone, there's nothing left for us to do," says a United Nations staffer. "Since the world's conflicts will be over, we're worried that they won't need us any more." An anonymous U.N. delegate shared his concern: "I've even heard that they considered converting the U.N. building into condominiums, but there are too many cockroaches. Why would that matter? In my country, we pay a premium to live with cockroaches!" The most important opinion came from the mourning Cindy Sheehan, with a nation hanging onto her every pearl of maternal insight: "Thank goodness this is over and I can now disappear into obscurity. And...wait a minute...is that my son speaking? Yes it is! He is saying,"Mother...mother...I am so grateful that Israel no longer exists! Mother, I am so happy that no other helpless children, like myself, will ever die in wars again!" A large group of neo-Nazis who happened to be visiting Ms. Sheehan at the moment seemed upbeat: "With Israel gone, we'll be shutting down our web sites and closing meeting centers. Now that our job is done, you'll never hear from us again." David Duke agreed. Contacted at his home, he said that he was leaving politics. "My life's work is finished; no more politics for me. I'm taking down my web site, too. Think I'll quietly live out my days in front of the TV." And finally, Kim Jung-il of North Korea has promised to free his nation. "Whatever it takes," he said. "Now that I no longer have to waste my days worrying about Israel, I had time to read Atlas Shrugged and suddenly realized what an idiot I've been all these years. Do you think South Koreans would mind if we dismantle the border and join forces in generating capitalist wealth?" |
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surely, mcdonalds and wallmart have collapsed as well!Anonymous
We are finally rid of the salty beef sandwich people!!Yeah, snail innards and impacted goose liver is much tastier and forward thinking food for the Proletariat! McLenin's would never sell capitalist pig beef! Also, the McFalafel sandwich will be available soon! You can get it in a "Jihad" meal for lil' suicide bombers! Sure to put a smile on their cute little faces before you send them off to blow up a bus or restaurant! And they'll need a full stomach when they get to Allahland and have to find a way to satisfy those 72 virgin girls!Messenger
What is the difference between, say, the Holocaust and the other human tragedies that occured throughout human history, from the Armenians, Chinese, Russians.... who all perished under one form of tyrrany or another?Chistka Counselor
...This is the biggest fallacy of WWII history that they teach in schools - that all the German people of those specific decades just happened to be evil and thus they all just couldn't help but put millions to death with relish. A worse smear on history was rarely posited, because this actually suggests that the German people of the 30s and 40's were just zombies and the Holocaust could thus never occur again...Chistka Counselor
In Highest Regards, Massively Opiated:Chistka Counselor
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Aw man! My applause from Sister Massively Opiated was purged!!! She put this mega cool applause track on her post to my post. I guess she read my Star Wars review! Heh. . . Bummer! The purge counselor just got some purgin'! NYET!!!12345
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..thats what making a difference is about ,..IT IS NOT ABOUT POSTING A WEBSITE TO BASH A GROUP BECAUSE YOU BELIEVE THEY ARE LESS THAN HUMAN,...all people deserve a right to exist not you nor your followers have a right to take that away from any person ,...Quote:
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Google is expected launch its cloud storage service any time now and Microsoft's competing service SkyDrive received a major overhaul to prepare for battle. Similar to Dropbox, Skydrive now has dedicated apps for Windows and OS X, which integrate right into the OS by creating a folder where users can drag-and-drop files and have them automatically uploaded to their online lockers and synchronized accross devices.
The move essentially combines the product part of Microsoft's consumer cloud strategy (Live Mesh) with the service side (SkyDrive) to offer a simplified cloud storage solution. Not all of Mesh's features have been incorporated into the new client, however, and the amount of storage offered for free to new users has been cut down from 25GB to 7GB, with paid options at $10, $25 and $50 per year for 20GB, 50GB or 100GB.
That's still not a bad deal considering rival services such as Dropbox charge $99 or $199 a year for 50GB or 100GB of storage, respectively. Furthermore, any users that signed up for SkyDrive before April 22 and have uploaded at least one file to the service, can get a free upgrade to 25GB by going to the Manage Storage page at SkyDrive.com. Existing users with at least 4GB uploaded will pick up the 25GB update automatically.
Microsoft also updated its SkyDrive apps for Windows Phone and iOS, and of course, you can still get access to your files anytime from any computer by signing in to SkyDrive.com using a browser.
Another key feature is the ability to remotely "fetch" files that are outside of the SkyDrive folder on any Windows PC. As long as the computer is on and running SkyDrive, you can browse and access any file on your disk from anywhere (after a two-step authentication process), just like you would if you were sitting in front of that PC.
It's unclear if Microsoft's Live Mesh service will be shut down as customers transition to SkyDrive and if other features, like the ability to sync Internet Explorer settings, will be ported over to the new client.
You can download the new Skydrive client apps for Windows and OS X here.
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It's a downgrade from Dropbox. Sure you get more space but the file size limit is 2GB and it's more complicated to use between friends and work...
So far Amazon S3 has won this war. I've tried all the "free" services, and I'm willing to pay the very small fee to store my files on Amazon's cloud. No limits and only pay for what you use.
Just want to make clear that the paid plans are for *additional* storage. So, it's 27GB total for $10/year, for example.
Oh, also, it is likely that Mesh's sync service will be removed over time. The link to your Mesh synced files on your skydrive.live.com page has been removed. Now, you have to go to your devices to find your synced data.
That option to access any file in the computer having skydrive whether it is or it isnt in skydrive folder really creeped me out of this
I dislike services like SkyDrive and Dropbox that work by placing files into a specific folder as opposed to be able to assign what folders you would like to be synchronised.
Luckily, there is an easy solution using what is known as junction link in Windows. A junction works very similar to a shortcut except it acts as if it IS the folder in which it is linking to. For example: let us say you have a folder on your storage drive called Videos (path: 'S:\Videos' and there is a video in this folder called 'HannahTrippingOver.avi' (path: 'S:\Videos\HannahTrippingOver.avi' . If you were to create a shortcut to the folder from the root of your C drive as soon as you double click the shortcut you will be taken straight to 'S:\Videos'. But if you created a junction link to 'S:\Videos' and called it 'Funny Vids' and placed that in your C root, when you would double click it you would still find the aforementioned video just as if you used a shortcut, but this time the path would be different. The path to the video would be 'C:\Funny Vids\HannahTrippingOver.avi'.
It acts as if you copied all of the contents of the target folder into the new location except the two files the above example ('C:\Funny Vids\HannahTrippingOver.avi' and 'S:\Videos\HannahTrippingOver.avi' are exactly the same file and if one was to be moved, renamed, copied, edited and/or deleted than all junctions leading to it would similarly affected. The only problem with Junctions is that you have to be super careful that you do not delete the folder when you simply wish to remove the junction link.
Junctions can be used with SkyDrive so you can backup a folder like your 'My Pictures' without having to move them all into your SkyDrive folder. The following is code for a batch file I made that will allow you to do so with ease if you follow the next few steps. This will even create a batch file called 'removeJunction.bat' that will safely remove the junction without harming your files or folders.
- Open Notepad.
- Paste the code that is on this pastebin post.
- File|Save as...
- Navigate to your SkyDrive folder
- Where it says 'Save as type' select 'All Files'
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A thorough housecleaning of Clifton Mansion has revealed the potential inside this Northeast Baltimore treasure, marking the beginning of a long-overdue, $7 million restoration. Even now, in its early state, you could charge admission.
I toured the place, the centerpiece of a city park, I had visited on numerous previous occasions and felt as if I had stepped inside for the first time. I experienced Clifton's grandeur, observed an emerging architectural pedigree and realized its potential. In the past, I saw too many dropped ceilings, fluorescent lights, unfortunate paint choices and vinyl floors. Despite many excellent intentions and underfunded earlier tries, poor Clifton was dreary. And the termites loved it.
For decades the old home and its 20-something rooms served as a park office building and clubhouse for the adjacent golf course. Civic Works, the nonprofit youth training and community service organization, moved in in 1993.
This week I saw an upstairs room that functioned as an accounting department and was once filled with gray steel desks and file cabinets. I could now see a delicate Baltimore mantelpiece beautifully decorated with bellflowers that graced the dining room of English-born merchant and ship owner Henry Thompson, who built this late Georgian-style home and moved in about 1803.
I walked on the original wood floors and learned they had been buried under asbestos-filled concrete since the 1940s. I saw the spots where Irish craftsmen created exquisite plaster floral niches. The room had been used as a golf locker area.
"Clifton looks better in this cleaned state than I have ever seen it," said Johns Hopkins, director of Baltimore Heritage. "You get a sense of why one of Baltimore's most prominent citizens lived here."
Later this summer, the next phase of the restoration will begin. Kinsley Construction, the firm that transformed the American Brewery on Gay Street, will move in and go to work.
Clifton's dirty and drab exterior will receive another coat of the stucco that first covered its walls when Johns Hopkins, the 19th-century Baltimore merchant/philanthropist, acquired Clifton and had it enlarged in the Italianate style. Little did I know that this proper Quaker gentleman had a taste for pinks and mauve and gold arabesques on his walls. I also never knew that his entrance hall contained a large mural of the Gulf of Naples and Mount Vesuvius.
Clifton's Italianate tower, which is visible from both Harford and Belair roads, is the mansion's most obvious architectural feature. There, in its stout stair hall, I had the feeling I had seen this spot before. Was I reminded of architects Niernsee and Neilson's Camden Station or their Gibbons Hall at Notre Dame of Maryland University?
"The layout of the rooms can be appreciated as never before," said John Ciekot, projects director for Civic Works, the service corps agency that is running the restoration. "Niernsee and Neilson were the guys who got the commissions when the owners really wanted to do it up to the nines."
I also visited with Nelson Bolton, a descendant of Henry Thompson.
"Captain Thompson was known for his prize Devon cattle and Merino sheep he raised here," Bolton said. "He had 500 acres and grew rye and timothy. He also had extensive orchards at Clifton."
The idea is to return Clifton's exterior walls to the hue of an ocher tan, like an ancient limestone building in Italy. Also, for the first time, Clifton will have heat on all its floors. It will also be air-conditioned, have humidity controls and a fire-suppression system.
The $7 million is aimed at keeping this fine old mansion in good shape. But Clifton will not become a museum. While its fancier rooms will be available for social functions, Civic Works will still be the home's tenant. Public tours will be available.
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Following up on last month's column (which you can read at mixonline.com), I've been looking heavily into software synthesis. This semester, I built a new studio for students that's largely based on soft synths, so I've been trying a bunch of them out. I also heard a really interesting lecture on the subject by my friend Michael Bierylo, who teaches at the Berklee College of Music, where students are getting into software-based synths.
It would seem that a lot of composers, and educators, are interested in getting rid of their synth hardware. Why? Pretty much the same reasons so many mixers and post-production engineers are moving toward host-based DSP: It's cheaper, it's portable, and it's easy to upgrade and update. Even more significant in the synthesis world, however, is that software-based synths let you see everything you're doing, which isn't the case with most hardware instruments.
No one would tolerate a tape deck that only lets you look at the level of one track at a time, or a console that forced you to dive down through a bunch of menus to tweak the EQ on a channel. (Although this wasn't always true — anybody remember the Yamaha DMP7?) Hardware synths, with few exceptions, force you to view their world through a tiny LCD window, a few parameters at a time. To get the overall picture of a sound requires a computer and dedicated editing software, not to mention someone to write the code. Because a modern computer can do all of the DSP to actually create the sound anyway, why not forget the hardware synth entirely?
There are other advantages to going soft. Unlike some hardware synths that promise "open architecture," software-synths let users choose nearly any type of studio configuration they want. Programs like Reaktor and Reason let you build just about any type of synthesizer or studio configuration you want. Adding more modules doesn't take up any additional space on your rack or patchbay, so you can keep dozens of the things on hand, whether you use them every day or once a year. If you want to try a new software product, you don't have to convince some store's assistant manager to let you borrow a keyboard for a week; just download the demo version from the developer's Website and fool around with it for as long as you like. (It would be nice if more of those trial versions allowed patches to be saved — some of those early experiments you do before you buy the thing would be instructive to go back to and use later on.)
And, of course, there's cost, both for the initial investment and upgrading. Software synths and samplers go for anywhere between $20 and $700, while hardware synths start at the latter figure and go north from there. When a new version of a software module comes out, you can usually download it and pay just a small fee. There's no need to buy a new EPROM, open up the keyboard, pull out the old EPROM, and then wrestle with a grounding strap while you pop in the new one, ever watchful that you don't bend any of the pins.
So are there drawbacks? Yes, there are, and most of these revolve around the fact that you're putting all of your synth eggs, as it were, in one basket. And that basket is not infinitely large, or infinitely flexible, or even remotely bulletproof.
Computers, of course, crash. When you're running an audio or MIDI sequencer and the computer crashes, you lose everything you've done since you last saved the session file. If you're careful, that should be just a few minutes' worth of work. (I make it a rule for my students to save their work every 15 minutes — a rule that would save me a lot of time if I followed it myself!) The rest of your studio — the synths, the processors, the console, the hard drives with the raw audio — doesn't go down with the computer (you hope). But if you're running, say, five different synthesis programs simultaneously, then you have to have the discipline of a Trappist monk to remember to save all those files (which, of course, you have been constantly tweaking) every few minutes, and to be able to deal with the disruption to your creative flow as your brain switches from left-dominant to right-dominant.
You could automate the process so you don't have to interrupt yourself, but then you lose control over what gets saved — and in my experience, knowing when to "lock down" a patch and when not to is really an integral part of the creative process. I'd hate for a macro program to take that away from me.
Every time Apple or Microsoft comes out with a new operating system, they promise that "This one doesn't crash!" because it uses protected memory or some other mechanism. And perhaps if all you're doing is database management, Web serving or desktop publishing, it can be pretty stable. But the kind of developers who are drawn to writing software synths are always looking for ways to push the edge of the envelope for every operating system they encounter, and they don't always strictly follow the rules. You can be sure that some day, something those folks do is going to cause OS X or Windows XP (or OS XXXI or Windows XZ.2100) to crash.
In addition, software synths have to work and play well with other applications on the same computer, which might include video, graphics, communications or other time-sensitive tasks. Even if your computer is running twice as fast as the one you had last year, the video program you're using (because video software developers like to take advantage of faster processors, too) is probably using up twice as many CPU cycles, so you actually haven't gained as much as you might like.
And besides competing with each other for CPU time, these programs all have their own peculiar way of interacting with the operating system, and those ways may not all be friendly with each other.
Another issue that comes up when you have multiple synthesis programs on one platform is how they talk to each other and to other audio programs. In the hardware world, there are standard analog and digital audio cables for wiring things together, and usually the hardest issue you have to deal with is which device is the clock master. In the computer-based studio, there are a host of different ways to pass audio among synths, sequencers, mixing programs, sound cards and audio interfaces, like (to name just a few) Steinberg's VST and ASIO, Digidesign's DirectConnect and Propellerheads' ReWire. Which of these you use depends on what kind of hardware you're running, and whether you have a "host" program that demands you use a certain protocol. Synth-module developers tend to include drivers for as many of these different systems as they can, so as not to discourage any potential purchasers, but some, like Seer Systems and Nemesys, have their own protocols.
While dealing with audio routing can get pretty clumsy, the MIDI side is even more fussy. On the Mac, the most common way to pass MIDI from a controller or sequencer to a soft synth is to use OMS's InterApplication Communication (IAC) protocol. But OMS, itself, is no longer supported, because Opcode, the company that created it, effectively no longer exists. OMS doesn't work at all with Apple's OS X, and the promised "MIDI services" that OS X is supposed to have are still not available. Mark of the Unicorn's FreeMIDI has never particularly caught the attention of other developers, but it does work with most applications — when it is running in "OMS Emulation" mode!
The scene on the Windows side is slightly less confusing: Freeware programs such as MIDI Yoke can handle MIDI connections between software modules, but there is still no standard Microsoft-blessed way to hook them up.
Then there's the question of the user interface. The big trend in hardware synths these days is knobs, knobs and more knobs; the "analog" model of "tweak a knob and something cool happens" is back. Even though it sometimes seems that these knobs are being used mainly to do resonant filter sweeps and little else, live interaction with synthetic instruments is always to be applauded — if for no other reason than it can restore the spontaneity missing from so much of what passes for music these days.
But where are the knobs on software synths? There are plenty of onscreen controls, but they're just virtual — you're still stuck with a mouse as your primary input device, which is an even clumsier way to interact with a musical instrument than it is with a mixing console. There are a few general-purpose MIDI controllers available that lend themselves to this use, like Keyfax's Phat.Boy, Midiman's Oxygen 8 and Kurzweil's ExpressionMate, but surprisingly few of the software synth packages make it easy, or even possible, to customize how incoming messages are mapped to synth parameters. Koblo's Tokyo synth, for example, allows for MIDI control on most parameters, but the mappings are fixed — which means that the Phat.Boy, where output mappings are also fixed, wouldn't be able to do much. At the other extreme, Native Instruments' Dynamo allows any controller number to be mapped to any parameter, but it doesn't respond at all to keyboard aftertouch!
Perhaps the biggest issue confronting software synthesis is latency: how fast the module responds to incoming MIDI data. There is always going to be a delay between a key strike (or string pluck, or blowing into a tube, etc.) and the sounding of a note, and it's an important consideration in any musical instrument design, electronic or acoustic. Aural feedback is crucial in producing real-time, musical-sounding tracks, and if the feedback is delayed too long, then it feels unnatural.
Granted, some delay is often expected. Woodwind players know that there will be a brief interval between when they start to blow and when the sound comes out. Furthermore, that interval will be different for different pitches, because low notes take longer to speak. So they adjust their playing accordingly, perhaps starting the first note in a phrase a little early.
Even keyboard players expect some tiny delay. There was a story going around in the early '80s about what happened when Yamaha showed a prototype of the DX7 to some French pianists. "The keyboard is too soft," they said — and, of course, compared to what they were used to playing, the non-weighted keyboard of the DX7 must have felt pretty wimpy. But when Yamaha engineers changed the velocity curve, making it a little harder to play, and added a slight delay to the attack, the pianists pronounced the action much more to their liking — although physically it hadn't changed at all.
What causes latency in a software system? Simply that the computer is not infinitely fast; it has to read the incoming MIDI note, send it down a virtual wire to the synth, calculate the waveform or drag it out of RAM or off the disk, and send it to the sound card. At the same time, it has to refresh the screen, poll the computer keyboard and run whatever other programs are in use. Just the overhead needed by the operating system can be a significant drain on the process. And, obviously, the more things you have going, like video, hard disk audio or even timecode, the worse the problem is going to be.
The theoretically fastest response of a hardware MIDI synth is 1 millisecond. That's how long it takes a 3-byte MIDI command to be received. If you consider that the speed of sound is about 1 foot per millisecond, then that much of a response delay means that the instrument will sound like it's one foot away from you. Longer delays are common (a synth's onboard CPU isn't infinitely fast either), but like woodwind players, keyboard players learn, in most cases almost instinctively, to adjust. In the hardware-synth world, response times of up to 10 or even 15 ms are not unheard of.
A delay of more than about 20 ms, however, will feel clumsy to just about anybody. As the designer of one pioneering late-'80s software-synthesis system put it, "Real time is not negotiable!" (His product, sad to say, never made it out the door.) And if there are other tracks that need to play in sync with the synth tracks, like from hardware synths or internal or external hard disk audio, then one or more of the tracks have to be offset to compensate for the delay. Some programs can figure out how to do this automatically, but even they are not going to work in all situations.
It gets much worse if the response time of the synth changes. If the latency is not consistent, then no matter how good your fingers are at compensating, it's just not going to come out right.
In software synths, latency can be made constant with good programming, but it takes a lot of horsepower — both CPU speed and RAM — to get it down to really low levels. Most programs allow you to set up a buffer in RAM to help keep the load on the CPU down. But there's a trade-off: The larger the buffer, the higher the latency.
A buffer is just that: a place where the samples can be loaded before they are spit out. A large buffer means that the CPU doesn't have to be constantly generating audio data, but can "batch" the samples and attend to other chores according to its own schedule. But filling up a buffer takes time, and that's where the latency can get larger.
If you lower the buffer size, then it fills up faster, but now the CPU has to pay more attention to how tightly it's generating the audio data. The result is that other tasks — most notably streaming audio from the hard disk — have less CPU time available to them and can get literally choked off. Those who have tried to integrate software synths into hard disk audio environments are all too familiar with the dreaded "Your CPU isn't fast enough" message when playing four tracks, even though the same machine can play 12 or 16 tracks perfectly when it is just doing audio. (Michael Bierylo has done some interesting experiments in this area, which you can see at http://people.berklee.edu/~mbierylo/MarkWorld_2001/markworld5.html.)
As Michael says, "There's a lot of smoke and mirrors" when it comes to software-synth performance. There are, as of yet, no standards, no benchmarks, no way to really measure one program or system against another. Worse yet, because different modules are "optimized" for different operating environments, there can be a big change in the way a given module behaves on different platforms: In a TDM host, for example, with its dedicated processing hardware, a software synth may be much speedier than the same software operating as a plug-in to a native VST program.
Finally, there's the question of obsolescence: What happens when the platform your favorite software synth runs on no longer exists? One of my favorite all-time electronic-music teaching programs is Turbosynth, from Digidesign. Although it looks crude by today's standards, Turbosynth actually has a lot of very cool features (like evolving wavetables) that few other developers have put into their much-snazzier packages. About two years ago, I got what may have been the last five copies out of their warehouse to use in my classroom. It runs on OS 9, but I very much doubt it will work on OS X, so in a year or two I'm going to have to find something else to demonstrate the basic properties of sound.
At least with hardware synths, if you really need a particular model, then you can usually find one somewhere. Dozens of concert music composers wrote pieces throughout the '80s and into the '90s with a DX7 as part of the ensemble, and although the thing has been out of production for over 15 years, finding one for a performance is not hard.
Here's an example from my very own Closet of Obsolete Technology. There are two products in there that were manufactured the same year: a Casio CZ-101 and a floppy disk containing a wavetable-editing program I wrote for the alpha Syntauri computer music system. The Casio cost about $600. If I take it out of the closet (and assuming I can find the power supply), it can still do everything it always did, despite a couple of broken keys. And if I want to use those sounds in my studio, I can just hook up MIDI and audio cables, and I'm in business.
The alphaSyntuari cost about $3,000, including the Apple II+ I had to buy to run it. I long ago sold the Apple II, and now the only place you're likely to find one of those is in an under-funded public school classroom. Even if I could get the computer, and the special audio cards that were needed (whose manufacturer is long gone), and a monitor, and a 5.5-inch disk drive, and the dedicated 61-note keyboard, I still couldn't use the synthesizer with any other piece of hardware, because the company died before they could finish implementing MIDI into the system.
So we're still a ways away from being able to ditch all of our synth hardware. But that doesn't mean it won't happen. Many of these issues would be straightened out "if," as Michael Bierylo puts it, "manufacturers agreed on a standard architecture. Then one could buy a computer, software and third-party DSP from whomever they like, and configure and scale their system according to their needs and budget." To which he adds, "In your dreams, pal!"
To which I add, "Stranger things have happened!" It's a worthy goal. Let's see if there's enough cooperation and communication within the software-synthesis community to make it happen.
Paul D. Lehrman is a composer, teacher, consultant and Mix's Web editor. In his spare time, he likes to rummage through his closet looking for old stuff that still works.
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